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The  Argonaut 


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Vol.  LIII.     No.  1373. 


San  Francisco,  July  6,  1903 


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ENTERED   AT   THE   SAN    FRANCISCO    POST-OFFICE   AS    SECOND-CLASS    MATTER. 

TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  How  the  One  Half  Lives — Interesting  Facts  Brought 
Oat  in  the  Carmen's  Investigation — Gossip  of  the  Republi- 
can Campaign — Who  Will  be  Roosevelt's  Running-Mate, 
and  Who  His  "Standard-Bearer"? — Is  Bryan  Preparing 
to  Bolt?  —  The  Democratic  Reorganization  —  The  Cuban 
Reciprocity  Treaty — A  Government  Opium  Monopoly  Pro- 
posed— The  Week's  Batch  of  Postal  Scandals — The  Methods 
of  Master  Financiers — Uncle  Sam's  Many  Kinds  of  Coin 
— Do  We  Love  One  Another? — An  Editor's  Conversion — 
Too  Many  North  Shore  Wrecks — Race  Problems  Here  and 
Elsewhere — The  Mayor  and  the  Budget — The  Deadly  Soda- 
Water  Tank — Politics  of  Hawaii  to  the  Fore t-3 

5q.oaw-.a1an    MacMahon:    The  Reward  of  Unrighteousness.     By 

Marguerite    Stabler 4 

Modern  Steamship  Palaces:  Remarks  on  Staterooms — The 
Limit  in  Steamship  Size — Old  Ships,  New  Ships.  Witticisms, 
and  Waiters — Transatlantic   Speed.      By  "  Van    Fletch  " 5 

Individualities:     Notes  About   Prominent   People  All    Over  the 

World   5 

The  Calaveras  Big  Trees:  Geraldine  Bonner  at  Murphy's 
Camp — Fine  Scenery,  a  Bad  Road,  and  a  Worse  Dinner — 
The  Forest  Primeval — Ferrying  the  Styx.  By  Geraldine 
Bonner    6 

Magazine  Verse:  "  Songs  of  Iseult  Deserted,"  by  Josephine 
Daskam:  "The  Closed  Door,"  by  Theodosia  Garrison; 
"Till  We  Meet  Again,"  by  Caroline  Duer 6 

Rostand's  Reception:  Apotheosis  of  the  Author  of  "  L'Aiglon  " 
at  the  French  Academy — Brilliant  Scene  in  the  Reception 
Hall — Notabilities  Who  Were  Present — The  New  Immortal's 
Speech.      By   "  St.    Martin  "    7 

Are  Sailors  Patriotic?     Albert    Sonnichsen's    Views 7 

Patriotic  Verse:  "  Nathan  Hale,"  by  Francis  M.  Finch; 
"Warren's  Address,"  by  John  Pierpont;  "The  Flag  Goes 
By,"   by   Henry   Holcomb    Bennett .- 8 

Literary  Notes:       Personal     and     Miscellaneous     Gossip — New 

Publications    8-9 

Drama:    Amelia  Bingham  in  "  The  Climbers  "  at  the  Columbia. 

By  Josephine  Hart  Phelps 10 

Stage  Gossip    11 

Vanity  Fair:  The  Empress  Dowager  of  China  Witnesses  a 
Parisian  Dance — A  Year  Ago  She  Hated  All  Things 
Foreign — Another  Great  English  Estate  in  a  Lawsuit — A 
Question  of  Bastardy — Spanish  Dancer  Figures — A  Mirror- 
less  Woman's  Hotel — Feminine  Guests  on  Strike — Fur- 
Trade  in  the  North — Mme.  du  Gast  on  the  Banality  of 
Slow  Motoring,  the  Joy  of  Racing — Boston  Dissipation   ....      12 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
A  Prophecy  Anent  American  Women — When  O'Rell  Hit 
the  Scottish  Solar  Plexus — The  Naughty  Father  of  Attorney 
Jerome — Bismarck's  Meat  the  Englishman's  Poison — The 
Prowess  of  Philadelphia  Hens — King  Menelek  on  Mission- 
aries— Arctic  Expedition  Brings  Back  a  Good  Story 13 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "Polly's  Preparations."  by  Jack  Appleton: 
"  The  Motor,"  by  Eva  Anstruther;  "  Pyrotechnic  Seven 
Ages    of   Man" 13 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News . 14-15 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits    of    the    Day 16 


The  testimony  of  the  San  Francisco  carmen  about  the 
How  the  way  *ey  live  is  ver>'  interesting   from 


One  Half 
Lives. 


many  points  of  view.  We  most  of  us 
are,  perhaps,  prone  to  affix  the  label 
I  conductor  "  and  "  motorman,"  and  forget  that  those 
who  daily  convoy  us  to  our  work  or  pleasure  are  men 
with  troubles  of  their  own.  Familiarity  breeds,  not 
contempt,  but  indifference,  and  an  inclination  to  regard 
the  carmen  as  merely  part  of  the  locomotive  machinery. 
This  glimpse  they  have  now  given  us  of  their  lives  and 


homes  quickens  the  public's  lagging  interest,  and  brings 
uppermost  fraternal  feelings  that  are  good  for  the  soul. 

One  of  the  most  striking  phases  of  the  investigation 
's  the  great  diversity  of  occupations  from  which  the 
street-railways  have  drawn  their  men.  One  employee 
was  with  Funston  in  the  Philippines,  another  was  a 
yeoman  in  the  naval  service,  a  third  had  been  a  florist. 
Others  had  been  surveyors'  assistants,  grocery  clerks, 
drug  clerks,  butchers,  teachers.  One  gray-haired  man 
had  been  in  the  navy  during  the  Civil  War,  and  later 
a  sea-captain  running  between  Alaska  and  San  Diego. 
It  was  he  who  replied  to  the  question  whether  it  was  as 
"  nerve-racking  "  to  sail  a  ship  as  to  run  a  car,  with 
"  Just  about."  Some  of  the  witnesses  had  been  carmen 
for  twenty  years. 

The  testimony  as  a  whole  showed  that  single 
men  form  a  large  proportion  of  the  street-railway  em- 
ployees. Most  of  them  occupy  rooms,  for  which  they 
pay  between  five  and  eight  dollars  per  month.  One 
man  testified  that  he  paid  five  dollars  for  a  room  six  by 
eight  feet.  For  meals,  the  average  carman  pays  twenty- 
five  cents — possibly  fifteen  for  breakfast.  He  eats  by 
preference  solid  food,  for  soup,  as  one  philosopher  tes- 
tified, "  shakes  around  too  much  with  the  continual 
jar  of  the  car;  one  needs  something  hard  in  the  stom- 
ach." Also  something  good.  The  sea-captain,  when 
asked  by  the  attorney  if  he  did  not  occasionally  try 
"  salt  horse,"  replied  with  asperity :  "  I  can't  live  on 
scrap  meat  and  bad  butter  and  run  a  car  nine  hours  a 
day.  I  must  have  the  best  the  market  affords  to  sustain 
my  nervous  system."  It  is  interesting  to  note  the  prev- 
alence of  the  opinion  among  the  men  that  the  jar  of 
the  car  is  injurious.  Assemblyman  Copus  declared  that 
all  the  men  had  more  or  less  kidney  disease  from  the 
concussion.  He  said,  also,  that  the  rolling  stock,  the 
brakes,  and  the  roadbed,  are  in  so  much  worse  condi- 
tion now  than  formerly  that  a  man  could  then  stand 
twelve  hours  of  work  more  easily  than  ten  at  present. 
This  matter  of  "  flat  wheels  "  and  poor  track  ought  to 
interest  the  public. 

But  it  is  the  married  men,  according  to  the  testi- 
mony, who  really  have  a  hard  time  of  it  at  the  present 
wage  rate  of  from  $2.50  to  $2.75  a  day.  Most  of  them 
occupy  houses  or  flats  of  three  or  four  rooms,  for  which 
they  pay  from  ten  dollars  a  month  up  to  sixteen 
or  seventeen  dollars.  A  Sutter  Street  conductor  testi- 
fied to  occupying,  with  wife  and  child,  a  house  of  three 
rooms  and  no  bath-room,  for  which  he  paid  ten  dollars. 
Many  employees  declared  that  they  had  been  unable  to 
save  anything,  even  with  the  most  strenuous  efforts. 
Several  with  families  of  one  or  two  said  that,  if  they 
or  theirs  were  sick,  they  would  not  know  what  to  do. 
Two  men,  with  families,  respectively,  of  five  and  eight 
children  each,  gave  the  most  striking  evidence  of  for- 
titude under  heavy  burdens.  The  former,  with  the  five 
boys,  testified  that  he  lived  in  a  house  for  which  he 
paid  eight  dollars  monthly.  When  it  rained  they  put 
pans  on  the  floor.  They  went  sometimes  a  week  with- 
out meat,  and  used  only  condensed  milk.  The  boys 
wore  overalls  exclusively.  The  man  with  the  eight 
children  had  a  still  harder  time.  He  received  $2.60  a 
day,  and  for  meat  was  able  to  afford  only  liver.  The 
family  shoes  he  cobbled  himself,  but  even  then  was 
able  to  keep  only  four  pair  presentable,  so  the  children 
went  to  school  in  relays,  four  one  day,  and  another  four 
the  next.  His  wife  had  an  affection  of  the  heart,  and 
they  both  had  often  sat  up  till  one  o'clock,  she  mending, 
he  cobbling.  "  Still,"  said  this  optimist,  "  we  are  not 
discouraged.  We  keep  on,  and  manage  to  make  ends 
meet." 

Every  man  testified  that  rent,  clothing,  and  eatables 
have  risen  in  price  during  the  year.  This  is  the  fact 
upon  which  the  men  base  their  demand  for  a  nine-hour 
day  at  three  dollars,  with  forty-five  cents  an  hour  for 


overtime.  The  transcript  of  the  testimony  on  both 
sides  will  be  forwarded  to  the  three  arbiters,  Oscar  S. 
Strauss,  Patrick  Calhoun  (for  the  company),  and  W.  D. 
Mahon  (for  the  men).  The  counsel  of  the  company  as- 
serts that  he  has  figures  to  prove  that  in  360  companies 
operating  in  216  cities  of  the  United  States  the  pay  is 
less  than  it  is  here,  the  cost  of  living  generally  higher, 
and  the  work  harder.  Also,  that  the  applications  for 
employment  here  are  greatly  in  excess  of  the  demand. 


The  earnest  protest  of  citizens  and  newspapers  against 
A  government  "  farming  out  "  the  opium  traffic  iu  the 
Opium  monopoly  Philippines  has  apparently  influenced 
proposed.  Secretary    Root     to    abandon,    for     the 

present,  the  project.  He  is  reported  to  have  cabled  the 
Philippine  Commission  (which  had  passed  the  bill  to  its 
second  reading),  to  carry  the  matter  no  further  now. 
He  wants  to  think  it  over.  As  the  law  stands,  it  is 
mandatory  upon  local  Philippine  officials  to  prevent 
both  the  smoking  of  opium  in  public  resorts  and  its  sale 
for  other  than  medicinal  purposes.  In  Manila,  under 
this  act,  the  evil  is  said  to  .have  been  notably  checked. 
The  current  measure  before  the  commission  provides 
that  a  legislative  monopoly  in  the  sale  of  opium  be 
granted  for  terms  of  three  years  to  the  highest  bidder. 
Sale  will  be  prohibited  to  all  but  Chinese.  Under 
Spanish  rule  the  opium  monopoly  was  thus  auctioned, 
sometimes  netting  as  much  as  $650,000.  The  Philippine 
Commission  figured  that  it  would  now  be  worth  at  least 
$500,000,  which  aum  it  was  intended  to  apply  to  educa- 
tional purpose^.  The  same  methods  as  these  are  opera- 
tive in  India,  where  the  scheme  is  frankly  without 
any  moral  pretensions,  and  "  for  revenue  only."  Gov- 
ernor Taft  is  said  to  believe,  however,  that  by  putting 
one  man  in  control  of  the  traffic,  and  requiring  a  com- 
plete record  of  every  ounce  bought  and  every  pipeful 
sold,  with  the  name  and  address  of  the  buyer,  the  gross 
consumption  can  be  decreased.  Some  of  those  who  do  not 
agree  with  Governor  Taft  utterly  fail  to  understand  how- 
he  can  expect  that  the  opium  contractor,  whose  gain  is  in 
direct  and  absolute  proportion  to  the  amount  of  opium 
he  is  able  to  sell,  will  succeed  so  admirably  in  selling 
only  a  little.  Nor  is  it  clear  how  Chinese  can  be  pre- 
vented from  re-selling  to  Filipinos. 

As  the  dog  days  approach  it  is  customary  to  expect 
Gossip  of  the  a  greater  or  less  degjree  of  inertia  to 
republican  steal  into  the  domain  of  national  politics. 

Campaign.  Thjs  year  ;,.  appears   to   be  Qf  ,he  lesser 

variety,  due  perhaps  to  the  tearing  up  in  the  Post- 
Office  Department,  the  approach  of  a  President-mak- 
ing season,  and  the  indefatigable  character  of  the  single 
candidate  on  the  Republican  ticket.  Whatever  the 
cause,  political  gossip  keeps  up  well  into  "  the  good  old 
summer  time,"  although  it  is  probable  that  the  really- 
serious  activity  will  be  relegated  to  the  months  when 
"  the  frost  is  on  the  pumpkin."  Nobody  questions  that 
President  Roosevelt  will  be  invited  by  the  Republicans 
to  succeed  himself,  so  the  discussion  turns  largely  on 
the  question  as  to  who  will  be  his  running-mate.  U. 
S.  Grant  has  been  announced  as  a  candidate  for  the 
Vice-Presidency  by  a  California  paper,  but  beyond  the 
mere  announcement  there  is  nothing  to  indicate  that 
the  suggestion  has  yet  excited  more  than  a  passing 
interest.  Dog  days  may  be  responsible  for  this.  too. 
The  impressive  fact  that  eight  times  in  fifty  years 
the  death  of  a  President  has  promoted  a  Vice-President 
to  the  chair  of  the  chief  magistracy  has  heightened 
the  feeling  that  the  second  place  should  be  filled  by 
a  man  who  is  something  more  than  a  figurehead  or  a 
vote-getter.  The  last  incident  of  the  kind  is  too  recent 
to  allow  the  matter  to  be  forgotten.  Senators  Fair 
banks  and  Beveridge,  both  of  Indiana,  have  been  men- 
tioned  for  the  place,  and  the  gossij 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  6,  1903. 


tween  these  two,  the  preference  of  President  Roosevelt 
would  be  for  the  latter.  Beveridge,  however,  is  now 
reported  not  to  want  the  nomination.  A  new  sugges 
tion  is  to  give  the  second  place  to  Governor  Taft.  It 
is  no  secret  that  the  President  has  the  warmest  regard 
for  Judge  Taft,  and  that  if  circumstances  do  not  con- 
spire to  make  him  a  candidate  for  Vice-President,  the 
President  will  see  to  it  that  "he  is  given  a  seat  on  the 
bench  of  the  Supreme  Court  when  the  opportunity 
favors.  Another  important  phase  of  the  coming  cam- 
paign concerns  the  make-up  of  the  national  com- 
mittee. The  recent  events  in  Ohio  have  made  it  ap- 
parent that  Senator  Hanna  is  not  an  enthusiastic  sup- 
porter of  Roosevelt,  and  that  a  change  in  the  position 
of  chairman  of  the  National  Republican  Committee 
would  be  desirable  if  Roosevelt  heads  the  ticket.  In 
such  a  case,  the  wishes  of  the  candidate  would  have 
great  influence  on  the  selection,  and  quite  naturally 
he  would  want  one  of  his  closest  adherents  to  manage 
the  campaign.  This  makes  the  rumor  very  pertinent 
that  at  the  proper  time  Senator  Hanna  will  resign  the 
chairmanship  on  account  of  the  state  of  his  health,  and 
that  Senator  Lodge,  of  Massachusetts,  will  succeed  him 
before  the  opening  of  the  campaign  next  year.  There 
is  liable,  also,  to  be  a  change  in  the  secretary  of  the 
committee.  Perry  S.  Heath,  the  present  incumbent,  is 
mixed  up  in  the  post-office  scandal,  and  with  others 
is  under  actual  investigation.  He  is  affected  by  the 
retroactive  charges  brought  against  the  department 
for  alleged  irregularities  in  McKinley's  time.  Whether 
he  is  guilty  or  not  is  immaterial.  The  mere  taint  of 
scandal  in  high  office  is  apt  to  be  sufficient  to  compel 
his  resignation  from  a  position  so  important  in  a  na- 
tional campaign.  No  hint  has  yet  been  given  as  to  his 
successor  in  that,  event. 

President  Roosevelt,  shortly  after  the  Senate  adjourned 
_        _  last  spring,  let  it  be  known  that  he  in- 

That  Cuban  *        °> 

reciprocity  tended    to   call   an    extra    congressional 

Treaty.  session  in  November  in  order  that  the 

House  might  act  upon  the  Cuban  reciprocity  treaty, 
which  had  then  just  been  ratified  by  the  Senate  with 
an  unprecedented  clause  providing  for  the  concurrence 
of  the  House.  The  President  is  now  said  to  be 
"  shaken  "  in  his  intention.  Such  a  man  as  Charles  A. 
Moore,  one  of  President  McKinley's  friends  and  ad- 
visers, and  president  of  the  Protective  Tariff  League, 
recently  called  at  the  White  House,  after  a  tour  abroad, 
and  strongly  urged  the  President  to  abandon  the 
reciprocity  programme.  Moore  pointed  out  that  for- 
eign countries  were  hastening  toward  protection;  that 
the  "  Iowa  idea  "  had  been  scotched  by  the  high  pro- 
tectionists, and  that  they  would  strongly  resent  the  re- 
vival of  tariff  agitation  through  pushing  forward  the 
Cuban  reciprocity  treaty.  He  assured  the  President 
that  both  high  and  low  protectionists  throughout  the 
country  are  inflexible  against  reciprocity,  and  argued 
that  to  call  an  extra  session  fruitlessly  would  be  a 
severe  blow  to  party  and  Presidential  prestige.  And 
it  would.  For  two  years  now  the  President  has  urged — 
honestly,  we  know,  mistakenly,  we  believe — the  passage 
of  this  measure,  which  was  a  legacy  of  the  McKinley 
administration.  He  has  urged  it  as  a  duty,  against  the 
determined  opposition  of  his  best  friends  in  the  West. 
But  it  is  time  now  to  stop.  Cuba  is  prosperous;  her 
future  is  rosy.  In  urging  an  unpopular  measure,  on  the 
eve  of  a  national  campaign  there  is  much  to  lose,  and 
nothing  whatever  to  be  gained. 


relative  importance  may  change  in  a  day,  but  he 
enumerates  those  upon  which  the  party  must  take  a 
decided  position.    These  are  the  items  in  his  list: 

Imperialism — Which  "  transcends  all  others  -in  im- 
portance," and  must  be  considered,  "  unless  the  Re- 
publican party  decides  to  apply  American  principles 
to  the  Philippine  question,  or  the  Democratic  party  de- 
cides to  apply  European  principles  to  American  ques- 
tions." 

The  Trust  Issue — Because  it  has  "  grown  in  im- 
portance," and  because  "the  unwillingness  of  the  Re- 
publican party  to  deal  with  the  question  effectively 
has  become  more  apparent." 

The  Money  Question — Not  as  a  paramount  issue, 
but  it  must  be  held  on  to  because  "  the  increased  pro- 
duction of  gold  has  not  been  sufficient  to  replace  the 
silver  coin  of  the  world,"  and  because  there  is  no  as- 
surance that  the  increase  "  will  be  permanently  suf- 
ficient to  meet  the  annual  requirements  of  industry." 

The  Tariff  Question — Because  Democrats  have  al- 
ways been  "  opposed  to  a  tariff  levied  solely  for  the 
purpose  of  protection." 

These,  with  a  few  platitudes,  are  the  planks  which 
Mr.  Bryan  recommends  to  make  a  platform.  The 
trouble  is  not  so  much  the  platform  as  which 
faction  shall  make  it.  As  to  the  words,  they  might 
agree,  but  as  to  control,  neither  is  conciliatory,  and  Mr. 
Bryan  the  least  of  all.  Passing  over  the  impossibility 
of  Cleveland  as  a  candidate,  he  finds  that  it  is  settled 
"  that  the  candidate  agreed  upon  by  the  reorganizes 
will  represent  the  same  influences  and  the  same  policies 
that  dominated  Cleveland's  second  administration." 
Notwithstanding  his  numerous  assertions  that  the 
"  moneyed  element  "  has  been  driven  out  of  the  party 
by  the  last  two  campaigns,  Mr.  Bryan  discloses  a 
singular  apprehension  that  unless  "  loyal  Democrats  " 
are  alert,  that  element  "  will  be  stronger  in  the 
county  convention  than  in  the  precinct;  stronger  in  the 
State  convention  than  in  the  county;  and  stronger  in 
the  national  than  in  the  State  convention."  The 
only  inference  that  can  be  made  from  his  reviews  of 
the  situation  is,  that  Mr.  Bryan  feels  that  he  is  already 
beaten  in  the  next  Democratic  convention,  and  that  a 
platform  constructed  by  the  reorganizers  and  candidates 
nominated  by  them  can  not  have  his  adherence.  What 
will  he  then  do?  It  will  be  only  left  to  him  to  sulk 
in  his  tent,  or  head  a  revolt  of  a  Populistic  character 
against  his  own  party. 


Uncle  Sam's 
Many  Kinds 
of  Coin. 


What    Mr.    Bryan's    position   will    be     continues     an 
absorbing  question  among  those  who  are 
Preparing  to         trying  to  figure  out  what  kind  of  a  con- 
BOLT?  test  the  Democratic  party  will  be  able 

to  put  up  in  the  next  national  campaign.  The  re- 
organizers  of  the  party  have  been  diligent  of  late  in 
trying  to  get  down  to  a  basis  from  which  the  chances 
of  Democratic  success  can  be  canvassed,  for  it  seems 
to  be  admitted  that  if  Bryan  bolts  the  platform 
and  opposes  the  nominees,  his  following  will  be  large 
enough  to  insure  defeat.  Will  Bryan  bolt?  Of  late  he 
has  been  repeatedly  asked  for  a  statement  of  his  views 
and  an  outline  of  his  intentions.  These  queries  have 
not  been  wholly  ignored.  The  subject  has  occupied 
the  editorial  space  in  the  Commoner  of  late  to  con- 
siderable extent,  but  it  is  noticeable  that,  though  his 
utterances  are  replete  with  criticism  of  the  reorganizers, 
attacks  upo  i  Cleveland,  and  explanations  of  the  de- 
feats in  i!i''j6  and  1900,  there  is  no  statement  from 
•  1  ospective  attitude  toward  the  party,  in  the 
i_hat  'ns  counsels  are  ignored,  can  be  more  than 
nixrred.     As  to  issue*    Mr,  Brvan  says  their 


There  is  more  Federal  money  in  San  Francisco  than  ever  be- 
fore. On  the  last  day  of  June  there  were 
over  $150,000,000  in  Uncle  Sam's  San 
Francisco  vaults.  We  are  all  glad  that 
Uncle  Sam  is  so  rich,  although  some  of  us 
may  think  that  he  ought  not  to  charge  us  so  much  to  live, 
move,  and  have  our  being.  And  while  we  are  on  the  subject 
of  coin,  here  is  a  table  giving  the  coinage  of  the  San  Francisco 
mint  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1903  : 

Double-eagles    $18,072,500 

Eagles    4,695,000 

Half-eagles 13.315,000 

Dollars    2,030,000 

Half-dollars 979,084 

Quarter-dollars    62,000 

Dimes     74,000 

Pesos    4,704,000 

Apropos  of  this  variety  of  coins,  let  us  put  a  few  modest 
questions.  What  is  the  use,  to  the  average  man,  of  so  many 
kinds  of  coins?  Take,  for  example,  the  double-eagle — is  it  a 
convenient  coin?  Is  it  easy  to  change  a  twenty-dollar  piece 
on  a  street-car,  on  a  steamboat,  or  in  a  shop  in  a  quiet  sub- 
urb? The  other  day  the  writer  heard  a  woman  at  the  door 
of  a  Western  Addition  residence  asking  a  vegetable-peddler 
"  if  he  could  change  a  twenty-dollar  piece."  Probably  the 
poor  hawker's  stock  was  not  worth  five  dollars,  all  told.  Why 
does  the  twenty-dollar  piece  continue  to  be  used  as  a  unit? 
Is  it  a  citizen's  unit,  or  is  it  a  banker's  unit?  Is  not  the  con- 
tinuous use  of  this  inconvenient  coin  due  to  the  fact  that  San 
Francisco  bankers  do  business  on  a  metallic  instead  of  a  cur- 
rency basis?  When  the  banker  has  to  pay  over  large  sums  it  is 
easier  for  him  to  count  it  out  in  double-eagles  than  in  fives ; 
it  is  easier  for  him  to  scoop  heaps  of  twenties  out  of  a  box 
containing  twenty  thousand  dollars  than  it  is  to  count  out 
four  thousand  five-dollar  pieces.  But  is  this  convenient  for 
the  private  citizen?  Strangers  from  the  East  or  abroad  stare 
when  they  see  San  Franciscans  at  bank  counters  lugging  away 
moderate  sums  in  heavy  canvas  bags  of  twenties,  when  they 
are  used  to  carrying  large  sums  in  bills  in  a  very  small  com- 
pass. 

But  waiving  the  question  of  paper  currency  instead  of  me- 
tallic coinage — something  about  which  Califomians  have  always 
been  sensitive — is  the  double-eagle  a  convenient  coin?  Nearly 
all  commercial  nations  do  their  specie  business  most  conve- 
niently with  a  coin  about  the  size  of  our  five-dollar  piece. 
There  are  larger  coins,  it  is  true,  but  they  are  coinage  curios, 
like  the  Monte  Carlo  "plaque,"  and  do  not  circulate  among 
the  people. 

Look  at  the  list  of  coins  stamped  by  our  mints.  They  are 
some  ten  in  number.  Suppose  you  were  to  simplify  them,  and 
reduce  them  to  three  in  this  way :  Carry  five-dollar  pieces  in 
your  purse,  silver  quarters  in  your  left  pocket,  and  nickels  in 


your  right  pocket.  Then  you  would  never  need  to  look  at  a 
coin,  in  daylight  or  in  dark.  You  could  always  tell  exactly 
what  coin  you  were  paying  out.  Is  not  this  variety  of  coin 
sufficient?  Nickels  will  pay  for  newspapers,  carfare,  and 
similar  small  sums  up  to  a  quarter.  Quarters  will  pay  any 
sum  up  to  five  dollars.  Think  what  a  vast  amount  of  trouble 
you  will  save  yourself  in  "  getting  change  "  for  dollars,  half- 
dollars,  quarters,  and  dimes,  and  in  waiting  for  change.  By 
this  plan  you  can  always  make  the  exact  change. 

These  remarks  refer  to  the  carrying  of  money  by  individuals 
for  the  ordinary  exchange  and  barter  of  life.  Large  employ- 
ers of  labor  will  doubtless  continue  to  pay  their  employees  in 
large  adobe  dollars,  and  in  equally  clumsy  double-eagles 
when  their  wages  are  high  enough.  But  for  the  ordinary  citi- 
zen the  method  we  suggest  will  simplify  matters.  It  may 
eventually  lead  to  the  elision  of  the  double-eagle,  which  is 
not  a  citizen's  unit,  but  a  banker's  unit. 

To  the  person  who  may  indulge  in  the  cheap  and  obvious 
witticism  that  "  twenty-dollar  pieces  are  good  enough  for 
him,"  and  that  "  he  never  had  enough  of  them,"  we  may  reply 
that,  considering  his  intellectual  limitations,  he  probably  never 
will  have. 

The  chief  developments  for  the  week  in  the  postal-scandal  in- 
vestigations   are    the    allegations    against    ex- 
Congressman  John  C.  Sibley,  of  Pennsylvania, 
Batch  of  ,      b  .  ....  ...  .  . 

Postal  Scandals.  charSmS  him  Wlth  usinS  his  position  as 
member  of  the  Committee  on  Post-Offices  and 
Post  Roads,  to  secure  the  adoption  of  a  manifolding  process 
in  which  he  was  interested ;  and  the  indictment  of  ex-Con- 
gressman Driggs,  of  New  York,  on  the  charge  of  receiving  a 
bribe  from  the  Brandt-Dent  Company  for  placing  with  them 
a  government  order  for  two  hundred  and  fifty  automatic- 
cashiers  for  the  Post-Office  Department.  This  makes  the 
number  of  indictments  to  date  eleven.     They  are  as  follows  : 

Augustus  W.  Machen,  chief  of  the  free  delivery  service,  for 
accepting  bribes  and  conspiracy  to  defraud;  Daniel  A.  Miller, 
assistant  in  the  legal  department,  for  accepting  bribes  ;  Thomas 
C.  McGregor,  of  the  free  delivery  division,  for  accepting  bribes 
and  conspiracy;  C.  E.  Upton,  of  the  free  delivery,  for  the  same 
offenses  ;  J.  M.  Johns,  private  attorney,  for  accepting  bribes  ; 
George  E.  Lorenz,  former  postmaster  at  Toledo,  and  friend 
of  Machen,  for  conspiracy  to  defraud;  Martha  E.  Lorenz,  for 
conspiracy  to  defraud ;  Diller  B.  Groff,  for  complicity  with 
Machen;  Samuel  A.  Groff,  on  the  same  charge;  ex-Represen- 
tative Edmund  H.  Driggs ;  George  F.  Miller,  for  bribing 
Edmund  H.  Driggs. 

There  have  been  many  rumors  and  counter-rumors  as  to 
the  resignation  of  Postmaster-General  Payne.  Those  who 
think  he  should  step  down  and  out  base  their  opinion  on  two 
counts :  First,  he  characterized  the  Tulloch  charges,  afterwards 
proved  by  Bristow  to  be  true,  as  "  hot  air,"  "  glittering  generali- 
ties," "  nothing  but  words,"  and  Tulloch  himself  as  a  "  wind- 
bag." He  withheld  Bristow's  report  from  the  public  as  long  as 
possible,  and  gave  it  out  only  under  pressure.  Second,  he 
had  the  extreme  bad  taste  to  make  the  comment  on  the  Tulloch 
report  that  it  was  "  in  its  essence  against  President  Mc- 
Kinley." "  President  McKinley's  memory  will  take  care  of 
itself,"  says  the  Republican  New  York  Tribune,  "  and  will 
suffer  from  no  exposure  of  thieves  who  may  have  abused  his 
confidence."  The  opinion  is  a  general  one,  and  is  said  on 
good  authority  to  be  that  of  the  President  himself,  who  has 
hastened  to  state  that  he  knew  nothing  of  Payne's  comment 
till  he  saw  it  in  the  papers. 

Another  phase  of  the  investigation  has  been  opened  by 
the  order  of  the  President  directing  an  examination  of  the 
railway  mail  transportation  rates.  More  than  sixty  millions 
of  dollars  is  paid  annually  to  the  railways  for  mail  transpor- 
tation. It  has  been  asserted  many  times  that  the  rates  are 
excessive — are  more  than  those  paid  by  the  express  com- 
panies, for  example.  The  railways  have  always  had  plausible 
answers  ready,  but  there  are  many  whom  they  fail  to  con- 
vince. This  is  a  good  time  to  get  at  the  truth  of  the  matter. 
Set   Bristow  at  it. 


Dailies 

Increasing 

Prices. 


The  San  Francisco  dailies  have  raised  their  subscription 
prices,  as  the  price  of  paper  and  the  rate  of 
wages  have  been  steadily  rising.  In  the 
East  it  is  true  that  papers  of  a  similar  size, 
such  as  the  Philadelphia  Ledger  and  the 
Baltimore  Sun,  sell  for  35  cents  a  month  instead  of  75  cents; 
and  $4.00  a  year  instead  of  $8.00.  But  wages  and  salaries  are 
much  higher  on  this  Coast  than  in  the  East. 

The  San  Francisco  dailies  know  their  own  business,  but  it 
would  seem  as  if  they  might  do  better  to  increase  their  sales 
rather  than  increase  their  prices.  There  is  no  large  city  in  the 
United  States  where  the  street  sales  of  the  morning  papers 
are  so  restricted  as  in  San  Francisco.  It  is  possible  to  pur- 
chase the  evening  papers  on  the  street,  but  at  times  it  is 
difficult  to  find  the  morning  papers  on  sale  at  all.  Strangers 
rely  on  news-boys  for  their  papers,  as  they  do  not  know  where 
the  news-stands  are,  and  in  San  Francisco  there  seem  to  be 
few  news-boys.  It  is  quite  possible  for  a  stranger  in  San 
Francisco,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  morning,  to  walk  many  blocks 
before  he  can  buy  a  morning  paper. 

Compare  this  situation  with  that  in  New  York.  On  the 
elevated  railways  there  are  several  hundred  news-stands. 
Every  day  several  millions  of  people  travel  by  these  elevated 
trains,  most  of  whom  are  forced  to  wait  £rom  thirty  seconds 
to  two  minutes,  during  which  time  they  can  not  avoid  seeing 
the  many  newspapers  strung  along  the  news-stand  space. 
Hundreds  of  thousands  buy  the  papers  at  these  stands  simply 
because  they  see  them.  The  man  who  intended  to  buy  a  paper 
will  buy  it  anyway,  but  the  man  who  buys  one  because  he 
"  just  happened  to,"  is  so  much  profit  to  the  publisher.  In 
New  York,  in  addition  to  the  elevated  railway  news-stands, 
the  news-venders  have  established  little  temporary  tables  at 
nearly  every  prominent  corner,  where  they  sell  the  dailies 
during  certain  hours,  morning  and  afternoon.  While  they 
may  have  no  right  in  fee-simple  to  this  space,  -they  ace  a  very 
great  convenience  to  the  public,  particularly  to  strangers. 

In  San  Francisco,  on  the  other  hand,  it  is  difficult  for 
strangers  to  purchase  the  papers.     Yet  of  late  years  there  are 


July  6,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


frequently  abnormal  numbers  of  strangers  visiting  the  city, 
notably  when  conclaves,  conventions,  and  other  large  bodies 
meet  here.  It  should  be  made  easy  for  people  to  purchase 
papers,  but  it  is  made  difficult.  It  is  even  difficult  for  a 
resident  to  find  the  few  places  where  the  papers  are  sold. 

These  remarks  are  not  to  be  construed  as  reflecting  on  the 
price  charged  for  the  San  Francisco  dailies.  Considering 
the  high  cost  of  labor  and  materials,  they  are  well  worth  what 
they  charge.  But  would  it  not  be  better  for  them  to  consider 
increasing  their  sales  rather  than  their  prices? 


Methods  of 

Master 

Financiers. 


The  collapse  of  the  United  States  Shipbuilding  Company — 
the  ship-yards  trust  as  it  is  familiarly  known 
— if  it  have  no  other  effect,  will  at  least 
have  resulted  in  letting  in  a  flood  of  light 
upon  the  methods  of  the  modern  masters  in 
finance  who  have  floated  the  industrials  upon  a  speculative 
public.  When  the  various  ship-building  concerns  were  con- 
solidated, one  of  the  prominent  men  in  the  deal  was  Char'es 
M.  Schwab,  president  of  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation. 
He  explained  his  activity  by  declaring  that  he  wanted  to  secure 
a  good  customer  for  the  Steel  Trust,  but  no  sooner  was  the 
ship-yards  trust  organized  than  it  expressed  a  desire  for  a 
steel  plant  of  its  own,  and  Mr.  Schwab  undertook  to  secure 
the  Bethlehem  works,  an  outside  concern,  for  it.  According  to 
Mr.  -Schwab's  story,  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  &.  Co.  had  purchased 
the  Bethlehem  plant  for  the  benefit  of  the  Steel  Trust,  of 
which  he  himself  was  president,  and  in  which  the  bankers 
were  interested.  They  were  persuaded  to  part  with  the  plant, 
however,  for  $7,200,000,  and  Mr.  Schwab  turned  it  over  to  the 
ship-yards  trust  for  $10,000,000  collateral  trust  five  per  cent, 
bonds,  $10,000,000  common  stock,  and  $10,000,000  preferred 
stock.  His  $7,200,000  of  property,  on  which  only  $300,000  had 
originally  been  paid,  had  become  $30,000,000  in  ship-yards 
stock  through  the  touch  of  the  modern  King  Midas.  It  was 
now  time  for  the  public  to  act,  and  a  glowing  prospectus  was 
issued,  figuring  out  a  gain  of  half  a  million  a  year  tnrough  the 
economies  brought  about  by  consolidation.  But  the  public  did 
not  act — nobody  would  buy  the  stock.  More  than  that,  the 
expected  gain  of  half  a  million  turned  out  to  be  a  deficit  of 
that  amount,  because,  according  to  the  retiring  president,  of 
"  the  decrease  of  energy  of  management  at  some  of  the  plants 
with  the  removal  of  local  and  personal  responsibility."  The 
price  declined  until  Mr.  Schwab's  $30,000,000  had  declined  to 
$9,310,000.  Mr.  Schwab  figured  out  that  the  non-investing 
public  had  bunkoed  him  out  of  $20,690,000.  But  he  was  not 
at  the  end  of  his  resources.  He  proposed  a  plan  of  reorganiza- 
tion, by  which  he  should  return  his  stock  and  bonds  and  re- 
ceive back  the  Bethlehem  plant,  upon  the  improvement  of 
which  the  ship-yards  trust  had  expended  $2,000,000.  He  was. 
however,  to  retain  control  of  the  ship-yards  trust.  Some  of 
the  members  objected  to  this  ingenuous  plan,  and  asked  the 
courts  to  restrain  the  reorganization,  declare  the  corporation 
insolvent,  and  appoint  a  receiver.  This  has  been  done.  Evi- 
dently Attorney-General  Knox,  when  he  said  that  trusts  were 
chiefly  dangerous  to  the  small  stockholders,  was  not  so  far 
off  after  all. 

There  is  a  certain  significance  in  two  or  three  features  of  the 

Iowa    Democratic    State    Convention.      First, 

The  Iowa  ^e    COmmittee    on    resolutions    voted    down 

„  „       „  the   proposition   to    reaffirm   the   Kansas    City 

AND   riEARST. 

platform  by  a  vote  of  seven  to  four,  and  the 
convention  adopted  this  majority  report  as  against  the  report 
of  the  silverites  by  a  vote  of  463  to  354.  Second,  the  con- 
vention voted  down,  by  a  majority  of  more  than  400,  a  reso- 
lution favoring  the  government  ownership  of  railroads.  The 
turning  down  of  the  Kansas  City  platform  and  silver  was  a 
body  blow  at  Bryan-  The  defeat  of  a  government  ownership 
proposition  would  seem  a  not  less  vicious  thrust  directed 
toward  W.  R.  Hearst.  The  reports  of  the  convention  in  the 
metropolitan  papers  of  the  country  are  curiously  unanimous 
in  one  respect.  They  none  of  them  mention  Hearst.  We 
have  been  at  the  pains  to  look  at  the  reports  in  the  New  York 
Times,  the  Philadelphia  Ledger,  the  New  York  World,  the 
Tribune,  the  Sun,  and  in  our  own  Call  and  Chronicle.  The 
name  of  Hearst  is  strangely  missing.  Yet,  according  to  the 
Examiner,  the  Democratic  nominee  for  governor  alluded  to 
Hearst  as  the  "  great  champion  of  Democracy  to-day,"  and 
spoke  of  his  "  great  influence,"  his  "  inspiring  personality," 
his  "  heroic  labors."  Further,  the  Examiner  said  that  "  the 
greatest  demonstration  of  the  day  occurred  at  the  mention 
of  the  name  of  Hearst."  Are  the  other  newspapers  in  a  con- 
spiracy of  silence  that  they  omit  accounts  of  this  "  greatest 
demonstration"?  Or  are  the  Hearst  newspapers  saying  what 
aint  so? 

Mayor    Schmitz    placed    his    finger    with    unerring    certainty 

upon  the  weak  spot  in  the  annual  budget  pre- 
The  Mayor  .    ,       .1.  tt  1 

pared   by   the   supervisors.      He   sent   to    that 

AND   THE  r 

Budget  body  a   message  making   considerable   reduc- 

tions in  the  proposed  appropriations,  bu* 
none  of  his  vetoes  affected  permanent  improvements.  They  all 
aimed  at  a  reduction  of  the  salaries  paid  to  clerks  in  and  about 
the  City  Hall.  Mayor  Schmitz  was  elected  upon  a  platform 
pledging  him  to  remove  all  superfluous  and  unnecessary  em- 
ployees to  the  extent  of  making  a  saving  of  $100,000,  and  to 
devote  the  money  thus  saved  to  permanent  improvements 
He  has  more  than  redeemed  his  pledge.  The  reductions  he  pro- 
posed aggregated  $139,970.  Among  the  more  important 
reductions  were:  Board  of  health,  $30,900;  board  of  public 
works,  $24,520;  public  lighting,  $25,000;  city  engineer's  office, 
$25,000;  assessor's  office,  $6,000;  and  department  of  election?, 
$5,000.  But  the  board  of  supervisors  has  seen  fit  to  override 
the  mayor's  veto.  Several  of  the  supervisors  elected  on  the 
Union  Labor  ticket  have  also  nullified  their  ante-election 
pledges.  They  have  passed  a  budget  bulging  with  sinecures, 
but  vacant  of  appropriations  for  permanent  improvements.  The 
voters  will  have  a  chance  to  say  how  they  like  it  this  fall. 
As  for  the  mayor,  he  has  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he 
did  his   duty,   though   a   disagreeable  one   it  was.   And   though 


from  the  first  there  was  faint  hope  of  success  in  trying  to 
save  some  of  the  people's  money,  he  did  not  cravenly  give 
over,  but  fought  it  out  to  a  finish.  He  deserves  the  people's 
praise. 


Editor's 
Conversion 


One  of  the  striking  incidents  of  the  recent  Servian  revolu- 
tion was  the  sudden  conversion  of  a  newspa- 
per man.  Jubomir  Schiokovics.  editor  of  the 
Belgrade  Odjek,  came  out  the  day  after  the 
murders  with  a  scare-head  article  in  favor  of 
a  Servian  republic.  But  the  officers  who  led  the  military  revo- 
lution did  not  want  a  republic.  They  wanted  Peter  the  First 
for  king.  They  so  informed  Editor  Schiokovics.  But  he 
would  not  listen.  Therefore  they  invited  him  to  dine  at  the 
officers'  club,  and  during  dinner  earnestly  urged  him  to  lay 
aside  his  republican  views.  Their  main  argument  was  that 
in  case  he  did  not  yield  they  would  welcome  him  with  hospit- 
able hands  to  a  bloody  grave.  Editor  Schiokovics  is  a  man 
of  much  discernment;  he  saw  the  force  of  their  views,  yielded 
the  point,  and  next  day  brought  out  his  paper  for  Peter  the 
First.  He  was  at  once  made  minister  of  justice.  This  shows 
the  power  of  the  press. 


Too  Many 

North  Shore 
Wrecks. 


The  causes  of  the  two  accidents  on  the  North  Shore  Railway 
last  week  seem  general  rather  than  particular. 
In  the  first  accident — a  particularly  distress- 
ing one — the  single  car  returning  with  a 
funeral  party  flew  the  track  on  a  low  trestle, 
turned  completely  over,  hurling  the  passengers  from  floor  to 
ceiling,  injuring  twenty-five  persons,  and  killing  two.  In  the 
second  accident,  only  a  few  miles  from  the  first,  the  engine 
jumped  the  track  and  overturned,  killing  the  engineer  and 
badly  injuring  the  fireman.  In  both  cases  passengers  and 
officials  dispute  over  the  speed  of  the  train,  but  both  seem  to 
think  that,  on  the  North  Shore,  a  speed  of  thirty-five  or  forty 
miles  an  hour  makes  derailment  likely.  That's  the  trouble. 
On  modern  roads  millions  are  being  spent  in  eliminating 
curves,  in  replacing  light  rails  with  heavy  ones,  and  in  proper 
ballasting.  Trains  on  such  roads  seldom  jump  the  track, 
even  when  they  are  going  fast.  The  North  Shore  carries 
thousands  of  passengers  weekly.  If  its  track  is  poor,  its  rolling 
stock  ancient,  its  curves  so  sharp  that  a  decent  speed  means 
danger,  public  safety  demands  their  radical  betterment.  Nor 
on  up-to-date  roads  are  trains  habitually  behind  time.  It  is 
the  common  report  that  North  Shore  trains  are  seldom  or 
time.  This  means  poor  management,  and  increased  liabilitv 
of  accidents.     These  wrecks  should  be  a  signal   for  reform. 


Politics  of 

Hawaii 

to  the  Fore 


The  term  of  Governor  Dole,  of  the  Territory  of  Hawaii,  ex- 
pires next  year,  and  a  host  of  candidates 
ready  to  succeed  him  is  already  appearing. 
Several  attempts  have  been  made  either  to 
persuade  Governor  Dole  to  resign  or  to  have 
him  removed,  but  he  has  shown  no  inclination  to  gratify  his 
enemies.  It  is  generally  accepted,  however,  that  he  will  not 
be  a  candidate  for  reelection,  and  so  the  hopes  of  the  other 
aspirants  have  been  raised.  It  is  believed  that  the  candidate 
slated  to  succeed  Dole  is  George  R.  Carter.  He  was  a  col- 
lege-mate of  President  Roosevelt,  and  recently  resigned  a 
position  paying  $5,000  a  year  to  accept  the  secretaryship, 
which  pays  only  $3,000.  He  is  not  popular  with  the  native 
element,  however,  because  he  belongs  to  the  missionary  party, 
and  the  Hawaiian  legislature,  which  contains  a  native  majority, 
has  passed  resolutions  protesting  against  his  appointment. 
The  natives  would  prefer  R.  H.  Wilcox,  a  native  recently 
defeated  for  Congress.  In  default  of  him,  Sam  Parker,  the 
wealthj'  ranchman,  would  be  acceptable.  A.  S.  Humphreys, 
the  judge  who  caused  a  stir  there  last  year,  would  like  the 
appointment,  and  H.  E.  Cooper  is  reported  to  have  resigned 
the  superintendency  of  public  works  to  try  for  the  governor- 
ship, while  Judge  Little  also  has  an  eye  on  the  position. 


Do  We 
Love  One 
Another  ? 


All  books  entering  Turkey  are  subject  to  a  strict  censorship — 
even  Bibles  and  guide-books.  Recently  a 
Turkish  version  of  the  New  Testament  was 
stopped  at  Stamboul  for  the  reason  that  the 
passage  "  love  one  another  "  was  construed  as 
unfitted  for  circulation.  When  the  missionaries  pleaded  that 
this  sentiment  contained  nothing  seditious,  the  censor  replied: 
"  The  Sultan  does  not  want  his  subjects  to  love  one  another, 
for,  if  they  do,  they  will  get  together,  and  that  will  be  the 
last  of  him.  So  long  as  they  are  influenced  by  racial  and  re- 
ligious differences,  it  will  be  impossible  for  them  to  combine 
against  his  majesty." 

If  the  Sultan  knew  Christians  better,  he  would  know  that 
the  New  Testament  injunction,  "  love  one  another,"  is  as 
little  heeded  in  Christendom  as  it  is  in  Islam — perhaps  less. 

There    have    been    several   attempts    in    this    State   to    prevent 

married  persons  securing  divorces  for  the 
The  New  ,    .  ,.       ,  ... 

_  .  purpose   01    immediately   uniting   in   marriage 

Invalid  w*tn    0*kers,    DUt    so    ^ar    a^    0I    them    have 

been  unsuccessful.  The  latest  attempt  was 
made  during  the  last  session  of  the  legislature,  when  a  law 
was  enacted  providing  that,  when  divorces  are  granted  in  this 
State,  the  final  decree  shall  not  be  entered  until  one  year 
after  the  date  of  the  preliminary  decree.  In  other  words, 
the  parties  were  to  be  legally  separated  for  one  year  before 
they  were  actually  divorced.  The  question  of  the  validity  of 
this  law  has  not  yet  been  brought  before  the  supreme  court, 
but  the  superior  judges  are  refusing  to  recognize  it  as  bind- 
ing. The  question  was  first  raised  in  Santa  Clara  County, 
where  Judge  Lieb  sat  with  Judge  Rhodes  in  a  hearing.  Both 
judges  held  the  law  to  be  unconstitutional.  The  constitution 
of  the  State  provides  that  the  legislature  shall  not  have  power 
to  enact  special  legislation  in  certain  enumerated  classes  of 
cases.  One  of  these  cases  is  the  regulation  of  practice  in 
courts  of  justice.  The  judges  held  that  a  law  applying  only  to 
divorce  cases  is  clearly  a  violation  of  this  inhibition.  Later,  the 
question  was  raised  before  Judge  Seawell  in  this  city,  and  he 
not  only  agreed  with  the  Santa  Clara  judges,  but  pointed  out 
that  the  law  also  violates  the  constitutional  provision  that  its 


purpose  should  be  clearly  stated  in  its  title,  for  it  is  entitled 
'"  An  Amendment  of  the  Civil  Code,"  while  its  purpose  is  to 
regulate  procedure. 


An  extremely  interesting  feature  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Com- 
pany's  last  statement   is   the   revelation   of  a 
Southern  Pacific     .   c    -.       :    .  ....  .    ,   ,,  .         , 

„  deficit  of   ten   millions   ot   dollars   in   the   ten 

has  a  Ten- 

Million  Deficit.  nionths  la"  Pa*t-  Gross  receipts  for 
April  were  $7,307,001,  operating  expenses 
and  taxes  for  the  month  were  $5,648,503,  leaving 
net  earnings  of  $1,658,498,  an  increase  of  $195,573  over  April 
of  last  year.  Other  income  brought  the  company's  total  in- 
come for  the  month  up  to  $1,666,281.  Against  this  amount 
are  charges  and  betterments  aggregating  $3,164,464,  creating 
a  deficit  for  the  month  of  $1,488,183.  For  the  ten  months 
ending  June  30th  the  company's  gross  earnings  were 
$73,092,502,  an  increase  of  $2,796,990  over  the  corresponding 
period  of  the  previous  fiscal  year.  Against  this  is  charged 
$5-1,940,206  for  operating  expenses  and  taxes,  leaving  a  net 
income  for  the  ten  months  of  $21,152,296,  an  increase  of 
$2,192,227  over  the  ten  corresponding  months  of  last  year. 
Charges  and  betterments  during  the  period  mentioned  aggre- 
gated $31,221,722,  making  a  deficit  of  $9,462,235  in  the  ten 
months.  This  is  said  to  be  by  far  the  largest  deficit  ever 
recorded  by  the  Southern  Pacific  for  any  similar  period  in  its 
history.  The  company's  deficit  keeps  growing  month  by 
month,  and  it  is  expected  that  the  annual  report  of  the 
company  will  show  a  deficit  of  over  $12,000,000.  It  is  said 
that  bonds  will  be  issued  on  the  new  track  across  the  Great 
Salt  Lake  in  the  sum  of  $10,000,000  to  cover  the  deficit. 

The  most  interesting  point,  to  the  public,  about  this  deficit, 
is  that  it  is  caused  by  the  Southern  Pacific  Company's  numer- 
ous betterments.  Replacing  wooden  bridges  with  structures  of 
steel  or  stone,  replacing  single  tracks  with  double  ones,  re- 
placing light  rails  with  heavy  ones,  straightening  dangerous 
curves  and  reducing  heavy  grades — these  are  some  of  the 
causes  of  the  company's  deficit  of  a  million  a  month. 

In  an  action  brought  by  John  R.  Whitney  against  the  city  of 

San  Francisco,  Judge  Seawell  has  decided 
School  and  lU    .    ,.       ,         .         ,  -  ,        ... 

that  the  two  .tax  levies  ot  seven  and  a  half 
Hospital 
Levies  Illegal        cents  eacl1  on  every   one  hundred  dollars   of 

property  valuation,  for  the  purpose  of  erect- 
ing new  school  and  hospital  buildings,  are  illegal.  It  is  prob- 
able that  the  entire  amount  collected,  $565,891,  will  be  re- 
turned to  taxpayers,  though  only  $481,147.83  was  paid  under 
protest.  The  decision  was  not  upon  the  question  whether  or  no 
an  "  emergency "  existed,  but  was  based  entirely  upon  the 
failure  of  the  supervisors  to  include  the  amount  proposed  to 
be  expended  in  the  budget.  The  public  does  not  know,  there- 
fore, whether,  in  future,  appropriations  exceeding  the  dollar 
rate  for  building  schools  and  a  hospital  can  legally  be  made 
in  the  regular  budget  by  the  supervisors.  The  present  de- 
cision was,  in  short,  on  a  technicality.  It  is  now  said  that 
the  supervisors  intend  to  postpone  the  bond  election,  and 
issue  a  new  election  call,  adding  to  the  amount  of  bonds 
proposed  the  sum  lost  through  this  decision,  that  is  to  say, 
about  half  a  million  dollars. 


Race  Problems 


There  is   no   class   of  problems   that  present   more   difficulties 
than    the   mingling   of   non-assimilable   races 

In  the  Southern  States,  the  negro  is  a  dis- 
Here  and  ,  b 

Elsewhere  turbing  factor,  in  the  coal  sections  the  pres- 

ence of  Slavs  and  Huns  is  a  menace,  on  this 
Coast  the  Chinese  problem  threatened  industrial  stability 
for  many  years  before  the  representatives  of  Eastern  com- 
munities could  be  persuaded  to  consent  to  restrictive  legisla- 
tion. Now  the  Japanese  problem  threatens  to  become  as 
serious  as  was  the  Chinese  problem.  The  little  brown  men 
are  coming  here  in  increasing  numbers.  During  the  month  of 
May,  2,190  Japanese  came  to  this  country.  If  this  rate  is 
maintained  the  Japanese  element  will  have  been  increased 
26,000  within  a  year.  In  1900  the  Japanese  in  the  United 
States  numbered  81,590,  the  Chinese  106,659.  As  a  result  of 
the  restrictive  legislation,  the  Chinese  have  increased  very 
slightly  in  numbers  since  that  time,  so  it  is  probable  that  the 
Japanese  already  outnumber  them.  The  Japanese  can  be 
assimilated  no  more  readily  than  the  Chinese,  and  as  an  ele- 
ment of  the  population  they  are  even  less  desirable. 


The  Deadly 


In  New   York  recently  a  woman  was  killed   by  the  explosion 

of  a  tank  charged  with  carbonated  gas  used 

in  her  confectionery  store  for  the  manufac- 
Soda-W  ater  ,        ,  , .    ,  .     , 

-^KtiV.  ture   of  soda   water.      A   cylinder  ot    the   gas 

at  high  pressure  was  kept  close  to  the  soda 
fountain,  and  the  soda  water  was  manufactured  on  the  spot. 
This  method,  which  is  not  an  uncommon  one,  is  always 
fraught  with  danger.  Any  defect  or  flaw  in  the  cylinder 
where  the  gas  is  kept  under  such  a  high  pressure  is  liable  to 
cause  an  explosion  at  any  time,  and  the  danger  is  heightened 
by  the  fact  that  the  apparatus  is  handled  by  clerks  and  other 
inexperienced  persons.  In  many  confectionary  stores  the 
tank  of  gas  is  kept  within  a  few  feet  of  where  customers 
throng,  and  an  explosion  would  be  liable  to  injure  seriously 
many  customers,  as  well  as  those  connected  with  the  estab- 
lishment. The  unfortunate  accident  in  New  York  should 
result  in  a  reform  of  this  dangerous  practice. 

Judge  Morrow  has  provisionally  decided  that  the  property  of 
the   Spring  Valley   Water  Company  is  worth 
_  '     '       ,        $26,752,500;  that  the  company  is  entitled  to 

Rate  Case  an    'ncome    °f    ^ve    Per    cent,    on    its    invest- 

ment ;  and  that,  as  the  rates  fixed  by  the 
supervisors  will  bring  in  to  the  company  an  income  of  only 
four  and  four-tenths  per  cent.,  the  rates  fixed  are  too  low. 
A  temporary  injunction  has,  therefore,  been  granted,  pre- 
venting the  supervisors  from  enforcing  their  reduction  in 
rates.  In  the  meantime,  the  case  will  proceed,  and  the  com- 
pany will  collect  from  water  consumers  at  the  old 
ting  up  a  bond  so  that  the  consumers  can  be  re 
the  -final   decision  go  against  the   company. 


THE       ARGONAUT 


July  6,  1903. 


SQUAW-MAN    MACMAHON. 


The  Reward  of  Unrighteousness. 


The  hunter's  moon  hung  so  low  an  Indian  might 
easily  have  hung  his  bow  across  its  slender  horn.  The 
light  therefore  was  pale  and  gave  the  swaying  bushes  a 
creeping,  stealthy  movement.  The  frogs  in  the  shallow 
pools  subsided  from  a  noisy  chorus  to  an  occasional 
croak.  The  tree-tops  whispered  together  and  shook 
their  heads  at  Squaw  Mary. 

A  year  ago  all  this  would  have  passed  unnoticed  by 
the  woman,  but  she  had  learned  since  then  why  warn- 
ings are  sent.  The  moon  had  hung  at  just  this  angle 
on  the  night  she  had  stumbled  over  that  awful,  gleam- 
ing body  in  the  underbrush,  the  winds  had  sighed  with 
the  same  meaning,  and  the  trees  had  begun  to  point 
their  fingers  at  her  and  whisper  over  her  head. 

Could  there  be  anything  worse  in  store  for  her,  she 
wondered.  The  horrible  gleaming  whiteness  of  that 
awful  thing  on  the  bank  still  glared  at  her  from  the 
darkness  whenever  she  closed  her  eyes.  She  shuddered 
at  what  might  be  in  store  for  her,  now  that  the  warn- 
ings of  impending  doom  had  come  again. 

The  money  with  which  she  had  been  rewarded  for 
her  ghastly  hnd  had  held  no  meaning  for  her.  In  truth 
she  had  not  seen  it;  being  only  a  squaw  she  could  not 
certify  her  claim,  so  MacMahon  had  got  the  reward, 
and  MacMahon  had  done  all  the  rest. 

The  "  rest  "  had  begun  to  mean  in  a  hazy  way  an  en- 
larging of  territory  for  MacMahon.  The  possession 
of  the  reward  had  awakened  a  dormant  love  of  power 
in  his  nature,  and  this  spirit  once  aroused,  when  the 
Indians  were  being  herded  into  reservations,  there 
was  needed  only  prompt  action  and  a  little  sharp  prac- 
tice to  acquire  much  valuable  timber  land.  Then,  after 
the  wholesale  massacre  at  Indian  Island,  when  not 
half  a  dozen  of  the  whole  rancheria  escaped,  the  wastes 
of  wooded  hillsides  grabbed  and  jumped  by  MacMahon 
made  him  literally  monarch  of  all  he  surveyed.  With 
the  widening  of  his  domain  there  dawned  upon  him 
the  possible  outcome  of  a  thriving  lumber  company, 
and  beyond  the  lumber  company  arose  the  possibility 
of  a  respectable  citizenship  in  some  region  where  the 
term  "  squaw  man  "  is  never  heard. 

Promptly,  thereupon,  Mr.  MacMahon  determined  to 
shake  the  dust  of  Humboldt  County  from  his  feet,  and 
transact  his  business  through  deputies.  In  time  he 
foresaw  his  claims  would  reach  in  value  to  hundreds 
of  thousands. 

Already  he  felt  a  repugnance  for  the  life  he  had  been 
living,  and  Squaw  Mary  was  the  first  feature  of  it  to  be 
relegated  to  the  dim  and  distant  past.  So  as  the  summer 
waned  into  autumn,  and  MacMahon's  dreams  crystal- 
lized into  definite  plans,  the  fall  wind  arose,  and  the 
poor  squaw's  warning  signs  grew  unmistakable. 

Finally  the  last  day  of  his  stay  in  Humboldt  drew 
to  a  close.  He  had  decided  to  "  slope  "  and  let  Mary 
find  it  out  for  herself.  Accordingly,  as  he  sat  and 
smoked  his  pipe,  his  thoughts  forgathered  to  the  far- 
thest quarters  of  the  globe.  And  when  "  Little  Mac," 
whose  baby  fists  had  fought  their  way  into  his  father's 
heart,  toddled  up  and  tried  to  climb  his  knee  for  his 
usual  bed-time  frolic,  he  was  met  with  a  surly  "  Go 
away,  youngster,  this  aint  no  time  for  foolin'."  The 
child,  unused  to  rebuffs  of  this  sort,  stood  irresolute, 
the  stolid  indifference  of  the  Indian  warring  with  the 
enterprise  of  the  American.  MacMahon  watched  him, 
whimsically,  wondering  which  race  was  dominant. 

"  All  right,  you  little  Yankee,  you'll  do,"  he  said  the 
next  moment,  when,  with  a  sudden  lunge,  the  child 
reached  his  knee.  But  he  felt  his  spine  stiffening  with 
conscious  virtue  as  he  laid  his  plans  for  the  future — 
plans  in  which  neither  the  boy  nor  the  boy's  mother 
had  any  part.  At  last  the  drowsy  little  head  drooped 
on  his  shoulder,  and  little  Mac  was  deposited  inside  the 
shack. 

"  The  little  beggar  will  get  along  just  as  well  without 
me,"  he  said  to  himself,  as  he  turned  away. 

It  was  almost  daybreak  when  MacMahon  pulled  up 
stakes  and  struck  the  trail.  With  no  backward  glance 
toward  what  had  been  to  some  extent  a  home-like  habi- 
tation, he  swung  along  the  trail.  Already,  as  far  as 
he  was  concerned,  this  episode  was  closed.  The  new 
MacMahon,  Mr.  John  Henry  MacMahon,  president — 
to  be — of  the  Bonanza  Lumber  Company,  was  now  liv- 
ing in  the  promise  of  his  prosperous  future. 

When  a  man  has  once  struck  the  trail  that  leads  to 
success,  the  up-grade  grows  less  steep  with  every  step. 
MacMahon  recognized  the  blazing  along  the  way  as 
he  climbed,  and  in  time  he,  too,  began  to  branch  out 
for  himself  and  blaze  new  trails.  His  Bonanza  Lumber 
Company  dream  crystallized  into  a  reality,  and  the  pig- 
headed selfishness  that  had  characterized  his  Humboldt 
career,  now  directed  into  broader  channels,  became  a 
far-reaching  shrewdness.  And  either  because  extremes 
are  supposed  to  meet,  or  because  his  camp  fare  of  beans 
and  salt  herring  drew  him  irresistibly,  MacMahon,  of 
Humboldt,  erstwhile  land-grabber,  claim-jumper,  and 
squaw  man,  chose  Boston  for  his  home,  where  even 
in  the  sacred  precincts  of  the  Back  Bay  the  "jingle  of 
the  guineas  helps  the  hurt  that  honor  feels,"  and 
eventually  MacMahon,  claim-jumper,  was  lost  in  Mac- 
Mahon, lumber  king. 

The  strenuous  years  that  followed  the  formingof  the 
Bonanza  Lui  iber  Company  left  its  president  little  time 
for  retrospection  and  still  less  inclination.  The  dusky 
brood  in  the  shack  on  the  Lone  Pine  Trail  held  no  place 
in  his  the*  rhts,  for  the  reason  that  his  brown-stone 
i    the  harbor  side  sheltered  an  irreproachable 


family  that  had  every  claim  upon  him,  and  Mrs.  John 
Henry  MacMahon  held  rigorous  views  about  "  wild 
oats "  and  impeachable  pasts.  In  fact,  MacMahon 
himself  had  come  to  look  upon  his  own  early  career 
with  the  same  horror  with  which  he  regarded  his 
earlier  Western  manners  and  habits  of  speech.  And 
when  his  fair-haired  daughter  grew  old  enough  to  look 
at  him  with  her  deep,  serious  eyes,  for  fear  she  might 
penetrate  to  the  lees  of  his  soul  he  put  the  memory 
of  his  Humboldt  life  so  far  from  him,  it  was  to  his 
consciousness  as  if  it  were  not. 

It  was  not  until  with  the  coming  weight  of  years 
that  there  came  to  MacMahon  a  longing  to  shift  some 
of  his  responsibilities  to  younger  shoulders.  If  he  had 
a  son,  he  often  said,  to  whom  he  might  trust  the  wel- 
fare of  the  Bonanza  Lumber  Company,  his  life  would 
round  itself  out  into  a  perfect  whole. 

If  he  had  a  son !  He  caught  himself  saying  this  in 
good  faith,  so  completely  had  he  put  away  from  him 
everything  outside  of  Boston.  He  laughed  a  short, 
meaning  laugh  as  he  gave  free  rein  to  his  fancy  to  turn 
backward,  and  guarded  himself  thereafter  from  re- 
peating his  regret  in  those  terms.  The  fact  that  he 
did  have  a  son  and  that  the  business  needed  some  one 
who  could  work  up  with  it,  changed  his  point  of  view 
of  the  Humboldt  matter.  Sentiment  and  propriety  were 
good  in  their  place,  but  not  things  to  be  allowed  to 
stand  between  him  and  business. 

MacMahon  began  to  recall  the  little  fellow,  the  prints 
of  whose  baby  ringers  were  not  yet  quite  obliterated 
from  his  heart.  The  memory  of  that  last  bed-time 
frolic  brought  a  chuckle  to  his  lips.  "  I  wonder  which 
race  is  on  top  now,"  he  mused,  recalling  the  sturdy 
little  figure  struggling  between  Indian  stolidity  and 
American  enterprise. 

"  I'm  going  to  California  next  week,  my  dear,"  he 
said  to  his  wife  a  few  days  later,  for,  being  a  man  of 
prompt  action,  it  did  not  take  him  long  to  make  up  his 
mind  and  act  accordingly;  "it's  not  a  trip  you  would 
enjoy,"  he  explained,  in  the  next  breath,  "  it's — it's  a 
business  trip." 

The  day  of  his  departure  his  daughter  looked  deep 
into  his  eyes,  and,  kissing  him  good-by,  said:  "Good 
luck  to  you  and  your  business,  papa."  Being  thick- 
skinned  mentally  as  well  as  morally,  the  innocent  irony 
of  this  wish  struck  him  lightly  and  glanced  aside. 

Upon  reaching  Humboldt  it  was  to  his  great  relief 
that  he  found  Squaw  Mary  was  dead.  That  she  had  lost 
her  life  in  the  river  foraging  for  her  children  did  not 
strike  him  as  being  at  his  door;  he  could  not  have 
provided  for  them  without  tacitly  admitting  things  he 
wanted  forgotten.  At  any  rate,  it  was  uncommonly 
convenient  to  him  to  know  she  was  dead.  But,  as  he 
often  told  himself,  he  was  a  lucky  dog  anyway,  and 
misfortune  could  not  stick  to  him. 

The  fair-skinned  young  fellow  he  found  behind  the 
counter  of  the  country  store  bore  out  his  claim  to  luck. 
As  far  as  one  might  judge  from  appearances,  he  was 
a  full-blooded  Caucasian. 

"  I  am  an  old  friend  of  your  father's,  my  boy,"  he 
said,  when  he  found  a  moment  for  a  quiet  word. 

The  young  fellow  looked  at  him  sharply.  It  was 
plain  the  memory  of  his  father  was  not  altogether 
pleasant. 

"  Your  father  was  a — a  friend  of  mine,"  MacMahon 
repeated,  somewhat  lamely. 

"  My  father  was  a  damned  scoundrel,"  the  young 
man  answered,  and  turned  away,  as  if  to  have  no  more 
to  do  with  his  father's  friend. 

"  Not  so  bad  as  that,  my  boy,"  MacMahon  answered, 
quickly ;  "  he  was  a  distant  relative  of  mine,  too.  It  is 
through  his  wish  that  I  have  come  to  offer  you  what- 
ever reparation  I  may." 

The  boy  was  not  mollified  toward  his  father's  friend, 
but  his  ready  acceptance  of  the  offer  held  out  to  him 
almost  cost  MacMahon  his  secret,  for  he  chuckled, 
quite  irrelevantly,  the  boy  thought,  "  the  Yankee  is  on 
top  strong." 

To  the  young  mountaineer,  the  lumberman  seemed 
almost  too  good  a  thing  to  be  true,  and  MacMahon 
said  to  himself  a  hundred  times  before  he  slept  that 
night:  "This  is  just  the  blood  we  want  in  the  firm — 
shrewd  and  suspicious  enough  to  be  his  father's  own 
son." 

Looking  upon  this  stalwart  young  fellow  already 
as  the  strength  of  his  declining  years,  MacMahon  lost 
no  time  in  uprooting  him  from  his  native  heath  and 
starting  eastward.  The  boy  was  not  communicative 
in  regard  to  his  early  life,  and  MacMahon  took  good 
care  to  avoid  any  subject  that  might  encourage  him 
to  dredge  his  memory  for  bygone  faces  or  associations. 
But  to  the  boy  the  present  was  such  a  rich  new  field 
of  experience  there  was  no  time  for  harking  back  to  a 
shadowy  past. 

By  the  time  the  end  of  their  journey  was  reached, 
the  boy  and  the  man  had  established  an  interchange 
of  confidence  and  respect.  No  questions  had  been 
asked,  and  no  explanations  made.  So  it  was  with  a 
renewed  confidence  in  his  all-prevailing  luck  that  he 
established  this  son  of  his  deceased  friend  in  his  busi- 
ness, while  he  thanked  the  gods  that  this  tall  young 
fellow  with  the  brown  hair  and  fair  skin  bore  no  re- 
semblance to  Squaw  Mary.  Neither  could  his  most 
careful  study  of  the  boy's  character  discover  a  single 
lurking  Klamath  trait. 

Mrs.  MacMahon  accepted  her  husband's  protege 
with  a  stiff  graciousness  that  was  meant  for  cordiality, 
and  little  Elisabeth  on  the  spot  accepted  her  father's 
friend  for  her  own. 

The  Bonanza  Lumber  Company  flourished  through 
five  more  years  of  gigantic  prosperity.     Then,  because 


the  Great  Northern  Company's  competition  began  to 
cut  into  the  Bonanza's  trade,  and  people  began  to  say 
things  about  an  approaching  crisis,  MacMahon  put  on 
all  his  steam  and  faced  about  into  the  teeth  of  the 
gale. 

"  When  a  man  is  born  lucky  it  takes  more  than  a 
scare  to  down  him,  remember  that,  my  boy,"  he  said 
to  the  young  fellow,  now  the  junior  member  of  the 
firm ;  "  we'll  weather  this  storm  and  show  what's  back 
of  the  Bonanza,  eh,  boy !  But,  by  the  Lord,  I  couldn't 
do  it  alone,  I'm  afraid!"  he  added  to  himself,  half  re- 
sentful that  this  level  young  head  had  so  infused  itself 
into  his  life  he  could  no  longer  stand  alone. 

"  Yes,  we'll  see  it  through,"  the  young  man  answered, 
firmly;  "  we'll  see  it  through  safely.  And  when. we  are 
out  of  the  woods  may  I  ask  something  of  you?" 

"  Anything,  anything,  boy,"  MacMahon  answered, 
heartily ;  "  ha !  ha !  You'll  be  wanting  a  leave  of 
absence  to  take  a  wedding  trip,  I  guess !"  But  the 
junior  member  was  not  to  be  bluffed  into  betraying 
his  own  business  until  the  time  was  ripe. 

It  was  not  many  days  after  this  conversation  that 
Mrs.  MacMahon  said  to  her  daughter :  "  This  boy- 
seems  to  entirely  fill  the  place  of  a  son  to  your  father, 
I  have  noticed." 

Elisabeth  bent  her  eyes  upon  her  work  and  her  head 
drooped  so  low  it  caused  a  sudden  rush  of  color  to  her 
face. 

"  Your  father  says  he  virtually  holds  the  reins  of 
the  business  in  his  hands,  and " 

But  here,  Elisabeth,  for  fear  the  beating  of  her  heart 
must  be  heard  across  the  room,  dropped  her  work  and 
fled. 

As  is  often  the  case  with  parents,  in  their  eyes  the 
junior  partner,  despite  his  years  and  career,  was  still 
a  boy,  and  Elisabeth  still  a  little  girl.  The  flight  of 
years  to  the  MacMahons  senior  had  meant  only  the 
accumulation  of  greater  wealth,  but  to  the  two  young 
people,  growing  into  manhood  and  womanhood  under 
each  other's  eyes,  life  wore  a  more  varied  and  irides- 
cent hue,  and  the  juxtaposition  of  such  inflammable 
substances  as  two  young,  untried  hearts,  made  the 
outcome  obvious  to  everybody  but  those  most  con- 
cerned. 

It  was  therefore  in  a  state  of  serenity  and  peace  that 
MacMahon  sat  one  evening,  after  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter had  left  him  alone,  and  evolved  more  far-reaching 
plans  for  the  Bonanza  company  when,  in  time,  its 
financial  legs  should  be  strong  enough  for  the  stride. 
With  this  cool  young  head  and  firm  hand  at  the  helm, 
there  was  no  reason,  he  believed,  why  the  Bonanza 
should  not  crush  out  all  its  competitors.  And  the 
circling  smoke  clouds  that  rose  from  his  pipe  formed 
castles  in  the  air  of  wealth  and  power  and  peace  of 
mind.  Everything  in  his  life,  so  far,  had  gone  exactly 
as  he  had  ordered  it,  and  that  his  lucky  star  might 
some  day  set  had  grown  to  seem  impossible. 

So  lost  was  he  in  the  maze  of  his  projects,  the  knock 
at  the  door  of  his  den  brought  him  to  himself  with  a 
start.  But  the  figure  in  the  doorway  of  the  junior 
partner  of  his  thoughts  sent  the  smoke-wreaths  flying 
still  higher,  for  having  his  right-hand  man  to  talk  with 
was  better  even  than  the  company  of  his  own  thoughts. 

"And  now  for  the  subject  you've  promised  me  a 
hearing  on,"  interrupted  the  young  man,  after  the  fu- 
ture of  the  Bonanza  had  been  dealt  with  and  the  castles 
in  the  air  had  reached  the  ceiling. 

"  Yes,  yes,  that  wedding  trip  of  yours,"  MacMahon 
laughed ; "  let's  have  the  whole  story,"  and  he  seated  him- 
self back  in  his  cushions,  near  to  the  point  of  intoxica- 
tion with  complacency.  "Go  on,  go  on!"  he  finally 
had  to  urge,  for  the  eloquence  of  the  younger  man 
had  suddenly  forsaken  him;  "have  I  guessed  right?" 

"  Yes,"  the  young  fellow  answered,  laconically,  and 
as  there  was  again  a  pause,  MacMahon  splashed  into 
the  breach  with  a  ready  homily  on  the  propriety  of 
such  a  step,  ending  with  a  flourishing  eulogy  of  the 
merits  of  moral  integrity.  "  All  right,  my  boy,"  he  re- 
peated, "I'll  do  the  right  thing  by  you  and  give  you 
a  month  off  to  celebrate,  but  tell  me  first  who  the  lucky 
girl  is." 

"  Elisabeth." 

"My  God!" 

For  an  instant  the  young  man's  concern  was  turned 
from  his  own  case  to  the  stricken  face  opposite. 

Then  "  No,  no,  young  man,  it  can't  be  !"  he  breathed, 
heavily. 

"  Why  not  ?  Haven't  you  always  treated  me  as  a 
son  in  this  house?    Why  do  you  object?" 

"  No,  no,  it  can't  be,"  the  father  of  Elisabeth  re- 
iterated; "go  away,  youngster,"  he  pleaded,  falling  in- 
stinctively into  the  manner  of  the  dead  Humboldt  days. 

In  the  vigor  of  his  youth  and  strength  the  young 
man  towered  over  the  older  one,  and  MacMahon  real- 
ized for  the  first  time  how  completely  the  tables  were 
turned. 

"What  is  your  reason?"  he  demanded;  "am  I  not 
good  enough  for  your  daughter?" 

"  N°" 

"  I'm  not  saying  I  am,  but  that's  not  your  reason. ' 

There  was  not  a  varying  shade  of  thought  in  Mac- 
Mahon's mind  his  son  had  not  learned  to  read. 

MacMahon  sat  silent. 

"  I  suppose  you  know  that  if  you  don't  give  your 
consent  I'll  marry  Elisabeth  without  it." 

"  No !"  This  time  the  father's  tones  struck  fire ; 
"  you'll  not !" 

"Then  tell  me  why,"  threatened  the  young  fellow, 
"or " 

MacMahon  turned  and  watched  the  moonlight 
through  the  tree-tops,  fixed  his  attention  on  the  chim- 


July  6,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


ing  of  a  distant  bell,  then  let  his  eyes  wander  carefully 
over  the  objects  in  the  room.  The  stroke  of  doom 
must  fall,  but  it  might  be  delayed  a  few  seconds. 

11  Remember  I'm  going  to  marry  her  anyway,"  re- 
peated the  young  man,  "  with  your  consent  or  without 
it."     And  MacMahon  knew  his  man. 

There  was  no  other  way.  Without  raising  his  eyes, 
without  turning  his  chair  to  face  his  listener,  Mac- 
Mahon told  the  story  that  no  other  circumstance  under 
heaven  could  have  extracted  from  him.  The  story  of 
the  squaw,  his  part  in  inciting  the  riots  among  the  In- 
dians, his  desertion  of  the  boy  and  his  mother,  seeing 
for  the  first  time  in  its  full  force  the  despicable  part 
he  had  played. 

His  story  ended,  he  spoke  of  a  compensation  to  his 
son  in  money,  but  there  was  no  rejoinder.  Still  Mac- 
Mahon did  not  raise  his  eyes. 

The  ticking  of  the  clock  on  the  mantle-piece  grew 
into  a  booming  to  the  tense  nerves  of  the  two  men. 
The  shadows  of  the  moonlight  floated  in  a  fantastic 
dance  across  the  wall.  The  street  sounds  rose  in  a 
muffled  whir  through  the  heavily  curtained  windows, 
but  neither  man  moved  nor  spoke. 

At  last  the  young  fellow  arose  deliberately,  closed 
the  door  carefully  behind  him,  and  the  father  heard  his 
son  mounting  the  stairs  to  his  own  room. 

"  Which  force  is  dominant  now  ?"  MacMahon  fell 
to  wondering,  and  again  the  picture  of  that  early 
struggle  arose  in  his  mind. 

It  may  have  been  an  hour  later  when  a  shot  from 
the  upper  room  pierced  the  silence  like  a  cry.  And 
still  an  hour  later  when  the  street  door  slammed  and 
the  happy  laughter  of  Elisabeth  reached  her  father's 
ears   as   she   ran  upstairs. 

When  the  cold  gray  dawn  crept  into  the  curtained 
den,  it  found  the  man  in  the  chair  in  the  same  position. 
And  when  a  bolder  gleam  of  light  sought  him  out  and 
rested  upon  him,  it  revealed  the  figure  of  an  old  man — 
broken,  feeble,  ruined  in  fortune,  his  gray  head  bowed 
in  disgrace.  Marguerite  Stabler. 

San  Francisco,  June,  1903. 


MODERN    STEAMSHIP    PALACES. 


Remarks  on  Staterooms — The  Limit  in  Steamship  Size — The     Kaiser  " 

at  Dock  —  Old  Ships,  New  Ships  —  Witticisms  and 

Waiters  —  Transatlantic  Speed. 

In  the  modern  twenty-thousand-ton  passenger  steam- 
ships, the  perfection  of  comfort  has  been  attained. 
If  the  size  of  vessels  is  still  further  increased,  we  may 
expect  a  contraction  of  comfort  again  in  order  to 
utilize  all  the  available  space  by  dividing  it  into  the 
greatest  possible  number  of  rooms. 

"  I  beg  pardon,  Mr.  Van  Fletch ;  but  the  passengers 
in  the  rooms  adjoining  can  not  sleep  by  reason  of  your 
typewriter." 

The  above  interpolated  interruption  was  not  un- 
expected. It  came  from  my  very  worthy,  intelligent, 
and  polite  room-steward  on  the  new  Kaiser  Wilhelm  II 
the  morning  after  leaving  Cherbourg  on  June  10,  1903. 
It  was,  in  fact,  a  contradiction  of  the  opening  para- 
graph of  my  letter.  I  had  taken  my  typewriter  into 
bed  with  me,  as  is  my  custom  in  the  early  morning 
whenever  any  ideas  have  hatched  during  sleep,  and 
had  begun  to  write  my  appreciation  of  having  a  fine 
big  room  all  to  myself.  I  hadn't  written  more  than 
fifty  words,  and  that  had  not  taken  more  than  a  minute, 
so  that  no  one  could  have  been  disturbed  and  know  it; 
but  the  faithful  guardian  of  our  ganewav  had  detected 
the  strange  sound  of  my  "  Blick,"  and  had  rushed  to  the 
rescue  of  the  sleepers  around  me. 

The  reason  for  the  especial  comfort  of  a  twenty- 
thousand-ton  vessel  as  being  superior  to  smaller  ves- 
sels, and  also  to  somewhat  larger  ones,  lies  in  the  di- 
vision of  space.  On  the  first  little  passenger  steamers 
the  sleeping  accommodations  were  mere  berths,  placed 
along  the  sides,  one  above  another,  from  one  deck  to 
another.  When  the  steamers  became  a  bit  bigger  the 
berths  were  surrounded  by  partitions,  and  the  space 
allotted  for  setting  out  of  the  berths  and  dressing  was 
kept  as  small  as  possible.  With  the  growth  in  size 
of  steamships,  the  interior  divisions  grew  T0  De  more 
generouslv  roomy,  until  the  dimensions  of  the  craft 
admitted  the  temptation  to  build  a  double  row  of  rooms 
up  and  down  the  length  of  them,  when  the  cabins  were 
again  cramped  to  uncomfortable  proportions  to  accom- 
modate the  new  divisions. 

On  the  fifteen-thousand-ton  boats  the  double-row 
economv  narrowed  the  cabins,  but  in  this  magnificent 
twenty-thousand-ton  ship  where  I  am  luxuriantly 
writing,  the  rooms  are  as  big-  and  the  passages  are  as 
g-enerous  as  any  one  could  wish.  Two  persons  may  pass 
each  other  in  the  gangways  without  turning:  sidewise. 

Tt  is  a  question  whether  much  largrer  vessels  than 
this  new  creation  of  the  Germans  and  the  Celtic  and 
Cedric.  of  the  White  Star  Line,  will  be  built.  If  so. 
the  harbors  on  either  side  will  have  to  be  made  deeper. 
As  the  land-approaches  of  the  waterways  now  are.  this 
namesake  of  the  German  Kaiser  is.  like  her  god- 
parent, about  as  big  and  as  great  as  present  wharves 
can  accommodate.  While  in  Southampton  alongside 
the  wharves,  we  looked  up  above  two-story  ware- 
houses; and  from  the  midship-bridge,  where  we  were 
standing  at  the  time  of  departure,  we  looked  over 
the  roofs  of  maritime  Southamnton  and  enjoyed  a 
view  of  the  yacht  fleet  lying  bevond.  Coming  on  hoard 
from  the  London  train  we  had  to  climb  four  flig-hts 
of  stairs  to  the  bridge.  In  a  modern  house  this  eleva- 
tion would  have  demanded  an  elevator,  and  yet  there 


was  as  much  of  our  ship  below  the  water-line,  as  we 
had  climbed  through  in  ascending  from  wharf  to  bridge. 

I  have  never  felt  the  complete  satisfaction  which 
majestic  proportions  give  on  a  steamship  before.  I 
hadn't  thought  it  possible.  There  was  always  a  re- 
stricted atmosphere  and  space  limitations;  but  these 
disappear  on  the  new  Kaiser.  Looking  up  or  down, 
moving  about,  or  seated  in  leather  lounging-chairs, 
or  on  tapestried  sofas  with  satin  pillows  at  your  back, 
the  sense  of  completeness  and  proportion  is  fully  satis- 
fied. Everything  is  colossal,  but  has  fine  proportion 
to  everything  else. 

But  one's  interest  in  crossing  the  Atlantic  does  not 
centre  altogether  in  the  ship.  Among  three  or  four 
hundred  first-cabin  passengers  there  are  sure  to  be 
many  to  attract  attention.  If  there  is  no  Pierpont 
Morgan  aboard,  there  may  be  a  John  W.  Gates ;  if  there 
is  no  Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter,  there  may  be  a  Mr. 
James  Brown  Potter;  and  so  on.  You  always  meet 
Californians  wherever  anything  nice  is  being  handed 
around,  or  wherever  fun  is  being  enjoyed.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard  are  the  California  guardians  on 
this  trip,  and  splendidly  represent  the  Golden  State 
in    this    cosmopolitan   happening. 

How  many  travelers  there  are  of  the  present  time 
who  do  not  know  the  difference  between  a  good  steam- 
ship and  a  bad  one;  between  marine  comfort  of  super- 
lative refinement,  and  marine  discomfort  of  most  dis- 
agreeable kind?  I  consider  it  a  privilege  to  have  gone 
to  sea  when  things  afloat  were  as  bad  as  ever  has  been, 
because  I  am  now  able  to  enjoy  the  present-day  com- 
fort with  a  keenness  begotten  of  contrast.  None  of 
you  will  remember  the  so-called  steamship  Pembroke, 
which  once  distinguished  herself  by  being  fired  on  by 
the  Japanese  in  the  Shiminosecky  Straits,  but  some 
of  you  may  have  seen  lying  at  Esquimalt,  B.  C,  the 
pioneer  steamship  on  the  Pacific  Ocean,  the  side- 
wheeler  Beaver.  The  Beaver  was  one  of  the  first  steam 
vessels  to  be  constructed.  She  was  little  more  than 
a  hundred  feet  long,  and  her  paddle-wheels  were 
placed  forward  of  the  centre  of  the  ship,  with  the  en- 
gine and  funnel  behind  the  paddle-boxes.  The  idea 
of  this  odd  construction  was,  I  believe,  that  the  paddles 
could  pull  better  than  push. 

The  Pembroke  was  built  a  little  later  than  the 
Beaver,  but  she  was  not  so  graceful  a  model.  She  was 
formed  like  a  soda-water  bottle,  and  her  engines  were 
so  primitive  that  sometimes  they  would  stop  short  and 
refuse  to  go  by  any  persuasion  of  steam.  We  used  to 
call  it  balking,  and  the  term  was  well  chosen,  for  her 
stoppings  were  similar  to  those  of  a  balky  horse, 
without  rhyme  or  reason. 

As  a  youngster  I  served  on  the  Pembroke,  and  can 
therefore  better  appreciate  the  perfection  attained  in 
the  Kaiser  Wilhelm  II.  Old  sailors,  even  those  of  the 
"  arrested  development "  order,  are  proverbial  fault- 
finders. I  roamed  about  this  last  beautiful  creation 
for  two  days  trying  to  find  fault  with  her.  Then  I 
secured  the  assistance  of  Commodore  Henry  Walters, 
of  the  New  York  Yacht  Club,  and  Admiral  William 
M.  Laffan.  who  commands  the  Sun  fleet,  but  none  of  us 
could  find  a  fault  of  construction  or  service.  "  Per- 
fection "  was  spelled  all  over  the  whole  vessel,  like  a 
health-food  advertisement,  and  all  the  vinegar  we 
could  g-et  out  of  the  conference  was'  a  Hibernian  witti- 
cism from  our  chairman.  Admiral  Laffan,  who  com- 
plained that  the  only  fault  he  could  discover  was  that 
the  "  blamed  thing  was  too  darned  ultimate." 

The  kitchen  below  decks  is  also  worthy  of  great 
praise.  All  that  the  servants  have  to  do  is  to  touch 
the  rig-fit  buttons,  and  electricity  does  all  the  rest.  The 
onlv  thine  done  by  hand  is  the  serving  at  table  of  the 
food  electrically  cooked  in  the  galleys.  Each  waiter 
has  to  take  the  order  of  his  patron  directly  to  the 
special  cook  of  the  dish  ordered,  and  superintend  the 
cooking  in  accordance  with  the  directions  of  the 
orderer.  The  cook  does  the  cooking  in  the  presence 
of  the  waiter,  and  the  latter  returns  with  a  serving 
so  hot  that  all  hands  have  to  wait  for  it  to  get  cool 
enough  to  eat.  There  are  no  middle-men  or  pantry  go- 
betweens  or  dumb-waiters. 

In  sneed,  the  new  Kaiser  is  a  disappointment,  but 
onlv  about  a  knot  and  a  half  under  expectations.  They 
onlv  added  eight  thousand  horse-power  to  take  care 
of  five  thousand  added  tonnage,  and  it  wasn't  enough 
to  maintain  the  speed  attained  in  the  Deittschland  and 
the  Kronbrinz  Wilhelm.  The  new  boat  has  dropped 
back  to  the  speed  of  the  Kaiser  Wilhelm  der  Grosse. 
which  is  about  twenty-two  and  a  half  knots  an  hour, 
and  insures  landing-  on  the  other  side  of  the  water  just 
inside  six  days.  With  a  free  morning  at  one  end  of 
the  voyaee  and  a  free  evening  at  the  other  end.  the 
absence  from  business  is  reduced  to  five  days  only. 
Another  day  saved  would  cost  so  much  in  coal  and 
risk  that  there  are  doubts  if  it  will  be  attempted.  The 
Cunard  Company,  backed  by  the  British  treasury,  are 
making:  a  bluff  of  cutting  another  dav  out  of  the  trans- 
atlantic vovage,  but  there  is  many  a  German  and  even 
many  a  Scotchman  who  has  doubts. 

New  York,  June  17.  1903.  Van  Fletch. 

The  Mexican  Government  proposes  to  compel  all 
signs  and  advertisements  on  walls  to  be  in  Spanish 
with,  if  desired,  translations  into  other  languages.  It 
is  considered  contrary  to  the  dignity  of  the  nation  that 
English  signs,  now  very  numerous,  should  not  have 
their  Spanish  counterpart. 

-—■•*- ■ 

Many  English  doctors  are  now  convinced  that  the 
eating  of  nigs'  flesh  in  different  forms  is  largely  re- 
sponsible for  the  increase  of  cancer. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Henry  James,  the  novelist,  is  about  to  revisit  the 
United  States  after  an  absence  of  twenty-five  years. 
He  intends  to  make  a  long  stay,  and  subsequently  will 
publish  his  experiences  and  impressions  of  the  United 
States  in  book-form. 

It  is  announced  that  the  ex-Crown  Princess  Louise 
of  Saxony  is  to  take  up  her  residence  in  France  with 
her  infant  daughter.  She  will  live  in  a  small  Provencal 
chateau  near  Vaucluse,  now  belonging  to  the  heirs 
of  the  Comte  de  Chambord.  Her  other  children  will 
be  allowed  to  visit  her  occasionally  on  the  express 
condition  that  she  shall  have  nothing  to  do  with  M. 
Giron. 

Ulysses  S.  Grant,  Third,  who  recently  graduated  at 
West  Point,  third  in  a  large  class,  is  the  son  of  General 
Frederick  D.  Grant  and  grandson  of  the  famous 
general,  who  graduated  only  twenty-first  in  a  class  only 
one-third  as  large.  It  is  related  that  not  long  ago 
General  Frederick  Grant  wrote  to  one  of  his  friends,  an 
instructor  at  West  Point,  asking  how  his  son  was  getting 
on.  He  received  this  terse  reply :  "  Dear  Fred  : 
Don't  worry;  the  boy  stands  higher  in  everything  than 
you  ever  did  in  anything." 

Harold  Sterling  Vanderbilt,  son  of  William  K.  Van- 
derbilt.  and  younger  brother  of  the  Duchess  of  Marlbor- 
ough, has  just  graduated  from  St.  Mark's  School,  at 
Southboro.  Mass.,  with  unusual  honors.  He  was  the 
winner  of  three  prizes,  including  the  founder's  medal, 
which  is  awarded  the  member  of  the  graduating  class 
who  stands  highest,  and  also  has  had  specified  rank  in 
studies  and  in  conduct  in  the  three  years  preceding; 
a  scholarship  prize  in  the  sixth  form ;  and  the  Ely  prize' 
in  the  same  form  for  extemporaneous  speaking. 

One  of  the  Paris  papers  claims  that  it  has  learned 
the  secret  of  the  Humberts'  arrest  in  Spain.  It  seems 
that  Sefior  Cotarello,' of  Madrid,  who  informed  the 
French  authorities,  was  not  actuated  by  mercenary  but 
by  family  motives.  His  son  fell  in  love  with'  Eve 
Humbert,  and  in  spite  of  his  father's  refusal  to  allow 
him  to  propose,  the  young  man  sent  letters  to  his  sweet- 
heart through  her  aunt,  Marie  Daurignac.  The  father 
revealed  the  whereabouts  of  the  Humberts  in  order  to 
prevent  an  elopement.  The  young  man,  it  is  said,  in- 
tends to  go  to  Paris  and  carrv  out  his  resolve  after  the 
trial. 

Gabriel  Ferrier,  who  has  just  been  awarded  the 
medal  of  honor  at  this  year's  Salon  in  Paris,  is  from 
the  south  of  France,  which  furnishes  far  more  than 
its  proportion  of  great  painters — perhaps,  as  one  writer 
suggests,  because  the  color  sense  is  better  developed 
in  its  climate.  Ferrier  went  to  the  Paris  school  of  the 
Beaux  Arts  in  the  'sixties,  and  in  1872  Ferrier  carried 
off  the  Prix  de  Rome.  There  he  was  the  pupil  of 
Hebert,  who  received  the  Salon  medal  in  1895.  He  had 
a  second  medal  in  1876,  a  first  in  1878,  and  a  gold 
medal  at  the  exposition  of  1889.  Ferrier  has  been  a 
diligent  teacher  in  turn,  and  some  of  his  pupils  at- 
tribute their  own  success  to  his  training. 

Major  James  B.  Pond,  the  well-known  lecturer,  died 
at  his  residence  at  Jersey  City  on  June  21st,  at  the  age 
of  sixty-five.  It  was  as  the  manager  of  the  lecture  tour 
of  the  nineteenth  wife  of  Brigham  Young:,  when  she 
renounced  Mormonism,  that  he  got  into  that  class  of 
business.  Among  the  famous  men  whom  he  has 
"managed  "  were  Wendell  Phillips,  William  Llovd  Gar- 
rison. Robert  G.  Ingersoll.  Henrv  Ward  Beecher.  Bill 
Nye.  Mark  Twain,  De  Witt  Talmage.  Canon  Farrar. 
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  and  Max  O'Rell.  He  is  the 
author  of  "  Eccentricities  of  Genius  "  and  "  A  Summer 
in  England  with  Henry  Ward  Beecher."  He  leaves  a 
widow  and  two  children.  Mrs.  Edith  Brown  and  James 
B.  Pond,  Jr.,  the  former  being  by  his  first  wife. 

The  Pope  is  an  indefatigable  worker,  even  in  his 
old  age.  and  he  has  little  patience  with  lag-gards  and 
procrastinators.  The  other  day,  it  is  said,  a  priest 
came  to  him  with  a  fine  recommendation  for  his  literary 
ability  from  Mgr.  Nocella.  The  Holy  Father  received 
him  graciouslv  and  outlined  for  him  several  articles, 
which,  he  said,  must  be  ready  on  the  following  morn- 
ing. The  priest  was  obliged  to  sit  up  all  night  to  finish 
the  work,  and  in  the  morning  he  approached  the  Holy 
Father  with  many  misgivings,  as  he  knew  that  the 
quality  of  the  articles  bore  out  very  poorlv  Nocella's 
letter.  The  Pope  glanced  over  the  manuscripts,  and 
then  said  quietly  and  in  an  encouraging  tone:  "You 
appear  to  he  better  gifted  for  meditation  than  for  writ- 
ing.    Tt  were  better  you  dedicate  yourself  to  prayer." 

"  General  "  Coxey.  who  gained  considerable  news- 
paper notoriety  when  he  led  his  army  of  unemployed 
into  Washington  nine  vears  ago.  is  once  more  in 
trouble.  He  left  Massillon  in  1806  and  went  to  Mount 
Vernon,  where  he  built  a  foundry,  and  has  been  making 
steel  castings  for  several  years.  He  has  also  had  a 
factory  for  making  the  silica  sand,  which  is  used  in 
open  hearth  iron  furnaces,  but  both  of  his  concerns 
are  now  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver.  William  E.  Curtis 
says  it  is  his  own  fault:  that  his  trouble  is  due  to  had 
judgment  and  the  worst  kind  of  nianag-ement.  He  has 
had  a  net  income  of  between  $5,000  and  $6,000  a  month, 
but  has  become  involved  in  unprofitable  contracts  and 
speculations  outside  his  regular  business,  which  have 
swallowed  up  his  profits  and  entangled  him  in  com- 
plications that  he  could  not  straighten  out.  The  re- 
ceiver is  expected  to  set  him  on  his  feet  again. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  6,  1903. 


THE    CALAVERAS    BIG    TREES. 

Geraldine  Bonner   at   Murphy's   Camp — Fine  Scenery,  a  Bad    Road, 

and   a   Worse  Dinner  —  The  Forest   Primeval — 

Ferrying  the  Styx. 

Murphy's  and  the  Calaveras  Big  Trees  will  forever 
remain  in  my  mind  as  the  two  places  on  our 
trip  where  we  got  the  best  and  the  worst 
meals.  The  unartificial  outdoor  life  certainly  does 
develop  a  high  consideration  for  food  in  the  human 
animal.  I  once  knew  a  woman  who  traveled  all  over 
Europe  and  the  only  way  she  remembered  places  was 
by  the  kind  of  meals  she  had  had.  Such  a  place  ?  Oh, 
yes,  that's  where  we  had  the  fine  pate  de  foie  gras; 
and  you  know,  the  caviare  in  Moscow  was  wonderfully 
good,  worth  going  to  Russia  for  !  That  was  the  way  she 
talked,  and  I  always  thought  how  horribly  greedy  it 
was.  Now  I  find  my  passage  through  the  mining  belt 
is  resolving  itself  into  a  series  of  mental  notes  as  to 
where  the  meals  were  fit  to  eat  and  where  they  were 
not. 

We  drove  into  Murphy's  in  the  early  night,  over- 
looked by  a  red  moon,  whose  ruddy  face  was  barred 
with  little  clouds.  By  its  light  Murphy's  looked  like 
any  other  place.  There  was  the  same  street  sleeping 
under  the  projecting  eaves  of  its  arcade,  the  same 
concentrating  of  light  and  life  about  the  hotel;  the 
same  men  on  the  same  chairs,  the  same  dogs  drowsing 
in  the  dust.  The  men  and  the  dogs  rose  up  when  our 
arrival  shook  them  from  the  languid  interests  of  their 
evening  rendezvous,  and  the  proprietor  came  to  greet 
us,  with  welcome  on  his  lips  and  a  feather  duster  in  his 
hand. 

The  next  morning  we  woke  to  sylvan  sounds.  A 
cow  with  a  bell  on  its  neck  was  grazing  somewhere 
near.  There  was  a  twitter  of  birds  in  the  locusts.  The 
air  was  sweet  and  fresh,  and  the  country,  seen  through 
the  green  fringe  of  drooping  foliage,  looked  rich  and 
well  tended.  Then  we  went  down  to  breakfast,  through 
wide,  cool  passageways,  ending  in  windows  closed  with 
iron  shutters,  as  though  the  hotel  had  once  been  a 
prison.  It  was  an  old,  cloistral  sort  of  place,  and  on 
the  search  for  the  dining-room  we  once  found  ourselves 
in  a  long  room  full  of  beds,  like  a  hospital  dormitory, 
and  after  that  confidently  entered  into  somebody's  apart- 
ment, in  which  we  had  a  sort  of  snapshot  impression 
that  the  occupant  still  slumbered. 

Finally  we  found  the  dining-room,  and  opened  the 
door  upon  its  cool,  low-ceilinged  bareness.  It  was 
absolutely  undecorated,  save  by  a  few  prints  and  photo- 
graphs on  the  wall.  We  thought  of  the  red  and  yellow 
paper  streamers  that  hung  from  the  ceiling  at  San 
Andreas,  and  felt  uneasy.  But  here  we  had  a  good 
breakfast,  a  breakfast  of  surprises — even  cream  in  the 
coffee.  Our  spirits  rose  and  we  decided  we  would  stop 
a  day  at  Murphy's  before  we  adventured  forth  to  the 
Big  Trees. 

There  is  none  of  the  suggestion  of  desolation  or 
abandonment  of  the  old  mining-camp  about  Murphy's. 
It  was  one  of  the  few  places  we  saw  which  seemed 
to  have  an  independent,  self-sufficing,  local  life.  It 
had  the  completeness  within  its  own  borders,  the  air 
of  living  comfortably  on  itself,  of  the  prosperous  vil- 
lage. When  the  mines  gave  out  it  did  not  tamely  throw 
up  the  sponge.  It  set  about  cultivating  its  ranches, 
developing  its  other  resources,  and  it  became  a  com- 
pact, self-supporting,  independent  country  community, 
thriving  and  well  pleased  with  itself. 

Not  that  it  is  marked  by  any  particular  strenuousness, 
a  spell  of  apathy  seems  to  be  laid  over  all  this  part  of 
California.  Angel's  was  the  only  place  we  saw  where 
the  inhabitants  make  any  show  of  energy  in  the  pursuit 
of  their  vocations.  There  is  something  about  the  land- 
scape of  foothill  California  that  suggests  a  sprawling, 
inert  laziness.  Nature  gives  in  to  the  power  of  the 
sun  so  quicklv  and  dries  up  and  grows  brown  without 
a  struggle.  There  is  no  spirited  upcoming  of  showers 
to  lay  the  dust  and  quench  the  thirst  of  the  parched  soil. 
The  whole  panorama  of  rolling  country  seems  to 
acquiesce  in  a  sort  of  idle,  slovenly  listlessness.  The 
same  spirit  has  invaded  the  people.  Even  the  sane  and 
comfortable  Murphy ites  are  given  to  spending  hours 
on  wooden  seats  under  the  arcades,  their  heels  elevated, 
their  hats  on  their  noses.  There  was  a  saloon  opposite 
the  hotel,  and  in  front  of  this  four  or  five  men  sat  in 
arm-chairs  all  morning.  At  intervals  they  spoke  one 
to  another,  and  generally  nobody  had  enough  ambition 
to  answer.  Down  the  length  of  the  warm,  little  street, 
drowsing  under  the  fringe  of  its  locusts,  other  men 
could  be  observed,  either  similarly  situated,  or  setting 
alone,  their  heels  as  high  up  as  they  could  get  them, 
their  chairs  tilted  well  back,  a  spiral  of  smoke  issuing 
from  under  their  hat  brims. 

At  about  11  a.  m.  a  perfect  silence  held  the  town, 
except  for  the  conversation  of  the  men  in  front  of  the 
saloon.  It  was  very  hot;  the  red  dust  was  unstirred 
by  foot  of  man  or  beast.  At  this  stage  some  one  began 
to  play  patriotic  melodies  on  the  cornet.  That  stopped 
even  the  most  determined  attempts  at  small  talk,  and 
Murphy's  listened  passively  till  the  clangor  of  a  bell 
from  the  hotel  warned  them  that  it  was  mid- 
day. Then  all  the  heels  came  down  together,  the  men 
in  front  of  the  saloon  turned  with  a  single  movement 
and  went  into  the  haven  behind  them,  and  the  cornet 
came  to  a  gi  rgling  stop  in  the  middle  of  "  Union  For- 
ever." 

We  took  a  twenty-four-hour  rest  before  we  started 

for  the  BT    Trees.    This  we  did  at  eight  in  the  morn- 

rreatl:'  to  the  indignation  of  our  driver,  who  kept 


insisting  on  the  advantages  of  starting  at  four.  I  told 
him  finally  that  nothing  short  of  seeing  the  New 
Jerusalem  would  make  me  get  up  at  four,  and  that  he 
evidently  regarded  as  conclusive. 

They  say  it  is  fifteen  miles  from  Murphy's  to  the 
Big  Trees.  I  should  think  myself  it  was  more  like 
twenty — and  a  hard  twenty,  up  hill  the  whole  way.  on 
a  road  a  foot  deep  in  dust,  and  worn  into  a  series  of 
chuck-holes  by  the  enormous  lumber  teams  that  traverse 
it.  At  first  there  is  little  beauty  in  the  road — bare, 
scorched  hillsides,  with  here  and  there  a  house  or^  a 
water-trough  ;  half-destroyed  forests,  with  young  pines 
and  firs  shooting  up  round  the  roots  of  their  slaughtered 
elders ;  sometimes  a  blue  distance  of  mountain  flank 
clothed  in  ascending  files  of  pines,  pointed  tier  above 
pointed  tier. 

But  as  we  ascended  higher  we  came  into  regions  of 
statelier  growths.  The  great  mottled  trunks  of  the 
yellow  pine  soared  up  into  aerial  heights,  whence 
dreamy  whisperings  came  to  our  ears.  The  sugar-pine 
stretched  out  dark  foliage  in  far-flung  branches,  each 
weighted  with  a  drooping  cone.  The  woods  became 
quiet,  the  underbrush  thin.  Now  and  then  the  tinkle 
of  running  water  came  from  a  twilight  of  over- 
lapping leaves,  where  golden  motes  of  sun  danced  on 
broken  shallows.  Once  or  twice  in  the  thick-netted 
solemn  greenery  we  saw  a  spattering  of  the  dogwood's 
white  blossoms,  a  light,  coquettish  note  against  that 
dignity  of  mighty  trunk  and  mossy  limb. 

It  was  midday  when  we  reached  a  clearing  with  a 
rambling,  old  hotel  in  the  middle  of  it.  and  were  told 
we  had  arrived.  We  were  also  told  that  we  must  eat 
our  dinner  here  before  we  started  out  for  the  trees, 
and  being  both  tired  and  hungry,  we  agreed.  Four 
other  people  appeared  upon  the  scene,  also  demanding 
dinners,  and  we  all  lined  up  on  the  balcony  in  hair- 
cloth chairs,  and  hungrily  waited. 

Over  that  dinner  I  will  draw  a  veil.  Yet  I  have 
wondered  since  if  it  could  have  been  so  bad,  because  I 
noticed  our  driver  partaking  of  it  heartily,  and  two 
of  the  four  strangers — girls  in  shirt-waists  and  modish 
stocks — seemed  to  be  able  to  cope  with  it.  There  was 
a  dish  of  some  strange  meat  fragments  that  I  told  my 
companion  I  thought  were  pieces  of  a  mammoth  they 
had  discovered  under  the  prehistoric  trees,  and  were 
chopping  little  bits  off  every  day.  I  ate  horse  in  Paris 
— ate  it  innocently  all  winter  and  thought  it  was  beef — 
but  it  did  not  taste  anything  like  as  queer  as  that  Big 
Tree  mammoth. 

But  the  trees  themselves — they  make  up  for  every- 
thing. They  grow  scattered  in  an  elongated  strip  of 
woodland  among  great  pines  and  firs  that  without  them 
to  measure  by  would  be  giants,  too.  There  is  a  curious 
hush  in  that  green  solitude  which  makes  one  want  to 
tread  softly  and  speak  low.  Now  and  then,  sad,  sea- 
like murmurings  come  from  aloft,  but  for  the  most  part 
an  extraordinary  and  mysterious  silence  and  quietude 
reigns  in  this  world  of  vast,  primordial  forms.  We  lay 
down  on  our  cloaks,  our  heads  pillowed  on  dead 
branches,  and  looked  up.  The  stillness  of  the  early 
earth  reigned  about  us,  not  a  breath  of  air  stirred 
above.  Foliage,  fern-fine,  was  printed  on  the  blue  sky, 
like  seaweed  outspread  on  a  card.  Away  in  the  wood- 
land, knocking  on  the  silence  as  if  anxious  to  get  into 
this  still,  sequestered  corner  of  the  gigantic  past,  a 
woodpecker  struck  on  a  tree  trunk.  A  cone  fell,  a  vag- 
rant zephyr  passed  above,  and  aeolian  sounds  of  inde 
scribable  harmonious  softness   followed   it. 

"  There  were  giants  in  those  days,"  Genesis  says. 
There  must  have  been  giants  to  match  such  growths 
as  these.  Did  the  mammoth  and  mastodon  range  under 
the  enormous  boughs,  rubbing  their  sides  against  the 
rough  bark?  Looking  down  the  forest  aisles,  where 
here  and  there  a  towering  red  shaft  rises,  one  can  al- 
most see  the  huge  form  of  some  shaggy,  prehistoric 
brute,  nosing  about  among  the  underbrush,  throwing  a 
tusked  mouth  aloft,  pausing  in  its  slow  stroll  to  lift  a 
listening  head,  and  then  send  forth  a  tremendous  bellow 
for  its  mate. 

One  of  the  most  curious  things  about  the  trees  is 
their  suggestion  of  youth  and  vitality.  They  were 
standing  thus  when  Moses  led  the  Israelites  out  of 
Egypt;  when  the  Roman  legionaries  were  invading 
the  matted  forests  and  pestilent  fens  of  Britain  aeons 
had  passed  over  them;  when  Christ  was  crucified  they 
were  old.  Yet  their  foliage  is  thick,  and  is  a  bright, 
rich  green,  beautifully  clear  and  vivid  against  their 
barks.  They  show  few,  almost  no,  dead  limbs,  and  the 
red  color  of  their  trunks  is  fresh  and  bright.  Coming 
close  to  them  they  look  rough,  almost  shaggy,  as  if  their 
barks  had  something  of  the  nature  of  a  hide.  They  do 
not  suggest  a  green  old  age,  but  a  perennial  youth, 
as  though  the  sap  rose  strong  and  juicy  in  them,  and 
their  roots  sucked  a  vivifying  nutriment  from  the 
earth's  bosom. 

Our  last  long  drive  was  from  Angel's  to  Sonora, 
and  we  had  great  difficulty  in  getting  a  carriage,  as  an 
Italian  picnic  was  on  for  that  day  and  all  the  available 
vehicles  within  a  radius  of  ten  miles  were  pressed  into 
the  service.  We  were  so  delayed  by  our  repeated  tele- 
phonings  and  importunities  to  distant  livery  stables  to 
rent  us  any  form  of  vehicle  into  which  we  and  our 
baggage  could  be- stowed,  that  it  was  eight  o'clock  in  the 
evening  before  we  got  started.  We  had  managed,  how- 
ever, to  get  an  excellent  team  and  a  good  driver,  an  ad- 
vantage, as  our  road  lay  over  a  series  of  mountain  spurs 
and  the  moon  did  not  rise  till  near  eleven. 

That  was  a  drive  of  weird,  inky  darkness  and  ad- 
venturous suggestion.  For  an  hour  light  lingered  on 
the  tops  of  the  ridges  we  crossed,  while  the  hollows 


between  lay  filled  to  the  brim  with  a  soft  blackness. 
Skimming  along  the  crest  of  the  ridge  we  could  see  the 
west  still  suffused  with  a  faint,  grayish  pallor,  and  by 
its  fading  gleam  make  out  the  forms  of  rounded  oaks 
in  the  fields  and  the  pale  line  of  the  road.  Then  on  the 
top  of  the  descent  we  paused,  the  driver  set  the  brake, 
and  we  dove  down  into  black  and  blacker  depths.  The 
air  grew  warmer  as  we  went  down.  We  seemed  to  pass 
into  caverns  of  darkness,  and  descending  at  what  ap 
peared  an  amazing  slant  of  steepness,  turn  loop  after 
loop,  the  harness  creaking,  the  brake  grinding  on  the 
wheel. 

The  night  was  fully  established,  the  sky  peppered 
with  innumerable  stars,  when,  after  a  long  downward 
passage  through  pitch  blackness,  we  emerged  in  an 
open  space — we  were  in  a  crevice  between  two  loom- 
ing mountain  shapes.  A  river  of  darkness  separated 
them.  We  could  hear  the  clinking  of  its  current,  and 
now  and  then  the  starlight  struck  a  lazy  gleam  from  its 
ripples.  In  the  silence  of  the  night  the  driver  raised 
a  stentorian  shout,  and  presently  a  sleepy  voice 
answered  it.  A  dim  shape  appeared  at  the  horses  heads 
and  led  them  forward.  We  could  descry  nothing  beyond 
them,  and  as  we  advanced  we  saw  them  shrink  and  go 
charily.  Then  there  was  a  jouncing  and  bumping  and 
a  hollow  rumble  from  beneath  the  wheels. 

We  were  on  a  flat-boat — what  they  call  in  the  East 
a  scow.  A  something  tremulous  and  smooth  in  our 
motion  told  us  we  were  in  mid  stream.  An  oily  ripple 
or  two  gleamed  in  the  starlight.  There  was  a  dog 
on  the  boat  with  us,  and  we  could  see  his  quick,  dark 
bulk  moving  round  the  man.  Presently  in  the  perfect 
blackness  and  silence  this  man  struck  a  match.  It  cut 
a  little  round  spot  of  yellow  on  the  night  and  gilded  his 
face  and  the  watch  he  held  open,  so  that  he  looked  like 
a  picture  painted  on  a  black  background.  Then  the 
match  dropped,  a  spark  to  the  deck,  and  the  picture 
vanished. 

"  Ten  o'clock,"  came  a  voice  from  the  obscurity ; 
"  you  ought  to  make  Sonora  in  an  hour  and  a  half." 

Sonora,  June  14,  1903.  Geraldine  Bonner. 


MAGAZINE    VERSE. 


Songs  of  Iseult  Deserted. 


I  do  not  pray  for  thee,  most  dear  of  all. 
That  ever  in  soft  ways  thy  feet  may  fall, 
For  well  I  know  that  wheresoe'er  thou  art 
Thy  feet  must  tread  forever  on  my  heart ! 

I  pray  thee  only  to  walk  gently,  sweet. 
Nor  press  too  sharply  with  too  cruel  feet : 
Remember  thou  how  soft  the  way  must  be. 
How  soft — and  ah,  how  sad — and  pity  me  ! 


Should  we  have  loved  if  we  had  known 
That  love  would  bring  one  day  such  pain? 

I   can  not  tell — I  only  kiss 

The  pillow  where  your  head  has  lain. 

Should  we  have  loved  if  we  had  known 
That  love  would  go  to  come  no  more? 

I    can   not   tell — I   only   stand 

And  sob  before  a  fast-closed  door. 


Since  you  are  gone,  all  dull  my  life  has  grown, 
Idle  among  my  empty  days  I  stand  : 

Thev  pass  and  pass,  and  leave  me  here  alone — 
Ah,  sweet,  your  hand  that  burned  upon  my  hand  ! 

Since  you  are  gone,  gone  are  the  joys  I  knew. 

Slowly  from  out  the  sky  the  long  night  slips  : 
And  my  arms  ache  with  emptiness  of  you — 

Ah.  sweet,  your  lips  that  trembled  on  my  lips! 

Since  you  are  gene,  the  world  is  grown  too  wide, 
With  cruel  miles  that  hold  us  two  apart : 

I  sit  and  watch  the  white  road  weary-eyed — 

Ah.  sweet,  your  heart  that  beat  against  my  heart ! 
— Josephine  Daskam   in  June  Century  Magazine. 

The  Closed  Door. 

I   never  crossed  your  threshold  with  a  grief 
But  that  I  went  without  it ;  never  came 
Heart-hungry  but  you  fed  me.  eased  the  blame, 

And  gave  the  sorrow  solace  and  relief. 

I  never  left  you  but  I  took  away 

The  love  that  drew  me  to  your  side   again 
Through  that  wide  door  that  never  could  remain 

Quite  closed  between  us  for  a  little  day. 

Oh,   Friend,  who  gave  and  comforted,  who  knew 
So   over-well    the   want   of  heart   and   mind? 
Where  may  I  turn  for  solace  now.  or  find 

Relief  from  this  unceasing  loss  of  you? 

Be  it  for  fault,   for  folly,  or  for  sin, 

Oh,  terrible  my  penance,  and  most  sore — 
To  face  the  tragedy  of  that  closed  door 

Whereby  I  pass  and  may  not  enter  in. 

— Theodosia  Garrison   in   Bazar. 


Till  "We  Meet  Again. 
Although  my  feet  may  never  walk  your  ways. 

No  other  eyes  will   follow  you  so   far  ; 
No  voice  rise  readier  to  ring  your  praise. 
Till    the    swift    coming   of    those    future    days 

When  the  world  knows  you  for  the  man  you  are. 

You  must  go  on  and  I  must  stay  behind. 

We   may   not    fare    together,    you    and    I. 
But,  though  the  path  to  Fame  be  steep  and  blind, 
Walk,   strong   and   steadfastly,   before   mankind. 

Because  my  heart  must  follow  till  you  die. 

Steadfast  and  strongly,  scorning  mean  success, 

Lenient  to  others — to  yourself  severe. 
If  you  must  fail,  fail  not  in  nobleness. 
God  knows  all  other  failure  I  could  bless 

That  sent  you  back  to  find  your  welcome  here. 

— Caroline  Diter  in  Scribner's  Magazine. 


A  French  firm  of  perfume  makers,  which  offered 
$4,000  in  prizes  for  an  advertising  poster,  received  no 
less  than  1,800,  of  which  300  were  purchased. 


July  6,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


ROSTAND'S    RECEPTION. 

Apotheosis  of  the  Author  of  "L'Aiglon"  at  the  French  Academy— Bril- 
liant Scene  in  the  Reception  Hall — Notabilities  Who  were 
Present — The  New  Immortal's  Speech. 


There  is  always  a  rush  for  places  when  a  new  immortal 
is  created  at  the  French  Academy,  but  never  has  any- 
thing been  known  to  equal  the  excitement  over  the 
Rostand  reception.  Edmond  Rostand  has  made  a  pro- 
found impression  on  French  letters.  France  is  the 
country  where  the  highest  honors  are  paid  to  men  who 
win  their  Spurs  in  the  field  of  letters,  and  Rostand 
has  certainly  forged  his  way  to  the  front  rank  of  our 
literary  lights.  He  is  a  most  interesting  person  in 
many  ways:  he  is  young,  he  is  handsome,  he  is  talented. 
he  is  melancholy,  but,  alas,  he  is  married  !  All  these 
things  are  calculated  to  interest  the  feminine  world. 
except  the  last;  but  even  with  this  drawback,  the 
women  have  been  among  the  most  assiduous  pushers 
for  admission  to  his  reception. 

Many  American  ladies  when  abroad  harass  their 
unfortunate  husbands  with  their  complaints  concern- 
ing the  difficulties  of  securing  admission  to  such  events 
as  these.  The  wife  of  a  senator  or  judge  or  other 
prominent  person  in  the  States  can  not  understand  why 
her  husband  is  not  able  to  secure  seats  with  the  utmost 
ease.  Therefore,  the  American  husband  often  spends 
a  bad  quarter  of  an  hour  when  an  Academy  reception 
takes  place.  For  the  benefit  of  such  ladies.  I  mav  say 
that  in  this  particular  case  it  was  extremely  difficult 
even  for  Frenchmen  of  great  distinction  to  gain  ad- 
mission. The  number  of  places  is  restricted — there  are 
only  about  fifteen  hundred  seats  in  the  Hall  of  the  In- 
stitute— and  the  demand  for  tickets  of  admission 
was  so  great  that  it  was  rumored  that  as  much  as 
one  thousand  francs  had  been  offered  for  a  place  and 
refused.  It  p;oes  without  saying,  however,  that  the 
tickets  are  not  for  sale,  and  most  of  those  fortunate 
enough  to  receive  them  would  not  for  a  moment  con- 
sider selling  them. 

In  order  to  secure  good  places  even  those  who  had 
tickets  were  forced  to  take  extreme  means.  There  are 
no  reserved  seats  at  the  institute — "first  come,  first 
served."  Therefore,  many  people  having  tickets  hired 
poor  persons  to  remain  in  line  all  night  at  the  door 
of  the  institute  in  order  to  keep  places  for  them  which 
thev  could  occupy  in  the  morning. 

The  audience  was  a  very  distinguished  one.  Xot 
only  the  fine  flower  of  society  was  there,  but  also  the 
notabilities  of  the  dramatic  and  literary  firmament. 
Among  the  distinguished  ladies  present  was  Mme. 
Sarah  Bernhardt,  dressed  in  a  bewitching:  gray  coat, 
and  wearing  a  most  becoming  green  hat.  She  was  one 
of  the  first  to  arrive,  and  was  seated  between  her  son. 
Maurice,  and  the  artist,  George  Clairin.  Mme.  Bartet 
was  also  very  handsomely  gowned.  She  is  the  present 
head  of  the  younger  actresses  of  Paris,  being  at  the 
Theatre  Franqais.  She  was  seated  next  to  M.  Coquelin 
and  M.  Mounet-Sullv.  Mme.  le  Bargy  and  Mme.  Bail- 
let  were  other  notable  artists  present.  Sprinkled  about 
the  hall  I  also  noticed  the  Comtesse  Greffulhe.  Mme. 
Emde  Deschanel.  Mme.  de  Saint  Victor,  the  Baronne 
de  Bourgoing  (Mile.  Reichenberg).  Mme.  Tules  Clare- 
tie,  Mme.  de  Pienebours:  (accompanied  by  her  daughter, 
Mme.  de  Lassale).the  Comtesse  de  Loynes.Mme.  Henri 
Germain,  Mme.  Strauss,  the  Comtesse  Henrv  Hous- 
save.  Mme.  Alexandre  Dumas  Mme.  Leon  Fould.  Mme. 
Fouquier  and  her  daughter.  M.  and  Mme.  Catulle  Men- 
des.  M.  Lepine,  the  Vicomte  d'Avenel.  M.  Francis 
Charmes.  M.  Ganderax,  M.  Fontane.  M.  and  Mme. 
Mante.  Mme.  de  Margerie.  Mme.  Gaston  Boissier. 
Mme.  Bornier,  the  Comtesse  de  Vogue.  Comte  and 
Comtesse  Tean  and  Stanislas  de  Castellane,  the  Com- 
tesse de  Franqtieville,  the  Comtesse  d'Hanssonville. 
and  Princess  de  Caramon-Chimay. 

The  cvnosure  of  all  eyes,  of  course,  was  Mme.  Ros- 
tand, who  was  accompanied  bv  her  two  young  sons. 
Maurice  and  Jean,  dressed  in  black  velvet.  Mme.  Ros- 
tand was  very  simply  gowned  in  a  daintv  dress  of  pearl 
white  gauze,  and  wore  a  pretty  rice-colored  straw  hat 
trimmed  with  pink  roses.  Another  notable  spectator 
was  Mme.  Dieulafoy.  the  famous  lady  explorer,  whom 
the  government  permits  to  wear  masculine  garb,  owins- 
to  the  habit  she  acquired  while  traveling.  She  attracted 
much  attention  in  her  black  frock  coat  with  the  ribbon 
of  the  Leg-ion  of  Honor  in  its  lanel. 

The  proceedings  bep-an  at  two  o'clock  when  Vicomte 
Melchior  de  Vogue  delivered  his  speech  of  reception.  M. 
Rostand  followed,  and  was  greeted  with  great  applause. 
He  looked  verv  well  in  the  goreeous  gold  lace  and 
green  coat  of  the  Academy,  which  buttons  closely  up 
to  the  chin.  His  pale  and  handsome  face,  with  its  po- 
etic tinge  and  its  drooping  Velasquez  mustache,  hi? 
deep,  dreamy  eyes — this  ensemble  made  a  very  strik- 
ing figure.  The  two  "godfathers  "  who  accompanied 
him  were  M.  Paul  Hervieu,  the  dramatist,  and  M.  Tules 
Claretie.  the  director  of  the  Theatre  Franqais.  As  is 
the  custom,  M.  Rostsnd  made  his  speech  largely  in  the 
shape  of  an  address  on  his  predecessor,  Henri  de 
Bornier.  The  speech  was  too  long,  naturallv,  to  be 
more  than  mentioned  here. 

The  close  of  his  address  wTas  variously  received. 
Mme.  Rostand  contented  herself  with  weeping  tears 
of  pleasure,  while  the  two  little  boys  applauded  their 
father  frantically.  Mme.  Sarah  Bernhardt,  howrever. 
was  more  affectionate  than  Mme.  Rostand,  for  she 
threw  herself  into  Rostand's  arms  and  kissed  him  on 
both  cheeks.  Sarah  is  nothing  if  not  dramatic.  Mme. 
de   Margerie,   the   poet's   sister,   who   came   expressly 


from  Washington  to  be  present,  shook  her  brother 
warmly  by  both  hands.  Francois  Coppee,  himself  one 
of  France's  leading  poets,  was  warm  in  his  praise,  and 
declared  that  "'  Rostand  to-day  proves  himself  to  be  as 
great  an  orator  as  he  is  a  poet." 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Rostand's  friends  were  much 
relieved  when  he  completed  his  address.  For.  with 
these  geniuses,  it  is  difficult  at  times  to  tell  what  they 
will  do.  It  is  the  general  opinion  that  when  the  Em 
peror  and  Empress  of  Russia  came  to  France.  Rostand, 
in  his  poem  to  the  empress,  rather  made  an  ass  of  him- 
self. It  was  feared  that  he  might  lose  his  head  on  the 
present  occasion.     But  all  fears  have  been  removed. 

It  may  impress  Americans  and  Englishmen  to  see 
what  an  event  is  the  election  of  this  young  man  to  a 
purely  literary  body.  He  is  only  thirty-five  years  old. 
and  he  has  written  a  few  poems  and  half  a  dozen 
plays.  Yet  he  has  so  profoundly  impressed  the  French 
people,  which  means  literary  Europe — which  means 
the  literary  world — that  all  France  hastens  to  do  him 
honor.  There  are  those  who  question  the  proud  claim 
of  France  to  stand  at  the  head  of  the  world  in  art  and 
letters,  but  in  what  other  country  in  the  world  could 
such  a  manifestation  take  place?  St.  Martin. 

Paris,  June  7,  1903. 


ARE    SAILORS    PATRIOTIC  ? 


Albert  Sonnichsen's  Views. 


In  conversation  with  Albert  Sonnichsen.  whose 
"  Deep  Sea  Vagabonds  "  was  reviewed  at  length  in 
the  Argonaut  a  few  weeks  ago.  the  writer  incidentallv 
referred  to  the  following  story  of  Jacob  A.  Riis.  in  his 
autobiography,  "The  Making  of  an  American,"  in  which 
he  relates  how,  while  visiting  his  old  home  in  Den- 
mark, he  realized  for  the  first  time  that  he  was  really 
a  full-fledged  American: 

"  It  was  when  I  went  back  to  Denmark  to  see  my  mother 
once  more  and.  wandering  about  the  country  of  my  child- 
hood's memories,  had  come  to  the  city  of  Elsinore.  There 
I  fell  ill  of  a  fever  and  lay  many  weeks  in  the  house  of  a 
friend  upon  the  shore  of  the  beautiful  Oeresund.  One  day 
when  the  fever  had  left  me  they  rolled  my  bed  into  a  room 
overlooking  the  sea.  The  sunlight  danced  upon  the  waves, 
and  the  distant  mountains  of  Sweden  were  blue  against  the 
horizon.  Ships  passed  under  full  sail  up  and  down  the  great 
waterway  of  the  nations.  But  the  sunshine  and  the  peaceful 
(fey  bore  no  message  to  me.  I  lay  moodily  picking  at  the  cover- 
let, sick  and  discouraged  and  sore — I  hardly  knew  why  my- 
self. Until  all  at  once  there  sailed  past,  close  inshore,  a  ship 
flying  at  the  top  the  flag  of  freedom,  blown  out  on  the  breeze 
till  everv  star  in  it  shone  bright  and  clear.  That  moment  I 
knew.  Gone  were  illness,  discouragement,  and  gloom !  For- 
gotten weakness  and  suffering,  the  cautions  of  doctor  and 
nurse.  I  sat  up  in  bed  and  shouted,  laughed  and  cried  by 
turns,  waving  my  handkerchief  to  the  flag  out  there.  They 
thought  I  had  lost  my  head,  but  I  told  them  no.  thank  God ! 
I  had  found  it.  and  my  heart,  too.  at  last.  I  knew  then  that 
it  was  my  flag;  that  my  children's  home  was  mine,  indeed: 
that  I  also  had  become  an  American  in  truth.  And  I 
thanked  God.  and,  like  unto  the  man  sick  of  the  palsy,  arose 
from  my  bed  and  went  home,  healed. 

"  Don't  you  think  that's  a  bit  emotional — a  sort  of 
pose?"  asked  Mr.  Sonnichsen. 

"Do  you  think  such  a  man  as  Riis,  who  has  done 
so  much  for  New  York's  poor,  would  be  guilty  of 
posing?"  queried  the  writer,  evasively. 

Whereupon  the  modest  Mr.  Sonnichsen  disclaimed 
any  intimate  knowledge  of  Mr.  Riis.  and  tactfully  turned 
the  conversation  into  other  channels.  It  was  not  until 
the  writer  had  reached  the  last  chapter  of  "  Deep 
Sea  Vagabonds,"  and  learned  the  young  author's  creed, 
that  he  could  understand  what  prompted  Mr.  Sonnich- 
sen to  doubt  Riis's  sincerity.    He  writes: 

I  have  sometimes  thought  that  the  five  years  I  have  spent 
in  wandering  over  the  globe  have  killed  all  patriotism  within 
me.  If  by  patriotism  we  mean  love  of  and  blind  alleeiance 
to  one  particular  flag  and  one  particular  geographical  division 
of  land,  to  the  exclusion  of  the  rest  of  the  great  world,  it  is 
true.  Travel  has  had  that  effect  on  me  as  well  as  on  many 
others.  From  what  I  have  seen  it  has  that  effect  on  any 
person,  that  is.  if  his  eyes  are  open  to  other  things  besides 
art  galleries,  cathedrals,  or  Alpine  mountains.  Take  an  aver- 
32e  American  and  let  him  travel.  let  him  wander  through  for- 
eign lands  for  years,  mixing  with  their  peoples,  fighting  for 
his  bread  side  by  side  with  the  workers  of  other  nations, 
always  in  close  human  touch  with  his  changing  environments, 
learning  other  tongues  than  his  own,  meeting  men  with  dif- 
ferent ideas  of  patriotism  than  his  own.  making  friends  of 
those  men.  and  in  that  man.  be  he  American  or  Turk,  there 
will  come  a  change,  unconscious  at  first,  but  to  be  realized 
afterward — when  he  returns.  In  some  men  this  change  will 
take  place  more  slowlv  than  in  others,  but.  under  like  con- 
ditions, it  comes  to  all.  It  may  take  some  time  to  remove 
that  deep  reverence  for  the  state  which  made  itself  greatest 
of  all  by  producing  his  own  important  self,  but  if  his  intel- 
lect is  at  all  expansive,  if  he  is  not  a  thorough  egotist,  he  will 
soon  perceive  that  his  state  or  town  isn't  running  a  monopoly 
on  true,  brave  men  by  any  means.  He  will  learn  that  human- 
ity is  about  the  same  the  world  over,  and  that  high  ideals 
aren't  peculiar  to  any  one  race  or  nation.  He  begins  to  see 
that,  compared  to  the  rest  of  the  world,  his  own  little  home 
section  isn't  the  whole  thing  by  a  great  deal.  Then  he 
comes  home.  The  ship  glides  into  harbor,  and  for  the  first  time 
since  he  left  he  catches  sight  of  the  flag  for  which  he  was 
taucht  so  deep  a  reverence,  flapping  over  some  fort  or  public 
building.  A  faint  flutter  comes  to  his  heart,  but  he  is  some- 
what surprised  to  note  just  how  faint  that  flutter  is. 

After  awhile,  when  he  is  again  ashore  mixing  with 
his  own  people,  Mr.  Sonnichsen  says  he  will  know  why: 

A  passing  discourtesy  leads  him  to  suspect  that  this  is  not 
the  most  courteous  of  peoples.  By  the  end  of  the  day  he  is 
sure  of  it.  Unconsciously  he  has  become  wonderfully  observ- 
ant, and  mentally  he  compares  things  here  with  things  in  other 
places.  Then  he  picks  up  a  newspaper,  and,  as  he  reads,  the 
old  boyish  illusions  go  withering.  A  band  passes  up  the  street 
playing  "  Yankee  Doodle."  He  laughs,  it  strikes  him  as 
funny,  until  he  remembers  with  a  start  how  it  used  to  thrill 
him."  Mentally  he  compares  it  to  the  "  Marsellaise."  and  then 
he  must  laugh  again.  Passing  a  street-corner  be  hears  and 
sees  a  political  campaign  orator  holding  forth  on  the  tail  of 
a  dumpcart.  The  gentleman  in  a  high  plug-hat  is  telling  what 
a  wonderful  people  we  are,  and  at  the  same  time  what  a  cow- 


ardly lot  that  half  of  the  nation  is  which  won't  vo:e  his  way. 
This  seems  humorous,  and  our  friend  laughs,  but  the  speakers 
blazing  eyes  are  not  the  eyes  of  a  humorist.  To  a  man  just 
returned  from  abroad  this  is  rather  confusing.  It  even  seems 
a  little  bit  inconsistent,  and  still,  in  his  boyhood  days,  those 
words  would  have  brought  tears  from  his  eyes  and  cheers 
from  his  lips.  Now  they  fall  flat.  The  eagle's  scream  has 
sunk  to  a  mere  cock's  crow. 

Thus  his  boyish  ideals  go  on  shriveling.  At  first  he 
is  alarmed: 

Has  he  lost  his  love  of  country,  noblest  of  all  emotions? 
He  continues  his  walk  and  comes  to  a  large  building  from 
which  thousands  of  children  are  pouring  out.  Some  are 
ragged  and  poor,  but  they  all  carry  books.  Then,  to  his  in- 
tense gratification,  a  glow  of  pride  thrills  him,  as  he  notes 
that  this  school-house  is  larger  than  any  he  has  seen  in  other 
countries.  He  watches  the  children,  and  among  them  finds 
types  of  all  nations;  a  little  brown  imp  of  a  Japanese  boy  is 
skylarking  with  his  white  mates,  a  little  negro  girl  is  walking 
arm  in  arm  with  a  red-haired  companion  of  undoubted  Irish 
extraction.  A  lump  rises  in  his  throat — somehow  he  notes 
these  things  more  than  the  flag  that  floats  over  the  roof.  And 
years  ago  he  might  have  shouted  "  Nigger,  nigger!"  But  on 
the  whole,  as  the  day  goes  by.  these  thrills  of  pride  don't  come 
any  too  often.  And  he  has  felt  those  thrills  abroad,  too.  A 
month  passes,  or  perhaps  a  year,  and  then  this  man  realizes 
that  in  the  common  acceptation  of  the  meaning  he  has  lost  bis 
patriotism :  he  is  a  man  without  a  country. 

And  here,  says  Mr.  Sonnichsen,  is  unfortunately 
where  the  lessons  cease  to  teach  some  men: 

Having  lost  their  old  faith,  none  rises  to  take  its  place. 
Expatriated  indeed  they  are,  citizens  of  no  country,  brother  to 
no  man.  These  are  the  soldiers  of  fortune.  Better  for  them 
if  they  had  never  left  home. 

But  our  average  man  isn't  of  this  kind ;  and  I  firmly  be- 
lieve he  belongs  to  a  majority.  If  he  is  a  man  with  the  power 
of  right  thought,  a  new  faith  will  rise  to  take  the  place  of  the 
old  dead  one — a  new  faith,  more  sublime,  more  glorious.  He 
has  lost  his  citizenship  of  country  only  to  gain  the  greater 
citizenship  of  the  world.  He  has  lost  the  fellowship  of  his 
townsmen  only  to  regain  it  in  the  wider  brotherhood  of  all 
living  men.  His  human  interests  have  spread  to  all  lands. 
And  this  will  give  him  just  as  many  thrilling  emotions  if  he 
is  of  the  emotional  kind.  Only  they  will  not  be  caused  by 
tales  of  battles  and  massacres  wherein  men  who  wear  blue 
uniforms  do  all  sorts  of  brave  acts  of  violence  against  men 
who  wear  uniforms  of  another  color — all  for  the  lust  of  fight. 
He  will  want  to  know  what  the  fight  was  all  about  before  he 
can  get  any  thrills  out  of  it.  It  will  be  when  he  hears  of  new 
and  more  liberal  laws  enacted  in  oppressed  lands,  of  slaves 
liberated  from  bondage,  and  the  progress  of  human  enlight- 
enment and  scientific  discoveries,  whether  in  the  land  of  his 
birth  or  any  other,  that  his  heart  will  move  on  a  few  beats 
faster.  For  this  man  the  newspaper  is  the  most  emotional 
kind  of  literature. 

After  all.  this  man  has  a  flag,  for  his  is  the  milk-white  flag 
of  universal  justice,  and  under  it  he  will  enlist  when  a  right 
cause  demands,  to  fight,  whether  with  gun  or  pen  or  speech, 
even  if  it  should  unfortunately  be  against  the  government 
under  which  he  was  by  accident  born.  And  this  man  has  as 
much  right  to  say  "  This  is  my  own,  my  native  land."  as  any 
swashbuckling  jingoist  that  ever  drew  sword  for  evil  cause, 
only,  in  saying  it,  his  vision  passes  beyond  the  mountains 
and  seas  that  bound  the  land  of  his  birth.  There  have  been 
many  such  men;  Thomas  Paine.  Lafayette.  Von  Steuben,  and 
Kosciuszko  were  such ;  such  a  man  was  Daniel  Defoe :  there 
have  been  more  since  their  times,  there  will  be  still  more  in 
the  future,  and  when  they  grow  numerous,  wars  will  cease, 
boundary  lines  will  fade,  warships  will  have  to  go  into  the 
freight  business,  and  soldiers  will  have  to  direct  their  energies 
to  more  productive  and  more  honest  ends. 

Published  by  McClure,  Phillips  &  Co..  New  York; 

price.  Sl.50. 

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Major-General  Frank  Wheaton.  one  of  the  best 
known  of  American  army  officers,  died  at  Washing- 
ton. D.  C.  on  June  18th,  at  the  age  of  seventy  years. 
He  was  a  native  of  Rhode  Island,  and  entered  the  ser- 
vice as  a  first  lieutenant  of  cavalry  in  March,  1855. 
His  Civil  War  record  was  unusually  brilliant,  and  was 
marked  with  five  brevets.  These  were  as  lieutenant- 
colonel  for  service  at  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness:  as 
colonel  for  sen-ices  at  the  Battle  of  Cedar  Creek.  Va. : 
brigadier- general  for  services  in  the  capture  of  Peters- 
burg; and  as  major-general  for  gallant  and  meritorious 
services  during  the  war.  In  addition  to  these  brevets 
in  the  regular  establishment,  he  was  brevetted  major- 
general  of  volunteers  for  service  at  the  Battles  of 
Opequan.  Fisher's  Hill,  and  Middletown.  Va. 


According  to  the  dispatches,  the  Vatican  has  re- 
ceived a  strong  report  from  the  friars  in  the  Philippines 
against  the  apostolic  delegate.  Mgr.  Guidi.  saving  that 
he  is  entirely  in  the  hands  of  Governor  Taft.  whom  they 
call  an  agent  of  the  Freemasons,  with  an  intention  to 
banish,  not  only  Roman  Catholicism,  but  Christianity, 
from  the  archipelasro.  They  urgently  request  the 
Vatican  to  order  Mgr.  Guidi  to  follow  a  different 
policv.  and  to  use  all  influence  possible  for  the  recall 
of  Governor  Taft.  They  favor  the  appointment  of 
General  Leonard  Wood.  who.  they  say.  would  as  easily 
settle  Roman  Catholic  questions  in  the  Philippines  as 
he  did  those  in  Cuba. 


Arrangements  have  been  made  for  a  steamship  ser- 
vice, on  which  three  five-thousand-ton  steamers  will  he 
placed,  between  Java  and  China  and  Japan,  connecting 
at  Yokohama  with  the  Oriental  fleets  on  the  Pacific. 
The  steamers,  which  will  commence  a  monthly  service 
in  September,  are  the  Tjipanas.  Tjilatjap,  and  Tjimahi, 
one  of  which  was  built  in  England  and  the  others  in 
Holland.     All  fly  the  Dutch  flag. 


The  Philadelphia  Inquirer  should  have  said  not 
merely  that  "  most  Boston  people."  but  that  most  people 
throughout  the  country,  "believe  that  the  Liberty  Bell 
once  hung  in  Faneui!  Hall,  and  that  there  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence  was  signed." 

Six  army  officers  were  recently  ordered  before  a 
court-martial  at  the  Fort  Leavenworth  school  because 
they  had  neglected  their  studies,  and  had  in  consequence 
been  found  deficient  on  examination. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  6,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Europe's  Courts  Through  a  Woman's  Eyes. 
No  more  absorbing  volume  of  letters  has 
appeared  for  many  a  long  day  than  that  of 
Mme.  Waddington,  a  daughter  of  a  fine  old 
American  family,  who  married  a  distinguished 
French  publicist,  and  accompanied  him  when 
he  went  as  representative  of  France  to  the 
coronation  of  Czar  Alexander  the  Third,  at 
Moscow,  and,  later,  while  he  was  French  em- 
bassador to  England.  These  "  Letters  of  a 
Diplomat's  Wife "  are  vivacious,  clever,  un- 
affected epistles  to  her  sisters,  written  while 
impressions  were  still  fresh,  charmingly 
irrelevant,  indeed  grouping  together  in  a  single 
paragraph  princes'  visits  and  servants'  squab- 
bles, the  chit-chat  of  queens  and  troubles  with 
dressmakers. 

When  her  husband  told  her  they  were  to 
represent  France  at  the  coronation.  Mme. 
Waddington  was  in  distress.  "I  am  a  per- 
fect poltroon,"  she  writes;  "I  am  so  afraid 
they  will  take  advantage  of  that  crowd  to  blow 
up  everybody."  However,  they  prepared  to 
go.  The  horse  question  was  a  difficult  one. 
They  sent  to  Luxembourg  for  nine  enormous 
carrossiers  for  the  "  gala  carriage,"  and  the 
coachmen  quarreled  over  who  should  drive  it. 
"  Yesterday  I  tried  twelve  dresses,"  writes 
Mme.  Waddington  in  one  letter,  and  a  little 
later,  "  I  suppose  I  shall  take  about  eighteen 
dresses  in  all,"  and  "  I  have  taken  all  the 
jewels  the  family  own."  which  she  scattered 
about  in  her  trunks,  "  wrapped  up  with  silk 
stockings,  etc."  This  could  not  have  been 
quite  de  rigueur,  for  when  Mme.  Wad-, 
dington,  in  Berlin,  confided  the  fact  to 
Princess  Guillaume  Radziwill.  the  latter  was 
"  horrified."  Hers,  it  seems,  were  in  "  little 
leather  bags  around  her  waist,"  and  not 
"  very  comfortable  all  night,  with  pins, 
brooches,  etc.,  running  into  her."  One  would 
think  not! 

These  little  things  are  amusing  and  enter- 
taining enough,  but  the  glimpses  of  the  great 
of  earth  are  quite  as  interesting.  In  Berlin 
M.  Waddington  met  Bismarck,  and  there  was 
an  audience  with  the  emperor.  In  Moscow, 
of  course,  they  saw  the  grand  procession 
through  the  city  to  the  Kremlin,  the  Czar 
"  riding  quite  alone  in  front  on  his  little  white 
horse  which  he  had  ridden  in  the  Turkish 
campaign."  Next  day,  Mme.  Waddington  had 
her  audience  with  the  Czarina,  passing 
through  a  seemingly  interminable  series  of 
ic-oms,  till  finally  she  and  her  escort  passed 
"  two  colossal  negroes  in  Asiatic  costume, 
cashmeres,  turbans,  and  scimitars."  and  the 
princess  said :  "  J'ai  l'honneur  d'annoncer 
l'ambassadrice  de  France."  "I  think  I  stayed," 
writes  Mme.  Waddington,  "  about  twenty 
minutes  with  the  empress."  They  talked  about 
— dressmakers !  A  few  days  later  the  "  am- 
bassadrice "  records  dancing  with  the 
Czar  and  "  performing  five  duchesses  in  a 
single  morning." 

We  have  no  space  to  note  the  many  strik- 
ing incidents  of  Mme.  Waddington's  years 
in  London,  her  meeting  with  all  the  notabili- 
ties, and  her  audiences  with  the  queen.  But 
through  it  all  she  remained  American.  It  is 
indeed  amusing  to  note  how  things  European 
recall  incidents  of  her  girlhood — for  example, 
the  scanty  harness  on  Russian  horses  the  time 
when  she  and  her  sisters  drove  at  a  trot  down 
the  hill  at  Oyster  Bay,  when  the  horse  had 
no  breeching.  The  editor  has  shown  rather 
rare  good  judgment  in  leaving  as  they  were 
various  misspellings  in  the  letters.  They 
rather  endear  to  us  their  author.  She  in- 
variably spells  it  "  polygot."  and  in  one  place 
we  find  her  speaking  of  not  being  so  "  souple  " 
as  some  ladies.  For  all  the  world  like  an  old 
serving-woman ! 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York. 


A  Novel  of  War  Time. 
The  faithfulness  of  the  old,  war-time  slave 
and  his  many  heroic  acts  of  devotion  are  sub- 
jects for  the  novelist  no  less  trite  than  the  love 
of  the  Southern  girl  for  the  Northern  officer, 
and  yet  in  "  Old  Squire,"  B.  K.  Benson  de- 
picts a  familiar  character  at  once  so  lovable 
and  so  true  that  interest  in  his  fate  is  aroused, 
and  one  is  impelled  to  read  the  book  to  the 
end.  And  not  entirely  with  the  old  colored 
man  is  the  story  concerned.  Battles  are  won 
and  lost,  Mosby's  guerillas  make  daring 
coups,  and  there  are  thrilling  midnight  ad- 
ventures by  various  scouting  parties.  Through- 
out, the  author  evidently  has  made  a  very  de- 
termined effort  to  follow  closely  historical 
facts  in  so  far  as  his  story  deals  with  the 
great  conflict  between  the  North  and  the 
South,  and,  s^  explained  in  an  introductory 
note,  wherein  the  book  departs  from  history, 
characters   ai  a   affected   rather   than   events. 

^1-  less   of  the   army   surgeon   is   set 
iL<    character  of  Dr.  Lacy,  who,  al- 


though in  the  enemy's  country,  and  his  com- 
pany forced  to  retreat,  determines  to  remain 
with  his  patient,  even  at  the  risk  of  capture. 
The  doctor  holds  rather  nice  views  as  to  the 
duties  of  non-combatants,  and  to  what  extent 
circumstances  may  affect  the  terms  of  a  truce. 
He  is  the  soul  of  honor,  and  ever  true  to  his 
patient.  Of  course,  the  latter  is  a  Northern 
officer,  and  it  needs  must  be  that  his  nurse  is 
a  pretty  rebel.  Just  what  the  outcome  of  such 
conditions  must  be  we  will  leave  for  the 
delectation   of  the   reader. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;    price,    $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
In  the  new  volume  of  poems  which  Rudyard 
Kipling  is  to  issue  in  the  autumn  under  the 
title  of  "  The  Five  Nations."  there  will  be 
twenty-five  compositions  which  have  never  be- 
fore been  published.  The  "  Recessional "  is, 
of  course,  to  be  included  in  the  collection,  ap- 
pearing for  the  first  time  within  the  covers  of 
a  book. 

Ernest  Thompson  Seton  has  nearly  com- 
pleted his  "  Two  Little  Savages,"  which  was 
suggested  to  him  by  the  readers  of  his  serial 
articles,  whom  he  asked  to  state  what  kind  of 
book  they  wanted.  The  many  answers  the  au- 
thor received  showed  him  that  the  boys  wanted 
a  book  telling  just  what  they  themselves  could 
do ;  how  they  could  hunt,  camp,  and  study 
the  wild  animals  in  the  woods  ;  in  short,  to  live 
the  life  of  wild  Indians.  Mrs.  Seton  has  de- 
signed the  details  of  the  book.  There  will  be 
many  illustrations  by  the  author. 

"  Robert  Morris:  Patriot  and  Financier,"  is 
the  title  finally  selected  for  the  forthcoming 
biography  of  Ellis  Paxson  Oberholtzer.  The 
Macmillan  Company  announce  the  volume  for 
publication  during  this  month.  The  illustra- 
tions will  include,  among  others,  two  portraits 
of  Morris  and  one  of  his  wife. 

Mrs.  Hugh  Fraser,  author  of  "  Palladia " 
and  "  The  Splendid  Porsenna,"  has  written  a 
new  romance  on  the  older  days  of  Japan.  It 
is  called  "  The  Stolen   Emperor." 

Two  new  books  on  Poe  are  announced  for 
early  publication.  They  are  "  Poe's  Best 
Tales."  with  a  series  of  analytic  and  critical 
introductions  by  Sherwin  Cody;  director  of 
the  Lake  Bluff  School  of  English,  Lake  Bluff. 
111.,  and  a  companion  volume  of  "  Poe's  Best 
Poems  and  Essays."  with  a  new  biographical 
and  critical  study  by  Mr.  Cody.  The  books 
will  be  uniform  with  the  editor's  "  World's 
Greatest  Short  Stories "  and  "  Best  English 
Essays." 

The  next  volume  of  Matilde  Serao's  novels 
translated  from  the  Italian  will  be  "  Sister 
Joan  of  the  Cross."  which  will  probably  make 
its  appearance  in  the  fall.  It  is  the  story  of  a 
poor  little  nun,  who.,  after  forty  years  at  a 
convent,  is  turned  out  into  the  world  because 
the  order  to  which  she  belongs  is  dissolved  by 
the  government.  The  scene  is  laid  in  Italy 
and  not  in  France,  but  the  action  of  the  story 
is  probably  suggestive  of  what  for  the  last  few 
months  has  been  actually  taking  place  in  the 
latter  country. 

"To  California  and  Back"  is  the  title  of  a 
book  by  C.  A.  Higgins  and  Charles  A.  Keeler, 
which  is  in  press  for  early  publication.  The 
authors  describe,  for  Easterners,  the  southern 
journey  through  New  Mexico  and  Arizona, 
via  the  Grand  Canon,  to  Southern  Califor- 
nia, while  the  description  of  the  way  back  is 
the  usual  one  through  the  Central  West. 
There  will  be  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
illustrations. 

Alice  Morse  Earle  has  gathered  for  her 
forthcoming  book,  "  Two  Centuries  of  Costume 
in  America,  1 620-1 820,"  over  five  hundred 
photographs  of  portraits  from  which  she  will 
select  illustrations  of  costumes  for  the  volume. 

Besides  bringing  his  "  History  of  Our  Own 
Times "  up  to  the  death  of  Queen  Victoria 
(at  present  it  extends  only  to  the  late  queen's 
diamond  jubilee),  Justin  McCarthy  is  now 
writing  a  book  which  will  be  an  account  of 
his  own  early  days  in  Ireland  and  his  literary 
beginnings  there,  and  of  his  experiences  in 
politics,  journalism,  and  authorship  in  both 
England  and  America.  These  recollections 
will  be  published  first  in  serial   form. 

"  Miracles  and  Supernatural  Religion "  is 
the  title  of  a  little  book  of  about  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  pages,  by  James  Morris 
Whiton,  Ph.  D„  which  the  Macmillan  Com- 
pany will  shortly  issue.  Dr.  Whiton's  object 
is  to  clear  up  certain  ideas  about  miracles 
in   the  present  "  drift  period  "   of  theology. 

"  J.  O.  Jones  and  How  He  Earned  His 
Living"  is  the  title  of  a  story  for  boys  by 
R.  S.  Warren  Bell,  which  the  Macmillan 
Company   has  recently   imported. 


PATRIOTIC    VERSE. 


Nathan  Hale. 
To    drum-beat    and    heart-beat, 

A  soldier  marches  by; 
There   is   color    in   his  cheek, 

There  is  courage   in    his  eye, 
Yet   to    drum-beat    and    heart-beat 

In   a  moment   he   must    die. 

By  starlight  and  moonlight, 

He  seeks  the  Briton's  camp, 
He   hears  the   rustling  flag, 

And  the  armed  sentry's  tramp; 
And   the  starlight   and    moonlight 

His  silent  wanderings  lamp. 

With  slow  tread  and  still  tread, 

He  scans  the  tented  line; 
And  he  counts  the  battery  guns, 

By  the   gaunt   and   shadowy   pine; 
And  his  slow  tread  and  still  tread 

Gives  no  warning  sign. 

The  dark  wave,  the  plumed  wave, 

It  meets  his  eager  glance; 
And  it  sparkles   'neath   the  stars, 

Like   the   glimmer   of   a    lance — 
A  dark  wave,  a  plumed  wave, 

On   an   emerald   expanse, 

A  sharp  clang,   a  still   clang. 

And    terror    in    the    sound ! 
For    the    sentry,    falcon-eyed, 

In  the  camp  a  spy  hath  found; 
With  a  sharp  clang,  a  steel  clang. 

The    patriot    is    bound. 

With    calm    brow,    steady    brow, 

He   listens  to  his   doom; 
In  his  look  there   is  no  fear, 

Nor  a  shadow-trace  of  gloom; 
But  with  calm  brow  and  steady  brow 

He  robes  him  for  the  tomb. 

In  the  long  night,  the  still  night, 

He    kneels    upon    the    sod; 
And  the  brutal  guards  withhold 

E'en  the  solemn  word  of  God! 
In  the  long  night,  the  still  night. 

He  walks  where  Christ  hath  trod. 

'Neath  the  blue  morn,  the  sunny  morn, 

He  dies  upon  the  tree; 
And  he  mourns  that  he  can  lose 

But    one    life    for    Liberty ; 
And  in  the  blue  morrf",  the  sunny  morn, 

His  spent  wings  are  free. 

But  his  last  words,  his  message- words, 
They   burn,   lest    friendly   eye 

Should  read  how  proud  and  calm 
A   patriot  could   die. 

With  his  last  words,  his  dying  words, 
A     soldier's     battle-cry. 

From    Fame-leaf    and    Angel-leaf, 

From  monument  and  urn. 
The  sad  of  earth,  the  glad  of  heaven, 

His  tragic    fate  shall   learn; 
And  on  Fame-leaf  and  Angel-leaf 

The  name  of  Hale  shall  burn! 

— Francis   M.   Finch. 


Warren's  Address. 
Stand!  the  ground's  your  own,  my  braves! 
Will    ye   give   it  up   to   slaves? 
Will  ye  look  for  greener  graves? 

Hope  ye  mercy  still? 
What's  the  mercy  despots    feel? 
Hear   it   in   that   battle   peal! 
Read    it    on    yon    bristling    steel  ? 

Ask  it, — ye  who  will. 

Fear    ye   foes    who   kill    for    hire? 
Will    ye    to   your   homes    retire? 
Look  behind  you! — they're  afire! 

And,    before    you,    see 
Who    have    done    it !      From    the    vale 
On    they  come! — and    will    ye   quail? 
Leaden    rain    and    iron    hail 

Let    their    welcome    be! 

In  the  God  of  battles  trust! 
Die  we  may, — and  die  we  must: 
But,  oh,  where  can  dust  to  dust 

Be    consign' d    so    well, 
As  where  Heaven  its  dews  shall  shed 
On    the    martyr'd    patriot's    bed, 
And  the  rocks  shall  raise  their  head 

Of    his    deeds    to    tell? — John    Pierpont. 

The  Flag  Goes  By. 
Hats  off! 

Along  the  street  there  comes 
A  blare  of  bugles,  a  ruffle  of  drums, 
A  flash  of  color  beneath  the  sky; 
Hats    off; 
The   flag   is    passing   by! 

Blue  and  crimson  and  white  it  shines, 

Over  the  steel-tipped,   ordered  lines. 

Hats   off! 

The  colors  before  us  fly; 

But  more  than   the  flag  is  passing  by. 

Sea  fights  and  land  fights,  grim  and  great. 
Fought  to  make  and  to  save  the  state; 
Weary  marches  and  sinking  ships; 
Cheers  of  victory  on   dying  lips; 

Days  of  plenty  and  years  of  peace; 
March  of  a  strong  land's  swift  increase; 
Equal  justice,    right   and    law. 
Stately   honor   and   reverend   awe; 

Sign  of  a  nation,  great  and  strong, 

To  ward  her  people   from   foreign  wrong; 

Pride  and  glory  and  honor,   all 

Live  in  the  colors  to  stand  or  fall. 

Hats  off!  — Henry    Holcomb    Bennett. 


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A  Play  in  Ovo. 

Mrs.  Burton  Harrison's  latest  novel,  "  The 
Unwelcome  Mrs.  Hatch."  shows  through  2 
too  thin  integumentary  investiture  the  angular 
skeleton  of  a  four-act  play,  and  here  is  how 
it  goes: 

Act  one.  Scene:  Room  1086,  sixth  floor  of 
the  fashionable  hotel,  Stuyvesantia,  New  York. 
Chambermaid  making  up  the  bed  and  solil- 
oquizing. Enters  a  detective,  looks  all  about 
the  room,  ogles  rhe  chambermaid,  disappears. 
Exit  chambermaid.  Enters  messenger-boy  with 
parcel.  Waits.  Enters,  then.  Mrs.  Hatch, 
thirty-two  or  thereabouts,  beautiful,  and  with 
an  air  of  personal  distinction.  Exit  messenger- 
boy.  Enters  boy  with  card  of  Mr.  Jack  Adrian. 
"  Show  him  up."  Enters  Adrian,  a  nice  young 
man.  "  You  were  so  good  to  me  on  that  long 
trip  from  San  Francisco.  Now  I  must  tell 
you  the  truth.  I  am  a  divorced  woman." 
Adrian  visibly  shocked.  "  You  are  going 
to  be  married  I  know — be  good  to  her,  be 
good  to  her!"  Exit  Adrian.  Enters  Lawyer 
Cleve.  "  I  have  only  one  request — let  me  see 
my  daughter  before  she  is  married.  Think ! 
it  is  ten  years !  I  was  innocent !"  Cleve  vis- 
ibly affected.  Sends  for  Mrs.  Hatch's  some- 
time husband.  "  Oh.  let  me  see  my  daughter!' 
Tears  and  entreaties.  "  Granted,  but  you 
must  not  speak  to  her."  Exeunt  lawyer  and 
client.  Mrs.  Hatch  sinks  to  her  knees.  Cur- 
tain. 

Act  two.  Scene :  Central  Park,  May  Day. 
Crowds  of  children.  Enter*  Mrs.  Hatch,  ner- 
vous. Enters  old  servant.  They  embrace.  Ap- 
pears among  the  children  as  protectress 
Gladys,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Hatch.  Mrs.  Hatch, 
in  tears,  looks  longingly  from  an  arbor  a: 
her  daughter.  Exit  Gladys.  "  I  must  see 
her  again,  oh.  I  must  see  her  again."  A  plot! 
"  I  shall  see  her  once  more  before  I  die." 
Curtain. 

Act  three.  Scene :  Home  of  Gladys. 
Gladys's  father  tells  Adrian  the  truth.  Wed- 
ding presents  being  unpacked.  Great  jollity. 
Gladys  sober.  "  I  wish  my  real  mother  were 
here  now."  Enters  Mrs.  Hatch  with  wedding- 
dress,  disguised  as  the  modiste's  assistant . 

But  it  would  be  improper  to  reveal  more 
than  this,  for  in  the  third  act  the  situation 
becomes  dramatic,  and  in  the  fourth  the 
tangle  is  unraveled.  The  story  is  bright, 
interesting,  and  thoroughly  readable,  but 
marked  by  no  great  psychological   insight. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New 
York:   price,  Si -25- 

The  War  Lord  Articulate. 

"  The  Kaiser's  Speeches "  is  scarcely  an 
accurate  title  for  the  volume  which  has  been 
prepared  by  Wolf  von  Schierbrand.  formerly 
Associated  Press  correspondent  at  Berlin. 
More  than  half  the  book  consists  of  editorial 
comments  and  explanations.  A  few*  pregnant 
paragraphs  from  each  address  are  all  that  are 
given  in  most  cases.  The  book  has  no  index, 
and  the  arrangement  is  somewhat  arbitrary- 
Despite  this,  however,  the  work  gives  a  good 
picture  of  the  German  war  lord.  The  com- 
ments form  almost  a  biography,  and  seem  to 
be  fair  and  just  The  editor,  as  a  German- 
American,  has  made  prominent  that  which  will 
chiefly  interest  readers  in  this  country. 

Of  prime  interest,  in  view  of  recent  Social- 
ist gains  in  Germany,  is  the  chapter  on  "  The 
Kaiser  and  the  Laboring  Classes,"  wherein 
are  given  excerpts  from  the  1898  speech  in 
which  he  called  the  Socialists  "  a  horde  of 
men  unworthy  to  bear  the  name  of  Germans." 
In  the  chapter  on  "  The  Kaiser  and  Ameri- 
cans," Schierbrand  expresses  the  opinion  that 
the  Kaiser  was  deeply  hurt  by  the  Coghlan 
"  Me  und  Gott "  incident,  and  that  Prince 
Henry's  visit  was  largely  due  to  that  piece  of 
post-prandial  discourtesy.  The  Kaiser's  pro- 
nounced views  on  painting,  music,  and  the 
drama  are  set  forth  most  interestingly,  the 
comments  on  his  own  painting,  his  collabora- 
tion in  plays,  and  his  double  veto  of  the  na- 
tional judges*  decision  to  give  the  Schiller 
prize  to  Hauptmann  for  his  "  The  Sunken 
Bell."  being  especially  notable.  The  other 
chapters,  each  displaying  some  particular  facet 
in  the  character  of  this  many-sided  man.  nat- 
urally do  not  fail  to  entertain. 

Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New  York  ; 
price,  $2.50. 

Hunting  and  Feminine  Athletics. 
Two  books  appropriate  to  the  season  ap- 
pear from  the  Macmillan's  press.  "  The  Water 
Fowl  Family,"  by  T.  S.  Van  Dyke  and  Leon- 
ard C.  Sanford,  continues  in  admirable  fash- 
ion the  American  Sportsman's  Library,  edited 
by  Caspar  Whitney.  This  is  the  series  to 
which  our  literary  and  Nimrodic  President 
contributed  the  major  part  of  a  volume  on 
"  The  Deer  Family,"  while  other  equally  com- 


petent, if  not  so  distinguished,  writers  have 
confined  themselves  to  game  of  different  sorts, 
finned,  winged,  and  four-footed. 

Both  the  chapters  by  Sanford  and  those  by 
Van  Dyke  pleasingly  combine  instruction  with 
entertainment.  Among  scientific  information 
about  the  waders  and  the  swimmers  are  in- 
terjected anecdotes  of  adventures  amusing 
or  the  opposite — tales  of  lucky  shots,  unlucky 
and  inadvertent  tumbles,  cartridges  that  stuck 
most  damnably,  and  wondrous  bags  shot  at 
the  eleventh  hour,  when  hope  was  all  but  gone. 
Mr.  Van  Dyke's  section  deals  entirely  with 
the  Pacific  Coast,  covering  the  field  thoroughly. 
The  list  of  full-page  illustrations  is  a  long 
one. 

The  second  volume  for  consideration  is 
"  Athletics  and  Out-Door  Sports  for  Women," 
by  some  seventeen  different  writers,  with  an 
introduction  by  Lucille  Eaton  Hill,  director  of 
physical  training  at  Wellesley.  There  are  two 
hundred  first-rate  illustrations,  mostly  from 
half-tones,  and  the  subjects  treated,  each  in  a 
separate  chapter,  are  physicial  training  at 
home,  gymnasium  work,  dancing,  cross-country 
walking,  swimming,  skating,  rowing,  golf. 
running,  tennis,  hockey,  basket-ball,  "  eques- 
trianism," fencing,  bowling,  track  athletics.  So 
far  as  we  can  judge,  each  subject  is  in  compe- 
tent hands,  and  the  book  will  be  found  thor- 
oughly satisfying  by  the  physically  ambitious 
and  feminine. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New- 
York. 


New  Publications. 
Goethe's  "  Egmont,"  edited  with  an  intro- 
duction and  notes,  by  Robert  Waller  Deering. 
Ph.  D.,  professor  of  Germanic  languages  in 
Western  Reserve  University,  is  published  by 
Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New  York. 

The  editor  of  the  Northwestern  Miller, 
William  C.  Edgar,  has  written  tne  "  Story 
of  a  Grain  of  Wheat,"  giving  some  account 
of  the  chemical  and  mechanical  composition 
of  the  wheat  berry,  of  wheat's  ancient  and 
modern  history,  of  Argentina  as  a  wheat- 
growing  country,  and  of  the  wheat-fields  and 
milling  interest  of  the  North-West.  The 
book  is  practical,  and  there  are  forty  illus- 
trations. Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co- 
New  York;  price,  $1.00. 

Mary  Catherine  Crowley,  author  of  "  Love 
Thrives  in  War,"  is  always  careful  to  get  her 
historical  facts  straight.  The  book  will  there- 
fore prove  mildly  entertaining,  perhaps,  to 
those  who  are  interested  in  the  history  of 
the  region  about  Detroit,  and  would  like  to 
absorb  it  easily.  The  story  is  not  an  un- 
usual one,  and  contains  the  inevitable  in- 
gredients of  love,  adventure,  and  war.  Pub- 
lished by  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston:  price, 
$1-50. 

To  get  four  books  in  three  months  from 
the  facile  pen  of  Justin  Huntly  McCarthy  is 
rather  crowding  the  matter,  and  we  are  in- 
clined to  think  the  last  the  least  interesting 
of  the  quartet.  It  is  a  story  of  the  adven- 
tures, or  rather,  misadventures,  of  a  party 
of  Utopians,  who  sail  from  England  to  found 
a  liberal  commonwealth  in  the  Pacific.  Among 
the  dreamers  is  the  beautiful  Marjorie,  whose 
name  gives  title  to  the  book.  The  ship  is 
wrecked,  the  party  fall  foul  a  band  of  pirates, 
and  only  escape  after  a  fierce  and  bloody  en- 
counter. Marjorie  plights  her  troth  on 
the  last  page  of  the  book  but  one.  The  book 
will  interest  youthful  minds  more  than  ma- 
ture ones.  Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers. 
New    York;    price,    $1.50. 

The  lowly  hen  is  glorified  for  American 
consumption  in  "  The  Poultry  Book,"  which 
is  to  be  published  in  eighteen  parts,  with 
thirty-six  color,  and  two  hundred  and  fifty 
other,  plates.  Part  I  is  just  off  the  press. 
The  work  was  written  some  years  ago  by 
Harrison  Weir,  F.  R.  H.  S.,  a  famous  English 
poultry  fancier.  Now,  for  American  readers, 
it  has  largely  been  revised  and  added  to  by 
Willis  Grant  Johnson,  and  many  other  ex- 
perts. When  the  work  is  complete,  the  pub- 
lishers say.  it  will  be  the  standard.  Judging 
by  the  first  part,  the  volume  will  be  very 
attractive  typographically,  and  the  pictures, 
from  drawings  by  Weir  and  from  photo- 
graphs, are  remarkably  good.  Published  by 
Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New  York ;  price, 
per  part.  60  cents  net. 

New  editions  rain  thick  upon  us.  The  latest 
is  of  the  works  of  Charles  Kingsley.  The 
publishers  say  that  it  will  be  in  fourteen  12010. 
volumes,  printed  from  new  type,  on  deckle- 
edge  paper.  There  are  to  be  forty  full-page 
photogravures,  thirty  of  which  will  be  from 
paintings  by  Lee  Woodward  Zeigler.  Maurice 
Kingsley,  the  novelist's  eldest  son,  will  write 
the  introductions.  Numerous  errors  in  pre- 
vious   editions    will    be    corrected,    the    notes 


to  "  Letters  and  Memories  "  will  be  revised, 
erroneous  dating  of  poems  will  be  changed, 
and  two  hitherto  fugitive  poems,  published 
anonymously,  will  be  recaptured.  Two  novels — 
"  Hereward  the  Wake  "  and  "  Alton  Locke," 
each  in  two  volumes — have  already  appeared. 
Mechanically,  the  books  are  not  all  that  could 
be  desired.  The  binding  is  faulty,  the  deckle 
edges  are  so  excessively  deckle  that  there  is 
frequently  a  variation  of  a  half-inch  in  the 
width  of  pages,  and  the  paintings  by  Zeigler 
are  ill  drawn,  though  very  well  reproduced  and 
pleasing  in  ensemble.  Type  and  quality  of 
paper  are  all  right.  Published  by  J.  F.  Taylor 
&  Co.,  New  York. 

We  welcome  from  the  pen  of  William  F. 
Butler  a  new  English  version  of  Louis  Cor- 
naro's  celebrated  treatise  on  "  The  Temperate 
Life."  This  spry  and  likeable  old  gentleman 
attained  a  full  hundred  years  by  a  system  of 
diet,  and  left  the  world  with  regret,  saying, 
indeed,  at  eighty-three,  "  I  never  knew  the 
world  was  beautiful  until  I  reached  old  age." 
The  first  edition  of  the  book  was  published 
in  Italy,  in  1588,  and  has  since  been  trans- 
lated into  all  European  languages.  Its  author 
is  not  a  dogmatist,  and  lays  down  only 
ceneral  rules  of  conduct,  so  that  the  work 
still  has  not  a  little  interest  besides  that  to 
which  its  antiquity  entitles  it.  Mr.  Butler  has 
also  given,  in  the  same  volume,  a  number  of 
classic  essays  on  the  same  general  subject. 
Published  by  the  Author,   Milwaukee. 


Marie  Corelli's  Biography. 
In  its  satirical  review  of  the  biography 
of  "  Marie  Corelli :  The  Writer  and  the 
Woman."  by  T.  F.  G.  Coates  and  R.  S.  Warren 
Eell.  the  London  Daily  News  thus  summarizes 
some  of  the  eulogistic  paragraphs  concerning 
Miss  Corelli.  whose  "  turgid  mixtures  of  the 
sensational,  the  supernatural,  and  the  sacred 
have  no  more  claim  to  be  regarded  as  litera- 
ture than  the  advertisement  in  the  average 
American  yellow  journal  of  some  one's  un- 
speakable  pills  " : 

Indeed.  Miss  Corelli  can  afford  to  smile 
at  the  critics,  for  she  has  triumphed  over  them 
all.  Her  first  book  received  four  reviews, 
fach  about  ten  lines  long.  Her  latest  book  was 
rot  issued  to  the  press  for  review,  but  three 
hundred  and  fifty  journals  purchased  the  book 
in  order  to  comment  on  it  in  obedience  to  the 
demand  of  their  readers.  "  Temporal  Power  " 
was  produced  last  year  with  a  first  edition 
of  120.000,  and  30.000  additional  copies  have 
«ince  been  printed.  Mr.  Gladstone  hailed  her 
"'  wonderful  gift  "  and  the  "  magnetism  of  her 
^en."  Tennyson  wrote  a  letter  of  commenda- 
tion to  the  unknown  author  of  "  Ardath," 
"  the  majestic  opening  of  which."  the  authors 
somewhat  unkindly  remark.  "  is  not  unlike 
niany  of  the  poet's  own  sublime  pen  pictures." 
Of  her  first  book  one  writer  wrote  saving  it  had 
saved  him  from  committing  suicide :  others 
that  the  book  had  exercised  a  comforting  and 
generally  beneficent  influence  over  them.  Her 
works  have  been  translated  into  all  European 
laneuaces :  "  Barabbas  "  into  Persian,  Greek, 
and  Hindustani.  She  is  extremely  popular 
in  Norway  and  Sweden.  "  Vendetta "  is  al- 
ways the  vogue  in  Italy.  "  Were  she  to  visit 
Australia  or  New  Zealand  she  would  receive 
an  almost  royal  welcome."  She  is  "  thoroughly 
appreciated  by  the  royal  family."  and  Queen 
Victoria,  as  is  well  known,  demanded  a  com- 
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hard."  say  the  authors  gleefully.  "  Her 
enemies  wince  beneath  her  blows  and  revile 
her  in  wholesale  terms  because  they  can  not 
overcome   her   in    fair    combat." 


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July  6,  1903. 


It  has  been  remarked  that  Clyde  Fitch, 
with  that  fertility  of  resource  which  is  mak- 
ing him  famous,  has  in  turn  dramatized  a 
wedding,  a  christening,  and  a  funeral.  It  is 
perhaps  yet  on  the  cards  that  we  may  in  a  Fitch 
play  witness  an  agitated  household  awaiting 
the  terrestrial  arrival  of  an  expected  heir.  We 
may  even,  perchance,  hear  the  inaugural  wail 
of  the  first  born.  What  a  chance  for  an  effect! 
Stranger  things  have  not  happened,  perhaps — 
but  found  lodgment,  I  dare  say,  in  Mr. 
Fitch's  teeming  brain. 

"  The  Climbers,"  the  play  in  which  Amelia 
Bingham  opened  her  season  at  the  Columbia 
on  Monday  night,  is  distinguished  as  the  one 
which  celebrates  a  funeral.  Not.  be  it  under- 
stood, that  the  defunct  appears  in  propria 
persona;  the  nearest  approach  we  ever  made 
to  that  crowning  sensation  was  in  Hoyt's 
odious  "Milk-White  Flag."  No,  Clyde 
Fitch's  instinct  is  too  unerring  to  permit  bhn 
to  guide  the  sensibilities  of  a  theatrical 
audience  to  the  danger  point.  So  we  are  not 
actually  present  at  the  funeral,  but  witness 
the  return  of  the  mourners,  the  grief  of  the 
daughters,  the  revivification  of  the  sprightly 
widow  over  her  cup  of  tea,  and  the  pre- 
liminary spark,  the  sky-rocket  ascent,  and 
the  premature  explosion  of  an  acrimonious 
family  row. 

Then  the  lawyer  arrives  and  makes  the 
financial  statement  which  must  inevitably 
follow  the  decease  of  the  head  of  the  house, 
and  which  so  often  contains  unpleasant  sur- 
prises for  the  survivors — surprises  which 
test  the  restraining  capacity  of  the  feminine 
temper  to  the  last  point  of  tenuity ;  a  fact 
of  which  Mr.  Fitch,  with  his  customary  in- 
sight into  the  littleness  of  human  nature,  has 
not   failed  to   avail   himself. 

This  artisan  of  artisans,  who  draws  such 
correct  deductions  when  he  turns  that  well 
known  little  pocket  magnifying  glass  of  his 
upon  human  frailties,  has  never  yet  drawn 
a  character  of  noble,  virile  outlines,  or  of 
lasting  vitality.  Yet,  in  his  own  field.  Clyde 
Fitch,  with  all  his  limitations,  is  extremely 
clever,  and  in  "  The  Climbers  "  he  is  at  his 
cleverest. 

The  first  act,  which  is  a  sort  of  exposition 
of  character,  is  extremely  interesting,  the 
dialogue  brisk,  concise,  and  full  of  satirical 
humor.  The  shallow  worldliness  of  the  widow, 
her  open  anger  directed  against  the  memory 
of  her  husband,  when  she  finds  herself  left  pen- 
niless, the  bargaining  over  the  Parisian  finery, 
and  the  lively  interest  and  shrewd  commercial 
instincts  of  herself  and  her  favorite  daughter 
are  all  daringly  indicated,  but  the  humor  of 
it  all,  cynical  as  it  is,  holds  the  disagreeable 
elements  in  the  background,  and  the  act,  as  it 
stands,  is  one  of  the  best  things  Mr.  Fitch 
has  ever  done. 

-  Yet  this  act,  we  are  told,  is  the  one  which 
caused  the  play  to  be  condemned  by  Frohman 
before  Miss  Bingham  accepted  it.  Frohman 
knows — none  better — how  curiously  unde- 
pendable  upon  are  the  caprices  of  public 
sensibilities.  He  was  unwilling  to  take  the 
risk  of  offending  them,  and  Miss  Bingham, 
with  her  usual  clear  business  perspicacity, 
promptly  gathered  in  this  extremefy  lucrative 
play  when  chance  threw  it  her  way. 

As  in  the  majority  of  Mr.  Fitch's  plays,  his 
preamble  far  outweighs  in  merit  the  body  of 
his  disccurse.  Never  do  his  abilities  shine 
so  brightly  as  when  he  is  engaged  upon  one 
of  his  favorite  "  effects."  They  are  generally 
slight  in  structure,  but  adroit  in  build,  and 
almost  invariably  succeed  in  their  purpose. 
In  "  The  Climbers/'  however,  there  is  a 
dramatic  strength  and  reality  in  the  first 
suggestion  of  the  serious  interests  involved, 
and  the  climax  to  the  first  act  has  force  and 
significance.  From  this  point  on,  there  is  a 
steady  fall  from  the  high  comedy  tone  so 
auspiciously  inaugurated  in  the  first  act.  The 
author,  as  usual,  introduces  smart  dialogue 
and  social  detail,  and  again,  as  usual,  quite 
disregards  that  canon  of  dramatic  composi- 
tion which  decrees  that  all  dramatic  dialogue, 
jokes  excepted,  should  have  some  significant 
relation  tc   the  general  plot. 

what    should    be    ruinor    details    to 
the    main    structure    of    his    plays, 


the  drama  coming  at  first  in  interludes  and  as 
a  connecting  thread  to  his  bits  of  masterly 
stage-craft.  Hence,  the  story  proper  of 
"The  Climbers,"  although  much  stronger, 
both  in  dramatic  action  and  in  sentiment, 
than  that  of  "  The  Stubbornness  of  Geral- 
dine,"  has  its  insincerities,  its  incongruities, 
and  quite  too  frequently  the  god  in  the 
machine  pokes  out  his  head. 

Mr.  Fitch  is  too  fresh-spirited  and  fluent 
in  his  work  ever  to  give  the  spectator  a  sense 
of  his  own  weariness,  yet  one  can  imagine 
him  ruminating  to  himself:  "Dear  me,  what 
a  pity — this  continual  necessity  of  suspending 
these  weddings,  christenings,  and  funerals, 
bridge-parties  and  transatlantic  trips  that  the 
public  so  love !  But  I  suppose  I  really  must 
hitch  them  together  into  some  kind  of  coherent 
play!"  And  so  he  does,  and  really  makes 
quite  a  good  thing  of  it,  if  one  has  not  too 
exacting  an  appetite  for  strong,  sincere,  force- 
ful drama. 

Amelia  Bingham,  at  once  manager  and 
actress,  heads  a  very  good  company,  and  has 
the  play  mounted  in  such  a  way  as  to  present 
unusually  realistic  effects.  As  an  instance, 
there  is  a  snow  scene  in  which  the  snow — a 
powdery  composition  of  an  unknown  nature — 
receives  footprints  and  scatters  in  a  fine 
spray,  while  the  scenes  which  represent 
interiors  are  set  forth  with  a  warmth  of  color 
and  an  appearance  of  luxury  which  is  very 
inviting  to  the  eye. 

Miss  Bingham  herself  has  a  good  business 
head  on  her  shapely  shoulders,  and  has  made 
it  the  goal  of  her  ambition  to  be  the  leading 
lady  in  a  New  York  theatre.  It  is  scarcely 
surprising  that  a  woman  with  such  excellent 
business  qualifications  should  disclose  in  her 
personality  some  evidences  of  a  lack  of  the 
artistic  temperament.  This  lack,  however, 
is  partially  atoned  for  by  her  straight-ahead 
methods  of  acting,  which  lend  a  certain 
sincerity  to  her  results.  She  is  a  good-looking 
woman  (who  would  be  both  better  and  younger 
looking  if  she  would  not  bleach  her  hair"), 
with  a  plump,  well-corseted  figure,  which 
shows  up  well  in  full  dress. 

In  emotional  scenes.  Miss  Bingham  takes 
her  fences  gallantly,  but  her -great  lack  is  her 
voice,  which  is  of  unmusical  qualitv.  and  be- 
haves treacherously  when  she  calls  upon  it 
to  soften  with  tenderness,  or  swell  with  anger 
or  alarm. 

Wilton  Lackaye  plays  the  ungrateful  role 
of  a  weak  rascal  with  great  skill.  The 
character  is  well  conceived  by  the  author,  and 
Mr.  Lackaye  plays  it  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
make  h:s  auditors  enter  into  the  palterings 
and  self-evasions  of  an  unstable  nature.  Miss 
Adellyer  Wesley  takes  the  character  of  the 
newly  widowed,  and  in  every  assertive  tone 
of  her  voice,  in  every  shallow,  self-absorbed 
expression  of  her  face,  intelligently  adapts 
her  personality  to  that  of  the  character.  As 
Edward  Warden,  Mr.  Abingdon  portrays  a 
conventionally  romantic  type — the  strong- 
hearted,  silent  lover,  who  practices  re- 
nunciation, and  leaving  himself  out  of  the 
calculation,  plans  entirely  for  the  happiness 
of  the  beloved  one;  not  a  very  real  character, 
but  done  by  the  actor  in  a  manner  to  induce 
conviction. 

Miss  Bijou  Fernandez  is  quick-witted  and 
pliable  enough  to  make  much  of  a  very  "fat" 
part.  Mr.  Lawford  is  an  easy  comedian,  and 
Miss  Frances  Ring  has  just  that  flicker  of 
mischief  in  her  eye.  just  that  touch  of  crisp- 
ness  in  her  manner,  necessary  to  invest  the 
character  of  Clara  Hunter  with  the  ap- 
propriate   characteristics. 

All  other  minor  roles,  including  one  played 
by  a  sister  of  Wilton  Lackaye.  were  carefully 
done,  so  that  the  general  effect  is  one  of  finish 
down  to  the  slightest  details. 


At  the  Central  Theatre  they  are  olaying 
"Josh  Wbitcomb,"  with'  liberal  variations, 
and  with  so  close  an  approximation,  in  the  last 
act  at  least,  to  the  rural  drama  of  the  day. 
that  one  finds  one's  self  almost  suspecting  the 
original  founder  of  this  school  of  drama  to 
be  imitating  himself.  And  yet  I  made  a 
curious  discovery,  the  other  night,  in  re- 
newing, after  many  years  of  estrange- 
ment, my  acquaintanceship  with  "Josh 
Whitcomb."  which  is  that  it  is  not  rural 
drama  at  all.  but  merely  the  faint  beginnings 
of  it.  The  first  three  acts,  in  fact,  transpire 
altogether  within  the  urban  precincts  of  Bos- 
ton, the  scenes  shifting,  with  wondrous 
agility,  from  a  reception  in.  so  to  speak, 
marble  halls,  to  street  scenes  in  the  tenderloin 
district,  in  which  a  bootblack,  a  policeman,  a 
vagrant,  and  other  nondescript  gentry  agreeably 
diversify  the  scenes  by  turns.  We  find  our- 
selves in  a  garret  as  well,  assisting  at  the 
demise  of  Mrs.  Potato  Bug  Bill,  and  again 
at  an  evening  gathering  in  the  house  of  Nellie 
Primrose,  a  handsome  and  gorgeously  attired 
young     lady,    who    renders     a    whistling    solo 


with    flute-like    ease,    and    whose    guests    have 
social  accomplishments  to  burn. 

Mrs.  Potato  Bug  Bill  is  of  a  different  type. 
Her  consort  is  a  carelessly  attired  gentleman 
of  leisure,  who  is  devoting  himself,  with  the 
enthusiasm  of  an  artist,  to  the  permanent 
heightening  of  an  expansive  sunset  flush  on 
his  nose.  To  further  his  purpose,  Mr.  Potato 
Bug  Bill  pawns  all  the  family  furniture,  leav- 
ing his  starving  wife  genteelly  expiring  in  a 
cambric  nightgown,  whose  laundering  is  un- 
impeachable, and  whose  trimmings  are  up  to 
date.  The  sprightly  daughter  of  the 
moribund,  a  darling  child  with  tripping  feet, 
who  is  apparently  some  few  months 
younger  (or  perhaps  older)  than  her  mother, 
earns  a  precarious  living  by  sweeping  street- 
crossings  and  warbling  nickels  out  of  the 
pockets  of  benevolent  passers-by.  This 
precocious  young  person  has  won  the  af- 
fections of  a  bootblack  of  similar  tender 
years,  who  drops  a  tear  when  he  alludes  to  a 
defunct  parent  and  intimates  that  "  dese  poor 
kids  has  dere  feelings  same  as  rich  ones." 

How  unfamiliar  it  all  sounds !  I  rubbed 
my  eyes,  and  in  spite  of  my  distinct  remem- 
brance of  Denman  Thompson  himself,  almost 
believed  I  had  never  seen  the  play.  How- 
ever, if  we  attempt  to  rub  up  our  recollections 
of  the  famous  original,  they  are  all  stray 
disconnected  bits — harmoniously  inclined  gen- 
tlemen traveling  in  fours,  street  fights  and 
street  sights,  happy  tramps,  fire  alarms. 
and  vague  girls  from  vague  perspectives,  flit- 
ting on  to  light  up  the  scene  with  pink  party- 
dresses,  and  bare  necks. 

So  it  is  at  the  Central  Theatre  where  Tames 
Corrigan,  bearing  a  life-like  resemblance  to 
Denman  Thompson,  and  no  resemblance  at  all 
to  himself,  figures  amusingly  as  the  bewildered 
old  hayseed,  going  off  half-cocked  at  city 
sights,  and  occasionally  stepping  obligingly 
aside  to  make  way  for  the  specialists.  For  the 
modern  version,  like  its  original,  is  merely  a 
series  of  slightly  connected  scenes,  the  senti- 
ments of  which  are  aimed  full  at  the  readily 
receptive  and  the.  soft-hearted,  and  the  whole 
affair,  aside  from  the  exhibition  of  Uncle 
Josh's  rural  eccentricities,  forming  a  kind  of 
background  to  musical  vaudeville. 

In  the  fourth  act,  Uncle  Josh,  Aunt  Ma- 
tilda, old  Cy,  an  adopted  orphan,  and  a  bash- 
ful swain,  form  a  small  group  which  has 
fathered  and  mothered  so  numerous  a  progeny 
in  the  latter-day  rural  drama.  They  are  all 
assembled  at  the  old  homestead,  whither  a 
large  contingent  of  city  guests  come;  and 
after  a  parting  shy  at  melodrama,  the  play 
twinkles  on  to  a  cheerful  close. 

In  its  altered  guise,  it  is  rather  more 
broadly  farcical  than  in  its  earlier  days,  and 
there  is,  here  and  there,  an  unexplained 
hiatus,  but  in  its  old  age  the  play  has  gleams 
of  its  earlier  vitality,  and  while  the  pathos 
is  of  the  most  primitive  description,  there 
is  still  a  rough,  homely  vigor  to  the  humor, 
which  wins  a  ready  appeal  from  lovers  of 
laughter.  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


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employees  of  the  company  to  retire  on  pen- 
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AMELIA    BINGHAM 

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A  production  of  rare  worth. 
Next  play — A  Modern  Magdalen. 

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ever  been  brought  out  from  New  York." — Examiner. 

To-night,  every  night.    RAYMOND   and  CAVERLY 

and  our  superb  New  York  company  in  the 

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Jewess."     Sunday,   "Oliver  Twist." 

Last  week  oi  the  Nance  O'Neil  season — Commencing 
Monday,  July  13th  Borneo  and  Juliet. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matine>,  July  5th.  A 
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of  the  late  President  McKinley;  Charles  Dickson  and 
Company;  the  Great  Harbecks;  Mosher,  Houghton 
and  Mosher:  Young  and  DeVoie;  Julien  Rose;  the 
Wang  Doodle  Comedy  Four;  the  Biograph ;  and  last 
weekof  Barney  Fagan  and  Henrietta  Byron. 

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box  seats,  50c ;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Sahirday,  and 
Sunday. 


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of  this  notice,  to  the  said  administratrix  of  said  estate, 
at  the  law  offices  of  J.  L.  Kennedy,  Room  417,  Parrott 
Building.  No.  S55  Market  Street.  San  Francisco,  Cal., 
the  same  being  her  place  for  the  transaction  of  the 
business  of  said  estate  in  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco,  State  of  California. 

EUGENIA  T.  LARSEN, 
Administratrix  of  the  estate  of  Frederic  T.  Larsen, 
deceased. 

Dated  at  San  Francisco,  June  15,  1003. 

J.  L.  Kennedy.  Attorney  for  Administratrix,  Room 
417,  Parrott  Building,  S55  Market  Street,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 


July  6.  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


11 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Nance  O'Neil's  Repertoire  for  Next  Week- 
During  the  third  week  of  her  stay  at  the 
California  Theatre,  Nance  O'Xeil  will  appear 
in  a  series  of  notable  revivals  of  the  plays 
in  which  she  has  scored  her  greater  successes. 
On  Monday  night  "  Magda  "  will  be  the  bill, 
with  McKee  Rankin  and  L.  R.  Stockwell  in 
their  old  parts  of  Colonel  Schwartze  and 
General  Von  Klebs.  On  Tuesday  night. 
"Queen  Elizabeth"  will  be  given;  Wednes- 
day night,  Ibsen's  "  Hedda  Gabler "  :  Thurs- 
day night,  either  "  La  Tosca  "  or  "  Fedora  "  ; 
Friday  and  Saturday  nights.  "  The  Jewess  "  : 
Saturday  matinee,  a  farewell  performance  of 
"Magda";  and  on  Sunday  night.  "Oliver 
Twist."  with  Nance  O'Neil  as  Nancy  Sykes, 
McKee  Rankin  in  his  famous  character  study 
of  Bill  Sykes.  and  L.  R.  Stockwell  in  his  old 
corned}-  part  of  "  the  artful  dodger."  The 
production  of  "  Romeo  and  Juliet,"  already 
referred  to  in  these  columns,  has  been  reserved 
for  the  concluding  week  of  Miss  O'Neil's 
engagement  at  the  California. 


Second  Week  of  The  Climbers." 
Amelia  Bingham  has  scored  such  a  well- 
deserved  success  in  Clyde  Fitch's  play,  "  The 
Climbers,"  that  it  is  to  be  continued  another 
week.  From  a  dramatic  point  of  view,  this 
play  must  be  regarded  as  among  Mr.  Fitch's 
best  achievements.  It  can  hardly  be  called  a 
great  play ;  but  it  is  marvelously  clever,  and 
grips  the  attention  of  the  audience  from  cur- 
tain to  curtain.  It  is  put  upon  the  stage  in 
splendid  shape,  and  the  costumes  of  the  la- 
dies are  rich  and  artistic.  Miss  Bingham,  her- 
self an  actress  of  more  than  common  ability, 
has  surrounded  herself  with  an  excellent  com- 
pany, strong  at  all  points,  and  the  perform- 
ance is  therefore  more  than  satisfactory :  it  is 
admirable.  The  last  week  of  Miss  Binaham's 
engagement  is  to  be  devoted  to  Haddon  Cham- 
ber's strong  play.  "A  Modern  Magdalen," 
which  deals  with  the  struggles  of  a  music- 
hall  singer  to  make  her  way  in  the  world,  her 
downfall,  and  her  final  redemption  and  sacri- 
fice as  a  nurse  upon  the  battle-field. 

"White  "Whittlesey  in  "Brother  Officers." 
"  Monbars  "  is  to  be  followed  at  the  Alcazar 
Theatre  on  Monday  night  by  Leo  Trevor's 
three-act  comedy-drama.  "  Brother  Officers," 
with  White  Whittlesey  in  the  role  of  Lieuten- 
ant John  Hinds,  a  sort-  of  rough  diamond, 
promoted  from  the  ranks  to  a  swagger  regi- 
ment for  bravery  on  the  field.  His  previous 
acts  of  prowess  included  one  which  called  for 
great  daring,  and  in  carrying  it  out  he  saved 
tjie  life  of  Pleydell.  an  officer  of  the  regiment 
which  he  joins.  The  plot  of  the  play  has  to 
do  in  the  main  with  the  efforts  of  this  officer 
to  teach  Hinds  how  to  be  a  gentleman,  for 
he  had  been  in  the  wilds  of  India  so  long  that 
his  ability  to  be  quite  the  proper  thing  in  the 
smartest  resiment  in  the  service  was  somewhat 
lacking.  The  complications  arising  from 
Hinds's  endeavors  to  follow  his  friend's  advice, 
his  attempts  to  be  genial  and  easy,  form  a 
splendid  comedy  element,  which  is  inter- 
spersed with  dramatic  situations,  telling  of 
Pleydell's  troubles  with  a  gambler,  who 
threatens  to  bring  disgrace  upon  him.  Hinds 
manages  to  shield  his  brother-officer,  who  wins 
his  sweetheart.  Baroness  Roydan.  and  con- 
tinues to  be  received  as  an  honored  member 
of  the  First  Lancers.  It  transpires,  however. 
that  Hinds  has  himself  fallen  in  love  with  the 
baroness;  but.  after  smoothing  things  over  for 
his  best  friend,  he  resigns  from  the  regiment 
and  goes  back  to  India.  leaving  the  two  lovers 
to  their  happiness.  "  Brother  Officers "  is  to 
give  way  to  an  elaborate  production  of  "  The 
Prisoner  of  Zenda." 


Success  of  Twirl y-Whirly." 
"  Twirly- Whirly  "  is  an  entertaining  mixture 
of  spectacle,  melody,  and  burlesque,  and 
judging  from  the  excellent  audiences  which 
flock  to  Fischer's  Theatre  nightly,  the  travesty- 
is  good  for  many  weeks  yet.  It  has  congenial 
roles  for  all  the  favorites,  and  ludicrously 
portrays  the  pranks  of  self-styled  geniuses  of 
the  Mary  McLane  type,  the  vanities  of  high 
society,  the  brainless  diversions  of  the  rich, 
the  affectations  of  popular  actresses,  and  the 
greed  of  our  wealth-seeking  business  men. 
Among  the  musical  gems  are  Maude  Amber's 
automobile  song,  "The  Long.  Long  Green"; 
Olive  Vail's  Spanish  dance,  vocal  march,  and 
waltz  duet ;  Harry  Hermsen's  song  and  bur- 
lesque hornpipe ;  and  Winfield  Blake's  new- 
coon  song,  in  which  he  is  assisted  by  Flossie 
Hope.  Gertie  Emerson,  and  the  entire  chorus. 
Extensive  preparations  are  being  made  for 
the  double  bill — travesties  on  "  Under  the 
Red  Robe  "  and  "  The  Three  Musketeers  " — 
which   is   to   follow   "  Twirly-Whirly." 


Kidnaped  "  at  the  Central. 
Those  who  delight  in  strenuous  melodrama 
will  find  a  play  to  their  liking  in  "  Kidnaped," 
in  which  James  Corrigan  will  appear  during 
the  second  week  of  his  engagement  at  the 
Central  Theatre.  It  abounds  in  sensational 
incidents  and  thrilling  climaxes,  and  gives 
Mr.  Corrigan  a  fine  chance  as  Michael  Mc- 
Mooney  to  score  as  an  Hibernian  fun-maker. 
The  plot  of  the  play  revolves  about  a  villain 
portrait-painter,  who.  to  rid  himself  of  the 
wife  whom  he  has  robbed  of  her  wealth,  has 
her  committed  to  an  insane  asylum,  through 
perjury  and  fraud.  The  wife  escapes  and 
seeks  refuge  in  a  studio,  which  proves  to  be 
her  own  husband's.  He  fails  to  recognize  her 
because  of  the  great  change,  and  she  dramat- 
ically bids  him  paint  the  picture  of  the  woman 
whose  life  he  has  wrecked.  He  thereupon 
slays  her,  and  lays  the  crime  at  the  door  of 
his  rival  in  a  second  intended  matrimonial 
affair.  Thence  follows  plot  and  counter-plot, 
and  the  complications  keep  the  interest  at  high 
*nsion  until  justice  has  at  last  been  meeted 


out  to  the  villain.  The  play  abounds  in  strik- 
ing scenic  effects,  among  others  a  startling 
"  leap  for  life  and  love "  from  Brooklyn 
Bridge,  "  a  hundred  and  fifty  feet  to  the  bot- 
tom," and  the  burning  of  an  old  wine-cellar, 
in  which  the  hero  and  villain  are  imprisoned. 


"In  Central  Park"  at  the  Grand. 
Even  more  gorgeous  in  costume  and  stage 
setting  than  "  In  Washington "  is  the  latest 
Rogers  Brothers  "  musical  eccentricity."  "  In 
Central  Park,"  which  is  crowding  the  Grand 
Opera  House.  Among  the  novelty-  songs  in- 
troduced are  Shafter  Howard's  drinking  song, 
"  Extra  Dry."  which  Cheridah  Simpson  gives 
with  a  snap  and  dash  that  wins  many  en- 
cores nightly:  new  parodies  by  Raymond  and 
Caverly ;  a  trio,  "  Rosalie.  My  Royal  Rosy," 
by  Cheridah  Simpson,  Raymond,  and  Caverly ; 
"The  Duchess  of  Central  Park."  by  Camille 
Walling ;  coster  song,  "  Father  Wants  the 
Cradle  Back,"  and  ballad,  "  There's  Nobody 
Just  Like  You,"  by  Harold  Crane;  song  and 
dance,  "  You  Have  Such  Beautiful  Dreams," 
and  a  Japanese  serenade  entitled  "  Kijo."  by 
Eudd  Ross  and  Anna  Wi'.ks  :  "  Matrimonial 
Agent."  by  Herbert  Sears;  "The  Girl  You'd 
Just  Like  to  Know."  by  Louise  Moore ;  and 
:'  Music  of  the  Military  Band."  by  Cheridah 
Simpson  and  chorus. 


The  Orpheum's  Excellent  Bill. 
Miss  Mabel  McKinley.  "  the  favorite  niece 
of  the  late  President  McKinley."  will  head 
the  bill  at  the  Orpheum  next  week.  She  is  a 
soprano  of  note,  having  studied  with  La 
Cource  in  Paris  and  Isidor  Luckstone  in  New 
York.  The  latter's  brother,  Oscar,  acts  as  her 
accompanist.  Charles  Dickson,  the  popular 
comedian,  who  has  not  been  seen  here  for  some 
years,  will  make  his  vaudeville  debut  in  San 
Francisco  in  his  successful  curtain-raiser, 
"  A  Pressing  Matter."  Among  the  other  new- 
comers are  William  and  Kitty  Harbeck,  re- 
markable hoop  rollers :  Mosher.  Houghton, 
and  Mosher,  expert  and  comedy  bicyclists  ;  and 
Young  and  DeVoie,  whose  acrobatic  dancing 
specialty  was  one  of  the  great  hits  of  the 
spectacle,  "  Mr.  Bluebeard,"  during  its  long 
New  York  run  this  season.  For  their  second 
and  last  week.  Barney  Fagan  and  Henrietta 
Byron  will  present  their  best  musical  and 
dancing  sketch,  "  The  Twentieth-Century 
Girl,"  and  Julien  Rose.  "  our  Hebrew  friend." 
who  has  set  the  city  laughing,  will  give  an 
entire  change  of  stories  and  songs.  The  Wang 
Doodle  Comedy  Four  and  the  biograph  com- 
plete the  programme. 


Stevens  in  **  Wang." 
"  Wang "  is  to  be  revived  at  the  Tivoli 
Opera  House  on  Monday  night,  with  Edwin 
Stevens  in  the  title-role.  The  remainder  of 
the  cast  will  again  include  Ferris  Hartman  as 
the  keeper  of  the  royal  elephant ;  Edward 
Webb  as  the  inn-keeper  and  the  dancing- 
master;  Arthur  Cunningham  as  the  French 
colonel ;  Caro  Roma  as  the  Widow  Frtmousse ; 
Bertha  Davis  as  Marie :  Annie  Myers  as  the 
Princess  of  Siam ;  Oscar  Lee  as  the-  young 
lieutenant:  and  Frances  Gibson  as  the  elder 
daughter.  "  Wang "  is  to  be  followed  by 
Harry  B.  Smith  and  Reginald  de  Koven's 
romantic  opera.  "  The  Highwayman,"  with 
Edwin  Stevens  in  the  role  of  Foxy  Quiller. 


Attorney  Charles  S.  Wheeler  owns  a  hand- 
some club-house  on  the  McCloud  River,  on 
which  he  has  been  paying  taxes  in  Siskiyou 
County  on  an  assessed  valuation  of  S5.000. 
The  Shasta  County-  supervisors  believed  the 
building,  although  near  the  line,  to  be  in 
Shasta  County,  where  its  assessed  valuation 
is  placed  at  $20,000.  They  instructed  the 
county  surveyor  to  look  up  the  matter,  and  he 
has  reported  that  the  club-house  is  in  the  latter 
county-.  If  Siskiyou  does  not  make  an  ad- 
verse report,  therefore.  Shasta  will  gather  in 
the  taxes  on  the  property  hereafter. 


Miss  Marion  Jones  lost  the  title  of  national 
tennis  champion  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Moore, 
former  champion,  at  Philadelphia  on  Satur- 
day last  by  a  score  of  7-5.  8-6.  The  match 
was  the  chief  feature  of  the  concluding  day 
of  the  women's  lawn-tennis  tournament  for 
the  championship  of  the  United  States. 


The   home   of   Mr.  and   Mrs.   John    B.    Cas- 
serley  has   been   brightened   by   the   advent  of 


Miss  Bingham's  First  Appearances  Here. 

Amelia  Bingham  is  by  no  means  a  stranger 
to  San  Francisco,  although  she  has  not  been 
seen  here  for  some  years.  Old  theatre-goers 
will  remember  her  first  appearance  here  at  the 
Bush  Street  Theatre,  in  November,  1891,  when 
she  played  with  McKee  Rankin's  company  in 
"  The  Canuck."  The  cast  was  as  follows ; 
Jean  Baptiste  Cadeaux.  a  French-Canadian 
farmer  on  the  border  line.  McKee  Rankin; 
Cyrus  Stebbins.  a  Vermont  farmer,  Charles 
H.  Clark;  Tom  Stebbins.  a  Wall  Street  broker, 
Paul  Menifee;  Pat  Hawley.  an  Irish  farm- 
hand, Charles  H.  Crosby:  Jim  Hogan.  of  the 
New  York  fancy,  L.  Melville  Bingham ; 
Archan-je  Cadeaux,  Jean's  daughter,  and 
Angelique,  Cadeaux's  niece.  Phyllis  Rankin ; 
Hester  Keane.  an  adventuress.  Amelia  Bing- 
ham ;  and  Martha  Ann  Stebbins.  Cyrus'  wife, 
Myra  C.  Brooks. 

During  this  engagement.  Miss  Bingham  also 
appeared  in  "  The  Runaway  Wife,"  when  the 
cast  was  as  follows :  Arthur  Eastman.  McKee 
Rankin ;  Talbot  Vane,  afterward  Lord 
Chamleigh.  Paul  Menifee :  Dr.  Prescott, 
Charles  Clark ;  Arthur  Vere,  Lloyd  Bingham ; 
Sir  Launcelotte  Travers.  Charles  Crosby ; 
David,  an  old  servant,  Mr.  Dewar ;  Bob,  a 
farm-hand.  T.  A.  McKee;  Little  Arthur.  Eva 
Kelley;  Lady  Alice.  Amelia  Bingham:  Lillian 
Have,  Phyllis  Rankin ;  Lady  Yawn.  Ada  At- 
kinson ;  and  Hester  Eastman,  Mrs.  F.  M. 
Bates.  _  

On  Friday,  June  26th,  Francis  E.  Beck  was 
married  in  the  presence  of  relatives  and  a  few 
friends  to  Miss  Alice  M.  Ogg  at  the  residence 
of  the  bride's  mother  on  Ashbury  Street.  Mr. 
Beck  has  bought  a  pretty  home  at  840  Ashbury 
Street,  where  he  will  take  his  bride  after  their 
return  from  the  East.  The  bride  is  the  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  Martha  A.  Newton. 


Blanche  Bates,  fresh  from  her  Eastern 
triumph  in  "  The  Darling  of  the  Gods  "  at  the 
Belasco  Theatre  in  New  York,  is  enjoying  a 
brief  vacation  in  San  Francisco.  She  will 
open  again  in  the  metropolis  on  September  1st 

in  this  play. 

• — ■» — • 

Thomas  J.  Clunie,  the  well-known  attorney, 
died  on  Tuesday,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three 
years,  from  an  acute  attack  of  Bright's  dis- 
ease. 

Klaw  &:  Erlanger  and  Gottlob,  Marx  & 
Co.,  are  making  elaborate  preparations  for 
the  production  of  "  Ben  Hur  "  in  this  city  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House, 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


July  6,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


In  a  letter  to  the  Argonaut  from  Shanghai. 
Charles  Lorrimer  writes  thus  of  the  modern- 
ization of  the  Chinese  court:  "On  May 
28th,  the  Empress  Dowager,  who  is  the  most 
strenuous  and  dominating  character  at  Pekin. 
had  an  entertainment  at  the  palace,  with  Eu- 
ropean music  and  dancing.  Sir  Robert  Hart's 
private  string  band,  composed  of  Chinese 
boys  trained  by  a  Portuguese  conductor,  fur- 
nished the  music,  playing  operatic  airs  and 
popular  songs,  to  the  intense  delight  of  her 
majesty.  The  two  Misses  Yu  Keng  (daugh- 
ters of  the  ex-minister  to  Paris),  who  are  in 
figure,  gowns,  manner,  and  sympathies  more 
Parisian  than  the  Parisians,  danced  a  minuet 
dressed  as  a  French  peasant  boy  and  girl. 
Hitherto  in  China  a  woman  who  dressed  as 
a  man  brought  lasting  disgrace  not  only  on 
herself,  but  also  on  her  relatives.  Afterward 
Lady  Yu,  a  German  lady,  and  four  Chinese 
princesses  went  through  a  very  stately  set 
of  lancers,  at  which  the  Empress  Dowager 
looked  on  with  evident  pleasure,  no  doubt 
finding  the  strange  and  complicated  postur- 
ings  more  attractive  than  wearisome  discus- 
sions concerning  Russia's  conquest  of  Man- 
churia. Incredible  as  it  may  seem,  this 
smiling  Empress  Dowager  is  the  very  same 
woman  who  in  1900  loathed  foreigners  and 
all  their  works,  and,  without  sounding  the 
cost,  determined  to  exterminate  them  root 
and  branch.  All  that  now  remains  to  complete 
the  reformed  reverse  of  the  medal  is  that  the 
Empress  Dowager  should  learn  the  cake-walk 
and  duly  perform  it  at  the  next  diplomatic 
audience,  with  the  hen-pecked  emperor." 


Another  British  peerage,  carrying  with  it  a 
historic  name  and  the  possession  of  one  oF 
the  most  famous  mansions  in  England,  a  great 
rent  roll,  and  heirlooms  of  priceless  value,  is  at 
stake  in  the  London  law  courts.  When  it  is 
mentioned  that  the  title  is  that  of  Lord  Sack- 
ville,  now  borne  by  the  former  British  min- 
ister at  Washington,  then  Sir  Lionel  Sackville- 
West,  and  that  the  estate  of  "  Knole,"  at  Seven- 
oaks.  Kent,  is  the  prize  of  the  contest,  the  rea- 
son is  apparent  for  the  interest  taken  in  Amer- 
ica in  the  lawsuit.  After  seven  years'  tenure 
of  the  British  legation  at  Washington,  durin? 
which  period  there  was  little  to  ruffle  the  or- 
dinary routine  of  his  post.  Sir  Lionel  Sack- 
ville-West's  diplomatic  career  was  abruptlv 
brought  to  an  end.  He  made  a  grave  mis- 
take during  the  first  Cleveland-Harrison 
campaign  by  replying  to  a  fake  let- 
ter from  a  man  in  California  named  Mur- 
chison,  who  asked  the  minister's  advice  as  to 
which  candidate  American  citizens  of  English 
birth  should  support.  The  minister  promptly 
replied  that  President  Cleveland's  reelection 
would  be  satisfactory  to  England.  The  letter 
was  made  public,  and  Sir  Lionel  promptly  re- 
ceived his  passports.  About  this  time  he  was 
notified  of  the  death  of  his  brother,  the  first 
Baron  Sackville,  bringing  with  it  his  own  suc- 
cession to  the  title  and  to  the  Knole  estate. 
He  left  Washington  in  November,  1888,  and, 
since  then,  has  lived  in  retirement  at  Knole. 
Of  his  three  daughters,  who  were  well  known 
in  Washington  society  and  did  the  honors  of 
the  legation,  one.  Flora,  married  a  French 
diplomat,  M.  Salanson.  The  second,  Victoria, 
married  her  cousin.  Mr.  Lionel  Edward  Sack- 
ville-West,  son  of  Lord  Sackville's  brother, 
the  Hon.  William  Sackville- West,  who  is  now 
the  acknowledged  heir  presumptive  to  the 
barony.  This  daughter  has  made  her  home 
with  her  father,  now  nearly  seventy-six  years 
of  age.  The  third  was  chaperoned  by  the  late 
Mary,  Countess  of  Derby,  her  father's  sister. 
It  is  the  only  brother  of  the  three  daugh- 
ters— all  strikingly  beautiful  women,  resem- 
bling their  mother — who  has  now  come  for- 
ward claiming  to  be  acknowledged  the  lawful 
heir  to  his  father's  title  and  estates.  In  the 
peerages  the  names  of  this  family  of  Lord 
Sackville  are  not  given.  He  is  described  as 
unmarried,  and  his  brother,  who  is  himself 
seventy-two  years  old,   is  named   as   the  heir. 


The  mystery  (says  the  New  York  Herald's 
London  correspondent)  is  unraveled  by  one 
of  those  romances  in  real  life  which  so  often 
surpass  the  novelist's  imagination.  The  son, 
Ernest  Henri  Jean  Baptiste  Sackville-West, 
only  a  few  days  ago  became  the  plaintiff  in  an 
action  against  his  father,  Lord  Sackville,  and 
other  members  of  the  Sackville-West  family. 
He  wishes  to  establish  his  claim  to  the  title 
and  estate,  and  therefore  applied  to  the  court 
of  chancery  for  the  appointment  of  a  com- 
mission to  examine  witnesses  and  make  in- 
quiries ir  Spain  and  France,  there  being  a  dan- 
ger that,  such  evidence  might,  through  death 
or  ofht'wise,  be  unobtainable  when  the  ques- 
tion (oj  succession  actually  arises.  it  was 
n  court  that  five  years  ago  the  defend- 
Li    the    present    action,    namely,    Lord 


Sackville,  his  brother  and  nephew,  the  first 
and  second  presumptive  heirs,  respectively, 
began  an  action  against  Ernest  Sackville- 
West  to  establish  the  fact  that  he  was  not 
the  lawful  son  of  Lord  Sackville,  and  was  not 
entitled,  on  Lord  Sackville's  death,  to  any  es- 
tate or  interest  in  the  family  estates  or  the 
peerage.  Some  Spanish  witnesses  were  then 
examined,  but  Mr.  Ernest  Sackville-West 
contends  now  that  he  was  without  the  means 
to  take  the  proper  measures  for  his  protectior 
in  that  action.  He  is  now,  it  appears,  backed 
by  influential  friends.  The  leader  of  the 
Spanish  bar  has  interested  himself  in  the 
case,  because  the  mother  of  Mr.  Ernest  Sack- 
ville-West and  his  three  sisters  was  a  beauti- 
ful Spanish  dancer,  Josephine  Duran  de  Or- 
tega. The  Sackville  family  is  divided  against 
itself,  two  of  the  sisters  warmly  espousing 
their  brother's  cause,  but  Lord  Sackville  him- 
self, who  has  treated  his  son  as  though  he 
were  his  legitimate  offspring,  declares  that  he 
has  been  repaid  with  gross  ingratitude. 
Lord  Sackville  has  not  concealed  the  fact 
that  he  passed  fifteen  years  in  a  happy  union 
with  the  mother  of  his  son  and  three  daugh- 
ters, but  he  denies  that  a  marriage  ever  took 
place.  He  sent  the  son  to  Africa  to  settle 
there  as  a  farmer,  following  the  custom  of 
many  heads  of  families,  who  thus  try  to  escape 
the  inconvenience  and  embarrassment  of  un- 
welcome scions  of  their  stock.  But  the  war 
came,  young  Sackville-West  enlisted  as  a  yeo- 
man and  he  has  now  returned  to  prosecute  his 
claim. 

It  has  just  been  discovered  that  the  much- 
discussed  women's  hotel  in  New  York,  the 
Martha  Washington,  is  not  perfect  in  its  ap- 
pointments after  all.  There  is  not  a  single 
mirror  on  the  second  floor,  which  is  the  public 
promenade  of  the  hotel.  Through  a  suite  of 
drawing-room,  library,  writing-room,  etc.,  the 
"  permanents "  proudly  conduct  their  guests 
to  show  how  a  woman's  hotel  should  look.  It  is 
on  this  floor  also  that  the  women  guests  as- 
semble in  their  best  attire  on  dress  parade.  The 
other  day  some  women  were  being  shown 
through  the  parlors,  when  one  who  wore  a 
wonderful  flower-bedecked  head  grew  increas- 
ingly pensive.  The  signs  were  unmistakable. 
After  an  unusually  protracted  pause  she 
ejaculated  suddenly:  "I  have  an  inward  con- 
viction that  my  hat  is  on  crooked."  Her  eyes 
hunted  the  walls  for  a  mirror,  but  none  was  in 
sight.  A  search  of  the  entire  floor  developed  the 
fact  that  there  were  no  mirrors.  There  is  little 
doubt  there  will  soon  be  many  mirrors  on  the 
walls  of  the  parlor  floor,  for  the  five  hundred 
women  guests  which  the  hotel  shelters  are  up 
in  arms,  for  they  refuse  to  depend  on  one  an- 
other to  find  out  if  their  hats  are  on  straight. 


According  to  the  dispatches,  the  Sitka  In- 
dians have  gained  an  additional  $6,000,  which 
is  a  good-sized  fortune  to  them,  by  the  active 
competition  of  fur  dealers  to  secure  their 
catch  of  sealskins  amounting  to  about  500 
skins.  By  active  bidding  prices  were  raised 
from  $10  to  $22.50  per  skin,  with  little  regard 
to  the  average  quality  of  skins  brought  for- 
ward. For  years  on  and  off,  a  Sitka  firm 
has  handled  the  largest  part  of  the  skins, 
hides,  and  pelts  shipped  from  there.  Now 
Alaska  game  laws  prohibit  the  shipment  of 
hides,  but  the  firm  remained  ready  to  purchase 
all  the  skins  the  Indians  could  bring  in. 
When  the  pelts  began  to  arrive  the  Sitka  firm 
found  a  buyer  in  the  field  from  Portland. 
Their  bidding  back  and  forth  soon  raised  the 
price  to  $22.50,  which  the  Sitka  firm  is  allow- 
ing the  Portland  buyer  to  pay  for  every  seal- 
skin the  Indians  can  produce.  The  result 
is  to  double  the  amount  of  ready  cash  among 
the  Sitka  natives,  and  as  the  Sitka  firm  in 
question  conducts  a  large  general  merchandise 
store,  it  feels  amply  repaid  for  the  loss  of 
the  sealskin  business. 


Mme.  du  Gast,  celebrated  in  various  ways, 
but  chiefly  because  she  is  the  only  French 
lady  who  has  ever  driven  an  automobile  in 
a  race,  hates  motor  cars.  She  told  a  corre- 
spondent so  on  the  eve  of  the  start  for  the 
first  stage  of  the  disastrous  Paris-Madrid 
contest,  in  which  she  successfully  and  with- 
out meeting  with  the  least  accident  piloted 
a  huge  eighty-five-horse-power  Dietrich  ma- 
chine herself  from  Versailles  to  Bordeaux. 
"  Horrid  smelling,  noisy  things,  motor  cars. 
Fancy  driving  about  town  in  one !  I  would 
never  think  of  such  a  thing.  Look  at  my 
brougham,  neat  and  smart  looking,  drawn  by 
a  couple  of  spanking  bays.  That's  the  way  to 
go  about  comfortably ;  that's  the  only  taste- 
ful, elegant  means  of  locomotion.  But  racing 
is  a  different  thing  I  love  the  excitement, 
the  exhilaration,  and  the  frenzy  that  gets  hold 
of  one  when  one  goes  at  a  terrific  speed.  It's 
the  danger  that  fascinates  me.     Just  to  know 


that  a  turn  of  half  an  inch  of  the  steering 
wheel  would  mean  certain  death ;  that,  in 
actual  fact,  even  barring  mistakes  of  driving, 
death  faces  one  all  along  the  course,  where 
unforseen  obstacles  may  crop  up  at  any  mo- 
ment— that  is  what  I  adore  in  motor  racing. 
Danger  attracts  me  irrestistibly.  I  went  up 
in  a  balloon  and  down  in  a  mine,  where  I 
worked  in  a  shaft  for  a  whole  day,  just  be- 
cause I  wanted  to  feel  the  delicious  sensa- 
tion of  danger.  I  find  now  that  motor-racing 
gives  me  this  excitement  more  than  anything 
else.  But  as  for  merely  taking  a  leisurely 
drive  in  a  horrid,  smelly  car,  I  wouldn't  think 
of  it." 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Dole  (nee  Gallagher),  the  di- 
vorced wife  of  Attorney-General  Dole,  of  Ha- 
waii, and  at  present  an  actress,  is  out  with  a 
denunciation  of  Boston  young  men  and  Boston 
women  of  all  ages,  which  will  hardly  be  rel- 
ished by  the  inhabitants  of  the  city  which 
has  fallen  under  her  displeasure.  She  says 
Boston's  young  men  are  far  more  dissipated 
and  immoral  than  are  the  youths  of  San 
Francisco.  "  It  is  becoming  rather  tiresome 
to  me,"  says  Mrs.  Dole,  "  to  hear  San  Fran- 
cisco continually  referred  to  by  these  Bos- 
tonese  as  a  fast  and  dissipated  town,  and  in 
the  same  breath  their  own  cultish.  faddish, 
foolish  city  referred  to  as  the  storm  centre 
of  morality  and  virtue.  It  is  ridiculous.  The 
young  men  of  Boston  are  far  more  dissipated 
than  those  of  San  Francisco,  and  I  know  sev- 
eral young  men  from  San  Francisco  who  have 
gone  to  Harvard  and  have  absolutely  been  run 
out  of  town  by  the  attentions  of  Boston 
women." 


Nelson's  Amycose. 
Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


The  Crystal  Bathe. 

Physicians  recommend  the  Crystal  hot  sea-water 
tub  and  swimming  baths,  on  Bay,  between  Powell 
and  Mason  Streets,  terminus  of  all  North  Beach 
car  lines. 


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Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
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THE    FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Monday,  June  29,  1903,  were 
as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Bay  Co.  Power  5%.     2,000    ©105  105        106 

Market  St.   Ry   1st 

Con.  5% 1,000    @  117K  117        118 

N.  R.  ofCal.  5%.  . .    1,000    @  121  121^ 

Pac-Gas  Impt.  4%.     4,000    @    96  96^      9S 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% 1.000    @  120K  120 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 3,000    @  110%  no% 

S-  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

stpd 5,000    ©107^  107J4 

S.  V.  Water 4%  2d.    5,000    @   99%  99^    100& 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Valley 247    @    84-      84K      84^      85 

Banks. 
Bank  of  Cal 45    @  575  600 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 50    @    73^-  73^      73^      74^ 

Vigorit 200    @     53£  6 

Sugars. 

Hana  P.  Co 275    @      1%  12 

Honokaa  S.  Co 105    @    11  n}4 

Hutchinson 30    @    \2%-  13  i2j£ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Pacific  Gas 200    @    47-      47^      475$      48 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       350    ©58-61  58^      58JJ 

Trustees  Certificates. 
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Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...         30    @  152-    153        15254 
Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         15    @    90                    90         92 
Cal.  Wine  Assn 65    @    9954  100 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


13 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


In  i860  Lord  Palmerston  is  said  to  have 
prophesied:  "Before  the  century  is  out, 
these  clever  and  pretty  women  from  New 
York  will  pull  the  strings  in  half  the  chan- 
ceries of  Europe." 


A  Highland  waiter  once  refused  to  serve 
the  late  Max  O'Rell  at  dinner,  and  when  re- 
proved, explained :  "  It's  no'  to  be  expected 
that  a  self-respecting  Scotsman  could  serve 
him  with  ceeveelity.  Didn't  he  say  we  took 
to  the  kilt  because  our  feet  were  too  large 
to    get   through    trousers?" 


It  is  said  that  once,  when  District  At- 
torney Jerome  was  a  very  small  boy,  he  and 
his  father  got  into  a  New  York  stage  to  ride 
uptown.  It  was  crowded,  but  the  elder 
Jerome  found  one  seat,  whereupon  he  sat, 
taking  upon  his  knee  young  Travers.  Pres- 
ently the  stage  stopped  and  a  handsomely 
dressed  woman  got  in.  Nobody  having  got 
out,  there  was  no  seat,  and  nobody  offered 
to  make  room.  Finally,  the  strain  on  the 
elder  Jerome  became  too  great,  and  looking 
reprovingly  at  Travers,  he  said :  "  Travers, 
why  don't  you  get  up  and  give  the  lady  your 
seat?" 


The  first  Lord  Amp  thill  once  called  upon 
Bismarck,  and,  while  he  waned  in  an  ante- 
room before  being  received  by  the  German 
chancellor,  out  came  Count  Harry  Arnim, 
fanning  himself  with  his  handkerchief,  and 
looking  as  if  he  were  about  to  choke.  "  Well," 
he  said,  "  I  can  not  understand  how  Bis- 
marck can  bear  that — smoking  the  strongest 
Havanas  in  a  stuffy  little  room.  I  had  to 
beg  him  to  open  the  window."  When  the 
Englishman  entered  the  apartment,  he  found 
Bismarck  apparently  gasping  for  breath  at 
the  open  window.  "  What  strange  tastes 
some  people  have,"  the  chancellor  said; 
"  Arnim  has  just  been  with  me,  and  he  was 
so  overpowertngly  perfumed  that  I  could 
stand  it  no  longer,  and  had  to  open  the 
window." 


A  suburban  Philadelphia  banker  tells  with 
great  satisfaction  a  story  that  illustrates  well 
the  almost  incredible  prowess  in  egg-laying 
of  his  hens.  "  Some  time  ago,"  he  says, 
"  an  egg  was  left  for  a  nest  egg  in  the  place 
where  my  hens  lay.  This  nest  egg,  the  other 
day,  hatched,  and  I  have  now  one  lonely 
little  chick,  which  several  dozen  mothers 
care  for.  Here  is  the  explanation  of  this 
miracle :  My  hens  are  such  steady  layers 
that  one  would  no  sooner  get  off  the  nest 
egg,  having  deposited  a  fresh  egg  beside  it, 
than  another  would  slip  on,  and  in  her  turn 
lay.  Thus  by  dozens  of  different  mothers 
the  solitary  egg  was  hatched.  Though  no 
one  hen  *  sat '  or  '  clooked '  on  it,  neverthe- 
less it  was  kept  always  warm,  and  in  due 
time  there  stepped  forth  from  it  a  lonely 
but  vigorous  little  chick." 


A  story  is  told  of  an  attempt  made  by  a 
Swedish  missionary  to  obtain  a  foothold  in 
Abyssinia.  No  sooner  had  he  begun  to  preach 
than  he  was  brought  before  King  Menelek, 
who  asked  him  why  he  had  left  his  home  in 
Scandinavia  in  order  to  come  to  Abyssinia. 
The  missionary  promptly  replied  that  he  had 
come  to  convert  the  Abyssinian  Jews,  who  are 
regarded  as  fair  game  for"  the  outside  pro- 
pagandist. "  Are  there  no  Jews  in  your  coun- 
try?" asked  Menelek.  The  missionary  admit- 
ted that  there  were  a  few.  "  And  in  all  the 
countries  that  you  have  passed  through  did 
you  find  no  Jews  or  heathens?"  the  king  con- 
tinued. Jews  and  heathens,  the  missionary  ad- 
mitted, were  plentiful.  "  Then,"  said  Menelek.. 
"  carry  this  man  beyond  the  frontier,  and  let 
him  not  return  until  he  has  converted  all  the 
Jews  and  heathen  which  lie  between  his  coun- 
try and  mine." 


While  in  the  frozen  Arctic  region  in  search 
of  the  North  Pole,  the  Duke  of  the  Abruzzi 
was  told  this  tale  of  the  adventures  of  a 
young  Eskimo  who  had  secretly  courted  the 
daughter  of  an  enemy.  The  huts  of  the  lovers 
were  not  far  removed,  but  one  night  the  ter- 
rific cold  ripped  a  great  crevasse  in  the  ice, 
and  the  young  man's  house  was  left  isolated. 
A  gorge  one  hundred  feet  deep  and  twenty  feet 
wide  separated  it  from  the  igloo,  or  hut,  con- 
taining his  sweetheart,  but  there  was  a  narrow 
bridge  of  ice  left  across  the  crevasse,  and  this, 
the  young  man  found,  would  bear  his  weight. 
Eskimos  sleep  in  bags.  The  lover  decided 
that  he  would  that  night  cross  the  ice  bridge, 
steal  the  maiden  he  loved,  bear  her  to  his  hut, 
and  then   break  down  the  bridge,  so  that  he 


and  she  together  might  enjoy  their  honeymoon 
unmolested.  He  planned  very  successfully. 
He  crept,  in  the  dead  of  night,  into  his 
enemy's  hut ;  he  snatched  up  the  maiden  irt 
her  sack  without  awaking  any  uuc :  he  bore 
her  over  the  ice  bridge  safely,  and  then  he 
opened  the  sack  to  embrace  his  bride.  But, 
beholding  its  contents,  he  gave  a  loud  cry- 
It  was  not  the  maiden,  but  her  father  that  he 
had  stolen. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Polly's  Preparations. 
Polly,  put  the  kettle  on — 

(It  has  been  sterilized,  I  hope?) 
Polly,  put  the  kettle  on— 

(And  washed  with  antiseptic  soap?) 
Polly,  put  the  kettle  on — 

(The      water's      filtered,      scrubbed,      sun- 
dried,       dusted.       polished.       shaken, 
brushed,      sifted,      pasteurized,      and 
ironed,  I  see!) 
Polly,  put  the  kettle  on;  we'll  all  take  tea. 
— Jack  Appieton  in   Cincinnati   Tribune. 


The  Motor. 


The  rich  man's  fancy,  Fashion's  latest  craze, 
A  costly  toy  forever  out  of  gear. 
Topic  on   which   men  endlessly  dilate, 
Lawless  the  motor  dashes  through  the  land, 
Scattering  confusion,  raising  clouds  of  dust, 
Annihilating   distance,    killing   time. 
Its  riders,  like  the  highwaymen  of  old. 
All  masked  and  hooded,  fearfully  disguised. 
To  humble  wayfarers  a  source  of  dread; 
A  gaudy  plaything,  painted  and  veneered. 
Pastime  to  some,  but  useless  to  mankind. 

TO-MOBBOW. 

Flaunted    by    Fashion,    carelessly    cast    out 
To  join  the  rusty  forms  of  once-loved  bikes, 
Plaything  no  more,  its  day  of  work  has  come. 
Swiftly  this  erstwhile  toy  of  idle  men 
At  ordered  hours  along  an  ordered  road 
Bears  city  toilers  to  and  from  their  work; 
Out  from  the  airless  streets,  the  dirt,  the  noise, 
Into  the  sunlight  of  their  own  green  land; 
Solving   the   problem   of   the   crowded   town, 
Giving  to  England's  country  back  her  sons. 
Useful  to  all,  a  blessing  to  mankind. 

— Eva    Anstruther    in    W 'estminster    Gazette. 

Pyrotechnic  Seven  Ages  of  Man. 
All  the  world's  a  Fourth  of  Jul}', 
And  all  the  men  and  women  are  but  fireworks. 
They    have   their    fizzles   and   explosions. 
And   one   man    in   his   time  sees   many   stars. 
At   first   the  infant,   with   firecracker. 
That    burns     the     house     and     frightens     all     the 

women. 
Then  comes  the  pistol,  when  the  boyish  fiend 
Shoots    out   the   jackstones,    marbles,    junk,    and 

nails; 
Dislodges   fingers;   puts  out  people's  eyes. 
And  maims  for  life  a  great  part  of  his  friends. 
Then  comes  the  lover,  with  his  pulling  crackers. 
His  mild  torpedoes  for  the  frightened  girls; 
And  thus  he  plays  his  part. 
Then    comes     the    justice,     with     his    pouch    and 

gun, 
Who  tramps  afield  to  shoot  one  little  bird. 
And  then  the  soldier,  with  his  rifled  cannon. 
His    howitzer,    petard,    and   bomb ; 
His  Remington  and  Enfield,  shot  and  shell, 
And    all    the    dread    accoutrements    of    war. 
And   last  of   all,    that   ends   this   pyrotechnic   his- 
tory, 
Comes  second  childhood's  exhibition — 
Its  Roman  candles,    floods  of  colored  light; 
Its    pin- wheels    scattering    fiery    spray; 
Its  bengal  lights  emitting  fiery  sheen, 
Yet  dim   and  shadowy   to  his   fading  sight. 
Then   disappears   he   in   the  realms   of  space. 
Like   some   great   rocket   gone  up   to   the   sky 
With   dazzling  train  of  many-colored  fire. 
His  mind,  his  heart,  his  thoughts,   bis  soul,  are 

gone; 
His  body  useless  as  a  rocket-stick. — Ex. 


Moore's  Poison-Oak  Eemedy 
cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


Joaquin  Miller's  Picturesque  Speech. 
According  to  Edward  J.  Livernash.  Joaquin 
Miller,  the  "  poet  of  the  Sierras,"  is  a  man 
of  exceptionally  forceful  and  picturesque 
speech,  even  in  ordinary  conversation.  His 
remarkable  capacity  for  marshaling  startling 
expletives  was  never  more  tryingly  tested 
than  during  his  trip  to  the  Klondike  with 
Mr.  Livernash.  who  says:  '"All  the  mem- 
bers of  our  party  were  fond  of  coffee,  and 
when  one  day  the  strainer  was  missing,  in- 
stead of  undertaking  a  twenty-mile  trip  over 
ice  and  snow  to  the  nearest  store  where  a 
coffee  strainer  could  be  bought.  I  took  a  new 
tin  cup  and  riddled  the  bottom  of  it  with 
the  point  of  an  awl.  This  served,  or  would 
have  served,  the  purpose  admirably,  but  for  a 
serio-tragic  accident.  Our  whole  supply  of 
liquor  was  reduced  to  about  a  gilt  of  wine.  By 
common  consent  this  was  set  apart  as  the 
poet's,  who,  as  the  oldest  member  of  the 
party  and  the  most  renowned,  was  to  have 
first  consideration.  Mr.  Miller  appreciated 
the  honor,  but  determined  that  so  precious  a 
draught  should  not  be  quaffed  until  a  fitting 
occasion  warranted  it. 

"  One  evening — it  chanced  to  be  the  same 
day  that  I  had,  unknown  to  ray  comrades. 
improvised  the  coffee  strainer — there  rode  up 
to  our  door  a  young  and  strikingly  hand- 
some woman  mounted  on  a  good  horse.  She 
afterward  gained  fame  and  fortune  as  a 
mining  woman,  but  at  this  time  was  a  com- 
parative stranger  to  us.  The  poet  was  visibly 
impressed.  The  background  of  ice  and  snow, 
the  setting  sun,  the  lone  and  radiant  horse- 
woman, flushed  by  her  ride,  all  stimulated 
his  chivalry  and  his  love  of  the  beautiful  and 
unique.  *  This  is  the  time,  if  ever,  for  the 
drinking  of  that  last  drop  of  wine,"  said  he  ; 
'  here,  in  the  ends  of  the  earth,  with  the  sun 
leaving  us  to  the  darkness  of  an  illimitable 
desolation,  a  woman  appears  to  remind  us 
that  there  is  hope,  life,  and  beauty  in  the 
world.  Madam,'  continued  the  poet,  with 
vast  dignity,  holding  in  one  hand  the  luckless 
tin  cup  that  I  had  punctured  and  in  the 
other  the  bottle  with  its  final  contents,  '  I  pour 
a  libation  and  I  drink  to  your  health  and 
happiness.* 

"  So  saying,  he  upturned  the  bottle,  looking 
away  from  the  horsewoman  just  long  enough 
to  make  certain  that  there  was  no  slip  be- 
tween the  bottle  and  the  cup.  Then,  as  the 
wine  began  to  flow,  he  turned  his  eyes  again 
to  the  young  lady,  and,  while  the  precious 
beverage  trickled  through  the  punctured  tin 
cup  to  the  porous  tundra,  the  '  poet  of  the 
Sierras,'  all  unconscious  of  his  loss,  gave  ut- 
terance to  an  eloquent  apostrophe,  which  in- 
cluded in  its  picturesque  rhetoric  the  charms 
of  woman,  the  glories  of  nature,  and  the  po- 
tency of  wine.  At  the  climax  he  raised  the 
cup  to  his  lips  and  tipped  back  his  head. 
The  strainer  was,  of  course,  absolutely  empty. 
The  poet  gazed  at  the  perforated  bottom,  and 
then,  as  the  truth  of  the  catastrophe  flashed 
upon  him,  he  forgot  all  about  the  feminine 
charms  and  natural  scenery,  and  broke  forth 
into  a  volume  of  objurgation  startling  even 
to  men  accustomed  to  the  strenuous 
vocabulary  of  the  frontier.  It  was  not  pro- 
fanity, but  rather  a  poem  of  passion.  As  it 
was  not  recoraed,  a  masterpiece  of  invective 
was  lost  to  the  world.  At  the  first  volley 
of  the  poet's  ricochetting  adjectives  the  young 
woman  fled." 


The  beginning  of  Window  Happi- 
ness Is  a  itiado  roller  that  Is  obedi- 
ent and  faithful — one  that  Is  guar- 
anteed notto  give  trouble. 

THAT   ONE  13  THE   GEN"GT>*E 


AMERICAN   LINE 

>"e  w  York  — Southampton  — London. 

New  York  — July  S.  10  am  I  St.  Paul July  22.  10  am 

Philadelphia  July  15, 10 am  |  New  York..  Augusts.  10 am 
Philadelphia — (Jueenatown-  Liverpool. 

Haverford July  11  j  Friesland July  25 

Xoordland July  tS  |  Westemland August  1 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  UNE 

NEW   YORK— LONDON  DIRECT. 
Minn'haha.July  n.  630am  I  Minnelonka.-July  25,6am 

Mesaba July  iS,  9  am  |  Min'apolis. Aug.  1, 11.30  am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE 

Boston— Oaeenstoivn— Liverpool. 

New  England July  9  I  New  England August  6 

Mayflower  •  new  i..  .July  16     Mayflower August  13 

Commonwealth July  jh  \  Columbus August  20 

Montreal  — Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada July  iS  I  Dominion August  1 

Kensington July  25  |  Southwark August  8 

Boston    Mediterranean    service 

Azores,  Gibraltar,  Naples,  Genoa. 

Vancouver Saturday.  July  18,  Aug.  29,  Oct.  10 

Cambroman Saturday,  Aug.  S,  Sept.  19 

HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE 

New  Twin-Screw  Steamers  of  12,500  tons. 
New  York  — Rotterdam,  via  Boulogne- 
Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Ryndam   .    JulySj  Rotterdam   July  29 

Noordam Joly  15  1  Potsdam   August  5 

RED  STAR  LINE 

New  York— Antwerp — Pari-. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Zeeland July  II  I  Vaderlaad July  25 

Finland July  iS  |  Kroonland August  1 

WHITE  STAR  LINE 

New  Y'ork— yueenstown— Liverpool. 

Teutonic July  S,  noon  I  Cedric July  17, 10.30am 

Arabic  July  10,  6  am  I  Victorian July  21, 6am 

Germanic July  15,  noon  |  Majestic July  22,  noon 

C.  D.  TAYLOR.    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  ior 
Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric  Thursday,   July  23 

Coptic  (Calling  at  Manila;..  Tuesday,  August  18 

Gaelic Friday.  September  11 

Doric Wednesday,  October  7 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

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TOYO 

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KAISHA 

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IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 

U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  11.  lor  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Hongkong  Maru Tuesday,  July  7 

Nippon  Mara Friday,  July  31 

America  Mara Wednesday.  August  26 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  applv  at  company's  office, 
421  Market  Street.  corner'Firat. 

W.   H.  AVERY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  [  Soooma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura.  6200  tons 

S.   S.    Alameda,    for    Honolulu    only,   July  4.    1903, 

at  11 A.  si. 
S.  S.  Mariposa,  tor  Tahiti,  July  to,  1903,  at  ti  a.  m. 
S.  S    Sonoma,  for  Honolulu.  Pago  Pago,  Auckland, 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  July  16,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 
J.  D.  SpreckeU  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts..  643  Market 
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SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Laughton  announces  the 
engagement  of  her  daughter,  Miss  Evelyn 
Laughton,  to  Mr.  Gerard  Morris  Barretto, 
Jr.,  of  Larchmont,  N.  Y.  The  wedding  will 
take  place  in  September. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Helen 
Richardson,  daughter  of  Mrs.  William  A. 
Richardson,  and  Dr.  Edward  S.  Grigsby,  who 
is  at  present  in  Nome. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Viola  Piercy  and 
Mr.  William  Wesley  Burnett  took  place  at 
the  residence  of  the  bride's  grandmother, 
Mrs.  C.  U.  Dunphy,  on  Washington  Street. 
on  Wednesday  afternoon.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  five  o'clock  by  Rev.  Father 
Cottle,  of  St.  Brigid's  Church.  The  wedding 
was  a  quiet  affair,  only  relatives  and  a  few 
intimate  friends  being  present. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Adelaide  Upson,  of 
Sacramento,  and  Mr.  William  Ross  Ormsby 
took  place  on  Friday  afternoon,  June  27th.  at 
the  home  of  the  bride's  aunt,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Belden,  in  Ross  Valley.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  four  o'clock  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Eldredge,  of  St.  John's  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  San  Francisco,  in  the  presence  of  relatives 
and  intimate  friends  only.  Miss  M  arion 
Upson,  a  sister  of  the  bride,  was  maid  of 
honor,  and  the  flower-girls  were  Miss  Lucy 
Hanchett  and  Miss  Alice  Kanchett,  nieces 
of  the  bride.  Mr.  W.  W.  Douglas,  of  Sacra- 
mento, was  the  best  man.  Upon  their  return 
from  a  wedding  journey  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ormsby  will  reside  at 
3300    Washington    Street,    in    this    city. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Lena  Towle  Brower. 
daughter  of  Mr.  Celsus  Brower,  and  Mr. 
George  W.  Whitaker  took  place  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  mother,  in  Bakersfield,  on 
Wednesday,  June  24th.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  Rev.  E.  R.  Fuller.  After  a 
wedding  journey  to  the  Yosemite,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Whitaker  will  reside  in  San  Francisco, 
at  the  corner  of  Van  Ness  Avenue  and  Vallejo 
Street 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Jessie  Galbraith, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Ellen  Galbraith.  and  Dr. 
Charles  Alfred  Morris  took  place  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  mother.  712  Castro  Street,  on 
Thursday  evening.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  eight  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  J.  P. 
Turner,  of  the  Mission  of  the  Good  Samaritan. 
The  bride  was  given  into  the  keeping  of  the 
groom  by  her  brother,  Mr.  Harvey  Galbraith. 
Miss  Alma  Galbraith  was  her  sister's  maid 
of  honor,  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  Fairchild,  of  Ala- 
meda, was  the  matron  of  honor.  Dr.  Crayton 
C.  Snyder  assisted  the  groom  as  best  man. 
After  a  wedding  journey  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia, Dr.  and  Mrs.  Morris  will  reside  in 
this  city. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Sadie  A.  Smith,  eldest 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  B.  Smith,  and 
Dr.  Harry  F.  Worley  took  place  in  the  First 
Methodist  Church,  of  Oakland,  on  Monday 
night.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at  eight 
o'clock  by  Rev.  E.  R.  Dille.  Miss  Minnie 
Smith,  the  bride's  sister,  was  the  maid  of 
honor,  and  Miss  Annie  Envick.  Miss  Violet 
Trower,  Miss  May  Etzy,  Miss  Myrtle  Smith, 
Miss  O.  E.  Baker,  and  Miss  Grace  Smith  were 
the  bridesmaids.  Mr.  O.  B.  Smith,  Jr..  a 
brother  of  the  bride,  was  the  best  man,  and 
Mr.  Guy  Fleming,  Mr.  Edgar  Thompson,  Mr. 
Frank  Norman,  Mr.  Hugul  Gorsuch,  and  Mr. 
Wilson  Wythe  acted  as  ushers.  The  church 
ceremony  was  followed  by  a  reception  at  the 
home  of  the  bride,  on  Twelfth  Street,  and  later 
in  the  day  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Worley  left  on  their 
wedding  journey.  On  their  return  they  will 
reside  in  Oakland. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Marion  Wellington 
Kirby,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  T. 
iCook,  and  Mr.  William  Hardy  Alexander  will 
take  place  at  St.  John  Episcopal  Church  on 
iMonday  evening  at  eight-fifteen  o'clock.  The 
.ceremony  will  be  performed  bv  Rev.  Martin 
IN.  Ray. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Beryl  Whitney,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  J.  Parker  Whitney,  and  Mr.  Thomas 
;H.  Graydon,  the  noted  Harvard  football 
player,  took  place  in  Boston  on  Tuesday 
.night. 

The  officers  of  the  Seventh  Infantry  gave 
an  informal  hop  on  Monday  evening  at  the 
Presidio  Club.  The  dance  was  given  partly 
;as  a  compliment  to  the  Seventeenth  for  the 
many  courtesies  extended  to  the  officers  of 
the  Seventh  while  stationed  at  Vancouver. 
■Among  others  present  were  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Arthur  Kerwin,  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Martin 
Crimmins,  Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Graham, 
Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Halsted,  Miss  Maus, 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  Woodruff,  Miss  Adah 
Howell,  Miss  Alma  McClung,  Miss  Gladys 
McClung,  Miss  Mariner.  Lieutenant  and  Mrs. 
Victor  Lewis,  Miss  Kathleen  Kent.  Miss  Ethel 
Kent,  Major  and  Mrs.  Ducat,  Miss  Bessie 
Cole,  Miss  Florence  Cole,  the  Misses  McCalla, 
Miss  Gertrude   Eells.   Miss  Amy  Porter,   Miss 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

"BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

T>  ere  is  no  substitute 


Harvey  Anthony,  Miss  Laura  Van  Wyck,  and 
Miss   Melita  Pease. 

Mrs.  Harry  Roosevelt,  who  has  recently 
returned  from  the  Philippines,, was  the  guest 
of  honor  at  an  informal  luncheon  given  by 
her  cousin,  Mrs.  I.  Lawrence  Pool.  Covers 
were   laid  for  ten. 

Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Somers 
gave  a  tea  and  card-party  at  the  Hotel  Rafael 
on  Tuesday,  at  which  they  entertained  Mrs. 
W.  E.  Dean,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker,  Mrs.  George 
D.  Toy,  Mrs.  H.  P.  Sonntag,  Mrs.  Peter  Mc- 
Bean,  Mrs.  Southard  Hoffman,  Mrs.  F.  H. 
Green,  Mrs.  Grant  Selfridge,  Mrs.  W.  L. 
Dean,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Anderson,  Mrs.  William 
Gwin,  Miss  Gwin,  Mrs.  Adam  Grant,  Mrs. 
Maurice  Casey,  and  Mrs.  A.  Stevens. 

Mrs.  Gerrit  Livingston  Lansing  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Lyman  Bent  will  give  a  card-party  on 
Tuesday  afternoon,  July  9th,  at  their  summer 
residence,  "  Fernside,"  at  Alameda,  in  honor 
of  Mrs.  Daggett  and  Mrs.  Gibbons. 

Sale  of  the  "Lurline." 

The  yacht  Lurline  recently  went  on  a 
cruise  in  southern  waters.  As  already  men- 
tioned in  the  Argonaut,  when  she  attempted 
to  land  at  Catalina  Island  she  was  not  pro- 
vided with  a  ticket.  Apparently,  at  this  hos- 
pitable watering-place,  it  is  necessary  to  have 
a  coupon,  a  birth  certificate,  a  passport,  and 
a  certificate  of  naturalization  before  a  yacht 
can  land.  As  a  result,  Commodore  Spreckels 
and  his  guests  departed  without  having  set 
foot  on  Catalina  Island.  After  they  were 
gone,  the  people  who  run  this  hospitable  water- 
ing-place realized  their  error,  and  tried  to 
bring  them  back,  but  it  was  no  go. 

While  south,  Commodore  Spreckels  con- 
cluded to  sell  his  fine  schooner  yacht.  It  is  to 
be  hoped  that  the  Catalina  Island  reception 
was  not  the  impelling  cause.  But  that  is  not 
probable.  It  is  said  that  the  commodore  in- 
tends to  build  a  larger  and  finer  yacht  than 
the  Lurline.  She  has  been  purchased  by  a 
Southern  California  yachtsman.  She  is  one 
of  the  historic  boats  of  San  Francisco,  and 
her  disappearance  will  be  felt  with  keen  regret 
by  many  yachtsmen  here. 


The  Bohemian  Club's  Midsummer  Jinks. 

The  midsummer  high  jinks  of  the  Bohemian 
Club  will  be  held  Saturday,  August  8th,  at  the 
club's  grove,  near  Guerneville.  The  excursion 
of  club  members  will  leave  by  Tiburon  Ferry 
at  11  a.  m.,  arriving  at  the  grove  about  2  p.  m., 
on  special  train.  The  late  train  will  reach 
the  grove  about  6  130  p.  M.  The  club's  special 
train  will  leave  the  grove,  as  usual,  on  Sunday, 
August  9th,  at  2  p.  m.,  arriving  in  San  Fran- 
cisco at  6  p.  m.  Dinner  will  be  served  at  the 
club  upon  the  arrival  of  the  members.  The 
price  of  the  ticket  is  ten   dollars. 

The  camp  will  be  open  for  members  on  and 
after  Thursday,  July  30th,  and  the  club  will 
make  no  provision  for  boarding  members  after 
2  p.  m.  of  Thursday,  August  13th.  The  charge 
for  subsistence  will  be  two  dollars  per  day. 
Tents  will  be  provided  by  the  club  for  the  use 
of  members  on  and  after  July  30th. 

Army  and  Navy  News. 
The   latest  personal  notes   relative   to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Commodore  William  W.  Kimball,  U.  S.  N„ 
of  the  United  States  steamship  Alert,  at  pres- 
ent stationed  in  Monterey  Bay,  is  staying  at 
the  Hotel   Del  Monte  with  Mrs.   Kimball. 

Major  William  L.  Kneedler,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
has  been  on  temporary  duty  as  surgeon  at 
Camp  Monterey,  has  returned  to  his  station 
at   San   Diego   Barracks. 

Captain  Richard  Clover,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
Mrs.  Clover  arrived  from  Washington,  D.  C, 
early  in  the  week,  and  are  at  the  Palace 
Hotel.  Mrs.  Clover  in  a  few  days  will  leave 
for  her  country  place,  "  Lavigne,"  in  Napa 
County,  where  she  will  spend  a  portion  of  the 
summer  months. 

Captain  Benjamin  C.  Morse,  Seventeenth 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  who  sailed  on  the  Sherman 
a  few  days  ago,  is  well  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. He  was  an  aid  on  General  Shafter's 
staff,  and  was  afterward  assistant  adjutant- 
general. 

Colonel  John  B.  Kerr,  Twelfth  Cavalry, 
U.  S.  A.,  Lieutenant-Colonels  William  A. 
Simpson  and  Henry  P.  McCain,  of  the  ad- 
jutant-general's department,  U.  S.  A.,  Major 
William  A.  Mann,  Fourteenth  Infantry,  U. 
S.  A.,  Captain  William  W.  Gibson,  of  the 
ordnance  department,  U.  S.  A.,  Captain  Will- 
iam C.  Rivers,  Fifth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Captain  Robert  E.  L.  Michie,  Twelfth  Cavalry, 
LT.  S.  A.,  were  among  the  officers  of  the 
general  staff  who  were  ordered  to  Manila 
on  the  transport  Thomas,  which  sailed  on 
Wednesday. 

Major  Arthur  C.  Ducat,  Seventh  Infantry, 
U.  S.  A.,  will  leave  in  a  few  days  for  Willits, 
where  he  will  inspect  the  National  Guardsmen, 
who  will   encamp  there. 

Commander  Chauncey  Thomas,  U.  S.  N., 
and  Mrs.  Thomas  were  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of   Tamalpais   last   week. 

Major  Allie  W.  Williams,  U.  S.  A.,  post 
surgeon  at  the  Presidio,  who  went  to  Wash- 
ington with  the  Nineteenth  Infantry,  has 
returned  to  his  post. 

Lieutenant  E.  L.  Holland  Rubottom,  Ninth 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  is  in  the  city  on  a  leave 
of  absence  from  Wawona. 


The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Earl  Brownell  in 
Baltimore,  Ind.,  has  been  brightened  by  the 
advent  of  a  daughter. 


—  The  largest  variety  of  paper-covered 
novels  for  summer  reading  can  be  found  at  Cooper's 
Book  Store,  746  Market  Street. 


Liebold  Harness  Company, 
If  you  want  an  up-to-date  harness,  at  a  reasonable 
price,  call  at  211   Larkin   Street.     We  have   every- 
thing for  the  horse  and  stable. 


"Wills  and  Successions. 
The    following    notes    concerning    the    more 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the    local    courts    during    the    week    will    be 
found  of  interest : 

The  question  of  the  guardianship  of  the 
person  and  estate  of  Peter  J.  Donahue  came 
up  for  hearing  in  the  superior  court  early  in 
the  week,  and  Judge  Sloss  continued  the  case 
for  a  week.  Peter  Donahue  is  declared  by 
his  relatives  to  be  suffering  from  impaired 
mental  faculties.  Baroness  von  Schroeder, 
cousin  of  the  demented  capitalist,  has  been 
identified  for  some  months  past  with  an  effort 
to  have  the  estate  of  Peter  Donahue  placed  in 
charge  of  a  guardian.  Following  her  return 
from  Europe  in  March  last,  she  applied  for 
letters  of  guardianship  over  the  person  and 
estate  of  Donahue,  and  the  matter  has  been 
pending  in  the  local  courts  ever  since.  The 
London  courts,  at  the  instigation  of  Richard 
Burke,  appointed  Cardinal  Vaughan  the  guard- 
ian of  Donahue's  person  last  year,  but  the 
recent  death  of  the  noted  prelate  leaves  the 
demented  capitalist  without  a  guardian. 
Donahue's  estate  is  said  to  be  worth  in  the 
neighborhood  of  $1,500,000,  and  is  largely  sit- 
uated in  this  city.  In  includes  a  one-fourth 
interest  in  the  Occidental  Hotel,  a  half- 
interest  in  the  Cosmopolitan  Hotel  (Fifth  and 
Mission  Streets),  several  lots  on  Mission  and 
Fremont  Streets,  and  in  other  parts  of  the 
city,  and  the  ranch,  "  Laurelwood "  in  Santa 
Clara  County.  He  has  also  large  interests  in 
the  San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  Company. 

The  taking  of  depositions  here  for  use  in 
the  trial  of  the  Hopper-Dunsmuir  will  contest 
at  Victoria,  B.  C,  closed  last  Saturday  at  the 
British  consulate.  The  testimony  in  behalf 
of  Edna  Wallace  Hopper,  who  is  attempting 
to  break  the  will  of  her  stepfather,  Alexander 
Dunsinuir,  and  recover  nearly  $1,000,000 
which  he  left  to  his  brother,  James  Dunsmuir, 
the  ex-premier  of  British  Columbia,  has  been 
of  a  most  unusual  character.  According  to 
the  witnesses,  the  millionaire,  during  the  lat- 
ter part  of  his  life,  suffered  greatly  from 
alcoholic  excesses.  The  trial  at  Victoria  will 
open  July  7th,  and  is  expected  to  develop  many 
sensational  features.  In  addition  to  the  large 
amount  of  testimony  taken  here  and  in  New 
York,  which  will  require  a  week  to  read  to 
the  jury,  the  attorneys  on  each  side  are  plan- 
ning to  call  many  new  witnesses. 

The  will  of  the  late  Samuel  Foster,  who 
died  on  June  15th,  has  been  filed  for  probate. 
His  estate  is  estimated  to  be  worth  $50,000, 
of  which  $36,000  is  separate  property.  He  dis- 
poses of  it  as  follows :  To  his  widow,  Mary  A. 
Foster,  one-half  of  the  community  property 
and  one-third  of  the  separate  property ;  to 
Lyman  D.  Foster,  his  son,  $10,000,  and  the 
residue  of  the  separate  estate  after  taking 
therefrom  the  deceased's  quarter  interest  in 
the  M as sachu setts  estate  of  his  father,  which 
he  bequeaths  to  his  two  nieces,  Mary  L.  Elder 
and  Martha  F.  Jacques,  share  and  share  alike. 

Mrs.  John  F.  Swift  has  applied  for  letters 
of  administration  upon  the  estates  of  Palmer 
Woods,  William  Woods,  Daphne  Woods,  and 
Margaret  Vroom.  The  people  whose  estates 
she  wishes  to  control  were  nephews  and  a 
niece  of  the  petitioner  and  the  heirs  of  their 
uncle.  Joseph  Woods,  whose  $273,000  estate 
caused  considerable  litigation  in  Judge 
Troutt's  court  several  years  ago.  The  three 
nephews  all  enlisted  in  the  army  of  their 
country,  and  fought  valiantly  in  the  Spanish- 
American  war  till  death  overtook  the  first  two 
at  Santiago,  and  the  latter  fell  at  Manila 
shortly  afterward.  Less  than  a  year  later 
Miss  Vroom  died.  Each  of  them  possessed 
property  worth  but  $100. 


Pears' 

Pretty  boxt-s  and  odors 
are  u^ed  lo  sell  such 
soaps,  as  no  one  would 
touch  if  he  saw  them  un- 
disguised. Beware  of  a 
soap  that  depends  on 
something   outside   of  it. 

Pears',  the  finest  soap 
in  the  world  is  scented  or 
not.  as  you  wish;  and  the 
money  is  in  the  merchan- 
dise, not  in  the  box. 

Established  over  :oo  years. 

G.  H.  MUMM  &  CO.'S 

EXTRA    DRY 

CHAHPAGNE 

Now  coming  to  this  market  is  of  the  remarkable  vintage  ol 
1898,  which  is  more  delicate,  breedy,  and  better  than  the 
1893  ;  it  is  especially  dry,  without  being  heavy,  and  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  finest  vintages  ever  Imported. 


P.  J.  VALCKENBER6,  "Worms  O/R,  Rhine 
and  Moselle  Wines. 

J.  CALVET  &  CO.,  Bordeaux,  Clarets,  and 
Burgundies. 

OTAED,  DUPETY  &  CO.,  Cognac,  Brandies. 

FRED'K  DE   BARY  &  CO.,  New  York, 

Sole  Agents  in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
E.  M.  GKEENWAT,   Pacific   Coast   Representative. 


RIDING     HORSE 

FOR    SAIjIE. 


—  Would  exchange  house  and  lot  (north 
east  corner),  56x150,  in  Alameda  for  house  and 
lot,  or  lot  and  cash,  in  San  Francisco.  Box  62, 
Argonaut  office. 


Bay  Gelding,  fifteen  hands  high,  cob  build,  young 
and  sound.  Good  for  riding  or  driving — is  a  fine 
tandem  leader.     Apply 

Vendome  Stables,  San  Jose. 

LA  GRANDE  LAUNDRY 

Telephone  Bush  12 
MAIN    OFFICE-23    POWELL   STREET 

Branches — 5a  Taylor  St,  and  200  Montgomery  Ave. 

202  Third  St.     1738  Market  St. 

Laundry  on  12th  Street,  between  Howard  and  Folsom, 

ORDINARY    MENDING,    etc.,    Free     of    charge. 

Work  called  for  and  delivered  free  of  charge. 


COMPILED  FROM  CUSTOMHOUSE  REPORTS 
By  S.  Y.  ALLAIRE  &  SON 

Imports  of  Champagne  into  the  United  States 

From    January    1st    to    June    1st 


1902 

Moet  &  Chandon 43,171 

("  White  Seal  "  and  "  Brut  Imperial  ") 

G.  H.  Munim  &  Co   49.249 

Ruinart.  Pere  &  Fils... 6,051 

Pommery  &  Greno " 11,301 

Vve  Clicquot 4.455 

Louis  Roederer 4.637 

Piper  Heidsieck 5-276 

Pol  Roger 1,863 

Dry  Monopole 2,500 

Due  de  Montebello 1,611 

P    Ruinart 

Perrier  Jouet 635 

Bouche 714 

Jules  Mumm  &  Co 394 

"Royal 

Ayala 389 

Reinghold -. 

Bollinger 

Various  other  Imports 7.375 

Grand  total 139,621 


1903 

Canes 

60,978 

54.900 

8.526 

6.310 

6.060 

4. "6 

3.209 

3507 

2,648 

2,407 

1.697 

1,000 

672 

669 

284 

200 

125 

100 

8,730 


165,688 


WILLIAM   WOLFF  &   CO. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  for  MOET  &  CHANDON  CHAMPAGNE 
216=218  Mission  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


July  6,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


15 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COL'RT 
into  which  tor  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven-  This  space  oi  over  a 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  ot  very-  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted intoaloungingroom.THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR— the  PALM 
ROOM,  iurnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  tor  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modem  im- 
provements, together  w-ith  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City— all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  oi  this  most  famous  hotel. 


TENNIS 

GOLF 

BOWLING 


ORCHESTRA 
COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  GO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  VENDOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


NEW  ANNEX 

NEW  LANAI 
NEW  DRIVES 


GEO.  P.  SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  frorn  San  Francisco.  Sixteen 
trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all  the 
year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

B.  V.  HALTOX,  Proprietor. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  alj  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  apd  nervous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments^ 
Rates  reasonable.     Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-ball 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
,  reau.  11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Ft.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O, 


Saratoga  Springs 

The  Ideal  Summer  Resort  of  California 

UNDER   NEW  MANAGEMENT 


15  Mineral  Springs 

—  FOR  — 

Rheumatism.  Gout,  Neuralgia,  Kidney, 
Liver,  Bright's  Disease,  Constipation, 
Bronchial  and  Lung  Trouble. 


Open  the  vear  round.  For  information  and  booklets 
call  at  PECK'S  EUREAU,  n  Montgomery  Street,  and 
CALIFORNIA  N.  W.  R.  R..  office  650  Market  Street; 
or  write  BARKER  &  CARPENTER,  Bachelor  P.  O.. 
Lake  County,  Cal. 

They  are  the  equal  of  the  world's  most  famous 
springs,  not  excepting  Carlsbad  and  the  Spa  of  Europe. 


BONESTELL,  RICHARDSON  &  CO. 


DEALERS 
IN 


PAPER 


OF  AIL 
KINDS. 


Jd°  w^pptriU  401=403  Sansome  St. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  D.  Grant  have  returned 
from  a  visit  to  Portland,  Or.,  and  have  gone 
to  their  Burlingame  villa  for  the  summer. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Green  have  re- 
turned to  San  Francisco  after  a  trip  of  some 
six  months  abroad. 

Mr.  J.  M.  Quay  has  left  for  Lake  Tahoe, 
where  he  will  spend  several  weeks  as  the 
guest  of  Dr.  and  .Mrs.  Brigham. 

Mrs.  Hermann  Oelrichs  was  in  London  when 
last  heard  from. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Crockett  has  leased  her  resi- 
dence, at  2029  California  Street,  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  \V.  S.  Porter  for  several  years. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Winthrop  E.  Lester  are  so- 
journing at  Santa  Monica. 

Mrs.  Leland  Stanford  is  making  a  short 
stay  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose,  before 
leaving  for  Del  Monte,  where  she  will  spend 
a  month. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Downey  Harvey  are  in  Xew 
York  after  a  visit  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  D. 
Martin  at  Newport.  They  will  sail  soon  for 
Europe,  accompanied  by  Miss  Harvey,  who 
has  been  in  school. 

Mrs.  John  A.  Darling  will  make  a  visit 
to  Monterey  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Ernest 
la   Montagne,   during  the  month   of  July. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Newhall  sailed 
from  Xew  York  for  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  William  Thomas  has  departed  for 
Alaska.  He  will  make  the  trip  up  the  Yukon, 
and  will  be  absent  a  month. 

Miss  Sallie  Maynard  is  the  guest  of  Miss 
Jennie  Flood  at  Del  Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Glass  have  returned 
from  their  visit  to  the  Orient. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  L.  Hill  will  spend 
the  summer  on  the  McCloud  River,  where  their 
son,  who  has  recently  returned  from  school 
in  the  East,  will  visit  them. 

Mrs.  Gardiner  Shaw,  after  a  visit  to  the 
Yosemite  Valley,  is  visiting  Mrs.  Burns  Mac- 
Donald  at  Blithedale. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Seaman,  Mrs.  Charles 
Seaman,  Mrs.  E.  E.  Harris,  and  Miss  Clara 
Huntington  left  Xew  York  for  California  last 
week.  They  will  spend  two  months  on  the 
Pacific  Coast. 

Miss  Bernie  Drown  lias  been  spending  a  few 
days  at  Del  Monte. 

Mrs.  I.  Lawrence  Poole,  who  is  staying  with 
friends  at  Napa,  will  visit  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Harry-  Babcock  at  Lake  Tahoe  next  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edwin  Schmieden  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Albert  Dibble,  of  Ross  Valley,  are 
sojourning  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  W.  E.  Hopkins  were  in  Baden- 
Baden,  Germany,  when  last  heard  from. 

Miss  Josephine  Loughborough  will  be  the 
guest  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  B.  de  Latour 
during  the  Fourth  of  July  holidays. 

Mrs.  Edward  Moore  Robinson  has  returned 
from  Europe,  and  with  Mr.  Robinson  has  gone 
to  Newport  for  the  season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Buckbee  are  guests 
at  Del  Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Taylor  Bien,  who  have 
been  in  Paris  since  their  marriage,  a  year  and 
a  half  ago,  are  spending  the  summer  at  "  The 
Terrace,"  Oconomowoc,  Wis.,  the  country  place 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ferdinand  Peck,  of  Chicago. 

Lady  Bache  Cunard  arrived  in  New  York 
from  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  Frank  Baden-Powell,  a  brother  of 
General  Baden-Powell,  of  England,  arrived 
from  the  Orient  early  in  the  week,  and  is  a 
guest  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.  Bowie-Detrick  has  been  visiting  friends 
at  San  Rafael  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  W.  I.  Elkins,  Jr.,  and  family,  of 
Philadelphia,  were  guests  at  the  Palace  Hotel 
during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Conrad  von  Gerichten  (nee 
Wicke)  are  at  present  on  their  wedding 
journey  in  Europe.  Mr.  Yon  Gerichten  is 
well  known  in  San  Francisco  as  a  musical 
composer  and  prominent  member  of  the  Bo- 
hemian Club. 

Miss  Florence  X'ightingale  and  Miss  May 
Burdge  have  returned  from  an  extended  Eu- 
ropean trip,  and  are  guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
F.   Marion  Smith  at  Shelter  Island. 

Mrs.  Kirk  Munroe,  wife  of  the  well-known 
author,  is  visiting  San  Francisco.  She  came 
here  early  in  the  week  to  meet  her  husband. 
who  is  due  to  arrive  from  the  Orient  on  the 
steamer  Peking  on  July  4th. 

Mrs.  Charles  Keeney  has  departed  for  New 
York,  where  she  will  visit  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Theodore    E.    Tomlinson,    for   a    few    months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  Murphy  (nee  Hop- 
kins)   have  been  sojourning  at   Del   Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  J.  Landers  are  oc- 
cupying their  country  place,  "  The  Gables," 
at  San  Leandro. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  N.  Drown  are  at  the  Hotel 
Vendome,   San  Jose. 

Mrs.  Charles  Minor  Goodall  is  spending 
the  month  of  July  at  Catalina  Island. 

Mr.  Frederick  A.  Greenwood  was  at  Del 
Monte  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Augustus  B.  Costigan  have 
returned  from  their  visit  to  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

Mr.  James  D.  Phelan  spent  a  few  days  in 
San  Jose  during  the  week. 

Miss  Chrissie  Taft  is  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Henry  Butters  at  her  country  place.  "  Con- 
stantia." 

The  Princess  Poniatowski  is  spending  a  few 
weeks    at    Lake    Tahoe. 

Mrs.  Ives  and  Miss  Florence  Ives  have 
taken  a  cottage  at  San  Jose  for  the  summer 
months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willard  Drown  will  spend 
a  portion  of  the  summer  at  the  country  home 
of   Colonel    and    Mrs.    Edgar   F.    Preston. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas  Watson  are  guests 
at  the  Hotel  del  Monte. 

Mrs.  George  M.  Pinckard  and  her  son.  Mr. 
Eyre  Pinckard,  have  returned  from  the 
East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  O'Neil  Reis,  who  have 
been  traveling  in  the  Orient  for  some  months, 
have  returned  to  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  Alexander  Center  and  Miss   Elizabeth 


Center  expect  to  sail  for  Japan" in  September. 
They  intend  to  spend  the  greater  part  of  a 
year  traveling  in  the  Orient  and  in  Europe. 

Mrs.  Theodore  Blakeman  and  Miss  Leontine 
Blakeman  will  spend  the  month  of  July  at 
Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  E.  DeRuyter  will  spend 
a  portion  of  the  summer  at  the  Van  Ness 
ranch  in   Napa  Valley. 

Mr.   Knox  Maddox  will  pass  the  Fourth  of  1 
July  at   Lake   Tahoe,   remaining  there   during 
the    month    of   July. 

Miss  Gertrude  Van  Wyck  is  visiting  friends  ' 
in  San  Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Mcintosh  have  re- 
turned from  their  visit  to  New  York,  and  are 
at  their  cottage  in  San  Mateo. 

Mr.  Edward  McAfee  expects  soon  to  spend 
several  weeks  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  Charles  N.  Felton  arrived  from  the 
East    last    Monday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Y.  Callaghan  are  in 
the  Yosemite  Valley.  Their  little  son  is  with 
Mrs.   Van   Wyck,   Mrs.   Callaghan's   mother. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Lippman,  Mr. 
James  P.  Sweeney,  Mr.  E.  H.  Kinnev,  Mr. 
P.  Georse  Gow,  Mr.  F.  A.  Hyde,  Mr.  T.  Hovt 
Toler,  Mr.  C.  Howe.  Mr.  W.  Billar,  Mr.  R. 
D.  Purdy,  and  Mr.  Melvin  G.  Jeffress. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mrs.  D.  C.  Randolph,  of 
Xew  York,  Mr.  M.  Gay  Pearse,  of  London. 
Mr.  O.  M.  Hopkins  and  Mr.  A.  Harrison,  of 
Chicago.  Mr.  F.  W.  Braddock,  of  Wash':  2 
D.  C.  Mr.  S.  B.  Chase,  of  Xew  Orleans.  Mr. 
J.  M.  Hetrick,  of  Carson,  Mr.  George  Coleman, 
of  Montreal.  Miss  L.  L.  McDonald.  Miss 
Blyr-he  McDonald,  Mr.  D.  L.  McDonald.  Mr. 
James  A.  Simms.  Mr.  D.  L.  McFarland,  Mr. 
A.  Lincoln  Cooks,  Mr.  W.  E.  Baker,  and  Dr. 
H.  W.  Brayton,  Jr. 

If  you  want  to  escape  the  noise  and  bustle 
of  the  city  on  the  Fourth  of  July,  take  a  trip 
on  the  Scenic  Railway  to  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais,  where  perfect  peace  and  quiet  can 
be  found,  and  where  the  accommodations  are 
excellent  and  the  panoramic  view  of  the 
country  is  unsurpassed. 


CAMP 


ORDERS 
COMPLETE 


SMITHS'  GASH  STORE,  Inc. 


Depart  ments. 


—  Correct,  natty,  are  the  Ladies'  shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  "Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco- 


Ton  Will  Find 
none  but  high-class  jewelry  and  silverware  in  the 
store  of  H.  Hirschman.  712  Market  and  25   Geary 
Streets.  Mutual  Savings  Bank  Building. 


—  A  WELL-BROKEN"  RIDING  HORSE  FOR  SALE  AT 
the  Vendome  Stables,  San  Jos6.  Price  reasonable. 
Bay  gelding  fifteen  hands  high  ;  has  been  driven  in 
the  lead  in  tandem  and  four  in  hand  ;  is  young  and 
sound. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  m  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLI.NS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAM    FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Europe 

30  select  tours,$245  to  $1,000, in- 
cluding all  traveling  expenses. 
The  full  story  is  told  in  our  pam- 
phlets.  A  postal  will  bringthem. 

Thos.   Cook   &  Son 

621  Market  St.,  S.  F. 


RUBBER 


LA  ZACUALPA 

Rubber  Plantation 

Company 
13MarketSt-,  S  F. 
AN  INVESTMENT  WORTH  INVESTIGATING 


MOUNT  TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 

Leave          Via  Saosalito  Ferry          Arrive 
San  Fran.        Foot  of  Market  St.        San  Fran. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 

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Sun- 
days. 

Week 

D:\v3. 

1:20  a. 
1:00  P. 
fcfflP. 

8:00  A. 

8:40  a. 
10:00  a. 
11:00  a. 

1:00  P. 

!:00  p. 

»:08  p. 

11:40*. 
12:40  P. 

1:40  P. 

3:40  p. 

5:00  P. 

E  S$  P. 

7:50  p. 

1:00a. 
!:40p. 
S:40  P. 
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TICIJT    )  626  Market  St..  rNorth  Sh  ire  Railroad* 
JtlAl   I  usd  Sausaltto  Ferry    Foot  Market  St 


HUNTER 
BALTIMORE    RYE 

Tones,  Strengthens,  Invigorates. 

Dividend  Notices. 

CALIFORNIA  SAFE  DEPOSIT  AND 
Trust  Company,  corner  California  and  Mont- 
gomery Streets. — For  the  six  months  ending  June  30, 
1903,  dividends  have  been  declared  on  deposits  in  the 
savings  department  oi  this  company,  as  follows :  On 
term  deposits  at  the  rate  ot  3  6-10  per  cent,  per  annum, 
and  on  ordinary  deposits  at  the  rate  oi  3  per  cent,  per 
annum,  free  oi  taxes,  and  payable  on  and  after 
Wednesday,  July  1,  1903,  Dividends  uncalled  tor  are 
added  to  the  principal  after  Julv  1,  1903. 

J.    DALZELL    BROWN.  Manager. 


r.    id,-' 


Montgomery-  Street. — The  Board  of  Directors  de- 
clared a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  June  30,  iao3,rat 
the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (sH)  per  cent.  Aer 
annum  on  all  deposits,  free  oi  taxes,  and  payah^eTon 
and  aiter  July  1,  1903.  Dividends  not  called  for  are 
added  to  and  bear  the  same  rate  oi  dividend  as  the 
principal  from  and  after  Julv  i,  1003.  f 

CYRUS  W.  CARMANV,  Cashier. 


OFFICE  OF  THE  HIBEKNIA  SAVINGS 
and  Loan  Society,  corner  Market,  McAllister,  and 
Jones  Streets,  San  Francisco.  June  26,  1903. — At  a  regu- 
lar meeting  oi  the  Board  of  Directors  oi  this  Society, 
held  this  day,  a  dividend  has  been  declared  at  the  rate 
oi  three  and  one-eighth  (3*5'  per  cent,  per  annum onall 
deposits  ior  the  six  months  ending  June  30.  1903,  iree 
irom  all  taxes,  and  pavabie  on  and  aiter  Julv  1,  1903. 
ROBERT  J.    TOBIN.   Secretary. 


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the  same  material  and  proportions,  the  one  bottled  and  aged  must  be  the  better.  For  sale  on 
the  Dining  and  Buffet  Cars  of  the  principal  railroads  of  the  U.  S..  and  all  druggists  and  dealers. 

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ALASKA- 
REFRIGERATORS 

Will  keep  provisions  longer 
and  use  less  ice  than  any 
other  refrigerator. 

SEND  FOR  CATALOGUE. 


W.  W.  MONTAGUE  &  CO. 

309-317   Market  Street 

SAN   FRANCISCO. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Mrs.  Chic — "  Your  sister  is  not  going  with 
you  to  Monterey?"  Miss  Au  Fait — "  No ! 
Papa  said  he  couldn't  afford  to  marry  off  both 
of  us  this  year." — Ex. 

Jealous:  "  Why  did  Gayboy's  handsome 
stenographer  leave  him  so  suddenly?"  "He 
says  she  found  a  number  of  letters  from  his 
wife  in  his  desk." — Town  Topics. 

Willie  on  literature:  "That,"  said  Willie, 
ay  he  launched  a  heavy  volume  at  his  little 
brother's  head,  "  is  the  coming  book.  It's 
bound  to  make  a  hit." — Columbia  Jester. 

"  You  could  call  him  a  captain  of  industry, 
couldn't  you?"  "  You  could,  but  you  wouldn't 
do  it  if  you  were  wise — at  least  not  to  his 
face.  He  thinks  he's  at  least  a  colonel  of  in- 
dustry."— Chicago  Evening  Post. 

A  roll  of  bills  stopped  a  bullet  which  struck 
a  Chicago  man  in  the  breast,  thus  saving  his 
life.  Yet  there  are  reckless  people  who  will 
go  right  ahead  day  after  day  without  a  roll 
of  bills  on  their  persons. — Kansas  City  Journal. 

He — "  Did  you  notice  that  woman  who  just 
passed?"  She — "  What,  the  one  with  the  dyed 
hair  and  false  teeth,  and  nasty  ready-made 
clothes  on,  all  tied  up  with  ribbons  and 
things?  No,  I  didn't  notice  her  particularly." 
— Punch. 

"  What  an  awful  Cinch  this  is,"  said  the 
executioneer,  as  he  slipped  the  noose  easily 
over  Major  Andre's  head.  The  condemned 
captive  smiled,  grimly.  As  the  trap  was  set, 
his  last  words  were:  "You  might  refrain 
from  springing  any  of  those  on  me.  I  fear  I 
can't  stand  for  many  more." — New  York  Sun. 


See  that  St^^dman  is  spelt  with  two  ees  when  you 
buy  Steedman's  Soothing  Powders.  Beware  of 
spurious  imitations. 


"Do  you  think  he  would  accept  a  bribe?" 
"  Certainly  not — if  any  one  was  looking." — 
Chicago  Evening  Post. 

—  Dr.  E.  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething. 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
leave     —    From  June  21,  1903.    - 


SAN  FRANC 

ARRIVE 


•ACIFIC 

(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 


8.30a 


8.30a 


9.00a 
10.00a 


700a  Benlcla,  Suiaun,  Elmlr*»nd  Bacrs- 

mento 7.26' 

7.00a  VacftTllle,  "WlnterB,  Ramsey. 7.25> 

7.30a  Martinez,    San     Ramon,    vallejo, 

Napa,  Callstoea,  Santa  Roaa 6  -25p 

7.30a  Nlles,  Lathrop.  Stockton ..      7.2Bf 

8.00a  Davis, Wood) and,  Entente  Landing. 
Harysvllle,  OroTllle,  (connects 
at  MaryBvllle  for  Grldley,  lilgga 

and  Cnlco) 7.55? 

800a  AtlantlcExpress—  Ogden  and  East.  10.26a 
8-OOa  Port  Costa,  Martinet,  Antloch,  By- 
ron,Tracy,Stockton,Sacramento. 
Los  Banos,    Mendota,    Hanford. 

Ylsalla,  Portervllle m4,25r 

8.00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Fresno,  Goshen 
Junction,    Hanford,     Ylsalla, 

Bakersfleld 5.25p 

8.30a  ShftBtn  Express— Davla.  Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Willows, 

tFruto,  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7.55p 

Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermorc,  Stock- 
ton,Ione,Sacrnmeuto,Placervllle, 

MaryBvllle.  Chlco,  Red  Bluff 4.26p 

Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  So- 

norn,  Tuolumne  and  AngelB 4-25p 

Martinez  aDd  "Way  Stations 6.65r 

...„_..  Vallejo 12.26p 

"10.00a  Crescent  City  Express,  Eastbonnd. 
—Port  Costa,  Byron,  Tracy,  La- 
throp, Stockton,  Merced,  Ray- 
mond, Freeno,  Hanford,  YlBalla, 
BakerBfleld,  Loa  AngeleB  and 
New  Orleans.  (Westbound  ar- 
rives as  Pacific  Coast  Express, 

via  Coast  Line) «1-30p 

10  00*.  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Clilcago 6.26P 

1200w  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Statlona.     3-25F 

tl  .00p  Sacramento  River  Steamers til  -OOP 

3.30p  Benlcla,      Wlntera,      Sacramento. 

Woodland,  WilliamB,  Colnaa.Wll- 

lowa.  Knights   Landing.  Marys- 

vllle,  Orovllle  and  way  stations..    10.55a 

3-70r  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..     7-66P 

4X0p  Martinez. Sau  Ram on.Vallejo. Napa, 

Callstoga.  Santn  Rosa 9. 25a 

4-OOp  Martinez. Tracy.Lathrop.Stockton.  10.25a 
400p  Nlles,  Llvermore.  Stockton,  Lodl..  4.25p 
4.30r  Hayward.  Nlles,  Irvlngton,  Ban  I    t8.55a 

Jose.  Llvermore f  i11.56A 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno,  Tulare, 
BakerBfleld,  Loa  Angeles;  con- 
nects at  Sangus  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara       8-65a 

5.00r  Port  Costa,  Tracy,   Stockton,  Los 

Banos 12.26p 

t6.30i'  NIleB,  Snn  Jose  Local 7.26a 

$.00r  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 10.25a 

6.00p  Oriental  Mall— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha.  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  (CarrleB  Pullman  Car  pas- 
sengers only  ont  of  San  Fran- 
cIbco.  Tourist  car  and  coach 
passengers  take  7.00  p.  m.  train 
to  Reno,  continuing  thence  In 
their  cars  6  p.m.  train  eastward.,  4-25p 
Westbound,  Sunset  Limited. — 
From  New  York,  Chicago,  New 
Orleans,  El  Paso,  Lob  Angeles, 
Fresno,  Berenda,  Raymond  (from 
Yosemlte),  Martinez.  Arrives. .  8.25a 
7-OOp  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa,  Martinez 

and  Way  Stations 11.25a 

1700p  Vallejo 7.55p 

7-00p  Port  (Josta,  Benlcln,  SnlBnn,  Davis, 
Sacramento,  Truckee,  Reno. 
Stops    at    all    stations    east  of 

Sacramento , 7-66a 

8-G5r  Oregon  &  California  Express — Sac- 
ramento,   Marysvllle,    Redding, 
Portland .  Puget  Sonnd  and  EaBt.     8-65a 
19.1  Ot    Hayward,  NIleB  and  Ban  Jose  (Snn- 

dayonly) ill.66-* 

11.26P  Port  Coata,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 

eemlte),  Fresno 12-25P 

Hanford.  Ylsalla,  Bakersfleld 6.25P 


COAST    LINE    (Harrow  nau«e). 

(Ft.iut  ul   Market  8treet  ) 

17.45a    Santa    Cruz    Excursion    (Sunday 

only ) ±B.1  Op 

8.16a  Newark.  Centervllle.  San  Joee, 
Felton,  Boulaer  Creek,  Santa 
Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6.26p 

i2.1  Bij  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Los  Qatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations   1055* 

4  16>  Newark,  Sao  Jose,  Loa  Oatos  and 
way  statloiiB  (on  Saturday  and 
6nnday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz,  connects  at  Felton  for 
Boulder  Creek,  Monday  only 
from  Santa  Cruz) 18.55a 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

Kruui  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foul  ot  Market  St.  (Sltp-ij 

— 17:15    9:00     11:00a.m.     1.00    3.00    6.16p.m 

Krom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  t6:00    $8:0"J 

13:05    10:00  a.m.       12  00    2.00    400  p.m. 

COAST    LINE     (Hroml  IJaime). 

(Third  and  Towuaeud  Streets.) 

6.10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations ..      7.30p 

i7  00a    Snu  .lofe  and  Way  Stations 6-30p 

'7  00a   NewAlmaden /"4.10p 

17  16a    Muuiercy  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur 

Finn  (Sunday  only) 

&  00  a  Coatt  Line  Limited— Stops  only  San 
JoFcGIlroj-.Holllster.FaJaro.Cas- 
trovllle.  Salinas.  San  Ardo.Pnso 
RobleB.  Santa  Margarita.  San  Luis 
Obispo,  (prtn  el  pal  statlona  lb  in  ic) 
Santn  Barbara,  and  Los  A  n- 
geles.  Connection  atCastr<  \llle 
to  and  from  Monterey  and  Pacific 
Grove  and  at  Tajaro  nortli  l.ound 
from  * "  =■  i i  it'  In  and  SantaCiuz. 
8.00a  6an  Jose.  TrcB  Plnos,  Capltola, 
San tn  Cruz. Pa.-lfii  Grove, Salinas, 
S»n  Luis   ObtPpo  and    Principal 

In  termed  late    Stations 

Westbound  unly.  Pacific  Coast  El- 
nrepH.— From  New  York, Chicago, 
New  Orleans.  El  Paso.  Los  An- 
geles, Sania  I'-nrbara.     ArrlveB.. 

10  30a  Son  Jose  and  Way  Stations ... 

11  30a   San  Jose.  Los  Gatos  and  Way  Sta- 

tions          „  ,,, 

o1.3Cp  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations x700p 

S:  C0p   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 59.40a 

13-tOPDel  Monte  ExpresB— Snnta  Clara. 
o  San  Jiee,  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Snnta  Crnz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points)  M2-15P 
fc3-30P  Burllnt-'fime,  Snn  Mnteo.  Redwood, 
MenloPaik.  Palo  Alto  Mayfield, 
Mountain  View,  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara.  San  Jose,  Gllroy  (connec- 
tion for  Bollleter,  Tres  Plnos), 
Pajaro  'connection  for  WatBon 
vllle,  Capltola  and  Santa  Cruz), 
Pacific  Grove  and  way  stations. 
Connects  at  Caatrovllle  for  Sa- 
linas  

o4-30p  San  Jose  nml  Way  Stations. 
't6.00r  Snn  Jose,   (via   Snnta  Clara)    Los 
GntciB,  Wrlghl  and  Principal  Way 

Stations 

'  i6.£Ci    Snn  Jote  and  Principal  Way  Stations  tiLOOA 

wl 6.16i    t-an  Mateo.Bereaford.Belmont.Snn 

Carlos,    Redwood,    Fnlr     Oaks. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto t6  46a 

6.30i    San  Joee  and  Wny  Stations...       .         G  36a 

o7-C0p   Sunset    Limited,  Em-tbound.— San 

Luis  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 

Angeles.  Dcmlng.  EI  Phbo.  New 

Orleans,  New  York.  (Westbound 

*«    „arilvcs  vli' SanJcfiqulnYnlley)  ..  uB-2Sm 

B.tCiPalo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10  16a 

nil. 30)  Millbrae,  Pnlo   Alto  and  Way  Sta- 
tlona    #>t         Tg  4gp 

t/11  30p  Millbrae,  Snn  Joee    and  Way  Sta- 
--  tIon6 J9.45P 


I8.30P 


1046p 


4.1  Op 


1.30p 
1.20P 

5.36p 


10.45a 
B.36a 


19.00a 


a  foi  morning,  p  lor  afternoon.  X  Saturday  and  Sunday  only,  g  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday, 
f  Sunday  excepted.  %  Sunday  only,  a  Saturday  only,  d  Connects  at  Goshen  Jc.  with  trains  for  Hanford, 
V'salir  ■  at  Fresno,  for  Visalia  via  Sanger,  e  Via  Coast  Line,  yTuesday  and  Friday,  m  Arrive  via  Niles. 
n  Dail>  except  Saturday,    -w  Via  San  Joaquin  Valley.    H  Stops  Santa  Clara  south  bound  only;  connects, 

;.'    Mmday,  for  all  points  Narrow  Gauge,    o  Does  not  stop  at  Valencia  Street. 

.   it- UNION  TRANSITU  COMPANY  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
■:p     ue,  Exchange  83.     Inquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and  other  information. 


GLEN 
GARRY 

Old  Highland 
Scotch 


FOR 


Bon  Vivants 


Tillmann  &  Bendel 

Purveyors  to  the 

Pacific  Slope  Trade 


OVR  STANDARDS 


Sperrys  Best  Family. 
Drifted.  Snow. 

Golden  Gate  Extra.. 


vS perry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tlburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK   DAYS — 7.30,  S.oo,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12,35,  2-3°. 

3.40,  5.XO,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.     Saturdays— Extra 

trip  at  1.30  p  m. 
SUNDAYS — 7.30,  8.00,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 

5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m; 
12.50,  -F2.0O,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,   7.35,  9.20,   11. 15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
fExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


1  7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m  S.oo  a  m 

S.oo  a  m  9.30  a  m 

2.30  p  m  2.30  p  m 

5.10  p  m  5-I0P  m 


7.30  a  m1  7.30  a  m 

8.00  a  m  S.oo  a  m 

2.30  p  m  9.30  a  m 

5.10  p  m  2.30  p  m 
510  P  »n 

7.30  a  m  7-3°  a  rn 

8  00  a  m!  8.00  a  m 

2  30  p  m,  2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a  r 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  1 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m  7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m  S.oo  a  m 
2.30pm    2.30pm 


S.oo  a  rn:  8.00  a  m 
5.10  p  nil  5.10  p  m 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa, 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. . 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 
days, 


7.45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 


7-45  a  m 
10.20  a 
6.20  p 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  ™ 


7.25  a  1 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  pm 
8.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 


10,20  a  m 
7.25  pm 


Week 
Days. 


7.45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
io.20  a  m 
6. 20  p  m 

7.25  P  m 


7.45  a  m 
10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 


10,20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 


7.25  P  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood  ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville.  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal;  at  Wilhts  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WA^ 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  Sai|  Fn 
cisco,  as  follows : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:   I 
Stockton    lii.'o  a  m,    Fresno    2.40    p 
Bakersfleld  7  J5  p  m.     Stops  at  all  poi 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.      Correspond 
train  arrives  S.55  am.         (     , 
A    M— f'THE     CALIFORNIA     L 
ITED  "  :  Due  Stockton  12.0*  p  m,  '  re 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfleld  6.00  4}  m,   I    in 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago     I 
day)    2.15    p    m.      Palace    sleepe' 
dining  -  car    through     to    Chicago, 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  .  r, 
Corresponding  train  arrives  {11.10  p  n 

A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Dut  St< 
ton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bak 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in 
Valley,  Carries  composite  and  reclin 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  1 
ored  on  this  train.  Corresponding  t 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 

P  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  St- 
ton  7.10pm.     Corresponding  train  arr 


7.30 
9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
8.00 


P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS: 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a 
Bakersfleld  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (foi 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day) 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chic; 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  ou 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrive 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.  *    f  Monday  and  Thursda, 
J  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City, 
cago,  and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express,  Mon 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m.  — 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  an 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  111^  Broad' 
Oakland. 


NORTH  SHORE  RAILROAD 

For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY.    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry.     ■•  » 
ALL  TRAINS  DAILY. 
DEPART  ~*6.50,   7.30,  *S.io,  8.50, 
*io.io,   11.00   A.    M.;  *i2:oo,  1.00,  *2.oo,  3.00,   *4.oo, 
*5.2o,  6.00,  *6-5o,  8.45,  10,30,  11.45  P-  M- 
"ARRIVE— 6.25,  *7.05,    7.45,   S.25,    *9.05.    9.45,   *i 
11.55  A.   M.;  *I2.55,    1.55,   *2.55,   3.55,   *4-55,    5-35,   * 
6.55.  *7-45.  *9-35.  n.25  P.  M. 

Trains  marked  *  for  San  Quentin.  Por  Fai 
week  days,  7.30,  9.30  A.  M.,  4.40  p.  M.;  Sunday^ 
trains  7.30  a.  m.  to  3.00  p.  M. 

DEPART  for  Cazaderoand  way  stations,  7.30  A 
4.40  p.  m.;  for  Point  Reyes  and  intermediate,  9.30  A. 
ARRIVE  from  Cazadero,  etc.,  905  A.  m.,  7-45  * 
from  Point  Reyes,  etc.,  6:15  p.  M. 

Ticket  Office  — 620  Market  Street;  Ferry,  Foe 
Market  Street 


The  Argonaut. 


Vol.  LIII.     No.   1374. 


San  Francisco,  July  13,  1903 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Troubles  of  King  Peter — "  Editing  "  a  Bloody 
Story — Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler — Talk  of  His  Resigning 
the  University  Chancellorship — Why  Dr.  Gilman  Went — 
Wheeler  May  be  Appointed  to  Diplomatic  Post — A  Check  to 
Fake  French  Wines — Johnny  Crapaud  Hoist  With  His  Own 
Petard — Water  at  Thirty  Cents  per  Gallon — Safety  Isles  in 
San  Francisco — Mayor  Schmitz  Sincere — Democratic 
Views  on  the  Next  Presidency — Treasury  Operations  for  the 
Fiscal  Year — President  Diaz's  Rule  to  be  Prolonged — 
Modern  Cars  on  the  Street  Railways — Ferry  Franchises  are 
Taxed — Consolidation  of  the  Gas  Companies — Democrats 
Favor  public  Ownership  of  Water-Works — The  Assessment 
of  Street  Railways — Customs  Receipts  Reflect  Business 
Activity — Disunion  in  Union  Labor  Party 17-10 

Visiting  Vesuvius:  Unsuccessful  Visits  to  the  Volcano — The 
Road  up  the  Mountain — The  Cooks  and  the  Tourists — 
Advice  About  Tourist  Agencies  —  Mysterious  Mountain 
Music — At  the  Base  of  the  Cone — Fighting  Over  a  Tourist — 
The  Lady  With  the  Gaiters — The  Boy  With  the  Sunny 
Smile.     By  Jerome  A.  Hart 19-20 

An  Inspired  Avalanche:      The    Unique      Weapon      of     Henry 

Parthniss.     By  Rufus  M.  Steele 21 

The  New  Carlyle  Letters:  Sir  James  Crichton-Browne's 
Fierce  Attack  on  James  Anthony  Froude,  Thomas  Carlyle's 
Friend,  Biographer,  and  Literary  Executor — Extracts  from 
*  Mrs.    Carlyle's   Letters 22 

Old  Favorites:     "Alone,"  by  Abram  Joseph  Ryan 22 

Foot-Hill  Jehus:  Geraldine  Bonner's  Picturesque  Assortment 
of  Drivers — Too  Proud  to  Take  Tips — Unwarranted  Sus- 
picions— One    Liveryman's   Joke 23 

Individualities:    Notes  About  Prominent  Persons  All  Over  the 

World    23 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications      24-25 

Drama:  "Brother  Officers"  at  the  Alcazar — "In  Central 
Park "  at  the  Grand  Opera  House-  By  Josephine  Hart 
Phelps     26 

Stage  Gossip    27 

Vanity  Fair:  Insurance  for  Women — No  Policies  Among 
Stenographers;  Many  Among  Actresses — Some  Women  Who 
Carry  Large  Policies — The  Growth  of  the  "  Little  Glass  " 
Habit — Relative  Popularity  of  Chartreuse,  Benedictine,  and 
Kummel — Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  Arraigns  Americans  for 
Summer  Strenuousness — Thinks  We  Ought  to  Pattern  After 
the  English  and  French — Big  and  Little  Frauds  Abroad — 
Manufacturing  Curios  in  French  Cities — The  Cry  of 
"  La  Tiare  " 28 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
A  Vivid  Description  of  a  Dachshund — Miss  Helen  Gould  and 
Heaven — A  Wild  West  Story  with  the  Wool  Still  on  It — 
A  Tale  of  the  Confessional — President  Roosevelt's  "  Squiirel 
Teeth  " — The  Heart  of  Ethel  Barrymore  and  How  It  Beats 
»  — "  Swaring "  as  a  Profession — A  Famous  Story  of  the 
English     Court 29 

The  Tuneful  Liar:      "Some    Family    History";     "Fourth    of 

July  Hymn,"  by  S.  E.  Kiser;   "The  Umpire's  Rubaiyat"..     29 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 30-31 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits    of    the    Day 32 


The  Troubles 


King  Peter. 


King  Peter  the  First,  by  the  grace  of  God  and  the  use 
of  the  revolver  King  of  Servia,  is  much 
perturbed  in  spirit.  His  people  have  re- 
ceived him  cordially,  but  all  of  the  for- 
eign ministers  have  left  Belgrade.  The  manner  of  his 
accession  by  assassination  has  unpleasantly  impressed 
the  crowned  heads.  They  have  stipulated  that  before 
their  ministers  return  to  Belgrade,  something  must  be 
done  toward  punishing  the  late  monarch's  murderers. 


This  is  an  extremely  awkward  position  for  King  Peter. 
If  he  does  not  punish  the  murderers,  he  remains  prac- 
tically unrecognized  by  Europe,  and  many  plots  for  his 
downfall  will  be  hatched  in  other  capitals  as  well  as  in 
his  own.  If  he  proceeds  to  punish  the  assassins,  they 
will  almost  certainly  assassinate  him,  too.  Hence  the 
perplexity  of  Peter. 

It  is  probable  that  the  Servian  king  will  allow  matters 
to  drift  until  he  is  a  little  more  firmly  established  on 
his  blood-stained  throne.  Then,  if  Europe  forces  him 
to  do  so,  he  will  arrest  the  assassins  on  various  pleas. 
Most  of  these  gentlemen  will  then  commit  suicide  in 
their  cells.  Whenever  embarrassing  prisoners  encumber 
royal  prisons  in  European  countries,  they  have  a  mania 
for  committing  suicide  in  their  cells. 

In  the  meantime,  the  assassins  of  King  Alexander — 
now  the  ministers  and  trusted  chiefs  of  King  Peter — 
are  engaged  in  carefully  editing  and  revising  the 
"  official  story  of  the  revolution."  This  will  probably 
point  out  that  the  conspirators  did  not  intend  to  kill 
King  Alexander,  but  only  to  persuade  him  to  abdicate; 
that  they  were  engaged  in  a  harmless  discussion  of  the 
matter  in  the  palace  one  evening;  that  suddenly  the 
king  appeared  and  opened  fire  on  them  with  a  re- 
volver; that  at  the  same  time  Queen  Draga  attacked 
them  with  an  axe ;  that  purely  in  self-defense  they  were 
obliged  to  protect  themselves,  and  in  the  melee  both 
king  and  queen  were  unfortunately  slain;  that  they 
dragged  themselves  while  dying  toward  the  palace 
windows,  and  fell  out  into  the  garden,  some  two  stories 
below,  which  accounts  for  the  fractured  and  mutilated 
condition  of  the  bodies;  that  the  reason  Lieutenant 
Petrovick's  head  was  found  in  the  garden,  while  his 
body  was  on  the  palace  roof,  was  due  to  the  fact  that 
the  queen  accidentally  hit  him  with  her  axe  while  mak- 
ing a  swipe  at  Colonel  Maschin,  chief  conspirator. 

In  the  meantime,  King  Peter  is  reported  to  be  stirring 
up  all  manner  of  quarrels  among  the  conspirators, 
and  setting  afloat  rumors  which  lead  to  quarrels  be- 
tween the  conspirators  and  other  army  officers  who 
failed  to  get  in  on  the  plot.  This  prudent  and  politic 
course  is  leading  to  a  ceaseless  round  of  duels.  What 
with  the  duels,  and  the  conspirators  who  commit  suicide 
in  their  cells,  King  Peter  will  soon  be  securely  seated 
on  his  throne  "  by  the  grace  of  God." 

All  sorts  of  unexpected  phases  crop  out  in  the  new 
A  check  Federal  food-law.    One  of  the  latest  de- 

velopments is  this:  When  American 
wines  were  to  be  judged  at  the  Paris 
Exposition  of  1900,  they  were  thrown  out  by  the  French 
jurors  because  they  "  bore  false  and  misleading  names, 
such  as  '  Burgundy,'  '.  Bordeaux,'  etc."  There  was 
much  grumbling  among  California  wine-growers,  but 
we  said  at  the  time  that  it  served  them  right — Califor- 
nia wines  are  good  enough  to  be  judged  under  their 
own  names  and  on  their  own  merits,  without  mas- 
querading as  French  vintages.  Some  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful of  our  California  wine-growers  have  always 
sold  their  products  under  California  names. 

But  while  forced  to  criticise  our  California  wine- 
growers, we  are  now  pleased  at  a  chance  for  reprisal. 
The  Frenchmen  did  not  come  into  court  with  clean 
hands.  We  are  always  gratified  when  we  see  the 
engineer  hoist  with  his  own  petard.  The  French  jurors 
did  not  throw  out  the  California  wines  because  they 
were  falsely  labeled,  but  because  they  feared  their 
competition.  Turn  about  is  fair  play.  Now,  under  the 
Federal  pure-food  law,  we  can  insist  that  sophisticated 
French  wines  must  be  labeled  with  their  true  names, 
as  the  French  jurors  insisted  we  should  label  ours.  If 
they  have  falsely  labeled  their  wines,  our  government 
will  condemn  them.  There  are  very  few  French  wines 
coming  to  this  country  that  are  not  falsely  labeled.  The 


to  French 
Fake  Wines. 


French  Government  is  very  rigid  about  the  adulteration 
of  products  for  home  consumption,  but  very  lax  about 
the  adulteration  of  products  for  exportation  abroad. 
Many  "  French  wines  "  are  very  mysterious  concoc- 
tions. French  wine-growers  purchase  large  quan- 
tities of  cheap  Spanish  and  Italian  wines  for  blend- 
ing and  sophisticating.  Much  of  the  wine  exported 
from  France  is  made  of  raisins,  while  cynical  French 
wine-bibbers  are  in  the  habit  of  saying  that  in  France 
wine  is  made  out  of  everything — even  of  grapes. 


IDE 

Wheeler 


Dr.     Wheeler's     stay     at     Washington,     the     pointed 
Benjamin  hospitality  extended  to  him  at  the  White 

House,  the  esteem  in  which  he  is  held 
by  President  Roosevelt — all  these  things, 
taken  in  conjunction  with  some  friction  in  the  Board 
of  Regents  of  the  State  University,  have  propagated 
quite  a  crop  of  rumors.  When  Dr.  Wheeler  accepted 
the  post  of  president  of  California's  State  university, 
he  stipulated  that  he  should  have  a  free  hand  in  the 
matter  of  appointments.  He  was  right.  Any  man  who 
pretends  to  be  president  of  a  university,  when  in  reality 
he  is  domineered  by  the  politicians  in  the  Board  of 
Regents,  is  a  pretty  poor  thing.  The  regents  had  been 
unsuccessful  in  getting  a  good  man  to  accept  the  presi- 
dency at  Berkeley,  so  they  were  forced  to  yield  to  Dr. 
Wheeler's  stipulation.  Since  his  incumbency  he  has 
had  complete  control  over  appointments,  and  has  pruned 
off  some  dead  wood  from  the  faculty.  In  this  we  think 
he  has  had  the  approval  of  the  public. 

But  he  has  made  enemies.  Not  the  least  powerful 
were  those  among  the  regents  who  chafed  under  the 
loss  of  their  appointing  power.  Rumors  have  arisen 
of  friction  in  the  Board.  It  is  said  that  matters  have 
reached  such  a  point  that  Dr.  Wheeler  is  not  unwilling 
to  lay  down  his  charge. 

To  those  of  us  who  are  familiar  with  California 
politics  and  politicians,  the  situation  is  not  new. 
Similar  crises  have  occurred  before  in  the  history  of  the 
university.  When  it  was  very  young,  an  educator  of 
more  than  national  fame,  D.  C.  Gilman,  left  the 
populous  East  and  came  to  what  was  then  only  a 
frontier  outpost  to  build  up  a  university.  But  such 
were  the  petty  cliques,  the  cabals,  the  intrigues  among 
the  regents,  such  the  political  pitfalls  sown  for  Presi- 
dent Gilman's  feet,  that  he  gave  up  his  task  in  disgust. 
As  his  enemies  accused  him  of  maladministration  of 
that  task,  he  demanded  a  legislative  investigation.  This 
was  accorded  him,  and  his  administration  was  cleared 
and  vindicated.  Having  triumphed  over  his  enemies, 
he  shook  from  his  shoes  the  dust  of  California,  and 
left  it  not  to  return.  He  left  it,  too,  to  accept  a  more 
important  post,  that  of  president  of  Johns  Hopkins 
University. 

If  Dr.  Wheeler  should  leave  California,  those  among 
us  with  knowledge  of  the  Gilman  episode  will  recall 
that  at  the  later  president's  coming  we  had  a  prophetic 
feeling  in  our  bones.  We  feared  he  might  not  tarry 
long  among  us.  It  is  said  that  when  Prince  Alexander 
of  Battenburg  was  "  called  "  to  the  throne  of  Bulgaria 
he  hastened,  before  he  should  accept,  to  seek  the  advice 
of  Prince  Bismarck.  The  veteran  statesman  listened 
attentively  to  the  story  of  the  Battenburg  princeling, 
and  when  his  advice  was  asked,  replied :  "  Certainly, 
your  highness,  I  advise  you  to  accept  the  throne. 
To  have  occupied  it  will  always  be  an  agreeable 
reminiscence."  So  to  some  of  us  seemed  the  incum- 
bency of  Dr.  Wheeler.  Let  us,  like  Prince  Bismarck, 
hope  that  if  his  stay  in  California  ends,  it  may  at  least 
be  an  agreeable  reminiscence. 

There  will  be  no  lack  of  posts  awaiting  Dr.  Wheeler 
if  he  should  leave  California.    It  is  said  that  President 
Roosevelt   would   willingly   install   him    in   one    - 
first-class   diplomatic   posts   abroad,    were 


18 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  13,  1903. 


Dr.  Wheeler  is  not  rich.  It  is  unfortunate  that  the 
embassadors  of  the  United  States  should  be  re- 
stricted to  millionaires,  as  the  salaries  are  so  small  as 
to  render  the  places  prohibitory  to  men  of  modest 
means.  It  is  hinted,  however,  that  Dr.  Wheeler  might 
accept  the  position  of  minister  either  at  The  Hague 
or  at  Athens,  both  of  which  are  inexpensive  cities. 
With  his  scholarly  tastes  and  his  high  rank  as  a  Greek 
scholar,  Dr.  Wheeler  would  doubtless  prefer  Athens. 

But  it  is  also  hinted  that  the  President  may  appoint 
him  to  a  position  on  the  Isthmian  Canal  Commission. 
As  such  a  position  requires  vast  general  knowledge 
and  high  personal  character,  Dr.  Wheeler  is  eminently 
fitted  for  such  a  post  under  those  heads.  Furthermore, 
the  salary  of  canal  commissioner  would  be  large,  and 
its  acceptance  would  not  involve  exile — which  is  what 
a  diplomatic  position  means  to  most  Americans  of  active 
mind.  Furthermore,  such  a  post  would  not  be  for  two 
or  three  years  only.  During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion 
a  humorous  court-martial — whose  members  did  not  be- 
lieve in  the  immediate  conclusion  of  a  certain  military 
and  engineering  project — sentenced  a  prisoner  to  "  hard 
labor  for  life  on  the  Dutch  Gap  Canal."  Correspond- 
ingly, we  believe  that  the  completion  of  the  Isthmian 
Canal  is  so  far  in  the  future  that  a  position  as  canal 
commissioner  means  a  position  for  life.  If,  therefore, 
Dr.  Wheeler  is  going  to  resign  his  charge  at  Berkeley; 
if  he  is  going  to  accept  any  post  other  than  an  educa- 
tional one;  if  the  President  is  going  to  offer  him  the 
position  of  Isthmian  Canal  Commissioner;  if  his  ac- 
ceptance of  it  means  that  he  would  not  be  marooned  in 
Europe;  if  it  means  that  he  would  remain  on  this  Con- 
tinent; if  it  means  that  we  should  frequently  see  him 
in  California — if  all  these  hypotheses  should  turn  out 
to  be  verities,  why  then  we  hope  that  Dr.  Wheeler  may 
be  a  Commissioner  of  the  Isthmian  Canal. 


The    National    Liberal    party    in    Mexico    has    lately    held    its 

convention    and    nominated    General    Porfirio 

President  Diaz's    Diaz  tQ   succeed  himself  as  president  of  that 

_  republic.      The   situation   now   is   that   all   po- 

Prolonged.  *  ; 

litical    parties    are    agreed    on    the    reelection 

of  the  president.  He  has  accepted  the  candidacy,  and  that  he 
will  receive  another  term  is  almost  a  foregone  conclusion. 
Something  more  than  a  year  ago  General  Diaz  announced  his 
intention  to  retire  at  the  end  of  his  present  term,  but  though 
he  is  now  seventy-three  years  of  age,  the  people  of  Mexico 
are  not  yet  ready  to  intrust  the  government  to  other  hands. 
General  Diaz  is  now  a  candidate  for  his  seventh  quadrennial 
term,  presenting  a  career  most  remarkable  in  a  republic. 
What  his  rule  has  done  for  Mexico  is  quite  as  remarkable. 
Upon  his  first  accession  he  found  the  country  what  it  had 
always  been,  a  country  of  revolutions,  "  sloth  in  the  mart," 
if  not  "  schism  within  the  temple."  Like  Richelieu,  he  has  re- 
created Mexico.  Where  indolence  was,  he  has  planted  alert- 
ness and  ambition.  Where  retrogression  prevailed,  progress 
and  civilization  have  been  substituted.  He  has  replaced  an 
uncertain  and  unstable  government  by  one  stable  and  re- 
sponsible. Though  his  methods  may  have  savored  of  those 
of  a  dictator,  there  has  been  more  progress  in  education, 
manufacture,  commerce,  and  jurisprudence  during  his  ad- 
ministration than  in  all  the  preceding  years  back  to  the 
Spanish  conquest.  The  transformation  of  the  republic  is  a 
surprising  phenomenon  in  the  history  of  social  evolutions,  and 
for  that  very  reason  it  arouses  misgivings  as  to  its  per- 
manence and  solidity.  To  dispel  those  misgivings,  and  to  es- 
tablish the  fact  that  Mexico  has  learned  the  art  of  peaceful 
self-government,  is  the  last  task  which  General  Diaz  has 
imposed  upon  himself,  with  the  hearty  cooperation  of  the 
progressive  classes  of  Mexicans.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  he 
will  accomplish  it.  Without  him  it  is  deemed  impossible, 
because,  as  one  of  the  convention  orators  has  said.  "  it  con- 
sists in  converting  passive  order  into  active  order;  inanimate 
inaction  into  the  action  of  a  living  organism  ;  submission  to 
authority  into  submission  to  the  law  ;  the  mandate  of  power 
into  the  supreme  concert  of  regulatory  institutions." 

Some  years  ago  a  vigorous  milk-inspector  struck  terror  to  the 
hearts  of  the  swindling  milkmen  of  San 
Francisco.  He  stopped  their  wagons,  tested 
the  milk,  and,  when  it  was  found  adulterated, 
dumped  it  into  the  sewer.  But  this  official 
did  not  last  long.  The  interests  allied  against  him  were  too 
powerful,  so  he  had  to  go.  Since  his  time  the  swindling  milk- 
men have  thrived.  Under  complacent  milk-inspectors,  they 
have  been  able  to  sell  with  impunity  their  deleterious  mixtures. 
Men  in  the  business  say  that  the  swindling  milkmen  of  San 
Francisco  have  been  selling  over  five  thousand  gallons  of  water 
daily  as  milk.  During  the  last  five  years  this  would  make 
about  nine  million  gallons  of  water  sold  as  milk,  which  at 
current  prices  would  mean  nearly  three  millions  of  dollars. 
The  worst  of  it  is  that  the  swindling  milkmen  do  not  even 
use  pure  water  in  their  adulteration.  Many  cases  of  typhoid 
are  traceable  to  foul  milk.  No  typhoid  germ  can  come 
from  a  cow's  udder.  Such  germs  frequently  come  from 
the  for.  water  put  into  milk  by  murderous  milkmen  who 
take  it  from  dirty  ditches,  putrescent  sinks,  and  glanderous 
horss-t'oughs. 

Tin ,  reputable  milk-dealers  of  San  Francisco  are  willing  to 

■  ■  y    '<.    large    salary    for    a    milk-inspector     who    will     protect 

iiom  the  ruinous  competition, of  the  swindling  milkmen. 


Thirty  Cents 
per  Gallon. 


Treasury  Oper- 
ations for  THE 
Fiscal  Year. 


But  it  is  not  advisable  to  relegate  these  functions  of  the  health 
board  to  persons  in  the  milk  business,  even  if  they  are  honest. 
It  is  the  duty  of  the  health  board  to  appoint  trustworthy  in- 
spectors, and  to  see  that  they  keep  the  milk  of  the  city  up  to  a 
high  grade. 

A  curious  feature  of  this  swindling  milk  busi- 
ness is  that  it  may  become  a  labor-union  ques- 
tion. The  Milk  Drivers'  Union  are  reported  to  object 
to  driving  for  the  swindling  milkmen,  as  they  arc 
obliged  to  keep  account  of  four  distinct  grades  of  milk.  The 
four  grades  are  known  as  "straight"  milk,  "two  quart,"  ",four 
quart,"  and  "  six  quart  "  milk — the  "  quarts  "  referring  to  the 
quantity  of  milk  contained  in  the  can.  The  drivers  find  it 
difficult  to  keep  the  run  of  so  many  kinds  of  milk.  They  get 
mixed  at  times,  and  deliver  the  wrong  grade  of  milk.  Not  be- 
ing expert  chemists  or  toxicologists,  they  sometimes  deliver 
diluted  extract  of  typhoid  to  a  man  who  has  paid  for 
"  straight  "  milk.     This  causes  dissatisfaction. 

The  United  States  Treasury  statement  for  the  fiscal  year 
which  closed  June  30th  shows  the  revenues 
of  the  government  during  the  year  to  have 
been  $558,887,526,  of  which  $283,891,719  was 
derived  from  the  customs,  $230,115,256  from 
internal  revenue,  and  the  balance  from  miscellaneous  sources. 
The  expenditures  for  civil  and  miscellaneous  purposes  has  been 
$125,018,312 ;  for  war,  including  rivers  and  harbors,  $118,- 
549,683;  for  the  navy,  $82,696,803;  for  Indians,  $12,931,056; 
for  pensions,  $138,425,618 ;  and  for  interest,  $28,556,618 ; 
leaving  a  surplus  for  the  year  of  $52,770,930.  Although  since 
January  1st  the  duty  has  been  removed  from  tea,  and  since 
January  15th  the  duty  on  coal  has  been  rebated,  the  receipts 
from  customs  are  $29,447,010  greater  than  the  previous  year, 
while  the  operation  of  the  act  repealing  the  war  revenue  re- 
duced the  receipts  from  internal  revenue  by  $41,764,866.  The 
total  revenues  show  a  decrease  of  $3,500,707,  and  the  ex- 
penditures an  increase  of  $34,985,732.  The  available  cash 
in  the  Treasury  on  the  date  of  the  statement  was  $231,545,012 
— an  increase  of  $19,357,651  over  the  same  date  last  year. 
The  amount  of  gold  in  the  Treasury  has  increased  between 
the  two  dates  by  $7T>439.598.  The  latest  statement  shows  the  gold 
on  hand  to  be  $631,639,898.  At  the  beginning  of  the  year  the 
Treasury  notes  of  1890  amounted  to  $30,000,000,  which  has 
been  reduced  by  the  coinage  of  silver  bullion  to  $19,243,000. 
National  bank  depositories  are  holding  $151,724,432  of  public 
moneys — an  increase  for  the  year  of  $27,741,365.  The  number 
of  depositories  is  710,  being  an  increase  of  1 36.  Bonds 
to  the  amount  of  $16,529,600  have  been  purchased  during  the 
year  for  the  sinking  fund,  reducing  the  interest  charge  by 
$661,437,  and  the  interest  on  the  general  interest  bearing 
debt  of  the  United  States  has  been  reduced  $1,339,962. 


Robert  E.   Pattison,  twice  governor  of  Pennsylvania,  and  now 
mentioned  as  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency 

on  the  Democratic  ticket,  has  been  inter- 
ViEWS  on  the  ,  ,     _. 

next  Presidency.   viewed    and    found    something    interesting    to 

say.  We  have  culled  from  the  telegraphic 
report  some  of  his  opinions.  "All  this  talk  about  Cleveland 
as  a  Presidential  possibility,"  says  the  governor,  "  is  idle,  and 
the  Democracy  had  better  busy  itself  with  feasible  ideas.  The 
third-term  principle  can  not  be  eliminated  and  would  certainly 
lead  to  his  defeat.  This  is  my  sole  objection  to  Mr.  Cleve- 
land."    As  to  the  general  outlook  for  the  Democrats,  he  said : 

Changed  conditions  are  liable  to  occur.  If  the  business 
conditions  of  the  country  remain  as  they  are  for  another  year, 
I  believe  it  will  be  difficult  to  disturb  the  present  political 
conditions.  The  unprecedented  appropriations  made  by  the 
last  Congress  are  in  line  with  Republican  principles  to  burden 
the  taxpayer.  The  Democratic  principle  of  leaving  the  money 
in  the  hands  of  the  people  is  old-fashioned  and  not  popular 
at  the  present  time.  Whether  the  post-office  scandals  will 
figure  in  the  next  election  depends  largely  on  the  power  of  the 
administration  to  punish  the  offenders. 

He  had  this  to  say  of  newspaper  influence  on  elections  : 

The  people  are  not  as  easily  swayed  by  editorials  as  they 
were  forty  years  ago.  They  do  their  own  thinking  nowadays, 
and  are  more  independent.  The  independent  journals  now 
have  the  large  circulations  with  which  the  strictly  party 
papers  do  not  compare.  The  independent  paper  is  potential 
in  influencing  the  vote  which  decides  the  contest,  the  strictly 
party  press  in  arousing  enthusiasm  along  party  lines  in  both 
parties. 

He  had  little  to  say  of  candidates.  For  himself  he  was 
"  from  the  wrong  State,"  the  Democratic  party  being  the 
minority  party  in  Pennsylvania.  But  he  considered  Judge 
Parker  "  a  strong  man  and  New  York  a  potential  State." 

Representatives  Pou,  of  North  Carolina,  and  Patterson,  of 
Tennessee,  have  both  talked  for  publication.  They  agree 
with  Governor  Pattison  on  the  eligibility  of  Judge  Parker  as  a 
candidate  "  with  whom  we  ought  to  stand  a  good  chance 
to  win,"  but  they  go  a  little  farther  by  adding  Senator  Gorman 
to   the  list  of  availables. 


The  Passing 
of  the 

Iowa  Idea. 


Senator  Allison,  of  Iowa,  is  a  great  literary  artist.  So  deftly 
has  he  manipulated  words  that  nobody  knows 
what  the  tariff  plank  in  the  Iowa  Republican 
platform  means.  "  It  is  no  recession  from 
the  position  we  took  last  year "  say  the 
backers  of  the  Iowa  idea.  "  We  are  perfectly  satisfied "  say 
the  standpatters.  And  there  you  are!  The  tactful  senator 
has  removed  the  sting  from  the  business  end  of  the  wasp 
without  getting  stung.  "  Duties  that  are  too  low,"  concludes 
the  tariff  plank,  "  should  be  increased,  and  duties  that  are  too 
high  should  be  reduced."  What  could  be  simpler  I  That  is  a 
plank  upon  which  men  of  many  political  creeds  might  safely 
stand.  The  really  significant  phrase  in  the  platform  of  1902 — 
"  shelter  to  monopoly  " — has  been  eliminated.  The  President 
is  said  to  have  characterized  it  as  "  tactless  in  phraseology." 
And  what  remains  to  the  revisionists  looks  a  good  deal  like 
what  has  been  described  as  "  a  barren  ideality."  The 
great  movement  toward  the  protection  principle  in  Europe, 
this  country's  unparalleled  prosperity,  the  seemingly  effective 


method  of  regulating  trusts  found  in  the  Sherman  law,  the 
growing  belief  that  some  of  the  big  trusts  are  likely  to 
crumble,  carrying  stock-holders,  not  competitors,  in  the  crash, 
and  the  imminence  of  a  national  campaign  when  it  is  im- 
perative that  the  party  be  harmonious — all  these  things  have 
doubtless  combined  to  reduce  the  Iowa  idea  to  its  present 
condition  of  innocuous  desuetude. 


Pacific  Cable 
Girdles 
the  Globe. 


How  vastly  different  are  conditions  now  from  those  forty  years 
ago  is  strikingly  shown  by  the  laying  of  the 
American  Pacific  cable.  Then,  the  completion 
of  the  Atlantic  cable  was  a  tremendous  event 
in  the  world's  history.  To-day,  the  completion 
of  the  Pacific  cable  on  the  Fourth  of  July  is  the  mere  incident 
of  a  week,  already  passing  out  of  people's  minds.  The  first 
message  sent  over  the  Atlantic  cable  was  by  Queen  Victoria 
to  President  Buchanan.  The  first  over  the  Pacific  was  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt's  brief  message  to  Governor  Taft,  "  I  open  the 
American  Pacific  cable  with  greetings  to  you  and  the  people 
of  the  Philippines,"  requiring  only  nine  minutes  for  its  trans- 
mission to  Manila  and  thence  by  way  of  Suez  around  the 
world.  Governor  Taft,  with  true  sagacity,  incorporated  in  his 
reply  an  earnest  plea  "  for  a  reduction  of  the  tariff  on  Filipino 
products."  Let  us  hope  that  the  quicker,  cheaper,  and  more 
direct  news  service  between  Manila  and  this  city  may  rekindle 
the  public's  waning  interest  in  Philippine  affairs. 

The  new  cable  is  8.300  miles  long,  contains  19,000,000 
pounds  of  iron  and  steel,  2,000,000  pounds  of  jute,  3,000,000 
pounds  of  copper,  2,000,000  pounds  of  rubber,  and  great 
quantities  of  other  material.  Between  San  Francisco  and 
Manila  it  touches  at  Honolulu,  Midway  Islands,  and  Guam, 
and  traverses  the  greatest  uninhabitated  waste  of  water  on  the 
globe.  And  all  the  millions  that  Mr.  Mackay  and  his  com- 
pany have  put  into  it  are  practically  a  wager  that  Marconi's 
wireless  transoceanic  system  will  never  work.  Mr.  Mackay 
is  doubtless  well  advised;  the  confident  laying  of  this  costly 
cable  can  only  greatly  weaken  public  confidence  in  Marconi's 
sanguine   promises. 


San  Francisco. 


A   Market   Street  store  recently  applied  to  the   San   Francisco 
supervisors     for    permission    to    construct    a 
Safety  Isles  street-crossing    and    "  safety    isle "     opposite 

their  entrance.  The  street  committee  has  de- 
clined to  approve  the  application,  on  the 
ground  that  "  it  might  lead  to  the  presenting  of  many  similar 
requests  from  other  business  houses."  This  action  seems  to  us 
anything  but  progressive.  The  supervisors  naturally  would 
not  permit  the  erection  of  any  structures  on  the  streets  which 
did  not  conform  to  their  regulations.  Since  the  San  Francisco 
board  is  such  a  back-number  that  it  can  not  keep  up  Lo  date 
with  modern  street  improvements,  as  the  aldermen  of  other 
cities  do,  the  next  best  thing  for  them  to  do  is  to  permit 
private  citizens  to  construct  the  public  conveniences  which 
they  neglect.  San  Francisco  is  an  object  of  ridicule  in  the 
eyes  of  strangers  for  its  lack  of  street-crossing  conveniences, 
and  a  stench  in  the  nostrils  of  strangers  as  well  as  of  its  own 
citizens  for  its  lack  of  certain  other  conveniences.  Two  of 
these  have  been  furnished  to  the  city  as  object-lessons  by  the 
Merchants'  Association.  "  Safety  isles  "  are  badly  needed  on 
Market  Street  in  several  places.  The  supervisors  will  neither 
construct  them  themselves,  nor  permit  others  to  do  so.  Really, 
our  present  board  ought  to  be  labeled,  classified,  and  put  on 
exhibition  in  the  Academy  of  Science  Museum,  along  with  the 
other  mummies  and  fossils. 


Mayor 
Schmitz 
is  Sincere 


When  Mayor  Schmitz  advocated  cutting  down  the  redundant 
salary  roll  of  San  Francisco's  municipal 
employees,  Commissioner  Michael  Casey,  of 
the  Board  of  Public  Works,  the  mayor's  bit- 
ter political  enemy,  offered  to  do  the  work  of 
Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Streets,  if  the  mayor's  brother,  Frank 
Schmitz,  Superintendent  of  Public  Buildings,  were  retired. 
The  mayor  at  once  stated  that  as  Commissioner  Casey  thus 
admitted  that  there  was  no  need  for  a  Chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  Streets,  he  [the  mayor]  would  veto  the  salary  appropriation 
for  the  board  if  the  position  were  not  abolished.  Of  course, 
the  mayor  thus  invited  reprisals.  Casey  and  his  colleagues 
at  once  removed  Frank  Schmitz  in  order  to  punish  Mayor 
Schmitz  for  his  attempt  at  municipal  economy.  The  mayor 
of  course  expected  this,  and  made  no  attempt  to  retain  his 
brother  as  superintendent,  saying  that  Frank  Schmitz  had  al- 
ways held  as  good  positions  as  this  one  in  the  public  employ, 
and  doubtless  could  again.  This  incident  is  another  proof, 
if  one  were  needed,  that  Mayor  Schmitz  is  quite  sincere  in  his 
attempt  to  economize  the  public's  money,  even  if  his  action 
should  cut  off  the  salary  of  a  relative. 


The  war  of  the  gas  companies  in  this  city  is  at  an  end.     The 
San   Francisco   Gas   and   Electric   Company — 
Consolidation         the      ioneer    in    the    field— has    absorbed    the 
of  the  Gas  .     ,  .  ,   . 

Co   p  nifs  rival  companies,  and  is  now  in  supreme  con- 

trol of  the  situation.  The  most  serious 
opposition  that  the  old  company  had  to  meet  was  that  of  the 
Independent  Electric  Light  and  Power  Company,  organized 
by   Claus   Spreckels.     The  establishment  of  this   comp  ■  ,~, 

the  result  of  a  dispute  between   Claus   Spreckels   ai 
Crockett,    the   latter    at   that   time   president   of  the   old 
pany.      The   cause   of  the   dispute  was  the   smoke    .: 
plant  which    Spreckels   complained   of,    and   Cro>  . 
to    abate.      After   a   time,    Crockett    was    forced   t 
presidency,  but  the  war  continued.  In  the  field  cc 
independent    company,    Mr.    Spreckels    made    contracts 
rate  of  75  cents  a  thousand  feet,  and  had  signed  nearly 
contracts  when  the  war  came  to  an  end.   He  ha 
refused  to   enter  into   any  combine  to   raise  the   pri  te   - 
but  he  has  as  consistently  declared  that  he  woul 
plant  when  offered  his  price.  He  received  $6,000.0 
in  cash  and  $5,000,000  in  bonds,  of  which  $8, 00c 
$10,000,000,  will  be  issued — this  besides  $460,00 
counts.      His    profit    on    the    deal     is    estimated 


July  13,  1903. 


THE       ARGONAUT 


19 


Changes  at 
Stanford. 


$2,500,000  and  $3,000,000.  The  old  company  announces  that 
for  the  present  the  price  of  gas  will  be  one  dollar  a  thousand 
feet 

According  to  the  original  founding  grant  of  Stanford  Uni- 
versity, the  duty  of  employing  professors  and 
Administrative  teachers  is  delegated  to  the  trustees.  For 
some  years,  however,  Mrs.  Stanford,  disre- 
garding this  clause,  has  placed  the  selection 
of  faculty  members  solely  in  the  hands  of  President  Jordan. 
In  an  address  to  the  trustees  in  October,  1902,  she  slightly  de- 
parted from  this  policy,  saying  that  "  the  board  of  trustees 
should  adopt  such  a  plan  for  the  nomination  and  appointment 
of  professors  and  teachers  as  .  .  .  may  prove  to  be  desirable," 
but  that  "  during  my  administration  the  president  of  the 
university  shall  have  exclusive  control  over  the  appointment 
and  dismissal  of  professors  and  teachers,  as  he  has  had  here- 
tofore." Now,  according  to  the  statements  of  the  Chronicle, 
Mrs.  Stanford  has  "  changed  her  views  as  to  the  delegation 
of  powers  to  the  president."  In  her  address  to  the  board 
of  trustees  on  her  election  to  its  presidency  this  week,  she  is 
reported  to  have  said : 

You  shall  accordingly  assume  the  foregoing  and  any  other 
functions  of  the  trustees  which  I  have  delegated  to  the  presi- 
dent of  the  university  during  my  administration,  and  after  full 
investigation  and  deliberation  you  shall  formulate  general  rules 
providing  for  the  government  of  the  university,  and  defining 
the  powers  and  duties  of  the  president  and  faculty. 

The  election  commissioners  have  been  called  upon  to  decide 
a  dispute  among  the  leaders  of  the  Union 
Labor  party.  There  are  two  antagonistic 
committees,  both  claiming  to  be  the  only 
legitimate  representatives  of  that  organiza- 
tion. Both  committees  have  presented  petitions  to  the  election 
commissioners  asking  for  a  place  on  the  primary  election 
ballot,  and  the  commissioners  can  recognize  only  one  of  them. 
In  one  of  the  petitions  the  number  of  delegates  to  be  elected 
to  the  Union  Labor  convention  is  placed  at  320,  in  the  other 
at  199.  One  of  the  committees,  represented  by  A.  H.  Ewell 
as  chairman  and  George  F.  Aubertine  as  secretary,  was  ap- 
pointed in  1901,  and  claims  that,  under  the  law,  it  is  entitled 
to  hold  for  two  years  and  until  the  assembling  of  the  next 
municipal  convention.  The  other  committee,  represented  by 
August  Harders  as  chairman  and  George  J.  .Berger  as  secre- 
tary, was  appointed  by  the  Union  Labor  convention,  which  was 
held  last  year.  This  was  not  a  municipal  convention,  and  so 
the  Ewell  committee  claims  that  it  has  not  been  superseded. 
The  commissioners  have  referred  the  question  to  City  At- 
torney Lane,  and  will  not  act  in  the  matter  until  they  have 
received  his  opinion. 


Disunion  in 
Union 
Labor  Party 


The  figures  turned  in  to   Collector   Stratton,   representing  the 
business  done  at  the  custom-house  during  the 
Customs  jagt    £scai    year,     show     a    most    satisfactory 

Receipts  at  .  ,  _  ,  ,  .,  , 

„  increase  in  volume  of  goods  received  through 

this  Port.  , 

this  port.  During  the  year  the  customs  re- 
ceipts amounted  to  $7,850,705.  an  increase  of  $300,000  over 
the  previous  year,  and  of  nearly  fifty  per  cent,  over  the 
receipts  of  seven  years  ago.  During  the  year  1902,  the  duties 
collected  on  coal  in  this  port  amounted  to  $500,000,  and  those 
on  tea  to  $600,000.  These  duties  were  not  collected  last  year, 
and  represent  a  loss  of  more  than  one  million  dollars, 
which  would  have  added  to  the  increase  of  this  year.  The 
number  of  entries  of  imported  goods  was  21,519,  an  increase 
of  2,300  entries  in  six  years.  The  number  of  withdrawals 
for  consumption  was  9,782,  an  increase  of  more  than  one 
hundred  per  cent,  in  six  years.  There  has  been  a  steady 
increase  in  the  business  of  the  custom-house  during  the  six 
years  covered  by  the  figures  presented,  representing  the 
growing  importance  of  San  Francisco  as  the  port  of  entry 
for  the  Oriental  trade. 


of  Street 
Railways. 


The  supreme  court  has  decided  that  street  railways  which  are 
operated   in   more  than   one   county   must   be 
1  iMENT     assessed  by  the  State  Board  of  Equalization 

and  not  by  the  assessors  of  the  counties  in 
which  they  are  operated.  The  case  in  which 
the  point  was  decided  was  brought  by  the  San  Francisco 
and  San  Mateo  Electric  Railway  Company  against  Joseph  H. 
Scott,  tax-collector  of  this  city  and  county.  The  majority 
opinion  of  the  court  holds  that  the  word  "  railways,"  as  used 
in  the  section  of  the  constitution  relating  to  assessments, 
includes  street  railways  as  well  as  steam  roads.  Chief  Justice 
Beatty  dissents  from  the  majority  opinion.  He  holds  that 
city  railway  corporations  will  avail  themselves  of  the  oppor- 
tunity offered  by  the  decision  to  evade  taxation  for  muni- 
cipal purposes  upon  the  property  originating  in  municipal 
grant,  and  deriving  its  value  from  the  same  municipal  condi- 
tions that  make  municipal  administration  necessary  and  costly. 
The  State  Board  of  Equalization  must  apportion  the  taxes 
between  the  two  counties  on  the  basis  of  the  mileage  in  each, 
which  bears  no  relation  to  the  cost  of  municipal  administra- 
tion. The  case  would  seem  to  be  one  that  calls  for  con- 
stitutional   amendment   rather   than   judicial    decision. 


Favor  Public 
Ownership. 


The  Democratic  County  Committee  has  issued  a  call  for  the 
municipal  convention  of  that  party,  to  be 
composed  of  339  delegates,  the  apportion- 
ment being  based  on  each  100  votes  cast  for 
Lane  in  the  last  State  election.  The  dele- 
gates are  to  be  elected  at  the  primary  to  be  held  on  August 
nth.  Incidentally,  there  was  a  discussion  over  the  powers 
of  the  committee  of  seven,  which  had  prepared  the  call  for  the 
convention.  This  committee  was  appointed  under  a  resolution 
which  empowered  them  to  frame  a  call  for  the  convention 
and  to  prepare  a  plan  for  the  participation  of  all  Democrats 
in  the  primary,  but  it  was  thought  that  the  committee  was 
usurping  power  that  did  not  belong  to  it.  The  most  im- 
portant work  of  the  meeting  was  the  adoption  of  a  resolution 
urging  the  various  assembly-district  organizations  to  present 
the  question  of  municipal  ownership  of  water-works — "  the 
most  important  question  confronting  the  people  of  this  city  " — 


at  all  meetings,  so  that- the  delegates  to  the  municipal  con- 
vention may  be  prepared  to  urge  on  the  voters  the  imperative 
necessity  of  speedily  acquiring  a  city  water-works  and  water- 
supply.  It  is  their  intention  to  make  this  a  leading  issue 
in  the  coming  municipal  campaign, 


Ferry 
Franchises 
are  Taxed. 


Assessor  Dodge,  of  this  city  and  county,  and  Assessor  Dalton, 
of  Alameda  County,  have  assessed  the  ferry 
franchise  and  the  boats  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Company  running  between  this  city 
and  Oakland.  The  Alameda  assessment  on 
the  franchise  is  placed  at  $1,050,000,  and  a  similar  assess- 
ment has  been  made  by  Assessor  Dodge.  The  eight  ferry- 
boats have  also  been  assessed,  the  highest  assessment  being 
upon  the  Berkeley,  which  is  placed  at  $61,000  on  each  side 
of  the  bay.  The  railroad  company  claims  that  the  assessment 
is  illegal,  and  refuses  to  pay,  so  the  question  will  probably 
be  submitted  to  the  courts  for  determination.  The  assessors 
are  acting  under  Section  3,643  of  the  Political  Code,  which 
provides  that,  where  ferry-boats  are  operated  between  fixed 
points  and  at  stated  intervals  between  different  counties,  the 
franchises  and  water  craft  shall  be  assessed  one-half  in  each 
county.  The  railroad  company  has  heretofore  paid  taxes  on 
the  ferry-boats,  one-half  in  Alameda  County  and  one-half  in 
this  county,  but  objects  to  paying  taxes  on  the  franchise.  It 
is  claimed  that  the  franchises  can  not  be  separated  and 
assessed  in  different  places.  The  railroad  company  further 
claims  that  the  ferry  system  has  never  been  operated  under  a 
separate  franchise,  but  under  the  general  franchise  of  the 
company. 


The  San  Mateo  Electric  Railway  is  now  equipped  with  com- 
modious and  comfortable  cars.     This  was  an 
Modern  Cars  absolute    necessity,    for    the    ride    is    a    long 

on  the  Street  ,    ._  ..  ,  ,  ,    .  .  . 

_  one,  and,  11  the  road  hoped  to  compete  with 

Railways.  *  '  r_  * 

the      Southern      Pacific      Company,      it     was 

necessary  to  make  the  passengers  comfortable.  The  United 
Railroads,  having  thus  taken  the  first  step,  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  work  of  improvement  will  be  continued,  until  all  of 
its  lines  are  equipped  with  modern  cars.  At  present,  the  cars 
are  neither  comfortable  nor  commodious.  No  other  city  of  the 
size  of  San  Francisco  has  so  inadequate  a  service.  Even  the 
primitive  bob-tailed  car  has  not  completely  disappeared  from 
the  streets  of  this  city.  If  the  United  Railroads  hopes  to  retain 
the  good  will  of  its  patrons  it  will  not  delay  :n  extending  this 
necessary  improvement.  And  in  these  days  of  strikes,  it  needs 
the  public's  good  will. 


VISITING    VESUVIUS. 


Unsuccessful 
Visits  to  the 
Volcano. 

say    "  generally  ' 


By  Jerome  A.  Hart. 

"  Visiting    Vesuvius?"    the    reader    may    exclaim ;    "  why,    you 
speak  as  if  it  were  a  habit." 

Not  exactly  that,  but  one  may  "  visit  "  the 
volcano  without  being  always  received, 
although  Vesuvius  is  generally  at  home.  I 
at  home,  for  when  the  volcanic  monster 
comes  forth  from  his  igneous  caverns,  and  goes  calling  on 
the  cities  and  towns  around  the  base  of  the  mountain,  I  sup- 
pose he  may  be  said  to  be  "  out."  But  that  is  a  subtle  point 
in  volcanic  etiquette. 

Yes,  one  may  visit  Vesuvius  without  being  received.  Such 
has  been  our  experience.  On  our  first  visit  to  Naples, 
the  mountain  was  not  receiving.  A  mild  eruption  had  just 
taken  place.  As  a  result,  the  authorities  had  forbidden  the 
ascent  of  the  volcano.  Soldiers  and  constabulary  surrounded 
the  base  of  the  mountain.  It  is  true  that  daring  young  tour- 
ists, American  and  English,  were  trying  to  break  through  the 
cordon,  and  were  daily  getting  jailed.  But  as  I  had  an  imper- 
fect appreciation  of  the  delights  of  Italian  prisons,  it  required 
little  persuasion  from  the  police  to  keep  me  from  ascending 
the  mountain. 

When  next  we  were  at  Naples,  the  weather  in  sunny  Italy 
was  not  so  sunny  as  it  might  have  been.  Clouds  encircled 
the  mighty  mountain,  and  up  above  them  the  vast  cone  was 
covered  with  a  cap  of  snow.  For  many  days  a  cold,  raw  rain 
poured  down  upon  sunny  Naples.  Occasionally  the  rain 
ceased  for  a  few  minutes,  when  it  hailed.  This  time  the 
authorities  again  forbade  the  ascent  of  the  mountain — at  least 
above  the  observatory,  down  to  which  the  snow-cap  ran ; 
below  the  observatory  nobody  cared  to  go.  Thus  it  happened 
that  it  was  only  possible  for  us  to  visit  Vesuvius  after  having 
visited   Naples  several   times. 

The  road  out  of  Naples  toward  Vesuvius  is  the  same  route 
that  one  follows  to  reach  Pompeii.  When 
intending  to  go  up  the  mountain  the  tourist 
leaves  the  Pompeii  road  at  Resina,  the  modern 
city  which  overlies  Herculaneum.  Apropos 
of  these  two  ancient  towns,  it  is  remarkable  how  many  people 
speak  of  them  as  the  only  buried  cities  in  the  vicinity.  In 
fact,  there  are  many,  and  it  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  men- 
tion them  here.  Next  to  the  two  familiar  ones,  the  one  whose 
name  is  most  frequently  heard  is  Stabiae.  Then  there  is 
Cums,  the  oldest  Greek  colony  in  Italy;  Baiae,  a  watering- 
place,  resort  of  the  Roman  swells  in  the  first  year  of  our 
Lord  ;  Parthenope,  Palaeopolis,  and  Neapolis,  three  buried  cities 
lying  under  modern  Naples,  from  the  last  of  which  it  took  its 
name;  Dikearchia  (later  called  Puteoli,  now  Pozzuoli),  another 
Greek  city  of  large  wealth  and  with  much  commerce;  Capua, 
one  of  the  great  military  posts  of  ancient  Rome,  now  covered 
by  a  modern  city,  also  a  garrison ;  and  Suessola,  whose 
medicinal  springs  held  high  repute  among  the  gouty  epicures 
of  the  Roman  time. 

Cataclysmic  have  been  the  earth's  throes  around  that  labor- 
ing monster,  Vesuvius,  for  some  of  these  buried  cities,  which 
were  great  seaports  two  thousand  years  ago,  are  now  far  in- 
land. On  the  other  hand,  off  shore  at  Baiae,  you  may  look 
down  from  a  boat  when  in  smooth  water,  and  discover  ancient 


The  Road 
Up  the 
Mountain. 


houses  and  streets  far  below  you  at  the  bottom  of  the  sea. 
Some  of  these  buried  cities  were  much  larger  and  more  im- 
portant places  than  either  Pompeii  or  Herculaneum.  Yet  to 
many  travelers  their  names  seem  unfamiliar. 

We  quit  the  Pompeii  road  at  Resina,  just  over  the  entrance 
to  the  gloomy  ruins  of  Herculaneum.  We  soon  leave  the 
town  of  Resina  behind  us,  but  not  its  officials,  for  the  com- 
munal authority  extends  clear  up  to  the  crater.  We  wind 
up  the  mountain  side,  amid  vineyards  and  olive  orchards, 
and  at  every  vineyard  gate  a  hard-featured  peasant  woman, 
with  an  unpleasant  smile,  offers  us  the  "  genuine "  Lacrimae 
Cristi  wine.  Experienced  mountain-climbers  are  said  to  avoid 
it  when  going  up,  or  they  never  "get  there."  I  should  avoid 
it  coming  down,  for  similar  reasons.  It  is  very  fiery,  strong, 
and  heady ;  an  Italian  gentleman  intending  to  stab  an  old 
friend  with  whom  he  had  a  tiff  might  find  it  useful  as  a 
stimulant,  but  I  should  scarcely  recommend  it  as  a  table 
wine. 

Our  road  repeatedly  crosses  the  great  lava  stream  of  1872. 
The  government  road  ends  at  a  point  about  2,400 
feet  above  the  sea,  a  quarter  of  a  mile  beyond  the 
observatory.  Here  a  private  road  begins,  running  for  about 
two  miles  to  the  lower  station  of  the  funicular  railway; 
this  road  was  built  in  1880  by  the  French  company  which 
constructed  the  wire  railway.  Since  1888,  both  this  carriage 
road  and  the  wire  railway  have  belonged  to  the  Cook  tourist 
agency.  The  lower  end  of  the  railway  is  2,600  feet  above  tne 
sea.  The  railway  itself  is  2,600  feet  long,  and  the  upper 
end  is  1,300  feet  higher  than  the  lower.  The  altitude  of  the 
highest  point  on  the  cone  of  Mt.  Vesuvius  varies.  Up  to 
a  recent  period  it  was  4,300  feet,  but  since  the  eruption  of 
eight  years  ago  the  cone  has  been  slowly  sinking.  It  is  now 
some  200  feet  lower  than  in   1895. 

There 


The  Cooks 
and  the 
Tourists. 


good  deal  of  kicking  among  tourists  over  the 
"  monopoly "  of  the  Cook  carriage-road,  but 
I  confess  I  do  not  see  why.  There  can  be  no 
"  monopoly "  on  a  mountain  the  size  of 
Vesuvius.  Eesides,  this  turnpike  is  like  any 
other  private  road — one  must  pay  toll.  The  landlords  of  the 
Hotel  Suisse  and  the  Hotel  Diomede  at  Pompeii  have  both  con- 
structed private  bridle-paths  up  the  mountain,  for  using 
which  paths  people  have  to  pay.  If  the  tourist  does  not 
like  to  pay  toll  on  these  private  roads,  he  can  blaze  a  trail 
of  his  own ;  there  is  certainly  a  good  deal  of  mountain  there 
for  him  to  select  from — it  is  about  thirty  miles  around.  The 
Cook  people  take  a  tourist  from  Naples  to  the  top  of  the  cone 
and  back  (carriage  and  railway  fare  and  guide-fees  included) 
for  21  francs.  If  the  tourist  does  not  come  in  their  carriages, 
they  charge  him  18  francs  for  the  railway  fare  alone,  and  5 
francs  toll  for  the  use  of  the  carriage  road ;  this  makes  23 
francs  to  the  Cook  agency,  in  addition  to  what  he  pays  for  his 
non-Cook  carriage;  this  latter  conveyance  will  cost  him  say  25 
francs,  or  a  total  of  48  francs.  The  Cook  agency  also  charges 
pedestrians  5  francs  toll  over  their  carriage-road.  The  moun- 
tain-climbers who  are  footing  it,  and  are  confronted  with  this 
toll,  are  thereby  plunged  into  a  state  of  frenzy.  But  if  I 
were  a  mountain-climber  (which  I  am  not),  I  think  I  would 
climb  "  across  lots,"  instead  of  taking  the  easy  way  of  a  tourist 
turnpike. 

Lest  this  be  construed  as  sneering  at  the  ardent  mountain- 
climber,  I  may  explain  that  the  Vesuvius  ascent  is  easy.  It 
is  probably  fatiguing,  but  it  is  neither  dangerous  nor  difficult. 
For  that  matter,  it  is  fatiguing  even  to  ascend  the  mountain 
in  a  carriage,  for  it  is  a  long,  dusty,  and  tiresome  trip.  Lest 
some  one  should  cry  out  upon  me  for  a  Vesuvian  vandal,  let 
me  add  that  I  do  not  forget  the  view.  The  view  from 
Vesuvius  is  indeed  magnificent,  but  to  crawl  up  a  steep  and 
dusty  mountain  road  for  several  hours  behind  two  horses  at 
a  slow  walk  does  not  strike  me  as  exhilarating.  The  descent 
is  infinitely  more  pleasurable ;  the  winding  turns  are  made 
more  rapidly  ;  the  view  of  mountains  and  islands,  cities  and 
sea,  changes  at  e\ery  minute.  In  short,  the  ascent  is  not  an 
unalloyed  pleasure  ;  but  the  descent  is  pure  joy. 

In  this  matter  of  mountain-climbing  I  will  admit  that  I  am 
without  shame.  I  have  such  low  tastes  that  I  am  glad  there 
is  a  funicular  railway  up  the  volcano,  or  I  never  should  have 
got  there.  If  I  should  ever  go  again,  I  would  expect  to  go 
the  whole  distance  in  forty  minutes  by  an  electric  railway  for 
a  moderate  sum,  instead  of  spending  four  or  five  hours,  pay- 
ing thirty  or  forty  francs,  and  crawling  in  a  carriage  behind 
two  tired  horses  up  the  mountain  side.  When  we  were  there 
this  winter,  the  Cook  people  were  building  an  electric  railway 
all  the  way  from  Naples  to  the  foot  of  the  funicular  railway, 
which  they  already  own.  It  was  to  be  completed  for  this 
summer's  season  of  tourist  travel ;  very  probably  it  is  in  opera- 
tion now.  Those  horrified  people  who  cry  out  in  indignation 
at  going  all  the  way  up  Vesuvius  by  rail  need  not  get  excited. 
There  are  roads  and  trails  there  still.  If  you  do  not  like 
the  railway,  you  can  drive  on  the  turnpike.  If  you  do  not 
want  to  pay  toll  on  the  turnpike,  you  can  travel  by  trail.  If 
that  is  too  easy,  you  can  hoof  it  across  the  lava  beds.  Thus, 
those  who  don't  like  the  funicular,  can  walk. 


Advice  about 

Tourist 

Agencies. 


It  must  not  be  supposed  that  I  advise  tourists  to  join  the 
"  personally  conducted "  Cook's  parties  who 
are  taken  from  Naples  up  to  the  crater,  four 
in  a  carriage,  at  a  fixed  price.  I  have  no 
doubt  that  they  get  good  value  for  their 
money,  for  whatever  the  Cook  people  do,  they  do  well.  Per- 
sonally, I  object  to  being  jammed  into  a  carriage  with  job-lots 
of  total  strangers  all  day.  Many  people  do  not  object  to  this, 
and  with  them  I  have  no  quarrel.  I  would  rather  pay  more 
and  have  a  whole  carriage — less  company  and  more  room. 
Bad  taste  possibly,  but  I  can't  help  it.  But  I  do  advise  tourists 
to  hire  their  carriages  from  the  Cook  agency.  The  Cook  people 
will  give  you  whatever  you  choose  to  pay  for — from  a  one- 
horse  victoria  to  a  six-in-hand  wagonette.  Furthermore,  they 
have  the  pick  of  the  Naples  horses  and  vehicles;  if 
doubts  this,  and  tries  to  hire  something  on  his  o 


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July  13,  1903. 


either  falls  heir  to  Cook's  leavings,  or  gets  hold  of  drivers 
whom  they  have  dropped  for  extortion. 

There  is  a  good  deal  of  cheap  depreciation  of  these  tourist 
agencies.  But  I  observe  that  those  who  sneer  most  loudly 
at  them,  when  in  London  or  Paris,  are  the  most  dependent 
on  the  agencies  when  in  out-of-the-way  places.  And  with 
reason,  for  it  would  be  almost  impossible  for  the  average 
tourist  to  make  his  way  about  at  all  in  some  Oriental  countries 
without  the  aid  of  the  agencies.  This  is  notably  the  case  in 
Palestine,  where  even  William,  the  War  Lord  of  Germany, 
was  obliged  to  rely  for  saddle-animals,  and  transportation 
facilities  generally,  on  the  Cook  agency.  Kitchener  also  used 
them  to  transport  troops  from  Egypt  into  the  Soudan. 

At  Vesuvius  the  Cooks  have  completely  revolutionized  the 
conditions  which  previously  rendered  the  ascent  intolerable. 
Not  only  are  they  building  a  new  electric  railway,  but  they 
have  shown  great  enterprise  in  operating  the  funicular  rail- 
way, subject  as  it  is  to  many  accidents  of  various  kinds.  Three 
times  when  I  have  been  at  Naples  the  road  has  been  tem- 
porarily stopped.  Once  it  had  been  buried  by  the  drifting 
cinders,  another  time  it  was  covered  with  snow,  and  on  the 
third  occasion  the  upper  end  had  been  wrecked  by  an  eruption. 
In  addition  to  providing  mechanical  means  for  aiding  tour- 
ists, the  Cooks  have  also  shielded  them  from  the  attacks  of 
the  natives.  The  various  communes  around  and  upon  the 
mountain  have  always  lived  on  the  travelers.  For  generations 
they  have  despoiled  tourists  at  their  own  sweet  will,  and  they 
now  resent  their  being  protected  by  this  agency.  But  the 
Cooks  have  brought  them  into  some  sort  of  order,  so  that  it 
is  possible  to  ascend  the  mountain  without  being  robbed. 


Mysterious 

Mountain 

Music. 


All  the  way  up  the  mountain  side  we  were  haunted  by  myste- 
rious music.  Whenever  we  approached  a  bend 
in  the  road,  there  would  arise  from  behind 
a  wall  the  sounds  of  "  Santa  Lucia,"  or 
sometimes  "  Funicular,  funicula."  When  we 
got  round  the  corner  of  the  wall  we  would  find  a  band  of 
wandering  minstrels,  energetically  scraping  fiddles,  plucking 
on  harps,  or  blowing  on  brass  horns ;  sometimes  even  the 
humble  piano-organ  was  lying  in  wait  for  us  behind  great 
blocks  of  lava,  and  would  suddenly  burst  forth  into  volumes 
of  more  or  less  sweet  sound.  But  whenever  I  shook  my  head 
and  waved  a  negative  finger,  saying,  "  Niente,  niente  "  (Italian 
for  "Nit"),  there  would  be  a  sudden  silence,  and  the  musi- 
cians would  disappear.  The  number  of  times  I  terminated 
the  strains  of  "  Santa  Lucia "  between  Resina  and  the  ob- 
servatory would  be  almost  beyond  belief  were  I  to  enumerate 
them.  So  numerous  were  these  mountain  musicians  that  I 
had  my  arm  in  the  air  nearly  all  the  time.  I"  began  to  feel  like 
an  orchestra  conductor.  In  fact,  considering  my  destination, 
my  orchestral  occupation,  and  that  I  was  bound  toward  the 
sulphur  and  brimstone  hole  on  top  of  Vesuvius,  I  might  have 
been  likened  to  Orpheus  on  the  road  to  hell.  But  on  second 
thoughts  the  comparison  would  not  hold,  for  while  Orpheus 
was  moving  the  very  rocks  to  music,  I  was  moving  some  very 
rocky  music  back  to  the  rocks  again. 

At  the  top  of  the  long  drive  up  the  mountain  is  an  inn, 
where  an  excellent  luncheon  can  be  obtained.  There  are  the 
usual  photographs  for  sale,  and  the  usual  register,  or  "  album," 
in  which  nobodies  have  written  nothings — "  thoughts  on  first 
seeing  Vesuvius,  by  Mrs.  Lemuel  Aminidab  Doolittle, 
Moosatockmaguntic,  Maine,  U.  S.  A.,"  or  "  Pensees  sur  la  baie 
de  Naples,  par  Jeanne  Groseille  Poirier,  en  voyage  de  noces 
avec  son  cher  mari,  Hector  Achille  Poirier,  epicier  en  gros, 
Pont-a-Mousson,   France." 

The  funicular  railway  is  like  all  mountain  railways,  and  when 
you  reach  its  top  you  are  at  the  base  of  the 
At  the  cone.     Here  all  must  walk.     Did  I  say  all  ? 

_  Then  I  was  wrong.     Among  the  many  queer 

things  you  see  while  traveling,  not  the  least 
queer  is  the  number  of  imperfect  people  you  see  doing  things. 
It  is  not  uncommon  to  see  a  rich  blind  man  being  led  around 
and  the  sights  described  to  him.  As  for  the  rich  halt  and 
the  wealthy  lame,  they  are  legion.  You  see  people  carried 
in  chairs  by  stalwart  chair-men  in  all  sorts  of  places  abroad. 
You  see  old  people  and  invalids  being  carried  around  gigantic 
ruins  in  Egypt.  You  see  them  continually  being  packed 
around  Pompeii.  But  I  must  admit  I  was  surprised  to  see 
such  people  being  carried  in  chairs  up  to  the  very  brink  of  the 
crater  of  Vesuvius. 

At  the  upper  station  of  the  funicular  railway,  at  the  base 
of  the  coife,  the  first  obligatory  charge  for  guides  is  made. 
You  are  forced  to  take  a  guide  to  the  mouth  of  the  crater 
at  the  fixed  price  of  3.50  lire  per  person — about  70  cents. 
This  fee  must  be  paid — the  volcano  is  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  Commune  of  Resina,  and  the  guides  are  authorized 
officials  and  wear  commune  badges.  The  tax  is  a  little  higher 
than  it  need  be,  but  the  commune  can  scarcely  be  blamed 
for  making  the  taking  of  guides  obligatory.  Many  tourists 
would  dodge  the  tax  if  they  could — some  through  economy, 
some  through  bravado.  But  at  times  guides  are  beyond  ques- 
tion necessary.  Many  lives  would  be  lost  every  year  were 
people  to  attempt  ascending  to  the  crater  without  guides. 
The  cone  is  often  covered  with  snow ;  at  times  the  smoke 
from  the  crater  is  blinding;  the  wind  frequently  fills  the 
air  with  fine  cinders,  so  that  one  can  not  see.  It  would  be 
an  easy  matter  for  a  stranger  to  lose  his  way,  and  even  to  fall 
into  the  crater.  A  ticket  issued  by  the  Commune  of  Resina, 
authorizing  two  travelers  to  visit  the  crater  of  Vesuvius  with 
guide,  reads  as  follows : 

Dalla  Stasione  Superiore 
al 
Cono  Attivo 
Per  comitiva  di  2  Viaggiatori         L.  f.oo 
Tariffa  per  le  guide  del  Vesuvio,  giusta  il 
regolamento   approvato   con   decreto   dell'  III. 
mo.  Signor  Prefrro  della  Provincia  di  Napoli 
F.v.  ..   here   the   Ccok  agency   has   an   inspector   to   keep   the 
s  in  order.  When  I  had  paid  for  our  tickets  and  chosen  our 


guides,  we  began  the  ascent  of  the  cone.  -It  is  only  a  fifteen- 
minute  climb,  but  it  is  pretty  hard  work  while  it  lasts.  The 
loose  cinders'  under  foot  make  walking  very  difficult.  You 
seem  to  slide  back  two  feet  for  every  one  that  you  take  for- 
ward. You  can  go  in  a  chair,  or  you  can  hire  two  guides  to 
take  either  arm  and  a  third  to  push  you  from  behind,  or  you 
can  cling  to  a  stout  strap  hooked  to  the  belt  of  a  single  guide, 
or  you  can  go  it  alone.  Most  people  start  out  to  go  it  alone, 
and  wind  up  by  hiring  assistance. 

The  day  we  went  to  the  crater  a  fierce  gale  was  howling 
around  the  top  of  the  mountain.  About  two  hundred  yards 
to  windward  of  us  a  group  of  men  were  climbing  the  cone 
by  the  Resina  trail ;  from  them,  the  wind  blew  clouds  of  ashes, 
which  filled  our  eyes,  our  ears,  our  noses,  which  stung  and 
blinded  us.  But  at  last  we  reached  the  top,  we  stood  panting 
on  the  brink  of  the  crater,  we  looked  into  the  awful  depths 
below. 

How  did  it  look?  Well,  there  are  many  disillusions  in 
traveling.  It  is,  of  course,  an  interesting  thing  to  climb  to 
the  top  of  one  of  the  great  volcanoes  of  the  world.  It  is  a 
revelation  to  look  into  its  crater.  "  How  did  it  look?"  you 
ask.  Well,  it  looked  exactly  like  the  dump  of  a  mine  or  a 
smelting-works.  I  have  seen  many  such  dumps,  where  masses 
of  heated  cinders  and  slag  lie  at  the  bottom  of  a  big  pit. 
In  these  mine-dumps  one  may  see  smoke  and  steam  pouring 
up  in  vast  volumes  from  the  heated  cinders  and  slag.  So 
was  it  at  the  crater  of  Vesuvius.  The  smoke  was  sulphurous 
and  suffocating.  It  finished  the  work  of  blinding  our  eyes, 
already  half-blinded  with  ashes.  Soon  we  could  see  nothing 
at  all,  still  we  had  the  satisfaction  of  saying  to  ourselves 
that  we  had  seen  the  crater  of  Vesuvius.  Further  to  complete 
the  parallel  between  the  volcano's  crater  and  a  mine-dump, 
the  crater  looked  as  if  it  had  been  made  by  man.  It  was  an 
irregular  rectangle  with  sloping  sides.  Of  course,  this  con- 
formation was  due  to  the  talus  falling  down  from  the  embank- 
ments of  slag,  lava,  and  old  cinders  on  which  we  stood.  The 
shape  of  the  pit  is  continually  changing.  This  particular 
crater  was  only  a  few  days  old,  and  was  already  approaching 
perilously  near  to  the  guardian's  hut. 

We  found  the  guides  civil  enough,  but  there  is  not  a  little 
grumbling  among  the  tourists  whom  they  stop,  and  forbid  the 
ascent  of  the  crater  without  a  guide.  But  it  is  the  law.  When 
the  crater  is  enveloped  in  smoke  or  steam,  as  I  have  said, 
it  is  easy  for  strangers  to  lose  their  way  and  tumble  into 
either  the  main  crater  or  some  of  the  baby  craters,  which  lie 
around  incubating.  While  a  tourist  or  two  would  not  greatly 
matter  to  the  world,  the  Italian  Government  appears  reluctant 
to  lose  one.     Hence  its  loving  care. 


Fighting 
Over  a 

Tourist. 


The  various  communes  jealously  guard  their  privileges.  This 
scene  took  place  under  our  eyes  while  we 
were  at  the  base  of  the  cone.  It  was  so 
absorbing  that  our  own  guides  kept  us  wait- 
ing, and  did  not  climb  the  cone  until  the 
incident  was  ended.  A  tourist  suddenly  hove  in  sight,  who  did 
not  come  from  the  direction  of  the  railway  route.  The 
Resina  guides  immediately  sighted  him,  for  he  was  accom- 
panied by  two  strange  guides.  Like  birds  of  prey,  all  the 
guides  gathered  around.  The  wrangling  which  at  once  broke 
out  was  not  unlike  the  clangor  of  contending  gulls  over  a 
choice  bit  of  offal.  The  tourist,  it  turned  out,  was  accom- 
panied by  guides  from  Pompeii.  The  Resina  guides  fiercely 
resented  their  appearance,  and  ordered  them  to  depart.  The 
Pompeiian  guides  with  equal  fierceness  refused.  Around  the 
poor  tourist  the  battle  raged.  He  spoke  no  language  save 
his  own.  Heavens  knows  what  that  was — Bulgarian,  mayhap, 
or  possibly  Polish — but  he  would  gaze  dumbly  from  time  to 
time  at  the  circle  of  scowling  faces  around  him,  as  though 
he  would  very  much  like  to  know  what  it  was  all  about. 
Just  as  the  guides  were  about  to  come  to  blows  over  their 
prey,  two  carabineers — rural  police  officers — appeared,  of  whom 
there  are  many  on  the  mountain.  With  a  magisterial  air  they 
restored  peace  if  not  silence,  and  then  ordered  the  contending 
factions  to  state  their  case.  It  was  done  at  great  length  and 
in  vociferous  Sicilian,  Neapolitan,  and  Italian.  When  the 
carabineers  had  heard  the  case  at  length,  they  advanced 
gravely  to  a  certain  monument  on  the  mountain,  a  stone 
cairn.  Here  one  of  them  drew  a  line  with  his  toe  in  the 
shifting,  drifting  cinders,  just  such  a  line  as  we  boys  used  to 
draw  when  we  played  "  straight  line  "  for  keeps  or  ran  foot 
races. 

"  Here,"  said  he,  oracularly,  to  the  Pompeiian  guides — "  here 
is  your  limit.  You  can  come  up  this  far  with  your  tourist — 
beyond  that  you  can  not  go.  Thus  says  the  law."  The 
other  carabineer  nodded  with  owlish  gravity. 

With  yells  of  joy  the  Resina  guides  fell  upon  the  hapless 
tourist  who  came  up  the  Pompeii  trail.  Two  of  them  grabbed 
him  by  either  arm,  a  third  hooked  a  strap  into  his  belt  and 
pulled  him  from  in  front,  a  fourth  pushed  him  from  behind, 
and  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye  they  hustled  him  up  the  trail 
toward  the  crater,  while  the  baffled  Pompeiian  guides  re- 
mained behind  on  the  fatal  line,  gnashing  their  teeth. 

When  this  took  place,  our  own  guides,  who  had  been  in- 
terested spectators,  acting  as  a  very  noisy  gallery,  also  took  up 
their  line  of  march,  and  we,  too,  went  up  to  the  crater. 


When  we  left  our  guides  on  the  descent,  and  reached  the 
funicular  railway,  a  sharp-faced  young  woman, 
accompanied  by  a  guide,  got  on  to  the  same 
car  with  us.  The  cars  are  small  ones,  hold- 
ing about  six  people.  Noticing  that  we  were 
speaking  English,  she  asked  whether  we  were  Americans  or 
English  people,  and  being  told  that  we  were  Americans,  at 
once  became  extremely  confidential.  She  had  climbed  the 
crater  in  a  pair  of  shabby  high-heeled  slippers,  which  she 
proceeded  to  remove.  She  explained  this  by  saying  that  she 
had  been  advised  not  to  wear  her  best  shoes  on  the  cone, 
as  the  hot  ashes  would  certainly  ruin  them,  hence  she  had 
worn   these  old  ones.     The  guide  was  carrying  her  hand-bag, 


The  Lady 
with  THE 
Gaiters. 


The  Boy 
with  the 
Sunny  Smile. 

(10  centesimi). 
small    piece    of 


which  she  bade  him  open.  Out  of  it  she  produced  a  pair  of 
new  and  natty  shoes  ;  then  she  began  to  unbutton  a  long  pair 
of  cloth  gaiters,  knee  high ;  when  she  had  removed  these, 
she  began  to  button  her  shiny  shoes — all  this  on  the  open 
car,  with  the  fierce  wind  blowing  her  skirts  about  her  shanks, 
to  the  amazement  of  the  guide,  who  gazed  at  her  in  open- 
mouthed  wonder.  I  must  confess  I  shared  his  surprise.  I 
have  seen  some  odd  things,  but  the  spectacle  of  a  young 
woman  on  Vesuvius  taking  off  a  pair  of  knee-high  gaiters 
in  a  high  wind  in  the  presence  of  a  Neapolitan  guide  and 
some  total  strangers  was  certainly  surprising. 

* 

On  our  way  down  the  mountain,  a  beautiful  Italian  boy 
approached,  put  his  hand  on  our  carriage,  and 
gave  us  a  sunny  smile  (25  centesimi).  He 
walked  along  a  few  yards,  and  then  went 
forward  and  patted  the  near  horse's  flank 
He  stooped  down  and  presented  to  madama  a 
lava  (15  centesimi) .  I  purposely  put  the 
price  low,  as  Vesuvius  is  entirely  composed  of  lava  and  is  30 
miles  around.  Again  he  walked  along  in  silence  a  few  yards, 
and  then  remarked  "fine  day"  (10  centesimi).  He  saw  a 
yellow  flower  by  the  side  of  the  road,  which  he  gathered  and 
presented  to  madama  with  another  sunny  smile  (35 
centesimi). 

Here  I  interfered.  "  Fair  youth,"  said  I,  "  waste  not  thy 
time  upon  heedless  and  unappreciative  travelers  like  our- 
selves. We  need  no  little  pieces  of  lava ;  our  horses  care 
not  for  caresses ;  we  have  no  use  for  sunny  Italian  smiles. 
Here  is  a  coin,  fair  youth ;  it  is  the  smallest  I  have ;  had  I  a 
smaller  it  would  be  yours,  but  take  it  with  my  blessing,"  and 
here  I  handed  him  a  soldo,  which  is  about  a  cent. 

There  used  to  be  a  small  coin  current  in  Italy  which  I  have 
not  seen  of  late  years.  It  was  worth  about  a  fifth  of  a  cent, 
and  was  called,  I  believe,  a  baioccho.  I  have  had  the  habit, 
when  returning  home  after  a  trip,  of  keeping  my  uncurrent 
coin  as  souvenirs.  The  experienced  traveler  always  endeavors 
to  cross  a  frontier  with  as  little  as  possible  of  the  coin  of  the 
land  he  is  leaving.  In  this  he  is  actively  seconded  by  the 
natives,  who  do  not  confine  their  efforts  to  their  own  coin — 
they  endeavor  to  relieve  him  of  his  own  as  well.  They  are 
generally  quite  successful.  However  that  may  be,  the  seasoned 
traveler  knows  he  will  lose  heavily  in  dealing  with  the  money- 
changers on  the  frontier,  so  at  his  last  stop — in  France,  let  us 
say — he  usually  secures  just  enough  French  money  to  carry 
him  to  the  German  line.  But  there  he  may  have  a  few  sous 
left ;  correspondingly,  when  he  leaves  Germany,  a  few  pfennig ; 
when  he  leaves  Austria,  a  few  kreutzer ;  when  he  leaves 
Turkey,  a  few  nickel  piastres,  or  7netallik.  On  returning  home 
I  have  always  deposited  these  uncurrent  coins  in  the  extended 
basket  of  a  beautiful  flower-girl  in  my  room — a  porcelain 
girl,  by  the  way,  with  turquoise  eyes  and  a  dazzling  Dresden- 
china  smile.  She  has  a  most  remarkable  collection  in  her 
basket,  and  among  the  coins  I  recalled  distinctly  several  of 
these  baiocchi,  some  bearing  the  head  of  Pio  Nono,  some  the 
features  of  King  Bomba  of  Naples,  and  all  worth,  as  I  said, 
about  a  fifth  of  a  cent.  How  I  yearned  for  one  of  them  1  It 
would  have  filled  my  soul  with  joy  had  I  been  able  to  present 
a  baioccho  to  my  Vesuvius  youth  with  the  sunny  smile. 
But  I  gave  him  the  smallest  I  had. 

The  handsome  boy  gazed  at  the  copper  coin  with  the  ex- 
pression of  a  man  who  has  just  bitten  into  a  bad  oyster.  He 
protested  that  he  did  not  want  it,  and  tried  to  give  it  back  to 
me.  He  said  he  was  not  after  money — that  he  desired  to  walk 
with  us,  partly  for  the  pleasure  of  the  promenade,  and  partly 
for  the  pleasure  of  our  society. 

"  Hark  ye,  good  youth,"  quoth  I,  "  waste  not  your  time 
upon  us.  The  coin  which  I  have  presented  to  you  is  all  you 
will  get.  Far  down  the  dusty  road  behold  yon  carriage.  In 
it  there  is  a  Chicago  millionaire  with  his  wife,  his  mother- 
in-law,  and  eke  his  wife's  sister.  He  is  rich  and  generous.  I 
am  poor  and  mean.  Go — fly  to  the  Chicago  millionaire.  Give 
the  ladies  yellow  flowers.  Give  them  of  the  priceless  lava 
of  which  the  mighty  mountain  is  composed.  Give  them  your 
sunny  smile,  and  then  touch  the  Chicago  man — I  mean,  touch 
the    Chicago   man's   heart." 

The  youth  with  the  sunny  smile  understood  me.  He  did  not 
like  me  much  for  my  cent,  but  he  followed  my  advice,  and  like 
the  mountain  chamois  he  bounded  over  the  lava  blocks,  making 
a  short  cut  to  the  Chicago  man's  carriage.  During  the  drive 
down  the  mountain  I  noticed  how  assiduous  he  was  in  his 
attentions,  and  that  the  Chicago  ladies'  laps  were  covered 
with  beautiful  wild  flowers,  gathered  by  the  road-side,  and 
that  the  very  air  was  perfumed  with  sunny  Italian  smiles. 

But  when  the  Chicago  man's  carriage  was  at  the  foot  of 
the  toll  road,  I  heard  a  violent  altercation  going  on,  and 
stopped  to  see  what  was  the  matter.  The  youth  with  the 
sunny  smile  was  demanding  of  the  Chicago  millionaire  the 
sum  of  five  francs.  He  said  he  had  been  hired  by  that  gentle- 
man to  walk  along  by  the  carriage,  push  it  down  hill,  pick 
flowers,  gather  lava,  and  generally  to  make  himself  useless. 
The  bystanders  all  agreed  with  him — they  were  all  guides, 
carriage-drivers,  and  hotel-touts,  and  therefore  utterly  un- 
prejudiced. They  showed  the  Chicago  man  that  he  was  wrong 
in  grinding  the  face  of  the  poor,  so  he  reluctantly  dug  up  five 
francs,  and  presented  it  to  the  youth  with  the  sunny  smile. 

Ah,  he  was  indeed  a  beautiful  boy,  with  his  jet-black  eyes, 
his  curling  hair,  and  his  bright  and  sunny  smile.  But  I  am 
glad  I  passed  him  up  to  the  Chicago  man. 


Secretary  Moody  is  given  as  authority  for  a  remarkable 
statement.  "  When,  recently,  I  traveled  with  the  President," 
he  is  reported  to  have  said,  "I  remarked  to  him  the  possibilities 
of  personal  danger,  and  he  said  that,  if  an  attempt  was  made 
upon  him,  he  would  condone  the  lynching  of  the  guilty  party. 
'  But,'  said  I,  '  are  you  certain  they  would  secure  the  right 
person  in  such  a  moment?  Are  you  certain  that  they  might 
not  even  take  you?'  The  question  had  never  presented 
itself  to  the  President  in  that  light  before,  and  he  agreed  that 
there  were  dangers  which  deprived  lynching  of  justification." 


July  13,  19C3. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


21 


AN    INSPIRED    AVALANCHE. 


The  Unique  Weapon  ol  Henry  Parthniss. 


It  was  two  years  ago  that  the  greatest  hydraulic  pipe 
line  of  its  kind  in  the  world  was  completed  at  the  noted 
Sweepstake  Mine  in  Trinity  County.  The  contractors 
who  moved  the  materials  for  twenty  miles  of  steel  pipq 
over  steep  grades  from  Redding  to  the  mine,  sixty 
miles  away,  point  to  their  achievement  as  a  record. 
They  are  proud,  too,  that  during  all  the  time  that  they 
had  six  hundred  men  employed  in  difficult  and  often 
dangerous  work,  only  one  life  was  sacrificed,  and  that 
there  was  only  one  serious  mishap  before  the  line  was 
turned  over — one  beyond  human  foreseeing.  But  that 
mishap  cost  the  contractors  several  thousand  dollars 
for  repairs,  and  the  remarkable  circumstances  of  it 
cost  them  a  great  deal  of  perplexity.  While  the  great 
pipe,  winding  among  the  mountains,  was  being  tested 
with  a  small  volume  of  water,  the  flow  suddenly  ceased 
late  one  night.  A  force  of  men  hastened  along  the 
line,  and  in  a  few  hours  found  the  seat  of  trouble.  A 
landslide  of  thousands  of  cubic  yards  of  gravel  and 
earth  had  swept  away  a  long  section  of  pipe  from  a 
shelf  where  it  follow-ed  along  the  mountain  side  and 
the  water  was  forming  a  lake  in  the  canon.  Land- 
slides are  not  uncommon  in  the  steep  mountains  of 
Trinity,  but  they  come  after  the  phenomenal  rains, 
and  though  this  slide  came  down  a  precipitous  ravine, 
there  had  been  no  rain  for  months,  and  how1  it  could 
have  started  was  a  puzzle  which  neither  old  residents 
nor  contractors  could  solve.  A  hunter,  who  camped 
half  a  mile  away  in  the  woods  that  night,  told  of  having 
heard  a  sound  like  the  muffled  roar  of  a  cannon,  but  this 
was  thought  not  unnatural  when  tons  of  flying  gravel 
struck  upon  a  half-empty  steel  cylinder  thirty  inches 
in  diameter,  and  neither  this  nor  any  other  circum- 
stance shed  light  upon  the  strange  disaster. 

If  old  Henry  Parthniss  had  not  been  born  with  a 
streak  of  ill  luck  in  his  fortunes,  he  himself  must  have 
been  the  discoverer  of  the  famous  Sweepstake  Mine. 
It  was  the  Coffee  Creek  boom  which  carried  the 
veteran  miner  into  the  section,  and  after  failing  to  find 
"  pay  dirt  "  there,  he  went  to  Weaverville,  loaded  his 
burro  with  supplies,  and  struck  off  through  the  woods 
into  virgin  territory.  He  camped  in  the  Sweepstake 
Ravine  for  a  week,  and  prospected  the  decomposed 
bowlders,  but  somehow  he  did  not  quite  get  into  the 
ancient  channel  where  the  gold  was  later  found.  Leaving 
a  trail  of  pick-marks  behind  him,  he  moved  on  ten 
miles  to  wild,  rough  Grizzly  Creek,  which  is  so  nearly 
inaccessible  that  none  but  bear  hunters  had  ever  gone 
there.  Just  as  in  the  Sweepstake  Channel,  the  rock 
was  decomposed  and  very  soft.  He  worked  into  wdiat 
seemed  to  be  a  rotten  ledge  and  found  that  the  water 
from  the  hillside  above  had  percolated  through  it  for 
unnumbered  years.  There  was  evidence  of  gold  having 
been  present  in  the  formation,  but  it  had  washed  out 
and  away.  Parthniss  believed  that  at  a  depth  he  would 
find  the  yellow  metal  undisturbed,  and  he  set  to  work 
with  a  firm  faith  in  his  ultimate  "  miner's  luck."  At 
the  end  of  a  year  he  had  driven  a  tunnel,  sunk  a  shaft, 
and  taken  out  enough  gold  in  small  free  bits  to  buy  pro- 
visions on  his  infrequent  trips  to  Weaverville.  He  re- 
quired little,  and  the  burro  lived  on  manzanita  and 
scenery.  When  he  was  beginning  to  grow  impatient 
he  learned  of  the  discovery  of  the  Sweepstake  Mine, 
and  of  its  sale  to  a  syndicate  for  a  fabulous  amount. 
He  went  back  to  work  with  renewed  strength.  The 
Sweepstake  people  had  let  contracts  for  great  pipe 
lines  to  bring  water  to  their  giants,  and  one  line  was  to 
tap  Grizzly  Creek,  close  to  the  rude  cabin  he  had  built. 
When,  at  length,  the  pipe  crew  camped  for  a  couple  of 
days  on  the  creek  to  lay  the  last  section  of  pipe  and 
build  a  water-gate,  they  found  an  old  miner  digging 
furiously  in  a  long  tunnel. 

The  occasional  grains  of  free  gold  were  no  longer 
found  as  Parthniss  left  the  surface,  but  he  kept  on, 
and  just  as  his  supplies  were  all  but  exhausted,  he  un- 
covered the  most  peculiar  ledge  he  had  ever  seen.  There 
was  dark,  almost  red,  metal  in  it.  and  the  vein  showed 
every  indication  of  widening  with  depth.  Parthniss 
threw  down  his  pick  and  set  off  w'ith  the  burro  over 
the  trackless  mountains  to  buy  more  bacon  and  powder 
at  Weaverville.  As  he  left  his  cabin  he  saw  two  men 
turning  water  into  the  pipe  at  the  water-gate.  The 
pipe  was  to  run  one-third  full  for  two  weeks,  they  told 
him,  in  order  to  test  it  before  venturing  the  full  pres- 
sure. 

The  fame  of  the  Sweepstake  bonanza  had  spread 
over  the  East.  Mining  experts  had  quietly  arrived  at 
Weaverville  to  look  for  other  good  things  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. One  of  these  was  Tohn  Leslie  Hen- 
dricks, M.  E..  confidential  agent  of  New  York  capital, 
which  had  profited  heavily  by  backing  his  advice,  and 
was  ready  to  do  it  again.  He  met  Henry  Parthniss.  and 
the  old  miner  told  him  about  the  Mountain  Lion  Claim 
— of  the  new  ledge  which  was  the  queerest  he  had 
ever  seen,  but  which  he  believed  was  full  of  gold. 
Hendricks  was  much  interested.  He  did  not  relish  the 
prospect  of  making  the  difficult  trip  to  the  claim  until 
he  had' substantial  evidence  that  it  was  worth  while. 
but  he  would  like  to  examine  that  peculiar  ore  and  test 
it.  Parthniss  scratched  his  head.  Eager  to  keep  at 
work  in  the" tunnel,  he  did  not  want  to  make  a  trip  to 
Weaverville  every  time  he  had  a  small  quantity  of  ore 
ready,  and  he  did  not  want  to  miss  this  opportunitv 
of  getting  expert  opinion  on  his  ledge,  with  the  possi- 
bility of  a  sale.  A  bright  idea  came  to  him.  There  was 
the  pipe  with  a  stream  of  water  now  running  down  it. 


"  Do  you  ever  get  over  to  the  Sweepstake  ?"  he 
asked. 

"  Why,  I  am  bunking  over  there  to  study  that  novel 
proposition  in  the  way  of  one  of  the  biggest  gold  mines 
on  record." 

"Good!"  cried  Parthniss;  "what's  to  hinder  my 
enclosing  my  specimens  in  a  powder  can  every  evening, 
dropping  them  into  the  pipe,  and  you  watching  for  the 
can  at  midnight  at  the  dump  at  the  Sweepstake,  and 
nobody  ever  being  the  wiser?"  And  thus  was  the  plan 
arranged. 

John  Rodman  and  Charley  Matthews,  miners  em- 
ployed by  the  Sweepstake,  carefully  gauged  the  flow 
of  water  through  the  gate  until  it  was  at  the  required 
volume,  and  sat  down  to  rest. 

"  Let's  go  up  there  wrhile  the  old  man  is  away  and 
see  what  he  has  got  in  his  tunnel,"  suggested  Rodman. 
In  ten  minutes  they  were  bending  over  the  Parthniss 
ledge  with  a  candle.  Rodman  broke  off  a  piece  of  ore 
and  held  it  close  to  the  light. 

"Whew!  Do  you  recognize  that  stuff,  Matt?  I'm 
an  Injun  if  it's  not  the  very  same  kind  of  decomposed 
gold  as  the  Sweepstake.  I'll  bet  a  good  deal  that  this 
old  quartz-miner  hasn't  the  slightest  suspicion  that  he 
has  struck  a  ledge  of  the  real  thing." 

Matthewrs  examined  the  piece,  his  eyes  sparkling,  and 
agreed. 

"  Listen  here,"  began  Rodman,  excitedly,  "  let's  buy 
this  claim  before  the  old  boy  finds  out  what  he  has  got, 
and  I  guess  we  won't  need  to  worry  about  the  Sweep- 
stake any  more." 

Henry  Parthniss,  tired  but  happy,  was  cooking  his 
supper  when  the  men  he  had  seen  turning  water  into 
the  pipe  appeared,  accepted  his  invitation  to  eat,  and 
soon  offered  him  two  hundred  dollars  for  his  claim. 
"  We're  willing  to  bet  that  much  on  a  blind  propo- 
sition," explained  Rodman. 

Parthniss  shook  his  head.  He  had  worked  too  long 
on  that  claim  to  sell  it  for  a  song,  and  besides,  he  wasn't 
talking  sale  until  he  got  a  little  expert  opinion  on  his 
ledge.  Yes,  one  of  the  experts  at  Weaverville  was 
going  to  test  his  samples.  No,  the  expert  was  not  com- 
ing to  the  claim — not  right  away;  a  little  bird  was 
going  to  carry  the  samples  out  to  him. 

Midway  between  Grizzly  Creek  and  the  Sweepstake 
Mine  several  lengths  of  pipe  had  been  left  out  and 
an  open  flume  had  been  built  in  the  breach.  At  this 
point  the  volume  of  water  could  be  measured  to  ascer- 
tain if  any  were  leaking  and  the  pressure  could  be 
gauged.  Late  that  night,  John  Rodman  and  Charley 
Matthews  sat  on  the  side  of  the  flume,  smoking  their 
pipes,  and  occasionally  dropping  their  recording  in- 
struments into  the  stream.  "  Matt,  there's  untold  quan- 
tities of*  iron  in  these  mountains,  and  when  we  get  a 
railroad  in  here  to  haul  it  out  there'll  be  fortunes  for 
lots  of  us.  I've  got  some  good  claims  myself,  where 
the  stuff  sticks  out  of  the  ground."  He  fished  a  handful 
of  shining  bits  from  his  pocket  and  displayed  them 
on  his  palm. 

"  Hello,  what  the  devil  is  this  ?"  exclaimed  Matthews, 
as  he  shot  an  arm  into  the  water  and  drew  forth  a  tin 
powder-can.  Rodman  uttered  a  rough  exclamation,  and 
held  the  lantern.  Matthews  unscrewed  the  top,  looked 
into  the  can,  and  emptied  a  quantity  of  small  pieces  of 
ore  into  his  hat. 

"  Well,  I'm  danged !"  broke  out  Rodman ;  "  the  gold 
out  of  the  old  man's  claim,  as  I'm  a  sinner.  So  this 
pipe  is  the  little  bird,  is  it?  And,  of  course,  Mr. 
Expert  is  waiting  down  at  the  dump.  All  right.  But  I 
guess  he  won't  buy  the  claim  we  happen  to  want  our- 
selves." 

He  reached  for  the  empty  can,  poured  the  samples 
from  his  iron  claim  into  it,  screwed  on  the  top,  and 
dropped  the  can  back  into  the  water. 

"  Rod,  you're  a  genius,"  was  his  comrade's  expression, 
and  the  two  fell  to  the  scheme  which  they  intended 
should  cause  the  expert  to  declare  the  Mountain  Lion 
Claim  nothing  more  than  a  ledge  of  iron-ore.  and  too 
remote  from  transportation  facilities  to  be  of  any  value 
whatever.  Then  old  Henry  Parthniss  would  be  glad 
enough  to  take  two  hundred  dollars  for  his  mine. 

Foreman  Nelson  was  sorry  to  lose  two  good  men  next 
morning,  but  if  Rodman  and  Matthews  had  their  hearts 
set  upon  going  prospecting,  of  course  he  would  have 
to  pay  them  off  and  let  them  go.  They  set  out  with 
supplies,  doubled  back  through  the  woods,  and  camped 
at  sundown  close  to  the  section  of  flume  in  the  great 
pipe  line.  Again  they  waited  on  the  flume  as  midnight 
approached,  but  they  showed  no  interest  in  the  flow  of 
water  more  than  to  curse  the  current  for  being  so 
slow.  At  last  a  tin  object  in  the  water  flashed  back  the 
light.  Ah !  Just  as  they  expected,  the  little  bird  was 
to  fly  again  that  night.  Ten  minutes  later  the  men 
climbed  up  the  hill  to  their  camp.  A  pound  of  rich 
samples  from  the  Mountain  Lion  Mine  was  in  Rod- 
man's pocket,  while  a  tin  can  bobbed  on  down  the  pipe, 
carrying  some  pretty  bits  of  iron-ore  to  a  man  who  was 
waiting  at  the  camp. 

On  the  two  following  nights  a  traveling  can  was  in- 
tercepted, and  its  cargo  of  gold  changed  to  a  cargo  of 
iron.  As  night  again  settled  upon  the  mountains, 
Matthews  said  to  his  partner:  "I  guess  that  expert 
has  seen  enough  to  make  him  not  want  to  lose  any 
more  sleep  to  catch  cans  full  of  iron  shooting  out  of 
the  pipe,  and  I'm  tired  enough  to  want  to  do  a  little 
sleeping  myself  before  the  night's  half  gone." 

"Don't  be  a  fool,"  returned  his  partner;  "if  a  single 
can  of  the  real  stuff  got  by  now,  you  know  it  would 
ruin  our  scheme." 

Matthews  had  been  drinking,  and  was  eager  for  an 
argument.     The  determination  of  the  other  prevailed, 


but  they  continued  their  loud  words  as  they  slid  down 
the  gravelly  bed  of  the  steep  little  ravine  and  took 
positions  on  the  pipe  line. 

Old  Henry  Parthniss  had  worked  feverishly  in  get- 
ting out  this  strange  sort  of  yellow  metal  from  his 
ledge,  and  sending  the  choicest  specimens  of  it  down 
the  pipe.  But  no  answer  came  back,  and  the  suspense 
wore  upon  him.  He  had  told  the  mine  expert  that  he 
would  return  to  Weaverville  in  a  week.  But  surely 
he  had  already  sent  down  enough  of  the  stuff  to  prove 
whether  or  not  it  was  gold  which  marked  his  ledge  in 
widening  lines,  and  he  could  not  wait  a  week  for  his 
answer.  On  the  day  that  closed  with  the  two  novel 
highwaymen  quarreling  by  the  flume,  he  had  poked  the 
donkey  out  of  sleep  at  daylight  and  headed  him  across 
the  ridge  toward  Weaverville.  By  noon  he  was  sitting 
with  Hendricks  in  a  room  of  the  hotel. 

The  mining  expert  was  trying  to  break  it  gently  to 
the  old  man.  "Yes,  your  ledge  is  worth  holding,  and 
when  the  time  comes  when  iron-ore  can  be  handled 
to  advantage  here  you  will  make  a  stake." 

"Man,  you  are  wild!"  cried  the  miner;  "there  is  no 
iron  in  my  claim." 

Hendricks  took  some  dark  samples  from  his  pocket. 
"  These  are  unmistakably  iron,  without  a  trace  of  gold 
among  them." 

"  But  those  are  not  from  my  mine,"  exclaimed  Parth- 
niss. Hendricks  went  out  and  fetched  a  box  containing 
all  the  ore  specimens  which  had  come  to  him  down  the 
flume  by  their  night  express.  Parthniss  was  amazed. 
He  showed  a  particle  of  the  real  ore  which  he  chanced 
to  have  with  him,  and  the  two  men  agreed  that  some- 
body was  tampering  with  the  cans  which  traveled  the 
flume  in  the  dark. 

The  miner  wore  out  many  sticks  in  clubbing  the 
burro  back  to  Grizzly  Creek  in  the  fastest  time  he  had 
ever  made  in  going  the  distance.  His  rage  grew  as  he 
traveled.  He  reached  his  tunnel,  dug  out  a  few  speci- 
mens, put  them  into  a  can  and  the  can  into  the  mouth 
of  the  pipe,  and  then,  supperless  and  neglecting  even  to 
empty  his  pockets  of  things  brought  from  the  town,  he 
set  off  down  the  pipe  line.  The  flow  in  the  pipe  was 
no  swifter  than  an  excited  man  could  walk,  and  Parth- 
niss, forgetting  that  he  was  already  leg-weary  and 
gaunt,  fought  his  way  through  the  brush  at  places 
w-here  he  could  make  short  cuts  and  gain  upon  his 
unseen  companion.  He  believed  he  was  keeping  some 
distance  ahead  of  the  floating  can. 

Tirelessly  he  strode  along  for  miles.  He  knew  where 
the  section  of  flume  was  built  in  the  pipe  line,  and 
knew,  too,  that  by  scaling  the  bluff  just  before  he 
reached  the  flume  he  could  save  himself  some  difficult 
walking.  He  had  gone  not  a  hundred  yards  along  the 
bluff  when  he  stumbled  over  the  stake  rope  of  a  tent, 
the  tent  being  screened  by  trees  from  his  notice  in  the 
semi-darkness.  As  he  got  up,  his  muttered  words  were 
cut  short  by  the  sound  of  voices.  Men  were  quarreling 
somewhere  near  at  hand.  He  moved  cautiously  along, 
until  he  stood  at  the  head  of  the  steep  little  ravine. 
Peering  down  a  hundred  feet,  he  saw  the  figures  of 
two  men  sitting  upon  the  side  of  the  flume,  and  pres- 
ently the  wrangling  died  out  as  one  of  them  gave  his 
attention  to  finding  a  match  and  lighting  a  lantern. 
Parthniss  knew  this  place.  The  narrow  little  ravine 
was  like  a  gash  in  the  face  of  the  bluff.  The  rain  had 
caused  many  a  landslide  to  shoot  down  here,  and  when 
the  contractors  were  building  the  pipe  line  they  had 
spoken  of  the  loose  gravel  in  the  ravine  with  misgiv- 
ings. 

The  man  who  had  lighted  the  lantern  held  it  close 
to  his  face  as  he  turned  the  wick,  and  Parthniss  recog- 
nized Jack  Rodman,  who  had  offered  him  two  hundred 
dollars  for  his  mine. 

"  Swing  the  light  over  the  flume."  commanded  the 
other  man.  whom  Parthniss  recognized  as  Charley 
Matthews ;  "  that  can  of  red  rocks  ought  to  be  due  about 
now  if  it's  coming  to-night." 

The  old  miner's  hands  clutched  as  intuition  revealed 
the  whole  plan  to  him.  In  a  flash  he  saw  how  two 
wretched  rascals  were  all  but  succeeding  in  their  plot 
to  rob  him  of  the  treasure  which  had  cost  him  years 
of  struggle  and  heartache.  The  involuntarv  cry  in 
his  breast  for  revenge  was  all  but  audible.  His  hands 
sought  a  ready  weapon.  He  flung  himself  against  a 
great  log  at  his  feet  to  heave  it  down  upon  them,  but 
the  weight  resisted  his  strength.  Even  now  the  robbers 
had  caught  the  can  and  were  emptying  its  contents — 
his  gold ! 

Old  Henry  Parthniss  passed  his  hands  swiftly 
through  his  pockets,  though  he  knew  he  had  no  weapon 
upon  him.  From  inside  of  his  flannel  shirt  he  drew 
out  a  parcel  of  stuff  which  he  had  purchased  to  use  in 
opening  up  his  ledge.  He  whipped  off  the  wrappings 
and  selected  the  first  of  the  candle-like  sticks.  Into  the 
loose  gravel  at  his  feet  he  thrust  it  until  only  the  end 
protruded.  In  another  moment  he  had  strung  a  fuse. 
While  the  men  on  the  flume  bent  over  his  can  of  gold, 
Parthniss  struck  a  match  in  the  shadow  of  his  coat, 
stooped  to  the  ground  with  it,  then  turned  and  noise- 
lessly ran  back  from  the  brink. 

Before  the  explosion  of  the  dynamite  stick  had  fairly 
begun  its  deep  reverberations  among  the  peaks,  start- 
ling the  quiet  night  into  a  strange  din.  thousands  of 
tons  of  gravel  and  loose  earth  had  shot  down  the  ra- 
vine, carrying  into  the  canon  below  everything  in  its 
path,  and  particularly  a  section  nf  the  great  Sweep- 
stake pipe  line  and  two  men.  who  must  have  been  dead 
from  the  shock  even  before  being  swept  by  th 
earth  down  into  their  deep,  deep  grave. 

Rufus  M.  ? 

San  Francisco,  July,  1003. 


22 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  13,  1903. 


THE  NEW    CARLYLE    LETTERS. 


James    Crichton  -  Browne's    Fierce    Attack    on   James    Anthony 
Froude,  Thomas  Carlyle's  Friend,  Biographer,  and  Literary 
Executor — Extracts  from  Mrs.  Carlyle's  Letters. 


The   "  New  Letters  and  Memorials   of  Jane   Welsh 
Carlyle,"  annotated  by  Thomas  Carlyle,  and  edited  by 
Alexander  Carlyle,  with  an  introduction  by  Sir  James 
^richton-Browne,    instead    of     settling     the     Carlyle- 
rroude  controversy,  seems  only  to  have  stirred  up  an- 
ther    literary    tempest,    more    acrimonious    even    than 
before.    In  England,  especially,  the  reviews  and  friends 
nd  admirers   of  Carlyle   and  Froude  have  come  out 
,-ith  bitter  comments  in  the  magazines.     One  journal 
peaks  of  the  whole  affair  as  the  "  Carlyle  Vendetta." 
In  the  Fortnightly  Review,  W.   S.  Lilly   supports   Sir 
ames     Crichton-Browne    in   his    attack   on     Froude. 
There  is  a  class  of  pseudomaniacs,"  he  says,  "just  as 
lere  is  a  class  of  kleptomaniacs;  and  it  was  Froude's 
misfortune  that  he  belonged  to  it."     Ronald  MacNeill, 
in  the  Contemporary  Review,  prophesies  Froude's  vin- 
dication, while  in  the  National  Review,  E.  T.  Cook  takes 
the  pacific  middle  ground,   observing  that  "  the  many 
attacks  on  Mr.  Froude  seem  to  me  to  be  out  of  place, 
:>r  the  life-story,  which  he  disclosed,  requires  surely 
no  violent  partisanship  on  either  side."     Andrew  Lang, 
'•i   the   London   Morning  Post,   confesses    to   an    un- 
alterable belief  that  Froude,  as  historian  or  biographer, 
never  consciously  and  knowingly  gave  a  false  impres- 
sion.    That  it  is  easy  for  meddlers  in  history  to  make 
mistake,  Mr.  Lang  admits,  and  adds:     "  I  have  done 
3    from    misunderstanding,    or    from    that    indolence 
.hich,  when  we  have  found  a  fact  to  suit  our  purpose, 
linds  us  to  a  fact  which  upsets  or  damages  our  theory. 
Having  got  his  desirable   fact,  an  author  either  does 
not  read  on.  or  does  so  in  a  mental  condition  which 
'  linds  him  to  the  relative  values  of  what  he  finds  re- 
nrded.    This  is  an  error  of  the  mind;  it  is  not  a  proof 
of  '  the  will  to  create  a  false  impression.'  " 

That  Froude  emasculated  and  cut  the  letters  so  as  to 
rove  his  contention  that  the  Carlyles  were  not  happy 
in   their  home  life,   is  plain  to  be   seen   after   reading 
le   "  New   Letters,"  but   the  bitter   abuse   of   Froude 
:>und  all  through  these  pages  is  too  savage  to  be  just. 
fore    than    this,    the    systematic    attempt    to    magnify 
Carlyle's  virtues  and  to  belittle  those  of  his  wife  is  too 
-  laborate   to  be   convincing.     Carlyle   is   eulogized   as 
"  a    supremely    great    and    good    man,"     while     Mrs. 
'arlyle  is  described  as  a  victim  of  "  masked  insanity  " 
and  of  the  morphine  habit.     "  Few  positions  more  dis- 
tressing can  be  conceived  of,"  says  Sir  James  Crichton- 
Hrowne,    in    his    introduction,    "than    that    of    Carlyle 
"ho,   while  wrestling  with   a  heavy  and  brawny  task 
and   himself   harassed   by   hypochondria,    had    to   bear 
the  incessant  pin-pricks,  aye!  and  stilleto  plunees,  too. 
of  an  ailing,  unreasonable,  and  hot-tempered  wife,  pos- 
sessed by  groundless  jealousy." 

Sir  James  says  of  the  Carlyle  memoirs  and  letters 
■  dited  by  Anthony  Froude : 

They  opened  the  floodgates  of  malevolence,  supplied  all  the 
=.hams.  quacks,  and  fools — twentv-seven  million  in  number 
— and  sects  and  coteries  whom  Carlvle  had  scourqed  in  his 
ifetime  with  nasty  missiles  with  which  to  pelt  his  memory, 
.nd  shocked  even  fair-minded  people  by  the  contrast  they 
ugeested  between  the  nobility  of  his  teaching  and  the  seem- 
ingly crabbed  and  selfish  temper  of  his  life.  Froude  first 
-hattered  Carlyle's  reputation  in  the  "  Reminiscences."  and 
continued  through  the  subsequent  volumes,  although  it  must 
tie  admitted  with  a  diminuendo  movement  in  the  last  two.  to 
.'rind  it  to  powder.  He  succeeded  in  producing  a  false  and 
•orbidding  presentment  of  the  man  he  was  under  a  solemn 
obligation  to  limn  faithfully.  It  is  impossible  to  believe  that 
Froude  contemplated  or  foresaw  the  evil  he  wrought. 

Sir  James  adds: 

Whatever  secondary  influences  may  have  contributed  to 
■mbitter    or    exasperate    Froude   while    chronicling    the    "  Life 

of  Carlyle,"  it  is  always  to  be  borne  in  mind  that  it  was  the 

preconceived    idea    that    was    the    primary    source    of    all    his 

errors.  It  was  deeply  rooted  in  his  mind  that  Carlyle  had. 
hroughout    their    whole    union,    behaved    badly    to    his    wife. 

and  had  deputed  him,  as  a  sort  of  literary  undertaker. 
o    superintend    a   posthumous    penance    in    the    publication    of 

nis  confessions.     No  wonder  that  Froude  had  been   described. 

in  his  editorial  capacity  in  relation  to   Carlyle.   as  like  a  man 

driving  a  hearse. 

Sir  James  admits  that  Froude  may  have  been  the 
recipient  of  some  remorseful  confidences  from  Carlyle, 
but  remarks: 

Even  had  he.  in  the  plainest  terms,  professed  remorse  and 
set  forth  the  grounds  of  it.  Froude  should  have  been  chary  in 
accepting  the  statement.  It  is  characteristic  of  men  of  fine  in- 
Lellect  that,  when  nipped  by  the  autumnal  frosts,  they  manifest 
excessive  testiness  on  the  one  hand,  and  excessive  self-re- 
proach on  the  other,  and  that  when  bereaved  they  arraign 
themselves  without  a  jot  of  justification  of  high  crimes  and 
misdemeanors  against  the  lost  one. 

As  for  the  letters  themselves,  they  abundantly  bear 
out  Mrs.  Carlyle's  well-established  reputation  as  a 
brilliant  correspondent — a  born  letter-writer.  Clever 
in  the  extreme,  sparkling  with  wit,  and  glowing  with 
fine  humor,  they  yet  breathe  the  warmest  humanity. 
Certainly  no  woman  who  was  not  in  love  with  her  hus- 
band could  have  been  as  cruelly  hurt  as  she  was  by  a 
fancied  slight  on  that  husband's  part.  Here  is  how  she 
writes  to  him  on  her  birthday,  July  14.  1846,  when  she 
was  at  Seaforth  and  he  at  home  in  Chelsea.  She  had 
expected  a  letter  from  him  with  some  slight  remember- 
ance  of  the  occasion.  So  she  hastened  down  to  the  post- 
office  to  receive  it  on  its  arrival.  The  postmistress, 
however,  informed  her  that  none  had  arrived.  She 
writes " 

Not      a      line      from      yon      on      my      birthday  —  on      the 

f.lth    dL^  !      I    did    not    burst    out    crying — did    not    faint — did 

t  do  auvthing  absurd,  so  far  as  I  know  :  but  I  walked  back 

■    without   speaking  a   word,    and   with    such   a   tumult   of 

vchedness  in  my  heart  as  you  who  know  me  can  conceive. 


And  then  I  shut  myself  in  my  own  room  to  fancy  everything 
that  was  most  tormenting.  Were  you  finally  so  out  of  patience 
with  me  that  you  had  resolved  to  write  me  no  more  at  all  ? 
Had  you  gone  to  Addiscombe  and  found  no  leisure  there  to 
remember  my  existence?  Were  you  taken  ill;  so  ill  that  you 
could  not  write?  That  last  idea  made  me  mad  to  get  off  to  the 
railway  and  back  to  London.  Oh,  mercy  !  what  a  two  hours 
I  had  of  it !  And  just  when  I  was  at  my  wit's  end  I  heard 
Julia  crying  out  through  the  house :  "  Mrs.  Carlyle,  Mrs. 
Carlyle!  Are  you  there?  Here  is  a  letter  for  you!"  And  so 
there  was,  after  all !  The  postmistress  had  overlooked  it  and 
given  it  to  Robert  when  he  went  afterward,  not  knowing  that 
I  had  been.  I  wonder  what  love-letter  was  ever,received  with 
such  thankfulness  !  Oh,  my  dear,  I  am  not  fit  for  living  in 
this  world  with  this  organization.  I  am  as  much  broken  to 
pieces  by  that  little  accident  as  if  I  had  come  through  an  at- 
tack of  cholera  or  typhus  fever.  I  can  not  even  steady  my 
hand  to  write  decently.  But  I  felt  an  irresistible  need  of 
thanking  you  by  return  of  post.  Yes,  I  have  kissed  the  dear 
little  card-case. 

Here  is  an  interesting  excerpt,  full  of  wit : 
I  am  rather  knocked  up  to-day ;  my  stewing  in  that  church 
yesterday  morning  and  my  visit  to  the  Martineaus  at  night 
were  too  much  for  one  day;  not  that  the  visit  bored  me  like 
the  sermon ;  on  the  contrary,  it  was  far  too  entertaining.  I 
found  there  the  clergyman  who  had  preached  to  me  in  the 
morning,  and  three  other  men.  And  there  was  a  great  deal 
of  really  clever  speech  transacted — which  was  the  more 
exciting  that  one  is  not  in  the  habit  of  it  here.  If  you  had 
heard  me  "putting  down  virtue  and  all  that  sort  of  thing" 
in  opposition  to  the  sermon  I  had  been  forced  to  listen  to  in 
the  morning,  you  would  have  wondered  where  I  had  found  the 
impudence.  As  for  the  arguments,  I  got  them,  of  course, 
all  out  of  you.  But  the  best  of  all  was  to  hear  James  Mar- 
tineau  backing  me  out  in  all  that — almost  as  emphatically 
as  yourself  could  have  done.  In  taking  me  down  to  supper 
he  said,  with  a  heavy  sigh,  "  that  it  was  to  be  hoped  the 
world  would  have  soon  heard  the  last  of  all  that  botheration 
about  virtue  and  happiness." 

He  is  anything  but  happy,  I  am  sure;  a  more  concentrated 
expression  of  melancholy  I  never  saw  in  a  human  face.  I 
fancy  him  to  be  the  victim  of  conscience,  which  is  the  next 
thing  to  being  the  victim  of  green  tea.  His  heart  and  intellect 
both  protest  against  this  bondage ;  and  so  he  is  a  man  di- 
vided against  himself.  I  should  like  to  convert  him — me! 
If  he  could  be  reduced  into  a  wholesome  state  of  spontaneous 
blackguardism  for  six  months  he  would  "  come  out  very 
strong."  But  he  feels  that  there  is  no  credit  in  being 
(spiritually)  jolly  in  his  present  immaculate  condition.  And 
so  he  is  as  sad  as  any  sinner  of  us  all. 

The  following  glimpse  of  a  famous  female  contem- 
porary is  amusing: 

I  saw  a  very  curious  sight  the  other  night,  the  only  one 
I  have  been  to  for  a  long  time,  viz.,  some  thousands  of  the 
grandest  and  most  cultivated  people  in  England,  all  gazing 
in  ecstasy,  and  applauding  to  death,  over  a  woman — not  even 
pretty — balancing  herself  on  the  extreme  point  of  one  great 
toe.  and  stretching  the  other  foot  high  into  the  air — much 
hiVher  than  decency  ever  dreamt  of!  It  was  Taglioni.  our 
chief  dancer  at  the  opera,  and  this  is  her  chief  feat,  repeated 
over  and  over  to  weariness — at  least  to  my  weariness.  But 
duchesses  were  flinging  bouquets  at  her  feet,  and  not  a  man 
(except  Carlyle)  who  did  not  seem  disposed  to  fling  himself. 
I  counted  twenty-five  bouquets!  But  what  of  that?  The 
empress  of  all  the  Russias  once,  in  a  fit  of  enthusiasm,  flung 
her  diamond  bracelet  at  the  feet  of  this  same  Taglioni — 
"  virtue  its  own  reward  "  (in  this  world)  ?  Dancing,  is.  and 
singing  and  some  other  things,  still  more  frivolous ;  but  for 
virtue?  It  may  be  strongly  doubted  fas  Edinburgh  people  say 
to    everything   one   tells   them). 

Here  is  a  letter  to  her  husband,  in  which  she  gives 
an  amusing  little  fling  at  a  famous  male  contemoorary : 

Did  you  know  that  Alfred  Tennyson  is  to  have  a  pension  of 
two  hundred  pounds  a  year  after  all?  Peel  has  stated  his  in- 
tention of  recommending  him  to  her  gracious  majesty,  and 
that  is  considered  final — "  A  chacun  selon  sa  canacite  !"  Lady 
Harriet  told  me  he  wanted  to  marry:  "must  have  a  woman 
to  live  beside:  would  prefer  a  lady,  but  can  not  afford  one: 
and  so  must  marry  a  maid-servant."  Mrs.  Henry  Taylor  said 
she  was  about  to  write  to  him  in  behalf  of  their  housemaid,  who 
was  quite  a  superior  character  in  her  way. 

For  Robert  Browning-,  Mrs.  Carlvle  felt  but  little  ad- 
miration. "My  private  opinion  of  Brownine."  she 
savs,  "is,  in  spite  of  Mr.  C.'s  favor  for  him,  that  he 
is  '  nothing,'  or  very  little  more  'but  a  fluff  of  feathers.' 
She  is  true  and  good,  and  the  most  womanlv  creature." 
A  couple  of  months  later  she  writes:  "I  like  Brown- 
ing less  and  less,  and  even  she  does  not  grow  on  me." 
But  Mrs.  Carlvle  was  one  of  the  first  to  hail  the  advent 
of  George  Eliot.  "  There  is  an  unknown  entitv."  she 
notes,  "who  is  pleased  to  pass  by  the  name  of  Georee 
Eliot,  to  whom  I  have  owed  acknowledgment  for  the 
present  of  her  novel,  'Adam  Bede,'  a  reallv  charmins: 
book,  which,  novel  though  it  be.  T  advise  you  to  read: 
and  T  en^aee  that  you  will  not  find  the  time  missnent, 
under  penalty  of  reading  the  dreariest  Book  of  Ser- 
mons vnu  like  to  impose  on  me — if  you  do !" 

Whether  Mrs.  Carlyle  made  a  practice  of  riving 
into  the  arms  of  all  her  old  lovers  is  not  made  known, 
but  this  is  how  she  met  one  of  them  after  many  years: 

Flinpinc  mv  accustomed  indifference  and  the  "  three  thou- 
=^nd  punctualities  "  to  the  winds,  I  sprang  into  the  arms  of 
G^nrire  Rennie  and  kissed  him  a  great  many  times!  Oh.  what 
n.  hannv  m  ep  tin  sr  !  Fnr  he  was  as  glad  to  see  me  as  I  was  to 
=pf>  him.  Oh.  it  has  done  me  so  much  eood.  this  meeting!  Mv 
bright  whole-hearted,  impulsive  youth  seemed  con  hired  back 
bv  his  hearty  embrace.  For  certain,  mv  lately  deadly  weak- 
ness was  conjured  away!  A  spell  on  my  nerves  it  had  been, 
which  dissolved  in  the  unwonted  feeling  of  gladness.  I  am 
a  different  woman  this  evening.  I  am  well!  I  am  in  an 
atmosphere  of  home  and  long  ago  !  It  was  only  when  I  looked 
pt  his  tall  son  he  brought  with  him.  who  takes  after  his 
mother  that  I  could  realize  the  lifetime  that  lav  between 
our  talks  in  the  drawing-room  at  Haddington  and  our  talk 
here  in  Cheyne  Row.  Chelsea.  Dear  me!  I  shouldn't  wonder 
if  I  were  too  excited  to  sleep,  however. 

The  following-  is  an  account  of  a  home-coming — 
where  Thomas  Carlyle  certainly  does  not  appear  as  an 
indifferent  spouse: 

I  arrived  quite  safe,  and  the  dreaded  moment  of  re- 
entering a  house,  which  I  had  left  in  a  sort  of  a  hearse,  with 
a  firm  conviction  of  returning  no  more,  was  tumbled  head 
over  heels  bv  Mr.  C.  rushing  out  into  the  street  to  meet  me. 
in  his  dressing-gown,  and  in  violent  agitation — Tohn  had  given 
him  reason  to  expect  us  an  hour  and  a  half  earlier.  He  had 
been  momentarily  expecting  a  telegram  to  say  I  had  died  on 
the    road. 

In  1836,  Mrs.  Carlyle  took  her  first  ride  in  a  railway 
car,  and  her  impressions  are  worth  quoting: 

On  Tuesday  afternoon  I  reached  Liverpool  after  a  flight 
(for  it  can  be  called  nothing  else)   of  thirty-four  miles  within 


an  hour  and  a  quarter.  I  was  dreadfully  frightened  before 
the  train  started ;  in  the  nervous  weak  state  I  was  then  in  it 
seemed  to  me  certain  that  I  should  faint,  and  the  impossibility 
of  getting  the  horrid  thing  stopt !  But  I  felt  no  difference 
between  the  motion  of  the  steam  carriage  and  that  in  which 
I  had  come  from  London ;  it  did  not  seem  to  be  going  any 
faster.  .  .  .  The  greatest  difficulty  was  in  getting  my  trunk 
from  among  the  hundreds  of  others  where  it  was  tumbled. 
"  You  must  take  your  turn,  ma'am,  you  must  take  your  turn," 
was  all  the  satisfaction  I  could  get  in  pressing  toward  the 
heap.  At  last  I  said:  "Stand  out  of  the  road,  will  you? 
There  is  the  trunk  before  my  eyes,  and  I  will  lift  it  away 
without  troubling  any  one."  Whereupon  the  clerk  cried  out 
in  rage  :  "  For  God's  sake  give  that  lady  her  trunk  and  let 
us  be  rid  of  her!" 

In  1838  Carlyle  got  on  with  his  lecturing  more  easily 
than  in  the  previous  year.  One  evening,  Mrs.  Carlyle 
rose  from  her  sick-bed  and  went  secretly  to  hear  him, 
and  was  impressed  with  the  fact  that,  "  having  a  very 
fine  light  from  above  shining  down  on  him,  he  really 
looked  a  surprisingly  beautiful  man."  The  following 
year  he  had  still  further  improved  in  his  delivery: 

He  has  got  through  the  things  this  year  much  more  smoothly 
and  quite  as  brilliantly  as  last  year;  but  in  defect  of  the 
usual  measure  of  agitation  beforehand,  he  has  taken  to  the  new 
and  unusual  crochet  of  being  ready  to  hang  himself  after,  in 
the  idea  that  he  has  made  "  a  horrible  pluister  [mess]  of  it." 
No  demonstrations  of  the  highest  satisfaction  on  the  part  of 
his  audience  can  convince  him  to  the  contrary  ;  and  he  remains, 
under  applause  that  would  turn  the  heads  of  most  lecturers, 
haunted  by  the  pale  ghost  of  last  day's  lecture  "  shaking  its 
gory  locks  at  him  "  till  next  dav's  arrives  to  take  its  place 
and  torment  him  in  its  turn. — ■"  Very  absurd." 

Interspersed  among  the  letters  in  the  second  volume 
is  one  of  Mrs.  Carlyle's  diaries  and  note-books,  written 
in  the  summer  of  1856,  at  the  time  of  her  greatest  de- 
pression. Along  with  the  melancholy  reflections  of  an 
invalid,  it  presents  a  group  of  striking  epigrams.  Here 
are  a  few: 

Hunting  happiness  is'  like  chasing  sparrows  to  lay  salt  on 
their  tails. 

Ears  are  given  to  men  as  to  pitchers  that  they  may  be 
carried  about  by  them. 

No    never  confirmed  :  but  I  have  been   vaccinated. 

Did  you  understand  the  sermon  ?  Wad  I  hae  the  pre- 
sumption ?   answered  the  old   Scotchwoman. 

As  lazy  as  Ludlam's  dog,  that  leaned  his  head  against  a  wall 
to  bark. 

As  busy  as  a  hen  with   one  chicken. 

The  volumes  are  handsomely  bound  in  red  and  gold, 
and  are  supplemented  with  sixteen  well-chosen  pictures, 
tinted  portraits  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carlyle  serving  as 
frontispieces. 

Published  by  John  Lane,  New  York;  price  (two 
volumes),  $6.00  net. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 

Alone. 
I   walk  down  the  valley  of  silence — 

Down   the   dim,   noiseless   valley   alone, 
And   I   hear  not  the   fall   of  a   footstep 

Around  me,  save  God's  and  mv  own  ; 
And  the  hush  of  my  heart  is  as  holy 

As  hovers  where   angels  have   flown. 

Lone  ago  was  I  weary  of  voices 

Whose  music   my  heart  could   not   win  ; 

Long  ago  was  I  weary  of  noises 

That  fretted  my  soul  with  their  din  ; 

Long  ago  was  I  weary  of  places 

Where  I   found  but  the  human  and  sin. 

I  walked  in  the  world  with   the  worldly, 
I  craved  what  the  world  never  gave, 

And  I  said:  "  In  the  world  each  ideal 
That  shines  like  a  star  on  life's  wave 

Is   wrecked   on   the   shores   of  the   real. 
And  sleeps  like  a  dream  in  a  grave." 

And  still   did  I  pine  for  the  perfect. 
And  still  found  the  false  with  the  true  ; 

I  sought  'mid  the  human  for  heaven. 
But  caught  a  mere  glimpse  of  its  blue. 

And  I  wept  when  the  clouds  of  the  mortal 
Veiled  even  that  glimpse  from  my  view. 

And  I  toiled  on.  heart  tired  of  the  human, 
And  I  moaned  'mid  the  mazes  of  men, 

Till  I  knelt,  long  ago.  at  an  altar. 

And  I  heard  a  voice  call  me  ;  since  then 

I  walk  down  the  valley  of  silence 
That  lies  far  beyond  mortal  ken. 

Do  you  ask  what  I  found  in  the  valley? 

'Tis  my  trysting  place  with  the  divine. 
And  I  fall  at  the  feet  of  the  holy. 

And  above  me  a  voice  said:   "Be   mine!" 
And  there  rose  from  the  depths  of  my  spirit 

An  echo:  "My  heart  shall  be  thine!" 

Do  you  ask  how  I  live  in  the  valley? 

I  weep  and  I  dream  and  I  pray. 
But  my  tears  are  as  sweet  as  the  dewdrops 

That  fall  on  the  roses  in  May, 
And  my  prayer,  like  a  perfume  from  censers, 

Ascendeth  to  God  night  and  day. 

In  the  hush  of  the  valley  of  silence 

I  dream  all  the  songs  that  I  sing. 
And  the  music  floats  down  the  dim  valley 

Till  each  finds  a  word  for  each  wing 
That  to  hearts,  like  the  dove  of  the  deluge, 

A  message  of  peace  they  may  bring. 

But  far  on  the  deep  there  are'billows 
That  never  shall  break  on  the  beach  ; 

And  I  have  heard  songs  in  the  silence 
That  never  shall  float  into  speech, 

And  I  have  had  dreams  in  the  valley 
Too   lofty    for  language   to   reach. 

And  I  have  seen  thoughts  in  the  valley — 
Ah  me,  how  my  spirit  was  stirred! — 

And  they  wear  holy  veils  on  their  faces,  ■ 

Their  footsteps  can  scarcely  be  heard; 

They  pass  through  the  valley  like  angels — 
Too  pure  for-  the  touch  of  a  word. 

Do  you  ask  me  the  place  of  the  valley, 
Ye  hearts  that  are  harrowed  by  care? 

It  lieth  afar  between  mountains, 

And   God   and    His   angels   are  there, 

And  one  is  the  dark  mount  of  sorrow, 
And  one  the  bright  mountain  of  prayer. 

— Abram  Joseph  Ryan^ 


July  13,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


23 


FOOT-HILL    JEHUS. 


Geraldine  Bonner's  Picturesque  Assortment  of  Drivers — Too  Proud 

to  Take  Tips — Unwarranted  Suspicions — One 

Liveryman's  Joke. 


The  Californian  drivers  that  we  met  in  our  journey 
through  the  foot-hills  will  forever  have  my  interest  and 
respect. 

In  the  first  place,  they  were  without  exception  con- 
siderate of  their  horses.  There  was  but  one  who  showed 
any  inclination  to  beat  his  team  into  a  show  of  spirited 
prancings,  and  he  did  it  only  when  we  passed  buggies 
with  girls  in  them  whom  he  evidently  knew.  Then  he 
would  ignore  the  girls,  smack  the  horses  smartly  with 
the  whip,  and  dash  by,  coldly  indifferent,  sprinkling 
them  with  scornful  dust.  The  girls  laughed  loudly, 
blushed,  and,  on  the  whole,  had  the  air  of  thinking  it 
a  very  coquettish  performance.  Different  localities 
have  their  different  ethics  of  flirtation.  A  friend  of 
mine,  who  once,  passed  some  weeks  in  a  Kansas  prairie 
town,  told  me  that  the  waiter-girls  at  the  hotel — the 
belles  of  the  region — always  knew  that  a  man  was 
seriously  smitten  when  he  tried  to  trip  them  up  as  they 
entered  the  dining-room  with  a  heavy  tray. 

Another  and  even  more  potent  reason  for  my  respect 
for  the  foot-hill  livery  men  is  that  one  of  them  refused 
a  tip.  This  is  only  the  second  individual  I  have  met 
with  in  many  wanderings  who  would  not  take  a 
proffered  gift  of  money.  The  other  was  a  gendarme  in 
the  Park  of  St.  Cloud,  in  Paris.  He  was  one  of  the 
handsomest,  the  most  gentlemanly,  the  most  courteous, 
of  men.  After  rescuing  us  from  a  drunken  cocher — 
it  was  an  adventure  of  comic-opera  absurdity,  but  would 
take  too  long  to  tell — I  offered  him  a  piece  of  money 
(it  was  a  good  tip,  too),  but  he  bowed  and  said,  with  a 
truly  French  grace,  that  he  took  no  money  for  protect- 
ing the  interests  of  foreign  ladies  who  happened  to  be 
driving  in  the  Park  of  St.  Cloud. 

I  tell  this  because  it  seemed  to  me  at  the  time  odd, 
and,  by  the  light  of  subsequent  experiences,  quite 
extraordinary.  It  may  be  that  all  the  drivers  in  foot- 
hill California  refuse  tips.  The  one  I  tried  it  on  was 
one  of  the  first  we  had,  and  after  having  had  my  money 
returned  to  me  in  a  bluff  but  perfectly  gentlemanly 
manner,  I  tried  it  no  more. 

That  particular  driver  was  a  long,  lank  man  in  a 
duster,  and  an  industrious  and  infatigable  chewer  of 
tobacco.  All  our  drivers  did  this,  however,  except  the 
boy  who  beat  the  horses,  and  one  we  had  for  a  thirty- 
mile  excursion  in  the  middle  of  our  trip.  The  particu- 
lar man  I  speak  of  was  at  the  outset  of  our  acquaint- 
ance very  much  misjudged  by  me.  We  stopped  at  a 
wayside  "  hotel  "  to  screw  up  a  bolt  that  had  loosened. 
The  "  hotel  "  had  a  bar  attachment,  and  after  screwing 
up  the  bolt  and  taking  a  refreshing  bite  off  his  tobacco, 
the  driver  came  to  the  carriage  side  and  said,  politely: 
"Would  you  ladies  like  to  have  a  Queen  Charlotte?" 

I  did  not  know  what  a  Queen  Charlotte  was,  save 
that  it  was  evidently  some  beverage  to  be  had  at  the  bar. 
I  regret  to  confess  that  I  conceived  it  to  be  an  intoxi- 
cant, and  refused  it  with  a  cold  glare. 

Afterward,  especially  when  I  had  learned  that  a 
Queen  Charlotte  was  as  mild  and  innocent  as  a  lemon- 
ade, I  felt  ashamed  and  strove  to  placate  the  driver — 
for  I  thought  his  feelings  were  hurt — by  talking  with 
him  over  the  back  of  the  seat  about  hold-ups. 

It  was  late  in  the  evening  and  very  dark  when  the 
tip  question  came  on  the  carpet.  He  had  told  us  the 
road  was  long  and  he  thought  it  doubtful  whether  he 
could  get  us  to  our  destination  by  midnight.  Three 
more  moonless  chill  hours  of  these  mountain  roads 
did  not  tend  to  brighten  the  mind,  already  rendered 
sombre  by  the  talk  of  hold-ups.  He  was  standing  by 
the  light  of  the  open  door — it  was  just  after  a  stop 
for  dinner — when  I  approached  him,  and,  putting  the 
money  in  his  hand,  said :  "  I  want  you  to  make  the 
horses  go  faster.  I  don't  like  being  out  so  late.  Try 
and  get  in  by  half-past  eleven." 

He  turned  over  the  money,  and  said :  "  Why  did 
you  give  me  this.    What's  it  for?" 

"  For  you,"  I  said,  extremely  embarrassed ;  "  I  want 
you  to  make  better  time.    The  horses  are  not  tired." 

"  Well,  I'll  do  that  all  right."  he  answered ;  "  I'll  get 
you  there  as  quick  as  I  can.  But  I  don't  want  you 
to  pay  me  for  it." 

And  with  a  very  manly — or  shall  I  say  gentlemanly? 
— air  he  gave  me  back  my  money. 

This  man  was  one  of  the  nicest  drivers  we  had.  He 
bade  us  good-by  like  an  old  friend.  The  two  painful 
episodes  of  the  Queen  Charlotte  and  the  tip  were  for- 
gotten, and  in  parting  we  shook  hands,  and  he  said  he 
was  glad  to  have  met  us  and  hoped  we'd  meet  again, 
as  if  we  were  at  a  tea.  Altogether,  he  was  a  first-rate 
sort  of  a  man,  and  very  good  company. 

I  think  the  most  interesting  driver  was  the  one  who 
took  us  the  long  interior  drive  of  thirty  miles.  He  was 
young,  highly  intelligent,  bursting  with  interest  in 
everything,  and  very  bad  tempered.  He  had  quite 
berated  my  companion  the  day  before  because  we  had 
ordered  the  carriage  and  then  not  taken  it,  and  he  had 
lot  got  the  message  that  we  had  changed  our  minds 
lntil  the  horses  were  harnessed.  He  seemed  to  be  fairly 
nfuriated  over  this,  though  it  was  not  our  fault.  Twice 
luring  the  drive  he  got  angry  and  flatly  contradicted 
is,  once  on  the  subject  of  the  known  eccentricities  of 
iterary  people,  and  another  time  on  the  wrongful 
tlaims  of  school-teachers  in  demanding  pensions. 

He  struck  me  as  a  man  of  unusually  alert  and  quick 
ntelligence,    starving   for   the   stimulus   of   congenial 


minds.  His  attitude  toward  us  was  perfectly  easy  and 
friendly,  and  it  was  evident  that  he  was  going  to  get  all 
the  amusement,  interest,  and  information  out  of  our 
society  that  he  could  in  the  one  day  we  were  to  spend 
together.  We,  on  our  part,  were  exceedingly  interested 
in  him.  His  knowledge  of  woodcraft  was  remarkable. 
There  was  no  tree,  shrub,  or  plant  in  the  country  we 
traversed  that  he  did  not  seem  to  know  all  about.  He 
was  conversant  with  the  habits  of  the  birds  of  the  lo- 
cality. He  even  seemed  to  know  something  of  the 
larger  geological  theories  of  the  formation  of  the  counr 
try  side.  This  was  all  the  more  remarkable,  as  country 
people  seem,  as  a  rule,  curiously  ignorant  of  the 
phenomena  of  nature  which  surround  them. 

In  the  picnic  part  of  the  excursion  he  suggested  that 
he  should  accompany  us  and  carry  the  wraps.  So  we 
took  him  along  and  found  him  an  entirely  polite  and 
chivalrous  escort.  Like  most,  hot-tempered  people, 
when  he  was  amiable  he  was  exceedingly  so.  Ruffle 
him  up  the  wrong  way  and  he  instantly  grew  alert, 
his  eyes  snapping,  the  sudden  rush  of  anger  reddening 
his  face,  and  giving  him  the  appearance  of  bristling 
all  over. 

On  the  long  homeward  drive  he  did  not  talk  much, 
but  he  listened  to  our  conversation,  openly  and  in- 
tently. He  sat  sideways  on  the  front  seat,  his  profile 
turned  to  us,  every  now  and  then  a  slight,  amused 
smile  crossing  it.  Never  have  I  seen  so  flattering  a 
listener.  We  felt  that  we  had  the  conversational  gifts 
of  Mme.  de  Stael  and  Robert  Burns  rolled  into  one. 
When  he  missed  something  he  would  bend  back,  and 
say:  "Wait — what  was  that?"  The  first  time  he  did 
this,  one  of  us  politely  remarked  to  him  that  we  were 
addressing  the  other.  He  muttered  a  word  of  apolosr. 
but  looked  annoyed  and  disappointed.  In  a  few  minutes 
he  had  lost  another  of  the  pearls  and  diamonds  that 
fell  from  our  lips,  and  he  leaned  back  again  and,  with  a 
more  authoritative  note,  said :  "  Hold  on,  I  didn't  hear 
that." 

After  this  there  was  nothing  for  it  but  to  carry  on 
the  conversation  in  a  high  key.  And  this  we  did  with 
a  good  grace,  feeling  compensated  for  all  effort  in  the 
thought  that  our  brilliancy  and  wit  were  fully  ap- 
preciated. 

Our  young  driver,  who  beat  his  horses,  also  evinced 
an  interest  in  the  improving  talk  with  which  we  be- 
guiled the  way.  The  others  were  quietly  indifferent, 
though  if  we  sought  to  engage  them  in  converse  they 
generally  responded  with  readiness.  One  very  old  man. 
who  took  us  over  fifteen  miles  of  an  exceedingly  rough 
road,  was  evidently  listening  when  I  thought  he  was 
not.  I  was  instructing  my  companion  in  the  mining 
lore  I  had  learned  in  Virginia  City,  and  of  which  I  was 
extremely  proud. 

"  Don't  you  know  there  are  two  walls  to  the  vein, 
the  foot  wall,  and  the  hanging  wall?"  I  said,  with  all 
the  vanity  of  the  instructor. 

The  old  man  turned  round  and  brought  an  eye  full 
of  sly  humor  to  bear  on  me.  "  You'll  make  quite  a  good 
miner  of  her  before  you're  done,"  was  his  remark. 

This  old  man.  by  the  way,  was  a  very  interesting 
personality.  He  had  been  half  a  century  in  that  part  of 
the  country,  and  described  to  us  the  various  moribund 
camps  we  passed  through  in  the  davs  when  they  and 
he  and  California  had  been  young.  He  might  have  sat 
for  a  picture  of  a  bonanza-less  pioneer,  who  had 
mellowed  tranquilly  and  serenely  where  Fate  happened 
to  have  dropped  him.  He  must  have  been  well  over 
seventy,  and  had  a  shock  of  gray  hair  that  fell  from 
beneath  the  brim  of  a  wide  black  felt  hat  and  brushed 
his  coat  collar.  His  old,  pale  face  was  enormouslv 
wrinkled,  and  it  was  plain,  as  night  advanced  and  the 
moon  only  shone  dimly  throueh  clouds,  that  he  had 
difficulty  in  seeing  the  road.  His  spirit,  however,  was 
full  of  humor  and  youth,  and  his  manner  was  a  cheery 
combination  of  perfectly  tempered  respect  and  a  sort  of 
fatherly  jocoseness. 

Apropos  of  jocoseness,  one  of  the  Jehus  had  an  at- 
tack of  it  at  our  expense,  and  played  a  joke  on  us  that 
caused  us  a  few  moments  of  shaken  alarm.  The  livery 
stable  was  opposite  the  hotel,  on  the  piazza  of  which 
we  sat  in  the  cool  of  the  afternoon  awaiting  our 
equipage.  Suddenly  the  doors  of  the  stable  were  nun? 
wide,  the  driver  appeared,  and  shouted  at  us,  "  All 
ready.  Here  you  are  !"  then  stood  aside  to  allow  the 
most  remarkable-looking  turn-out  to  emerge  into  the 
street.  It  was  a  four-seated  buckboard.  so  antiquated 
and  weather-beaten  that  it  might  have  crossed  the 
plains  in  '49.  Two  shaggy,  broken-kneed  horses, 
with  a  moth-eaten  appearance  of  skin,  and  clothed  in 
rags  of  rope  and  harness,  were  in  the  shafts,  and  the 
driver  was  a  saturnine  individual  in  blue  jeans,  who 
had  passed  down  the  street  a  few  minutes  before,  evi- 
dently under  the  influence  of  potations  that  were  not 
so  mild  as  Queen  Charlottes. 

We  looked  at  one  another  for  a  moment  of  staring 
alarm.  Was  it  all  we  could  get?  Well,  we  wouldn't 
take  it,  that  was  all  there  was  about  it !  We  were 
preparing  to  sweep  forward  to  the  steps  and  declare 
our  dissatisfaction  when  the  amazing  rig  rattled  by, 
the  occupant  casting  a  surly  glance  at  us  from  be- 
neath a  sagging  hat-brim.  Simultaneously,  the  depths 
of  the  stable  gave  forth  a  new  and  shining  surrey. 
drawn  by  a  pair  of  well-groomed,  sleek-coated  horses, 
our  driver,  his  face  as  red  as  the  bandanna  round  his 
neck,  holding  the  reins.  When  we  afterward  asked 
him  how  he  had  had  the  heart  to  frighten  us  so.  he 
was  overcome  with  bashfulness,  buried  his  chin  in  his 
red  bandanna,  and  nothing  could  be  extracted  from 
him  but  suppressed  bursts  of  laughter. 

We  had  this  driver  but  a  very  short  time.     Where 


the  road  crossed  a  barren  hill-top  we  encountered  a 
covered  wagon,  with  the  customary  dustered  figure  on 
the  front  seat,  and  a  lean-faced  man  smoking  a  cigar 
beside  him.  With  a  short  sentence  our  driver  halted, 
alighted,  and  turning  to  us,  with  blushing  politeness, 
said:  "  Sorry  to  leave  you,  ladies,  but  this  gentleman 
will  drive  you  on,"  and  in  a  moment  the  second  dust- 
ered Jehu  had  climbed  to  our  front  seat. 

He  was  a  quiet  man,  who  chewed  tobacco  continu- 
ously, and  spoke  in  short  sentences.  In  answer  to  our 
question  as  to  where  he  was  coming  from,  he  replied: 
"  Takin'  a  drummer  from  Angel's."  My  companion, 
more  learned  in  these  ways  than  I  am,  said  he  was  the 
best  driver  we  had.  Certainly  he  got  a  better  speed  out 
of  the  horses  than  any  of  his  predecessors,  and  it  is 
also  true  there  did  not  seem  to  be  half  so  many  rocks 
and  chuck-holes  in  that  particular  stretch  of  road.  He 
was  honest,  too,  for  when  I  offered  to  pay  him  extra 
for  a  detour  of  seven  miles  we  made  him  take,  he  con- 
sidered the  subject,  and  then  said  he  didn't  think  it  was 
necessary.  Geralpine  Bonner. 

San  Francisco,  July  2,  1903. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Joseph  Pulitzer,  the  proprietor  of  the  New  York 
World  for  twenty  years,  has  for  sixteen  years  been  un- 
able to  read  the  paper  or  go  to  the  office,  having  suf- 
fered the  loss  of  sight,  of  health,  of  sleep,  although 
continuing  the  burden  of  responsibility  for  the  conduct 
and  character  of  the  paper,  "  to  which,"  he  recently 
wrote,  "  I  give  every  moment  of  my  waking  time." 

Alfred  H.  Smith,  the  new  general  manager  of  the 
Xew  York  Central  Railway,  began  his  career  as  a  mes- 
senger-boy in  the  Cleveland  office  of  the  Lake  Shore, 
at  a  salary  of  four  dollars  a  week.  He  has  since  then 
been  successively  "  gang "  laborer,  brakeman.  con- 
ductor, telegraph-operator,  train-dispatcher,  division 
superintendent,  and  general  superintendent.  He  is 
thirty-nine  years  old,  and  is  the  youngest  of  five 
children. 

Arthur  Barclay,  the  newly  elected  president  of  Libe- 
ria, is  of  pure  African  stock,  born  in  Jamaica,  whence 
his  parents  emigrated  to  the  African  republic  when  he 
was  still  a  child.  He  has  already  held  several  govern- 
ment positions  there,  among  them  those  of  postmaster- 
general  and  secretary  of  the  treasury.  At  his  inaugura- 
tion, which  takes  place  in  December.  Mr.  Barclay  will 
become  the  thirteenth  president  since  Liberia  became 
independent  in  1847. 

The  honorary  degree  of  master  of  laws,  given 
summa  cum  laude  to  the  Yale  Law  School  graduate 
student  with  the  best  record  for  his  course,  was  this 
year  awarded  to  a  Chinese  student,  Chung  Hui  Wang, 
a  graduate  of  Tientsin  University,  China,  '99,  and  a 
resident  of  Canton.  Another  feature  of  the  Yale  Com- 
mencement was  the  restoration  of  Herbert  W.  Bowen, 
LTnited  States  minister  to  Venezuela,  to  enrollment  as 
a  member  of  the  class  of  '78,  and  the  conferring  on  him 
of  the  degree  of  M.  A.  He  failed  to  get  his  bachelor's 
degree  in  1878  because  of  a  boyish  prank. 

The  oldest  graduate  of  West  Point  is  Colonel  John 
Beardsley.  now  living  in  Athens,  N.  Y.  He  was  born 
in  Fairfield.  N.  Y.,  in  1816,  and  graduated  from  West 
Point  in  the  class  of  1841.  He  was  appointed  lieutenant 
in  the  Eighth  Regiment  of  Infantry,  served  in  the 
Seminole  War  in  Florida,  afterward  in  the  war  with 
Mexico,  and  was  wounded  in  the  Battle  of  Molino  del 
Rev.  and  compelled  to  resign  his  commission  on  account 
of  inflammation  of  his  eyes,  which  threatened  loss  of 
sight.  When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  was  appointed 
colonel  of  the  Ninth  Xew  York  Volunteer  Cavalry,  and 
served  as  such. 

August  Bebel,  the  leader  of  the  German  Socialist 
party  which  lately  has  made  such  amazing  gains,  was 
born  in  Cologne  sixty-three  years  ago.  the  son  of  an  in- 
fantry sergeant.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a  tanner,  and 
at  the  age  of  twenty  joined  the  Social  Democratic  party 
founded  by  Wilhelm  Liebknecht.  He  has  served 
many  brief  terms  in  jail  for  his  opinion's  sake.  The 
annexation  of  Alsace  and  Lorraine  he  denounced  as  a 
mistake,  tracing  to  it  the  vast  armaments  which  now 
burden  Europe.  "  Hunger  duties  "  is  the  term  he  ap- 
plied to  the  new  tariff  on  imported  food,  and  he  charac- 
terized Germany's  conduct  in  China  as  "  shameful," 
saying  it  was  marked  by  "bestiality  lower  than  among 
the  beasts."  He  has  repeatedly  criticised  Emperor 
William,  even  intimating  on  one  occasion  that  the 
Kaiser  was  insane. 

Lieutenant  Dan  Godfrey,  who  died  in  London  last 
week,  was  band-master  of  the  British  Guards'  Band 
for  forty-seven  years.  He  received  his  musical  educa- 
tion at  the  Royal  Academy  of  Music,  and  in  1856  he 
was  appointed  band-master  of  her  majesty's  Grenadier 
Guards.  He  played  the  Grenadier  Guards  home  from 
the  Crimea,  and  his  "Guards"  waltz,  composed  for  the 
marriage  of  the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Wales,  in  1861. 
also  his  old  familiar  "  Mabel  "  waltz,  made  him  known 
all  over  the  world.  His  military  compositions  are  used 
by  most  band-masters.  In  1872.  at  the  request  of  the 
United  States  Government,  Godfrey  brought  the 
Guards'  Band  across  the  seas  to  participate  in  the 
Boston  Peace  Jubilee.  In  1887.  in  honor  of  Queen 
Victoria's  jubilee,  he  was  given  a  commission  in  the 
Guards,  taking  the  rank  of  lieutenant.  Thi?  is 
of  mention,  as  no  other  band-master  in  the  British 
vice  has  attained  to  such  distinction. 


24 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  13,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


More  Good  Work  from      Q." 

Those  who  have  pored  over  and  reveled  in 
the  many  previous  books  of  A.  T.  Quiller- 
Couch  will  rejoice  over  the  appearance  of  his 
new  book,  "  The  Adventures  of  Harry  Revel." 

With  the  author's  unfailing  store  of  origi- 
nality this  tale  of  adventure  runs  through  the 
career  of  a  foundling  lad,  shedding  side-lights 
of  romance,  pathos,  detective  work,  and  grim 
tragedy.  Harry  Revel,  the  ten-year-old  in  the 
foundling  hospital,  lays  the  basis  of  his  career 
by  his  habit  of  sleep-walking.  After  a  hair- 
raising  exhibition  of  his  somnambulistic  pow- 
ers on  a  church  steeple,  a  chimney-sweep  sees 
promise  of  proficiency  in  his  profession  and 
makes  him  his  apprentice.  The  sweeping  of 
chimneys  might  be  a  prosaic  enough  calling  to 
the  average  person,  but  in  the  hands  of  Quiller- 
Couch  it  proves  an  inexhaustible  field  for  ad- 
venture. Climbing  over  roofs  one  morning 
at  daybreak,  young  Revel,  the  sweep,  strikes 
the  trail  of  a  ghastly  murder.  Thereupon  the 
scene  shifts  to  the  deck  of  the  Glad  Tidings, 
bound  for  Looe,  but  before  reaching  port,  the 
boy,  in  order  to  spare  his  protectors,  swims, 
naked,  ashore. 

The  adventures  of  that  one  night,  or  the 
remnant  of  that  one  night,  might,  if  elaborated 
a  trifle,  make  up  a  good-sized  volume  in 
themselves.  Falling  among  smugglers,  over- 
hearing an  incriminating  conversation,  track- 
ing a  marked  coin,  meeting  and  being  cared 
for  by  the  lovely  Isabel,  and  finally  saving 
her  from  an  impending  disaster,  are  only  a 
few  of  the  thrilling  incidents  that  befell  this 
little  fellow,  still  in  his  swimming  array, 
during  the  remnant  of  that   night. 

Through  his  later  experience,  when  he  sees 
active  service  in  the  wars,  again  encounters 
the  murderer,  and  is  in  at  the  death  when  he 
is  brought  to  justice,  the  same  spirit  of  ad- 
venture and  daring  flows  and  leaves  the  reader 
hoping  for  a  possible  sequel. 

A  rare  quality  of  this  book  is  that  it  will 
hold  an  equal  charm  for  the  boy  and  the  man. 
For,  while  the  boy  will  delight  in  the  plain 
telling  of  the  tale,  the  mature  mind  will 
gather  the  subtle  humor  and  satire  of  the 
author,  feel  the  keenness  of  his  observation, 
and  the  truth  of  his  characters  while  he  takes 
the  dash  of  adventure  as  an  old  salt  hails  a 
dash  of  spray  in  his  face. 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York ;  price,  $1.50. 

A  Hundred  Years  in  Art- 
Charles  Waldstein'-s  "  Art  in  the  Nineteenth 
Century  "  is  a  clear  exposition  of  a  subject  in 
which  too  many  writers  bewilderedly  wallow, 
touching  no  bottom,  and  attaining  no  goal. 
The  basis  of  the  book  was  a  lecture  delivered 
before  the  students  of  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge, introducing  a  course  to  which  the  liter- 
ary and  artistic  notables  of  England  and  other 
countries  contributed.  The  work  merely  out- 
lines— gives  a  bird's-eye  view — of  the  subject. 
But  Professor  Waldstein  holds  some  opinions 
firmly.  He  emphatically  repudiates  the  idea 
that  the  nineteenth  century  has  been  a  time 
of  littlenesses  in  art.  He  objects  to  the  phrase, 
"  the  age  of  science,"  meaning  that  it  was  not 
as  well  the  age  of  artistic  greatness.  He 
holds  that  the  century  has  seen  unparalleled 
expansion — the  realization  of  Nature,  not  as 
a  mere  setting  for  man,  but  for  herself ;  the 
portrayal  of  the  common  man  without  feeling 
of  condescension,  but  frankly,  because  he  is  a 
manifestation  of  life.  Especially  in  the  do- 
main of  fiction  does  Professor  Waldstein  think 
the  age  has  excelled.  He  finds  great  not  only 
the  period  just  passed,  which  knew  Dickens, 
Scott,  Thackeray,  and  Hugo,  but  the  present. 
"  I  for  one  am  astounded,"  he  says,  "  at  the 
number  of  remarkable  books  produced  every 
year,  books  that  a  hundred  or  even  fifty  years 
ago  would  have  been  discussed  for  years  by 
the  thoughtful  and  critical.  If  I  were  chal- 
lenged I  could  single  out  many  works  that 
seem  to  me  lasting  types  of  literature  which, 
for  all  that,  hardly  succeed  in  rising  above 
the  horizon,  and  never  penetrate  into  the  do- 
main of  popularity."  "  Art  in  the  Nineteenth 
Century  "  is  a  strong  and  searching  piece  of 
criticism. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  price,  60  cents. 


A  Notable  Reprint. 

The  celebrated  treasury  of  quaint  and  in- 
teresting old  English  essays  and  discourses, 
collected  several  years  ago  by  Professor  Arber 
under  the  title  "An  English  Garner,"  has  now 
been  rearranged  and  reissued  in  twelve  vol- 
u.TCf  with  new  indexes  and  introductions  by 
com)  ,;tent  scholars,  amor^  whom  are  Andrew 
Sidney   Lee,  A.  W.   Pollard,  etc.     Vol- 

.  ^5  one  and  two,  called  "  Voyages  and 
Travels,"    are    introduced     by    C.     Raymond 


Beazely.  They  contain  accounts  of  voyages 
of  the  period  between  1551  and  1600,  and  in- 
clude the  relations  of  Sir  John  Hawkins, 
Thomas  Stevens,  John  Chitton,  Thomas 
Cavendish,  and  many  others.  Another  volume 
is  entitled  "  Social  England,"  and  the 
"  tracts,"  dating  from  1576  to  1708,  cover 
a  great  variety  of  subjects — from  "  Of  En- 
glish Dogs,  the  diversities,  the  names,  the 
natures,  and  the  properties,"  to  "  An  Account 
of  the  Torments  the  French  Protestants  En- 
dure Aboard  the  Galleys."  A  fourth  vol- 
ume, "  Critical  Essays  and  Literary  Frag- 
ments," has  an  introduction  by  J.  Clinton 
Collins,  and  contains  notable  articles  by  many 
different  English  writers  of  the  sixteenth  and 
seventeenth  centuries.  All  the  works  are  exact 
reprints. 

Published  by  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New 
York.  _ 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
The  large  volume  on  "  The  Island  of  For- 
mosa," which  the  Macmillan  Company  are 
just  publishing,  was  printed  in  Yokohama, 
and  has  a  frontispiece  in  color  by  a  Japanese 
artist  and  colored  reproductions  of  Chinese 
posters,  as  well  as  numerous  photographic 
illustrations.  James  Davidson,  the  author, 
has  been  for  eight  or  nine  years  United  States 
consul  in  Formosa. 

The  translation  of  Benvenuto  Cellini's  "Life 
of  Himself,"  prepared  by  Miss  Anne  Mac- 
donell  as  the  opening  volume  of  the  new  se- 
ries of  "  Temple  Autobiographies,"  is  almost 
ready  for  publication. 

The  author  of  the  book  of  "  Perverted  Prov- 
erbs," who  writes  under  the  name  of  "  Col. 
D.  Streamer,"  is  Captain  Harry  Graham,  aid- 
de-camp  to  the  governor-general  of  Canada. 
He  is  the  author  of  "  Ballads  of  the  Boer 
War,"  and  of  several  books  of  humorous 
verse,  "  The  Baby's  Baedeker,"  "  Ruthless 
Rhymes  for  Heartless  Homes,"  etc. 

Hilaire  Belloc,  who  began  his  literary  career 
with  a  nonsense  book  for  the  nursery,  who 
continued  it  with  two  remarkable  studies  cf 
Danton  and  of  Robespierre,  and  who  has  also 
written,  in  lighter  vein,  a  volume  called  "  The 
Road  to  Rome,"  has  now  had  published  in 
England  a  satire  on  contemporary  journalism 
and  authorship,  called  "  Caliban's  Guide  to 
Letters."  An  American  edition  will  doubtless 
appear  soon. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  will  publish  at  once 
the  pamphlet  entitled  "  My  Relations  with 
Carlyle,"  that  was  written  for  private  circula- 
tion by  James  Anthony  Froude  after  he  pub- 
lished his  memorials  of  Carlyle.  It  is  now  re- 
published by  Froude's  executors  as  a  reply  to 
Sir  James  Crichton-Browne's  introduction  to 
the  "  New  Letters  and  Memorials  of  Jane 
Welsh  Carlyle."  With  Mr.  Froude's  own  state- 
ment will  be  given  a  letter  from  the  late  Sir 
James  Stephen,  that  was  also  printed  for 
private  circulation  in  1886. 

Hamblen  Sears,  author  of  "  None  but  the 
Brave,"  has  just  finished  a  new  novel  with 
the  scenes  shifting  from  Cape  Cod  and  Bos- 
ton to  New  York  City.  It  is  entitled  "  Rich- 
ard Daunt,"  and  will  be  published  in  the 
fall. 

Charles  Marriott,  the  author  of  "  The  Col- 
umn," has  completed  a  new  novel,  "  The 
House  on  the  Sands,"  which  will  be  published 
in  the  autumn.  The  scene  is  laid  in  Cornwall, 
and  there  is  a  political  element  in  the  plot. 

Among  the  season's  novels  in  course  of 
dramatization  are  "  Lees  and  Leaven,"  by 
Edward  W.  Townsend ;  "The  Filigree  Ball," 
by  Anna  Katherine  Green  ;  "  Dorothy  Vernon 
of  Haddon  Hall,"  by  Charles  Major;  "Hearts 
Courageous,"  by  Hallie  Erminie  Rives ;  and 
"  John  Ermine  of  the  Yellowstone,"  by  Fred- 
eric Remington,  which  will  be  produced  by 
James  K.  Hackett. 

Thomas  Dixon,  Jr.'s  new  novel  will  be 
called  "  The  One  Woman,"  and  it  will  be  is- 
sued August  1st.  The  theme  is  socialism, 
which  is  described  as  a  deadly  force,  annihi- 
lating home  life  and  weakening  the  structure 
of  Anglo-Saxon  manhood. 

Jacob  A.  Riis,  who  has  been  called  by  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  "  New  York's  most  useful 
citizen,"  is  getting  together  material  for  a 
book  called  "  Theodore  Roosevelt,  the  Citi- 
zen." 

Mrs.  Carter  H.  Harrison,  wife  of  the  mayor 
of  Chicago,  is  writing  another  book  of  fairy 
tales,  along  the  lines  of  her  first  book,  "  Prince 
Silver  Wings." 

Herbert    Spencer's    recent    volume    of    mis- 
cellaneous  papers,   entitled   "  Facts   and   Com- 
ments," has  attracted  no  little  attention.  These 
sombre  papers  close  with  some  reflections   on 
[   space,  in  which  Mr.  Spencer  states  a  feeling 


which,  doubtless,  many  have  shared :  "  Of 
late  years  the  thought  that  without  origin  or 
cause  infinite  space  has  ever  existed  and 
must  ever  exist,  produces  in  me  a  feeling  from 
which  I  shrink."  And  those  are  the  con- 
cluding words  of  what  seems  to  be  Mr.  Spen- 
cer's concluding  book:     "I  shrink." 

Shrewdly  cognizant  of  the  late  tragedy  in 
Servia,  a  volume  entitled  "  Famous  Assassina- 
tions "  is  to  be  published  at  once.  The  work 
will  contain  accounts  of  some  thirty  of  the 
most  significant  political  assassinations  in  the 
world's  history,  beginning  with  the  murder 
of  Philip  of  Macedon,  in  336  B.  C,  and  ending 
with   the   assassination  of  William   McKinley. 

The  letters  written  by  John  Ruskin  to  Mary 
and  Helen  Gladstone,  daughters  of  the  states- 
man, are  to  be  published  in  this  country  soon. 
Ruskin  was  intimately  acquainted  with  the 
Gladstone  family,  and  spent  much  time  with 
them  at  Hawarden.  The  letters  were  written 
in  the  intervals  between  Ruskin's  sojourns 
there.  An  introduction  has  been  supplied  by 
George   Wyndham. 


Joaquin  Miller  on  Race  Suicide." 
President  Roosevelt  in  swaddling  clothes, 
suspended  by  ribbons  from  the  bill  of  a  stork, 
furnishes  the  illustration  for  the  cover  of  a 
new  poem,  in  ten  cantos,  by  Joaquin  Miller, 
entitled  "  As  It  Was  in  the  Beginning."  In 
the  "  prefatory  postscript "  the  poet  writes  : 

When,  like  a  sentinel  on  his  watch-tower, 
the  President,  with  his  divine  audacity  and 
San  Juan  valor,  voiced  the  real  heart  of  the 
Americans  against  "  race  suicide,"  I  hastened 
to  do  my  part  in  my  own  way.  ill  or  well,  in 
holding  up  his  hands  on  the  firing  line.  ...  I 
venture  this  new  book  with  confidence,  not 
only  because  it  is  right,  proper,  clean,  cour- 
ageous, but  now  seems  opportune.  "  Let  the 
galled  jade  wince !"  I  give  no  quarter  and 
ask  none,  except  pardon  for  errors  incident 
to  great  haste.  I  cry  aloud  from  my  mountain 
top.  as  a  seer,  and  say:  The  cherry-blossom 
bird  of  Nippon  must  be  more  with  us, 
else  another  century  and  prolific  Canada, 
like  another  Germany  from  the  North,  may 
descend  upon  us  and  take  back  train  loads 
of  tribute.  We  are  coming  to  be  too  entirely 
Frenchish. 

That  the  poem  is  truly  Rooseveltian  in  its 
strenuousness  may  be  gleaned  from  these  stir- 
ring  stanzas   of   canto   IX : 

God's  pity  for  the  breasts  that  bear 
A  little  babe,  then  banish  it 
To  stranger  hands,  to  alien  care, 
To  live  or  die  as  chance  sees  fit. 
Poor,  helpless  hands  reached  anywhere. 
As  God  gave  them  to  reach  and  reach, 
With   only  helplessness   in   each! 
Poor  little  hands,   pushed  here,   pushed   there, 
And  all  night  long  for  mother's  breast. 
Poor,    restless   hands   that   will  not  rest 
And  gather  strength  to  reach  out  strong 
To  mother  in    the   rosy  morn! 
Nay,  nay,  they  gather  scorn  for  scorn 
And  hate   for  hate  the  lorn   night  long- 
Poor   dying   babe!    to   reach    about 
In   blackness,  as  a  thing  cast  out! 

God's    pity    for    the    thing   of    lust 
That  bears  a  frail  babe  to  be  thrust 
Forth  from  her  arms  to  alien  thrall. 
As   shutting  out  the  light  of  day, 
As   shutting   off    God's   very   breath! 
But  thrice    God's   pity,    let   us   pray, 
For   her   who   bears   no  babe    at  all, 
But  gayly  leads  up  -Fashion's  Hall 
And    grinning   leads    the    dance    of    death. 
That  sexless,  steel-braced  breast  of  bone 
Is  like   to   some  assassin   cell, 
A    whited  sepulchre  of  stone, 
A    grave-yard    at    the    gates    of    hell, 
A    mart   where    motherhood    is   sold, 
A    house   of   murders   manifold ! 

A  few  stanzas  further  on  the  poet  says : 

And   oh,    for  prophet's  tongue   or   pen 
To  scourge,   not  only,   and  accuse 
The    childless    mother,    but    such    men 
As  know  their  wives  but  to  abuse! 
Give  me  the  brave,  child-loving  Jew, 
The  full-sexed  Jew  of  either  sex, 
Who  loves,   brings   forth    and  nothing  recks 
Of  care  or  cost,   as  Christians  do — 
Dulled  souls  who  will  not  hear  or  see 
How    Christ    once    raised    his    lowly    head 
And,    as    rebuking,    gently   said, 
The  while  He  took  them  tenderly, 
'"  Let  little  children  come  to  me."  .  .  . 

Hear  me  this  prophecy  and  heed 
Except  we  cleanse  us  kirk  or  creed, 
Except  we   wash   us   word  and   deed 
The  Jew  shall    rule  us,    reign   the  Jew. 
And    just   because    the  Jew    is   true. 
Is  true   to   nature,    true  to   truth; 
Is  clean,  is  chaste,  as  trustful  Ruth 
Who    bore    us    David,    Solomon — 
The  Babe,  that  far,  first  Christmas  dawn. 

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LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  "Woman  of  the  Wild. 
Pauline  Bradford  Mackie,  in  "  The  Voice  in 
the  Desert,"  has  accomplished  the  feat  of 
bringing  the  mountain  to  Mohammed.  For 
those  who  have  never  seen  the  desert,  never 
felt  the  burning  glare  of  its  sands,  or  the 
brilliant  blueness  of  its  skies,  feel  involun- 
tarily, as  they  read  from  page  to  page,  the 
atmosphere  of  the  desert  grow  thick  and 
dense  about  them,  and  see  before  them  the 
unbroken  sweep  of  its  desolation. 

The  drama  of  the  book  is  played  in  the 
little  desert  town  of  Sahuaro,  where  the  na- 
tive growth  of  "  tall  fluted  cacti  stands  like 
broken  Doric  columns  "  to  beat  back  the  en- 
croaching tide  of  civilization,  and  where  the 
lizard  hops  like  a  canary  bird  to  eat  crumbs 
from  a  lady's  hand- 
It  is  here  that  Lispenard,  idealist,  dreamer, 
and  resident  clergyman,  meets  Trent,  the 
friend  of  his  youth,  and  here,  arm  in  arm, 
they  walk  out  into  the  wilderness  night, 
into  a  "  land  of  fading  blue  and  gray  of  in- 
finite distance,"  we  read,  where  "  the  gray 
breast  of  the  desert  becomes  warmer-hued  as 
they  walk  through  an  arroyo  of  yellow  sand, 
or  shows  silvery  green  where  the  grease-wood 
spreads  itself,  fighting  for  life  against  the 
burning  heat  and  draught." 

The  contrast  of  the  two  women  is  a  notable 
bit  of  work  in  the  story-teller's  art.  Adele. 
the  wife  of  Lispenard,  with  her  still  youth- 
ful beauty,  her  wild-rose  coloring,  and  curl- 
ing tendrils  of  hair,  is  all  that  is  sweet,  con- 
tradictory, womanly,  and  maternal — the  rose 
of  the  East  compared  with  Yucca,  the  scent- 
less cactus  of  the  desert.  Yucca,  whose 
father,  for  a  whim,  has  named  her  after  the 
stately  desert  blossom,  embodies  this  strange, 
colorless  fascination  of  the  wilderness.  "  In 
her  own  person  she  typified  the  desert,  fair  to 
those  who  found  her  fair,  strange  to  those 
who  found  her  strange.  Her  beauty  was  a 
reflection  like  that  of  the  little  indigo  chame- 
leon. The  sands  were  bright  and  her  hair 
was  gold.  Did  he  not  know  that  in  reality 
those  sparkling  sands  were  dull  and  lifeless  ; 
that  the  soft  masses  of  her  hair  were  neither 
brown  nor  yellow  but  a  monotonous  ash-tint? 
She  cast  a  spell  upon  him  as  the  desert  had 
and  forced  him  to  admit  the  strange  beauty 
of  them  both."  Was  ever  closer  analogy 
drawn  between  women  and  desert? 

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"The  Law  of  Mental  Medicine." 
Some  suspicion  always  attaches  to  so-called 
scientific  works  on  psychological  subjects 
which  become  very  popular  with  general  read- 
ers. The  relations  of  the  brain  to  the  mind 
and  all  the  other  allied  problems  are  so 
wrapped  in  obscurity  that  real  scientists  com- 
monly write  about  them,  if  they  write  at  all, 
hesitatingly,  with  many  "  I  don't  knows  "  and 
"  It  is  doubtfuls "  and  "  It  is  not  knowns," 
which  repel  the  general  reader  who  wants 
plain  facts  only.  The  pseudo-scientist,  on  the 
other  hand,  is  apt  to  transmute  tentative 
hypotheses  of  researchers  into  theories  or 
proved  facts,  and  to  erect  thereupon  a  glit 
tering  structure  of  assumptions  and  deduc- 
tions, pleasing  to  the  casual  eye,  but  liable 
to  topple  at  a  touch.  The  works  of  Thompson 
Jay  Hudson,  notably  his  "  Law  of  Psychic 
Phenomena."  and  the  just-issued  "  Law  of 
Mental  Medicine,"  fall  into  neither  category. 
Only  a  faint  suspicion  of  stretching  facts  to 
fit  theories  attaches  to  them ;  in  the  main 
they  are  scientific  in  method,  and  soundly 
based,  as  well  as  sufficiently  untechnical  for 
the  general  reader. 

The  avowed  object  of  Dr.  Hudson's  latent 
book  is  "  primarily  to  assist  in  placing  mental 
therapeutics  on  a  firmly  scientific  basis,  and 
incidentally  to  place  within  the  reach  of  the 
humblest  intellect  the  most  effective  methods 
of  healing  the  sick  by  mental  processes."  The 
author  goes  exhaustively  into  the  history  of 
"  mental  healing  "  and  "  laying  on  of  hands," 
carefully  making  clear  the  clevage  between 
therapeutics  and  religion.  Then  he  discusses 
in  order  the  physical  mechanism  through 
which  mental  healing  is  effected,  the  phe- 
nomena of  sleep,  and  the  problems  of  hypno- 
tism and  thought-transference,  as  they  relate 
to  suggestive  therapeutics. 

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The  Jewish  Encyclopedia." 
With  the  fourth  volume  of  the  great 
"  Jewish  Encyclopedia "  the  publishers  send 
some  interesting  advertisements  from  which 
we  glean  that  the  work  will  employ  in  its 
preparation  600  scholars,  will  be  complete  in 
twelve  volumes,  containing  a  total  of  8,000 
pages  and  2,000  illustrations.    Its  cost  is  esti- 


mated at  $600,000.  These  are  the  material 
facts,  and  examination  of  the  four  volumes 
that  have  already  appeared  convince  us  that 
the  work  will  rank  high  in  literary  merit, 
in  authoritativeness  and  in  contempora- 
neousness. It  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that 
the  work  will  prove  a  landmark  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  race  whose  future,  both  in  this 
country  and  abroad,  has  become  of  such  poig- 
nant interest.  New  York  is  now  the  first 
city  of  the  world  in  number  of  Jews.  The 
history  and  the  views  of  so  great  a  propor- 
tion of  our  urban  population  as  the  Jews  now 
form,  can  not  be  a  matter  of  indifference  to 
thinking  people.  The  present  volume  is  par- 
ticularly notable  in  that  it  contains  an  article 
of  thirty  pages  by  a  noted  French  publicist 
on  the  Dreyfus  case — perhaps  the  most 
authoritative  statement  of  the  facts  that  has 
yet   been   made. 

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pany, New  York ;  sold  only  by  subscription ; 
price,   $6.00  per  volume. 


New  Publications. 
Among  recent  novels  are  "  They  that  Took 
the  Sword,"  by  Nathaniel  Stephenson ;  "  The 
Catholic "  and  "  A  Roman  Mystery,"  by 
Richard  Bagot.  Published  by  John  Lane,  New 
York;  price,  each,  $1.50. 

"  From  Cornhill  to  Cairo  "  and  "  The  Book 
of  Snobs "  are  the  latest  additions  to  the 
Dent  edition  of  Thackeray  in  course  of  pub- 
lication. The  work  is  edited  by  Walter  Ter- 
rold  and  illustrated  by  Charles  E.  Brock. 
Imported  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York;  price,  per  volume,  $1.00. 

That  reprints  of  standard  works  in  handy 
form  are  popular  is  evidenced  by  the  number 
that  continue  to  appear.  The  latest  is  an 
admirable  edition  of  Anthony  Trollope's 
"  Framley  Parsonage,"  which  we  used  to  know 
in  two  bulky  volumes,  but  which  now,  by 
the  use  of  thin  paper,  is  compressed  into  one, 
and  that  one  only  six  inches  tall.  The  print 
is  large  and  clear,  the  paper  perfectly  opaque, 
and  the  binding  neat.  Published  by  Jone 
Lane,  New  York. 

*■  The  Detached  Pirate "  is  the  odd  title 
of  a  novel,  by  Helen  Milecete,  told  in  a  series 
o  f  letters  from  a  divorced  woman  to  her 
friend.  Safely  unmoored  from  her  marital 
wharf,  this  blithe  pirate  in  petticoats  sets  sail 
under  the  colors  of  a  single  woman  in  pur- 
suit of  a  little  "  fun."  But  her  courage  fails 
her.  She  is  obliged  to  flee  from,  rather  than 
pursue,  amorous  barks,  and,  finally,  is  glad 
enough  to  seek  a  safe  harbor  and  roam  no 
more.  The  letters  are  vivacious,  with  more 
than  a  touch  of  flippancy,  and  with  traces  of 
sensationalism.    The  pictures  in  color  by  I.  H. 


Coliga,  a  new  illustrator,  are  quite  good. 
Published  by  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston ; 
price,    $1.50. 

The  chief  among  the  picturesque  writings 
of  George  Wharton  James — "  In  and  Around 
the  Grand  Canyon  " — has  passed  into  a  second 
edition,  to  which  a  few  additions  have  been 
made.  The  book  has  one  great  merit — its 
author  was  in  love  with  his  subject  and 
possessed  of  boundless  enthusiasm  and  energy. 
Every  visitor  to  the  Grand  Canon  of  the 
Colorado  should  find  the  book  a  necessity. 
The  illustrations,  certainly,  can  not  but  com- 
mend themselves.  Published  by  Little,  Brown 
&   Co.,   Boston;   price,   $2.50. 

Why  Kipling  "Wouldn't  Lecture. 
A  very  characteristic  Kipling  letter  has 
aljain  been  brought  into  print  by  the  death 
of  Major  Pond,  the  manager  of  celebrities. 
It  seems  that  in  1895,  while  Mr.  Kipling  was 
living  in  Vermont,  the  major  tried  to  get  him 
to  make  a  lecture  tour  of  the  country,  offering 
compensation  well  proportioned  to  the  author's 
celebrity,  then  at  its  height.  Mr.  Kipling 
evidently  considered  the  proposition  with  some 
care,  but  only  to  reject  it,  for  he  wrote : 

There  is  such  a  thing  as  paying  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  cents  for  a  dollar,  and.  though 
I  suppose  there  is  money  in  the  lecturing  busi- 
ness, it  seems  to  me  that  the  bother,  the  fuss, 
the  being  at  everybody's  beck  and  call,  the 
night  journeys,  and.  so  on.  make  it  very  dear. 
I've  seen  a  few  men  who've  lived  through 
the  fight,  but  they  did  not  look  happy.  I 
might  do  it  as  soon  as  I  had  two  mortgages 
on  my  house,  a  lien  on  the  horses,  and  a  bill 
of  sale  on  the  furniture,  and  writer's  cramp 
in  both  hands ;  but  at  present  I'm  busy  and 
contented  to  go  on  with  the  regular  writing 
business.  You  forget  that  I  have  already 
wandered  over  most  of  the  States,  and  there 
isn't  enough  money  in  sight  to  hire  me  to  face 
again  some  of  the  hotels  and  some  of  the 
railway  systems  that  I  have  met  with.  America 
is  a  great  country,  but  she  is  not  made  for 
lecturing  in. 

A  statistician  studying  the  question  of  the 
use  of  wood  pulp  in  the  manufacture  of  paper 
has  lately  estimated  the  amount  of  material 
used  in  the  production  of  nine  popular  novels. 
Of  these  books  1,600,000  copies  were  sold.  In 
the  making  of  them  2,000,000  pounds  of  paper 
were  employed,  and  as  one  spruce-tree  yields 
about  500  pounds  of  paper,  these  nine  novels 
are  stated  to  have  caused  the  destruction  of 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


July  13,  1903. 


What  a  sound,  sweet,  wholesome  little  play 
"  Brother  Officers  "  is  !  How  fresh  and  pure 
its  sentiment,  how  pleasing  the  romance,  and 
how  simple  and  involuntary  the  atmosphere 
of  ease  and  refinement  surrounding  the  little 
coterie  to  whose  society  John  Hinds,  raised 
from  a  sergeant's  rank  for  bravery  on  the 
field  of  battle,  is  so  suddenly  elevated. 

There  are  so  many  good  points  in  the  play  ; 
the  very  title  is  most  happily  chosen,  express- 
ing in  advance  the  peculiarly  close  tie  between 
two  comrades  bound  to  each  other  by  inti- 
mate association  as  well  as  by  the  gratitude 
and  loyalty  of  manly  hearts.  All  the  emotions 
experienced  by  the  onlooker  are  of  a  nature 
refreshing  to  the  spirit.  The  appeal  to  the 
sympathies  is  constant,  but  not  fatiguing,  and 
one  feels  the  kindling  glow  of  a  generous 
joy  in  beholding  hearts  of  gold  brought  into 
mutual  relation  and  dependence.  .And,  with 
the  inspiring  of  all  these  pleasant  emotions, 
the  author  has  not  neglected  other  sources  of 
interest  and  pleasure.  The  introduction  of 
the  spectator  into  the  assembly-room  of  a 
swagger  English  regiment,  the  spectacle  of 
gorgeous  warriors  acting  as  hosts  to  their 
sweethearts  and  to  their  womenkind  gener- 
ally, the  pretty  picture  of  a  social  phase  of 
high-class  English  life,  the  intimate  talk  of 
the  men,  with  its  bits  of  racy  English  slang. 
and  the  glimpses  into  the  etiquette  of  social 
regimental  life,  all  have  their  distinct  dra- 
matic value,  with  some  degree  of  novelty  as 
well. 

Captain  Marshall,  in  "  The  Second  in  Com- 
mand," makes  use  of  a  similar  setting  for  his 
first  act,  but  bright  and  entertaining  as  his 
play  is,  Leo  Trevor,  besides  anticipating  the 
better-known  author  in  this  particular,  easily 
out-distanced  him  in  the  compactness  and  con- 
sistency of  his  plot,  and  the  greater  lovable- 
ness,  truth,  and  sincerity  of  his  leading 
characters. 

We  have  already  seen  "  Brother  Officers " 
presented  under  ideal  conditions.  Seldom  or 
never  has  Henry  Miller  succeeded  more 
thoroughly  in  identifying  himself  with  a 
character  he  has  portrayed  than  with  that  of 
John  Hinds,  and  Margaret  Anglin.  with  that 
rare  quality  she  has  of  acting  a  character 
from  the  heart  out,  expressed  in  simple,  noble 
outlines  all  the  graces  of  heart  and  nature 
with  which  Captain  Trevor  endowed  his 
-heroine.  But  the  piece  in  itself  is  so  direct 
and  sure  in  its  appeal  to  the  sympathies,  and 
the  characters  are  so  playable,  that  the  acting 
of  the  Alcazar  company,  as  is  always  the 
case  when  good  dramatic  material  is  provided, 
gains  proportionately  in  poise  and  sig- 
nificance. 

White  Whittlesey,  although  thoroughly 
identified  with  the  school  of  romantic  un- 
realism,  is  obliged,  in  the  character  of  John 
Hinds,  temporarily  to  forswear  elegance  of 
appearance  and  demeanor,  and  to  commonize 
his  aspect  almost  to  the  degree  of  ple- 
beianism.  This  he  accomplishes  very  suc- 
cessfully in  the  first  act,  although  ap  un- 
swerving realist  would  be  apt  to  recall  the 
fact  that  a  soldier  from  the  ranks,  exposed 
to  the  terrifying  scrutiny  of  his  social  su- 
periors, would  be  more  apt  to  hold  himself  me- 
chanically in  the  rigid  attitude  of  "  attention  " 
than  to  relax  into  the  state  of  physical  tremor, 
as  shown  by  Mr.  Whittlesey.  Still,  from  a 
dramatic  point  of  view,  it  was  effective,  show- 
ing the  collapsed  condition  of  John  Hind's 
courage,  and  how  abjectly  the  hero  of  many 
battle-fields  could  show  the  white  feather  in 
the  presence  of  lovely,  hijjh-born  ladies.  Mr. 
Whittlesey's  first  appearance  was  illustrative 
of  how  telling  small  details  of  costume  are 
on  the  stage ;  although  John  Hinds  was  care- 
fully attired  in  a  neat  gray  suit,  with  well- 
creased  trousers,  there  were  several  damning 
evidences  that  stamped  him  as  the  "  plebe." 
His  gayly  spotted  handkerchief  could  not  be 
overlooked ;  and  let  that  rash  class  of  men 
who  affect  high-colored  neckties  take  note 
of  the  fact  that  his  was  bright  red.  Whether 
it  was  th*»(  .•>  ithor  or  the  actor  who  was  re- 
sponsible fo;,  this  shrewd  bit  of  detail,  I  do 
not  knr>\v;  t-xl  whoever  it  was  availed  himself 
-  knowledge  that  the  deadly  red  neCktie 


is  almost  as  antagonistic  to  distinction  of  ap- 
pearance as  a  damaged  eye,  pr  a  nose  with 
an   inclination   to   starboard. 

The  first  act  of  "  Brother  Officers "  does 
little  beyond  putting  the  reader  an  fait  of  the 
situation ;  but  what  a  perfectly  delightful 
climax  it  has.  One  feels  a  quick,  keen  thrill 
of  pleasure  at  seeing  a  beautiful,  generous 
impulse  so  swiftly  and  tactfully  obeyed.  At 
the  same  moment,  the  discomfited  officer,  thus 
sweetly  and  graciously  delivered  from  his 
painful  embarrassment,  forgets  it  all  in  the 
glow  and  ardor  of  his  gratitude,  and  becomes 
a  man  again,  laying  his  homage  freely  and 
gratefully  at  the  feet  of  his   gentle  deliverer. 

In  subsequent  acts,  Mr.  Whittlesey  fails  to 
make  patent  that  taint  of  the  commons  left 
in  John  Hinds,  in  spite  of  his  year's  tutoring 
at  the  hands  of  his  brother-officer.  Mr. 
Whittlesey,  in  fact,  easily  dominated  the  stage, 
and  on  the  whole  had  the  air  of  being  fash- 
ioned of  finer  clay  than  any  of  the  other  men, 
except  Mr.  Wyngate,  who  was  a  pleasant, 
easy,  open-hearted  Lieutenant  Bleydell,  with 
a  very  fair  approximation  to  the  charm  of  that 
darling  of  drawing-rooms  and  favorite  of 
mess-rooms. 

There  is,  by  the  by,  a  sort  of  old-fashioned 
English  romanticism  in  the  character  creation 
of  the  young  officer,  with  his  fine,  manly 
traits,  in  close  contrast  with  a  blind  reck- 
lessness amounting  almost  to  dishonor  in 
money  matters.  It  is,  in  fact,  a  bit  of  tra- 
ditional character  handed  down  from  the 
English  novels  of  Anthony  Trollope's  time. 
John  Hinds  is  the  truer  man  of  the  two,  but 
the  Baroness  Royden  loves  her  social  equal. 
The  play  is  written  from  the  standpoint  of 
the  aristocrat,  and,  with  that  remnant  of 
the  plebeian  left  in  him  from  his  ignoble 
birth  and  training,  John  Hinds,  a  rough 
diamond,  polished  only  by  attrition  with  his 
betters,  as  the  husband  of  the  lady  he  loves 
would  inevitably  "  get  on  her  nerves  " — so  de- 
clares Lord  Hunstanton — and  his  dictum  is 
accepted  by  the  listener  as  the  authority  of 
one  who  speaks  for  his  own  class. 

White  Whittlesey,  as  has  been  said,  does 
not  make  this  point  of  view  plausible,  although 
it  must  be  confessed  that  the  romantic  in- 
terest does  not  particularly  suffer  thereby. 

The  company,  strengthened  by  the  addition 
of  Messrs.  Wyngate,  Byers,  and  Butler, 
makes  a  very  good  showing,  each  character, 
save  that  of  Lady  Margaret  Pleydell,  being 
presented  in  the  proper  light.  With 
the "  best  intentions  in  the  world,  Adele 
Belgarde  fails  to  understand  or  make  patent 
that  gentle,  whimsical  discernment,  flicker- 
ing through  the  kindly  conventionality  of 
Lancelot's  mother,  presenting  her  rather  as 
a  piece  of  bland,  fashionable  inanity. 


As  with  its  immediate  predecessor.  "  In 
Central  Park  "  is  a  gorgeous  exposition  of  the 
chorus-girl,  with  frequent  interludes  of 
comedy  made  to  order.  The  public-in-general 
dearly  loves  comedy  made  to  order,  and 
thoughtful  managers,  with  an  eye  to  the  main 
chance,  invariably  see  that  they  get  it.  Why, 
then,  should  a  dejected  minority  who  like 
spontaneous  comedy,  comedv  with  brains,  or. 
at  least,  with  real  humor  behind  it.  repine? 
Not.  T  think,  from  any  objection  to  the 
public-in-general  having  its  tastes  thus  fondly 
catered  to.  but  rather  from  a  discouraged  per- 
ception that  the  public-in-particular  had  better 
dispense  with  divergent  tastes  that  are  gen- 
erally overlooked  by  the  managers,  because 
gratifying  them  entails  greater  expenditure. 

Raymond  and  Caverly.  to  come  down  to  a 
case  in  point,  are  two  cheerful,  brass-lunged 
mountebanks,  who  have  not  an  iota  of  orig- 
inality in  them,  and  scarcely  a  ray  of  natural, 
irrepressible  humor.  But  they  give  themselves 
over  heartily  to  the  business  of  clowning,  cut 
capers,  make  grimaces,  and  bellow  through 
their  repertoire  of  jokes  from  the  funny 
column  with  such  an  air  of  open,  honest 
relish,  and  with  such  a  perfect  abandonment 
of  all  encumbering  dignity  that  the  worthy 
pair  are  enormously  popular,  and  are  re- 
peatedly hauled  out  to  satisfy  the  demands  of 
an  insatiable  audience  until  their  last  ioke  is 
flabby  with  overwork.  Yet  they  have  little  to 
offer  beyond  what  they  have  memorized  or 
copied  from  others.  Weber  and  Field,  no 
doubt,  are  the  inspirers  of  the  line  of  comedy 
work  taken  up  by  the  comedians  at  Fischer's, 
and  again  by  the  pair  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House.  The  famous  originals  are  so  success- 
ful in  their  special  kind  of  clowning  that  it 
has  come  to  be  regarded  as  almost  a  classic  in 
its  line.  Fortunate  it  is  for  all  originators 
that  no  imitator,  no  matter  how  pat  his  imi- 
tation, can  ever  succeed  in  catching  that  un- 
translatable aura  of  individual  humor  that 
each  natural  comedian  possesses  in  his  own 
right. 


I  fancy  that  Budd  Ross,  who  is  playing  the 
part  of  the  office-boy,  shows  promise  of  de- 
veloping into  a  genuine  comedian,  partly  be- 
cause of  the  slight  savor  of  individuality 
to  what  he  does ;  and  partly  because  his 
comic  effects,  the  contortions,  for  instance, 
which  he  undergoes  on  his  first  entrance,  have 
the  air  of  being  the  result  of  exuberant  spirits. 
rather  than  funny  business  done  with  a  set 
purpose  to  amuse. 

His  little  dark-haired  doll  of  a  partner,  too, 
chubby-faced  Anna  Wilks,  has  her  own  little 
fragment  of  personal  attractiveness.  Hard 
as  it  is  to  define,  and  transient,  perhaps,  as  a 
spring  bloom,  there  it  is,  separating  her 
from  the  others,  and  giving  her  a  prominent 
place  in  the  company.  To  be  sure,  one  is 
puzzled  sometimes  by  the  untoward  eminence 
of  others  who  have  few  qualities  to  account 
for  it.  Some  of  the  minor  principals,  whom 
it  will  be  more  polite  to  leave  nameless — 
one  wonders  if  they  have  a  pull,  that  giris 
without  positive  beauty,  coquetry,  or  natural 
charm,  whose  acquired  stage  substitute  for 
these  qualities  is  faintly  irritating  to  the 
sensibilities,  are  pushed  forward  to  undue 
prominence.  One  is  forced  to  the  conviction 
that  they  have  earned  it  by  greater  industry 
than  their  prettier  mates,  and  that  if  they 
trip  through  their  dancing  steps  with  greater 
mathematical  accuracy,  and  smirk  more  widely 
than  the  others,  their  greater  industry  and 
stricter  attention  to  business  is  just  as  much 
to  their  credit  as  that  of  the  type-writing  girl, 
or  her  snub-nosed  sister  peeling  vegetables  in 
a  pickle  factory.  For,  after  all,  they  are  all 
engaged,  with  varying  degrees  of  zeal,  in  the 
universal   business  of  Making  a  Living. 

"  In  Central  Park "  is  conducted  on  the 
same  general  lines  as  "  In  Washington."  and, 
like  its  predecessor,  has  its  innumerable 
choruses,  its  twin  comedians,  its  singing  and 
joking  quartet,  its  grand  march,  its  stray 
couples  who  flirt,  quarrel,  and  make  up,  and 
its  special  couple  who  give  special  turns  in 
singing  and  dancing.  Superficial  as  it  alt  is, 
this  most  popular  form  of  stage  entertainment 
-has  so  many  devotees  among  people  who 
merely  demand  for  theatrical  amusement  a 
tuneful,  if  meaningless,  hammering  against  the 
tympanum,  and  a  perpetual  procession  of 
gayly  clad  chorus-girls  imaged  across  the 
retina,  that  the  management  have  good  reason 
to  feel  that  they  are  on  the  right  financial 
track.  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 

The  Union  League  Club  has  received  from 
William  F.  and  Blanche  M.  Burbank  an  offer 
of  the  premises  now  occupied  by  the  Pacific- 
Union  Club,  on  Union  Square,  to  be  va- 
cated on  the  completion  of  the  new  club-house 
now  building  for  the  latter  organization  on 
the  opposite  corner,  at  Stockton  and  Post 
Streets.  The  owners  sav  they  would  sell  at 
$40  per  square  foot.  The  area  covered  by 
the  building  thus  offered  fronts  137:6  each 
on  Stockton  and  Post  Streets,  and  at  $40  per 
square  foot,  the  price  asked  by  the  Burbanks. 
foots  up  $7"  350.40.  The  club  thinks  this 
price  too  high,  and  has  almost  decided  to  pur- 
chase the  site  on  the  south-east  corner  of 
Stockton  Street  and  Union  Square  Avenue, 
o  ffered  at  $137,500,  and  erect  thereon  a 
twelve-story  building  at  an  estimated  cost  of 
$160,000.  The  property  has  a  frontage  of  44 
feet  on  Stockton  Street,  with  a  depth  of  70 
feet.  It  is  planned  to  rent  the  eight  lower 
floors  for  business  purposes,  using  the  re- 
maining four  floors  as  club-rooms. 


All  Seamen 

know  the  comforts  of  having  on  band  a  supply  of 
Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk-  It  can  be 
used  so  agreeably  for  cooking,  in  coffee,  tea  and 
chocolate.  Lay  in  a  supply  for  all  kinds  of  expedi- 
tions.    Avoid  unknown  brands. 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL  CO. 

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Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


SUNDIALS  ' 


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Bronze 
Marble 
or  Slate 


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*TIVOLI* 

To-night  and  Sunday  night,  and  next  week,  revival  of 

-:=  WANG  =:= 

With  Edwin  Stevens  in  the  title-r6Ie. 


Popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  and  75c.        Telephone  Bush  9. 


Next  — The  Highwayman,  with    Camille  d'Ar- 
ville  in  the  cast. 


QOLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

Beginning  Monday.  July  13th    (six  nights),  matinees 

Wednesday  and  Saturday,   first  time  here  of 

AMELIA  BINGHAM  and  her  company 

in  Haddon  Chambers's  play, 

A    IVIODeRIN    MAGDALEN 

After  three  hundred  nights  in  New  York. 
July  20th — The  FriRky  Mrs.  Johnson. 

ALCAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone  "  Alcazar." 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

E.  D.  Price General  Manager 

Regular  matinees  Thursdav  and  Saturday.  Monday 
evening  next,  July  13th,  WHITE  WHITTLESEY 
with  the  augmented  Alcazar  Company,  in 

THE    PRISONER    OF     ZENDA 


First  time  at  popular  prices — Evening,  25c  to  75c. 
Matinees  (Thursdav  and  Saturday),  15c  to  50c. 
July  20th — The  Manxman. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week  beginning  Monday,  July  13th,  matine.es  Satur- 
day and  Sunday,  the  favorite  comedian,  JAMES 
CORRIGAN  in  the  farce-comedy, 

MULDOON'S     PICNIC 


Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Monday,  July  30th — Mr.  Herschell  Mayall  in  Faust. 

QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Only  matinee  Saturday.     Every  night,   the  delightful 
musical  eccentricity, 

IN    CENTRAL.     PARK 

Third  week  begins  to-morrow  night. 
Prices — 25c,  50c,  and  75c. 


In  preparation — In  Wall  Street. 

CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

To-night  "The  Jewess."    Commencing  Monday  even- 
ing, last  week  of  Miss  NANCE  O'NEIL,  ap- 
pearing for  the  first  time  in  America  in 

ROMEO    AND    JULIET 


Next — The  Neil-Morosco  Company  for  a  season  of 
seven  weeks,  opening  in  In  the  Palace  of  the 
King. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  July  fi2th. 
Vaudeville  de  luxe!  De  Kolta ;  Bailey  and  Madison; 
Hodges  and  Launchmere;  Charles  Dickson  and  Com- 
pany in  "  Heart  to  Heart  Talks  "  ;  Mosher,  Houghton 
and  Mosher;  Young  and  DeVoie ;  Julian  Rose;  the 
Biograph  ;  and  last  week  of  Mabel  McKinley. 


Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Last  nights  of  Twirly-Whirly. 

Commencing  Monday,  July  13th, 

UNDER   THE    RED   GLOBE 

Everything  new  and  magnificent—scenery,  costumes, 
paraphernalia.     A  hundred  surprises  and  novelties. 

Prices — 25c,  50c,  and  75c;  Saturday  and  Sunday  mati- 
nees, 25c  and  50c  ;  children  at  matinees,  10c  and  25c. 


IT'S  A  HUMMER" 
The  20th  Century  Limited 


From  CHICAGO  to  NEW  YORK  In 
20    HOURS 

—  VIA  THE  — 

LAKE  SHORE  and 

NEW  YORK  CENTRAL 

CARLTON  C.  CRANE 

Pacific  Coast  Agent 

637  flarket  St.,  San  Francisco 


July  13,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


27 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


"A  Modern  Magdalen"  at  the  Columbia. 
At  the  Columbia  Theatre  on  Monday  night 
Amelia  Bingham  will  appear  for  the  first  time 
in  this  city  in  Haddon  Chambers's  strong  play, 
"  A  Modern  Magdalen,"  which  holds  a  record 
of  three  hundred  nights  in  New  York.  It  is 
a  work  of  unusual  power,  and  with  such  play- 
ers in  the  leading  roles  as  Wilton  Lackaye.  W. 
L.  Abington,  Amelia  Bingham,  Bijou  Fernan- 
dez, Frances  Ring,  and  others,  a  very  inter- 
esting and  effective  interpretation  may  be  ex- 
pected. "A  Modern  Magdalen"  is  to  be 
played  for  but  one  week,  and  as  it  proved  such 
a  big  matinee  bill  throughout  the  East,  there 
will  be  a  special  matinee  on  Wednesday,  in 
addition  to  the  regular  Saturday  matinee. 
Following  "  A  Modern  Magdalen,"  Miss  Bing- 
ham will  present  "  The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson." 

Nance  O'Neil  as  Juliet. 

At  the  California  Theatre  to-night  and  to- 
morrow night  Nance  O'Neil  gives  the  farewell 
performances  of  "  The  Jewess."  On  Monday 
night  she  will  essay  for  the  first  time  in 
America  a  portrayal  of  Juliet,  in  Shakespeare's 
"  Romeo  and  Juliet."  The  event  will  be  a  de- 
cided novelty,  inasmuch  as  we  have  never 
seen  Nance  O'Neil  in  anything  save  the  in- 
tensely dramatic  roles,  for  which  she  is  so 
admirably  adapted.  Miss  O'Neil  in  such  a 
character  as  the  gentle,  love-lorn  Juliet  will 
■  be  new  to  her  San  Francisco  admirers,  and 
considerable  speculation  has  already  been 
aroused  as  to  her  probable  conception  of  the 
character.  The  noted  tragedienne  has  a  habit 
of  being  original  in  everything  she  does,  and 
she  will  probably  give  us  a  new  and  original 
Juliet.  That  she  will  not  follow  on  tradi- 
tional lines  is  a  foregone  conclusion,  and  it 
is  this  feature  that  promises  to  give  a  largely 
added  interest  to  the  performance.  E.  J.  Rat- 
cliff  will  appear  as  Romeo. 

The  following  attraction  at  the  California 
Theatre  will  be  the  Neill-Morosco  Company, 
which  opens  a  season  of  seven  weeks  on  Mon- 
day night.  July  20th.  "  In  the  Palace  of  the 
King  "  will  be  the  initial  play. 


A  Success  at  the  Tivoli. 
The  revival  of  "Wang"  at  the  Tivoli  Opera 
House  last  week  was  so  distinct  a  success  that 
it  will  be  repeated  again  during  the  coming 
week.  Ferris  Hartman,  as  the  keeper  of  the 
royal  elephant,  is  as  funny  as  ever,  and  Annie 
Myers  is  charming  as  Prince  Mataya.  Bertha 
Davis  as  Marie  and  Caro  Roma  as  the  Widow 
Frimosse  never  fail  to  score,  and  Edwin  Ste- 
vens well  sustains  the  title-role.  Meanwhile, 
the  Tivoli  company  are  rehearsing  Smith  and 
De  Koven's  comic  opera.  "  The  Highwayman," 
which  is  to  be  put  on  for  the  first  time  at 
popular  prices  the  week  after  next.  Theatre- 
goers will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  Camille 
d'Arville.  whose  work  in  the  soprano  part  of 
Lady  Constance  Sinclair  is  well  known,  has 
been  engaged  for  the  production.  The  piece 
abounds  in  pretty  music  and  catchy  comedy. 
One  of  the  big  parts  is  that  of  Foxy  Quiller. 
which  will  be  taken  by  Edwin  Stevens.  Bertha 
Davis  will  appear  as  Lady  Pamela.  Annie 
Myers  as  Doll  Primrose,  Edward  Webb  as 
Toby  Winkle.  Oscar  Lee  as  Captain  Rodney, 
and  Arthur  Cunningham  as  Dick  Fitzgerald. 

Third  Week  of  "in  Central  Park." 
The  Grand  Opera  House  continues  to  amuse 
crowds  nightly  with  the  musical  eccentricity, 
"In  Central  Park."  It  is  a  good  show  of  its 
kind,  and  San  Francisco  audiences  reward  it 
by  the  most  generous  patronage.  The  funny 
men.  Raymond  and  Caverly,  have  made  a  hit. 
Their  strong  hold  is  as  German  dialect 
comedians,  and  the  gacs  and  witticisms 
are,  many  of  them,  of  their  own  com- 
position. Cheridah  Simpson  is  also  a 
genuine  delight.  She  acts  gracefully  and 
with  magnetism,  and  her  pleasing  soprano 
voice  is  one  of  the  chief  attractions  of  the 
performance.  Harold  Crane.  Budd  Ross,  Anna 
Wilks.  Louise  Moore,  and  Herbert  Sears  con- 
tribute to  the  general  success.  Charles  H. 
Jones's  march  of  prettv  sirls  excites  enthu- 
siasm. "  In  Central  Park."  after  its  third 
week,  will  be  succeeded  by  "  In  Wall  Street." 


Muldoon's  Picnic"  at  the  Central. 
"  Muldoon's  Picnic,"  an  old  and  funny  farce- 
comedy,  will  be  the  attraction  at  the  Central 
Theatre  for  the  third  and  last  week  of 
Comedian  James  Corrigan's  engagement,  com- 
mencing next  Monday  night.  The  regular 
stock  company  will  be  augmented  for  the 
production  by  Conlon  and  Ryder,  who  are 
famous  as  fun-makers  and  singers  of  comic 
sonc;s.  There  will  be  specialties  in  great 
variety  in  every  act.  The  rise  of  the  Muldoon 
family  from  humble  beginnings  on  the  Bowery 
to  the  splendor  and  affluence  of  Fifth  Avenue, 
and  their  debut  into  the  smart  set,  with  all 
the  ludicrous  incidents  that  accompany  the 
metamorphosis,  give  wide  scope  to  the 
comedians  for  the  exercise  of  their  laugh- 
producing  genius.  Following  the  Corrigan 
season.  July  20th.  will  come  the  grand  open- 
ing of  the  new  Central  Theatre  stock  com- 
pany, with  Herschel  Mayall  as  leading  man, 
-in   a  spectacular  production   of  "Faust." 


At  the  Orpheum. 
De  Kolta,  the  renowed  wizard,  who  has  just 
completed  a  run  of  eight  months  at  the  Eden 
Musee,  New  York,  will  make  his  American 
debut  in  vaudeville  at  the  Orpheum  this  com- 
ing week.  His  mysterious  problems  and 
magical  illusions  will  undoubtedly  puzzle 
the  Orpheum  audience.  Bailey  and  Madi- 
son, grotesque  eccentrics,  will  also  make  their 
first   appearance   here.      Hodges    and   Launch- 


mere,  known  as  the  "  American  Nightingales," 
will  present  their  act,  introducing  high-class 
medleys3  German  yodling,  piano  solos,  and  fancy 
buck  and  wing  dancing.  Mabel  McKinley,  the 
pleasing  soprano,  and  niece  of  the  late  Presi- 
dent, has  surpassed  all  expectations.  She 
made  her  vaudeville  debut  last  Sunday,  and 
was  immediately  accorded  a  front  rank  among 
singers.  For  her  second  and  last  week  she 
will  change  her  selections,  singing  the  beauti- 
ful waltz-song  from  Gounod's  "  Romeo  and 
Juliet,"  a  "  Danza "  by  Chadwick,  and  a 
Japanese  love-song.  Charles  Dickson,  in  a  new 
sketch  ;  Julian  Rose,  "  our  Hebrew  friend  "  ; 
Young  and  DeVoie,  in  their  specialty,  "  Dan- 
cing by  Book " ;  Mosher,  Houghton,  and 
Mosher.  expert  and  comedy  bicyclists ;  and  the 
biograph,  with  new  motion  pictures,  will  com- 
plete   the    bill. 

New  Bill  at  the  Alcazar. 
White  Whittlesey  as  an  ideal  hero  of  ro- 
mance will  find  fine  opportunities  in  the  Alca- 
zar's production  of  "  The  Prisoner  of  Zenda  " 
next  week.  The  charm  of  Anthony  Hope's  fan- 
tastic and  fascinating  romance  has  been  felt 
by  many  readers,  and  the  fine  acting  adapta- 
tion by  Edward  E.  Rose  helped  to  build  up 
the  fortunes  of  those  popular  matinee  idols, 
E.  H.  Sothern  and  James  K.  Hackett.  The 
dual  role  of  Rudolf,  the  Elphberg  king,  and 
Rudolf,  the  up-to-date  English  gentleman,  will 
accurately  fit  the  Whittlesey  personality. 
Interest  attaches  to  the  local  debut  of 
Harry'  S.  Hillard,  the  Alcazar's  new  ju- 
venile man,  who  comes  from  the  East. 
The  cast  includes,  among  others.  Bertha 
Creighton,  Juliet  Crosby,  Adele  Belgarde, 
Marie  Howe,  Charles  Wyngate.  Fred  Butler, 
Henry'  Shumer,  H.  D.  Byers.  Walter  Belasco, 
and  Harry  Spear.  The  winter  palace  at 
Streslau,  the  castle  of  Tarlenheim,  and  the 
famous  dungeon  scene  will  all  be  finely 
mounted.  The  production  for  July  20th  will 
be  Hall  Caine's  drama,  "  The  Manxman,"  in 
which    James    O'Neill    will    again    star    next 


New  Burlesques  at  Fischer's. 
Although,  for  lack  of  room,  people  are 
turned  away  at  every  performance  of  "  Twirly- 
Whirly  "  at  Fischer's  Theatre,  the  management 
has  decided  to  take  the  burlesque  off,  and  will 
put  on  the  new  play  Monday  evening.  The 
new  bill  Monday  night  will  be  a  combination 
of  two  burlesques — "Under  the  Red  Globe" 
and  "  The  Three  Musketeers."  The  programme 
of  novelties  is  most  extensive.  Among  the 
new  features  is  the  latest  song.  "  The  Leader 
of  Vanity  Fair."  sung  by  Maude  Amber,  and 
the  chorus;  "The  Peroxide  Sisters."  a  song 
and  dance,  by  the  Misses  Hope  and  Emerson ; 
"  For  Love  is  King."  arranged  for  and  sung 
by  Winfield  Blake :  "  Soldiers,"  a  funny  song 
and  march,  acted  and  sung  by  Kolb,  Dill. 
Bernard,  and  Whelan  ;  a  new  coon  song  and 
dance,  in  which  six  of  the  excellent  little  clog 
dancers  at  Fischer's  will  help  out  Kolb  and 
Dill ;  "  Oh.  Fudge,"  a  new  topical  song,  by 
Harry  Hermsen  ;  and  some  specialty  numbers 
by  the  quartet.  In  addition  to  these  numbers 
there  are,  as  usual,  the  big  lot  of  surprises 
that  always  come  with  the  shows  at  Fischer's. 


Lotta  M.  Crabtree,  the  former  stage  favorite 
and  the  donor  of  the  fountain  at  the  junc- 
tion of  Market  and  Geary'  Streets,  has  sold  her 
realty  in  this  city.  In  1869  Lotta's  mother 
bought  for  her  a  piece  of  property  on  the 
south  side  of  Turk  Street.  87  :6  east  of  Hyde. 
It  is  a  lot  50x137:6,  with  an  L  50x87:6.  on 
which  are  four  buildings,  all  the  worse  for  their 
thirty-four  years  of  wear.  For  this  prop- 
erty Lotta  paid  $12,000.  She  has  now 
sold  the  property  for  $50,000.  The  pur- 
chaser is  Covington  Pringle.  Lotta  and  her 
mother  came  out  to  California  about  four 
weeks  ago  for  the  purpose  of  disposing  of  this 
property,  as  Miss  Crabtree  is  desirous  of 
consolidating  her  interests  in  the  East-  She 
has  been  very  successful  in  her  business  in- 
vestments, and  is  the  possessor  of  $1,000,000 
of  real  estate  in  Boston.  Her  mother  is 
eighty-five  years  of  age,  but  is  hale  and  hearty. 


Charles  Frohman  has  signed  a  contract  with 
Francis  Wilson  binding  him  to  appear  under 
Frohman's  management  in  the  United  States 
and  England  for  three  years  from  September, 
1904.  Wilson  will  continue  to  appear  in  "  Er- 
minie  "  under  his  present  management  during 
the  coming  season,  after  which  he  will  aban- 
don comic  opera  to  appear  in  legitimate  com- 
edy. 


Local  Artists  to  Exhibit. 
An  exhibition  of  drawings  in  black  and 
white,  the  originals  of  illustrations  which 
have  appeared  in  local  newspapers  and  maga- 
zines, will  be  held  at  an  early  date  in  the 
Maple  Room  of  the  Palace  Hotel.  The  ex- 
amples to  be  shown  are,  for  the  most  part, 
wash  and  pen  and  ink  drawings,  together  with 
some  examples  of  pencil,  crayon,  and  water- 
color  work.  The  various  stages  of  picture- 
making  will  be  shown,  from  the  drawing  as  it 
leaves  the  artist's  hand  to  the  printed  picture. 
The  artists  who  will  exhibit  are  Theodore 
Langguth,  Fred  W.  Small.  Jack  Rogers.  W. 
Francis.  John  E.  Sheridan,  H.  M.  Bunker, 
of  the  Chronicle;  W.  H.  Matthies,  C.  S.  Don- 
nelly. Merle  Johnson.  J.  M.  Kelley,  M.  W. 
Newberry',  Dan  C.  Sweeney,  Bert  A.  Igoe, 
William  Stevens,  V.  Nahl,  Ralph  Springer, 
Henry  Raleigh,  and  George  Kiddie,  of  the 
Examiner ;  Oscar  M.  Bryn,  Maurice  del  Mue, 
George  S.  Parmenter,  R.  Thompson,  C.  O. 
Rohnhand,  J.  W.  Rennell,  J.  A.  Cahill,  S. 
Schuhl,  R.  G.  Russom,  G.  H.  Bronstrup,  and  i 
W.  A.  Coulter,  of  the  Call;  T.  A.  Dorgan,  R. 
O.  Yordley,  H.  G.  Peter,  Haig  Patigam,  Laura 
E.  Fosters.  A.  Fulton,  and  J.  Kahler,  of  the 
Bulletin;  Marie  Feiling.  of  the  Post ;  R.  H. 
Bassett,  M.  M.  Harris,  C.  D.  Pitchford,  and 
A.  M.  Nelson,  of  the  Sunset  Magazine ;  and 
Stanley  C.  Arthur,  of  the  California  Ladies' 
Magazine. 

■    ♦    ■ 

Henry  E.  Dixey,  the  actor,  is  having  lots 
of  trouble.  The  Binghams  agreed  to  bring 
him  out  this  fall  in  a  Fitch  play,  "  The  Last  of 
the  Dandies,"  done  in  England  by  Beerbohm 
Tree.  But  it  seems  it  was  not  to  be.  Mr. 
Fitch  couldn't  deliver  the  play,  Mr.  Bingham 
couldn't  deliver  the  part,  and  Dixey.  there- 
fore, couldn't  star  in  it.  Now  Mr.  Bingham 
is  suing  Mr.  Fitch,  alleging  failure  of  agree- 
ment ;  Mr.  Dixey  is  suing  Mr.  Bingham,  al- 
leging that  he  was  long  idle,  and  that  his  sal- 
ary' should  be  forthcoming,  even  though  the 
play  was  not ;  and  Mr.  Fitch  is  suing  Mr. 
Bingham  for  back  royalties  on  his  other  plays 
in  the  Bingham  repertoire.  "  The  Climbers " 
and  "  The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson."  which  Mr. 
Bingham  is  holding  back  to  protect  the  fifteen 
hundred  dollars  he  says  he  paid  for  the  de- 
livery of  "  The  Last  of  the  Dandies." 


After  an  arduous  but  highly  profitable  sea- 
son, both  artistically  and  financially,  Richard 
Mansfield  is  resting  in  so  far  as  his  physical 
and  mental  energy  will  let  him.  Frequent 
cruises  around  Long  Island  Sound  in  his  sail- 
ing yacht  are  his  principal  diversion.  Mr. 
Mansfield's  season  will  begin  October  12th  at 
the  Lyric  Theatre.  New  York.  It  is  a  new 
playhouse,  which  he  will  dedicate  by  present- 
ing for  the  first  time  on  any  stage  a  version 
by  Mme.  de  Meisner  of  Count  Alexis  Tolstoy's 
tragic  theme.  "  Ivan  the  Terrible."  Later  in 
the  New  York  engagement  he  will  present 
''  Old  Heidelberg."  a  comedy  of  German  stu- 
dent life,  which  has  been  very'  successful  in 
Germany  for  the  past  three  or  four  seasons, 
and  in  London  last  winter,  when  it  was  done 
by  George  Alexander. 

The  trip  to  Mount  Tamalpais  is  still  the 
chief  attraction  in  the  way  of  an  outing  with 
grand  scenic  effects.  There  are  no  accessories 
lacking,  on  the  journey  by  rail  up  the  mount- 
ain, or  at  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais. 


Dr.  Charles  "W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan  Building,  rooms  6,  8,  10,  48  (entrance  806 
Market  Street),  informs  the  public  that  the  late  part- 
nership has  been  dissolved,  and  that  he  still  continues 
his  practice  at  the  same  place  with  increased  facilities 
and  competent  and  courteous  associates. 


—  "  Knox"  celebrated  hats  ;  spring  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.  746  Market  St. 


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VANITY    FAIR. 


According  to  a  successful  woman  insurance- 
agent  of  Chicago,  more  and  more  insurance 
is  being  taken  out  by  women  every  year. 
"  They  are  now  considered  good  risks,"  she 
says,  "  whereas  formerly  a  woman  had  to  pay 
an  extra  premium  to  secure  insurance.  About 
six  years  ago  that  hindrance  was  removed,  and 
now  nearly  all  of  the  life-insurance  companies 
accept  them  on  the  same  basis  as  men.  One 
of  the  old  conservative  companies  just  yielded 
the  point  a  few  weeks  ago,  but  still  makes 
an  exception  to  married  women,  as  several  of 
the  other  companies  do.  The  mortality  among 
women  is  no  greater  than  among  men,  and 
their  liability  to  accident  is  not  so  great.  As 
for  the  class  of  women  that  take  out  insur- 
ance, I  suppose  that  trained  nurses  and 
women  physicians  have  a  larger  percentage 
than  have  other  professions.  After  that  come 
the  teachers  in  schools,  then  dressmakers, 
milliners,  cashiers,  clerks  in  department- 
stores,  and  others,  but  very  few  stenographers. 
It  is  a  singular  thing  that  we  always  find  it 
difficult  to  convince  a  stenographer  of  the 
value  of  life-insurance.  Professional  women 
are  more  apt  to  insure  than  others,  and  in- 
surance has  recently  become  popular  among 
actresses.  They  are  taking  out  twenty-year 
endowment  policies  as  investments  for  old  age. 
As  a  rule,  actresses  do  not  save  their  money, 
and  do  not  have  anything  left  after  their 
popularity  has  passed.  We  insure  a  good  many 
women  in  private  life  also.  It  is  becoming 
quite  common,  and  very  soon  as  many  women 
as  men  will  take  out  policies  upon  their  lives, 
particularly  those  who  have  others  dependent 
upon  them." 

Mrs.  Leland  Stanford,  it  is  said,  carries  a 
larger  amount  of  insurance  than  any  other 
woman  in  the  world.  Her  policies  amount 
to  more  than  a  million  dollars.  Mrs.  Frank 
O.  Lowden,  of  Chicago,  carries  $250,000,  prob- 
ably more  than  any  other  woman  in  the  West, 
and  Mrs.  McReynolds  carries  $200,000.  Helen 
Gould  and  one  of  her  sisters  have  $100,000 
each.  Anna  Held  carries  $100.000 ;  Mrs. 
Leslie  Carter,  $50,000 ;  Nordica.  $50,000 ; 
Maud  Adams,  $25,000 ;  Blanche  Walsh, 
$10,000;  Katherine  Grey,  $10,000;  Blanche 
Bates,  $10,000 ;  Maxine  Elliott,  $10,000 ; 
Lulu  Glaser,  $10,000;  Pauline  Hall,  $10,000; 
Laura  Joyce,  $10,000 ;  and  others  similar 
amounts. 


The  custom  of  drinking  the  "  little  glass  " 
of  after-dinner  liqueur  is  growing  rapidly  in 
London  as  well  as  in  Paris,  and  from  the  for- 
mer world-capital  the  custom  gravitates  by 
imitation  to  New  York  and  westward.  Of  the 
more  famous  sweet  liqueurs  the  big  mer- 
chants report  Benedictine  as  leading  in  the 
sales,  with  Chartreuse  next  and  Kummel  in 
the  third  place,  growing  more  rapidly  in  favor 
than  either.  Kirsch  has  succumbed  to  Kum- 
mel. Noyau  is  little  used,  but  Dutch  Curacoa 
holds  it  own  and  Creme  de  Menthe  enjoys  an 
all-round  vogue.  New  "  bitters,"  liqueurs, 
and  cordials  are  constantly  being  concocted, 
or,  rather,  their  more  important  names  are  in- 
vented. Their  material  is  in  very  many  cases 
merely  raw  Scotch  whisky  "  doctored "  in 
France.  But  the  foreign  wine  merchants, 
especially  those  in  London,  recommend  fine 
old  brandy  as  better  than  all  the  kickshaws 
which  a  chemist  can  put  together.  The 
French  Academy  of  Medicine  has  recently  de- 
nounced the  "  little  glass "  habit  as  deadly. 
A  doctor  quoted  by  the  London  Telegraph 
says  that  the  only  wholesome  bitter  is  gentian 
root,  because  it  is  so  cheap  that  it  is  not  worth 
while  adulterating  it.  Absinthe,  which  with 
the  potency  of  alcohol  combines  the  poison 
of  an  herb,  is  no  liqueur,  though  sometimes 
wrongly  described  as  such,  as  it  is  always 
drunk  before  meals  with  water. 


Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  is  out  with  an  arraign- 
ment of  Americans  for  their  summer  habits.  She 
thinks  custom  has  made  us  blind  to  one  glaring 
defect  in  our  social  life.  "  I  allude,"  she 
says,  "  to  the  utterly  irrational  way  of  carry- 
ing our  winter  pleasures,  the  entertainments 
that  belong  by  right  to  our  season  of  urban 
gayety,  into  the  long  hot  months  when  nature 
and  the  unfettered  heart  of  mankind  cry 
aloud  for  simpler  joys.  All  other  nations 
save  our  own  have  a  time  when  the  leaders 
and  participants  in  social  diversion  withdraw 
from  the  theatre  of  their  conspicuous  perfor- 
mances before  the  world,  and  enshrine  them- 
selves in  the  seclusion  of  country  homes, 
where  no'aing  happily  occurs  that  is  worthy 
of  chronicle  in  print.  The  great  lady  of  the 
British  aristocracy  seeks  her  northern  moor 
or  c?.sf;  ,  where,  clad  in  ser^e,  with  a  sailor 
hat,  she   *s  abroad  all  day   in  the  heather,   or 

.;  the  w.  ter,  not  to  be  distinguished  in  action 
ire  from  the  school-girl  off  for  her  holi- 


day. So  also  the  Paris  belle  marquise.  Dur- 
ing these  months  of  inaction  in  the  service 
of  the  gay  world,  she  is  at  least  storing  up 
fresh  powers  of  enjoyment  against  the  time 
when  duty  calls  her  to  take  her  place  again 
as  a  purveyor  in  fashion's  mart.  And  she  has 
tact  enough  to  see  that  people  are  more  glad  to 
welcome  back  a  favorite  than  to  applaud 
her  every  day.  But  we  Americans,"  con- 
tinues Mrs.  Harrison,  "  give  no  one  a 
chance  to  welcome  us  back.  We  are  always 
before  the  curtain,  in  the  full  blaze  of  lime- 
light, manoeuvring  to  the  music  of  an  unflag- 
ging orchestra.  Who  is  there  among  the 
readers  of  daily  newspapers  who  can  not  tell 
one  the  whereabouts  and  proceedings  of  Mrs. 
This  or  That,  during  every  month  of  her 
busy  year  spent  in  chasing  pleasure  at  home 
or  abroad?  There  is  no  season  when  the  dear 
creature  is  cruel  enough  to  hide  herself  from 
our  gaze.  Her  summers  are  like  her  autumns, 
winters,  springs.  She  dances,  dresses,  yachts, 
gives  house-parties,  travels,  jaunts,  invents 
novelties  in  entertaining,  with  almost  delirious 
rapidity.  If  she  is  fortunate  enough  to  pos- 
sess a  country  home  fitted  and  equipped  with 
the  manifold  luxuries  of  modern  life,  or  a 
great  estate,  or  even  a  fancy  farm,  nothing 
concerning  it  or  her  relations  to  it  is  ever 
withheld  from  the  public.  The  camera,  pene- 
trating everywhere,  reveals  her  in  her  stable 
yard,  on  her  golf  links,  among  her  dogs,  or 
cows,  or  fowls  ;  in  the  act  of  gardening,  rid- 
ing, driving  four-in-hand,  automobiling,  cano- 
ing,  sailing  her  boat,  or  jumping  her  hunter 
over  a  pair  of  bars.  Wherever  she  elects  to 
go,  when  tired  of  what  town  life  has  been 
able  to  supply  to  her  insatiate  appetite  for 
amusement,  we  may  be  sure  it  will  not  be  long 
before  we  hear  a  full  account  of  it. 

"And  it  is  the  same  with  the  whole  family. 
Once  established  in  a  hotel  or  cottage  at  the 
popular  resort,  there  is  no  holding  back  from 
the  current  that  carries  all  the  world  on  its 
heaving  bosom.  Soon  father,  mother,  boys,  and 
girls  are  engulfed  in  the  gayeties  the  eldcs 
may  decry  but  are  not  strong  enough  to  re- 
sist. They  resume  the  mode  of  existence  that 
has  engrossed  them  during'  the  winter  past. 
They  lunch,  they  dine  together,  they  call  on 
each  other  without  mercy,  they  must  be  al- 
ways en  grande  toilette,  seeing  and  being  seen  ; 
their  dances  occur  night  after  night,  their 
afternoon  drive  is  the  same  old  pageant  of 
Vanity  Fair  transferred  from  Fifth  Avenue, 
only,  being  more  concentrated,  it  is  far  more 
brilliant  in  effect.  Never  absent  is  the  nervous 
strain  of  trying  to  keep  up  with  the  procession 
that  is  the  bane  of  our  modern  life.  It  is  like 
black  care  sitting  behind  the  conquering  hero 
of  finance,  who  sees  his  family  the  victims, 
rather  than  the  beneficiaries,  of  the  millions 
he  has  given  so  much  of  his  own  life  to  obtain 
for  them.  It  racks  the  temper  and  robs  of  her 
best  charm  the  wife  and  mother,  who,  at  heart 
knowing  her  own  folly,  can  not  control  the 
desire  to  see  herself  and  hers  making  as  brave 
a  show  as  any  of  the  rest.  And  all  the  while 
the  pace  is  increasing: — the  standard  of  mag- 
nificence in  establishment,  dress,  and  equipage 
is  being  pushed  upward — the  nervous  strain 
goes  on  intensifying.  Certainly  we  are  a 
wondrous  young  nation,  but  in  some  matters 
we  have  yet  to  learn  common  sense!" 

The  exposure  by  the  German  archaeologist, 
Furtwangler,  of  the  fraud  perpetrated  on  the 
Louvre  Museum  in  the  case  of  the  so-called 
tiara  of  Saitaphernes,  has  led  to  a  general 
investigation  of  the  manufacture  of  pro- 
fessed antiques  of  every  description.  The 
famous  tiara  in  question  deceived  all  the  ex- 
perts in  Paris,  who  were  convinced  that  this 
really  exquisite  bit  of  gold-work  had  been 
excavated  near  Odessa,  and  that  its  produc- 
tion dated  back  very  many  centuries.  On 
their  report  it  was  bought  by  the  museum  for 
200,000  francs.  Detection  finally  came  from 
an  examination  under  the  microscope,  which 
showed  that  the  chisel-marks  were  too  bright 
to  be  the  result  of  ancient  workmanship.  For 
the  moment,  therefore,  the  cry  of  la  tiarc! 
has  passed  into  the  current  vocabulary  of  the 
boiilevardier  as  a  stereotyped  form  of  express- 
ing utter  incredulity.  Such  conspicuous  in- 
stances of  this  kind  of  fraud  (says  the  Com- 
mercial Advertiser)  are  not  so  very  common. 
The  last  was  the  celebrated  Shapira  forgery  of 
a  huge  leathern  scroll  containing  the  greater 
part  of  the  Old  Testament.  It  was  offered 
to  the  British  Museum  for  the  huge  sum  of 
£1,000,000,  which  might  have  been  paid  had 
not  the  profound  Semitic  scholar,  Dr.  Gins- 
burg,  detected  the  spurious  character  of  the 
scroll.  But  while  frauds  on  so  magnificent 
a  scale  are  rare,  clever  imitators  of  every 
sort  of  curio  have  attained  to  a  wonderful 
degree  of  skill.  Persons  are  now  making 
great  sums  of  money  by  purchasing  dilapidated 


old  buildings  in  Rouen,  Orleans,  and  other 
French  towns.  These  buildings  they  pull 
down  and  sell  the  beams  and  rafters  to  dis- 
honest antiquaries,  who  carve  them  into  panels 
or  into  "  ancient  "  furniture.  Many  of  these 
carvers,  however,  can  dispense  with  genuinely 
antique  wood,  for  they  have  learned  how  to 
make  it  worm-eaten  and  how  to  put  dry  rot 
into  the  carved  parts  after  the  chiseling  has 
been  done.  This  deceives  almost  every  one; 
for  it  is  known  that  the  chisel  can  not  be  used 
on  wood  that  has  dry  rot.  Marble  is  a  favor- 
ite material  for  these  ingenious  persons  to 
work  upon  ;  for  marble  can  be  dealt  with  in 
such  a  way  as  to  make  detection  almost  im- 
possible. The  necessary  color  can  be  given  it 
by  burning  damp  straw  beneath  it.  Many 
shrewd  tricks  are  devised  to  attract  a  pur- 
chaser. The  most  easily  deceived  amateur 
is  the  one  who  does  not  go  to  the  dealer  but 
who  mouses  about  in  out-of-the-way  places 
in  the  belief  that  he  can  thus  light  upon  some 
rare  objet  d'art  which  no  one  else  as  yet  has 
noticed.  The  ingenious  vender  of  modern 
antiques  takes  good  care  that  the  explorer 
shall  always  find  some  seeming  treasure.  A 
carved  bedstead  in  a  back  slum,  a  curious  old 
clock  in  some  humble  lodging-house,  perhaps 
even  a  dusty  painting  half  hidden  in  the  deal- 
er's own  living  rooms  and  apparently  ne- 
glected— these  things  tempt  the  amateur'into 
making  sudden  bargains  over  which  he  re- 
joices loudly  on  returning  home,  only  to  find 
a  little  later  that  he  has  been  badly  taken  in. 


"  Ef  dey's  milk  in  Paradise,  dey  mus'  have 
cows  dar,"  said  Brother  Williams  ;  "  en  ef  dey 
got  honey  dar,  dey  sho'  mus'  have  bees,  en 
whar  bees  is  dey's  blossoms,  and  whar  blos- 
soms is  dey's  always  watermillions  in  season 
— bless  de  Lawdl" — Atlanta  Constitution. 

Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


THE    FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  July  8,  1903, 
were  as  follows : 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.  S.  Coup.  z% 740    @  107^  io8#     109 

Los  An.  Ry  5%   2,000    ©114  "3j*t 

Pac.  Elec.  Rv.  5%.      5,000    @  10S  107% 
S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% 5.000    @  i2o#  120 

S.  V.  Water6% 4,000    @  107^  107^ 

S.  V.  Water  4%  2d-.    3,000    @  10054  ioo}i    ioo^( 

Stocks.  Closed 

-Water,                   Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa                  no    @    58^-  60  59         61 

Spring  Valley. 310    @    S6-      87K     S6>^ 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 100    @    73-      73^  73 

Snga  rs. 

Hana  P.  Co 1,695    @    37^-75  40          75 

Hutchinson  20    @    13  13          13^ 

KilaueaS.Co 35    @      5  5           S^ 

Onomea  S.  Co 100    @    22%  23 

Gas  a  nd  Electric, 

Central  L.  &  P 100    @     4%  4           5 

Mutual  Electric.  ..     1,150    @     9K-  i2        «3£ 

Pacific  Gas 320    @    54-      55  54          55 

S- F.  Gas&  Electric    1,300    @    69^-72^  69         69J4 

Trustees  Certificates. 

S.F.  Gas  &  Electric     1,165    @    69-      70  68         6914 

Jlfiscella  neons. 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners            38     @    90-      90^  90          91J4 

Cal.WineAssn 40    @    99#-  99J4     100 

Oceanic  S.  Co  . .  ..         20    @      7^  7           8 

Pacific  Coast  Borax         75    @  165-    166  166 

The  sugars  have  been  quiet,  with  narrow  fluctua- 
tions. Hana  Plantation  Company  levied  an  assess- 
ment of  $2  00  per  share,  and  on  sales  of  1,695  shareb 
sold  off  to  37M.  closing  at  40  bid,  75  asked. 

The  powders  were  quiet  with  no  change  worth 
mentioning. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  strong,  and  advanced 
three  points  to  87  % ,  closing  at  86 %  asked. 

Contra  Costa  Water  sold  up  to  60  on  sales  of  no 
shares,  closing  at  59  bid,  61  asked. 

San  Francisco  G^s  and  Electric  on  sales  of  1,300 
shares  sold  up  thirteen  and  one-half  points  to  72U , 
closed  in  good  demand  at  69  bid.  Pacific  Gas  Im- 
provement advanced  seven  and  one-half  points  to  55, 
closing  at  54  bid,  55  asked. 


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STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


A  tittle  girl  thus  described  a  dachshund 
she  had  seen :  "It  was  one  of  those  funny 
ones — you  know,  the  ones  that  are  a  dog  and 
a  half  long  and  half  a  dog  high.  You  must 
know  the  sort.  It  is  a  dog  that  only  has 
four  legs,  but  looks  as  if  it  ought  to  have 
six." 


Miss  Helen  Gould  was  recently  entertaining 
one  of  the  girls'  clubs,  in  which  she  is  inter- 
ested, at  her  home  on  the  Hudson.  After  the 
girls  had  walked  about  the  grounds  and  conser- 
vatories for  a  time,  she  invited  them  to  wander 
over  the  house  and  see  the  pictures  and  objects 
of  art.  While  they  were  thus  engaged  she 
overheard  one  of  the  girls  remark,  confidingly, 
to  a  companion :  "  Say,  Mamie,  even  heaven 
won't   feaze    Miss    Gould   after   this   place." 

During  Ethel  Barrymore's  last  engagement 
in  Chicago  she  was  invited  to  an  after-the- 
performance  dinner.  The  hostess  and  a  num- 
ber of  her  guests  occupied  boxes  at  the  play. 
Among  these  was  a  rather  fresh  young  man, 
who  thought  he  had  made  an  impression  on 
Miss  Barrymore.  He  kept  his  eyes  on  her 
throughout  the  play,  and  tried  hard  to  create 
the  impression  that  she  noticed  it.  At  the 
dinner  he  had  the  good  fortune  to  sit  next  to 
the  actress.  When  an  opportunity  came  he 
remarked  to  her  under  his  breath  :  "Did  you 
see  me  wink  at  you  during  the  third  act?" 
"Yes,"  responded  Miss  Barrymore,  in  a  louder 
tone,  "didn't  you  hear  my  heart  beat?" 

When  President  Roosevelt  was  in  Sharon 
Springs,  Mo.,  a  countryman  is  said  to 
have  stepped  up  and  said  to  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presidential  party :  "  Whar's 
the  President?"  Mr.  Roosevelt,  scenting 
something  good,  said:  "Do  you  wish 
to  see  him  particularly?"  "I  never  seen  but 
one  President  in  my  life,  an',  of  course,  I 
would  like  to  see  him  on  gin'ral  principles," 
replied  the  countryman,  "  but  what  I  wants 
to  see  this  one  fur  mos*  particular  is  to  see 
if  he's  got  them  squirrel  teeth  the  papers  say 
he  has."  And  then  and  there  the  President 
displayed  his  "squirrel"  teeth  in  the  broadest 
of  grins.  "Gosh  ter  blazes,  you're  the  fel- 
ler," said  the  man  as  he  hurried  away; 


Sir  Edward  Malet  tells  a  remarkable  story 
of  a  certain  cardinal,  who,  when  pressed  by 
an  admiring  circle  of  ladies  at  an  evening 
party  to  say  whether  he  had  ever  received  any 
startling  confessions,  replied  that  the  first  per- 
son who  had  come  to  him  after  he  had  taken 
orders,  desired  absolution  for  a  murder  which 
he  confessed  he  had  committed.  A  gentle 
shudder  ran  through  the  frames  of  the 
audience.  This  was  turned  to  consternation 
when,  ten  minutes  later,  an  elderly  marquess 
entered  the  apartment,  and  eagerly  claimed 
acquaintance  with  the  cardinal.  "  But  I  see 
your  eminence  does  not  remember  me,"  he 
said :  "  you  will  do  so  when  I  remind  you 
that  I  was  the  first  person  who  confessed  to 
you  after  you  entered  the  service  of  the 
church  1" 


A  recent  book,  "The  Log  of  a  Cowboy,"  con- 
tains this  characteristic  Far- Western  story, 
told  by  one  of  the  "  cow-punchers  "  about  the 
camp-fire:  "I  was  at  a  dance  once  in  Live 
Oak  County,  and  there  was  a  rough  stutter- 
ing fellow  there  by  the  name  of  Lem  Tod- 
hunter.  The  girls,  it  seems,  didn't  care  to 
dance  with  him,  and  pretended  they  couldn't 
undertand  him.  He  had  asked  every  girl  at 
the  party,  and  received  the  same  answer  frem 
each — they  couldn't  understand  him. 
'W-w-w-ell,  g-g-g-go  to  hell,  then.  C-c-c-can 
y-y-you  understand  that?'  he  said  to  the  last 
girl,  and  her  brother  threatened  to  mangle 
him  horribly  if  he  didn't  apologize,  to  which 
he  finally  agreed.  He  went  back  into  the 
house  and  said  to  the  girl :  'Y-y-you 
n-n-n-needn't  g-g-g-go  to  hell;  y-y-your 
b-b-b-brother  and  I  have  m-m-made  other 
'r-r-r-rangements.'  " 

Mme.  Waddington,  wife  of  the  former 
French  embassador  to  England,  relates  an 
amusing  story  of  a  state  dinner  at  Hatfield 
House  at  which  the  German  emperor  was  pres- 
ent. "  In  the  middle  of  the  affair,"  she  says,  "  I 
suddenly  felt  that  my  necklace  was  unclasped. 
It  was  sewed  on  the  corsage  in  front, 
as  the  pearls  are  large  and  heavy,  and 
I  am  always  afraid  of  breaking  the 
string.  I  asked  Soveral  [the  Portuguese 
minister],  who  was  next  to  me,  if 
he  couldn't  clasp  it  for  me.  He  tried,  but 
was  nervous  or  awkward ;  at  any  rate,  couldn't 
manage  it,  and  we  were  both  getting  red  and 
flustered,  when  suddenly  we  heard  the  emperor 


from  his  table  calling  M.  Waddington's  atten- 
tion to  the  fact  that  '  le  Portugal  etait  en 
train  d'etrangler  la  France ;'  also  Staal,  say- 
ing that  his  'collegue  du  Portugal  se  livrait 
a  une  gymnastique  etrange.'  They  all  made 
various  jokes  at  my  expense,  and  the  Prince 
of  Wales  said:  'Let  me  do  it,'  and  again  we 
beard  the  emperor  remarking  'Maintenant, 
c'est  plus  serieux — 1'Angleterre  s'en  mele.' 
M .  Waddington,  who  had  his  back  to  me, 
and  who  couldn't  see  what  was  going  on, 
was  decidedly  mystified  and  wondered  what 
on  earth  I  was  doing  to  attract  so  much  atten- 
tion ;  in  fact,  was  rather  annoyed.  When  we 
got  up  from  the  table,  the  Prince  of  Wales 
and  I  retreated  to  a  corner  of  the  terrace, 
and  he  cut  the  stitches  that  held  the  necklace 
in  front  with  his  knife  (which  again  looked 
funny  to  the  people  assembled  on  the  terrace). 
He  advised  me  to  put  the  pearls,  not  in  my 
pocket,  but  in  a  safe  place,  as  they  were  very 
handsome  ;  so  I  put  them  inside." 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Some  Family  History. 
She  had  fifteen  million  dollars, 

Placed-in  bonds,  and  shares,  and  rents; 
He  had  fifteen  million  dollars, 

So  they  merged  the'ir  sentiments. 
Now  they've  raised  a  son  who's  valued 
At  exactly  thirty  cents. 

— Chicago   Tribune 


The  Umpire's  Rubaiyat. 
A  book  o£  rules,  a  frown  upon  my  brow. 
An  indicator,  a  good  eye  and  thou 

Beside  me, shrieking  "Lobster, thou  art  rank!  " 
Oh,  this,  methinks,  were  agony  enow. 

Strange,  is  it  not,  that  when  I  call  a  strike, 
I  'rouse  in  every  breast  sincere  dislike? 

Yet  if  I  call  that  self-same  curve  a  ball 
I  am  abused  by  Tom  and  Dick  and  Mike. 

What  boots  it  though  a  player  be  tagged  out 
Beyond  the  slightest  shadow  of  a  doubt? 
The  very  instant  that  I  wave  my  hand, 
From    stand   and    bleachers   comes    a    threatening 
shout. 

I  sometimes  think  that  when  my  race  is  run, 
When    three   strikes    have   been    called,    and,    all 
undone, 
I  hear  St  Peter  read  his  riot  act 
I'll  kick  on  his  decision,  just  for  fun! 

Milwaukee   Sentinel. 


Fourth  of  July  Hymn. 
Oh,   say,    did    you   hear  through    the   dawn's    early 
light 
The    shout    of    the    kid    and    the    cracker's    loud 
snapping? 
And  did  you  in  vain  toss  and  hope  that  you  might 
Still  gain  the  sweet  joy  of  a  little  more  napping? 

Did   you   rip,    did  you   tear,   while   the  things  burst 

in  air, 
And  the  kids  ripped  around  as  if  crazy  out  there? 
Oh,  say,  did  you  long  in  your  anger  to  fly 
From    the  boy   and   the   bomb   and    the   Fourth    of 

July? 

Oh,  the  dog  runs  and  hides,  and  the  bachelor  sits 
Alone  thinking  things  that  can  never  be  printed; 

The  horses  rear  up  and,  unmindful  of  bits, 
Rip  things  all  to  pieces  with  ardor  unstinted. 

And  from  long  before  dawn  the  wild  racket  goes 

on, 
And  the  squibs  and  the  shreds  are  spread  thick  on 

the  lawn. 
While    the   star-spangled   banners   triumphantly    fly 
O'er  the  land  where  things  hum  on  the  Fourth  of 

July. 

— 5.  E.  Kiser  in  Chicago  Record-Herald. 


Moore's  Poison-Oak  Remedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton— and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


Csesar  at  the  Telephone. 

Flushed  with  victory,  Colonel  Julius  Cxsar 
left  the  scene  of  the  battle  and  hurried  to 
the   nearest   telephone   booth. 

"  Hello,  central,"  he  said;  "  give  me  Rome." 

"  A  little  louder,   please,"   said  central. 

"Give  me  ROME!" 

"  Stand  closer  to  the  'phone,  put  your  lips 
against  the  receiver,  and  speak  in  a  firm  tone," 
ordered  central. 

"  Think  I  am  going  to  climb  into  this 
thing?"  asked  Caesar;  "you  connect  me  with 
Rome  or  there'll  be  another  magazine  article 
provided  for  around  here,  with  you  as  the 
central    illustration." 

"  Here's,  your  party,"  was  the  only  reply. 

"  Hello  1"  yelled  Caesar;  "is  this  Rome?" 

"  Yes." 

"  Gimme  me  the  palace." 

The    connection   was   made. 

"  Hello  1     Is  this  the  palace?" 

"  Yes." 

"  Who  is  this?" 

"  Horatio  Claudius,  the  messenger." 

"  Hello,  'Ratius." 

"Hello,   who   is  speaking?" 

"  Why  this  is  Caesar." 

"  Sneezer?" 

"  No  !    Caesar  !" 

"  Wheezer  1    I  don't  know  any  Wheezers." 

"  I   said   Caesar!" 

"  Geezer  ?     Who  in  the  wor " 

"  Cxsar  !  C-A-E-S-A-R  !  Dadgum  you  1 
Can't  you  hear  thunder?  Julius  Caesar!  Mel 
It !  The  whole  thing  !  Got  it  now  ?  Understand 
who's  yelping  to  you?" 

"  Yes,  sire." 

"  That  sounds  more  like  it.  Pretty  state  of 
affairs  when  I  have  to  identify  myself  every 
time  I  want  to  issue  an  order  !  Nice  state  of 
things,  I  must  say  I    Now,  listen " 

"  Yes,  sire." 

"  We've  just  won  a  great  battle,  and  I  want 
you  to  put  a  bulletin  on  the  walls  of  the  city 
where  everybody  can  see  it." 

"  Yes,  sire." 

"  Better  write  it  down  now,  so  you'll  get  it 
right.     Listen,  now.     Are  you  ready  ?" 

"  Yes,  sire." 

"Well,  say,  '  Veni,  Vidi,  Vici !'" 

"Yes,  sire;  I  have  it.     Beany,  Bidy,  Bicy." 

"  No,  no  1     Veni,  Vidi,  Vici  1" 

"  Sheeny,   shiddy " 

"  Great  heavens !  Were  you  never  at  school  ? 
Veni,    Vidi,    Vici!" 

"  Oh  1  Weeny,  Widy,  Wicy.  I'll  go  and 
tell  Mrs.  Calphurnia " 

"Here!  Wait!  You  haven't  got  it  at  all! 
I   said  Veni,  Vidi " 

"  I  have  it  now.    Clean  eye,  cried  I " 

"  Now,  by  the  shade  of  Mars,  this  is  too 
much  !  Out  upon  thee,  dog  1  Would  that  my 
fist  could  reach  thee,  even  as  my  voice  doth ! 
Back  to  the  woods !" 

"  Tell  it  me  once  again,  and  I " 

"  I'll  tell  you  to " 

Here  central  broke  in,  asking:  "Did  you 
get  your  party?" 

Then  did  the  royal  rage  of  the  late  J. 
Caesar  manifest  itself,  and  the  telephone  build- 
ing was  scattered  over  the  plain,  while  the 
central  girls  fled,  shrieking  for  home  and 
mother. 

And  thus  it  was  that  the  loyal  population 
of  Rome  must  needs  wait  until  the  slow  feet 
of  a  messenger  brought  them  tidings  of  the 
glorious   victory. — Chicago    Tribune. 


Truth  will  out :  "  What  did  you  steal  that 
cradle  for?"  asked  the  police  magistrate.  "  Oh, 
just  for  a  kid,"  replied  the  prisoner,  who  was 
lost   to    all  "sense    of   shame. — Chicago   Nezvs. 


AMERICAN  LINE 

New  York — Southampton — London. 

New  York  ....July  8,  10  am  I  St.  Paul July  22,  10  am 

Philadelphia. July  15,  10am  |  New  York. .August  5,  10  am 
Philadelphia — Queenstown — Liverpool. 

Haverford July  11  I  Friesland July  25 

Noordland July  iS  j  Westernlaud August  i 

ATLANTIC   TRANSPORT  UNE 

NEW  YORK- LONDON  DIRECT. 

Minn'haha.July  11.  6.30am  I  Minnetonka.-July  25,  6  am 

Mesaba July  iS,  9  am  j  Min'apolis.Aug.  1, 11.30  am 

Only  flrst-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE 

Boston — tjueenstown— Liverpool. 

New  England July  9  I  New  England August  6 

Mayflower  (newj...July  16     Mayflower August  13 

Commonwealth July  30  |  Columbus August  20 

Montreal— Liverpool— Short  sea  passage. 

Canada July  iS  I  Dominion August  1 

Kensington July  25  |  Southwark Augusts 

bostom    Mediterranean    service 

Azores.  Gibraltar,  Nauleg,  Genoa. 

Vancouver Saturday,  July  iS,  Aug.  29,  Oct.  10 

Catnbroman Saturday,  Aug.  &,  Sept.  19 

HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE 

New  Twin-Screw  Steamers  of  12,500  tons. 
New  York — Kotterdam,  via  Boulogne. 

Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Ryndam July  8  I  Rotterdam July  29 

Noordam July  15  J  Potsdam August  5 

RED  STAR  LINE 

New  York — Antwerp — Paris. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Zeeland July  11  I  Vaderland July  25 

Finland July  18  |  Kxoonland August  1 

WHITE  STAR  LINE 

New  York— Oueenstown— Liverpool. 

Teutonic July  8,  noon  I  Cedric July  17,  10.30am 

Arabic  July  10,  6  am  j  Victorian July  21,6am 

Germanic July  15,  noon  |  Majestic July  22,  noon 

C.  D.  TAYLOR,    passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  aod  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  31.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Thursday,  Jnly  23 

Coptic  (Calling  at  Manila).  .Tuesday,  August  18 

Gaelic Friday,  September  11 

Doric Wednesday,  October  7 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 

Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 
P.  P.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 

TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

[ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE  AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  h.  lor  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.      1903 

Nippon  Maru... Friday,  July  31 

America  Maru Wednesday,  August  26 

(Calling  at  Manila) 
Hongkong  Maru Saturday,  September  19 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  ireight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421  Market  Street,  corner  First. 
TV.  H.  AVEKY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  ]  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 


fe 


S.  S.  Sonoma,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland, 
and  Sydney,  Thursday,  July  16,  1903,  at  2  p.  u. 

S.  S.  Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,  July  25,  1903, 
at  11  A.  M. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  August  15,  1903,  at 
II   A.   M. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 
Street.    Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


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Physicians  recommend  the  Crystal  hot  sea-water 
tub  and  swimming  baths,  on  Bay,  between  Powell 
and  Mason  Streets,  terminus  of  all  North  Beach 
car  lines. 


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July  13,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

The  wedding  of  Mrs.  Gertrude  Bailey 
Haight,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  B. 
Bailey,  of  Oakland,  and  Mr.  Clarence  Van 
Houten  King  took  place  Thursday  afternoon, 
July  2d,  at  the  First  Swedenborgian  Church 
in  this  city.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by 
Rev.  Joseph  Worcester,  and  was  followed  by 
a  wedding  supper  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Franklin  Bangs,  in  Oakland.  Later,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  King  departed  for  Portland,  en  route 
to  Boston,  where  they  will  make  their  home. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Gertrude  Moss  Cole- 
man, daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  C. 
Coleman,  and  Mr.  Walter  William  Farrar  took 
place  at  noon  on  Thursday,  July  2d,  in  the 
chapel  of  Trinity  Church.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  by  Rev.  William  H.  Venable,  curate 
of  Christ's  Church,  Sausalito.  Miss  Daisy 
Pabst  was  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  Frank 
Clunie  was  best  man.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farrar 
will  reside  in  Sausalito. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Therese  Morgan, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  William  P.  Morgan,  and  Mr. 
Norris  Davis  will  take  place  in  the  early 
winter. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Theresa  Dinkelspiel 
and  Mr.  Edward  Kalisher  took  place  in  Lon- 
don on  July  4th.  The  bride  is  the  daughter 
of  the  late  L.  P.  Dinkelspiel,  and  is  well 
known  in  this  city.  For  a  number  of  years 
she  has  lived  abroad  with  her  mother.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Kalisher  will  return  to  San  Fran- 
cisco in  the  fall  to  reside  here  permanently. 

Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels  gave  a  children's 
soap-bubble  party  on  Sunday  at  her  residence 
on  Pacific  Avenue.  Among  the  older  people 
present  were  Mrs.  Sterling  Postley,  Mrs. 
Sands  W.  Forman  Mrs.  Arthur  Brander,  and 
Miss  Lily  Spreckels.  The  children  were  Lolita 
Burling,  Grace  Gibson,  Norma  Burling,  Ruth 
Robinson,  Alice  Wangenheim,  and  Arthur 
Brander. - 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Dean  was  hostess  at  a  dinner  on 
Sunday  evening  at  the  Hotel  Rafael.  The 
guests  included  Miss  Emily  Wilson,  Miss 
Mabel  Toy,  Miss  Elsie  Sperry,  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Kierstedt,  U.  S.  A.,  Mr.  Athol  McBean, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Anderson,  Miss  Van 
Wyck,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Johnson,  Mr. 
Everett  Bee,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Dean,  and 
Miss  Helen  Dean. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Follis  gave  a  dinner 
on  the  Fourth  of  July,  at  the  Hotel  Rafael, 
in  honor  of  Miss  Ethel  Tompkins  and  Miss 
Cora  Smedberg.  The  latter  is  the  guest  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Minthorne  Tompkins  at  San 
Anselmo. 

Mrs.  Easton  recently  gave  a  luncheon  at 
her  Burlingame  residence  in  honor  of  her 
grandaughter,  Mrs.  Francis  Burton  Harri- 
son. Among  the  guests  were  Mrs.  Walter 
Martin,  Mrs.  Francis  Carolan,  and  Mrs. 
Augustus  Taylor. 

Mrs.  Henry  Scott  and  Miss  Laura  Mc- 
Kinstry  were  entertained  during  their  stay  in 
England  at  the  country  places  of  the  Duchess 
of  Devonshire,  Princess  Hatzfeldt,  Princess 
Christina  of  Hesse-Coburg,  and  others. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  entertained  Baroness 
von  Schroeder,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Donahue, 
and  several  others  at  luncheon  recently,  at 
her'  home  on   Broadway. 

Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean  gave  a  card-party  at 
the  Hotel  Rafael  recently.  She  was  assisted 
in  receiving  by  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Dean  and 
Miss  Helen   Dean. 

Mrs.  Florence  Porter  Pfingst  and  her 
mother,  Mrs.  J.  F.  Porter,  of  Watsonville, 
entertained  a  house-party  of  eighteen  during 
the  week.  The  guests  were  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Deering,  Miss  Reed  Hutchins,  Miss 
Genevieve  Callaghan,  Miss  Elizabeth  Hutch- 
ins, Mrs.  Linda  H.  Bryan,  Miss  Flora  Hutch- 
ins, Mrs.  Ketchum,  Mr.  William  Parsons,  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  Mr.  Charles  E.  Vogelsang, 
Dr.  R.  Lorini,  Mr.  Harry  Hawks,  Mr.  Stewart 
Anderson,  Mr.  William  Hamilton,  Mr.  R.  P. 
Quinn,  and  Judge  J.  G.  Maguire. 

Raphael  Weill  is  leaving  in  a  day  or  two 
for  a  stay  of  a  few  months  in  Paris,  and 
Thursday  his  friends  of  the  Bohemian  Club 
entertained  him  at  a  dinner.  Those  present 
were  Mr.  Sylvian  Weill,  Mr.  S.  Steinhart, 
Mr.  William  D.  English.  Mr.  S.  D.  Barstow, 
Mr.  Ryland  B.  Wallace,  Dr.  George  Chismore, 
-     Benjamin    Swan,      Mr.    John    C.    Wilson 


inspect  the  organization  of  the  National  Guard 
of    that    State. 

Lieutenant  William  R.  Bettison  U.  S.  A., 
leaves  Monday  for  West  Point,  where  he  has 
been  appointed  professor  of  chemistry  for  the 
next  four  years. 

Naval-Constructor  Lawrence  S.  Adams,  U. 
S.  N.,  and  Mrs.  Adams  are  guests  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.   W.  B.   Collier,   at  Clear   Lake. 

Lieutenant  Oliver  P.  M.  Hazzard,  Second 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  is  in  the  city  on  a  leave  of 
absence  from  Fort  Ethan  Allen. 

Dr.  Charles  F.  Stokes,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Mrs. 
Stokes  (nee  Bermingham)  have  left  the 
League  Island  Navy  Yard,  and  taken  up  their 
residence  in  Washington,  D.  C,  to  which  place 
Dr.  Stokes  was  recently  ordered. 

Lieutenant  James  B.  Gilmer,  U.  S.  N.,  of 
the  United  States  steamship  Alert,  has  de- 
parted for  his  home  in  Virginia,  where  he  will 
spend  a  month's  leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  Henry  S.  Greenleaf,  assistant 
surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  has  returned  to  the  Pre- 
sidio, after  an  extended  leave  of  absence  in  the 
East. 

Lieutenant  Clarence  Deems,  Jr.,  U.  S.  A., 
will  leave  July  226.  for  a  month's  leave  of 
absence.  His  wedding  to  Miss  Harriet  Brush 
will  take  place  early  in  August. 

Colonel  Jacob  B.  Rawles,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Rawles  will  make  their  permanent  home 
in  San  Francisco.  They  are  contemplating 
building  a  home  on  Green  Street. 

Mrs.  William  T.  Sampson,  widow  of  Rear- 
Admiral  Sampson,  U.  S.  N.,  accompanied  by 
her  son,  Howard,  sailed  recently  for  Germany 
for    an    indefinite    visit. 

Captain  Frederick  E.  Johnston,  U.  S.  A., 
left  for  the  East  last  week.  He  will  visit 
several  of  the   Eastern  cities. 

A  number  of  social  affairs  are  planned  in 
honor  of  the  officers  of  the  French  cruiser 
Protet.  They  were  entertained  extensively  by 
the  army  and  navy  in  San  Diego.  During 
their  visit  there  Commodore  Adegard  and  his 
ofheers  gave  a  large  reception  on  board  the 
cruiser. 

General  George  H.  Burton,  U.  S.  A.,  in- 
spector-general of  the  army,  is  making  an  in- 
spection tour  of  the  posts  of  the  North  and 
North- West.  Later,  the  Pacific  Coast  will  be 
included  in  his  itinerary. 

Lieutenant  Thomas  L.  Rhoads,  assistant  sur- 
geon, U.  S.  A.,  has  left  the  general  hospital  at, 
the  Presidio.  He  has  gone  to  Arkansas  Hot 
Springs. 

Lieutenant  Edmund  L.  Zane,  U.  S  .A.,  will 
sail  for  Manila  August  1st.  He  will  spend  a 
few  weeks  in  San  Francisco  before  leaving. 


Dr. 


General  Lucius  S.  Foote,  Mr.  George  T.  Brom- 
ley, Mr.  Harry  Marshall,  Mr.  Hugh  Burke 
and  Mr.  E.  Gallois. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The  latest   personal   notes   relative   to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco  are   appended : 

Major  Edward  E.  Hardin,  Seventh  Infantry, 
U.    S.    A.,    left    last    Monday    for    Nevada    to 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

"Fiere  is  no  substitute 


"Wills  and  Successions. 
The    following    notes    concerning    the    more 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the    local    courts    during,    the    week    will    be 
found  of  interest : 

The  will  of  Thomas  J.  Clunie  has  been  filed 
for    probate.      The    instrument    was    made    on 
June    23^    1903,    and    names    as    executors    his 
brother,   Andrew   J.    Clunie,    E.    A.    Bridgford, 
and  Burrell  G.  White.     The  value  of  the  prop- 
erty is  estimated  at  about  $700,000.     The  larg- 
est  share    of   the   deceased   lawyer's    estate    is 
left  to  his  adopted  son,  Jack,  who  is  now  seven 
and  one-half  years  of  age.     To  him  is  devised 
the    Clunie    Building,    valued    at    $400,000,    all 
jewelry  and  personal   effects,   and  other  prop- 
erty.     To   his   wife,   from   whom   he   had  been 
separated,   is   given   the    Clunie    Opera    House, 
and    two    valuable    properties    in    Sacramento, 
and  the  Clunie  homestead  at  the  corner  of  Fell 
and    Lyon    Streets    in    this    city.      Numerous 
minor  bequests  are  left  to  relatives  and  chil- 
dren   of    his    brothers.    The    existence    of    an 
adopted   son   was  not  generally   known.     That 
there  is  such  an  heir  is  shown  by  the  records 
of      the      county      clerk's      office,      where      it 
is      recorded      that      "  Jack     Clairing "      was 
adopted     on     January     4,     1902.     When     the 
ceremony     of     adoption     was     completed     be- 
fore   Judge    Dunne,    a    woman    whose    name 
was  given  as  Ada  Egerton  testified  that  the  boy 
came  into  her  custody  when  he  was  six  months 
old.      She   gave   her   written   consent   that   the 
boy  should  become  the  adopted  son  of  Thomas 
J,     Clunie.      According    to    the    laws    of    the 
State,  a  husband  who  desires  to  adopt  a  child 
must  have  the  consent  of  his  wife.     To  over- 
come this  provision   a  clause  was   inserted  in 
the  record  of  the  adoption   to   the   effect  that 
Thomas  J.  Clunie  and  his  wife,  Florence  Clu- 
nie, were  lawfully  separated  from  each  other. 
The  hearing  of  the  petition  of  the  Baroness 
von  Schroeder  for  letters  of  guardianship  over 
the    person    and    estate    of    her    cousin,    Peter 
James     Donahue,     was     postponed     on     Tues- 
day      for      one        week.       Efforts       of        the 
lawyers  representing  the  baroness  and  Richard 
Burke,  of  Ireland  (who,  in  the  interest  ot  his 
children,  is  opposing  her  application),  to  effect 
a  compromise,  are  said,  so  far,  to  have  failed. 
James  P.  Donahue,  of  Iowa,  a  cousin  of  Peter 
Donahue,    is    said    now    to    be    disinclined    to 
accept  the  post  of  guardian.     Added  to  these 
perplexities,   is  another  in  the  shape  of  a  re- 
port that  Peter,  disputing  the  allegations  of  the 
baroness  that  he  needs  a  guardian  for  his  estate, 
has   engaged   a   lawyer   here   to   represent   him 
in   a   protest   when   the   petition   for   letters   is 
called   for   a   hearing.      It    is    also    stated    that 
Burke  is  opposed  to  the  baroness  having  any- 
thing   to    do    with    the    management    of    Peter 
Donahue's     estate.       To     strengthen     his     op- 
position, it  is  said  that  Burke  has  demanded  of 
the    baroness    her    proof    of    Peter's    incompe- 
tency,   it    being    realized    that    there    actually 
is   little    legal    proof   at   hand   that   the    absent 
cousin  is  really  needful  of  a  guardian. 


You  Will  Find 

none  but  high-class  jewelry  and  silverware  in  the 
store  of  A.  Hirscbman,  712  Market  and  25  Geary 
Streets,  Mutual  Savings  Bank  Building. 


Owner  leaving  for  Europe  desires  to  sell 
a  new  Ivers  &  Pond  Piano  at  a  sacrifice.  Address 
Piano,  care  Argonaut. 


The  Copper  King  Failure. 
According  to  the  schedule  of  liabilities  and 
assets  of  the  insolvent  Copper  King  Mining 
Company  (Limited),  of  London,  England, 
filed  recently,  the  debts  are  $614,223,  of  which 
$508,695  is  unsecured.  The  total  assets  are 
given  at  $306,704,  probably  a  sanguine  esti- 
mate. The  Copper  King  property  is  located 
in  Fresno  County,  and  the  company  has  a 
smelter  at  Bay  Point,  Contra  Costa  County, 
filled  with  costly  and  useless  machinery.  The 
two  stellar  figures  in  the  smash-up  are  Frank 
L.  Gardner  and  W.  H.  Daily.  The  former 
gained  notoriety  about  fifteen  years  ago  by 
running  off  to  Australia  with  Carrie  Swain, 
an  actress.  Five  years  ago  Gardner  drifted 
back  to  California  from  Pans,  where  he  and 
his  consort  had  been  keeping  a  magnificent 
establishment.  He  and  Daily  "promoted"  the 
Copper  King  deal  in  London,  and  Daily  be- 
came the  manager  of  the  mining  property, 
purchased  for  $25,000.  The  list  of  the  prin- 
cipal local  creditors  of  the  Copper  King,  with 
the  amount  of  claims,  includes  the  Crocker- 
Woolworth  National  Bank  (secured  by  prop- 
erty valued  at  $150,000),  $100,000;  Bay  Coun- 
ties Power  Company  (unsecured),  $12,581  ; 
Dunham,  Carrigan  &  Hayden  Company,  $3,077; 
Joseph  Dickson  Crucible  Company,  $3,495 ; 
Mayrick  &  Deering  (attorneys'  fees),  $11,937; 
Risdon  Iron  and  Locomotive  Works,  $10,404; 
Crocker- Woolworth  National  Bank  (notes  and 
interest),  $152,974 ;  total  unsecured  claims, 
$508,693.  _ 

Arbitrary  Assessments. 
Assessor  Washington  Dodge  has  filed  with 
the  clerk  of  the  board  of  supervisors  a  long 
list  of  names  of  persons  who  declined  to  make 
out  statements  of  their  possessions  for  the 
purpose  of  assessment,  and  whom  he  in  con- 
sequence arbitrarily  assesses.  Among  those 
so  assessed  are  the  following  estates  and  in- 
diviouals :  Estate  of  Jennie  A.  and  Charles 
F.  Crocker,  $1,713,610 ;  estate  of  Jacob  G. 
Jackson,  deceased,  $12,500 ;  estate  of  Lillie 
von  Hager,  deceased,  $7,315;  estate  of  August 
J.  Gerdan,  $12,500;  estate  of  Henry  P.  Jones, 
$10,000.  Daniel  Meyer,  $1,000,000;  Crocker 
estate  Company,  $275,000  ;  Rudolph  Spreckels, 
$80,000;  W.  H.  Crocker,  $80,000;  Robert  Ox- 
nard,  $25,000;  J.  M.  McDonald,  $25,000;  Ig- 
natz  Steinhart,  $20,000 ;  Mahoney  Brothers, 
^20.000 ;  T.  I.  Bergin,  $20,000 ;  T.  H.  Will- 
iams, John  Wigmore  &  Sons  Company,  C.  S. 
Wheeler,  Sidney  V.  Smith,  J.  K.  Prior,  Dr. 
J.  O.  Hirschfelder,  $10,000  each;  D.  N.  Wai- 
ter, Louis  Lissak,  Mrs.  R.  Tobin,  J.  B.  Rein- 
stein,  Miss  J.  Josselyn,  $5,000  each ;  J.  A. 
Wright,  James  A.  Watt,  Henry  Lachman,  A. 
H.  Reichling,  J.  W.  Raphael,  Samuel  Newman, 
A.  F.  Morrison,  J.  G.  Maguire,  W.  C.  Chris- 
topher, Horace  B.  Chase,  $2,500  each;  A.  J. 
Clunie,  George  T.  Marye,  Henry  Kowalsky, 
Abraham  Ruef,  and  R.  J.  Tobin,  $1,000  each; 
James  Denman,  $520. 


Arrangements  are  being  made  for  a  run 
of  the  Automobile  Club  of  California  to  Del 
Monte  during  the  month  of  August.  It  is  in- 
tended to  proceed  from  San  Francisco  to  San 
Jose  on  Thursday,  August  6th,  to  stay  the 
night  in  San  Jose,  and  to  go  on  next  day  by 
way  of  Watsonville,  reaching  Del  Monte  Fri- 
day evening.  For  the  following  three  or  four 
days  the  automobilists  will  make  up  touring 
parties  to  visit  the  pretty  spots  around  Del 
Monte.  They  will  have  the  exclusive  privilege 
of  running  over  the  seventeen-mile  drive,  and 
will  be  able  to  hold  any  contests,  either  of 
speed,  endurance,  or  any  other  sort,  they  may 
desire. 


The  stage  bound  for  Bartlett  Springs  was 
held  up  by  a  lone  highwayman  on  Monday 
night.  The  driver  was  chatting  with  the  pas- 
sengers about  the  hold-up  which  occurred  a 
year  ago,  and  had  just  pointed  out  the  place 
where  he  was  stopped  before,  when  a  masked 
man  stepped  into  the  centre  of  the  road,  lev- 
eled a  gun  at  the  driver,  and  ordered  him  to 
stop  the  team,  and  the  passengers  to  get  out 
and  line  up.  Thirteen  passengers  obeyed,  and, 
at  command,  piled  their  valuables  in  the  centre 
of  the  road. 


Ezra  Kendall,  in  "the  comedy  success,  "  The 
Vinegar  Buyer,"  has  just  closed  his  engage- 
ment at  the  Bijou  Theatre,  New  York,  and  will 
come  to  the  Columbia  Theatre,  following  the 
engagement  of  Amelia  Bingham.  Kendall  is 
said  to  have  created  quite  a  strong  impres- 
sion by  his  delightfully  amusing  comedy  work 
in  the  role  of  Joe  Miller. 


The  American  jackies  on  the  Kearsarge 
gave  a  minstrel  show  and  boxing  exhibition 
at  the  naval  manoeuvres  at  Kiel  re- 
cently. Twenty  men  and  four  officers  from 
each  of  the  German  ships  were  present.  It 
was  the  first  time  that  many  of  the  German 
sailors    had    seen   boxing. 


After  the  Fourth. 

After  the  Fourth, 
Then  quiet  reigns,  and  rest,  and  peace  ; 
All  sounds  infernal  have  found  surcease  ; 
At  Hotel  Vendome  we'll  weight  increase 

After  the  Fourth. 

After  the  Fourth, 
There's  urban  comfort  'mid  ruial  joys  ; 
We'll  swim,  and  bowl  with  ten  pin  toys  ; 
At  Vendome  we'll  again  be  boys 

After  the  Fourth  ! 


Liebold  Harness  Company, 

If  you  want" an  up-to-date  harness,  at  a  reasonable 
price,  call  at  211  Larkin  Street.  We  have  every- 
thing for  the  horse  and  stable. 


Pears' 

Why  is  Pears'  Soap — the 
best  in  the  world,  the  soap 
with  no  free  alkali  in  it — 
sold  for   15  cents   a  cake? 

It  was  made  for  a  hos- 
pital soap  in  the  first 
place,  made  by  request, 
the  doctors  wanted  a  soap 
that  would  wash  as  sharp 
a-;  any  and  do  no  harm 
to  t  e  skin.  That  means 
a  soap  all  soap,  wi'h  no 
free  al  ali  in  it,  nothing 
but  soap;  there:  is  nothing 
my  terious  i  1  it.  Cost  de- 
pends on  quantity;  quan- 
ti:y  comes  of  quality. 

Sold  all  over  the  -world. 

G.H.MUMM&CO.'S 

EXTRA     DRY 

CHArlPAGNE 

Now  coming  to  this  market  is  of  the  remarkable  vintage  o. 
1898,  which  is  more  delicate,  breedy,  and  better  than  the 
1893  ;  it  is  especially  dry,  without  being  heavy,  and  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  finest  vintages  ever  imported. 


P.  J.  VALCKENBBR6,  Worms  O/R,  Rhine 
and  Moselle  Wines. 

J.  CAIVET  &  CO.,  Bordeaux,  Clarets,  and 
Burgundies. 

OTARD,  DUPUY  &  CO.,  Cognac,  Brandies. 

FRED'K   DE  BARY  &  CO.,  New  York, 

Sole  Agents  in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
E.  M.  GKEENWAT,  Pacific  Coast  Representative. 


RIDING     HORSE 

FOR    SAXjIE:. 


Bay  Gelding,  fifteen  hands  high,  cob  build,  young 
and  sound.  Good  for  riding  or  driving— is  a  fine 
tandem  leader.     Apply 

Vendome  StableB,  San  Jose. 


LA   GRANDE  LAUNDRY 

Telephone  Bush  12 

MAIN    OFFICE— 23    POWELL   STREET 

Branches— sa  Taylor  St.  and  200  Montgomery  Ave. 

202  Third  St.     1738  Market  St. 

Laundry  on  12th  Street,  between  Howard  and  Folsom, 

ORDINARY   MENDING,    etc..    Free    of    charge. 

Work  called  for  and  delivered  free  of  charge. 


The  Ladies'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  of  the 
coast  is  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Perfect  Product 
of  the  Still- 


Hunter 

Baltimore 


Rye 


&S9r 


Baltimore  Rye 

^       HOTTltOBV 

WmUnahanSSOh 
baltimore. 


Never  disappoints.    It 
is  the  first  bought  be- 


The  Best 

is 

The  First  Sought 


HILEERT  MERCANTILE  CO. 

213-215  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Telephone  Exchange  313. 


July  13,  1903. 


T  t±  K 


AKGUWAUT 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted intoa  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


TENNIS 

GOLF 

BOWLING 


ORCHESTRA 

COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  GO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  V EN  DOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


NEW  ANNEX 
NEW  LANAI 
NEW  DRIVES 


GEO.  P.  SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  A  VENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.  Sixteen 
trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all  the 
year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

R.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summerandspring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  "M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARMER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


Saratoga  Springs 

The  Ideal  Summer  Resort  of  California 

UNDER   NEW  MANAGEnENT 


15  Mineral  Springs 


Rheumatism,  Gout,  Neuralgia,  Kidney, 

Liver,  Brighl's  Disease,  Constipation, 
Bronchial  and  Lung  Trouble. 


Open  the  vear  round.  For  information  and  booklets 
call  at  PECK'S  BUREAU,  11  Montgomery  Street,  and 
CALIFORNIA  N.  W.  R.  R-,  office  650  Market  Street; 
or  write  BARKER  &  CARPENTER,  Bachelor  P.  O., 
Lake  Countv,  Cal. 

They  are  the  equal  of  the  world's  most  famous 
springs,  not  excepting  Carlsbad  and  the  Spa  of  Europe. 


THE   LATEST  STYLES   IN 

CHOICE   WOOLENS 
H.  S.  BRIDGE    &    CO. 

Merchant  Tailors, 

632  Market  Street  (Upstairs), 

Bicycle  and  Golf  Suits.  Opposite  the  Palace  Hotel. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  King.  Miss  Hazel 
King,  and  Miss  Genevieve  King  are  at  Mon- 
terey. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Payne  are  at  their 
country  place  at   Menlo   Park. 

Mrs.  William  Kohl  and  Miss  Mamie  Kohl, 
of  San  Mateo,  are  now  occupying  their  sum- 
mer residence  at  Montecito,  Santa  Barbara. 

Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington  accompanied  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Gilbert  Brook  Perkins,  on  the 
return  of  the  latter  to  the  East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  N.  Drown  have  returned 
from  a  short  visit  to  the  Hotel  Vendome. 
Their  country  residence  in  Los  Gatos  will 
soon   be  under  construction. 

Mrs.  Charles  Cooper,  of  Honolulu,  is  visit- 
ing friends  in   Oakland. 

Mr.  John  Tarn  McGrew  and  Mrs.  McGrew 
are  in  town  on  a  visit  from  Honolulu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Athearn  Folger  expect  to 
leave  for  Monterey  July  15th  with  their  chil- 
dren, where  they  will  spend  the  summer. 

Mrs.  E.  F.  Preston  has  returned  from  a 
voyage  to  Tahiti. 

Mr.  E.  M.  Greenway,  who  has  been  travel- 
ing through  Southern  California,  will  spend 
the  coming  week  at  Catalina. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Latham  McMuIlin  returned 
on  Monday  last  from  a  visit  to  Santa  Barbara. 

Miss  Alice  Sprague  has  been  the  guest  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  Sprague  at  their  Menlo 
Park   residence. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  Riley  are  occupying 
their  cottage  at  Montecito,  Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding  and  Miss 
Suzanne  Blanding  are  the  guests  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Will  Tevis  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mrs.  Martin  Crimmins  will  depart  soon 
for  the  East,  where  she  will  be  the  guest  of 
Mr,  John  D.  Crimmins  at  his  Long  Island 
country  residence.  Lieutenant  Crimmins  will 
join  her  later  in  the  summer. 

Mrs.  Beverly  McMonagle  and  Mrs.  Fred- 
erick Moody  spent  last  week  in  the  Santa 
Cruz  Mountains.  Mrs.  Moody  has  returned 
to  her  Burlingame  residence. 

Mr.  Adolph  Spreckels  left  for  the  East  on 
Wednesday  evening.  He  will  be  gone  a 
month. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill  have  left  Paso 
Robles,  and  are  now  at  Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Sunderland,  of  Reno, 
are  in  San  Francisco  for  a  brief  sojourn.  Mrs. 
Sunderland  was  Miss  Beulah  Stubb's. 

Mrs.  Fred  Macondray,  who  recently  re- 
turned from  the  Philippines,  is  the  guest  of 
Mrs.  Percy  Selby  at  Menlo  Park. 

Miss  Adah  Howell  is  the  guest  of  Miss 
Ethyl  Hager  at  Monterey. 

Mr.  William  Wolff  and  family  returned  on 
Wednesday  last,  after  a  month's  visit  at  Santa 
Barbara. 

Mrs.  Irving  M.  Scott,  her  niece.  Miss 
Browne,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.-  A.  Newell,  Miss 
Marie  Bull,  and  Miss  Kathleen  Bull  are  spend- 
ing the  summer  at  the  Japanese  village  near 
Los  Gatos. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  Webster  are  at  Santa 
Barbara. 

Senator  George  C.  Perkins  and  Miss  Pansy 
Perkins  have  departed  for  New  York,  en  route 
to  Europe,  to  be  gone  several  months. 

Mrs.  J.  C.  Kirkpatrick  was  the  guest  of  her 
sister,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Allen,  in  San  Mateo  during 
the  past  week. 

Mrs.  O.  B.  Bidwell,  Jr.,"  has  returned  to  her 
home  in  Norfolk,  Va.,  after  a  visit  of  several 
weeks  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  George  Riddell. 

Mr.  Lawrence  E.  Van  Winkle  has  been 
spending  a  fortnight  at  Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  E.  W.  Hopkins,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Will 
Taylor,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Augustus  Taylor,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Eugene  Murphy,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Latham  McMuIlin  will  leave  for  Prosser 
Creek,  near  Boca,  in  the  Sierra  Nevada  Moun- 
tains,  the  latter  part   of  this   month. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  Peixotto  are  in  New 
York,  whence  they  will  sail  shortly  for  Spain. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  D.  Keyes  expect 
to  leave  the  latter  part  of  the  month  for  a 
six  weeks'  trip  to  the  Yellowstone. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Page  are  sojourning  at 
Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  W.  Lilienthal,  who  have 
been  traveling  in  Europe  for  the  past  few 
months,  are  at  present  sojourning  in  Paris. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Donahue  are  the  guests 
of  the  Baroness  von  Schroeder  at  San  Rafael. 

Mr.  A.  W.  Blow  and  Miss  Blow  are  at  Santa 
Barbara. 

Miss  Grace  Spreckels  is  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Drury  Melone  at  her  residence,  "  Oak  Knoll," 
in  Napa  County. 

Mr.  Henry  Heyman  and  Mr.  Edgar  D. 
Peixotto  are  at  Santa  Barbara. 

Miss  Helen  Richardson  has  returned  from 
a  visit  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Wheeler  at 
the  McCloud  River. 

After  a  six  weeks'  sojourn  at  Coronado, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels,  Jr.,  have  re- 
turned to  their  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  returned  last 
Wednesday  on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Sonoma 
from  their  "wedding  trip  to  Honolulu. 

Miss  Nina  Gordon,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
will  spend  a  few  months  visiting  in  San 
Francisco.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Colonel  D. 
S.  Gordon,  U.  S.  A. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Blanchard  Chase  will 
spend  the  month  of  August  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mrs.  James  Otis  and  family  are  spending 
the  summer  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Canfield, 
Mrs.  Otis's  father. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adolph  Roos  and  family  are 
at  Sumta  Barbara. 

Miss  ^aroline  .Avers  >ac  returned  to  her 
home  in  Menlo,  after  spending  several  days 
in  town  with  Miss  Lucie  King. 

Mrs.  Leland  Stanford  will  leave  for  an  ex- 
tended trip  abroad  early  in  the  fall. 

Mrs.  George  W.  Gibbs  has  been  sojourning 
in  Santa  Barbara. 

Miss  Edna  Dickins  and  Miss  Helen  Dick- 
ins   departed   for   Santa   Barbara   on   Wednes- 


day. They  will  be  the  guests  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sherman  Stow  for  several  months  at 
"  La  Patera,"  the  country  place  of  the  Stows. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  B.  Alexander  and  their 
three  daughters  sailed  on  the  Celtic  for  Liver- 
pool on  June  26th. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Irwin  are  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Prince  Poniatowski  has  returned  from  his 
trip  abroad. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Pope  are  in  the  city 
for  a  few  days  from  their  Burlingame  resi- 
dence. 

Mr.  George  Lewis  will  leave  the  city  in  a 
few  days  for  a  two  weeks'  fishing  trip  to 
Lake  Tahoe. 

Miss  Pearl  Landers  has  returned  from  her 
visit  to  Miss  Ethyl  Hager  in  Monterey,  and  is 
now  in  San  Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  T.  Lally  and  family  are 
spending  the  summer  at  Santa  Barbara. 

Mrs.  Peter  McG.  McBean,  who,  with  her 
family,  has  been  spending  a  few  weeks  in  San 
Rafael,  will  return  to  the  city  on  Monday. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  Oscar  Fitzalan  Long  will 
leave  for  Washington  in  August.  They  re- 
cently spent  several  days  in  Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  James  D.  Phelan  has  returned  from 
his  several  weeks'  visit  to  the  southern  part 
of  the  State. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Earl  Brownell  will  arrive 
in  San  Francisco  on  the  first  of  August.  They 
will  occupy  a  house  on  Broadway  during  their 
visit. 

Mrs.  John  P.  Jackson,  Jr.,  has  been  spending 
several  weeks  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
State. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  L.  Bliss  and  Miss  Hope 
Bliss  are  at  their  country  residence,  "  Glen- 
brook,"    Lake   Tahoe. 

Mr.  Dennis  Searles  has  been  the  guest  for  a 
month  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  P.  Ayers,  at  Menlo 
Park. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  G.  Potter,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  H.  C.  Breeden,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  M. 
Daugherty,  Mrs.  William  B.  Collier,  Mrs. 
Milton  Latham,  Miss  Wilson,  Miss  Gertrude 
Van  Wyck,  Mr.  Baldwin  Wood,  Mr.  W.  J. 
Wiley,  Mr.  J.  B.  Nevin,  and  Mr.  R.  G.  Han- 
ford. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs  were  Mrs.  C.  T.  Mills,  of  Mills  Col- 
lege, Mrs.  E.  B.  Carson  and  Miss  Ruth  Car- 
son, of  Alameda,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  C.  Mont- 
gomery, Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  C.  Klein,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  L.  Shainwald,  Mrs.  L.  Roesch, 
Mr:  Eugene  A.  Beaucet  Mr.  B.  T.  Flint,  and 
Mr.  Fred  W.  Crossett. 

Among  the  San  Franciscans  recently  at 
Santa  Barbara,  are  Mrs.  H.  M.  Heine- 
man,  Mrs.  James  T.  Webster,  Mrs.  R.  Morton, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Julian  Sonntag,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Arthur  Bachman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Barneson, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Rosenfeld,  Mr.  A.  Sbar- 
boro  and  family,  Mr.  C.  G.  Hooker,  Mrs.  George 
W.  Bowers,  Miss  Florence  Smith,  Miss  Buck- 
ley, Miss  Agnes  Sullivan,  Mrs.  William  Smith 
O  Brien,  Miss  W.  O'Brien,  Miss  W.  C.  Mor- 
row, Miss  Rodgers,  and  Miss  M.  C.  Taylor. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  E.  Rich- 
ardson and  Miss  Addie  Bennett,  of  Ports- 
mouth, Va.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hadfield,  Sir  C.  C. 
and  Lady  Scott  MoncriefT,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Wilson  King,  Mrs.  Wall,  Miss  Seebohen  and 
Mr.  JackC.  Slaney,  of  England,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A. 
F.  Morrison,  of  Ross  Valley,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
John  A.  Wood  and  Miss  E.  S.  McClure,  of 
Toronto,  Canada,  Mrs.  William  Beckman,  of 
Sacramento,  Mrs.  MacAdam,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Ken- 
nedy, Miss  Lola  Kennedy,  and  Miss  Gertrude 
Kennedy,  of  New  York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W. 
Briggs,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  Dunn,  Mme.  Caro 
Roma  Douglas,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Gladding,  Mr. 
Martin  Joyce,  and  Mr.  George  K.  Fish. 


The  reports  from  Paso  Robles  Hot  Springs 
indicate  that  many  are  enjoying  the  attrac- 
tions of  this  delightful  resort.  The  cool 
nights,  the  hot  springs,  the  mud  baths,  the  ex- 
cellent roads,  and  charming  sceflery  have  at- 
tracted large  numbers  of  prominent  people  to 
Paso  Robles,  while  the  good  dove-shooting 
will  attract  sportsmen  during  July.  A  well- 
known  hunter  and  writer  returned  this  week 
and  declared  enthusiastically  that  he  had  not 
had  such  sport  in  years. 


—  The  largest  variety  of  paper-covered 
novels  for  summer  reading  can  be  found  at  Cooper's 
Book  Store,  746  Market  Street. 


—  A  WELL-BROKEN  RIDING  HORSE  FOR  SALE  AT 
the  Vendome  Stables,  ban  Jos6.  Price  reasonable. 
Bay  gelding,  fifteen  hands  high  ;  has  been  driven  in 
the  lead  in  tandem  and  four-in  hand  ;  is  young  and 
sound. 


Tourist  Policies 


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loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
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Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
4>o-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIV    FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Dancing  Masters 
Recommend  It 

Dancing  Masters  all  over  the  United  States 
recommend  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax. 
It  makes  neither  dust  nor  dirt,  does  not  slick  to 
the  shoes  or  rub  into  lumps  on  the  floor. 
Sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  the  rest. 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  of  the  finest 
fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co.,  Langley&.  Michaels, 
and  Redington  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk, 
Geary  &  Co.,  Sacramento ;  and  F.  W.  Eraun  & 
Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax. 


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25  Market  St.     25  Departments. 


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30  select  tours,  S245  to  Si.ooo,  in- 
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The  full  story  is  told  in  our  pam- 
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621  Market  St.,  S.  F. 


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SAN  FRANCISCO. 


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Secure  sleeping-car  reservation  and  full  informa- 
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and  use  less  ice  than  any 
other  refrigerator. 

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30Q«3I7  Market  Street 

SAN  FRANCISCO. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORI&.  .   , 


Got  a  life  customer:     "You  haven 
me  nearly  as  much  for  haft-soling  thi    e  si 
as    I    expected."      "  No,    ma'am.      We 
according  to   the   size   of  the  shoe." — l 
Tribune. 

Reporter   (in   the   Mastadonastoria) — " 
true,    Mr.    Goldwaller,    that    you    have    bo 
this  hotel?"     Inriitmerabillionaire — "  No,   sir 
It    is    not    necessary ;    I    can    afford    to    be 
guest." — Puck. 

Miss  Nexdor — "  This  is  a  pretty  time  of 
night  for  that  Dasher  girl  to  be  playing  the 
piano."  Miss  Also — "  Oh,  she's  no  respecter 
of  time.     You  can  tell  that  from  the  way  she's 

playing." — Baltimore  American. 

"Have  you  any  request  to  make?"  asked 
the  sheriff  of  the  erstwhile  society  man  who 
was  to  be  hanged  on  the  morrow.  "  Yes,  one,'" 
replied  Handsome  Harry ;  "  let  me  tie  the 
noose  myself.  I  never  yet  wore  a  ready-made 
tie." — Ex. 

Wouldn't  do  :  Photographer — "  Beg  pardon, 
sir,  but  can  you  look  a  little  less  stern  and 
severe?"  Sitter — "Never  mind  how  stern  I 
look.  This  photograph  is  for  campaign  use. 
I  am  a  candidate  for  judge.  Go  ahead." — 
Ch  icago   Tribun  e. 

Righteous  indignation  :  "  Dadburn  you  1" 
says  the  milkman  to  the  druggist,  "  I've  got  a 
notion  to  prosecute  you!"  "What's  the  mat- 
ter?" asks  the  druggist.  "  Matter  enough,  you 
swindler !  That  last  barrel  of  formaldehyde 
you  sold  me  was  adulterated.  That's  what's 
the  matter  !  I  thought  you  was  a  honest  man 
an'   sold"  people  pure  goods  !" 


See  that  St^dman  is  spelt  with  two  ees  when  you 
buy  Stif^dman's  Soothing  Powders.  Beware  of 
spurious  imitations. 


He — "  Look,  look!  I  think  that  man  out  in 
the  breakers  is  drowning!"  She — "  Oh, 
heavens  !  and  I  have  left  my  camera  at  home  !" 
— Judge. 

—  Dr  E  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 


SAN  FRANCISCO, 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 


lrave     —    From  June  21,  1903.    —      arrive 

7  DO  a   Benlcla,  Suiiun,  Elmirtand  Stcre- 

mento 7-26* 

7.00*  V»eavllle,  "Winter*  Ramsey. 7.2Sr 

7.30a  Martinez,    San     B«non,    Vallejo, 

N»pa.  Calietoen,  BuUBon 6  25? 

7.30a  Nlles,  Lathrop.  Stockton 7-26r 

8.00a  Dav IB, Wood] and.  Knlghta  Lnndlns, 
MaryBYlIle,  Ororllle,  (connects 
at  MaryBYlIle  for  Grldley,  Blgg» 

•ndChlco) 7-65r 

8.00a  AtlantlcEspreBe—  Ogden  and  East.   10,25a 
B.00*  Port  Costa,  Martinet,  Anttoch,  By- 
ron.T  racy ,  8  toe  a- ton,  Baerame  nto, 
Los  BanoB,    MendoU,    Banford, 

YlBalla.  PorterrDle m4.2Sr 

8.00a  Port  CoBta,  Martlner,  Lathrop.  Mo- 
deBto,  Merced.  Fresno,  Goshen 
Junction,    Hanford,    Ylaalla, 

Bakersfleld E.26r 

B.30a  Shasta  Express— Darls,  Wllllami 
(for  Eartlett  Springs).  "Willows, 

tFruto,  Red  Bind,  Portland 7.55> 

8.30a  Nlles,  San  Joee,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton,lone,  Sacramento, Placerrllle, 

MaryBYlIle,  Chlco,  Bed  Bluff 4-25p 

8.30a  Oakdale,  CblneBe,  Jamestown,  Bo- 
no™, Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.25? 

9.00a  Martinez  and  Way  Stations 655p 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.25p 

"10-ODa  CreacentCIty  Express.  Basthonnd. 
—Port  Costa,  Byron,  Tracy,  La- 
throp. Stockton.  Merced.  Ray- 
mond, Fresno,  Hanford,  Vlsalla, 
Bakerefleld,  Los  Angeles  and 
New  Orleans.  (Westbound  ar- 
rives as  Pacific  Coast  Express, 

via  Coast  Line) <  1  .30p 

1000a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden, 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 6.26* 

12-OOn  Hayward,  Nlles  and  "Way  Stations.     3-26P 

t1  .00p  Sacramento  River  Steamers til .00p 

3.30p  Benlcla,      Winters,      Sacramento. 

Woodland,  Williams,  Colusa,Wll- 

Iowb,  Knights   Landing.  Marys- 

vllle,  Oroville  and  way  stations..    10-55a 

3-SOp  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..     7.56p 

4.C0r  Martlncz.San  Rnmon.ValleJo.Napa. 

Calletoga,  Santa  Rosa 9.25a 

4-ODp  Martinez,  Tracy, L a tbrop, Stockton.  10.26a 
4-OOp  Nlles.  Llvermore.  Stockton,  LodL.  4.25P 
4.30p   Hayward.  NUeB,   Irvlngton,  San  I     t8.56a 

Jobc  Llvermore (til. 65a 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakersfleld,  Los  Angeles;  con- 
nects at  Saugus  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara      S .  55  a 

B.00>    Port  Costa,  Tracy,   Stockton,  Los 

Banos 12-26P 

t&.30p  Nlles.  San  Jose  Local 7.25a 

6-CC1    Hayward. NIleB  and  San  Jose 10-25a 

B.OOp  Oriental     Mall  — Ogden,     Denver, 
Omaha,    St.  Louis,  Chicago  and 
East.    (CarrleB  Pullman  Car  pas- 
sengers only  out  of  San  Fran- 
cisco.    Tourist    car   and  coach 
passengers  take  7.00  p.  m.  train 
to   Reno,  continuing  thence    in 
their  cars  6  p.m.  train  eastward..     4.26p 
Westbound,      Sunset      Limited. — 
From  New  York,  Chicago,  New 
Paeo.  Los  Angeles, 
3rd  (from 


7  00r 
7D0i 


no,  IHyI*, 
Tmckcc. 
i- 1:. tlr.ee    eut   of 


P?Ga 


11.26  a 

7.5&r 


COAST    LINE    (Harrow  flange). 

(Foul  vt  Market  Street.) 

1746a    Santa    Cruz    Exeoriloa    (Sunday 

only) 18-1  Or 

8-1  6a  Newark.  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulaer     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6-25p 

I2.16F  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gatos, Felton, 
Bonldcr  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations   10.55* 

4-IEp  Newark.  Ban  Jose,  Lob  Gatos  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz,  connects  at  Felton  for 
Boulder  Crpek,  Monday  only 
from  Snnta  Cruz) j8.65a 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

Krom  SAN  b"KAN  CISCO.  Foot  ul  Market  St.  (Slip*; 

— ti:15     9:00     11:UU*.M.      100     3.00     5-16P.M 

From  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  — 16:00    J8:0"J 

18:05    10:0(1  a.m.       12  00    200    4-00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Kroad  UMBje). 

(Third  and  Towuaend  Streets.) 

610a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 7.30p 

17.00a    San  Joee  and  Way  Stations 6-30p 

'7  00a   NewAlmaden /"4-lfJr 

:715a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Exem- 
pli n  (Sunday  only) 18-30^ 

&8.00a  Cobfi  Line  Limited— Stone  only  San 
Jope.Gllroy.BolllBter.Pajaro.Cas- 
trovllle.  Salinas.  San  Ardo,  Paso 
Roblee.  Santa  Murgarlta, San  Luis 
Obispo,  (prinripa  1  statlonstbence) 
Santa  Barbsra,  and  Lop  An- 
geleB.  Connection  at  Casin>\llle 
to  and  from  Monterey  and  I'aclflc 
Grove  and  at  Pajaro  north  hound 
from  Caj  Itolo  and  SantaCruz...  10-45p 
8.00a  San    Jo*e.  Tree    Plnos,    Capltola, 

San  1 1*  Cruz,  Pailflr  Grove,  Salinas,    * 
Si  n  Luis  Obispo  and    Principal 

Intermediate    Station? 4-10p 

Westbound  only.  Pacific  Coast  Ex- 
DreP".— From  N  ew  Y ork.Chlcago, 
New  Orleans.  El  Paso.  Los  An- 
geles, Saniti  Hiiruara.    Arrives..      1-30p 

1030a  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1.20p 

11-30a   San  Jose.  Lob  Gatos  and  Way  Sta- 

,  __         tlone 5-36p 

Gl.oU>    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations x700p 

200?  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations '9  40a 

1.3X0P  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 
0  San  Ji  se.  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  lor  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points)  112.1  6p 
fa-dOF  Bnrllnyanie.  San  Mateo,  Redwood, 
Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto  Mayfleld, 
Mountain  View.  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara,  San  Jose,  Gllroy  (connec- 
tion for  Holllster,  Tree  Plnos), 
Pa]aro  'connection  for  Wat  son- 
ville,  Capltola  and  Santa  Cruz), 
Pacific  Grove  and  way  stations. 
Connects  at  Castrovllle  for  Sa- 
linas   10.45a 

o4.30p   Sun  Joae  and  Way  Stations 8-3Ga 

c+B-COi'  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Lob 
Gatos,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Stations 19.00a 

San  Jut-eand  Principal  Way  Btatlons   t8.00a 
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19.1  Oi    Hayward,  NIleB  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) 111-55  i 

11,26p  Port    Costa,   Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto. Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 

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■f  Sunday  excepted.  J  Sunday  only,  a  Saturday  only.  (/Connects  at  Goshen  Jc.  with  trains  for  Hanlord, 
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n  Da'  y  except  Saturday,  w  Via  San  Joaquin  Valley.  If  Stops  Santa  Clara  south  bound  only;  connects, 
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Bon  Vivants 


Tillmann  &  Bendel 

Purveyors  to  the 

Pacific  Slope  Trade 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Kafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  8.00,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2-3<>i 
3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra 
trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 7.30,  S.00,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  t2-°°.  3-4°.  5-00.  5-20.  6-25  P  m-  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  n. 15  a  m  ;  1.45,  3-4°,  4-5°, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
fExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 

7.30  a  m 
S.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5-iopm 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 

6.20  pm 
7-25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6. 20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  ra 

800am 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

• 
7-3°  a  m 

2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10,20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

7-3°  a  m 

Willits. 

7-25  a  m 

7.25  P  m 

S.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  Pjn 
8.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  pm 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  P  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood  ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


MOUNT  TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 

Leave  Via  Sausalito  Ferry  Arrive 

Foot  of  Market  SL        San  Fran. 


Sun- 

Week 

day!. 

Days. 

11:40  a. 

9:0flA. 

12:40  P. 

2:40  p. 

1:40  p. 

6:40  p. 

3:40  P. 

9:45  p. 

5:00  P. 



5.55  P. 

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7:50  p. 



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Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San  Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 
A  M  —  f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  rn,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 

A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 

PM— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10  p  m.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11. 10  a  m. 

0/1/1  P  M  — *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
*""  Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
I  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m. 


7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


4.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco  ;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


NORTH  SHORE  RAILROAD 

For  SAN  RAFAEL.  " 

ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,  ETC., 

Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 

ALL  TRAINS  DAILY. 

DEPART  —  *6.50,   7.30,  *8.io,  8.50,    9.30, 

*io.io,  11.00  A.   M.;  *i2:oo,  1.00,  *2.oo,  3.00,  *4.oo,  4.40, 

*5-20,  6.00,  *6-5o,  S.45,  10.30,  11.45  p.  M. 

ARRIVE— 6.25,  *7.05,  7.45,  S.25,  *o.05.  9.45,  *io.25, 
11.55  A.  M-;  *i2.55.  i-55.  *2-55.  3-55,  *4-55.  5-35.  *6-i5. 
6-55-  *7-45.  *9-35,  ll-25  P-  M- 

Trains  marked  *  for  San  Quentin.  For  Fairfax, 
week  days,  7.30,  9.30  a.  m.,  4.40  p.  m.;  Sundays,  all 
trains  7.30  a.  m.  to  3.00  p.  M. 

DEPART  lor  Cazadero  and  way  stations,  7.30  A.  M., 
4.40  p.  M.;  for  Point  Reyes  and  intermediate,  9.30  A.  M. 

ARRIVE  from  Cazadero,  etc.,  9.05  A.  M-,  7.45  p.  M.; 
from  Point  Reyes,  etc.,  6:15  p.  m. 

Ticket  Office  — 626  Market  Street;  Ferry,  Foot  of 
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ENTERED    AT   THE    SAN    FRANCISCO    POST-OFFICE    AS    SECOND-CLASS    UATTEB. 

TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  John  Bull,  Uncle  Sam,  and  Opium — The  Irony  of  the 
Philippine  Commission's  Proposal — Military  Murders  in 
Germany  —  What  the  Military  Spirit  Means  —  Socialism's 
Growth  a  Warning  to  tlie  Kaiser  —  Municipalization  of 
Poetry — Some  Hints  for  the  Supervisors — Judge  Parker's 
Visit  to  Georgia — Hailed  as  "  Our  Next  President  " — Mr. 
Cannon  and  the  Currency — Many  of  the  Big  Trusts  in 
Difficulties — California's  Street  Railways — Politics,  National 
and  Local — The  City's  Increased  Assessment — AH  Honor 
to  Washington  Dodge — Railroad  From  Sacramento  to 
Stockton — Mr.  Potter  and  the  Customs  Officers    33-35 

"  Race  Suicide":  A  Married  Woman  Attacks  President  Roose- 
velt's Theories — She  Says  Mature  American  Women  Can 
Decide  Such  Matters  Better  than  He   35 

A  Neurastheniac  Comedy:      One     of     Sardou's     Droll     Plays. 

Translated  for  the  "Argonaut"  by  J.  A.  H 36 

Leo  the  Thirteenth:  An  Intimate  View  of  the  Roman 
Pontiff  —  His  Forbidden  Book — His  Wit,  Verses,  Pete, 
Eccentricities,  Wealth,  and  Jewels — His  Famous  Retort.  ...     37 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent   People  All  Over  the 

World  37 

A  Warm  Sunday:  Harry  Goes  to  Church.  By  Geraldine  Bon- 
ner          38 

The  "Truth"  About  Carlyle:  Extracts  from  a  Posthumous 
Pamphlet  in  Which  Froude  Defends  His  Conduct  as 
Biographer  and  Literary  Executor — The  "  Real  Reason " 
of   the    Marital    Unhappiness 39 

Our  European  Squadron:  "Cockaigne"  Thinks  We 
Should  Send  Better  Ships  Abroad — "  Kearsarge  "  Not 
First  Class — "  Chicago  "  and  "  San  Francisco  "  Old  Vessels 
— Some    Comparisons 39 

William  Ernest  Henley    4° 

Literary  Notes:      Personal     and     Miscellaneous     Gossip  —  New 

Publications    40-41 

Drama:    Nance  O'Neil  as  Juliet  at  the  California.     By  Josephine 

Hart     Phelps 42 

Stage  Gossip    43 

Vanity  Fair:  Law  Preventing  Divorcees  from  Marrying  Re- 
pealed in  France — Its  Effect — How  the  "  Hair-Hanging- 
Down-the-Back  "  Fad  Began  at  Newport  —  Cooperative 
Housekeeping  in  London  —  The  Profession  of  "  Courier- 
Maid  "  Attractive  to  College  Girls — Making  Strawberry 
Jelly  Out  of  Hayseed  and  Glucose  44 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
The  Lord  versus  the  Insurance  Company  in  Case  of  Fire — 
The  Relative  Proprieties  in  Hell  and  Hamstead  Heath — 
The  Fluid  Baggage  of  Senator  Blackburn — An  Editor  and  a 
Patriot  —  The  Wit  of  Mrs.  Secretary  Shaw  —  Why 
Labouchere  Thinks  Roscbery  Resembles  a  Rubber  Ball — 
A  Missourian  Who  "  Died  "  Out  of  Kindness  of  Heart — 
A  Story  Showing  One  Advantage  of  Church  Collection 
"Plates"  Over  "Bags" — The  Dying  Valedictory  of  a 
Viennese  Showman 45 

The  Tuneful  Liar:    "Grand    Larceny,"    "It's    Up    to    Him," 

"  King  Pete,"  "  Discussing  the  Yacht  Race  "    45 

Society:     Movements    and    Whereabouts  —  Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 46-47 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
may Wits  of  the  Day 48 


John  Bull, 
Uncle  Sam, 
and  Opium. 


A  number  of  years  ago  Great  Britain  found  her  Indian 
subjects  deprived  of  a  market  for  one  of 
their  most  profitable  products  —  opium. 
The  Chinese  Government  had  discovered, 
or  pretended  to  discover,  that  the  use  of  opium  was  bad 
for  the  Chinese.  Therefore,  it  forbade  its  importation 
or  sale.  No  one  has  ever  suspected  John  Bull  of  in- 
difference or  inertia  when  his  pocket  was  attacked. 
The  Indian  revenue  was  threatened,  and  John  Bull  flew 


into  a  justifiable  rage.  He  sent  his  fleets  to  China,  and 
speedily  cannonaded  the  Chinese  Government  into  a 
reasonable  condition.  As  a  result,  the  sale  of  Indian 
opium  to  the  Chinese  increased,  and  China  has  become 
the  amorphous  and  opiumistic  mass  she  is  to-day.  Since 
that  time,  many  nations  have  taunted  John  Bull  with 
his  lack  of  morality  in  this  opium  business.  But  John 
has  contented  himself  with  a  fat  smile,  and  a  gesture 
toward  the  credit  side  of  his  Indian  budget. 

History  repeats  itself.  In  the  Philippines  we  are  now 
confronted  with  an  opium  perplexity  similar,  but  dif- 
ferent. John  Bull's  opium-fiends  have  taken  the  taint 
to  the  Philippines  with  them.  The  Filipinos  have 
caught  it.  It  is  attacking  even  Americans  and  Eu- 
ropeans. The  opium  vice  is  said  to  be  rapidly  pervading 
the  Philippines.  The  Philippine  Government  is  de- 
termined to  "  regulate  "  the  use  of  the  drug,  as  they 
"  regulated "  prostitution  and  other  tropical  habits. 
They  have  therefore  determined  to  create  an  opium 
monopoly.  Their  intention  was  to  farm  out  the  sale 
of  opium  to  the  highest  bidder.  In  this  way  the  im- 
portation of  the  drug  could  be  kept  under  government 
control,  a  heavy  license  imposed  on  the  vice,  and  an 
enormous  sum  collected  to  swell  the  shrinking  revenues 
of  the  Philippine  Government. 

But  unexpected  opposition  has  arisen.  It  comes  from 
two  sources — the  Chinese  merchants  in  the  Philippines, 
and  the  religious  cranks  here  at  home.  The  Chinese 
merchants  object  to  the  monopoly  because  it  will  de- 
prive them  of  an  extremely  profitable  trade.  The  re- 
ligious cranks  here  at  home  object  to  the  American 
Government  legalizing  the  traffic  in  any  kind  of  vice. 

We  can  scarcely  find  words  to  express  our  con- 
demnation of  these  fanatics  and  cranks.  What  harm 
is  there  in  imposing  restrictions  on  opium-smoking? 
What  damage  is  done  by  collecting  a  tax  on  this  and 
other  forms  of  vice?  Even  if  the  government  does  not 
license  the  opium  vice,  will  not  the  islanders  smoke 
opium  anyway?  Besides,  what  have  these  cranks  got 
to  do  with  it?  What  business  is  it  of  theirs?  To  at- 
tack the  Philippine  Commission  in  this  way  is  a  fire 
from  the  rear.    It  is  treason. ' 

Besides,  everybody  knows  that  the  opium-user  is  not 
like  the  alcoholic.  The  whisky  drunkard  beats  his  wife, 
quarrels  with  his  neighbors,  sometimes  maims  and 
kills,  goes  to  jail,  or  is  hanged.  The  opium-user,  on 
the  other  hand,  never  harms  anybody  except  himself. 
He  never  beats  his  wife,  he  never  abuses  his  children, 
he  never  kills  anybody.  He  simply  passes  his  life  in  a 
pleasant,  lingering,  languorous  pipe-dream.  Then  why 
not  let  the  Filipinos  all  become  opium-users,  and 
drowsily  doze  their  lives  away,  dreaming  of  benevolent 
assimilation  ? 


Military 
Murder 
in  Germany 


Last  Easter  morning  one  Hussner,  a  German  military 
officer,  met  one  Hortmann,  a  German 
private  soldier,  on  a  street  in  Essen. 
As  the  soldier  failed  to  salute  the  officer 
to  his  satisfaction,  Hussner  murdered  him  on  the  spot 
in  cold  blood.  The  murderer  was  tried  by  a  court- 
martial;  instead  of  being  executed,  he  was  sentenced  to 
four  years'  imprisonment.  Now  the  emperor  has  be- 
come an  accessory  to  the  murder  by  commuting  the 
murderer's  sentence  to  two  years'  imprisonment.  This 
"  imprisonment  "  is  merely  detention,  without  military 
duty,  in  a  fortress  town,  and  is  not  imprisonment  at 
all.  Slight  as  is  this  punishment,  it  is  freely  stated  in 
Germany  that  the  murderer  will  soon  be  pardoned  by 
the  emperor,  and  allowed  to  go  free. 

The  recent  enormous  increase  in  the  Socialistic  vote 
is  partly  due  to  this  action  of  the  emperor.  It  has 
aroused  a  storm  of  indignation  throughout  all  Ger- 
many.   The  previous   increase  of  the   Socialistic  vote 


had  already  alarmed  the  narrow-headed  agrarian  aris- 
tocratic classes  of  Prussia,  which  means  official  Ger- 
many. They  have  good  cause  to  be  alarmed.  There  is 
a  very  luke-warm  feeling  in  South  Germany  toward 
Prussia.  The  pictures  of  Kaiser  Wilhelm  that  one 
sees  on  every  hand  in  Prussia  are  little  in  evidence  in 
the  south.  In  all  the  great  factory  towns  of  Germany — 
north,  south,  east,  and  west — there  is  little  love  for  the 
emperor,  and  none  at  all  for  the  emperor's  government. 
Such  crimes  as  this  military  murder  will  not  help  to 
placate  the  people's  restlessness  under  the  Hohen- 
zollern  yoke. 

This  German  theory  of  the  sacro-sanctitude  of  the 
military  officer  as  against  the  private  soldier  has  a 
parallel  in  the  German  governmental  idea  of  the  re- 
lations of  the  soldier  and  the  civilian.  It  is  an  inevit- 
able concomitant  of  militarism.  It  is  in  Germany 
somewhat  as  it  was  in  the  days  of  the  first  French 
Empire,  when  life  was  made  intolerable  for  civilians  by 
the  ruffianly  officers  of  Napoleon.  They  did  not  hesi- 
tate to  take  a  table  from  a  group  of  civilians  in  a  cafe; 
to  drive  a  party  of  gentlemen  from  a  box  in  the  theatre, 
for  which  box  they  had  paid;  or  to  caress  any  woman 
whose  face  pleased  them,  and  if  her  escort  resented  it, 
to  cut  him  down  with  their  sabres.  They  even  had  a 
term  of  derision  for  the  civilian — he  was  merely  a 
"  Pekin."  It  is  inexpressibly  gratifying  to  read  that 
many  a  military  ruffian  of  those  days  was  sent  to  his 
long  home  by  a  plain  "  Pekin  " — some  on  the  dueling 
field,  but  more  on  the  spot  where  the  insult  took  place. 
It  is  also  pleasing  to  recall  that  in  our  own  days,  when 
Warrior  Boulanger  grossly  insulted  Citizen  Floquet, 
"'  le  Brave  General  "  was  pinked  by  the  "  Pekin."  And 
once,  when  a  German  officer  in  Berlin  insulted  an 
American  lady,  an  athletic  male  relative  cuffed  his 
ears  for  him,  and  when  the  German  drew  his  sword, 
the  athletic  American  broke  it  in  two  across  his  knee, 
and  threw  the  pieces  in  the  German's  face. 

This  ruffianly  military  spirit  still  exists  in  Germany. 
In  that  country,  military  officers  continually  insult  civi- 
lians, and  sometimes  murder  them.  When  they  do,  the 
affair  is  treated  as  lightly  by  the  emperor  and  his 
government  as  has  been  this  recent  military  murder. 

When  he  first  acceded  to  the  throne,  the  kaleidoscopic 
Kaiser  coquetted  with  the  Socialists.  But,  like  the  royal 
butt  of  Buckingham's  satire,  he  is  everything  by  turns, 
and  nothing  long.  He  soon  became  alarmed  at  the 
Socialists'  growing  numbers,  and  from  fair  words  he 
turned  to  threats.  Not  long  ago  the  emperor  made 
one  of  his  impulsive  speeches  to  his  army  at  a  review, 
when  he  said:  "You  are  my  soldiers.  You  are  my 
children.  You  have  sworn  loyalty  to  your  Kaiser. 
Do  not  fail  to  keep  your  oath,  for  if  need  arise  I  shall 
call  upon  you  to  shoot  down  the  Socialists,  and  you 
must  obey  orders,  even  if  your  fathers  and  mothers, 
your  wives  and  sisters,  should  be  in  range  of  your 
guns." 

William  the  War  Lord  of  Germany  is  a  mighty 
monarch.  But  if  he  begins  shooting  down  Socialists, 
let  him  remember  the  Battle  Summer  of  1848.  His 
grandfather,  Der  Greise  Kaiser,  could,  from  the  other 
world,  give  a  hint  or  two  to  Der  Reise  Kaiser.  The 
Gray  Emperor  could  tell  the  Globe-Trotting  Emperor 
that  if  you  shoot  at  Socialists  they  sometimes  shoot 
back. 


There  was  a  regrettable  lack  in  the  recent  Fourth  of 
municipalization  J"1?  in  San  Francisco.  It  was  the  ab- 
of  sence  of  the  usual  Fourth  of  July  poem. 

Poetry.  Careful  critics  are  unanimous  in  the  con- 

clusion that  the  Fourth  of  July  poems  in  America  are 
easily  unique.     There  is  nothing  like  them 
For  San  Francisco  to  abandon  a  literary 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  20,  1903. 


entire  world  practically  admits  is  the  property  of  Ameri- 
can poets,  seems  to  us  inadvisable.  The  Fourth  of 
July  Literary  Committee  offers  in  extenuation  of  its 
fault  the  poor  and  paltry  plea  that  none  of  the  poems 
submitted  were  "up  to  the  mark." 

What  mark?  What  is  the  municipal  mark  in  poetry? 
What  is  the  Fourth  of  July  level?  What  is  the  altitude 
attainable  by  the  patriotic  poet?  To  what  heights  is 
permitted  to  soar  the  American  muse?  Who  determines 
all  these  disputed  points?  It  must  be  the  Fourth  of  July 
Literary  Committee.  That  committee  is  the  creature 
of  the  board  of  supervisors,  and  as  the  supervisors 
are  elected  by  the  people  it  is  evident  that  this  is  a 
municipal  matter.  Therefore,  there  is  a  municipal 
muse.     Therefore,  poetry  should  be  municipalized. 

Of  late,  in  Italy,  there  has  arisen  a  widespread  move- 
ment for  the  "  municipalization  of  bread."  This  is  ex- 
plainable when  one  reflects  that  in  many  parts  of  Italy 
so  poor  are  the  people  that  they  subsist  almost  entirely 
on  bread.  Therefore,  an  increase  in  the  price  of  bread, 
or  a  diminution  in  the  size  of  the  loaf,  means  much  to 
them.  Of  late  the  bakers  have  been  taking  these  pru- 
dential measures;  they  say  that  they  have  been  forced  to 
do  so  or  lose  money.  But  the  politicians  are  clamoring 
for  municipalizing  the  bakeries.  Bread,  they  say,  like  air, 
light,  and  water,  is  a  public  necessity;  therefore,  it  is  a 
public  utility;  therefore,  it  should  be  municipalized. 

It  is  a  far  cry  from  bread  to  poetry.  There  are  few 
who  will  look  upon  poetry  as  one  of  the  necessities  of 
life.  Probably  there  is  no  man  who  would  not  be  dis- 
satisfied if,  when  asking  for  bread,  he  were  given  a 
poem.  But  even  if  poems  are  not  necessary  to  ordinary 
life,  the}'  are  indispensable  on  extraordinary  occasions, 
like  Fourth  of  July  celebrations.  Therefore,  rather  than 
again  to  see  the  total  omission  of  poetry  from  our 
Fourth  of  July  .  celebration,  we  recommend  the  mu- 
nicipalization of  poetry  to  the  extent,  at  least,  that  the 
supervisors  shall  treat  it  like  other  supplies,  and  adver- 
tise for  bids.  Careful  specifications  might  be  drawn  up 
by  poetry  experts — poets,  say,  who  had  failed  in  the 
rhyming  business,  and  had  become  editorial  writers, 
police-court  reporters,  society  editors,  etc.  Upon  their 
carefully  drawn  specifications  poets  might  then  bid. 
We  feel  delicate  about  making  suggestions  to  the  su- 
pervisors and  their  poetry  experts,  but  we  might  say 
that  it  would  be  comparatively  easy  to  indicate  the 
meter,  feet,  and  rhythm,  together  with  the  number  of 
lines.  Thus,  the  specifications  might  call  for  '*  150  lines 
of  trochaic  octameter  " — which  is  like  Poe's  "  Raven  " ; 
or,  if  something  more  stately  were  desired,  they  might 
read:  "200  lines  of  iambic  pentameter" — which  is  the 
meter  of  Grey's  "  Elegy."  Of  course,  it  would  be  easy 
to  give  a  variety  to  the  poets  bidding,  such  as  the 
anapestic  and  dactyllic  meters.  It  would  be  well,  how- 
ever, to  exclude  blank-verse  from  the  iambic-pentam- 
eter contest,  as  poor  blank-verse  is  too  easy,  and  good 
blank-verse  is  too  hard.  Correspondingly,  municipal 
poets  writing  quatrains  and  rhyming  only  two  lines 
instead  of  four,  should  also  be  barred.  In  all  the  poets' 
labor-unions  nowadays,  running  two  unrhymed  lines 
in  four-line  stanzas  is  looked  upon  as  non-union  work- 
manship. Their  authors  are  declared  to  be  scab  poets, 
and  their  work  is  boycotted. 

Doubtless,  many  affected  and  critical  persons  may  be 
found  who  will  sneer  at  these  remarks  as  indicating 
Philistinism.  But  we  beg  to  point  out  to  them  that  the 
municipal  monuments  in  America,  whether  obelisks, 
columns,  portrait  statues,  or  groups,  are  all  erected  on 
these  aldermanic  and  utilitarian  lines.  The  monument 
committee  is  appointed  by  the  aldermen,  bids  are  called 
for,  and  the  lowest  bidder  gets  the  job.  If  municipal 
plastic  art,  why  not  municipal  poetic  art?  If  mu- 
nicipal mausoleums,  why  not  municipal  poems? 


Committees    of    citizens   have   been   scouring   Contra 
,  ,       Costa  County  for  a  fortnight  in  pursuit 

Mythical  of  two  lascivious  ruffians  who  dragged 

Outrage.  Mary  Silva  from  a  horse,  chained  her 

hands  behind  her,  padlocked  the  chain,  gagged  her  with 
a  handkerchief,  and  then  outraged  her.  The  ruffians 
were  not  found,  and  the  sheriff  finally  concluded  to  look 
for  them  on  the  ranch  of  Mary  Silva's  father.  There 
the  ruffians  were  found,  and  their  name  was  John  Diaz, 
a  farm-hand,  and  friend  of  the  family.  When  locked 
up,  John  confessed  that  he  was  the  father  of  the  girl's 
unborn  ch'id;  that,  fearing  exposure,  the  girl  hatched 
this  stor"  that  she  stole  tr  e  chain  from  a  neighbor's 
: "-■',  1  used  his  bicycle  padlock";  that  she  requested 
fasten  the  chain  so  tightly  that  it  would  bruise 


her  wrists;  that  she  arranged  the  time  of  the  imaginary 
assault  skillfully,  so  that  he,  Diaz,  should  be  ostenta- 
tiously working  around  the  yard  of  her  father's  farm- 
house. When  Diaz  had  finished  these  startling  admis- 
sions, Mary  also  confessed  that  they  were  entirely  true. 

It  was,  perhaps,  fortunate  that  no  brace  of  tramps  was 
found  by  the  enraged  citizens  when  they  were  scouring 
Contra  Costa  County.  Not  that  we  any  of  us  set  great 
store  by  the  lives  of  a  couple  of  tramps,  but  still  they 
might  have  been  lynched,  and  it  is,  perhaps,  just  as  well 
not  to  have  a  lynching  when  the  gentleman  lynched 
turns  out  to  be  the  wrong  gentleman — and  we  very 
much  fear  that  at  times  he  often  is. 

It  would  afford  but  little  satisfaction  to  even  a  tramp 
who  had  been  lynched  to  learn  in  the  sweet  by  and  by 
that  his  fair  fame  had  been  restored  by  the  confession 
of  the  real  criminal.  Truth  is  mighty,  and  will  prevail 
— the  eternal  years  of  God  are  hers ;  but,  as  Tom  Reed 
said,  she  needs  every  one  of  them.  The  truth  about 
crimes  for  which  men  are  lynched  does  not  always  come 
to  light.  It  is  a  wise  child  that  knows  its  own  father, 
and  it  is  a  wise  mob  that  knows  the  right  culprit. 

The  fact  that  Mary  Silva  was  mounted  on  a  horse 
when  the  imaginary  ruffians  attacked  her,  recalls  the 
fact  that  in  the  California  Reports  there  is  a  story  of 
another  young  woman  whose  dreadful  tale  finally  got  as 
high  as  the  supreme  court.  That  august  body,  in  a 
memorable  decision,  held  that  it  was  impossible  for  a 
young  woman  on  horseback  to  be  seduced  by  a  man  on 
foot. 


Many  of  the 

Big  Trusts 

in  Difficulties, 


From  1899  to  the  end  of  1902  there  were  organized  in  this 
country  about  eighty-two  industrial  cor- 
porations, or  "  combines,"  with  a  capital  of 
$4,318,005,646.  It  was  asserted  at  the  time 
that  the  organizers  were  "  merely  capitalizing 
American  industries  to  suit  the  new  intrinsic  values  of 
America."  There  were  also  warnings  at  home  and  abroad 
that  disaster  would  attend  on  aggregations  organized  as  these 
were,  in  spite  of  the  claim  of  the  promoters  that  if  there 
was  water  in  them  "  it  had  been  squeezed  out  by  the  market." 
The  trust  theory  has  been  rudely  shaken,  and  the  warnings 
justified  by  some  of  the  results.  The  embarrassment  of  the 
Malting  Trust  and  the  bankruptcy  of  the  Asphalt  Trust  have 
been  followed  by  the  startling  insolvency  of  the  Shipbuilding 
Trust.  A  recent  compilation  by  a  Wall  Street  authority  shows 
that  seventeen  large  industrial  corporations  have  been  in 
financial  difficulties  within  the  last  year  or  so.  Six  of  them 
have  had  to  be  reorganized,  some  have  suspended  dividends, 
some  have  never  paid  dividends,  and  all  are  still  floundering 
in  financial  quagmires.  The  seventeen  companies  have  a  total 
capitalization  of  $776,594,000.  Some  of  the  difficulties  are 
attributable  to"  bad  management,  some  to  over-capitalization, 
and  all  generally  to  an  insufficiency  of  working  capital.  In- 
dividual owners  could  show  up  the  values  of  their  business  in 
such  a  way  as  to  obtain  the  confidence  of  local  banks  and 
capitalists,  and  so  obtain  ready  money  borrowed  on  their  notes 
to  tide  them  over  any  stringency.  The  big  combines  sometimes 
need  ready  cash  as  urgently  to  conduct  their  affairs,  and 
generally  in  greater  amounts.  It  has  been  found  difficult  by 
lenders  to  get  at  the  basis  of  the  securities  offered,  and  such 
efforts  to  probe  them  have  led  to  the  discovery  that  enormous 
sums  of  the  capital  of  trusts  have  been  taken  out  to  pay  the 
services  of  promoters  and  organizers.  Such  conditions  have 
made  lenders  so  cautious  that  many  of  the  trusts  have  not 
been  able  to  borrow  at  all,  and  the  want  of  ready  cash  has 
forced  them  into  difficulties.  Finding  it  difficult  to  make  both 
ends  meet,  they  expected  "  to  shift  the  burden  upon  the  out- 
side investor,"  who  would  have  to  stand  the  brunt.  When  the 
ordeal  has  been  gone  through  of  getting  down  again  to  a 
rock-bottom  basis,  some  good  results  will  appear  in  separating 
the  combines  which  may  be  characterized  as  "  wheat "  from 
those   which   are   undoubtedly    "  chaff." 


There    has   been    considerable   expectation   that   the   next   Con- 
gress would  enact  some  measure  of  currencv 
Ma.  Cannon  r  Ti  ,  ,  , 

relorm.  it  seems  to  have  been  agreed  upon 
and  the  -  _  *  -■-.  .  ~  r     , 

Currency  y       e   administration,    the    Secretary   of   the 

Treasury,  and  the  Finance  Committee  of  the 
Senate  that  some  legislation  is  needed  to  relieve  the  annual 
demand  for  money  at  crop-moving  time.  The  Western  banks 
keep  large  reserves  in  New  York,  which  they  draw  upon 
heavily  at  such  a  time,  and  as  the  money  has  already  been 
loaned  out  to  Wall  Street  speculators  and  others,  calling  it  in 
creates  a  stringency  in  the  East,  and  a  demand  for  a  greater 
volume  of  currency  to  meet  it.  The  currency-reform  people 
propose  to  effect  relief  by  means  of  the  Aldrich  bill,  which 
is  designed  to  create  an  elastic  credit  currency,  or,  more 
specifically,  a  bank-note  currency,  which  will  expand  as  busi- 
ness expands,  and  contract  as  business  contracts.  There  is 
serious  division  of  opinion  as  to  the  need  for  tinkering  with 
the  currency — always  a  delicate  and  dangerous  subject  for 
experimentation.  Mr.  Cannon,  of  Illinois,  who  expects  to  be 
elected  the  next  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  is 
reported  as  saying  that  a  reform  measure  is  not  needed,  that 
no  such  legislation  would  be  permitted  in  the  House,  and 
that  the  demand  for  it  finds  its  centre  in  Wall  Street  only. 
The  charge  that  he  proposes  to  use  the  well-known  power  of 
the  Speaker  to  prevent  legislation  led  him  subsequently  to 
add  that  "  no  man  has  the  power  to  prevent  the  majority  from 
working  its  will,  and  any  one  attempting  the  exercise  of  such 
power    would   write   himself   down    worse   than    an   ass    and   a 


knave."  This  must  mean  that  the  question,  if  it  arises,  will 
have  a  fair  chance  for  itself  in  the  House.  Mr.  Cannon's  be- 
lief that  it  is  best  to  let  the  currency  alone  is  based  on  the 
present  prosperous  conditions  and  the  large  increase  of  money 
in  circulation  in  the  last  two  years.  The  Treasury  statement 
has  shown  an  expansion  of  some  $500,000,000 ;  the  Sherman 
notes  have  beeii  practically  extinguished  ;  the  bank  circulation 
is  $56,000,000  larger  than  a  year  ago ;  the  bonded  debt  is 
$100,000,000  smaller,  and  the  annual  interest  charge  propor- 
tionately curtailed.  .  These  conditions  will  serve  to  create  a 
strong  body  of  opposition  to  any  currency  measure,  and  insure 
its  subjection  to  severe  scrutiny,  which  will  do  no  harm, 
whether  Mr.  Cannon  is  eventually  proved  right  or  wrong. 

The    political    pot    in    San    Francisco    is    beginning   to    bubble. 
The  most  notable  event  of  the  week  has  been 
he      unicipal       tjie  savage  assau]t  0f  the  Chronicle  on  Mayor 
Political  °  . 

pOT  bchmitz.      Some   have   attributed   this   to   po- 

litical rivalry,  as  there  is  an  impression  that 
M.  H.  de  Young  desires  the  Republican  nomination  for  mayor. 
This  story,  however,  is  denied  by  David  Rich,  who  is  a  very 
close  political  friend  of  Mr.  de  Young..  Another  story  is  that 
the  Chronicle's  onslaught  is  due  to  jealousies  engendered  at 
the  Roosevelt  reception.  This  seems  unlikely — it  is  more  apt 
to  be  a  political  matter.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  Mayor 
Schmitz  is  looked  upon  with  apprehension  by  most  of  the 
Republican  candidates  for  mayor.  The  reasons  are  that  he 
has  always  been  a  Republican ;  that  he  is  popular  with  the 
labor  voters;  that  he  was  the  labor-union  candidate  at  the  last 
election ;  that  he  won  out  in  the  face  of  much  newspaper  op- 
position. Therefore,  if  he  be  not  eligible  for  the  straight  Re- 
publican nomination,  he  might,  if  nominated  by  the  labor 
party,  be  indorsed  by  the  Republicans.  We  suppose  that  the 
Republicans  in  this  town  have  tired  at  last  of  indorsing 
''  Citizens,"  "  Non- Partisans,"  and  other  nondescript  candi- 
dates, and  thereby  electing  Democrats  in  disguise.  If  the  Re- 
publicans are  not  going  to  nominate  a  straight-out  ticket,  and 
are,  going  to  indorse  anybody,  they  might  as  well  indorse  a 
Republican. 

Although,  as  we  said,  Mayor  Schmitz  is  popular  with  the 
labor-unions  and  the  laboring  masses,  he  is  not  popular  with 
the  labor  leaders.  He  has  some  venomous  enemies  among 
them.  Some  are  his  own  appointees.  His  most  bitter  enemy, 
Casey,  he  created,  like  Frankenstein.  These  labor  politicians 
are  sparing  no  effort  to  down  Schmitz.  But  the  mayor  also 
has  his  wing  of  the  labor  party,  and  they  have  adopted  reso- 
lutions denouncing  Casey  and  his  factions.  At  the  time  of  the 
last  election,  the  Argonaut  remarked  that  the  Union  Labor 
party  would  not  hold  together  for  three  years.  It  seems 
that  we  grossly  overstated  the  time.  It  is  difficult  to  tell 
which  of  these  factions  constitutes  a  majority  of  the  labor 
party.  We  strongly  incline  to  the  belief,  however,  that  Casey 
and  the  labor-leaders  represent  only  themselves,  and  that 
Schmitz  has  behind  him  the  mass  of  the  labor  vote. 

In  the  Democratic  camp  the  name  of  Franklin  K.  Lane  is 
the  most  frequently  mentioned  as  the  nominee  for  mayor. 
It  is  believed  that  the  new  policy  of  the  Examiner — since  W. 
R.  Hearst  is  an  avowed  candidate  for  the  Presidency — will 
lead  that  journal  to  support  Lane  if  he  be  nominated.  It  will 
be  remembered  that  when  his  nomination  for  guvernor  was 
impending,  the  Examiner  threatened  to  bolt,  and  that  it  sup- 
ported his  candidacy  in  a  half-hearted  manner. 


and  Referendum 
in  Practice. 


There  are  many  people  who  have  thought,  perhaps  still  think, 
that  the  "  initiative  and  referendum "  is  a 
sure  cure  for  many  and  various  legislative 
ill's  and  maladies.  To  such,  the  brief  story 
of  the  sudden  rise  and  swift  demise  of 
Oregon's  referendum  measure  may  be  interesting,  possibly 
instructive.  The  required  amendment  to  the  constitution  was 
submitted  to  the  people  and  adopted  in  1898.  The  Oregonian, 
the  only  big  paper  in  Oregon,  supported  it.  But  shortly  after 
it  was  adopted,  wild-cat  mines  tried  to  nullify  a  corporation 
tax-,  a  railway  tried  to  hinder  the  construction  of  a  portage 
road,  and  last,  but  emphatically  not  least,  the  labor-unions  of 
Portland  tried  to  invoke  the  referendum  to  nullify  the  legisla- 
ture's appropriation  of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the 
Lewis  and  Clark  Fair,  because  the  carpenters'  union  feared 
the1  fair  would  bring  "  cheap  labor  "  to  work  on  the  exposition 
buildings.  All  these  attempts  failed,  but  they  created  bad  feel- 
ing, and  contempt  for  the  once  joyfully  hailed  referendum. 
Now  the  circuit  court,  on  a  technicality,  has  unanimously  de- 
clared the  amendment  unconstitutional.  And  there  are  few  to 
mourn  it.  Even  the  paper  that  so  warmly  championed  it  ad- 
mits that  it  is  dead  beyond  resurrection.  "  The  vengeful 
trinity  of  loot,  labor,  and  lunacy,"  it  says,  "  has  stabbed  the 
referendum  to  death  for  all  future  time.  The  pen  of  Cowgill, 
the  arrow  of  bold  Cock  Robin,  and  the  hammer  of  the  car- 
penters' union  have  done  the  business."  The  initiative  and 
referendum  in  theory,  and  the  initiative  and  referendum  in 
practice,  appear  to  differ  much. 


Visit 

to  Georgia 


Judge  Alton  B.  Parker,  of  New  York,  a  possible  Democratic 
Presidential  candidate,  visited  Atlanta  on 
Jjff  PARKERS  JuIy  3d  as  an  invited  guest  of  the  Georgia 
Bar  Association  at  its  annual  assembly.  He 
was  greeted  on  his  arrival  as  our  next  Presi- 
dent, and  his  visit  was  in  many  other  ways  significant.  As  far 
as  the  judge  is  concerned,  there  is  no  evidence  of  politics  in 
the  visit  which  he  made  to  the  South.  He  maintained  a 
modest  and  dignified  attitude,  and  practically  ignored  all 
allusions  to  his  mooted  candidacy  for  the  office  of  President. 
His  address  to  the  lawyers  was  on  the  subject  of  "  Due 
Process  of  Law,"  in  which  he  traced  the  origin  of  the  phrase 
in  England,  its  application  there,  and  its  relation  to  our 
jurisprudence,  particularly  in  its  constitutional  aspect  and  its 
bearing  upon  the  interpretation  of  State  and  Federal  powers. 
Judge  Parker  had  much  to  say  of  the  Fourteenth  Amendment 
in    that    connection,    which    must    have    been    pleasant    to    his 


Jul/*    20,    I903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


audience,  whether  with  deliberate  intention  or  not.  "At  no 
time  in  the  history  of  the  country,"  he  said,  "  could  this 
amendment  have  been  adopted,  prior  to  the  so-called  recon- 
struction period.  If  it  were  not  now  a  part  of  the  Constitution 
It  is  not  probable  that  it  could  be  incorporated  into  that  in- 
strument." The  supposition  was  that  its  sole  purpose  was  to 
benefit  the  negro  race,  and  he  believed  that  the  Supreme  Court 
could  be  relied  upon  to  exercise  its  restraining  power  as 
against  the  States  so  conservatively  that  there  would  be  no 
danger  that  the  amendment  would  ever  be  permitted  *'  to  fetter 
and  degrade  the  States." 

In  spite  of  the  judicial  character  which  judge  Parker 
studiously  maintained,  his  hosts  of  the  South  persisted  in  at- 
taching some  political  significance  to  his  advent  among  them, 
the  reports  of  which  show  that  if  he  had  come  as  an  avowed 
candidate  he  would  have  been  most  cordially  received  and 
welcomed.  He  was  accorded  a  public  reception  in  Atlanta  in 
the  State  supreme  court-room  at  the  Capitol,  where  he  was 
greeted  by  the  governor,  the  legislators,  and  State  officials 
generally,  and  where  he  was  prominently  mentioned  as  "  our 
next  President,"  to  which  he  made  no  direct  response,  except 
the  remark  that  "  we  must  have  a  Democratic  President."  He 
was  the  guest  also  of  the  Bar  Association  at  an  elaborate 
banquet,  where  he  met  most  of  the  prominent  State  politicians, 
and  apparently  made  friends  enough  among  them  to  insure 
himself  the  vote  of  the  State  in  the  next  convention — if  he 
wanted  it.  If  Judge  Parker  is  really  a  candidate  for  the 
Democratic  nomination  in  1904,  that  fact  is  known  only  to 
himself  and  his  most  intimate  friends.  He  has  steadily  ad- 
hered to  a  commendable  reticence  on  the  subject,  and  dis- 
couraged all  attempts  to  make  it  appear  publicly  that  he  is  an 
aspirant  for  political  honors.  It  seems  not  the  less  true, 
however,  that  the  effect  of  his  visit  South  has  been  as  valuable 
politically  to  him  as  though  it  was  frankly  made  in  the  interest 
of  a   campaign   for   the   Presidency. 


Private  and 
Municipal 

Power. 


A  new  development  of  the  mooted  operation  of  the  Geary 
Street  road  by  the  municipality  has  just 
come  to  hand.  The  Pacific  Power  Company 
has  made  a  tender  of  its  plant  to  the  city  for 
$28,500.  It  calls  attention  to  the  fact 
that  the  city  engineer  estimates  the  cost  of  a  plant, 
to  operate  the  proposed  electric  Geary  Street  road,  at 
$93,500,  which  is  $65,000  more  than  the  company  is  willing 
to  sell  for.  It  also  is  willing  to  rent  its  plant  for  $1,800  a 
year,  and  it  asserts  that  the  annual  interest  on  bonds  neces- 
sary to  bu3'  real  estate  and  erect  buildings  would  amount 
to  about  $5,800.  The  plant  is  used  to  supply  current  to  the 
United  Railroads  pending  the  completion  of  the  North  Beach 
plant.  From  this  offer  it  would  seem  that  the  city  engineer 
puts  the  cost  of  municipal  power  at  four  times  the  cost  of 
private  power.  Probably  he  is  quite  right  in  his  estimate. 
Doubtless  the  private  power  company  is  also  right.  If  it  costs 
only  one-fourth  as  much  for  private  individuals  to  produce 
electric  power  as  it  would  cost  the  city  to  produce  it,  perhaps 
it  would  be  cheaper  for  the  city  to  hire  private  individuals 
to  operate  its  electric  road.  This  offer  of  the  Pacific  Power 
Company  seems  rather  a  body-blow  at  the  municipal  operation 
of  public  utilities. 


Wrecks 

ON   THE 

North  Shore. 


The  North  Shore  Railway  Company  have  given  out  an  "  ex- 
planation "  why  there  are  so  many  wrecks  on 
their  road.  (There  was  another  this  week). 
They  say  that  some  miscreant  unknown  has 
been  wiring  pitces  of  iron  and  other  things 
undescribed  to  the  rails.  They  affirm  that  track-inspectors 
have  discovered  such  impedimenta  upon  several  occasions. 
The  conditions  of  the  case  preclude  the  idea  that  the  alleged 
wrecker  might  be  inspired  by  the  hope  of  richly  robbing  the 
passengers  or  the  express-car.  The  only  alternative,  there- 
fore, is  to  believe  that  he  is  a  murderous  maniac.  The  North 
Shore  people  are,  they  say,  hotly  hunting  this  villain,  and  it 
will  fare  ill  with  him,  if  caught. 

All  this  may  be  very  true.  Or  it  may  not  be.  But.  at  any 
Tate,  other  things  than  murderous  maniacs  irk  the  people  who 
have  to  ride  on  the  North  Shore.  For  instance,  the  bumpty- 
bump  track,  the  slow  trains — necessarily  slow  because  the  track 
is  bad — and  the  impossibility  of  getting  anywhere  on  schedule 
time.  Folks  who  live  on  this  line  can't  hoof  it  to  their  work  in 
San  Francisco.  The  North  Shore  has  a  virtual  monopoly. 
The  public  gave  it  to  them.  And  it  is  only  just  that  the 
owners  of  this  road  return  to  the  public  good  service  therefor. 
This  is  not  the  year  1874 — it  is  1903. 

Those   mistaken   persons   who   think  that   President   Roosevelt 
is    not    pushing    the    postal -scandal     inquiry 
The  Men  who         w]-th  sufficient  vigor  should  take  careful  note 


are  After  the 
Postal  Thieves. 


of  the  character  and  politics  of  the  two  men 
whom  he  has  appointed  as  special  prosecu- 
tors to  run  down  the  "grafters"  in  the  Post-Office  Depart- 
ment. One  of  them  is  a  Democrat,  the  other  a  Mugwump. 
Both  of  them  are  absolutely  fearless.  Charles  J.  Bonaparte, 
especially,  seems  to  have  especially  designed  by  Providence 
for  his  present  job.  The  New  York  Evening  Post,  a  Demo- 
cratic paper  which  is  quick  to  blame  and  slow  to  praise,  has 
this  to  say  of  him : 

He  is  a  man  for  whom  no  office,  no  renown,  no  adventitious 
honor  of  any  sort,  glosses  over  the  simple  facts  of  history.  He 
does  not  know  what  it  is  to  idolize  a  popular  hero.  A  public 
man,  to  him,  is  good  or  bad,  wise  or  foolish,  according  to  the 
facts  of  the  record.  As  an  overseer  of  Harvard  University, 
he  voted  against  conferring  the  degree  of  doctor  of  laws  upon 
President  McKinley.  His  objection  was  based  upon  the  ground 
that  he  did  not  think  such  a  degree  appropriate  for  a  man 
of  Mr.  McKinley's  career  and  attainments.  Another  illustra- 
tion of  his  independence  was  furnished  by  his  course  in  first 
going  to  the  extreme  limit  of  denunciation  of  the  McKinley 
policy  of  annexation  ;  then  refusing  the  vice-presidency  of  the 
Anti-imperial  ist  League  because  he  regarded  it  as  the  duty 
of  every  citizen,  after  the  Philippines  were  once  acquired,  to 
unite  in  putting  down  insurrection  there ;  next  announcing 
that,   h   spite  of   his  belief  that   President   McKinley  and  his 


party  had  broken  faith  on  the  question  of  civil  service  reform, 
he  should  vote  the  Republican  ticket  because  Bryan's  candi- 
dacy was  a  menace  to  American  institutions  ;  and  finally  vot- 
ing against  McKinley"s  LL.D.  because  he  did  not  think  the 
proposed  beneficiary  deserved  it.  He  takes  an  almost  canni- 
balistic delight  in  first  skinning  and  then  boning  his  fellow- 
man — if  his  fellow-man  is  a  rascal. 


The  City's 
Increased 
Assessment. 


Assessor  Washington  Dodge  has  turned  over  to  the  board  of 
supervisors  an  annual  report  for  this  year 
that  must  be  as  satisfactory  to  the  taxpayers 
as  it  is  to  the  assessor  himself.  It  shows 
an  increase  of  $7,483,466  in  assessable  prop- 
erty over  the  assessment  roll  of  last  year.  As  the  reductions 
in  valuation  of  old  dwelling-houses  this  year  amount  to 
$13,492,060,  the  total  increase  is  in  excess  of  $20,000,000. 
Three-quarters  of  this  increase  results  from  the  assessment 
of  personal  property  that  has  heretofore  escaped  assessment, 
the  remainder  resulting  from  the  increased  value  of  real  estate 
through  improvements.  As  this  is  the  last  year  of  Assessor 
Dodge's  incumbency  of  five  years,  it  is  interesting  to  review 
the  work  he  has  done.  He  early  discovered  gross  irregularities 
in  the  assessment  of  residence  property,  and  began  a  system- 
atic inspection  and  revision,  with  the  result  that  the  assess- 
ments of  more  than  one-third  of  the  buildings  in  the  city  were 
reduced  because  of  age  deterioration.  Over-assessment  on 
real  estate  has  been  corrected,  the  reductions  amounting  to 
$22,000,000.  On  the  other  hand,  assessments  on  real  estate 
in  favored  sections  have  been  increased.  The  greatest  in- 
crease, however,  has  been,  as  stated,  in  the  assessment  of  per- 
sonal property.  During  the  six  years  prior  to  his  incumbency 
the  personal  property  roll  averaged  $7,000,000  ;  to-day  it  exceeds 
$127,000,000.  Upon  assuming  office  Assessor  Dodge  pledged 
himself  to  conduct  it  on  business  principles,  and  he  has  re- 
deemed his  pledge. 


Street 
Railways 


The  census  bureau  has  recently  issued  a  bulletin  giving 
statistics  of  street  and  electric  railways  for 
the  year  1902,  which  contains  some  interest- 
ing facts  about  the  roads  in  this  State. 
The  number  of  companies  is  35,  and  the  net 
income  was  $2,461,414.  From  this  income  $653,412  was  paid 
in  dividends.  The  taxes  paid  amounted  to  $471,136,  and  the 
interest  amounted  to  $1,617,555,  nearly  all  of  the  interest  being 
on  funded  debt.  The  number  of  people  killed  was  only  27, 
but  5.461  were  injured — an  enormous  casualty  rate.  For 
damages  $130,769  was  paid  during  the  year.  The  total  length 
of  single  track  is  839.95  miles.  There  are  665  miles  of  line 
operated  by  overhead  trolley,  85  miles  by  cable,  and  42  miles 
by  animals,  showing  how  completely  electricity  is  superseding 
other  motive  power.  Classified  according  to  the  separate  com- 
panies, the  United  Railways  of  this  city  owns  about  one-quarter 
of  the  mileage  of  the  State,  and  about  one-half  of  the  cars, 
carried  more  than  one-half  of  the  passengers,  and  was  re- 
sponsible for  about  four-fifths  of  the  accidents.  The  most 
congested  traffic  in  the  State  was  on  the  Los  Angeles  Electric 
Incline  Railroad,  which  carried  2,000,000  passengers  one  mile. 
The  most  congested  traffic  in  San  Francisco  was  on  the 
California  Street  road,  the  passenger  mileage  being  776,267. 
The  passenger  mileage   of  the   United  Railways   was   408,899. 


request  of  the  Bulla  faction,  which  wanted  the  superintendency, 
but  later  renominated  the  same  two  men. 


Mr.  Potter  and 
the  Customs 
Officers, 


Last  month,  Henry  S.  Potter,  one  of  the  commissioners  of  the 
Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition,  returned 
from  a  trip  to  the  Orient.  As  his  baggage 
was  considerably  more  bulky  on  his  return 
than  it  had  been  three  months  earlier,  when 
he  left  this  port,  the  suspicions  of  the  customs  officers  were 
aroused,  and,  though  he  made  formal  declaration  to  the  effect 
that  he  had  no  dutiable  articles,  his  baggage  was  searched. 
Placed  here  and  there  among  his  effects  were  one  hundred 
dutiable  articles.  These  goods  had  a  foreign  appraised  value 
of  $144,  and  a  domestic  appraised  value  of  $217.  The  in- 
spector reported  that  some  of  the  articles  were  found  in  the 
sleeves  and  folds  of  Mr.  Potter's  garments.  The  penalty  for 
an  attempt  to  smuggle  is  three  times  the  value  of  the  articles, 
and  Collector  Stratton  imposed  a  fine  of  $651  on  him.  Mr. 
Potter  is  a  prominent  Missouri  politician,  as  well  as  a  com- 
missioner, and  the  case  was  reported  to  the  authorities  of  the 
Treasury'  Department  in  Washington.  Orders  have  now  come 
from  Washington  to  remit  the  fine,  and  to  release  the  goods 
on  the  ground  that  Mr.  Potter  disclaims  any  intention  of 
violating  the  revenue  laws,  and  complains  of  the  humiliation 
be  has  been  subjected  to  by  reason  of  the  facts  having  been 
given  to  the  public  press.  The  secretary  further  orders  that  in 
future  information  regarding  such  matters  shall  not  be  given 
to  the  press  until  it  is  clearly  apparent  that  there  was  a 
willful  intention  to  violate  the  revenue  laws. 


In  political  aspirations  the  people  of  this  State  have  much  the 

characteristic    of    sheep.      No    sooner    is    the 

olitics,  ambition   of  one  political  leader  to   secure  a 

™  t  ~-  .  r'cn  plum  announced,  than  all  the  others  dis- 

and  Local.  r  ' 

cover  that  for  a  long  time  they  have  been 
hankering  for  just  that  office.  Recently,  U.  S.  Grant.  Jr.. 
decided  that  he  would  prefer  the  Vice-Presidential  nomination 
to  the  senatorship.  As  a  man  of  wealth  is  generally  chosen, 
and  as  Mr.  Grant  spent  one  hundred  and  thirty-six  thousand 
dollars  in  the  senatorial  fight,  there  was  a  chance  that,  with  a 
solid  delegation,  his  ambition  might  be  gratified.  Then  the 
hornets  began  to  fly.  The  Bulla-Hugbes  faction  in  Los  Ange- 
les protested  that  the  only  man  in  California,  or  even  in  the 
United  States,  entitled  to  the  nomination  was  Senator  Thomas 
R.  Bard.  Then  the  friends  of  Governor  Pardee  announced 
that  he  was  the  only  proper  man  for  the  position,  and  the  Gage 
opponents  of  Grant  and  Bard  hailed  his  name  with  delight. 
Pardee,  by  the  way,  has  got  into  trouble  with  the  Bulla-Hugbes 
faction  through  his  action  regarding  the  trustees  of  the 
Whittier  School.  During  his  last  days  Gage  nominated  two 
trustees,  expecting  thereby  to  retain  the  superintendent,  a 
Gage  man,  in  office.     Pardee  held  up  the  nominations  at  the 


Articles  of  incorporation  have  been  filed  in  Sacramento  of  a 
company  proposing  to  build  a  railroad  con- 
necting   Sacramento    and    Stockton.    The    in- 


Railroad  from 

Sacramento 


to  Stockton. 


corporators  are  I.  W.  Hellman,  Jr.,  Charles 
Holbrook,  J.  M.  Israel,  C.  A.  Harp,  and  John 
C.  Kirkpa  trick.  The  capital  is  $3,000,000,  and  of  this  $100,000 
has  been  subscribed.  The  road  it  is  proposed  to  build  is  to 
run  some  distance  across  the  rule  lands,  and  will  be  much 
shorter  than  the  roundabout  Southern  Pacific  line.  It  is  also 
proposed  to  construct  a  branch  line  from  Walnut  Creek  to 
Antioch,  connecting  with  both  the  Southern  Pacific  and  the 
Santa  Fe.  Another  branch  is  proposed,  connecting  with  the 
Southern  Pacific  at  Woodbridge,  and  tapping  a  rich  section. 
Speculation  is  naturally  rife  as  to  who  is  behind  the  scheme. 
Mr.  Hellman  admits  that  he  has  no  direct  connection  with  the 
road,  but  appears  as  the  representative  of  the  Union  Trust 
Company,  which  is  financing  it  for  persons  who  do  not  wish 
to  be  known.  The  Southern  Pacific  was  at  first  thought  to  be 
behind  the  scenes  in  the  deal,  but  officials  of  the  company 
positively  deny  that  this  is  so.  Officials  of  the  Santa  Fe 
also  deny  all  knowledge  of  like  connection. 


"RACE    SUICIDE." 

A    Married    Woman    Attacks    President    Roosevelt's     Theories — She 

Says    Mature    American    Women    Can    Decide    Such 

Matters    Better    than    He. 


Editors  Argonaut  :  As  a  woman  and  as  an  American  citi- 
zen, I  protest  against  the  nomination  of  Theodore  Roosevelt 
as  our  next  President.  I  consider  him  unfit  for  the  office  on 
the  grounds  of  working  against  the  highest  and  best  interests 
of  two-thirds  of  the  American  people.  The  women  and 
children  of  the  United  States  constitute  about  that  proportion, 
and  I  consider  him  a  foe  to  both.  The  devotion  of  President 
McKinley  to  his  wife  was  beautiful,  and  endeared  him,  more 
than  any  other  one  thing,  to  the  hearts  of  the  American  people. 
Mr.  Roosevelt's  Western  trip  was  not  so  characterized.  Still, 
that  is  his  concern  and  no  one  else's ;  but  his  dictation  as  to 
the  private  affairs  of  the  home  demands  a  reply  from  American 
women  who  feel  that  the  well-being  of  that  home  is  at  stake, 
and  I  think  that  my  expression  of  the  facts  in  the  case  voices 
the  sentiment  of  the  vast  majority  of  women. 

We  expect  in  our  highest  official  certain  qualities,  among 
them  humanity,  broadmindedness,  and  a  desire  that  the  future 
shall  be  blessed  by  what  transpires  in  the  present,  but  in  this 
question  of  "  race  suicide,"  President  Roosevelt  shows  himself 
lacking  in  all  three.  Had  he  been  a  close  student  of  our 
financial,  social,  and  industrial  system,  he  could  scarcely  have 
failed  to  realize  that  the  great  need  of  our  country  is  not  more 
children,  more  and  still  more,  but  that  each  family  should  have 
fewer,  and  those  better  born  and  better  reared.  All  the  poverty 
and  crime  of  the  world  can  be  traced  directly  to  the  fact  that 
human  beings,  as  children,  are  born  lacking  in  physical  or 
mental  vigor,  with  perverted  moral  traits,  and  that  their  early 
years  lacked  in  wise  guidance  and  suitable  environment  Will 
President  Roosevelt's  advice,  "  more  children,"  remedy  this 
state  of  things  ?  A  child's  natural  right  is  to  be  well-born, 
strong-bodied,  clear-brained,  loving,  joyous,  and  eager.  Can  a 
mother  give  birth  to  such  a  child  when  toil  and  dreary  sur- 
roundings have  broken  her  health  and  dulled  her  sensibilities, 
when  she  can  not  properly  take  care  of  the  ones  she  has,  when 
she  looks  forward  to  the  future  with  gloomy  forebodings, 
when  she  has  no  thought  but  of  hate  and  anger  for  the  un- 
welcome intruder  forced  on  her  against  her  will  ? 

Every  family  is  not  financially  so  well  situated  as  is  Mr. 
Roosevelt's.  From  the  slums  of  the  great  city,  from  the  small 
towns  where  parents  bravely  struggle  to  keep  the  wolf  from 
the  door,  from  the  overworked  farmer's  wife  comes  the  same 
cry:  "We  can  not  properly  provide  for  the  ones  we  already 
have  !""  But  Roosevelt  never  stops  to  '"  count  the  cost,"  Home 
to  the  wide-awake,  earnest  woman  means  the  oentre  of  all 
things,  but  not  the  circumference.  Home  remains,  as  it  has 
ever  been,  woman's  joy  and  pride,  but  the  circumference  of 
that  home  has  immeasurably  widened. 

To-day  she  has  a  thousand  hopes  and  aims,  where  fifty  years 
ago  she  had  but  one.  The  nervous  condition  of  American 
women  being  what  it  is.  it  is  impossible  for  her  to  attend  to  her 
manifold  duties  and  interests,  and  at  the  same  time  rear  a 
large  number  of  children.  One  thought  ful-souled  child, 
tenderly  loved  and  wisely  trained,  is  worth  ten  thousand 
times  more  to  the  State  than  are  the  children  of  an  harassed, 
faded  creature,  whose  whole  life  is  summed  up  in  the  fact 
that  "  ten  children  call   her  ma." 

The  physical  and  spiritual  energy  required  to  give  birth  to 
and  rear  a  large  number  of  children  is  incalculable.  Since 
we  are  suffering  from  over-population  rather  than  from  the 
lack  of  it,  this  energy  could  better  be  turned  into  other  chan- 
nels. It  is  not  only  an  unnecessary  waste,  but  hinders  the  de- 
velopment of  woman,  and  thus  of  the  entire  race.  It  fills  up 
the  charitable  and  penal  institutions,  and  gives  problems  that 
the  yet  unborn  must  solve. 

Every  one  knows  what  child-birth  means  to  a  -woman. 
Inconvenience,  ill  health,  isolation,  long  hours  of  gloom  and 
foreboding,  and  at  the  last,  that  torture,  that  agony  inde- 
scribable which  every  woman  must  endure  when  she  becomes  a 
mother.  There  is  nothing  that  can  compare  with  it  in  the 
terrifying  horror  of  it  all.  Surely,  if  there  is  anything  on 
God's  green  earth  that  should  be  decided  for  one's  self,  it  is 
this.  Surely,  of  all  things  woman  herself  should  be  allowed  to 
say  when  and  how  often  she  shall  be  a  mother.  It  is  she  alone 
who  must  suffer.  It  is  she  alone  who  may  die.  N'o  man  has 
a  right  to  say:  "This  great  suffering  you  shall  endure,  and 
the  care  and  responsibility-  you  must  cany-  all  your  life  long." 
Even  the  husband,  no  matter  how  honorable  or  loving  he  may 
be  in  this  matter,  can  say  no  word.  How  much  less  right,  then, 
has  an  outsider  to  declare  what  she  must  do?  Should  not 
Mr.  Roosevelt  attend  to  his  public  duties  and  let  the  private 
affairs  of  the  home  be  decided  by  those  concerned?  Vet  he 
hastens  to  add  that  those  not  holding  his  views  he  "  holds  in 
scorn  and  contempt  "  ! 

On  the  President's  Western  trip  remarks  were  made  con- 
cerning the  inconsistency  of  his  speaking  in  the  Mormon 
Temple,  and  the  retort  was:  "  Well,  there  is  a  similarity  be- 
tween his  views  and  those  of  the  Latter-Day  Saints  on  one 
subject."  And  it  is  true.  The  Mormons  teach  that  it  is 
woman's  duty  to  have  as  many  children  as  possible,  and  that 
her  salvation  can  only  be  secured  by  being  "  sealed "  to  a 
man.  Mr.  Roosevelt  made  no  statements  on  her  salvation,  but 
insists  that  it  is  her  duty  to  have  many  children,  and  asserts, 
further,  that  "  a  woman's  greatest  honor  and  glory  consists  in 
being  a  wife  and  mother."  It  seems  to  me  that  a  mature  woman 
is  quite  as  capable  as  Mr.  Roosevelt  to  decide  in  what  her 
"  greatest   honor   and   glory  "   consists  ! 

President  Roosevelt  can  make  no  law.  but  I  consider  that  he 
uses  his  vast  influence  to  the  detriment  of  the  home  and  its 
inmates,  and  I  protest,  as 

One  Who  Loves   H 


36 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  20,  1903. 


A    NEURASTHENIAC    COMEDY. 


One  of  Sardou's  Droll  Plays. 

The  veteran  playwright,  Victorien  Sardou,  still  holds 
the  boards,  and  does  not  lag  superfluous  on  the  stage, 
although  he  is  past  seventy.  The  younger  playwrights 
are  hard  put  to  it  to  beat  him.  Still  they  do  not  beat 
him.  Recently  three  of  his  plays  were  running  at  the 
Paris  theatres,  and  a  fourth,  his  new  play,  "  Robes- 
pierre/' was  running  in  London.  These  revivals  in 
Paris  of  his  early  plays  show  the  life  and  vigor  they 
contain. 

One  of  his  early  plays  when  revived  had  a  surpris- 
ing run.  This  is  "  Les  Gens  Nerveux."  To-day  it 
might  fitly  be  called  "  Neurastheniacs." 

The  play  begins  with  the  appearance  of  Tiburce,  a 
post-office  employee,  who  has  come  to  seek  the  hand  of 
Marion,  the  adopted  daughter  of  Marteau,  a  neuras- 
theniac capitalist.  Living  in  the  same  house  are  Ber- 
gerin,  also  a  rich  neurastheniac  bachelor,  and  Turner, 
another  wealthy  neurastheniac,  with  a  nervous  son. 
When  the  astonished  Tiburce  learns  into  what  sort  of 
a  place  he  has  fallen,  he  remarks : 

"  Well,  this  is  a  nice  place.  Bergerin  a  neurastheniac,  old 
man  Tuffier  a  neurastheniac,  young  Turner  a  neurastheniac, 
and  old  man  Marteau  a  neurastheniac.  Why,  the  very  house 
must  have  epilepsy." 

Louis  here  enters  in  a  rage  at  the  servants,  for  not  answer- 
ing his  bell.  He  begins  pounding  on  the  table  and  yelling  at 
the  top  of  his  voice  for  the  servants  until  Tiburce,  frightened, 
escapes. 

This  new  neurastheniac  is  in  love  with  Marion,  whose 
hand  Tiburce  has  come  to  seek.  Louis  loves  the  lady 
madly,  but  his  irritable  nerves  so  upset  her  that  in  the 
opening  of  the  play  they  have  a  violent  quarrel,  and 
she  vows  never  to  see  him  again.  On  the  heels  of  this 
quarrel  M.  Tuffier  comes  in,  and  the  nervous  father  re- 
marks to  the  nervous  son: 

"What,  you  again?  I  thought  I  told  you  to  keep  out  of 
my  sight.  You  know  you  are  so  nervous  you  always  put  me 
in  a  nervous  state,  and  to-day  the  weather  is  changing  so  that 
my  nerves  are  all  on  edge." 

Here  Mme.  Tuffier  enters;  she  is  a  French  Mrs. 
Toodles,  and  she  rambles  on  until  she  drives  her  nerv- 
ous husband  half  mad: 

Louis— Come,  come,  father,  the  weather  will  not  upset  you. 
Don't  be  so  fearful. 

Tuffier — Me,  fearful !  Why,  you  rascal,  I'm  not  fearful. 
I  was  in  the  militia  for  eighteen  months,  and  I  never  was 
afraid.     Why,  I  was  in  camp  at  St.  Germain. 

Mme.  Tuffier  {with  her  fancy-work  in  her  hand,  and  zuho 
never  hears  anything  but  tile  last  word  of  a  sentence] — So 
you  are  talking  of  St.  Germain. 

Tuffier — Well ! 

Mme.  Tuffier — So  you  still  intend  to  go  and  visit  the  La- 
combe  family  at  St.  Germain. 

Tuffier — Mme.  Tuffier,  I  have  told  you  a  hundred  times 
that  you  had  a  mania  for  gettings  things  mixed. 

Mme  Tuffier — Mania !  I  knew  perfectly  well  that  you 
would  insist  on  this  mania  of  yours  for  going  to  St.  Ger- 
main, and  I  consider  it  absolutely  ridiculous,  because 

Tuffier — Good  heavens  !     Now  she's  wound  up. 

Mme.  Tuffier — Because  you  knew  perfectly  well  the  La- 
combes  do  not  expect  us  until  late  in  the  summer.  Do  they 
Louis? 

Tuffier — My  God  !     [Groans  dismally.] 

Mme.  Tuffier — Besides,  you  know  perfectly  well'  the  La- 
combes  are  not  rich — not  that  I  condemn  them  for  that — pov- 
erty is  no  crime.  But  they  are  not  rolling  in  wealth,  and  it 
would  upset  them  a  great  deal  if  we  were  to  drop  in  on  them 
without  warning. 

Tuffier — Mme.  Tuffier,  will  you  let  me  speak? 

Mme.  Tuffier^— Besides,  it  is  three  miles  from  the  station 
to  the  Lacombcs'  house,  and  you  know  perfectly  well  in  your 
condition  of  health  you  have  no  business  to  make  that  drive. 

Tuffier  and  Louis  {.shouting  together] — Let  up  !  Let  up  ! 
"  Stop  !  for  heaven's  sake,  stop  !"  he  cries,  as  he  falls  into  a 
chair  and  shakes  his  fist  at  his  wife.  As  Bergerin  enters,  he 
explains :  "  It's  Mme.  Tuffier.  She  will  kill  me,  Bergerin." 
And  as  Mme.  Tuffier  again  begins  to  talk,  he  shrieks  :  "  Take 
her  away!     Take  her  away!  " 

Louis  unfastens  his  father's  cravat,  and  says :  "  Come  and 
help  me  to  restore  him,   M.   Bergerin." 

But  Bergerin  turns  his  back,  and  hastily  replies  :  "  Oh,  no, 
indeed,  Louis,  I  could  not  stand  it.  I  break  down  even  at 
seeing  an  animal  suffer.  I  would  not  look  at  Tuffier  suffer 
for  anything  in  the  world.  Why,  the  mere  thought  of  it 
almost  gives  me  a  nervous  attack.  I  must  sit  down."  He 
carefully  turns  his  back  on  Tuffier,  sits  down,  and  goes  on: 
"  Oh,  my  dear  young  man,  I'm  nothing  but  a  bundle  of  nerves. 
The  least  emotion,  the  least  opposition,  the  least  contrariety, 
upsets  me,  even  a  change  in  the  weather.  Why,  take  to-day. 
A  harsh,  cold  wind  is  beginning  to  blow  from  the  north." 

Tuffier  here  suddenly  recovers  and  interrupts:  "It  isn't! 
It's  a,  moist  wind,  and  it's  blowing  from  the  south." 

But  Bergerin  waves  Tuffier  aside  and  ignores  him.  He  goes 
on:  "Ah,  if  you  knew  what  a  strict  regime  I  am  forced  to 
follow !  I  am  obliged  to  lead,  a  calm  and  measured  life. 
I  must  take  pleasant  walks,  I  am  forced  to  confine  myself  to 
the  .best  of  cooking,  I  must  go  to  the  theatre  often,  and  only 
to  see  pleasant  spectacles.  I  am  obliged  to  have  a  most  com- 
fortable chamber,  with  rich  hangings  and  thick  carpets,  I 
must  avoid  all  painful  impressions,  I  must  not  gaze  upon  suf- 
fering and,  misery.  For  this  reason,  I  am  condemned  to  a 
life  of  celibacy.  I  am  deprived  of  the  society  of  lovely 
woman.  Love,  love  quarrels,  jealousy — all  these  things  would 
agitate  my  unfortunate  nerves.  If  it  is  difficult  to  get  along 
with  a  wife,  think  of  children.  A  child  cries  at  night.  It 
suffers  while  teething.  I  would  have  to  get  up  at  night  and 
go  for  the  doctor.  Do  you  think  I  could  see  my  infant  suffer? 
No,  no,  poor  little  one!  I  would  be  obliged  to  leave  my  wife 
with  the  baby,  and  go  to  the  country." 

Here  the  chief  neurastheniac  enters.  It  is  Marteau. 
He  has  his  hands  behind  his  back,  his  head  inclined 
upon  his  breast  with  a  most  lugubrious  air.  Every  one 
receives  him  in  silence.  He  shakes  Tuffier's  hand  with- 
out looking  at  him,  and  passes  on  in  silence.  He  sa- 
lutes Pergerin  in  the  same  silent  way.  He  reaches 
Tiburce,  whom  he  does  not  know,  but  Marteau  takes 
his  ha  ad  without  looking  at  him,  begins  shaking  it, 
stops  ooks  at  him  in  astonishment,  drops  his  hand,  and 
walk-  away: 

lERG"iaiH — Feeling  bad  to-day? 


Marteau — Yes. 

Bergerin — Nerves  ? 

Marteau — Yes. 

Tuffier— Change  in  the  wind? 

Marteau — Yes. 

Bergerin — That's  what  I  said.     North  wind. 

Tuffier — No,  south  wind. 

Marteau — Yes. 

Bergerin — Have  you  tried  those  electric  belts? 

[Marteau  unfolds  a  newspaper  and   hands  it   to  Tuffier.] 

Tuffier — Shall  I  read  it? 

[Marteau  points  out  the  place,  nods  his  head,  and  sinks 
back  in  his  chair.] 

Tuffier  {reading] — "  Ten  thousand  francs  reward  to  any 
person    who    can   cure    a   chronic   nervous    affection.      Address 

No.   35    Church   Street.      Monsieur   M "      M.      Is   that  you, 

Marteau  ? 

[Marteau  nods  his  head.] 

Tuffier — Did  any  one  answer  it? 

[Marteau  holds  up  ten  fingers.] 

Bergerin — Quacks  ? 

[Marteau  nods  his  head.] 

Tuffier — Where  are  they? 

[Marteau  makes  a  kick.] 

Tuffier — Fired  out? 

[Marteau  nods  his  head.] 

Tiburce  here  interrupts  with  some  suggestion  con- 
cerning the  quacks,  which  leads  Marteau  to  ask  who  he 
is.  Bergerin  presents  him,  and  announces  that  he  is 
employed  in  the  post-office,  at  a  salary  of  twelve  hun- 
dred .francs,  and  that  he  has  ten  thousand  francs 
income,  and  that  he  has  come  to  solicit  the  hand  of 
Marteau's  adopted  daughter,  Marion: 

Marteau  {exploding] — How  is  this  for  luck?  My  dinner 
went  wrong ;  the  roast  was  raw  ;  the  chicken  was  burned ;  the 
coffee  was  cold,  and  my  stomach  is  out  of  order  to-night. 
This  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  upset  it  completely.  {He  walks 
feverishly  up  and  down.]  How  can  I  know  the  good  qualities 
or  defects  of  this  gentleman,  because  the  temperament  of  a 
son-in-law  is  a  vital  point.  {Addressing  Bergerin.]  Is  his 
temperament  nervous? 
Tiburce — No,  sir.     No. 

Marteau    {still  walking  up  and  down  and  not  noticing  Ti- 
burce]— Sanguine  ? 
Tiburce — No. 
Marteau — Bilious  ? 
Tiburce — No. 

Marteau — Bilioso-sanguine  ? 
Tiburce — No. 

Marteau — Nervoso-sanguine  ? 
Tiburce — No. 

Marteau — Nervoso-bilioso-sanguine? 
Tiburce — No,  no  ! 

Marteau  {stopping  in  front  of  Bergerin] — Then  he  has 
absolutely  no  temperament  at  all.  If  no  temperament,  then  no 
character. 

Tiburce  [in  a  weak  tone] — Is  it  absolutely  necessary  that 
I  must  have  some  temperament?  Well,  then,  I  think  I  am  in- 
clined to  be  sanguine. 

Marteau — Sanguine  ?      Ah !    predisposed    to    congestion,    to 
apoplexy.     He   would  be   dangerous  to  his  wife,   his   children, 
to  his  father-in-law.     Black-balled ! 
1  Tiburce — No,    I    didn't   mean   sanguine.      Bilious    is   what   I 
meant — bilious. 

Marteau — Bilious?  Then  this  means  predisposition  to 
melancholia ;  to  gloom,  to  madness — dangerous  to  his  wife,  to 
his  children,  to  his  father-in-law.     Black-balled! 

Tiburce — Excuse  me,  but  I  remember  now  that  I  am  not 
bilious,  I  think  I  am  nervous. 

Marteau,  Bergerin,  and  Tuffier  {all  shouting  together] — 
Nervous  ' 

Tiburce — That  is,  a  little  nervous. 

Marteau — Then  that  would  settle  you.  A  nervous  son-in- 
law  would  be  all  that  is  lacking  to  drive  me  crazy.  But  if, 
on  the  other  hand,  you  are  of  a  cheerful  temperament,  always 
thoughtful,  easy  to'  get  along  with,  I  would  consider  your 
claims.  But  if  you  always  choose  such  disagreeable  subjects 
of  conversation;  if  you  can  not  laugh  without  laughing  too 
loudly,  nor  blow  your  nose  without  making  a  noise ;  if  you 
can  not  agree  to  remain  absolutely  motionless,  and,  above  all, 
if  you  continue  to  use  that  smelly  pomade  on  your  hair,  and 
to  wear  such  loud  waistcoats  and  shrieking  neckties,  you  are 
unanimously  black-balled. 

Tiburce — But 

Marteau — Don't  interrupt  me.  So  I  have  sworn  that  my 
two  daughters  shall  marry  no  matter  whom,  so  that  he  be 
not  nervous.     Do  you  understand. 

Tiburce — Ah,  sir,  I  am  exactly  your  man,  then.  There  is 
not  the  slightest  trace  of  nervousness  about  me. 

Marteau — That's  an  easy  thing  to  say,  we'll  see  about  that. 
{He  comes  behind  Tiburce,  and  while  Tiburce  is  not  observ- 
ing he  hits  him  a  tremendous  blow  on  the  shoulder,  suddenly 
seises  his  wrist,  takes  out  his  watch,  and  begins  to  count  his 
pulse.] 

Tiburce'  {surprised] — Ouch !  You  nearly  dislocated  my 
shoulder. 

Marteau  {calmly  counting] — That's  nothing.  His  pulse 
is  even,  steady,  very  good;  let's  try  another  test.  {Going  to 
the  sofa.]  '  Come  here  young  man  {making  tlie  motion  of 
scratching  the  horse-hair  sofa],  let's  see  if  you  can  do  this 
with  your  nails. 

Tiburce — That's  easy.  {He  scratches  the  horse-hair  vio- 
lently with  his  nails.] 

Bergerin,   Tuffier,   and  Marteau    {all  three  put   their  fin- 
gers in  their  cars] — Enough,  enough,  for  heaven's  sake  stop  ! 
Tiburce — Is,  that  all  ? 

Marteau — Not  yet.  {He  gives  him  a  cork  and  a  knife.] 
Now,  let's  see  you  cut  this  cork.  [Tiburce  cuts  the  cork,  which 
squeaks  loudly.] 

Tuffier,  Bergerin,  and  Marteau  {grind  their  teeth  and 
shout  togetlxer] — Enough,  enough,  stop  !  [Tuffier  snatches 
the  knife  and  cork  from  Tiburce's  hands.] 

Marteau    {solemnly,    to    Tiburce] — Young    man,    you    have 
passed  all  the  tests — you  are  not  nervous.     You  feel  nothing. 
You  are   simply   a   machine.     You  have   no   nerves.      I   permit 
you  to  make  application  for  the  hand  of  Marion. 
Louis  {entering  suddenly] — What,  Marion? 
Marteau  {firmly] — Yes,  Marion. 
Louis — I  forbid  him  to  marry  Marion. 
Marteau — Leave,  monsieur. 

Louis  {screaming] — If  he  marries  her  I  will  kill  him. 
Tiburce — Kill  me? 

Louis  {tearing  his  hair] — Yes,  and  I  shall  set  fire  to  the 
house. 

[Tiburce,  Tuffier,  Bergerin,  and  Marteau  all  rush  to  the 
window  and  shout  "Fire!  Fire!"] 

At  this  moment  Caesar,  Marteau's  nephew,  enters 
and  demands  to  know  where  the  fire  is,  but  the  entire 
gathering  informs  him  it  is  nothing  but  nerves." 
Marteau  suddenly  bethinks  himself,  and  says  to  Caesar: 
"  Why,  you  rascal,  did  I  not  drive  you  from  here  with 
my  malediction?"  To  which  Caesar  replies:  "Yes, 
uncle,  but  I  brought  it  back.  I  couldn't  borrow  a  thing 
on  it."    "What,  then,"  asks  Marteau,  "brings  you  under 


my  roof  ?"  "  I  have  come  for  ten  thousand  francs," 
replied  Caesar,  taking  out  a  newspaper,  and  beginning 
to  read :  "  Ten  thousand  francs  reward  to  the  person 
who  can  cure  a  chronic,  inveterate,  nervous  affection.'* 
The  exasperated  Marteau  takes  a  cane  to  chastise  his 
nephew,  and  the  ne'er-do-well  escapes  just  in  time. 

We  next  find  Lucie  playing  scales  on  the  piano. 
Marion  is  setting  the  clock.  Marteau  is  seated  in  a 
reclining-chair,  wrapped  from  head  to  foot  in  electro- 
medical chains.  The  clock  is  striking  nine  o'clock, 
half-past  nine,  ten  o'clock,  half-past  ten,  and  so  on. 
The  maid,  Placide,  is  dusting  the  outer  room.  Marteau 
suddenly  explodes,  and  shouts: 

"For  God's   sake,   Marion  1" 

"  What  is  it,  papa  ?"  replies  Marion,  continuing  to  turn 
the  hands. 

Marteau  suddenly  changes  to  the  utmost  mildness.  "No," 
he  mutters,  "  I  must  not  fly  into  a  rage  with  the  electro- 
magnetic chains  on  me.  With  these  powerful  currents,  you 
never  can  tell  with  electricity  what  may  happen."  Then,  ad- 
dressing Marion  in  honeyed  tones :  "  Do  you  think  you'll 
soon   be  finished,   my   dearest   child?" 

"  But,  papa,"  replies  Marion,  "  I  must  make  it  strike  on  the 
hour." 

"  Don't  you  think  you  could  skip  a  few?"  asks  Marteau. 

"  What  an  idea,  papa !  Why,  it  would  strike  all  wrong.  I'll 
soon  be  finished,  I'm  nearly  at  half-past  eleven — and  it's  half- 
past  twelve  now." 

"  I  verily  believe,"  mutters  Marteau,  "  that  those  machines 
were  invented  to  drive  people  crazy.  Whenever  I  try  to  wind 
them  the  hand  is  always  on  one  of  the  key-holes.  I  never 
knew  it  to  fail."  As  the  clock  strikes  twelve,  Marteau  bawls  : 
"Jumping  Jehosephat,  they'll  drive  me  crazy  1     Lucie  I  " 

"  Yes,  papa,"  says  Lucie,  without  stopping  her  scales. 

'"  I  mustn't  get  angry,"  says  Marteau,  and  mildly  asks : 
"  Lucie,  my  child,  is  it  absolutely  necessary  for  you  to  do 
that  ?  " 

"  Why,  yes,  papa,"  replies  Lucie,  "  I  must  practice  my 
music." 

He  rings  the  bell,  and  the  maid  answers. 

"If  my  nephew,  Caesar,"  he  roars,  "  dares  to  present  himself 
here,  shut  the  door  in  his  face..    Do  you  hear?  " 

"  Yes,  but  I  won't  though,"  replies  the  maid. 

"What,  you  impudent  thing — you  won't?"  roars  the  mas- 
ter. "  It's  lucky  for  you  that  I  have  on  these  electric  chains, 
and  that  I  don't  dare  to  fly  into  a  passion.     I  discharge  you." 

"THscharge,  indeed! "  replies  the  maid.  "  The  same  as 
yesterday  and  the  day  before,  I  suppose?" 

"No!"  shouts  the  furious  Marteau,  "for  good  this  time." 

And  he  begins  tearing  his  chains  from  him  and  hurl- 
ing them  in  pieces  at  Placide.  Marion  and  Lucie  push 
her  out  of  the  door,  and  urge  him  to  be  calm.  He  grows 
calmer,  and  bids  them  go  to  the  piano  and  do  their 
scales.  They  place  themselves  at  the  piano  and  begin 
to  play  four-handed  scales.  Marteau  writhes.  "  To 
think,"  says  he,  "  that  I  should  be  in  these  chains  since 
seven  o'clock  this  morning  with  this  result."  The  four- 
handed  scales  continue  more  loudly  than  ever.  Mar- 
teau grinds  his  teeth.  A  violent  pounding  is  heard  on 
the  ceiling.  It  develops  that  the  other  neurastheniacs 
on  the  floor  above  objects  to  the  music.  They  are 
testifying  their  displeasure  by  pounding  on  the  floor. 
Bergerin  with  the  tongs,  and  Turner  with  a  cane. 

There  follows  an  interview  between  the  three  rich 
neurastheniacs  and  Tiburce,  the  suitor  for  the  hand 
of  Marion.  Marteau  tells  him  that  some  fifteen  years 
before,  an  old  friend  had  died  leaving  forty  thousand 
francs  to  him  (Marteau),  twelve  thousand  francs  to 
Bergerin,  and  thirteen  thousand  francs  to  Tuffier.  They 
had  just  left  the  lawyer's  office  after  settling  up  this 
succession,  when,  turning  the  corner  of  a  street,  they 
saw  an  infant  lying  on  the  sidewalk  wrapped  in  a  rug. 
It  was  evidently  a  foundling.  No  one  knew  anything 
about  it.  The  pitiful  plight  of  the  little  one  so  moved 
Marteau,  that  he  proposed  to  the  others  that  he  should 
adopt  it,  and  that  all  three  of  them  should  contribute 
toward  the  little  girl's  dot;  that  they  should  purchase 
a  coffer,  in  which  all  three  should  put,  year  in  and  year 
out,  what  they  had  to  spare.  Marteau  shows  to  Tiburce 
this  coffer,  and  tells  him  that  the  dot  of  Marion  is 
within.  Tiburce  desires  that  it  be  opened,  but  Caesar 
suddenly  enters,  and  demands  to  know  whether  Tiburce 
wishes  to  wed  the  young  lady  or  the  dov.  Tiburce  is 
somewhat  embarrassed,  and  is  finally  given  two  hours 
to  decide  whether  he  will  marry  the  lady  without  open- 
ing the  coffer.  Each  one  of  the  three  fathers  has  a 
key  to  the  coffer.  In  the  meantime,  Louis,  the  neuras- 
theniac, son  of  Tuffier,  appears,  and  first  threatens  to 
drown  himself,  when  he  hears  that  Marion  is  to  marry 
Tiburce,  and  when  he  encounters  that  gentleman, 
changes  his  mind  and  determines  to  kill  him.  At  the 
end  of  the  second  act,  Tiburce  is  fleeing,  with  Louis 
in  hot  pursuit. 

The  three  fathers  and  Tiburce  and  Louis  are  assem- 
bled, Louis's  appearance  causing  some  little  alarm  to> 
Tiburce.  The  coffer  is  about  to  be  opened,  and 
Tiburce  announces  that  he  is  willing  to  sign  the  mar- 
riage contract  before  the  opening.  Both  Bergerin  and 
Tuffier  show  great  reluctance  to  give  up  their  keys. 
They  make  all  sorts  of  demands,  until  finally  Marteau, 
in  disgust,  orders  the  notary  to  draw  up  the  contract, 
giving  the  coffer  to  the  newly  married  couple  locked. 
But  such  is  the  wrangling  involved  by  the  proposition 
that  Tiburce  finally  renounces  the  lady.  Marteau  then 
gives  her  to  Louis,  with  the  contents  of  the  coffer, 
which  he,  finally  securing  the  keys,  opens.  All  look  in. 
It  contains  nothing.  All  three  of  the  adoptive  fathers 
have  failed  to  put  anything  into  the  savings-bank.  But 
Marteau  had  foreseen  this  end.  He  takes  out  a  pocket- 
book  containing  fifty  thousand  francs,  which,  in  expec- 
tation of  the  empty  coffer,  he  had  brought  with  him, 
and  he  gives  this  to  Marion  for  her  dower  v^hen  she 
weds  Louis. — Translated  for  the  Argonaut  b\j  }.  A.  H. 


A  government  pension  of  £250  yearly  has  been  granted 
to  Justin  McCarthy  for  his  services  to  literature. 


July  20,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


LEO    XIII. 

An  Intimate  View  of  the  Roman  Pontiff— His  Forbidden  Book— His 

Wit,  Verses,  Pets,  Eccentricities,  Wealth,  and  Jewels— His 

Famous  and  Cutting  Retort. 

In  the  life  of  this  man,  who  was  born  before  the  Bat- 
tle of  Waterloo  was  fought,  and  who,  for  more  than 
twenty-five  years,  has  been  the  supreme  head  of  the 
most  powerful  religious  organization  in  the  world, 
there  have  been  events  which,  to  the  future  historian, 
will  loom  large.  But  this  article  may  more  fitly  deal 
with  intimate  and  curious  things  rather  than  with  mo- 
mentous ones — glimpses  of  the  Pope's  daily  life,  his 
views  about  medicine,  his  fondness  for  snuff,  his  absent- 
mindedness,  stories  of  his  youth  —  all  these  things 
which  seldom  find  their  way  into  print. 

Even  in  early  life,  Joachim  Vincent  Raphael  Ludo- 
vico  Pecci.  to  give  him  his  full  name,  was  noted  for  the 
charm  of  his  manners.  King  Leopold  of  Belgium,  to 
whose  court  Pecci  was  appointed  apostolic  nuncio  when 
he  was  thirty-three,  is  reported  to  have  once  remarked 
to  him:  "Really,  monsignor,  you  are  as  clever  a  poli- 
tician as  you  are  an  excellent  churchman " ;  and  on 
another  occasion:  "I  am  sorry  I  can  not  suffer  myself 
to  be  converted  by  you,  but  you  are  so  winning  a  theo- 
logian that  I  shall  ask  the  Pope  to  give  you  a  cardinal's 
hat " ;  to  which  the  nuncio  replied  that  "  a  hundred 
times  more  grateful  than  the  hat  would  it  be  to  me  to 
make  some  impression  on  your  heart." 

Pecci.  as  a  young  man,  also  visited  Queen  Victoria, 
and  was  greatly  impressed — a  feeling  which  was  recip- 
rocated. And  Pope  Leo  and  Paul  Kruger  are  said  to 
have  been  the  only  statesmen  whom  Bismarck  thor- 
oughly and  honestly  admired. 

That  Pope  Leo  was  a  poet  of  no  mean  merit,  one  of 
the  best  Latinists  of  the  time,  and  master  of  Spanish, 
French,  and  Italian,  besides  possessing  a  reading  knowl- 
edge of  English,  is  well  known.  That  he  was  the  au- 
thor of  a  book  that  is  on  the  Index  Expurgatorius  is 
not  so  familiar  a  fact.  A  decree  of  the  Sacred  College 
against  Count  Pecci's  book  was  issued  on  January  13, 
1875.  It  is  rare  that  a  book  once  on  the  list  is  ever  re- 
moved. Names  of  volumes  forbidden  centuries  ago 
still  appear  with  those  under  the  ban  of  recent  date. 
Thus  it  happens  that  Leo  the  Thirteenth  has  allowed 
the  condemnation  of  the  work  of  his  younger  days  to 
appear  vear  after  year.  The  name  of  the  author,  how- 
ever, for  reasons  which  may  easily  be  inferred,  is 
not  printed  opposite  the  name  of  the  book.  In  its  place 
is  the  announcement  that  the  author  "  has.  in  a  praise- 
worthy way.  made  submission  and  disavowed  the  book." 

Pope  Leo's  work  is  entitled  "  Concerning  the  Most 
Sacred  Blood  of  Mary:  Studies  to  Bring  About  the 
Veneration  of  the  Same."  Jean  de  Bonnefon,  an 
authority  on  clerical  affairs,  writes  thus  of  the  origin 
of  this  interesting  contribution  to  religious  literature : 

Joachim  Pecci.  as  is  well  known,  had  already  done  the 
church  important  service  under  Gregory  the  Sixteenth  as  dele- 
gate, legate,  and  nuncio  in  Brussels.  He  had  shown  especial 
energy  as  legate  in  Benevento.  whither  he  had  been  sent  to 
bring  the  rebellious  and  thieving  great  ones  of  that  district 
to  reason.  One  of  the  mightiest  of  these,  a  marquis,  said  to 
him  :  "  Monsignor,  I  am  going  to  Rome,  where  I  shall  speak 
to  three  cardinals,  and  have  you  driven  from  the  place." 
Pecci  replied :  "  All  right :  but  before  you  go  to  Rome  you 
will  pass  three  months  in  prison."  And  in  truth,  he  had  the 
marquis  arrested  and  thrown  into  prison :  he  confiscated  his 
estate,  and  routed  the  band  whose  leader  the  marquis  was. 
For  his  services  Gregory  the  Sixteenth  made  Pecci  Archbishop 
of  Perugia  and  cardinal :  but  he  had  to  wait  long  for  his  hat. 
as  Gregory  died  soon  thereafter,  and  his  successor.  Pius  the 
Ninth,  was  no  admirer  of  Pecci.  From  time  to  time  PeccPs 
friends  endeavored  to  influence  the  Pope  in  his 
favor,  but  in  vain.  Finally,  a  good  friend  advised 
Pecci  to  try  to  obtain  his  end  in  another  way;  to  write 
a  book.  Pecci  followed  this  advice.  Pius  was  a  great  wor- 
shiper of  Mary,  whose  glory  he  had  already  increased  by  a 
new  dogma  and  he  was  also  in  favor  of  special  veneration 
of  the  precious  blood  of  Christ.  Therefore,  Pecci  wrote  a 
book  on  the  precious  blood  of  Christ :  and  after  long  citations 
and  learned  deductions  he  came  to  the  conclusion  that  there 
should  be  an  official  "  festival  of  the  sacred  blood  of  Mary- 
The  book  appeared  in  1874.  In  Rome,  however,  where  they 
knew  that  Pecci  was  no  mystic,  the  political  object  of  the 
book  was  at  once  understood.  It  was  therefore  placed  upon 
the  Index  Expurgatorius,  where  it  still  stands. 

Leo  the  Thirteenth  was  not  only  a  facile  writer  but 
a  great  reader.  Few  books  of  note,  ancient  or  modern. 
were  unknown  to  him.  Of  the  Italian  poets  Dante  was 
his  favorite.  He  had  the  deepest  admiration  for  St. 
Thomas  Aquinas.  He  was  also  a  close  and  critical  reader 
of  the  newspapers.  Italian  and  foreign,  and  insisted  upon 
having  all  articles  of  importance  communicated  to  him 
everv  evening  by  his  secretary.  Even  on  his  death- 
bed he  expressed  a  desire  to  see  the  newspapers,  and 
Dr.  Lapponi.  wishing  to  prevent  him  from  reading 
any  of  the  alarming  news  which  had  appeared,  even 
in  the  clerical  journals,  had  a  special  edition  of  the 
Voce  Delia  Verita,  the  Vatican  paper,  printed  for  the 
Pope,  who,  according  to  the  dispatches,  "was  de- 
lighted in  hearing  read  to  him  the  public  confidence  in 
the  steady  amelioration  in  his  condition." 

The  Pontiff  is  one  of  the  many  persons  who. 
delicate  and  ailing  from  childhood,  yet  attain  to  a  good 
old  age.  He  never  had  a  strong  constitution.  At 
twenty  he  was  condemned  to  death  from  consumption 
by  his  physician,  and  then  wrote  verses  on  his  ill- 
health,  which  begin: 

"  Scarce    twenty    years    thou    numberest,    Joachim. 
And    fell    diseases    thy    young    life    invade ! 
Yet  pains,  when  charmed  by  verse,  seem  half  allayed ; 
Recount  thy   sorrows,  then,   in  mournful  hymn." 

The  seventy-two  years  he  has  seen  after  writing  thus 


in  "  mournful  hymn  "  must  be  credited  to  his  undaunted 
spirit  and  regular  mode  of  life.  A  writer  in  Figaro, 
some  years  ago,  said: 

The  Pope  takes  no  medicine,  not  even  a  tonic.  He  does  not 
believe  in  medicines.  His  theory  is  that  God  requires  His 
creatures  to  observe  the  laws  of  nature  as  faithfully  as  the 
moral  laws,  and  if  they  do  so  their  lives  will  be  spared  to  the 
end  of  their  usefulness.  He  employs  a  physician  to  teach  him 
what  the  laws  of  nature  are,  and  to  advise  him  in  the  manner 
of  obedience. 

Formerly,  Pope  Leo  spent  some  time  each  day  in  his 
gardens  watching  the  gardeners  at  their  work,  or  noting 
the  growth  of  his  oranges.  He  had  his  animal  pets, 
notably  a  beautiful  gazelle,  which  used  to  run  up  to 
greet  its  master  and  take  food  from  his  hands.  He 
even  would  amuse  himself  by  catching  birds  in  a  net 
trap.  But  of  late  years  the  Pope  has  seldom,  if  ever, 
stepped  out  of  doors,  and  his  daily  life,  before  his  last 
illness,  was  of  the  simplest.  He  rose  about  six  o'clock, 
and  immediately  celebrated  mass  in  his  private  chapel. 
At  eight  he  broke  his  fast,  eating  chocolate,  milk,  and 
eggs.  At  eleven  he  indulged  in  a  cup  of  broth.  At 
two  o'clock  he  was  served  with  the  principal  meal  of 
the  day — hashed  meat  or  minced  chicken,  eggs,  well- 
cooked  vegetables,  and  very  ripe  fruit — all  soft  foods, 
since,  having  no  teeth  and  feeble  stomach,  digestion  re- 
quired to  be  helped.  A  dish  to  which  Pope  Leo,  like 
most  Italians,  was  particularly  partial,  was  boiled 
vermicelli,  the  paste  for  which  was  especially  prepared 
by  the  nuns  of  Santa  Malta,  being  made  of  fine  flour 
kneaded  with  new-laid  eggs,  and  rolled  into  tiny  ver- 
micelli, which,  after  being  rightly  boiled,  was  seasoned 
with  butter  and  a  dash  of  grated  Parmesan  cheese.  At 
eight  or  nine  o'clock  came  the  last  meal  of  the  day, 
consisting  of  eggs,  vegetables,  and  fruit.  After  this 
meal  the  Pope  frequently  indulged  in  a  game  of  chess, 
of  which  he  was  passionately  fond,  and  for  which  he 
kept  with  him  a  monk  who  was  an  especially  skillful 
player.     He  then  retired  at  eleven. 

Of  wine  the  Pope  drank  very  little,  and  that  little 
an  excellent  claret  sent  him  from  a  convent  in  Bor- 
deaux. He  was  wont  to  cut  it,  as  if  with  water,  with  a 
little  white  wine  of  Grottafirrata.  But  if  little  wine, 
he  used  much  snuff.  He  had  a  predilection  for  a 
Spanish  tobacco,  which  was  dark  brown,  almost  black. 
He  was  used  to  take  large  pinches  of  it.  "  dropping  a 
good  part  of  them  over  his  soutane  so  that  where  he  had 
been  was  always  marked  by  little  heaps  of  snuff."  Nor 
wras  the  carpet  all  that  suffered.  In  his  later  years  the 
Pope's  hand  trembled  violently,  and  table-linen  was  al- 
ways much  soiled  by  coffee  and  wine.  Besides,  the 
Pope  in  fits  of  abstraction  often  wiped  his  pen  upon  the 
sleeve  of  his  white  soutane,  so  that  his  faithful  body- 
servant.  Centra,  lived  in  mortal  fear  that  the  Pope 
would  be  seen  in  his  spotted  state,  and  on  audience 
days  always  closely  examined  his  master,  ready  to 
invest  him,  if  necessary,  with  a  clean  robe,  cajoling, 
exhorting,  and  insisting  if  the  Pope  demurred.  It  may 
be  imagined,  from  this,  that  the  Religeuses  Re- 
paratrices.  wrho.  for  love  of  it,  attended  to  the  Pope's 
washing,  had  something  to  do.  These  sisters  had 
charge  of  his  linen  and  wardrobe,  the  soutanes,  pelisses, 
coverings,  shawls  for  the  shoulders  in  winter,  the  fine 
red  silk  handkerchiefs  the  Pope  always  used.  and.  it 
is  certain.  "  did  them  up "  admirably,  and  the  linen 
to  a  marvelous  whiteness.  However,  they  never  dared 
to  give  away  any  of  the  papal  linen  (for  which  there 
is  a  great  demand  among  the  devout),  though  it  used 
commonly  to  be  done  in  the  days  of  Pius  the  Ninth. 
But  Leo  the  Thirteenth  would  not  permit  it.  making 
an  exception  only  in  the  case  of  the  white  skull-caps. 
Regarding  these,  this  incident  is  told: 

An  American  lady  asked  for  and  obtained  two  of  these  caps. 
Some  time  after,  at  an  audience,  the  Pope  saw  this  lady  hold- 
ing a  beautiful  new  cap  filled  with  gold,  for  the  "denier" 
of  St.  Peter.  "  Ah  !"  said  the  Pope,  laughing.  "  it  is  for  a  cap 
vou  have  come?  Wait."  And  he  took  off  his  own  and  ex- 
changed with  the  ladv  after  having  poured  the  gold  into  the 
hands  of  a  chamberlain. 

Though  small  in  stature.  Leo  the  Thirteenth  was  a 
man  of  curious  and  extraordinary  majesty.  He  has 
been  described  as  a  "bent,  dried-up,  white-clad  skele- 
ton, with  the  power  and  intellect  of  youth."  "  When 
he  entered  a  room."  wrote  Cardinal  Gibbons,  "he 
seemed  to  flit  across  the  floor,  less  like  a  being  of  mere 
flesh  and  blood  than  an  embodied  ghost."  His  hands 
were  finely  shaped,  and  almost  translucent.  When  he 
spoke  his  eyes  lighted  up.  in  his  wan  cheeks,  with 
strange  fire.  He  never  wore  glasses,  and  took  great 
and  rather  naive  pride  in  that  fact,  and  in  his  longevity, 
frequently  speaking  of  it  to  his  friends  and  associates. 

The  wealth  of  Leo  the  Thirteenth  is  variously  esti- 
mated. The  jewels  alone  are  of  enormous  value.  The 
Pope's  collection  contains,  for  example,  one  Kimberley 
diamond,  valued  at  $4,000,000.  which  came  to  him 
through  ex-President  Kruger.  There  are  thirty  tiaras 
set  in  diamonds,  emeralds,  rubies,  and  pearls,  and  up- 
wards of  a  hundred  rings,  one  of  the  most  magnificent 
being  a  present  from  the  Sultan.  This  contains  a 
marvelously  beautiful  blue  diamond,  which  is  valued 
at  nearly  $250,000.  Of  gold  crosses  the  collection 
contains  318.  set  with  all  kinds  of  precious  stones.  The 
number  of  chalices  and  vessels  used  in  the  ceremonies 
of  the  church  exceeds  two  thousand,  and  they  are  all 
more  or  less  richly  incrusted  with  jewels  of  every  ex- 
isting variety.  In  addition  to  his  jewels,  the  Pontiff 
has  other  large  possessions.  The  amount  of  his  ready 
money  is  estimated  by  the  New  York  Tribune  at 
$20,000,000.  the  bulk  of  it  deposited  in  the  Bank  of 
England,  and  the  residue  in  various  state  banks. 


In  society  from  the  earliest  of  the  social  diarists' 
recollection,  Leo  the  Thirteenth  has  been  noted  as  a 
wit.  It  is  said  that  he  had  the  greatest  power  of  re- 
partee of  any  man  in  Europe,  and  that  he  never  lost  the 
mastery  of  any  situation,  whether  grotesque,  painful, 
awkward,  or  ridiculous.  But  his  humor  was  of 
the  sublime  kind;  it  was  never  mordant  and 
stinging.  Only  once  (and  then  while  he  was 
Cardinal  Pecci)  in  all  these  contes  drolatiques 
does  he  appear  to  have  made  a  retort  that 
stabbed.  In  this  case,  so  the  story  runs,  a  well-known 
nobleman  was  rash  enough  to  boast  at  a  club  in  Rome 
that  he  could  and  would  put  the  holy  father  at  a  dis- 
advantage. "  You  will  get  the  worst  of  it,"  his  circle 
warned  him :  "  you  will  wish  you  had  let  him  alone." 

But  the  nobleman,  who  may  be  called  Count  de 
Threestars,  was  a  headstrong  man,  and  he  was  bold 
in  his  assurance.  Bets  were  freely  offered,  and  it  was 
arranged  that  the  trial  of  wit  should  take  place  on  the 
occasion  of  a  diplomatic  dinner,  when  the  Count  de 
Threestars  should  be  placed  near  the  cardinal,  and 
given  his  opportunity.  The  evening  arrived,  and  the 
naughty  nobleman  was  seated  on  the  left  of  the  car- 
dinal, where  he  could  be  under  the  charm  and  grace  of 
the  distinguished  man,  and  where  all  in  the  secret 
should  hear  the  music  of  his  voice.  The  dessert  was 
far  advanced  when,  in  the  most  natural  way,  the  Count 
de  Threestars.  in  perfectly  assumed  courtesy,  offered 
the  cardinal  his  snuff-box,  that  he  might  partake.  It 
was  a  jewel  of  workmanship,  and  with  his  thumb 
slipped  beneath,  the  nobleman  held  it  so  that  its  lid 
inclined  to  give  the  best  view  of  its  decoration,  this 
being  a  certain  Venus,  painted  in  a  frank  and  fearless 
fashion.  The  circle  was  watching,  breathless  in  ad- 
miring horror,  wondering  what  should  be  the  outcome 
of  this  daring  intrusion  upon  a  man  of  such  piety  and 
spotless  morals  as  Cardinal  Pecci.  The  holy  father 
looked  steadily  at  the  Venus  for  a  moment.  Then  he 
threw  his  head  back  and  half  closed  his  eyes  as  if  to 
get  a  good  focus — all  the  while  giving  the  lookers- 
on  an  eternity  within  some  seconds.  Finally,  he  raised 
his  eyebrows  in  interrogation,  and  said  to  the  noble- 
man, sweetly:  "  Mme.  la  Comtesse?"  ("Your  wife?") 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


A  former  private  soldier  is  to  be  head  of  the  array  under 
the  President.  General  Young  began  bis  military  career  as  a 
private  in  the  Twelfth  Pennsylvania  Infantry  in  1861.  When 
he  retires  next  January  he  will  be  succeeded  by  another  former 
private  soldier  —  General  Chaffee.  General  Chaffee  enlisted 
as  a  private  soldier  in  the  Sixth  Cavalry,  in  1861.  and  will  not 
retire  until  igo6.  So  the  first  two  chiefs  of  the  general  staff 
will  be  soldiers  who  have  risen  from  the  ranks. 

The  late  Cardinal  Vaughan  (according  to  Truth )  was  prob- 
ably the  handsomest  and  most  distinguished-looking  of  the 
Roman"  ecclesiastical  hierarchy.  Just  as  Cardinal  Manning 
looked  the  learned  ascetic,  so  he  looked  a  true  Ruman  prince 
of  the  church.  But  he  was  most  simple  in  his  tastes  and 
habits.  Several  times  Roman  Catholic  ladies  presented  him 
with  costly  robes,  and  on  one  occasion  they  presented  him 
with  a  carriage.  But  they  found  that  he  soon  sold  their  gifts, 
and  snent  the  money  in  charity.  They,  therefore,  at  last 
"  lent "  him  a  carriage,  in  order  to  oblige  him  to  retain  it. 

William  Ellis  Corey,  president  of  the  Carnegie  Steel  Com- 
pany, selected  as  assistant  to  Charles  M.  Schwab,  president 
of  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation,  and  virtually  his  suc- 
cessor, while  not  as  picturesque,  is  very  similar  to  the  stee! 
combine  president.  He  is  thirty-seven  years  old.  the  son  of  a 
coal  merchant,  and  attended  the  public  schools  until  he  was 
sixteen,  when  he  obtained  a  position  at  a  trivial  salary  in  the 
Edcar  Thomson  Steel  Works.  He  studied  chemistry  at  home, 
and  at  twenty-one  he  was  made  superintendent  of  the  plate- 
mill  in  the  Homestead  Steel  Works.  In  1895.  he  became  presi- 
dent of  the  Carnegie  Steel  Company.  His  inventions  are  nu- 
merous, and  have  been  of  great  value  to  steel  manufacturers. 

General  Jiminez.  ex-president  of  the  Dominican  Republic, 
has  arrived  in  New  York.  He  has  been  appointed  fiscal  agent 
of  the  Dominican  Government  for  the  United  States  and 
Europe,  and  wishes  to  secure  a  loan,  either  here  or  abroad, 
for  his  government.  While  General  Jiminez  was  in  Santo 
Domingo  it  was  reported  that  he  was  again  seeking  the  presi- 
dency by  announcing  that,  if  he  were  elected,  a  New  York 
banking  firm  would  loan  the  country  thirtv  millions  of  dollars. 
General  A.  Woz  y  Gil.  the  president,  notified  General  Jiminez 
that  he  would  be  considered  an  enemy  of  the  government  un- 
less he  stopped  campaigning.  The  canvass  ended.  One  of 
the  reasons  why  Jiminez  has  been  sent  here  by  Woz  y  Gil  is 
thought  to  be  to  prevent  him  from  starting  another  revolution. 

Professor  Edward  A.  Steiner.  of  Grinnell  Colleee.  who  re- 
airned  from  Russia  last  week,  spent  some  time  on  the  estate  of 
Count  Tolstoy.  "  The  count."  he  says.  "  was  exceedingly  ill 
when  I  arrived,  and  had  been  removed  upstairs  from  the  quar- 
ters which  he  had  long  occupied,  a  sort  of  hovel- 
like room  on  the  lowest  floor  of  the  house.  He  is 
now  better,  but  he  remains,  and  will  doubtless  always 
remain,  a  broken-down  man.  Soon  after  my  arrival  three 
spiritualistic  students  came  from  England,  who  were  desirous 
of  converting  Tolstoy  to  spiritualism.  'They  were  not  at  all 
welcome,  but  they  lived  in  the  house  and  were  well  treated. 
Countess  Tolstoy  was  in  Moscow.  These  three  men  fastened 
themselves  upon  Tolstoy,  and  gave  him  no  rest  for  two  days 
and  two  nichts.  They  worked  very  hard  over  him  with  their 
ideas  of  conversion,  and  the  struggle  was  still  on  when  the 
countess  returned.     She  put  them  out  of  the  house." 

Frederic  Masson.  who  has  just  been  elected  a  member  of 
the  French  Academy,  is  famed  as  one  of  the  greatest  living 
authorities  on  Napoleon.  He  represents  in  its  most  acute 
phase  the  French  Napoleonic  cult.  His  collection  of  Na- 
poleonic relics  is  second  to  none,  except  that  of  Prince  Roland 
Bonaparte.  He  has  spent  a  lifetime  in  connoting  the  minutest 
details  of  Napoleon's  public  and  particularly  private  life. 
But  M.  Masson  is  more  than  a  mere  antiquarian  and  com- 
mentator upon  unpublished  documents.  He  has  a  magic  touch 
which  gives  life  to  the  personages  whom  he  discusses,  and  it 
is  said  that  his  election  to  the  Academy  represents  a  most 
important  literary  acquisition  to  that  aucust  body.  His  chief 
opponent  was  Gustave  Larroumet.  who  had  roused  the  bitter 
enmity  of  Jules  Claretie.  the  manager  of  the_  Comedie- 
Francaise.  A  satiric  correspondent  of  the  New  York  Times 
remarks  that  "  in  the  councils  of  the  French  Academy.  Jules 
Claretie  is  a  force.  He  has  so  many  free  theatre  tick: 
away." 


THE       ARGONAUT. 


July  20,  1903. 


A    WARM    SUNDAY. 


Harry  Goes  to  Church. 


Sunday  was  such  a  hot  day  that  mamma  did  not  want 
to  go  to  church,  but  asked  Aunt  May,  as  a  particular 
favor,  if  she  would  not  take  Harry. 

Now,  as  a  rule,  Harry  finds  church  very  trying.  In 
the  first  place,  he  has  to  be  perfectly  clean,  which  is  a 
nuisance;  then  he  has  to  be  perfectly  still,  which  is 
worse;  and  there  is  absolutely  nothing  to  do,  which 
is  worst  of  all. 

Before  they  start  Aunt  May  goes  through  his  pockets. 
From  their  hidden  recesses  she  extracts  a  jack-knife 
with  two  broken  blades;  the  marbles  which  he  was 
furtively  going  to  finger  all  sermon  time;  the  pill-box 
in  which  he  keeps  the  half-dollar  father  gave  him  when 
he  did  not  break  a  window  for  a  week;  the  fish-hook 
Uncle  George  lent  him,  and  which  he  sat  on  the  day  the 
baby  was  christened  and  screamed  so  loud  that  even 
the  baby  stopped  crying;  and  the  hat-band  that  he  and 
Rosalie  stole  out  of  the  hat  of  Aunt  May's  young  man, 
when  he  was  talking  to  Aunt  May  in  the  reception- 
room. 

All  these  treasures  Aunt  May  takes  from  him,  and 
locks  up  in  the  hall  drawer.  Then  he  has  his  hair 
brushed.  Mamma  looks  critically  at  his  face,  father  at 
his  hands.  Aunt  May  brushes  his  back  with  a  hat- 
brush.  Bridget  rushes  downstairs  with  a  handkerchief. 
Nurse  throws  his  gloves  over  the  banisters,  and  they 
set  off. 

The  service  has  not  begun  when  they  reach  the 
church.  Father  goes  in  first.  Aunt  May  wants  to  sit 
in  the  corner  of  the  pew ;  and  so  does  Harry.  They 
have  a  subdued  struggle,  and  Harry  gets  the  favored 
spot.  Aunt  May  climbs  in  over  his  feet,  seats  herself, 
and  does  not  look  at  him  for  some  time.  Her  haughty 
and  indifferent  demeanor  so  alarms  him  that  he  deter- 
mines to  outdo  himself  in  ways  polite.  He  will  have 
the  unusual  pleasure  of  hearing  Aunt  May  commend 
his  conduct.     So  he  sits  resolutely  still,  and  attends. 

The  church  is  very  hot.  There  is  a  soft  pulsing  of 
moving  fans,  and  a  low  monotonous  voice  intones  the 
service.  Through  the  opened  slits  of  windows,  green 
tree-tops  bend  in  the  warm  breeze.  Harry  rolls  his 
handkerchief  into  a  ball,  rubs  his  forehead,  and  shifts 
about  uneasily.  Finally  he  says  in  a  loud  stage  whis- 
per; "Aunt  May,  I'm  just  boiling.  If  you  can't  lend 
me  your  fan  I  think  I'll  have  a  fit,  or  something." 

Aunt  May  hands  him  a  red  Japanese  fan.  which  he 
unfurls  and  waves  proudly.  The  occupation  is  new 
'and  pleasant.  He  fans  slowly,  then  faster,  then  furi- 
ously till  all  the  sticks  creak.  Aunt  May,  with  her 
eyes  on  the  minister,  pokes  his  knee  with  the  tips  of 
her  fingers,  and  he  desists. 

Then  he  fans  like  the  different  ladies  in  his  vicinity. 
The  little  fat  one  with  the  beads  fans  in  and  out  toward 
her  chest  in  short,  sharp  strokes.  He  tries  this,  and 
finds  it  very  amusing  to  imitate  the  way  she  has  her 
head  on  one  side,  and  he  lips  drawn  down  at  the  cor- 
ners. Near  her  is  a  3'oung  girl,  whose  gauze  fan  moves 
in  slow,  regular  sweeps.  Harry  tries  this  style.  It  is 
easier,  and  the  sticks  emit  a  sharp,  loud  creak  with 
every  movement.  His  unconscious  model  leans  back, 
looking  languidly  from  under  her  lowered  eyelids. 
Harry  likes  her  pose.  He  catches  it  admirably,  and 
with  a  listless  dreamy  air  waves  his  fan  back  and  forth, 
takes  longer  and  longer  sweeps,  till  he  strikes  it  against 
the  side  of  the  pew,  and  it  falls  out  into  the  aisle. 

In  consternation  he  looks  at  Aunt  Ma)'.  She  has 
risen  and  is  searching  for  a  place  in  her  book.  Her 
cheeks  are  rather  flushed,  but  she  appears  not  to  have 
seen  the  accident. 

He  rises  and  thinks  the  situation  over.  He  must  have 
the  fan  for  it  is  so  oppressively  warm.  Glancing  askance 
he  sees  it  lying  a  long  way  out  in  the  middle  of  the 
aisle.  If  he  goes  after  it,  Aunt  May  will  undoubtedly 
seize  him.  and  pull  him  back.  It  is  a  case  wdiere  strat- 
egy is  necessary. 

He  opens  a  prayer-book,  lifts  it  up  in  his  two  hands, 
and,  holding  firmly  to  the  back  of  the  pew  in  front  with 
his  elbows,  slowly  slides  one  large  and  heavily  booted 
foot  into  the  aisle.  He  wonders  if  the  noise  it  makes 
scraping  about  on  the  carpet  sounds  as  loud  to  every- 
body else  as  it  does  to  him.  With  wary  uneasiness, 
he  glances  at  Aunt  May.  She  turns  a  leaf  and  her 
eyes  travel  down  the  page.  She  is  reading  the  psalter, 
every  other  verse  out  loud.  And  when  it  is  her  turn 
to  read — lo  !  instead  of  repeating  the  words  of  David, 
she  says  in  a  soft,  low  voice,  without  moving  her  eyes : 
"  Harry,  if  you  don't  immediately  stop  that  noise,  I'll 
tell  your  mother,  and  you  won't  have  any  ice-cream  for 
dinner." 

It  is  almost  like  ventriloquism  to  hear  Aunt  May  say 
this.  Harry,  lost  in  admiration  of  her  powers,  stares 
at  her,  and.  impelled  by  alarmed  respect,  draws  in  his 
foot.  But  it  is  dreadfully  hot.  Other  little  boys  and 
girls  are  waving  fans,  and  their  little  bangs  and  curls 
are  fluttering  in  the  breeze.    Harry's  flesh  is  weak. 

He  waits  till  Aunt  May  is  absorbed  in  the  psalms,  and 
this  time  gripping  tight  with  his  elbows,  slides  both 
feet  into  the  aisle,  and  feels  for  the  fan.  His  body  de- 
scribes a  wonderful  curve,  but  he  seizes  the  object  of 
his  re?  :h,  firm  and  tight  between  his  calf-skin  toes,  and 
carefully,  slowly,  breathlessly,  begins  to  draw  it  nearer. 
It  is  p  tinfully  exciting.  He  has  to  keep  his  eyes  intently 
fixed  >n  the  book,  while  all  the  time  he  is  drawing  the 
fan  i    er  nearer  and  nearer.     He  almost  has  it  within 


reach,  when — horror  of  horrors — one  of  his  elbows 
slips  and  he  falls  with  a  crash,  gripping  the  pew  with 
his  fingers,  and  striking  his  chin  a  resounding  blow 
against  the  back  of  the  seat  in  front. 

Of  course  everybod}'  hears  him.  A  dozen  people 
twist  round  in  their  seats  and  stare  at  him.  Aunt  May 
gives  him  one  glance,  and  then,  fiery  red  to  the  curls 
on  her  forehead,  settles  herself  back  in  her  seat,  and 
stares  at  the  minister. 

This  accident  sobers  him  for  some  time.  He  is  so 
good  that  Aunt  May  only  has  to  pinch  him  twice — once 
when  he  puts  his  feet  upon  the  back  of  the  seat  in  front 
and  scrapes  them  along  with  a  loud  noise,  and  once 
when,  thinking  his  bitten  tongue  is  bleeding,  he  puts  his 
handkerchief  into  his  mouth,  and  then  holds  it  up  against 
the  light  by  the  two  corners,  searching  for  the  gory 
stain.  He  feels  that  only  exceptionally  good  conduct 
will  condone  for  his  past  misdemeanors.  Only  some- 
thing unusual,  something  superfine  in  its  perfect  cor- 
rectness, will  right  him  in  Aunt  May's  eyes.  He  will  be 
as  like  father,  who  is,  of  course,  a  model  of  good  behav- 
ior, as  possible.  Brightened  by  this  thought,  he  follows 
father's  every  movement.  When  the  litany  begins,  father 
leans  forward,  bows  on  his  hand,  and  responds  with 
a  rich,  deep  voice.  At  the  second  response,  Aunt  May 
gasps  and  lifts  her  face.  Harry's  voice,  loud  and 
sonorous  as  he  can  make  it,  fills  the  church.  He  does 
it  twice  before  she  can  edge  close  to  him,  and,  twitching 
him  by  the  jacket,  mutter  from  the  leaves  of  her  book: 
"  Harry,  stop  that  noise." 

"  Aunt  May."  lifting  his  innocent  face  and  large  sur- 
prised eyes,  "  I'm  not  making  a  speck  of  noise." 

"  Don't  answer  those  responses  so  loud.  Don't  an- 
swer them  at  all." 

"  Why,  I'm  only  doing  what  father  does." 

"  Well,  stop  it.     Father  doesn't  roar." 

"  Mamma  has  always  told  me  to  do  it,"  with  an  air 
of  injured  protest.  "  She  told  me  to  before  I  left  this 
morning." 

"  Well,  she  wasn't  coming  with  you.  I'm  sure  if  she'd 
heard  she  would  have  told  you  to  stop.  Won't  you 
please  do  it  for  my  sake?"  imploringly. 

Harry  consents  and  is  silent. 

Now  father,  having  a  good  ear  for  music  and  an 
agreeable  voice,  is  fond  of  joining  in  the  hymns.     The 
first  hymn   is  a  particular  favorite  of  his,    "  Onward 
Christian  Soldiers,"  and  Harry  at  the  familiar  strains 
pricks  up  his  ears.    He  asks  Aunt  Mav  to  find  his  place, 
and  studies  the  words.     When  father  rises  and  uplifts 
his  melodious  tenor,  Harry  also  rises.     The  first  verse 
he  hums  softly.     But  in  the  second  he  breaks  out  loud 
and  joyous,  utterly  oblivious  of  time  and  tune. 
"  At  the  sign  of  triumph 
Satan's  host  doth  flee  : 
On.  then.  Christian  soldiers. 
On  to  victory," 

sings  Harry,  his  high,  shrill  child's  voice  rising  su- 
perior to  roll  of  organ  and  chant  of  choir.  Even  father 
is  dismayed. 

"  Harry's  making  a  good  deal  of  noise.  Can't  you  stop 
him?"  he  whispers  to  Aunt  May.  leaning  forward  to 
peer  uneasily  at  his  musical  son.  Harry  does  not  notice 
the  consternation  created  by  his  performance.  With 
his  elbows  resting  on  the  top  of  the  pew.  the  hvmn-book 
held  up  high  in  both  hands,  and  waving  back  and  forth 
as  he  beats  time  with  it,  he  emits  the  shrillest  discords 
in  happv  unconsciousness. 

Social  instincts  are  strong  in  Aunt  May.  She  is  not 
vet  past  dissembling.  With  her  eyes  on  her  book,  she 
draws  near  her  nephew,  and  treads  on  his  toes  firmly 
and  fiercely.  Harry,  in  artless  surprise,  turns  and  looks 
with  raised,  anxious  brows  up  into  her  face :  then  meet- 
ing no  response,  curiously  down  at  her  foot.  It  is 
undoubtedly  firmly  planted  on  his  own. 

"  Aunt  May."  he  says,  drawing  away  his  foot  with  a 
jerk,  "what  are  you  treading  on  my  toe  for?" 

The  music  ceasing  suddenly,  this  remark  is  audible. 
Aunt  May  sinks  to  her  seat  and  wishes  she  had  died 
before  she  came  to  church.  Before  the  sermon  begins, 
she  exhorts  Harry.  She  appeals  to  his  pity  and  his 
mercy.  She  tamely  acknowledges  his  power.  In  abject 
fear  she  offers  him  bribes  of  candy  and  soda-water,  of 
letting  him  look  through  the  big  end  of  her  opera-glass, 
or  try  on  her  skates.  He  can  even  take  to  pieces  the 
nuzzle-ring  Uncle  Sam  gave  her  last  Christmas.  Harry 
listens  with  an  air  of  condescension.  Yes,  he  will  be 
good  and  sit  perfectly  still. 

"  It  won't  last  very  long,"  says  Aunt  May.  pleadingly. 
"  iust  keep  quiet  and  you  won't  find  it  very  long." 

Harry  smiles,  and  promises,  and  starts  out  in  an  exem- 
plary attitude,  his  eyes  fixed  on  the  minister.  But  it 
seems  to  be  a  very  long  sermon.  It  is  extremely  hot, 
and  Harry  thinks  of  Aunt  Mav's  promises,  and  wishes 
he  could  go  home  and  screw  and  unscrew  the  opera- 
glasses.  In  imagination  he  selects  his  candy  and  soda- 
water,  and  thinks  that  he  will  insist  on  the  latter  on  the 
way  home. 

Aunt  May  begins  to  breathe  naturally,  and  actually 
listens  to  the  sermon.  When  Harry  cautiously  takes 
all  the  books  out  of  the  rack  she  is  onlv  disturbed  for  a 
moment.  He  sets  them  up  on  the  seat  beside  him  in  the 
form  of  a  house,  and  tells  himself  a  story  under  his 
hreath,  about  its  imaginary  occupants.  Aunt  May  is 
in  peace.  She  has  known  him  to  amuse  himself  so  for 
hours.  He  opens  unseen  doors  for  the  exit  and  entrance 
of  his  hero  and  heroine.  They  mount  imaginary  horses 
and  ride  away.  They  come  back  and  battle  softly,  kill 
each  other,  and  the  survivors  make  up.  Harry  is 
engrossed.    Aunt  May  folds  her  hands  and  is  at  rest. 


Presently  she  feels  a  gentle  touch  on  her  arm,  and 
Harry  whispers :  "  Aunt  May,  has  Mr.  Jones  a  glass 
eye?" 

"  Keep  quiet.    I  don't  know." 

"  Bridget  said  he  had.  I've  been  watching  him  for 
ever  so  long,  and  he's  never  stopped  winking.  And 
last  summer  our  waiter  in  the  Catskills  had  a  glass  eye, 
and  he  never  wank  once  all  summer." 

"  Yes,  yes,  I  know.    Now  do  be  quiet." 

Harry  subsides,  presently  to  murmur :  "  When's  the 
man  coming  round  for  the  money?" 

"  Oh,  very  soon  now,"  cheeringly. 

"  Can  I  give  it  to  him  ?" 

Aunt  May  puts  two  silver  pieces  in  his  hand.  Harry 
clinks  them,  then  drops  one  in  the  bottom  of  the  pew, 
and  it  rolls  out  in  the  aisle.  He  scrambles  after  it  and 
comes  up  with  a  red  face. 

"  I  didn't  really  mean  to  do  that,"  he  explains  in  a 
loud  stage  whisper,  "but  it  was  so  hot  I  was  trying  to 
see  if  they'd  both  stick  to  my  fingers,  and  one  did,  but 
the  other  fell  off." 

Aunt  May's  spirit  is  broken  by  this  time. 

"  Just  a  few  more  minutes,  Harry,"  she  begs,  "  can't 
you  manage  to  keep  still  for  a  few  more  minutes  ?" 

"  If  it's  only  a  few  I  can,  but  you've  been  saying  that 
for  nearly  an  hour." 

"  Well,  really  it's  only  a  short  time  now.  As  soon 
as  the  minister  comes  out  of  the  pulpit — that's  where 
he  is  now — it  will  be  over.  Do,  like  a  dear  bov,  try  and 
be  still  till  then." 

"  All  right,"  manfully.  "  I  will." 

He  really  does.  He  is  exemplary  in  his  absolute 
quietude.  As  the  minister  turns  to  descend  the  pulpit 
steps.  Aunt  May  draws  a  great  breath  of  relief  and  then 
starts — for  Harry,  snatching  up  his  hat,  is  gone.  It  is 
done  so  quickly  that  she  has  just  time  to  reach  back- 
ward and  seize  his  shoulder  over  the  back  of  the  pew. 

"  Come  back."  she  gasps,  "what  has  happened  to  you  ? 
Are  vou  crazy?" 

"  You  said  it  would  be  over  when  the  minister  came 
nut  of  that  place  he's  been  standing  in,"  says  Harry,  in 
his  disappointment  and  surprise  speaking  aloud  in  his 
natural  voice.  "  You  did  say  that.  Aunt  May.  you  know 
vou  did."  he  reiterates,  as  she  drags  him  back  into  the 
pew. 

Aunt  May  holds  him  after  that.  It  is  only  for  a  few 
moments  as  she  said,  but  for  those  few  moments  she 
maintains  a  strong,  close  grip  on  him.  Even  when  he 
drops  the  money  in  the  plate  she  does  not  relinquish 
her  hold.  As  at  last  they  go  out  side  by  side.  Harry 
says,  joyously :  "  Now,  Aunt  May,  remember  the  soda- 
water  and  the  candy  and  the  opera-glasses  !" 

And  he  wonders  what  makes  Aunt  May  say  to 
father:  "Another  Sunday  like  this,  and  I  should  have 
nothing  but  the  deepest  sympathy  for  King  Herod  when 
he  killed  the  children."  Geraldine  Bonner. 

San  Francisco,  July,  1903. 


In  accordance  with  the  wish  of  the  late  Senator  In- 
galls.  his  widow  has  placed  at  his  grave  one  of  the 
huge  red  bowlders  with  which  the  Kansas  prairies  are 
strewn.  The  stone  weighs  five  tons,  and  bears  a  bronze 
tablet  with  the  following  inscription  selected  from  Sen- 
ator Ingalls's  work,  "Blue  Grass":  "When  the  fitful 
fever  is  ended,  and  the  foolish  wrangle  of  market  and 
forum  is  closed,  grass  heals  over  the  scar  which  our 
descent  into  the  bosom  of  the  earth  has  made,  and  the 
blanket  of  the  infant  becomes  the  blanket  of  the  dead." 


The  Bureau  of  Insular  Affairs  at  Washington  has 
reserved  for  sale  to  numismatists  sets  of  coins  recentlv 
made  for  the  Philippines.  There  are  seven  in  the  set 
— the  peso,  the  half-peso,  the  20-centavo,  and  the  10- 
centavo  piece,  of  silver;  and  the  5-centavo,  the  centavo, 
and  the  half-centavo.  of  bronze.  The  peso  is  worth  50 
cents,  the  centavo  one-half  cent.  The  whole  series  is 
worth  97  cents,  and  the  bureau  offers  them  new  from 
the  mint  for  $2.00. 


The  British  political  vocabulary  promises  to  be  en- 
riched with  a  new  epithet.  The  enemies  of  Chamber- 
lain and  the  opponents  of  his  tariff  policy  have  taken 
to  calling  him  and  his  followers  "  Dearloafers."  in  allu- 
sion to  the  supposed  effect  the  proposed  tariff  will  have 
on  the  price  of  bread.  The  modern  disciples  of  Cobden 
expect  the  word  to  catch  the  fancy  of  the  multitude 
and  work  Chamberlain's  political  ruin  at  the  polls. 
^  •  ^ 

According  to  records  of  lynchings.  as  preserved  by 
the  Chicago  Tribune  for  seventeen  years,  there  are  but 
four  States — Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  Rhode 
Island,  and  Utah — in  which  mob  vengeance  has  not 
prevailed.  The  South  has  furnished  four-fifths  of  the 
recorded  lynchings,  having  executed  2.080  out  of  the 
2,516  illegally  killed.  Of  the  total,  1,673  were  negroes. 
^  •  ^ 

Says  the  New  York  Sun :  "  Practically,  the  Presby- 
terian churches  and  the  other  churches,  which  draw  their 
system  of  doctrine  from  the  Westminster  Confession 
and  similar  standards  of  faith,  have  abandoned  the 
doctrine  of  hell.  At  the  bottom  they  are  all  Univer- 
salists,  whatever  their  creeds  may  say." 


Germany's  system  of  primary  commercial  education 
and  the  seriousness  with  which  the  education  of  clerks 
is  regarded  is  illustrated  by  the  rule  in  force  in  one 
school :  "  Apprentices  are  absolutely  forbidden  to  at- 
tend dances  or  to  take  dancing  lessons." 


July  20,  1903. 


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THE   "TRUTH"   ABOUT    CARLYLE. 


Extracts  from  a  Posthumous  Pamphlet  in  Which  Froudc  Defends  His 

Conduct  as  Biographer  and  Literary  Executor — The  "  Real 

Reason  "  of  the  Marital   Unhappiness. 


As  an  answer  to  the  serious  charges  contained  in  the 
introduction  and  foot-notes  of  the  "  New  Letters  and 
Memorials  of  Jane  Welsh  Carlyle,"  reviewed  at  length 
in  last  week's  Argonaut,  the  sons  of  James  Anthony 
Froude  have  just  brought  out  a  posthumous  pamphlet 
prepared  by  Froude  himself,  which  throws  much  new 
light  on  the  domestic  relations  of  the  Carlyles,  and  tends 
to  prove  that  he  did  not  distort  facts  to  make  a  good 
story.  After  his  much-discussed  biographical  volumes 
had  brought  forth  a  torrent  of  abuse,  Froude  decided  to 
prepare  some  brief  exculpatory  notes,  telling  all  the 
facts  as  he  knew  them.  These  were  found  after  his 
death  in  a  dispatch-box  with  a  copy  of  Carlyle's  will 
and  a  few  business  papers.  His  sons  preserved  them 
in  manuscript,  and  only  on  the  re-opening  of  the  contro- 
versy, a  few  months  ago,  when  the  "  New  Letters  and 
Memorials  of  Jane  Welsh  Carlyle "  cast  such 
reflections  on  their  father's  memory,  did  they  decide 
that  the  time  had  arrived  when  the  facts  should  be 
made  known,  and  Froude's  notes  on  "  My  Relations 
With  Carlyle  "  should  be  published. 

In  his  defense  Froude  disclaims  any  personal  motive 
in  trying  to  belittle  either  Carlyle  or  his  wife: 

I  thought  her  the  most  brilliant  and  interesting  woman  that 
I  had  ever  fallen  in  with  :  so  much  thought,  so  much  lightness 
and  brilliancy,  such  sparkling  scorn  and  tenderness  combined. 
I  had  never  met  with  together  in  any  human  being.  It  was 
evident  that  she  was  suffering ;  she  was  always  in  indifferent 
health,  she  had  no  natural  cheerfulness,  at  least  none  when  I 
knew  her.  Rumor  said  that  she  and  Carlyle  quarreled  often, 
and  I  could  easily  believe  it  from  occasional  expressions  about 
him  which  fell  from  her.  But  it  was  clear,  too,  that  she 
greatly  admired  him.  Various  hints  were  dropped  in  the  circle 
which  gathered  at  the  house  in  Cheyne  Row  about  the  nature 
of  the  relations  between  them,  that  their  marriage  was  not  a 
real  marriage,  and  was  only  a  companionship,  etc.  I  paid  no 
attention  to  a  matter  which  was  no  business  of  mine.  I  have 
never  been  curious  about  family  secrets,  and  have  always  as 
a  rule  of  my  life  declined  to  listen  to  communications  which 
were  no  business  of  mine.  It  was  enough  for  me  to  be  ad- 
mitted to  the  Cheyne  Row  tea-parties  on  my  occasional  visits 
and  enjoy  the  brilliancy  of  the  conversation,  whether  it  was 
with  him  or  with  her. 

For  Carlyle  himself,  Froude  felt  a  great  admiration, 
but  it  was  an  admiration  too  complete  for  pleasant 
social  relationship.  "  His  manner  was  impatient  and 
overbearing.  He  denounced  everybody  and  everything." 
Nevertheless,  when  Froude  removed  to  London  in 
i860,  and  Carlyle  himself  expressed  a  wish  to  see  more 
of  him,  the  younger  man  felt  that  "  to  refuse  such  hands 
when  they  were  held  out  to  him  would  be  ungracious  and 
unnecessary."  Introduced  thus  into  closer  relations 
with  the  life  at  Cheyne  Row,  Froude  could  not  help 
becoming  acquainted  with  many  things  "  which  I  would 
rather  not  have  known  " : 

If  Carlyle  was  busy,  he  was  in  his  sound-proof  room  and 
ne\*er  allowed  himself  to  be  interrupted.  Any  one  who  dis- 
turbed him  at  such  times  was  not  likely  to  repeat  the  experi- 
ment. Mrs.  Carlyle  was  very  much  alone.  She  was  in  bad 
health,  and  he  did  not  seem  to  see  it.  or  if  he  did  he  forgot 
it  immediately  in  the  multitude  of  thoughts  which  pressed 
upon  him.  She  rarely  saw  him  except  at  meal  times.  She 
sat  by  herself  in  her  drawing-room,  either  reading  or  enter- 
taining visitors  who  bored  her.  and  of  whom  she  dared  not 
ask  him  to  relieve  her.  She  suffered  frightfully  from  neural- 
gia, which  she  bore  with  more  than  stoical  endurance,  but  it 
was  evident  that  her  life  was  painful  and  dreary. 

She  was  sarcastic  when  she  spoke  of  her  husband — a  curious 
blending  of  pity,  contempt,  and  other  feelings.  One  had  heard 
of  violent  quarrels  from  others  who  were  admitted  within  the 
circle,  and  one  began  to  realize  that  they  might  perhaps  be 
true.  One  had  heard  that  she  had  often  thought  of  leaving 
Carlyle,  and  as  if  she  had  a  right  to  leave  him  if  she  pleased. 
To  those  whom  she  liked  she  was  charming,  bewitching,  and 
the  thought  of  such  a  person  suffering  as  she  evidently  suf- 
fered, with  so  little  sympathy  bestowed  upon  her.  and  suffer- 
ing through  the  negligence  of  a  man  whom,  nevertheless,  one 
admired  as  one's  own  honored  master  and  teacher,  was  ex- 
quisitely painful.  He,  too,  suffered  from  dyspepsia  and  want 
of  sleep.  But,  whereas  she  was  expected  to  bear  her  trouble 
in  patience,  and  received  homilies  on  the  duty  of  submission 
if  she  spoke  impatiently,  he  was  never  more  eloquent  than  in 
speaking  of  his  own  crosses.  He  himself  had  really  a  vigor- 
ous constitution.  He  never  had  a  day  of  serious  illness.  He 
used  to  walk  or  ride  in  the  wildest  weather,  and  never  carried 
so  much  as  an  umbrella. 

Yet  I  never  heard  him  admit  that  he  felt  well.  He  never 
spoke  of  himself  without  complaint,  as  if  he  were  an  excep- 
tional victim  of  the  Destinies.  She  was  weary  of  hearing  a 
tale  so  often  repeated,  the  importance  of  which  she  was  so 
well  able  to  value.  Some  degree  of  self-restraint  is  expected 
from  all  of  us.  even  when  there  is  something  real  to  complain 
of.  Without  it  none  of  us  could  live  together.  In  Carlyle's 
catalogue  of  his  own  duties,  self-restraint  seemed  to  be  forgot- 
ten. She  was  very  little  alone  with  him.  She  presided  at  the 
tea-table  at  the  small  evening  gatherings  of  his  admirers  in 
her  own  charming  fashion.  But  Carlyle,  on  these  occasions, 
did  not  converse.  He  would  not  allow  himself  to  be  contra- 
dicted, but  poured  out  whole  Niagaras  of  scorn  and  vitupera- 
tion, sometimes  for  hours  together,  and  she  was  wearied,  as 
she  confessed,  of  a  tale  which  she  had  heard  so  often  and  in 
much  of  which  she  imperfectly  believed.  She  would  herself 
occasionally  say  this.    She  admired  his  genius  as  much  as  ever. 

In  1862  her  health  finally  broke  down,  and  there  came 
on  that  strange  illness  of  hers,  which  doctors  failed  to 
understand,  or,  if  they  understood  it,  they  did  not  ven- 
ture to  speak  plainly.  For  a  year  she  lay  in  agonies, 
her  nervous  system  torn  to  tatters — sleepless,  racked 
with  pain,  which  was  unlike  any  pain  that  she  had  ever 
felt,  or  heard  of.  Carlyle's  wild  irritability  had  shat- 
tered her  at  last. 

The  wisest  of  her  doctors  insisted,  as  a  first  necessity, 
on  her  separation  from  him.  the  constant  agitation  of 
his  presence,  and  the  equally  constant  provocation, 
which  his  forgetfulness  or  preoccupation  made  inces- 
sant in  spite  of  efforts,  taking  away  all  hope  of  amend- 


ment, while  the  cause  remained.  She  went  to  Hastings, 
to  Scotland;  she  was  all  but  dead.  She  had  again  and 
again  been  given  up.  To  all  inquiries  there  was  but 
one  answer — "  No  better.  No  hope."  Suddenly,  as  if 
from  the  grave,  she  came  back.  The  illness  had  seemed 
preternatural;  the  recovery  equally  so.  But  the  injury 
had  gone  too  deep  for  a  permanent  recovery.  Eighteen 
months  later,  when  Carlyle  was  absent  as  lord  rector 
at  Edinburgh,  she  died  suddenly  in  her  carriage.  Her 
nerves  had  been  so  shaken  by  her  many  years  of  suf- 
fering that  some  singular  spinal  disease  had  developed. 

Carlyle's  grief  was  profound,  piteous,  inconsolable. 
Now  for  the  first  time  he  realized  how  badly  he  had 
treated  his  wife: 

He  shut  himself  up  in  the  house  with  her  diaries  and  papers, 
and  for  the  first  time  was  compelled  to  look  himself  in  the 
face,  and  to  see  what  his  faults  had  been.  The  worst  of 
those  faults  I  have  concealed  hitherto.  I  can  conceal  them  no 
longer.  He  found  a  remembrance  in  her  dairy'  of  the  blue 
marks  which  in  a  fit  of  passion  he  had  once  inflicted  on  her 
arms.  He  saw  that  he  had  made  her  entirely  miserable  ;  that 
she  had  sacrificed  her  life  to  him,  and  that  he  had  made  a 
wretched  return  for  her  devotion.  As  soon  as  he  could  col- 
lect himself  he  put  together  a  memoir  of  her,  in  which  with 
deliberate  courage  he  inserted  the  incriminating  passages  (by 
me  omitted)  of  her  diary,  the  note  of  the  blue  marks  among 
them,  and  he  added  an  injunction  of  his  own  that,  however 
stern  and  tragic  that  record  might  be,  it  was  never  to  be  de- 
stroyed. 

During  Carlyle's  life  Froude  consulted  with  John 
Forster.  who  was  to  be  his  fellow-executor.  He  paid 
small  attention  then  to  allusions  made  by  Forster  to 
some  mysterious  secret  in  connection  with  Lord  and 
Lady  Ashburton: 

-  Forster  said  that  Lady  Ashburton  had  fallen  deeply  in  love 
with  Carlyle,  that  Carlyle  had  behaved  nobly,  and  that  Lord 
Ashburton  had  been  greatly  obliged  to  him.  That  Carlyle 
should  behave  nobly  under  such  extraordinary  circumstances 
seemed  extremely  likely  to  me.  but  I  was  greatly  astonished. 
Lady  Ashburton  was  a  great  lady  of  the  world.  Carlyle,  with 
all  his  genius,  had  the  manners  to  the  last  of  an  Annandale 
peasant.  Wonderful  things  did  happen — and  women  did 
strange  things.  I  supposed  that  Forster  must  know  what  he 
was  talking  of.  But  if  his  account  was  true,  I  wondered  why 
Mrs.  Carlyle  should  seem  so  angry  when  Lady  Ashburton's 
name  was  mentioned.  She  ought  to  have  felt  proud  and 
amused.  This,  too.  however,  was  no  business  of  mine,  and  I 
thought  no  more  about  it  till  two  years  later,  when,  just  as 
before  [in  1S71J  Carlyle  had  brought  me  the  first  parcel,  he 
again  [in  1873]  sent  me  in  a  box  a  collection  of  letters,  diaries. 
memoirs,  miscellanies  of  endless  sorts,  the  accumulations  of 
a  life.  He  told  me  that  I  must  undertake  his  biography,  and 
that  there  were  the  materials  for  me. 

It  was  from  this  mass  of  material  that  Froude  first 
learned  the  true  story  of  the  Ashburtons.  It  was  not 
that  Lady  xAshburton  had  fallen  in  love  with  Carlyle ;  it 
was  Carlyle  who  had  fallen  in  love  with  her: 

There  are  in  existence,  or  there  were,  masses  of  extravagant 
letters  of  Carlyle's  to  the  great  lady  as  ecstatic  as  Don 
Quixote's  to  Dulcinea.  There  was  one,  even,  in  which  he  had 
asked  Lady  Ashburton  not  to  tell  Mrs.  Carlyle  of  some  visit 
which  he  had  paid  to  her,  as  she  was  so  angry  when  she  heard 
of  his  having  been  with  her.  It  was,  of  course,  the  purest 
Gloriana  worship,  the  homage  of  the  slave  to  his  imperious 
mistress.  But  such  it  was ;  while  on  the  lady's  side — whose 
letters,  after  what  Forster  had  said,  I  looked  into  with  inter- 
est— there  was  nothing  else  but  the  imperious  mistress,  to 
whom  Carlyle  was  a  passing  amusement.  It  was  not  jealousy 
only  on  Mrs.  Carlyle's  part.  She  was  ashamed  and  indignant 
at  the  unworthy  position  in  which  her  husband  was  placing 
himself-  Rinaldo  in  the  bower  of  Annida.  or  Hercules  spin- 
ning silks  for  Omphale.  It  is  not  conceivable  to  me  that  such 
a  person  as  Carlyle  could  ever  have  been  so  extravagantly 
deluded.  At  any  rate,  there  was  the  story :  a  myth  of  a 
portentous  kind  already  current.  I  tried  once  to  approach  the 
subject  with  Carlyle  himself,  but  he  shrank  from  it  with  such 
signs  of  distress  that  I  could  not  speak  to  him  about  it  again. 

More  light  was  thrown  upon  this  unpleasant  episode 
by  the  revelation  which,  just  at  this  time,  Geraldine 
Jewsbury  made  to  Froude.  Miss  Jewsbury  had  been 
admitted  into  Cheyne  Row  on  the  closest  terms: 

Mrs.  Carlyle  in  her  own  troubles,  spoke  and  wrote  of  Ger- 
aldine Jewsbury  as  her  Consuelo.  I  had  myself  some  exter- 
nal acquaintance  with  Miss  Jewsbury.  When  she  heard  that 
Carlyle  had  selected  me  to  write  his  biography,  she  came  to 
me  to  say  that  she  had  something  to  tell  rae  which  I  ought 
to  know.  I  must  have  learned  that  the  state  of  things  had  been 
most  unsatisfactory;  the  explanation  of  the  whole  of  it  was 
that  "Carlyle  was  one  of  those  persons  who  ought  never  to 
have  married."  Mrs.  Carlyle  had  at  first  endeavored  to  make 
the  best  of  the  position  in  which  she  found  herself.  But  his 
extraordinary  temper  was  a  consequence  of  his  organization. 
As  he  grew  older  and  more  famous,  he  had  become  more  vio- 
lent and  overbearing.  She  had  longed  for  children,  and  chil- 
dren were  denied  to  her.  This  had  been  at  the  bottom  of  all 
the  quarrels  and  all  the  unhappiness.  Miss  Jewsbury  did  not 
live  long  after  this.  In  her  last  illness,  when  she  knew  that 
she  was  dying,  and  when  it  is  entirely  inconceivable  that  she 
would  have  uttered  any  light  or  ill-considered  gossip,  she  re- 
peated all  this  to  me,  with  many  curious  details.  I  will  men- 
tion one,  as  it  shows  that  Carlyle  did  not  know  when  he  mar- 
ried what  his  constitution  was.  The  morning  after  his  wed- 
ding day  he  tore  to  pieces  the  flower  garden  at  Comeley  Bank 
in  a  fit  of  ungovernable  fury.  The  London  life  was  a  pro- 
tracted tragedy.  When  the  intimacy  with  the  Ashburton 
House  became  established,  she  had  definitely  made  up  her 
mind  to  go  away,  and  even  to  marry  another  person.  She 
told  him  afterward  on  how  narrow  a  chance  it  had  turned. 
His  answer  hurt  her  worse  than  any  other  word  she  ever 
heard  from  him :  "  Well.  I  do  not  know  that  I  should  have 
missed  you;   I  was  very  busy  just  then  with  Cromwell." 

Once  at  least,  according  to  Miss  Jewsbury,  she  had 
resolved  to  put  herself  out  of  the  way  altogether.  She 
was  to  have  gone  to  Scotland  by  sea.  She  meant,  in 
the  darkness,  to  have  dropped  over  the  stern,  and  dis- 
appeared in  such  a  way  that  it  might  seem  as  if  her 
death  had  been  an  accident.  Something  prevented  the  sea 
voyage,  but  Geraldine's  entire  conviction  was  that,  had 
she  gone  that  way,  she  would  never  have  been  seen 
again.  The  life  in  Cheyne  Row  was  to  her,  as  Mrs. 
Carlyle  herself  said,  like  keeping  a  madhouse.  Her 
entire  system  was  shattered  by  the  scenes  which  were 
continually  recurring.  "  She  broke  down  at  last  with 
the  strangest  illness  that  ever  woman  died  of." 

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OUR  EUROPEAN  SQUADRON. 


Cockaigne"  Thinks  We  Should  Send  Better  Ships  Abroad  —  "Kear- 
sarge "  not  First  Class—"  Chicago  "  and  "  San  Francisco  " 
Old   Vessels  — Some  Comparisons. 

The  intended  visit  to  Portsmouth,  next  month,  of  the 
European  squadron  of  the  United  States  navy,  is 
occasioning  much  interest  in  England.  It  is  a  pity,' 
however,  that  the  ships  composing  the  squadron  are 
so  few  in  number,  and,  with  the  exception  of  the  flag- 
ship, so  ancient  in  build.  The  total  number  of  the 
squadron  is  just  four  ships,  all  told.  Their  names  will 
be  sufficient  to  American  naval  men  to  show  their 
status,  but  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  are  not  expert 
in  naval  affairs,  here  are  a  few  particulars  concerning 
each:  The  squadron  consists  of  the  Kearsarge,  Chi- 
cago. San  Francisco,  and  Machias.  The  fleet  a  month 
ago  included  two  more  vessels,  the  Marblehead  and 
Albany;  but  these  were  recently  detached  from  the 
squadron,  and  hastily  ordered  to  Chinese  waters  to 
reinforce  the  American  naval  force  on  the  Asiatic 
station.     But  they  also  were  small. 

The  flagship  of  this  naval  quartet  is  the  Kearsarge. 
She  is  the  only  battle-ship  in  the  squadron,  and  she  is 
five  years  old.  having  been  launched  in  1898.  In  these 
days  this  is  a  good  old  age  for  a  man-of-war.  Then, 
her  tonnage  of  eleven  thousand  five  hundred  and  forty- 
is  exceptionally  small  for  a  modern  battle-ship,  when 
cruisers  of  twelve  to  fourteen  thousand  tons  are 
the  rule.  The  Kearsarge,  considered  alone,  and 
to  people  not  conversant  with  naval  matters, 
would  doubtless  be  thought  to  be  a  marvel  of  formid- 
ableness.  But  anchored  beside  her  at  Spithead.  will  be 
the  Mars  and  Majestic  of  the  Channel  fleet,  each  of 
fourteen  thousand  nine  hundred  tons;  the  Common- 
wealth, of  sixteen  thousand  three  hundred  and  fifty  tons, 
was  only  launched  a  few  days  ago.  her  sisters,  the 
Dominion.  New  Zealand.  Hindostan.  and  King  Edward 
VII.  being  still  on  the  stocks,  and  the  English  navy 
has  many  other  battle-ships,  built  and  in  commission, 
whose  size  fairly  dwarfs  the  Kearsarge.  There  are 
the  Bulwark,  the  Formidable,  the  Implacable,  the 
Irresistible,  the  London,  the  Prince  of  Wales,  the 
Queen,  and  the  Venerable,  each  of  fifteen  thousand 
tons:  the  Ccesar,  Canopus.  Hannibal.  Illustrious.  Mag- 
nificent. Prince  George,  and  Victorius,  all  of  fourteen 
thousand  nine  hundred  tons.  Besides  these,  are  the 
Empress  of  India.  Hood,  Ramillies.  Repulse.  Rez'enge. 
Resolution.  Royal  Oak.  Royal  Sovereign,  Albemarle, 
Cornwallis,  Duncan.  Montagu.  Russell,  and  Exmouth. 
of  fourteen  thousand  tons,  and  others  of  less  tonnage. 
So  you  see  that  the  Kearsarge  is  hardly  the  sort  of 
battle-ship  to  fill  the  English  observer  with  awe. 

As  for  the  two  cruisers  of  the  American  squadron, 
the  Chicago  and  San  Francisco,  the  first  named  was 
completed  in  1887.  the  latter  in  1891.  Imagine  a  cruiser 
sixteen  years  old.  And  to  think  that  until  the  Kear- 
sarge was  hastily  dispatched  a  few  weeks  ago  to  join 
the  European  squadron,  because  it  was  going  to  visit 
Kiel,  at  the  German  emperor's  invitation,  the  Chicago 
was  actually  the  flagship.  It  seems  to  me  that  Euro- 
pean waters  will  never  be  rid  of  the  Chicago.  To  my 
certain  knowledge  she  has  figured  in  the  American 
European  squadron  for  quite  ten  or  twelve  years.  I 
remember  her  early  in  the  'nineties,  when  she  was  com- 
manded by  Captain  Mahan.  and  anchored  in  the 
Thames,  off  Gravesend.  I  don't  fancy  the  Chicago 
will  dazzle  English  eyes  much.  She  is  too  old  a  friend. 
I  really  believe  there  are  to-day  some  English  people 
who  have  a  sort  of  hazy  idea  that  the  United  States 
navy  consists  of  the  cruiser  Chicago.  She  and  the 
other  cruiser,  the  San  Francisco,  are  each  of  about 
four  thousand  tons.  As  up-to-date  cruisers  what  will 
thev  look  like  beside  the  English  Good  Hope,  Drake, 
and  Leviathan  of  fourteen  thousand  tons,  and  thirty 
thousand  horse-power?  With  such  ships  in  their 
minds,  the  Chicago  and  San  Francisco  will  appear 
very  small  potatoes  to  English  people.  The  last  of  the 
four,  the  Machias.  is  a  gun  vessel  of  less  than  two 
thousand  tons.  When  she  was  built  I  have  been  unable 
to  ascertain.  Possibly  during  the  War  of  the  Rebel- 
lion. 

Considering  the  fact  that  there  are  larger  and  newer 
battle-ships  and  cruisers  in  the  American  naw  already 
built  and  in  commission,  as  well  as  others  even  finer 
still  building,  while  more  battle-ships  of  a  tonnage  of 
sixteen  thousand  tons,  and  cruisers  of  fourteen  thou- 
sand tons  have  recently  been  authorized  by  Congress. 
I  think  it  would  have  been  better  had.  say.  a  dozen  of 
the  finest  ships  available  been  picked  out  to  show  the 
world  of  what  the  United  States  navy  can  boast.  The 
names  of  the  new  ships  of  America's  naw  are  known 
to  all  newspaper  readers  in  England.  Details  of  their 
launching,  and  particulars  of  their  dimensions  and 
speed  are  constantly  given  in  the  English  press.  One 
can  not  help  asking  "  Where  are  they?  Why  not  let  us 
have  a  look  at  these  '  big  preservers  of  peace '  ?" 
as  Mr.  Roosevelt  calls  them.  Why  wait  for  war's  dread 
alarms  to  let  the  world  see  them  ?  In  saving  what  I 
have  said,  it  is  with  no  desire  or  intent  to  disparage  the 
United  States  navy.  It  is  exactly  the  other  way.  But 
I  can  not  understand  the  want  of  national  pride  in  the 
Navy  Department.  Why  send  such  poor  ships  abroad, 
while  so  many  magnificent  specimens  of  modern  naval 
architecture  remain  at  home.  Cockaigne. 

London,  June  20,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  20,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Fine  Poem  Sadly  Marred. 
We  printed  in  these  columns  last  week  a 
description  of  the  cover-page  of  Joaquin 
Miller's  new  poem,  an  extract  from  the 
"  prefatory  postscript,"  and  a  few  of  the 
verses.  If  the  poem  were  in  such  execrable 
taste  as  the  cover-design  (said  to  be  the 
"  idea"  of  the  poet  himself),  it  would  deserve 
no  further  notice.  Fortunately  it  is  not.  But 
the  cover  is  really  beyond  words.  It  is  the 
very  reverse  of  art,  good  taste,  good  sense, 
even  of  decency.  The  head  of  President 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  eye-glasses,  mustache, 
determined  chin,  firm-shut  mouth  and  all,  at- 
tached to  the  naked  body  of  an  infant  with 
wildly  waving  arms  and  one  bow  leg,  the 
whole  wrapped  in  streaming  ribbons  and 
perilously  suspended  above  a  bramble-bush 
from  the  red  bill  of  a  tall  and  redder  stork — 
could  aught  under  heaven  be  more  preposter- 
ous? 

But  the  poem — that  is  a  Pegasus  of  another 
color.  Imprimis,  the  work  contains  no 
grossness,  either  in  thought  or  word.  It  holds 
nothing  to  bring  a  blush  to  any  maiden's 
cheek.  Rather,  it  soars  into  the  rare  ether  of 
ideality,  wrapping  in  the  glamorous  tissues 
of  poetic  verbiage  the  realities  of  the  mutual 
life  of  men  and  women.  It  is  in  a  real  sense  an 
epic,  finely  conceived,  nobly  planned,  for  the 
most  part  spiritedly  written,  but  marred  here 
and  there  by  what  appear  to  be  scarcely 
excusable  carelessnesses.  There  is  an  air  of 
haste  about  the  whole  piece ;  in  places  it  is 
as  if.  inspiration  suddenly  failing,  the  poet  had 
written  all  at  random.  The  line,  "  Until  they 
come  to  Babyland,"  is  absolute  bathos,  the 
simile  of  "  the  kitty's  eyes  "  is  merely  amus- 
ing. And  does  Joaquin  Miller  think  "  cobalt 
blue"  a  poetic  color?  To  us  it  savors  more 
of  chemist's  shops  and  dirty  palettes  — 
is  scarcely  more  poetic  than  benzaldehyde 
green,  which  is  a  hydrochlorid  of  tetramethl- 
diamido-triphenyl-carbinol. 

But  these  are  small  matters.  "  As  It  Was 
in  the  Beginning,"  as  a  whole,  is  a  strong  and 
virile  poem.  It  recalls  those  gray  and  vener- 
able Vedic  hymns  which  the  fathers  of  eld 
chanted  before  the  altars — hymns  .that  called 
upon  the  gods  of  death  and  birth  to  prepare 
the  womb  for  the  child  that  should  be,  and 
which  breathed  a  spirit  of  reverence  and 
purity.  The  Poet  of  the  Sierras  here  exalts, 
and  exults  in,  maternal  womanhood.  He 
pictures  a  proud  woman  of  the  West,  whose 
hero-lover  is  lured  by  the  northern  gold  and 
the  northern  stars ;  in  whose  blood  flows  the 
fierce  desire  to  dare  wild  seas  and  cruel  cold. 
But  the  woman,  being  proud,  will  not  wait  for 
her  Jason  to  bring  back  to  her  the  golden 
fleece,  and  so  he  sails,  the  tie  between  them 
snapped.  In  the  North  the  youth  braves  all 
dangers,  rejoicing  in  them,  but  at  last  he  is 
stricken  and  at  point  of  death.  Then  his  be- 
loved comes  to  him,  warms  him  with  her  body 
into  life,  quickens  his  spirit  with  her  presence, 
and  in  the  spring  they  sail  together  into 
southern  seas.  There  he  wooes  her  nobly  with 
songs  that  celebrate  the  perfect  marriage,  the 
beauty  of  motherhood,  the  glory  of  strong 
restraint. 

Such  is  the  high  lesson  the  poet  teaches, 
and  it  is  a  thousand  pities  that  a  poem  so 
fine  should  be  soiled  by  contact  with  the 
dreary  controversy  over  "  race  suicide."  In 
spirit,  this  epic  and  the  President's  letter  are 
'  as  far  apart  as  the  poles.  To  ally  them  was 
an  egregious  blunder.  But  good  poets  do  mad 
things,  and  this  is  one  of  them. 

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cisco; price,  $1.25. 


From  France  to  the  New  World. 
Another  stirring  romance  hung  on  a  frame- 
work of  history  is  "  A  Rose  of  Normandy," 
by  W.  R.  A.  Wilson.  The  exploration  of 
La  Salle  during  the  reign  of  Louis  the  Four- 
teenth of  France  supplies  the  historical  set- 
ting, with  an  accompaniment  of  gay  court 
scenes  and  Indian  massacres.  The  opening 
levee  at  the  Louvre,  where  a  tide  of  bedizened 
humanity  sets  toward  the  king,  gives  a  bril- 
liant picture  of  the  customs  and  costumes  of 
the  days  of  Louis,  called  "  le  grand,"  and 
introduces  a  famous  group  of  immortals — La 
Rochefoucauld,  Racine,  the  Abbe  Guyart, 
Mme.  de  Montespan,  La  Fontaine,  and  Mme. 
de  Sevigne.  The  conversation  of  this  group 
of  "court  butterflies,"  when  La  Rochefou- 
cauld matches  his  rakish  wit  against  that  of 
Racine  and  the  nephew  of  Corneille,  is  a 
notable  chapter  of  the  book,  and  prepares  a 
telling  contrast  for  the  scenes  that  follow. 

The   fiue  work   of   the   author   is   displayed, 
however,    in    the    descriptions    of    the    condi- 
tions 11.    ihe  New  World,  and  the  delineation 
ae     "'aracters  of  Renee  d'Outrelaise,  the 


"  Rose  of  Normandy,"  and  Henri  de  Tonti, 
soldier  of  fortune,  explorer,  hero.  The  ro- 
mantic encounter  of  these  two  when  the 
gallant  soldier  rushes  to  the  fescue  of  beauty 
in  distress,  the  duel  thereafter,  and  their 
final  discovery  of  each  other's  identity,  lead 
up  to  the  real  action  of  the  book,  and  again 
we  have  a  story  that  hinges  on  the  primitive 
passions  of  the  world — love  and  war.  And  it 
is  for  this  reason  romance  reaches  its  high- 
est register  in  a  sanguinary  setting,  for  when 
men  fight  and  die  for  a  cause,  womens'  hearts 
grow  great  and  strong,  and  life  becomes  a 
tense  and  vibrant  thing.      * 

At  the  second  meeting  of  the  lovers  in  the 
New  World,  when  Tonti,  with  La  Salle,  is 
widening  the  borders  of  France,  and  Renee. 
apparently  a  nun  in  a  convent,  is  nursing  the 
sufferers  from  the  "  red  plague,"  and  holding 
out  a  siege  in  an  ungarrisoned  fort,  a  mis- 
understanding on  the  one  side  and  the  breath 
of  the  green-eyed  monster  on  the  other  has 
blotted  the  sunshine  from  their  skies,  and  it 
is  only  after  much  needless  suffering  and 
bootless  struggle  against  love  and  pride  that 
the  Rose  of  Normandy  succumbs  to  force  of 
arms  and  Tonti  comes  into  his  own. 

Published  by  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston  ; 
price,  $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Mr.  Baring-Gould  has  written  a  new  novel 
entitled  "  Chris  of  All  Sorts,"  which  will  be 
published  within  the  next  few  months. 

Edward  S.  Van  Zile  will  publish  next  month 
a  novel  having  for  its  central  character  a 
Chicago  flour  merchant  with  designs  on  New 
York  society.  The  book  will  be  called  "  A 
Duke  and  His  Double." 

An  elaborate  work  entitled  "  The  Crossbow. 
Mediaeval  and  Modern,  Military  and  Sport- 
ing: Its  Construction.  History,  and  Manage- 
ment." by  Sir  Ralph  Payne-Gallwey,  is  forth- 
coming. The  book  will  be  in  four  parts,  and 
will  contain  two  hundred  and  twenty  illustra- 
tions from  old  paintings  and  drawings. 

G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons  have  in  preparation 
three  new  volumes  for  their  Heroes  of  the 
Nations  Series — "  Constantine  the  Great,"  by 
J.  B.  Firth;  "  Hadrian,"  by  Samuel  Dill,  pro- 
fessor of  Greek  at  Queen's  College,  Belfast ; 
and  "  Wellington,"  by  W.  O'Connor  Morris. 

"The  Life  of  Voltaire,"  by  S.  G.  Tallentyre, 
will  be  published  shortly. 

S.  H.  Jeyes's  "  Mr.  Chamberlain  :  His  Life 
and  Public  Career  "  is  soon  to  be  published  in 
this  country.  The  volume  is  a  detailed  record 
of  Mr.  Chamberlain's  political  action  from  his 
entry  into  municipal  life  at  Birmingham  down 
to  his  return  from  South  Africa  a  few  weeks 
ago.  Free  use  has  been  made  in  the  narrative 
of  extracts  from  speeches,  dispatches,  and 
official  documents. 

Arthur  T.  Quiller-Couch's  latest  book, 
"  Hetty  Wesley,"  is  reported  to  be  practically 
a  life  of  Wesley  in  novel-form.  It  will  be 
brought  out  by  the  Macmillans  in  October. 

During  the  autumn  the  Macmillan  Com- 
pany will  publish  "  The  Magic  Forest,"  by 
Stewart  Edward  White,  author  of  "  The 
Blazed  Trail  "  and  "  Conjuror's  House."  It 
is  a  story  of  the  Canadian  woods,  the  hero  be- 
ing a  little  boy  who  walks  off  a  train  in  his 
sleep  and  ends  by  spending  the  summer  with 
the  Indians. 

There  is  now  on  exhibition  in  the  Royal 
Academy,  London,  George  Frampton's  monu- 
ment to  Sir  Walter  Besant,  which  will  be 
erected  in  St.  Paul's  by  the  Society  of 
Authors.  The  inscription  reads:  "  Sir  Walter 
Besant,  Novelist.  Historian  of  London,  Secre- 
tary of  the  Palestine  Exploration  Fund, 
Originator  of  the  People's  Palace,  and  Founder 
of  the  Society  of  Authors.  This  Monument 
is  Erected  by  his  Grateful  Brethren  in  Litera- 
ture. Born  14  August,  1836.  Died  Tune, 
1901." 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  whose 
"  Biography  of  Henry  Ward  Beecher "  will 
appear  in  the  early  autumn,  received  the  de- 
gree of  D.  D.  at  Yale  recently. 

An  anonymous  book  soon  to  be  published 
under  the  title  of  "  The  Truth  About  an 
Author,"  is  expected  to  give  an  amusing 
account  of  actual  experiences  in  literary  and 
newspaper  offices  and  of  novel-writing. 

Douglas  Freshfield,  who,  in  company  with 
Professor  Garwood  and  Signor  V.  Sella,  made 
the  entire  circuit  of  Mt.  Kungchenjunga,  in 
the  Himalayas,  has  prepared  a  book  on  the 
subject  which  is  expected  to  appear  in  the 
near  future.  This  is  the  first  time  that  the 
journey  has  been  accomplished  by  Europeans. 
Their   route   took   the   explorers    through    "  a 


wilderness  inhabited  only  for  a  few  weeks  in 
midsummer  by  Tibetans  and  their  yaks,"  and 
then  over  a  pass  twenty  thousand  feet  high, 
which  took  them  five  days  to  cross. 

"  An  April  Princess,"  the  first  book  by  Miss 
Constance  Smedley,  a  young  English  writer, 
whose  work  has  been  highly  praised  by  the 
English  press  and  also  privately  by  Anthony 
Hope  and  Mrs.  W.  K.  Clifford,  will  soon 
appear.  Though  only  twenty-two  years  old, 
Miss  Smedley  has  had  a  play  produced  by 
Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell,  who  has  accepted  an- 
other for  production  in  the  autumn. 

Anne  Thackeray  Ritchie  is  writing  the  in- 
troductions for  the  volumes  by  Maria  Edge- 
worth  which  the  Macmillan  Company  are  pub- 
lishing in  their  series  of  "  Illustrated  Pocket 
Classics."  The  two  latest  of  these  contain 
Miss  Edgeworth's  "  Popular  Tales,"  illus- 
trated by  Chris  Hammond,  and  "  Ormond," 
with  many  illustrations  full  of  spirit  and 
character  by  Paul  Schloesser. 

The  Publishers'  Weekly  reports,  "  on  the 
authority  of  one  who  claims  to  know,"  that 
"  The  Kempton-Wace  Letters,"  recently  pub- 
lished by  the  Macmillan  Company,  "  are  the 
joint  work  of  Jack  London  and  Annie 
Stransky.  Jack  London  is  said  to  have  written 
the  Wace  letters ;  Miss  Stransky,  who  has 
lived  for  a  number  of  years  on  the  Pacific 
Coast,  is  said  to  have  written  the  Kempton 
and  Hester  letters." 


"William  Ernest  Henley. 
In  the  death  of  William  Ernest  Henley, 
England  has  lost  one  of  her  most  brilliant  and 
virile  critics  of  men.  of  literature,  and  of  art, 
and  a  poet  of  real  power.  Henley  was  editor 
of  the  Scots  Observer  in  its  best  days,  he 
founded  the  New  Review;  he  was  the  inspira- 
tion of  many  writers,  and  many  more  feared 
his  stinging  satire.  He  was  a  hater  of  shams, 
of  hypocrisy,  of  slavish  hero-worship.  Doubt- 
less his  over-violent  criticism  of  Stevenson 
was  but  the  natural  protest  of  a  fearless  na- 
ture against  unthinking  adulation.  But  con- 
troversy was  his  delight.  He  was  self-confi- 
dent to  egotism.  In  his  books  the  /'s  are 
ubiquitous.  In  art  he  was  an  opponent  of  Rus- 
kin,  saying  that  "  Ruskin  tenored  nonsense, 
nonsense,  for  many  years,  through  intermin- 
able volumes."  He  thought  little  of  Turner, 
still  less  of  Rossetti  and  the  rest  of  the  pre- 
Raphaelite  brotherhood.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  to  recognize  the  vast  genius  of  Auguste 
Rodin.  Such,  in  brief,  was  the  undaunted  spirit 
that  has  passed.  His  credo  he  has  himself 
voiced  thus : 

IN  VICT  us. 

Out  of  the  night  that  covers  me — 
Black  as  the  pit  from  pole  to  pole — 

I  thank  whatever  gods  may  be 
For  my  indomitable  soul. 

In  the  full  clutch  of  Circumstance 
I  have  not  winced  or  cried  aloud; 

Under  the  bludgeonings  of  Chance 
My  head  is  bloody,  but  unbowed. 

Beyond  this  place  of  wrath  and  tears 
Looms  but  the  horror  of  the  shade, 

And  yet  the  menace  of  the  years 

Finds — and  shall  find  me — unafraid. 

For  still,  however  strait  the  gate, 

How     charged     with     punishments     the 
scroll, 

I  am  the  Master  of  my  Fate, 
I  am  the  Captain  of  my  Soul! 

Here  is  another  of  his  striking  poems,  now 
of  singular  interest: 

MARGARITA    SORORI. 
A   late   lark   twitters   from   the  quiet  skies: 
And  from  the  West, 
Where  the  sun,  his  day's  work  ended, 
Lingers  as  in  content, 
There  falls  on  the  old,  gray  city 
An   influence   luminous   and  serene, 
A  shining  peace. 

The  smoke  ascends 

In   a  rosy-and-golden   haze.      The  spires 

Shine  and  are  changed.     In  the  valley 

Shadows  rise.     The  lark  sings  on.     The  sun, 

Closing  his  benediction, 

Sinks,  and  the  darkening  air 

Thrills     with     a     sense    of     the     triumphing 

night — 
Night  with  her  train  of  stars 
And  her  great  gift  of  sleep. 

So  be  my  passing! 

My  task  accomplish'd  and  the  long  day  done. 

My  wages  taken,  and  in  my  heart 

Some  late  lark  singing, 

Let  me  be  gathered  to  the  quiet  west, 

The  sundown  splendid  and  serene, 

Death. 


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central  point  of  the  town.  The  plan  has  met 
with  enthusiastic  response  throughout  Den- 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Little  and  Big  Books. 

It  seems  odd  that  the  "  little  books "  of 
which  English  publishers  print  so  many  and 
American  publishers  so  few  are  not  more  pop- 
ular than  they  are.  Indeed,  it  seems  as  if 
the  continued  popularity  of  large  and  heavy 
volumes  were  due  to  a  prejudice.  With  im- 
provements in  printing  and  in  paper-making. 
Newnes,  the  London  publisher,  is  able  to  turn 
out  long  novels  in  remarkably  small  bulk. 
His  latest  outputs — ""  Night  and  Morning," 
by  Lord  Lytton,  and  "  Harry  Lorrequer,"  by- 
Charles  Lever — are  each  only  six  and  one-half 
inches  tall,  four  inches  wide,  and  three-quar- 
ters of  an  inch  thick.  Vet  each  book  contains 
six  hundred  pages,  the  type  is  as  large  as  that 
on  the  first  page  of  the  Argonaut,  and  the 
paper  used,  though  thin,  is  perfectly  opaque. 
Compare  these  handy  little  books  with  ordi- 
nary ones.  We  take  from  the  shelf  a  typical 
volume.  It  is  eight  inches  high,  five  inches 
wide,  two  inches  thick,  and  contains  five  hun- 
dred and  fifty  pages.  It  weighs  two  and  one- 
eighth  pounds  —  thirty-four  ounces  —  while 
"  Night  and  Morning  "  weighs  but  ten  ounces. 
Yet  the  latter  book,  by  a  careful  computation, 
contains  223.060  words,  and  the  former 
but  184,250.  What  is  the  use  to  the 
book-buyer  of  so  much  waste  paper — twenty- 
four  ounces  of  it?  A  book  weighing  two 
pounds  can  not  readily  be  held  in  the  hand- 
It  is  too  unwieldy  to  carry'-  It  takes  up  val- 
uable space  in  the  library.  Newnes's  books 
prove  that  such  a  work  can  be  printed  so  that 
it  retains  every  virtue  except  size,  and  the 
pound  or  so  of  paper  saved  enables  the  pub- 
lisher to  bind  in  flexible,  durable,  and  beauti- 
ful leather,  rather  than  in  shoddy  buckram. 
Undoubtedly  American  publishers  are  supply- 
ing what  the  public  wants.  But  there  is  a  sus- 
picion that  the  public  doesn't  know  what  it 
wants.  There  is  ground  for  the  belief  that  the 
Average  Man  buys  books  like  melons,  accord- 
ing to  size.  He  willingly  pays  a  couple  of 
dollars  for  an  overgrown  octavo  whose  pages 
are  half  margin,  but  balks  at  giving  the  same 
price  for  a  neat  duodecimo  that  is  all  com- 
pact. He  thinks,  in  the  latter  case,  that  he 
isn't  getting  the  worth  of  his  money.  He  seems 
still  to  be  in  the  same  boat  as  the  Chinaman 
who  wanted  the  largest  pair  of  boots  he  could 
get  for  the  price. 

Imported  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York;  price,  $1.25  each. 


A  Good  Ghost  Story. 

The  second  of  the  new  series  of  Little 
Novels  by  Favorite  Authors  presents  a  pleas- 
ing contrast  with  the  first.  Owen  Wister's 
"  Philosophy  4 "  was  a  most  amusing  little 
story-  full  of  health  and  heartiness  ;  F.  Marion 
Crawford's  "  Man  Overboard,"  on  the  other 
hand,  is  a  grim  and  ghostly  tale  of  a  ship, 
a  sailor,  and  a  lass,  worked  out  with  all  that 
literary  skill  and  finesse  for  which  Mr. 
Crawford  is  famous.  The  notable  thing  about 
the  story  is  the  cumulative  nature  of  the  in- 
cidents. Each  event  of  the  ill-starred  voyage 
of  the  Helen  B.  Jackson,  as  related  by  the 
venerable  mate,  serves  to  heighten  the  ghostly 
feeling  and  induce  delicious  vertebral  shivers. 
Not  for  a  moment  does  Mr.  Crawford  lose  his 
grip  on  the  reader's  attention,  and  the  climax 
is  eminently  satisfying  to  lovers  of  such 
ghostly  tales.  Not  unnaturally,  one  compares 
Mr.  Crawford's  work  with  that,  in  a  similar 
line,  by  Mr.  Howells,  though  the  elder  author 
can  only  suffer  by  it.  The  stories  in  Mr. 
Howells's  "Questionable  Shapes"  never  become 
downright  scary.  The  Dean  rather  flirted  with 
his  subject.  He  seemed  loth  to  cut  loose  and 
adventure  boldly  into  the  Realm  of  the  Im- 
probable. Mr.  Crawford  has  no  such  qualms. 
"Man  Overboard"  is  the  real  thing. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York;   price,   75   cents. 


A  "Well-Padded  Novel. 

The  entire  story  of  "  Marty,"  John  Strange 
Winter's  latest  novel,  could  easily  be  com- 
pressed within  the  limits  of  a  single  chapter. 
Yet  this  writer  has  such  a  trick  of  dilating 
on  the  pleasant  trivialities  of  daily  life,  that 
the  reader  is  lured  on  to  read  an  entire  vol- 
ume without  realizing  that  the  author  is 
past-mistress    in    the    gentle    art    of    padding. 

Her  padding,  however,  is  often  more  divert- 
ing than  the  straight- ahead  narrative  of  the 
well-balanced  novelist  who  sticks  sturdily 
to  the  point.  The  reason  is  not  far  to  seek. 
Mrs.  Stannard  (to  give  the  author  her  real 
name)  knows  the  tastes  of  the  average  novel- 
reader  down  to  a  dot.  She  knows  what  every- 
day people  think  and  talk  about,  and  in  the 
course  of  her  narrative  makes  numerous  side 
excursions  into  topics  of  cheerfully  irrelevant 
commonplace.      "  Marty "    is    the    fashionably 


educated  daughter  of  an  excellent  woman, 
an  ex-lady's  maid,  who  has  built  up  a  paying . 
business,  which,  conducted  in  a  strictly  private 
manner,  consists  of  retailing  the  cast-off 
splendors  of  great  ladies. 

The  story  reverts  to  a  favorite  theme  of 
Mrs.  Stannard's,  her  plot  hinging  on  caste 
divisions  in  England.  Marty  marries  above 
her  station,  and  in  spite  of  her  wedded  happi- 
ness, takes  secret  flight  on  discovering  that 
she  is  looked  at  askance  by  her  husband's 
aristocratic  connections.  The  idea  is  far 
from  convincing,  but  Mrs.  Stannard's  ready 
fancy  and  fluency  in  the  retailing  of  small  in- 
cidents keep  up  a  pleasant  bustle  of  light, 
cheerful,  entertaining  narrative  to  the  end. 
Marty's  actions  are  inconsistent  with  her 
biographer's  description  of  her  character,  but 
she  is  lovable,  and  so  is  her  excellent  mother, 
the  ex-lady's  maid.  So.  too,  is  George,  the 
husband,  and,  with  the  talk,  the  tea- dr hikings, 
the  occupations,  trials,  and  troubles  of  these 
three  pleasant  people,  spread  out  thin,  but  not 
tediously  so,  the  story  flows  on  to  a  cheer- 
ful conclusion,  and  the  reader  who  is  not 
above  enjoying  agreeable  mediocrity  concludes 
in  satisfied  mood. 

Published  by  the  J.  P.  Lippincott  Company, 
Philadelphia;   price,   $1.25. 

New  Publications. 
"  How  to  Make  School  Gardens,"  by  H.  D. 
Hemenway.  director  of  the  Hartford  School 
of  Horticulture,  is  brief,  to  the  point,  and 
contains  a  number  of  illustrations.  It  should 
prove  useful.  Published  by  Doubleday,  Page 
&  Co.,  New  York:  price,  $1.00. 

There  has  appeared  a  revised  edition  of 
W.  K.  Roberts's  "  Divinity  and  Man,"  which, 
he  says,  is  "  an  interpretation  of  spiritual 
law  in  its  relation  to  mundane  phenomena  and 
to  the  ruling  incentives  and  moral  duties  of 
man.  together  with  an  allegory  dealing  with 
cosmic  evolution  and  certain  social  and  re- 
ligious problems."  More  plainly,  the  work  is 
a  theosophical  system  based  on  the  books  of 
Oriental  and  early  Occidental  philosophers 
here  restated  and  slightly  extended.  Pub- 
lished by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York; 
price,   $1.75- 

"  Money  and  Banking :  An  Introduction 
to  the  Study  of  Modern  Currencies."  by  Will- 
iam A.  Scott,  "  is,"  according  to  the  preface. 
"  the  outcome  of  ten  years'  experience  in 
teaching  large  classes  in  the  University  of 
Wisconsin,  and  is  presented  to  the  public 
in  the  hope  that  students  in  other  institutions, 
as  well  as  the  average  citizen  who  wishes 
to  understand  this  subject,  may  find  it  use- 
ful." The  work  indeed  appears  to  be  a  con- 
cise and  clear  treatise,  very  well  designed  to 
meet  the  author's  modest  expectations  for  it. 
It  is  published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New- 
York;    price,   $1.50. 

The  1903  edition  of  "  Moody's  Manual  of 
Corporation  Securities  "  has  just  been  issued. 
The  new  volume  contains  over  2,400  pages, 
and  is  the  standard  authority  on  the  corpora- 
tions of  the  United  States.  There  are  about 
1 1. 000  different  enterprises  embraced  in  the 
statistics  covered  by  this  volume.  Each  cor- 
poration is  fully  described.  Information  re- 
garding property  owned  and  controlled, 
capitalization  and  bonded  debt,  dividends, 
financial  condition  and  earnings,  officers,  man- 
agers, directors,  and  addresses  is  given.  Pub- 
lished by  the  Moody  Publishing  Company, 
New  York ;  price,  $7.50. 

Many  notable  features  distinguish  the  Cam- 
bridge Edition  of  the  poets,  of  which  some 
fifteen  volumes  have  now  appeared.  The 
paper  used  is  thin,  but  firm  and  opaque;  the 
type  is  of  good  size  and  legible:  the  binding 
is  plain  and  serviceable,  and  so  flexible  that 
the  volume  readily  lies  flat  open.  The  edito- 
rial features  of  the  latest  number  of  the  se- 
ries, entitled  "  The  Complete  Works  of  Alex- 
ander Pope,"  are  the  re-arrangement  of  the 
poems  in  chronological  order,  and  the  inclu- 
sion of  translations  from  Homer.  The  Cam- 
bridge Editions  are  under  the  general  editor- 
ship of  Bliss  Perry,  and  this  particular 
volume  is  edited  by  Henry  W.  Boynton.  who 
furnishes  an  introduction,  and  has  revised  the 
notes.  The  volume  appears  to  us  to  be  the 
most  satisfactory  moderate-priced  edition  of 
Pope  to  be  had.  Published  by  Houghton. 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  Boston  ;  price,  $2.00. 

Felix  Dahn  has  a  reputation  in  Germany  as 
a  brilliant  novelist-  Through  the  translations 
by  Mary  J.  Safford,  the  English-reading  pub- 
lic has  now  an  opportunity  to  compare  his 
historical  novels  with  those  of  Sienkiewicz 
and  other  fictionists  who  have  bent  the  stirring 
events  of  Roman  history  to  their  purposes. 
"  The  Captive  of  the  Roman  Eagles "  is  a 
story  of  A.  D.  378,  the  scene  of  which  is  the 
shores  of  Lake  Constance.     The  battle  fought 


at  that  place  between  the  Roman  legions  and 
the  Northern  tribes  is  graphically  described, 
and  woven  in  with  the  struggle  between 
Teuton  and  Latin  is  the  olden  story  of  warrior 
lover  and  maid.  The  historical  accuracy  of 
Professor  Dahn's  novels  is  unimpeachable. 
Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago ; 
price,  $1.50. 


One  Novelist  on  Another. 
In  a  speech  at  a  dinner  given  by  the  new 
Vagabonds  Club  in  London,  recently,  Mrs. 
Humphry  Ward,  the  guest  of  honor,  paid  an 
eloquent  tribute  to  George  Meredith.  Speak- 
ing of  his  novels,  she  said  : 

"  How  strange  it  is !  One  opens  a  book 
again  after  ten  or  twenty  years — and  all  is 
changed.  What  was  obscure  has  become  a 
mere  delightful  challenge  to  the  wits ;  what 
was  a  struggle  is  now  a  fascination.  The 
reader  has  grown  to  the  writer.  And  round 
the  writer,  the  poet — round  our  George  Mere- 
dith in  his  seventy-fifth  year — the  world  has 
become  electric.  Kind  airs  blow  now  from 
all  parts.  His  books  are  read  by  the  thousand 
where  once  they  were  read  by  the  score.  The 
middle-aged  and  the  old  look  upon  him  with 
new  eyes,  and  listen  to  him  with  new  sympa- 
thies. While  in  the  universities  we  shall  find, 
if  we  look  close,  that  the  young  and  generous 
minds — the  minds  that  matter — are  living  in 
his  life,  thinking  in  his  thoughts.  ...  In  the 
free  libraries — the  much-abused  free  libraries — 
in  the  house  of  the  clerk  and  the  workman,  this 
noble  art  and  this  high  poetry  are  also  finding 
out  their  own — are  appealing  to  that  natural 
and  widespread  instinct  for  the  things  of  fine 
imagination  which  is  our  heritage  in  England. 
So  both  from  the  intellectual  elite  and  from 
the  populace,  the  great  response  seems  to  be 
rising  once  more  that  places  an  English  writer 
high  above  the  reach  of  failure  or  forgetful- 
ness." 


Gregarious  Reading  of  Poetry. 
Andrew  Lang  has  lately  been  taking  a  fall 
out  of  the  Browning  and  other  poet  societies, 
as  did  Stedman  long  ago.  In  an  article  on 
"  Poet  and  Public,"  in  the  London  Morning 
Post,  the  genial  Scotsman  writes  : 

It  may  also  be  noted  that  many  people  who 
certainly  read  poetry  seem  to  feel  timid, 
lonely,  and  deserted,  so  that  they  flock  together 
into  little  mobs  for  mutual  protection,  Words- 
worth societies,  Browning  societies,  reading 
societies  of  all  kinds.  Now.  I  would  as  lief 
fish  at  Loch  Leven  in  a  fishing  competition — 
men  in  boats  shouting  to  each  other  and 
breaking  the  silence  round  Queen  Mary's  isl- 
and prison,  whisky  going,  every  kind  of  gre- 
garious horror — as  read  poetry'  in  a  society. 
It  is  in  solitude.  "  in  a  nook  with  a  book," 
that  poetry  is  to  be  tasted.  But  we  hear  of 
a  society  for  reading  Mr.  Meredith  among  the 
Northumbrian  miners — one  might  as  well  read 
Euclid  in  a  society.  These  studies  demand 
lonely  application.  A  dozen  decent  bodies 
met  to  dig  the  meaning  out  of  "  In  Memo- 
riam  "  is  a  spectacle  comic  and  mournful,  and 
one  that  would  have  consternated  the  poet.  It 
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July  2o3  1903. 


Haddon  Chambers's  "  A  Modern  Magdalen," 
the  play  in  which  Amelia  Bingham  is  appear- 
ing at  the  Columbia  this  week,  is  a  gallery  of 
dramatic  echoes,  and  Katinka,  its  leading 
character,  is  a  sort  of  human  chameleon, 
partaking  of  the  character  and  motives  of  at 
least  half  a  dozen  heroines  of  well-known 
plays. 

In  the  first  act,  which,  as  in  "  The  Climb- 
ers," is  the  best,  Katinka,  a  ripe  and  rounded 
beauty,  upon  whom  every  man's  eye  seems  to 
fall  with  approval  and  the  desire  for  pos- 
session, is  living  in  poverty  and  obscurity 
under  the  paternal  roof.  She  has  a  shrewish 
stepmother,  a  drunken  father,  and  an  invalid 
sister  who,  in  spite  of  Katinka's  luscious  and 
superabundant  charms,  is  all  but  dying  for 
lack  of  nourishment — a  situation  which  is 
scarcely  convincing,  since,  during  the  course 
of  the  act,  so  many  approving  references  are 
made  to  Katinka's  fine  shape  that  only  a 
plump  and  well-developed  woman  could  fill 
the  part  with  consistency,  a  state  of  things 
which  scarcely  tallies  with  the  starving- 
sister  idea.  This  act,  nevertheless,  is,  in 
spots,  characterized  by  a  sharp,  uncompro- 
mising, almost  sordid,  realism,  and  is  ex- 
tremely interesting,  the  lines  being  particularly 
meaty  in  their  mingling  of  terseness  and  vigor. 
The  melodramatic  interest  centres  upon  the 
rival  suits  of  an  honest,  adoring  lover  upon 
starvation  earnings,  a  gilded,  infatuated  swell, 
and  an  elderly  but  prosperous  money-lender, 
all  of  whom  lay  their  contending  claims  at 
the  feet  of  Katinka,  who,  rejecting  moneyless 
worth  and  moneyed,  matured  bumptiousness, 
self-sacrificingly  gives  way  before  the  un- 
licensed passion  of  the  swell,  because  scrap- 
ings from  his  gilding  will  buy  food  for  her 
starving  sister.  Therefore,  relapsing  tempor- 
arily _  into  Hardy's  Tess,  Katinka  flits  away 
to  a  life  of  bediamonded  vice,  from  which 
issue  periodical  remittances  to  the  family 
exchequer. 

Now  this  motive,  to  use  a  very  low  but  ex- 
pressive phrase,  "  won't  wash."  Why  does  not 
Katinka  gratify  all  those  yearnings  for  re- 
spectability in  her  bosom,  mend  that  rent  in 
her  dust-colored  but  miraculously  fitting  liv- 
ery of  poverty,  and  apply  for  a  position  as 
shop-girl?  Or  why,  since  she  so  loathes  the 
life  she  enters  upon,  does  she  not  later  supply 
the  larder  of  the  starving  sister  out  of  her 
earnings  as  an  actress?  Since  these  questions 
will  obtrude  themselves,  it  is  evident  that  the 
weaknesses  in  the  play  that  prompt  them  are 
flagrant.  Yet  the  piece  is  so  cleverly  written 
that  it  almost  triumphs  over  its  own  imper- 
fections, and  Miss  Bingham,  with  her  unusu- 
ally excellent  company,  the  direct  sincerity  of 
her  own  acting,  together  with  the  important 
decorative  adjunct  of  beautiful  clothes  and 
handsome  mountings,  succeeds  in  giving  a 
performance  that  closely  holds  the  attention, 
interesting  even  those  over  whom  logic  and 
reason  hold  an  inconvenient  ascendancy. 

In  the  second  act,  Katinka,  the  chameleon, 
drawn  by  the  magnet  of  home  affections,  re- 
turns gorgeously  bedizened  and  decorated 
with  strings  of  jewels,  and  has  a  brief  attack 
of  sisterly  love  and  Magdaism.  In  the  third 
act,  attired  in  a  diamond-strewn  dress,  and 
with  coon-song  singing  revelers  and  rival 
lovers  offering  up  incense  to  her  in  her  sump- 
tuous apartments,  she  successfully  leaps  the 
gulf  between  Glory  Quayle  and  Camille,  bor- 
rowing, on  the  way,  a  touch  of  color  from 
Esmond's  Firefly,  and  in  the  fourth,  after  a 
lightning  transition  into  the  role  of  the  "  Danc- 
ing Girl  "  duke,  during  which  the  fatal  draught 
is  snatched  from  her  lips  by  her  self-effacing 
lover,  she  is  Glory  Quayle  again,  humbly 
renouncing  the  hectic  glow  of  her  career  for 
the  self-sacrificing  labors  of  an  army  nurse. 

It  is  thus  plainly  apparent  that  there  is 
much  borrowed  color  and  a  very  large  element 
of  buncombe  in  Mr.  Chambers's  play,  but  the 
author  has  nearly  saved  himself  by  the  quiet, 
reasonable  tone  in  which  the  major  part  of  it 
is  pitched — a  tone  which  takes  you  in  occa- 
sionally, almost  convincing  you  that  you  are 
lo  iking  upon  realistic  and  consistent  drama. 
The  best  feature  oE  the  play,  and  the  one 
u,;on     which     the     author   has    put    the    most 


thought,  labor,  and  originality,  is  the  charac- 
ter of  Hiram  Jenkins,  the  father  of  Katinka. 
Mr.  Jenkins  is  a  combination  of  old  Mr.  Tur- 
veydrop,  Harold  Skimpole,  and  himself,  al- 
though, to  do  justice  to  the  author,  he  is 
most  of  all  himself.  He  is  just  that  kind  of 
idle,  irresponsible,  soft-sawdering,  merry  old 
vagabond  who  inspires  a  tolerant  affection  in 
the  bosoms  of  the  younger  members  of  his 
family,  and  the  impatient  contempt  resulting 
from  dismal  experience  in  those  of  the  elders. 
The  old  rascal  has  a  sense  of  humor,  and  a 
tongue  to  express  it;  and,  although  his  nose  is 
a  purple  whisky-blossom  and  his  eyes  two 
bleary  button-holes,  he  always  maintains  an 
imposing  Turveydrop  deportment.  One  felt  a 
sense  of  deep  satisfaction  on  seeing  Wilton 
Lackaye,  whose  abilities  have  been  so  fre- 
quently wasted,  in  a  part  which  showed  to  the 
full  his  unusual  skill  in  characterization.  There 
was  not  a  dull  line  in  this  role.  Yet,  with 
the  unctuous  humor  of  his  delivery,  which  ex- 
pressed the  habitual  good  spirits  of  the  irre- 
sponsible loafer,  together  with  the  dignity  of 
the  family  fraud  who  must  assert  himself, 
Mr.  Lackaye  doubled  the  dramatic  value  of  his 
least  utterance.  The  character  was  consistent 
to  its  final  exit,  which  takes  place  when  the 
dart  of  reproach,  which  Katinka  plants  in  her 
father's  breast,  finds  a  vulnerable  spot — a  situ- 
ation which  Mr.  Jenkins,  like  all  other  Jen- 
kinses in  the  human  family,  meets  by  evading 
the  unpleasant  and  quietly  making  himself 
scarce. 

Miss  Adelyn  Wesley  gave  a  telling  and 
vigorous  impersonation  of  the  virago  step- 
mother. This  actress  shows  herself  a  mis- 
tress of  detail,  and,  as  she  presided  over  the 
salt-pork  banquet  of  the  Jenkinses,  gave  a 
delightfully  graphic  illustration  of  the  easy 
table  etiquette  of  that  half  of  the  world  which 
eats  with  its  knife. 

Mr.  Chambers  has  formulated  another  char- 
acter in  the  play — that  of  an  aggressive, 
egotistic  reformer — which  has  the  same  curious 
tendency  as  others  in  the  piece  to  suggest 
well-known  characters.  John  Strong  is  part 
Chadband,  has  a  strong  dash  of  Henry  Arthur 
Jones's  Ferguson  Pybus,  from  "The  Case  of 
Rebellious  Susan,"  and  seems,  as  well,  to  be  a 
sort  of  take-off  on  his  strenuous  namesake  in 
"  The  Christian."  The  character  was  most 
ably  assumed  by  Mr.  George  Spink,  who  made 
of  it,  without  over-emphasis,  an  exceedingly 
clever  caricature.  In  fact,  Miss  Bingham 
has  an  all-round  good  company,  not  permit- 
ting even  the  most  minor  roles  to  be  trusted 
to  incompetent  hands.  Miss  Bingham  herself 
i=  a  very  tactful  actress,  showing  a  good  deal 
of  skill  in  her  avoidance  of  stereotyped 
methods,  and  in  the  moderation  and  compara- 
tive sincerity  with  which  she  meets  false 
or  unnatural  issues. 

The  part  of  Katinka,  I  doubt  not,  is  much 
appreciated  by  the  actress-manager,  being, 
from  a  business  point  of  view,  "  a  good 
thing."  It  is  adapted  in  some  points  to  her 
temperament  —  which  suggests  practicality, 
with  a  streak  of  materialism,  and  per- 
mits the  play  of  comedy,  sentiment,  and 
emotion.  It  also  exhibits  the  develop- 
ment dear  to  the  feminine  heart  from 
the  dun-colored  .grub,  shelved  in  the  dust  of 
poverty,  to  the  bright-hued  devotee  of 
pleasure,  offsetting  her  white  flesh  and 
dimpled  arms  with  the  trappings  of  fashion,  and 
expanding  exultant  wings  in  the  atmosphere 
of  admiring  adulation.  There  is  something, 
too,  in  the  role  of  a  repentent  sinner  in 
satins  and  jewels  that  peculiarly  appeals  to 
the  imagination  of  actresses.  It  must  be  so 
delightful  to  have  the  sympathies  of  the 
audience  in  the  portrayal  of  a  picturesque 
penitent,  who  is  simultaneously  living  up  to 
her  outer  reputation  of  a  wickedly  beautiful 
sinner  with  the  telling  externals  of  Parisian 
gowns  and  diamonds.  Miss  Bingham  did  her 
duty  unflinchingly  in  this  respect,  being 
gowned,  in  the  third  act,  more  handsomely  and 
dazzlingly  than  was  ever  actress  before,  in  my 
rememberance,  in  a  dress  that  was  sewn  from 
shoulder  to  hem  in  an  all-over  embroidery  of 
glittering   stage    diamonds. 


A  few  weeks  ago  there  was  a  revival  of 
"Romeo  and  Juliet"  at  the  Knickerbocker 
Theatre  in  New  York,  at  which  Kyrle  Berlew 
and  Eleanor  Robson  played  the  principal 
roles  with  an  all-star  cast.  I  saw  some  of 
the  notices  of  this  performance,  and  the  ma- 
jority of  them  gave  evidence  of  a  vague  dis- 
satisfaction. But  what,  Indeed,  did  the  critics 
want,  with  such  players  as  John  Kellerd, 
Eben  Plympton,  and  W.  H.  Thompson, 
brought  together  to  assist  in  worthily  present- 
ing the  supremest  love  tragedy  in  our  lan- 
guage? Something,  I  fancy,  that  we  all  want 
in  Shakespearean  roles.  We  desire,  perhaps 
unconsciously,  non-modern  personalities  to  in- 
terpret them. 


In  one  sense,  the  drama  of  the  day  is  more 
superficial  than  it  was  formerly.  Lightness 
and  wit  are  inseparable  from  our  most  sombre 
plays,  and  the  tension  of  the  gravest  situation 
must  be  relieved  by  an  occasional  laugh. 
Hence,  our  players  have  not  that  concentration 
of  feeling  and  that  enrichment  of  tempera- 
ment which  comes  from  continually  acting 
strong,  serious,  compelling,  dominating 
characters.  To  the  experienced  eye  there  is 
generally  the  appearance  of  acting  and  the 
superficiality  of  emotional  expression  which 
mars  the  illusion,  and,  besides,  the  modern 
personality  is  antipathetic  to  poetry. 

Nance  O'Neil,  however  lacking  her  support, 
is  equipped  with  the  temperament,  the  person- 
ality, and  the  experience  essential  to  a  due 
interpretation  of  legitimate  roles.  That  her 
Juliet  is  only  fair  arises,  not  so  much  from 
an  emotional  as  from  a  poetical  lack  in  Miss 
O'Neil's  own  nature,  added  to  her  growing 
tendency  to  be  monotonously  alike  in  widely 
diverse  roles.  In  consequence,  there  were  no 
new  revelations  in  her  Juliet,  which  was  just 
a  traditional  representation,  and  on  the  whole 
rather  unsuited  to  the  heavily  tragic  style  of 
this  actress.  She  lacked  in  girlishness,  and, 
in  spite  of  her  excessive  weeping,  in  passion- 
ate abandon,  and  in  that  supreme  exaltation 
of  mood  which  reaches  both  heart  and  imagi- 
nation. 

Viewing  his  impersonation  as  that  of  an 
all-around,  useful  leading  man,  Mr.  RatclifT 
need  not  blush  for  his  Romeo,  which  was  un- 
inspired, but,  like  Miss  O'Neil's  Juliet,  played 
on  such  traditional  lines  as  to  be  acceptable. 
A  man  of  Mr.  Ratcliff's  physiognomy,  how- 
ever, with  thin  lips,  a  square  jaw,  and  those 
satiric  curves  in  his  cheek  which  are  a  cross 
between  a  wrinkle  and  a  crinkle,  is  scarcely 
cut  out  for  a  Romeo.  Rather,  in  his  pilgrim's 
gown,  he  resembled  a  masquerading  lawyer 
than  that  young  Italian  god  of  love,  who  lived 
and  died  for  the  passion  of  passions.  But 
who,  indeed,  does  look  to  be  a  Romeo?  I  saw 
him  hut  once,  in  the  person  of  Alessandro 
Salvini,  whose  dark  Italian  face  and  Latin 
abandon  to  the  dominant  emotion  of  the  lover, 
made  one  forget  the  lack  of  technique  which 
later  was  so  fully  developed  by  the  same  actor 
in  his  successful  prime. 

Charles  Millward  was  Mercutio  ;  a  difficult 
role  at  best,  that  of  the  merry  follower  of  the 
Montagues,  who  is  obliged  to  joke  ceaselessly 
in  pentameters.  I  marveled  to  observe  that 
Millward's  brow  was  wet  with  honest  sweat 
two  minutes  after  he  had  made  his  appear- 
ance. But  in  two  more,  when  the  poor  fellow 
hurled  himself  valiantly  into  the  Queen  Mab 
speech,  the  marvel  was  explained.  It  is  a 
most  difficult  feat,  the  delivery  of  this  light 
and  delicate  play  of  a  poet's  fancy,  whose  airy 
charm  is  better  felt  in  silent  reading  than  in 
audible  delivery,  being  always  greeted,  it  is 
true,  with  a  burst  of  applause,  but  seldom 
earning  it. 

Mr.  Millward  made  mighty  exertions  with 
this  cruel  little  poetic  snag,  and  fully  five- 
sixths  of  what  he  said  was  articulate — a  good 
twenty-five  per  cent,  ahead  ~  of  his  usual  rec- 
ord. * 

Mrs.  Fannie  Young  played  the  nurse  with 
that  special  touch  of  genuineness  and  absorp- 
tion in  her  role  which  has  always  made  her 
so  likable,  and  Stockwell  gave  to  Balthazar 
the  essential  quality  of  clownish,  good-natured 
imbecility  which  recommends  that  character 
to  the  favor  of  the  comedy-lovers.  Over  the 
minor  actors  in  a  Shakespearean  production 
it  is  generally  safe  to  draw  a  veil,  but  we  may 
be  pardoned  for  remarking  that  old  Pa  Capu- 
let  evidently  forgot  his  acquired  Shakespearese, 
and  relapsed  into  his  native  tongue  when  he 
stigmatized  the  recalcitrant  Tybalt  as  "  a  sassy 
boy."  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 

Alice  Nielsen  has  refused  a  large  offer  made 
to  her  by  Weber  &  Fields  for  their  New  York 
company,  .and  is.  said  to  have  made  up  her 
mind  to  "fritter  away  the  time  as  fancy 
strikes  her."  In  a  letter  to  a  friend  in  New 
York,  written  not  long  ago,  she  said  in  effect : 
"  I  don't  have  to  do  any  more  hard  work,  and 
I  don't  propose  to  try.  I  am  well  fixed  and 
comfortable,  and  that  is  all  I  want." 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

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his  practice  at  the  same  place  with  increased  facilities 
and  competent  and  courteous  associates. 


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Evening,  25c  to  75c.  Regular  matinees  (Thursday 
and  Saturday),  15c  to  50c. 

July  27th  — Hall  Caine's,  Tlie  Manxman.  It: 
first  production  in  San  Francisco. 


QENTRAL  THEATRE*    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Beginning  Monday,  July  20th,  matinees  Saturday  anc 
Sundav,  Goethe's  immortal  drama, 

=:-  F?  AUST  -:- 

Great  cast.    Splendid  scenery. 
Prices— Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  rsc,  25c 
Next— The  tion's  Heart. 


QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE* 

Only  matinee  Saturday.     Beginning  to-morrow  nightj 

RAYMOND  and  CAVERLY  in  the  famous 

musical  eccentricity, 

IN     WALL     STREET   I 

New  specialties,    songs,    dances.      New    march    o 
beautiful  girls.     Everything  novel  and  beautiful. 

Prices— 25c,  50c,  and  75c. 


QAUFORNIA  THEATRE* 

To-night,  to-morrow  night,  farewell  of 

NANCE  O'NEIt. 

Monday  evening,  July  20th,  the   NEILL-MOROSCC 

COMPANY,  presenting 

IN    THE  PALACE  OF   THE  KING 

Special  Summer  Pi  ices— Entire  lower  floor,  75c;  ball 
cony,  .soc;  gallery,  25c.  Bargain  matinees  ever; 
Thursday,  25c  and  50c. 

Next— Genevieve  Haine's  Hearts  Aflame. 


Week  commencing  [Sunday  ?  matinee,  July  19th, 
New  attractions!  Ethel  Levey;  Claude  Gilling 
water  and  Company;  Orpheus  Comedy  Four;  th< 
Three  Polos;  George  W-  Hunter;  Bailey  and  Madison 
Hodges  and  Launchmere;  the  Biograph ;  and  lasj 
week  of  De  Kolta. 


Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c;  opera  chairs  am 
box  seats,  50c ;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  ant 
Sunday. 


A  tremendous  combination  bill, 

UNDER    THE     RED     GLOBE 

AND 

THE     THREE     MUSKETEERS 

Everything  new.  Everything  a  hit.  Every  thin; 
magnificent.  The  same  popular  prices.  Come  earl 
to  secure  seats,  as  standing  room  only  will  surely  rule 

prjces_25c,  50c,  and  75c  ;  Saturday  and  Sunday  mat 
nees,  25c  and  50c ;  children  at  matinees,  10c  and  25c. 


STEIN  WAY  HALL 


323  Sutter  Stree 


Popular  Psychological  Lectures.     SUNDAY  NIGHT 
July  19th.  ST15  o'clock,  Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor 

TYNDALL 

—  WILL  TALK   ON  — 

LIFE'S  SECRETS 

Followed    by    experiments    ij 
Thought-Force,  Tele- 
pathy. 

Tickets,  50c  and  25c.     On  sale  at  Steinway  Hall  bo:, 
office.  ^^^^^ 

Sunday  eve,  July  26th,  Tyndall  on  "  The  Thougl  , 
that  Kills." 


July  20,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


43 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


The  Neill-Morasco  Company  Opens  Its  Season. 
Sunday  night,  at  the  California  Theatre, 
Nance  O'Neil  will  give  a  farewell  perform- 
ance of  "  Macbeth."  Monday  night  will  be 
the  opening  of  the  pretentious  summer  stock- 
season,  and  the  introduction  to  San  Francisco 
of  the  new  and  much-talked-of  Neill-Morosco 
Company.  The  opening  p'.ay  will  be  Marion 
Crawford's  stirring  romantic  drama,  "  In  the 
Palace  of  the  King,"  which  was  Viola  Allen's 
great  success  of  last  season.  The  story  has 
already  been  detailed  at  length,  and  it  is  only 
necessary  to  say  that  it  includes  intrigue,  con- 
spiracy, murder,  and.  above  all.  a  rapturous  in- 
cident between  Dolores,  the  daughter  of  a 
Spanish  captain,  and  Don  John  of  Austria. 
The  leading  character,  that  of  Dolores,  is 
taken  by  Lillian  Kemble.  Don  John  will  be 
represented  by  George  Soule  Spencer.  Inez, 
the  blind  girl,  sister  to  Dolores,  will  be  played 
by  Elsie  Esmond.  Thomas  Oberle,  as  the 
Spanish  monarch,  and  Frederic  Sumner,  as 
Ferez,  his  secretary,  are  two  talented  actors, 
who  are  as  yet  strangers  here.  Frank  Mac- 
Vicars  as  the  cardinal,  H.  S.  Duffield  as  the 
stern  father  of  Dolores,  and  Phosa  McAllister 
as  the  duchess  are  three  old  favorites.  Matinees 
will  be  given  every  Thursday. 

Camille  D'Arville  in  "  The  Highwayman." 
Camille  D'Arville,  long  prominent  on  the 
American  operatic  stage,  is  to  return  once 
more  to  the  footlights,  and  will  open  a  special 
engagement  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House  on 
Monday  evening  next  as  Lady  Constance  Sin- 
clair in  Smith  and  DeKoven's  clever  comic 
opera,  "  The  Highwayman."  The  announce- 
ment of  Miss  D'Arville's  return  will  be  wel- 
come to  every  lover  of  music,  and  the  Tivoli 
fc  is  fortunate  in  securing  her  services  at  this 
juncture.  "  The  Highwayman  "  concerns  a 
period  when,  in  England,  the  knight  of  the  road 
was  a  factor  to  be  reckoned  with  in  any  jour- 
ney. The  plot  revolves  around  the  adven- 
tures of  Dick  Fitzgerald,  a  young  Irishman. 
who  has  been  robbed  of  his  all  by  a  cheating 
gambler,  and  has  become  a  highwayman,  gain- 
ing a  wide  notoriety  as  "  Captain  Scarlet." 
The  part  of  Foxy  Quiller,  the  Bow  Street 
detective,  is  safe  in  the  hands  of  Edwin  Stev- 
ens. Arthur  Cunningham  will  appear  as  Dick 
Fitzgerald ;  Edward  Webb  as  Toby  Winkle, 
'ostler  of  the  Cat  and  Fiddle  ;  and  others  in 
well-suited  parts. 

Amelia  Bingham  as  the  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson. 

Fur  the  fourth  week  of  her  engagement  at 
the  Columbia  Theatre,  after  successfully  pre- 
senting "  The  Climbers "  and  "  A  Modern 
Magdalen,"  Amelia  Bingham,  assisted  by  the 
competent  company  with  which  she  has  sur- 
rounded herself,  will  produce  for  the  first 
time  in  San  Francisco  Clyde  Fitch's  latest 
comedy  success,  "  The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson." 
The  piece  was  freely  adapted  from  the  French 
of  Gavault  and  Berr's  "  Mme.  Flirt,"  which 
was  a  success  last  season  in  Paris.  The  En- 
glish version  had  a  highly  successful  run  of 
three  months  in  New  York.  Miss  Bingham 
will  be  seen  in  the  title-role,  that  of  a  young 
widow  of  faultless,  high-minded  motives,  who 
has  won  the  appellation  of  "  The  Frisky  Mrs. 
Johnson,"  on  account  of  her  light  and  careless 
demeanor.  A  cast  of  notable  strength  will  in- 
terpret the  play.  Among  the  players  will  be 
Wilton  Lackaye,  W.  L.  Abington,  Ernest  Law- 
ford.  Bijou  Fernandez,  Frances  Ring,  and 
Adelyn  Wesley.  Miss  Bingham  has  brought  the 
original  scenic  equipment  and  the  gowns  espe- 
cially prepared  for  this  production  by  Pacquin 
and  Worth.  "  The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson  "  will 
be  played  for  one  week  only,  with  matinees  on 
Wednesday  and  Saturday.  For  the  fifth  and 
last  week  of  her  engagement.  Miss  Bingham 
will  present  her  entire  repertoire. 

"in  Wall  Street"  at  the  Grand. 
The  Grand  Opera  House  makes  a  strong 
bid  for  public  patronage  with  the  new  musical 
eccentricity,  "  In  Wall  Street."  which  will  be 
produced  at  that  theatre  on  Sunday  night. 
It  ran  for  many  months  to  crowded  houses 
at  the  Victoria  Theatre,  New  York,  when 
produced  there  by  the  Rogers  Brothers.  The 
production  here  will  be  the  same  used  by  them. 
The  cast  will  be  an  excellent  one,  and  all  the 
specialties  will  be  new,  original,  and  enter- 
taining. Raymond  and  Caverly  will  be  heard 
in  new  parodies.  They  will  also  sing  with 
Kitty  Kirwin  Griffith  a  funny  trio  called 
"  Licorice  Lize."  and  another  of  the  Reuben 
and  the  Maid  Series,  "  The  Innocent  Maid." 
In  this  last  number  they  will  be  assisted  by 
Louise  Moore  and  Camille  Walling.  Cheridah 
Simpson  will  sing  "  Star  of  My  Heart."  "  Hi- 
awatha," and  other  songs,  and  ihe  following 
will  be  included  among  the  principal  special- 
ties: "Promoter's  Song."  Herbert  Sears  and 
chorus  ;  "  Belle  of  Murray  Hill."  Louise  Moore 
and  chorus;  coster  song,  "I  'Aven't  Told 
Tm."  Harold  Crane;  tramp  specialty.  Budd 
Ross  ;  song,  "  Zamona,"  Louise  Moore  ;  dance. 
Esmeralda  Sisters  and  Arnold  Glazier;  and 
song  and  dance,  "  The  Quidnunc  Fly."  Anna 
Wilke  and  Budd  Ross.  There  will  also  be  a 
new  march  of  beautiful  girls. 

Many  New  People  at  the  Orpheum. 
Five  new  acts  are  announced  at  the  Or- 
pheum for  this  coming  week,  all  of  them  ex- 
cellent in  their  respective  lines.  Ethel  Levey, 
a  versatile  and  vivacious  singing  and  dancing 
comedienne,  will  make  her  first  appearance  in 
this  city.  Claude  Gillingwater,  who  will  sup- 
port Mrs.  Leslie  Carter  in  her  new  play  this 
coming  season,  will  present  "  The  Wrong 
Man."  a  one-act  comedy.  He  brings  a  com- 
pany of  five,  including  Miss  Nina  Lyn,  a  beau- 
tiful English  actress.  The  Orpheus  Comedy 
Four    will    also    make    their    first    appearance 


here.  The  three  Polos,  graceful  and  daring 
acrobats,  promise  an  extraordinary  act.  George 
W.  Hunter,  a  London  comedian  and  raconteur, 
is  also  here  for  the  first  time.  De  Kolta,  the 
"  wizard";  Bailey  and  Madison,  the  grotesque 
eccentrics ;  Hodges  and  Launchmere,  the  clever 
colored  couple ;  and  the  biograph,  will  com- 
plete a  varied  and  interesting  programme, 

"Faust"  at  the  Central  Theatre. 
The  most  notable  event  in  the  history'  of  the 
Central  Theatre  will  be  the  spectacular  pro- 
duction of  Goethe's  "  Faust."  with  which  the 
new  season  will  be  inaugurated  next  Monday 
evening,  July  20th.  The  brilliant  young  actor, 
Herschel  Mayall,  will  make  his  initial  ap- 
pearance as  leading  man  of  the  new  Central 
organization  as  Mephisto,  "  Faust "  will  be 
staged  most  elaborately,  and  the  great  Brocken 
scene  will  be  presented  with  wonderful  and 
startling  electrical  and  mechanical  effects. 
"  Faust "  may  be  counted  on  to  break  all  rec- 
ords for  packed  houses  at  the  Central  Theatre, 
and  tickets  should  be  ordered  early. 

New  Bill  at  Fischer's  a  Hit. 
The  new  bill  put  on  last  Monday  night  at 
Fischer's  Theatre  was,  without  doubt,  a  great 
hit.  From  the  rise  to  the  fall  of  the  curtain 
there  was  unstinted  applause  for  every  one 
of  the  principals,  for  every  scene,  for  the  ex- 
cellent work  of  the  chorus,  and  for  all  of  the 
songs,  the  dances,  marches,  and  clever  special- 
ties. The  show  is  two  great  burlesques  com- 
bined into  one.  "  The  Three  Musketeers  "  and 
"  Under  the  Red  Globe."  They  have  many 
new  features,  and  the  production  is  most  elab- 
orate. Kolb  and  Dill  and  Bernard,  as  usual, 
kept  the  house  in  roars  of  laughter  through 
the  three  acts.  Winfield  Blake  made  a  hit  as 
the  Duke  of  Buckwheat  Cake,  and  he  got  no 
less  than  four  encores  for  his  new  song  with 
Maude  Amber,  "  Love's  Reverie,"  which  was 
specially  composed  for  these  two  artists. 
Maude  Amber,  with  her  fine  voice,  her  beauti- 
ful gowns,  and  her  new  songs,  did  much  to 
make  the  new  piece  a  "  go."  Harry  Hermsen 
and  Chris  Whelan,  and  the  Misses  Hope,  Em- 
erson, and  Vidot  stood  out  conspicuously. 
Taking  the  production  as  a  whole,  it  is  one 
of  the  most  entertaining  yet  given  at  Fisch- 
er's, and  will  have  a  long  run. 


"  Prisoner  of  Zenda  "  a  Second  Week. 
It  is  the  policy  of  the  Alcazar  to  make 
weekly  changes  of  bill,  but  an  inability  to 
satisfy  the  demand  for  seats  for  "  The 
Prisoner  of  Zenda "  will  absolutely  compel, 
they  say,  the  continuance  of  that  drama  of 
romance  for  a  second  week.  Crowds  have 
been  turned  away  since  the  opening  night. 
White  Whittlesey  is  giving  a  good  perfor- 
mance of  a  triple  role,  and  is  recalled  again  and 
again  with  enthusiasm.  This  change  of  bill 
will  delay  until  July  27th  the  first  San  Fran- 
cisco production  of  "  The  Manxman."  drama- 
tized by  Wilson  Barrett  from  Hall  Caine's 
famous  story-  Mr.  Whittlesey  will  fill  the 
role  heretofore  essayed  only  by  Wilson  Barrett 
in  England  and  James  O'Neill  in  this  coun- 
try. Following  Mr.  Whittlesey's  engagement 
will  come  a  big  production  of  the  rustic  play, 
"  The  Dairy  Farm."  which  Belasco  &  Mayer 
are  to  send  out  for  an  extended  tour  of  terri- 
tory  west  of  Denver. 


Dr.  Richard  H.  McDonald,  who  died  Sunday 
in  Montreal,  will  probably  be  buried  in  Green- 
wood Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  where  the 
deceased  owned  a  lot  and  where  his  wife  was 
interred.  Dr.  McDonald's  death  has  recalled 
the  story  of  his  connection  with  the  old  Pacific 
Bank,  of  which  he  was  president,  and  of  its 
ally,  the  People's  Home  Savings  Bank.  Both 
institutions  were  wrecked  in  1893.  and  their 
failure  was  attributed  to  the  misuse  of  their 
funds  by  wild-cat  speculation.  The  doctor 
and  his  son,  R.  H,  McDonald.  Jr.,  were  tried 
on  a  criminal  charge,  but  escaped  conviction. 
The  other  son,  Frank  McDonald,  died  some 
years  later  in  London.  The  father,  after  his 
trial,  took  up  his  residence  in  Montreal, 
where  he  became  a  leading  member  of  one  of 
the  principal  churches. 


The  Southern  Pacific  Company  has  filed  a 
petition  asking  that  the  assessment  on  one- 
half  of  the  franchise  for  its  steam  ferry  be 
reduced  from  $1,000,000  to  $5.00,  on  the 
ground  that  the  alleged  franchise  has  not  and 
never  did  have  any  existence. 


Mclvor-Tyndall  Here  Again. 
Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  is  again  visiting 
San  Francisco.  The  famous  psychologist  was 
here  for  a  period  of  several  weeks  the  begin- 
ning of  the  year,  and  created  a  decided  furor 
with  his  striking  personality,  his  fascinating 
manner,  and  his  wonderful  psychic  powers. 
Following  his  short  stay  here,  Dr.  Mclvor- 
Tyndall  went  to  Honolulu,  and  recently  filled 
an  engagement  of  several  weeks  in  Los  An- 
geles. He  has  abandoned  his  Eastern  tour  to 
spend  the  summer  on  the  Coast.  Dr.  Mclvor- 
Tyndall  is  engaged  for  a  course  of  Sunday 
evening  lectures  at  Steinway  Hall,  beginning 
the  coming  Sunday  night.  The  lecture  will 
be  called  "  Life  Secrets,"  Dr.  Tyndall  will 
also  illustrate  his  wonderful  psychic  faculty 
in  experiments  along  the  line  of  thought-force. 
Sunday  evening,  July  26th,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall 
will  take  for  his  subject  "  The  Thought  that 
Kills." 


Henry'  Miller,  who  arrived  in  New  York 
from  his  trip  abroad  on  Tuesday,  says : 
"  '  The  Taming  of  Helen  '  will  open  my  season 
in  San  Francisco  on  August  17th.  I  intend 
playing  "  Helen '  until  Helen  tires  of  her 
audiences  and  loses  them.  Then  I  shall  take 
up  'The  Lady  of  Lyons'  and  'Camille'  in 
the  order  named.  Besides  these  I  have  pur- 
chased the  rights  to  three  new  plays.  Two  of 
them  were  written  by  Bernhard  Shaw.  The 
third  is  the  work  of  Miss  Maud  Hosford,  an 
American  woman,  who  has  done  admirable 
situation    work   in   '  The    King's    Consort.'  " 


A  serious  accident  occurred  a  few  nights 
ago  at  the  Folies  Marigny  Theatre  in  the 
Champs-Elysees,  Paris.  In  the  final  scene 
of  the  piece  being  given  at  the  theatre,  there 
is  an  imitation  of  a  cascade  down  which  ap- 
parently glide  a  number  of  girls,  who  are 
really  attached  by  the  waist  to  a  moving  sheet. 
On  this  occasion,  the  cord  broke,  and  the 
sheet  came  down  to  the  stage  with  a  rush. 
Thirteen  of  the  girls  were  badly  hurt. 


C.  A.  Rutherford,  the  new  district  pas- 
senger-agent of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island,  and 
Pacific  Railway  in  this  city,  entered  the  rail- 
way service  as  night  operator  for  the  Great 
Western  Railway  in  1877.  He  has  since  held 
many  positions  on  various  roads,  and  is  pro- 
moted to  this  city  from  the  post  of  general 
agent  and  division  passenger-agent  at  Omaha, 
which  he  had  held  for  eight  years. 


Mrs.  Margaret  Moroney  died  at  her  home, 
21 12  Van  Ness  Avenue,  last  Saturday  after- 
noon. She  was  the  mother  of  Paul  Moroney, 
Jr..  J.  Frank  Moroney.  Mrs.  E.  B,  Thomas,  Lee 
D.  Moroney,  Miss  Mary  Genevieve  Moroney, 
the  well-known  pianist,  and  the  late  Mrs. 
James  A.  Thompson,  wife  of  the  Bohemian 
Club  president,  who  died  shortly  before  his 
wife. 


Hamilton  Lightner  Moulder,  son  of  the  late 
Colonel  Andrew  J.  Moulder,  died  in  Mexico 
City  on  the  evening  of  July  10th.  He  was  a 
mining  engineer,  and  had  spent  some  years 
in  the  management  of  mining  enterprises  in 
Mexico. 

Miss  Nance  O'Neil  has  deferred  her  de- 
parture for  New  York,  and  will  give  four  per- 
formances of  Shakespeare's  "  As  You  Like  It  " 
in  the  open  air  at  Sutro  Heights,  August  1st 
and  2d. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


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THE        ARGONAUT, 


July  20,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


The  French  Chamber  of  Deputies,  on  July 
1st,  repealed  without  discussion  Article  298  of 
the  civil  code,  which  provided  that  a  divorced 
person  who  has  been  proved  guilty  of  adultery 
could  never  marry  his  or  her  accomplice.  The 
legislators  of  the  past  feared  that  a  license  to 
marry  would  encourage  illicit  adventure. 
Experience,  however,  has  proved  the  con- 
trary, and  the  prevention  of  the  marriage  of 
the  guilty  parties  has  in  a  majority  of  cases 
been  conducive  of  irregular  unions,  while  the 
number  of  women,  says  one  writer  on  the  sub- 
ject, who  had  believed  that  they  were  merely 
exchanging  a  union  that  had  become  odious 
for  one  that  was  more  congenial,  only  to  find 
their  betrayer  at  the  end  of  all  posing  as  an 
injured  and  helpless  victim  of  Article  298, 
would  have  to  be  counted  by  thousands.  Con- 
servatives regard  the  repeal  of  the  divorce  law 
as  a  tremendous  breach  in  the  stability  of  the 
institution  of  marriage,  and  as  the  entrance  of 
a  lever  that  will  eventually  destroy  family 
stability.  The  Socialists,  on  the  other  hand, 
rejoice  and  consider  they  have  won  a  signal 
victory  in  the  campaign  for  the  free  union 
of  men  and  women.  The  immediate  effect  of 
the  abrogation  of  the  law  is  that  no  less  than 
fifty-five  declarations  of  intended  marriages  of 
persons,  against  whom  divorce  was  decreed, 
with  their  respective  co-respondents,  have  been 
formally  made  in  Paris  and  the  Department  of 
the  Seine,  within  the  forty-eight  hours  suc- 
ceeding the  passage  of  the  bill. 


The  introduction  of  fads  in  Newport  is 
sometimes  quite  accidental.  This  was  the 
case  (says  the  Sun),  with  the  "  hair-hanging- 
down-the-back  "  fad.  It  has  become  popular, 
and  the  fame  of  the  three  young  women  who 
started  it  has  spread  far  and  near.  It  has  even 
gone  so  far  that  when  the  excursion-boats 
come  to  Newport,  half  the  girls  who  land  from 
them  have  their  hair  dressed  in  child  fashion. 
Miss  Natica  Rives,  daughter  of  Mrs.  George 
L.  Rives,  and  Miss  Cynthia  Roche,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  Burke-Roche,  made  an  engagement  one 
evening  to  meet  the  next  morning  at  nine 
o'clock.  As  the  fates  would  have  it,  that 
very  morning  was  the  time  appointed 
for  the  maids  of  *  these  young  women 
to  shampo.o  their  locks.  Whatever  the 
cause  of  the  maids'  delay  in  perform- 
ing their  duties,  when  the  operation  was  only 
half  completed  it  was  nearly  nine  o'clock,  and 
both  young  women,  each  unknown  to  the  other, 
were  in  a  quandry.  That  engagement  could 
not  be  postponed,  but  then  there  were  the 
moist  tresses  of  both  girls  to  be  considered. 
Miss  Rives  in  a  worried  state  of  mind  tele- 
phoned to  her  friend  and  told  of  her  predica- 
ment. To  her  surprise  Miss  Roche  had  a 
similar  tale  of  woe  to  unfold.  What  could 
they  do?  A  series  of  "I  will,  if  you  will" 
went  sweeping  over  the  wires  between  Swan- 
hurst  and  Elm  Court,  and  the  result  was  that 
half  an  hour  later  Miss  Rives  and  Miss  Roche 
appeared  on  Thames  Street,  to  the  surprise  of 
their  friends  and  every  one  else,  with  stream- 
ing locks,  which,  by  that  time,  had  been  dried 
by  the  wind.  While  Miss  Rives  was  on  the 
high  seat  of  the  carriage,  she  looked  like  a 
pretty  little  girl  of  ten.  Her  nut-brown  hair, 
which  doesn't  reach  far  below  her  shoulders, 
was  tied  up  on  top  with  a  wide  black  ribbon, 
and  the  unconfined  ringlets  were  wind-blown 
about  her  pretty  face.  Miss  Roche  rejoices  in 
the  fact  that  her  hair  reaches  far  below  the 
waist  line,  and  on  that  morning  the  long  plait 
of  dark-brown  hair  hanging  down  her  back, 
made  her  look  like  a  very  tall,  very  young 
school-girl.  There  is  a  trinity  of  leaders  in 
the  young  set,  and  the  other  member  of  the 
trinity  is  Miss  Natalie  Schenck.  When  she 
happened  to  meet  the  other  two  with  their 
flying  locks,  she  stopped  short  and  gazed  at 
them  until  they  gave  an  explanation.  She 
thought  it  was  a  good  joke,  and  straightway 
removed  the  hair-pins  that  confined  her  blonde 
tresses,  and  climbed  into  the  cart  with  her 
two  chums,  and  all  three,  with  flying  hair, 
drove  about  the  town.  So  much  for  the  intro- 
duction of  the  hanging-hair  fad,  which  bids 
fair  to  become  universal. 


The  movement  lately  started  in  London  by 
Colonel  Kenny-Herbert  for  the  simplification 
of  domestic  problems  for  those  who  live  in 
apartments,  has  taken  a  new  development.  That 
gentleman's  first  idea  was  the  not  very  novel 
one  of  dispensing  with  private  kitchens,  and 
distributing  meals  from  central  stations,  the 
cus'.omer  being  relieved  of  all  trouble  in  con- 
nexion with  his  meals,  save  that  of  eating 
',h>  ii.  The  idea  was  extremely  attractive,  con- 
s' ,.ered  in  the  abstract  (comments  the  New 
Y.jk  Times),  and  has  met  with  much  favor 
in  discussion.     It  is  now  about  to  be  put  to 


the  test  of  experiment,  with  many  amplifica- 
tions, in  St.  James's  Court,  a  stately  block  of 
modern  "  flats  "  in  the  heart  of  Westminister, 
within  a  few  yards  of  Buckingham  Gate.  The 
tenant,  having  chosen  his  apartments,  may 
elect  to  provide  his  own  servants,  or  he  may 
avail  himself  of  the  offer  of  the  incorporated 
landlord  to  furnish  men-servants,  and  maid- 
servants to  order.  If  the  latter,  he  is  given 
a  tariff  of  charges,  showing  at  what  prices  the 
corporation  is  prepared  to  furnish  chamber- 
maids, waitresses,  valets,  and  whatever  else 
is  needed  for  a  complete  establishment.  Fur- 
ther, he  knows  just  what  his  daily  breakfast, 
luncheon,  and  dinner  will  cost  him.  His  meal 
may  be  as  frugal,  or  as  sumptuous  as  he  may 
elect.  All  that  is  necessary  is  to  notify  the 
house-steward,  and  it  comes  up  from  some- 
where in  the  basement  on  the  tick  of  the  pre- 
scribed minute.  The  house-steward  is  respon- 
sible for  the  lighting  and  maintenance  of  the 
fires,  the  cleaning  of  boots,  and  the  safety  of 
the  plate-basket.  He  has  full  authority  over 
the  servants,  is  commander-in-chief  of  the 
laundry,  is  generalissimo  of  the  kitchen,  and 
obiquitously  supreme.  In  a  word,  he  is  the 
American  apartment-house  janitor  raised  to 
nth,  the  power.  If  everything  goes  smoothly 
the  arrangement  is  an  ideal  one;  if  it  does 
not — well,  there  is  some  advantage  in  knowing 
upon    whom    rests    undivided    responsibility. 

Dr.  Wiley,  chemist  for  the  Department  of 
Agriculture,  who  has  just  concluded  the  first 
of  the  tests  relative  to  food  preservatives  and 
their  effect  on  the  human  system,  has  just  been 
giving  out  some  hints  on  summer  drinks. 
"  The  devil  lurks  in  the  soda-water  foun- 
tain," he  says,  "  and  iced  tea  is  simply  suicide. 
If  persons  would  only  use  precautions  there  is 
no  reason  why  one  should  suffer  more  with 
sickness  in  summer  than  winter.  But  summer 
drinks  are  snares  of  the  devil.  The  custom 
of  constantly  dosing  the  stomach  with  ice- 
cold  drinks  in  summer  is  simply  suicidal.  The 
extreme  cold  contracts  the  pores  through  which 
the  pepsin  is  secreted,  and  tends  to  congest 
the  cords  of  the  stomach.  When  thirsty  in 
hot  weather  one  should  drink  water  at  from 
60  to  65  degrees.  Drink  slowly  and  all  you 
want,  and  you  will  find  that  water  at  this 
temperature  quenches  the  thirst  much  better 
than  iced  water." 

The  profession  of  "  courier-maid "  is  be- 
coming quite  popular  among  well-educated 
young  women.  College  girls  and  daughters  of 
good  families,  whose  knowledge  of  the  lan- 
guages has  come  through  study,  and  who  have 
a  liking  for  change  and  adventure,  now  often 
take  this  means  of  acquainting  themselves 
with  the  world's  doings.  One  girl  from  a 
north-western  university  has  piloted  several 
parties  over  Europe.  The  courier-maid's  best 
time  for  her  trade  is  in  the  early  summer, 
when  people  are  planning  their  holidays.  To 
be  successful  she  must  be  versatile  in  her  ac- 
complishments. Although  she  may  have  two 
or  more  languages  at  command,  and  be  versed 
in  the  ways  and  customs  of  several  countries 
besides  her  own,  she  must  unite  some  practical 
trade  to  her  courier's  ability,  if  she  would  get 
good  engagements.  If  she  is  a  fair  massage- 
operator,  and  has  some  of  the  professional 
nurse's  knowledge,  is  a  stylish  hair-dresser  or 
handy  needle-worker,  besides  being  an  intelli- 
gent guide  and  interpreter,  she  will  be  snapped 
up  in  a  hurry.  And  to  be  a  good  sailor, 
traveler,  and  packer  are  qualities  absolutely 
indispensible  to  her  vocation.  Many  more 
courier-maids  (says  the  Sun)  are  now  em- 
ployed than  formerly.  Elderly  or  middle- 
aged  couples  setting  out  for  foreign 
travel  frequently  engage  a  bright,  alert 
maid,  rather  than  a  man,  to  help  them 
make  the  trip  easy.  The  maid  is  a  less  expen- 
sive attendant  than  a  man,  is  more  contented, 
and  more  dependable.  The  courier-maid's  pay 
is  regulated  by  the  amount  of  service  she 
bargains  to  render,  outside  of  her  legitimate 
use  as  interpreter  and  pilot.  For  that  she 
would  usually  be  entitled  only  to  her  travel- 
ing expenses. 


If  there  is  an  agitation  in  which  general- 
ities will  never  accomplish  anything,  it  is  the 
campaign  against  impure  and  adulterated 
foods.  The  average  man  reads  of  the  adul- 
terants in  general  use,  from  the  aristocratic- 
sounding  salicylic  acid  to  the  homely  sand  in 
the  sugar,  but  he  isn't  afraid.  Providence,  or 
an  inherited  good  constitution  will  save  him 
somehow.  Nothing  will  break  up  this  serene 
frame  of  mind  except  concrete  revelations  of 
doctored  foods.  Thus  (says  the  New 
York  Evening  Post)  too  wide  circulation  can 
not  be  given  to  such  a  revelation  as  that  just 
made  by  the  Minnesota  State  Dairy 
and    Food    Department    about    canned    fruits. 


This  is  the  season  when  the  provident  house- 
wife is  toiling  over  fragrant  steaming  kettles, 
while  the  firm  fresh  fruit  is  metamorphosed 
into  the  appetizing  array  of  jellies.  It  is  a 
great  trouble,  and  they  are  selling  jams  and 
jellies  at  the  grocer's  really  more  cheaply  than 
you  can  make  them.  Very  well.  Here  are 
preserved  strawberries  made  from  a  mixture  of 
timothy  seed,  glucose,  acids,  and  sugar,  with 
flavoring  and  coloring  matter.  Raspberry  jam 
is  the  same,  except  for  the  substitution  of 
broom  corn  for  the  timothy.  Picture  the 
great  caldron  with  the  fire  ready  kindled.  First 
the  skillful  cook  pours  in  water.  Then  comes 
a  half-peck  of  hayseed.  Here  is  a  dish  fit  for 
the  most  fastidious — horse.  Then  the  thick 
glucose  and  some  sugar.  Last  comes  a  dash 
of  the  nearest  flavor  to  the  strawberry  that 
synthetic  chemistry  can  produce.  Water  boil 
and  caldron  bubble.  It  is  done,  and  here  are 
colored  labels  with  pictures  of  the  luscious 
fruit.  Sixteen  dealers  have  been  prosecuted  in 
Minnesota  since  January  1st  for  selling  pre- 
serves of  this  general  class  as  "  pure." 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

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flammations of  the  skin. 


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SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official    Report    of  Geo.  H.    Willson,  Local 
Forecaster  Temporarily  in  Charge. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  IVeatker. 

July    9th 60           48           .00  Clear 

"     10th 58           48           .00  Clear 

"     nth 58           48           .00  Clear 

"    12th 58          48          .00  Clear 

"     13th 60           50           .00  Clear 

"     14th 62           50           .00  Clear 

"     15th 62           50           .00  Clear 


THE  FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  July  15,  1903, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Honolulu  R.  T.  L. 

Co,  6% 1,000    @  10754  108 

Los  An.  Ry5%  ....     7.000    @  114  115^ 

Northern  Cal.  P'wr 

5% 2,000    @  100%  100 

Pac-  Elec.  Ry.  $%■  ■  29,000    @  107J4  108 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% 24,000    @  12054  121 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 4,000    @  10754-10854     10754     108 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910 1,000    @  108  J4  i°9# 

S.V.Water4%3d-.     3.000    @    99%-mo         99*6     ioo& 

U.  Gas  Elect.  5% . .    1,000    ©105  107 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Sid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa  50    @    60  58         62 

Spring  Valley 145    @    83-      85         84^      86 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 55    @    73-      73#      1?¥a      73# 

Sugars. 

Hana  P.  Co 250    @    37  54- 5°         30         4° 

Hawaiian  C.  &S...         60    @    40  40 

Hutchinson 3°    @    *3  ™H 

MakaweliS.  Co 5    @    25  21  2454 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Central  L.  &  P 675    @     4K-    5X        5  5 54 

Mutual  Electric. ..     1,005    @    «-      H  13  n% 

Paci6cGas 120    @    54^-55         5254      545£ 

S-F.  Gas  &  Electric       565    ©68-70         6754      6854 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       310    @    6754-  69K      65 

Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...         75    @  ^o^"^!        15° 
Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         90    @    90  8954 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 25    @    99  9954 

Oceanic  S.  Co .-        30    @     7%  7 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  was  strong  and 
advanced  one  point  to  70,  on  sales  of  565  shares, 
and  at  the  close  sold  off  to  68,  closing  at  67M  bid, 
6854  asked. 

Mutual  Electric  was  in  good  demand,  1,005  shares 
changing  hands,  from  11  to  14,  closing  at  13  bid, 
1354  asked. 

Pacific  Gas  was  steady,  on  sales  of  120  shares,  at 
54  K  to  55. 

The  sugars  have  been  very  quiet,  and  less  than 
350  shares  changed  hands,  with  fractional  declines. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  weak,  selling  off  three 
points  to  83,  but  at  the  close  reacted  to  84K  bid, 
86  asked. 


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From  quality  to  price,  quality  at  the  top.  price; 
rock  bottom.  The  new  dainty  ovals  in  Flemist 
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July  20,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


45 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise, 


A  secretary  of  a  fire-insurance  company  tells 
of  an  old  woman  who  called  on  an  agent  to 
arrange  "for  insurance  on  her  house  and  fur- 
niture. "  We  haven't  had  no  insurance  for 
five  years,"  she  explained;  "  we  hev  jes'  been 
dependin'  on  the  Lord ;  but  I  says  to  my 
old  mon,  I  says,  thet  it's  terrible  risky,  I  says." 


When  Henry  Irving  was  rehearsing  for 
his  production  of  "  Faust,"  he  experienced 
much  difficulty  in  restraining  the  exuberance 
of  the  supers,  who  persisted  in  being  light- 
hearted,  even  in  Hades.  Sir  Henry  is  pro- 
verbially long-suffering  about  such  matters, 
but  his  patience  finally  gave  out,  and  he 
thundered :  "  Kindly  remember  that  you  are 
supposed  to  be  in  hell,  not  picnicking  at  Hamp- 
stead  heath." 

Senators  Blackburn  and  Lindsay,  of  Ken- 
tucky, were  once  traveling  together  through 
the  Alleghany  Mountains.  Blackburn  went 
into  the  smoking-room  and  returned  in  a  few 
minutes  looking  so  much  depressed  that  Lind- 
say asked:  "  What's  the  matter,  Joe?"  "  Why, 
I've  lost  the  better  part  of  my  baggage,"  said 
Blackburn,  in  heartbroken  tones.  "  Was  it 
stolen  or  did  you  leave  it  behind?"  "  Worse 
than  either — the  cork  came  out." 

Charles  Dudley  Warner,  who  was  editor 
of  the  Hartford  Press  in  the,,' sixties,  was  one 
day  confronted  by  a  compositor,  who  said : 
"  Well,  Mr.  .Warner,  I've  decided  to  enlist 
in  the  army."  The  editor  was  pleased,  and 
replied  that  he  was  glad  to  see  the  man  felt 
the  call  of  duty  and  was  hastening  to  serve 
bis  country  in  its  troublous  time.  "'Oh,  it 
aint  that,"  remarked  the  printer,  "  but  I'd 
rather  be  shot  than  try  to  set  any  more  of 
your  d d  copy." 

Mrs.  Leslie  M.  Shaw,  wife  of  the  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury,  has  always  been  noted  for 
her  wit.  It  is  said  that  a  young  man  of  hu- 
morous bent  one  day  exclaimed  in  her  pres- 
ence :  "  What  could  be  more  dreadful  for  a 
woman  than  after  mending  her  husband's  coat 
to  find  in  one  of  the  pockets  a  love-letter  from 
another  woman?"  '"Fortunately,"  said  Mrs. 
Shaw,  "  that  could  never  happen.  The  woman 
would  find  the  letter  first  and  then  she  would 
not  mend  the  coat." 


Henry  Labouchere  says  that  the  speeches 
of  Lord  Rosebery  always  remind  him  of  the 
description  given  by  Prince  Bismarck  of  a 
certain  Prussian  statesman :  "  At  first  he 
would  have  an  opinion,  then  he  weakened  it 
by  self-contradiction,  then  again  an  objection 
to  the  contradiction  occurred  to  him,  until  at 
last  nothing  remained.  He  was  a  clever 
speaker,  but  net  inclined  to  action ;  indeed, 
he  resembled  an  india-rubber  ball,  which 
hops,  hops,  and  hops,  but  more  feebly  every 
time,  until  it  at  last  comes  to  a  full  stop." 

A  North  Missouri  editor  received  a  note  the 
other  day  telling  him  that  one  of  his  sub- 
scribers was  dead,  and  asking  that  his  paper 
be  discontinued.  A  few  days  later  the  editor 
met  the  "  deceased  "  subscriber  on  the  street, 
and  told  him  about  the  note.  "I  wrote  that 
note  myself,"  returned  the  subscriber.  "  What 
for?"  asked  the  editor.  "Well,  I  wanted  to 
stop  yer  paper,"  said  the  subscriber,  candidly, 
"  an'  knowin'  how  bad  you  need  the  money 
I  didn't  have  the  heart  to  come  right  out  an' 
do  it.  So  I  jes'  wrote  you  the  note  about  bein' 
dead." 


At  a  certain  London  church  the  collection 
used  to  be  made  in  nicely  embroidered  bags, 
but,  so  many  old  buttons  and  stale  pieces  of 
chocolate  being  put  in,  it  was  decided  to  try 
"plates"  instead.  The  first  Sunday  the  usual 
number  of  coppers  and  three-penny  pieces 
were  put  in,  but  among  them  a  bright  yellow 
shining  piece  was  observable.  On  Mon- 
day morning  there  were  more  callers  than 
usual  at  the  vestry,  some  of  them  with  the 
same  application.  After  a  short  interval 
another  came  with  the  same,  "Oh,  I  am  so 
sorry,  but  I  put  a  sovereign  into  the  plate 
yesterday  by  mistake.  Could  I  have  it,  as  I 
really  can  not  afford  it?"  "What?"  said  the 
vicar;  "you  are  the  fifth  that  has  been  to 
see  me  this  morning  with  the  same  applica- 
tion, but  the  church  warden  has  just  told  me 
that  the  supposed  sovereign  is  only  a  gilded 
shilling  1" 


An  eccentric  and  well-known  Viennese  show- 
man, Franz  Trocker,  of  herculean  figure  and 
snow-white    imperial,    has    committed    suicide. 


Things  went  ill  with  him,  and  he  prepared  for 
his  "  removal."  One  of  the  letters  to  his 
friends  contained  the  following:  "I  depart 
to-day.  The  theatre  is  out,  and  I  am  going 
home.  Let  nobody  deplore  my  going;  it  is  not 
necessary.  The  world  will  not  miss  me,  and 
certainly  I  shall  not  miss  this  hypocritical 
world.  We  must  all  go — some  sooner,  others 
later.  I  go  joyfully  from  this  vale  of  tears. 
I  may  be  cloud-keeper  in  heaven  or  chief 
fireman  in  hell,  and  I  would  have  my  friends 
to  know  that  I  may  yet  be  able  to  render 
them  good  service.  I  must  hasten,  for  at  9  157 
my  death  knell  strikes.  Do  not  be  hard  on 
me.  I  will  say  a  good  word  for  you  to  the 
Heavenly  Father.  I  do  not  fear  death.  Greet- 
ings to  my  friends." 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


King  Pete. 
Peter  Karageorgevitch, 

Ere  you  go  to  take  the  crown 
Listen  to  these  pointers  which 

With  good  wishes  we  hand  down: 
Have  a  safe  in  which  to  sleep. 

Have  a  bulldog  watching  there; 
Choose  the  company  you  keep 

With  the  greatest,  keenest  care; 
Wear  a  shirt  of  mail,  and  cook 

With  your  own  hands  what  you  eat, 
Ere   you   sink    to  slumber   look 

Underneath  the  bed,  King  Pete. 

Peter  Karageorgevitch, 

Glorious  and  great,  when  you 
Don  your  purple  robes  and  rich 

These  are  things  you  ought  to  do: 
Keep  a  knife  stuck  in  your  boot 

And  a  razor  up  your  sleeve; 
Practice    till    you    learn    to    shoot; 

To  your  home  surroundings  cleave; 
Always  look  for  bombs  and  things 

Underneath  the  royal  seat, 
When  among  earth's  splendid  kings 

You  assume  your  place,  O  Pete. 

Peter  Karageorgevitch, 

Raised  to  glory  and  renown. 
Here   are  pointers   for   you   which 

You  should  paste  within  your  crown: 
Do  not   run   to   fires,   stay 

Far  away  from  places  where 
Innocent   bystanders    may 

Stop  such  things  as  whiz  in  air; 
Find,  a  thousand  miles  or  more 

From  your  subjects,  some  retreat, 
And  when  you  have  barred  the  door 

Reign  and  rule  from  there,  King  Pete. 
— Chicago    Record-Herald. 


Grand  Larceny. 
A    daring    theft   Jack    wrought    last    night 

On   darling  little  Rose, 
He  stole  the  thing  he  wanted  right 
Beneath    her    very    nose. 

— Philadelphia   Press. 

It's  Up  to  Him. 
O  Finley  Peter  Dooley's  gone  and  Dunne  it, 

In  Kansas  there's  a  Mrs.  Briley,  too; 
Mrs.  Hawkins  had  a  goal  and  she  has  won  it, 

Her  happy  dream  o£  Hope  at  last  is  true. 

One  by  one  the   famous  bachelors  are   giving 
The  tribute  that  to  Cupid  should  be  paid, 

Showing  married  men  eclipse  all  others  living — 
Doesn't  George  intend  to  give  us  any  Ade? 
— Ex. 


Discussing  the  Yacht  Race. 
Paw    he    said:    "  Lipton's    foolish    to    try    to    win 
the  Cup." 
"  Why,    paw,    what    makes    you    think    so?  "    maw 

ast  him,  lookin'  up. 
"  Because,    you   see,"   paw   answered,    "  there   aint 
no  British  boat 
Can    ever    beat    a    Yankee    as    long    as    boards'H 
float. 

"  He  might  build  forty  Shamrocks  to  bring  across 
the  sea, 
The  cup  would  still  be  ours,"  paw  says  to  maw 
and  me; 
"  My  money's  on  the  Yankee;  he'll  never  win  the 
prize. 
Although  he  goes  on  building  his  Shamrocks  till 
he  dies." 

'  I    don't   see  why,"    maw  answered,    "  he    doesn't 

give  it  up; 
If  he's  so  rich  why  can't  he  just  go  and  buy  a 

cup?  " 
Then  paw  he  looked  disgusted,  and  give  a  heave 

to  port 
And  wouldn't  even  answer.     Poor  maw,  she  aint 

no  sport.  — Ex. 


Still  surviving:  Pleasant  old  gentleman — 
"  Have  you  lived  here  all  your  life,  my  little 
man?"  Arthur  (aged  six) — "Not  yet."— 
Lippincott's  Magazine. 

Moore's'  Polaon-Oftk  Remedy 

cures  poison:oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggkts. 

-• *    —    * '■ 

The  Crystal  Baths. 

Physicians  recommend  the  Crystal  hot  sea-water 
tub  and  swimming  baths,  on  Bay,  between  Powell 
and  Mason  Streets,  terminus  of  all  North  Beach 
car  lines. 


The  Floor-Walker. 

"  Well,  wait  till  I  tell  you !  What  d'ye 
think  that  fresh  new  floor-walker  did  this 
mornin'  ?  Tried  t'  call  me  down  for  gettin' 
in  five  minutes  late  an'  me  stayin'  here  till 
ha'-past  nine  las'  night  arrangin'  stock  I 
Wouldn't  that  put  you  out?  Well,  I  should 
say  I  What  that  fellow  needs  is  a  good  hard- 
boiled  talk  from  some  friend  that'll  tell  him 
where  he  gets  off  an'  let  him  know  he  aint  the 
whole  furniture  store  because  he's  a  swell 
dresser.  He's  got  it  comin'  to  him  an'  he'll 
get  it  good  an'  hard,  too,  one  of  these  days, 
you  mark  me.     Well,  I  should  say  ! 

"  You  know,  las'  night  Mr.  Wilkinson  says 
to  me,  '  Can  you  stay  late  to-night  an'  help  on 
the  stock?'  an'  I  says,  'Sure,  if  there's  any- 
thing in  it,'  an'  he  says,  '  You  know  what's  in 
it — supper  money ' ;  an'  I  laughed  an'  says, 
'  Sure  I  do,  I  ought  to — I  done  it  often  enough.' 
Oh,  he's  awful  nice  when  you  get  to  know  him. 
Lots  of  the  girls  always  knockin'  him,  but  they 
don't  know  him.  That's  all  there  is  to  it,  they 
don't  know  him.  He's  perfectly  elegant.  Well, 
three  of  us  stayed  to  fix  stock — me  an*  Grace 
an'  Helen  an'  Mr.  Wilkinson — an'  when  we  got 
through  about  ha'-past  nine  he  says :  '  Where 
do  you  girls  want  to  go  to  feed  your  faces  ?  ' 
Oh,  he's  perfectly  comical  sometimes,  when 
you  get  to  know  him,  honest! 

"  Well,  we  didn't  know  what  to  say,  you 
know,  so  I  says,  '  Any  place  that's  agreeable 
to  you  will  be  satisfactory,'  just  like  that.  He 
kind  o'  looked  at  me  an'  he  says :  '  Well,  you're 
pretty  wise  at  that,  Little  Bright  Eyes.  You 
know  I  aint  going  up  against  no  lunch  counter, 
don't  you?  '  What  do  you  think  of  that?  Hon- 
est, they  all  laughed — I  thought  they'd  die ! 
Well,  he  took  us  over  to  a  swell  place  an'  told 
us  to  order  anything  we  wanted  on  the  bill. 
Oh,  it  was  perfectly  elegant — chicken  salad 
an'  everything !  Honest,  I  was  ashamed  of 
myself  the  way  I  eL  An'  then  Mr.  Wilkinson 
says :  '  I  suppose  you  girls  are  all  there  with 
the  car-fare  to  go  home  ?  '  What  do  you  think 
of  that?  Oh,  he  just  thinks  of  everything. 
He's  perfectly  elegant  when  you  know  him 
outside  the  store.  So  we  all  went  home,  an'  I 
guess  he  had  a  date  at  some  swell  club  or 
something,  because  he  told  us  good-night  an' 
walked  over  toward  Michigan.  An'  the  nerve 
of  Mr.  Rubberneck  tryin'  to  call  me  down  be- 
cause I  rung  up  five  minutes  late  this  mornin'  1 
I  just  says,  '  Mr.  Wilkinson  will  tell  you  that 
I  was  down  here  pretty  near  all  night  fixin' 
stock,  an'  I  guess  I'm  entitled  to  some  credit 
for  that,'  an'  I  passed  him  up.  I  can  see  him 
layin'  quiet  now,  since  he  knows  that  Mr.  Wil- 
kinson knows  me.  Well,  I  should  say." — Chi- 
cago Daily  News. 


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DEPART  for  Cazadero  and  way  stations,  7.30  A.  M., 
4.40  p.  M.:  for  Point  Reyes  and  intermediate.  9.30  A.  M. 

ARRIVE  from  Cazadero,  etc..  9  05  a.  m.,  7.45  p.  m.; 
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AMERICAN  LINE 

New  York — Southampton — London. 

St.  Paul July  22,  10  am  I  Philadelphia.  Aug.  12, 10 am 

New  York. .August  5,  10  am  |  St.  Louis Aug.  19,10  am 

Philadelphia—  Que  ens  town— Liverpool. 

Frieslaod July  25  I  Eelgenlaod Aug. S, 9 am 

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ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE 

NEW  YORK— LONDON  DIRECT. 

Minnetonka-.July  25,  6  am  I  MinD'haha..Aug.  S, 5.30am 

Min'apolis.Aug.i, 11.30  am  |  Mesaba Aug.  15,9am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE 

Boston— Oueenstown — Liverpool. 

Commonwealth July  30  I  Commonwealth Aug.  27 

New  England.... August  6    New  England Sept.  3 

Mayflower August  13  |  Mayflower Sept.  10 

Montreal— Liverpool— Sbort  sea  passage. 

Kensington July  25  I  Southwark Augusts 

Dominion August  1  |  Canada August  22 

bostom    Mediterranean    service 

Azores,  Gibraltar,  Naples,  Genoa. 

Cambroman Saturday,  Aug.  8,  Sept.  19,  Oct.  31 

Vancouver Saturday,  Aug.  29,  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE 

New  Tuin-Screw  Steamers  of  12,500  tons. 

New  York— Rotterdam,  via  Boulogne. 

Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Rotterdam July  29  I  Statendam August  12 

Potsdam Augusts  I  Ryndam August  19 

RED  STAR  LINE 

New  York— Antwerp — Paris* 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Vaderland July  25  I  Zeeland Augusts 

Kxoonland August  1  |  Finland August  15 

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Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Thursday,   July  33 

Coptic  (Calling  at  Manila) .  .Tuesday.  August  18 

Gaelic Friday,  September  11 

Doric Wednesday,  October  7 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing. 

Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  ireight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 
D.  P.  STUEBS,  General  Manager. 

TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

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IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Whari,  comer  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo) ,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  ior  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing.      1903 

Nippon  Mara Friday,  July  31 

America  Maru Wednesday,  August  26 

(Calling  at  Manila) 
Hongkong  Maru Saturday,  September  19 

Via  Honolulu.    Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
421  Market  Street,  corner  First. 
W.   H.  AVERY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  [  Ventura,  6200 tons 


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and  Sydney,  Thursday,  August  6,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 
S.  S.    Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  August    15,    1903,    at 

II    A.    M. 

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THE        ARGONAUT- 


July  20,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  tlie  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Kathryn  Robinson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
C.  Preston  .Robinson,  and  Mr.  George 
Eeardsley,  of  New  York.  They  will  be  married 
early  in  the  fall. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Eliza  Lawrence, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Lawrence,  of 
Cincinnati,  and  Lieutenant  Robert  Rogers 
Love,  Ninth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  took  place 
July  14th  in  St.  Mary's  Church-by-the-Sea, 
Pacific  Grove.  Miss  Laura  Farnsworth,  of 
San  Francisco,  was  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss 
Laura  Hathaway  was  bridesmaid.  The  best 
man  was  Major  Henry  M.  Morrow,  U.  S.  A., 
judge-advocate  of  the  Department  of  Cali- 
fornia. The  ushers  were  Lieutenant  Robert 
Sillman,  Fifteenth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Lieutenant  T.  B.  Esty,  Ninth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A. 
Lieutenant  Love  has  been  granted  a  sixteen 
days'  leave  of  absence. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  May  Virginia  Roberts 
and  Mr.  Robert  Fletcher  Haight  took  place  very 
quietly  in  San  Jose  on  June  25th.  The  bride 
is  a  daughter  of  Mrs.  John  W.  Roberts  and 
a  granddaughter  of  the  late  Judge  Tompkins, 
of  Oakland.  The  groom  is  the'  son  of  Mr. 
Robert  Haight  and  a  nephew  of  the  late 
Governor  Haight,  of  California. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Clara  Piatt  Swigert, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel  M.  Swigert, 
U.  S.  A.,  retired,  and  Lieutenant  Oliver  P. 
Morton  Hazzard,  Second  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A., 
took  place  on  July  15th,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  father  on  Pacific  Avenue.  Lieutenant 
and  Mrs.  Hazzard  will  reside  at  Fort  Ethan 
Allen,   Vermont. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Anne  Apperson,  niece 
of  Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst,  and  Dr.  Joseph  Marshall 
Flint  will  take  place  on  September  15th.  Dr. 
Flint  and  Miss  Apperson  have  been  the  guests 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Wheeler  at  McCloud. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Bertie  Bruce,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bruce,  and  Mr.  Ferdi- 
nand Stevenson  will  take  place  at  Trinity 
Church  early  in  August. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Vesta  Van  Rensselaer 
and  Mr.  Louis  Masten  will  take  place  in 
Dallas,  Tex.,  in  September. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Vesta  Shortridge  and 
Mr.  Emil  Bruguiere  will  take  place-  in  Oc- 
tober. Mrs.  E.  A.  Bruguiere  will  return  frorn 
Newport  for  the  event. 

Miss  Emily  Wilson  gave  a  tea  on  Monday 
in  honor  of  Miss  Maud  Bourn,  at  which  she 
entertained  Miss  Helen  Dean,  Miss  Lucie- 
King,  Miss  Gertrude  Josselyn,  and  Miss  Mamie 
Josselyn. 

Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  gave  a  luncheon  re- 
cently at  "  Meadowlands,"  her  country  seat 
at  San  Rafael.  Her  guests  were  Mrs.  Walter 
Dean,  Mrs.  Henry  Sonntag,  Mrs.  Frank  S. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Dean.  Mrs.  Henry 
Breedon,  Mrs.   Butler,  and  Mrs.  Toy. 

Miss  Charlotte  Ellinwood  gave  a  tea  last 
week  at  her  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue. 
Among  those  present  were  Miss  Leontine 
Blakeman,  Miss  Grace  Spreckels,  Mrs.  A.  B. 
Costigan.  Mrs.  John  Clark,  Mrs.  T.  Danforth 
Boardman,  Miss  Josephine  Loughborough,  Mrs. 
James  Bishop,  Miss  Bessie  Zane,  and  Mrs. 
George  Cameron. 

Miss  Toy  entertained  on  Monday  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael  Miss  H.  Baker,  Miss  Gertrude 
Van  Wyck,  Miss  E.  Sonntag,  and  Mr.  H. 
Baker. 

Miss  Bernie  Drown  gave  a  tea  at  her  resi- 
dence on  Jackson  Street  on  Tuesday.  Among 
the  guests  were  Miss  Charlotte  Ellinwood, 
Miss  Ethel  Cooper,  Miss  Lucie  King,  Mrs. 
Silas  Palmer,  Mrs;  Gus  Costigan,  Mrs.  T. 
Danforth '  Boardman,  Mrs.  Keyes,  and  Mrs.. 
John   Clark. 

Mrs.  Emma  G.  Butler  recently  gave  a  card- 
party  at  the  Hotel  Rafael.  Among  those 
present  were  Mrs.  Frank  Johnson,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Lefavor,  Mrs.  William  Gevin,  Mrs.  Adam 
Grant,  Mrs.  H.  T.  Somers.  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones, 
Mrs.  George-'  D.'  Toy,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Breeden, 
Mrs.  W.  E.  Dean,  Mrs.  W.  L.  Dean,  Mrs.  H. 
P.  Sonntag,  Mrs.  L.  L. "Baker,  Mrs.  Porter, 
Mrs.  Grant  Selfridge,  Mrs.  E.  \Y.  Hedge,  Mrs. 
-  F.  H.  Green,  Mrs.  M.  Casey.  Mrs..F.  H.  Ander- 
son, and  Mis^s  "Gevin. 

The  officers  "of:  the  Thirteenth  Infantry,  sta- 
tioned at  Alcatraz,  gave  a  reception  on  Tues- 
day evening."  They  were  assisted  in  receiving 
by  Mrs.  Paxton;  Mrs.  Perry,  Mrs.  Coleman, 
and  Mrs.  '  Weirick.  Among  the.  guests  were 
Mrs.  Kerwin,  Mrs.,  Duncan.  Mrs.  Taylor,  Miss 
Duncan,  the  Misses  Stafford,  Miss  Caldwell, 
Colonel  and  Miss  Maus,  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Kennedy,  Captain  Fassett,  the  Misses  Fassett, 
Captain  and  Mrs.  Lindsay.  Lieutenant  and 
Mrs.  PattojO.-Mx..  and.  Mrs..  Youngberg,  Miss 
Wallace,  Miss  Hay,  Mrs.  Goe,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Davis,  Miss  Davis,  Lieutenant  and  Miss 
Shaffer,  Lieutenant  Clark,  Miss  Colburn,  Miss 
Austin,  Lieutenant  McElroy,  Lieutenant  Dely. 
Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Coleman,  Dr.  Hosue,  Dr. 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

TH  Jre  is  no  suT  stitute 


Weirick,  Lieutenant  White,  Lieutenant  Ban- 
nette,  Captain  Wild,  Dr.  Lyster,  Chaplain 
Perry,  Mrs.  Warfield,  and  Mr.  Warfield. 

Mr.  Richard  M.  Hotaling  entertained  a  large 
house-party  from  Friday  to  Monday  at  his 
country  place,  "  Sleepy  Hollow,"  in  Marin 
County.  The  guest  of  honor  was  Miss 
Blanche  Bates,  and  among  the  guests  were 
Mr.  Claude  Bingham  and  his  wife,  Amelia 
Bingham. 

■    ♦ — • 

William  R.  Pentz,  who  for  twenty-one  years 
was  connected  with  the  American  Exchange 
National  Bank  of  New  York,  is  coming  to  this 
city  about  the  first  of  August  to  take  the  po- 
sition of  assistant-cashier  of  the  Bank  of 
California.  Sam  H.  Daniels  has  been  assistant- 
cashier  of  the  bank  for  some  time,  but  in  con- 
sequence of  the  branching  out  of  the  old  in- 
stitution, it  was  found  necessary  to  increase 
the  staff  and  elect  a  second  assistant-cashier. 
Last  April  the  Bank  of  California  secured 
the  controlling  interest  of  the  D.  O.  Mills 
National  Bank  of  Sacramento,  and  a  branch  is 
now  opened  in  the  Mission.  Mr.  Pentz,  the 
newly  elected  cashier,  is  a  national-bank  man 
of  wide  experience,  and  it  was  perhaps  for 
this  reason  that  he  was  chosen  for  the  position 
here.  Frank  B.  Anderson,  one  of  the  Bank 
of  California's  vice-presidents,  was  also  con- 
nected with  the  American  Exchange  National 
Bank,  which  fact  may  have  had  some  influence 
in  the  selection  of  the  new  assistant-cashier. 


The  Southern  Pacific  Company  has 
abandoned  the  Valencia  Street  passenger  and 
baggage  station.  A  notice  has  been  posted 
there  to  the  effect  that  hereafter  no  tickets 
will  be  sold,  no  baggage  checked,  and  no 
agent  located  there.  Only  one  or  two  trains 
south-bound  will  stop.  Coming  north,  eleven 
trains  will  stop,  and  eight  will  go  by  without 
stopping.  The  reason  given  for  this  decided 
change  is  the  liability  of  stalling  trains  out- 
bound on  account  of  the  sharp  curve  and 
steep  grade — a  liability  that  is  much  increased 
by  the  use  of  heavier  trains  which  the  traffic 
now  necessitates. 


The  new  ferry-boat  San  Jose,  the  first  of 
the  series  of  the  San  Francisco,  San  Jose, 
and  Oakland  Railroad  Company's  new  bay 
steamers,  was  given  a  highly  satisfactory  trial 
trip  early  in  the  week,  averaging  a  speed  of 
fourteen  knots.  The  boat  is  modern  in  every 
detail.  Her  two  decks  will  accommodate  two 
thousand  passengers,  and  on  the  upper  deck 
the  view  of  the  bay  from  any  seat  is  unob- 
structed. The  interior  is  finished  in  redwood, 
and  she  is  lighted  with  incandescent  lights. 
The  sister  ship  of  the  San  Jose,  the  Yerba 
Buena,  will  be  given  a  trial  trip  in  a  short 
time. 

Before  a  guardian  is  appointed  for  Peter 
J.  Donahue,  whom  a  London  court  has  de- 
clared incompetent,  some  of  his  relatives  will 
make  a  trip  to  England  and  consult  his 
wishes.  The  announcement  of  such  a  course 
was  made  this  week  by  Attorney  R.  H.  Lloyd 
for  the  Baroness  von  Schroeder.  It  is  ex- 
pected that  James  P.  Donahue,  of  Iowa,  a 
cousin,  and  Richard  Burke,  of  Ireland,  a 
brother-in-law,  will  be  the  ones  delegated  to 
visit   Mr.   Donahue   in    England. 

Miss  Lavinia  Wheeler  died  on  July  12th  in 
Oakland  at  the  age  of  one  hundred  and 
two  years,  five  months,-  and  eight  days.  She 
was  possessed  of  her  faculties  almost  up  to 
the  moment  of  her  death.  Her  eyesight  had 
been  poor,  but  she  was_  not  suffering  from 
any  physical  ailment,  and  physicians  say 
that  her  death  was  due  simply  to  old  age. 
Miss  Wheeler  was  one  of  a  family  of  twelve 
children,  and  came  to  California  in   1875. 


The  Merchants'  Exchange  nominating  com- 
mittee, appointed  to  select  a  board  of  direc- 
tors, has  completed  its  -report,  and  the  name 
of  George  W.  McNear,  the  present  president, 
does  not  appear  in  the  list.  The  name  of  Fair^ 
fax  H.  Wheelan  has  been  substituted  for  that 
of  McNear.  It  was  under  the  McNear  ad- 
ministration that  the  new  building  of  the 
Merchants'  Exchange  was  started.'  and  now  he 
is  not  to  be  allowed  to  complete  it. 

Emma  Claudina  Spreckels  Watson,  daughter 
of  Claus  Spreckels,  and  a  former  resident  of 
San  Francisco,  but  who,  after  her  marriage 
several  years  ago,  took  up  her  residence  in 
England,  at  Lower  Kingswood,  has  commenced 
suit  against  her  father  for  the  possession  of 
a  business  block  in  Honolulu,  valued  at 
$400,000,  and  for  $100,006  'damages.  Mrs. 
Watson  claims  that  the  property  was  trans- 
ferred to  her  by  deed  in  July,  1893. 


Under  direction  of  the  board  of  public 
works  the  telegraph  and  telephone  poles  are 
now  being  removed  from  Kearny  Street,  and 
the  appearance  of  that  thoroughfare  is  greatly 
improved. 


Off"  to  San  Jose. 

Clarice — Let's  go  to  the  springs  over  Sun- 
day. 

George — Not  on  your  life! 

Clarice — And  why  not? 

George — Because  I'm  dying  for  a  rest  and  a 
good  swim,  and  there's  more  solid  comfort 
down  at  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose,  than  at 
all  the  springs  that  ever  happened  ! 

Clarice — That's  so,  and  one  sees  some 
lovely  gowns  there,  too.  We'll  go  there — that's 
settled  ! 

—  Wanted:  To  purchase  a  burro  and 
governess  cart,  together  of  separately.  Stale  price. 
Box  59,  this  office. 


Sports  at  the  Hotel  del  Monte. 
The  tournaments  in  outdoor  sports  at  the 
Hotel  del  Monte  will  this  year  extend  over  the 
entire  month  of  August.  First  will  come  the 
polo-games  and  pony-races,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Pony  Racing 
Association.  These  will  cover  the  dates  August 
1  st  to  8th,  inclusive,  and  information  regard- 
ing entries,  etc.,  can  be  secured  from  R.  M. 
Tobin,  secretary  of  the  association,  who  should 
be  addressed  at  the  Crocker  Building.  Between 
August  6th  and  nth  occurs  the  motor-car  run 
from  San  Francisco  to  Del  Monte,  which 
promises  to  be  the  event  of  the  year  among 
automobilists.  The  run  will  be  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Automobile  Club  of  Califor- 
nia, and  information  regarding  it  can  be  ob- 
tained from  President  F.  A.  Hyde,  Crocker 
Building.  Besides  these  two  notable  events, 
there  will  be  a  golf  tournament,  beginning 
August  24th  and  closing  August  31st.  This 
will  include,  among  other  features,  a  team 
match  for  the  Byrne  Cup,  North  versus  South, 
and  amateur  and  ladies'  tournaments  for  the 
Del  Monte  Cups.  Persons  desiring  to  enter  in 
these  matches  should  address  R.  Gilman 
Brown,  secretary,  310  Pine  Street. 


Elaborate  preparations  were  made  by  the 
leaders  of  the  local  Italian  colony  for  the 
entertainment  of  Signor  Edmondo  Mayor  des. 
Planches,  the  Italian  embassador,  during  the 
several  days  of  his  stay  in  California  this 
week.  He  made  a  visit  of  several  days  to  the 
Italian-Swiss  colony  at  Asti  and  the  country 
around  Cloverdale,  being  accompanied  by  A. 
Sbarboro,  -the  editor  of  the  local  Italian 
paper,  and  others,  and  at  Asti  he  was  greeted 
by  Dr.  de  Vecchi  and  other  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  Italian  colony.  On  Tuesday  even- 
ing he  was  the  guest  of  honor  at  a  banquet 
given  by  the  Italian  colony  at  the  Palace  Hotel, 
but  owing  to  a  severe  attack  of  laryngitis  he 
was  able  to  be  present  only  twenty  minutes, 
and  speeches  were  omitted. 


Louis  L.  Bruguiere  is  negotiating  for  the 
purchase  of  seven  acres  of  land  on  the  Jeffery 
Road,  near  Bailey's  Beach,  Newport,  R.  I., 
upon  which  he  will  erect  a  handsome  villa. 
The  site  joins  that  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Starr 
Miller.  He  will  have  as  close  neighbors  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Clews  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stuyvesant   Fish. 


—  A  well-broken  riding  horse  for  sale  at 
the  Vendome  Stables,  San  Jose\  Price  reasonable. 
Bay  gelding  fifteen  hands  high  ;  has  been  driven  in 
the  lead  in  tandem  and  four  in  hand  ;  is  young  and 
sound. 


—  Make  no  mistake,  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tailor," 
121  Post  St.,  cuts  fine  filling  Shirt  Waists  for  ladies. 


Pears' 

The  skin  ought  to  be 
clear  ;  there  is  nothing 
strange  in  a  beautiful  face. 

If  we  wash  with  proper 
soap,  the  skin  will  be  open 
and  clear,  unless  the 
health  is  bad.  A  good 
skin  is  better  than  a 
doctor. 

The  soap  to  use  is 
Pears';  no  free  alkali  in  it. 
Pears',  the  soap  that 
clears  but  not  excoriates. 

Sold  all  over  the  -world. 

G.H.MUMM&CO.S 

EXTRA    DRY 

CHAnPAGNE 

Now  comingto  this  market  is  of  the  remarkable  vintage  ot 
1898,  which  is  more  delicate,  breedy,  and  better  than  the  - 
1893  ;  it  is  especially  dry,  without  being  heavy,  and  recog- 
nized as  one  01"  the  finest  vintages  ever  Imported. 


P.  J.  VALCKENBEBG,  Worms  O/R,  Rhine 
and  Moselle  Wines. 

J.  CALTET  &  CO.,  Bordeaux,  Clarets,  and? 

Burgundies.  '> 

OTARD,  DCPCT  &  CO.,  Cognac,  Brandies. 

FRED'K   DE   BARY  &  CO.,  New  York, 

Sole  Agents  in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
E.  M.  GREENWAT,  Pacific  Coast  Representative. 


THE  CECIL 

906  Bush  St.,  near  Jones 


110  ROOMS 


110  TELEPHONES 


Most  conveniently  situated  for  reaching  any  part  of  the 
city. 

THE  ACME  OF  PERFECTION  in  furnishings 
and  comfort. 

PARTICULAR  ATTENTION  has  been  given  to 
the  equipment  of  the  DINING-ROOM,  which  is  most  in- 
viting. 

The  CUISINE  and  KITCHEN  appointments  are  in 
thorough  accordance  with  the  rest  of  the  house,  showing  that 
care  and  masterful  foresight  so  characteristic  of  the  ladies 
under  whose  management  it  is,  viz.,  Miss  S.  Hutchinson  and 
her  sister,  Mrs.  W.  F.  Morris. 


THE  CECIL  approaches  nearer  the 

idea  of  a  home  than  any  other 

place  outside  home. 


July  20,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


47 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modem  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


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ORCHESTRA 

COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  GO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  VENDOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


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GEO.  P.  SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 


OTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  A  VENUE 

OTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


I  he  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
Ijunce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pux- 
\  ed  the  property,  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
■  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
lieheu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


J10TEL  RAFAEL 

I  y  minutes  from  San  Francisco.      Sixteen 
f  Trains    dally    each    way.       Open   all    the 
rear. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

K.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 


(YRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Den  all  the  year.     Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
I  ale.     Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 

■  l  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
<  ica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 

■  iria. 

I  otel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Is  reasonable.  Very  superior  accommodations. 
I  iached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-hali 
ft  s  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
I  M-,  10  a.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

|>r  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
e  ,  11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Rm  WARMER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P,  O. 


Saratoga  Springs 

The  Ideal  Summer  Resort  of  California 

UNDER   NEW  MANAdEriENT 


MOVEMENTS    AND    -WHEREABOUTS. 


15  Mineral  Springs 

—  FOR  — 

<  umalism.  Gout,  Neuralgia,  Kidney, 
Liver,  Bright's  Disease,  Constipation, 
Bronchial  and  Lung  Trouble. 


en  the  vear  round.  For  information  and  booklets 
3  it  PECK'S  BUREAU,  11  Montgomery  Street,  and 
-.  IFORNIA  X.  W.  R.  R-,  office  650  Market  Street; 
n  rite  BARKER  &  CARPENTER.  Bachelor  P.  O,, 
U:  County,  Cal. 

■  ey  are  the  equal  of  the  world's  most  famous 
ip)  gs,  not  excepting  Carlsbad  and  the  Spa  of  Europe. 


GOOD  KFA^ONf*:  —  Rest  mAieriaJa  Mo 
skillfully  puc  toeeiner.  Strongest,  simple 
easiest.e  veriest.  NeverLearstlie  stiade.  Improve* 

H  ARTS  H  O RN 


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Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  S.  Moody  and  Mr.  Joseph 
L.  Moody  are  spending  the  month  of  July  in 
Santa  Cruz. 

Mrs.  Beverly  Macraonagle  and  her  son, 
Douglas,  are  sojourning  in  Santa  Cruz. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  "W.  McNear,  Miss 
McNear,  and  Mr.  Chad  Freeborn  made  the 
trip  from  Menlo  Park  to  Santa  Cruz  last  week 
in  their  automobile. 

Mr.  Julius  Kruttschnkt,  Jr..  and  Mr.  John 
Kruttschnitt  spent  a  few  days  in  Santa  Cruz 
last   week. 

Prince  Henri  de  Croy  of  Belgium  paid  a 
visit  to  San  Jose  during  the  week,  to  present 
letters  to  the  Misses  Morrison  and  Judge  and 
Mrs.  Lieb,  by  whom  he  was  entertained  in- 
formally. He  is  traveling  quietly  through  the 
West,  and  is  at  present  the  guest  of  friends  in 
Monterey. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Parrott,  with  their 
family,  have  left  their  country  residence  at 
San  Mateo  to  spend  the  remainder  of  the 
summer  at  Del  Monte. 

Miss  Josephine  Loughborough  will  spend 
the  winter  in  New  York  with  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Allen  Wallace. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  Murphy  will  be  the 
guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gtis  Taylor  at  their 
residence  in  Menlo  Park  on  their  return  from 
Monterey. 

Mr..  Francis  Carolan,  Mr.  E.  Duplessis  Bey- 
lard,  and  Mr.  W.  C.  Clarke  will  take  their 
drags  to  Del  Monte  next  week.  They  will 
run  every  day  on  the  seventeen-mile  drive. 

Mr.  Fred  Greenwood  is  sojourning  at  the 
Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose. 

Mrs.  W.  P.  Fuller  and  Miss  Florence  M. 
Bailey  are  at  Del  Monte.  Recently  they  made 
a  run  to  Burlingame  in  Mrs.  Fuller's  automo- 
bile. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  Martin  are  occupying 
their  Newport  cottage,  where  they  recently 
entertained  Prince  Pontatowski. 

Mrs.  Ernest  la  Montagne  will  sail  for 
Japan  in  the  fall.  She  is  at  present  dividing 
her  time  between  Monterey  and  her  mother's 
country  residence  in  Napa  County. 

Miss  Marie  Voorhies  is  visiting  Miss  Flor- 
ence Ives  in  San  Jose. 

Mr.  Horace  Pillsbury  has  returned  from  a 
short  visit  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  C.  Van  Ness 
in   Napa  County. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milton  S.  Latham  have  been 
visiting  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Follis  in  San 
Rafael. 

Sir  Colin  and  Lady  Scott-Moncriett  have 
been  soj  ourning  at  Del  Monte  for  several 
days. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Kierstedt  have  returned  to 
Fort  Miley,  after  a  visit  to  Mrs.  Kierstedt's 
parents  in   San  Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  C.  Pratt  have  returned 
to  this  city  after  a  stay  of  five  months  in  New 
York. 

Mrs.  Cooper  and  Miss  Ethel  Cooper  left 
this  week  for  a  sojourn  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Parker  Whitney  have  left 
their  country  seat  at  Rocklin,  and  are  spending 
several  weeks  in  Monterey. 

Among  the  guests  of  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bancroft 
at  the  St.  Dunstan  Friday  evening  were  Pro- 
fessor and  Mrs.  Hart  and  Professor  and  Mrs. 
Palache.  of  Harvard. 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Tubbs  is  spending  the  summer 
at  the  Hotel   del   Monte. 

Miss  Adelaide  Deming  sailed  for  Liverpool 
last  week.  She  will  spend  the  remainder  of 
the  summer  abroad  with  friends. 

Mrs.  Bourn  and  her  daughter.  Miss  Maud 
Bourn,  left  for  an  extended  European  tour  on 
the  fifteenth  of  this  month. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Parker  Currier  and  their 
daughter,  Mrs.  Gregor  Grant  Fraser,  are 
spending  a  few  weeks  at  Shasta  Springs. 

Mrs.  Arthur  F.  Barnard  (nee  Currier)  will 
shortly  build  a  summer  home  at  Larkspur. 

Mr.  Richard  Burke,  of  Ireland,  visited  the 
Hotel  Vendome  for  a  few  days.  He  is  so- 
journing in  California  looking  after  the  estate 
of  his  late  wife,  who  was  one  of  the  Donahue 
heirs. 

Mr.  C.  V.  Meyerstein,  with  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  C.  V.  Stinson,  and  Mr.  J.  C.  Meyerstein 
have  taken  the  Fox  cottage  at  San  Rafael 
for  the  summer. 

.  Mr.-  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  Costigan  are  spending 
a  few  weeks  at  Hotel  del  Monte. 

Mr.  A.  Douglas  McBryde  and  his  young 
daughter  will  arrive  here  from  Honolulu  on 
August  17th.  They  will  reside  at  the  Hotel 
Pleasanton. 

Mrs.  William  L.  Ashe  has  returned  to  her 
country  residence  in  Sonoma  County,  after 
spending  a  few  days  in  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  William  Bull  Pringle  and  Mr.  Joseph 
P.  Chamberlain,  of  Santa  Barbara,  are  in 
Dawson  City,  Alaska,  on  a  business  trip  of  a 
month  or  six  weeks. 

Mr.  Reuben  H.  Lloyd  spent  a  few  days  at 
the   Hotel   Vendome  recently. 

Mrs.  Robert  Y.  Hayne  and  her  two  sons 
are  paying  a  visit  to  their  Santa  Barbara  resi- 
dence. 

Colonel  J.  M.  Moorhead  has  returned  to  San 
Jose  from  a  visit  to  Los  Angeles. 

Among  the  guests  at  Del  Monte  are  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  J.  Moore,  Miss  Helen  Wagner,  Mrs. 
G  P.  Hayne,  of  San  Mateo,  Mr.  W.  L.  Porter, 
Mr,  W.  W.  Carson,  Mr.  Roy  Pike,  Mr.  Percy 
Pike,   and  Mr.   H.   D.   Bell. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  Byron  Hot 
Sorings  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  Morrison, 
Mr.  M.  Belasco,  Mr.  M.  J.  Brandestein,  Mr. 
W.  S.  Heger,  Miss  E.  L.  Heger.  Judge  John 
Hunt,  Hon.  W.  W.  Foote,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Men- 
dell  Welcker,  and  Mr.  W.  B.  Sargent. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Mrs.  C.  W,  Clark.  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Coolidge.  Mrs.  Mary  Austin,  Miss  Frances 
Grant  Mr.  A.  Stienberger,  Mr.  William  M. 
Rhodes.  Mr.  P.  L.  Burr.  Mr.  L.  Roos.  Mr.  J. 
Hart,  Mr.  W.  B.  Hopkins,  Mr.  Lynn  Austin, 
and  Mr„  Xhomas  M.  Sullivan. 

'  Among     the     week's     guests     at     Saratoga 


Springs  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Morton, 
Miss  Sarah  Carroll,  Miss  Agnes  Haffen,  Miss 
Louise  Nelson,  Mr.  E.  B.  Rosenberger.  Mr.  A. 
Christensen,  Mr.  C.  Blunck,  Dr.  J.  Claude 
Perry,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Kreplin,  of  San 
Francisco,  Miss  Jennie  Porter,  of  Palo  Alto, 
Mrs.  B.  W.  Porter,  and  Mr.  John  Mar- 
tens, of  Alameda. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  A.  Bridge- 
water,  of  London,  England,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Breuner  and  Mrs.  A.  Meyer,  of  Los  Angeles, 
Mrs.  A.  Mitchell,  Miss  Mitchell.  Miss  Alice 
G.  Agnew,  Miss  Edith  Agnew,  Mr.  A.  G. 
Agnew,  Mr.  David  Paton,  Mr.  George  B. 
Agnew,  and  Mr.  John  B.  Noyes,  of  New  York, 
Mrs.  Madeline  Goupil,  of  Tahiti.  Mrs.  George 
B.  Noyes,  of  Berkeley,  Mrs.  C.  O.  Swanberg 
and  Miss  Louise  Swanberg,  of  San  Rafael, 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Howard  and  Miss  Edith  Good- 
fellow,  of  Oakland,  Mr.  Charles  Noyes,  of 
Andover,  Mass.,  Mr.  G.  S.  Casteltanos,  of 
Mexico.  Mr.  Louis  Salinger,  of  Chicago.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Bresse. 
Miss  Martha  McMahan,  Miss  Florence  Hayes. 
Mr.  Daniel  E.  Hayes,  and  Mr.  C.  E.  Miller. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The  latest  personal  notes   relative   to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco  are   appended : 

Lieutenant  Woodruff,  U.  S.  A.,  is  in  San 
Francisco  visiting  his  parents,  General  C  A. 
Woodruff,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Woodruff. 
Lieutenant  Woodruff  was  recently  graduated 
with  high  honors  from  West  Point. 

General  William  R.  Shafter,  U.  S.  A.,  re- 
tired, left  for  New  York  last  Saturday  for  a 
six  weeks'  visit. 

Miss  Lucy  Johnston,  of  Asheville,  N.  C, 
is  the  guest  of  her  brother.  Captain  Robert 
P.  Johnston,  Engineer  Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  in  this 
city.  Captain  Johnston,  who  has  been  ordered 
to  a  post  in  North  Carolina,  will  return  East 
with  his  sister. 

Admiral  John  C.  Watson,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
Mrs.  Watson  sailed  recently  for  Europe.  They 
will  spend  the  summer  on  the  Continent. 

Naval-Constructor  Lawrence  S.  Adams,  U. 
S.  N.,  and  Mrs.  Adams  have  returned  from  a 
visit  to  Mrs.  W.  B.  Collier  at  her  country  resi- 
dence at  Clear  Lake. 

Captain  William  Renwick  Smedberg,  TJ. 
S.  A.,  will  spend  several  weeks  in  San  Fran- 
cisco with  his  parents,  Colonel  William  R. 
Smedberg,  U.  S.  A„  retired,  and  Mrs.  Smed- 
berg, while  en  route  to  the  Philippine  Islands. 

Lieutenant-General  Nelson  A.  Miles,  U. 
S.  A.,  reviewed  the  troops  at  Fort  Reno, 
Oklahoma,  on  Tuesday,  having  made  the  trip 
on  horseback  from  Fort  Sill,  a  distance  ot 
ninety  miles,  in  nine  hours.  He  was  accom- 
panied by  Captain  Farrand  Sayre,  of  the 
Eighth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.  Immediately  after 
the  review  at  Fort  Reno,  he  left  for  Fort 
Riley,  accompanied  by  Colonel  Marion  P. 
Maus,  U.  S.  A. 

Major  Henry  M.  Morrow,  U.  S.  A.,  judge- 
advocate  of  the  Department  of  California,  has 
been  granted  seven  days'  leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  Lewis  S.  Ryan.  Artillery  Corps, 
U.  S.  A.,  is  in  San  Francisco  on  a  short  leave 
from  San  Diego. 

Lieutenant  Ashton  H.  P.  Potter,  U.  S.  A., 
and  Mrs.  Potter  are  guests  at  the  Country 
Club,  Santa  Barbara.  Later,  they  will  visit 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  McNutt  in  San  Francisco. 

Captain  Benjamin  F.  Cheatham,  U.  S.  A., 
arrived  here  Friday  on  the  transport  Thomas, 
and  is  the  guest  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Den- 
man. 

Major  John  McClellan,  Artillery  Corps,  U. 
S.  A.,  has  sailed  for  Honolulu  to  inspect  the 
National  Guard  of  Hawaii. 


There  are  no  accessories  lacking  on  the 
journey  by  rail  up  Mt.  Tamalpais  or  at  the 
Tavern.  The  trip  to  Mt.  Tamalpais  is  still 
the  chief  attraction  in  the  way  of  an  outing 
with  grand  scenic  effects. 


—  The  largest  variety  of  paper-covered 
novels  for  summer  reading  can  be  found  at  Coopers 
Book  Store,  746  Market  Street. 


Too  Will  Find 

none,  but  high-class  jewelry  and  silverware  in  the 
store  of  A.  Hirschman,  712  Market  and  25  Geary 
Streets,  Mutual  Savings  Bank  Building. 


—  "  Knox"  celebrated  hats  ;  spring  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,  746  Market  St. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire.  Collision.  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent.  Broker,  or  Trans- 
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Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

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HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 

ANNOUNCES   SPORTS. 


Polo  and  Races- 


August  1st  tu  stli.  Under  the  auspices 
of  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Pony  Racing 
Association.  R.  M.  Tobin,  Secretary.  En- 
tries to  and  information  from  151  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


Automobile  Run- 


August  6th  to  11th,  from  San  Fran- 
cisco, including  meet  at  Del  Monte. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California.  F.  A.  Hyde.  President.  Entries 
to  151  Crocker  Building,  San  Francisco. 


Golf  Tournament- 


August  24th  to  31st.  Under  auspices  oi 
the  Pacific  Coast  Golt  Association.  R.  Gil- 
man  Brown.  Secretary'-  Entries  to  310  Pine 
Street,  San  Francisco. 

OPEN  CHAMPIONSHIP  -  Team    Match. 

■     for  B\  rue  Cup,  North  vs.  South. 

DEL  MONTE  CUPS—  Amateur  Tournament. 
Ladies'  Tournament. 


GOODYEAR'S 
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Rubber  Goods  tbe  best  made 


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We  are  headquarters  for  everything  made  of  Rubber. 

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F.  M.  Shepard.  Jr..  Treasurer. 
C.  F.  Ruxvon,  Secretary. 

573-575-577-579  Harket  Street 
SAN  FRANCISCO. 

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and  sound.  Good  for  riding  or  driving — is  a  fine 
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it  is  for  the  purpose  of  larger  prof- 
its. Insist  upon  having  the  CLUB 
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THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


"  Pa,  what  is  a  fray?  "  "  Why,  my  son, 
that  is  what  a  person  who  has  never  been  in 
a  fight  calls  it." — Puck. 

"  All  dat  education  does  foh  some  folks," 
said  Uncle  Eben,  "  is  to  learn  dem  a  few  mo* 
words  to  talk  foolishness  wif." — Washington 
Star. 

Miss  Goode — "  You  should  try  to  break 
yourself  of  the  habit  of  swearing,  my  little 
man."  Jimmy — "Wot!  After  all  de  trouble 
I've  gone  to  to  learn  it?  " — Puck. 

"  I  see  in  the  paper  that  a  widower  with 
nine  children  out  in  Nebraska  has  married  a 
widow  with  seven  children."  "  That  was  no 
marriage.     That  was  a  merger." — Puck. 

"  Colonel,"  said  the  fair  hostess  to  the  hero 
of  many  battles,  "  are  you  fond  of  classical 
music?"  "  Madam,"  replied  the  gallant 
colonel,  "  I'm  not  afraid  of  it." — Chicago 
Daily  News. 

"  I'm  glad  to  see  that  you  respect  your  pa- 
rents, Elmer,"  said  the  minister.  "  I've  just 
got  to  do  it,"  replied  the  little  fellow  ;  "  why, 
either  of  them  could  lick  me  with  one  hand." 
— Chicago  News. 

Mrs.  Gaussip — "  I  suppose  you're  careful  to 
make  your  husband  tell  you  everything  that 
happens  to  him?"  Mrs.  Strongmind — "Bet- 
ter than  that.  I'm  careful  to  see  that  nothing 
happens  to  him." — Philadelphia  Press. 

"  Professor,  I  know  a  man  who  says  he  can 
tell,  by  the  impression  on  his  mind,  when  his 
wife  wants  him  to  come  home  to  dinner.  Is 
it  telepathy?"  "Not  at  all,  miss.  I  should 
call   that  mendacity." — Chicago   Tribune. 


GLEN 

GARRV 

Old  Highland 
Scotch 


FOR 


Bon  Vivants 


See  that  St^dman  is  spelt  with  two  ees  when  you 
buy  St«dman's  Soothing  Powders.  Beware  of 
spurious  imitations. 


De  Style — "  Is  he  a  chip  of  the  old  block?  " 
Gunbitsta — "  No,  he's  a  claw  of  the  old  lob- 
ster."— St.  Louis  Lumberman. 


—  Dr.  E.  O.  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething. 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
leave     —    From  June  21,  1903.    - 


SAN  FRANCISCO, 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 


7.Q0a    Benkia,  Sul»un.  Elmlrt  »nd  liter*- 

neato 72$f 

7.00a  V*e»Ttlle,  Wlntart,  Bwej. 7.25F 

7.50a  Martlaex,    B*a     Bwnon,    VtlUJo, 

x*p&.  ciiutoe*.  smuRml 6-25r 

7.30a  UDm.  Lathrop.  Btocktoa 7.26F 

8.00a  D»t1b.  Woodland.  Knight*  Landing. 
Marysville,  OroTflle,  (connect! 
at  Haryirtlle  for  Grldley,  Blggi 

and  Colco) 7-66r 

8.00a  Atlantic ExpreiB—  ORdeaandE««.   1Q-25a 
8.00a  Fort  Costa,  Martinet,  Antloch,  By- 
ron, Tracy ,  Stockton,  Baenv  em  to. 
Lea  B&noa.    Mendota,   Banford, 

VlHlla,  Portervflle r»4.JS* 

8  00a  Fort  Coata,  Martinez,  Lithroo,  Mo- 
deito,  Merced,  Fremo,  Gochen 
Junction,    Hanford,     VlaallA, 

Bakersfleld E.26r 

8. 30*  Shasta  Eipreai  —  Davis.  WllllUM 
(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Wlllova, 

tFmto,  Bed  Bluff.  Portland 7-SBr 

8.30a  Kiln,  Ban  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stocfc- 
ton,Ione,Sacramento,PlacerTllle, 

MarysTllle,  Cutco,  Red  Bluff 4.2Bf 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  80- 

norn,  Tnolomne  and  Angels 4-26f 

9.00a  Martinez  and  Way  SUtloni 6.56P 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.2BF 

"10.00a  CrescentClty  Express,  Eaitbonnd. 
—Port  Coata,  Byron,  Tracy,  I*- 
throp,  Stockton,  Merced,  Ray- 
mond, Fresno,  Hanford,  YlaaUa, 
Bakersfleld,  Loi  Angeles  ana 
Hew  Orleans.  ("Westbound  ar- 
rives as  Pacific  Coast  Express, 

via  Coast  Line) «1.30> 

1000a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden, 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago G  25f 

12.00k  Hayward.  Kllea  and  Way  Stations.     3-25p 

tl.OOP   Sacramento  Btver  Steamers til. OOP 

3-30p  Benlcla,      Winters,      Sacramento, 
Woodland,  Williams,  Colnsa,Wll- 
lowa,  Knights  Landing.  Marys- 
vine.  Orovllle  and  way  stations. .    10.65a 
3.30p  BaywBrd.Klles  and  Way  Stations..      755p 
4.C0p  M art Inez.SanRtimon, "Vallejo, Kapa. 

Carlstoga,  Santa  Rosa 9-2Ba 

4. OOp  Martinez, Tracy,Lathrop3toekton.  10.26a 
4-00p  Kllea,  Llvermore.  Stockton,  Lodl..  4.25r 
4.30f  Bayward.  Files,  Irvlngton,  Ban  I    t8.65i 

Jose,  Llvermore (  tl  1.65a 

6-OOp  Tbe  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakersfleld,  Los  Angeles;  con- 
nects at  Bangui  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara.      8.66a 

6.00]'  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lea 

Banos..... 12-26F 

H?.30p  Nlles,  San  Jose  Local 7.25a 

6. OOp   Hay  ward.  Kllea  and  Sin  Joie 1026a 

B-OOp  Oriental     Mall— Ogden,     Denver, 
Omaba.   Bt.  Louis.  Chicago  ana 
East.    1  Carries  Fnllman  Car  pas- 
sengers only  ont  of  Ban  Fran- 
claco.     Tourist    car   and  coach 
passengers  take  T.Ou  p.  m.  train 
to  Reno,  continuing  thence    In 
tbelr  cars  6  p.e.  train  eastwari..     425p 
Westbonnd,     Sunset      Limited.— 
From  Kew  York,  Chicago,  Kew 
Orleans,  El  Paso,  Los   Angeles, 
.  Fresno,  Berenda,  Raymond  (from 
Toeemite),  Martinez.    Arrives..     8. 26a 
7 .OOp  San  Pablo,  Fort  Costa,  Martinai 

p.nd  Way  Stations. 11.26a 

17.00p  Vallejo 7.66* 

700p  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Snisun,  Davis, 
Sacramento,  Tracked,  Reno. 
Stops   at    all    stations    east  of 

Sacramento ......     7-6Ba 

8.06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Bae- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,    Bedding, 
Portland,  Paget  Boand  and  East.     8.65a 
19.1  Op  Hayward,  Klles  and  Ban  Joae  (Bon- 
day  only) $11-66* 

11.26f  Port  Coata,  Tracy.  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  To- 

semlte),  Fresno 12.26? 

Hanford.  Vlsalla.  Bakersfleld S^fir 


COAST    LINE     fWarrow  Gaoge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

1745a    Santa    Cruz    Excursion    (Sunday 

_    m       only) JS.10F 

6.16a  Newark.  CenterTllle.  Ban  Joan, 
Felton,   Bonlaer    Creek,    Santa 

Cms  and  Way  Stations 8  25p 

tS-16r  Newark,  CenterTllle,  Ban  Jose, 
Kew  Almaden.Los  Gato*. Felton, 
Bonlder  Creek,  Santa  Croz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    10.65a 

4.16p  Newark,  Ban  Jose.  Los  Gatos  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz,  connects  at  Felton  for 
Boulder   Creek,      Monday    only 

from  Santa  Cruz) t8-65A 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

From  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  of  Market  St.  (SllpSi 

— 17:15    8:00    11:00  a Ji.     L00    3.00    5.15  p.m 

From  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  — 16:00    JS:O0 

18:05    10:00a.m.       1200    200    4.00p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Broad  Oauge). 

(Third  and  Townsend  Streets.) 

61  0a    San  Jose  and  Way  Buttons 7.30p 

1700a    Ban  Jo6e  and  Way  Stations 8.30p 

H  00a  New  Almaden /4.10P 

.7  16*    Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excor 

slon  (Sunday  only) 18.30f 

oB.OOa  Coast  Line  Limited— Stops  only  San 
Jose.Gilroy.Holllster.Pajaro.Cas- 
trovllle.  Salinas,  Ban  Ardo,  Paao 
Robles.  Santa  Margarita,  San  Luis 
Obispo. (principal  etatlonitbence) 
Santa  Barbara,  and  Los  An- 
geleB.  Connection  at  Castrovllle 
to  sndfrom  Monterey  and  Pacific 
Grove  and  at  Pajaro  north  bound 

from  Capltola  and  Santa  Cruz 10-45? 

84)0a  San  Jose.  Tres  PInos,  Capltola, 
Santa  Cruz.PaclflcGrove.Sallnaa, 
Ssn  Luis  Obispo  and   Principal 

Intermediate    Stations 4.1  Op 

Westbound  only.  Pacific  Coast  Ex- 
nresp. — From  New  York,  Chicago, 
Kew  Orleans,  El  Paso,  Los  An- 
geles, Sania  Barbara.    Arrives..      1.30F 

1030a  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1.20f 

11. 30a  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos  and  Way  Bta- 

,  _„        lions... 5.3BP 

al-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations x7.00r 

2. OOp  San  Jose  and  Way  Buttons 59.40a 

\3-00p  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 
o       Ban  Jose.  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  SanU 
Clara  for  SanU   Cruz,    Bonlder 
,  __        Creek  and  KarrowGaugePoInU)t12.1BP 
c5-50f  Bnrllngame.  San  Mateo.  Redwood, 
MenloPark.  Palo  Alto,  May  field, 
Mounuln  View.  Lawrence,  Sanu 
Clara,  San  Joae,  Gllroy  (connec- 
tion for  EolllBter,  Tres  PInos), 
Pajaro  (connection  for  Watson- 
vllle,  Capltola  and  SanU  Cruz), 
Pacific  Grove  and  way  stations. 
Connects  at  CaBtrovllle  for  Sa- 
linas    10.46a 

*4-30r  flan  JoseaDd  Way  SUtlons 8.36a 

ot$J30P  Ban  Jose,  (via  SanU  Clara)  Los 
G  a  tos,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

BtHtlous IS-OOa 

t*!6J0j    SBnJoeesndPrlnclpalWaySUtlone  +8  00a 
otfi.IBi    San  Mateo.Bereaford, Belmont, Ban 
Carlos,     Redwood.     Fair     Oaks. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto t6  46a 

§.30*  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations c  36a 

o7-00p  Sunset  Limited,  Eastbound.— San 
Luis  Obispo,  Sanu  Barbara,  Los 
Angeles.  Demlng.  El  Paso,  Kew 
Orleans,  Kew  York.  (WeBtbound 
snlvcBVlnSHnJcsqulnYalley)  ..  tr8  26a 
6.00P  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Bullous........  10.16a 

nll-BOi  Mlllbrae,  Palo   Alto  and  Way  Su- 

tlonB ....  t9  4Bp 

ol  130P  Mlllbrae,  Ban  Jose    and  Way  Sta- 
-"  Mona »46f 


a  for  morning,  p  for  afternoon.  >  Saturday  and  Sunday  only.  \  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday, 
t  Sunday  excepted.  %  Sunday  only,  a  Saturday  only.  rfConnects  at  Goshen  Jc.  with  trains  for  Hanford, 
Visalia;  at  Fresno,  for  Visalia  via  Sanger,  e  Via  Coast  Line.  /Tuesday  and  Friday,  m  Arrive  via  Niles. 
n  Daily  except  Saturday.  a>Via  San  Joaquin  Valley.  «  Stops  Santa  Clara  south  bound  only;  connects. 
except  Sunday,  ior  -  'I  points  Narrow  Gauge,    o  Does  not  stop  at  Valencia  Street. . '■  r.  . . 

The  UNION  TRANSFER  COMPANY  will  call  for  and  check  baqgagefrom  hotels  and  residences. 
Telephone,  Exchange  S3.     Inquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and  other  information. 


Tillmann  &  Bendel 

Purveyors  to  the 

Pacific  Slope  Trade 


OUR  STANDARDS 


vS perry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WA 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS — 7.30,  S.oo,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2.30, 
3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra 
trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS^ — 7.30,  S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  pm. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  t2-oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.26,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m  ;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


7.30  a  m 
7.30  a  m,  8.00  a  m 
8.00  a  m    9.30  a 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p 
5.10  pm    5.10  p 


7.30  a  m  7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m  S.oo  ; 
2.30  p  m  9.30  a  m 
5.10  p  m;  2.30  pm 

5.10  pm 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a 
8  00  a  m'  S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  ra 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  nV  7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


S.oo  a  m    8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


S.oo  a  m.  S.oo  a  m 
5.10  p  nv  5.10  p  m 


7.30  a  ml  7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ubiab. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 
days. 


7.45  a 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 


7.45  a  m 
10.20  a 
6.20  p  m 
725  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 


7-35  a  m 


10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7-25  p  m 


Week 
Days. 


7-45  a  ra 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  ra 
6. 20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 


7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  in 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  t 
6.20  p  r 
7-25  P  r, 


10,20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 


10,20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 


7.25  p  jn 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


8.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Witlits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonvilte,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 
.Ticket  office.  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C-  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


7.30 


9.30 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fn 
Cisco,  as  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  ' 
Stockton   10.40  a  m,    Fresno    2.40    p 
Bakersfleld  7.15  p  m.     Stops  at  all  po 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.      Corresponc 
train  arrives  8.55  a  ra. 
A    M  — f'THE     CALIFORNIA     L 
1TED  "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fn 
3.26  p  m,  Bakersfleld  6.00  p  m,  Kat 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (tlj 
day)    2.15    p    m.      Palace    sleepers 
dining  -  car    through    to    Chicago, 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  tr 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jn.io  p  n 
Q     O/l  A  M— »VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  St.: 

&**9U  ton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakj 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclin 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  1 
ored  on  this  train.  Corresponding  t 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 
PM^*STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  St 
ton  7.10pm.  Corresponding  train  arr 
11.10  a  m. 

P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS: 
Stockton  11.15  P  m,  Fresno  3.15  _ 
Bakersfleld  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fo 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day) 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chic 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  ou 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrive 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       +  Monday  and  Thursda 
J  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City, 

cago,  and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Mon 

Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


4.00 
8.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  an 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco  ;  and  1112  Broad' 
Oakland. 


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San  Francisco,  July  27,  1903 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Negro  Crimes  and  Negro  Lynchings — New  Eng- 
land's Slaves  and  Rum-Sellers — Tories  Lynched  in  the 
Colonies — Patriots  Lynched  as  Well  as  Tories — Can  Boycot- 
ting Be  Called  Un-American  ? — Boycotting  the  Federal  Gov- 
ernment— Boycotts  Between  the  States — Manchurian  Situa- 
tion Still  in  Doubt  —  Ingredients  of  a  Political  Pot- 
pourri— A  Warning  for  Harbor  Commissioners — A  Decision 
on  Collateral  Inheritance  Tax — A  Noted  Forgery  Recalled — 
A  Few  Figures  of  Prosperity — Public  Street  Claimed  as 
Private     Property 4&-51 

The  Breeks  of  the  Turks.    By  Jerome  A.  Hart 52 

Individualities:    Notes   About   Prominent    People   All    Over   the 

World   5= 

Electing  a  New  Pope:  How  Leo  the  Thirteenth  Was  Made 
Head  of  the  Papacy — An  Account  of  the  Conclave  of  1878 — 
Electoral   Intrigues — Some    Possible   Candidates S3 

The  Capture  of  the  Colonel:      A     Story    of     San     Francisco. 

By    Marguerite    Stabler 54 

"The  Beautiful  Aurelias  ":     Hugues    le    Roux    on    American 

Women — and  Men.     By  Geraldine  Bonner 55 

Anecdotes  of  Whistler   55 

Literary  Notes:      Personal     and     Miscellaneous     Gossip  —  New 

Publications    56-57 

Drama:  "  The  Three  Musketeers  "  and  "  Under  the  Red  Globe  " 
at  Fischer's — The  Performance  at  the  Orpheuin — "  The 
Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson  "  at  tbe  Columbia.  By  Josephine  Hart 
Phelps 58 

Stage  Gossip   59 

Vanity  Fair:  A  "  Woman  Who  Loves  Fair  Play  "  Hotly  Criti- 
cises "  One  Who  Loves  Her  Sex  " — Should  There  Be 
Music  at  Meals? — Some  Expert  Opinions — Chicago's  Dearth 
of  Kitchen-Maids — Comparative  Cost  of  Living  in  New 
York  and  Philadelphia — Diamond  Imports — The  Tailoring 
of  Stone  Clothes 60 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
The  Kind  Heart  of  Russia's  Empress  Dowager — The  Anger 
of  a  Missouri  Woman — Stammering  as  an  Aid  to  Literary 
Excellence — How  Dramatic  Critics  Should  be  Paid,  Accord- 
ing to  Max  Beerbohm — An  Amusing  Anecdote  of  General 
Shafter — How  Wagner  Worked  the  Discomfiture  of  a 
Presumptuous  Critic 61 

The  Tuneful  Liar:     "  Yearnings,"   by   Winthrop   Packard;   "  A 

Diagnosis  of  Kentucky  "    61 

'Society:     Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army    and    Navy    News 62-63 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 64 


ane  Negro 
Lynchings. 


The  recent  outbreaks  of  the  lynching  madness  in 
neg  crimes  various  parts  of  the  United  States  have 
brought  to  us  a  number  of  communica- 
tions. All  the  writers  deplore  these 
dreadful  happenings;  some  attempt  to  palliate  them; 
few  offer  any  remedies  for  the  evil.  But  all  seem  to 
speak  of  lynching — and  some  of  boycotting — as  if  these 
were  new  phenomena  in  American  life.  We  shall  be 
forced  to  show  them  that  in  this  they  are  wrong. 

One  subscriber  sends  the  following  concerning  the 
recent  horrible  negro-burning  in  a  Northern  State: 

Editors  Argonaut  :  On  the  night  of  June  23d  a  negro 
burning  took  place,  and  (incredible  to  read)  this  time  in  a 
Northern  State — at  Wilmington,  Dela.,  within  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  miles  of  New  York  City.  The  pastor  of  the 
local  Presbyterian  Church  incited  the  commission  of  the  act. 
Public  feeling  afterward  approved  it.  On  what  grounds? 
Future  prevention  through  terrorism,  or  mere  vindictive  feel- 
ing?     If   the    former,    the    whole    idea    is,    I    hold,    erroneous. 


These  crimes  of  the  negroes  must  be  perpetrated,  surely,  under 
insane  and  unreasoning  passion,  like  the  passion  of  a  savage 
wild  animal.  What,  then,  is  the  use  of  terrorism?  Since  the 
negro  is  of  a  lower  type  of  man ;  is,  in  fact,  nearer  to  man 
when  he  evolved  out  of  the  brute,  his  lower  nature  will  be 
the  more  in  predominance,  and,  together  with  less  power  of 
resistance,  his  temptation  the  more  violent  and  impetuous. 
Yet  society  in  its  present  state  demands  the  restraining  in- 
fluence of  the  law.  By  the  law,  then,  it  is  right  that  malefactors 
should  be  punished.  And  by  the  law  this  negro  undoubtedly 
would  have  been  punished.  But  a  minister  of  the  church  of 
Christ — as  narrow  as  any  bigot  of  the  Middle  Ages,  but  with- 
out the  excuses  of  the  latter — preaches  anarchy,  raves  out 
vengeance,  stirs  up  the  styx  of  rancor  and  the  cruelty  that  could 
witness  unmoved  the  evidences  of  exquisite  and  drawn-out 
agony  in  a  fellow-being !  Poor  flock  to  have  such  a  shepherd  1 
While  the  burning  was  in  process,  while  in  his  agony  the 
negro  kept  falling  out  of  the  fire,  was  there  not  one  there  man 
enough  to  fire  a  merciful  shot?  Each,  no  doubt,  was  restrained 
by  his  fear  of  the  rest ;  for  cruelty  and  cowardice  go  hand 
in  hand.  They  masked  their  identity  in  women's  apparel — 
effeminate  men  in  effeminate  guise  I  I  am  reminded  of  Nero, 
of  Caligula,  of  Louis  the  Sixteenth  of  France,  one  of  whose 
pastimes  was  the  roasting  of  cats  alive.  What,  however,  is 
the  worst  phase  is  that  the  American  people — the  most  en- 
lightened and  civilized  in  the  world — should  approve  of  this 
abominable  affair.     Are  not  such  dreadful  doings  un-American  ? 

E.  H.  P.  Kilburn. 

While  Mr.  Kilburn  is  right  in  his  strong  condemna- 
tion of  the  actions  of  the  Delaware  mob  and  the  Wil- 
mington clergyman,  he  should  not  forget  certain  factors 
in  the  case.  While  there  is  nothing  to  be  said  in  ex- 
tenuation of  these  dreadful  crimes,  there  is  something 
to  be  said  in  explanation,  if  not  in  extenuation.  God 
put  the  negro,  a  hot-blooded  animal,  in  a  tropical  coun- 
try, Africa.  There  the  negro  consorted  freely  with 
the  female  of  his  kind,  as  did  the  male  and  female 
gorillas  and  baboons.  The  female  blacks  knew  about 
as  little  of  chastity  as  did  the  female  baboons.  There 
are  many  tribes  in  Africa  to-day  who  have  no  word 
for  "chastity"  in  their  language.  The  abstract  idea 
does  not  exist — there  is  therefore  no  need  for  the 
word.  Under  such  conditions,  the  control  of  the  pas- 
sions among  the  African  negroes  was  also  non-ex- 
istent. 

God,  then,  put  the  negro  in  Africa.     Man  moved  the 

New  England's  negro  from  Africa  t0  America— Ameri- 
Slavers  and  can  man,  New  England  man,  our  colonial 

rum-sellers.  predecessors,  to  be  plain.  The  bulk  of 
the  African  immigration  to  the  United  States  was 
brought  here  by  thrifty  New  Englanders.  Sometimes 
they  called  themselves  merchants,  sometimes  traders. 
Other  people  sometimes  called  them  smugglers,  and 
sometimes  privateers.  However  that  may  be,  these 
New  England  merchants  made  large  fortunes  dealing 
in  human  flesh.  When  they  found  it  expedient  to 
abolish  slavery  in  their  own  colonies,  they  continued  to 
import  negro  slaves  and  sell  them  to  their  fellow- 
colonists  in  the  South.  Every  year  numerous  slave- 
ships  set  sail  from  Boston,  from  Medford,  from  Salem, 
from  Providence,  from  Newport,  from  Bristol.  With 
these  ships  the  thrifty  New  England  traders  did  a  triple 
trade:  they  got  molasses  from  Southern  ports,  took  it 
to  New.  England,  and  turned  it  into  rum ;  they  sent  the 
rum  to  Africa,  and  swapped  it  for  negroes;  they  took 
the  negroes  to  the  'Carolinas  and  other  Southern 
colonies,  and  sold  them  into  slavery;  then  they  loaded 
up  with  Jamaica  molasses,  took  it  back  to  New  Eng- 
land, made  it  into  rum,  and  sailed  for  Africa  again. 
The  foundations  of  the  great  fortunes  of  many  New 
England  families  of  light  and  leading  were  laid  on 
rum  and  slavery. 

The  foregoing  does  not  sound  pretty,  but  it  is  true. 
We  have  our  dreadful  race-problem  with  us  to-day; 
our  black  vote  and  our  blacks'  crimes;  a  problem 
which  seems  without  solution;  a  problem  which  may 
wreck  our  republic — we  have  this  appalling  evil  because 
thrifty  New  England  traders  distilled  sour  molasses  into 
rum,  and  with  it  bought  blacks  to  sell  for  slaves. 

America  is  paying  the  penalty  for  New  England's 


negro  traffic.  She  has  been  paying  it  for  more  than 
a  century.  She  paid  part  of  it  in  the  lives  of  a  million 
men  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  She  is  paying 
it  still  in  the  black  crimes  that  are  daily  perpetrated 
on  white  women  by  black  fiends  and  the  horrible  lynch- 
ings that  are  perpetrated  on  the  black  fiends  by  mad- 
dened mobs.  America  is  paying  her  penalty  in  blood 
and  tears.  She  will,  we  fear,  continue  to  pay  it  for 
many  years  to  come.  Perhaps  she  may  pay  it  for 
centuries  to  come  if  the  republic  shall  last  so  long. 

Why   this   doubt    about    the   republic's   endurance,   the 

Tories  Lynched     reader    m^    ask'       Because    the    roots    of 

in  the  the   lynching   madness   go  down   deeper 

colonies.  than,    the    Civil    War    or    the    days    of 

slavery.  They  even  go  deeper  than  the  Revolutionary 
War.  And  when  our  correspondent  asks  if  the  practice 
of  lynch-law  is  not  "  un-American,"  we  are  obliged  to 
admit  that  lynch-law  existed  in  the  colonies  long  before 
the  United  States  was  a  nation.  Boycotting  went 
hand  in  hand  with  lynching,  and  it  was  generally 
practiced  at  the  time  of  the  passage  of  the  Stamp  Act 
in  1765.  Lynching  became  general,  and  received  the 
approval  of  the  leading  men  in  the  colonies  when  it 
was  directed  against  the  Tories  and  the  troubles  with 
Great  Britain  began. 

Let  us  give  a  few  instances  of  these  early  American 
departures  from  the  forms  of  law.  In  1774,  in  Berk- 
shire, Mass.,  lynchers  drove  David  Ingersoll  from  his 
farm  and  destroyed  his  buildings.  They  drove  away 
David  Leonard,  and  riddled  his  house  with  bullets. 
They  poisoned  the  horses  of  many  Tories.  They  hooted 
judges  as  they  entered  the  court-room.  They  wrecked 
the  house  of  Sewell,  attorney-general  of  Massachusetts. 
They  forced  Oliver,  president  of  the  council,  under 
threats  of  death,  to  resign.  They  compelled  the  judges 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  to  march  up  and  down 
before  them  bowing  low,  and  to  read  thirty  times  over 
a  promise  not  to  hold  court.  Tories  were  repeatedly 
ridden  on  fence-rails,  were  tossed  in  blankets,  were 
gagged,  bound,  and  pelted  with  stones.  The  houses 
and  shops  of  Tories  were  burned,  while  they  themselves 
were  carted  about  the  streets,  abused,  and  pelted  with 
filth  by  the  mob. 

Rev.  Samuel  Seabury,  first  bishop  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  had  his  house  invaded  by  lynchers, 
his  daughters'  lives  were  threatened  with  bayonets, 
his  house  wrecked  and  plundered  of  silverware  and 
other  valuables,  and  he  himself  paraded  through  New 
Haven  at  the  cart's  tail. 

In  1784,  the  Whigs  of  New  Jersey  signed  a  docu- 
ment condemning  the  harsh  treatment  suffered  by  the 
Tories  in  New  York,  and  inviting  them  to  come  to 
Amboy  and  New  Brunswick  as  a  refuge.  The  hounded 
Tories  accepted  the  invitation,  but  as  soon  as  they 
reached  the  Jerseys  they  were  stripped  naked,  tarred, 
and  feathered. 

In  the  later  days  of  the  Revolution,  the  milder  forms 
of  lynching  by  ducking,  flogging,  and  tarring  and  feath- 
ering, gave  way  to  harsher  measures.  Then  many 
Tories  were  hanged. 

Doubtless  there  are  some  Americans — we  trust  not 
Patriots  many — who  will  reply  to  these  historical 

Lynched  as  well  citations  that  the  victims  were  "  only 
as  Tories.  Tories,"  and  therefore  deserved  all  they 

got.  To  this  the  reply  is  that  in  all  cases  of  war  be- 
tween civilized  nations  the  persons  and  property  of 
non-combatants  are  respected.  Americans  in  Great 
Britain  were  not  harmed.  Therefore,  when  non- 
combatants  are  assailed  in  this  way,  it  is  because  the 
law,  which  fails  to  protect  them,  has  been  override  I  , 
by  lynch-law.     Beyond  question,  these  habits  of  ] 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  27,  1903. 


breaking  by  mobs,  which  began  before  the  Revolution 
and  were  participated  in  by  respectable  people  and 
often  by  leaders  of  the  community,  led  to  the  institu- 
tion afterward  known  as  "  lynch-law,"  which  has  pre- 
vailed so  extensively  throughout  the  United  States 
ever  since.  The  term  "  lynch-law,"  in  fact,  which 
was  crystallized  into  a  custom  by  this  treatment  of  the 
Tories,  took  its  title  from  the  brother  of  the  man  who 
founded  Lynchburg  in  Virginia. 

Law-breaking  is  a  dangerous  business.  Mob-law, 
once  begun,  is  difficult  to  stop.  The  practice  once  ap- 
plied to  Tories  was  easily  diverted  to  Patriots — when 
the  Patriots  differed  with  each  other.  The  boycotting 
with  which  the  crusade  against  the  Tories  began  ended 
in  lynching.  So  the  lynching  mobs  began  with  boy- 
cotting their  fellow-patriots,  and  at  last  wound  up  with 
lynching  them. 

In  1777,  the  Vermonters  had  cut  loose  from  New 
Hampshire.  Iheir  independence  was  soon  acknowl- 
edged by  New  Hampshire.  But  greedy  New  York  de- 
termined to  claim  the  Green  Mountain  State.  She  at- 
tempted to  exercise  jurisdiction.  For  over  seven  years 
lynch-law  and  boycotting  prevailed  in  the  southern 
counties.  The  two  parties,  Vermonters  and  New 
Yorkers,  indulged  in  boycotting,  ambuscades,  barn- 
burning,  tar  and  feathering,  lynching,  and  midnight 
murder. 

In  September,  17S6,  a  mob  of  lynchers  ordered  the 
Superior  Court  at  Springfield  to  cease  its  sessions. 
The  lynchers,  who  were  headed  by  Daniel  Shayes,  a 
Revolutionary  veteran,  called  themselves  "  Regulators  " 
— a  name  destined  to  be  used  often  in  later  days. 
The  lynchers  drove  the  law-officers  from  the  court- 
houses in  several  towns,  and  succeeded  in  suppressing 
all  forms  of  law  there,  except  lynch-law.  The  mob 
claimed  that  the  lawyers  had  too  much  to  do  with 
legislation,  and  were  growing  rich  at  the  expense  of 
the  people;  that  they  were  instrumental  in  increasing 
the  taxes.  In  August,  1786,  a  mob  of  fifteen  hundred 
lynchers  assailed  the  court  at  Northampton,  and  the 
judges  fled.  At  Worcester  the  mob  forbade  court  to 
be  held.  At  Concord  a  mob  armed  with  muskets  and 
inflamed  with  rum  attacked  the  court-house,  and  the 
judges  fled  in  terror.  At  Great  Barrington  the  mob 
seized  the  court-room  and  compelled  the  judges  to  sign 
a  paper  promising  no  longer  to  act. 

We  have  shown  in  the  foregoing  citations  from 
can  boycotting  familiar  Pa&es  in  American  history  that 
be  called  lynch-law  was  old  when  the  nation  was 

Un-American?  young.  But  those  who  will  admit  that 
lynching  is  not  un-American  still  cling  to  the  belief 
that  the  boycott  is  modern  and  that  "  boycotting  is  un- 
American."  We  fear  they  are  wrong.  Boycotting  did 
not  begin  with  the  Irish  tenantry  who  cut  off  Captain 
Boycott  and  his  family;  it  was  practiced  freely  in 
colonial  times;  it  is  probably  as  old  as  the  race.  An- 
other correspondent  writes  as  follows : 

Editors  Argonaut  :  Have  you  observed  the  rigid  boycott 
now  ordered  against  the  Los  Angeles  Times  by  the  typo- 
graphical union?  General  Harrison  Gray  Otis  is  making  a 
gallant  fight.  But  the  labor-unions  in  Los  Angeles  are  boy- 
cotting all  local  merchants  who  advertise  in  the  Times,  and 
all  news-dealers  who  handle  it,  while  thousands  of  labor- 
union  men  all  over  the  country  are  writing  to  large  advertisers, 
like  the  Royal  Baking  Powder,  Baker's  Cocoa,  etc.,  threatening 
to  boycott  their  goods  unless  they  take  their  advertisements 
out  of  the  Times.  Los  Angeles  is  a  strongly  American  city, 
and  boycotting  is  so  vicious  and  un-American  an  importation 
that  the  Times  will  probably  win  its  fight.  All  Americans 
ought   to   rally  to   its  support.  A  New  Englander. 

Our  New  England  friend  is  wrong  in  saying  that 
"  the  boycott  is  un-American."  It  is  not  only  Ameri- 
can, but  colonial,  and  it  thrived  most  in  New  England. 
General  Otis  is  in  truth  making  a  gallant  fight,  but  his 
ancestor,  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  was  a  leader  in  the 
Hartford  Convention  and  in  the  Massachusetts  boycott 
against  the  Federal  government  over  the  War  of  1812. 

It  was  in  1774,  we  believe,  that  the  Non-Importation 
Association  was  formed  in  New  England.  It  gradually 
extended  to  the  other  colonies.  Its  objects  were  to 
boycott  all  foreign  goods,  Great  Britain's,  of  course, 
being  principally  aimed  at.  It  soon  became  a  universal 
boycott.  The  Tories  feebly  endeavored  to  stem  the 
current,  but  they  were  boycotted  also. 

In  1710,  rates  of  postage  were  fixed  in  all  the  colonies. 
In  1765,  the  Stamp  Act  was  passed.  There  was  a  strong 
resemblance  between  stamping  a  letter  and  stamping 
a  document.  But  although  the  colonists  complained 
bit  jrly  of  the  Starr.  Act,  they  never  complained  of 
the  postage-stamp  law.  The  colonists  not  only  refused 
to  use  the  documentary  stamps,  but  they  refused  to  do 


business  with  any  persons  who  used  them.  Those 
Tories  who  desired  to  comply  with  the  law  and  who 
used  stamps  were  boycotted.  The  distributers  of  the 
stamps  were  also  boycotted.  Finally,  to  make  the  boy- 
cott hard  and  fast,  the  distributers  were  forced  to  re- 
sign, and  their  stamps  were  destroyed  by  the  boycotters. 

In  January,  1766,  leagues  were  formed  to  cut  off  all 
trade  with  England.  The  colonists  then  were  buying 
about  £3,000,000  a  year  from  England.  In  addition, 
they  owed  £2,000,000  for  past  sales.  Most  of  the  boy- 
cotters  concluded  to  lump  the  old  with  the  new,  and 
to  wipe  out  their  debts  by  boycotting  them.  When  the 
Stamp  Act  was  repealed  there  was  great  rejoicing  in 
England  among  the  tradespeople;  the  bells  were  rung, 
ships  were  dressed  with  flags,  houses  were  illuminated. 
Although  the  colonists  had  been  clamoring  for  its  re- 
peal, many  of  them  were  secretly  disappointed,  as  they 
thus  had  to  pay  their  old  debts. 

The  Boston  tea-party  was  practically  a  boycott.  All 
of  the  tea  drank  in  America  was  smuggled  from  the 
Dutch.  The  East  India  Company  could  not  pay  the 
British  Government's  high  duty  and  undersell  the 
smuggled  Dutch  tea  in  the  colonies.  Therefore,  the 
British  Government  remitted  its  duty,  and  it  sent  un- 
taxed tea-ships  to  Boston,  New  York,  Philadelphia, 
and  Charleston.  At  once  a  rigid  boycott  was  pro- 
claimed. Consignees  were  ordered  to  refuse  to  receive 
the  tea.  No  one  was  permitted  to  buy  it.  The  incom- 
ing tea-ships  were  boarded  by  the  boycotters,  and  the 
captain  and  pilots  were  "  persuaded "  in  such  a  way 
that  a  number  of  them  put  their  ships  about  and  re- 
turned with  their  tea  to  England.  There  are  in  exist- 
ence in  the  historical  libraries  hand-bills  warning  pilots 
and  captains  not  to  bring  in  tea-ships,  and  signed 
"  The  Committee  for  Tarring  and  Feathering." 

In  Boston,  the  boycotters  were  more  pugnacious. 
At  night  some  forty  or  fifty  men,  painted  and  attired 
like  Indians,  went  aboard  of  the  tea-ships,  chopped  open 
the  chests,  and  cast  the  contents  into  the  sea. 


The  boycotts  of  the  pre-revolutionary  and  post-revo- 

„  lutionary  times  soon  were  extended  from 

Boycotting  j 

the  federal  the  enemies  of  the  Federal  government 
government.  t0  ^  g0vernment  itself.  The  national 
government  had  to  raise  some  revenue.  Therefore, 
in  1791,  the  new  Federal  excise  law  on  distilling  went 
into  effect.  Now  we  call  it  "  internal  revenue  law," 
as  "  excise  "  smacked  unpleasantly  of  monarchy.  The 
whole  country  along  the  Monongahela  and  the  Ohio 
was  then  fairly  studded  with  stills.  The  population 
was  made  up  of  whisky-distillers  and  whisky-drinkers. 
When  the  Federal  collectors  set  about  their  duties, 
those  citizens  who  upheld  the  Federal  government 
were  boycotted,  and  the  officers  themselves  were 
lynched.  The  collector  for  Alleghany  County  was  way- 
laid, stripped  naked,  his  head  shaved,  and  he  was  tarred 
and  feathered;  the  lynchers  then  stole  his  horse,  and 
left  him  in  the  wilderness.  He  recognized  three  of 
them,  and  swore  out  warrants  against  them.  But  the 
law-officer  with  the  warrant  was  seized,  his  clothing 
burned,  he  was  branded,  tarred,  and  feathered. 

This  was  the  lynching  phase  of  the  opposition  to  the 
Federal  government  internal  revenue  law.  Here  was 
the  boycotting  phase :  If  a  farmer  let  a  lodging  to  an 
internal  revenue  collector,  he  was  first  warned.  If  he 
repeated  the  offense,  his  barns  were  burned. 
If  a  distiller  complied  with  the  law  and  paid 
the  internal  revenue  tax,  the  boycotters  visited 
him,  masked  and  armed,  and  destroyed  his 
still.  The  name  "  Tom  the  Tinker "  was  signed  to 
the  orders  of  the  mob.  A  name  which  later  was  suc- 
ceeded by  "  Judge  Lynch,"  and  many  years  after  by 
"  601  "  in  Virginia  City,  "  33  Secretary  "  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  Pennsylvania  mob  called  themselves 
"  Regulators  ";  in  after  years  similar  bodies  defying  the 
law  called  themselves  "  Moonshiners,"  "  Molly 
Maguires,"  "  White  Caps,"  "  Ku  Klux  Klan,"  "  K. 
G.  C,"  and  "  Vigilantes." 

The  Federal  government  finally  suppressed  the  law- 
breakers with  a  large  force  of  troops,  but  for  years 
afterward  there  was  a  sullen  feeling  and  a  semi-sup- 
pressed boycott  of  all  who  obeyed  the  internal  revenue 
laws. 

In  1786,  the  various  States  were  attempting  to  make 
their  paper  money  pass  current,  but 
many  people  were  unwilling  to  accept 
it.  Thereupon  a  "  hint  club  "  was  or- 
ganized, whose  end  was  to  spy  upon  people,  and 
if  they  favored  hard  money  to  give  them  a  forcible 


Boycotts 
Between 
the  States. 


"  hint "  to  mend  their  ways.  This  boycotting  club 
created  a  veritable  reign  of  terror,  until  the  working- 
men  found  that  their  wages  in  paper  would  buy  very 
little  food.  Thereupon,  they  got  up  a  club  of  their 
own  to  fight  the  "  Hint  Club."  In  short,  they  boycotted 
the  boycotters. 

In  1786,  the  women  of  Hartford  started  a  league. 
Its  end  was  to  boycott  all  goods  made  outside  the  State. 
For  eight  months  they  refused  to  purchase  any  goods 
not  manufactured  in  Connecticut.  The  movement  finally 
died  out,  but  not  until  it  had  accomplished  the  ruin  of 
many  small  tradesmen. 

The  State  of  Rhode  Island  spent  the  first  few  years 
of  its  existence  in  boycotting  its  sister  States.  It  re- 
fused to  accept  the  money  of  Massachusetts,  for  ex- 
ample, and  insisted  that  Massachusetts  should  accept 
its  own.  This  boycott  upon  sister  States  brought 
about  retaliatory  boycotts.  In  the  coffee-houses  of 
Boston  and  New  York  notices  were  put  up  boycotting 
merchants  who  accepted  Rhode  Island  money. 

in  1785,  Congress  called  for  $3,000,000  for  the  de- 
fense of  American  ships  against  Barbary  pirates.  This 
sum  they  apportioned  among  the  States.  New  Jersey 
and  Rhode  Island  refused  to  pay  a  single  shilling. 
They  boycotted  the  Federal  government,  and  refused 
to  pay  any  Federal  dues.  They  even  went  further — 
the  boycotters  boycotted  all  who  advocated  paying  the 
Federal  government's  tax. 

in  1787,  the  New  York  legislature  put  a  heavy  duty 
on  all  goods  coming  from  Connecticut  and  New  Jersey, 
which  States  supplied  the  metropolis  with  fire-wood, 
vegetables,  and  poultry.  As  a  result,  New  Jersey  put  a 
boycott  on  all  goods  sold  to  New  York  merchants.  The 
Connecticut  traders  formed  a  boycott  league  and  signed 
a  paper  agreeing,  under  a  penalty  of  £50,  not  to  do  any 
business  with  New  York. 


From  the  foregoing,  it  may  be  seen  that  lynching  and 
boycotting    are    not   new    in    American 

SUMMARY  j  ° 

of  a  century       life.      Let   us    briefly    summarize   these 
and  a  half.         citations : 

1.  Boycotting  was  practiced  in  colonial  times. 

2.  'ihe  colonies  boycotted  each  other  for  business,  social, 
and  political  reasons. 

3.  Just  prior  to  the  Revolution,  the  colonists  boycotted  the 
British  officials. 

4.  When  war  was  about  to  break  out,  the  colonists  boy- 
cotted all  the  Tories. 

5.  in  the  early  days  of  the  war,  the  boycotting  of  the  Tories 
soon  led  to  lynching  them. 

6.  'ihe  milder  forms  of  lynching,  such  as  tarring  and  feath- 
ering, were,  toward  the  end  of  the  Revolution,  replaced  by 
hanging. 

7.  Vv  hen  the  war  was  ended,  the  boycotted  Tories  driven 
to  Nova  Scotia,  Canada,  and  elsewhere,  and  their  property 
confiscated,  the  mania  for  boycotting  did  not  end.  The  colo- 
nists then  began  boycotting  their  own  law-officers,  particularly 
juoges. 

S.  After  the  war,  Vermont  and  New  York  quarreled  over 
jurisdiction,  and  Vermonters  and  New  Yorkers  boycotted  each 
other.     This  speedily  led  to  lynching. 

9.  When  the  Federal  government  began  to  raise  internal 
revenue  taxes,  the  American  citizens  along  the  Monongahela 
and  Ohio  boycotted  the  Federal  officers.  Ihis  boycotting  soon 
led  to  lynching. 

10.  When  the  Federal  government  tried  to  raise  money  to 
defend  American  ships  against  the  Barbary  pirates.  New 
Jersey  and  Rhode  Island  boycotted  the  Federal  government 
and  the  Federal  officers. 

11.  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Connecticut,  Rhode  Island,  and 
Massachusetts  boycotted  each  other's  traders  and  each  other's 
paper  money. 

12.  In  short,  boycotting  and  lynching,  which,  before  the 
Revolution,  the  colonists  applied  to  what  they  called  "  public 
enemies,"  they  extended  to  their  own  officials  and  to  their 
fellow-citizens  after  the  Revolution. 

13.  Boycotting  and  lynching  have  prevailed  in  the  oldest 
and  the  youngest  communities — in  the  venerable  colonies,  in 
youthful  California.  These  practices  have  prevailed  iu  the 
smallest  and  in  the  largest  States — in  Delaware  and  in  Texas. 
Thrice  in  California  has  the  law  been  set  aside  by  organized 
bodies  called  "  vigilance  committees  " — twice  in  the  'fifties  and 
once  in  the  'seventies.  In  the  early  days,  a  single  paper,  the 
San  Francisco  Herald,  came  out  on  the  side  of  law  and  order. 
A  rigid  boycott  was  declared,  and  the  Herald  at  once  gave  up 
the  ghost.  A  rival  daily,  the  Alta,  was  luckier;  tradition 
says  the  editors  tossed  a  coin  to  decide  which  of  two  articles 
they  should  run — one  for  law  and  order,  the  other  for  the 
vigilance  committee.  The  coin  came  heads  instead  of  tails — 
the  Alta  prospered,  while  the  Herald  died.  Mob-law  has  set 
the  law  aside  from  colonial  days  to  1903.  Mob-law  has  held 
sway  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific. 

What  remedy  is  there  for  this  evil?  It  is  difficult  to 
say.  What  is  bred  in  the  bone  will  out  in  the  flesh. 
Lynching  and  boycotting  have  been  practiced  in 
America  for  a  hundred  and  fifty  years.  In  colonial 
times  these  practices  were  upheld  by  the  most  promi- 
nent people  in  the  community.  Lynching  is  still  upheld 
by  leading  men  through  all  the  Southern  States,  which 
means  nearly  half  of  our  republic.  When  the  lynch- 
ing madness  breaks  out  in  the  North,  it  seems  to  be 
supported  there  also  by  prominent  citizens.  We  believe 
there  are  only  four  States — Massachusetts,  New  Hamp- 


July  27,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT . 


51 


shire,  Rhode  Island,  and  Utah— where  lynching  has  not 
been  practiced.  With  such  a  record,  it  is  possible  that 
lynching  and  boycotting  may  soon  disappear  from  our 
American  life,  but  we  very  much  doubt  it. 

"The  fathers  have  eaten  sour  grapes,  and  the  chil- 
dren's teeth  are  set  on  edge." 


Situation 
Still  in  Doubt. 


It  has  long  been  an  open  secret  that,  in  building  the  Trans- 
siberian  Railroad,  Russia  was  not  less  moved 
by  the  desire  to  develop  her  own  territory  in 
Asia,  than  by  the  desire  to  achieve  a  position 
from  which  Chinese  territory  could  be  ab- 
sorbed. Events  in  Manchuria  during  the  last  three  or  four 
years  have  steadily  confirmed  what  nobody  doubted.  Russia 
has  always  enjoyed  unusual  facilities  for  dealing  with  the 
Chinese.  It  was  through  them  that  the  right  was  obtained 
from  the  Celestial  Empire  to  construct  a  branch  of  the 
Siberian  railway  through  Manchuria  to  Port  Arthur.  When 
the  Boxer  outbreak  came,  Russia  threw  her  troops  into  Man- 
churia under  the  claim  that  it  was  necessary  to  protect  the 
railroad.  As  all  the  commercial  countries  of  the  world  want 
trading  rights  in  China,  either  through  open  ports,  special 
privileges,  or  the  dismemberment  of  the  empire,  the  diplomatic 
question  of  most  absorbing  interest  in  the  East  has  been  how 
to  get  Russia  out  of  Manchuria  again.  No  nation  is  anxious 
to  go  to  war  about  Manchuria,  unless  it  is  Japan.  The  di- 
plomatic means  employed  have  been  protests  to  Russia, 
coupled  with  pressure  upon  China  to  open  additional  ports 
in  the  province,  Newchwang  being  the  only  one  at  present 
available  for  foreign  trade.  Such  has  been  the  success  of 
Russian  aggression  that,  in  Manchuria,  China  may  propose  but 
Russia  disposes.  Railway  interests  have  been  made  the  ve- 
hicle of  the  Czar  for  garrisoning  every  important  point  in  the 
the  province.  A  part  of  the  Russian  army  is  masquerading  as 
railway  employees,  and  the  military  stores  to  equip  them  are 
handily  stored  at  both  ends  of  the  Manchurian  line.  Nomin- 
ally, Manchuria  is  governed  by  China ;  practically,  it  is  al- 
ready Russianized.  By  diplomatic  pressure,  pledges  were 
obtained  from  Russia  in  April,  1902,  that  Manchuria  would 
be  evacuated  in  three  installments  of  six  months  each.  The 
first  move  was  to  be  from  the  territory  including  the  port  of 
Newchwang.  As  the  time  approached  the  situation  was  com- 
plicated by  Russia's  demanding  from  China  concessions  which,  if 
not  granted  her,  would  result  in  the  retention  of  her  hold  on  the 
Newchwang  territory.  Of  the  seven  conditions,  the  most  signifi- 
cant were  that  none  but  Russians  should  be  employed  in  the 
Manchurian  public  service  ;  that  Russia  should  have  exclusive  use 
of  the  Manchurian  telegraph  system  ;  and  that  the  customs  re- 
ceipts of  the  port  of  Newchwang  should  be  deposited  in  the  Rus- 
sian bank.  Here  was  a  dilemma  for  China,  either  horn  of  which 
was  uncomfortable.  If  the  conditions  were  agreed  to,  Man- 
churia would  be  practically  delivered  into  Russian  hands.  If 
the  conditions  were  refused,  the  Czar's  government  would  not 
move  out.  Then  followed  rumors  of  war  and  long  and  in- 
tricate negotiations,  with  final  recession  of  Russia  from  her 
diplomatic  position,  but  with  no  movement  toward  opening 
further  ports.  But  last  week  a  ray  of  light  shone  out,  which 
was  comforting  to  all  the  diplomats  of  the  powers  who  did  not 
want  serious  conflict  with  Russia,  nor  desire  to  see  Man- 
churia become  a  part  of  the  Czar's  empire.  The  announcement 
was  made  that  China  would  act  in  the  near  future  with  the 
full  consent  of  Russia,  opening  to  foreign  trade  as  treaty 
ports  several  ports  in  Manchuria  now  closed  to  the  com- 
merce of  the  world.  The  ports  named  are  Moukden,  said  to 
be  second  only  to  Newchwang  in  importance,  though  an  in- 
terior town,  and  Ta  Tung  Kao,  a  somewhat  obscure  locality 
at  the  mouth  of  the  Yalu  River,  but  of  prospective  value  as 
being  in  close  proximity  to  the  Corean  port  of  Wiju,  which 
the  Japanese  have  requested  to  be  made  a  treaty  port.  The 
Russian  Government  have,  it  is  said,  already  conveyed  to  the 
United  States  assurances  that  no  objections  would  be  made 
to  opening  these  ports.  What  will  come  of  it  all  is  prob- 
lematical. Already  it  is  being  doubted  whether  any  sub- 
stantial recession  has  been  made  by  the  Czar.  Those  who 
doubt  are  inclined  to  think  that  the  move  is  intended  to  offer 
a  sop  to  Japan  and  mollify  the  United  States,  without  insur- 
ing the  evacuation  of  Manchuria,  or  assuring  the  powers 
against  the  eventual  encroachment  of  Russia  upon  Corea. 


Democracy,  would  be  weaker.  As  time  slips  along,  the  Cleve- 
land stock  seems  to  be  coming  up.  He  is  being  advocated  by 
some  strong  papers  in  the  East,  notably  the  New  York  Times, 
the  Brooklyn  Eagle,  and  the  New  York  World.  The 
Eagle  prints  a  correspondent's  outline  of  Cleveland's  views, 
which  makes  it  appear  that  the  ex-President  would  accept  "  if 
events  showed  it  to  be  his  duty."  So  confident  are  his  friends 
that  a  prominent  member  of  his  following  is  quoted  as  say- 
ing that  "  Cleveland  will  be  nominated  simply  because  there 
will  be  no  other  candidate  before  the  convention."  The  claim 
is  made  that  he  could  carry  New  Jersey  without  a  doubt, 
New  York  in  all  probability,  and  that  the  carrying  of  New 
York  would  swing  Connecticut  into  line.  Where  will  Tam- 
many stand?  This  year  that  aggregation  held  its  usual  po- 
litical Fourth  of  July  celebration,  and  was  regaled  by  a  letter 
from  Cleveland,  in  which  he  spoke  of  the  "responsibilities 
which  its  powers  and  its  glorious  traditions  create."  The  same 
mail  brought  to  the  Tammany  wigwam  a  cold  letter  of  regret 
from  Judge  Parker,  and  a  voluminous  campaign  document 
from  David  B.  Hill.  Between  the  reading  of  these  letters 
it  is  reported  that  "  the  big  audience  in  Tammany  Hall 
cheered,  stamped  their  feet,  and  clapped  their  hands  fully 
five  minutes  at  the  mention  of  Bryan's  name."  While  this 
may  be  portentous,  it  is  not  surprising.  It  is  generally  ad- 
mitted that  Bryan  will  be  a  factor  of  some  sort.  He  will 
name  the  candidate  if  he  has  strength  enough  in  the  con- 
vention, failing  in  which  there  is  always  left  the  recourse  to 
an  organized  bolt  to  defeat  the  opposing  faction.  That  would 
be  especially  enticing  to  Bryan  if  the  nomination  should  fall 
to  Cleveland.  It  is  easy  to  foresee  that  Bryan  would  be  po- 
litically dead  if  his  party  either  wins  or  loses  with  an  anti- 
Bryan  candidate,  while  he  submits  in  silence  to  repudiation. 
On  the  other  hand,  a  vigorous  bolt  would  strongly  influence 
results  and  leave  him  in  the  political  ring,  though  still  dis- 
figured. Senator  Hanna  disclaims  the  report  that  he  is  retir- 
ing from  business  pursuits,  and  seems  to  want  it  distinctly 
understood  that  he  will  abate  neither  jot  nor  tittle  of  his 
activity  in  politics.  He  says  he  is  not  of  the  retiring  kind. 
He  may  even  strive  to  hang  on  to  the  head  of  the  national 
committee,  which  some  of  his  colleagues  argue  would  be  a 
serious    mistake    in    the   next   campaign. 

William    H. 


have  surmounted  them  with  sheds  for  the  storage  of  mer- 
chandise that  are  veritable  tinder-boxes.  A  new  policy  should 
be  adopted  immediately,  before  the  conflagration  that  may 
come  at  any  time  horrifies  the  people,  and  forces  a  safe  policy 
upon  the  harbor  commission. 


Ingredients 
of  a  Political 
Pot-Pourri. 


If 

eht> 
i 


BS1 


Senator  Quay  has  had  such  a  strong  hold  on  politics  gener- 
ally, and  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  in 
particular,  that  interest  already  attaches  to 
the  expiration  of  his  senatorial  term  in 
March,  1905.  When  his  present  term  com- 
menced, the  man  whom  Senator  Piatt,  of  New  York,  character- 
izes as  "the  greatest  Republican  politician  ever  known,"  an- 
nounced, in  definite  terms,  that  it  would  end  his  political 
career,  as  he  would  never  accept  another  office.  What  will 
happen  when  he  retires?  It  is  already  foreseen,  and  with 
reason,  that  unless  he  leaves  behind  him  an  astute  leader, 
well  groomed  and  mounted,  the  party  in  Pennsylvania 
will  break  into  factions  which  will  imperil  the  control  of  the 
State. 

Pennsylvania,  however,  will  be  an  important  factor  next 
year  in  national  conventions.  On  the  Republican  side,  Senator 
Quay  is  expected  to  be  on  hand  with  his  hammer  out  In  the 
effort  to  get  even  with  some  of  his  party  brethren,  and  es- 
pecially will  he  be  ready  to  pick  a  bone  with  Senator  Hanna, 
with  whom  he  maintains  a  standing  feud.  In  the  Democratic 
gathering,  the  State  is  promised  to  present  ex-Governor 
Pattison  as  a  favorite  son.  Had  Pattison  not  been  defeated 
last  fall  by  Governor  Pennypacker,  a  strong  claim  could  have 
been  made  that  the  Democrat  who  had  carried  Pennsylvania 
three  times  would  make  a  strong  candidate  against  Roosevelt. 
But  to  beat  Roosevelt  New  York  must  not  be  ignored,  and 
that  is  just  where  Pattison  would  be  weak,  and  Senator  Gor- 
man,   who    is   being    groomed   for   the   race   by   the    Maryland 


A  Decision  on 
Collateral 
Inheritance  Tax 


The  supreme  court  has  recently  handed  down  an  important 
decision  interpreting  the  force  of  the  collat- 
eral inheritance-tax  law.  This  decision  re- 
verses a  former  decision  of  the  same  tribunal 
handed  down  in  the  Mahoney  case.  In  1897, 
the  legislature  amended  the  law  to  provide  that  nephews  and 
nieces  resident  in  this  State  should  be  exempt  from  the 
payment  of  the  tax.  The  question  of  the  validity  of  this  tax 
was  brought  before  the  supreme  court  in  the  Mahoney  case, 
and  it  was  then  decided  that  the  exemption  was  unconstitu- 
tional, inasmuch  as  it  was  special  legislation.  A  few  years 
ago,  Jacob  C.  Johnson  died,  and  left  a  large  estate  to  be  di- 
vided among  eleven  nephews  and  nieces.  Under  the  Mahoney 
decision  the  tax  would  amount  to  eighteen  thousand  dollars, 
but  the  attorney  for  the  Johnson  heirs  thought  the  decision 
was  erroneous,  and  persuaded  the  supreme  court  to  consider 
the  question  again.  The  court  now  holds  that  the  exemption 
is  valid,  but  that  it  has  a  wider  application  than  the  legisla- 
tors intended.  By  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  the 
immunity  granted  to  citizens  of  this  State  is  extended  to  the 
citizens  of  every  other  State,  and,  therefore,  all  nephews  and 
nieces  receiving  a  collateral  inheritance  from  a  person  dying 
in  California  are  exempt  from  the  collateral  inheritance  tax, 
provided  they  are  citizens  of  any  of  the  United  States.  Aliens, 
however,  are  not  exempt. 


A  Strike 
Against  the 
Government 


Miller,  assistant  foreman  of  the  government 
printing-office  at  Washington,  was  a  member 
of  the  bookbinders'  union.  He  was  recently 
expelled  from  that  body  because,  as  charged, 
he  "  slandered "  it,  and  used  "  scurrilous 
language  "  about — not  to — employees  under  him.  Upon  the 
expulsion  of  Mr.  Miller,  the  union  informed  the  public  printer 
of  the  fact.  The  public  printer  thereupon  discharged  Mr. 
Miller.  Mr.  Miller  complained  to  the  Civil  Service  Com- 
mission, and  to  President  Roosevelt.  Whereupon,  he  was 
reinstated  by  the  commission,  after  an  investigation  which 
discovered  no  sound  reason  for  his  dismissal,  and  President 
Roosevelt  wrote  a  general  letter  to  Secretary  Cortelyou,  in 
which,    among   other   things,   he   said : 

On  the  face  of  papers  presented,  Miller  would  appear  to 
have  been  removed  in  violation  of  law.  There  is  no  objection 
to  the  employees  of  the  government  printing-office  constituting 
themselves  into  a  body  if  they  desire  so  to  do,  but  no  rules 
or  resolutions  of  that  union  can  be  permitted  to  override  the 
laws  of  the  United  States,  which  it  is  my  sworn  duty  to 
enforce. 

In  another  and  later  letter  on  the  same  subject,  the  Presi- 
dent cited  a  paragraph  from  the  report  of  the  Anthracite  Coal 
Commission,  in  which  they  declared: 

It  is  adjudged  and  awarded  that  no  person  shall  be  refused 
employment  or  in  any  way  discriminated  against  on  account 
of  membership  or  non-membership  in  any  labor  organiza- 
tion. 

Commenting  on  this,  the  President  said : 

I  heartily  approved  this  award  and  judgment.  It  is,  of 
course,  mere  elementary  decency  to  require  that  all  the  gov- 
ernment departments  shall  be  handled  in  accordance  with  the 
principle  thus  clearly  and  fearlessly  enunciated. 

This  might  seem  to  have  been  the  end  of  the  case  of  the 
bookbinders'  union  against  the  government  of  these  United 
States.  But  not  so.  A  dispatch  from  Washington  reports 
the  president  of  the  bookbinders'  union  as  saying  that  if  Miller 
resumes  work  every  bookbinder,  and  every  member  of  allied 
unions,  will  strike.  If  there  is  a  strike,  we  suppose  the  union 
will  "  picket "  the  government  buildings  with  men  crying 
"  Unfair,"  "  Unfair  house,"  "  Don't  trade  there."  Perhaps 
they  will  warn  grocers  not  to  sell  to  the  public  printer's  family. 
Perhaps  they  will  boycott  the  Civil  Service  Commission — 
and  the  President. 

A  few  days  ago,  the  pier  of  the  Scandinavian-American  Steam- 
ship Line  in  Hoboken,  N.  J.,  was  destroyed 
by  fire,  involving  a  loss  of  half  a  million 
dollars.  The  dock  was  a  new  one,  having 
recently  been  completed  at  a  cost  of  $200,000, 
and  is  a  total  loss.  Fortunately,  none  of  the  company's  liners 
was  at  the  dock  at  the  time,  but  merchandise  valued  at 
$300,000  was  stored  there  for  shipment  to  Europe,  and  this 
was  entirely  destroyed.  One  year  ago  the  pier  of  the  Phcenix 
Steamship  Line  in  the  same  city  was  destroyed,  one  of  the 
company's  vessels  being  burned  so  as  to  be  rendered  worth- 
less. Three  years  ago  the  piers  occupied  by  the  North  Ger- 
man Lloyd,  the  Hamburg-American,  and  the  Thingvalla  Com- 
panies in  Hoboken  were  burned,  with  immense  loss  of  life 
and  property.  In  three  years  three  disastrous  fires  have  cost 
three  hundred  lives  and  destroyed  property  valued  in  excess 
of  $12,000,000.  In  each  case  the  loss  has  resulted  directly 
from  the  criminal  false  economy  of  building  the  docks  of  in- 
flammable material.  It  ought  not  to  be  difficult  to  read  the 
lesson  contained  in  this  brief  recital.  The  steamship  com- 
panies that  lost  in  1900  read  the  lesson,  and  rebuilt  their 
docks  of  fire-proof  material.  The  harbor  commissioners  of 
this  city  have  built  all  the  docks  of  inflammable  material,  and 


for  Harbor 
Commissioners. 


Forgery 
Recalled. 


The  supreme  court  has  reversed  the  decision  of  the  lower 
court  in  the  case  of  the  Crocker- Woolworth 
Bank  against  the  Nevada  Bank.  This  de- 
cision recalls  one  of  the  most  famous  cases 
in  the  criminal  annals  of  the  State — the 
forgery  of  Charles  Becker,  the  "  Prince  of  Forgers,"  that  was 
cashed  by  the  Nevada  Bank.  Most  readers  will  remember  the 
facts  of  this  celebrated  case.  Eight  years  ago,  a  gang  of 
forgers  came  out  here,  selecting  San  Francisco  for  their 
operations,  because  large  drafts  were  so  frequently  cashed 
here.  One  of  the  members  of  the  gang  took  an  office,  and 
opened  an  account  with  the  Nevada  Bank.  The  next  day  he 
went  to  Woodland,  and  purchased  a  draft  on  the  Crocker- 
Woolworth  Bank  for  $12.  This  draft  was  handed  to  Becker, 
who,  after  a  week's  work,  handed  it  back,  changed  to  a  draft 
for  $22,000.  This  was  deposited  in  the  Nevada  Bank,  and 
the  next  day  a  check  for  $20,000,  drawn  against  this  draft, 
was  cashed  by  the  bank.  Two  of  the  forgers  went  to  St. 
Paul,  the  other  two  to  New  York,  but  it  was  not  long  before 
they  were  captured,  and  brought  back  for  trial.  Of  the  quartet 
of  rogues,  Becker — who,  in  1S98,  was  sentenced  to  seven 
years  in  San  Quentin — was  the  only  one  who  was  punished. 
Between  the  two  banks  a  question  arose  as  to  which  should 
lose  the  money.  The  trial  court  decided  that  it  should  be  the 
Crocker-Woolworth.  The  supreme  court  now  decides  that  it 
should  be  the  Nevada  Bank,  on  the  equitable  principle  that  in 
such  cases  the  loss  should  be  left  where  the  parties  them- 
selves have  placed  it. 


A  Few 
Figures  of 

Prosperity. 


That  the  material  prosperity  of  San  Francisco  is  advancing 
at  a  rapid  rate  is  a  fact  that  is  generally 
appreciated,  but  few  people  realize  how  rapid 
or  how  extensive  that  advance  is.  The  bank 
clearings  offer  a  fair  index  of  the  fluctuations 
of  wholesale  trade.  In  1897,  the  total  clearings  of  San  Fran- 
cisco amounted  to  $750,789,143-  In  the  succeeding  five  years, 
they  were  nearly  doubled,  being  $1,373,362,025  in 
1902.  During  the  first  five  months  of  the  year  the 
clearings  were  $620,159,708,  showing  that  the  increase 
of  activity  still  goes  on.  Although  this  city  stands 
ninth  on  the  census  list  in  population,  it  is  seventh  in  the 
volume  of  its  trade  as  reflected  in  the  bank  clearings.  Another 
index  of  prosperity  is  the  volume  of  deposits  in  the  banks. 
In  1897,  the  deposits  in  commercial  banks  amounted  to 
$37.o53-4i6;  in  1902,  they  were  $67,853,182,  the  increase  being 
very  nearly  in  the  same  proportion  as  that  of  bank  clearings. 
The  deposits  in  savings  banks  rose  during  the  same  period 
from  $102,119,990  to  $144,295,034.  Chicago,  with  1.698,575 
people,  has  $44,000,000  less  deposited  in  the  savings  banks 
than  San  Francisco,  with  one-quarter  of  that  population.  The 
customs  receipts  reflect  the  fluctuations  of  foreign  commerce. 
In  1897,  the  customs  receipts  amounted  to  $5,309,870;  last  year 
they  were  $7,850,705,  with  the  duties  on  tea  and  coal  removed 
during  the  interval.  In  1897,  the  real-estate  transactions 
amounted  to  $12,903,025;  in  1902,  they  were  $47,396,512. 
These  figures  tell  their  own  story,  and  tell  it  vividly. 


Claimed  as  Prl 
vate  Property. 


The  application  of  the  owners  of  property  facing  on  New 
Montgomery  Street  to  have  that  thoroughfare 
accepted  as  a  public  street  has  made  public 
the  fact  that  a  portion  of  that  street  is 
claimed  as  private  property.  The  portion 
claimed  as  private  property  is  that  lying  between  Market  and 
Stevenson  Streets,  and  the  claimants  assert  that  they  have 
paid  taxes  amounting  to  twenty-eight  hundred  dollars  a  year 
on  the  property.  The  applicants  to  have  the  street  ac- 
cepted own  property  located  farther  south.  New  Mont- 
gomery Street  was  opened  by  a  private  syndicate,  headed 
by  W.  C.  Ralston,  which  purchased  the  property  from  private 
owners.  After  the  street  had  been  opened,  a  deed  was  made 
dedicating  it  to  the  city,  the  syndicate  looking  for  its  profit 
from  the  increased  value  of  the  abutting  property.  There  is 
some  doubt  as  to  the  validity  of  the  dedication,  and  some 
difference  of  opinion  in  the  bureau  of  streets  as  to  the  policy 
that  should  be  pursued,  some  claiming  that  the  whole  street 
should  be  accepted,  others  that  it  should  not,  as  accepts 
would  deprive  the  city  of  considerable  revenue. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  27,  1903. 


THE    BREEKS    OF    THE    TURKS. 


By  Jerome  A.  Hart. 


"  Honesty,"  said  my  copy-book,  "  is  the  best  policy."  So,  I 
think,  is  truth-telling.  In  addition  to  its  other  advantages, 
it  is  generally  more  interesting.  Truth  may  or  may  not  be 
stranger  than  fiction — personally,  I  believe  it  is — but  I  have 
always  found  it  more  readable.  I  never  read  an  historical 
novel  one-half  so  interesting  as  history  itself,  while  more 
-  strange  things  are  to  be  counted  in  a  single  day's  happenings 
than  are  dreamed  of  in  the  philosophies  of  all  the  romance- 
writers. 

How  much  more  interesting  is  the  truth  about  Washington 
in  the  histories  of  to-day  than  the  sugared  falsehoods  of  Jared 
Sparks,  fed  to  us  in  the  school  histories  of  our  childhood  1 
As  a  boy  I  had  a  dislike  for  Washington — I  looked  upon  him 
as  a  preposterous  prig.  When  I  grew  older,  selected  my  own 
books,  and  read  the  truth,  the  scales  fell  from  my  eyes.  I 
found  that  the  tin-god  Washington  of  Sparks  never  existed ; 
that  Washington  was  a  man  like  any  other ;  that  he  had  a 
man's  weaknesses  and  a  man's  passions ;  that  he  was  no 
prig,  but  a  strong,  vigorous,  indomitable  man.  And  my 
opinion  of  him  rose  immeasurably  because  I  had  read  the 
truth. 

Of  what  American  has  more  plain,  unvarnished  truth  been 
told  than  of  Abraham  Lincoln?  He  is  so  recent,  so  niany  of 
his  chums  and  cronies  still  survive ;  they  are  all  so  voluble, 
and  all  are  so  infused  with  the  frankness  of  the  Middle  West, 
that  there  are  no  Lincoln  secrets  left.  His  political  bargains, 
his  love-letters,  his  quarrels  with  his  wife,  his  very  bodily 
weaknesses,  and  his  *'  favorite  remedies  " — these  are  all  set 
down  for  us  in  black  and  white.  Yet  has  his  fame  not  suf- 
fered. On  the  contrary,  it  grows  greater.  The  truth  about 
Lincoln  has  not  hurt  Lincoln,  or  made  the  American  people 
love  Lincoln  less. 

Correspondingly,  I  believe  in  telling  the  truth  about  travel. 
It  may  not  matter  much  what  a  traveler  thinks,  but  it  does 
matter  that  he  should,  if  he  tells  it,  tell  it  truthfully.  Most  travel- 
ers are  apt  to  rave  to  order.  Like  the  sheep  of  Panurge,  they 
follow  one  another's  steps.  If  they  have  been  told  that  in 
Paris  they  should  rave  over  the  tomb  of  Napoleon,  they  rave 
over  Napoleon's  tomb.  If  tourists  think  it  is  the  thing  in 
London  to  gush  over  St.  Paul's,  they  gush.  Vet  many  a  tourist 
had  passed  St.  Paul's  without  noticing  it  at  all ;  still,  when 
stopped,   they  always  obediently  rave. 

The  truthful  traveler  will  often  admit  his  disappointment. 
When  I  first  visited  London  I  drove  in  a  hansom  for  miles 
across  that  dreary  desert  of  bricks  and  mortar,  that  forest  of 
chimney-pots,  betw  een  Euston  Station  and  Piccadilly.  Heavens  ! 
— I  never  dreamed  there  were  so  many  dull,  dingy,  ugly  brick 
houses  in  the  world.  Needless  to  say  I  was  disappointed  in 
London.  When  I  first  visited  Paris  I  drove  from  the  Eastern 
Station  down  that  long  and  stupid  street,  the  Rue  Lafayette, 
for  what  seemed  miles,  until  we  reached  the  criss-cross  com- 
poser-named streets  back  of  the  Opera.  The  Rue  Lafayette, 
in  some  respects,  suggests  New  York's  Seventh  Avenue ;  in 
others,  it  resembles  San  Francisco's  Mission  Street ;  but  there 
was  nothing  about  it  to  bring  up  before  me  the  Paris  of 
which  I  had  read — the  Paris  of  which  I  had  dreamed.  Paris 
was  a  disappointment — I  was  frank  enough  to  admit  it.  I 
said  so  then.     I  say  so  now. 

What  most  stiuck  me  at  Stamboul?  What  were  my  first 
impressions  of  Constantinople,  the  famous  city  seated  on  the 
Bosphorus  and  divided  bj-  the  Golden  Horn  ?  Did  I  think 
of  the  Byzantine  emperors?  Of  the  many  dynasties  who 
occupied  the  thrones  of  the  Empire  of  the  East?  Of  Con- 
stantine?  Of  Helena?  Of  Justinian?  Of  Theodora?  Did 
1  think  of  the  many  dithyrambic  word-paintings  1  had  read? 
Of  the  many  mosques  ?  Of  the  countless  minarets  ?  Of  the 
summer  palaces  which  line  the  Bosphorus,  from  the  Sea  of 
Marmora   to   the   Black   Sea? 

No :  to  be  frank,  I  did  not  think  of  any  of  these  things.  I 
did  not  weep,  like  Lamartine ;  nor  did  I  rave,  like  Gautier ; 
nor  did  I  turn  hot  and  cold,  like  De  Amicis.  I  first  gazed  in 
wonder  at  the  famous  bridge  across  the  Golden  Horn — a 
bridge  reposing  on  rotting  pontoons,  and  apparently  fastened 
together  with  rusty  wire,  pieces  of  tin-roofing,  old  hoops, 
bed-slats,  and  weather-worn  rope.  Then  what  first  struck  me 
as  I  stepped  ashore  was  the  nether  garment  of  the  Otto- 
man. The  first  man  I  saw  was  an  elderly  Turk,  attired  in 
a  rich  gold-laced  uniform ;  girt  by  his  side  was  a  gold-hilted 
sabre  with  beautifully  enameled  scabbard;  as  far  as  his 
knees  he  was  trim,  elegant,  and  point  devise ;  but  below  the 
knees,  his  uniform  trousers  were  frowsy  and  filthy.  His  feet 
were  clad  in  aged  congress  gaiters,  with  gaping  elastic  side- 
seams  ;  these  gaping  gaiters  were  thrust  into  still  more  aged 
rubber  galoshes,  which  bore  even  more  evident  traces  of  the 
filth  of  Stamboul's  streets. 

As  I  gazed  at  this  gorgeous  person,  gold-laced  above,  frowsy 
and  filthy  below,  a  bulbous  umbrella  in  his  right  hand,  his  left 
holding  a  gold-hilted  sabre,  he  seemed  to  me  to  typify  the 
Ottoman  Turk.  Peace  and  war,  glitter  and  foulness.  His 
umbrella  symbolized  peace,  for  your  umbrella  is  the  least 
lethal  of  weapons,  and  your  Turk  is  peaceful  if  let  alone.  But 
his  sabre  meant  war,  for  the  Turk  is  a  fighter,  and  is  always 
ready  to  right  if  he  be  attacked.  His  beard  was  gray — your 
Turkish  soldier  has  no  age-limit.  Every  male  from  sixteen 
to  sixty  is  eligible  as  a  recruit,  and  therefore  potential  food 
for  powder.  He  was  uniformed,  and  therefore  an  officer 
or  official.  He  was  either  unpaid  or  poor,  for  he  had  to  walk 
through  the  filthy  streets,  as  was  shown  by  his  umbrella,  his 
frowsj    trousers,  his  galoshes,  and  his  lack  of  a  cab. 

Another  point  that  struck  me  was  that  these  same  trousers 

were  unlike  any  other  trousers  in  sight.     Every  man   on  the 

strc"     wore  a  different  k:nd  of  breeks.     This  showed  the  lack 

ity,  the  absence  o.r  homogeneity  in  the  Turkish  Empire. 

country  we  all  wear  the  same  kind  of  trousers.     When 


President  Roosevelt  made  his  tour  of  this  vast  country,  he  wore 
exactly  the  same  kind  of  trousers  as  every  man  he  met.  All 
were  cut  about  nineteen  inches  over  the  knee,  and  about 
seventeen  inches  over  the  instep.  This  was  true  even  of  the 
President's  favorite  cowboys,  with  the  purely  superficial  dif- 
ference that  they  rolled  their  trousers  up,  or,  as  they  would 
express  it,  ""  wore  their  pants  in  their  boots." 

How  different  the  variegated  trousers  of  Turkey  from  the 
neat  pantings  and  trouserings  of  respectable  America.  How 
different  the  multiform  breeks  of  the  Turks  from  the  uni- 
formly creased  trousers  of  our  dear  native  land.  Wherever  I 
cast  my  eyes  I  saw  a  different  kind  of  breeks.  I  saw  the 
Montenegrin  galligaskins — tight-fitting  around  the  ankle  and 
calf,  looser  around  the  knee,  voluminous  around  the  hips. 
I  saw  the  Albanian  breeks — tighter  even  than  the  Montenegrin 
breeks  below,  more  voluminous  above.  I  saw  the  Bulgarian 
breeks — so  redundant  that  the  wearer  might  easily  carry  a 
bushel  of  wheat  in  the  seat.  I  saw  the  Roumelian  pantaloon- 
like breeks — breeks  much  resembling  the  pantaloons  of  our 
great-grandsires,  some  of  whose  great-grandsons  erroneously 
call  their  trousers  "'pantaloons."  I  saw  young  officers  of  tlie 
Sultan's  guard  in  smart  riding-breeks,  looking  as  if  they 
came  from  West  End  London  tailors,  which,  perhaps,  they 
did.  I  saw  the  cheap  hand-me-down  breeks  of  scowling, 
sour-faced,  fanatic  old  Turks — Christian  breeks,  made  in  the 
sweat-shops  of  Germany,  as  evidenced  by  tags  upon  these 
trousers — the  only  Christian  thing  about  these  sour-faced 
fanatics ;  they  were  Christian-made  breeks,  but  yet  baggy — 
evidently  baggy  brands  of  breeks  made  up  specially  in 
Christendom  for  the  b reek- wearers  of  Islam.  I  saw  the 
smart  creased  breeks  of  the  Greek  clerks  going  to  their  Pera 
offices.  I  saw  also  the  genuine  Greek  breeks,  which  are 
voluminous  pantalooned  petticoats,  or  petticoated  pantaloons. 
I  saw  officers  in  all  kinds  of  handsome  uniform  breeks,  sand- 
wiched in  with  the  coarse  breeks  of  the  common  soldier. 
I  saw  the  gorgeous  gold-laced  breeks  of  the  kavasses  or 
dragomans  of  legations.  I  saw  all  manner  of  laced,  em- 
broidered, and  braided  breeks,  which  had  strutted  their  brief 
hour  on  wealthy  Turkish  legs,  thence  to  descend  to  porters, 
to  beggars,  to  donkey-drivers.  And  I  even  saw  one  poor 
Turk  clad  in  ex-grain  bags  bearing  a  stenciled  stamp  in  En- 
glish on  the  dome. 

All  of  these  remarks,  be  it  understood,  apply  to  the  breeks 
of  the  Turks.  As  to  the  breeks  of  the  Turkesses,  I  will  say 
little.  But  the  same  indifference  to  their  nether-wear  exists 
among  the  women  as  among  the  men.  You  will  see  a  Turk- 
ish woman  richly  clad  so  far  as  concerns  her  yashmak  and  her 
silk  feridjee,  but  declining  in  elegance  and  cleanliness  as  she 
descends.  Below  the  knee  all  elegance  disappears,  and  a  pair 
of  sleazy,  alpaca,  balloon-like  trousers,  ungartered  socks,  and 
old  yellow  slippers  down  at  heel,  shabbily  finish  off  the 
lady  who  started  so  elegantly  at  the  other  end.  Another 
peculiarity  of  the  Turkish  woman,  with  her  shabby  trousers 
and  slipshod  foot-gear,  is  her  indifference  as  to  exposing  that 
end  of  her.  While  she  is  extremely  careful  to  keep  her  face 
covered,  she  is  equally  careless  about  her  legs.  It  is  not  un- 
common to  see  a  group  of  Turkish  women  sunning  themselves 
in  a  cemetery — they  apparently  affect  graveyards  as  pleasure 
resorts ;  as  they  lie  a-basking  in  the  sun  in  these  cheerful 
places,  they  have  an  infantile  fashion  of  pulling  up  their 
trousers  and  scratching  one  bare  leg  with  the  hoof  of  the 
other. 

One  day,  while  on  the  Grande  Rue  de  Pera — a  busy  street 
with  European  shops — I  saw  every  now  and  again  veiled  ladies 
whose  attire  seemed  to  demolish  my  theory.  They  were  bold, 
black-eyed  beauties ;  they  wore  very  thin  veils,  which  they 
kept  continually  dropping;  they  wore  the  same  black  and 
white  garments  as  all  the  Turkish  ladies  did.  But  in  one  re- 
spect they  differed — they  were  very  trim  about  their  foot- 
gear. Most  of  them  wore  natty  buttoned  boots,  with  ex- 
tremely high  heels,  evidently  of  French  make,  while  their 
hosiery,  of  which  they  made  a  lavish  display,  was  of  costly 
silk.  Here  was  a  divergence  from  the  shabby  yellow  slip- 
pers and  the  ungartered  socks.  My  theory  seemed  in  danger. 
I  made  haste  to  confer  with  Demetrius  Arghyropolos,  our 
dragoman, 

'"  Demetri,"  said  I,  "  are  those  ladies  yonder  Turkish 
ladies?  " 

"Dose  ladies?"  he  replied,  following  my  finger;  "oh!  no — 
dose  ladies  not  Turkish.  Dose  ladies  sometimes  Franch, 
sometimes  Ingleez,  sometimes  Chennan,  sometimes  Bulgarian 
— dat  kind  of  lady  is  anyt'ing — but  always  Christian — never 
Turkish." 

From  Demetri's  manner,  it  was  evident  that  these  trimly 
shod  damsels  constituted  a  distinct  class,  and  I  made  no  fur- 
ther queries.  But  it  was  also  evident  that  ray  theories  about 
the  Turkish  women's  neglect  of  their  nether-gear  were  as 
well  founded  as  my  observations  on  the  breeks  of  the  Turks. 


The  Brown  Bear  Mine  at  Deadwood,  Trinity  County,  has 
been  sold  by  the  sheriff  at  Weaverville,  under  execution,  for 
thirty-one  thousand  dollars,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Phillips,  of  Oakland, 
being  the  purchaser.  The  mine  has  probably  produced  more 
gold  than  any  other  quartz  mine  in  Northern  California,  hav- 
ing made  millionaires  of  its  original  owners — Charles  Watts. 
John  Melton,  and  Henry  Martin — now  all  deceased. 


The  Kansas  City  Star  has  begun  successfully  the  operation 
of  its  paper-mill,  built  within  the  last  nine  months.  The 
capacity  of  the  mill  is  forty  tons  of  white  paper  daily,  all  of 
which  will  be  consumed  by  the  Star  and  its  morning  paper,  the 
Times.  The  paper  is  made  from  pulp  shipped  from  Canada. 
There  is  only  one  other  newspaper  in  the  world  that  manu- 
factures   its    own   paper — the    London    Telegraph. 


The  Cologne  Gazette  soundly  berates  the  Germans  for  their 
ioud  talking  and  noisy  conduct  in  general  in  hotels  and  else- 
where. It  declares  that  they  have  come  to  be  known  in  Italy. 
Switzerland,  and  other  countries  frequented  by  tourists,  as 
"  the  noisy  nation,"  and  that  it  is  chiefly  on  their  account  that 
the  builders  of  hotels  are  being  compelled  to  make  sound-proof 
doors  and  walls. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


E.  H.  Harrxman  is  having  plans  prepared  for  the  erection, 
on  his  country  estate,  at  Arden,  N.  Y.,  of  an  Italian  villa, 
to  be  one  of  the  finest  residences  in  the  United  States. 

George  W.  Beattie,  who  was  graduated  from  the  University 
of  California  in  1899,  has  just  been  appointed  principal  of  the 
Insular  Normal  Schools  in  the  Philippines.  This  is  the  second 
position  in  point  of  importance  in  the  educational  work  now 
being  carried  on  in  the  Philippines. 

A  son  was  born  to  ex-President  and  Mrs.  Grover  Cleveland 
at  Buzzards  Bay,  on  July  iSth.  Their  first  son  was  born  in 
1S97,  at  Princeton,  and  the  students  dubbed  him  "  Grover,  Jr.," 
at  once,  and  that  he  remains  to  this  day,  despite  his  baptismal 
name  of  Richard.  Three  daughters — Ruth,  Esther,  and  Marian 
— complete    the    Cleveland    family. 

The  recent  marriage  of  Anthony  Hope  Hawkins  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Somerville  Sheldon,  of  New  York,  has  called  at- 
tention to  the  fact  that  English  writers  have  in  recent  times 
seemed  as  partial  to  American  women  as  have  English  politi- 
cians. Stevenson  and  Kipling  are  conspicuous  examples.  A 
London  paper  makes  the  suggestion  that  the  English  author 
who  takes  to  himself  an  American  wife  is  sure  of  interested 
readers  in  the  Old  World  and  the  New. 

The  father  of  Otis  Skinner,  the  popular  actor,  is  a  Univer- 
salist  minister,  and  the  men  of  the  family  have  been  preachers 
for  three  generations  previous.  Otis  was  intended  for  that 
calling,  but  always  had  a  yearning  for  the  stage,  which  he 
approached  by  the  roundabout  way  of  a  mercantile  house  in 
Hartford,  Conn.  His  first  appearance  on  the  stage  was  made 
when  he  was  twenty  years  old,  in  a  negro  part.  He  recalls 
vividly  both  the  place  and  the  honorarium.  The  one  was 
Philadelphia,  the  other  eight  dollars  a  week.  He  celebrated  his 
forty-sixth    birthday    last    month. 

Sir  Edward  Levy  Lawson,  who  has  been  raised  to  the  peer- 
age by  King  Edward,  is  the  proprietor  of  the  London  Daily 
Telegraph.  He  is  the  son  of  the  late  J.  M.  Levy,  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  cheap  press,  and  was  born  in  1833.  Com- 
mencing his  active  career  of  journalism  in  1851,  he  was 
prominently  connected  with  the  repeal  of  the  paper  duties, 
and  during  the  long  period  of  his  direction  of  the  Daily  Tele- 
graph was  responsible  for  the  organization  and  success  of 
funds  in  relief  of  the  cotton  famine  in  Lancashire  in  1860-65, 
of  the  poor  of  Paris  after  the  siege  of  1870-71.  With 
James  Gordon  Bennett,  he  organized  Stanley's  great  journey 
across  Africa  (1874-77),  whereby  the  Congo  was  discovered. 

Santos-Dumont  now  wants  the  Parisian  authorities  to  grant 
him  permission  to  come  and  go  in  his  air-ship  from  his  second- 
story  window  on  the  avenue  of  the  Champs-Elysees.  All 
that  he  needs  is  to  build  a  small  landing  stage  out  from  a 
round  bay-window  at  the  corner  of  the  avenue  and  the  Rue 
Washington.  "  I  will  make  it  small  and  ornamental,"  Santos 
says,  "  if  you  prefer,  in  decorative  metal  work.  The  other 
tenants  of  the  place  do  not  object."  Sterling  Heilig  is  in- 
clined to  believe  that  the  Parisian  building  inspectors  will  grant 
the  desired  permission,  as  they  appreciate  that  Santos,  with 
his  unique  air-ships  in  the  air  and  not  on  paper,  is  a  draw- 
ing card  for  Paris.  The  daring  Brazilian  aeronaut's  new  air- 
ship, known  as  "  No.  9,"  in  which  he  is  seen  scudding  daily 
over  the  trees  of  the  Paris  Bois,  is  the  smallest  of  possible 
dirigible  balloons.  It  has  a  gas  capacity  of  only  two  hun- 
dred and  sixty-four  cubic  yards,  and  is  built  to  counter- 
balance only  its  own  weight,  the  weight  of  Santos,  and  eighty 
pounds  of  ballast.     Its  speed  is  fifteen  miles  an  hour. 

Outside  of  Mexico  there  is  a  prevalent  impression  that  be- 
cause General  Diaz,  who  has  just  been  renominated  for  the 
presidency,  is  now  seventy-three,  he  must  be  failing  in  his 
powers  to  some  extent  at  least,  and  that  but  a  few  more  years 
would  see  him  necessarily  retired.  On  the  contrary,  it  is 
said  that  half  a  minute  in  his  presence  is  all  that  is 
needed  to  dispel  this  misconception.  He  is  an  Oaxaca 
Indian,  a  tribe  noted  for  its  longevity  and  physical 
prowess,  and,  knowing  this,  one  is  not  at  all  sur- 
prised at  the  failure  of  the  3-ears  of  his  hard,  active  life  to 
make  more  than  a  superficial  change  in  him.  On  horse- 
back he  sits  his  saddle  with  ease,  and  can  stand  as  much 
fatigue  as  when  he  rode  into  Puebla  conqueror  of  the  French, 
thirty-five  years  ago.  Porfirio  Diaz,  Jr.,  the  president's  son  by 
his  first  wife,  is  now  a  man  of  great  affairs  in  the  Mexican 
financial  world.  He  was  given  a  military  education  in  the 
United  States,  but  he  took  to  business,  and  has  in  a  few  years 
amassed  more  wealth  than  has  his  father  in  all  the  time  he  has 
been  president. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Stanwood  Blaine,  widow  of  James  G.  Blaine, 
died  at  the  family  homestead  at  Augusta,  Me.,  on  July  15th,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-three.  When  she  was  eighteen  years  old 
she  went  to  Kentucky  to  join  her  elder  sisters,  Caroline  and 
Sarah,  who  were  teachers  in  the  Female  Collegiate  Institute  at 
Millersburg.  While  in  that  institution  she  met  James  Gillespie 
Blaine,  of  Pennsylvania,  who  had  been  graduated  at  Wash- 
ington College,  in  that  State,  in  1S47,  and  was  teaching  in 
the  Western  Military  Institute,  at  Blue  Lick  Springs,  Ky.  They 
were  married,  and  remained  in  Kentucky  until  1852,  their 
oldest  son  being  born  there.  In  1S52,  they  removed  to  Phila- 
delphia, where  Mr.  Blaine  was  a  professor  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Institution  for  the  Instruction  of  the  Blind,  remaining 
there  until  1854,  when  he  became  editor  of  the  Kennebec 
Journal,  and  began  his  public  career,  which  ended  with  his 
death  in  1S93,  when  he  had  been  naember  of  Congress,  Speaker, 
senator  from  Maine,  Secretary  of  State,  and  candidate  for  the 
Presidency.  They  had  seven  children — Stanwood  (who  died 
in  infancy),  Emmons,  Walker,  Alice,  Margaret,  Harriet,  and 
James  G.,  Jr. — three  of  whom,  Mrs.  Walter  Damrosch,  Mrs. 
Harriet  Beale,  and  James  G.,  Jr.,  survive.  After  her  hus- 
band's death,  Mrs.  Blaine  lived  in  retirement,  leasing  both  her 
Washington  house  and  her  summer  home  at  Bar  Harbor  most 
of  the  time. 

Judge  Parker,  of  New  York,  who  is  so  generally  mentioned 
as  a  candidate  for  the  Democratic  nomination  for  President, 
is  described  by  William  E.  Curtis  as  "  a  wholesome,  healthy 
type  of  the  American  gentleman,  equally  at  ease  in  a  suit 
of  overalls,  the  gown  of  a  justice,  or  the  conventional  garb 
of  society."  He  is  fifty-one  years  of  age.  In  the  fall  of 
1885,  he  was  made  chairman  of  the  New  York  Democratic 
State  Committee,  and  managed  David  B.  Hill's  campaign  for 
governor,  bringing  him  through  winner  by  11,000  majority  over 
Ira  Davenport.  His  experience  and  record  in  this  campaign 
gave  him  prominence  and  popularity  in  the  Democratic 
party  throughout  the  State.  During  this  campaign,  Theodore 
R.  Westbrook,  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  State  of 
New  York,  died,  and  after  the  election  Governor  Hill  nomi- 
nated Parker  to  fill  the  vacancy.  So  fully  was  the  selection 
approved  by  the  people  that,  in  the  following  year,  Parker  was 
nominated  for  the  position  by  both  political  parties,  and  when 
the  election  came  he  was  chosen  unanimously.  Three  years 
later  a  second  division  of  the  court  of  appeals,  which  corre- 
sponds to  the  supreme  court  of  other  States,  and  is  the  highest 
judicial  tribunal  in  New  York,  was  organized  in  order  to  meet 
the  demands  of  litigation,  and  Judge  Parker,  although  only 
thirty-eight  years  of  age,  was  appointed  a  member.  Here  he 
remained  until  1897,  when  he  was  nominated  to  be  chief  justice 
of  the  court  of  appeals,  and  was  elected  for  a  term  of  fourteen 
years  by  a  plurality  of  60,839  votes.  His  term  of  office  does 
not  expire  until  1911. 


July  27,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


53 


ELECTING    A    NEW    POPE. 

How  Leo  the  Thirteenth  was  Made  Head  of  the  Papacy — An  Account 
of  the    Conclave   of  1878— Electoral  intrigues- 
Some   Possible   Candidates. 


Pope  Leo's  death  on  Monday  will  result  in  a  repeti- 
tion of  all  the  impressive  scenes  which  were  enacted  in 
Rome  in  1878,  when  Pius  the  Ninth  died  and  a  new 
conclave  was  called  to  elect  his  successor.  On  the  death 
of  a  Pope  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Cardinal  Camerlengo 
formally  to  ascertain  that  fact.  He  does  so  by  knocking 
thrice  on  the  door  of  the  Pope's  bed-chamber.  Getting 
no  answer  he  enters  and  taps  thrice  with  a  silver  ham- 
mer on  the  dead  man's  forehead  and  thrice  calls  him 
by  name.  No  response  coming,  the  camerlengo  de- 
clares to  the  world  that  the  Pope  is  dead.  During  the 
reign  of  Pius  the  Ninth,  Cardinal  Oreglia.  then  as  now 
the  dean  of  the  college  of  cardinals,  and  ex-oMcio  pos- 
sessor of  the  silver  hammer,  was  all-powerful.  Pius 
the  Ninth  died,  Leo  the  Thirteenth  became  Pope,  and 
Oreglia  found  himself  robbed  of  his  former  power. 
Angered  thereat,  he  one  day  exclaimed  to  a  friend. 
"  Ah,  but  I  have  my  little  hammer,"  meaning  that  when 
he  had  tapped  upon  the  forehead  of  Leo  he  would  again 
become  a  factor  in  events.  He  has  seen  the  death  of 
Leo,  and  his  name  is  among  the  candidates  to  the 
Papacv.  It  would  be  strange  if  his  remark  were  to 
come  true. 

After  the  ceremony  of  the  hammer,  and  the  pro- 
cess of  embalming,  the  body  lies  in  state  nine  days. 
In  his  historical  work,  "  Ave  Roma  Immortalis."  F. 
Marion  Crawford  describes  the  strange  and  solemn 
ceremonial  which  is  practiced  at  the  death  of  all  Popes 
— the  lying  in  state  of  the  body  in  the  Chapel  of  the 
Sacrament  in  St.  Peter's.  Mr.  Crawford  was  in  Rome, 
a  mere  lad,  when  this  ceremonial  was  performed  over 
the  body  of  Pius  the  Ninth.     He  writes: 

The  gates  of  the  church  were  all  shut  but  one,  and  that 
was  only  a  little  opened,  so  that  the  people  passed  in  one  bv 
one  from  the  great  wedge-shaped  crowd  outside — a  crowd  that 
began  at  the  foot  of  the  broad  steps  in  the  piazza,  and  strug- 
gled upward  all  the  afternoon,  closer  and  closer  toward  the 
single  entrance.  For  in  the  morning  only  the  Roman  nobles 
and  the  prelates  and  high  ecclesiastics  were  admitted  by  an- 
other way.  .  .  .  The  good  man  lay  tow.  with  his  slippered  feet 
between  the  bars  of  the  closed  gate.  The  people  paused  as  they 
passed,  and  most  of  them  kissed  the  embroidered  cross,  and 
looked  at  the  still  features  before  they  went  on.  It  was  dim. 
but  the  six  tall  waxen  torches  threw  a  warm  light  on  the 
quiet  face,  and  the  white  robes  reflected  it  around.  There 
were  three  torches  on  each  side.  too.  and  there  were  three 
Noble  Guards  in  full  dress,  motionless,  with  drawn  swords, 
as  though  on  parade.  .  .  .  The  long,  thin  stream  of  people 
went  on  swiftly  and  out  by  the  sacristy,  all  the  short  after- 
noon, till  it  was  night,  and  the  rest  of  the  unsatisfied  crowd 
was  left  outside  as  the  single  gate  was  closed. 

Few  saw  the  scene  which  followed,  when  the  good  Pope's 
body  had  lain  four  days  in  state,  and  was  then  placed  in  its 
coffin  at  night,  to  be  hoisted  high  and  swung  noiselessly  into 
the  temporary  tomb  above  the  small  door  on  the  east  side — 
that  is,  to  the  left  of  the  Chapel  of  the  Choir.  It  was  for  a 
long  time  the  custom  that  each  Pope  should  lie  there  until 
his  successor  died,  when  his  body  was  removed  to  the  monu- 
ment prepared  for  it  in  the  meantime,  and  the  Pope  just  dead 
was  laid  in  the  same  place. 

The  church  was  almost  dark,  and  only  in  the  Chapel  of 
the  Choir  and  that  of  the  Holy  Sacrament,  which  are  opposite 
each  other,  a  number  of  big  wax  candles  shed  a  yellow  liaht. 
In  the  niche  over  the  door  a  mason  was  still  at  work,  with  a 
tallow  tip.  clearly  visible  below.  The  triole  coffins  stood  be- 
fore the  altar  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Choir.  Onoosite.  where 
the  body  still  lay.  the  Noble  Guards  and  the  Swiss  Guards. 
in  their  breast- plates,  kent  watch,  with  drawn  swords  and 
halberds.  The  Noble  Guards  carried  the  bier  on  their  shoulders 
in  solemn  procession,  with  chanting  choir  robed  bishops,  and 
tramping  soldiers,  round  by  the  confession  and  across  the 
church,  and  lifted  the  body  into  the  coffin.  In  the  coffin,  in 
accordance  with  an  ancient  custom,  a  bag  was  placed  contain- 
ing ninety-three  medals,  one  of  gold,  one  of  silver,  and  one  of 
bronze,  for  each  of  the  thirtv-one  years  which  Pope  Pius  had 
reigned  ;  and  a  history  of  the  Pontificate,  written  on  parch- 
ment, was  also  deposited  at  the  feet  of  the  body.  When  the 
leaden  coffin  was  soldered  six  seals  were  placed  upon  it — 
five  by  cardinals  and  one  by  the  archivist.  During  the  cere- 
mony the  prothonotary  apostolic,  the  chancellor  of  the 
apostolic  chamber,  and  the  notary  of  the  Chapter  of  St.  Peter's 
were  busy,  pen  in  hand,  writing  down  the  detailed  protocol 
of  the  proceedings. 

The  last  absolution  was  pronounced,  and  the  coffin  in  its 
outer  case  of  elm  was  slowly  moved  out.  and  raised  in 
slines.  and  trentlv  swung  into  the  niche.  The  masons  bricked 
up  the  openine  in  the  presence  of  cardinals  and  guards,  and 
lone  before  midnight  the  marble  slab  carved  to  represent  the 
side  of  a  sarcophagus,  was  in  its  place,  with  its  simple  in- 
scription. "  Pius  IX.  P.  M." 

These  impressive  ceremonies  are  followed  by  the 
election  of  a  new  Pope — a  secret  conclave  since  the  time 
of  Grep;orv  the  Tenth.  Before  then  the  cardinals  came 
and  went  and  did  as  they  pleased.  But  in  1270  they 
could  not  agree.  Two  years  they  harangued  and  voted 
without  a  choice.  They  were  about  to  leave  Vi- 
terho  in  disgust,  when  the  people  shut  the  gates  and  re- 
fused to  let  them  out.  Still  the  cardinals  failed  to  come 
to  an  agreement,  and  went  on  voting  from  month  to 
month,  till  one  day  the  Cardinal  di  Porto  exclaimed  that 
the  Holy  Ghost  would  never  come  down  and  inspire 
their  choice  as  long  as  they  had  a  roof  over  their  heads. 
The  people  of  Viterbo  took  this  profane  joke  seriously, 
and  unroofed  the  palace.  But  even  rain  and  wind 
proved  ineffectual,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  cardinals 
would  never  have  arrived  at  any  determination  had 
the  long-suffering  people  of  Viterbo  not  begun  dimin- 
ishing the  supplies  of  their  tables.  Hunger  effected 
more  than  rain  and  wind  had  done.  Gregory  the  Tenth 
was  speedilv  elected 

Besides  Cardinal  Oreglia.  already  mentioned,  the  can- 
didates for  St.  Peter's  chair  include,  among  others. 
Cardinal  Serafino  Vannutelli.  imperious,  courtly,  with 
his  high  forehead,  elongated  face,  and  enigmatical 
smile:  Cardinal  Vincenzo  Vannutelli,  his  younger 
brother,  amiable,  polite,  unobstrusive,  and  intelligent; 


Cardinal  Gotti,  discreet  and  pious,  with  the  record  of 
the  successful  South  American  mission  and  the  favor 
of  the  late  Pope ;  Cardinal  Capecelatro,  the  learned  and 
temperate  Archbishop  of  Capua;  and  Cardinal  Svampa, 
Archbishop  of  Bologne.  The  latter's  chances  are  said 
to  be  poor,  because,  being  born  in  1851,  he  is  the  young- 
est member  of  the  Sacred  College,  and  his  accession 
would  be  likely  to  mean  too  long  a  reign  to  please  the 
electors,  who  are  themselves  eligible.  It  is  also  thought 
that  neither  Cardinal  Parocchi  nor  Cardinal  Rampolla 
can  hope  to  wear  the  tiara;  the  one  because  his  duties 
as  cardinal-vicar  have  necessarily  created  a  good  deal 
of  dissatisfaction  against  him  among  the  Italian  pre- 
lates, who  form  the  majority  in  the  Sacred  College,  and 
the  other  because,  as  secretary  of  state  to  Leo  the 
Thirteenth,  he  was  closely  identified  with  the  present 
order  of  things,  and  would,  therefore,  not  be  able  to 
undertake  the  government  of  the  church  with  entire 
freedom  of  action  or  mind. 

A  graphic  account  of  the  Papal  election  of  1878  is 
given  in  Julien  de  Narfon's  excellent  biography.  "  Pope 
Leo  XIII:  His  Life  and  Work."  from  which  we  learn 
that,  from  the  death  of  Pius  the  Ninth,  on  the  seventh  of 
February,  to  the  end  of  the  conclave,  on  the  twentieth 
of  the  same  month,  Leo  the  Thirteenth,  then  Cardinal 
Pecci.  holding  office  as  the  permanent  head  of  the 
financial  department  of  the  Apostolic  See,  kept  the 
management  of  every  department  in  his  own  hands. 
Through  his  energy  and  ability,  the  plot  of  the  Italian 
Government  to  assume  the  "  prerogatives  of  the  de- 
ceased dignitary,  on  the  ground  of  the  inclusion  of  the 
Apostolic  Chamber  within  the  domain  of  the  state." 
was  foiled,  and  he  himself  was  seated  on  the  Papal 
throne. 

Concerning  the  arrangements  for  the  conclave  of 
1878,  De  Narfon  says: 

The  spacious  halls  of  the  Vatican  were  divided  into  sets  of 
small  apartments,  each  containing  three  or  four  rooms  sep- 
arated by  mere  partitions.  In  this  way  a  set  of  rooms  was 
provided  for  even-  member  of  the  Sacred  College,  and  every" 
cardinal  was  able  to  have  his  "  conclavist "  and  servant  at 
hand.  The  consistory  hall,  on  the  second  floor,  was  set  apart 
for  the  meetings  of  the  full  conclave.  The  first-floor  rooms 
in  the  Gregory'  Thirteenth  wing,  under  the  clock  pavilion, 
were  devoted  to  meetings  of  committees  and  various  congre- 
gations. The  kitchens  were  fitted  up  on  the  ground  floor  of 
the  same  wing,  and  the  other  subordinate  officers  were  in- 
stalled in  the  premises  of  the  Palazzo  Vecchio.  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  Sistine  Chapel.  On  previous  occasions  the  cardinals' 
meals  were  prepared  outside  and  brought  in  gala  carriage. 
These  culinary  processions,  with  their  "  dapifer "  seneschal, 
flanked  by  a  cup-bearer  and  an  equerry"-  used  to  form  one 
of  the  curiosities  of  old  Rome.  Notwithstanding  all  this  dis- 
nlay.  the  dishes  were  carefully  examined  by  the  guardians  of 
the  "  rotas."  who  were  instructed  to  see  that  no  illicit  missives 
were  concealed  in  the  food.  At  the  187S  conclave  Cardinal 
von  Hohenlohe  was  the  only  member  of  the  Sacred  College 
who  had  his  meals  brought  from  outside.  It  is  needless  to 
say  that  this  solitary  exception  excited  a  s"Ood  deal  of  com- 
ment. The  work  carried  out  under  Signor  Martinucci's  plans 
cost  exactly  C7.S71  lire  67  centimes.  To  this  sum  should  be 
added  20.000  lire  paid  to  another  architect.  Sisnor  Vesoignani. 
for  fitting  up  the  Sistine  Chaoel  for  the  ballots.  The  total 
rost  of  the  vacancy  in  the  Holy  See  amounted,  in  round 
figures,  to  $30.000— a  comparativelv  small  sum.  In  former 
times  the  expenses  usually  exceeded  $100,000,  and  sometimes 
reached   double  that  amount. 

The  conclave  opened  on  February  18th.  and  the  at- 
tending cardinals  were  much  more  numerous  than  at 
the  previous  one.  Among  them  were  twenty-five  for- 
eigners, while  the  Romans  alone  took  part  in  the  elec- 
tion of  Pious  the  Ninth.  At  half-past  four  in  the  after- 
noon the  members  of  the  Sacred  College  met  in  the 
Pauline  Chanel,  whence  they  walked  in  procession  to 
the  Sistine  Chaoel.  Here  the  apostolic  regulations  for 
the  election  of  the  Pope  were  again  read  to  them,  and 
they  took  the  customary  oath : 

One  prelate  thought  himself  entitled  to  dispense  with  the 
formalitv  of  takine  the  oath.  This  prelate  was  Mgr.  Ricci 
the  major-domo,  who  used  to  be  called  "the  Pope's  eye-ball" 
durincr  the  lifetime  of  Pius  the  Ninth,  in  reference  to  the 
confidence  and  affection  with  which  the  Pontiff  regarded  him. 
Mgr.  Ricci  was  orostrated  by  grief  at  the  death  of  his  master, 
and  had  fallen  ill. 

"  The  major-domo  is  extremely  unwell,  your  eminence." 
Mex.  Pecci  was  told  when  he  expressed  surprise  at  Mgr. 
Ricci's  absence. 

"Then  let  him  set  up  and  come'  I  want  him!"  was  the 
imperious  reply.  Mgr.  Ricci  was  obliged  to  obey  and  make 
his  appearance,  pale,  wasted,  and  shivering  with   fever. 

Immediately  after  his  elevation  to  the  chair  of  St.  Peter. 
Leo  the  Thirteenth  sent  for  Mgr.  Ricci.  and  said  to  him : 
"I  have  hurt  your  feelings,  monsignor,  and  T  beg  your  pardon." 
He  re-appointed  Mer.  Ricci  major-domo  of  the  apostolic 
palaces,  and  soon  afterward  summoned  him  to  the  senate  of 
the  church. 

At  half-past  five  in  the  afternoon,  the  conclave  was 
finally  separated  from  the  outer  world: 

The  ringing  of  a  small  bell,  and  the  repetition  of  the  formula 
"  Extra  omnes  !"  by  the  master  of  ceremonies,  was  the  signal 
for  all  outsiders  to  retire.  All  the  outlets  had  already  been  walled 
up.  with  the  exception  of  the  great  door  of  the  Sala  Regia. 
through  which  the  last  of  the  crowd  passed  at  about  seven 
o'clock.  The  camerlengo.  accompanied  by  the  three  heads 
of  the  orders,  then  went  through  all  the  rooms  by  torchlicht 
to  make  sure  that  communication  between  the  two  hundred 
and  fifty  persons  shut  up  in  the  Vatican  and  the  rest  of  the 
world  was  impossible,  except  through  the  four  rotas,  or  small 
receptacles  turning  on  pivots.  These  rotas,  contrived  for  the 
admission  of  provisions  and  official  correspondence,  were 
placed  under  the  watchful  care  of  prelates  of  the  apostolic 
chamber  the  prothonotaries,  the  bishops,  and  the  prelates 
of  the  signature. 

In  the  Sistine  Chapel,  where  the  balloting  was  to  take 
place,  an  altar  had  been  erected,  on  which  was  the 
silver-gilt  chalice  in  which  each  cardinal  was  to  deposit 
his  voting-paper: 

At  the  foot  of  the  altar  was  a  table  for  the  examination  of 
the  papers.  Close  at  hand  were  the  cardinals'  stalls,  arranged 
in  a  semicircle  and  surmounted  by  canopies,  which  emblems 
of  sovereignty  were  to  be  taken  down  as  soon  as  the  new 
Pope's  name  was  announced.  In  front  of  each  stall  was  a 
small  table  for  convenience  in  filling  up,  folding,  and  sealing 


the  forms.  Near  the  altar  was  the  open  grate  for  burning 
the  papers  after  each  ballot.  To  the  right  and  left  of  the 
entrance  were  two  dressing-rooms,  one  containing  white 
vestments  for  the  future  Pontiff.  Cassocks  of  various  sizes 
were,  of  course,  kept  here,  so  that  whoever  the  new  Pope 
might  be  he  would  find  a  garment  to  fit  him. 

In  accordance  with  the  regulation,  all  the  cardinals 
were  clad  in  an  ample  violet  robe  of  woolen  material, 
with  a  plaited,  sleeveless  cape  lying  flat  on  the  shoulders. 
This  robe,  which  has  no  sleeves,  is  fastened  at  the  chest 
with  a  hook,  and  ends  in  a  long  train.  When  the  car- 
dinals— each  preceded  by  his  attendant  carrying  the 
portfolio  and  inkstand — had  reached  the  chapel,  the 
bishop  sacristan  recited  the  ritual  prayers.  The  master 
of  the  ceremonies  proclaimed  the  order  "  Extra 
omnes!"  and  the  electors  were  left  to  themselves.  The 
voting  is  described  as  follows : 

Each  cardinal,  when  his  name  is  called,  approaches  the 
altar,  kneels,  rises,  and  before  placing  his  voting-paper  in  the 
chalice,  holds  the  paper  above  that  vessel  and  utters  the 
following  words  :  "  I  call  upon  Christ,  our  Lord.  Who  shall 
judge  me,  to  witness  that  I  vote  for  him  who,  I  believe  before 
God.  ought  to  be  chosen,  and  that  I  will  do  the  same  at  the 
accessory  ballot." 

The  first  ballot  resulted  in  twenty-three  votes  being 
cast  for  Cardinal  Pecci: 

At  the  second,  which  took  place  in  the  evening  of  the 
nineteenth,  he  received  twenty-six,  and  then  thirty-eight,  an 
accessory*  ballot  being  taken.  He  was  still  three  votes  short 
of  the  required  majority,  but  his  election  on  the  following 
day  appeared  to  be  a  certainty,  in  spite  of  the  opposition  of 
Cardinals  Randi.  Bilio.  and  Oreglia.  who  acted  as  faction 
leaders  against  him.  Cardinal  Randi  made  persistent  but 
unavailing  efforts  in  favor  of  Cardinal  Chigi.  while  Cardinal 
Bilio  supported  the  candidature  of  Cardinal  Martinelli,  who  he 
declared  was  "a  saint."  "If  Martinelli  is  a  saint,"  replied 
Mgr.  Bartolini.  "let  him  pray  for  us;  but  a  saint  is  not 
what  we  want  at  the  head  of  the  church  just  now."  And 
Cardinal  Bartolini  went  from  group  to  group,  expatiating  on 
Mgr.  Pecci's  qualifications.  "  He  has  been  a  delegate,  and  he 
knows  the  temporal  government;  he  has  been  a  nuncio,  and 
he  knows  diplomacy ;  he  has  been  a  bishop,  thirty-two  years, 
and  he  knows  the  government  of  the  church."  More  than 
one  encounter  occurred  between  Cardinals  Randi  and  Bar- 
tolini. the  former  accusing  the  latter  of  caballing,  which 
Cardinal  Bartolini  stoutly  denied.  Cardinal  Oreglia.  who  was 
not  in  favor  of  Mgr.  Pecci's  candidature  until  after  the 
election,  at  first  supported  Cardinal  Bilio;  but  the  latter  had 
no  prospect  of  success  when  the  third  ballot  opened  en  the 
morning  of  the  twentieth  of  February,  the  opponents  of  Mgr. 
Pecci  having  decided,  though  without  much  confidence  in  the 
result,  to  support  Cardinal  Franchi.  Cardinal  Pecci  was 
elected  at  the  third  ballot  by  forty-four  votes,  or  three  more 
than  the  required  majority.  When  the  papers  were  counted 
it  was  seen  that  one  of  them  bore  the  words.  "  I  choose  no 
one."  This  paper  was  of  course  annulled  amid  general 
laughter.  The  identity  of  the  cardinal  who  had  the  bad  taste 
to  perpetrate  this  pleasantry  is  not  known. 

When  the  sub-dean  prostrated  himself  at  his  feet 
and  asked  him:  "  Dost  thou  accept  thy  due  and  regular 
election  to  the  sovereign  pontificate?"  Cardinal  Pecci 
replied:  "  Such  being  God's  will  I  can  not  gainsay  it." 
Then  he  was  asked:  "Under  what  name  wilt  thou  be 
known?"  and  he  answered:  "As  Leo  the  Thirteenth, 
in  remembrance  of  Leo  the  Twelfth,  whom  I  have  al- 
ways venerated." 

All  the  canopies  save  his  were  thrown  down.  They  clad 
him.  dazed  and  barely  conscious,  in  white.  .  .  .  On  being 
led  back  to  the  altar  on  which  the  voting  had  taken  place. 
Leo  the  Thirteenth  received  the  homage  of  the  cardinals, 
and  accomplished  the  first  act  of  his  Papacv  by  appointing,  as 
pro-camerlengo.  Mer.  Schwartzenberg,  Archbishop  of  Prague, 
who  placed  the  Fisherman's  ring  on  the  Pope's  finger.  The 
election  was  announced  at  a  quarter-past  one  by  Cardinal 
Caterini  from  the  balcony  of  St.  Peter's.  The  bells  of  every 
church  in  Rome  immediately  rantr  out  to  announce  the  "  tidings  - 
of  creat  joy."  Leo  the  Thirteenth  gave  the  benediction  urbt  et 
orbi  from  the  inner  loggia  of  St.  Peter's.  He  received,  for 
the  second  time,  the  homage  of  the  cardinals  and  of  the 
representatives  of  the  Roman  patricians,  and  finally  retired  to 
his  apartments  at  six  o'clock. 

"Every  convict,  as  the  saying  is,  is  allowed  twenty- 
four  hours  to  curse  the  judge  who  sentenced  him."  re- 
marks De  Narfon;  "the  cardinals  who  had  been  fore- 
most in  opposition  to  Cardinal  Pecci  did  not  wait  so 
long  to  express  their  joy  at  the  judgment  the  conclave 
had  given  against  them": 

"  This  is  not  an  election,  but  a  divine  inspiration."  pro- 
claimed Cardinal  Ferrieri.  who  had  boasted  only  a  few  hours 
before  of  lowering  yountr  Pecci's  pride  bv  getting  the  better 
of  him  in  debate  at  the  Academy  of  Theology.  Another 
opponent.  Cardinal  Pietro.  found  a  pithy  phrase  to  express  his 
devotion  to  Leo  the  Thirteenth  :  "  We  desire  to  be  thy  mouth 
and  thv  flesh."  he  said  in  his  address  as  sub-dean  of  the 
Sacred  College  at  the  coronation  of  the  new  Pope. 

Not  merelv  material  considerations  will  determine 
the  selection  of  the  next  Pope.  Enough  superstition  yet 
remains  among  the  cardinals  to  give  weight  to  the 
predictions  which  Malachy.  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  in 
Ireland,  made  in  the  sixteenth  century.  Malachy  left 
a  Latin  motto  for  each  future  Pope.  There  are  just 
ten  of  these  mottoes  left,  so  that,  according  tn  this 
nrophet.  the  Papacy  has  not  many  more  centuries  to 
live.  Odd  as  it  mav  seem,  thev  have  usually  been  ner- 
fectlv  applicable.  For  instance.  Mnlacbv  said  of  Pius 
the  Sixth:  "The  apostolic  wanderer";  of  Pins  the 
Seventh  he  said:  "An  eagle  carrying  away";  of  Pius 
the  Ninth.  "Cross  from  across."  Every  one  of  these 
vaticinations  is  held  by  the  devout  to  have  been  verified. 
Pius  the  Sixth  was  a  notable  wanderer:  Pius  the  Sev- 
enth was  carried  to  France  bv  Napoleon:  and  Pius 
the  Ninth  had  trouble  with  the  House  of  Savov.  who?<* 
arms  were  a  cross.  Of  Leo  the  Thirteenth  Malachy 
prophesied,  "A  light  in  heaven."  virtually  the  arms  of 
the  Peccis.  The  next  in  the  list  of  prophecies  is 
"  Tgnis  Ardens  "  ("ardent  fire"),  which  might  apply  to 
anv  one  of  three  cardinals — Oreglia,  who  has  a  blazing 
altar  in  his  coat  of  arms:  Gotti.  who  boasts  a  torch  in 
his:  and  Svampa,  whose  arms  show  a  dog  with  a  burn- 
ing torch  in  his  mouth.  Tt  will  be  interesting  to  see 
whether  the  Malachy  prophecy  can  be  applied 
well  to  the  next  Pope,  soon  to  be  elected. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  27,  1903. 


THE    CAPTURE    OF    THE    COLONEL. 


A  Story  of  San  Francisco. 

The  announcement  of  the  engagement  of  the  colonel 
to  little  Kitty  Flinders  was  the  heaviest  bomb  that  had 
ever  struck  the  camp.  The  Presidio  reverberated 
from  end  to  end  with  the  report,  and  every  one,  from 
the  general  to  the  rawest  recruit,  looked  upon  the  pair 
with  pity  for  the  colonel  and  admiration  for  Kitty. 

The  colonel  had  been  stalked  time  out  of  mind  by 
ambitious  daughters  and  managing  mammas,  but  had 
run  the  gauntlet  so  successfully  I  had  begun  to  think 
he  was  safe.  And  now  Kitty — of  all  people  in  the 
world,  little  Kitty  Flinders — had  landed  him  securely, 
and  the  question  on  every  tongue  was :  "  How  did  it 
happen?" 

I  had  often  watched  the  light  skirmishing  and 
ambushed  attacks  of  the  charming  girls  San  Francisco 
is  so  full  of,  and  marveled  at  his  power  of  resistance, 
and  as  his  old  comrade-in-arms  I  now  felt  a  keen  in- 
terest in  his  capture. 

He  had  the  reputation  among  the  women  of  being  an 
excellent  listener — which  endeared  him  to  their  hearts 
as  nothing  else  could — and  owing  to  a  chance  remark 
on  his  part  that  Mrs.  So-and-So  was  a  delightful 
talker,  the  inference  seemed  to  be  that  the  way  to  his 
heart  must  be  through  his  auricular  endurance.  Con- 
sequently, one  could  always  tell  whether  he  was  in  a 
company  by  following  up  the  centre  of  the  din,  for  he 
was  sure  to  be  surrounded  by  a  bevy  of  lovely  women, 
making  themselves  hoarse  in  their  efforts  to  entertain 
him.  And  how  Kitty,  only  passably  pretty,  and  without 
wit  enough  to  talk  always  grammatically,  had  brought 
this  invulnerable  old  mustache  to  her  feet  was  a 
mystery. 

The  colonel's  ravings  were  still  more  inexplicable. 
Not  that  any  one  ever  tries  to  explain  the  aberrations 
of  a  man  in  love,  but  the  tendency  of  his  wanderings 
suggested  mental  decay,  for,  after  going  off  in  a 
rhapsody  over  what  he  was  pleased  to  call  her  re- 
markable prettiness — even  he,  fool  as  he  was,  couldn't 
call  her  doll-baby  type  beautiful — he  topped  off  with, 
"  And  above  all.  Miss  Flinders  is  so  delightfully  clever 
and  entertaining." 

This  last  remark  decided  me  there  had  been  some 
sort  of  black  magic  practiced  upon  him.  and  that  it 
was  the  office  of  a  true  friend  to  save  him  if  possible. 
But  first  I  must  hear  the  story  from  Kitty's  own  lips. 

As  she  was  a  woman,  all  that  was  needed.  I  argued, 
to  get  her  to  talking  and  tell  all  she  knew, 
was  a  chance;  so,  on  the  first  occasion,  I 
decoyed  her  out  to  the  golf-links  where  we  might  talk 
uninterruptedly.  As  we  sauntered  out  on  the  downs 
the  wind  blew  fresh  against  us,  whipping  loose  strands 
of  hair  across  her  eves  and  bringing  a  dash  of  wild- 
rose  color  to  her  cheeks.  She  tripped  through  the 
tangle  of  lupine  and  sand-plant  with  the  joyous  non- 
chalance of  the  white-caps  that  danced  in  the  distance, 
and  punctuated  every  remark  with  a  breezy  little  giggle 
that  expressed  almost  as  much  stability  of  character 
as  the  fitful  gusts  of  wind  that  swept  the  hill.  Cir- 
cumstances favored  me.  for  she  actually  hit  her  ball 
at  the  first  drive,  which  put  her  in  a  good  humor  with 
herself. 

"  And  so  vou  are  going  to  marry  my  old  friend,  the 
colonel  ?"  I  began,  audaciously. 

"  Yes."  she  answered,  with  an  assumption  of  dignity 
that  sat  awkwardly  on  her  tip-tilted  countenance. 

"  How  did  it  happen  ?"  I  asked,  coming  to  the  point 
boldlv.  and  wondering  if  she  would  be  discerning 
enough  to  resent  mv  impudence. 

"  Well,  vou  see.  it  was  this  way."  she  answered,  fall- 
ing unsuspectingly  into  mv  trap.  She  took  a  long  sight, 
swung  her  brassv  with  all  her  strength,  and  struck  the 
tee.  "  We  went  down  to  a  dance  at  the  Vendome,  five 
of  us.  just  fancy !  Nette's  mother  went  with  us,  of 
course.  We  always  get  Nette's  mother  to  go  with  us 
whenever  we  can:  she's  deaf  as  a  post,  you  know.  We 
used  to  take  Aunt  Mary  because  she's  so  near-sighted, 
but.  on  the  whole,  we  find  that  it's  better  to  have  a 
deaf  chaperon  than  a  blind  one.  Wouldn't  the  com- 
bination be  just  too  lovely  for  anything?" 

I  thought  of  the  fastidious  colonel,  his  ideals  of 
what  constituted  womanly  dignity:  but  as  she  waited 
for  an  answer  I  agreed  that  it  would,  so  she  continued : 
"San  Jose  is  an  awfully  hot  place;  ever  been  there? 
The  gardens  are  all  so  cool  and  shady  it  doesn't  look 
so.  but  if  vou  ever  find  yourself  there  in  mid- 
summer you'll  get  suddenly  convinced.  They  play 
tennis  there  all  the  time,  too:  that's  one  of  the  things 
the  San  Tose  men  do  well.  The  hop  was  Fridav  night, 
and  we  had  plaved  tennis  all  day  long,  simply  because 
there  was  absolutely  nothing  else  to  do.  I  stayed  out 
on  the  courts,  not  because  I  don't  hate  tennis,  but  be- 
cause we  had  heard  the  colonel  was  coming  in  the 
afternoon,  and.  as  men  are  so  scarce  down  there,  we 
all  wanted  the  first  chance  at  him.  At  any  rate,  I  guess 
the  other  girls  did.  I  freelv  confess  that  was  my  sole 
object,  and  from  the  way  they  haunted  that  hot  place 
it  was  very  evident  they  had  the  same  reason.  He 
didn't  come  though :  that  is.  not  till  later.  But  I  stayed 
around  so  long  after  train  time  I  left  myself  only 
about  ..  minute  to  dress;  then  I  just  tore  upstairs  and 
began  to  make  things  fly.  Mv  trunk  had  been  packed 
bv  Bridget:  I  can  alwavs  tell  her  packing;  she  puts 
the ,r  rht  things  on  the  bottom  and  the  heavy  things 
on  tri;  they  were  all  just  that  way  when  I  opened 
it,  but  when  I  came  to  look  for  my  slippers  I  could  find 


only  one.  I  searched  high  and  low,  and  turned  things  up- 
side-down and  wrong-side-out  till  the  floor  was  strewn 
from  one  end  to  the  other;  but  that  slipper  was  not  to  be 
found.  There  was  only  one  thing  to  do  about  it,  stay 
upstairs  all  evening  by  myself,  or  go  without  that  slip- 
per. Just  then  the  band  struck  up  '  The  Blue  and 
the  Gray,'  and  that  settled  it.  I  put  the  left  slipper 
on  the  right  foot,  that  being  the  most  conspicuous,  and 
let  it  go  at  one  white  foot  and  one  russet  one.  Just 
then  Ethel  ran  across  to  see  if  I  was  ready  to  go 
down,  but  I  was  so  hot  from  fuming  over  that  shoe 
my  hair  had  all  come  out  of  curl  and  had  to  be  done 
over.  She  didn't  offer  to  help  me  the  least  bit;  all  she 
said  was :  '  Oh,  you  little  goose,  why  didn't  vou  powder 
your  hair  when  you  curled  it  so  it  would  keep  dry  and 
stay  in  place?'  and  off  she  went  down  the  hall  to  tell 
the  girls  I  wasn't  half  ready.  I  could  see  it  was  a 
good  scheme,  though,  so  when  I  got  my  hair  done  again 
I  just  powdered  it  thick  with  '  la  Blache  ' ;  I  had  a  full 
box.  and  emptied  nearly  half  of  it." 

We  were  now  half  way  around  the  links,  and  I  sug- 
gested we  might  rest  a  few  minutes.  Kitty  had  lost 
her  score  long  before  and  was  glad  enough  to  stop : 
so,  dropping  her  cleek  and  asking  if  her  hat  was 
straight,  she  drew  a  long  breath,  and  went  on.  Her 
eyes  seemed  to  catch  the  sparkling  blueness  of  the 
water  as  her  gaze  rested  ruminantly  upon  the  scene 
before  her,  and  her  mind  to  stray  in  long,  long 
thoughts,  like  the  flight  of  the  dipping  sea-gulls  over- 
head. 

"It's  perfectly  awful  the  way  those  girls  make  them- 
selves up  in  the  evening.  I  wouldn't  think  of  doing 
such  a  thing — that  is,  not  often — but  seeing  what 
preparations  they  were  all  making  to  stun  the  colonel. 
T  thought  I'd  try  it  a  little  bit,  too.  So  I  took  a  pencil 
and  made  a  beautiful  arch  of  my  eyebrows  and  a 
lovelv  shadow  underneath.  It  reallv  did  make  a 
wonderful  improvement;  my  eyes  looked  twice  their 
usual  size,  almost  as  large  as  Ethel's.  But  the  light 
wasn't  good  in  my  room,  so  I  skipped  down  to  Nette's, 
where  there  was  a  chandelier.  She  was  whitening 
the  girls'  necks  and  shoulders,  and  the  air  was  so 
dense  with  the  powder  I  could  scarcelv  see  until  I  got 
right  under  the  light,  and  then  you  ouerht  to  have  heard 
the  shout  that  went  up  from  every  last  one  of  those 
girls.  What  do  you  suppose  I  had  done?  When  I 
held  the  glass  under  the  light  I  found  my  hair  was  a 
lovelv  pink.  You  see  the  Ma  Blache'  was  flesh-color, 
and  T  had  put  on  too  much.  Oh.  how  we  did  brush 
and  fan  and  tear  mv  hair  to  get  that  miserable  color 
off.  but  it  was  so  thick  it  seemed  to  stick  to  everv  in- 
dividual hair.  The  girls  thought  it  was  a  very  funnv 
ioke.  They  all  gathered  around,  and  made  suggestions, 
and  poked  fun  at  me.  till  all  at  once  Nette  gave  a 
shriek,  and  said:  'What  in  the  world  have  you  done 
to  vour  eves,  child?'  I  said:  'Oh,  nothing:  does  it 
show?'  I  thought  she  was  going  to  have  a  fit.  She 
tried  to  tell  me.  but  everv  time  she  looked  at  me  she 
went  off  in  such  a  gale  of  laughter  the  tears  ran  down 
her  cheeks  and  made  little  furrows  through  the 
'Camelline.'  Finally,  she  got  a  glass  and  said:  'You 
look  as  if  vou  had  been  done  in  pastels  hv  a  blind  man.' 
That  made  me  mad,  and  I  snatched  the  glass  out  of  her 
hand,  and  to  mv  horror  found  I  had  gotten  hold  of  the 
pencil  her  mother  had  been  writing  postals  with,  and 
had  made  my  eyebrows  an  indelible  blue." 

This  recital  of  her  misfortunes  showed  Kittv  to  be 
b"tter-natured  than  I  had  supposed,  and  I  began  to  feel 
somewhat  mollified.  "What  did  you  do  about  it?"  I 
asked  her. 

"Do?  Whv  there  was  nothing  I  could  do.  that  was 
the  worst  of  it,"  she  answered:  "the  pencil  was  indel- 
ible, but  I  can  tell  vou  I  felt  very  much  nrinked  up 
with  nink  hair  and  blue  eyebrows.  Then  Tanet  came 
in  to  see  if  we  were  ready,  looking  like  a  little  peach- 
blossom,  all  in  fluffv  pink.  The  tears  positively  came 
to  mv  eves  when  I  looked  down  and  saw  that  her  shoes 
were  mates.  Everything  about  that  girl  irritates  me. 
She  is  alwavs  so  cool,  and  never  gets  excited:  so,  see- 
ing Tie.r  looking  so  pink  and  perky.  I  said:  'You  do 
look  orettv  nice,  as  you  seem  to  know,  but  vou'd  look  a 
cnnd  deal  better  if  vou  hadn't  gotten  vour  lips  so  red.' 
Of  course,  she  denied  it,  and  vowed  she  hadn't  done 
anything  to  them.  'Then  what  makes  them  look  so 
cherrv-n'ne?'  I  said.  That  got  on  her  nerves,  and  the 
other  girls  exchanged  glances  because  we  always 
scran,  but  it  takes  a  mighty  big  streak  of  meanness  to 
o-et  back  at  a  person  by  a  practical  ioke.  Ouick  as  a 
wink  she  said:  '  Oh.  I  guess  it's  the  listerine  I've  been 
using:  it's  such  a  lovelv  dentifrice;  don't  you  want 
to  trv  it?  Here,  quick,  hold  vour  breath  so  you  won't 
swallow  it'  She  grabbed  a  bottle  off  the  stand,  and 
like  an  idiot  I  held  my  breath  and  took  a  mouthful  of — 
ammonia !  In  a  second  my  lips  and  tongue  were  swol- 
len as  if  they  had  been  stung  by  a  whole  hive  of  bees, 
and  Tanet  was  scared  half  to  death  when  she  saw  what 
she  had  done.  But  I  was  mad,  just  hopping  mad;  up 
to  th<"s  time  I  hadn't  lost  my  temper  at  all,  but  I  was 
afraid  the  swelling  might  disfigure  mv  mouth  per- 
manently, and  I  have  always  taken  a  humble  little  pride 
iri  mv  mouth :  it  is  the  only  feature  I  have  like  the 
Hall's,  and  I  value  it  as  a  sort  of  hall-mark.  I  snatched 
up  the  first  thing  I  could  reached,  which  happened  to 
be  mv  carved  ivory  mirror  that  came  from  Taoan.  and 
threw  at  her.  and  she  turned  around  and  laughed; 
then  I  threw  Nette's  curling-iron,  and  that,  of  course, 
missed  her,  and  smashed  the  glass." 

As  Kitty  babbled  on.  I  felt  my  hair  slowly  turning 
gray  at  the  revelations  her  confidences  made ;  old  stager 


that  I  was,  I  still  clung  to  my  belief  in  the  genuineness 
of  the  visions  of  loveliness  I  saw  about  me,  but  with 
every  confession  another  delusion  had  to  go.  I  sug- 
gested the  home-stretch,  and,  whistling  up  the  caddie, 
started  back,  sadder  and  wiser. 

"  Nette  said,"  resumed  the  indefatigable  Kitty,  " '  you 
would  better  go  to  bed  now  for  safe-keeping;  there  is 
no  knowing  what  else  might  happen  to  you,  and  in  the 
morning  we  will  tell  you  all  about  the  dance  and  the 
colonel.'  But  I  said :  '  No,  siree,  I'm  going  to  this  hop 
now,  if  it's  the  last  act  of  my  life.  I  shall  sit  in  the 
shadow  with  your  mother  and  look  on,'  for  I  knew  that 
if  I  should  try  to  dance  something  would  paralyze  me 
so  I  wouldn't  be  able  to  move  a  muscle.  I  had  made 
up  my  mind  that  I  wouldn't  dance — you  see  I  didn't 
know  how  the  pink  and  blue  combination  would  suit 
the  San  Jose  taste — but  I  didn't  propose  to  stay  upstairs 
all  evening  by  myself.  It  was  a  lovely  night.  There 
were  lots  of  people  we  knew  there,  the  music  was  fine, 
and  the  floor  not  too  crowded.  The  colonel  loomed 
up  early  in  the  evening,  and  asked  Nette  for  a  dance 
the  first  thing.  I  watched  them  sailing  around  the 
room,  and  knew  Nette  had  been  thinking  up  topics  all 
day.  She  is  one  of  the  few  people  who  can  talk  and 
dance,  too.  I  could  imagine  just  how  entertaining  she 
must  be,  for  she  talked  every  minute  of  the  time. 
Things  went  on  that  way  half  the  evening,  and  if  my 
lips  hadn't  pained  so  I  would  have  had  a  pretty  good 
time  watching  the  others,  but  after  the  colonel  had 
danced  with  the  other  girls  he  looked  over  their  heads 
into  the  chaperon  row,  and  asked  me  if  I  wasn't  dan- 
cing. It  was  a  lovely  two-step,  and  I  simply  couldn't 
resist;  I  tried  to  hobble  about  on  the  white  slipper  so 
the  russet  foot  wouldn't  show,  but  I  soon  had  to  give 
it  up,  for  when  I  let  my  dress  drag  everybody  stepped 
on  it.  and  when  I  held  it  up  I  caught  curious  glances  di- 
rected at  my  feet." 

Through  all  this  recital  of  her  misfortunes.  I  dumbly 
wondered  what  they  had  to  do  with  my  friend  the 
colonel,  but  remembering  that  "  the  longest  way  round 
is  the  shortest  way  there  "  in  a  woman's  story.  I  listened 
patiently. 

"  Just  imagine  my  predicament !"  she  continued.  "  I 
couldn't  dance  on  account  of  my  slipper;  I  couldn't 
stay  in  the  light  because  of  my  blue  eyebrows,  and 
couldn't  mumble  a  single  word  distinctly  on  account  of 
mv  swollen  lips.  Then  the  colonel  suggested  the 
veranda.  It  was  simply  glorious  out  there,  warm  and 
moonlight,  and  I  began  to  think  I  was  glad  I  was  there 
after  all.  but  it  didn't  last  long.  You  know.  I  just  love 
to  talk;  thev  tell  me  at  home  I  talk  entirely  too  much, 
but  it  would  have  done  their  souls  good  if  they  could 
have  seen  me  then.  My  lips  were  so  blistered  I  couldn't 
even  open  my  mouth,  so  I  just  drew  myself  up  into  the 
corner,  and  wondered  if  that  nightmare  evening  would 
ever  end.  The  colonel  said  something  about  the 
weather,  and  I  could  onlv  nod  my  pink  head:  then  he 
said  something  else,  and  I  raised  mv  blue  brows  at  him 
to  show  that  I  had  heard,  and.  with  that,  if  you  can 
believe  it.  he  began  to  talk  himself." 

I  did  not  understand  her  surprise,  for  I  had  always 
rated  him  as  a  great  talker,  but  recalled  his  reputation, 
and  said  nothing. 

"  Well,  if  you  please,  he  kept  right  on  talking.  I 
never  heard  of  his  doing  such  a  thing,  for  the  girls  all 
sav  they  have  to  rack  their  brains  to  nrevent  a  pause 
in  the  conversation.  He  told  me  all  about  his  career: 
where  he  had  been  and  what  he  had  done:  all  the  ac- 
tive service  he  had  seen;  and  his  whole  family  his- 
tory, beginning  with  his  grandmother's  maiden  name, 
and  there  I  sat  in  the  corner  like  a  wooden  image,  not 
able  to  say  a  word." 

Now.  for  the  first  time,  I  began  to  understand  how 
the  colonel  had  gotten  his  impression  of  Miss  Flin- 
ders's  being  "  delightfully  clever  and  entertaining."  It 
would  have  been  impossible  otherwise.  The  poor  fel- 
low had  been  starving  all  these  years  for  a  listener, 
and  been  suffocated  bv  the  well-meant  efforts  of  the 
women  to  entertain  him. 

"  However,  he  tells  me  he  found  you  very  interest- 
;np\"  I  interrupted. 

But  Kittv  only  laughed.  "How  could  he?"  she 
asked.  "He  didn't  even  hear  the  sound  of  mv  voice; 
we  sat  out  three  dances,  and  he  talked  all  the  time." 

Then  I  saw  it  all.  and  didn't  blame  him.  The  talked- 
to-death  colonel  had  at  last  gotten  a  chance,  owing  to 
this  woman's  tongue  being  temporarily  disabled,  and 
had  talked  a  good  hour,  without  interruption,  about 
himself  at  that.  I  did  not  wonder  that  he  had  been 
fascinated  bv  the  novelty  of  the  experience,  and  in  his 
exhilaration  had  attributed  the  fact  of  his  having  been 
so  highly  entertained  to  the  presence  of  poor,  stupid, 
little  Kittv  Flinders.  But  as  we  sauntered  homeward, 
I  was  fully  satisfied  in  my  own  mind  how  it  had  hap- 
pened. Marguerite  Stabler. 

San  Francisco,  July,  1903.  "' 


The  day  of  the  month  in  which  Jesus  was  crucified 
has  for  decades  been  a  vexed  problem  in  New  Testa- 
ment research,  especially  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the 
Svnoptic  Gospels  and  the  Gospel  of  John  seem  not  to 
agree  on  this  point  An  entirely  new  effort  to  solve 
this  matter  has  been  made  by  Professor  Hans  Achelis, 
of  the  University  of  Konigsberg,  and  the  result  is  pub- 
lished in  the  Nachrichten  (No.  5),  of  the  Gottingen 
Academy  of  Sciences.  The  novelty  of  the  effort  lies  in 
this,  that  Professor  Achelis  tries  to  figure  out  the  date 
astronomically,  and  reaches  the  conclusion  that  it  was 
Friday,  April  6,  A.  D.  30. 


July  27,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


55 


"THE    BEAUTIFUL    AURELIAS." 


Hugues  le  Roux  on  American  Women — and  Men. 

After  reading  Hugues  le  Roux's  book  of  American 
impressions,  one  arrives  at  two  conclusions:  first,  that 
the  American  man  is  an  unappreciated  angel,  and,  sec- 
ond, that  the  American  woman  shows  such  an  aversion 
to  matrimony  and  maternity  that,  if  we  don't  look  out, 
the  entire  race  will  become  extinct.  This,  from  a 
Frenchman,  does  a  little  bit  savor  of  the  pot  calling  the 
kettle  black — but  that  is  merely  an  observation  by  the 
way. 

We  are  not  so  used  to  hearing  the  uncomplaining, 
self-immolation  of  the  American  man  lauded  as  we  are 
to  listening  to  the  unstinted  praises  of  his  brilliant  wife 
and  beautiful  daughter.  To  the  foreigner,  the  Ameri- 
can man  is  a  rather  uninteresting  mystery.  Where 
is  he  while  his  womankind  are  wandering  luxuriously 
about  Europe,  and  what  is  he  to  let  them  so  wrander? 
That  is  the  only  question  about  him  that  ever  seems  to 
stir  their  exceedingly  languid  curiosity.  It  is  when  an 
intelligent  outsider  comes  to  study  him  on  his  native 
heath  that  he  suddenly  is  revealed  to  us  as  one  of  the 
most  unselfish,  industrious,  and  long-suffering  of  his 
sex.  There  are  times  when  one  suspects  that  M.  le 
Roux' gets  a  little  out  of  patience  with  him;  when,  if 
the  author  were  not  the  most  tactful  and  polite  of  es- 
sayists, he  would  rise  up  and  before  men  and  nations 
say  the  American  husband  was  the  most  henpecked 
creature  that  walks.  As  it  is,  he  is  content  to  draw  a 
harrowing  picture  of  his  strenuous  business  life  and 
his  arid  domestic  existence,  and  shake  his  head  over 
the  future  of  a  nation  where  the  man  is  so  openly  and 
obviously  at  the  bottom  of  the  heap. 

It  is  to  the  American  woman  that  M.  Ie  Roux  partic- 
ularly directs  his  attention.  As  is  the  way  with  all 
foreigners,  he  finds  her  interesting,  not  alone  as  a 
woman,  but  as  an  enigma,  as  a  result  of  new  conditions 
— a  picket  on  the  skirmish-line  of  the  march  of  prog- 
ress. He  has  studied  her  as  carefully  as  a  temporary 
sojourn  in  her  country  would  permit.  And  he  admires 
her  generously,  in  some  ways  lavishly.  But — there 
are  several  buts.  The  college  girl  who  loves  learning 
better  than  man  is  one  of  them.  The  business  woman, 
who  competes  industrially  with  man  and  yet  is  careful 
about  the  fit  of  her  waist  and  the  cut  of  her  skirt,  is 
another.  And  the  woman  who  voluntarily  remains  un- 
married is  still  another. 

It  is  this  class  to  whom  M.  le  Roux  has  given  the 
name  of  the  Third  Sex.  They  are  to  him  an  object 
before  which  to  pause  and  moralize.  They  represent 
a  serious  problem  in  the  development  of  our  great  and 
glorious  republic.  M.  Ie  Roux  does  not  suggest  that 
legislation  should  be  brought  to  bear  upon  them  to 
force  them  into  wedlock — he  is  always  chivalrous  and 
gallant  in  his  suggestions  and  his  observations — but 
one  can  guess  that  (not  talking  for  publication)  he 
might  regard  that  as  a  permissible  measure. 

Most  of  the  women  of  the  Third  Sex  that  he  refers 
to  were  rich  girls  of  good  social  position.  They  ranged 
from  twenty-four  to  thirty  years.  They  were  hand- 
some, cultured,  bright,  attractive,  and  yet  they  were 
single.  With  all  these  charms  it  was  to  be  supposed 
that  they  had  been  demanded  in  marriage  more  than 
once.  And  this  was  evidently  so.  One  of  them,  "the 
beautiful  Aurelia,"  who  is  some  twenty-six  years,  bril- 
liant, and  charming,  admits  what  it  would  be  folly  to 
deny.  She  will  marry,  she  says,  when  she  has  found  a 
man  whom  she  can  love.  Aurelia's  admirers  either 
bore  her  or  are  not  up  to  her  standards,  and  so  she 
contentedly  remains  single,  and  she  may  remain  so  to 
the  bitter  end.  Aurelia  is  a  typical  member  of  the 
Third  Sex. 

These  celibate  beauties  had  evidently  stayed  unwed 
from  sentiment.  They  cherished  an  ideal,  and  they  had 
no  intention  of  marrying  till  thev  found  something  that 
at  least  bore  a  faint  family  likeness  to  their  ideal. 
The  college  girls,  on  the  other  hand,  did  not  marry  be- 
cause they  apparently  found  study  more  to  their  taste. 
"With  the  majority  of  the  young  girls  in  the  United 
States.  learning  has  more  power  than  love."  says  M.  le 
Roux,  after  he  has  looked  over  the  bulletins  which 
show  the  careers  of  the  college  girls  for  a  year  or  two 
after  graduation.  Only  two  out  of  a  class  of  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  have  married,  according  to  the 
bulletin  for  1900. 

Of  all  the  strange  and  faulty  conditions  which  the 
French  writer  found  in  the  United  States,  this  is  the 
one  which  has  evidently  impressed  him  most;  for  it  is 
the  one  he  dwells  uoon  and  to  which  he  continually 
reverts.  To  him  the  obligatory  marriage,  without  love 
and  with  but  slight  previous  acquaintance,  is  infinitely 
preferable.  The  woman  of  his  country  has  got  to 
marry  if  a  husband  can  be  possibly  found  for  her. 
Formerly,  if  she  failed  to  find  a  mate,  she  was  put  in  a 
convent;  now,  it  is  true  that  she  is  allowed  to  remain 
at  large. 

But  what  a  fate  is  hers !  At  fifty  her  life  is  domi- 
nated by  the  same  conventional  laws  as  it  was  at  fifteen. 
She  has  no  more  liberty  than  a  well-chaDeroned 
school-girl.  Her  davs  are  without  diversion  or  pleas- 
ure, save  such  as  she  may  find  in  the  homes  of  her  rela- 
tives. But  worst  of  all  is  the  sense  of  having  failed 
in  her  mission  in  life,  which  must  be  always  with  the 
poor  old  soul.     Without  having  committed  any  fault, 

E other  than  such  accidental  ones  as  being  poor  or  being 
ugly,  she  is  made  to  feel  that  she  is  a  failure.    Nobody 


eyes  of  love.    Her  attitude  is  one  of  timid,  self-effacing 
apology.    Listen  to  what  M.  le  Roux  says  about  her : 

"  The  entrance  of  such  into  any  company,  even  the  family 
circle,  is  trying  for  every  one,  even  the  old  maids  themselves, 
who  seem  apologetic  for  attracting  the  attention 'of  people  who 
must  ignore  them  as  far  as  possible." 

To  our  American  ideas,  such  a  point  of  view  is  bar- 
baric, one  might  say  brutal.  Because  a  woman's  father 
hasn't  been  able  to  give  her  a  dot,  or  because  God  has 
overlooked  things  and  given  her  an  ugly  face,  it  does 
certainly  seem  to  us  a  little  hard  to  rub  it  in  so.  The 
only  thing  that  surprises  the  enterprising  American  is 
that  she  lets  it  happen.  If  that  were  the  fate  of  the 
old  maid  over  here,  there  never  would  be  any.  They 
would  go  forth  and  kidnap  the  ashman  if  they  couldn't 
get  anything  better,  or  lead  the  postman  into  the  front 
hall  and  there  hold  a  pistol  to  his  head  till  he  pro- 
posed. 

Evidently  M.  le  Roux  thinks  that  the  old  maids 
should  be  made  an  example  of,  not  exactly  butchered 
to  make  a  Roman  holiday,  but  butchered  to  keep  young 
maids  from  following  in  their  solitary  footsteps.  He 
appears  to  see  nothing  cruel  in  the  position  to  which 
"  the  obligatory  marriage "  custom  has  forced  them. 
In  fact,  his  idea  is  that  any  marriage,  of  anv  descrip- 
tion, is  better  than  none.  He  cites,  as  worthy  examples, 
the  ancient  Greek  heroines,  who  preferred  a  husband 
of  their  own  choosing,  but  rather  than  be  left  without 
any  became  the  willing  spoil  of  the  conqueror.  And 
when  asked  what  is  the  fate  of  the  woman  should  the 
obligatory  marriage  prove  a  failure,  the  hardly  known 
husband  an  uncongenial  mate,  answers  that  the  wife 
has  her  children  and  turns  to  them  with  "  that  need  to 
devote  herself,  to  give  her  whole  self  to  something, 
which  is  the  natural  instinct  of  woman." 

It  seems  to  us  that  this  view  of  marriage  is  singularly 
— revoltingly — crude  and  lacking  in  delicacy.  It  is 
strange  that  we,  the  most  business-like  of  peoples,  so 
used  to  being  taunted  with  our  commercialism  that  the 
taunt  has  lost  its  sting,  should,  on  the  question  of  matri- 
mony, be  the  most  romantic  and  unpractical  of  nations. 
Our  position  in  regard  to  the  matter  is  entirely  one  of 
sentiment.  We  believed  in,  and  advocate,  marriages 
of  love.  The  woman  who  marries  for  money,  we  feel, 
is  a  poor,  weak  creature,  and  so  we  regard  her  fault 
gently;  but  the  man  who  marries  for  money  is  the  ob- 
ject of  general  scorn,  less  daring  than  the  pickpocket, 
less  industrious  than  the  professional  gambler. 

The  whole  period  of  courtship  and  marriage  we  sur- 
round with  a  halo  of  romance.  The  man  and  the  maid 
must  do  their  own  choosing,  and  the  choice,  we  con- 
ceive, is  dictated  by  the  heart.  This  open  and  flagrant 
sentimentality  is  evidently  amazing  to  M.  le  Roux.  The 
American  girl,  he  says,  "wants  a  husband  to  adore  her. 
Love  is  her  aim  and  end.  If  she  does  not  succeed  in 
attaining  it  or  in  keeping  to  it,  her  life  is  a  failure." 
This  he  states  as  a  curious  and  not  entirely  creditable 
fact. 

Whether  our  reserved  and  romantic  attitude  on  the 
subject  is  a  relic  of  the  old  modest  days  when  we  put 
pantalettes  on  the  piano-legs,  or  is  the  result  of  a  na- 
tional tenderness  to  women,  I  can  not  say.  That  it  ex- 
ists is  the  point.  Our  whole  manner  of  regarding 
Love's  young  dream  is  charged  with  a  sort  of  poetic 
sensibility.  M.  le  Roux  says  that  the  young  French 
girl  grows  up  with  the  idea  that  marriage  awaits  her 
almost  as  inevitably  as  death.  It  is  the  goal  of  her 
youth,  it  is  the  purpose  of  her  existence.  To  the 
American  girl  this  fixity  of  aim  would  not  seem  exactly 
delicate.  Marriage  unquestionably  figures  in  her 
dreams,  but,  as  it  was  with  "  the  beautiful  Aurelia," 
it  is  to  be  a  union  with  a  congenial  soul,  or  not  at  all. 
No  hobgoblin,  representing  the  indignity,  the  dreari- 
ness, of  old-maidhood  forces  her  without  love  into 
the  arms  of  the  first  man  who  comes  along.  She  would 
regard  that  as  a  martyrdom.  Her  family  would  look 
upon  it  as  a  sacrilege.  The  nation  would  think  it 
a  disgrace. 

Where  the  marriage  of  women  is  obligatory  this 
squeamishness  of  sentiment  must  inevitably  be  brushed 
away.  It  is  true  that  the  girl  does  not  have  to  forage 
for  her  husband  herself.  Her  family  do  that,  and  when 
they  are  honest,  capable  people,  they  undoubtedly  do  it 
very  well.  But  the  fact  that  it  is  a  road  which  she  is 
compelled  to  follow  must  rob  it  of  much  of  its  tender 
charm.  And  when  it  comes  to  the  struggle  of  placing 
an  ugly  girl  with  a  small  dot,  what  a  humbling  of  a 
proud  feminine  soul  must  that  be !  It  reminds  me  of 
the  remark  of  an  old  French  lady  of  my  acquaintance 
in  commenting  on  a  recently  announced  engagement 
from  Paris.  She  was  wondering  who  had  "  arranged  " 
the  marriage.  They  must  have  been  exceedingly 
clever,  for  the  bride  was  thirty-two  vears  old. 

"  Et  c'etait  un  placement  assez  difficile,"  said  the  old 
lady,  thoughtfully,  wagging  her  head. 

In  the  attitude  of  M.  Ie  Roux  (and  many  other  men 
writers)  to  this  subject  there  is  observable  a  slight  irri- 
tation, a  sort  of  baffled  annoyance.  They  are  con- 
fronted by  a  situation  that  is  not  only  menacing  to 
the  state  as  a  whole,  but  mortifying  to  the  man  as  an  in- 
dividual. Most  of  us  will  not  agree  with  M.  le  Roux 
that  American  women  are  crushing  their  unhappy  con- 
sorts into  the  dust,  and  stamping  on  their  prostrate 
bodies.  But  many  of  us  will  agree  with  him  that 
American  women  are  showing  a  distinct  tendency  to 
conduct  their  lives  pleasantly  and  satisfactorily  with- 
out the  assistance  or  companionship  of  men. 

Whether  it  is  a  sign  of  national  decay,  or  whether  it 
is  the  harbinger  of  a  new  and  glorified  era  I  don't 
say,  for  I  don't  know.     What  he  who  runs  may  read 


is,  that  it  is  startling  and  exasperating  to  the  Man, 
especially  the  man  of  foreign  countries.  And  it  is  nat- 
ural enough  that  he  should  be  exasperated.  For  cen- 
turies he  has  gone  out  to  capture  a  wife,  armed  with  a 
net,  and  all  the  innocent  little  creatures  frisking  about 
him  have  pretended  they  were  avoiding  the  net  while 
all  the  while  it  was  obvious  they  were  doing  their  best 
to  get  caught  in  it.  Now  he  goes  out  and  "  beautiful 
Aurelia "  and  her  sisters  flee  before  him,  while  he 
dashes  after  them,  perspiring  and  swearing,  and  racing 
over  the  ground  where  he  once  pleasantly  strolled. 
Who  would  not  be  angry  at  seeing  the  good  old  times 
thus  changed? 

It  is  interesting — and  ought  to  be  flattering  to 
women — to  see  how  deeply  concerned  the  stronger  sex 
are  about  their  conduct,  character,  and  general  welfare. 
The  wild  break  out  of  the  corral  that  "the  beautiful 
Aurelias  "  have  made  has  called  forth  loud,  admonitory 
protests  from  every  hand,  even  the  President  has  joined 
in  with  a  rumbling  bass.  But  "  the  beautiful  Aurelias  " 
are  having  such  a  good  time,  are  enjoying  their  free- 
dom so  much,  sniffing  up  the  wild  air  of  the  open, 
savoring  the  unsuspected  pleasures  of  independence, 
that  they  show  no  desire  to  return  to  their  old  tranquil 
security.  Well  may  M.  le  Roux  shake  his  head  and 
the  President  voice  his  disapproval.  It  will  require 
more  than  head-shakings  and  criticisms  to  get  Aurelia 
back  into  that  corral.  Geralptne  Bonner. 


ANECDOTES    OF    WHISTLER. 

Many  are  the  characteristic  anecdotes  which  are  told 
of  James  Abbott  McNeill  Whistler,  the  celebrated 
American  artist,  who  died  in  Chelsea,  England,  on  July 
18th,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine.  His  reply  that  "  Nature 
was  creeping  up  "  to  his  pictures,  and  his  famous  re- 
tort, "Why  drag  in  Velasquez?"  are  excellent  illustra- 
tions of  his  excessive  vanity.  Allied  with  them  is  the 
less-known  reply  made  to  a  lady  who  met  him  at  the 
Royal  Academy,  and  expressed  her  surprise  at  seeing 
him  in  a  place  he  was  reported  never  to  enter.  "  Well." 
retorted  Whistler,  "  one  must  do  something  to  add  in- 
terest to  the  show;  so  here  I  am." 

Though  Whistler  delighted  in  an  admiring  crowd, 
vet  no  social  engagement  was  ever  strong  enough  to 
vie  with  the  demands  of  the  muse.  One  of  this  wittv 
man's  sayings  came  out  while  his  friend.  William  M. 
Chase,  was  urging  him  to  stop  work  and  get  off  to  a 
dinner-party  in  London,  where  he  was  pledged.  It  did 
not  move  the  man  to  be  told  that  the  dinner  was  grow- 
ing cold  and  the  guests  were  waiting  for  the  lion.  He 
uttered  inarticulate  grunts  and  painted  on  while  Chase 
scolded.  Finally  Whistler  turned  around,  and  said ; 
"  Chase,  what  a  nuisance  you  are.  The  idea  of  leav- 
ing a  beautiful  thing  like  this  to  go  eat  with  ordinarv 
people !" 

Again  Chase  urged  him  to  keep  an  important  engage- 
ment with  an  American  traveling  in  England  and 
limited  for  time.  The  engagement  involved  important 
financial  business  for  the  artist;  but  he  could  scarcelv 
be  torn  from  the  easel.  When  work  was  suspended 
much  time  was  expended  on  the  usual  elaborate  toilet, 
and  the  two  finally  set  forth.  Whistler  carrying  the 
slender  wand  made  famous  by  Du  Manner's  caricature. 
This  time  it  was  used  to  prod  the  horse  that  dragged 
their  hansom.  After  traveling  long  stretches  of  London 
streets  and  nearly  reaching  the  end  of  the  journev. 
Whistler  suddenly  ordered  the  cabman  to  turn  about 
and  retrace  manv  steps,  then  to  thread  in  and  out  odd 
streets.  Chase  sulkily  protesting,  until  Whistler  ordered 
the  driver  to  draw  up  before  a  green-grocer's  shop. 
"There!"  said  the  enthusiastic  artist — "there  is  a 
bit  of  color  for  you  !  That's  fine  !  Onlv  T  shall  have 
that  box  of  oranges  placed  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
doorwav.  I  shall  come  and  do  that  some  time."  Then. 
when  the  mood  had  passed,  the  journev  was  resumed. 

On  another  occasion.  Whistler  paid  a  visit  to  Sir 
Alma  Tadema.  the  famous  artist.  On  the  night  of  his 
arrival  Whistler's  host  annpunced  that  he  intended  to 
give  a  breakfast  next  morning.  "  There  will  be  a  num- 
ber of  ladies  present.  Whistler."  he  said.  "  and  T  want 
vou  to  pull  vourself  together  and  look  vour  best."  "  All 
right !"  said  WTtistler.  The  next  morning  Whistler's 
voice  was  heard  ringing  through  the  magnificent  halls 
of  the  Tadema  mansion:  "Tadema.  Tadema!  I  want 
vou,  Tadema  !"  Thinking  of  nothing  less  than  fire. 
Sir  Alma  rushed  to  the  room  of  his  guest.  "For 
heaven's  sake.  Whistler,  what's  the  matter?  You've 
waked  up  every  one  in  the  house.  What  is  it?"  "Oh. 
don't  get  so  excited.  Tadema,"  drawled  Whistler,  "  T 
only  wanted  to  know  where  vou  kept  the  scissors  to 
trim  the  fringe  of  my  cuffs.  Thought  you  wanted  me 
to  pull  myself  together  for  the  ladies." 

That  he  was  a  shrewd  business  man  and  realized  the 
value  of  his  pictures  is  shown  by  the  following  incident : 
The  Glasgow  corporation  wanted  to  purchase  the 
Whistler  portrait  of  Carlyle,  and  in  due  course  waited 
upon  the  "  master "  about  the  price  Tone  thousand 
guineas).  They  admitted  it  was  a  magnificent  picture, 
but  remarked:  "Don't  you  think.  Mr.  Whistler,  the 
sum  a  wee,  wee  bit  excessive?"  "Didn't  you  know  the 
price  before  you  came  to  me?"  asked  the  master,  with 
suspicious  hlandness.  "Oh,  ave;  we  knew  that."  re- 
plied the  corporation.  "Very  well,  then."  said  Whistler 
in  his  suavest  tone,  "let's  talk  of  something  else."  and 
as  there  was  nothing  else  of  interest  to  detain  the 
"  corporation."  they  paid  the  price  and — trust  a  Glas- 
wegian— made  an  excellent  bargain. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


July  2.7,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Sister  of  a  Priest. 

Gwendolen  Overton's  new  novel  reveals  in 
its  author  a  rare  versatility  and  wide  knowl- 
edge. For  it  is  a  far  cry  from  the  Arizona 
deserts  and  army  posts,  which  were  pictured 
so  vividly  in  "  The  Heritage  of  Unrest,"  to  the 
quiet,  Angelus-guarded  villages,  and  the  forests 
and  farms  of  Nova  Scotia,  no  less  skillfully 
portrayed  in  "  Anne  Carmel."  The  illiterate 
French  matrons,  mothers  of  many  children, 
their  beauty  faded  by  unceasing  labor  ;  the  pic- 
turesque half-breed  Antoine,  coureur  de  bois, 
who  comes  back  from  far  Western  plains  to 
needed  confession  ;  spiteful,  little-souled  Mme. 
Tetrault ;  Marcelin,  the  toothless  old  story-teller 
of  the  forest  cabin;  Paul,  the  village  beau. 
with  his  fat  hands,  pinky  cheeks,  and  kinky 
hair — all  these  minor  characters  are  delineated 
with  few  but  sure  strokes,  so  that  the  old 
town  of  St.  Hilaire  must  seem  very'  real  to 
every  reader.  The  major  characters,  with  one 
exception,  are  no  less  distinct.  Jean  Carmel. 
the  village  priest,  is  an  heroic  and  picturesque 
figure.  We  meet  him  first  while,  as  a  pas- 
time, he  is  solitarily  sculling  a  canoe  up  the 
river,  making  a  portage  by  night,  spending  the 
midnight  hours  by  a  camp-fire  reading  his 
breviary,  and  shooting  the  rapids  before  the 
dawn.  And  he  is  not  less  gentle  than  brave — 
in  short,  a  young  man  of  conscience  and  ideals. 
The  vagrant  party  of  Americans  who  invade 
St.  Hilaire.  including  an  artist  and  his  sister, 
are  deftly  sketched,  and  so  is  Harnett,  the 
English  sportsman,  whose  selfish  and  weakling 
love  for  Anne  Carmel  so  disturbs  the  tran- 
quillity  of  the  little  village. 

But  the  character  of  Anne  Carmel.  the 
beautiful  sister  of  the  priest,  is  unconvincing. 
Such  women  there  ma}'  be,  but  it  seems  im- 
probable. And  even  if  it  were  true  that  such 
a  person  exists,  or  has  existed,  the  use  of 
the  character  in  fiction  seems  unjustifiable, 
since  it  is  a  sort  of  lusus  nature,  more  suited 
to  the  investigations  of  the  psychologist,  or 
even  the  alienist,  than  to  the  consideration 
of  the  novelist.  Still,  the  story  is  often  dra- 
matic, and  always  interesting,  despite  Anne's 
baffling  character.  It  concerns  her  inveterate 
love  for  Harnett,  even  when  he  shows  him- 
self a  coward  and  a  weakling,  even  though 
he  marries  another  woman  to  save  his  pa- 
trimony. And  it  is  not  love  alone,  but  a  per- 
fect willingness  to  become  his  mistress,  after 
knowing  him  but  a  week.  And  what  is  more 
strange,  this  infatuation  still  persists  after  he 
has  once  deserted  her  and  after  he  has  married 
Yet  Anne  is  pictured  as  pure  and  strong  in 
character.  We  repeat,  the  character  is  a  puz- 
zling and  altogether  improbable  one. 

The  book  contains  a  number  of  well-drawn 
pictures  by  Arthur  I.  Kellar. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  price,  $1.50. 


A  Work  of  Power. 
The  seduction,  by  a  young,  rich,  handsome, 
and  accomplished  Anglo-Jew,  of  an  essentially 
moral,  spiritual,  intelligent,  and  great-souled 
woman,  might  seem  an  immoral  theme  for  a 
story.  Yet  in  "  Frank  Danby's  "  queerly  en- 
titled novel,  "  Pigs  in  Clover,"  such  a  story 
is  told  with  so  little  sensational  appeal,  so 
great  insight  and  power,  that,  while  it  will 
deeply  interest  thoughtful  and  mature  minds, 
it  will  be  found  very  dull  by  those  volatile 
persons  who  might  be  injured  by  it.  Few 
recent  novels  show  a  greater  knowledge  of 
human  nature  than  this.  Few  are  essentially 
more  moral. 

The  author  is  a  woman,  herself  a  Jew, 
the  wife,  we  believe,  of  a  well-to-do  London 
merchant.  Her  scenes  are  laid  in  British 
high  society,  which  the  "  pigs " — who  are 
South  African  millionaires  of  dubious  breed- 
ing— invade.  In  presenting  phases  of  life  in 
club,  drawing-room,  and  street.  Mrs.  Frankau 
writes  with  certain  touch.  Some  of  the  figures, 
indeed,  are  very  thinly  veiled — Chamberlain, 
for  example.  The  real  interest  of  the  novel, 
however,  lies  neither  in  the  pictures  of  Lon- 
don life  nor  in  the  incidental,  though  fine, 
character-drawing,  but  almost  solel}'  in  the 
personalities  of  Karl  and  Louis  Althaus,  and 
Joan  de  Groot.  Louis,  the  Jew,  is  at  heart  a 
cad,  though  in  exterior  a  gentleman.  Karl, 
his  foster  brother,  is  rough,  bluff,  and  genuine. 
It  is  Louis  who  seduces  Joan,  the  unso- 
phisticated author  of  "  The  Kaffir  and  his 
Keeper."  It  is  Karl  who  puts  out  to  her  a 
helping  hand,  and  it  is  Karl  who  faces  her 
inevitable   loss    at   the   end. 

Th^  analyses  of  the  characters  of  the  men 
of  tie  book  are  searching — that  of  Louis  is 
cruelly  minute.  Many  paragraphs  of  striking 
car'  int  might  be  quoted,  but  we  have  space 
for  put  one  remarkable  j,jneralization : 

'i!  ^re  is  a  mystery  known  to  all  who  know 


men  and  women,  to  all  who  have  insight  into, 
S3ympathy  with,  or  understanding  of,  their 
fellow-travelers,  but  it  is  blank  and  incom- 
prehensible to  the  Pharisees,  and  to  all  who 
would  read  and  run  at  the  same  time.  This  is 
a  mystery  that  fills  the  divorce  courts,  mocks 
the  incredulous,  and  sets  at  nought  all  creeds 
and  convictions.  It  is  that  a  certain  something, 
subtle,  sweet,  and  rare,  not  a  perfume,  not  a 
touch,  but  an  echo  of  both,  light,  elusive,  all- 
pervading,  is  the  special  property  of  some 
loose-living  men,  a  property  that  is  beyond 
the  reach  of  analysis,  but  recognizable  in  the 
freemasonry  of  the  passions  by  all  who  have 
realized  its  existence.  It  is  as  the  candle  to 
the  moth,  as  the  rose  to  the  butterfly,  as  the 
magnet  to  the  steel.  It  is  a  surface  lure  of 
sex,  it  is  an  all-compelling  whisper,  almost 
it  seems  that  to  hear  it  is  to  obey.  But  some 
ears  are  deaf  to  it,  some  few  dull  ears. 

As  we  have  already  hinted,  many  of  the 
characters  in  the  book  are  real  personages 
under  thin  disguise.  That  of  Joan  de  Groot 
is  also  one  of  these.  There  is  but  one  South 
African  woman  author  of  note,  and  the  figure 
Mrs.  Frankau  draws  resembles  her  just 
enough  to  make  doubt  of  the  author's  intention 
impossible.  The  attack  seems  to  us  hellishly 
ingenious — one  only  to  be  inspired  by  intense 
personal  hatred. 

Published  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company, 
Philadelphia;  price,  $1.50. 


Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Now  that  the  Pope  has  died,  the  announce- 
ment of  the  early  publication  of  F.  Marion 
Crawford's  biography  of  Leo  the  Thirteenth 
may  be  expected  any  day.  Mr.  Crawford's 
biography,  although  written  from  the  point  of 
view  of  a  churchman,  is  the  presentation  of 
the  life  and  character  of  the  Pontiff  as  Leo 
the  Thirteenth  would  have  himself  appear  to 
all  mankind.  Mr.  Crawford  is  not  only  in- 
timately acquainted  in  Vatican  circles,  but  in 
writing  his  biography  of  the  Pope  he  has 
enjoyed  Leo's  personal  advice  as  well  as  au- 
thority, and  has  been  furnished  with  all  re- 
quisite material  by  the  Vatican  authorities. 

The  Macmillan  Company  are  to  publish  in 
September  a  i-ovelette  by  Gwendolen  Overton, 
in  the  series  of  Little  Novels  by  Favorite  Au- 
thors. The  tale  deals  with  the  life  of  the 
South-West,  and  is  called  "  The  Golden 
Chain." 

A  biography  of  Charles  Reade  by  John 
Coleman  is  to  be  published  immediately  in 
England,  and  later  it  will  be  brought  out  in 
this  country.  A  good  deal  of  the  work  is  re- 
ported to  be  of  Mr.  Reade's  own  writing. 

Bliss  Carman's  first  book  of  prose  is  to  be 
brought  out  in  the  fall.  It  will  contain  a 
number  of  essays.  The  general  character  is 
indicated  by  the  title.  "  The  Kinship  of  Na- 
ture." 

Jerome  K.  Jerome,  the  well-known  English 
humorist,  is  writing  a  new  book  of  short, 
humorous  essays,  similar  to  "  The  Second 
Thoughts  of  an  Idle  Fellow."  The  book  will 
be  entitled  "Tea-Table  Talks." 

"  The  Saint  of  the  Dragon's  Dale "  is  the 
title  of  the  new  story  by  William  Stearns  Da- 
vis, which  the  Macmillan  Company  will  pub- 
lish this  month  in  their  series  of  Little  Nov- 
els by  Favorite  Authors.  Mr.  Davis  is  at 
work  on  a  new  novel,  which  will  probably  be 
published  in  the  fall.  Its  scene  is  laid  in 
Athens,  at  the  time  when  the  city  was  in  its 
full  glory.  One  of  the  prominent  characters  is 
Socrates. 

"  Ponkapog  Papers  :  Stray  Leaves  from  My 
Note-Book,"  is  to  be  the  title  of  Thomas  Bai- 
ley Aldrich's  new  book  of  essays.  Ponka- 
pog is  a  little  village  at  the  foot  of  the  Blue 
Hills,  near  Boston,  where  Mr.  Aldrich  makes 
his  summer  home. 

Anthony  Hope.  Stanley  Weyman.  Richard 
Whiteing.  and  Ellen  Thorneycroft  Fowler 
will  all  bring  out  new  novels  in  the  coming 
season. 

An  illustrated  two-volume  work  on  "  The 
New  American  Navy."  by  ex-Secretary  John 
D.  Long,  is  announced  by  the  Outlook  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Long  writes  of  the  navy  before, 
during,  and  after  the  war  with  Spain. 

The  serial  publication  of  "  Sanctuary,"  the 
first  long  story  by  Edith  Wharton  since  "  The 
Valley  of  Decision,"  will  begin  in  the  August 
number  of  one  of  the  Eastern  magazines. 

Christian  Science  plays  a  large  part  in 
"Jewel:  A  Chapter  in  Her  Life,"  the  new 
novel   by   Clara   Louise  Burnham. 

Hamilton  W.  Mabie  has  completed  a  volume 
which  he  calls  "  Backgrounds  of  Literature  " 
— the  description  of  which  sounds  interesting. 
Mr.  Mabie  "  places  behind  each  writer  the 
background  of  landscape  which  most  deeply 
affects  his  imagination  and  gives  color  to  his 


genius."  There  will  be  chapters  after  that 
plan  on  Wordsworth.  Emerson.  Goethe,  Scott, 
Shakespeare,  Irving,  and  other  poets  and 
prose  writers. 

Under  the  title  "  Zut  and  Other  Parisians," 
Guy  Wetmore  Carryl  has  written  eleven  sto- 
ries which  will  be  published  soon. 

In  September  J.  T.  Trowbridge's  auto- 
biography, "  My  Own  Story,"  will  be  pub- 
lished. 

Lilian  Bell's  new  novel,  "  The  Interference 
of  Patricia,"  is  a  story  of  social  life  in  Den- 
ver, with  the  "  American  girl  "  as  its  central 
figure. 

F.  Berkeley  Smith  is  to  follow  his  studies 
of  the  Paris  Latin  quarter  with  a  book  on 
"'  Budapest,  the  City  of  the  Magyars." 

A  mediaeval  romance  by  Clinton  Scollard 
is  to  be  published  in  September.  It  opens  in 
Venice  in  "  the  heyday  of  her  splendor."  The 
book  is  to  be  called  "  Count  Falcon  of  the 
Eyrie." 

"  The  Life,  Treason,  and  Death  of  James 
Blount  of  Breckenhow "  is  the  full  title  of 
Beulah  Marie  Dix's  forthcoming  novel.  It 
is  "  compiled  from  the  Rowlestone  Papers." 
and  is  supposed  to  relate  a  domestic  tragedy 
as  set  forth  in  the  letters  of  a  prosperous  fam- 
ily of  Yorkshire  gentry  in  the  years  1642-45. 

During  the  next  year,  Richard  Henry  Sav- 
age will  devote  his  literary  work  to  the  prepa- 
ration of  a  volume  of  "  Reminiscences  of  Re- 
markable Characters  from  1853  to  1903." 
Colonel  Savage  will  include  in  this  book  many 
unpublished  anecdotes  of  Grant.  Sherman. 
Thomas,  Rosecrans,  McClellan,  and  others. 

Leo's  Ode  to  the  Century. 
One  of  the  most  notable  poems  of  Pope 
Leo  was  his  welcome  to  the  twentieth 
century,  entitled  "  Prayer  to  Jesus  Christ  for 
the  Coming  Century,"  written  when  he  was 
ninety  years  old.  Andrew  Lang  has  trans- 
lated  it   as   follows : 

Renowned    in    letters,    famed   in   art. 
The  age  recedes;  of  many  a  thing 
Won  for  man's  good  from  Nature's  heart 
Who  will  may  sing. 

The  glories  of  the  faded  years 
I    rather   backward    glancing   mourn — 
The  deeds  ill  done,  the  wrongs,  the  tears 
Of  the   age   outworn. 

Red  wars  that  reeked  with  the  blood  of  man, 
Wide-wandering  license,  spectres   rent. 
Fierce  guile  that  threats   the  Vatican — 
These  I  lament 

Where  is  thy  glory,  stainless,  free. 
City  of  Cities,   queenly  Rome? 
Ages  and  Nations  kneeled  to  thee, 
The  Pontiff's  home. 

Woe  for  a  time  of  Godless  laws! 
■  What  Faith,  what  Loyalty  abides? 
Torn    from  the  shrines,   the  ancient  cause 
To  ruin  glides. 

Listen!  how  science  wildly  raves 
Around  the  altars  overthrown. 
Brute  Nature,   with   the  world  for  slaves, 
Is  God  alone! 

Not  made  in  God's  own  image  now 
Is    man — 'tis    thus   the    wise    dispute — 
But  sprung  from  one  same  cell,  they  vow, 
Are  Man  2nd  Bmte. 

O  blinded  Pride  on  chaos  hurled! 
O  Night  proclaimed  where  Light  should  be, 
Obey  thou  Him  who  rules  the  world, 
Man,  and  be  free! 

He  only  is  the  Truth,   the   Life, 
He  only  points  the  Heavenward  way; 
He  only  frees  the   soul    from   strife 
If  men  obey. 

'Twas  He  who  led  the  pious  throng 
But    now    to    Peter's    dust    divine: 
Of  faith    to  live   through   ages   long, 
No  empty  sign! 

Jesus,  the  Judge  of  years  to  be. 
Direct  the   tides,    the   tempest  still, 
Make  the  rebellious  people  free 
To  work  Thy  will. 

Sow  Thou  the  seeds  of  happy  Peace, 
All  evil  drive  from  us  afar. 
And  bid  the  rage  and  tumult  cease 
Of     hateful     War. 

The  minds  of  Kings  and  Peoples  mold, 
Thy  word   may  all  enjoy  with   awe; 
Be  there  one   Shepherd  and  one  Fold, 
One  Faith,  one  Law. 

My  course  is  run;  long  ninety  years 
Thy  gifts  are  mine:    Thy  grace  retain: 
Let  not  Thy  servant's  prayers  and  tears 
Be    poured    in    vain. 


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Dawning    thro'    heaven.      Forth    rush    with    whirl- 
wind sound 
The  chariot  of  Paternal  Deity, 

Flashing  thick  flames,  wheel  within  wheel,  undrawn. 
Itself  instinct  with  spirit" 

"  The  motor,"  comments  the  contributor, 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Graphic  Picture  of  Michael  Angelo. 

Very  strange  it  seems  that  the  English- 
reading  public  should  have  been  so  long  con- 
tent to  derive  its  knowledge  of  Michael  Angelo 
solely  from  various  modern  biographies,  while 
the  prime  source  o£  them  all — that  of  the 
sculptor's  disciple  and  friend.  Ascanio  Con- 
divi — should  have  remained  untranslated  for 
nearly  five  hundred  years.  Scarcely  more 
strange  would  it  be  for  a  town  to  draw  its 
water  supply  from  the  turbid  body  of  a  stream 
rather  than  from  its  unpolluted  source.  Nor 
is  Condivi's  biography  dull.  On  the  contrary, 
it  is,  though  naive  and  unscholarly.  trans- 
parently honest  and  racy  with  anecdote.  Con- 
divi  was  veritably  a  sixteen th-century  Bos- 
well.  We  see  him  with  his  sculptor's  calipers 
measuring  the  head  of  his  dear  master,  we  see 
him  gazing  earnestly  into  his  eyes,  recording 
the  colors  of  their  scintillations  with  the 
patience  of  a  painter,  we  see  him  taking  the 
greatest  pains  to  clear  Michael  Angelo  from 
any  suspicion  of  bad  faith  in  any  undertaking, 
and  finally  we  see  him  looking  up  to  Michael 
Angelo  in  his  old  age  almost  as  to  a  god. 

The  present  translation,  by  Charles  Hol- 
royd,  keeper  of  the  National  Gallery  of  Brit- 
ish Art,  is  patently  a  very  good  one.  revealing, 
as  in  a  mirror,  the  character  of  Condivi. 
Following  it.  Mr.  Holroyd  has  devoted  a 
couple  hundred  pages  to  a  '"  supplementary 
account  of  the  existing  works  of  the  master. 
and  details  of  their  fashioning  that  may  help 
us  to  realize  the  mystery  of  their  production  " 
— an  illuminative  commentary.  There  are.  be- 
sides, fifty  or  sixty  full-page  illustrations  of 
notable  merit  completing  the  work,  which  is 
entitled  "  Michael  Angelo  Buonarroti." 

We  know  of  no  better  book  than  this  for 
the  lay  reader.  Michael  Angelo.  the  man. 
stands  forth  in  these  pages  with  utter  dis- 
tinctness. His  boyhood  experiments  in  "  fak- 
ing "  ancient  statues,  his  fight  with  Torri- 
gjano.  by  which  he  acquired  a  broken  nose. 
his  youthful,  grandiose  ambition  to  carve  a 
great  rock  overlooking  the  sea  into  a  colossus. 
his  quarrel  with  the  Pope,  his  career  as  a 
military  engineer,  when  he  protected  a  tower 
with  bed  mattresses,  his  dissections  and  knowl- 
edge of  anatomy,  his  continence,  his  friend- 
ship with  the  Marchioness  of  Pescara.  his  fa- 
vorite authors  and  his  personal  traits  and 
appearance — all  these  are  set  forth  most  inter- 
estingly. As  Mr.  Holroyd  justly  says,  even 
had  the  subject  of  the  narrative  been  an  ordi- 
nary man  in  an  ordinary  period,  it  would 
have  been  worth  translating  for  its  truth  to 
life  and  human  nature.  We  can  not  forbear 
the  quotation  of  one  curious  statement  of 
Condivi's : 

When  he  [Michael  Angelo]  was  more  robust 
he  often  slept  in  his  clothes  and  with  his 
boots  on;  this  he  made  a  habit  of  for  fear  of 
the  cramp,  from  which  he  continually  suf- 
fered, besides  other  reasons :  and  he  has  some- 
times been  so  long  without  taking  them  off 
that  when  he  did  so  the  skin  came  off  with 
them  like  the  slough  of  a  snake. 

Now  what  do  the  dainty  misses,  who  talk  so 
glibly  of  "the  beautiful  life"  and  Art  with  a 
big  A,  say  to  that? 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York;  price,  $2.00  net 

A  Word-Artist  in  China. 
Inspired  by  the  Asiatic  novelty,  the  possi- 
bility of  adventure,  and  the  universal  interest 
and  importance  attached  to  his  subject,  Pierre 
Loti  wrote  to  the  Figaro  of  Paris  a  series  of 
characteristic  letters  from  Pekin  during  the 
foreign  occupation  of  that  city  in  1900-1901. 
These  have  been  gathered  and  republished  in 
book-form,  and,  while  containing  no  specially 
significant  or  valuable  data,  since  the  stirring 
times  of  the  siege  preceded  M.  Loti's,  or  to 
give  him  his  real  name,  M.  Viand's,  visit,  yet 
give  lively  and  interesting  comment  on  the 
superficial  conditions  of  things  in  the  ruined 
city,  as  well  as  on  the  hospitalities  and  festivi- 
ties both  of  the  Chinese  and  the  foreign  occu- 
pants in  Pekin.  M.  Viaud.  warned  by  the 
disapprobation  of  his  superiors  in  the  French 
navy,  expressed  some  years  ago  for  the 
sin  of  indiscreet  candor  in  letters  pub- 
lished, has  been  very  circumspect,  and 
confines  himself  to  interesting  and  beautifully 
written  descriptions  of  many  places  and 
things  which  heretofore  have  been  sealed  to 
Occidental  observation.  The  scattered  mag- 
nificences of  the  Chinese  court,  their  treas- 
ures of  art,  their  fabulous  luxuries,  their 
palaces,  pleasure-gardens,  lakes,  bridges,  and 
the  burial  places  of  their  emperors,  have  been 
visited  and  scanned  by  this  lively  and  inter- 
ested observer,  who  lets  no  effect,  whether 
of  beauty  or  horror,  escape  him,  and  who. 
above  all  things,  has  an  eye  for  the  pictur- 
esque.     While    it    is    evident    that    M.    Viaud 


has  written  the  results  of  his  observation 
with  his  usual  grace  and  felicity,  his  trans- 
lator, Myrta  L.  Jones,  is  not  quite  up  to  her 
task  in  literary  dexterity,  and  while  a  com- 
petent, is  not  an  inspired,  translator.  The 
book  contains  a  number  of  illustrations,  both 
of  photographs  and  drawings. 

Published  by   Little.   Brown  &  Co.,   Boston. 


New  Publications. 
"  Back  to   the   Woods."  by   Hugh    McHugh, 
author  of  "  John  Henry."  is  published  by  the 
G.   W.   Dillingham   Company.   New  York. 

"  The  Science  and  Philosophy  of  Life,"  by 
Edward  H.  Cowles.  D.  P..  principal,  is  pub- 
lished by  the  Portland  Institute  of  Psychology, 
Portland.   Or. 

The  rather  trite  lesson  that  it  is  dangerous 
to  marry'  a  man  to  reform  him  is  emphasized 
in  a  novel,  by  Anna  Chapin  Ray.  called  "  The 
Dominant  Strain."  It  is  a  story  that  is  rather 
clever  in  spots.  Published  by  Little,  Brown 
&  Co..  Boston;  price,  $1.50. 

The  publishers  say  that  "  Hilary*  Trent." 
the  name  which  appears  on  the  title-page  of 
"  Mr.  Claghorn's  Daughter,"  is  the  pseudonym 
of  a  well-known  author,  who  chooses  to  veil 
his  identity  for  once.  The  book  is  vigorously 
polemic,  attacking  both  Protestant  and 
Catholic  creeds  with  pointed  logic.  The  story 
opens  in  Germany,  the  home  of  "  higher 
criticism."  then  moves  to  Paris,  and  later  to 
England.  Published  by  the  J.  S.  Ogilvie 
Publishing  Company,  New  York:  price.  $1.00. 

Mrs.  L.  B.  Walford's  nineteenth  book  is 
entitled  "  Stay-At-Homes."  and  deals  with 
English  people  of  the  upper  middle  class.  The 
same  qualities  that  mark  this  author's  other 
volumes  are  here  to  be  found — a  healthy  op- 
timism, wholesomeness,  and  freedom  from 
anything  that  savors  of  a  "  problem."  Many 
feminine  readers,  both  in  England  and  out 
of  it.  thoroughly  enjoy  Mrs.  Walford's  novels, 
because  they  are  based  on  so  exact  a  knowl- 
edge of  the  life  they  portray  with  such  fidelity. 
With  these.  "  Stay-At-Homes "  will  meet  an 
appreciative  welcome.  Published  by  Longmans, 
Green  &  Co.,  New  York;  price.  $1.50. 

Charles  Goodrich  Whiting,  author  of 
"  Walks  in  New  England,"  is  literary  editor 
of  the  Springfield  Republican,  and  a  man  of 
fine  poetic  tastes,  with  a  genuine  love  of  the 
country".  The  chapters  in  his  book  are  each 
accounts  of  walks  in  his  beloved  Berkshire 
Hills.  He  is  one  of  those  who  "love  not 
man  the  less  but  nature  more."  The  blooming 
of  the  wild  arbutus,  the  coming  of  the  blue- 
bird, the  leaving  of  the  birches — these  are  to 
him  more  real  happenings  than  the  wreck  of 
states  or  the  tottering  of  thrones.  Inter- 
spersed among  the  prose  rhapsodies  are  poems 
and  sonnets  of  his  own,  which  increase  the 
book's  charm.  There  are  also  many  pictures 
of    sylvan    and    meadow    scenes.      Good    taste 


should  have  dictated  the  omission  of  the 
author's  portrait;  it  is  somewhat  disillusion- 
izing. Published  by  John  Lane,  New  York ; 
price,  $1.50. 

Oliver  Cromwell  appears  to  be  a  favorite 
historical  figure  among  novelists  just  now. 
Half  a  dozen  books  have  made  the  stirring 
days  of  Roundhead  and  Cavalier  the  setting 
for  romance.  Now  comes  F.  Frankfort  Moore 
with  another  story,  and  a  graphic  one,  but 
Cromwell  is  far  from  being  a  hero  in  his 
eyes.  "  Cromwell  had  at  his  back,"  he  writes. 
"  the  most  religious  army  that  ever  massa- 
cred women  and  children  and  priests  in  cold 
blood.  They  butcher  with  texts  of  Scrip- 
ture on  their  lips.  They  kneel  down  in  the 
blood  of  their  victims,  and  praise  God  for 
having  given  them  the  chance  to  cut  their 
throats.  They  are  the  most  devout  band 
of  butchers  that  ever  hoisted  crowing  babies 
on  their  pikes."  There  is,  of  course,  the 
usual  love-story  woven  in,  and  the  book  ends 
happily.  Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co., 
New   York;    price,   $1.50. 

Cutting  loose  from  fact  and  probability  at 
the  first  bound.  Edward  S.  Van  Zile  has  writ- 
ten a  preposterous  book  called  "  Perkins,  the 
Fakeer,"  over  which  people  with  a  robust 
sense  for  the  ridiculous  will  chortle  gleefully. 
The  theme  of  the  three  stories  in  the  volume 
is  transmigration  and  reincarnation  of  souls. 
In  the  last  story,  for  example,  a  wife's  first 
husband  is  the  fruit  of  a  second  marriage,  and 
at  the  age  of  eight  months  addresses  his 
present  mamma  and  late  wife  with  a  gruff 
request  for  a  "stick"  in  his  milk.  Multitu- 
dinous complications  follow,  and  he  finally 
elopes,  when  a  year  old.  with  a  young  girl 
who  is  a  firm  believer  in  Buddhism.  It's  a 
great  story'  and  really  amusing.  The  other  two 
are  equally  good.  They  all  formerly  appeared 
in  Smart  Set.  Published  by  the  Smart  Set 
Publishing  Company,  New  York;  price,  $1.50. 

Last  year  appeared  the  complete  works 
of  Edgar  Allan  Poe  in  seventeen  small  vol- 
umes, edited  with  a  biography  by  James  A. 
Harrison,  of  the  University  of  Virginia.  The 
work  is  undoubtedly  the  best  published  edition 
of  Poe.  The  publishers  have  now  reprinted 
volume  one  (the  biography)  and  volume  two 
(containing  the  letters)  in  library'  size,  under 
the  title  "  Life  and  Letters  of  Edgar  Allan 
Poe."  The  work  is  mechanically  satisfactory, 
and  contains  a  large  number  of  well-executed 
portraits  and  facsimiles.  Professor  Harrison 
has  certainly  gathered  together  here  a  great 
mass  of  information  about  Poe,  but  it  is  not 
so  certain  that  he  has  made  out  of  it  an 
harmonious  picture.  He  seems  to  have  failed 
to  recognize  the  relative  importance  of  his 
material,  and  lacks  lamentably  in  the  critical 
portions  of  the  book.  In  no  other  biography, 
however,  have  so  many  interesting  facts 
been  brought  together.  Published  by  T.  Y. 
Crowell  &  Co..  New  York. 


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"JACK  LONDON  has  written  the  romance  of  a  clod's  life  with 
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'Bob,  Son  of  Battle'  approaches  in  interest  and  literary  quality  ...  but 
it  is  above  all  an  absorbing  tale  of  wild  life,  full  of  pictorial  power  and 
abounding  in  striking  incidents  of  frontier  town,  camp  and  adventure." 

—  HAMILTON   W.   MABIE. 


THE  MACMILLAN  COMPANY 


€>fo  FiftH  y\v«nvio 
New  Yorh 


THE        ARGONAUT 


July  27,  1903. 


One  is  quite  justified  in  beginning  with  a 
violent  prejudice  against  "  The  Frisky  Mrs. 
Johnson  "  before  one  has  laid  eyes  upon  her, 
so  odious  is  the  title  which  Clyde  Fitch  has 
bestowed  upon  his  play.  But  the  prejudice 
rapidly  disappears  after  five  minutes'  observa- 
tion of  the  breezy  millionairess  from  Cincin- 
nati. Mrs.  Johnson  is  a  Western  whirlwind  set 
loose  in  a  backbiting  Anglo-American  colony 
in  Paris  that  displays  a  sovereign  disregard 
for  all  the  poisonous  little  currents  and  eddies 
of  gossip  that  writhe  and  curl  and  whisper 
about  its  path,  and,  possessed  by  the  joy  of 
freedom,  rides  on  its  way  through  social 
space,  occasionally,  in  a  blast  of  frolicsome 
candor,  unroofing  a  house  of  cards,  and  laying 
a  naked,  shivering  reputation  bare  to  the  blast. 
There  is  good  stuff  in  Mrs.  Johnson.  It 
is  true  that  she  can  not  be  congratulated  upon 
the  kind  of  company  she  keeps,  but  she 
scarcely  sets  up  to  be  a  prude,  being  rather 
a  combination  of  honest  woman  and  jolly 
good  fellow.  And,  besides,  in  the  role  of  a 
widow  who  is  frankly  grateful  to  Providence 
for  her  release,  and  who,  like  all  moneyed 
widows,  tends  toward  Paris  as  inevitably  as 
a  pilgrim  toward  Rome,  she  naturally  throws 
in  her  lot  with  her  sister's   intimates. 

They  arc  not  particularly  choice  specimens, 
including  among  their  number  one  who,  to 
quote  from  the  play.  "  is  cut  dead  in  her 
own  country  because,  in  a  careless  moment, 
she  forgot  to  marry  her  first  husband." 

Mrs.  Johnson,  blessed  with  robust  self- 
respect,  and  that  extraordinary  determination 
of  American  women  to  enjoy  that  peculiar 
kind  of  good  time  that  Paris  affords,  even  if 
they  receive  on  their  unsullied  robes  an  occa- 
sional spatter  of  black  Parisian  mire,  rubs 
elbows  with  a  group  of  noxious  women  and 
salacious  cads,  toward  whom  her  mental  atti- 
tude is  that  of  hearty,  good-humored  con- 
tempt. She  is  followed  everywhere  by  a 
cloud  of  amatory  shrimps,  whose  affections 
are  equally  divided  between  herself  and  her 
millions ;  and  the  frisky  widow,  who  is  talked 
about  and  knows  it,  points  carelessly  to  her 
train  of  attendant  squires,  and  merely  re- 
marks, in  response  to  innuendoes :  "  You 
never  find  me  with  one  alone.  There  is  al- 
ways safety  in  numbers." 

How  such  a  hearty,  human,  practical, 
plucky  woman  as  Mrs.  Johnson  was  ever 
evolved  from  the  brain  of  Clyde  Fitch  is  a 
problem,  which  surely  can  not  be  solved  by 
a  reminder  of  the  French  ancestry  of  the 
play.  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  the  solution 
rests  with  Miss  Bingham,  who  has  put  all  of 
herself  into  the  character,  giving  it  that  touch 
of  nature  which  makes  it  alive.  She  clothes 
Mrs.  Johnson  in  a  shining  glory  of  Worth 
gowns,  sets  a  double  rainbow  of  gems  over 
her  two  plump  white  hands,  wraps  her  and 
hoods  her  in  delicate-hued,  laced,  and  feath- 
ered splendors  that  only  millionairesses  and 
actresses  find  it  practicable  to  buy  or  wear  ; 
she  makes  her  honest,  frank,  jolly,  brave,  un- 
affected, true  to  the  bone,  and  above  all 
likable. 

There  is  something  in  Miss  Bingham's 
wideawake,  practical  personality  that  conflicts 
with  that  of  the  romantic  stage  heroine.  Her 
intelligence  enables  her  to  bridge  the  gap,  but 
one  instinctively  feels  the  natural  incongruity. 
But  in  the  character  of  Mrs.  Johnson  she  is 
exactly  suited,  and  gives  it  with  a  fuller  sym- 
pathy than  those  roles  in  which  we  have 
hitherto  seen  her. 

Wilton  Lackaye  again  had  a  part  which 
enabled  him  to  show  his  ready  grasp  of  that 
apparently  facile,  but  immensely  important, 
technic  of  acting  which  makes  trivial  con- 
versation vital  and  a  single  glance  of  the 
eye  pregnant  with  meaning.  His  humorous 
points  are  never  forced,  but  are  so  surely  con- 
veyed that,  with  an  almost  imperceptible  mo- 
tion, he  was  able  to  make  an  embossed  silver 
coffee-pot  suggest  a  bludgeon  that  was  hunger- 
ing for  the  back  of  an  enemy.  Like  Miss 
Bingham,  he  made  the  character  he  repre- 
sented alive  to  the  finger-tips,  and  enormously 
lilca^-    . 

It    "as   delightful   to   see   this   well-matched 
ir  ru-et  in  a  contest  of  wits,  in  which  they 


were  as  easy  and  unaffected  as  the  words 
that  were  put  in  their  mouths.  For  the 
dialogue,  without  any  literary  flavor  what- 
ever, is  ready,  pat,  and  characterized  by  an 
easy  flow  of  native  humor.  The  little  ex- 
change of  lovers'  fencings  between  the  two 
was  irresistible,  and  the  marriage  proposal 
as  well  that  followed  later.  How  the  con- 
fusion and  doubt  of  the  lover  appealed  to  the 
indulgence  of  the  women,  and  to  the  genial 
sympathy  of  the  men,  whose  laughter,  as 
Lackaye  nervously  fingered  the  trinkets  on  the 
table,  and  rigorously  set  the  silver  casket  with 
its  corner  nor'  nor'-east,  rang  out  with  a 
personal  note  which  seemed  to  say  en- 
couragingly :  "  We  know  how  it  is,  old  chap. 
We've  been  there." 

And  then,  that  affair  happily  settled,  Mrs. 
Johnson  remembered  an  act  of  Quixotic 
folly,  various  brands  of  which  sooner  or  later 
turn  up  in  the  majority  of  Fitch  plays.  She 
has  pluckily  claimed  as  her  own  a  compromis- 
ing letter  which  is  meant  for  her  sister,  di- 
verting to  her  own  shoulders,  just  in  the 
nick  of  time,  the  storm  of  reprobation,  which  the 
wronged  husband,  who  is  also  the  brother 
of  the  man  she  loves,  was  about  to  launch 
upon  his  wife's  head.  This  act,  of  such  fre- 
quent occurrence  in  the  drama,  is  about  as 
scarce  as  a  white  crow  in  the  prose  of  every- 
day life.  But  it  will  not  down  in  stage- 
land.  R.  C.  Carton  used  it  in  "  Wheels 
Within  Wheels,"  and,  on  the  whole,  made  it 
much  less  credible  than  it  appears  to  be  in 
"  The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson." 

For  this  clever  little  play,  no  doubt  through 
the  native  talent  of  its  Gallic  forebears,  is 
a  very  skillful,  compactly  built  drama,  with- 
out any  wandering  from  the  point  or  loose 
ends,  save,  perhaps,  in  the  introduction  of  a 
group  whose  presence  may  seem  extraneous 
to  the  real  issues  of  the  play,  but  who  serve 
their  purpose  in  pointing  a  moral.  It  has 
stood  its  adaptation  very  well.  Given  mo- 
tives, scenes,  and  situations  to  work  on,  and 
Mr.  Fitch's  talent  as  a  constructor  of  dialogue 
flowers  out  very  freely — and,  besides,  the 
characterization  does  not  appear  to  have  suf- 
fered. 

The  husband  and  wife  are  just  the  conven- 
tional pair,  minus  the  usual  panoply  of  stagey 
emotionalism  to  which  long  familiarity  with 
the  drama  has  accustomed  us.  They  were 
depicted  with  quiet  realism  by  Mr.  Abingdon 
and  Miss  Frances  Ring,  the  latter  looking 
particularly  graceful  and  pretty,  although  the 
latent  spark  of  mischief  in  her  eyes  had 
no  chance  whatever  to  come  into  play. 

Mr.  Spink  showed  us,  although  no  less 
cleverly,  a  different  kind  of  egotist  from  that 
of  last  week — a  coltish,  unmannerly  young 
Oxonian,  who  pined  for  the  dazzling  re- 
splendence which  would  attach  to  his  name  and 
fame  among  "  the  fellows "  through  his  ad- 
ventures with  light-minded  matrons.  As 
Lord  Bertie,  Mr.  Ernest  Lawford  acquitted 
himself  quite  brilliantly  in  a  very  important 
role,  showing  just  the  correct  degree  of  self- 
inspired  ardor  in  that  young  gentleman's  de- 
meanor toward  the  lady  whom  he  honored 
with  his  preference,  and  being  the  possessor 
of  a  joyous  society  manner  that  is  a  work 
of  art. 

Miss  Bijou  Fernandez — always  with  a  dash 
of  red  against  the  Southern  olive  of  her 
skin — was  a  vivacious  element  in  the  dizzying 
whirl,  but  Miss  Adelyn  Wesley  was,  for  the 
first  time,  out  of  her  element  as  an  alluring 
matron  flirting  giddily  with  boys  half  her 
age.  She  is  too  good  an  actress  to  fall  flat, 
but  she  failed  to   convince. 

All  these  clever  players,  even  down  to  Mrs. 
Johnson's  little  maid,  have  made  Miss  Bing- 
ham's standard  of  simple  sincerity  their  own. 
The  piece  goes  well,  and  carried  the  audience 
with  it,  the  element  of  suspense  keeping  up 
the  interest  to  the  last  moment.  We  had 
cause  to  tremble  toward  the  last,  knowing  too 
well  the  mawkish  sentimentality  which  too 
often  inspires  a  playwright  to  allow  a  hus- 
band's discovery  of  his  wife's  guilt  in  one 
act  to  be  followed  by  full  pardon  and  tender 
reconciliation  in  the  next.  This  trial  was 
spared  us,  a  bit  of  common  sense  which  was 
again  probably  due  to  the  French  originators 
of  the  piece,  who,  no  doubt,  view  such  trans- 
gressions with  a  peculiarly  national  mingling 
of  complaisance  and  rigor. 

As  to  the  moral  of  the  play — since  we  have 
fallen  into  the  habit  of  looking  feverishly 
for  morals,  whether  any  is  intended  or  not 
— here  is  one  which  will  find  more  favor 
in  the  eyes  of  the  husbands  to  whom  it  is 
addressed  than  to  their  wives :  "Better  keep 
your  wives — if  young  and  good-looking — 
away  from  gay   Paree." 


The   vaudeville   playlet   is   principally   made 
up   of  a  shower  of  small  shot,   a  steady  hail 


of  jokes,  generally  pattering  down  around  a 
central  core  of  sentiment.  But  it  is  the  jokes 
that  tell.  Sometimes  they  are  old,  but  a  very 
fair  proportion  of  them  are  new.  And  how 
the  Orpheum  audiences  love  them.  They  rise 
to  them  as  a  trout  to  a  fly.  It  is  the 
same  way  at  Fischer's,  at  the  Tivoli,  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House  during  its  present  phase. 
Humor  is  very  popular,  and  any  man  who 
has  a  faculty  for  turning  off  jokes  by  the 
peck  had  better  commit  them  to  paper,  and 
work  them  into  a  vaudeville  playlet.  There's 
money  in  it. 

Charles  Dickson  has  been  running  a 
specially  bright  one  at  the  Orpheum  which  is 
a  revolving  pin-wheel  of  jokes,  throwing  off 
a  continual  shower  of  verbal  sparks  that, 
under  the  influence  of  that  player's  genial 
and  persuasive  drollery,  gather  a  double  mo- 
mentum. 

Mr.  Dickson — unlike  the  majority  of  his 
fellow-craftsmen  —  has  not  coarsened  his 
methods  since  his  embarkation  upon  the  voy- 
age of  vaudeville,  and,  unlike  them  again, 
keeps  up  more  than  a  bowing  acquaintance 
with  the  Pause.  Life  and  thought,  and  even 
the  chatter  of  quidnuncs,  have  their  pauses,  a 
point  which  is  not  usually  conceded  by  the 
tenth-rate  playwright  and  player,  whose  idea 
of  dramatic  entertainment  is  to  keep  a  cease- 
less verbal  rattle  dinning  into  the  fearful 
hollow  of  the  ear. 

Julian  Rose,  "  our  Hebrew  friend,"  is  also 
one  who  recognizes  the  value  of  the  pause. 
He  is  a  very  successful  Hebrew  impersonator, 
and  knows  to  a  dot  just  the  moment  to  come 
to  a  full  stop,  and.  contemplating  his  audience 
the  while  with  owlish  gravity,  to  wait  for  his 
latest  to  sink  still  deeper,  until  he  is  re- 
warded by  renewed  bursts  of  the  laughter  that 
means  success.  They  are  still  keeping  their 
wizard  on  the  bill  this  week — this  is  De  Kolta, 
a  middle-aged  foreigner,  who  is  badly  in  need 
of  some  guiding  taste  to  indicate  to  him  that 
he  needs  some  touch  of  decoration  and  ele- 
gance of  design  in  the  appointments  that  he 
uses  in  his  tricks.  He  does  them  very  well, 
and  is  quick  and  skillful  in  his  sleight-of-hand 
work.  He  rolls  the  usual  squares  of  silk 
into  the  usual  vanishing  pin-point,  produces 
hundreds  of  fierce-colored  paper  flowers  from 
a  cornucopia  of  modest  size,  has  a  vanishing 
lady,  and  another  very  much  in  evidence, 
who  recites  her  opening  remarks  like  a  parrot, 
and  the  varying  hues  of  whose  dress  are  as 
antipathetic  to  each  other  as  those  of  the 
wizard's  paper  flowers.  Decidedly,  the  wizard 
is  unaware  of  the  fact  that  we  are  a  spoiled 
public  at  the  Orpheum,  accustomed  to  seeing 
the  vaudevillers  set  off  their  various  per- 
formances with  all  kinds  of  costly  adjuncts 
to  please  the  eye. 

Mabel  McKinley,  I  observed,  thought  her 
gowns  were  an  important  enough  factor  in 
the  success  of  her  appearance  to  advertise 
the  names  of  their  creators,  and  her  crutches 
were  almost  as  daintily  fashioned  as  the  sticks 
of  a  fan.  And,  in  fact,  the  Orpheum  per- 
formers usually  alternate,  in  their  apparel, 
between  a  burlesque  wildness  of  attire  and 
apparel  that  boasts  the  extreme  of  fashionable 
fripperies.  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


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In  preparation— A  Royal  Family. 


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Valid  Vaudeville!  Mme.  Konorah ;  James  J.  Mor- 
ton: Macart's  Dogs  and  Monkeys;  Claudius  and 
Corbin:  Ethel  Levey:  Orpheus  Comedy  Four;  the 
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Alameda  County,  and  has  no  rival  in  its  field. 

The  Tribune  publishes,  exclusively,  the  full 
Associated  Press  dispatches. 

All  society  events  of  the  week  are  mirrored  in 
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Local  and  State  politics  receive  attention^by 
special  writers  in  the  same  issue. 


July  27,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


59 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Farewell  "Week  of  Amelia  Bingham. 
For  the  fifth  and  last  week  of  her  engage- 
ment at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  Amelia  Bing- 
ham is  to  devote  herself  to  the  two  Fitch 
comedies  in  which  she  has  scored  her  greatest 
success  here.  On  Monday,  Thursday,  and  Fri- 
day nights,  and  at  the  Wednesday  matinee, 
"  The  Climbers  "  is  to  be  revived,  so  that  those 
who  were  away  in  the  country  early  in  July 
will  have  an  opportunity  to  see  Miss  Bingham's 
production  of  what  is  considered  Clyde  Fitch's 
strongest  society  play.  "  The  Frisky  Mrs. 
Johnson"  is  to  be  the  bill  on  Tuesday,  Wednes- 
day, and  Saturday  nights,  and  at  the  Satur- 
day matinee.  Ezra  Kendall,  under  Liebler  & 
Co.'s  management,  will  follow  in  Herbert  Hall 
Winslow's  three-act  comedy,  "  The  Vinegar 
Buyer."  The  role  of  Joe  Miller,  a  sort  of 
jack-of-all-trades  in  the  village  of  Bascom's 
Corners,  near  Indianapolis,  is  said  to  afford 
the  comedian  a  fine  opportunity  to  show  his 
ability  as  a  clever  character-actor  and  inimit- 
able mirth-provoker. 


As  You  Like  It"  at  Sutro  Heights. 
Nance  O'Neil  is  to  be  tendered  a  monster 
testimonial  at  Sutro  Heights,  Saturday  and 
Sunday  afternoons  and  evenings,  August  ist 
and  2d,  when  four  open-air  performances  of 
Shakespeare's  delightful  comedy,  "  As  You 
Like  It."  will  be  given.  Miss  O'Neil  will,  for 
the  first  time,  appear  here  as  Rosalind; 
E.  L.  RatclifF  will  be  the  Orlando :  Charles 
A.  Millward.  the  Jacques ;  Herbert  Carr.  the 
Oliver ;  L.  R.  Stockwell.  the  Touchstone ; 
Rlanche  Stoddard,  the  Celia ;  and  James  T- 
Corbett.  Charles,  the  wrestler,  a  part  that  he 
has  played  with  creat  success  on  several  occa- 
sions with  notable  casts  in  the  East.  The  in- 
cidental music  will  be  sung  by  the  Knicker- 
bocker double  quartet,  and  over  sixty  people 
will  take  part  in  the  production.  One  of  the 
most  picturesque  portions  of  Sutro  Heights  is 
to  be  transformed  into  an  open-air  auditorium, 
containing  boxes  and  seats  that  will  comfort- 
ablv  accommodate  about  four  thousand  peo- 
ple" The  sale  of  seats  will  beein  at  Sherman. 
Clay  &  Co.'s  store  on  Monday  morning,  at 
nine  o'clock. 

Camille  D'Arville  at  the  Tivoli. 
Camille  d'Arville's  return  to  the  footlights 
in  Smith  and  De  Koven's  "The  Highwayman" 
has  been  so  successful  that  the  management  of 
the  Tivnli  Opera  House  have  decided  to  con- 
tinue this  tuneful  romantic  opera  another 
week.  During  her  four  vears'  absence  from 
the  staee.  Miss  d'Arville  has  lost  none  of  her 
old-time  charm,  and  her  voice  has  never  been 
heard  to  better  advantage.  The  part  of  Lady 
Constance  Sinclair  permits  her  to  appear  in 
a  becoming  male  attire  in  the  first  acts,  and  a 
stunning  ball-gown  later  on.  when  she  lays 
;>side  her  disguise.  The  representation  of 
Foxy  Ouiller  bv  Edwin  Stevens  is  decidedly 
one  of  the  best  thinss  that  versatile  actor 
has  ever  done,  and  the  Dick  Fitzgerald  of 
Artliur  Cunningham  is  another  clever 
characterization,  which  stands  out  prom- 
inently. Edward  Webb.  Annie  Myers.  Ferris 
Hartnian.  Bertha  Davis.  Oscar  Lee.  and  Karl 
Formes  have  the  other  leading  roles.  The 
opera  is  beautifully  staeed  and  costumed 
throughout,  and  is  sure  to  crowd  the  Tivoli 
during  the  coming  week. 

First  Presentation  Here  of  "  The  Manxman." 
Despite  the  remarkable  success  of  "  The 
Prisoner  of  Zenda  "  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre, 
it  will  give  way  next  week  to  Wilson  Bar- 
rett's dramatization  of  Hall  Caine's  powerful 
story,  "  The  Manxman."  in  which  the  actor- 
dramatist  has  won  great  success  in  England. 
White  Whittlesev  will  nlav  the  strontr  emo- 
tional role  of  Peter  QuilUan.  who.  from  a 
child  of  the  streets,  grows  up  to  become  rich 
in  the  South  African  diamond  fields,  and  re- 
turns to  the  Isle  of  Man  to  marry  the  beauti- 
ful daughter  of  his  first  benefactor,  ignorant 
of  her  betrayal  by  his  nearest  friend.  The 
other  leading  roles  will  be  intrusted  to  capable 
hands.  On  Monday,  August  3d.  Mr.  Whit- 
tlesev will  appear  in  Svdney  Grundy's  French 
adaptation.  "  A  Marriage  of  Convenience," 
which  has  been  made  familiar  to  us  by  John 
Drew   and  Henry  Miller. 

Romantic  Melodrama  at  the  Central. 
The  Central  Theatre  has  a  strong  attraction 
this  week  in  the  spectacular  drama.  "  Faust," 
which  has  been  revived  on  a  very  elaborate 
scale.  Herschel  Mayall,  the  new  leading 
man.  gives  a  powerful  portrayal  of  Mephisto. 
and  Edwin  T.  Emery  as  Faust.  Eugenia  Thais 
Lawton  as  Marguerite,  and  George  P.  Web- 
ster as  Valentine  are  well  cast.  Next  week, 
the  romantic  melodrama.  "  A  Lion's  Heart." 
is  to  be  given,  with  Herschel  Mavall  in  the 
role  of  Rizardo,  the  lion-tamer.  The  comedy 
element  in  the  play  is  contributed  by  a  newly 
married  couple  on  their  wedding  tour. 
Wherever  they  go  they  are  greeted  by  what 
they  term  "  the  honeymoon  smile."  Land- 
lords, hackmen.  and  waiters,  after  a  sinele 
glance,  know  that  they  are  just  married.  The 
young  couple  are  nearly  distracted  by  this 
never-ending  "  smile,"  and  finally  determine 
that  by  quarreling  they  can  deceive  people 
into  thinking  they  have  been  long  wedded. 
Therefore,  whenever  any  one  is  present,  they 
quarrel,  only  to  fly  into  each  other's  arms  as 
soon  as  they  are  alone. 


In  Wall  Street "  at  the  Grand. 
The  new  musical  comedy,  "  In  Wall  Street," 
promises  to  enjoy  a  long  and  prosperous  run 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  The  German 
comedians,  Raymond  and  Caverly,  are  provided 
with  some  very  amusing  lines  and  new  stage 


business  and  songs,  and  Budd  Ross  does-  a 
tramp  specialty  which  is  enthusiastically  ap- 
plauded. Herbert  Sears  plays  the  part  of  the 
promoter,  Otto  Winne,  and  in  women's  clothes 
he  does  some  capital  work  in  the  last  act. 
Cheridah  Simpson  wears  some  beautiful  new 
costumes,  and  has  two  catchy  songs,  "  Star 
of  My  Heart "  and  "  Hiawatha."  Louise 
Moore  and  the  chorus  make  a  hit  with  the 
song  which  tells  how  Nellie  Kelly  was  the 
"  Belle  of  Murray  Hill."  "  Licorice  Lize," 
the  trio  by  Kittie  Kerwin  Griffith  and  Ray- 
mond and  Caverly  is  also  a  great  favorite 
with  the  audience.  Harold  Crane  has  a  new 
cosier  song,  "  I  'Aven't  Told  'Im."  which 
serves  to  introduce  a  variety  of  topical  verses, 
and  Anna  Wilks,  in  the  role  of  an  Arizona 
newspaper-woman,  manages  to  win  several 
encores  with  her  singing  of  "  Mollie  Shan- 
non." The  new  Amazon  march,  by  Stage- 
Manaeer  Jones,  is  very  effective,  while  the 
Esmeralda  sisters  and  Arnold  Grazer  do  some 
excellent  toe  and  contortion  dancing. 


"  Hearts  Aflame." 
The  Neill-Morosco  company  has  made  a  de- 
cided impression  at  the  California  Theatre 
this  week  in  F.  Marion  Crawford's  historical 
romance,  "  In  the  Palace  of  the  King,"  and 
already  several  of  the  new-comers  have  es- 
tablished themselves  as  favorites  here.  On 
Monday  next  the  company  will  present 
Genevieve  Haine's  brilliant  drama.  "  Hearts 
Aflame."  The  play  has  to  do  with  the  com- 
plications which  arise  when  a  society  man. 
who  is  ruined  through  unfortunate  speculation, 
accepts  financial  assistance  from  a  wealthy 
and  politely  dissipated  bachelor,  who  is  in 
love  with  his  wife.  George  Soule  Spencer 
will  appear-  as  the  bachelor,  Thomas  Oberle 
as  the  husband,  and  Lillian  Kemble  as  the 
wife.  The  dramatized  version  of  Paul 
Leicester  Ford's  story  of  the  Revolution, 
"  Janice  Meredith,"  will  follow. 


The  Double  Bill  at  Fischer's. 
Pretty  stage  settings  and  costumes,  catchy 
songs,  and  graceful  dances  and  marches, 
make  up  the  principal  charm  of  the  new  trav- 
esties, "  Under  the  Red  Globe "  and  "  The 
"Three  Musketeers,"  now  running  at  Fischer's 
Theatre.  The  greatest  individual  hit  is  scored 
by  Barnev  Bernard,  who  appears  again  in  his 
original  Hebrew  character,  and  his  new  selec- 
tion of  parodies  and  gags  are  merrily  received. 
Kolb  and  Dill  introduce  a  coon  sonz  and  dance. 
"I'm  Goineto  Live  Anyhow  Till  I  Die."  which 
receives  half  a  dozen  recalls  every  nitrht.  Win- 
field  Blake  has  a  taking  sons  in  "  For  Love 
is  Kinc."  and  his  duet.  "  Love's  Reverie." 
with  Maude  Amber,  is  artistically  rendered. 
Helen  Montrose,  as  the  leader  in  the  march. 
makes  a  very  striking  figure,  and  is  a  valuable 
addition  to  the  Fischer  forces.  Another  par- 
ticularly attractive  number  is  "  Ma  Rainbow 
Coon."  rendered  by  Flossie  Hope  and  Gertie 
Emerson,  assisted  by  Blake  and  the  entire 
chorus. 

At  the  Orpheum. 
Mme.  Konorah,  known  as  "  the  modern 
witch  and  mistress  of  mysteries."  will  make 
her  first  appearance  in  this  city  at  the  Or- 
pheum next  week.  She  is  said  to  be  able  to 
solve  instantly  the  most  intricate  arithmetical 
problems,  without  seeing  or  hearing  the 
figures,  and  adds  a  row  of  numbers  that  total 
trillions  with  the  ease  of  a  school-boy  multi- 
plying two  by  two.  The  other  new-comers 
will  be  James  J.  Morton,  the  popular  mono- 
logist;  Macart's  remarkably  trained  dogs  and 
monkeys  ;  and  Claudius  and  Corbin,  banioists, 
late  of  Primrose  &  Dockstader's  minstrels,  who 
will  be  seen  here  for  the  first  time.  Those 
retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  Claude 
Gillingwater,  in  the  curtain-raiser,  "  The 
Wroncr  Man  " :  Ethel  Levey,  the  chic 
comedienne,  who  will  sing  George  M. 
Cohan's  latest  topical  song,  "  If  T  Were  Only 
Mr.  Morgan";  the  Orpheus  Comedy  Four; 
and  the  three  Polos,  in  their  wonderful  act, 
""  The    Human    Trapeze." 


The  Younger  Salvini. 
Speaking  of  his  son  Gustavo,  Tommaso  Sal- 
vini, the  great  Italian  actor,  said,  the  other 
day :  "  My  son  Gustavo  should  have  a  great 
career.  He  has  only  to  become  known  to  be 
recognized  as  a  very  superior  actor.  He  is 
studious,  thoughtful,  absorbed  in  his  art.  I 
hope  that  some  day  he  will  go  to  America,  but 
before  that  he  must  come  to  London,  for  he  is 
unknown  outside  of  Italy.  An  agent  is  now 
trying  to  arrange  for  a  meeting  between  him 
and  Charles  Frohman.  But  London  must 
come  first.  Was  I  not,  years  ago,  called  to 
America  immediately  after  my  London  ap- 
pearance? My  son's  Hamlet  is  a  great  per- 
formance. In  appearance  too.  he  is  very 
well  suited  to  the  part.  Other  favorite  roles 
with  him  are  Don  Cesar  de  Bazan,  Edipus.  in 
which  Mounet-Sully  recently  appeared  in 
Rome  and  suffered  in  comparison,  and  Petru- 
cio  in  '  The  Taming  of  the  Shrew.'  His 
Othello,  too,  while  I  do  not  say  it  is  mine,  is 
a  fine  impersonation,  but,  as  you  see,  he  does 
not  confine  himself  to  tragedy." 


At  a  recent  performance  of  "  Carmen  "  in 
London,  at  which  Mme.  Calve  made  her  first 
appearance  of  the  season,  Lillian  Blauvelt  was 
the  Micaela,  a  part  in  which  Mme.  Emma 
Eames  has  heretofore  been  considered  incom- 
parable. The  critic  of  the  London  Times  says, 
regarding  this  new  Micaela  :  "  The  part  is  one 
that  suits  Mme.  Blauvelt  quite  admirably,  and 
she  may  be  said  to  be  as  much  the  ideal  Mi- 
caela as  Mme.  Calve  is  the  ideal  Carmen.  .  .  . 
While  the  vivid  impersonation  of  the  principal 
character  was  as  effective  as  it  has  ever  been, 
the  girlish  figure  of  the  Micaela,  together  with 
a  charming  timidity  which  may  not  have  been 
altogether  assumed,  enhanced  the  value  of 
both  parts  by  contrast.  The  singer's  lovely 
voice  now  tells  excellently  in  the  theatre,  for. 
like  many  debutantes  at  Covent  Garden,  she 
was  evidently  not  quite  certain  at  what  part 
of  the  auditorium  to  direct  her  voice;  she  has 
now  found  the  right  place,  and  her  notes  were 
deliciously  clear  and  exquisite  in  quality." 

Since  Augustus  Thomas's  "  Arizona "  was 
produced,  five  years  ago,  it  is  said  to  have 
netted  profits  aggregating  nearly  two  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  Most  of  the  time 
two  companies  have  been  appearing  in  the 
play,  and  now  it  has  been  sold  for  a  good 
sum.  Its  purchasers  expect  it  to  be  good  for 
a  few  more  thousands  before  it  gets  to  the 
stock  companies.  This  season's  big  Thomas 
success  is  "  The  Earl  of  Pawtucket."  with 
Lawrence  D'Orsay  in  the  title-role. 


Forbes  Robertson  and  Gertrude  Elliott,  who 
will  tour  the  principal  cities  of  the  United 
States  next  season,  in  George  Fleming's 
("Constance  Fletcher's)  dramatic  version  of 
Rudyard  Kipling's  "  The  Light  That  Failed." 
will  open  at  the  Star  Theatre  in  Buffalo  on 
September  28th.  They  will  bring  their  entire 
London  company  to  America. 


"Quo  Vass  Iss,"  a  travesty  on  "Quo  Vadis." 
and  "  The  Big  Little  Princess,"  a  burlesque  on 
Mrs.  Hodgson  Burnett's  latest  children's  play, 
"  The  Little  Princess,"  will  make  up  the  next 
bill  to  be  offered  at  Fischer's  Theatre. 

Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan  Building,  rooms  6.  8,  10,  48  (entrance  806 
Market  Street),  informs  the  public  that  the  'ate  part- 
nership has  been  dissolved,  and  that  he  still  continues 
his  practice  at  the  same  place  with  increased  facilities 
and  competent  and  courteous  associates. 


SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR 

That  greatest  of  all  disfigurements  of  a  woman's 
face,  permanentlv  removed,  in  the  only  successful  way 
—with  the  ELECTRIC  NEEDLE,  as  operated  by 
Mrs.  Harrison. 

Warts,  Freckles,  Moles,  Pimples,  and  Wrinkles 
quickly  removed  under  my  personal  treatment  at 
my  Dermatological  Parlors. 


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DEHIVIATOLOOIST, 
140  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

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Authorized  Capital 83,000,000 

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Authorized  to  act  as  Executor,  Administrator,  Guard- 
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Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money 
in  Probate  Court  proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust 
Deposits  and  Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers— Frank  J.  Svmmes,  President.  A.  Ponia- 
towski,  First  Vice  -  President.  Horace  L.  Hill, 
Second  Vice-President.     H.  Brunner,  Cashier. 


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Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus  ...»  3,398,758.10 

Capital  actually  paid  in  cash 1,000,000.00 

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OFFICERS  —  President,  John  Lloyd:  Vice-Presi- 
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Tolrny;  Assistant-SecretarY,  A.  H.  Muller  ■  Gen- 
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Interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  made. 

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Charles  R.  Bishop Capitalist 

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VANITY    FAIR. 


According  to  F.  K.  Griswold,  who  has  in- 
vestigated the  matter  carefully,  you  can  get 
more  for  your  money  in  New  York  than  in 
Philadelphia;  that  is,  you  can  live  easier  on 
the  same  amount  of  money,  and  get  along 
with  less  labor.  In  New  York,  the  delicates- 
sen store  is  always  at  your  door,  side  by  side 
with  the  public  dining-room,  where  a  good 
dinner  of  three  courses  may  be  had  for  a 
quarter  of  a  dollar.  In  no  other  place  except 
Paris  can  you  live  as  cheaply  or  as  expensively 
as  in  New  York  ;  but  you  must  not  have  chil- 
dren. People  do,  of  course,  but  they  are  not 
wanted  in  most  apartment-houses ;  their 
lives  are  not  natural ;  they  have  not  in  a  small 
apartment  the  freedom  and  space  for  a  natural 
development.  For  family  life,  enjoyment  of 
the  home  for  its  own  sake  at  the  expense  of 
physical  exertion,  the  writer  advises  one  to 
take  Philadelphia.  The  typical  New  Yorker 
spends  most  of  his  or  her  time  on  the  street. 
in  the  shops,  or  at  the  theatre ;  the  Philadel- 
phian  in  the  home. 

In  making  her  investigations,  the  writer  de- 
cided that  twenty  dollars  a  month  should  be 
the  amount  to  be  expended  for  house  rent ; 
that  the  house  or  flat  must  be  within  a  half 
to  three-quarters  of  an  hour's  ride  of  the 
business  section  of  the  city.  In  New  York 
she  searched  what  is  known  as  the  Harlem 
district,  keeping  to  the  west  side.  She  found 
that  she  could  secure  a  pleasant,  light  apart- 
ment or  flat  of  four  rooms  and  bath,  parlor, 
bedroom,  dining-room  and  kitchen,  for  that 
sum.  The  house  was  steam-heated,  and  there 
was  a  hot-water  supply.  The  halls  were  well 
carpeted,  well  kept,  and  ventilated.  It  was 
quiet,  as  tenants  must  give  good  references, 
and  no  children  were  allowed.  To  the  ques- 
tion, "What  would  happen  if  the  stork  paid  a 
visit  to  a  family  after  they  had  moved  in?" 
the  janitress  gave  the  evasive  answer.  "  Oh, 
that  is  a  horse  of  another  color."  Philadel- 
phia afforded  a  wider  field  for  the  investigator. 
She  had  "  uptown "  and  West  Philadelphia 
at  her  disposal.  Both  abounded  in  small 
houses  within  her  price  limit,  and  at  the  edge 
of  her  limit  for  distance.  Instead  of  a  steam- 
heated  flat  she  got  a  modern  two-storied  house 
containing  six  rooms  and  a  bath.  The  house 
stood  on  a  side  street,  and  was  one  of  a  long 
row,  each  as  alike  as  two  peas  in  a  pod.  As 
the  investigator  looked  up  the  street,  she  came 
to  the  conclusion  that  every  man  in  it  must 
be  regular  in  his  habits,  or  there  was  a  big 
chance  for  mistaken  identities.  There  was  no 
restriction  in  regard  to  children. 


Replying  to  the  communication  in  last 
week's  Argonaut,  in  which  "  One  Who  Loves 
Her  Sex  "  sharply  criticises  President  Roose- 
velt!s  "  race-suicide "  theories,  one  of  our 
readers,  who  signs  herself  "  One  Who  Loves 
Fair  Play,"  writes :  "  One  would  suppose, 
by  the  tone  of  the  critics,  that  Roosevelt  in- 
sists that  all  married  women,  regardless  of 
health,  financial  condition,  or  morals,  should 
have  all  the  children  possible  under  physical 
law.  The  President  is  a  sane  man,  none  more 
so,  and  he  would  not  have  burdens  laid  upon 
women  who  are  unable  to  bear  them.  In  all 
this  unpleasant  fault-finding,  and  willful  per- 
version of  meaning,  the  grumblers  forget 
that,  while  on  this  Coast,  the  President  re- 
peatedly said  that  '  the  quality  and  quantity 
of  the  children  are  all  right.'  The  President 
said,  what  all  thinking  people  know,  that  the 
people  who  should  have  children  to  send  forth 
into  the  world  to  make  it  better,  are  not  hav- 
ing them.  This  is  a  matter  of  statistics,  not 
of  sentiment.  It  remains  to  be  proved  that 
children  of  small  families  are  better  born,  and 
better  reared,  than  are  those  in  large  families. 
You  will  find  that  the  unselfish,  helpful  man 
or  woman  was  reared  in  a  large  family.  I 
am  speaking  in  a  broad  sense.  Their  whole 
training  has  fitted  them  for  citizenship — and 
they  owe  it  largely  to  the  mother  who  set  them 
the  wholesome  example  of  devotion  to  the 
duties  nearest  at  hand.  The  *  woman  with  a 
thousand  aims  '  is  not  the  one  who  helps  the 
world  to  better  living.  '  One  Who  Loves  Her 
Sex  '  speaks  of  the  advantage  of  having  but 
one  child  in  the  family  — '  one  thoughtful- 
souled  child.'  I  have  seen  her — little  prig. 
The  only  comfort  in  this  matter  to  thoughtful 
people  is  that  the  '  thoughtful-souled  child' 
goes  her  mother  one  better,  and  has  none  at 
all.  which  is  one  way  of  making  the  world 
wise.  But  heaven  help  her  husband.  I  speak 
of  Icr  advisedly.  The  'thoughtful-souled' 
boy  generally  has  it  knocked  out  of  him,  on 
the  street  and  in  school,  before  he  is  of  age. 
To  .juote  again  from  '  One  Who  Loves  Her 
Se?  ' :  '  The  nervous  condition  of  the  American 
wom^n  being  what  it  is,  it  is  impossible  for 


her  to  attend  to  her  manifold  duties  and  in- 
terests, and  at  the  same  time  rear  a  large 
family  of  children.'  That  reads  well,  but  what 
are  these  interests  and  manifold  duties  ? 
Clubs,  teas,  and  whist?  The  nervous  condi- 
tion of  the  American  woman  has  not  been 
brought  about  by  the  having  and  rearing  of 
children.  It  is  largely  brought  about  by  her 
lack  of  independence  to  live  her  life  in  her 
own  way.  In  short,  by  trying  to  keep  up  with 
the  procession.  The  women  who  take  the 
'  rest  cure  '  are  not,  as  a  rule,  mothers  of  large 
families.  They  are  quite  as  apt  to  have  none, 
but  are  feverishly  devoted  to  a  cause,  the  hus- 
band and  home  coming  in  a  poor  second. 
'  One  Who  Loves  Her  Sex  '  made  a  comparison 
— and  in  very  bad  taste  be  it  said — between 
the  late  President  McKinley  and  President 
Roosevelt,  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  latter. 
It  may  not  have  occurred  to  the  writer  that 
Mrs.  Roosevelt  preferred  to  remain  at  home, 
and  so  relieve  her  husband  of  added  care  and 
worry.     This  is  a  mere  suggestion." 


The  imports  of  diamonds  and  other  precious 
stones  during  the  fiscal  year  just  ended  ag- 
gregated over  $30,000,000.  Prior  to  1S87  the 
total  seldom  reached  $10,000,000  in  a  year. 
After  1887  the  value  of  the  imports  increased 
until  they  reached  $16,000,000  in  1893,  but  in 
1894  they  dropped  to  $5,500,000.  During  the 
four  years  of  hard  times  that  begun  with  1893 
the  average  did  not  much  exceed  $6,000,000  a 
year.  As  soon  as  the  clouds  had  rolled  by,  the 
purchases  began  to  enlarge  until  the  above- 
named  amount  of  $30,000,000  was  reached. 


One  of  the  most  widely  discussed  newspa- 
per topics  during  the  London  silly  season  this 
year  has  been  "  Should  there  be  music  during 
meals? "  In  a  series  of  burlesque  inter- 
views with  celebrities,  Punch  quotes  Herr 
Richard  Strauss  as  saying:  "The  employment 
of  orchestras  at  meal  times  opens  up  endless 
new  vistas  to  the  writer  of  '  programme ' 
music.  I  have  just  completed  a  new  suite, 
entitled,  '  Hebe  and  Ganymede,'  occupying 
two  hours  in  performance,  each  movement  of 
which  is  contrived  to  coincide  in  length  and 
treatment  with  a  fresh  course.  Thus  in  the 
soup  section  the  wooing  of  the  turtle  is  sug- 
gested by  a  passage  for  four  flutes,  and  the 
'  bird  '  is  richly  scored  with  bravura  passages 
for  the  oboes  and  piccolo.  An  expressive 
tremulando  for  violins  heralds  with  an  an- 
ticipatory shiver  the  advent  of  the  ice  pud- 
ding, and  a  strepitous  coda  in  the  finale  greets 
the  arrival  of  the  coffee  and  liquors."  T.  P. 
O'Connor  is  quoted  as  saying:  "The  only  ob- 
jection I  have  to  music  at  meal  times  is  this: 
When  I  hear  music,  being  of  a  very  emotional 
Celtic  temperament,  I  am  irresistibly  impelled 
to  sing.  The  last  time  this  happened  I  was 
eating  a  plover's  egg.  My  dear  boy,  I  nearly 
had  a  spasm  of  the  glottis !"  The  proprietor 
of  the  quick-lunch  restaurant  in  the  Strand 
writes  :  "  We  find  that  it  accelerates  our  al- 
ready almost  incredible  pace  if  the  '  Turkish 
Patrol,'  or  some  other  rapid  march  is  played 
during  the  five  minutes  in  which  our  one  thou- 
sand regular  customers  enjoy  their  midday 
meal."  Sousa  writes :  "  There  is  no  doubt 
that  the  nearer  the  trombone  the  sweeter  the 
meat." 


If  we  are  to  believe  the  reports,  Chi- 
cago is  suffering  from  a  greater  dearth  of 
kitchen,  dining-room,  and  general  utility 
maids  than  any  other  city  in  the  United 
States.  Offers  of  seven  dollars  a  week  are 
said  to  be  small  temptation  to  the  trained 
woman  chef  and  her  equally  needed  assistant. 
So  independent  have  they  become  that  house- 
wives are  forced  to  accept  them  with  all  sorts 
of  conditions.  For  example,  the  servant 
must  have  every  other  night  "  off.'*  She 
also  must  have  the  privilege  of  an  occasional 
afternoon  for  shopping  and  returning  calls. 
She  must  have  a  room  by  herself,  the  second 
cook  and  the  other  servants  demanding  indi- 
vidual rooms  as  well.  She  must  have  the 
right  to  entertain  her  friends  in  royal  fashion 
should  she  so  desire.  She  may  leave  her 
place  and  accept  a  better  offer  without  any 
notice,  and  in  the  midst  of  a  function  given 
by  the  "lady  of  the  house"  If  the  fancy  so 
seizes  her.  An  increase  in  wages  may  be 
asked  for  and  expected  at  any  time,  on  its  re- 
fusal the  servant  having  the  right  to  depart. 
As  a  sample  of  the  independence  and  lack  of 
consideration  of  servants,  the  New  York 
Herald's  correspondent  tells  this  story, 
which  he  declares  is  true :  "  In  an  ex- 
tremely beautiful  mansion  on  the  South 
Side,  a  few  nights  ago,  the  owner  of 
the  residence  was  awakened  by  sounds  of  rev- 
elry. He  believed  himself  dreaming,  but  the 
sounds  continued,  and  he  understood  that 
there  were  things  on  the  move  in  the  lower 


domains  of  his  home.  He  awakened  his  wife 
and  other  members  of  the  family,  and  they 
followed  him  to  the  head  of  the  grand  stair- 
way. Glasses  were  clinking,  the  raucous  vocal 
aspirations  of  the  corner  policeman  were 
heard  above  the  hum  of  gentle  voices,  there 
were  sallies  of  wit  and  exchanges  of  repartee. 
Refreshments  were  ordered  by  one  in  regal 
command — the  voice  of  the  new  cook  being 
recognized — and,  everything  seemed  to  be 
truly  recherche.  '  Well,  it's  our  new  eight- 
dollar  cook  having  a  soirie'  whispered  the 
head  of  the  house  to  his  spouse.  '  Sh-sh — 
not  a  word,'  replied  the  quaking  woman ; 
'  she  might  become  angry  and  leave  in  the 
morning.'  'This  morning,  you  mean  —  it's 
three  o'clock,*  was  the  husband's  comment. 
The  new  cook  arose  at  nine  o'clock  and  broke 
twenty  dollars  worth  of  cut  glass.  Two  days 
afterward  she  hired  out  to  a  family  in  the 
next  block  at  a  satisfactory  increase."  Em- 
ployment agencies  declare  that  they  never 
have  known  skilled  servants  to  be  in  greater 
demand  than  now. 


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flammations  of  the  skin. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

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SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official    Report    of  Geo.   H.    Willson,  Local 
Forecaster  Temporarily  in  Charge. 


Max. 
Tern. 

July  16th 56 

"     i7th 58 

"     18th 56 

"     19th 60 

"     20th 62 

"      2ISt 62 

"        22d 64 


Min . 
Tern. 

52 

50 

50 

48 

50 

52 

52 


Ra  in- 
fall. 


State  of 
Weather. 
Pt.  Cloudy 
Cloudy 
Pt.  Cloudy 
Clear 
Clear 
Pt.  Cloudv 
Clear 


THE   FINANCIAL    -WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  July  22,  1903, 
were  as  follows : 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.  S.  Coup.  z% 1,300    @  108^  108K     109 

Edison  L.  P.  6%...      5,000    @  128K  128 

Hawaiian  C.  S.  5%.    7,000    @    98  100 

Market  St.  Ry6%..     2,000    @  123  122        125 
Market  St.  Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 6,000    @  118  u8j4 

N.  Pac.  C.  Rv.  5%..     1,000    @  106^  ioSJ^ 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Rv.  5% IO.OOO      @  I20-      I20}£       120^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cat.  6% 

1912 10,000  @  118  1171^  118 

S.  V.  Water  4%  2d . .  9,000  @  ioo^  ioo# 

S.  V.  Water 4%  3d.  2,000  @  100                  ioo# 

U.  Gas  Elect.  5% ..  4,000  @  105  105  107 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.                   Shares.  Sid.  Asked 

Spring  Valley 43©  @    84^-86  85^  86J£ 

Sti  eet  R.  R. 

California  St 50  @  200  199  205 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 95  @    71^-72        72^ 

Sugars. 

Hana  P.  Co 650  @    25-      35  15  25 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...  30  @    43^  44  46 

Honokaa  S.  Co 1.85  @    10^-  13  12^ 

Hutchinson 170  @    14H-  15  14  %  15 

MakaweliS.Co 5  @    24                   24 

Onomea  S.  Co 145  @    22^  22^  23 

Paauhau  S.  Co 100  @    i$%~  16  15  i6J^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Central  L.  &  p 750  @      5_        ^  4%  ^ 

Mutual  Electric...  50  @    12%-  13  12^  13 

Paci  fie  Gas 1S5  @    52^-  53  52^  53^ 

S-F.  Gas  &  Electric  230  @    67^-67%  67  68 

Trustees  Certificates. 

S.F.  Gas  &  Electric  215  @    66^-67  66  67 

Miscella  neons. 

Alaska  Packers  ...  225  @  149-    150J4  150^  151 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 20  @    98%               99 

OceanicS.  Co 25  @     7^-    7%  7 

The  sugar  stocks  have  been  in  better  demand, 
about  1,300  shares  of  all  kinds  changing  hands. 
Hawaiian  Commercial  and  Sugar  sold  up  three  and 
one-quarter  points  to  43,  closing  at  44  bid,  46 
asked. 

Spring  Valley  Water,  on  sales  of  430  shares,  sold 
up  to  86,  closing  at  85^  bid,  Z6%  asked. 

The  powder  stocks  have  been  steady,  and  very 
little  stock  changed  hands. 

The  light  and  power  stocks  have  been  fairly 
active  ;  San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric,  on  sales 
of  230  shares  has  about  held  its  own  in  price,  closing 
at  67  bid,  68  asked;  Pacific  Gas  Improvement,  52 % 
bid,  53-H  asked  ;  Mutual  Electric,  izH  bid,  13 
asked. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


61 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


It  is  related  that  the  Dowager  Empress  of 
Russia  once  saw  on  her  husband's  table  a  doc- 
ument regarding  a  political  prisoner.  On  the 
margin  Alexander  the  Third  had  written : 
'"  Pardon  impossible ;  to  be  sent  to  Siberia." 
The  Czarina  took  up  the  pen,  and,  striking  out 
the  semicolon  alter  "  impossible,"  put  it  be- 
fore the  word.  Then  the  indorsement  read  : 
"Pardon;  impossible  to  be  sent  to  Siberia." 
The  Czar  let  it  stand. 

According  to  an  exchange, a  Missouri  woman 
sat  up  until  one  o'clock,  the  other  night,  wait- 
ing for  her  husband  to  come  home.  Then  she 
gave  it  up  and  went  upstairs,  only  to  find  him 
in  bed  and  fast  asleep.  "  His  deception,"  as 
she  called  it,  made  her  so  mad  that  she  didn't 
speak  to  him  for  three  days.  Her  anger  can 
be  understood,  when  one  considers  the  disap- 
pointment she  must  have  suffered  at  being  de- 
prived of  the  pleasure  of  delivering  the  choice 
Mrs.  Caudle  lecture  with  which  she  had  doubt- 
less intended  to  greet  her  wayward  husband. 


The  late  J.  H.  Shorthouse  was  afflicted  with 
a  terrible  stammer,  which  he  used  to  say  was 
a  blessing  in  disguise,  having  led  him  to  use 
the  pen  as  his  great  instrument  of  expres- 
sion. There  were  times,  however,  when  the 
stammer  almost  ceased,  and  he  could  talk  on 
uninterruptedly.  One  very  striking  and  touch- 
ing habit  grew  up  out  of  the  stammer.  At 
'*  family  prayers  "  he  and  his  wife  read  all  the 
prayers  together ;  because,  it  an  attack  of 
stammering  came  on,  her  gentle  voice  would 
carry  on  the  thread  till  he  recovered,  and  the 
knowledge  of  this  prevented  all  nervousness 
on  his  part. 


When  the  clever  writer  and  caricaturist,  Max 
Beerbohm,  succeeded  George  Bernard  Shaw 
as  dramatic  critic  of  the  London  Saturday 
Review,  he  was  told  by  the  manager  that 
Shaw  was  getting  such  and  such  pay.  "  Of 
course,  being  comparatively  inexperienced," 
the  manager  added,  "  you  can  scarcely  expect 
so  much."  "  Oh,  yes,  I  shall,"  rejoined  Mr. 
Beerbohm,  decisively ;  "  indeed,  I  shall  ex- 
pect more.  You  see,"  he  explained,  "'as 
Shaw  knows  the  drama  thoroughly,  it  was 
perfectly  easy  for  him  to  write  about  it. 
Whereas  I  know  nothing  about  it,  and  it  will 
be  shockingly  hard  work." 


Here  is  a  favorite  anecdote  which  Abraham 
Lincoln  was  in  the  habit  of  relating :  James 
Quarles,  a  distinguished  lawyer  of  Tennessee, 
was  one  day  trying  a-  case,  and  after  producing 
his  evidence  rested,  whereupon  the  defense 
produced  a  witness  who  swore  Quarles  com- 
pletely out  of  court,  and  a  verdict  was  ren- 
dered accordingly.  After  the  trial  one  of  his 
friends  came  to  him  and  said :  "  Why  didn't 
you  get  that  feller  to  swar  on  your  side?" 
"  I  didn't  know  anything  about  him,"  replied 
Quarles.  "  I  might  have  told  you  about 
him,"  said  the  friend,  "  for  he  would  swar 
for  you  jest  as  hard  as  he'd  swar  for  the 
other  side.  That's  his  business.  Judge,  that 
feller  takes  in  swarrin"   for  a  living." 


Soon  after  J.  M.  Barrie  leaped  into  fame, 
the  editors  of  three  London  journals  for 
which  he  had  done  a  good  deal  of  work  deter- 
mined to  give  a  dinner  in  his  honor.  Mr. 
Barrie  accepted  the  invitation,  and  in  due 
course  the  three  knights  of  the  pen  and  scis- 
sors and  their  distinguished  guest  sat  down 
together.  The  hosts,  knowing  their  contributor 
only  by  his  work,  fully  anticipated  a  "  feast 
of  reason  and  a  flow  of  soul."  However,  the 
soup  and  fish  were  consumed  without  a  word 
from  Mr.  Barrie,  or,  at  least,  with  nothing 
beyond  non-committal  grunts.  Despite  frantic 
efforts  to  lure  him  into  conversation,  it  was 
not  until  he  rose  to  put  on  his  coat  that  he 
made  the  first  and  last  remark  that  he  uttered 
during  the  evening:  "  Weel,  this  is  the  first 
time  I've  ever  had  dinner  with  three  editors." 


Many  of  General  Shatter's  old  associates 
still  refer  to  him  as  "  Small  Cap  "  Shafter,  a 
nickname  which  originated  at  a  banquet  given 
to  several  army  officers  in  Denver  many  years 
ago,  at  which  Shafter  was  one  of  the  guests. 
One  of  the  Denver  papers  reported  the  ban- 
quet, and  gave  a  complete  list  of  the  guests, 
but  when  the  proof-slips  were  sent  to  the 
proof-reader  he  observed  that  Shafter*  s  name 
was  in  lower-case  type,  and  so  he  marked  it 
"  small  cap,"  the  usual  way  being  to  note 
"  sm.  c.,"  meaning  that  the  words  should  be 
reset  in  capitals  of  small  size.  It  seems  that 
the  compositor  was  not  familiar  with  proof- 
corrections,  and,  supposing  that  the  note  made 


by  the  proof-reader  indicated  some  military 
title  with  which  he  was  not  familiar,  instead 
of  making  the  proof  correction,  he  substituted 
the  words  "  Small  Cap,"  and  it  was  so  printed 
in  the  paper.  Shafter  was  in  "  a  frame  of 
mind "  when  his  attention  was  called  to  his 
name  in  the  paper,  but  the  other  officers  made 
much  fun  of  it,  and  the  title  stuck  to  him 
many  years. 


William  Redmond's  humorous  and  pointed 
interjections  are  becoming  quite  a  feature  of 
Parliamentary  life.  The  House  of  Commons 
was  favored  the  other  day  with  another  laugh- 
able interruption  from  Mr.  Redmond.  Just 
before  the  House  adjourned,  an  Irish  mem- 
ber managed  to  move  the  second  reading  of 
the  Town  Tenants  (Ireland)  Bill.  Thereupon, 
Sir  F.  Banbury  arose  to  perform  his  custo- 
mary function  of  talking  out  the  bilL  The 
member  for  Peckham  succeeded  in  speaking 
for  many  minutes  without  saying  anything, 
much  to  the  disappointment  of  the  Irish  mem- 
bers, and  started  to  conclude  his  remarks 
with    the    words,    "  For    these     reasons,     Mr. 

Speaker "  when  Mr.  Redmond  interrupted, 

amid   a   roar  of  laughter,   with,   "  They   ought 
to  send  you  to  the  House  of  Lords." 

When  Mascagni  was  in  San  Francisco,  one 
of  his  accomplishments  which  most  attracted 
attention  was  his  ability  to  conduct  almost 
entirely  without  a  score.  Richard  Wagner  in 
the  'fifties  was  once  severely  criticised  in 
London  for  this  very  thing.  He  was  conduct- 
ing the  Philharmonic  concerts  in  the  British 
metropolis  for  a  season,  and  being  a  very 
ardent  admirer  of  Beethoven,  and,  in  fact, 
knowing  that  master's  nine  symphonies  by 
heart,  he  selected  several  of  them  for  per- 
formance in  the  series  of  concerts.  After  the 
first  performance,  one  of  the  prominent  news- 
papers scolded  the  author  of  "  Lohengrin " 
for  directing  a  symphony  by  the  immortal 
Beethoven  without  the  score  in  front  of  him. 
Accordingly,  at  the  next  concert,  young  Wag- 
ner had  a  book  of  music  open  before  him  on 
his  desk.  The  next  day,  a  commendatory  ar- 
ticle appeared  in  the  aforesaid  newspaper, 
which  praised  him  for  a  very  much  better  in- 
terpretation of  Beethoven  than  his  last,  due, 
of  course,  to  the  use  of  the  score.  Where- 
upon Wagner  secured  his  revenge  on  his  pre- 
sumptuous critic  by  announcing  the  fact  that 
the  score  in  front  of  him  the  previous  evening 
was  that  of  Rossini's  opera,  "  The  Barber  of 
Seville  " — turned  upside  down. 


An  Excessively  Literary  Bit  of  Literature. 
The  poet  and  Penelope  were  playing 
under  the  rose,  tossing  the  filigree  ball ;  both 
were  children  of  destiny,  born  in  the  house 
on  the  Hudson,  near  the  house  opposite,  ad- 
jacent to  our  neighbors  close  to  an  East  Side 
family.  Those  delightful  Americans  were  like 
pigs  in  clover  until  a  tar  heel  baron,  the 
master  of  millions,  espied  through  the  gap  in 
the  garden  the  siege  of  youth ;  this  man  in 
the  gray  cloak,  who  figured  among  the  mid- 
dle-aged lovers,  and  possessed  the  sins  of  a 
saint,  and  who  had  been  the  lightning  con- 
ductor and  the  talk  of  the  town  in  Piccadilly 
as  well  as  a  regular  typhoon  along  the  Roman 
road,  was  no  hero  when  he  entered  the  circle 
at  the  time  appointed,  where  the  spinners 
of  life — one,  the  blue  goose,  and  the  other, 
cce  of  the  deep-sea  vagabonds — were  enjoy- 
ing the  price  of  freedom.  However,  taking 
the  main  chance  to  overcome  the  modern 
obstacle  of  trees,  shrubs,  and  vines,  this  gold 
wolf  cracked  one  of  earth's  enigmas  and 
dashed  like  a  detached  pirate  upon  wild  life 
near  home ;  say,  Marty,  who  had  been  abroad 
with  the  Jimmies  in  the  kindred  of  the  wild, 
and  the  lions  of  the  Lord,  didn't  do  a  thing 
but  lift  the  log  of  a  cowboy  grown  in  the 
mountains  of  California,  and  standing  'twixt 
God  and  mammon,  saying :  "  You  are  the 
under  dog."  Lovey  Mary,  alias  Penelope, 
whose  mother  was  a  Virginian  girl  in  the  Civil 
War,  jumped  upon  the  intruder  and  said : 
"  I  am  a  girl  of  ideas  of  the  better  sort,  also 
a  daughter  of  Thespis ;  you  are  the  spoils- 
men set ;  scat !  get  you  to  walks  in  New 
England.  You  are  only  Perkins  the  fakeer." 
And  he  got. — Horace  Seymour  Keeler  in  New 
York  Sun. 


The  easy  route :  The  old  squire  lay  a-dying, 
and  his  faithful  coachman  was  summoned  to 
the  bedside.  "  Well,  John,"  said  the  old 
gallant,  "  I'm  going  now  on  a  longer  journey 
than  ever  you  could  drive  me."  "  Never 
mind,  squire,  never  mind,"  cried  the  servant, 
in  a  broken  voice ;  "  it'll  be  downhill  all  the 
way." — London   Globe. 


Moore's  Poiaon-Oak  Remedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Yeamines. 
Break,  break,  break. 

On  thy  cold  gray  stones,  O  sea, 
While  the  things  I  want  bat  never  can  get 

Speak  out  in  thy  plaint  to  me. 

Ob,  well  for  the  country  lass 

That  she  shoots  the  chutes  with  a  yell. 
And  well  for  the  dry-goods  clerk 

That  he  bathes  in  the  heaving  swell; 
And   the   stately   millionaire 

Walks  down  the  sands  with  a  smile, 
But  show,  oh,  show  me  a  railway  car 

With  shade  on  both  sides  of  the  aisle! 

Up  the  beach  in  a  great  white  tent 

There   are  preacher   men   to-day, 
And  people  stirred  by  the  earnest  word 

Bow  down  their  heads  and  pray. 
And  it's  well — they  hope  to  receive 

Something  they  ought — or  ought  not  to. 
But  why  can't  I  have  an  automobile 

That  will  aut,  and  quit,  when  it  ought  to? 

There's   wind  and   the   shining  sun 

And   the   beautiful    bright   blue   bay. 
While  hand  in  hand  on  the  shining  sand 

Contiguous   lovers   stray. 
I  search  in  vain  for  the  founts  of  joy 

That  fount  as  they  bill  and  coo. 
For  I'm  looking  to-day  for  a  fountain-pen 

That  will  fount  when  I  want  it  to. 

Oh,  well  that  the  fisherman  mourns 
For  the  lobsters  that  are  no  more! 
He    should   set   lobster   pots    on    the    proper 
spots, 
For  there's  lobsters  enough  on  shore; 
Yet  the  things  we  want  but  never  can  get 

Make  all  the  prospect  bleak. 
And  I'm  yearning,  in  vain,   for  a  lost  golf 
ball 
That    will    answer,    "  Here,    sir,"    when    I 
speak. 

— H'inthrop  Packard  in   Life. 


A  Diagnosis  of  Kentucky. 
Kentucky's  hills  are  full  o£  rills. 
And  all  the  rills  are  lined  with  stills. 
And   all   the   stills    are    full    of   gills, 
And  all    the  gills   are    full   of    thrills. 
And  all  the  thrills  are  full  of  kills. 

You  see,   the   feudists   dot  the  hills. 
And  camp   along  the  little   rills, 
Convenient    to    the    busy    stills, 
And   thirsting    for   the    brimming   gills. 
And   when   the  juice  his  system   fills 
Each    feudist   whoops  around  and  kills. 

Now,  if  they'd  only  stop  the  stills 
They'd  cure   Kentucky's  many   ills — 
Men  would  be  spared  to  climb  the  hills 
And  operate  the  busy  stills. 

However,  this  would  mean  more  gills, 

And  that,  of  course,  would  mean  more  thrills, 

Resulting  in  the  same  old  kills. 

So   all    the   hills   and   rills   and   stills, 
And  all  the  gills  and   thrills  and  kilts. 
Are  splendid   for  the  coffin  mills. 
And    make    more    undertaker's    bills. 

— Chicago  Tribune. 


Many  Beverages 

are  so  vastly  improved  by  the  added  richness  im- 
parted by  the  use  of  Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Con- 
densed Milk.  The  Eagle  Brand  is  prepared  from 
the  milk  of  herds  of  well  fed,  housed,  groomed  cows 
of  native  breeds.  Every  can  is  tested  and  is  therefore 
reliable. 


The  Crystal  Baths. 
Physicians  recommend  the  Crystal  hot  sea-water 
tub  and  swimming  baths,  on  Bay.  between  Powell 
and    Mason  Streets,  terminus  of  all   North    Beach 
car  lines. 


WHEN  IN  NEED  OF 

Underwear 

Examine  "  Pfister's  "  Form*Fittiog 

LINURET— Pure    Linen'|  for 

XYLORET—  Pure    Lisle  |  MEN 

BOMBYRET— Pure  Silk  '  and 

VILLURET— Pure  WoolJ  WOMEN 

Made  in  different  weight*  and  style* 
and  at  prices  to  suit  all  parse*. 

Our  goods  are  not  only  the  healthiest,  but 
also  the  most  comfortable  garments  to  wear. 


GO     GEA.RY     STREET 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

—  MAKERS  OF    THE   BEST  — 

Bathing  and  Gym.  Suits,  Sweaters,  Jerseys 

Leggins,    Golf     and     Hunting    Jackets, 

Ladies'  knitted  Jackets  and  Vests. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    YOaK-S'jLTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

New  York. .August  5.  to  am  I  St.  Louis Aug.  19,10  am 

Pbil'delphia.Aug.  12,  10 am  |  New  York.. Aug.  26, 10am 
Philadelphia—  Oueenntown — Liverpool. 

Westenland August  1  I  Haveriord August  15 

Belgenland August  S  |  Noordland August  22 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  UNE. 

NEW    YOBE— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Mm  apolis.Au-.  i.  11.50  am  i  Mesab3 Aug.  15,9  am 

Minn'haba..Ang.S.5.3oara  j  Minnetonka  .Aug.  22,5am 

Only  nrst-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON-QCEENSTOWN— UVEEPOOL. 

Commonwealth July  50  1  Commonwealth Aug.  27 

New  England. ...August6     New  England...    .   Sept   3 

Mayflower August  13  |  Mayflower Sept.  10 

Montreal— Liverpool— Short  sea  passage. 

Dominion August  1  I  Canada August  22 

Southwark Augusts  j  Kensington August  29 

Boston    Mediterranean    ™™* 

AZORES-OLBBALTAR-NAPLES-OENOA. 

Cambroman Saturday,  Aug.  S.  Sept.  19    Oct   31 

Vancouver -Saturday,  Aug.  29.  Oct.  io'nov"  21 

v      HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE. 

NEW  YORK-ROTTERDAM,    VIA  BOULOGNE. 
Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Rotterdam July  291  Statendam August  12 

Potsdam   August  5  \  Ryndam August  19 


RED  STAR  LINE. 


NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 

Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Kroonland August  1  I  Finland August  15 

Zeeland August  S  |  Vaderland August  22 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK-QCEENSTOWN-LIYEEPOOL. 

Oceanic July  29,9.30 am  .   teutonic.  ..August  5,  noon 

Cymric July  31,  11  am  I  Arabic August  7.  5  pm 

Armenian. ..August.*, 6am  |  Germanic.  August  12, noon 
C.  li.  TAYLOK.  Passenger  Agent,  Pacific  Coast, 
2t  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AMD  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  tor 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai 

and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Coptic  (.Calling  at  Manilaj  ..Taesday,  August  18 

Gaelic Friday,  September  11 

Dorie Wednesday,  October  7 

Coptic _ Saturday,  October  31 

No  cargo  received  on  board  00  day  oi  sailing. 

Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  +21  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 
D.  P.  STUBBS.  General  Manager. 

TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

ORIENTAL  S,  S.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 

U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Whan,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  u.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo>,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  ior  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing.       1903 

Nippon  Mara Friday,  July  31 

America  Mam Wednesday,  August  26 

(Calling  at  Manila; 
Hongkong  Maru Saturday,  September  19 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
■421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 
W.  H.  AVEBY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  ;  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 


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and  Sydney,  Thursday,  August  6,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 
S.  S.    Mariposa,   ior  Tahiti,  August    15,    1903,    at 

II    A.    M. 

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Street.     Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 

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THE        ARGON  AUT 


July  27,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Elizabeth  W.  Young,  youngest  daughter  of 
Major-General  Samuel  B.  M.  Young,  U.  S.  A., 
to  First  Lieutenant  John  R.  R.  Hannay, 
Twenty-Second  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  son  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  John  W.  Hannay,  U.  S.  A., 
retired. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Ida  Mary  Russell, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  John  Adam  Russell,  and  Mr. 
George  Albert  Webster  will  take  place  at  St. 
Luke's  Church  on  August  5th,  at  eight  o'clock. 
Miss  Julia  Mau  and  Miss  Dollie  Ledyard  will 
be  bridesmaids,  and  Mr.  Hubbard  Dunbar  will 
be  the  best  man.  Dr.  Vowinckel  and  Mr.  Dal- 
ton  Harrison  will  also  attend  the  groom,  and 
the  ushers  will  be  Mr.  George  Daly,  Mr. 
George  Coffee,  and  Mr.  Robert  Dennis. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Gertrude  Lacey,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  C.  Lacey,  and  Mr. 
Alfred  Joseph  Turner  took  place  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  parents,  2621  Octavia  Street,  on 
Wednesday  evening.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed by  Rev.  John  A.  B.  Wilson,  of  Trinity 
Methodist  Church.  Mr.  Charles  Turner, 
brother  of  the  groom,  was  best  man.  Upon 
their  return  from  their  wedding  journey  in 
Southern  California,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Turner  will 
reside  at  1571   Grove  Street. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Agnes  Hyman,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  M.  Hyman,  and  Mr.  Max  C. 
Greenberg  will  take  place  in  the  Maple  Room 
of  the  Palace  Hotel  on  August  6th. 

Mrs.  Maurice  Casey  gave  a  luncheon  and 
card-party  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  on  Friday,  July 
17th.  Those  at  table  were  Mrs.  William  Gwin, 
Miss  Gwin,  Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean,  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Somers,  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones,  Mrs.  George  D. 
Toy,  Mrs.  Henry  P.  Sonntag,  Mrs.  Emma  G. 
Butler,  "  Mrs.  H.  C.  Breeden,  Mrs.  E.  W. 
Hedges,  Mrs.  Fred  H.  Green,  Mrs.  Adam 
Grant,  Mrs.  F.  H.  Lefavor,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker, 
Mrs.    Frank   Johnson,    and    Mrs.    S.    Hoffman. 

The  Italian  embassador,  Edmond  Mayor  des 
Planches,  and  his  party  were  the  guests  of 
Mayor  Schmitz  on  Tuesday,  ihey  were  driven 
around  the  city,  through  the  Presidio,  Fort 
Mason,  and  Golden  Gate  Park  to  the  Cliff 
House,  where  luncheon  was  served.  In  the 
party  were  Count  Grimani,  Italian  consul  for 
San  Francisco,  Mr.  A.  Sbarboro,  Dr.  J.  Cale- 
garis,  Mr.  E.  Patrizi,  and  Mr.  Alfred  Ron- 
covieri.  Embassador  des  Planches  was  the 
guest  of  Mrs.  Hearst  on  Tuesday  evening, 
and  on  Wednesday  was  tendered  a  farewell 
banquet  by  the  Italian-Swiss  colony. 

Mrs.  George  Sperry  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Friday,  July  1 7th,  at  which  she  entertained 
Mrs.  David  Bixler,  Mrs.  John  C.  Klein,  Miss 
Sperry,  Miss  Smith,  Mrs.  Hiram  C.  Smith,  and 
Miss   Geraldine  Bonner. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Dennis  Arnold  gave  a  dinner 
at  Fairfax  last  week,  their  guests  being  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Philip  King  Brown,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ashton  Stevens,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.H.  de  Young, 
Mr.  Hotaling,  and  Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham. 

Mrs.  Henry  P.  Sonntag  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Tuesday  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  when  she  enter- 
tained Mrs.  Adam  Grant,  Mrs.  Southard  Hoff- 
man, Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young,  Mrs.  Frank  S. 
Johnson,  Mrs.  F.  H.  Lefavor,  Mrs.  James 
Follis,  Mrs.  Fred  H.  Green,  Mrs.  Grant  Self- 
ridge,  Mrs.  George  D.  Toy,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Porter, 
Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker,  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Dean,  Mrs. 
F.  W.  Nolkes,  Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean,  Mrs. 
Emma  C.  Butler,  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones,  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Somers,  and  Miss  Gwin. 

Governor  Benjamin  B.  Odell,  Jr.,  of  New 
York,  and  his  party  made  a  brief  stay  in  San 
Francisco  early  in  the  week.  On  Monday  they 
visited  Stanford  University,  and  were  enter- 
tained at  luncheon  by  Major  Rathbone  at  the 
Burlingame  Country  Club.  In  the  evening  an 
informal  reception  was  given  them  by  the 
Union  League  Club,  and  at  eleven  o'clock 
they  departed  in  a  special  train,  by  way  of 
Ogden,  for  the  Yellowstone  Park.  In  the 
governor's  party,  besides  his  sons,  Mr.  H.  B. 
Odell  and  Mr.  Bryant  Odell,  were  General 
Francis  V.  Greene,  Mr.  F.  E.  Ellsworth,  of 
Lockport,  N.  Y.,  Dr.  S.  B.  Ward,  of  Albany, 
and  his  son,  Mr.  D.  B.  Ward. 

Admiral.  Adigard,  commanding  the  French 
squadron  in  the  Pacific,  was  the  guest  of 
Mayor  Schmitz  on  Wednesday,  who  showed 
him  the  points  of  interest  in  and  about  the 
city.  In  the  party  were  Lieutenant  Rene 
Daveluy,  adjutant  of  the  French  squadron, 
Consul-General  of  France  M.  Henri  Dal- 
lemagne,  Mr.  A.  Goustiaux,  Mr.  J.  Godeau, 
Dr.  F.  P.  Marquis,  and  Mr.  Alfred  Ron- 
covieri. 

Pay-Inspector  Leeds  C.  Kerr  gave  a  dinner 
at  his  residence  at  Mare  Island  on  Tuesday 
evening,  complimentary  to  Captain  Bowman 
H.  McCalla,  the  new  commandant  of  the  navy- 
yard.  Others  at  table  were  Lieutenant  and 
Mrs.  Arthur  MacArthur,  Miss  McCalla,  Mrs. 
E.  D.  Griffin,  Mrs.  W.  G.  Miller,  and  Civil 
Engineer  Parsons. 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 
There  is  no  substitute 


Art  Notes. 

The  California  Camera  Club  announces  that, 
in  conjunction  with  the-  San  Francisco  Art 
Association,  the  third  Photographic  Salon  will 
be  held  in  the  galleries  of  the  Mark  Hopkins 
Institute  of  Art,  beginning  October  Sth,  and 
continuing  a  fortnight.  It  has  been  the  object 
of  the  Salon  in  its  previous  exhibitions  to  ex- 
hibit that  class  of  photographic  work  which 
best  exemplifies  artistic  feeling  and  execu- 
tion. This  idea  is  to  be  maintained  in  the 
coming  Salon,  but  with  a  higher  standard  than 
heretofore.  With  this  in  view,  the  pictures 
will  be  selected  by  a  jury  composed  of  Arnold 
Genthe  (chairman),  F.  E.  Monteverde,  New- 
ton J.  Tharp,  Henry  W.  Seawell,  and  John  M. 
Gamble.  The  executive  committee  of  the  Sa- 
lon will  be  A.  L.  Coombs  (chairman),  W.  E. 
Palmer,  W.  J.  Street,  R.  H.  Fletcher,  J.  W. 
Erwin,  E.  G.  Eisen,  L.  P.  Latimer,  and  Charles 
A.  Goe  (secretary). 

Francis  Marion  Wells,  the  well-known  Cali- 
fornia sculptor,  died  at  the  City  and  County 
Hospital  on  Wednesday  morning,  at  the  age 
of  fifty-five  years.  Death  was  due  to  general 
nervous  collapse.  Mr.  Wells  modeled  the 
statue  on  the  City  Hall,  and  also  executed 
the  monument  that  commemorates  the  dis- 
covery of  gold  in  California  by  James  Mar- 
shall, which  stands  in  City  Hall  Square,  in 
front  of  the  City  Hall. 

In  his  illustrated  lecture  before  the  Camera 
Club,  the  other  day,  on  "  The  Lily  of  the 
Arno,"  Henry  Payot  threw  upon  the  canvas 
the  picture  of  San  Miniato  Hill,  in  Florence, 
which  he  explained  had  once  been  as  rough 
and  unsightly  as  Telegraph  Hill,  but  had  been 
reclaimed  by  patriotic  and  artistic  Florentine 
folk.  He  showed  views  of  the  broad  stair- 
ways that  lead  down  the  hill  to  the  river, 
and  hinted  how  easily  such  passages  could  be 
cut  in  the  eminence  at  the  north-east  end  of 
this  city.  San  Miniato  is  as  high  as  Telegraph 
Hill,  and,  like  it,  commands  a  view  of  the 
whole  metropolis  at  its  feet.  But,  unlike  the 
local  height,  it  is  adorned  with  beautiful  parks 
and  terraces,  and  is  the  crowning  ornament 
of  Florence,  a  fair  decoration  visible  for  many 
miles. 

An  interesting  social  and  art  function  will 
be  the  forthcoming  exhibition  of  original 
drawings  and  paintings,  by  the  local  news- 
paper and  magazine  illustrators,  in  the  Maple 
Room  of  the  Palace  Hotel  during  the  winter 
season.  The  exhibition  will  represent  the  work 
of  between  forty  and  fifty  artists,  and  will 
consist  of  more  than  one  thousand  drawings. 


Mrs.  John  Mackay  and  Mr.  Clarence  Mackay 
have  sold  their  half-interest  in  the  Nevada 
Block,  at  the  north-west  corner  of  Mont- 
gomery and  Pine  Streets,  to  James  L.  Flood, 
who  in  turn  has  conveyed  a  half-interest  to 
the  Nevada  Bank.  The  Nevada  Bank  has  been 
anxious  for  some  time  to  acquire  an  interest 
in  the  property,  and  would  have  taken  the 
whole  property  had  Mr.  Flood  felt  disposed 
to  part  with  it.  Mr.  Flood  preferred  to  retain 
a  half-interest,  however,  and  the  property 
will  accordingly  remain  jointly  in  his  name 
and  that  of  the  bank.  The  change  of  owner- 
ship does  not  mean  that  the  property  is  to  be 
improved,  for  the  present  building,  although 
erected  in  1875,  is  a  substantial  structure  to- 
day,    and    a    well-paying     investment     as     it 

stands. 

.  ♦  « 

The  Veteran  Volunteer  Firemen's  Associa- 
tion, composed  of  many  war  veterans,  have 
accepted  the  challenge  of  the  Grand  Army 
veterans  of  Fitzgerald,  Ga.,  to  play  a  match 
game  of  baseball  in  this  city  during  encamp- 
ment week,  and  have  elected  Colonel  H.  J. 
Burns,  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  captain  of 
the  team,  with  full  power  to  make  all  arrange- 
ments. Among  the  notable  players  in  the  local 
team  are  James  Aiken,  the  pitcher,  who  is  fifty- 
six  years  of  age,  and  weighs  265  pounds ; 
William  F.  Miller,  catcher,  who  is  fifty-nine 
years  old,  and  weighs  210  pounds.  The  team 
is  composed  of  men  over  fifty  and  under 
eighty  years  of  age,  and  all  weigh  more  than 
200  pounds. 

» — «*- — * 

It  has  just  been  announced  that  William  G. 
Irwin  &  Co.,  the  representatives  of  the 
Spreckels  interests  in  Honolulu,  have  been 
appointed  the  agents  for  the  Hawaiian 
Islands  of  the  China  Mutual  Navigation  Com- 
pany. The  first  vessels  of  the  line  to  arrive 
here  will  be  the  Ciavering  and  Atholl,  now  on 
the  way  from  Hong  Kong.  The  acceptance  of 
this  agency  is  looked  upon  as  the  entering 
wedge  of  the  Spreckels  interest  into  the 
transportation  trade  with  the  Orient.  Their 
efforts  up  to  this  time  have  been  confined 
to  New  Zealand,  Australia,  Hawaii,  and  the 
islands  of  the  South  Pacific. 

Mrs.  Arabella  D.  Huntington's  assessment 
on  personal  property  contained  in  the  Colton 
House,  at  1020  California  Street,  has  been 
raised  from  $25,745  to  $150,000.  The  super- 
visors were  somewhat  reluctant  to  make  any 
increase,  and  possibly  would  not  have  done 
so  but  for  the  undisputed  statement  that  the 
paintings  were  insured  for  $750,000,  and  the 
admission  of  E.  Black  Ryan  that  he  would  not 
object  to  an  assessment  of  $150,000.  There- 
fore, for  the  purpose  of  taxation,  the  paintings 
were  valued  at  $143,005,  instead  of  at  $18,750, 
as   in   the   original   schedule. 

There  are  many  reasons  why  a  trip  to   Mt. 

Tamalpais  offers  the  most  enjoyable  outing 
of  any  resort  near  San  Francisco.  The  cost 
is  small,  the  scenery  is  charming,  the  accom- 
modations at  the  Tavern  are  excellent,  and  the 
view  from  the  veranda  and  summit  are  in- 
comparable. 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Green,  widow  of  the  late 
William  Arthur  Green,  formerly  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, died  in  London,  on  July  4th,  at  21  Ken- 
sington Palace  Gardens. 


The  Crocker  Heirs  to  Build  Again. 
The  heirs  of  the  late  Colonel  C.  F.  Crocker, 
who  are  Templeton  Crocker  and  Miss  Jennie 
Crocker,  of  this  city,  and  Mrs.  Francis  Burton 
Harrison,  of  New  York,  are  preparing  to  erect 
a  modern  business  structure  at  the  north- 
western corner  of  Post  Street  and  Grant 
Avenue.  The  building  is  to  be  ten  stories  in 
height,  and  will  be  of  steel,  glass,  and  sand- 
stone. The  lot  has  a  frontage  of  sixty  feet  on 
Post  Street  and  one  hundred  and  twenty-two 
feet  on  Grant  Avenue.  A  part  of  the 
building  now  on  the  lot  is  rented  to  P. 
Centemeri  for  a  store.  He  took  the  place  on 
a  five-year  lease,  with  the  privilege  of  re- 
newing it  for  five  years.  In  order  to  get  pos- 
session the  Crocker  heirs  paid  Centemeri 
$20,000  for  his  option  for  another  lease  of 
five  years.  In  addition  to  paying  him  the 
$20,000  the  agent  promised  to  get  Centemeri 
a  location  in  the  same  neighborhood,  and 
found  a  store  occupied  by  a  milliner.  In  re- 
turn for  payment  of  $100  a  month  for  a  certain 
period  the  milliner  contracted  with  the  Crocker 
agent  to  vacate  whenever  Centemeri  got  ready 
to  move  in.  Later  on  the  milliner  repented 
of  her  bargain.  She  agreed  to  pay  Centemeri 
$250  per  month  if  he  would  not  disturb  her. 
Centemeri  consented  to  the  proposal.  Now  he 
will  get  $250  a  month  from  her  for  letting  her 
stay.  She  will  get  $100  a  month  from  the 
Crocker  heirs  for  moving.  Yet  both  contracts 
hold  good. 

• — ♦■ — • 

E.  O.  McCormick,  passenger  traffic  manager 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  who  has 
just  returned  from  the  East,  says  that  ar- 
1  angements  have  been  made  by  which  low 
round-trip  tickets  will  be  given  for  a  num- 
ber of  gatherings  to  be  held  on  the  Pacific 
Coast  during  the  next  year.  Among  others, 
the  American  Bankers'  Association,  which 
is  to  hold  its  annual  gathering  in  this  city 
from  October  2th  to  23d ;  the  triennial  con- 
clave of  the  Knights  Templar,  to  be  held  here 
in  September,  1904;  the  National  Livestock 
Association,  which  will  hold  its  annual  con- 
vention at  Portland,  January  12th  to  15th; 
the  Transmississippi  Commercial  Congress, 
which  is  to  meet  at  Seattle  in  August  of  next 
year;  and  the  approaching  national  encamp- 
ment  of   the    Grand   Army. 


Mrs.  Head  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Anna 
Head,  will  sail  from  New  York  for  England 
on  Monday,  and  shortly  after  their  arrival  in 
London,  Miss  Head  will  be  married  to  Mr. 
A.  J.  Mounteney  Jephson,  who,  it  will  be  re- 
membered, visited  San  Francisco  some  twelve 
years  ago  with  Henry  M.  Stanley,  the  noted 
explorer.  Shortly  after  Mr.  Jephson's  return 
to  England,  their  engagement  was  announced, 
but  it  was  subsequently  broken,  owing  to  the 
strong  opposition  of  Miss  Head's  father,  who 
objected  to  his  daughter's  marrying  a  for- 
eigner. Just  before  his  death,  about  six  months 
ago,  however,  Colonel  Head  gave  his  consent 
to  the  wedding,  which  is  now  to  take  place  in 
London   on  August   17th. 


A  three-story  brick  building  is  to  be  erected 
on  the  lot  on  the  north-west  corner  of  Annie 
and  Jessie  Streets  by  the  Sharon  estate.  The 
old  structure  on  the  property  is  now  being 
torn  down.  The  Sharon  estate  is  the  owner 
of  the  Palace  Hotel  building  on  the  opposite 
side  of  Jessie  Street,  and  the  estate  bought 
the  lot  so  as  to  be  able  to  prevent  the  erec- 
tion of  a  high  building  that  would  shut  off  the 
light  from  the  westerly  exposure  of  the  hotel. 


At  the  election  of  the  directors  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Exchange  the  full  vote,  as  officially 
announced,  was  as  follows:  William  Babcock, 
68  ;  W.  H.  Crocker,  73  ;  W.  J.  Dutton,  72 ;  E. 
W.  Hopkins,  73 ;  Juda  Newman,  71  ;  R.  P. 
Schwerin,  73  ;  H.  Sherwood,  55  ;  Leon  Sloss, 
73  ;  F.  W.  Van  Sicklen,  73  ;  F.  H.  Wheelan, 
68;  E.  K.  Wood,  73;  G.  W.  McNear,  2.  The 
judges  of  election  were  Emile  Gauthier,  E. 
Mehlert,  and  A.  A.  Adler. 


The  will  of  the  late  Thomas  J.  Clunie  has 
been  admitted  to  probate.  Judge  Murasky 
has  fixed  the  individual  bonds  of  the  three 
executors — Andrew  J.  Clunie  (half-brother  of 
the  deceased),  Burrell  White,  and  E.  A.  Bridg- 
ford — at  $100,000.  The  estate,  as  a  whole. 
is  valued  at  over  a  million,  and  yields  an  in- 
come at  present  of  $48,000.  It  consists  of 
realty,  money,  jewelry,  and  other  personal 
property. 

Gilbert  Palache  died  at  his  residence  on 
Eddy  Street  on  July  17th,  after  an  illness 
of  six  weeks.  He  had  been  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  H.  M.  Newhall  &  Co.  for  over  thirty 
years,  and  was  highly  esteemed  in  business 
circles. 


A  Fable,  -with  a  Moral. 

Once  a  Tired  Man  went  off  for  the  Summer 
to  Rest  and  Enjoy  Himself.  Two  weeks  later, 
in  the  City,  he  met  a  Friend,  who  looked  at 
him,  Curiously.  "  Why,"  said  the  Friend, 
"  do  you  go  Away  to  some  long-distance 
Hothole,  and  eat  several  Pounds  of  Dust  get- 
ting there,  and  Ruin  your  Clothes  and  get 
Poison  Oak,  too,  and  think  you've  had  Sport, 
when  you  can  go  down  to  Hotel  Vendome,  at 
San  Jose,  and  have  all  sorts  of  fun,  and  no 
Dust  or  Poison  Oak?"  And  the  Tired  Man 
wept,  and  said  He  would  be  wiser  Next  Time. 


—  Swell  dressers  have  their  Shirt  Waists 
made  at  Kent's,  "  Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


—  "  Knox"  celebrated  hats  ;  spring  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,  746  Market  St. 


Pears' 

Agreeable  soap  for  the 
hands  is  one  t"hat  dissolves 
quickly,  washes  quickly, 
rinses  quickly,  and  leaves 
the  skin  soft  and  comfort- 
able.    It  is  Pears'. 

Wholesome  soap  is  one 
that  attacks  the  dirt  but 
not  the  living  skin.  It  is 
Pears'. 

Economical  soap  is  one 
that  a  touch  of  cleanses. 
And  this  is  Pears'. 

Established  over  loo  years. 

G.H.MUMM&CO.S 

EXTRA     DRY 

CHAflPAGNE 

Now  coming  to  this  market  is  of  the  remarkable  vintage  of 
1898,  which  is  more  delicate,  breedy,  and  better  than  the 
1893  1  it  is  especially  dry,  without  being  heavy,  and  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  finest  vintages  ever  imported. 


FRED'K   DE   BARY   &   CO.,  New  York, 

Sole  Agents  in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
E.  M.  GREENWAY,   Pacific    Coast   Representative . 


ENNEN'S  tS^ 


POWDER 


]  PRICKLY  HEAT,  & 

I  CHAFING,  and      S 

SUNBURN,  "ViLi^ 

Removes  all  odor  of  perspiration.-    De- 
r  Ugh  Jul   after  Sbavlog.     Sold   everywhere,   or 
celpc  of  25c    Get  Mennen's  (the  original).     Sample  Free. 

GERHARD  MENNEN  CO.MPANY.N«w4rk.N.J, 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

How  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL  CO. 

Phone  South  95. 

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"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED" 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 


Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  to  St. 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Route  and  Missouri 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-car  service,  new 
equipment. 

Secure  sleeping-car  reservation  and  full  informa- 
tion from 

I_.  M.  FLETCHER, 

Pacifi-c  Coast  Agent 
30  Montgomery  Street,   San   Francisco,    Cal. 


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Tested  by  Time  and  Still  the  Favorite. 


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and  Moselle  "Wines. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


63 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COL'RT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  beeo  con- 
verted intoalouogingroom,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR— the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modem  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


TENNIS 

GOLF 

BOWLING 


ORCHESTRA 

COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  CO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  VENDOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


NEW  ANNEX 
NEW  LANAI 
NEW  DRIVES 


GEO.  P.  SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET! 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty  minute*  from  San  Francisco.  Sixteen 
trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all  the 
year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

B.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  a.  M.,  and  4  p.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Ft.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


Saratoga  Springs 

The  Ideal  Slimmer  Resort  of  California 

UNDER   NEW  MANAGEflENT 


15  Mineral  Springs 

—  FOR  — 

Rheumatism.  Gout,  Neuralgia,  Kidney, 

Liver,  Bright*  Disease,  Constipation, 
Bronchial  and  Lung  Trouble. 


Open  the  vear  round.  For  information  and  booklets 
call  at  PECK'S  BUREAU,  II  .Montgomery  Street,  and 
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Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  \Y.  G.  Irwin,  Miss  Helene 
Irwin,  and  Mrs.  Lewis  have  been  sojourning  at 
Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  L.  Flood  have  departed 
for  the  East,  en  route  to  Europe,  to  be  absent 
at  least  a  year. 

Mrs.  William  I.  Kip  and  Miss  Mary  Kip 
have  returned  from  their  visit  to  Columbus, 
O.,  and  New  York,  and  are  at  the  Hotel 
Richelieu. 

Mrs.  Abby  M.  Parrott  has  been  spending  the 
past  week  at  Del  Monte. 

Mrs.  Sidney  V.  Smith,  Miss  Smith,  and  Mr. 
Sidney  V.  Smith,  Jr.,  are  spending  the  month 
of  July  at  the  Hotel  Vendome. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Morton  Gibbons  have  gone 
to  housekeeping  at  2413  Franklin  Street,  near 
Yallejo. 

Mr.  Francis  Carolan  was  in  Santa  Barbara 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  William  H.  Mills  and  Miss  Elizabeth 
Mills  were  at  Lake  Tahoe  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Truxtun  Eeale,  after  a  visit 
to  Germany,  are  in  Paris. 

Mrs.  Colis  P.  Huntington  has  been  occupy- 
ing her  country  place  at  Throggs  Neck,  West- 
chester, N.  Y.  She  expects  to  sail  for  l,ondon 
on  a  visit  to  the  Princess  Hatzfeldt  early  in 
August. 

Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst  is  sojourning  at  her 
country  place  on  the  McCloud  River.  Later, 
she  will  go  to  Monterey  for  a  short  stay. 

Mrs.  I.  Lawrence  Pool  is  spending  a  few 
weeks  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Miss  Ethyl  Hager  was  the  guest  of  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Dean,  in  San  Rafael 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Sidney  Catlin  Partridge,  accompanied 
by  her  sister,  Miss  Maude  Simpson,  has  re- 
turned from  Japan. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin  are  spending 
the  summer  at  Del  Monte.  Miss  Celia  O'Con- 
nor has  been  visiting  them  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  George  Doubleday  has  been  visiting 
Mrs.  Remi  Chabot  at  her  country  place  near 
St.  Helena. 

Mr  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pease,  Miss  Mayhta, 
Pease,  Mr.  R.  H.  Pease,  Jr.,  and  Mrs.  R.  L. 
Ogden  left  for  Portland,  Or.,  last  week  for  a 
six  weeks'  visit  to  the  North-West. 

Mrs.  Davenport  and  Miss  Eleanor  Daven- 
port expect  to  sail  for  the  Orient  on  August 
8th  to  be  absent  about  six  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Newhall  were  in 
London  when  last  heard  from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill  have  returned 
after  a  visit  of  two  months  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

Mr.  John  Tarn  McGrew,  of  Honolulu,  who 
has  been  in  San  Francisco  for  the  past  few 
weeks,  left  for  New  York  on  Tuesday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs  Sperry  and  Miss  Elsie  Sperry 
will  spend  the  month  of  August  in  Humboldt 
County. 

Miss  Mary  Harrington  has  been  the  guest 
this  week  of  Mrs.  McCalla  at  the  navy-yard, 
Mare  Island. 

Mrs.  E.  D.  Eeylard  is  spending  some  time 
at  Santa  Barbara,  the"  guest  of  her  aunt,  Mrs. 
Julia  Reddington. 

Miss  Ida  Gibbons  has  been  spending  a  week 
with  friends  in  Marin  County. 

Mrs.  Caroline  Ashe  has  been  visiting  her 
son  and  daughter-in-law  at  their  country  place 
in  Sonoma  County. 

Bishop  and  Mrs.  William  F.  Nichols,  who 
went  East  to  attend  the  graduation  of  their 
son  at  West  Point,  have  returned  after  an  ab- 
sence of  six  weeks. 

Mrs.  J.  E.  de  Ruyter  expects  to  spend  the 
remainder  of  the  summer  in  Napa  with  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  T.  C.  Van  Ness. 

Mrs.  Bernard  Peyton  and  Miss  Julia  Peyton 
are  spending  the  summer  at  San  Jose. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding,  Miss  BlandV 
ing,  Miss  Susan  T.  Blanding,  and  Miss  Henri- 
ette  de  S.  Blanding  are  sojourning  at  Lake 
Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  K.  Vanderbilt,  Jr., 
arrived  in  New  York  from  Europe  on  Wednes- 
day. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  C.  Boardman  have  been 
spending  the  past  fortnight  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Haggin  are  at  their 
country  place  at  Versailles,  Ky.,  where  they 
will  remain  until  October. 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  Bradford  Leavitt  and  family 
are  spending  the  month  ot  July  in  Southern 
California.  Miss  Katherine  Bunnell,  of  Ber- 
keley, is  with  them. 

Miss  Bertha  Runkle  and  Miss  Katherine 
Ball  have  returned  from  Japan,  after  an  ab- 
sence of  three  months. 

Mrs.  V.  K.  Maddox  and  Mr.  Knox  Maddox 
have  been  sojourning  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mrs.  Peter  McG.  McBean  has  returned  from 
San  Rafael,  where  she  has  been  passing  the 
summer. 

Mr.  Jeremiah  Lynch  has  departed  for  New 
York,   en   route  to   Europe. 

Mr.  Donald  de  V.  Graham  was  a  guest  at 
the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  week. 

Mr.  H.  M.  Walker  and  family,  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  are  guests  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mr.  Henry-  Heyman  has  been  sojourning  at 
Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  James  R.  Wilder,  of  Honolulu,  was  in 
town  last  week. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  P.  O'Neal,  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  Miss  Florence  Musto,  of  Stockton, 
Mr.  A.  H.  Merrill,  of  Berkeley,  Consul  P. 
S.  Von  Gelden,  of  Amsterdam,  Mrs.  A.  R. 
Reynold,  Miss  Inez  Strouch.  Miss  Huntsman, 
Miss  Frances  M.  Stewart,  Mr.  S.  W.  Cowles, 
Dr.  Victor  G.  Vecki,  Mr.  C.  H.  Merrill,  Dr. 
G.  W.  Duncan,  and  Mr.  C.  G.  Follis. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L. 
Gardner  and  Mr.  M.  J.  Barbour,  of  Chicago, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Pollock  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
P.  Gurten,  of  British  Columbia,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frank  Seaman  and  Mr.  J.  C.  de  Wolf,  of  New 
York,    Mrs.    T.    T.    Williams,   of    San    Rafael, 


Mrs.  N.  d'Oyly  and  the  Misses  d'Oyly,  of 
San  Jose,  Mr.  Stuart  T.  Rawlings,  of  Mexico. 
Mr.  Paige  Monteagle,  Mr.  Du  Val  Moore,  and 
Mr.  Moulton  Warner,  of  Blythdale. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The  latest  personal   notes   relative  to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

The  following  promotions  in  the  army  have 
just  been  announced  :  Major-General  Samuel 
B.  M.  Young,  to  be  lieutenant-general,  vice 
Lieutenant-General  Nelson  A.  Miles,  who  re- 
tires August  8th ;  Brigadier-General  Samuel 
S.  Sumner,  to  be  major-general,  vice  Major- 
General  George  W.  Davis,  to  be  retired  July 
26th ;  Brigadier- General  Leonard  Wood,  to 
be  major-general,  vice  Major-General  Samuel 
B.  M.  Y'oung,  to  be  promoted. 

Major  Guy  L.  Edie,  U.  S.  A.,  will  not  come 
to  California  for  the  present,  as  the  order 
appointing  him  surgeon  at  the  new  camp  at 
Monterey  has  been  countermanded. 

Captain  B.  Frank  Cheatham,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
recently  returned  from  Manila,  en  route  to 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  Mrs.  Cheatham  were 
the  guests  last  week  of  Mrs.  Cheatham's 
parents,   Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Denman. 

Colonel  Thomas  H.  Barry,  U.  S.  A., 
adjutant-general's  department,  has  been  se- 
lected for  brigadier-general  in  the  permanent 
service,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  pro- 
motion of  General  Leonard  Wood,  U.  S.  A. 

Captain  Charles  E.  Stanton,  U.  S.  A.,  was 
at  Del  Monte  last  week. 

Colonel  Daniel  D.  Wheeler,  U.  S.  A.,  re- 
cently chief  quartermaster  at  department 
headquarters,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  brigadier-general,   and  will  be  retired. 

Dr.  Charles  P.  Kindleberger,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
Mrs.  Kindleberger  were  guests  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  during  the  week. 

Colonel  George  B.  Rodney,  U.  S.  A.,  who  re- 
cently assumed  command  of  the  post  at  the 
Presidio,  is  among  the  officers  recently  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  brigadier-general  and  re- 
tired. 

Captain  William  Renwick  Smedburg,  Jr., 
Fourteenth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  will  not  sail 
for  the  Philippines  in  August.  His  regiment 
has  been  ordered  to  remain  at  home. 

Colonel  Charles  A.  Woodruff,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
his  son,  Lieutenant  James  A.  Woodruff,  U. 
S.  A.,  have  joined  Mrs.  Woodruff,  who  is  so- 
journing in  Mendocino  County. 

Major  Albert  Todd,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Todd 
visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  last  wsek. 


Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  began  his  new  series  of 
lectuies  at  Steinway  Hall  on  Sunday  last  be- 
fore a  splendid  audience.  His  subject  was 
""  Life  Secrets,"  and  following  the  lecture  he 
demonstrated  the  power  of  mind  in  some  won- 
derful and  interesting  experiments.  The  topic 
for  Sunday  evening  will  be  "  The  Thought 
that  Kills."  The  following  Sunday,  August 
2d,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  will  take  for  his  sub- 
ject "  Is  Telepathy  a  Lost  Faculty  or  a  Devel- 
opment?" Both  lectures  will  be  followed  by 
experiments  in  sub-conscious  phenomena. 


,W.  S.  Leake,  who  has  been  manager  of  the 
Call  for  the  last  six  years,  has  tendered  his 
resignation,  to  go  into. effect  the  latter  part  of 
September,  or  early  in  October,  unless  his 
personal  affairs  should  make  it  necessary 
for  him  to  retire  earlier.  Mr.  Leake  is  said 
to  have  some  enterprises  of  his  own  in  which 
he  proposes  to  engage. 


Application  has  been  made  to  the  board  of 
equalization  by  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.  to  be  re- 
lieved of  taxation  on  its  franchise,  which  it 
contends  should  not  be  assessed.  The  fran- 
chise is  put  at  £450,000  by  Assessor  Dodge,  and 
other  personal  property  totals  $580,580. 


Mr.  Emil  Steinegger,  after  an  absen.ee  of 
four  years  in  Europe,  has  returned  to  San 
Francisco  and  opened  a  studio  at  546  Sutter 
Street. 


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ANNOUNCES  SPORTS. 
Polo  and  Races— 

August  1st  to  8th.  Under  the  auspices 
of  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Pony  Racing 
Association.  R.  M.  Tobin,  Secretary.  En- 
tries to  and  information  from  151  Crocker 
Building-,  San  Francisco. 

Automobile  Run— 

August  6th  to  11th,  from  San  Fran- 
cisco, including  meet  at  Del  Monte. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California.  F.  A.  Hyde.  President.  Entries 
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Golf  Tournament — 

August  24th  to  31st.  Under  auspices  oi 
the  Pacific  Coast  Golf  Association.  R.  Gil- 
man  Brown,  Secretary.  Entries  to  310  Pine 
Street,  San  Francisco'. 

OPEN  CHAMPIONSHIP—  Team    Match, 

for  B>  rne  Cup,  North  is.  South. 

DEL  MONTE  CUPS—  Amateur  Tournament. 
Ladies'  Tournament. 


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San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK   DAYS— 7-30,  8.00,  9.00,  11.00  am:  12.35,  2-3o. 

3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra 

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San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  t2-°°.  3-4o.  5-°°.  5-2Q.  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7-45  a  m 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  ra 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  ra 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
Sooam 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  ra 
2.30  p  ra 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  ra 

7.30  a  ra 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10,20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  m 

7.25  p  ra 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  P_ra 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

S.00  a  m 

5.10  p  m 

S.oo  a  m 
5- I0  P  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  ior  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  ior  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights.  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS.  MILL  VALLEY,   ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART   WEEK    DAYS— 6.45,   f*7-45 
S-45.  9-45.  "i  a.   m.;   12.20,  *i.45,  3.15,  4.15, 
T5-I5.  *6-i5.  6,45,  9,  11.45  P-  M- 
7.45  A.  m.  week  davs  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley. 
DEPART  SUNDAY-?,  fS-  t*9,   t*io,    n,  tn.30  a. 
M.;  tl2.30,  t*i-3°.  2-35.  *3-50.  5,  6.  7-3°,  9.  "-45  P-  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (f)   to  Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.  m.  Saturday. 
Saturdi  y's  3.15  p.  M.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.45  a.  ..1.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tornales 

and  way  stations. 
2 .:>    '      m.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
Punt    /s,  S  a.  m. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sund'ivs,  10  A.  M. — Point  Reye>  and  intermediate. 
lolidavs — Boats  and  tr,i  us  on  Sundav  time. 
Tick-rt  Offices— 626  Market;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Positive,  bet ;  comparative,  better ;  superla- 
tive,  better   not. — Detroit  Free   Press. 

"  Faith,  Mrs.  O'Hara,  how  d'ye  till  thim 
twins  apart?"  "  Aw,  'tis  aisy — I  sticks  me 
finger  in  Dinnis's  mouth,  an'  if  he  bites  I 
know  it's  Moike." — Harvard  Lampoon. 

Doctor — "  Do  I  think  I  can  cure  your 
catarrh  ?  Why,  I'm  sure  of  it."  Patient — 
"  So  you  are  very  familiar  with  the  disease?" 
Doctor — "I  should  say  so!  I've  had  it  my- 
self all  my  life." — Judge. 

A  man  may  go  along  fur  fifty  years  an' 
not  be  worried  much  about  de  hereafter,  but 
de  minit  de  barber  finds  a  bald  spot  on  his 
head  he's  got  a  burden  to  carry  fur  de  rest 
of  his  days. — Detroit  Free  Press. 

Mrs.  Uppmann — "  I  must  tell  you,  Delia, 
that  I  was  displeased  at  your  entertaining  that 
policeman  in  the  kitchen  last  night."  Delia — 
'"  Faith,  Oi  did  ax  him  into  the  parlor,  ma'am, 
but  he  wouldn't  go." — Philadelphia  Press. 

Bellows — "  Does  your  daughter  play  on  the 
piano?"  Old  farmer  (in  tones  of  deep  dis- 
gust)— "  No,  sir.  She  works  on  it,  pounds 
on  it,  rakes  it,  scrapes  it,  jumps  on  it,  and 
rolls  over  on  it ;  but  there's  no  play  about  it. 
sir." — Tit-Bits. 

"  Well,  there  is  one  thing  that  can  be  said 
of  Crawfoot.  Although  he  went  fishing  him- 
self on  the  Sabbath  he  didn't  let  his  little  son 
fish."  "  I  am  glad  to  hear  that.  Was  the  boy 
at  Sunday-school?"  "No,  baiting  the  hooks." 
— Chicago  Daily  News. 

Little  Doris  (talking  to  her  doll,  whose  arm 
had  come  off,  exposing  the  sawdust  stuffing) — 
"  You  dear,  good,  obedient  dolly,  I  knew  I 
had  told  you  to  chew  your  food  fine,  but  I 
did  not  think  you  would  chew  it  so  fine  as 
that." — Glasgow  Evening  Times. 

"  You  say  that  drink  was  the  cause  of  your 
downfall,"  said  the  kind-hearted  visitor  at  the 
jail.  "Yes,"  answered  Meandering  Mike;  "I 
met  a  gentleman  dat  was  too  intoxicated  to 
take  care  of  his  money.  An'  de  temptation 
was  too  great." — Washington  Star. 

Done  in  oil :  Miss  DeAuber  (an  amateur 
artist) — "  Have  you  ever  been  done  in  oil, 
Mr.  Marks  ?"  Mr.  Marks — "  Well,  I  guess 
yes."  Miss  DeAuber — "  And  who  was  the 
artist  ?"  Mr.  Marks — "  Artist  nothing !  It 
was  a  promoter  that  did  me." — Chicago  News. 

Poor  child:  "  I  hear  Jack  Kandor  was  here 
to  see  the  baby,"  said  Mr.  Hoamley.  "  Yes," 
his  wife  replied.  "  I  suppose  the  first  thing  he 
said  was :  '  He  looks  just  like  his  father  '  ?" 
"  No ;  the  first  thing  he  said  was  '  Good 
heavens  !'  Then  he  said  .that." — Philadelphia 
Press. 

"  My  plea,"  said  the  young  lawyer,  who  had 
just  won  his  first  case,  "  seemed  to  strongly 
affect  the  jury."  "  Yes,"  replied  the  judge, 
"  I  was  afraid  at  one  time  that  you  would 
succeed  in  getting  your  client  convicted  in 
spite  of  his  innocence." — Chicago  Record- 
Herald. 

■    *  -• 

See  that  Sl^dman  is  spelt  with  two  ees  when  you 
buy  St^fdman's  Soothing  Powders.  Beware  of 
spurious  imitations. 


"  Smuthers  is  in  an  awful  state  now. 
'"Mental,  physicial,  or  Kentucky?" — Cincin 
nati   Commercial-Tribune. 


—  Dr  E  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  kemoved  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 

*    ♦ — • 

Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7.30 


M  —  'BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  pm.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 
A  M  — f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  J.11.10  p  m. 

A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  Nc  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  n. 10  p  m. 

p  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10  pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11. 10  a  m. 

P  M  — *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       \  Monday  and  Thursday. 
J  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
8  OO 


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Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


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Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
leave     —    From  June  21,  1903.    — 


SAN  FRANCISCO, 

ARRIVE 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.-) 


ItfE 


7.B5P 


426p 


9.00  a 

1000a 
"10.00a 


1000  a 


7.00a    Benlcla,  Sutsun,  Elmlra  ud  lltnv 

aneato 7-2fr 

7  00a  Veeevttle,  Winters,  BnmMT.. 726r 

7.30a  Martinet,     &*i     B*moc,     TaJleJo, 

Nap*,  C*li*to«-a,  8uU  Km. 6.2B> 

7.30a  Nlles,  Lathrop.  Btoekton 7.26p 

8  00a   Parti. Woodland,  Knights  Landing. 

HarysTllle.  Orevflle,  (connect* 
at  Mary rvflle  for  GrldJey .  Blgga 
and  Chico) 

8.00a  AtlantlcBxpreaa-OrdenaadKaaB. 

8.00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  AntSoch,  By- 
Toa,Trac;,8tockten(Sa«naneftta> 
Lot  Bancs,  Meadeca,  MasHerd, 
Ylaalla,  Forterrnie »4  JSr 

8.00a  Port  Coat*,  Martin  «,  Lathrop,  Me- 
desto,  Merced,  Fresno,  Ooahae 
Junction,  Hinlard,  Tlaalla, 
Bakersfield 6.26? 

8-30a  Shasta  Express  —  Deris.  WULIami 
(for  Bartlett  Springs),  Willows, 
tPmto,  Bed  Bluff,  Portland 

B.30a  Nllea,  Baa  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton, I  one,  Baeram  en  to,  PlacerrHle, 
MaryaTllle,  Ctilco,  Bed  Bluff 

8  30a  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jameatown,  80- 

nora,  Toolnmne  and  Angela 4.25* 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations GB6p 

Vallejo 12.25F 

t  Crescent  City  Express,  ButbonadL 
—Port  Cost*.  Byron,  Traoy,  La- 
throp, Stockton,  Merced,  Ray- 
mond, Fresno,  Hanford,  Vliilla, 
Bakersfield,  Loi  Angeles  and 
yew  Orleans.  ("Weatbonnd  ar- 
t-Ires as  Pacific  Coast  Express, 

via  Coast  Line) lUOr 

The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 6.2Ep 

12-O0h  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3.25P 
tl-OOP   Sacramento  River  Steamers til. OOP 

3-30p  Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento, 
Woodland,  Williams,  Colas*, Wil- 
lows, Knlgnta  Landing,  afarys- 
vllle,  Orovllle  and  way  statloni. . 

3  -30p   Hayward,  Nile*  and  Way  Stations. . 
4-OOp  Martlnez,6an Ramon, VaileJo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  BanuRosa 

A  00p  Martinez, Tracy.Latbrop^tockton.  10-2B* 

4  00p  Nlles,  LlTermore.  Stockton,  Lodl. .      4.25P 
4-30p  Hayward,  Kilf  s,  Irrington,  Ban  I    t8.56A 

Jose,  LlTermore f  111,65a 

B00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno. Tulare, 
Bakersfield,  Los  Angeles;  con- 
nect! at  Bangna  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara   8.66a 

6-O0p  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lea 

Banos 12-26P 

tB.30p  Nlles,  San  Jose  Local 7.25a 

6.00r-  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Ban  Jose 1026a 

6.00f  Oriental  MaU— Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaha,  Bt.  Lonls.  Chicago  aadl 
East.  (Carries  Pullman  Car  pa> 
sengera  only  out  of  Ban  Fran- 
cisco. TourlBt  car  and  coach 
passengers  take  7.00  P.  M.  train 
to  P.eco,  continuing  thence  Im 
their  care  6  p.m.  train  eastward.. 
"Westbound.  Bnnset  Limited. — 
From  New  York,  Chicago,  New 
Orleans,  El  Paso.  Los  Angeles. 
Fresno.  Berenda,  Raymond  (from 
YoEemlte),  Martinez.    Arrives.. 

7  00p  Ban  Pablo,  Port  Costa,  Martinet 

and  Way  Stations 11  .26a 

17.00p  Vallejo 7-BiP 

7-OOp  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  BnUan,  Devil, 
Bacrsmento,  Trnckee,  Reno. 
BtopB  at  all  stations  east  est 
Sacramento 

B-OBp  Oregon  A  California  Express— 4ee- 
ramento,  Harysvllle,  Bedding, 
Portland,  Paget  Bound  and  East.     8-E6a 

191  Or-  Hayward.  Nllea  and  Sen  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) 111.56a 

11.26p  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 

eemlte),  Fresno 1226p 

Hanford.  VlBalia.  Bakersleld BtffP 


1056a 
7BBP 


9.25a 


4-26p 


8.25a 


7-65a 


COAST    LINE    (Jen-ow  flange). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

17-45a    Santa    Crnz    Kiccrsloe     (Sunday 

only) tg,1  Op 

8.1  Ba  Newark.  Onterrllle.  Ban  Joie, 
Felton,    Bonlaer     Creek,    ftanla 

Cms  and  Way  Statloni 6-25p 

IS.IBp  Newark,  Centerrllie,  Ban  Joie, 
New  Almadeo.Los  Gatoi, Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Sanu  Crax  and 

Principal  Way  Buttons   10.65a 

4-16p  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatoi  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  rnns  tbrongh  to  Santa 
Crnz,  connects  at  Felton  for 
Boulder  Creek.  Monday  only 
from  Santa  Crnz) '■  8-55  a 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

From  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  of  Market  St.  (Sl!p8> 

— 17:15    9:00     11:00  a.m.      1-00    3.0D    5.16  p.m. 

From  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  — -r6:00    18:00 

t8:05    10:00a.m.       1200    2.00    d.QQ  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Broad  Gange). 

(Third  and  Towneend  Streets.) 

6.10a    San  Joeeand  Way  Stations 7.30p 

1700a   San  Jose  and  Way  Buttons 630f 

'7  00a  New  Almaden /"4.10p 

:7  15a    Monterey  and  Santa  Crnz  Excnr 

slon  (Sunday  only) t8.3Qp 

08.00a  Coast  Line  Limited— Stops  onl  v  San 
Jose,G11roy,Bo1liBter,PaJaro.Ca8- 
troville.  Salinas.  San  Ardo,  Paso 
Robles.  Bsnta Margarita,  San  Lnls 
Obispo,  (principal  stations  thence) 
Santa  Barbara,  and  Lob  An- 
geles. Connection  at  Caatrovllle 
to  and  from  Monterey  and  Pacific 
Grove  and  at  Pajaro  north  bound 
from  Capltola  and  SanUCmz....  10-46p 
8-0Da  Ban  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
Santa  Cruz.PacIflc  Grove,  Sal  I  Daa, 
San  Lnls  Obispo  and   Principal 

Intermediate    Stations 4-1  Op 

WeBtbonnd  only,  Pacific  Coast  Ex- 
Dresp.— From  New  York,Chlcago, 
New  Orleans.  El  Pafio,  Lo«  An- 
geles, Santa  Barbara.    Arrives..      1.30p 

10.30a  San  JoBe  and  Way  Stations 1.20P 

11-30a  San  Jose,  Lob  GatoB  and  Way  SU- 

tlons... 6.36P 

o1.30j    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations X700P 

2-OOp  Ban  Jose  and  Way  SUtlons }9-40a 

\3.CDf  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clare, 
o       Ban  Jose.  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  SanU 
Clara  for  SanU   Cruz,    Boulder 
_  __        Creek  and  Narrow GangePolnu)t12.16r 
0&4BT  Bnrllngame.  San  Mateo,  Redwood, 
Menlo Park.  Palo  Alto.  Mayfleld. 
Mountain  View,  Lawrence,  SanU 
Clara.  San  Jose,  Gllroy  (connec- 
tion  for  Holllster,  Tres  Plnos), 
Pajaro  (connection  for  Watson- 
Tliie,  Capltola  and  Santa  Crnz), 
Pacific  Grove  and  way  sUtlons. 
Connects  at  Cnstrovllle  for  8a- 

.__     „"na 1045a 

o4^0p  Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations B.36a 

otB-OOp  San  Joee.  (via  SanU  Clara)  Los 
(j  atoB,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Siatlons rS.OOA 

o{6-30i    Snn  Jose  and  Principal  Way  Buttons  +8  00a 
oIS-IBp  San  Mateo. Beresford, Belmont,  San 
Carlos,    Bedwood,    Fair     Oaks, 

MenloPark.  PaloAlto tG  46a 

6  J0p  Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  36a 

o7X0p  Sonaet  Limited,  Eastbound.— San 
Lnls  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 
Angeles.  Heming.  EI  Paso,  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  (Weetbonnd 
arrives  v In  S»nJcsqu1n Valley)...  tr8.25A 

B.COp  Palo  Alto  andWayStalions 10  15a 

n11-30i  Ulllbrae,  Palo    Alto  and  Way  SU- 

tlODB to  4Bp 

c11.30pMlllbrae,  Ban  Jose    and  Way  BU- 
-■ UoaB W4Bp 


A  for  morning,  p  for  alternoon.  X  Saturday  and  Sunday  only,  g  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
t  Sundav  excepted.  J  Sunday  only,  a  Saturday  only.  (/Connects  at  Goshen  Jc.  with  trains  ior  Haniord, 
Visalia;  at  Fresno,  for  Visalia  via'Sanger.  e  Via  Coast  Line,  f  Tuesday  and  Friday,  m  Arrive  via  Niles. 
n  Daily  except  Saturday,  a- Via  San  Joaquin  Valley.  \  Stops  Santa  Clara  south  bound  only;  connects, 
except  Sunday,  for  all  points  Narrow  Gauge,    o  Does  not  stop  at  Valencia  Street. 

The  UNION  TRANSFER  COMPANY  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
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The  Argonaut. 


Vol.  LIII.     No.   1377. 


San  Francisco,  August  3,  190; 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Convict  Outbreak  at  Folsom — Plot  Hatched  "  While 
the  Band  Played  "—The  "  Bean  and  Beefsteak  "  Regime — 
What  Were  the  Guards  Doing?— Isolation,  Silence,  Under- 
Feeding,  and  Discipline  What  the  Felons  Need — A  Colom- 
bian's View  of  the  Canal  Treaty— Katil  Perez's  Solution  of 
a  Vexed  Problem— Eastern  Views  of  a  Russo-Japanese  War 
— Comparative  Fighting  Strengths  in  the  China  Sea— Pro- 
gress of  the  Postal  Investigation — Two  More  Indictments- 
Preparing  for  Primary  Contests — Grain  Warehouse  Frauds 
Charged — Judge  Murasfey  Decides  Two  Political  Contests — 
The  Local  End  of  a  Trust  Litigation — San  Francisco's  Com- 
mercial   Position— Story    of   the   Jail    Break    at    Folsom 65-6" 

Conditions  m  Congoland:  Reported  Atrocities  Said  to  Be 
Without  Foundation  —  Cannibalism  Being  Rapidly  Sup- 
pressed—Barbarous Native  Administration  of  "Justice"  by 
the     "  Poison     Test  " 67 

The  Fall  of  Ulysses:     How    Browning   Worked    an    Elephant's 

Undoing.       By    Charles    D wight    Willard 68-69 

The  Preposterous  American:    How  New  Yorkers  Appear  to  an 

Anonymous     English     Journalist 7° 

"Van  Fletch  "  is  Washington:  The  Beauties  of  the  Sum- 
mer City 7° 

literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications      71-73 

Individualities:    Notes  About    Prominent    People  All   Over  the 

World    7i 

Communications:     More    Views    on    "Race    Suicide" 71 

Intaglios:     "  Carmen,"    by   Theopbile    Gautier;    "  Flaminca,"    by 

Emanuel   von   Geibel.     Translated  by   Lucius   Harwood  Foote     72 

Drama:  Hall  Caine's  "  The  Manxman  "  at  the  Alcazar — 
Camille  d'Arville  in  "  The  Highwayman  "  at  the  Tivoli. 
By    Josephine    Hart     Phelps 74 

Stage  Gossip     75 

Vanity  Fair:  The  Sway  of  Harry  Lehr  at  Newport — Some  of 
the  Stories  Told  of  Him- — His  Fat  May  Lose  Him  His 
Power — How  the  President  Enjoys  Himself  in  Summer — 
A  Psuedo-Nautical  Dinner  in  Paris — Kag-Time  at  Philippine 
Funerals— An    Anti-Flirting   Club 76 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise  — 
The  "  Primitive  Methodists  "  Attack  Chamberlain — Charles 
Hoyt  and  the  Bad  Saloons — Whistler's  Slap  at  Oscar  Wilde 
- — The  Bishop  of  Exeter's  "  Remarkable  Statement  " — 
Troubles  of  a  Relative  of  President  Loubet — An  Unpopular 
Officer— The  Scotsman,  Coal,  and  the  "  Oregon  " — Troubles 
of  a   Kansas    Bridal    Pair 77 

The  Tuneful  Liar:    "The    Deadly   Pi   Line,"    "The    Motorist's 

Farewell  "    77 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits   of    the    Day 77 

Society:      Movements    and     Whereabouts — -Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army    and    Navy    News 78-79 


Elsewhere  will   be   found  a  condensed  account  of  the 

desperate    outbreak    of    convicts    at    the 
Convict  r 

Outbreak  California  State  Prison  at  Folsom.   This 

at  Folsom.  affair  seems  to  be  unmistakably  due  to 

lax  discipline.  Various  facts  are  coming  to  light,  show- 
ing the  most  deplorable  weakness  in  the  treatment  of 
convicts.  One  significant  story  is  that  this  outbreak, 
which  has  been  hatching  for  months,  was  "  finally  de- 
cided upon  last  Sunday  afternoon,  while  the  convicts 
were  in  the  yard  listening  to  the  band  playing."  We 
have  often  had  occasion  in  these  columns  to  criticise 
the  way  in  which  the  convicts  in  California  prisons 
were  pampered  and  petted.  But  we  did  not  know  that 
they  were  regaled  with  band-playing  in  their  off-hours. 


There  are  many  honest  laboring  men  in  California  who 
lack  such  luxuries.  The  Oakland  Herald  prints  a 
photograph  of  a  scene  in  Folsom  prison-yard,  where 
the  convicts  are  eagerly  watching  a  wrestling-match 
between  two  of  their  fellow-felons.  In  this  idyllic 
scene  the  officers  and  guards  are  interested  spectators 
with  the  convicts. 

It  is  not  many  years  since  a  desperate  outbreak  oc- 
curred in  Folsom  Prison,  near  the  close  of  the  regime 
of  another  sympathetic  warden.  We  refer  to  Warden 
McComb.  He  believed  in  kind  treatment  of  convicts. 
He  was  shocked  at  the  idea  of  meagre  fare  and  hard 
labor.  Tie  therefore  gave  his  convict  wards  as  much 
leisure  as  he  could,  and  instituted  a  series  of  "pro- 
gressive tables,"  like  a  progressive  euchre-party.  In 
this  novel  penal  scheme  the  new  convict  was  placed  at 
what  was  called  the  "  bean  table."  If  he  behaved 
nicely  and  kept  his  nose  clean,  he  was  then  promoted 
to  the  "beefsteak  table."  If  he  became  a  model  con- 
vict, always  greeted  the  warden  obsequiously,  and 
laughed  uproariously  at  his  jokes,  he  was  then  pro- 
moted to  the  "  tenderloin  table." 

All  this  sounds  like  a  joke.  But  it  is  not  jesting — 
it  is  grim  and  sorry  truth.  This  mockery  of  penal  pun- 
ishment went  on  in  Folsom  for  months.  It  had  its 
inevitable  sequel.  The  wild  animals  there,  overfed  and 
underworked,  tried  to  break  their  bonds.  A  knot  of 
convicts  from  the  "  tenderloin  table  "  were  the  ring- 
leaders, and  they  incidentally  tried  to  murder  their 
kind  warden.     Fortunately  they  failed. 

Warden  McComb  was  succeeded  by  Warden  Aull, 
a  rigid  disciplinarian.  Under  his  management,  Folsom 
became  a  model  prison.  Although  it  had  no  walls,  he 
posted  in  the  towers  around  the  prison  men  with  good 
rifles  and  good  nerves,  men  who  were  dead  shots.  Once, 
when  nine  convicts  tried  to  run  the  gauntlet,  three  fell 
in  their  tracks,  and  the  other  six  were  speedily  captured. 
Before  his  lamented  death.  Warden  Aull  was  preparing 
to  surround  the  prison  with  stone  walls.  But  his  suc- 
cessor has  never  carried  out  the  work.  It  would  be 
difficult  to  tell  why.  For  Folsom  is  in  the  foot- 
hills of  our  rock-ribbed  Sierra  range,  and  the  entire 
country  round  about  is  solid  granite.  If  some  of  the 
precious  cutthroats  who  have  just  broken  out  of 
prison  had  expended  their  surplus  energies  in  breaking 
out  stone  instead,  and  in  building  granite  walls,  this 
outbreak  might  never  have  occurred.  As  it  is,  the 
prison-break  might  have  been  infinitely  worse  had  it 
not  been  for  the  forethought  of  Convict  Casey.  When 
the  thirteen  gallows-birds  got  out.  Convict  Casey  had 
presence  of  mind  enough  to  lock  the  door,  thereby  shut- 
ting up  several  hundred  ruffians  who  otherwise  would 
have  followed  the  first,  and  carried  terror  through  the 
surrounding  country.  That  several  hundred  convicts 
are  inside  of  Folsom  Prison  to-day,  instead  of  devas- 
tating the  surrounding  country,  and  that  their  presence 
there  is  due  entirely  to  a  convict  instead  of  the  prison 
officials,  is  most  significant. 

The  Examiner  prints  interviews  with  many  of  the 
prison  guards.  Each  of  these  begins  in  the  same  way 
— "  I  was  sitting  near  the  door."  They  go  on  to  relate 
that  they  were  "  surprised,"  and  that  they  "  had  no 
weapons."  Prison  guards  should  not  be  sitting  idly 
in  the  sun;  they  must  be  vigilant.  They  should  not 
be  without  weapons;  they  must  be  armed.  If  these  are 
the  only  guards  we  have  in  California's  State  prisons, 
the  State  would  save  money  by  discharging  them,  and 
replacing  them  with  theological  students;  the  students 
would  be  cheaper,  and  possibly  they  might  convert  the 
convicts.  The  plea  of  the  riflemen  in  the  towers — that 
they  did  not  use  their  weapons  because  their  captain 
ordered  them  not  to  do  so,  and  because  the  convicts 
were    shielding    themselves    with    the    bodies    of    their 


fellow-officers — is  a  valid  one.  Their  business  was  to 
obey  orders.  But  had  they  been  ordered  to  shoot,  their 
business  also  would  have  been  to  obey  orders.  Only 
one  guard,  Thomas  Ryan,  seems  to  have  thought  of 
following  the  fugitives.  This  he  did,  and  took  a  pot- 
shot or  two,  winging  one  of  his  men;  but  he  was  de- 
terred from  further  sniping  by  the  agitated  hand- 
kerchief-waving of  the  imprisoned  guards. 

Doubtless  all  those  men  who  have  to  do  with  the 
control  of  convicts  will  find  this  sort  of  criticism  very 
cheap  after  the  catastrophe,  but  it  is  their  business  to 
keep  these  human  tigers  within  bounds.  These  felons, 
who  commit  robbery,  rape,  arson,  and  murder,  are 
worse  than  wild  animals.  We  have  no  sympathy  with 
the  mawkish  sentimentality  which  encourages  petting 
and  pampering  them.  It  would  be  better,  both  for  them 
and  the  world,  were  they  out  of  it.  But  as  civilization 
has  not  reached  such  a  point  as  to  further  the  de- 
struction of  venomous  serpents,  noxious  narcotics,  and 
murderous  convicts,  let  that  go;  some  day  it  will.  In 
the  interim,  we  have  a  right  to  demand  that  the  ordi- 
nary precautions  for  convict-guarding,  which  have  been 
found  necessary  and  effective  in  older  countries,  shall 
be  followed  in  this  new  one.  The  most  rudimentary 
of  these  precautions  are  isolation,  silence,  under-feed- 
ing, and  discipline.  By  "isolation,"  we  do  not  mean  soli- 
tary confinement,  but  the  species  of  restraint  practiced 
in  the  prisons  of  Belgium,  where  the  prisoners  see  the 
officers;  where  they  attend  divine  service  in  curious 
pews  whence  they  can  see  and  hear  the  clergyman, 
but  where  they  are  sedulously  shut  apart  from  one 
another;  by  "silence,"  we  mean  the  prevention  of  in- 
trigue and  plot-hatching,  such  as  took  place  at  Folsom 
"  while  the  band  played  on  Sunday."  By  "  under-feed- 
ing," we  mean  giving  convicts  food  enough  to  keep 
them  in  health,  but  not  enough  to  impel  them  to  the 
commission  of  crimes,  unnamable  and  otherwise,  against 
each  other,  or  against  their  guardians.  And  by  "  dis- 
cipline," we  mean  rigid,  stern,  unvarying,  but  just 
control  of  these  enemies  of  society. 

"  Under-feeding "  simply  means  not  feeding  too 
much.  Nearly  all  people  out  of  prison  eat  too  much. 
In  prisons  in  old  and  well-governed  communities  con- 
victs do  not  eat  too  much.  In  California  they  do.  We 
are  so  well-fed  a  community  that  the  mere  mention  of 
putting  an  athletic  murderer  on  bread  and  water  for  a 
few  days  makes  the  old  ladies  of  both  sexes  all  over  our 
State  dissolve  in  tears.  But  bread  and  water  is  not  such 
a  bad  diet  when  you  are  hungry.  If  any  man  doubts 
the  ability  of  a  convict  to  get  along  on  bread  and  water, 
let  him  try  it  himself  some  time,  in  camp  or  elsewhere, 
when  he  has  nothing  else.  If  he  is  good  and  hungry 
he  will  find  that  he  can  sustain  life  on  bread  and  water, 
and  be  mighty  glad  to  get  it. 

This  flight  of  felons  from  Folsom  is  another  proof, 
if  one  were  needed,  of  the  folly  of  petting  convicts.  As 
Sherman  said  of  Indians,  there  may  be  good  convicts, 
but  all  the  good  ones  are  dead.  The  one  redeeming 
feature  about  this  outbreak  is  that  some  and  perhaps 
all  of  these  felons,  for  the  murder  of  *  iuard  Cotter, 
may  be  hanged.  We  sincerely  hope  so.  The  gallows 
yearns  for  them. 

The  unexpected  delay  attending  the  ratification  of  the 
A  Colombian's  Panama  Canal  treaty  by  the  Colombian 
view  of  the        congress   has   had   various   explanations 

Canal  Treatv.        from     t;me     tQ     Mme(     \ml     t|iev     none    yf 

them  have  been  explicit  and  satisfying.  A  new  view 
of  the  subject  from  the  standpoint  of  a  Colombian  has 
been  given  in  an  article  in  the  last  North  American 
Review,  by  Raul  Perez.  Mr.  Perez  is  the  present  head 
of  a  prominent  Colombian  family,  and  the  nephew  of  .i 
former  president  of  that  republic.  He  publish) 
some  time  one  of  the  leading  papers  of  the 


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but  owing  to  the  fact  that  he  is  of  the  Liberal  party, 
which  failed  in  the  last  revolution,  his  native  country 
is  not  at  present  the  safest  place  for  him,  and  he  re- 
sides in  the  United  States.  Mr.  Perez  claims  that  the 
objection  to  the  treaty  comes  from  the  most  enlightened 
and  progressive  of  his  countrymen.  They  deny  in  the 
first  place  that  the  building  of  the  canal  will  benefit 
Colombia.  On  the  contrary,  they  expect  it  to  prove 
a  commercial  injury.  The  present  revenue  from  the 
transferring  of  passengers  and  freight  at  both  ter- 
minals, Panama  and  Colon,  would  be  cut  off,  steamers 
would  pass  through  without  even  coaling,  passengers 
would  avoid  landing  out  of  dread  of  the  climate,  and 
the  natives  would  have  no  part  in  the  traffic  except 
"  to  place  on  board  the  scanty  products  of  their  own 
immediate  neighborhood."  The  payment  of  ten  millions 
of  dollars,  according  to  Mr.  Perez,  is  not  to  be  con- 
sidered as  adequate  remuneration  for  the  injury  which 
the  Colombians  would  sustain.  The  country  has  long 
considered  the  isthmus  its  great  trump  card.  To  part 
with  it  for  a  few  millions  would  be  only  a  temporary 
advantage,  realized  by  a  few,  out  of  an  asset  that  be- 
longs to  posterity — a  posterity  that  would  execrate  the 
memory  of  those  who  squandered  it.  Vastly  would 
these  Colombians  prefer  that  the  isthmus  should  be 
seized,  in  which  case  honor  would  be  retained,  and 
with  it  the  hope  that  the  rights  of  the  country  might 
some  time  be  vindicated — "  but  no  such  hope  could  be 
entertained  if  the  dishonest  band  of  clericals  who  act 
as  the  government  of  Colombia  give  a  seemingly  legal 
consent  to  the  transaction."  Mr.  Perez  says  that  the 
government  of  his  country  is  a  government  by  alien 
Jesuits,  whose  purpose  it  is  to  distribute  the  money 
received  "  among  the  dictator's  friends  and  the  re» 
ligious  orders."  The  constitutional  provision  against 
the  alienation  of  territory  is  also  cited  to  show  that  a 
ratification  by  the  legislature  of  Colombia  would  not 
be  legal.  Besides,  under  the  treaty,  if  ratified,  the 
United  States  would  succeed  to  the  status  of  the 
French  Canal  Company,  which  is  that  of  a  "juridical 
person,"  subject  to  the  laws  and  the  courts  of  Co- 
lombia. Would  the  United  States  be  satisfied  to  stand 
as  a  "  juridical  citizen  "  on  the  soil  of  an  inferior  na- 
tion? What  is  proposed  by  Mr.  Perez  is  to  substitute 
for  the  treaty  a  partnership  agreement  between  the 
two  countries,  by  which  Colombia  would  "  hold  a  per- 
manent interest  in  the  enterprise,  deriving  an  income 
that  would  benefit  not  a  few  officials  and  one  political 
party,  but  all  the  people  for  generations  to  come." 
Mr.  Perez's  paper  contains  a  warning  which  this  coun- 
try should  heed.  It  indicates  that  what  the  Colombian 
authorities  in  esse  may  do  will  be  overturned  when  the 
next    revolution    succeeds. 

To  the  warning  in  Mr.  Perez's  paper,  we  will  add  a 
warning  of  our  own.  If  what  the  present  Colombian 
Government  may  do  should  be  overturned  by  the  next 
revolutionary  government,  thereby  endangering  the 
rights  of  the  United  States  to  its  canal  —  why  then  the 
United  States  Government  will  overturn  the  next 
revolutionary  government  —  and  perhaps  those  which 
follow  —  in  Colombia. 

The  following  communication  concerning  the  editorial 

in    last    week's    issue    on    lynching   and 
Lvnching  in  Col-  j  » 

onies,  States,  boycotting,  doubtless  touches  on  a  point 
and  territories,  which  has  occurred  to  many  readers : 

Editors  Argonaut  :  I  have  read  with  interest  your  leading 
article  on  "  lynching."  One  inaccuracy  I  venture  to  point 
out  to  you :  "  We  believe  there  are  only  four  States — 
Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire.  Rhode  Island,  and  Utah — 
where  lynching  has  not  been   practiced." 

The  writer,  in  August,  1SS3,  witnessed  the  lynching  in  the 
principal  street  of  Salt  Lake  City  of  a  negro,  who,  a  few 
minutes  before,  had  shot  and  killed  the  chief  of  police  —  a 
Mormon  —  and  wounded  another  officer.  It  was  a  brutal 
affair,  the  mob  dragging  the  negro  "by  the  neck  through  the 
streets,  and  subsequently  hanging  up  the  dead  body  in  a  shed. 
True,  Utah  was  not  at  that  time  a  Stale  —  but  I  suppose  your 
record  does  not  rest  upon  a  technicality. 

Yours  truly,         A.  R. 

Our  remark  about  the  four  non-lynching  States — 
given,  by  the  way,  upon  belief — was  based  on  the 
statistics  of  the  Chicago  Tribune.  That  paper  prints 
periodical  records  of  lvnchings  and  other  crimes.  It  is 
the  only  source  whence  such  information  may  be  de- 
rived, and  it  is  as  accurate  as  may  be,  considering  that 
its  record  is  based  on  newspaper  dispatches  —  probably 
the  least  trustworthy  form  in  which  to  seek  informa- 
tion. But  such  as  it  is,  it  is  the  only  source  we  have. 
We  think  the  Tribune  means  "  States  "  and  not  "  Terri- 
tcr-i's":  we  certainly  meant  "States"  and  not 
"Colonies"  in  our  statement  about  Massachusetts,  for 
11   a  .other  part  of  the  article   we  chronicled  acts   of 


THE        ARGONAUT. 

lynch-law  in  colonial  Massachusetts,  although  not  hang- 
ings, and  certainly  not  negro-burnings.  The  latter 
seems  to  be  a  modern  crime  —  one  of  the  illuminations 
of  the  Twentieth  Century,  so  to  speak.  True,  religious 
people  some  generations  ago  used  to  burn  those  who 
differed  with  them,  but  they  had  no  coal-oil.  Those 
were  indeed  dark  days. 

Hie    news    ot    last    week     regarding    the     Manchurian 

Hasten  Views      s'tuatlOn    W3S    il.ghly    colored    with    war- 

uh  a  kusso-  like  rumors,     it  was  stated  that  Kussia 

Japanese  war.  1S  m0Dijl2ing-  troops  at  •  Odessa,  and  or- 
ganizing uattaiions  ot  sailors  ana  marines  in  iurkestan 
ior  uispaicn  to  Manchuria;  that  Lorpedo-uoats  are  leav- 
ing cronstadt  lor  the  east;  and  that  Kussian  cruisers 
have  leit  the  Straits  Settlement,  hound  tor  ton  Ar- 
thur, ihe  war  lever  in  japan  was  reported  to  be  al- 
most equally  violent.  subsequent  news  trom  Doth 
lokio  and  St.  Petersburg  deny  all  the  tales  01  prepara- 
tion, while  war  may  not  be  imminent,  there  is  basis 
tor  the  beliel  that  a  clash  between  Kussia  and  Japan  is 
almost  inevitable  at  some  luture  date.  1  he  probable 
uutcome  01  such  a  war  is  the  subject  ot  discussion  be- 
tween the  i\ortli  China  Uutty  jvl-zot,  published  at 
snanghai,  and  the  Japan  u  ccRly  Mail,  published  at 
lokonama.  We  are  told  that,  including  only  line-oi- 
battie  ships,  armored  cruisers,  sixteen-Knot  cruisers, 
ana  twenty-knot  gunboats,  in  har  Hastern  waters,  Japan 
nas  thirty  vessels  ot  203,192  tons,  and  Ungland  mteen 
vessels  01  130,380  tons.  Un  the  other  hand,  Kussia  has 
twenty-two  vessels  01  180,249  tons>  ana"  France  six, 
with  a  tonnage  of  38,804.  ihe  statement  shows  a  pre- 
liminary advantage  at  sea  in  tavor  ot  Japan,  which 
would  not  be  overcome  even  it  the  United  States  should 
join  torces  with  Japan  and  England,  and  Uermany 
should  assist  the  Russians  and  trench.  Ihe  Unitea 
states  has  rive  vessels  in  those  waters,  aggregating 
38,825  tons,  and  Germany  has  seven,  with  a  tonnage 
01  29,713.  ihe  China  paper  argues  that  if  Japan 
snouia  be  defeated  at  sea,  tne  proximity  ot  Port  Arthur 
wouid  enable  Russia  to  pour  an  invading  army  into 
japan;  but  it  Japan  should  win  the  preliminary  naval 
right,  the  succeeding  moves  would  be  problematical; 
but  since  Japan  could  scarcely  hope  to  invade  Kussian 
territory,  or  even  Manchuria,  with  success,  the  lighting 
on  land  would  probably  be  confined  to  Corea,  where 
neither  could  do  the  other  much  damage.  The  war 
would  be  long  and  weary,  and  end  in  a  treaty  with  mu- 
tual concessions.  The  Weekly  Mail  does  not  agree  to 
this  programme,  it  admits  that  Russia  is  safe  from 
invasion,  in  the  sense  that  her  capital  can  not  be 
reached  from  Eastern  Asia,  but- holds  that  a  Japanese 
army  might  deprive  Kussia  of  Port  Arthur  and  Dalny, 
evict  her  from  Manchuria,  and  confine  her  railway  ter- 
minus to  Yladivostock,  which  is  ice-bound  half  the 
year.  Neither  will  the  Mail  agree  that  a  Russian  in- 
vasion of  Japan  from  Port  Arthur  is  practicable.  It 
maintains  that  a  Russian  army  landing  in  Japan  would 
find  itself  confronted  by  250,000  well-drilled  and  well- 
equipped  soldiers  acting  on  the  defensive,  to  oppose 
whom  the  invader  would  need  twice  as  many.  The 
practically  simultaneous  transportation  of  500,000  men 
by  sea,  with  horses,  guns,  and  equipment,  would  re- 
quire 500  or  600  large  steamers,  and  no  such  flotilla 
could  be  gathered  by  Russia  in  eastern  waters  without 
years  of  preparation.  Even  if  the  Russians  landed  a 
force,  the  invasion  would  be  fruitless,  says  the  Daily 
Mail.  It  would  confront  stupendous  difficulties,  and  a 
campaign  in  comparison  with  which  England's 
Transvaal  war  would  be  insignificant.  "  Where  Kublai 
Khan  failed,"  it  concludes,  "  a  Russian  emperor  could 
not  succeed,  for,  relatively,  the  Japanese  possess  to-day 
far  greater  powers  of  resistance  than  they  had  in  the 
thirteenth  century." 

The  Postal  Department  investigation  which  is  being  conducted  by 

Fourth-Assistant   Postmaster-General   Bristow 
Progress  of  ,  ,     , 

the  Postal  reached  two  more  important  conclusions. 

Investigation.  Il  has  decided  that  Charles  Hedges,  superin- 
tendent of  free  delivery,  was  guilty  of  im- 
proper use  of  his  office,  and  he  has  been  dismissed.  Hedges, 
who  was  appointed  five  years  ago  from  Texas,  had  charge  of 
free  delivery  in  cities,  and  in  the  line  of  his  duties  he  had 
occasion  to  travel  to  various  cities  and  inspect  the  service. 
For  this  he  was  allowed  a  four-dollar  per  diem  as  expenses. 
It  has  been  found  that  he  falsified  his  movements,  claiming  a 
per  diem  for  journeys  to  specific  towns,  when,  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  he  was  elsewhere,  and  not  on  government  business.  He 
is  also  charged  with  having  loaned  his  traveling  commission 
unwarrantably.  His  department  was  directly  under  the  super- 
vision of  A.  W.  Machen,  who  had  charge  of  both  city  and 
country  free  delivery.  Hedges  does  not  deny  the  main  charges, 
but   appears  to   regard   them   of  slight   importance,   among  the 


August  3,  1903. 


customary  privileges  of  officials,  and  not  particularly  culpable, 
although  it  enabled  him  to  collect  unearned  per  diems.  George 
W.  Beavers  has  been  indicted  by  the  Federal  grand  jury  in 
Brooklyn.  He  was  recently  the  chief  of  the  division  of  sala- 
ries and  allowances  of  the  Post-Office  Department  at  Washing- 
ton, and  his  present  indictment  results  from  the  Bristow  in- 
vestigation. It  is  reported  that  the  charges  against  Beavers, 
on  which  the  indictments  were  found,  consist  in  receiving 
bribes,  one  of  $240  and  another  of  $840,  and  grew  out  of  his 
dealings  with  ex-Congressman  Driggs,  now  under  indictment 
for  his  connection  with  the  Brandt-Dent  Company,  of  Water- 
town,  Wis.,  the  makers  of  automatic  "  cashiers."  Federal 
District  Attorney  Youngs,  conducting  the  Brooklyn  proceed- 
ings, reports  a  conversation  with  the  President  at  Oyster  Bay, 
in  which  the  latter  expressed  the  desire  "  that  this  investiga- 
tion go  as  far  as  possible,  no  matter  where  it  reaches  or  whom 
it  hits."     The  public  generally  will  applaud  that  purpose. 


The  financial  doctors  gathered  about  the  bedside  of  Mr.  Wall 

Street,   of  New    \  ork,  seem  to  be   agreed   on 

Wall  Street's       the  diagnosis     It  is  dropsy.     On  the  remedy 

Two-HlLLlON  ,  ...  ,. 

s  and    the   prognosis   there   is   more   divergence 

of  opinion.  But  the  disease  is  unmistakable. 
During  several  years  past  the  process  of  "  stock  conversion  " 
has  been  going  on.  One  share  ot  old  stock  was  transformed 
into  three  shares  of  new.  The  man  who  was  worth  $1,000,000 
on  Monday  found  himself  on  Tuesday  worth  $3,000,000 — on 
paper.  Ihe  Wall  Street  promoters  of  these  schemes  believed 
that  if  they  could  only  pay  interest  on  this  expanded  capital- 
ization, and  interest  on  bond-issues,  for  a  little  time  while 
prosperity  was  at  its  height,  the  public  could  be  induced  to  buy 
these  securities,  and  after  that  they  didn't  care.  But  the  pub- 
lic was  wary.  It  refused  to  "  digest "  the  securities,  ihe 
larger  part  of  them  remained  in  the  hands  of  Wall  Street, 
which  strained  its  credit  to  the  limit  in  order  to  carry  them. 
Now  pay-day  has  come.  The  decline  in  prices  from  the  top- 
notch  of  1901  is  estimated  at  two  billions  of  dollars.  Much 
of  the  loss  is  purely  on  paper — like  the  profit.  Men  who 
held  par  stock  in  1900  saw  it  double  in  value  in  1901,  and  now 
see  it  return  to  par  again.  Ostensibly,  they  gained,  and 
ostensibly,  they  lost — really  they  did  neither.  And  it  is  be- 
cause these  transactions  were  mainly  confined  to  a  compara- 
tively small  number  of  men  that  so  far  the  stupendous  de- 
cline in  stocks  has  affected  so  little  the  country  at  large.  Crops 
are  large,  business  is  booming,  the  railroads  have  more  freight 
offered  than  they  can  handle,  The  farmers  did  not  invest  in 
"  industrials."  And  even  in  Wall  Street  itself  but  two  large 
failures  have  occurred,  those  of  Talbot,  Taylor  &  Co.,  brokers, 
with  liabilities  fixed  at  from  six  to  nine  millions,  and  Stow  & 
Co.,  with  liabilities  of  two  millions.  One  of  the  most  striking 
features  of  the  week  of  liquidation  has  been  the  decline  in 
stock  of  the  Steel  Trust.  The  common  stock  sold  at  23  and 
thereabouts,  and  the  preferred  at  6S.  Such  papers  as  the 
N  ew  Y.  ork  Times  see  in  the  movement  a  bear  conspiracy 
to  hammer  the  price  to  a  point  where  stock  may  be  acquired 
to  good  advantage.  This,  however,  will  probably  not  satisfy 
the  company's  employees,  who  were  persuaded  to  buy  pre- 
ferred stock  at  $82.50  in  pursuance  of  the  company's  "  profit- 
sharing  "  scheme.  Though,  as  stated,  the  amount  of  industrial 
stock  held  by  the  public  is  small,  sagacious  observers  are  not 
yet  ready  to  say  that  the  Wall  Street  panic  absolutely  will  not 
affect  the  country  at  large.  So  careful  a  financial  writer  as 
Henry  Clews  says :  "  Our  troubles  thus  far  are  strictly 
financial.  Whether  they  are  ended,  and  whether  they  will 
extend  to  general  business  or  not,  it  is  altogether  too  prema- 
ture to  say." 


Grain  Ware- 
house Frauds 
Charged. 


A  charge  of  falsifying  weights  of  grain  is  at  the  basis  of  an 
action  to  recover  $6,000  damages  brought  by 
E.  Clemens  Horst  against  the  Howard  Ware- 
house Company  and  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co. 
At  the  close  of  last  season's  harvest,  Horst 
stored  a  quantity  of  barley  in  the  Howard  warehouse.  The 
grain  was  weighed  by  the  warehouse  company,  and  the  weight 
certified  to  Horst,  the  latter  paying  $983.75  for  weighing 
charges.  During  the  fall  the  grain  was  shipped  to  England, 
the  warehouse  company  again  weighing  the  grain  and  certify- 
ing practically  the  same  weights.  The  customers  in  England 
made  a  complaint  of  short  weight,  and  Horst  claims  that  the 
Howard  people  took  out  between  three  and  four  pounds  from 
each  sack.  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  are  joined  because  they  were 
supposed  to  have  an  interest  in  the  warehouse,  though  it  is  not 
claimed  that  they  did  any  of  the  false  weighing.  Mr.  Howard, 
in  behalf  of  his  company,  says  that,  according  to  the  custom 
of  the  trade,  two  pounds  of  grain  was  taken  from  each  draft 
of  five  sacks,  and  sold  for  the  benefit  of  Horst  at  the  end  of 
the  season,  but  emphatically  denies  that  any  more  than  that 
amount  was  taken.  He  also  as  emphatically  denies  that 
Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.  have  any  interest  in  the  warehouse, 
while  that  firm  declares  that  its  inclusion  in  the  suit  is  an 
outrage.  The  Howard  company  offer  to  pay  $1,200,  the  amount 
received  from  the  grain  taken  from  the  drafts,  which  is  held 
to  Horst's  credit,  but  refuses  to  pay  any  more. 


Michael  Casev 
and  the 
People's  Monev 


If  any  fair-minded  citizen  of  Saw  Francisco  doubted  Mayor 
Schmitz's  sincerity  when  he  tried  to  prune 
the  budget  and  save  the  people's  money,  or 
doubted  Michael  Casey's  insincerity  and 
selfish  motives  when  he  succeeded  in  spoiling 
the  mayor's  plans,  those  doubts  must  have  been  dispelled  by 
the  developments  of  the  week.  When  the  budget  was  in  the 
hands  of  the  supervisors,  Casey,  for  the  board  of  public  works, 
went  before  them  and  begged  for  two  more  street  inspectors 
at  $1,200  a  year  each.  The  supervisors  agreed.  Casey  also 
secured  the  dismissal  of  two  employees  of  the  board  of  public 
works  who  were  not  in  the  ex-truck-driver's  favor.  These 
two  men's  salaries  amounted  to  $4,800,  which,  plus  the  $2,400 
for  the  two  new  inspectors,  totaled  $7,200.  But  Casey  did 
not    appoint    the    two    "  absolutely   necessary"    inspectors,    nor 


August  3,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT  . 


67 


was  the  $4,800  "saved"  applied  to  paving  streets  or  repair- 
ing sewers  or  to  the  wages  of  the  men  who  work  at  sweeping 
streets.  Nay,  nay.  There  were  clerks,  with  votes  and  friends, 
in  the  offices  who  were  working  nearly  eight  hours 
a  day  and  only  getting  $1,500  a  year.  There  were  poor,  hard- 
worked  book-keepers  drawing  the  paltry'  pittance  of  $i.Soo. 
There  was  a  janitor,  doubtless  with  inflooence,  getting  only 
$1,200.  There  were  many,  many  other  men,  working  ardu- 
ously for  long,  long  minutes,  and  getting  only  three  times 
what  they  were  worth.  So  Casey,  with  the  assistance  of  the 
vote  of  Commissioner  Marsden  Manson.  and  against  the 
heated  protests  of  Commissioner  Schmitz.  raised  the  salaries 
of  about  thirty  of  his  favorites.  Clerks  were  raised  to  the 
$1,800,  book-keepers  to  $2,100.  The  janitor  with  inflooence 
now  gets  $1,500.  (There  was  a  janitress  at  $660;  she  still 
gets  it;  she  has  no  vote).  The  $7,200  of  the  people's  money 
was  adroitly  "■placed"  by  the  hand  of  Michael  Casey  where 
*'  it  will  do  the  most  good."  Will  clerks  and  janitors  work 
any  harder  for  their  stall-fed  salaries?  Indeed  they  will — 
for  votes  for  Casey.  For  the  taxpayers?  What  a  foolish  ques- 
tion. 


Preparing  for 

Primary 

contests- 


The  time  for  those  desiring  to  vote  at  the  coming  primary  elec- 
tion to  register  having  expired,  the  leaders 
of  the  various  political  factions  are  preparing 
for  the  contests  that  will  take  place  a  week 
from  next  Tuesday.  The  united  Republican 
league  has  formed  clubs  in  all  the  districts,  is  holding  well- 
attended  meetings,  and  is  confident  of  electing  three  hundred 
and  twenty  delegates  to  the  convention.  The  opposition — the 
regular  Republicans,  as  they  call  themselves — are  by  no  means 
inactive.  A  club  was  organized  in  the  forty-second  district 
that  evidently  means  to  put  up  a  hard  fight,  and  which  adopted 
a  series  of  resolutions  that  were  more  caustic  than  grammat- 
ical. The  club  announced  that  it  would  elect  twenty-three 
Republicans  without  the  assistance  of  an  "  ex-Buckley  Demo- 
crat," "a  Phelan  Republican,"  or  "  the  mayor's  office.  *  In  the 
fortieth  district,  Jesse  Marks  is  out  with  his  knife  against  the 
league.  For  the  offices.  John  Lackman  does  not  seek  reelection 
to  his  present  position,  but  would  like  to  try  for  the  mayoralty 
if  Franklin  K.  Lane  does  not  run  on  the  other  side.  Henry  H. 
Lynch,  of  the  United  Railways,  is  spoken  of  for  sheriff.  Ex- 
Supervisor  Edward  Aigeltinger  is  said  to  be  another  aspirant 
for  the  position.  The  latest  candidate  suggested  for  the  Re- 
publican nomination  for  mayor  is  Charles  A.  Murdock,  for- 
merly civil  service  commissioner.  On  the  Democratic  ticket, 
also,  there  is  a  lively  fight  on  hand,  and  in  some  districts  there 
will  be  three  Democratic  tickets  in  the  field.  The  principal 
fight  is  between  the  county  committee  contingent  and  the 
Democratic  league  forces.  The  aspirations  of  ex-Police  Com- 
missioner Mahoney  to  be  mayor  cut  an  important  figure,  but 
his  opponents  claim  that  he  is  ineligible  under  the  charter 
provision  that  a  police  commissioner  can  not  hold  any  office 
under  the  city  government  within  a  year  after  his  term  as 
police  commissioner  expires.  The  opponents  of  Mahoney  are 
supporting  City  Attorney  Lane.  Among  the  Union  Labor 
people  the  two  factions  are  preparing  to  fight  their  contest 
out  at  the  polls.  Mayor  Schmitz  addressed  a  meeting  of  the 
Ewell-Aubertine  faction,  and  declared  that  he  recognized  that 
committee  as  the  regularly  organized  governing  body  of  the 
party,  and  pledged  himself  to  aid  that  faction.  He  also  an- 
nounced his  candidacy  for  renomination.  On  the  other  hand, 
the  carmen's  union  has  perfected  a  political  organization,  and 
has  declared  in   favor  of  the  Harders-Berger  faction. 

Suit  has  been  brought  in  the  United  States  Circuit  Court,   in 
this  city,   by  the   Mercantile   Trust   Company, 
The  Local  End      of  New  Yorfc    against  the  Union  Tron  Works. 
of  a  Trust  _,.      .     ,  -  -.        .       ,  , 

I  ITir  -r,  N  I  his  is  but  one  01  a  series  of  suits  brought 

by  the  same  company  against  the  various 
concerns  that  were  merged  in  the  United  States  Shipbuilding 
Company,  known  as  the  Shipbuilding  Trust.  It  is  on  account 
of  the  failure  of  the  trust  to  pay  the  interest  and  installment 
on  the  sinking  fund  that  were  due  on  July  1st  that  the  suit 
has  been  instituted.  On  August  nth  of  last  year  the  trust 
issued  sixteen  thousand  bonds,  known  as  "  first  mortgage 
five  per  cent,  sinking  fund  bonds,"  To  secure  the  payment 
of  the  principal  and  interest  on  these,  the  trust  executed 
a  deed  of  trust  to  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company.  It  was  a 
stipulation  of  the  deed  of  trust  that  the  accrued  interest 
should  be  paid  on  the  first  days  of  January  and  July  of  each 
year,  and  an  installment  of  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  to- 
ward the  sinking  fund  was  due  and  payable  before  July  1st. 
On  June  30th  of  this  year,  ex-Senator  Smith,  of  New  Jersey. 
was  appointed  receiver  of  the  trust  properties,  and  the  Mer- 
cantile Trust  Company  claims  that  this  gives  it  a  right  to  pro- 
ceed to  the  foreclosure  of  the  trust  deed,  to  have  the  trust  de- 
clared a  bankrupt,  and  to  have  a  receiver  appointed  for  all  its 
properties.  The  Union  Iron  Works  is  the  only  property  of  the 
trust  within  the  jurisdiction  of  this  circuit.  When  the  plant 
was  deeded  to  the  trust  it  was  immediately  leased  back  to  the 
local  company,  but  the  Mercantile  Trust  Company  claims  that 
this  does  not  affect  its  right  of  action. 


San  Francisco's 


With  commendable  enterprise  and  pride  of  locality,  the  news- 
papers of  Puget  Sound  ports  have  set  them- 
selves to  the  task  of  showing  that  those  ports 
Commercial  ...  ,  .  , 

p  are  steadily  encroaching  upon   the  commerce 

of  this  city,  and  that  in  time  San  Francisco 
will  be  interesting  only  for  its  historical  associations.  The 
figures  they  marshal  to  piove  this  thesis  are  interesting,  and, 
upon  the  surface,  quite  formidable,  but  unfortunately  they  will 
not  bear  analysis.  What  our  interesting  northern  neighhors 
fail  to  realize  is  that  much  of  the  trade  they  include  in  the 
commerce  of  Puget  Sound  is  not  Puget  Sound  commerce  any 
more  than  it  is  Spokane  commerce.  Cotton,  for  instance. 
forms  a  large  element  of  the  foreign  trade  of  the  Sound  ports. 
But  this  trade  originates  in  the  Southern  States,  and  the 
money  paid   for   it   goes   to   the   Southern    States.     The   Sound 


ports  are  paid  for  handling  it  from  cars  to  ship,  and  beyond 
that  have  no  interest  in  it.'  So  it  is  with  the  tea  and  other 
Oriental  goods  passing  through  Puget  Sound  to  Eastern 
cities.  Again,  the  northern  statisticians  include  in  the  foreign 
trade  the  value  of  merchandise  carried  from  one  coast  port 
to  another,  and  compare  this  total  with  San  Francisco's  pureU 
foreign  trade.  To  institute  a  few  comparisons,  the  bank  clear- 
ings of  this  city  last  year  were  twice  as  large  as  the  combined 
clearings  of  Tacoma.  Seattle,  Portland,  and  Los  Angeles,  while 
those  of  the  northern  cities  were  just  about  equal  to  the 
clearings  of  Los  Angeles.  The  value  of  imports  to  this  city 
was  three  times  that  of  Tacoma  and  Seattle;  the  customs  col- 
lections were  seven  times  as  large.  The  northern  cities 
are  sharing  the  general  prosperity,  and  the  people  of  San 
Francisco  rejoice  in  that  fact,  but  talk  of  rivalry  is  food  for 
amusement   rather   than    serious    consideration. 


CONDITIONS    IN    CONGOLAND. 


Robbed  of  its 

The  Story 

of  the  folsom 

jail-Break. 


erbiage,  here  is  the  bald  story  of  the  Folsom 
jail-break.  At  7  a.  m.,  Monday,  while  a  file 
of  two  hundred  convicts  were  leaving  the 
prison  proper  for  the  granite  quarry,  thirteen 
men  stepped  out  of  line  at  the  door  of  the 
captain's  office,  as  is  customary  for  those  who  are  to  be  tried 
for  offenses  against  discipline.  But  these  men  were  armed 
with  knives  made  from  files.  The  thirteen  prison  officials 
there  and  thereabouts  were  weaponless.  These  officials  they 
attacked,  disembow'eling  one  William  Cotter,  badly  wounding 
Joseph  Cochrane,  and  scratching  Warden  Wilkinson  across 
the  abdomen.  They  then  forced  the  remaining  guards  and 
Wilkinson  to  accompany  them,  shielding  themselves  with  the 
persons  of  the  guards  as  they  crossed  the  open  space,  and 
compelled  them  to  unlock  the  door  of  a  small  building  con- 
taining guns.  They  took  what  guns  and  ammunition  they 
wanted,  smashed  the  remaining  arms,  and  set  off,  the  prison 
guards  still  captive.  Folsom  Prison  has  no  wall.  Several 
watch-towers,  surmounted  with  Catlings,  ordinarily  prevent 
the  prisoners'  escape.  But  this  time  the  Gatlings  were  useless, 
the  gunners  fearing  they  might  kill  the  captive  guards.  The 
escape  of  the  prisoners  inside  the  building  was  barred  by  a 
lifetime  "  trusty "  convict.  Joseph  Casey,  who  locked  the 
doors.  Why  all  the  convicts  in  the  yard — some  three  hundred 
— did  not  try  to  escape  is  a  mystery. 

When  the  party  were  a  half-mile  from  the  prison,  a  guard, 
Thomas  Ryan,  fired  a  few  shots  from  the  hill-top,  and  is 
thought  to  have  wounded  R.  M.  Gorden,  a  convict.  At  least, 
the  man  fell,  crawling  off  into  the  bushes.  His  body  has  not 
been  found,  nor  has  he  been  seen  alive.  At  about  this  time 
Warden  Wilkinson  was  let  go,  the  felons  permitting  him  to 
keep  his  watch  and  clothes,  with  the  exception  of  his  hat. 
Captain  Murphy  was  also  released,  minus  shoes,  trousers,  shirt, 
and  diamonds.  Harry  Wilkinson  returned  clad  in  felon's 
stripes.  A  few  miles  farther  the  gang  encountered  Jose 
Sylvera,  with  a  four-horse  team.  The  felons  made  the  guards 
unload  the  wood.  All  got  in.  and  they  drove  on  to  the  ranch 
of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Xorris  'some  accounts  say  Joseph  Foster). 
They  compelled  her — though  without  violence  or  threats — 
to  give  them  food.  They  paid  her  five  dollars,  and,  impressing 
into  use  a  lighter  wagon  than  Sylvera's  that  one  Bernard 
Schlottman  came  along  with,  the  felons  again  proceeded,  with 
the  addition  of  Schlottman,  Sylvera,  and  another  ranch-hand, 
to  the  collection   of  prisoners,  which   now  numbered  ten. 

Twenty  miles  north-west  of  Folsom  is  a  stage-station  called 
Pilot  Hill,  consisting  of  a  hotel,  saloon,  store,  post-office,  all 
in  one,  run  by  S.  D.  Diehl.  his  wife,  and  nineteen-year-old 
daughter.  The  felon-laden  wood-wagon  reached  here  at  two- 
thirty.  The  convicts  represented  themselves  as  a  posse  with 
prisoners  (i.  e.,  the  guards  in  stripes),  and  asked  for  dinner. 
Mrs.  Diehl  and  her  daughter  hastened  to  prepare  it.  The  men 
provisioned  the  wagon,  drank  Diehl's  liquor,  ate  Mrs.  Diehl's 
dinner,  shaved  themselves,  inquired  of  a  passing  stage-driver 
and  the  occupants  of  another  vehicle  if  they  had  seen  a  posse 
behind  (to  which  they  answered  no),  and  generally  loafed 
about  till  four-thirty.  Meanwhile,  a  guard  had  given  the 
Diehls  a  tip.  Mrs.  Diehl  asked  the  convicts  to  be  allowed  to 
go  to  a  neighbor's  with  her  daughters  and  baby.  They  agreed. 
Shortly  afterward,  the  gang  started  off,  all  unaware  that  a 
woman  had  warned  the  posse,  and  that  armed  men  lined 
the  hill-road  in  front.  They  had  got  only  two  hundred  yards 
when  a  convict  accidentally  discharged  a  pistol.  The  posse 
took  it  as  a  signal,  and  opened  fire  on  the  horses.  Three  were 
soon  killed.  The  felons  fired  about  two  hundred  harmless 
shots.  One  guard,  John  Klenzendorf.  made  a  break,  and 
escaped.  One  convict,  "  Kid  "  Allison,  got  a  bullet  through 
the  body,  and  after  vainly  begging  his  fellow-felons  to  shoot 
him,  blew  off  the  side  of  his  head  with  his  revolver.  Abandon- 
ing the  wagon,  the  rest  struck  off  on  foot  southward,  the  posse 
failing  to  pursue.  At  ten  o'clock,  a  consultation  was  held, 
all  the  guards  released,  and  the  convict  gang  divided,  three 
going  in  one  direction,  and  eight  in  another.  Monday,  the 
posse,  now  numbering  one  hundred  and  fifty,  and  hourly 
augmenting,  spent  a  comfortable  and  boastful  night  at  Pilot 
Hill.  Tuesday  it  spent  an  arduous  and  fruitless  day  chasing 
rumors  of  the  felon-gang's  whereabouts.  Tuesday  night,  they 
were  confident  the  criminals  were  surrounded.  Wednesday 
morning  they  found  they  were  mistaken.  Wednesday  was  an- 
other day  of  rumor-chasing.  Thursday  ditto.  There  is  not  a 
single  authentic  instance  of  a  convict's  being  seen,  since  Mon- 
day night  at  Pilot  Hill.  Nor  are  the  prospects  encouraging. 
"  If  a  thousand  men  were  strung  out  in  line,  and  sent  through 
the  brush  in  which  the  convicts  are  hiding,"  says  Deputy- 
Sheriff  Reese,  "they  would  fail  to  find  them  if  the  escapes 
would  lie  still."  "  Any  of  the  convicts."  says  Sheriff  Bosquit. 
"  could  ride  up  to  a  house  and  get  provisions,  claiming  they 
were  deputies.  Nobody  knows  them."  Friday  morning's 
papers  say  that,  after  four  days  of  weary  work,  enlivened 
only  by  trailing  each  other  and  quarrels  between  militia  and 
county  officers,  the  "  man-hunters  "  have  another  clew.  It  con- 
sists of  convicts'  tracks  and  a  convict's  shirt— empty,  unfor- 
tunately. 


Reported    Atrocities    Said   to   Be   Without  Foundation— Cannibalism 

Being  Rapidly  Suppressed— Barbarous  Native  Admin  istra- 

tration  of  "Justice"  by  the  "Poison  Test." 


During  the  past  seven  jears.  many  charges  of  bru- 
tality and  barbarity  have  been  brought  against  the 
administration  by  the  Belgians  of  Congoland,  West 
Africa.  These  have  chiefly  come  from  missionaries, 
not  Belgians,  who  have  reported  that  cannibalism  is 
still  common,  practically  no  efforts  being  made  to 
suppress  it ;  that  women  are  enslaved  to  serve  as  bear- 
ers for  native  soldiers;  that  both  men  and  women  are 
compelled  to  work  on  the  rubber  plantations;  that 
towns  refusing  to  send  the  required  quota  for  this  pur- 
pose have  been  wiped  out,  and  basketsful  of  severed 
hands  brought  back  by  the  troops  to  attest  the  fact: 
and  that  brutal  punishments  for  petty  crimes  are  com- 
mon, including  branding,  cutting  off  of  hands,  ears, 
women's  breasts,  etc. 

"  A  Belgian  "  has  now  published  a  book  called  "  The 
Truth  About  the  Civilization  in  Congoland,"  in  which, 
in  controversion  of  the  charges,  he  presents  evidence 
drawn  from  interviews  with  Belgian  officers  and 
officials,  travelers  in  Congoland,  British  officials  who 
have  visited  the  country,  newspaper  editorials  and 
articles,  letters  from  Catholic  priests  in  Africa,  state 
papers,  and  other  sources.  Among  these  citations,  one 
that  will  carry  especial  weight  is  from  "  The  Uganda 
Protectorate,"  the  exhaustive  work  of  Sir  Harry  John- 
ston, formerly  special  British  commissioner  to  the 
Protectorate.     He  says: 

I  am  not  prepared  to  defend  the  Congo  Free  State  from 
its  British  or  foreign  critics,  any  more  than  I  am  prepared 
to  assert  that  the  British  exploration  and  administration  of 
negro  Africa  has  never  been  accompanied  by  regrettable  inci- 
dents. I  can  only  state  in  common  fairness  that  that  very 
small  portion  of  the  Congo  Free  State  which  I  have  seen 
since  these  countries  were  administered  by  Belgian  officials 
possessed  excellent  buildings,  well-made  roads,  and  was  in- 
habited by  cheerful  natives,  who  repeatedly,  and  without 
solicitation  on  my  part,  compared  the  good  times  they  were 
now  having,  to  the  misery  and  terror  which  preceded  them 
when  the  Arabs  and  Manyemas  had  established  themselves  in 
the  country  as  chiefs  and  slave-traders. 

Elsewhere  this  same  writer  says: 

In  spite  of  this  element  of  Arab  civilization  which  the  slave- 
trader  had  certainly  implanted  in  the  Congo  forest,  he  had 
made  himself  notorious  for  his  ravages  and  cruelties.  Num- 
bers of  natives  had  been  horribly  mutilated,  hands  and  feet 
lopped  off,  and  women's  breasts  cut  away.  All  these  people 
talked  Swahili.  and  explained  to  me  that  these  mutilations — 
which,  as  only  a  negro  could,  they  had  survived — had  been 
the  work  of  the  Manyema  slave-trader  and  his  gang,  done 
sometimes  out  of  wanton  cruelty,  sometimes  as  a 
punishment  for  thieving  or  absconding.  May  it  not 
be  that  many  of  the  mutilated  people  of  whom  we  hear 
so  much  in  the  northern  and  eastern  part  of  the  Congo  Free 
State  are  also  the  surviving  results  of  Arab  cruelty?  I  am 
aware  that  it  is  customary  to  attribute  these  outrages  to  the 
native  soldiery  and  police  employed  by  the  Belgians  to  main- 
tain order  or  to  collect  taxes;  and  though  1  am  fully  aware 
that  these  native  soldiers  and  police  under  imperfect  Belgian 
administration,  as  under  imperfect  British  control,  can  commit 
all  sorts  of  atrocities  (as  we  know  they  did  in  Mashonoland 
and  in  Ugandaj,  every  bad  deed  of  this  description  is  not  to 
be  laid  to  their  charge,  for  many  outrages  are  the  work  of  the 
Arab  traders  and  raiders  in  these  countries,  and  of  their  apt 
pupil,  the  Manyema.  This  much  I  can  speak  of  with  cer- 
tainty and  emphasis :  that  from  the  British  frontier  near 
Fort  George  to  the  limit  of  my  journeys  into  the  Mbuba  coun- 
try of  the  Congo  Free  State,  up  and  down  the  Semlike.  the 
natives  appeared  to  be  prosperous  and  happy  under  the  ex 
cellent  administration  of  the  late  Lieutenant  Meura  and  his 
coadjutor,   Mr.   Karl   Eriksson. 

Henry  M.  Stanley  also  refuses  lo  believe  implicitly 
in  the  stories  of  atrocities.  In  a  letter  to  the  London 
Ti)iics  he  wrote: 

Having  had  a  good  deal  to  do  with  Belgian  officials  in  \frica. 
I  venture  to  say  that,  if  once  the  governor-general  at  Boma 
heard  that  such  crimes  were  committed,  a  very  full  and  search- 
ing inquiry  would  be  instituted,  and  the  malefactors  punished. 
1  can  not  gather  from  what  has  been  published  that  either 
of  the  gentlemen  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for  the  accounts 
of  the  atrocities  ever  informed  the  superior  authorities  of 
what  was  taking  place  on  the  Upper  Congo,  and  therefore  it  is 
difficult  to  see  how  the  provincial  governor,  the  governor-gen- 
eral, the  secretary  of  state  at  Brussels,  and  King  Leopold  can 
proceed  against  the  offenders.  ...  If  I  remember  right.  King 
Leopold  is  a  constant  reader  of  the  Times,  and  if  he  saw  it  an- 
nounced in  your  columns  that  a  Lieutenant  Hansen  had  or- 
dered a  woman's  breasts  to  be  cut  off.  or  a  Lieutenant  Jansen 
had  flogged  a  woman  with  two  hundred  and  fifty  lashes,  or 
that  a  Lieutenant  Bunsen  had  caused  a  young  girl  to  be  dis- 
membered, surely  we  may  well  believe  that  his  first  act  would 
be  to  cable  to  the  governor-general  to  ask  whether  he  knew 
anything  of  these  horrible  barbarities.  But  vague  and  general 
accusations  against  his  officers  can  only  result  in  the  king 
naturally  refusing  to  give  much  credence  to  these  stories. 

The  Rev.  Father  de  Deken,  writing  in  "  Missions  en 
Chine  et  an  Congo,"  testifies  that  justice  is  properlv 
administered : 

A  big  case  is  to  be  tried  soon  :  two  blacks  have  to  answer 
to  the  indictment  of  having  forced  one  of  their  tribe  to  drink 
nkassti,  a  most  terrible  poison  extracted  from  some  bark.  It 
is  a  legal  judgment  for  negroes:  if  one  of  them  is  suspected 
of  a  misdeed  he  can  only  free  himself  from  the  accusation 
by  swallowing,  fasting  in  the  early  morning,  the  homicidal 
draught.  If  he  vomit  it  before  midday,  his  innocence  is  recog- 
nized, but  more  often  the  victim  expires  in  most  terrible 
spasms,  unless  he  is  strangled  to  shorten  his  agony.  Generally 
the  poison  tikossa  is  drunk  by  order  of  a  fetich-man.  or  wizard. 
who,  without  any  other  motive  than  revenue,  or  tlu  I 
some  heavy  reward,  accuses  the  first-comer  of  having  caused 
the  death  of  a  chief,  or  of  having  thrown  some  spell  on  a 
rich  man's  family  or  flock.  It  can  be  quite  understood  that 
the  state  can  not  tolerate  such  a  barbarous  custom:  the  culprits 
recognized  as  guilty  are  themselves  sentenced  to  the  gallows. 
The  ultimate  object  will  only,  however,  be  reached  by  degrees, 
as  the  negroes  appear  very  astonished  that  such  practices 
should  be  so  severely  dealt  with  as  they  appear  most  innocent 
and  harmless   to  them. 

Published  by  T-  Lebegue  &  Co.,  Brussels,  B 


THE    FALL    OF    ULYSSES. 


How  the  Poet  Browning  Worked  an  Elephant's  Undoing. 


Editors  Argonaut  :  Can  you  be  induced  to  reprint  the 
story.  "The  Fall  of  Ulysses,"  by  Charles  Dwight  Willard. 
which  was  published  some  years  ago  in  your  journal  ?  It 
would  be  a  pleasure  to  many  of  the  new  readers  of  the  Argo- 
vanl-  as  well  as  to  the  old  ones.  H.  K. 

I  can  not  deny  that  I  was  entirely  to  blame  for  the 
calamity  which  overtook  Ulysses,  and  if  I  call  attention 
to  the  high  social  and  literary  standing  of  the  gentle- 
man whom  I  employed  as  an  accomplice  in  the  affair, 
it  is  not  at  all  with  a  hope  of  thereby  lessening  my  own 
responsibility.  It  is  certain  that  I  furnished  the  unfor- 
tunate creature  the  cause  for  his  desperation.  I  ought 
also  to  confess  that  I  felt  a  sense  of  profound  relief 
when  he  accepted  the  only  means  apparent  to  his 
limited  understanding  of  freeing  himself  from  his 
dilemma.  But  what  was  I  to  do?  When  a  man  has 
an  elephant  on  his  hands  he  should  be  judged  with  a 
kindly  consideration  for  the  awkwardness  of  his  situa- 
tion. .  .  J 
My  elephant  was  decidedly  more  trying  than  the 
average  variety,  for  the  reason  that  he  was  not 
metaphorical,  but  real.  What  I  mean  is,  that  I  am  not 
speaking  in  figurative  language  about  some  officious 
friend  or  troublesome  relative,  but  about  a  genuine 
Asiatic  elephant,  Ulysses  by  name,  who  came  into  my 
possession  several  years  ago,  and  of  whom  I  have  but 
recently  managed  to  rid  myself.  Physically,  he  was  a 
well-developed  specimen,  having  no  special  character- 
istics to  distinguish  him  from  the  rest  of  his  species. 
Intellectually,  however,  he  was  a  sort  of  a  Frankinstein, 
and  I  was  the  unfortunate  who  was  responsible  for  his 
existence.  .^ 
The  affair  took  place  at  the  time  that  I  was  represent- 
ing a  firm  of  New  York  coffee-dealers  in  the  district 
of  Khan,  in  the  southern  part  of  the  Punjab.  During 
certain  seasons  of  the  year  I  had  occasion  to  travel 
about  that  section  of  the  country,  inspecting  the  crops 
and  making  terms  with  the  growers.  The  rest  of  the 
time  I  resided  at  my  bungalow  among  the  highlands 
of  the  Eastern  Ghats,  not  far  from  Madras.  The  place 
was  lonely,  but  not  as  subject  to  certain  classes  of 
physical  disorders  as  the  more  thickly  settled  portions 
of  the  country.  At  times  I  suffered  desperately  with 
ennui,  and  when  Ulysses  came  under  my  notice  I  was 
very  willing  to  accept  him  as  an  antidote. 

It  was  at  a  tiger  hunt — the  first  and  last  that  I  ever 
attended — that  1  saw  Ulysses  perform  the  act  of  valor 
which  led  to  my  adoption  of  him.  My  friend  and  host, 
a  brave  but  reckless  Englishman,  was  on  the  point  of 
being  torn  to  pieces  before  our  very  eyes,  when  Ulysses 
caught  the  leg  of  the  wounded  tiger,  and  jerked  him 
off  into  the  tall  grass.  The  beast  was  quickly  dis- 
patched, and  then  the  company  burst  into  exclamations 
of  praise  over  the  nerve  which  the  Englishman  had 
displayed.  No  one  had  much  to  say  about  Ulysses, 
his  performance  being  accepted  much  as  a  matter  of 
course.  I  was  tempted,  however,  to  take  a  rather 
more  sentimental  view  of  it,  and  as  I  could  see  no  good 
reason  why  I  should  not  own  an  elephant,  I  determined 
to  become  the  possessor  of  this  one. 

I  made  inquiry  of  a  German  in  Madras,  who  had 
formerly  owned  the  animal,  as  to  his  character  and 
general  behavior.  He  declared  that  they  were  "  ganz 
gut,"  and  that  if  I  wanted  an  elephant  for  my  own 
use  I  could  hardly  select  a  better  one. 

"  But  why  did  you  dispose  of  him  to  his  present 
owner  ?"  I  asked. 

"  Because  he  was  sulky  about  doing  the  work  I 
assigned  him,"  answered  the  German ;  "  if  it  was  to 
learn  anything  new,  he  was  very  willing,  but  to  do  al- 
ways the  same,  he  thought  he  had  too  much  brain  for 
that." 

The  man  was  a  building  contractor,  and  had  used 
Ulysses  for  draft  purposes.  The  fact  that  the  animal 
had  been  unwilling  to  perform  drudgery  was  to  me 
an  evidence  of  his  originality,  and  I  was  the  more 
anxious  to  own  him  and  to  make  a  study  of  his 
character. 

The  purchase  was  effected  by  a  series  of  complicated 
negotiations,  carried  on  in  my  behalf  by  a  half-breed 
elephant  trainer,  known  as  Jerry  Rhahob,  with  the 
owner  of  Ulysses.  Had  I  undertaken  the  job  myself 
I  might  have  found  an  elephant  a  more  expensive 
luxury  than  I  cared  to  possess.  My  agent,  the  half- 
breed,  had  the  reputation  of  knowing  more  than  any 
man  in  Madras  about  the  habits  and  characteristics 
of  elephants,  and  the  means  by  which  they  could  be 
most  successfully  trained.  For  some  time  he  had  been 
in  charge  of  the  yards  where  the  animals  owned  by 
the  British  Government  were  prepared  for  service  in 
war  or  road-building.  Before  setting  out  for  my 
bungalow,  I  thought  best  to  consult  with  Jerry,  who 
spoke  English  perfectly,  as  to  the  course  of  education 
to  which  I  proposed  treating  Ulysses. 

"  I  intend  to  teach  this  animal  all  that  an  elephant 
can  be  made  to  learn,"  said  I. 

"  You  will  not  have  time  to  do  that,"  said  Jerry, 
significantly. 

"  Do  you  mean,"  I  asked,  "  that  there  is  no  limit 
to  wh-.t  an  elephant  can  be  taught  ?" 

"  Mv   experience  has  led  me  to  believe   that  it  de- 
pends  upon   the  patience   of   the   man,   and   not   upon 
■  parity  of  the  brute,  how  far  the  instruction  may 
.  -ied." 


THE        ARGONAUT. 

"Very  well,"  I  said;  "I  shall  have  patience.  What 
I  most  need  is  advice  about  gaining  the  creature's  con- 
fidence and  affection." 

The  fact  that  I  am  a  bachelor  does  not  prevent  my 
entertaining  an  extensive  code  of  opinions  on  the  sub- 
ject of  the  proper  rearing  of  children.  The  suggestions 
of  Jerry  Rhahob  on  the  training  of  elephants  seemed 
to  me  much  the  same  that  I  would  have  offered  a 
young  and  inexperienced  parent  if  he  had  applied  to  me 
for  advice  about  his  offspring.  Reduced  to  its  funda- 
mental principles,  Jerry's  theory  was  that  an  elephant 
should  be  regarded  as  a  dumb  and  deformed  human 
being,  possessed  of  a  keen  appreciation  of  right  and 
wrong,  delicate  sensibilities,  exceptional  capacity,  and 
high  character.  From  the  mental  and  moral  qualities 
with  which  Jerry's  conception  seemed  to  endow  this 
being,  I  should  have  accorded  him  a  place  in  the 
human  species,  among  that  class  which  is  said  to  be 
born  and  not  made,  the  genus  irritabile. 

One  piece  of  warning  he  gave  me  in  conclusion. 
"  The  elephant  knows  as  well  as  you  do,"  said  he, 
"  that  he  is  an  animal  and  you  are  a  man.  He  appre- 
ciates the  distinction.  He  understands  that  he  is  y-our 
physical  superior,  and  that  he  could  by  a  single  blow 
of  his  trunk  dash  the  life  out  of  you.  As  long  as  he  is 
kindly  treated,  he  will  feel  no  desire  to  exercise  that 
power.  In  the  matter  of  intellect,  he  appreciates  that 
you  are  greatly  above  him,  and  will  obey  and  serve  you 
for  that  reason.  Let  him  once  get  it  into  his  head, 
however,  that  his  powers  are  on  a  level  with  your  own, 
and  his  arrogance  will  become  insupportable.  The  re- 
lationship will  be  suddenly  reversed,  and  you  will  find 
yourself  no  longer  his  master,  but  his  servant.  Several 
years  ago,  I  had  a  very  intelligent  elephant  here  in 
the  yards  whom  I  employed  to  build  stone  walls.  He 
became  marvelously  expert  at  it,  picking  out  just  the 
right  shaped  rocks  to  fill  the  spaces  with  the  best 
economy.  The  stones  are  irregular  in  form,  and  you 
can  imagine  that  no  small  degree  of  skill  is  required. 
On  one  occasion  he  stood  near  watching  me  while  I 
endeavored  to  teach  a  younger  elephant  how  the  work 
was  to  be  done.  I  built  several  feet  of  wall,  but  the 
job  was  not  a  successful  one — not,  at  least,  when  com- 
pared with  what  Budan  could  do.  Whenever  I  picked 
up  the  wrong  stone,  he  gave  a  snort,  and  indicated  a 
better  one  with  his  trunk.  At  last,  he  could  stand  it 
no  longer,  and  brushing  me  aside,  took  hold  of  the 
work  himself  and  soon  had  the  young  one  taught. 
After  that  he  made  no  secret  of  his  contempt  for  me. 
I  saw  that  he  was  ruining  my  standing  with  the  rest 
of  the  herd,  and  I  had  to  send  him  away." 

This  story  would  have  seemed  quite  ridiculous  to  me 
if  I  had  not  heard  many  others  more  wonderful  pass 
current  without  question,  and  had  I  not  often  seen  ele- 
phants employed  in  Madras  at  work  which  in  America 
would  be  assigned  only  to  artisans  of  considerable 
skill. 

"  Believe  anything  you  are  told  about  the  intelli- 
gence of  an  elephant,"  said  a  traveler  from  India  to  me 
once,  before  I  visited  that  country;  "the  chances  are 
it  is  true." 

I  engaged  an  experienced  mahout,  or  driver,  an  in- 
telligent native  by  the  name  of  Akbar.  I  determined, 
however,  to  make  use  of  his  services  just  as  little  as 
possible,  in  order  that  Ulysses  might  learn  to  depend 
upon  myself  alone.  I  attended  personally  to  the  matter 
of  food  and  drink,  and  took  pains  that  my  protege 
should  receive  no  favors  from  the  hand  of  any  one  else. 
I  soon  learned  the  things  that  gave  him  pleasure,  and 
put  myself  to  no  little  trouble  to  gratify  him  on  every 
possible  occasion.  I  continued  this  process,  combining 
with  it  instruction  in  such  small  service  as  "  house  ele- 
phants "  in  India  are  always  expected  to  perform,  until 
I  saw  that  I  had  completely  gained  his  confidence  and 
affection.  During  this  period  of  his  tutelage,  Ulysses 
would  have  trusted  and  obeyed  me  to  any  extent.  I 
think  he  would  willingly  have  laid  down  his  life  or  en- 
dured torture  for  my  sake.  Nothing  made  him  happier 
than  to  be  near  me  as  I  sat  under  the  banyan-tree  in 
my  garden,  smoking  and  reading.  When  I  opened  his 
stall  in  the  mornings  and  called  to  him  to  come  out,  he 
fairly  quivered  with  joy  at  the  sound  of  my  voice,  and 
gave  vent  to  his  satisfaction  at  seeing  me  by  shrill 
trumpetings.  His  devotion  was  annoying  at  times,  and 
one  of  the  first  difficulties  that  I  experienced  was  in 
teaching  him  to  be  less  demonstrative. 

It  is  a  fact,  which  most  readers  of  this  narrative  have 
proved  for  themselves  by  actual  experiment,  that  ani- 
mals may  be  taught  the  meaning  of  words.  An  intelli- 
gent dog,  for  example,  possesses  a  considerable 
vocabulary;  I  proposed  to  undertake  a  systematic 
course  of  instruction  in  the  English  language  with 
Ulysses,  and  to  ascertain  to  what  extent  he  was  capable 
of  acquiring  our  vernacular.  Whenever  he  learned  a 
new  word  I  made  note  of  it  in  a  book,  and  by  constant 
review  contrived  to  fix  it  in  his  memory.  As  soon  as 
he  began  to  comprehend  what  my  purpose  w-as,  as  he 
did  after  I  had  been  laboring  with  him  a  couple  of 
weeks,  he  became  very  eager  to  learn,  and  greatly  in- 
creased the  rapidity  of  the  work. 

The  process  of  teaching  him  nouns  was  simple  and 
easy.  Each  day  I  would  produce  several  new  articles, 
tell  him  their  names,  and  have  him  hand  them  to  me 
as  I  called  for  them.  I  taught  him  to.  say  "  yes  "  and 
"  no  "  by  the  waving  of  his  trunk,  and  made  him  ap- 
preciate that  he  was  to  use  that  means  of  signifying 
to  me  whether  he  understood  me  or  not. 

After  I  was  well  into  the  work,  the  morning  lesson 
would  go  somewhat  as  follows: 


August  3,  1903. 


"Are  you  ready  for  your  lesson,  Ulysses?" 

Ulysses  lifts  his  trunk  affirmatively.  Although  he 
does  not  understand  lesson,  the  word  "  ready  "  is  clear 
to  him  by  frequent  use. 

I  hold  out  a  ball,  a  new  object. 

"  This  is  a  ball,  Ulysses;  ball." 

1  repeat  it  several  times,  until  the  sound  has  fastened 
itself  in  his  memory.  Then  I  lay  it  on  the  table  with  a 
pipe,  a  cup,  and  a  book.  I  ask  for  them,  one  after 
another,  and  he  hands  them  to  me.  I  add  numerous 
other  objects,  the  names  of  which  he  has  already- 
learned,  and  thus  combine  review  with  advance  in- 
struction. 

Together  with  the  noun  "  ball,"  I  teach  him  the 
verbs  "  roll,"  "  throw,"  and  "  drop,"  and  perhaps  an 
adverb  or  two,  like  "  fast  "  or  "  slowly,"  and  an  ad- 
jective, "  round."  Sometimes  there  is  an  awkward 
hitch,  and  I  have  to  abandon  the  attempt  to  teach  him 
some  particular  word,  referring  to  it  again  when  his 
vocabulary  has  been  increased  in  some  other  direction. 

A  certain  point  once  passed,  it  was  surprising  with 
what  rapidity  I  proceeded.  One  word  led  to  another, 
a  number  of  words  to  phrases,  and  these  to  complete 
sentences.  I  finally  dropped  into  a  way  of  talking  to 
him  about  the  objects  with  which  we  were  working, 
much  as  I  would  have  talked  to  a  bright  child.  I  was 
conscious  at  times  that  only  a  small  part  of  what  I 
was  saying  was  understood,  but  it  accustomed  him 
to  hearing  the  words  that  he  knew,  used  in  association 
with  others,  to  form  complete  statements. 

In  my  search  for  objects  to  use  in  the  instruction 
of  Ulysses,  I  happened  upon  a  lump  of  chalk.  With 
this  I  sketched  various  things  on  a  smooth  plank  of  dark 
wood,  and  found  that  they  were  readily  recognized 
by  my  pupil.  From  this  I  suddenly  conceived  a  new- 
idea.  I  sent  to  Madras  and  had  a  large,  firm  black- 
board made,  and  ordered  chalk  and  erasers.  Then  1 
began  a  systematic  and  determined  effort  to  teach 
Ulysses  to  read  and  write. 

There  is  one  element  that  enters'  into  all  teaching, 
of  which  it  is  difficult  to  give  any  conception  in  a 
narrative  of  results,  and  that  is  time.  I  had  been 
steadily  at  work  with  Ulysses  for  nearly  a  year  before 
I  began  to  use  the  blackboard,  and  after  I  adopted  that 
assistant  it  was  many  months  ere  important  results  be- 
gan to  show-  themselves.  Any  one  who  has  ever 
labored  with  a  well-meaning  but  obtuse  pupil,  will 
appreciate  how  slow  and  discouraging  at  times  my 
work  must  have  been.  He  will,  also,  understand  how 
the  progress,  trifling  when  considered  day  by  day, 
amounted  to  a  good  deal  in  the  aggregate. 

1  readily  taught  Ulysses  to  hold  the  chalk  in  the 
fingers  of  his  proboscis,  and  to  mark  with  it  upon  the 
blackboard.  He  understood  that  he  was  to  imitate, 
as  nearly  as  possible,  the  marks  that  I  made.  In  this 
way  I  taught  him  to  print  the  letters  of  the  English 
alphabet  in  clumsy  characters  several  inches  in  size. 
Gradually,  he  became  more  expert  in  making  them,  and 
learned  the  names  by  which  they  were  called.  It  was  a 
great  triumph  for  me  when  I  first  succeeded  in  getting 
him  to  write  the  letters  of  his  own  name  as  I  called 
them  off,  and  saw  myself  the  proud  possessor  of  an 
elephant  who  could  write  his  own  autograph,  perhaps 
the  first  of  his  species  who  ever  performed  that  en- 
lightened but  compromising  feat. 

All  this  was  easy  enough,  but  to  make  him  compre- 
hend that  certain  groups  of  these  peculiar  marks 
formed  pictures,  which  were  to  suggest  definite  objects 
to  him,  was  a  very  different  sort  of  an  undertaking. 
The  hitch  in  the  proceedings  at  this  point  was  so  serious 
that,  for  a  time,  I  gave  up  all  hope  of  accomplishing 
my  object.  It  seemed  impossible  to  establish  the  neces- 
sary connection  in  his  mind  between  the  written 
characters  and  the  spoken  word.  At  last,  it  suddenly 
dawned  upon  him,  and  he  learned  (fatal  omen!)  the 
word  "  book."  The  acquiring  of  one  word  constituted 
the  test  in  my  calculations.  That  point  being  gained 
the  rest  was  only  a  question  of  additional  work  and  con- 
tinued patience. 

It  was  not  long  before  Ulysses  could  write  upon 
the  board  the  names  of  most  of  the  objects  which  had 
been  used  in  his  instruction  thus  far,  and  the  verbs 
which  I  had  taught  him  in  connection  with  them.  To 
combine  these  words  into  sentences  was  largely  a  mat- 
ter of  imitation,  for  he  had  already  come  to  understand 
them  when  so  arranged.  In  a  short  time  we  were 
carrying  on  long  conferences,  and  the  vocabulary  of 
Ulysses  had  increased  to  the  point  of  embracing  most 
of  the  words  used  in  daily  conversation.  With  the 
establishment  of  this  mode  of  inter-communication, 
Ulysses  was  able  to  explain  to  me  what  his  difficulties 
w-ere,  and  I  could  proffer  more  available  assistance. 
I  then,  for  the  first  time,  enjoyed  an  intimate  acquaint- 
ance with  a  brain  that  was  not  human.  I  could  look 
into  it  and  stud)-  its  character  and  mode  of  action.  1 
need  not  add  that  the  occupation  was  fascinating. 

Our  conversations,  which  were  at  first  limited  to  vis- 
ible actions  and  concrete  objects,  soon  strayed  into 
abstractions.  The  rapidity  with  which  he  grasped  the 
analogy  between  seeing  and  thinking,  and  lifted  him- 
self out  of  the  material  into  the  metaphysical  plane, 
astonished  me  beyond  measure.  He  possessed  an  over- 
ruling sense  of  logic,  keen  and  penetrating,  yet  so  swift 
that  it  seemed  transfigured  to  intuition.  But  the  most 
wonderful  feature  of  his  intellect  was  his  memory. 
Now  that  w-ords  were  supplied  him,  as  tools  with 
which  to  conduct  his  thinking,  w-hat  w-ere  before  mere 
vague  impressions  became  definite  ideas,  fixed  and 
everlasting.     I  soon  found  that  it  was  necessary  to  be 


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absolutely  accurate  in  all  that  I  said  to  him,  as  he  was 
quick  to  detect  any  inconsistency,  and  his  memory 
covered  the  full  amount  of  all  that  I  had  said  since  he 
had  come  to  have  command  of  the  language. 

For  some  time  we  conversed  together  every  day,  I 
talking  or  writing,  and  he  using  the  blackboard.  As 
print  was  too  slow  for  practical  use,  I  taught  him  to 
write  shorthand.  One  day  he  made  some  inquiry  of  mc 
concerning  the  novel  I  happened  to  have  in  hand,  and 
I  read  him  several  chapters  of  it.  His  delight  at  gain- 
ing so  much  knowledge  in  so  short  a  time  was  un- 
bounded. I  discovered  that  he  regarded  it  as  authentic 
history,  and  hastened  to  undeceive  him.  He  was  greatly 
shocked  to  find  that  anything  could  be  said  or  written 
which  was  not  true.  This  led  me  into  something  of  a 
dissertation  upon  the  forms  of  literature  and  the  canons 
of  taste.  He  listened  with  an  absorbed  interest.  The 
bent  of  his  mind  was  evidently  not  practical,  but  liter- 
ary and  artistic. 

Ulysses's  fondness  for  hearing  me  read  gave  me  an 
idea  as  to  a  means  of  freeing  myself  from  the  impor- 
tunities for  instruction  and  discussion  to  which  he  was 
now  treating  me,  and  which  were  becoming  decidedly 
irksome.  T  sent  Akbar.  the  mahout,  to  Madras  with  a 
letter  to  a  French  oculist.  He  brought  back  a  large 
monocle  which  I  had  ordered  made  for  the  use  of  my 
pupil.  There  was  a  hole  in  one  of  Ulysses's  ears,  drilled 
there  by  some  former  less  appreciative  owner,  through 
which  I  passed  a  light  silk  cord,  allowing  the  glass  to 
hang  conveniently  pendant.  T  had  a  wooden  rack  con- 
structed by  a  neighboring  rayat,  who  did  carpenter 
work,  which  held  the  volume  open  and  at  the  right 
altitude.  Ulysses  was  now  ready  to  begin  his  literary 
researches  independent  of  my  aid.  Kneeling  before 
the  rack,  in  which  he  soon  learned  to  fasten  the  book 
himself,  he  lifted  the  monocle  to  his  eve  with  the  finders 
of  his  trunk,  and  commenced  to  read.  At  first  he  pro- 
ceeded slowly,  and  was  often  compelled  to  summon  me 
to  his  assistance.  After  T  explained  to  him  the  use 
of  the  dictionary  and  allowed  him  to  keep  one  near 
at  hand,  this  source  of  annoyance  ceased,  and  he  worked 
awav  by  himself  with   increasing  ease  and  rapidity. 

There  was  one  person  who  had  observed  all  these 
proceedings  with  astonishment  and  disapproval.  This 
was  Briggs.  the  English  gardener  who  took  care  of  my 
place.  T  think  he  had  an  idea  that  T  was  violating  the 
laws  of  the  Church  of  England  in  some  way.  I  scarcelv 
know  how.  On  one  occasion,  when  T  happened  to  be 
in  Madras.  Ulvsses  discovered,  bv  appealing  to  him  for 
the  meaning  of  certain  words  and  phrases,  that  all  mor- 
tals were  not  endowed  with  the  same  fund  of  informa- 
tion that  T  happened  to  possess.  No  sooner  did  he  find 
out  that  Briggs  knew  less  about  such  matters  than  he 
did  himself,  than  he  began  to  treat  him  with  open  con- 
tempt, slowlv  bringing  up  his  eve-glass  and  inspecting 
him  with  cold  hauteur  whenever  he  happened  near. 

"That  there  heleohant,"  Brisks  complained  to  me. 
"  do  treat  me  most  harrogant.  sir.  I  didn't  never  ex- 
pect it  to  come  to  this  'ere." 

T  spoke  to  Ulysses  about  the  matter,  and  remonstrated 
with  him. 

"I  can  not  understood  it."  he  wrote  in  replv:  "I 
asked  the  man  about  Schopenhauer's  Four-Fold  Root 
of  Sufficient  Reason,  to  which  T  found  a  reference  in 
a  volume  of  essavs  by  Frederic  Harrison.  He  said 
he  never  had  heard  of  any  such  root.  Can  he  not  read 
and  talk  as  you  do  and  as  all  mortals  do?  How  does 
it  happen  that  he  is  ignorant  of  these  things?" 

I  explained  to  him  that  only  a  small  nart  of  the  hu- 
man race  cared  to  interest  itself  in  affairs  of  the  in- 
tellect, and  that  millions  of  men  were  still  in  the  con- 
dition of  unhappv  mental  blindness  from  which  he 
had  so  recentlv  emerged.  He  was  aghast  at  this  state- 
ment, but  it  did  not  tend  to  reestablish  Briggs  in  his  re- 
spect. 

It  was  now  the  season  of  the  vear  when  I  was  ac- 
customed to  make  a  tour  amone  the  neighboring  coffee 
plantations,  to  estimate  and  bid  on  the  crops.  T  was 
not  able  to  take  Ulysses  with  me  conveniently,  so  T 
left  him  in  the  care  of  Briggs  and  Akbar.  To  Briggs 
T  gave  the  key  to  my  librarv.  with  orders  to  supplv 
Ulvsses  with  whatever  he  might  demand,  and  T  pre- 
pared for  mv  pupil's  use  a  catalogue  of  all  the  books 
in  mv  collection.  The  librarv  was  chieflv  made  up 
of  works  of  history,  philosophy,  and  criticism,  ad- 
mirably  suited  to  the  special   tastes  of  Ulysses. 

Mv  absence  lasted  during  a  period  of  nearly  three 
months,  and  on  my  return  T  found  Ulvsses  almost  in 
a  condition  of  "must,"  or  insanity.  He  had  read  all. 
or  nearlv  all.  the  books  that  T  had  placed  upon  the 
list,  and  had  gained  through  that  extraordinary  mem- 
ory of  his  an  immense  mass  of  fact  and  opinion.  He 
was  now  suffering  from  intellectual  dyspepsia.  T 
consulted  him  about  his  troubles,  and  got  in  reply  an 
avalanche  of  questions  on  everv  variety  of  subject.  His 
confidence  in  mv  knowledge  was,  apparently,  unlimited. 
Tt  would  have  been  a  source  of  inexpressible  grati- 
fication to  me  if  T  could  have  shared  it. 

T  was  not  unmindful  of  the  fate  which  had  befallen 
poor  Briggs.  nevertheless  T  felt  it  my  duty  to  help 
Ulysses  out  of  his  difficulties.  T  did  not  imagine  that 
his  questions  would  occasion  me  much  trouble,  and  'f 
they  should.  T  thought  mvself  the  possessor  of  sufficient 
savoir  dire  to  get  out  of  it  in  some  way.  T  avoided  some 
things  by  merely  assuring  him  that  he  would  under- 
stand them  better  when  he  had  read  more.  Whenever  T 
essayed  an  answer  to  anv  of  his  interrogatories,  he  had 
an  unpleasant  habit  of  pinning  me  down  to  exact  state- 
ments and  definite  opinions.     I  had  never  appreciated 


the  extent  and  variety  of  my  ignorance  until  it  was 
subjected  to  this  test,  although  Ulysses's  attitude  toward 
me  was  always  that  of  pupil  to  teacher,  yet  I  saw  at 
times  traces  of  the  Socratic  method  in  the  long  series 
of  questions  which  he  put  to  me,  and  I  was  compelled, 
not  infrequently,  to  squirm  out  of  some  inconsistency 
in  most  undignified  fashion. 

This  inquisition  continued  for  a  number  of  days 
after  my  return,  and  I  could  not  close  my  eyes  to  the 
fact  that  I  was  failing  to  hold  my  own  in  the  estimation 
of  Ulysses.  From  a  cyclopedia  of  literature,  which 
happened  to  be  in  my  library,  Ulysses  had  stored  his 
mind  with  an  enormous  fund  of  information  on  sub- 
jects of  which  I  was  completely  ignorant.  In  this  field 
I  was  continually  falling  into  traps.  There  were  also 
translations  of  Comte  and  Hegel,  to  which  he  had 
devoted  considerable  study,  but  I  checkmated  him 
there  by  talking  learned  nonsense,  which  I  was  sure 
he  could  not  distinguish  from  deep  metaphysics.  It 
was  evident,  however,  that  he  was  beginning  to  ap- 
preciate that  something  was  the  matter.  Although  he 
had  not  come  to  the  point  of  ranking  me  with  Briggs. 
still  my  position  was  getting  to  be  a  precarious  one. 
and  I  saw  the  necessity  for  great  care. 

For  some  time  I  avoided  being  drawn  into  conversa- 
tion with  Ulysses,  keeping  him  at  bay  with  a  number 
of  new  books,  which  I  had  brought  with  me  from 
Madras.  He  was  not  long  in  appreciating  that  there 
was  some  purpose  lying  back  of  this  policy,  and  de- 
manded an  explanation  of  me.  I  was  confused  bv  his 
point-blank  questions,  and  only  managed  to  make  things 
worse.  After  that  I  was  clay  in  his  hands.  Every  day 
he  branched  out  into  some  new  field  of  discussion, 
tested  me.  and  found  me  wanting.  I  tried  in  vain  to 
conceal  my  failures  under  a  dignified  exterior.  Ulysses 
at  first  seemed  pained  and  surprised,  but  there  finally 
showed  itself  in  his  bearing  toward  me  an  air  of  satis- 
faction and  triumph,  which  was  not  easv  to  endure. 
To  have  been  arrogantly  treated  by  a  member  of  mv 
own  species  would  have  been  a  new  experience  to  me. 
and  one  which  I  should  have  vigorously  resented;  this 
exhibition  of  superciliousness  from  an  animal  below 
me  in  the  scale  of  creation  was  more  than  I  proposed 
to  put  up  with. 

One  morning,  as  I  sauntered  out  to  the  banyan-tree, 
wondering  in  my  mind  as  to  what  was  to  be  the  out- 
come of  this  absurd  situation.  Ulvsses  motioned  to  me. 
and  pointed  to  the  blackboard,  which  I  saw  was  covered 
with  finely  written  characters. 

"  No.  Ulysses."  I  said,  "I  am  tired  this  morning,  and 
it  is  very  hot.     I  do  not  want  to  get  into  a  discussion." 

Ulysses  waved  his  trunk  emphatically,  and  pointed 
again  to  the  blackboard.  Then  he  gave  a  fierce  trumpet, 
and  glared  at  me  in  a  way  that  gave  me  a  start  of 
terror. 

I  saw  that  some  sort  of  crisis  was  ahead,  and  de- 
termined to  defer  it,  if  possible,  until  T  could  decide 
what  was  the  best  course  to  pursue.  T  therefore  ap- 
proached the  board,  and  read  the  following  message, 
addressed  to  myself: 

"Master — You  are  deceived  if  you  think  T  am  ig- 
norant of  the  change  which  has  gradually  been  coming 
to  pass  in  our  relationship  to  one  another.  You  have 
been  my  superior  thus  far  in  life,  not  by  reason  of 
greater  physical  power,  for  I  can  strike  you  dead  with 
one  blow,  whereas  you.  without  the  aid  of  tools,  could 
not  give  me  even  external  pain.  Your  sole  claim  to 
command  over  me  lay  in  your  intellectual  superiority. 
This  superiority  I  am  now  compelled  to  question. 
Yesterday  vou  admitted  that  you  had  never  read 
any  of  Henry  Mackenzie's  novels:  you  showed 
complete  ignorance  concerning  Bishop  Berkeley's 
Alciphron;  and  when  T  asked  why  Henry  Vaughn,  the 
poet,  was  called  the  *  Silurist.'  you  had  no  answer  to 
give  me.  In  the  conversations  of  the  last  few  days 
you  have  made  countless  blunders  in  matters  of  history, 
science,  and  literature.  Your  ideas  in  metaphysics  are 
those  of  a  dotard,  and  your  judgment  in  belles-lettres 
is  execrable.  I  do  not  see  on  what  ground  vou  arro- 
gate to  yourself  a  position  above  me.  If  you  are  not 
entitled  to  the  place  which  I  have  given  you  in  mv  con- 
sideration, if  the  idea  which  I  have  entertained  with 
regard  to  our  respective  positions  is  erroneous,  then  it 
is  clearly  a  matter  of  justice  that  we  should  straight- 
way change  places.  T  will  be  the  master  hereafter  and 
you  the  servant.  Can  you  show  me  any  good  reason 
why  this  revolution  should  not  come  to  pass?" 

There  was  no  mistaking  the  tone  and  purport  of  this 
communication.  Tt  was  at  once  a  declaration  of  inde- 
pendence and  a  manifesto  of  sovereignty.  Not  merely 
must  I  exercise  no  more  authority  over  Ulvsses.  but  I 
must  yield  gracefully  and  submissively  to  his  rule.  T 
did  not  know,  either  by  experience  or  hearsay,  what 
kind  of  a  master  an  elephant  would  make,  but  from  the 
intensely  logical  disposition  which  Ulysses  had  always 
shown.  T  had  a  suspicion  that  he  would  prove  at  least 
severe  and  intolerant. 

The  dilemma  was  a  hard  one.  I  took  up  the  chalk, 
intending  to  write  my  answer  rather  than  speak  it.  that 
I  might  have  time  for  reflection.  As  I  did  so,  an  idea 
suddenly  occurred  to  me — a  plan  by  which  I  could  beat 
Ulysses  at  his  own  game.  I  immediately  became  so 
confident  of  its  success  that  I  did  not  hesitate  to  stake 
my  personal  liberty  on  the  chance  of  his  discom- 
fiture. 

"Ulysses."  T  said.  "  T  can  not  deny  that  in  many  di- 
rections vou  have  shown  a  mental  grasp  which  I  never 
expected  fed  see  developed  elsewhere  than  among  the 
best  of  my  own  species.     But  all  this  is  not  enough. 


There  is  still  one  test,  the  last  and  severest  to  which 
culture  and  intelligence  can  be  compelled  to  submit. 
If  you  can  meet  this  satisfactorily,  I  shall  no  longer 
question  your  superiority  over  myself." 

"That  is  all  I  ask,"  wrote  Ulvsses:  "a  fair  trial." 

I  stepped  into  the  house,  and  returned  with  a  book 
which  I  had  recently  brought  from  Madras,  and  which 
Ulysses  had  not  seen.  I  laid  it  open  upon  the  rack  be- 
fore him.  He  brought  up  his  monocle,  and  glanced  at 
the  title  and  the  author. 

"Aha!"  he  wrote;  "I  have  heard  of  this  man.  and 
have  long  wished  to  see  some  of  his  work." 

"You  know  what  position  he  occupies  in  letters?"  I 
asked. 

"I  do."  wrote  Ulysses;  "I  have  read  what  his  ad- 
mirers say  of  him." 

"  Very  well."  I  answered :  "  you  know,  then,  what  's 
demanded  of  you — that  you  should  understand  and 
enjoy  this  work.  If  you  can  not  meet  both  these  re- 
quirements, then  you  have  failed." 

Ulysses  shrugged  his  trunk  with  easy  indifference, 
raised  his  eye-glass,  and  began  to  read.  I  lay  some 
distance  away,  dozing  in  my  hammock,  and  awaited  re- 
sults.    They  were  not  long  in  coming. 

At  the  end  of  about  half  an  hour  he  trumpeted  to 
me  in  an  indignant  tone  of  voice,  and  inquired  on  the 
blackboard  whether  I  had  given  him  the  original  En- 
glish or  some  kind  of  a  translation. 

I  answered  this  satisfactorily,  and  for  more  than  an 
hour  he  toiled  away,  breathing  hard  at  times,  and  sway- 
ing from  side  to  side,  whenever  he  thought  he  was 
about  to  gain  a  clew. 

Presently  he  called  to  me  again. 

"I  forgot  to  ask,"  said  he.  "whether  this  was  to  be 
read  backwards  or  sideways." 

"  Straight  ahead."  I  answered. 

I  saw  that  he  was  getting  involved  in  the  toils,  and 
knew  that  they  would  soon  close  on  him.  Tt  must  be 
remembered  that  I  had  never  deceived  Ulysses,  and 
the  thought  that  I.  or  any  one  else,  could  feign  an 
opinion  which  was  not  genuine,  had  never  occurred  to 
him.  The  book  had  been  submitted  to  him  about 
the  middle  of  the  morning.  Ulvsses  took  no  refresh- 
ment that  day,  neither  water  nor  food.  When  I  came 
out  of  the  house  after  **  tiffin."  T  advised  him  to  lay  the 
volume  aside,  and  look  at  it  again  the  next  day.  He 
seemed  to  feel  that  this  would  be  a  confession  of  failure, 
and   refused. 

"  Tell  me,"  he  wrote,  "  are  there  many  of  your 
species  who  understand  and  really  enjov  this  book?" 

"There  are  not  many  in  number."  I  answered; 
"but  their  position  in  the  society  of  culture  and  taste 
is  an  exalted  one.  Within  the  last  few  vears  it  has 
come  to  pass  that  the  understanding  and  appreciation 
of  this  work  is  a  shibboleth  by  which  the  true  disciples 
of  sweetness  and  light  mav  distinguish  themselves  from 
the  miscellaneous  herd  of  Philistines.  Do  not  be  dis- 
couraged because  you  have  failed."  T  added,  in  a  kindly 
patronizing  tone.  "There  are  many  estimable  mortals 
in  the  same  situation.  You  understand,  however,  that 
you  can  not  be  admitted  to  the  elect,  much  less  claim 
superiority    over    myself." 

Ulysses  wrote  upon  the  blackboard  several  profane 
expressions,  which  T  suppose  he  had  learned  from 
Briggs.  and  resumed  his  study. 

It  was  nearly  evening  when  Akbar  came  to  me.  and 
said  that  Ulysses  was  showing  decided  symptoms  of 
becoming  "must."  I  went  out  with  the  intention 
of  taking  the  book  away  from  him.  hut  stopped  several 
yards  away,  struck  by  his  changed  appearance.  His 
eyes  were  wild  and  bloodshot,  his  ears  erect,  his  legs 
spread  apart.  He  was  beating  his  sides  with  his  trunk, 
and.  at  times  trumpeting  in  low.  bass  tones.  When  he 
saw  us  approach  he  seized  the  book  from  the  rack. 
and  dashed  it  at  me  with  all  his  force. 

"  Ulysses."  I  said.  "  keep  calm." 

"  Look  out !"  cried  Akbar;  "  he  is  '  must.'     Beware  !" 

With  a  terrific  roar  Ulysses  turned,  and  sprang  in 
great,  ponderous  leaps  out  of  the  garden.  Briggs.  who 
was  in  his  path,  dropped  his  rake,  and  flung  himself 
into  some  bushes. 

"After  him.  Akbar!"  T  cried:  "see  where  he  goes." 

Ulysses  ran  toward  a  clump  of  trees,  which  grew 
over  a  knoll  a  short  distance  awav.  Into  them  he  plunged, 
and  was  soon  out  of  sight.  We  could  hear  the  limbs 
crash  as  he  tore  his  way  into  the  thick  foliage.  Akbar 
followed  cautiously.  The  direction  which  Ulvsses  had 
taken  caused  a  suspicion  of  possible  calamity  to  dawn 
on  my  mind,  and  I  waited  uneasily  for  the  mahout's 
return.  Tt  was  not  long  before  Akbar  emerged  from 
the  woods,  and  ran  toward  me. 

"Praise  he  to  our  fathers,  he  is  dead!"  he  shouted. 
Akbar  had  come  to  fear  and  to  hate  Ulysses. 

"Are  you  sure?"  T  asked. 

"Mav  the  hyenas  eat  mv  grandfather!"  said  he. 
solemnly.  "  You.  who  know  only  truth,  remember  the 
rockv  bank  beyond  the  hill,  which  slopes  off  to  destruc- 
tion? Your  servant.  Ulysses,  rushed  thither  and  flung 
himself  down,  bursting  his  head  against  the  stones. 
T  myself  saw  him  there,  lying  motionless  and  dead." 

This  was  the  end  of  Ulvsses.  T  felt  less  of  sorrow 
than  of  relief  over  the  catastrophe.  Long  association 
had  made  him  dear  to  me  in  many  wavs,  yet  I  was  not 
prepared  to  endure  him  as  a  master.  There  could  be  no 
other  outcome  to  the  unhappy  situation  than  a  tragedy 
of  some  kind.  I  sadly  gave  orders  for  the  interment 
of  his  body,  and  returned  to  the  house,  taking  with  mc 
the  torn  and  disfigured  copy  of  Browning's  "  Sorrlelln." 
Charles  Dwigiit  \v 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  3,  1903. 


PREPOSTEROUS    AMERICANS. 


How  New  Yorkers  Appear  to  an  Anonymous  English  Journalist. 

A  pseudonymous  journalist,  who  calls  himself 
"  Montague  Vernon  Ponsonby,  Esq.,"  has  written  a 
most  amusing  volume  on  his  American  observations, 
which  he  calls  "  The  Preposterous  Yankee."  Mr. 
"  Ponsonby "  declares  in  his  preface  that  he  is  "  a 
candid  friend  of  the  United  States,  not  an  enemy," 
though  he  admits  that  some  of  the  things  he  has  written 
sound  so  disagreeable  that  he  is  almost  ashamed  to 
have  penned  them.  "Uncle  Sam,"  he  says,  "paints 
himself  as  a  full-grown  man  with  whiskers.  This  is  a 
fallacy.  He  is  a  very  raw,  gawky  youth,  and  he  might 
better  be  called  '  Nephew  Sam.'  "  After  declaring  in 
his  opening  chapter  that  "  the  American  is  free  only 
in  the  Declaration  of  Independence,"  the  writer  goes 
on  to  describe  in  detail  the  manners  and  customs  of  the 
Yankee  as  he  found  him.  Here  is  his  account  of  how 
a  business  man  goes  to  lunch  in  New  York: 

After  he  has  sat  half-baked  in  his  oven-like  office  for  three 
hours,  he  suddenly  jumps  up,  and  exhibits  all  the  symptoms 
of  a  madman  bent  on  escaping  from  his  cage.  With  a  wild 
scramble  he  seizes  his  unbrushed  hat,  puts  on  an  overcoat, 
made  of  a  sort  of  shoddy  felt,  and,  before  it  is  fairly  on,  is 
rushing  through  the  corridors  and  yelping  for  the  lift,  which 
has  just  passed  his  floor,  to  stop  for  him.  Half  dazed,  dis- 
heveled, frantic,  and  hysterical,  he  arrives  on  the  ground 
floor.  An  Englishman  who  saw  this  performance  would  be 
inclined  to  suppose  that  the  performer  was  a  defaulter  escap- 
ing with  all  the  available  assets  of  the  bank.  But  he  would 
be  mistaken.  It  is  simply  the  president  of  one  of  the  largest 
financial  institutions  in  New  York  going  out  for  his  lunch. 
Like  a  lion,  or  other  wild  beast,  the  now  thoroughly  aroused 
man  dashes  along  Broadway.  He  darts,  with  the  air  of  some- 
thing that  is  being  hunted,  into  a  sort  of  cellar,  a  den  that 
has  not  been  ventilated  since  last  summer,  in  which  pie — the 
American  national  dish — sandwiches,  hash,  crullers,  and  all 
sorts  of  viands  invented  by  the  dyspepsia  doctors,  are  displayed 
in  large  bowls.  With  the  avidity  of  the  shipwrecked  sailor 
who  has  seen  no  food  whatever  for  at  least  three  weeks,  the 
banker  grabs  a  handful  of  pie.  and  stuffs  it  into  his  mouth. 
Evidently  he  is  panic-stricken  at  the  thought  that  the  pie  will 
be  taken  from  him  before  he  can  get  away  with  it.  The  ob- 
server imagines  that  a  cablegram  has  suddenly  reached  Wall 
Street  announcing  that  a  blockade  will  occur  that  evening,  and 
bv  the  following  day  there  will  be  nothing  left  in  the  whole 
of  the  United  States  for  hungry  bankers  to  eat.  Having  made 
away  with  as  much  as  he  will  hold,  and  packed  it  into  himself 
very  much  as  a  commercial  traveler  squeezes  three  gallons 
of  shirts  and  socks  into  a  two-gallon  dress-suit  case,  the  eves 
of  the  banker  suddenly  bulge  out  with  a  strange  alarm.  Tt  has 
occurred  to  him  that  while  he  has  been  gorging  himself  the 
trusted  cashier  of  the  bank  has  probably  bolted  with  all  the 
money.  In  a  wild  way  he  pays  his  bill,  and  starts  on  a  sort 
of  steeplechase  back  to  his  cage.  There,  frequently,  he  finds, 
to  his  satisfaction,  that  both  the  cashier  and  the  money  are  still 
there. 

The  writer  also  declares  that  the  New  Yorker  is 
never  completely  satisfied  unless  be  is  making  a  noise 
of  some  sort.     He  adds  : 

His  tramways  are  fitted  with  enormous  eongs,  which  clang 
with  nerve-shattering  force  from  morning  till  night.  His  fire- 
engines,  which  are  continually  on  the  run,  bound  to  put  out 
incendiary  fires,  are  fitted  with  'large  bells.  Even  the  ambu- 
lance, which  is  taking  a  dying  man  to  the  morgue — for  the 
Americans  are  so  practical  that  if  a  man  is  dying,  thev  do  not 
send  him  to  a  hospital,  but  dispatch  him  to  the  dead-house — 
is  fitted  with  large  bells.  Everywhere  the  New  Yorker  is  to  be 
heard,  shouting,  ringing,  and  making  as  loud  a  clamor  as  he 
can.  The  New  York  gentleman  afflicted  with  a  low.  gentle 
voice  would  be  an  absolute  social  failure.  In  hotels,  res- 
taurants, and  public  places,  in  theatres  or  at  dog-fights,  the 
New  Yorker  is  to  be  heard  talking  in  loud,  raucous  tones  about 
himself  and  his  money.  Every  tenth,  eleventh,  and  twelfth 
word  is  "  dollars,  dollars,  dollars."  The  New  Yorker  who  is 
dinine  at  Delmonico's  with  a  friend,  on  taking  his  seat  at  a 
table,  shouts  out  to  him,  glaring  around  at  the  other  diners 
to  see  if  they  are  listening:  "I  have  just  gone  into  a  four- 
million-dollar  deal."  Then  he  converses  for  the  rest  of  the 
evening  about  diamonds,  real  estate,   and  stocks  and  bonds. 

A  certain  percentage  of  Americans,  he  declares,  take 
a  keen  delight  in  donning  ridiculous  costumes  and 
strutting  about  like  escaped  monkeys  from  a  barrel- 
organ,  under  the  idea  that  they  are  thereby  enjoying 
great  glory  and  distinction,  to  the  envy  of  neighbors: 

When  a  man  is  elected  governor  of  an  American  State,  be  it 
for  two  years  or  for  one,  he  at  once  appoints  a  herd  of  third- 
rate  politicians  as  members  of  his  "  staff."  Most  of  them  are 
allowed  to  bear  the  title  of  colonel,  even  if  they  do  not  know 
on  which  side  of  their  absurd  selves  to  hang  their  swords. 
The  costumes  of  the  members  of  the  governor's  staff  are 
wonderful  and  gorgeous.  Usually  the  hat  worn  by  one  of  these 
"  colonels  "  could  not  be  packed  into  a  clothes-basket.  At  least 
one  full-grown  ostrich  is  denuded  of  plumes  to  decorate  every 
"tile."  A  giant  could  sit  on  the  epaulets,  and  the  sword  is  a 
huge  affair,  covered  with  decorations  and  tinsels  and  orna- 
ments. When  a  member  of  the  governor's  staff  walks  down 
Fifth  Avenue  he  looks  like  a  sort  of  condensed  rainbow.  In  order 
to  give  an  opportunity  for  the  preposterous  American  to  ex- 
hibit himself  in  his  ridiculous  clothes,  all  sorts  of  remarkable 
processions  are  arranged.  For  instance,  there  is  the  strange 
Labor  Day  parade.  Once  a  year  all  the  bands  in  America 
participate  in  a  procession.  Sandwiched  in  between  them 
are  perhaps  twenty  thousand  carpenters,  with  blue  sashes 
round  their  waists,  and  wearing  cocked  hats  and  crimson 
soats.  Then  will  follow  five  hundred  chimney-sweeps,  each  of 
them  wrapped  in  the  American  flag,  and  beating  a  drum.  After 
them  come,  say,  three  thousand  plasterers,  each  in  blue  silk 
tiahts,  blowing  a  trombone.  Then  there  will  be  a  battalion 
of  carpenters,  a  brigade  of  coal-heavers,  and  so  on.  There 
is  nothing  about  a  Labor  Day  parade  to  suggest  or  connect  it 
in  anv  way  with  the  dignity  of  labor.  Each  man  disguises 
his  calling  as  much  as  he  knows  how  in  a  purple  and  gold 
masquerade.  He  is  pretending  to  be  proud  of  his  employment, 
but  what  he  is  really  boasting  about  are  his  silly  clothes. 

A  whole  chapter  is  devoted  to  "  The  Great  American 
Liar."  Mr.  "Ponsonby"  says  the  American  always 
speaks  in  hyperbole : 

Everything  he  says  borrows  the  tint  of  the  rainbow.  He 
talks  of  millions  of  tons  of  gold  ;  everything  is  huge,  colossal, 
magnificent.  If  an  American  eats  a  ham  sandwich,  when  talk- 
ing about  it  he  announces  that  he  has  feasted  like  Lucullus. 
that  he  has  gorged  himself  with  food,  that  he  is  in  danger  of 
dying  of  apoplexy,  that  he  has  eaten  a  hundred  dollars'  worth 
of  i*"  irishment.  If  he  drinks  a  glass  of  water,  he  goes  out 
and  A\s  every  one  that  he  has  just  quaffed  a  glass  of  nectar 
r    a      eaker    of    champagne:.      This,    not   to    magnify   the   ham 


sandwich  or  the  glass  of  water,  but  to  glorify  himself,  to  show 
what  a  splendid  fellow  he  is,  how  rich  and  prosperous  and 
powerful  and  colossal  he  is.  American  millionaires,  when  they 
have  died,  and  have  been  assessed  by  the  probate  court,  gen- 
erally yield  about  ten  cents  on  the  dollar.  The  American 
thousand  is  about  three  hundred.  The  American  mile  is  al- 
most eight  hundred  yards.  American  newspaper  circulation 
is  thirty  per  cent,  of  the  figures  announced  by  the  publisher. 
If  you  count  a  thirty-story  American  sky-scraping  building, 
you  will  be  lucky  if  you  can  find  twenty-six  stories.  Every  one 
is  lying.  Americans  lie  in  the  pulpit,  in  court,  in  Congress,  and 
in  their  sleep.  If  an  American  tells  you  that  he  sits  up  all 
night,  it  means  that  he  did  not  go  to  bed  until  i  a.  m.  If  he 
says  that  he  has  just  made  $  1,000,  he  means  that  he  has  made 
$53.  If  he  announces  that  the  theatre  was  so  absolutely 
crowded  that  the  audience  were  hanging  on  to  the  balcony  by 
their  eyelids,  he  wishes  you  to  understand  that  the  house  was 
about  half  full.  If  he  says  that  his  wife's  frock  cost  $500, 
and  that  she  bought  it  in  Paris,  he  is  trying  to  explain  to  you 
that  she  has  never  been  to  Paris  in  her  life,  and  that  her  frock 
cost  $40  at  a  Broadway  dry-goods  store,  and  that  not  of  the 
first  class  either. 

In  complaining  that  the  "Americans  would  spoil  the 
whole  of  London  if  they  got  a  chance,"  Mr.  "  Pon- 
sonby "  says : 

Fortunately,  it  is  too  big  for  them,  but  they  have  managed 
to  ruin  a  section  of  the  world's  capital.  The  American  who 
comes  to  London  soon  corrupts  and  spoils  hotel-keepers  and 
servants  by  his  ways.  One  of  the  largest  hotels  has  become 
so  Americanized,  so  uncouth  and  impossible,  that  cultivated 
Englishmen  hold  up  their  hands  in  horror  at  the  thought  of  it. 
As  soon  as  an  American  arrives  in  an  English  hotel  he  begins 
calling  the  waiter.  "  Hello.  Billy,"  or  "  Ah,  there,  Jimmy," 
slapping  him  on  the  back,  digging  him  in  the  ribs,  and  other- 
wise manifesting  his  inferiority  to  the  aforesaid  waiter.  After 
dealing  with  a  few  Americans  and  their  familiarity,  it  is  impos- 
sible to  do  anything  with  a  waiter  unless  one  digs  him  in  the 
ribs  and  calls  him  "  Hello,  Billy,"  or  "  Ah,  there,  Jimmy," 
and  slaps  him  on  the  back,  and  takes  him  to  the  theatre. 

In  conclusion,  we  quote  the  following  paragraph  on 
the  "  frugality  "  of  American  travelers :  "  To  give  a  tip 
of  any  sort  wrenches  his  feelings.  But  he  often  gives 
large  tips  in  Europe,  apparently  because  he  is  afraid 
of  waiters,  not  having  the  moral  courage  to  refuse 
them.  He  is  always  ignorant  of  the  amount  necessary 
to  distribute.  To  the  person  who  should  get  a  shilling 
tip  he  gives  a  half-penny,  and  to  the  men  who  should 
get  a  two-penny  tip  he  donates  two  shillings.  The  con- 
sequence is  that  he  is  always  in  some  sort  of  hot  water, 
and  gets  the  reputation  of  being  a  mean  and  miserly 
creature  without  any  of  the  financial  advantages  usually 
attached  to  such  a  reputation." 


The  bank  clearings  of  the  cities  designated  by  Brad- 
street's  as  "Far  Western"  aggregated  $912,943,340  in 
the  first  four  months  of  1903,  as  against  $782,585,909 
in  the  same  months  of  1902.  The  list  of  Far  Western 
cities  embraces  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  Denver. 
Seattle,  '  Salt  Lake  City,  Portland,  Spokane,  Ta- 
coma,  and  Helena.  San  Francisco's  share  of  the  $912,- 
043,340  clearings  of  the  first  four  months  of  1903  was 
$500,719,260,  and  its  share  of  the  total  increase  over 
the  corresponding  period  of  1902,  which  amounted  to 
$130,357,431,  was  $78,200,868.  This  increase  repre- 
sents a  greater  amount  than  the  total  clearings  of  any 
of  the  other  cities  enumerated  for  the  four  months,  ex- 
cepting Los  Angeles,  which  is  credited  with  $98,225,- 
766,  Denver  following  with  $71,408,397  for  the  period, 
and  Seattle  fourth  with  $62,419,142. 


In  Part  II  of  "The  Poultry  Book,"  Miller  Purvis, 
writing  about  the  egg  in  commerce,  points  out  a  nice 
discrimination  in  the  matter  of  shells  on  the  part  of 
Bostonians  and  New  Yorkers,  as  against  the  more  dem- 
ocratic indifference  of  Chicagoans:  "  A  curious  error," 
he  says,  "exists  in  some  markets  concerning  the  quality 
of  eggs  as  indicated  by  the  color  of  their  shells.  The 
people  of  Boston  prefer  eggs  with  dark  shells,  and  will 
pay  the  highest  price  for  them,  while  the  people  of  New 
York  City  prefer  white-shelled  eggs,  and  the  highest- 
priced  eggs  in  that  city  are  those  having  white  shells. 
In  Chicago  there  is  no  choice  in  the  matter  of  the  color 
of  the  shells,  but  it  has  been  observed  by  those  who 
cater  to  the  high-priced  trade  that  it  is  advisable  to  as- 
sort the  eggs  according  to  color  and  sell  them  in  evenly 

colored  lots." 

■*  •  »i 

The  Philadelphia  Inquirer  represents  that  the  seven- 
master  schooner  Thomas  W.  Lawson,  which  was 
launched  July  10,  1902,  is  an  acknowledged  failure, 
and  is  to  be  dismantled,  her  elaborate  machinery  to  be 
taken  out,  and  her  hull  to  be  converted  into  a  barge. 
With  all  her  elaborate  machinery  for  the  handling  of 
her  sails,  she  has  proved  to  be  a  very  difficult  craft  to 
manage.  It  looks  as  if  the  limit  of  the  fore-and-aft  rig 
had,  therefore,  been  passed  in  the  seven-master. 


"  Practically  annihilated."  Such  is  the  epitaph  on 
the  "ordinary  mosquito"  at  Ismallia,  according  to  a 
recent  report  of  the  Suez  Canal  Company.  This  happy 
result  was  due  to  the  application  of  the  well-known 
methods  of  mosquito  extermination  urged  by  Major 
Ross.  It  is  further  stated  in  this  report  of  the  canal 
company  to  the  Liverpool  School  of  Tropical  Medicine, 
that  even  the  deadly  malaria-bearing  anopheles  has 
been  attacked  with  great  success. 


The  Philippine  Commission  has  tabled  both  opium 
bills.  A  special  commission  was  appointed  to  visit  the 
Oriental  countries  and  investigate  the  regulations  re- 
garding the  disposal  of  opium.  Afterward,  all  the  rec- 
ords will  .be  sent  to  Washington.  Governor  Taft  has 
courageously  championed,  the  theory  of  regulation.  He 
declared  that  it  was  generally  known  the  opium  habit, 
as  practiced  by  a  majority  of  the  Chinese,  was  less 
pernicious  than  whisky-drinking. 


"VAN    FLETCH"    IN    WASHINGTON. 


The  Beauties  of  the  Summer  City. 

Washington  in  summer  has  charms  that  are  unique. 
Mount  Vernon,  Arlington,  Cabin  John  Bridge,  and  the 
libraries  are  especially  compensating,  and  a  walk  or  a 
lift  to  the  top  of  the  monument  is  worth  while  for  the 
bird's-eye  view  it  gives  of  the  great  new  city.  The 
perfection  of  the  plan  of  Washington  is  not  realized 
from  any  other  view-point  than  the  top  of  the  monu- 
ment. The  abundant  foliage  of  the  parks  and  of  the 
great  trees  that  arcade  the  avenues  and  streets  is  at 
its  very  best  in  June,  and  the  well-kept  condition  of 
everything  adds  to  the  park-like  appearance  of  things. 
Then  there  are  the  bunches  of  summer  maidens  abroad 
in  the  parks  and  at  the  theatres,  without  hats  or  other 
head-covering.  Exquisitely  beautiful  and  feminine  are 
these  summer  Washingtonians.  They  remind  one  of 
the  horse-shoe  decoration  of  the  French  Opera  House 
in  New  Orleans  when  the  debutante  cron  is  unusually 
large,  and  sugar  and  cotton  are  booming. 

My  rooms  in  the  new  Willard,  bv  the  way,  are  high 
up.  and  look  down  Pennsvlvania  Avenue  to  the  great 
office  building  of  the  Southern  Railway  Company.  Just 
before  office  hours,  and  at  the  close  of  the  business 
day,  the  building  from  this  height  and  distance  looks 
like  a  huge  ant-hill,  with  the  ants  filing  in  and  out.  One 
can  not  help  noting  here  that  the  people  have  become 
more  or  less  cosmopolitan,  and  have  the  superior  ad- 
vantage of  intimate  contact  with  the  soft-voiced,  well- 
mannered  people  of  the  cultured  South.  The  crudities 
of  a  nation  are  here  toned  down  to  harmonize  with  the 
gentility  of  a  cultivated  and  proud  environment.  Dur- 
ing the  sessions  of  Congress  it  is  not  so.  The  boy 
orator,  who  has  just  been  taken  from  a  backwood's 
stump,  and  thrust  into  the  national  council  on  a  wave 
of  popular  bravos,  is  then  in  the  capital,  full  of  self- 
esteem,  and  full  of  desire  to  be  seen  and  heard.  All 
his  family  from  wav  back  is  in  town,  too,  to  see  what  is 
going  to  happen  to  the  family  as  the  result  of  the  political 
preferment  of  their  kinsman,  the  new  President-maker. 

In  summer,  'tis  different,  and,  as  a  high  officer  of  the 
army  said  to  me  the  other  day:  "The  government 
s*oes  on  just  the  same,  and  there  is  no  chance  of  mis- 
manaeement,  for  the  managers  are  away."  The  people 
that  we  meet  now  are  the  ones  who  inhabit  those  beau- 
tifully kept  homes  at  the  outer  points  of  the  radial 
avenues.  Tn  the  social  season  they  are  not  seen  at  all 
at  social  functions  frequented  by  the  immigrant  political 
set.  Then  it  is  that  they  meet  around  in  each  other's 
houses,  at  the  literary  and  other  clubs,  and  make  use 
of  the  libraries,  with  which  Washington  is  so  richly 
endowed.  In  summer  these  aristocratic  servants  of  the 
government  come  out  from  the;r  seclusion,  and  wander 
through  the  parks,  the  grounds  of  the  White  House,  and 
flv  about  like  birds  in  the  air  on  swift  darting  electric 
cars  and  automobiles.  These  masters  of  the  machinery 
of  our  great  government  do  their  work  as  the  fairies  do, 
silently,  and  as  if  by  magic,  and  when  they  take  time 
for  recreation  they  come  out  when  the  others  are  awav- 
and  enact  a  real,  I  say,  "  Midsummer  Night's  Dream." 

My  attention  has  been  called  during  this  visit  to  the 
monumental  excellence  of  the  so-called  Surgeon-Gen- 
eral's Library,  which  was  the  creation  and  the  pride 
of  Dr.  John  S.  Billings,  of  the  army  medical  corps. 
With  scarce  any  appropriation  at  his  command.  Dr. 
Billings  begged  for  and  nursed  this  great  collection  of 
medical  books  until  it  stands  second  only  to  the  great 
medical  libraries  of  Paris  and  St.  Petersburg  in  number 
of  volumes,  and  leads  them  in  many  particulars.  One 
hundred  and  eightv  thousand  bound  volumes  is  a  pretty 
eood  showing.  No  wonder  thev  sought  Dr.  Billings  for 
the  Astor  Library,  in  New  York,  then  as  the  organizer 
of  the  combined  Astor-Lennox-Tilden  Library,  for 
which  a  oalace  is  now  being  constructed  in  mid-New 
York.  No  wonder  Dr.  Billings  was  selected  as  one 
of  the  Carnegie  trustees,  and  placed  on  the  executive 
committee.  No  wonder  Dr.  Billings  and  Dr.  Weir- 
Mitchell  are  bosom  friends.  They  are  both  book-lovers 
and  typical  Americans,  of  whom  the  country  may  well 
be  proud. 

Under  the  present  care  of  Surgeon-Genera!  Robert 
Maitland  O'Reilly  and  Colonel  Heizman,  of  the  Medical 
Corps,  and  a  beegarly  appropriation  from  Congress  of 
ten  thousand  dollars  a  year,  the  library  still  goes  on 
growing,  and  just  now  the  Medical  Museum  of  the 
army  is  being  incorporated  with  the  book  end  of  the 
medical  collection. 

Editor  of  the  Index  Medictis,  for  which  great  pub- 
lication the  Carnegie  Institution  gave  its  largest  single 
grant  last  year,  and  assistant-librarian  under  Dr.  Bill- 
ings from  the  beginning,  Dr.  Robert  Fletcher  sits  en- 
throned among  a  multitude  of  books,  carrying  his 
eighty  years  as  easily  as  mostjnen  carry  fiftv. 

Van  Fletch. 

Washington,  D.  C,  July,  1903. 


Dr.  H.  Nelson  Jackson,  of  Burlington,  Vt.,and  Sewell 
H.  Crocker,  his  chauffeur,  have  just  completed  ah 
automobile  trip  across  the  continent,  which  began  at 
San  Francisco  on  May  23d.  It  is  the  first  time  that  an 
automobile  has  made  the  trip  from  ocean  to  ocean. 


The  Norwegian  Government  has  notified  Cuba  that 
unless  certain  features  in  the  reciprocity  treaty  between 
the  United  States  and  Cuba  are  modified,  Norway  will 
apply  maximum  duties  to  Cuban  products. 


August 


1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


1 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Josephine  Daskam,  the  well-known  writer, 
was  married  at  Stamford.  Conn.,  on  Saturday 
last,  to  Selden  Bacon,  a  New  York  lawyer. 

United  States  Pension  Commissioner  Eugene 
F.  Ware  has  undertaken  to  obtain  and  restore 
for  presentation  to  the  Kansas  Historical  So- 
ciety the  scaffold  upon  which  John  Brown 
was  hanged  at  Harper's  Ferry  in  1859. 

Ex-President  Kruger's  residence  at  Pretoria 
is  now  used  as  a  lodging-house.  The  following 
advertisement  appears  in  a  Pretoria  paper : 
"  To  Let — Ex-President  Kruger's  late  resi- 
dence;  a  few  nicely  furnished  bedrooms,  with 
board,  etc." 

Charles  Belmont  Davis,  who  is  beginning  to 
make  his  way  in  the  magazines,  is  the  fourth 
of  his  family  to  achieve  literary  reputation. 
His  father  is  L.  Clarke  Davis,  the  Philadelphia 
editor  and  fisherman  friend  of  Grover  Cleve- 
land ;  his  mother,  the  novelist,  Rebecca  Hard- 
ing Davis  ;  and  his  brother,  Richard  Harding 
Davis. 

Replying  to  the  toasts  at  his  wedding  to 
pretty  Julia  Gifford,  last  Saturday  evening, 
Robert  Fitzsimmons,  ex-champion  heavy- 
weight pugilist,  said:  "I  feel  this  evening 
as  I  have  never  felt  for  a  very  long  time.  I 
do  not  wish  to  dwell  on  the  past ;  all  I  can 
say  is  that  I  love  my  little  Julia,  and  I  shall 
be  a  good,  true,  and  honest  husband.  Julia  and 
I  called  this  morning  at  Colonel  Kowalsky's 
office,  and  we  arranged  the  forfeits  and  the 
purse.  Now  for  the  gong,  but  let  us  strike 
only  blows  of  affection.  Clink  your  glasses, 
and  drink  to  our  future  happiness."  "  Bob's  ' 
wedding  gift  to  his  wife  was  a  large  amethyst, 
studded   with   twenty-two   diamonds. 

When  former  Lieutenant-Governor  Wood- 
ruff was  recently  asked  about  his  candidacy 
for  the  governorship  of  New  York,  he  said  : 
"That's  unbottled  hot  air; it's  a  space-filler  for 
the  newspapers  during  the  dull  spell.  It's  out 
of  season,  asinine,  malapropos,  idiotic,  silly, 
and  strictly  out  of  order.  It's  the  sort  of  piti- 
ful political  puling  which  pretty  near  gives 
me  a  pain.  It  illustrates  the  insanity  of  the 
ingenious  incubator  of  idiotic  ideas  in  the 
dog  days'  interim.  Such  a  boom  would  be 
ossified  long  before  it  got  old  enough  to  even 
ogle  at  the  nomination.  Seriously,  if  the 
gubernatorial  nomination  were  offered  me  to- 
day on  a  gold  plate,  with  a  gilt-edge  bond 
and  guarantee.  I  wouldn't  take  it.  I'm  up  to 
my  neck  in  business  cares,  one  of  which  is  the 
making  and  selling  of  typewriters  in  Syra- 
cuse." 

Maitre  Henri  Robert,  the  eminent  French 
attorney,  who  was  to  have  defended  Mme. 
Humbert,  the  extorter  of  millions,  in  her 
trial  the  middle  of  August,  has  withdrawn 
from  the  case,  owing  to  the  death  of  his 
wife.  In  his  stead,  the  bar  council  has  ap- 
pointed Maitre  Labori,  of  Dreyfus  fame,  to 
defend  the  notorious  lady.  Maitre  Labori  is 
no  lover  or  respecter  of  the  powers  that  be, 
and  he  may  be  trusted  to  do  his  best  for  his 
client,  and  to  give  several  tainted  politicians 
a  bad  quarter  of  an  hour  if  there  is  half  a 
chance.  But  the  general  opinion  is  that  the 
trial  will  prove  far  from  sensational,  and 
that  as  none  of  those  who  have  dropped  their 
millions  will  care  to  appear  before  the  court 
and  relate  how  they  came  to  do  so,  Mme. 
Humbert  and  her  relatives  will  escape  with  an 
almost  normal  sentence,  and  one  which  will 
probably  not  exceed  five  years'  imprisonment. 

The  committee  on  privileges  of  the  House 
of  Lords  has  decided  against  the  claim  of 
William  Tumour  Thomas  Poulett.  the  former 
organ-grinder,  known  as  Viscount  Hinton,  to 
the  earldom  of  Poulett,  and  in  favor  of  the 
late  earl's  son  by  a  later  marriage.  The  whole 
case  turned  on  the  question  of  the  legitimacy 
of  the  claimant,  whose  evidence,  and  also 
that  of  his  witnesses,  was  that  the  late  earl 
adopted  him  as  his  son  by  his  marriage 
with  Elizabeth  Lavinia  Newman,  whom  he 
married  in  1849,  It  was  not  denied  that  Miss 
Newman,  prior  to  the  marriage,  lived  with  an 
officer.  Captain  Granville.  The  claimant  was 
born  after  her  marriage  to  the  earl.  It  was 
claimed  that  the  birth  was  premature, 
which  was  supported  by  medical  testimony. 
The  defense  denied  the  acknowledgment  by 
the  late  earl  of  the  claimant  as  his  son,  and 
asserted  that  on  account  of  the  time  the  earl 
had  known  Miss  Newman  prior  to  their  mar- 
riage, it  was  impossible  for  the  claimant  to  be 
his  son.  The  court,  therefore, decided  that  title 
to  the  property  was  not  vested  in  the  claimant, 
but  in  the  earl's  son,  William  John  Lydston 
Poulett,  who  is  still  a  minor.  Viscount  Hinton, 
who  was  always  on  the  worst  of  terms  with 
the    earl,    was    engaged    for   some    time    as    a 


clown  in  one  of  the  suburban  theatres  of  Lon- 
don, and  afterward  earned  his  living  by 
grinding  an  organ  in  the  streets.  His  wife, 
an  ex-ballet  dancer  by  the  name  of  Annie 
Sheppley,  went  round  with  a  tin  cup  collecting 
contributions  while  her  husband  turned  the 
handle,  and  on  her  arm  the  viscountess  bore 
her  youngest  child,  Maude  Mane  Poulett. 

Sir  Thomas  Lipton  says  he  is  confident  that 
his  new  challenger.  Shamrock  III.  will  lift  the 
America's  Cup.  "  Anybody  who  is  anxious 
to  make  money,"  he  adds,  "  can  do  no  better 
than  to  bet  on  the  Shamrock  III  this  time. 
I  am  as  confident  of  taking  that  cup  as  I  am 
certain  that  I  am  now  alive.  Those  who  wish 
to  see  the  cup  had  better  do  so  within  the  next 
two  months,  for  after  that  time  it  will  go  home 
with  me.  I  think  that  I  have  in  '  Bobby ' 
Wrinqe  the  best  skipper  in  Britain  to-day. 
and  I  consider  '  Charley  '  Barr  the  greatest 
sailing-master  in  the  United  States.  I  say 
unquestionably  that  any  boat  that  Captain  Barr 
is  on  will  come  in  first  I  have  decided  that 
Colonel  D.  F.  D.  Neill  will  represent  me  on 
the  Shamrock  I  and  William  Fife.  Jr.,  the 
designer  of  the  craft,  will  be  my  representative 
on  the  Shamrock  III.  He  is  the  best  amateur 
sailor  in  England  to-day.  I  am  inclined  to 
think  that  in  the  next  race  for  the  America's 
Cup  after  this  Shamrock  IV  will  be  the  de- 
fender and  not  the  challenger.  Win  or  lose, 
however,  I  intend  to  make  a  tour  of  the 
United  States  when  the  cup  races  are  done."' 

Big  Bill  "  Devery  has  begun  his  New 
York  mayoralty  campaign  in  earnest.  He  has 
opened  headquarters  in  every  assembly  district 
in  Greater  New  York  for  his  "  Independent 
People's  Parrty,"  and  petitions  for  his  inde- 
pendent nomination  have  been  sent  into  each 
of  the  sixty-one  districts  of  the  city,  with 
proper  watchers  and  a  notary  in  each  district 
to  take  the  legal  depositions.  The  2,000  neces- 
sary names  have  already  been  secured,  but 
Devery  says:  "We're  not  goin'  to  stop  until  we 
get  20,000  names  to  that  there  petition."  Dev- 
ery's  emblem  on  the  ballot  will  be  the  pump, 
which  will  be  exploited  throughout  his  cam- 
paign. Early  in  August,  he  will  start  out 
with  his  long-planned  speech-making  tour,  and 
he  says  he  will  deliver  fully  300  talks  between 
that  time  and  election,  requiring  an  average 
of  three  speeches  a  day.  At  first,  Devery  will 
begin  with  the  roof-gardens,  and  from  there 
will  go  to  Coney  Island,  and  give  out  his  talks 
at  the  vaudeville  houses  between  the  acts. 
He  will  charge  nothing  for  his  "  turn,"  but. 
on  the  other  hand,  will  pay  the  management 
of  the  houses,  so  they  look  with  favor 
on  the  proposition.  Next  he  will  undertake 
a  cart-tail  campaign,  and  in  all  it  is  planned 
by  him  to  spend  fully  $100,000  before  he 
finishes  his  work  of  "  getting  even "  with 
Tammany  Hall  for  the  fight  it  has  made  on 
him,  both  before  and  after  his  turn-down  as 
leader  of  the  ninth   assembly  district. 


Cabling  to  Manila. 

The  completion  of  the  new  cable 
across  the  Pacific  and  the  sending  of 
the  shortest  around-the- world  message  on 
record,  between  President  Roosevelt  and 
Governor  Taft,  calls  to  mind  the  fast- 
est cable  message  ever  sent  from  this  country 
to  the  Philippines  up  to  this  time.  It  was 
the  night  of  election  in  1900.  The  radical 
change  of  programme  promised  by  the  Demo- 
cratic platform  regarding  the  Philippines 
caused  the  result  of  the  contest  to  be  awaited 
with  the  keenest  interest  by  both  Filipinos 
and  Americans.  Knowing  this,  arrangements 
had  been  made  by  the  authorities  at  Washing- 
ton for  the  sending"  of  the  fastest  message 
ever  yet  put  through  over  that  route.  There 
are  about  a  dozen  relays  between  New  York 
and  Manila,  via  the  United  Kingdom,  Gib- 
raltar, Suez.  Aden,  India,  Ceylon,  and  Singa- 
pore ;  the  company  had  given  orders  all  along 
the  line  that  operators  were  to  rush  this  mes- 
sage through  to  the  exclusion  of  all  other 
business.  At  about  eleven  o'clock  at  night  in 
Washington,  which  was  just  as  Governor  Taft 
was  preparing  to  go  home  for  a  noonday  lunch 
on  the  next  day  in  Manila,  General  Corbin 
put  on  the  wire  this  message,  reduced  to  the 
briefest  space  :  "  Taft,  Manila — McKinley. 
Corbin."  It  went  through  to  Manila  in  some- 
what over  forty  seconds,  and,  as  may  be  sup- 
posed, was  promptly  promulgated  there. 

The  new  cable  will  reduce  the  rate  to  Ma- 
nila from  about  $1.75  per  word  for  most  parts 
of  the  United  States,  to  50  cents  a  word.  The 
government,  of  course,  like  the  press  agencies, 
has  a  special  rate,  and  also  employs  a  cipher. 
This  permits  of  occasional  amenities  in  the 
almost  daily  exchange  of  messages  between 
Washington  and  Manila,  as  was  shown  in 
April,  when  the  following  cables  between  Root 
and  Taft  proved  that  the  Secretary"  o(  War  is 
not  always  serious,  and  raised  the  old  question 


as   to   whether   Governor  Taft   would   "  weigh 
in  "  at  250  or  at  300  : 

"  Manila,  April  9th. — Secretary  of  War. 
Washington  :  I  leave  to-day  for  Benguet  prov- 
ince, which  has  telegraphic  communication. 
Mail  only  two  days  behind.  Taft." 

"  Washington,  April  13th. — Taft.  Manila  : 
The  Secretary  of  War  wishes  to  know  how 
you  stood  your  trip,  and  your  present  condi- 
tion. Edwakds." 

"  Benguet.  April  15th. — Secretary  of  War. 
Washington  :  I  made  the  trip  very  well.  Rode 
horseback  twenty-five  miles  to  an  altitude  of 
five  thousand  feet.  Expect  to  be  cured  of  the 
dysentery.  Taft." 

"  Washington.  April  i6lh. — Taft,  Benguet: 
Received  your  telegram  of  the  15th.  How  is 
the  horse?  Root." 


MORE    VIEWS    ON    "RACE    SUICIDE." 


Why  Neglect  the  Home  for  Society? 

Oakland.  July  22,  1903. 
Kditors  Argonaut:  After  reading:  the  screed 
of  "  One  Who  Loves  Her  Sex,"  one  is  led  to  be- 
lieve that  President  Roosevelt  desires  nothing  less 
than  that  every  "  overworked  farmer's  wife," 
and  every  struggling  parent  should  redeem  so- 
ciety's deplorable  condition  by  adding  another 
burden  to  their  already  toppling  load.  Dear  lady! 
Can  she  find  one  paragraph  in  President  Roose- 
velt's exhortation  in  which  he  urges  the  necessity 
for  larger  families  upon  women  "  worn  by  toil 
and  dreary  surroundings?"  It  is  not  from  vitality 
already  overtaxed  that  he  demands  this  additional 
outpuL  His  well-directed  shafts  of  rebuke  are  not 
aimed  at  the  "  overworked  farmer's  wife,"  nor  the 
"  parents  struggling  to  keep  the  wolf  from  the 
door ";  it  is  to  those  among  us  who  use  their 
health  and  energy  in  such  ways  that  they  have 
none  left  to  devote  to  what  he  rightly  terms  "a 
woman's  honor  and  glory."  What  arc  '"  the 
thousand  hopes  and  aims  "  to  which  "  One  Who 
Loves  Her  Sex"  alludes?  What  are  "the  mani- 
fold duties  and  interests  "  which  make  it  impos- 
sible for  the  average  woman  to  fulfill  the  condi- 
tions of  ideal  marriage?  A  very  casual  inquiry 
will  show  that  half  the  so-called  "  social  obliga- 
tions"  which  go  to  make  the  "nervous  condition" 
of  the  American  women  what  it  is,  could  be  dropped 
from  her  life  with  much  advantage  and  little,  if 
any,  loss.  The  "  paper  "  written  on  "  Kgyptian 
Architecture,"  or  on  "  Scandinavian  folk-lore," 
often  written  hurriedly  and  crowded  in  between 
the  real  duties  of  life,  after  a  feverish  search  for 
references  in  the  public  library;  the  function 
carried  out  on  a  scale  not  warranted  by  the  in- 
come, involving  days  of  preparation  beforehand, 
a  wholesale  overturning  of  the  household  routine, 
followed  by  a  reaction  of  highly  strung  nerves — 
to  such  "hopes  and  aims"  as  these  do  too  many 
women  direct  the  ambition  and  energy  that  would 
otherwise  culminate  in  faithful  preparation  for, 
and  the  successful  rearing  of,  happy  and  healthy 
children.  "  One  Who  Loves  Her  Sex  "  says 
"  every  one  knows  what  childbirth  means  to  a 
woman,"  and  proceeds  to  draw  a  truly  Dantean 
picture,  in  which  "  ill  health,  isolation,  and  long 
hours  of  gloomy  foreboding "  figure  as  the  in 
evitable  symptoms  of  expectant  motherhood.  Yes. 
to  the  woman  who  does  not  know  how  to  dress 
herself,  or  diet  herself;  who  can  not  discriminate 
between  indiscreet  behavior  in  a  public  place,  and 
dignified  exercise  and  recreations;  who  spends  in 
"  gloomy  foreboding  "  hours  which  could  and  should 
be  spent  in  pleasurable  anticipation.  But  to  ex- 
pect an  intelligent,  up-to-date  woman  to  accept 
the  statement  that  motherhood  means  ill  health 
is  to  ask  too  much  of  any  one's  forbearance- 
Select  from  the  women  of  your  acquaintance,  or 
enlarge  the  boundary  and  take  from  among  the 
different  churches  of  any  town,  the  mothers  with 
their  splendid  boys  and  their  girls,  repeating  their 
own  bright,  youthful  days,  and  place  them  in  a 
line  opposite  the  women  who,  for  various  reasons, 
have  never  been  able  to  say  "  my  child,"  will  not 
the  mothers  carry  off  the  palm  for  an  all-around 
endowment  of  those  qualities,  both  mental  and 
physical,  which  come  with  motherhood,  the  mother- 
hood which  those  others  have  been  obliged  to 
forego,    or    have   seen    fit    to    evade? 

Frances. 


Advice  to  Young  Men  About  to  Marry. 

Norwalk,  Cal.,  July  24,  1903. 
Editors  Argonaut:  Your  article  on  "  race 
suicide,"  written  by  "  One  Who  Loves  Her  Sex," 
I  read  aloud,  and  three  mothers  of  us  exclaimed 
at  the  truth  so  graphically  told  in  the  following 
extracts:  "  A  child's  natural  right  is  to  be  well- 
born, strong-bodied,  clear-brained,  loving,  joyous, 
and  eager.  Can  a  mother  give  birth  to  such  a 
child  when  toil  and  dreary  surroundings  have 
broken  her  health  and  dulled  her  sensibilities, 
when  she  can  not  properly  take  care  of  the  ones 
she  has,  when  she  looks  forward  to  the  future 
with  gloomy  forebodings,  when  she  has  no 
thought  but  of  hate  and  anger  for  the  intruder, 
unwelcome,  and  forced  upon  her  against  her 
will?  .  .  .  The  physical  and  spiritual  energy  re- 
quired to  give  birth  to  and  rear  a  large  number 
of  children  is  incalculable.  -  -  .  ICvcry  one  knows 
what  childbirth  means  to  a  woman.  Inconvenience, 
ill  health,  isolation,  long  hours  of  gloom  and  fore- 
boding, and  at  the  last  that  torture,  that  agony 
indescribable  which  every  woman  must  endure 
when  she  becomes  a  mother.  There  is  nothing  that 
can  compare  with  it  in  the  terrifying  Imrror  of  it 
all."  The  most  oppressed  class  in  all  the  world 
that  I  know  anything  about,  personally,  is  made 
up  of  the  mothers  of  large  families  who  do  their 
own  work.  They  are  slaves,  without  rest  day  or 
night.  The  mother  love  which  they  have  by  in- 
stinct must  be  all  that  keeps  them  from  despair. 
I  do  think  that  young  men  contemplating  matri- 
mony should  consider  all  these  things  and  count 
the  cosL  It  doesn't  mean  physical  disability,  never- 
ending  work,  utter  loss  of  rest  to  them,  but  it 
does  to  the  ones  they  are  eager  to  make  their  wives. 
Have  they  the  means  to  pay  for  the  help  these 
wives  will  need?  If  not.  are  they  willing,  when 
at  home,  to  come  to  the  rescue  at  all  times?  Will 
they  take  care  of  the  baby  at  night?  Generally, 
the  "  poor,  harassed,  faded  creature  "  gets  very 
careless  about  her  dress,  and  so.  if  he  is  the  kind 
of  man  who  cares,  disgusts  her  husband,  and  he 
thinks    he   has   a   good   excuse   to   go   out    evenings, 


and  keep  away  from  his  unpleasant  home.  I  have 
heard  a  good  deal  about  President  Roosevelt's 
theories,  but  didn't  read  exactly  what  he  did  say. 
and  got  the  impression  that  what  he  was  opposing 
was  the  murder  that  is  going  on  of  unborn  children. 
I  admired  him  for  that;  for  cruel  as  it  is,  I  would 
rather  liave  a  large  family,  and  do  my  own  work. 
(ban  to  commit  one  such  murder.  It  doesn't  seem 
as  though  Mr.  Roosevelt  would  condemn  the  rea- 
sonable and  human  practice  of  a  husband  and  wife 
judging  for  themselves  the  number  of  children 
they  ought  to  have,  and  then  abiding  by  their 
judgment  in  a  clean,  honorable,  and  righteous  way. 
So  few  arc  well-born  because  so  many  are  un- 
welcome. All  our  lives  long  we  suffer  from  queer, 
hateful  dispositions,  with  which  our  mothers 
marked  us.  when,  under  right  circumstances,  we 
might   have   been   bright,   joyous,   and   happy. 

M.  R.  L. 


Fourteen  Children,  all  Happy. 

San  Francisco,  July  18.  1903. 
Editors  Argonaut:  I  can  not  refrain  from 
answering  an  article  headed  "  Race  Suicide "  in 
your  paper,  for,  as  I  am  a  mother  of  a  large  family, 
I  feel  I  am  able  to  say  what  a  woman's  duty  is. 
My  husband  had  a  small  salary  (fortunately),  and 
therefore  he  could  not  join  a  club,  where  he  would 
be  tempted  to  indulge  in  dissipation,  so  our  home 
was  our  castle — surrounded  by  a  family  of  dear 
little  children.  We,  of  course,  had  to  deny  our- 
selves luxuries.  I  had  to  sew  and  teach  our 
babies,  he  had  to  work,  but  when  the  day  was  done, 
his  first  query  was,  "  Where  is  baby?"  When 
a  new  arrival  was  expected,  we  felt  it  would  be 
hard.  But  somehow  he  or  she  would  fit  right  in 
and  was  always  loved.  Our  joys  and  cares  we 
shared  together.  How  much  better  to  be  a  wife 
and  mother  than  a  woman  half  man,  selfish,  think- 
ing only  of  how  to  have  a  good  time,  or  wanting 
to  be  a  doctor,  lawyer,  or  anything  rather  than 
a  womanly  woman.  If  we  could  only  destroy 
woman's  clubs,  make  young  men  marry  at  twenty- 
five,  and  have  their  homes  and  their  babies, 
then  dissipation,  vice,  and  drunkenness  would  not 
be  heard  of.  Near  us  lives  a  woman  with  fourteen 
children.  They  never  have  had  a  servant,  and 
they  live  in  three  rooms.  They  have  always  been 
clean  and  happy,  and  have  had  enough  to  cat. 
Their  father  is  a  laboring  man.  They  have  man- 
aged to  save  enough  to  secure  a  little  home  of 
their  own,  principally  because  the  household  is 
directed  by  a  good  wife  and  a  splendid  mother. 
She  said  to  me  one  day:  "It  makes  us  so  happy 
on  Sunday  to  see  our  fourteen  children  around 
us  at  dinner  time,"  As  far  as  childbirth  being 
"  inconvenient,"  that  is  all  rubbish.  Of  course, 
it  is  hard,  but  it  is  better  than  having  our  women 
crowd  the  doctors'  offices,  as  they  do  now,  with  a 
thousand  and  one  complaints  our  mothers  knew  not 
of.  Women  should  bear  their  yoke.  Let  them 
learn    contentment    and    unselfishness. 

The  Mother  of  a  Large  Family. 


The  suit  in  Paris  of  M.  Carera.  a  South 
American,  against  Anna  Held,  reveals  the  fact 
that  she  has  a  daughter,  Lili.  who  had  been 
adopted  by  her  former  admirer.  Carera  was 
at  one  time  a  member  of  one  of  the  principal 
clubs  of  Paris,  but  he  has  lost  heavily  at 
baccarat,  and  now  is  suing  the  dainty  French 
comedienne  for  a  bundle  of  Portuguese  bonds 
which  he  entrusted  to  her  care,  and  for  the 
custody  of  the  child,  Lili.  He  still  professes 
to  love  the  fickle  Anna,  and  some  of  his 
amorous  epistles  have  been  read  in  court.  In 
one,  he  declares  his  unalterable  affection  for 
the  artist,  and  confesses  that  his  only  pleasure 
was  "  to  talk  to,  and  to  play  at  draughts 
with.  you.  even  at  the  risk  of  being  sent  to 
an  asylum  by  reason  of  delirium  brought  about 
by  the  glamour  of  your  presence."  When 
Anna  married  Florence  Ziegler.  and  he  could 
get  no  satisfaction,  Carera  sent  several 
threatening  letters,  and  then  began  suit.  He 
says  he  wants  the  Portuguese  bonds  for  the 
support  of  Lili.  but  as  Anna  has  promised  to 
look  after  her  child,  it  is  doubtful  if  the  case 
will  be  decided  in  Carera's  favor. 


Anders  will  rejoice  in  the  announcement 
that  a  consignment  of  some  forty  thousand 
Eastern  brook-trout  from  Verdi.  Nev. 
will  be  distributed  in  Paper  Mill  and 
Lagunitas  Creek.  near  Camp  Taylor. 
Marin  County.  In  addition  to  this  ship- 
ment, another  of  seventy-five  thousand 
has  arrived  for  streams  in  Monterey 
County,  and  are  to  be  distributed  in  the  Car- 
mel  River,  and  other  streams.  They  were 
brought  from  the  Sisson  Hatchery.  In  a  few 
weeks,  sixty  thousand  more  will  come  from 
Sisson,  in  Siskiyou  County,  near  the  head- 
waters of  the  Sacramento  River,  to  be  dis- 
tributed in  Marin  and  Sonoma  Counties.  The 
work  will  be  continued  as  far  north  as  Caza- 
dero. 


Nat  Goodwin  and  party,  who  are  making 
a  tour  of  the  Sierra,  with  a  guide  and  pack- 
animals,  were  in  the  Ynsemite  Valley  on  the 
seventeenth,  eighteenth,  and  nineteenth  of 
July.  On  the  twentieth,  they  left  for  Wawona 
and  the  Mariposa  Grove,  via  the  Vernal  and 
Nevada  Falls  and  Glacier  Point  trails,  and 
arrived  at  Wawona  on  the  evening  of  the 
twenty-fourth.  They  left  the  next  morning 
for  the  eastern  rim  of  the  Sierra,  in  Mono 
County.  _ 

Emile  A.  Bruguiere  has  just  had  his  new 
opera  accepted  by  the  Bostonians,  and  it  will 
be  given  a  sumptuous  production  next  winter. 
The  name  of  the  opera  is  "  Kasiki." 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  3,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Jack  London  at  His  Best. 

Rudyard  Kipling  is  preeminently  the  poet 
of  steam  and  the  machine.  Before  him  there 
was  no  "  ship  that  found  herself."  Before 
him  no  poet  wove  the  cable,  the  telegraph, 
the  locomotive  into  a  love-poem  of  power 
and  beauty,  nor  before  him  did  levers  and 
cranks,  cogs  and  wheels,  figure  in  the 
vocabulary  of  romance.  Kipling  is  the  most 
modern  of  literary  moderns.  He  is  in  harmony 
with  the  spirit  of  the  age. 

And  if  steam  and  the  machine  have  worked 
a  tremendous  revolution  in  material  things 
during  the  half-century  past,  the  doctrine  of 
evolution  has  worked  a  greater  one  in  tradi- 
tions and  beliefs.  Kipling  is  the  poet  of  the 
one,  and — without  flattery  we  say  it — Jack 
London  has  irrefragably  established  his  title 
as  the  prose  poet  of  the  other.  In  his  former 
stories  of  the  North,  in  the  "  Kempton-Wace 
Letters,"  but  more  than  all,  in  his  last  and 
best  book,  "  The  Call  of  the  Wild,"  he  has 
touched  the  dry  bones  of  a  scientific  theory 
with  imagination  and  made  them  live.  Ro- 
mance? Here  is  the  new  romance.  William 
Morris  sought  romance  in  medievalism.  Many 
another  has  sought  it  there.  In  the  back- 
ground of  their  books  loomed  vague  and 
misty  the  Olympian  gods.  Romance  bore 
upon  its  shoulders  the  burden  of  dead  beliefs 
and  outworn  creeds.  But  the  "  Call  of  the 
Wild  "  belongs  to  a  new  dispensation.  The 
poetry  that  is  in  it  is  the  poetry  of  the  living 
world's  real,  not  its  imagined,  history.  To  Mr. 
London  the  Trojan  War.  the  wanderings  of 
Ulysses,  the  westward  journeyings  of  .Eneus 
are  not  half  so  stirring,  so  epic,  as  primitive 
man's  struggle  for  existence  against  huge  and 
hairy   mammals  in  an  age  of  ice. 

That  evolution  plays  such  a  part  in  "  The 
Call  of  the  Wild "  does  not  mean  that  the 
theory  has  run  away  with  the  story.  The 
tale  of  a  noble  dog,  bred  to  a  lazy  life 
under  sunny  California  skies,  sold  into  ser- 
vice on  an  Alaskan  sledge,  forced  to  labor, 
his  ancient  instincts  quickened  into  a  new 
life,  his  pride  in  his  strength  aroused,  and 
finally  his  spirit  dominated  by  the  forest 
where  he  comes  to  roam  masterless  and  free 
at  the  head  of  a  wolf-pack,  the  sire  of  a 
stronger  and  swifter  race — all  this  is  told  with 
fine  imagination  and  poetic  power.  Like  Kip- 
ling's stories,  again,  it  will  appeal  alike  to 
those  who  read  merely  "  for  the  story,"  and 
to  those  whose  interest  is  in  its  broader  as- 
pects. This  is  Mr.  London's  strongest  and 
most  virile  work — thus  far. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York  ;  price.  $1.50. 


Animals,  Wild,  Tamed,  and  Trained- 
That  a  lion-tamer  should  be  literary  is  not  to 
be  expected.  Still,  had  Frank  C.  Bostock 
found  a  more  competent  editor  than  Ellen 
Velvin,  the  record  of  his  most  interesting 
experiences  might  have  been  less  wordy  and 
rambling  than  it  is  in  "  The  Training  of  Wild 
Animals."  But  it  would  take  a  great  deal  of 
bungling  to  spoil  Bostock's  story  entirely, 
and  the  case  is  not  so  bad  as  that.  The  book 
is  merely  a  good  tale  ill  told. 

An  amusing  feature  is  the  exceeding  tender- 
heartedness of  both  editor  and  author.  The 
former  tells  in  the  preface  of  seeing  "  dim 
eyes  in  more  than  one  keeper  "  when  a  lion 
cub  was  having  a  fit.  She  says  further :  "  Had 
I  seen  the  least  cruelty  nothing  would  have 
induced  me  to  edit  this  book."  Bostock  him- 
self devotes  pages  to  justifying  his  keeping 
animals  in  cages,  the  gist  of  the  justification 
being  that  they  might  get  shot  if  wild  ;  they 
are  safer  in  a  show.  Elsewhere  he  speaks  of 
"  gently  "  hoisting  an  elephant,  and  in  another 
place  declares  that  he  never  uses  hot  irons 
in  emergencies.  The  hot  irons  one  observer 
had  seen,  he  laboriously  explains,  were  used 
to  warm  the  animals'  drinking  water,  "  and 
also  to  impart  some  of  the  beneficial  qualities 
of  the  iron,  thus  giving  an  iron  tonic."  Shades 
of  Rabelais  and  his  kettle  of  keys! 

Bostock  has  been  a  trainer  and  show-man- 
ager since  he  was  fifteen.  He  was  intended 
by  his  father  for  the  clergy,  but  was  irresist- 
ibly drawn  into  his  present  profession.  The 
facts  he  gives  about  animals  are  many  of 
them  new.  He  casts  aspersions  on  the  majesty 
of  the  king  of  beasts  by  revealing  that  he  gets 
"  violently  seasick,"  and  upon  the  virtue  of 
the  elephant  by  asserting  that  he  can  not  be 
compelled  to  take  medicine,  but  likes  hot 
whisky  and  onions  immensely.  The  parallel 
between  men  and  lions  is  drawn  when  he  says 
that  ..nimals  that  growl  and  snarl  are  harm- 
less ;  only  the  silent  beasts  need  watching. 
Ptrf1  ips  a  different  moral  may  be  derived  from 
the  statement  that  the  adult  lioness  does  not 
to   romp   and  play    about,   but  the   male 


thinks  it  beneath  his  dignity,  and  always 
bears   himself   with    becoming   gravity. 

Another  exceedingly  a  interesting  fact  is 
"  that,  in  some  curious,  incomprehensible  way, 
wild  animals  know  instinctively  whether  men 
are  addicted  to  bad  habits.  For  those  who  are 
the  least  bit  inclined  to  drink,  or  live  a  loose 
life,  the  wild  animal  has  neither  fear  nor  re- 
spect." This  accords  well  with  the  so-called 
superstition  of  the  ancients,  who  attributed 
to  the  lion  the  power  to  discern  whether  or  no 
a  woman  were  chaste,  and  to  recognize  a  vir- 
gin.    "  There  is  nothing  new,"  etc. 

The  book  is  profusely  illustrated,  with  many 
interesting  half-tones. 

Published  by  the  Century  Company,  New 
York. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
"  The  Nemesis  of  Froude,"  by  Sir  James 
Crich ton-Browne  and  Alexander  Carlyle,  is 
the  title  of  a  new  contribution  to  the  Carlyle 
controversy,  which  John  Lane  will  bring  out 
in  a  few  days.  The  authors  have  made  an 
attempt  to  clear  Carlyle's  memory  from  the 
imputations  made  by  Geraldine  Jewsbury  and 
clutched  at  by  Froude.  The  frontispiece  is  a 
likeness  of  Miss  Jewsbury,  of  whom  Mrs. 
Carlyle  once  wrote  "  a  flimsy  tatter  of  a 
creature." 

Professor  Steiner,  whose  book,  called 
"  Tolstoy  the  Man,"  is  soon  to  be  published, 
holds  a  chair  at  Grinnell  College,  and  is  fa- 
miliar  with   all    Slav   and   Russian    topics. 

Emily  Crawford,  so  well  known  as  the  writer 
of  London  Truth's  Paris  letter,  and  as  Paris 
correspondent  of  the  London  Daily  News,  is 
going  to  publish  a  book  likely  to  attract  no 
little  attention.  It  is  an  attempt  to  appraise 
the  position  and  influence  of  Queen  Victoria 
from  the  standpoint  of  one  long  resident  in  a 
foreign  capital,  and  acquainted  with  the 
opinions  of  court  and  embassy.  The  book 
is  called  "  Victoria,  Queen  and  Ruler." 

Clara  Louise  Burnham's  new  book,  "  Jewel : 
A  Chapter  in  Her  Life,"  tells  the  story  of  a 
little  girl  who  has  never  known  other  than 
Christian  Science  influences,  and  makes,  her 
own  way  against  the  antagonisms  of  her  grand- 
father's  household.  - 

"  A  Literary  History  of  Scotland,"  by  J.  H. 
Millar,  a  volume  of  seven  hundred  pages, 
which  takes  its  place  in  the  "  Library  of 
Literary  History,"  is  being  brought  out  in  this 
country  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  Mr. 
Millar's  design  is  to  supply  an  account  of  the 
literature  of  the  English-speaking  Scots  from 
the  beginning  of  the  fourteenth  century  down 
to  the  present  day. 

The  choice  of  a  biographer  to  write  a  life 
of  Thomas  Moore  for  the  English  Men  of  Let- 
ters Series  has  fallen  upon  Stephen  Gwynne. 

Stewart  Edward  White,  whose  latest  book, 
"  The  Forest,"  is  shortly  to  be  published,  has 
just  had  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
master  of  arts  by  the  University  of  Michigan. 

E.  F.  Benson,  who  wrote  "  Dodo,"  and  has 
since  published  a  great  many  other  works  of 
fiction,  has  just  brought  out  a  book  entitled 
"  The  Valkyries :  A  Romance  Founded  on 
Wagner's  Opera." 

Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett's  two  short 
novels,  "  The  Making  of  a  Marchioness," 
and  its  sequel.  "  The  Methods  of  Lady  Walder- 
hurst."  are  to  be  published  in  September  in 
one  volume  under  the  title,  "  Emily  Fox- 
Seton." 

Norman  Duncan  is  starting  for  the  Labrador 
coast  to  gather  more  material  for  a  novel 
picturing  the  rugged  life  of  the  region.  Mr. 
Duncan  has  already  spent  four  seasons  there, 
and  has  contributed  to  various  magazines 
stories  of  the  life  of  deep-sea  fishing,  which 
will   be   collected    in    book-form    this    fall. 

The  plot  of  Mrs.  Poultney  Bigelow's  new 
novel,  to  be  published  in  August,  revolves 
about  a  London  society  woman  whose  husband 
is  unsympathetic  and  even  brutal,  and  who 
becomes  involved  with  a  sculptor  through  a 
jealous   woman's   gossip. 

"  The  Story  of  a  Labor  Agitator,"  by  Joseph 
Ray  Buchanan,  is  announced  for  early  publi- 
cation. The  book  should  be  of  unique  interest, 
for  it  will  relate,  the  publishers  say,  the  inner 
history  of  more  than  one  great  strike  from 
the  standpoint  of  labor.  Mr.  Buchanan  is  a 
veteran  "  agitator,"  although  for  some  years 
he  has  busied  himself  chiefly  with  his  pen. 

Sadie  Martinot,  the  popular  actress,  is  to 
write  a  book  about  her  stage  experiences  and 
acquaintances. 

A  timely  volume  is  Frances  Gerard's  "  A 
King's  Romance,"  which  narrates  the  life  story 


of  Milan,  first  king  of  Servia,  his  accession 
to  the  throne  in  1882,  his  marriage  with 
Natalie  Ketchco  in  1885,  their  divorce  three 
years  later,  his  abdication  in  1889,  and  his 
death  in  1901. 

Edward  S.  Van  Zile  has  chosen  a  butler 
for  the  hero  of  his  novel,  "  A  Duke  and  His 
Double." 

Lady  Betty  Balfour  is  editing  a  volume  of 
the  correspondence  of  her  father,  the  late  Earl 
of  Lytton.  It  is  said  that  it  will  show  "  Owen 
Meredith "    in   his    more    intimate    moods. 

Professor  Charles  Eliot  Norton  has  written 
an  introduction  for  G.  P.  Huntington's  com- 
pilation of  Ruskin's  "  Comments  on  Dante," 
to  be  issued  in  October. 

"  Araby "  is  a  new  novel  of  modern  life 
by  the  Baroness  Von  Hutten.  author  of  "  The 
Lady  of  the  Beeches,"  which  will  shortly  be 
published. 

The  latest  work  of  reference  projected  is 
an  "  International  Encyclopaedia  of  Journal- 
ism," which  is  to  be  edited  by  Alfred  Harms- 
worth,  of  the  London  Daily  Mail;  Maurice 
Ernst,  of  the  Newes  Wiener  Tageblatt ;  and 
William  Hill,  of  the  Westminster  Gazette.  It 
will  be  written  in  English,  but  will  deal  with 
the  origin  and  development  of  journalism  in 
all  countries.  There  will  be  special  articles 
on  all  phases  of  journalism,  editing,  news- 
gathering,  ownership,  business  management, 
and  so  on,  and  character  sketches  of  eminent 
journalists  will  be  included. 


INTAGLIOS. 


Carmen. 
[From    the    French    of    Thcophile    Gautier.] 
Dark   rings  encircle   her   gypsy  eyes, 

And   her   figure  is  scrawny  and  thin: 
Her    hair    is   black   as   the    midnight    skies, 
And  the  devil  has  tanned  her  skin. 

Men    rave  about  her,    but   women   swear 

She   is   ugly   as   ugly    can    be; 
They  even    hint   in    Toledo   there, 

That  the  bishop  chants  mass  at  her  knee. 

Her  piquant  plainness  may  have,  who  knows? 

A  grain  of  salt  from'  the  self-same  seas, 
Whence  nude,  erewhile,  to  the  crest  she  rose, 

A    racy    Venus    to    tempt    and    tease. 

— Lucitis   Harwood   Footc. 

Flaminca, 
[From  the  German  of  Emanuel  von  Geibel.] 
No  more  her  dark  brown  limbs  are  seen 

As  in   the  dance   they  madly  whirl; 
No  more  she  strikes  the  tambourine, 
Flaminca  blithe,  the  Gypsy  Girl. 

A   scarlet   fillet   bound    her   hair, 

In  silken   shoes  her  twinkling   feet; 

But  now  she  sleeps,  the  Wild  Rose,  where 
The  tangled  boughs  above  her  meet. 

Bide  not   the  hawthorn-tree   beside! 

Give  heed  ye  lads  if  ye  are  wise! 
For  flames  leap   forth,  since  she  has  died. 

From  out  the  earth  where  now  she  lies. 

'Tis   said   her    form    sometimes   appears 
When   odors  on   the  night  air  stir, 

And  with  her  longing  eyes  she  sears 
The  heart  of  him  who  looks  on  her. 

— Lucius   Harwood   Foote. 


The  English  publishers  are  beginning  to 
follow  the  example  set  by  their  American 
confreres,  of  issuing  books  in  midsummer. 
Among  a  number  of  works  to  be  published  in 
London  within  the  next  few  weeks  may  be 
noted  an  anecdotal  "  Life  of  Disraeli,"  by 
Wilfrid  Meynell,  the  biographer  of  Cardinal 
Manning ;  a  book  on  the  Durbar,  by  Mrs. 
Craigie ;  and  Harry  de  Windt's  narrative 
of  his  overland  journey  from  Paris  to  New 
York. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Factory  Town. 

In  "  The  Taskmasters,"  a  first  novel  by 
George  K.  Turner,  the  author  has  laid  bare  to 
the  reader's  view  all  the  machinery  of  bribery, 
of  moneyed  influence,  and  of  political  corrup- 
tion which  prevents  the  administration  of  city 
governments  from  being  that  ideal  state  of 
which  sociologists  have  dreamed. 

The  author  writes  in  serious  vein,  and  it 
is  apparent  that  his  conclusions  as  to  the 
danger  of  a  manufacturing  aristocracy  gain- 
ing tyrannical  ascendency  over  the  masses 
have  arisen  from  the  close  contemplation  of 
existing  conditions. 

Mr.  Turner  has  written  a  novel  whose  in- 
cidents are  dependent  upon  the  central  sub- 
ject, but  the  most  interesting  passages  in  the 
book  are  those  which  are  inspired  by  actual 
observation  rather  than  by  the  fictionist's 
fancy. 

On  the  topics  of  city  politics,  manufac- 
turing and  industrial  conditions,  the  indif- 
ferent morals  of  ward  politicians,  congested 
tenements  in  the  quarters  of  the  city  poor, 
the  lazy  truckling  of  municipal  incompetents 
to  the  influential,  and  kindred  subjects,  Mr. 
Turner  speaks  with  knowledge  and  authority. 
But,  as  a  novel,  the  book  is  over-weighted 
by  the  amplitude  of  material,  and  the  abun- 
dance of  explanatory  comment  and  illustrative 
types  employed  by  the  author  in  expanding  his 
more  serious  views  will  scarcely  be  regarded 
as  purely  recreative  reading  by  the  idle- 
minded. 

Nevertheless,  there  is  ability  in  Mr. 
Turner's  first  work,  and  the  humor  and  obser- 
vation in  his  sketches  of  characteristic  types 
drawn  from  all  classes  of  society,  are  superior 
to  what  might  be  expected  from  a  'prentice 
hand. 

Published  by  McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.,  New 
York ;  price,  $1.25. 

"  The  Twilight  of  the  Gods." 
Richard  Garnett  is  so  steeped  in  the  ro- 
mantic atmosphere  of  the  British  Museum 
Library,  of  which  he  is  keeper,  that  his  works 
of  the  imagination  are  refreshingly  unmodern. 
A  quaint  archaism  pervades  them.  They  arc 
utterly  uninfluenced  by  the  literary  fads  and 
foibles  of  the  hour.  Moreover,  his  later 
works,  and  especially  the  latest.  "  The  Twi- 
light of  the  Gods,"  are  marked  by  a  learned 
and  mellow  drollery,  a  harmless  and  subtle 
cynicism,  that  will  appeal  strongly  to  kindred 
spirits. 

Sixteen  of  the  wonder-tales  in  the  present 
book  have  already  been  published  in  the  edition 
of  1888.  Twelve  are  new.  Many  of  them 
are  based  on  stories  to  be  found  in  mediaeval 
Italian  works,  but  all  have  the  stamp  of  Mr. 
Garnett's  individuality.  The  work  will  not 
prove  a  popular  one.  The  irony  is  too  fine, 
the  flavor  too  poetic,  the  literary  atmosphere 
in  general  too  much  rarefied.  Indeed,  Mr. 
Garnett  may  suffer  the  fate  of  Walter  Pater, 
and  find  himself  the  founder  of  a  cult.  Stranger 
things  have  happened. 

Mr.  Garnett  is  not  above  making  jokes  even 
in  the  notes  to  the  stories.  Of  one  called 
"  The  Elixir  of  Life,"  he  writes  :  "  Published 
July.  1881,  in  the  third  number  of  a  magazine 
entitled  Our  Times,  which  blasted  the  elixir's 
character  by  expiring  immediately  afterwards." 
But  the  wit  is  commonly  dryer  and  more  non- 
chalant. This  is  how  he  begins  the  tale  called 
"  Madame  Lucifer  "  : 

Lucifer  sat  playing  chess  with  a  Man  for 
bis  soul. 

The  game  was  evidently  going  ill  for  Man. 
He  had  but  pawns  left,  few  and  straggling. 
Lucifer  had  rooks,  knights,  and,  of  course, 
bishops. 

Published  by  John  Lane,  New  York. 


The  Shakespeare  Problem. 

Controversial  works  relating  to  Shake- 
speare still  form  an  appreciable  fraction  of 
the  current  books  about  Elizabethan  authors. 
One  Arthur  Acheson,  of  Chicago,  has  tackled 
the  "  mystery"  of  the  sonnets  in  a  book  called 
"  Shakespeare  and  the  Rival  Poet "  (John 
Lane,  New  York ;  price,  $1.25),  and 
deals  in  rather  a  scholarly  way  with 
the  problems  of  the  "  Patron,"  "  The 
Rival  Poet,"  "  The  Dark  Lady,"  and  "  The 
Mr.  W.  H."  of  the  dedication.  He  finds  the 
"  Patron "  to  be  Southampton,  and  "  The 
Rival  Poet "  Chapman,  and  devotes  nearly 
the   whole  book  to  bulwarking  these  theories. 

Another  volume — a  tall  octavo  of  four 
hundred  pages,  by  a  person  who  hides  his 
identity  under  the  signature,  "  A  Cambridge 
Graduate" — handles  the  "mystery*"  of  fhe 
sonnets  and  "  The  Rape  of  Lucrece  "  in  quite  a 
different  way.  This  author,  following  a  dedi- 
catory hint,  takes  note  that  the  first  two  letters 
in    the   first   line   of   the   latter   poem    are    Fr, 


while  the  first  letter  of  the  second  line  is  B, 
which  he  construes  into  Fr.  B.,  or  Francis 
Bacon.  This  is  interesting,  but  not  very  con- 
vincing. He  then  turns  to  the  sonnets,  quotes 
and  credits  the  statement  that  they  were  ad- 
dressed by  a  man  to  a  man,  adduces  this  as 
a  certain  proof  that  Bacon,  not  Shakespeare, 
was  their  author,  since  there  exist  certain 
records  besmirching  Bacon,  notably  the  state- 
ment of  Aubrey,  "  He  was  paiderastes."  Then 
this  "  Cambridge  Graduate  "  of  peculiar  tastes 
proceeds  to  elaborate  the  idea,  casting  asper- 
sions on  the  characters  of  Essex.  Pembroke. 
Southampton,  James  the  First,  etc.  There 
seems  little  excuse  for  such  a  work,  especially 
as  it  appears  to  spring  chiefly  from  a  prurient 
imagination  rather  than  from  fact.  The  work 
is  entitled  "  Is  It  Shakespeare?"  (E.  P. 
Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York;  price,  $4.00  net.) 


New  Publications. 
"  The  Merchant  of  Venice."  edited  with  in- 
troduction, notes,  appendices,  and  glossary,  by 
Thomas  Marc  Parrott,  Ph.  D..  professor  of 
English  in  Princeton  University,  is  published 
by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New  York. 

"  Idyls  of  the  Gass."  by  Martha  Wol  fen- 
stein,  contains  fifteen  sketches  of  life  in  the 
Jewish  quarter  of  a  German  village,  each 
marked  by  intelligent  sympathy  and  keen  hu- 
man interest.  A  quaint  little  lad.  quaintly 
named  Shimrnele.  is  the  centre  of  interest, 
and  this  character  and  some  others  run 
through  the  entire  book.  But  what,  by  the 
way,  is  a  Gass?  Why  not  the  German  Gasse? 
Klugel  and  Grieb  know  not  Gass,  and  neither 
does  Murray.  Then  why  Gass'  Published  by 
the  Macmillan  Company,  New  York ;  price, 
$1.50. 

P.  H.  Gosse,  whose  "  Romance  of  Natural 
History "  appears  in  a  new  edition,  is  not 
well  known  to  readers  of  to-day.  In  the 
'forties  and  'fifties,  however,  his  popular 
works  did  much  to  spread  knowledge  of  nature 
both  in  England,  his  home,  and  in  America, 
about  whose  fauna  he  wrote.  The  book  now- 
reprinted  is  vivacious  and  entertaining.  It  de- 
rives a  peculiar  interest  from  the  fact  that 
two  chapters  are  devoted  to  "demonstrating" 
that  the  sea  serpent  is  not  a  myth.  Published 
by  the  New  Amsterdam  Publishing  Company, 
New  York:  price,  $1.00. 

With  the  aid  of  a  lot  of  prehistoric  wood- 
cuts and  considerable  smartness  some  very* 
young  men  have  produced  a  truly  laughable 
burlesque  on  the  London  Times's  new  edition 
of  the  "  Encyclopaedia  Britannica."  which  that 
paper  is  selling  on  the  installment  plan.  Great 
fun  is  made  of  the  bulk  of  the  books  and  the 
seeming  endless  issue  of  "  supplements."  This 
ridiculous  brochure  is  entitled  "  Wisdom  While 
You  Wait:  Being  a  Foretaste  of  the  Glories 
of  the  Insidecompletuar  Britanniaware."  Our 
review  copy  is  marked  "  30th  thousand."  Pub- 
lished by  the  Inside-Britt  Company,  New 
York. 

Sir  William  Johnson,  a  gallant  and  pictur- 
esque figure  in  our  early  colonial  history',  has 
at  length  found  a  competent,  though  eulo- 
gistic, biographer  in  Augustus  C.  Buell.  Sir 
William,  it  will  be  recalled,  came  to  America 
in  1738.  and  traded  with  the  Mohawk  Indians, 
being  made  sachem.  He  commanded  success- 
fully both  the  Fort  Niagara  and  Crown  Point 
Expeditions,  and  was  a  prominent  factor  in 
colonial  life  for  nearly  forty  years.  His 
dealings  with  the  Indians  were  not  above  sus- 
picion, but  his  attitude  was  not  one  of  dis- 
dain, for  he  studied  them  and  wrote  of  them 
for  the  Philosophical  Society.  Mr.  Buell's 
book  is  published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New 
York;   price,   $i..oo. 

Parts  IV  and  V  of  the  Studio  Library  of 
"  Representative  Art  of  Our  Time  "  have  now- 
appeared.  Part  IV  contains  an  "  Essay  on 
the  Development  and  Practice  of  English 
Water-Color,"  by  Walter  Shaw  Sparrow ; 
etching,  "  Amboise,"  by  D.  Y.  Cameron ; 
oil-painting,  "  Norham  Castle,"  by  Sir  George 
Reid,  R.  S.  A.;  auto-lithograph,  "The  Mine," 
by  Frank  Brangwyn ;  water-color,  "  Scarlet 
Zinnias,"  by  Francis  E.  James ;  oil-painting, 
"  The  Mediterranean,"  by  Claude  Monet ; 
water-color,  "  Valendam  Harbor,"  H.  Cas- 
siers.  Part  V  contains  an  article  on  the 
value  of  line  in  etching  and  dry-point,  by  Dr. 
Hans  W.  Singer;  etching,  "Bridge  of  St. 
Martin,  Toledo,"  by  Joseph  Pennell ;  auto- 
lithograph  in  colors,  "  Brume  Matinale,"  by 
Henri  Riviere;  water-color,  "Youth  and  the 
Lady,"  by  Eleanor  Fortescue-Brickdale ;  oil- 
painting,  "A  Shaded  Pond,"  by  Mark  Fisher; 
water-color,  "  Walcheren  Peasant-Girl,"  by 
Nico  W.  Jungmann ;  oil-painting,  "  Nidder- 
dale,"  by  P.  Wilson  Steer.  Each  picture  is 
separately  printed  so  that  it  may  be  removed 
intact    from    the    portfolio    if    desired.      The 


work  will  be  complete  in  eight  parts,  and 
for  the  whole  a  cover  is  furnished.  Pub- 
lished by  John  Lane,  New  York ;  price,  per 
part,  $1.00. 

In  "  A  Prince  of  Sinners  "  E.  Phillips  Op- 
penhiem  has  achieved  the  feat  of  predicting 
the  present  political  situation  in  England. 
The  author  evidently  knows  a  great  deal  of 
politics,  and  knows  well  how  to  pull  the 
strings  of  his  office-mad  puppets.  In  portray- 
ing society  he  is  not  so  successful,  but  the 
novel  as  a  whole  is  of  considerable  interest. 
Published  by  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston ; 
price.  $1.50. 

Once  more,  in  "  The  Wars  of  Peace,"  we 
have  it  borne  home  that  the  trust  is  chiefly 
an  evil  to  its  engineers.  It  corrodes  the 
morals,  ossifies  the  sympathies,  dissolves  even 
the  ties  between  father  and  son.  At  least,  it 
does  so,  according  to  A.  F.  Wilson,  author. 
Here  is  a  novel  thoroughly  up  to  date,  read- 
able, and  full  of  earnestness  and  altruistic 
intention.  It  has  the  faults  of  most  books  by 
young  authors,  but  is,  nevertheless,  a  novel 
that  may  be  read  without  yawns.  Published 
by  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston;  price,  $1.50. 

We  confidently  commend  to  the  attention  of 
parents  and  teachers  a  "geographical  reader  " 
that  has  been  written  by  James  Franklin 
Chamberlain,  of  Los  Angeles,  entitled  "  How 
We  Are  Fed."  This  little  book,  which  de- 
scribes the  steps  in  the  raising,  harvesting, 
and  manufacture,  of  staple  food-stuffs,  will 
bring  home  very  sharply  to  the  mind  of  any 
intelligent  boy  or  girl  the  complex  indebted- 
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"  Once,  in  the  days  beyond  recalling,"  be- 
fore I  had  ceased  to  be  impressed  by  a  popu- 
lar verdict  on  a  novel,  I  conceived  it  to  be  my 
duty  to  read  "  The  Manxman,"  because  every- 
body else  was  talking  about  it. 

I  would  not  do  it  again,  unless  I  were  given 
a  liberal  bonus  for  each  chapter.  Of  all 
varieties  of  sentimentalists,  the  commercia! 
sentimentalist  is  the  least  endurable,  and  Hall 
Caine  is  a  most  flimsy  and  transparent 
specimen  of  that  special  ilk.  He  is  one  of  the 
most  successful  literary  fakirs  of  the  past 
decade,  and  as  popular  with  the  large  number 
who  favor  his  liberally  diluted  fiction  as  he  is 
obnoxious  to  those  whom  he  constitutionally 
rubs  the  wrong  way.  Therefore,  I  have  not 
rubbed  up  my  recollections  of  "  The  Manx- 
man." Therefore,  I  am  unashamed  even  if 
I  am  hazy  about  the  Manx  character  and  dia- 
lect, and  have  peacefully  forgotten  many  of 
the  lesser  happenings  in  the  story. 

But  we  must  judge  of  a  play  as  we  see  it, 
and  not  weigh  its  merit  according  to  the  close- 
ness of  its  adherence  to  the  novel  upon  which 
it  is  founded.  "  The  Manxman,"  then,  while 
a  dreadfully  tedious  and  plethoric  novel,  is 
not  so  as  a  play.  But  neither  is  it  fine,  artistic, 
or  of  a  simple  humanness.  It  abounds  in 
theatricalism,  because  nothing  in  the  line  of 
drama  upon  which  Hall  Caine  lays  his  fell 
touch  can  be  aught  else.  This  is  the  day  of 
easy  naturalism  in  the  drama.  It  has  begun 
to  be  recognized  pretty  thoroughly  that  it  is 
abnormal  to  preserve  a  statuesque,  a  heroic, 
or  a  tragic  pose  through  several  hours — which, 
passed  under  the  glow  of  the  footlights,  some- 
times represent  as  many  months  or  even 
years. 

In  the  play,  an  attempt  is  made  during 
the  course  of  the  first  act.  to  present  Kate 
Creegan  as  she  appeared  in  her  happier  days 
in  the  book.  She  is  a  rosy  lass,  well  satisfied' 
with  herself  and  her  admiring  court,  clad  like 
a  rustic,  and  with  the  burr  of  the  peasant 
on  her  tongue. 

But  Mrs.  Peter  Quillian,  after  her  marriage, 
in  dress  and  speech  and  demeanor,  is  the  con- 
ventional heroine  of  conventional  drama.  She 
remains,  too,  in  persistent  low  spirits,  pale, 
self-absorbed,  and  is  a  decidedly  heavy  weight 
in  the  family  circle.  Pete  would  be  quite  jus- 
tified in  seeking  a  divorce  from  the  melo- 
dramatic statue,  which  is  a  dismal  fixture  upon 
his  hearthstone,  but.  on  the  contrary,  nothing 
can  mar  his  boisterous  content. 

In  the  domestic  scenes,  Mr.  Caine,  alertly 
seconded  by  his  congenial  collaborator,  Wilson 
Barret,  neglects  no  opportunity,  even  if  it  lies 
in  an  anti-climax,  to  lay  on  a  touch  of  super- 
ficial sentiment,  or  insert  a  scene  of  superficial 
comedy. 

The  baby  is,  of  course,  in  full  evidence:  a 
perfect  sphinx  of  a  child,  enduring  numerous 
long-winded  apostrophes,  from  its  distracted 
mother  and  its  presumable  paternal,  in  gloomy, 
silence.  A  genuine  article  of  baby  is  brought 
in  at  first,  which  is  handled  somewhat 
gingerly  by  the  Alcazar  constituency,  if  we  ex- 
cept White  Whittlesey,  who  seems  to  have  a 
practiced  touch,  and.  indeed,  proudly  exhibited 
the  same  during  a  curtain  call.  All  told, 
there  is  a  good  deal  of  baby  a  la  Heme  in  the 
play.  The  baby's  milk  is  poured  into  the 
baby's  bottle  by  the  baby's  nurse  from  the 
baby's  saucepan,  which  in  the  well-known 
fiendish  manner  of  the  saucepan  spout, 
whether  on  or  off  the  stage,  spills  a  good  third 
of  the  article.  The  baby's  milk  is  sampled 
by  the  baby's  doctor,  who  splutters  a  good 
deal  of  that  innocuous  fluid  into  circumambient 
space.  The  baby's  suppositious  sire  clucks 
around  like  a  distracted  hen,  fussing  about 
draughts  the  while  ;  the  baby's  nightie  is  pro- 
duced, a  new  bonnet  is  exhibited,  and — cer- 
tainly a  unique  situation  in  a  play — the  afore- 
said supposititious  sire  proudly  exhibits  the 
unconscious  inheritor  of  sin  to  the  paternal 
inspection  of  the  real  father,  who,  having  just 
made  discovery  of  this  relationship,  endeavors 
to  get  up  a  complex  expression  appropriate 
to  (th  :  occasion.  The  baby  figures  prominently 
dur  fj*g  the  flitting  of  Kate,  who  produces  the 
ile     coat,      weeps,      apostrophizes,     and, 


finally  leaving  the  child  to  console  the  deserted 
husband,  departs  in  the  well-known  thrilling 
style,  endeared  to  us  in  the  melodrama  of  the 
past,  in  which  the  husband  returns  just  in 
time  to  escape  tripping  over  the  tail  of  his 
wife's  eloping  gown,  and — dismissing  all  idea 
of  his  absent  partner  being  in  the  laundry 
sorting  clothes,  or,  perchance,  in  the  kitchen 
peeling  onions,  or  even,  mayhap,  in  her  bed- 
chamber doing  up  her  hair  in  curl-papers — 
instantly  realizes  that  he  is  cruelly  abandoned 
by  his  wife,  who  had  just  fifteen  seconds'  start 
of  him.  and  whose  whereabouts  are  hopelessly 
swallowed  up  in  an  unsolvable  mystery.  Still, 
even  with  a  rooted  intolerance  for  Hall  Caine 
and  Hall  Caine's  ideas,  I  must  admit  he  has 
something  of  a  situation  in  "The  Manxman," 
and  he  even  succeeded  in  making  that  fact 
evident  once  or  twice.  But  his  is  not  the  virile 
treatment  that  can  put  the  situation   strongly. 

The  nearest  approach  to  real  feeling  was  in 
the  parting  of  Kate  and  Pete,  during  which 
both  Miss  Creighton  and  Mr.  Whittlesey  suc- 
ceeded in  portraying  the  opposing  sentiments 
of  the  two — the  offended  pride  and  half- 
hearted acceptance  of  the  girl,  the  unsatisfied 
tenderness  and  longing  of  the  lover.  There 
is  just  a  little  of  bathos  in  the  return  of 
Kate,  dummy  baby  in  arms,  to  the  paternal 
roof,  and  again  in  the  interview  between  Peter 
and  Philip,  when  the  latter  confesses  his  secret 
sin  in  a  burst  of  turgid  oratory,  which  flows 
on  endlessly  into  illimitable  space  under  the 
poise  of  Peter's  axe.  Certainly,  if  Pete  has 
a  tendency  to  appear  chuckle-headed  at  times, 
Philip  is  put  into  an  ignominious  position  in 
the  final  act,  and  one  that  is  not  logically 
in  keeping  with  that  in  which  he  was.  from 
the  standpoint  of  sympathy,  previously 
placed  by  the  playwrights  toward  the  audi- 
ence. Philip  was  unquestionably  a  cad,  but 
he  really  was  rather  picturesque  in  his  regret 
and  remorse  for  that  fact;  but  what  epithet 
can  one  lay  one's  tongue  to  to  level  at  a 
dummy  that  stands  orating  with  outstretched 
arms,  inviting  attack  from  an  angry  man 
with  an  axe,  who  presumably  intends  to  cleave 
him  to  the  chine  with  that  weapon?  Which 
reminds  me,  I  really  must  look  up  chine  in 
the   dictionary. 

The  descriptive  phrase,  applied  to  the  last 
act,  as  seen  in  the  programme,  sounds  like 
a  bit  of  polite  satire ;  something  of  which 
Hall  Caine  is  never  guilty.  "  The  Wages  of 
Sin  "  scarcely  applies  when  poor  old  Pete, 
kissing  the  hem  of  his  wife's  robe — rather  an 
absurd  touch  that— wanders  off  alone,  and  the 
two  guilty  ones  join   their  lives  together. 

While  Whittlesey  is  becoming  more  flexible 
under  the  developing  experience  of  weekly 
changes  of  bill.  He  gave  a  consistent  portrayal 
of  loyal,  simple-minded  Peter,  who  had  a  wife 
and  couldn't  keep  her.  and  in  dress  and  ap- 
pearance suggested  the  bigness  and  brawn  of 
the  peasant,  although  his  features  will  occas- 
sional ly  fall  into  the  expression  sacred  to 
stereotyped  romance. 

Charles  Wyngate.  struggling  bravely  with  an 
ignominious  role;  Harry  Hilliard,  a  youth  of 
pleasing  and  ingenuous  countenance,  proving 
himself  to  be  a  very  capable  young  actor;  Oza 
Waldrnp.  buried  under  a  pseudo-Manx  accent 
and  a  shawl,  worn  a  I'Irlandaise ;  Bertha 
Creighton,  conscientiously  woeful  ;  and  George 
Osbourne  as  a  disagreeable  and  unintelligible 
old  Manx  fanatic,  all  had  a  prominent  share 
ii  causing  the  audience  to  approve  of  the  play. 
For  with  all  its  faults,  they  will  probably  love 
it  still. 


"'  They  always  seem  to  get  back,"  some 
one  remarked,  apropos  of  Camille  d'Arville's 
return  to  the  stage,  and  true  it  is  of  a  toler- 
ably large  proportion  of  those  who  have,  or 
think  they  have,  broken  the  spell  tbat  binds 
them  to  the  footlights,  and  retired  to  private 
life.  For  those  broken  links  have  an  in- 
sidious way  of  reuniting  themselves  and  pull- 
ing with  a  force  proportionate  to  the  length 
of  the  separation.  Old  habits  are  not  easily 
downed,  and  private  life  seldom  or  never  af- 
fords opportunities  for  sweeping  magnificently 
across  a  raised  and  brilliantly  lit  space  in 
the  sight  of  an  appreciative  multitude  and 
giving  vent  to  the  insistent  ego  within  by  some 
outpouring  of  dramatic  expression. 

All  normal  people  want  audiences  to  appre- 
ciate something  that  is  an  expression  of  their 
individuality,  if  it  is  only  the  buckwheat  cakes 
that  mother  makes,  a  school-boy's  crude  chalk- 
ings  on  the  wall,  or  a  Salvation  Army  lassie 
bleating  doleful  hymns  to  the  grimy  rabble 
circling  about  her  stage  of  cobble-stones.  And 
the  dramatic  or  musical  artist,  trained  by  the 
experience  of  years  to  exhibit  his  talent  to 
others,  demands,  above  all,  an  audience  that 
gives  free  evidence  of  its  appreciation.  Per- 
haps that  is  the  reason  that  we  have  Camille 
d'Arville    at    the    Tivoli,    walking    the    stage 


with  that  easy,  dominant  air  that  is  the 
natural  outgrowth  of  long  and  successful  ex- 
perience, and  uttering  her  lines  with  the  most 
fascinating  little  foreign  accent. 

Both  voice  and  appearance  have  suffered 
a  partial  eclipse  during  her  temporary  dis- 
appearance into  private  life,  but  the  hoarse- 
ness is  only  occasional,  and,  although  there 
is  a  lessening  of  the  ringing  volume  of  her 
voice,  her  vocalism  is  fine  and  effective. 
She  looks  a  dashing  blade  enough  in  her 
man's  habit,  but  the  white  wig  is  treacherous 
to  her  looks.  An  actress  should,  as  far  as  pos- 
sible, always  exercise  discretion  in  wearing  a 
white  wig,  and  avoid  it  as  she  would  the  foul 
fiend  himself,  if  it  has  that  cruel  trick  of  dull- 
ing the  lustre  of  her  eyes,  or  the  tint  of  her 
skin.  It  struck  me,  the  other  night,  that  she 
would  make  a  very  good  duchess  in  Offen- 
bacn  s  opera.  Grand  duchesses  need  not  be 
youthful  sylphs,  and  the  condescending  in- 
fatuation of  the  great  lady  would  suit  Mme. 
d'Arville,  whose  fine  figure  and  imperious 
air  would  be  particularly  appropriate  to  the 
role.  The  opera  in  which  she  appears,  how- 
ever, is  a  very  good  vehicle  for  the  exploitation 
of  her  vocal  abilities,  and  both  story  and  set- 
ting have  an  old  English  picturesqueness  with 
which  the  music  is  in  harmonious  accord. 
"  In  London  Town "  and  "  Farewell  to  the' 
King's  Highway  "  are  two  melodious  in- 
stances, the  latter,  indeed,  with  its  long  ring- 
ing final  note,  proving  so  popular  as  to  be 
the  means  of  forcing  upon  Arthur  Cunningham 
a  larger  measure  of  encores  than  he  wants — 
another  instance  of  the  well-known  willful 
selfishness  of  San  Francisco  audiences,  who 
never  permit  a  singer  to  evade  an  encore  if 
once  they  have  given  expression  to  their 
sovereign  will. 

Mr.  Cunningham  does  extremely  well  in  the 
role  of  Captain  Scarlet,  the  valiant  highway- 
man ;  a  role  which  permits  him  to  treble  the 
little  racy  touch  of  Irishism  to  his  speech,  and 
turn  out  a  very  fine  brogue. 

Edwin  Stevens  was  Foxy  Quiller,  the  over- 
scute  detective.  The  role  is  a  funny  one.  but 
not  the  funniest  I  have  ever  seen,  although 
Stevens  makes  much  more  of  it  than  would 
the  machine-made  comedian,  who  could  easily' 
set  his  blighting  touch  upon  it.  and  lay  it  low. 
Mr.  Stevens  had  most  able  coadjutors  in  the 
light-heeled  quartet  of  sleuths  that  accom- 
panied him.  Tn  fact.  I  think  that  all  four, 
but  more  especially  the  two  nimblest  ones 
in  the  gypsy  dance,  deserve  the  honor  and 
glory  of  having  their  names. on  the  hill. 

The  remainder  of  the  company  were  also  well 
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frighten  the  stage-horses.  A  suitable  monu- 
ment will,  however,  be  erected  in  the  little 
cemetery  in  the  valley. 


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day) night,  last  week  of  the  delighlfnl 
musical  eccentricity, 

I  IN     WALL     STREET 


Sundav  night.  August  qth,  first  production  of  the 
Rogers  Brothers'  success  of  last  season.  In  Harvard  . 
Gorgeous  scenery  and  costumes.     Augmented  cast. 


Popular  prices — 25c,  50c,  and  75c. 

CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

To-morrovi     night    (Sunday).    August   2d.    the     Neil- 
Morosco  Company,  presenting 

JANICE     MEREDITH 

A  delightful   and   stirring  story  of  the  days  when 
Washington  crossed   the  Delaware. 


First    time  here  at   popular  prices. 

Next  —  Robert     Marshall's     comedv     romance,     A 
Royal    Family. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  August  2d. 
Vigorous  vaudeville!  The  Kaufmann  Troupe;  Dooley 
and  Tenbrooke ;  Roberts,  Hayes,  and  Roberts ; 
George  Austin;  James  J.  Morton;  Macart's  Dogs 
and  Monkeys;  Claudius  and  Corbin;  the  Biograph  ; 
and  last  week  of  Mme.    Konorah. 


Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Last  week   of  the  great   double  bill, 
UNDER    THE     RED    GLOBE 

COMBINKO    WITH 

THE     THREE     MUSKETEERS 

All-star    cast,     Kolb.     Dill,    and     Bernard,     Maude 
Amber,  Winfield   Blake,   etc. 

Same  popular  prices. 

190,000 

People  depend  upon  the 

OAKLAND  TRIBUNE 


The  Tribune  is  tbe  home  paper  of  Oakland  and 
Alameda  County,  and  lias  no  rival  in  its  field. 

The  Tribune  publishes,  exclusively,  the  full 
Associated  Press  dispatches. 

All  society  events  of  the  week  are  mirrored  in 
Saturday's  Tribune. 

Local  and  State  politics  receive  attention  by 
special  writers  in  the  same  issue. 


August  3.  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


75 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Ezra  Kendall  in  "  The  Vinegar  Buyer." 
Amelia  Bingham's  five  weeks'  engagement 
comes  to  a  close  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  this 
(Saturday)  evening,  when  the  charming  act- 
ress-manager and  her  excellent  supporting 
company  will  be  seen  for  the  last  time  in 
Clyde  Fitch's  sparkling  social  comedy,  "  The 
Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson."  During  her  long  stay 
here  Miss  Bingham  has  attracted  large  audi- 
]  ences.  and  won  such  a  host  of  friends  and 
i  admirers  that  she  will  probably  soon  visit  us 
J  again.  Let  us  hope  so.  at  any  rate,  and  if 
I  she  comes  provided  with  as  entertaining  a 
j  repertoire  as  "The  Climbers."  "A  Modern 
Magdalen,"  and  "  The  Frisky  Mrs.  Johnson," 
I  and  surrounded  by  as  many  clever  actors  as 
I  she  has  with  her  this  year,  she  will  be  sure  of  a 
il  hearty  welcome,  for  San  Francisco  theatre- 
goers are  ever  willing  and  anxious  to  pay  well 
for  attractions  that  are  really  worth  seeing. 
Miss  Bingham  is  to  be  followed  next  week  by 
Ezra  Kendall,  the  popular  comedian,  who  has 
given  up  vaudeville  and  returned  to  the  legiti- 
mate stage,  in  a  laughable  rural  comedy,  en- 
titled "  The  Vinegar  Buyer."  The  play  is  in 
three  acts,  and  was  founded  by  Herbert  Hall 
Winslow  on  one  of  James  Whitcomb  Riley's 
poems.  The  story  of  the  play  concerns  the 
adventures  of  Joe  Miller,  impersonated  by  Mr. 
Kendall.  He  is  a  sort  of  jack-of-all-trades  in 
the  village  of  Bascomb's  Corners,  near  In- 
dianapolis, and  being  possessed  of  the  "  gift  of 
gab  "  and  the  art  of  story-telling,  he  rapidly 
makes  himself  a  leading  citizen,  and  is  elected 
mayor  of  the  town.  Alex  Strike,  a  "  low-down 
cuss."  who  keeps  the  village  tavern,  is  op- 
posed to  Miller,  whose  honesty  seems  to  men- 
ace  the  schemes  of  his  son  Henry,  the  village 
lawyer,  to  marry  Mildred  Arlington,  the 
daughter  of  a  wealthy  blind  widow.  Mildred 
loves  Walter  Talbot,  and  the  shady  village  at- 
torney, acting  in  the  interest  of  the  Strikes. 
uses  all  his  cunning  to  prevent  this  union. 
However,  he  finds  his  equal  in  Miller,  who 
proves  a  good  friend  to  the  lovers,  and  suc- 
ceeds in  making  youne  Strike  the  laugh- 
ing-stock of  the  village. 


As  You  Like  It "  at  Sutro  Heights. 

The  open-air  performances  of  "  As  You 
Like  It"  at  Sutro  Heights  this  (Saturday)  af- 
ternoon and  evening  and  to-morrow  have  at- 
tracted much  attention,  and  will  doubtless  net 
a  handsome  sum  for  Nance  O'Neil.  in  whose 
behalf  they  are  being  tendered  as  a  testimonial 
prior  to  her  departure  for  the  East,  where 
she  is  soon  to  appear  at  the  Herald  Square 
Theatre  in  several  notable  productions.  The 
picturesque  and  velvety  green  lawns  of 
Sutro  Heights  will  make  an  ideal  setting  for 
the  comedy,  and  as  comfortable  seats  have 
been  arranged  for  the  spectators  and  an 
abundance  of  lights  provided  for  the  evening, 
the  performances  should  prove  especially  en- 
joyable to  all  those  who  visit  the  Heights. 
Miss  O'Neil  will,  for  the  first  time,  appear 
here  as  Rosalind:  E.  T.  Ratcliff  will  be  the 
Orlando:  Charles  A.  Millward.  the  Jacques: 
Herbert  Carr.  the  Oliver:  L.  R.  Stockwell.  the 
Touchstone:  Blanche  Stoddard,  the  Celia : 
and  James  J.  Corbett.  Charles,  the  wrestler. 
The  Knickerbocker  double  quartet  is  to  serve 
as  chorus,  and  will  sing  "  What  Shall  He 
Have  That  Killed  the  Deer."  "  The  Cuckoo 
Song."  and  others  of  the  original  music.  Over 
sixty  people  will  take  part  in  the  production. 

The  first  open-air  presentation  of  "  As  You 
Like  It  "  in  San  Francisco  was  given  at  Sutro 
Heights  in  September,  1895.  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Channing  Auxiliary.  Rose  Coghlan 
appeared  as  Rosalind.  William  G.  Beach  as 
Orlando.  Maude  Winter  as  Celia.  and  L.  R. 
Stockwell  as  Touchstone. 

This,  however,  was  not  the  first  open-air 
performance  of  "  As  You  Like  It  "  in  Califor- 
nia, for  on  July  29.  18S2.  it  was  presented  at 
the  Redwood  Grove  on  Russian  River,  where 
the  Bohemian  Club  held  their  first  midsummer 
jinks  after  the  destruction  of  the  Guerneville 
forest.  The  play  was  not  produced  in  its  en- 
tirety— only  the  forest  scenes  were  given. 
Orlando  was  played  by  Joe  Grismer.  and  Ro- 
salind was  cut  out.  "  Old  Bradley  "  took  the 
part  of  the  Banished  Duke,  and  when  he  woke 
up  in  the  morning  found  that  some  humorist 
bad  placed  a  small  pig  in  bed  with  him.  Or- 
lando dressed  his  part  with  a  pair  of  high 
"  castellated  "  boots,  and  when  he  was  about 
to  retire,  overcome  with  fatigue  and  things, 
he  found  it  impossible  to  remove  them,  so 
Orlando  went  to  bed  with  his  boots  on.  These 
latter  two  incidents  were  also  probably  the 
"first   time   in   California." 


Janice  Meredith  "  at  the  California. 
The  Neill-Morosco  company  will  present 
Janice  Meredith,"  dramatized  by  Paul 
!-eicester  Ford  and  Edward  E.  Rose,  at  the 
California  Theatre  on  Sunday  night,  with 
Lillian  Kemble  in  the  title-role.  The  play  is 
in  four  acts,  and  the  scenes  represent  the 
farm-houses  of  Squire  Meredith,  in  Greenwood. 
J.,    in    May.    1775.    immediately    after    the 


Batt'e  of  Concord  and  Lexington  ;  the  living- 
room  at  Greenwood.  Christmas  Eve.  1776 ; 
:he  headquarters  of  Colonel  Rahl.  the  Hessian 
:ommander  at  Trenton,  on  Christmas  Day. 
1776;  and  a  dismantled  house  in  Yorktown 
)n  the  day  of  Cornwallis's  surrender  to  Wash- 
ngton.  in  October.  1781.  The  play,  it  will 
ie  remembered,  opens  with  a  pretty  love  scene 
etween  Janice  and  Charles  Fownes.  Then 
:omes  the  gunpowder  incident,  the  news 
>f  the  war.  and  the  flight  of  Fownes  to  Wash- 
ngton  with  the  powder  purchased  for  the 
■illage  militia.  In  the  second  act,  Fownes, 
low  Coloni.1  Brereton.  rides  with  dispatches 
rom  Washington  to  Lee  at  Brunswick,  order- 
rig  a  joint  attack  on  Trenton.  His  mount 
living  out,  he  tries  to  secure  a  horse  from 
he  Meredith  farm,  where  he  is  seen  and 
ittacked  by  a  British  patrol.  Janice  helps 
lim  to  escape  on  the  back  of  a  British  troop- 


er's horse,  and  is  arrested  for  aiding  the  flight 
of  a  spy.  In  the  third  act.  she  is  brought 
before  Colonel  Rahl.  at  Trenton,  under  arrest. 
By  her  wit.  she  makes  the  colonel  her  friend. 
Brereton  conies  to  Rahl.  disguised  as  a  Hes- 
sian, with  a  dispatch  from  General  Lord 
Howe,  which  he  took  from  a  Hessian  trooper. 
He  is  arrested  as  a  spy,  and  the  important 
dispatch  taken  from  him.  Janice,  however, 
manages  to  gain  possession  of  the  document, 
and  sends  it  to  Washington,  who  has  already 
crossed  the  Delaware,  and  is  about  to  attack 
Trenton.  The  assault  on  Trenton  saves 
Brereton's  life.  In  the  last  act,  Janice  and 
Brereton  meet  again  at  Yorktown,  where  the 
young  officer  prevents  his  sweetheart  from  be- 
ing kidnaped  by  Lord  Clowes.  The  love  in- 
terest of  the  play  is  consummated  in  their  be- 
trothal just  as  the  drums  of  the  Continental 
and  British  forces  sound  the  "  long  parley." 
indicating  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis  to 
Washington.  "Janice  Meredith"  is  to  be 
followed  by  Captain  Marshall's  pretty  comedy. 
"  A  Royal  Family,"  which  was  given  here  two 
seasons  ago  by  Annie  Russell. 


Musical  Attractions. 
There  will  be  practically  no  novelties  next 
week  in  the  musical  line.  At  the  Tivoli  Opera 
House.  "  The  Highwayman,"  with  Camille 
d'Arville  as  Lady  Constance  Sinclair,  will  be 
continued  for  a  third  week.  At  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  on  Monday  night,  "  In  Wall  Street " 
enters  on  its  last  week.  Then  comes  "  In 
Harvard."  the  hodge-podge  of  mirth,  melody, 
and  dancing  with  which  the  Rogers  Brothers 
crowded  the  Knickerbocker  Theatre.  New 
York,  for  some  months  last  season.  The 
double  bill,  "  Under  the  Red  Globe "  and 
■"  The  Three  Musketeers."  at  Fischer's  The- 
atre, is  also  nearing  the  end  of  its  prosperous 
run.  On  Monday  night.  August  10th.  two 
promising  new  burlesques  will  be  offered  One 
is  a  travesty  on  "  Quo  Yadis."  which  Weber 
&  Fields  have  called  "  Quo  Vass  Iss,"  and  the 
other  is  "  The  Big  Little  Princess."  in  which 
fun  is  poked  as  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett's 
latest  children's  play.  "  The  Little  Princess." 
Eleanor  Jenkins,  the  well-known  comedienne, 
has  been  engaged  for  a  leading  role  in  "  Quo 
Vass   Iss." 


"  Zorah"  at  the  Central. 
Next  week.  Herschel  Mayall  will  appear  as 
Rabbi  Francos,  at  the  Central  Theatre,  in 
Edwin  Arden's  romantic  play,  "  Zorah." 
which  tells  an  interesting  story  of  the  persecu- 
tion of  the  tribes  of  Israel  in  the  Czar's  king- 
dom, and  abounds  in  striking  situations  and 
thrilling  climaxes.  The  scenes  are  laid  in 
Russia  and  one  of  the  penal  colonies  of  Si- 
beria. The  opening  act  shows  a  bazar  in  the 
Jewish  quarters  of  Moscow ;  the  second  and 
fourth  acts  occur  in  the  reception-room  of 
the  government  palace  in  the  same  city;  and 
the  third  act  pictures  a  Siberian  mine  in 
operation,  showing  the  convicts  chained  to 
their  wheelbarrows,  and  even  forced  to  sleep 
on  them  at  night. 


■White  Whittlesey  in  The  Butterflies." 
"  The  Manxman  "  is  to  give  way  at  the 
Alcazar  Theatre  on  Monday  night  to  Henry 
Guy  Carleton's  modern  comedy.  ""  The  Butter- 
flies," which  was  first  presented  here  with 
John  Drew  and  Maude  Adams  in  the  leading 
parts.  The  play  is  particularly  rich  in  humor- 
ous incident  and  crisp  epigram,  and  has  a 
picturesque  environment,  its  scenes  being  laid 
at  the  contrasting  fashionable  resorts  of  St. 
Augustine.  Fla..  and  Lenox,  Mass.  Mr.  Whit- 
tlesey and  Miss  Creighton  will  impersonate 
the  young  lovers,  and  the  cast  will  also  include 
George  Osbourne.  Charles  Wyngate,  Harry  S. 
Hilliard.  Frank  Bacon.  Walter  Belasco,  Marie 
Howe.  Oza  Waldrop.and  Eleanor  Gordon.  For 
his  farewell  week,  Mr.  Whittlesey  will  appear 
in  a  big  revival  of  "  The  Three  Musketeers." 
after  which  the  long-awaited  rural  play.  "  The 
Dairy  Farm."  will  be  given  with  the  same  cast 
that  is  to  be  sent  on  tour.  Then  begins  th-i 
annual  engagement  of  the  favorite  actress, 
Florence  Roberts. 


The  Orpheum's  Excellent  Bill 
The  Kaufmann  troupe  of  acrobats,  who 
scored  such  a  hit  here  on  their  first  appearance 
some  two  years  ago,  will  return  to  the  Or- 
pheum  next  week,  after  a  tour  of  the  world. 
They  give  a  display  of  combination  trick-rid- 
ing which  is  unrivaled.  The  climax  of  their 
act  is  reached  when  the  whole  six  perform- 
ers   pyramid    themselves    on    a    single    wheel. 


One  of  the  younger  members  of  the  troupe 
jumps  and  climbs  about  ths  machine  with  the 
agility  of  a  monkey,  and  whirls  about  on  one 
wheel  like  a  dancing  Dervish.  The  other  new- 
comers are  Larry  Dooley  and  James  Tenbrooke. 
singing  and  talking  comedians  ;  and  Roberts. 
Hayes,  and  Roberts,  a  singing  and  dancing 
sketch  trio,  who  appear  in  a  sketch  entitled 
"  The  Infant."  Mme.  Konorah.  the  "  mystic 
calculator " ;  James  J.  Morton,  the  unique 
monologuist:  Macart's  dogs  and  monkeys: 
Claudius  and  Corbin.  the  best  banjbists  ever 
heard  in  San  Francisco;  and  the  biograph, 
complete  the  programme. 


Music-lovers  will  welcome  the  announce- 
ment that  the  San  Francisco  Symphony  So- 
ciety has  arranged  to  have  Fritz  Scheel,  the 
well-known  conductor,  lead  a  symphony  sea- 
son here,  which  will  begin  about  August  13th, 
and  conclude  on  October  9th.  The  concerts  will 
probably  be  held  on  Thursday  afternoons, 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  The  officers  of  the 
Symphony  Society  are :  James  W.  Byrne, 
president:  Willis  E.  Davis,  vice-president; 
Robert  Tolmie,  secretary;  Shafter  Howard, 
business  manager:  and  W.  H.  Crocker.  Mrs. 
Phebe  Hearst.  John  Parrott,  and  Dr.  Harry 
Tevis,  directors.  Those  desiring  membership 
in  the  society,  or  season  tickets,  should  apply 
early  to  the  manager,  room  91.  Crocker  Build- 
ing. Tickets  for  the  series  of  concerts  will  be 
placed  on  sale  at  Sherman,  Clay  &■  Co.'s  store 
about    August    12th. 


Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  is  attracting  large  au- 
diences to  his  interesting  series  of  Sunday 
night  lectures  at  Steinway  Hall.  To-morrow 
I Sunday  >  night  his  subject  will  be  "  Tele- 
pathy:  Is  It  a  Lost  Faculty  or  a  Develop- 
ment?" On  the  following  Sunday,  August 
9th,  he  will  lecture  on  "  The  Power  of  Per- 
suasion." 


Harry  Eldridge  Hall,  who  was  well  known 
here  in  business  circles,  and  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Pacific-Union  Club,  died  in  Los 
Angeles,  at  his  late  residence,  641  Bixel 
Street,  on  Wednesday,  at  the  age  of  forty 
years. 


Dr.   Charles  W.  Decker.  Dentist, 

Phelan  Building,  rooms  6.  8,  10,  48  (entrance  806 
Market  Street),  informs  the  public  that  the  ate 
partnership  has  been  dissolved,  and  that  he  still 
continues  his  practice  at  the  same  place  with  increased 
facilities  and  competent  and  courteous  associaies. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


August  3,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


It  was  prophesied,  when  Harry  Symmes 
Lehr  was  married,  a  year  ago,  that  he  would 
disappear  from  sight  and  no  longer  figure 
so  conspicuously  in  New  York's  social  life. 
But  such  has  not  proved  the  case.  He  is  still 
a  social  leader,  and,  at  Newport  this  summer, 
his  remarks  and  doings  are  just  as  much 
quoted  and  chronicled  as  ever.  He  has  re- 
cently had  quite  a  tiff  with  the  editor  of 
Newport  Topics,  who  printed  a  story  in  which 
the  popular  squire  of  dames  was  described  as 
wearing  pink  pajamas  and  a  rose  in  his  hair 
when  an  unexpected  interviewer  was  ushered 
into  his  presence.  This  was  too  much  for  the 
good-natured  "  Lamb,"  as  he  is  called  among 
his  admiring  followers.  He  sought  out  the 
editor,  and,  in  scolding  him,  is  reported  to 
have  said:  "I  don't  care  how  much  you  put 
in  that  paper  of  yours  about  me,  so  long  as  it 
does  not  reflect  on  my  character,  as  that 
article  does.  T  am  made  the  butt  of  all  sorts 
of  stories  all  the  time,  and  I'm  now  sick  and 
tired  of  it.  I'll  furnish  you  with  all  the 
necessary  news  that  you  want  about  me. 
I'll  tell  you  when  I'm  going  to  have  dinners 
and  luncheons  and  anything  else  you  want 
to  know,  but  I  tell  you,  I  won't  have  articles 
like  this  one,  scurrilous  and  untrue,  published 
about  me." 


Mr.  Lehr  is  really  a  never-ending  source 
of  news  to  the  society  gushers  of  the  metro- 
politan papers,  who  take  a  keen  delight  in 
describing  his  latest  eccentricities  and  witty 
sayings.  The  New  York  Sun,  for  instance, 
relates  this  characteristic  incident  which,  it 
claims,  occurred  a  few  weeks  ago,  when  it 
was  whispered  mysteriously,  and  with  many 
admonitions  not  to  "  mention  it  to  anybody,  ' 
that  a  young  girl  in  Newport  society  had 
eloped  with  a  youth  of  her  own  age.  The 
rumor  turned  out  to  be  untrue,  but  it  excited 
Newport  until  the  air  cleared,  and  it  was 
shown  that  this  particular  young  woman  was 
absent  from  the  Casino  and  her  other  haunts 
for  twenty-four  hours  merely  because  she  was 
sick  at  home  with  a  very  commonplace 
malady  which  kept  her  in  the  house.  The 
youth's  known  devotion  to  her  was  the  only 
other  ground  for  the  rumor.  It  was  being 
talked  about  at  the  Casino  the  morning  the 
rumor  was  heard,  and  the  place  buzzed  with 
the  delightful  piece  of  gossip.  In  one  group 
stood  the  "  Lamb."  A  woman  who  had  heard 
nothing  but  the  name  of  the  heroine  rushed 
up  to  him.  "  What  in  the  world  is  all  this 
about  Mrs.  X.'s  daughter?"  she  asked.  "She's 
eloped,"  answer  Mr.  Lehr  in  the  high-pitched, 
peevish  voice  that  can  be  heard  by  all  near 
him;  "  she's  eloped  with  nothing  but  a  Prince- 
ton freshman  and  a  pink  chiffon  hat."  His 
audience  appreciated  this  joke  so  much  that 
by  dinner  time  the  reported  escapade  of  the 
young  girl  had  been  altogether  lost  sight  of, 
except  as  the  inspiration  for  the  Lehr  joke. 
Mr.  Lehr,  by  the  way.  has  taken  on  consider- 
able flesh  during  the  last  year,  and  is  quite  a 
contrast  in  appearance  to  the  pink-faced  blond 
young  man  who  went  north  from  Baltimore 
about  ten  years  ago  determined  to  climb  to 
the  heights  of  New  York  social  life.  The  Lehr 
jokes  came  much  more  amusingly  from  him 
at  that  time  than  they  do  to-day.  Now  he 
takes  up  so  much  of  the  seat  in  a  victoria 
that  the  other  person  looks  crowded,  and 
this  increase  in  size,  it  is  now  predicted,  will 
do  more  than  anything  else  to  injure  his 
prospects  of  remaining  Newport's  most  popu- 
lar   wit   and    cotillion    leader. 


President  Roosevelt  seems  to  be  thoroughly 
enjoying  his  summer  "  rest "  at  his  country 
place  at  Oyster  Bay.  Virtually  all  his  outdoor 
sports  and  recreations  are  shared  with  his 
family.  On  his  morning  rides  the  President 
is  on  rare  occasions  accompanied  by  Mrs. 
Roosevelt,  who  is  an  excellent  horsewoman, 
but  usually  by  one  or  two  of  his  boys,  all  of 
whom  are  good  equestrians.  Many  a  brisk 
canter  up  hill  and  down  dale  the  President  en- 
joys in  company  with  his  children,  and  often 
a  favored  relative  is  added  to  the  party. 
Sometimes  he  rides  through  the  village,  but 
more  often  pursues  a  course  along  the  Cove 
Road  or  some  sequestered  bridle-path  outside 
the  village  proper,  when  few  beyond  his  im- 
mediate relatives,  much  less  the  villagers, 
know  of  his  coming  in  or  going  out.  Among 
his  Sagamore  Hill  stable  of  some  half-dozen 
animals  the  President  is  the  owner  of  three 
saddle-horses — the  veteran,  and  perhaps  fa- 
vorite, Bleistein ;  Renown,  a  jumper;  and 
Wyoming,  which  the  citizens  of  Douglas, 
Wyo.,  bought  for  five  hundred  dollars,  and 
rre.ented  to  him  on  his  recent  Western  trip, 
f ,  ,nis  is  another  of  the  President's  favorite 
re<    eations.      Few    afternoons   pass   at    Saga- 


more Hill  without  the  President  challenging 
Theodore,  Jr.,  Kermit,  Ethel,  or  certain  of 
their  young  relatives  \vho  live  near  by,  Mrs. 
Roosevelt  herself  being  frequently  an  inter- 
ested spectator  of  the  game.  Rowing  is  still 
another  of  the  President's  diversions.  Not 
many  rods  removed  from  his  country  place 
is  a  little,  unpretentious  wood  cabin,  unre- 
marked by  the  casual  passerby,  but  known 
to  the  initiate  as  the  "  President's  boat- 
house."  Many  a  fine  summer's  morning  or 
afternoon  (says  the  New  York  Tribune) 
the  President  will  slip  quietly  from  the  house 
with  Mrs.  Roosevelt,  dispose  the  cushion; 
for  his  wife,  and,  loosing  the  painter,  set  the 
oars  in  the  rowlocks,  and  pull  out  toward 
Glen  Cove.  Frequently,  too,  emulating  the 
example  of  Gladstone  and  Horace  Greeley, 
the  President,  axe  in  hand,  will  vanish  quietly 
at  the  back  of  the  house,  and  proceed  to  chop 
down  one  of  the  tall  forest  trees  that  abound 
on  his  premises,  finding  considerable  pleasure 
in  the  exercise.  Soon  the  swift  recurrent 
hiss  of  steel  against  wood,  followed  by  the 
sound  of  rending  timber,  attests  the  woods- 
man's skill  possessed  by  the  chief  magistrate. 
Swimming  is  a  favorite  diversion  of  the 
Roosevelt  family.  Besides  the  bath-house  on 
the  President's  own  ground,  there  is  a  large, 
airy  bathing  pavilion  on  Enilen  Roosevelt's 
premises,  and  it  is  no  uncommon  thing  for  the 
whole  family  to  take  a  plunge  in  the  bay. 
Long  woodland  tramps,  made  at  such  a  pace 
as  severely  taxes  the  endurance  of  his  com- 
panions, or  a  day's  picnic  with  the  members 
of  his  family,  are  further  of  the  President's 
outdoor  amusements. 

The  Paris  correspondent  of  the  Pall  Mall 
Gazette  recently  attended  a  luncheon  given  by 
M.  Dessing-Whitmore,  which  was  distinctly 
original.  The  table,  he  says,  took  the  form 
of  a  boat,  and  the  waiters  were  dressed  as 
sailors.  There  was  a  distinctly  nautical  flavor 
about  the  whole  thing,  and  during  the  hors 
d'ouvres  and  dessert  a  sailor's  chorus  was 
sung.  Not  being  a  particularly  good  sailor, 
the  perpetual  motion  of  the  table — which,  it 
appears,  took  some  time  to  get  in  working 
order — was  not  for  me  the  most  enjoyable 
sensation  of  the  occasion.  I  was  able,  how- 
ever, to  appreciate  the  dexterity  with  which 
it  had  been  planned,  as  not  an  article  ever 
rolled — or  even  attempted  to  roll — off  the 
table.  To  make  the  scene  more  real  istic  a 
canvas  was  hung  on  the  walls  on  which  was 
painted  a  somewhat  rough  sea.  The  guests 
numbered  twenty-four,  and  each  was  presented 
with  a  small  compass. 

Colonel  John  Jacob  Astor's  new  five-million- 
dollar  hotel,  the  St.  Regis,  on  Fifth  Avenue. 
New  York,  which  it  is  planned  to  open  next 
Thanksgiving  Day,  will  be  nineteen  stones 
high,  with  a  three-story  basement.  Apparently, 
no  expense  is  being  spared  in  the  construction 
of  the  St.  Regis.  The  machinery  installed  in 
the  basement  will,  it  is  said,  cost  $750,000, 
and  the  plumbing  $350,000.  A  million  dollars 
worth  of  furniture  and  bric-a-brac.  $150,000 
for  the  decorations  of  a  Roman  court,  and 
$50,000  for  the  furnishings  of  what  will  be 
known  as  "  the  royal  suite,"  are  some  of  the 
other  items  that  go  toward  making  up  the 
$5,000,000.  The  ground  site  of  the  hotel  is 
only  about  one-third  that  of  the  Waldorf- 
Astoria. 

Thirty-seven  young  men  belonging  to  the 
higher  ranks  of  society  in  St.  Petersburg  have 
organized  an  association  called  the  "  Club  of 
the  Enemies  of  Flirting."  The  members  ex- 
change solemn  oaths  to  refrain  from  flirting, 
and  to  prevent  others  from  doing  so.  Those 
breaking  the  promise  contribute,  "  for  charit- 
able purposes,"  $500  for  the  first  offense,  and 
$2,500  for  the  second.  According  to  the  by- 
laws of  the  society,  punishment  for  the  third 
offense  is  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  presi- 
dent. The  society  meets  in  Ernbst's 
restaurant,  on  the  Kamennostrovski  Prospect. 
Although  the  charter  of  the  club  has  been 
properly  registered  with  the  authorities,  the 
police  see  a  revolutionary  movement  afoot, 
and  imagine  that  if  they  could  discover  the 
key  to  the  charter  the  youthful  members  of 
some  of  St.  Petersburg's  most  noble  families 
would   soon   find   their   way   to    Siberia. 


American  rag-time  music  has  made  a  great 
hit  in  the  Philippines,  and  the  average 
Filipino  (writes  the  Manila  correspondent  of 
the  Boston  Transcript)  evidently  thinks 
"  There'll  be  a  Hot  Time  in  the  Old  Town 
To-Night "  is  our  national  hymn,  for  it  is 
played  on  all  occasions,  even  at  funerals.  Mr. 
Olmsted,  of  the  census,  relates  that  when  he 
went  out  on  a  trip  inspecting  the  work  of  the 
enumerators,  banquets  were  tendered  him  in 


each  town.  As  he  sat  down  at  the  first  of  the 
four  which  he  was  destined  to  pass  through  on 
the  first  day  out  the  band  started  up,  and  he 
asked  the  native  governor,  who  could  not 
speak  English,  what  the  musicians  were  play- 
ing. With  the  utmost  gravity  the  dignified  pro- 
vincial official  replied :  "  Mucho  calor  en  el 
pueblo,  viejo  este  noche."  Some  juxtapositions 
which  their  tunes  produce  are  full  of  amuse- 
ment, of  which  the  natives  are  blissfully  un- 
conscious. During  Holy  Week  processions  are 
almost  constantly  moving,  each  usually  headed 
by  a  life-size  wooden  figure  of  a  saint.  One  of 
these,  in  a  small  provincial  town,  as  an 
American  teacher  related,  had  a  figure  of  the 
Virgin,  elaborately  clad  in  silks  and  satins, 
and  wearing  a  Parisian  hat,  decked  with  a 
huge  ostrich  feather.  The  band  just  behind 
played  away  vigorously  at  "  There's  Just  One 
Girl  in  This  World  for  Me." 


Phil  Daly's  famous  Pennsylvania  club-house, 
with  its  gilded  domes,  at  Long  Branch,  which 
for  years  was  the  finest  gambling  palace  in 
this  country,  and  frequented  only  by  those  who 
could  wager  unlimited  amounts,  is  advertised 
to  be  sold  August  3d  at  Freehold,  N.  J.  The 
bric-a  brae,  draperies,  and  decorations  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Club  cost  more  than  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  The  seizure 
was  on  an  attachment. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 
Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton— and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official     Report  of    Alexander  G.    McAdie, 

District  Forecaster. 

Max.  Min.      Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.      fall.  Weather. 

J  uly  23d 66  54           .00  Clear 

"     24th  66  52           .00  Clear 

"     25th  62  52           .00  Clear 

"     26th 62  52           .00  Clear 

"    27th 62  50          .00  Clear 

"     28th 60  50           .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

"     29th 60  aS           .00  PL  Cloudy 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  July  29,  1903, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Los  An.  Ry  5%    10,000    @  114  ....     114& 

Market  SI.   Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 33-000    @  "7^i  II755 

N.  R.  ofCal.  5%    ..16,000    @  120  ng% 

S.  F.  &S.  J.Valley 

Ry.  5% 44,000    @  120&-120J4     121 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

1909 14,000    @  107^-107^     107% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 12,000    @  107  106^ 

S.  V.  Water  6% 1,000    @  107  107 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

S,V.  Water 175    @   85-     85^      84^      85K 

Banks. 
Anglo-Cal  100    @    94  94 

Powders. 
Giant  Con no    @    69-      71^      67  69 

Suga  rs, 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...        285    @    44*4-45         44% 

Honokaa  S.  Co 200    @    13  i2££      13 

Hutchinson  120    @    13%-  14%     14^ 

Onomea  S.  Co 185    @    23-      24  23*4      24^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric.  ..        1S5    @    12%-  1314      I2^      13j4 

Pacific  Gas 33°    @    52-      53#      52         53 

Pac.  Lighting  Co...         80    @    56  55%      56% 

S- F.  Gas  &  Electric       75°    @    67^-69         66         68 
U.  Gas  Electric 10    @    35  34% 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric     i,595    @    65^-69^      65% 

■Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...         S5    @  147^-150}^     145        149 

Cal.  Wine  Assn....         30    @    98-  9$H        99 

OceanicS.Co 5    @      7K  7 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  sold  up  one  and 
one-half  point  to  O9  on  sales  of  750  shares,  but  at  the 
close  sold  off  to  6712,  closing  at  66  bid,  68  asked  ; 
Pacific  Gas  Improvement  was  steady,  330  shares 
changing  hands  at  52  to  53^- 

The  water  stocks  have  been  steady,  with  no 
change  in  prices. 

Alaska  Packers  sold  off  three  points  to  147K, 
closing  at  145  bid,  149  asked 

Giant  Powder,  on  small  sales,  sold  off  three  points 
to  69,  closing  at  67  bid,  69  asked. 

The  sugars  have  been  quiet,  with  fractional 
declines. 


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August  3,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT, 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


In  attacking  Mr.  Chamberlain  in  a  speech 
before  the  Primitive  Methodist  Conference, 
the  other  day  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  England, 
the  Rev.  A.  T.  Guttery,  of  Newcastle,  defined 
the  present  policy  of  the  British  Government 
as  a  "  reign  of  blood,  beer,  and  Birming- 
ham." 


It  is  related  that  once,  when  Punch  printed 
a  cartoon  representing  an  imaginary  conver- 
sation between  James  McNeil  Whistler  and 
Oscar  Wilde,  Wilde  wired  Whistler :  "  Ri- 
diculous; when  you  and  I  are  together  we 
never  talk  about  anything  except  ourselves." 
"  You  forget,"  replied  Whistler  in  a  return 
telegram.  "  when  you  and  I  are  together  we 
never  talk  about  anything  except  me." 

One  evening,  during  Caroline  Miskel  Hoyt's 
first  engagement  in  Minneapolis  as  a  star  in 
"  A  Contented  Woman."  her  husband,  Charles 
Hoyt,  invited  the  door-keeper  to  have  a  drink 
with  him.  Across  the  principal  street  from 
the  theatre  there  was  a  row  of  five  saloons, 
and,  as  they  neared  the  first,  the  playwright 
remarked:  "Billy,  one  of  these  thirst  parlors 
is  the  worst  in  America.  I  have  been  in  all 
five  of  them  a  dozen  times  or  more,  but  hang 
;  me  if  I  remember  which  it  is." 

A  certain  officer  in  the  army,  who  is  very 
'  much  disliked  by  his  men,  was  returning  to 
!  barracks  recently,  when  he  slipped  into  some 
deep  water.  A  private  in  his  regiment  hap- 
pened to  see  the  occurrence,  and  with  great 
difficulty  pulled  the  officer  out.  The  latter 
was  very  profuse  in  his  thanks,  and  asked 
:  his  rescuer  how  he  could  reward  him.  "  The 
]  best  way  you  can  reward  me,  sir,"  replied  the 
private,  "  is  to  say  nothing  about  it."  "  Why, 
my  good  fellow,"  said  the  astonished  officer, 
"  why  do  you  wish  me  to  say  nothing  about 
it?"  "Because,  if  the  other  fellows  knew  I 
pulled  you  out,  you  can  depend  upon  it,  they'd 
get  even  on  me  by  promptly  throwing  me  into 
the  water." 


An  amusing  story  is  told  of  President  Lou- 
bet's  humble  brother-in-law,  whom  an  en- 
terprising interviewer  called  upon  directly 
after  the  French  president's  election.  "  How 
'01  did  you  take  the  news?"  asked  the  inter- 
viewer. "  Oh,  fairly  well ;  without  any  re- 
joicings, of  course.  Now,  here  am  I,  for 
example,  an  ironmonger;  in  what  way  do  you 
suppose  it  will  benefit  me  that  my  brotner-iri- 
law  is  president  of  the  republic?  Why,  thi: 
(very  morning  I  received  three  letters  from 
people  begging  me  to  get  them  government 
tobacco  shops.  That  is  the  only  advantage 
that  the  election  will  bestow  upon  me.  Peo- 
ple fancy  that  I  have  influence,  and  I  shall 
therefore  be  worried." 

At  the  Portsmouth  luncheon  to  the  Araeri 
:an  squadron.  United  States  Consul  Swalm, 
if  Southampton,  who  was  stationed  at  Mon- 
evideo  during  the  war  with  Spain,  told  the 
following  story:  "They  were  expecting  the 
Oregon  during  the  Spanish-American  War, 
ind  they  also  expected  that  she  would  be 
hort  of  coal.  He  could  not  buy  so  much  as 
jound  of  fuel,  but  one  evening  a  Scotsman 
:ame  to  his  door  and  said:  '  You  want  coal? 
The  consul  replied  that  he  never  wanted  a 
lrink  as  badly  as  he  wanted  coal  at  that  mo- 
nent.  The  Scotsman  had  no  power  to  sell, 
mt  he  pointed  out  that  he  had  eight  hundred 
ons  on  board,  and  said  he  pitied  the  American 
aptain  who  could  not  put  his  ship  alongside, 
ake  out  the  bags  of  coal,  and  then  '  cut  the 
lainter.'  It  so  happened  that  the  Oregon  did 
lot  call,  but  such  an  act  of  friendship  which 
lefied  law  and  order  touched  his  heart." 

A  laughable  account  is  given  by  the  King- 
aan  Leader-Courier  of  the  troubles  of  a  young 
carried  couple  from  Pratt  County,  Kan. 
'hey  had  gone  to  Kingman  to  be  married,  and 
Mended  to  go  East  on  a  wedding  trip.  After 
hey  had  entered  the  train,  the  husband 
lighted  for  something,  and  the  train  went  off 
nd  left  him.  His  bride  bad  neither  money 
or  tickets.  She  was  frantic,  but  some  of 
ae  passengers  sought  to  console  her.  At  the 
rst  station  she  got  oft".  It  was  night,  but  she 
lanaged  to  find  a  farmer  who  agreed  to  carry 
er  back  to  Kingman  in  his  wagon.  They  ar- 
ived  so  late  in  the  night  that  all  the  hotels 
nd  other  places  were  closed,  but  the  farmer 
lanaged  to  find  refuge  for  the  bride  at  the 
ome  of  a  family.  In  the  meantime,  the 
usband  had  learned  that  there  would  be  no 
'ain  out  of  Kingman  the  next  day,  which 
■as  Sunday.     He  wired  to  Hutchinson  that  he 


was  coming  by  buggy,  but  his  wife  was  not 
at  Hutchinson  to  receive  the  telegram.  He 
made  a  long  night  drive  to  Hutchinson,  but 
found  no  one  there  who  knew  anything  about 
the  lost  bride.  By  Sunday,  however,  an  ex- 
change of  telegrams  was  managed,  and  on 
Monday  the  husband  came  back  to  Kingman. 
"  He  was  met  at  the  depot  by  his  grief- 
stricken  wife,"  says  the  Leader-Courier. 
"  Hand  in  hand  they  wended  their  way  up 
town  and  partook  of  the  first  square  meal 
since  noon  the  Saturday  before." 


Once,  when  the  late  Bishop  of  Canterbury, 
who  was  an  almost  fanatical  advocate  of  the 
temperance  movement,  was  Bishop  of  Exeter, 
he  traveled  some  distance  into  the  country  to 
attend  an  agricultural  function.  On  his  re- 
turn, his  rest  was  disturbed  by  a  newsboy 
shouting,  '"  Remarkable  statement  by  the 
Bishop  of  Exeter!"  To  gratify  his  curiosity, 
he  dispatched  a  servant  to  purchase  the  paper. 
This  was  found  to  contain  his  morning's  ad- 
dress, but  over  his  remark— jocosely  made,  of 
course — "  I  have  never  been  drunk  in  my  life," 
the  sub-editor  had  placed  the  bold  cross  head, 
"  Remarkable  Statement  by  the  Bishop  of 
Exeter !  " 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


The  Deadly  Pi  Line. 
Some  fiendish  printer  is  my  secret  foe. 

On  the  top  floor. 
He  has  a  trick  that  fills  me  up  with  woe 

And  oaths  galore. 
I    wrote  a  sonnet  to  my   lady's   hair, 
And  said  that  "  only  with  it  can  compare 
etaoin   shrdlu   cmfwyp   vbgr.qj    xznflffm 

— This  made  me  sore. 

A  thrilling  romance,  too,  I  penned  one  day. 

On  the  last  page 
The  villain  told  why  he  did  seek  to  slay 

Sir    Durivage. 
"  I  sought  his  life,"  quoth  he,  "  not  in  the  fray. 
But  helmet  off,   because  he  once  did  say: 
vbgkqj    xznflffffi    ?("    shrdlu    shrdlu    inlu 

— That  made  me  rage. 

And   forthwith   to  the  editor   1   wrote, 

With   angry   pen. 
Correcting   the   mistake  in   a  brief  note 

Of   how   and   when 
'Twas  printed;  yet  an  added  horror  smote, 
As  over  the  correction   I    did  gloat: 
MUST— All  Eds — A  J  T— Bury  on  inside  page 

— I  was  mad  then. 


Could   I  but  have  this  wretch   to  work  my 
For    one    short    hour, 

I'd   boil    him   in   hot   pitch,   or,   better   still. 
Had    I    the    power, 

Above  the  fiery  furnace   have  him   grill, 

Able    alone    to    shriek    in    wordless    will: 
"  vhgkqj    emfwyp  shrdl   eiotan  shrdlu   tao," 
Forevermore. — Inland   Printer. 


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The  Motorist's  Farewell. 
My  palpitating  petrol  steed,   no  more  with   thee  I 

roam, 
They   bear   me   in    an    ambulance   to   take    the    train 

for    home. 
For    others    fly    in    clouds    of    dust    with     all     thy 

winged  speed, 
I   will  not  mount  on   thee  again- We  part,   my 

pungent    steed. 
No     more     upon     pneumatic      tire     we     rush     the 

crowded  street, 
Through    streams    of   loud    anathemas    too    lurid    to 

repeat, 
No    more    we'll    scare    the    country    lane    and    foul 

the   breezy  wind. 
And  leave  the  bobby  who  protests  a  happy  league 

behind. 

I    blame    thee    not    for    graceless    form    or    hideous 

design. 
Thy  stormy  petrol  spirit  needs  a  stouter  curb  than 

mine. 
Thy    brake    and    cylinder     were     false — -too    late     I 

know  and  feel 
There  lurks  a  demon   heart   within   that  throbbing 

breast    of    steel. 

I   leave  thee,   snorting,    panting  fiend;    with   curses 

loud  and  deep, 
Thy  farm-yard  victims  oft  will  rise  and  haunt  me 

in  my  sleep. 
Eut  when  I'm  tired  of  life  and  wish  from  this  vain 

world    to    flee, 
I'd  rather  take  the  stately  hearse   than    ride  again 

with    thee.— Pall    Mall    Gazette. 


A  watery  farewell :  An  Irishman  and  a 
Frenchman  were  parting  at  the  steamer.  The 
Irishman,  standing  on  the  wharf  waving  his 
hand  to  his  friend,  shouted:  "O  reservoir!" 
The  Frenchman,  politely  saluting,  replied : 
'"  Tanks  !  "—Boston  Christian  Register. 


Moore's  Poison-Oak  Remedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 

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The  Crystal  Baths. 

Physicians  recommend  the  Crystal  hot  sea-water 
tub  and  swimming  baths,  on  Bay,  between  Powell 
and  Mason  Streets,  terminus  of  all  North  Beach 
car  lines. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


The  fact  that  the  new  King  of  Servia  has 
bought  an  automobile  has  created  the  impres- 
sion that  he  isn't  going  to  wait  to  be  killed  by 
assassins. — Philadelphia    Press. 

Permanently  affected  :  Rinks — "  Were  you 
ever  in  an  automobile  accident?"  Jinks — 
"Well,  I  should  say!  My  wife  accepted  me 
in  an  automobile." — Baltimore  American. 

"  If  a  fairy  should  appear  to  you  and  offer 
you  three  wishes,"  said  the  imaginative  young 
woman,  "what  would  you  do?"  "  I'd  sign  the 
pledge,"  answered  the  matter-of-fact  man. — 
Washington  Star. 

One  way  to  rise :  "  Old  Jones  made  a  rise 
in  the  world  at  last."  "You  don't  say  so?" 
"  I  do.  They're  a-swingin'  him  to  that  hick- 
ory limb  yonder,  an'  he'll  git  thar,  if  the  rope 
don't  break  !  " — Atlanta  Constitution. 

Lawyer — "  I  must  know  the  whole  truth 
before  I  can  successfully  defend  you.  Have 
you  told  me  everything?"  Prisoner — "Yes, 
everything  ;  'cept  where  I  hid  the  money,  and 
I  want  that  for  myself  !" — Glasgozv  Evening 
Times. 

Circumstances  alter  cases :  "  The  boys  are 
throwing  stones  at  a  poor  peddler."  "  Out- 
rageous." "  That's  what  I  think."  "  Whose 
boys  are  they?"  "Yours."  "Oh,  well,  boys 
will  be  boys.  Let  the  children  play." — Chi- 
cago Post. 

A  colored  sister  who  boarded  a  train  at  a 
Billville  station  exclaimed,  as  the  train  was 
nearing  the  next  station :  "  I  declar'  ter 
goodness,  ef  I  aint  gone  en  lef  my  baby  in 
de  depot  whar  I  got  on  de  train  at  1  He 
sho'  aint  in  des  packages!" — Atlanta  Con- 
stitution. 

Still  busy:  Visitor  (at  an  insane  asylum  J — 
"Have  you  any  celebrities  here  at  present?" 
Attendant — "  Oh,  yes.  That  lady  yonder 
writes  all  the  rhymes  for  a  breakfast-food  firm, 
and  that  man  in  the  padded  cell  makes  out  the 
summer-train  schedule  for  a  railway  com- 
pany."— Judge. 

The  proof  of  it:  Casey  (after  Riley  has 
fallen  five  stories) — "Are  yez  dead,  Pat?" 
Riley — "  Oi  am."  Casey — "  Shure,  yer  such  a 
liar  Oi  don't  know  whither  to  belave  yez  or 
not."  Riley — "  Shure,  thot  proves  Oi'm  dead. 
Ye  wudn't  dare  call  me  a  liar  if  Oi  wur 
aloive  !  " — Judge. 

Remiss  :  From  the  people  in  the  car  the  cry 
went  up :  "A  woman  has  fallen  in  a  faint !  " 
The  conductor  paled.  "  Heavens  !  "  he  ex- 
claimed;  "what  will  the  company  say  when 
they  learn  she  had  room  to  fall?"  Then  he 
burst  into  tears,  for  he  had  a  family  to  keep 
and  sorely  needed  his  job. — Life. 

The  confidence  of  science :  "  How  is  that 
young  man  who  was  subsisting  on  a  borax 
diet?  "  "  In  fine  condition,"  answered  the  man 
who  was  conducting  the  food  experiments ; 
"  the  only  danger  is  that  he  will  spoil  his  di- 
gestion with  ice-water  and  milk  before  his 
vacation  is  over,  and  he  gets  back  to  chemic- 
als."— Washington  Star. 

Feminine  figures  :  "  No,"  said  the  woman  in 
the  case,  "I  can  not  marry  you;  the  disparity 
in  our  ages  is  an  insurmountable  barrier." 
"  But,"  answered  the  man  who  would  a  hubby 
be,  "  you  admit  to  having  celebrated  twenty- 
two  birthday  anniversaries,  and  I  am  only 
ten  years  your  senior."  "  True,"  said  the  fair 
one ;  "  but  think  of  the  difference  twenty 
years  hence  ;  you  will  be  fifty-two  and  I  will 
be  twenty-seven."  And,  being  a  wise  man,  he 
said  never  a  word,  but  let  it  go  at  that. — 
Chicago  Daily  Nezvs. 


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TlCUn*    i  626  Majuckt  St.,  (North  Shore  Railroad* 
0FP1CK   f  and  Saus  i  lito  Ferry    Foot  Mark**  Si 


For  SAN  RAFAEL. 
ROSS.  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC.. 
Via  Sausalito  Fern-. 
DEPART  WEEK    DAYS— 6.45.   t»;  4^ 
S.45,  9-45.  11  a-  M-:  12.20,  »i.45,  3.15.  4.15, 
-  T5'5.  *<>.IS,  6,45,  9,  H-45  f    M- 
7.45  a.  M,  week  davs  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley. 
DEPART  SUNDAY-?,  fS-  t*9.  t*io,    11,  t«-3°  * 
m.;  t"-30,  t*'-3°.  2.35.  »3.50,  5,  6,  7.30,  9,  11.45  **•  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (t)    lo  Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.   m.  Saturday. 
Saturday's  3.15  p.  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7. 4t  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  M.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    P.    m.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
Sundays,  S  ,\.  m. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays,  10  a.  m.— Point  Reyes  and  intermediate 
Legal  Holidays — Boats  and  trains  on  Sundav  time 
Ticket  Offices— 626  Market ;  Ferry,  fool 


78 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  lie  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Mrs- 
Charlotte  M.  Russell,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Eu- 
gene  de    Sabla,   Jr.,    and    Mr.    Clement    Tobin. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Elsa 
Hoesch,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Henry  Hoesch,  to 
Mr.  Frederick  Tripler  Hutchinson,  grandson 
of  the  late  General  C.  I.  Hutchinson,  one  of 
the  early  mayors  of  Sacramento,  and  for  many 
years  prominently  known  in  insurance  circles 
in   this  city. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  S.  Rosenbaum,  of  Stockton, 
announce  the  engagement  of  their  daughter. 
Miss  Clara  Rosenbaum,  to  Mr.  Carl  Triest. 
of   Los  Angeles. 

Mrs.  John  Adam  Russell  has  sent  out  in- 
vitations for  the  marriage  of  her  daughter. 
Miss  Ada  Mary  Russell,  and  Mr.  George 
Albert  Webster,  on  Wednesday  evening, 
August  5th,  at  eight-thirty,  at  St.  Luke's 
Church,  Van  Ness  Avenue  and  Clay  Street. 
A  reception  will  follow  the  ceremony  at  St. 
Dunstan's,  where  the  family  are  now  residing. 
Dr.  W.  J.  Younger  will  give  the  bride  into  the 
keeping  of  the  groom  ;  Miss  Julia  Mau  and 
Miss  Dollie  Ledyard  will  be  the  bridesmaids-. 
Mr.  Hubbard  Dunbar  will  be  the  best  man  ; 
and  Mr.  H.  Dunstan,  Dr.  Frederick  Vow- 
inckle,  and  Mr.  Dalton  Harrison  will  act  as 
ushers. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Loretta  Nolan,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  F.  Nolan,  and  Mr. 
Thomas  O'Hara  took  place  on  Wednesday 
evening  at  Holy  Cross  Church.  The  cere- 
mony was  performed  at  five  o'clock  by  the 
Rev.  Father  McGinty,  pastor  of  the  church. 
Miss  Kathleen  Nolan  was  her  sister's  maid 
of  honor,  and  Mr.  Leo  Nolan  acted  as  best 
man.  The  ushers  were  Mr.  John  Polhemus, 
Mr.  Winslow  Beedy,  Mr.  Arthur  Geisler,  and 
Mr.  Frederick  Sherman.  The  church  cere- 
mony was  followed  by  a  reception  at  the 
residence  of  the  bride's  parents  on  Golden 
Gate  Avenue.  After  a  short  visit  to  Southern 
California,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O'Hara  will  depart 
for  an  extended   European   trip. 

Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean  gave  a  luncheon  and 
card-party  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  recently,  at 
which  she  entertained  Mrs.  William  Gwin, 
Miss  Gwin.  Mrs.  Adam  Grant,  Mrs.  W.  J. 
Somers,  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones.  Mrs.  Ernest  C. 
Butler,  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Dean.  Mrs.  Harry  P. 
Sonntag.  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker,  Mrs.  Porter,  Mrs. 
F.  B.  Anderson,  Mrs.  Genrge  D.  Toy.  Mrs. 
.  Grant  Sel fridge,  Mrs.  Fred  H.  Green,  Mrs. 
F.  H.  Lefavor,  Mrs.  Southard  Hoffman,  Mrs. 
Frank  I.  Johnson,  and  Mrs.  H.  C.   Breeden. 

Mrs.  F.  B.  Anderson  gave  a  luncheon  at 
the  Hotel  Rafael  on  Monday  afternoon.  Those 
at  table  were  Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean,  Mrs.  L. 
L.  Baker,  Mrs.  Grant  Selfridge,  Mrs.  George 
D.  Toy,  Mrs.  Henry  P.  Sonntag,  Mrs.  South- 
ard Hoffman,  Mrs.  Adam  Grant,  Mrs.  W. 
J.  Somers,  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones,  Mrs.  William 
Gwin,  Miss  Gwin,  and  Mrs.  Porter. 


Outing  of  the  Automobile  Club. 

On  Thursday  next,  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California  will  start  for  Del  Monte  to  take 
part  in  the  tournament  of  sports  which  is 
to  be  held  there  this  month.  E.  Courtney 
Ford,  vice-president  of  the  club,  will  be 
captain  of  the  run,  and  will  be  assisted  by 
N.  T.  Messer.  Jr..  and  B.  D.  Merchant.  Among 
the  members  who  expect  to  take  parties  down 
to  Del  Monte  for  the  tournament  are  E.  P, 
Brinegar,  G. .  A.  Boyer,  H.  T.  Bradley,  T- 
Dalzell  Brown.  T.  D.  Grant.  Walter  Grothe, 
C.  A.  Hawkins,  F.  A.  Hyde.  Joseph  Holle, 
Byron  Jackson,  H.  S.  Jerome,  F.  A.  Jacobs, 
R.  C.  Lennie,  L.  P.  Lowe.  C.  C.  Moore, 
B.  D.  Merchant,  of  San  Jose,  F.  A.  Marriott. 
J.  S.  Menasco.  of  Watsonville.  Charles  Mid- 
dleton.  Sidney  L.  M.  Starr.  James  Spear,  W. 
H.  Talbot.  William  von  Voss.  J.  M.  Wilkins. 
and  W.  J.  Wagner.  From  the  Alameda 
County  Automobile  Club  there  will  be  John 
Conant,  G.  D.  Cummings,  L.  A.  Hicks.  W.  E. 
Knowles.  and  H.  Dana.  Dr.  J.  L.  Benetti, 
E.  T.  Sterling,  and  Dr.  E.  Wislocki  will  repre- 
sent the  San  Jose  Automobile  Club. 

The  plan  of  the  automobilists,  as  at  present 
arranged,  is  to  start  for  San  Jose  on  the  after- 
noon of  Thursday.  August  6th.  taking  the  road 
through  San  Mateo,  or  Oakland,  as  they 
please.  The  night  will  be  spent  at  the  Hotel 
Vendome,  San  Jose.  On  Friday.  August  7th, 
an  early  start  will  be  made,  in  conjunction 
with  the  automobilists  of  San  Jose  and  Oak- 
land, for  Del  Monte.  A  rendezvous  will  be 
held  at  San  Juan,  where  luncheon  will  be 
enjoyed.  On  Saturday,  August  Sth,  the  auto- 
mobilists will  attend  the  last  day  of  the  polo 
and  pony  racing  tournament,  held  under  the 
management  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and 
Pony  Racing  Association.  On  Sunday,  August 
9th.   the   automobiles   will   go   over   the   seven- 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

•  There  is  no  substitute 


teen-mile  drive  along  the  shore  of  the  Pacific 
Ocean. 

On  Monday  morning,  beginning  at  ten 
o'clock,  there  will  be  a  hill-climbing  contest 
at  Carmel  Hill,  open  to  all  automobiles  of  any 
style  or  weight,  the  prize  being  a  silver  trophy 
presented  by  E.  Courtney  Ford.  On  Monday 
afternoon,  beginning  at  two  o'clock,  tbeje 
will  be  automobile  races  on  the  Del  Monic 
track.  The  first  race  is  for  gasoline  machines 
only  of  1,200  pounds  or  less,  two  miles,  for 
a  trophy  given  by  the  Pioneer  Automobile 
Company.  The  second  race  will  be  an  open 
event  for  machines  of  1,200  pounds  or  less, 
three  miles,  for  a  silver  trophy  given  by  C. 
S.  Middleton.  Third  race,  five  miles,  open  to 
all  machines  of  1.500  pounds  or  less,  for  a 
silver  trophy  given  by  the  White  Automobile 
Company.  One-mile  obstacle  race  for  a  silver 
trophy.  Five-mile  race  open  to  machines  of 
20  horse-power  or  less,  the  prize  being  a 
silver  trophy  presented  by  the  National  Auto- 
mobile Company.  Ten-mile  race,  open  to  all 
machines,  irrespective  of  their  power  or 
weight,  the  prize  being  a  cup  offered  by  F. 
A.  Hyde,  president  of  the  Automobile  Club 
of  California.  Five-mile  exhibition  against 
time.  The  last  event  on  the  programme  will 
be  a  five-mile  handicap,  open  to  all  machines 
that  have  taken  part  in  any  of  the  preceding 
events  on  the  programme. 

On  Tuesday,  August  nth,  the  automobiles 
will  leave  Del  Monte  at  9:30  a.  m.  for  Point 
Lobos,  where  luncheon  will  be  served,  and  on 
Wednesday,  August  12th.  the  automobiles  will 
start  on   the  return  trip  home. 


Wills  and  Successions. 
The    following    notes    concerning    the    more 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the    local     courts    during    the    week    will    be 
found  of  interest : 

The  executors  of  the  will  of  the  late  John 
Dolbeer — George  D.  Gray  and  William  G. 
Mugan — have  filed  their  final  report  in  the  su- 
perior court,  and  asked  for  an  order  of  dis- 
tribution. Miss  Dolbeer,  who  was  bequeathed 
$500,000  in  cash  and  $400,000  worth  of  the 
stock  of  the  Dolbeer  &  Carson  Lumber  Com- 
pany, has  agreed  to  take  $900,000  worth  of  the 
stock  in  payment  of  these  two  bequests. 
She  will  also  receive  under  her  father's  will 
the  residence  at  21 12  Pacific  Avenue,  with 
the  furnishings,  jewelry,  plate,  books,  pictures, 
ornaments,  and  other  articles  contained  there, 
and  three-fourths  of  the  residue  of  the  estate 
after  legacies  and  expenses  have  been  paid. 
The  total  amount  of  the  estate  now  in  the 
hands  of  the  executors  is  $1,331.1 76,  and 
most  of  this  sum  will  go  to  Miss  Dolbeer. 
She  will  receive  about  $1,200,000,  including 
interest  in  vessels,  dividend-bearing  stocks 
in  various  corporations,  realty,   and  cash. 

The  will  of  Nathaniel  P.  Cole  has  been 
filed  for  probate.  Mr.  Cole  bequeathed  one- 
half  of  his  estate  to  his  wife,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
O.  Cole,  and  set  aside  $-1,000  for  the  sup- 
port of  Ralph  W.  Cole,  his  nephew,  and 
$3,000  for  the  support  of  Eunice  E.  Cole, 
his  sister,  the  interest  on  these  sums  to  be 
paid  them,  and  the  amounts  to  revert  when 
they  die  to  Mr.  Cole's  children.  The  rest  of 
his  estate  is  to  be  shared  equally  by  his  sons 
and  daughters,  who  are  Charles  M.,  Foster 
P.,  Emma  E.,  Ellen  H.,  John  F.,  Nathaniel 
P.,  Jr..  and  William  E.  Cole,  and  Mrs.  Grace 
M.  Smith  Charles  M.  and  Foster  P.  Cole 
are  to  act  as  executors.  The  estate  consists 
of  $3,560  in  cash,  345  shares  of  stock  in  the 
Sterling  Furniture  Company,  100  shares  in 
the  John  Breuner  Company,  25  shares  in  the 
Donohoe- Kelly  Banking  Company,  10  shares 
in  the  Merchants'  Exchange  Bank,  and  300 
shares  in  the  California  Furniture  Manufac- 
turing  Company. 

In  his  will  which  has  been  filed  for  probate, 
Gilbert  Palache  gives  $1,000  to  his  sister, 
Louisa  W.  K.  Jordan,  of  Devonshire,  England; 
$1,000  to  his  daughter-in-law,  Kate  O. 
Palache ;  $1,000  to  his  son,  Thomas  H. 
Palache;  $500  to  the  California  Society  for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Children ;  and 
the  rest  of  his  estate  in  equal  shares  to  his 
wife,  Margery  Palache.  and  his  two  daughters. 
Sadie  N.  and  Ida  W.  Palache.  The  testator 
appointed  his  daughter,  Ida.  and  his  son, 
Thomas,  as  executors  of  the  will,  to  serve 
without  bonds,  and  to  have  power  to  sell  any 
property  of  the  estate  at  their  discretion, 
without  an  order  of  court.  The  will  was  made 
last  year.  The  estate  is  valued  at  $110,000, 
and  includes  $10,500  on  deposit  with  H.  M. 
Newhall  &  Co.  ;  a  partnership  interest  in  that 
firm  valued  at  $20,000;  life-insurance  policies 
for  $25,000 ;  real  estate  in  San  Francisco 
worth  $40,000 ;  real  estate  in  Marin  County 
worth    $5,000 ;    and   some   personal    property. 

William  B.  Hooper  has  bequeathed  one-half 
of  his  estate  to  his  wife,  Eleanor  C.  Hooper, 
and  the  other  half  in  equal  shares  to  his  three 
children,  George  Kent  Hooper,  Rose  Hooper, 
and  Mary  Hooper  Perry.  During  Mrs. 
Hooper's  life  the  decedent's  realty  is  to  be 
held  in  trust  for  his  wife  and  children  by  the 
Centra]  Trust  Company,  and  at  her  death  it 
is  to  go  to  the  three  children.  The  will  was 
dated   July    n,    1903. 


A  remarkable  spectacle  is  seen  from  the 
summit  of  Mt.  Tamalpais,  when  one  looks 
down  upon  the  upper  surface  of  one  of  the 
fog-banks  which  frequently  enmantle  the  lower 
levels.  It  is  a  strange  and  weird  sight.  Stand- 
ing in  brilliant  sunshine,  you  observe  far  be- 
low a  vast,  white  sea  of  fog,  which  blots  out 
the  ocean  and  bay,  and  all  the  cities  and 
towns. 


What  Roosevelt  Says. 
"  Every  bo3r  and  girl  should  know  how  to 
swim,"  says  President  Roosevelt,  foremost 
advocate  to-day  of  men-  and  women  "  doing 
things."  The  best  place  around  San  Fran- 
cisco for  swimming  and  other  sports  is  the 
Hotel  Vendome,  at  San  Jose.  Here  are  new 
pools,  large  and  clear,  and  all  precautions  for 
safety. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The  latest  personal   notes   relative  to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended; 

Lieutenant-General  Nelson  A.  Miles,  U.  S. 
A.,  will  attend  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public National  Encampment  in  this  city  this 
month. 

Major-General  George  W.  Davis,  who  was 
retired  from  the  army  on  Saturday  last,  having 
reached  the  age  limit,  has  transferred  the 
command  of  the  Department  of  the  Philippines 
to  Major-General  James  F.  Wade. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Henry  Minett,  U.  S. 
N.,  who  has  been  on  the  gunboat  Wheeling 
for  the  past  two  years,  arrived  from  Pago- 
Pago  early  in  the  week. 

Lieutenant  Ashton  H.  Potter,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Potter,  after  a  visit  to  Santa  Barbara, 
are  at  the   Hotel   Del   Monte. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Simon  Cook.  U.  S. 
N.,  has  been  detached  from  duty  as  inspector 
at  the  Union  Iron  Works,  and  ordered  to  the 
New*  York  as  executive  officer. 

Captain  B.  Frank  Cheatham.  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  appointed  constructing  quartermaster  of 
the  new  post  at  Indianapolis. 

Colonel  Charles  A.  Coolidge.  U.  S.  A„  who 
has  just  been  retired,  and  Mrs.  Coolidge 
have  taken  an  apartment  at  Van  Ness  Avenue 
and  Lombard  Street. 

Colonel  William  S.  Patten,  U.  S.  A.,  is  to 
be  the  new  chief  quartermaster  of  the  De- 
partment of  California,  relieving  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  John  McE.  Hyde,  U.  S.  A.,  who  has 
been  ordered  to  take  station  at  St.  Paul. 
Colonel  Patten  will  not  come  to  his  new  post 
of  duty  until  September. 

Colonel  George  F.  Chase,  Twelfth  Cavalry. 
U.  S.  A.,  sails  for  Manila  to-day  (Saturday) 
in  command  of  the  third  squadron  of  his  regi- 
ment. 

Colonel  John  B.  Kerr,  Twelfth  Cavalry,  U. 
S.  A.,  who  is  to  be  chief  of  staff  to  General 
James  F.  Wade,  commanding  general  in  the 
Philippines,  and  Mrs.  Kerr  have  been  making 
r.  short  stay  in  town.  Colonel  Kerr  sails  for 
Manila  on  the  transport  Sheridan  to-day  (Sat- 
urday). 

Major  John  R.  Williams,  Artillery  Corps, 
U.  S.  A.,  is  doing  duty  at  army  headquarters 
as  acting  adjutant-general  during  the  absence 
of  Colonel  George  Andrews,  U.  S.  A.,  who  has 
gone  to  the  Yosemite. 

Major  Francis  H.  Hardie,  Fourteenth  Cav- 
alry, U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  on  duty  in  San 
Francisco  for  some  little  time,  will  return 
next  week  to  his  former  station  at  Fort 
Wingate,  New  Mexico. 

Lieutenant  Charles  F.  Andrews.  Thirteenth 
Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  who  arrived  from  Fort 
Leavenworth  early  in  the  week,  will  be  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Mason. 

Genera]  Jacob  B.  Rawles,  U.  S.  A.,  retired, 
and  Mrs.  Rawles  are  contemplating  a  trip  East 
this  autumn. 

Captain  George  P.  White,  U.  S.  A.,  has  suc- 
ceeded Captain  David  S.  Stanley.  U.  S.  A.,  as 
quartermaster  at  the   Presidio. 

Mrs.  Edward  G.  Parker  and  daughter  have 
returned  from  San  Diego,  where  they  spent 
several  weeks  with  Dr.  Parker,  who  is  the 
surgeon  on  the  Adams. 

Lieutenant  William  P.  Cronan.  U.  S.  N., 
who  arrived  here  recently  from  the  East,  has 
been  assigned  as  navigator  of  the  Alert,  tak- 
ing the  position  made  vacant  by  the  detach- 
ment of  Lieutenant  Clarence  M.  Stone,  U. 
S.   N. 


The  artist.  Tom  Hill,  who  is  seventy-four 
years  old,  and  who  has  never  wholly  recovered 
from  his  severe  stroke  of  paralysis  a  few 
years  ago,  was  taken  dangerously  ill  at 
Wawona  on  July  16th.  and  grew  worse  until 
the  twenty-fourth,  when  he  became  a  little 
more  comfortable.  The  army  surgeon  at 
Camp  Wood,  a  physician  from  the  Yosemite. 
and  a  medical  man  who  was  stopping  at 
Wawona,  held  a  consultation  and  sent  to  San 
Francisco  for  a  trained  nurse,  who  arrived 
the  next  day.  At  last  accounts,  the  veteran 
artist  was  a  little  easier. 


—  The  largest  variety  of  paper-covered 
novels  for  summer  reading  can  be  found  at  Cooper's 
Hook  Store,  746  Market  Street. 


August  3,  1903, 

Pears' 

People  have  no  idea  how 
crude  and  cruel  soap  can  be. 

It  takes  off  dirt.  So  far, 
so  good;  but  what  else  does 
it  do. 

It  cuts  the  skin  and  frets 
the  und  -r-skin;  makes  red- 
ness and  roughness  and 
leads  to  worse.  Not  soap, 
but  thi:  alkali  in  it. 

Pears'  Soap  has  no  free,  al- 
kali in  it.  It  neither  reddens 
nor  roughens  the  skin.  It  re- 
sponds to  water  instantly;  wash- 
es and  rinses  off  in  a  twinkling;  is 
as  gei  tie  as  strong;  and  the 
after-effect  is  every  way  goodv 
Kstal'Hdipd  over  too  vears. 


—  Correct,  natty,  are  the  Ladies'  Shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  "Shirt  Tai'or,"  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco. 


G.H.MUMM&CO.S 

EXTRA     DRY 

CHAnPAGNE 

Now  coming  to  this  market  is  of  the  remarkable  vintage  o  U 
1898,  which  is  more  delicate,  brecdy,  and  better  than  the!  i 
1893  ;  it  is  especially  dry.  without  being  heavy,  and  recog  U 
nized  as  one  of  the  finest  vintages  ever  imported. 

P.  J.  VA1CEENBKR6,  Worms  «/B,  Rhine 
and  Moselle  Wines. 

J.  CALVET  &  CO.,  Bordeaux.  Clarets,  and|j 
Burgundies. 

OTARD,  DDPUT  &  CO.,  Cognac,  Brandies 

FRED'K   DE   BARY  &  CO.,  New  York,  i 

Sole  Agents  in  the  United  States  and  Canada, 
K.   M".  GBEENWAT,   Pacific   Coast   Representative 

f "M 

HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Mow  Greatly  improved* 

TESLA   COAL   CO. 

Phone  South  95. 

A 
"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED"! 

AN  IDE*L  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 

Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  to  Si. 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Rome  and  Mis-our 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-cnr  service,  new 
equipment 

Secure  sleeping-car  reservation  and  lull  informa  j 
tirm  from 

U.  M.  FLETCHfcR, 

Pacific  Coast  Agent 
30  Montgomery  Street,    San    Francisco,    Cal. 


Midsummer 

..Clearance  Sale.. 

Large  Discount  on  Everything 

S.  &  Q.  Gump  Co. 

1 13  Geary  Street 


August  3.   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


79 


The  Innovations  at  the 

Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  ot  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR— the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES"  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 

The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 

S  chased  the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
ran  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
■  Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU   CO. 

I  HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  from  San   FrauciKcn.      Sixteen 
trains    dally    each     way.       Open    all     the 
■'  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

B.  V.  HALTOS,  Proprietor. 

'BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 

Open  all  the  year.     Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 

^  climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 

Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by    Southern    Pacific,    two  and  one-half 

hours   from  San  Francisco.     Three  trains  daily    at 

8  ft.  m.,  10  A.  M..  and4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's   Information    Bu- 
reau, ii  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARNER.  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


Saratoga  Springs 

The  Ideal  Summer  Resort  of  California 

UNDER   NEW  MANAGEMENT 


15  Mineral  Springs 

—  FOR  - 

-'  Rheumatism,  Gout,  Neuralgia,  Kidney, 

Liver,  Bright's  Disease,  Constipation, 
Bronchial  and  Lung  Trouble. 


I     Open  the  year  round-     For  information  and  booklets 

I  call  at  PECKS  BUREAU,  n  Montgomery  Street,  and 

CALIFORNIA  N.  W.  R.  R..  office '650  Market  Street; 

-   or  write   BARKER  &  CARPENTER.  Bachelor  P.  O.. 

Lake  County.  Cal. 

I    They    are    the  equal    of    the  world's    most  famous 
springs,  not  excepting  Carlsbad  and  the  Spa  oi  Europe. 

LA   GRANDE   LAUNDRY 

Telephone  Bush  12 

WAIN    OFFICE-23    POWELL   STREET 

Branches — 5a  Taylor  St.  and  200  Montgomery  Ave. 

202  Third  Sl     1738  Market  St. 

Laundry  on  12th  Street,  between  Howard  and  Kolsom, 

ORDINARY    MENDING,    etc..    Free    of    charge. 

Work  called  for  and  delivered  free  of  charge. 


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r-77T_  tf,    ; 


GOODYEAR'S 
"GOLD  SEAL" 

Rubber  Goods  tbe  best  made 


RUBBER  HOSE,  BELTING,  AND  PACKINGS 

We  are  headquarters  for  everything  made  ol  Rubber. 


300DYEAR    RUBBER    COMPANY 

R.  H.  Pease,  President. 

F.  M.  Shepard,  JR.,  Treasurer. 
C.  F.  Runyon,  Secretary. 

573-575-577-579  Harket  Street 
SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Downey  Harvey,  who  are 
at  present  in  Europe,  expect  to  return  before 
the  winter,  when  their  daughter,  Miss  Anita 
Harvey,   will   make  her  debut. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Crocker  and  the  Misses 
Rutherford  have  left  their  country  place  at 
Darlington,  Pa.,  where  they  have  been  for 
Several  weeks,  and  gone  to  Bar  Harbor,  where 
they  will   spend  most  of  the  summer. 

Mrs.  Stanford  will  sail  from  San  Fran- 
cisco on  August  6th  for  Australia,  where  she 
will  visit  her  brother-in-law.  Mr.  Thomas 
We! ton  Stanford.  Later,  she  will  visit  India 
and  Europe.  She  intends  to  spend  about  a  year 
and  a  half  abroad  for  the  sake  of  rest  and 
pleasure.  Her  private  secretary.  Miss  Bertha 
Berner,  will  accompany  her. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Athearn  Folger  and  family 
wilt  spend  the  month  of  August  at  the  Hotel 
del  Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  S.  King  are  at  Lake 
Tahoe  for  a  few  weeks.  Their  daughters  are 
still  traveling  in  the  East. 

Mrs.  J.  D.  Tallant.  who  has  been  sojourning 
at  Wawona  and  the  Vosemite  for  a  month, 
accompanied  by  her  son  Jack,  returned  on 
Monday  last. 

Mrs.  Hermann  Oelrichs  arrived  in  New 
York  on  Tuesday,  after  a  four  months"  stay 
in  Europe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  I.  Sabin  were  guests  at 
the  Hotel  Vendome,  in  San  Jose,  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Burton  Harrison, 
who  have  been  in  Southern  California,  have 
returned  to  San  Mateo,  where  they  will  re- 
main for  some  time. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Carolan  will  be  guests 
at  the  Hotel  Del  Monte  during  the  tourna- 
ment of  sports  this  month. 

Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway  is  at  Del  Monte 
for  a  few  weeks'  stay. 

Mr.  Joseph  D.  Redding  has  arrived  from 
the  East  to  attend  the  midsummer  jinks  of 
the  Bohemian  Club. 

Mrs.  C.  Cutter  and  Miss  Pearl  Landers 
were  guests  of  Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael  from  Thursday  to  Saturday- 
last  week. 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Bourn  and  Miss  Maud  Bourn 
sailed  from  New  York  for  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carter  P.  Pomeroy  and  Miss 
Harriett  Pomeroy  will  be  guests  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  for  the  remainder  of  the  season. 

Mrs.  E.  W.  McKinstry.  accompanied  by  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Hedges,  will  spend  the  month  of 
August  at  Byron   Springs. 

Mrs.  Moody  is  looking  forward  to  a  visit 
from  her  daughter.  Mrs.  Ray  Sherman,  who  is 
coming  from  Manila  to  spend  some  time  with 
her. 

Mrs.  Jessie  Bowie-Detrick  has  been  visiting 
Mrs.  Abby  M.  Parrott  at  her  villa  in  San 
Mateo. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chauncey  Boardman,  accom- 
panied by  Mrs.  R.  B.  Sanchez,  have  returned 
from   their   camping  trip    to   Lake   Tahoe. 

Mrs.  William  Greer  Harrison  and  Miss 
Ethel  Harrison  sailed  this  week  from  New 
York  for  Europe,  where  they  will  make  a  pro- 
longed stay. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  Poett  have  gone 
to  Los  Angeles  to  live. 

Miss  Bertha  Runkle  is  visiting  the  Yo- 
semite  Valley. 

Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan  returned  early  in 
the  week  from  his  recent  fisheries  investiga- 
tion in  Alaskan  waters. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Cluit  and  the  Misses 
Gun  have  returned  after  a  seven  months*  tour 
abroad,  and  are  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.  J.  W.  Dutton  and  Miss  Mollie  Dutton 
have  returned,  after  an  extended  absence 
abroad.  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton  is  in  Paris, 
where    she    will    remain    during    the    winter. 

Dr.  Beverly  MacMonagle  was  in  Santa. 
Cruz  last  week. 

Mrs.  W.  B.  Tubbs  is  visiting  Mrs.  A.  L. 
Tubbs  at  Del  Monte. 

Mrs.  James  Otis  has  returned  from  Santa 
Barbara,  where  she  has  been  visiting  Mrs. 
Canfield. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bruce  Bonny  have  recently 
been   visiting   Santa  Cruz. 

Mr.  J.  W.  Byrne  is  sojourning  at  the  Hotel 
del  Monte. 

President  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler 
and  their  son  have  gone  to  Mount  Desert,  in 
Maine,  and  will  not  return  to  Berkeley  until 
the  opening  of  the  semester. 

Mrs.  Charles  A.  Bennet  and  Miss  Elsie 
Bennet  have  returned  to  Oakland  from  a  six 
weeks'  visit  to  Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Williams,  at 
her  country  place  on  the  McCloud  River,  in 
Siskiyou  County.  Miss  Elsie  Bennet  will 
shortly  accompany  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanley 
Hooper  Jackson  to  San  Luis  Obispo,  where 
they  will  spend  a  month  as  the  guest  of 
Captain  and  Mrs.  Murray  Taylor,  at  their 
large  cattle  ranch   in  that  vicinity. 

Major  and  Mrs.  B.  C.  Truman  and  Miss 
Truman  are  in  the  Yosemite  Valley  for  a 
short  stay.  They  will  soon  return  to  Wawona, 
where  they  will  remain  until  October. 

Mr.  Theodore  Wores  has  left  Xew  York, 
and  is  on  his  way  to  Granada,  where  he  pro- 
poses to  spend  some  time. 

Mr.  E.  L.  Parker  was  the  guest  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Gwin  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during 
the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  F.  Pond  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Charles  Fernald,  of  Santa  Barbara. 
visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  last   week. 

Mr.  John  Carrigan  has  gone  to  China,  where 
he  anticipates  remaining  several  years. 

Miss  McDonald  and  Miss  Blythe  McDonald 
have  taken  apartments  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  for 
the  remainder  of  the  summer. 

Mrs.  Isaac  Hecht.  after  a  six  weeks'  stay 
at  Lake  Tahoe.  is  now  at  Del  Monte,  where 
she  will  spend  the  month  of  August. 

Miss  Alice  Andrews  has  returned  from 
Santa  Cruz,  where  she  has  been  visiting  Miss 
Den 

M  Irs.    R.    W.    Campbell.    Mr.    and 


Mrs.  L.  E.  Hanchett.  and  Mr.  E.  H.  Gary,  of 
Pittsburg,  registered  at  the  Tavern  of  Tamal- 
pais last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Phil  Lillienthal  and  their 
two  sons.  Philip  and  Theodore,  have  returned 
from  an  extended  absence  in   Europe. 

Among  the  week's  quests  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Mr.  and  Mr*.  H.  M.  Furman,  Mrs. 
George  Huntsman.  Mrs.  E.  F.  Lewis.  Miss 
Lewis.  Miss  Helen  W.  Thomas.  Mi--  I 
Swansberg,  Mr.  W.  T.  Bowers.  Mr.  R.  Cartlore 
Knight.  Mr.  James  P.  Sims.  Mr.  Frank  B. 
King.  Mr.  William  D.  Forbes,  and  Mr.  Bennet 
Southland. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Hetzel.  of  Pittsburg.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  Mosley. 
of  St.  Louis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ira  Bronson.  of 
Seattle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  G.  Judah  ami  Miss 
Maude  E.  Bell,  of  Los  Angeles,  Mrs.  George 
R.  Adams  and  Miss  Edvth  Adams,  of  Oak- 
land. Mr.  W.  Batchelder.  of  Chicago.  Mr.  E. 
Cowles,  of  Minneapolis,  Mr.  H.  Morse  Ste- 
phens, of  Berkeley.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Clark. 
Mrs.  C.  P.  Overton.  Miss  Owen.  Mr.  Frank 
Owen,  Mr.  Ralph  Hart.  Mr.  Charles  Far- 
quaharson,  Mr.  Louis  Monteagle.  Mr.  John  C. 
Wilson.  Mr.  W.  O.  Wayman.  and  Mr.  Guy 
Wayman. 

The  California  School  of  Design  will  begin 
its  fall  term  August  10th.  In  addition  to  the 
establishment  of  the  new  department  of  ap- 
plied arts,  certain  alterations  have  been  made 
in  the  interior  arrangement  of  the  school- 
building  whereby  its  comfort  and  convenience 
are  greatly  enhanced.  The  night  life-class  foi 
women  has  been  given  a  spacious  and  well- 
lighted  apartment,  which  will  no  doubt  in- 
crease its  attendance,  while  another  room  has 
been  fitted  up  for  visitors.  In  this  latter 
apartment  will  be  placed  on  permanent  exhi- 
bition the  best  work  of  the  students.  The 
applications  for  instruction  indicate  a  large 
enrollment. 


A  new  bath-house,  with  about  a  dozen  bath- 
rooms, and  an  adjoining  room  for  massage 
treatment,  is  to  be  installed  in  Yosemite  Val- 
ley. An  experienced  masseur  will  be  provided 
next  season,  and  supply  the  demand  for  an 
expert  to  rub  away  the  soreness  caused  by 
mountain-climbing. 


A  burlesque  of  Augustus  Thomas's  '"  Ari- 
zona "  will  be  an  early  offering  at  Fischer's 
Theatre. 


You  Will  Find 

none  but  high-class  jewelry  and  silverware  in  the 
store  of  A.  Hirschman.  712  Market  and  25  Geary 
Streets,  Mutual  Savings  Bank  Building. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.  Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent.  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Lid 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416=418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAN    FRAiV'CISCO. 
AH  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 

ANNOUNCES   SPORTS. 
Polo  and  Races— 

Augnsl  l*t  t.>  Sth.  l  nder  the  auspices 
■  it  die  Pacific  Cast  f''i"  and  Pony  Racing 
.Association.  R.  M.  Tobin,  beirelary.  En- 
tries to  jinj  information  from  151  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

Automobile  Run— 

Augiixl  oth  to  1  1  tit,  from  San  Fran- 
clsco,  including  meet  at  l»*-l  Monte. 
Under  the  nu^pictr-  of  the  Automobile  Club  01 
California.  I-  A.  Hyde,  President.  Entries 
to  151  Crocker  Building,  San  Francisco. 

Golf  Tournament — 

August  i4lh  to  31st.  Under  auspices  01 
the  Pacific  Coast  Golt  Association.  R.  Gil- 
man  Brown.  Secretary.  Entries  to  310  Pine 
Street.  San  Francisco. 

OPEN   CHAMPIONSHIP       \       ■       Match, 
for  Bjrne  Cup,  North  vs.  South. 

DEL  MONTE  CUPS  -  Amateur  Tournament. 
I-adies   Tournament. 


Educational. 


HAMLIIN     SCHOOL 

AND  VAN  NESS  SEMINARY 
1849  Jackson  St.,  cor.  Gough,  S.  F. 
Hoarding  and  day  school  for  girls      Accredited  by 
the  leading  colleges  and  universities.     >pecial  alien 
lion  given  to  music.      Ke  op  lis  August  10.  1903. 

SARAH  I).   HAMLIN,  Principal. 

fRVflNG  .INSTITUTE 

Boarding  and  Day  School  for  Young  Ladies, 

2126  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

Accredited    to     the     Universities.      Conservatory    of 
Music.    Art,   and    Elocution. 
For    Catalogue   address    the    Principal.       Re-opens 
August  3.  1903. 

Rrv.  EDWARD  CHURCH,  A.  M. 

Oregon.  Portland. 

St.  Helen's  Hall 

Home  and  Day  School  for 
Girls.  Ideal  location.  Spa- 
cious building.  Modern 
equipment.  Academic  col- 
lege preparation  and  special 
courses.  Music,  Elocution, 
An  in  iharge  ot  specialists. 
Illustrated  catalogue.  All 
departments  open  Septem- 
ber 14.  1905. 
ANOE  TEBBKTTS,  Principal. 


EMIL    SIEINEGGER 

Studio  for  Pianoforte  Playing  —  Theory 

S46  Sutter  Street,  Room  59. 

Residence,  Fruitvale. 


Saint  Margaret's  School,  San  Hateo, 

Re-opens  August  26th,  in  new  buildings  on  Mount 
Diablo  Avenue.  All  modern  improvements.  Ac- 
credited to  Stanford  Untversitv.  For  further  informa- 
tion or  circular  address  MISS  I-  L.  TEBBETTS. 

Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenty  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
Xew  York.     Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  fine  property.     For  circu- 
lars address         Miss  Svlvia  J.  Eastman,  Principal. 
Ogontz  School  P.  O..  Pa. 


HOTHER    WISHER,   Violinist, 

Will  resume  teaching  August  15  th  at  bis  studio  and  residence. 

844  GROVE  ST.,  near  Fillmore, 

SAX    FRANCISCO,    CAL. 


BUSINESS 
COLLECE, 

24  Post  St.  S.  F 

Send  for  Circular. 


jhe(lub==  Cocktails 


All  ready  for  use.  require  n-i  mixing.  Connoisseurs  agree  that  of  two  cocktails  mule  of 
the  same  material  and  proportions,  tiie  one  bottled  ami  iged  must  be  the  better.  For  sale  on 
the  Dining  and  Buffet  Cars  of  the  principal  railroads  oi  the  I".  S..  ami  all  druggists  and  dealers. 

AVOID  IMITATIONS  G.    F.    HEUBLEIN    4.   BRO.,   SOLE  PROPS. 

29  Broadway.  New  Yohk.      Hartford.  Conn        20  Piccadilly.  W.  London.  Eng. 

PACIFIC  COAST  AGENTS.  SPOH^PATRICK     COMPANY 
Ion-  lo  i    Battery  Street.  San   FranrlMco.  Cal. 


SOHMER 

PIANO 

AGENCY. 


WARRANTED     lO    YEARS. 

BYRON   IYIAUZY 

The  CECIL.IAN— The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


PIANOS 
308-312   Po.t  St. 

S»n   IV, 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


August  3,  1903. 


ALASKA^ 
REFRIGERATORS 

Will  keep  provisions  longer 
and  use  less  ice  than  any 
other  refrigerator. 

SEND  FOR  CATALOGUE. 


The  Annual  Kansas  "Wail. 
From  Kansas  comes  the  same  old  story  that 
has    been    enacted    and*  reenacted    every    suc- 
ceeding summer  for  forty-six  years: 

July  6th — Hot — still  hotter — no  rain — corn 
shooting —  hot  winds  —  no  rain  —  everything 
burning  up— grass  all  gone — howling  hot  winds 
— no  rain — earth  cracking  open — cattle  starv- 
ing— stock  ponds  gone  dry — driving  cattle 
six  miles  to  water — prairies  ready  to  burn — 
everything  gone — hotter  and  dryer — farmers 
cutting  up  corn — gizzards  of  the  cat-fish  in 
the  bottom  of  the  Walnut  baked  to  a  seal 
brown. 

August  ist — Will  have  to  organize  an  aid 
society — not  enough  stuff  in  the  country  to 
winter  a  calf. 

September  10th — Corn  looks  better — it  lives 
— has  a  few  nubbins — prairie  grass  a  ton  to  the 
acre — cattle    rolling   fat. 

September  30th — Two  and  three  ears  of 
corn  to  the  stalk — step-ladders  to  pick  the  ears 
— thirty  and  forty  and  sixty  bushels  to  the 
acre — money  wanted — to  buy  cattle — to  eat 
up  the  tremendous  corn  crop — stockmen  gone 
to  Colorado,  Texas,  and  New  Mexico  hunting 
cattle  to  feed.  More  corn — more  grass — more 
cattle. 

Thanksgiving  —  Everybody  wallowing  in 
wealth — more  farms — more  land — more  pianos 
—more  carriages — better  homes — more  girls 
and  boys  off  to  the  colleges — more  money  to 
loan  at  lowest  rates  of  interest,  and  there 
you  have  it,  and  besides,  it's  all  true — every 
word  of  it. — El  Dorado  Republican. 


W.  W.  MONTAGUE  &  CO. 

309-317   Market  Street 


Mothers  and  nurses  all  the  world  over  have 
given  their  teething  babies  and  feverish  children 
Stftfdman's  Soothing  Powders.     Try  them. 


SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Rusty  Mike's  Diary— The  time  to  visit 
the  never-advertised  store  is  when  you  are 
looking  for  something  out  of  date. 

—  White's  Sayings. 


Mother — "  Tommy,  what's  the  matter  with 
your  little  brother?"  Tommy — "  He's  cry- 
ing because  I'm  eating  my  cake  and  won't 
give  him  any."  Mother — "  Is  his  own  cake 
finished?"  Tommy — "  Yes'm,  and  he  cried 
while  I  was  eatin'  that,  too." — Philadelphia 
Public  Ledger. 


—  Dr.  E.  O.  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
leave     —    From  June  21,  1903.    —      arrive 
700a   Benlcla,  Sutaan,  Elmlrtfcnd  Iter* 

men  to    7?b> 

700*  VseaTllle,  WlnUr*,  Butokt- 7-Mp 

7.30a   MarUaex.     Bu     B*moe,     VUUJo. 

Vtpft,  CmlUtoffs,  ButtBHL G  25f 

7.30a  Unei,  Lnthrop.  Stockto* 7 -26r 

8-00a  DiTUi. Woodland.  KaiffaU  L*ndlnt, 
MarjBTlUc  OroTlUe.  (connect* 
it  Marrrvllle    for  Gridlty,  Blggi 

andCblco) 7-5»> 

8.00a  Atlantic  RxpreiB—  Offden  wd  l»*t.    10-JJU 
B.0CU  Pott  Cotta,  Martinez,  Anttoca,  By 
rcw.Tracy  ,8  tockton,  SMnveftta, 
Lew  Banot,    Meadeta,    Eaafard, 

TlaalU,  Porterrllle «4JSr 

6 .00a  Port  Coata,  Martinet,  Latkrop,  M*- 
deito,  Merced,  Frecno,  Go*h« 
J  auction,     H  an  ford,     Tlaalla, 

Bakersfield 6.25r 

8-30a  Shasta  Eipreas  — D*t1s.  "Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Willows, 

tFruto,  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7-66r 

8-30a  Nlles,  Ban  Joae,  Livermore,  Stoek- 
toa.Ione.Bacniruento.PUcerTllle, 

Maryarllle,  Chlco,  Red  Bluff 4.26r 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  Bo- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angela 4.25r 

9.00a  Martinet  and  Way  Buttons fi.BBr 

1000a  Vallejo 12.26> 

"10.00a  Crescent  City  Express,  Eastbonnd, 
—Port  Costa,  Byron,  Tracy,  La- 
tbrop,  Stockton,  Merced,  Ray- 
mond, Fresno,  Hanford,  YlsalUL 
Bakerefleld,  Los  Angeles  and 
New  Orleans.  fWeatbound  ar- 
rives as  Pacific  Coast  Express, 

via  Coast  Line) *1-30p 

1000*  The    Overland    Limited  — Ogden, 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 6-26> 

12  00m   Hayward,  N  lies  and  "Way  Statloni.      325r 

H00p  Sacramento  River  Steamers til  00f 

3.30p  Benlcta,      Winters,      Sacramento, 

Woodland,  Williams,  Coloaa,Wil- 

lowa,   Knlgbts   Landing.   Marys- 

vllle,  Orovllle  and  way  stations. .    1  0.56  a 

3-30p  Hayward,  Nlles  andWay  Stations..     7.65r 

4  COp   Martinet. San  Ramon, Vallejo.Napa, 

Callatoga,  Santa  RoBa 9. 26a 

4-OOp  Martinez, Tracy, Lutbrop, Stockton.  10-25* 
4  00p  Nlles,  Llrermore.  Stockton,  Lodl..  4.26> 
4.30p  Hayward,  Nlles,  Irvlngton,  Ban  I     tfl.66A 

Jose,  Llvermore f  111.66a 

B-00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno,  Tulare, 
Bakerafleld,  Los  Angeles;  con- 
nects at  Saagns  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara       B.BEa 

B.OOi    Port  Costa,  Tracy,   Stockton,  Los 

Banoa 12.26F 

1B.30p  Nlles,  San  JOBe  Local 7.25* 

B.OOp  Hayward. Nlles  and  San  Jose 10.26a 

6.00p  Oriental  Mall— Ogden,  Denver. 
Omaba.  6t.  LoqIb.  Chicago  ana 
East.  (Carries  Pullman  Car  pas- 
sengers only  ont  of  San  Fran- 
cIbco.  Tourist  car  and  coach 
passengers  take  7.00  p.  h.  trata 
to  Reno,  contlnnlng  thence  la 
their  cars  6  p.m.  train  eastward..  4.26f 
Westbound,  SunBet  Limited. — 
From  New  York,  Chicago,  New 
Orleans,  El  Paso,  Los  Angeles, 
Fresno.  Berenda,  Raymond  (from 
Toeemlte),  Martinez.  Arrives..  B  26* 
7-OOf  San  Pablo.  Port   Costa,  Martinet 

and  Way  Stations 11.26a 

1700p  Vallejo 7.6b> 

7-00p  Port  CoBta,  Benlcla,  Bnlenn,  Dairia, 
Sacramento,  Trackee,  Reno. 
Stopg   at    all    stations    east  of 

Sacramento 7.66a 

8-06i    Oregon  *  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Mary  bv  ill  e.    Bedding, 
Portland,  Paget  Sonnd  and  East.     8.66a 
iS.IOi    Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (San- 

dayonly) tn  .55  a 

11.26P  Port  Coata,  Tracy,  Lathrop.  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  To- 

Bemlte),  Fresno 12-26r 

Hanford.  TUalla.  Batersfleid....^      §J$r 


SAN  FRANCISCO, 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 


COAST    LINE     ("arrow  flange). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

17-46*    Santa    Crux    Excursion    (Bnnday 

only) ».10p 

8. 16a  Newark.  Ceaterrllla.  flan  Jos*, 
Felton,    Boolaer    Creek,    Itata 

Crnx  and  Way  Stations B-ZBr 

tf.16P  Newark,  CenterrUle,  flan  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Los  Satos.Feltoa, 
Bonlder  Creak,  Banta  Crnx  an* 

Principal  Way  Buttons   10  55a 

416p  Newark,  Ban  Jose.  Los  Gnoi  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  tot 
Bnnday  rnns  tbrongh  to  Banta 
Cruz,  connects  at  Felton  for 
Boulder  Creek,  Monday  only 
from  Santa  Cruz) t8-6BA 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

rrom  SAN  FRANCISCO.  Foot  of  Market  St.  (SlIpS) 

— tT:15    9:00    11:00  a.m.     1.00    3-00    5-15  p.m 

from  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  f6:00    18:00 

t8:05    10:00  a.m.       1200    2.00    400  P.M. 

COAST    LINE     (Broad  Gauge). 

(Third  and  Townaend  Streets.) 

6-10a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 7.3th? 

'7  00a    San  JoBe  and  Way  Buttons 6.30p 

'7  00a  New  Almaden.. /4.10f 

:716a    Monterey  and  Santa  Crux  Excnr 

bIod  (Sunday  only) ta.3Qp 

-■8  00a  CoaBt  Line  Limited— Stops  only  San 
JoBe,GI!roy,Holllster,Pajaro,Ca8- 
trovllle.  Salinas.  San  Ardo,  Paso 
Robles,  Santa  Margarita,  San  Luis 
Obispo,  (principal  stations  thence) 
Sfiniii  Barbara,  and  Lob  An- 
geles. Connection  at  Castrovllle 
to  and  from  Monterey  and  Pacific 
Grove  and  at  Pajaro  north  bound 

from  Capltola  and  SanUCruz 10  46* 

6430*  Ban  Jose.  Tres  PInoa,  Capltola, 
Banta  Crnz.PaclflcOrove.Sallnas, 
Snn  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 

Intermediate    Stations 4.1u> 

Westbound  only.  Pacific  Coast  Ex- 
Dress.— From  New  Tork,Chlcago, 
New  OrleanB.  El  Paso,  Lob  An- 
geles, Santa  Barbara.    Arrives..      1.30* 

10.30*   San  J ose  and  Way  Stations 1.20T 

11-30a  San  Jose,  Los  Qatos  and  Way  Bu- 
llous  6.36f 

al.3G>  San  JoBe  and  Way  Stations x7.00> 

2-OOp  San  Jofie  and  Way  SUtlona 49-40a 

^\3.00PDel  Monte  Expreas— Santa  Clara, 
o       Ban  Ji.ee,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  SanU 
Clara  for  Santa    Cmz,    Boulder 
_  __        Creek  and  NarrowGangePolntB)t12.1BP 
I'i-aop  Burlingame.  San  Mateo,  Redwood, 
Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto.  Mayfleld, 
MouduIq  View,  Lawrence,  Sanu 
Clara,  San  Jose,  GUroy  (connec- 
tion for  Hollister,  Tree  Plnos), 
Pajaro  (connection  for  Watson  - 
Tllle,  Capltola  and  SanU  Cruz), 
Pacific  Grove  and  way  stations. 
Connects  at  CaBtrovIlle  for  Ba- 

llnnB 10.45a 

o4-30p  Ban  Jose  and  Way  SUtlonB 8.36a 

dIEXOf  SBn  Jobc  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
GatoB,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Siatlons tfl-OO-A 

ci6.20i    Shh JoBeandPrlncIpalWayBUtlons   tS.DOA 
c16-16>    San  Mateo.Beresford.Belmont.San 
Carloa,    Bedwood,    Fair     Oaks, 

Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto t6  46a 

6-30)    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  36a 

o7-00p  Sunset  Limited.  Eastbound.— San 
Luis  OblBpo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 
ADgeleB,  Uemlng.  El  Paao.  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  (WeBtbound 
anlveBvlHStinJoaquInValley)...  trfi-25A 

8. 00p Palo  Alto  andWayStalloDB 10  15a 

t<l  1.30i  Millbrae,  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Su- 
tton b  m t9  46p 

*1130pMlllbrae,  San  Jose    and  Way  BU- 
-  - tl0PB t9^5F 


a  for  morning,  p  for  afternoon.  '-■:  Saturday  and  Sunday  only,  g  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday, 
t  Sunday  excepted.  J  Sunday  only,  a  Saturday  only,  d  Connects  at  Goshen  Jc.  with  trains  for  Hanford, 
Visalia  ;  at  Fresno,  for  Visalia  via  Sanger,  e  Via  Coast  Line.  /Tuesday  and  Friday,  m  Arrive  via  Niles. 
u  Daily  except  Saturday,  zu  Via  San  Joaquin  Valley.  U  Stops  Santa  Clara  south  bound  only;  connects, 
'  xcept  Sunday,  for  all  p'-ints  Narrow  Gauge,     o  Does  not  stop  at  Valencia  Street. 

The  UNION  TUA     SFER  COMPANY  will  call  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences, 
elephone,  Exchange  S^      Inquire  of  Ticket  Agents  for  Time  Cards  and  other  information. 


GLEN 
GARRV 

Old  Highland 
Scotch 


FOR 


Bon  Vivants 


Tillmann  &  Bendel 

Purveyors  to  the 

Pacific  Slope  Trade 


OUR  STANDARDS 


vS perry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK   DAYS— 7.30.  S.oo,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2-3o. 

"3-40,  5-io,  5-50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.    Saturdays — Extra 

trip  at  1.30  p  m. 
SUNDAY'S — 7.30,  8.00,  9.30,   11.00  a  m  ;   1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 

5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m ; 
12.50,  t2-oo.  3--40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.io,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 

Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


1  7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m  S.oo  a  m 

S.oo  a  m  9.30  a  m 

2.30  p  m  2.30  p 

5.10  pm  5-i°  P  m 


2.30 
5.10 

7-30 
S  00 
2-30 


7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5  iop  "* 


7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  P  m 


3  pm' 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 


8.00  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m'  2.30  p  m 


S.oo  a  nV  S.oo  a  m 
5.10  p  mj  5.10  p  m 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m1   2.30  p  m 


In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah, 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 
days. 


7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-=5  P  m 


7-45  a  m 
10.20  ; 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
7-25pm 


7.35  a  1 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  pjn 
8.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 


10.20  a  1 
7.25  P  1 


Week 
Days. 


7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 


7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 


10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 


10,20  a  r 
7-25  P  r 


7.25  P  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


S.40  a  ui 
6.20pm 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  lor  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  ior  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blut 
Lakes,  Laure!  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake 
Pomo.  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  West  port 
Usal;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs. 
Harris,  OJsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  hair  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  \.  RYAN, 


Gen.  Manager. 


"en.  Pass.  Agt. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran 
cisco,  as  follows  : 

7.30 


A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Di  . 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 
A  M— f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 
A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  in.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 

PM^*STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10 pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives, 
11. 10  a  m. 
P  M— *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m,i 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, ; 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  alj 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  aj 
6.25  p  ni. 

*  Daily.       t  Monday  and  Thursday: 
X  Tuesday  and  Friday.  a 

Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City.  Chi 

cago,  and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express   Monday 

Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
S.OO 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  11 12  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


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The  Argonaut. 


Vol.  LIIL     No.   1378. 


San  Francisco,  August  10,  1903. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Justice  Delayed  is  Justice  Denied — Laggard  Justice 
and  Lynching— Cleveland  Writes  on  Labor  Troubles — Con- 
troversy in  the  Post-Office  Scandals — Michael  Casey  Jars 
Labor  Unions — The  Year's  Death  Record  of  this  City — 
When  Labor  Unions  Fall  Out — For  the  Removal  of  Poles 
and  Wires — Pacific  Coast  Railroad  Activity — Bookbinders, 
Printers,  and  the  President— Some  Advertising  Figures — 
The  Trouble  Between  Hay  and  Roosevelt — Something  Do- 
ing in  Ohio — "  Graft "  in  the  Labor  Unions — The  Auto's 
Irresistible  Advance — The  New  Pope — The  Chase  of  the 
Convicts — Gossip  on   the    Eve  of  the   Primaries 81-S3 

Leaves  on  the  Kiver  Pasig:    A  Tragic  Episode  of  the  American 

Occupation.      By    W.    O.    McGcehan 84 

Margaret  Fuller's  Romance:     Extracts  from  Her  Love-Letters 

to  Joseph    Nathan 85 

Our  Sailors  at  Portsmouth:  Officers  and  Men  of  the  Ameri- 
can Squadron  Royally  Entertained — Didn't  Shine  in  Ath- 
letics—  Uut  Favorites  With  the  Ladies — Dancing  Differences 
— An    Unfortunate  Play.      By  "Cockaigne." 85 

A  Society  Woman's  Day:  The  French  Lady  of  1650  and  the 
American  of  To-Daj — A  Comparison.  By  Geraldine  Bon- 
ner         86 

The  New  Cup  Defender:  Remarkable  Record  of  the  "Re- 
liance " — How  She  Acquitted  Herself  in  Twenty  Races — 
Unsatisfactory  Trial  Tests  of  the  Two  "  Shamrocks  " — Sir 
Thomas    Lip  ton's    Predictions 86 

The  London  Gaiety  Theatre:  Final  Performance  at  the 
Famous  Old  Home  of  Burlesque — Reminiscences  of  Notable 
Plays    and    Players 87 

Individualities:     Notes   About    Prominent    People   All    Over   the 

World    87 

Late  Verse:  "  Two  Careers."  by  Jennie  Betts  Harts  wick; 
"  Homesickness,"  by  Edith  C  Banfield;  "  The  Wandering 
Jew,"    by    George    Alexander    Kohut 88 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications      87-89 

Drama:  Ezra  Kendall  in  "  The  Vinegar  Buyer "  at  the  Co- 
lumbia.     By  Josephine   Hart    Phelps 90 

Stage  Gossip     91 

Van  it v  Fair  :  How  Some  Detroit  Sharpers  Swindled  Several 
Hundred  Women — Each  Wanted  to  he  Secretary  of  a 
Woman's  Association,  but  Got  Left — The  Scheme  Cleverly 
Thought  Out— The  Duchess  of  Westminster's  Social  Ex- 
clusion of  Americans — Vandalism  in  the  Alps — Kansas 
School -Teachers  Prohibited  from  Falling  in  Love — Indigni- 
ties Suffered  by  the  Passengers  of  the  "Siberia"  at  the 
Hands   of  the   Cus torn-House   Officers 92 

htoryettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Brains  and  Paint — A  New  Use  for  the  Telephone — An 
"Honorable  Member"  Downed  by  a  Rowdy—  Mark  Twain, 
Whisky,  and  Sarsaparilla- — A  Pension  for  "  Nerviousncss  " — 
To  Operate  or  not  to  Operate — Cheek  and  Ten  Thousand 
a  Year — Flowers  of  Rhetoric — When  ex-President  Cleveland 
Was    Fired    At 93 

The  Tuneful  Liar:     "The   Silent    Lover,"   "A   New   Version," 

"  Quick    Lunch  " 93 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army   and   Navy   News 94-95 

Tut-  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 96 


In  May,  1899,  one  Dougall,  a  retired  officer  of  the 
Lice  Delayed  Ro>'al  Irish  Fusiliers,  murdered,  at 
is  justice  Moat     House     Farm,      England,     Miss 

Camille  C.  Holland,  a  woman  of  wealth 
and  talent,  and  buried  the  body  in  a  ditch  in  the  yard. 
Fhe  place  was  a  lonely  one ;  the  woman  eccentric  and 
without   relatives   or   intimate   friends;   there   were   no 


witnesses  of  the  crime;  and  so,  for  four  years,  Dougall 
went  free.  But  on  April  27th  last,  the  woman's  body 
was  discovered.  In  May,  the  murderer  was  appre- 
hended. In  June,  he  was  tried  and  convicted.  On 
July  14th,  he  was  hanged.  Between  sentence  and  death 
but  three  weeks  elapsed;  between  arrest  and  the  gal- 
lows but  three  months. 

This  sure  and  swift  administration  of  justice  is  no 
exceptional  thing  in  England.  It  would  excite  no 
astonishment  in  France,  or,  indeed,  in  any  Continental 
country.  It  is  taken  for  granted  there  that  guilty  men 
shall  be  promptly  punished.  But  how  about  the  United 
States?  Would  it  not,  we  may  ask,  be  here  some- 
thing of  a  legal  miracle  for  a  man  to  be  convicted  for 
a  crime  four  years  past,  on  circumstantial  evidence? 
And  even  if  he  were  finally  sentenced,  how  long  and 
intolerably  tedious  would  be  his  trial !  In  such  a  case 
as  this,  it  is  easy  to  imagine  with  what  adroitness  the 
felon's  lawyers  would  have  secured  delays  and  post- 
ponements on  "  technicalities,"  and  have  appealed  again 
and  again,  while,  meantime,  witnesses  died  or  mys- 
teriously disappeared,  evidence  vanished  into  thin  air, 
anatomical  experts  quarreled  over  skeletal  minutiae  and 
beclouded  the  question  of  identity,  a  sensational  press 
took  sides,  and  reports  that  the  "  murdered  "  woman 
had  been  seen  alive  were  telegraphed  daily  from  various 
enterprising  towns  of  the  interior.  Here  in  California 
it  has  even  taken  years  to  convict  assassins  whose  guilt 
was  confessed  or  beyond  shadow  of  a  doubt.  Look  at 
the  case  of  William  Fredericks,  who  entered  a  bank, 
in  broad  daylight,  on  one  of  the  principal  streets  of  this 
City,  and  shot  down  the  young  cashier  in  cold  blood 
for  a  few  paltry  dollars.  He  was  guilty  beyond  per- 
adventure — caught  with  the  reeking  pistol  in  his  hand. 
Vet  it  required  one  year  and  four  months  for  tardy 
justice  to  overtake  him.  And  even  then  it  was  the 
"record"  in  speed  for  California!  Worden,  who  de- 
railed a  train  of  cars  and  murdered  the  engineer  and 
several  soldiers,  enjoyed  life  and  health  at  the  expense 
of  the  State  for  more  than  three  years.  And  nobody 
has  forgotten  how  the  evil  life  of  Theodore  Durrant 
was  prolonged  by  the  juggling  of  lawyers  with  the  law 
— his  case  even  being  appealed  on  utterly  frivolous 
grounds  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States, 
it  is  not  alone  that  long  and  complicated  trials  cost 
the  State  and  county  thousands  of  dollars  in  each  case, 
it  is  not  alone  that  justice  delayed  loses  its  deterrent 
force,  but  each  trial  increases  the  liability  that  the 
criminal  may  escape  on  a  "  technicality."  He  is  allowed, 
of  course,  to  take  advantage  of  every  such  point, 
while  none  may  be  counted  against  him.  His  attorneys 
may  have  made  scores  of  mistakes;  if  he  is  acquitted  he 
is  safe:  if  the  public  prosecutor  makes  one  error,  it 
means  a  new  lease  of  a  bad  life,  or  even  the  freeing 
of  the  guilty.     Thus  society  arms  its  enemy. 

Just  now  the  subject  of  lynching  is  uppermost  in  men's 
Laggard  minds  throughout  the  country.     During 

seventeen  years  past,  2,516  men  and 
women  have  been  lynched.  The  theme 
engages  the  attention  of  our  highest  judicial  officers. 
Judge  Brewer,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  says:  "Lynching  is  murder."  From  pulpit  and 
rostrum  it  is  proclaimed  a  blot  upon  our  civilization. 
Doubtless  for  it  there  is  no  excuse.  Vet  we  can  not 
but  believe  that  this  terrible  list  of  lawless  acts  might 
be  sensibly  shortened  had  people  absolute  confidence 
in  our  courts — did  they  know  beyond  cavil  that  the 
law  would  visit  its  penalties  swiftly,  surely,  without 
mistake — were  they  confident  that  no  guilty  man  would 
escape  on  a  "technicality."  Here  is  an  extract  from 
a  letter  which  we  find  in  a  New  York  paper: 

Referring  to  a  negro  animal  who  all  but  murdered  a  tender 
little  white  girl  of  eleven  years  near  Albany,  you  say:     '"The 


Justice  and 
Lynching. 


negro  was  held  to  await  the  action  of  the  grand  jury,  which 
will  convene  in  Catskill  in  NOVEMBER."  Great  God!  Must 
this  bestial  malefactor  be  housed,  fed,  and  guarded  at  public 
expense  for  four  months?  Will  he  be  tried  six  months  after 
that? 

If  lynching  for  this  species  of  crime  be  unlawful,  then 
legalize  it  at  once.  Let  these  fiends  learn  that  for  them  there 
is  nothing  but  justice,  sure  and  swift.  No  trials,  appeals,  stays, 
and  legal  chicanery. 

Violent  language  though  this  is,  its  author  expresses 
a  widespread  feeling.  And  why  not,  at  least,  end  "  the 
legal  chicanery"  which  defeats  justice?  Why  should 
the  United  States  lag  behind  other  civilized  countries 
— England,  France,  even  Spain — in  such  a  vital  matter? 

"  But,"  says  some  one,  "better  that  a  hundred  guilty 
men  escape  than  that  one  innocent  man  suffer."  The 
phrase  is  a  grandiose,  smooth-sounding  one,  but  vicious. 
Is  it  not  more  true  to  say:  "Better  that  a  thousand 
men  be  punished  by  due  process  of  law,  speedily,  even 
though  one  prove  guiltless,  than  that  a  thousand  men  be 
hanged,  or  shot,  or  burned  at  the  stake,  by  crazy  mobs, 
at  midnight,  with  a  hundredfold  more  chance  for  awful 
and  irreparable  wrong?" 

There  is,  too,  another  phase  of  the  matter.  The 
criminally  inclined  man,  who  reads  and  hears  of  trials 
long  drawn  out,  and  perceives  the  many  legal  loop-holes 
by  which  the  guilty  escape — must  he  not  come  to  hold 
the  law  more  or  less  in  contempt?  Penologists  unani- 
mously agree  that  certainty,  not  severity,  of  punishment 
is  the  best  deterrent  of  crime.  Avery  D.  Andrews,  for- 
merly police  commissioner  of  New  York,  who  visited 
Europe  last  winter,  on  his  return  wrote: 

As  a  deterrent  of  crime,  nothing  is  more  effective  than  swift 
and  sure  punishment.  In  England,  a  murder  trial  is  completed 
within  a  few  weeks,  or  months  at  the  outside,  after  the  appre- 
hension of  the  accused,  and  from  the  first  trial  there  is  no 
appeal  to  a  higher  court  of  review  or  appeal.  The  police 
records  show  an  astonishingly  small  number  of  murders  in- 
London,  and  I  believe  that  the  celerity  with  which  the  trials 
are  conducted  has  much  to  do  with  the  suppression  of  this  most 
heinous  of  all  crimes.  According  to  the  official  report  for  1901, 
there  were  reported  to  the  London  police  only  twenty-four  mur- 
ders in  a  population  of  over  six  millions  of  people. 

Coroner  Leland,  of  this  city,  has  just  published  his 
report  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30th.  That  report 
shows — 

Murders,  22. 

Manslaughters,  10. 

Justifiable  homicides,  4. 

If  London's  murders  bore  the  same  proportion  to  the 
population  as  San  Francisco's  there  would  be,  not  24, 
but  320 !  Perhaps  the  comparison  is,  for  some  reason, 
not  a  fair  one;  we  hope  it  is  not;  but  as  it  stands,  it  is 
appalling. 

It  may  be  said  that  in  this  article  we  have  written 
what  everybody  knows  and  what  we  have  often  said  be- 
fore. True.  Yet  it  will  only  be  time  to  stop  when  public 
knowledge  becomes  public  action  and  a  commission  is 
appointed  to  purge  our  judicial  system  of  those  vicious 
practices  which  now  drain  the  treasury,  incite  to  law- 
lessness, and   foster  crime. 

Ex-President  Cleveland  is  the  author  of  an  article  in 
Cleveland  Collier's  Weekly  entitled  "  A  Few  Plain 

Writes  on  Words  on  Labor  Troubles,"  in  which  he 

Labor  Troubles.  reviewSj  in  his  well-known  turgid  style. 
the  contentions  between  labor  and  capital.  He  takes 
no  side  in  the  controversy,  nor  does  he  attempt  to  detail 
the  particular  rights  or  wrongs  of  the  contestants,  but 
speaks  as  one  of  an  onlooking  public  that  has  *'  a  right 
to  complain  of  the  recklessness  with  which  the  warring 
contestants  pursue  their  quarrels,  without  the  least 
thought  or  care  for  the  comfort  and  substantial  welfare 
of  their  unimplicated  fellow-citizens."  He  recognizes 
a  serious  condition  that  has  arisen  from  the  stubborn 
disagreements  in  industrial  localities,  which  is  a 
menace  to  prosperous  conditions  and  to  individual  pa 
triotism.     Necessarily,  he  touches  upon  the  can- 


~<o. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  io,  1903. 


effect,  and  the  remedy,  which  may  be  outlined  as  fol- 
lows : 

The  prevailing  labor  troubles  "  must  be  regarded  as 
the  result  of  a  clashing  of  efforts  on  the  part  of  labor 
to  secure  at  any  cost  a  larger  share  of  American  oppor- 
tunity, with  the  opposition  of  employers  who  insist  that 
these  efforts  are  based  upon  demands  unreasonable  in 
substance  and  unjustifiable  in  methods  of  enforcement." 
It  is  assumed  that  both  sides  are  at  fault  through  the 
promptings  of  self-interest  and  prejudice.  Labor  has 
made  demands,  adopted  policies,  and  permitted  conduct 
which  can  not  be  justified.  Employers,  in  many  in- 
stances, have  been  heedless  of  just  and  reasonable 
claims  and  disdainful  of  complaints. 

The  recklessness  with  which  the  contest  has  been 
pursued  un  both  sides  has  caused  strikes,  lock-outs, 
boycotts,  paralysis  of  production,  pinching  deprivation 
in  the  homes  of  workingmen,  idleness  and  its  malevo- 
lent influence  on  character  and  habits,  and  a  morbid 
discontent,  which  comes  from  brooding  over  real  or 
imaginary  wrongs.  Most  important  of  all  there  'has 
been  "loss  and  injury  inflicted  upon  numerous  citizens 
absolutely  innocent  of  the  least  complicity  in  the  con- 
tentions, and  utter  strangers  to  all  they  directly  in- 
volve." 

The  law  can  not  efficiently  intervene  to  shield  sober 
and  peaceable  non-combatants  from  the  actual  damage 
and  disquieting  fears  which  labor  quarrels  spread 
among  the  people,  nor  can  the  courts  suppress  these 
evils  at  their  birth  and  thus  assure  the  safety  of  neutral 
interests.  The  only  remedy  now  within  reach  is  that 
offered  by  a  mutual  disposition  to  arbitration — to  a  calm 
review  of  differences  by  a  trusted  intermediary  of  some 
such  character  as  the  National  Civic  Federation — an 
arena  in  which  new  light  would  be  thrown  on  the 
positions  of  the  disputants,  and  where  the  prejudices 
of  self-interest  would  dissolve  in  the  light  of  disinter- 
ested reason.  No  progress  can  be  made  in  this  direc- 
tion so  long  as  the  contestants,  while  professing 
amiable  motives,  insist  that  the  justice  of  their  posi- 
tions in  the  dispute  are  so  clear  as  to  leave  no  room 
for  adjustment.  There  must  be  a  peaceful  mood  and  a 
conciliatory  sentiment  to  begin  with.  If  there  is  a  real 
sentiment  for  a  settlement  of  the  troubles,  it  can  be 
brought  about  by  such  friendly  discussion  facilitated  by 
some  concessions  in  advance.  Labor  should  abate  some 
of  its  too  radical  demands,  free  itself  "from  the  sus- 
picion of  taking  advantage  of  necessities  and  emer- 
gencies in  industrial  conditions  to  enforce  questionable 
demands,"  and  place  itself  in  such  a  position  that  con- 
servative citizens  can  approve  tile  legitimate  purposes 
of  labor  unions.  If  these  tilings  were  done,  the  way 
would  be  open  to  a  recognition  by  employers  of  regu- 
larly constituted  labor  unions,  and  an  admission  that 
they  could  be  reckoned  with  in  case  of  dispute.  After 
that,  arbitration  would  have  a  beneficent  and  quieting 
effect.  No  objection  is  found  to  organization  on  either 
side,  provided  it  is  effected  in  the  proper  spirit,  and  for 
worthy  objects.  "  With  organization  on  both  sides  of  a 
iabor  dispute,"  he  says,  "  the  field  for  review  and  de- 
liberation would  be  so  enlarged,  and  such  an  aggregate 
of  varied  and  individual  situations  would  be  pre- 
sented, that  any  conclusion  arrived  at  in  conference 
would  beimore  comprehensive  in  its  results,  more  widely 
binding,  and  more  easily  enforcible  than  any  that  could 
be  otherwise  reached."  Relief  through  arbitration  "  de- 
pends for  its  curative  effect,  as  well  as  its  existence, 
upon  the  unprompted  volition  and  disposition  of  the 
parties  arrayed  on  either  side."  If  it  fails,  another 
recourse  can  be  had  to  the  influence  of  public  sentiment, 
which  exacts  decency  and  fairness  in  every  phase  of 
business  and  industrial  life  when  once  aroused.  If  the 
contestants  fail  to  find  the  path  of  peace  for  themselves, 
"  we  can  hopefully  await  the  hour  when  the  people  shall 
be  aroused  to  the  danger  that  threatens  the  republic, 
when  public  sentiment  shall  search  out  the  right  and 
wrong  of  labor  disputes,  and  adjudge  that  they  shall  no 
longer  breed  terror  and  hatred  among  those  who  should 
be  willing  co-workers  in  achieving  a  grand  national 
destiny." 

It  will  be  recalled  that  in  the  Post-Office  Department 
Controversy  in     scandals.  charges  of    maladministration 
ihb  Post-Officb    appeared    against    the    management    of 
"ALS-  ex-Postmaster-Genera]    Charles    Emory 

Smi  h.  followed  by  a  letter  from  the  latter  in  defense, 
supplemented  by  an  editorial  in  Smith's  paper,  the 
iil-  ladelphia  Press.  Heeling  upon  the  chairman  of  the 
(  i  ■<!    Service   Commission,   who    made    the    charges. 


John  R.  Proctor,  president  of  the  commission,  has  now 
addressed,  an  interesting  letter  to  the  present  Post- 
master-General, replying  to  Smith.  The  Postmaster- 
General  had  requested  the  commission  to  investigate 
and  report  whether  the  civil-service  rules  had  been 
violated  in  the  Washington  post-office,  and  the  investi- 
gation disclosed  facts  which  brought  departmental  ap- 
pointments within  its  scope.  The  charge  is  reiterated 
that  persons  were  appointed  to  outside  ofiices  for  the 
purpose  of  classification  and  afterward  transferred  to 
the  Washington  post-office,  and  later  to  the  depart- 
ment. Persons  were  also  appointed  as  laborers,  but 
irregularly  assigned  to  classified  duty  in  the  Washing- 
ton post-office,  and  afterward  appointed  in  the  free 
rural-delivery  system  just  previous  to  its  classification. 
Mr.  Proctor  claims  that  the  department  and  not  the 
postmaster  was  responsible  for  most  of  the  evasions 
and  violations  of  the  civil-service  law  and  rules,  and 
cites  the  statement  of  the  postmaster  that  the  violations 
occurred  in  cases  of  those  designated  by  the  depart- 
ment, and  that  people  who  had  proved  inefficient  in  the 
department  had  been  unloaded  on  the  post-office.  Mr. 
Smith  having  claimed  that  the  practice  of  appointing 
persons  to  offices  about  to  be  classified,  and  afterward 
transferring  them  to  other  parts  of  the  service,  was 
established  before  his  time,  Mr.  Proctor  replies  that 
only  four  such  appointments  were  made  prior  to  Mr. 
Smith's  administration,  and  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
four  while  he  was  in  charge;  that  the  free  rural-delivery 
service  was  packed  with  employees  in  the  interest  of 
individuals  is  sustained  by  tue  tact  that  fifty-six  were 
appointed  in  the  twenty-six  days  just  prior  to  the 
classification  on  November  27,  1901,  while  only  seven- 
teen were  appointed  between  that  date  and  May,  1903. 
Mr.  Smith  explains  this  on  the  ground  of  the  great 
increase  of  work  as  indicated  by  increased  amount  ap- 
propriated for  it  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1902. 
To  this  Mr.  Proctor  replies  that  the  appropriation  was 
again  more  than  doubled  for  the  year  ending  June  30, 
1903,  but  it  was  found  necessary  to  appoint  only  seven 
persons  in  Washington  from  November  27,  1901,  to 
May,  1903.  It  is  a  fact,  says  Mr.  Proctor,  that  nearly 
all  of  the  persons  appointed  or  employed  in  evasion  or 
contravention  of  the  civil-service  laws  and  rules,  who 
were  examined  during  the  investigation,  were  appointed 
through  the  influence  of  senators  and  representatives, 
or  high  officials  of  the  Post-Office  Department.  Their 
names  and  the  names  of  the  persons  who  urged  their 
appointments  appear  in  the  report  of  the  investigation. 
Mr.  Proctor  refutes  the  charge  that  he  was  "  so  un- 
reasonable, dogmatic,  and  impracticable  that  he  had  to 
be  overruled  by  his  own  associates,  and  eliminated 
from  all  part  in  the  construction  of  a  system  of  rules 
for  the  appointment  of  rural  letter-carriers,"  by  the 
statement  that  there  never  was  the  slightest  friction 
or  difference  of  opinion  between  the  three  commission- 
ers, and  that  it  was  by  Mr.  Proctor's  request  that  Mr. 
Poulke  took  up  the  question  of  the  examination  of  rural 
carriers.  Mr.  Smith's  editorial  in  the  Press  is  char- 
acterized as  being  "  given  almost  entirely  to  abuse  and 
vituperation."  In  reply  to  it,  Mr.  Proctor  denies  "  that 
he  sought  exceptions  to  the  civil-service  rules  in  behalf 
of  his  relatives  and  friends,"  and  states  that  he  not 
only  asked  no  favors,  but  so  far  as  he  knows  has  no  re- 
latives in  the  classified  service. 


The  New  York  Sun,  from  which  source  emanated  the  storv 
The  trouble  £hat  "?e  _?nBiden«  a"d  Secretary  Hay  had 
Between  Hay  seriously  disagreed  over  the  Kishineff  petition 
and  Roosevelt.  matter.  's  a  paper  so  bitterly  hostile  to  Mr. 
Roosevelt  that  the  story  was  at  first  generally 
discredited.  The  opinion  now  seems  to  be  growing,  however, 
that  "  something  happened."  According  to  the  Sim,  what 
happened  was  this:  The  President  was  at  Oyster  Bay,' Secre- 
tary Hay  at  Newport.  The  President,  angered  at  Russia's 
delay  in  the  Manchurian  matter,  prepared  a  statement,  openly 
charging  the  Russian  Government  with  bad  faith  in  its  deal- 
ings. This  statement  was  telegraphed  to  the  State  Department 
at  Washington,  whence  it  was  given  out,  as  usual  in  such 
cases,  on  the  authority  "  of  an  official."  Now,  it  is  charged 
that  Hay  had  previously  come  to  an  understanding  with  the 
Russian  embassador,  Cassini,  and  that  the  Presidentially 
inspired  statement  emanating  from  the  Department  of  State 
was  directly  antagonistic  thereto.  It  is  charged  that  it 
seriously  inconvenienced  Secretary  Hay's  negotiations,  which 
had  theretofore  been  conducted  consistently.  Subsequently, 
Secretary  Hay  had  an  interview  with  the  President,  "last- 
ing far  into  the  night,"  the  rumor  that  he  intended  to  resign 
was  denied  by  him,  and  the  incident  is  apparently  closed. 
Harper's  Weekly  thinks  it  "  improbable  that  there  has 
been  any  grave  disagreement  between  President  Roose- 
velt and  Secretary  Hay,"  but  that  "  it  is  true  that  a  sharp 
departure  seemed  to  be  made  from  Mr.  Hay's  circumspect 
and    cautious    management    of    our    relations    with    Russia." 


Colliers  Weekly  thinks  that  "  if  the  President's  treatment  of 
Russia  actually  impedes  Mr.  Hay's  diplomacy,  then  Mr. 
Roosevelt's  standing  suffers ;  but  if  he  turns  out  to  be  as 
successful  as  Mr.  Olney  and  Mr.  Cleveland  were  in  their 
crass  Venezuela  menaces,  the  inelegance  of  his  manner  will 
lack  importance."  It  is  worth  while  noting  that  Mr.  Well- 
man,  whose  Washington  correspondence  to  the  Chicago 
Record-Herald  is  sometimes  inspired,  does  not  credit  the 
rumor  that  Hay  threatened  to  resign.  "  It  is  true,"  he  says, 
"  that  Secretary  Hay  did  not  know  anything  about  the  state- 
ment until  he  saw  it  in  the  newspapers.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  it  was  not  quite  the  proper  thing  for  the  President 
to  issue  a  statement  of  so  much  importance  without  con- 
sulting his  Secretary  of  State,  who  for  four  years  had  carried 
on  the  battle  with  Russian  diplomacy  for  the  open  door  in  the 
Far  East,  but  Mr.  Hay  never  thought  of  taking  umbrage." 


and  His 
Policy. 


The  newspaper  editors  and  very  special  correspondents,  who 
have  lately  been  discussing  Papal  possi- 
bilities with  such  owlish  gravity,  must  have 
felt  rather  cheap  when  the  news  came  that 
Giuseppe  Sarto,  whom  they  had  never  even 
heard  of,  had  been  elected  as  the  two  hundred  and  sixty- 
fourth  Pope,  under  the  name  of  Pius  the  Tenth — a  name,  by 
the  way,  endued  with  no  particular  odor  of  sanctity  by  its 
last  Papal  possessor.  But  the  new  Pius  seems  to  be  a  man  of 
character.  "  Cultured,"  "  religious,"  "  mild-mannered,"  "  pi- 
ous," "  a  country  mouse,"  "  quiet,"  "  kind-hearted,"  "  liberal," 
"timid" — these  are  some  of  the  epithets  applied  to  the  late 
Patriarch  of  Venice  and  new  Pope  of  Rome.  The  same 
authorities,  however,  deny  him  political  shrewdness,  di- 
plomatic craft,  and  executive  ability.  They  predict  that  he 
will  be  not  a  statesmanly  but  a  "  religious  "   Pontiff. 

All  interest  at  this  time,  of  course,  centres  on  the  policy 
of  Pius  with  reference  to  the  Italian  Government.  It  is  already 
clear  that  it  will  differ  in  no  vital  particular  from  that  of  Leo  the 
Thirteenth.  The  new  Pontiff  is  even  quoted  as  saying  signifi- 
cantly :  "My  first  pleasure  will  be  to  explore  the  gardens  which 
now  confine  my  little  world.  Heigh  ho !  How  I  shall  miss  my 
long  country  tramps — and  the  sea  I  "  This,  if  authentic,  shows 
plainly  enough  that  Pius,  like  Leo,  will  be  "  a  prisoner  in  the 
Vatican."  Doubtless,  however,  as  the  dispatches  indicate,  his 
personal  liking  for  the  king  and  queen,  especially  the  latter, 
will  make  the  relations  between  Quirinal  and  Vatican  smoother 
and  more  amicable  than  heretofore. 

It  is  not  an  altogether  admirable  policy  this,  that  the  Pope 
is  about  to  continue  into  the  twentieth  century.  He  himself 
cuts  not  a  very  dignified  figure.  He  is  "an  alien  and  an  enemy 
in  the  most  Catholic  country  of  Europe."  A  play  monarch 
in  a  toy  monarchy,  playing  at  ruling  a  few  score  soldiers 
and  servants — a  man  of  supposed  intelligence,  shutting  his 
eyes  to  fact,  and  hugging  fast  an  illusion — deaf  to  common- 
sense,  but  with  ears  open  to  moss-grown  tradition — mediaeval 
in  the  midst  of  modernity — nursing  a  grievance,  and  longing  for 
the  impossible — such  is  the  Pontifex  Maximus,  scarcely  more 
impressive  than  that  noble  person  named  Fitz-James,  who  lays 
claim  to  the  throne  of  England  as  a  lineal  descendant  of  the 
Young  Pretender.  The  temporal  power  of  the  Pope  can  never 
be  won  back ;  should  Italy  cede  back  the  Papal  states,  the 
Pope  could  not  rule  them ;  they  were  ill  ruled  when  they 
were  his.  Y'et  the  moldering  institution  of  Papal  sovereignty 
clings  desperately  to  the  last  vestige  of  its  vanished  power, 
ever  hoping,  denying,  as  it  were,  the  sun  at  noon. 


Full   details    of   the   first   transcontinental   automobile   journey 

are   now   at   hand   to   supplement   the   meagre 

.  UT    s  dispatches    of   last   week,   and   they   make   in- 

IRRESIST1BLE  .  ,.  „,  ,   „        TT     „ 

Advance  teresting  reading.     The  trip  of  Dr.  H.  Nelson 

Jackson  and  his  chauffeur,  from  San  Fran- 
cisco to  New  YTork,  required  sixty-three  days.  No  attempt, 
however,  was  made  to  make  fast  time ;  there  were  nineteen 
days  when  no  run  was  made.  Showing  what  a  field  the  auto 
has  yet  to  occupy,  Dr.  Jackson  says  that  3,000  miles  of  the 
journey  were  through  a  country  where  a  motor-car  had  never 
before  been  seen.  Cowboys  rode  seventy  or  eighty  miles  to 
take  a  look  at  the  cayuseless  carriage.  From  beginning  to  end 
there  were  no  serious  breakdowns,  such  as  to  compel  the 
motorists  to  wait  for  repairs  to  come  from  the  manufactory. 
This  is  significant  of  the  degree  of  perfection  to  which  the 
auto  has  been  brought.  Mud,  sand,  bridgeless  rivers,  and  high 
mountains  were  successfully  encountered.  This  auto  was  even 
a  good  swimmer — according  to  Dr.  Jackson.  Indeed,  his  auto 
is  either  an  amazing  machine,  or  he  is  a  shameful  liar.  For 
this  is  what  he  is  quoted  as  saying: 

In  the  swamp  lands  of  Nebraska,  sometimes  our  machine 
sank  into  the  mud  until  the  motor  was  entirely  submerged. 
In  these  emergencies  we  used  a  block  and  tackle,  making  the 
block  fast  at  a  point  some  distance  ahead.  We  would  then 
attach  the  rope  to  the  car,  start  the  engine,  and  make  the 
machine  literally  pull  itself  out  of  the  mire.  Another  common 
obstruction  we  encountered  was  the  rivers  and  small  streams. 
U  e  generally  rode  into  them  full  force,  and,  where  the  water 
was  deep,  we  would  float,  and  the  revolution  of  the  wheels 
would  act  as  propellers.  We  lacked  steering-gear,  however, 
and  in  several  instances  Crocker  was  obliged  to  swim  ashore 
with  a  rope,  which  was  attached  to  the  machine.  He  would 
fasten  the  other  end  on  shore,  and  I  would  start  the  engine, 
and  wind  the  machine  in. 

Does  Dr.  Jackson's  auto  talk?  Or  do  any  tricks?  Or 
toot  its  own  horn  to  wake  the  chauffeur  in  the  morning? 
Those  would  seem  not  too  hard  feats  for  an  auto  that  can 
swim.  But,  seriously,  this  achievement  is  of  far  greater  im- 
portance than  the  news  that  the  mile  record  has  been  lowered 
to  55 J  5  seconds,  striking  though  that  fact  is.  The  auto  is  fast 
becoming  practical.  It  is  getting  cheaper,  too.  A  Chicago 
paper  says  that  a  thousand  auto  licenses  have  been  issued  in 
that  city.  Four  and  five-hundred-mile  trips  are  lightly  un- 
dertaken. An  auto  has  climbed  the  mountainous  roads,  and  in- 
vaded the  Yosemite.  A  New  York  paper  regularly  runs  a 
half-page  advertisement  of  auto-trucks.  We  hear  less  now  of 
"  speed  madness  " — a  sure  sign  that  the  motor-car  is  passing 


August  io,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


IN   THE 

Labor  Unions. 


from  the  position  of  being  a  rich  man's  toy  to  that  of  a  busy 
man's  servant.     In  short,  the  day  of  the  auto  is  just  dawning. 

That  a  man  ought  not  to  be  punished  for  taking  money  from 
blackmailers  was  the  substance  of  the  de- 
fense in  a  remarkable  Brooklyn  case  just  de- 
cided. Lawrence  Murphy,  treasurer  of  the 
Brooklyn  stone-cutters'  union,  was  charged 
with  having  embezzled  the  union's  funds,  amounting  to 
$12,000.  The  amazing  contention  of  his  counsel  was  that, 
inasmuch  as  this  money  had  been  unlawfully  extorted  from 
employers  by  a  "  band  of  conspirators,"  posing  as  union  repre- 
sentatives, therefore  it  did  not  lawfully  belong  to  the  union, 
and  could  not  be  embezzled.  This  contention  the  judge 
promptly  overruled,  but  the  fact  that  the  funds  stolen  had 
actually  been  got  by  •  walking  delegates  for  the  settlement 
of  a  strike  was  established.  Colonel  Andrew  D.  Baird.  presi- 
dent of  the  Stone-Cutters'  Association,  and  late  candidate  for 
mayor  of  Brooklyn,  testified  that  on  March  13.  1902,  his  mer 
had  stopped  work,  a  strike  having  been  ordered.  On  the 
following  day  a  committee  called  upon  him.  Continuing,  he 
said : 

Call  [a  walking  delegate]  said  that  he  and  his  friends  were 
a  committee  from  the  stone-cutters,  and  that  they  wanted 
$50,000.  We  asked  what  they  wanted  $50,000  for.  They  said 
it  would  have_  to  be  paid  before  our  men  could  go  back  to 
work.  We  ottered  $5,000,  and  they  went  off  and  conferred. 
Then  they  came  back  and  demanded  $21,000.  We  raised  our 
offer  to  $7,500.  They  conferred  some  more,  and  then  came 
back  and  said  they  must  have  $13,000.  Then  we  came  up  to 
$10,000,  and  they  conferred  again,  and  said  that  would  do. 
Q. — After  the  check  was  paid  did  the  men  return  to  work? 
A. — Yes,  the  very  next  morning  they   were  back  again. 

This  is  not  a  solitary  instance.  It  is  estimated  that  $200,000 
has  been  collected  in  this  way,  by  piratical  committees,  from 
large  employers.  Much  as  the  contractors 'have  suffered,  how- 
ever, it  is  doubtful  if  they  have  fared  worse  than  the  rank 
and  file  of  union  laborers  who  delegated  power  to  these 
rascals.  So.  at  least,  thinks  W.  H.  Rand,  the  New  York 
assistant  district  attorney,  in  charge  of  indictments  against 
these  offenders.  "  The  men,"  he  says.  "  who.  in  their 
ignorance  and  stupidity,  intrusted  their  business  to  the  walk- 
ing delegates,  are  the  chief  sufferers."  At  the  same  time, 
it  is  clear  that  the  labor  unions  will  best  commend  themselves 
to  an  aroused  public  opinion  by  seeing  to  it  that  power  Is 
speedily   taken   from  the  hands  of  those  who   have  abused   it. 

In  this  case,  Murphy  was  convicted  of  embezzlement,  and 
sentenced   to   five   years*    imprisonment. 

The  primary  election  for  this  city  will  occur  on  Tuesday, 
August  nth.  at  which  time  delegates  will  be 
elected  to  the  conventions  of  the  three 
parties,  which  conventions,  in  turn,  will 
nominate  candidates  for  mayor  and  all  other 
city  officers  for  terms  of  two  years. 

On  the  Republican  side,  the  United  Republican  League  is 
said  to  be  well  organized.  One  political  prophet  estimates 
that  it  will  elect  two  hundred  and  twenty  out  of  the 
three  hundred  and  nineteen  possible  delegates.  The  three 
districts  acknowledged  doubtful  are  the  twentieth,  where 
Martin  Kelly  is  striving  for  supremacy ;  the  fortieth,  where 
Jesse  Marks  has  refused  to  "come  in";  and  the  forty-first, 
where  the  Davis-Dibble  combination  is  said  to  be  strong.  It 
is  the  league's  policy  not  to  indorse  candidates  before  the 
primaries,  but  many  names  are  being  mentioned.  A  few  of 
them  are  Henry  J.  Crocker,  W.  G.  Stafford.  State  Senator  E. 
D.  Wolfe,  David  Rich,  Arthur  Fisk,  Horace  Davis,  Dr.  Mc- 
Nutt,  Treasurer  McDougald,  Senator  A.  P.  Williams,  Charles 
A.  Murdock,  Sheriff  Lackman,  and  Supervisor  Boxton,  for 
mayor;  Harry  Baehr  (present  incumbent)  and  George  R. 
Wells,  for  auditor;  John  E.  McDougald  (present  incumbent), 
for  treasurer;  Attorney  Barry  and  ex-Judge  George  H.  Baehrs, 
for  city  and  county  attorney ;  Attorney  Frank  McGowan  and 
ex-Governor  Saloman,  for  district  attorney ;  John  Farnham 
(present  incumbent)  and  Julius  S.  Godeau.  for  public  admin- 
istrator ;  Samuel  R.  Beckett  and  E.  C.  Kalben,  for  recorder ; 
Deputy  County  Clerks  McElroy,  Kennedy,  and  Morris,  and  R. 
W.  Dennis,  Major  Hugh  T.  Sime,  and  State  Senator  Thomas 
Maher,  for  county  clerk ;  Dr.  Glover,  for  coroner ;  Charles 
Boxton,  for  assessor. 

On  the  Democratic  side,  there  are  two  prominent  factions. 
One  is  the  Democratic  County  Central  Committee,  run  by 
Gavin  McNab,  some  of  whose  delegates  will  be  pledged  to 
Lane  for  mayor,  while  all  of  them  will  be  favorable  to  him. 
Washington  Dodge  for  assessor,  L.  F.  Byington  for  district 
attorney,  Edward  Godchaux  for  recorder,  and  Coroner  Leland 
for  renomination,  or  something  better,  are  also  on  the  pro- 
gramme. Municipal  ownership  of  public  utilities  is  favored. 
It  is  said  to  be  conceded  that  this  faction  will  elect  a  majority 
of  the  delegates.  The  other  faction,  known  as  the  Demo- 
cratic League,  or  the  "  Horses  and  Carts,"  has  not  yet  named 
its  candidates. 

Of  the  progress  of  the  fight  between  the  Casey  and  Schmitz 
factions  of  the  L'nion  Labor  party  little  seems  to  be  known. 
The  decision  of  Judge  Murasky  gives  the  Casey  faction  place 
on  the  ballot,  which  gives  him  some  advantage,  but  the  mayor  is 
•-aid  to  he  prosecuting  his  fight  with  vigor. 


Gossip  on 
the  Eve  of 
the  Primaries. 


BtJOKHINDERS, 

Printers,  and 
the   President. 


William  A.  Miller,  assistant  foreman  in  the  government  print- 
ing-office, has  returned  to  work.  The  other 
bookbinders,  though  the  constitution  of 
their  union  provides  that  they  shall  not  work 
with  a  non-union  man,  remain  in  govern- 
ment employ  under  protest.  It  is  said  that  the  President  is 
receiving  thousands  of  telegrams  from  all  over  the  country" 
congratulating  him  upon,  and  commending,  his  stand  that  no 
question  of  unionism  or  non-unionism  shall  be  permitted  .0 
figure  in  the  offices  of  the  government. 

M»  anwhile,  a  thorough  investigation  of  the  conduct  of  Miller 
is  being  made  to  ascertain  if  there  is  any  basis  for  the  ob- 
jections lo  him.      Charges  against  him  have  been   filed  by   the 


union.  There  are  some  grounds  for  the  belief  that  in  the  end 
Miller  will  be  discharged.  Walter  Wellman,  for  instance, 
says: 

The  probabilities  are  that  Miller  will  have  to  go  after  all. 
President  Roosevelt  will  get  the  advantage  that  lies  in  the 
declaration  of  his  principle  that  a  workingman's  tenure  in  the 
government  printing-office  does  not  depend  upon  his  mem- 
bership in  a  union,  while  the  union  will  have  the  satisfaction 
of  taking  Miller's  scalp.  The  decision  of  Printer  Palmer  is 
not  likely  to  be  made  in  a  hurry.  In  fact,  he  will  be  very 
deliberate.  The  longer  time  it  takes  him  to  come  to  a  de- 
cision the  more  likelihood  that  the  public  will  have  forgotten 
the  first  phase  of  Miller's  case  when  announcement  of  the 
disposition  of  the  second  part  is  made. 

Miller  himself  is  stirring  things  up  somewhat  by  his  state- 
ments regarding  the  part  the  unions  play  in  the  government 
offices.     Among  other  things,  he  is  reported  to  have  said: 

The  binders  operate  under  rules  that  no  other  labor  union 
would  tolerate.  They  are  antiquated,  and  interfere  with  the 
government  work.  They  keep  down  the  output,  and  tie  the 
hands  of  the  foreman,  who  is  forced  to  be  a  member  of  the 
union.  The  arbitration  committee  of  the  union  restricts  the 
amount  of  work  done  in  a  day.  They  are  the  real  heads  of  the 
bindery,  going  to  men  and  countermanding  orders  given  by  the 
foreman.  Thus,  when  I  arranged  for  the  post-office  work, 
Mr.  Barrettt  told  me  they  objected  to  my  cheapening  the 
work  ;  they  also  objected  to  improvements. 

The  affair  has  stirred  up  the  whole  question  of  the  conduct 
of  the  government  printing-office.  The  New  York  Times 
says  : 

The  government  printing-office  is  the  largest  establishment 
of  its  kind  in  the  world,  yet  it  is  without  a  single  labor-saving 
machine  in  its  immense  composing-room.  Numerous  attempts 
have  been  made  in  the  past  to  introduce  type-setting  machines 
in  the  office,  but  these  efforts  have  been  defeated  through  the 
efforts  of  the  typographical  union. 

There  have  been  rumors  that  the  President  has  directed 
Secretary  Cortelyou  to  inquire  into  the  relative  economy  of 
machine  and  hand  composition,  but  this  is  denied  by  Mr.  Well- 
man,  who  says  the  report  is  "  wholly  groundless,"  and  that 
"  he  never  thought  of  such  a  thing." 


Some 

Advertising 

Figures. 


The  Sunday  papers  of  New  York  and  other  large  cities 
continue  to  be  of  huge  size.  It  may  be  in- 
teresting to  note  that  the  New  York  World, 
on  a  recent  Sunday,  contained  8,960  inches 
of  printed  matter  (counting  pictures  as 
printed  matter),  of  which  2,085  inches  were  advertisements. 
The  Herald,  on  the  same  Sunday,  contained  7,872  inches  of 
printed  matter,  of  which  2,069  inches  were  advertisements — 
a  somewhat  smaller  proportion  of  reading-matter — and  pic- 
tures. The  more  conservative  sheets  are  commonly  smaller 
than  these  two.  The  Sun,  for  instance,  contained  a  total  of 
4,221  inches,  with  1,346  in  advertisements.  There  are  few,  or 
no,  pictures.  The  leading  conservative  morning  paper  of  San 
Francisco,  on  a  recent  Sunday,  contained  a  total  of  6,468 
inches,  of  which  1,874  were  advertisements.  However,  on 
the  regular  week-day  issue,  the  amount  of  advertisement  space 
of  this  paper  falls  considerably  below  that  of  papers  in  towns 
of  about  the  same  size  as  San  Francisco.  For  instance,  on  a 
recent  Thursday,  the  Enquirer,  of  Cincinnati  (population, 
1900,  325,902,),  contained  649  inches  of  advertising,  and  the 
Dispatch,  of  Pittsburg  (population,  1900,  321,000),  1,018,  to 
the  San  Francisco  paper's  577. 


Something 
Doing 
in  Ohio. 


That  Myron  T.  Herrick,  the  Republican  nominee,  will  be 
elected  governor  of  Ohio,  is  a  foregone  con- 
clusion. Therefore,  Tom  L.  Johnson  doesn't 
want  to  run  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  But 
he  has  a  scheme,  'tis  said.  It  is  to  nominate 
some  willing  victim  for  governor,  make  a  great  show  of  vigor 
in  electing  him,  and  then,  under  cover  of  the  noise,  trade  him 
off  for  votes  for  State  legislators.  In  this  way,  Johnson 
hopes  to  get  a  majority  in  the  legislature,  and  thus  to  be 
elected  senator.  It  is  certainly  a  pretty  story ;  it  is  doubtful 
if  a  true  one.  But  if  true,  Marcus  Alonzo  Hanna  will  doubt- 
less see  to  it  that  the  necessary  number  of  sticks  are  thrust 
between  the  spokes  of  Tom  Johnson's  red  automobile. 


When- 
Labor  Unions 
Fall  Out. 


There  is  trouble  between  the  Building  Trades  Council  and 
Andrew  Furuseth,  secretary  of  the  sailors' 
union  of  the  Pacific  Coast.  The  Building 
Trades  Council  had  had  trouble  with  the 
Union  Lumber  Company,  and,  after  unsuccess- 
ful attempts  to  compromise  the  difficulty,  had  ordered  a  boycott 
of  the  products  of  that  company  so  long  as  it  continued  to  em- 
ploy non-union  labor  to  the  exclusion  of  union  labor.  Mr. 
Furuseth  is  now  accused  of  endeavoring  to  "  frustrate  these 
conditions."  It  is  claimed  by  the  Building  Trades  Council 
that  when  the  sailors  walked  off  the  National  City,  refusing 
to  sail  with  the  men  who  had  been  employed  by  the  Union 
Lumber  Company  to  take  the  place  of  their  Iocked-out  union 
employees  at  Fort  Bragg,  a  union  crew  was  shanghaied  on 
board  the  vessel,  and  that  under  the  guise  of  an  agreement 
signed  by  Furuseth  and  others  in  behalf  of  the  sailors.  The 
eloquent  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Building  Trades  Council 
wind  up  by  notifying  Mr.  Furuseth  "  that  he  is  not  now,  never 
has  been,  and  never  will  be,  in  any  manner  whatever,  able  to 
destroy  the  influence  of  such  a  splendid  organization  instituted 
to  safeguard  the  rights  of  the  wage-workers." 


The  Year's 
Death  Record 
of  this  City. 


The  statistician  of  the  board  of  health  has  handed  in  his  re- 
port of  births  and  deaths  for  the  year  1902-3. 
During  that  period  there  were  7.615  deaths, 
734  being  classed  as  violent.  This  is  an  in- 
crease of  620  deaths  over  the  previous  year. 
The  City  and  County  Hospital  is  charged  with  692  deaths,  an 
average  of  nearly  two  a  day.  Under  the  classification,  accord- 
ing to  cause,  tuberculosis,  as  usual,  heads  the  list,  being  re- 
sponsible for  1,146,  or  about  one-seventh  of  the  whole  number, 
996  being  pulmonary.  Pneumonia  caused  625  deaths,  and 
diphtheria  176.  Bright's  disease  was  the  cause  of  394  deaths, 
and  225  are  charged  to  old  age.  Among  the  violent  deaths. 
500  are  rharged  to  accident  or  negligence.  36  to  homicide,  and 


198  to  suicide.  Asphyxiation  by  illuminating  gas  was  re- 
sponsible for  106  deaths — an  unnecessarily  large  number — 
while  there  were  45  drownings,  75  from  shock  following  opera- 
tions, and  92  from  falls.  The  electric  cars  killed  19  people  ; 
vehicles.  14 :  steam  railroads,  15 ;  and  cable  cars  only  6. 
In  all  but  eight  of  the  cases  of  homicide,  firearms  were  used. 
Among  the  suicides,  carbolic  acid  is  still  the  favorite  method. 
61  having  chosen  that  poison;  45  chose  firearms,  and  32  il- 
luminating gas. 

A  health-resort  seldom  has  a  low  death-rate.  Persons  who 
have  contracted  disease  in  unhealthy  regions,  aged  people, 
as  well,  seek  healthy  climates,  and  there  many  of  them  are 
bound  to  die.  Thus,  San  Francisco's  death-rate  is  merelv 
average — 18.57.  Thirty-six  per  cent,  of  those  who  die  in  San 
Francisco  hospitals  and  sanitariums  are  non-residents.  It  is 
estimated  that  the  natural  death-rate  of  citizens  of  this  city 
is  about   14. 


Michael  Casey 
Jars 


Only  a  few  months  ago,  when  Mr.  Michael  Casey  was  presi- 
dent of  the  teamsters*  union,  very  few  pei- 
sons  had  ever  heard  of  him.  Now.  as  Presi- 
lTbor  Unions.  dent  Micnael  Casey,  of  the  board  of  public 
works,  he  is  very  much  in  the  public  eye. 
Mr.  Casey  aspires  to  be  the  leader  of  the  Union  Labor  party 
in  this  city,  and  he  finds  Mayor  Schmitz  very  much  in  the  way 
of  the  realization  of  his  hopes.  With  a  view  to  reducing  the 
mayor's  power,  Casey  determined  to  exercise  the  power  of  the 
board  of  public  works  to  remove  supporters  of  Schmitz  from 
subordinate  positions.  Without  consulting  the  board,  he  sent 
letters  to  four  employees  requesting  their  resignations. 
Commissioner  Manson  supported  Casey's  action,  and  Commis- 
sioner Schmitz  was  powerless.  An  unexpected  difficulty,  how- 
ever, has  arisen  to  confuse  Casey's  plans.  The  dismissed  em- 
ployees are  members  of  the  steam  engineers*  union,  and  the 
union  has  taken  up  the  cudgels  in  their  behalf.  The  first  step 
was  to  secure  an  order  from  Judge  Murasky  restraining  the 
board  from  removing  these  employees.  The  order  is  temporary, 
but  Casey  was  given  one  week  to  show  why  it  should  not  be 
made  permanent.  In  the  meantime,  the  employees,  whose  ser- 
vices were  to  have  been  dispensed  with  on  July  31st,  have  en- 
tered upon  a  new  month  of  service.  At  a  meeting,  on  Tues- 
day, of  the  International  Union  of  Steam  Engineers,  Local 
No.  64,  a  resolution  was  unanimously  passed,  denouncing 
Casey  as  "  a  traitor,"  "  an  imposter,"  "  a  so-called  labor- 
leader,"  and  "  czar."  Mayor  Schmitz  was  commended.  It 
was  announced  that  "  every  cent  of  the  six  thousand  dollars 
in  the  treasury'  would  be  spent  to  "  down  "  Casey. 

A  few  years  ago,  the  Merchants'  Association,  in  its  efforts  to 
improve    the    appearance    of   this    city,    inau- 
R         ,  gurated     a     crusade     against     the     unsightly 

Poles  and  Wires  and  dangerous  network  of  telegraph,  tele- 
■  phone,  and  fire-alarm  wires  that  disfigured 
the  business  section  of  the  city.  A  loud  protest  was  imme- 
diately raised  by  the  corporations  that  maintained  the 
nuisance,  but  the  Merchants'  Association  is  a  powerful  or- 
ganization, and  the  reform  was  effected  in  a  comparatively 
brief  time.  Having  cleared  the  business  section,  the  Mer- 
chants' Association  rested  from  its  efforts.  The  Outdoor  Art 
League,  an  organization  of  ladies,  who  appreciated  the  value 
of  municipal  art,  has  now  taken  up  the  fight  against  poles  and 
wires  in  the  residence  parts  of  the  city.  There  is  just  as  much, 
if  not  more,  reason  why  these  disfigurements  should  be  re- 
moved. It  is  even  more  desirable  that  the  homes  of  the 
people  should  be  surrounded  by  beauty  than  their  business 
houses.  The  offense  of  the  wires  is  glaringly  visible  in  the 
photographs  of  any  of  the  handsome  residences  of  the  city, 
streaked  as  they  are  into  a  semblance  of  a  geometrical  draw- 
ing. The  wires  and  poles  disfigure  private  property  and 
damage  it  by  obstructing  the  view.  They  endanger  life  and 
property  in  case  of  fire.  The  considerations  in  favor  of  re- 
moving the  wires  are  universally  admitted,  yet  these  public- 
spirited  women  have  hard  work  ahead  of  them  before  they  shall 
succeed.  The  interested  corporations  will  fight  as  hard  as  they 
did  before.  The  difficulties  to  be  overcome  in  the  residence 
section  are  greater  than  they  were  in  the  business  section. 
Even  more  difficult  to  overcome  will  be  the  apathy  of  the 
general  public,  which  should  not  exist  at  all.  Nevertheless, 
success  will  crown  the  efforts  of  the  league  if  the  members 
are  patient  and  persistent. 


When  a  band  of  five  outlaws  suddenly  opened  fire  from  ambush 
upon   the  pursuing  militiamen   and  officers  at 
0"^.HEHASK  Manzanita  Hill,  near  Placerville,  on  Saturday 

Convicts.  night,    and    shot    dead    two    young    men    and 

wounded  another,  the  chase  of  the  convicts 
became  tragic,  rather  than  farcical,  as  it  had  been  all  the  week. 
On  the  same  day.  Springer,  a  member  of  the  posse,  was  killed 
by  a  comrade,  who  thought  him  a  felon.  On  the  Wednesday 
following,  two  criminals  recently  released  from  Folsom  in- 
formed the  sheriff  at  Sacramento  that  two  of  the  convict*. 
Howard  and  Roberts,  were  in  the  city  after  opium.  Howard 
got  away  without  being  caught,  but  Roberts  *as  trailed  from 
Sacramento  to  a  field  near  Davisville,  where-  he  was  found 
in  a  state  of  semi-stupor,  and  captured  without  trouble.  On 
Thursday,  the  "  bloodthirsty  "  neyrn,  Seavis,  boarded  a  freight 
train  at  Newcastle,  and  rode  into  Auburn,  where  the  conductor 
notified  Sheriff  Keena.  and  the  man  was  captured.  When 
found  between  the  cars  he  ran  for  it.  firing  four  wild  shots 
from  his  revolver.  Kenna  let  fly  at  him  with  a  charge  of 
buckshot,  which  took  him  in  the  legs,  whereupon  the 
toppled  over,  yelling  "Don't  shoot."  As  the  case  now  Mauds, 
the  felons  to  date  have  caused  the  death  of  four  men.  and 
badly  wounded  two  more.  One  convict  has  been  killed,  two 
captured.  Ten  are  still  at  large.  Doubtless  convict- 
chasing  is  difficult  business,  but  if  it  takes  eleven  days  to  catch 
two  men.  one  of  whom  voluntarily  comes  to  the  capital  of  the 
State,  and  the  other  to  a  large  town,  how  long  will' it  take  the 
hunters  to  get  the  other  ten  who  are  hiding  in  the  : 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  io,  1903. 


LEAVES    ON    THE    RIVER    PASIG. 


A  Tragic  Episode  of  the  American  Occupation. 


The  Boulong  casco  lay  off  the  Quiapo  Market,  which 
is  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Pasig,  just  below  the  sus- 
pension-bridge. The  Chinese  junk — tradition  says — 
was  modeled  after  a  whimsical  emperor's  shoe,  conse- 
quently the  cascos  of  the  Philippines,  being  really  junks 
without  sails,  are  not  very  dainty  bits  of  naval  archi- 
tecture. As  a  rule,  they  are  not  accorded  the  dignity 
of  a  name ;  but  this  one  was  known  as  the  "  Boulong 
casco,"  because  it  was  owned  and  manned  by  members 
of  one  family.  Santiago  Boulong  was  steersman, 
his  three  sons  were  polemen,  and  Simplicia,  the  daugh- 
ter, was  el  capitan — her  father  said,  affectionately. 
Their  permanent  home  was  a  little  ui/>a-thatch  shelter 
at  the  stern  of  the  vessel. 

The  men  had  gone  ashore  shortly  after  the  mooring 
— the  father  on  business,  the  sons  on  pleasure  bent — 
and  Simplicia,  much  to  her  disgust,  was  left  on  board. 
She  was  a  Tagalo  girl,  of  the  light-complexioned  type, 
pretty  even  when  judged  by  our  standards,  of  which 
fact  she  was  aware. 

'•  The  river,  the  river,"  she  said  to  herself,  petulantly, 
"  always  the  river.  I  was  born  on  the  river,  and  I  have 
been  going  up  and  down  the  river  all  my  life.  When 
we  come  to  Manila  I  may  go  ashore  for  a  few  hours 
only,  and  then  the  river  again — and  the  lake.  And 
Ramon  is  a  fool !" 

It  was  a  clear,  warm  night,  and  the  rippling  water 
of  the  Pasig  glistened  in  the  moonlight,  so  that  she 
could  see  the  leaves  rush  by  in  clusters.  Ramon  had 
said:  "Think  of  me  when  you  see  the  leaves  on  the 
river — the  bright  green  leaves  from  the  dear  lake  coun- 
try. It  seems  sad  to  think  that  they  must  float  down 
past  the  city  where  the  water  is  fouled,  and  then  out — 
far  out — to  be  lost  on  the  big  salt  sea."  But  Ramon 
was  always  saying  queer  things  that  she  could  not  un- 
derstand. 

The  murmur  of  drowsy  voices  came  from  the 
crowded  huts  of  the  market-place.  Oh,  how  long  till 
morning!  She  wanted  to  buy  some  bits  of  finery  there, 
and  then  to  stroll  through  the  city,  especially  along 
the  Escolta  where  there  were  stores  that  exhibited 
splendors  from  all  countries.  She  hoped  that  one  of 
her  brothers  would  hire  a  carametta  the  next  evening, 
and  take  her  to  the  Lunetta,  where  the  wealthy  of 
Manila  congregated  to  enjoy  the  cool  night  air  and  the 
concert.  A  band  of  Americanos  played  there  every 
evening. 

They  were  wonderful  men,  these  American  soldiers, 
much  taller  than  Filipinos  or  Spaniards,  and  many 
of  them  had  blue  eyes  and  hair  of  the  color  of  gold. 
The  pride  of  kings  was  in  their  stride,  and  they  looked 
as  though  they  feared  nothing. 

Farther  on  down  the  river  at  the  Alhambra  Cafe, 
where  the  Spanish  officers  once  gathered  to  hear  the 
music  of  Spain,  the  orchestra  played  a  new  air  that 
delighted  her.  There  was  a  burst  of  cheering.  The 
music  was  "  Dixie,"  and  the  demonstration  was  made 
by  some  Tennessee  volunteers,  who  always  gave  some- 
thing reminiscent  of  the  old  "  rebel  yell  "  whenever  they 
heard  it.  From  the  Cuartel  Infanteria,  across  the 
river,  the  American  bugles  began  to  shrill  a  "  tatoo." 
Their  music  was  wonderful — everything  pertaining  to 
these  big,  bold  men  was  wonderful,  she  thought. 

Something  bumped  against  a  side  of  the  casco,  and 
Simplicia  hurried  over  to  order  away  a  supposed 
ladrone.  She  leaned  over  the  side  with  such  abruptness 
that  the  wooden  comb  slipped  from  her  heavy  mass 
of  black  hair.  It  fell  like  a  dusky  curtain,  and  brushed 
the  upturned  face  of  a  man.  He  was  not  a  little  brown 
Filipino,  but  a  tall  Americano,  fair  and  yellow-haired. 
He  laughed  a  soft,  pleasant  laugh.  She  drew  herself 
backward  with  a  frightened  cry,  but  his  eyes  held  hers. 
The  man  was  standing  in  a  small  canoe,  steadying  his 
craft  by  holding  on  to  the  casco. 

"  Buenos  noches,"  he  said,  smiling.  He. spoke  Span- 
ish, but  not  like  a  Spaniard  or  a  Tagalo.  Simplicia 
smiled,  faintly.  She  knew  that  she  should  go  into  the 
nipa  cabin,  but  this  handsome  man  looked  so  kind  and 
— Ramon    was   a    fool.     And   her   father  and  brothers 

were  selfish,  and 

S.>  Simplicia  returned  the  salutation,  and  stood  lean- 
ing over  the  bulwark  tasting  the  delirious  delight  of 
her  first  flirtation.  The  man — he  was  a  college  boy 
until  the  United  States  Government  gave  him  a  suit 
' * '  khaki  and  the  right  to  bear  the  former  designation 
—thrilled  with  joy  at  the  delicious  novelty  of  the  situa- 
tion.  Ik-  was  in  a  city  that  was  at  once  the  tropics 
and  the  Orient,  and  over  which  bung  the  glamour  of 
departed  mediaeval  days.  For  several  hundred  Years 
guitars  had  tinkled  on  that  river,  and  voices  had 
been  lilted  to  latticed  windows.  The  air  was  laden 
with  ghosts  of  everything  but  common  sense  and 
scruples. 

A  bugle  across  the  river  caused  the  man  to  recollect 
that  he  was  under  certain  restraint.  "  1  must  go,"  he 
said,  but  he  did  not  release  his  hold  on  the  casco. 

Simplicia's  eyes  were  big  and  bright  in  the  moon- 
light. He  stretched  out  one  arm  and  drew  her  face 
toward  him.  She  tore  herself  away,  and  stood  breath- 
ing hu  riedly  through  parted  lips. 

"  M.inana  por  la  noche,"  said  the  soldier.     He  plied 
the  pfiddle  vigorously,  and  the  canoe  glided  away.     But 
1'     '    iked    back,    lony'      ly,    for    Simplicia's    lips    were 
ift  and  warm. 


She  stood  gazing  after  him  till  the  canoe  vanished 
into  the  shadow  of  the  Cuartel  Infanteria.  The  unseen 
bugle  softly  wailed  "  taps,"  the  call  that  bids  the  soldier 
rest.    It  is  also  sounded  over  graves. 

The  sun  beat  down  fiercely  on  the  Pasig.  Canoes 
toiled  up  and  skimmed  down  the  river.  Lumbering 
cascos,  their  crews  naked  to  their  waists,  were  poled 
painfully  along.  The  Quiapo  Market  was  astir  with  a 
babble  o'f  tongues,  the  barking  of  dogs,  and  the  incessant 
challenge  of  hundreds  of  game-cocks.  The  little  brown 
people  bought,  sold,  and  bargained  with  the  full  strength 
of  their  lungs. 

Simplicia,  as  purser  of  the  casco,  was  in  the  market 
purchasing  provisions,  but  she  spent  most  of  her  time 
near  the  stall  of  a  Chinese  vender  of  fabrics.  After 
much  haggling,  she  became  the  possessor  of  a  dainty 
bodice  of  silk  and  pina  cloth. 

Most  of  the  girls  who  visited  the  market-place 
seemed  to  be  drawn  to  that  spot,  for  there  Simplicia 
met  a  friend  who  had  left  the  lake  country  a  little 
later  than  herself. 

"  Ramon  will  come  down  the  river  to-night,"  said 
the  friend,  breathlessly,  delighted  to  carry  a  message 
of  that  sort.  "  He  has  written  something  that  he  thinks 
they  may  print  in  La  Libcrtad.  Isn't  that  wonderful? 
You  must  feel  so  proud  of  him.  For  a  man  to  be  able 
to  write  at  all  is  wonderful — but  for  the  papers !" 

Apparently  there  were  no  words  in  the  Tagalo  dia- 
lect strong  enough  to  express  the  girl's  admiration. 
Simplicia  tossed  her  head,  loosening  the  hair,  a  frequent 
happening.  She  caught  the  heavy  tresses  quickly,  and 
almost  forgot  for  an  instant  everything  but  the  last 
time  they  had  fallen. 

"Are  you  not  pleased?"  asked  the  other  girl,  in  as- 
tonishment. She  was  dark,  and  not  pretty  from  any 
point  of  view. 

"  Oh,  yes,"  drawled  Simplicia,  "  but  Ramon  is  very 
tedious  sometimes,  and  the  lake  country  is  very 
dreary.  We  will  go  into  the  city  this  afternoon  and 
see  the  Americanos." 

They  saw  many  Americanos — State  volunteers  clad 
in  blue  shirts  and  khaki  trousers.  The  city  was  full 
of  them.  They  occupied  all  the  barracks  formerly  the 
quarters  of  the  Spanish  soldiers,  and  they  crowded 
the  drinking-resorts.  Along  the  Calle  Real  they  came 
upon  companies  drilling,  and  on  the  Lunetta  they 
saw  an  entire  regiment  on  dress-parade. 

Simplicia,  though  she  scanned  every  soldier's  face, 
did  not  see  the  stranger  of  the  previous  night,  nor  did 
she  see  a  face  that  seemed  nearly  as  handsome. 

"  They  say,"  mused  the  other  girl,  "  that  the  men 
of  Aguinaldo  will  drive  these  Americanos  out  of  Manila 
if  they  do  not  go  of  their  own  accord  soon." 

Simplicia  laughed  scornfully,  and  pointed  toward 
the  troops.  The  men  were  in  battalion  front,  standing 
at  "  present,"  and  the  sun  glistened  on  a  thousand 
bayonets. 

"  But  there  are  only  a  few  Americanos  and  there 
are  many  thousands  of  Filipinos,"  said  the  girl. 

"  The  Americanos  will  take  what  they  w:ant  and 
nothing  can  stop  them,"  announced  Simplicia,  decisively. 
"  Let  us  go  to  our  cascos." 

The  twilight  gathered  on  the  river.  In  the  north 
the  sky  was  lit  by  continuous  flashes  of  lightning. 
Myriads  of  stars  were  overhead,  and  the  Southern 
Cross  was  viceroy  of  the  heavens,  for  the  moon  had 
not  yet  come  into  her  kingdom.  The  water  noisily 
gurgled  by,  and  Simplicia  waited.  Which  would  come 
first,  the  tedious  Filipino  school-master  lover  or  the 
stranger?     Would  the  Americano  come  again? 

She  watched  every  canoe  that  passed,  but  theywere 
all  going  up  or  down.  The  moon  appeared  and  clearly 
revealed  the  river's  surface.  Simplicia  fixed  her  eyes 
on  the  shadow  of  the  Cuartel  Infanteria.  Something 
emerged  from  it  and  glided  rapidly  through  the  stream. 
It  was  a  canoe,  and  it  was  being  paddled  with  strong, 
sure  strokes  toward  her.  Her  heart  beat  tumultuouslv 
and  she  almost  cried  out  in  her  delight. 

He  came,  and,  fastening  his  canoe,  swung  himself 
aboard  the  casco.  Her  arms  were  about  his  neck  in  an 
instant,  and  her  beautiful  tresses  escaped  the  comb 
again; 

They  sat  in  the  shade  of  the  nipa  thatch  talking  in 
low  tones.  His  arm  was  round  her  waist.  Her  head 
rested  on  his  shoulder.  He  puffed  with  deep  breaths 
of  enjoyment  a  cigarette  that  she  had  daintily  lit  for 
him.  The  intoxication  of  the  country  was  in  his  brain 
— the  devil  that  whispers,  "  There  is  nothing  but 
pleasure,  and  no  time  but  now." 

The  plunk-plunk  of  a  guitar  close  by  startled  them 
both.     Simplicia  trembled  violently. 

"  It  is  a  foolish  man  who  is  always  singing  to  me," 
she  explained. 

A  clear,  musical  voice  rose  in  a  song,  and  the 
soldier  checked  a  question  to  listen,  for  the  voice  and 
the  song  charmed  him  from  the  first  note.  The  song 
was  in  Spanish,  and,  though  lie  was  by  no  means  per- 
fect in  the  language,  he  caught  the  meaning  and  spirit 
of  it.     It  ran  something  to  this  effect: 

Bright  are  the  leaves  and  the  blossoms  that  grow  in  the 

beautiful  lake  country. 
They  fill  the  place  with  brilliance  of  things  celestial. 
Some  of  them   drop  or  are   thrown   to   the   river. 
Helpless    they    drift    on    its    swift    running    surface. 
Down  past  the  city  through  slimincss  foul, 
Out   they   are   whirled   to   waters   eternal 
Lost  and  forgotten  forever  and  ever. 
Blossom  I  cherish :  I'll  hold  thee. 
Never  Shalt  thou  leave  the  lake  country. 
But  my  heart,  it  is  sad  for  the  leaves  on  the  Pasig. 


The  last  words  died  on  the  air  like  the  sob  or  the 
faint  cry  of  a  passing  spirit.  The  soldier  sat  mute,  like 
one  bewitched  by  fairy  music.  Simplicia's  lips,  pressed 
against  his  cheek,  brought  him  back  to  her. 

"  I  do  not  care  for  him.  On  my  soul,  I  do  not !  " 
she  whispered.  She  was  pretty,  and  her  arm  tightened 
coaxingly  about  his  neck.  His  better  nature  was  con- 
quered, and  the  devil  in  his  blood  reigned  supreme. 
The  situation  suddenly  seemed  highly  amusing,  and 
he  laughed  a  suppressed  laugh  of  recklessness.  To  be 
serenaded  by  a  native  poet  while  the  arm  of  the  trou- 
badour's lady-love  encircled  his  neck — verily  he  would 
have  a  great  tale  to  tell  some  day. 

There  was  a  faint  sound  of  a  footfall  on  the  deck  of 
the  casco.  The  soldier  disengaged  himself.  A  face 
peeped  in  through  an  opening  in  the  thatch,  and  the 
American  struck  it  a  sharp  blow  with  his  fist.  He 
would  have  rushed  after  the  intruder,  but  Simplicia 
held  him. 

"  It  is  only  a  foolish  man,"  she  said,  "  do  not  follow 
him.     It  would  make  trouble." 

"  I  would  not  bring  you  any  trouble,"  he  said.  "  What 
is  the  matter?    You  tremble." 

"  It  is  nothing,"  she  replied.    "  I  love  you." 

The  soldier's  conscience  smote  him.  He  swore  that 
he  loved  her,  and  tried  to  believe  that  it  was  true.  She 
seemed  almost  happy  again. 

"  To-morrow  the  casco  goes  up  to  the  lake  again, 
and  we  will  be  gone  three  days.    Oh,  that  is  so  long !  " 

"  Very  long,"  he  assented. 

"  But  you  will  wait  and  think  of  me  always." 

"  Yes,  I  will  watch  the  leaves  on  the  river " 

She  shuddered. 

"  No!  no!  Do  not  speak  of  them.  Madre  del  Dios! 
I  hate  the  river,  and  I  hate  the  leaves  it  drags  along. 
I  think  I  hate  everything  but  you." 

The  soldier  was  young,  and  this  was  his  first  experi- 
ence with  hysteria  and  woman,  which  combination  often 
disturbs  even  wiser  heads.  It  disturbed  him  exceed- 
ingly, but  he  soothed  her  finally  with  the  wildest  vows 
and  many  kisses.  He  kissed  a  tress  of  her  long  hair 
as  he  stepped  from  the  casco's  poling  platform  into  his 
canoe. 

For  the  second  time  she  watched  the  canoe  till  it 
glided  into  the  shadows.  Then  she  shivered  violently, 
chilled  to  the  bone. 

A  sergeant  of  a  certain  regiment  of  United  States 
volunteers  was  prowling  along  the  brink  of  the  Pasig, 
outside  the  Cuartel  Infanteria's  walls,  looking  for  a 
pet  monkey  that  had  disappeared.  Something  in  the 
long  grass  caught  his  eye,  and  he  stopped.  He  stepped 
back  quickly  and  hurried  around  the  corner  of  the 
wall,  returning  with  four  soldiers. 

He  parted  the  grass  with  his  arms,  and  they  saw  the 
dead  body  of  a  Filipino  girl.  Her  face  was  concealed 
by  a  disordered  mass  of  black  hair,  and,  pinned  to  her 
breast  by  a  rudely  fashioned  knife  that  was  buried  to 
the  hilt,  was  a  miniature  insurgent  flag. 

They  tenderly  bore  the  body  to  the  pathway,  and  the 
hair  fell  from  the  face.  One  of  the  soldiers  let  go  his 
hold  and  tottered  to  the  ground. 

"  Harrison's  a  softy,"  grunted  one  of  the  men.  "  Take 
hold,  sergeant.    He's  fainted,  I  guess." 

The  form  was  placed  in  an  unused  storeroom.  When 
the  news  went  round  the  men  came  to  view  it,  not  out 
of  curiosity,  but  to  show  respect  such  as  they  would 
pay  to  their  own  dead. 

"  This  is  the  way  I  make  it  out,"  said  the  sergeant, 
sagely.  "  The  girl  was  killed  by  Aguinaldo's  gang, 
and  it  must  have  been  because  she  spoke  a  good  word 
for  our  people." 

"  And  we'll  take  it  out  of  their  hides  when  the  time 
comes,"  said  one  of  the  soldiers,  snapping  his  jaws  to- 
gether, which  resolution  the  regiment  unanimously 
adopted.  Even  the  chaplain  refrained  from  chiding 
when  he  heard  of  it.    He  knew  his  flock. 

There  being  no  way  of  finding  out  anything  about 
the  girl,  a  fund  was  quickly  collected  and  arrangements 
made  for  the  funeral.  Several  hundred  soldiers  fol- 
lowed the  hearse  to  the  cemetery  at  El  Paco. 

The  regimental  chaplain  read  the  regulation  burial 
service,  while  the  men  stood  with  bared  heads.  They 
placed  at  the  head  of  the  freshly  made  mound  a  plain 
board  that  read: 


FOUND   IN   THE    PASIG. 

After  the  last  soldier  had  gone,  a  cowering  thing 
walked  unsteadily  up  to  the  grave,  and,  kneeling  be- 
side it,  laid  down  a  cluster  of  green  leaves. 

"  By  God !  I  did  love  her.  I  did,"  he  muttered,  con- 
tinuously. He  drew  a  pencil  from  his  pocket  and 
scratched  her  name  on  the  board":  "  Simplicia." 

And  his  youth  was  buried  there. 

\\*.  O.  McGeehan. 

San  Francisco,  August,  1903. 


A  recent  report  from  Cairo  indicates  that  all  the  ex- 
pected benefits  from  the  great  dam  at  Assuan  have 
been  realized.  All  the  water  stored  during  the  winter 
in  the  reservoir  for  summer  consumption  has  now  been 
completely  discharged,  and  the  irrigation  of  the  sum- 
mer crop  is  assured.  A  largely  increased  area  of  cot- 
ton has  been  irrigated,  and  Assuit  and  Minieh  have 
received  summer  water  for  the  first  time.  The  rota- 
tions of  crops  have  been  greatly  modified. 


August  io.  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


35 


MARGARET    FULLER'S    ROMANCE. 


Extracts  from  Her  Love-Letters  to  Joseph  Nathan. 

The  publication  of  the  "  Love  Letters  of  Margaret 
Fuller  "  reveals  a  hitherto  unknown  chapter  in  the  life 
of  the  brilliant  woman  who.  after  a  long  association 
with  the  New  York  Tribune  under  Horace  Greeley, 
went  abroad,  married  the  Marquis  Ossoli.  in  Rome, 
figured  in  the  short-lived  Italian  revolution  of  184S,  and 
met  with  a  tragic  death,  with  her  husband  and  infant 
child,  on  July  16,  1850,  when  the  vessel  on  which  they 
were  returning  to  her  native  land  was  wrecked  off  Fire 
Island,  near  New  York.  Whatever  may  be  said  of  the 
good  taste  of  publishing  Miss  Fuller's  ardent  epistles, 
which  were  never  meant  for  profane  eyes,  their  charm 
is  undeniable,  and  the  story  of  disappointed  love  which 
they  chronicle  is  far  more  interesting  and  absorbing 
than  any  of  the  love-letter  novels  which,  through  skill- 
ful advertising,  have  recently  run  through  many  edi- 
tions. 

Joseph  Nathan,  to  whom  the  letters  are  addressed, 
was  a  brilliant  German  Jew,  who.  at  the  time  Miss 
Fuller  first  met  him  at  the  home  of  the  Greeleys  in  New- 
York,  was  a  commission  merchant.  A  close  friendship 
sprang  up  between  them,  and,  despite  the  fact  that  they 
saw  each  other  almost  daily,  they  began  a  corre- 
spondence which  covered  nearly  two  years,  and  ter- 
minated when  Mr.  Nathan,  who  had  returned  to  Eu- 
rope, married  a  woman  of  his  own  nation. 

In  iSSS,  he  died  in  Hamburg;  but  fifteen  years  pre- 
viously he  had  arranged  Miss  Fuller's  letters  for  pub- 
lication, writing  an  introduction  in  which  he  justified 
his  course  by  saying : 

For  many  years  after  the  tragical  end  of  their  author.  I 
would  not  part  with  this  motherless  offspring  of  our  spiritual 
intercourse,  and.  with  the  exception  of  a  few  detached  leaves, 
submitted  to  her  friend  and  biographer.  Mr.  \V.  H.  Channing. 
at  his  solicitation,  no  human  eye  has  ever  seen  them.  But 
now  when  more  than  a  generation  has  passed,  and  no  earthly 
interest  or  feeling  can  possibly  be  injured,  I  can  not  suffer 
their  exquisite  naturalness  and  sweetness  to  sink  into  the 
grave.  More  especially  do  I  not  feel  justified  in  withholding 
them  from  others,  who.  having  deeply  loved  her  in  life,  and 
mourned  her  death,  are  entitled  to  this  sacred  experience  of 
her  inmost  soul,  while  at  the  same  time  I  feel  I  can  wreathe 
no  fresher  laurels  around  the  cherished  memory  of  "  Mar- 
garet "  than  by  showing,  through  these  letters,  that,  great  and 
gifted  as  she  was  as  a  writer,  she  was  no  less  so  in  the  soft 
and  tender  emotions  of  a  true  woman's  heart. 

Miss  Fuller's  first  letter  was  written  in  February. 
1845.  and  in  it  she  acknowledges  that  she  had  long  had 
a  presentiment  that  she  would  soon  meet  one  of  his 
race  and  religion.     A  month  later  she  writes : 

It  is  nothing  to  be  together  in  the  parlor  or  in  the  street. 
and  we  are  not  enough  so  among  the  green  things.  To-day 
the  lilacs  are  all  in  blossom,  the  air  is  full  of  the  perfume 
which  causes  ecstasy,  and  I  hear  you  with  awe  assert  the  power 
over  me  and  feel  it  to  be  true.  It  causes  awe.  but  not  dread. 
such  as  I  felt  some  time  since  at  the  approach  of  this  mysteri- 
ous power,  for  I  feel  confidence  in  you.  and  know  that  you 
will  lead  me  on  in  a  spirit  of  holy  love,  and  that  all  I  may 
learn  of  nature  and  the  soul  will  be  legitimate.  The  destiny 
of  each  human  being  is  no  doubt  great  and  peculiar,  however 
obscure  its  rudiments  to  our  present  sight,  but  there  are  also 
in  every  age  a  few  in  whose  lot  the  meaning  of  that  age  is 
concentrated.  I  feel  that  I  am  one  of  those  persons  in  my 
age  and  sex.  But  when  forced  back  upon  myself  as  now. 
though  the  first  turnings  of  the  key  were  painful,  yet  the  inner 
door  makes  rapturous  music,  too.  upon  its  golden  hinge.  What 
it  hides  you  perhaps  know,  as  you  read  me  so  deeply :  indeed. 
some  things  you  say  seem  as  if  you  did.  Yet  do  not  unless 
you  must,  for  you  look  at  things  so  without  their  veils.  When 
you  hold  me  by  the  hand  I  sometimes  think  and  can  only 
say :  Psyche  was  but  a  mortal  woman,  yet.  as  the  bride  of  love, 
she  became  a  daughter  of  the  gods.  too.  But  had  she  learned 
in  any  other  way  this  secret  of  herself  all  had  been  lost,  the 
plant  and  flower  and  fruit.  I  love  to  hear  you  read  off  the 
secret,  and  yet  you  sometimes  make  me  tremble.  I  confide 
in  you  as  this  bird,  now  warbling  without,  confides  in  me. 
You  will  understand  my  song,  but  you  will  not  translate  it  into 
language  too  human. 

On  April  15th  she  again  wrote: 

I  have  felt  a  strong  attraction  to  you  almost  ever  since 
we  first  met,  the  attraction  of  the  wandering  spirit  toward  a 
breast  broad  enough  and  strong  enough  for  rest,  when  it  wants 
to  furl  the  wings.  You  have  also  been  to  me  a  sunshine  and 
green  woods,  I  have  wanted  you  more  and  more,  and  became 
weary  when  too  long  away.  When  you  approached  me  so  near 
I  was  exceedingly  agitated,  because  your  personality  has  a 
powerful,  magnetic  effect  on  me.  partly  because  I  have  always 
attached  importance  to  such  an  act.  .  .  .  Oh.  was  that  like 
angels,  like  twin  spirits  bound  in  heavenly  unison  to  think 
that  anything  short  of  perfect  love,  such  as  I  myself  am  born 
to  feel  and  shall  yet  in  some  age  and  some  world  find  one  that 
can  feel  for  me.  could  enslave  my  heart  or  compromise  a  lover. 
You  have  touched  my  heart,  and  it  thrilled  to  the  centre,  but 
my  heart  is  a  large  kingdom. 

After  an  unsatisfactory  visit  of  Mr.  Nathan,  Miss 
Fuller  wrote  on  the  evening  of  May  30th : 

Long  before  you  went  I  felt  that  the  tone  which  had  for  a 
moment  repelled  me  was  caused  by  the  mood  of  the  hour, 
the  trials  of  the  day,  and,  above  all.  by  the  presence  of  a  third 
person.  Had  we  been  alone,  I  should  have  dropped  a  few 
tears,  as  I  think  from  something  you  said  you  felt  annoyed, 
and  then  the  sun  would  have  shined  on  again ;  but  as  it  was. 
I  could  not  act  as  I  felt,  the  warm  tide  of  sympathy  with 
which  I  had  begun  the  evening  was  turned  back  upon  me,  and 
seemed  to  oppress  my  powers  of  speech  and  motion.  Yet  it 
was  very  sad  to  me  to  have  you  go  forth  from  the  place, 
whither  you  came  in  hope  and  trust,  into  the  dark  night  and 
howling  wind.  So  far  as  the  fault  of  this  was  my  own,  for- 
give me,  dear  friend.  .  .  .  You  have  claimed  me  on  the  score 
of  spiritual  affinity,  and  I  have  yielded  to  this  claim.  You 
have  claimed  to  read  my  thoughts,  to  count  the  pulses  of  my 
being,  often  to  move  them  by  your  heart  and  your  will.  You 
have  approached  me  personally  nearer  than  any  person,  and 
have  said  to  me  words  most  unusual  and  close  to  which  I  have 
willingly  listened.  .  .  .  This  is  probably  my  last  letter,  and  I 
have  written  it  with  the  enclosed  pen.  which  I  wish  to  give 
to  you,  and  hope  it  will  pen  down  some  fine  passages  of  life 
during  your  journeyings.  .  .  .  Reading  over  my  letter,  it 
seems  too  restrained.  Believe  that  my  soul  utters  God  bless  you. 
and  feels  that  your  whole  soul  returns  the  same.  May  we  meet 
as  we  feel. 


The  foregoing  was  the  first  letter  referring  to  Mr. 
Nathan's  departure  on  a  voyage  to  Europe,  from  which 
he  never  returned  to  her.  Shortly  before  he  sailed. 
Miss  Fuller  wrote:  "  You  had  better  leave  my  letters. 
They  have  been  like  manna,  possible  to  use  for  food 
in  their  day,  but  they  are  not  immortal,  like  their 
source.  Let  them  perish !  Let  me  burn  them.  Keep 
my  image  in  the  soul  without  such  aids,  and  it  will  be 
more  Iivingly  true  and  avail  you  more." 

On  June  I2th,  after  he  had  left  the  United  States,  she 
wrote : 

You  seem  to  be  much  with  me.  especially  now  that  the 
moonlight  evenings  have  again  begun.  Last  evening  I  had  no 
lamp  lit  after  sunset,  and  lay  looking  at  the  moon  stealing 
through  the  exquisite  curtain  of  branches  which  overhangs 
my  windows.  You  seemed  entirely  with  me,  and  I  was  in  a 
trance,  as  on  evenings  when  you  used  to  sing  to  me.  At  those 
times  heaven  and  earth  seemed  mingled.  .  .  .  But  the  effect 
of  our  intercourse  was  to  make  me  so  passive  I  wondered  if  it 
was  so  interesting  to  you ;  and  yet  I  do  not,  for  I  seemed  a 
part  of  yourself :  we  were  born  under  the  same  constellation. 
You  found  much  of  yourself  in  me,  and  there  was  a  long. 
soft  echo  to  the  deepest  tones.  .  .  .  Whenever  there  was  dis- 
sonance between  us  it  ended  as  being  so  superficial  that  it 
seemed  but  a  continuing  of  the  blast  to  make  the  music  better. 
I  never  had  these  feelings  at  all  toward  any  other.  .  .  .  For- 
give me  should  my  letters  be  somewhat  reserved.  I  am  afraid 
it  will  make  me  timid  that  my  letters  must  go  so  far  and  be 
so  long  in  getting  answered,  passing  through  so  many  hands 
and  public  offices.  When  they  only  went  a  few  paces  into  the 
next  street  by  the  page,  then  I  could  add  with  lips  and  eyes  all 
that  was  wanting  to  explain  them.  I  had  more  courage.  You 
are  a  man.  and  men  have  the  privilege  of  boldness.  Put  your 
soul  upon  the  paper  as  much  as  you  can. 

Just  after  the  Christmas  holidays,  she  wrote: 
You  are  now  among  your  kindred.  I  do  hope  you  will  find 
joy  in  it.  and  that  it  may  be  possible  to  take  up  the  ties  as  if 
all  these  years  had  not  passed  between  you.  I  want  you  to 
write  me  how  they  all  strike  you,  but  do  not.  loved  one,  speak 
to  them  of  me.  except  outwardly. 

The  letter  she  wrote  on  Sunday,  April  25,  1846,  was 
full  of  sadness.     It  begins : 

Lost  too  soon,  too  long;  where  art  thou,  whither  wander  thy 
steps,  and  where  thy  mind  this  day?  .  .  .  Hast  thou  forgotten 
any  of  this  influence,  hast  thou  ceased  to  cherish  me.  O 
Israel?  I  have  felt  these  last  four  days  a  desire  for  you  that 
amounted  almost  to  anguish.  This  is  just  such  a  day  as  came 
last  year  with  our  resolution,  when  the  trees  had  put  on  their 
exquisite  white  mantles  and  you  gave  me  the  white  one.  That 
evening  you  went  home  and  wrote  me  a  sweet  little  letter,  in 
which  you  likened  yourself  to  the  cherry-tree  by  my  window. 
But  thou  dost  not  return.  Could  you  but  be  here  all  this  day. 
only  one  day.  Alas  I  there  is  too  much  to  be  said.  I  say  alas ! 
alas !  and  once  again  alas  !  I  send  a  leaf  and  flower  of  the 
myrtle  that  grew  at  the  foot  of  the  rock  of  which  I  gave 
you  some  the  day  we  seemed  to  be  separated  forever. 

The  last  of  Miss  Fuller's  letters  is  dated  July  14. 
1846.  and  m  it  she  advises  Nathan  how  best  to  get  his 
foreign  letters  published  in  book- form.  She  talked 
and  she  suggested  the  Weekly  Messenger,  thinking  the 
information  would  be  of  special  interest  to  the  Jews,  but 
Mr.  Greeley  said  there  would  be  no  pay  there. 

That  her  feeling  for  Nathan  changed  materially 
after  his  marriage  is  apparent  from  the  following  entry 
in  her  diary: 

Leave  Edinburgh  on  Monday  morning.  September  8th,  for 
Perthshire.  Letter  containing  virtual  reply  to  my  invitation 
of  September  1st  also  dated  September  1st.  From  June  1, 
1845,  to  September  r.  1846.  a  mighty  change  has  taken  place. 
I  ween.  I  understand  more  and  more  the  character  of  the 
tribes.  I  shall  write  a  sketch  of  it.  and  turn  the  whole  to 
account  in  a  literary  way.  since  the  affections  and  ideal  hopes 
are  so  unproductive.  I  care  not.  I  am  resolved  to  take  such 
disappointments  more  lightly  than  I  have.  I  ought  not  to  re- 
gret having  thought  other  of  "  humans  "  than  they  deserve. 

In  addition  to  a  sympathetic  preface  by  Mrs.  Julia 
Ward  Howe,  the  letters  are  supplemented  with  extracts 
from  reminiscences  of  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  Horace 
Greeley,  and  Charles  T.  Congdon,  and  a  facsimile  of 
Margaret  Fuller's  handwriting.  A  much  idealized 
portrait   serves  as   a  frontispiece. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York;  price, 

$i-35  net. 

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The  Kearsarge's  Record  Run  Across  the  Atlantic. 

Commenting  on  the  official  report  of  the  long-dis- 
tance record-breaking  run  of  the  battle-ship  Kearsarge, 
which  recently  steamed  2,885  nautical  miles,  from 
Portsmouth,  England,  to  Bar  Harbor.  Me.,  in  nine 
days  and  four  and  a  half  hours,  at  an  average  speed, 
13. 1  knots  an  hour,  Admiral  Taylor,  chief  of  the  bureau 
of  navigation,  says : 

If  we  consider  this  trip  in  comparison  with  the  per- 
formances of  protected  cruisers  or  armored  cruisers,  or  ocean 
greyhounds,  it  does  not  seem  very  remarkable.  But  when  we 
consider  that  the  Kearsarge  is  a  heavy  battle-ship,  loaded  with 
armor  and  armament,  and  not  intended  to  make  a  high  rate 
of  speed,  the  performance  is  remarkable,  more  so  from  the 
fact  that  at  the  end  of  her  run  the  Kearsarge  was  ready  for 
any  service,  and  couid  cross  the  ocean  again  after  coaling. 
At  the  end  of  the  trip  also,  she  had  enough  coal  left  for 
several  days  of  steaming  at  the  rate  she  made  across  the 
Atlantic,  and  for  more  time  than  that  of  fighting. 


The  municipality  of  Carpineto,  Pope  Leo's  native 
town,  has  started  a  subscription  for  the  erection  of  a 
colossal  statue  of  the  late  Pontiff.  It  is  to  be  forty 
metres  high,  and  is  to  stand  on  the  neighboring  Mt. 
Capreo,  where,  in  his  younger  days,  Leo  went  hunting. 
Catholics  throughout  the  world  have  been  invited  to 
contribute  to  the  fund  for  the  erection  of  this  memorial. 
Ernesto  Biondi  has  been  selected  as  the  sculptor. 


The  most  gifted  of  all  women  composers  was  Clara 
Schumann;  yet  shortly  before  her  marriage  she  frankly 
wrote  in  her  diary:  "  I  used  to  think  I  had  talent  for 
creating,  but  I  have  changed  my  mind.  Women  should 
not  wish  to  compose;  not  one  has  ever  succeeded.  To 
suppose  that  I  was  destined  to  be  an  exception  would 
be  an  arrogant  assumption,  which  I  made  formerly, 
but  only  because  my  father  prompted  me." 


OUR    SAILORS    AT    PORTSMOUTH. 

Officers  and  Men  of  the  American  Squadron  Royally  Entertained — 
Didn't  Shine  in  Athletics— But  Favorites  With  the  Ladies- 
Dancing  Differences — An  Unfortunate  Play. 

I  have  just  seen  the  American  squadron  steam 
slowly  out  of  Portsmouth  Harbor  to  Spithead.  on  its 
departure  from  British  shores.  The  Kearsarge  led, 
followed  in  order  by  the  Chicago.  San  Francisco,  and 
Macliias.  The  English  white  ensign  flew  from  the 
mainmasthead  of  each  ship,  and  puffs  of  white  smoke 
darted  out  from  their  sides  in  ten-second  intervals  as 
their  good-by  national  salute  was  fired.  The  morning 
was  still  and  warm,  and  the  water  without  a  ripple- 
Indeed,  the  whole  sheet  between  Southsea  Castle 
and  Ryde  Pier,  which,  as  near  as  may  be.  makes  what 
is  known  as  Spithead.  was  like  a  leaden-gray  pond. 
As  the  white  men-of-war  glided  slowly  on  at  quarter 
speed  between  the  buoys  which  mark  the  channel, 
crowds  gathered  on  the  beach  and  "  parade,"  on  the 
common  and  "  Esplanade,"  and  on  the  door-steps  and 
in  the  windows  of  the  homes  and  residences  which  face 
the  sea,  for  the  sight  not  only  was  a  picturesque  one, 
but  the  people  of  Portsmouth  and  its  suburb.  Southsea, 
had  grown  to  like  "  the  Yankees  " — as  everybody  called 
the  American  sailors — during  their  visit,  and  were, 
while  wishing  them  godspeed,  really  sorry  to  see 
them  go. 

The  American  sailors  have  certainly  had  a  fine  time 
here,  and  no  mistake.  The  Portsmouth  town  council 
voted  five  hundred  pounds  for  the  free  use  of  the  mayor 
in  entertaining  the  squadron,  and  I  must  say  that  that 
gentleman — a  recently  made  knight,  who  can  scatter  an 
h  now  and  then  with  the  best  of  them — did  his  utmost 
to  make  the  visitors  enjoy  themselves.  Not  the  least 
appreciated  of  the  entertainments  was  a  free  matinee 
at  the  Theatre  Royal.  The  play,  however,  was  not 
exactly  what  one  could  call  fortunate.  It  \vj<  "The 
Lady  Slavey."  I  don't  know  if  it  is  known  in  America, 
but  one  of  the  characters  depicts  a  burlesque  American 
millionaire  of  the  most  outlandish  type,  who  enters 
firing  a  revolver  in  the  air.  and  wearing  an  ulster 
lined  with  the  American  flag.  Among  the  other  eccen- 
tric things  this  American  gentleman  does  is  to  sit 
down  next  a  lady,  and  put  his  feet  in  her  lap.  When 
expostulated  with,  he  asks :  "  Aint  I  an  American 
millionaire  ?"  I  should  imagine  that  such  scenes  would 
be  incompatible  to  the  individual  American — how  much 
so  to  an  audience  of  them,  especially  after  the  liquid 
accompaniments  of  the  generous  luncheon,  to  which 
they  had  been  treated  by  the  mayor  immediatelv  preced- 
ing. I  do  not  know.  Liquor  calms  as  well  as  excites, 
and  so  I  suppose  it  was  on  the  present  occasion,  for 
the  papers  said  the  American  sailors  "  enjoyed  the  plav 
hugely." 

They  were  also  invited  to  attend  the  United  Service 
athletic  sports.  There  were  several  "  open  "  events, 
and  some  of  Uncle  Sam's  representatives  entered  for 
them.  But  I'm  sorry  to  say  they  didn't  shine  at  any 
of  them.  A  blue-jacket  from  the  Chicago  entered  the 
one-thousand-yard  race,  but  he  gave  up  after  the  sec- 
ond lap.  Another  was  nowhere  in  the  long  jump,  while 
a  team  was  made  up  to  go  in  for  the  "  tug-of-war  "  at 
the  end.  When  this  event  came  off.  the  "  Yankees  " 
were  simply  pulled  off  their  feet  in  no  time. 

During  the  squadron's  visit  the  American  flag  has 
been  much  in  evidence  in  doorways  of  shops  and  hotels. 
And  the  streets  and  the  walks  along  the  sea-front  and 
Southern  Common  looked  almost  like  those  of  an 
American  seaport,  for  American  sailors  were  to  be 
found  wherever  you  went.  And  on  the  whole,  the 
American  sailor  compared  favorably  with  his  Eng- 
lish brother.  Generally  the  American  sailors  looked 
lighter  and  less  robust.  They  hadn't  the  ruddv  color 
of  the  Britisher,  and  their  hair  was  a  bit  too  long. 
The  dress  was  much  the  same,  but  the  dark-blue  collar 
beside  the  English  light  blue  gave  them  a  more  sombre 
effect.  Besides  this,  they  did  not  wear  white  sum- 
mer covers  on  their  caps.  The  top  of  the  American 
sailors'  cap  is  much  larger  and  flatter  than  that  nf  the 
English  navy,  and  when  worn  side  by  side — especially 
when  your  eye  was  used  to  the  smaller  cap — the  effect 
was  not  favorable  to  the  tout  ensemble  of  the  American. 

But  "  the  Yankees  "  were  great  favorites  with  the 
Portsmouth  and  Southsea  girls,  if  one  could  judge 
by  the  numbers  of  pretty  young  women  whom  one 
saw  walking  out  arm  in  arm  with  them  in  the  even- 
ings. Nor  was  this  feminine  predilection  manifest 
only  toward  the  sailors.  At  Admiral  Hotham's  ball 
to  Admiral  Cotton,  the  young  American  officers  had 
it  all  their  own  way  with  the  pretty  Southsea  girls, 
who  were  apparently  completely  captivated  by  the  su- 
perior dancing  of  the  Americans.  I  saw  people  stand 
and  look  on  at  them  when  they  danced,  everybody 
seeming  particularly  interested,  not  only  in  the  grace- 
fulness of  the  American  waltz  step,  but  in  the  art  dis- 
played in  guiding.  There  was  no  bumping,  there 
was  no  colliding,  there  were  no  falls,  where  the  Ameri- 
can officers  danced,  and  when  they  reversed — a  thing 
Britishers  never  do — there  was  a  stampede  to  see 
them.  It  was  quite  wonderful  how  soon  the  girls 
caught  the  American  step,  and  what  adepts  they  be- 
came in  reversing  before  the  ball  was  over.  The 
English  officers  were  simply  nowhere.  All  of  which 
will  doubtless  serve  to  tie  the  knot  of  British-Ameri- 
can amity  tighter  than   ever.  Cockaigne. 

Southsea,  July  17,  1903. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


August  io,  1903. 


A    SOCIETY    WOMAN'S    DAY. 


The  French  Lady  of  1650,  the  American  of  1903— A  Comparison. 


Some  time  since,  in  reading  a  book  on  the  women 
of  the  French  salons.  I  came  on  a  description,  from  one 
of  Mile.  Scudery's  novels,  of  the  manner  in  which  a 
society  lady  of  that  epoch  passed  her  days.  It  struck 
me  as  particularly  interesting,  in  that  it  was  so  pre- 
cisely similar  to  the  way  in  which  a  modern  young 
lady' of  the  same  sort  spends  the  twenty-four  hours. 
Here  it  is — might  it  not  be  a  description  of  the  day 
of  a  rich  American  girl  with  fashionable  affiliations? 

"  Sleeps  twelve  hours — three  or  four  hours  to  dress 
herself — two  or  three  hours  in  consuming  her  divers 
repasts — and  all  the  rest  of  the  time  is  spent  in  re- 
ceiving people  to  whom  she  does  not  know  what  to  say, 
or  in  paying  visits  to  people  who  do  not  know  what  to 
sav  to  her." 

Doubtless,  the  amiable  Scudery  was  somewhat  sour 
when  she  wrote  this.  She  was  a  dark,  spidery  little 
spinster,  with  a  reputation  (in  a  day  when  such  things 
were  regarded  as  useless  luxuries),  and  a  wondrously 
fluent  pen.  She  knew  her  world  well — no  one  better. 
And  we  may  be  sure  that  such  a  paragraph  as  the  above 
was  not  a  spiteful  female  thrust  at  frivolous  beauty, 
but  was  an  unbiased  statement  of  an  interesting  social 
development. 

Any  one  who  has  passed  much  time  in  the  realms 
where  well-to-do.  well-educated,  well-dressed  women 
congregate,  will  sooner  or  later  he  puzzled  by  the  ques- 
tion as  to  how  a  large  quantity  of  them  spend  their 
time.  Kill  their  time  would  be  a  better  phrase.  When 
one  talks  of  spending  time  it  suggests  the  doling  out  of 
a  precious  commodity  to  be  used  to  the  greatest  pos- 
sible advantage.  Killing  time  is  the  getting  rid  of  long, 
empty  hours,  which,  instead  of  galloping,  lag  list- 
lessly by. 

The  division  of  labor,  among  women  who  are  well 
provided  for,  luxuriously  environed,  and  all  that  sort 
of  thing,  is  one  of  the  most  uneven  distributions  that 
exist.  Women  with  children — no  matter  how  large 
their  means — have  an  unending  work  and  responsibility 
if  they  are  faithful  to  their  trust  and  honestly  discharge 
their  duty.  Women  with  children,  where  the  means 
are  small,  have  a  herculean  labor,  a  task  to  try  the  en- 
durance and  tax  the  energy  of  the  strongest.  Women 
with  houses  to  keep — either  lar°-e  homes  full  of  serv- 
ants, or  small  ones  where  there  is  no  servant  at  all — 
have  got  a  fair  amount  of  honest  toil  to  get  through 
every  day.  To  run  a  house  well  is  no  mean  task, 
whether  it  be  a  mansion  or  a  five-room  flat. 

Below  these  we  come  to  the  women  who  have  either 
no  maternal  or  domestic  responsibilities,  or,  having 
the  latter,  shirk  them  by  refusing  to  maintain  homes 
and  living  in  hotels,  or  by  letting  the  servants  do  the 
housekeeping.  With  these  women  go  the  unmarried 
"girls,"  as  we  politely  call  them,  of  from  twenty-eight 
up.  who,  having  remained  spinsters,  have  neither  ma- 
ternal cares  nor  domestic  duties,  and  being  comfortably 
supported  by  a  father,  a  brother,  or  a  private  income 
of  their  own,  have  no  need  to  "hustle  "  for  their  bread. 
Skim  off  from  these  the  women  of  energy  and  initia- 
tive, who  become  engrossed  in  enterprises  such  as 
charities,  settlement  work,  some  branch  of  philanthropy 
or  study,  and  we  have  a  residue  whose  days  are  spent 
in  the  manner  Mile.  Scudery  describes. 

It  has  often  been  a  cause  of  secret  curiosity  to  me 
how  many  people  I  knew  or  knew  of  disposed  of  the 
fifteen  waking  hours  the  day  gives  us.  I  knew  that 
they  had  no  settled  tasks.  I  knew  that  they  had  neither 
houses  to  run,  children  to  bring  up,  nor  professions  to 
follow.  Yet  they  had  fifteen  hours  to  get  through. 
Take  from  these  three  for  meals,  and  it  leaves  twelve, 
unoccupied,  long,  portentous.  How  did  they  pass 
those  twelve?  How  did  they  kill  them?  I  thought 
vaguely  bf  reading,  but  that  could  not  be  made  to  fill 
more  than  one  or  two.  Many  of  the  women  who  were 
the  subject  of  speculation  read  nothing  but  the  morn- 
ing paper.  Some  looked  through  a  novel  or  two  a 
week,  others  bought  half  a  dozen  magazines  once  a 
month.  Rut  these  literary  excursions  do  not  occupv  a 
large  part  of  the  day. 

I  then  asked  a  friend  of  mine — an  intelligent  man — 
for  his  opinion.     He  was  cynical,  and  inclined  to  scoff. 
"  Why.  dressing,"  he  said;  "  four  or  five  hours  a  dav 
can  be  easily  spent  on  dressing." 

I  denied  that.  Two  hours  a  day  for  the  toilet  was 
ample,  and  more  than  most  women — vain  though  they 
might  be— spent  on  it.  Give  three-quarters  of  an  hour 
for  the  morning  toilet,  the  same  time  for  that  before 
dinner,  and  half  an  hour  for  a  change  of  dress  in  the 
afternoon.     The  seller  laughed  aloud  at  this. 

"Three-quarters  of  an  hour!  That's  absurd.  Why. 
an  hour  can  be  easily  put  in  just  finishing  up — last 
touches  on  the  canvas,  as  it  were."' 

"You  could  paint  the  canvas  as  elaborately  as  Meis- 
sonicr  in  that  time."  I  demurred,  for.  truthfully  speak- 
ing, I  have  known  few  women  who  took  longer  than  an 
hour  to  dress. 

"  \\  ell.  then,  there's  shopping."  continued  the  cynic. 
"  a  whole  afternoon  can  be  profitably  and  pleasantly 
put  in  in  shopping." 

Jut  you  can't  do  that  often.  It  would  mean  spend- 
ing so  much  money.  Even  rich  women  can't  go  on  a 
graid  shopping  orgie  every  day." 

They  don't  buy  inything.  That's  not  shopping. 
D'    i't  you  ever  hear   of  the  woman  who   aske'.  her 


husband  for  fifty  cents  to  go  shopping  with—forty  for 
candy  and  soda-water  and  ten  for  car-fares?" 

This  really  seemed  plausible.  I  did  once  know  a 
woman  in  New  York  who.  describing  the  agreeable 
simplicity  of  a  friend's  taste,  said  of  her:  "Why,  it 
amused  her  to  go  down  to  Wanamaker's  and  buy  a 
spool  of  thread." 

And  I  myself  have  a  vivid  recollection  of  going 
with  a  friend  to  buy  a  pair  of  gloves,  and  how  we 
went  into  every  glove-store  down  a  long  mile  of  Broad- 
way. In  each  place  she  looked  at  the  gloves,  felt  them, 
stretched  them,  asked  as  many  questions  about  them 
as  a  doctor  does  about  a  patient's  health,  and  went  out 
again  without  buying  them.  At  the  end  of  our  walk  I 
said,  in  a  low-spirited  tone :  "  Now,  I  suppose  we'll  go 
all  the  way  back  again,  and  you'll  take  the  pair  you 
liked  best?" 

"  No,"  she  said,  dubiously,  "  I  didn't  really  like  any 
of  them  very  much.  I  think  I'll  go  out  to-morrow  and 
see  if  I  can  do  better  on  Sixth  Avenue." 

Of  course  one  can  get  rid  of  a  good  many  hours 
this  way.  As  a  time-killing  device  it  answers  the  pur- 
pose accurately,  and  if  this  is  what  is  generally  meant 
by  "shopping  "  I  can  see  how  it  can  be  made  to  fill  an 
otherwise  blank  afternoon  in  a  perfectly  comfortable 
and  comprehensive  manner. 

From  my  own  observation,  I  think  the  modern  un- 
occupied lady  finds  the  social  diversion  of  calling  as 
engrossing  as  did  her  ancestress  in  Mile,  de  Scudery's 
time.  When  everybody  had  a  day  at  home,  one  could 
call  all  afternoon,  from  lunch  to  dinner,  and  always 
find  one's  victims  sitting  in  the  parlor,  fattened  for  the 
sacrifice.  Those  were  the  days  of  short  visits,  when 
experts  could  get  in  ten  calls  from  three  to  six,  pro- 
vided the  recipients  lived  on  or  near  car-lines.  The 
call  was  as  arid  of  cheerful  social  intercourse  as  were 
those  which  the  spirituelle  Scudery  described.  There 
was,  as  Omar  Khayyam  has  it,  "  a  little  talk  of  thee 
and  me,"  and  then  the  visitor  flitted  on.  But  it  killed 
off  the  afternoon  quickly  and  effectively.  By  six 
o'clock  the  dying  day  had  not  a  kick  left  in  it. 

One  of  the  strangest  things  about  these  time-killing 
women  is  that  they.are  always  telling  you  how  fright- 
fully busy  they  are,  how  they  hadn't  a  minute  to  call 
their  own.  They  rush  up  to  you  effusively,  and  say 
how  they  long  to  see  you,  how  to  call  upon  you  is  one 
of  the  dearest  wishes  of  their  hearts,  but  they  really 
haven't  a  minute  in  the  day.  You  smile,  and  try  to 
look  as  if  you  believed  it.  By  an  effort  of  will,  you 
banish  the  expression  of  startled  incredulity  from 
your  face ;  you  even  refrain  from  saying  with  an  air 
of  innocent  politeness:  "What  are  you  so  busy  about? 
T  never  knew  before  you  were  really  working  at  any- 
thing." 

The  women  who  are  working  at  something  don't 
often  use  the  phrase  about  being  so  busy.  They  also 
appear  to  have  more  time  to  cultivate  the  society  they 
affect.  When  the  work  hours  are  hard  and  long,  the 
play  hours  are  carefully  and  profitably  arranged. 
Women  who  are  engrossingly  engaged  in  domestic  life 
or  professional  work  are  always  easier  to  find,  simpler 
of  access,  than  women  whose  lives  are  arranged  entirelv 
on  a  society  basis. 

One  of  the  most  universally  known  and  practically 
tested  ways  of  passing  time  among  "  the  frightfully 
busy "  is  "  sitting  round  and  talking."  Hours  romp 
joyously  past  when  one  is  thus  occupied.  You  "  sit 
around  and  talk "  after  breakfast,  after  lunch,  and 
after  dinner.  From  three  to  five  hours,  according  to 
the  staying  capacity  of  the  sitters,  can  be  worked 
through  in  this  manner.  The  subject  of  the  talk  does 
not  matter.  It  can  range  through  the  fields  of  art, 
literature,  science,  religion,  scandal,  politics,  dress. 
Sometimes  the  talkers  rock  in  rocking-chairs  and  sew. 
I  once  had  a  friend  who  asked  me  to  lunch,  and  said : 
"  And  bring  your  work,  and  after  lunch  we  can  sit 
round  and  have  a  good  talk."  I  was  afraid  to  go,  and 
said  I  couldn't  bring  my  work,  as  I  was  making  a  lamp- 
shade of  the  circumference  of  an  average  umbrella, 
which  was  all  a  lie. 

I  always  supposed  sewing  occupied  a  great  deal  of 
the  time  of  the  unoccupied  women,  but  I  hear  now 
that  such  is  not  the  case.  My  masculine  friend,  when 
I  suggested  it,  was  scornful  at  my  ignorance.  He  said 
nobody  ever  sewed  now,  except  thrifty  bachelors,  who 
did  their  mending  on  Sunday,  and  people  who  were 
paid.  I  certainly  have  known  women  who  made  most 
of  their  own  clothes,  but  here  again  it  is  true  they 
were  poor,  and  the  clothes-making  was  squeezed  in  at 
odd  times,  like  the  bachelor's  mending.  The  prosperous 
women  of  independent  means  do  not  sew  at  all,  except 
when  "  the  sitting  round  "  process  is  in  progress,  and 
then  it  is  in  a  desultory  fashion,  because  the  talking 
is  what  one  is  "  sitting  round  "  for,  the  sewing  is 
merely  a  sort  of  decorative  adjunct. 

All  things  considered,  we  find  that  the  way  Mile. 
Scudery  divided  up  the  day  of  the  lady  of  leisure  was 
just  about  the  same  in  her  epoch  as  it  is  in  ours.  Per- 
haps she  gives  an  undue  length  of  time  for  sleep.  Eight 
to  nine  hours  is  the  average  allowance  for  an  Ameri- 
can woman,  though  if  you  count  the  hour  or  two  spent 
in  waking  up  before  the  actual  getting  up  takes  place, 
you  can  run  the  resting  half  of  the  day  to  nearly  her 
figure.  The  two  or  three  hours  spent  in  consuming  her 
food  is  a  very  moderate  allowance ;  one  often  sits  two 
hours  over  a  dinner  alone,  and  the  three  or  four  to  dress 
herself,  which,  to  me,  seemed  excessive,  is  evidently  not 
by  any  means  an  unusual  length  of  time  to  spend  in 
front  of  the  glass.  Geraldine  Bonner. 


THE    NEW    CUP    DEFENDER. 

Remarkable  Record  of  the  "Reliance"— How  She  Acquitted  Herself  in 

Twenty   Races  — Unsatisfactory    Trial    Tests   of  the   Two 

"Shamrocks"— Sir  Thomas  Lipton's  Predictions. 

The  concensus  of  opinion  to-day  among  yachtsmen  is 
that  the  committee  of  the  New  York  Yacht  Club  on 
cup  challenge  did  a  very  sensible  thing  in  calling  off  the 
trial  series  at  Newport  yesterday,  after  the  initial  race, 
and  selecting  the  Reliance  to  defend  the  America's  Cup 
against  Sir  Thomas  Lipton's  new  challenger.  Shamrock 
III.  The  first  international  contest  is  scheduled  to  take 
place  on  August  20th,  and  it  is  none  too  long  a  time  to 
prepare  the  defender  for  the  supreme  test.  To-day 
she  left  Newport  for  Bristol,  R.  I.,  where  she  is  to  be 
overhauled,  cleaned,  polished,  and  put  in  thorough  order 
for  what  Captain  Hank  Haff  predicts  will  be  the  closest 
and  grandest  series  of  races  ever  sailed  for  the  historic 
cup. 

The  new  yacht  is  extreme  in  model,  being  big  and 
powerful  above  the  water,  and  lean  and  sharp  below. 
Her  dimensions  have  never  been  made  public,  but  ap- 
proximately she  is  145  feet  long  over  all,  25  feet  10 
inches  beam,  and  close  to  99  feet  on  the  water  line, 
on  which  she  carries  a  sail  spread  of  nearly  17,000 
square  feet  of  canvas,  the  largest  ever  carried  by  a  cup 
defender.  The  syndicate,  which  paid  for  her  design 
and  construction,  is  composed  of  C.  Oliver  Iselein,  El- 
bert H.  Gary,  Clement  A.  Griscom,  P.  A.  B.  Widener, 
William  B.  Leeds,  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  Norman  B. 
Ream,  Henry  Walters,  William  G.  Rockefeller,  and  J. 
J.  Hill.  She  was  designed  by  Nathaniel  G.  Herreshoff, 
built  at  the  shops  of  the  Hereshoff  Manufacturing 
Company,  in  Bristol,  R.  I.,  launched  on  April  irth, 
and  had  her  first  trial  on  April  25th. 

Never  before  has  a  defender  given  a  better  demon- 
stration of  her  right  of  selection  than  the  Reliance. 
Since  May  22d  she  has  sailed  in  twenty  races.  Two 
of  these  were  not  finished,  and  in  another  race  she  lost 
her  topmast,  and  withdrew.  In  the  remaining  seven- 
teen races  the  new  yacht  finished  first,  although  in  two 
of  these  events  she  lost  to  Constitution  on  time  allow- 
ance. Constitution  also  won  the  race  from  which  Re- 
liance withdrew,  and  the  record  for  the  cup  yachts  pre- 
vious to  yesterday's  trial  race  at  Newport  is  fifteen 
victories  for  the  Reliance  and  three  for  Constitution. 
In  all  her  twenty  races,  which  were  sailed  under  all 
conditions  of  wind  and  weather,  she  has  shown  ex- 
ceptional speed  in  very  light  airs,  and  ample  power  to 
carry  her  tremendous  sail  spread  in  a  heavy  blow. 
Not  a  little  of  her  success,  of  course,  must  be  attributed 
to  the  fact  that  she  has  been  handled  with  great  skill 
and  judgment  by  Captain   Charley  Barr. 

While  all  yachtsmen  are  ready  to  admit  that  Sham- 
rock III  is  the  handsomest  craft  that  has  ever  crossed 
the  Atlantic  in  quest  of  the  America's  Cup,  the  majority 
manifest  no  alarm  for  the  safetv  of  the  cup.  This, 
despite  the  fact  that  the  trial  spins  of  the  two  Sham- 
rocks off  the  Hook  have  been  far  from  satisfactory  to 
outsiders  trying  to  "get  a  line"  on  the  speed  of  the 
challenger.  In  the  first  place,  it  must  be  remembered 
that  Captain  Wringe  and  Captain  Bevis  are  both  on 
the  pay-roll  of  Sir  Thomas,  and  yachts  can  be  held 
back  almost  as  easily  as  horses.  Then  again,  these  tests 
have  all  been  held  on  courses  laid  out  in  an  off-hand 
way  by  the  Erin.  It  is  true  that  they  have  proved  con- 
clusively that  the  new  ship  is  swifter  than  the  old  one, 
but  they  do  not  give  definite  figures  by  which  one  can 
estimate  even  roughly  how  much  swifter  Fife's  latest 
creation.  Shamrock  III,  really  is. 

The  trials  of  Reliance  with  Constitution  and  Co- 
lumbia, on  the  other  hand,  have  been  open  and  above- 
board.  Each  yacht  has  done  her  handsomest  on  every 
occasion  that  they  have  met.  No  one  thinks  for  a  mo- 
ment that  Captain  Rhodes  would  hold  back  Constitution 
for  the  sake  of  sentiment — not  while  August  Belmont 
was  on  deck.  Columbia,  too,  has  done  her  best  under 
all  conditions,  having  been  handled  throughout  the 
races  by  E.  D.  Morgan,  a  first-class  amateur  skipper. 

The  selection  of  the  Reliance  to  defend  the  cup, 
however,  does  not  seem  to  have  shaken  Sir  Thomas's 
confidence  in  his  challenger.  When  told  of  the  New 
York  Yacht  Club's  choice,  he  remarked :  "  I  never 
doubted  that  the  Reliance  would  be  selected,  and  it  is 
very  much  more  satisfactory  to  me  to  meet  the  new 
boat,  and  what  is  believed  to  be  without  a  shadow  of 
a  doubt  the  best  boat,  than  it  would  be  to  meet  an  older 
boat,  or  one  about  whose  capabilities  there  should  be 
the  least  doubt.  We  have  all  looked  forward  to  the 
selection  of  the  Reliance,  and  she  is  unquestionably  a 
great  boat,  worthy  in  every  way  of  her  great  designer, 
Mr.. Herreshoff,  but  I  have  not  lost  faith  in  the  slightest 
degree  in  the  Shamrock  III.  and  I  believe  firmly  she 
will  win.  I  believed  so  before  I  saw  the  Reliance.  I 
have  believed  so  since  I  came  here,  with  implicit  con- 
fidence in  my  boat,  and  I  have  all  that  confidence  still. 
You  will  see  that  cup  starting  on  the  home  voyage  this 
time." 

Nevertheless,  Sir  Thomas's  confidence  in  Shamrock 
III  has  not  converted  many  American  yachtsmen  to 
his  way  of  thinking,  and  there  is  consequently  very 
little  betting.  Most  of  the  knowing  salts  with  whom  I 
have  talked  are  satisfied  that  no  fleeter  racing  machine 
than  Reliance  was  ever  designed,  and,  consequently, 
are  firm  in  their  belief  that  never  was  the  cup  in 
less  danger  of  crossing  the  pond  than  now. 
New  York,  July  28,  1903.  Flaneur, 


August  io,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


87 


THE    LONDON    GAIETY    THEATRE. 


Final    Performance    at    the   Famous    Old    Home    of 

Burlesque  —  Reminiscences    of    Notable 

Plays  and  Players. 


Those  who  attended  the  memorable  closing 
performance  of  the  famous  old  Gaiety  Theatre, 
in  London,  last  month,  enjoyed  the  unique 
experience  of  seeing  many  old  stage-favorites 
in  the  parts  in  which  they  won  favor  many 
years  ago.  The  programme  included  the  sec- 
ond act  of  "  The  Toreador."  which  reached  its 
six  hundred  and  seventy-fifth  performance, 
and  "  The  Linkman,"  a  musical  hodge- 
podge, in  which  Florence  St.  John  ap- 
peared as  Marguerite  in  "  Faust  Up  to 
Date " ;  Ethel  Haydon  as  La  Favorita  in 
'"  The  Circus  Girl " ;  Letty  Lind  as  Donna 
Rita  in  "  Ruy  Bias  and  the  Blase  Roue  " ; 
Charles  Danby  as  Don  Salluste  in  the  same 
burlesque ;  Arthur  Williams  as  Septimus 
Hooley,  and  Seymour  Hicks  as  Charles  Ap- 
pleby in  "  The  Shop  Girl  "  ;  and  Ethel  Sydney 
as  Edmond  Dantes  in  "  Monte  Cristo,  Jr." 
Here,  indeed,  was  a  bevy  of  talent  that  could 
not  be  surpassed  in  England,  but  there  were 
still  other  popular  Gaiety  girls  and  comedians 
who  appeared.  Evie  Greene,  Ethel  Irving, 
Hilda  Moody,  and  Edna  May  gave  a  dainty 
song  and  dance,  which  was  burlesqued  by 
Edmund  Payne,  George  Grossmith,  Jr.,  Harry 
Grattan,  and  Fred  Wright,  Jr. 

Then  came  Sir  Henry  Irving,  who,  by  the 
way.  was  once  a  Gaiety  performer  himself. 
In  the  course  of  an  enthusiastically  applauded 
speech,  he  said : 

"  I  appear  on  this  stage  after  rather  a  long 
absence — more  years,  I  am  afraid,  than  most 
of  you  can  remember.  But  T  am  gratified  to 
know  that  among  the  playful  associations  of 
the  past,  which  have  been  gathered  in  'The 
Linkman  '  bv  my  young  friend  Grossmith — 
George  the  Second,  who  seems  as  full  of  hu- 
morous fancy  as  his  father — I  am  gratified  to 
know  that  I  have  not  been  forgotten.  Indeed, 
I  noticed,  as  T  came  in  just  now.  a  gentleman 
whose  flattering  resemblance  to  myself  was 
positively  startling,  and  he  was  accompanied 
by  a  very  close  copy  of  my  dear  old  friend. 
John  Toole.  I  wish  with  all  my  heart  that 
two  such  famous  representatives  of  the  genius 
of  the  old  Gaiety  as  Mr.  Toole  and  Nellie 
Farren  could  have  joined  us  to-night  and 
mingled  their  remembrances  with  ours.  Ladies 
and  gentlemen.  I  have  just  dropped  in.  as  Mr. 
Toole  would  say,  as  an  old  neighbor  of  thirty 
years'  standing,  who  used  to  carry  on  a  dif- 
ferent sort  of  shop  over  the  way.  and  is  still 
in  that  serious  line  of  business — hell  and  that 
kind  of  thine,  not  far  off — I  have  just  dropped 
in  to  offer  Mr.  George  Edwardes  my  heartiest 
congratulations.  In  a  few  minutes  he  will 
close  the  doors  of  the  old  Gaiety — 'Good  old 
Gaiety.'  as  it  is  called  by  my  friend,  the  ever- 
creen  John  Hollingshead.  who  established  its 
fame.  Mr.  Edwardes  will  soon  close  these 
doors,  and  not  in  melancholy.  I  believe  he 
has  a  comfortable  little  arrangement  with  the 
county  council,  and  T  dare  say  a  good  many 
people  would  be  glad  to  close  their  dnors  on 
the  same  terms.  But  in  a  few  weeks  Mr.  Ed- 
wardes will  open  the  doors  of  the  new  Gaiety, 
tn  a  flood  of  popularity  and  prosperity,  which. 
I  am  sure,  will  keep  him,  and  his  company, 
and  the  public,  in  the  highest  good  humor  for 
manv  years  to  come.  And.  as  an  earnest 
of  that.  I  believe  it  is  almost  time  to  close 
this  celebration,  after  a  few  welcome  words 
from  Mr.  George  Edwardes,  by  joining  Miss 
Florence  St.  John  in  singing  '  Auld  Lang 
Syne.'  " 

Thus  ended  the  brilliant  career  of  the 
"  Good  old  Gaiety,"  which  was  opened  on  De- 
cember 21,  1868,  on  the  site  of  the  old  Strand 
Music  Hall.  In  the  earlier  years  of  the  the- 
atre's existence,  the  programmes  were  not 
wholly  confined  to  burlesque,  and  some  of  the 
actors  who  appeared  there  then  were  Henry 
Irving.  John  L.  Toole.  Adelaide  Neilson, 
Henry  Neville,  Madge  Roberston,  and  Mrs. 
Kendal. 

Burlesque  soon  became  the  regular  policy 
of  the  theatre,  although  dramas  were  occa- 
sionally acted,  and  the  Comedie-Frangaise 
company  made  its  only  appearance  in  England 
at  this  theatre.  John  Hollingshead  was  the 
manager  of  the  theatre  until  1886,  and  during 
his  season  of  burlesque  there  the  institution 
was  no  credit  to  the  drama.  Men  about  town 
in  London — decrepit  earls  and  rich  lordlings — 
had  access  to  the  stage  as  freely  as  if  they 
were  actors  in  the  performance.  The  pretty 
women  in  the  chorus  paid  little  or  no  atten- 
tion to  their  work,  left  during  the  performance 
if  they  were  so  inclined,  and  were  said  to 
ignore  for  months  at  a  time  the  envelopes  con- 
taining their  salaries. 

H.  J.  Byron  and  F.  C.  Burnand  supplied 
most  of  the  burlesques  in  those  days.  Nellie 
Farren,  Arthur  Roberts,  Fred  Leslie,  Kate 
Vaughn,  Phyllis  Broughton,  Letty  Lind,  E.  J. 
Lonnen,  Florence  St.  John,  Sylvia  Grey,  John 
Monkhouse,  and  Marion  Hood  were  some  of 
the  artists  who  took  part  in  these  perfor- 
mances. Kate  Vaughn,  who  died  a  year  ago, 
was  the  inventor  of  the  skirt  dance,  which 
was  for  a  long  time  identified  with  the 
laiety's  productions. 


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George  Edwardes,  the  manager  of  the 
theatre  until  its  close,  changed  the  regime 
established  by  Hollingshead,  and  made  the 
Gaiety  as  respectable  as  any  play-house  in 
London:  He  made  burlesques  the  principal 
feature,  but  foreign  actors  also  played  there. 
Augustin  Daly's  company  appeared  at  the 
Gaiety  for  several  seasons.  W.  J.  Flor- 
ence and  his  wife,  Henry  E.  Dixey.  Nat  Good- 
win, and  John  T.  Raymond  also  made  their 
first    English    appearances    at    the    Gaiety. 

The  Gaiety  knew  few  failures,  and,  during 
the  last  decade  of  its  existence,  any  musical 
farce  produced  there  was  sure  to  run  at  least 
a  half-year. 


■What  Roosevelt  Really  Said. 
San  Francisco.  August  1.  1903. 
Editors  Argonaut:  I  have  read  with  in- 
terest the  communications  which  you  have 
printed  in  the  last  three  issues  of  the  Argo- 
naut on  President  Roosevelt's  "  race-suicide  " 
theory,  and  it  strikes  me  that  none  of  the 
writers  seem  to  be  exactly  sure  of  what  our 
chief  executive  actually  did  say.  If  I  am 
not  mistaken,  the  discussion  of  his  views  was 
first  started  by  the  letter  he  wrote  to  Mrs. 
Van  Vorst,  after  reading  her  chapter  on  the 
conditions  at  "  Perry,  a  New  York  Mill 
Town."  This  letter  was  included  in  the  vol- 
ume, "  The  Woman  Who  Toils,"  written  in 
collaboration  by  Mrs.  John  Van  Vorst  and 
Marie  Van  Vorst,  and  immediately  attracted 
much  attention.     It  is  as  follows  : 

"  To  me  there  is  a  melancholy  side  to  your 
article,  when  you  touch  upon  what  is  funda- 
mentally, infinitely  more  important  than  any 
other  question  in  this  country — that  is,  the 
question  of  race  suicide,  complete,  or  partial. 

"  An  easy,  good-natured  kindliness,  and  a 
desire  to  be  '  independent ' — that  is,  to  live 
one's  life  purely  according  to  one's  own  de- 
sires— are  in  no  sense  substitutes  for  the  fun- 
damental virtues,  for  the  practice  of  the 
strong,  racial  qualities,  without  which  there 
can  be  no  strong  races — the  qualities  of  cour- 
age and  resolution  in  both  men  and  women, 
of  scorn  of  what  is  mean,  base,  and  selfish, 
of  eager  desire  to  work,  or  fight,  or  suffer. 
as  the  case  may  be,  provided  the  end  to  be 
gained  is  great  enough,  and  the  contemptuous 
putting  aside  of  mere  ease,  mere  vapid  pleas- 
ure, mere  avoidance  of  toil  and  worry.  I 
do  not  know  whether  I  most  pity  or  most 
despise  the  foolish  and  selfish  man  or  woman 
who  does  not  understand  that  the  only  things 
really  worth  having  in  life  are  those  the 
acquirement  of  which  normally  means  cost 
and  effort.  -  If  a  man  or  woman,  through  no 
fault  of  his  or  hers,  goes  throughout  life  de- 
nied those  highest  of  all  joys  which  spring 
only  from  home  life,  from  the  having  and 
bringing  up  of  many  healthy  children.  I  feel 
for  them  deep  and  respectful  sympathy — the 
sympathy  one  extends  to  the  gallant  fellow 
killed  at  the  beginning  of  a  campaign,  or  the 
man  who  toils  hard  and  is  brought  to  ruin 
by  the  fault  of  others.  But  the  man  or  woman 
who  deliberately  avoids  marriage,  and  has  a 
heart  so  cold  as  to  know  no  passion,  and  a 
brain  so  shallow  and  selfish  as  to  dislike 
having  children,  is  in  effect  a  criminal  against 
the  race,  and  should  be  an  object  of  con- 
temptuous abhorrence  by  all  healthy  people. 

"  Of  course,  no  one  quality  makes  a  good 
citizen,  and  no  one  quality  will  save  a  nation. 
But  there  are  certain  great  qualities  for  the 
lack  of  which  no  amount  of  intellectual  bril- 
liancy, or  of  material  prosperity,  or  of  easi- 
ness of  life,  can  atone,  and  which  show  de- 
cadence and  corruption  in  the  nation  just  as 
much  if  thev  are  produced  by  selfishness  and 
coldness  and  ease-loving  laziness  among  com- 
paratively poor  people,  as  if  they  are  produced 
bv  vicious  or  frivolous  luxury  in  the  rich. 
If  the  men  of  the  nation  are  not  anxious 
to  work  in  many  different  ways,  with  all  their 
might  and  strength,  and  ready  and  able  to  fight 
at  need,  and  anxious  to  be  fathers  of  families, 
and  if  the  women  do  not  recognize  that  the 
greatest  thing  for  any  woman  is  to  be  a  good 
wife  and  mother,  why,  that  nation  has  cause 
to  be  alarmed  about  its  future. 

"  There  is  no  physical  trouble  among  us 
Americans.  The  trouble  with  the  situation 
vou  set  forth  is  one  of  character,  and  there- 
fore we  can  conquer  it  if  we  only  will." 

E.  T.  G. 


An  event  occurred  in  Rome,  the  other  day. 
which  recalls  the  Pontificate  of  Pius  the 
the  Ninth  when  such  things  were  more  com- 
mon than  they  are  now.  This  was  the  begin- 
ning of  the  novitiate  as  a  Benedectine  nun 
of  Princess  Alfonsina,  the  twenty-four-year- 
old  daughter  of  Prince  Orsini.  The  ceremony 
was  attended  by  all  the  members  of  the  old 
Roman  aristocracy.  The  Orsini,  ever  faithful 
to  the  Papacy,  have  given  five  Popes  to  the 
chair  of  St.  Peter,  the  first  so  far  back  as 
752.  and  the  last  in  1724.  The  present  head 
of  the  family,  the  father  of  Alfonsina,  is  as- 
sistant to  the  Papal  throne,  the  highest  lay 
position  at  the  Vatican.  One  of  his  sons  is 
an  officer  of  the  Noble  Guard,  and  was  a  fa- 
vorite of  Leo  the  Thirteenth. 


George  Soule  Spencer,  of  the  Neil-Morosco 
company,  now  playing  at  the  California  The- 
atre, leaves  for  the  East  next  week  to  become 
leading  man  for  William  H.  Crane.  He  is  to 
create  the  part  of  Percival  Bines  in  Crane's 
production  of  "  The  Spenders." 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Notwithstanding  the  honors  heaped  upon 
Professor  Adolf  Lorenz  in  the  United  States, 
hardly  any  attention  was  paid  to  him  in  Mex- 
ico. He  was  not  invited  to  demonstrate  his 
method,  and  the  local  German,  as  well  as  the 
Mexican,  doctors  kept  aloof  from  him.  The 
Austrian  embassador,  Count  Hohenwart,  how- 
ever, gave  a  dinner  in  his  honor. 

J.  A.  Sheppard.  the  brilliant  English  artist 
and  illustrator,  better  known  by  his  pseu- 
donym, "  Phil  May."  died  in  London  on 
Wednesday,  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight.  He 
was  a  victim  of  consumption,  and  his  end  is 
said  to  have  been  hastened  by  his  bohemian 
life,  hard  work,  and  fondness  for  late  hours. 
His  most  notable  work  was  done  for  Punch 
and  the  Graphic, 

The  Duke  of  Marlborough,  who  has  been  ap- 
pointed under  secretary  of  state  for  the 
colonies,  has  heretofore  held  no  political  office, 
although  he  was  mentioned  for  lord  lieuten- 
ant of  Ireland.  He  is  the  ninth  duke  in  suc- 
cession to  the  great  John  Churchill,  is  thirty- 
two  years  old,  and  is  interesting  to  Americans, 
inasmuch  as  his  duchess  was  formerly 
Consuelo  Vanderbilt,  daughter  of  William  K. 
Vanderbilt. 

Lady  Stanley,  wife  of  the  explorer,  Sir 
Henry  Stanley,  has  made  some  interesting 
drawings  for  the  current  Bazar,  illustrating 
an  article  on  "  Street  Arabs  in  London."  Be- 
fore her  marriage,  in  1890,  she  was  Miss  Dor- 
othy Tennent,  daughter  of  C.  Tennent,  of  Gla- 
morganshire, England,  and  known  as  a  beauty 
and  wit.  She  acquired  fame  in  England  by 
electioneering  for  her  husband,  when  he  was 
a  candidate  for  Parliament.  Her  sister  was  the 
model  of  Millais's  celebrated  painting,  "  Yes 
or  No?  " 

The  Hon.  Charlotte  Knollys  (pronounced 
Knowles).  who  has  been  the  constant  atten- 
dant of  Queen  Alexandra  for  the  last  thirty 
years,  is  said  to  be  the  only  lady  not  related 
to  the  English  queen  who  calls  her  by  her 
Christian  name,  or  rather  its  diminutive, 
"  Alix."  In  return,  her  majesty  and  the 
Princesses  Louise,  Maude,  and  Victoria  al- 
ways address  Miss  Knollys  as  "  Chatty."  She 
invariably  travels  with  the  queen,  and  has 
apartments  in  all  the  palaces.  Her  brother, 
Lord  Knolly,  is  secretary  to  King  Edward. 

Robert  J.  Burdette,  who,  up  to  his  practical 
retirement,  a  few  years  ago,  from  the  news- 
paper field,  had  a  national  reputation  as  a 
writer  of  humor,  has  decided  to  become  a 
preacher.  For  some  time  past,  Mr.  Burdette 
has  been  devoting  his  attention  to  the  lecture 
platform,  and  recently,  when  there  came  a  split 
in  the  flock  of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  of 
Los  Angeles,  he  was  asked  by  some  two 
hundred  of  the  members  to  establish  a  new 
church  and  become  its  pastor.  After  due 
deliberation,  Mr.  Burdette  consented,  and  one 
of  the  largest  church  edifices  in  Los  Angeles 
has  been  leased  by  the  new  congregation. 

James  R.  Keene,  the  well-known  Wall  Street 
stockbroker,  who  last  week  lost  $1,500,000 
through  the  doings  and  failure  of  his  son-in- 
law's  brokerage  firm  of  Talbot  J.  Taylor  & 
Co.,  announces  that  he  was  not  embarrassed, 
"  only  annoyed."  Keene  is  too  seasoned  a 
gambler  in  stocks,  horse-races,  and  the  like 
to  make  a  noise  over  the  loss  even  of  millions. 
He  went  from  San  Francisco  to  New  York 
in  1878  with  a  reputation  for  daring  specu- 
lative deeds  and  a  fortune  supposed  to  rise 
into  the  millions.  This  fortune  has  been  lost, 
won  back,  increased,  and  lost  again  several 
times  since  then.  He  was  reputed  to  have 
dropped  from  $4,000,000  to  $7,000,000  in  the 
slump  of  1883-4,  ana"  suspended  payment,  but 
was  soon  on  his  feet  again  gathering,  in  other 
millions. 

Giuseppe  Sarto,  Patriarch  of  Venice,  who 
was  elected  on  Tuesday  to  succeed  Pope  Leo 
the  Thirteenth  on  the  throne  of  St. 
Peter,  was  born  at  Riese.  Province  of 
Venice,  June  2,  1835.  He  was  only  twenty- 
three  years  of  age  when  he  was  consecrated 
a  priest  at  Castel  Franco.  For  nine  years 
he  acted  as  coadjutor  to  the  parish  priest  at 
Tombolo,  Province  of  Padua.  Then  he  was 
appointed  parish  priest  at  Salzano,  and  in 
1875  he  was  elected  chancellor  of  the 
Bishopric  of  Treviso.  Then  he  was  pro- 
moted to  spiritual  director  of  that  seminary, 
judge  of  the  ecclesiastical  tribunal,  and  finally 
vicar-general.  At  the  age  of  forty-nine.  Pope 
Leo  appointed  him  Bishop  of  Mantua,  where 
he  remained  nine  years,  until  1893,  when  he 
was  made  a  cardinal,  and  appointed  Patriarch 
of  Venice.  He  encountered  a  determined  oppo- 
sition on  the  part  of  the  Italian  Government, 
however,  before  he  could  take  possession  of  his 


See.  The  government  maintained  that  the 
patriarchate  was  part  of  the  King  of  Italy's 
patronage,  and  that  it  was  the  king's  right 
to  present  his  own  candidate.  The  difficulty 
which  ensued  was  in  reality  solved,  or  shelved, 
because  Cardinal  Sarto,  though  chosen  by 
the  Pope,  was  a  favorite  with  the  Italian 
Government  and  with  King  Humbert  himself 
— a  rather  singular  case  in  Italy.  The  cardi- 
nal has,  therefore,  ruled  his  diocese  undis- 
turbed during  the  last  ten  years,  beloved  by 
Catholics,  esteemed  by  the  government,  and 
respected  by  his  enemies.  Under  his  sway, 
the  Catholic  institutions  of  Venice  have 
thriven  exceedingly,  and  the  cardinal's  piety, 
combined  with  his  very  noteworthy  common 
sense,  has  given  him  the  reputation  of  being 
an  ideal  bishop. 

It  is  reported  from  London  that  the  delay 
in  the  announcement  of  the  engagement  of 
Miss  Muriel  White,  daughter  of  the  secretary 
of  the  American  legation,  and  Austen  Cham- 
berlain, M.  P.,  is  due  to  the  bitter  opposition 
of  Joseph  Chamberlain,  who  feels  that  his 
eldest  son  could  more  materially  assist  his 
prospects  by  marrying  into  one  of  the  great 
and  wealthy  English  families.  Inasmuch  as 
the  colonial  secretary  married  Miss  Endicott. 
of  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  President  Cleve- 
land's Secretary  of  War,  London  society  is 
amused  at  his  opposition  to  the  marriage  ofhis 
son  to  an  American  girl.  Austen  Chamberlain, 
by  the  way.  is  already  forty  years  old.  He 
has  accumulated  considerable  wealth,  and,  as 
he  is  a  great  social  and  political  favorite,  he 
is  considered  a  great  catch  by  dowagers  with 
marriageable  daughters. 

Captain  John  J.  Pershing.  LT.  S.  A.,  who 
returned  from  the  Philippines  last  week 
on  a  leave  of  absence,  is  a  West 
Pointer  of  the  class  of  1886.  with  an  ex- 
ceptionally brilliant  army  record.  Last  Octo- 
ber he  was  appointed  Datto  of  Iligan  by  the 
Sultan  of  Mindanao,  upon  the  request  of  the 
latter's  own  subjects.  Iligan  is  the  chief  town 
of  the  Lake  Lanoa  district,  on  the  island  of 
Mindanao,  and  as  datto  Captain  Pershing  dis- 
pensed justice  to  the  Moros.  In  power  he 
was  supposed  to  be  second  to  the  sultan,  and 
subject  to  his  command — that  is,  so  far  as 
it  did  not  conflict  with  his  duty  to  the  stars 
and  stripes.  Captain  Pershing  was  virtually 
the  civil  as  well  as  the  military  ruler  of  the 
district,  and  the  chiefs,  who  held  him  in  the 
highest  esteem,  consulted  him  daily.  Almost 
every  conceivable  kind  of  business,  private  as 
well  as  public,  was  taken  to  him  for  adjust- 
ment. Captain  Pershing  taught  the  Moros 
that  they  had  a  different  kind  of  people  from 
the  Spaniards  to  deal  with.  He  fought  them 
to  a  finish  when  fighting  was  necessary,  and 
by  fair,  upright  treatment  won  the  friendship 
of  all  but  a  few.  Their  confidence  in  him  was 
so  strong  that  he  was  able  to  make  periodical 
expeditions  about  the  district  with  a  mere 
handful  of  men.  At  one  of  the  recent  out- 
breaks in  Mindanao  he  held  the  north  lake 
Moros  out  of  the  trouble  solely  by  his  influ- 
ence. 


La  Marquise. 

Editors  Argonaut  :  Can  you  print  in  your 
"  Old  Favorites "  column  a  French  poem  by 
Longfellow  which  appeared  in  a  volume  of 
short  stories  a  number  of  vears  ago? 

C.  De  L. 

[There  is  a  French  poem,  addressed  to 
Agassiz,  which  appears  in  Longfellow's  works, 
and  was  acknowledged  by  him.  The  follow- 
ing he  is  said  to  have  written  ;  it  appeared  in 
"  Swanee  River  Tales,"  by  Sherwood  Bonner. 
— Eds.] 

Qu'clle  est  belle  la  marquise! 
Que  sa  toilette  est  exquise! 
Gants  glaces  a  dix  boutons, 
Et  bottines   hauts   talons! 
Qu'clle  est  belle  la  marquise! 

Quelles  delices,  quel  delirc, 
Dans  sa  bouche  et  son  sourJrc! 
Et  sa  voix — qui  nc  dirait 
Que  le  rossignol  cliantait? 
Qu'clle  est  belle  la  marquise! 

La   marquise!    ma   marquise! 
"  Bel  amour  "  est  sa  devise 
Et  sa  profession  de  foi 
Est:  "  je  vous  aime — aimez  moi!  " 
Qu'clle  est  belle  la  marquise! 


Some  of  the  recent  manifestations  in  Italy  of 
public  ill-will  toward  Austria  have  been  of  an 
extraordinary  character.  In  Rome,  during  the 
performance  of  M.  Rostand's  "  L'Aiglon."  in 
the  Teatro  Nazionale,  whenever  Austria  was 
mentioned  or  Austrian  uniforms  appeared  on 
the  stage,  the  audience  hissed  and  cried 
"Down  with  Austria";  and  when  the  Aus- 
trian hymn  was  played  they  whistled  and 
stamped,  and  called  for  the  Italian  hymn  and 
the  "  Garibaldi  March."  So  great  was  the 
commotion  raised  by  Rostand's  play  that  fur- 
ther presentations  of  "  L'Aiglon  "  have  been 
prohibited  by  the  Italian  Government. 


88 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  io,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


James  Lane  Allen's  New  Novel. 

At  least  one  noted  American  man  of  letters 
temerariously  proclaims  in  "Who's  Who?" 
that  he  is  "  a  novelist  and  farmer."  Frank 
Mr.  Garland!  But  he  needs  to  look  to  his 
rustic  laurels  if  James  Lane  Allen  is  to  con- 
tinue to  have  such  ardently  agricultural 
tastes  in  book-titles.  On  the  cover  of  the 
Kentuckian's  first  novel  the  lush  and  juicy 
blue-grass  of  Kentucky  courtsied  in  the  breeze. 
Soon  thereafter  came  "  Aftermath  "  with  its 
georgic  associations.  Then  his  readers  fol- 
lowed the  agronomic  Allen  into  "  the  hemp- 
fields  "  with  a  mighty  swish  of  skirts.  "  A 
Summer  in  Arcady "  was  a  title  that  harped 
on  the  same  old  theme.  Now  as  a  cap-sheaf 
(to  speak  farmerly)  in  bucolic  nomenclature 
we  have  "  The  Mettle  of  the  Pasture."  Mr. 
Allen  plainly  has  both  feet  hard  and  fast  in 
Kentucky  gumbo,  and  can't  get  loose. 

It  is  only  fair  to  say,  however,  that  Mr. 
Allen's  book  is  not  so  pastoral  as  the  title. 
True,  there  are  a  few  calves,  bovine  and  hu- 
man, in  it.  but  they  scarcely  count.  The  real 
theme  of  the  story — well,  we  don't  know  what 
it  is.  There  are  five  couples  ;  some  of  them 
get  married  and  some  do  not.  The  book  is  so 
divided  among  them  that  what  we  may  call 
the  major  couple  is  out  of  mind  most  of  the 
time.  Indeed,  "  The  Mettle  of  the  Pasture  " 
scarcely  deserves  the  name  of  novel  at  all. 
It  is  rather  a  series  of  little  stories  bound  to- 
gether by  threads  of  relationships.  Dent  and 
Pansy's  little  romance  is  a  perfect  thing  of 
its  kind,  and  quite  detached.  So  are  the  fine 
character-sketches  of  Professor  Hardage  and 
his  sister,  that  of  Judge  Morris,  the  narrative 
of  the  old  maid's  wooing,  and  the  little  affair 
between  Barbee  and  Marguerite.  It  is  these 
carefully  depicted  habitants  of  the  old  Ken- 
tucky town  wno  will  live,  we  think,  in  the 
memories  of  readers.  The  book  is  well  worth 
while,  if  only  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  the 
venerable  judge. 

But  the  hero  and  heroine  are  disap- 
pointing. Their  mutual  problem  is  solved 
weakly  and  sentimentally,  not  sensibly.  The 
problem  is  this :  Shall  a  man  who,  in  early 
youth,  has  had  a  child  by  a  girl  who  has  since 
married  a  man  of  her  own  class  and  passed 
with  the  child  irrevocably  out  of  his  life — 
shall  he  tell  the  pure  woman  who  loves  him 
and  whom  he  is  about  to  marry  of  the  fact? 
Mr.  Allen's  hero  does  so.  The  blue-blooded 
Kentucky  girl  recoils  from  his  very  touch  and 
ends  at  once  everything  between  them.  The 
young  man  (he  is  only  twenty-five)  is  proud 
but  broken-hearted ;  he  turns  for  solace  to 
hard  work  on  his  estate ;  his  health  fails ; 
unfounded  rumors  besmirch  his  character. 
Meanwhile,  Isabel  travels  abroad.  It  takes 
her  three  years  to  make  up  her  mind,  and  then 
she  comes  back  to  marry  Rowan,  "  for  love's 
sake."  Rowan  dies  within  a  year  after  the 
marriage,  but  not  before  she  has  borne  him  a 
son.  Reams  of  argument  might  be  spent  on 
this  theme — and  we  suppose  will  be.  Let  it 
suffice  here  to  say,  however,  merely  that  it  is 
difficult  for  us  to  admire  Rowan  for  his  bru- 
tal truth-telling.  There  are  moral  heights  so 
high  that  people  freeze  there.  There  are  moral 
atmospheres  so  rarefied  that  people  suffocate. 
As  for  Isabel,  had  she  been  less  proud  and 
selfish  it  seems  to  us  that  she  would  have 
married  Rowan  any  way.  She  wrecked  two 
lives.  Who  gained?  If  nobody,  then  why? 
But  Rowan's  painful  sense  of  honor  is  not 
admirable.  At  the  opposite  pole  from  James 
Lane  Allen  in  character  and  philosophy  is  one 
who  has  written : 

"  If  thtrc  is  trouble  to  Herward  and  a  lie  of  the 
blackest  can  clear. 
Lie,    while    thy    tongue    can    utter,    or    a   soul    is 
altvc  li>  hear." 

Published  bv  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  price,  $1.50. 

Delicate  Studies  of  Nature. 
Charles  G,  D.  Roberts  is  a  poet,  and  into 
his  prose  stories  of  beast  and  bird  he  puts 
poetic  feeling  and  charm  of  phrase  that  are 
rarely  to  be  found  in  current  writing.  In 
"  Earth's  Enigmas  "  he  lias  attempted  "  to  pre- 
sent  one  or  another  of  those  problems  of  life 
or  nature  to  which  .  .  .  there  is  no  adequate 
solution  within  sight."  Thus,  in  the  story 
called  "  The  Young  Ravens  that  Call  Upon 
1 1  tiii.''  he  vividly  pictures  an  eagle's  eyrie, 
where  the  great  birds  are  "  racked  with 
hunger  "  and  the  young  "  meagre  and  uncom- 
forted."  Day  after  day  the  eagles  have  hunted 
almost  in  vain.  But  at  dawn  they  again 
"  la  inch  themselves  into  the  abyss  of  air " 
in  search  for  food  for  their  starving  young. 
When  Mr.  Roberts  has  roused  the  reader's 
^  Apathies  he  turns  .  d  depicts  a  bleak  and 
n  'red    hillside,    and    (1    reon    a    solitary    ewe 


with  her  newly  yeaned  lamb.  He  paints  for  us 
her  terror  at  the  absence  of  the  flock,  her  fear 
of  some  danger  to  the  bleating  weakling  at  her 
side,  her  blind  courage,  equal  to  charging  a 
lion.  Then  the  eagle  swoops,  and  bears  off 
the  lamb  to  her  young,  while  "  with  piteous 
cries  the  ewe  ran  beneath,  gazing  upward,  and 
stumbling  over  the  hillocks  and  juniper 
bushes."  The  stories  might  readily  be  called 
"  Studies  in  Contrasts."  In  the  present  edi- 
tion, there  are  three  new  tales,  and  a  number 
of  striking  pictures  by  Charles  Livingston 
Bull. 

Published  by  L.  C.  Page  S:  Co.,  Boston; 
price,    $1.50. 

A  Youthful  President's  Ideas  on  Girls. 

Under  the  title,  "  Life  in  a  New  England 
Town,  1787-17SS,"  Charles  Francis  Adams  has 
collected  extracts  from  the  diary  of  his  grand- 
father, John  Quincy  Adams,  while  the  latter 
was  a  law-student  in  the  office  of  Theophilus 
Parsons,  at  Newburyport.  To  these  he  has 
added  exhaustive  notes  clarifying  all  refer- 
ences and  allusions.  The  whole  makes  an 
interesting  book.  The  literary  style  of  the 
youthful  Adams  is  inclined  to  be  stilted  and 
high-flown,  but  that  serves  only  to  give  a 
flavor  of  quaintness.  Certain  coy  misses 
occupy  a  good  deal  of  space,  and  some  of  the 
budding  barrister,  and  future  President's  com- 
ments are  highly  amusing.  One  night  he  at- 
tended a  ball.  "  Miss  Fletcher,"  he  wrote  on 
his  return,  "  had  what  is  called  a  very  genteel 
shape.  Her  complexion  is  fair,  and  her  eye 
is  sometimes  animated  with  a  very  pleasing 
expression  ;  but  unfortunately  she  is  in  love, 
and  unless  the  object  of  her  affections  is  pres- 
ent, she  loses  all  her  spirits,  grows  dull  and 
unsociable,  and  can  be  pleased  with  noth- 
ing. ...  I  was  glad  to  change  my  partner. 
Miss  Coats  is  not  in  love,  and  is  quite  so- 
ciable .  .  .  and,  moreover,  what  is  very  much 
in  her  favor,  she  is  an  only  daughter,  and  her 
father  has  money." 

Published  by  Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
The  Macmillan  Company  will  soon  bring 
out  an  intimate  biography  and  critical  estimate 
of  the  famous  American  artist,  Whistler.  It 
will  be  entitled  "  J.  McNeill  Whistler  and  His 
Work."  Its  authors  are  Arthur  G.  and  Nancy 
Bell. 

Gertrude  Atherton  has  taken  an  apartment 
at  Munich,  and  expects  to  live  for  some  time 
in  that  city. 

The  hero  of  Stanley  J.  Weyman's  new  his- 
torical novel,  "  The  Long  Night,"  is  a  young 
theologian,  the  heroine  a  Genevan  girl,  accused 
of  witchcraft,  and  the  crucial  chapter  depicts 
a  prolonged  hand-to-hand  conflict  in  the  dark- 
ness of  night,  up  and  down  the  tortuous, 
precipitous  streets  of  Geneva. 

The  series  of  articles  upon  "  The  Nine- 
teenth Century  in  Caricature,"  by  A.  B. 
Maurice  and  F.  T,  Cooper,  which  began  in 
the  March  number  of  an  Eastern  magazine, 
will  be  published  in  book-form  in  the  autumn. 

"  In  Double  Harness "  is  to  be  the  title 
of  Anthony   Hope's   new   society  novel. 

The  new  series  of  stories  dealing  with 
Sherlock  Holmes  is  to  be  entitled  "  The  Re- 
turn of  Sherlock  Holmes."  It  will  appear 
in  the  Strand,  in  England,  and  in  a  well- 
known  weekly  in  this  country.  Consequently, 
the  stories  will  not  be  included  in  the  Ameri- 
can edition  of  the  Strand.  The  first  four 
stories  are  entitled  "  The  Adventure  of  the 
Empty  House."  "  The  Adventure  of  the 
Norwood  Builder,"  "  The  Adventure  of  the 
Dancing  Man,"  and  "  The  Adventure  of  the 
Solitary    Cyclist." 

The  Lippincotts  have  just  published  their 
biographical  edition  of  the  novels  of  Charles 
Dickens  in  twenty  volumes.  Each  volume  in 
the  edition  is  supplied  with  a  biographical 
introduction,  giving  a  history  of  the  book 
and  its  place  in  Dickens's  life.  The  edition 
also  includes  Forster's  "  Life  of  Dickens," 
edited  and  revised  by  the  English  novelist 
and  critic,   George   Gissing. 

Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan  has  in  press  a  vol- 
ume to  be  entitled  "  The  Voice  of  the  Scholar, 
and  Other  Addresses  on  the  Problems  of 
Higher  Education." 

General  F.  V.  Greene,  who  recently  visited 
San  Francisco  in  Governor  Odell's  party,  con- 
tributes a  memoir  of  his  father,  the  late 
Major-General  George  Sears  Greene,  to  the 
genealogical  work  on  the  family,  which  is 
being  issued  privately,  under  the  title  "  The 
Greenes  of  Rhode  Island."  The  late  Major- 
General  Greene  spent  many  years  in  collecting 
the  material  for  this  book.  His  manuscripts 
have    l.een    compiled    and    arranged    for    pub- 


lication by  Mrs.  Louise  B.  Clarke,  of  the 
New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  So- 
ciety. The  publication  is  made  by  the  com- 
piler's sons. 

The  first  edition  of  Jack  London's  "  The 
Call  of  the  Wild  "  was  exhausted  on  the  day 
of  publication.  A  second  edition  of  ten  thou- 
sand, as  was  the  first,  is  now  preparing,  but 
likely  to  be  delayed  somewhat  because  of  the 
new  process  used  in  reproducing  the  colored 
illustrations. 

A  book  of  verse  by  Marie  Corelli,  to  be 
brought  out  under  the  title  "  Songs  and 
Poems,"    is    announced    for    early   publication. 

Stephen  Gwynn,  author  of  "  John  Maxwell's 
Marriage,"  a  forthcoming  novel  on  the  Mac- 
millan Company's  list,  has  been  selected  by 
John  Morley  to  write  the  biography  of  Tom 
Moore  for  the  English  Men  of  Letters  Series. 

Dr.  Lyman  Abbott's  book  on  Henry  Ward 
Beecher,  his  predecessor  in  the  Plymouth 
Church  pulpit,  is  described  as  more  intimate 
than  formal. 

J.  Storer  Clouston,  author  of  "  Adventures 
of  M.  d'Haricot,"  the  account  of  ludicrous 
adventures  of  a  Frenchman  in  England,  is 
writing  a  new  story,  which  is  said  to  be  not 
quite  so  broadly  farcical  as  the  "  D'Haricot  " 
book. 

LATE    VERSE. 


Two  Careers. 
What  has  she  done  that  men  should  stay 
The  jostling  hurry  of  their  way 
To  seek  with  wonder-eager  eyes 
The  darkened  mansion  where  she  lies? 
What  has  she  done  that,  far  and  wide. 
Has  flashed  the  word  that  she  has  died — 
That  folk  in  distant  lands  have  said 
To  one  another,   "She  is   dead"? 
Why  should  the  lips  of  strangers  raise 
To  her  a  monument  of  praise? 
Ah,  it  was  hers  to  conquer   fame. 
She  made  a  Name. 

And  she  who  lies  so  whitely  still, 
Untouched  of  joy,  unvexed  of  ill, 
Has  she  done  aught?     Why,  surely,  no; 
The  records  of  her  living  show 
No  laurels  won,   no   glory  gained. 
No  effort  crowned,  no  height  attained; 
In  life  she  championed  no  cause; 
Why  should  the  passing  people  pause? 
One  little  household's  narrow  scope 
Held  all  her  heart  and  all  her  hope. 
Too  lowly  she  for  fame's  high  dome, 
She  made  a  Home. 
— Jennie  Belts  Hartsieick  in   August  Bazaar. 

Homesickness. 
Where  shall  I  wander,  where  upon  the  plain. 
Who   finds   not   that   for   which   my  "heart   is   fain. 
Not  one  sweet  meadow  where  the  violets  wake. 
Nor  any  woodland  bordering  a  lake? 
Where   shall   I   search   upon    the  mountain-side, 
Who  can  not  find  the  darlings  of  my  pride — 
The  first  arbutus  hid  beneath  the  snow. 
The  star-sown  wind-flowers  that  I  used  to  know, 
The   wintergreen,   the  little   partridge-vine 
Bright-berried  yearly  underneath  the  pine? 
Where  shall  I  turn,  who  can  no  longer  see 
The  far  blue  hills   familiar  unto   me— 
The  hills  of  summer  and  the  hills  of  snow 
Where  great  winds  rise  and  driven  clouds  sweep 

low. 
Too    long   my   steps    were    taught    New    England 

ways, 
Too  long  my  eyes  looked  out  upon  those  days 
To  find  their  comfort  here.     Here  sorrow  dwells, 
And  the  wide  future  opens,  dim  and  vast; 
But  there  forever  lie  the  olden  spells, 
The   balm    of  childhood  and   my   treasured   past! 
—Edith  C.  Banh'ctd  in  August  Century  Magazine. 


The  "Wandering  Jew. 
The  shuttle  flies,  the  cloth  is  being  spun 
To  drape  a  form  that  shivered  long  in  rags, 
And  journeyed  from  the  mire,  to  reach  the  crags, 
Along  the  lowlands,  where  the  shining  sun 
Caressed  him  (as  he  passed,  with  staff  in  hand), 
The  homeless  Jew,  with  nothing  but  a  Book 
To  take  along,  when  all  else  he  forsook. 

To  pilgrim  to  his  God  o'er  sea  and  land, 

Unswerving  in  his  purpose  as  the  stars, 

As  true  as  steel,  as  firm  as  adamant. 

As  tender  as  a  child  in  sentiment: 

This  wand'ring  sage,  who  hides  a  myriad  scars 

Beneath  his  threadbare  cap  and  gabardine, 

Shall    wear   distinction   with  a  modest  mien. 

— George  Alexander  Kohut  in  Ex. 

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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Porto  Ricans. 

The  editor  of  "'  The  History  of  Puerto 
Rico  "  assures  us  in  the  preface  that  there  is 
no  satisfactory  history  of  the  island  in  Span- 
ish, and  none  at  all  in  English.  Consequently, 
it  is  clear  that  the  reader  who  wants  to  know 
about  Porto  Rico  must  put  up  with  the 
multitudinous  faults  of  the  present  book  by 
R.  A.  Van  Middeldyk,  of  the  San  Juan  Public 
Library — chief  among  which  is  the  disjointed 
arrangement,  the  achronotopical  scheme, 
which  puts  .the  chapter  headed  1520-1582  be- 
fore the  one  headed  15 15-»53-4.  and  the  prom- 
inence improperly  given  to  the  sixteenth 
century  at  the  expense  of  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth.  Nevertheless,  the  book  is  inter- 
esting. One  phase  of  it  in  particular — that 
of  the  racial  history  of  the  Puertoriqueiios — 
is  striking. 

The  first  permanent  Spanish  settlements 
were  made  about  1508,  the  island  having  been 
discovered  by  Columbus  in  1493.  The  char- 
acter of  the  settlers  may  be  inferred  from 
the  fact  that  they  were  all  men,  and  that  Kin;: 
Ferdinand  expressly  stipulated  that  "  any 
Spaniard  may  freely  go  to  the  Indies  ...  by 
simply  presenting  himself  to  the  Seville  of- 
ficials without  giving  any  further  informa- 
tion [about  himself]  " — a  clear  invitation  to 
shady  characters.  In  a  later  document  the 
king  wrote:  "Spread  reports  about  great 
quantities  of  gold  ...  do  not  trouble  about 
antecedents  ...  if  not  useful  as  laborers  they 
will  do  to  fight."  These  are  doubtless  the 
settlers  of  whom  Arango  speaks  as  "  the  vile 
brood  of  pardoned  criminals."  These  criminals, 
of  course,  mated  with  the  Indians,  who  are 
described  in  contemporary  accounts  as  "  short, 
corpulent,  with  flat  noses,  wide  nostrils,  dull 
eyes,  bad  teeth,  narrow  foreheads,  the  skull 
artificially  flattened  before  and  behind  so  as  to 
give  it  a  conical  shape."  From  the  loins  of 
criminals  and  enslaved  natives,  then,  sprung 
the  mestizas.  But  a  new  racial  factor  entered 
before  many  years.  The  Indians,  at  first 
numbering  about  6,000,  being  enslaved  in  the 
mines,  were  decimated  by  inhuman  treat- 
ment and  disease.  Negro  slaves  were  then 
imported — men  and  women.  These  mixed  with 
the  Indians,  producing  (to  employ  the  termin- 
ology of  Tschudi)  the  chino  and  zambo.  They 
also  mated  with  the  whites,  producing  the 
mulatto.  Then  followed  in  due  course 
various  mixtures — the  Creole,  zambo-negro. 
mestizoes,  etc.  Later  on.  the  predominance 
of  Spanish  settlers  of  a  better  class  improved 
the  racial  tone  of  the  population.  Yet  315.63- 
of  the  894.302  souls,  which  form  the  present 
population,  are  negroes,  or  of  mixed  race. 
Mr.  Middeldyk  has  firm  faith  in  the  ultimate 
redemption  of  the  race,  though  he  declares 
that  "  of  the  moral  defects  of  the  people  it 
would  be  invidious  to  speak."  The  book  con- 
tains a  number  of  illustrations. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York; 
price,  $1.25. 

"  Six  Trees." 

It  is  not  the  first  time  that  Mary  Wilkins 
Freeman  has  tasted  the  bitterness  of  a  too-re- 
munerative literary  celebrity.  Her  natural 
bent  is  toward  simplicity  and  realism,  and  her 
earlier  stories  of  New  England  life  and  char- 
acter were  so  unshrinkingly  sincere  and  direct 
in  their  rigid,  almost  stern,  honesty,  and  she 
was  able  to  infuse  so  strong  an  element  of 
interest  into  their  forthright  realism,  that 
she  built  up  for  herself  a  reputation  that,  in 
its  money  value,  now  means  ceaseless  and  not 
always  artistic  labor.  Mrs.  Freeman  now, 
and  for  several  years,  has  been  producing  too 
rapidly  to  maintain  her  former  standard  of 
literary  art. 

This  is  shown  in  her  latest  book,  "  Six 
Trees,"  which,  like  her  series  of  animal 
stories  that  appeared  in  Harper's  Monthly 
Magazine  some  years  ago,  has  a  fundamental 
basis  of  distorted  fancy  that  is  prompted  more 
by  expediency  than  by  artistic  conviction. 

"  Six  Trees "  contains  six  stories,  each  of 
whose  leading  characters  is  a  person,  and  not 
a  tree.  But  the  idea  carried  out  in  all  of 
the  six  stories  is  of  the  influence  exerted  on 
the  life,  the  mental  attitude,  and  the  character 
generally  of  those  who  live  in  daily  contempla- 
tion of,  and  association  with,  a  favorite  tree. 

The  idea  is  pretty,  fanciful,  and  pictur- 
esque, but  here  it  is  hammered  out  thin  by 
too  much  repetition ;  it  becomes  strained  and 
unnatural,  robbing  the  story  that  it  embellishes 
of  its   spontaneity. 

So  it  has  proved  in  the  tales  which  comprise 
the  volume  of  "  Six  Trees  "  in  nearly  every 
case.  The  exception  is  "  The  Apple  Tree," 
which  is  more  like  Mrs.  Freeman  in  her  earlier 
manner,  and  not  Mrs.  Freeman  imitating  her- 
self.   It   has   some   of   the   humor   of   her   ad- 


mirable little  story,  "  The  Revolt  of  Mother," 
and  in  it  the  apple-tree  is  subordinated  to  its 
proper  place,  and  not  dragged  up  by  the 
roots,  trying  to  keep  pace  with  humans.  Mrs. 
Freeman's  characteristic  qualities  make  all 
the  other  stories  readable,  but  scarcely  cred- 
ible. The  New  England  nature,  the  New- 
England  dialect,  the  New  England  thrift  and 
energy  and  tenacity  of  purpose,  are  all  there 
in  full,  thriving  beneath  the  shadow  of  ac- 
companying trees,  save  the  spring  bloom  of 
the  apple-tree,  where  is  drawn  a  tolerant  and 
reposeful  picture  of  thriftlessness  which,  on 
the  whole,  pleases  more  than  the  others  by 
its  sense  of  contrast. 

Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New  York  ; 
price,  $1.25. 

New  Publications. 
"  A  Puritan  Witch,"  by  Marvin  Dana,  is 
a  melodramatic  story  of  early  New  England 
days,  dealing,  as  its  title  indicates,  with  the 
witchcraft  delusion.  Published  by  the  Smart 
Set  Publishing  Company,  New  York;  price, 
$1.50. 

The  new  edition  of  the  works  of  Charles 
Kingsley,  edited  by  Maurice  Kingsley,  which 
has  heretofore  been  noticed  in  these  columns, 
is  carried  forward  by  the  publication  of 
"  Westward  Ho  !  "  in  two  volumes.  Published 
by  J.  F.  Taylor  &  Co.,  New  York. 

The  department  of  state  of  California,  un- 
der the  administration  of  Charles  F.  Curry, 
is  publishing  some  very  useful  manuals  for  the 
use  of  lawyers  and  laymen.  Two  of  these 
have  reached  us.  One  contains  the  State  and 
Federal  Constitutions,  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence, Magna  Charta,  and  other  interest- 
ing papers.  The  other  is  entitled  "  Corpora- 
tion Laws  of  California,"  and  is  a  closely 
printed  work  of  more  than  three  hundred 
pages. 

So  anxious  are  the  publishers  to  escape 
the  opprobrium  of  bringing  another  historical 
novel  into  the  world,  that  they  print  in  em- 
phatic italics  on  the  cover  of  "  The  Love  of 
Monsieur  "  :  "  This  is  not  an  historical  novel." 
But  George  Gibbs  has  only  escaped  committing 
that  crime  by  the  skin  of  his  teeth.  He  has 
left  out  the  dates,  the  great  personages  in 
diaphonous  disguise,  the  kings  and  the  queens. 
For  the  rest,  the  book  is  of  the  fatally  familiar 
sort — plenty  of  torrid  love  and  gory  fights. 
Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New  York; 
price,  $1.50. 

A  book  called  "  Private  Papers  of  Henry 
Ryecroft  "  purports  to  have  been  prepared  by 
George  Gissing  from  material  left  behind  him 
by  Ryecroft,  a  somewhat  mediocre  London 
journalist,  whose  last  years  were  brightened 
by  an  annuity  of  three  hundred  pounds,  ena- 
bling him  to  settle  down  in  the  country  and 
amuse  himself  by  writing  down  random  notes 
and  memories.  These  jottings,  though  tinged 
with  bitterness,  are,  from  their  frankness  and 
freedom  from  restraint,  quite  interesting.  It 
is  not  clear,  however,  that  their  author's 
name  is  Ryecroft.  It  may  be  Gissing.  Pub- 
lished by  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

"  'Twixt  God  and  Mammon,"  a  posthumous 
novel  by  William  Edwards  Tirebuck,  which 
is  so  unfortunate  as  to  be  introduced  by  Hall 
Caine,  deals  chiefly  with  rural  life  in  Wales. 
The  problem  that  there  faces  a  young  clergy- 
man is  whether  he  shall  marry  a  sincere  and 
lovely  country  girl  named  Joy  Probert,  and 
lead  a  devoted  and  earnest  life  in  a  country 
parish,  or  accept  the  "munificent"  (!)  offer 
of  "  a  rectory,  £450  per  annum  in  an  agricul- 
tural district  " — a  course  which  carries  with 
it  the  tacit  agreement  to  marry  the  mature 
and  wealthy,  but  unspiritual.  Miss  Moore. 
The  book  as  a  whole  is  a  gloomy  one,  but 
shows  intimate  knowledge  of  Welsh  life  and 
character.  Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co., 
New  York;  price,  $1.50. 

T.  M.  Clark's  "  Building  Superintendence," 
is  a  standard  work  on  the  subject,  being  suf- 
ficiently commended  by  the  fact  that  it  has 
passed  through  fifteen  editions.  The  section 
dealing  with  steel  office  structures  has  been 
entirely  re-written  for  the  last  edition,  and  is 
now  thoroughly  up  to  date.  The  work  is  par- 
ticularly designed  for  the  use  of  persons  hav- 
ing buildings  erected,  who  desire  to  know 
how  to  supervise  them  efficiently,  and  for 
young  architects.  The  theory  of  building  is 
not  gone  into — merely  the  ordinary  practice. 
It  is  amusing  to  read  on  page  fifty-eight  that 
"  hard  but  crooked  bricks,  if  not  too  much 
distorted,  may  be  utilized  in  the  backing  of 
stonework,  but  must  not  be  used  in  any  pier 
or  arch."  This  was  once  sound  advice,  but 
time  hath  worked  its  changes,  and  now  the 
crooked,   blackened   and   distored   bricks    from 


the  top  of  the  kiln  are  (at  least  in  San  Fran- 
cisco) put  in  the  most  prominent  places,  since 
they  are  held  to  be  "  artistic."  The  brick 
that  once  "  might  be  utilized  in  the  backing  " 
has  verily  now  become  the  head  of  the  cor- 
ner. Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company, 
New  York. 

In  "  Sarah  Tuldon  "  we  have  a  rather  strik- 
ing story  of  Wessex  life  and  character  in 
the  'forties.  The  people  of  the  tale  differ 
little  from  those  we  find  in  the  novels  of 
Hardy,  but  Orme  Angus  has  developed  an 
original  plot  in  an  original  manner.  The 
heroine  is  a  shrewish  young  woman,  but 
possesses  at  the  bottom  really  fine  instincts. 
How  she  lifted  her  family  from  penury  to 
comfort,  and  revolutionized  the  town  in 
which  they  lived  and  the  country  round 
about,  is  the  theme  of  the  tale.  Published  by 
Little,   Brown   &   Co.,   Boston;    price,   $1.50. 

Parts  VI  and  VII  of  the  Representative 
Art  of  Our  Time  Series  are  now  from  the 
press.  Part  VI  contains,  among  other  things, 
an  etching  by  M.  Lepere,  a  lithograph  by 
M.  Steinlen,  a  reproduction  of  a  painting  by 
Mr.  Clausen,  and  one  of  Charles  Conder's 
fan-designs.  In  Part  VII  we  find  an  etching 
by  Alphonse  Legros,  and  reproductions  of 
Mr.  Watt's  "  Trifles  Light  as  Air,"  and  of  a 
landscape  by  M.  Raffaelli  in  his  own  medium. 
The  papers  accompanying  the  prints  are  con- 
tributed by  A.  L.  Baldry  (on  "  The  Develop- 
ment and  Practice  of  Pastel  Painting "  and 
"  Herkomer-gravure "),  and  Alfred  East  (on 
"  Monotyping  in  Color").  These  numbers 
maintain  the  standard  set  by  the  previous 
issues.     Published  by  John   Lane,   New  York. 


Henley's  Friendship  for  Kipling. 
Before  his  marriage,  Rudyard  Kipling  and 
the  late  W.  E.  Henley  were  very  devoted 
friends,  and  saw  much  of  each  other  in  Lon- 
don. So  interested  was  Henley  in  his  young 
friend's  work  that  he  is  said  to  have  retouched 
nearly  all  of  Kipling's  earlier  poems.  Sherwin 
Cody,  in  the  Boston  Transcript .  thus  relates 
how  the  two  devoted  writers  finally  drifted 
apart : 

One  of  the  well-liked  young  men  in  the 
early  'nineties  was  Walcott  Balestier.  He  had 
two  sisters  who  used  to  visit  him  in  London. 
cne  coming  for  the  winter  and  one  for  the 
summer.  The  older  one,  who  came  for  the 
winter,  was  not  at  all  popular,  while  the 
younger  sister  was  a  favorite.  One  day  a 
young  literary  friend  rushed  in  on  Mr.  Henley, 
exclaiming : 

"  Kipling's  engaged  to  Miss   Balestier." 

"Which  one?"  was  the  query;  "summer  or 
winter?" 

"  Winter." 

"Oh,  my  God!"  was  Henley's  spontaneous 
exclamation. 

Well,  Kipling  was  married  to  Miss 
Balestier,  and  came  to  the  United  States  to 
live.  After  a  time,  as  we  know,  he  went  back 
to  London.  He  had  apartments  in  Chelsea, 
not  far  from  Henley's  home  at  that  time. 
After  he  had  been  in  London  for  about  three 
weeks,  Henley  met  him  on  the  street  one 
Sunday  morning.  It  was  the  cordial  reunion 
of  old  friends,  for  Henley  kindly  forgot  the 
fact  (a  fact  which  had  pained  him  greatly) 
that  Kipling  had  been  in  London,  just  around 
the  corner,  for  three  weeks,  and  had  not  been 
to  see  him.  Kipling  and  Henley  went  to  the 
latter's  apartments,  and  talked  gayly  until 
after  one  o'clock,  when  Kipling  suddenly 
pulled  out  his  watch,  and  declared  he  must 
go  home  at  once,  that  his  wife  would  be  wait- 
ing lunch  for  him.  Henley  pressed  his  friend 
to  take  lunch  with  him  ;  but  Kipling  insisted 
that  he  must  go  home.  He  said  he  would  re- 
turn immediately,  however.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  Mr.  Henley  did  not  see  his  famous  young 
friend  again  during  his  stay  in  London.  In 
view  of  all  that  he  had  done  for  Kipling,  even 
to  the  detailed  revision  of  his  first  regular 
volume  of  verse,  when  the  young  man  was  un- 
known in  London,  this  seemed  like  rank  in- 
gratitude ;  but  Mr.  Henley  laid  it  all  to  Kip- 
ling's wife. 


Extraordinary  Values  of  "Science  and  Health." 
A  remarkably  rare  book  (says  the  Boston 
Transcript)  is  the  first  edition  of  "  Science 
and  Health,"  by  Mary  Baker  Glover,  Boston. 
1876.  This,  the  gospel  of  Christian  Science, 
as  first  promulgated  by  its  author,  is  now 
one  of  the  most-sought  books  of  compara- 
tively recent  date.  The  votaries  of  Christian 
Science  include  many  wealthy  collectors.  One 
of  them  purchased  an  inferior  copy  at  a  re- 
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August  io,  1903. 


A  lazy  man  would  warmly  approve  of  "  The 
Vinegar  Buyer,"  in  which  vagabonds  and 
gentry  without  visible  means  of  support  are 
good  "men  and  true,  who  win  for  themselves 
the  love  of  fair  women,  while  the  industry 
of  rogues,  who  toil  and  sweat  for  the 
wherewithal,  does  not  prevent  them  from 
being  a  thoroughly  bad  lot.  The  good  fel- 
lows, too.  are  humorists,  while  the  deplorable 
industry  of  the  unprincipled  pair  is  even 
more  unpardonable  from  their  reprehensible 
lack  of  appreciation  of  a  joke. 

"  The  Vinegar  Buyer."  however,  as  an- 
nounced by  Ezra  Kendall  in  his  speech  before 
the  curtain,  does  not  aspire  toward  "  literary 
heights  or  dramatic  flights."  It  is  a  gauzy 
dramatic  structure,  built  around  a  meandering 
River  of  Jocosities.  It  is  almost,  but  not  quite, 
a  farce,  might  pass  for  rural  drama,  swings 
hazily  toward  vaudeville  when  Ezra  Kendall 
takes  his  stand  before  the  curtain,  and,  boldly 
to  coin  a  word,  nionologuizes.  and  occasionally 
has  passing  moments  of  seriousness,  like  the 
freakish  gravity  that  sometimes  overtakes  the 
cheerfully  inconsequent  moods  of  an  in- 
ebriate. These  moments,  however,  are  few  and 
far  between,  and  Ezra  Kendall  figures  in  them 
not  at  all. 

Mr.  Kendall,  as  Joe  Miller,  the  chief  and 
champion  joke-retailer  of  Bascomb's  Corners, 
is  merely  himself  projected  into  a  play — if 
play  it  can  be  called.  Joe  Miller  has  endeared 
himself  to  the  hearts  of  his  fellow-townsmen 
by  regarding  virtue  and  jokes  with  equal  ap 
proval.  He  encourages  the  one  and  propagates 
the  other,  and  the  only  cloud  that  obscures 
his  perpetual  sun  of  enjoyment  is  the  oc- 
casional inability  of  his  associates  imme- 
diately to  "  drop  "  when  he  makes  a  play  upon 
words,  or,  by  some  infinitesimal  shading  of  in- 
flection, transforms  an  innocent-seeming 
phrase  into  a  good-natured  rap  over  the  bald 
head  of  the  town  bragster.  or  a  temporary  dis- 
turbance of  the  sleek  self-satisfaction  of  the 
town  schemer. 

Joe  Miller  was  evidently  named  after  his 
great  prototype,  because  he  is  a  human  joke- 
factory.  He  never  expresses  himself  in  simple, 
direct  phrase,  but  employs  a  vernacular  which 
is  exclusively  jokese.  He  wishes,  he  says, 
to  have  his  shoes  massaged,  and,  while  he 
makes  rotatory  caresses  over  the  surface  of 
his  silk  hat.  remarks  that,  when  he  got  it,  it 
had  a  long  nap,  and  is  now  in  need  of  a  hot 
application.  Each  of  Mr.  Kendall's  words  drops 
lingeringly,  deliberately,  from  his  lips,  as  if 
his  ear  unconsciously  sought  for  some  unusual 
juxtaposition  of  syllables  which  would  spell 
joke.  There  are  many  people  of  a  similar 
tendency,  whose  ear  and  understanding  get 
trained  to  a  quickness  that,  to  a  mere,  ordi- 
nary, non-joking  individual,  is  sometimes 
marvelous  and  sometimes   fatiguing. 

The  right  kind  of  personality  is  necessary 
to  this  sort  of  thing,  and  Ezra  Kendall  has  it. 
He  is  not  a  strenuous  jester,  looking  avidly 
for  applause,  but  rather  a  comfortable  host, 
steadily  and  hospitably  dispensing  good  cheer 
without  examining  you  too  narrowly  to  see 
if  you  appreciate  it.  He  is  easy,  unruffled, 
magnetic,  and  serenely  and  continuously  funny. 
His  speech  before  the  curtain,  consisting 
of  a  string  of  irrelevantly  funny  sayings,  is 
evidently  duplicated  nightly,  and  concludes 
with  a  funny  story,  which  leaves  the  house 
gasping,  gurgling,  choking,  or  shrieking  their 
appreciation  after  his  retreating  hack. 

As  lor  the  company,  they  are  so  carefully 
selected  for  their  parts  that  they  fit  them 
most  acceptably,  giving  one  the  impression  of 
being  clever  people.  Charles  H.  Crosby  shows 
a  broad,  good-humored  face,  the  demeanor  of 
a  man  entirely  unconcerned  with  the  wage- 
earning  worries  of  life,  and  a  sunny  disposi- 
tion, as  the  town  vagabond. 

June  Mathis,  a  bright  young  actress,  ap- 
parently not  yet  pas*  childhood,  was  very 
na'-iral  as  his  affectionate,  confiding  little 
dajghtcr.  Her  absorption  in  her  part,  the 
expression  of  childish  pleasure  and  wonder 
to  ,  her  features,  together  with  her  implicitly 
,  u sting,  innocently  'ating  eyes,  gave  her 
I    rtrayal  a  pleasing  ai    of  reality. 

jrank    A.    Lyon   contributed  «lo   the   role   of 


Aleck  Stripe  the  big,  burly,  body  and  lumber- 
ing braggadocio  that  were  required  for  the 
part,  while  Ralph  Dean  has  the  air  of  manly 
worth  requisite  in  Mildred's  young  lover. 

Roy  Fairchild's  style  of  physiognomy— his 
habit  of  narrowing  his  eyes  craftily,  and 
thrusting  forward  a  pugnacious  chin  in  a  way 
that  suggests  a  bad  man,  who  holds  back  his 
anger  through  self-interest— gives  him  an  ap- 
propriate appearance  for  the  scheming  young 
attorney,  and  John  D.  Garnik's  Bob  Bascomb 
is  just  the  sun-dried,  weather-seasoned,  wind- 
faded,  wire-hung,  engaging  sort  of  scare- 
crow that  the  part  seems  to  call   for. 

The  women,  except  Mirandy  Talbot,  Sandy's 
energetic  wife,  are  permitted  to  be  ornamental. 
Lucille  Lu  Verne,  whose  aggressive  Ameri- 
can personality  is  but  intensified  by  her  fluffy 
French  stage  manner,  is  naturally  adapted 
to  her  role.  The  humor,  which  lies  in  con- 
tinually misplacing  the  accent  in  the  pro- 
nunciation of  words,  loses  its  point  in  a  very 
short  time,  and  becomes  labored.  But  this 
little  detail  is  probably  not  original  with 
the  actress,  whose  Mirandy  was,  in  all  other 
points,  quite  the  appropriate  blending  of  New 
England    griffin   with    soft-hearted   woman. 

Helen  Salinger  was  probably  selected  for 
her  phenomenal  ability  to  preserve  a  uni- 
formly agreeable  expression  and  a  blind  fixity 
of  gaze  for  a  long  time  at  a  stretch,  and 
Lottie  Alter,  who  is  of  the  sweet-girl- 
graduate  type,  is  doubtless  indebted  to  her 
school -girl  appearance,  neat,  round  dimples, 
and  a  mildly  flavored  Sunday-school  brand 
of  sweetness,  for  having  been  chosen  as  the 
Mildred  of  the  cast. 

People  who  wait  for  the  occasional  first- 
class  performances,  over  which  they  may  rave, 
thrill,  weep,  or  argue,  will  perhaps  pronounce 
"  The  Vinegar  Buyer "  a  frivolous  intruder. 
However,  its  title  permits  no  illusions  in  ad- 
vance, and  Mr.  Kendall  gives  his  audience 
many  an  occasion  for  healthy,  hearty 
laughter. 


upon  which  to  hang  a  great  quantity  of 
comic  effects,  whose  comparative  familiarity 
does  not  dull  the  edge  of  the  audience's  de- 
light. Maude  Amber  always  makes  a  point 
of  gowning  herself  most  elaborately,  and  the 
management  are  careful  to  throw  consider- 
able eclat  over  each  of  her  entrances,  while 
the   three   comedians   never  seem   to  pall. 

At  the  Orpheum,  there  is  a  complete  change 
in  the  personnel  of  the  entertainers  once  a 
month.  At  the  Tivoli,  a  few  new  faces  at 
least  are  a  periodical  necessity.  But  at  Fisch- 
er's, the  house  is  always  crowded  with  a 
laughing,  delighted  throng,  who  never  seem 
to  tire  of  the  quality  of  entertainment  or 
entertainers.  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


"  Under  the  Red  Globe "  and  "  The  Three 
Musketeers "  are  so  thoroughly  blended  into 
one  at  Fischer's  that  trie  spectator  would 
have  to  be  well  up  in  both  past  and  present 
fiction  to  know  where  the  burlesque  of  "  The 
Red  Robe  "  ends  and  that  of  "  The  Three  Mus- 
keteers "  begins.  Not  that  it  really  matters, 
more  especially  as  Weyman  so  freely  and 
openly  imitates  Dumas  that  both  authors  are 
equally  burlesqueable.  That  is  certainly  an 
amusing  travesty  of  both  when  the  would-be 
duelists  fall  to  doffing  hats  and  monsooring 
each  other.  Strange  to  say,  Bret  Harte,  in 
his  famous  old  "  Condensed  Novels,"  did  not 
begin  to  be  as  funny  in  "The  Ninety-Nine 
Guardsmen  "  as  in  "  Miss  Mix."  "  Guy  Heavy- 
stone."  "  Fantine,"  or  a  dozen  other  of  those 
sixteen  brilliant  burlesques  whose  qualities  of 
unerringly  funny  and  keenly  satirical  mimicry 
are  untouched  by  time.  There  was  not  a  sin- 
gle joke  in  Bret  Harte's  "  Ninety-Nine  Guards- 
men "  that  might  have  been  cribbed  for  use 
in  "  The  Three  Musketeers  "  burlesque,  which 
shows  how  utterly  the  modern  point  of  view 
concerning  humor  has  changed. 

They  rattle  through  it  all  amusingly 
enough,  however,  and  all  the  familiar  quips 
and  comicalities  that  are  particularly  appre- 
ciated by  the  audience  are  lugged  in  some- 
how. The  inevitable  plethoric  wad  of  paper 
bills  makes  its  appearance,  and  the  audience, 
with  accustomed  delight,  hangs  with  sus- 
pended breath  and  suffocated  laughter  on 
another  version  of  the  familiar  scene  in 
which  the  sharper  cheats  the  greenhorn — 
and  the  bills   change  hands. 

The  Flossies,  Gerties,  Dollies,  and  Winnies 
wave  scarves,  spasmodically  and  rhythmically 
kick  their  foreheads,  exhibit  their  petticoats 
and  their  shapes,  sing  and  recite  their  lines 
in  cracked  childish  voices,  and  all  the 
beauteous  spectacle,  set  in  a  warm  haze  of 
changeful  electric  brilliancy,  floats  like  a  vision 
of  paradise  before  the  enraptured  gaze  of  the 
spectator  whose  susceptibilities  to  amusement 
are  not  dulled  by  years  and  custom.  But 
the  old  fellows,  too,  are  wonderfully  re- 
sponsive. Who  would  think  that  these  stout, 
seasoned,  weather-worn  old  toilers,  wander- 
ing in  alone,  or  in  twos,  urged  on  by  that 
ever-insatiate  necessity  of  getting  over  the 
interim  between  dinner  and  bedtime  without 
thought,  could,  under  the  wear  and  tear,  and 
fighting  and  dulling  routine  and  strenuousness 
of  life,  preserve  such  a  ready,  bubbling 
effervescence  of  enjoyment  over  the  merest 
iritbs  of  jokes?  It  is  perfectly  amazing  how 
many  veterans  of  sixty  or  thereabouts  become 
mere  infants.  "  pleased  by  a  rattle  and  tickled 
by  a  straw.'  when  they  are  in  a  theatre  whose 
business  it  is  to  create  laughter. 

There    is    not    much    variety    in    these    dif- 
ierent  burlesques,  but  they  are  excellent  pegs 


Theatrical  Chit-Chat. 

May  Buckley  will  support  Henry  E.  Dixey 
in  "  Facing  the   Music  "  next  season. 

Klaw  &  Erlanger  have  definitely  decided  to 
open  the  New  Amsterdam  Theatre,  in  New 
York,  in  October,  with  N.  C.  Goodwin  in  an 
elaborate  production  of  "  A  Midsummer 
Night's   Dream." 

The  Bostonians,  the  well-known  operatic 
organization,  was  incorporated  at  Albany. 
N.  Y.,  last  week,  with  a  capital  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars.  The  directors  are  Henry- 
Clay  Barnabee,  William  H.  MacDonald,  A. 
Parker  Nevin,  Emile  Bruguiere,  and  Boudon 
G.    Charlton,   of   New    York   City. 

Louis  James  and  Frederick  Warde  will  not 
appear  in  Shakespeare  next  season.  Contrary 
to  their  time-honored  custom,  they  will  be  seen 
in  a  new  drama  by  Collin  Kemper  and  Rupert 
Hughes,  based  on  the  life  of  Alexander  the 
Great.  The  title  part  will  fall  to  Mr.  James, 
and  Mr.  Warde  will  play  the  part  of  the  vil- 
lain. Perdiccas.  James  K.  Hackett  and  Rich- 
ard Mansfield  are  also  to  impersonate  Alexan- 
der the  Great  in  plays  in  which  he  will  figure 
as  the  leading  character. 

Charles  Frohman  has  completed  arrange- 
ments for  the  joint  appearance  under  his 
management  of  E.  H.  Sothern  and  Julia  Mar- 
lowe for  three  consecutive  seasons.  Thev  will 
begin  in  New  York  in  the  middle  of  Septem- 
ber, 1 904,  and  then  tour  through  the  United 
States  to  San  Francisco,  finishing  each  sea- 
son by  an  engagement  in  London.  The  con- 
tract provides  that  during  the  three  years  they 
shall  play  "  Romeo  and  Juliet,"  "  Much  Ado 
About  Nothing,"  "As  You  Like  It,"  "The 
Taming  of  the  Shrew."  "  The  Merchant  of 
Venice,"  "  A  Winter's  Tale."  and  "  Hamlet." 
The  combination  of  these  two  artists  was 
made  practicable  by  their  desire  to  appear  to- 
gether in  Shakespearian  drama. 

Mme.  Modj  eska  is  resting  at  her  ranch 
in  Southern  California,  after  a  brilliant  season 
in  her  native  land,  Poland,  where  she  was 
enthusiastically  received  by  her  compatriots 
in  all  walks  of  life.  She  appeared  before 
them  in  several  Shakespearean  and  other 
classic  plays,  and  in  a  few  modern  dramas. 
It  was  necessary  for  her  to  memorize  many 
of  her  old  roles  once  more  when  she  played 
them'  in  her  native  tongue,  but  the  labor  was 
fully  compensated  for  by  the  enthusiasm  of 
her  reception.  Mme.  Modj  eska  will  appear 
professionally  very  few  times,  if  at  all,  dur- 
ing the  coming  season,  her  plans  being  limited 
to  perhaps  a  dozen  special  performances  of  her 
old  roles  in  San  Francisco.  San  Diego,  and 
Los  Angeles.  Season  after  next,  if  her  health 
remains  as  good  as  it  now  is,  she  intends  to 
make  an  extended  tour  of  this  country.  It  is 
said  that  she  is  devoting  a  considerable  part 
of  her  leisure  to  writing  her  memoirs,  which 
will  not,  however,  be  published  during  her  life- 
time. 


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To-night,  Sunday  night,  and  for  another  week,  mati- 
nee Saturday-  only,  EZRA  KENDALL,  in 
his  great  comedv  success, 

THE     VINEGAR     BUYER 

Last  time  Sunday,  August  16th. 

Mondav.  August  17th— Henry  Miller  and  Margaret 
AngUn  in  The  Devil's  Disciple. 


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Commencing   Mondav   evening.    August    10th.   twelfth 

and  last  week  of  WHITE  WHITTLESEY  in 

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Evenings,  25c  to  75c.  Regular  matinees  (Thursday 
and  Saturday),  15c  to  50c 

August  17th,  The  Dairy  Farm.  August  31st, 
Miss  Florence  Roherts. 


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Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Commencing  Mondav.  August    ioth,    matinees    Satur- 
day and Sundav,' HERSCHEL  MAY  ALL.  and 
"  the  Central  Theatre  Stock  Company,  in 
the  sensational  melodrama, 
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Orchestra  of  70  musicians. 


Concerts  at  3:15  p.  M.,  Friday,  August  14th;  Wednes- 
day, August  19th;  Thursday,  August  27th;  and  every 
Thursday  following  up  to  and  including  October  8th. 

Sale  of  season  tickets  begins  on  Monday,  August 
ioth,  at  Sherman  &  Clay's  music  store. 

Prices  of  Seats— Season,  Orchestra,  $1.25.  Dress 
Circle,  first  four  rows,  $1.25;  fast  four  rows,  $1.00. 
Family  Circle,  75c.  Twenty-five  cents  off  each  season 
ticket  to  members  of  the  San  Francisco  Symphony 
Society.  Applications  for  membership  should  be  made 
to  the  manager,  Room  91,  Crocker  Building,  before 
5  p.  m.,  August  8th. 


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Popular  Sundav  Night  Psychological  Lectures.    SUN- 
DAY, August  9th,  8:30  p.  M., 

TYNDALL 

—  WILL  TALK   ON  — 

>   THE  POWER  OF 

PERSUASION 

with     demonstrations    of    the 
power  of  the  Sub-con- 
scious Mind. 
Tickets,   25c,  50c,    and    75c. 
Box-office  open  10  to  4,  Satur- 
day. 

Sunday    evening,   August  16th,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall 
in  "  The  Mastery  of  Fate." 


QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Only    matinee  Saturday.     Beginning  to-morrow   (Sun- 
day) night,  the  Rogers  Brothers'  success 
of  last  season, 
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Gorgeous  costumes,  scenery,  and  effects.  Augmented 
cast.     New  specialties. 

Popular  prices— 25c.  50c.  and  75c 


QAUFORNIA  THEATRE. 

To-morrow    night    (Sunday).    August    9th.    the  Neil- 
Morosco  Company,  presenting 

A     ROYAL     R  AM  I  L  Y 

A  story  of  the  every-day  doings  of  modern  royalty. 

Next— To  greet  the  nation's  veterans.  SHENAN- 
DOAH, greatest  of  all  war  dramas. 


Week  Icommencing  Sunday  matinee,  August  9th. 
Vivacious  Vaudeville!  Elfie  Fay;  Lew  Hawkins; 
SidnevWilmer  and  Company  :  Mrs  Wynne-Winslow; 
Dooley  and  Tenbrooke;  Roberts,  Hayes,  and  Roberts - 
George  Austin;  Macart's  Dogs  and  Monkeys;  and 
the  great  Kaufmann  Troupe. 

Reserved  seats,  25c:  balcony,  ioc:  opera  chairs  audi 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  ami 
Sunday. 


Commencing  Monday,  August  ioth.  double  bill, 
QUO  VASSISS  (QUO  VADIS)  and  i 

THE  BIG  UTTLE  PRINCESS 

Our  "  all  star  "  cast,  including  Kolb  and  Dill.  Barney     1 
Bernard.    Winfield    Blake.    Harry    Hermsen,    Maude 
Amber,  Eleanor  Jenkins,  etc. 

Reserved  seats— Nights,  25c,  50c,  and  75c  Saturday  | 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati-  I 
nfies,  ioc  and  25c. 


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I      j_YRIG  HALL,  Eddy  Street. 

EVERYMAN 

Commencing  Sept.  2d 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL! 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


August  io,  1903. 


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STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Ezra  Kendall  in  '  The  Vinegar  Buyer." 
Ezra  Kendall  will  begin  his  second  and  last 
week  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  in  "  The 
Vinegar  Buyer "  on  Monday  evening,  and 
those  who  enjoy  a  hearty  laugh  should  not  fail 
to  see  the  droll  comedian,  for  his  impersona- 
tion of  the  lovable  old  story-teller  is  very 
amusing,  and  his  company  much  above  the 
average.  In  response  to  repeated  encores  on 
Monday  night,  he  said,  in  the  course  of  a 
graceful  little  speech  of  thanks:  "We  just  came 
to  California  to  deliver  the  goods,  and  we  are 
glad  to  see  so  many  of  you  here  to  buy  them. 
I  am  glad  to  be  back  here.  I  came  first  about 
twenty  years  ago.  Many  of  you  who  are  in 
the  front  seats  now  were  upstairs  then.  I 
don't  expect  to  live  forever,  but  I  expect  to 
come  back  and  see  some  of  those  who  are  up- 
stairs now  in  the  front  seats  then.  That 
means  more  money.  But  that  is  all  right, 
boys ;  we  have  got  to  have  you,  even  if  you  do 
come  high.  I  have  six  boys  at  home  of  my 
own,  and  I  would  rather  have  six  more  than 
lose  one  of  them,  and  I  would  rather  have  a 
bad  boy  than  no  boy  at  all.  If  there  were  no 
bad  boys.  I  would  not  have  been  here  myself." 
On  Monday,  August  17th,  Henry  Miller  and 
Margaret  Anglin  will  begin  an  extended  stellar 
engagement  in  Bernard  Shaw's  play,  "  The 
Devil's  Disciple,"  in  which  Richard  Mans- 
field scored  one  of  his  greatest  hits.  The 
sale  of  seats  begins  on  Thursday,  and,  as  there 
is  sure  to  be  a  brisk  demand  for  tickets,  it  will 
behoove  those  who  wish  to  be  present  on  the 
opening  night  to  be  in  line  early.  The  man- 
agement announces  that  it  will  adhere  strictly 
to  its  rule  that  no  orders  will  be  taken  in 
advance. 

Captain  Marshall's  "  A  Royal  Family." 
The  Neil-Morosco  company  will  present 
Captain  Robert  Marshall's  charming  comedy 
romance,  "  A  Royal  Family,"  at  the  Califor- 
nia, on  Sunday  night.  The  play  was  given 
here  two  years  ago  by  Annie  Russell,  and 
drew  crowded  houses  during  the  fortnight 
engagement.  Its  theme,  that  of  the  every- 
day life  of  kings  and  queens — royalty  behind 
the  scenes,  as  it  were — is  admirably  handled 
by  Mr.  Marshall,  and  keeps  the  audience  in 
a  merry  mood  throughout  the  evening.  The 
scene  of  the  play  is  laid  in  the  imaginary 
country  of  Arcacia.  which  is  on  the  verge  of 
war  with  its  mythical  neighbor,  Kurland.  The 
people  of  each  country  are  clamoring  for  the 
fray,  and  to  their  sovereigns  the  only  way 
to  avert  hostilities  seems  an  alliance,  to  be 
brought  about  by  the  marriage  of  the  Princess 
Angela,  daughter  of  King  Louis  the  Seventh 
of  Arcacia,  and  Prince  Victor.  Crown  Prince 
of  Kurland.  The  stumbling-block  to  this 
marriage  is  presented  in  the  Princess  Angela. 
When  the  subject  is  broached,  she  refuses  to 
consider  it.  She  has  never  seen  Prince  Victor, 
and  emphatically  declines  to  wed  him.  stoutly 
avowing  that  she  will  give  herself  only  to  the 
man  she  has  learned  to  love.  Neither  coaxing 
nor  command  is  of  avail,  but  a  ruse  devised 
by  the  wily  Cardinal  Casano.  Archbishop  of 
Caron,  solves  the  problem  to  the  satisfaction 
nf  all.  It  so  happens  that  Prince  Victor  was 
formerly  a  pupil  of  the  cardinal,  and  is  visit- 
ing his  old  tutor  incognito,  under  the  alias 
of  Count  Eernadine.  The  cardinal  contrives 
to  bring  the  two  together,  and  before  ten  days 
have  elapsed  they  are  in  love  with  one  another. 
Then  comes  the  parting,  for  "  Count  Berna- 
dine  "  has  unselfishly  pleaded  Prince  Victor's 
cause,  and  the  princess  has  consented  to  the 
marriage.  Not  until  the  betrothal  ceremony, 
before  the  whole  court,  does  she  learn  that 
Count  Bernadine  and  Prince  Victor  are  one 
and  the  same,  and  that  she  is  to  marry  the 
man  she  has  learned  to  love.  The  cast  will 
include  Lillian  Kemble  as  the  princess.  Frank 
MacVicars  as  the  cardinal,  Frederick  Sumner 
as  Prince  Victor,  and  Phosa  McAllister  as  the 
dowager  queen,  the  role  which  Mrs.  Gilbert 
played  here  two  years  ago.  During  Grand 
Army  week,  "  Shenandoah  "  is  to  be  the  bill 
at  the  California  Theatre. 


Last  Week  of  "The  Highwayman." 
There  has   been   no   diminution   in   the   size 

i  of  the  audiences  which  have  listened  to 
Camille  d'Arville   in   "  The   Highwayman,"  so 

1      the  Tivoli  management  has  wisely  decided  to 

■  continue  DeKoven's  romantic  opera  still  an- 
other week.  Then  comes  Anna  Lichter  in 
Victor  Herbert's  great  success,  "  The  Fortune 
Teller."  Miss  Lichter  has  been  singing  in 
New  York  and  other  Eastern  cities  for  some 

?     months   past,    and   her   return   here   will   be    a 

1     source   of   much    pleasure    in    musical    circles. 

"The   Fortune   Teller"   is   one  of   Smith   and 

Herbert's  best  works,  and  last  year  enjoyed  a 

long   run   when   revived   at   the   Tivoli.      New 

j  scenery  has  been  prepared,  and  the  opera  will 
be  splendidly  dressed  throughout. 


The  New  Fischer  Burlesques, 
The  new  double  bill,  which  is  to  be  offered 

J  at  Fischer's  Theatre  next  week,  promises  no 
end  of  catchy  music,  dainty  dances,  and  merry 
nonsense.       Most    people     are     familiar    with 

■  Henryk  Sienkiewicz's  "  Quo'  Vadis,"  by  this 
time,  and  there  will,  therefore,  be  few  who 
will  not  be  able  to  fully  appreciate  the  travesty 
entitled  "  Quo  Vass  Iss,"  which  Edgar  Smith 

1  and  the  late  John  Stromberg,  the  composer, 
prepared  for  Weber  and  Fields.  Among  the 
characters  are  Fursus,  the  strong  man,  imper- 

,  sonated  by  Kolb ;  Smallus.  the  fresh  Roman 
kid,  Dill;  Hilo,  the  hobo  philosopher,  Bernard; 

1  Petrolious,  Blake;  Lythia,  Eleanor  Jenkins; 
the  Empress  Popcornea,  a  woman  of  strong 
mind  and  powerful  will,  Maude  Amber;  her 
henpecked  spouse,  Zero,  Harry  Hermsen  ;  and 
Finishus,  the  young  Roman  chronicler.  Arthur 
Boyce.  In  the  burlesque  of  Mrs.  Hodgson 
Burnett's       children's       play,       "  The       Little 

-  Princess  " — the  book  by  Edgar  Smith,  and  the 


music  by  W.  T.  Francis — Maude  Amber  has 
the  part  of  the  "  big  little  princess  "  ;  Barney 
Bernard  will  be  the  school-marm ;  Winfield 
Blake,  the  Rottie  ;  Eleanor  Jenkins,  the  Mrs. 
Pat  Michael,  with  a  family  of  four;  and 
Charlotte  Vidot,  Flossie  Hope,  and  Gertie 
Emerson  will  appear,  respectively,  as  Freshie, 
a  spiteful  pupil,  and  Penchie  and  Chenie.  two 
good-natured  little  girls  at  Mrs.  Pinchin's 
academy  for  young  criminals.  The  second 
act  closes  with  a  transformation,  showing 
the  dream  of  the  "big  little  princess."  Among 
the  songs  new  to  San  Francisco  will  be 
"  Etiquette,"  by  Winfield  Blake ;  "  De 
Bugaboo  Man,"  by  Maude  Amber;  "There's 
Nobody  Just  Like  You."  by  Eleanor  Jenkins ; 
"  Miss  Pinchin's  Boarding-School, "  by  Barney 
Bernard;  and  "You  Am  de  One,"  by  the 
Misses  Hope  and  Emerson. 


White  Whittlesey's  Farewell  Week. 
White  Whittlesey  has  won  many  new 
friends  and  admirers  during  his  three  months' 
stay  at  the  Alcazar,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict 
that  his  farewell  week  will  see  the  theatre 
crowded  at  every  performance.  "  The  Three 
Musketeers  "  is  to  be  revived  for  the  occasion, 
as  the  role  of  D'Artagnan.the  buoyant,  gallant, 
quick-witted  soldier  of  fortune  shows  Mr. 
Whittlesey  at  his  best.  Great  interest  attaches 
to  the  first  production  here,  on  August  17th, 
of  "  The  Dairy  Farm,"  a  rustic  play,  which 
has  met  with  much  success  in  the  East.  It  is 
to  bridge  the  brief  interval  between  the  close 
of  the  Whittlesey  engagement  and  the  annual 
season  of  Florence  Roberts,  who  will  return 
with  a  number  of  new  plays  and  several  old 
favorites. 

Melodrama  at  the  Central. 
The  picturesque  melodrama,  "  Zorah."  will 
give  way  at  the  Central  Theatre  on  Monday 
night  to  "  Man's  Enemy."  which  is  described 
as  "  a  moral  sermon  in  action."  Its  theme 
is  the  evil  of  drink,  which  has  been  handled  in 
an  entirely  different  vein  from  "  Ten  Nights 
in  a  Bar  Room."  The  cast  will  be  a  notably 
strong  one,  and  several  striking  stage  settings 
are  promised,  including  the  gambling  pavilion 
at  Monte  Carlo,  and  a  picturesque  view  of 
Blenheim   Castle. 


At  the  Orpheum. 
FIfie  Fay.  who  delights  in  the  strange  title, 
"the  craziest  soubrette  on  the  vaudeville 
stage."  is  to  head  the  bill  at  the  Orpheum  next 
week.  Other  new-comers  will  be  Lew  Hawk- 
ins, the  "  Chesterfield  of  minstrelsy,"  who 
comes  with  a  new  budget  of  entertaining 
parodies  and  stories  :  Sidney  Wilmer  and  bis 
companv  of  comedians,  who  appear  here  for 
the  first  time  in  "  A  Thief  of  the  Night " ; 
and  Mrs.  Wynne-Winslow,  a  beautiful  singer, 
with  a  light,  graceful  voice,  which  she  handles 
well.  Those  retained  from  this  week's  bill  are 
the  Kaufmann  troupe  of  seven  bicyclists; 
Larry  Dooley  and  Tames  Tenbrooke.  the  good 
old-fashioned  minstrel  men.  who  will  sing  new 
scngs  and  indulge  in  new  "sidewalk"  repartee; 
Roberts,  Hayes,  and  Roberts,  in  their  amusing 
sketch,  "  The  Infant " ;  George  Austin,  the 
comedy  wire-walker;  and  Macart's  dogs  and 
monkeys. 

"In  Harvard"  at  the  Grand. 
The  latest  Rogers  Brothers  musical  success, 
"  In  Harvard,"  will  be  presented  here  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House  on  Sunday  evening  for 
the  first  time.  It  is  in  three  acts,  with  the 
scenes  laid  at  the  gardens  at  Claremont,  N.  Y„ 
the  campus  at  Harvard  College  on  Class 
Day,  and  Entertainment  Hall  at  Eden  Musee, 
in  New  York.  Several  new  people  have  been 
engaged  for  this  production,  among  others. 
Julie  Cotte,  the  popular  soprano,  formerly 
connected  with  the  Tivoli  ;  Winifred  St.  L. 
Gordon,  a  clever  young  actress ;  William  L. 
Gleason,  a  well-known  character  actor;  and 
Robert  Warwick,  a  light  comedian.  The 
German  comedians,  Raymond  and  Caverly,  in 
one  scene  will  impersonate  students  of  the 
University  of  California  and  Stanford, 
respectively.  They  will  have  a  number  of 
new  parodies,  and  another  of  the  Reuben 
and  the  Maid  series.  In  the  latter,  they  will 
be  assisted  by  Julie  Cotte  and  Winifred  St.  L. 
Gordon.  Cheridah  Simpson  will  sing  a  new 
Japanese  serenade,  and  will  introduce  a  piano 
specialty  of  her  own  arrangement,  in  which 
she  will  give  imitations  of  several  well-known 
musicians.  Anna  Wilks,  assisted  by  the 
Esmeralda  sisters  and  the  chorus,  will  offer  a 
new   song   and   dance  called   "  My    Palm   Leaf 


Maid."  She  will  also,  with  Budd  Ross,  give 
a  song  and  dance  entitled  "  My  Red  Carna- 
tion." Louise  Moore  will  sing  "  Mary,  Mary, 
Quite  Contrary  "and  "  Rainbows  Follow  After 
Rain."  Harold  Crane  will  have  a  new  coster 
song  entitled  "  Polly  Aint  an  Angel."  and 
Robert"  Warwick's  number  will  be  "  I'm  Get- 
ting Quite  American,  Don't  Yer  Know."  The 
chorus  will  show  up  to  excellent  advantage 
in  a  march  introduced  in  the  campus  scene, 
when  each  of  the  leading  universities  of  the 
country,  including  California  and  Stanford, 
will  be  represented  by  an  equal  number  of 
magnificently    costumed   girls. 


Americans  are  to  have  another  opportunity 
of  seeing  the  great  Italian  actor,  Tommaso 
Salvini,  who  will  sail  for  the  United  States 
early  in  the  spring  to  make  a  tour  under  the 
management  of  George  C.  Tyler,  of  New 
York.  Signor  Salvini  will  appear  in  "  King 
Lear,"  "  Othello,"  "  Ingomar,"  and  "  The  Civil 
Death."  and  in  the  first  three  of  these  plays 
Eleanor  Robson  will  be  the  Cordelia,  Desde- 
niona,  and  Parthenia,  respectively.  Salvini's 
engagement  will  run  through  April  and  May 
next,  and  provides  for  twenty-five  or  thirty 
performances.  Two  weeks  will  be  given  to 
Xew  York,  where  Salvini  will  appear  four 
nights  each  week,  Miss  Robson  playing  in  her 
classical  repertoire  on  the  other  two  nights 
of  the  theatrical  week  with  her  present  lead- 
ing man,  Edwin  Arden.  With  the  exception 
of  Salvini.  who  will,  of  course,  play  in  Italian, 
all  the  company  will  be  English-speaking. 

The  San  Francisco  production  of  the  moral- 
ity play.  "  Everyman,"  will  take  place  early 
in  September  at  a  new  hall  to  be  opened  under 
the  management  of  Will  Greenbaum.  The 
company  that  is  to  produce  it  comes  direct 
from  London  to  San  Francisco.  However, 
at  the  request  of  President  Wheeler,  the  first 
presentation  in  California  will  be  given  at  the 
University  of  California,  and  the  management 
hopes  to  produce  it  at  Stanford  also.  The 
play  appeals  to  the  intellectual  rather  than 
the  frivolous  play-goer,  and  has  had  extensive 
runs  in  London.  New  York.  Boston,  Chicago, 
and  Philadelphia,  and  is  now  re-booked  at  each 
of  these  cities.  It  has  also  been  given  with 
success  at  Princeton,  Yale,  and  at  many  of 
the  other  Eastern  colleges. 


The  popularity  of  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall's 
psychological  lectures  have  been  well  attested 
by  the  large  audiences  which  have  greeted 
him  at  Steinway  Hall  during  the  past 
three  weeks.  This  Sunday  evening  he  is  to 
lecture  on  "  The  Power  of  Persuasion  :  Per- 
sonal Magnetism."  and  not  the  least  interest- 
ing part  of  the  evening  will  be  his  experi- 
ments   in    mesmeric    influence. 


"  You  see  it  all  from  Mt.  Tamalpais "  is 
<Mie  of  the  striking  remarks  repeated  often  by 
visitors  to  the  Tavern.  The  gorgeous  sunsets, 
the  moonlight  nights,  the  incomparable 
panoramic  views,  and  the  bracing  atmosphere 
— all    combine   to   make  one's  stav   memorable 


Or.  diaries  W.  Decker,   Dentist, 

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facilities  and  competent  and  courteous  associates. 

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Deposits,  June  30,  1903 4,128,600.11 

Interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  made. 

Wii.r.i  \m  Babcock   President 

S.  L.  Abbot.  Jr   Vice-President 

I-  RED  \V.  Ray   Secretary 

Directors—  William  Alvord,  William  Babcock.  Adam 
Grant,  R.  H.  Pease.  L.  F.  Monteagle,  S.  L.  Abbot,  Jr., 
Warren  D.  Clark,  E.J.  McCutchen.  O.  D.  Baldwin. 

FRENCH  SAVINGS  BANK 

315  mONTGOHERY   STREET 

SAIV     FRANCISCO. 


CAPITAL  PAID  UP 8600,000 

Charles  Carpy President 

Arthur  Leuallet Vice-President 

Leon  Bocqueraz Secretary 

Directors— Sylvain  Weill,  J.  A.  Bergerot.  Leon  Kauff- 
mari.  J.  S.  Godeau,  J.  E.  Artijrues.  J  Jullien  I  M 
Dupas,  O.  Bozio.  J.  B.  Clot. 

I"E  BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA 

SAN*  FRANCISCO. 

CAPITAL      7~777T~ *3,0OO.O0O.OO 

SCRPLUS  AND  UNDIVIDED 

PROFITS  4,386.086.72 

July  i.  1903. 

William  Alvord President 

Chari.es  R.  Bishop Vice-President 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

IRVING  F.  Mop 'i. ton   Cashier 

Sam  H.  Daniels Assistant-Cashier 

WM.   R-   Pf-:ntz Assistant-Cashier 

Allen  M.  Clay Secretary 

DIRECTORS: 

William  Alvord President 

James  M.  Allen Attornev-at-Law" 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

William  Barcock J President,  Parrolt  &  Co. 

Charles  R.  Bishop _ Capitalist 

Antoine  Borei Ant.  Bore!  &  Co..  Bankers 

Warren  D.  Clark Willliams,  Dimond  &  Co. 

Geo.  E.  Goodman Banker 

Adam  Grant Murphv,  Grant  &  Co. 

Edward  W.  Hopkins Capitalist 

John  F.  Merrill Holbrook.  Merrill  &  Stetson 

Jacob  Stern Levi  Strauss  &  Co. 

Foreign  and  Domestic  Exchange  Bought  and  Sold. 

Commercial  and  Travelers'  Letters  of  Credit  issued, 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Correspondence  solicited.     Accounts  invited. 

WELLS  FARQO  &  COMPANY  BANK 

SAN    FRANCIS  HO. 

Capital,   Surplus,   and   Undi- 
vided Profits     91S.O00.000.00 

Homer  S.  King,  President.  F.  L.  Lipman, 
Cashier.  Frank  B.  King.  Asst.  Cashier.  Jno.  E. 
Miles,    Asst.   Cashier. 

Branches  -New  York;  Salt  Lake,  Utah;  Portland, 
Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  bank- 
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Connecticut  Fire  Insurance  Co.  of  Hartford 

ESTABLISHED     1850. 

Cash  Capital     91,000.000 

dish  Assets  4,734,791 

Surplus  to   Policy-Holders 2,202,635 

COLIN  M.  BOYD,  BENJAMIN  J.  SMITH, 

Agent  forSan  Francisco.  Manager  Pacific 

411  California  Street.  Department. 

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Paid  In 2,250,000.00 

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August  io,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Hundreds  of  credulous  women  throughout 
the  country  recently  have  been  taken  in  by 
an  ingenious  swindle  launched  on  a  gigantic 
scale,  and  just  run  to  cover  in  Detroit.  Each 
victim  was  mulcted  to  the  extent  of  from  $15 
to  $25,  the  sums  aggregating  many  thousands 
of  dollars  to  the  swindlers.  The  fraud  was 
perpetrated  under  the  name  of  the  "  National 
League  of  American  Women.  Incorporated." 
and  the  victims  were  reached  by  means  of 
the  following  advertisement,  which  appeared 
in  several  New  York  newspapers  on  the  first 
Sunday  in  June:  "Lady  (under  forty-five) 
as  local  secretary  of  Woman's  Society 
(national )  ;  entire  time  required,  at  fair 
salary  :  reference  necessary.  Apply,  inclosing 
addressed  envelope.  Mrs.  Calvin.  N.  VV.  L.. 
Detroit.  Mich."  The  women  who  answered 
this  seductive  advertisement,  and  who  appear 
to  have  been  very  numerous,  received  replies 
on  paper  headed  "  Office  of  the  president. 
Detroit.  Mich.."  in  which  they  were  notified 
that  their  applications  had  been  accepted. 
They  were  told  that  a  booklet  was  enclosed 
giving  a  brief  outline  of  their  duties.  Their 
salary  was  to  be  $600  a  year,  payable  monthly. 
with  traveling  expenses,  when  incurred.  The 
victims  were  further  informed  that  they  would 
be  expected  to  go  to  Detroit  to  receive  full 
instructions  and  study  in  the  details  of  the 
work,  the  expenses  to  be  borne  by  the  league. 
In  conclusion,  the  secretary  wrote :  "  It  is 
quite  strange  that  we  both  should  have  the 
same  name,  and  I  shall  be  glad  to  do  all  I 
can  to  help  my  namesake.  1  know  you  would 
like  the  work,  and  I  hope  to  meet  you  if  you 
come  to  Detroit.  Wishing  you  success,  yours 
very  truly.  Ada  S.  Brom  field.  Secretary." 
This  last  paragraph,  referring  to  the  similarity 
of  names,  was  a  particularly  clever  touch,  for. 
though  the  letters  had  been  run  off  by  the 
thousands,  the  archplotter  was  able  to  put  a 
little  personal  touch  into  each  one  by  the 
simple  expedient  of  changing  his  or  her  last 
name  to  suit  that  of  each   victim. 


No  booklet  was  inclosed,  as  stated  in  the 
communication,  an  omission  which  appears 
to  have  been  carefully  planned  to  make  sure 
of  a  second  letter  from  the  victim,  who  wrote 
to  ask  after  the  missing  circular  as  well  as 
for  other  information.  In  reply  to  these 
inquiries  they  received  letters  from  "  Phcebe 
A.  Calvin,  president,"  asking  them  imme- 
diately to  forward  money  to  cover  the  regu- 
lar one-way  fare  from  their  home  to  Detroit." 
when  a  round-trip  ticket  would  be  sent  them. 
A  bogus  check  for  $25  on  a  Detroit  bank  ac- 
companied this  unique  epistle,  and  the  amount, 
being  $10  in  excess  .of  what  was  required 
for  the  railway  fare,  helped  to  disarm  sus- 
picion on  the  part  of  the  would-be  secre- 
taries. The  certificate  bore  the  name  of 
"  John  P.  Harris.  Union  Passenger  Agent." 
and  was  dated  June  27th.  As  the  letter  was 
dated  Tune  23d.  only  a  few  days  were  left  in 
which  to  take  advantage  of  the  reduced  rates, 
and  the  victims,  with  no  time  to  spare,  in- 
duced some  unwary  friend  or  landlady  to 
cash  the  check,  and  hastily  forwarded  the  $15 
specified  as  the  price  of  a  round-trip  ticket 
to  Detroit  to  John  P.  Harris,  at  a  certain 
post-office  box,  the  number  of  which  was 
stamped  on  the  certificate.  In  their  haste 
the  victims  did  not  reflect  that  a  railway 
official  was  not  likely  to  have  his  mail  ad- 
dressed to  a  post-office  box.  Neither  did  they 
take  the  pains  to  preserve  the  number  of  the 
box.  The  victims  then  sat  down  and  waited 
for  their  tickets,  but  instead  of  tickets  they 
secured  protested  checks.  Not  even  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  protested  check  was  sufficient 
to  open  the  eyes  of  the  victims,  and  not  until 
they  had  written  several  times  to  the  Na- 
tional League  without  receiving  any  answer 
were  they  convinced  that  they  had  been 
swindled.  The  scheme  was  very  carefully 
thought  out.  and  enabled  the  swindlers  to  get 
in  all  their  money  from  all  over  the  country 
before  the  character  of  their  enterprise  was 
discovered. 


The  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Westminster. 
who  have  been  launched  upon  Krrjlish  social 
life  only  a  year,  have  apparently  resolved  to 
follow  in  the  footsteps  of  the  late  Lady  Sefton 
and  the  present  Duchess  of  Buccleuch.  both 
of  whom  made  a  special  point  of  excluding 
Americans  from  all  their  grand  parties.  The 
duchess  is  the  sister  of  the  Princess  Henry 
of  Pless.  and  Colonel  George  Cornwallis- 
West,  who  married  Lady  Randolph  Churchill. 
The  first  incident  in  the  Duchess  of  West- 
minster's crusade  against  Americans  was  in 
the  case  of  Mis-  1  ;iadys  Deacon  at  the  time 
<>i  the  Chest*  r  rac  -  Miss  Deacon  was  stay- 
ing  in    the    neighbi  rhood    with    Colonel    and 


Mrs.  George  Cornwallis-West.  The  latter,  be- 
ing the  sister-in-law  of  the  duchess,  thought 
it  quite  allowable  on  the  first  day  of  the  races 
to  introduce  her  to  the  Westminster's  stand, 
but  the  duke  was  furious,  and  expressed  his 
opinion  so  plainly  that  on  the  second  day, 
when  the  Princess  of  Wales  was  lunching 
with  him  and  the  duchess,  Colonel  West 
stayed  at  home  at  Ruthven  to  keep  Miss 
Deacon  company.  This  excited  bitter  com- 
ment, and  Miss  Deacon's  mother  and  friends, 
notably  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  have 
taken  sides  against  the  Duchess  of  West- 
minster in  an  interesting  social  battle.  The 
next  stage  in  the  crusade  was  the  Duchess 
of  Westminster's  ball.  To  begin  with,  she 
asked  the  king  to  fix  a  date  when  he  and 
the  queen  could  be  present.  Not  receiving 
an  answer,  she  wrote  a  private  letter  to  Lord 
Knollys  begging  him  to  ask  the  king  to  "  hurry 
up."  Then  came  the  curt  reply  that  the  king 
"  regretted  that  he  was  unable  to  accede  to 
her  proposal."  It  is  said  to  be  an  open  secret 
that  the  king  refused  to  attend  the  ball  be- 
cause the  duchess  had  left  out  a  number  of 
Americans,  including  Mrs.  Arthur  Paget  and 
Mrs.  John  Leslie,  a  sister  of  the  former  Lady 
Randolph  Churchill,  and  other  well-known 
people,  including  Mrs.  George  Keppel. 

A  protest  is  being  raised  in  Switzerland 
against  the  construction  of  so  many  mountain 
railroads,  and  particularly  of  the  line  which 
is  slowly  creeping  up  the  Jungfrau.  The 
Wengern  Alp,  it  seems,  once  sacred  to  the 
beautiful  blue  gentian,  is  speckled  with  the 
shells  of  hard-boiled  eggs ;  rows  of  ladies 
read  penny  "  society  "  papers  at  the  edge  of 
the  Eiger  Glacier ;  and  at  the  Sheideck  a 
gramophone  has  taken  the  place  of  the  "  Ranz 
des  Vaches."  Happily,  there  still  remain  a  few 
resorts  of  the  old  sty-le,  known  to  the  elect; 
but  they  become  fewer  every  year,  and  the 
projects  of  the  engineers  are  so  ingenious 
and  extensive  that,  on  the  Bernese  Ober- 
land,  at  all  events,  another  decade  will  prob- 
ably see  the  last  of  them  invaded. 


Kansas  school  boards  have  determined  to 
inaugurate  a  reform,  and  are  inserting  clauses 
in  contracts  with  the  teachers  that  prohibit 
either  courting  or  marriage  by  the  latter  dur- 
ing the  school  term.  Many  schools  were 
badly  interrupted  last  year  by  the  marriage 
of  the  women  teachers,  many  of  whom  im- 
mediately resigned,  making  it  difficult  to 
fill  their  places.  Others  neglected  their 
school  duties,  and  gave  their  time  to  courting. 
Some  of  the  teachers  object  to  the  contract 
on  the  ground  that  it  is  an  abridgement  of 
their  personal  liberty,  and  that  if  this  policy 
should  prevail  throughout  the  State  it  would 
create  an  army  of  unmanageable  old  maids 
as  seven  thousand  women  teach  in  the  State 
schools. 


Many  of  the  passengers  who  arrived  from 
the  Orient  last  week  on  the  steamship  Siberia, 
expressed  great  indignation  over  the  manner 
in  which  their  baggage  was  overhauled  by  the 
customs  inspectors  at  Honolulu,  following  an 
order  recently  made  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  directing  the  searching  of  baggage 
of  passengers  passing  through  Honolulu  for 
this  country.  Here  is  a  statement  of  the 
trouble  and  discomfort  experienced  by  the 
passengers  on  the  Siberia,  which  was  prepared 
on  board :  "  The  Siberia  called  at  Honolulu 
to  discharge  some  cargo,  land  a  few  pas- 
sengers, and  receive  passengers  for  San  Fran- 
cisco. As  soon  as  the  health  officers  came 
on  board  a  squad  of  custom-house  officers 
followed,  and,  with  the  exception  of  three 
or  four,  they  looked  and  acted  like  a  lot  of 
jackals.  The  passengers  from  China,  Japan, 
and  the  Philippines  were  ordered  to  get  their 
baggage  ready  for  inspection,  although  bound 
for  San  Francisco,  and  still  six  days  to  sail 
from  that  port.  They  were  also  notified  that 
what  baggage  they  had  in  the  baggage-room 
could  not  be  touched,  and  all  would  be  sealed 
in  the  hold.  In  fact,  it  was  simply  seized ! 
The  baggage  in  the  rooms  was  examined,  and 
the  owners  were  dictated  to  as  to  how  many 
shirts,  collars,  etc.  they  could  retain.  All 
the  rest  must  be  bundled  up  and  sent  to  the 
hold  and  sealed  up.  One  gentleman,  who  had 
lived  for  several  years  in  Japan,  had  six  suits 
of  pajamas.  The  custom  officers  said:  'You 
can  only  have  one,'  and  bundled  the  re- 
maining suits  into  the  hold.  This  was  only 
one  instance.  The  clothing  was  taken  from 
the  rooms,  and  was  rolled  up  and  tied  in  any 
insliion  ;  some  in  paper,  some  in  nothing,  and 
now  lies  in  the  lower  hold;  no  receipt  given 
for  it ;  what  condition  it  will  be  returned 
in  can  be  imagined.  Men  and  women  who 
have  been  living  and  traveling  in  a  tropical 
climate,  and  were  clothed  in  duck  and  flan- 
nels, had  their  heavy  clothing  sealed  up,  and 


many  serious  cases  of  sickness  are  sure  to 
arise  before  landing  in  San  Francisco.  We 
do  not  believe  there  is  any  law  in  the  United 
States  that  permits  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  to  use  such  high-handed  measures, 
and  trust  that  the  Secretary  has  made  a  mis- 
take by  being  misled  by  some  overzealous 
custom-house  official.  The  foreigners  were 
treated  in  the  same  way  as  Americans,  al- 
though most  of  them  were  on  their  way  to 
Europe,  via  the  United  States.  They  one  and 
all  declared  that  they  would  never  travel 
via  San  Francisco  again.  This  is  also  the 
determination  of  two-thirds  of  the  Ameri- 
cans on  board.  The  officers  on  the  steamer 
protested  in  every  way,  but  were  power- 
less." 

Commenting  on  the  reported  crusade  of 
American  sculptors  for  the  abolition  of  trous- 
ers from  statues,  the  London  Tailor  and  Cut- 
ter says :  "  We  have  never  seen  a  pair  of 
trousers  reasonably  reproduced  on  statues,  yet 
it  would  be  better  if  artists  and  sculptors  took 
as  great  pains  to  make  themselves  acquainted 
with  the  outline  of  the  present  styles  as  they 
do  with  the  legendary  dress  of  classical  he- 
roes." 


A  statistician  connected  with  the  "  Hachette 
Almanac "  in  Paris  has  been  computing  the 
"  wages  "  which  European  sovereigns  receive, 
with  the  following  result:  The  Czar  of  Rus- 
sia gets  $81  a  minute  ;  the  Emperor  of  Austria, 
$35;  the  King  of  Italy,  $22;  Kaiser  Wilhelm, 
$18;  King  Edward,  $15;  the  King  of  Spain, 
$14;  the  King  of  the  Belgians.  $5;  the  King 
of  Denmark,  $3.50 ;  while  Peter,  the  new 
sovereign  of  Servia,  receives  the  mere  pit- 
tance of  $1.55  a  minute.  These  "  wages " 
are  reckoned  on  the  basis  that  each  mon- 
arch in  question  works  for  six  hours  a  day, 
six   days   in   the   week. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


Liebold  Harness  Company. 
If  you  want  an  up-to-date  harness,  at  a  reasonable 
price,  call  at  211  Larkin  Street.     We  have  every- 
thing for  the  horse  and  stable. 


SAN  FRANCISCO    -WEATHER. 


From    Official    Report  of    Alexander  G.    McAdie, 

District  Forecaster. 

Max.  Min.      Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.       fall.  Weather. 

July  30th 62  50           .00  Clear 

"    31st 68  52           .00  Clear 

August  1st 60  50           .00  Clear 

2d 60  52           .00  Clear 

"        3d 56  50           .00  Clear 

4th 53  4S           .00  Clear 

5th 64  dS           .00  Clear 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday.  August  5,  1903, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.  S-  Coup.  3% ,    1,000  @  106^  10S 

N.  R.  ofCal.  6%.  ..    3,000  @  1065*;  105^     107 
S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.5% 35.000  @  120  iiq}4     120K 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%,  1909 1,000  @  107^  ioSJ4 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1912 1,000  O  117^  H7# 

S.V.  Waters  2d..    6,000  @    9954  100 

S.  V.  Water  4%  3d-    2,000  @  100  100 

U.Gas&  Elect  5%.  10,000  @  105  105        107 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.                   Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

S.  V.  Water 235  @    82-      84%  S2# 

Banks. 

Bank  of  Cal 55  @  500-    525  521 

Savings  Loan 200  @    95  9254 

Street  X.  X. 

California  St 20  @  200  "200 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 205  @    68  %-  69  69         70 

Vigorit 200  @      5J£-    5%  5            5% 

Sugars. 

Hawaiian  C- &  S...        250  @    44^  44         46 

Hutchinson 340  @    12-      13}^  13 

Paauhau  S.  Co 105  @    14 J4-  15  14          15 

Gas  a  nd  Electric. 

Equitable  Gas 10  @     5  4%        5 

Mutual   Electric...          40  @    12^  i2>£       1254 

Pacific  Gas 60  @    5254-52%  52^ 

Pac.  LightingCo...         60  @    56  55%      56J4 

S.  F.Gas&  Electric       220  @    66J6- 6S  67^      68J4 

Tt  ustees  Certificates. 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric        110  @    65^-66  65J4 

Afiscella  neous, 

Alaska  Packers  ...        3S5  @  139^-146^  143        144^ 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         10  @    90  89         90J4 


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August  io,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 

It  is  related  that  a  celebrated  artist,  being 
asked  what  he  mixed  his  colors  with  to  get 
such  exquisite  tints,  replied:  "Brains,  sir. 
trains !" 


93 


A  Kentucky  woman  has  discovered  a  new 
use  for  the  telephone.  Wishing  to  visit  a 
neighbor,  she  pulled  the  baby's  crib  up  in  front 
of  the  telephone,  opened  the  receiver,  and  told 
central  if  the  baby  began  to  cry  to  call  her  up 
at  the  neighbor's. 

Mark  Twain  tells  of  a  man  who.  when  he 
came  home  drunk,  explained  to  his  wife  that 
his  condition  was  due  to  the  fact  that  he  had 
mixed  his  drinks.  'John,"  his  wife  advised, 
"  when  you  have  drunk  all  the  whisky  you 
want,  you  ought  to  ask  for  sarsaparilla." 
"  Yes."  retorted  her  husband,  "  but  when  I 
have  drunk  all  the  whisky  I  want  I  can't  say 
sarsaparilla." 

A  young  member  of  Parliament  was  address- 
ing a  meeting  at  which  there  was  a  consider- 
able rowdy  element  present.  Like  the  other 
speakers,  he  was  frequently  interrupted,  until, 
losing  patience,  he  called  for  silence,  saying: 
"  Don't  let  every  ass  bray  at  once."  "Very 
well,  we  will  let  you  go  on  braying,  sir," 
said  the  ringleader,  and  the  honorable  mem- 
ber was  left  without  a  reply. 

The  other  day,  Secretary  Hitchcock  re- 
ferred the  following  letter,  addressed  to  him, 
to  the  Pension  Bureau,  for  consideration  :  "  Be- 
far  the  war  there  wasent  no  man  who  could  a 
Ithrowed  me  down  or  made  me  holler  but  now 
a  goodish  sized  man  could  blow  me  over  and 
I  am  so  nervious  I  holler  when  I  heer  a  hog 
squeak  in  killin  time  or  the  jists  of  my  oald 
house  grone  with  the  wind.  I  aint  playin 
baby  ack  Mr.  Sectery,  but  if  you  alls  is 
spreadin  $20  bills  out  in  the  son  to  dry  you 
mite  jus  as  well  let  me  have  a  few  as  any 
— nuther  ole  soljer.  I  ort  to  be  paid  for  my  ner- 
viousness." 

A  well-known   English  surgeon  was  impart- 
ing some  clinical   instruction  to  half  a  dozen 
students  who  accompanied  him  in  his  rounds, 
he  other  day.     Pausing  at   the  bedside  of  a 
^doubtful    case,    he    said:       'Now,    gentlemen, 
41o   you   think   this    is,   or   is   not,   a   case   for 
iperation?"      One  by  one  the   students   made 
heir  diagnosis,  and  all  of  them  answered  in 
dhe  negative.    "  Well,   gentlemen,   you   are    all 
vrong,"    said    the    wielder    of    the    free    and 
_lashing  scalpel,  "  and  I  shall  operate  to-mor- 
-M-"      "No,    you    won't,"    said    the    patient, 
s  he  rose  in  his  bed ;  "  six  to  one  is  a  good 
ijority ;  gimme  my  clothes." 


won't  you  give  the  Yankee  a  hand  ?  "  he  ex- 
claimed. At  once  the  house  was  caught,  and, 
all  the  pent-up  feeling  turned  the  right  way. 
There  was  a  yell  of  applause. 

This  is  the  way  the  editor  of  a  Western 
country  paper  recently  wrote  up  a  marriage 
ceremony  in  his  native  town  :  "  Would  that 
our  pen  had  been  plucked  from  some  beautiful 
bird  of  paradise  and  dipped  in  the  eye  of  a 
■  ainbow,  that  we  might  fittingly  describe  the 
beautiful  marriage  scene  enacted  at  the  resi- 
dence of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Davis.  Just  as 
the  day  god,  clothed  in  majesty  sublime,  had 
started  on  his  downward  course  toward  the 
Western  sea,  shedding  his  galaxy  of  quiver- 
ing, golden  beams  o'er  the  rejoicing  earth- 
it  was  then  that  the  cords  of  confidence, 
hope,  and  love,  binding  the  hearts  of  Eli 
Frederick  Guernsey  and  Beatrice  Davis  were 
indelibly  traced  upon  the  scroll  of  life,  and 
the  sacred  seal  of  holy  matrimony  placed 
thereon." 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


A  New  Version. 

There  was  a  man  in  our  town. 

And  he  was  wondrous  wise. 
He  jumped  into  a  monstrous  deal 

That  stood  on  massive  lies. 

And  when  be  saw  the  game  was  up. 

\\  ith  all  his  might  and  main, 
He  loaded  stock  on  trusting  friends 

And  jumped  right  out  again. — Life. 


Dr.  Gardner  told  Walter  Wellman  the   fol- 
lowing story,  the  other  day.  of  a  lucky  escape 
from  the  bullet  of  an  assassin  which  ex-Presi- 
dent Cleveland  once  had  :     "  Between  his  two 
terms    as    President.    Mr.    Cleveland    lived    in 
-Madison   Avenue.     A   demented   fellow   imag- 
ined that  he  was  in  love  with  Mrs.  Cleveland, 
and  used  to  send  her  a  love-letter  every  day. 
One  morning.  Mr.  Cleveland  was  coming  down 
the   steps   of   his    house    to    drive   to    his    law 
office  in  William  Street,  when  this  crazy  fel- 
low met  him  face  to  face,  and  pulled  the  trig- 
ger  of   a  pistol   aimed   straight    at   the   heavy 
figure  standing  on  the  steps  two  yards  above 
him.      By  one  of  those   miraculous   interposi- 
tions   of    chance,    the    cartridge    missed    fire. 
Before   the    miscreant    could   use    his    weapon 
again   he   was  seized  and  carried  away.      He 
was    found    to    be    insane,    and    in    less    than 
twenty-four   hours   was   placed   in   an   asylum, 
while   the   story    was    kept    out   of   the   news- 
papers.     I    was    at    the    house    within    a    few 
minutes,    and    the    pistol    was    given    to    me. 
I  have  it  yet;  also  the  bundle  of  crazy  love- 
letters.     It  was  a  well-made  rim-fire  revolver, 
and    every    other    cartridge    exploded    at    the 
first  trip  of  the  trigger.     Mr.  Cleveland  prob- 
ably owes  his  life  to  the  chance  that  the  one 
cartridge  which  had  too  thick  a  rim  was  the 
one  which  the  insane  chap  tried  to  fire." 


1      Tl 


The  Hon.  M.  E.  Ingalls,  of  Cincinnati, 
resident  of  the  "  Big  Four "  Railroad,  is  a 
Jaine  man,  and  whenever  he  goes  to  his  na- 
ive  State,  always  spend  a  good  portion  of  his 
ime  at  Harrison,  where  he  began  the  practice 

hf  law.  Often  in  the  evening,  he  goes  down 
J  the  village   store,   and  joins   the   circle   of 

J,)afers  that  gather  to  talk  over  the  public  and 
rivate  events  of  the  nation,  State,  town,  and 

"illage.  The  other  day,  one  old  fellow  in- 
uired :     "  Is  it  true  that  you  get  a  salary  of 

...a  thousand  dollars  a  year?"  Mr.  Ingalls 
trained  that  he  did  make  as  much  as  that 
1  twelve  months.     "  Well."  remarked  the  old 

IlUow,    "it   is   really   remarkable   what   cheek 

tad  brass  will  do." 

m 

■    Edward  Harrigan  says  that  the  most  trying 
goment   in   his   theatrical    career  occurred   in 
jew  Orleans,  soon  after  the  Civil  War.     He 
ne  South  with  his  company,  and,  yield- 
:  g   somewhat   anxiously    to    popular   request. 
lit  on  "The  Blue  and  tie  Gray."     The  play 
r  id  been  a  success  up  North,  but  down  South. 
1  >th  the  air  still  full  of  the  bitterness  of  the 
•  ir,  it   was    a   dangerous   experiment.      Tony 
>rt  was   to  represent  the  Confederate  gray, 
he  hunted  up  a  uniform  of  the   Louisiana 
i(gers,  and  when  he  came  marching  on,  young, 
'  tlwart,  handsome,  the  typical  soldier  boy  in 
Js    beloved    uniform,    the    house,    men    and 
'men,  cheered  and  shouted  and  cried  for  all 
jar  heroes  embodied  in  this  boy.     Harrigan, 
"tnding  in   the   wings   in   his   Northern   blue, 
J'ting    to    go    on,    had    just    one    thought — 
"hey'll  kill  me  1  "     Then  he  stepped  out,  the 
bodiment  of  the  enemy,  and  a  cold,  dead  si- 
ice  fell  upon  the  house.     Not  a  hand  moved 

■  him.     The  audience  was  tense  with  emo- 
n,  and  there  was  only  an  instant  to  act,  if 

■  Play    was    to    be    saved.      Harrigan,    big. 
<%,    good-looking,    came    swiftly    down    to 

front  and  stepped  over  the  footlight  gutter, 
ning  down  to  them.     ■■  For  the  love  of  God. 


"Whistler's  Marriaee. 
In  a  recent  number  of  Trull,.  Henry 
Labouchere  claims  that  he  was  responsible 
for  the  marriage  of  the  widow  of  Goodwin. 
the  architect,  and  James  McNeill  Whistler! 
the  artist.      He  writes: 


She  was  a  remarkably  pretty  woman,  and 
very  agreeable,  and  both  she  and  he  were 
thoroughly  bohemians.  I  was  dining  with 
them  and  some  others,  one  evening,  at  Earle's 
Court.  They  were  obviously  greatly  attracted 
to  each  other,  and  in  a  vague  sort  of  way 
they  thought  of  marrying,  so  I  took  the  mat- 
ter in  hand  to  bring  things  to  a  practical 
point. 

r-   "  '/imm,y''    J    said.    '  w>ll    you    marry    Mrs. 
Goodwin? 

"  I  Certainly,'    he   replied. 
..  "  '  M.r,s-   Goodwin,'   I   said,   '  will  you   marry 
J  immy  i 

Certainly,'  she  replied. 
"  '  When  ?'   I   asked. 

'Oh,  some  day.'   said  Whistler. 
'  '  That   won't   do,'   I   said  ;   '  we   must   have 
a  date. 

"  So  they  both  agreed  I  should  choose  the 
day,  tell  them  what  church  to  come  to  for 
the  ceremony,  provide  a  clergyman,  and  give 
the  bride  away. 

"I  fixed  an  early  date,  and  got  them  the 
chaplain  of  the  House  of  Commons  to  per- 
form the  ceremony.  It  took  place  a  few  days 
later.  After  the  ceremonv  was  over  we  ad- 
journed to  Whistler's  studio,  where  he  had 
prepared  a  banquet.  The  banquet  was  on  the 
table,  but  there  were  no  chairs,  so  we  sat  on 
packing-cases.  The  happy  pair  when  I  left 
had  not  quite  decided  whether  they  would  go 
that  evening  to  Paris  or  remain  in  the 
studio. 

-"  How  unpractical  they  were  was  shown 
when  I  happened  to  meet  the  bride  the  day 
before  the  marriage  in  the  street. 

Don't    forget  to-morrow,'   I   said. 
"  '  No,"    she    replied ;    '  I    am   just   going   to 
buy    my    trousseau.' 

"  '  A  little  late  for  that,  is  it  not  ?'  I  asked. 
"  '  No,"  she  answered,  '  for  I  am  only  going 
to    buy   a   tooth-brush   and   a   new   sponge,    as 
one  ought  to  have  new   ones   when  one   mar- 
ries.' 

"  However,  there  never  was  a  more  suc- 
cessful marriage.  They  adored  each  other, 
and  lived  most  happily  together,  and  when 
she  died  he  was  broken-hearted,  indeed.  He 
never  recovered  from   the  loss." 


Quick  Lunch. 
How   does   the   busy   man   lunch r 

He  rushes  into  a  quick-lunch  room. 
All  heedless  of  the  impending  doom 
That  lurks  in  the  hasty  bill  of  fare 
Iiispensed  to  the  reckless  eaters  there. 
He  works  his  way  to  the  crowded  bar 
Where  heaps  of  quick  lunch  viands  are. 
And,  arming  himself  with  plate  and  knife. 
Proceeds  to  shorten  his  busy  life. 

He  grabs  a  sandwich  of  ancient  date 

And  shoves  it  between  his  thumb  and  plate. 

Of  eggs  he  seizes  on  one  or  two 

That  are  boiled  so  hard  the  whites  are  blu< 

And  as  indigestible  as  glue. 

Then  a  bowl  of  coffee  scalding  hot. 

And  he  backs  away  with  what  he's  got. 

And  he  hurries  the  combination  down 

With  gulp  and  gasp  and  impatient  frown. 

Again  he  goes  to  the  fatal  pile. 

Fretting  and  worrying  all  the  while 

About  the  time  that  is  speeding  by. 

He  captures  a  piece  of  stuff  called  pie — 

It  looks  all  right  to  the  careless  eye; 

It   is   all   right  if  you   want  to  die — 

A  couple  of  crullers  of  last  month's  make, 

A  stale  eclair  and  a  piece  of  cake; 

Swallows  the  whole  as  quick  as  he  can — 

Oh,  he's  a  terribly  busy  man! 

A  toothpick,   ice  water,   and  he's  done. 

And  back  to  his  office  on  the  run. 

How  does  the  busy  man  feel? 

He  is  very,  very'  much  depressed. 

He  feels  as  though  he  is  all  compressed: 

Like  a  man  was  sitting  on  his  chest. 

He  has  a  something  he  can't  explain. 

He  knows  it's  there,  for  he  feels  the  pain ; 

He'd  call  it  wooden,   but  wood   is   light, 

And  the  thing  he  has  weighs  like  a  fright. 

He  drags  around  from  morning  to  night 

A  ball  and  chain  on  his  appetite. 

He  sees  a  doctor  and  states  his  case- 

The  doctor,  noting  his  pallid  face. 

Gives  him  the  limit.     The  man  goes  back 

To   travel   the   old   dyspeptic   track. 

— Baltimore  American. 

The  Silent  Lover. 
For  an  hour,  and  more,  at  her  feet  he  sat. 
And  while  she  chatted  of  this  and  that. 
Tatted  a  little  and  trimmed  a  hat. 
He  only  stared   and  he  hardly  stirred, 
And  he  wasn't  ahle  to  say  a  word, 
Yet   she   didn't   think   him   a   perfect   flat. 
Ah!  he  was  her  lover,  it  must  be  inferred. 
W'ell,  so  he  was;  but  the  fact's  absurd. 
When  she  caressed  him,   he  only  purred. 
For  he  was  a — cat. 
— Henry   Austin    in    the   Independent. 


At  this  season  of  the  year  multitudes  of  peo- 
ple are  paying  from  ?io  to  $23  a  week  at 
summer  hotels  for  the  privilege  of  being  de- 
prived of  the  comforts  of  home. — Hartford 
Post. 


Moore's  PoiHon-Oak  Remedy 
cures  poisonoak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  bv  all 
druggists.  J 


Some  Society  Notes. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Van  Damme  Expensse  are 
putting  a  new  wing  to  their  stable.  It  will 
cost  about  two  millions.  Their  horses  have 
gold  shoes.  Mrs.  Van  Damme  herself  wears 
diamond  teeth,  and  has  always  had  money. 
She  holds  very  decided  opinions  concerning 
self-made  people. 

The  Brazen  Pushors  are  at  Southampton. 
They  passed  the  spring  at  Tuxedo.  Mr. 
Pusher  is  quite  scholarly  in  his  tastes,  always 
reading  the  society  column  in  the  daily- 
papers. 

Quite  a  number  of  distinguished  people  will 
sail  on  the  Ostentalia  next  Wednesday— the 
Earl  of  Graftmere,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ammi  In- 
nitt,  Mr.  Trowsers  Van  Guzzle,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Goshwotta  Pyle.  and  little  Reggie  Hogg,  with 
his  four  tutors. 

Mrs.  Stilor  Xuthin  has  become  quite  a 
"  leader  "  at  Newport.  She  has  always  been 
fashionable.  When  only  two  years  old  she 
insisted  upon  eating  her  ice-cream  with  a 
fork.  Also,  when  eighteen,  she  was  kissed 
by  the  Prince  of  Wales.  Later  on.  she  drank 
a  little  too  much,  doncherknow. — Life. 

The  Russian  way:  "Michael."  said  the 
Czar,  "  have  you  assured  L'ncle  Sam  that  the 
open  door  is  to  be  established  in  Manchuria?" 
"  Yes,  your  imperial  majesty."  "  Then  hurry- 
up  and  see  that  things  are  closed  a  little 
tighter,  while  he's  bragging  about  his  di- 
plomatic victory,  and  not  watching  us." — 
Chicago  Record-Herald. 


The  Infant 

takes  first  to  human  milk;  that  failing,  the  mother 
turns  at  once  to  cow's  milk  as  the  best  substitute.  Hor- 
den's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  a  cow's  milk 
scientifically  adapted  to  the  human  infant.  Stood 
first  for  forty-five  years. 


Phil'delpbi: 
St.  Louis. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

>EW   TOKK-SijLTIlAMl'T<j.\-LOND..>\ 

Aug.  12.  ,oam  |  New  York  -Aug.  26,  10  am 
-     Aug  10, 10am  |  Phil'delphia  Sept.  2,  10 am 
Pli.'ladelphia-Oueenstown-Liverpool. 

amv/v--.dl5g|S!S3L,-:::::'-ss.'3 
ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

JES     1UEK— LuSDox    DmECT 

Mesaba lug.  15. 9  am  I  Min'apolis    Au-'a*  „„ 

M.nnetonta    Aug.  22.,  am  |  Minjnaha.  Je^V. Z 
Only  nrst-class  passengers  carried 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON-CJL  EENSluWX-LlVEnPOOL 
Mayflower.  Aug.  13 1  Mayflower....       Sew    10 

Commonwealth *■*  2'     Columbus  ,,„™  1      Sit     - 

,V"  E"Sl»nd Sept.  3  I  Commonwealth        Sept'  l^ 

Cana,da°t,''!al^I',Verp'•,"^S',or,  «=>  Passage." 
Canada August  22     Dom  11  on.   ..  Septembers 

K«*1S«o°  *°«n«  =0  I  Southward  .SepTeXr  .2 

Boston    Mediterranean    Direct 

AZUKES-GIUKALTAK-NAI-LES-UENOA. 

£=„:     :— d-satu^;S,.^,^:I 

<-,  .      ,         Sailing  Wednesdays  at  io  a  m. 

Statendam AHgnst  12  |  Xoordam Waist  26 

Rvndam \u"ust  10.     R(Mt,-r.^m        c     .       t 

....ciugusi  191  Rotterdam.  .  .-St-J'ttrmber  2 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK-A2.TWEKP-PAEIS. 
_.  .      .  Sailing  Salurdavs  at  loam 

Finland.     August  15  |  Kroonland....      \u<-ust  20 

V  aderla"d   August  22  I  Zeelaud SepSerl 

„_      WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK-QCEE.S5TOWX-UVEEPOOL. 

reHraan'C'  iVUSUSl  '"*■  "'"'"  !  CdUc     ■  •  -August  21.  4  pm 
Cednc.. . .  August  14,9am    Victorian  ...... .  Aniist  K 

Majestic.  August  .9,  neon  |  Oceani,  .     August  26.  Ian? 

'  "•  TAYLt»K.   Passenger  Agent,  Pacific  Coast 

21  Post  Street.  San  Fraucisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  OHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Erannan 

Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  [or 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki    Shanghai 

and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows: '  ,g„„'' 

Coptic  falling  at  Manila).  Tuesday.  AuBust  1» 

U0%V° ^'riday    September  II 

p"";„ Wednesday,  October  7 

1  c,c   Saturday,  October  31 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing 

Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates        sa,l,n- 

^°''Tf,sh)  a"d  Passage  apply  at  company's  office 

No.  421  Market  Street,  comer  First  Street 

D-  D-  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 

TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO.i 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

c.Si?mtrs  wi,l,,eave  Whan,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets.  1  p.  >,.  lor  YOKOHAMA  and  HUVG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo,,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanehai  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  foMndfa  etc 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  dav  oi  sailing        , „„  ' 

America  Sfaru Wednesday.  August  S6 

Hongkong  Maru.  ...Saturday.   Sepiei.fber  IS 

,-.  .  (Calling  at  Manila] 

Nippon  Maru  Thursday,  October  15 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates 

For  ireight  and  passage  apply  at  company-*  office 

♦31   Market  Street.  cornerFirst.  ' 

W.  H.  AVEKY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  I  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  620010ns 

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society. 

The  Carnival  of  Sports  at  Del  Monte. 

The  Hotel  del  Monte  has  been  the  fashion- 
able Mecca  of  all  Californians  during  the 
week,  while  the  carnival  of  sports,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Racing 
Association,  has  attracted  a  large  number  of 
interested  participants  and  enthusiastic  spec- 
tators. The  hotel  has  been  crowded  with  a 
gay  throng  who  watched  the  various  sports 
by  day.  and  enjoyed  themselves  dancing  and 
in  other  ways  at  night.  A  string  orchestra 
has  added  to  the  pleasure  of  the  guests  at 
luncheon  and  dinner,  and  elaborate  out- 
door programmes  of  popular  and  classical 
music  have  been  rendered  in  the  afternoon 
and  evening.  Among  other  San  Franciscans 
who  have  taken  part  in  the  festivities  during 
the  week  are : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Carolan,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  \V.  Clark,  of  Burlingame,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
G.  Irwin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Athearn  Folger. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Martin,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fletcher 
F  Ryer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Clinton  E.  Worden,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parker 
Whitney,  Mrs.  Thomas  Breeze,  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Casserly,  Mrs.  G.  L.  Colburn,  Mrs.  Charles  P. 
Eells,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Low,  Mrs.  Ernest  la  Mon- 
tague, Mrs.  William  P.  Morgan,  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Martin.  Mrs.  C.  H.  Simpkins.  Mrs.  A.  N. 
Towne.  Mrs.  A.  L.  Tubbs,  Miss  Breeze.  Miss 
Maye  Colburn,  Miss  Helen  de  Young,  Miss 
Bertha  Dolbeer,  Miss  Sarah  Drum.  Miss  Vir- 
ginia JolilTe,  Miss  Flora  Low.  Miss  Morgan. 
'  Mr.  H.  P.  Bowie,  Mr.  A.  F.  Bowie,  Mr.  Charles 
de  Young,  Mr.  Thomas  A.  Driscoll,  Mr. 
Christian  Froelich,  Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway. 
Mr.  Fred  A.  Greenwood,  Mr.  Christian  de 
Guigne,  Mr.  W.  Mayo  Newhall,  Mr.  James  D. 
Phelan,  Mr.  Douglas  S.  Watson,  Mr.  Joseph 
S.  Tobin,  and  Mr.  Richard  Tobin. 

On  Tuesday  afternoon  the  first  of  the 
series  of  polo  games  was  played.  The  match 
was  between  Mr.  J.  C.  Colby,  Dr.  E.  Boeseke, 
Mr.  Wickenden,  and  Mr.  Cameron  Rodgers, 
of  the  Santa  Barbara  green  team,  and  Mr. 
Thomas  A.  Driscoll,  Mr.  Francis  Carolan,  Mr. 
Lawrence  Redington,  and  Mr.  Robert  Bettner. 
wearing  the  bright  red  of  Burlingame.  Mr. 
Richard  Tobin  acted  as  umpire.  The  game 
was  a  very  exciting  one,  and  resulted  in  a 
tie — two  all. 

Polo  gave  way  on  Wednesday  to  harness 
and  pony  racing.  The  grand-stand  was  filled 
with  spectators,  and  the  lawn-covered  area 
within  the  mile  race-track  was  sprinkled  with 
a  picturesque  crowd,  which  witnessed  the  races 
from  automobiles,  four-in-hands,  surreys, 
runabouts,  and  saddle-horses.  All  the  races 
were  for  $50,  $40  of  which  went  to  the  winner, 
and  $10  to  second  place.  The  officials  were 
Mr.  R.  M.  Tobin  and  Colonel  H.  C  Ward, 
U.  S.  A.,  judges;  Mr.  C.  E.  Maud  and  Mr. 
Walter  S.  Martin,  timers  ;  and  Mr.  C.  Davis, 
starter.     The  result  was   as   follows : 

First  Race — One  mile,  for  teams,  trotting 
or  pacing,  best  two  in  three  heats — Won  by 
Captain  Barneson's  Morgan  and  Alfred  H. 
Time,  2  -.5$.  A.  H.  McKay's  Monroe,  Jr.,  and 
Lucero  ran  second. 

Second  Race — Three-sixteenths  of  a  mile. 
for  ponies  fourteen  hands  or  under — Entries  : 
C.  W.  Clark's  Oro.  E.  J.  Boeseke's  Commotion. 
Parker  Whitney's  Chiquita.  Rudolph  Spreck- 
els's  Don,  Francis  Carolan's  Bonnie  and  Floro- 
dora.  Won  by  Florodora.  Time.  o:ioJ^. 
Bonnie  was  second,  and  Don  third. 

Third  Race — Three-quarters  of  a  mile, 
handicap,  for  horses.  Won  by  C.  W.  Clark's 
Decori  J.  Dr.  Boeseke's  Respirator  was  left 
at  the  post. 

Fourth  Race — One-quarter  of  a  mile,  for 
ponies.  Entries :  Rudolph  Spreckels's  Don. 
Francis  Carolan's  Bonnie  and  Florodora,  E. 
J.  Boeseke's  Commotion,  and  C.  W.  Clark's 
Oro.  Bonnie  won.  Time,  0  :24fS.  Oro,  sec- 
ond;  Florodora.  third. 

Thursday  morning  was  given  up  to  a  cavalry 
field  day  at  the  Monterey  barracks,  and  in 
the  afternoon  occurred  the  second  polo  match 
between  the  Santa  Barbara  team,  made  up  of 
Mr.  J.  C.  Colby,  Mr.  Cameron  Rodgers.  and 
Dr.  E.  J.  Boeseke.  and  the  Burlingame  team, 
composed  of  Mr.  Thomas  A.  Driscoll,  Mr. 
Francis  Can. Ian,  Mr.  Joseph  S.  Tobin,  and  Mr. 
Joseph  S.  Tobin.  Jr.  The  game  resulted  in  an 
overwhelming  victory  for  the  Burlingame 
players,  the  score  being  7  ^oals  to  1. 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  no  substitute 


To-day  (Saturday)  the  members  of  the 
California  Automobile  Club  will  complete 
their  run  to  Del  Monte  in  time  to  witness  the 
last  day's  programme  of  the  pony  and  harness 
racing.  Sunday  they  will  make  a  tour  of  the 
seventeen-mile  drive,  and  on  Monday  morn- 
ing the  following  automobile  races  will  be 
contested  for  : 

10:00  a.  m. — Hill-climbing  contest  at  Car- 
mel  Hill.  Open  to  all  machines.  For  a  silver 
trophy  given  by  Mr.  E.  Courtney  Ford. 

2  :oo  p.  M. — First  race,  two  miles.  For 
gasoline  machines  only ;  1,^00  pounds  and 
under.  For  silver  trophy  given  by  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  Company. 

2:20  p.  M. — Second  race, .three  miles,  open 
event.  For  machines  1,200  pounds  and  under. 
For  a  silver  trophy  given  by  Mr.  C.  S.  Mid- 
dleton. 

j:45  ,.,  M. — Third  race,  five  miles,  open 
event.  For  machines  1.500  pounds  and  under. 
For  a  silver  trophy  given  by  the  White  Auto- 
mobile Company. 

3:15  1'.  m. — Fourth  race,  one-mile  obstacle 
race.     For  a  silver  trophy. 

3:45  i'.  M. — Fifth  race,  five  miles,  open 
event.  For  machines  20  horse-power  and 
under.  For  a  silver  trophy  given  by  the  Na- 
tional   Automobile    Company. 

4:15  i'.  m. — Sixth  race,  ten  miles,  open 
event.  For  machines  irrespective  of  power 
or  weight.  For  a  cup  offered  by  Mr.  F.  A. 
Hyde,  president  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California. 

4:45  p.  M. — Seventh  race,  five-mile  exhibi- 
tion  against  time. 

S  :oo  p.  m. — Eighth  race,  five-mile  handi- 
cap. Open  to  all  machines  having  participated 
in  any  of  the  foregoing  races.  For  the  Del 
Monte  trophy.  This  trophy  must  be  won  twice 
on  the  Del  Monte  track  by  the  same  indi- 
vidual  before  becoming  his  absolute  property. 

On  Tuesday  the  automobiles  will  leave  Del 
Monte  at  9  =30  a.  m.  for  Point  Lobos,  where 
luncheon  will  be  served,  and  on  Wednesday 
the  return  trip  home  will  be  begun.  During 
the  following  week,  commencing  Monday, 
August  24th,  the  golf  tournament  will  be  held. 


A  suit  has  been  filed  in  the  superior  court 
of  Redwood  City  in  which  an  attempt  is  be- 
ing made  to  restrain  John  J.  Doyle,  who  is  a 
son  of  John  T.  Doyle,  the  well-known  at- 
torney, and  John  Bellramo  from  selling 
liquor.  The  complaint  alleges  that  two  weeks 
ago  John  J.  Doyle  represented  to  Baldwin  & 
Howell,  the  agents  of  the  plaintiff,  the  Tri- 
umph Loan  Association,  that  he  wanted  to 
buy  a  piece  of  property  near  the  Flood  place 
for  a  residence.  Subsequently,  when  the 
property  was  conveyed,  one  John  Bellramo, 
who  is  employed  by  Doyle,  erected  a  small 
building,  and  began  selling  wine.  The  tract 
contains  fifteen  acres  of  land  and  is  situated 
in  one  of  the  most  fashionable  quarters  of 
Menlo  Park.  Bellramo  sells  wine  by  the  gal- 
lon, and  it  is  claimed  that  an  undesirable  class 
is  attracted  to  the  beautiful  locality  by  rea- 
son of  the  sale  of  liquor  there.  Nothing  ap- 
pears in  the  deed  to  Bellramo  and  Doyle  pro- 
hibiting the  sale  of  liquor.  However,  the 
wealthy  residents  of  Menlo  are  up  in  arms, 
and  a  bitter  fight  is  expected. 


Marcus  R.  Mayer,  the  well-known  impre- 
sario and  theatrical  manager,  is  in  town,  mak- 
ing arrangements  for  the  visit  of  Adelina  Patti 
in  January  next.  According  to  the  present 
plans.  Patti  will  sing  but  twice  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, on  the  evening  of  the  seventh,  and  a 
matinee  on  the  afternoon  of  the  eleventh. 
Patti  opens  her  American  tour  in  New  York 
on  November  2d.  Signor  Romualde  Sapio. 
who  has  accompanied  the  diva  on  previous 
tours,  will  act  as  conductor,  and  the  soloists 
who  will  be  with  her,  all  new  to  American  au- 
diences, are  Vera  Margolies,  pianist ;  Roza 
Zamels,  violinist;  Wilfred  Vrigo  tenor;  An- 
ton Hegner,  "celloist;  and  Claude  Cunning- 
ham, baritone.  The  Baron  Cederstrom  will 
accompany  his  wife  on  her  trip. 


Thomas  M.  Sullivan,  the  cloakman,  has 
filed  a  petition  in  the  United  States  District 
Court  asking  to  be  declared  a  bankrupt.  His 
liabilities  amounted  to  $50,443.73.  His  prin- 
cipal creditors  were  Julia  Fratinger,  $6,799  ', 
First  National  Bank  of  San  Francisco.  $2,133; 
Mrs.  E.  R.  Lillis,  $30,000  on  a  note  and  $7,422 
on  money  advanced  ;  wholesale  and  retail  deal- 
ers of  San  Francisco,  $3,SS2. 


In  order  to  hide  the  evidence  of  his  infrac- 
tion of  the  ordinance  a  contractor  who  mixed 
mortar  on  the  bituminous  pavement  on  Cherry 
Street,  between  Sacramento  and  Clay,  painted 
out  the  white  stains  with  a  mixture  of  tar  and 
bitumen,  llurses  slipped  on  the  greasy  mix- 
ture and  complaints  poured  in  at  the  bureau 
of  streets. 


Mrs.  George  A.  Crux  was  called  to  San  Jose 
"ii  Monday  by  the  news  of  the  sudden  death 
of  her  mother.  Mrs.  P.  M.  Lusson,  who  died 
from  fright,  caused  by  the  earthquake.  She 
was  for  years  a  sulTerer  from  heart  trouble. 


A  YuUNG  LADY  OF  KK.FINEMENT  AND   EDUCA- 
tion.  speaking  French  and  Spanish  languages,  desires 

a  position  ;is  traveling  companion  to  a  lad  v.  at lest 

salary.     Address,  X  Y  Z,  Argonaut  office. 


NOTES    AND    GOSSIP- 


The   Ladies'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  up  the 
coasl  is  Kent,  "Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.   s.  p. 


A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Maud 
Clufr,,  eldest  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Cuff,  to  Mr.  George  W.  Downey. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Alma  McClung, 
daughter  of  Major  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  McClung. 
and  Lieutenant  Frederick  Home,  U.  S.  N.. 
was  quietly  celebrated  on  Tuesday  in  Trinity- 
Church.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at 
noon  by  Rev.  Clifton  Macon.  The  wedding 
was  to  have  taken  place  later,  but  was  hur- 
ried when  the  Alert  received  orders  to  proceed 
to  San  Diego.  After  a  brief  wedding  journey, 
Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Home  will  go  to  San 
Diego,  where  they  expect  to  reside  during  the 
fall    and    winter. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Ada  Mary  Russell, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  John  Adam  Russell,  and 
Mr.  George  Albert  Webster,  took  place  on 
Wednesday  evening  at  St.  Luke's  Church. 
The  ceremony  was  performed  at  half  after 
eight  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  William  Hayes.  Dr. 
Edward  Vounger  gave  his  sister-in-law  into 
the  keeping  of  the  groom.  Miss  Julia  Mau 
and  Miss  Dollie  Ledyard  were  the  brides- 
maids ;  Mr.  Hubbard  Dunbar  acted  as  best 
man ;  Dr.  Frederick  Vowinckle  and  Mr. 
Dalton  Harrison  attended  the  groom,  and  Mr. 
Robert  Dennis,  Mr.  George  Daly,  and  Mr. 
Arthur  Mau  were  the  ushers.  The  church 
ceremony  was  followed  by  a  reception  at  the 
Hotel  St.  Dunstan.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  journey,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webster 
will   reside  in   San   Francisco. 

Miss  Lucie  King  gave  a  luncheon  on  Tues- 
day at  which  she  entertained  Mrs.  Morton  R. 
Gibbons,  Miss  Bernie  Drown,  Mrs.  Silas  Pal- 
mer, Mrs.  T.  Danforth  Boardman,  Miss  Emily 
Wilson,  and  Miss  Leontine  Blakeman. 

Colonel  and  Mrs.  Oscar  F.  Long  gave  a  din- 
ner last  week  at  "  Highlands,"  the  Requa  home 
at  Piedmont,  at  which  they  entertained  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  McKae,  of  Santa  Barbara,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Harry  Knowles,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  Re- 
qua, Captain  and  Mrs.  Charles  Minor  Goodall, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Lacey  Brayton,  Captain 
and  Mrs.  Barneson,  Miss  Helen  de  Young, 
Miss  Lucie  King,  Miss  Florence  Hush,  Mrs. 
George  Doubleday,  Mr.  Lyman,  Mr.  Nielson, 
and  Mr.  Hopkins. 

A  reception  was  given  at  the  Presidio  Club 
on  Thursday  by  the  officers  of  the  Presidio 
Post  garrison  to  Colonel  Rodney,  who  retired 
on  Wednesday  as  brigadier-general,  after 
iorty-two  years  of  service  in  the  army.  The 
reception  was  a  full-dress  affair,  and  was  in 
charge  of  Major  William  B.  Stephenson,  U. 
S.  A.,  Major  Albert  Todd,  U.  S.  A.,  Major 
W.  Hobbs,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Captain  James  F. 
Hinkley,  U.  S.  A. 

Miss  Ardella  Mills  gave  a  tea  on  Wednesday 
in  honor  of  Miss  Eleanor  Davenport.  Among 
others  present  were  Miss  Bernie  Drown,  Miss 
Leontine  Blakeman,  Mrs.  T.  Danforth  Board- 
man,  Miss  Lucie  King,  Miss  Ethel  Cooper, 
and  Miss  Charlotte  Ellinwood.  ' 


A  contract  was  recently  let  at  Keswick  for 
the  completion  on  the  McCloud  of  a  twenty- 
one  mile  road  through  the  forests,  designed 
solely  for  automobile  travel.  The  road  com- 
mences at  McCioud,  the  saw-mill  city,  and 
runs  westward  to  Mott,  on  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific. Eight  miles  were  completed  last  sum- 
mer from  McCloud  to  the  Hearst  estate,  leav- 
ing thirteen  miles  unfinished.  Work  on  this 
section  is  being  rushed,  and  the  road  will  be 
completed  before  the  season  is  over.  The  road, 
which  winds  through  the  forest,  is  only  twelve 
feet  wide,  but  the  surface  is  covered  with  sand 
and  gravel,  packed  by  heavy  rollers  until  it 
is  as  smooth  and  solid  almost  as  an  asphalt 
pavement.  When ,  completed,  it  will  be  the 
most  novel  highway  in  California,  and  will  be 
wholly  a  private  thoroughfare  for  the  mil- 
lionaire automobilists  who  have  summer  resi- 
dences on  the  McCloud. 


The  first  of  the  San  Francisco  Symphony 
Society's  concerts  to  be  given  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Fritz  Scheel  will  take  place  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House  on  next  Friday  afternoon 
at  a  quarter  past  three.  That  there  will  be 
a  brisk  demand  for  tickets  goes  without  say- 
ing, for  the  popular  conductor  has  a  host  of 
friends  and  admirers  here  who  will  be  glad  to 
extend  him  a  hearty  welcome  after  his  five 
years'  absence  in  the  East.  The  sale  of  season 
tickets  begins  on  Monday,  and  single  tickets 
will  be  ready  on  Wednesday.  The  programme 
of  the  opening  concert  will  include  composi- 
tions by  Schumann,  Wagner,  and  Tschaikow- 
sky. 

—m — -»• — a 

The  estate  of  James  Parker  Treadwell  has 
been  appraised  at  $443,404.22.  The  items  of 
the  report  are  as  follows  :  Realty  in  this  city, 
$^/0.855l  cash,  $1,943;  mortgage,  $39,000;  a 
third  interest  in  the  estate  of  Thalia  and  Maud 
Treadwell.  $89,145;  stock  in  the  Spring  Valley 
Water  Company,  $36,635. 


•Knox1    celebrated   hats;  fall'  styles 
now  open.      Eugene  Korn,   Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


Rose  Coghlan  has  been  engaged  by  Charles 
Frohman  to  play  an  important  part  in  Stephen 
Phillips's  "Ulysses."  which  will  be  produced 
at  the  Garden  Theatre.  New  York,  early  in 
September. 

Patti  Will  Sing  Again. 

Patti.  the  adorable  and  incomparable,  is 
coming:  to  San  Francisco  next  January  to  give 
two  concerts.  That's  good  news  to  all  lovers 
of  good  music,  and  there  are  many  in  Cali- 
fornia. Crowds  of  them  have  been  at  Hotel 
Vendome,  San  Jose,  this  summer,  and  are  go- 
ing there  daily,  just  to  rest  and  to  enjoy  the 
excellent  orchestra  there  that  charms  every 
one. 


Pears' 

We  perspire  a  pint  a 
day  without  knowing  it ; 
ought  to ;  if  not,  there's 
trouble  ahead.  The  ob- 
structed skin  becomes 
sallow  or  breaks  out  in 
pimples.  The  trouble  goes 
d  :eper,  but  this  is  trouble 
enough. 

If  you  use  Pears'  Soap, 
no  matter  how  often,  the 
skin  is  clear  and  soft  and 
open  and  clear. 


^r  the  world. 


G.H.MUMM&CO.'Sl 

EXTRA.    DRY 

CHAilPAQNE 

Now  coming  to  this  market  is  of  the  remarkable  vintage  ot 
1898,  which  is  more  delicate,  breedy,  and  better  than  the 
1893  ;  it  is  especially  dry,  without  being  heavy,  ;md  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  finest  vintages  ever  Imported. 

P.  J.  VAtCKBNBERG,  Worms  O/K,  Rhine 
and  Moselle  Wines. 

J.  CALVET  &  CO.,  Bordeaux,  Clarets,  and 
Burgundies. 

OTARD,  DUPUI  &  CO.,  Cognac,  Brandies. 

FRED'K   DE   BARY  &  CO.,  New  York, 

Sole  Agents  in  the  Unite*!  States  and  Canada. 
B.  M.  GREENWAY,  Pacific   Coast    Representative . 

"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED" 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 

Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  10  Sit' 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Route  and  Mis  ouri 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-car  service,  new 
equipment 

Secure  sleeping-car  reservation  and  full  informa 
tion  from 

U.  M-  FUETCHriR, 

Pacific  Coast  Agent 
30  Montgomery  Street,    San    Francisco,    Cal.  I 


A  Sterling  Staple 


Tilings  of  sterling  quality,  standard 

value,    the   first   sought  and  bought 

are  staples. 


Hunter 

Baltimore 


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BaltimoreF^e 

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WhXanahanSSON. 
baltimore.;' 


Rye 


par  -  excellerce,  is 
the  staple  whiskey 
of  America.  With 
universal  popular- 
ity at  all  the  most 
popular  places  there 
is  one  remark   only 


'  Hunter 
of  Course" 


HfLBERT     MERCANTILE    CO.. 

213-215  Market  Street,  San   Francisco,  Cal. 

Telephone  Exchange  313. 


RUBBER 


LA  ZACUALP; 

Rubber  Plantation 
Company 
■  7l3MarketSt.,S.F 
AN  INVESTMENT  WORTH  INVESTIGATING 


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August  io, 


1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  iamous  COURT 
into  which  tor  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  turnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


TENNIS 

GOLF 

BOWLING 


ORCHESTRA 

COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  GO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  VENDOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


NEW  ANNEX 
NEW  LANAI 
NEW  DRIVES 


GEO.    P.   SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 


THE   COLONIAL 

S.  K.  cor.  Pine  aud  Joues  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  HESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 


IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CQ. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Kitty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.  Sixteen 
trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all  the 
year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

K.  V.  HALXOS,  Proprietor. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summerandspring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
maiana. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.  Very  superior  accommodations. 
1  Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
I  hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
,8  A.  M-,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  p.  m. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.   WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


190,000 

People  depend  upon  the 

OAKLAND  TRIBUNE 


The  Tribune  is  the  home  paper  of  Oakland  and 
\larneda  County,  and  has  no  rival  in  its  field. 

The  Tribune  publishes,  exclusively,  the  full 
Vssociated  Press  dispatches. 

Alt  society  events  of  the  week  are  mirrored  in 
Saturday's  Tribune. 

Local  and  State  politics  receive  attention  by 
peciai  writers  in  the  same  issue. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    'WHEREABOUTS. 


Annexed  w31  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereaubonts  of  absent  Califorrtians  : 

Mrs.  Jane  Stanford  sailed  for  Australia  on 
the  Oceanic  steamship  Ventura  on  Thursday, 
expecting  to  be  absent  for  a  year. 

John     B.    Casserly    and    her    sisters, 


Mr 


the  Misses  Cudahy.  of  Chicago,  who  have 
been  visiting  her  at  her  cottage  at  San  Mateo, 
are  guests  at  the  Hotel  del  Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  L.  Flood  are  making 
a  short  stay  in  New  York,  prior  to  their  de- 
parture for  Europe. 

Mr,  and  Mrs.  George  Pope  have  closed  their 
home  on  Pacific  Avenue,  and  are  at  Eur- 
lingame  for  an  extended  stay. 

Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst,  who  is  entertaining  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  M.  Rogers,  of  Boston,  will 
return  to  her  country  place  on  the  McCloud 
River  during  the  month  of  August. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Truxtun  Beale  returned  to 
New  York  last  week  from  their  European 
trip.  They  will  spend  some  time  in  the  East 
before  returning  to  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels  and  Miss  Lillie 
Spreckels  have  returned  from  Coronado,  where 
they  have  made  an  extended  stay. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott  and  Miss  Marie 
Louise  Parrott  have  returned  from  Mexico 
and  are  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Gallatin  and  Miss 
Lita  Gallatin  have  returned  from  their  ranch 
near  Red  Bluff,  and  are  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 
They  expect  to  leave  for  Europe  some  time 
during  the  early  fall. 

Mrs.  Blakeman  and  Miss  Leontine  Blake- 
man  have  returned  from  their  visit  to  Lake 
Tahoe. 

Mrs.  Davenport  and  her  daughter.  Miss 
Eleanor  Davenport,  will  sail  to-day  (Satur- 
day) on  the  steamer  Siberia  for  Japan. 

Mr.  Knox  Maddox  was  a  guest  at  the  Hotel 
Vendome  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bruce  and  Miss  Bertie 
Bruce  have  returned  from  their  trip  to  the 
Yellowstone  Park. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Keyes  have  departed 
for  Howell  Mountain,  where  they  will  remain 
the  greater  part  of  the  month. 

Mr.  William  Herrin  and  Miss  Alice  Herrin 
are  expected  home  from  their  European  trip 
next  month.  Mrs.  Herrin  and  Miss  Kate  Her- 
rin will  return  from  Shasta  Springs  the  latter 
part  of  August. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sterling  Postley  were  in  Santa 
Barbara  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Henry  Wetherbee  and  her  sister,  Mrs. 
S.  H.  Farnham,  of  Fruitvale,  have  returned 
from  a  visit  to  Byron  Hot  Springs,  where  they 
were  the  guests  of  Mrs.  Lewis  R.  Mead. 

Miss  Sallie  Maynard  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  David  Starr  Jordan,  of  Stan- 
ford University,  were  in  town  for  a  short 
stay  early   in  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker  and  their 
son  have  returned  from  Shasta,  and  are  occu- 
pying   their    country    house    at    Sausalito. 

Mrs.  Frank  Norris,  who  has  been  spending 
the  summer  at  Cloverdale,  expects  to  go  East 
in  the  fall. 

Miss  Margaret  Sinclair  has  been  visiting 
her  sister,  Mrs.  Henry  Glide,  near  Sacra- 
mento. 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  Clifton  Macon  will  take  up 
their  residence  in  Oakland  next  month,  when 
Mr.  Macon  will  assume  the  duties  of  rector 
of  Trinity  Church. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  Baker  have  returned 
trom  Ben  Lomond,  where  they  have  been 
spending  several  weeks. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Y.  O'Brien,  who  are 
sojourning  at  Santa  Barbara,  will  return  to 
San  Francisco  about  the  middle  of  August. 

Mrs.  Henry  Vrooman  and  daughter.  Miss 
Beatrice  Vrooman,  have  been  recent  guests  at 
the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose. 

Mrs.  Tillingnash,  of  New  York.  Mrs.  Brad- 
ford Marshall,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
Mrs.  J.  Stow  Ballard,  and  Mrs.  Edwin  L. 
Breyfogle  were  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  last  week. 

Mr.  Robert  Greyrigge  has  returned  from  a 
stay  of  some  months  in  England,  and  is  visit- 
ing his  mother,  Mrs.  W.  B.  Chapman. 

Major  and  Mrs.  C.  C.  Clay  are  sojourning 
at  Byron  Hot  Springs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Archer  Huntington  have  left 

London,  and  are  traveling  in  South  America. 

Mr.    and    Mrs.    Frank    Grace    (nee    Martin) 

have  arrived  in  San  Francisco,  and  expect  to 

make  an  extended  stay  here. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs  were  Mr.  T.  K.  James,  Mr.  F.  M. 
Brooks,  Mr.  H.  P.  Roth,  of  Honolulu,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Paul  Steindorff,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  A. 
McDonald,  Miss  M.  McDonald,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
E.  H.  Horton,  and  Mr.  William  H.  Mackey. 

Among  the  guests  registered  this  week  at 
Saratoga  Springs  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Orville 
Chamberlain,  of  Indiana,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Kucks,  of  Oakland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  L. 
Johnson  and  Miss  Imo  Johnson,  of  Fresno, 
Mrs.  A.  Lachmann,  of  Los  Angeles,  Mrs.  R. 
A.  Porter,  of  Montana,  Mr.  E.  A.  Covell  and 
Mr.  D.  F.  Covell,  of  Woodbridge,  Mr.  John 
Marten,  of  Alameda,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  S. 
Cartwright,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  O.  Becker,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  George  Kreplin,  Miss  Louise  Nelson, 
Miss  Sarah  Carroll,  and  Dr.  J.  Claude  Perry. 
Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  J. 
Taggert,  Miss  Grace  Monk  and  Mr.  E.  R. 
Monk,  of  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H. 
Gervais,  of  Paris,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  C.  Torrey, 
Miss  Spratt,  and  Mr.  Lincoln  Hutchinson,  of 
Berkeley,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  E.  Starr,  ot 
San  Rafael,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Kapus,  of  Port- 
land, Or.,  Miss  Harriet  Regelsberger  and  Miss 
May  A.  Furley,  of  Honolulu,  Mr.  James  New- 
lands,  Jr.  and  Mr.  Lovell  White,  of  Mill  Val- 
ley, Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  J.  Judd,  Mrs.  J.  C.  Wil- 
son, and  Mr.  W.  G.  Britton. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The   latest  personal   notes   relative   to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended: 

Major-General  Henry  C.  Corbtn.  U.  S.  A., 
will  relinquish  his  duties  as  adjutant-general 
of  the  army  when  the  general  staff  law  goes 
into  effect  on  August  15th,  and  ?.n  officer  of 
the  adjutant-general's  corps  will  be  assigned 
as  acting  adjutant-general. 

Colonel  John  McE.  Hyde,  U.  S.  A.,  was  re- 
lieved as  chief  quartermaster  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  California  by  Major  Carroll  A.  Devol, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  will  do  temporary  duty  at  head- 
quarters until  the  arrival  of  Colonel  William 
S.  Patten,  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  expected  in  Sep- 
tember. Colonel  Hyde,  accompanied  by  Mrs 
Hyde,  leaves  for  his  new  post  of  duty.  St. 
Paul,   to-day   (Saturday). 

Captain  George  P.  White,  U.  S.  A.,  has  re- 
lieved Captain  David  S.  Stanley,  U.  S.  A.,  as 
quartermaster  at  the  Presidio. 

Rear-Admiral  Merrill  Miller,  U.  S.  N.,  Mrs. 
Miller,  and  Miss  Miller  have  taken  apart- 
ments at  the  Colonial  for  the  autumn  and  win- 
ter. 

Captain  Parker  W.  West,  Eleventh  Cavalry, 
U.  S.  A.,  aid  de  camp  to  General  McArthur, 
who  has  been  on  sick  leave  for  several  weeks, 
is  again  on   duty  at   department  headquarters. 

Inspector-General  George  H.  Burton.  U.  S. 
A.,  who  has  been  in  Southern  California  since 
his  arrival  on  the  Coast,  returned  to  San  Fran- 
cisco on  Monday. 

Lieutenant  James  A.  Woodruff,  Engineer 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  here  on  leave,  is  visit- 
ing his  father,  Brigadier-General  Woodruff. 
U.  S.  A.,  retired. 

Rear- Admiral  J.  Trilly,  U.  S.  N.,  was  a 
guest  at  the  Hotel  del  Monte  during  the 
week. 

Lieutenant  Benjamin  Lear,  Jr.,  Fifteenth 
Cavalry,  TJ.  S.  A.,  is  in  town  on  a  leave  of 
absence  from  his  post  at  Manila,   P.  1. 

Captain  Frederick  E.  Johnston,  U.  S.  A., 
has  returned  from  a  month's  leave  spent  in 
the  East. 

Major  Charles  R.  Krauthorf,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Krauthoff  are  guests  at  the  Colonial. 

Commander  Reginald  F.  Nicholson, U.S.  A., 
who  has  been  selected  to  command  the  cruiser 
Tacoma,  which  is  now  nearing  completion  at 
the  Union  Iron  Works,  is  welt  known  in  San 
Francisco.  He  acted  as  navigating  officer  01 
the  battle-ship  Oregon  in  her  tamous  run 
around  the  Horn  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war 
with  Spain,  For  some  time  he  was  in  com- 
mand of  the  torpedo-boat  destroyer  Farragut, 
but  of  late  has  been  attached  to  the  bureau 
of  navigation  in  Washington. 

Captain  Charles  E.  Stanton,  U.  S.  A.,  pay- 
master, has  been  ordered  to  proceed  to  JJen- 
ver  to  report  to  the  commanding  general  of 
the  Department  of  Colorado  tor  duty  in  the 
absence  of  Major  George  F.  Downey,  U.  S.  A. 
Upon  the  return  of  Major  Downey,  Captain 
Stanton   will  rejoin  his  proper  station. 


The  Marconi  system  of  wireless  telegraphy 
has  been  in  successful  operation  on  the 
American  Line  steamship  Philadelphia  for 
some  time,  and  the  company,  realizing  its 
value  to  the  passengers  and  their  friends,  has 
decided  to  install  the  apparatus  on  the  St. 
Louis,  St.  Paul,  and  hew  York  at  once. 
In  addition  to  the  facilities  offered  to  pas- 
sengers in  the  way  of  sending  or  receiving 
telegrams  while  at  sea,  arrangements  have 
been  made  to  supply  current  news,  which  will 
be  sent  by  wireless  telegraphy  to  east-bound 
steamers  from  the  Poldhu  Station  on  the 
coast  of  England,  and  to  west-bound  steamers 
from  the  Siasconset  Station,  Nantucket. 
Steamers  thus  fitted  with  the  wireless  tele- 
graphy apparatus  will  be  practically  in  con- 
tinuous communication  with  either  shore  sta- 
tions or  with  passing  steamers. 

The  number  of  people  who  are  visiting  the 
Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art  is  larger  than 
ever  this  summer,  while  the  regular  member- 
ship is  steadily  increasing. 


The  Yosemite  Commissioners  are  consider- 
ing the  advisability  of  sprinkling  the  roads 
in  the  floor  of  the  valley  with  crude  petroleum. 


Diamonds  Can  Not    ISe   Judged 

in  poor  or  under  artificial  light.  The  store  of 
A.  Hirschman,  712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets, 
has  perfect  light,  and  is  an  ideal  pl.ice  to  buy 
diamonds,  etc. 


—  The  largest  variety  of  paper-covered 
novels  for  summer  reading  can  be  found  at  Cooper's 
Book  Store,  746  Market  Street. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire.  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  uther  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLIMS,  Manager. 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN     PRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Kire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 


A  Beautiful 
Dancing  Surface 

is  obtained  on  the  floor  of  any  hall  or  ball-room 
by  the  use  of  Boudk-ar's  Pulverized  Flow  Wax. 
It  will  not  ball  up  on  the  shoes  nor  lump  on  the 
floor;  makes  neither  dirt  nor  dust,  but  forms  a 
perfect  dancing  surface.  Does  not  soil  dresses 
or  clothes  oi  the  finest  fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  it  Co..  Langlev  St  Michaels, 
and  Redington  &  Co.,  San  Franciso;  Kirk, 
Geary  &  Co.,  Sacramento;  and  F.  W.  Braun 
&  Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 

ANNOUNCES  SPORTS. 
Polo  and  Races- 

August  1st  to  8th.  Under  the  auspices 
of  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Pony  Racing 
Association.  R.  M.  Tobin,  Secretary.  En- 
tries to  and  information  from  151  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 

Automobile  Run— 

AugiiHt  ttth  to  11  tli,  from  San  Fran- 
cisco, including  meet  at  I>el   Monte. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California.  F.  A.  Hyde,  President.  Entries 
to  151  Crocker  Building,  San  Francisco. 

Golf  Tournament — 

August  24th  to  31st.  Under  auspices  oi 
the  Pacific  Coast  Golf  Association.  R.  Gil- 
man  Brown,  Secretary.  Entries  to  310  Pine 
Street,  San  Francisco. 

OPEN  CHAMPIONSHIP -Team    Match, 

for  Byrne  Cup,  North  as.  South. 

DEL  MONTE  CUPS 

Ladies'  Tournament. 


-Amateur  Tournament. 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL   CO. 


REMINGTON 

B  Standard  Typewriter 

211  Montgomery  Street,  Sen  Frencleco 

Educational. 
HAMLIN     SCHOOL 

AND  VAN  NESS  SEMINARY 
1849  Jackson  St.,  cor.  Qough,  S.  F. 
Boarding  and  day  school  Tor  girls.     Accredited  by 
the  leading  colleges  and  universities.     Special  alien 
lion  given  to  music,     ke-op  ns  August  10,  1903. 

SARAH   D.  HAMLIN.  Principal. 

IRVIIVO  INSTITUTE 

Boarding  and  Day  School  for  Young  Ladies, 

2126  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

Accredited     to     the     Universities.      Conservatory    of 
Music,    Art,   and    Elocution. 
For    Catalogue    address    the    Principal.      Re-opens 
August  3,  1903. 

Rkv.  EDWARD  CHURCH.  A.  M. 

Hiss  Harker  and  Hiss  Hughes* 

SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

PALO    AUTO,  CALIFORNIA. 
Prepares  for  college.     Advantages  of   Stanford  Uni- 
versity.   Pleasant  home  life.     Horseback-riding,  tennis, 
and    Wheeling.      One    hour's    ride   to   San    Francisco, 
Term  begins  August  25th. 

The  van  Den  Bergh 

Primary  School  and  Kindergarten 

Re-opens  August  3d,  at  2405  Buchanan  St., 
near  Washington. 

Physical  Culture  and  Manual  Training. 


Saint  Margaret's  School,  San  Hateo, 

Re-opens  August  26th.  111  new  buildings  011  Mount 
Diablo  Avenue.  All  modern  improvements.  Ac- 
credited to  Stanford  University.  For  further  informa- 
tion or  circular  address  MISS  I.   L.  TEBBETTS. 

Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenty  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.     Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  line  property.     For  circu- 
lars address         Miss  Svlvia  J.  Eastman,  Principal. 
Ogontz  School  P.  O..  Pa. 


SOHMER 
PIANO 

AGENCY. 


WARRANTED    IO    YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

The  CECILIAN-The  Perfect  Pluno  Player. 


PIANOS 
308-312  Po.t  St. 

San   Kraucisco. 


96 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  io,  1903. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains   leave   Union   Ferry   Depot,  S:m    Friin- 
CISCO)  as   fol  lows  : 

7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


M  —  *BAKERSFIELP  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  P  '". 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  ni. 

-f  THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED": Due  Stockton  12.01  pm,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day*  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  10  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  I  rain  arrives  Jn.io  p  m. 

— »VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  in,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Cai  ries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11.10  p  m. 
Vf  /)/)  PM-^STOCKTON  LOCAL:  DueStock- 
mrmW  ton  7.10pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11.10  a  ni. 

»/*/)!'  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
»€/€#  Stockton  11  15  p  ni  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  CUj  [fourth 
day)  7.00  a  in.  Chicago  (fourth  daj  1  S.47 
pm.  Palace  and  Tonrisl  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
j  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
PersonalK   conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express   Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  Bi. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Fern.'  Depot,  Sail  Francisco:  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tilinron   Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK    DA VS— 7.30.  s.°o.  9-Oo,  11.00  am;  12.35.  2-30, 

3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.     Saturdays— Extra 

trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS — 7.30.  S.oo,  9.30,   11.00  a  ni ;  1.30,  2.30,3.40, 

5.10.6.30.  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San   Frnncisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  t2.oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.    Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11.15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days 
7.30  a 
8.00  a 
9.30  a 
2.30  p 
5.10  p 

in 
ni 
ni 
tn 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

7.45  a  m 
S.40  a  ni 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

Week 
Da  vs. 

7.30  a  m 
S.ooa  m 
2.30  p  m 

5.10  pm 

Ignacio. 

7.45  a  m 
-  S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 

6. 20  p  m 

7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
S.ooa  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  pm 

7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
930  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  ni 

Novate 

Petalunia 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7.45  a  ni 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  ni 
7.25  p  111 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  ni 
7.25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.^'"'  a  ni 
Sooam 
2.30  pm 

7.30  a 

S.oo  a 
2.30  p 

m 
m 
m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a 
2.30  p 

m 

111 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lyttoii, 
Geyserviile, 
Cloverdale. 

10. 20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  pm 

7-3"  a 
2.30  p 

111 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

io,  20  a  m 
7-25  I'  m 

;.;,"  :t  in 

7.3oa 

111 

Wiilu-. 

7.25  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
725  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

7-25  ]'  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

S.oo  a 
2.30  p 

5.10  p 

in 

m 

in 

Guernei  ille. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

8.00  a  m 

?.iopm 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

Sebastopol. 

S.40  a  in 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

.■.■■■■  p  m 

I'l.^-i  a  111 
7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

s  connect  at  Snnla  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
5pnngs;  at  Fultoii  lor  Alt r una  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  foj  Lyttoii  Springs;  at  Geyserviile 
i-.i  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  i.ir  the  Gevsers, 
BooneviIIe,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
S,.,la  I'.. iv,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  I  kiah  lor  Viehj  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lai:.--,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake 
Porno,  Potter  Valley'  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierlcv's 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hoi 
Springs,  Half-Waj  House  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
lli.pkins,     Mendocino    Oil  v.     l-'orl     Bragg      Westport 

Usal;  at  Willits  for  Fori   Bragg,  Westport,  Shcru i. 

'-  anto    l  1  ummings    Bell's  S],tii,u-, 

"'""  '.'  'I'"      !  ':    '   Garbcrville   Pepperu I  Scotia 

ami  Eureka. 

Saturdaj  to   Mondaj    round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates 

ip  ticket     to  ..ll  point  s  bei  ond 
San  Rafael  .11  hall 

I  "  kel  1  lironiclc  Building 

II  C    U  III  I  ING,  k    \.  RYAN 

'-  "    M    ■  i  ass.  Agt. 


PorSAN  RAFAEL. 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 

Via  s.ius.iin.,  Fern 
R  1    WEEK     DAYS-  6.45,  f*7  45 
.1  ;  12.20,  *M5i 
1  TS. IS.  1.45  ''  m. 

7.45   \.  m,  week  days  does  liol  run  to  Mill  Yallev 
DEPAR  i    si  mi  u     :,   ;-.  f*o,   f*,,,    ,, 

M-:    fl2.;,u,    f*!      0 

Trains     marked    *      run     in    S;tti    Quentin        Those 
marked    <ti    to   Fairfax     ■  Saturday 

Saturday's  3.15 1>.  u.  train  run    to  Fai 
7-4*  a.  m.  week  d.ivs    Cazaderoand  way  station! 
5.1J  p.  m.  week  \v.ivs  (Saturdays  excepted)— Tomalcs 

r-nd  way  Statti  HI 

3., 5  p.    m.   Saturdaj      1    1  ■  id.  1-    ,,„!    way   stations. 
,s  hdays,  .        tat  ions. 

and  intermediate 

■  ■■■  ■  ■■  '  on  Sunday  1 

ticket  Offices— 626  Mai  la  1  ;  Ferry,  lool  Market, 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Variety  is   the  spice  of  vice. — Life. 

Casey — "  Kelly  hazn't  th'  price  av  a  dhrink." 
Costigan — "  How  do  yez  know  thot?"  Casey — 
"He  aint  dhrinkin'." — Judge. 

Christian  Science  mother — "  Eleanor,  what 
is  the  matter?"  "  Oh.  mamma.  I  qot  a  terrible 
error    of    the    mind    in    my    stomach." — Life. 

It"  Mr.  Cleveland  makes  the  race  against 
President  Roosevelt  next  year,  honors  will  be 
about  even  on  the  full  baby-carriage  issue. — 
Washington  Post. 

Fanner  Mossbacker  —  "  What's  William 
Jennin's  Bryan  doin'  now?"  Farmer  Bcntover 
'—"  Helpin'  to  elect  the  next  Republican 
President." — Puck. 

"  When    it    comes    to    opening    up  a    new 

country."    remarked    the    Observer    of  Events 

and  Things.  "  there  is  nothing  can  beat  a 
\  olcino." — Yonkers  Statesman. 

Tommy — "  Mamma,  what  made  people  in 
old  New  York  wear  those  great  big  ruffs 
around  their  necks?  "  Mamma — "  That  is  how 
our  first  families  learned  to  hold  up  their 
heads,  my  son." — Judge. 

Nan — "  Is  there  any  infallible  cure  for  sea- 
sickness?" Tom — "Oh,  yes;  when  you  feel 
the  symptoms  coming  on.  all  you  have  to  do 
is  to  go  out  and  sit  under  a  tree.  You  will 
very  soon  recover." — Fuel;. 

Hat  salesman — "  So  you  invaded  France 
with  your  line?  How  did  you  make  out?" 
Bicycle  salesman — "  Very  poor.  Every  time  1 
handed  any  one  my  card  he  thought  I  wanted 
to    fight    a   duel." — Chicago   News. 

Scrtblets — "  I've  got  a  winner  this  time." 
Friend — "New  historical  novel?"  Scriblets — 
"  No ;  it's  a  book  of  excuses  for  borrowing 
money.  They're  all  catalogued.  Five  for  every 
day  in  the  year." — Chicago  Daily  News. 

We  regret  to  hear  that  our  old  friend  Wu 
Ting-fang  is  now  merely  a  clerk  in  the  Chinese 
foreign  office.  But  prosperity  may  yet  be  in 
store  lor  him.  He  may  get  into  the  post-office 
department. — Philadelphia  North  American. 

A  lack  of  coincidence:  Downer — "  I  am 
glad  it  is  good  form  not  to  wear  a  watch  with 
a  dress-suit."  Upper — "  Why  ?"  Downer — 
"  Because  I  never  have  had  my  watch  and  my 
dress-suit  at  the  same  time." — Pick-Me-Up. 

"Ah J"  he  said  to  her  over  their  ice-cream, 
it  is  very  sweet,  but  not  so  sweet  as  you." 
"  It  is  soft,"  she  returned,  promptly,  "  but 
not  so  soft  as  you."  "  And  it  is  cold,  '  he  con- 
cluded, "  but  not  so  cold  as  you." — Phila- 
delphia Press. 

Casey — "  O'Rafferty  is  a  sick  man.  He  has 
heart  complaint  an'  consumption."  Murphy — 
"  Sure,  consoomption  s  a  bad  disease."  Casey 
"  ii  is  thot  same;  but  it's  slow.  He'll  die  av 
the  heart  throuble  a  year  afore  he'll  die  av 
the  loong  trouble." — Kansas  City  Journal. 

"  Yes,"  said  the  old  native  of  the  Kentucky 
mountains,  "  them  Birdseye  boys  are  pretty 
bitter,  but  they  had  some  heart  in  dealin' 
with  my  boy  Hank."  "  Spare  his  life  ?" 
queried  the  tourist.  "  No,  but  they  passed 
him  the  demijohn  before  the  shootin'." — 
Chicago   Daily   News. 

Philanthropy  :  Andrew  Carnegie — "  I  would 
like  to  give  your  town  a  public  library."  Lead- 
ing citicen — "  Thank  you,  Mr.  Carnegie.  It  is 
very  noble  of  you  to  propose  such  a  thing. 
How  much  do  you  want  us  to  subscribe  for 
letting  you  put  your  name  over  the  entrance?" 
— Chicago    Record-Herald. 

"  Young  man,"  said  the  stern  parent  to  the 
applicant  for  a  job  as  son-in-law,  "  1  want  you 
to  know  that  I  spent  five  thousand  dollars 
on  my  daughter's  education."  "  Thanks,"  re- 
joined the  youth  who  was  trying  to  break 
into  the  family  circle ;  "  then  I  won't  have 
to  send  her  to  a  school  again." — Chicago 
Daily  News. 

Vanity:  Mr.  Potts  (to  his  wife) — "  My  dear, 
the  air  is  chilly.  Fcnncz  la  fenctrc"  The 
visitor  Csotto  voce) — "  Why  do  you  ask  your 
wife  in  French  to  shut  the  window?"  Mr. 
Potts  (ditto) — "  Because  you  are  here.  If  I 
asked  her  in  English  she  wouldn't  do  it.  as 
she  won't  take  instructions  from  me  before 
visitors.  But  if  I  say  it  in  French  she  gets 
up  and  does  it  at  once,  so  as  to  let  you  see 
that  she  understands  the  language." — Pick-Mc- 

vp- 

In  earnest  then  :  "  I  have  noticed,"  said  the 
ofi-hand  philosopher,  "that  a  woman  will  get 
a  golf-dress  when  she  has  no  intention  to  play 
golf."  "  That's  so,"  agreed  the  man  with  the 
incandescent  whiskers.  "And,"  continued  the 
off-hand  philosopher,  "she  will  get  a  ball- 
gown when  she  cares  nothing  about  dancing, 
and  a  tennis-dress  when  she  wouldn't  play  ten- 
nis for  fear  she  will  freckle,  and  a  bathing- 
=uit  when  she  has  no  thought  of  going  into  the 
water,  and  a  riding-habit  when  the  very 
thought  01   climbing  on  a  horse  gives  her  the 

chills,   and "   "  Ves,"   interrupted  the   man 

with  the  incandescent  whiskers;  "but  when 
she  yets  a  wedding-dress  she  means  business. 
Ever  notice  that?" — Judge. 

Mothers  and  nurses  all  the  world  over  have 
given  their  teething  babies  and  feverish  children 
-Su-c-dmaii  s  Soothing  Powders.     Try  them. 


The  anxious  mother — "Are  you  sure  my 
son  has  appendicitis?"  The  eminent  special- 
ist— "  We  can  tell  you  better,  madam,  after  the 
operation." — Life. 


—  I)k.  1.   iii  oi  hrane;  Dentist,  kkmoveijto 
No.  135  Geary  Sircet,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  ■•  Mrs.  Wins]  ow\ 

Syrup      f.T  your  children  while  teething. 


GLEN 
GARRY 

Old  Highland 
Scotch 


FOR 


Bon  Vivants 


Tillmann  &  Bendel 


Purveyors  to  the 


Pacific  Slope  Trade 


MOUNT  TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 


Leave 
San  Fran. 


Week      Sun- 
Days,      days 


:45a 


8:00a 


l:45p  9:00a 
5:15  p  10:00a 
.  11:30a 
l:30p 
2:35p 
grinrdnjB  only,  ton 


VU   Sausalito    Perrr 
root  01  Market  St. 


Arrive 
San  Fran- 


Sun- 
days 


1  .'.'00s 
12:50p 
3:30p 
4:36p 
5:45p 
8:00p 
Op.krrmSJ.  1 


Week 

Day*. 
9:15a 
3:30p 
5:50p 


riCIBT    i  628  Majucbt  St.,  [North  Shore  Railroad; 
0P7ICK  )  and  Sausalito  Ferry   Foot  Market  Si 


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Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
LEWS       —    Fkom  August  1.  1903.    — 

7.00a  Benlela,  SuIbuq.  Elmlraand  Sacra- 
mento     

7.00a  Vacaville,  "Winters.  Rumaey 

7.30a  Martinez,  San  Ramon.  Vallejo. 
Napa,  CallBtogft,  Santa  Rosa 

7.30a  Nlles,  Llvermore,  Lathrop,  Stock- 
ton..  

8-OOa  Davl  B.Wood  land,  Enlghta  LandlDg. 
Maryevllle.  Orovllle,  (connects 
at  Marysvllle  for  Grldlcy.  Biggs 
and  Chleo) 

8.00a  Atlantic  ExpreBe—  Ogden  and  Ease. 

8.00,'  Port  Coeta,  Martinez.  Antluch,  By- 
ron, Tracy,  Stock  tun.  Sacramento, 
Los  Banos.  Mendota.  Hanford, 
Visalla,  Portervllle 

8.00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop, Modesto,  Merced.  Fresno, 
Goal  en  Junction.  Hanford.  VI- 
Balln,  B  ikerefleld 

8.30a  Shastn  E  sprees—  Davie.  Wllllame 
(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Wlllowa. 
tFruto,  Red  Bluff.  Portland 

8- 30a  Kiles,  San  .ToBe,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton.Ione,  Sacrum  ento.Placerv  Ille, 
Marysvllle.  Chlco.  Red  Itluff 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  Su- 
nora.  Tuolumne  and  AngelB 

9- 00a  Martinez  and  Way  Stations 

10.00a  Vallejo 

dl  0.00a  El  Paso  Passenger,  Eastbound.— 
Port  Costa.  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced.  Raymond.  Fresno,  Han- 
ford, VIsalla.  Bnkersfleld.  Los 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line)... 
1000a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden, 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 

1200m  Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations. 
tl.OOp   Sacramenio  River  Steamers 

3-30p  Benlela,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Williams,  Colusa.Wtl- 
Iowb,  Knights  Landing.  Marye- 
vllle. Orovllle  ond  way  stations.. 

3-30p   Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.. 

4.00p  Martlnez.San  Ramon, Vallejo.Napa, 
Callstoga.  Santa  Rosa 

4-OOp  Martinez,  Tracy, Lathrop.Stockton. 

4. ODp   Nlles.  Llvermore.  Stockton.  Lodl.. 

4-30p  Hayward.  Nlles,  Irvlngtoa,  San  I 
JoBe,  Llvermore f 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakeraueld,  Lob  AngelCB;  con- 
nects at  Saugus  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara  

B.OQp  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Los 
BanoB 

I630p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

6-OOp   Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  JoBe 

6.00p  Oriental  Mail  — O^Uen.  Denver, 
Omaha.  St.  Louie.  Chicago  and 
East.  (Carries  Pullman  Car  pas- 
sengers only  out  of  San  Fran- 
cIbco.  Tourist  ear  and  coach 
passengers  take  7.00  p.  u.  train 
to  Reno,  continuing  thence  in 
their  cars  6  p.m.  train  eastward.. 
Westbound,  Sunset  Limited.— 
From  New  York,  Chicago,  New 
Orleans,  El  Paso.  Lob  Angeles, 
Fresno,  Berenda.  Raymond  (from 
Tosemlte),  Martinez.    Arrives.. 

7.00p  Ban  Pablo,  Port  COBta,  Martinez 

and  Way  Stations 

J7.00P  Vallejo 

7-OOp  Port  Costa,  Benlela,  Sulsun,  DavlB, 
Sacramento,  Truckee,  Reno. 
StopB  at  all  stations  east  of 
Sacramento 

8.06r  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, Marysvllle,  Redding, 
Portland.  Puget  Suund  and  East. 

JS.IOp  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Joee  (Sun- 

dayonlvi 

11.25P  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto. Merced,  Raymond  (to  Vo- 
eemlte),  Fresno.  Hanford,  VI- 
*a!lu.  Bakernrteld  ..     . 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


7-25p 

725p 


7-55p 
1025a 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 
COAST     LINE     (\arro»r  (JftuKP). 

(Font  ui  Market  Street  ) 

t7.45>    Santa    Cruz    Excursion     (Sunday 

only) 18.10P 

8.15a  Newark.  Cenlervllle.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulner    Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  StullonB G  25  p 

FS-IEp  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Bonlder  CTeek,  Sanra  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    10.55a 

4-T5p  Newark,  San  Jose.  Los  Gatoe  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz;  Monday  only  from  Santa 
Cruz).  Connects  at  Felton  to 
and  fn.m  Boulder  Cr^ek <8.55a 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Crime:  Its  Prevention  and  Punishment — What  Shall 
be  Done  With  the  Congenital  Criminal  ?— The  Salvable  Sixty 
Per  Cent. — The  Indeterminate  Sentence — A  Manila  Editor 
on  the  Philippine  Situation — Senator  Gorman  Now  the  Hope 
of  Democracy  —  The  Bond  Elections  Next  Month  — 
Hawaiians  Becoming  Dissatisfied  —  Pacific  Coast  Railroad 
Activity — The  Criminal,  the  Saloon,  and  Low  License — 
Southern    Pacific    Pensions   Inaugurated 97~99 

The  Lynching  of  a  Woman:     Geraldine    Bonner    Writes    of    a 

Dark    Chapter    in    California's    History 99 

The  Blood  of  His  Fathes:      How     the    Tempest    Showed    the 

Mettle  of  Perk.     By  John   Fleming  Wilson 100 

Some  Whistles  Controversies:  Why  He  Sued  Ruskin — How 
He  Defied  Sir  William  Eden  and  was  Mulcted  Out  of  One 
Thousand  Francs — His  Tilt  with  Du   Maurier 101 

Individualities:     Xotes   About   Prominent   People  All    Over   the 

World    io> 

Mlnsey  in  Newspaper  Row:  The  Successful  Magazine  Pro- 
prietor's Failure  to  Make  the  New  York  "  Daily  News  "  a 
Paving  Venture — His  Dispute  with  Colonel  Brown  Over 
Running  the   Paper 102 

Recent  Verse:  "A  Song  of  Delay,"  by  Ethel  Clifford;  "The 
Mother,"  by  Edward  Wright;  "  A  Song  Against  Love," 
by   Arthur    Symons 104 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications     103-105 

Osama:     The   Neill-Morosco   Company   in    "The    Royal    Family" 

at   the   California,   by  Josephine   Hart   Phelps 106 

Stage  Gossip   107 

Vanity  Fair:  The  Marquis  Who  Married  a  Chorus-Girl — One 
Match  That  Turned  Out  All  Right — The  Late  Dancer  In- 
vited to  the  Duchess  of  Westminster's  House— The  Rise  of 
the  Delicatessen  Store — A  Good  German  Importation — Styles 
in  Hats — P.irds  That  Never  Sung — The  Kaiser  and  Cornelius 
Vanderbilt    1 08 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Mark  Twain  Sitting  in  Laps — Lampton  on  Photographs — 
The  Firm  and  ihe  Drummer  Discuss  Weather— A  Story  of 
Ochiltree — The  Witty  Judge  and  Tearful  Prisoner — The 
Shrewdness  of  an  Oxen-Selling  Deacon — Corbett's  Funny 
Story — Agricultural  Up-to-Dateness — When  Lord  Charles 
Beresford  Spilled  the  Coffee — Dirty  Ducks  at  Newport— 
An  Anecdote  of  Pope  Leo — The  Five  Cents  of  a  Count — 
Labouchere   and    His    Bible 109 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "  Concering  Correct  Speech,"  by  William 
J.  Lampton:  "  The  Shorter  Course ";  "  The  Vacation 
That    Failed  " tog 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and   Navy   News 100-111 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal  Wits  of  the  Day 112 


In    1897,   Mr.   W.    H.     Mills,    after    an    investigation, 
wrote:    "'  California's  prisons  are  breed- 

Cruie:  Its 

punishment  ing-places  for  criminals.     \\  e  have  two 

and  Prevention,  great  institutions  where  men  graduate 
—  the  State  university  and  the  penitentiary.  One 
makes  scholars,  the  other  criminals." 

Probably  few  people  now  will  differ  with  Mr.  Mills's 
conclusions  then.  Twenty-two  hundred  and  fifty  men 
are  imprisoned  at  Folsom  and  San  Quentin.  At  both 
places  "  dope  "  fiends  regularly  get  their  drugs  in  spite 
of  walls  and  guards.     At  both  places  discipline  is  lax. 

frisoners    are    petted   and    coddled,    the    most    debased 
nd  the  least  are  thrown  in  contact,  whose  inevitable 


other.  Both  institutions  are  headed  by  practical  poli- 
ticians, not  trained  penologists.  Both,  in  short,  are  a 
disgrace  to  the  State.  But  it  is  not  sufficient  that  press 
and  public  recognize,  as  they  certainly  have  since  the 
Folsom  outbreak  called  the  matter  sharply  to  attention, 
that  something  is  rotten.  Action  upon  right  lines  is 
necessary.     What  are  right  lines? 

Something  more  than  a  glance  through  the  works  of 
noted  writers  upon  crime  and  punishment  shows  a 
certain  agreement  upon  methods  and  principles,  which 
it  may  be  interesting  very  briefly  to  outline.  In  the 
first  place,  all  penologists  make  sharp  distinction  be- 
tween the  habitual  criminal  and  the  occasional  crim- 
inal. The  former,  according  to  Ferri,  constitutes  about 
forty  per  cent,  of  the  total,  the  latter  sixty  per  cent. 
The  occasional  criminal  may  be  reformed;  with  the 
habitual  criminal,  the  born  criminal,  reform  is  im- 
possible. He  is  physically,  mentally,  and  morally  de- 
praved. The  Millbank  (England)  reformatory  and 
"  moral  hospital  "  for  hardened  criminals,  built  at  a 
cost  of  two  million  five  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars, after  twenty-seven  years  of  patient  trial  and 
vast  expenditure,  was  finally  declared  a  failure,  and  its 
title  changed  from  reformatory  to  prison.  The  con- 
genital criminal  is  abnormal  and  anomalous.  Boies 
calls  him  the  "  imperfect,  knotty,  knurly,  worm-eaten, 
half-rotten  fruit  of  the  race."  He  is  the  gangrened 
member  of  the  body  politic,  the  sole  remedy  for  which 
is  amputation.  Placed  in  contact  with  the  casual  of- 
fender, he  infects  him  with  his  own  corruption.  "  By 
carefully  providing  for  its  degenerates  and  abnormals," 
says  one  writer,  "  in  comfortable  prisons,  asylums,  and 
almshouses,  giving  them  the  advantages  of  the  highest 
knowledge  and  science  of  living,  society  unwittingly 
aggravates  the  evil  it  seeks  to  alleviate."  "  Why," 
asks  another,  "  send  such  a  man  to  prison  for  a  definite 
term  when  it  is  certain  he  will  commit  fresh  crime  as 
soon  as  he  is  free?  Why  not  keep  him  there?"  The 
present  system  of  determinate  terms  is  held  to  be  as 
wrong  and  false  as  to  sentence  a  leper  to  a  hospital  for 
a  month,  and  then  permit  him  again  to  mingle  with, 
and  infect,  society.  The  remedy  for  this  state  of  things 
strongly  recommended  by  many  writers  is  that,  upon  a 
second  conviction  for  crime,  or  as  soon  as  the  indi- 
vidual is  identified  as  a  hereditary  or  chronic  criminal, 
he  shall  be  given  a  life  sentence,  whatever  the  par- 
ticular crime  committed,  in  a  prison  devoted  solely  to 
those  of  his  own  sort.  There  he  should  be  forced  to  labor 
hard  in  self-support,  to  eat  scant,  plain  fare,  to  re- 
ceive no  visitors,  to  get  no  presents — not  as  a  "  punish- 
ment," but  for  the  good  of  society,  exactly  on  the  same 
principle  as  moves  society  to  incarcerate  the  dangerous 
insane,  and  to  segregate  the  contagiously  diseased. 
Moreover,  Henry  M.  Boies  and  many  others  recom- 
mend that  every  such  person,  not  only  in  prisons,  but 
in  poorhouses  and  asylums,  by  a  simple  and  painless 
surgical  operation  be  rendered  incapable  of  reproduc- 
tion. "  Society,"  he  says,  "  arrests  and  confines  the 
leper,  the  victim  of  smallpox,  yellow-fever,  cholera,  or 
typhoid ;  it  does  not  hesitate  to  remove  a  corrupt  limb 
or  a  diseased  organ,  .  .  .  yet  it  allows  its  diseased  in 
mind,  body,  and  soul  to  disseminate  social  leprosy  and 
cancer  with  impunity,  while  the  skill  of  its  surgeons 
could  absolutely  prevent  the  infection." 

If  any  one  believes  that  the  present  penal  system  of 
The  salvable  man>'  States,  including  California,  is  a 
sixtv  proper  one,  let  him  examine  the  reports 

per  Ce.vt.  Qf    prjson     committees,    prison     society 

proceedings,  the  books  on  penology.  He  will  find  theri 
not  a  single  word  of  commendation  for  the  system 
which,  as  has  been  said,  is  "  merely  the  child  of 
vengeance,  paying  the  criminal  so  many  years'  worth 


of  imprisonment  for  such  an  amount  of  crime."  On 
the  contrary,  he  will  find  such  expressions  of  opinion 
as  these : 

The  prison  is  a  hot-house  for  poisonous  plants.  ...  It 
poisons,  brutalizes,  depresses,  and  corrupts. — Entile  Gauiier. 

Imprisonment,  especially  it'  short,  is  an  excitation  to  crime. 
— Reinach. 

The  prison  is  still  the  best  school  of  crime  which  we  possess. 
— Aubrey. 

With  less  than  half  a  dozen  exceptions,  every  jail  in  Ohio 
is  a  moral  pest-house  and  school  of  crime. — Ohio  Prison  Com- 
mittee. 

Looking  at  our  present  system  of  dealing  with  thieves. 
examining  it  from  every'  side,  it  is  clear  that  nothing  can  be 
more  clumsy   and   inefficient — except   for  evil. — Thor.  Fredtir. 

Sentences  often  do  nothing  but  unmixed  harm. — Lord  Cole- 
ridge,  Lord   Chief  Justice  of  England. 

With  our  existing  system,  twenty-four  hours'  imprisonment 
suffices,  under  certain  circumstances,  to  ruin  a  man. — M. 
Lalotte,    Inspector-General   of  Prisons    in   France. 

I  have  seen  young  men  enter  the  Grande  Roquette,  guilty, 
but  not  corrupted,  who  went  out  decided  to  commit  crimes 
which,  a  few  months  before,  they  would  have  regarded  with 
horror. — Abbe  Moreau. 

Practically,  the  vast  majority  of  our  prisons  are  but  schools 
of  criminality.  The  entire  system  of  sentences  to  imprison- 
ment, according  to  the  degree  of  the  offense,  is  a  tangled  mass 
of  injustices   and  absurdities. — Charlton    D.   Lezn's,  LL.   D. 

If  all  this  be  true — and  there  seems  no  reason  to 
doubt  it — then  what  is  the  remedy?  To  this,  modern 
penologists  have  but  one  answer:  The  life  sentence  for 
the  congenital  criminal;  the  indeterminate  sentence 
to  a  reformatory  of  the  serious  first  offender,  and  the 
release  upon  probation  of  the  petty  law-breaker.  It  is 
a  plan  based  not  upon  the  punishment  of  the  individual, 
but  upon  the  protection  of  society.  A  man  commits  a 
crime.  He  is  sentenced  to  a  reformatory  (where  there 
are  no,  or  few,  hardened  criminals)  until  such  time, 
as  in  the  judgment  of  the  director,  he  is  mentally, 
morally,  and  physically  fit  again  to  enter  society.  If 
the  prison  director,  trained  by  long  experience  to  judge, 
still  mistakes,  and  the  man  again  commits  a  crime,  then 
it  means  a  life-sentence.  His  power  to  injure  society- 
is  from  that  moment  forever  ended.  As  it  is  to-day, 
hundreds  of  men  are  serving  sentences  for  the  fifth, 
sixth,  even  the  tenth,  punished  crime.  Under  this 
proposed  system,  no  man  can  commit  more  than  two. 
And  this  system  works.  "  Figures  show  a  lamentable  in- 
crease [in  crime]  in  the  United  States,"  writes  Philip 
C.  Garrett.  "  The  remarkable  diminution  in  criminal 
imprisonments,  noted  in  Great  Britain  in  the  last  twenty 
years,  is  ascribed  by  William  Tallac  to  the  diminution 
in  number  of  sentences  to  prison  " — that  is  to  say,  the 
increased  number  to  reformatories.  "  During  thirteen 
years,  from  the  opening  of  the  Elmira  Reformatory," 
says  Havelock  Ellis  in  his  remarkable  book,  "  The 
Criminal,"  "  twenty-three  hundred  prisoners  were 
paroled,  and  of  these  15.2  only  are  estimated  as  having 
'  probably  returned  to  criminal  practices  and  contact.'  " 
This  institution  receives,  or  did  receive,  only  first  of- 
fenders between  the  ages  of  sixteen  and  thirty.  There, 
trades  are  taught,  education  given,  and  physical  de- 
velopment enforced.  And  so  strict,  and  stern,  and 
rigorous  is  the  regime  that  hardened  criminals  beg  to 
be  sentenced  to  the  State's  prison  rather  than  to  the 
reformatory.  In  Massachusetts,  a  probation  law  has 
been  in  force  since  1891.  It  provides  that  in  case  of 
offense,  believed  to  be  without  root  in  morally  dis- 
eased character,  the  convict  shall  be  under  the  sur- 
veillance of  a  probation  officer,  and  at  all  times  liable 
to  arrest.  That  the  plan  is  successful  is  shown  by  its 
steady  expansion.  Moreover,  indeterminate  sentence 
and  probation  laws  have  been  adopted  in  other  State? — 
Ohio.  Pennsylvania.  Indiana,  and  several  more.  Henry 
M.  Boies  says :  "  All  definite  time  sentences  should  be 
abolished;  all  convicts  committed  to  the  reformatories 
upon  an  indeterminate  sentence.  The  incurable  should 
be  transferred  to  the  penitentiary  of  the  incorrigible." 
Havelock  Ellis  says:  "The  first  reform  neo 
the   abolition   of   the   definite   and   predetermin 


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tence."  Sanford  M.  Green  writes:  "The  definite  sen- 
tence must  be  abolished  and  the  indeterminate  sub- 
stituted in  its  place,  and  reformatories  provided  to  take 
the  place  of  our  penitentiaries,  which  should  be  retained 
only  for  the  confinement  of  such  as  may  prove  incor- 
rigible; and  these  should  never  be  allowed  the  oppor- 
tunity of  committing  further  crimes."  J.  W.-  Willis, 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  prisons,  addressing  the 
national  charities  and  correction  conference  in  Detroit, 
last  year,  said:  "The  indeterminate  sentence  must  be 
the  governing  policy  of  the  future.  All  other  forms 
of  penalty  for  crime  having  proved  inefficient,  its  ad- 
vent and  universal  adoption  will  symbolize  an  advance- 
ment from  the  shadows  of  experiment  to  the  sunlight 
of  success." 

In  conclusion  then — penologists  say  that  the  im- 
prisonment of  young  with  hardened  criminals  is  an  un- 
mitigated evil.  California  does  it.  They  agree  that 
attempt  to  reform  men  so  imprisoned  is  impossible. 
California  tries  it.  They  hold  the  indeterminate  sen- 
tence is  the  only  salvation.  California  has  no  such 
system. 

It  might  seem  that  there  is  something  to  be  done. 

Some  weeks  ago,  the  Argonaut  gave  an  editorial  sum- 
mary   of    Philippine    affairs    as    gleaned 

A  Late  View  j  rr  ° 

of  Philippine  from  Manila  papers,  and  commented  on 
affairs.  tne    dearth    01     information     from     the 

islands  in  this  country.  It  is  a  singular  state  of  affairs, 
considering  the  vast  importance  to  both  sides  of  the 
future  of  the  relations  between  the  United  States  and 
the  Philippines.  Our  own  country  is  so  large,  and 
its  affairs  at  home  so  much  nearer  to  individual  inter- 
ests, that  we  are  apt  to  lose  sight  of  conditions  in 
the  dependency  we  have  created  in  the  Orient. 

An  article  of  interest  on  Filipino  affairs  is  published 
in  the  current  number  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly  as  one 
of  its  series  of  "  letters  from  abroad."  It  is  written 
by  Arthur  Stanley  Riggs,  an  American  journalist, 
who  has  been  successively  editor  of  the  Manila  Daily 
Bulletin  and  the  Manila  Freedom.  The  account  given 
does  not  show  an  encouraging  outlook  for  the  islands, 
either  politically  or  industrially.  Government  under 
the  American  commission  is  largely  blamed  for  present 
conditions,  and  the  underlying  basis  of  dissatisfaction 
is  that  "  it  sets  up  the  native  as  preeminent,"  a  course 
which  is  characterized  as  "  un-American,  autocratic, 
and  blind  to  its  own  future."  According  to  the  writer, 
the  Filipino  does  not  deserve  the  sentiment  that  has 
been  lavished  on  him.  His  nature  and  the  treatment 
received  from  the  Spaniard  has  made  him  a  Har,  a 
thief,  and  intractable  to,  and  suspicious  of,  the  efforts 
now  being  made  to  civilize  him.  "  As  an  individual, 
he  is  the  most  innocent  and  harmless  of  any  semi- 
civilized  people;  as  a  race,  he  presents  a  grave  danger 
unless  handled  without  sentiment,  put  in  his  place,  and 
literally  forced  to  prove  that  he  is  capable  of  further 
rights  and  privileges."  Government  by  sentiment, 
says  Riggs,  is  retarding  the  development  of  the  islands 
without  strengthening  the  bonds  between  the  natives 
and  the  Americans.  The  Filipino  does  not  understand 
and  respond  to  it.  The  foreigner  is  waiting  for  the 
outcome.  "  A  good-sized  insurrection  is  going  on  in 
the  north;  famine,  cholera,  and  ladronism  stir  the 
south;  friction  locally  between  the  various  branches 
of  the  government  and  the  people  have  brought  affairs 
in  the  islands  to  a  standstill.  Commerce  is  dull;  busi- 
ness houses  are  daily  retrenching;  dissatisfaction 
grows  with  the  attitude  of  the  home  government,  and 
anxiety  as  to  what  the  effects"  of  the  new  gold  peso  will 
be  is  stronger  every  day." 

Commercially,  the  year  has  been  one  of  the  most 
disastrous  the  islands  have  ever  known.  The  rice 
crop  has  been  a  failure  in  most  of  the  islands;  thou- 
sands of  the  water-buffalo  have  died  of  disease; 
ladronism  has  devastated  province  after  province ; 
money  is  scarce  and  tight;  and  general  agriculture  in 
a  deplorable  condition.  Sugar  production  is  not  ad- 
vancing, owing,  it  is  said,  to  the  law  preventing  a 
corporation  from  holding  more  than  twenty-five  hun- 
dred acres.  Vast  tracts  of  sugar  lands  lie  idle  be- 
cause it  is  claimed  that  a  company  can  not  afford  to  do 
business  in  the  face  of  this  limitation.  A  new  insur- 
rection is  looked  for,  and,  indeed,  has  actually  begun 
in  the  northern  provinces  of  Luzon.  In  the  Bulacan 
an  J  Kizal  districts,  the  petty  disturbances  of  the  early 
1  ;.rt  tif  1902  "have  grown  into  a  full-fledged  rebellion 
(f'iat  is  being  fought  according  to  the  rules  of  war, 
iiougli  the  civil  ^.vernment  refuses  to  recognize  it 
a  -  such,  in  spite  of  ihe  fact  that  the  army  alreauy  does 


so."  These  conditions  are  largely  brought  about  by 
the  machinations  of  the  secret  societies,  of  which  the 
Katipunan,  organized  for  assassination  and  rebellion 
against  both  church  and  state,  is  the  best  known. 

Another  conflicting  movement,  the  result  of  which 
can  not  be  foreseen,  is  the  attempt  by  Gregorio  Aglipay 
and  his  fellow-deserters  to  settle  the  friar  question  by 
the  establishment  of  the  National  Independent  Filipino 
Church.  Aglipay  is  the  self-consecrated  bishop  of  the 
new  organization,  the  motive  of  which  is  to  seduce  the 
people  from  allegiance  to  Rome,  break  the  Vatican's 
hold  on  the  islands,  and  drive  the  friars  out  of  the 
country.  "  The  average  American  had  already  decided 
that  the  orders  must  go.  Aglipay  has  reached  the 
same  conclusion.  The  two  forces,  though  pulling  at 
different  angles,  have  practically  assured  Rome  of  de- 
feat." There  is  conflicting  opinion  as  to  the  motives 
and  intentions  of  Aglipay.  He  is  regarded  as  a  back- 
stairs  politician,  a  genuine  and  honest  religious  leader, 
or  an  avowed  insurrectionist,  according  to  the  point  of 
view  taken.  According  to  the  latter,  he  is  with  old 
leaders  and  others  who  have  taken  an  oath  of  alle- 
giance, seeking  to  bring  about  the  old  days  of  insurrec- 
tion once  more,  "  and  compel  the  Americans  to  give 
over  the  islands  to  the  sovereignty  of  the  Filipinos." 
The  scheme,  though  considered  silly  and  fatuous,  is 
really  anticipated.  "  Let  the  Filipino  get  a  really  com- 
pelling leader,"  says  the  writer,  "  and  the  issue  will  be 
forced  upon  us."  If  it  comes,  it  will  be  impossible  to 
restrain  the  army  by  any  ideas  of  sentiment  toward 
the  natives.  "  Any  Filipino  troops  that  attack  ours 
will  be  wiped  out  of  existence  in  smoke  and  blood. 
There  will  be  no  nonsense  about  it  next  time.  This  is 
the  opinion  of  the  army."  The  inroads  of  Aglipay 
upon  the  church  have  been  serious  enough  to  bring 
Mgr.  Guidi  out  from  Rome.  He  has  stopped  the  deser- 
tions somewhat,  but  does  not  get  the  deserters  back. 
If  we  may  credit  Mr.  Riggs,  whose  article  we  have 
here  summarized,  the  Aglipayans,  the  Katipunans,  and 
the  ladrones  will  keep  the  Philippine  Commission  busy 
for  many  a  day. 

Two  years  ago,  at  the  primary  election,  a  total  of  22,134  bal- 
lots were  cast,   of  which   18,594  were  Repub- 
The  Primaries        Hcan   and   3S40    Democratic.      This  year    26 
and  Political  .       ,.   ,  ,  _.         , 

p  222  were  cast,  of  which    13,306  were  Repub- 

lican, 7,433  Democratic,  and  5,066  Union 
Labor.  This,  for  a  starter,  shows  a  slightly  better  sense  of 
civic  duty  on  the  part  of  San  Franciscans.  Two  years  ago,  in 
the  Republican  ranks,  there  was  a  bitter  fight  on  the  part  of 
the  "  allied  bosses,"  including  Kelly,  Burns,  and  Crimmins, 
against  the  Call  and  Chronicle.  The  "  bosses  "  won.  This 
year,  Kelly,  Jesse  Marks,  and  the  Davis-Dibble  combinatiou 
have  been  completely  snowed  under.  The  United  Republican 
League,  representing  the  better  element,  has  every  delegate 
to  the  convention.  Here  is  another  gratifying  step  in  advance. 
In  the  Union  Labor  party,  Teamster  Casey,  who,  by  discredit- 
able use  of  official  power,  tried  to  defeat  the  man  who  had 
given  him  office,  has  himself  gone  down  in  utter  defeat.  It 
has  been  proved,  as  the  Argonaut  predicted  a  few  weeks  ago, 
that  Casey  and  the  anti-Schmitz  labor-leaders  represent  only 
themselves,  while  Schmitz  has  behind  him  the  mass  of  the 
labor  vote.  In  the  Democratic  ranks,  what  appears  to  be 
the  least  disreputable  faction  apparently  has  won.  The  Buck- 
ley-Rainey,  "  Horse  and  Carts"  push  has  about  137  delegates, 
the  McNab-Lane  party  about  202.  The  prospects  are  that 
nothing  can  prevent  the  nomination  by  the  Democrats  of  Larie 
for  mayor.  He  will  be  very  strong.  His  lead  over  Pardee  in 
the  last  election  was  9,556.  He  was  reelected  city  attorney  in 
1901  by  a  majority  of  10,488  votes.  He  will,  this  year,  have 
every  labor-union  vote  that  is  anti-Schmitz.  When  he  is 
once  nominated,  doubtless  the  present  division  of  the  Democ- 
racy will  cut  no  figure.  He  will  be  a  hard  man  to  beat.  Mayor 
Schmitz  will,  of  course,  be  renominated.  He  has  the  advant- 
age of  a  notably  clean  record,  the  disadvantage  of  many  ene- 
mies among  those  of  his  supporters  to  whom  he  gave  no  fat 
offices.  But  he  will  be  a  strong  candidate.  The  Chronicle 
remarked  on  Wednesday  :  "  It  is  improbable  that  the  Chronicle 
will  be  able  to  support  any  of  the  candidates  "  ot  the  Union 
Labor  party.  That  paper  further  expressed  its  gratification 
that  Schmitz  was  up  and  Casey  down — all  of  which  sounds 
as  if  De  Young  were  duly  grateful  for  favors  received,  and  as 
if  his  paper  should  make  no  vicious  fight  against  Schmitz.  The 
Examiner  is  in  the  same  boat,  or  a  worse  one.  By  some  siren 
song  of  political  profit,  Hearst  persuaded  Mr.  Schmitz  to 
go  East  last  fall  and  make  some  campaign  speeches  in  his 
behalf.  An  elementary  sense  of  decency  would  seem  to  com- 
pel Hearst  now  not  to  oppose  Schmitz  very  violently,  if  at 
all.  Besides,  the  Examiner  doesn't  like  Lane.  It  silently 
opposed  him  last  fall.  Still,  in  view  of  Hearst's  Presidential 
aspirations,  it  will  probably  choose  to  keep  straight  with  the 
party,  and  ostensibly  support  Lane.  But  actually  to  fight  the 
mayor  would  be  a  rank  piece  of  political  treachery. 

What  will  the  Republican  party  do?  It  goes  without  saying 
that  for  the  minor  offices  it  must  nominate  good,  clean,  upright 
men.  Only  in  that  direction  lies  the  road  to  success.  Lane 
is  far  more  popular  than  his  party.  It  is  doubtful  if  the  Union 
Labor  party  has  much  more  timber  as  free  from  knot  and  rot 
as  the  mayor.  Good  men  on  the  Republican  ticket  will  stand 
a  first-rate  show  for  election.     Poor  men  will  stand  no  show  at 


all.  As  for  the  mayoralty — but  there's  the  rub.  Henry  J. 
Crocker,  W.  G.  Stafford,  E.  D.  Wolfe,  David  Rich,  Arthur 
Fisk,  Horace  Davis,  Dr.  McNutt,  Treasurer  McDougald,  Sena- 
tor A.  P.  Williams,  Charles  A.  Murdock,  M.  H.  De  Young, 
Sheriff  Lackman,  Supervisor  Boxton — will  any  of  these 
"mentioned"  for  the  place  defeat  Lane  or  Schmitz?  Can 
any  of  them  get  ten  thousand  more  votes  than  Pardee  last 
fall?  It  seems  very  doubtful.  If  not,  why  set  such  an  one 
up  merely  to  be  knocked  down?  If  it  be  true — we  do  not  say 
it  is — that  the  nomination  of  one  of  these  by  the  Republicans 
means  the  election  of  Lane,  why  not  indorse  a  Republican  for 
the  place  who  stands  a  chance  of  winning?  Hasn't  the  Repub- 
lican party  in  San  Francisco  been  a  cat's-paw  to  rake  Demo- 
cratic chestnuts  out  of  the  fire  just  about  long  enough? 

For  many  years  we  Republicans  have  been  asked  to  indorse 
"  Citizens,"  "  Taxpayers,"  and  "  Non-Partisan "  candidates, 
which  always  resulted  in  our  electing  Democrats.  Suppose 
this  time  we  try  indorsing  and  electing  a  Republican  for  a 
change. 

Lane  carried  San  Francisco  last  year  against  George  Par- 
dee, a  good  man  and  good  Republican,  by  nearly  10,000  votes. 
We  are  not  going  to  have  any  votes  to  spare  this  year.  We 
shall  need  all  the  Republican  votes  we  have  and  what  labor 
votes  we  can  get.  Schmitz  will  poll  a  large  labor  vote.  If  in- 
dorsed, he  would  poll  nine-tenths  of  the  Republican  vote. 
Why  not  indorse  him  ? 


President 
Rooskvelt  ON 
Mob  Violence. 


In  a  letter  praising  Governor  Durbin,  of  Indiana,  for  the  drastic 
and  vigorous  measures  he  has  recently  taken 
to  stop  lynchings  and  bring  lynchers  to  jus- 
tice, President  Roosevelt  outlines  his  views 
on  this  vital  problem.  When  the  race-riots 
broke  out  in  Evansville,  Governor  Durbin  at  once  dispatched 
a  battery  of  artillery  and  Gatling  guns  to  the  jail;  he 
threatened  to  declare  martial  law  if  order  were  not  restored; 
when  the  militia  fired  on  the  mob,  killing  in  all  more  than 
a  score  of  persons,  he  upheld  them,  and  declared  that  "  this 
rioting  shall  cease  if  it  takes  every  soldier  in  the  State  to 
suppress  it." 

The  part  of  the  President's  letter  in  which  he  recommends 
the  expedition  of  justice  as  a  partial  remedy  for  the  lynching 
evil  is,  we  may  perhaps  remark,  without  undue  egotism,  in 
striking  accord  with  the  Argonaut's  editorial  of  last  week. 
Here  are  a  few  pertinent  paragraphs  of  Mr.  Roosevelt's  letter: 

"  Mob  violence  is  simply  one  form  of  anarchy,  and  anarchy 
is  now,  as  it  always  will  be,  the  handmaiden  and  forerunner 
of  tyranny.  .  .  .  The  feeling  of  all  good  citizens  that  such  a 
hideous  crime  shall  not  be  hideously  punished  by  mob  violence 
is  due  not  in  the  least  to  sympathy  for  the  criminal,  but  to 
a  very  lively  sense  of  the  train  of  dreadful  consequences  which 
follow  the  course  taken  by  the  mob  in  exacting  inhuman  venge- 
ance for  an  inhuman  wrong.  .  .  .  The  colored  people  through- 
out the  land  should  in  every  possible  way  show  their  belief 
that  they,  more  than  all  others  in  the  community,  are  horri- 
fied at  the  commission  of  such  a  crime.  .  .  .  The  slightest 
lack  of  vigor  in  denunciation  of  the  crime  or  in  bringing  the 
criminal  to  justice  is  itself  unpardonable.  Every  effort  should 
be  made,  under  the  law,  to  expedite  the  proceedings  of  jus- 
tice. .  .  .  Judges  and  citizens  should  be  addressed  to  secur- 
ing such  reforms  in  our  legal  procedure  as  to  leave  no  vestige 
of  excuse  for  violent  methods.  .  .  .  The  law  must  work  swiftly 
and  surely  and  all  the  agents  of  the  law  should  realize  the 
wrong  they  do  when  they  permit  justice  to  be  delayed  or 
thwarted  for  technical  or  insufficient  reasons.  ...  It  is,  of 
course,  inevitable  that  where  vengeance  is  taken  by  a  mob  it 
should  frequently  fall  on  innocent  people,  and  for  the  wrong 
done  in  such  a  case  there  is  no  remedy.  But  even  where  crim- 
inals are  reached  the  wrong  done  by  the  mob  to  the  commu- 
nity itself  is  well-nigh  as  great.  Especially  is  this  true  where 
the  lynching  is  accompanied  with  torture.  There  are  certain 
hideous  sights  which  when  once  seen  can  never  be  wholly 
erased  from  the  mental  retina.  .  .  .  Whoever,  in  any  part  of 
our  country,  has  ever  taken  part  in  lawlessly  putting  to  death 
a  criminal  by  the  dreadful  torture  of  fire  must  forever  after 
have  the  awful  spectacle  of  his  handiwork  seared  into  his 
brain  and  soul.  .  .  .  This  matter  of  lynching  would  be  a 
terrible  thing,  even  if  it  stopped  with  the  lynching  of  men 
guilty  of  the  inhuman  and  hideous  crime  of  rape;  but,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  the  lawlessness  of  this  type  never  does  stop 
and  never  can  stop  in  such  fashion.  .  .  .  The  spirit  of  lawless- 
ness grows  with  what  it  feeds  on,  and  when  mobs  with  im- 
punity lynch  criminals  for  one  cause,  they  are  certain  to  begin 
to  lynch  real  or  alleged  criminals  for  other  causes.  .  .  .  When 
the  minds  of  men  are  habituated  to  the  use  of  torture  by  law- 
less bodies  to  avenge  crimes  of  a  peculiarly  revolting  descrip- 
tion, other  lawless  bodies  will  use  torture  in  order  to  punish 
crimes  of  an  ordinary  type.  .  .  .  The  corner-stone  of  this 
republic,  as  of  all  free  governments,  is  respect  for  and  obedi- 
ence to  the  law.  Where  we  permit  the  law  to  be  defied  or 
evaded,  whether  by  rich  man  or  poor  man,  black  man  or  white 
man,  we  are  by  just  so  much  weakening  the  bonds  of  our  civi- 
lization and  increasing  the  chances  of  its  overthrow  and  of 
the  substitution  therefor  of  a  system  in  which  there  shall  be 
violent  alternations  of  anarchy  and  tyranny." 


It  has  been  given  out  that  the  booms  for  Judge  Gray  and  ex- 
Governor      Pattison      for      the      Democratic 
Senator  Gorman  Presidential  nomination  have  been  laid  aside, 
now  the  Hope  .  ' 

of  Democracy        a        one  Senator   Gorman,   of    Maryland, 

substituted.  The  same  authority  announces 
that  Senator  Gorman  will  have,  besides  a  solid  Southern 
delegation,  that  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  personal  support  of 
James  K.  Jones,  the  national  Democratic  chairman,  and  of 
William  J.  Bryan.  Gorman  is  now  said  to  be  supplanting 
Judge  Parker  in  what  was  supposed  to  be  the  favor  of  the' 
South.  The  explanation  is  that,  while  the  latter  is  conceded 
to  be  an  able  lawyer  and  an  upright  judge,  he  lacks  the 
capacity  to  "  hustle  "  for  votes  which  would  characterize  the 
former.  The  explanation  is  reasonable.  Senator  Gorman 
would  be  an  ideal  leader  in  machine  politics.  He  has  been 
brought  up  from  his  youth  and  lived  his  life  in  that  atmos- 
phere. He  knows  how  to  keep  a  firm  grip  on  his  party  re- 
tainers, and  how  to  avoid  complications  with  factions.  When 
things  are  not  going  well  he  keeps  out  of  sight,  and  when 
there  is  "  something  doing  "  he  bobs  up  at  the  psychological 
moment.  He  neither  supported  Bryan  nor  bolted  the  ticket, 
neither  did  he  follow  off  after  Palmer  and  Buckner.  Like  a 
wise  old  politician  he  waited  for  things  to  swing  round  his 
way,  and  he  now  appears  to  be  persona  grata  with  everybody 
Democratic.      At    present,    his    chances    of    nomination    look 


August  17,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


99 


bright.  With  Pennsylvania,  the  South,  and  his  own  State 
behind  him,  he  might  easily  gather  increased  strength  from 
the  East  in  convention,  and  possibly  enough  more  from  the 
West  to  see  him  safely  through.  When  it  comes  to  decision 
at  the  polls  the  case  might  be  different.  He  is  an  astute  poli- 
tician, with  no  record  as  a  statesman,  or  any  popular  hold 
on  the  masses.  The  machine  which  he  would  represent  might 
land  the  Democratic  vote  which  would  be  cast  for  any  man 
nominated-  It  would  have  little  effect  upon  the  independent 
vote,  which  is  supremely  important.  Senator  Gorman's  record 
would  not  fit  in  with  the  Cleveland  tariff-reform  agitation, 
which  is  just  now  strong.  In  anti-trust  movements  and 
sound-money  circles,  he  has  cut  no  figure.  It  is  difficult  to 
name  any  issue  now  of  interest  that  would  bring  votes  to  his  net, 
outside   of  those   which   the  party  machine   always    influences. 


The  Bond 
Elections 
Next  Month 


Mayor  Schmitz  has  affixed  his  signature  to  the  order  for  a 
special  election,  to  be  held  on  September 
29th,  to  decide  whether  $18,135,000  of  bonds 
shall  be  issued.  On  October  8th,  a  special 
election  will  be  held  to  decide  whether 
$710,000  more  of  bonds  shall  be  issued,  making  the  total 
nearly  nineteen  millions  of  dollars.  The  second  issue  is  for 
the  construction  of  the  Geary  Street  Railroad.  The  bonds  to 
be  voted  on  September  29th  are  proposed  for  twelve  public 
improvements.  These  are  a  city  and  county  hospital,  a  sewer 
system,  new  school-houses  (with  sites  and  additions),  play- 
grounds, repairs  to  accepted  streets,  a  new  county  jail,  an  ad- 
dition to  the  Hall  of  Justice,  a  public  library,  and  public  parks. 
The  annual  interest  charge  on  these  bonds  will  average,  with 
sinking  fund  payments,  $1,087,090  for  forty  years.  While 
these  twelve  propositions  are  to  be  submitted  at  one  election, 
each  is  to  be  voted  upon  separately.  Concerning  the  necessity 
of  some  of  these  improvements,  there  is  general  agreement; 
concerning  others,  there  is  wide  difference  of  opinion.  There 
is.  however,  another  question  to  be  considered  aside  from  the 
question  of  necessity  or  desirability.  The  great  majority,  if 
not  all  of  the  expenditures,  are  to  be  under  the  control  of  the 
board  of  public  works.  The  recent  actions  of  that  body  have 
raised  at  least  a  presumption  that,  if  the  present  incumbents 
have  the  spending  of  the  money,  it  will  not  be  expended  to  the 
best  advantage  of  the  people.  It  would  be  wiser  to  wait  until 
conditions  are  more  favorable*before  incurring  this  vast  in- 
debtedness. 

It  is  evident  that  the  native  Hawaiians  have  yet  much  to  learn 
before  they  can  understand  the  ideas  of  gov- 
ernment that  prevail  in  this  country.  Two 
legislatures  have  now  convened  there  since 
the  islands  became  a  Territory  of  the  United 
States.  The  first  legislature  did  not  understand  the  separation 
of  executive  and  legislative  functions  and  their  exercise  by 
different  sets  of  officers.  They  regarded  the  legislature  as  the 
whole  government,  the  executive  as  a  subordinate  employee. 
They  thought  that  because  the  native  party  controlled  the 
legislature  it  had  the  right  to  dictate  who  should  hold  the 
offices,  and  the  entire  native  population  was  very  much  sur- 
prised when  President  McKinley  did  not  remove  Governor 
Dole  in  response  to  the  petition  of  the  legislature.  In  the  first 
legislature,  the  tendency  of  the  natives  was  obscured  by  the 
fact  that  intriguing  whites  were  trying  to  use  them.  In  the 
second,  this  disturbing  element  was  practically  eliminated. 
In  the  senate,  the  majority  was  composed  of  white  men,  and 
the  senate  made  a  creditable  record.  In  the  house  there 
were  only  six  or  eight  white  men,  in  a  membership  of  thirty. 
Almost  without  exception,  the  house  tried  to  cut  down  the 
salaries  of  offices  held  by  white  men,  and  to  increase  the 
salaries  of  offices  held  by  natives.  The  feeling  of  discontent 
at  not  having  their  own  way  has  gone  even  further,  and 
members  of  the  native  party  are  already  discussing  the  ad- 
visability of  memorializing  Congress  to  restore  the  former 
government.  The  action  of  the  native  party  bids  fair  to  divide 
parties  more  distinctly  on  race  lines. 

Chief 


Hawaiians 

Becoming 

Dissatisfied. 


The  Criminal, 
the  Saloon,  and 
Low  License. 


Police  Wittman  has  lately  returned  from  a  trip 
through  the  East,  where  he  made  a  study  of 
the  police  departments  of  Eastern  cities.  He 
found  that,  so  far  as  the  personnel  of  the 
force  is  concerned,  San  Francisco  suffers 
nothing  by  comparison  with  these  older  and  larger  cities. 
In  the  matter  of  equipment,  however,  this  city  is  far  behind 
the  Eastern  cities.  We  do  not  begin  to  have  the  conveniences 
and  electrical  appliances  that  are  found  in  the  departments 
of  all  the  Eastern  cities  of  any  size.  The  number  and  equip* 
ment  of  station-houses  is  another  point  in  which  this  city  is 
decidedly  deficient,  as  in  the  item  of  mounted  police.  These' 
things  cost  money,  it  is  true,  but  there  is  one  item  in  Chief 
Wittman's  annual  report  that  suggests  where  that  money  might 
come  from.  During  the  year  ending  with  June  30,  1903,  there 
were  29,336  arrests  made,  while  more  than  one-half  of  these 
1  -5-/66)  were  for  drunkenness,  while  1,968  more  were  for  dis- 
turbing the  peace,  an  offense  closely  connected  with  drunken* 
r.ess.  It  is,  of  course,  out  of  the  question  to  suggest  the 
closing  of  the  saloons  in  San  Francisco.  That  will  never  be 
done.  But  it  is  obvious  business  policy  to  require  the  saloons, 
which  are  responsible  for  more  than  half  of  the  crimes,  to 
contribute  toward  their  punishment  by  paying  a  reasonable 
license  instead  of  one  that  is  unreasonably  low,  as  at  present. 


South  e-:rn 
Pacific  Pensions 
Inaugurated. 


The  Southern  Pacific  has  pensioned  thirty-five  of  its  employees. 
According  to  the  system  that  has  been 
adopted  by  the  Southern  Pacific  Company, 
every  employee  who  has  been  in  the  service 
of  the  company  for  at  least  twenty  years, 
and  has  reached  the  age  of  seventy  years,  is  to  be  retired  from 
active  service  and  receive  a  pension.     The  average  salary  re- 

Ic-Jved  during  the  last  ten  years  of  service  is  to  be  taken  as 
the  basis  for  figuring  the  pension,  and  upon  this  he  is  to  re- 
ceive annually  one  per  cent,  for  each  year  that  he  has  been  in 
*——■-—-*-■"■  — 


will  receive  less  than  twenty  per  cent.,  or  one-fifth,  of  the 
annual  salary,  while  those  who  have  served  more  than  twenty- 
years  will  receive  a  larger  percentage.  Of  the  thirty-five  who 
have  been  placed  on  the  pension-list,  one-half  were  in  the 
motive-power  department,  while  the  remainder  were  divided 
among  the  transportation,  maintenance  of  way,  general  office, 
steamer,  and  land  departments.  Three  captains  of  river 
steamers  are  among  those  retired,  but  the  majority  were  not 
those  who  come  in  contact  with  the  traveling  public.  It  is 
said  that  several  general  officers  are  to  be  retired,  but  their 
names  have  not  yet  been  announced. 


THE    LYNCHING    OF    A    WOMAN. 

Geraldine  Bonner  Writes  of  a  Dark  Chapter  in  California's  History. 

One  constantly  hears  in  the  talk  of  old  Californians, 
and  reads  in  the  books  written  during  the  pioneer 
period,  of  the  almost  fantastic  respect  in  which  the 
Californian  of  the  'fifties  held  women. 

There  are  stories  of  how  a  miner  came  in  some  way 
or  other  into  the  possession  of  a  lady's  slipper,  small 
and  dainty,  and  how,  after  the  heat  and  burden  of  the 
day's  work  was  done,  he  would  allow  his  comrades  to 
look  at  this  sacred  article,  even  pass  it  charily  from 
hand  to  hand,  while  he  stood  by  jealously  watching  it. 
In  a  northern  mining  district,  one  of  the  authors  of  the 
'fifties  tells  us  that  a  band  of  miners  once  came  upon  a 
woman's  sunbonnet  lying  in  the  middle  of  the  road,  where 
it  had  evidently  fallen  from  an  emigrant  wagon.  There 
is  nothing  sentimentally  suggestive  about  a  sunbonnet. 
One  could  weave  a  romance  about  a  well-shaped  slip- 
per, but  a  sunbonnet  only  speaks  of  the  tanned,  un- 
lovely face  of  the  slab-sided  frontierswoman.  Yet 
the  miners  are  reported  as  having  snatched  it  up — 
kissed  it,  almost  wept  over  it,  and  carried  it  away  with 
them,  as  knights  of  old  carried  their  lady's  favor  when 
they  rushed  into  the  fury  of  the  fray. 

Yet  it  was  in  this  very  period,  when  the  woman,  as  a 
rare  feature  of  contemporaneous  life,  still  stood  on  an 
exalted  pedestal,  that  one,  young  and  handsome,  was 
openly,  and  by  the  consent  of  a  crowd  of  several  thou- 
sand men,  lynched  in  the  mining-camp  of  Downieville. 
I  am  not  certain,  but  I  am  under  the  impression,  that 
this  is  the  only  white  woman  ever  lynched  in  the  United 
States.  It  certainly  was  the  only  white  woman  ever 
lynched  in  the  cool  light  of  day  for  a  crime  for  which 
an  impartial  judge  would  have  found  mediating  cir- 
cumstances, and  after  a  trial,  in  which  those  few  who 
had  the  temerity  to  attempt  to  defend  her,  were  kicked 
and  hustled  out  of  the  court. 

It  is  difficult  to  find  information  on  the  subject. 
Whether  the  historians  of  that  and  a  later  period  de- 
cided that  the  matter  had  best  be  passed  over  in 
silence,  or  whether  it  was  regarded  as  of  insufficient 
moment  to  be  carefully  chronicled,  I  am  not  able  to 
say.  I  first  read  of  it  in  one  of  those  curious  little 
books,  the  jottings  of  observant  travelers,  or  amateur 
miners,  of  which  '50  and  '51  were  so  prolific.  I  have 
forgotten  the  names  of  author  and  volume,  but  am 
under  the  impression  that  the  writer  was  an  eye-witness 
of  the  affair.  After  that  a  living  eye-witness  described 
it  to  me.  Bancroft  has  something  to  say  of  it;  so  has 
Hittell.  But  to  the  majority  of  Californians,  who  were 
either  not  here  at  all,  or  who  were  too  young  at  the 
time  to  be  interested  in  anything  outside  the  nursery, 
the  matter  is  unknown  history. 

The  story  is  one  of  the  most  dramatic  and  savage 
in  the  annals  of  the  settling  of  the  West.  Rarely,  in 
modern  times — never,  perhaps — was  such  deadly  ani- 
mosity shown  toward  a  woman,  young  and  apparently 
entirely  defenseless.  She  was  a  Mexican,  by  name 
Juanita,  twenty-four  years  of  age,  and  standing  not 
quite  five  feet  high.  She  was  also  pretty,  with  the  dark 
skin  and  eyes,  and  the  shining  black  hair  of  her  race. 
It  is  said  that  her  character  was  not  of  the  best,  but 
at  the  time  the  story  opens  she  was  living  quietly  at 
Downieville  with  a  monte-dealer — whether  as  wife 
or  mistress  nobody  seemed  to  know  or  care — whose 
name  has  not  come  down  to  us,  and  who,  apparently, 
stepped  back  and  let  "  the  law  take  its  course  "  without 
a  protest. 

On  the  evening  of  July  4,  1851,  there  was  a  great 
celebration  in  Downieville.  John  B.  Weller,  then 
stumping  the  State  as  a  candidate  for  Congress,  had 
arrived,  and  made  speeches  on  a  platform  raised  in  the 
centre  of  the  town,  close  to  the  hotel.  Miners  had  come 
in  from  camps  and  diggings  for  miles  up  and  down  the 
muddy  length  of  the  Yuba.  It  was  said  that  there  were 
five  thousand  men  in  Downieville  that  night,  and,  as 
may  be  imagined,  the  hilarity  was  great.  Among  others 
who  became  exceedingly  merry  was  Joe  Cannon,  an 
Australian,  who,  together  with  two  kindred  spirits, 
ranged  through  the  camp,  drunk  and  jovial. 

Cannon  was  one  of  the  most  popular  men  of  the  dis- 
trict. He  is  described  as  a  cheerful,  easy-going  giant, 
for  he  was  over  six  feet  in  height,  and  weighed  two 
hundred  and  forty  pounds.  In  their  riotous  course 
through  the  camp,  they  arrived  at  the  cabin  of  Juanita 
and  the  monte-dealer.  Here,  dark  and  silent,  the  little 
shanty  presented  no  sign  of  life  or  light.  Such  friends 
as  the  unfortunate  Juanita  had,  tried  to  win  the 
clemency  of  her  judges  by  stating  that  Cannon,  with 
brutal  language,  had  attempted  to  break  down  the  door 
of  the  cabin.  His  friends,  the  next  day,  persisted  that 
all  he  had  done  was  to  strike  the  door  in  a  spirit  of 
tipsy  revelry,  and  so  powerful  was  the  blow  of  the 
giant  that  he  burst  it  from  its  frail  hinges  of  leather. 
After    this   they    departed,   unconscious   of   tragedy    to 


arise  from  the  unpremeditated  stroke  of  a  drunkard's 
fist. 

The  next  morning,  when  Cannon  had  recovered  his 
senses,  he  was  told  of  the  damage  he  had  done.  His 
friends  declared  that  when  he  heard  it  he  immediately 
announced  his  intention  of  repairing  to  the  monte- 
dealer's  cabin  and  paying  for  the  broken  door.  No 
one,  according  to  the  Downieville  miners,  had  ever 
known  Joe  Cannon  to  do  an  ungenerous  thing.  It  was 
said  by  the  Mexicans  that  whether  he  had  gone  to  the 
cabin  for  the  purpose  of  payment  or  not,  once  there 
he  had  renewed  the  brutal  and  insulting  language  of  the 
night  before,  and  that  Juanita,  crouched  in  a  corner  of 
the  room,  had  listened  to  it,  still  and  fieryr-eyed. 

Whatever  words  passed,  Cannon  came  to  the  open 
doorway,  whence  the  broken  door  hung  loose,  and, 
standing  with  a  hand  on  either  post,  looked  into  the 
cabin.  Suddenly,  from  the  corner  where  she  sat, 
Juanita  rose,  and  rushed  upon  him,  drawing  from  her 
clothing  a  long  knife.  The  attack  was  so  unexpected 
and  so  swift  that  before  Cannon  could  move  she  had 
driven  the  knife,  hilt  deep,  into  his  chest.  The  force 
of  the  blow,  for  one  so  small  and  fragile,  was  amazing. 
It  was  as  well-directed  and  unswerving  as  that  which 
Charlotte  Corday  delivered  to  the  man  in  his  bath — 
"  sheer  through  the  clavicle  into  the  lung."  Cannon 
fell  where  he  stood,  stricken  to  the  death. 

He  was  carried  away  and  laid  on  the  puncheon  floor 
of  a  half-built  shanty  in  the  middle  of  the  camp.  From 
here,  the  news  of  the  attack  flew  like  wildfire  through 
the  town,  and  up  and  down  the  banks  of  the  Yuba.  Such 
miners  as  had  not  attended  the  Fourth  of  July  celebra- 
tion dropped  their  picks  and  shovels,  and  turned  their 
faces  to  Downieville.  By  the  hundreds  they  stood  round 
the  body  of  the  dying  man;  by  the  hundreds  they  filed 
in  and  out,  taking  a  last  look  at  him  as  he  drew  his 
labored  breaths.  He  lived  an  hour.  At  eleven  o'clock 
he  was  dead,  and  two  thousand  men  walked  through 
the  camp  to  the  house  of  Juanita. 

She  was  ready  for  them ;  made  no  attempt  to  plead 
for  mercy,  and  showed  not  the  least  fear.  One  of  the 
most  remarkable  things  in  the  whole  remarkable  story 
is  the  demeanor  of  this  woman.  She  unquestionably 
Rilled  Cannon  in  return  for  real  or  imagined  insults. 
Having  killed  him,  she  seemed  quite  satisfied  to  pay 
for  her  revenge  with  her  own  life.  There  was  a 
stoical,  almost  cynical,  calm  in  the  manner  she  faced 
the  situation  that  added  a  last  touch  to  the  grisly 
horror  of  the  whole  performance.  She  asked  tor  a 
moment's  delay  in  order  to  arrange  her  dress  and  make 
her  will.  This  she  did  verbally;  then,  calm  and  tranquil, 
surrounded  by  the  two  thousand  miners,  she  walked  to 
the  platform  that  had  been  used  the  day  before  for  the 
Fourth  of  July  exercises. 

Here  a  travesty  of  a  trial  took  place,  Juanita  sitting, 
ever  calm  and  sometimes  smiling,  in  the  midst  of  her 
judges.  The  camp  was  by  this  time  in  a  frenzy 
of  excitement.  There  were  men  who  realized  that  one 
of  the  most  barbarous  acts  in  the  history  of  the  Far 
West  was  about  to  be  perpetrated,  and  attempted  to 
stem  the  tide.  Dr.  C.  D.  Aiken  rose  up  and  testified 
that  she  was  not,  physically,  in  a  tit  condition  to  be 
nanged.  He  was  howled  down,  and  driven  from  the 
platiorm.  A  Mr.  Thayer,  of  .Nevada,  then  lifted  him- 
self above  the  mob  by  standing  on  a  barrel,  and  began 
to  make  a  speech  in  her  detense.  The  barrel  was 
kicked  from  beneath  him,  his  hat  and  glasses  fell  off, 
and  he  was  hustled  through  the  crowd,  and  kicked  and 
struck  at  as  he  fled.  The  accusers  of  Juanita  were, 
for  the  time  being,  outside  themselves.  They  were 
savages    demanding    blood    for    blood. 

In  the  hotel,  overlooking  the  scene,  was  John  B. 
Weller,  the  candidate  for  Congress.  Some  one  rushed 
in  to  him,  and  pleaded  with  him  to  address  and  try  and 
quell  the  fury  of  the  mob.  But  the  gentleman,  evi- 
dently feeling  his  eloquence  not  equal  to  the  occasion, 
refused.  He  had  probably  seen  the  treatment  awarded 
the  two  champions  of  Juanita,  and  deemed  the  moment 
one  where  silence  was  golden.  So,  left  to  her  fate, 
Juanita  was  tried,  found  guilty,  and  led  to  execution. 

The  four  hours  that  elapsed  between  her  conviction 
and  death  were  spent  by  her  in  her  own  house,  saying 
good-by  to  her  friends,  and  making  her  toilet  for  her 
final  appearance  upon  this  earthly  stage.  Her  accusers 
occupied  the  time  in  arranging  a  scaffold  for  her  in 
the  middle  of  the  bridge  across  the  Yuba.  Two  posts 
had  been  left  standing  in  the  centre  of  the  bridge,  and 
below  these  they  lashed  two  planks,  which  extended 
out  over  the  rushing  stream. 

When  the  hour  arrived,  Juanita  appeared,  walking 
among  an  escort  of  her  friends.  She  had  dressed  her- 
self carefully  in  white;  her  black  hair  was  neatly 
brushed  and  braided.  On  her  head  she  wore  a  man's 
hat,  lent  by  one  of  her  friends.  Her  imperturbable  calm 
was  as  marked  as  ever.  It  was  impossible  to  notice  a 
tremor  in  her  step  or  voice.  When  she  had  heard  the 
words  of  her  conviction  spoken,  she  had  given  a  little 
laugh.  Now  she  was  grave,  but  unmoved.  She 
mounted  the  temporary  scaffold,  and,  taking  off  the  hat, 
sent  it  with  a  quick  whirl  of  her  wrist  through  the 
crowd  to  its  owner.  Then,  turning  to  the  still,  staring 
throng,  she  bowed  to  the  right  and  left,  making  a 
gesture  of  farewell.  With  each  bow  she  pronounced 
clearly  and  firmly  the  words  "  Adios,  mes  amigos, 
adios !  " 

A  few  moments  after,  her  dead  bodyr  hung  quivering 
over  the  stream.  The  crowd  dispersed  to  its  cabins 
and   tents   with    what    feelings   we   may  wonder. 

Geraldine  Be 


100 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  17,  1903. 


OF    HIS    FATHER. 


THE    BLOOD 

How  the  Tempest  Showed  the  Mettle  of  Perk. 


and 


He  keeps  a  little  tobacco-shop  m  Astoria, 
reach  it  one  must  go  up  Commercial  Street  till  it 
scrambles  out  over  the  river  on  spindling  piles.  Captain 
Perk's  place  of  business  is  in  a  building  balanced 
agilely  on  three  legs  over  a  huge  bowlder,  and  one 
corner  only  touches  the  board  walk.  On  either  side 
of  it  the  rustling  river-waves  below  play  with  sweep- 
the    street.      In    fact,    the    whole    thing   is 


mgs    from 

strikingly   like   a    harbor   beacon. 

During  an  extremely  tiresome  winter  season  that  1 
spent  in  Astoria,  Dave  Amundson,  one  of  the  keepers  of 
Tillamook  Light,  introduced  me  to  Captain  Perks 
shop,  recommended  me  as  a  good  customer,  and 
satisfied  the  captain  of  my  fitness  to  participate  in  the 
reunions  there  held.  When  these  preliminaries  had 
been  gone  through  with,  and  the  weak-eved  captain 
had  greeted  him  in  his  shambling  tashion  three  nights 
in  succession,  Dave  called  me  aside.  "  Yer  a  decent 
sort,  sometimes,"  he  remarked,  kindly,  but  I  don  t 
want  ye  to  think  anything  about  old  Captain  Perk 
except  what  ye  hear." 
"  You  mean?" 

"I  mean  what  I  say."  continued  the  light-keeper. 
"  When  ye  want  to  know  anything  about  the  captain  ye 
just  come  to  me,  or  to  George,  or  any  of  the  boys  ye 
meet  reg'lar  there.  Don't  trust  yer  own  eyes  or  yer 
own  ears.  Captain  Perk,"  he  concluded,  solemnly,  is 
a  misjudged  man."  „    ,i 

Farther  than  this,  my  friend  would  not  go.  He  lett 
for  his  lonely  station  the  next  week,  and  his  parting 
injunction  was  to  believe  nothing  but  what  he  told 
me.  As  he  told  me  little,  except  in  the  way  of  warn- 
in°-  against  the  evidence  of  my  own  senses,  I  was 
mightily  in  the  dark.  However,  I  determined  that 
nothing  should  hinder  me  from  fulfilling  the  terms 
of  my  introduction. 

Three  months'  acquaintance  with  the  man  gave  me 
a  wondrous  pity  for  his  feebleness.  Watery  eyes, 
flabby  hands,  a  pinched  nose  do  not  make  up  the  figure 
of  a  seaman.  To  see  Captain  Perk  dawdling  over  his 
wares,  testing  delicately  the  latest  consignment  of 
Swedish  snuff,  or  pottering  over  a  new  pipe,  awakened 
no  thought  of  the  briny  sea  or  roaring  gales.  The 
captain  himself  seemed  to  have  little  recollection  of  his 
seafaring,  though,  when  the  subject  was  fairly  brought 
up,  he  would  spin  yarns  of  hair-raising  quality  while 
the  habitues  of  his  shop  sat  three  deep  around  his 
meagre  form,  dilated  into  odd  manliness  by  the  big- 
ness of  his  tale.  At  its  end,  Captain  Thorpe,  the 
white-bearded,  dare-devil  skipper  of  the  tug  Seafarer, 
would  wag  a  solemn  head  and  ask  for  more  details; 
huge  Brisket  of  the  lightship  would  recall  some  par- 
ticular incident  with  comrade  gusto;  and  Ivan  Stuttz, 
the  crack  fisherman  of  the  Columbia  River,  would 
shake  his  heavy  hair  down  over  eyes  and  rumble  forth 
appreciative  comments. 

When  one  has  heard,  from  the  slack  lips  of  a  scanty- 
haired  man  of  under  middle  age,  stories  of  daring  and 
consummate  seamanship  that  are  belied  in  every  strong 
detail  by  a  feeble  hand,  a  slender  frame,  and  indecisive 
eyes;  when  men  of  expert  and  amazing  knowledge  of 
the  most  dangerous  coast  in  the  world  will  listen,  as 
children  before  a  master,  to  the  wild  yarns  of  a  man 
whose  whole  appearance  is  that  of  one  who  never  felt 
a  rolling  deck  under  him;  when  forty  rise  to  call  him 
cursed  who  doubts  one  jot  or  tittle  of  an  impossible  re- 
lation, then  there   is  room   for  curiosity. 

In  a  break  in  the  bad  weather  in  March,  Dave 
Amundson  returned  on  the  tender  Columbine  from 
Tillamook  Light.  His  first  question  was  after  the 
health  of  Captain  Perk;  his  second  as  to  how  I 
stood  with  him,  and  the  third  (over  a  schooner  of 
beer)  was  a  deep  inquiry  as  to  my  belief  in  his  sea- 
manship. I  displayed  the  guile  of  the  serpent,  and 
assured  Dave  that  I  looked  upon  Captain  Perk  as  a  salt 
of  the  true  deep-water  stripe. 

"  That's  right,"  said  the  keeper.  "  I've  known  some 
young  fellows  as  never  knew  a  heaving  line  from  a 
sheet  say  as  Captain  Perk  was  a  fraud.  Which  is  a 
shame  and  disgrace.  He's  one  of  the  finest  seamen 
that  ever  stepped  a  quarter-deck,  he  is,  and  if  any- 
body denies  it  let  him  run  foul  of  me,  and  I'll  show 
him  what's  what." 

That  evening  the  usual  crowd  gathered  in  the  back 
room  of  Captain  Perk's  shop.  The  gale  had  resumed 
wlh  a  violence  that  foretold  a  long  season  of  bad 
weather.  The  bowlder  beneath  the  building  seemed 
to  rumble  on  its  bed  as  the  surf  piled  high  against  it. 
An  occasional  piece  of  driftwood  thundered  on  the 
piles  that  supported  the  street  till  everything  shook  and 
rattled.  From  overhead  came  the  harsh  screech  of  the 
maddened  wind,  which  died  away  at  intervals  to  be 
overridden  by  the  roar  of  the  bar  ten  miles  out. 

"Lord,  I'm  glad  I  got  in  before  this  broke,"  said 
Amundson,  helping  himself  to  tobacco  from  an  open 
jar  on  ihe  table.     "  This  is  the  worst  yet." 

"Anything  outside  when  you  came  in?"  asked 
Captain  Thorpe. 

"  Nothin',"  answered  the  light-keeper.  "  Saw  a 
b<.rk  off  the  North  Head  yestidday,  but  I  guess  she  put 
oi.t  again.     Lucky  she  did." 

,  Captain  Perk  had  been  sliding  around  the  room  in 
;eble  hospitality  ull  the  while,  and  1  detected  on  his 
.,  ithered  cheek  a   slight  flush.      Every  now   and   then 


he  stopped  to  listen  till  some  loud  crash  dissolved  in 
the  tumuk  of  the  elements,  and  more  than  ever  I  felt 
the  incongruousness  of  the  tales  he  told  with  his 
physical   insufficiency.  . 

"  It  was  weather  like  this  that  you  made  that  trip 
to   the   Rock,"   said   Amundson,   presently,   to   Captain 

Perk.  ,        ,  ... 

"  Oh  worse  than  this,"  said  the  shop-keeper,  smiling, 
softly  '  "  I  reckon,  now,  the  wind  was  blowing  a  gale 
of  maybe  two  hundred  miles  an  hour,"  he  continued, 
appealing  to  Amundson. 

"I  reckon  it  was."  answered  Amundson.  gruffly. 
"  No  mortal  could  'a'  figured  it  out  proper.  It  was  an 
awful  gale."  .  ,  „ 

"  But  the  Charles  T.  weathered  it,  didn  t  she  r 
pursued  the  shop-keeper.  "Yes,  sir,  in  all  my  sea- 
faring experience,  gentlemen,  I  never  had  command  of 
a  better  craft.  Sound,  every  timber,  and  seaworthy- 
there  wasn't  any  to  equal  her,  and  they  don't  build  any 
better  nowadays." 

"  That  was  a  great  trip,"  said  Captain  Thorpe,  pull- 
ing at  his  white  beard.  "  That  was  the  finest  seaman- 
ship I  ever  heard  of,  and  the  town  of  Astoria  aint 
big  enough  to  hold  the  man  that  done  it."  The  captain's 
voice  had  a  note  of  reverence  in  it. 

The  tobacconist  took  up  the  suggestion  and  inflated 
his  narrow  chest.  "  Yes,  sir,  that  was  a  great  trip. 
But  I  made  better  ones,  now,  don't  you  think?" 

"  No,  sir,"  was  the  reply  in  a  chorus,  "  there  can't 
be  no  better.  That  was  the  umslumpingest  trip  ever 
made  across  the  Columbia  River  Bar  or  on  this  Coast." 
"  Well,  well,"  mumbled  the  gratified  Perk,  "  of  course, 
I  have  my  own  opinions,  being  a  seafaring  man  of  ex- 
perience, but  of  course  you  boys  are  entitled  to  your 
opinion." 

The  words  had  scarcely  left  his  mouth  when  there 
was  a  terrific  roar,  and  spray  from  the  broken  wave 
that  had  dashed  itself  against  the  bowdder  below, 
spattered  like  shot  on  the  roof  and  walls  of  the  build- 
ing. In  the  din  I  heard  Thorpe  yell  and  Dave  toss 
back  a  word  unintelligible  to  my  ears.  Then,  as  drops 
of  brine  fell  on  the  table  from  the  ceiling,  the  men  in 
the  room,  with  wild  laughter,  jerked  table  and  tobacco 
jars  away,  and  in  the  confusion  I  missed  Captain  Perk. 
When  the  bustle  simmered  down,  I  saw  the  tobacco- 
nist sitting  on  a  chair  between  Thorpe  and  Brisket. 
His  watery  eyes  were  fixed  in  terror,  and  his  trembling 
hands  frisked  like  mechanical  toys.  Bloodless  lips  and 
heaving  chest  told  the  pitiful  tale.  Brisket  was  staring 
at  the  leaking  roof,  and  Thorpe  was  fondling  the  shak- 
ing arms.  Then  Dave's  hoarse  voice  rose  in  a  chantey, 
and  the  room  filled  with  swelling  chorus: 


"  Oh,    I    had   a   mother 
And  she  loved  me — 

Loved  me  long  and  hearty. 
But   it    done   no   good 
For  go   I   would 
Though  I  had  a  mother 
And  she  loved  me — 

Loved  me  long  and  hearty." 

The  next  day,  as  I  peered  from  under  my  sou'wester 
at  the  river  boiling  in  the  clutch  of  the  wind-driven 
tide,  Dave  Amundson  joined  me  in  my  nook  to  leew-ard 
of  a  heavy  fender-pile.  The  dull  clouds  above  were 
twisted  into  huge  funnels  and  ragged  rolls  of  murk, 
and  beyond,  where  the  bar  tossed  its  raging  crests  up- 
ward, sky  and  ocean  mingled.  "  Ye  wouldn't  think," 
said  Amundson,  with  a  swift  glance  over  the  harbor, 
"  it  was  weather  like  this  that  Captain  Perk  made  his 
trip,  now,  would  ye?" 

"  I  don't  believe  he  ever  went  outside  of  his  shop," 
I  replied,  irritably.  "  I've  listened  to  enough  of  your 
rot  about  his  being  a  seaman.  He  never  smelt  tar  in 
his  life." 

"  He's  the  finest  seaman  that  ever  turned  a  spoke," 
said  Dave.  "  But  he's  not  what  he  used  to  be. 
Let  me  tell  you  what  he  did." 

Then  there  was  recited  into  my  ears  the  tale  of  how- 
old  Captain  Charles  T.  Perk  had  amassed  money  and 
fame  on  the  Oregon  coast;  how,  in  his  rough  old  age, 
he  had  married  a  shrinking  woman,  whose  frail  con- 
stitution had  weathered  but  one  season,  and  how  she 
died,  leaving  her  lord  a  son,  the  present  Captain  Perk. 
"  He  wasn't  much  of  a  kid,"  said  Dave,  gently,  "  and 
the  only  trip  he  made  to  sea  the  old  man  brought  him 
back  locked  up  in  the  cabin,  and  didn't  say  nothin" 
to  nobody.  But  I  understand  it  sort  o'  got  around  that 
the  kid  wasn't  much  of  a  sailor  on  account  of  his 
mother  bein'  a  little  skeered  and  weak.  And  the  old 
man  was  sore,  because  he  built  the  Charles  T.  Perk, 
and  boasted  at  the  launchin'  that  it'd  last  to  make  his 
son  a  famous  skipper,  and  his  name  'ud  be  known  even 
when  he  was  dead. 

"  But  after  a  few  more  trips  he  laid  the  Charles  T. 
Perk  up  over  'n  Young's  Bay,  and  sent  the  boy  to 
school,  where  he  never  done  much  but  set  around,  and 
was  called  'fraid-cat,  and  generally  knocked  about. 
Then  the  old  man  Perk  died,  and  he  left  the  young 
feller  nothin'  but  the  Charles  T.  and  a  lot  of  sea-yarns. 
"  Then  people  got  to  callin'  him  Captain  Perk, 
same's  the  old  man.  It  was  fun  at  first,  and  then  it 
grew  natural,  and  there  you  are.  He  never  done 
nothin',  except  loaf  around  the  bay,  but  he  was  a  good 
sort,  and  didn't  hurt  nobody,  and  he  was  fond  o'  tellin' 
sea-stories  the  old  man  had  told  before  him,  and  we 
never  took  much  account  of  him,  nohow.  I  was  bar- 
pilotin'  then,  and  so  was  Brisket,  and  Captain  Thorpe, 
he  was  with  us,  too. 

"  Well,  one  day  we  was  all  outside  in  the  schooner 
I  Harvest  Home,  waitin'  for  a  couple  of  ships  that  was 


due.  But  before  them  ships  was  sighted  the  weather 
°-ot  awful  nasty,  same  as  now,  and  the  Harvest  Home 
was  hove  to  out  beyond  where  the  lightship  lays  now. 
For  two  days  we  managed  to  keep  dry,  and  then  it 
was  up  to  us  either  to  get  in  or  get  out  to  sea.  It  was 
too  rough  to  fetch  in,  and  so  we  tried  to  work  her  out 
to  sea.  We  tried  for  twenty-four  hours,  and  we  nearly 
lost  her  twice. 

"  Then  in  a  flaw  from  the  east'ard  we  managed 
to  work  down  off  Tillamook,  and  there  we  was  caught 
in  that  current.  Yes,  sir,  it  was  all  off  with  the  Har- 
vct  Home.  We  seen  it,  and  we  knew  it  was  useless  to 
do  anything.  They  say  somebody  on  shore  saw  us 
out  there,  and  he  rode  across  to  the  bay,  took  a  skiff  to 
Astoria,  and  told  'em  what  was  goin'  to  happen. 

"  The  crew  of  the  life-saving  station  came  up  when 
they  heard  of  it,  but  they  knew  as  well  as  anybody  they 
couldn't  help  us  on  that  coast.  It  was  either  get  a  tug 
and  go  out,  or  let  us  bump  up  just  once  against  them 
cliffs  and  rocks.  The  bar  was  so  rough  there  wasn't 
a  man,  even  the  port  captain,  dared  say  anything  about 
goin'  outside.     It  was  sure  death  to  try  it. 

"  Well,  sir,  Captain  Perk  was  buzzing  around  kind  o' 
skeered  like,  when  one  of  the  boys  ketches  sight  of  him. 
•  I  wisht  the  old  man  Perk  was  here,'  he  says,  '  he'd  go 
out  if  all  hell  was  the  other  side  o'  the  bar.' 

"  The  little  man  heard  the  name  Captain  Perk,  and 
he  answers,  smartly,  '  What  d'ye  want  of  Captain 
Perk?' 

"  '  He'd  be  the  man  to  go  out  acrost  that  bar,'  growls 
one  of  the  boys,  '  and  save  them  poor  devils  that'll  butt 
up  against  Haystack  Rock  before  nightfall.  That's 
what  he'd  do,  him  and  his  Charles  77 

"  '  The  Charles  T.  rotted  her  engines  out  long  ago,' 
puts  in  another,  '  the  same  as  the  captain.' 

"  '  She  aint  neither,'  says  Captain  Perk,  straightening 
up.  '  and  I'll  show  you  Captain  Perk's  as  good  as  an- 
other.' 

"  With  that  he  went  away,  and  within  an  hour  they 
nearly  fell  off  the  wharf  to  see  the  Charles  T.  steamin' 
around  Smith's  Point,  like  old  times.  Sure  enough, 
the  captain  had  gone  round  to  her  and  got  up  steam 
with  the  aid  of  a  boy  he  picked  up,  and  she  come  up 
that  river,  they  tell  me,  like  a  puff  of  smoke. 

"  When  she  rounded  to  by  the  dock,  Captain  Perk 
threw  out  a  line,  and  they  made  her  fast  in  no  time, 
though  ordinarily  you  couldn't  have  moored  her  noways 
with  such  a  gale  blowin'.  Then  the  little  man  steps 
out,  and  says :  '  I  want  an  engineer,  a  fireman,  and 
two  hands  to  go  out  and  save  the  Harvest  Home.' 

"  Nobody  answered,  they  knowing  he  never  rightly 
run  a  harbor  tug,  even.  And  the  bar,  as  I  said,  was  a 
holy  terror.  Then  some  fellers  off  a  'Frisco  boat  asks 
who  it  was  in  the  oil-skins,  and  when  they  says  it's 
Captain  Perk  they  volunteers,  and  says  they've  heard 
Captain  Perk  could  sail  a  ship  through  the  rivers  of 
hell,  and  no  one  could  get  it  out  of  their  heads  that 
this  wasn't  the  old  man  they  thought  it  was. 

"  How  that  craft  got  out  to  the  bar,  I  don't  know. 
How  it  got  across  the  bar,  I  don't  know.  But  it  was 
the  biggest  sight  of  my  life  when  we  sighted  the 
Charles  T.  at  about  dusk,  and  she  ran  inside  the  Rock- 
where  no  ship  ever  came  out  from,  picked  up  the  boat 
we  put  out  in,  and  then,  just  before  the  Harvest  Home 
struck,  stuck  her  nose  out  into  the  gale  from  behind 
Tillamook  Rock." 

Dave's  voice  rose  a  little,  and  his  breath  seemed  to 
choke  him.  "  When  we  got  on  the  deck  of  the  Charles 
T.  it  was  plumb  dark.  The  shore  wasn't  to  be  seen, 
and  just  to  windward  we  heard  the  suck  of  the  surf  as 
it  overran  the  Rock.  But  Captain  Perk,  the  man  that 
runs  the  tobacco-shop,  was  at  the  wheel,  and  he  never 
took  his  eye  out  of  the  murk.  He  simply  yelled  to 
us  to  bear  a  hand  with  the  furnaces.  So  we  piled 
down,  all  of  us,  and  helped  fire  up,  which  was  a  good 
thing,  as  the  boilers  leaked,  and  the  engines  needed  a 
heap  of  tendin'.  Then,  when  we  didn't  founder  nor 
hit  nothin'  for  an  hour,  Thorpe  and  me  went  up  top- 
side to  have  a  look  at  the  captain.  The  Charles  T. 
was  makin'  good  weather  of  it,  and  the  Rock  was  to 
leeward.  The  old  boat  show-ed  who  built  her,  and  so 
did  the  skipper  at  the  wheel. 

"  Well,  sir,  I  never  thinks  of  it  without  feelin'  queer, 
but  next  morning  we  was  lyin'  off  the  bar,  safe  and 
sound,  with  Captain  Perk  at  the  helm  not  a-sayin' 
anything,  nor  a-doin'  anything,  but  just  holdin'  her  into 
it  as  never  did  man  before.  All  that  night  he  done 
wonders.  No  man  livin'  could  'a'  kept  the  Charles  T. 
alive  in  that  sea,  let  alone  workin'  her  out  of  a  bight 
on  a  lee  shore. 

"  Then,  when  we  saw  the  bar,  we  thought  it  was  all 
off  with  us  again.  '  We'd  better  put  out  a  few  miles,' 
says  Thorpe. 

"  '  No,'  says  Perk,  '  we're  goin'  in.  The  tide  serves.' 
"  And  go  in  we  did,  thougji  we  lost  the  funnel,  the 
foremast,  all  the  boats,  the  top  of  the  pilot-house,  and 
the  towin'-bitts.  But  the  Lord  himself  couldn't  a' 
got  off  any  easier.  Then  we  steamed  up  the  river 
with  four  feet  of  water  in  the  hold,  and  Captain  Perk 
missed  the  channel,  and  run  us  up  high  and  dry  in  the 
surf  off  Sand  Island,  and  there  the  Charles  T.  lies  now. 
"  While  we  was  bein'  taken  off  the  island,"  con- 
cluded Dave  Amundson,  slowly.  "  Captain  Perk  was 
struck  on  the  head  and  knocked  unconscious.  It  made 
him  sort  o'  foolish,  and  he's  never  been  the  same  since. 
Some  of  the  boys  set  him  up  in  the  cigar  business. 
But  that  knock  on  the  head  fixed  him." 

John  Fleming  Wilson. 
San  Francisco,  August,   1903. 


August  17.  1903. 


THE       ARGONAUT 


101 


SOME    WHISTLER    CONTROVERSIES. 

Why  He  Sued  Ruskin— How  He  Defied  Sir  "William  Eden  and  was 

Mulcted    Out    of   One    Thousand    Francs  —  His 

Tilt  with  Du  Maurier. 

In  the  flood  of  reminiscences  which  the  death  of  the 
brilliant  American  painter,  James  McNeil  Whistler. 
has  called  forth,  perhaps  the  most  interesting  anecdotes 
are  those  which  relate  to  his  many  legal  scrimmages, 
for  Whistler  looked  upon  life  as  upon  a  kind  of  warfare. 
and  was  never  so  happy  as  when  he  was  quarreling 
with  somebody.  He  is  quoted  as  having  said,  when 
asked  if  he  did  not  have  many  friends :  "  Yes,  I  have 
many  friends,  and  I  am  grateful  to  them;  but  those 
whom  most  I  love  are  my  enemies,  not  in  a  Biblical 
sense — oh,  no — but  because  they  keep  one  always  busy, 
always  up  to  the  mark,  either  fighting  them  or  proving 
them  idiots." 

Whistler's  first  suit  of  importance  was  against  Rus- 
kin. who,  in  a  number  of  his  "  Fors  Clavigera,"  wrote 
a  slashing  criticism  of  the  American  painter's  work, 
in  the  course  of  which  he  said:  "For  Mr.  Whistler's 
own  sake,  no  less  than  for  the  protection  of  the  pur- 
chaser. Sir  Coutts  Lindsay  ought  not  to  have  admitted 
works  into  the  gallery  in  which  the  ill-educated  conceit 
of  the  artist  so  nearly  approached  the  aspect  of  willful 
imposture.  I  have  seen  and  heard  much  of  cockney 
impudence  before  now ;  but  never  expected  to  hear  a 
coxcomb  ask  two  hundred  guineas  for  flinging  a  pot 
of  paint  in  the  public's  face." 

One  of  the  most  amusing  features  of  the  trial  that 
followed  the  publication  of  this  criticism,  was  the  exhi- 
bition in  court  of  some  of  the  "  nocturnes  "  and  "  ar- 
rangements "  which  were  the  subject  of  the  suit.  The 
jury  of  respectable  citizens,  whose  knowledge  of  art 
was  probably  limited,  was  expected  to  pass  judgment 
on  these  paintings.  Mr.  Whistler's  counsel  held  up 
one  of  the  pictures.  "  Here,  gentlemen,"  said  he,  "  is 
one  of  the  works  which  have  been  maligned."  "  Pardon 
me,"  interposed  Mr.  Ruskin's  lawyer,  "  you  have  that 
picture  upside  down."  "  Xo  such  thing."  "  Oh,  but  it 
is  so."  continued  Ruskin's  counsel:  "I  remember  it  in 
the  Grosvenor  Gallery,  where  it  was  hung  the  other 
way  about."  The  altercation  ended  in  the  correctness 
of  view  of  Ruskin's  lawyer  being  sustained,  and  the 
fact  that  Mr.  Whistler's  own  counsel  did  not  know 
which  was  the  top  or  bottom  of  the  picture  had  more 
to  do  with  Ruskin's  virtual  victory  than  all  the  argu- 
ments of  counsel  or  the  evidence  of  art  experts. 

The  jury  aw-arded  the  artist  one  farthing  damages, 
which  he  hung  on  his  watch-chain,  and  used  to  exhibit 
with  sardonic  pride.  The  British  public,  however, 
promptly  subscribed  the  nineteen-hundred-dollar  costs 
which  fell  upon  Ruskin,  and  one  of  the  subscribers  ex- 
claimed that  ten  times  the  amount  would  not  have  been 
too  much  for  the  public  to  pay  for  the  entertainment 
the  suit  afforded  them.  After  the  trial.  Whistler  pub- 
lished a  pamphlet  on  the  subject,  called  "  The  Gentle 
Art  of  Making  Enemies,"  giving  his  views  upon  lay 
criticism  in  a  brilliant  bit  of  controversial  satire. 

While  the  suit  was  in  progress.  Whistler  was  one 
day  abusing  Ruskin,  whereupon  one  of  his  friends  re- 
proached him  with  the  remark :  "  Why  not  leave  the 
poor  old  man  alone?  He  has  already  one  leg  in  the 
grave."  "  Yes,"  said  Whistler,  "  but  it  is  that  other 
leg  I  am  after." 

Another  dispute  in  which  Whistler  was  engaged 
was  with  Mr.  Leyland,  the  art  patron,  whose  London 
house  he  decorated,  the  famous  "  Peacock  Room  "  be- 
ing the  cause  of  disagreement.  In  1895,  he  came 
off  victorious  in  the  suit  brought  against  him  by  Sir 
William  Eden :  that  is,  he  considered  it  a  victory  to  re- 
tain the  picture  he  painted  of  Sir  William's  wife, 
though  he  had  to  pay  back  the  baronet's  "  valentine  " 
of  one  hundred  guineas,  and  was  moreover  mulcted  in 
the  sum  of  one  thousand  francs  damages.  Sir  Will- 
iam, it  seems.  wranted  a  portrait  of  his  wrife  painted 
by  Whistler,  and  got  George  Moore,  the  English  writer, 
who  was  a  friend  of  Whistler,  to  intercede  so  that  he 
might  get  it  at  a  reduced  price.  Whistler  would  have 
charged  five  hundred  guineas,  he  declared,  but  in  view 
of  Mr.  Moore's  request,  he  said  he  would  paint  it  for 
one  hundred  or  one  hundred  and  fifty  guineas.  The 
portrait  was  painted,  and  Sir  William,  delighted,  and 
remembering  an  engagement  to  shoot  tigers  in  Africa, 
pressed  a  mysterious  envelope  into  the  painter's  hand, 
and  murmured,  the  day  being  February  14.  1895,  "  As 
a  valentine."  Whistler  opened  the  envelope  later,  and 
was  chagrined  to  find  it  contained  the  minimum  sum 
named — one  hundred  guineas.  He  accepted  the  sum 
as  a  valentine,  and  refused  to  deliver  the  picture.  Sir 
William  deferred  his  hunting-trip,  and  sued  for  the 
picture  and  damages.  The  painter  lost  the  suit,  but  re- 
fused to  deliver  the  picture;  and  the  justice  of  his  po- 
sition was  shown  in  this  trial,  for  Mr.  Whistler's  advo- 
cate, Maitre  Beurdelay,  proved  that  Sir  William  tried 
to  sell  it  to  Goupil,  not  as  a  portrait  of  his  wife,  but  as 
a  portrait  by  Whistler.  The  artist  had  to  return  the 
"  valentine,"  with  interest  to  date,  and  damages,  but  he 
retained  the  picture,  and  in  his  "  Baronet  and  the  But- 
terfly "  he  declares  that  he  had  more  than  one  thou- 
sand francs'  worth  of  fun  out  of  the  sporting  baronet. 

Another  of  his  quarrels  was  with  his  former  friend, 
Du  Maurier.  for  the  supposed  caricature  he  had  made 
of  Whistler  in  the  character  of  Joe  Sibley  in  "  Trilby." 
In  the  third  installment  of  his  story,  published  in  the 
March     number     of    Harper's    Magazine,     1893,     Du 


Maurier  had  introduced  a  life-like  caricature  of 
Whistler  under  the  name  of  Joe  Sibley.  Ih  the  text 
that  accompanied  the  sketch,  Du  Maurier  described 
Sibley  as  a  young  man  with  "beautiful  white  hair,  like 
an  Albino's,  as  soft  and  bright  as  floss  silk,"  arte!  as 
"  tall  and  slim  and  graceful,  and,  like  rriost  of  the  other 
personages  concerned  in  this  light  story,  very  nice  to 
look  at,  with  pretty  mariners  (and  an  unimpeachable 
moral  tone)."  Perhaps  there  was  some  sly  satire  in 
the  parenthetical  remark.  Perhaps  Whistler  objected 
to  the  further  description  of  "  Sibley  "  as  a  monotheist. 
He  had,  said  Du  Maurier.  "  but  one  god,"  whose  praises 
he  was  perpetually  singing.  And  who  was  that  god? 
"  Sibley  was  the  god  of  Joe's  worship,  and  none  other ! 
And  he  would  hear  of  no  other  genius  in  the  world !  " 
At  all  events.  James  Whistler  took  great  umbrage  at 
this  description  of  Joe  Sibley.  He  published  a  wrath- 
ful letter  in  the  Times  denouncing  his  old  friend  as  an 
ingrate  who  had  secretly  cherished  some  old  grudge  for 
thirty  years,  and  had  at  last  found  opportunity  for 
venting  it  under  the  guise  of  fiction.  He  brought  suit 
against  Du  Maurier  and  his  publishers.  The  matter 
was  finally  compromised  by  the  canceling  of  the  of- 
fending page  in  the  magazine,  and  the  promise  that 
neither  the  penciled  rtor  the  written  sketch  should  ap- 
pear in  the  book  when  published. 

Whistler  also  had  quite  a  tilt  with  Tom  Taylor,  the 
art  critic  of  the  London  Times,  who  had  made  strenu- 
ous objection  to  a  quotation  by  the  artist  from  his  ar- 
ticle on  Velasquez,  Taylor  declaring  that  the  quotation 
standing  alone  as  Whistler  used  it  gave  just  the  con- 
trarv  impression  to  that  which  it  conveyed  when  read 
with  the  context.  "  Why  squabble  ?"  wrote  Whistler 
in  reply.  "  You  did  print  what  I  quote,  you  know, 
Tom ;  and  it  is  surely  unimportant  what  more  you  have 
written  about  the  master.  That  you  should  have  writ- 
ten anything  at  all  is  your  crime.  Leave  vengeance  to 
the  Lord,  who  will  forgive  my  garbling  Tom  Taylor's 
writing." 

Frederick  Wedmore,  a  critic,  complained  as  Tavlor 
had  done,  that  Whistler  had  treated  him  unfairly  in  a 
quotation  from  his  writings.  Whistler  had  substituted, 
he  said,  "  understand  "  for  "  understate."  "  My  care- 
lessness is  culpable."  wrote  Whistler.  "  the  misprint  is 
without  excuse.  I  have  all  along  known  that  with  Mr. 
Wedmore,  as  with  his  brethren,  it  is  always  a  matter 
of  understating  and  not  at  all  of  understanding."  When 
Taylor  died,  Whistler  remarked  to  a  friend:  "I  have 
hardly  a  warm  personal  enemy  left." 

The  artist  also  squelched  Mr.  Hamerton  when  he 
criticised  his  "  Symphony  in  White  "  for  having  other 
colors  in  it :  "  Bon  Dieu ! "  he  retorted,  "  did  this  wise 
person  expect  white  hair  and  chalked  faces  ?  And  does 
he,  then,  in  his  astounding  consequence,  believe  that  a 
symphony  in  F  contains  no  other  note,  but  shall  be  a  re- 
petition of  F,  F,  F?" 

He  had  a  rather  amusing  experience,  too,  in  the 
spring  of  1897,  when  Mr.  Pennell  brought  suit  against 
the  Saturday  Review  for  a  statement  made  in  its  col- 
umns by  Walter  Sickert,  an  artist,  and  Whistler  tes- 
tified for  the  plaintiff.  When  he  was  being  cross-ex- 
amined he  was  asked  if  Mr.  Sickert's  allusion  to  him 
in  the  obnoxious  article  had  made  him  angry,  and  re- 
plied :  "  Not  in  the  smallest  degree ;  if  any  one  could 
be  vexed  at  all  it  is  that  distinguished  people  like  our- 
selves should  be  brought  here  by  a  gentleman  w'hose 
authority  has  never  before  been  recognized."  This 
was  quaint,  considering  that  Mr.  Pennell,  his  friend, 
had  brought  the  suit;  but  Whistler  was  in  fine  feather 
and  gave  no  thought  to  the  slip.  Counsel  quoted  Sickert 
as  writing.  "  Mr.  Whistler's  almost  nothings  are  price- 
less." and  asked  the  witness,  "  You  don't  dissent  upon 
that?"  Whistler  smiled,  and  replied:  "  It  is  very  simple 
and  very  proper  that  Mr.  Sickert  should  say  that  sort 
of  thing,  but  I  attach  no  importance  to  it."  The  by- 
standers were  delighted,  of  course,  but  the  laugh  was 
turned  against  Whistler  himself  in  the  next  moment. 
Addressing  the  judge,  he  said,  "  May  I  be  permitted  to 
explain,  my  lord,  to  these  gentlemen  [the  jury]  why  we 
are  all  here  ?"  "  Certainly  not,"  answered  Justice 
Matthew,  "we  do  not  want  to  hear  about  that:  we  are 
all  here  because  we  can  not  help  it,"  and  the  world 
was  deprived  of  what  would  doubtless  have  been  a 
speech  worth  hearing. 

Only  a  few  months  before  he  died,  he  was  showing 
his  Scotch  artist-neighbor,  E.  A.  Walton,  over  his 
bronze-domed  house  in  Cheyne  Walk,  Chelsea. 
"  Beautiful,"  said  Waiton.  "  But  rather  Bunthorney," 
said  Whistler,  "  and  it  has  involved  me  in  another 
lawsuit.  Builders  are  working  on  the  adjoining  plot, 
and  the  noise  of  the  hammers,  etc.,  prevents  me  from 
working.  I  am  an  old  man.  and  have  no  time  to  lose, 
so  I  wrote  a  protest  to  the  landlord.  He  laid  the 
blame  on  the  woman  who  was  building  the  house. 
I  wrote  to  the  lady,  and  she  blamed  the  landlord.  I 
am  now  taking  proceedings  against  the  landlord.  You 
see,  art  is  my  pastime,  and  litigation  my  serious  pur- 
suit. It  works  for  good.  It  pays  my  lawyers,  it  ad- 
vertises my  landlord,  and  it  amuses  me." 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


A  check  for  one  hundred  dollars  has  been  received 
from  President  Roosevelt  for  Theodore  Roosevelt  Sig- 
net, the  boy  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Signet, 
of  McKeesport,  Pa.,  some  weeks  ago,  and  which  is  the 
twentieth  child  born  to  Mrs.  Signet.  The  money  has 
been  placed  in  a  bank  to  the  credit  of  the  baby,  the  in- 
terest to  accumulate  until  he  is  twenty-one  years  of 
age. 


Russell  Sage,  still  the  largest  loaner  in  Wall  Street, 
and  said  to  have  more  ready  money  than  any  other 
individual  in  the  street,  celebrated  his  eighty-seventh 
birthday  in  Xew  York  last  week. 

Mrs.  Emily  Crawford.  Paris  correspondent  of  the 
London  News,  will  shortly,  it  is  reported,  retire  from 
her  post.  For  over  thirty  years  has  Mrs.  Crawford — 
in  conjunction  with  her  husband  and  then  with  her  son 
— been  actively  employed  in  that  capacity. 

Ellis  Lando,  the  first  Hawaiian  naval  cadet  to  enter 
Uncle  Sam's  service  at  Annapolis,  was  born  in  San 
Francisco  in  1885  and  is.  therefore,  eighteen  years  of 
age.  Later  he  resided  in  Oregon  and  attended  the 
Portland  grammar  school,  going  with  his  parents  to 
Honolulu  in  1898. 

The  salary  of  William  E.  Corey,  president  of  the 
United  States  Steel  Corporation,  who  has  been  elected 
to  succeed  Charles  M.  Schwab,  has  been  fixed  at  $75,- 
000  a  year.  This  is  $25,000  less  than  the  salary  which 
Mr.  Schwab  received,  out  it  will  be  made  up  by  the 
handsome  dividend  which  Mr.  Corey  is  to  receive  under 
the  profit-sharing  plan  which  the  company  has  ar- 
ranged. 

Leon  Daudet,  the  author,  and  Mile.  Marthe  Allard 
were  married  in  Paris  last  week,  after  a  most  romantic 
courtship.  Mile.  Allard  loved  her  cousin  for  ten  years, 
but  Jeanne  Hugo  forestalled  her  as  wife,  and  was  then 
divorced.  Later,  Daudet  returned  to  his  first  love,  and 
now  he  has  just  married  her.  His  witnesses  were 
Colonel  Marchand,  of  Fashoda  fame,  Edouard  Dru- 
mont,  Ernest  Daudet,  and  Jean  Perdoux. 

Captain  Robert  Wringe,  sailing-master  of  Sham- 
rock III,  and  Captain  Charles  Bevis.  skipper  of  Sham- 
rock I,  had  a  rather  unpleasant  experience  when  a  pier 
on  the  Shrewsbury  River  at  Highlands.  N.  J.,  collapsed 
last  week.  The  English  master  mariners  were  thrown 
into  the  water,  with  twenty  others,  including  several 
of  the  crew  of  the  challenger.  Captain  Wringe  espe- 
cially was  in  great  danger  of  being  drowned.  When  he 
came  to  the  surface,  two  men.  George  Rockwell  and 
John  Parker,  who  were  unable  to  swim,  held  fast  to 
him.  and  he  had  to  struggle  bravely  to  keep  afloat  until 
a  flotilla  of  boats  came  and  rescued  all  three. 

Winston  Churchill,  by  his  recent  speech  on  the  Sugar 
Convention  bill,  has  considerably  enhanced  his  already 
brilliant  reputation  as  an  orator.  The  junior  member 
for  Oldham  attacked  Joseph  Chamberlain  with  a  dash 
and  daring  worthy  of  his  father,  declaring  that  the 
colonial  office  had  far  too  much  to  say  on  the  policy 
of  the  country,  and  that  it  would  be  better  for  the 
country  if  the  prime  minister  had  not  fallen  under  the 
influence  of  the  head  of  one  particular  department. 
Lord  Randolph  built  his  parliamentary  reputation  on 
his  systematic  effort  to  break  down  the  Gladstone  tra- 
dition. Winston  has  set  himself  a  similar  task  in  re- 
spect to  the  colonial  secretary.  He  has  constituted  him- 
self a  relentless  critic  of  Mr.  Chamberlain's  policy,  and. 
though  he  is  not  alone  in  this  amiable  diversion,  he  is 
by  far  the  most  daring  of  all  who  have  joined  in  the 
somewhat  perilous  enterprise. 

It  is  stated  on  good  authority  that  last  January,  when 
Yi  Hongs,  Emperor  of  Corea,  celebrated  the  fortieth 
anniversary  of  his  coming  to  the  throne.  Miss  Emily 
Brown,  who  has  long  been  the  light  of  his  harem,  was 
crowned  Empress  of  Corea,  and  her  son  declared  heir- 
apparent  to  the  throne.  Up  to  the  time  of  her  corona- 
tion, Miss  Brown  was  known  as  Lady  Emily.  Xow  she 
is  the  Empress  Om.  which  in  English  means  "dawn  of 
the  morning."  Miss  Brown  was  born  in  Appleton.  Wis., 
about  i860,  her  father  being  the  Rev.  Herbert  Brown, 
the  first  Protestant  missionary  to  settle  in  the  capital 
city  of  Seoul.  Emily  acted  as  an  interpreter  in  church 
dealings  with  the  government,  and  when  her  beauty  was 
reported  to  the  emperor,  he  commanded  her  to  enter  his 
harem,  which  she  indignantly  refused  to  do.  About  two 
years  later  she  concluded  to  accept  the  emperor's  pro- 
tection, and  went  to  live  in  the  palace  after  securing 
from  the  emperor  a  solemn  promise  of  marriage  when 
affairs  of  state  would  permit.  This  promise  was  kept 
soon  after  she  bore  the  emperor  a  son. 

Mrs.  Jane  Burke,  better  known  as  "  Calamity  Jane." 
who  was  a  government  mail-carrier  and  scout  in  the 
days  when  the  West  was  really  wild,  died  at  Deadwood, 
S.  D.,  a  fortnight  ago.  It  was  in  1870  that  her  first 
work  for  the  government  was  done.  General  Custer 
was  at  Fort  Russell,  W'yo.,  on  his  way  to  fight  the 
Apaches  in  Arizona.  She  went  to  the  fort,  donned 
cowboy  clothing,  and  offered  her  services  as  a  scout. 
General  Custer  accepted  her,  believing  her  to  be  a  man. 
and  she  was  uniformed  and  enlisted  as  a  soldier.  The 
deception  was  soon  found  out.  but  not  before  Jane  had 
convinced  Custer  of  the  value  of  her  knowledge  of  the 
plains,  and  he  allowed  her  to  keep  up  her  work.  She 
went  through  many  fights  and  shared  all  the  hardships 
of  the  soldiers.  In  the  campaign  made  by  Custer  and 
Miles  in  1872.  her  services  were  again  accepted,  and  in 
i876.when  Custer  started  on  his  march  to  the  Big  Horn, 
she  was  employed  to  carry  dispatches.  For  several 
years  she  was  a  government  mail-carrier  between  Dead- 
wood  and  Custer,  Mont.,  one  of  the  worst  routes  in  the 
West.  In  1878.  after  a  short  service  with  the  Seventh 
Cavalry,  she  bought  a  ranch  and  retired.  She  at'  ■ 
ward  married  and  had  one  daughter. 


102 


THE       ARGONAUT 


August  17,  1903. 


ROME'S    NEW    PONTIFF. 


Cardinal  Sarto's  Election  to  the  Throne  of  St.  Peter. 


When  the  conclave,  on  August  4th,  after  being  in 
session  in  the  Sistine  Chapel  at  the  Vatican.  Rome,  for 
four  days,  elected  Giuseppe  Sarto.  Patriarch  of  Venice, 
as  Pope  to  succeed  Leo  the  Thirteenth,  it  was  said  that 
the  new  head  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  although 
sixty-eight  years  old,  was  in  vigorous  health,  and  would 
probably  be  spared  to  lead  the  church  for  many  years. 
Throughout  the  trying  ceremonies  attendant  on  the 
death  and  burial  of  Pope  Leo  and  his  election,  the 
venerable  cardinal  showed  little  signs  of  fatigue.  But 
the  ordeal  of  his  coronation  last  Sunday  left  him  thor- 
oughly exhausted.  Then,  instead  of  resting,  as  did  Leo 
after  he  was  crowned,  he  insisted  on  conceding  audi- 
ences to  all  comers,  and  as  a  result  of  this  overtaxation 
of  his  physical  strength,  he  fainted  at  mass  on  Tuesday 
just  after  he  had  given  communion  to  two  hundred 
Venetians,  who  had  gone  to  Rome  to  witness  his  coro- 
nation ceremonies.  Dr.  Lapponi  has  ordered  perfect 
quiet  for  the  Pope,  and  all  audiences  have  been  post- 
poned. 

As  showing  how  little  Cardinal  Sarto  expected  to  be- 
come Pope  when  he  left  Venice,  a  fortnight  ago,  it  is 
related  that  when  one  of  his  friends  bade  him  farewell 
and  expressed  the  wish  that  he  would  be  made  Pope. 
Sarto  replied,  smilingly:  "Oh,  no.  I'll  come  back.  I 
have  purchased  a  return  ticket."  When  the  first  ballot 
of  the  conclave  was  taken  it  showed  that  the  Sacred 
College  was  divided  into  two  groups,  the  stronger  one 
for  Rampolla.  and  another,  not  quite  so  strong,  for 
Serafino  Vannutelli.  The  other  votes  were  scattered, 
but  included  four  for  Sarto : 

On  the  subsequent  ballots,  while  the  two  principal  factions 
were  losing  ground.  Sarto  gradually  gained,  drawing  strength 
from  both  sides  as  well  as  from  the  neutrals,  until  the  ballot 
Monday  afternoon,  when  his  vote  had  increased  to  37.  within 
six  of  the  necessary  two-thirds.  When  the  result  of  this 
ballot  was  announced  in  the  conclave.  Cardinal  Sarto  was  so 
overcome  with  emotion  and  so  touched  by  the  unlooked-for 
confidence  reposed  in  him  that  he  could  no  longer  control  his 
feelings,  and.  to  the  surprise  of  all,  he  broke  down,  declaring 
that  such  responsibility  and  honor  were  not  for  him.  and  that 
he  must  refuse  if  offered.  Tears  rolled  down  his  cheeks,  and 
he  seemed  firm  in  his  determination  to  refuse  the  dignity.  He 
was  so  palpably  sincere  that  consternation  reigned  in  the  con- 
clave, and  the  cardinals  spent  the  whole  evening  and  far  into 
the  night  in  convincing  him  that  his  election  was  the  will  of 
providence,  and  that  he  must  accept.  Several  times  he  almost 
fainted,  and  had  to  be  revived  by  the  use  of  salts.  He  seemed 
happy,  but  broken  down  even  after  all  the  other  candidates 
had  retired,  and  on  the  final  ballot  he  looked  a  status 
of  resignation.  Cardinal  Casetta.  as  scrutineer,  was  reading 
out  the  vote.  When  42  votes  had  been  recorded  for  the 
Patriarch  of  Venice,  the  scrutineer  lifted  his  red  seucchetto, 
saying :  "  Habemus  pontificem."  But  from  many  sides  cardinals 
cried  out  "  Continue !"  As  the  vote  approached  50.  however, 
the  cardinals,  as  of  one  accord,  surrounded  the  new  Pontiff, 
and,  according  to  tradition,  demanded  to  know  if  he  would 
accept  the  Pontificate.  Cardinal  Sarto's  lips  trembled  so  that 
he  could  hardly  articulate,  but  after  a  visible  effort,  he  said  : 

"  Tf  this   cup   can   not  pass   from   me "     There  he  paused. 

but  the  cardinals  around  him  insisted  that  it  was  necessary 
for  him  to  answer  "  yes  "  or  "  no."  Thereupon  he  replied 
firmly  "  T  accept."  The  camerlengo  then  asked  the  formal 
question:  "What  title  will  you  adopt?"  The  new  Pope  re- 
plied :  "  Pius  the  Tenth."  Instantly  the  cardinals  lowered  the 
canopies  above  their  respective  seats,  and  the  Pope  retired  to 
assume  the  pontifical  robes  of  white. 

The  conclave  which  elected  Cardinal  Sarto  was  the 
largest  ever  assembled  in  the  history  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church.  There  were  sixty-two  representatives 
of  the  Sacred  College  present,  the  onlv  two  remaining 
members  being  Cardinal  Celesia.  Archbishop  of  Pa- 
lermo, who  could  not  leave  Sicily  because  of  ill-health, 
and  Cardinal  Moran.  Archbishop  of  Sydney,  N.  S.  W.. 
who  was  unable  to  reach  Rome  in  time  for  the  con- 
clave. The  quarters  which  the  cardinals  occupied  dur- 
ing the  election  were  by  no  means  so  primitive  as  in 
ancient  times.  Each  cardinal  had  a  comfortable,  plainly 
furnished  bedroom  and  sitting-room.  Forty-two  of  the 
cardinals  elected  to  eat  their  meal  alone  in  their  private 
apartments.  The  remaining  twenty  decided  to  dine  at 
the  same  table.  One  of  the  daily  sights  at  the  Vatican 
was  the  arrival  of  the  nun  whom  Cardinal  Vaszary, 
the  Prince-Archbishop  and  Primate  of  Hungary. 
brought  with  him  from  Hungary  to  act  as  his  cook. 
Cardinal  Vaszary  is  the  wealthiest  of  the  cardinals,  and 
is  reputed  to  have  an  income  of  four  hundred  thousand 
dollars  annually.  He  desired  to  have  his  cook  enter 
the  conclave,  but,  the  presence  of  women  being  for- 
bidden, he  arranged  to  have  her  cook  his  dinner  outside 
and  bring  it  daily  to  the  Sistine  Chapel. 

The  ceremony  of  closing  up  the  door  and  sealing  up 
the  conclave  was  quite  literally  carried  out.  Genuine 
walls  of  masonry  had  been  constructed  across  all  the 
doors  and  passages,  all  telephones  were  taken  out,  and 
all  telegraph  wires  were  cut,  so  that  there  was  abso- 
lutely no  way  by  which  the  cardinals  could  communi- 
cate with  the  outside  world.  Soon  after  the  conclave 
dissolved,  one  of  the  cardinals  said  to  an  Associated 
Press  representative : 

"  Wc  really  were  very,  very  well  treated,  and  I  feel  better 
than  when  I  went  into  the  conclave.  The  perfect  rest  was 
really  a  treat.  We  had  good  food,  and  the  arrangements  for 
looking  after  so  many  people  could  not  have  been  better.  After 
mass  every  morning  we  entered  the  Sistine  Chapel  and  trans- 
acted our  business.  I  can  quite  understand  that  those  outside 
grew  impatient,  but  I  scarcely  think  wc  could  have  been  ex- 
pected to  decide  so  weighty  a  matter  by  such  a  lengthy  method 
of  prrcedure  within  a  shorter  time.  No  doubt  the  appearance 
of  the  smoke  was  irritating  to  those  who  looked  for  a  speedy 
conclusion,  although  personally  I  am  surprised  to  know  that 
tltt,  «  noke  was  seen  at  all.  Looking  into  the  little  stove  in  the 
Sis;  ie  Chapel,  and  see'ug  the  diminutive  heap  which  the 
'  *s  made,  one  could  earcely  think  that  they  would  form. 
burned,  a  cloud  as  big  as  a  man's  hand.  After  each 
-ession   wc  had  dinner.   ■  During  the  afternoon   most 


of  us  killed  t;me  by  reading  in  our  rooms.  Through  a  chink 
in  the  boards  which  were  placed  over  the  window  in  my  cell, 
I  could  see  the  crowd  in  the  piazza  of  St.  Peter's.  They  in- 
deed formed  a  wonderful  sight.  To  reach  my  room  I  had  to 
climb  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  steps  ;  you  see  I  had  plenty 
of  time  to  count  them.  This  was  not  a  penance,  as  there  was 
an  elevator,  to  which,  however.  I  have  a  deep-rooted  objec- 
tion.    Besides.  I  am  quite  sure  the  exercise  did  me  good." 

The  coat  of  arms  of  the  new  Pope  is  one  of  the 
simplest  among  the  Princes  of  the  Church.  It  was 
given  to  him  by  Leo  the  Thirteenth,  and  will  be  used 
by  him  as  his  Pontifical  crest.  Upon  a  silver  shield  is 
shown  a  troubled  sea  in  the  background,  while  in  the 
foreground,  where  the  water  is  calm,  rests  upon  the 
surface  a  silver  anchor.  This  signifies  the  hope  be- 
stowed by  the  Bishop  of  Mantua  upon  the  poor  of  his 
province.  Because  of  his  great  devotion  to  the  Virgin 
Mother,  who  has  been  called  the  Star  of  the  Sea,  a 
silver  star  adorns  the  sky  of  the  shield.  Around  the 
field  are  the  triple  cords  of  a  bishop  marked  in  crimson 
instead  of  green,  the  customary  color.  The  introduc- 
tion of  the  crimson  shows  the  rank  of  the  Patriarch. 
It  has  been  said  that  the  prediction  of  St.  Malachy  has 
been  fulfilled  in  the  election  of  Cardinal  Sarto,  the 
ignis  ardens  being  traced  in  the  star  upon  his  crest. 
This  superstition  is  carried  out  in  the  fact  that  the 
election  occurred  on  the  feast  of  St.  Dominic,  who  has 
always  been  one  of  the  favored  patron  saints  of  the 
new  Pope.  On  the  crest  of  St.  Dominic  also  the  ignis 
ardens  is  introduced. 


MUNSEY    IN    NEWSPAPER    ROW. 

The  Successful  Magazine  Proprietor's  Failure  to  Make  the  New  York 

"Daily    News"   a   Paying   Venture  —  His   Dispute   with 

Colonel  Brown  About  Running  the  Paper. 

The  surprise  of  Newspaper  Row  this  week  was  the 
announcement  that  the  New  York  Dailv  Nezvs  and  all 
its  good  will  and  plant  are  to  be  sold  by  auction  on  Aug- 
ust 21st.  Colonel  William  L.  Brown,  who  owns  140 
shares  out  of  a  total  of  300,  is  very  much  opposed  to  the 
sale,  and  is  expected,  when  the  proper  time  arrives,  to 
interfere  with  a  court  process.  It  seems  that  at  the 
first  of  the  year,  when  the  Nezvs  was  turned  from  an 
evening  into  a  morning  paper,  Frank  A.  Munsey,  the 
principal  stockholder,  offered  to  buy  up  Brown's  shares, 
or  sell  his  own,  but  the  colonel  said  he  had  no  desire  to 
sell,  and  he  was  in  no  position  to  buy.  After  further 
disputes,  Mr.  Munsey,  it  is  said,  informed  Colonel 
Brown  that  the  paper  was  being  run  at  a  loss,  and  that 
it  was  his  duty  as  a  minority  shareholder  to  pay  his 
proportion  of  the  losses.  Colonel  Brown's  response 
to  this  was  that  the  paper  had  been  turned  from  a 
paying  property  into  a  losing  venture,  and  that  he 
would  pay  no  assessment  until  the  policy  of  the  paper 
was  turned  back  to  that  which  was  being  pursued 
when  the  News  was  under  the  editorial  control  of  him- 
self. Since  Mr.  Munsey  had  no  intention  of  doing  this, 
a  meeting  of  the  stockholders  was  called,  at  which  Mr. 
Brown  was  not  present,  when  it  was  decided  that  it 
would  be  better  for  all  persons  concerned  if  the  paper 
was  sold. 

When  Mr.  Munsey  took  charge  of  the  Daily  News, 
nearly  two  years  ago,  Mrs.  Benjamin  Wood  and  her 
associates  had  well-nigh  ruined  one  of  the  finest  news- 
paper properties  in  the  city  of  New  York.  But  his  re- 
markable success  with  his  magazine,  and  his  former  ex- 
perience as  managing  editor  of  the  Press,  in  1889. 
led  many  people  to  believe  that  Mr.  Munsey  might  be 
able  to  build  up  the  Daily  Snooze,  as  it  had  come  to  be 
called  because  of  its  sleepy  appearance,  and  make  it 
once  again  the  power  it  was  under  George  Bar- 
tholomew. 

Mr.  Munsey  started  out  all  right.  He  changed  the 
personnel  of  the  News  staff  entirely,  .and  announced 
that  he  was  prepared  to  spend  $1,500  a  week  in 
the  editorial  department,  whereas  under  the  old  man- 
agement the  salary  list  of  the  nine  persons  employed 
amounted  to  only  a  little  over  $100  a  week,  the  highest 
receiving  $25  a  week,  and  the  lowest  $3.  Samuel  Will- 
iams was  made  managing  editor,  and  his  advent  was 
hailed  with  approval  by  disinterested  critics  on  News- 
paper Row.  He  came  to  New  York  from  a  city  desk 
in  Cleveland,  in  1893,  and  took  part  in  the  political 
campaigns  on  the  World  staff  in  '94,  '95,  and  '96.  He 
was  with  Joseph  Pulitzer  for  a  year  as  private  secre- 
tary, then  went  to  Washington,  and  later  to  London  for 
upward  of  two  years  for  the  Journal,  and  for  some 
months  represented  Munsey's  magazine  interests 
abroad. 

Another  good  move  on  Munsey's  part  was  his  selec- 
tion of  Hartley  Courtland  Davis  as  Sunday  editor  of 
the  News.  He  is  a  fluent,  graceful  writer,  with  execu- 
tive ability  of  more  than  ordinary  degree.  William 
Garde  was  appointed  his  assistant.  Other  well-known 
men  who  were  added  to  the  staff  were  William 
Dinwiddie,  who  took  up  the  post  of  Washington  corre- 
spondent, and  Albert  M.  Downes,  who.  for  four  vears, 
had  been  acting  as  private  secretary  to  ex-Mayor  Van 
Wyck.  And  to  ensure  an  increase  in  circulation.  Mr. 
Munsey  secured  the  services  of  Ralph  Pillsburv  as 
business  manager  of  the  News.  Mr.  Pillsbury  is'  the 
man  who  did  much  toward  making  the  sales  of  the 
Evening  World  what  they  now  are.  He  was  formerly 
a  reporter  on  that  paper,  and  his  tact  and  ability  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  Mr.  Pulitzer,  who  sent  him  to 
the  circulation  department  to  report  on  improvements. 
His  work  was  so  satisfactory  that  he  was  made  circu- 
lation manager. 


It  was  expected  that  Mr.  Munsey  would  attempt  to 
build  up  the  News  on  the  lines  laid  down  by  Mr.  Bar- 
tholomew, for,  when  it  was  in  its  prime,  this  journal 
enjoyed  a  vast  circulation  peculiar  to  itself.  It  devoted 
itself  exclusively  to  the  interests  of  the  people  who  lived 
on  the  East  Side.  Everything  that  concerned  them 
and  their  doings,  social  and  otherwise,  was  carefully 
and  fully  reported.  The  Irish  societies  and  organiza- 
tions were  exploited  at  more  or  less  length  in  every 
issue,  and  a  specialty  was  made  of  the  fire  and  police 
department  news  of  a  personal  character.  The  affairs 
of  fashionable  life  received  but  little  attention.  The 
doings  of  Fifth  Avenue  were  considered  of  small 
moment,  while  a  social  gathering  of  a  club  on  Second 
Avenue  always  commanded  ample  space.  In  this  way 
the  Daily  Nezvs  was  built  up  as  one  of  the  most  pros- 
perous papers  printed  in  New  York  City. 

All  this  was  changed  under  Munsey's  regime.  The 
special  departments  which  made  the  old  News  were 
virtually  dropped,  and  instead  of  catering  to  the  peo- 
ple of  the  East  Side,  he  tried  to  reach  the  better 
element  on  the  West  Side  by  eliminating  all  sensa- 
tional features.  This  was  a  mistake,  and  when  he 
found  out  that  Fifth  Avenue  had  no  use  for  the  News, 
Munsey  tried  to  switch  back.  It  was  rather  late,  how- 
ever. 

Then  he  again  disappointed  his  subscribers  last  Janu- 
ary by  making  the  still  graver  mistake  of  invading  the 
field  of  morning  journalism  with  all  the  increased  ex- 
penses necessary  to  such  a  step.  He  gave  several  reasons 
for  the  change,  the  principal  one  being  that  there  were 
already  too  many  evening  papers — thirty-six  in  New 
York  and  her  suburbs,  within  a  radius  of  about  twentv 
miles  from  the  City  Hall,  against  only  eight  morning 
papers.  He  also  declared  that,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
there  is  no  common  carrier  for  the  evening  papers — 
no  news  company  that  handles  them — the  cost  of  cir- 
culation for  each  paper  was  infinitely  greater,  and  the 
number  of  unsold  copies  returned  unusually  large. 
Mr.  Munsey  also  frankly  admitted  that  the  "  five-o'clock 
edition  "  of  the  Nezvs  was  little  more  than  a  rehash  of 
the  morning  newspapers.  This,  he  explained,  was  due 
to  the  fact  that  the  edition  went  to  press  at  twelve 
o'clock.  And  as  it  was  this  miserable  old  "  rehash 
edition  "  that  went  chiefly  into  the  homes  of  the  su- 
burban cities  he  claimed  the  News  had  no  chance  to 
make  any  headway  because  the  merits  of  the  paper 
were  misjudged. 

Another  important  factor,  he  argued,  was  the  fact 
that  an  evening  paper  is  only  a  five-day  paper  so  far 
as  the  great  shopping  advertising  goes.  No  merchant 
in  New  York  cares  to  advertise  in  a  Saturday  night 
paper.  He  goes  into  the  Sunday  paper  instead.  The 
morning  paper — exclusive  of  its  Sunday  issue — is  a 
six-day  paper,  so  far  as  concerns  advertising.  Satur- 
day, which  is  an  off  day  with  the  evening  paper,  is 
one  of  the  best  days  of  the  week  with  the  morning 
paper. 

Mr.  Munsey,  too,  has  exalted  ideas  of  newspaper 
work,  which  he  has  tried  to  introduce  in  his  other  news- 
paper ventures — the  Washington  Times  and  Boston 
Journal.  He  has  no  taste  for  "  hysterical  afternoon 
journalism."  and,  as  he  believed  there  were  enough 
people  in  New  York  to  support  a  morning  paper  that 
avoided  sensational  features  and  headlines,  he  in- 
creased the  number  of  pages  of  the  Nezvs  to  twelve, 
and  attempted  to  make  his  paper  an  exponent  of 
"straightforward,  clean,  attractive  journalism." 

But  New  Yorkers  failed  to  appreciate  his  efforts, 
and  the  paper  lost  money  steadily.  Colonel  Brown, 
too,  objected  to  the  conduct  of  the  paper,  and,  as  he 
refused  to  pay  the  necessary  assessments  to  cover  the 
losses,  it  is  said  Mr.  Munsey  finally  decided  to  sell  the 
paper  at  auction.  Newspaper  men  are  interested  in  the 
outcome,  and  while  they  are  certain  that  Colonel 
Brown  will  not  give  up  his  interests  without  a  struggle, 
they  are  inclined  to  believe  that  the  sale  will  take 
place ;  that  Munsey  will  become  sole  owner — that  is, 
unless  Colonel  Brown  or  some  one  else  outbids  him; 
and  that  the  Nezvs  will  be  put  on  a  paying  basis  as  soon 
as  the  warring  within  the  management  ceases. 

New  York,  August  7,   1903.  Flaneur. 


Jean  Richepin.  the  celebrated  writer  and  poet,  who 
accused  David  Belasco  of  founding  his  play.  "  Du 
Barry,"  on  one  which  he  submitted  to  the  dramatist  for 
Mrs.  Leslie  Carter's  use,  will  visit  America  in  October  to 
give  a  series  of  lectures  and  superintend  the  rehearsals 
of  one  of  his  plays.  He  will  visit  New  York,  Washing- 
ton, Chicago,  San  Francisco,  and  St.  Louis.  Richepin 
will  be  accompanied  by  his  wife,  famous  for  her  grace 
and  beauty,  and  by  his  two  children. 


Dr.  M.  N.  Gallagher,  of  Washington,  is  visiting  San 
Diego  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  the  Bertillon 
system  of  measurement  that  is  to  be  employed  there 
in  the  execution  of  the  Chinese  exclusion  act.  The 
first  case  was  that  of  a  Chinese  laborer,  who  is  about 
to  visit  China  on  a  return  certificate.  His  measure- 
ments were  carefully  taken.  This  is  the  first  applica- 
tion of  the  system  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  It  will  be 
introduced  in  other  cities. 


An  English  journal  declares  that  America  has  the 
cleverest  dentists  because  she  has  the  best  flour-mill 
makers.  "  The  better  the  mill  is,  the  finer  the  flour;  the 
poorer  the  bread,  the  worse  the  teeth,  and  the  better 
the  dentists." 


August  17,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


103 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Mormons  in  Fiction. 

In  his  new  novel,  "  The  Lions  of  the  Lord," 
Harry  Leon  Wilson,  author  of  "  The 
Spenders,"  has  made  a  most  radical  departure 
from  the  general  style  and  purport  of  his 
earlier  work.  "  The  Lions  of  the  Lord " 
is  virtually  an  historical  novel,  with  Mormon- 
ism  for  its  theme.  The  action  of  the  story, 
if  one  may  so  term  that  which  is  largely  truth. 
begins  with  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  from 
Nauvoo ;  deals  with  the  rise,  spread,  and 
enrichment  of  the  new  sect  of  Latter-Day 
Saints,  and,  after  covering  a  period  of  some 
twenty-five  years,  closes  with  the  coming  of 
Gentile  settlers  into  Mormon  territory,  giving 
intimations  of  the  first  mutterings  against  the 
unbridled  ascendancy  of  Brigham  Young  over 
his   followers. 

Mr.  Wilson,  for  the  purpose,  perhaps,  of 
better  unfolding  his  theme,  has  hit  upon  a 
device  which,  while  possessing  some  ingenuity. 
is  not  a  particularly  happy  one.  For  fully 
half  the  book,  he  causes  his  readers  to  view 
the  Mormon  religion  through  the  mind  of 
one  of  its  most  fanatic  followers.  This  is 
Joel  Rae,  the  hero,  a  personage  possessing  no 
heroic  attributes  whatever,  since,  although 
he  is  termed  "  soul-proud."  he  is  constitu- 
tionally cut  out  to  be  a  follower  instead  of  a 
leader,  implicitly  obeying  the  decrees  of  his 
rascally  superiors  in  the  church,  and  rever- 
encing their  authority.  Truth  to  tell,  the  first 
half  of  Mr.  Wilson's  book,  with  its  super- 
abundance of  religious  and  Biblical  diction,  be- 
comes somewhat  tedious  under  these  circum- 
stances, and  the  reader's  interest  is  not  fully 
enchained  until  the  author  begins  to  look 
at  the  question  from  a  more  open  and  un- 
obscured   point   of  view. 

Mr.  Wilson  has  evidently  consulted  authori- 
ties for  the  leading  facts  of  his  narrative, 
drawing,  we  suspect,  for  much  of  his  informa- 
tion upon  "  The  Story  of  the  Mormons,"  a 
secular  history  of  that  strangely  credulous 
people  by  William  Alexander  Linn,  who  was 
formerly  editor  of  the  New  York  Evening 
Post. 

The  latter  half  of  "  The  Lions  of  the  Lord  " 
is  very  much  brightened  up  by  the  advent  of 
a  cowboy  wooer,  whose  vernacular  is  full  of 
the  colloquial  Westernisms  with  which  the 
author's  own  experience  has  made  him  fa- 
miliar. Added  to  this,  a  much  greater  element 
of  humor  is  perceptible  in  his  dealings  with  the 
comedy  side  of  the  Mormon  religion.  The 
greatest  defect  in  the  book,  since  it  aims  to  be 
a  truthful  recital  of  the  spread  of  Mormon- 
ism,  arises  from  the  use  of  the  device  already 
mentioned,  of  viewing  the  earlier  phases  of  the 
subject  through  a  Mormon  mind.  Thus,  the 
reader  unconscious^'  gains  the  idea  that  finer 
qualities,  better  leadership,  wiser  judgment, 
greater  fortitude,  and  some  sense  of  integrity 
and  morality  existed  among  those  who  headed 
the  pioneer  band  of  Mormons  to  the  Salt 
Lake  settlement. 

A  truer  and  more  comprehensive  knowledge 
gained  from  Mr.  Linn's  history,  already  men- 
tioned, and  which  draws  its  information  al- 
most exclusively  from  Mormon  documents 
and  publications,  and  from  the  national  rec- 
ords, shows  the  earlier  actors  in  this  strange 
tragi- corned}-  to  have  been  men  of  un- 
scrupulous character,  whose  ascendancy  was 
first  gained  by  craft  and  duplicity,  who  built 
their  power  upon  the  ignorance  and  credulity 
of  their  followers,  and  who,  discovering  it 
to  be  almost  absolute,  used  their  religion 
as  a  means  of  giving  unbridled  rein  to  their 
immorality,  their  duplicity,  and  their  general 
all-round  criminality.  All  this  of  necessity 
can  not  appear  in  Mr.  Wilson's  book,  but  this 
aspect  is  unduly  minimized  in  the  first  half 
of  his  narrative. 

In  conclusion,  it  may  be  said  that,  while 
from  the  nature  of  its  subject,  "  The  Lions 
of  the  Lord  "  will  attract  much  attention,  the 
author  has,  like  George  Eliot  in  "  Daniel 
Deronda,"  sacrificed  its  fictional  qualities  to 
the  weight  of  its  historical  element. 

The  book  has  six  full-page  illustrations  by 
Rose  Cecil  O'Neill,  wife  of  the  author. 

Published  by  the  Lothrop  Publishing  Com- 
pany, Boston;  price,  $1.50. 

"Ward  Politics  and  a  Girl. 
Like  the  Frenchman's  cocktail,  with  "  a 
little  lemon  to  make  it  sour  and  a  little  sugar 
to  make  it  sweet,"  "  The  Spoilsmen  "  pictures 
the  ins  and  outs  of  a  political  campaign  in 
Chicago  in  a  vivid,  touch-and-go  styT.e.  Mason, 
a  retail  hardware-dealer  of  the  eighth,  and 
Darnell,  of  the  twenty- fourth,  who  plays 
"  golluf "  and  "  pushes  wan  iv  thim  auty- 
mobils,"  are  nominated  for  aldermen  in  their 
respective  wards,  and  proceed  to  make  a  clean, 
honest  fight  for  election.     Mr.  Elliott  Flower, 


the  author,  seems  to  have  been  through  the 
political  mill  himself,  for  from  the  back-room 
confidences  over  the  bar  to  the  far-reaching 
combinations  of  the  "  Old  Man,"  he  is  on 
the  inside  of  "  the  devious  ways  of  politics." 
When  Billy  Ryan  demands,  with  fine  scorn. 
"  Do  you  think  we  are  running  primaries  on 
a  lottery  plan?  It's  the  game  of  politics,  the 
'  Old  Man  '  is  playing,  with  a  '  rake-off,'  of 
course."  we  get  the  side  we  expect  to  see  in  a 
hard  ward  during  a  hot  party  conflict,  and  are 
bound  to  admit  the  Bill}'  Ryan  type  is  an 
all  too-familiar  figure.  But  when  we  hear 
Mike  Duffy,  middle-weight  pugilist,  assure 
Darnell,  "  You're  all  right  with  your  quick- 
action  think-tank.  You  see  I'm  wise  to  a 
lot  that's  going  on.  I  don't  live  in  the  ward, 
but  I'm  next  to  some  that  do,  and  I  hate  to 
see  a  likely  lad  done  up  crooked.  That's  why 
I  cut  in  last  night,  and  that's  why  I'm  cutting 
in  now,"  we  admit  perforce  that,  despite 
Duffy's  calling  and  manners,  he  is  a  twentieth- 
century  ninth-ward  Bayard. 

Mason  and  Darnell  make  a  shoulder-to- 
shoulder  fight,  being  "  coupled  in  the  betting," 
as  the  ward-phrasing  has  it,  and  in  the  end 
win  out.  It  is  a  bit  discouraging,  neverthe- 
less, that  in  the  end  both  retire  from  politics, 
tacitly  admitting  that  a  clean  politician  is  an 
impossibility. 

The  "  little  sugar  to  make  it  sweet "  is  the 
woman  in  the  case.  Josephine  Hadley,  who 
is  the  power  behind  the  throne  of  Darnell's 
political  .ambitions,  is  a  girl  of  high  spirit, 
high  principles,  and  high  ideals,  very  sweet 
and  womanly  withal.  So  it  is  to  our 
great  satisfaction,  when  the  campaign  is  over 
and  the  identity  of  the  sender  of  the  red,  red 
rose  is  settled,  that  we  leave  them  in  the  con- 
servatory and  read :  "  She  was  leaning  trust- 
ingly against  his  shoulder  and  he — well,  there 
was  no  danger  of  her  falling." 

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she  felt  to  the  keenest  degree  the  obloquy 
and  bitterness  under  which  he  left  the  White 
House,  and  for  several  years  she  lived  very 
quietly,  seeing  only  intimate  friends.  She 
never  was  a  prominent  figure  in  general  so- 
ciety afterward,  although  her  latest  picture 
revealed  her  a  beautiful  woman  still,  in  spite 
of  the  years  of  sorrow,  the  loss  of  her  uncle, 
her  husband,  and  her  two  sons.  Her  hair, 
snowy  white,  was  abundant,  and  her  violet 
eyes  kept  much  of  their  brilliance.  She  was 
grande  dame  to  the  last,  one  of  the  notable 
American   women   of  her  century. 


Career  of  Harriet  Lane  Johnston. 

Harriet  Lane  Johnston,  who  recently  died  j 
in  Washington,  D.  C,  was  one  of  the  best- 
known  women  in  the  United  States  two  gen- 
erations ago.  when,  although  in  deep  mourn- 
ing for  her  brother  and  sister,  she  took  her 
place  as  mistress  of  the  White  House  during 
the  administration  of  her  uncle.  James 
Buchanan.  She  was  born  in  1833,  the  young- 
est child  of  Buchanan's  sister,  Mrs.  Elliot  T. 
Lane,  to  whom  he  was  warmly  attached.  It 
is  recorded  that  he  was  not  especially  fond 
of  children,  but  this  youngest  child  of  the 
Lanes.  Harriet  Rebecca,  as  she  was  christened, 
attracted  him  from  her  babyhood.  On  the 
death  of  her  parents,  she  chose  Buchanan 
as  her  guardian,  preferring  to  live  in  a 
bachelor's  establishment  rather  than  in  a 
comfortable   home   among  women    relatives. 

According-  to  the  New  York  Evening  Post, 
she  was  a  madcap  child,  and  was  a  sore  trial 
to  the  stately  and  dignified  man.  Her  mischief, 
her  noisy  ways,  her  audacious  mimicries  of 
his  friends,  called  forth  daily  rebukes  and 
admonitions.  Once,  Buchanan  put  her,  for 
a  whole  year,  in  the  household  of  two  maiden 
ladies,  famous  for  their  strict  sense  of  pro- 
priety and  their  parsimonious  habits  of  liv- 
ing. In  these  days,  exuberant  spirits  were 
thought  ill-becoming  a  nice  girl.  This  exuber- 
ance wore  off  to  a  degree  during  her  school 
days,  but  Miss  Lane  was  always  rather  livelier 
than  the  fashions  of  the  day  approved. 

She  was  a  blooming,  beautiful  girl  of  twenty 
when  Buchanan  was  sent  to  England  as  min- 
ister to  the  Court  of  St.  James,  and  her 
triumph  aboard  almost  equaled  that  of  her 
uncle.  He  was  the  only  American  minister 
up  to  that  time  who  was  greatly  esteemed, 
diplomatically  and  socially,  by  the  English. 
Mr.  Buchanan  was  afraid  his  niece's  head 
would  be  turned  by  the  admiration  she  every- 
where met  with,  and  he  endeavored  to  offset 
adulation  by  some  polite  snubbing  of  a  kind 
common  in  families.  "  One  would  have  sup- 
posed you  to  be  a  great  beauty,"  he  remarked, 
casually,  after  her  first  drawing-room  presenta- 
tion, "  to  have  heard  the  way  you  were  talked 
of  to-day.  Imagine  that  I  was  asked  if  there 
were  many  such  handsome  women  in  America. 
I  answered  that  you  would  scarcely  be  re- 
marked for  a  beauty  at  home."  Which  prob- 
ably hurt  Miss  Harriet's  feelings,  because 
she  knew  better. 

During  her  uncle's  administration,  Mrs. 
Lane's  position  as  mistress  of  the  White 
House  was  more  crowded  with  public  duties 
than  any  American  woman's  has  been,  as  she 
entertained  many  foreign  celebrities,  includ- 
ing the  Prince  of  Wales,  now  Edward  the 
Seventh.  Her  career,  however,  practically 
ended  with  the  retirement  of  Buchanan  from 
the  political  field  in  1861.  Her  whole  life, 
her  sympathies,  and  her  affections  had  been 
so   intimately   connected   with  her  uncle,   that 


New   Publications. 
"  A    Romance    of    Wolf   Hollow,"    by   Anna 
Wolfrom,   is  published  by  the   Gorham  Press, 
Boston. 

"  The  Testimony  of  Reason."  by  Samuel  L. 
Philips,  is  published  by  the  Neale  Publish- 
ing Company,  New  York;  price,  50  cents. 

"  A  Bunch  of  Rope  Yarns,"  by  Stanton  H. 
King,  superintendent  of  the  Sailors'  Haven 
Mission  for  Seamen.  Charlestown.  Mass.,  is 
published  by  the  Gorham  Press,  Boston; 
price,  $1.25. 

"  Turgot  and  the  Six  Edicts "  is  the  title 
of  the  doctor's  thesis  of  Robert  Perry  Shep- 
herd, Ph.  D.,  published  in  the  series  of 
Studies  in  History'.  Economics,  and  Public 
Law,  by  the  Columbia  University  Press ;  the 
Macmillan  Company,  agents.  New  York ;  price, 
$1.50. 

We  don't  know  what  a  red-bird  would  say 
to  Gene  Stratton-Porter's  story  of  his  life  and 
loves,  but  from  a  human's  point  of  view  the 
book  is  an  interesting  one.  It  tells  with  sym- 
pathy and  in  poetic  language  of  the  youth, 
mating,  and  maturity  of  one  of  the  5outh's 
most  beautiful  birds,  who  "  was  hatched  in  a 
thicket  of  sweetbriar  and  blackberry."  It 
will  interest  particularly  children  and  young 
people  ;  it  is  a  good  story  for  country-reading. 
There  are  many  illustrations  from  photographs, 
which  are  reproduced  by  a  new  process,  and 
are  very  soft  and  pleasing.  "  The  Song  of  the 
Cardinal :  A  Love  Story  "  is  published  by  the 
Bobbs-Merrill  Company,  Indianapolis;  price, 
$1.50. 

"  Daily  Training,"  an  addition  to  the  Ath- 
letic Library,  by  E.  F.  Benson  and  Eustace  H. 
Miles,  is  a  very  good  sort.  The  authors  are 
not  dogmatic.  They  have  open  minds.  They 
realize  that  what  is  one  man's  meat  is  an- 
other's poison.  One  of  them,  in  fact,  is  a 
vegetarian,  the  other  a  meat-eater.  One  takes 
regular  exercise,  the  other  does  not.  One 
smokes,  the  other  not.  One  delights  in  a 
cold  bath,  the  other  in  a  hot  one.  Both  are 
healthy  and  strong  and  sensible.  And  they 
both  believe  that  "  air.  light,  and  work  are 
three  prime  remedies  in  the  pharmacy  of  God." 
Also  they  "  feel  sure  that  sensuality  is  bad 
for  everybody."  We  commend  the  book. 
There  are  a  number  of  pictures.  Published  by 
E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York;  price,  $1.50 
net. 

Several  numbers  of  the  monthly  Statistician 
and  Economist — which  ceased  after  running 
for  the  years  1875-1878,  but  has  now  again 
been  started — have  reached  us.  The  chrono- 
logical and  necrological  tables  are  brought 
down  to  within  a  month  of  date  of  issue. 
"  Everything,"  says  the  publisher,  "  that  is 
bought,  sold,  drank,  eaten,  or  worn,  is  quoted. 
It  contains  no  matter  that  is  not  general  in 
its  character.  The  main  features  will  be 
unique  and  unlike  any  other  publication  (of  a 
monthly  issue)  now  in  existence."  Broad 
claims,  these,  but  pretty  well  borne  out  by  the 
compact  little  book  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
pages  devoted  to  facts  and  statistics.  In  the 
tables  of  events  prominence  is  given  to  the 
Pacific  Coast,  and  thus  the  book  will  be  par- 
ticularly useful  to  Californians.  Published  by 
Louis  P.  McCarthy,  San  Francisco ;  price,  25 
cents. 

Despite  the  fact  that  the  newly  collected 
volume  of  verses  by  Charles  Dickens  contains 
over  two  hundred  pages,  the  whole  of  them 
are  probably  not  worth  the  single  poem  fa- 
miliar to  all  Dickens  lovers,  "  The  Ivy  Green." 
The  libretto  to  a  comic-opera  Dickens  wrote 
in  1836  takes  up  fifty  pages,  then  follow 
several  verses  from  "  Pickwick  Papers  "  and 
other  prose  works,  and  these,  with  a  few  po- 
litical squibs  and  occasional  rhymes,  com- 
plete the  volume.  F.  G.  Kitton,  the  editor, 
prefaces  each  chapter  with  a  few  historical 
notes  and  brief  comment.  Though  the  in- 
trinsic merit  of  the  verses  is  slight,  it  is  still 
well  enough  to  have  them  all  brought  together 
in  a  single  volume.  The  publishers  have 
given  the  book  a  handsome  binding,  but  im- 
moderately thick  paper  with  expansive  areas 
of  blank  white — the  latter  evidently  for  the 


purpose  of  making  from  scant  material  a  book 
big  enough  to  charge  a  round  price  for.  The 
scheme  is  somewhat  too  clever.  Published 
by  Harpers  &  Brothers,  New  York ;  price, 
$2.00. 

Captain  Gordon  Casserly,  of  the  British 
army,  who  has  written  a  book  called  "  The 
Land  of  the  Boxers ;  or,  China  Under  the 
Allies,"  has  a  very  good  opinion  of  the 
American  troops.  He  speaks  of  their  bravery 
in  emphatic  terms,  and  concludes :  "  May 
we  always  fight  shoulder  to  shoulder  with, 
but  never  against,  them  !"  So  say  we  all  of 
us.  Barring  its  lateness.  Captain  Casserly's 
book  is  entertaining  enough.  The  criticisms 
of  the  various  armies,  he  says,  are  a  resume 
of  the  opinions  of  many  officers  with  whom 
he  has  conversed.  The  book  scarcely  pretends 
to  be  more  than  a  record  of  personal  impres- 
sions in  other  respects,  and  touches  only 
upon  the  surface  of  things,  but  in  a  pleasant 
way.  The  illustrations  are  all  good.  Pub- 
lished by  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  New 
York. 

In  explaining  the  title  of  her  book,  the  un- 
known author  of  "  People  of  the  Whirlpool  " 
gives  us  a  bit  of  interesting  information : 
"  The  name  for  the  island  since  called  New 
Amsterdam  and  York."  she  says,  "  was  Mon- 
ah-tan-uk,  a  phrase  descriptive  of  the  rushing 
waters  of  Hell  Gate,  that  separated  them 
from  their  Long  Island  neighbors,  the  inhab- 
itants themselves  being  called  by  these  neigh- 
bors Mon-ah-tans,  Anglice  Manhattans,  liter- 
ally people  of  the  whirlpool,  a  title  which, 
even  though  the  termagant  humor  of  the 
waters  be  abated,  it  beseems  me  as  aptly  fits 
them  at  this  day."  The  book  itself  is  of  a 
feminine  levity  and  volatility,  satirizing  with 
some  wit  and  no  malice  the  foibles  of  "high 
society."  It  resembles  in  tone  "  Elizabeth  and 
Her  German  Garden."  and.  of  course,  the  first 
book  of  this  author,  "  The  Garden  of  a  Com- 
muter's Wife."  Published  by  the  Macmillan 
Company.  New  York. 

A  biography  of  Charles  Darwin,  by  Francis 
Darwin,  appeared  several  years  ago.  but  at 
that  time  many  of  Darwin's  letters  were  not 
in  the  possession  of  his  son.  and  many  others 
were  excluded  by  lack  of  space.  These  have  now 
been  collected,  admirably  edited,  arranged, 
indexed,  and  published  in  two  bulky  vol- 
umes under  the  title  "  More  Letters  of  Charles 
Darwin."  They  have  slight  popular,  but  great 
scientific,  interest.  The  marvelous  patience 
of  the  man,  his  perfect  fairness  and  willing- 
ness to  admit  he  was  wrong  when  convinced 
of  it,  his  attention  to  the  minutest  detail,  his 
readiness  to  consider  the  slightest  objection 
to  any  of  his  deductions,  and  many  other 
traits  of  his  remarkable  character  are  revealed 
in  these  letters  as  in  a  mirror.  The  work 
should  greatly  stimulate  readers  who  are  also 
scientific  students.  It  will  also  serve  as  a 
gloss  on  Darwin's  books,  in  many  cases  mak- 
ing very  clear  the  devious  paths  of  reasoning 
by  which  conclusions  were  reached.  Published 
by  D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New  York:  price.  $5.00. 


Those  who  have  enjoyed  the  first  two 
handsome  volumes  dealing  with  the  Harriman 
Alaskan  Expedition,  will  be  glad  to  know 
that  they  are  to  be  followed  by  further  vol- 
umes. Eminent  specialists  have  been  at  work 
four  years,  and  three  new  volumes  will  be 
issued  in  September,  on  glaciers,  botany,  and 
geology,  to  be  soon  followed  by  other  volumes, 
completing  the  work  in  twelve.  In  all.  it  will 
be  a  very  interesting  record  of  one  of  the  most 
important   expeditions   of   the   kind. 


Next  month,  Mrs.  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske 
will  again  produce,  at  the  Manhattan  Theatre, 
New  York,  her  new  play.  "  Mary*  of  Magdala." 
which  has  been  specially  translated  for  this 
production.  After  its  New  York  run.  Mrs. 
Fiske  will  take  the  play  all  over  the  country- 
it  is  understood,  coming  as  far  West  as  San 
Francisco.  Coincidentally  with  its  production 
in  Xew  York,  the  Macmillan  Company  will 
publish  the  play  in  book-form. 


M.  Louis  Fabulet.  who  has  a  great  enthusi- 
asm for  Rudyard  Kipling,  and  has  translated 
r.umbers  of  his  works  into  French,  asked  the 
author  if  there  was  any  truth  in  the  assertion 
that  he  had  the  French  nation  in  his  mind 
when  be  described  the  Bandar  Log  in  the 
"  Jungle  Book."  Mr.  Kipling  absolutely  de- 
nied it. 


Frederick  Palmer,  author  of  a  pleasing  vol- 
ume of  sketches  dealing  with  the  early  stages 
of  American  rule  in  the  Philippines.  "  The 
Ways  of  the  Service,"  is  at  present  arrancinj 
his  new  novel,  "  The  Vagabond."  for 
publication  in  the  fall.  The  story'  deal 
the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War. 


104 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  17,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Anglo- Saxon  do  tn  Triumphant. 

When  a  man  with  the  Latin-sounding  name 
of  Dos  Passos  writes  a  book  on  "  The  Anglo- 
Saxon  Century,"  it  arouses  attention.  When 
the  same  Portuguese-American  advocates  an 
alliance  of  Britain  and  America  for  protection 
against  the  Latin  and  other  European  nations, 
it  excites  interest.  And  Mr.  Dos  Passos's 
book  is  indeed  an  interesting  and  spirited  argu- 
ment for  a  strengthening  of  the  bonds  of 
friendship  between  all  those  who  speak  the 
common  tongue  in  which  Scott  and  Dickens 
wrote  and  Shakespeare  sung. 

He  bases  his  strong  argument,  which  fills 
some  two  hundred  pages,  on  several  grounds. 
Our  laws,  customs,  institutions ;  our  home 
life ;  our  attitude  toward  the  family ;  our 
sports,  amusements,  and  pastimes :  our  po- 
litical system ;  our  mode  of  reasoning  about 
things;  the  tendencies  in  religion;  our  sym- 
pathies; our  literature  and  drama;  to  say 
nothing  of  the  common  language,  the  strongest 
bond  of  all,  are  much  the  same.  "  Are  not," 
our  author  asks.  "  the  foundation  of  an  in- 
ternational relation,  when  made  of  such  ma- 
terials, solid  and  secure?"  To-day  the  United 
States  perhaps  needs  no  ally.  But  why  not 
look  forward  and  prepare  for  future  world- 
crises? 

The  specific  recommendation  of  Mr.  Dos 
Passos  is  a  treaty  which  should  embrace  thes^ 
stipulations  :  That  Canada  should  divide  her 
self  into  States  with  view  to  admission  of 
each  State  into  the  Union ;  that  common 
citizenship  between  citizens  of  the  British 
Empire  and  the  United  States  should  be 
established ;  that  trade  between  the  nations 
be  free;  that  a  uniform  currency  be  estab- 
lished; that  a  uniform  standard  of  weights 
and  measures  be  adopted :  that  an  arbitration 
tribunal  be  created  to  decide  all  questions 
arising  under  the  treaty.  However  bald  and 
impossible  these  may  sound  apart  from  their 
context,  Mr.  Dos  Passos.  who  is  a  person 
of  boundless  enthusiasm  for  his  subject,  makes 
them  seem  very  plausible  and  possible.  His 
theme  is  a  big  one,  and  his  book  will  interest 
even  those  who  may  ridicule  his  grandiose 
ideas.  One  can  not  read  "  The  Anglo-Saxon 
Century "  without  being  impressed  with  the 
sincerity  and  earnestness  of  its  author. 

Published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New 
York. 


A  Little,  Light  Book. 

American  social  enterprise,  sentiment,  and 
snobbery  all  figure  freely  in  Edward  van 
Zile's  novelette.  "  A  Duke  and  His  Double," 
which  is,  in  effect,  a  rattling  comedy  expanded 
into  a  novel.  Within  the  limited  compass  of 
a  small  volume,  the  author  has  contrived  to 
bring  together  a  number  of  representative 
types  which  stand  out  sharply  and  clearly. 
much  as  do  the  successfully  silhouetted  char- 
acters of  succinct  drama.  The  story,  from 
its  qualities  of  brevity,  conciseness,  humor, 
snappy  dialogue,  and  telling  situations,  would 
transplant  extremely  well  to  the  stage,  and 
John  Flint,  the  Chicago  millionaire,  his  two 
breezy  daughters,  his  ex-butler  and  present 
ducal  guest,  and  his  Mrs.  Malaprop  of  a 
wife,  thrown  out  against  a  swell  New 
York  set  for  a  shifting  background,  are  agree- 
ably entertaining  folk,  without  having  any 
pretensions  toward  being  either  wise,  witty, 
or  profound.  After  having  started  in  with 
the  apparent  intention  of  showing  how  easy 
it  is  to  fool  the  smart  set  of  New  York  with 
a  bogus  peer,  the  author,  much  in  the  manner 
of  the  ephemeral  comedy  writers  of  the  day, 
tails  off  his  story  to  a  satisfactory  conclusion 
by  letting  up  on  comedy  and  intensifying 
the  sentimental  interest,  which  no  doubt  will 
please  the  appreciators  of  this  special  kind 
of  literature. 

Published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New 
York  ;  price,  75  cents. 


In  the  World  of  Graft. 
Josiah  Flynt's  genius  has  recently  soared 
from  the  tramp  stratum  of  society  to  the  pro- 
fessional crook  circles,  and  his  work  carries 
the  same  convincing  force.  The  story  of 
"  The  Rise  of  Ruderick  Clowd "  commends 
itself  to  the  thoughtful  student  of  the  slum 
problem,  for  although  written,  apparently, 
with  r:o  intention  of  pointing  a  moral,  it  is  a  ! 
striking  study  in  slum  ethics,  and  the  picture 
is  drawn  from  the  intimate  under  side.  The 
birth  and  training  of  Ruderick,  the  boy,  the 
inevitable  influence  of  the  ward,  the  aspira- 
t i<  -us  and  standards  of  the  lives  of  those 
about  him,  could  produce  no  other  logical 
chin  cter. 

e   Hfc   of   the    Und'      World,    its    aristoc- 

r .:  cliques,     and      s-.- relies,      with      their 

L  and  traditions  is,  we  find,  quite  as  real 


a  factor  in  our  modern  development  as  the  [ 
Upper  World,  and  its  primitive  code  of  honor 
quite  as  rigid.  For  instance,  when  we  see 
Ruderick  Clowd,  professional  crook,  doing 
his  crooked  business  strictly  "  on  the  square," 
and  declaring  within  himself,  when  he  is 
delegated  to  burn  a  building,  and  possibly  its 
inmates,  in  order  to  loot  it,  "  I  aint  no  croaker, 
and  I  tell  you  Ruderick  Clowd  aint  no  crema- 
tory "  ;  and  when  the  poor  little  ex-seamstress 
answers  his  entreaties  to  return  to  him  by 
asking  him  if  she  quits  the  "  judge "  now 
wouldn't  she  be  doing  just  as  mean  a  trick 
as  he  (Ruderick)  had  done  when  he  deserted 
her,  adding,  "  Until  the  '  judge  '  is  mean  to 
me.  I'm  going  to  be  square  with  him,"  we 
realize  the  force  of  their  fundamental  code  of 
honor   in    all    its   paradoxical    phases. 

Another  vivid  side-light  of  this  book  is  the 
glimpse  we  get  into  the  management  of  the 
reform-school,  prison,  and  prison  asylum, 
through  all  of  which  poor  Ruderick  has  run 
the  red  gauntlet.  But  in  his  old  age,  we  are 
glad  to  have  him  settle  down  to  the  life  of  a 
sober,  honest  watchman,  although  he  confides 
to  an  interested  listener:  "I  have  to  pretend 
to  myself  I'm  blind  when  I  see  money  I  could 
take,  and  there  was  nights  when,  if  I  hadn't 
told  Sara  to  hide  my  clothes,  I'd  have  gone 
cut  on  the  graft." 

Published  by  Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  New  York; 
price,   $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
According  to  the  Macmillan  Company, 
Pope  Leo,  as  long  ago  as  1S97,  instructed 
Conte  Soderini  that  when  the  time  came  to 
write  an  official  and  intimate  "  life  "  it  should 
be  an  accurate  history  and  not  a  mere  pane- 
gyric. At  the  same  time,  he  gave  into  Soder- 
ini's  keeping  many  secret  documents,  and 
also  dictated  much  personal  matter.  It  now 
appears  that  F.  Marion  Crawford's  forth- 
coming volume  has  been  written  in  collabora- 
tion with  the  Conte  Soderini,  and  that  he 
has  been  able  to  avail  himself  of  all  the 
documents,  the  use  of  which  was  expressly 
sanctioned  by  the  Pope.  The  volume  will  be 
issued  early  next  year  simultaneously  with 
editions   in  continental   tongues. 

Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  are  bring- 
ing out  in  a  paper-covered  booklet  the  late 
William  Ernest  Henley's  poem  on  the  joys 
of   automobiling,    "  A    Song  of   Speed." 

The  late  Sir  Walter  Besant  began  his  career 
as  an  author  by  writing  on  French  literature. 
A  number  of  the  essays  to  be  printed  in  a 
volume,  which  is  announced  for  the  coming 
season,  will  testify  to  his  interest  in  the  sub- 
ject, and  in  mediaeval  and  modern  French 
history.  Other  papers  in  the  book  contain 
some  of  his  observations  on  the  craft  of 
authorship. 

It  is  interesting  to  learn  that  the  late 
English  novelist,  B.  L.  Farjeon,  best  known 
in  this  country  as  the  son-in-law  of  Joseph 
Jefferson,  and  as  author  of  "  Bread  and 
Cheese  and  Kisses,"  completed  shortly  before 
his  death  a  new  story  for  children,  which 
was  secured  by  one  of  the  Eastern  magazines 
as   a   serial. 

The  Century  Company  has  in  preparation 
a  new  volumes  of  nine  short  stories  by  John 
Luther  Long,  which,  like  this  author's 
"  Madame  Butterfly,"  will  be  presented  in 
charming  Japanese   dress. 

A  new  novel  by  Beatrice  Harraden. 
"  Katharine  Frensham,"  is  to  appear  in  book- 
form  in  the  autumn.  Since  Miss  Harraden 
published  "  Ships  That  Pass  in  the  Night," 
in  1893,  she  has  only  completed  two  novels, 
"  Hilda  Strafford"  and  "  The  Fowler,"  and 
a  book  for  children  called  "  Untold  Tales 
from  the  Past." 

The  Dowager  Duchess  of  Argyll,  who  was 
the  duke's  third  wife,  is  at  present  preparing 
for  publication  the  memoirs  of  her  husband. 
These  are  in  part  written  by  Argyll,  and  in 
accordance  with  his  wishes,  as  expressed  in 
his  will,  the  widow  is  completing  the  work 
from  many  diaries  and  documents  bequeathed 
to  her  for  that  purpose. 

Rufus  F.  Zogbaum,  whose  naval  studies 
are  peculiarly  valuable  for  their  accuracy, 
is  making  the  illustrations  for  a  novel  by  Mrs. 
Edith  Elma  Wood,  "  The  Spirit  of  the  Ser- 
vice," which  the  Macmillans  will  publish  early 
in   September. 

Mary  MacLane  has  lately  been  living  quietly 
in  Boston,  where  she  has  been  working  at  her 
new  book,  "  My  Friend,  Annabel  Lee,"  which 
will    be   published   before   the   end   of   August. 

Hall  Caine  is  busy  on  a  new  romance,  the 
scene  of  which  will  shift  between  London  and 
Iceland.     It  is  understood  that  the  story  will 


be  devoid  of  philosophical  dissertations,  that 
it  deals  with  the  primitive  instincts  and  pas- 
sions of  mankind,  rather  than  with  any  con- 
crete religious,  social,  or  labor  questions,  and 
that  the  plot  is  in  a  measure  a  paraphrase 
of  the  parable  of  the  Prodigal  Son,  only  with 
this  difference,  that  when  the  prodigal  returns 
he  is  not  welcomed  with  a  fatted  calf,  but 
incurs  the  vengeance  of  a  brother  whom  he 
had  wronged  in  the  past. 

A  new  volume  of  travels  in  Greece,  which 
promises  to  combine  scholarship  with  a 
lighter  and  more  genial  vein,  is  promised  for 
publication  in  September  by  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's Sons.  The  author  is  Professor  Rufus 
B.  Richardson,  who  for  eleven  years  has  pre- 
sided over  the  American  Archaeological  School 
in  Athens,  and  during  this  time  has  had  ex- 
ceptional opportunities  for  visiting  many  parts 
of  the  country  inaccessible  to  the  ordinary 
tourist, 

A  new  poetical  version  of  the  text  of 
Wagner's  "  Parsifal,"  by  Oliver  Huckel,  will 
be  brought  out  in  anticipation  of  the  opera's 
first   production   in   New   York   this   winter. 

Cyrus  Townsend  Brady  is  writing  a  sea 
story  for  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  which  will  be 
called  "Reuben  James:  A  Hero  of  the  Fore- 
castle." It  will  be  included  in  the  Young 
Heroes  of  Our  Navy  Series.  The  hero  is  de- 
scribed as  one  "  who  was  only  a  common 
sailor,  just  a  type  of  the  plain  American  blue- 
jacket at  the  beginning  of  our  navy." 


RECENT    VERSE. 


A  Song  of  Delay. 
Love,     pluck    your    flowers : 

To-morrow  they  may  fade. 
And,    faded,    who    shall    tell 

How    once    they    were    arrayed  ? 

Love,    wear    your   crown : 
To-morrow    you    may    sleep. 

And,   sleeping,    who   shall   say 
What  state   you   used  to   keep? 

Love,     love     me     now, 

Foe  soon  it  will  be  night 
In    darkness   hearts   forget 

The  gladness  of  the  light. 
— Ethel    Clifford    in    Century    Magaoin 


The  Mother. 
She  sends   her   wild   and   noisy   swarm 

Of   children    out   of   sight    to    play. 
Careless,   it  seems,  of  any  harm 

That    might    befall    them    on    their    way. 

But  she  has  weaker  lives  to  rear — 
Babes  at  her  breast  and  at  her  knee — 

And  toiling  on,  unmoved  by  fear, 
She    lets    her   children    wander    free. 

Untended    in    the    rain    and    sun, 

They   fight   and   play   and    dream    and   roam, 
Till,    tired    and    listless,    one    by   one 

With    lagging    feet    they    make    for    home. 

And    there,    forgetting    grief   and    mirth, 
Into  their  mother's  arms   they  creep; 

And  on    the  cool,   soft  breast  of    Earth 
Her    weary    children    fall    asleep. 

— Edward    Wright   in   the   Speaker. 


A  Song  Against  Love. 
There  is  a  thing  in  the  world  that  has  been  since 

the  world  began: 
The    hatred    of    man    for    woman,    the    hatred    of 

woman    for   man. 
When  shall  this  thing  be  ended?  When,  love  ends, 

hatred    ends, 
For   love   is    a   chain    between    foes,    and    love   is   a 

sword  between   friends. 
Shall    there   never    be    love    without    hatred?      Not 

since   the    world    began, 
Until    man     teach     honor     to    woman,     and     woman 

teach   pity  to  man. 

O    that    a    man    might    live    his    life    for    a    little 

tide 
Without   this    rage    in   his   heart,    and    without   this 

foe  at  his  side! 
He  could  eat  and  sleep  and  be  merry  and   forget, 

he  could  live  well  enough, 
Were    it   not    for    this    thing    that    remembers    and 

hates,  and  that  hurts,  and  is  love. 
But  peace  has  not  been  in  the  world  since  love  and 

the  world  began, 
For     the    man     remembers     the     woman,     and    the 

woman    remembers    the    man. 

— Arthur  Symons  in  the  Athenjrum. 


The  death  of  William  Ernest  Henley  has 
prevented  a  rather  sensational  book  from 
seeing  the  light.  Not  long  after  Henley's 
caustic  paper  on  Stevenson  appeared,  the  re- 
latives of  Stevenson  began  collecting  and 
arranging  the  letters  written  to  him  by  Hen- 
ley at  different  times.  The  tone  and 
phraseology  of  these  letters,  it  is  said,  are 
so  at  variance  with  what  Henley  afterward 
wrote  and  published  about  his  dead  friend 
as  to  convict  their  author  of  insincerity,  to 
say  the  very  least.  They  were  to  have  been 
published  within  a  few  months;  but  now  that 
Henley   is  dead  they  have  been  suppressed. 


We  supply  about  one-fifth 
of  all  the  glasses  used  in 
San  Francisco. 

Most  of  the  trouble  is 
caused  by  the  other  four- 
fifths. 

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105 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


"  Of  Both  Worlds." 
San  Francisco's  already  imposing  array  of 
minor  poets  has  received  an  accession  in  the 
person  of  Herman  Scheffauer,  author  of  "  Of 
Both  Worlds."  The  book  is,  however,  not 
particularly  impressive.  As  the  title  suggests, 
Mr.  ScherTauer's  themes  have  a  tendency  to 
be  large,  not  to  say  grandiose — Fate,  Destiny, 
and  the  like — and  this,  coupled  with  an  im- 
perfect feeling  for  words,  results,  sometimes,  in 
unfortunate  effects.  There  is  a  tendency,  also, 
to  seek  strength  by  grewsome  and  bizarre 
similes  and  metaphors  which  are,  in  fact, 
simply  shocking  to  the  reader.  Greater  sin- 
cerity, less  violence  of  expression,  and  more 
attention  devoted  to  the  elimination  of  essen- 
tially unpoetic  words  will  greatly  improve  this 
author's  future  work.  The  present  book,  how- 
ever, is  creditable  to  a  young  writer.  The 
faults   are   those   of   inexperience. 

We  quote  the  verses  entitled  "  Back,  Back  to 
Nature."  It  might  with  profit  be  compared 
with  Kipling's  "  The  Feet  of  the  Young 
Men."  which  differently  expresses  a  similar 
thought : 
Weary!  I  am  weary  of  the  madness  of  the  town. 

Deathly  weary  of  all  women  and  all  wine, 
Back,    back    to    Nature! — I    will    go    and    lay    me 
down , 

Bleeding  lay  me  down  before  her  shrine. 

For  the  mother- breast  the  hungry  babe  must  call. 
Loudly    to    the    shore    cries    the    surf    upon    the 
sea; — 
Hear,    Nature    wide    and    deep !    after    man's    mad 
festival 
How   bitterly  my   soul   cries   out    for   thee! 

Once   again   would   I   embrace   ye.   Titan    trees, 
Once  again   these   thirsting  lips   would   kiss   your 

Sod, 

Wet  with  tears  so  deeply  drawn,  leaping  tears  that 
freedom    frees, — - 
The     sacrificial     flowers     heart- blooming     up     to 
God. 

Hidden   in   the  grasses  of  the  darkest  vales   I'll   lie. 

Silentlv   the   happiness   of    Earth    my   heart   shall 
fill"; 
Blue  eyes,  are  ye  kindred   to  the  blue,   eternal   sky 

That  looms  above  yon    Earth-contemning  hill  ? 

Though    the   child    be    blinded    by    the    world-dust, 
he  shall   know 
His   mother — well   that   mother   knows    her  child! 
Him     impulse     star-compelling     bids     with     panting 
breath    to    go 
To   thee,   great  heart  of   Nature  undeflled. 

In    that   heart   that   holds   the   stars   harmon:ous,    O 
Soul 
Go     bathe — where     worlds     on     lustre- worlds     in 
aw,  fa]    orbits   blaze, 
Until  the  spirit's  compass  encompasses  the  Whole 
Of   God   and   of   God   the   wondrous   ways. 

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Letters  of  Wellington. 

The  avowed  purpose  of  publishing  at  this 
time  a  volume  entitled  "  Correspondence  of 
Lady  Burghersh  with  the  Duke  of  Welling- 
ton "  is  to  contradict  writers  who  have  repre- 
sented the  duke  as  "  hard,  stern,  and  unsym- 
pathetic— one  to  be  greatly  admired  and 
feared,  but  not  loved ;  one  who  has  been  de- 
scribed as  sitting  in  his  old  age,  'lonely  in 
the  bleak  and  comfortless  surroundings  that 
be  chose,  while  friendship  and  family  affec- 
tion passed  him  by."  "  Most  of  the  letters  to 
bis  niece  are  brief,  but  kindly,  and  of  very 
faint  general  interest.  But  in  one  of  them  we 
find  an  amusing  bit  of  news.  The  duke 
writes  :  "  I  am  on  proper  terms  with  the  Stael 
— that  is,  she  is  confoundedly  afraid  of  me. 
She  told  a  person,  who  repeated  it  to  me, 
that  she  bad  done  everything  in  her  power 
'  pour  m'interesser  a  elle '  (what  does  she 
suppose  me  made  of?),  but  she  found  I  had 
no  '  coeur  pour  l'amour  ' ! !  !"  The  frontis- 
piece is  a  photogravure  after  the  portrait  of 
the  duke  painted  by  Henry  Weigall  in  1851, 
and  there  are  other  portraits  throughout  the 
volume. 

Published  by  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New 
York ;  price,  $2.50. 

A  Sumptuous  Work. 
One  of  the  most  notable  works  of  the  year 
is  "  English  Literature:  An  Illustrated  Rec- 
ord," which  appears  in  four  massive  and 
handsomely  illustrated  volumes  from  the  pens 
of  Richard  Garnett,  C.  B.,  LL.  D.,  and  Ed- 
mund Gosse,   M.  A.,  LL.  D. 

Here  is  no  dry'  record  or  labored  chronicle. 

no    barren    catalogue    of    authors,    or    jejune 

Hst  of  their  works.     On  the  other  hand,   the 

I  work   is   intended   to   appeal   to   eye,   ear,   and 

1  hand.     The  curiosity  aroused  by  the  interest- 

',  ing  extracts  from  an  author's  books  to  know 

somewhat   of   his    personality,    is    gratified    by 

portraits    and    biographical    data.      His    place 

among  his  contemporaries,  and  in  history,  is 

fixed  by   historical   notes.      Interest,   again,   is 

sharpened  by   facsimiles   of  title-pages   (some 

of    them    very    curious),    and    of    pages    from 


manuscripts  and  old  engravings.  In  the  case 
of  early  English  classics,  illuminated  manu- 
scripts in  black-letter  are  reproduced.  Here 
we  find  a  letter  of  John  Milton,  there  an  old 
drawing  of  Chaucer,  elsewhere  the  will  of 
Bunyan,  the  picture  of  Stella,  Swift's  mistress. 
and  William  Blake's  striking  serpentine  illus- 
tration to  Young's  "  Night  Thoughts."  It  is 
a  genuine  work  de  luxe  in  every  respect.  As 
Dr.  Garnett  says,  "  It  has  been  sought  to 
depict  for  readers,  of  general  culture  rather 
than  of  special  attainment,  the  development 
of  this  literature  through  centuries  of  vicis- 
situde, from  the  primitive  period  when  it  was 
almost  synonymous  with  poetry  to  the  period 
when,  in  every  department,  it  begins  to  chal- 
lenge a  place  among  the  great  literatures  of 
the  world. 

Of  this  great  enterprise,  by  these  two  writers 
of  eminence,  two  volumes  have  reached  us, 
the  first  and  the  third.  The  former  extends 
"  from  the  beginnings  to  the  age  of  Henry 
the  Eighth  " — from  Caedmon  to  Chaucer,  from 
Chaucer  to  Sir  Thomas  More.  The  latter  be- 
gins with  John  Milton  and  ends  with  Dr. 
Johnson.  Dr.  Garnett  has  prepared  the  first. 
Dr.  Gosse  the  second  of  these  books. 

The  volumes  are  of  impressive  size,  printed 
on  heavy  enameled  paper,  and  bound  in  red 
buckram.  The  illustrations  are  practically 
as  many  as  there  are  pages.  Some  of  them 
are  in  color ;   all  are  excellent. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York :    price,    per    volume.    $6.00. 


New  Publications. 
"  Essentials     of     German,"     by     B.     J.     Vos, 
associate   professor   of   German    in    the   Johns 
Hopkins    University,    is    published    by    Henry 
Holt  &  Co..  New    York ;  price.  So  cents  net. 

"  The  Great  Psychological  Crime,"  edited 
by  Florence  Huntley,  is  published  by  the  Indo- 
American  Book  Company,  Chicago :  price. 
$2.00. 

"  Stories  from  the  Hebrew,"  a  supplement- 
ary school-reader  in  prose  and  verse,  con- 
taining numerous  illustrations,  has  been  pre- 
pared by  Josephine  Woodbury  Hermans,  and 
is  published  by  Silver,  Burdett  &  Co..  New 
York. 

The  real  seat  of  war  between  the  "  higher 
critic  "  and  the  rigidly  orthodox  is  Germany. 
the  land  of  professors ;  but  Bernhard  Pick. 
Ph.  D.,  seems  to  be  seeking  to  enmesh  Anglo- 
Saxondom  more  deeply  in  the  struggle.  He 
has  translated,  under  the  title  "  A  Reply  to 
Harnack  on  the  Essence  of  Christianity,"  the 
noted  book  of  Hermann  Cremer,  an  orthodox 
professor,  of  the  University  of  Greifswold. 
The  work  has  already  seen  several  editions 
in  Germany,  and  is  an  eloquent  defence  of  the 
orthodox  position.  Published  by  the  Funk  & 
Wagnalls  Company,  New  York  ;  price.  $1.00. 

One  might  suppose  that  a  novel  called  "  The 
Sheep-Stealers "  would  tell  all  about  the 
hazardous  occupation  of  stealing  sheep  —  how 
to  keep  them  from  bleating  loudly,  the  best 
poisons  for  sheep  dogs,  the  way  to  gag  the 
shepherd,  how  to  work  upon  the  sympathies 
of  magistrates.  Really,  however,  Violet 
Jacob's  "  The  Sheep-Stealers  "  has  very  little 
to  do  with  that  picturesque  profession.  It  is  a 
story  of  the  Welsh  mountains,  a  hundred  years 
ago,  and  deals  with  rural  riots  over  toll-roads, 
and  tragedies  of  misunderstanding.  There  are 
many  characters  —  in  fact,  too  many  heroes  — 
and  they  are  pretty  well  drawn.  The  book  as 
a  whole  has  a  breadth  that  saves  it  from 
being  ordinary.  It  is  a  first  book,  and  rather 
a  promising  one.  Published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons,  New  York. 

"  One  of  the  most  useful  reference  books 
published  in  a  decade,"  is  strong  praise  in 
these  days  of  many  such  books.  Yet  the  new 
"Index  and  Epitome"  to  Sidney  Lee's  sixty- 
six-volume  "  Dictionary  of  National  Biogra- 
phy "  is  not  less  than  that.  This  volume  lit- 
erally reflects  in  brief  and  bald  outline  the  re- 
sults achieved  in  that  monumental  work. 
There  are  thirty  thousand  biographical 
sketches  of  Englishmen,  each  about  one-four- 
teenth the  length  of  that  in  the  Dictionary 
itself.  They  have  been  prepared  by  compe- 
tent scholars,  and  are  accurate  to  a  high  de- 
gree. The  book,  though  containing  nearly 
fifteen  hundred  pages,  is — thanks  to  thin  paper 
and  close  printing — not  intolerably  unwieldy. 
In  its  field  it  is  easily  the  best  biographical 
dictionary  in  existence.  Published  by  the 
Macmillan  Company,  New  York. 

In  writing  "  Rejected  of  Men,"  Howard 
Pyle  has  done  a  daring  thing.  He  has  told  the 
story  of  Christ  in  the  terms  of  to-day.  Christ 
appears  on  the  earth — to-day.  He  is  a  poor  car- 
penter— of  to-day.  He  heals  the  sick — and  the 
yellow  journals  feature  him,  the  modern  Sad- 
ducees   and    Pharisees   persecute   him,    and   he 


dies.  So,  doubtless,  it  would  happen.  Mr. 
Pyle  has  dealt  with  his  subject  reverently — 
there  is  no  complaint  on  that  score.  And. 
for  some,  the  book  will  dispel  the  mists  of 
illusion,  making  more  tolerant  their  judg- 
ment regarding  those  who  shouted  "  Crucify!  " 
two  thousand  years  ago — and  clearer  the 
realities  of  to-day.  "  Rejected  of  Men  "  is  a 
very  true  book,  mordant  in  its  satire,  over- 
powering and  unpleasant  in  its  realism.  Pub- 
lished by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New  York; 
price,  $1.50. 

Her.ry  G.  Peabcdy,  of  Boston,  who  describes 
himself  as  a  "  lecturer  on  the  Grand  Canon  of 
the  Colorado,"  has  collected  in  book-form 
fifty  half-tones  from  photographs  of  the 
canon  which  are  really  excellent.  The  in- 
troductory' paragraphs  are  not  superfluous, 
but  Mr.  Peabody  might  have  spared  us  the 
pome  of  Charles  B.  Botsford,  also  of  Boston. 
"  I  can  not  from  the  wonder  turn,"  says  the 
Boston  Botsford;  later  on  he  affirms  the  "  bril- 
liant arbesque "  to  be  a  "constant  wonder 
and  surprise."  Well,  we  should  think  so ! 
"  Words  are  inadequate."  continues  Botsford, 
and  if  he  refers  to  his  own  he  is  undoubtedly 
correct.  But  perhaps  Mr.  Peabody  intended 
the  verses  to  contribute  a  touch  of  humor  to 
the  book.  If  so,  we  withdraw  these  remarks, 
with  profuse  apologies.  Published  by  Fred 
Harvey,  Kansas  City;  price,  $1.50. 


Kipling's  New  Book  of  Verse. 
The  London  Daily  Xezcs  gives  the  follow- 
ing complete  list  of  poems,  twenty-five  of 
which  have  never  before  appeared  in  print. 
which  will  make  up  Rudyard  Kipling's  new 
book  of  poems,  "  The  Five  Nations,"  to  be 
published  this  fall:  "The  White  Man's  Bur- 
den," "The  Hills  and  the  Sea."  "White 
Horses,"  "  Destroyers."  "  Cruisers."  "  The 
Feet  of  the  Young  Men."  '*  Diego  Valdez," 
"  The  Broken  Men."  "  The  Song  of  the  Wise 
Children,"  "  The  Second  Voyage."  "  The  Ex- 
plorer Sussex,"  "  Buddha,"  "  Rimmon,"  "  The 
King's  Task,"  "  Dives."  "  The  Wage  Slaves," 
"  The  Old  Issue."  "  The  Lesson,"  "  The 
Islanders."  "  The  Reformers,"  "  The  Young 
Queen."  "  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows,"  "  The 
Files,"  "  The  Dykes."  "  The  Old  Men."  "  Re- 
cessional." "  The  Settler."  "  Dirge  of  Dead 
Sisters  Bridgeguard  in  the  Karoo."  "  Lichten- 
burg  M.  L."  "  Two  Kopjis."  "  Piet,"  "  The 
Parting  of  the  Columns."  "  Columns." 
"  Boots."  "  Tbe  Return."  "  Me."  "  The  Mar- 
ried Man."  "  The  Instructor."  "  Stellenbosh." 
"  Watervall,"  "  Willful  Missing."  "  Pharaoh 
and  the  Sergeant."  "  Kitchener's  School." 


The  popularity  of  Anthony  Hope  was  quite 
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Miss  Elizabeth  Sheldon,  of  New  York,  at 
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Clifford,  and  a  host  of  others  equally  well 
known.  Mrs.  Humphry'  Ward  was  among  those 
who  sent  gifts,  and  there  was  an  elaborate 
testimonial  from  the  Society  of  Authors,  to 
which  Hope  Hawkins  has  'rendered  such 
valuable  service.  Ethel  Barrymore  was  the 
maid  of  honor,  and  two  little  daughters  of 
Richard  Ie  Gallienne  were  among  the  at- 
tendants. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hope  Hawkins  are 
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Theoretically,  we  who  participate  in  the 
blessings  of  the  greatest  democracy  in  the 
world,  are  disdainful  of  the  attitude  of  those 
who  place  their  necks  under  a  monarch's  yoke, 
and  glory  in  their  bondage.  That,  at  least, 
is  the  point  of  view  of  the  toiling  masses, 
who,  having  little  else,  can  hug  their  liberty. 
People  who  have  money  and  leisure  for  travel 
and  recreation  constantly  crave  new  sensa- 
tions, and  to  Americans  there  is  considerable 
novelty  in  beholding  a  display  of  the  unearned 
emoluments  of  a  man  who  is  paid  a  colossal 
salary,  surrounded  by  state,  luxury,  deference, 
military  guards,  public  acclaim,  and  private 
incense,  merely  because  he  is  alive.  And  so 
fastidious  Americans  abroad  will  enthu- 
siastically rub  elbows  with  a  bad-smelling 
crowd  in  order  to  view  royalty  at  close  range, 
American  journals  will  send  representatives 
abroad  to  write  columns  of  description  of  no- 
table ceremonials  in  royal  circles,  and  the 
American  population  will  always  turn  out 
en  masse,  seeking,  with  a  mingling  of  curiosity 
Lnd  demonstrative  enthusiasm,  to  view  the 
few  royal  personages  who  visit  our  shores. 

This  unanimity  of  sentiment  and  action 
need  not,  however,  convict  us.  as  a  nation, 
of  flunkeyism.  Rather  is  it  an  expression  of 
the  insatiable  curiosity  entertained  by  Ameri- 
cans toward  an  effete  system,  mingled  with 
a  desire  to  behold  the  outward  workings  of 
European  institutions  that  are  survivals  of 
medievalism.  It  is  all  because  these  things 
are  so  remote  from  the  practicality  and 
prose  of  our   daily  lives. 

And  then  there  is  that  love  of  pageantry 
that  survives  in  us  all,  no  matter  what  our 
private  opinions,  or  what  form  of  government 
we  are  under.  Why  have  whole  families  of 
late  been  racing  each  other,  down  to  the 
breakfast  table  but  to  be  the  first  to  obtain' 
that  special  sheet  of  the  morning  paper  that 
contains  an  account  of  the  doings  of  tfre 
Sacred  College  in  Rome,  and  a  description 
of  all  the  pomp  and  ceremonial  attendant 
upon  the  election  of  a  new  Pope?  Why.  but 
to  indulge  second-hand  in  our  passion  for 
poetical  and  picturesque  spectacle,  whose 
gorgeous  details  are  founded  on  traditions 
handed  down  from  buried  ages. 

It  is  true  that  we  are  not  anxious  to  pay 
the  bills  for  this  sort  of  thing.  The  American 
is  too  wide-awake,  practical,  and  intelligent 
to  feel  that  he  can  afford  to  keep  up  such 
institutions.  He  is  working  first,  last,  and  all 
the  time  for  himself  and  his  family;  or.  rather, 
to  do  him  justice,  his  family  comes  first. 
But  in  the  meantime,  while  he  is  delving  in 
hard  facts,  inseparable  from  the  daily  grind, 
he  maintains  a  little  tropical  garden  of  fancy 
in  his  imagination,  and  revels  in  the  splendor 
and  romance  of  impracticable,  exotic  things 
that  wither  and  die  in  our  breezy  land  of 
common  sense.  In  the  meantime,  we  are  not 
insensible  to  the  dignities  of  our  own  making, 
and  in  that  respect  share  in  some  degree  the 
sentiments  of  our  Old  World  brethren.  We 
have  no  rulers,  to  be  sure,  serenely  fixed  in 
the  consciousness  of  their  illustrious  lineage, 
and  glittering  with  orders,  medals,  and  other 
royal  millinery;  but  let  any  of  our  executives, 
say  our  President,  our  governor,  or  our  mayor, 
appear  under  the  eye  of  the  people,  there  is 
apparent  at  once  an  interest  and  an  open 
cordiality  of  regard,  not  merely  because  they 
are  good  men  and  true,  maintaining  with 
steady  steps  a  clear  and  straight  path  through 
the  shifting  knaveries  of  public  politics,  but 
because  of  the  respect  entertained  for  office, 
for  the  man  who  is  raised  above  his   fellows. 

All  of  which  long  preamble  leads  up  to  the 
subject  of  "•  The  Royal  Family,"  which  the 
Ncill-Morosco  company  is  presenting  at  the 
California  this  week.  A  second  hearing  of 
the  play  only  confirms  the  good  opinions 
previously  entertained  of  this  delicate  and 
delightful  little  comedy.  It  was  a  luminous 
inspiration  that  came  to  Captain  Marshall 
whe\  he  planned  to  dramatize  the  wooing  of 
an  up-to-date  princess.  Princesses  we  have 
km  ,vn  galore  in  fiction  and  drama,  but  never 
l.        before   like    Princ.  -   Angela. 

'-incess  Angela,  to  ni  .  t  of  us,  spells  Annie 
I!,    so   absolutely   did   the   personality   of 


the  latter  adjust  itself  to  the  dainty  im- 
periousness  of  the  princess  and  to  the  un- 
developed, awakening  charm  of  the  dreaming 
maid.  It  has  often  been  said  that  it  takes 
the  intelligence  and  understanding  of  a  mature 
actress  to  portray  fittingly  the  virginal  pas- 
sion of  Juliet.  Perhaps,  reasoning  from  the 
same  standpoint,  that  will  explain  why  there 
was  lacking  in  Lillian  Kemble's  Angela,  and 
will  be  lacking  in  that  of  many  another  actress, 
the  instinctive  youthfulness  and  fresh  delicate 
romanticism  of  spirit  in  Annie  Russell's 
princess. 

At  all  events,  the  more  mature  actress  was 
sweetly  girlish  as  easily  and  naturally  as  a 
flower  blooms ;  the  younger  is  fussy, 
soubrettish,  and  pert.  An  ocean  rolls  between 
the  mental  conceptions  of  these  two  players, 
and  the  manner  of  their  outward  expression 
is  as  far  asunder  as  the  two  poles.  Yet 
Lillian  Kemble  is  young,  dark-eyed,  pretty, 
petite;  doubtless  off  the  stage  she  is  bewitch- 
ing. On  it,  she  is  the  slave,  instead  of  the 
mistress,  of  technique.  She  is  no  worse,  and 
no  better,  than  hundreds  of  actresses  whose 
attempts  to  depict  the  mental  processes  of  the 
character  they  portray  are  hampered  by  an 
inability  to  escape   from  self. 

There  was  an  actress,  Theresa  Max- 
well by  name,  with  the  James-Warde 
combination  at  the  Columbia,  some  months 
ago,  when  "  The  Tempest "  was  put  on, 
who  played  the  part  of  Miranda.  She 
was  not  a  beauty,  and  was  utterly  unheralded. 
But,  with  some  simple  alchemy  compounded 
in  her  own  imagination,  she  succeeded  in 
reaching  ours.  She  was  not  occupied  with 
showing  off  her  paces,  but  gave  herself  over 
to  the  part,  and  seemed,  in  truth,  to  be 
Shakespeare's  Miranda  —  gentle,  gracious, 
compassionate,  and  loving. 

I  often  wonder,  in  these  days  of  swift, 
shallow,  specious  presentations  of  character, 
if  players  of  stock-companies  are  too  over- 
worked to  tax  the  imagination,  or  why  it  is 
that  that  most  necessary  element  in  dra- 
matic representation  is  so  often  neglected. 
The  lack  arises,  perhaps,  from  too  wide  a 
recognition  of  the  carrying  power  of  mere 
physical  attractiveness  oh  the  stage.  Let  a 
woman  be  pretty  and  light  up  well  en 
decollete,  and  she  considers  that  a  successful 
stage  career  is  fully  assured — until  she  tries 
it.  Let  a  man  have  a  deep  voice,  a  stage 
stride,  and  an  underdone  English  accent, 
and  without  further  equipment  he  will  con- 
fidently assume  characters  that  are  supposed 
to  live,  move,  and  have  their  being  in  the  most 
exclusive  drawing-rooms.  And  all  these  things 
tend  to  the  universal  lowering  of  standards, 
and  to  the  waspishness  of  critics.  And  still, 
handicapped  as  it  was  at  the  California,  "  The 
Royal  Family,"  with  its  brilliant  central  idea 
of  showing  up  royalty  engaged  in  its  ordi- 
nary every-day  avocations,  could  not  fail  of 
its  intrinsic  charm.  And,  moreover,  there 
was  good  work  done  in  some  cases.  Frank 
MacVicars,  who  was  one  of  the  most  useful 
men  in  Tames  Neill's  company,  played  the 
part  of  the  cardinal  with  intelligence  and  with 
that  deliberation  and  comparative  impressive- 
ness  of  action  and  deliverv  which  are  essential 
to  give  such  a  character  its  due  weight.  His 
cardinal  lacked  in  mellowness,  but  his  in- 
dividuality was  not  swamped  in  mere  mech- 
anism. 

Phosa  McAllister's  Queen  Ferdinand, 
too,  was  admirable.  The  part  is  a  godsend 
to  elderly  actresses  accustomed  to  be  extin- 
guished in  obscure  roles.  In  this  case,  an 
elaborate  make-up  was  necessary  in  order 
to  simulate  extreme  old  age;  and  the  actress, 
to  her  tremulous  accents,  added  the  stiff, 
careful  dignity  of  gait  that  expressed  the 
age  and  emphasized  the  indomitable  vain- 
glory of  the  venerable  queen  who  had  had  her 
day. 

Thomas  Oberle  contented  himself  with 
closely  imitating  Lawrence  d'Orsay's  King 
Louis,  which  was.  doubtless,  since  he  had  no 
better  conception  to  offer,  a  very  sensible 
thing  to  do.  I  thought  it  not  a  bad  imitation, 
for  it  recalled  pleasantly  the  gentlemanly 
resignation  of  D'Orsay's  Louis,  when  he  set 
himself  to  tackling  his  royal  job. 

Seeing  the  play  a  second  time  set  me 
wondering  anew  why  it  was  that  the  author, 
so  deft  in  limning  in  few  but  firm  strokes  the 
characters  of  the  king,  the  princess,  the  car- 
dinal, and  even  Father  Anselm,  should  allow 
the  queen  to  remain  merely  a  graceful 
nonentity.  It  might  have  been  from  an  em- 
barassment  of  dramatic  riches,  or  perhaps 
he  meant  to  indicate  a_  certain  benumbing 
effect  left  on  the  natures  of  royal  ladies  of 
the  present  day  by  their  lives  of  ordered 
routine,  cramped  by  the  chill  and  stately 
etiquette  of  courts,  so  that  they  are  likely  to 
become   mere  gracious  figure-heads.      Such   as 


it  is,  however,  Adora  Andrews  fills  the  part 
efficiently,  making  up  for  the  absence  of 
dialogue  by  describing  numerous  concentric 
curves  with  the  tail  of  her  gown  around  the 
royal  furniture,  looking  gracious  and  amiable, 
and  rather  upsetting  the  tradition  of  the 
plainness  of  royal  ladies  by  her  appearance 
in  the  throne-room  in  robes  of  state. 

The  last  act  in  the  throne-room  is  little 
more  than  an  interesting  spectacle,  except  for 
its  close.  And  what  a  simple  and  beautiful 
ending  it  is !  One  can  almost  relive  that 
thrill  of  pure  delight  so  exquisitely  implanted 
by  Annie  Russell,  even  under  such  altered 
conditions.  Neither  prince  nor  princess  had 
hitherto  seemed  more  exalted  personages  than 
a  young  American  couple  of  mediocre  stand- 
ing engaged  in  a  pronounced  flirtation.  But 
at  this  final  moment,  imagination  stepped  in 
and  spread  its  wings  for  a  short  but  delicious 
flight. 

As  the  curtain  rolls  down,  and  imagination 
folds  its  wings  simultaneously,  one  begins  to 
reflect  on  how  much  knowledge,  or  work,  or 
both,  an  apparently  simple  little  play  like  this 
requires.  For  one  thing,  it  was  essential  that 
the  author  should  be  equipped  with  some 
knowledge  of  the  routine  of  courts,  and  an 
understanding  of  their  etiquette.  He  must  be 
correct  in  all  the  forms  of  respect  testified  to- 
ward the  members  of  the  royal  family  by 
persons  of  inferior  rank,  and  in  the  terms 
of  address  used  by  them,  not  only  to  the 
king,  the  queen,  and  the  princesses,  but  to 
the  cardinal.  He  must  have  some  accuracy 
of  information  concerning  the  duties  of  the 
leading  officials  of  the  court,  and  needs  to 
have  kept  tag  of  the  kind  of  routine  duties 
the  king  is  called  upon  to  perform.  And, 
lastly,  he  must  see  to  it  that  all  the  details 
connected  with  the  assembling  of  the  wedding 
guests  during  the  final  act  are  based,  in  some 
degree,  upon  actual  practice.  Verily,  it  takes 
more  than  good  will,  a  bottle  of  ink,  and  a 
fertile  fancy  to  write  a  play. 

Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


First  Production  of  "Everyman," 
"  Everyman,"  the  fifteenth-century  morality 
nlay,  is  to  be  given  in  this  city  for  the  first 
time  on  Wednesday  evening.  September  2d,  at 
Lyric  Hall.  121  Eddy  Street,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Channing  Auxiliary  of  the 
First  Unitarian  Church.  It  will  be  produced 
with  the  original  London  company,  which  has 
been  making  such  a  remarkable  success  in 
Eastern  cities,  and  under  the  direction  of 
Benjamin  Breet.  of  London.  This  interesting 
nlay  was  published  early  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  the  Eighth  to  inculcate  great  rever- 
ence for  old  mother  church.  Its  plot  revolves 
around  the  central  thought  that  Man  was 
summoned  from  the  world  by  Death.  The 
moral  pointed  by  the  play  emphasizes  the  fact 
that  nothing  will  avail  him  in  the  beyond 
except  a  well-spent  life  and  the  comforts  of 
religion.  The  costumes  which  are  used  in 
the  modern  production  of  this  ancient  play 
were  designed  from  Flemish  tapestries  of 
the  fifteenth  century.  Miss  Ardella  Mills, 
who  is  chairman  -  of  the  committee  in 
charge  of  this  production,  announces  that 
tickets  will  be  on  sale,  beginning  August 
26th.  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s  music  store- 
All  will  be  reserved,  and  they  will  be  $1.00, 
$1.50,  and  $2.00,  according  to  location. 


The  Tavern  of  Tamalpais,  just  beneath  the 
summit  of  the  mountain,  is  an  admirable  des- 
tination for  a  day's  outing  during  these  pleas- 
ant summer  davs. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan  Building,  rooms  6,  8,  10,  48  (entrance  806 
Market  Street),  informs  the  public  that  the  late 
partnership  has  been  dissolved,  and  that  he  still 
continues  his  practice  at  the  same  place  with  increased 
facilities  and  competent  and  courteous  associates. 


San  Francisco  SYMPHONY  Society 

FRITZ  SCHEEL,  Director. 


GRAND    OPERA.    MOUSE 

Orchestra  of  TO  musicians. 


Concerts  at  3:15  p.  in.,  Fridays,  Aug.  38lh, 

Sept.  4th,  Hth,  18th,  and  '25th,  and 

Oct.  3d  and  9th. 


Seats  on  sale  at  Sherman  &  Clav's  music  store. 
Orchestra,  $1.50.  Dress  circle,  $1.50,  first  four  rows; 
$1.25  last  four  rows.  Family  circle,  $1.00,  first  two 
rows;  50c  last  four  rows.     Gallery,  50c. 


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*TIVOLI* 

To-night    and    next    week,    Saturday    matine.e,     fifth 
week  o[  CAMILLE   D'ARVILLE  in 

THE     HIGHWAYMAN 

Edwin    Stevens  as  Foxy   Quiller. 
Popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  and  75c.        Telephone  Bush  9. 
Watch    for  the  grand  opera. 

QOLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

Beginning   Monday,    August  17th,  Matinees  Wednes- 
day and  Saturday, 
Henry  Margaret 

MILLER        3?        J#        AINGLIIM 
And  a  powerful  company,  in  George  Bernard  Shaw's 
four-act  play, 

THE    DEVIL'S    DISCIPLE 

ALCAZAR     THEATRE.     Phone  "  Alcazar." 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

E.  D.  Price General  Manager 

Commencing  Monday  evening.  August  17th,  the  quaint 
rurai  play, 

With  members  of  original  cast. 

Evenings.  25c  to  7,5c.     Regular  matinees  (Thursday 
and  Saturday),  15c  to  50c. 

August   31st  —  Florence    Roberts    in    The    Unwel- 
come Mrs.  Hatch. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Grand    Army     week,     beginning    Monday    evening, 
August  17th,  great  Civil  War  drama, 

CTJ3VtBER.XjA3Sr3D     '61 

Gorgeous  scenery.    Thrilling  war  incidents. 
Prices— Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matine>s,  10c,  15c,  25c. 

QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Only    matinee    Saturday.      Beginning    Sunday   night, 
second  week  of 

i  3sr    :ee  .a.  n  v  a  h.  d 

Undoubtedly  the  best   performance  of    the    present 
sea  son. — Exa  m  iner. 

Is   a   marked    success. — Chronicle. 


Prices — 25c,  50c,  and  75c. 


QAUFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Grand  Army  week.     Beginning  to-morrow  night.  Neill- 
Morosco  Companv,  presenting 

Two  hundred  regular  soldiers  from  the  Presidio, 
together  with  a  detachment  of  cavalry  will  participate 
in  the  great  battle  scene. 

Prices— 25c,  50c,  and  75c. 


Next— Mrs.  Dane's  Defense. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  lmatin€e,  August  16th. 
Ideal  Vaudeville!  Heeley  and  Meely  ;  Rosie  Kendel ; 
John  LeClair;  Lew  Hawkins;  Sidney  Wilmer  and 
Company :  Miss  Wynne  Winslow ;  the  Kaufmann 
Troupe;  the  Biograph  ;  and  last  week  of  Elfie  Fay, 
"  the  craziest  soubrette  on  the  American  stage." 

Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sundav. 


Better  than   the  best, 
QUO  VASS  ISS  (QUO  VADtS)  and 

THE  BIG  LITTLE  PRINCESS 

All-star  cast,    including     Kolb   and     Dill,    Bernard, 
Blake,  Maude  Amber,  etc. 


Reserved  seats— Nights,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati- 
nees, 10c  and  25c. 


IYRIG  HALL,  Eddy  Street. 

EVERYMAN 

Commencing  Sept.  2d 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL! 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


August  17,  1903. 


THE        A  RGON AUT 


107 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Return  of  Margaret  Anglin  and  Henry  Miller. 
Standing  room  will  be  at  a  premium  at  the 
opening  of  the  Miller- Anglin  engagement  at 
the  Columbia  Theatre  on  Monday  night,  for 
since  Saturday  the  entire  house  has  been 
sold  out.  This  is  a  good  proof  of  the  popu- 
larity of  these  two  favorite  actors  in  San 
Francisco,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict  that  their 
six  weeks'  engagement  here  will  be  a  great 
artistic  and  financial  success,  for  they  have 
selected  an  admirable  repertoire  and  sur- 
rounded themselves  with  an  excellent  com- 
pany.     The    opening    play    will    be    Bernard 

I    Shaw's   brilliant    four-act   play,    "  The    DeviTs 

I  Disciple."  which  was  first  produced  in  this 
country  in  the  fall  of  1898  by  Richard  Mans- 
field. It  enjoyed  a  great  success,  but  inas- 
much as  Mansfield  has  not  visited  us  for  over 
five  years,  San  Francisco  theatre-goers  have 
had  to  be  content  with  reading  Shaw's  play  in 
book-form.  It  is  a  vivid  and  picturesque 
story,  the  scene  being  laid  in  New  England 
iust"  before  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Henry  Miller  will  have  the  role  of  Dick 
Dudgeon,  who  revolted  against  the  Puritanism 
and   strict   orthodoxy   of   early   New    England, 

,  and  believed  in  living  a  care-free  existence, 
doing    what    he    conceived    to    be    right    and 

.  proper,  and  Margaret  Anglin  will  appear  as 
Judith  Anderson,  the  wife  of  the  fighting 
parson.  The  other  roles  will  be  entrusted 
to  Martha  Waldron.  Kate  Pattison  Selten. 
Victoria  Addison,  Mary  Bertrand.  G.  S. 
Titheradge,  Morton  Selten.  Walter  Allen. 
Walter  Hitchcock.  Robert  Mackay,  Ralph 
Lewis.  Bertram  Harrison.  Douglas  R.  Pater- 
son.  Harmon  MacGregor,  E.  J.  Mettler,  and 
lohn    Tobie.      During    the    Miller-Anglin    en- 

■  gagement  there  will  be  matinees  on  Wednes- 
day and  Saturday  afternoons. 

The  Neill-Morosco  Company  in  "Shenandoah." 
"  Shenandoah,"  the  attraction  at  the  Cali- 
'  fornia  Theatre  next  week,  is  especially 
,  timely,  in  view  of  the  visit  here  of  the  Grand 
Army  veterans,  who  will  find  Bronson  How- 
ard's stirring  war  drama  a  realistic  reminder 
of  the  days  of  '61.  The  military  spirit  per- 
vades the  piece  from  the  moment  the  curtain 
coes  up.  The  play  opens  with  the  bombard- 
ment of  Fort  Sumpter:  then  comes  the  ar- 
rival of  the  Federal  army  in  the  valley  of  the 
Shenandoah :  the  torch  signaling  frorn  Three 
Top  Mountain  ;  the  retreat  of  Sheridan's  army 
at  the  Battle  of  Winchester;  the  famous  ride 
of  the  great  cavalry  general,  and  the  turning 
of  defeat  into  victory.  This  scene,  as  pro- 
duced by  the  Neill-Morosco  company,  is  said 
to  be  a  marvel  of  stage  management.  A  large 
number  of  regular  soldiers  from  regiments  of 
the  United  States  army,  now  stationed  at  the 
Presidio,  will  figure  in  the  play,  as  well  as  a 
detachment  of  cavalry.  Mr.  Howard  has  in- 
troduced a  strong  love  interest  in  his  play  :  in 
fact,  there  are  lovers  galore.  One  is  a  South- 
erner, who  sighs  for  a  Northern  girl ;  another 
is  a  Federal  officer,  who  has  lost  his  heart 
to  a  daughter  of  Virginia:  and  a  third  couple 
are  both  on  the  Union  side.  The  dramatist 
has  so  deftly  arranged  his  scenes  that  there 
are  a  succession  of  surprises  in  store  for  the 
audience,  which  goes  away  satisfied  with  the 
confusion  of  villainy  and  the  happy  union 
of  the  lovers.  _ 

"Cumberland  *61 "  at  the  Central. 
Another  Civil  War  drama,  suitable  to  Grand 
Army  week,  but  entirely  different  in  plot  and 
treatment,   is   "Cumberland  '61,"   which   is   to 
ie  presented  at  the  Central   Theatre  on   Mon- 
day night.     Franklyn   Fyles,   who  for  twenty- 
nve    years    served    as    dramatic    critic    on    the 
Ma*  York  Sun    and  collaborated  with   David 
B/lasco    on    "The    Girl    I    Left    Behind    Me." 
f  the  playwright,  and  he  has  chosen  Kentucky 
:nd    West   Point   for   the   scenes   of   his   play. 
The  plot,  briefly,  is  as  follows :  Young  Gordon 
irayne     goes    to     West     Point     and     imbibes 
Vorthern    ideas,    and    when    the    war    breaks 
jut.  he  swears  fealty  to  the  Stars  and  Stripes. 
-Ie  loves  the  daughter  of  an  Ainsley,  but  he 
ran  not  hope  to  secure  their  approval  of  his 
■uit,   because    the   Ainsleys   are   not   only   ene- 
nies  of  his  family,  but  their  men  are  in  arms 
or  the  cause  of  the  South.     While  the  Union 
.rmy  is  encamped  near  by,   Gordon   steals  to 
he  farm  of  the  Ainsleys  to   meet  his  sweet- 
leart  in  secret.     He  is  discovered  by  the  girl's 
ather,    who    swears    to    kill    him.      His    only 
■     'Ossible  hope  of  escape  is  by  crossing  a  bridge 
■ver  a  deep  chasm.     He  risks  the  chance,  but 
Vinsley   meets   him    at   the   bridge,   and,    from 
he  fight   that  ensues,   sinks   down   exhausted. 
V    Kentucky    colonel's    half-breed    son,    who 
lso    loves    Miss    Ainsley,    has    sought   to    cut 
ff    Cordon's    escape    by    burning    the    bridge. 
*    "he  flames  leap  up.  after  Gordon  has  passed 
?  safety,  but  as  he  turns,  he  sees  the  bridge 
urning,  and,  rushing  back  through  smoke  and 
,    I  re,    saves    the    life    of    Ainsley.       Southern 
"oopers    rush    to    the    scene,    and    are    about 
)    shoot    the    youth    when    Ainsley    recovers 
-    ufficiently     to     stop     them.       Meantime,     the 
'nion   army  moving  southward  brings   rescue 
>     Gordon,       Ainsley      forgives     the     brave 
eutenant,  and  the  family  feud  ends  with  the 
edding  of  the  Union  hero  and  the  daughter 
f  the  lost  cause. 


Rural  Drama  at  the  Alcazar. 
The  first  production  in  this  city  of  Eleanor 
Perron's  popular  rustic  comedy,  "  The  Dairy 
arm,"  is  to  be  given  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre 
.  Monday  evening.  Its  scenes  are  laid  in 
)per  New  York  State,  in  the  early  'fifties, 
id  the  slavery  issue,  which  convulsed  the 
'  >untry  during  the  Presidential  campaign,  re- 
|  ilting  in  the  defeat  of  the  gallant  pathfinder, 
remont,  is  a  vital  factor  in  the  dramatic  de- 
j  rlopment  of  the  story.  One  of  the  most 
rUliriK  episodes  is  an  old-fashioned  rally,  in 
;  hich  the  abolitionists  and  pro-slavery  advo- 
ites    are    in    opposing    array.      Great    pains 


have  been  taken  to  stage  "  The  D^iry  Farm  " 
accurately,  and  to  reproduce  the  quaint  cos- 
tumes, the  antique  furniture,  and  farm 
paraphernalia  of  half  a  century  ago.  In  the 
cast  will  be  several  well-known  character- 
actors,  who  have  made  successes  in  the  East 
in  this  play.  Among  them  are  Theodore  T. 
Rook,  who  appears  as  Simon  Krum,  the 
seventy-year-old  miser  and  slave  trader:  Tony 
West  as  Joel  Whitbeck,  the  lanky,  loquacious 
country  peddler;  and  Helen  Hartley  as  the 
rich  village  girl.  Eunice  Jane  Perkins.  The 
young  lovers  will  be  impersonated  by  Ed- 
wards Davis,  the  Oakland  ex-clergyman,  who 
will  make  his  San  Francisco  debut,  and  Juliet 
Crosby.  Oza  Waldrop,  the  Alcazar's  favorite 
comedienne,  will  be  Minty,  the  village  tom- 
boy. Florence  Roberts  begins  her  engagement 
on  August  31st  in  the  first  production  here  of 
Mrs.  Burton  Harrison's  play,  "  The  Un- 
welcome  Mrs.   Hatch." 


"in  Harvard"  a  Big  Hit. 
The  Rogers  Brothers  hodge-podge  of  non- 
sense, "  In  Harvard,"  has  scored  a  pro- 
nounced hit  at  the  Grand  Opera  House,  which 
has  been  crowded  nightly  during  the  week. 
All  the  principals  are  provided  with  congenial 
roles  and  catchy  songs,  and  the  chorus  is  seen 
at  its  best,  especially  in  the  finale  of  the  second 
act.  when  a  bewildering  array  of  pretty  girls, 
costumed  to  represent  the  leading  universities, 
march  on  the  stage,  bearing  the  respective 
banners  and  insignia,  and  singing  lively  col- 
lege airs.  At  the  termination  of  each  song 
they  give  the  college  yell  with  true  vim,  and 
come  in  for  repeated  encores,  especially  those 
who  are  garbed  in  the  Stanford  and  Califor- 
nia university  colors.  Raymond  and  Caverly 
have  some  very  amusing  scenes,  and  their 
new  quartet.  "  The  Troubles  of  the  Reuben 
and  the  Maid."  in  which  they  are  aided  by 
Julie  Cotte  and  Winifred  St.  L.  Gordon,  is  a 
big  success.  Cheridah  Simpson  is  a'so  encored 
for  her  "  Japanese  Serenade,"  and  responds  with 
a  quaint  coon  melody.  She  also  scores  with  her 
piano  imitation  of  a  music-box,  an  autoharp. 
and  a  country  girl  playing  Sousa's  march  in  a 
variety  of  keys.  Anna  Wilks  and  Budd  Ross 
have  a  new  song  and  dance,  "  The  Red  Car- 
nation," which  has  caught  the  town.  Miss 
Wilks,  the  Esmeralda  Sisters,  and  the  chorus 
also  have  a  pretty  little  song  and  dance.  "  My 
Palm  Leaf  Maid."  Other  popular  numbers 
are  Harold  Crane's  new  coster  song.  "'  Polly 
Aint  an  Angel."  and  Robert  Warwick's  "  I'm 
Getting  Quite  American,  Don't  Yer  Know." 

Last  Week  of  "The  Highwayman." 
Camille  d'Arville  is  still  drawing  large 
audiences  to  the  Tivoli  Opera  House,  and. 
as  a  result.  "  The  Highwayman  "  is  to  continue 
still  another  week.  On  Monday.  August  31st. 
the  grand-opera  season  opens,  with  a  list  of 
notable  singers  that  will  certainly  make  the 
season  memorable.  Of  the  old  favorites,  only 
three  are  returning  —  Tina  de  Spada. 
Giuseppe  Agostini.  and  Augusto  Dado.  The 
new-comers  will  include  Lina  de  Benedetto, 
dramatic  soprano;  Adelina  Tromben.  light 
soprano ;  Cloe  Marchesini.  contralto ;  Eman- 
uele  Ischierdo,  dramatic  tenor;  Alfredo 
Tedeschi,  light  tenor ;  Adamo  Gregoretti, 
dramatic  baritone ;  Giuseppe  Zanini.  bril- 
liant and  lyric  baritone;  and  Baldo  Travag- 
lina,  bass.  Among  the  favorite  operas  to  be 
sung  are  "  Aida,"  "  Trovatore,"  "  Lucia." 
"  Rigoletto."  "  Traviata,"  "  Gioconda,"  "  Er- 
nani,"  "  Cavalleria,"  "  I'Pagliacci."  "  Car- 
men," "  Mignon,"  "  Faust."  "  The  Barber  of 
Seville."  "  The  Masked  Ball,"  "  La  Boheme," 
"  La  Tosca,"  and  "  Andre  Chenier."  The  Tiv- 
oli management  has  also  concluded  a  contract 
for  the  production  of  Leoncavallo's  "  Zaza " 
and  Cilea's  "  AdrienneLecouvreur, '  two  operas 
new  to  this  country. 


Burlesque  at  Fischer's. 
Fischer's  Theatre  has  another  big  success 
in  "  The  Big  Little  Princess."  which  is  de- 
scribed on  the  programme  as  "  a  good-natured 
kid  in  two  acts  on  Mrs.  Frances  Hodgson 
Burnett's  kid  play,  '  The  Little  Princess.'  " 
There  is  not  a  dull  line  in  the  whole  burlesque, 
and  the  mounting  and  costuming  exceed  in 
beauty  anything  which  this  house  has  yet  at- 
tempted. Winfield  Blake  as  Rottie,  the  baby 
of  Miss  Pinchin's  academy  for  young  crim- 
inals, is  immense,  and  looks  very  droll  in  his 
white  baby  dress,  pale  blue  sash,  golden  curls, 
and  infantile  footgear.  Barney  Bernard  cuts 
an  equally  laughable  figure  as  the  black- 
gowned,  sour  school-marm.  Miss  Pinchin. 
Dill  as  the  naughty  Erminegarter,  who  learns 


all  her  lessons  by  proxy,  and  Kolb  as  the 
serving  lady,  Specky,  also  convulse  the 
audience  with  their  comical  make-up  and 
antics.  Maude  Amber  is  fetching  as  usual  as 
Sarah  Crude,  the  star  pupil,  and  wins  much 
favor  with  her  new  coon  song.  "  De  Bugaboo 
Man."  Harry  Hermsen  as  Mr.  Carisford,  a 
wealthy  and  retired  blouse- breaker,  and  Eleanor 
Jenkins  as  Mrs.  Patmichael,  a  patron  of  the 
academy,  complete  the  cast.  "  Quo  Vass  Iss," 
which  precedes  "  The  Big  Little  Princess," 
gives  all  the  favorites  an  opportunity  to  show 
their  versatility,  but  it  is  by  no  means  up  to 
the  standard  of  the  latter  burlesque.  The 
garden  scene  of  Petrolius  in  the  fashionable 
quarter  of  Rome,  overlooking  the  arena  and 
adjoining  the  palace  of  Zero  and  Alius  Ap- 
plaudus,  however,  is  quite  striking. 


At  the  Orpheum. 
There  will  be  a  number  of  interesting  new- 
comers at  the  Orpheum  next  week,  among 
others,  Heeley  and  Meely,  in  a  clever  comedy 
acrobatic  act ;  Rosie  Rendel,  an  eccentric 
transformation  dancer,  who  shows,  in  fifteen 
minutes,  as  many  beautiful  costumes  as  she 
does  styles  of  terpsichorean  evolutions;  and 
John  LeClair,  an  artistic  juggler,  who  does 
not  affect  any  of  the  stage  trickery  or  buf- 
foonery many  jugglers  adopt  to  help  their 
act  along.  The  hold-overs  are  Elfie  Fay, 
"  the  craziest  soubrette  on  the  American 
stage,"  who  will  sing  several  new  songs,  and, 
retaining,  by  request,  "  The  Belle  of  Avenue 
A " :  Lew  Hawkins  in  new  parodies  and 
stories  ;  Sidney  Wilmer  and  his  company,  who 
will  appear  in  a  new  farce.  "A  Strange 
Baby."  said  to  be  even  more  amusing  than 
"  A  Thief  in  the  Night " ;  Miss  Wynne 
Winslow,  the  soprano ;  and  the  Kaufmann 
troupe  of  bicyclists,  who  will  make  their  fare- 
well appearance. 


Frank  Bacon,  the  droll  comedian,  who  has 
pleased  Alcazar  audiences  for  the  past  three 
years,  will  begin  a  starring  tour  next  week  in 
"  The  Hills  of  California,"  a  rural  comedy 
written  especially  for  him.  He  is  booked  for 
a  tour  of  forty  weeks,  and  will  go  as  far  East 
as  Chicago.  His  company  will  include  Scott 
Seaton,  Milton  Ross,  Adolph  Angus.  Roy 
Stephenson,  Ernest  Carroll,  Gerald  Hines, 
Walter  Blake.  Gus  Tate,  Claire  Sinclair, 
Frances  Slosson.  Jane  Weidman,  Bessie  Bacon, 
and   the  California  Quartette. 


Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  drew  a  large 
audience  last  Sunday  night  at  Steinway 
Hall  when  he  lectured  on  "  Persuasion : 
Personal  Influence."  A  committee  of  well- 
known  business  and  professional  men 
officiated  during  the  experiments  in  psychic 
phenomena,  which  were  unusually  interest- 
ing. This  Sunday  Dr.  Tyndall  will  talk  on 
■"  The  Mastery  of  Fate." 


It  is  positively  stated  that  "  Ben  Hur  "  will 
be  seen  only  in  San  Francisco  when  it  comes 
to  California  this  year.  The  big  production 
is  of  such  magnitude  as  to  require  more  stage 
facilities  than  are  offered  by  any  theatre  out- 
side the  Grand  Opera  House. 

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Authorized   Capital S3, 000,000 

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Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  money 
in  Probate  Court  proceedings.  Interest  paid  on  Trust 
Deposits  and  Savings.     Investments  carefully  selected. 

Officers—  Frank  J.  Svmmes,  President.  A.  Ponia- 
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Capital  actually  paid  in  cash 1,000,000.00 

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Tournv;  Assist  a  nt-Secrelarv,  A.  H.  Muller  ;  Gen- 
eral Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodkellow. 

Board  of  Directors~\o\m  Lloyd.  Daniel  Meyer.  H. 
Horstman.  Ign.  Steinhart.  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ  N 
Ohlandl,  I.  N.  Walter,  and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

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Deposits,  July  I,   1903 S33.041    JOO 

Paid-Up  Capital 1,000,000 

Reserve    Fund  ...  247  6m 

Contingent  Fund 62a!lS6 

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,„,.„,,   ,.,„,,...    ROBERT  WATT,  Vice-Presdls. 
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Paid-up   Capital,  Surplus,  and 

Undivided   Fronts $     500,000.00 

Deposits,  June  30,   1903 4.128.GK0.I1 

Interest  paid  on  deposits.    Loans  made. 


William  Babcock  President 

FreDW°RaJR Vice-President 

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•O/wtors— William  Alvord.  William  Babcock,  Adam 
Grant.  R  H.  Pease,  L.  F.  Monteagle,  S.  L.  Abbot,  Jr. 
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Leon  Bocqueraz Secretary 

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July  1.  1003. 

William  Ai.vord President 

CharlihR    Bishop  Vice-President 

Franc  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

Irving  F.  Moulton  Cashier 

?.ArM  H„  D,NIE1Ji Assistant-Cashier 

W.M.  R-  Pentj Assistant-Cashier 

Allen  M.  Clav Secretary 

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William  Alvord President 

James  M.  Allen Altomev-at-Law 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

William  Babcock President,  Parrott  &  Co 

Charles  R.  Bishop -.Capitalist 

Antoine  Borel Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Bankers 

Warren  D.  Clark Willliams,  Dimond  &  Co. 

Geo.  E.  Goodman Banker 

Adam  Grant Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Edward  W.  Hopkins Capitalist 

John  F.  Merrill Holbrook,  Merrill  &  Stetson 

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August  17,   1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


When  the  Marquis  of  Headfort— then  only 
a  lord— married  Rosie  Boote.  of  the  chorus 
of  the  London  Gaiety  Theatre,  two  years  ago, 
it  was  predicted  that  he  would  be  socially 
ostracized,  and  a  speedy  separation  follow. 
But  once  again  the  wiseacres  seem  to  have 
been  mistaken,  for  the  married  life  of  the 
Marquis  and  the  Marchioness  of  Headfort 
seems  to  be  running  along  smoothly,  and 
their  recent  appearance  at  a  ball  given  by 
the  young  Duchess  of  Westminster,  who  has 
excluded  nearly  all  Americans  from  her  re- 
cent entertainments,  has  created  little  short 
cf  a  sensation  in  London  society.  When  he 
announced  his  engagement  to  Mtss  Boote, 
the  relatives  of  the  marquis  moved  heaven 
and  earth  to  prevent  the  marriage.  It  is  said 
that  even  King  Edward  endeavored  to  use 
his  influence  in  the  same  direction.  The 
marquis  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  First  Life 
Guards,  one  of  the  crack  British  regiments, 
and  his  colonel.  Prince  Edward  of  Saxe- 
Weimar,  wrote  him,  pointing  out  that  his 
career  would  be  ruined  if  he  married  Miss 
Boote,  as  he  could  not  be  received  by  the 
regiment.  The  marquis  replied,  regretting 
that  he  could  not  see  the  matter  in  that  way, 
and  then  sent  his  resignation  papers  to  Lord 
Roberts.  The  commander-in-chief  was  also 
apparently  involved  in  a  little  plot  to  prevent 
the  marriage,  for,  instead  of  accepting  Lord 
Headfort's  resignation,  he  ordered  the  marquis 
to  hold  himself  in  readiness  to  go  to  South 
Africa  on  active  service.  Confronted  with  the 
necessity  of  giving  up  his  fiancee,  at  least  for 
a  time,  or  of  resigning  his  commission  when 
ordered  to  go  and  fight,  the  marquis  did  not 
hesitate.  He  declared  that  the  usual  stigma  that 
rests  on  an  officer  who  declines  active  service 
would  not  rest  on  him,  insisted  on  resigning, 
and  married  Miss  Boote.  English  society  pre- 
tended to  be  shocked  that  a  young  nobleman, 
head  of  an  ancient  house  and  the  possessor 
of  considerable  wealth,  should  bring  such  a 
"disgrace"  upon  himself,  and  vowed  that  he 
would  repent.  It  is  likely  that  these  predic- 
tions would  have  been  justified  had  Miss 
Boote  been  a  Gaiety  chorus-girl  of  the  May 
Vohe  stripe,  but.  as  a  matter  of  fact,  she  was 
a  quiet,  refined  woman,  a  devout  Catholic, 
and  there  was  nothing  against  her  except  the 
fact  that  she  did  not  belong  to  the  upper 
classes,   and   gained   her   living   on    the    stage. 

The  papers  said  little  about  the  marquis  and" 
his  bride  until  a  couple  of  weeks  ago,  when 
London  society  gasped  with  astonishment,  for 
it  found  that  the  marquis  and  marchioness 
had  been  invited  to  one  of  the  most  import- 
ant balls  of  the  season — a  ball  at  which  King 
Edward  and  Queen  Alexandra  had  consented 
to  be  present,  but  which,  for  state  reasons,  they 
later  found  themselves  unable  to  attend.  Prin- 
cess Christian  and  other  members  of  the  royal 
family  were  there,  and,  so  far  as  is  known, 
none  of  the  most  exclusively  disposed  of 
the  members  of  the  aristocracy  who  had  been 
invited  stayed  away.  The  entrance  of  the 
marquis  and  his  wife  was.  of  course,  the 
sensation  of  the  evening,  and.  in  spite  of  what 
must  have  been  a  most  trying  ordeal,  the 
former  actress  bore  herself  in  a  manner  which 
every  one  declared  to  be  perfect.  Her  gown 
was  one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  all  the 
beautiful  costumes  seen  at  the  ball,  and,  if 
anything,  her  manners  were  better  than  those 
of  the  grandes  dames  who  crowded  round  her 
inquisitively.  Now  that  the  Duchess  of  West- 
minster has  received  the  Marchioness  of 
Headfort.  it  is  expected  that  other  hostesses 
will  of  course  follow  suit,  and  the  ex-chorus- 
girl  will  not  only  have  the  nominal  but  the 
actual  position  of  a  marchioness.  Plenty 
of  peers  have  married  actresses  before,  but 
English  society  has  in  almost  every  case 
ostracized    both    husband    and    wife. 

The  delicatessen  store  has  become  an  in- 
stitution in  this  cam  try  to  such  an  extent 
that  it  will  be  a  surprise  to  the  young  people 
to  know  that  the  pioneer  ''delicatessenhimdler  " 
of  the  United  States  died  in  Brooklyn  a.  few 
weeks  ago.  Paul  <  label  lived  to  be  eighty- 
four  years  old.  and  had  the  satisfaction  of 
knowing  that  -lures  similar  to  the  one  which 
he  started  many  years  ago,  which  was  one 
■  if  the  first  uf  its  kind  in  the  country,  have 
been  established  in  every  large  city  in  the 
United    Slates.      "  In    its   early    days."    says    the 

Xew    York    Tribune,    "  the    delicatessen    store 
was  patronized  onlj  by  Germans.  Its  stock  was 
comparatively    small,     containing     only     the 
stric  iy   German    food  articles  which   the   gen- 
eral   dealer    did    not    carry,    either    because    lie 
did    not    know    that    'here    were    such    articles, 
'of    fear    that    the        '    s    would    not    justify 
nvestment      But   Hi       lelicatessen  man  had 
kinds  of  cheese  and  sausages,  cakes 


and  sweetmeats,  and  many  a  severe  case  of 
homesickness  has  been  cured  by  remedies 
brought  to  the  table  from  the  delicatessen 
store.  The  German's  American  neighbors 
soon  acquired  the  delicatessen  habit,  and  for 
their  accommodation  the  stocks  were  enlarged, 
ceased  to  be  exclusively  German,  and  in- 
cluded "  made  dishes "  and  "  cold  cuts," 
which  have  become  a  joy  to  the  housekeeper 
and  a  refuge  in  time  of  unexpected  guests. 
The  delicatessen  store,  with  an  atmosphere 
all  its  own  which  can  not  be  reproduced,  has 
revealed  to  Americans  the  savory  secrets  of 
Kartoffelsalat,  Pumpernickel,  and  Lebkuchcn  ; 
it  has  made  Kalteraufschnitt  a  part  of  the 
Sunday  bill  of  fare  in  hundreds  of  American 
families,  and  has  given  people  who  other- 
wise might  never  have  known  an  idea  of 
Ganscleberpasteten  and  of  Gerauckerteganse- 
bntst,  of  Salzgurkcn,  Scnfgurken,  and 
Rotheriibensalat,  achievements  which  the 
pioneer  delicatessen  man  probably  did  not  con- 
template when  he  placed  his  German  delicacies 
on  sale  fifty  years  ago. 

A  well-known  New  York  milliner  declares 
that  the  high-crowned  hat  in  the  big  shape,  and 
the  turban  in  the  small  shape,  are  to  be  the 
favorites  in  millinery  for  fall  and  winter 
wear.  In  garnitures,  shaded  effects  will  be 
much  used  for  the  expensive  hats.  Long 
ostrich  plumes  are  now  dyed  in  patches,  show- 
ing in  one  plume  perhaps  five  tones  of  the 
same  color.  They  will  shade  from  a  deep 
Burgundy  red  through  to  a  light  pink,  from 
Havana  brown  to  a  pale  champagne  tint,  from 
blue  to  hyacinth  blue.  The  mauve  and  violet 
shadings  are  particularly  rich  and  effective. 
A  golden  Milan  straw  hat,  brought  over  from 
Paris  recently  by  one  of  the  best-dressed 
women  in  New  York,  has  a  high  quilling 
around  the  crown,  of  the  rich  red  Burgundy 
velvet,  and  an  ostrich-feather  shade,  twenty- 
seven  inches  long  of  the  pinkish  mauve,  swept 
around  the  hat  and  down  the  hair  almost  to 
the  shoulder.  This  was  worn  most  effectively 
with  a  mauve  crepe-de-chine. 


Birds  are  to  be  worn  more  than  ever  in 
millinery,  but  the  bird-lovers  need  not  de- 
spair, for  these  trimming  birds  are  made  in 
Paris,  and  never  sang  a  song.  The  stuffed 
bird,  in  fact,  is  being  eliminated  from  mil- 
linery for  what  might  be  termed  natural 
causes.  They  have  come  to  be  regarded  as 
tasteless  by  French  milliners,  as  they  can  not 
be  handled  with  at  all  the  same  ease  and 
effect  that  the  made  bird  can.  The  wings 
of  the  stuffed  bird  are  stiff,  those  of  the  made 
bird  are  pliable  and  easily  bent  to  follow  a 
crown  or  bend  around  a  hat-rim.  The 
feathers  of  common  birds  killed  for  food 
or  because  they  are  nuisances  are  used  to 
make  these  birds. 


The  much-criticised  heron's  egret  will 
not  be  seen  in  millinery  after  the  first  of  the 
year,  the  Milliners'  Association  having  come 
to  an  agreement  with  the  Audubon  Society 
to  that  effect.  Aigrettes,  however,  will  be 
seen,  whose  use  will  not  violate  this  agree- 
ment. It  is  found  that  peacock  and  other 
common  feathers  can  be  chemically  treated 
to  duplicate  almost  perfectly  the  egret.  Coque 
plumes  are  to  be  very  much  used.  Beautiful 
specimens  are  shown  rivaling  in  exquisite 
finish  the  best  ostrich  plumes.  Marabout 
feathers,  too,  will  be  popular  and  beautiful, 
and  costly  feather  capes  of  this  and  other 
varieties  will  be  worn  by  those  who  can 
afford  them.  A  new  fluffy  skin  something 
like  chinchilla  is  a  decided  novelty  in  mil- 
linery. It  is  called  chayas  skin,  and  is  ap- 
plied like   fur  and  marabout. 

The  Courier  thus  recommends  one  of  the 
belles  to  the  consideration  of  eligible  bachelors 
of  Lincoln,  111.,  who  are  thinking  of  enter- 
ing the  matrimonial  arena:  "  Miss  Julia 
Hickey  is  now  an  accomplished  performer  on 
the  piano,  and  v.  ould  prove  an  ornament 
in  a  rich  man's  home,  for  in  addition  to  her 
musical  talent  she  is  a  number  one  house- 
keeper and  an  up-to-date  cook,  and  is  able  to 
sew  and  mend.  Such  girls  are  in  demand 
nowadays." 

The  Kaiser's  civilities  to  Cornelius  Vander- 
bilt  have  aroused  a  great  deal  of  adverse  criti- 
cism in  the  German  press.  The  Welt-Am- 
Montag  published  a  furious  tirade,  attributing 
the  Kaiser's  action  to  the  inspiration  of  Baron 
Speck  von  Sternberg,  German  embassador  to 
the  United  States.  It  says:  "When  Specky 
heard  of  Vanderbilt's  journey  he  cogitated  as 
to  what  diplomatic  advantage  he  could  obtain 
out  of  the  event.  As  his  position  does  not  call 
for  specially  intellectual  work,  he  conceived 
it  would  flatter  the  Yankees  if  special  honor 


should  be  shown  the  special  representative  of 
the  almighty  dollar.  The  Kaiser  relied  on 
his  Specky,  and  gave  instructions  to  show 
Cornelius  Second  special  honors."  This 
paper  makes  a  virulent  attack  on  the  entire 
Vanderbilt  family,  and  tells  some  very  im- 
probable stories,  one,  for  instance,  that  Cor- 
nelius "Vanderbilt  wants  to  buy  the  famous 
Castle   Marienburg  for  a  racing  stable. 

The  single  eyeglass,  or  monocle,  never 
found  many  admirers  in  this  country,  and  only 
a  few  transplanted  Englishmen  cling  to  them 
in  San  Francisco.  An  occulist,  discussing  the 
use  of  the  monocle,  said,  the  other  day:  "  Dr. 
Kitchener,  back  in  1824,  thought  it  a  good 
thing.  He  advised  its  alternate  use,  now  in 
the  right  eye,  now  in  the  left  one.  He  said 
in  his  book  that  he  had  cultivated  the  habit 
of  picking  up  the  glass,  each  time  he  wanted 
to  use  it,  with  a  different  hand.  Of  course, 
picked  up  with  the  right  hand  it  had  to  go 
into  the  right  eye,  and  vice  versa.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  the  single  eyeglass  is  injurious. 
It  throws  all  the  work  on  one  eye.  It  de- 
stroys the  harmony  of  the  optic  muscles  and 
nerves.  I  know  an  Englishman  who  has  worn, 
for  a  myopic  affection,  a  monocle  in  his  left 
eye  for  twelve  years.  The  left  eye  is  all  right, 
but  with  the  other  the  man  can  see  practically 
nothing.  Joseph  Chamberlain  wears  his  mon- 
ocle in  either  eye  alternately,  and  his  son 
does  the  same  thing.  The  habit  of  the  mon- 
ocle continues  to  live  among  the  English 
swells." 


A  secondary  consideration :  The  demure 
comedienne  has  closed  with  the  impresario, 
and  has  agreed  to  create  the  leading  role  in  the 
new  comic  opera.  "  And  now,"  says  the  im- 
presario, "what  figure  would  you  want  for  the 
season?"  "  Oh,"  she  titters,  with  an  affecta- 
tion of  embarrassment,  "  had  we  not  best  leave 
that  to  the  costumer?" — Judge. 

Equipped :  "  Have  you  everything  for  the 
automobile?"  asked  the  stranger  entering  the 
store.  "  Yes,  sir,"  replied  the  clerk.  "  Well, 
give  me  four  yards  of  court-plaster,  six  gallons 
of  arnica,  a  bundle  of  cotton  batting,  and  half 
a  dozen  copies  of  '  First  Aid  to  the  Injured.'  " 
— Yonkcrs  Statesman. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


Liebold  Harness  Company. 

If  you  want  an  up-to-date  harness,  at  a  reasonable 
price,  call  at  211  Larkm  Street.  We  have  every- 
thing for  the  horse  and  stable. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander    G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather, 

August    6th 70  4S  .00  Clear 

"         7th 68  50  .00  Clear 

8th 60  46  .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

"         9th 56  48  .00  Cloudy 

"        10th 60     .      48  .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

"        nth 60  52  .00  Clear 

12th 58  52  .00  Clear 


THE    FINANCIAL    "WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  an 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds. 
Shares. 

Contra  Costa  W  5%  10,000  @  102J4 

N.  R.  of  Cat.  6% .  . .  10,000  @  io6J£ 

N.  R.  olCal.  5%--     2,000  @  119K- 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry5%..     3,000  @  io65£ 
S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% 26,000  @  119%- 

S.  V.  Water6% 10,000  @  107^ 

S.  V.  Water  4%  2d . .    2,000  @    99K 

Water.  Shares. 

S.  V.  Water 55  @    82#- 

Suga  rs. 

Hana  P.  Co 2,000  @    10- 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...        165  @    41- 

Hutchinson  10  @    13 

Paauhau  S.  Co 20  @    14}^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Mutual  Electric...        150  @    12- 

Pacific  Gas 40  ©52 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric         90  @    66- 

Ttustees  Certificates. 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric        190  @    65- 

Afiscella  neons. 

Alaska  Packers  ...        115  ©142- 

Cal.WineAssn 50  @    97 

Oceanic  S.  Co 70  @      7- 


d  Bond  Exchange 
August  12,  1903, 

Closed 
Bid.  Asked 

«9K 

100 
106  J4 
ng 
106 

104 
10S 

120 

83  a 

"9K 

107 

Bid. 
835* 

I20tf 

99JS 

Asked 

15 
41H 

12 
14 

4i5< 
13 
15 

6-a 

51 X 

66 

52tf 

65K 

65 

145^ 

141 
95 

7 

97K 

INVESTT1ENTS. 

Local  Stocks  and  Securities.     Refer   by   permission 
to  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  and  Anglo- Califomian  Banks. 


A.  W.  BLOW, 

Member  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange. 

A.  W.  BLOW  &  CO. 


Tel.  Bush  24, 


304  Montgomery  St,,  S.  F, 


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THE 


ARGON  A  U  T. 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


W.  J.  Lampton,  the  humorous  versifier, 
wrote  to  a  man  who  had  asked  him  for  his 
photograph  :  "  My  dear  boy — I  send  you  the 
photograph  for  which  you  ask.  It  is  such  a 
good  likeness  that  it  hurts." 


When  the  late  "  Tom  "  Ochiltree  first  started 
cut  in  life  he  went  into  the  practice  of  the 
law  with  his  father.  "  Well,  Tom,"  the  se- 
nior partner  is  said  to  have  remarked,  "  what 
shall  we  style  the  firm  ?  "  Whereupon  Tom 
immediately  suggested :  "  Why  not  Thomas  P. 
Ochiltree  &  Father?" 

To  explain  why  his  trip  had  proved  so  poor, 
a  commercial  traveler  once  wrote  a  long  ac- 
count of  how  the  weather  had  affected  business 
in  the  territory  in  which  he  had  traveled.  In 
due  time  he  received  this  reply  from  his  firm  : 
"  We  get  our  weather  reports  from  Washing- 
ton. Don't  send  us  any  more ;  what  we  want 
is  orders." 


It  is  said  that  Mark  Twain  was  standing  in 
a  crowded  street-car,  hanging  to  a  strap,  the 
other  day.  As  the  car  swung  around  a  corner 
the  strap  broke,  dumping  him  into  the  lap  of  a 
well-dressed  woman.  The  humorist  arose  and 
bowed.  "  Madam,"  said  he,  "  this  is  the  first 
time  the  street-car  company  ever  conferred  a 
favor  on  me." 

Once  at  Quarter  Sessions,  as  recorder  of 
Shrewsbury,  Sir  Arthur  Jeef  was  sentencing 
a  hypocritical  prisoner,  who,  hopeful  of  soft- 
.ening  the  judge's  heart,  shed  copious  tears, 
.and  in  reply  to  his  lordship's  inquiry,  "  Have 
you  ever  been  in  prison  before?"  sobbed, 
.tearfully,  "  Never,  my  lord,  never !  "  "  Well, 
.don't  cry,"  was  the  recorder's  reply,  "  I'm  go- 
iing  to  send  you  there  now." 


While  journeying  through  the  interior  not 
long  ago,  a  traveler  was  surprised  at  the  re- 
markable ignorance  of  a  venerable  farmer  at 
whose  house  he  staid  over  night.  He  seemed 
to  know  little  or  nothing  about  current  events, 
so  the  traveler  asked  him  why  he  did  not  take 
a  weekly  newspaper,  and  so  keep  himself  in- 
formed. "  Wal,"  answered  the  farmer,  "  when 
pa  died  he  left  me  a  stack  o'  papers  that  high 
[lowering  his  hand  to  a  position  just  above 
his  knee],  and  I  aint  got  half  through  th'  pile 
yet,  so  what's  th'  use  getting  more?" 


A  New  England  deacon  sold  a  pair  of  oxen 
to  a  brother-farmer,  who  inquired  before  pur- 
chasing if  they  were  "  breachy."  "  They've 
never  bothered  me,"  answered  the  deacon.  The 
purchase  was  concluded,  but  in  a  few  days 
.the  purchaser  had  suffered  considerable  dam- 
age to  his  fences  from  these  same  oxen.  In- 
dignant, he  confronted  the  deacon.  "  I  asked 
you  if  they  were  '  breachy,'  "  he  exclaimed, 
"and  you  said  they'd  never  bothered  you.' 
"  Well,"  answered  the  deacon,  "  I  never  allow 
that  kind  of  thing  to  bother  me." 


At  Newport,  last  summer,  George  J.  Gould 
went  aboard  a  battle-ship  which  -was  sur- 
rounded by  a  multitude  of  little  boats,  filled 
with  curious  spectators  bent  on  seeing  all  that 
could  be  seen.  There  was  a  young  officer  on 
board  who  must  have  sat  down  accidentally 
on  a  fresh-painted  bench  or  something  of  that 
kind,  says  Mr.  Gould,  "  for  his  white  duck 
trousers  were  very  dirty.  He,  though,  was  not 
aware  of  it.  He  moved  among  the  ladies 
gallantly,  and  his  trousers  were  an  eyesore. 
Finally  some  one  on  one  of  the  little  boats 
below  in  a  stentorian  Irish  voice  shouted: 
'Och,  misther,  wouldn't  yer  ducks  be  better 
for  a  shwim  ?  '  " 

In  his  monologue  at  the  Orpheum,  recently, 
James  J.  Corbett  told  of  an  incident  that  oc- 
curred at  the  Coney  Island  Club  when  he 
fought  "  Jim  "  Jeffries  for  the  first  time.  The 
fighters  had  to  pass  through  the  crowd  of  spec- 
tators on  the  way  to  the  dressing-rooms.  One 
man  there,  though  he  had  never  seen  either 
of  the  fighters,  had  backed  Jeffries  heavily. 
As  Corbett,  followed  by  his  trainers,  passed 
into  the  place,  some  one  yelled:  "  Hello,  here's 
Jim !  "  The  man  who  was  backing  Jeffries 
thought  it  was  his  favorite  who  had  arrived, 
and  he  rushed  up  and  caught  Corbett  by  the 
hand.  "Good  luck,  Jim!"  he  shouted:  "I 
hope  you  knock  Corbett's  block  off." 

Lord  Charles  Beresford  was  once  break- 
fasting in  a  small  country  hotel,  and  acci- 
dentally upset  a  cup  of  coffee  over  the  clean 
white  tablecloth,  which  the  good  lady  of  the 
house  had  dug  up  from  her  most  sacred  linen 


cupboard  for  the  benefit  of  the  British  admiral. 
Unfortunately,  the  upsetting  of  the  steaming 
coffee  also  upset  the  good  lady's  temper,  and 
she  soundly  rated  Lord  Charles  for  his  want 
of  tact.  "  It's  a  good  thing  for  you."  she  said, 
"  that  the  coffee  has  not  left  much  stain  on  my 
cloth  !  "  '"  It  was  too  weak,  madam,"  replied 
the  admiral ;  "  you'll  have  to  stain  your  coffee 
before  you  can  expect  to  stain  your  table 
linen.  Use  more  beans,  ma'am ;  use  more 
beans !  " 

During  his  last  years.  Pope  Leo,  who  had 
done  so  much  for  his  relatives  in  a  financial 
way,  found  it  necessary  on  several  occasions 
to  refuse  the  requests  of  his  nephews  for  fur- 
ther aid.  The  wife  of  one  of  these  nephews  is 
said  to  have  undertaken  to  get  some  money 
from  him.  She  solicited  an  interview,  and, 
having  obtained  it,  said :  "  Holy  Father,  I 
come  to  seek  your  advice.  I  am  poor.  I  have  a 
large  family,  and,  alas  !  I  am  in  debt.  I  have 
been  gifted  by  heaven  with  a  good  voice,  and 
the  proprietor  of  a  music-hall  has  offered  me 
a  large  salary  to  appear  on  his  stage  and  sing 
a  few  simple  songs.  Ought  I  to  accept  the  of- 
fer?" "Certainly,"  replied  His  Holiness; 
'"  and  I  only  regret  that  my  official  position 
will  not  allow  me  to  be  present  at  your  de- 
but." 


Early  one  morning  recently,  before  inspect- 
ing some  regiments  on  the  manoeuvring 
ground,  the  present  "  Moltke "  of  the  Ger- 
man army,  Count  Haeseler,  went  into  the 
regimental  canteen  and  asked  for  five  cents' 
worth  of  bread  and  sausage,  such  as  is  sup- 
plied to  the  ordinary  soldier.  The  man  in 
charge  thought  he  would  do  himself  a  good 
turn  by  handing  the  general  an  extra  large 
piece  of  either  luxury.  Later  in  the  morn- 
ing, when  halt  had  been  called,  the  general 
ordered  the  soldiers  to  produce  the  rations 
supplied  by  the  canteen  for  five  cents. 
Naturally,  those  shown  were  not  of  such  satis- 
factory dimensions  as  had  been  sold  to  the 
chief.     He  said,  quietly :    "  Take  your  rations 

back  to  the  canteen  and  tell  Herr  M that 

Count  Haeseler  commands  him  to  give  each 
of  you  as  large  a  portion  as  he  had  himself 
for  the  same  money.  My  five  cents  is  not 
worth  more  than  yours." 


At  the  very  beginning  of  his  editorial  career, 
a  friend  visited  Henry  Labouchere,  and,  see- 
ing a  quantity  of  books  around,  which  had 
been  sent  in  for  review,  offered  to  bet  the 
editor  of  London  Truth  that  there  was  one 
book  he  had  not  got  in  the  office.  Labouchere 
inquired  the  name  of  the  book,  and  his  friend 
promptly  answered:  "A  Bible."  With  a 
laugh,  Labouchere  offered  to  bet  ten  pounds 
that  he  had  even  that  book.  Turning  the 
conversation  in  another  direction,  he  furtively 
sent  a  note  out  into  the  clerk's  office,  telling 
the  boy  to  go  downstairs  and  ask  the  book- 
sellers underneath  for  the  loan  of  a  Bible. 
Presently  he  returned  to  the  subject  of  the 
bet,  and,  calling  his  assistant  in,  asked  him 
whether  he  had  a  Bible  in  the  office.  The 
clerk  produced  the  book,  which  Labouchere 
handed  over  to  his  friend,  giving  himself 
away,  however,  as  he  did  so  by  saying  sotto 
voce  to  the  clerk:  "I  hope  to  goodness  you 
didn't  forget  to  cut  the  leaves !" 


Just  Questions. 

Why  does  one  always  apologize  for  himself 
when  seen  buying  a'Ladies'  Home  Journal? 

Why  does  one  always  explain  that  he  takes 
the  Herald  for  its  shipping  news,  but  never 
reads  it? 

Why  does  one  always  explain  that,  though 
he  buys  the  Sun,  he  does  not  agree  with  its 
opinions  ? 

Why  does  a  reader  of  the  Tribune  explain 
that  his  father  took  it  during  the  Civil  War, 
and  so  he  takes  it  now? 

Why  does  a  man  with  the  Times  always  ex- 
plain that  he  bought  it  just  to  see  what  the 
new  management  was  doing  with  it? 

Why  do  the  men  with  the  Journal  and  the 
World  explain  that  they  bought  them  just  to 
see  what  yellow  journalism  was  like? 

Why  is  no  man  willing  to  admit  that  he 
likes  the  paper  he  is  reading? — Life. 


No  Substitute 
not  even  the  best  raw  cream,  equals  Borden's 
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream  for  tea,  coffee, 
chocolate,  cereals  and  general  househ'  Id  cooking. 
It  is  the  result  of  forty-five  years  experience  in 
the  growing,  buying,  handling  and  preserving  of 
milk  by  Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

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THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Concerning  Correct  Speech. 
Oh  why  should  the  spirit 

Of   Grammar  be  proud 
With    such    a    wide    margin 

Of    language    allowed? 

Of   course   there's   a   limit — 
"  I    knowed  "    and    "  I've    saw," 
"  I    seen  "    and    "  I    done    it," 
Are  rather  too  raw; 

But    then    there    are   others 

Xo    better    than    they 
One    hears   in   the   talking 

He  hears  every   day. 

"  Where  at?  "  asks  one  person. 

Quite  thoughtless.     And:     "  Who," 
Asks    another.     "  did    Mary 
Give    that    bonnet    to?" 

Hear  a  maid   as   she  twitters: 
"  Oh,   yes,    I   went  out 
With  she  and  her  fellow 
In  his  runabout." 

And  hear  a  man  saying: 
"  Between    you    and    I, 
That    block    of    Pacific 

Would  make  a  good  buy." 

And   this   from   a   mother. 

Too   kind,    to    her   boy: 

'  I   had  rather   you  shouldn't 

Do  things  to  annoy." 

And   this    from    a  student. 

Concerning    3    show. 
Who  says  to  the  maiden: 
'*  Let's  you  and  I  go." 

There's  lots  of  good  people. 

That's  talking  like  that. 
Who  should  learn  from  we  critics 

To  know  where  they're  at. 
— William  J.  Lampton   in   the  Reader. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 


The  Shorter  Course, 
Hurry  the  baby   as   fast  as   you   can. 
Hurry  him,  worry  him,  make  him  a  man; 
Off  with  his  baby  clothes,  get  him  in  pants, 
Feed   him  on    brain    foods   and   make   him   ad- 
vance. 
Hustle   him,    soon    as   he's   ab^e   to    walk, 
Into  a  grammar  school;  cram  him  with  talk. 
Fill  his  poor  head  full  of  figures  and  facts. 
Keep  on   a  jamming  them  in  till   it  cracks. 
Once  boys  grew  up  at  a  rational  rate; 
Now    we    develop   a    man    while    you    wait. 
Rush  him  through  college,  compel  him  to  grab 
Of  every  known  subject  a  dip  and  a  dab. 
Get    him    in    business    and    after    the    cash 
All  by  the  time  he  can  grow  a  mustache. 
Let    him    forget    he    was    ever    a    boy. 
Make  gold  his  god  and  its  jingle   his  joy; 
Keep  him  a-hustling  and  clear  out  of  breath 
Until  he  wins — nervous  prostration  and  death. 
— Boston   Transcript. 

The  Vacation  That  Failed. 
Far    from    the    madding    throng's    ignoble    strife 

He   wished    to   go    to   hunt   and    6sh    and    rest; 
Alas!    poor  man!    he  had  a    foolish    wife. 

Who  yearned  to  dazzle  where  the  people  dressed. 

Full  many  a  gown   her  load  of  trunks  contained. 
When,   having  made  him   yield,   they   went  away; 

He  thought  of  what  was  coming  and  was  pained, 
She    dreamed    of    dressing    seven    times    a    day. 

He  grumbled  at  his  fate  and  spoke  of  brooks 
Where  speckled  beauties  waited  to  be  caught. 

Where    one    might    sit,    regardless    of    his    looks. 
And   wait   for   nibbles   and   indulge   in   thought. 

She    pictured  to    herself   the  charming  place 
Where  wide  verandas  spread  and  all   was  gay. 

Where    she,    arrayed     in     fluffy    stuff    and    lace. 
Would    fill    the    other    women    with    dismay. 

They  reached  the  splendid  scene  in  splendid  style. 
He    with    a    look    that    was    distinctly    sad; 

She    with    her    head    held    high,    a    happy    smile. 
And    thinking   of   the    finery   she    had. 

At   dinner  next   to   him   a   woman   sat, 

A   woman   who   was   young  and   passing   fair; 

He    seemed    to    find    her    well    worth    looking   at. 
And    oft    their    glances    met    and    mingled    there. 

Ere    long    the    woodland    haunts    passed    from    his 
mind. 
He    thought    no    more     of     roaring     mountain 
brooks ; 
The   lady    was   so    sweet   and    so    refined — 

They  talked  about   their   travels  and   of  hooks. 

What   changeful   creatures    women   arc!      Mre    long 
His    wife    for    woodland    haunts    began    to    wish; 

A-weary     of     the     fashionable     throng. 

She    packed    her    trunks    and    dragged    him    off 
to    fish. 

Ah    man!    Thou    art    forever    tricked    by    Fate; 

Thou   (earnest   joy   and   then    it   is   denied; 
He   sat  there   while  the   fish   chewed   uff   his   bait. 

And   thought   of  other,   gayer   scenes  and   sighed. 

His    wife,    but    little   caring    how    she    dressed. 
Was    full    of   praises    for   the   "sweet,    pure   air," 

And    when   she   spoke   about  his   "need   of   rest" — 
Alack!    the   wicked   things    he   thought   out   there. 
— S.   E.    Ktser   in    Chicago    Record-Herald. 


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druggists. 


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Phil'delphia.Aug.  12,  to  am  I  New  York  -Aug.  26,  10  am 

St.  Louis  —  Aug.  19,10am  I  Phil'delphia  Sept.  2,  10  am 

Philadelphia — Queens  town— Liverpool. 

Haverford Aug.  15  I  Friesland    Aug.  29 

Noordland Aug.  22  [  Westeriiland Sept.  5 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Mesaba Aug.  15,9  am  I  Min'apolis. .  Aug.  29. 10 am 

Minnetonka  .Aug.  22,5am  |  Minnehaha..  .Sept.  5,  4  pro 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— yUEENSToWN— LIVERPOOL, 

Mayflower Aug.  [3  I  Mayflower Sept.  10 

Commonwealth — Aug.  27  1  Columbus  (newt  .  Sept.  17 

New  England Sept.  3  |  Commonwealth    ..Sept. 24 

Montreal—  Liverpool-Short  sea  passage. 

Canada August  22  I  Dominion.   ...Septembers 

Kensington August  29]  Soulhwark...Seplem1>t-r  12 

B0510"    Mediterranean    ^rect 

AZORES-GIERALTAR-NAPLES— GENUA. 

Vancouver Saturday,  Aug.  29,  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

Cambroman Salurdav.  sepi.  19,  Oct.  31 

HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ROTTERDAM.    VIA  B0LL0GNE. 
Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Statendam August  12  j  Noordam.   August  26 

Ryndam \u-ust  19  |  Rotterdam. ..  September  2 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Finland August  15  j  Krooriland August  29 

Vaderland August  22)  Zeeland   September^ 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

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Germanic.  August  12,  noon  I  Celtic \ugust  21,  4  pm 

Cedric August  14,  9  am  I  Victorian August  25 

Majestic.  August  19,  noon  |  Oceanic. .  .August  26,  S  am 

C.  It.  TAYLOK,    Passenger  Agent.  Pacific  Coast, 

21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  I  F.  M-,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 

arid  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Coptic  falling  at  Manila). -Tuesday,  Augast  IS 

i  Sael  1. Friil sty,  September  1 1 

Doric Wednesday,  October  1 

Coptic  Saturday,  October  31 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

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Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets.  1  p.  M.  ior  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogoj,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing.      1903 

America  Maru Wednesday,  August  26 

Hongkong  Maru Saturday,  September  19 

{Calling  at  Manila) 

Xippon  Mara Thursday,   October  15 

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For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

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Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,  August  15,  1903, 

at  11  a.  m. 
S.  S.    Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,   August    15,    1903,    at 

II   A.   M. 

S.  S.  Sierra,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,    Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  August  27,  1903,  at  2  p.  u. 

-J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Eros.  Co.,  Agts..  643  Market 

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August  17,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Automobile  "Week  at  Del  Monte. 
Some  sixty  automobiles,  owned  by  well- 
known  people  from  San  Francisco,  Oakland, 
Alameda,  Stockton,  and  San  Jose,  made  the 
run  to  Del  Monte  last  week,  and  participated 
in  the  first  tournament  of  the  Automobile  Club 
of  California  held  in  this  State.  On  Sunday, 
the  automobilists  made  a  tour  of  the  seven- 
teen-mile drive,  and  on  Monday  they  partici- 
pated in  an  interesting  programme  of  races, 
held  under  the  management  of  the  governors 
of  the  Automobile  Club  and  the  following 
officials:  Referee,  Mr.  E.  Courtney  Ford; 
starter,  Mr.  C.  C.  Moore;  clerk  of  the  course 
Mr.  R.  C-  Lennie;  judges.  Mr.  J.  D.  Spreck- 
els,  Mr.  R.  P.  Schwerin,  Mayor  Johnson,  of 
Monterey,  and  Mr.  Samuel  G.  Buckbee ;  time- 
keepers. "Mr.  P.  Lowe.  Mr.  R.  L.  Bettner,  Dr. 
D.  A.  Stapler,  Mr.  \Y.  G.  Irwin,  Mr.  E.  J. 
Coleman,  and  Mr.  \V.  H.  Taylor;  scorer,  Mr. 

C.  E.    Matthew-son ;    clerk   of   the    scales.    Dr. 

D.  A.  Stapler.  On  Tuesday,  the  automobilists 
enjoyed  a  picnic  at  Point  Lobos,  and  on 
Wednesday   the   return   trip   was   made. 

So  successful  has  this  initial  automobile 
tournament  proved  that  President  Hyde  de- 
clares the  club  will  hold  a  big  race  meet  at 
the  Ingleside  Track,  in  San  Francisco,  next 
November,  when  some  valuable  prizes  will 
be  oiiered.  The  club  added  some  notable  mem- 
bers during  the  last  week.  Another  result 
of  this  meet  and  the  interest  it  has  aroused 
will  be  a  vigorous  effort  to  secure  a  three- 
quarter  double  straight- aw  ay  automobile  race- 
course in  Golden  Gate  Park,  either  along  the 
northern  or  the  southern  side,  with  a  low 
hedge  separating  the  outgoing  from  the  in- 
coming track. 

While  many  of  the  fashionable  guests  have 
departed  from  Monterey,  now  that  the  polo 
and  pony  races  and  the  automobile  tourna- 
ment are  over,  there  are  still  sojourning  at 
the  Hotel  del  Monte  many  well-known  San 
Franciscans,  who  intend  to  remain  there  until 
after  the  golf  tournament,  which  begins  on 
Monday,  August  24th. 

A  number  of  notable  dinner-parties  have 
been  given  during  the  week.  Mr.  Francis 
Carolan,  Mr.  Charles  W.  Clark,  and  Mr. 
Thomas  A.  Driscoll  gave  a  farewell  dinner  at 
the  club-house,  at  which  they  entertained  Mr. 
Richard  M.  Tobin,  Mr.  Joseph  O.  Tobin,  Mr. 
Clement  Tobin,  Dr.  George  F.  Sbiels,  Mr.  E. 
C.  Waller,  Captain  J.  Barneson,  Mr.  C.  J. 
Buckley,  Jr.,  Captain  N.  P.  Batchelder,  Mr. 
Rudolph  Spreckels,  Mr.  R.  C.  Rogers,  Mr. 
Lawrence  W.  Redington,  Mr.  T.  Fairham,  Dr. 
Elmer  J.  Boeseke,  Mr.  Edward  Boeseke,  Mr. 
J.  L.  Colby,  Mr.  H.  Praed.  Mr.  H.  S.  Gane, 
Mr.  C.  E.  Maud,  Mr.  R.  L.  Bettner,  and  Mr. 
F.  G.  Newton. 

Mr.  Clement  Tobin  gave  a  dinner  in  the 
main  dining-room  of  the  hotel  on  Saturday 
last,  at  which  he  entertained  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Shiels,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Clark, 
Miss  Charlotte  Russell,  Miss  Virginia  Jolitte, 
Miss  Helen  de  Young,  Miss  Pearl  Landers, 
Mr.  Richard  M.  Tobin,  Mr.  Joseph  O.  Tobin, 
and    Mr.   Edward   Tobin. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  G.  F.  Shiels  gave  a  supper- 
party  at  the  club-house  on  Thursday,  August 
6th,  at  which  they  entertained  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Clark,  Mrs.  Whittell,  Miss  Virginia 
Joliffe,  Miss  Charlotte  Russell,  Miss  Helen 
de  Young,  Mr.  Clement  Tobin,  Mr.  C.  E.  Orr, 
Mr.  Joseph  O.  Tobin,  Mr.  Richard  M.  Tobin, 
and  Mr.  Charles  de  Young. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  also  gave 
a  dinner  at  the  club-house  last  week,  their 
guests  being  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  F.  Shiels,  Mrs.  Samuel  G. 
Buckbee,  Miss  Helen  de  Young,  Miss  O'Con- 
nor, and  Mr.  Charles  de  Young. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Julia 
de  Laveaga,  daughter  of  Mr.  Miguel  A.  de 
Laveaga,  and  Mr.  Andrew  Welch,  second  son 
of    Mrs.    Bertha   Welch. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Haas  have  an- 
nounced the  engagement  of  their  daughter. 
Miss  Florine  Haas,  to  Mr.  Edward  Branden- 
stein.  son  of  Mr.  Joseph  Brandenstein,  and 
brother  of  Supervisor  Henry  J.  Brandenstein. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  Hazel  Maydwell, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs,  C.  A.  Maydwell. 
to  Dr.  E.  Weldon  Young,  of  Seattle,  was 
announced  at  a  tea  given  by  Miss  Maydwell's 
parents  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  August  nth. 
Those  who  assisted  in  receiving  were  Miss 
Alice  May.  Miss  Paula  Wolff.  Miss  Martha 
Spencer.  Miss  Chispa  Sanborn,  and  Miss  lean 
Oliver. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Irene  Ward,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  T.  Ward,  and  Mr. 
Lharles  M.  Dufficy.  will  take  place  at  St. 
Dominic's  Church  on  Tuesday  morning 
August     25th.       The     ceremonv     will     be     per- 


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ROYAL 

MAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

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formed  at  ten  o'clock  by  Rev.  Father  Welch. 
Miss  Mildred  Ward,  sister  of  the  bride,  will 
be  the  maid  of  honor,  'and  Mr.  Rafael  Dufficy 
will  be  his  brother's  best  man.  Miss  Alicia 
Dufficy  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Dufficy  will  be 
bridesmaids,  and  Mr.  H.  F.  Anderson.  Mr. 
George  B.  Keane,  Mr.  J.  H.  Fuller,  and  Mr. 
Harry  Ruthrauff  will  act  as  ushers.  Mr. 
Dufficy  and  his  bride  will  depart  for  Japan 
on  their  wedding  journey. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Annie  Sessions,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  C.  Sessions,  and  Mr. 
Charles  Stuart  Cushing  took  place  on  Monday 
afternoon  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents 
on  Durant  Street,  Oakland.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Charles  R.  Brown, 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church.  The 
bride  was  unattended.  Mr.  Oscar  K.  Cushing 
acted  as  best  man.  The  ceremony  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  wedding  supper,  after  which  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Cushing  departed  on  their  wedding 
journey,  which  will  include  a  tour  of  Yellow- 
stone Park.  On  their  return,  they  will  reside 
in   San   Francisco. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Frances  Kautz,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  General  A.  V.  Kautz,  and 
Captain  Alvin  Chambliss  Read.  U.  S.  A.,  took 
place  in  Cincinnati  on  Saturday,  August  8th, 
at  St.  Paul's  Cathedral.  Miss  Kautz,  it  will 
be  remembered,  made  her  social  debut  in  San 
Francisco  when  her  father  was  stationed  here. 

Mrs.  R.  A.  Vance  gave  a  luncheon  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael  last  Saturday,  at  which  she 
entertained  Mrs.  J.  B.  Smith,  Mrs.  A.  C. 
Freese,  Mrs.  E.  Cline,  Mrs.  D.  Green,  Mrs.  C. 
Piatt,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Peyser,  Mrs.  E.  G.  Zeile, 
and  Miss  E.  Ewing. 


The  Midsummer  Bohemian  Jinks. 
The  Bohemian  Club  held  its  annual  mid- 
summer high  jinks  at  Bohemia  Grove,  near 
Guerneville.  last  Saturday  night,  and  it  was 
voted  a  great  success  by  those  who  were 
present.  During  the  afternoon  a  special  train 
of  six  coaches  went  up  to  the  grove,  convey- 
ing over  three  hundred  members.  On  Friday 
evening  a  special  car  was  attached  to  the 
regular  north-bound  train  to  accommodate 
those  members  who  wished  to  journey  to  the 
redwoods  in  advance  of  their  associates.  The 
principal  feature  of  the  Saturday  evening  high 
jinks  was  the  opera,  "  Montezuma,"  the 
libretto  by  Louis  Robertson,  and  music  by 
Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart.  An  impromptu  entertain- 
ment was  given  on  Friday  evening,  in  which 
David  Warfield  and  Nat  Goodwin  were  the 
stars  of  the  occasion.  Mr.  Goodwin  gave  a  num- 
ber of  clever  imitations,  singing  a  song  as 
Henry  Irving  would  sing  it,  as  Stuart  Robson, 
and  several  others  might,  David  Warfield's 
character  recitations  also  won  much  applause. 
Joseph  D.  Redding  and  Donald  de  V.  Graham 
were  others  who  helped  to  make  the  affair  a 
success.  On  Sunday  morning,  the  merry- 
makers enjoyed  themselves  with  walks  along 
the  Russian  River,  boating,  bathing,  and  fish- 
ing. The  return  trip  was  made  by  special 
train  in  the  afternoon. 


The  Fritz  Scheel  Concerts. 
The  musical  season  of  1903-4  practically 
began  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Friday 
afternoon,  when  the  first  symphony  concert, 
under  the  leadership  of  Fritz  Scheel,  was 
given  before  a  large  and  appreciative  audience, 
the  programme  consisted  of  the  following 
numbers :  Overture,  "  Fingals  Cave,"  Felix 
Mendelsohn  Bartholdi ;  Symphony  No.  2,  C 
major,  op.  61,  Schumann;  Peer  Gynt,  op.  46, 
Greig ;  Suite  No.  1,  op.  43,  Tschaikowsky ; 
"  Tannhauser  Overture,"  Wagner.  The  next 
concert  under  Scheel's  direction  will  be  given 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Thursday  after- 
noon, August  27th,  and  the  others  to  follow  will 
take  place  on  September  3d,  September  10th, 
September  17th,  September  24th,  October  1st, 
and  on   October  8th. 


The  underground  electric-railway  system  of 
Paris  was  the  scene  on  Monday  of  one  of  the 
most  appalling  railroad  accidents  on  record. 
Two  trains  of  four  carriages  each,  filled  with 
passengers,  were  consumed  by  fire  in  the  heart 
of  the  underground  tube  midway  between 
stations,  at  an  inaccessible  point,  where  no 
relief  could  be  given  to  the  victims,  and  no 
chance  offered  for  escape  from  the  death- 
dealing  fumes  and  flames.  One  of  the  trains 
broke  down  at  Menilmontant,  and  the  train 
following  it  was  ordered  to  push  the  disabled 
cars  through  the  tube  to  the  repair  shops. 
Y\  hen  the  two  trains  came  in  contact  the}- 
caught  fire.  A  panic  ensued  among  the  pas- 
sengers and  train  hands.  Many  of  them  left 
the  cars  and  attempted  to  escape,  but  instead 
some  ninety  persons,  according  to  the  dis- 
patches,   met    death    by    suffocation. 


Of  the  many  improvements  which  Mr.  E. 
S.  de  Wolfe  has  made  since  he  has  become 
proprietor  of  the  Hotel  Pleasanton,  the  most 
important  is  his  transformation  of  the  dining- 
room.  The  walls  and  ceiling  have  been 
beautifully  tinted  and  frescoed,  "and  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  incandescent  flowered  globes  are 
used  to  light  up  the  room  properly.  The  ladies* 
reception-room  has  been  refurnished  superbly. 
All  the  furniture  has  been  specially  manu- 
factured for  the  Pleasanton.  The  library,  the 
cafe,  the  billiard-room,  and  the  ladies'  recep- 
tion-room have  also  been  handsomely  fur- 
nished. 


Mr.  Arthur  S.  Brown,  son  of  Mrs.  H.  W. 
Brown,  and  Mr.  James  F.  Kutz,  son  of 
Admiral  George  Kutz,  have  been  aDpointed 
assistant  paymasters  in  the  navv  by  P'resident 
Roosevelt. 


The  list  of  big  stellar  attractions  for  the 
Columbia  Theatre  during  the  coming  season 
includes  Mrs.  Langtry,  who  has  not  visited 
San  Prancisco  in  a  number  of  vears. 


Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest: 

The  appraisers'  report  on  the  estate  of  G. 
W.  Frink,  the  pioneer  real-estate  dealer,  has 
been  filed.  It  shows  that  the  deceased  was 
worth  $179,755.  The  estate  consists  of 
$75,000  personal  property  and  realty  in  this 
city,  Los  Angeles,  Alameda,  and  San  Diego, 
worth  $90,000. 

The  estate  of  Egbert  Judson,  worth  about 
$1,250,000,  was  distributed  on  Tuesday  by 
judge  Coffey,  after  the  final  account  of 
Charles  C.  Judson,  the  surviving  executor  and 
trustee,  had  been  approved.  Egbert  Judson 
died  in  1893.  He  was  not  married,  and  his 
heirs  were  two  nephews  and  two  nieces.  One 
of  the  nephews,  Henry  C.  Judson.  died  in 
1S94,  leaving  a  daughter,  Charlotte  D.  Judson, 
and  a  niece,  Mrs.  Charlotte  A.  Lynch,  died 
later,  leaving  no  children.  Three  persons  were 
thus  left  to  inherit  the  property — Charles  C. 
Judson,  a  nephew ;  Mrs.  C.  S.  Benedict,  a 
niece;  and  Miss  Charlotte  D.  Judson.  They 
have  formed  the  Judson  Estate  Company,  and 
transferred  to  it  the  realty  which  came  to 
them,  including  valuable  proper*}'  in  this 
city,  San  Mateo,  and  Marin  Counties,  and 
mines  in  Sierra  County.  A  large  amount  of 
stocks  and  other  securities,  and  nearly 
$77,000  in  cash  are  to  be  divided  between 
them. 

The  will  of  Franklin  Heywood,  the  lumber- 
man, who  committed  suicide  on  July  29th,  has 
been  filed  for  probate.  W.  B.  Heywood  and 
Walter  Heywood,  brothers  of  the  deceased, 
and  H.  A.  Powell,  the  lumberman,  are  named 
as  executors.  The  document  directs  that  the 
estate  of  the  deceased,  which  is  worth 
$250,000,  shall  be  held  in  trust  by  them  until 
the  death  of  Agnes  B.  Heywood,  wife  of  the 
testator,  from  whom  he  separated  many  years 
ago.  They  are  directed  to  pay  to  her  $150  a 
month  during  her  lifetime,  and  a  similar  sum 
to  Agnes  Maud  Heywood,  the  adopted  daugh- 
ter of  deceased.  Upon  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Heywood,  the  executors  shall  give  to  the 
adopted  daughter  one-half  of  the  estate,  and 
divide  the  other  half  between  Charles,  Samuel, 
W.  B.,  Walter,  and  Harry  Heywood,  brothers 
of  the  deceased,  and  Hattie  G.  Hunt,  a 
sister,  and  C.  W.  and  Irene  Phillips,  a  nephew 
and  a  niece.  In  the  event  of  the  death  of  the 
adopted  daughter  before  Mrs.  Heywood,  her 
share  will,  under  the  will,  go  to  the  brothers 
and  sister  and  nephew  and  niece  in  equal 
shares. 

The  will  of  Charles  R.  Lloyd,  who  died  in 
Y'okohama,  Japan,  August  6th,  has  been  filed 
for  probate  in  Oakland.  The  greater  portion 
of  the  estate,  valued  at  more  than  $500,000,  is 
placed  in  the  hands  and  under  the  control 
of  Dr.  Thomas  Addison  and  Arthur  W.  Good- 
fellow,  as  trustees,  for  the  term  of  ten  years. 
During  this  period,  the  trustees  are  directed 
to  pay  to  the  widow,  Mary  Lloyd,  one-third 
of  the  income  of  the  estate,  and  to  Charles 
R.,  Mabel  F.,  and  Ethel  Mary  Lloyd,  the 
three  children  designated  as  heirs,  two-thirds 
of  the  income,  in  equal  proportions.  In  the 
event  of  the  deaths  of  the  widow  and  three 
children  within  the  ten  years,  without  issue, 
then  the  estate  is  to  revert  to  a  brother,  Will- 
iam Rees  Lloyd,  of  England.  Fred  W.  Lloyd, 
another  son,  is  disinherited. 


Grand  Army  "Week. 
There  will  be  two  large  parades  next  week. 
One  will  be  made  up  of  Grand  Army  men 
entirely,  while  the  other  will  have  in  line  a 
large  number  of  military  and  civic  societies, 
and  floats  and  many  novel  and  attractive 
features,  and  will  be  one  of  the  largest  and 
most  attractive  parades  ever  seen  in  San 
Francisco.  This  will  be  the  big  parade  of 
Tuesday,  which  will  form  in  the  morning 
around  Union  Square,  and  march  through  the 
principal  streets.- 


The  introduction  into  this  market  of  a  new 
cigar,  with  the  name  "  L.  Sanchez  "  upon  its 
label,  has  led  Sanchez  &  Haya,  manufacturers 
of  the  established  brand  of  Sanchez  Havana 
cigars,  to  appeal  to  the  courts  to  stop  the 
alleged  infringement  of  their  rights.  A  bill 
of  complaint  has  accordingly  been  filed  in  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court,  demanding  that 
H.  Rinaldo,  a  wholesale  distributor  of  "  La 
Flor  de  Sanchez  "  cigars,  in  this  city,  be  re- 
quired to  appear  and  show  cause  why  he  and 
his  agents  should  not  be  enjoined  from  otter- 
ing their  goods  in  the  manner  they  are  now 
alleged  to  be  doing. 


The  Miller-AngHn  season  of  forty  per- 
formances will  be  followed  bv  the  great  musi- 
cal success.  "The  Prince  of'Pilsen." 


Blanche  Walsh,  the  actress,  has  secured  a 
divorce  from  Alfred  Hickman,  to  whom  she 
was  secretly  married  in  1S96. 


Grand    Army  Veterans. 

No  Civil  War  veteran  who  scaled  the 
heights  of  Lookout  Mountain  should  return 
to  his  home  from  his  California  pilgrimage 
without  going  up  Mt.  Hamilton  to  the  great 
Lick  Observatory.  It's  easy  to  do  this— just 
go  to  San  Jose,  enjoy  one's  self  at  the  pa- 
latial Hotel  Vendome,  and  go  from  there  in 
comfortable  stages  up  to  the  heights  whence 
astronomers  look  skyward  through  the  biggest 
working  telescope  in  the  world.  Even  if  you 
don't  go  up  to  the  observatory,  a  trip  to  the 
Vendome   is  worth   talking  about. 

—  Make  no  mistake,  Kent,  Shirt  Tailor, 
121  Post  St.,  cuts  fine-filling  Shirt  Waists  for  ladies. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  stvles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.   Hatter.  746  Market  St. 


Pears' 

Which  would  )  ou  rath- 
er have,  if  you  could  have 
\  our  choice,  transparent 
skin  or  perfect  features  ? 

All  the  world  would 
choose  one  way;  and  you 
can  have  it  measurably. 

If  you  use  Pears'  Soap 
and  live  wholesomely 
otherwise,  )  ou  will  have 
the  best  complexion  Na- 
ture has  for  \  ou. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


The  CLUB 

are  the  original  bottled  Cocktails. 
Years  of  experience  have  made 
them  THE  PERFECT  COCKTAILS 
that  they  are.  Do  not  be  lured 
into  buying  some  imitation.  The 
ORIGINAL  of  anything  is  good 
enough.  When  others  are  offered 
it  is  for  the  purpose  of  larger  prof- 
its. Insist  upon  having  the  CLUB 
COCKTAILS,  and    take  no   other. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEIN  &  ERO.,  Sole  Profiler, 

29  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn.  London 


PACIFIC  COAST   AGENTS 

THE  SPOHN-PATRICK  CO. 

400-404  Battery  St.,  San  Francisco,  CalJ 


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"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 


Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  to  ;[ 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Route  and  Mis=oll 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-car  sen-ice,  nf 
equipment 

Secure  sleeping-car  reservation  and  full  infor™ 
tion  from 

U.  M.  FUETCHriR, 

Pacific  Coast  Agent 
30  Montgomery  Street,    San   Francisco,    Cil 


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August  17,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  tor  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  or  over  a 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  oi  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted intoa  lounging  room .  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR— the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Eilliard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR-the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    'WHEREABOUTS. 


TENNIS 
I      GOLF 
BOWLING 


ORCHESTRA 

COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  GO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  VENDOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


,     NEW  ANNEX 
NEW  LANAI 
NEW  DRIVES 


GEO.    P.   SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE.  CAL. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

WIS  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU    CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  U.  cor.  Pine  and  Jones  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


HOTEL    RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.     Twenty- 
fi.nr    trains    daily    each    way.      Open    all 
the  year. 
CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

R.  V.  H ALTON,  Proprietor. 

For  booklet  and  information  inquire  at  city  office,  14 
:      Post  St.,  telephone  Bush  125. 

Have  representative  call  on  yon. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
«  reau,  11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.   WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P,  O. 


190,000 

People  depend  upon  the 

OAKLAND  TRIBUNE 


The  Tribune  is  the  home  paper  of  Oakland  and 
Alameda  County,  and  has  no  rival  in  its  field. 

The  Tribune  publishes,  exclusively,  the  full 
Associated  Press  dispatches. 

All  society  events  of  the  week  are  mirrored  in 
Saturday's  Tribune. 

Local  and  State  politics  receive  attention  by 
special  writers  in  the  same  issue. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Califonntans : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Cardan  left  on  Tues- 
day for  the  East,  en  route  to  Europe.  Be- 
fore going  abroad  they  will  visit  Mrs.  Caro- 
lan's  mother,  Mrs.  Charles  Pullman,  at  her 
country  place  at  the  Thousand  Isles,  and 
after  a  short  stay  at  Newport  will  sail  for 
Europe,  where  they  will  remain  three  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Downey  Harvey  had  just 
left  Florence  for  Naples  when  last  heard 
from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  L.  Flood  and  Miss  Sal- 
lie  Maynard  sailed  from  New  York  for  Eu- 
rope last  week. 

Mrs.  Mountford  S.  Wilson  and  Miss  Emily 
W'ilson  have  returned  to  Burlingame  after  a 
short  stay  at  Del  Monte. 

Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Reginald  K.  Smith, 
who  are  the  guests  of  Mrs.  Irving  M.  Scott, 
expect  soon  to  occupy  their  residence  on  Pa- 
cific Avenue.  Dr.  Smith  having  been  assigned 
to  duty  in  this  city  as  rendezvous  surgeon. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  McNear,  Jr.,  have 
taken  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Bishop 
on  Pacific  Avenue  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parker  Whitney  came  up  from 
Monterey  early  in  the  week  for  a  few  days' 
stay  in  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Denis  O'Sullivan.  who  arrived 
from  London  last  week,  expect  to  remain  here 
during  the  month  of  August. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Edward  Pond,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  C. 
Breeden  have  returned  from  their  visit  to 
Santa  Barbara. 

Baron  and  Baroness  von  Schroeder  sailed 
from  New  York  for  Europe  last  week,  and 
expect  to  be  absent  several  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark  Requa  will  leave  Pied- 
mont next  month  for  an  Eastern  trip. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young,  Miss  Helen 
de  Young,  and  Mr.  Charles,  de  Young  have 
returned  from  Monterey  to  their  summer  resi- 
dence. ""  Meadowlands."  in  San  Rafael 

Judge  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Finn  sailed  from 
New  York  on  August  6th  for  Hamburg.  They 
expect  to  go  to  Copenhagen  this  month,  and 
later  will  visit  Stockholm. 

Mrs.  Ira  Pierce  was  in  New  York  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Ede  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Burr  Eastwood  have  returned  from  a 
month's  visit  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P.  Carlton 
at  Ben  Lomond. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill  were  guests  at 
the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose,  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Gwin  and  Miss 
Carrie  Gwin.  who  have  been  spending  the 
summer  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  expect  to  re- 
turn to  town  within  a  fortnight. 

Mrs.  Norman  McLaren  and  family,  after  a 
six  weeks'  absence  in  the  country,  are  occupy- 
ing their  residence  on  Sacramento  Street. 

Miss  Jacqueline  Moore  sailed  tor  Honolulu 
on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Siberia  last  Satur- 
day. 

Miss  Elsie  Gregory'  has  returned  after  a  stay 
of  several  weeks  in  the  Santa  Cruz  Mount- 
ains. 

Miss  Carrie  Ayres  was  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Silas  Palmer  at  Menlo  Park  last  week. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Earle  Brownell  have  arrived 
from  the  East  and  are  occupying  the  resi- 
dence they  have  taken  on  Broadway. 

Mrs.  William  B.  Collier  and  family  have 
returned  to  the  city  after  an  extended  sojourn 
at  their  country  place  at  Clear  Lake. 

M  iss  May  Friedlander  and  M  iss  Fanny 
Friedlander  have  removed  from  their  late 
residence  on  Devisadero  Street  to  Washing- 
ton Street,  near  Fillmore.  Miss  Bessie  Bowie, 
who  is -staying  with  them,  is  slowly  recover- 
ing from  her  recent  illness. 

Mrs.  C.  L.  Ashe  is  the  guest  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Gaston  Ashe  at  their  country  place. 

Mrs.  Bowie-Detrick  is  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
William  Howard  at  San  Rafael. 

Miss  Florence  Starr  is  spending  the  month 
of  August  at  Upper  Soda  Springs. 

Mrs.  John  Landers  and  Miss  Pearl  Landers 
were  guests  at  Del  Monte  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  J.  D.  Bailey  and  Miss  Florence  Bailey 
will  leave  next  week  for  the  East.  They  ex- 
pect to  be  absent  several  months. 

Dr.  E.  F.  Robinson,  of  Kansas  City,  is  a 
guest  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mrs.  F.  T.  Martin  and  Mr.  N.  C.  Babin 
were  guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  C.  Babin  over 
Sunday  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  W.  Kimble  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  E.  W.  Runyon  visited  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  last  week. 

Miss  Lillie  O'Connor  was  a  guest  at  Del 
Monte  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  S.  V.  Maynard  has  been  spending  a 
few  days  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  William 
Gwin,  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarence  Martin  Mann  were 
at  the  Hotel  Jungfrau,  Interlaken,  Switzer- 
land, when  last  heard  from. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler  have 
returned  to  Berkeley  after  an  extended  trip 
to  the  Eastern  States. 

Mr.  M.  A.  Daniels,  of  Berkeley,  was  the 
guest  of  Mr.  Herbert  Baker  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael last  week. 

Judge  M.  M.  Estee  and  Mrs.  Estee  arrived 
from  Honolulu  on  the  Oceanic  steamship 
Alameda  on  Tuesday,  and  are  the  guests  ot 
Mrs.   Charles   Deering  on   Broderick  Street. 

Mr.  Bert  R.  Hecht  has  joined  his  brother, 
Mr.  Summit  L.  Hecht,  in  Boston.  Before 
returning  they  will  spend  some  weeks  at  the 
\arious  watering-places  on  the  Atlantic  Coast. 

Mr.  Hamilton  Wright,  of  Vicksburg,  Miss., 
was  a  guest  of  Mr.  William  Gwin  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  last  week. 

Mr.  Hother  Wismer  has  returned  from 
Honolulu,  where  he  has  been  sojourning  for 
about  two  months. 

Mr.  T.  Stewart  White  and  family,  of  Santa 
Barbara,  are  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael. 

Dr.  Bernard  Moses,  for  many  years  pro- 
fessor of  history"  at  the  State  university,  and 
latterly  a  member  of  the  Philippine  Commis- 
sion,  arrived   from   the   East  on   Tuesday,  ac- 


companied by  Mrs.  Moses.  They  are  guests 
at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  F.  Burns.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  James  Armstrong.  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Rogers.  Mrs.  Fred  Cook.  Mr.  George  W.  Reed, 
Dr.  A.  P.  Mulligan,  and  Mr.  R.  A."  Cooks. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  P. 
O'Neil  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  W.  Nolker. 
of  St.  Louis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  J.  Salisbury,  of 
Los  Angeles,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  T.  E.  Nicholson. 
Mrs.  S.  Gilchust.  Mr.  Charles  Townsend.  of 
Oakland,  Mrs.  George  H.  Warfield.  of  Healds- 
burg,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Cutting  and  Mr.  R.  M  Cut- 
ting, of  Chicago,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  L.  Home. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  M.  Willett,  and  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  George  W.  Merritt. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The  latest  personal  notes   relative   to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Lieutenant-General  Nelson  A.  Miles.  U.  S. 
A.,  who  was  retired  from  the  army  on  Satur- 
day last,  having  reached  the  age  limit,  was 
succeeded  by  Lieutenant-Generat  Samuel  B. 
M.  Young,  U.  S.  A.  General  Miles  is  ex- 
pected here  in  a  few  days  to  attend  the  en- 
campment of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public. 

Major-General  Arthur  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A., 
accompanied  by  his  start,  visited  Benicia  early 
in  the  week. 

Rear-Admiral  George  C.  Remey,  the  ranking 
officer  of  his  grade,  was  retired  from  the  navy 
on  Monday.  Since  May,  1902.  he  has  been 
chairman  of  the  light-house  board.  He  will 
be  succeeded  in  that  office  by  Rear-Admiral 
John  J.   Read,   U.  S.  A. 

General  William  R.  Shafter,  U.  S.  A.,  re- 
tired, and  his  daughter.  Mrs.  W.  H.  McKit- 
trick,  have  taken  the  Tatum  house  on  Pacific 
Avenue  for  the  winter. 

Captain  Richardson  Clover,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
Mrs.  Clover  expect  to  remain  at  their  country 
place  in  Napa  until  the  last  of  next  month, 
when  they  will  make  a  short  stay  at  Santa 
Barbara  before  returning  to  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Colonel  George  Andrews,  adjutant-general, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  returned  from  his  ten  days*  out- 
ing in  the  mountains.  During  his  absence, 
the  duties  of  the  office  were  carried  on  by 
Major  John  R.  Williams,  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  at 
present  enjoying  a  short  leave  in  the  country' 
with  Mrs.  Williams. 

Mrs.  Watson,  wife  of  Rear-Admiral  John 
Crittenden  Watson,  U.  S.  N.,  is  visiting  her 
mother,  Mrs.  J.  D.  Thornton,  at  her  residence 
on  Jackson  Street. 

Brigadier-General  Oscar  F.  Long,  U.  S.  A., 
returned  last  week  to  Washington.  Mrs.  Long 
will  remain  with  her  little  daughters  at  Pied- 
mont another  month  before  leaving  for  the 
East. 

Rear-Admiral  Silas  W.  Terry,  U.  S.  N., 
recently  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  naval 
station  at  Honolulu,  arrived  from  the  East 
early  in  the  week,  accompanied  by  his  wife. 

Lieutenant  Guy  T.  Scott,  Artillery  Corps, 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  ordered  to  Baltimore  to  re- 
port to  Major  William  A.  Nichols,  Twenty- 
Fifth  Infantry',  recruiting  officer  at  that  place, 
for  duty  as  assistant. 

Brigadier- General  John  B.  Babcock,  who  has 
been  adjutant-general  of  Lieu  ten  ant-General 
Nelson  A.  Miles's  staff  at  Washington  since 
April,  1902,  and  before  that  time  was  adjutant- 
general  of  the  Department  of  California  for 
three  years,  was  retired  from  the  army  on 
Saturday. 

Mrs.  Home  (nee  McClung),  wife  of  Lieu- 
tenant Frederick  J.  Home,  U.  S.  N.,  is  to  join 
her  husband  at  Puget  Sound,  where  the  Alert 
has  been  assigned. 

Colonel  Constant  Williams,  Twenty-Sixth 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  returned  from  Manila  on 
Sunday  on  the  transport  Logan,  after  a  three 
years'   campaign  in  the   Philippines. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  C.  Woodbury* 
U.  S.  A.,  is  in  temporary  command  of  the 
Seventh  Infantry*-  having  relieved  General 
Charles  A.  Coolidge,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was  re- 
tired last  week. 


—  The  largest  variety  of  paper-covered 
novels  for  summer  reading  can  be  found  at  Cooper's 
Book  Store,  746  Market  street. 


Diamonds  Can  >"ot   Be  Judged 
in   poor  or    under    artificial    light.     The    store    of 
A.  Hirschman,  712  Market    and  25  Geary  Streets, 
has    perfect  light,    and    is    an    ideal    place    to    buy 
diamonds,  etc. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent.  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN     FRANCISCO. 
All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 

ANNOUNCES   SPORTS. 


Polo  and  Races— 


August  1st  to  Sth.  Under  the  auspices 
oi  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Ponv  Racing 
Association.  R.  M.  Tobin,  Secretary.  En- 
tries to  and  information  from  151  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


Automobile  Run- 


AuguHt  tith  to  l  I  1  l.  .from  Mtv,  Fran- 
cisco, including  meet  at  D.I  Monte. 
Under  the  auspices  oi  the  Automobile  Club  of 
California.  F.  A.  Hyde,  President.  Entries 
to  151  Crocker  Building,  San  Francisco. 


Golf  Tournament 


August  24th  to  31st.  Under  auspices  oi 
tbe  Pacific  Coast  Goli  Association.  R.  Gil- 
man  Brown,  Secretary.  Entries  to  310  Pine 
Street,  San  Francisco. 

OPEN    CHAMPIONSHIP  -Team     Mat  Hi. 
for  B>rne  Cup,  North  vs.  South. 

DEL  MONTE  CUPS— Amateur  Tournament. 
Ladies'  Tournament. 


HOT 


AND 


HANDY 


TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL   CO. 

Phone  South  95. 


AH  America  knows  the 

HARTSHORN 

Shade  Boiler 
is  the  b^st.     Bnt  lo^k  cat  Cnr 
coanrerfe  ts. The reuuinc h33 
the  n  .-r.^  ure  on  the  label  ua 
above.    Gee  the  improved. 


EMiNGTON 

Standard  Typewriter 

211  Montgomery  Street,  San  Francltco 


Educational. 


IRVING  INSTITUTE 

Boarding  and  Dav  School  for  Young  Ladies, 

2126  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

Accredited    to     the     Universities.      Conservatory    of 

Music,   Art,  and  Elocution. 
For    Catalogue   address    the    Principal.      Re-opens 
August  3,  1903. 

Rev.  EDWARD  CHURCH.  A.  M. 

fliss  Harker  and  Hiss  Hughes* 

SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

—  AT  — 

PALO   ALTO,  CALIFORNIA. 

Prepares  for  college.  Advantages  oi  Stanford  Uni- 
versity. Pleasant  home  life.  Horseback-riding,  tennis, 
and  wheeling.  One  hour's  ride  to  San  Francisco. 
Term  begins  August  25th. 


Oregon.  Portland. 

St.  Helen's  Hall 

Home  school  for  Girls. 
Idea!  location.  Expert 
teaching  in  all  departments. 
Outdoor  exercise.  Illus- 
trated book  oi  iniormation 
sent  on  application. 

ELEAfiOR  TEBBETTS 

Principal. 


The  van  Den  Bergh 

Primary  School  and  Kindergarten 

Re-opens  August  3d,  at  2405  Buchanan  St., 
near  Washington. 

Physical  Culture  and  Manual  Training. 

5aint  Margaret's  School,  San  flateo, 

Re-opens  August  26th.  in  new  buildings  on  Mount 
Diablo  Avenue.  All  modern  improvements.  Ac- 
credited to  Stanford  University.  For  further  informa- 
tion or  circular  address  MISS'l.  L.  TEBBETTS. 

MOTHER   WISriER,  Violinist, 

Will  resume  teaching  August  IStb  It  his  studio  and  residence, 

844  GROVE  ST.,  near  Fillmore, 

SAX    FRANCISCO,    CAX. 


Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenty  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.    Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  fine  property.     For  circu- 
lars address        Miss  Sylvia  J.  Eastman,  Principal. 
Ogontz  School  P.  O.,  Pa. 

BUSINESS 
COLLEGE, 

24  Post  St.  8.  F. 

Seed  for  Circular. 


SOHMER 

PIANO 

AGENCY. 


WARRANTED    lO    YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

f^-The  CECILIA?.'— The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


IE=»  I  JUNTOS 

308-312  Poit  St. 
San  Francisco. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  17,  1903. 


:-;-_"m:?.:5  7s. 


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and   oars —  '    -  -    creefc 

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.  matter  drop, 
or  be  -'    .    .    — ■ 

—  £    SOI 

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■        .  -  ■  -~  \  tie,   anil 

he's  ' 

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in.  searcb  of 

■-■-.-  herd) 

..    ■  ■  -  acre  is  thy 

"I  left 
x  -       no     baccy.  — 

Price :  **  How  wa_T    E 

protnd 
-mother  ■■        ired  no  expense  in  rife-boms  to 

saying 
■    -  j  class." — 

Was 

.     i- 
to  spend  the  summer?  '"     .        — "  Vi  i   going  to 


-.-.,.■     i£    from  one  seaside   placeto 
-.-..    until    I    End   a   girl    worth    a 
13  r   two    who    wauls    tc    be   lored   in<I   married 
for  herself  alone." — TSS-l  its 

Little  -  -  I  grow  op  I'm  going 

-_-"-■:-.  .  jcber — 

not   be   a  preacher  use  yonr  handsome 
uncle?"     Lift        ."  I  — '       wtse     Pa     sa>"5 

rs  go 

-.:■:     :ii." 

Ascum — "l  see  there's  some  t.ilk  of  baring 
the  people  vote  at  the  next  State  election  npon 
the  ones  I    Jlisfaing  capital  punishment. 

-  ■    ;-  :       Fogie — "  No, 
-  '.inr.-hnien.f   was   good  enongh    for 
my  ancestors,  and  it's  good  enough  for  me-" — 
Washington.    Star. 

m   long  has  this  affair  been  building?  " 

American   tourist,   as   he   looked   at 

■       -  .;_        "■  About     Ave      hundred 

Five   hundred 

:onld   put  up   a 

:    that    and    have    it    all    to    pieces. 

all    within  five  years." — London  Tit-Bits 

"Papa,     what    is    Charity.  I  Iharifly,    my 

-    giring    away     ■■  inafi    you    don'fi    want. 
-     Sc  -rity?  "       "  Scientific 

Charity  is  grrh  .  ...        bat  you  don  t  want  to 

rant  it  ft  hat  is 

Organized     Charity?"       "'  Organized     '.liarity. 
my   son     is  g         g  a     .      something   that   you 
some  society  which   will  give  ft 
away    to    some    one  Hoes    not    want    it. 

""Then,    what    is    love,    papa?"      "Love?      Oh. 
;     -      nJy  giving  s    snething  that  you  want 
5    ■    ■:  one  who    wants  it — but  that  will  pau- 
perize   the  poor."— Life, 


-rs    and    nurses    all    the  world    over  have 
given   their  teething   h  hies  and 
SCasdman's  Soothing  Powders.     Try  them. 


Canse  for  joy :  ""Thank  the  good  Lord."  ex- 
claims   a   Georgia    philosopher     "  the    railroad  s 
.  -  ...  the  mortgage 

is     took    olf     the     mule  [  " — .  ■'  ;     Ctmstitu- 

■ 


-  "  ■     .    _  3RANE    Dentist,  removed  to 

No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  V>. 


MOTHERS  EE  SLTEE  AND  USE  "  M:RS.  WlXSLOW'S 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


IOUTHERIV 


'IC 


re  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 


SA>~  FRANCISCO. 


(Main  Line.  foot  of  Market  St.) 


7  -ZZ  •      Z  '--.:.    ~     [-.iLL-.Til:..;  '.■■-' 

neat 7-25r- 

7410a   VacaTlU'*,  WLccers.  Eamj*r_ 7  25p 

7-30a  M«rtiE«z.    Baa     TTaiMiia.     '•ailejo. 

Sana,  C*il*toe»,  Santa  Hoaa 6-2Sp 

7 -30a  SDe&i  IlT»7inore.  Lathrop.  Stocfe- 

bm 7-25f 

S-COa   I.it .!-  ■■'  :•:■!: ii :   i:!z:y  L;> 

Marj-srule.  OtotUI^.  Bne  .■>. 
ac  MarysTtUe  for  Grtdley.  Bl^za 
ii :   '.  .      . 7-~5? 

8-Q0a   Atlantic  Express — Ogden-snii  Bast.    10-25* 

iJZQx  Post  Cfaatav  Martinet.  ABtlocb.  By-     - 
roELTra^y.5"..            o   3  ten      Rita 
Lob   Eaeos.    Men 'iota.    Baal   *  I 
Ylaalta.  Pomervtlfe "*4.25> 

8X0a  Fort  Coats,  Martinez.  Tracy.  Lath- 
yon,  Modesto.  Merced,  Fresno. 
i  -  *-.  --.-'.  :.  Hm^r-I.  7L- 
aattr,  B  kexBfleld -     5.25? 

8-30a  Sals;,.  E  presa— Darta.  wtniAtna 
[fiat  u.irtiett  Sprfnga).  Willows. 
tFrete   Red  Bios'.  Portland 7-55p 

8-30'    I  -•"".         Stoefc 

toa.Iose.8aeramento.PtacerrtBe. 

4-2Sp 

8-30<                                   Jazoeati  wa.  Bo- 
ra   "  ::  Aniric^  and  Angeb 4-25p 

S4Na   Ma.-,  :  -i  i- :  ■■■  n  -:.■.:  .■-_• =  55? 

". :;..  .....  '2  25? 

-1104)0*  E:  Em  nd.— 

Port  Coeta.  HirtfQ'^z.  Byron, 
Tra^7-  Liir.tr<,\-..  SBoefetom, 
M^Tced.  Gajmoad.  Fresno,  Han- 
ford.  TLsaUa.  Ba-feeTsdi'ld,  Log 
Angeles  an<I  El  Paso.  fWest- 
ooand"  arrtres  i  ...    <U0p 

10-00*  Tne    OTertond    Llmfred  —  O^den. 

Denrrer.  Omabx.  ValesfjA.... 6  2Sp 

12-COii  Baj-war:-  SCaStaas.      3-25? 

11410?  Sacramento  flu  i  fill  aaii  n   ttlJJOP 

3h30?  Bent'- x  3a  raaseau, 

.'.:osa.Wn- 
lowm,    fcolzhrr*    IjiRdtng;.   Mar7.3- 


■rtlle,  i 
4X0-- 

-   .  - 


-.  !  - 

:  ■ 
r 

a   . 


IO.S5a 
7-55P 

925* 

■:  :=* 

4-25p 


4-30P   Bayw    "               ■     Ir-ringtoo.  Sao  I     ^84>5* 
J<j«e.  Llveroiore f  tll.55* 

64Mp  Tbe  Owl  Ldnlted—  Fre*no.  Tr;iire. 
Baicentlel-l.  U»n  Angel e»;  coa- 
Decu  at  SiGpiia  lot  Santa  Bar- 
bara.        8-55a 

B4JOp  Port  Coeta.   Tracy.   Stock  tun,  Lo« 

Z  -----  -■• 12-25P 

f630?  Haywar'i.  BtKea  and  Sac  -lone 7-25a 

64I0P   Hayward.KIleaar.-)  San.f,,ue  ....       10  25a 

64J0t  Orleotal  Man— OmfeB.  D^nrer. 
On.  Cclcajro  and 

Bbm  r.^au  Car  pae- 

aengem  oo!j  ooi  of  San  Pran- 
cttco.  Toart*t  m  and  coach 
paueagera  Iota  ;..».  p_  m.  ;raln 
to  Bene,  coctlnnlng  then':':  hi 
their  can  «  pjr.Eraln  eaatward..  4-2Sp 
weatb'^and.  Snniet  Lfmlied  — 
From  Sew  Tort  Chicago.  JTew 
Orleaaa.  El  Paio.  Loa  Angelea. 
FreAo,  Berenda.  Eaymoed  ( from 
Toaemlie).  Martinez.    Arrtres..     8-2Sa 

7Mr  San  Pabio.  Port   Coata,  Martinez 

and  Wat  iza.rA-.Li 1125a 

".cop  v.  ;;;•  l7;|l£ 

74JOP  Port  Loata.  BccIcIa.  SaUao,  DitIs. 
Saeranesto.  Trockee,  Eeuo 
Stopa  at    aU    •tatlotu    eaat  o( 

7  55  . 

8J6r  f.'-  mla  Espreaa— 8ae 

T*c  "  db*c 

•  ao'i  iic-i  Kut.     a  55a 

■■-  fMJB 


COAST    LINE    i>arr.M.  uamsmX 

i  [''■■■  a  -.-r   Mitrlc.-t  Sr.r^TC  I 

;7-45a    SOBBa    Croz    Bsenrsflen    (Sacday 

only  i :  8.1  Of 

8-15a  S"ewar!c.  C^nienrllle.  San  Ji.ae. 
FeltfjB.    B-jolaer     Greet    Santa 

Cruz  and  Wny  Stait^ns 6  25p 

H-15p  Hewartt,  CeaterrDSe,  San  Joae, 
Bew  Almmlm.  Lee  Gatab.Fe1toB. 
Bonld&r  Creetc.  Sanra  Crnz   and 

Principal  Way  Stations    !0-55a 

4-16*  Sewart  Boa  Jooe.  Log  Ga.r<jfl  sad 
way  staci'iiLi  fun  Satuniny  and 
Sunday  rani  iBZoaga  M  ^aata 
Cruz;  jHond»y  oaly  from  Santa 
Ctwx>.  Connects  ac  Felton  to 
and  ffroBi  BoolderCrfek '  3-55  * 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

From  SAN  FKAMC1SVO,  Foot  ol  Murtct  St.     3    »H 
— K:i5    *M    ::  :.i  jx     100    3  00    5-15  pj* 
From  OAKLAND.  Pool  Of  Br.judway  —  [S:  I      i-:  I 

--  ■  ■ :      '  am-      12  00    200    4-00  p-ji- 

COAST     LINE     (Broad  tiaoge). 

£ir~  i  I'Qlnl  :in>l  T»wn^end  Streets.) 

6-10 a    San  Joeeand  Way  Statl.jca 7\3Gp 

t7C0a  Bob  Jose  and  War  Statfooa 6-30? 

/8-00*   N"ew  Aimaden  (Tneau  Frid.i     /4.10p 

17-15*    Hanterwi  and  Santa  Cruz  Excnr 

efOB  iSncday  only) t3-30? 

B430a  CoaacLfneLInilced— Stfjpa-inlySan 
Joffe^C  LTroy.HorifsterrPaJ:i  ro.Cas- 
ErijTllle  Sallna.".  Sue  Ardo.Poaa 
Bellies,  Siren  Margmrlls.Saii  Lalj 
■  -  arlpol  »tatf')D«f  hence) 
Santa  Barbara. SaagxL*  and  Lus  An- 
gelea. Connection  at  CasiroTBle 
to  and  from  Mr>nter(>y  and  Paj-tflc 
Grove  and  at  Pajaro  noxln  Uoand 
fri-m  OBOflela  and  Sanraijrnz...  10-45P 
84JOa  Sac  Jose.  Trea  Finos.  Capitols, 
San  taCrnz.Paciacfiniwe.S-i  Unas, 
San  Lnfa   ObUpo  and    Principal 

In  term  M  late    SlaMooa 4-10P 

Westbonnd  EI  Paao    Passenger.— 

Fn-m  Chlcagij,  El  Paso.  Loa  An- 

,_  _rt         gelea.  Santa  Barbara,    Am-r^..      1-30p 

}+nn      SftO  ^fJa^  ind  Way  St/Ulona 1-20P 

11410a  Cemetery    Paasecger— Sonth    San 

FraocUco.  San  Brtmo I.OSp 

11  -uOi  San  Joae.  Los  Gatoa  and  Way  Sta- 

_,  »».   _«ooa 5-36? 

onJi      Bob  Job  tyStaltowa >  7.00? 

o  *n     Sa£  J,i,*e  1Gli  WarSlatlona '9.40a 

2.30?  Cemetery   Passenger— Son th    San 

.....        FrancL-c-j.  Sao  Bruno 4^5p 

r  J^4J0?  Del  Monte  Express— Sacra  Clara. 

San  J.  s«-.  Del  Mane,  Monterey, 

Pacific  Grove  (connect-*  at  Santa 

Clara    for  Santa    Crez.    Boa       - 

»  -_„      Creek  and  yarrow  Gangs  Points]  rl2-16> 

o-«tJP  Bnrtti  _  •       ■ 

MenloParfc.pBloAHe  Marffe 
Wonn  tain  View.  Lawren.-^.  SODU 
Clara  Boa  Joocv  6tSroy  (eoauMe> 
Hon  lot  Boniater,  Trm  Pinos), 
Pajaro  <  connection  forVstaon- 
vtlle.  Copflola  and  Soota  Croz>, 
-'  rore  and  wny  »r.aetooj. 

■  -   -  '■  r  Sa- 

a  ti»-      IInas 10-45a 

Atk    S*°  Jtme  nQ<1  w*7  Station* 8-36a 

T64J0P  San   J-jbc.    fvl*   Santa  Claraj    Los 
Goto*,  ITrfeditauBd  Principal  Way 
.  —  StatJ'fr}:*. .........  i  c  nn* 

i  Principal  Way  Stations    fgioOA 


11.25i 


Mo 


:M  55a 


Stall  m 
■ 
rS.IB?  Ban  dord,BeIaaoBE.SaBi 

Carlos.     Bedwood.     Fair     Data, 

cm         Memo  Part  Palo  Alto 1 6  46a 

S'Sx*'  B*Q  J^se  and  Way  Star. [.,,-ii  5-36* 

7JX      3o    -.-.   li  ,.!r.,-.:    -,-._.  L.riL     '  ™A 

■  ■  i-.-i.irn  Loa 
Angeles.  Demlng.  El  Pasn  Vt-w 
Orleans  Kew  Fort 
■  i  ii  San  .!■  sqnfi 


_   __     r  "rriwen  via  Siiiti-t.-n-inhj  Vail 

-A'SS1*^*1"A,t"  »»*WoyStal 

O11-30P  Mlllbrae    .  .    *f„  Bu, 

Uoaa 

all  30?  MIll),ra-    Sin   Jose" and' Way  8t» 

lion* 


-8  25a 
1015a 


t  ^rufa;    ■ 


f  lor  anemooti. 


■  Sailorday  only,    rf Connects  a-  h  trains  for  H 

/  Toesday  and  Friday,     m  A- 

*«■  Only  trail 


GLEN 
GARRY 

Old  Highland 
Scotch 


FOR 


Bon  Vivants  I 


Tillraann  &  Bendel 

Purveyors  to  tbe 

Pacific  Slope  Trade 


OVR  STANDARDS 


Sperrys  Best  Family. 

Drifted  Snow. 
Golden  Gate  Extra.. 


wSperry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FfiANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPAXT. 
Tiburon   Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael, 
WEEK  DAYS— 7^       i   n     .  so,   (tjod  am;  12.35.  2.30, 

3_;o,  5.10,  5.50,  6.yj,  and  Et.30  p  m.     Saturdays — Extra 

trip  at  [.50  p  m. 
SUNDAYS — 7-;o.  SjOO,  9.30.   ti.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3,40, 

5.1a,  6.30,  tt.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS — 6.05.  6.50,   7.35.   7.50,   9.20,   it. 15  a   m; 

12.50.    ~:.  ..     -..::     -;.;o,  5.20,  6.25  p   m.     Satordays— 

Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 6u50|   7-15-   '?-^,    it. 15  a  m;  1.45,  3^0,  4.50, 

5-oo,  5.2tj.  6.to,  6.25  p  m_ 
fE.icept  Satnrdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

[n  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Destination. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Weefc        Sun- 
Days,        days. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
7. 30  2.  m    S.00  a  m 

3.00  a  m    9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  rn 
5.  to  p  m    5.i'j  p  m 

Ignacio. 

745  am 
S.4C1  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7-*5am 
SLffl  a  m. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
8-00  a  m    Sjoq  a  m 
2.51J  p  si    )  -     in 
5.E0  p  m    2.30  p  m 
5_ro  p  m 

N'ovato 

Petalnma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

745  am 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

745  am 

to. 20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7-.3'J  a  tn    7.30  a  m 
8  vi  a  m     -..'jo  a  a 
2  30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Fait  on. 

10.20  a  rn 
6,20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  rn 
:            :.i    2  y,  p  m 

Windsor, 

HcaMsbarg, 

L>-tton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10^20  a  m 
7-25  pm 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

to.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7..3'J  am    7.  JO  a  rn 
1     2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Hop  Land 
and  LIkiah. 

1:0,20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

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WiUits. 

7.25  a  m 

7-25  P  m 

S.00  a  m    Sato  a  m 
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10.20  a  m 
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840  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7-yj  a  m    7.51J  a  rn 
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7-25  P  rn 

10.20  a  m 
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cisco,  as  follows  : 

7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


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Stockton  ia.40  a  m,  Fresno  240  p  \ 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  pott 
in  San  Joaqnin  Valley.  Correspoodi 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 

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ITED  "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fres 
3.20  p  m,  Eakersfield  6.oo  p  m,  Kans 
City  rthird  dayj  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (S 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago, 
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6eld  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  rec^H 
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dayj  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  i 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  I 
redi ning-chatr  cars  through  to  Chicaj 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  oot 
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6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.        f  Monday  and  Thursd 

t  Tuesday  and  Friday. 

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Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 

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Ferry    Depot,    San    Francisco;    and    1112   Broad* 
Oakland. 


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f5-[5.*^.i5.  6.45.  9,  tM5  P-  ML, 
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marked   ff)    to   Fairfax,  except  5.15   p.   .vr.  Satuni 
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7.45  a.  ml  wieek  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations-,  j 
5.15  p.  HI.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Took. 

and  way  stations. 
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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Case  of  Schwab — Do  Millionaires  Need  Phi- 
losophy?— Tolstoy  on  America's  Materialism — Following 
Up  the  Postal  Scandals — Political  Straws,  Mainly  Demo- 
cratic— The  Lesson  of  the  Jail-Break — A  State  Constabulary 
Favored — Railroad  Will  Benefit  Fruit-Growers  and  Con- 
sumers— Oxnard  Against  Bard  for  the  Senatorship — The 
Report  of  the  Board  of  Public  Works — Pacific  Coast  Rail- 
road Activity 1 1 3-1 14 

TnE  Newspapers  of  Madrid.     By  Jerome   A.    Hart 115 

Guileful  Peppajee  Jim:     How    the    Indian    \Vron    the    Red-Top 

Boots.      By    Bertha    Muzzy   Bower 116 

Cassius  M.  Clay's  Stormy  Career:  His  First  Duel — How  He 
Won  Over  a  Jury — His  Anti-Slavery  Paper — Some  Bloody 
Fights  and  Feuds— His  Child-Wife,  Dora 117 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent  People  All   Over  the 

World    117 

The  Dangerous  Love-Letter:  Geraldine  Bonner  on  the  White- 
Hot  Effusions  of  Women,  the  Chilly  Epistles  of  Men — 
The    Letters    of   a    Murderer — Margaret    Fuller 118 

Old  Favorites:      Chorus     from     "  Atalanta     in     Calydon,"     "A 

Chorus   of   Gluttons  " 1  lo 

Intaglios:  "A  Prayer  for  a  Mother's  Birthday."  by  Henry 
Van  Dyke:  "A  Ballade  of  an  Old  Sundial";  "A  Ballade 
of  a  Mirror  " 120 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications   1 19-121 

Drama:  Henry  Miller  and  Margaret  Anglin  in  Eernard 
Shaw's  drama,  "  The  Devil's  Disciple,"  By  Josephine 
Hart    Phelps 122 

Stage  Gossip     123 

Vanity  Fair:  How  the  Wife  of  Senator  Cushman  K.  Davis 
Was  Ostracized  by  Washington  Society — The  Reason  for 
Their  Dislike  of  the  Beautiful  Minnesotan — A  Dramatic 
Incident  at  a  Reception — How  Society  L'nbent — A  Church's 
Strange  Scheme  for  Raising  Money — Centenarians  in  the 
Philippines — The    Guests    at    Marlborough    House 124 

Storvettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
"Dust  of  the  Earth" — "  Labby's  "  Familiarity  With  the 
King — Hetty  Green's  Opinion  of  Lawyers  and  Dogs — The 
Highlanders  and  the  Water-Cart — President  Faure  and  the 
Artist — A  Double-Ended  Relative — The  Hotness  ot  Hell — 
A  Monterey  County  Farmer  and  the  Automobilist — Bret 
Ilarte's  Jocularity  Over  the    Earthquake  of    1S68 125 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "  Advice,"  by  Paul  Lawrence  Dunbar; 
"Two  Scenes,"  by  La  Touche  Hancock;  "Some  Strenuous 
Lives";  "Seven  Ages  of  Graft";  "Wordsworth  Up  to 
Date"    125 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 126-127 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal  Wits  of  the   Day 123 


.Mr.  Charles  M.  Schwab  no  longer  draws  from  the  Steel 

_.      ,  Trust   the   neat   salary   of   one   hundred 

The  Case  j 

or  thousand  dollars  a  year.     The  "  obscure 

Schwab.  nervous  disease  "  which  numerous  doc- 

tors, the  waters  of  many  springs,  and  the  salubrious 
air  of  various  climes  have  failed  to  cure,  is  reported 
to  be  the  reason  for  his  retirement.  "  Schwab  looks 
the  sick  man  that  he  is,"  says  a  New  York  paper; 
"  his  face  is  pale,  the  whites  of  his  eyes  have  a  dull, 
leaden  look."  In  short,  at  forty-one,  Schwab  is  a 
physical  incompetent. 

This  is  the  same  young  man  whom,  a  few  years  ago, 
the  newspapers  were  enthusiastically  describing  as  "  an 
industrial  giant."     They  said  he  was  "  tireless,"   "  in- 


domitable," "  irresistible,"  "  a  marvel  of  energy,"  and 
many  other  nice  things.  We  distinctly  recall  that  one 
ardent  writer  likened  him  to  a  "  ten-thousand  horse- 
power dynamo  !" 

Where,  then,  was  the  lack  in  Schwab?  What  was  the 
little  rift  within  the  lute  that  now  has  made  the  music 
mute?  What  was  the  trouble  with  this  "irresistible" 
young  man  whom  ambitious  parents  not  long  since  were 
holding  up  to  aspiring  sons  as  model,  example,  and 
perfect  paradigm  ?  Is  it  mere  accident  that  the  once 
lovely  picture  made  by  the  rise  of  the  dollar-a-day  stake- 
driver  to  the  one-hundred-thousand~dollar-a-year  Steel 
King  has  now  lost  all  its  glamorous  charm?  Or  is 
Schwab's  case  a  typical,  and  therefore  a  significant, 
one? 

By  chance  we  have  come  across  an  interesting  para- 
graph in  the  correspondence  of  William  E.  Curtis,  writ- 
ten nearly  a  year  ago.     He  says: 

Schwab  does  not  possess  the  moral  fibre,  nor  the  poise,  nor 
the  tact,  nor  the  discretion,  nor  the  sense  of  propriety,  nor  the 
philosophy  ...  of  great  men. 

In  some  respects  this  is  a  very  curious  statement.  For 
who  that  reads  and  believes  the  newspapers  could  ever 
have  supposed  that  "  poise  "  and  "  moral  fibre  "  were 
qualities  necessary  to  trust  presidents?  Who'd  'a' 
thought  now  that  "  a  sense  of  propriety  "  would  be 
helpful  to  the  head  of  a  combine?  Pushfulness,  we 
knew,  was  necessary,  prehensile  fingers  almost  indis- 
pensible,  and  even  prehensile  toes  highly  advantageous. 
Bull-headed  sticktoitiveness  was  just  the  stuff.  Col. 
D.  Streamer  writes: 

"  There's    no    occasion    to    be    Just, 
No  need  for  motives  that  are  fine, 
To  be  Director  of  a  Trust 
Or  Manager  of  a  Combine," 

and  so  we  thought.  And  what  great  men  could  be 
greater  than  millionaires  with  ability  to  "  rise  on  the 
dead  selves  "  of  their  competitors  ?  But  "  poise  "  and 
"  philosophy  " ! — are  these  venerable  qualities  still  vir- 
tues in  this  day  of  get  there?  Can  it  be  that  "tact" 
is  still  above  par  and  "  a  sense  of  propriety  "  quotable 
on  the  Stock  Exchange?  'Tis  passing  strange,  nay,  in- 
credible. 

But  jesting  aside,  these  ivcre  the  lacks  that  compassed 
the  downfall  of  Schwab.  Hard  work  in  his  younger 
days  did  not  hurt  him.  The  thunder  of  trip-hammers 
feazed  him  not  at  all.  His  face  and  figure  denote 
strength.  But  a  man  may  invent  machines  with 
multitudinous  cogs  and  cranks,  and  still  be  ignorant  of 
human  nature.  He  may  know  all  about  iron,  and  still 
be  mentally  narrow.  That  appears  to  have  been  the 
case  here.  Successful  with  things,  when  Schwab  came 
to  deal  with  men — with  men  of  brains — he  had  desper- 
ate need  of  those  qualities  of  tact,  poise,  discretion, 
philosophy,  which  his  training  had  failed  to  give  him. 
Lacking  tact,  poise,  discretion,  and  philosophy,  things 
worried,  perplexed,  annoyed  him — got  on  his  nerves. 
Soon  he  found  his  doctors  prescribing  rest — a  trip  to 
Europe.  But  neither  did  he  know  how  to  rest  or  to 
enjoy.  What  to  him  were  Gothic  cathedrals.  Louvre 
galleries,  or  Roman  ruins?  He  was  one  of  those  of 
whom  Emerson  says : 

He  who  travels  to  be  amused,  or  to  get  somewhat  which  he 
does  not  carry,  travels  away  from  himself,  and  grows  old 
even  in  youth  among  old  things.  In  Thebes,  in  Palmyra,  his 
will  and  mind  have  become  old  and  dilapidated  as  they.  He 
carries  ruins   to  ruins. 

France  was  interesting  to  Schwab  since  on  her  good 
roads  he  could  speed  his  forty  horse-power  auto,  at 
Monte  Carlo  he  could  try  to  break  the  bank.  Lake 
Como's  placid  bosom  gave  him  the  opportunity  for  a 
steamer  race.  Seeing  life  and  hot  old  times  filled  up 
the  hours.  Poise?  Schwab  is  a  man  essentially  bar- 
baric. 

But  we  should  not  judge  Mr.  Schwab  loo  harshly  for 


his  failure  to  imbibe  philosophy  and  poise.  How  could 
the  young  grocery-clerk  of  Braddock  have  learned  that 
these  were  necessary  virtues  while  his  ears  were  filled 
with  the  tumult  and  the  shoutings  of  those  who  cried: 
"  Get  rich,  no  matter  how,  but  get  rich  !"  "  Nothing 
succeeds  like  success !"  "  There's  always  room  at  the 
top  !"  Naturally,  he  spent  no  moments  wastefullv  cul- 
tivating the  amenities  of  life,  no  mellowing  hours  with 
a  book  in  a  shady  nook,  no  time  at  all  with  Shakespeare 
and  Chaucer,  Emerson  and  Carlyle,  Ecclesiastes  and 
Tolstoy.     And  now  he  is  done  for. 

How  different  is  the  melancholy  story  of  Schwab  from 
that  of  the  Vatican's  late  venerable  occupant.  Leo's 
was  a  delicate  physique,  Schwab's  a  robust  one.  The 
Pope,  by  the  exercise  of  a  will  of  singular  inflexibility, 
made  his  frail  body  do  his  bidding  for  more  than  ninety 
years.  Schwab's  undisciplined  brain  was  a  bad  master 
for  his  stalwart  frame,  and  has  already  run  the  craft 
upon  the  rocks.  The  doctors'  autopsy  showed  that  the 
Pontiff's  heart,  arteries,  spleen,  liver,  kidneys,  and 
other  vital  organs  were  absolutely  normal.  He  was  an 
ascetic.  Schwab,  we  believe,  is  not.  And  there  are 
other  venerable  men  who  make  Schwab,  late  the 
American  Hero,  look  a  puny  figure.  At  eighty-two, 
Herbert  Spencer  surveys  the  world — sees  it  clear  and 
sees  it  whole.  Who  can  calculate  the  influence  upon 
civilization  of  Theodor  Mommsen,  who  is  now  eighty- 
six,  or  George  Meredith,  who  is  seventy-four,  or 
Tolstoy,  who  is  seventy-five? 

It  is  the  last  of  these  who  but  yesterday  had  some- 
what to  say  regarding  America  that  is  not  flattering, 
perhaps  not  true,  but  at  least  worth  thinking  about. 

"  America,"  said  the  Russian  philosopher,  "  has  lost  her 
youth.  Her  hair  is  gray,  her  teeth  are  falling  out ;  she  is  be- 
coming senile.  Voltaire  said  that  France  was  rotten  before 
she  was  ripe,  but  what  shall  be  said  of  a  nation  whose  ideals 
have  perished  almost  in  one  generation  ?  Your  Emersons, 
Garrisons,  and  Whittiers  are  all  gone.  You  produce  nothing 
but  rich  men.  In  the  years  before  and  after  the  Civil  War 
the  soul-life  of  your  people  flowered  and  bore  fruit.  You  are 
pitiful  materialists  now." 

This  dictum  doubtless  the  American  young  man 
will  contemptuously  reject.  But  if  he  will  not  listen 
to  a  sage  of  the  nineteenth  century  perhaps  he  will 
hearken  to  a  prophet  of  an  earlier  age — to  him  who  once 
wrote :  "  The  sleep  of  a  laboring  man  is  sweet  whether 
he  eat  little  or  much,  but  the  abundance  of  the  rich 
will  not  suffer  him  to  sleep."  And  again :  "  Better  is 
an  handful  with  quietness  than  both  hands  full  with 
travail  and  vexation  of  spirit."  Even  Mr.  Schwab 
might  find  food  for  thought  in  the  question,  "  What 
profit  hath  he  that  hath  labored  for  the  wind?" 


Canal 
Treaty 


The  Hay-Herran  treaty  has  been  unanimously  rejected 
the  Colombian  by  the  Colombian  congress.  The  rea- 
sons for  the  rejection,  according  to  a 
dispatch  from  Foreign  Minister  Ricos,  at 
Bogota,  to  Dr.  Herran,  Colombian  charge  d'affaires,  at 
Washington,  are  substantially  identical  with  those 
stated  by  M.  Raul  Perez,  whose  views  were  recently 
discussed  in  these  columns.  The  question  of  Colombian 
sovereignty  over  the  canal  strip  was  of  paramount  im- 
portance; that  of  the  pecuniary  consideration  (so  the 
dispatches  state)  was  not  a  factor  in  the  decision.  The 
news  created  "  a  fever  of  excitement  "  in  the  state  of 
Panama. 

If  Washington  is  well  advised  regarding  the  rules 
which  govern  procedure  in  the  Colombian  senate,  that 
body  may  still  vote  to  reconsider  its  action,  or  any  mem- 
ber of  the  senate  may  propose  amendments  to  the 
treaty.  Otherwise  the  President  has  power  to  negotiate 
with  Nicaragua  and  Costa  Rica.  He  is,  however,  not 
compelled  to  do  so  before  any  fixed  date.  "  If  these 
satisfactory  negotiations  can  not  be  completed  « 
a  reasonable  time,"  says  John  C,  Spooner,  author  . 


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114 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  24,  1903. 


bill,  "  the  President  is  empowered  to  negotiate  for  a  canal 
by  the  Nicaragua  route."  But,  according  to  the  same  high 
authority,  he  is  the  sole  judge  of  what  constitutes  a  "  reason- 
able "  time. 

It  has  been  repeatedly  stated  that  Panama  would  revolt  in 
such  a  contingency  as  has  now  come  to  pass.  It  has  also 
been  rumored  that  the  President  would  not  permit  Colombia 
-  to  hold  us  up."  Nothing  is  definitely  known.  But  it  is  clear 
that  several  tilings  may  happen. 

1.  The  Colombian  senate  may  reconsider  its  action;  indeed, 
some  action  seems  already  to  have  been  taken. 

2.  The  President  may  open  negotiations  with  Nicaragua 
and  Costa  Rica,  considering  that  the  "  reasonable "  time 
mentioned  in  the  Spooner  bill  has  elapsed. 

3.  The  President  may  hold  that  the  nature  of  the  negotia- 
tions with  Colombia  bind  her  to  ratify  the  treaty,  and  he  may 
make  to  the  republic  further  representations  in  the  matter. 

4.  The  "  fever  of  excitement  "  in  Panama  may  grow  into 
revolution;  the  state  may  secede;  ask  to  be  recognized  by  this 
government ;  and  offer  us  the  canal. 

It  is  evident  that  events  in  the  near  future  may  be  both 
important  and   interesting. 

No   words   of  ours  nor   of  any  one   can   increase  or  diminish 
the  glory  of  the   achievements   of  the  young 
The  Grand  Army    men  who  as  0id  men  have  thJs  week  marched 
OF  THE  so  proudly  but  so  feebly  through  our  streets. 

"  The  world  will  little  note  nor  long  remem- 
ber what  we  say  here,"  said  Abraham  Lincoln  on  the  field  of 
Gettysburg.  "  but  it  can  never  forget  what  they  did  here." 
And  upon  the  same  memorable  occasion  he  sounded  the  chord 
which  must  echo  and  reecho  upon  every  similar  occasion  so 
long  as  the  United  States  is  a  nation.  His  solemn  words  may 
most  fittingly  be  recalled.  "  It  is  for  us,  the  living,"  he  said, 
"  rather  to  be  dedicated  here  to  the  unfinished  work  that  they 
have  thus  far  so  nobly  carried  on.  It  is  rather  for  us  to  be 
here  dedicated  to  the  great  task  remaining  before  us ;  that 
from  these  honored  dead  we  take  increased  devotion  to  the 
cause  for  which  they  here  gave  the  last  full  measure  of  devo- 
tion ;  that  we  here  highly  resolve  that  the  dead  shall  not  have 
died  in  vain  ;  that  the  nation  shall,  under  God,  have  a  new  birth 
of  freedom;  and  that  government  of  the  people,  by  the  people, 
and  for  the  people  shall  not  perish  from  the  earth." 

The   great   majority   of   Democratic   papers   of   the   North    and 
West      have     severely      criticised      President 
MlLts'  Roosevelt  for  permitting  General  Miles  to  be 

retired  without  commendation  of  his  military 
services.  The  New  York  Times  speaks  of 
"  the  indecent,  cold,  and  dishonoring  bowing  out  of  the  great 
soldier."  The  Chicago  Chronicle  says:  "Theodore  Roosevelt 
ought  to  be  ashamed  of  himself."  The  incident  has  had  the 
effect  of  making  a  martyr  of  Miles.  It  has  won  him  the 
sympathy  of  many  people,  and  has  greatly  increased  his 
chances  (such  as  they  are)  for  gaining  the  Democratic  Presi- 
dential or  Vice-Presidential  nomination  next  year,  the  former 
of  which  he  is  said  to  want  badly.  It  is  believed  that  he  would 
suit  the  anti-imperialists.  The  Boston  special  correspondent 
of  the  Springfield  Republican  announces  that  General  Miles 
"  is  mentioned  for  the  Presidency  by  one  of  the  closest  stu- 
dents of  politics  in  the  city."  The  Boston  Globe  mentions  him 
as  a  possible  candidate  for  governor  of  Massachusetts,  as  a 
stepping-stone  to  the  higher  office.  Miles  has  been  chosen 
president  of  the  Thomas  Jefferson  Memorial  Association,  and 
has  accepted  the  office  in  an  eloquent  letter  in  praise  of  Jeffer- 
son— which  is  significant.  It  is  clear,  however,  that  W.  R. 
Hearst  does  not  regard  Miles  as  a  rival,  but  as  an  ally. 
"  Hearst  and  Miles  " — that  was  the  phrase  said  to  have  been 
frequently  heard  in  the  National  Building  Trades  Council's 
cunvenlion  in  Denver  where  the  Hearst  boom  received  a  sub- 
stantial boost  in  the  form  of  a  resolution  commending  the 
"  fearless  champion  of  the  people's  rights,"  and  indorsing  him 
for  the  Presidency.  One  of  the  chief  objections  to  Miles  is 
that  he  is  unpopular  with  the  South.  He  it  was  who  put 
Jeff  Davis  in  irons;  and  the  South  has  never  forgotten  it. 

Walter  Wellman  gives  the  following  plausible  statement 
of  the  reasons  which  led  the  President  not  to  eulogize  General 
Miles : 

He  thinks  it  would  not  have  been  honest  of. him.  He  does 
not  approve  of  General  Miles's  conduct.  He  believes  that 
officer  guilty  of  acts  which  were  unworthy  an  American  soldier. 
He  believes  that,  but  for  his  [the  President's]  magnanimity. 
General  Miles  would  have  been  court-martialed  or  retired  a 
year  ago,  with  a  stain  upon  his  record.  Thus  believing,  the 
President  could  not  stultify  himself  by  dealing  out  compli- 
mentary platitudes  to  General  Miles,  there  wouid  have  been 
no  sincerity  in  his  praise,  and  he  felt  that  the  country  would 
know  he  was  insincere.  Worse  still,  if  he  praised  Miles,  the 
public  would  say  he  had  done  it  for  the  purpose  of  averting 
criticism  and  to  ease  his  way  to  a  reelection.  The  President 
did  not  wish  to  appear  in  any  such  light  as  that,  and,  after  de- 
liberation,  he  concluded  the  honest  and  manly  thing  for  him 
to  do  was  to  permit  the  lieutenant-general  to  pass  from  the 
active  li^-i  without  a  word  of  comment  from  the  commander- 
in-chief. 

While   Assistant    Postmaster-General    Bristow   asserts   that   the 
investigations  of  scandals   in   the    Department 

are  by  no  means  ended,  what  has  developed 
the   Postal  ,        ..     .  „  ,    .  '    . 

Scandals  so  discloses  an   unparalleled   maze  of  of- 

ficial conspiracy  to  loot  the  Department  appro- 
priations  by  the  manipulation  of  contracts.  Details  regarding 
the  seven  more  indictments  recently  found  involving  nine 
persons  in  the  meshes  of  the  law  point  to  A.  W.  Machen 
as  a  "  prince  of  grafters."  The  wonder  is  he  was  ever  caught, 
for  the  ramifications  by  which  the  nefarious  work  was  ae- 
coinplished  show  an  amazing  tangle  which  the  investigators 
have  I  sen  obliged  to  unravel.  For  instance,  John  T.  Cupper, 
mayoi  mi  Lock  Haven,  Pa.,  is  charged  with  paying  a  bribe 
to  M  elun  lor  the  contract  to  paint  mail-boxes.  He  was  per- 
mit:    I      In      paint       their       with      unnecessary       frequency.       In 

he      received       it      is   said,     eighteen     thousand 
unnecessary     work.     Out     of     this,     he     drew 


Foi  1  owing  Up 


frequent  drafts,  payable  to  a  William  C.  Long,  in 
Washington,'  and  Long  as  frequently  handed  his  check  to 
Machen  for  his  share,  which  approximated  ten  cents  on  the 
painting  of  each  box.  The  prices  in  the  contract  were  ex- 
orbitant, and  the  contract  was  let  without  competition,  the 
excuse  being  given  that  aluminum  paint  was  used,  which  could 
not  be  furnished  by  painters  generally.  The  contract  with 
Maurice  Runkel,  of  New  York,  for  leather  satchels  and  sacks 
for  carriers  was  subjected  to  similar  scrutiny,  with  similar 
results.  Some  of  the  articles  supplied  were  unnecessary  and 
unused,  and  are  now  in  storage.  Others  were  ordered  in 
extravagant  numbers,  forty  thousand  equipments  being  ordered 
for  eighteen  thousand  carriers.  The  bribe  money  coming  from 
Runkel  to  Machen  appears  to  have  passed  through  the  hands 
of  a  clerk  in  the  latter's  office.  Another  contract  for  equip- 
ment was  made  with  W.  G.  Crawford  and  George  E.  Lorenz. 
As  in  the  other  cases,  cash  on  account  of  the  contracts  is 
shown  to  have  reached  Machen  by  the  means  of  a  go-between, 
who,  in  this  case,  was  the  wife  of  Lorenz.  Still  another 
transaction  was  with  the  Postal  Device  and  Lock  Company. 
Checks  have  been  traced  showing  the  same  interest  of  Machen 
in  these  contracts.  In  short,  Machen  got  his  rake-off  on  every- 
thing— paint,  locks,  sacks,  fixtures,  and  other  devices.  He  lost 
no  opportunity,  however  small.  He  took  toll  from  everybody 
who  had  dealings  with  his  Department.  Now  he  is  caught, 
but  the  pertinent  question  remains :  "  Are  there  any  more  in 
there  like  you?" 

In   national   politics,  the  news   of  the  week  is  marked  by  the 

absence   of  anything  of  a  positive   character. 

Political  Straws    wjjat    we    have    is    a    collection    of    gossip,    a 

part  of  which  may  have  significance.     On  the 
Democratic.  *L  .,  _       .  ,  „  .  .. 

Republican    side,    President    Roosevelt    is   the 

only  candidate  for  nomination  yet  taken  seriously.  The  state- 
ment is  not  affected  by  the  fact  that  Senator  Morgan,  of  Ala- 
bama, has  predicted  that  the  Republican  candidate  would  be 
Joseph  B.  Foraker,  the  present  senator  from  Ohio.  Our  views 
are  so  apt  to  be  colored  by  self-interest  that  the  prediction 
may  rest  on  the  side-tracking  of  the  Nicaragua  Canal  for  its 
motive.  In  Republican  circles,  there  is  more  speculation  about 
the  second  place  on  the  ticket  than  the  first.  Among  those 
mentioned  are  Myron  T.  Herrick,  if  elected  governor  of  Ohio 
this  fall ;  Governor  Cummins,  of  Iowa,  to  please  low-tariff  Re- 
publicans ;  Internal  Revenue  Commissioner  John  W.  Yerkes, 
of  Kentucky,  for  his  influence  in  border  States ;  Assistant 
Postmaster-General  Joseph  L.  Bristow,  for  his  work  in  the 
post-office  scandals ;  Governors  Yates,  of  Illinois,  Fairbanks,  of 
Indiana,  and  La  Follette,  of  Wisconsin.  It  is  noticeable  that 
all  those  prominently  mentioned  belong  to  the  Middle  West. 
It  appears  to  be  the  conviction  that  President  Roosevelt  as  a 
candidate  would  satisfy  the  East  and  the  Far  West  equally 
well,  and  that  the  ticket  would  be  most  strengthened  by  a 
candidate  strong  in  the  Middle  West,  whose  nomination  would 
smooth  over  any  difficulties  and  influence  doubtful  border 
States.  Some  Democratic  politicians  are  talking  the  same 
way.  It  is  conceded  that  the  head  of  their  ticket  must  come 
from  the  East,  while  the  second  place  might  be  offered  to 
Benjamin  Shively,  of  Indiana,  Charles  A.  Towne,  of  Min- 
nesota, Tom  Johnson,  of  Ohio,  James  D.  Richardson,  of 
Tennessee,  or  William  F.  Vilas,  of  Wisconsin.  There  is  talk 
also  of  Senator  Dubois,  of  Idaho,  ex-Governor  Pattison,  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  Governor  Garvin,  of  Rhode  Island. 

Senator  Gorman  remains  the  most  conspicuous  candidate 
for  the  Democratic  nomination.  He  has  been  trotted  out,  ex- 
amined by  interviewers,  who  got  nothing  out  of  him  of  sig- 
nificance, and  the  papers  have  been  discussing  his  points. 
Outside  of  those  who  would  follow  the  party  anywhere,  and 
of  those  who  would  follow  Gorman  anywhere,  there  appears 
a  unanimity  of  opinion  that,  as  a  politician,  he  is  a  "  smooth 
article";  as  a  statesman  he  is  impossible;  and  as  a  Presi- 
dential candidate  he  is  questionable.  The  Western  sentiment 
lately  controlled  by  Bryan  is  reported  to  be  indifferent.  "  We 
can  not  win  next  year,"  they  say,  "  and  the  candidate  might 
as  well  be  Gorman  as  another."  The  constitutional  neutrality 
of  Mr.  Gorman  in  party  matters  may  be  a  tower  of  strength 
in  reconciling  the  factions.  It  may  also  be  a  source  of  weak- 
ness. Low-tariff  Democrats  have  no  encomiums  for  him. 
Neither  are  the  followers  of  Cleveland,  Hill,  or  Bryan  shouting 
for  him.  Perhaps  his  strongest  claim  is  stated  by  the  New 
York  Herald.     We  quote : 

Senator  Gorman  would  be  the  best  money-raiser  in  the 
Democratic  party,  and  that  is  the  reason  why  so  many  of  the 
"  practical  politicians  "  are  in  favor  of  his  nomination.  It  is 
believed  by  them  that  he  could  go  into  Wall  Street  and  get 
from  the  great  financiers  practically  all  the  money  financial 
New  York  would  put  into  the  campaign.  He  would  naturally 
get  the  support  of  many  Republicans  who  oppose  Mr.  Roose- 
velt's trust  policy. 

If  it  is  true  that  Senator  Gorman  has  been  truckling  to  the 
Bryan  contingent,  it  would  seem  that  there  is  little  to  be  gained 
from  it.  Mr.  Bryan  spoke  at  Chatauqua,  the  other  day.  His 
remarks  were  primarily  an  assault  upon  Cleveland  of  even  a 
less  dignified  character  than  usual.  He  said:  "The  Demo- 
crats in  1802  played  a  confidence  game  on  the  people,  and  put 
a  bunco-steerer  at  the  head  of  the  party."  He  then  discussed 
the  differences  in  the  party,  and  wound  up  with  the  statement 
that  "  the  fight  will  continue  in  this  country  until  one  side  or 
the  other  is  triumphant."  Bryan  is  working  desperately  for 
control,  or  for  influence  in  the  party.  If  he  keeps  quiet  he  gets 
neither.  The  more  trouble  he  makes,  the  more  it  will  cost  the 
party  to  appease  him. 

The   addition   of  several   more  names  to   the   long   list  of   Re- 
publican   candidates     for    mayor    which     we 

printed  last  week  indicates  that  it  is  still 
oh  the  Political  .  ,        ,  ,      ,    , 

GuESSERS  considered    anybody  s    race;    that    those    who 

are  now  announcing  themselves  think  they 
have  as  good  a  chance  as  the  next  man.  Nothing  could  better 
show  in  what  a  hazy-mazy  condition  are  mayoralty  affairs  in 
the    Republican   camp.     Julius   Kahn   has   not   announced   him- 


self, but  is  being  talked  of.  T.  V.  Cator,  who  was  a  candidate 
for  mayor  three  years  ago,  would  accept  the  place.  William 
Cluff,  the  wholesale  grocer,  is  also  a  candidate.  Judge  Slack 
was  mentioned,  but  has  so  far  refused  to  permit  himself  to  be 
considered.  So  much  for  the  new  candidates.  The  real  centre 
of  interest,  however,  is  Ruef  and  Schmitz.  The  political  wise- 
acres say  that  Ruef  has  about  one  hundred  delegates,  and  is 
working  hard  for  more.  It  was  supposed  that  these  were 
certainly  for  Schmitz,  but  of  late  strange  rumors  are  afloat 
to  the  effect  that  Ruef  is  bound  by  "solemn  promises"  made 
to  the  leaders  of  the  league  not  to  throw  his  strength  to  the 
mayor.  He  himself  says  that  he  is  not  pledged  to  the  mayor, 
nor  to  work  against  him,  nor  to  any  one  else.  Between  un- 
credentialed  rumors  and  Ruef's  carefully  worded  negations  it 
is  a  pretty  puzzle.  Meanwhile,  the  defeated  factions,  Demo- 
crat and  Republican,  are  collecting  their  shattered  forces. 
Burns  and  Kelly  are  seriously  talking  of  running  an  inde- 
pendent Republican  ticket.  The  "  Horses  and  Carts  "  are  en- 
gaged in  making  a  dicker  with  McNab's  forces  for  an  office 
or  two  in  return  for  "  being  good."  They  are  said  to  have 
agreed  to  be  satisfied  with  the  nomination  of  Raleigh  Hooe  for 
county  clerk.  As  for  the  Democratic  mayoralty  candidate, 
Lane  appears  to  have  a  sure  thing,  though  David  I.  Mahoney 
is  still  in  the  contest. 


of  the 
Jail-Break 


The  escape  of  the  convicts  from  Folsom  has  resulted  in 
turning  loose  upon  the  community  a  number 
of  desperate  criminals,  but  it  is  reasonably 
certain  that  every  one  of  them  will  be  be- 
hind the  bars  again  before  very  long.  The 
pursuit  has  completely  broken  down,  and  nothing  is  to  be 
expected  from  that  direction,  but  such  men  do  not  abandon 
a  life  of  crime  when  the  opportunity  of  reembracing  it  appears, 
particularly  when  they  have  escaped  punishment  so  easily. 
The  unfortunate  feature  is  that  each  of  them  must  commit 
one  or  more  crimes  before  he  is  caught  and  punished  again, 
and  the  community  must  suffer  to  that  extent.  The  fact  in 
connection  with  this  wholesale  escape  that  should  impress 
itself  most  vividly  upon  the  public  mind  is  that  the  State  is 
absolutely  without  machinery  to  pursue  and  recapture  such 
fugitives.  The  jurisdiction  of  the  sheriff  stops  at  the  boundary 
lines  of  his  county;  he  is  without  any  force  at  his  command 
to  perform  such  work  even  within  his  own  county.  The 
sheriffs  who  have  tried  to  capture  these  outlaws  have  been 
obliged  to  raise  posses  at  their  own  expense,  and  have  been 
assisted  by  private  citizens,  who  have  paid  their  own  expenses. 
There  has  been  fatal  delay  in  organizing  posses  where  the 
machinery  for  such  organization  did  not  exist.  The  Argonaut 
has  several  times  in  the  past  pointed  out  the  remedy  and 
the  necessity  for  its  adoption.  A  State  police,  always  ready 
for  pursuit,  and  with  a  jurisdiction  extending  throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  the  State,  is  the  only  force  that  can 
cope  with  such  situations.  The  expense  of  its  maintenance 
is  small,  compared  with  the  destruction  of  life  and  property 
that   must  ensue   before   these  wretches   are   re-incarcerated. 

A  project  that  will  be  of  advantage  to  the  fruit-growers  of 
Santa  Clara  Valley  and  the  fruit-consumers 
Ms  just  been  launched.     This  contemplates 


fru1t-g  rowers 
and  Consumers. 


an  electric  road  from  San  Jose  to  Alviso,  and 
out  upon  a  pier  at  the  latter  place  that  will 
project  three  and  one-half  miles  into  the  bay.  The  electric 
road  will  be  eleven  miles  long,  and  at  San  Jose  will  connect 
with  the  Los  Gatos  electric  road,  the  same  station 
being  used  for  both  lines,  making  them  practically 
one  route.  The  road  is  to  be  equipped  with  modern 
fifty- foot  passenger  coaches,  as  well  as  freight  facilities. 
Between  the  Alviso  pier  and  this  city  a  line  of 
steamers  is  to  be  run.  For  the  first  year,  vessels  will  be 
chartered,  but  after  the  requirements  of  the  traffic  have  been 
learned,  new  steamers  will  be  constructed  for  the  company. 
It  is  expected  that  the  trip  between  this  city  and  San  Jose 
will  be  made  in  two  and  one-half  hours.  In  this  city,  the  ter- 
minal facilities  will  have  one  feature  that  is  new,  and  that 
promises  to  be  extremely  popular.  Besides  the  pier  and 
wharf  for  handling  passengers  and  freight,  a  market  building 
will  be  erected.  In  this  building  each  shipper  will  have  his 
own  platform  from  which  he  can  offer  his  produce  directly 
to  the  consumer.  Residents  of  the  city  can  go  there  each 
morning  and  obtain  fresh  vegetables,  fruit,  etc. 


Senator  Bard  is  in  Europe,  enjoying  a  little  relaxation  and 
rest,   and   advantage   of   his   absence   is   being 

?X^RD„_A^.A.'!,ST  taken  hy  senatorial  aspirants  to  do  a  little 
politics  on  their  own  account.     Senator  Bard 


Bard  for  the 
Senatorship. 


has  not  yet  let  the  public  into  the  secret  of 
whether  he  would  like  to  succeed  himself,  and  his  friends  are 
apparently  equally  in  the  dark.  Before  going  abroad  he  was 
evasive,  and  promised  to  make  a  public  declaration  later, 
which  has  not  yet  been  forthcoming.  The  opinion  is  that 
he  would  gladly  accept  the  position  if  it  were  tendered  to  him, 
but  that  he  will  not  fight  for  it.  Henry  T.  Oxnard  is  not  so 
reticent.  He  is  an  avowed  candidate,  and  George  F.  Hatton. 
who  successfully  managed  the  Perkins  campaign,  has  been 
engaged  as  his  manager.  Hatton  has  been  traveling  around 
the  southern  part  of  the  State  gathering  information  as  to 
the  probable  legislative  candidates.  Since  1898,  Oxnard  has 
claimed  the  town  of  Oxnard  as  his  residence.  He  is  wealthy,, 
and  will  spend  his  money  freely. 


The   board   of   public    works    has    published   an   annual    report 

that  is  a  masterpiece  in  concealing  the  facts 

The  Report  Qf  ^   expen(5itUres.      A    few    facts   that  could 

OF    THE  .       . 

Board  of  Works.  not  be  concealed  stand  OUE  glaringly,  and 
plainly  indicate  that  the  board  of  public  works, 
as  now  constituted,  is  misnamed  so  far  as  public  work  for  the 
benefit  of  the  city  is  concerned.  In  a  total  expenditure  of 
$857,107,  there  was  paid  for  gas  and  electric  lighting  $274,619. 
and    for    '"  administration,"    that    is,    salaries,    $i  15,884.      This 


August  24,  1903. 


THE        A  RGON AUT 


H5 


leaves  $466,604  for  the  general  expenditures  of  the  department. 
These  were  the  general  totals  that  could  not  be  concealed  by 
any  method  of  bookkeeping,  and  they  show  a  most  extravagant 
condition  of  administration.  That  the  cost  of  administration 
should  be  one-quarter  of  the  amount  administered  would  be 
excessive  extravagance  for  the  most  efficient  administration. 
No  business  man  would  endure  it  for  a  moment  in  his  private 
business,  and  why  should  it  be  endured  in  the  public  business? 
When  it  comes  to  the  details  of  expenditures,  the  figures  are 
so  carefully  totaled  that  no  exact  information  can  be  obtained. 
For  example,  the  cost  of  street  cleaning  is  placed  at  $186,493. 
and  nothing  more  is  known  except  that  the  work  is  badly  done, 
and  that  is  learned  outside  of  the  report.  For  cleaning  and  re- 
pairing sewers,  the  total  is  $55,985  ;  the  details  are  unknown. 
For  repaving  accepted  streets  the  total  is  $95-533  :  the  details 
are  unknown.  The  form  of  the  report  successfully  hides  the 
leakages,  but  that  the  leakages  exist  every  one  knows. 


THE    NEWSPAPERS    OF    MADRID. 


By  Jerome  A.  Hart, 

If  it  be  true,  as  commonly  said,  that  most  of  the  Spanish 
people  can  not  read,  it  is  marvelous  how  many  newspapers 
are  printed  in  Spain.  They  are  like  the  sands  of  the  sea. 
If  so  few  Spaniards  can  read,  what  a  lot  of  time  the  reading 
Spaniards  have  to  put  in  on  the  papers.  They  surely  must  be 
overworked. 

Daily  papers  have  a  family  resemblance  all  over  the  world. 
Weeklies  are  more  distinctive.  The  most  important  weekly  in 
Spain  is  the  Illustration  Espanola.  Still,  like  the  dailies,  it 
bears  a  strong  resemblance  to  other  pictorials,  such  as  the 
London  Graphic,  the  Paris  Monde  1 1  lustre,  and  Frank  Leslie's 
Weekly.  Not  so  the  little  Blanco  y  Negro  of  Madrid;  it  is 
individual  and  distinctive.  Despite  its  name,  the  taste  of  the 
day  now  forces  it  to  give  color  work;  but  it  has  the  discretion 
to  print  color-plates  on  the  inside,  and  always  has  a  most 
artistic  black-and-white  cover.  Its  plates  are  of  various  kinds 
— aquarellogravure,  chromogravure,  process  reproductions  of 
pastel,  wash  drawings,  and  monochrome  ;  also,  of  course,  many 
types  of  black-and-white  work,  including  the  familiar  half- 
tone and  the  ever-present  zincograph.  But  through  all  of 
Blanco  y  Negro  there  runs  an  artistic  touch  which  is  most 
pleasing. 

A  weekly  not  so  well  known  outside  of  Spain  is  Gente  Cono- 
cida.  which  might  be  translated  "  well-known  people."'  This 
is  more  of  a  society  than  an  art  journal.  Every  week  it  runs 
a  portrait  of  some  "  society  lady,"  preferably  a  person  of  title. 
In  the  number  before  me,  for  example,  the  portrait  is  that  of 
the  Marquesa  of  Rafal,  with  her  arms  and  crest.  From  this  it 
would  seem  that  in  Spain  (as  in  America)  women  are  entitled 
to  crests.  According  to  English  heraldry,  this  is  heresy. 
Garter  King  at  Arms  sneers  at  our  American  female  aristo- 
crats for  putting  crests  on  their  note-paper.  I  have  heard  the 
practice  defended  by  ladies  who  did  not  know  a  dexter  bend 
from  a  bar  sinister,  and  who  would  emblazon  metal  on 
metal  because  it  "  looked  real  nice."  But  the  rules  of  American 
heraldry  are  principally  settled  in  stationers'  shops.  There- 
fore heraldic  stationers  and  coat-armored  ladies  will  be  glad 
to  know  that  a  Spanish  marchioness  bears  a  crest.  Perhaps 
the  Salic  law  has  something  to  do  with  it.  In  a  brief  biog- 
raphy, couched  in  inflated  rhetoric,  the  writer  says  of  the  lady: 
I  She  adds  to  the  enchantment  of  youth  the  qualities  of  the 
perfect  Christian  heart,  and  the  distinction  of  her  person  lends 
brilliancy  and  splendor  to  the  court  circles.  Thus  the  Mar- 
quesa de  Rafal  in  her  mind  unites  all  of  the  virtues,  and  in 
her  person  all  of  the  beauties."  This  is  rather  fulsome  flattery. 
even  for  a  "  society  weekly."  But  the  Gente  Jenkins  does  not 
confine  his  flatteries  to  the  gentler  sex.  Discussing  the  famous 
I  Ducal  house  of  Ahumada,"  the  writer.  Don  Luis  Kubil,  says 
of  the  present  duke  :  "  He  is  known  in  high  society  as  a  pro- 
totype of  the  most  exquisite  gentlemanliness."  (Caballerosidad 
mas  exquisita.)  After  reading  this  society  weekly,  I  can 
not  conceive  how  the  Marquesa  of  Rafal  and  the  Duke  of 
Ahumada — unlike  the  two  augurs  in  the  temple — could  meet 
without  blushing.  Several  pages  are  given  up  to  minute  de- 
tails concerning  the  movements  of  society  people,  including 
the  Countess  of  Paris  ;  we  are  told  that  this  lady,  with  Princess 
Louise  of  Orleans  and  the  Duke  of  Montpensier,  while  on  their 
way  from  Paris  to  Seville,  stopped  at  "  one  of  their  palaces  " 
in  Madrid.  The  awed  tone  in  which  the  Madrid  society  weekly 
speaks  of  this  august  lady  is  accounted  for  when  one  recalls 
that  she  is  the  wife  of  the  pretender  to  the  throne  of  France; 
that  she  has  palaces  in  Paris,  in  Madrid,  in  Seville,  in  Italy, 
in  Austria,  and  in  England  ;  that  she  is  almost  a  royal  person — 
in  fact,  a  "  queen  in  exile."  Portraits  are  given  of  three 
ladies  and  three  gentlemen  who  have  consented  to  act  as 
judges  in  a  photograph  competition.  Numerous  other  por- 
traits of  "  society  persons "  figure  in  the  number.  In  fact, 
the  personal  note  is  quite  marked.  Those  who  imagine 
that  our  "  society  press  "  in  America  is  more  personal  than 
that  abroad  would  seem  to  be  mistaken. 

Another  illustrated  weekly,  Nucvo  Mundo,  inclines  to  the- 
atrical and  general  illustrations  and  portraits.  Don  Angel 
Guimera,  author  of  a  successful  play,  "  The  Magdalen,"  then 
running  in  Madrid,  was  portrayed ;  so  was  Maria  Guerrero, 
the  actress  who  took  the  leading  role.  There  were  also  por- 
traits of  various  actresses  then  attracting  the  public  attention 
at  Madrid — among  others,  Angela  Horns,  who  was  playing  a 
leading  role  in  a  Spanish  translation  of  "  Cavalleria  Rus- 
ticana." 

In  a  large  weekly,  curiously  entitled  A.  B.  C.  we  find  illus- 
trations of  the  current  happenings  of  the  week,  among  others 
a  photograph  of  "  Mister  Brodrick  (sic),  English  minister  of 
war,  and  his  bride,  landing  at  Gibraltar  on  their  honeymoon." 
Among  a  dozen  portraits  of  the  week  were  Robert  Planquette, 
the  French  composer,  who  had  just  died ;  Herbert  Bowen. 
United  States  minister  to  Venezuela,  who  was  then  attract- 
ing the  world's  attention  at  Caracas;    Millionaire   Rockefeller, 


who  had  just  donated  some  millions  of  dollars  to  discover  a 
remedy  for  tuberculosis.  Among  the  other  pictures  were  half- 
tones of  scenes  from  current  plays,  a  review  of  the  Madrid 
police  force  by  the  newly  appointed  chief,  and  a  flash-light 
photo  of  a  banquet.  There  were  also  two  pictures  of  what 
we  in  our  country  would  call  "  sewing-circles  " ;  one,  "  The 
Santa  Rita  Society,"  held  its  reunion  in  the  house  of  a  noble- 
woman with  eleven  names,  so  she  must  be  very  noble,  indeed. 
The  other  was  called  "  The  Society  of  Our  Lady  of  Hope." 
These  two  sewing-circles  meet  one  day  each  week,  and  make 
garments  "  for  the  deserving  poor."  The  pictures  showed 
that  they  were  held  in  rooms  very  richly  furnished,  but  en- 
tirely dissimilar  to  the  styles  prevailing  in  our  country.  The 
chairs,  the  tables,  the  parquet  floors,  the  oval  pictures  and 
mirror-frames,  the  elaborately  carved  moldings,  the  innumer- 
able candelabra,  both  overhead  and  on  the  walls,  the  general 
style  of  the  decorations  and  furnishing  is  old-fashioned,  not  to 
say  rococo.  As  for  the  charitable  ladies,  it  is  evident  that 
they  all  put  on  their  best  bibs  and  tuckers  for  these  sewing- 
bees.  There  were  no  mantillas  to  be  seen — they  all  wore  hats, 
and  evidently  not  hats  of  Madrid-atte-Manzanares,  but  hats 
of   Paris   town. 

A  little  paper  called  El  Escandalo  ("  Scandal  ")  I  purchased 
with  a  bunch  of  weeklies  one  day  on  the  Puerta  del  Sol.  It 
was  fitly  named.  It  seemed  to  be  made  up  of  venomous  at- 
tacks on  private  individuals  under  thinly  veiled  pseudonyms 
— attacks  not  only  bitter,  but  in  most  indecorous  language. 
Its  treatment  of  the  theatres  may  be  imagined  from  the  head- 
ing of  the  dramatic  department :  "  Cloaca  Maxima  " — (the 
gigantic  sewer  of  ancient  Rome).  This  gutter  title  was 
matched  by  its  society  department,  which  was  entitled  "  The 
Cess-Pool."  The  editor  seemed  to  have  a  quarrel  with  cafe- 
keepers,  to  whom  he  devoted  an  entire  column  of  abuse,  the 
last  paragraph  of  which  was  remarkable.  "  The  manager  of 
the  Cervantes  Cafe,"  said  he.  "  threatens  to  prosecute  us 
in  the  courts  if  we  do  not  withdraw  our  statement  regarding 
the  milk  he  sells,  and  how  he  gets  it  from  the  Marquesa  de  la 
Laguna."  The  journal  proceeds  to  reiterate  its  charges. 
Delicacy  forbids  their  repetition,  but  the  reader  may  guess 
at  the  statement  which  offended  the  cafe-keeper  when  we 
say  that  the  lady  from  whom  he  was  accused  of  having  pur- 
chased the  milk  was  reputed  to  preserve  her  beauty  by  the 
same  means  as  Diane  de  Poitiers,  Ninon  de  l'Enclos,  and 
Pauline  Bonaparte. 

Before  leaving  the  field  of  general  weeklies,  let  me  mention 
the  Cake-Walk.  The  casual  reader  may  imagine  that  in  giving 
this  title  I  am  pulling  the  long.  bow.  But  no ;  I  purchased 
such  a  paper  in  Madrid — a  little  four-page-sheet  calling  itself 
"  the  Cake-Walk :  An  Independent,  Satirical  Weekly,  pub- 
lished at  No.  60  Cardinal  Cisneros  Street."  Like  the  little 
Paris  comic  papers,  the  first  page  contained  a  colored  cartoon, 
the  rest  being  made  up  of  miscellaneous  satirical  comment. 
The  Cake-Walk  did  not  seem  to  me  destined  for  a  long  life. 
But  that  our  American  fad  for  an  ephemeral  negro-dance 
should  give  a  name  to  a  comic  weekly  in  old  Spain  is  cer- 
tainly peculiar. 

The  most  widely  published  weeklies  are  those  devoted  to 
bull-fighting.  One,  the  Heraldo  Taurino,  might  be  called  a 
high-class  bull-fighting  paper,  as  it  is  intended  only  for  those 
who  can  read — there  are  no  pictures  in  it.  Many  of  the 
cheaper  bull-fighting  sheets  are  made  up  almost  entirely  of 
pictures.  The  Heraldo  is  the  organ  of  the  Aficionados — bull- 
ring enthusiasts — who  answer  to  our  baseball  cranks.  It  is 
therefore  written  in  a  weird  language,  which  is  probably  in- 
telligible to  the  bull-ring  cranks,  but  certainly  is  not  to  a 
stranger.  But  even  in  our  own  newspapers  the  baseball  crank 
peruses  with   feverish   interest  such  lines  as  these: 

"  Hank  got  to  first  on  balls,  and  died  on  second.  Smitty 
got  struck  out.  Big  Jim  sent  a  hot  three-bagger  to  Short,  who 
wanted  whiskers  on  it,  and  Jim  never  stopped  at  third,  sliding 
half-way  home  to  the  plate." 

Were  Shakespeare  to  revisit  the  glimpses  of  the  moon  he 
would  find  that  too  much  for  him.  And  this  highly  technical 
description  of  an  espada  finishing  a  bull — Cervantes  might  be 
able  to  comprehend  it,  but  I  doubt  it  much  : 

"  Cambia  el  diestro  de  muleta,  y  tomandolo  con  calma,  da 
seis  con  la  derecha  y  dos  ayudados.  Estando  descuidado,  el 
toro  lo  achucha  y  sale  rodando  por  el  suelo.  AI  quite  la 
cuadrilla." 

Another  paper,  El  Toreo,  bears  at  its  head  such  an  ancient 
wood-cut  of  a  bull-ring  that  I  looked  at  the  journal's  date- 
line to  ascertain  its  age,  and  found  that  it  had  been  published 
for  over  thirty  years.  El  Toreo's  specialty  is  long  letters  from 
bull-fighting  correspondents  in  Mexico,  Central  America,  and 
South    America. 

Los  Madriles  is  largely  given  up  to  illustrations.  The  chief 
bull-fighting  editor,  Edouardo  Reballo,  signs  himself  "  Your 
Uncle  Teddy."  which  shows  the  familiar  relations  existing 
between  writer  and  reader  in  the  bull-fighting  press. 

The  most  important  of  these  journals  is  Sol  y  Sombra,  or 
"  Sun  and  Shade,"  the  terms  applied  to  the  two  sides  of  the 
bull-ring.  The  "  sombra  "  is  the  expensive  side,  the  seats  be- 
ing choice  ones  in  the  shade.  The  cheap  "  sol  "  side  is  what 
our  baseball  cranks  call  "  the  bleaching-boards,"  or,  briefly, 
"  the  bleachers."  Sol  y  Sombra  is  a  handsome  journal  of 
twenty  pages,  printed  on  coated  paper,  and  containing  many 
half-tones  and  some  wash  drawings.  In  the  number  before 
me  there  is  a  spirited  picture  of  the  cuadrilla  enlivening  a 
sluggish  bull  in  the  bull-pen  with  a  barrel  of  burning  tar. 
Fire  has  always  been  a  favorite  medium  with  the  Spaniards 
for  converting  heathen  and  inspiring  bulls.  A  number  of  photo- 
process  pictures  accompany  a  letter  describing  bull-fights  in 
the  City  of  Mexico.  A  spirited  full-page  cartoon  of  Antonio 
Montes,  a  well-known  bull-fighter,  is  by  R.  Esteban,  an  equally 
well-known  artist.  Then  follow  photographs  of  nine  bulls' 
heads,  mounted  on  elaborate  escutcheons,  on  each  of  which 
is  painted  the  scene  of  each  particular  bull's  death.  These 
souvenirs  were  prepared  "  to  commemorate  the  taurine  festival 
at  Madrid  on  the  occasion  of  the  oath  and  proclamation  of  his 
majesty,    Don    Alfonso    the    Thirteenth,"    and    were    presented 


to  nine  notables  there  present.  But  the  gem  of  the  number 
is  an  article  entitled  "  From  Becquer  to  Fuentes."  It  pictures 
"  the  house  in  which  was  born  Gustavo  Becquer,  poet,  where 
now  lives  the  celebrated  bull-fighter,  Antonio  Fuentes."  The 
article  is  written  by  Carlos  L.  Olmedo.  "  Some  may  call  me 
blasphemous."  says  Mr.  Olmedo.  "  thus  to  link  together  the 
names  of  Becquer  and  Fuentes.  But  where  is  the  incongruitv 
in  linking  one  of  the  greatest  of  our  poets  with  one  of  the 
most  famous  of  our  bull-fighters?"  Mr.  Olmedo  goes  on  to 
discuss,  with  enthusiasm,  the  career  of  Mr.  Fuentes.  Still,  it 
is  only  fair  to  add  that,  while  he  inclines  toward  the  torero. 
he  speaks  quite  handsomely  of  the  dead  poet,  and  gives  a 
photograph  of  the  tablet  on  the  front  of  the  house.  He  also 
gives  some  photos  of  his  friend,  Fuentes ;  first  we  see  him 
as  Fighter  Fuentes.  in  all  the  glory  of  brocade  and  bullion, 
gold-laced  jacket,  satin  breeches,  and  silk  stockings :  next  we 
sec  the  society  Mr.  Fuentes  in  semi-public  life,  as  you  see 
the  bull-fighters  at  the  Madrid  cafes  surrounded  by  their  ad- 
mirers. But  the  third  portrait  is  a  touching  one — it  represents 
the  domestic  Mr.  Fuentes,  seated  on  a  garden  bench,  with  Mrs. 
Fuentes  affectionately  leaning  on  his  shoulder,  and  little 
Antonio  Fuentes  on  Papa  Fuentes's  lap.  Thus  we  see  that 
even  the  fierce  bull-fighters  yield  to  woman  in  their  hours  of 
ease.     Ah,   how   sweet   is    domesticity ! 

The  lovers  of  lyric  poetry  can  scarcely  feel  other  than 
grateful  to  Mr.  Olmedo  for  bringing  Becquer  into  the  fierce 
lime-light   that   beats   around   the   throne  of   Antonio    Fuentes. 

Among  the  Madrid  daily  papers.  La  Epoca  is  the  most  con 
servative  and  ranks  the  highest.  Next  comes  El  National. 
Others  are  El  Correo.  El  Espaiiol,  El  Liberal.  El  Pais,  El 
Correo  Espahol,  La  Correspondencia  de  Espaila,  EI  Globo, 
El  Impartial,  El  Diarto  Universal,  and  El  Heraldo.  The  last 
two  seemed  to  me  to  have  the  largest  sale.  El  Diario  is  an 
eight-page  paper,  well  written  and  well  illustrated.  The  il- 
lustrations in  some  of  these  Madrid  papers  are  surprisingly 
good.  El  Diario's  first  page  comes  where  the  eighth  ought  to 
be,  and  the  four-page  dailies  here  are  made  up  backward, 
the  first  page  coming  on  page  four  of  the  sheet.  The  Madrid 
journals'  leading  articles  are  well-written — they  are  similar 
to  the  Paris  papers  in  tone,  being  decidedly  literary,  even 
when  political.  The  work  done  by  the  reporters  is  much  in- 
ferior. The  dispatches  from  peninsular  points  are  voluminous; 
those  from   foreign   places   are  shorter,   but  adequate. 

Let  us  take  the  Heraldo  as  a  specimen  Madrid  daily.  It 
is  from  four  to  eight  pages  in  size,  and  is  the  most  enter- 
prising of  the  Spanish  dailies.  There  are  32  men  in  the  edi- 
torial-rooms. 30  in  the  composing  room,  6  in  the  stereotypin^- 
room,  2  in  the  zincographic-room,  12  in  the  press-room,  20 
in  the  business  office:  these,  with  the  "outside  men,"  make  a 
total  of  213  employees.  I  was  told  that  last  year  the  Heraldo 
printed  over  40,000,000  copies,  consuming  two  thousand  tons 
of  paper;  that  it  spends  every  month  a  million  pesetas;  and 
that  the  paper  received  last  year  over  2.200  words  by  telegraph 
each  day.  It  is  published  by  a  stock  company.  These  par- 
ticulars may  make  some  of  our  American  millionaire  journal- 
ists smile,  but  they  will  at  least  show  that  the  newspaper  men 
in  Madrid  are  "  getting  a  move  on."  The  Heraldo  is  installed 
in  a  handsome  new  building  in  the  Calle  de  la  Colegiata.  This 
building  was  constructed  expressly  for  the  newspaper,  with 
special  facilities  for  its  mechanical  department.  The  press- 
rooms are  large  and  well-lighted,  and  the  presses  are  modern 
perfecting  web-presses  of  the  latest  type. 

In  the  composing-room  I  observed  that  the  compositors  all 
work  at  cases.  Machine  composition  seems  not  yet  to  have 
reached  Madrid.  A  striking  detail  was  that  the  compositors 
were  all  clad  in  long  blouses.  This  is  significant.  The  blouse 
in  Europe  is  a  garment  which  distinctly  sets  ofT  the  working- 
man,  the  peasant,  the  laborer,  from  those  above  him — even  the 
trades-people  look  down  on  the  man  in  the  blouse.  In  repub- 
lican France  it  is  rapidly  going  out.  In  Paris  nowadays 
workmen  do  not  favor  the  blouse;  its  use  has  become  dis- 
tasteful to  them,  stamping  them  as  of  a  lower  class.  You 
still  see  it  worn  in  the  provinces  of  France — not  so  much  in 
the  large  cities.  But  here  in  Madrid  all  of  the  compositors 
on  the  leading  daily  were  clad  in  blouses.  It  shows  the 
difference  between  republican   France  and  monarchical   Spain. 

But  think  of  the  difference  between  monarchical  Spain  and 
republican  America.  In  our  country  the  printers  are  the  most 
intelligent,  the  best  educated,  and  the  most  highly  organized 
craftsmen  we  have.  Probably  the  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive 
Engineers  is  as  much  respected,  and  possibly  it  is  a  more 
conservative  trades-union,  but  its  members,  individually,  while 
fine  types  of  men,  do  not  overtop  the  printers.  Furthermore, 
the  printers  have  been  organized  into  a  labor  union  for  many 
years.  For  that  matter,  the  guild  usages  of  the  typographers 
date  back  three  or  four  hundred  years.  In  this  country  the 
printers'  union  have  had  the  employers  practically  at  their 
mercy  up  to  the  organization  of  the  Typotheta?,  or  Master 
Printers,  and  the  Newspaper  Publishers'  Association.  Even 
now  they  treat  with  these  bodies  on  almost  equal  terms,  and 
if  there  is  any  inferiority,  it  is  not  on  the  part  of  the  printers. 
To  gaze  on  the  humble  Madrid  printers,  clad  in  the  servile 
blouse,  bowing  obsequiously  when  addressed  by  any  one  from 
the  editorial-room,  moves  an  American  newspaper  man  to  in- 
ward laughter.  For  if  any  one  is  boss  on  an  American  daily. 
it  is  generally  the  printer's  foreman — even  the  nigh!  editor  is 
afraid  of  him.  Yet  the  imperious  foreman  must  at  times  take 
orders  from  the  "  father  of  the  chapel,"  an  official  elected,  ac- 
cording to  ancient  usage,  by  the  printers  voting  as  a  "chapel  " 
if  the  "  father  of  the  chapel  "  orders  the  printers  to  stop  work, 
they  will  disobey  the  foreman,  and  walk  out.  If  the  printers' 
union  orders  the  "father"  to  call  his  "chapel"  out.  he  will 
do  so  without  question.  And  at  such  a  threatened  call,  the 
owners  of  great  dailies  turn  pale,  and  temporize.  In  short, 
the  printers  in  this  country  can  make  the  millionaire  owners 
toe  a  chalk-line,  and  they  have  done  it  nu.re  than  once.  It  is 
no  wonder  then  that  the  appearance,  dress,  and  demeanor  of 
the  Madrid  printers  should  impress  an  American  newspaper 
man. 


116 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  24,  1903. 


GUILEFUL    PEPPAJEE    JIM. 


How  the  Indian  Won  the  Red-Top  Boots. 

Peppajee  Jim  drew  his  gay,  scarlet  and  yellow 
blanket  closer  about  his  athletic  person,  and  stepped 
from  the  glare  of  yellow  sunlight  into  the  cool  shade 
of  the  catalpa-tree  by  the  gate.  His  black  eyes  roved 
restlessly  over  the  silent  yard.  Keno  rose,  stretched 
himself  lazily,  and  wagged  a  languid  greeting.  Gen- 
erally speaking,  Keno  hated  Indians  even  worse  than 
he  did  the  gaunt,  gray  coyotes  which  sneaked  through 
the  sage-brush  back  of  the  chicken-yard;  but  he  and 
Peppajee  were  old  friends. 

Peppajee  stooped  and  rested  a  grimy  hand  upon  the 
sleek,  black  head  of  the  dog. 

"  Yo'  Keno,  wano  dog.  Heap  wano!"  It  was  the 
highest  praise  known  to  his  tribe.  Their  scale  of 
approbation  is  simple.  It  is  this:  wano,  good;  heap 
wano]  very  good,  indeed.  On  the  other  hand,  ka  wano 
is  bad,  while  heap  ka  wano  is  the  worst  possible.  A 
more  elaborate  classification  of  one's  good  or  bad  qual- 
ities they  consider  superfluous. 

Peppajee  ascended  and  stood  upon  the  porch. 
Finding  the  door  open — for  the  day  was  hot — he  ad- 
vanced and  stood  in  the  doorway,  darkening  the  room 
with  his  six-foot  stature. 

"Huh.     Where  yo'  ketchum.  Will?" 
Will  looked  up  from  the  new  boots  he  was  admiring. 
Their  high,  slender  heals  and  shiny,  red  tops  seemed  to 
him  the  acme  of  perfection. 

"  Hello,  Peppajee.  Come  on  in.  You  like  'em 
boots?    Wano?" 

Peppajee  came  closer,  eying  the  boots  covetously 
the  while.  He  ran  a  long  forefinger  critically  over  the 
red  tops.  The  leather  was  soft  and  pleasing  to  the 
touch — distracting  to  the  eye.  His  blanket  slipped  un- 
heeded from  one  shoulder  and  trailed  upon  the  carpet. 
"  Huh.  Mebbyso  wano,  mebbyso  ka  wano,"  he  re- 
plied, guardedly.  "  Mebbyso  holes  come  heap  quick. 
Mebbyso  hurt  feet — ouch!"  His  bronzed  features 
mimicked  the  agony  of  uncomfortable  foot-gear,  while 
his  gaze  lingered  upon  the  red  tops.  "  Red,"  he  ad- 
mitted, reluctantly,  "  him  heap  wano.  Where  yo' 
ketchum  ?" 

"  Oh,  I  ketchum  heap  long  way  oft — San  Francisco. 
I  pay  eight  dollars,  so."  Will  held  up  a  corresponding 
number  of  fingers.  "  No  hurt  feet — wano.  No  holes 
come,  mebbyso  one  year."  Will,  when  conversing  with 
the  Indians  who  came  often  to  the  ranch,  adopted,  as 
far  as  possible,  their  mode  of  speech. 

Peppajee  seated  himself  gingerly  upon  the  edge  of 
a  chair,  his  blanket  wrapped  jealously  around  him. 
He  would  have  preferred  to  squat  comfortably  upon 
the  floor  but  for  the  fact  that  he  prided  himself  upon 
his  white-man  ways.  His  beady  eyes  returned  hun- 
grily to  the  boots. 

"  Huh.     Holes  come,  bimeby,  yo'  gimme  red?  " 
"  Yes,  I'll  give  you  red  when  holes  come.     It'll  be  a 
long  time,  though — mebbyso  one  year." 

Peppajee  grunted  and  relapsed  into  stolid  silence. 
Secretly,  Will  wondered  what  had  brought  the  fellow  to 
the  ranch.  Two  years  ago  he  had  been  a  frequent  visitor, 
until  Will,  who  was  more  facetious  and  less  discreet, 
had  concocted  a  horrible  mixture  of  cold  tea,  red 
pepper,  salts,  vinegar,  and  ipecac,  and  presented  Pep- 
pajee with  a  generous  fiask.  It  was  April  Fool's  Day, 
but  Peppajee  knew  nothing  of  the  significance  of  the 
season.  All  days  were  alike  to  him.  He  carried  the 
flask  joyfully  home  to  his  wickiup,  and  if  he  found  the 
"  wunu  whisk'  "  below  the  standard,  he  made  no  com- 
plaint. The  only  sign  of  displeasure  had  been  a 
sudden  break  in  his  visits.  Until  to-day  he  had  not 
deigned  so  much  as  a  glance  in  Will's  direction,  so 
that  his   friendliness  now  was   rather  puzzling. 

"  Yo'  eat  dinner  plenty  quick,  mebbyso?  "  asked  Pep- 
pajee, insinuatingly,  as  certain  savory  odors  floated  out 
to  his  nostrils  from  the  kitchen. 

"  Yes.     You  stay,  eat  dinner  with  us." 
Peppajee   nodded   acceptance  of   the   invitation,   and 
Will  produced  a  box  of  villainous  cigars,  bought  from 
a     peddler     and    kept    for     the     delectation     of     such 
guests. 

"  Come  out  on   the  porch,   Peppajee.     We   smoke." 
Peppajee    rose,   gave    his    blanket    a   hitch,   and    fol- 
lowed his  host. 

"Where  fadder?  Where  boys?"  he  asked,  politely, 
as  they  seated  themselves. 

"  They  went  for  horses.  They  come  back  soon." 
Peppajee  smoked  in  luxurious  silence  for  a  time, 
then  began,  suddenly:  "  Me  gut  heap  zuuno  pony.  Me 
trade  him  yo'.  Him  wano — heap  wano.  Him  go  fas' — 
lak  dat."  lie  drew  a  hand  rapidly  through  the  air. 
"Him  no  buck,  him  no  keeck,  him  go  all  places  same. 
Mebbyso  rocks — lava  bed — him  go  s-l-o-w — him  no 
fall.  Mebbyso  w.nw  road,  him  go,  go,  all  same  deer. 
Mebbyso  heap  dark — no  moon,  no  star — him  no  los', 
him  go  all  time  home.  .Mebbyso  ride  all  day,  no  stop 
fur  eat,  fur  drink,  him  go  all  time  fas'.  Heap  wano 
pony.     Y'o'  trade  ?  " 

Will  applied  a  match  to  his  newly  rolled  cigarette 
and  pulled  vigorously.  He  knew  something  uf  the  way 
of  the  red  man;  he  is  full  of  guile  as  when  he  rode 
r:  mpant  the  plains,  seeking  whom  he  might  devour — 
ft  at  is  to  say,  scalp. 

"What    fur  you     rade   wano  pony?"  he   demanded, 
;piciously.     "What   for  you  no  keep  him?" 
Peppajee  shifted  his  position  uneasily;  his  eyes  nar- 


rowed. "  Vinie,  she  ride  all  the  time.  Vinie  heap 
lazy.  I'  lick.  She  no  care,  she  ride  all  time  same. 
Vinie  no  stay  wickiup — no  cook — no  make  moccasin 
for  sell.  Mebbyso  me  keel  deer,  me  come  home,  Vinie 
gone.  Me  haf  skin  deer — haf  cook.  Vinie  come  back 
bimeby,  me  lick.  No  good.  She  go  nex'  day  all  same." 
He  paused,  dramatically,  then  continued.  "  Me  trade 
pony.  Me  git  noder  pony,  mebbyso  me  make  buck 
a  little.  Vinie  she  see,  she  no  ride — Vinie  heap  'fraid. 
No  walk — heap  lazy.  Vinie  stay  home,  cook  deer,  make 
moccasins  for  sell — me  no  lick.    Wano." 

The  explanation  was  logical  and  convincing.  Will, 
more  trustful  then  than  he  is  at  present,  smothered  any 
lingering  doubt,  and  inclined  his  ear  to  Peppajee's 
specious   reasoning. 

"  All  right.  We  eat;  then  I  go  look  at  pony.  Mebbyso 
I  trade." 

The  eyes  of  the  Indian  sparkled.  "  Yo'  got  wano 
pony — mebbyso  make  buck  a  little?" 

Will  nodded.  "  You  saw  him  out  in  the  corral.  Little 
black  pony,  wano.  You  spur  him,  he  buck.  You  ride 
him  to  wickiup,  you  spur  him — heap  scare   Vinie." 

Peppajee  looked  down  at  his  moccasins.  "  Huh. 
Me  no  got  spur." 

"  Oh,  well,  there's  an  old  pair  in  the  blacksmith  shop 
I'll  give  you,"  said  Will,  tiring  of  the  "  lingo."  Peppajee 
grinned;  evidently  the  prospect  pleased  him.  Still,  he 
clung  to  his  Indian  caution. 

"  Me  go  look ;  mebbyso  me  trade.  Mebbyso  me  want 
ten  dollah,  so."  He  raised  both  hands,  the  fingers  and 
thumbs  extended,  and  the  negotiations  were  postponed 
until  after  dinner. 

"  Mebbyso,  me  ride  yo'  pony.  Wano.  Mebbyso  me 
trade." 

"  All  right,"  said  Will,  and  led  the  fiery  little  black 
from  the  corral,  and  held  him  while  Peppajee  trans- 
ferred his  saddle.  The  horse  was  a  beautiful  creature 
to  look  upon,  but  lacked  stamina  for  a  hard  gallop  over 
the  rough,  surrounding  country,  so  Will  considered  the 
trade  all  in  his  favor.  Peppajee's  pony  was  a  plump 
little  pinto,  kind-eyed,  sure-footed,  and  sound. 

The  black  threw  back  his  head  and  eyed  his  pros- 
pective owner  askance.  Some  horses  seem  to  possess 
a  constitutional  aversion  to  our  red  brethren,  and 
Mohawk  was  one  of  these.  Peppajee  hesitated,  one 
moccasined  foot  in  the  stirrup. 

"Him  no  buck  heap?"  he  queried,  apprehensively. 
The  belligerent,  backward  glance  of  Mohawk  filled  his 
Indian  soul  with  misgiving.  Peppajee  was  a  victim 
of  civilization.  He  had  allowed  most  of  his  accom- 
plishments to  grow  rusty  from  disuse  while  he  tarried 
long  at  wine — or,  to  be  explicit,  cheap  whisky.  He 
no  longer  rode  a  la  Centaur.  I  doubt  if  he  could  even 
properly  scalp  an  enemy;  I  am  inclined  to  think  he 
would  have  botched  the  job  disgracefully.  Will 
hastened  to  reassure  him. 

"  He  never  bucks  with  me,  unless  I  spur  him,"  he 
said.  "  I  don't  know,"  he  added,  conservatively,  "  how 
he'll  act  with  you.  He  never  had  an  Injun  on  top  of 
him.     He  don't  seem  to  take  to  the  idea." 

"'  Huh,"  grunted  Peppajee,  stung  by  the  distasteful 
epithet.  He  mounted,  and  settled  himself  and  his 
blanket  firmly  in  the  saddle.  "  Yo'  let  go  him  head. 
Mebbyso,  Injun  ride  fo'  yo'  bawn !" 

Ned  and  Dick,  who  were  watching  the  trade,  sprang 
upon  their  horses,  expectantly.  Will  turned  loose  the 
black  and  swung  into  the  saddle.  "  We  go  with  you," 
he  explained.    "  We  see  how  he  go." 

"  Huh,"  said  Peppajee,  but  got  no  farther.  Mohawk 
gathered  his  feet  under  him,  and  sprang  straight  into 
the  air,  then  dashed  off  down  the  trail,  the  boys  follow- 
ing. 

The  scarlet  blanket  loosened  and  streamed  out  be- 
hind, like  the  danger  signal  it  was.  Peppajee  turned 
in  the  saddle  to  re-adjust  it,  and  inadvertently  drove  a 
spur  deep  into  the  flank  of  Mohawk.  He  winced  percep- 
tibly, lowered  his  head  between  his  knees,  and  bucked 
off  the  trail  and  into  the  sage-brush.  Will  had  neglected 
to  warn  Peppajee  that  Mohawk  had  a  disagreeable  habit 
of  bucking  backward — it  might  have  spoiled  the  trade. 
However,  Peppajee  was  not  long  discovering  this  pe- 
culiarity. Backward  went  Mohawk,  nearer  and  nearer 
to  a  deep  wash-out  where  a  placer  claim  had  once  been 
located.  Will,  comprehending  the  danger,  shouted 
warningly.  Peppajee,  clinging  tightly  to  the  saddle- 
horn,  looked  behind  him,  and  shouted  also. 

"  Mebbyso,  yo'  rope — heap  quick!" 

Will  unfastened  his  rope,  galloping  closer  the  while 
The  noose  circled  overhead,  and  Mohawk  backed  from 
its  threatening  swirl.  Now  he  was  on  the  brink 
Twenty  feet  straight  down— Peppajee  leaned  forward 
panic-stricken. 

Swish-sh!  Will's  faithful  Gypsy  braced  herself 
for  the  strain.  Mohawk  dodged— too  late.  The  noose 
settled  relentlessly  over  his  shoulders. 

"  Darn  it  all,  look  at  that  blamed  Injun!  He  might 
have  had  sense  enough  to  dodge  that  rope!" 

Peppajee  lay  prone  upon  the  neck  of  Mohawk  held 
fast  by  the  pitiless  rope  which  gripped  horse  and  rider 
alike  Will  turned  Gypsy's  head  and  drew  the  mad- 
dened black— and  his  thrice-maddened  burden— back 
to  comparative  safety. 

"  Throw  your  rope,  Dick  !"  cried  Will.  "  Catch  him 
by  a  foot  and  throw  him.  I'm  breaking  that  blamed 
Injun  s  neck." 

Dick  obeyed.  Another  loop  circled  overhead-  another 
rope  swished  through  the  sultry  air.  Mohawk  struggled 
fiercely;  then  fell  heavily  in  the  loose  sand 


Peppajee,  freed  from  bondage,  rose  stiffly  to  his 
feet,  assisted  by  Will. 

"  Huh !"  he  snorted,  in  a  tone  of  deepest  disgust, 
gathering  his  blanket  about  his  outraged  person.  Will 
sat  suddenly  down  in  the  hot  sand,  and  covered  his 
face  with  his  gloved  fingers.  His  whole  body  shook 
with  what  may  have  been  sobs,  but  which  bore  sus- 
picious resemblance  to  violent,  uncontrollable  mirth. 
Peppajee  evidently  so  interpreted  the  emotion.  He 
stood  up,  straight  and  tall,  one  trembling,  sinewy  arm 
outstretched  accusingly,  and  regarded  him  wrathfully. 

"  Huh.  Yo'  heap  laugh  now,  Bimeby  yo'  no  laugh — 
mebbyso  yo'  heap  cry.  Yo'  tink  for  keel  me.  Yo'  do 
dat  for  mean !  Me  go  for  town ;  me  tell  sheriff-man  yo' 
try  for  keel  me.  Him  come,  take  yo'.  Me  go  co't,  me 
tell  yo'  try  for  keel  me.  Me  putum  in  jail,  one — two — 
free  year!  Yo'  bet  yo'  life!  Mebbyso  yo'  quit  laugh 
damn  quick.  Me  no  trade.  Me  no  want  damn  cayuse ! 
Huh."  Turning  majestically  upon  his  heel,  he  scowled 
vindictively  at  the  black  and  stalked  haughtily — albeit 
with  a  limp — through  the  sage-brush  and  up  the  hill, 
not  once  turning  his  head  to  look  back. 

"He's  so  mad  he  forgot  his  pony  and  saddle!"  said 
Will,  when  he  recovered,  and  stood  up.  "  I'll  go  after 
him  and  tell  him  I'm  sorry.  Poor  old  heathen,  he  did 
have  a  hard  deal  that  time.  I'll  offer  him  my  new 
boots  that  he  had  his  eye  on;  that'll  ease  his  temper, 
maybe." 

Peppajee  made  no  sign  as  Will  clattered  up  behind 
him. 

"  Hold  on,  Jim.  Come  on  back."  There  was  no 
answer,  though  the  face  of  the  Indian  lost  an  atom 
of  its  sternness.  It  was  balm  to  his  soul  to  be  called 
Jim.  Will  went  on,  conciliatingly :  "Come  on  back.  I 
heap  sorry.   Mebbyso  you  trade ;  I  give  you  boots." 

"  Huh."  Peppajee  relaxed  sufficiently  to  grunt  sar- 
castically.    "  Mebbyso  holes  come  heap  quick." 

"No,  no;  heap  wano  boots.  You  trade;  I  give  you 
boots." 

Peppajee  stood  still,  and  considered.  When  he  spoke 
it  was  as  an  emperor  commanding  his  vassal. 

"  Yo'  gimme  boots,  yo'  gimme  ten  dollah,  me  trade. 
Yo'  no  trade,  me  go  tell  sheriff-man.  Me  ride  cayuse, 
me  no  spur.  Him  buck,  mebbyso  me  break  yo'  back!" 
Thus  the  ultimatum  was  pronounced,  and  Will  con- 
sented, reluctantly,  to  the  terms. 

A  week  later,  a  travel-worn  old  Indian,  who  dis- 
claimed any  knowledge  of  the  white  man's  language, 
skulked  into  the  shadow  of  the  catalpa-trees,  and  was 
immediately  set  upon  by  Keno,  who  would  have  done 
serious  damage  to  the  dirty  gray  blanket  had  not  Will 
appeared  opportunely  and  called  him  back.  The  Indian, 
alter  scanning  the  young  mans  countenance  sharply, 
handed  him  a  soiled  fold  of  cheap  letter-paper,  and 
skulked  back  into  the  sage-brush  whence  he  had  come. 
Some  ex-student  of  one  of  the  mission  schools  had 
evidently  acted  as  amanuensis  for  Peppajee  Jim,  who 
dictated  the  letter.  Will  read,  and  his  soul  was  filled 
with  bitterness. 

Yo',  Will  Bolter,  yo'  heap  big  fool.  Long  time  ago,  yo' 
gimme  big  bottle,  yo'  say  heap  wano  whisky.  Me  take  whisky 
home,  me  drink,  drink,  whisky  all  gone.  Heap  ka  wano' 
Ale  heap  sick — me  tink  all  time  mebbyso  ine  die.  Me  mad 
all  same  lak  for  keel  yo'.  Me  no  keel.  Me  wait  one,  two 
year ;  me  bring  pony ;  me  say  wano  pony.  Yo'  glad  for  trade. 
Pony  him  not  my  pony;  him  John  Little  Rabbit  pony  Yo' 
gimme  boots,  yo'  gimme  ten  dollah;  yo'  gimme  black  pony. 
Wano.  Me  sellum  boots,  sellum  pony,  heap  dollah.  John 
Little  Rabbit,  mebbyso  him  come  take  him  ponv.  i'o'  try 
tor  keep,  yo'  go  for  jail.  Me  go  heap  long  way— yo'  no  can 
hnd.    Me  got  heap  dollah,  yo'  got  notting.     Wano! 

His 
Peppajee  X  Jim. 
Mark 

Bertha  Muzzy  Bower. 
San  Francisco,  August,  1903. 


Professor  Doumergue,  acting  for  the  Historical  So- 
ciety of  Geneva,  recently  determined  the  exact  locality 
111  the  suburb  Champel  of  that  city,  where  Michael  Ser- 
vet  was  burned  at  the  stake  for  heresy.  A  tablet  is  O 
be  placed  there  bearing  the  following  inscription :  "  We, 
the  revering  and  grateful  sons  of  Calvin,  our  great  re- 
former, condemning  an  error  which  was  an  error  of 
the  times,  and  the  faithful  adherents  of  the  principle 
of  freedom  of  conscience,  according  to  the  true  teach- 
ings of  the  Reformation  and  of  the  Gospel,  have  here 
erected  this  memorial  of  atonement  on  the  27th  of  Oc- 
tober, 1903.  On  the  27th  of  October,  1553,  died  at  the 
stake  in  Champel,  Michael  Servet,  of  Villanuova,  in 
Arragonia,  born  on  the  27th  of  September,  1511." 


A  molecule  of  alcohol  is  composed  of  two  atoms  of 
carbon,  six  of  hydrogen,  and  one  of  oxygen;  so  syn- 
thetical alcohol  is  obtained  by  uniting  these  atoms  ac- 
cordingly. For  a  long  time  it  has  been  known  that  by 
direct  combination  of  carbon  and  hydrogen  in  the  elec- 
tric arc  acetylene  can  be  obtained.  Sufficient  hydrogen 
must  be  added  to  the  acetylene  to  produce  ethylene,  a 
constituent  of  illuminating  gas.  In  combining  water 
with  the  ethylene  alcohol  is  obtained.  Thus  alcohol  is 
produced  in  France  without  the  employment  of  vege- 
table matter.  s 


A  pair  of  women's  shoes  made  in  Lyon,  Mass     to 
establish  a  record  for  rapid  shoemaking,  required  fifty- 
seven  operators  and  the  use  of  forty-two  machines  and 
one  hundred  pieces.     All  these  parts  were  assembled    , 
and  made  into  a  graceful  pair  of  shoes,  ready  to  wear,    J 
in  thirteen  minutes. 


August  24,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


117 


CASSIUS  M.  CLAY'S  STORMY  CAREER. 


Cause  of  His    First   Duel  —  How   He    'Won    Over   a  Jury- 
Slavery  Paper -Some  Bloody  Fights  and  Feuds— 
His  Child-Wife,  Dora. 


General  Cassius  Marcellus  Clay,  the  "  Old  Lion  of 
Whitehall," — as  Henry  Watterson  once  dubbed  him — 
who  recently  died  at  his  home  near  Richmond,  Ky., 
at  the  age  of  ninety-three,  won  fame  during  his  long 
public  career  as  a  lawyer,  an  Abolitionist,  a  warrior,  a 
diplomat,  and  a  duelist.  His  father  was  General  Green 
Clay  of  Revolutionary  fame,  a  kinsman  of  Henry  Clay, 
and  the  scion  of  what  was  originally  an  illustrious 
Virginia  family.  Young  Clay's  earlier  education  was  ob- 
tained in  Transylvania  University,  but  later  he  entered 
the  junior  class  of  Yale,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1832.  It  was  in  New  Haven  that  he  heard  William 
Lloyd  Garrison  speak,  and  as  a  result  became  a  fervent 
Abolitionist,  although  his  father  was  a  slave-holder. 
Returning  to  his  native  State  he  studied  law,  which  he 
soon  began  to  practice  with  such  success  that  he  was 
elected  to  the  legislature  in  1835. 

Just  after  he  graduated  from  college  he  fought  his 
first  duel : 

He  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  a  Miss  Warn"  eld  at  that 
time,  when  a  rival,  a  young  doctor  named  Declarey,  of  Louis- 
ville, wrote  a  letter  to  the  mother  of  his  sweetheart,  making 
ugly  and  scurrilous  charges  against  him.  The  mother  showed 
the  letter  to  General  Clay,  and  asked  for  an  explanation.  He 
denounced  everything  as  false,  and  went  to  Louisville  on  the 
hunt  for  the  author.  He  found  him,  and  gave  him  an  un- 
merciful caning.  James  Rollins,  afterward  general,  accom- 
panied General  Clay,  and  saw  that  the  job  was  well  done. 
When  the  young  doctor  got  patched  up  from  the  caning  he 
had  received,  he  challenged  General  Clay,  and  they  met  at  a 
point  in  Indiana ;  but  there  was  such  a  mob  of  Declarey's 
friends  assembled  that  the  seconds  refused  to  permit  the  duel 
to  take  place.  Another  meeting-place  was  selected,  but  the 
exchange  of  shots  was  again  baffled  for  the  same  reason.  The 
day  after  the  last  meeting.  General  Clay  and  the  young  lady 
were  married,  and  Declarey  declared  that  he  would  cane  him. 
The  general  went  to  Louisville  to  give  his  rival  public  oppor- 
tunity, but  the  physician's  courage  failed  him.  "  A  man  who 
acted  like  that,"  the  old  general  used  to  say,  "  could  not  live 
in  Kentucky  in  those  days."  Therefore,  Declarey  committed 
suicide. 

The  Louisville  Courier- Journal  tells  the  following 
striking  story  of  Clay's  shrewdness  as  a  lawyer: 

A  man  was  once  being  tried  for  murder,  and  his  case  looked 
hopeless,  indeed.  He  had.  without  any  seeming  provocation, 
murdered  one  of  his  neighbors  in  cold  blood.  Not  a  lawyer 
in  the  county  would  touch  the  case.  It  looked  bad  enough 
to  ruin  the  reputation  of  any  barrister.  The  man.  as  a  last 
extremity,  appealed  to  Mr.  Clay  to  take  the  case  for  him. 
Every  one  thought  that  Clay  would  certainly  refuse.  But 
when  the  celebrated  lawyer  looked  into  the  matter  his  fighting 
blood  was  roused,  and,  to  the  great  surprise  of  all,  he  ac- 
cepted. Then  came  a  trial,  the  like  of  which  has  seldom  been 
seen.  Clay  slowly  carried  on  the  case,  and  it  looked  more 
and  more  hopeless.  The  only  ground  of  defense  the  prisoner 
had  was  that  the  murdered  man  had  looked  at  him  with  such 
a  fierce,  murderous  look  that  out  of  self-defense  h^  had  struck 
first.  A  ripple  passed  through  the  jury  at  this  evi- 
dence. The  time  came  for  Clay  to  make  his  defense.  It 
was  settled  in  the  minds  of  the  spectators  that  the  man  was 
guilty  of  murder  in  the  first  degree.  Clay  calmly  proceeded, 
and  laid  all  the  proof  before  them  in  a  masterly  way.  Then, 
just  as  he  was  about  to  conclude,  he  played  his  last  and  master 
card.  "  Gentlemen  of  the  jury,"  he  said,  assuming  the 
fiercest,  blackest  look,  and  carrying  the  most  undying  hatred 
in  it  ever  seen — "  gentlemen,  if  a  man  should  look  at  you 
like  this,  what  would  you  do?"  That  was  all  he  said,  but 
that  was  enough.  The  jury  was  startled,  and  some  even 
quailed  in  their  seats.  The  judge  moved  uneasily  on  his 
bench.  After  about  fifteen  minutes  the  jury  filed  slowly  back 
with  a  "  not  guilty,  your  honor."  The  victory  was  complete. 
When  Clay  was  congratulated  on  his  easy  victory,  he  said : 
"  It  was  not  so  easy  as  you  think.  I  spent  days  and  days 
in  my  room  before  the  mirror  practicing  that  look.  It  took 
more  hard  work  to  give  that  look  than  to  investigate  the  most 
abstruse  case." 

The  first  number  of  his  anti-slavery  paper,  the 
True  American,  was  issued  in  Lexington  on  the  third 
of  Tune,  1845,  in  spite  of  threats  of  mob  violence.  To 
guard  against  this  he  selected  a  brick  building,  and 
lined  the  doors  with  sheet  iron  as  a  precaution  against 
fire.  Behind  folding  doors,  which  could  be  opened  on 
the  instant,  he  mounted  two  brass  four-pounders, 
loaded  with  shot  and  nails,  for  the  warm  reception  of 
an  attacking  mob.  The  men  in  his  office  were  armed 
with  lances  or  guns,  and  he  made  provision  for  blow- 
ing up  the  building  and  his  assailants  if  the  worst  came 
to  the  worst.  In  August,  while  he  lay  sick,  his 
premises  were  entered  by  his  enemies,  under  the  leader- 
ship of  "Tom"  Marshall,  and  his  press  taken  to  Cin- 
cinnati. Frequent  threats  of  assassination  were  made 
against  him,  also,  but  he  continued  to  print  his  paper 
nevertheless,  preparing  it  in  Cincinnati  and  sending  it 
into  Kentucky  for  distribution. 

When  General  Clay  went  to  the  Mexican  War  in 
command  of  a  company,  he  decided  that  it  was  time 
to  even  up  with  "  Tom "  Marshall,  who  was  also 
captain  of  a  company: 

The  general  often  said  that  "  Tom "  was  drunk,  or  under 
the  influence  of  whisky,  about  two-thirds  of  the  time,  and  it 
was  while  in  this  condition  that  he  took  delight  in  vil'ifying 
General  Clay,  who  was  too  brave  to  hold  him  to  account  while 
drinking.  However,  one  day  while  in  camp,  Marshall  made 
insulting  remarks  to  the  general,  who  promptly  told  him  to 
dismount  and  take  his  sword  from  the  scabbard.  Marshall 
refused,  and  rode  off,  returning  later  with  his  brace  of  pistols 
buckled  around  him.  General  Clay  was  prepared  for  him, 
and  told  him  to  fire,  but  he  didn't  do  it,  turning  his  horse 
and  riding  back  to  his  tent.  It  is  stated  that  that  same  even- 
ing "  Tom  "  Marshall  attempted  to  drown  himself  in  the 
Rio   Grande. 

In  1849  General  Clay  again  came  near  being  mobbed 
to  death  at  Foxtown  while  making  a  speech  aeainst 
slavery.  Says  Major  R.  S.  Bullock,  a  life-long  friend 
of  the  noted  Kentuckian,  in  an  article  of  reminiscences: 

A  man  named  Turner  was  his  opponent  in  the  debate.  He 
denounced  the  general  roundly,  and  a  fight  ensued,  half  a  dozen 


of  Turner's  friends  taking,  part,  and  clubbing  and  knifing 
the  general  in  a  brutal  manner.  The  general  did  not  have 
his  pistol  with  him,  but  used  his  knife  vigorously,  inflicting 
wounds  on  Turner  which  resulted  in  his  death.  The  general 
was  carried  to  his  home,  only  a  short  distance,  cut  and  badly 
bruised,  where  he  lay  near  death's  door  for  several  days. 
He  would  not  let  the  doctors  touch  him,  but  he  pulled  through, 
marked  over  with  scars  which  looked  as  if  he  had  been  pulled 
through  a  thrashing-machine.  This  fight  caused  some  of  the 
Northern  people  to  say  that  it  would  have  been  a  good  thing 
for  the  cause  of  the  negro  if  General  Clay  had  been  killed; 
but  the  general  did  not  think  so,  and  he  read  the  riot  act  to 
some  of  them,  saying  that,  while  he  was  against  slavery,  he 
was  not  ready  or  willing  to  sacrifice  his  life  at  the  hands 
of  a  cowardly  mob  for  the  cause. 

Another  attempt  was  made  on  General  Clay  during 
his  congressional  campaign  against  Wickliffe,  one  of 
the  bitterest  contests  Kentucky  has  ever  known: 

Wickliffe  had  made  ugly  remarks  about  Mrs.  Clay,  and  the 
general  challenged  him,  the  challenge  being  accepted.  They 
fired  at  ten  paces,  but  neither  shot  took  effect.  The  general 
demanded  a  second  shot,  but  this  was  refused  by  the  seconds, 
and  the  principals  left  the  field  without  shedding  blood.  General 
Clay  always  contended  that  the  pistols  were  loaded  with  blanks, 
as  it  was  impossible  for  him  to  miss  his  mark.  After  this 
bloodless  duel,  the  men  met  in  debate,  and  the  pro-slavery 
advocates  determined  to  do  up  the  general.  It  was  arranged 
that  "  Sam  "  Brown,  then  one  of  the  greatest  bullies  and 
fighters  in  all  Kentucky,  and  "  Jake  "  Ashton  and  "  Ben  " 
Woods,  also  well-known  fighters,  should  do  the  work.  They 
were  at  the  public  speaking,  and  when  General  Clay  began  to 
"  skin  "  Wickliffe,  the  bully  Brown  struck  him,  and  a  general 
fight  ensued.  Again  the  general  had  not  his  pistols  with  him, 
but  his  trusty  bowie  knife  was  brought  into  play,  and  he  used 
it  with  telling  effect.  Brown  shot  the  general  in  the  breast, 
but  the  general  succeeded  in  splitting  his  nose  open,  cut  one 
ear  off,  and  literally  sliced  his  head  and  face  into  pieces, 
and  cut  out  one  eye.  While  the  general  was  using  his  bowie, 
Ashton  and  Wood  mauled  him  with  chairs  and  clubs,  making 
wounds  which  crippled  him.  Strange  to  say,  Brown  got  well, 
and  General  Clay  was  tried  for  mayhem,  being  acquitted,  as 
it  was  shown  that  he  was  the  assaulted  party,  and  it  was  at 
the  trial  that  Brown  told  of  the  conspiracy  which  had  been 
formed  to  kill  the  general.  Henry  Clay  defended  the  general 
at  this  trial. 

At  St.  Petersburg,  General  Clay  was  quite  a  social 
lion.  In  the  Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  in  New  York, 
there  is  a  massive  painting  of  the  Court  of  Russia  dur- 
ing the  'sixties  when  Clay  was  the  American  embas- 
sador there.  The  scene  is  one  of  unusual  brilliancy, 
and  portrays  Alexander  the  Second  in  his  imperial 
robes,  while  around  him  are  stationed  all  the  foreign 
embassadors.  In  the  picture.  Clay  and  the  Czar 
are  the  only  two  standing  with  their  heads  covered.  It 
is  said  that  Clay  was  requested  to  remove  his  hat  in 
deference  to  being  in  the  presence  of  the  Czar,  but 
this  he  refused  to  do,  saying:  "I  only  take  off  my 
hat  to  those  who  take  off  their  hats  to  me." 

It  was  always  a  source  of  keen  regret  to  General 
Clay  that  his  efforts  to  free  the  slaves  were  not  ap- 
preciated  by   the   negroes   themselves: 

When  the  Civil  War  closed.  General  Clay  quietly  returned 
to  his  home  at  Lexington,  and  had  as  his  companion  an  adopted 
son.  Lonney  Clay,  a  child  of  five  years,  whom  he  had  brought 
from  Russia.  From  the  outset  the  large  retinue  of  servants 
began  to  make  it  unpleasant  for  their  master,  stealing  his 
silverware  and  groceries,  and  carrying  off  the  products  of  the 
plantation.  The  adopted  son  was  poisoned,  and  efforts  were 
made  to  poison  the  general,  but  the  plot  failed,  and  it  was  then 
that  the  entire  force,  with  a  few  exceptions,  received  their  dis- 
missals, and  were  forced  to  leave  the  place.  One  negro.  Perry 
White,  declared  that  he  would  kill  the  general,  and  one  morn- 
ing the  two  met  while  the  general  was  out  riding.  The  negro 
made  an  effort  to  draw  his  pistol,  but  before  he  could  do  so 
General  Clay  shot  him  twice,  once  through  the  neck,  and  once 
through  the  heart.  Every  man  in  the  county  knew  the  threats 
White  had  made  against  General  Clay,  and  at  the  trial  there 
was  no  trouble  in  finding  a  verdict  of  acquittal. 

General  Clay  once  contemplated  fighting  a  duel  with 
Julian  Hawthorne,  on  account  of  disrespectful  allu- 
sions to  his  wife,  in  a  review  of  his  memoirs  published 
in  Cincinnati  in  1886.  He  demanded  an  unequivocal 
retraction,  which  Mr.  Hawthorne  wrote,  and  so  saved 
himself  from  violence.  After  all,  speaking  musingly, 
reviewing  his  life,  he  confessed  to  a  reporter,  when 
he  was  above  eighty-four,  that  he  was  opposed  on  prin- 
ciple to  the  duel,  thinking  it  a  savage  way  to  settle  a 
difficulty,  "but  there  are  some  cases  for  which  it  seems 
to  be  the  only  remedy." 

The  act  of  General  Clay's  life  that  has  commanded 
most  attention  in  recent  years  was  his  marriage  to  a 
mere  child  after  he  had  reached  his  eighty-fourth  birth- 
day: 

He  had  become  an  ardent  disciple  of  Tolstoy,  and  came  to 
the  conclusion  that  he  ought  to  wed  a  "  daughter  of  the  people." 
In  November,  1894,  he  chose  Dora  Richardson,  the  daughter 
of  a  woman  who  had  been  a  domestic  for  some  time  in  his 
mansion  at  "  White  Hall,"  near  Lexington.  When  the  little  girl 
became  his  wife,  the  general  proceeded  to  employ  a  governess 
for  her.  She  rebelled.  Then  he  sent  her  to  the  same  district 
school  she  had  attended  previously.  The  fact  that  he  supplied 
her  with  the  most  beautiful  French  gowns  and  lavished  money 
upon  her,  she  did  not  consider  compensation  for  the  teasing 
she  got  at  the  hands  of  her  fellow-pupils.  In  two  months  he 
had  to  take  her  back  home,  still  uneducated,  and  in  spite  of  his 
kindness,  she  kept  running  away  from  "White  Hall."  Finally 
he  decided  he  must  get  a  divorce.  This  he  did,  charging  her  with 
abandonment.  She  soon  married  a  worthless  young  mountaineer 
named  Brock,  who  was  once  arrested  for  counterfeiting.  Then 
the  general  began  to  plot  to  get  her  back,  having  already  given 
a  farm  and  house  to  her  and  her  new  husband,  only  to  hear 
that  Brock  sold  the  property.  At  last  Brock  died,  and  a  few 
months  ago  dispatches  from  Kentucky  stated  that  the  general 
was  trying  in  vain  to  prevail  upon  his  "  child  wife  "  to  return 
to  him.  She  refused  persisently,  never  having  outgrown  the 
dislike  for  the  luxurious  life  with  which  he  surrounded  her,  and 
still  preferring  the  simple  country  existence  to  which  she 
was  born. 

In  his  will,  General  Clay  provided  handsomely  for 
his  former  child-wife,  Dora.  His  fine  Kentucky 
estate,  "  White  Hall,"  he  bequeathed  to  the  government, 
with  an  income  from  his  coal  mines  and  other  lands  to 
cover  all  necessary  expenses.  His  memoirs  in  five 
volumes,  and  the  manuscript  of  his  volume,  "  Icarus/' 
were  left  to  the  Association  of  American  Authors,  of 
which  he  was  an  honorary  member. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


L.  O.  Emerson,  the  composer  of  "  A  Life  on  the 
Ocean  Wave,"  "The  Ivy  Green,"  and  other  popular 
songs,  celebrated  his  eighty-third  birthday  in  Boston 
last  week. 

John  Alexander  Dowie  ("  Elijah  the  Second "), 
"  general  overseer  of  the  Christian  Catholic  Church," 
and  a  native  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  was  made  a  citi- 
zen of  the  United  States  by  Judge  Gary,  of  the  superior 
court,  in  Chicago,  a  fortnight  ago. 

When  Reginald  C.  Vanderbilt  and  his  bride  recently 
returned  to  Boston,  after  a  three  months'  honey- 
moon in  Europe,  he  was  obliged  to  pay  the  customs 
officials  $8,000.  This  is  the  biggest  collection  ever  made 
from  a  returned  tourist  at  the  port  of  Boston.  The 
nearest  approach  to  it  was  last  year,  when  Lars  Ander- 
sen paid  $3,600  in  response  to  the  edict  of  the  appraiser. 

Prince  Adelbert,  the  second  son  of  Emperor  William, 
has  just  celebrated  his  nineteenth  birthday.  Like  his 
royal  uncle,  Prince  Henry,  he  has  embraced  a  naval 
career,  and  is  being  instructed  just  now  in  torpedo-boat 
service.  He  has  completed  his  theoretical  training,  and 
will  depart  soon  for  a  two  years'  period  of  active  ser- 
vice in  East  Asia  on  board  the  first-class  cruiser  Hcrtha. 
During  the  first  twelve  months  of  this  period,  Prince 
Adelbert  will  do  duty  as  a  midshipman.  He  will  then 
be  promoted  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant. 

"  Billy  "  Radcliffe,  of  Youngstown,  O.,  is  running  a 
campaign  tour  for  Mayor  Johnson  that  is  unique  in 
Ohio  politics.  Radcliffe  is  a  comedian,  slate-writer, 
sleight-of-hand  performer,  plays  the  banjo,  and  sings 
"  coon  "  songs.  Four  weeks  ago  the  political  minstrel 
started  out  on  his  tour  of  Ohio  towns.  He  has  deliverd 
speeches  daily  to  crowds  of  farmers  in  rural  towns, 
and  incidentally  he  has  distributed  fifty  thousand  pieces 
of  Mayor  Johnson's  literature.  He  drives  a  spanking 
team  of  blacks,  and  travels  in  good  style.  With  his 
songs,  stories,  and  comicalities  he  never  fails  to  attract 
an  audience. 

There  are  great  rejoicings  in  Holland  over  the  semi- 
official announcement  that  Queen  Wilhelmina  once 
more  entertains  hopes  of  presenting  to  the  nation  a 
Dutch-born  heir  to  the  throne.  This  birth,  which  is 
expected  some  time  in  November,  will  relieve  her  loyal 
subjects  of  the  dread  they  have  entertained  of  seeing 
their  country  absorbed  by  the  German  Empire,  since 
her  death  without  issue  would  bring  to  the  throne  of  the 
Netherlands  her  cousin,  the  reigning  Grand  Duke  of 
Saxe-Weimar,  and,  failing  him.  Princess  Marie  of 
Reuss,  whose  sons,  like  the  Grand  Duke  of  Saxe-Wei- 
mar, are  Germans  of  the  most  enthusiastically  patriotic 
type. 

William  J.  Bryan's  indorsement  of  John  W.  Book- 
waiter  as  "  a  most  suitable  candidate  "  for  the  Demo- 
cratic Presidential  nomination  has  started  quite  a  boom 
for  him  in  Ohio.  Bookwalter  is  a  wealthy  agricultural 
implement  manufacturer,  who  owns  thousands  of  acres 
in  Far  Western  farms,  besides  his  manufacturing  inter- 
ests. He  ran  for  governor  of  Ohio  on  the  Democratic 
ticket  against  Charles  Foster  in  1881,  and  was  beaten 
by  a  small  plurality.  He  has  since  traveled  much 
abroad,  attended  to  his  properties,  and  remained  loyal 
to  the  party  whose  advocacy  of  free  silver  in  1896  and 
igoo  rather  pleased  than  offended  him — he  having  been 
addicted  to  what  are  called  soft-money  views  as  far 
back  as  his  campaign  against  Foster  twenty-two  years 
ago. 

"  Fred  Gebhard's  revival  "  is  what  old-time  turfmen 
are  calling  the  latest  successes  on  the  turf  of  the  well- 
known  New  York  clubman,  who  won  the  $14,000  Spina- 
way  Stakes  on  August  6th  with  the  filly  Raglan,  which 
he  purchased  a  few  days  before  from  John  E.  Madden 
for  $8,000.  He  also  won  the  high-weight  handicap 
with  Gaw  Boy,  and  the  maiden  race  with  Cottage  Maid, 
and  was  credited  with  having  taken  $30,000  out  of 
the  ring  in  his  betting  operations  of  the  day.  Gebhard's 
recent  success,  it  is  said,  will  result  in  his  engaging  in 
racing  more  extensively  than  ever  before.  He  will  now 
enlarge  and  strengthen  his  stable  in  every  possible  way, 
and  not  only  be  an  aspirant  for  the  rich  stakes  in  this 
country,  but  will  also  send  a  string  of  young  horses  to 
England  to  try  for  the  classics  of  the  turf  there  next 
year. 

Emile  Loubet,  president  of  the  French  republic,  says 
he  is  determined  never  again  to  stand  for  office.  In  a 
recent  interview,  M.  Abel  Combarieu,  secretary-general 
to  M.  Loubet,  said:  "At  the  expiration  of  the  period 
of  seven  years  for  which  he  was  elected,  the  president 
will  step  back  into  the  ranks.  He  is  a  plain  citizen, 
whom  the  people  have  raised  to  office  for  a  given  time, 
but  he  would  consider  it  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  the 
constitution  for  him  to  take  advantage  of  his  present 
position  in  order  to  secure  reelection."  President  Lou- 
bet receives  a  salary  of  $120,000  per  year  from  the 
French  Government,  in  addition  to  $60,000  for  house- 
hold expenditure,  and  another  $60,000  for  traveling 
expenses — altogether  an  annual  allowance  of  $240,000. 
Out  of  this  money  he  is  expected  to  keep  up  the  presi- 
dential establishments,  entertain  distinguished  guests, 
subscribe  to  all  kinds  of  charities,  and  pay  all  his  travel- 
ing expenses  on  French  territory.  President  Loubet  also 
has  the  free  run  of  the  Elvsee  Palace  in  Paris  and  the 
national  palaces  at  Fontainblcau,  Compiegne.  St.  Ger- 
main, and  Rambouillet. 


118 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


August  24,   1903. 


THE    DANGEROUS    LOVE-LETTER. 


Geraldine     Bonner     on     the     "White  -  Hot     Effusions     of    'Women, 

the    Chilly    Epistles    of    Men— The    Letters    of    a 

Murderer  —  Margaret    Fuller. 

In  one  of  the  plays  of  Dumas  tils,  the  hero  says  if  he 
had  daughters  he  would  have  them  taught  to  speak  in 
all  languages,  and  write  in  none.  He  had  come  to  this 
conclusion  from  a  first-hand  knowledge  of  the  uncon- 
trollable passion  of  women  for  writing  letters  for 
which  they  were  afterward  sorry  and  ashamed.  The 
wisest  woman,  at  some  critical  moment  of  her  career, 
may  he  relied  upon  to  snatch  up  her  pen.  and,  in  the 
fury  of  anger,  or  the  exaltation  of  love,  dash  off  a  letter 
at  white  heat  which,  in  twenty-four  hours,  she  would 
give  her  eves  to  recall. 

Men  have  not  only  more  respect  for  the  written  docu- 
ment, but  the  placing  of  their  sentiments  upon  paper 
seems  to  have  less  charm  for  them.  When  a  man  is  in  a 
transport  of  rage,  he  likes  to  go  direct  to  its  object  and 
express  himself  with  the  tongue  that  God  has  given 
him  for  that  purpose.  When  Swift  found  out  that 
Esther  Vonhomrigh  had  been  in  correspondence  with 
his  beloved  Stella  on  the  subject  of  her  reputed  mar- 
riage, he  wrote  no  letter,  but  mounted  on  his  horse 
and  rode  the  ten  miles  which  divided  him  from  Esther. 
Once  with  her,  we  do  not  know  what  vitriolic  torrents 
of  furv  he  poured  upon  her.  All  we  do  know  is  that 
she  died  eight  days  later. 

The  writing  of  love-letters  has  never  been  a  popular 
pastime  with  the  male  of  the  human  species.  If  the  be- 
loved object  happens  to  be  far  removed  from  him.  then 
he  has  to  do  it.  and  does  it,  as  a  rule,  very  ill.  What 
famous  collection  of  love-letters  has  been  contributed 
to  literature  by  a  man?  Writing  thus  at  random,  I  can 
only  think  of  a  few.  and  none  of  them  are  worthy  to  be 
cited  as  perfect  examples  of  the  epistle  of  sentiment; 
as  the  letters  of  Mile,  de  Lespinasse  can  be  cited  in 
speaking  of  the  amatory  correspondence  of  a  woman. 

The  letters  Prosper  Merimee  wrote  to  his  inconmte 
are  full  of  a  capricious,  baffling  charm ;  but  then  the 
man  who  wrote  them  was  one  of  the  greatest  of  stylists, 
a  mine  of  curious  information,  and  possessed  of  a  bril- 
liant, biting  wit.  and  a  cynical  melancholy.  But  they 
could  hardly  be  called  love-letters.  If  the  lady  ever  re- 
sponded to  any  of  them  with  more  than  the  warmth 
of  friendship,  we  may  imagine  what  a  chill  her  tender- 
ness received  by  such  a  sentence  as  "  the  affection  that 
you  have  for  me  is  only  a  sort  of  jeu  d'esprit.  You  are 
all  esprit.  You  are  one  of  those  chilly  women  of  the 
North";  or.  in  the  early  part  of  their  acquaintance, 
where  he  disclaims  any  ambition  of  being  her  lover: 
"  Perhaps  I  shall  find  in  you  what  I  have  been  looking 
for  so  long — a  woman  with  whom  I  am  not  in  love,  and 
in  whom  I  can  have  confidence."  These  certainly  are 
not  the  strains  that  usually  proceed  from  the  lyre  of 
the  Love  God.  Moreover,  midway  in  the  correspondence, 
the  lady  married,  and  the  letters  kept  on  as  confi- 
dentially friendly,  as  coolly  interested,  as  unemotionally 
familiar  as  ever. 

The  male  correspondent  seems  invariably  to  tend 
toward  a  sort  of  voluble  confidence  in  his  letters  to  the 
One  Woman.  She  is  a  pair  of  ears  into  which  he  pours, 
in  a  fluent  stream,  his  ideas,  hopes,  aspirations,  and 
ambitions.  Swift,  in  his  journal  to  Stella,  now  and  then 
slipped  into  endearment;  he  had  certain  cajoling  phrases 
of  affection  that  he  applied  to  her.  drolleries  of  "  the 
little  language."  that  ran  off  the  end  of  his  pen,  as  he 
might  have  casually  and  carelessly  kissed  her  had  she 
been  leaning  on  the  back  of  his  chair.  But  the  interest 
of  the  journal  is  its  record  of  the  work,  the  amuse- 
ment, the  quarrels,  the  triumphs  of  the  Irish  dean.  Stella, 
who  was  evidently  of  the  loving,  uncomplaining,  for- 
bearing sort,  took  what  came  without  a  murmur,  and, 
I  suppose,  thought  herself  blessed  that  her  friend  con- 
descended to  write  to  her  at  all. 

The  gentleman  (I  think  his  name  was  Haskins)  who, 
about  a  century  ago,  was  executed  for  the  murder  of 
Miss  Reay,  left  a  small  collection  of  love-letters  which 
had  an  impassioned  and  genuine  ring.  Miss  Reay,  who 
had  been  a  professional  singer,  and  who  had  left  the 
stage  to  become  the  ornament  of  the  home  of  a  noble 
peer,  to  whose  household  she  contributed  six  children, 
was  a  woman  of  great  beauty  and  charm.  Haskins  (let 
us  decide  that  that  was  his  name)  met  her  somewhere, 
fell  desperately  in  love  with  her,  and  declared  his  senti- 
ments. Mis,  Reay  at  first  gave  ear  to  him,  encouraged 
him,  seemed  fo{  a  time  to  have  even  contemplated  de- 
serting her  peer  and  marrying  him;  then  decided 
thai  a  peer  in  the  hand  was  worth  any  number  of 
Haskinses  in  the  bush,  and  threw  him  over. 

Mis  letters,  which  cover  the  period  of  their  acquaint- 
ance, have  more  of  the  impetuosity  and  passion  of  real 
letters  than  those  usually  written  bv  men.  Yet 
even  in  these  there  was  none  of  the  fiery  rush  of  words 
which  distinguishes  the  epistles  of  the  female  scribe. 
They  were  all  re-written,  gone  over,  and  embellished 
before  they  were  sent.  The  lover  kept  copies  of  them, 
which  were  eventually  found  after  his  death,  That  his 
feelings,  however  he  expressed  them,  were  of  the  deep- 
est, was  proved  by  his  final  murder  of  Miss  Reay.  Find- 
ing her  adamant,  even  indisposed  to  answer  his  love- 
effu  ions,  he  stationed  himself  at  the  door  of  the  opera- 
house  one  evening,  and,  as  she  emerged,  drew  a  pistol 
am',  shot  her  through  the  head. 

•  "1  the  love-letter;   of  women  there  is  no  prcmedita- 
ho  glance  thro'  n  ahead  on  consequences.    The 


letter  boils  to  the  surface  of  the  mind,  and  then  boils 
over  op  the  paper.  The  women  who  have  written  like 
this,  and  then,  in  the  cool  light  of  reason  or  a  subse- 
quent rupturing  of  the  fond  tie,  have  been  ready  to  die 
of  rage  and  shame  at  the  predicament  in  which  their 
ready  pens  have  placed  them,  are  by  the  thousand. 
They  write  letters  in  just  the  same  mad.  impulsive  way 
in  which  they  commit  suicide.  A  man  kills  himself 
in  the  manner  most  effective,  sure,  and  speedy.  He 
uses  thought  and  judgment.  A  woman  in  a  frenzy 
snatches  up  the  nearest  thing  at  hand,  indifferent  to 
the  unnecessary  pain  it  may  cause  her.  or  to  its  general 
inconvenience   or   discomfort. 

Of  late  years  the  danger  of  writing  love-letters  has 
been  increased  a  hundredfold  by  the  possibility  that 
their  recipient  may  tie  them  neatly  together,  put  them 
in  a  pigeon-hole,  and  some  day,  when  he  is  hard  up, 
sell  them.  The  love-letters  of  women  are  evidently 
high  in  the  public's  favor,  and  have  been  for  centuries. 
Mile,  de  Lespinasse's  impassioned  effusions  were  col- 
lected and  published  by  the  wife  of  the  man  to  whom 
they  were  written.  This  might  have  been  a  subtle 
feminine  revenge,  but  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  Mine, 
de  Guibert  was  animated  only  by  a  desire  to  give  the 
reading  world  a  treat.  She  was  a  Frenchwoman,  to 
whom  a  graceful  letter  is  always  a  delight.  And  it 
seemed  to  her  that  the  madly  loving  epistles  of  a 
woman  who  had  an  extraordinary  control  ot  the  pen, 
and  an  almost  inspired  talent  in  expressing  her  in- 
fatuation in  writing,  should  be  given  to  the  public  as 
one  would  give  any  other  rare  and  valuable  docu- 
ments. 

But  when  it  comes  to  the  man  giving  up  the  letters, 
it  is  rather  hard  to  regard  it  from  a  calm,  literary 
standpoint.  The  gorge  can  not  help  rising  at  Mr. 
Joseph  Nathan's  offering  up  of  the  epistles  Margaret 
Fuller  wrote  to  him  in  the  'forties.  In  the  first  place, 
what  a  blow  to  think  that  Margaret  Fuller  —  that 
Egeria  of  an  intellectual  day,  the  inspiration  for 
Hawthorne's  Zenobia,  the  one  gifted  woman  that 
we  could  boast  of  in  those  remote  arid  ages — should 
have  fallen  in  love  with  a  commercial  German  Jew, 
vounger  than  herself  and  named  Nathan  !  That  is  bad 
enough.  Reading  the  letters  one  comes  to  the  con- 
clusion that  Nathan,  like  M.  de  Guibert,  was  immensely 
proud  of  his  conquest,  but  did  not  reciprocate  the  love 
he  had  inspired.  Nevertheless,  with  a  prudent  Hebrew 
canniness  where  the  dollars  were  concerned,  he  kept 
the  letters,  and  years  after  their  writer's  death — he  had 
that  much  decency — published  them. 

It  wOuld  seem  from  these  that  Margaret  was  not  so 
enraptured  with  her  young  Jew  as  she  was  with  love 
itself.  Byron  says  that  women  in  their  first  affair 
love  the  man,  and  after  that  love  love.  This  would 
seem  to  have  been  the  case  with  the  leading  star  of  the 
Tribune.  She  was  well  over  thirty  at  the  time  she  met 
Nathan,  and  having  lived  in  a  society  where  there  were 
many  interesting  men,  it  is  to  be  presumed  that  she 
had  had  other  admirers  before  the  German  Jew.  She 
used  him  as  a  sort  of  figure-head  upon  udrich  she  hung 
garlands  of  sentiment,  amaranths  of  poetically  ex- 
pressed tenderness.  But  when,  after  a  separation  of 
some  months,  he  tells  her  of  his  approaching  marriage, 
what  a  deadly  frost  seems  to  kill  the  posies  of  her 
speech !  She  notes  down  in  her  journal  that  the  affair 
is  over,  but  she  will  be  able  to  make  use  of  it  in  a 
literary  way.     It  is  good  material. 

This  philosophic  conclusion  seems  to  bear  out  the 
suggestion  of  the  letters  that  they  are  not  inspired 
by  the  divine  flame  of  true  affection.  Of  course,  they 
were  written  in  a  transcendental  day,  when  Emerson 
was  speaking  from  the  heights,  and  Bronson  Alcott  was 
trying  experiments  in  low  living  and  high  thinking, 
and  Brook  Farm  was  a  reality.  But  even  so,  that  im- 
pulsion and  rush  of  feeling,  that  fervid  down-flinging 
of  impassioned  words  which  marks  the  woman's  letters 
to  the  beloved  man,  is  absent.  There  is  something 
frosty  and  considered  in  Margaret's  tender  phrases. 
They  sound  sometimes  as  if  she  were  writing  with  an 
eye  to  the  public.  Nathan  evidently — perhaps  they 
were  the  only  ones  he  ever  had — thought  they  were 
just  right.  One  can  imagine  him  bridling  with  pride 
as  he  perused  them,  and  one  can  imagine  her  writing 
them  in  a  sort  of  fine  literary  frenzy,  not  thinking 
much  about  Nathan,  just  using  him  as  a  peg  upon 
which  to  hang  the  melancholy  elaborations  of  her 
fancy. 

When  it  comes  to  her  using  the  experience  as  ma- 
terial, that  is  a  purely  literary  trick.  Ladies — and 
gentlemen — of  the  pen  resort  to  it  constantly.  They  are 
unsafe  people  to  make  love  to.  Liszt,  after  George  Sand 
had  tired  of  him,  brought  the  charge  against  her  that 
she  stuck  a  pin  through  her  lovers  as  through  a  but- 
terfly, studied  them  for  a  space,  put  the  result  of  her 
studies  in  a  book,  and  threw  them  away.  Perhaps  this 
is  a  legitimate  revenge  for  the  danger's  that  surround 
the  writing  fraternity  in  their  simple  pastime  of  in- 
dulging in  sentimental  correspondence.  While  they  are 
conscious  that  at  any  day  their  letters  may  be  given  to 
the  public,  the  person  to  whom  the  letters  are  addressed 
does  not  know  at  what  moment  a  book  may  not  appear 
in  which  he  figures  as  the  hero,  possibly  as  the  villain. 

Geraldine  Bonner. 

The  bank  clearings  of  San  Francisco  for  the  week 
ending  August  6th  were  $29,653,468,  an  increase  of  23.8 
per  cent,  over  those  of  the  corresponding  week  of  last 
year.  Los  Angeles  shows  up  with  $6,064,014.  a  31.3 
per  cent,  increase. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 


Chorus  from  "  Atalanta  in  Calydon." 
When  the  hounds  of  spring  are  on  winter's  traces, 

The  mother  of  months  in  meadow  or  plain 
Fills  the  shadows  and  windy  places 

With  lisp  of  leaves  and  ripple  of  rain  ; 
And  the  brown  bright  nightingale  amorous 
Is  half  astuaged   for  Itylus, 
For  the  Thracian  ships  and  the   foreign   faces, 

The  tongueless  vigil,  and  all  the  pain. 

Come  with  bows  bent  and  with  emptying  of  quivers, 

Maiden  most  perfect,  lady  of  light. 
With  a  noise  of  winds  and  many  rivers. 

With  a  clamor  of  waters,  and  with  might ; 
Bind  on  thy  scandals,  O  thou  most  fleet. 
Over  the  splendor  and  speed  of  thy  feet ; 
For  the  faint  east  quickens,  the  wan  west  shivers, 

Round  the  feet  of  the  day  and  the  feet  of  the  night. 

Where  shall  we  find  her,  how  shall  we  sing  to  her, 
Fold  our  hands  round  her  knees,  and  cling? 

O  that  man's  heart  were  as  fire  and  could  spring  to  her, 
Fire,  or  the  strength  of  the  streams  that  spring! 

For  the  stars  and  the  winds  are  unto  her 

As  raiment,  as  songs  of  the  harp-player; 

For  the  risen  stars  and  the  fallen  cling  to  her, 
And  the  south-west-wind  and  the  west-wind  sing. 

For  winter's  rains  and  ruins  are  over. 
And  all  the  season  of  snows  and  sins  ; 

The  days  dividing  lover  and   lover, 

The  light  that  loses,  the  night  that  wins: 

And  time   remembered  is  grief   forgotten. 

And   frosts   are  slain   and   flowers   begotten, 

And   in   green   underwood   and   cover 
Blossom  by  blossom  the  spring  begins. 

The   full   streams   feed  on   flower  of  rushes, 
Ripe  grasses  trammel   a   traveling   foot. 

The  faint  fresh  flame  of  the  young  year  flushes 
From  leaf  to  flower  and  flower  to   fruit; 

And  fruit  and  leaf  are  as  gold  and  fire, 

And  the  oat   is   heard  above   the   lyre, 

And  the  hoofed  heel  of  a  satyr  crushes 
The  chestnut-husk  at  the  chestnut-root. 

And  Pan  by  noon  and  Bacchus  by  night, 

Fleeter  of  foot  than  the  fleet-foot  kid, 

Follows  with  dancing  and  fills  with  delight 

The  Mamad  and  the  Bassarid  ; 
And  soft  as   lips   that  laugh   and   hide 
The  laughing  leaves  of  the  trees  divide. 
And  screen  from  seeing  and  leave  in  sight 
The  god  pursuing,  the  maiden  hid. 

The  ivy   falls  with   the   Bacchanal's  hair 

Over  her  eyebrows  hiding  her  eyes; 
The  wild  vine  slipping  down  leaves  bare 

Her  bright  breast  shortening  into  sighs  ; 
The  wild  vine  slips  with  the  weight  of  its  leaves. 
But  the  berried  ivy  catches  and  cleaves 
To  the  limbs  that  glitter,  the  feet  that  scare 

The  wolf  that  follows,  the  fawn  that  flies. 

— Algernon   Charles  Swinburne. 

A  Chorus  of  Gluttons. 
We  go   with   pleasure   where  you   invite  us,   we  scent   the  joy- 

ance  of  dainties  rare  ; 
The   well-known   odors  once   more   excite   us,   with   force   suffi- 
cient to  curl  our  hair. 
A   single   purpose   at   ball   or   party   controls   our   coming,   pro- 
longs our  stay — 
'Tis  that  of  getting  a  nice  and  hearty  substantial  supper,  with 

naught  to  pay. 
Our  souls  are  with  you,  the  gracious  giver  ;   we  follow  gladly 

where'er  you  lead  ; 
We   own.    each    claimant,   a   perfect    liver,    and    fine   equipment 

to  largely  feed. 
Let   others   cherish   the   romping   german,   or   see   in   chatter   a 

charm  to  lure  ; 
Our  gastric  juices  alone  determine  whatever  pastime  we  may 

secure. 
No   idle   worship   of  empty   Mammon,   no   silly   babble   of  man 

or    maid, 
Against   attractions   of  flaky   salmon    or   larded   partridge   may 

be  arrayed. 
The   eye   that  flashes,  the  lid  that  flutters,   the   fan   flirtatious, 

the  murmured  phrase — 
How  slight  a  magic  their  meaning  utters  beside  a  lobster  with 

mayonnaise ! 
What    true    contentment    may    pride    insure    us.    through    airs 

pretentious  and  vain  display, 
When    ranked   with    raptures    that    Epicurus,    though    dead    for 

decades,   preserves   to-day? 
Shall    Kate   who    ogles,    or   blushing    Mabel,    or   smiling    Lucy, 

their  foibles  rate 
With  those  enticements  the  supper-table,  when  fatly  furnished. 

can  demonstrate? 
Do   feet   that  twinkle,  or  glances  dreamy,  or  lips  that  prattle, 

at  all   compare 
With    Mumm    and    Clicquot    a    trifle    creamy,    or    filet    mignon 

a  trifle  rare? 
Nay,  heed  and  trust  us,  the  hue  is  duller  on  cheek  of  maiden. 

though   mantling  gay, 
Than  that  more  balmy  and  bloomy  color  which  brims  a  bottle 

of  Beaujolais. 
The   hopes   of  mortals  may  pass   and  perish ;   their   faith    may 

vanish  ;  their  foes  may  smite  ; 
But  they  are  happy  who  still  can  cherish  the  one  last  blessing 

of  appetite. 
Though   love   desert   us,   though   friends'   affection   to   deeds   of 

malice  may  basely  stoop, 
How  sweet  to  treasure  the  proud  reflection  that  still  we  value 

a  perfect  soup  ! 
\\  hile    cares    beset    him    and    troubles    thicken,    no    man    is 

wretched    who    still    can    boast 
Appreciation   of  deviled   chicken   and  admiration   for  quail   on 

toast. 
Though   tyrants   flourish   and   varlets   flatter,   though   kingdoms 

totter  and   slaves  rise   up — -. 
When  all  is  ended,  how  slight  a  matter,  if  still  we've  peptics 

to  dine  or  sup ! 
Let    statesmen    squabble    and    nations    wrangle,    let    great    re- 
formers their  schemes  propound; 
What  use  to  bother  with  life's  tough  tangle  while  nature  leaves 

us  a  palate  sound? 
The    gains    of   glory    defeat    their    winner;    ambition's    bubbles 

explode  when  caught ; 
There   dwells   mote   comfort   in   one  good   dinner  than   all   the 

wisdom  that  Plato  taught! 


The  writer  who  goes  by  the  pen  name  of  "  Verax  " 
contributes  to  the  London  Daily  News  a  most  despond- 
ent and  depressing  article  on  nerves.  Modern  society, 
if  we  are  to  credit  "  Yerax,"  is  largely  a  community  of 
nervous  wrecks. 


August  24,  1903. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


McCutcheon's  Book  of  Cartoons. 
How  many  of  our  readers,  we  wonder,  are 
familiar  with  the  clever  cartoon  work  of  John 
T.  McCutcheon?  Not  many,  perhaps,  as  the 
number  of  Pacific  Coast  readers  of  the  Rec- 
ord-Herald is  necessarily  limited,  and  for  some 
unexplainable  reason  none  of  the  big  New 
York  dailies  have  been  able  to  tempt  Mr. 
McCutcheon  to  leave  the  Windy  City  for  the 
metropolis.  And  yet  in  Chicago,  where  this 
inimitable  artist  has  endeared  himself  to 
thousands  of  men,  women,  and  children,  the 
competition  for  his  services  has  been  so 
spirited  that  recently  he  has  been  coaxed  away 
from  the  Record-Herald  by  the  Tribune, 
which  is  now  paying  him  the  unprecedented 
salary  of  twenty  thousand  dollars  a  year 
for  one  cartoon  each  day. 

For  the  benefit  of  the  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  people  all  over  the  country  who  have  not 
had  an  opportunity  to  enjoy  Mr.  McCutcheon's 
work,  however,  a  collection  of  one  hundred 
of  his  best  drawings  has  just  been  put  into 
permanent  form,  and  it  is  safe  to  predict  that 
the  volume  will  enjoy  a  large  sale.  George 
Ade.  the  humorist,  in  an  appreciative  intro- 
duction, hits  the  nail  squarely  on  the  head 
when  he  says  that  the  main  causes  for  the 
popularity  of  his  college  chum's  work  is  that, 
first,  McCutcheon  cartoons  public  men  with- 
out insulting  them ;  and,  second,  he  shows 
"  blessed  wisdom  in  getting  away  from 
hackneyed  political  subjects  and  giving  us 
a  few  pictures  of  that  every-day  life  which 
is  our  real  interest." 

The  sterner  sex  will  naturally  revel  most 
in  the  cartoons  which  depict  prominent  people 
in  public  life,  and  incidents  of  the  commercial 
world.  One  of  the  most  ludicrous  of  these. 
represents  President  Roosevelt  doing  .1 
strenuous  morning's  round  of  duties,  and  is 
headed  "  Resting  at  Oyster  Bay."  Another 
amusing  series  is  McCutcheon's  version 
of  Prince  Henry's  reception  in  the 
United  States.  The  artist  pokes  fun  at 
the  lavish  banquet  given  by  the  captains 
of  industry  in  New  York,  and  then  pictures 
the  trying  ordeals  which  the  Kaiser's  brother 
faced  at  St.  Louis.  Milwaukee,  Niagara  Falls, 
2nd  Boston.  All  the  drawings  are  crowded 
with  amusing  figures,  and  no  matter  how 
often  one  studies  the  groupings,  he  is  sure 
to  find  some  diverting  bit  of  action  which 
he  has  overlooked  before.  What  is  more, 
Mr.  McCutcheon  has  a  happy  faculty  of  in- 
venting very  amusing  sign-boards  and  ex- 
planations, which  add  greatly  to  the  fun  of 
his  cartoons. 

Among  the  other  phases  of  American  life 
which  furnish  the  artist  with  material  for 
his  kindly  satire,  are  the  strange  methods  of 
our  enterprising  daily  newspapers,  the  con- 
fusion in  the  board  of  trade,  the  follies  and 
foibles  of  society  at  the  horse  show,  the  chase, 
and  the  track,  women's  golf  tournaments, 
circus  day,  the  country  fair,  college  life,  the 
football  season,  the  Senate  at  Washington, 
and  the  war  and  naval  manoeuvres. 

But  the  drawings  which  will  undoubtedly 
enjoy  the  greatest  vogue,  because  they  will 
entertain  little  ones  as  well  as  grown-up  folks. 
too,  are  those  which  illustrate  the  wild 
adventures  of  Johnnie,  a  ten-year-old 
youngster,  who  is  always  the  centre  of 
an  admiring  group  of  children,  and 
is  usually  followed  by  several  faithful  but 
scrawny-looking  doggies.  Every  man,  no  mat- 
ter what  his  station  in  life  may  be,  when  he 
glances  through  these  pages  will  have  happy 
memories  of  his  childhood  vividly  recalled, 
for  Johnnie  is  a  wholesome,  lovable  boy,  who 
delights  in  all  the  games  and  mischievous 
pranks  which  make  life  sweet  to  the  average 
child  in  spring,  summer,  autumn,  and  winter. 
One's  sympathies  are  immediately  awakened 
when  unhappy  little  Johnnie  is  first  disclosed 
rocking  his  baby  sister's  cradle  as  he  mut- 
ters disgustedly  to  himself:  "  I  wish  she 
hadn't  been  found  until  after  the  baseball 
season."  And  how  can  one  help  laughing 
when  he  beholds  Johnnie  dangling  from  a 
tree,  nearly  twisting  his  little  bones  out  of 
shape  in  his  wild  endeavor  to  startle  a  row 
of  interested  maidens  who  are  breathlessly 
watching  him  perform  strange  gymnastic  ex- 
ercises! And  Johnnie  is  a  first-class  bluffer. 
This  is  evident  from  the  solicitude  shown 
by  his  mother  when  he  is  "  suddenly  at- 
tackted  "  by  serious  illness  on  the  first  morn- 
ing of  school.  Other  drawings,  which  can  not 
fail  to  please,  picture  the  sly  wag  making  a 
secret  visit  to  the  pantry  to  sample  the 
Thanksgiving  pies  and  cakes,  listening  atten- 
tively to  an  engrossing  fairy  tale,  seated  in  the 
sun  for  the  first  time  after  a  severe  illness, 
and  laughing  knowingly  at  the  gullibility 
of    his    little    brothers    and    sisters    who    arc 


writing  a  letter  to  Santa  Claus.  Perhaps  the 
gem  of  the  series  is  the  drawing  in  which 
Johnnie  is  represented  as  coaxing  his  little 
brother  to  raid  the  tray  of  steaming  doughnuts 
which  have  been  placed  near  the  window  to 
cool.  "  Go  ahead,  Bill,"  he  says,  encourag- 
ingly ;  "  you're  braver  than  I  am."  And  as  the 
little  fellow  hesitates,  he  adds :  "  Go  on  ;  we'll 
just  pertend  we're  pirates  and  the  crulls  is  a 
ship   filled  with  gold  and  joolry." 

The  drawings  are  9x12  inches  in  size, 
printed  on  heavy  cream-tinted  paper,  and  are 
bound  in  gray  boards,  the  cover-design  pictur- 
ing Johnnie  with  a  happy  grin  on  his  face, 
while  tucked  carelessly  under  one  arm  is 
tl.e  same  scrawny,  innocent-looking  dog  which 
figures  in  many  of  the  cartoons. 

Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago ; 
$1.25   net. 


The  Stirrup  Cup." 

It  is  quite  obvious  that  J.  Aubrey  Tyson 
has  written  "  The  Stirrup  Cup  "  with  an  eye 
to  its  possible  dramatization.  The  action 
has  much  of  the  brisk  movement,  and  the  dia- 
logue the  cut  and  thrust  repartee,  that  rightly 
belong  on  the  stage,  while  the  leisureliness 
of  style  and  intimate  character-analysis  of  a 
novel  are  lacking.  The  action  of  "  The  Stir- 
rup Cup  "  transpires  during  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  the  story  is  nothing  more  nor  less 
than  a  Actionized  recital  of  Aaron  Burr's 
courtship  of  Theodosia  Prevost,  during  the 
troublous  times  of  the  colonial  struggle. 

The  author  has  been  very  successful  in  de- 
picting the  florid  gallantries  and  steady  co- 
quetries that  were  a  feature  of  the  times  in 
the  social  intercourse  between  the  sexes,  and 
has  given,  as  well,  a  quaint  Old-World  turn 
to  the  language  of  the  narrator,  Abel  Hartrigg, 
school-master  by  profession,  and  spy,  with  all 
distaste,  through  the  necessities  of  the  times, 
in  the  service  of  Washington,  who  appears  a 
calm  and  commanding  presence  during  the 
course  of  the  story.  Major  Andre  likewise 
appears,  and  other  well-known  personages 
of  the  times,  who  are  active  in  war  intrigues, 
administering  checks  and  counterchecks  ;o 
each  other,  with  the  drawing-room  of  Mistress 
Theodosia  Prevost's  country-seat  figuring  as 
a  battle-ground  for  the  war  of  wits,  even 
while  the  stain  of  gallant  bloods  reddens  her 
verdant  lawns. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York; 
price,  $1.25. 

Our  "Damned  Frigates." 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Gurwood's  compilation! 
of  dispatches  and  documents  relating  to  the 
various  campaigns  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington 
during  the  years  1799-1815  fills  twelve  bulky 
volumes,  and  is,  therefore,  beyond  the  reach 
of  the  general  reader.  It  is  for  this  reason 
that  Walter  Wood  has  selected  the  most  inter- 
esting papers,  re-arranged  them  somewhat,  pro- 
vided an  index  and  a  few  necessary  notes,' 
and  printed  the  whole  in  a  single  volume.: 
And  an  interesting  one  it  is.  Victories  and! 
defeats,  success  and  failures,  marches  and 
countermarches  are  described  with  a  soldier's 
simplicity.  Wellington  is  made  "  the  historian 
of  his  own  brilliant  career."  Americans  will 
read  with  more  amusement  than  anger  thisi 
sentence  in  a  letter  (p.  417)  regarding  the 
embargo  act,  written  in  1812:  "It  would  be; 
capital  to  turn  the  tables  upon  these  cunning 
Americans  and  not  to  allow  them  to  havej 
any  intercourse  with  those  ports."  Later,  in 
1813,  he  wrote:  "I  have  been  very  uneasy 
about  the  American  naval  successes.  I  think 
we  should  have  peace  with  America  before, 
the  season  for  opening  the  campaign  in 
Canada,  if  we  could  take  one  or  two  of  these 
damned   frigates." 

Published  by  E.  P.  Dutton  &.  Co.,  New 
York;  price,  $3.50  net. 


New  Publications. 
The  title,  "The  Body  Beautiful:  Common- 
Sense  Ideas  on  Health  and  Beauty  Without 
Medicine,"  exactly  describes  the  unpretentious 
contents  of  a  book  by  Nannette  Magruder 
Pratt.  There  are,  besides,  a  number  of  il- 
lustrations. Published  by  the  Baker  &  Tay- 
lor  Company,   New   York. 

"  The  Centralization  of  Administration  in 
Ohio,"  by  Samuel  P.  Orth,  Ph.  D.,  and  "  Prin- 
ciples of  Justice  in  Taxation,"  by  Stephen 
F.  Weston,  Ph.  D.,  president  of  Antioch  Col- 
lege, are  among  recent  doctors'  theses  pub- 
lished by  the  Columbia  University  Press:  The 
Macmillan  Company,  agents,  New  York;  $1.50. 

The  little  volume  of  Ruskin's  letters  to  Mary 
and  Helen  Gladstone,  daughters  of  the  late 
premier,  published  under  the  title,  "  Letters 
to  M.  G.  and  H.  G.,"  is  delightfully  intimate 
and  altogether  charming.  Ruskin's  was  a  big, 
warm  heart,  and  for  these  daughters  of  his 
friend  his  love  was  genuine  and  fine.  The  Right 


Hon.  G.  Wyndham  has  written  a  preface  for 
the  book,  and  there  are  also  some  extracts 
from  the  diary  of  Canon  Scott  Holland.  The 
volume  gives  a  refreshing  glimpse  of  a  great 
man.  Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New 
York;  price,  $1.25. 

"  Danish  Life  in  Town  and  Country,"  by 
Jessie  Brochner,  is  a  well-written  volume  in 
addition  to  a  series  whose  previous  numbers 
we  have  found  many  occasions  to  praise. 
There  are  the  usual  variety  of  interesting 
illustrations.  Published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons,  New  York. 

Boys  of  thirteen  or  fourteen  will  find  expert 
opinion  and  sound  information  on  snaring 
rabbits,  trapping,  skinning  animals,  mount- 
ing birds,  fishing,  rowing,  sculling  and  pad- 
dling, shooting,  boxing,  and  wood-craft  in 
general  between  the  attractive  covers  of 
Edwin  Sandys's  "  Trapper  Jim."  The  book 
is  in  story-form.  Published  by  the  Macmillan 
Company,   New   York;   price,   $1.50. 

The  annual  "  Directory  of  Americans  Resi- 
dent in  London  and  Great  Britain,  American 
Firms  and  Agencies,"  compiled  by  W.  B.  Ban- 
croft, has  again  this  year  been  improved,  and 
contains  much  more  information  even  then 
its  title  implies.  It  will  be  found  really  in- 
dispensable by  American  tourists  who  are  stay 
ing  for  some  time  in  London.  Published  by 
the  American  Directory  Publishing  Company, 
New  York;  price,  $1.50. 

"  His  Friend  the  Enemy,"  by  William  Wal- 
lace Cook,  is  a  bright  and  amusing  summer 
novel.  The  plot  concerns  the  rivalry  of  two 
town-sites  for  a  county-seat.  The  hero  owns 
one,  the  heroine  is  the  presiding  genius  in 
the  other.  Thus  they  are  rivals — and  lovers. 
A  dash  of  tragedy  darkens  the  final  chapters, 
but  the  last  page  finds  the  twain  saying  "  My 
king!"  and  "  My  heart's  idol  !"  Published 
by  the  G.  W.  Dillingham  Company,  New 
York ;  price,  $1.50. 

A  rather  desultory,  but,  we  should  think, 
a  useful,  work  to  the  intelligent  agriculturist, 
is  "  Birds  in  their  Relation  to  Man,"  by 
Clarence  M.  Weed  and  Ned  Dearborn.  The 
authors  emphasize  and,  in  fact,  demonstrate, 
what  a  valuable  ally  birds  are  on  the  farm. 
They  also  show  what  birds  are,  in  a  special 
way,  useful  as  insect-destroyers.  The  book 
contains  many  good  illustrations,  and  much 
general  and  interesting  information.  Pub- 
lished by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  Phila- 
delphia ;  price,  $2.50. 

Charles  Egbert  Craddock,  or,  to  use  the  real 
name,  Miss  Murfree,  has  done  conscientious 
and  commendable  work  in  "  A  Spectre  of 
Power,"  The  atmosphere  of  the  times  when 
the  French  and  English  intrigued  for  the 
favor  of  the  Cherokees  is  well  reproduced. 
The  country,  too,  is  well  described,  and  there 
is  sufficient  romance  in  the  plot,  which  con- 
cerns chiefly  a  French  officer,  an  Englishman, 
a  trader's  daughter,  and  a  treacherous  Indian 
guide.  Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
Boston;   price,  $1.50. 

In  the  preface  to  his  "  Rise  and  Progress 
of  the  Standard  Oil  Company,"  Gilbert  Hol- 
land Montague  says  that  "  the  sources  of  this 
history  are  the  reports  of  official  investigating 
committees."  Some  sage  has  already  said 
that  there  are  many  things  that  do  not  appear 
in  official  reports.  We  think  it  very  true  in 
this  case.  Compared  with  the  meaty  recitals 
of  Miss  Tarbell  this  book  seems  jejune.  How- 
ever, it  is  a  good  digest  of  various  govern- 
ment reports.  Published  by  Harper  &  Broth- 
ers,  New   York;  price,   $1.00. 

"  Life's  Common  Way,"  by  Annie  Eliot 
Trumbull,  is  a  story  of  life  in  a  New  England 
town,  centring  about  Ursula  Keith,  with 
whom  several  men  in  the  story  fall  in  love. 
The  "  action  "  of  the  piece  is  supplied  by  a 
street-railway  strike  and  a  riot.  The  necessary 
villainy  consists  in  the  bribery'  of  a  walking- 
delegate.  It  will  be  seen  that  the  story  is 
thoroughly  up  to  date,  and  it  may  be  said  that 
it  is  fairly  interesting.  This  author,  it  will 
be  recalled,  has  a  number  of  novels  to  her 
credit,  all  of  which  possessed  elements  of 
charm  and  distinction — as  does  this.  Pub- 
lished by  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  New  York; 
price,  $1.50. 

The  interest  of  E.  Belfort  Bax  in  the  non- 
orthodox  sects,  whose  history  he  narrates  in 
"  Rise  and  Fall  of  the  Anabaptists,"  is  social, 
not  religious.  Himself  a  leading  socialist  of 
England,  he  finds  in  this  "  religio-political 
mysticism  sporadic  among  the  smaller  handi- 
craftsmen of  the  towns  and  the  peasantry  "' 
during  the  sixteenth  century,  the  germs  of 
modern  socialism.  But  at  that  time  "  the 
notion  of  a  return  to  the  economic  conditions 
of  the  old  village  community  "  was  "  conceived 


under  a  theological  guise  as  '  The  Reign  of 
the  Saints."  "  Now,  with  progress  in  the 
arts  and  sciences,  with  the  general  widening 
of  knowledge,  the  aims  of  the  socialist  are  far 
different,  but  Mr.  Bax  asks  for  these  mediaeval 
strugglers  on  the  same  hard  path  at  least  a 
"  passing  tribute  of  recognition."  The  book 
is  a  spirited  one,  such  as  might  be  expected 
from  the  ardent  partisan  of  a  well-loved  cause. 
Imported  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  price,  $2.00. 

Thomas  Campion,  an  English  lyric  poet, 
who  flourished  about  1600,  and  who  was  held 
in  high  esteem  by  his  contemporaries,  after 
centuries  of  neglect  has  found  an  appreciative 
champion  in  A.  H.  Bullen.  who  published  an 
edition  of  his  works  in  1889,  and  now  pub- 
lishes a  selection — excluding  the  Latin  epi- 
grams formerly  included  —  under  the  title 
"  Thomas  Campion."  This  poet's  verses  are 
characterized  by  grace,  simplicity,  and  sweet- 
ness. Their  theme,  like  that  of  the  verses 
of  Herrick  and  Lyly,  to  which  they  bear  a 
family  resemblance,  is  love.  Here  the  dis- 
tracted lover  implores  the  marble-hearted 
maid  to  relent  and  ease  his  longing.  There  the 
deserted  maid  laments  the  fickleness  of  man. 
Again,  the  lover  celebrates  the  charms  of  his 
not  too  coy  mistress.  Thus  through  nearly 
three  hundred  pages.  A  prose  essay  entitled 
"Observations  in  the  Art  of  English  Poesy" 
rounds  out  the  book.  Published  by  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons,  New  York;  price,  $1.25. 


Death  of  Noah  Brooks. 

Noah  Brooks,  the  well-known  author  and 
journalist,  who  was  associated  with  Bret 
Harte,  Mark  Twain,  and  Charles  Warren 
Stoddard  in  the  early  days  of  the  Overland 
Monthly,  died  at  Pasadena  on  Monday.  Mr. 
Brooks  was  born  in  Castine,  Me..  October  2d, 
1830,  and  first  began  newspaper  work  in  Bos- 
ton, and  in  1855  went  to  Illinois,  where  he 
edited  the  Dixon  Telegraph ,  and  became  a 
warm  friend  and  supporter  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln in  his  memorable  debates.  Later  on,  Mr. 
Brooks  came  to  California,  and  engaged  in  the 
newspaper  business  at  Marysville.  He  went 
East  again  immediately  after  the  first  election 
of  Lincoln,  and  became  the  war-correspondent 
of  the  Sacramento  Union.  After  the  war,  he 
returned  to  California,  and  served  a  term  as 
naval  officer  of  the  port  of  San  Francisco. 
He  was  an  editorial  writer  on  the  Alta  Cali- 
fornia from    1866  until    1871. 

Subsequently,  Brooks  went  East  again,  and 
was  engaged  on  the  staff  of  the  New  York 
Tribune.  He  was  on  the  New  York  Times 
also  for  many  years  as  an  editorial  writer. 
For  a  time  Brooks  was  editor  of  the  Newark 
Daily  Advertiser,  a  journal  which  was  estab- 
lished so  long  ago  that  it  published  Washing- 
ton's farewell  address  as  a  matter  of  news. 
When  Lincoln  was  inaugurated  in  1861.  Noah 
Brooks  had  the  good  fortune  to  know  the 
President  as  an  intimate  friend,  and  so  the 
correspondent  soon  became  familiar  with  thz 
Cabinet  officers  of  that  time.  Brooks  was 
slated  for  the  position  of  Lincoln's  private 
secretary  for  the  second  term,  but  the  assas- 
sination of  the  President  put  a  sudden  end 
to  these  plans. 

He  was  the  author  of  a  number  of  success- 
ful books,  including  "  The  Boy  Emigrants,  ' 
"  The  Fairport  Nine."  "  Our  Baseball  Club," 
"  Abraham  Lincoln."  "  The  Boy  Settlers," 
"  American  Statesmen,"  "  Tales  of  the  Maine 
Coast,"  "  Abraham  Lincoln  and  the  Downfall 
of  American  Slavery,"  "  How  the  Republic  is 
Governed,"  "  Short  Studies  in  American 
Party  Politics,"  "  Washington  in  Lincoln's 
Time,"  "  The  Mediterranean  Trip,"  "  The 
Story  of  Marco  Polo,"  "  The  Boys  of  Fair- 
port,"  "  Scribner's  History  of  the  United 
States "  (two  volumes),  "  General  Henry 
Knox,"  and  "  A  Revolutionary  Soldier." 


Bernard  Shaw's  Plaint. 
Bernard   Shaw   laments   with   bitterness   the 
inadequate  display  of  books  in  shop  windows 
in  England: 

For  nearly  twenty  years  I  have  been  a  pub 
lished  author,  and,  for  nearly  ten  out  of  the 
twenty,  one  of  the  most  insufferably  bepara- 
graphed  nublic  persons  in  the  country.  But  I 
have  never  yet  seen  a  book  of  mine  offered  for 
sale  in  a  shop  window.  In  France,  if  you  want 
to  buy,  say,  Labiche's  "  Cagnotte,"  you  can 
ask  the  book-seller  which  volume  of  Labiche's 
"  Theatre  "  it  is  in.  and  he  will  tell  you,  and 
probably  have  the  volume  in  stock  to  hand  to 
you.  But  suppose  you  have  heard  that  one  of 
my  plays  is  called  "  Cxsar  and  Cleopatra,"  and 
you  want  to  buy  it.  You  go  to  the  book-selling 
stationer.  The  moment  he  realizes  that  you 
do  not  want  a  photograph  frame  or  five  quires 
of  note-paper  for  a  shilling,  his  countenance 
falls.  You  ask  for  Shaw's  "  Caesar  and  Cleo- 
patra." He  has  not  got  it,  but  can  order  it 
for  you.  Good.  You  then  call  on  him  at 
intervals  for  three  weeks  or  a  month,  and  are 
assured  each  time  that  negotiations  are  pro- 
ceeding. At  last  he  tells  you  that  there  is 
no  such  book. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  24,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Thompson  and  Kettle,  Heroes  by  Profession. 

New  editions  are  out  of  two  books  by  Cut- 
cliffe  Hyne,  one  a  volume  which  continues  the 
former  recital  of  the  adventures  of  the  martial 
"  Captain  Kettle,  K.  C.  B."  (published  by  the 
Federal  Book  Company,  New  York ;  price. 
$1.50),  the  other  a  novel  of  English  com- 
mercial life,  entitled  "  Thompson's  Progress  " 
(published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York;   price,  $1.50). 

Those  who  have  already  become  familiar 
with  the  resourceful  character  of  the  pluckv 
little  British  captain  are  likely  to  desire  a 
renewal  of  his  acquaintance,  for  wherever 
Captain  Kettle  goes  perilous  adventure  is  by 
his  side,  and  battle,  murder,  and  sudden  death 
hover  in  his  immediate  neighborhood. 

In  the  present  volume,  the  vigorous  methods 
of  the  captain,  who  is  trying  his  fortunes  by 
turns  in  British  Somaliland,  Tunis,  and  Al- 
giers, with  an  occasional  exciting  cruise  thrown 
in,  cut  a  wide  swath  through  native  intrigue, 
and  a  number  of  people  get  badly  hurt,  while 
the  captain,  up  to  a  very  late  chapter,  manages 
to  keep  his  limbs  intact.  The  author  is  very  much 
more  concerned  in  showing  up  Captain  Kettle 
as  an  original  character  and  an  intrepid 
fighter,  than  in  making  his  adventures  credible, 
but  none  the  less,  his  readers  will  not  quarrel 
at  his  manner  of  telling  them,  for  he  shows 
a  thorough  acquaintance  with  the  adventurous 
side  of  life  on  foreign  lands  and  waters  that 
could  only  be  acquired,  one  would  think,  by 
one  who  was  a  combination  of  soldier,  sailor, 
explorer,    and   war-correspondent. 

Of  the  two  books,  "  Thompson's  Progress  " 
is  the  superior,  for,  although  the  author's 
admiration  for  men  of  courage  and  resource 
impels  him  to  give  Tom  Thompson,  his  hero, 
rather  more  adventure  than  commonly  falls  to 
the  lot  of  a  British  manufacturer,  he  endeav- 
ors, on  the  whole,  to  adhere  to  the  probabili- 
ties. 

T.  Thompson,  as  Mr.  Hyne's  self-made  hero 
loves  to  call  himself,  was  originally  a  "  col- 
lier's brat,"  who  early  in  life  won  the  wealth 
that  he  conceived  necessary  to  a  full  enjoy- 
ment of  life.  Tom  began  life  as  a  poacher, 
and  a  poacher  he  remains  to  the  end  of  the 
chapter,  having  a  standing  reward  offered  to 
any  of  his  keepers  who  can  catch  him  poach- 
ing on  his  own  well-kept  preserves.  Like 
Captain  Kettle,  he  is  a  man  of  unusual  char- 
acter, prizing  victory  and  success  in  whatever 
he  undertakes,  and  as  indomitable  in  spirit 
under  disaster  as  he  is  quick-witted  and  en- 
ergetic in  evading  the  ignominy  of  final  defeat. 

Although  Tom  marries  a  lady  of  aristocratic 
family,  buys  a  country-seat,  entertains  states- 
men, lends  a  hand  to  international  politics, 
and  finally  has  a  peerage  bestowed  upon  him, 
there  are  phases  in  his  character  which  cause 
the  reader  dimly  to  suspect  that  Mr.  Hyne 
has  not  entirely  eliminated  all  undesirable 
traits  of  his  plebeian  ancestry.  Taken  alto- 
gether, however,  T.  Thompson  is  a  man 
through  and  through,  something  of  the  bull- 
dog type,  it  is  true,  and  a  little  too  openly 
admired  by  his  creator,  but  a  fine  fellow,  and 
quite  out  of  the  common  run.  So  is  the  story, 
for  that  matter,  which  has  no  set  plot,  but  con- 
sists rather  of  a  string  of  interesting  incidents 
in  Tom's  career,  illustrating  his  pluck,  prow- 
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cisive, clean-cut  style  characteristic  of  the 
author. 

"Contrasts." 

It  is  probable,  from  the  extreme  leisure- 
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majority  of  people  who  pick  up  "Contrasts" 
at  random  will  mistake  that  volume  of  short 
stories  for  a  full-blown  novel.  The  stories 
which  have  been  previously  printed  in  a  num- 
ber of  English  publications,  do  not  number  a 
single  one  of  notable  plot,  but  the  author,  in 
melancholy  vein,  and  with  a  refinement  of 
style  that  will  please  women  readers,  writes 
of  romantic  episodes,  brief  incidents  that 
bear  upon  the  history  of  hearts,  and  occasion- 
ally of  some  sudden  action  resulting  from 
toward  or  untoward  chance  that  makes  or 
mars  a  lifetime.  The  author  has  a  thrifty 
knack  at  spreading  out  her  material  very 
thin,  and  the  volume  will  only  be  heeded  by 
the  constitutional  novel-reader,  who  needs  aid 
in  whiling  away  the  idlest  of  idle  hours. 

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Shakespeare's  "System." 
Wc  must  confess  to  the  belief  that,  for  the 
overwhelming  majority  of  people,  the  reading 
of  Shakespeare  will  be  found  more  profitable 
than  the  reading  of  volumes  of  comment  on, 
and  '  xposition  of,  the  pHys,  however  scholarly 
ami  well-intentioned  the}  may  be.  Therefore, 
ew    Richard   G.    Mo   iton's    "The    Moral 


System  of  Shakespeare :  A  Popular  Illustra- 
tion of  Fiction  as  the  Experimental  Side  of 
Philosophy,"  with  respect  for  the  labor  ex- 
pended, but  doubt  of  the  utility  of  the  effort. 
Who,  we  ask,  failing  to  understand  the  larger 
meanings  of  Shakespeare's  marvelous  poetry 
will  turn  to  Mr.  Moulton's  common  prose 
for  light?  And  who,  if  he  understand  dimly, 
might  not  better  read  twice  and  thrice  rather 
than  turn  away?  Some  few  laborious  minds 
may  profit  by  Mr.  Moulton's  book,  but  we 
think  that  Shakespeare  himself,  could  he  see 
it,  would  be  vastly  amazed. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  price,  $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
There  will  be  no  lack  of  literature  dealing 
with  the  personality  and  work  of  the  late 
James  McNeill  Whistler.  Two  books  about 
him  are  already  promised.  Mrs.  Joseph  Pen- 
nell  is  to  write  an  official  biography,  which  will 
presumably  be  some  time  in  the  making. 
Meanwhile,  the  Macmillan  Company  an- 
nounces for  the  autumn  a  volume  entitled 
"J.  McNeill  Whistler  and  His  Work."  The 
authors,  Alfred  G.  and  Nancy  Bell,  completed 
their  work  only  a  few  weeks  before  the  artist's 
death.  According  to  the  Matichester  Guardian, 
Whistler  had  arranged  to  have  W.  E.  Henley 
write  his  biography,  but  the  poet's  death 
unfortunately  put  an  end  to  such  a  plan. 

F.  Marion  Crawford's  next  novel  will  be 
another  story  of  modern  Rome.  It  is  to  be 
entitled  "  The  Heart  of  Rome,"  and  will  be 
published  by  the  Macmillan  Company  this 
autumn. 

George  Gissing  is  writing  a  romantic  novel 
based  on  life  in  the  sixth  century,  which  will 
be  very  different  in  atmosphere  from  any 
work  of  fiction  he  has  hitherto  produced. 

Justin  Huntly  McCarthy's  latest  novel,  "  The 
Proud  Prince,"  will  be  brought  out  next 
month,  and  a  few  days  later  the  play  made 
from  the  story  by  the  author  will  be  presented 
in  New  York,  with  E.  H.  Sothern  in  the 
title-role. 

A  novel  of  the  "  New  Navy,"  with  the  title 
"  The  Spirit  of  the  Service,"  by  Mrs.  Edith 
Elmer  Wood,  is  announced  for  October  pub- 
lication by  the  Macmillan  Company. 

George  Bernard  Shaw  has  a  new  book  on 
the  eve  of  publication.  It  opens  with  about 
forty  pages  of  dedication  to  A.  B.  Walkley. 
the  dramatic  critic  of  the  London  Times.  It 
contains  a  play  entitled  "  Man  and  Super- 
man," and  is  described  as  being  a  very  mis- 
cellaneous volume  indeed. 

The  new  novel  upon  which  Charles  Major 
has  been  at  work  since  the  publication 
of  "  Dorothy  Vernon  of  Hadden  Hall,"  is  a 
story  of  Indiana  life  in  the  'thirties.  The 
region  in  which  the  scene  is  laid  is  the  one 
in  which  the  author  has  lived  all  his  life. 

Mrs.  Alice  Meynell  is  writing  the  text  for 
an  art  book  which  will  be  brought  out  in  the 
autumn,  consisting  of  some  threescore  repro- 
ductions of  pictures  of  children  painted  by 
the  old  Italian  masters.  The  Italian  sculp- 
tors are  also  to  be  represented.  The  book 
will  be  entitled  "  Children  of  the  Old 
Masters." 

"  Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch "  has 
just  passed  its  twenty-fifth  edition.  The  total 
number  of  sales  up  to  January  1st  was  sixty- 
two  thousand  three  hundred  and  sixty-three. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  on  their  list 
of  October  publications  an  "  Autobiography 
of  Seventy  Years,"  by  Senator  George  F. 
Hoar.  Some  of  the  chapters  in  the  book  have 
appeared  from  time  to  time  in  Scribner's 
Magazine. 

A  new  volume  is  promised  containing  many 
anecdotes  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  with  let- 
ters from  his  pen.  It  is  to  be  entitled  "  The 
Memoirs  and  Correspondence  of  Captain 
Elers."  The  captain  was  a  friend  of  Welling- 
ton's, and  knew  many  of  the  notable  people 
of  his  day. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  will  issue  early 
next  month  a  new  edition  of  Charles  A.  Stod- 
dard's "  Cruising  Among  the  Caribbees."  The 
author  has  brought  his  book  down  to  date 
and  enlarged  it.  There  are  chapters  on  Mar- 
tinique, Porto  Rico,  and  Jamaica ;  on  the 
eruptions  of  Pelee  and  Soufriere,  the  emanci- 
pation of  Cuba,  and  numerous  other  physical, 
political,  and  national  changes.  Mr.  Stoddard 
has  revisited  the  islands  described  in  the  book 
in  order  to  get  the  material  at  first  hand. 

"  The  A.  B.-Z.  of  Our  Own  Nutrition  "  is 
the  title  of  Horace  Fletcher's  latest  volume, 
which  he  has  prepared  with  the  assistance  of 
Dr.    Ernest    Van    Someren,    of    Venice,    Italy, 


and  Dr.  Hubert  Higgins,  of  Cambridge,  Eng- 
land. It  is  said  to  be  a  startling  revelation  of 
a  possible  scientific  understanding  of  human 
alimentation,  which  has  been  worked  out  dur- 
ing five  years  of  experiment  in  both  the  United 
States  and  in  Europe  under  the  advice  and 
with  the  help  of  some  of  the  leading 
physiologists  of  both  continents. 


INTAGLIOS. 


A  Prayer  for  a  Mother's  Birthday. 
Lord  Jesus,  Thou  hast  known 

A  mother's  love  and  tender  care: 
And  Thou  wilt  hear,  while  for  my  own 

Mother    most    dear     I    make    this     birthday 
prayer. 

Protect  her  life,    I   pray, 

Who  gave  the  gift  of  life  to  me; 

And  may  she  know,  from  day  to  day. 

The    deepening    glow    of    Life    that    comes 
from -Thee. 

As  once  upon   her  breast 

Fearless  and  well  content  I  lay, 
So  let  her  heart,  on  Thee  at  rest, 

Feel    fears    depart    and    troubles    fade    away. 

Her  every  wish  fulfill; 

And  even  if  Thou  must  refuse 
In  anything,  let  Thy  wise  will 

A  comfort  bring  such   as  kind  mothers  use. 

Ah,  hold  her  by  the  hand. 

As  once  her  hand  held  mine; 
And  though  she  may  not  understand 

Life's  winding  way,  lead  her  in  peace  divine. 

I  can  not  pay  my  debt 

For  all  the  love  that  she  has  given; 
But  Thou,  love's  Lord,  wilt  not  forget 

Her    due    reward— bless    her    in    earth    and 
heaven. 
— Henry    Van    Dyke    in    the    Outlook. 

A  Ballade  of  an  Old  Sundial. 
"Twas  here  at  twilight,  all  alone. 

Some  slim   Elizabethan  sped 
And  sobbed  upon  your  face  of  stone. 

With   clinging  creepers  garlanded, 
And  bowed  her  pretty,  golden  head, 

And  prayed  her  blessed  Lord  recall 
The    faithless  lover   who   was   fled. 

Oh,   dial,   who   outlived  it  all. 

Here,  when  the  second  Charles  was  King, 

A  score   of   drunken   gallants   bled. 
To    win    a    little  laughing   thing 

Who   wantoned   with    them   all    and   wed 
My  lord,   the  King  himself,   'tis  said, 

And  ended  in  a  Bishop's  stall. 
Respectable  and  overfed. 

Oh,    dial,   who   outlived   it   all. 

And  here,  among  the  belles  and  beaux, 

Belinda  and  her   Baron   led 
The  laughter,  with  the  latest  mot, 

Mocked   at  the   newest  marriage  bed; 
Or   tapped  a  jeweled  box    instead. 

And  wondered  if  the  funds  would  fall; 
-    Or  wagered  that  Queen  Anne  was   dead: 

Oh,  dial,  who  outlived  it  all. 

ENVOI. 

Dial,  how  many  tears  were  shed, 

Upon    your   carven    capital  ? 
How    many    loves    were    numbered  ? 

Oh,  dial,  who  outlived  it  all.  — Ex. 


A  Ballade  of  a  Mirror. 
Some  laughing  maid  of  honor  here 

Has  set  a  rebel  ringlet  right, 
To   whisper   with    a   sonneteer. 

Or  kiss  a  pretty  page  good-night: 
And    e'en    a   merry    prelate   might 

Have   lingered   on   the   stair,   alas! 
To  trifle   with   her  curls   in  quite 

The  spirit  of  the  looking-glass. 

Or  grandame  bound  her  borrowed  locks 

And  put  the  sorry  years  to  flight 
With    perfume    and    with    powder-box, 

And  deftly  in  the  candle  light 
Touched     withered    cheeks     with     pink     and 
white 

And   played  the  old  eternal   farce, 
Too   faithful   to   that   cruel   sprite 

The  spirit  of  the  looking-glass. 

Here   in   the   growing   dawn,    perchance, 

Ere  some  red  August  sun  grew  bright, 
Has  stood  a  smiling  lord  of  France, 

And  smoothed  his  dainty  frills  despite 
The   summons    to    the    Infinite 

That  thunder'd  from  the  bloody  "  Place," 
When  life  was  all  too  short  to  slight 

The  spirit  of  the  looking-glass. 

ENVOI. 
Mirror,   mine   idle   rhyme  requite — 
Can    ever    mortal    love    surpass, 
Bethink  you,  in  my  lady's  sight 
The  spirit  of  the  looking-glass. 

—Pall  Mall  Gazette, 


Julien  Viaud,  who  is  much  better  known 
as  Pierre  Loti,  the  novelist  and  correspondent, 
has  been  promoted  to  a  captaincy  in  the 
French  navy,  in  which  he  has  held  the  rank  of 
lieutenant  for  a  number  of  years.  He  has 
also  been  given  command  of  the  cruiser 
/  untour,  which  is  now  on  the  Constantinople 
station. 


No  guess-work — no  hum- 
bug. 

We  fit  glasses  accurately, 
scientifically. 

Hirsch  &  Kaiser, 

7  Kearny  St.  Opticians. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Some  Convincing  Ghost  Stories. 
When  you  have  read  historical  novels,  ani- 
mal stories,  "  flexible  biographies "  till  your 
brain  reels  under  its  weight  of  unassimilated. 
gratuitous  information,  the  antidote  for  your 
mental  indigestion  is  Mary  E.  Wilkins's  col- 
lection of  ghost  stories,  "The  Wind  in  the 
Rose-Bush."  There  is  nothing  instructive,  no 
character  study,  or  psychological  problem,  in 
them.  They  are  mere  old-fashioned,  goose- 
flesh-inducing,  horror-tales  of  grewsome  ghosts 
and  speaking  spooks  that  hale  from  the  nether 
world.  And  they  will  appeal  to  nine  people 
out  of  every  ten.  because  in  about  that  pro- 
portion there  is  a  streak  of  superstition  lurk- 
ing in  our  twentieth- century  make-up ;  for 
who  does  not,  after  reading  about  "  the  sheeted 
ghosts  that  squeak  and  gibber  in  the  streets 
of  Rome,"  feel  his  hair  stiffening  before  he 
has  time  to  catch  himself  and  declare  he  does 
not  believe   in   the  supernatural — not  he! 

The  story  of  "  The  Wind  in  the  Rose- 
Bush  "  is  itself  of  an  illusive,  wraith-like 
quality.  The  anxiety  and  suspense  of  Aunt 
Rebecca  from  Michigan  and  the  subterfuges 
of  the  stepmother  in  putting  her  off  keep  the 
reader  in  suspense  quite  as  effectually,  till 
the  gust  of  wind  that  bounds  into  the  room 
as  the  shadow  of  Agnes  crosses  the  sill,  the 
echoes  of  "  The  Maiden's  Prayer "  in  the 
stillness  of  the  night,  the  swaying  of  the  rose- 
bush when  there  is  not  a  breath  of  wind,  all 
lead  up  to  the  finding  of  the  little  lace-frilled 
nightgown  "  laid  out "  across  the  bed,  the 
the  sleeves  peacefully  crossed  upon  its  breast 
with  the  mysterious  rose  laid  between. 

The  next  story,  "The  Shadow  on  the 
Wall."  is  given  in  such  a  simple,  plausible 
manner  that  the  reader  finishes  the  tale  with 
a  quick,  in-drawn  breath.  But  "  The  Lost 
Ghost"  is  the  most  "  spooky  "  of  all,  for  this 
little  ghost  not  only  appears  to  mortal  ken  on 
the  most  inopportune  occasions,  but  speak> 
with  a  wraith-like  wail.  It  also  insists  upon 
wiping  dishes,  laying  sticks  before  the  fire, 
pulling  the  cat's  tail,  and  repeating  its  mourn- 
ful plaint  "  I  can't  find  my  mother !"  At  last  a 
kind  lady  who  can  stand  these  things  no 
longer  dies,  and  taking  the  child  by  the  hand, 
is  seen  leading  the  way  to  ghost-land  in  search 
of  the  lost  mother.  "  Luella  Miller,"  "The 
Southwest  Chamber."  "  The  Vacant  Lot."  com- 
plete the  collection,  and  by  the  time  one  has 
finished  the  book  he  is  likely  to  be  afraid  of 
the  dark,  and  afraid  of  the  light :  afraid  of 
the  living  as  well  as  the  dead;  afraid  to  listen 
inwardly  to  the  voice  of  presentiment,  and 
afraid  to  unstop  his  ears  lest  he  may  hear  a 
wraith-like  wail    from  ghost-land. 

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York;  price,  $1.50. 

The  Peasantry  and  a  Poet. 
To  "  a  certain  love  of  the  humorous  "  Canon 
Rawnsley  attributes  his  interest  in  hunting  up 
and  talking  with  the  elderly  peasants  of  the 
Lake  country  who  had  known  the  poet 
Wordsworth,  or  "  Wuds worth  "  as  they  call 
him.  and  who  were  not  averse  to  giving  a  racy 
character-sketch  off-hand.  The  interviews 
are  indeed  very  amusing — and  instructive,  too 
— while  the  chapters  by  the  lovable  canon  that 
fill  out  the  book  of  "  Lake  Country  Sketches  " 
are  delightful.  The  author  found  several  per- 
sons who  thought  "li'le  Hartley"  Coleridge 
a  brainier  person  than  Wordsworth.  The  land- 
lord "  at  t'  Nab  "  had  this  to  say :  "  He 
I  [Wordsworth]  wasn't  a  man  o'  many  words, 
wad  walk  by  you  times  eneuf  wi'out  sayin* 
owt  particler  when  he  was  studyin'.     He  was 

'  alius  studyin',  and  you  med  see  his  lips  gaen 
as  he  went  aboot  t'  roads.  He  did  most  of 
his  study  upo'  the  roads.  I  suppose  he  was  .1 
cliverish  man,  but  he  wasn't  set  much  on  by 
nin  on  us.    He  lent  Hartley  a  deal  o'  his  beuks. 

1  it's  sartain.  but  Hartley  helped  him  a  deal, 
I  understand,  did  a*  best  part  o'  his  poems 
for  him,  sae  t'  sayin'  is." 

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York;   price,   $1.75. 


ize  "  civilization.  Still,  it  does  not  do  to  be 
too  skeptical.  Some  day  the  cranks  may 
harness  the  ocean  waves,  the  wind,  the  sun, 
and  radium,  and  nobody  will  have  anything 
to  do  but  to  sit  around  and  watch  things 
work. 

Puhlished    by    the    author,    221     Columbus 
Avenue,   Boston. 


"Solar  Power." 
The  direct  utilization  of  the  sun's  heat  for 
power  purposes  is  a  scheme  almost  as  fas- 
cinating to  a  certain  type  of  mind  as  "  per- 
petual motion  " — but  not  quite  so  useless.  A 
solor  motor  at  Pasadena,  until  recently,  at 
1  least,   was   generating  sufficient   power   to   lift 

I  fourteen  hundred  gallons  of  water  per  minute. 
Other  contrivances  of  *  •nilar  sort  have 
worked.  Now  comes  Charles  Henry  Pope 
with  the  first  book  (so  he  saysj  on  the  subject 
in  the  language.  He  is  a  wild  enthusiast,  but 
he  seems  to  have  collected  a  lot  of  facts 
from  many  sources  which  may  be  useful  to 
more  sober  experimenters  who  do  not  share 
his  opinion   that  solar  heat  will  "  revolution- 


New   Publications. 
"  Tools   and   the   Machine."   a   book  of  ele- 
mentary   instruction,    by   Charles    Barnard,    is 
published    by    Silver,     Burdett    &    Co.,    New- 
York. 

"  Spiritual  Power  at  Work :  A  Study  of 
Spiritual  Forces  and  Their  Application."  by 
George  Henry  Hubbard,  is  published  by  E. 
P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York;  price,  $1.25  net. 

St.  Augustine's  "  The  City  of  God,"  a  re- 
print of  John  Healey's  translation  made  in 
1610,  is  published  in  three  volumes  in  the 
series  of  Temple  Classics,  imported  by  the 
Macmillan  Company,  New  York ;  price,  per 
volume,  50  cents. 

"The  Room  With  the  Little  Door"  is  an 
account  by  Roland  B.  Molineux,  of  his  ex- 
periences while  confined  in  the  Tombs  Prison 
and  Sing  Sing  Prison,  New  York,  on  the 
charge  of  murder,  of  which  he  was  acquitted 
on  second  trial.  Published  by  the  G.  W. 
Dillingham  Company,  New  York;  price.  $1.50. 

"  In  Piccadilly  "  is  a  lurid  and  disagreeable 
novel  by  Benjamin  Swift.  As  its  title  implies, 
the  scene  is  London.  The  characters  are  a 
kindly  old  Scotch  laird,  his  son  Ninian  (a 
soft-hearted,  but  well-intentioned,  young  mam, 
a  villainous  valet,  and  several  singed  moths 
of  Piccadilly.  The  novel  seems  to  us  neither 
entertaining  nor  instructive.  Published  by 
G.   P.   Putnam's   Sons.  New  York;   $1.50. 

"The  Certainty  of  a  Future  Life  in  Mars; 
Being  the  Posthumous  Papers  of  Bradford 
Torrey  Dodd "  is  a  rather  cleverly  con- 
structed account  of  the  scientific  experiments 
of  a  mythical  Mr.  Dodd.  who  succeeded  in 
opening  communication  with  the  Martians. 
They  told  him  how  they  lived  and  what  they 
knew.  all  of  which  is  here  duly  set  down. 
The  story — which  is  "  edited "  by  L.  A. 
Gratacap — will  divert  those  who  fancy  H.  G. 
Wells.  Jules  Verne,  and  writers  of  that  sort. 
Published  by  Brentano's  New  York:  75  cents. 

We  infer  from  the  title-page  of  a  volume 
which  reaches  us  that  another  edition  of 
Shakespeare  is  in  course  of  publication — each 
play  in  a  separate  volume,  and  each  the  work 
of  a  different  scholar.  At  least,  the  volume 
edited  by  H.  C.  Hart,  is  entitled  "  The  Works 
of  Shakespeare:  The  Tragedy  of  Othello,"  an 
arrangement  which  would  seem  to  have  no 
meaning  were  that  not  the  case.  The  book  is 
mechanically  an  attractive  one  of  two  hundred 
and  fifty  pages,  with  an  exhaustive  intro- 
ductory essay  and  voluminous  notes,  both  of 
which  as  careful  an  examination  as  may 
be  fails  to  find  faulty.  Published  by  the 
Bowen-Merrill   Company,  Indianapolis.  Ind. 

With  characteristic  enterprise,  the  publish- 
ers of  "  Moody's  Manual  of  Statistics  :  Stock 
Exchange  Handbook  "  have  begun  the  publica- 
tion of  a  monthly  (except  in  May  and  June) 
supplement  which  "  will  record  the  changes 
which  occur  in  the  capital  or  position  of  rail- 
road or  miscellaneous  corporations."  A  very 
ingenious  cover  is  furnished,  in  which  each 
monthly  issue. may  be  inserted  as  it  appears. 
Each  supplement,  also,  is  indexed.  The 
financial  manuals  of  the  Moody  Company  are 
standard  works,  and  the  periodical  issues 
necessitated  by  the  great  number  of  business 
changes  that  occur  monthly  will  doubtless 
prove  very  welcome  to  those  for  whom  they 
are  intended.  Published  by  the  Manual  of 
Statistics  Company,    New   York;   $5.00  yearly. 

Carl  Snyder's  "  New  Conceptions  in 
Science "  are  very,  very  new.  In  fact,  they 
are  so  new  that  we  rather  think  that  conserva- 
tive men  of  science  have  not  yet  heard  of 
some  of  them.  Mr.  Snyder  has  the  assurance 
of  half-knowledge,  the  daring  of  the  persons 
who  spout  science  in  yellow  journals  at  so 
much  per  line.  We  are  reminded  of  a  story 
told  of  Remsen,  the  great  chemist.  Some  one 
asked  him  what  protoplasm  was.  "  I  can  not 
say,"  he  replied;  "1  do  not  know.  But  I'll 
tell  you  what,"  he  continued,  "  you  just  ask 
a  primary-school  teacher.  She'll  tell  you  all 
about  it."  We  do  not  mean  to  imply,  of  course, 
that  Mr.  Snyder  does  not  give  many  interest- 
ing facts  about  modern  scientific  progress,  but 
he  constantly  ventures  on  assumptions  unwar- 
ranted by  the  facts.  Published  by  Harper  & 
Brothers,  New  York ;  price,  $2.00. 

"  Out  of  Kishineff"  is  the  title  of  a  volume 
hastily  prepared  by  W.  C.  Stiles,  a  Protestant 


clergyman  of  New  York,  in  view  of  the  current 
interest  in  Jewish  problems.  It  gives  an  ac- 
count of  the  Kishineff  massacre  drawn  from 
the  newspapers,  and  chapters  on  the  hunted 
Jew  of  history,  the  Jew  in  America,  etc.,  also 
a  lot  of  extracts  from  press  comment.  Pub- 
lished by  the  G.  W.  Dillingham  Company, 
New  York;  price,  $1.20  net. 

"  Round  Anvil  Rock,"  by  Nancy  Huston 
Banks,  is  a  fluently  written  novel  of  Kentucky 
during  the  period  of  the  Battle  of  Tippecanoe. 
Historical  personages  galore  are  introduced, 
including  Andrew  Jackson,  Peter  Cartwright. 
Aaron  Burr,  Daniel  Boone,  and  many  others. 
The  plot  is  somewhat  stereotyped,  and  the 
book,  as  a  whole,  is  in  no  way  distinctive. 
Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York;  price,  $1.50. 

One  of  the  interesting  items  in  George  P. 
Garrison's  "  Texas,"  which  is  the  latest  addi- 
tion to  the  American  Commonwealth  Series, 
is  the  statement  that  the  original  name  of  the 
territory  was  "  Nuevas  Filipinas."  which  was, 
however,  "  not  sufficiently  upon  the  popular 
tongue."  and  was  at  length  displaced  by 
"  Tejas,"  the  name  of  a  tribe  of  Indians,  or. 
according  to  one  authority,  a  federation  of 
tribes.  "  Tejas  "  in  time  was  transmuted  into 
"  Texas."  The  key-note  of  Mr.  Garrison's 
book  is  sounded  in  the  sub-title.  "  A  Contest 
of  Civilizations."  The  work  is  not  a  detailed 
history,  but  dwells  mainly  on  the  salient  fea- 
tures of  the  long  struggle  between  Spanish 
and  English  influences.  Published  by  Hough- 
ton,  Mifflin   &   Co.,    Boston;   price,   $1.10. 

"  Prudence  Pratt "  is  avowedly  the  first 
novel  of  Mrs.  Dore  Lyon.  In  a  preface,  the 
author  implores  the  reader,  with  exclamation 
points,  to  "love  it  or  hate  it."  So  much  con- 
cern on  this  score  betrays  her  fear  that  he 
will  do  neither,  which  is  the  precise  fact. 
"  Prudence  Pratt "  is  a  good-enough,  light- 
novel,  revealing  no  particular  insight  into 
character,  but  presenting  some  interesting 
pictures  of  social  life.  There  are  a  number 
of  exceptionally  good  drawings  in  the  manner 
of  Gibson  by  Malcolm  A.  Struss.  These  are 
all  marked  "  Copyright.  1903.  by  Anna  E. 
Lyon  " — a  fact  which  excites  interested  specu- 
lation. Can  it  be  that  "  Anna  "  was  not  con- 
sidered "poetical"  enough  for  the  cover  of 
a  novel.  Is  the  fascinating  "  Dore  "  a  literary 
frill  ?  Published  by  the  George  V.  Blackburne 
Company.  New  York;  price.  $1.50. 

Part  VTII.  completing  the  Studio  Library  of 
Representative  Art  of  Our  Time,  contains 
specimens  of  the  work  of  Professor  von  Her- 
komer.  Sargent,  E.  J.  Gregory,  Edward  Statt. 
H.  Muhrman,  Charles  Cottet.  and  an  essay 
on  "  The  Pencil  and  the  Pen  as  Instruments 
of  Art."  This  is  an  opportune  moment  to  say 
that,  in  general,  the  eight  numbers  of  the 
Library  have  adequately  fulfilled  the  promise 
of  the  title.  About  fifty  pictures  in  all  have 
been  reproduced  in  polychrome  or  mono- 
chrome, exhibiting  in  variety  the  best  methods 
in  modern  picture-painting.  The  average  size 
is  about  twelve  by  eight  inches,  and  the  fact 
that  all  are  printed  upon  removable  sheets 
permits  their  use  in  decoration  or  otherwise, 
and  their  return  to  the  portfolio — no  small 
advantage.  The  prefatory  essays  have  been 
uniformly  instructive.  Published  by  John 
Lane,  New  York;  price,  per  part,  $1.00. 


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In    his    concluding    paragraph,    he    writes: 

The  West  is  rich  in  literary  material.  There 
are  mountain  ranges  comparatively  unexplored, 
which  aboriginal  tradition  veils  in  haunting 
mystery.  The  struggles,  trials,  and  heroism 
of  the  early  pioneers  have  scarcely  been 
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the  vine  have  ever  figured  prominently  in  the 
history  of  Old  World  letters,  it  is  not  unrea- 
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tropical  sun  and  gorgeous  coloring,  will  add 
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lan Company ;  but  the  book  contains  a  number 
of  illustrations  which  are  reproduced  in  color 
by  a  new  process,  and  the  time  required  to 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


Now  that  we  have  seen  "  The  Devil's  Dis- 
ciple "  there  is  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  the 
interest  attached  to  it  lies  more  in  the  fact 
that  George  Bernard  Shaw  is  its  author  than 
in  the  dramatic  qualities  o/  the  piece  itself. 
Mr.  Shaw,  who  was  off  in  his  usual  vein. 
poking  fun  at  the  bewildered  critics  when 
this  piece  was  first  presented  in  America  by 
Mansfield,  some  years  ago,  contemptuously  de- 
rided the  judgments  that  pronounced  it  ori- 
ginal, and  declared  that  it  is  "  hackneyed  clap- 
trap." made  up  of  the  well-worn  stage  tricks 
of  our  own  time.  He  goes  on  to  point  out, 
nevertheless,  that  the  originality  of  the  play 
lies  in  its  mode  of  treatment,  and  that  it? 
novelty  is  that  of  advanced  thought.  And 
that,  I  take  it,  is  the  whole  trouble  with  the 
piece.  The  thought  that  sacrifices  sentiment 
to  psychology  is  too  advanced  for  the  spec- 
tator, who  must  needs  feel  some  tugging  at 
his  sympathies,  some  spiritual  exhilaration 
arising  from  an  exultant  recognition  of  high 
thoughts  and  noble  actions. 

Now,  Mr.  Shaw  unquestionably  meant  us 
to  feel  something  of  the  sort  when  Dick 
Dudgeon  calmly  permits  the  identity  of  the 
minister  to  be  thrust  upon  him  and  marches 
sturdily  off  to  his  doom  ;  and  again,  when 
Parson  Andersen,  transformed  by  the  lightning 
of  the  coming  storm  from  a  man  of  peace  to 
a  lion  of  war.  sheds  the  cleric,  and  arms 
himself  for  his  place  among  "  the  thunder 
of  the  captains  and  the  shouting." 

But  we  feel  nothing  of  the  kind.  Instead, 
we  are  puzzled.  To  quote  Mr.  Shaw  again : 
"  On  the  stage,  it  appears,  people  'do  things 
for  reasons.  Off  the  stage,  they  don't;  that 
.  is  why  your  penny-in-the-slot  heroes,  who 
.  only  work  when  you  drop  a  motive  into  them, 

■  are  so  oppressively  automatic  and  uninterest 

■  ing."  Here  it  is  apparent  that  Mr.  Shaw,_  as 
usual,  plays  the  iconoclast,  and  attempts  to  de- 
molish the  natural  desire  we  in  front  feel  to 
detect    some    mainspring    of    emotion    in    the 

*  two  heroes  to  account  for  their  perplexing 
actions. 

With  Dick  there  is  none,  except,  as  he  says. 
to  Judith,  "  He  must  follow  the  law  of  his 
own  nature."  The  minister,  when  his  trans- 
formation comes,  leaves  the  spectator  equally 
unenlightened.  The  first  error,  however,  is 
the  more  grave  of  the  two,  for,  as  it  turns 
out.  the  sensibilities,  stimulated  to  active  an- 
ticipation, fall  back  to  the  relaxation  of  dis- 
appointment, and  a  dramatic  possibility  is 
lost.  As  to  the  second,  it  ought,  perhaps,  to 
be  redeemed  by  the  appearance  of  Parson 
Andersen  at  the  foot  of  the  gibbet,  coming 
as  a  hero  and  a  savior  ;  but  for  some  reason, 
difficult  to  define,  there  is  a  curious  dead- 
ness  of  response,  not  only  at  the  moment  of 
dramatic  action,  but  during  each  climax  of 
emotion  in  the  play.  And  therein  lies  the 
crucial  fault  in  this  brilliantly  written  drama. 
It  fails  to  move.  Curiously  enough,  it  reads, 
or  so  it  strikes  me.  more  interestingly  than  it 
acts.  No  one  can  excel  Shaw  in  sustained 
brilliancy  of  dialogue,  and.  with  his  multi- 
tudinous comments  and  voluminous  stage  di- 
rections, he  makes  clear  lo  his  readers  ideas 
and  motives  lhat  do  not  carry  on  the  stage. 

Judith,  for  instance,  before  an  unexpected 
storm  mi  .jiiMliuns  swept  her  away  from  her 
tri^  little  moorings,  is  a  narrow,  intolerant. 
self-complacent  little  pris.  Some  of  her  lines 
give  us  the  clew  to  her  nature,  but  the  trait 
is  not  made  sufficiently  carrying  to  clear  up 
the  situation.  Besides,  it  is  dismal  and  de- 
pressing to  have  a  prig  (.or,  perhaps,  I  ought 
io  say  a  priggess)  for  a  heroine.  And,  fur- 
thermore, when  a  pretij  young  woman  (and 
Miss  Anglin  looked  her  prettiest),  with  a  low, 
plaintive  \oice.  and  an  interesting  presence, 
makes  her  entrance  and  is  manifestly  the 
lu-roine,  we  naturally'  assume  that,  in  some 
way,- she  will  appeal  to  our  favor.  And  when 
this  pretty  young  woman  is  the  young  wife 
of  an  elderly  husband,  we  scent  romance. 

Instead,    Judith    induces    a    sense   of    fatigue, 

Sie     makes    the    transition    of    her    affections 

'•-in    the  parson  to    Dick  so  swiftly,  and   her 

V'istrust    of  tier   husi  -Mid's   motives  comes   with 

uch  an  unwifely  ,<      ienness,  that  she  stands 

would-be    pathetic    -    Mire    without    sympathy, 


and,  indeed,  almost  capable  of  inspiring  re- 
pugnance; and  besides,  sustained  plaintiveness 
in  a  stage  heroine  always  becomes  tedious  be- 
fore the  play  ends. 

Dick  Dudgeon  and  General  Burgoyne  are 
the  lights  of  the  play.  Dick  is  essentially 
theatric,  which  is  the  reason  why  "  The 
Devil's  Disciple  "  has  escaped  the  fate  of  the 
majority  of  Mr.  Shaw's  pieces,  and  come 
to  be  played.  Dick,  like  the  generality  of 
Mr.  Shaw's  heroes,  is,  in  fact,  one  of  the 
numerous  personifications  of  the  versatile 
author  who,  sooner  or  later,  is  forced,  through 
an  insistent  and  self-confessed  egoism,  loudly 
to  proclaim  himself  and  his  opinions  through 
the  mouths  of  his  favorite  characters. 
Dick,  then,  like  Mr.  Shaw,  needs  an  audience. 
Like  Mr.  Shaw,  again,  he  is  intolerant  of 
sham,  and  delights  in  running  counter  to  the 
opinion  of  his  fellows.  Mr.  Shaw  calls  him 
a  Diabolonian,  and  explains  his  terrible  repu- 
tation among  the  Puritans  by  his  irreverence 
for  what  they  esteem  being  the  instinctive 
revolt  of  a  nature  compounded  of  kindness 
and  pity  against  his  mother's  creed  of  hatred, 
intolerance,  and  cruelty.  He  can  not  but 
think  well  of  the  devil  so  despised  by  her, 
and  thus  becomes  "  The  Devil's  Disciple." 

It  is  to  explain  these  influences  on  Dick's 
character  that  we  have  so  large  a  dose  of 
Mrs.  Dudgeon  in  the  first  act.  Mr.  Shaw 
hates  her  quite  as  heartily  as  does  Dick, 
and,  doubtless,  as  a  commentator  on  the 
play  once  suggested,  killed  her  off  as  a  relief 
to  his  detestation  of  all  that  she,  and  such 
as  she,  suggest.  She  gets  on  his  nerves. 
and  he  relieves  himself  by  banishing  her 
to  the  Hades  of  the  hypocrite,  whose  religion 
is  envy,  hatred,  and  all  uncharitableness. 

Unfortunately,  she  gets  on  our  nerves,  too. 
Just  as  Judith  is  monotonously  plaintive,  so 
Mrs.  Dudgeon  is  monotonously  hateful.  Tt 
is  a  difficult  character  to  play,  unless  the 
player  has  a  strident  voice  and  features 
that  can  readily  set  themselves  into  hard, 
cold  lines.  Mrs.  Selten  has  neither.  She 
is  a  plump,  comfortable  matron,  who  is 
obliged  to  tax  her  physical  energies  heavily  to 
keep  up  the  strain  of  representing,  for 
thirty  or  forty  minutes  at  a  stretch,  an  ill 
tempered,  fierce-nattired.  and  detestable 
woman,  shaking  her  fist  at  fate.  The  fact  that 
she  succeeds  fairly  well  is  a  guarantee  of  gal- 
lant endeavor  on  her  part. 

Another  player —  new  to  us  —  who  falls 
below  the  author's  standard  in  phys- 
ical fitness  is  Mr.  Titheradge,  as  Parson 
Andersen.  The  parson  is  described  in  Mr. 
Shaw's  own  words  as  "  a  strong,  healthy  man. 
with  a  thick,  sanguine  neck ;  and  his  keen, 
cheerful  mouth  cut  into  somewhat  fleshy  cor- 
ners." Now  the  parson  is  represented  by  a 
small,  slight  man  that  a  puff  of  wind  might 
blow  away.  He  does  not  suggest  the  cheerful, 
somewhat  worldly  divine  who  has  still  enough 
of  the  world  the  flesh,  and  the  devil  about 
him  to  catch  a  young  woman's  eve.  Tt  is 
quite  impossible  to  imaeine  a  girl  of  Judith's 
vears  having  fallen  in  love  with  him.  This, 
it  is  true,  might  make  one  more  tolerant 
of  the  ready  transfer  of  her  affections  to  Dick. 
But.  on  the  other  hand  when  the  parson  pre- 
pares for  war.  Mr.  Titheradge  is  unable  to 
key  himself  to  the  required  pitch  nnd  become 
ascressive.  militant;  the  embodiment  of  sharp 
curt  authority. 

Mr.  Titheradge.  I  fancy,  is  a  man  who 
borrows  from  the  individuality  of  others. 
In  appearance,  he  is  a  cross  between  Sir 
Henry  Irving  and  Lawrence  Barrett,  and  he 
undoubtedly  imitates  Henry  Miller.  He  has 
a  good  voice,  which  was  about  all  he  could 
contribute  to  express  the  mood  of  the  mili- 
tant divine  when  he  arms  himself  and  goes 
forth  to  peril  and  rescue  with  the  gallant 
eagerness  of  the  born  fighter. 

The  very  best  scenes  in  the  play  are  those 
of  Dick's  trial  and  subsequent  appearance 
upon  the  gibbet,  during  both  of  which  he 
and  General  Burgoyne  indulge  in  a  duel  of 
wits.  At  this  point,  Mr.  Shaw  is  at  his 
happiest.  He  permits  the  halo  encircling 
Dick's  head  to  borrow  its  brilliancy  from 
stereotyped  models,  but  he  compensates  him- 
self by  allowing  his  hero  to  say  daring,  amus- 
ing, irreverent  things  that  ruffle  up  the  con- 
ditional and  the  devout.  And,  besides, 
Mr.  Shaw's  wit  is  of  the  genuine  stamp,  and 
shines  forth  with  a  keen  and  startling  bril- 
liancy- 
General  Burgoyne  is  evidently  an  enthu- 
siasm of  the  author's,  who  considers  that, 
as  somebody  had  to  be  made  a  scapegoat  for 
the  defeat  sustained  by  the  British  arms, 
Burgoyne,  in  spite  of  his  high  attainments, 
was  selected.  The  lines  of  the  part  are  pe- 
culiarly apt  in  conveying  Mr.  Shaw's  idea  of 
his  ability,  and  of  the  mingling  of  satirical 
humor  and  generous  feeling  in  the  man.  The 
pan   was  most  admirably  played  by  Mr.  Mor- 


ton Selten,  who  has  a  command  over  the 
subtler  methods  of  expression  that  enabled 
him  to  differentiate  with  minutest  pauses  and 
inflections  between  sardonic  humor,  generous 
admiration,  and  the  fastidious  disapproval  with 
which  Burgoyne  regarded  his  prisoner  and 
his  subordinate  officers. 

Henry  Miller's  manner  of  playing  Dick 
Dudgeon  was  so  similar  to  his  execution 
of  the  Sydney  Carton  role  that  there  is  prac- 
tically nothing  new  to  say  about  him.  There 
is  more  dash  and  bravado  and  less  tenderness 
in  the  part,  although  Dick,  too,  has  his  mo- 
ments of  tenderness  for  the  orphan  Essie.  I 
very  much  doubt  if  the  play  will  be  popular, 
but  Mr.  Miller,  at  least,  always  allowing  for 
a  constitutional  inability  to  lose  himself  quite, 
holds  the  stage  well  as  the  dare-devil  Dick, 
making  him  the  reckless,  picturesque,  icon- 
oclast that  Mr.  Shaw  would  have  him.  Miss 
Anglin's  part,  also,  is  similar  to  that  she 
played  in  "  A  Tale  of  Two  Cities  "—and,  in- 
deed, is  a  sort  of  long-drawn-out,  over- 
attenuated  Mimi  role.  It  shows  but  one  side 
of  her  talent,  her  gift  for  expressing  a  plain- 
tive despair,  and  I  would  be  willing  to  de- 
clare on  guess  that  she  does   not  like   it. 

Miss  Kulp  and  Messrs.  Hitchcock  (he  of  the 
voice  like  Edward  Morgan's),  Allen,  and 
Mackay  all  played  their  slighter  parts  with 
enough  care  and  consistency  to  give  them 
reality,  and  the  presentation  generally  was 
satisfactory. 

The  play  offers  opportunities  for  settings 
that  express  the  quaintly  formal  tastes  of 
the  period.  In  particular,  the  living-room  of 
the  parson,  with  its  high-backed  settee,  its  por- 
traits of  rigid  divines,  and  its  small-paned 
window,  simply  draped  and  set  with  flowering 
plants,  all  presided  over  by  its  daintily  austere 
mistress,  was  a  model  of  the  prim  comfort 
that  was  good  enough  for  a  colonial  clergy- 
man two  hundred  years  ago. 

Josephine  Hart   Phelps. 


Edmond  Rostand  is  just  now  enjoying  the 
rare  experience  of  protesting  against  himself 
and  of  proceeding  by  way  of  injunction  to  his 
own  repression.  In  1888  he  offered  to  the 
Cluny  Theatre  a  piece  entitled  "  The  Red 
Glove,"  which  was  accepted  on  condition  that 
M.  Marot  should  revise  it,  which  he  did,  and 
it  was  then  played  seventeen  times.  ■  Since 
then  "  The  Red  Glove  "  has  been  shelved,  but 
things  have  changed  somewhat  with  M.  Ros- 
tand, and  the  manager  of  the  Cluny,  despite 
the  protest  of  the  dramatist,  proclaims  his  pur 
pose  again  to  produce  it,  with  M.  Marot  billed 
as  joint  author.  M.  Rostand  has  protested  and 
asks  for  an  injunction. 


Eng  Hok  Fong.  president  and  general  man- 
ager '  of  the  China  Commercial  Steamship 
Company,  which  recently  established  a  line 
of  steamships  between  Hong  Kong,  Mexico, 
and  this  port,  says  that  two  more  vessels 
are  to  be  added  to  the  fleet  of  four  steamships 
which  are  now  competing  with  the  Pacific 
Mail    Steamship    Company's    line. 


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seasons.  As  a  general  household  milk  it  is  superior 
and  is  always  available. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Richard  Harding  Davis's  Modern  Comedy. 
The  second  week  of  the  Miller-Anglin  com- 
pany's engagement  at  the  Columbia  Theatre 
is  to  be  devoted  to  the  first  production  here 
of  Richard  Harding  Davis's  first  play,  "  The 
Taming  of  Helen."  which  is  an  expansion  of 
the  popular  author's  short  story,  "  The  Lion 
and  the  Unicorn."  The  comedy  is  in  three 
acts,  and  deals  with  the  trials  of  Philip  Car- 
roll, a  young  American  playwright,  who  goes 
to  London  to  sell  a  play  and  win  the  pirl  he 
loves.  Helen  Cabot,  this  American  girl,  has 
been  taught  to  call  him  "  Uncle  Phil."  Sud- 
denly she  inherits  a  great  fortune,  and  is  sent 
abroad  to  finish  her  education  by  tour,  under 
the  chaperonage  of  Lady  Gower.  When  next 
Philip  sees  Helen  she  has  changed.  She  is 
temporarily  fascinated  by  the  attentions  of 
the  Marquis  of  Woodcote,  and  treats  Philip 
coldly.  He  tells  her  that  he  will  never  breathe 
another  word  of  love  until  she  comes  to  him 
and  says  that  she  loves  him.  In  a  short  time. 
Helen  begins  to  grow  jealous  of  Marion  Caven- 
dish, an  actress  who  has  taken  an  interest  in 
Phil's  play,  and  in  the  second  act,  at  a  ball 
at  Lady  Gower's,  sees  them  under  conditions 
which  seem  to  her  to  imply  an  engagement. 
In  pique,  she  tells  Phil  that  she  has  promised 
to  marry  Lord  Woodcote.  Philip's  new  play 
has  just  been  accepted  by  Sir  Charles  Wim- 
pole.  the  great  actor-baronet,  so  he  is,  of 
course,  plunged  suddenly  from  the  heights  of 
joy  into  the  depths  of  despair.  In  the  last 
act.  when  the  play  is  produced  and  scores  a 
success,  Helen  meekly  confesses  her  love  for 
Philip.  The  reconciliation  is  brought  about 
by  Marion  who,  clad  in  a  court  costume  of 
blue  satin,  leaves  the  theatre  to  bring  Helen 
back  from  the  railway  station.  Marion  nearly 
spoils  Phil's  play  by  so  doing,  but.  after  an  ex- 
citing fifteen  minutes,  returns  just  in  time 
to  pull  it  out.  Miss  Anglin  will  appear  as 
Marion  Cavendish,  leading  lady  of  the  Im- 
perial Theatre,  London ;  Henry  Miller  as 
Philip  Carroll,  the  struggling  author  ;  George 
S.  Titheradge  as  Sir  Charles  Wimpole  ;  Walter 
Allen  as  the  Duke  of  Deptford  ;  Morton  Selten 
as  Captain  the  Hon.  Reginald  Herbert;  Walter 
Hitchcock  as  the  Marquis  of  Woodcote : 
Martha  Waldron  as  Helen  Cabot ;  Victoria 
Addison  as  Mrs.  Evian ;  and  Kate  Pattison 
Selten  as  Lady  Gower. 

Jones's  "  Mrs.  Dane's  Defense." 
"  Shenandoah  "  will  give  way  at  the  Cali- 
fornia Theatre  next  week  to  Henry  Arthur 
Jones's  brilliant  society  play,  "  Mrs.  Dane's 
Defense,"  which  was  produced  here  by  the 
Empire  Theatre  Company  in  the  fall  of  1891. 
It  is  in  four  acts,  and  deals  with  the  fortunes 
of  a  young  woman  who,  as  Mrs.  Dane,  takes 
up  her  residence  in  a  very  exclusive  com- 
munity near  London,  where  the  adopted  son 
of  Sir  Daniel  Carteret,  a  famous  jurist,  falls 
in  love  with  her.  By  accident,  one  day  she 
is  recognized  as  a  young  woman  who.  while 
governess  in  a  family,  had  become  involved 
in  a  flirtation  with  the  master  of  the  house, 
which  led  to  the  suicide  of  the  wife.  Mrs. 
Dane  denies  the  charge,  and  Sir  Daniel,  on 
account  of  his  son,  takes  up  the  case,  bent  on 
removing  the  stigma  from  her  name.  Eut  his 
well-intended  efforts  ultimately  lead  to  her 
destruction,  for  in  searching  for  proof,  he 
finds  evidence  which  forces  her  to  confess  her 
identity.  Lillian  Kemble  will  play  the  part 
of  Mrs.  Dane,  first  impersonated  here  by  Miss 
Anglin.  and  Frank  McVicars  will  succeed 
Charles  Richman  as  the  lawyer. 


Last  "Week  of  "in  Harvard"  at  the  Grand. 
"In  Harvard"  is  so  popular  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  that  it  will  be  continued  another 
week,  when  the  present  company's  season  will 
terminate.  To-night  (Saturday)  will  be  uni- 
versity night,  and  special  features  suitable  to 
the  occasion  will  be  introduced  by  Raymond 
and  Caverly.  Cheridah  Simpson.  Anna  Wilks. 
Louise  Moore,  Julie  Cotte.  Winifred  St.  L. 
Gordon,  Agnes  Williams,  Harold  Crane,  Budd 
Ross,  William  Gleason,  John  World,  and 
Robert  Warwick.  Too  much  can  not  be  said 
in  favor  of  the  chorus,  who  are  the  life  and 
soul  of  the  performance,  and  who  make  an 
immense  hit  in  the  campus  scene,  where, 
arrayed  in' the  colors  of  the  different  universi- 
ties, they  sing  the  college  songs  and  give  the 
college  yells  in  a  manner  that  wins  much  ap- 
plause. Sunday,  August  30th,  the  Pollard 
Lilliputian  Comic  Opera  Company  will  begin 
an  engagement,  with  a  repertoire  that  will  in- 
clude several  of  the  latest  comic-opera  suc- 
cesses. 


The  Alcazar's  Successful  Comedy. 
The  charming  rural  play,  "  The  Dairy 
Farm,"  is  to  be  continued  for  one  more  week 
at  the  Alcazar.  It  is  a  wholesome  comedy, 
full  of  human  interest,  and  bubbling  over 
with  quaint  humor.  Belasco  &  Mayer  have 
given  the  play  a  fine  cast  and  setting,  and  will 
EUmbtless  be  well  repaid  when  "  The  Dairy 
Farm  "  is  sent  on  its  prolonged  tour  through 
all  territory  west  of  Denver.  The  demand 
for  seats  for  all  the  regular  Alcazar  per- 
formances of  ''  The  Dairy  Farm  "  is  so  great 
that  an  extra  matinee  will  be  given  next 
Sunday.  Florence  Roberts  will  begin  htr 
annual  engagement  on  August  31st  in  the  first 
San  Francisco  production  of  Mrs.  Eurton 
Harrison's  society  play,  "  The  Unwelcome 
Mrs.  Hatch."  which  was  presented  in  New 
York  by    Minnie   Maddern   Fiske. 


At  Fischer's  Theatre. 
"  Quo  Vass  Iss "  and  "  The  Big  Little 
Princess  "  are  doing  well  at  Fischer's  Theatre. 
Both  burlesques  are  clean,  full  of  fun,  and  the 
scenery  and  costumes  have  never  been  excelled 
at   Fischer's.  All  the  principals   score  heavily 


with  their  catchy  new  songs,  especially  Win- 
field  Blake,  who  continues  to  make  a  hit  with 
his  "  Etiquette  "  ;  Maude  Amber  with  "  De 
Bugaboo  Man,"  Eleanor  Jenkins  with 
"  There's  Nobody  Just  Like  You,"  and  Barney 
Bernard  with  "  Mrs.  Pinchin's  Boarding- 
School."  "  The  Corn-Curers."  a  travesty  on 
Paul  Potter's  French  adaptation.  "  The  Con- 
querors." and  a  hilarious  burlesque  called 
"  The  Glad  Hand,"  will  be  the  next  double 
bill  at  Fischer's. 


"Camille"  at  the  Central. 
The  Central  Theatre  is  to  give  an  elaborate 
revival  of  "  Camille  "  next  week,  with  Eugenie 
Thais  Lawton  in  the  title-role.  Hersche! 
Mayall  will  be  the  Armand.  George  P.  Webster 
the  elder  Duval,  and  Henry  Shumer  the 
Count  de  Varville.  The  minor  roles  will  be 
entrusted  to  Edwin  T.  Emery,  Millar  Bacon. 
Elmer  Booth,  Georgie  Woodtbrope,  Myrtle 
Vane,  Nina  Cook,  and  Genevieve  Kane.  Some 
beautiful  costumes  will  be  worn,  and  the  five 
scenes,  which  have  been  called  "  The  Supper 
Scene."  "  The  Pledge  of  Love,"  "  The  Sacri- 
fice," "  The  Fete."  and  "  The  Eleventh  Hour," 
will   be  beautifully   staged  and   costumed. 


Sixth  Week  of  The  Highwayman  " 
On  Monday  night,  Camille  d'Arville  enters 
on  her  sixth  and  last  week  at  the  Tivoli  Opera 
House  in  "  The  Highwayman."  Then  comes 
the  grand-opera  season,  which  promises  to 
be  the  most  successful  in  the  history  of  the 
house.  Tina  de  Spada,  Giuseppe  Agostini, 
and  Augusto  Dado  will  again  return,  and 
among  the  promising  new  singers  who  have 
been  engaged  are  Lina  de  Benedetto,  a  dra- 
matic soprano  ;  Adelina  Tromben.  who  will  be 
heard  in  the  lighter  operas ;  Cloe  Mar- 
chesini.  one  of  the  most  popular  contraltos 
of  Italy,  who  is  said  to  be  a  particularly  fine 
Carmen ;  Emanuele  Ischierdo.  the  dramatic 
tenor,  who  has  made  his  greatest  success  in 
•"  Aida."  "  Otello."  "  Gioconda,"  "  Andre 
Chenier,"  "  Trovatore."  and  "  I'Pagliacci,"  in 
all  of  which  he  will  be  heard ;  Alfredo 
Tedeschi.  one  of  the  youngest  tenors  in  Italy, 
who  made  his  debut  but  three  years  ago; 
Adamo  Gregoretti.  a  baritone,  who  is  a 
great  La  Scala  favorite ;  Giuseppe  Zanini. 
who  will  alternate  with  Gregoretti.  and  sing 
in  the  lighter  operas ;  and  Baldo  Travaglini. 
the  basso,  who  sang  here  with  the  Lombardi 
Opera  Company  four  years  ago.  The  sale 
of  seats  will  begin  on  Monday. 

At  the  Orpheum. 
Edwin  Keough  and  Dorothy  Ballard  will 
make  their  first  appearance  in  this  city  a!. 
the  Orpheum  next  week  in  a  comedietta  called 
"A  Vaudeville  Surprise."  in  one  scene  of 
which  they  will  give  the  proposal  scene  from 
"  Ingomar."  Among  the  other  new-comers 
are  the  Fleury  trio  of  novelty  dancers ;  Sam 
Edwards — for  many  years  a  prominent  mem- 
ber of  the  Frohman  forces — in  a  skit  called 
"  A  Pass  for  Two  "  ;  John  Larkins  and  Dora 
Patterson,  "  national  singers  of  coon  songs  "  ; 
and  James  Roberti.  an  operatic  basso,  and 
Arnold  Billoski.  lyric  tenor,  who  will  be  heard 
in  solos  and  duets.  Rosie  Rendel  will  continue 
her  series  of  transformation  dances,  and  others 
retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  Heeley  and 
Meely.  grotesque  acrobats:  John  LeClair.  the 
refined  comedy  juggler;  and  Lew  Hawkins. 
"  the  Chesterfield  of  minstrelsy." 

Greenbaum's  New  Concert-Hall. 
Manager  Will  Gre'enbaum  has  leased  the  old 
B'nia  B'rith  Hall,  on  Eddy  Street,  adjoining 
the  new  Tivoli  Opera  House,  and  workmen 
have  been  for  the  past  three  months  trans- 
forming it  into  a  handsome  concert-hall.  The 
location  is  an  ideal  one.  being  close  to  Market 
Street,  and  near  all  the  popular  cafes,  and  is 
particularly  convenient  to  car  lines  from  all 
parts  of  the  city.  The  main  entrance  of  Lyric 
Hall  is  decorated  with  Spanish  antique  leather 
effect,  and  the  ceiling  and  frieze  in  raised 
fresco  work.  The  woodwork  is  in  Flemish  oak 
throughout  the  lobby  and  foyer,  and  the  floors 
are  inlaid  tiling  and  hard  wood.  The  foyer  is 
decorated  in  gold  colors,  with  a  beautiful 
chandelier  in  the  centre,  and  carpeted  in  a 
rich  red  velvet.  Settees,  palms,  and  easy- 
chairs  fill  the  corners,  making  it  a  pleasant 
waiting  or  reception  hall.  To  the  left  of  this 
foyer  are  the  ladies'  parlors,  handsomely  fur- 
nished, and  with  cloak-rooms  and  lavatory.  At 
the  right  of  the  foyer  is  the  smoking-room 
and    cafe,    elaborately    fitted    in    golden    oak. 


The  main  hall  is  separated  from  the  foyer 
by  muffled  swinging  doors,  so  that  no  noises 
from  the  street  can  reach  the  room.  The  ceil- 
ings and  walls  are  decorated  in  light  green, 
cream,  and  gold,  the  ornamentation  being  in 
hand-modeled  stucco  work.  The  windows  are 
draped  with  dark-red  silk,  while  the  balcony 
rail  is  of  gilt  open  design,  behind  which  is 
stretched  red  satin,  the  whole  forming  a  most 
charming  color  scheme.  The  hall  is  lighted 
by  nearly  three  hundred  incandescent  lights. 
The  opening  attraction  will  be  the  morality 
play.  "  Everyman."  under  the  management  of 
Charles  Frohman,  and  produced  with  the  orig- 
inal London  company,  under  the  personal  di- 
rection of  Ben  Greet.  The  first  performance 
will  be  given  on  Wednesday  evening,  Sep- 
tember 2d,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Channing 
Auxiliary.  The  sale  of  seats  will  begin  on 
Wednesday  morning  at  Sherman,  Clay  & 
Co.'s. 


Dr.  Tyndall's  Lectures. 
On  Sunday  night.  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  will 
give  another  of  his  interesting  lectures  on 
practical  psychology  at  Steinway  Hall.  His 
subject  will  be  "What  is  Thought?"  There 
will  also  be  further  demonstrations  of  the 
wonders  of  telepathy,  thought-transference, 
and  the  various  manifestations  of  the  sub- 
conscious mind.  The  lecture  last  Sunday  on 
"  The  Mastery  of  Fate  "  was  particularly  in- 
teresting. Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  brought  out 
the  point  that  because  a  person  is  born  with 
inherited  vices  or  virtues,  it  does  not  follow 
that  he  must  remain  so.  He  can  make  or  mar 
his  "  fate,"  as  we  call  it.  by  the  thoughts  he 
entertains,  which  inevitably  become  a  p'art  of 
himself.  The  following  Sunday  night,  August 
30th,  his  subject  will  be  "  How  to  Read 
Thought." 

An  amended  complaint  has  been  filed  in 
the  suit  brought  by  E.  Clemens  Horst  against 
the  Howard  Company  and  Balfour,  Guthrie  & 
Co.  Horst  avers  that  he  was  defrauded  out 
of  barley  valued  at  $4,450  by  false  weights  be- 
ing used.  He  asks  for  judgment  for  $6,093.73 
in  all.  Horst  names  as  individual  members 
of  the  firm  of  Balfour,  Guthrie  &  Co.,  Robert 
Balfour,  Alexander  Guthrie,  Robert  B.  For- 
man.  Alexander  B.  Williamson.  Robert  Bruce. 
Walter  J.  Burns,  Alexander  Baillie,  James  B. 
Fortune,'  Archibald  Williamson.  Charles  J. 
Williamson.  John  Lawson.  and  Thomas  Binny. 
He  says  that  they  own  fifty-five  per  cent,  of 
the  capital  stock  of  the  Howard  Company,  and 
that  in  1902  he  stored  at  the  Howard  Com- 
pany's warehouse  88,136  sacks  of  barley,  out 
of  which  the  company  took  302,306  pounds. 

The  annual  report  of  the  public  library  trus- 
tees, which  has  just  been  filed,  shows  that 
there  was  a  balance  at  the  beginning  of  the 
fiscal  year  of  $8,127.21,  and  that  the  receipts 
amounted  to  $66,095.92,  making  a  total  for 
the  year  of  $74,223^13.  The  disbursements 
amounted  to  $66,142.67,  leaving  a  balance  of 
§S. 080.46.  The  principal  expenses  were: 
Books  and  periodicals.  $11,333.15:  binding, 
$3,828.58 ;  salaries.  $38,368.65 ;  new  elevator, 
$2,160;  new  building  for  branch  No.  6, 
$2,783.60.  Fines  collected  amounted  to 
$2,617.90.  There  were  792,209  books  taken 
out,  and  there  are  150.S84  books  in  the  main 
library  and  its  branches.  For  library  use, 
-5°-373  books  were  used.  There  are  38,630 
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August  24,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 

The  marriage  of  Mrs.  Anna  Agnew  Davis, 
widow  of  Senator  Cushman  K.  Davis,  of 
Minnesota,  to  Hunter  Doll,  of  Knoxville. 
Tenn..  recalls  the  bitter  struggle  which  Mrs. 
Davis  made  for  social  recognition  in  Wash- 
ington. D.  C. — a  conflict  in  which  Presidents, 
embassadors,  senators,  and  all  grades  of  of- 
ficials and  their  wives  became  involved.  In 
St.  Paul,  in  1S9S,  when  she  was  a  plain  seam- 
stress, Anna  Agnew  was  engaged  in  the 
Davis  household.  She  had  been  the  child- 
wife  of  a  printer  named  Evans,  but  had  se- 
cured a  divorce.  Miss  Agnew  was  a  very 
beautiful  woman,  who  had  to  work  for  a 
living,  and  was  not  too  proud  to  do  it.  About 
this  time,  unpleasant  bickerings  occurred 
in  the  Davis  house.  Governor  and  Mrs. 
Davis  could  not  agree.  Then  came  a  sep- 
aration and  a  divorce.  Mrs.  Davis  went  to 
Kansas  to  live.  She  had  been  gone  only  a 
year  when  Miss  Agnew  became  Mrs.  Davis 
No.  2.  This  made  a  great  sensation  in  St.  Paul 
society,  and  as  Mrs.  Merriam,  the  leader  in  the 
social  world  in  the  North-West,  sympathized 
with  the  first  Mr*.  Davis,  and  blamed  Miss 
Agnew  for  the  estrangement,  she  was  promptly 
cut  by  the  smart  set.  Even  after  Mr.  Davis 
had  become  senator.  St.  Paul  society  refused 
to  unbend,  and  when  the  senator  brought 
his  beautiful  wife  to  Washington,  society 
at  the  national  capital  wore  for  her  its  most 
frigid  air.  Senator  Davis  was  genuinely  fond 
of  his  wife,  and  abhorred  society.  He 
almost  never  went  anywhere.  Even  dinners 
he  could  not  brook.  He  gave  his  wife  a 
beautiful  house,  gowns  for  her  regal  figure, 
money  for  entertaining,  but  he  would  not  go 
out  with  her.  He  loved  to  sit  at  home  in  his 
library  night  after  night  smoking  cigars  by 
the  dozen,  while  his  handsome  wife  was 
courageously  fighting  her  battle  for  social 
recognition. 


According  to  Walter  Wellman.  one  of  the 
most  drastic  incidents  of  Mrs.  Davis's  long 
struggle  occurred  during  the  Harrison  admin- 
istration. Mr.  Davis  had  only  a  short  time 
before  taken  his  seat  in  the  Senate.  The 
wives  of  other  senators,  trampling  under- 
foot the  rules  of  social  intercourse  which 
have  obtained  since  our  republican  court  was 
founded,  refused  to  make  the  first  call  upon 
the  wife  of  the  new  senator  from  Minnesota. 
Mrs.  Davis  had  her  Thursday  afternoon  re- 
ceptions, as  did  the  wives  of  other  senators, 
and  her  small  circle  of  devoted  friends  at- 
tended. But  the  senatorial  circle  was  con- 
spicuous by  its  persistent  absence.  At  length. 
Mrs.  Davis  decided  to  make  one  bold  step 
for  recognition.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wanamaker 
were  giving  a  reception.  All  Washington  so- 
ciety was  there,  and  Mrs.  Davis  came  in  her 
magnificent  carriage,  alone.  When  she  was 
announced  upon  her  entry  to  the  principal 
drawing-room  the  assembled  fashionables 
looked  at  one  another,  and  shrugged  their 
shoulders.  Instinctively,  the  women  drew 
their  escorts  to  the  farther  borders  of  the 
apartment,  and  stood  facing  the  door.  When 
Mrs.  Davis  — ■  tall,  beautifully  attired,  dia- 
monds in  her  hair,  her  statuesque  figure  ap- 
pearing to  fine  advantage,  and  a  smile  of 
hope  and  confidence  upon  her  face — advanced 
a  few  steps  into  the  room  she  was  met  by  an 
icy  stare  from  a  hundred  men  and  women, 
ranged  in  long  lines  about  her.  She  took 
another  step  or  two.  and  still  no  one  advanced 
to  greet  her,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wanamaker  chanc- 
ing at  that  moment  to  be  in  the  other  draw- 
ing-room. There  was  no  welcome  save  the 
freezing  stare  of  the  throng,  over  which  a 
silence  had  spread  as  they  gazed  upon  the 
woman  in  the  centre  of  the  room  as  if  she 
were  a  wild  animal  from  the  jungle.  In  a 
few  moments  the  smile  left  Mrs.  Davis's  face. 
As  she  fully  comprehended  the  crushing  na- 
ture of  the  snub  which  Washington  society 
was  administering  to  her,  a  deathly  pallor 
overspread  her  countenance.  She  looked  as  if 
she  were  about  to  faint.  At  this  juncture. 
Firsl  Assistant  Postmaster-General  Clarkson 
and  his  wife  happened  to  enter  the  drawing- 
room.      They    undersl 1    the    situation    in    a 

moment.  Advancing  tn  the  centre  of  the  room, 
they  greeted  Mrs.  Davis  warmly.  Mr.  Clark- 
50n  gave  her  his  arm,  and  led  her  to  the  other 
dmwing-room.  and  presented  her  to  the  host 
and  hostess.  I  hey  introduced  her  to  many 
friends,  and  if  defeat  was  not  instantly  con- 
MTttd  into  triumph,  the  bitterness  of  the 
first  few  moments  was  at  least  assuaged  by  a 
fair  share  of  civil  attention  upon  the  part 
ol    many  gentlemen   and   a   few  ladies. 


Senate,  and  the  esteem  of  the  public  gen- 
erally, helped  her  very 'much.  His  place  was 
so  high  that  people  could  not  go  on  forever 
ignoring  her.  When  Mr.  Davis  became  chair- 
man of  the  Senate  Committee  on  Foreign 
Relations,  her  success  was  assured.  She  was 
received  everywhere,  and  the  wives  of  other 
senators  called  on  her.  It  can  not  be  said 
that  she  was  ever  cordially  welcomed,  or  that 
she  became  an  active  and  integral  part  of 
the  social  circle.  But  all  that  form  demanded 
was  accorded  her.  Her  greatest  triumph  came 
when  Mr.  Davis  was  appointed  a  member  of 
the  Paris  Peace  Commission  by  President 
McKinley.  The  wives  of  other  members  of 
the  commission  hesitated  whether  or  not  they 
should  accompany  their  husbands  to  Paris 
on  this  mission.  They  did  not  want  to  be 
compelled  to  associate  so  intimately  with 
Mrs.  Davis.  But  the  desire  to  visit  the 
French  capital  under  such  favorable  auspices 
overcame  their  reluctance  in  every  instance. 
All  went,  and  Mrs.  Davis  set  out  to  win  their 
approval,  if  not  their  affection.  She  had  a 
royal  time  in  Paris,  was  voted  one  of  the 
most  strikingly  beautiful  women  America  had 
ever  sent  to  the  other  side,  and  even  her 
women  companions  from  the  United  States 
had  little  fault  to  find  with  her  on  their  re- 
turn-. Just  as  Mrs.  Davis  had  virtually  won 
her  battle,  Mr.  Davis  fell  ill  and  died.  With 
her  famous  husband  gone,  of  course  Mrs. 
Davis  no  longer  had  high  social  rank.  Her 
few  friends  rallied  round  her,  and  she  never 
lacked  for  company.  But  high  society  again 
held  aloof.  Now  she  makes  a  new  bid  for 
happiness  by  marrying  a  man  fifteen  years  her 
junior — a  fine-looking,  athletic  young  man, 
who  served  through  the  Spanish  war  as  a 
volunteer  in  Cuba,  who  has  a  fair  social  posi- 
tion in  Knoxville,  and  apparently  plenty  of 
money. 

A  mortgage  of  three  thousand  dollars  upon 
the  First  Baptist  Church,  of  Mason,  Mo., 
was  publicly  burned  last  week  at  a 
jubilee  service.  Nearly  all  the  money 
was  raised  by  the  women  of  the  church, 
who  originated  all  sorts  of  clever  schemes 
to  secure  the  necessary  money.  For  example. 
a  volume  was  published,  in  which  every  real 
or  fancied  poet  or  prose  writer  could  have 
his  production  handsomely  printed,  just  as 
written,  at  ten  cents  a  line.  The  book  was 
a  dazzling  financial  success,  even  if  some 
of  the  contributions  could  hardly  be  called 
verse  or  prose.  Everybody  in  town  took  a 
copy,  and  some  of  the  amateur  authors  bought 
several  copies  to  send  to  their  friends  in 
other  towns.  Another  idea  that  was  developed 
to  a  profitable  point  was  the  manufacture  of 
rugs  or  mats  from  corn  husks.  This  was 
suggested  by  Mrs.  C.  R.  Haverly,  who  re- 
membered how  her  mother  used  to  make  such 
articles  for  the  log-cabin  home  in  the  pioneer 
days.  In  the  early  fall,  the  women  of  the 
church  drove  out  to  a  farm-house,  and  asked 
the  owner  for  the  husks  they  would  strip 
from  his  corn.  It  was  a  stupid  farmer  who 
wouldn't  jump  at  a  proposition  to  get  his  corn 
shucked  free.  The  husks  were  brought  to 
town,  and  under  Mrs.  Haverly's  directions 
white  hands  wrought  skillful  shapes  for  muddy 
feet.  The  mats  sold  readily  at  from  fifty 
cents  to  one  dollar  apiece. 


After  this.   Mrs.   Davis  persisted   in   her  cf- 

>rts    to    secure    rt  i  <      litinn.    She    bore    herself 

'ith    grace   and   tad     and    little    by    little   so-  j 

* ■  iy  unbent.     Her  husband's  rapid  rise  in  the 


One  of  the  most  striking  features  which 
have  been  disclosed  by  the  Philippine  census. 
which  has  just  been  completed,  is  the  longevity 
of  the  Filipino  people,  despite  the  many  epi- 
demics which  have  prevailed  in  the  Philip- 
pines. The  examination  of  a  schedule  from 
Laguna  province  disclosed  an  old  fellow  who 
claimed  "  six  score  and  ten "  as  the  length 
of  his  existence.  Considerable  interest  was 
also  aroused  among  the  census-takers  when 
an  old  woman  laid  claim  to  140  years.  The 
clerks  were  then  instructed  to  make  note 
of  all  who  had  given  their  age  at  over  100 
years.  There  were  a  surprisingly  large  num- 
ber of  these,  but  the  record  for  age  had  by 
no  means  been  established.  Batangas  prov- 
ince came  to  the  front  with  an  old  lady  who 
boasted  of  150  summers.  Laguna  province 
at  once  returned  to  the  charge  with  a  little 
brown  brother  who  modestly  claimed  he  first 
saw  the  light  of  day  just  170  rainy  seasons 
back.  Director  of  the  Philippine  Census  Sanger 
and  Ids  assistants  think  it  hardly  probable 
that  these  ages  can  be  correct,  and  an  ef- 
fort will  be  made  to  prove  them  by  an  ex- 
amination of  the  church  records  of  the  mu- 
nicipality in  which  the  persons  were  born. 
It  is  said  that  one  old  man  claimed  to  be 
120  or  130  years  of  age.  Upon  investigation 
of  the  records  of  the  census  ten  years  before 
it  was  found  that  he  had  aged  fifteen  years 
in  ten  years.  The  several  census  returns 
for  siill  earlier  years  proved  that  the  old 
gentleman  had  been  adding  fifteen  and  twenty 


years   to  his  age  for  every  ten  years  actually 
lived. 

The  official  list  of  those  asked  to  the  recent 
ball  given  by  the  Prince  and  Princess  of  Wales 
at  Marlborough  House  is  curious  reading, 
as  it  shows  just  whom  the  prince  and  princess 
consider  to  be  in  society,  and  the  others  of 
whom  they  are  supposed  to  have  heard  noth- 
ing. In  a  way,  they  have  discriminated 
against  the  newly  arrived  Americans  whose 
entertainments  have  recently  been  so  much 
exploited  in  the  cable  dispatches.  Also 
the  rather  rapid  set  in  London  society 
was  conspicuous  by  its  absence.  There 
were  about  fifteen  hundred  invitations, 
and  a  temporary  ball-room  was  built,  and 
supper  was  served  at  small  tables.  These 
two  latter  features  were  comparative  novelties 
at  royal  entertainments.  Among  the  Ameri- 
cans invited  were  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough, 
Consuelo,  Duchess  of  Manchester,  and  her 
sister,  Miss  Yznaga,  but  not  the  present  duke 
and  his  duchess  (nee  Zimmermann)  ;  Embas- 
sador Choate,  Mrs.  Choate,  and  Miss  Choate. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  White  and  Miss  Muriel 
White,  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Vivian,  Lady 
Ancaster,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cavendish  Bentinck 
and  the  Misses  Cavendish  Bentinck,  Lady 
Naylor-Leyland,  Major-General  and  Mrs. 
Arthur  Paget,  Miss  Paget,  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Arthur  Pakenham.  Miss  B.  Endicott.  Colonel 
and  Mrs.  Cornwallis  West,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  West,  and  Viscount  and  Viscountess 
Deerhurst. 


As  the  result  of  a  vigorous  protest  against 
the  methods  pursued  by  customs-officers  at 
Honolulu,  the  Assistant  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  has  cabled  the  collector  of  the  Port 
at  Honolulu  to  suspend  examination,  except 
of  such  goods  and  persons  as  are  actually 
put  ashore,  until  further  notice,  pending  in- 
vestigation by  the  Department. 


Nelson's  A  my  cose. 

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SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander    G.    McAdie, 
District   Forecaster. 


Max. 
Tern. 

August  13th 5S 

14th 62 

15th 64 

16th 76 

17th 72 

iSth 64 

19th 62 


A  fin. 
Tern. 


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STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


The  other  day  a  small  boy,  aged  four,  was 
alternately  beating  a  rug  with  all  his  might, 
and  looking  up  at  the  sky  with  rapt  attention. 
"What  are  you  doing,  Charles?"  his  mother 
said.  "  Oh,  I'm  just  sending  up  some  dust  to 
God,  so  he  can  make  some  new  people!"  was 
the  reply. 

Henry  Labouchere  was  once  asked  what  he 
called  the  Prince  of  Wales — now  King  Ed- 
ward— when  he  dined  at  Marlborough  House. 
"  Well,"  said  Labby,  "  when  the  soup  comes 
on  I  address  him  as  '  Your  Royal  Highness.' 
The  fish  often  softens  the  reserve,  and  I  get  a 
little  chummier,  and  often  as  not  I  call  him 
'  Wales,'  while  during  the  entrees  and  joints  I 
get  quite  familiar,  and  he  becomes  '  Eddie,' 
while  he  slaps  me  on  the  back,  and  dubs  me 
•  Labby  ' !" 


Hetty  Green  has  probably  figured  in  more 
lawsuits  than  any  other  wealthy  woman  in 
the  United  States,  and  she  has  learned  to  de- 
spise all  lawyers.  The  other  day,  she  was 
brought  to  court  on  complaint  of  not  having 
a  license  for  her  dog  Dewey.  ''  I've  got  a 
N"eu  York  license  for  the  dog,"  she  said ; 
"  aint  that  enough?"  "  No,  you  must  have  a 
Jersey  license."  Must  I?"  she  replied,  in  dis- 
gust ;  "  well,  it's  mighty  extravagant ;  but  a 
dog's  worth  mor'n  a  lawyer,  anyhow ;  barks 
louder  for  you,  and  don't  cost  near  so  much." 

Dr.  Gillespie,  the  present  Moderator  of  the 
Church  of  Scotland,  tells  how  he  was  non- 
plussed, the  other  day,  by  a  ragged  urchin 
who  declared  he  was  alone  in  the  world,  his 
father  and  mother  having  died  some  years 
ago.  "  Have  you  not  a  sister,  then?"  asked 
Dr.  Gillespie.  "  I  niver  had  yin."  "  But 
surely  you  have  a  brother?"  "Yes,  but  he's 
at  Glasa  College."  "  Well,  can  not  he  spare 
some  time  from  his  studies  to  look  after  you 
a  bit?"  "  Na,  sir,"  replied  the  urchin,  mourn- 
fully, "  for  he  was  born  wi*  two  heids,  and 
they  keep  him  in  a  bottle." 

Once,  when  the  late  President  Faure  was 
being  escorted  through  the  Paris  Salon  by 
an  artist  of  note,  on  the  opening  day,  he 
caught  sight  of. a  picture  that  struck  him  as 
safe  to  criticise.  To  his  dismay  he  found 
that  the  author  of  the  "  machin  "  which  had 
excited  his  amusement  was  his  worthy  guide. 
Turning  to  the  mortified  painter,  he  said : 
"  You  know  how  it  is;  the  buyer  always  runs 
down  the  thing  he  has  set  his  heart  on.  The 
fact  is,  I  want  jhat  picture  for  the  Palais  de 
1'Elysee !"  And,  as  good  as  his  word,  the 
president  bought  the  picture  next  day. 

Two  Highlanders,  being  in  Glasgow  for  the 
first  time,  were  having  a  walk  through  the 
city.  Turning  a  corner,  they  were  much 
surprised  to  see  a  water-cart  wetting  the  street. 
Not  having  seen  anything  of  the  kind  before, 
Tougal,  under  a  mistaken  idea,  ran  after  the 
cart,  and  cried  to  the  driver :  "  Hey,  man — 
hey,  man,  yer  losin'  a'  yer  water !"  His 
friend,  annoyed  at  Tougal's  want  of  knowl- 
edge, ran  after  him,  caught  him  by  the  arm," 
and  said,  rather  testily :  "  Tougal,  man, 
Tougal,  dinna  be  showin'  yer  ignorance.  D'yer 
no  see  it's  to  keep  the  laddies  off  the  back  o' 
the  cairt?" 

When  Bret  Harte  was  connected  with  the 
Overland  Monthly,  an  unusually  destructive 
earthquake  visited  San  Francisco  and  its  im- 
mediate vicinity  in  October,  1868.  Five  per- 
sons were  killed  by  falling  cornices  and 
chimneys,  and  much  destruction  was  wrought 
in  many  parts  of  the  city.  As  soon  as  the 
first  panic  at  this  disturbance  had  subsided, 
and  while  lesser  shocks  were  still  quaking 
the  earth,  some  of  the  leading  business  men 
of  San  Francisco  organized  themselves  into 
a  sort  of  vigilance  committee,  and  visited  all 
the  newspaper  offices,  strictly  enjoined  that 
the  story  of  the  earthquake  be  treated  with 
conservatism  and  understatement — it  would 
injure  California  if  Eastern  people  were  fright- 
ened away  by  exaggerated  reports  of  el  temblor 
— and  a  similar  censorship  was  exercised  over 
the  press  dispatches  sent  out  from  San  Fran- 
cisco at  that  time  greatly  amused 
Bret  Harte,  who  a  r-v*:  Hooked  in  this 
supervision  of  I  /-.licence.  In  his 
"  Etc."  in  the  November  number  of  the 
Overland,  he  >r  ate  '  opic  jocularly,  say- 
ing that,  according  to  the  daily  papers,  the 
earthquake  .  iu!d  have  jjfTered  serious  dam- 
age if  the  p  ..  te  had  only  known  it  was  com- 
ing. Harte'  rue  pleasantry  excited  the 
wrath  if  the  solid  men  of  San 
Fra                11  i   when,   not   long  after   that,    it 


was  proposed  to  establish  a  chair  of  recent 
literature  in  the  University  of  California,  and 
invite  Bret  Harte  to  occupy  it,  one  of  the 
board  of  regents,  whose  word  was  a  power 
in  the  land,  temporarily  defeated  the  scheme 
by  swearing  roundly  that  a  man  who  had 
derided  the  dispute  between  the  earthquake 
and  the  newspapers  should  never  have  his 
support  for  a  professorship.  Subsequently, 
however,  this  difficulty  was  overcome,  and 
Harte  received  his  appointment. 


A  colored  preacher  recently  enlightened  his 
congregation  in  regard  to  the  conditions  ex- 
isting in  the  infernal  regions  in  the  following 
manner :  "  Brethren,  I  has  been  asked  how 
hot  is  hell,  an'  I  will  say.  after  givin'  de  sub- 
ject considerable  reflection,  dat  if  yo'  took  all 
de  wood  in  York  State  an'  all  de  coal  in 
Pennsylvania,  an'  all  de  oil  in  de  worl'  an'  set 
all  on  fire,  an'  den  took  a  man  out  ob  hell  an' 
put  him  in  dat  burnin'  mess,  he  would  freeze 
to  def  befo'  he  har'ly  lit.  Dat's  how  hot  is 
hell." 

When  Sir  Thomas  Lipton  arrived  in  New 
York  last  month,  he  received  a  letter  from  an 
Irishman  at  Tompkinsville  wishing  him  every 
success  with  the  Sltamrock  III.  This  Irish- 
man said  that  when  the  Sluimrock  I  arrived 
^t  New  York  in  1899  his  wife  presented  him 
with  a  son.  Two  years  later,  when  the  Sham- 
rock II  came  into  port  she  celebrated  the  oc- 
casion by  bringing  a  daughter  into  the  world, 
and  this  year  as  soon  as  the  Shamrock  III 
anchored  she  gave  birth  to  another  son.  The 
Irishman  hoped  that  Sir  Thomas  would  never 
have  to  come  again  after  the  cup,  because,  he 
said,  if  Lipton  did  he  would  be  busted.  Sir 
Thomas  sent  him  a  few  Shamrock  pins  for 
the  members  of  his  family,  and  when  he  wrote 
to  thank  him  for  them,  the  Irishman  said; 
"'  If  by  any  ill-fortune  you  should  not  win  the 
cup  this  year,  and  have  to  come  after  it  again, 
for  heaven's  sake  don't  bring  a  schooner." 


A  strange  story  comes  from  China  of  a  re- 
markable operation  for  appendicitis  performed 
by  Mrs.  William  H.  Logan,  wife  of  a  medical 
missionary  in  China.  When  living  in  the  far 
interior  of  that  vast  country,  eight  hundred 
miles  from  the  nearest  doctor,  her  husband 
was  stricken  with  appendicitis.  Dr.  Logan 
saw  that  his  only  chance  of  recovery  lay  in 
an  operation,  which  he  asked  his  wife  to  per- 
lorm  according  to  instructions  which  he  gave 
her.  A  more  appalling  position  tor  a  human 
being  to  be  placed  in  could  scarcely  be  im- 
agined; but  this  heroic  woman,  who  might, 
perhaps,  have  screamed  if  a  mouse  had  run 
over  her  feet,  placed  her  husband  under  an 
anesthetic,  and  with  her  unskilled  hand  suc- 
cessiully  removed  his  appendix.  Afterward, 
when  he  had  rallied  sufficiently  to  be  moved, 
she  took  him  eight  hundred  miles  by  wagon 
and  rail  to  a  physician,  who  completed  the 
cure. 


A  farmer  named  Ed  Armstrong  was  driving 
a  bunch  of  cattle  along  the  road,  near  Salinas, 
the  other  day,  when  a  couple  of  automobile 
enthusiasts  came  tearing  along  at  a  tremendous 
speed.  Armstrong  feared  that  his  cattle  would 
become  frightened  and  stampede,  so  he  held 
up  his  hand,  and  asked  the  automobiiists  to 
wait  until  he  could  get  his  herd  in  shape. 
The  men  only  laughed  at  him,  and  continued 
going  at  full  speed,  defying  Armstrong  to 
catch  them.  He  applied  the  spurs  to  his 
horse,  took  down  his  riata  from  the  saddle, 
and  was  swinging  the  loop  preparatory  to 
landing  it  over  their  heads,  when  the  courage 
of  the  occupants  of  the  car  waned,  and  the  ma- 
chine was  brought  to  a  sudden  stop.  The 
drivers  waited  patiently  while  the  cattle- 
man drove  his  herd  to  one  side  of  the  road, 
and,  after  thanking  them  kindly,  he  allowed 
them  to  pass,  without  even  so  much  as  re- 
ferring to  the  ugly  disposition  they  had  shown 
until  he  had  forced  them  to  wait. 


Notable  announcement :  We  have  invented  a 
combination  salad  dressing  and  hair  tonic 
which  lays  over  anything  that  ever  came  down 
the  pike.  It  will  cure  baldness,  and  it's  a  de- 
licious dressing  for  tomatoes,  lettuce,  and  cold 
meats.  Besides  that,  it  is  a  good  shoe-polish, 
and  will  remove  grease  spots  from  old  clothes, 
and  is  the  best  tooth-wash  we  ever  seen.  Our 
fortune  air  made. — Atlanta  Constitution. 


Moore's  Poisoii-Oak  Kemedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  unproved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Advice. 
Wen  you  full  of  worry 

'Bout  yo*  wo'k  an'  sich, 
W'en    you  kind  o'  bothered 

'Case  you  caint  get  rich. 
An'  yo'  neighboh  p'ospah 

Past  his  jest  desu'ts, 
An'  de  sneer  of  comer'ds 

Strikes  yo'  heaht  an'  hu'ts. 
Des'   don'  pet  yo'   worries. 

Lay  'em  on  de  she'f, 
Tek  a  little  trouble, 

Brothah,    wid  yo'se'f. 

Ef   a    frien'   comes   mou'nin* 

'Bout   his   awful   case. 
You  know  you  don'  jine  him 

Wid  a  gloomy  face, 
But  you  wrassle  wid  him. 

Try   to    take   him    in; 
Dough  hit  cracks  yo'  feachuhs. 

Law!  you  smite  lak  sin. 
Ain'  you  good  ez  he  is? 

Don*  you  pine  to  def; 
Tek    a    little    trouble, 

Brothah,    wid   yo'se'f. 

Ef   de   chillun    pestahs 

An'  de  baby's  bad, 
Ef   yo'    wife   gits   narvous 

An*  you's  gittin'  mad, 
Des  you  grab  yo*  bootstraps. 

Hoi"  yo'  body  down. 
Stop    a-t'inkin'    cusswo'ds, 

Chase    away    de    frown. 
Knock    de    haid    o'    worry 

Tweil   dey  ain'   none  lef* — 
Tek  a  little  trouble, 

Brothah,   wid  yo'se'f. 
—Paul   Laurence  Dunbar   in   the   Outlook. 


Two  Scenes. 
A  pretty  girl,  a  summer  night, 

A  moon  that's  growing  mellow, 
A   little  kiss,   a  solemn  vow, 

A    most    impassioned    fellow! 

Same  girl,  but  on  another  night. 

Another  moon,   still  mellow. 
Another   kiss,    another    vow, 

And  still  another   fellow! 
— La  Touche  Hancock  in  .Wa,-  York  Sun. 

Some  Strenuous  Lives. 
The   chauffeur   seorches    like   the    deuce. 
"  1  know  my  brakes,"  is  his  excuse. 
But  one  day  o'er  the  dash  he  goes. 
He  "knows  his  brakes"   and   breaks  his  nose! 

I  said  I  wished  that  every  crank 
In    town    were   made   to    walk    the   plank. 
My  wife  said:  "  Oh,  you  needn't  talk! 
the  copper  made  you  plank  the  walk!" 

He   trundles   oil   cans   round   the   room, 
And  oils  the  whee.s  of  every  loom. 
Oh.    what   a   ceaseless   round   of   toil! 
He  oils  the  wheels  and  wheels  the  oil! 

Captain  Wheeler  runs  a  cattle  boat, 
And    owns    the   cargo    that's    afloat. 
His   work   will   wear  him  out,   he   fears; 
He  steers   the   ship   and   ships   the   steers. 

— Chicago    Record-Herald. 

Seven  Ages  of  Graft. 
All    the    world    is   graft. 

And  all  the  men  and  women  merely  grafters. 
They  have  their  sure  things  and   their   bunco 

games, 
And  one  man  in  his  time  works  many  grafts, 
His    bluffs    being    seven    ages.      At    first    the 

infant 
Conning  his  dad  until  he  walks  the  floor; 
And    then    the    whining   schoolboy,    poring   o'er 

his   book, 
Jollying  bis   teacher   into   marking  him 
A   goodiy   grade.      And   then   the   lover, 
.Making  each  maiden  think  that  she 
Is  but   the  only  one.     And  then   the  soldier, 
l-'ull    of    strange     words    and     bearded    like    a 

pard. 
Seeking  the  bubble  reputation, 
Even  in  the  magazines.     And  then  the  Justice, 
Handing  out  the  bull  con  to  the  bench 
And   jollying   the   jury    till    it   thinks 
He   knows  it  all.     The  sixth  age  shifts 
T.j   lean   and  slippered  pantaloon. 
With   spectacles   on  nose — bis   is   a  graft! 
For  he   is    then    the   Old    Inhabitant 
And    all    must    hear    him    talk.      Last   scene    of 

all, 
That  ends  this  strange,   eventful   history. 
Is  second  childishness  and  mere   oblivion. 
Sans  graft,  sans  pull,  sans  cinch,  sans  every- 
thing. — Chicago  Tribune. 

Wordsworth  Up  to  Date. 
Who  is  the  happy    Statesman?     Who   is  he 
That    every    Congressman    should    wish    to    be? 
It    is    the   slippery   spirit   who,    when   caught. 
Avows  that  grafting  pleased  his  boyish  thought, 
And  through  the  beat  of  oonflict  keeps  the  law, 
The     statute     of     limitations     he     foresaw; 
And    who,    if   he    be   called   upon    to    face 
What  he  can  minimize  as  but  a  prima-facic  case. 
Is  happy  as  a  Clover,  equal  to  the  need. 
And  swears  he's  vindicated  of  each  crooked  deed. 
Skilled  to  escape  the  law,  he  stops  right  there, 
And   makes  his  moral   being  his   least  care, 
This    is    the    happy    Statesman;    this    is    be 
That  every  Congressman  should  wish  to  be. 

— New    York    Evening    Post. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    YORK-SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

New  York  August  26  I  St.  Louis Seplembero 

Philadelphia   .September  2  |  New  York..  .September  16 

Philadelphia— Oueenstown— Liverpool. 
Friesland     ..Aug.  29.  2pm  j  Belg'nl'nd Sept  12. 12.30pm 
Westernland.  Sept.  5. 9  am  |  Haveriord . . .  .Sept  19, 9  am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— LONDON  DIRECT. 

Min'apolis..Aug.  29, 10  am  |  Mesaba Sept.  12,9am 

Minnehaha... Sept.  5,  4  pm  |  Minnetonka   Sept.  19,4pm 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— O.  U  EEN  STO  WN— LI  V  ERPOOL 

Commonwealth Aug.  27  |  Commonwealth    .  .Sept.  24 

New  England Sept.  3     New  England Oct.  1 

Mayflower Sept.  10  |  Mayflower Oct.  8 

Montreal  —  L.iverpnol-Short  sea  passage. 

Kensington August  29  I  Soulhwark.  .September  12 

Dominion.  ..  -September  5  |  Canada September  26 

Boston    Mediterranean    DJ«** 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR-NAPLES— GENOA. 

Vancouver .Saturday,  Aug.  29.  Oct.  10.  Nov.  21 

Cambroman Salurdav.  Sept.  19.  Oct.  31.  Dec.  12 

HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ROTTERDAM,    VIA  BOULOGNE. 
Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Noordam August  26  1  Potsdam Septemberg 

Rotterdam-  -.September  2  |  Statendara.  ..September  16 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Kxoonland August  29  I  Finland September  12 

Zeeland Septembers!  Vaderland  ..September  19 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Victorian  ..August  25, 7  am  I  Teutonic Sept.  2,  noon 

Oceanic. . -August  26,  S  am  I  Arabic Sept. 4,  4  pm 

Cymric-August  28,  9.30  am  |  Armenian Sept.  S.  7  am 

C.   D).  TAYLOR,    Passenger  Agent,  Pacihc   Coast, 
21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  ana  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  F.  31.,  ior 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows;  1903 

Gaelic Friday,  September  ll 

l>oric Weduesday,  October  7 

Coptic   Saturday,  October  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)   Wednesday,  Nov.  25 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 

V  TOYO 

■^  KISEN 

R*S  KAISHA 

NA^S  ORIENTAL  S.  S,  CO. 

I  f   ^*^B  IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 

1/  ^*  U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  e.  u.  ior  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogoj,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing.        iho.'J 

America  Maru Wednesday,  August  26 

Hongkong  Maru Saturday,  September  19 

(Calling  at  Manila) 

Nippon   Maru  Thursday,   October  15 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.   H.  AVKKY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  ]  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Sierra,   for   Honolulu,  Pago   Pago,    Auckland, 
and  Sydney,  Thursday,  August  27.  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

S.    S.    Alameda,  ior    Honolulu   only,   September  5, 
1003,  at  11  a.  M. 

S.  S.   Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  September  20,   1903,  at 
II   A.   H. 
J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


RUBBER 


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Rubber  Plantation 
Company 
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we  are  enabled  to  save  over  50  per  cent,  of  the 
pictures  formerly  lost  by  under  exposure.  Each 
aim  is  developed  separately,  thus  making  it  pos- 
sible to  assure  the  correct  treatment  for  every 
exposure.  1  here  is  no  increase  in  cost;  simply 
mure  satisfaction  to  our  patrons.  Let  us  develop 
your  next  roll.  h.irk,  Geary  &  Co.,  "  Everything 
in    Photography,"    112   Geary   Street,    San    rran- 


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Valley,    Mann    Co.,    Cal. 


LIBRARIES. 


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lished    1876 — 18,000    volumes. 

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FRAMES  AND    FRAMES. 

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rock  bottom.  The  new  dainty  ovals  in  Flemish 
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photographs  of  dear  ones  to  the  framing  depart- 
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THE        ARGON  AUT. 


August  24,  1903. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing   department : 

Mrs.  Sophia  E.  Morgan  has  sent  out  cards 
announcing  the  marriage  of  her  daughter.  Miss 
Ella  Florence  Morgan,  and  Alphonse  Pellens, 
of  New  York,  at  St.  Mark's  Church.  Hackney, 
on   July   15th.  _  ,        ,    ,       , 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Camilla  C.  Lund,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  Marie  Lund,  and  Mr.  Burt  Lincoln 
Davis  took  place  on  Tuesday  evening  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  mother,  1320  Fell  Street. 
The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Dr.  E.  Ne- 
lander  Miss  Bessie  Rowell  was  the  maid  of 
honor  and  Miss  Mollie  Seibel  and  Miss  Evelyn 
Huff  acted  as  bridesmaids.  Dr.  J.  \\  .  Likens  was 
the  best  man.  and  the  ushers  were  Dr.  Frank 
Topping  and  Mr.  M.  Lindsay.  The  wedding 
ceremony  was  followed  by  a  supper,  and  later 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  departed  for  the  north 
on  their  wedding  journey. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Jessie  B.  Dodge,  sec- 
ond daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J  Dodge, 
and  Mr.  Ernest  David  Porter,  son  of  Mr.  anc, 
Mrs.  A.  W.  Porter,  took  place  in  Alameda 
on  Wednesday  afternoon,  August  12th.  T»c 
ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  E.  J  Durr, 
assistant'  rector  of  Christ  Episcopal  Church. 
Mrs.  George  Innes,  a  sister  of  the  bride,  was 
the  matron  of  honor,  and  the  best  man  was 
Mr  Robert  Colburn.  Miss  Mildred  Dodge  and 
Mis*  Edith  Porter  were  the  bridesmaids,  and 
the  ribbon  bearers  were  Mrs.  Hall.  Miss  Mabel 
Reed  Miss  Xell  Tamieson,  Miss  Mary  Pond, 
Mi<s  Willie  Finlev.  Miss  Lucille  Dennis.  Miss 
Sadie  Innes.  and  Miss  Sadie  Brock.  Alter  -1 
fortnight's  wedding  journey.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Porter  will  leave  for  Fortuna,  Humboldt 
County,  where  the  groom  is  engaged  in  busi- 
ness. 

The  weddins  of  Miss  Pearl  Cartwnght, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  H.  Cartwright.  and  Lieuten- 
ant William  B.  Graham,  U.  S.  A.,  will  take 
place  at  the  First  Congregational  Church,  at 
Berkeley,  this  (Saturday)  evening.  The  cere- 
mony will  be  performed  by  Dr.  W.  F.  Bade. 
of  the  Pacific  Theological  Seminary.  The 
bridesmaid  will  be  Miss  Blanche  Cartwneht 
sister  of  the  bride,  and  Lieutenant  Edgar  A. 
Fry.  Thirteenth  Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  will  be 
the  best  man.  Lieutenant  Benjamin  H.  Wat- 
kins  and  Lieutenant  George  E.  Stewart,  Fif- 
teenth Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  and  Lieutenant 
Claude  E.  Brigham  and  Lieutenant  Edward 
M.  Shinkle,  Artillery  Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  will  act 
as  ushers.  A  wedding  supper  will  follow  at 
the  home  of  the  bride's  mother.  2214  Channing 
Way.  After  an  extended  wedding  journey. 
Lieutenant  Graham  and  his  bride  will  reside 
at  Fort  Sheridan,  where  the  groom's  regi- 
ment, the  Twentieth   Infantry,  is   stationed. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Isabella  Mitchell  and 
Professor  William  J.  Raymond,  son  of  the 
late  Dr.  J.  C.  Raymond,  took  place  in  Oakland 
on  Wednesday  evening,  at  the  home  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  Mitchell,  on  Thirty-Sixth 
Street.  The  bride's  father.  Rev.  Andrew  Mit- 
chell, performed  the  wedding  ceremony,  as- 
sisted by  Rev.  H.  J.  Vosburgh,  pastor  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church.  There  were  no  atten- 
dants. A  wedding  supper  followed  the  cere- 
mony. Upon  their  return  from  their  wedding 
journey.  Professor  and  Mrs.  Raymond  will 
reside  in  their  own  home  on  Sixteenth  and 
Grove  Streets.  Professor  Raymond  is  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of  California,  and 
is  now  instructor  in  physics  there. 

Miss  Florence  Bailey,  who  departed  for  the 
East  on  Tuesday,  was  recently  the  guest  of 
honor  at  a  luncheon  given  by  Mrs.  James  W. 
Edwards  at  Belvedere.  Others  at  table  were 
Mrs.  John  Rodgers  Clark.  Miss  Gertrude  Van 
Wyck.  Miss  Maye  Colburn.  Miss  Mabel  Wat- 
kins.  Miss  Eleanor  Warner.  Miss  Millie  Dut- 
ton.  Miss  Ardella  Mills.  Miss  Laura  Farns- 
worth,  and   Miss  Jessie   Fillmore. 

Mrs.  Charles  Lyman  Bent  was  hostess  at 
an  informal  reception  last  Sunday  afternoon 
at  her  mother's  home,  "  Fernside."  in  Ala- 
meda. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  S.  Wood  gave  a 
dinner  last  Sunday  evening  at  their  residence. 
1920  Clay  Street,  complimentary  to  Judge  and 
Mrs,  M.  M.  Estee.  Others  at  table  were  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  P.  Young.  Judge  and  Mrs. 
Thomas  B.  McFarland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Deering,   and   Mr.   Baldwin   Wood. 


The  Grand  Army  Encampment. 
It  is  estimated  that  over  fifty  thousand 
strangers  have  assembled  in  San  Francisco 
from  all  parts  of  the  country  during  the  week 
to  attend  the  Thirty-Seventh  National  Encamp- 
ment of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
which  will  go  down  in  history  as  one  of  the 
greatest  meetings  of  its  kind  ever  held.  The 
two  monster  parades  on  Tuesday  and  Wednes- 
day, receptions,  promenade  concerts,  excursions 
to  the  surrounding  bay  cities,  and  visits  tn 
Golden     Gate     Park,    the     Cliff    House.     Pre- 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  n    substitute 


sidio.  and  other  beauty  spots  of  San  Fran- 
cisco have  pleasantly  ftlled  in  the  time  which 
was  not  taken  up  at  the  regular  meetings  of 
the  session  at  the  Grand  Opera  House.  The 
weather  has  been  glorious,  the  arrangements 
for  handling  the  crowds  excellent,  and  the 
brilliant  electrical  display,  extending  from  the 
Ferry  Building  to  the  City  Hall,  the  finest 
ever  seen  here. 

The  centre  of  attraction  has  naturally  been 
the  court  of  honor  at  Third  and  Market 
Streets.  Thousands  of  frosted  globes  outline 
the  graceful  arches,  and  ferns  and  potted 
plants  are  distributed  with  artistic  effect. 
Above  each  arch  is  a  shield  of  American  flags, 
and  beneath  the  emblems  is  an  epaulet  with 
the  letters  "  G.  A.  R."  emblazoned  in  light- 
Between  the  two  arches  are  suspended  strings 
of  colored  electric  lamps,  and  in  the  centre 
is  an  immense  Grand  Army  badge  outlined  in 
red.  white,  and  blue.  The  buildings  occupied 
by  the  three  morning  papers  on  each  side  of 
the  arches  also  add  to  the  beauty  of  the  scene, 
being  tastefully  decorated  with  lights  and  flags. 
The  tall  flag-poles  which  have  been  placed 
at  a  distance  of  twenty  feet  along  Market 
Street,  are  also  very  effective.  From  each 
pole  floats  a  large  American  flag,  and  a  few 
feet  below  the  emblem  is  a  stand  of  colors. 
Electric  wires  are  attached  to  these  poles. 
and  the  flags  loom  up  in  the  brilliant  light. 


Golf  at  Del  Monte. 
The  Hotel  del  Monte  will  be  the  Mecca  for 
golf  enthusiasts  from  all  parts  of  the  State 
next  week,  foi  an  interesting  programme  has 
been  arranged  and  many  well-known  players 
have  entered  for  the  various  contests.  On  Mon- 
day, a  competition  for  the  Del  Monte  Cup.  open 
to  all  amateur  golfers,  will  begin.  The 
qualifying  round  will  be  over  eighteen  holes, 
the  best  sixteen  players  qualifying.  The 
qualifying  round  will  commence  at  9 :30 
o  clock  in  the  morning,  and  at  2  p.  M.  the 
first  match  round  over  eighteen  holes  will  be 
played.  On  Tuesday  morning,  the  second 
match  round  begins,  and  at  2  p.  m.  the  third 
round  is  scheduled.  The  same  afternoon  the 
women  players  will  qualify  for  the  contest 
for  the  Del  Monte  women's  cup.  which  is  open 
to  all  women  golfers.  Only  eight  players 
are  to  qualify,  and  the  first  match  round  over 
eighteen  holes  for  the  fair  devotees  will  take 
place  on  Wednesday  afternoon.  The  first  and 
second  half-finals,  each  over  eighteen  holes, 
in  the  Del  Monte  Cup  contest  for  men,  will 
take  place  on  Wednesday.  The  second  round 
match  over  eighteen  holes,  and  the  finals  for 
the  women's  cup  will  take  place,  respectively, 
on  Thursday  and  Friday  noons.  On  Thursday, 
morning  the  team  match  for  J.  W.  Byrne's  cup. 
North  versus  South,  commences.  Eighteen  holes 
will  be  contested  over.  At  2  p.  m.  the  same  day 
the  second  and  last  eighteen  holes  will  be  played 
between  the  northern  and  southern  teams. 
Friday  and  Saturday,  the  last  two  days  of  the 
Del  Monte  week  of  golf,  will  be  given  over 
to  the  competition  for  the  Pacific  Coast  Golf 
Association's  open  championship.  This  event 
is  a  contest  over  seventy-two  holes,  thirty - 
six  of  which  will  be  played  on  each  day.  The 
contestants  in  this  event  will  be  paired  by  the 
committee,  the  winners  of  the  first,  second; 
and  third  places,  respectively,  receiving,  if 
they  are  amateurs,  gold,  silver,  and  bronze 
medals  of  the  association,  and  if  professionals, 
the  first  $100.  second  $30,  and  the  third  $20 
in  cash. 

Death  oi  Alfred  'Wheeler. 
Alfred  Wheeler,  a  pioneer  attorney  of  San 
Francisco,  died  on  Tuesday,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-one  years.  Mr.  Wheeler  came 
around  the  Horn,  and  arrived  here  on  No- 
vember 12.  1849.  The  next  day  he  voted  for 
the  adoption  of  the  constitution  of  the  State 
of  California,  and  a  few  weeks  later  was 
elected  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  first  California 
legislature,  w:hich  met  at  San  Jose.  In  18^0. 
he  was  engaged  to  report  upon  the  titles  by 
which  lands  were  held  within  the  limits  of  the 
city  of  San  Francisco.  His  book  on  "  Land 
Titles  jn  San  Francisco  "  has  remained  a  work 
of  reference  among  lawyers.  In  1851.  President 
Fillmore  appointed  him  United  States  attorney 
for  the  southern  district  of  California.  In 
the  'fifties,  Mr.  Wheeler  owned  more  than 
six  thousand  acres  of  land  within  the  limits 
of  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco. 
He  continued  to  own  city  real  estate  of  great 
value  until  1877,  a"d  for  many  years  had  a 
beautiful  country  place  in  San  Mateo,  adjoin- 
ing  Burlingame. 


From  the  summit  of  Mt.  Tamalpais  it  is 
indeed  a  wonderful  sight  to  watch  the  sun- 
set, to  observe  the  gorgeous  changes  of  color, 
and  the  shades  of  night  settle  over  the  valleys 
far  below.  Nowhere  but  from  Tamalpais  can 
a  California  sunset  be  observed  in  al!  its 
glory,  with  nothing  to  shut  off  the  fine  effects 
as  the  sun  sinks  to  sleep  in  the  broad  Pacific. 


President  Wheeler  announces  that  the  be- 
quest of  Mrs.  Amelia  V.  R.  Pixley  lor  the 
founding  of  a  law  scholarship  is  now  avail- 
able.  It  amounts  to  three  thousand  five 
hundred  and  sixty-three  dollars  and  twenty- 
two  c<.-iH.s.  and  will  be  known  as  the  Frank  M. 
Pixley  scholarship. 


The  will  of  Cornelia  Willougbby,  who  left 
■au  L-state  valued  at  $75,000,  has  been  filed  for 
probate.  The  deceased  bequeathed  all  of  it 
to  her  relatives,  with  the  exception  of  $300, 
given  to  the  King's  Daughters'  Home  for 
Incurables. 


—  Swell dkbsskks  have  their  Shiri  Waist- 

made  at  Kt-ru's.  "Siiiri  Tailor."  121    Postal..  S.  F. 


MUSICAL    NOTES. 


—  "K.NOX"    CELEBRATED    HATS;    FALL    STYLES 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.   Hatter.  746  Market  St. 


The  Second  Scheel  Symphony  Concert. 

Owing  to  a  clash  in  dates  with  other  mu- 
sical attractions,  in  which  many  members  of 
the  San  Francisco  Symphony  Society's  or- 
chestra had  previously  arranged  to  appear, 
all  the  dates  for  the  concerts  to  be  given 
under  the  direction  of  Fritz  Scheel  have  been 
changed  from  Friday  afternoons  to  Tuesdays 
instead.  The  next  programme  will  be  given 
next  Tuesday,  and  the  concerts  following  will 
take  place  on  September  1st,  8th,  15th,  22d, 
and  29th,  and  October  6th.  The  officers  of 
the  Symphony  Society,  by  the  way,  are  Mr. 
James  W.  Byrne,  president;  Mr.  Willis  E. 
Davis,  vice-president;  Mr.  Phil  N.  Eilienthal. 
treasurer ;  Mr.  Robert  Tolmie,  secretary ;  Dr. 
A.  Barkan,  Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst,  Mr.  John  Par- 
rott,  and  Dr.  H.  L.  Tevis,  directors;  and  Mr. 
Shafter   Howard,  business  manager. 

Mr.  Scheel  arrived  in  town  only  a  few 
days  before  his  first  concert,  so  that  he  was 
somewhat  handicapped  in  producing  just  the 
effects  he  desired  with  his  seventy  musicians. 
Now  that  he  has  had  ample  time  for  careful 
rehearsal,  however,  it  is  certain  that  his 
second  programme  will  better  demonstrate  his 
right  to  be  called  the  greatest  leader  to-day 
in  America.  He  is  a  graceful,  non-posing, 
sane  conductor,  who  has  imbibed  knowledge 
and  tradition  in  the  best  of  schools.  He  is  to 
introduce  three  new  compositions  next  Tues- 
day— "  Der  Schwan  von  Tounela,"  by  Jean 
Sibelius,  a  young  Finlander,  who  has  created 
a  furor  in  his  own  country ;  "  La  Fileuse," 
by  Felix  Mendelssohn,  and  Concert  Valse,  op, 
51.  by  Alexander  Glazounow,  a  young  Russian 
composer  whose  music  is  little  known  in  this 
country.  The  other  numbers  on  the  pro- 
gramme will  be  the  overture  of  Hector  Ber- 
lioz's "  Carneval  Romaine,"  Ludwig  von  Beet- 
hoven's symphony  "  Eroica."  and  Nicolai's 
overture  to  the  "  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor." 

S.  H.  Friedlander,  who  is  to  manage  the 
concerts  of  Adelina  Patti  in  San  Francisco, 
announces  that  definite  arrangements  have 
been  made  for  the  appearance  of  the  diva 
here  on  the  evening  of  January  7th,  and 
again  on  the  afternoon  of  January  nth,  in 
Mechanic's  Pavilion,  The  scale  of  prices 
will  make  it  possible  for  every  one  to  hear 
the  famous  songstress,  for,  by  securing  the 
pavilion,  the  management  will  be  able  to  grade 
the  prices  between  reasonable  figures.  Prob- 
ably the  highest  seat  will  be  about  four  dol- 
lars. 

Manager  Will  L.  Greenbaum  has  arranged 
for  the  orchestra  of  seventy  of  the  Metropoli- 
tan Opera  House,  New  York,  to  give  three 
concerts  in  this  city  the  last  week  in  October. 
Its  musical  director  will  be  J.  H.  Duss,  the 
millionaire  banker,  who  forsook  commerce  to 
devote  himself  to  music,  and  who  has  already 
spent  a  fortune  in  furthering  its  interests.  The 
soloists  will  be  Lillian  Nordica,  Katharin,: 
Fisk.  and  Nathan  Franko. 


Mrs.  Katherine  Bloodgood,  the  California 
contralto,  who  wedded  Lieutenant  Kip  of  the 
regular  arm}'  a  year  ago,  and  supposedly  had 
retired  from  the  stage,  will  return  to  the  foot- 
lights. She  will  make  her  first  appearance  at 
the  Masonic  Temple  Theatre,  Chicago,  after  that 
playing  a  number  of  engagements  in  the  East. 
It  is  said  her  husband  will  travel  with  her. 


The  rapid  extension  of  trolley-line  connec- 
tion between  small  towns  all  over  the  country 
has  had  a  peculiar  effect  on  the  development 
of  theatrical  companies.  Many  small  towns 
that  could  not  be  reached  by  railroad,  and 
were  therefore  never  visited,  have  been  in- 
cluded in  the  circuits  of  smaller  or  even 
medium-sized  companies  since  they  have  be- 
come connected  with  more  important  centres 
by  means  of  trolley  lines.  Small  theatres  and 
opera-houses  are  shooting  up  like  mushrooms 
in  these  "  trolley  towns." 


Mrs.  Mary  Piercy,  who  died  on  Wednes- 
day at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  was  the  mother 
of  Samuel  M.  Piercy.  an  actor  of  acknowledged 
ability,  who  died  some  years  ago.  His  wife, 
also  long  deceased,  was  a  member  of  the 
wealthy  Dunphy  family  of  San  Francisco,  and 
the  legal  battle  that  ensued  over  the  custody 
of  their  minor  child,  Viola,  between  the  Dun- 
phys  and  the  Piercys  attracted  wide  attention 
at  the  time. 


The  London  Morning  Post  notes  that  Lady 
Maxwell,  formerly  Miss  Bonynge  and  a  native 
of  this  city,  had  the  honor  of  being  invited  by 
the  king  and  queen  to  dinner  at  the  vice-regal 
lodge  on  July  22d,  and  also  dined  with  their 
majesties  the  following  day  at  the  invitation 
of  the  Duke  of  Connaught. 


Next  winter,  Burton  Holmes  will  again  gi\e 
a  series  of  his  illustrated  travel-lectures  in 
San  Francisco.  His  subjects  will  be  largely 
American,  and  will  include  "  The  Yellowstone 
Park,"  "•  Yosemite  Valley,"  and  "  Alaska." 

Attention,  Grand   Army   Visitor*! 

Do  you  know  you'll  miss  one  of  the  greatest 
sights  of  the  world  if  you  do  not  look  through 
the  big  Lick  telescope  on  Mt.  Hamilton  ;  the 
lens  is  three  feet  in  diameter,  and  so  power- 
ful that  .you  can  see  the  rocky  bluffs  of  Mt. 
Copernicus  on  the  moon's  surface.  It  only 
takes  a  little  over  an  hour  to  go  to  San 
Jose.  You  can  rest  at  the  famous  Hotel 
Vendome,  and  then  enjoy  a  glorious  stage 
ride  up  the  mountain.  The  visit  to  Hotel 
Vendome  and  surroundings  is  alone  worth  the 
trip. 


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none. 

What  is  bad  soap?  Im- 
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an^  I  alkali  not  well  bal- 
ancf  d  or  not  combined. 

What  is  good  soap  ? 
Pears'. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


127 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COL'RT 
into  which  tor  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  oi  over  a  B 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the  J 
addition  oi  very-  handsome  furniture,  rugs,  I 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con-  ■ 
verted  intoa  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST  I 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  inrnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  oi  this  most  famous  hotel. 


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ORCHESTRA 

COACHING 

PING-PONG 


YOU  AUTO  GO 
AND  SPEND  THE 
SUMMER  AT  THE 
HOTEL  VENDOME 
NEW  QUARTERS 
FOR  AUTOMOBILES 


;W  ANNEX 
W  LANAI 
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GEO-    P.   SNELL 

MANAGER 

SAN  JOSE,  CAL. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.    t.   cor.  Pine  and  Jones  St3. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


t  apartments  steam  heated 


10TEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

IOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
nounce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
ised  the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
1  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
chelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU   CO. 


IOTEL   RAFAEL 

fty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.  Twenty- 
f»ur  train-  daily  each  way.  Open  all 
the  year. 

;UISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

K.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 

'or  booklet  and  information  inquire  at  city  office,  14 
st  St.,  telephone  Bush  125. 
rlave  representative  call  00  you. 


1YR0N  HOT  SPRINGS 


Dpen  ali  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  andspring 
mate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
JSl  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
atica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
liana. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
ties  reasonable.  Very  superior  accommodations . 
Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-halt 
ms  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
1.  M.,  10  A.  M..  and  4  p.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
rn, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O, 


90,000 

;ople  depend  upon  the 

OAKLAND  TRIBUNE 


Hie  Tribune  is  the  home  paper  of  Oakland  and 

uneda  County,  and  has  no  rival  in  its  field. 

Hie  Tribune    publishes,    exclusively,    the    full 

sociated  Press  dispatches. 

Ml  society  events  of   the   week  are    mirrored  in 

turday's  Tribune. 

Local    and    State    politics    receive    attention    by 

Xial  writers  in  the  same  issue. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    "WHEREABOUTS-. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californfans : 

Mr.  W.  G.  Irwin  sailed  for  Honolulu  on  tlie 
Oceanic  steamship  Alameda  last  Saturday. 
Mrs.  Irwin  and  Miss  Helen  Irwin  are  still  at 
Del   Monte. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Parxott  and  Miss  Par- 
rott  have  returned  from  Mexico,  and  are  at 
the  Hotel   Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Athearn  Folger  and  family 
have  returned  from  Del  Monte,  and  are  at 
their  country"  place  at  Redwood. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  G.  Buckbee  are  guests 
at  the   Hotel   Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ansel  M.  Easton  have  taken 
the  Avery  McCarthy  apartment  at  21S1  Pacific 
Avenue  for  the  winter  months. 

Prince  and  Princess  Poniatowski  expect  to 
leave  soon  for  New  York,  en  route  to  Eu- 
rope. 

M  r.  and  Mrs.  J.  D.  Spreckels,  Jr.,  have 
been  spending  the  past  two  weeks  with  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Black  at  their  residence  in  Ala 
meda. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington  and  the 
Misses  Huntington,  who  have  been  spending 
the  summer  months  in  the  Barraclough 
house,  at  Piedmont,  will  return  to  town  next 
month. 

Miss  Katherine  Dillon  and  Miss  Patricia 
Cosgrave  were  in  Vienna  when  last  heard 
from.     They  are  expected  home  next  month. 

Rev.  Dr.  Clampett,  rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
and  Mrs.  Clampett  have  returned  from  a 
three  months'   trip   to   Australia. 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Yoorhies  expects  to  leave  for  the 
East  about  the  first  of  November  on  a  visit 
to  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Guy  T.  Scott,  wife  of 
Lieutenant  Scott,  who  is  stationed  at  Fort 
Banks,  near  Boston.  Before  she  returns,  she 
will  also  spend  some  time  with  her  other 
daughter.  Mrs.  Malcolm  Henry",  in  Washing- 
ton. D.  C. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  I.  Smith  and  Miss 
Smith  have  been  sojourning  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs. 

Mr.  Thomas  McCaleb  was  in  New  York  last 
week. 

Governor  and  Mrs.  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  of 
Hartford.  Conn.,  are  visiting  Mrs.  Houghton 
and  Miss  Minnie  Houghton  at  the  Hotel 
Yendome,  San  Jose.  Mrs.  Bulkeley  is  a  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  Houghton. 

Mrs.  William  Herrin  and  Miss  Kate  Herrin 
have  returned  from  their  trip  to  the  moun- 
tains. 

Miss  Mabel  Toy,  who  arrived  in  New  York 
from  Europe  last  week,  is  expected  to  reach 
San  Francisco  early  next  week. 

Mrs.  Bowie-Detrick  returned  early  in  the 
week  from  her  visit  to  Mrs.  William  Howard 
at  San  Rafael. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  Clark  are  guests  at  the 
Hotel  del   Monte. 

Mr.  Antoine  Borel  and  his  son-in-law.  M. 
Bovet.  sailed  from  New  York  for  Europe  last 
week.  They  expect  to  make  an  extended  stay 
in    Switzerland. 

Miss  Morgan  visited  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Gwin  at  the  Hotel   Rafael   last   week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Y.  Callaghan  have  re- 
turned from  a  three  months'  visit  to  Yosemite 
Valley,  and  are  occupying  their  residence  on 
Van  Ness  Avenue. 

Mrs.  John  Evelyn  Page  and  her  mother. 
Mrs.  Burling,  have  returned  from  their  trip  to 
Southern  California. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  R  Hearst,  who  are  at 
present  in  Germany,  will  be  the  guests  of 
Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst  next  month.  Mr.  Orrin 
Peck,  who  is  also  abroad,  will  accompany  them 
West. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Selfridge  are  guests  at  the 
Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mrs.  George  Thorndike  Folsom  has  returned 
from  Paris,  and  is  now  in  New  York. 

Mr.  F.  P.  Tatsum  and  Mr.  R.  Girvin  were 
guests  of  Mrs.  Stanford  Gwin  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  last  week. 

Mrs.  David  McLaughlin  and  her  daughter 
Isabelle.  of  Salt  Lake,  and  Miss  Grace  Reyn- 
olds, daughter  of  Mrs.  Frank  B.  Reynolds, 
have  arrived  in  London  after  a  tour  of  six 
months  in  the  Eastern  States.  They  will  re- 
main abroad  a  year.  Mrs.  Reynolds  expects 
to  join  them  later. 

Mrs.  Carter  Pomeroy  and  Miss  Christine 
Pomeroy  have  returned  to  town,  after  spend- 
ing the  summer  at  San  Rafael. 

Mrs.  Frank  Sullivan,  Miss  Phelan,  and  the 
Misses  Sullivan  will  leave  soon  for  the  East 
to  attend  the  marriage  of  Miss  Georgia  Sulli- 
van and  Mr.  Lewis  White,  which  will  take 
place  in  Washington,   D.  C. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carey  (nee  Tompkins)  will 
spend  the  fall  and  winter  in  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frederick  Hotaling  were  visitors  in  Santa 
Cruz  last  week. 

Mr.  R.  H.  Merrill  and  Miss  Ruth  Merrill 
were  guests  ot  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  P.  Sonntag 
at  the   Hotel   Rafael   last   week. 

Miss  Alice  Klein  has  been  visiting  relatives 
and  friends  in  Italy,  Germany,  and  Holland 
during  the  summer. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Butters  sailed  from 
New  York  last  week  for  Europe.  They  will  be 
abroad  for  several  months. 

Mrs.  William  Frank,  who  has  disposed  of 
her  country  place  at  Menlo  Park,  is  residing 
here  with  her  sister. 

Miss  Kohl,  of  Burlingame,  was  the  guest 
of  Miss  Maye  Colburn  for  a  few  days  during 
the  week. 

Miss  Pearl  Landers  and  Mrs.  Landers  have 
returned  from  Del  Monte. 

Mrs.  Albert  Gallatin  and  Miss  Lita  Gallatin, 
were  in  Santa  Cruz  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willis  Polk  are  in  Paris. 

Mr.  Raphael  Weill  sailed  from  New  York 
for  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Landers  are  at  "  The 
Gables."  at  San  Leandro. 

Mr.  Louis  S.  Bruguiere,  who  is  spending 
the  summer  at  Newport,  will  return  here  early 
next  month  to  be  present  at  the  marriage  of 


his  brother.  Mr.  Emil  Bruguiere.  to  Miss 
Vesta  Shortridge." 

Judge  Henry  C.  Ide.  of  the  Philippine  Com- 
mission, who  returned  from  the  East  last 
week,  and  was  at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  a  short 
stay,  sailed  for  Manila  on  Tuesday  on  the 
Occidental  and  Oriental  steamship  Coptic. 

Mr.  and!  Mrs.  Henry  Butters  will  close  their 
country  house,  "  Constantia."  this  week,  and 
return  to  Paris. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edmund  Baker  (nee 
Kittredge)  have  returned  from  a  month's  visit 
to   Portland,   Or. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Howard.  Mrs.  Henry 
Schmieden.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morris  Meverfeld. 
Miss  Leslie  Meverfeld.  Mrs.  S.  B.  Schloss. 
and  Mr.  Herbert  D.  Walter  were  in  Paris 
when  last  heard  from. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  F.  Griffin.  Miss  Clufr. 
Mr.  S.  L.  Hyman,  Mr.  Albert  Hyman,  Mr. 
Harry  W.  Evans,  Mr.  George  H.  Trask,  and 
Mr.    L.   C.   Hammond. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs  were  Mrs.  C.  A.  Gilbert,  of  Fresno. 
Mrs.  Agis  and  Miss  Agis.  of  Stockton.  Mr.  W. 
D.  Curtis,  of  Los  Angeles.  Professor  Douglas 
C.  Fowler,  of  Oakland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  N. 
Wilson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Scott  Wilson.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Rogers,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James 
Armstrong,    and   Miss    Helen   Wilson. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco  are   appended : 

Lieutenant-Genera!  Nelson  A.  Miles.  U.  S. 
A.,  retired,  former  commander  of  the  United 
States  army,  was  a  visitor  in  town  during  th« 
week.  He  was  banqueted  on  Wednesday  night 
at  Pythian  Castle  by  the  Spanish  War  Vet- 
erans who  were  in  his  command  during  tht 
late  war. 

Colonel  Marion  P.  Maus.  U.  S.  A.,  has  been 
ordered  to  join  his  regiment  at  Fort  Reno. 
Oklahoma. 

Captain  Charles  L.  Bent,  U.  S.  A.,  is  ex- 
pected to  arrive  from  the  Philippines  next 
month,  where  he  has  been  stationed  for  the 
past   two   years. 

Captain  William  R.  Smedburg,  Jr..  Four- 
teenth Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  has  returned  to  his 
late   station,   Fort   Grant,   Arizona. 

Major  Charles  W.  Hobbs,  Artillery'  Corps, 
L".  S.  A.,  will  act  as  commanding  officer  at  the 
Presidio  until  the  successor  of  General  George 
B.  Rodney  has  been  appointed. 

Colonel  Johnson  V.  D.  Middleton,  U.  S.  A-. 
retired,  and  Mrs.  Middleton  were  among  the 
arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  last  week. 

Lieutenant- Commander  Samuel  W.  B.  Diehl, 
L".  S.  N.,  has  arrived  at  Mare  Island,  and 
taken   command  of  the  cruiser  Boston. 


The  California  Polo  and  Pony  Association. 
Articles  of  incorporation  of  the  California 
Polo  and  Pony  Association  have  been  filed 
with  the  county  clerk.  The  members  of  the 
association  are  Charles  W.  Clark,  Francis 
Carolan.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Thomas  A.  Dris- 
coll,  R-  M-  Tobin.  C.  E.  Maud.  G.  L.  Waring, 
Joseph  F.  Tobin.  J.  S.  Craven.  J.  L.  Colby, 
and  E.  J.  Boeseke.  The  association  is  formed 
for  the  promotion  of  polo  games  and  polo 
pony  races  throughout  the  State.  The  colors 
of  the  club  are  Yale  blue  and  crimson.  There 
will  be  no  bookmaking  allowed  on  the  grounds 
where  the  events  are  held,  but  permission 
will  be  given  to  one  person  to  sell  paris 
mutuels.  The  first  meeting  of  the  association 
will  be  held  at  Pasadena  in  January  of  next 
year,  when  polo  games  will  be  contested  be- 
tween teams  selected  from  Northern  and 
Southern  California.  Later,  a  meeting  will 
be  held  at  Riverside,  which  will  last  one 
week.  The  association  will  also  meet  in  Feb- 
ruary of  next  year  at  Burlingame.  Thomas 
A.  Driscoll  has  been  selected  as  secretary  of 
the  association,  and  Neal  Power  as  his  as- 
sistant. 

Henry  Miller  has  accepted  a  new  play  by 
Maud  Hosford,  who  was  a  memDer  of  his 
company  several  years  ago. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &:  Co..  746   Market  Street. 


Lung    Chains   of  Corals 
are   more  sty.ish    than    ever.      Largest    assortment 
at  Hirschmau's,  712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets. 
Mutual  Savings   hank  Building. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire.  Collision.  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes. 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MUIXINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN     RRAi-VCISCO. 

All  elates  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Dancing  Masters 
Recommend  It 


Dancing  Masters  all  over  the  United  Sl3ies 
recommend  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax, 
it  makes  neither  dust  nor  dirt,  dees  noi  stick  to-  _ 
the  shoes  or  rub  into  lumps  on  the  Boor.  M 
Sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  the  rest  I 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  of  the  finest 
fabric. 

For  sale  byMack&Co.,  Langley&  Mi 
and    Redingion  &  Co.,   San   Francisco;    Kirk, 
Geary  i  Co.,  Sacramento :  ami  F.  W.  Braan  & 
Co..  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax* 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 

ANNOUNCES   SPORTS. 


Polo  and  Races- 


August  1  ?it  t<»  Sth.  Under  the  auspices 
oi  the  Pacific  Coast  Polo  and  Pony  Racing 
Association.  R.  M.  Tobin,  Secretary.  En- 
tries to  and  information  from  151  Crocker 
Building,  San  Francisco. 


Automobile  Run- 


August    titli    t««    I  1  th,  from  San  Fran- 
risco.  including  meet  at   Uel   Monte. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  Automobile  Club  oi 
California.     F.   A.   Hyde,  President.     Entries 

to  151  Crocker  Building.  San  Francisco. 


Golf  Tournament- 


August  "34th  to  31st.  Under  auspices  of 
the  Pacific  Coast  Goll  Association.  R.  Gil- 
man  Brown,  Secretary.  Entries  to  310  Pine 
Street,  San  Francisco. 

OPEN  CHAMPIONSHIP  -Team    Match, 

for  Bjnie  Cup,  North  vs.  South. 

DEL  MONTE  CUPS  —  Amateur  Tournament. 
Ladies'  Tournament. 


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LACKHEADS,  PIMPLES, 
FRECKLES  AND  TAN. 


How  to  Remove  Them, 


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How  to  Maka  the  Skin  Beautiful. 


There  Is  no  remedy  wHch  will  restore  the  compleifoa 
as  quickly  as  Mme.  A.  Ruppen's  Face  Breach.  Thous* 
ands  of  patrons  afflicted  with  most  miserable  skins  have 
been  delighted  with  its  use.  Man y  skins  cohered  with 
pimples,  freckles,  wrln  les.  eczematons  ernpdoos  (Itch- 
ing, burning  and  annoying),  sallowness,  brown  patches 
and  black-heads  have  be-n  quickly  changed  to  bright, 
beautiful  complexions.  Skin  troubles  which  nave  oafled 
the  most  eminent  physicians  hare  been  cured  promptly, 
and  many  have  expressed  then*  pro&uadcst  thanks  for  017 
wonderful  Face  Bleach. 

This  marvdom  remedy  wfll  be  Seat  to  any  addnm 
open  receipt  of  price,  tarn  per  single  bottle,  c*  ton* 
bottles  (  usually  required  ).  $5x0. 

Boot,  -  Bow  to  be  BeaatHul, "  mailed  far  ec. 

MME.  A.   RUPPERT, 

6  EAST  14th  ST.,  NEW  YORK. 

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any  house  on  the  Pacific  Coast.     Send  for  Catalogue. 
Supplies  of  standard  quality  always  on  hand. 
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Educational. 

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SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 


PALO    ALTO,CALIFORMA. 
Prepares  tor  college.     Advantages  ot   Stanford  Uni- 
versity.   Pleasant  borne  life.    Horseback-riding,  tenuis, 
and    wheeling.       One    hour's    ride  to   San    Francisco. 
Term  begins  August  25th. 


The  van  Den  Bergh 

Primary  School  and  Kindergarten 

Re-opens  August  3d,  at  3405   Buchanan   -it., 
near  Washington. 

Physical  Culture  and  Manual  Training. 

Saint  Margaret's  School,  San  flateo, 

Re-opens    August    26th,   in   new   buildings  on    Mount 
Avenue.       All     modern     improvements.       Ac- 
credited to  Stanford  University,     For  further  informa- 
tion Or  circular  address  MISS   I.    L.   TEKBETTS. 

Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenlv  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.  Mr.  jay  Cooke's  fine  property.  For  circu- 
lars address         MlSS  Sylvia  J.  Eastman,  Principal. 

Ogontz  School  P.  C.  Pa. 


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THE        ARGON  AUT 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  JHE  WAY 

CHICACO  IN  3  DAYS 

Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, at*  follows  : 

7f%g%  A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
m%S%J  Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  715  P  m.  Stops  al  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  ni. 
O  O/l  A  M-fTHE  CALIFORNIA  L1M- 
^ii>C/  1TED":  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  ni,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  ni,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
dav)  2.15  p  ni.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  J11.10  p  m. 

SO /I  A  M— *VALLEV  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
m%f  1/  ton  12.01  p  ni,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 
Jt  f%i%  P  M— 'STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
nr»C/€#    ton  7.10 pin.    Corresponding  train  arrives 

1 1. 10  a  m. 
O  A||P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
%Mm%M%M  Stockton  11. 15  p  tn,  Fresno  315  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  ni.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reel ining-c hair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       t  Monday  and  Thursday. 
I  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  al  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7-3°.  8-°°.  9°°.  ".00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2.30, 
3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays — Extra 
trip  at  1:30  p  111. 

SUNDAYS— 7-3°.  s-°°.  9-3o,  11.00  a  m;  1.30,  2.30,3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

Sail  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  -f-z.oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  ni.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11.15  a  ni ;  1.45,  3.40,  4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 
7.30  a  ni 
8.00  a  ni 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5-JOp  m 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  ni 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  ni 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  111 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  in 
10.20  a  ni 
6.20  p  ni 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  in 
7.25  p  m 

10. 20  a  m 

7-25  P  ni 

7-4?  :i  i" 
10.20  a  m 
6. 20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
8  00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  ni 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  ni 
2.30  p  ni 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10,20  a  ni 
7.25  p  m 

7.3o  a  in 

7.30  a  m 

Wilms. 

7.25  a  in 

7.25  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

8.00  a  ni 
2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  in 
7-25  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  ni 
6.20  p  m 

K.i-.  :l  in 
5.10  pm 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

Sebastopol. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  ni 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  ni 

10.20  a  m 
6,20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  lor  Allruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  fur  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Gevsers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelsevville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bart  let  t  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanffedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half- Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Weslport.  Sherwood, 
Cahlo,  Covl-Io,  Laytonvilk-,  Cummings,  Hell's  Springs 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood  Scotia 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rales. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  halt  rates. 

Ticket  office.  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building 

H.C.  WHITING,  R.X.RYAN,        % 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 

For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART   WEEK    DAYS— 6.45.  f *7  45 
lf-45.9.45.  11  A.  M-;  12.20,  »i.,15,  3.15.  4.,5i 
1  T5.i5,*6-I5.  6.45.9.  ".45  P.  M. 
7.45  a.  m.  week  days  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley 
DEPAR1    SUNDAY     7.  fS.  f*9,   f*io,    ,,,  tn.30  a 
m.;  ti?.3<>.  t*'-3o,  2.35,  *3.50,  5,  6,  7.30,  9,   11.45  '■■  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    Sau    Quentiu.      Those 
marked   (f)   to   Fairfaxj  except  5.15  p,   m,  Saturday, 
Saturday's  3.15  p,  M.  train  runs  Id  Fairfax, 
MS  a,  m.  week  days    Cazaderoand  was  stations, 
5.15  p.  m,  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted)— Tomales 

and  way  stations 
3.15    p.    M.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way   stations, 
Sundays,  S  a.  m.--<  i      deroand  was  stations. 

Sundays,  10  A.  M.-lV         Reyes  and  intermediate. 

Legal  Holidays— Bom  "and  trains  on  Sunday  time. 
1  icket '  nines— 626  M;  rket;  Ferry,  loot  Market. 


Stella — "  But,  aren't  you  afraid  of  going  out 
beyond  your  depth?"  Bella — "Oh.  no!  All 
the  men  around  here  think  I'm  an  heiress.". — 
Puck. 

A  natural  conclusion  :  First  mucker — -'"  Say, 
Chimney,  wot's  poundcake?  "  Second  mucker 
— "  Aw,  g'wan — dog-biscuit,  of  course." — Har- 
vard Lampoon. 

"  It  is  unwomanly !"  The  New  Woman 
laughed  in  derision.  "It  is  immodest!"  The 
New  Woman  shrugged  her  shoulders  disdain- 
fully. "  It  is  unparliamentary !"  The  New 
Woman  started,  paled,  and  drew  back. — Pitch. 

Tommy  Atkins — "Aw!  g'on.  Mike,  yer  a 
lobster!"  Mike — "Ye  flatther  me.  Shure,  a 
lobster's  a  wise  animal,  fur  green  is  the  color 
fur  him  as  long  as  he  lives,  an'  he'll  die  before 
he  puts   on  a  red  coat." — Philadelphia   Press. 

Conclusive:  Briggs — "It's  too  bad  about 
Winkle  and  the  girl  he  is  engaged  to.  Neither 
of  them  is  good  enough  for  the  other."  Griggs 
— "What  makes  you  think  that?"  Briggs — 
"  Well,  I've  been  talking  the  matter  over  with 
both  families." — Life. 

Attending  to  business:  American  reporter — 
"  How  did  the  revolutionists  obtain  access  to 
the  palace  if  the  army  was  loyal?"  Exiled 
South  American  president — "Because  the  army 
was  all  at  the  polls,  voting  the  government 
ticket." — Boston   Transcript. 

The  puzzling  dailies :  "  Now,  tell  me  once 
more,"  pleaded  Mrs.  Partington's  married 
daughter,  "  was  it  Mr.  Coxey  who  was  elected 
Pope  to  succeed  Leo  the  Thirteenth,  or  Sarto 
who  was  elected  president  of  the  Steel  Trust 
to  succeed  Schwab?" — Baltimore  American. 

The  commercial  sense :  Suburbs — "  But  I 
tell  you  I  haven't  any  use  for  a  stable."  Real- 
estate  agent — "  But,  man,  this  is  the  only  barn 
in  this  region,  and  it  is  so  situated  that  you 
can  make  twice  your  mortgage  interest  by  hav- 
ing patent-medicine  advertisements  painted  all 
over  it." — Judge. 

Wanted  to  have  it  over:  "Mamma,"  said 
Bennie,  as  there  came  a  brief  pause  in  the 
conversation  on  the  part  of  the  callers,  "  isn't 
it  time  for  you  to  ask  me  what  I  learned  at 
the  kindergarten  to-day?  If  you  don't  do  it 
pretty  soon  I'll  forget  what  you  told  me  to 
say." — Chicago  Tribune. 

Trouble  then :  Ascum — "  Of  course  your 
wife  always  insists  upon  your  doing  her  bid- 
ding? "  Henpeck — "  Not  always.  Once  she 
got  mad  because  I  did.  She  took  me  to  auc- 
tion with  her  one  day,  and  somehow  we  got 
to  bidding  against  each  other  without  knowing 
it." — Philadelphia  Press. 

Friends  of  the  family  :  "  I  see  your  neigh- 
bors, the  Highmores,  have  shut  their  immense 
house  up.  Mrs.  Highmore  told  me  the  other 
day  they  were  going  somewhere  into  the  inte- 
rior for  the  summer."  "  They've  gone  further 
back  than  that.  They  are  living  in  the 
kitchen." — Chicago  Tribune. 

At  the  summer  resort:  "Breakfast  seems  to 
be  pretty  late  to-day,"  remarked  the  summer 
farm  boarder;  "  wonder  what's  wrong?  " 
"  They're  waiting  for  the  butter  and  milk  to 
come,"  replied  the  investigating  individual; 
"  the  train  from  the  city  is  late  to-day." — 
Cincinnati  Commercial  Tribune. 

"  Just  throw  me  half  a  dozen  of  your  big- 
gest trout,"  said  the  man  with  the  costly  an- 
gler's outfit.  "Throw  them!"  exclaimed  the 
astonished  fish-dealer.  "  That's  what  I  said." 
replied  the  party  of  the  first  part ;  "  then  I'll 
go  home  and  tell  my  wife  I  caught  them.  I 
may  be  a  poor  fisherman,  but  I'm  no  liar." — 
Chicago  Daily  News. 

"  How  savagely  that  cow  looks  at  me,"  said 
the  typewriter  boarder  from  the  city.  "  I 
reckon  as  heow  it  be  on  account  uv  that  air 
red  waist  yew've  got  on,  miss,"  answered  the 
old  farmer.  "  Dear  me!  "  exclaimed  the  key- 
toying  maid;  "of  course  it  isn't  quite  up  to 
date,  but  I'd  no  idea  a  country  cow  would  no- 
tice it." — Chicago  Daily  News: 

Two  North  Atchison  women,  strangers  to 
each  other,  got  into  a  quarrel  over  some  chick- 
ens recently.  They  threw  names,  rocks,  and 
dirt,  and  finally  made  a  clinch  at  each  other. 
As  they  grasped  each  other,  each  woman 
caught  a  glimpse  of  a  certain  lodge  emblem 
on  the  other  woman's  collar,  and  the  clinch 
changed  to  a  hug,  the  attempt  to  bile  to  a  kiss, 
and  the  hands,  stretched  forth  to  claw,  met  in 
the  grasp  of  good-fellowship.  And  still  scoff- 
ers say  women  should  not  be  lodge  joiners. — 
Atchison  Globe. 

Former  suburbanite  (astounded)  — "  You 
don't  mean  to  tell  me  that  you  have  fifty 
chickens  and  you  are  still  on  speaking  terms 
with  your  next-door  neighbors?"  Suburbanite 
(smilingly.) — "That's  exactly  the  case." 
Former  suburbanite — "Keep  'em  cooped  up, 
eh?"  Suburbanite — "  Not  on  your  life!  You 
see.  the  day  I  bought  the  fool  fowls  I  made  a 
bluff  at  driving  them  out  of  my  garden,  and 
pretty  soon  they  thought  they  belonged  to  my 
neighbors,  so  since  then  they  stick  to  mv 
garden  like  glue!  " — Brooklyn  Life. 


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8.P0*  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Antluch,  By- 
ron, Tracy,  Stock  ton.  Sac  rain  en  to, 
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Vlaalla,  Portervllle *M,25p 

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rop, Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goal  en  Junct["u,  Hanford,  VI- 
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(for  bartlett  Springs).  Willows, 
tFruto.  Red  Bluff.  Portland 7-55p 

8- 30a  NlleB,  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton, lone,  Sacrmnen  to,  PI  acerv  Hie. 
Marysvllle.  Cbico,  Red  muff 4.2Bp 

8.30a  Oakdnle.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  80- 

noru,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4  25p 

9.00a  Martinez  and  Way  Stations 655p 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.25P 

dlQ.OO*  El  Paso  Passenger,  EaBtbound.— 
Port  Costa,  M  ar  tl  u  ez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond.  Fresno,  Han- 
ford. Visalla,  Hakersflcld.  Los 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line)...  -*1.30p 
10.00a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden, 

Denver,  Omaba.  Chicago 6.26P 

12  00m   Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.      3-25P 
11. 00p   Sacramento  River  Steamers til. OOP 

3-30 1  Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento, 
Woodland.  Williams,  Colusa, Wil- 
lows, Knights  Lauding.  Marys- 
vllle. Oroville  and  way  Btatlons..    10.65a 

3-3Dp   Hayward.  NlleB  and  Way  Stations..      7.55P 

4-00p   M  artlnez,  Snu  Ramon,  ValleJo.Napa, 

CallBtoga,  Santa  Rosa 9.25a. 

4-ODp   Martinez, Tracy, Lathrop. Stockton.   10.25a 

4. OOP   Nlles.  Llvermore.  Stockton.  LodL.      4.25p 

4-30p   Hayward.   Nlles,   lrvlngtoo,  San  (     18.55* 
Jose,  Llvermore f  tl  1.65a 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare. 
Bakerslleld,  Los  Angeles;  con- 
nects at  SauguB  for  Santa  Bar- 
bara      8.65a 

6.00p  Port  CoBt»,  Tracy,    Stockton,  Lob 

Banos 1  2-25p 

1630p  Hayward,  NlleB  and  San  Jose 7.26a 

6-OOp  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 10.26a 

6.00p  Oriental  Mail  — Ogden,  Denver. 
Oinnba.  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  (Carries  Pullman  Car  pas- 
sengers only  out  or  San  Fran- 
cisco. Tourist  car  and  coach 
passengers  take  7.00  p.  u.  train 
to  Reno,  continuing  thence  In 
tbelr  cara  6  p.m.  train  eastward..  4.25*" 
Westbound,  Sunset  Limited.— 
From  New  York,  Chicago,  New 
Orleans,  El  Paso,  Los  Angeles, 
Fresno,  Berenda,  Raymond  (from 
ToBemlte),  Martinez.    Arrives..     8.26a 

7. OOp  Ban  Pablo,  Port   Costa,  Martinez 

and  Way  Stations 11.26a 

J7.00p  Vallejo 7.66p 

7-OOp  Port  COBta,  Benlcla,  Sulsun.  Davis, 
Sacramento,  Truckee,  Reno. 
Stops  at  all  stations  east  of 
Sacramento 7-55a 

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Portland,  1'uget  Sound  and  East.     B-55A 

Jfl-lOi"  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose(Sun- 

„__        dayonly) 111.55a 

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deElo.  Merced.  Raymond  (to  To- 
semlte),  Fresno,  llanfurd,  Vl- 
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COAST    LINE    Harow  «n 
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only) 1 8-1  Op 

8.15*  Newark.  Ceniervllle.  San  Jose, 
Feltun.    Buuiuer     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6  25p 

r2-16>'  Newark,  Centervllle.  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden  Lou  Gntos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    10-55* 

4-15p  Newark.  San  Jose.  Lob  GatoB  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz;  Monduy  only  from  Santa 
Cruz).  Connects  at  Felton  to 
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From  OAKLAND.  Foot  or  Broadway  —  t6:00    tdrftl 

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COAST    LINE    ("roiul  oauge). 

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1.30p 
1.20P 

1.05P 


6.10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 7.30p 

17  00a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6.30P 

/"8.00a  New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld.)    M.10P- 

17-16a    Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excor 

slon  (Sunday  only) t8  30e 

8.00a  CoastLlne  Limited— StopBonlySan 
Jose.Gllroy.nolHster.PaJnro.Cas- 
trovllle.  Salinas.  San  Ardo,  Paso 
Robles,  Santa  Margarlla.SanLula 
ObUpn.  (principal  stations  thence) 
Santa  Barbara  Saugu  sand  Los  An- 
geles. Connection  at  Castrovlllfl 
to  and  from  Monterey  and  Pacific 
Grove  and  at  Pajaro  north  bound 
from  Capltola  and  SamaCruz.... 
B410a  gan  JoBe.  Tres  Plnos.  Capltola, 
Santa  Cruz.Paclflc  Grove, Salinas, 
San  LuIb  Obispo  and   Principal 

Intermediate    Stations 

Westbound  El  PaBo  Passenger. — 
From  Chicago,  El  Paso.  Los  An- 
geleB,  Santa  Barbara.    ArrlveB.. 

10.30a   San  Jose  and  Way  StatloiiB 

11.00a  Cemetery    Passenger — South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 

11.30a   Sau  Jose,  Lob  Gatos  and  Way  Sta- 

tlons 6.36P 

ai.30P   San  Jobc  and  Way  Stations x7-0Op 

2. 00p   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations !9.40a 

2.30p  Cemetery   Passenger  — South    San 

.  ____        Francltco,  San  Bruno 4.35r 

tU3.00PDel  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monie.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz.  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points)  '1216p 
oJOP  Burllngnme.  San  Mateo.  Redwood. 
MenloPurk.  Palo  Alto  May  field, 
Moim lulu  View, Lawrence,  Santa 
Claru.  Sun  JoBe,  Gllroy  (connec- 
tion for  Bolllster,  Tres  PlnoB), 
Pajaro  (connection  for  Watson- 
vlllc.  Capltola  and  Santa  Cruz), 
Pacific  Grove  and  way  stations. 
Connects  at  Castrovllle  for  8a- 

llnae 10.45* 

4-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8-36.* 

tBJJOP  San   Jobc.    (via    Santa  Clara)    Los 
GatoB,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Stations '9  00* 

46-30P  San  JoheandPrluclpalWayStatlons    1 8  00a 
t6.16P  Ban  Mateo,  BereBford.Ilelmont, San 
Carlos,     Redwood.    Fair     Oaks, 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto i6.46a 

6 .30*'  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  36* 

7-OOp  Sunset   Limited,  Eastbound.— San 

Luis  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 

AngeleB,  Demlng.  El  Pubo.  New 

Orleans,  New  York.  (Westbound 

„  ««     .  arrives  via  San  Jt-aqulu  Valley)...   -/8.25a 

8. 00p  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Stations 10.16a 

nl130P  Mlllbrae,  Palo    Alto  and  Way  Sta- 
tions     1945P 

all-30p  MUlbrae.  San  JoBe    and  Way  Sta- 

Uopb 19.46p 


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San  Francisco,  August  31,  1903. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Gift  of  Mr.  Pulitzer — The  Editor  of  the  "World" 
Founds  a  School  of  Journalism — Will  it  be  a  Success? — 
Extra  Session  of  Congress — The  Financial  Bill — Root  to 
Leave  the  War  Department — His  Political  Future — Taft 
to  Succeed  Him — The  President  and  the  Labor  Unions — 
The  Work  of  Advertising  California — Canada  Securing  Lake 
Trade— Union  Iron  Works  in  Hands  of  a  Receiver — Pacific 
Coast    Railroad    Activity — The    Marquis    of    Salisbury. . .  .  129-13; 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent  People  All   Over  the 

World     131 

The  Treasure  of  Laguna  Cave:   The  Story  of  Jennie   Ratcher's 

Luck.     By  Charles  Fleming  Embree   132 

Suspicious  Abdul  Hamid:  Amusing  Conspiracies  Which  the 
Sultan's  Advisers  Have  Recently  Discovered — The  Down- 
fall of  Fuad  Pasha— The  Heir  to  the  Turkish  Throne- 
Some   Royal   Princes    1 33 

King  Edward  at  Cowes:  How  England's  Sovereign  Rested 
During  Regatta  Week  After  His  State  Visit  to  Ireland — His 
Coterie  of  Favorite  Companions — A  Royal  Croquet  Game. 
By    "  Cockaigne  "     133 

Beautiful  Buzzards  Bav:  "  Van  Fletch  "  Analyzes  the  Popu- 
larity of  Joseph  Jefferson — How  the  Venerable  Actor  Won  a 
Wager  in  New  Orleans — General  Leonard  Wood's  Birth- 
place.    By  "  Van  Fletch  " 13.I 

I  Parsifal  "  in  New  York    134 

Some  New  Books  of  Verse.  Reviewed  by  Lionel  Josaphare. . . .    135 

Old  Favorites:    "A  Fancy,"  by  Owen  Meredith 136 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications     136-137 

Drama:  Henry  Miller  and  Margaret  Anglin  in  Richard  Harding 
Davis's  Play  "  The  Taming  of  Helen,"  at  the  Columbia.  By 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps   133 

Stage  Gossip   139 

Vanity  Fair:  What  it  Costs  Sir  Thomas  Lipton  to  Try  to  Lift 
the  Cup — Cost  of  the  Yachts,  Wages,  Entertainments,  Re- 
pairs, Etc.,  Run  Up  to  Nearly  a  Million — The  History  of 
the  "  America's  "  Cup — How  We  Won  it  from  the  English 
Holders — The  Contests  of  Early  Years — War  Department 
Objects  to  Officers  Bringing  Japanese  and  Filipino  Servants 
— The  Curious  Greek  Banquet  Given  in  Paris — Rules  for 
Servants — And  Mistresses — Do  Women  Carry  Coin  in 
Their  Stockings? — Paper  Clothes    140 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Brains  versus  Money  in  New  York — A  Story  of  a  Sleepy 
Judge — The  Prayer  of  a  Tattooed  Man— Hotel  Bills  for 
Fuss — A  Striking  Saying  of  the  Poet  Henley — One  on  Mrs. 
Pat  Campbell — The  Shrewdness  of  Lord  Dufferin — A  Story 
of  Lord  Salisbury — Some  Strenuous  Episodes  in  the  Career 
of  "  Calamity  Jane"    141 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "  How  She  Got  Ready  " 141 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and     Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 142-143 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day    144 


THE 

S.NAKK. 


"The  Union  Forced  Him  to  Quit  the  Militia"  is  the 
Scotch  brief  but  pregnant   heading  of  a   news- 

paper dispatch  from  Springfield,  III., 
dated  August  23d.  What  we  know  o\ 
the  action  of  the  Labor  unions  in  the  past  in  expelling 
sutne  national  guardsmen  from  their  ranks  and  coercing 
others  unwillingly  to  leave  the  military  service  of  the 
commonwealth,  leads  us  to  believe  that  the  dispatch  is 
tru\  This  is  only  the  latest  of  a  long  series  of  such 
acts. 

In  a  despotism  the  law  is  not  the  supreme  authority. 


The  despot  stands  above  all  law,  and  is  accountable  to 
no  one.  But  in  a  republic  laze  is  supreme.  No  man  is 
too  high  and  none  too  low  to  be  equally  subject  to 
law's  beneficent  or  maleficent  sway.  Law  without 
power  of  enforcement  is  void.  In  this  republic,  power 
of  enforcement  resides  primarily  in  the  civic  officials, 
and  ultimately  in  the  military  arm.  Any  act  designed 
to  weaken  the  arm  that  executes  law,  is  a  blow  at  the 
law  itself.  Since  government  rests  upon  law,  such 
an  act  is  a  blow  at  government.  Workingmen  in 
American  labor  unions  are  to-day  engaged  in  inciting, 
permitting,  or  performing  coercive  acts  designed  10 
render  the  National  Guard  powerless  to  perform  its 
proper  function  of  upholding  law  and  preserving  order. 
It  is  our  earnest  hope,  our  sincere  belief,  that  such 
workingmen  know  not  what  they  do.  If  these  acts  are 
performed  knowingly,  then  their  authors  are  enemies 
of  the  Government  of  the  United  States.  Such  acts 
are  treasonable.     Such  men  are  traitors. 

President  Theodore  Roosevelt  is  a  fearless  man. 
More  than  once  he  has  spoken  loudly  and  boldly  in 
moments  of  national  stress.  Such  was  his  declaration 
at  the  lime  of  the  anthracite  coal  crisis,  such  his  letter 
on  the  rights  of  the  negro  to  hold  office,  such  his  burn- 
ing words  to  Governor  Durbin  on  the  crime  of  lynch- 
ing. Frought  with  greater  portents  of  evil  than  the 
circumstances  which  moved  him  to  these  declarations 
is  the  present  insidious  attack  on  the  Republic.  Be- 
lieving, as  we  do,  that  it  is  undertaken  by  working- 
men  in  ignorance  of  its  profoundly  treasonable  char- 
acter, we  hold  that  a  solemn  word  of  warning  from 
one  high  in  authority  would  bring  to  them  a  realization 
of  their  false  position,  and  check,  if  not  end,  this 
traitorous  movement. 

Ji'ill  not  the  President  of  the  United  States,  realising, 
as  he  must,  tire  gravity  of  the  situation,  utter  the 
needed  words? 

When  one  reflects  that  Joseph  Pulitzer,  who  has  given 
the  gift  Columbia  University  two  millions  of  dol- 

of  lars    to    found    the    first    real    school    of 

Mr.  Puutzer.  journalism  in  the  world,  has  not  only 
amassed  this  wealth  in  the  conduct  of  a  newspaper, 
but  for  sixteen  of  the  twenty  years  that  he  has  been 
proprietor  of  the  New  York  World,  has  been  unable 
to  read  his  own  journal,  having  suffered  the  loss  of 
sight  and  health,  his  great  gift  to  education  becomes 
even  more  impressive.  It  seems  singular,  however, 
that  the  editor  of  the  yellowest  newspaper  in  the 
United  States  (until  Hearst  invaded  Xew  York  and 
out-Pulitzered  Pulitzer),  should  be  the  man  to  found  a 
school  avowedly  designed  to  "  raise  and  fix  the  char- 
acter and  standard  of  the  press  as  a  moral  teacher." 
Newspapers,  like  men,  appear  to  become  more  virtuous 
as  they  grow  older — natural  enough,  though  Pope,  we 
believe,  has  a  mordant  saying  to  the  effect  that  old  men 
grown  virtuous  are  only  making  a  sacrifice  of  the  devil's 
leavings.  A  still  more  ancient  proverb  is  "  Virtue 
after  money,"  but  the  World,  in  its  later  and  more  re- 
spectable years,  is  said  to  have  found  virtue  highly 
profitable,  and  to  have  far  outstripped  its  more  saffron 
competitor.  Certainly  its  circulation  is  now  wide,  and 
its  editorial  page,  in  the  hands  of  Pulitzer,  a  power 
in  the  land. 

The  career  of  this  Hungarian  Jew,  who  came  to  this 
country  as  a  young  man,  fought  in  our  Civil  War,  rose 
from  reporter  to  newspaper  proprietor  in  St.  Louis, 
and  achieved,  by  a  devious  but  ever  upward-tending 
path,  such  signal  success  in  the  metropolis,  is  a  striking 
one.      It   is  worthy   of   note   that   at  least   three  great 


American  newspapers  are  owned  by  men  who  are,  like 
Pulitzer,  of  Jewish  blood:  the  World,  the  Times,  and 
the  Philadelphia  Public  Ledger.  Perhaps  this  fact  ac- 
counts for  the  World  being  eulogized  by  the  Times, 
whose  motto  is  "  All  the  news  that's  fit  to  print,"  while 
the  World's  policy  was  long  diametrically  different. 

The  details  of  this  great  educational  foundation  are 
interesting.  Five  hundred  thousand  dollars  will  be  de- 
voted to  a  suitable  building  on  Morningside  Heights, 
another  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  will  cover  sal- 
aries and  other  expenses  of  maintenance.  If,  at  the 
end  of  three  years,  the  school  is  in  successful  opera- 
tion, Mr.  Pulitzer  will  give  another  million  dollars  to 
the  university,  the  income  of  half  of  which  will  go  to 
the  school,  the  other  half  to  purposes  to  be  later  agreed 
upon.  Mr.  Pulitzer  will  nominate  an  advisory  board  who 
will  aid  in  formulating  a  course  of  instruction.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  board  already  named  are  Nicholas  Murrav 
Butler,  president  of  Columbia  University,  ex-officio: 
Whitelaw  Reid,  editor  of  the  New  York  Tribune;  John 
Hay,  Secretary  of  State;  St.  Clair  McKelway,  editor 
of  the  Brooklyn  Eagle;  Andrew  D.  White;  Charles  W. 
Eliot,  president  of  Harvard  University ;  Victor  F.  Law- 
son,  a  Chicago  newspaper  publisher,  and  president  of 
the  Associated  Press;  Charles  H.  Taylor,  editor  of  the 
Boston  Globe. 

Since  this  board  and  the  university  authorities  will 
determine  what  the  course  of  instruction  shall  be,  its 
precise  scope  is  as  yet  unknown.  President  Eliot  sug- 
gests that  the  courses  be  "  Newspaper  Administration," 
organization,  functions  of  the  publisher,  etc. ;  "  News- 
paper Manufacture,"  presses,  inks,  processes,  etc. : 
"  The  Law  of  Journalism,"  libel,  sedition,  etc. ;  "  Ethics 
of  Journalism  " ;  "  History  of  Journalism  " ;  "  The 
Literary  Form  of  Newspapers  " ;  "  Reinforcement  of 
Existing  Departments  of  Instruction,"  economics,  his- 
tory, etc.  This  sounds  well,  but  Mr.  Pulitzer,  through 
his  paper,  explicitly  states  that,  though  he  is  deter- 
mined not  to  interfere  with  the  advisory  board,  "  it  was 
not  his  idea  in  founding  the  school  that  it  should  give 
so  much  attention  to  the  business  and  financial  or- 
ganization of  a  newspaper  as  Dr.  Eliot's  plans  suggest. 
These  are  easily  learned  as  other  businesses  are."  He 
thus  defines  his  views : 

The  donor's  primary  object  was  to  found  a  school  to  teach 
the  future  editors  and  reporters  how  best  to  make  a  news- 
paper ;  to  train  them  in  the  "  best  methods  of  ascertaining  the 
truth  "  ;  to  give  them  the  knowledge  most  useful  in  the  suc- 
cessful practice  of  their  profession,  and  finally  to  inculcate  the 
methods  and  principles  which  will  tend  to  make  the  newspaper 
profession  a  nobler  one,  to  raise  its  character  and  standing, 
and  increase  its  usefulness  as  a  moral  force. 

Mr.  Pulitzer  argues  that,  as  law  and  medicine  have 
their  professional  schools,  so  should  journalism  have 
them.  He  likens  its  present  status  to  that  of  law  when 
every  boy  was  expected  to  begin  his  legal  career  by 
sweeping  out  a  lawyer's  office.  It  is  the  function  of  a 
technical  school,  Mr.  Pulitzer  holds,  to  enable  its 
graduates  to  handle  the  tools  of  their  profession  with 
correctness  and  facility.  He  expects  the  school  of 
journalism  to  attract  more  and  more  to  the  profession 
men  of  the  highest  capacity  and  loftiest  ideals. 

The  press  of  the  country  has  naturally  commented 
upon  Mr.  Pulitzer's  plans  with  a  confident  dogmatism 
quite  unusual.  "  Iditors,"  as  Mr.  Dooley  says,  are  not 
"  akelly  sthrong  "  on  all  subjects,  but  they  are  certainly 
"  sthrong  "  on  this.  A  glance  through  our  exchanges 
shows  singular  unanimity  of  opinion.  The  great  ma- 
jority of  editors  of  daily  papers  have  risen  from  the 
ranks  of  reporters,  have  graduated  from  the  "  Univer- 
sity of  Hard  Knocks,"  and  they  stoutly  defend  their 
Alma  Mater.  "  What  the  journalist  needs,"  says  one. 
"  is  not  a  knowledge  of  journalism,  but  a  trained  and 
well-stored  mind.  The  rudiments  of  the  business, 
whether  picked  up  as  he  goes  along  or  learned  in  school. 


\ 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  31,  1903. 


are  of  minor  importance."  "  The  stern  city  editor,  he'll 
reeducate  them,"  says  another.  "  The  best  training  for 
journalism/'  avers  a  third,  "  is  in  the  shops  where 
journals  are  made/'  "  The  only  place  to  learn  the 
newspaper  business  is  in  a  newspaper  office,  and  you 
have  to  be  caught  tolerably  young  to  learn  it  all,"  says 
Whitelaw  Reid.  These,  as  we  say,  seem  to  be  typical 
verdicts,  and,  indeed,  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  they  could 
be  otherwise.  With  the  exception  of  the  technique  of 
journalism,  such  as  instruction  in  newspaper  manu- 
facture, newspaper  organization,  etc.,  which  Mr. 
Pulitzer  says  he  does  not  care  about,  all  the  subjects 
proposed  to  be  taught — economics,  history,  geography, 
grammar,  science — are  already  included  in  regular  col- 
legiate courses  at  Columbia  and  every  other  university. 
Is  not,  therefore,  separate  instruction  in  these  branches 
for  journalists  a  work  of  supererogation?  If  so — and 
it  seems  so — the  justification  for  the  school  of  journal- 
ism must  be  found  in  its  elevating  tendencies — its  im- 
provement of  the  morale  of  the  profession,  its  use  in 
giving  journalism  a  standing  among  the  learned  pro- 
fessions, its  influence  in  strengthening  the  esprit  de 
corps.  But  can  a  fountain  rise  higher  than  its  source? 
This  is  a  point  to  which  the  courteous  editorial  brethren 
of  Mr.  Pulitzer  have  studiously  refrained  from  re- 
ferring. But  it  is  a  vital  one.  Will  Pulitzer's  World 
be  the  ideal  of  Pulitzer's  school  of  journalism?  Or 
will  it  teach  that  Pulitzer's  methods  were  all  wrong? 


The  Marquis 


In  the  death  of  Lord  Salisbury,  England  loses  the  last 
of  the  trio  of  great  statesmen  who 
guided  the  ship  of  state  through  shoal 
Salisbury.  ancj  sri allow  during  the  fifty  years  of  the 

Victorian  era.  When  Salisbury  and  Disraeli  together 
represented  Great  Britain  at  the  Berlin  Congress,  Bis- 
marck thought  Disraeli  the  greater  of  the  two.  "  Der 
alte  Jude — er  ist  der  Mann  1"  ["  The  old  Jew — he's  the 
man!"]  he  exclaimed.  But  Salisbury  was -more  consis- 
tent than  Disraeli;  a  man  of  breadth  and  solid  qualities. 
His  was  a  more  profound  intellect  than  Gladstone's, 
who  was  "  honored  by  Greek  scholars  as  a  statesman, 
and  believed  by  statesmen  to  be  a  Greek  scholar."  He 
lacked,  however,  Gladstone's  power  to  move  the  people 
by  personal  magnetism  and  eloquence. 

Salisbury  entered  Parliament  just  fifty  years  ago, 
when  he  was  but  twenty-three  years  old.  As  the 
younger  son  of  an  ancient  house,  he  made  his  own  way 
in  politics  until  the  death  of  his  father  and  elder 
brother  made  him  lord  of  the  family's  vast  domains. 
His  first  great  office  was  secretary  of  state  for  India, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Lord  Derby  in  1866.  In 
1874,  he  was  reappointed  to  the  same  office  by  Disraeli 
In  1878,  he  became  secretary  of  state  for  foreign  af- 
fairs. In  1885,  he  became  Premier  of  England,  which 
office  he  held  five  times.  Lord  Salisbury  will  es- 
pecially be  remembered  in  the  United  States  for  the 
calm  wisdom  which  led  him,  in  the  face  of  public 
clamor,  to  yield  to  Cleveland's  demand  for  arbitration 
of  the  disputes  over  the  Venezuelan  boundary,  and 
which  without  doubt  averted  a  terrible  and  bloody  war. 


The  resignation  of  Elihu  Root  as  Secretary  of  War  has  been 
tendered  and  accepted  by  the  President,  with 

theTwTrLEAVE     the  understandine  that  Mr-  Root  sha11  retain 
Department.  the  office  at  least  until  January  ist.  Mr.  Root  is 

a  member  of  the  Alaskan  Boundary  Commis- 
sion which  meets  in  London  next  month.  Before  sailing,  the 
reporters  elicited  from  him  the  information  that  a  formal 
resignation  had  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  President,  and 
a  few  days  later  his  letter  was  given  out  for  publication.  Root's 
desire  to  return  to  his  law  practice  is  given  as  the  sole  reason 
for  the  change.  It  will  be  generally  recognized  that  as  a 
War  Secretary  Mr.  Root  has  made  a  distinguished  record. 
He  came  to  the  Department  from  the  law-office  without  any 
military  training,  and  with  no  special  knowledge  of  the  details 
and  methods  of  the  executive  branch  over  which  he  was  placed. 
He  followed  the  Alger  administration,  which  received  plenty 
of  criticism  for  the  shortcomings  of  the  Department  during 
the  Spanish  war.  He  reorganized  the  Department,  which  was 
becoming  demoralized  and  inefficient,  at  a  time  when  he  was 
obliged  to  deal  with  questions  for  which  there  were  no  guiding 
edents.  In  Cuba.  Porto  Rico,  and  the  Philippines  he  be- 
c  responsible  for  the  restoration  of  order  and  civil  govern- 
■  is,  and  in  each  case,  the  problem  was  varied  by  varying 
litions.  As  an  adviser  of  the  President,  his  hand  appears 
lie  minor  details  of  settling  the  numberless  questions  which 
departure  from  a  general  policy  subsequent  to  the  late  war 
had  brought  before  the  country.  With  all  this  on  his  hands, 
he  still  found  time  to  carry  out  military  reforms  in  the  army, 
which  promise  to  increase  its  efficiency.  The  legislation  upon 
which  he  founded  them  consisted  of  three  important  measures 
passt  i  in  the  last  two  or  three  years.  They  are :  The  act  in- 
creasing the  size  of  the  army  and  changing  the  organization 
of  me  line;  the  act  creating  a  general  staff;  and  the  act  for 
l>  reorganization,  equipment,  and  uniform  instruction  of  the 
N.  "or.al  Guard.     Mr.  l/.r.ot  has  demonstrated  his  ability  as  an 


executive  officer.  He  deserves  a  bright  political  future.  Whether 
it  is  to  be  realized  depends  largely  on  himself.  There  is 
plenty  of 'room  for  a  man  of  his  stamp,  and  already  the  gos- 
sips are  busy  with  his  political  future.  A  plausible  story 
suggests  that  Mr.  Root  will  be  a  candidate,  first  for  the 
governorship  of  New  York,  and,  subsequently,  for  the  Presi- 
dency in  1908.  It  is  pointed  out  significantly  that  President 
Roosevelt's  own  candidacy  for  renomination  and  election 
would  be  immensely  strengthened  by  the  entrance  of  Root  into 
New  York  State  politics.  The  President  needs  to  placate  the 
financial  interests  of  the  metropolis,  with  which  Mr.  Root 
stands  in  high  favor.  That  such  service  is  in  demand  is  con- 
ceded. There  is  disaffection  in  the  moneyed  circles  which 
centre  in  Wall  Street,  and  men  who  would  naturally  be  called 
upon  to  stand  the  financial  brunt  in  the  next  campaign  may 
sulk  in  their  tents  unless  some  such  influence  dissuades  them. 
The  Republican  party  has  matters  to  settle  in  New  York  before 
the  next  campaign,  in  which  Senator  Piatt,  Governor  Odell, 
and  the  President  are  prominent  factors.  Whether  Mr.  Root 
will  be  drawn  into  it  in  the  manner  suggested,  and  what  the 
result  will  be  if  he  is,  may  form  material  for  another  chapter. 
In  the  meantime,  his  successor  as  Secretary  of  War  is  being 
discussed,  and  no  name  appears  worthy  of  consideration 
except  that  of  Governor  Taft,  who  has  lately  shown  good 
executive  ability  and  a  disposition  to  work  harmoniously  in 
the  plans  of  the  administration.  It  is  certain  that  Governor 
Taft  will  accept  the  post  if  no  unforseen  difficulties  arise. 
He  will  be  succeeded  in  the  governorship  of  the  Philippines 
by   the  present   vice-governor,    General    Luke   Wright. 

The  rumors  that  the   President  would  call   Congress   together 
in  extra  session  have  narrowed  down  to  the 

Extra  understanding  that  the   call   will   be   made  in 

Session  .  . 

of  Congress  time    for    tlie    Passa§e    of    some    measure    re- 

garding   the    Panama    Canal,    and    to    agree 
upon     a     financial     bill.     The     latter     is     now     the     engross- 
ing    topic     in    connection     with       the     extra   session.        The 
Finance     Committee     of     the  Senate,     over     which      Senator 
Aldrich      presides       as       chairman,       has       been       conferring 
sedulously    of    late    with    intent    to    frame,    if   possible,    a    bill 
which    will    have    reasonable    assurance    of    passage.      That    is 
where   the   trouble    comes   in.      There   is   a    decided   difference 
of   opinion   even   in  the   Republican   ranks.      There   are   times, 
such    as    the    season    for   moving   fall    crops,    when   the    banks 
find   themselves   in  need  of  a  greater   volume   of  currency    in 
the  form  of  small  notes,  and  particularly  in  the  rural  banks. 
This    want    is    largely    felt    in    the    Middle    West.      When    the 
crops    have    been   moved   and   the    crop    marketed,    the    money 
returns  to  the  banks,  and  the  stress  is  over.     This  condition 
has  led  to  the  Western  demand  for  what  has  been  termed  an 
elastic    currency,    or    one    which    would    expand    and    contract 
automatically,    according    to    the    demands    of    business.      One 
of  the  remedies  is  based  on  the  fact  that  while  the  government 
receipts  frum  internal  revenue  are  deposited  in  banks,  and  find 
their  way  into  the  channels  of  trade,  the  larger  receipts  from 
the  customs  are  deposited  in  the  sub-treasuries  and  are  only  paid 
out  upon  the  appropriations.     This,  it  is  contended,  withdraws 
from  trade  a  sum  aggregating  $1,000,000  a  day.     The  proposi- 
tion is  made  that  the  national  banks  be  made  the  depositaries 
for   the   customs   receipts   also,   with   the   expectation   that   the 
exigencies   of   crop-moving  time   and  similar   seasons    of   need 
would  be  relieved.     Those  who  oppose  this  scheme  are  gener- 
ally   favorable  to   the  plan   represented  by   what   is   known   as 
the  Fowler  bill,   and  which  has   come  to   be  called  asset  cur- 
rency.  These  propose  to   authorize   the  issuance  of  additional 
currency  by  the  national  banks  to  the  amount  of  fifty  per  cent. 
of  their  capital,  and  place  upon  it  a  tax  of  three  per  cent,  per 
annum,  it  being  contemplated  that  under  such  an  arrangement 
the    banks    would    only    call    for   the    increased    circulation    in 
time  of  real  necessity ;  and,  when  the  stress  was  over,  the  tax 
would    induce    them    to    reduce    the    circulation    of    their    own 
accord.     The   increase   would   only    occur   when    the   increased 
interest    on    loans    would    exceed   the   three   per    cent.    tax.     A 
subsidiary  question  is  the  security  which  the  government  may 
accept  from  the  banks  for  deposits  and  for  the  circulation  of 
their  notes.     Here  again  the  Eastern  and  Western  ideas  are  in 
conflict.     The  former  would  include  in  the  acceptable  securities 
railroad    and    possibly    industrial    bonds,    thus    increasing    the 
market  for  the  particular  securities  in  which  Wall  Street  deals. 
The  latter  would  restrict  them  to  government  bonds,  and  those 
of   States   and  municipalities,  the  latter   of  which  the  govern- 
ment,  now    holds   to   the   amount   of   some   $20,000,000.      With 
these    questions    to    thresh    over,    it    is    quite    probable    that    a 
month   before   the    regular   session    of    Congress   will   be   none 
too  long  to  accomplish  anything  of  positive  value,  or  even  to 
reach  an  agreement.     A  feature  which  will  at  once  strike  our 
readers  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  particularly  in  this  State,  is  that, 
while  this  question  is  agitating  the  East  and  the  Middle  West, 
we  find  it  here  as  foreign  to  our  interests  as  .though  we  were 
in   a   detached   or   isolated   country.      Here   we   are,    and   have 
always  been,  on  a  specie  basis.     The  issue  of  bank-notes  and 
gold  and  silver   certificates   is   a  matter   with   which   the   Cali- 
fornian    has    apparently    little    concern.      He    scarcely    knows 
the   difference   between   gold-certificates   and  silver-certificates, 
bank-notes,    and    greenbacks.      These    conditions    account    for 
the  fact  that  California  is  a  passive  observer  of  the  discussion, 
and  seems  to  anticipate  the  result  with  a  tranquil  equanimity. 


President    Roosevelt   has   decided   that   there   shall   be  no    dis- 
crimination between  union  and  non-union  men 

The  President        •       .t.  i  T1 

m    the    government    employ.      1  he    question 

Labor  Unions         came  up  some  weeks  ago  in  the  government 

printing-office.     A  foreman  named  Miller  had 

been   expelled   from   the   union,   and   the   union    demanded   his 

discharge  from  government  employ.     He  was  discharged,  and 

this  brought  the  question  to  the  President's  attention.     Having 

ascertained  that  there  was  no   complaint  as  to   Miller's  work, 

President    Roosevelt    ordered  his   reinstatement.     He    then    set 

an  inquiry  on  foot  to  ascertain  whether  discrimination  was  be- 


About  Prison 
Reforms. 


ing  practiced  in  other  departments.  The  inquiry  developed 
the  fact  that  there  was  such  discrimination  in  several  places. 
The  President  had  written  to  Secretary  Cortelyou  in  connec- 
tion with  the  Miller  case  saying  that,  while  there  was  no  ob- 
jection to  employees  constituting  themselves  into  unions  if 
they  so  desire,  the  rules  and  regulations  of  those  unions  were 
not  to  be  permitted  to  override  the  laws  of  the  United  States, 
which  it  was  his  sworn  duty  to  enforce.  Letters  have  now 
been  written  to  the  heads  of  all  departments  referring  them 
to  this  letter,  and'informing  them  that  these  instructions  are 
to  be  taken  for  guidance  in  all  departments.  Labor  leaders 
have  called  on  Secretary  Cortelyou  to  inform  him  that  if  this 
order  is  enforced  union  men  will  not  be  permitted,  by  the  con- 
stitutions of  the  unions,  to  remain  in  the  government  employ. 
To  this,  he  has  replied  that  in  that  case  they  had  better  amend 
their  constitutions,  if  they  do  not  wish  them  to  be  in  conflict 
with  the  law  of  the  land. 

The  prison  directors  have  this  week  "  investigated  "  the  Fol- 
som  jail-break,  and  while  they  have  no  cen- 
DiRECTORs  Talk  sure  £QJ.  anyb0dy,  they  have  formulated  some 
new  rules  to  prevent  such  occurrences  in 
future.  Hereafter,  the  danger  of  killing 
guards  must  not  prevent  officers  from  firing  at  escaping  con- 
victs. This  was  the  rule  under  Aull,  and  it  is  now  again 
in  force.  The  directors  heard  the  stories  of  several  convicts, 
among  them  that  of  Joseph  Casey  (who,  by  the  way,  is  son 
of  James  P.  Casey,  who  was  hanged  by  the  Vigilantes  in  1856) 
the  trusty  who  bolted  the  gate.  He  will  be  recommended  for 
pardon,  as  will  also  Juan  Martinez,  who  closed  another  gate, 
and  rang  the  alarm  bell,  and  who,  furthermore,  is  alleged  to 
be  innocent  of  the  assault  for  which  he  was  sentenced.  No 
action  was  taken  in  the  cases  of  Dr.  Plant  and  Gatekeeper 
Chalmers,  who  are  alleged  to  have  cut  and  run  for  a  place  of 
safety  when  the  break  occurred.  It  was  decided  to  purchase 
five  saddle-horses,  and  to  provide  as  many  mounted  guards 
to  chase  runaways.  The  board  holds,  further,  that  it  has 
been  demonstrated  that  Folsom  needs  a  wall ;  that  forty 
officers  are  a  dangerously  small  number  to  guard  eight  hundred 
convicts ;  and  that  many  other  improvements  are  necessary 
that  cannot  be  made  without  more  funds.  Chairman  Fitz- 
gerald wishes  the  news  published  broadcast  that  the  board 
is  seeking  an  experienced  and  capable  warden  to  take  the 
place  of  Wilkinson,  who  retires  on  November  30th.  The 
salary  is  three  thousand  dollars  a  year,  a  residence  is  furnished, 
and  the  kitchen  is  supplied  from  the  prison  commissary.  Fitz- 
gerald  further  says : 

'"  If  the  people  who  criticise  us  for  not  having  trained 
penologists  in  charge  of  our  penitentiaries  will  only  trot 
them  out  now,  we  shall  be  greatly  pleased.  We  have  never 
yet  had  a  so-called  '  trained  penologist '  offer  us  his  services." 

Could  that  possibly  be  because  the  board  was  never  before 
"determined  to  have  an  experienced  and  capable  warden?" 


The   president   of    the    Montreal    board   of   trade   has   recently 
made  a  statement  of  trade  conditions  that  will 
Canada  certainly  prove  startling  to  the  merchants  of 

„        ,  this  country.     He  says  that  the  Atlantic  ports 

of  this  country  are  being  eclipsed  by  the  St. 
Lawrence  route  by  way  of  Montreal.  All  the  ships  that  have 
come  to  that  port  this  season  have  left  with  full  cargoes.  The 
cause  of  this  change  in  the  trade  route  is  the  fact  that  the 
Canadian  Government  has  abolished  the  canal  tolls.  Wheat 
and  other  commodities  can  be  shipped  from  any  of  the  lake 
ports  by  water  to  Montreal  much  cheaper  than  they  can  be 
carried  by  rail  to  any  of  the  Atlantic  ports  of  this  country. 
For  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  Canadian  North-West, 
practically  all  the  wheat  raised  there  has  been  shipped  to 
Europe  by  way  of  Montreal.  On  the  other  hand,  the  reports 
from  New  York  are  most  discouraging.  Shipping  men  say 
that  the  over-sea  freight  situation  has  never  been  worse  than 
it  is  at  present.  The  transatlantic  lines  are  sending  out  their 
great  vessels  with  holds  one-half  or  one-quarter  filled,  and 
there  is  no  charter  for  tramp  steamers  at  all.  The  only  thing 
that  prevents  a  tumble  in  freight  rates  is  the  fact  that  the 
port  has  been  abandoned  this  year  by  the  greater  number  of 
the  tramp  steamers  that  usually  come  there.  In  view  of  this 
situation  on  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  the  steady  increase  in  the 
foreign   traffic   at   this   port   is   particularly   satisfying. 

The  event  of  the  week  in  local  politics  is  the  letter  of  Mayor 

Schmitz    addressed   "  To    My    Friends   in   the 

The  Weeks  Republican    Convention."       The    gist    of    the 

~  epistle    is    that   the   mayor   is   first   and    fore- 

Political  Gossip.      ^  J  . 

most    the     candidate     of     the     Union     Labor 

party;  that  he  will  "go  before  the  people  on  that  ticket"; 
that  he  will  not,  however,  refuse  the  Republican  nomination 
should  "  your  convention  see  fit  to  indorse  my  candidacy,  and 
if  your  platform .  shall  be  such  that  I  can  conscientiously 
support  it  "  ;  that  the  Republican  party  is  the  one  "  to  whose 
declared  national  principles  and  policies  I  have  ever  given 
my  strongest  adherence " ;  but  that  "I  believe  the  exist- 
ence of  the  Union  Labor  party  under  prudent  and 
conservative  guidance  constitutes  a  safeguard  and  a 
protection  to  capital  and  labor  alike."  Substantially, 
the  mayor  seems  to  say :  "  Gentlemen,  I  would  like 
your  votes,  but  you  must  not  expect  me,  on  that 
account,  to  swerve  a  hair's  breadth  from  the  course  I  would 
otherwise  pursue."  The  letter  seems  calculated  to  weaken  his 
chances  of  indorsement.  "  The  Republican  party  can  not  af- 
ford to  play  second  fiddle,"  is  said  to  be  the  slogan  of  the 
anti-Schmitz  delegates.  On  the  other  hand,  the  mayor's  action 
will  undoubtedly  make  him  stronger  among  the  labor  union- 
ists. The  insinuation  that  Ruef's  delegates  are  not  heart 
and  soul  for  Schmitz,  and  that  there  is  a  dark-horse  some- 
where about,  has  become  still  more  intangible.  Reuf  is 
working  hard  banqueting  delegates,  etc.,  and  is  estimated  by 
some  to  have  one  hundred  and  forty-seven  votes.  The  anti- 
Schmitz  faction  still  have  about  twenty-five  candidates,  which 
is   equal   to   having   none.      Henry  Ach   is   now   slated   for  the 


August  31,  1903. 


n  x\  u  u  iN  a  u    x 


chairmanship  of  the  Republican  convention,  and  Thomas  W. 
Hickey  for  the  same  post  among  the  Democrats.  John  S. 
Partridge,  a  prominent  young  lawyer,  was  mentioned  for 
the  Republican  chairmanship,  but  it  is  recalled  to  his  dis- 
advantage that  he  was  chairman  of  the  last  judicial  conven- 
tion and.  therefore,  scarcely  deserves  so  soon  another  honor 
of  the  same  sort.  There  is  still  some  talk  among  the  defeated 
faction  of  the  Republican  party,  about  running  an  independent 
or  non-partisan  ticket  should  Schmitz  be  the  nominee  of  their 
convention. 


THE 

Equalizers, 


The  State  Board  of  Equalization  is  said  to  be  about  to  begin 
an  investigation  of  ihe  assessment-roll  of 
this  city  with  a  view  to  effecting  the  annual 
raise  and.  thereby,  making  the  three  country 
members  of  the  board  solid  with  their  con- 
stituents. "  There  is  extant  in  some  communities,"  says  the 
Chronicle,  "a  feeling  that  San  Francisco  has  the  money  and  the 
country  has  the  votes ;  therefore,  the  country  should  make 
San  Francisco  stand  and  deliver.  Of  course,  it  is  robbery 
.  .  but  for  that  particular  form  of  robbery  there  seems  no 
means  of  prevention,  except  the  dictates  of  the  consciences  of 
the  equalizers."  This  seems  about  the  size  of  it,  and  yet  it 
is  hard  to  submit  to  the  "  robbery,"  as  the  Chronicle  aptly  calls 
it,  without  even  a  healthy  howl  in  protest.  We  think  San 
Francisco  ought,  at  least,  to  give  the  equalizers  a  run  for 
their  money.  For  instance,  while  they  are  investigating  us 
after  the  usual  fashion,  why  not  investigate  them.  What's  the 
matter  with  the  mayor's  appointing  a  committee  of,  say,  five 
to  go  down  to  Santa  Cruz,  the  home  of  Equalizer  Mattison,  and 
see  how  much  Mr.  Mattison  pays  in  taxes,  how  much  his 
property  is  assessed,  how  much  insured  for.  Let  them  find 
out  how  much  some  of  the  Santa  Cruz  business  blocks  are 
assessed  for.  Then  send  the  committee  up  to  Woodland  to 
investigate  the  surroundings  of  Mr.  Beamer,  and  over  to  Mil- 
ton to  see  if  that  small  but  hustling  town  has  its  rolls  in 
proper  shape.  On  their  tour  the  committee  might  take  in  a 
few  of  the  larger  towns,  Stockton,  Fresno,  Santa  Rosa.  We 
think  one  small  San  Francisco  committee  with  a  moderate 
appropriation  could  make  things  wonderfully  interesting  for 
quite  a  number  of  people.     Why  not  let  them  do  it? 

In    a    paragraph    alleged    to    be    literary    criticism,    but    which 
sounds    to    us    strikingly    like   notes    on    an    in- 
The  Mind  teresting  pathological  condition,  the  editor  of 

of  One  ,       „      , 

the  Bookman   says: 
Editor. 

Two  days  after "  laying  aside  "  Trent's 
Trust,"  the  last  volume  from  the  pen  of  the  author  of  "'  The 
Luck  of  Roaring  Camp,"  we  find  the  seven  stories  which  make 
up  the  book  have  mentally  drifted  away  trom  us,  and  are  lost 
in  the  haze.  ...  Of  the  forty  odd  volumes  which  bear  his 
LBret  Harte's]  name,  we  retain  the  memory  of  the  atmosphere, 
and  of  a  certain  set  of  episodes  ;  but  just  what  these  episodes 
have  had  to  do  with  any  particular  story  is  quite  gone  trom 
us.  .  .  .  "A  Ward  of  Colonel  btarbottle  s  '  amused  us  im- 
mensely as  we  read  it,  but  probably  by  next  week  we  shall 
have  torgotten  even  the  title. 

Consult  a  specialist.     By  all  means  see  a  specialist  at  once. 

Whether  it  is  best  for  the  city  to  incur  a  bonded  indebtedness 
of  $18,135,000  tor  new  schools,  prison,  hos- 
pital, library,  parks,  play-grounds,  sewers, 
and  street-improvement  was  the  question 
discussed  by  members  of  the  Merchants'  As- 
sociation and  others  at  a  meeting  on  Tuesday  night.  Seven 
addresses  were  delivered.  Frank  J.  Symmes,  president  of  tnc 
association,  who  presided,  said  the  bonds  would  run  tor  torty 
years  at  tliree  and.  one-halt  per  cent,  interest,  and  that  the 
total  amount  to  be  paid  by  taxpayers  would  be  about  $40,000,- 
000.  "'  Ihe  chief  objection  that  has  been  advanced,"  he  said, 
I  is  in  the  nature  of  a  lack  01  confidence  in  public  officials 
who  are  likely  to  have  the  spending  of  the  money  raised  by 
the  bends."  It  is  our  solemn  duty,  he  continued,  to  put 
such  men  in  office  as  would  properly  expend  the  money.  There 
was  no  doubt  but  that  new  schools  and  a  new  hospital,  as  well 
as  other  improvements,  were  necessary. 

F.  W.  Dohrman,  the  next  speaker,  favored  the  bond-issue. 
He  thought  it  better  for  the  city  to  borrow  money  at  three  and 
one-half  per  cent,  than  to  use  taxpayers'  money  worth  six  or 
seven  per  cent.  He  thought  city  officials  had  been  maligned. 
He  predicted  that  the  money  would  be  honestly  expended. 
The  history  of  other  cities  was  that  those  who  had  made  last- 
ing improvements  had  been  blessed  by  those  who  came  after 
them. 

A  letter  was  read  from  A.  S.  Baldwin  who  opposed  the 
bond-issue.  He  claimed  that  if  a  check  were  placed  on  offi- 
cial extravagance,  $500,000  could  be  saved  each  year  for  per- 
manent improvements.  By  raising  saloon  licenses,  from  the 
the  present  absurd  rate  of  $86,  to  $500,  about  $500,000  more 
could  be  gained.  This  would  give  a  total  of  a  million  a  year 
for  necessary  improvements,  and  a  bond-issue  might  be 
avoided. 

Ex-Mayor  James  D.  Phelan  said  that  a  new  sewer  system 
was  necessary,  that  the  present  hospital  was  a  death-trap,  and 
our  school-buildings  the  worst  in  the  United  States.  He  opposed 
a  higher  saloon  license.  If  the  license  were  raised  to  $500, 
he  said,  one-half  the  saloons  would  go  out  of  business.  The 
loss  of  saloons  would  lower  rentals.  Lower  rentals  would 
lower  property  values.  Lower  property  values  would  affect 
assessment  rolls.  He  favored  bond-issues  for  all  purposes 
but  street  improvements. 

Miss  Caroline  H.  Hittell  urged  that  Twin  Peaks  and  Tele- 
graph Hill  be  reclaimed  and  beautified. 

Joseph  Hyman  offered  a  resolution  directing  the  officers 
of  the  Merchants'  Association  to  employ  an  engineer,  an  ac- 
countant, and  an  attorney  to  watch  the  expenditure  of  the 
money  to  be  derived  from  the  bond-issue,  and  thereby  prevent 
leakage.  The  resolution  was  voted  down  by  the  members  of 
the  association  present,  13  to  37. 

George  Renner,  of  the  Draymen's  Association,  made  a  plea 
for  better  streets.     He  said  that  every  drayman  paid  a  license, 


Opinions 

ON   THt 

Bond-issue. 


and  still  had  to  put  up  with  bad  streets,  which  was  a  shame. 
He  asserted  that  while  San  Francisco  spends  $190  a  mile  on 
paved  streets  annually,  Philadelphia  spends  $1,090,  Boston 
$1,700,  Buffalo  $372,  New  York  $840.  When  asked  if  he 
included  salaries  in  his  San  Francisco  estimate,  he  answered 
no. 

City-Engineer  Grunsky  described  the  "  horrors "  of  our 
present  sewer  system,  and  spoke  in  general  terms  of  the  ne- 
cessity for  bonding  the  city. 

According  to  the  Chronicle,  after  the  meeting  had  ad- 
journed the  anti-bond  people  "  claimed  their  side  had  not  been 
given  a  fair  chance,"  but  Chairman  Symmes  "  denied  any 
partisanship,  and  claimed  that  only  the  lateness  of  the  hour 
had  prevented  the  opposition  being  heard." 

Within  a  short  time  the  Union  Iron  Works  of  this  city  will 
pass  into  the  hands  of  ex-Senator  James 
Smith  as  receiver.  One  year  ago  the  plant 
and  all  the  property  of  the  company,  except 
its  interest  in  government  contracts  which 
could  not  be  assigned,  were  sold  to  the  Shipbuilding  Trust. 
The  Union  Iron  Works  took  a  lease  of  the  property  for  one 
year,  and  that  lease  has  now  expired.  When  the  Shipbuilding 
Trust  collapsed,  all  of  its  assets  were  turned  over  to  ex- 
Senator  Smith  as  receiver.  The  Union  Iron  Works  tried  to 
prevent  his  securing  possession  of  the  property  here.  The 
court  finds  that  the  company  has  no  interest  in  the  property 
to  protect.  It  has  nothing  but  a  respectable  name,  and  exists 
in  a  condition  of  genteel  poverty.  In  the  sporting  vernacular 
the  company  is  a  respectable  "  has  been."  For  the  protection  of 
the  government  and  for  the  enforcement  of  its  contracts  the  com- 
pany may  retain  possession  of  the  entire  property  and  plant 
until  it  shall  have  completed  the  vessels  provided  for  by  these 
contracts.  Limited  by  this  provision,  James  Smith,  Jr.,  is 
appointed  receiver  of  the  property,  subject  to  such  orders  as 
to  the  court  shall  seem  best. 


Union  Iron 
Works  in  Hands 
of  a  Receiver. 


The  Work  of 

Advertising 

California. 


The  promotion  committee  has  issued  an  interesting  report  show- 
ing the  work  done  by  it  during  the  month  of 
July.  During  that  month  1 ,807  letters  of 
inquiry  were  received,  3,172  answers  to  in- 
quiries were  mailed,  and  1,390  circular  letters 
sent  out.  Since  the  organization  of  the  committee  in  August 
of  last  year,  25,729  inquiries  have  been  received,  and  28,024 
answers  sent  out.  The  number  of  circular  letters  mailed  during 
the  year  was  19,514.  The  committee  has  secured  the  addresses 
of  54,240  persons  in  every  part  of  the  world  who  are  interested 
in  California.  As  indicating  the  character  of  the  literature 
issued,  the  titles  of  the  following  articles  sent  out  during  July 
are  interesting:  "Golden  Era  in  Golden  State,"  "Cheese 
Making,"  "  Dairying,"  "  Raising  Small  Fruits,"  "  Inyo  County," 
"  Nevada  County,"  "  Honey  Raising,"  **  Chicken  Raising," 
"  Tennessee's  Partner."  Through  republications,  these  articles 
have  had  a  combined  circulation  of  2,240,000.  The  demand 
for  the  publications  of  the  committee  has  been  widespread,  and 
the  files  of  all  the  newspapers  of  the  State  have  attracted  many 
visitors  to  the  headquarters. 

The  two-minute  trotter  is  here.  This  announcement  this  week 
must  have  stirred  the  blood  even  of  those 
who  know  little  of  horses  and  less  of  racing. 
For  thirty  years  the  two-minute  trotter  has 
been  discussed,  prophesied  about,  and  ardently 
Robert  Bonner  said  she'd  never  appear ;  other 
sanguine  people  thought  she  would.  Now,  by  the  grace  of  the 
pneumatic  sulky,  she  is  a  reality,  and  her  name  is  Lou  Dillon. 
The  mare  which  has  thus  won  fame  is  a  California  product, 
bred  on  a  Santa  Rosa  stock-farm,  and  said  to  have  been  offered 
for  sale  as  a  colt  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  She  is  five 
years  old,  dark  chestnut  in  color,  weighs  nine  hundred  and 
four  pounds,  is  a  little  over  fifteen  hands  high,  and  never 
trotted  in  a  race.  She  is  of  good  but  not  distinguished  an- 
cestry, and  was  bought  by  C.  K.  Billings,  her  present  owner, 
at    the    Santa    Rosa    sale. 


The 

Two-Minute 
Trotter. 

hoped    for. 


COMMUNICATIONS. 

Prisons  and  Reform. 
University  of  California.  Berkeley,    August    15,     1903. 

Editors  Argonaut:  I  want  to  heartily  thank  the  Argonaut  for 
the  articles  in  last  Saturday's  issue  on  the  prisons  in  California  and 
the  problem  of  dealing  with  criminals,  and  to  express  the  wish  that 
a  continuous  cannonade  with  guns  of  the  same  calibre  might  be  kept 
up   for   a   few   months. 

I've  no  interest  in  this  matter  beyond  that  of  a  fairly  intelligent 
and  respectable  citizen,  but  even  to  such  a  one  the  need  of  reforma- 
tion   is    apparent    enough.        Very    truly    yours,  W.  E.  R. 

"  The  City  Beautiful." 

San  Francisco,  August  20,  1903. 
Editors  Argonaut:  The  Outdoor  Art  League  wishes  to  tender  its 
thanks  for  your  appreciation  of  its  efforts  to  affect  the  removal  of  the 
forest  of  poles  now  disfiguring  the  city,  expessed  in  a  recent  number 
of  the  Argonaut.  The  league  trusts  it  may  merit  your  continuous 
approval.      Very  sincerely    yours,  Mrs.   Lovell  White. 


The  Probation  Law. 

Oakland,  August    20,    1903. 

Editors  Argonaut:  I  read  with  pleasure  your  article  in  the 
Argonaut  of  August  17th  on  "Crime:  Its  Prevention  and  Punish- 
ment." Certainly  the  public  needs  educating  on  that  subject.  I 
would  also  like  to  have  your  readers  know  that  California  now  has  a 
law  authorizing  the  appointment  of  probation  officers  to  have  charge 
of  offenders  over  sixteen  years  of  age,  released  by  the  court  upon 
probation.  The  Oakland  Club  has  undertaken  to  provide  a  salary  for 
a  probation  officer  for  Alameda  County.  He  was  appointed  in  June 
of  this  year. 

Already  we  are  beginning  to  see  the  good  effects  of  his  work. 
Two  cases  have  been  referred  to  him,  who  have  been  first  offenders 
— are  now  working  off  their  fine,  remaining  with  their  families, 
retaining  their  self-respect,  and  in  a  fair  way  to  be  henceforth 
honest  and  honorable  members  of  society. 

The  indeterminate  sentence  is  bound  to  become  the  law  of  the 
future,  when  once  it  is  understood.  Judge  Fort  reports  that  in  New 
Jersey,  out  of  three  hundred  criminals,  under  indeterminate  sen- 
tence within  the  last  four  years,  only  six  have  lapsed. 

Sincerely  yours,  S.   I.   S.,  M.  D. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


The  Marquise  de  Mores,  widow  of  the  strenuous  Frenchman 
who  won  fame  as  a  cattleman,  hunter,  and  dead  shot  in  the 
West,  and  who  was  murdered  in  the  Sahara  while  leading  an 
expedition  into  the  Soudan,  is  visiting  her  father,  Louis  von 
Hoffman,  the  New  York  banker,  after  an  absence  of  sixteen 
years. 

E.  H.  Harriman,  who  is  building  a  villa  near  Arden,  New 
York,  is  contemplating  an  expenditure  of  one  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  in  constructing  a  railroad  to  the  site  selected  in 
order  to  convey  building  materials  there.  The  original  plans 
of  the  house,  it  is  reported,  have  been  changed  slightly  since 
Harriman  has  been   studying  Old  World   architecture. 

James  Willis  Sayre,  the  Times  globe-trotter,  reached  Seattle 
at  4:15  p.  m.  on  August  19th,  over  the  Northern  Pacific.  At 
five  o'clock  that  afternoon,  Mr.  Sayre  had  been  gone  from 
Seattle  exactly  fifty-four  days,  eight  hours,  and  fifty-five  min- 
utes. The  best  previous  record,  made  by  Charles  Cecil  Fitz- 
moris,  was  sixty  days,  thirteen  hours,  and  twenty-nine  minutes. 
Thus,  Mr.  Sayre  has  broken  the  record  by  more  than  six 
days. 

It  is  said  that  Lily,  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  who  was  Mrs. 
Louis  Hammersley,  and  was  once  known  in  London  as  one 
of  the  most  lavish  of  American  hostesses,  is  rarely  seen  any- 
where nowadays.  She  is  in  wretched  health,  and  since  the 
death  of  her  husband,  Lord  William  Beresford,  has  been  living 
quietly  at  Deepdene  and  Brighton  with  her  little  son.  She  has 
recently  disposed  of  her  opera-box,  and  her  beautiful  London 
house  at  3  Carlton  House  Terrace. 

Pedro  Alvarado,  the  multi-millionaire  mining-man,  who  died 
recently  at  Parral,  was  one  of  the  most  spectacular  characters 
in  Mexico.  Six  years  ago,  he  was  a  barefooted  peon,  working 
in  a  mine  at  thirty  cents  a  day.  He  discovered  a  wonderful 
prospect,  now  known  as  the  Pal  Millo  Mine,  and  in  a  short 
time  was  worth  millions.  Alvarado  recently  offered  to  pay  the 
public  debt  of  Mexico,  but  this  offer  was  refused  by  the 
minister  of  finance.  He  was  very  charitable,  disbursing  mil- 
lions among  the  poor  of  Parral  and  the  surrounding  country. 

Drina  de  Wolfe,  whose  engagement  to  Frederick  Gebhard 
has  been  rumored  again  and  again,  is  said  to  be  too  much  in- 
terested in  her  stage  career  to  consider  any  matrimonial  otters 
seriously.  After  her  divorce  from  Charteris  de  Wolfe,  a 
younger  brother  of  Elsie  de  Wolfe,  the  well-known  actress, 
who  had  educated  him  carefully  and  generously,  that  young 
man,  who  was  only  twenty-two,  went  to  South  Africa,  and  has 
not  been  heard  of  since  by  any  of  his  relatives.  Drina  de 
Wolfe,  whose  maiden  name  was  Waters,  was  educated  in  Paris, 
where  her  grandmother  now  lives.  From  her  the  young  actress 
will  some  day  inherit  a  fortune.  Last  year  she  supported 
Henry  Miller  in  "  The  Taming  of  Helen,"  and  this  year  she 
will  be  in  Jessie  Millward's  company. 

The  Paris  papers  announce  that  Mile.  Gjena  Lunjevics,  the 
youngest  sister  of  the  late  Queen  Draga  of  Servia,  is  about  to 
make  a  tour  of  the  principal  music-halls  of  Europe,  commenc- 
ing at  Zurich  in  September,  in  order  to  earn  her  livelihood 
by  reciting  the  story  of  the  machinations  which  led  to  the 
tragic  assassination  of  her  sister  and  her  brother-in-law,  the 
late  King  Alexander,  The  lectures  will  consist  of  the  dis- 
closure ot  many  new  incidents  in  connection  with  the  crime, 
and,  above  all,  the  part  alleged  to  have  been  played  in  the 
tragedy  by  the  present  king.  A  Servian  land-owner,  a  friend 
of  the  family,  has  advanced  the  preliminary  funds.  In  the 
course  of  her  tour,  Mile.  Lunjevics,  who  is  twenty-five  years 
of  age  and  speaks  excellent  French,  will  visit  Vienna,  Buda- 
Pesth,  Frankfort-on-Main,  Berlin,  and  Brussels. 

Prince  Khilkoff,  the  Czar's  minister  of  railroads,  is  without 
doubt  the  greatest  railway  builder  in  the  world,  for 
during  the  eight  years  he  has  held  his  present  position,  almost 
thirteen  thousand  miles  have  been  constructed — more  than  one- 
third  of  the  railway  mileage  of  the  Russian  Empire.  To  him 
is  due  the  Siberian  Railway  construction,  and  the  fact  that 
Russia  is  far  more  formidable  in  the  Far  East  than  ever  be- 
fore. After  he  graduated  from  college.  Prince  Khilkoff  came 
to  the  United  States,  where  he  entered  the  employ  of  an 
American  contractor,  a  Quaker,  who  was  building  railways  in 
South  America,  The  young  man  started  out  by  carrying  a 
surveyor's  chain,  and  worked  his  way  upward  through  the 
grades  until  he  was  superintendent.  This  association  with 
Americans  in  the  daily  routine  of  hard  work  has  left  a  deep 
impression  upon  the  prince,  who  prides  himself  upon  his 
American  habits. 

Barrett  Browning,  the  only  child  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth 
Barrett  Browning,  who  is  now  a  gentleman  of  fifty  years  or 
more,  is  an  artist  of  considerable  reputation.  The  beautiful 
old  palace,  built  in  1680,  which  he  owns  in  Venice,  is  deco- 
rated with  his  works,  including  several  portraits  of  his  father 
and  mother  in  oil,  marble,  bronze,  pen  and  ink,  and  a  lot  of 
fine  antique  furniture  that  would  make  a  collector's  head 
swim.  He  does  not  spend  much  of  his  time  in  Venice,  how- 
ever, but  has  a  villa  near  Florence,  which  he  prefers. 
He  entertains  his  friends  there  in  a  princely  manner.  His  wife- 
was  a  Miss  Coddington,  of  New  York,  but  she  has  not  lived 
with  her  husband  for  several  years  on  account  of  his  evident 
preference  for  one  of  his  models.  The  model  married  and  left 
Venice,  but  Mrs.  Browning  did  not  return  to  her  husband's 
palace.  She  lives  in  apartments  on  the  Grand  Canal  with  her 
windows  overlooking  her  old  home.  The  patrimony  of  the 
artist's  mother  amounted  to  nearly  $500,000,  which,  being  well 
invested,  increased  considerably  in  value  during  her  lifetime. 
Mr.  Browning  had  an  income  of  $15,000  or  $20,000,  so  that 
their  son  has  not  had  to  suffer  the  privations  that  usually 
pertain  to  his  profession. 

Dr.  Lapponi,  who  has  just  been  re-appointed  Papal  physician 
by  Pius  the  Tenth,  was  almost  a  stranger  in  Rome  when  he 
entered  on  his  duties  at  the  Vatican.  When  the  medical  at- 
tendant of  Pope  Leo  died,  there  was  some  difficulty  in  finding 
some  one  to  take  his  place,  for,  owing  to  the  policy  adopted 
by  the  Holy  See  since  the  invasion  of  Rome  by  the  Italian 
Government,  none  of  the  professors  at  the  University  of  Rome 
was  eligible,  since  they  were  considered  to  be  allied  with  the 
hostile  government  party  which  controlled  the  university. 
Accordingly,  it  was  resolved  to  choose  the  Papal  physician 
from  outside  of  Rome.  In  most  of  the  Italian  cities  the  same 
difficulty  was  at  hand,  since  the  universities  were  all  under 
the  Italian  Government.  A  cardinal  who  was  very  close  to 
Leo  the  Thirteenth  in  all  his  councils  suggested  Dr.  Lapponi, 
whom  he  had  met  in  a  little  town  not  far  from  Ancona,  on 
the  eastern  shore  of  Italy.  He  had  been  impressed  by  his 
medical  skill,  but  much  more  by  his  practical  common  sense. 
Having  been  treated  in  a  severe  illness  by  Dr.  Lapponi,  he 
thought  him  eminently  fitted  for  the  care  of  the  old  Pope. 
Accordingly  one  day  there  came,  without  any  warning,  to  the 
village  physician  a  formal  document  asking  him  to  go  to  Rome 
to  accept  the  position  of  physician  to  the  Pope.  Lapponi 
could  not  believe  his  eyes.  For  a  moment  he  thought  of  the 
possibility  of  a  practical  joke,  but  the  invitation  came  through 
official  channels.  He  at  once  made  his  way  to  Rome.  From 
the  very  beginning  he  won  the  confidence  and  respect  of  Pope 
Leo  and  his  household.  As  the  result  of  his  formal  connection 
with  the  Papal  household,  many  of  the  old  nobility  of  Rome 
who  were  faithful  to  the  Pope  became  his  patients,  and  in  a 
few  years  he  assumed  an  important  place  in  medical  circles 
in  the  Italian  capital. 


THE  TREASURE  OF  LAGUNA  CAVE. 

The  Story  of  Jennie  Ratcher's  Luck. 

Where  a  canon  opens  out  half-bowl-like  to  the  sea  is 
Lagnna,  a  tiny  place  far  from  a  railroad.  There  the 
beach  is  terminated  on  either  hand  by  rocks,  and  on 
them  the  wild  Pacific  rends  its  breast;  or  here  lies 
purring  on  warm  sand  like  a  cat  upon  a  hearth. 

From  El  Toro  the  stage  came  rattling  through  the 
canon  at  dusk,  and  deposited  Harrison  Ratcher  and 
wife  at  the  largest  of  those  wooden  houses  that  face 
the  beach.  On  the  porch  was  a  sign,  "  Rooms  for  Rent." 

They,  an  eager  young  couple,  entered  a  large  living 
apartment;  and  Mrs.  Miggs  sat  there  knitting.  In  a 
corner,  bent  over  a  table,  whereupon  were  cards,  which 
told  the  hours  of  high  and  low  tide,  sat  a  very  old  man. 

"Here  we  are  again!"  cried  Jennie  Ratcher.  "Just 
as  last  year,  and  ready  for  another  vacation.  How  is 
the  crop  of  abalones?" 

She  gave  Mrs.  Miggs  an  enthusiastic  kiss. 

"  You  see,"  said  Ratcher,  "  we're  so  glad  to  get  out 
of  Los  Angeles  and  the  curio  store,  that  we  want  to 
jump  right  into  the  sea.  We'll  gather  abalones.  The 
demand  for  shells  is  big  at  the  store." 

Plump,  placid  Mrs.  Miggs  pointed  a_  thumb  to  her 
pile  of  abalone  shells  under  a  window.  She  had  shark's 
eggs  in  a  bowl,  starfish  on  the  wall,  and  barnacles  and 
things  all  over  the  house. 

"  See,"  she  said,  "  how  many  old  Mr.  Jones  has  got 
for  me." 

Old  Jones  was  mumbling  in  his  beard:  "9:43  A-  Mv 
December  the  third.  Lowest  in  sixty-two  years.  Two 
more  days." 

Some  of  the  shells  had  been  ground,  and  glowed 
with  the  light  and  coloring  that  have  made  California 
shells  famous. 

"  If  they  are  so  plentiful,"  cried  Jennie,  "  we  can 
make  our  vacation  expenses  out  of  abalones.  Oh,  Mrs. 
Miggs,  how  we  have  slaved!  And  poor  Harrison  half 
sick!  We  are  building  up  a  trade;  and  in  a  few  years, 
maybe,  we  shall  be  out  of  debt  1" 

Old  Jones  here  arose  and  faced  Jennie,  who  was  a 
picture  of  optimism  and  health.  There  was  a  wide  smile 
on  his  countenance,  which  was  haggard  and  startling. 

"  Come  here !"  said  Jones,  and  toddled  to  a  window. 
The  Ratchers  stared  out  where  he  pointed.  His  voice 
was  like  the  rustling  of  damp  papers.  "  Down  that 
way  there  aint  none."  He  swept  his  hand  to  the  south. 
His  eye  on  them  dilated.  Don't  go  that  way.  Go  up 
this  way !"    He  swept  his  bony  hand  to  the  north. 

"  Oh,  thanks !"  said  Jennie,  inclined  to  edge  away 
from  him.  And  Ratcher  laughed  big  bass  gratitude  at 
the  information. 

"  How  old  are  you?"  shouted  Ratcher. 

"  Oh,  don't  yell,"  said  Jones.  "  Ninety-five.  I'll  go 
to  bed." 

He  mumbled,  and  went  up  the  stairs.  His  old  legs 
wobbled.  He  was  'saying  to  himself :  "  9  43,  December 
the  third.   Lowest  in  sixty-two." 

Up  he  climbed;  now  his  head  disappeared;  now  his 
withered  trunk;  now  his  rickety  legs.  They  heard  his 
footfalls,  soft  and  strange,  along  an  upper  hall.  Old 
Jones  had  left  a  chill  behind. 

"  Who  is  that  peculiar  person  ?"  Jennie  whispered 
to  Mrs.  Miggs. 

"  Some  old  sailor,"  was  the  Miggs'  reply.  "  He  came 
two  years  ago,  and  was  always  studying  the  tides,  just 
as  now;  and  seemed  to  be  watching  for  something  that 
didn't  occur;  and  then  of  a  sudden  he  dropped  out  of 
sight.    A  week  ago  here  he  was  again,  toddling  in." 

Next  day  the  winter  sun  was  warm.  Mrs.  Ratcher 
was  an  inspiring  thing  in  her  bathing-suit,  running 
down  over  the  sand  like  an  antelope,  more  health  in  her 
than  in  three  ordinary  men.  And  into  the  sea  she 
plunged  shouting,  her  jolly,  big  hollow-chested  husband 
after.  When  they  emerged,  yonder  was  old  Jones 
gazing  at  them  through  a  window. 

"  He  makes  me  cold,"  shuddered  Jennie,  stopping 
in  a  laugh. 

Then  Jones's  peculiar  head  was  thrust  far  out  over 
the  roof  of  Mrs.  Miggs's  porch,  and  while  the  haggard 
face  smiled  widely  bland,  the  head  wagged  three  times 
to  the  north.    Jones  shut  one  eye  as  he  wagged. 

"  Horrors,  what  does  the  creature  mean?"  said  she. 
But  Ratcher  roared  with  merriment. 

"  He  means  to  hunt  to  the  north.  He  said  that  there 
are  no  abalones  to  the  south." 

"  Mercy,  let's  do  it,  and  get  out  of  his  sight,"  she  said; 
and  went  skimming  the  sand  and  leaping  the  rocks,  he 
alter,  in  the  search  for  abalones. 

After  an  hour,  when  she  had  been  felled  by  a  billow, 
she  poked  her  glowing  head  up  through  its  crest  and — 
behold  !  the  eye  of  old  Jones.  Old  Jones  was  seated  on 
a  crag  seventy  feet  high. 

"  Horrors!"  she  said;  "look  at  him." 
Ratcher  paused  with  a  mammoth  yellow  abalone  in 
his  hand,  and  stood  in  four  feet  of  water,  gazing  up  as 
though  Jones  had  been  a  comet.     Old  Jones's  horrible 
head  was  thrust  uut  further  over  the  uneven  edge  of 
his  precipice,   and   wagged   three   times,  majestic,  yet 
ghastly,  to  the  north.    He  shut  one  eye  as  he  wagged. 
"  What  a  lugubrious  mortal !"  said  she. 
That  night  old  Jones  seemed   feebler  as  he  sat   in 
Mr^   Miggs's  house,  mumbling  over  his  tide-cards.  Now 
and  then  his  old  eye  gazed  at  Jennie,  suspicious  and 
uneasy.    She  was  so  alarmingly  healthy,  no  wonder  she 
ff '  upon  the  nerves  c  f  anybody  so  near  his  grave  as  old 
lu'ies.     Mrs.  Miggs  -vas  stringing  limpet  shells  from 


THE        ARGONAUT. 

the  hanging-lamp.  Mrs.  Miggs  had  big,  red  crawfish 
in  a  pan.  Old  Jones  went  up  to  bed  in  ramshackle  way; 
his  head  disappeared;  his  trunk;  his  legs.  They  heard 
his  rustling  footfalls  grow  faint  in  the  hall  above. 

The  walls  of  that  house  were  very  thin.  In  the  night, 
fennie  Ratcher  awoke  from  her  vigorous  sleep  with  a 
sense  of  queerness.  But  all  she  heard  was  old  Jones 
in  a  distant  room  mumble  and  ramble  in  wakefulness, 
and  say :    "  Two  more  days.    Oh,  me." 

Had  Mrs.  Ratcher  not  been  one  of  the  most  ex- 
traordinarily healthy  women  that  ever  drew  breath,  she 
would  have  slept  no  more.  But  she  did  sleep — shades ! 
how  Mrs.  Harrison  Ratcher  could  sleep ! 

The  following  afternoon,  again  in  bathing-suit  and 
gamboling  beyond  all  reason,  she  went  over  the  rocks 
with  her  husband,  who  grinned,  half-stupified  at  her 
vim.  To  the  rear  she  saw  old  Jones  creeping  out  of  the 
house  with  his  eye  fastened  on  her. 

"  Harrison,"  she  wdiispered,  where  Mr.  Ratcher  stood 
poised  on  a  crag,  and  hugged  him  in  the  sight  of  gossip- 
ing seagulls,  "  that  old  thing  yonder — he's  fooling  us. 
I  see  right  through  him.  Ugh  1  See  his  bad  eye !  I 
know  that  there  must  be  oodles  of  abalones  under  those 
southern  rocks,  and  what  that  old  specimen  says  is 
intended  to  deceive.  I'm  going  to  slip  down  and  go  to 
that  very  place." 

And  she  rubbed  her  nose  on  Mr.  Ratcher's  cheek,  as 
though  she  were  whetting  it,  then  charged  down  jagged 
places  to  the  sea.  When  she  was  hid  down  there  she 
crept  southward  to  the  spot  where  the  rocks  end  and  the 
beach  begins.   Away  across  the  sand  she  flew. 

Yonder  across  the  gap  the  southern  rocks  rose,  and 
Ratcher  saw  her  disappear  among  them ;  then  perceived 
old  Jones,  fifty  yards  behind  him,  stare,  wag  his  head, 
and  grow  agitated.  Of  a  sudden,  down  over  the  rocks 
and  out  across  the  sand  to  the  south,  queer  Jones,  with 
rickety  haste,  eyes  ablaze,  went  toddling.  And  Ratcher 
sat  down  on  the  rocks  and  shook  with  laughter,  but  later 
followed  Jones. 

Jennie,  making  flying  leaps  over  incredible  gulfs  be- 
tween rocks,  was  finding  quantities  of  abalones. 

"That  shameless  old  codger!"  cried  she,  and  stood 
gazing  round  at  the  wild  spot  wherein  she  found  herself, 
or  sticking  her  toe  into  the  sea-anemones  to  see  them 
shut  up  round  it  and  squirt.  Then  she  felt  a  chill,  and 
turned  quickly  to  look  up.  Over  a  rock  that  hung  above 
her,  projected  the  ragged  head  of  Jones,  twelve  feet 
distant,  against  the  unfathomable  California  sky. 

"  Mercy  1    Get  away,"  said  Mrs.  Ratcher. 

"  Say,  come  out,"  rustled  old  Jones.  His  countenance 
had  a  dreadful  look.  "  Come  north,  along  of  me,  to 
where  your  husband  is.    I'll  tell  you  about  Dana." 

"  About  what?" 

"  I  sailed  with  Dana,"  cried  the  old  man,  hoarsely, 
over  the  rock.  "  With  Richard  Henry  Dana  in  the 
Pilgrim  away  back  in  the  'thirties.  Y'ou  read  '  Two 
Y'ears  Before  the  Mast '  ?" 

"Oh,  surely!"  cried  Mrs.  Ratcher,  making  such  a 
jump  to  the  shore  that  Jones  rubbed  his  eyes. 

"Come  away;  I'll  show  you  where  we  threw  the 
hides  down,"  he  said. 

"  Hurrah!"  cried  Mrs.  Ratcher;  and  sprinted  on  the 
sands  to  meet  Ratcher.  "  What  do  you  think !  This  old 
exhibit  was  with  Dana." 

The  exhibit  came  toddling  along.  "  Here,"  he 
mumbled,  excited,  pulling  them  by  the  clothes.  "  You 
can't  see  the  place  unless  you  come  away  to  the  north." 

Old  Jones  could  make  pretty  fair  time  himself  when 
he  had  a  mind  to. 

Ratcher  was  laughing,  to  Jennie's  disgust,  and  she 
hit  him  on  the  back.  But  it  was  all  tragic  to  Jones.  The 
sweat  stood  out  on  his  brow. 

When  they  came  to  the  summit  of  the  northern  rocks, 
he  stood  wind-shaken  and  dilapidated  under  the  circling 
gulls,  and  pointed  to  a  distant  cliff. 

"  Yonder,"  he  said,  "  we  threw  them  down.  The  ship 
was  gathering  hides  from  the  Mexicans  to  sell  in  Bos- 
ton. To  every  old  mission  up  and  down  the  coast  we 
went.  Oh,  me.  Queer  days.  The  captain  was  a  tough 
one.  At  San  Juan  Capistrano,  behind  that  mountain, 
they  collected  many,  and  brought  'em  yonder.  We 
climbed  up  there,  and  threw  them  to  the  beach.  Oh, 
how  they  would  skim  and  fly  like  birds  1  Oh,  me.  And 
right  in  the  middle  of  that  cliff  they  let  Dana  down 
by  a  rope  for  one  that  stuck.  Seems  yesterday.  Dana 
was  a  brave  striplin',  but  he  had  a  mean  streak." 

"  What?"  cried  Jennie,  rebelling. 

"  Y'es,"  said  Jones,  "  he  done  me  dirt." 

The  old  man  would  say  no  more.  Watchful,  feeble, 
he  clung  to  Ratcher  and  wife  all  day  like  a  leech. 
I'hey  agreed  to  go  south  no  more  till  they  could  do  it 
secretly.    They  ielt  sorry  for  the  wobbling  old  codger. 

At  night,  Mrs.  Ratcher  ate  dozens  of  slices  of  bacon, 
not  to  mention  eggs. 

"  Oh,  Mrs.  Miggs!"  she  whispered,  "  I  know  we  can 
pay  for  our  vacation  with  abalones  The  sea  is  so  good 
for  Harrison !  In  three  years  we  will  be  out  of  debt, 
and  maybe  build  a  house  of  our  own." 

And  Mrs.  Miggs  rattled  a  new  kind  of  clams  that  she 
had  in  her  pocket,  and  laughed  her  easy  laugh. 

Jennie  slept  like  a  top,  an  extraordinary,  a  miraculous, 
slumber,  till  2  a.  m.  And  then  up  she  woke  of  a  sudden 
as  though  she  meant  business  for  certain.  She  heard  a 
rustling  outside  her  door.  Ah — to  be  sure.  But  two 
things  in  the  world  rustled  like  that:,  old  Jones's  feet. 
She  was  going  to  see,  was  Mrs.  Ratcher,  and  creeping 
to  the  door,  opened  it  a  crack.  At  the  end  of  a  corridor 
was  a  gable  window  over  the  sea,  and  through  it  moon- 
shine fell.     She  came  close,  and  found  Jones  with  his 


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head  sticking  out  in  the  moonshine,  staring  at  the  Pa- 
cific. He  seemed  to  be  crazy  and  in  pain.  He  wept 
piteously. 

"  I  will  not  live  to  find  it,"  he  said.  "  I  am  dead.  Oh, 
the  tides !  You  white  lunatic  moon,  you  make  them. 
I  see  the  Pilgrim  now.  Captain,  we'll  get  them  down. 
Oh,  captain,  don't  flog  me  no  more,  I'm  old.  I  never 
done  no  harm  to  you.  Don't  beat  me  no  more.  I  can't 
see  where  the  place  is  in  the  rocks;  it  was  in  that  direc- 
tion ;  the  tide  has  never  been  low  enough.  These  mod- 
ern houses  bother  me.  But  it  will  be  low  enough.  Why 
couldn't  it  have  been  to-night?" 

He  put  his  head  down,  and  sobbed.  Jennie  Ratcher 
picked  him  right  up,  and  bundled  him  to  bed;  just 
hustled  him  right  along.  Then  she  slept  like  a  top  till 
ten  minutes  of  eight,  and  Mrs.  Miggs's  ham  rose 
through  the  whole  house  on  the  breezy  wings  of  the 
morning. 

This  day  Jones  was  too  feeble  to  get  up,  a  fact  which 
crazed  him  the  more;  when  they  went  out  to  hunt 
for  abalones  they  left  him  raving.  Mrs.  Miggs,  scared, 
was  sending  off  for  the  doctor. 

"  I'm  going  right  where  he  said  not  to  go,"  said 
Jennie.  "  There's  some  mystery  about  that.  Anyhow, 
there  are  oodles  of  abalones." 

They  went,  free  of  old  Jones  and  his  eye  at  last. 
Everybody  in  Laguna  had  remarked  on  the  tide  to-day, 
lowest  in  sixty-two  years,  when  Mrs.  Ratcher  plunged 
into  the  sea  under  the  southern  rocks.  It  enabled  one 
to  hunt  abalones  to  the  best  advantage,  and  the 
sea  was  as  smooth  as  a  new  Los  Angeles  cement  side- 
walk. 

"  Mercy  me  !"  cried  she.   "  What's  this  ?" 

Ratcher  floundered  there,  and  saw  a  hole  in  the  rock 
which  the  falling  tide  had  partially  disclosed. 

"A  cave!"  carolled  Mrs.  Ratcher,  and  waded  in 
water  nearly  to  her  neck,  only  to  return  in  glee  and 
send  Ratcher  for  a  candle.  Ratcher  was  back  in  a 
minute  with  that  article. 

"  Old  Jones  is  in  a  horrible  way,"  said  Ratcher. 
"  Yelling  at  the  top  of  his  voice  that  he  will  die.  Just 
screeching  it !" 

"  I  don't  believe  him,"  said  Jennie.     "  Here  goes." 

And  they  floundered  in.  This  cave  was  short,  and 
led  up  out  of  water  to  the  centre  of  those  rocks,  and 
there  stopped.  It  was  an  ugly  place,  with  scarcely  a 
thing  worth  seeing. 

"Shoot,"  said  Jennie;  "who  cares  for  a  stupid  old 
cave?" 

"  What's  this  ?"  cried  Ratcher,  holding  the  candle 
to  a  rock.  She  came  and  found  a  little  lead  box,  and 
tried  to  open  it.  It  would  not  open.  She  lifted  it,  and 
bit  the  clasp  with  her  teeth;  literally  chewed  the  clasp 
oft".     Oh,  Jennie  was  somewhat  of  a  wonder. 

A  gap  in  the  narrative,  like  a  nick  in  an  old  blue 
soup-plate.  The  Ratchers  have  prohibited  the  dis- 
closure of  the  nature  of  that  treasure.  But  it  was 
splendid ! 

They  stared  at  those  things ;  and  at  each  other. 

"Golly,"  said  Jennie;  "we'll  just  take  these,  thank 
you." 

"  But  here's  a  paper,"  he  said. 

"  Let's  get  out,  the  tide  will  get  us !"  cried  Mrs. 
Ratcher.  They  looked  the  old  hole  pretty  well  over 
first,  and  then  waded  out  in  the  water  up  to  her  glowing 
neck.  Outside,  they  sat  and  read  the  paper,  she  stowing 
those  splendid  things  somewhere  in  the  neighborhood 
of  her  bosom.     Here  are  the  contents: 

Keep  out.  Git  away.  These  things  is  charmed.  The  devil 
will  toiler  him  who  takes  I  stole  these  here  things  me  and 
Bill  when  we  went  to  get  hides  from  a  Mexican  named  Juan 
Carrillado.  We  were  getting  them  hid  in  the  ship  when  Dana 
found  it  out.  Dana  made  a  row  he  says  if  we  didn't  take 
them  back  he'd  do  it.  We  thought  he  was  going  to  give  us 
away,  and  when  the  tide  was  low  we  come  and  hid  them  in  this 
here  cave  what  Bill  found  when  he  went  huntin'  abalones  with 
the  cook.  .  .  .  We  told  Dana  we  took  them  back  to  Carrillado. 
The  ship  sail  to-night  but  she'll  be  back  here  in  a  month  and 
me  and  the  devils  will  git  you.  Hands  of  1  This  is  to  warn 
anybody  that  finds  these  here  things  that  they  are  charmed 
and    the    devil    will    eternal    toiler   him   who    takes. 

They  sat  and  pondered  for  some  time. 

"  That  knocks  the  bottom  out  of  it,"  said  Jennie. 
"  We'll  have  to  hunt  Juan  and  turn  them  over." 

"  Doubtless  he's  dead,"  said  Ratcher. 

"  Why,  there'll  be  some  children  or  something.  Why, 
Harrison,  you  wouldn't  steal  ?" 

"  I  never  have  yet,"  snorted  Ratcher. 

They  hurried  back  to  Mrs.  Miggs's. 

"  How's  Jones?"  they  asked. 

"  Dead,"  she  said,  cool. 

"  Oh,"  they  replied ;  and,  of  course,  everybody  was 
solemn  till  after  the  funeral.  Poor  old  Jones,  who 
cared?  Oh,  ninety-five  years!  Oh,  progress  of  the 
human  race  while  old  Jones  wandered !  What  matter 
his  coffin,  his  unloved  remains,  his  grave  upon  a  hill? 

On  a  gray  day,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thatcher  visited  an  old 
cemetery  at  San  Juan  Capistrano,  accompanied  by  a 
priest. 

"  I  am  told,"  said  the  priest,  scratching  in  the  dust 
upon  a  stone,  "  that  the  last  of  the  Carrillados  lies 
here." 

They  looked;  they  could  just  make  out: 

•     FALLECIO      : 


And  Jennie,  having  an  uncontrollable  vision  of  a 
possible  house  of  her  own,  said,  slowly,  with  scandal- 
ous levity  repressed:    "  R. — I. — P.!" 

Charles  Fleming  Embree. 

San  Francisco,  August,  1903. 


August  31,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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SUSPICIOUS    ABDUL    HAMID. 

Amusing  Conspiracies  "Which    the   Sultan's  Advisers  Have   Recently 

Discovered  — The  Downfall  of  Fuad  Pasha  — The  Heir  to 

the  Turkish  Throne— Some  Royal  Princes. 


In  his  timely  volume,  "  The  Turk  and  His  Lost 
Provinces."  which  is  based  on  the  interesting  letters  he 
contributed  to  the  Chicago  Record-Herald  about  a  year 
ago,  William  E.  Curtis  relates  some  remarkable  stones 
illustrating  the  numerous  conspiracies  which  are  con- 
stantly being  hatched  by  Abdul  Hamid's  immediate  at- 
tendants. There  are  no  political  parties  in  Turkey; 
there  are  no  political  issues.  Mr.  Curtis  says  it  is  all 
a  question  of  obtaining  the  Sultan's  favor,  and  the  en- 
tire Mohammedan  population  is  divided  into  two  classes 
— the  ruling  favorites  and  those  who  have  been  dis- 
carded. The  officials  and  army  officers  who  have  been 
disgraced  and  removed  from  their  positions  naturally 
desire  to  recover  them,  and  hate  the  Sultan  because  he 
likes  other  people  better  than  themselves.  The  same 
jealousies  prevail  among  the  men  of  the  court  as  among 
the  women  of  the  harem.  The  outside  population, 
however,  take  no  interest;  they  are  glad  to  be  let 
alone. 

One  of  the  most  recent  of  the  curious  conspiracies 
which  are  constantly  being  discovered,  and  which 
for  a  time  created  a  profound  sensation  at  the  Yildiz 
Kiosk  and  caused  the  Sultan  the  loss  of  considerable 
sleep,  was  inspired  by  a  young  Turk  of  high  family 
named  Rechad  Bey: 

His  father  occupies  a  post  of  distinction,  and  many  of  his 
relatives  are  employed  about  the  court  in  offices  of  responsi- 
bility. As  a  rare  favor  to  the  family,  the  Sultan  permitted 
them  to  send  the  young  man  to  England,  where  he  attended 
school  for  several  years,  and  imbibed  a  great  many  ideas 
which  do  not  conform  to  the  present  state  of  affairs  in 
Turkey.  In  igoi,  upon  his  return,  he  organized  a  football 
club  among  the  young  men  of  his  acquaintance,  and  practiced 
in  a  vacant  lot  behind  a  high  wall  in  the  neighborhood  of  his 
father's  palace.  The  detectives,  who  are  always  around,  dis- 
covered that  something  unusual  was  going  on.  and  upon  making 
a  thorough  investigation  decided  that  Rechad  Bey  had  or- 
ganized a  desperate  conspiracy  against  the  life  and  govern- 
ment of  the  Sultan.  He  was  arrested  in  the  middle  of  the 
night.  The  keys  to  the  garden  and  the  club-house  were  seized, 
and  the  most  astounding  discoveries  followed.  In  the  club- 
house were  found  several  footballs,  a  lot  of  jerseys,  and  the 
colors  of  the  club,  with  shin-guards,  nose-protectors,  elbow- 
pads,  and  other  paraphernalia  familiar  to  football  player?. 
To  complete  the  damning  evidence,  one  of  the  detectives 
cunningly  ascertained  that  the  name  of  the  large  elastic  bomb 
which  these  young  men  were  in  the  habit  of  kicking  around 
at  each  other  was  the  same  term  as  that  used  by  the  Turks 
for  a  cannon-ball.  Hence,  it  must  be  a  new  kind  of  bomb  or 
shell,  and  the  police  authorities  were  convinced  that  they  had 
unearthed  an  important  conspiracy  to  assassinate  the  Sultan 
and  blow  up  the  palace.  The  footballs  were  submerged  in 
water  to  prevent  their  explosion,  and  the  sweaters  and  the 
rest  of  the  outfit  were  carried  cautiously  in  the  palace  in  order 
that  the  Sultan  might  see  for  himself. 

Mr.  Curtis  explains  that  football  has  been  played 
for  years  in  Constantinople  by  the  young  men  of  the 
English  embassy  and  the  European  colony,  and  also  by 
the  students  of  Robert  College,  but  the  police  authorities 
and  the  Sultan  never  happened  to  hear  of  it.  Hence, 
they  knew  nothing  of  the  game: 

When  the  friends  of  Rechad  Bey  learned  how  serious  a 
predicament  he  was  in  they  appealed  to  the  British  embassy 
for  assistance.  One  of  the  secretaries  was  sent  to  the  minister 
of  police  to  explain  the  nature  of  the  game  and  the  uses  of  the 
terrible  articles  that  had  been  discovered  at  the  club-house. 
He  unlaced  a  football  without  the  slightest  trepidation,  and 
showed  the  officials  how  it  was  made.  He  put  on  the  nose 
guards,  the  shin  protectors,  and  the  other  armor,  and  attempted 
to  convince  them  of  its  innocent  purpose.  But  they  were 
still  very  suspicious.  Perhaps  their  pride  had  something  to  do 
with  it.  for  they  insisted  upon  having  Rechad  Bey  severely 
punished,  and  he  was  bundled  off  in  great  haste  to  Teheran. 
Persia,  where  he  can  not  do  anything  to  aid  in  the  disintegra- 
tion of  the  Ottoman  Empire. 

The  Sultan's  advisers  tell  him  that  his  life  is  in 
danger,  and  are  continually  discovering  conspiracies 
which  never  exist.  A  recent  fictitious  conspiracy  against 
him  was  attributed  to  one  of  his  best  and  most  loyal 
friends,  Fuad  Pasha,  "  the  Hero  of  Elena,"  one  of  the 
foremost  generals  in  the  war  against  Russia  in  1877, 
and  the  war  against  Greece  in  1897: 

Fuad  Pasha  is  an  enlightened  and  honest  man,  and  has  had 
the  confidence  of  the  foreigners  to  a  degree  greater  than 
almost  any  other  of  the  Sultan's  favorites.  Until  recently, 
he  was  so  much  of  a  favorite  that  the  Sultan  allowed  him 
to  hold  his  handkerchief  for  the  people  to  kiss,  which  was  a 
mark  of  the  Greatest  honor  and  confidence.  He  kept  Fuad 
Pasha  about  his  person  constantly,  giving  him  the  command 
of  his  bodyguard  :  but  Fuad  in  some  way  offended  the  detective 
department,  which  reported  to  the  Sultan  that  his  favorite 
was  involved  with  the  reformers  known  as  the  "Young 
Turkey  "  party,  and  spies  were  set  to  watch  his  house.  Fuad 
noticed  strange  men  about  the  premises.  He  probably  sus- 
pected who  they  were,  and  what  they  were  there  for,  but 
pretended  to  believe  that  they  were  burglars,  and  purchased 
a  supply  of  rifles  and  revolvers,  which  he  placed  in  the  hands 
of  his  servants,  with  instructions  to  fire  upon  the  intruders 
if  they  became  offensive.  This  fact  was  reported  to  the  Sultan 
promptly,  and  the  vigilance  of  the  spies  was  increased.  A  few 
days  later,  a  collision  occurred  between  them  and  Fuad's  ser- 
vants, in  which  several  were  killed  and  wounded.  Fuad  was 
immediately  arrested,  taken  to  the  palace,  and  after  an  inter- 
view with  the  Sultan,  was  sent  aboard  the  latter's  private 
yacht,  which  sailed  at  once  for  Beirut  without  allowing  the 
prisoner  to  communicate  with  his  family  or  friends.  He  is 
supposed  to  have  been  sentenced  to  exile  at  Damascus  instead 
of  being  executed,  which  is  a  mark  of  great  forbearance  upon 
the  Sultan's  part. 

In  1901,  when  the  Sultan  went  to  Seraglio  Point 
to  worship  at  the  mosque  that  holds  the  sacred  mantle 
of  the  prophet,  another  funny  thing  occurred: 

He  was  landed  at  the  regular  dock,  where  a  carriage  was 
waiting  to  convey  him  to  the  old  palace,  but  he  had  not  pro- 
ceeded far  when  he  noticed  that  telegraph  wires  had  been 
stretched  across  the  driveway  along  the  line  of  the  railroad, 
and  positively  declined  to  pass  under  them.  Nobody  knows 
what  was  in  his  mind,  or  what  he  thought  would  happen,  but 


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the  entire  procession  was  stopped  right  there,  and  remained 
motionless  until  aids-de-camp  had  galloped  away  to  summon 
somebody  from  the  railway  headquarters  who  could  climb  the 
poles  and  cut  down  the  wires.  Nor  have  they  been  replaced. 
The  Sultan  positively  forbade  it,  but  the  railway  officials  are 
supposed  to  have  dug  a  trench  and  hidden  them  underground. 
If  the  Sultan  learns  that  fact,  he  may  refuse  to  drive  over 
them. 

He  is  very  superstitious  about  electricity,  but  is  as 
inconsistent  concerning  it  as  he  is  with  everything 
else: 

He  will  not  permit  electric  lights,  or  telephones,  or  electric 
street-cars  anywhere  in  Turkey,  although  the  government  has 
a  telegraph  line  to  every  important  portion  of  the 
empire,  and  the  Sultan  has  an  instrument  and  an 
operator  in  his  private  office  to  receive  messages  in 
his  own  private  cipher  from  detectives  and  other 
officials  in  different  parts  of  the  country  in  whom  he  has 
special  confidence,  or  to  whom  he  may  have  intrusted  im- 
portant business.  He  maintains  a  regular  system  of  com- 
munication with  officials  of  the  empire  entirely  distinct  from 
and  without  the  knowledge  of  their  immediate  superiors.  The 
general  of  the  army  and  the  minister  of  war  do  not  know 
what  communications  are  passing  between  commanders  of 
posts  and  districts  and  their  sovereign,  and  the  minister  of  the 
interior  can  never  be  sure  what  private  reports  are  being  made 
by  his  subordinates.  Thus,  the  mutual  distrust  that  exists  be- 
tween the  Sultan  and  his  ministers  is  not  only  recognized, 
but  promoted. 

The  heir  to  the  Turkish  throne,  we  learn,  is  not  the 
son  of  the  Sultan,  but  his  eldest  living  male  relative — 
brother,  son,  or  cousin,  whoever  it  happens  to  be.  This 
is  the  law  of  Islam,  and  has  been  a  fruitful  source  of 
conspiracy  and  tragedy  ever  since  the  Turks  have  been 
in  possession  of  the  Ottoman  Empire.  The  present 
Sultan  has  five  brothers  who  will  precede  his  children 
on  the  throne.    His  heir  is  Reshad  Effendi: 

He  has  been  kept  a  practical  prisoner  for  twenty  years,  so 
that  very  few  people  know  him  :  he  is  said  to  be  a  man  of  re- 
finement, education,  and  integrity,  much  superior  to  his  im- 
perial brother  in  intellect  and  appearance.  He  occupies  a  por- 
tion of  the  Dolma-Baghtcheh  Palace  in  Constantinople  during 
the  winter  months,  and  during  the  summer  goes  to  Machla.  a 
suburban  town,  where  he  has  a  farm  and  a  pretty  villa.  He 
has  never  been  allowed  to  leave  the  immediate  vicinity  of 
-Constantinople,  and  his  communications  with  the  outside  world 
have  been  closely  restricted  by  the  orders  of  his  brother.  He 
is  said  to  read  French  readily,  and  to  receive  the  principal 
newspapers  and  reviews  of  Europe  that  are  printed  in  that 
language.  JHe  is  also  beiieved  to  have  been  in  sympathy  and 
in  communication  with  his  brother-in-law,  the  late  Damad- 
Mahmoud  Pasha,  who  fled  to  escape  a  sentence  of  death  for 
his  liberal  opinions.  This  is.  however,  purely  conjecture,  he- 
cause  if  the  Sultan,  with  all  his  spies,  can  not  discover  such  a 
circumstance,  it  would  seem  impossible  for  the  gossips  to  learn 
anything  about  it. 

Prince  Selim,  the  Sultan's  eldest  son,  is  more  re- 
spected than  any  other  member  of  the  family.  Mr. 
Curtis  says  that  the  fact  that  there  are  several  lives 
between  him  and  the  throne  gives  him  greater  freedom 
than  he  would  otherwise  enjoy,  and  adds: 

He  was  born  in  January.  1870,  and  is.  therefore,  thirty-three 
years  old.  He  has  only  one  wife,  and  keeps  no  harem, 
which  is  a  surprising  exception  in  the  imperial  family.  He 
holds  the  rank  of  colonel  in  the  army,  and  commands  one  of 
the  regiments  of  the  palace  guards.  His  duties  are  light,  how- 
ever, and  leave  him  plenty  of  leisure,  which  he  spends  in  study 
with  French  and  German  tutors,  although  I  understand  that 
his  French  tutors  were  recently  dismissed  by  command  of  the 
Sultan,  because  they  were  suspected  of  giving  the  young  man 
dangerous  information.  Prince  Selim  is  not  intellectual,  how- 
ever: his  mind  is  said  to  be  rather  dull,  but  he  is  patient  and 
studious,  and  has  a  retentive  memory,  which  is  perhaps  better 
for  a  man  of  his  position  than  more  brilliant  attainments. 

Some  years  ago.  Prince  Selim  incurred  the  enmity 
of  his  father  because  of  the  use  of  disrespectful  lan- 
guage, and  was  immediately  banished  to  Bagdad  for 
several  months : 

Later,  he  was  allowed  to  return  to  Constantinople  under  the 
surveillance  of  Kiazim  Pasha,  his  maternal  uncle,  who  has 
the  confidence  of  the  Sultan.  The  relations  between  the  prince 
and  his  father  have  never  been  fully  restored,  and  there  is 
no  confidence  between  them.  But  the  prince  receives  a  liberal 
allowance,  and  is  allowed  to  do  practically  as  he  pleases, 
although  he  is  surrounded  by  spies,  and  is  not  permitted  to 
leave  the  city.  He  seems  to  be  very  fond  of  his  wife,  who 
is  the  daughter  of  one  of  the  pashas  about  the  court,  and  of 
his  only  child,  a  little  girl  now  twelve  years  old. 

Ahmed,  the  third  son,  who  is  twenty-four  years  old. 
is  his  father's  favorite,  and  is  studying  military  tactics 
under  the  direction  of  one  of  the  most  successful  of 
Turkish   generals : 

He  is  destined  to  be  commander  of  the  army.  Burham  Ed- 
din,  who  is  seventeen  years  old.  is  also  a  favorite,  and  has 
considerable  musical  talent.  The  Sultan  frequently  introduces 
him  to  foreign  visitors,  and  has  him  perform  for  them  upon 
the  piano.  When  Emperor  William  of  Germany  was  visiting 
Constantinople,  the  young  prince  was  detailed  as  one  of  his 
attendants  and  the  members  of  the  Kaiser's  suite  took  a  great 
fancy  to  him.  He  was  then  only  about  fourteen  years  old, 
but  was  quite  mature,  and  conducted  himself  with  great  dig- 
nity. All  the  princes  are  educated  by  French  and  German 
tutors. 

Mr.  Curtis  says  the  Sultan  is  very  liberal  toward  his 
family : 

He  is  absolute  master  of  the  finances  of  the  empire.  He  is 
not  required  to  prepare  a  budget  or  report  his  expenditures. 
The  public  money  belongs  to  him.  and  he  directs  its  disburse- 
ment. He  gives  each  one  of  his  brothers  and  sisters  a  palace,  fully 
furnished  and  equipped,  and  all  their  household  expenses  are 
paid  from  the  imperial  treasury.  In  addition  to  this,  each 
one  of  them  has  an  allowance  of  $5,000  a  month  for  pin 
money.  But  Abdul  Hamid  is  much  more  economical  than 
Abdul  Aziz,  his  predecessor,  who  squandered  more  than 
$100,000,000  during  his  reign  without  a  thing  to  show  for  it. 
and  piled  up  a  debt  so  big  that  it  can  never  be  paid.  The 
public  bonds  now  outstanding  amount  to  over  $750,000,000, 
and  the  revenues  of  the  government  can  scarcely  pay  the 
interest.  The  finances  of  Turkey,  like  those  of  other  bank- 
rupts, are  controlled  by  a  committee  representing  the  foreign 
bondholders,  who  receive  from  the  treasury  a  certain  amount 
of  money  every  month,  and  distribute  it  among  the  creditors 
of  the  nation. 

The  volume  is  handsomely  bound,  copiously  illus- 
trated, and  supplemented  with  an  index  and  a  colored 
map  of  the  Balkan  states.  Published  by  the  Fleming  H. 
Revell  Company,  Chicago;  $2.00  net, 


KING    EDWARD    AT    COWES. 


How  England's  Sovereign   Rested   During   Regatta   "Week    After   His 
State    Visit    to    Ireland  —  His    Coterie    of  Favorite    Com- 
panions— A  Royal  Croquet  Game. 

There  is  no  one  spot  in  the  whole  of  his  dominions 
where  it  pleases  King  Edward  to  be  so  much  as  Cowes. 
It  is  the  only  place  in  England  where  he  can  throw 
off  state  and  ceremony  and  the  restraint  which  they 
enforce.  During  Regatta  Week  he  has  been  living 
quietly  and  comfortably  aboard  the  big  steam-yacht, 
the  Victoria  and  Albert,  in  which  he  has  just  returned 
from  his  state  visit  to  Ireland.  Near  by  is  moored  his 
racing  cutter,  Britannia,  which  has  not  entered  any  of 
the  races  this  year.  His  pleasure  often  of  an  afternoon 
is  to  take  a  party  of  his  own  particular  pals,  and  go  for 
a  sail  in  her,  between  tea  and  dinner.  But  mornings 
he  generally  loafs  about  the  awninged  decks  of  the  big 
steam-yacht,  and  passes  his  time  behind  a  big  "  Reina 
Victoria  "  cigar,  and  a  pair  of  marine  glasses,  watching 
the  preliminary  manoeuvring  and  final  starting  of  the 
yachts  in  the  various  races,  the  chief  of  which  take 
place  about  ten  or  eleven.  He  is  always  attired  in  the 
regulation  blue  serge  Cowes  reefer,  white  duck  trousers, 
and  white-topped  yachting  cap. 

Sometimes,  as  soon  as  a  big  race  has  started,  and 
the  competing  yachts  are  but  white  dots  of  swan-like 
canvas  upon  the  distant  blue  of  the  Solent,  where  it 
becomes  Spithead,  and  fades  in  turn  into  the  waves 
of  the  channel  at  the  "  Nab,"  he  comes  ashore  in  his 
steam-pinnace,  and  goes  to  the  club-house  of  the  Royal 
Yacht  Squadron.  There  he  meets  and  talks  to  old 
friends  and  cronies,  some  of  them  the  greatest  yachting 
men  in  the  kingdom ;  or  wanders  about  on  the  green 
lawn  that  stretches  down  to  the  water's  edge.  During 
his  present  visit,  he  is  surrounded  by  his  usual  coterie 
of  favorite  companions,  chief  of  whom  is  the  Portu- 
guese minister,  M.  de  Soveral.  Consuelo,  Duchess  of 
Manchester,  the  present  young  duke's  mother,  is  one 
of  the  king's  greatest  friends  at  Cowes,  as  is  also  Mrs. 
George  Keppel. 

It  may  interest  those  of  your  readers  who  play  the 
game  to  hear  that  yesterday  afternoon,  when  the  racing 
for  the  day  was  over,  and  the  German  emperor's  Meteor 
had  again  crossed  the  line  when  the  winning  gun  fired. 
King  Edward  indulged  in  a  quiet  foursome  of  croquet 
on  the  yacht  squadron's  lawn.  It  was  screened  off 
from  view  of  the  world  outside  of  the  club's  enclosure. 
Being  one  of  the  lucky  ones  on  the  inside,  I  had  a  five 
minutes'  view  of  the  game.  No  one  was  allowed  to 
stand  and  look  on.  but  you  could  walk  up  and  down  for 
a  time,  and  get  glimpses  as  you  passed. 

The  king's  partner  was  Mrs.  Keppel :  their  adver- 
saries, the  Marquis  of  Ormonde  and  Queen  Alexandra, 
dressed  in  a  simple  suit  of  plain  brown  holland. 
At  one  stage  of  the  game,  it  happened  that 
the  king  was  for  the  lower  peg.  having  got  through 
the  previous  hoop  by  the  aid  of  his  partner's  ball, 
which  was  for  the  hoop  following  the  peg.  Their  ad- 
versaries were  together  between  the  fourth  and  fifth 
hoops.  The  king  stood  cogitating  what  to  do.  In 
coming  through  his  last  loop  he  had  unfortunately 
"wired  "  his  partner's  ball.  The  peg  (for  him,  with  his 
little  practice")  was  a  by  no  means  sure  shot.  If  he  hit 
it,  he  would  still  be  wired  from  his  partner.  It  was  too 
far  to  have  a  try  at  his  adversaries.  No  one  dared  say 
anything  till  he  spoke.  He  stood  and  surveyed  the  po- 
sition. The  great  monarch  might  have  been  deciding 
the  question  of  the  "  open  door "  in  China  from 
the  breathlessness  with  which  his  cogitations  were 
watched. 

At  last  he  spoke.   I  can  hear  him  now. 

"I'm  rather  stumped  over  this.  Mrs.  Keppel."  he  said, 
in  his  thick  little  German  voice. 

"Yes,  sir:  it  is  rather  awkward."  replied  the  other 
brown  holland  figure,  for  no  one  dared  outdress  fair 
Alexandra  under  her  very  nose. 

"  Have  a  try  at  us."  called  his  august  consort. 

"  And  a  nice  fool  I  should  look  if  I  missed  you,  eh?" 
he  laughed ;  "  yet  I  ought  to  separate  you  two." 

"Why  not  come  to  me,  sir?"  said  Mrs.  Keppel. 

I  thought  I  saw  the  queen  glance  quickly  over  her 
shoulder  at  the  speaker.  Whether  the  king  saw  it,  too, 
I  can't  say.  I  only  know  that  he  instantly  raised 
his  mallet  and  took  a  shot  at  the  ball  of  his  wife,  without 
seeming  tn  take  any  aim.    Of  course,  he  missed. 

I  went  walking  up  and  down  again  with  the  friend 
I  wras  with. 

"  The  queen's  just  as  fond  of  him  as  ever,  isn't  she?" 
said  I. 

"Or  he  of  her?"  asked  she,  in  turn. 

The  Prince  of  Wales  is  staying  on  board  the  yacht 
with  his  father,  and  goes  about  with  him  a  good  deal, 
also  attended  by  no  state.  The  princess  is  "  doing '"' 
Switzerland  like  an  ordinary  common  or  garden 
tourist.  She  is  accompanied  by  the  Countess  of 
Airlie  as  her  lady  in  waiting.  Lady  Airlie  is  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  women  in  England  —  as  perfect  a 
type  of  genuine  Irish  beauty  as  you  will  be  able  to 
find  anywhere.  She  is  a  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Arran. 
and  the  widow  of  the  Earl  of  Airlie,  who,  as  colonel 
of  the  Twelfth  Lancers,  was  killed  in  a  charge  at  the 
head  of  his  regiment  in  the  South  African  war.  Her 
sister.  Viscountess  Cranborne,  who  is  married  to  Lord 
Salisbury's  eldest  son,  is  almost  as  beautiful. 

Cockaigne. 

Cowes,  Isle  of  Wight,  August  17,  1893. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


August  31,  1903. 


BEAUTIFUL    BUZZARDS    BAY. 

"Van  Fletch"    Analyzes    the    Popularity  of  Joseph   Jefferson— How 
the  Venerable  Actor  Won  a  Wager  in    New    Orleans- 
General  Leonard  Wood's  Birthplace. 

Buzzards  Bay  is  certainly  a  beautiful  place,  in  spite 
of  Venice.  The  place  includes  a  landscape  that  is  prin- 
cipally waterscape,  with  some  picturesque  islands  dotted 
about'.  It  is  a  lovely,  irregularly  shaped  basin  of  salty 
water  that  is  perfectly  adapted  to  reflecting  sunsets,  at- 
tracting south-west  breezes,  and  summer  residenters. 
To  Bostonians  of  wealth  and  quiet  tastes,  the  bay  is  a 
strong  rival  of  the  north  shore  for  popularity.  There 
is  a  considerable  fleet  of  both  steam  and  sail  yachts  to 
add  to  the  picturesqueness,  and  yesterday  one  of  the 
local  yacht-races  took  place,  the  white  wings  of  the 
boats  quite  resembling  a  flight  of  mackerel  gulls  skim- 
ming the  water. 

The  present  wide-spread  fame  of  Buzzards  Bav, 
which  takes  away  considerable  of  the  ill-odor  of  the 
name,  is  due  to  ex-President  Grover  Cleveland,  who 
spends  his  summers  at  Gray  Gables,  and  Joseph  Jeffer- 
son, the  venerable  actor.  It  was  an  interesting  thing  to 
meet  and  become  intimate  with  "  Rip."  It  was  the 
philosophical  side  of  him  that  attracted  me,  and  I 
found,  upon  analysis,  that  it  was  philosophy  thrown 
into  his  acting  that  gave  him  the  charm  that  has  made 
him  the  head  of  his  profession.  Let  me  tell  you  a  story 
to  illustrate. 

One  day,  in  New  Orleans,  I  was  out  walking  with 
Mr.  Jefferson.  We  were  on  St.  Charles  Street,  at 
its  busiest  part,  near  the  corner  of  Canal  Street.  It 
was  hotter  than  the  hinges  of  Texas,  but  we  didn't 
mind  it  a  bit.  We  were  philosophizing.  I  being  the 
younger  man.  pere  Joseph  was  leaning  on  my  arm, 
and  dropping  pearls  into  my  ear  by  the  bucketful. 
It  was  the  pearls  that  kept  me  cool,  just  as  they  keep 
decollete  society  ladies  warm  in  winter  when  strung 
about  the  naked  neck.  Mental  pearls  are  even  more 
meteorologically  harmonizing  than  the  costly  diseases 
of  the  pearl  oyster. 

Mr.  Jefferson  was  giving  me  the  secret  of  his  popu- 
larity which  I  had  requested  of  him.  He  first  protested 
that  he  was  not  altogether  popular.  "  Some  people 
hate  me  worse  than  old-fashioned  pizen,"  said  he,  "  but 
as  long  as  it  is  they  who  are  doing  the  hating  and  taking 
the  poison,  I  am  not  letting  it  worry  me.  If  people 
do  really  love  me,  as  I  hope  they  do,  I  think  it  is  because 
I  love  something  in  everybody.  Some  one  gave  me  a 
pointer  when  I  was  a  little  fellow,  running  about  the 
stage  under  the  heels  of  my  father  and  mother  and  the 
rest  of  the  company  they  were  with  at  the  time.  I  was 
the  boy  of  the  '  star,'  and  as  saucy  as  a  baby  star  had 
a  right  to  be  by  reason  of  my  inheritance.  There  was  a 
little  nigger  on  the  stage  placed  for  some  minor  part 
among  the  soupage.  The  little  darkey  offended  me  in 
some  way,  and  I  began  calling  him  names.  Just  then, 
one  of  the  old  men  in  the  company  picked  me  up  in  his 
arms  and  told  me  a  story.  He  told  me  that  '  in  every- 
thing that  lived  there  is  some  secret  of  knowledge  or 
talent  that  we  do  not  have,  and  that  in  that  regard 
even  a  little  nigger  might  be  better  off  in  some  one 
thing  than  anybody  else  in  the  world.  Now,  Joey,  if 
you  spend  your  time  finding  out  what  stunts  the  little 
nigger  can  do  that  you  can't  do,  and  will  do  the  same 
with  everybody  you  meet  in  the  world  when  you  have 
a  chance,  and  never  call  anybody  names,  you  will  be  the 
richest  man  and  the  smartest  man  in  the  world,  and  the 
biggest  star  on  the  stage.' 

"  The  story  of  the  old  man  impressed  me  and  set  me 
to  hunting  human  thought  secrets,  and  hunting  hardest 
in  the  most  unlikely  places.  Whenever  I  have  a  chance  to 
stop  and  do  some  secret  fishing  or  hunting,  I  approach 
the  person  expectant  of  finding  in  him  something  supe- 
rior. Well,  he  doesn't  always  give  up  his  secret,  and 
possibly  he  does  not  know  his  own  secret,  and  hence  I 
can  not)  get  at  it ;  but,  at  all  events,  his  sympathy  is 
tapped  by  my  good  opinion  and  intentions,  and  we  are 
friends  for  life.  I'm  his  friend,  anyhow,  and  he  recip- 
rocates." 

At  that  moment  we  arrived  at  a  corner  where  sat  a 
repulsive-looking  negro  boot-black  on  a  cushion  beside 
his  chair.  Both  legs  were  amputated,  and  altogether 
he  was  about  as  unfortunate-looking  a  person  as  one 
could  well  imagine.  Uncle  Joseph  stopped  me  short  in 
the  street,  and,  unconscious  of  the  crowd,  called  my  at- 
tention to  the  black  boot-black.  "  Here  is  a  fellow.  Van, 
who  looks  about  as  hard  up  for  lucky  points  as  any  one 
could  wish  to  have  for  begging  purposes,  but  his  de- 
formity makes  him  prosperous  at  his  trade,  no  doubt. 
But  I'll  bet  you  a  new  hat  that  he  has  something  about 
him  that  you  and  I  might  well  envy."  I  took  the  bet 
to  get  the  demonstration.  Thereupon  crafty  Joseph 
slipped  a  quarter  into  the  hand  of  the  astonished  negro, 
who,  on  looking  up,  recognized  Mr.  Jefferson.  The 
smile  the  money  and  the  recognition  caused  was  as  wide 
as  a  watermelon,  and  the  teeth  disclosed  were  like  a 
newly  established  grave-yard  It  was  needless  for 
Uncle  Joseph  to  point  to  the  teeth  and  intimate  that 
either  of  us  would  give  a  million  of  Mr.  Carnegie's 
money  for  that  same  set  of  teeth  reset  in  us.  The  bet 
was  on  Van,  but  the  laugh  turned  immediately  on  jok- 
ing Joseph.  "  Bress  mah  heart,  if  Old  Rip  aint  waked 
up    igain !  " 

Just  over  the  other  side  of  the  Wings-Point  neck-of- 
thi^woods  from  the  Royal  Garden  pavilion,  where  1 
a  writing,  stand?  T'ocasset.  From  the  deck  of  the 
si  "\m-yacht  Roqite  the  sky-line  of  Pocasset  is  outlined 


against  the  horizon,  and  just  tinted  with  the  blue  of  the 
distance.  Near  a  windmill  there  is  a  house  which  cuts 
a  big  square  chunk  out  of  the  sky  above  the  other 
houses.  At  this  distance  it  looks  as  if  it  were  un- 
painted,  and  perhaps  it  is,  for  paint  and  sea  air  are  not 
friends.  It  is  the  house  where  Major-General  Leon- 
ard Wood  was  raised,  and  where  his  good  mother  still 
lives.  What  a  pity  that  Wood  should  have  to  step  on 
the  corns  of  a  whole  row  of  men  in  going  up  to  a  place 
of  merited  preferment!  No  one,  except  the  very  few 
who  never  speak  well  of  anybody,  deny  General  Wood 
the  merit  which  has  been  rewarded,  and  no  one  couples 
undue  personal  friendship  with  the  motive  power  be- 
hind the  Presidential  appreciation.  All  say,  in  Wash- 
ington, that  Wood's  honesty  and  merit  and  tirelessness 
in  pursuit  of  duty  can  not  be  questioned,  and  that  the 
personal  friendship  of  the  President  is  well  placed, 
but  all  pity,  also,  the  turn  of  the  wheel  of  fortune  which 
puts  a  whole  row  of  sequential  army  expectants  back 
an  expectant  peg,  while  a  big  winner  goes  up  to  get  the 
flag  and  more  stars  on  his  epaulets. 

Buzzards  Bay,  August  16,  1903.        Van  Fletch. 


Bitter  Opposition  to  Mascagni  in  Italy. 

Mascagni's  troubles  in  Italy  seem  to  be  even  more 
pressing  than  those  he  had  in  America.  He  has  been 
moving  heaven  and  earth  to  be  reinstated  as  director 
of  the  conservatory  at  Pesaro,  but  it  looks  as  if  he 
would  be  disappointed.  After  the  city  authorities  of 
Pesaro  had  removed  him  from  his  position,  he  appealed 
to  the  minister  of  public  instruction,  who  upheld  the 
city  authorities.  Then  he  appealed  again  to  the  Privy 
Council,  which  has  also  decided  against  him.  He  had 
three  lawyers  to  represent  his  interests.  The  reply  of 
the  government  authorities  was  overwhelming  in  its 
severity.  Mascagni  was  charged  with  incredible  vio- 
lations of  the  regulations,  making  impossible  a  proper 
management  of  the  institution,  and  to  these  he  added 
rough  abuse  of  all  the  public  officials  of  Pesaro.  Mas- 
cagni's pupils  could  learn  nothing,  because  he  had  no 
regular  plan  of  studies,  no  progressive  order,  no  indi- 
vidual instruction.  For  whole  terms  at  a  time  he  would 
go  off  on  concert  tours;  for  months  the  pupils  remained 
without  instruction,  and  many  went  home.  When  these 
things  came  to  light,  Mascagni  wrote  them  brilliant 
certificates,  in  which  he  extravagantly  praised  them  for 
the  very  things  in  which  they  were  deficient.  This  tin- 
scrupulousness  is  characterized  by  the  government 
speaker  as  nothing  short  of  a  crime,  for  such  granting 
of  certificates  contrary  to  the  truth  was  little  better  than 
forging  public  documents.  It  is  said  that  Mascagni  will 
try  one  more  appeal,   to  the  king  himself,  before  he 

gives  up. 

^  •  m 

The  Kishineff  Barbarities. 

The  British  vice-consul  at  Odessa,  V.  Bosanquet, 
who  was  sent  specially  to  Kishineff  to  obtain  the  facts 
regarding  the  recent  anti-Jewish  riots  there,  places  the 
Jewish  victims  at  41  killed  and  303  wounded,  while 
among  the  Christians,  one  was  killed  and  68  wounded. 
Official  inquiries,  he  says,  show  that  three  women 
were  violated,  but  this  may  represent  a  small  fraction 
of  the  actual  number,  since  the  Jewish  women  naturally 
remain  silent  for  their  own  sakes,  as  under  the  Mosaic 
law  divorce  must  follow  violation.  Mr.  Bosanquet  says 
that  the  new  governor  is  doing  all  he  can  to  gain  the 
confidence  of  the  Jewish  population,  and  adds:  "Upon 
his  arrival,  matters  began  to  improve,  and  the  com- 
mercial life  of  the  town  was  resumed.  A  new-comer, 
visiting  the  Jewish  quarter,  can  see  no  signs  of  a 
stoppage  of  business.  About  880  rioters  were  arrested, 
and  308  were  punished  on  minor  charges,  while  2t6 
were  acquitted.  Three  hundred  and  sixty  rioters  will 
be  tried  at  Tiraspol  in  October,  of  which  number  100 
are  charged  with  murder,  in  addition  to  other  crimes. 
If  they  are  found  guilty,  they  will  be  sentenced  to  penal 
servitude  on  the  Island  of  Sakhalin." 


The  surprising  announcement  is  made  from  East  St. 
Louis,  according  to  the  Railway  Age,  that  a  sleeping- 
car  porters'  union  has  been  organized  at  that  point  for 
the  purpose  of  abolishing  the  "tipping"  system.  A  full 
list  of  officers  was  elected,  and  application  will  be  made 
for  a  charter  affiliating  the  new  union'  with  the  Ameri- 
can Federation  of  Labor.  The  union  is  to  be  based  on 
the  principle  that  porters  should  be  paid  sufficient  wages 
so  they  may  not  be  compelled  to  ask  for  and  receive 
tips. 

^  m  m 

An  innovation  in  banking  has  been  started  in  New 
York  by  the  reorganized  Trust  Company  of  the  Repub- 
lic, now  known  as  the  Waldorf-Astoria  Trust  Company. 
The  institution  will  keep  open  for  business  on  all  week 
days  up  to  ten  o'clock  at  night,  to  accommodate  those 
having  quarters  in  the  hotel  district  of  the  metropolis 
after  usual  banking  hours,  when  their  day  really  begins. 


The  newspapers  are  constantly  talking  about  $5,000 
and  $10,000  Italian  violins.  At  a  recent  auction  sale  of 
the  collection  of  a  well-known  fancier  in  London,  the 
highest  price  was  paid  for  a  Stradivarius,  which  was 
knocked  down  at  $2,200.  A  genuine  Guarnerius  fetched 
on'y  $33°.  while  a  Vuillaume  went  for  $150. 


The  cultivation  of  olives  and  the  manufacture  of 
olive-oil  in  France  are  the  subjects  most  fully  treated 
in  the  consular  reports  for  June,  in  response  to  a  re- 
quest for  information  from  California  olive-growers. 


"PARSIFAL"    IN    NEW    YORK. 

Heinrich   Conried   to   Give  "Wagner's  Great  Masterpiece  for  the  First 

Time  in  America — Cosima  Wagner's  Indignation  —  How 

She  Has  Tried  to  Prevent  the  Production. 

The  announcement  that  Heinrich  Conried,  who  has 
succeeded  Maurice  Grau  as  manager  of  the  Metro- 
politan Opera  House,  will  produce  Wagner's  "Parsi- 
fal "  in  New  York  next  season,  has  set  Berlin  and 
Bayreuth  by  the  ears.  At  any  rate,  the  cable,  always 
industrious  when  matters  connected  with  the  theatre 
are  under  discussion,  depicts  Frau  Cosima  Wagner 
as  raging  in  the  secret  places  of  Wahnfried,  while 
her  estimable  son,  Siegfried,  wears  a  portentous  frown, 
and  threatens  dire  consequences  to  the  irreverent  Ger- 
man manager.  The  whole  excitement  is  caused  by  the 
fact  that  Wagner's  last  work  is  the  only  one  which  has 
never  been  performed  outside  of  Bayreuth,  which  the 
Wagner  family  has  always  held  as  the  exclusive  prop- 
erty of  their  theatre.  In  order  to  hear  a  performance 
of  this  unique  drama,  one  must  go  to  Bayreuth,  and 
it  is  generally  conceded  that  the  effect  of  the  solemn 
musical  play  in  the  presence  of  an  audience  of  pro- 
fessed devotees  of  the  composer  is  wonderfully  im- 
pressive. 

Nevertheless,  there  has  always  been  a  feeling  that  it 
ought  to  be  given  elsewhere.  Very  few  persons  are 
able  to  go  to  Bayreuth,  and  to  deprive  the  great  mass 
of  music-lovers  all  over  the  world  of  the  risrht  to  hear 
this  sacred  tragedy  certainly  seems  a  hardship.  How- 
ever, to  permit  "Parsifal"  to  be  performed  in  other 
theatres  in  Germany  or  other  countries  would  sound  the 
death  knell  of  the  Wagner  festivals  at  Bayreuth.  Owing 
to  the  alterations  made  in  the  manner  of  performance 
there  by  Mme.  Wagner,  to  the  frequent  and  extraordi- 
nary subversions  of  Wagner's  purposes  by  his  widow, 
and  to  the  decided  inferiority  of  recent  casts,  the  draw- 
ing- power  of  Bayreuth  is  not  what  it  used  to  be.  To  take 
"  Parsifal  "  away  would  practically  be  to  ruin  the  at- 
tendance. 

As  soon  as  Mr.  Conned  announced  that  Aloys  Burg- 
staller  would  appear  in  the  title-role,  Mme.  Ternina  as 
Kundry,  Anton  Van  Rooy  as  Amfortas,  and  Robert 
Blass  as  Gurnemanz,  Frau  Cosima  endeavored  to  head 
him  off  by  making  personal  appeals  to  the  singers, 
asking  them  to  refuse  to  accept  parts  in  any  American 
production.  Here  is  a  portion  of  a  letter  in  which  she 
relates  her  experiences  in  attempting  to  persuade  the 
singers  to  remain  loyal  to  Bayreuth: 

As  soon  as  I  heard  that  Anton  Van  Rooy  had  consented  to 
cing  in  "  Parsifal  "  in  New  York  I  asked  him  if  it  were  true. 
He  answered  that  he  was  under  contract  to  Mr.  Conried  to 
learn  two  new  works,  but  hoped  that  "  Parsifal  "  would  not  be  one 
of  them.  He  said  that  he  could  not.  however,  be  found  guilty 
of  breach  of  contract,  and  was  coming  to  Bayreuth  to  see  me 
^ind  get  my  advice.  On  receiving  that  answer  from  him,  I 
replied  that  he  could  not  and  should  not  be  guilty  of  any  breach 
nf  his  contract  with  Mr.  Conried.  but  that  he.  like  Felix  Mottl. 
could  unconditionally  refuse  to  take  part  in  "  Parsifal."  I 
was  delighted  to  have  the  opportunity  to  speak  with  him,  and 
to  see  if  there  was  really  such  a  thing  as  honor  among  artists. 
and  that  one  did  not  do  everything  in  the  world  for  money. 
Yesterday  he  apologized  for  not  coming  on  account  of  a  slight 
heart  trouble.  I  wrote  him  thereupon  what  an  excitement 
his  consent  to  Mr.  Conried  had  caused  in  the  entire  civilized 
world,  and  what  a  stain  would  forever  remain  on  his  name. 
From  Fraulein  Ternina  and  Herr  Burgstaller  I  have  heard 
nothing.  I  had  Professor  Kniese  write  to  Burgstaller  to  ask 
if  he  were  really  under  contract  for  "  Parsifal."  I  have  had  no 
answer  to  my  letter.  To  these  two  men  singers  we  were 
entitled  to  put  the  question  whether  or  not  they  intended  to 
sing  in  "  Parsifal  "  in  New  York,  since  they  were  developed 
here  at  Bayreuth,  and  began  their  careers  here.  Fraulein 
Ternina  was  a  recognized  artist  when  she  came  here,  and, 
although  of  course  we  taught  her  thoroughly  the  role  of 
Kundry,  she  in  a  measure  solved  this  problem  for  herself,  al- 
though in  a  way  different  from  that  she  would  have  had  to 
follow  if  alone.  I  was  not,  therefore,  empowered  to  ask  her 
any  questions.  Frankly,  I  would  never  have  thought  that  an 
artist  who  enjoys  her  reputation  would  so  far  have  forgotten 
herself  as  to  take  part  for  money  in  the  desecration  of  a 
sacred  work. 

Mme.  Wagner  is  probably  aware  by  this  time  of  the 
means  that  Mr.  Conried  adopted  to  secure  the  consent 
of  Burgstaller  and  Van  Rooy  to  take  part  in 
"  Parsifal."  He  put  into  their  contracts  a  provision 
that  they  must  each  sing  two  new  roles  next  season, 
without  mentioning  what  they  were  to  be.  Refusal  to 
do  this  was  to  cost  a  ten-thousand-dollar  forfeit.  Both 
were  told,  after  the  contracts  were  signed,  that  they 
were  expected  to  sing  in  "  Parsifal." 

In  replying  to  his  German  critics,  who  accuse  him 
of  producing  the  opera  solely  for  gain,  Mr.  Conried 
remarks : 

It  may  be  surprising,  and  perhaps  interesting,  to  them  to 
learn  that  shortly  before  the  death  of  the  distinguished  Anton 
Seidl  I  had  arranged  with  that  Wagnerian  of  Wagnerians  for 
an  American  production  of  "  Parsifal."  Eight  years  ago  I  had 
offered  Dr.  Gross,  the  leading  representative  of  Richard  Wag- 
ner's heirs,  a  considerable  sum  for  the  authorization  to  pro-  ■ 
duce  "  Parsifal  "  in  this  country,  although,  as  I  informed  him 
at  the  time,  I  was  well  aware  that  it  was  not  protected  here. 
So  much  for  the  supposed  suddenness  of  my  plans.  As  to  my 
motives,  I  fail  to  see  why  they  have  been  impugned.  It  is  my 
wish,  as  I  am  certain  it  is  my  right,  to  give  thousands  of 
Americans  who  are  denied  the  privilege  of  making  pilgrimages 
to  Bayreuth,  the  opportunity  to  enjoy  in  stage  form  what  in 
the  opinion  of  many  is  the  crowning  and  most  wonderful  work 
of  Richard  Wagner.  The  arrangements  which  I  am  making 
will  assure  a  production  of  "  Parsifal  "  in  every  way  worthy 
of  that  masterpiece. 

Mr.  Conried  adds  that  "  Parsifal  "  will  be  given  in 
New  York  only,  and  there  not  more  than  ten  times. 
The  pay  of  the  artists  will  amount  to  eight  thousand 
dollars  a  night.  If  all  the  seats  are  sold  they  will  bring 
in  nine  thousand  seven  hundred  dollars.  There  is,  there- 
fore, Mr.  Conried  contends,  little  chance  for  money- 
grabbing. 


August  31,   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


SOME    NEW    BOOKS    OF    VERSE. 


Reviewed  by  Lionel  Josaphare. 

For  review,  thirty-five  volumes  of  poetry, 
the  floral  offerings  of  thirty-five  poets,  thirty- 
five  lambent  souls,  thirty-five  uncovered  brows 
awaiting  the  immortal  wreath,  brows  that,  for 
the  most  part,  will  never  feel  the  touch  of  a 
stray  laurel  leaf;  and,  perhaps  among  them, 
thirty,  thirty-two,  or  thirty-three,  or  thirty-four 
broken  hearts.  They  are  growthed  in  bindings 
beautiful  as  publisher  and  master-printer, 
with  suggestion,  doubtless,  from  the  poet, 
could  make  them.  In  some  of  them  the  richest 
of  book  papers  have  been  used  :  in  their  covers, 
fancy  boards,  queer  cloths,  and  buckrams 
stamped  with  gold.  Plainness,  floridity,  freak- 
ishness  —  ingenious  colors  have  been  fash- 
ioned to  catch  the  eyes  of  buyer  and  re- 
viewer. 

The  comprehension  of  most  of  these  writers 
seems  to  be  that  the  mere  expression  of  a 
thought  in  rhyme  is  itself  an  art,  without 
further  development.  They  have  published  in 
these  attractive  bindings  the  poor  first  lessons 
of  their  art,  lessons  that  are  to  poetry  what 
"  the  cat  saw  the  rat "  is  to  prose.  Their 
leading  and  misleading  fault  is  that  they 
abandon  life,  and  enter  abstractly  into  na- 
ture, which  they  praise  with  the  pompousness 
of  a  discoverer.  Even  there,  were  they  able 
to  appreciate  with  elemental  vision  what  they 
see,  their  song  would  achieve  more  than  it 
has  done  in  fleeing  to  nature  as  an  asylum 
from  the  vexation  of  worldliness.  This  is  the 
dominant  note.  Besides,  their  emotions  are 
too  easily  aroused,  a  trait  not  superhuman 
but  animal. 

Given,  then,  a  mind  roused  to  angry  effort 
over  a  trifle,  a  few  phrases  that  are  common 
as  a  cruet  at  a  restaurant,  some  questionable 
yearnings  arranged  in  doubtful  metre  and  dis- 
obedient rhyme,  and  that  constitutes  the 
minor  verse  of  to-day.  A  show  of  meaning 
and  purposeful  power,  even  at  the  risk  of 
bad  taste,  would  be  welcome. 

Of  these  thirty-five  volumes,  here  are  the 
mentionable  ones : 

"  Tangled  in  Stars,"  a  small  book  of  poems 
by  Ethel wyn  Wetherald,  celebrates  the  daintier 
sentiments  that  blow  in  from  beautiful  land- 
scapes. There  is  more  art  in  this  volume  than 
is  usually  put  upon  songs  concerning  the 
weather,  jessamine,  and  sparrow's  nests.  Manv 
of  them  are  good,  and  not  intentionally  imi- 
tative ;  most  are  simple,  yet,  in  their  sim- 
plicity (a  rare  occurrence  generally),  above 
the  commonplace. 

The  motive  of  the  book  is  offered  in  a  title 
poem,  where,  upon  a  city  worker's  return  to 
his  dismal  livelihood,  he  remembers  the  fields, 
and 

"  His  letter-littered  desk  goes  up  in  flowers." 

Here  is  a  stanza  from  the  poem  entitled 
"  Earth's  Silence,"  significant  of  the  author's 
inclination  : 

"  How  dear  to  hearts  by  hurtful  noises  scarred 

The  stillness  of  the  many-leaved  trees. 

The  quiet  of  green  hills,  the  mill  ion -starred 

Tranquillity  of  night,  the  endless  seas 
Of  silence  in  deep  wilds,  where  Nature  broods 
In    large,    serene,    uninterrupted   moods." 

In  "  A  Reed  by  the  River,"  Virginia  Wood- 
ward Cloud  has  bound  a  number  of  short 
poems,  of  which,  on  account  of  the  unselfish 
love  contained  therein,  one  hesitates  to  speak 
harshly.  Yet  this  is  the  kind  of  verse  that 
should  be  implacably  oppressed,  verse  that  is 
a  paraphrasing  of  themes  that  have  been  done 
thousands  of  times,  perhaps  more  than  that, 
no  better,  no  worse.  It  is  pitiful,  because  these 
songs  come  from  the  modern  poetical  tem- 
perament, a  suffering  kind,  one  to  whom  the 
commonplace  is  repugnant,  the  sublime  un- 
attainable. 

From  "A  Bird  of  Song"  in  this  book  we 
quote : 

'*  The  soul  of  strife  hath  burst  its  bars, 
And,  on  exultant  wings. 
Amid  the  immortal  field  of  stars, 
Behold,  it  sings." 

To  a  layman  this  will  not  sound  bad.  But 
finding  a  similar  sentiment  with  the  same 
rbyme-words  in  a  score  of  volumes  makes 
one  think  of  the  innocent  process  of  ab- 
sorption such  fancies  as  these  undergo  among 
the  lower  classes  of  songsters. 

H.  Arthur  Powell  has  offered  some  good 
verse  in  "  Young  Ivy  on  Old  Walls."  As  the 
title  indicates,  the  poems  are  whimsical.  They 
show  a  skill  at  reverie,  and  an  outsider's 
admiration  for  the  business  of  the  world. 
The  author  is,  either  in  years  or  experienct:, 
a  young  man  just  emerging  from  the  contem- 
plated horrors  of  death  and  calamity.  Fear  of 
imaginary  or  real  dangers  has  made  him 
shrink.  Perhaps,  when  he  has  bled  under 
the  edge  of  disaster,  his  courage  will  find 
nobler  sides  of  the  theme  and  not,  expressly 


or    impliedly,    always    be    saying,    as    in    his 
"  Where  Knowledge  Halts  "  : 

"  I  take  thee,  death,  as  some  pale  hideous  mask, 
Into  my  hands." 

The  potential  existence  of  this  poet's  ability 
is  foreshadowed  in  these  lines  of  his  "  Re- 
generation " : 

"  How  true  he  might  be  if  he  had  a  cause  to  be 
true  to; 
How  strong,    if  he  bad   loved  but  some  weak 
thing;  how  quick  to  defend!  " 

It  is  the  limitations  not  the  capacities  of 
life  that  confront  most  of  our  rhapsodists. 
They  pause  before  some  bawble  of  art  or 
nature  and  symbolize  the  world.  Still,  some- 
times it  is  suspicionable  that  these  minor 
poets  will  solve,  in  a  figurative  way,  the 
meaning  of  the  universe. 

"  The  Gates  of  Silence  "  is  by  Robert  Love- 
man,  author  of  "  Poems  "  and  "  A  Book  of 
Verses,"  the  latter  two  not  distinctive  titles. 
""  The  Gates  of  Silence  "  is  a  small  volume  of 
sixty-five  pages,  mostly  two  quatrains  to  the 
page,  untitled.  The  stanzas  are  meditations 
on  the  mystery  of  death  and  spiritual  survival. 
They  are  sometimes  profound,  sometimes 
faltering,  bewildering,  defiant,  but  mostly 
speculative,  in  the  trend  of  Omar  Khayyam, 
but  not  so  picturesque  or  individual. 

Here  is  one  quatrain  of  the  author's  infinite 
yearning : 

"Why  one  poor  heaven?     There  may  be 
A  thousand  after  this. 
The  soul,  from  fleshly  fetters  free. 
May  climb  from  bliss  to  bliss." 

His  previous  work  has  been  praised. 

Olive  Custance  (Lady  Alfred  Douglas)  pre- 
sents "  Rainbows."  The  poems  are  passion- 
ate;  some  of  the  lines  compel  sympathy,  and, 
even  at  the  cost  of  bad  taste,  are  delightful 
mentally  if  not  morally,  as 

"  My  heart  is  like  a  hound  that  follows  you." 

However,  Discretion  is  not  one  of  a  jury 
of  peers  when  Poetry  is  on  trial.  These  are 
rich  lines,  from  "A  Song  to  Beauty": 

"  Sweet!  I  have  seen  the  argent  moon  astray 
In  crimson  meadows  of  the  morning  sky." 

And  from  "  After  the  Dance  "  : 

"  O  friend,  we  might  be  lovers 
If  one  brave  word  were  said." 

"  The  Ministry  of  Love,"  poems  by  Irene 
Abbott,  are  sweet  and  good-natured  in  con- 
ception, frank  and  prosy,  without  poetic 
power. 

"  The  Dancers,  and  Other  Legends  and 
Lyrics,"  by  Edith  M.  Thomas,  contains  poems, 
of  which  some  are  light  and  some  melancholy, 
many  in  narrative  form,  with  a  felicitous 
sweetness  here  and  there,  but  wrought  too  dif- 
fusely to  be  interesting. 

"  Poems  and  Verses,"  by  Carol  Norton — 
here  we  have  spiritual  themes  by  an  incapable 
writer. 

Miss  H.  Talbot  Kummer  has  presented 
"  Semanoud."  a  collection  of  poems  which  are 
somewhat  interesting  on  account  of  the  deep 
interest    the   author   took    in   them. 

It  is  easily  understood  why  William  D. 
Washburn,  Jr.'s,  volume  bears  the  title,  "  Re- 
jected Verse."  In  these  days,  when  the  various 
forms  of  corruption  and  ignorance  deal  with 
one  another  as  courteously  as  the  Five  Great 
Powers  of  the  World,  a  man  as  decisive  and 
earthy  as  Mr.  Washburn  is  a  literary  outlaw. 
All  the  matter  in  this  beautifully  printed  book 
is  not  good  poetry ;  but  there  is  in  it  that 
which  most  modern  poetry  lacks,  and  that  is 
dominant  thought,  the  thought  that  knows  the 
way. 

The  poem,  "  The  Prairie,"  is  something 
more  than  the  poetic  Iandscapery  that  other 
poets  would  have  made  it. 

Following  is  one  of  the  long  lines  from 
"  Wherefore,"  a  more  dignified  attitude  before 
the  infinite  than  many  poets  are  capable  of: 

"  Yet  know  I  now,  as  I  do  know,  the  child-birth 
cry,  the  choke  of  death,  the  hundred  things 
that  mark  the  passage  of  man  through  this 
the  excremental  world." 

'"  The  Duchesse "  is  good,  acrimonious 
satire. 

Here  are  a  few  lines  from  "  To  Beatrice  "  ; 
though  not  the  high  tide  of  genius,  they  show 
how  manliness  of  mind  differs  in  expression 
from  the  prattled  sorrows  of  minor  poetry; 
there  is  a  manliness  of  style  as  well  as  of 
thought: 

"  A    host  of  sordid    earthly 
Things  have  choked  and  guttered  in  my  heart. 
Thine  be,  my   daughter  sweet,    the  necroman- 
cer's 
Hand  that  often,  in  fairy  tale,  doth  touch 

With   wand  the   hideous   work   of   dwarfs  and 
elves." 

Sixty-three  sonnets  from  the  contents  of 
"  The  Triumph  of  Love,"  by  Edmond  Holmes. 
They  will  be  interesting  to  those  to  whom 
they  are  novel. 

In  "  Cape  Cod  Ballads,"  by  Joe  Lincoln, 
the  author  has  given  a  pleasing  collection  of 
themes,    sentimental    and    humorous,    written 


in  colloquial  verse,  upon  the  provincial  char- 
acters of  New  England  country  towns. 

In  "  Echoes  From  Erin."  William  Wescott 
Fink  has  written  as  good  verse  as  is  made 
in  dialect.  The  poems  are  all  good,  and  filled 
with  wit  and  humor. 

"  Flowers  of  Song  From  Many  Lands  "  con- 
tains, as  told  by  the  sub-title,  short  poems 
and  detached  verses  gathered  from  various 
languages  and  rendered  into  English  by 
Frederic  Rowland  Marvin.  The  book  is  well 
printed,  and  contains  many  interesting  verse - 
lets. 

"  David  and  Bathshua,"  by  Charles  Whit- 
worth  Wynne ;  "  Jonathan,  A  Tragedy,"  by 
Thomas  Ewing,  Jr.;  "Raleigh  in  Guiana, 
etc.,"  by  Barrett  Wendell,  are  three  dramas 
in  blank  verse  upon  matters  denoted  by  their 
titles.  The  poetry  in  them  is  unfertile,  the 
charactery  juvenile,  the  action  not  enter- 
taining. The  persons  of  the  drama  are  book- 
ish and  vain,  selfishly  sentimental,  angry 
monologists,  who  do  their  recitatives  without 
regard  to  time  or  matter. 

"  Pontius  Pilate "  and  two  other  mystery 
plays  are  written  in  rhyme  by  Henry  Copley 
Greene.  The  first  one  celebrates  in  a  mild 
manner  the  beautiful  by-scenes  of  the  Chris- 
tian episode,  a  story  that  should  be  touched 
only  by  master  minds. 

Maurice  Baring's  blank-verse  drama,  "  The 
Black  Prince,"  is  above  the  average.  The  book 
also  contains  other  poems.  The  first  of  these, 
"  Sigurd,"  however,  is  one  of  those  that  bor- 
row more  sublimity  from  the  heroic  past  and 
its  epic  scenery  than  the  solvency  of  its  own 
poetic  power  can   repay. 

The  Black  Prince,  Edward,  Duke  of  Aqui- 
taine,  has  more  substance  than  falls  to  the 
lot  of  many  blank-verse  heroes ;  but  his  mal- 
adies and  melancholies  are  better  suited  to 
short  story  than  the  drama. 

I  have  endeavored  to  reserve  space  for 
"  The  Princess  of  Hanover,"  by  Margaret  L. 
Woods.  It  is  the  sleeping  beauty  of  this  col- 
lection, and  is  likely  to  out-beauty  any  stack 
of  poems  on  a  reviewer's  desk  for  some  time 
to  come. 

Consisting  of  love  and  intrigue  at  the  court 
of  Hanover  when  England's  George  the  First 
was  electoral  prince  of  that  busy  spot  of  di- 
plomacy, "  The  Princess  of  Hanover "  is  a 
play  of  drastic  human  nature,  action  that  is 
native  of  the  earth,  and  poetry  that  is  self- 
made.  As  one  reads  on  in  the  scenes,  he  is  in- 
clined to  turn  back  and  look  again  at  the 
title-page,  with  doubts  of  having  read  the 
author's  first  name  as  feminine.  Surely  a 
great  many  people  will  have  to  revise  their 
conception  of  the  limit  of  woman's  intelli- 
gence when  they  have  read  this  work. 

The  drama  is  replete  with  those  frankly 
illicit  relations  which  occur  frequently  every- 
where save  in  drama — drama  that  generally 
deals  with  these  subjects  so  innocently  that 
we  fancy  the  authors  were  given  all  their 
knowledge  of  men  and  women  by  discreet  pa- 
rents. Margaret  L.  Woods,  having  cast  her 
plot  in  a  licentious  court,  was  not  frightened 
away  by  the  draught  it  made  upon  her  profane 
vocabulary ;  and  she  has  not  written  in  the 
main  with  a  phantom  critic  leering  over  her 
left  shoulder. 

There  are  in  the  personages  a  morganatic 
wife;  also  a  mistress  en  titre  of  the  elector, 
she  having  in  addition  matrimonial  duties 
upon  her  and  her  husband's  conscience ;  also 
a  mistress  of  the  electoral  prince.  The  drama 
begins  with  these  illicits  foreknown ;  others 
develop.  Among  these  unconscientious  mor- 
tals, this  lady  author  has  not  seemed  as  unapt 
as  a  soubrette  in  a  gymnasium ;  one  feels  that 
in  the  proper  spirit  she  could  trade  "  damns  *' 
with  the  devil. 

Sophie  Dorothea,  Electoral  Princess  of 
Hanover,  a  good  young  mother  and  fond  of  her 
children,  becomes  so  overwrought  with  the 
vile  conditions  around  her  that  she  hearkens 
to  the  passion  of  one  Konigsmarck,  an  old 
sweetheart  of  hers.  Her  own  husband,  a 
blowsy  carouser,  taunts  her  with  his  extrane- 
ous affections,  and  Sophie,  friendless  at  the 
court,  even  among  her  family,  yields  and 
abets  the  persuasions  of  her  former  lover. 
There  are  throughout  the  play  a  fanciful  turn 
of  thought,  repartee,  and  extrordinary  poetry  ; 
the  blank  verse  is  substantial  and  by  one  who 
has  ideas  of  her  own  on  the  subject.  The 
author's  leading  fault  is  in  the  shorter  dia- 
logues, where  colloquialisms  have  obtained 
place.  But  this,  we  assume,  was  intentional 
in  her  desire  to  avoid  a  grandiloquent  style 
in  such  passages.  She  should,  however,  not 
yield  herself  in  this,  but  dare  to  make  these 
short  sentences  as  decisive  and  noble  as  shi 
is  able. 

Here  is  a  passage  In  which  Mme.  Platen, 
the  elector's  mistress,  meditates  upon  the 
suggestion,  that  Konigsmarck,  whom  she  un- 


requitedly  loves,  has  come  to  Hanover  for  the 
sole  purpose  of  seeing  her;  the  lines  show  the 
handling  of  the  blank  verse: 

"  Dear  flattery! 
I  did  imagine  it  once.     I  did  suppose  him 
Love's  merchantman,  dallying  with  interchange 
Of  immaterial  gauds,  till  the  opportune  hour 
Come  to  reveal  the  whole  unpriced  treasure 
That  queens  may  traffic  in." 

And  this  apostrophe  to  him  (she  being  a 
woman  of  mature  life)  : 

"  I  come  to  thee 
Clothed  in  the  purple  of  my  regnant  years. 
Crowned  with  the  diadem  of  man's  vain  desires." 

The  Princess  Sophie  speaks  of  her  unhappy 
domestic  life  thus : 

"...  Happiness — 
Hush!     What  a  sinister  word.     If  any  utter  it 
At  festivals,  it  falls  as  hollowly 
As  when  a  stone  drops  echoing  down  a  well. 
Hinting    of    deep,    deep    darkness    and    drowned 

things 
Far  underneath  and  phantoms  that  may  rise 
When    midnight    holds    the   house   shrouded    and 

pale 
And    deadly   cold,    to    haunt    with    long,    smooth 
sighs 
And  endless  iteration  of  old  grief 
The  hushed  rooms  of  the  heart." 

When  Konigsmarck  has  returned  from  the 
war  to  claim  the  love  of  the  princess,  who  has 
sent  for  him,  but  now  hesitates,  he  says  : 

"  I  am  he  thou  didst  demand, 
Compel  from  the  vague  bound  and  portal  of  death 
Back  to  the  unquiet  world.   .  .  . 
Utter  what  is  in  thy  heart,  or,  being  silent, 
Xever  again,  either  in  flesh   or  spirit, 
Living  or  dead,   in  the   false  antic   day 
Or  true  obscure  night,  call  thou  on  Konigsmarck." 

Mme.  Platen,  upbraiding  Konigsmarck  for 
not  returning  her  love  as  formerly,  says : 

"  O  this  hushed  heat. 
The  brooding  thunder!     It  moves  along  the  nerves. 
You  have  surprised  me  with  far  other  faults 
Than  those  men  blame  in  you." 


The  titles  of  the  thirty-five  volumes  ex- 
amined for  this  review,  with  names  of  au- 
thor and  publisher,  are  as  follows : 

"  Heather  and  Fern,"  by  John  Liddell  Kelly; 
published  by  John  Liddell  Kelly,  Wellington,  New 
Zealand. 

"  A  Reed  by  the  River,"  by  Virginia  Woodward 
Cloud;    published   by    Richard   G.    Badger,    Boston. 

"  The  Gates  of  Silence  with  Interludes  of  Song," 
by  Robert  Loveman ;  published  by  the  Knicker- 
bocker Press,  New  York;  75  cents. 

"  Young  Ivy  on  Old  Walls,"  by  H.  Arthur 
Powell:   published  by  Richard  G.    Badger,    Boston. 

"  Rainbows,"  by  Olive  Custance;  published  by 
John  Lane,  New  York;  $1.25. 

"  A  Field  of  Folk,"  by  Isabella  Howe  Fiske: 
published  by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  $1.00. 

"Between  the  Lights,"  by  Alice  Herbert;  pub- 
lished by  John  Lane,  New  York;  $1.00. 

"  Sonnets  and  Lyrics,"  by  Katrina  Trask;  pub- 
lished by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  S1.25. 

"Tangled  in  Stars."  by  Ethelwyn  Wetherald; 
published  by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  §1-00. 

"  The  Ministry  of  Love,"  by  Irene  Abbott; 
published  by  Crane  &  Co.,  Topeka:  Si-oo. 

"  Pompeii  of  the  West  and  Other  Poems,"  by 
John  Hall  Ingham:  published  by  the  J.  B.  Lip- 
pincott  Company,  Philadelphia;  $1.25. 

"  Primrose  Diplomacy,"  published  by  the  Abbey 
Press,  New  York:  $1.25. 

"  Cape  Cod  Ballads  and  Other  Verse."  by  Joe 
Lincoln;    published   by  Albert   Brandt,   Trenton. 

"The  Mothers,"  by  Edward  F.  Hayward;  pub- 
lished by  Richard  G.  Badger.  Boston;  75  cents, 

"  In  Scipio's  Gardens  and  Other  Poems,"  by 
Samuel  Valentine  Cole;  published  by  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons,  New  York. 

"Raleigh  in  Guiana,"  by  Barrett  Wendell:  pub- 
lished   bv    Charles    Scribner*s    Sons,    New    York; 

$1.5°. 

"  Message  and  Melody,"  by  Richard  Burton; 
published  by  the  Lothrop  Publishing  Company, 
Boston;  $1.00. 

"  The  House  Building  and  Other  Poems."  by 
Marshall  Bruce  Williams;  published  by  R-  Brim- 
ley  Johnson,  London;  three  shillings,  six  pence. 

"  Pontius  Pilate,"  by  Henry  Copley  Greene; 
published  by  the  Scott-Thaw  Company,  New  York. 

"  The  Black  Prince  and  Other  Poems,"  by  Mau- 
rice Baring;   published  by  John  Lane,   New  York. 

"  Days  We  Remember,"  by  Marian  Douglas; 
published  by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  $1-25. 

"  Some  Rejected  Verse."  by  William  D.  Wash- 
burn, Jr.;  published  by  the  Knickerbocker  Press, 
New  York;  $i.oo. 

"  Echoes  from  Erin,"  by  William  Westcott  Fink; 
published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New  York: 
S1.25.  . 

"  Summer  Songs  in  Idlenesse,"  by  Katherine  H. 
McDonald  Jackson;  published  by  Richard  G.  Bad- 
ger, Boston;  $1.25. 

"  Semanoud,"  by  H.  Talbot  Kummer;  published 
by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  Si.oo. 

"  Indian  Summer,"  by  James  Courtney  Challiss; 
published  by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  S1.50. 

"The  Dancers,"  by  Edith  M.  Thomas;  published 
by  Richard  G.  Badger,  Boston;  Si. 50. 

"Jonathan,"  by  Thomas  Ewing.  Jr.:  published 
by  the  Funk  &  Wagnalls  Company,  New  York; 
$t.oo. 

"David  and  Bathshua,"  by  Charles  Whitwuith 
Wynne:  published  by  the  Knickerbocker  Press, 
New  York;  $1.00. 

"The  Old  Schoolhouse,"  by  T.  S.  Denison; 
published  by  T.  S.  Denison,  Chicago;  $1.00. 

"The  Triumph  of  Love,"  by  Edmond  Holmes; 
published  by  John   Lane,   New   York;   $1.25. 

"Poems  arid  Verses,"  by  Carol  Norton;  pub- 
lished by  Dana  Estes  &  Co.,  Boston;  $1.00. 

"  Sisters  of  Repartrice,"  by  Lucia  Gray  Swett; 
published  by  Lee  &  Shepard,  Boston;  80  cents. 

"Flowers  of  Song  from  Many  Lands."  by  Fred- 
eric Rowland  Marvin;  published  by  the  Merry- 
mount  Press,    Boston;   S3. 00. 

"  The  Princess  of  Hanover,"  by  Margaret  L, 
Woods;  published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New 
York;  §1.50. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


August  31,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Charming  Story. 
The  recent  death  of  A.  C.  Wheeler,  more 
widely  known  by  his  pseudonym  of  "  Nym 
Crinkle."  has  disclosed  the  hitherto  concealed 
fact  of  this  once  popular  journalist's  identity 
with  that  of  J.  P.  Mowbray,  the  author  of  a 
number  of  essays  and  novels  that  are  charac- 
terized by  freshness  of  feeling  and  a  whole- 
hearted love  of  nature.  Mr.  Wheeler's  pub- 
lishers have  now  issued  a  posthumous  work  by 
him,  entitled  "  The  Conquering  of  Kate," 
which  has  the  same  wholesome,  fragrant  at- 
mosphere that  has  given  his  previous  works 
their  abiding  charm.  This  last  novel  from 
Mr.  Wheeler's  pen  is  a  story  of  the  South,  al- 
though the  action  is  in  reality  located  in  an 
obscure  corner  of  Pennsylvania,  bordering  on 
M  aryland.  But  the  characters,  the  dialect, 
the  atmosphere,  are  all  distinctively  Southern, 
and  Kate,  the  heroine,  is  so  unpractical  and 
charming  a  Southerner  as  to  require  the  aid 
of  a  wide-awake,  manly,  practical  Northerner 
to  bring  her  into  the  world  of  realities,  as  well 
as  of  maiden  surrender. 

Mr.  Wheeler's  style,  in  its  leisurely,  old- 
fashioned  grace,  has  a  quality  that  is  rare  in 
present-day  fiction.  The  author  unites  to 
sweet,  sincere,  unforced  sentiment  a  pleasing, 
playful,  wholesome  humor  that  might  ema- 
nate from  youth  itself.  And  yet  the  book, 
with  its  action  brought  down  almost  to  the 
present,  has  a  flavor  of  the  past.  Mr. 
Wheeler's  muse  turns  with  aversion  from  the 
rush,  the  vulgarity,  and  the  strenuousness  of 
modern  life,  and  his  story  might  almost  be 
one  of  those  piquant,  romantic  love-stories  of 
post-bellum  days,  that  drew  their  inspiration 
from  the  enforced  association  of  handsome 
Northern  soldiers  with  lovely  Southern  belles. 

The  unworldliness  of  the  Bussey  girls  and 
their  aunt,  the  old-fashioned  honor,  loyalty, 
and  chivalry  of  Judge  Heckshent,  and  the 
rude,  half-animal  fidelity  of  the  "  moon- 
shiner's gal  "  are  traits  that  flourished  more 
greenly  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.  Bfit  their 
revival  in  a  modern  work  of  fiction  is  pe- 
culiarly grateful  to  the  imagination,  as  well 
as  the  remote  and  picturesque  setting  that  the 
author   gives   to   his   tale. 

The  rose-wreathed  (grange,  that  "  wore  the 
aspect  of  a  guarded  casket,"  is  surrounded  by 
its  thousand  acres  going  to  "  rack  and  ruin 
with  those  women,  God  bless  'era,  standing 
guard  over  the  devastation  and  hoodooing 
everybody  who  tries  to  help  'em  pay  their 
honest  debts  " ;  these  words  of  Judge  Heck- 
shent. guardian  and  lawyer  to  the  fair,  im- 
practicable mistress  of  the  grange,  together 
with  the  appearance  of  a  sternly  practical 
>oung  overseer  on  the  scene,  give  the  reader 
the  key  to  the  situation. 

It  is  developed  with  skill,  and  the  dialogue 
is  crisp,  gay.  and  spirited.  Kate,  before  she 
is  finally  conquered,  continues  to  get  her  af- 
fairs into  such  a  frightful  snarl  that  the  au- 
thor is  obliged  to  invoke  melodrama.  But 
while  the  merit  of  the  story  suffers,  its  charm 
holds,  and  the  hitherto  unacquainted  reader 
closes  with  a  firm  resolution  to  become  fa- 
miliar with  Mr.  Wheeler's  earlier  works. 

Published  by  Doubleday.  Page  &  Co.,  New 
York ;  price.  $1.50. 


Strange  Adventures  of  James  Shervinton." 
Louise  Becke,  whose  province  as  story- 
teller-in.-chief  over  the  whole  extent  of  the 
South  Sea  Island  region  has  heretofore  been 
undisputed,  has  contributed  another  volume, 
of  a  character  similar  to  his  others,  consist- 
ing of  one  long  and  rather  ambitious  story, 
and  a  number  of  shorter  ones.  "  The  Strange 
Adventure  of  James  Shervinton,"  which  takes 
up  rather  more  than  half  of  a  fat  volume,  is 
a  Polynesian  romance,  full  of  peril  and  ad- 
venture, with  a  strain  of  the  supernatural  in 
il,  yet  always  maintaining  the  tone  of  sober 
reality  which  is  a  characteristic  of  Mr. 
Bccke's  style.  James  Shervinton's  adventure 
extraordinary  consists  of  his  two-thousand- 
mile  voyage  in  a  half-decked  whale-boat, 
from  one  of  the  Gilh-rt  Islands  to  Guam — a 
crowning  acl  n  the  Polynesian  seas, 

■  -ed  by  a  man's  ability 
imself  against  overwhelm- 
ls,  whether  from  perilous  seas  or 
bloodthirsty  savages.  Mr.  Becke  has  opened 
nut  a  new  field  in  fiction  in  these  stories, 
the  majority  of  which  are  doubtless  true 
happenings,  embellished  with  some  extra  aids 
of  the  story-teller's  fancy,  but,  on  the  whole, 
reading  like  the  truth  that  is  stranger  than 
i  ction.' 

The  author  knows  his  ground  well,  and  is 
fully  acquainted  with  the  character  of  the 
gentle  natives,  who?e  integrity,  kindness,  and 
trustworthiness  art  ?o  often  thrown  in  relief 
igainst    the    brutality    and    rapacity    of    white 


men,  deteriorating  through  prolonged  lack  of 
association  with  their  'own  kind.  A  number 
of  Mr.  Becke's  stories  are  the  relation  of  in- 
cidents arising  from  the  temporary  ascendancy 
gained  by  white  beach-combers,  stray  ruffians, 
or  criminal  refugees  over  the  native  inhabi- 
tants of  some  isolated  isle,  where  they  practice 
a  tolerated  despotism  until  their  own  crimes, 
or  the  superior  cunning  of  some  white-skinned 
rival,   betrays  them   to  a  violent  death. 

The  book  appeals  particularly  to  those  who 
are  susceptible  to  the  fascinations  of  a  rovins 
life,  remote  from  civilized  centres. 

Published  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company. 
Philadelphia;   price,   $1.50. 


Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Charles  Marriott,  whose  "  Column,"  partly 
through  judicious  advertising,  and  partly  be- 
cause of  its  real  merit,  attracted  general  at- 
tention a  year  ago,  has  a  new  book  ready 
entitled  "  The  House  on  the  Sands."  It, 
treats  of  political  life  with  its  tides  and  shifts. 
The  author  deals  with  the  question  now 
troubling  British  politicians  :  protection  versjas 
free  trade,  in  the  light  of  the  imperial  move- 
ment for  closer  ties  between  the  mother 
country  and  the  colonies. 

The  Century  Company  is  to  bring  out  in 
the  early  autumn  a  volume  of  recollections 
by  Hermann  Klein,  the  well-known  musical 
critic.  It  will  be  entitled  "  Thirty  Years  of 
Musical  Life  in  London."  The  book  is  made 
up  largely  of  anecdotes  of  such  persons  as 
Adelina  Patti,  the  De  Reszkes,  Wagner,  Bee- 
thoven, Harris,  Tamagno,  La  Salle,  and  all 
the  other  celebrities  of  their  time. 

"  Letters  Home "  is  the  unique  title  of 
William  Dean  Howells's  latest  story.  It  is 
based  on  the  letters  written  to  their  homes 
by  a  certain  group  of  people  whom  various 
chances  have  brought  to  New  York. 

Mary  Hallo'ck  Foote's  new  volume,  "  A 
Touch  of  Sun,  and  Other  Stories."  will  contain 
four  short  stories  of  Western  life. 

"  The  Forest  Hearth  "  is  the  title  Qf  Charles 
Major's  new  novel  of  Indiana  life.  The  Mac- 
millan  Company  will  publish  it  early  in  the 
fall. 

"The  Maids  of  Paradise."  which  is  to  be 
published  soon,  is  said  to  be  the  most  vivid 
and  exciting  love-story  Mr.  Chambers  has 
ever  written.  It  deals  with  the  Franco- 
Prussian  War  of  1870.  with  the  scenes  laid  in 
and  around  Paradise,  an  idyllic  French  village, 
and  in  the  midst  of  battle. 

Will  Payne  has  written  another  novel  of 
business  life  in  Chicago,  which  he  calls  "  Mr. 
Salt." 

Two  new  volumes  of  Sir  George  Treve- 
lyan's  book,  "  The  American  Revolution."  will 
be  published  this  fall. 

The  late  Grant  Allen's  "  Belgium :  Its 
Cities,"  is  announced  for  publication  this 
month  as  a  companion  for  the  "  Florence " 
and    "  Venice  "    already   issued. 

H.  B.  Marriott  Watson  has  written  a  new 
romance  entitled  "  Captain  Fortune."  dealing 
with  the  adventures  of  a  young  lady  who 
becomes  involved  in  the  Cornish  rising  during 
the  civil  war  in   1643. 

"  The  Life  of  Sidney  Lanier  "  in  the  Ameri- 
can Men  of  Letters  Series  is  to  be  prepared 
by  Professor  Edward  Mims,  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege, N.  C. 

"  The  Story  of  the  Revolution,"  by  Henry 
Cabot  Lodge,  is  soon  to  be  issued  for  the  first 
time  in  one-volume  form  by  Charles  Scrib- 
ner's  Sons. 

Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell  is  described  as  work- 
ing now,   in   his  seventy-third  year,   with   un-  • 
diminished    energy    and    happiness.      His    new 
book  will  be  brought  out  soon  by  the  Century 
Company  under  the  title  of  "  Little   Stories." 

James  L.  Ford  will  soon  publish  a  satire 
called  "  The  Brazen  Calf."  Under  the  title 
"  Our  American  Snobs  "  many  of  the  chapters 
have  appeared  in  serial-form  in  an  Eastern 
weekly. 

Illustrated  by  the  author's  own  drawings,  a 
collection  of  ten  sketches  by  Frederic  Villiers 
is  to  be  issued  soon  with  the  title  "  More 
Stories  of  the  Warpath."  The  war-corre- 
spondent drew  on  his  varied  career  for  a  book 
of  personal  reminiscences  before,  and  the  re- 
ception accorded  the  earlier  book  has  induced 
his  publishers  to  persuade  him  to  continue  in 
the  same  vein. 

A  series  of  letters  from  the  late  Lord  Acton 
to  Miss  Mary  Gladstone — now  Mrs.  Drew — ■ 
is  to  be  ready  in  a  few  months  at  Ruskin 
House,  and  will  be  brought  out  simultaneously 
in   England  and   America.     This   correspond- 


ence, which  began  in  the  'seventies,  is  said 
to  be  full  of  brilliant  literary,  political,  and 
historical  criticism.  It  will  be  remembered 
that  Ruskin's  letters  to  Mrs.  Drew  were 
published  in  this  country  a  few  weeks  ago. 

Since  1 880,  when  his  first  long  story, 
"  Toby  Tyler,"  was  published,  James  Otis 
Kaler  ("  James  Otis ")  has  written  ninety - 
three  stories  for  young  people.  His  latest 
story,  "  The  Treasure  Hunters,"  which  is  al- 
most completed,  will  be  brought  out  soon. 

The  title  of  Mrs.  Margaret  Deland's  new 
volume  of  Old  Chester  stories  has  been 
changed  from  "  Old  Chester  Folk "  to  "  Dr. 
Lavendar's  People."  Dr.  Lavendar,  it  will  be 
remembered  by  readers  of  Mrs.  Deland's  pre- 
vious volume  of  "  Old  Chester  Tales,"  is  the 
broad-minded  and  kind-hearted  old  country 
clergyman  who  forms  the  connecting  link  be- 
tween all  this  author's  Chester  stories. 

The  forthcoming  presentation  in  this  coun- 
try of  the  dramatization  of  Rudyard  Kip- 
ling's "  The  Light  That  Failed,"  is  to  be 
celebrated  by  the  publication  of  a  new  illus- 
trated edition  of  that  work  containing  scenes 
from  the  play.  As  in  London,  Forbes  Robert- 
son and  Gertrude  Elliott  are  to  assume  the 
characters    of    Dick    Heldar    and    Maisie. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 


A  Fancy. 
How  sweet  this  life — this  life,  if  wc 
(My   love   and   I)    might   dwell   together 

Here    beyond    the   summer    sea, 
In    the    heart    of    summer    weather ! 

With    pomegranates   on    the   bough, 
And    with    lilies    in    the    bower; 

And   a   sight   of   distant   snow, 
Rosy   in    the  sunset   hour. 

And  a  little  house — no  more 
In   state  than  suits  two   quiet   lovers: 

And  a  woodbine  round  the  door. 
Where   the  swallow   builds   and   hovers; 

•  With    a   silver    sickle-moon, 
O'er    hot    gardens,    red    with    roses; 

And  a  window  wide,  in  June, 
For  serenades  when  evening  closes: 

In  a  chamber  cool  and  simple, 
Trellised   light   from    roof  to   basement; 

And  a  summer  wind  to  dimple 
The    white  curtain    at    the    casement; 

Where,  if  we  at  midnight  wake, 
A    green    acacia-tree    shall    quiver. 

In    the    moonlight,    o'er    some    lake 
Where    nightingales    sing   songs    forever. 

With    a    pine    wood    dark    in    sight ; 
And   a   bean-field   climbing  to  us. 

To  make  odors  faint  at  night. 
Where    we   roam    with   none   to   view   us. 

And    a  convent    on    the   hill, 
Through    its  light-green    olives  peeping 

In  clear  sunlight,  and  so  still, 
All  the  nuns,  you'd  say,  were  sleeping. 

Seas  at  distances,  seen  beneath 
Grated    garden    wildernesses — 

Not  so    far  but   what    their   breath 
At   eve   may   fan    my    darling's   tresses. 

A  piano,  soft  in  sound. 
To  make  music  when   speech   wanders. 

Poets  reverently  bound. 
O'er    whose    pages    rapture    ponders. 

Canvas,  brushes,  hues,  to  catch 
Fleeting    forms    in    vale    or    mountain, 

And  an  evening  start  to  watch 
When   all   is  still,  save   one  sweet   fountain, 

Ah !    I    idle   time   away 
With  impossible  fond  fancies. 

For  a  lover  lives  all  day 
In    a  land   of  lone   romances. 

But    the    hot    light    o'er    the    city 
Drops — and    see!    on    fire    departs. 

And   the  night   comes   down    in    pity 
To    the   longing   of   our   hearts. 

Bind   thy   golden    hair    from    falling, 
O  my  love,  my  one,   my  own! 

'T15    for    thee    the   cuckoo's   calling 
With   a  note  of  tenderer  tone. 

Up  the  hill-side,  near  and  nearer, 
Through    the    vine,    the    corn,    the    flowers, 

Till  the  very  air  grows  dearer. 
Neighboring  our  pleasant  bowers. 

Now    I   pass   the   last   Podere; 
There,    the  city   lies  behind    me. 

See  her  fluttering  like  a  fairy 
O'er  the  happy  grass  to  find  me! 

— Ou-cn    Meredith. 


Since  the  assertion  made  by  the  New  Or- 
leans Times-Democrat  that  the  last  three 
stanzas  of  the  well-known  poem  "  High  Tide 
at  Gettysburg"  were  added  by  an  unknown 
hand  after  the  first  publication  of  the  poem, 
a  great  number  of  letters  of  inquiry  have 
been  sent  to  the  author,  Will  H.  Thompson. 
To  these,  the  Portland  Orcgonion  announces, 
Mr.  Thompson  has  replied  that  the  Southern 
journal  was  in  error,  and  that  he  wrote  the 
whole  poem. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Lives  of  Five  Famous  Men, 

Ethelred  L.  Taunton,  a  Roman  Catholic  priest, 
is  the  author  of  a  book  on  England's  great  states- 
man and  churchman,  entitled  "  Thomas  Wolsey, 
Legate  and  Reformer "  (John  Lane,  New  York; 
$6.00).  The  author  frankly  admits  his  intense 
admiration  for  Wolsey,  but,  on  the  other  hand, 
has  concealed  nothing  that  might  be  discreditable. 
"  If  the  Evangelist  did  not  conceal  the  sin  and 
the  fall  of  Judas,"  he  says,  "  neither  ought  we  to 
conceal  the  sins  of  bishops  and  other  personages." 
Accordingly,  he  coolly  discusses  the  question  of 
the  cardinal's  children,  and  arrives  at  the  curious 
conclusion  that  the  reader  should  be  thankful 
"even  if  Wolsey  was  the.  father  of  more  than 
one  child,  that,  in  an  age  when  Alexander  the 
Seventh  was  scandalizing  the  church  by  open 
profligacy  in  the  highest  ecclesiastical  places, 
things  were  not  much  worse,"  The  book  is  a 
scholarly  and  interesting  one,  and  is  illustrated 
by  a  really  fine  series  of  drawings. 

Thomas  Henry  Huxley  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co., 
New  York;  $1.00)  is  the  subject  of  a  brief  bio- 
graphy by  Edward  Clodd.  a  scientist  of  note, 
who  views  the  great  evolutionist  in  a  more  critical 
and  analytic  spirit  than  Leonard  Huxley,  whose 
"  Life  and  Letters  "  of  his  father  we  noticed  last 
year.  An  excellent  idea  of  the  style  and  scope 
of  treatment  may  be  gained  from  the  chapter- 
headings,  which  are:  "The  Man,"  "The  Dis- 
coverer." "  The  Interpreter,"  "  The  Controver- 
sialist," "  The  Constructor." 

The  new  and  revised  edition  of  William  Ellery 
Cbanning's  "  Thoreau,  the  Poet-Naturalist " 
(Charles  E.  Goodspeed,  Boston)  has  been  prepared 
by  the  one  man  who  could  bring  order  out  of 
the  chaotic  disorder lin ess  of  the  edition  of  1873. 
F.  B.  Sanborn's  special  knowledge  of  the  history 
of  the  work  has  enabled  him  successfully  to  re- 
arrange, index,  add  to,  and  subtract  from,  the 
hook.  It  is  now  a  veritable  mine  of  valuable 
material  about  Thoreau,  and  one  of  the  most  inter- 
esting books  about  him  published.  In  the  strictest 
sense  of  the  word,  it  is  not  a  biography,  but  at  the 
same  time  it  reflects  truly  the  character  of  the 
man — perhaps  as  no  other  book  docs  or  could. 

Some  more  or  less  heretical  opinions  are  ex- 
pressed by  J.  C.  Tarver  in  "  Tiberius  the  Tyrant  " 
(E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York;  $5.00),  an  his- 
torical biography.  They  are,  substantially,  that 
Tacitus  was  a  malicious  partisan  and  slandered 
Tiberius;  that  Tiberius  was  in  reality  an  upright 
ruler:  that  Christian  writers  have  painted  Rome 
in  dark  colors  in  order  to  heighten  the  contrast 
between  social  conditions  under  the  empire  and 
the  pure  teachings  of  Christianity:  that  Rome  was, 
in  fact,  the  scene  of  much  less  violence  and  vice 
than  generally  supposed.  Mr.  Tarver's  book  is 
Kholarly   and   to   quite   a   degree  convincing. 

"The  Life  of  John  Ruskin  "  (Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co..  Boston),  by  W.  G.  Collingwood,  for  ten 
years  Ruskin's  secretary,  is  not,  he  says,  "  merely 
a  reprint "  of  the  previous  work  in  two  volume.; 
published  in  1893,  but  is  "written  on  somewhat 
different  lines."  Much  new  biographical  detail 
has  been  added,  some  expositions  of  Ruskin's 
teachings  excluded,  and  the  whole  compressed  into 
one  volume. 


Notable  Books  on  Serious  Themes. 
Sir  Walter  Scott.  Coleridge.  Bowles,  Keats. 
Leigh  Hunt,  and  the  pre-Raphaelites  are  dominant 
figures  in  Henry  A.  Beers's  "  History  of  English 
Romanticism  in  the  Nineteenth  Century"  (Henry 
Holt  &  Co..  New  York;  $1.75)-  But  despite  his 
title  this  Yale  professor  and  author  manages  to 
include  a  couple  of  chapters  on  "  The  Romantic 
School  in  Germany"  and  "The  Romantic  Move- 
ment in  France."  The  book  as  a  whole  is  a  very 
interesting  one.  singularly  un  pedantic  in  tone: 
indeed,  it  is  almost  familiar.  It  would  be  easy  to 
quarrel  with  the  author's  definitions  of  romanticism, 
hut.  as  he  says,  every  writer  has  a  right  to  say 
"what  his  book  shall  be  about."  and  every  reader. 
we  may  add,  should  be  properly  grateful  for  such 
entertaining  literary  criticism  as  this,  under  what- 
ever name  it  ventures  forth. 

Another  and  still  bulkier  book — this  time  criti- 
cism of  criticism — is  Professor  George  Saintsbury's 
"  A  History  of  Criticism  and  Literary  Taste  in 
Europe  from  the  Earliest  Texts  to  the  Present 
Pay " — truly  an  impressive  undertaking.  Volume 
II  of  the  three  that  will  complete  the  work  covers 
the  period  from  the  Renaissance  to  the  decline  of 
eighteenth -century  orthodoxy.  The  chapter-head- 
ings are  "  Erasmus,"  "  Early  Italian  Critics," 
"  Scaliger.  Castelvetio,  and  the  Later  Italian  Crit- 
ics of  the  Sixteenth  Century,"  "  The  Criticism  of 
the  Pleiade,"  "  Elizabethan  Criticism,"  "  From 
Walherbe  to  Boileau,"  "  The  Italian  Decadence 
and  the  Spaniards,"  "  German  and  Dutch  Criti- 
cism." "  Dryden  and  His  Contemporaries,"  "  From 
Addison  to  Johnson,"  "  The  Contemporaries  of 
Voltaire,"  "  Classicism  in  the  Other  Nations." 
This  monumental  work  is  the  distinguished  En- 
glish critic  and  Oxford  professor's  crowning 
achievement.  He  is  said  to  have  been  engaged 
upon  it  for  more  than  thirty  years. 

From  Oxford  to  the  University  of  Texas  is  a 
long  step,  yet  from  the  latter  place  emanates  a  thor- 
oughly scholarly  work  by  Professor  Mark  H.  Lid- 
dell,  entitled  "  An  Introduction  to  the  Scientific 
Study  of  Poetry"  (Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New 
York;  $1.25).  Science  and  poetry!  Verily,  here 
lion  and  lamb  lie  down  together.  But  the  won- 
der lessens  upon  examination  of  the  book.  It  is, 
in  fact,  a  study  of  the  mechanics  of  verse,  and  a 
rotable  demonstration  what  laws  govern  English 
prosody.  The  long  enslavement  of  English  writers 
upon  verse-forms  to  ideas  essentially  classical  re- 
quired that  such  a  work  as  this  be  written.  It 
effectually  shatters  many  long-held  fallacies. 

A  solid  work  by  a  teacher  of  note  is  the 
"  Philosophy  of  Conduct "  (Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  New  York)  of  George  Trumbull  Ladd,  of 
Vale.  This  work,  like  all  of  Gaul,  is  divided  into 
three  parts.  In  the  first  part  "  the  nature  of  the 
Moral  Self,  or  of  man  as  equipped  for  the  life 
of  conduct,  has  been  described  as  this  nature  ap- 
pears in  the  light  of  psychological  science,  both 
individual  and  ethnic."  Part  second  treats  of  the 
"  Virtuous  Life."  In  part  third  is  discussed  the 
"  Nature  of  Right"  The  whole  work  extends 
to  nearly  seven  hundred  closely  printed  pages. 

The  Hon.  James  Bryce's  "  Studies  in  History 
and  Jurisprudence "  (Henry  Frowde,  London)  is 
a  profound  treatise  on  the  legal  aspects  of  history, 
and  manifestly    a    book    not   to    be    reviewed    in    a 


paragraph.  The  titles  of  the  articles  will,  how- 
ever, give  some  idea  of  the  scope  of  the  work, 
which  bulks  to  nearly  a  thousand  pages.  They  arc 
"  Methods  of  Law-Making  in  Rome  and  in  Eng- 
land," "  The  History  of  Legal  Development  at 
Rome  and  in  England,"  "  Marriage  and  Divorce 
in  Roman  and  in  English  Law,"  "  The  Roman 
Empire  and  the  British  Empire  in  India,"  "  The 
Extension  of  Roman  and  English  Law  Through- 
out the  World,"  "  Primitive  Iceland,"  "  The  Con- 
stitution of  the  United  States  as  Seen  in  the 
Past,"  "  Two  South  African  Constitutions," 
"  The  Constitution  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Australia,"  "  Flexible  and  Rigid  Constitutions," 
"  The  Action  of  Centripetal  and  Centrifugal 
Forces  on  Political  Constitutions,"  "  Obedience," 
"  The  Nature  of  Sovereignty,"  "  The  Law  of 
Nature,"  "  The  Methods  of  Legal  Science,"  and 
"  The    Relations   of  Law  and    Religion." 

Claudius  Clear,  who,  as  everybody  knows,  is  no 
other  than  Dr.  W.  Robertson  Nicoll,  editor  of  the 
English  Bookman,  has  collected  a  number  of  inter- 
esting essays  in  a  volume  called  "  Letters  on 
Life"  (Dodd,  Mead  &  Co.,  New  York;  $1.75), 
"  The  Art  of  Conversation,"  "  The  Sin  of  Over- 
work," "  Handwriting,"  "  Good  Manners,"  "  Grow- 
ing Old"  are  some  of  the  subjects  upon  which  he 
turns   the   ray   of  his  mature   and   astute  mind. 

A  subject,  as  she  admits,  "  prickly  with  con- 
troversy," is  dealt  with  by  Anne  Macdonell  in 
"  Sons  of  Francis "  (G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New 
York;  §3.50)  a  handsomely  printed  and  illustrated 
volume  significantly  bound  in  white,  gold,  and 
gray.  The  work  practically  amounts .  to  an 
anecdotal  biography  of  sixteen  or  seventeen  early- 
Italian  members  of  the  great  Catholic  order  who. 
in  the  opinion  of  the  author,  had  in  them  the  vital 
spirit  of  the  founder  of  the  brotherhood.  The 
author  brings  to  her  work  great  enthusiasm,  and 
writes  without  a  cburchly  bias.  A  romantic  rather 
than    a    theologic   spirit   pervad  es    it- 


Some  Macmillan  Company  Publications. 

Because  many  of  the  illustrations  in  Douglas 
Houghton  CambelPs  "  University  Text-Book  of 
Botany "  ($4-oo)  figure  California  plants,  the 
book  should  prove  especially  attractive  to  Pacific 
Coast  botanists.  The  frontispiece,  for  example, 
is  a  Sequoia  gigantca.  Plate  XV  is  a  cypress  oc- 
curring only  near  Monterey;  Plate  V  shows 
conifers  near  the  base  of  Mt.  Shasta.  In  addition 
to  the  plates,  there  are  an  enormous  number 
of  drawings,  many  of  which  arc  by  the  author, 
and  all  of  which  are  notably  explicit.  "  The  book 
is  not  intended  as  a  laboratory  'manual,  but  is 
designed  primarily  as  a  work  of  reference  f  .  .  for 
the  use  of  students  in  American  colleges  and  uni- 
versities." Dr.  Campbell  is  professor  of  botany 
.it    Stanford. 

In  his  "  The  Mind  of  Man,"  a  solid-looking 
book  of  six  hundred  pages,  Gustav  Spillcr  says : 
"  I  maintain  not  only  that  the  elementary  prin- 
ciples of  psychology  have  still  Jo  be  established; 
but  I  believe  that,  from  the  scientific  point  of 
view,  no  serious  attempt  has  yet  hcen  made  in 
that  direction."  Here's  news.  The  professors, 
American.  French,  German,  English,  all  wrong? 
So  says  Spiller  confidently,  though  he  admits  that 
he  "shrinks":  indeed,  that  "he  never  ceases  to 
shrink  ("strange!!  from  the  unwelcome  duty  of 
sounding  a  retreat."  However,  he  thinks  that 
though  his  book  may  "  at  first  give  rise  tn  bitter 
disappointment  "  among  psychological  professors, 
it  will  ultimately  have  "beneficial  effects."  We 
warmly  commend  the  hook  to  the  professorial  at- 
tention. 

Mary  Whiten  Calkins,  who  writes  "  An  Intro- 
duction to  Psychology "  ($4.00)  of  five  hundred 
pages,  seems  never  to  have  heard  of  Spiller.  the 
re  vol  ut  ionizer.  His  name  appears  neither  in  text 
nor  hihliography.  But  then,  her  book  is  intended, 
as  she  says,  only  "  for  the  convenience  of  students 
to  whom  the  author  lectures."  It  has  the  "  prac- 
tical advantage  of  including,  within  the  covers 
of  one  book,  all  that  is  absolutely  essential  to  the 
first-year  student."  The  author  is  professor  of 
philosophy  and   psychology  in  Wellesley   College. 

The  theme  of  Benjamin  Kidd's  brilliant  work  on 
"The  Principles  of  Western  Civilization"  ($2.00) 
is  perhaps  as  definitely  stated  as  anywhere  in  the 
sentence  where  he  says:  "  The  great  process 
of  life  which  has  developed  toward  our  Western 
democracy  is  instinct  with  principles  involving 
the  subordination  of  the  individual  and  all  his 
interests,  and  even  those  of  whole  movements  and 
epochs  of  time,  to  the  ends  of  a  process  of  life 
moving  forward  through  the  slow  cosmic  stress 
of  the  centuries."  But  on  the  other  hand,  in 
Eastern  civilization  and  pre-Christian  civilization, 
according  to  Kidd,  the  individual  is  subordinated, 
not  to  the  future,  but  to  existing  society.  This 
is  the  thesis  which  Mr.  Kidd  engages  to  demon- 
strate. However  the  body  of  his  readers  may  agree 
or  differ  with  him,  the  book  is  at  least  a  very 
notahle   contribution    to    philosophic    literature. 

All  the  above  are  published  by  the  Macmillan 
Company,   New  York. 


Miscellaneous  Books. 

"  Dream  Days  "  (John  Lane,  New  York),  by 
Kenneth  Grahame,  is  a  veritable  children's  classic. 
Maxfield  Parrish,  who  made  the  drawings  for  the 
same  author's  "  Golden  Age,"  a  few  years  ago, 
has  even  excelled  bis  earlier  successes  at  thi_ 
time.  His  ten  paintings  are  reproduced  in 
photogravure  and  these,  together  with  handsome 
binding,  good  type,  and  fine  paper,  make  up  a 
beautiful  book.  Another  charming  children's  book 
is  Thomas  Nelson  Page's  "  A  Captured  Santa 
Claus "  (Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New  York;  75 
cents). 

Two  garden  books  are  the  uncertainly  hyphenated 
Mary  Pamela  Milne-Home's  "  Stray  Leaves  from 
a  Border  Garden,"  and  the  anonymous  "  In  a 
Tuscan  Garden  "  (John  Lane,  New  York).  The 
former  is  a  notebook  of  interesting  outdoor  gossip 
about  flowers  and  birds,  and  also  contains  some 
verses  and  a  "  flower  glossary  "  giving  the  names 
of  common  plants  in  many  languages.  The  latter 
is  a  more  discursive  volume,  treating,  indeed,  such 
topics  as  Tuscan  servants,  the  treatment  of  ani 
mals  in  Italy,  the  British  tourist  in  Italy,  and 
practical  hints  on  the  cost  of  eggs  and  the  kind 
of  meat  to  buy  when  hungry  in  Tuscany. 

To  the  too  short  list  of  books  on  Alaska,  Charles 
M.  Taylor  adds  a  spiritedly  written  and  profusely 
illustrated  one  entitled  "  Touring  Alaska  and  the 
Yellowstone."  Mr.  Taylor  is  a  close  observer 
of  the  things  that  interest  an  unscientific  traveler, 


and  his  unpretentious  work  will  add  greatly  to 
most  readers'  stock  of  information.  William 
Cunningham  Gray,  formerly  editor  of  the  Interior, 
who  visited  Alaska  on  the  Bear,  also  has  several 
interesting  chapters  on  that  modern  land  of 
mystery  in  his  "  Musings  by  Campfire  and  Way- 
side "  (F.  H.  Revell  Company,  New  York),  a  book 
which  Newell  Dwight  Hillis  justly  speaks  of  as 
"  harvesting  the  best  things  of  a  life  long  and 
wise  and  full  of  inspiration."  Still  another  out- 
door book  is  "  Birds  of  the  Rockies "  (A.  C. 
McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago),  by  Leander  S.  Keyser, 
with  plates  in  colors  by  Louis  Agassiz  Fuertes, 
smaller  drawings  by  Bruce  Horsfall,  and  other 
photographic  reproductions.  The  book  is  rather 
popular  than  scientific,  and  belongs  to  nature- 
study  rather  than  to  the  science  of  ornithology. 
It  derives  not  a  small  part  of  its  interest  from 
its  really  admirable  binding,  paper,  print,  and 
illustrations. 

The  story  of  a  curious  friendship  is  told  in  part 
in  "  Letters  to  an  Enthusiast "  (A.  C.  McClurg  & 
Co..  Chicago).  In  1850,  when  Mary  Cowdcn 
Clarke  finished  her  Shakespeare  concordance,  a 
certain  Robert  Balmanno,  of  /New  York,  was  so 
pleased  with  it  that  he  wrote  to  Douglas  Jerrold, 
begging  him  to  get  from  Mrs.  Clarke  one  of  the 
slips  she  used  in  preparing  it,  promising  two 
ounces  of  California  gold  in  return.  Mrs.  Clarke 
sent  the  slips,  Balmanno  gold  in  the  form  of  pens, 
and  a  correspondence  followed,  lasting  ten  years, 
though  the  epistlers  never  saw  each  other.  The 
chief  pleasure  to  be  derived  from  these  letters 
of  Mrs.  Clarke's  (none  of  Balmanno's  is  given) 
is  that  of  acquaintance  with  a  charming  woman 
of  the  old  school.     There  are  ten  illustrations. 

The  various  Shakespeare  controversies  are 
coolly  discussed  by  "  His  Honour  Judge  Webb " 
in  a  volume  entitled  "  The  Mystery  of  William 
Shakespeare:  A  Summary  of  Evidence"  (Long- 
mans,   Green  &    Co.,    New  York). 


Some  Minor  Novels. 
Richard  Bagot  is  prolific  of  books  on  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  of  which  institution  he  writes 
without  much  mincing  matters.  "  The  Just  and 
the  Unjust,"  "  A  Roman  Mystery,"  "  The  Casting 
of  Nets,"  have  made  Mr.  Bagot's  name  familiar 
to  many  readers  who  will  welcome  "  Donna 
Diana."  in  which  novel  the  weak  but  loving  Car- 
dinal Savelli  figures  prominently.  A  story  of  quite 
a  different  character  is  "  Life  the  Interpreter  " 
by  Phyllis  Bottome.  Here  the  heroine  is  a  young 
woman  who  goes  to  live  in  the  slums,  but  does  not 
discourage  thereby  several  suitors,  worthy  and 
otherwise.  Finally,  she  marries  the  right  one. 
Another  very  minor  novel  of  English  low  life  is 
■*  The  Rommany  Stone,"  by  J.  H.  Yoxall.  M.  P. 
All  three  are  published  by  Longmans,  Green  & 
Co.,  New  York.  Somewhat  depressing  is  Una  L. 
Silberrad's  "  The  Success  of  Mark  Wyngate," 
which  depicts  forcefully  the  self-sacrificing  love 
of  a  woman  for  a  young  man  who  is  eaten  up  with 
scientific  ambition,  and  who  never  even  guesses  that 
he  is  so  beloved.  The  end  is  tragic — inevitably  so. 
"  Cap'n  Titus"  ($1.00),  by  Clay  Emery,  is  a  col- 
lection of  stories  of  an  old  New  England  salt 
which  are  mildly  amusing,  while  "  The  Wooing 
of  Judith,"  by  Sarah  Beaumont  Kennedy,  is  a 
light  love-story  of  Colonial  Virginia.  These  three 
novels  are  published  by  Doubleday.  Page  &  Co., 
New  York.  Sydney  C.  Grier's  "  A  Crowned 
Queen,"  which  is  published  by  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.. 
Boston,  in  quantity,  at  least,  must  satisfy  the  most 
exacting  reader — there  are  five  hundred  and  ninety 
pages.  It  is  a  story  of  the  "  Prisoner  of  Zenda  " 
type,  and  is  suggestively  sub-titled  "The  Romance 
of  a  Minister  of  State."  Harper  &  Brothers.  New 
York,  have  published  "  Hardwicke,"  by  Henry 
Edward  Rood ;  "  Her  Serene  Highness,  Woman," 
by  David  Graham  Phillips;  and  "  Winslow  Plain," 
by  Sarah  P.  McL.  Greene.  The  first  of-  these  deals 
humorously  with  life  in  a  little  New  York  village, 
the  second  is  in  the  manner  of  Anthony  Hope, 
has  an  extravagant  plot,  and  strives  after  bril- 
liancy in  dialogue,  the  third  is  a  story  of  New  Eng- 
land, and  is  full  of  humor,  which  is  its  virtue, 
and  of  sentimentality,  which  is  its  vice.  R.  H. 
Russell,  New  York,  has  published  "  Old  Planta- 
tion Days,"  by  Martha  S.  Gielow,  a  book  of  hu- 
morous and  pathetic  prose  stories  and  verses  in 
the  real  negro  dialect  as  real  Southerners  know  it. 
"  The  Red  Chancellor,"  by  Sir  William  Magnay; 
"  Annie  Deane:  A  Wayside  Weed,"  by  A.  F. 
Slade;  "The  Lover's  Progress,"  told  by  himself; 
and  "Jose,"  an  authorized  and  capable  translation 
from  the  original  of  the  noted  Spanish  author,  A. 
Palacio  Valdes,  by  Minna  Caroline  Smith,  have 
been  published  by  Brentano's,  New  York.  The 
Century  Company,  New  York,  have  republished 
two  of  Anne  Douglas  Sedgwick's  promising  novels, 
"  The  Dull  Miss  Archinard  "  and  "  The  Con- 
founding of  Camellia."  Both  books  are  better  as 
studies  than  as  stories.  "  Myra  of  the  Pines,"  a 
quietly  but  genuinely  humorous  story,  by  Herman 
Knickerbocker  Viele,  is  published  by  McClure. 
Phillips  &  Co.,  New  York.  All  of  the  books  herein 
noticed  are  published  uniformly  at  $1.50. 


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Nearly  every  one  who  plies  a  pen  nowadays 
seems  to  feel  an  inner  impulsion  urging  him 
or  her  to  write  a  play.  As  a  consequence, 
fearful  and  wonderful  productions  must^  of 
necessity  lurk  in  the  secret  cornets  of  writing- 
desks,  for  even  a  twentieth-century  playwright 
may  be  capable  of  doubts  and  misgivings  when 
it  comes  to  re-reading  his  own  productions. 
But  when  Mr.  Davis,  the  only  Davis.  Richard 
Harding  Davis,  takes  up  the  pen  dramatic, 
then  must  the  theatrical  manager  put  his 
criticisms  in  his  pocket  and,  for  the  resultant 
dollars  evoked  by  the  power  of  the  Davis 
name,  give  his  play  a  production  in  a  first- 
class  theatre. 

To  think  of  Mr.  Davis's  play  in  the  hands 
of  other  than  first-class  players  is  to  think 
of  dire  dullness,  tedium  unrelieved  by  a  ray 
of  light.  As  it  is.  Margaret  Anglin  and, 
well,  perhaps  Henry  Miller,  are  the  sole 
spars  to  which  we  cling. 

"  The  Taming  of  Helen "  is  an  extremely 
trivial  affair,  even  in  this  era  of  stage  triviali- 
ties. Helen  is  a  young  woman  who  is  so  tame 
already  that  the  thought  of  her  further  sub- 
jugation induces  a  smile.  Her  young  man 
has  written  a  play  and,  prior  to  its  acceptance 
and  the  subsequent  stupefaction  of  London 
over  its  transcendent  merit,  is  starving 
genteelly  in  nice  roomy  apartments,  keeping 
a  man  the  while.  In  the  meantime,  Helen, 
who  in  the  presence  is  a  meek-spirited  young 
woman,  remarkably  amenable  to  the  discipline 
of  lectures  on  her  misconduct,  in  the  absence 
is  flitting  around  London  with  marquises  and 
other  bric-a-brac  from  the  peerage,  and  ne- 
glecting her  young  man. 

Philip  Carroll,  the  young  man  in  question. 
is  one  of  these  patient  creatures  that  we  run 
across  in  fiction  occasionally,  whose  love  is 
indestructible,  even  under  the  chill  of  neglect. 
He  is  great  chums  with  Marion  Cavendish, 
a  London  actress,  who  believes  in  his  play, 
and  who  thinks  a  little  jealousy  will  be  im- 
proving to  Helen's  health.  The  thing  happens 
by  chance,  and.  behold  !  some  very  mild  fat  on 
a  very  low  fire. 

But  why  go  on?  One  can  see  from  the 
foregoing — which  about  covers  the  ground  of 
the  first  act — that  the  play  is  one  of  these 
faint,  sketchy,  bodiless,  bloodless  productions 
which  have  not  an  atom  of  real  drama  in 
their  veins.  It  is  called  a  comedy,  to  be  sure, 
hut  although  the  situation  at  the  ball,  during 
interludes,  approaches  the  farcical,  the  story 
is  one  of  sentiment;  or,  rather,  sentimen- 
tality. 

Now  when  two  young  people  love  each 
other  and  are  ripe  for  matrimony,  and  there 
is  absolutely  nothing  to  defer  a  happy  con- 
summation save  a  misunderstanding  that 
should,  with  a  word  of  explanation,  be  only 
momentary,  it  is  up  to  the  author  to  invent 
something.  Mr.  Davis,  however,  has  appar- 
ently been  satisfied  with  representing  smart 
people  of  unexceptionable  tone  doing  trivial 
things — drinking  tea,  jesting,  walking  in  and 
out  of  a  ball-room,  and  making  a  large  number 
of  pointless  and  witless  observations.  There 
is  little  action  or  incident,  absolutely  no 
characterization,  an  absence  of  logical  de- 
velopment ;  in  fact,  a  general  shapelessness 
in  the  construction  of  the  play  which  shows 
the   'prentice   hand. 

The  dialogue  is  not  of  a  quality  to  make 
up  for  the  lack  of  dramatic  incident,  many 
of  the  jokes  being  ancient  stagers  redivtvus. 
Indeed,  there  is  more  than  a  suggestion  of 
the  callow  wit  which  appeals  to  the  under- 
graduate. Thinking  men  and  women  will 
'■■:•  ■    -     ■  '  '  ning  of  Helen,"   which 

1  for  the  omnivorous, 
youth  of  both  sexeo, 
who  ljii  kui|>  uown  D'Annunzio  and  giggle 
over  Richard  Harding  Davis  with  equal  ease, 
and  remain  just  as  far  as  ever  from  estab- 
lishing a  standard. 

A  play  of  such  intrinsic  weakness  naturally 
gives  players  but  little  opportunity.  Margaret 
Anp'.in  had  the  most,  although  it  was  apparent 
at  times  that  she  found  it  expedient  to  eke 
out  with  interpolated  touches  the  inherent 
s'i  ilowness  of  the  pi 

r.    Miller,    in    spite     of    a    well-preserved 


smile  which  rejuvenates  his  face  wonderfully, 
filled  a  role  which  should  be  undertaken 
by  an  elastic,  spirited  youngster  in  his 
twenties.  He  did  it  well,  but  his  high  spirits 
were  not  precisely  contagious. 

Miss  Waldron,  who  was  Miss  Trevellyan 
in  the  Eastern  production,  has  been  promoted 
to  the  part  of  Helen.  Miss  Waldron  ha? 
ability,  but  a  purely  sentimental  role  suits  her 
style  even  less  than  the  play  of  emotion  is 
becoming  to  her  features.  She  did  extremely 
well  last  year  as  the  didactic  young  woman 
in  "  The  Importance  of  Being  Earnest."  which 
would  perhaps  indicate  that  her  talent  lies 
more  especially  in  the  line  of  character  work. 

Morton  Selten,  so  well  placed  as  General 
Burgoyne  in  "  The  Devil's  Disciple  "—was 
cast  as  a  remarkably  fatuous  individual  who 
had  little  to  do  beyond  yelping  loudly  when 
he  was  thumped  on  the  back  by  the  heavy- 
handed  Philip.  Whether  it  was  Mr.  Davis's, 
or  his  own,  conception  that  induced  Mr.  Sel- 
ten to  cultivate  a  general  expression  of  unin- 
spired imbecility,  it  is  hard  to  say;  his  excuse, 
however,  if  one  is  needed,  lies  in  the  fact  that 
the  character  of  Captain  Herbert  is  entirely 
devoid  of  individuality. 

George  S.  Titheradge,  as  the  London  actor- 
manager,  gained  considerably  in  presence  over 
his  Parson  Andersen  of  last  week.  His  fine 
voice,  and,  curiously  enough,  a  certain  effect 
of  insincerity  in  his  acting,  made  him  partic- 
ularly adaptable  to  the  part  of  Sir  Charles 
Wimpole,  the  London  manager  of  the  play, 
who  suggests  Irving,  but  may  have  been  in- 
spired by  Charles  Wyndham. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  there  is  a  falling  off 
in  merit  in  Henry  Miller's  support;  due,  per- 
haps, to  the  fact  that  other  Eastern  lights  havc 
had  their  eyes  on  San  Francisco,  which  will 
naturally  diminish  individual  profits.  So  far, 
however,  there  has  been  comparatively  little 
opportunity,  from  the  character  of  the  two 
plays  produced,  to  test  the  dramatic  stuff  in 
them. 


yard,  which  forage  for  food  with  the  serene 
air  of  fowls  who  have  been  stuffed  like  Stras- 
bourg geese  before  the  performance  has  be- 
gun. 

The  author,  by  the  by.  apropos  of  "  that  dry 
humor "  which  she  naively  praises  in  her 
play  as  being  "  characteristic  of  the  true 
American,"  neglected  a  noble  opportunity  in 
not  causing  the  darkey  with  the  megaphone 
voice  to  kidnap  one  of  the  hens.  For  do  not 
darkeys  and  fowls  gravitate  toward  each  other 
at  night-time  as  inevitably  as  positive  and  neg- 
ative poles?  It  was  another  opportunity  rep- 
rehensilily  lost  for  "punctuating"  one  more 
scene  with  a  "  laugh  of  pure  good  nature." 

Somebody's  judgment,  by  the  way,  was  out 
in  the  twilight  scene.  When  darkness  fell, 
some  belated  birds  chirped,  and  the  frogs 
began  their  nocturnal  anthem.  Tt  was  not  a 
bad  effect,  especially  with  the  lovers  as  sole 
auditors  of  the  twilight  chorus.  But  what  about 
the  fowls  who  always  go  briskly  to  bed  at  sun- 
down, and  who  stood  their  ground  in  the  falling 
darkness  with  a  politely  negative,  Casabianca- 
like  air  of  resignation,  and  not  a  hen-roost 
in  sight?  However,  these  are  but  spots  upon 
the  glittering  tin-ware  of  "  The  Dairy  Farm," 
for  the  piece  was  well  put  on,  and  the  com- 
pany, reinforced  by  several  players  who  have 
become  identified  with  its  successful  Eastern 
production,  acted  with  an  animation  and  relish 
that  imparted  considerable  reality  to  some 
of  the   more  successful   characters. 

Josephine  Hart   Phelps. 


Let  the  timid  or  dishearted  amateur  play 
wright  take  heart  of  grace,  for  "  The  Dairy 
Farm  "  is  a  success,  and  draws  its  hundreds 
and  tens  of  hundreds  to  the  Alcazar.  "  The 
Dairy  Farm  "  is  merely  a  slight  variation  on 
all  the  familiar  units  in  the  long  procession 
of  rural  dramas  with  which  we  have  become 
familiar.  It  is  written  with  a  plentiful  lack 
of  wit,  although  the  author  remarks  confidently 
in  a  note  on  the  programme :  "  I  believe  every 
man  will  go  away  benefited  by  the  laugh  of 
pure  good  nature  with  which  he  has  punctu- 
ated the  various  scenes."  Her  delightful  con- 
fidence is  not  misplaced,  for  the  rural  play 
is  apparently  one  of  those  species  of  drama 
with  which  you  can  fool  some  of  the  people 
all  the  time. 

"  The  Dairy  Farm  "  has  a  few  new  features. 
For  one  thing,  it  is  located  in  the  'fifties, 
which  gives  opportunity  to  put  the  women  in 
crinoline  and  ankle-length  pantalettes,  in  the 
display  of  which  they  show  a  high  degree  of 
conscientiousness.  For  another,  there  is  a 
glimpse  given  of  the  workings  of  the  under- 
ground railway  to  assist  runaway  slaves.  But 
all  else  is  but  the  dear  old  landmarks  that  we 
know  by  heart.  There  is  the  girl  of  obscure 
parentage,  whom  the  heir  to  the  farm — a 
young  man  with  immaculate  boots  and  a  low- 
necked  shirt,  revealing  a  plump  pink  bosom — 
with  the  usual  perversity  will  persist  in  lov- 
ing. There  is  an  obdurate  sire — in  "  The 
Dairy  Farm  "  an  uncle — who  makes  himself 
generally  obstinate  and  unpleasant  all  round 
because  the  young  man  defies  the  avuncular 
decree  and  marries  the  wrong  girl.  There  is 
the  homely  mistress,  who  always  has  her 
hands  either  in  butter,  flour,  or  potato  par- 
ings, and  who  stands  for  honest  bluntness  and 
sterling  worth.  There  is  a  villain,  who  has  a 
box  of  mortgages  up  his  sleeve,  and  his  eye 
on  the  farm  ;  a  pair  of  rustic  lovers,  who  make 
goo-goo  eyes  at  each  other  on  the  horse-hair 
sofa  in  the  "  best  room  "  ;  and  various  others 
who  make  up  the  tribe  of  neighbors,  gossips, 
and  young  folks,  who  always  assemble  in  the 
farm  kitchen  before  the  play  is  over  and  have 
a  good,  old-fashioned  country  revel.  Once 
upon  a  time,  country  life  stood  for  a  dead 
level  of  dullness.  But  in  the  rural  drama 
of  the  present,  "  the  yard  "  is  always  a  sort 
of  rustic  rialto  whereon  is  heard  the  marching 
tread  of  the  entire  village  host  before  the 
play  is  over. 

It  is  rather  difficult  to  heed  the  discourse 
of  the  long-winded  concourse  in  "  The  Dairy 
Farm  "  who  are  wont  to  indulge  in  ex- 
planatory monologues  of  a  dull  nature.  In- 
deed, the  pink-bosomed  young  man,  with  the 
broken-hearted  voice,  makes  a  spread-eagle 
speech  on  the  village  streets,  thereby  pro- 
longing the  performance  to  an  unforgiveable 
length.  Rut  one  can  evade  the  monologues 
by  looking  at  the  live  poultry  let  loose  in  the 


Dr.  Martin  Kellogg,  for  many  years  one 
of  the  leading  members  of  the  faculty  of  the 
University  of  California,  and  for  five  years 
its  president,  died  on  Wednesday,  at  the  ace 
of  seventy-five.  In  1899.  worn  out  with  long 
years  of  service  at  the  university.  Professor 
Kellogg  asked  and  received  a  year's  leave 
of  absence,  which  was  granted  him,  and,  in 
September,  one  month  before  the  inaugu- 
ration of  his  successor.  President  Wheeler, 
he  sailed  with  his  wife  for  a  trip  around  the 
world.  He  returned  in  1900,  and  has  lived 
quietly  at  his  residence  in  Berkeley  on  Bush- 
nell  Place. 


Denis  O'Sullivan  will  be  heard  only  once 
before  his  return  to  London.  He  will  give  a 
song  recital  on  Friday  evening,  September 
nth.  at  Steimvay  Hall,  when  his  programme 
will %  include  some  fourteen  songs  riot  pre- 
viously heard  in  San  Francisco.  Strauss. 
Hugo  Wolf,  Weingartner.  and  others  will  be 
represented,  and  two  groups  of  English  and 
Irish  airs  will  be  included  for  the  more  fa- 
miliar part  of  the  recital. 


The  Philharmonic  Symphony  Orchestra  of 
amateurs,  under  the  direction  of  Giulio  Min- 
etti,  will  give  three  evening  concerts  during 
the  season  of  1903-4,  respectively,  in  Novem- 
ber, February,  and  May.  Rehearsals  take  place 
Monday  evenings  at  Curtaz  &  Co.'s  Hall, 
from  whom  further  particulars  may  be  ob- 
tained, and  in  whose  care  applications  for 
membership  should  be  sent  to  the  society. 


Have  you  ever  visited  the  beautiful  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais.  which  stands  near  the  summit 
of  Mt.  Tamalpais,  at  the  terminus  of  the 
Scenic  Railway?  It  is  built  on  solid  rock. 
is  lighted  by  gas,  and  is  furnished  throughout 
with  every  convenience.  The  water  supply 
is  from  pure  mountain  springs,  and  the  sani- 
tary arrangements  are  faultless. 

Fritz  Scheel  is  to  conduct  two  popular  con- 
certs at  Mechanics'  Pavilion  on  Monday  after- 
noon, September  7th  (Labor  Day),  and 
Wednesday,   September  9th   (Admission   Day). 


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*TIVOLI* 

To-day  and  Sundav  evening,  last  performances  of 
-:r      THE     HIGHWAYMAN     -:- 

Openitig1of  the'grand-opera  season,  Monday,  August 
31st,  and  until  further  notice.  Monday,  Wednes- 
day, Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings,  AIDA.  Tues- 
day. Thursday,  and  Sunday  evenings,  Saturday 
matinee,    T^UCIA    DI    LAMMEEMOOR. 


—  Among  the  many  charming  creations 
to  be  shown  at  the  Emporium's  Opening  Fall 
Exhibit,  which  begins  Monday,  August  31st,  is 
a  magnificent  gown  designed  by  Maurice  Mayer, 
Paris,  of  Point  de  Esprit  on  Mousseline  de  boie 
over  white  silk.     It  is  a  dream  of  loveliness. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats.;  fall  stvles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,   Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  SYMPHONY  Society 

C  O  3NT  O  IE  H.  T  S 

FRITZ  SCHEEL,  Director. 

GRAND    OPERA.    MOUSE 

Orchestra  oT  70   musicians. 

Concerts  every  Tuesday  afternoon.  3:15,  until  Oct.  6th. 
Prices  of  seats,  50c,  $1.00,  $1.25,  $1.50. 


TWO  GRAND   POPULAR  CONCERTS. 
MECHANICS'    PAVILION-Fritz  Scheel,  director. 

Labor  Day,   Monday,  Sept.  ?th,  3  p.  M.     Admission 
Day,  Wednesday,  Sept.  9th,  3  p.  M. 
Popular  music.     Popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c. 


Popular  prices— 25c.  50c,  and  75c.        Telephone  Bush  9. 

QOIUMBIA    THEATRE, 

Week   of    Monday.   August   31st,    matinees    Wednes- 
day and  Saturday, 
Henry  Margaret 

MILLER       ,S*       J^       ArVGLIIV 
in  an  entirely  new  production  of 
-:-        O  A  3VE  HjIjE        -=- 


Next    play-  The   Ironmaster. 


ftlGAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone  "  Alcazar." 

Belasco  &  Maver Proprietors 

E.  D.  Price General  Manager 

Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday.  DAIRY 
FARM  matinee,  Sunday,  August  30th.  Commenc- 
ing Monday  evening  next,  August  -ust.  FLORENCE 
ROBERTS  in 

THE    UNWELCOME  MRS.    HATCH 
By  Mrs   Burton  Harrison. 


Evenings.  25c  to  75c.     Matinees,  15c  to  50c. 
LA    GIOCONDA    matinee,    Thursday,    September 
10th— night  prices. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE*    phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week  beginning  Monday,  August  31st,  matinees  Sat- 
urday and  Sunday,  king  of  melodramas, 
THE      GREAT      RUiiY 

Augustin  Daly's  famous  New  York  success. 

Prices— Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  September  7th— Whose  Baby  are  You  ? 


QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Matinee  to-day.     To-night.  Stanford  University  night, 
last  night  of  IN    HARVARD. 

Prices — 25c,  50c,  and  75c. 


Beginning  to-morrow    night,     POLLARD     LILLIPU- 
TIAN   OTERA  COMPANY  in 
THE    BELLE    Of    NEW     YORK 

Popular    prices  — Night,     15c,    25c.    50c,    and    75c. 
Saturday  and  Sunday  matinees,  15c,  25c,  and  50c. 

CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Every  night  next  week.  Beginning  to-morrow  night, - 
NEILL-MOROSCO  COMPANY,  presenting  Henry 
Arthur  Jones's  brilliant  society  play, 

MRS.     DANE'S     DEFENSE 


Special    Notice — Thursday  and  Saturday  matinees, 
EAST    LYNNE.  

Next— Daniel    Frohman's  great    Daly  Theatre  suc- 
cess, Notre    Dame. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  August  30th. 
Reliant  Vaudeville!  Lew  Bloom  and  Jane  Cooper; 
T  Nelson  Downs;  the  LaVine-Cameron  Trio;  Mar- 
guerite and  Hauley ;  the  Fleury  Trio;  Sam  Edwards 
and  Company;  Larkins  and  Patterson;  theBiograph; 
and  last  week  of  Keough  and  Ballard. 


Seats   for  all  concerts  for  sale  at  Sherman 
&  Clay's  music  store. 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL! 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


Reserved  seats.  25c;  balcony,  10c;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


The  last  nights  oi  QUO  VASS  ISS 

THE  BIG  LITTLE  PRINCESS 

Reserved  seals— Nights,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at 
matinees,    10c  and  25c. 

Commencing  Monday,  September  7th, 
THE  CON-QUERERS  and  THE  GLAD  HAND 

Seats  now- on  sale.  Special  matinee  Wednesday, 
September    9th.     Admission  Day. 

^YR/G  HALL         Eddy  St.,  above  Mason 
CHARLES   FROHMAN  presents 

E  V  ERYM  A  IN 

The  fifteenth-century  morality  play,  under  the  personal 
direction  of  Ben  Greet. 

Next  Wednesday  night,  September  2d,  at  8:30, 
and  every  night  (Sundays  excepted)  for  a  limited 
season. 

Matinees  Thursdays  and  Saturdays  at  3:00  o'clock 
First  night  under  the  auspices  of 

CHAIVrVirNG     AUXILIARY. 


Reserved  seats,  $2.00,  $1.50,  and  $1.00.     Box-office, 
Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.,  now  open. 


August  31,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


139 


STAGE   GOSSIP. 


Return  of  Florence  Roberts. 
-  Florence  Roberts  will  make  her  reappear- 
ance at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  on  Monday  night 
in  Mrs.  Burton  Harrison's  play,  "The  Unwel- 
come Mrs.  Hatch."  which  was  produced  in 
New  York  by  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske.  The 
play  revolves  about  Mrs.  Hatch,  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, who  has  been  wrongfully  divorced  by 
her  husband.  She  hears  that  her  daughter  in 
New  York  is  to  be  married,  and  her  strong 
mother-love  leads  her  to  hasten  thither.  On 
her  way  she  meets  Jack  Adrian,  a  nice  young 
man.  and  a  mutual  friendship. springs  up,  but 
she  finally  tells  him  that  she  is  a  divorced 
woman,  and  he  leaves  her  depressed  and  dis- 
appointed. On  her  arrival  in  New  York,  Mrs. 
Hatch  seeks  an  interview  with  her  former 
husband,  and  implores  him  to  permit  her  to 
see  her  daughter.  He  agrees,  upon  the  con- 
dition that  the  daughter  shall  not  be  told 
of  her  identity.  After  this  interview,  in  which 
all  the  conditions  are  duly  carried  out,  Mrs. 
Hatch,  disguised  as  a  dressmaker's  assistant, 
gains  entrance  to  her  former  husband's  home 
in  order  to  catch  one  more  glimpse  of  her 
daughter  before  she  is  married.  There  she 
overhears  Mr.  Hatch  plotting  to  get  posses- 
sion of  the  property  of  his  son-in-law-to-be, 
and  when  she  is  discovered  by  him.  threat- 
ens to  expose  him.  She  also  learns  that  Jack 
Adrian  is  her  daughter's  fiance.  The  last 
scene  reveals  Mrs.  Hatch  in  humble  lodgings 
making  lamp-shades  for  a  living,  but  old 
friends  have  discovered  her.  and  her  daughter 
and  son-in-law  learn  through  them  of  her  in- 
nocence and  self-sacrifice,  and  a  reconcilia- 
tion follows.  The  play  will  be  beautifully 
mounted,  especially  the  scene  representing  a 
May-Day  party  in  Central  Park,  when  the 
I  stage  is  crowded  with  merry-making  little 
ones.  On  September  ioth.  Miss  Roberts  will 
give  a  special  matinee  performance  of 
D'Annunzio's  "  La  Gioconda." 


Margaret  Anglin  as  "  Camille." 
The  third  week  of  the  Miller-Anglin  engage- 
ment will  be  devoted  to  Margaret  AngHn's 
translation  from  the  French  of  Dumas's  great 
classic.  "Camille."  in  the  title-role  of  which 
she  made  such  a  strong  impression  here  last 
year.  Mr.  Miller  will  repeat  his  fine  perform- 
ance of  Armand ;  George  S.  Titheradge  will 
impersonate  Dumas  f>ere ;  Walter  Hitchcock, 
the  Comte  de  Varville :  Morton  Selten.  St. 
Gaudens:  Mrs.  Kate  Pattison  Selten.  Pru- 
dence: Victoria  Addison.  Olympe :  and  Mar- 
tha Waldron.  Nanine.  A  new  version  of 
George  Ohnet's  "  Le  Maitre  de  Force,"  under 
the  title  "  The  Ironmaster."  will  follow 
'  Camille."  Some  ten  vears  ago  this  drama 
was  in  the  repertoire  of  nearlv  every  actress 
nf  note,  for  the  role  of  the  hieh-snirited.  will- 
ful, fiery  Calire  de  Beaupre.  who.  in  a  moment 
of  smarting  nain  and  wounded  pride,  cives 
her  hand  to  the  despised  and  unknown  Iron- 
master, offers  manv  opportunities  for  stronc 
emotional  acting.  Mrs.  Kendal,  it  will  be  re- 
membered, nroduced  Pinero's  version  of  "  Le 
Maitre  de  Forge,"  when  she  last  visited  San 
Francisco  in  1894. 


Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
The  long-awaited  grand-opera  season  will 
hegin  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House  on  Monday 
evening,  when  the  usual  Tivoli's  opening  mas- 
cot opera,  "  Aida,"  will  be  presented,  with  the 
new  dramatic  soprano,  Lina  de  Benedetto,  in 
the  title-role.  This  opera  will  be  repeated  on 
Wednesday.  Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings. 
On  Tuesday  evening.  Adelina  Tomben.  the  new 
lyric  soprano,  will  make  her  debut  here  as 
Lucy  Ashton.  in  "  Lucia  di  Lammermoor," 
which  will  be  sung  acain  on  Tuesday.  Thurs- 
day, and  Sunday  evenings,  and  at  the  Saturday 
matinee.  Among  the  other  members  of  the 
prand-opera  company  this  season  will  he  the 
three  Tivoli  favorites.  Tina  de  Spada.  Giuseppe 
Agostino.  and  Augusto  Dado,  and  several  other 
new  singers,  among  them  Cleo  Marchesini, 
mezzo  soprano;  Emanuele  Ischierdo.  dramatic 
tenor;  Alfredo  Tedeschi,  tyric  tenor;  Adamo 
Gregoretti, dramatic  baritone;  Giuseppe  Zanini. 
lyric  baritone;  and  Baldo  Travaglini.  basso. 
Some  of  the  lesser  roles  will  be  entrusted  to 
Frances  Graham.  Marie  Welsh.  Quinto  Zani, 
and  Guilo  Cortesi. 


"Everyman"  at  the  Lyric. 
The  greatest  novelty  at  the  theatres  next 
week  will  be  the  old  morality  play,  "  Every- 
man." which  will  be  given  here  for  the  first 
time  at  Lyric  Hall,  1 19  Eddy  Street,  on 
Wednesday,  under  the  personal  direction  of 
Ben  Greet,  of  the  Elizabethan  Stage  Society 
of  London.  Dating  in  authorship  some  time 
in  the  fifteenth  century,  the  old  play  will  be 
presented  just  as  it  was  given  in  mediaeval 
limes.  There  is  no  curtain,  no  light  effects, 
no  orchestra,  and  the  performance  is  con- 
tinuous. Mr.  Greet,  however,  intends  this  year 
:o  give  the  play  more  mediaeval  atmosphere 
:han  it  has  yet  had,  and  will  introduce  pro- 
:essionals  after  the  manner  of  early  Passion 
Plays.  The  audience  is  requested  not  to  ap- 
ilaud  any  portion  of  the  performance.  Briefly, 
he  plot  of  the  play  is  as  follows;  After  a 
>rologue  spoken  by  the  Messenger,  the  action 
ipens  with  Adonai  looking  upon  the  sinful 
rarth.  He  perceives  how  Everyman  lives 
titer  his  own  pleasure.  Death  is  summoned, 
ind  meeting  Everyman,  commands  him  to  take 
1  pilgrimage.  Everyman  tries  in  vain  to  es- 
cape, but  there  is  no  bargaining  with  Death, 
-eft  alone  to  his  terror,  Everyman  appeals 
o  the  character  called  Fellowship  to  accom- 
iany  him  on  the  journey,  but  he  declines. 
Then  appeal  is  made  to  two  associates.  Kyn- 
ede  and  Cosin,  but  these,  too,  refuse  to  ac- 
:ompany  him  on  his  journey.  Then  he  turns 
o  Riches,  and  while  Riches  admits  his  power 
n  this  world,  he  declines  to  try  it  on  a  journey 
o  the  next.    Good  Deedes  is  appealed  to,  but 


answers  that  she  is  so  bound  in  Everyman's 
sins  that  she  can  scarcely  rise.  But  she  re- 
sponds to  his  entreaty,  and  brings  with  her 
Knowledge,  her  sister,  who  declares  her  willing- 
ness to  stand  by  Everyman  at  the  judgment 
seat.  As  he  at  last  begins  his  journey,  a 
mortal  weakness  comes  over  him.  One  after 
another  of  his  companions.  Beauty.  Strength. 
Discretion,  and  the  Five  Wits  take  their  leave. 
Good  Deedes  and  Knowledge  alone  remain, 
and  as  an  angel  descends  to  carry  the 
ransomed  soul  heavenward,  a  personage  called 
Doctor  epitomizes  the  lesson  which  the  action 
of  the  play  has  illustrated.  None  of  the  names 
of  the  twenty  actors  and  actresses  who  figure 
in  the  cast  of  "  Everyman  "  will  be  announced. 
The  first  performance  on  Wednesday  night 
will  be  given  under  the  auspices  of  the  Chan- 
ning  Auxiliary. 

"The  Great  Ruby"  at  the  Central. 
Messrs.  Raleigh  and  Hamilton's  spectacular 
English  melodrama,  "  The  Great  Ruby,"  which 
was  first  imported  to  this  country  by  the  late 
Augustin  Daly,  is  to  be  produced  at  the  Cen- 
tral Theatre  next  week  on  an  elaborate  scale. 
The  play  hinges  on  the  theft  of  a  great  ruby 
from  a  Bond  Street  jeweler's  wife  by  a  gang 
of  diamond  thieves,  and  the  subsequent  hunt 
for  it  by  men  from  Scotland  Yard.  There 
are  thirty-five  people  in  the  cast,  and  fourteen 
changes  of  scene,  depicting  fashionable  En- 
glish life,  are  shown.  The  opening  scene  rep- 
resents a  Bond  Street  jewelry  shop,  with  real 
plate-glass  windows  and  glittering  show-cases. 
Then  the  scene  changes  successively  to  a 
picturesque  inn  at  Lord's  during  a  cricket 
match  between  Oxford  and  Cambridge ;  the 
Countess  Charkoff  s  flat ;  the  magnificent 
"lounge  "  of  the  Oatland  Hotel ;  and  finally  a 
military  tournament.  The  climax,  however. 
is  reached  in  the  scene  where  the  jewel  thief 
jumps  into  a  balloon,  and  as  the  great  toy 
"rocks  unsteadily  and  scenery  and  even  clouds 
descend,  giving  a  vivid  illusion  of  the  bal- 
loon's ascent,  pursuer  and  pursued  struggle 
for  the  mastery,  until  at  last  the  hero  secures 
the  jewel  and  flings  the  thief  out  from  the  car 
to  the  depths  below.  In  theatrical  parlance, 
this  scene  is  "  simply  great."  and  is  sure  to 
prove  a  big  hit  at  the  Central. 


At  the  Orpheum. 
Some  especially  clever  new  specialties  are 
announced  for  the  Orpheum  next  week.  Lew 
Bloom,  the  tramp  comedian,  and  Jane  Cooper, 
will  reappear  after  a  long  absence,  in  an 
amusing  sketch  entitled  "  A  Picture  from 
Life."  The  other  new-comers  are  T.  Nelson 
Downs,  the  well-known  "  King  of  Cards." 
who  is  said  to  be  without  an  equal  in  his 
feats  of  palming;  Oliver  La  Vine.  May  La- 
Vine,  and  Tudor  Cameron,  who  will  appear 
here  for  the  first  time  in  their  acrobatic  act 
"  My  Demented  Friend  " ;  and  Marguerite 
and  Hanley,  hand  balancers.  Those  retained 
from  this  week's  bill  are  Edwin  Keough  and 
Dorothy  Ballard  in  their  original  conceit. 
"A  Vaudeville  Surprise";  the  Fleurs  trio, 
who  will  vary  their  unique  and  beautiful 
dances ;  Sam  Edwards  and  his  company  of 
comedians  in  "  A  Pass  for  Two  "  ;  and  Lar- 
kins  and  Patterson,  the  "  national  singers  of 
coon  songs." 

Lillian  Kemble  in  "Mrs.  Dane's  Defense." 
Owing  to  the  great  success  of  "  Shenan- 
doah," "  Mrs.  Dane's  Defense "  was  given 
only  at  the  matinees  this  week.  It  will  be 
the  regular  bill,  however,  all  next  week,  and 
promises  to  do  a  record  business.  It  is  un- 
doubtedly the  strongest  of  Henry  Arthur 
Jones's  plays,  and  gives  Lillian  Kemble  an- 
other chance  to  show  her  versatility.  The  bi« 
scene  of  the  play  comes  in  the  third  act.  when 
Sir  Daniel  Carteret — impersonated  by  Frank 
McVicars — whose  adopted  son,  Lionel,  loves 
Mrs.  Dane,  decides  that  she  must  give  him  an 
account  of  her  past  life,  in  order  that  he  may 
free  her  from  the  scandalous  charges  made  by 
Mrs.  Bulsom-Porter.  She  does  this,  and  her 
story  (which  is  really  an  account  of  the  life 
of  her  cousin,  Lucy)  is  logical  in  the  extreme 
until  the  famous  lawyer  begins,  as  a  mere 
matter  of  form  at  first,  a  cross-examination. 
The  first  few  questions  are  easily  answered. 
Then  comes  a  slip — a  slight  one.  But  the  law- 
yer's professional  instincts  are  aroused.  It  is 
a  matter  of  pride  with  him  to  pursue  the 
questionings  further,  although  he  fully  be- 
lieves the  woman  to  be  innocent.  Another 
slip.  Sir  Daniel's  manner  changes.  His 
family    honor    is    at   stake    now.      It   is   not   a 


question  of  Mrs.  Dane's  innocence — rather 
it  is  her  guilt.  His  questions  come  more 
rapidly  and  more  and  more  sternly.  He  is 
the  woman's  champion  no  longer.  He  is  her 
judge.  The  toils  tighten  about  her.  For 
awhile  she  persists  in  her  silly  and  futile 
lies,  and  then,  when  it  at  last  breaks  in  on 
her  that  she  is  lost — when  the  judge  cries 
out  to  her  "You  are  the  woman!"  she  falls 
in  an  agony  of  despair  and  grovels  at  his  feet. 
The  last  act  is  a  sort  of  anti-climax,  and  tells 
how  Lionel  is  persuaded  to  give  up  Mrs.  Dane 
and  she  to  leave  the  village,  while  Mrs.  Bul- 
som-Porter is  forced  to  sign  a  retraction  of 
her  charges,  which  every  one  knows  to  be  true. 
The  play  ends,  too,  with  an  unworthy  and 
purely  theatrical  touch  of  pathos,  when  Janet 
Colquhoun,  a  former  sweetheart  of  Lionel, 
covers  him  with  a  shawl  as  he  lies  sleeping 
on  a  sofa.  At  the  Thursday  and  Saturday 
matinees,  "  East  Lynne  "  will  be  the  bill.  For 
its  farewell  week,  the  Neill-Morosco  company 
will  present  "  Notre  Dame,"  which  has  never 
been  given  here. 

The  Pollard  Company  at  the  Grand, 
At  the  Grand  Opera  House,  on  Sunday 
night,  a  crowded  house  of  grown  folks,  as  well 
as  children,  will  welcome  back  the  Pollard 
Lilliputian  Opera  Company,  which  has  just  re- 
turned from  an  extensive  tour  of  Australia 
and  the  Orient.  Their  opening  offering  will 
be  "  The  Belle  of  New  York,"  and  during  their 
four  weeks'  engagement  they  will  present  a 
number  of  popular  musical  comedies.  Daphne 
Pollard,  the  Juvenile  soubrette,  still  heads  the 
company,  and  the  prima  donnas  are  little 
Alice  Pollard  and  Eva  Moore.  Teddy  Mc- 
Namara,  a  clever  comedian,  has  recently 
joined  the  company.  An  essential  feature 
of  the  performances  of  the  Pollard  organiza- 
tion is  the  well-trained  and  evenly  balanced 
juvenile  chorus.  "  The  Belle  of  New  York  " 
will  be  presented  on  an  elaborate  scale,  new 
scenery  and  costumes  having  been  prepared 
for  the  season  at  the  Grand.  Popular  prices 
will  prevail  during  the  Pollard  company's  en- 
gagement, and  as  the  matinee  prices  will  be 
only  15,  25,  and  50  cents,  every  little  child 
in  town  will  be  enabled  to  see  this  organiza- 
tion  of  precocious  youngsters. 

The  Fischer  Burlesques. 
Only  one  more  week  is  to  be  devoted  to 
"  Quo  Vass  Iss "  and  "  The  Big  Little 
Princess  "  at  Fischer's  Theatre.  On  Monday, 
September  7th.  there  will  be  offered  another 
great  double  bill  of  burlesques,  including  a 
very  funny  travesty  on  Paul  M.  Potter's 
French  adaptation,  "  The  Conquerers,"  which 
is  nicknamed  "  The  Con-Querers,"  and  a  bur- 
lesque entitled  "  The  Glad  Hand,"  filled  with 
novelties   and  original  specialties. 


Cereal  Foods 
without  cream  are  not  appetizing,  but  good,  raw 
cream  is  not  always  easy  to  get.  Borden's  Peer- 
less Brand  Evaporated  Cream  is  superior  to  raw 
cream,  with  a  delicious  flavor  and  richness.  Use 
it  for  general  cooking  purposes.  Borden's  Con- 
densed Milk  Co.,  proprietors. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Building,    806    Market    Street      Specialty : 
"  Col  ton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


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Few  persons  have  an  idea  what  lifting  the 
America's  Cup  means  in  money   (remarks  the 
New    York  Sun).    Each   of   Sir  Thomas   Lip- 
ton's  efforts  have  cost  him  more  than  half  a 
million     dollars.       This    time      his      expenses 
are    more    than    they    have    been    in    former 
years,   because   he  has   kept  two   racing  boats 
in      commission.      Shamrock      III      probably 
cost    to    build   about    $200,000.      She    has    five 
suits    of   sails,    and    these    cost    $20,000    each, 
so,  that   with   her   sails   her   cost    is   $300,000. 
Extra   spars   have   been  needed,   more   rigging 
has  been  used  than  was  first  put  on  the  yacht, 
and  many  other  minor  expenses  have  probably 
brought  the  cost  of  the  boat  up  to   $450,000. 
Shamrock  I  had  new  sails,  and  she  used  some 
that    were   made    for   Shamrock   II   two   years 
ago.    These   had   to   be  recut   to   fit   the   older 
boat.      With    new    rigging,    and    cleaning    and 
painting,  it  is  probable  that  the  trial  boat  ha^ 
cost    $50,000.      There    are    forty-five    men    on 
each    of    these    racing    boats.      The    captain's 
salaries   are   $4,500   each,   the   officers,   $3,000, 
•and    forty    men    on    each    boat    draw    about 
$30  a  month  apiece.     They  have  been  engaged 
for    six    months,    so    their    total    wages    will 
amount    to     $14,400.       In    addition    to    their 
wages,    Sir   Thomas   pays    each   man    a   bonus 
of  $75   for  giving  up  the  yachting  season   on 
the   other  side   and   coming  across  the   ocean. 
This    is    in    lieu    of    prize    money.       If    the 
Shamrock  wins,   it  will  be  much  more.    This 
bonus   will   amount   to   $6,000.      On    the   Erin 
the    crew    costs    about    $17,500,    and    on    the 
Cruiser    and    the    smaller    boat    about    $5,000. 
This    makes    the    total    cost    of    men    for    the 
six    months    $50,400.      It    costs    quite    a    nice 
sum  to  feed  205  men  each  day.     It  is  fair  to 
estimate  this  item  at  50  cents  a  day  for  each 
man.  so  that  the  total  food  bill  will  be  about 
$18,000.    The  yachts  will  occupy  the  dry-dock 
altogether  twenty-two   days.     This  costs   $300 
a   day.    making   the   total    $6,6oo.      There   are 
many    other    charges    in    connection    with    the 
dry-dock.    Men  have  been   hired  to   paint  the 
yachts,    others   have   been    employed   to    make 
changes    and    repairs.    Sails    and    spars    have 
been    stored,    and   lighters    and    derricks   have 
been   used   to   step   and  unstep   the   masts.    It 
is    said    that    $15,000    will    about    cover    the 
expenses   at  the   dry-dock.     When   it  was   de- 
cided to  bring  the  Shamrock  I  across  it  was 
found  necessary  to  have  an  extra  convoy.  The 
Erin  could  not  do  the  work  of  the  two  racers. 
Sir  Thomas  bought  the  tug  Cruiser  for  about 
$75,000.     Here  he  has  chartered  a  barge  and 
a    house-boat,     and     engaged      an      excursion 
steamer    to   take   his   guests   down    to   see   the 
races.     All    this   will    add   $20,000    to   his   ex- 
penses.    This   makes   the  total   cost  of  trying 
to  lift  the  cup   $638,000,   and  not  a  cent  has 
been  charged  up  to  entertainment.     During  the 
races    the   Erin    will    be    crowded    every    day. 
Ever  since  the  yachts  arrived  here  there  have 
been    parties    of    friends    aboard,    and    many 
guests  have  been  brought  from  the  other  side 
to  live  on  the  Erin.  It  is  fair  to  say  that  Sir 
Thomas's  bills  will  total  $700,000. 

Challenging  for  the  America's  Cup  seems 
to  have  z  fascination  for  those  who  can  afford 
.-  rfie  expensive  diversion,  for  the  majority  of 
those  who  have  challenged  once  have  come 
to  try  again.  This  is  Sir  Thomas  Lipton's  third 
attempt  to  capture  the  trophy.  James  Ashbury 
tried  twice,  as  also  did  Alexander  Cuthbert. 
of  Canada,  and  Lord  Dunraven.  The  cup 
was  won  by  the  America  in  the  summer  of 
1851,  when  John  C.  Stevens,  the  first  com- 
modore of  the  New  York  Yacht  Club,  went 
over  with  the  vessel  to  try  her  out  against 
some  of  the  British  fliers.  He  posted  various 
challenges  about,  but  the  Britons  had  had 
glimpses  of  the  new  yacht's  speed,  and  they 
were  reticent  about  making  a  race  with  him. 
Commodore  Stevens  was  nearly  discouraged, 
snd  hardly  thought  it  worth  while  to  enter 
the  regatta  arranged  to  be  sailed  at  Cowes 
on  August  2zd,  open  to  yachts  of  all  nations, 
and  for  a  five-hundred-dollar  cup.  For  the 
sake,  however,  of  getting  one  race  he  started. 
The    cours-  md    the    Isle    of    Wight, 

against  fourteen  yachts, 
^hooners    and   eight   cut- 
^utcn  Victoria  was  at  the  finishing  point 
off  Cowes  Castle  in  the  royal  yacht   Victoria 
and   Albert,    and   the    answer    she    got,    in    re- 
sponse  to   her  inquiry  as   to   the  winner,  best 
summarizes  the  story  of  the  race.     "  Which  is 
first?"    she    inquired    of    an    official.      "The 
America,"  replied  the  officer.     "And  which  is 
se  :ond  ?"      "  Ah,    your    majesty,    there    is    no 
second."      So  America  took  the  since   famous 
five-hundred-dollar    cup    home    with    her.      Tt 
-     smained  in  the  hands  of  Commodore  Stevens 
>nd    his    associates    until     1857,     when     they 
rJaced  it  in  the  hands  of  the  New  York  Yacht 


Club  as  a  perpetual  challenge  cup.  New  con- 
ditions have  necessitated  deeds  of  gift,  and 
many  specifications  as  to  how  the  cup  shall 
be  held,  but  the  spirit  of  the  original  memo- 
randum by  which  the  cup  was  transferred 
remains  the  same. 

It  was  not  until  1870  that  the  first  chal- 
lenge came.  James  Ashbury,  whose  schooner 
Cambria  had  defeated  the  American  schooner 
Sappho  in  a  race  around  the  Isle  of  Wight  in 
1868  was  the  challenger.  After  much  bicker- 
ing, conditions  were  arranged,  and  Cambria 
started  across  the  ocean,  racing  with  James 
Gordon  Bennett's  schooner  Dauntless,  and 
beating  her  by  several  miles  to  Sandy  Hook 
Lightship.  The  cup  race  came  off  on  August 
8th,  and  twenty-four  yachts,  including  the  old 
America,  were  entered  against  the  Cambria. 
Magic  won,  defeating  Cambria,  which  was  the 
tenth  boat  to  finish,  by  more  than  thirty- 
nine  minutes.  It  was  the  only  race  in  which 
the  challenger  has  been  compelled  to  sail 
against  a  fleet.  The  course  was  from  Staple* 
ton  out  around  the  Sandy  Hook  Lightship 
and  return.  Not  discouraged,  Mr.  Ashbury 
challenged  again  the  next  year,  this  time 
with  the  new  schooner  Livonia.  The  first  race 
of  the  series  was  sailed  on  October  16th 
over  the  same  course  as  in  the  previous  race. 
The  regatta  committe  had  selected  four 
yachts,  from  which  they  would  select  a  com- 
petitor for  Livonia,  according  to  the  weather. 
The  first  day  the  schooner  Columbia  was 
chosen,  and  defeated  Livonia  by  twenty-five 
minutes.  Columbia  sailed  again  in  the  next 
race,  and  won  by  four  minutes  and  thirty- 
five  seconds.  Columbia  was  picked  again  for 
the  third  race,  but  her  steering-gear  broke 
down,  and  Livonia  won  by  nineteen  minutes, 
the  only  occasion  in  the  history  of  the  cup 
races  on  which  the  American  boat  has  lost  a 
race.  The  schooner  Sappho,  which  had  been 
defeated  by  Mr.  Ashbury's  Cambria  in  Eng- 
land, sailed  against  Livonia  in  the  remaining 
two  races,  and  won  by  nearly  half  an  hour 
in  both  races. 


garb  of  old  Greek  warriors,  wearing  cuirass 
and  helmet  of  gold.  At  dessert  a  bevy  of 
pretty  girls  in  classic  costume  distributed 
flowers  and  fruits  to  the  guests,  while  female 
Greek  choruses,  sung  by  female  choristers,  al- 
ternated with  verses  admirably  recited  by 
Mmes.  Bartel  and  Reichenberg.  After  the 
banquet,  Emma  Calve  and  Mme.  Litoinne 
sang  passages  from  "  Philemon  et  Baucis." 
and  then  there  were  Greek  dances  executed 
by  the  leading  dancers  of  the  opera.  After 
an  elaborate  supper,  the  evening  came  to  a 
close  by  an  animated  farandole,  danced  by 
all  present. 

The  National  Bank  of  Commerce  of  Kan- 
sas City  has  introduced  an  innovation  in  the 
banking  world — a  "  stocking  "-room,  into 
which  women  may  go  to  take  the  money  they 
wish  to  deposit  in  the  bank  from  their  stock- 
ings. Now,  it  is  a  jest  and  a  by-word  among 
men  that  woman  carries  her  fortune  in  her 
hose,  but  not  many  of  them  believe  that  this 
is  true.  Experience  taught  the  bank  of- 
ficials of  Kansas  City  that  it  was  the  case,  for 
many  and  oft  was  the  query  made  :  "  Where 
can  we  go  to  take  out  our  money?"  Hence, 
when  the  bank  was  enlarged  recently,  a  room 
was  provided  just  for  this  purpose.  It  is  ex- 
tremely private,  and  is  equipped  with  chairs 
and  with  little  foot-rests  about  the  wall  at 
convenient  height,  so  that  a  woman  may  put 
her  foot  on  a  rest  and  secure  the  funds  where- 
with to  make  her  deposit. 


August  31,  1903. 

Q    R  O    V    E    R 
CLEVELAND 

GOES    AFISHING 
PHOTOGRAPHS   THAT    TALK 

America's  Cup — Its  Heroes 
New  York  in  the 

Good  Old  Summer  Time 

Automobillng  in  Ireland 
Pirates  of  New  York  Harbor 

IN    SEPTEMBER 

OUTING 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR 

That  greatest  of  all.  disfigurements  of  a  woman's 
face,  permanentlv  removed,  in  the  only  successful  way 
—with  the  ELECTRIC  NEEDLE,  as  operated  by 
Mrs.  Harrison. 

Warts,  Freckles,  Moles,  Pimples,  and  Wrinkles 
quickly  removed  under  my  personal  treatment  at 
my  Dermatological  Parlors. 


Nelson's  Amjcose. 
Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  : 
flammations  of  the  skin. 


—  A  MAGNIFICENT  DISPLAY  OF  CREATIONS  BY 
such  famous  Paris  and  Vienna  modistes  as  Mme 
Sara  Mayer,  Maurice  Mayer,  Braunstein,  Beer. 
Blanche  Lebouvier,  Drecoll,  Perdaux,  and  Gerson 
Blum,  will  be  shown  at  the  Emporium  Opening 
Fall  Exhibit,  which  begins  Monday.  August  31st. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


The  third  challenge  was  made  in  1878  by 
the  Royal  Canadian  Yacht  Club.  The  chal- 
lenger was  the  schooner  Countess  of  Duf- 
ferin,  of  which  the  designer  was  Alexander 
Cuthbert.  The  yacht  was  107  feet  long,  24  feet 
beam,  and  drew  6%  feet  of  water.  For 
the  first  time  the  New  York  Yacht  Club 
named  one  yacht  to  sail  the  entire  series, 
and  they  chose  to  defend  the  cup  the  schooner 
Madeline,  owned  by  John  S.  Dickerson,  then 
commodore  of  the  Brooklyn  Yacht  Club,  and 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Yacht  Club. 
Madeline  was  easily  victorious  in  the  two 
races,  winning  the  first  by  nine  minutes  fifty- 
eight  seconds,  and  the  second  by  twenty-six 
minutes  thirteen  second.  The  first  race  was 
sailed  over  the  New  York  Yacht  Club  inside 
course,  and  the  second  was  from  Sandy  Hook, 
twenty  miles  to  windward  and  return.  In 
188 1,  the  Canadians  challenged  again.  The 
challenger  came  from  the  Bay  of  Quinte  Yacht 
Club,  and  they  named  as  their  boat  the  sloop 
Atalanta.  This  was  the  first  sloop  to  chal- 
lenge for  the  America's  Cup,  and  her  de- 
signer was  the  same  Mr.  Cuthbert  who  had 
designed  the  Countess  of  Dufferin.  In  that 
year,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the 
races,  a  yacht,  the  Pocahontas,  was  built 
to  defend  the  cup,  but  she  did  not  prove 
fast,  and  after  some  spirited  trials  the  sloop 
Mischief  was  chosen.  The  first  race  was  sailed 
on  November  8th,  over  the  inside  course,  and 
Mischief  beat  Atalanta  twenty-eight  minutes, 
twenty  seconds.  The  second  race  was  sailed 
on  November  10th,  over  a  course  sixteen 
miles  to  leeward  and  return,  and  Mischief 
again  won  easily,  this  time  by  thirty-eight 
minutes  and  fifty-four  seconds.  The  attempts 
of  the  owners  of  Genesta,  the  Galatea,  the 
Thistle,  and  the  two  Valkyries,  who  preceded 
Sir  Thomas  Lipton  in  his  attempts  to  "  lift  " 
the  cup,  are  remembered  by  many  present-day 
yachtsmen. 

Madeleine  Lemaire,  the  artist,  gave  a 
unique  Grecian  banquet  in  her  Paris  studio 
the  other  day.  She  sent  out  invitations  which 
read ;  "  A  soiree  in  Athens  in  the  time  of 
Pericles.  Madeleine  Lemaire  begs  you  to 
honor  with  your  presence  the  Greek  fete 
which  she  will  give  in  her  humble  abode  on 
Tuesday.  Banquet,  dances,  games,  and  caval- 
cade. Ancient  Greek  costumes  de  rigueur." 
Every  one  invited  responded  "  Yes,"  and  from 
the  Duchess  d'Uzes,  in  a  superb  robe  of  cloth 
of  gold  and  long  veil,  surmounted  by  a  circlet 
of  diamonds,  to  the  well-known  beauty,  Mme. 
Barrachin,  in  white  draperies,  with  a  crown 
of  pink  laurel,  the  costumes  were  very  beauti- 
ful. One  graceful  woman  went  as  Tanagra. 
The  men  were  some  of  them   splendid  in  the 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander    G.    McAdie, 
District   Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.      -  JVeatker. 

August  20th 58  50  .00  Clear 

21st 64  52  .00  Clear 

"        22d 68  54  .00  Clear 

23d 70  M  -oo  Clear 

"        24th 62  54  .00  Pt.  CIoud\ 

"        25th 66  52  .00  Clear 

26th 74  52  .00  Clear 


flRS.    NETTIE    HARRISON 

DERMATOLOGIST, 

140  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 


THE    FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday.  August  26,  1903. 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Los  An.  Ry  5%   1,000     i®  114^ 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  $%.  . .    5,000    @  119-    iiq^J"     119 

N.  Pac.  C.  Ry.  5%..    6,000    @  10S  108        108K 

SierraRy.ofCal.6%  10,000    @  112  inj£ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 15,000    @  107-    107^     K>7J£ 

5.  V.  Water  6% 6,000    @  108-    108J4 

S.V.  Water 4%....    16.000    @    99#- 99^      99^     joo 
S-  V-  Water  4%  3d-  35.oo°    @  100  99^ 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Valley 570    @    85-      85K      85K      86 

Street  R.  R. 
California  St 40    @  200 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 75    @    67-      68        6S 

Sugars. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...  70    @    43M  43  44 

Honokaa  S.  Co 220    @    13  13  14 

Hutchinson  75    @    i3$4-  13%      13}^      14 

Makaweli  S.  Co. ...  5    @    23  21% 

Gas  a  nd  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric.  ..     1,145    ©    13-      HVa      13%      14K 
Pacific  Gas  Impt..         115    @    51^-52!^      52!^      53K 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric         20    @    66-      66^      66         67 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric         20    @    65-      65^      66         69 

Miscella  neous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...         30    ©147^-148        145 5£     149 
Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         15    @    90 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 120    @    98-      98J4      97% 

Oceanic  S.  Co  100    @      1% 

Toe  gas  and  electric  have  been  in  good  demand, 
and  on  small  transactions  have  made  gains  of  from 
one  to  three  and  one  half  points.  There  has 
been  a  good  demand  for  Mutual  Electric,  and  on 
sales  of  about  1.200  shares  the  stock  advanced  one 
point  to  14.  closing  at  14  bid,  and  sales  on  street. 

Giant  Powder  on  sales  of  75  shares  declined  one 
point  to  67.  closing  at  67?^  asked. 

The  sugars  have  been  quiet  but  firm,  and  on 
small  transactions  made  fractional  gains. 

Alaska  Packers  has  been  firm  and  closed  at  148 
sales,  the  highest  point  reached  during  the  week. 

Spring  Valley  Water  has  been  in  good  demand, 
and  on  sales  of  570  shares  advanced  one  half  point 
to  85^. 


INVESTTIENTS. 

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A.  W.   BLOW, 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


141 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


A  newly  arrived  Westerner  was  confronted 
,  in  a  street  of  New  York  late  at  night  by  a 
1  ruffian  with  leveled  revolver,  who  made  the 
stereotyped  demand :  "  Give  me  your  money  or 
I'll  blow  your  brains  out."  "  Blow  away," 
said  the  Westerner ;  "  you  can  live  in  New 
York  without  brains,  but  you  can't  without 
money." 

A  South  Sea  Islander,  at  the  close  of  a 
religious  meeting,  offered  the  following 
prayer :  "  O  God,  we  are  about  to  go  to  our 
respective  homes.  Let  not  the  words  we  have 
heard  be  like  the  fine  clothes  we  wear — soon 
to  be  taken  off  and  folded  up  in  a  box  till 
another  Sabbath  comes  around.  Rather,  let 
Thy  truth  be  like  the  tattoo  on  our  bodies — 
ineffaceable  till  death." 


The    late    W.    E.    Henley   once   met    Robert 

Louis    Stevenson,    and    found    his    friend    dis- 

j,    tressed   because   he   was   not  a   Voltaire   or   a 

Dumas,   though   he   had   an   equipment    which 

.    ought  to  have  made  him  their  peer.  Stevenson 

put   his   "  failure "   down   to   the   weakness   of 

his    lungs.    "  Perhaps    you    are    right,    Lewis,"' 

ti    said  Henley;  "I've  always  felt  that,  if  I  had 

)     cot  been  a  blessed  cripple,  I  could  have  taken 

1     the  earth  in  my  hand  and  hurled  it  into  the 


A  young  San  Franciscan,  the  owner  of  a 
)■  large  and  valuable  collection  of  autographs, 
||'  once  wrote  to  the  late  James  McNeill  Whistler 
[I  politely  requesting  his  signature.  The  letter 
ji  was  sent  in  care  of  the  London  Royal  Academy, 
(1  with  which  the  famous  American  painter  was 
i  at  outs.  After  four  months,  the  letter  was  re- 
\  turned  to  the  San  Francisco  address  from  the 
)  dead-letter  office  in  Washington.  Covering  the 
envelope,  was  the  word,  repeated  numberless 
I    times  :     "  Unknown,"    "  Unknown." 


It  is  related  that  one  evening  last  winter, 
I  at  a  dinner  given  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Pat  Camp- 
)  bell,  in  New  York,  the  English  actress  re- 
\  marked,  loftily :  "  They  wanted  me  to  play 
i  Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles  in  England,  but  I 
)■  thought  it  a  vulgar  character,  and  I  can't  be 
V  gross,  you  know."  This  from  the  woman 
[1  whose  whole  fame  rested  on  her  impersona- 
(1  tions  of  women  with  malodorous  pasts  or  no- 
'(  torious  presents  was  astounding  to  all  pres- 
'  ent,  each  one  of  whom  had  said  something 
t  in  extenuation  of  the  sins  of  poor  Tess  and  in 
\i  admiration  of  Hardy's  masterpiece  as  a  dra- 
,   matic     character-drawing.       For     a     moment 

there  was  an  embarrassed  silence,  and  then 
)  Miss  Warren,  who  is  to  star  in  the  play  this 
I  season,  spoke  up  innocently :  "  It  is  dreadful 
9  to  be  so  sensitive.     I  expect,   Mrs.  Campbell, 

you  find  it  hard  even  to  accept  your  share  of 

the  gross  receipts." 

[  The  recent  death  of  Martha  Canary — better 
known  as  "  Calamity  Jane " — has  revived 
)  many  tales  of  her  remarkable  adventures  in 
I  the  West  during  the  early  troubles.  Once, 
fit  is  related,  she  was  riding  in  a  stage-coach 
\  driven  by  Jack  McCaull,  a  notorious  character 
lof  Deadwood,  S.  D.,  when  a  band  of  Indians 
■swooped  down.  McCaull  was  wounded,  and 
■fell  back  on  his  seat.  The  six  passengers 
fin  the  coach  were  helpless  with  fright. 
,  "  Calamity    Jane "    scrambled     to     the     seat, 

^1  lashed  the  horses  into  a  run,  and  escaped. 
lit  was  this  same  McCaull  who  afterward  was 
I  made  the  most  memorable  example  of 
4  '  Calamity  Jane's  "  vengeance.  McCaull  shot 
•  'Wild  Bill"  Hickok  from  behind  a  tree,  for 
1  reason  never  known,  after  "  Wild  Bill  "  had 
-*jtaked  him.  When  "Calamity  Jane"  hear  of  it, 
'  ihe  started  at  once  to  find  McCaull.     "  Wild 

:  a'Bill "  was  her   friend,   and  the   fact   that   she 

-J  iad  once  saved  McCaull's  life  did  not  deter 
ler  from  taking  it.     "  I  gave  it  to  him  once," 

T"Jihe  declared,  "  I'll  take  it  back  now."  She 
1   ame    across    him    unexpectedly    in    a    meat- 

."  I   -hop,    seized    a    cleaver,    and,    threatening    to 

>rain  him  if  he  moved,  waited  till  her  friends 

"    K>unJ  him.     She  was  one  of  those  who  tugged 

-    lardest  to  pull   him  over  a  cottonwood  limb. 

^'^iiid  with   grim   satisfaction   she   watched  him 

■-^   -»ck  his  life  away. 


When  he  was  a  young  man,  ex-Premier 
ialisbury,  who  died  in  London  on  Saturday 
sst  at  the  age  of  seventy-three,  was  extremely 
elicate.  As  Lord  Robert  Cecil  he  was  over- 
rown,  languid,  and  anaemic,  and  his  lungs 
bowed  some  signs  of  weakness.  As  soon  as 
e  had  taken  his  degree  and  been  elected  to  a 
ellowship  at  All  Souls,  his  friend  and 
rother- fellow.  Dr.  Acland,  recommended  him 
0  take  a  long  voyage,  and  to  stay  abroad,  *-f 
ossible,    for   two   years.      On    this,   old  Lord 


Salisbury  came  down  in  hot  haste  to  Oxford, 
and  protested  vehemently  against  Acland's 
advice.  "  I  wish  my  son  to  enter  Parliament 
immediately,  so  you  must  be  good  enough 
to  recall  your  advice,  and  tell  him  that  he  can 
face  a  political  life  with  perfect  safety."  Dr. 
Acland,  however,  refused,  saying :  "  My  dear 
lord,  there  are  six  thousand  practicing  physi- 
cians in  England,  and  you  will  find  no  diffi- 
culty in  procuring  one  who  will  give  Lord 
Robert  the  advice  which  you  desire.  But,  un- 
fortunately, I  am  the  one  man  who  can  not 
give  it,  inasmuch  as  I  have  already  advised 
in  the  diametrically  opposite  sense."  Of 
course  Acland  was  obeyed.  Lord  Robert  went 
to  Australia,  returned  to  England  with  sound 
lungs,  and  as  Lord  Cranborne  and  Lord  Salis- 
bury performed  a  life's  work  of  colossal  labor 
with  no  untoward  results  to  his  health. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


How  She  Got  Ready. 
She'd  dressed  up  to  go  out  with  him. 

"Twas  on  the  topmost  floor. 
Before  the  mirror  she  had  posed 

A  wear}-  hour  or  more. 
At  last  she  started  down  the  stairs. 

And  he  was  glad,  but  then 
She  tarried  on  the  second  floor 

To  see  herself  again. 

Before  another  mirror  there 

She  turned  and  turned  and  turned. 
And  took  her  time  and  seemed  as  though 

She  only  was  concerned. 
She  patted  bows  and  touched  up  tucks, 

And  felt  her  fluffy  hair, 
And  re-arranged  her  new  "  flat  "  hat 

With   undiminished  care. 

And  then  she  gathered  up  her  skirts 

And  flxed  them  in  her  band, 
Coquettishly  looked  back  once  more 

Into  the  mirror,  and — 
Went  down  another  flight  of  stairs 

To  the  reception  room. 
Where  he  was  huddled  like  a  chunk 

Of  rainbow  colored  gloom. 

He  smiled  as  any  husband  should, 

But  managed  not  to  speak, 
And  it  was  well:  for  he  was  sure 

He'd  waited  there  a  week. 
He  rose  to  go,  but  she  advanced 

Upon  the  large  pier  glass, 
And  back  and  forth  in  front  of  it 

Began  to  pass  and  pass. 

She  started  with  her  hat  and  hair, 

And  carefully  looked  down, 
Inspecting  things  until  she  reached 

The  bottom  of  her  gown. 
She  caught  her  skirts  again  and  looked 

To  see  bow  she'd  appear, 
And,  evidently  satisfied, 

She  said,  "  I'm  ready,  dear." 

He  heaved  a  sigh,  but  made  it  soft, 

And  headed  for  the  street. 
But  hearing  not  the  footfalls  ot 

Her  Louis  XTV  feet 
He  turned — he  staggered  and  he  fell 

Against  the  nearest  wall — 
She  was  gazing  in  the  mirror  in 

The  hat-rack  in  the  hall.  — Tit-Bits. 


Praying  for  Rain  in  China. 
An  Argonaut  reader  in  Pekin  sends  the 
following  account  of  the  part  played  by  the 
governor  of  Pekin  in  the  ceremonies  inau- 
gurated by  the  Emperor  of  China  to  bring 
about  rainfall  in  his  parched  empire : 

We  have  had  no  rain  for  fully  eight  months, 
so,  consequently,  the  court  officials  from  em- 
peror down  to  gatekeeper  i^who  is  a  most  im- 
portant personage)  are  most  active  in  trying 
to  persuade  the  god  of  water  to  smile  again 
on  this  country,  and  give  us  the  much-needed 
rains.  Therefore,  the  governor  of  Pekin, 
who  is  a  first-class  mandarin,  entitled  to  wear 
a  red  coral  button  when  in  oflBcial  dress,  and 
who  takes  precedence  over  a  provincial 
viceroy,  was  duly  dispatched  to  go  to  a  certain 
temple  about  seven  days  overland  south  of 
Pekin,  and  fetch  from  there  an  iron  tablet 
which  was  hanging  in  a  sacred  well.  He  left 
on  his  errand,  much  flattered  that  the  choice 
of  his  imperial  master  had  fallen  on  him  to  be 
the  instrument  of  pacifying  the  wrath  of 
the  god  to  whose  temple  he  was  now  bound 
for.  He  returned  in  due  time  with  the  much- 
coveted  relic  (which,  by  the  way,  is  a  dirty- 
piece  of  rusted  old  iron  you  would  not  give 
half  a  cent  for)  which  was  carried  into  town 
with  full  honors,  consisting  of  a  procession 
with  the  customary  banners,  noise,  etc.,  and 
was  safely  deposited  in  what  might  be  called  a 
branch-office  of  the  same  temple.  Everything 
having  been  conducted  in  proper  style,  as  it  is 
written  down  in  the  "  Book  of  Rites,"  and  as 
it  has  been  done  by  their  ancestors  since  the 
last  twenty  centuries,  the  people  were  con- 
vinced that  rain  was  bound  to  come,  and  they 
waited  hopefully,  looking  up  to  the  ever-blue 
sky  day  after  day,  but  without  result.  Then, 
suddenly,  an  unusually  bright  censor  (this 
is  a  class  of  very-  high  officials  who  are  to  keep 
careful  watch  on  everything  going  on  in  the 
state  and  enjoy  the  right  of  addressing  the 
"  Son  of  Heaven"  direct;,  this  censor,  I  say, 
struck  the  reason,  he  thought,  why  rain  per- 
sisted in  staying  away,  so  he  memorialized  the 
throne,  and  pointed  out  a  thing  which,  strange 
to  say,  had  been  overlooked  so  far,  that  the 
governor  of  Pekin  who  was  sent  for  the  tablet 
(and  who  evidently  is  in  advance  of  his  time) 


had  actually  returned  to  Pekin  by  train, 
finding,  probably,  this  method  of  locomotion 
more  convenient  than  coming  seven  days  on 
foot.  And  he  said,  apart  from  the  train  being 
a  foreign-devil's  invention,  its  motive  power 
is  fire,  and  how  can  fire  go  together  with 
water,  so  that  was  the  reason  why  the  tablet 
had  not  given  the  desired  results.  I  have  not 
heard  what  punishment  this  poor  governor  re- 
ceived, but  from  the  above  it  will  be  clear 
to  you  that  he  has  got  himself  into  a  bad 
mess. 

«    ♦    ■ 

The  Vernacular. 

This  was  the  conversation  between  the  girl 
with  the  gum  in  her  mouth  and  the  other  girl 
with  the  gum  in  her  mouth: 

"  Aincha  hungry'" 

"  Yeh." 

"  So    my.      Less    go    neet." 

'■  Where?" 

"  Sleev  go   one  places  nuther." 

"  So  dy.  Ika  neet  mo  stennyware.  Can- 
choo?" 

"  Yeh.      Gotcher    money?" 

"  Yeh." 

"  So  vy.    Gotcher  aptite  ?" 

"  Yeh.      Gotchoors?" 

*'  Yeh.   Howbout  place  crosstreet?" 
'  Nothin'    teet    there.       Lessgurround    cor- 
ner." 

•*  Thattledoo  zwell  zennyware.  Mighta 
thoughta  that  'tfirst.    Getcher   hat." 

"  Ima    gettinit.      Gotcher    money?" 

"  Yeh.  Didn'cheer  me  say  I  had  it?  All- 
ready  ?" 

"  Yeh." 

"  K'mon." — Chicago    Tribune. 


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cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


V  TOYO 

%-K.  KISEN 

Ik©S  KAISHA 

F^^B        OR,ENTAL  s-  s-  co- 

I       ^^|   '.         IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
*'  ^m  U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Branuan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo) ,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.      1903 

Hongkong  3Iaru Saturday,  September  19 

(Calling  at  Manila) 

Nippon  Mara Thursday,  October  15 

America  Maru Tuesday,  November  10 

Via  Honolulu.    Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

TT.   H.  AVERT,  General  Agent. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 


NEW    YORK-SurTHAMPTOX— LONDON. 
Philadelphia. Sept.  2, 10am  1  New  York... Sept.  16. 10 am 

St.  Louis Sept- 9, 10 am  |  Phl'delphia  .Sept.  23, 10 am 

Philadelphia— Queenstown— Liverpool. 

Westerntand Sept.  5  I  Haverford Sept  19.9am 

Eelg'nl'ndSept  12, 12.30pm  |  Noordland  ...Sept. 26,  1  pm 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 
Minnehaha... Sept.  5,  4  pm  I  Minnetonka   Sept.  19,4pm 

Mesaba. Sept.  12,9  am  |  Min'apolis  . .  Sept.  26.  9am 

Onlv  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL 

New  England Sept.  3  I  New  England. Oct.  1 

Mayflower Sept.  10     Mayflower Oct.  S 

Commonwealth  .  ..Sept.  24  [  Columbus  (new  )  . .  .Oct.  15 
Montreal—  Liverpool  —  Short  sea  passage. 

Dominion.  ..  -Septembers  I  Canada September  26 

Southwark... September  12  |  Kensington October  3 

Bostoa    Mediterranean    DI«*t 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Cambroman Saturday,  Sept.  19,  Oct.  31 .  Dec.  12 

Vancouver. Saturday.  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

HOLLAND-AMERICA  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ROTTERDAM,   VIA  BOULOGNE 
Sailing  Wednesdays  at  10  a  m. 

Rotterdam September  2  !  Statendam. ..September  16 

Potsdam September  9  |  Ryudam. . .  ..September  23 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Zeeland Septembers  I  Vaderland  ..  September  19 

Finland September  12  |  Kroonland... September 26 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— QUEEN STOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Teutonic Sept.  2,  noon  I  Germanic. .  ..Sept.  9,  noon 

Arabic Sept. 4.  4  pm  I  Cedric Sept.  11,  Sam 

Armenian..  ...Sept-  8,  yam  [  Majestic Sept.  16,  noon 

C.  D.  TATLOK,    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND    CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Branuan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  for 
Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Gaelic Friday,  September  11 

Doric Wednesday,  October  1 

Coptic  Saturday,  October  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)  .Wednesday,  Nov.  25 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  1  Sonoma,  6200  tons  j  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.    Alameda,  for    Honolulu   only,   Sept.  5,  1903, 

at  11  a.  H. 
S.  S.  Sonoma,  tor  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Sept.  17,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  Sept-  20,  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Eros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.    Freight  Office.  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


FOURTEENTH  ANNUAL  STATEMENT 

Continental  Building  and  Loan  Association 

OP       CAIjIPORNIA 

Showing  Assets  and  Liabilities,  June  30,  1903 


Loans  on  Mortgages 

"*  Stocks 

Real  Estate 

Homes  Sold  Under  Contract 

Members  Accounts  in  Arrears 

Furniture  and  Fixtures    

Sundry-  Advances  Secured  by  Mortgages 

Sundry  Debtors 

Cash  in  Office 


2.043.905.43 

65.663-73 

359.377-Si 

21 5- 654-78 

27.254.20 

1,500.00 

+4.071-51 

IO-565-55 

4.848.45 


LIABILITIES. 

Dues  on  Shares $1,377,526.37 

Class  "A."  "E.'and   'G" $438,233.85 

"      "F" 782.204.53 

■•      "I" 129.406.02 

"DC" 27,601.97 


$2, 772. 841.46 


Dues  on  Paid  Up  and  Prepaid  Stock $    621 .326.48 

Class  "  B" $  47.5S1-00 

"C" 370.100.00 

"  D" 202.225.48 

"      "  H " - 1.450.00 


Apportioned  Profits 

Insurance  Reserve 

Saved  from  Life  Insurance 

Death  Loss  Accumulations 

Advanced  Payments  on  Shares 

Loans  Due  and  Incomplete    

AH  Other  Liabilities  : 

Reserve  Fund 

Bills  Payable 

Treasurer's  Account 

Repayment  AC  Mortgages 

"     Real  Estate  Contracts 

Dividends  on  Prepaid  Stock 

Sundry  Creditors. 


314,585.83 

23,088.92 

16,453.60 

2,134.84 

47,000.00 

229,342.86 

3,500.00 
69,000  00 
16.938.37 
17.608.26 
16.323.33 
13883.78 

4,11882 


S2.772.S41  46 


Rate  per  centum  per  annum  paid  Depositors  (Ordinary) . 
"            "         (Term). . 
Stockholders 


..5  percent. 
6    "       '■ 


HOME  OFFICE.  301  CALIFORNIA  ST.,  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL 


WM.  CORB1N, 

Secretary  and   General  Manager 


DR.  WASHINGTON  DODGE, 

President 


142 


THE        ARGONAUT 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing  department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Caro 
Cobb,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  B.  Cobb, 
of  Stockton,  and  Mr.  Frank  Long,  son  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  N.  Long. 

The  engagement  is  announced  ot  Miss 
Elizabeth  Morgan,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
James  H.  Morgan,  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mr. 
George  Barbour,  of  Los  Angeles. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Kathryn  Robinson, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs  C.  Preston  Robin- 
son, and  Mr.  George  Beardsley.  of  New  \  ork. 
will  take  place  at  the  Swedenborgian  Church 
on  Tuesday  evening.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  journey,  Mr.  Beardsley  and  h.» 
bride  will  occupy  apartments  on  Sutter  Street, 
near  Fillmore.  , 

Invitations  have  been  sent  out  for  the  weo- 
dins  of  Miss  Anne  Apperson  and  Dr.  Joseph 
Marshall  Flint,  which  will  take  place  on  Sep- 
tember 15th  at  Mrs.  Hearst's  hacienda  at 
Pleasanton.  Rev.  Dr.  Gallwey,  of  Menlo 
Park,  will  officiate.  ....         j       t,f„ 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Anita  Lohse  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  F.  Lohse,  and  Mr.  David 
MeClure  Gregory  will  take  place  on  bep- 
tember  Sth  at  half  after  four  o  clock  at  the 
Lohse    residence    in    Oakland,    13S5    Webster 

StThe  wedding  of  Miss  Irene  Ward  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  J.  Ward  and  Mr.  Charles 
M  Dufficy,  son  of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Durhcy,  ot 
San  Rafael,  took  place  at  St  Dominies 
Church  on  Tuesday  morning.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  at  ten  o'clock  by  Rev.  Father 
Welch.  Miss  Mildred  Ward,  sister  of  the 
bride  was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  Rafael 
Dufficy  acted  as  his  brother's  best  man.  Miss 
Alicia  Dufficy  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Dufficy  were 
the  bridesmaids,  and  Mr.  HF.  Anderson 
Mr.  George  B.  Keane,  Mr.  J.  H.  Fuller,  and 
Mr  Harry  RuthraufY  served  as  ushers,  the 
church  ceremony  was  followed  by  a  reception 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents,  2412  Clay 
Street  and  on  Wednesday  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Dufficy    sailed    for    Japan    on    their    wedding 

journey.  .  ,  ,.       ^  . 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Adelia  Osmont, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  M.  Osmont, 
and  Mr.  James  Clarence  Sperry,  son  of  the 
late  Tames  Sperry.  took  place  on  last  Saturday 
afternoon  at  St.  Luke's  Church.  Mr.  and 
Mrs  Sperry  left  later  in  the  day  for  Ventura 
where  the  groom  is  engaged  in  business,  and 
where  they  will  reside. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Ann  Augusta  Elizabeth 
Nixon  daughter  of  Mrs.  Evelyn  Nixon,  and 
Mr.  Clement  Winstanley  took  place  on  Monday 
evening  in  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  at  eight  o'clock  by 
the  Rev.  W.  M.  Reilley.  The  bride  was  at- 
tended by  her  sister,  Miss  Violet  Nixon,  and 
Mr.  A.  R.  Holzheil  acted  as  best  man. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Francis  Kautz,  daugh- 
ter of  General  Kautz,  who  was  stationed  at 
Angel  Island  for  several  years,  and  Captain 
Alvin  Chambliss  Reed,  U.  S.  A.,  took  place 
in  Cincinnati,  O.,  last  week. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Bender  entertained  at  her 
residence,  1020  Green  Street,  on  Wednesday 
in  honor  of  her  cousin,  Miss  Evelyn  Laugh- 
ton,  whose  engagement  to  Mr.  Morris  Baretto, 
of  New  York,  was  recently  announced.  Among 
others  present  were  Mrs.  Bender,  Miss  Mar- 
garet Bender,  Mrs.  Settle,  Mrs.  George  G. 
Carr,  Mrs.  Wardlaw,  Mrs.  Johnson,  Miss 
Georgie  Lacy,  Miss  Partello,  and  Miss  Eva 
Madden. 

Mrs.  George  G.  Carr  gave  a  tea  last  Sunday 
afternoon  complimentary  to  the  officers  of  the 
French  man-of-war  Protet.  She  was  assisted 
in  receiving  by  her  niece,  Mrs.  George  W. 
Whittaker. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Fritch  gave  a  luncheon 
at  the  Hotel  Rafael  on  Tuesday,  at  which 
they  entertained  Mrs.  George  D.  Toy,  Mrs. 
H.  P.  Sonntag.  Mrs.  M.  C.  Porter,  Mrs.  Adam 
Grant.  Mrs.  John  Hunt.  Mrs.  J.  M.  Litchfield. 
Mrs.  John  A.  Buck,  Mrs.  Lillie  Sullivan,  and 
Mrs.  Porteous. 

The  Friday  Night  Club,  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway,  has  sent 
out  invitations  for  three  dances,  to  be  held  at 
Native  Sons'  Hall,  the  dates  being  December 
4th,  18th,  and  February  12,  1904.  The  hour 
appointed  is  nine  o'clock,  supper  being  served 
at   midnight. 


Wills  and  Successions. 
The    following    notes    concerning    the    most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  .up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest: 

The  will  of  Mrs.  Alice  Skae,  who  died  in 
New  York  on  July  6.  1903.  has  been  filed  in 
the  superior  court,  the  will  having  been  ad- 
mitted to  probate  in  New  York.  The  only 
heir-at-law    of    the    deceased    is   her    daughter, 


The  Ol      *eli*d>le 

KOYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  mo  substitute 


Alice  Warren  Skae,  who  is  living  at  6  East 
Thirty-Ninth  Street,  New  York.  The  Mer- 
cantile Trust  Company  of  this  city  is  to  act 
as  executor  and  trustee,  and  is  to  hold  all 
the  estate  in  trust  for  the  decedent's  daughter, 
paying  her  the  net  income  during  her  life. 
When  she  dies,  fifty  thousand  dollars  is  to  be 
paid  out  of  the  trust  fund  to  her  husband 
if  she  marries  and  her  husband  survives,  and 
the    remainder    is    to    be    divided    among    her 

C  A  "etition  by  Mrs.  Anna  G.  B  Webster 
for  letters  of  administration  on  the  estate 
of  her  husband,  Frederick  R.  Webster,  who 
died  on  Saturday  last,  has  been  filed  in  Judge 
Troutt's  court.  The  estate  is  large,  but  its 
value  is  not  given  in  the  petition.  Mrs.  Web- 
ster says  that  her  husband  left  no  will,  so  far 
as  she  knows,  and  that  the  only  heir  beside 
herself  is  Mrs.  Martha  H.  Webster,  the  de- 
cedent's mother,   who  lives   in  Chicago. 

The  holographic  will  of  Mrs.  Louisa  J 
Goodman,  written  on  April  11.  1903,  has  been 
filed  for  probate.  She  gave  in  trust  to  her 
son-in-law,  J.  C.  Noyes,  of  Napa,  the  executor 
$20000,  he  to  pay  the  net  income  produced 
by  this  sum  to  the  decedent's  son,  Edward 
H  Mudgett,  who  is  fifty  years  old,  and  who 
is  living  in  Yokohama.  Japan.  She  said  that 
she  considered  this  a  sufficient  bequest  to  her 
son  Edward,  as  she  had  taken  care  of  him 
during  the  last  fifteen  years.  To  her  daugh- 
ter Mrs.  Julia  R.  Noyes,  of  Napa,  she  be- 
queathed $10,000,  all  of  her  wearing  appard, 
and  her  jewelry.  To  her  second  son,  James 
G  Mudgett,  of  San  Francisco,  she  bequeathed 
$10,000  and  a  solitaire  diamond  ring.  Other 
bequests  are  as  follows:  To  Frank  G.  Noyes 
and  James  G.  Noyes,  of  Napa  $2,500  each ; 
Ella  Cochrane,  of  St.  Louis,  Maria  C.  Hale, 
of  Iowa,  and  Gertrude  Armstrong,  of  Canada, 
$500  each;  and  the  residue  of  the  estate  to 
her  daughter  and  James  G.  Mudgett,  her  son. 

The  holographic  will  of  Henry  Cowell,  the 
millionaire  lime  merchant,  has  been  filed  for 
probate  by  his  daughter,  Helen  E.  Cowell, 
who  is  named  in  it  as  executrix.  Mr.  Cowe.l 
was  a  widower.  The  heirs,  his  children,  arc 
Ernest  V.  Cowell,  of  Santa  Cruz,  Samuel  H. 
Cowell,  of  Sacramento,  and  Isabella  M.  Cowell 
and  Helen  E.  Cowell,  of  San  Francisco.  If 
the  will,  which  is  apparently  uncompleted,  is 
not  admitted  to  probate,  the  estate  will  be 
divided  among  them.  The  petition  for  the 
probate  of  the  will  states  that  the  estate  con- 
sists of  real  and  personal  property  in  San 
Francisco  and  elsewhere  in  California,  and 
realty  in  Massachusetts  and  the  State  of 
Washington.  Its  value  is  not  given  definitely, 
but  it  is  supposed  to  be  over  a  million  dollars. 

The  Scheel  Symphony  Concerts.  - 
The  second  symphony  concert  drew  a  good- 
sized  audience  to  the  Grand  Opera  House  on 
last  Tuesday  afternoon,  and,  as  the  result  of 
further  and  more  complete  rehearsals,  Fritz 
Scheel  was  enabled  to  give  overwhelming 
evidence  of  his  remarkable  powers  as  an  or- 
chestral conductor.  He  is  an  undemonstra- 
tive leader,  but  his  influence  is  strongly  ex- 
erted at  all  times,  and  his  absolute  control 
over  the  large  body  of  musicians  under  him 
is  noticeable  to  the  least-trained  observer. 

A  well-arranged  programme  of  six  numbers, 
beginning  with  Beethoven's  third  symphony, 
known  generally  as  the  ''  Eroica,"  gave  the 
necessary  variety,  although  the  severer  of  the 
classicists  disapproved  of  the  lightness  of  the 
closing  numbers.  A  "  Valse  de  Concert,  op. 
47,"  composed  by  Alexandre  Glazounow,  and 
played  here  for  the  first  time,  failed  to  find 
favor,  the  music  being  of  a  stereotyped  and 
uninteresting  character.  The  light  and  deli- 
cate "  Fileuse  "  of  Felix  Mendelssohn,  also 
a  novelty  to  a  San  Francisco  audience,  won 
instant  appreciation,  not  only  through  the 
fairy-like  charm  of  the  music,  which  suggested 
the  rotation  and  musical  hum  of  spinning 
wheels,  enlivened  by  an  accompanying  clatter 
of  tongues,  but  from  the  exquisite  delicacy 
of  its  execution. 

The  third  novelty  on  the  programme  was 
Jean  Sibelius's  "  Swan  of  Tuonela,"  an  un- 
usually impressive  composition,  full  of  silvery 
hushes  and  broad,  majestic  effects,  and  which, 
following  the  heroic  strains  of  Beethoven's 
noble  symphony,  came  like  the  benison  after 
prayer.  Next  to  the  "  Eroica,"  it  was  the 
most  notable  feature  of  the  programme,  and 
a  revelation  of  beauty  that  so  surprised  and 
delighted  the  audience  that  it  is  more  than 
probable  that  a  repetition  will  be  requested  at 
some  future  concert. 

Another  interesting  programme  has  been  ar- 
ranged for  the  third  concert,  which  will  take 
place  on  Tuesday  afternoon. 


A  large  and  enthusiastic  audience  attended 
the  musicale  given  by  the  pupils  of  Miss  Ber- 
tha Altenberg  last  Wednesday  night,  at  Byron 
Mauzy   Hall. 


Situation  in  the  Balkans. 

What  the  Coast  Range  is  to  California,  the 
Balkan  Mountains  are  to  Turkey.  Famous 
health  resorts  are  located  all  along  the  range, 
but  just  at  present,  with  Turks  and  Russians 
threatening  one  another,  these  resorts  are 
famous  for  'most  anything  except  health.  Cali- 
fornia's Coast  Range  is  decidedly  more  peace- 
ful. A  popular  trip  for  San  Franciscans  is  a 
visit  to  San  Jose,  stopping  at  palatial  Hotel 
Vendome,  driving  or  going  by  automobile 
around  and  through  the  Santa  Clara  Valley, 
and  upon  and  among  the  picturesque  foothills 
that  surround  that  fruitful  valley. 


Long-   Chains  of  Corals 
are   more  sty'ish   than    ever.     Largest    assortment 
at  Hirschman's,  712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets. 
Mutual  Savings  Bank  Building. 


Golf  at  Del  Monte. 
At  the  fourth  annual  meeting  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  Golf  Association,  held  at  Del  Monte  on 
Monday  evening,  Captain  J.  S.  Oyster,  of  the 
San  Francisco  Golf  Club,  was  unanimously 
chosen  president,  C.  E.  Orr  vice-president, 
and  R.  Gilman  Brown,  of  the  San  Rafael  Goh 
Club,  secretary  and  treasurer.  The  following 
were  chosen  as  members  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee :  C.  E.  Maud.  J.  E.  Cook,  W.  Frederick- 
son  and  E.  B.  Tufts,  of  the  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club ;  H.  M.  Hoyt.  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Golf  Club;  A.  G.  Harvey,  of  the  San  | 
Rafael  Golf  Club;  R.  M.  Fitzgerald,  of  the 
Oakland  Golf  Club;  and  Perry  Eyre,  of  the 
Burlingame   Country  Club.  . 

Twenty-two  players  entered  the  qualifying 
round  over  eighteen  holes  in  the  competition 
for  the  Del  Monte  Cup  on  Monday  morning. 
The  fourteen  who  qualified  and  their  scores 
were:  Dr.  J.  R.  Clark,  76;  Dr.  C.  H.  Wal- 
ter and  W.  Frederickson.  7S  ;  H.  M.  Hoyt  and 
A  G  Harvey,  82 ;  Captain  T.  B.  S.  Menzies, 
84 ;  C.  E.  Orr,  86  :  Captain  J.  S.  Oyster,  87  ;  J. 
E.  Cook  and  A.  H.  Braly,  88  ;  J.  A.  Jevne,  90  ; 
J.  J.  Crooks,  W.  W.  Butler,  and  A.  S.  Lilley, 
92 ;  J.  W.  Byrne,  93 ;  and  J.  E.  Hoy,  93. 

In  the  afternoon,  the  first  match  round  was 
played  when  A.  G.  Harvey  defeated  W.  W. 
Butler,  4  up,  3  to  play ;  C.  E.  Orr  defeated  J. 
W.  Byrne,  3  up,  2  to  play ;  J.  A.  Jevne  defeated 
W.  Frederickson,  5  up,  4  to  play  ;  Dr.  C.  H. 
Walter  defeated  J.  E.  Cook.  2  up,  1  to  play ; 
Captain  T.  B.  S.  Menzies  defeated  A.  S.  Lilley. 
6  up,  s  to  play ;  Captain  J.  S.  Oyster  defeated 
J.  E.  Hoy,  6  up,  5  to  play;  and  H.  M.  Hoyt 
defeated  J.  J.  Crooks,  4  up,  3  to  play. 

The  second  match  round  over  eighteen  holes 
took  place  on  Tuesday  morning,  when  A.  H. 
Braly  defeated  A.  G.  Harvey,  3  up,  2  to  play ; 
C.  E.  Orr  defeated  J.  A.  Jevne.  1  up  ;  Dr.  C. 
H.  Walter  defeated  Captain  T.  B.  S.  Menzies, 
3  up,  2  to  play ;  and  Captain  J.  S.  Oyster  de- 
feated H.  M.  Hoyt,  4  up,  3  to  play. 

In  the  afternoon  the  semi-final  round  was 
played,  C.  E.  Orr  defeating  A.  H.  Braly,  4  up, 
3  to  play,  and  Dr.  C.  H.  Walter  defeating  Cap- 
tain J.  S.  Oyster,  5  up,  4  to  play. 

The  final  round,  over  thirty-six  holes,  eight- 
een in  the  morning  and  eighteen  in  the  after- 
noon, was  played  on  Wednesday,  when  C.  E. 
Orr,  of  the  Pasadena  Country  Club,  won  the 
cup  by  defeating  Dr.  C.  H.  Walter,  of  the 
Linda  Vista  Golf  Club  of  San  Jose,  by  the 
close  score  of  1  up. 

On  Tuesday  afternoon  the  qualifying  round 
over  eighteen  holes  of  the  competition  for  the 
Del  Monte  Cup  for  women  was  played,  the 
scores  being:  Miss  Edith  Chesebrough,  83; 
Miss  Whittell,  85  ;  Mrs.  J.  R.  Clark,  88  ;  Miss 
Bertha  Dolbeer,  91  ;  Mrs.  E.  T.  Perkins,  99  ; 
Miss  Margaret  Hately,  99  ;  Mrs,  La  Montagne, 
105;  Mrs.  W.  G.  Miller,  106. 

In  the  opening  match  play  on  Wednesday 
afternoon.  Miss  Margaret  Hately  -  defeated 
Miss  Whittell,  4  up,  2  to  play.  Mrs.  J.  R.  Clark 
defeated  Mrs.  La  Montagne,  2  up,  I  to  play. 
Miss  Bertha  Dolbeer  defeated  Mrs.  W.  G. 
Miller.  3  up,  2  to  play. 


Grover     Cleveland's     infant    son     has    been 
christened    Francis    Grover    Cleveland. 


—  One  of  the  most  elegant  imported 
gowns  ever  brought  to  this  city,  is  the  marvtlous 
creation  in  white,  by  Beer,  of  Paris,  which  will 
be  one  of  the  features  of  next  week's  Opening 
Fall  Exhibit  at  the  Emporium.  It  is  a  combina- 
tion of  real  Duchess  and  Irish  point  lace,  with 
a  perfect  shower  of  over  five  hundred  dainty 
white  silk  pon-pons  in  relief. 


August  31,  1903. 

Pears' 

What  is  wanted  of  soap 
for  the  skin  is  to  wash  it 
clean  and  not  hurt  it. 
Pure  soap  does  that.  This 
is  why  we  want  pure  soap; 
and  when  we  say  pure, 
we  mean  without  alkali. 

Pears'  is  pure  ;  no  free 
alkali.  You  can  trust  a 
soap  that  has  no  biting  in 
it,  that's   Pears'. 

Established  over  100  years. 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL  CO. 

Phone  South  95. 

V* / 


"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED" 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 


—  Correct,  natty,  are  the  Ladies'  Shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  "Shirt  Tai'or,"  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco. 


Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  lo  St. 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Route  and  Missouri 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-car  service,  new 
equipment. 

Secure  sleeping-car  reservation  and  full  informa 
tion  from 

L,.  IVI.  RLrEXCI-ItiR, 

Pacific  Coast  Agent 
30  Montgomery  Street,    San  Francisco,    Cal. 


Listen  to  Reason  and  Get  a 


LELajamiag 


The  only  shade  roller  that  is 
sure  to  last,  to  run  even  and  to 
never  spoil  your  shades.  The 
genuine  bears  this  signatui 


1^Iu*V^US3Cwt 


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Authentic  Report  of  the  Imports 

OF  THE 

LEADING  BRANDS  OF  CHAMPAGNES 

INTO  THE 

United  States  and  Canada 


Liebold   Harness  Company. 
If  you  want  an  up-to-date  harness,  at  a  reasonable 
price,  call  at  211   Larkin  Street.     We   have    every. 
thing  for  the  horse  and  stable. 


VERIFIED  BY  CU5T0H  HOUSE  STATISTICS 

From  JANUARY   1st  to  AUGUST   1st 

1902  1903 

Cases  Cases 

Moet  &  Chandon 53,481  76,599 

("  White  Seal"  and  "  Brut  Imperial  ") 

G.  H.  Munim  &  Co    70.654  75.838 

Pommery  &  Greno    14.776  16,970 

Ruinart.'Pere  &  Fils 9.485  12,554 

We  Clicquot 6.915  8,684 

Louis  Roederer 74.24  5. 158 

Pol  Roger 2,339  3.780 

Piper  Heidsieck 5.705  3.522 

Compiled  from  Bonfort's  Wive  and  Spirit  Circular. 


At  Prominent  Society  Functions  MOET  &  CHANDON  CHAMPAGNE 

IS  USED  ALHOST  EXCLUSIVELY. 


WILLIAM  WOLFF  &  CO.,  pacific  coast  agents 

San   Francisco,  Ceil. 


August  31,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


14 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR-the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

I012  VAH  MESS  A  VENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
jinounce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
I  hased  the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
i  an  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
lichelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


THE   COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  ami  Jones  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


.11  apartments  steam  heated 


10TEL   RAFAEL, 

ifty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.  Twenty- 
four  trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all 
the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

B.  V.  HAXTOX,  Proprietor. 

For  booklet  and  information  inquire  at  city  office,  14 
>st  St.,  telephone  Bush  125. 
Have  representative  call  on  vou. 


IYR0N  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
mate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
ost  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
iatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
aiaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments, 
ites  reasonable.  Very  superior  accommodations. 
Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
'urs  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
i  A.  M. ,  10  a.  M. ,  and  4  p.  m. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
au,  11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

#/.  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O, 


iolf  at  Hotel  del  Monte 

CALIFORNIA 

;The  links,  full  18-hole  course,  are  laid  a 
ort  distance  only  from  the  hotel,  and  are 
e  finest  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
They  are  the  only  first-class  grounds  in 
tlifornia  available  to  the  public.  The 
eens  are  always  green.  Sunshine  and 
ol  breezes  from  the  sea  are  always  pres- 
t  and  refreshing,  the  weather  never  inter- 
ring. You  can  play  winter  and  summer, 
e  year  round. 

Play  golf  at  Del  Monte,  the  ideal  retreat 
['  all  golfers. 

GEO.  VV.  REYNOLDS, 
Manager. 


THE   LATEST  STYLES   IN 

CHOICE    WOOLENS 
H.  S.  BRIDGE    &    CO. 

Merchant  Tailors, 
622  Market  Street  (Upatalra), 
yck  and  Golf  Suits.  Opposite  the  Palace  Hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Prince  and  Princess  Pom'atowski  and  their 
three  sons  leave  for  the  East  next  week,  en 
route  to  Europe.  Prince  Poniatowski  will  re- 
turn to  California  in  Xovember  for  a  brief 
business  trip,  and  will  then  rejoin  his  wife  and 
children,  who  will  remain  abroad  until  next 
summer. 

Mrs.  John  Boggs  and  Miss  Alice  Boggs 
will  spend  the  winter  in  San  Francisco,  having 
taken  the  house  at  1613  Van  Ness  Avenue. 
Miss  Boggs  is  expected  to  arrive  next  week 
from  Mt.  Shasta,  where  she  has  spent  the 
greater  part  of  the  summer. 

Mrs.  Lily  Coit  has  been  making  a  brief 
visit  to  San  Francisco  after  a  sojourn  of 
several  years  abroad. 

Mr.  Samuel  G.  Buckbee  made  a  short  stay 
in  Santa  Cruz  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  were  the  guests 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  E.  Palmer  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  George  S.  Wheaton  in  Oakland  last 
week. 

Mr.  William  M.  Thornton,  who  arrived  from 
Chicago  last  week,  has  gone  to  Portland,  Or., 
on  a  brief  visit.  He  will  be  again  in  San 
Francisco  before  he  returns  East. 

Miss  Elsie  Gregory  was  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
H.  A.  Huntington  at  Piedmont  last  week. 

Mr.  Gerald  S.  Rathbone  has  been  sojourning 
at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  L.  Flood  and  Miss  Sallie 
Maynard  were  in  London  when  last  heard 
from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mount  ford  S.  Wilson  have 
been  spending  the  past  week  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs. 

Mrs.  Center  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Center  will 
sail  for  the  Orient  on  the  Korea  next  Thurs- 
day. 

Mr.  William  L.  Gerstle  has  returned  from 
Alaska.  He  has  been  in  the  Yukon  country 
for  the  past  four  months. 

Miss  Hazel  King  and  Miss  Genevieve  King 
have  returned  from  their  visit  to  the  Atlantic 
Coast. 

Miss  Helen  Bowie,  who  has  been  visiting 
friends  in  the  city,  has  returned  to  San 
Mateo. 

Mrs.  Christian  Reis  and  Miss  Francis  Har- 
ris were  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose, 
last  week. 

Miss  Mary  Josselyn  returned  by  the  steam- 
ship Korea  last  Monday  from  her  visit  to 
Honolulu. 

Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker  and  family  will  return 
to  the  Hotel  Rafael  next  week  to  witness  the 
tennis  tournament. 

Mrs.  William  Giselman  and  her  son,  Mr. 
Marshall  W.  Giselman,  have  departed  for  the 
East,  en  route  to  Europe.  Mrs.  Giselman  ex- 
pects to  return  in  three  months. 

Mrs.  Robert  C.  Foute  has  rented  her  resi- 
dence on  California  Street,  and  taken  apart- 
ments at  the  Hotel  Knickerbocker,  where  she 
will  live  with  her  son  and  daughter. 

Mrs.  I.  Lawrence  Pool  has  returned  from 
her  country  place  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mr.  William  F.  Herrin  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Miss  Alice  Klein  is  expected  home  from 
Europe  next  week. 

Miss  Jessie  Burns  is  the  guest  of  Miss  Irene 
Muzzy  at  her  country  place  at  Bird's  Landing, 
in  Solano  County.  Miss  Muzzy  will  soon 
return  to  town  for  a  short  stay  prior  to  her 
departure  for  Europe,  with  her  mother. 

Judge  Edward  A.  Belcher,  who  has  been 
quite  ill  since  the  first  of  the  month,  but  has 
become  convalescent,  has  gone  to  the  moun- 
tains of  Humboldt  County  for  a  fortnight's 
vacation. 

A  party  including  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Hanify, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  T.  Cooper,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  A.  Story,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  E. 
Bates  visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  last 
week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Kahn,  after  a  six 
months'  tour  of  Europe,  returned  to  New 
York  on  Wednesday. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Rafael 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  A.  Boardwell,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Greenhagen.  Mrs.  William 
Hawkins,  Miss  Hawkins,  Miss  1.  Metzger, 
Mr.  B.  G.  Somers,  Mr.  W.  B.  Hopkins,  Mr.  F. 
Allen,  Mr.  W.  M.  O'Conner,  Mr.  L.  C.  Brown, 
and  Mr.  C.  Dickman. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  L. 
Baker,  of  New  York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Howe 
Adams,  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J. 
Hirschfield,  of  Atlantic  City,  Mrs.  A.  Cook 
and  Miss  Clara  Cook,  of  St.  Louis,  Mrs.  W.  K. 
Schilling,  of  Berkeley,  Mrs.  W.  W.  Howard 
and  Miss  Ida  Howard,  of  Carlisle,  Ky.,  Miss 
Marie  Riordan  and  Mr.  D.  M.  Riordan,  of  Los 
Angeles,  Mrs.  W.  M.  Gardner  and  Miss  Helen 
Gardner,  of  Chicago,  Mr.  W.  M.  Sawyer, 
Mr.  U.  C.  Harper  and  Mr.  James  A.  Tanner, 
of  Washington,  D.  C. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco  are   appended : 

Brigadier-General  David  P.  Wheeler,  U. 
S.  A.,  recently  chief  quartermaster  of  the  De- 
partment of  California,  has  been  retired  from 
the  service  this  week.  General  and  Mrs. 
Wheeler  expect  to  visit  San  Francisco  this 
winter,  and  will  probably  make  California 
their  future  home. 

Colonel  Charles  Morris,  Artillery  Corps,  U. 
S.  A.,  is  to  be  the  new  commanding  officer 
at  the  Presidio.  He  is  expected  to  arrive 
here  at  an  early  date  from  Fort  Moultrie, 
S.  C. 

Mrs.  John  Crittenden  Watson,  wife  of 
Admiral  Watson,  U.  S.  N.,  will  not  return 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  until  early  in  October. 
She  is  here  on  a  visit  to  her  mother,  Mrs. 
James  D.  Thornton. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Anthony  W.  Vogdes, 
Artillery    Corps,    U.    S.   A.,   has   been   ordered 


from  San  Diego  to  Key  West,  Fla.,  to  take 
command  of  the  artillery  district.  He  will  be 
relieved  by  Lieutenant-Colonel  Robert  H.  Pat- 
terson, Artillery  Corps,  now  at  Fort  Warren, 
Mass. 

Brigadier-General  Robert  M.  O'Reilly,  TJ.  S. 
A.,  who  was  on  duty  here  some  months  ago  as 
chief  surgeon  of  the  Department  of  California, 
is  expected  to  arrive  here  next  week  on  a  brief 
visit. 

Mrs.  Roosevelt,  wife  of  Captain  Henry 
L.  Roosevelt,  U.  S.  M.  C,  will  return  to  the 
Philippines  on  the  transport  Thomas,  which 
sails  on  Tuesday.  She  has  been  making  an 
extended  visit  with  her  parents,  Judge  and 
Mrs.  W.  W.  Morrow. 

Captain  Jesse  M.  Baker,  U.  S.  A.,  who  has 
been  acting  as  quartermaster,  has  been  ordered 
from  San  Francisco  to  Portland,  Or.,  to  relieve 
Colonel  Forrest  H.  Hathaway,  assistant  quar- 
termaster, U.  S.  A. 

Lieutenant  Douglas  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A., 
who  recently  graduated  from  West  Point,  will 
sail  for  the  Philippines  on  October  1st. 

Dr.  Tyndall's  Sunday  Night  Lecture. 
Dr.  Alexander  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  delivered 
another  of  his  interesting  lectures  last  Sunday 
night  at  Steinway  Hall.  His  subject  was 
"  What  is  Thought?"  and  during  his  lecture  he 
demonstrated  the  law  of  attraction  by  being 
blindfolded  and  placing  his  finger  on  a  pin- 
hole made  in  the  wall  during  his  temporary 
absence  from  the  hall  in  charge  of  members 
of  the  committee.  On  Sunday  night,  Dr. 
Tyndall  will  lecture  on  "  How  to  Read 
Thought,"  and  will  illustrate  his  remarks  with 
practical  experiments.  On  Sunday,  September 
6th,  Dr.  Albert  J.  Atkins  will  give  an  address 
on  "  The  Vital  Spark." 


ROUND 


' LUXURY 

IN  TRAVEL. 


THE  WORLD 

"THE    COLLVER    TOCRS  " 
Next  party  leaves   in   October  by   the   splendid 
new     steamship    Siberia,     visiting     Honolulu 
Japan.    China.    Manila.    Malav  Peninsula,   Cey- 
lon, Southern  and  Northern  India,  Egypt,  etc. 
Small   Membership — Exclusive  Features. 
Mr.   Collver  will   accompany   this   partv  per- 
sonally. 

Escorted   Parties    and    especial    facilities    for 
independent    travelers  to  Japan. 
Itineraries  on    request. 

LEON    L.    COLLVER, 
36S   Boylston   Street.    Boston.    Mass. 


MOUNT  TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 


Leave 
San  Fran. 


Week 
Days. 


9:46a 
1:45p 

5:lfif 


Sun- 
days 


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10:00a 
11:30a 
1:30p 
2:35p 


To.  Sjasalilo    Putt 
F«t  ol  Mirkai  St 


Arrive 
San  Fran. 


Sun-     I  Week 

days       Days. 

1J:00n  9:15a 


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OFFICE   i  and  Saltsaijto  Ferry    Fool  Market  Si 


TYPEWRITERS. 


Dr.  Charles  Brooks  Brigham,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  surgeons  and  physicians  on 
the  Pacific  Coast,  died  at  his  residence,  2202 
Broadway,  on  Monday,  after  an  illness  of  six 
weeks,  brought  on  by  a  stroke  of  paralysis. 
Dr.  Brigham  was  fifty-eight  years  of  age. 
He  leaves  a  widow  and  three  children. 


O  RE  A  T 

H  A  R  a  A  I  .%■  s 

We  sell  and  rent  better  machines  for  less  money  than 
any  house  on  the  Pacific  Coast.    Send  for  Catalogue. 
Supplies  of  standard  quality  always  on  hand. 

THE  TYPEWRITER  EXCHANGE, 

536  California  Street.     Telephone  Main  266. 


RUBBER 


LA  ZACUALPA 

Rubber  Plantation 
Company 

713  Market  St.,  S.F. 
AN  INVESTMENT  WORTH  INVESTIGATING 


Educational. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


—  GERSON-BLUM,  OF  PARIS,  WILL  BE  REPRE- 
sented  by  several  beautiful  gowns  at  the  Opening 
Fall  Exhibit  of  the  Emporium  which  begins  Monday, 
August  31st.  One  striking  costume  is  of  very  fine 
Venetian  cloth  and  Point  de  Esprit  lace,  strapped 
with  white  French  broadcloth.  Designs  by  Sara 
Mayer,  Blanche  Lebouvier,  Maurice  Mayer,  Beer. 
Drecoll,  Leroy,  Braunslein,  Perdaux,  and  many 
other  famous  modistes  will  be  shown  at  this  ex- 
hibit, which  promises  to  surpass  all  previous  dis- 
plays made  by  the  Emporium. 


Hiss  Harker  and  fliss  Hughes' 

SCHOOL  FOR  GIRLS 

—  AT  — 

PALO   ALTO,  CALIFORNIA. 

Prepares  for  college.  Advantages  01  Stanford  Uni- 
versity. Pleasant  home  lire.  Horseback-riding,  tennis, 
;ind  wheeling.  One  hour's  ride  to  San  Francisco. 
Term  begins  August  25th. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent.  Broker,  or  Trans 
portation  Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416=418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIV    FRANCISCO. 
All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Oregon. 


Portland. 


St.  Helen's  Hall 

Has  a  Normal  Kindergarten 
training  class  in  connection 
with  its  Academic  Depart- 
ment. Separate  residence. 
Two  -  year  course.  Model 
kindergarten.  Provides  prac- 
tice work.  For  details  ad- 
dress ELEANOR  TEBBETTS, 
Principal. 


The  van  Den  Bergh 

Primary  School  and  Kindergarten 

Re-opend  August  3d,  at '2405   Buchanan  St., 
near  Washington. 

Physical  Culture  and  Manual  Training. 

Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenty  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.     Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  fine  property.     For  circu- 
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THE        ARGONAUT, 


August  31,  1903. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Gerald — "  Can  you  give  me  no  hope? " 
Geraldine — "None  whatever;  I'm  going  to 
marry  you." — Tozvn  Topics. 

Madge — "  Miss  Autumn's  name  was  printed 
in  the  paper,  but  her  age  wasn't  mentioned." 
Marjorie—"  Of  course  not.  That  girl's  age 
is  unfit  for  publication." — Life. 

Easily  remedied:  Mrs.  Jaggsby  (tearfully) — 
"You  have  b-broken  the  p-promise  you  m-made 
me!"  Jaggsby — "  Nev'r  (hie)  mind,  m'dear; 
I'll  (hie)  make  you  'nuzzer  one." — Chicago 
Nezvs. 

Gossip  proof :  Mrs.  Crawford — "  Have  they 
much  money?"  Mrs.  Crabshaw — "Why, 
they're  so  rich  that,  if  they  preferred,  they 
could  afford  to  stay  in  town  all  summer." — 
Smart  Set. 

Further  information:  "Now,"  said  the 
teacher,  "  can  you  tell  me  anything  about 
Hiawatha?"  "Yes,"  replied  little  Henry; 
"  it's  the  tune  that  made  Longfellow  famous." 
— Chicago    Record-Herald. 

The  professional  man  he  needed :  Mike — 
"  Are  ye  much  hurted,  Pat?  Do  ye  want  a 
docthor?"  Pat — "A  docthor,  ye  fule  !  Afther 
bein'  runned  over  be  a  throlley  car?  Phat  Oi 
want  is  a  lawyer." — Judge. 

Photographer — "  Don't  assume  such  a  fierce 
expression.  Look  pleasant."  Murphy — "  Not 
on  your  life.  My  wife  is  going  to  send  one  of 
these  pictures  to  her  mother,  and  if  I  look 
pleasant  she'll  come  down  on  a  visit." — Phila- 
delphia Record. 

Horrible  thought:  "Here's  an  astrologer 
who  predicts  that  King  Edward  is  shortly  to 
pass  through  a  lot  of  trouble,  a  dark  cloud 
hanging  over  the  empire.  Some  horrible 
calamity,  don't  you  know."  "  I'll  bet  Alfred 
Austin   is   writing   another   ode." — Life. 

Civic  jealousy:  Visitor — "You  haven't  got 
half  as  nice  a  cemetery  here  as  we  have  in 
Elmville."  Prominent  citizen  (of  Hawville)— 
"  No,  I've  always  heard  that  the  cemetery  is 
the  only  part  of  your  town  that  holds  out  any 
inducements  for  permanent  residents." — Chi- 
cago   Tribune. 

A  filial  child:  A  certain  nobleman,  well 
known  to  society,  while  one  day  strolling 
round  his  stables,  came  across  his  coachman's 
little  boy  on  a  seat,  playing  with  his  toys. 
After  talking  to  the  youngster  a  short  time, 
he  said:   "Well,  my  little  man,  do  you  know 


who  I  am."  "  Oh,  yes/'  replied  the  youngster; 
"  you're  the  man  who,  rides  in  my  father's 
carriage!  " — Tit-Bits. 

The  relations  of  a  lady  who  had  died,  leav- 
ing a  legacy  to  a  favorite  donkey  in  order  to 
secure  its  comfort,  recently  came  into  court 
and  asked  for  a  decision  as  to  who  was  to 
enjoy  the  legacy  after  the  donkey's  demise. 
"The  next  of  kin,"  was  the  judge's  verdict. — 
Punch. 

Preserving  the  traditions :  "  Yes,  I  have 
launched  my  new  yacht,"  says  Muchpop. 
"What  do  you  call  her?"  asked  the  friend. 
"  Named  her  for  my  native  city — Brooklyn." 
"  And  did  you  smash  a  bottle  of  wine  across 
her  bow  when  she  was  christened?"  "No, 
indeed!  We  broke  a  nursing-bottle  full  of 
milk." — Judge. 

Efficiency  of  the  third  degree :  One  of  the 
detectives  came  hurrying  in.  "  Chief,"  he  said, 
"  we  are  on  the  wrong  scent.  The  man  we 
supposed  was  murdered  has  turned  up  alive." 
"  It  can't  be  possible,"  sternly  answered  the 
chief;  "the  fellow  we've  had  in  the  sweatbox 
for  the  last  two  or  three  days  has  just  con- 
fessed that  he  murdered  him." — Ex. 

"  Rafferty,"  said  Mr.  Dolan,  "  are  yez  payin' 
attintion  till  the  trusts?"  "I  am  that." 
"  Do  yez  think  they're  goin'  to  swallow  up  the 
country?"  "I  had  me  suspicions.  But  I've 
been  lookin"  at  the  map.  There's  wathermel- 
ons  in  Georgia,  an'  peaches  in  New  Jersey,  an' 
California  pears  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  not  to 
mint  ion  the  mineral  products,  such  as  coal, 
iron,  copper,  lead,  an'  prairie  dogs.  An'  I've 
concluded  that  any  wan  trust  that  tries  ty 
swallow  the  intire  outfit  is  in  line  fur  wan  0' 
the  biggest  attacks  iv  indygestion  on  record." 
— Washington  Star. 


Mothers  and  nurses  all  the  world  over  have 
given  their  teething  babies  and  feverish  children 
Stet?dni.in's  Soothing  Powders.     Try  them. 


"  Why  is  it  Willie  is  always  so  quiet  when 
riding  in  the  street-cars?  "  "  Why,  his  pa 
told  him  those  big  straps  could  be  detached." 
— Philadelphia  Record. 


—  Dr  E  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 

Soothing  Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething 


iOXJTHBRKT 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
tiWK       —    Fkom  August  23.  1903. 


SAN  FRANCISCO, 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 


7.00a    Beululu,  SulBun.  Elmlru  and  Sacra- 


7.25p 
7-25p 


7.00a   Vacavillc,  Winters,  RumBey. 
7.30a  Martinez,     Sun     Rninon,    Vallejo, 

Napa,  CallBtoga,  Santa  Koea 6  26t 

7-30a  NlleB,  Llvermore,  Lathrop,  Stock- 

7.25p 


8.00a  DavlB, Woodland,  KnlRhta  Landing, 
Marys vllle,  Orovllle,  (connects 
at  Maryevllle  for  Grldley,  Blgga 
and  Chk-o) 7.55r 

8.00a   Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  East.   10.25a 

8.00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Antioch,  By- 
ron, Tracy.Stockton,  Sacramento, 
Los  BanoB.  Meudota,  Hanford, 
ViBalla,  Portervllle m4.25i 

B.00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop, ModeBto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen  Junction,  Hanford,  VI- 
salla,  Bakerefleld 6.25p 

B.30a  Shasta  Express  —  Davis.  Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Spring).  WlIlowB. 
tFruto,  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7.55r 

8-30a  Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton, lone,  Sacrnnieiito.PlacervIlle. 
Maryevllle,  Chico,  Red  Bluff 4.26> 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  8o- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  AngelB 4. 25)' 

9.00a   Martinez  and  Way  Stations 6-B5p 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.26p 

10.00a  El  Paso  Passenger,  Eastbound. — 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop.  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond.  FreBno,  Han- 
ford, Vtsalla,  Bakerefleld,  Loa 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
hound  arrives  via  Coast  Line)... 
10.00a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden, 

Denver,  Om nli a,  Chicago 8-25p 

12.0031  Hayward.  N'llrs  and  Way  Stations.      3.25p 
II.OOp   Sacramento  River  Steainera...,. tll.OOe 

3.30p  Benlcla,      Winter*.      Sacramento. 

)  Woodland,  Williams,  ColUBa.Wll- 

iows,   Knights    Landing.   MaryB- 

ville,  Orovllle  and  way  statlonB.. 

3-30p   Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  StatlonB.. 

4.00p  Martinez, San  Riimon.Vallejo.Kapa, 

Callstoga.  Santtt  Rnmi . 

4. 00p   Martinez,  Tracy. Lntlirup. Stockton.    10.25a 

4.00i'   Nlles.  Llvermore.  Storktou.  Lodl,        4.26p 

4.30p   Hayward.   Nlles,   Jrvlngton,  Saul     18.55a 
Jose,  Llvermore f  111  65* 

B.OOi'   The  Owl  Limited— Fre»no,  Tulare. 

UakerBfleld,  Los  Angeles B.56a 

6.00r   Port  CoBta,   Tracy,    Stockton,  Los 

,_,„     ,   Banos 12.25p 

t530i-  llnyward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25a 

6-DOi'  Hayward,  Nlles  aud  San  Jose 10.25* 

t/.OOp    [  Vallejo 7.5Bp 

6.QQp  Oriental  Mali— Sacramento, Ogden, 
Denver,  Omaha.  St.  Louis,  Chl- 
cagoandEaint.  (Carrlesilrst-claBS 
psBsengersonly  out  of  Sun  Fran- 
cIbco.  TourlBt  car  and  coach 
passengers  for  polniB  beyond 
Sacramento  take  7.00  p.  m.  train 
to  Reno,  continuing  thence  In 
their  cars  0  p.m.  train  eaBtward         4.2Bp 

7-OOp  Port  Costa,  Bcnlcln,  Biilsun,  Davis, 
Sacramento,  Truckee,  Reno. 
Stops  at  all  etatlons  east  of 
Sacramento 7.55a 

7-OOp  San  Tablu.  Port   Costa,  Martinez 

and  Way  stations 11  26a 

8.0Bp  Oregon  &  (jnlliorulu  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvlile,    Redding, 
Portland,  l'uget  Sound  and  East.     8.56a 
iO.IOp  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only)  til -66  a 

11.26P  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 
Bemltc),  Fresno,  Hanford,  VI- 
salla,  Bakersfleld  „», 12-26P 


COAST    LI>fE    (Narrow  flange). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

17.46a    Santa    Cruz    Excursion     (Sunday 

only) J8.10P 

8.1  6a  Newark.  Centerville.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulaer    Creek,    Santa 

Crnz  and  Way  Stations b  25p 

t2.16p  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Lob  GatoG, Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations   10.56a 

415p  Newark,  San  Joee,  Lob  GatoB  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Bunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz;  Monday  only  from  Santa 
Cruz).      Connects    at  Felton   to 

and  from  Boulder  Creek ( 8.55  a 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

Krom  SAN  bRANCJSCO,  Foot  of  Market  St.  (Slip^ 

—17:15    9:00    11:00a.m.     100    3.00    6-16  p.m 

trom  OAKLAND,  Foot  of  Broadway  — 16:00    18:00 

13:03    10:00a.m.       12  00    200    4.00p.m. 


COAST 

IS^  (Thin 


LINE     (Broad  flange), 
and  Townsend  Streets.) 


e1.3Qp 


10.55a 
7.65p 


9.25a 


10.46p 


4101- 
1.20P 


1.05p 


6.10a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  30p 

'700a  San  Jose  and  Way  StatlonB 6-3Sp 

17. 16a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only)...  .  $8  30p 

'8.00a  New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld.)  ....  /4.1Qp 
8.00a  COBBtLlneLlmited— Stopsonly  San 
JoBe,  Gilroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
lister),  Pajaro,  CaBtrovllle,  Sa- 
HnaB.  San  Ardo,  Paso  Rohles, 
Banta  M  urgarl  t a,  San  Luis  OblBpo, 
Guadalupe,  Surf  (connection  for 
Lompoc),  Santa  Barbara.  SauguB 
and  Los  Angeles.  Connection  at 
CaBtrovllle  to  and  from  Monterey 

andPacIttc  Grove 

6.00a  San  Jose.  TreB  PinoB,  Capltola, 
SantaCruz, Pacific  Grove, Salinas, 
San  Luis   Obispo   and    Principal 

Intermediate    Stallone 

I0.30a   San  Jose  and  Way  StatlonB 

1140a  Cemetery  Pasboneer—  South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 

11. 30a  Santa  Clara,    San  Jose,  Los  GatOB 

and  Way  Stations 730p 

'i!.30p  San  Jose  and  Way  StatlonB *  7  00p 

Z.OOp   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations '9  40a 

2.30p  Cemetery  PaBsenger  — South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 4  35p 

I-3.00P  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara, 
San  Joee,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz.  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Pnluts)  112-15* 
z.&Ov  Pacific  Grove  and  Way  StatlonB— 
Burllngame.San  Mateo,  Red  wood, 
Menlo  Park,  Palo  Alto,  Mayfleld, 
Mountain  View.  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara.  Sim  Jose,  (Gilroy,  Hollls- 
ter,  Tres  PinoB).  Pajaro,  Watson- 
villc,  Capltola,  Santa  Cruz,  CaB- 
trovllle, Salinas -\q  4gA 

4-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8.36a 

d-OOp  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Loa 
GatOB,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Btatlons 19  00a 

,6.30i-  SanJoaeandPrlnclpalWaySl'atlons    |800a 
'6.1Bp  San  Mateo, Beresford, Belmont, San 
Carloe,     Redwood,    Fair     Oaks. 

,.  „„        Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto I9  45p 

b.30P  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations..  6  3Sa 

7  00p   Sunset   Limited.  EaBtbound.— San 

LuiB  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara.  Los 

Angeles,  Demlng.  El  Paso,  New 

OrleanB,  New  York.  (WeBtbound 

n«     „a"lvesvlaSHnJoRmiti]Valley)   ..   »8-25a 

%  -  001*  Palo  Alto  and  Way  StatlonB 1 0  I  6a 

1.30p  South  San  Francisco,  Mlllbrae,"! 
Burllngame,  San  Mateo,  Bel-  I 
roont,  San  Carlos,  Redwood 
Fair  Oaks,  Menlo  Park,  pak 
Alio,  Mayfleld,  Mountain  View 
Sunnyvale.  Lawrence,  Suntt 
_____        Clara  aud  San  Jobc 


16.46a 
19.46p 


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Pacific  Slope  Trade 


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Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San  Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7.30 


A  M  — +BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2,40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 
A  M  — f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2..  15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining-car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jn.iop  m. 

A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11,10  p  m. 

P  M—  *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10  p  m.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
ii.  10  a  m. 

>  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  111,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  in.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
\  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  patties  for  Kansas   City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  in. 


9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
8.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEV,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART  WEEK    DAYS-6.4S,  -f*7.45 
S-45,9-45,   11  a.   m.;   12.20,  *i.45,  3.1s.  4.15, 
T5-l5i  *&.'5,  6,45,  9,  H-45  *•■  M. 
7.45  a.  M.  week  days  dues  not  run  to  Mill  Valley. 
DEPART  SUNDAY— 7,  +S.  f*9,  t*i°,    n,  tu.30  a. 
M.;  tI2-3o,  t*i-30,  2.35,  *3.so,  5,  6,  7.30,  9,   11.45  P-  m. 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (f)    to   Fairfax,   except  5.15  p.    m.   Saturday. 
Saturday's  3.15  p.  M.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.45  A.  m.  \veek  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  P-  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted)— Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    P-    M-    Saturdays— Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
Sundays,  8  a.  m.—  Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays,  10  a.  m.—  Point  Reyes  and  intermediate. 
Lefjal  Holidays— Boats  and  trains  on  Sundav  time. 
'1  ickel  Ofiices — 626  Market ;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS — 7.30,  8.00,  9.00,  11.00  am-  12.35,  2-30 
3.40,  5.10,5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra 
trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS — 7-30,  S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  pm. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m 
12.50,  f2.oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7-35.  9.20,  n. 15  a  m;  1.45.  3-4°.  4-50 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Lea  ve 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  in 
5.10  pm 


2.30  p  m 
5- I0  P  m 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  111 


7.30  a  111 
2.30  p  ni 


S.oo  a  ni 
2.30  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
5-'Q  p  m 


7.30  a  m 
3-3Q  P  in 


Sun- 
days. 


7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  in 
5.10  p  m 


7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5-iQ  p  m 


7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  ni 
2.30  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  ni 


8.00  a  1 
5.10  pi 


7.30  a  1 
^•3°  p  1 


In  Effect 
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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Isthmian  Canal  Outlook — Will  the  United  States 
"Take  What  It  Needs"? — A  Prospective  Revolution — 
Sidelights  on  Party  Politics — Watterson  on  the  Situation 
— Tammany  for  Cleveland — Bryan's  Waning  Strength — 
The  Rise  of  Tom  Johnson — -Hill  and  Gorman — Shorter 
National  Campaigns — Automobiles  Versus  Cavalry — Postal 
Facilities  Here  and  Elsewhere — Michael  Casey  Talks  About 
Labor  Conditions  in  San  I'ranciseo — Complaints  Concern- 
ing Park  Speedway — Natives  of  Other  States  in  California 
: — Pacific    Coast   Railroad  Activity 145-147 

Odd  Corners  in  San  Frvncisco:  Geraldine  Bonner  Writes  of 
Moss-Grown  and  Picturesque  Old  Houses  of  this  City — 
Folsom  Street— South  Park— Telegraph  Hill 147 

Life-Story  of  Joseph  Le  Conte:  Extracts  from  the  Auto- 
biography of  the  Beloved  Scientist — His  Courtship  and 
Early  Marriage — Studying  With  Agassiz — Experiences  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  War , 148 

The  Prairie.     By  Lewis  Worthington    Smith 148 

The  Malingerer:    An    Incident  of  the   Fight   Outside   El    Paco. 

By     Bernard     Barry 140 

Alpine  Accidents:    This  Summer's  Long  List  of  Disasters  and 

Fatalities    140 

Passing  of  Phil  May:  Incidents  in  the  Checkered  Career  of 
the  Famous  Black-and-white  Humorist — Early  Struggles 
in  London — With  the  Sydney  "  Bulletin  " — His  Work  on 
"  Punch."     By  "  Piccadilly  " 150 

Individualities:     Notes  About   Prominent  People  All    Over  the 

World    ISO 

London's  Latest  Dramatic  Sensation:  "The  Soothing  Sys- 
tem"        151 

Recent  Verse:  "  A  Sea  Lyric,"  by  William  Hamilton  Hayne; 
"The  Sea  at  Noon."  by  Maurice  Francis  Egan:  "Summer 
Clouds."  by  Thomas  Pardon  Wilson 152 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications   151-153 

Drama:     "Everyman"    at    the    Lyric — "Lucia"    at    the    Tivoli. 

By    Josephine    Hart    Phelps 154 

Stage  Gossip    155 

Vanity  Fair:  Features  of  the  Cup  Races — The  Horrible 
Crowding  of  Hotels — Some  of  the  Private  Yachts  Out — 
Points  of  Contrast  Between  the  New  York  Four  Hundred 
and  the  Faubourg  SL  Germain — Marriage-Brokers  Sue  a 
Count     156 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
MacDowell  on  the  Musical  Murder  of  His  Song — What 
Would  Defeat  Roosevelt — The  Dawn  of  a  Judicial  Day — 
One  of  Depew's  Best  Erand — The  Witty  Woman  and  the 
Touchy  Priest — A  Civil  War  Fakir — A  Physician  With  a 
"  Taking "  Manner — The  Artist  Whistler  and  Punctuality 
— Lipton  and  the  Pretty  Girls — One  of  Lew  Dockstader's 
Stories — King  Edward  Wins  Some  Irish  Hearts 157 

The  Tuneful  Liar:      "A     Revised     Quotation,"     "The     Ballet 

Girl,"   "An   Old  Story  in   Verse,"    "Germicide" 157 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army    and    Navy    News 158-159 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits  of   the   Day 160 

The  marvelous  enterprise  of  American  newspapers,  of 
isthmian  which  we  have  all  heard  so  much,  seems 

Canal 
Outlook. 


dispatches.  The  senate  may  reconsider  and  ratify  the 
treaty  to-morrow,  or  it  may  never  do  so.  It  may  merely 
be  waiting  for  more  boodle,  or  may  be  inspired  by  the 
loftiest  patriotism.  Panama  and  Cauca  may  revolt, 
or  they  may  not.  Outside  the  State  Department,  no- 
body appears  to  have  any  trustworthy  information. 

The  situation,  however,  is  full  of  interesting  possi- 
bilities. Assuming,  for  the  moment,  that  the  Bogota 
statesmen,  in  rejecting  the  treaty,  have  expressed  their 
irrevocable  conviction,  what  is  the  duty  of  the  Presi- 
dent in  the  premises?  Is  the  President  required  now 
to  negotiate  with  Costa  Rica  and  Nicaragua?  The 
language  of  the  Spooner  act  seems  explicit.  If  the 
President  shall  not  be  able  to  obtain  satisfactory  con- 
cessions from  Colombia  "  within  a  reasonable  time 
and  upon  reasonable  terms,"  then,  "  having  first  ob- 
tained for  the  United  States  perpetual  control  by 
treaty  of  the  necessary  territory  from  Costa  Rica  and 
Nicaragua,  upon  terms  which  he  may  consider  reason- 
able, .  .  .  the  President  shall,  through  the  Canal  Com- 
mission, cause  to  be  excavated  and  constructed  a  ship 
canal,"  etc. 

This  seems  plain  enough,  but  at  the  same  time  it 
leaves  much  to  the  discretion  of  the  President.  He 
alone  is  the  sole  judge  of  what  constitutes  a  "  reason- 
able "  time  during  which  to  continue  negotiations  with 
Bogota.  Senator  Spooner  himself  says  that  the  Presi- 
dent may  properly  take  six  months  or  six  years  if  he  so 
please.  He  is  also  sole  judge  of  what  are  "  reason- 
able "  terms  in  any  negotiation  with  Nicaragua  and 
Costa  Rica.  He  decides  what  is  "  necessary "  terri- 
tory. There  is  manifestly  no  assurance  that  the 
authorities  of  Nicaragua  and  Costa  Rica  would  be 
any  more  amenable  to  reason  than  those  of  Colombia. 
In  place  of  one  recalcitrant  senate  there  would  be  two 
— and  of  the  same  crafty  Latin-American  breed.  There 
is  manifestly  still  less  assurance  that  a  treaty  with 
those  States  would  be  ratified  by  the  United  States 
Senate.  Those  of  our  senators  who  hold  that  the 
Panama  route  is  the  only  practicable  one  might  com- 
pass the  rejection  of  the  treaty,  leaving  the  country- 
no  nearer  a  canal  than  it  was  forty  years  ago.  If 
press  comment  is  a  criterion  of  public  opinion,  the 
Nicaragua  route  is  steadily  losing  favor.  The 
volcanoes  thereabout,  the  recent  severe  earthquakes 
and  land  upheavals,  the  expressed  opinions  of  some 
of  the  later  investigating  engineers  that  a  canal  there 
is  an  engineering  impossibility,  the  absence  now  of 
any  patriotic  considerations,  and  the  fear  that  some 
other  nation  might  buy  up  the  French  company's 
claim,  and  build  another  canal  at  Panama,  are  all 
reasons  why  Nicaragua  has  fewer  advocates  than  ever 
before. 

The  President — if  those  correspondents  who  profess 
to  know  his  views  are  to  be  believed — has  carefully 
weighed  all  the  objections  to  Nicaragua.  He  is  con- 
vinced that  the  Nicaragua  route  is  utterly  im- 
practicable. He  is  determined  that  the  canal  at 
Panama  shall  be  constructed.  It  is  his  conviction  that 
no  little  band  of  boodlers  at  Bogota  should  be  permit- 
ted to  block  so  vast  an  enterprise.  The  argument  by 
which  he  proposes  to  enforce  this  conviction,  accord- 
ing to  those  best  informed,  is  contained  in  the  phrase, 
"  Civilization's  right  of  eminent  domain."  It  is  argued 
that,  just  as  the  state  reserves  to  itself  such  power 
over  lands  and  properties  as  may  be  necessary  to 
prevent  irremediable  conflict  of  private  interests  with 
the  public  welfare,  so  civilization  has  the  right  to  re- 
move barriers  and  suppress  practices  which  hinder  its 
progress  or  affront  its  moral  sense.  The  Panama  Canal 
will  be  of  vast  benefit  to  the  whole  world.  Colombia, 
through  poverty,  weakness,  and  incapacity,  can  not  her- 
self perform  the  work  of  construction.  Therefore,  she 
should  step  aside  and  let  one  do  it  who  can.     If,  be- 


cause of  the  greed  or  blindness — or  both  combined — 
of  her  authorities,  she  refuses  to  step  aside,  then,  it  is 
argued,  the  United  States  should  seize  the  Isthmus 
and  construct  the  canal,  leaving  to  The  Hague  court 
the  task  of  determining  what  is  a  just  and  fair  com- 
pensation to  Colombia.  If,  in  a  nation,  an  individual 
may  not  block  the  construction  of  a  railroad,  why,  in 
world  affairs,  should  one  small  country  be  permitted 
to  block  a  vaster  enterprise,  and  one  more  necessary 
to  civilization's  welfare  ? 

For  such  an  exercise  of  power  as  is  proposed  there 
is  plenty  of  precedent.  A  newspaper,  the  St.  Paul 
Pioneer  Press,  cites,  for  example,  the  union  of  Eu- 
ropean nations  to  establish  order  in  Egypt  and  preserve 
the  Suez  Canal;  the  interference  of  Europe  in  the 
Turko-Graeco  affair;  the  establishment  of  the  Congo 
Free  State  by  the  European  concert  in  a  territory  as 
distant  from  Europe  as  the  Isthmus  from  the  United 
States;  and,  lastly,  the  intervention  of  the  United 
States  in  Cuba.  "  The  non-use  or  misuse  of  natural  or 
chartered  rights,  the  exercise  of  which  is  essential 
to  civilization,  has  been  from  time  immemorial  held 
to  be  just  cause  for  their  forfeiture,  made  compulsory 
at  the  hands  of  more  capable  peoples,"  says  the  Press; 
"  on  this  principle  rests  the  whole  history  of  civiliza- 
tion's conquests  over  barbarism  and  savagery.  It  is 
at  the  foundation  of  the  present  possession  of  the  ter- 
ritory of  the  United  States  by  the  white  race." 

But  before  the  time  shall  come  when  there  will  be 
no  alternative  but  to  seize  the  Isthmus  or  give  up 
hope  of  a  Panama  Canal,  several  things  may  happen. 
From  the  tone  of  the  dispatches,  unreliable  though 
they  are,  it  seems  clear  that  the  State  of  Panama  is 
on  the  point  of  revolt.  In  anticipation  of  the  building 
of  the  canal,  property  in  Panama  increased  greatly 
in  value,  prominent  people  bought  lands  and  secured 
options.  Unless,  now,  they  do  something,  it  spells  ruin 
for  them.  The  breaking  out  of  a  full-fledged  revolu- 
tion would  very  likely  be  the  signal  for  a  hasty  ratifica- 
tion of  the  treaty  by  the  Colombian  senate  before  it  is 
everlastingly  too  late.  But  if  the  senate  should  stick 
by  its  guns,  in  the  opinion  of  Walter  Wellman,  the 
United  States  would  lose  no  time  in  recognizing  the 
new  nation  of  Panama  and  concluding  a  canal  treaty. 
The  sole  legal  objection  to  such  action  yet  advanced 
is  the  provision  in  the  American-Colombian  treaty  of 
1846  which  recites  that  the  United  States  alone 
"  guarantees  the  perfect  neutrality  of  the  afore- 
mentioned Isthmus,  and  ...  the  rights  of  property 
and  sovereignty  which  Colombia  has  over  the  said 
territory." 


on  Party 
Politics. 


When  Colonel  Henry  Watterson  consents  to  unburden 
Sidelights  himself  of  a   few  political    opinions   he 

never  lacks  an  audience.  He  has  been 
talking  to  the  reporters  while  on  his 
summer  visit  to  New  York.  The  Democratic  nomina- 
tion for  the  Presidency  was  the  absorbing  subject. 
Colonel  Watterson  professes  to  believe  that  "  the 
nomination  will  lie  between  Gorman,  Parker,  and  Gray, 
and  that  the  nominee  will  be  elected."  He  has  no  use 
for  either  Cleveland  or  Bryan.  "  They  are  the  upper 
and  nether  millstones  seeking  to  grind  the  Democratic 
party  to  their  own  uses,  or  to  crush  the  life  out  of  it." 
As  for  Cleveland,  "  talk  of  a  fourth  nomination  and  a 
third  election  is  too  wild  to  be  considered  by  sensible 
people,  and  will  not  be  considered  by  any  nominating 
convention."  "  Bryan  is  killing  himself  as  a  public 
force,"  and  is  tending  to  become  "  the  merest  agitator 
and  claimant,  at  once  impotent  and  vindictive."  If 
Colonel  Watterson  does  not  see  the  star  in  the  east 
there  are  other  wise  men  who  do,  or  claim  they  do. 
Charles  F.  Murphy,  the  present  leader  of  T.imn 
and  ex-Senator  Smith,  of  New  Jersey,  have 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


September  7,  1903. 


together,  and  agreed  that  Mr.  Cleveland  is  the  only 
available  man  to  nominate.  As  for  his  strength  in 
convention,  they  claim  for  him  the  support  of  Tam- 
many, the  delegations  of  New  York,  New  Jersey,  and 
all  the  New  England  States,  and  a  "  strong  feeling  in 
his  favor  all  through  the  West  and  North-West"  If 
they  are  not  deceived,  there  is  momentum  enough  to 
predicate  a  nomination  upon.  The  only  remaining  ques- 
tions are:  Will  the  gendeman  accept?  Can  Bryan, 
Hill,  Gorman,  Watterson  &  Co.  beat  him?  And  both 
questions  are  as  yet  unanswered.  That  the  Cleveland 
boom  is  to  be  reckoned  with  is  indicated  by  the  atten- 
tions which  Mr.  Bryan  has  been  paying  to  the  ex- 
President  in  his  vitriolic  speeches  of  late.  But  if  one 
eye  is  on  Cleveland,  Bryan  seems  to  have  other  optics 
to  watch  other  Democrats  who  may  want  to  steal  the 
Presidency  from  under  his  nose.  Of  Gorman,  he  says 
that  "his  sympathies  are  with  organized  wealth;  that 
his  nomination  is  not  to  be  thought  of;  that  he  would 
poll  one  million  less  votes  than  a  ticket  with  no  name 
on  it  at  all."  Neither  does  Judge  Parker  escape  Mr. 
Bryan's  observation.  More  than  once  he  has  intimated 
that  "  if  the  judge  has  any  views  no  one  knows  what 
they  are,  but  that  if  they  were  revealed  they  would 
probably  be  found  to  suit  the  Wall  Street  influences 
that  are  behind  Cleveland." 

Bryan's  animosity  toward  the  reorganizes  of  the 
party  have  not  brought  him  strength  and  multiplied 
his  adherents.  That  he  is  losing  ground  in  the  political 
game  may  be  deduced  from  the  fact  that  not  a  single 
Democratic  convention  this  year  has  mentioned  him 
as  a  possible  candidate,  and  only  one,  Nebraska,  has 
without  quibble  reaffirmed  the  Kansas  City  platform. 
He  did  gain  a  little  left-handed  prestige  in  the  recent 
Democratic  convention  in  Ohio,  where  the  Tom  L. 
Johnson-Bryan  contingent  dominated  the  party  com- 
pletely, and  routed  the  reorganizes'  foot,  horse,  and 
dragoons.  But  even  there  no  personal  mention  of 
Bryan  appears,  and  the  reference  to  national  issues  is 
somewhat  evasive.  Johnson,  of  Cleveland,,  seems  to 
be  gaining,  while  Bryan  is  waning.  The  former  is  the 
king-pin  of  the  Ohio  Democracy  to-day.  There  is  no 
other  name  in  the  State  to  conjure  with.  In  the  recent 
convention,  he  had  himself  nominated  for  governor, 
and  besides  that  he  named  the  rest  of  the  ticket. 
The  Bryanism  in  his  programme  is  likely  to  render 
the  opposing  wing  somewhat  lukewarm,  but  should  he 
be  elected  this  fall,  he  would  surely  be  a  strong  factor 
in  the  race  for  the  Democratic  nomination  for  Presi- 
dent next  year.  Johnson  is  almost  as  full  of  economic 
theories  as  Bryan  himself,  but  when  it  comes  down 
to  going  out  for  an  office,  he  is  a  practical  politician 
of  the  old  school,  and  a  hard  man  to  beat.  Defeat 
under  his  leadership  last  year  has  not  retired  him,  and 
the  attempt  to  wrest  the  control  of  the  party  in  the 
State  from  him  this  year  has  not  succeeded.  The  hope 
of  the  Republicans  is  that  the  split  in  the  party  which 
allowed  Johnson's  ticket  to  go  down  to  defeat  a  year 
ago  by  ninety  thousand  votes  will  do  it  again. 

In  the  pulling  and  hauling  among  Democrats,  David 
B.  Hill  does  not  propose  to  be  entirely  overlooked.  He 
made  a  speech,  the  other  day,  the  keynote  of  which 
was  that  the  present  era  of  prosperity  is  a  delusion 
and  a  snare,  and  that  the  country  could  never  be  really 
happy  except  under  a  simon-pure  Democratic  admin- 
istration. He  forgot  to  mention  that  for  over  forty 
years  the  two  periods  of  Democratic  domination  in 
both  the  White  House  and  Congress  were  gloomy  and 
depressing  enough  to  suit  the  most  morbid  of  Demo- 
crats, and  that  the  public  could  hardly  wait  until  the 
succeeding  elections  to  turn  them  out  of  office.  "  The 
good  old-fashioned  Jacksonian  Democracy "  is  still 
doing  business  at  the  old  stand,  and  shifty  Mr.  Hill, 
having  out-Bryaned  Bryanism  with  his  proposed  so- 
cialistic legislation  at  the  time  of  the  coal  strike,  is 
one  of  its  apostles.  The  Gorman  campaign  is  proceed- 
ing on  the  line  of  sacrificing  every  issue  that  might 
antagonize  the  party  factions.  The  problem  is  not  to 
harmonize  the  leaders,  but  to  hold  the  followers  of  all 
together.  Free  trade  is  too  radical  for  Mr.  Gorman, 
so  he  stands  for  tariff  reform.  A  currency  bill  promises 
to  be  measurably  popular;  therefore,  Mr.  Gorman  is 
not  leading  any  factional  opposition  against  it.  Funds 
must  be  forthcoming,  and  the  money  interests  antago- 
nistic to  Roosevelt  must  be  conciliated;  consequently, 
Mr.  Gorman  does  not  regard  the  trusts  as  an  issue. 
He  d<  es  recommend,  however,  that  the  issues  of  1896 
and  1900  be  withdrawn.  On  the  Republican  side,  the 
main  interest  concerns  the  probable  attitude  of  Senator 
PI?.).,  toward  the  candidacy  of  President  Roosevelt. 
:    ontest  between  Piatt  and  Odell  for  supremacy  in 


SHORTER 

National 
Campaigns. 


New  York  is  said  to  be  ended,  leaving  the  victory  with 
the  former.  Much  depends  in  the  next  convention  on 
the  delegation  from  the  Empire  State.  Senator  Piatt 
will  probably  be  the  guiding  spirit  of  that  delegation. 
Is  he  really  friendly  to  the  President,  or  has  he  got 
something  up  his  sleeve? 

♦ — 
While  Judge  Alton  B.  Parker,  who  is  still  a  Presidential  pos- 
sibility, refrains  from  discussing  the  various 
questions  on  which  party  positions  turn,  he 
is  not  neglecting  the  practical  requirements 
of  the  game.  In  an  interview,  recently  pub- 
lished in  the  Newark  News,  he  suggested  that  the  present  plan 
of  extending  a  national  campaign  over  several  months  ought 
to  be  abolished.  It  appears  to  be  a  sensible  proposition. 
Formerly,  when  transportation  depended  upon  the  stage-coach 
it  undoubtedly  required  long  periods  to  prepare  the  whole 
country  for  the  great  issues  of  a  national  election.  That  has 
all  been  changed.  In  these  days,  the  railroad  trains  traverse 
the  whole  country  in  the  course  of  a  week.  Campaign  orators 
can  make  rear-end  platform  speeches  to  a  dozen  communities 
in  a  day.  The  telegraph  sends  the  news  and  the  speeches 
everywhere  in  an  hour  or  two.  The  rural-delivery  system 
distributes  campaign  literature  at  every  farm-house  door  daily. 
By  these  improvements  a  campaign  of  education  can  be  con- 
ducted in  a  fraction  of  the  time  required  in  the  days  of  our 
grandfathers.  A  short  and  sharp  campaign  would  serve  every 
purpose,  and  prepare  every  voter  to  go  to  the  polls  intelli- 
gently as  well  as  a  long-drawn-out  contest,  of  which  every  one 
wearies  before  it  is  finished,  and  which  keeps  the  country  need- 
lessly stirred  up  as  long  as  it  lasts.  It  is  pointed  out  that  the 
last  congressional  elections  were  allowed  to  become  a  sort  of 
dr  if  ting-match  for  this  very  reason,  that  there  was  too  much 
time  to  cover  before  election.  Neither  party  gave  the  cam- 
paign serious  attention  until  the  last  few  weeks,  and  yet  it  is 
assumed  that  the  voters  were  as  amply  prepared  to  register 
their  conclusions  as  they  could  have  been  under  the  methods 
usually  prevailing.  The  long  campaign,  according  to  Judge 
Parker,  is  a  waste  of  money  and  of  energy.  The  suggestion 
is  not  new  with  him.  It  has  been  made  before  without  meet- 
ing with  general  favor.  There  has,  perhaps,  been  shown  a 
growing  disposition  to  crowd  the  hard  work  into  the  last  few 
weeks  before  election,  and  as  a  rule,  nowadays,  nothing  much  is 
done  until  about  the  first  of  September.  Notwithstanding  the 
arguments  in  favor  of  a  short  campaign,  there  is  an  apparent 
hesitation    about    any    change   in    methods. 


The  Amazing 
Case  of 
Sam  Parks. 


bPRECKELS  AND 

De  Young  Called 
Tyrannical. 


ing  Schmitz  for  mayor  the  convention  adjourned,  and  will 
not  meet  again  until  after  the  conventions  of  the  other  two 
parties  have  been  held.  At  that  time,  either  their  nominees 
will  be  indorsed,  or  independent  candidates  put  up.  The  Re- 
publican party's  convention,  by  the  way,  will  meet  on  Sep- 
tember 15th,  and,  after  organizing,  adjourn  for  several  days. 
It  is  the  present  intention  of  the  Democrats  to  meet  on 
September  14th,  and  likewise  to  adjourn  for  a  few  days. 
Hot  discussion  of  Schmitz's  chances  in  the  Republican  con- 
vention continues,  even  though  Herrin  is  said  to  have  declared 
his  opposition.  According  to  Ruef's  friends,  of  course,  Schmitz 
has  a  sure  thing.  The  other  side  concede  to  him  not  more 
than  one  hundred  votes  out  of  three  hundred  and  nineteen. 
It  is  certain,  however,  that  Ruef's  large  body  of  delegates  will 
be  a  big  factor,  and  it  is  conceivable  that,  if  he  were  unable  to 
secure  the  indorsement  of  Schmitz,  he  might  succeed 
in  effecting  the  nomination  of  a  weak  candidate,  and  thereby 
greatly  help  the  mayor's  chances.  In  fact,  it  is  argued  in  some 
quarters  that  the"  mayor  would  be  more  likely  to  win  out  alone 
than  with  indorsement.  Some  think  it  would  be  easier  for  him 
to  get  the  21,000  votes  necessary  in  a  three-cornered  fight 
than  the  2S,ooo  or  29,000  necessary  if  there  were  only  two 
candidates  in  the  field.  The  mayor's  declaration,  in  his  speech 
of  acceptance,  that  he  is  "  first,  last,  and  all  the  time  a  repre- 
sentative of  union  labor  and  always  shall  be  so,"  and  his  un- 
qualified indorsement  of  the  radical  platform  adopted,  seem 
to  indicate  that  he  does  not  want  the  Republican  indorse- 
ment badly  enough  to  make  any  concessions  for  it — if,  in- 
deed, he  wants  it  at  all.  Henry  Ach,  who  was  "slated"  for 
the  chairmanship  of  the  Republican  convention,  is  reported 
to  be  likely  to  have  some  opposition.  Ruef  is  said  to  have 
remarked  that  no  member  of  the  United  Republican  League 
committee  should  seek  the  places — and  this  includes  Ach. 
Hence  it  is  believed  that,  if  Ruef  thinks  a  tactical  advantage 
can  be  gained,  he  will  try  for  the  place  himself.  Should  a 
compromise  be  necessary,  John  S.  Partridge  seems  likely  to  be 
the  recipient  of  the  honor.  The  most  prominent  names  now, 
among  the  many  that  have  been  mentioned  for  the  Repub- 
lican mayoralty  nomination,  are  General  George  Stone,  Frank 
J.  Symmes,  John  E.  McDougald,  S.  Laumeister,  John  Lack- 
man,  Henry  J.  Crocker,  and  William  Cluff.  On  the  Demo- 
cratic side,  the  minority  faction,  known  as  the  "  Horses  and 
Carts,"  are  expected  to  make  up  for  small  numbers  by  great 
activity.  The  McNab  faction  favors  Thomas  W.  Hickey 
for  chairman,  and  the  Rainey  folks,  Joseph  E.  O'Donnell.  A 
particularly  sharp  fight  is  expected  over  Byington  for  district 
attorney.     Mahoney  is  still  in  the  race  for  mayor. 


The  action  of  New  York  labor  unions  in  the  case  of  Sam 
Parks  can  not  but  grieve  every  well- 
wisher  of  workingmen,  and  cause  all  their 
enemies  to  rejoice.  Sam  Parks  was,  and  is, 
the  walking- delegate  of  the  Housesmiths'  and 
Bridgemen's  Union.  He  used  his  official  power  to  extort  money 
from  employers  under  threats  of  injury.  For  this  he  was 
arrested,  tried  and  convicted  by  a  jury  of  his  peers,  and 
sentenced  to  two  years  and  a  half  imprisonment  in  Sing  Sing 
Prison.  During  the  trial,  the  Central  Federated  Union  of  the 
New  York  building  trades  condemned  the  district  attorney 
for  prosecuting  Parks  and  for  not  prosecuting  the  employers 
of  labor  who  had  been  uncourageous  enough  to  be  bled.  This 
was  bad  enough,  but  the  worse  was  yet  to  come.  A  late  dis- 
patch says  that  the  union  Parks  represented  has  resolved  that 
its  confidence  in  him  remains  unshaken,  has  voted  to  continue 
his  salary  of  forty-eight  dollars  a  week  during  his  prison  term, 
has  elected  him  marshal  of  the  Labor-Day  parade,  and  has 
"  declared  its  purpose  to  overthrow  the  existing  government 
of  New  York  City  to  avenge  his  conviction.  That  any  union 
should  take  such  an  attitude  seems  incredible.  Organized 
labor  throughout  the  country,  by  its  condemnation  or  com- 
mendation of  this  union's  action,  will  measurably  demonstrate 
whether  it  is  for  unions  right  or  wrong,  or  for  unions 
and  unionists  only  when  they  obey  the  law. 

The  Call  and  Chronicle  slightly  enlivened  the  local  political 
situation  at  the  end  of  last  week  by 
simultaneously  coming  out  with  anti- 
Schmitz  editorials  that  were  tinged  with 
sarcasm  and  flavored  with  bitterness.  The 
Chronicle,  which  only  a  few  weeks  ago  thought  it  merely 
"  improbable "  that  it  could  support  Schmitz,  now  speaks  of 
his  "  monumental  egotism,"  his  "  utter  incapacity,"  and 
"  disingenuousness."  It  also  says  that,  "'  outside  of  some  idle 
gossip,  there  was  not  the  slightest  foundation  for  his 
gratuitous  assumption  that  he  would  be  seriously  considered 
by  the  Republican  Municipal  Convention."  The  Call  like- 
wise declares  that  if  the  Republican  party  indorses  the  mayor 
it  will  "  abandon  its  independent  function  as  a  political 
party."  These  two  utterances  give  some  plausibility  to  the  cur- 
rent rumor  that,  at  a  meeting,  last  wreek,  attended  by  M. 
H.  de  Young,  John  D.  Spreckels,  A.  Ruef,  Henry  Ach,  and 
John  C.  Lynch,  the  two  editors  delivered  an  ultimatum  to  the 
effect  that,  if  Schmitz  were  indorsed,  the  Call  and  Chronicle 
would  bolt  the  entire  Republican  ticket,  and  fight  every  nom- 
inee high  and  low.  Entire  credence  is  given  to  this  rumor 
by  the  Bulletin,  which  editorially  scolds  Spreckels  and  De 
\oung  for  "threatening  to  bolt."  It  says  they  are  not  "act- 
ing according  to  right  reason,"  and  that  their  attitude  is 
"  mildly  tyrannical  They  are  attempting  to  coerce  the  con- 
vention, and  are  holding  their  newspapers  as  whips  over  the 
heads  of  the  party  leaders."  In  the  meantime,  Mr.  Schmitz 
has  received  from  the  Union  Labor  party  convention  the 
formal  renomination  for  mayor,  and  even  his  opponents  are 
constrained  to  admit  that  the  meeting  was  marked  by  perfect 
harmony  and  genuine  enthusiasm.  Harders  and  Berger,  the 
leaders  of  the  faction  which  opposed  Schmitz  at  the  pri- 
maries, called  the  meeting  to  order,  and  received  a  vote  of 
thanks  therefor.  "  This  means,"  says  the  hostile  Call,  "  that 
the  hatchet  has  been  buried,  and  Schmitz  will  receive  the 
support  of  both  factions  of  the  labor  party."     After  nominat- 


Manila  Editors, 

Prisons, 

and  Officials. 


The  Argonaut  recently  remarked  that  criticism  of  the  Philip- 
pine government  by  the  Manila  papers  was 
subdued  in  tone.  The  two  former  editors 
of  the  Manila  Freedom  are  each  under  sen- 
tence to  six  months'  imprisonment  in  Bilibid, 
and  to  pay  a  fine  of  one  thousand  dollars  for  libeling  a  Span- 
ish official  in  a  newspaper  heading.  Other  papers  have  been 
in  trouble  with  the  Philippine  Commission,  and  they  now 
"  strive  to  please,"  so  far  as  possible.  The  Manila  American, 
commenting  on  .the  Argonaut's  editorial,  says: 

The  climate  of  Manila  is  the  finest  in  the  world — three 
months  in  the  year — but  even  the  most  enthusiastic  Fili- 
pinopnile  has  never  yet  claimed  that  the  Presidio  de  Bilibid 
is  an  ideal  summer  resort.  Also,  we  beg  to  remind  our  'Frisco 
iriend,  Captain  Jason,  that  trial  without  a  jury  of  one's  peers 
is  as  full  of  dangers,  difficulties,  and  perplexities  as  was  his 
quest  of  the  Goluen  Fleece.  That  the  American's  "  criticism 
is  subdued  in  tone "  also  can  be  proved  by  another  dis- 
tinguished son  of  the  Golden   West,  "  Tehama  Jim." 

"Tehama  Jim,"  we  regret  to  state,  is  the  American's  in- 
decently familiar  way  of  referring  to  the  Hon.  James  Francis 
Smith,  late  brigadier-general  and  present  commissioner.  And 
thereby  hangs  a  tale.  Commissioner  Smith  was  the  author . 
of  the  original  opium  bill,  providing  for  the  farming  out  of  the 
opium  monopoly  in  the  Philippines.  This  bill  the  Manila 
papers  vehemently  opposed.  Commissioner  Smith,  so  the 
papers  say,  at  this  lost  his  temper,  and  insinuated,  in  his  re- 
marks before  the  commission,  that  the  Manila  papers  had 
been  subsidized  by  Chinese  opium- dealers.  "  Mr.  Smith  Villi- 
fies  the  American  Press  "  is  the  way  the  courageous  American 
headed  its  report  of  the  hearing,  and  a  wordy  battle  raged 
for  several  days.  Relations  are  still  strained,  but  so  far  no 
editors  have  gone  to  Bilibid.  This  prison,  by  the  way,  now 
has  a  convict  population  of  2,500  souls,  of  which  160  are 
Americans.  Outside  the  army,  there  are  about  6,000  Ameri- 
cans in  the  islands,  so  that  about  three  per  cent,  are  in  prison. 


Pacific  Coast 

Railroad 

Activity. 


Three  new  railway  companies  are  actively  pushing  on  lines 
that,  when  completed,  will  aid  in  the  develop- 
ment of  California  and  the  Pacific  Coast.  The 
Denver,  Northwestern,  and  Pacific  will  join 
Denver  and  Salt  Lake  with  California. 
Traffic  rights  of  way  have  been  secured  over  the  Santa  Fe, 
between  Daggett  and  San  Bernardino,  contracts  for  road-bed 
grading  have  been  awarded  for  nearly  one  hundred  and  forty 
miles  north  of  Daggett,  and  it  is  given  out  that  contracts  for 
the  remainder  of  the  line  to  Salt  Lake  will  be  let  within  a  few 
months.  The  Western  Pacific  is  to  connect  San  Francisco  and 
Salt  Lake.  At  a  recent  meeting,  the  stockholders  voted  an 
issue  of  fifty  millions  of  dollars  in  bonds  at  five  per  cent,  to 
run  thirty  years.  At  present,  there  are  no  less  than  fourteen 
different  surveying-parties  out  along  the  projected  line  in 
California,  Nevada,  and  Utah;  terminal  facilities  have  been 
secured  on  both  sides  of  the  bay,  and  rights  of  way  are  being 
secured  to  Salt  Lake,  and  branch  lines  are  being  absorbed.  The 
Sacramento  and  Oakland  Railway,  with  two  proposed  lines  be- 
tween Sacramento  and  Oakland,  and  the  San  Francisco  Ter- 
minal Railway  and  Ferry  Company,  with  a  proposed  ferry 
system  between  this  city  and  Oakland,  have  already  been  se- 
cured. In  connection  with  the  Oakland  and  Sacramento  i; 
there  is  a  branch  from  Haywards  to  San  Jose,  and  i 
posed  to  enter  this  city  over  this  branch,  and  a  new  lin 


September  7,  1903. 


peninsula  from  San  Jose.  The  third  line  is  the  San  Pedro  and 
Salt  Lake  line,  in  which  Senator  Clark  is  interested.  What 
influences  are  back  of  these  lines  is  unknown,  but  indications 
point  to  G.orge  Gould,  who  has  announced  that  within  two 
\cais  his  system  will  reach  from  Baltimore  on  the  Atlantic 
to  the  Pacific. 


The 

Automobiles 

Versus 

Cavalry. 


last  communication  of  General  Miles  to  the  war  office 
is  a  pica  for  the  use  of  the  bicycle,  the  motor 
cycle,  and  the  automobile  as  implements  of 
war.  He  believes  that  the  cavalry  arm  is  be- 
coming obsolete,  and  that  the  automobile 
will  take  the  place  of  the  horse  in  the  next  conflict.  For  that 
reason,  he  advises  reducing  the  cavalry  branch  to  the  mini- 
mum, and  the  building  of  military  roads  of  strategic  impor- 
tance throughout  the  count, y  in  time  of  peace.  What  has 
rendered  the  cavalry  arm  oL£o!ete  is  the  "  marvelous  develop- 
ment of  rifles,  machine-guns,  and  quick-firing  field-artillery, 
while  the  wonderful  strides  in  the  use  of  motor  power  and 
electric  appliances  have  rendered  the  horse  far  less  important 
than  formerly."  "  These  facts,"  says  the  general,  "  are  doubly 
significant,  and  should  be  recognized  by  the  military  authori- 
ties and  the  government."  The  motor  vehicles  have  become 
an  important  means  of  communication  and  transportation,  and 
as  such  are  being  recognized  by  foreign  governments,  and 
should  be  by  ours.  The  suggestion  is  made  to  discontinue 
five  regiments  of  cavalry,  and  in  their  place  organize  a  corps 
of  five  regiments  of  men  thorov.jhly  trained  and  constantly 
employed  in  the  use  of  these  modern  appliances.  The  corps 
should  also  be  supplied  with  the  most  modern  inventions  and 
improvements    in    road-building    machines. 


"Labor 
Conditions 
in  this  City 


The  hearing  of  the  arbitration  between  the  United  Railways 
and  the  carmen's  union,  after  having 
dragged  on  for  se\  eral  weeks,  is  nearing  a 
conclusion.  Any  comment  on  the  merits 
of  the  case  may  therefore  be  left  until  the 
commissioners  have  rendered  their  decision.  The  concluding 
testimony  in  behalf  of  the  carmen's  union,  however,  is  in- 
teresting as  throwing  new  light  upon  the  condition  of  the 
labor  market  in  this  city.  Several  witnesses  were  produced 
who  testified  that  during  the  past  few  months  the  demand 
for  both  skilled  and  unskilled  labor  has  greatly  increased,  and 
it  is  now  almost  impossible  to  secure  labor  here.  The  most 
prominent  among  these  witnesses  was  Mr.  Michael  Casey, 
president  of  the  board  of  public  works,  and  a  recognized  leader 
among  organized  labor.  He  testified  that  "  workingmen, 
strictly  classed  as  unskilled  laborers,  are  not  as  a  rule  willing 
to  accept  employment  in  San  Francisco  for  less  than  $2.50  a 
day,  the  day  consisting  of  eight  hours.  .  .  .  Should  the  United 
Railways  dismiss  its  present  platform  men  and  seek  to  replace 
them  at  an  average -of  $2.50  a  day  for  a  ten-hour  day,  that 
corporation  would  be  unable  to  obtain  men  to  fill  the  vacant 
places."  This  testimony  is  particularly  interesting,  because 
a  short  time  ago  the  Promotion  Committee  circulated  the  same 
information  throughout  the  East,  whereat  the  labor  unions 
protested. 


Fifteen  years  ago,  a  number  of  citizens  interested  in  the  better 
class   of   horses    contributed    thirty-two   thou- 
CoMPLAiNTs  sand  fiye  hundred  dollars  for  the  construction 

Park  Speedway.  of  a  speedway  in  Golden  Gate  Park.  This 
city  at  that  time  had  no  place  where  owners 
of  fast  roadsters  could  speed  their  horses,  and  the  plan  was 
warmly  supported  by  this  class,  to  which  a  number  of  promi- 
nent citizens  belong.  The  speedway  was  laid  out  and  surfaced 
with  clay  for  a  distance  of  a  mile  and  a  quarter.  Along  the 
middle  of  the  roadway  a  hedge  was  planted  to  remove  the 
danger  of  collisions,  and  the  edges  were  planted  with  turf. 
When  it  was  completed  it  was  considered  to  be  one  of  the 
most  perfect  speedways  for  public  use  in  the  United  States. 
This  speedway,  constructed  entirely  by  private  subscription, 
was  turned  over  to  the  park  commissioners  on  the  condition 
that  they  should  keep  it  in  order.  Complaint  is  now  made 
that  the  commissioners  have  not  carried  out  their  part  of  the 
agreement.  John  C.  Kirkpatrick,  manager  of  the  Palace 
Hotel,  and  another  one  of  the  original  subscribers,  both  de- 
clare that  the  speedway  is  now  absolutely  unsafe  to  drive 
over.  The  clay  surface  has  been  washed  and  blown  away 
in  many  places,  leaving  ruts  and  holes  that  would  bring  dis- 
aster to  any  vehicle  driven  over  it  at  a  rapid  pace.  The  border 
of  turf  has  been  neglected  until  it  is  sere  and  yellow,  while 
the  shrubbery  is  covered  by  a  thick  coating  of  red  dust.  A 
recent  attempt  to  oil  the  surface  has  done  more  harm  than 
good.  On  account  of  these  conditions,  owners  of  roadsters 
have  reluctantly  been   compelled  to  abandon  the  sport. 

Roughly,   one-third  of  the  population   of   California   was  born 

in  other  States,  and  came  here  to  make  their 

Natives  of  homes.      Of    this    number,    New    York    con- 

_      *  tributed   the   largest  share,   being  represented 

in  California.  b  '  _  , 

t»y   54,588  of  the  population.     Illinois  stands 

second,  with  42,304.  Eleven  other  States  are  represented  by 
numbers  exceeding  10,000;  nine  more  have  more  than  5,000, 
and  nine  exceed  2,000.  The  individual  States,  however,  do 
not  form  so  important  divisions  in  estimating  the  class  of 
population  as  the  geographical  sub-divisions.  Divided  on  this 
basis,  the  Eastern  States  have  furnished  134,112,  the  States 
of  the  Central  Valley  214.794,  and  the  Southern  States  44,750. 
It  is  significant  that  the  agricultural  States  of  the  Mississippi 
Valley  and  the  commercial  States  of  the  East  furnish  the 
larger  numbers,  while  the  South  furnishes  only  a  small  per- 
centage of  what  may  be  called  the  semi-foreign  population. 
While  444,855  natives  of  other  States  have  made  their  homes 
here,  only  70,068  natives  of  California  have  made  their  homes 
in  other  States  of  the  Union.  Three  States — Oregon,  Wash- 
ington, and  Arizona — have  received  from  California  larger 
numbers  than  they  have  contributed  to  the  population  of  this 
State.  This  is  easily  explained  by  the  fact  that  California 
was  developed  earlier  than  the  other  sections  of  the  Pacific 
Coast,  and  natives  of  this  State  have  naturally  gone  there 
to  assist  in  their  development. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


ODD    CORNERS    IN    SAN    FRANCISCO. 

Geraldine  Bonner  'Writes    of  Some   of  the   Moss-Grown   and   Pictur- 
esque Houses  of  the  City— Folsom  Street-South 
Park— Telegraph  Hill. 

Any  one  who  has  made  a  study  of  San  Francisco, 
as  a  city  with  a  character  and  an  individuality  of  its 
own,  must  have  been  struck  by  the  aspect  of  age  which 
marks  certain  districts,  streets,  and  houses. 

There  are  sections  of  the  city  that  look  as  if  they 
might  have  been  built  hundreds  of  years  ago.  There  are 
houses  with  dim,  hang-dog  faces,  that  have  the  air  of 
having  been  staring  at  the  sea  and  standing  the  buffets 
of  the  wind  for  centuries.  There  are  bits  of  streets, 
with  secretive  reaches  of  wall,  mossed  and  weather- 
stained,  giving  on  them,  that  seem  like  relics  of  a 
picturesque  past,  souvenirs  of  the  day  of  the  Mexican 
and  the  guitar,  the  mantilla  and  the  red  rose. 

In  no  other  American  city,  unless  perhaps  in  the  old 
South, are  there  solarge  a  number  of  localities  that  have 
an  air  of  individuality,  of  houses  that  suggest  histories. 
Some  house-fronts  are  like  faces — the  moment  your  eye 
rests  on  them  you  find  yourself  speculating  as  to  what 
has  gone  on  behind  that  concealing  veil.  The  face 
shows  the  blighting  passage  of  what  soul-destroying 
tragedy,  of  deadly  struggle  with  what  overmastering 
temptation  ?  The  mystery  baffles  and  allures  you.  What 
has  the  past  been  to  leave  such  an  ineffaceable  im- 
press on  the  present?  Some  people  call  these  faces 
"  interesting."  For  the  most  part,  they  are  tragic 
masks  which  are  never  lifted. 

The  houses  that  suggest  pasts  are  old  as  we  reckon 
things  in  California,  crusted  over  with  the  rime  of  time, 
sometimes  half-ruinous.  The  histories  must  all  have 
been  of  dark,  underhand  things.  Sordid  tragedies 
took  place  in  some  of  them.  Others  suggest  the  inception 
and  perpetration  of  quiet  villainies.  Crimes  may  have 
been  committed  in  one  or  two.  Mean  and  malodorous 
domestic  dramas  have  been  enacted  in  many.  All  are 
mysterious  of  aspect,  non-commital,  with  furtive  shut- 
ters— a  chink  and  closed  doors.  Yet,  like  the  face  of 
sin,  they  can  not  hide  their  true  character.  They  are 
full  of  suggestions  and  whisperings  of  horror,  haunted 
houses  in  every  sense  of  the  word. 

On  Folsom  Street  there  is  a  block  of  old  houses 
that  are  like  ghosts  of  the  splendid  past.  If  you  pass 
them  at  night,  some  of  their  glories  are  restored  in  the 
glimpses  of  #  the  moon,  and  they  loom  dark,  stately 
..hapes,  with  a  feeble  hall  light  trembling  terrified  in 
a  shadowy  portico.  A  bunch  of  spectral  vines  hangs 
in  a  swaying  shadow  from  a  balcony.  _  Through  the 
rusty  iron  gates  the  gleam  of  the  hall  lamp  falls  on  a 
flagged  walk,  broken  and  uneven.  The  wind  stirs  the 
tall  dracaenas,  and  mournful  rustlings  fill  those  empty 
garden  spaces,  all  dim  shrubs  and  the  cowering  forms 
of  shriveled  trees. 

Even  in  the  glaring  daylight  there  is  dignity  about 
them;  a  sort  of  tattered  romance  hangs  about  their 
eaves.  In  the  middle  of  the  roar  of  traffic  and  the  clang 
of  car-bells,  they  stand  sadly  and  solemnly  waiting  their 
doom.  Daylight  reveals  that  many  of  the  iron  gates 
are  hanging  by  one  hinge,  or  one  hinge  supplemented 
by  a  bit  of  rope.  The  gardens  are  dry  as  hemp.  The 
grass,  scant  as  the  hair  on  an  old  head,  is  thin,  and  a 
pale,  silvery  yellow  in  hue.  The  flower-beds  have  long 
since  died  and  been  forgotten.  Here  and  there,  in  a 
broken-lipped  urn  that  looks  as  if  it  might  have  been 
standing  for  a  century,  a  spare  geranium  lifts  a  stalk 
where  a  brave  leaf  or  two  flourishes.  There  are  a  few 
aloes  scattered  through  the  grass,  bluish,  fibrous,  full  of 
juice  and  vigor.  Against  a  windowed  wall  a  dracaens 
lifts  its  tuft  of  spear-like  leaves  with  tropical  effect.  In 
one  ruinous  front  garden  a  little  group  of  live-oaks  have 
collected  on  the  top  of  a  mound  and  there  stand  shud- 
dering in  the  winds,  crowding  affrighted  against  one  an- 
other, their  foliage  a  mere  grizzled  crown,  their  trunks 
withering  as  though  in  a  paroxysm  of  struggling  alarm. 

South  Park  has  none  of  the  air  of  mystery  which  dis- 
tinguishes other  forgotten  parts  of  the  city.  It  has  the 
appearance  of  having  fought  against  its  downfall.  It  is 
stubbornly  genteel.  The  plastered  house-fronts,  flanked 
on  either  side  of  the  door  with  chunky,  plastered  pillars, 
are  carefully  clean  and  well-tended.  The  wide-eyed 
windows  look  out  cheerfully  on  the  green  oval  of  the 
park.  This,  too,  has  preserved  its  tone  of  having  once 
been  the  resort  of  elegance  and  fashion.  It  is  a  prim, 
lady-like  sort  of  park.  The  entire  circle  and  its  en- 
closed ellipse  of  greenery  suggest  something  sedately 
respectable,  as  of  an  old  maid,  once  a  gay,  young 
beauty,  who  now  has  grown  fussy  and  prudish. 

The  houses  which  look  as  if  they  had  histories  are 
more  often  to  be  found  across  town.  Taken  in  its  en- 
tirety, Telegraph  Hill  is  the  most  purely  and  compre- 
hensively picturesque  part  of  the  city.  I  find  that  nine 
out  of  ten  people  know  nothing  about  it.  A  lady  asked 
me  the  other  day  if  it  was  a  respectable  place  to  go  to. 
There  are  parts  of  it  that  do  look  as  if  bandits  might  be 
lurking  behind  dark  doorways,  or  round  weather-beaten 
corners.  But  that  is  one  of  the  charms  of  it.  No  one 
would  ever  suspect  a  bandit  of  lurking  on  Pacific 
Avenue. 

All  round  the  hill  strange-looking  houses  cling.  Ris- 
ing scarred  and  rent  from  the  water-front,  its  varied 
stories  are  here  connected  by  sagging  wooden  stairways, 
and  there  by  tortuous  paths.  Houses  hang  all  about  it 
like  swallows'  nests  round  a  balcony.  Little  ones  stick 
to  ledges  with  the  town  roaring  below  them.  Here  and 
there  you  pause  as  you  ascend, and  look  into  airy  canons 
where  the  back  verandas  are  rising  in  toppling  tiers, 


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connected  by  lines  of  wash.  It  is  all  overlaid  with  sun 
and  washed  with  the  clean,  everlasting  breeze,  and  has 
a  lazy,  serene  air  which  suggests  Italy.  You  don't  see 
people  hurrying  on  Telegraph  Hill.  The  women  hang 
over  the  balconies  and  lazily  pass  the  time  of  day.  The 
children  sport  placidly  in  the  gutters.  The  cats  sleep 
in  perilous  places,  whence  a  good  earthquake  shock 
would  send  them  rattling  down  on  to  the  masts  of  ships 
and  the  tops  of  trolley  cars. 

There  is  a  house  on  the  inside  face  of  the  hill  which 
has  always  interested  me.  It  is  at  the  top  of  that  part, 
and  is  steadily  declining  in  dignity.  When  I  first  made 
its  acquaintance  it  had  a  fountain-basin  in  the  front 
garden,  and  clean  curtains  in  the  windows.  I  passed 
there  recently,  and  its  glory  had  so  departed  it  was 
hard  to  imagine  that  it  could  sink  lower. 

Originally  it  probably  stood  more  or  less  alone  on  its 
skyey  eyrie,  overlooking  the  town  under  its  veil  of  back- 
blown  smoke.  It  was  ramparted  against  landslide  with 
a  massive  wall  of  masonry,  a  veritable  buttress  that 
stands  sound  and  unbroken  to-day.  At  the  sides,  where 
this  runs  up  encasing  the  lot,  it  was  originally  topped 
with  an  ornamental  fence  of  wood.  A  few  pieces  of 
this  remain,  broken  balustrades  mended  with  wire  and 
propped  up  with  stone.  The  house  was  built  in  a  style 
once  popular  in  the  East,  with  a  pointed,  shingled  roof, 
gables,  and  two  bay-windows  flanking  the  porch.  Here, 
too,  were  a  pair  of  pepper-trees  which  have  now  grown 
to  such  a  luxuriant  size  that  they  cover  the  paintless 
and  weather-scarred  front  with  a  veil  of  delicate  green. 
The  garden  has  long  since  disappeared;  even  the  grass 
has  gone,  and  the  hard,  dusty  ground  extends  from  the 
wall  to  the  front  steps. 

It  is  near  this,  going  down  the  hill  toward  Broadway, 
that  one  comes  to  what  has  always  seemed  to  me  one 
of  the  most  sinister  houses  in  San  Francisco.  In  truth, 
I  believe  a  murder  was  committed  there  some  few  years 
ago,  and  by  its  looks  many  others  might  have  preceded 
and  followed  it.  The  house  is  a  large  square  building 
on  a  corner;  wooden,  the  paint  long  worn  away,  and  a 
sort  of  incrustation  of  dirt  having  embrowned  it  to  a 
mellow  richness  of  tint  like  a  well-colored  meerschaum. 

In  its  day,  it  was  evidently  encircled  by  three  balco- 
nies, now  disappeared.  One  comes  to  this  conclusion 
from  the  fact  that  in  the  middle  of  the  line  of  windows, 
which  gives  light  to  each  story,  there  is  a  door — a  blank, 
unnecessary  door,  which  adds  to  the  darksome  character 
of  the  place  by  the  suggestion  that  if  any  one  ever  tried 
to  go  out  by  any  of  them,  they  would  fall  to  the  street 
and  be  killed.  These  doors,  lifeless  and  useless  in  the 
centre  of  straight  walls,  are  cut  in  half,  and  on  warm 
days  the  upper  halves  are  open,  and  one  catches 
glimpses  into  darkling  passage-ways  where  clothes  are 
drying.  There  are  some  shops  on  the  ground  floor, 
and  over  the  main  entrance  a  lantern-sign  with  some- 
thing about  rooms  written  on  it,  and  behind  it  some 
rusty  flowers  in  a  moldering  flower-box.  Many  of  the 
windows  are  broken,  and  from  the  blackness  of  the 
broken  panes,  swarthy  faces  look  out — faces  that  seem 
as  loweringly  forbidding  as  the  house,  and  that  proba- 
bly, if  one  met  them  in  the  sun  of  the  open  street,  would 
be  quite  bright  and  harmless. 

On  the  seaward  face  of  the  hill  there  were  at  one 
time  several  houses  full  of  interest  and  drama.  Some 
stand  still ;  others  have  gone.  The  Bandmann  house 
was  one  of  these.  It  had  an  air  of  aristocratic  simplic- 
ity, a  sort  of  solid  stateliness  no  modern  San  Fran- 
cisco house  can  boast.  It  was  a  large,  square  structure 
of  plastered  brick,  with  long  windows,  the  cornices  of 
which  were  decorated  with  some  floriated  design — the 
one  attempt  at  ornamentation  in  the  whole  facade.  A 
flight  of  steps  led  up  to  the  front  door,  and  at  the  top 
step  two  pillars  held  aloft  lamps.  There  were  two 
giant  cypress-trees  near  these  pillars,  and  there  was  a 
dark,  overshadowed  garden  on  either  side,  a  somewhat 
funereal,  joyless  garden,  damp  and  feebly  growing  un- 
der the  solemn  shade  of  the  cypresses. 

Most  of  these  landmarks  are  disappearing.  Modern 
flats  are  going  up  where  they  once  spread  in  an  un- 
crowded,  sprawling  fashion  over  their  roomy  lots. 
Where  they  do  remain,  they  catch  the  eye  and  hold  it 
gratefully  by  their  mellow  picturesqueness.  Many  of 
the  plastered  houses,  the  long  windows  of  the  upper 
story  shut  in  by  a  balcony  of  iron  arabesques,  are  to  be 
found  about  the  lower  slopes  of  Telegraph  Hill.  In 
some,  the  windows  are  two  feet  back  in  the  thickness 
of  the  wall.  In  others,  the  lower  floor  has  been  turned 
into  a  shop,  and  the  door-posts  painted  a  clear,  pale 
blue  or  a  coral  red.  The  glossy  green  of  a  Madeira  vine. 
caught  up  on  a  sustaining  string,  shines  vivid  against 
the  painted  lower  story,  and  window  boxes  drop  a 
spattering  of  carnation  blooms  from  the  sills  of  upper 
windows. 

The  houses  with  the  glass-enclosed  balconies  are 
also  to  be  found  in  this  section  of  town.  They  are 
mostly  wood,  of  the  plainest  architecture,  and  with  a 
flanking  piazza  entirely  shut  in  in  glass.  It  was  a  style 
of  building  eminently  suited  to  San  Francisco,  where 
the  winds  make  sitting  outdoors  impossible,  and  the 
views  are  so  magnificent.  Why  does  not  some  modern 
architect  revive  the  fashion? 

Geraldine  Bonner. 

The  French  writer.  M.  Huret,  in  a  letter  to  the 
Figaro,  describing  his  impressions  at  Harvard,  dis- 
cusses the  students'  clubs.  "  In  their  third  or  fourth 
year."  he  says,  "  if  they  are  strongly  supported,  they 
will  perhaps  make  the  '  Hasty  Pudding '  (Poudin 
precipite),  named  for  a  kind  of  cake  which 
who  were  late  used  to  eat  in  a  great  hurry,  sir. 
It  was  founded  in  1795." 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


September  7,  1903. 


LIFE-STORY    OF    JOSEPH    LE    CONTE. 


Extracts    from    the    Autobiography    of   the    Beloved    Scientist  —  His 

Courtship  and  Early  Marriage— Studying  With  Agassiz — 

Experiences  During  the  Civil  War. 


"  The  Autobiography  of  Joseph  Le  Conte "  is  an 
interesting  and  instructive  story  of  the  life  and  work 
of  the  eminent  Georgia  scientist,  who  subsequently 
migrated  to  California  and  became  one  of  the  fore- 
most authorities  on  the  geology  of  the  Yosemite  and 
of  the  Pacific  slope.  His  narrative  is  written  in  a 
style  which  is  without  any  literary  pretension  what- 
ever, but  is  attractive  by  virtue  of  its  frank  simplicity. 
In  his  preface,  the  editor  of  the  volume,  Professor 
William  D.  Armes,  of  the  University  of  California, 
gives  this  account  of  the  circumstances  under  which 
the  autobiography  was  written : 

During  the  illness  of  his  daughter  in  California,  in  1900, 
Professor  Le  Conte  had  many  long  talks  with  her  about  his 
early  experiences,  and  was  by  her  urged  to  write  ottt  an 
account  of  them  for  his  family.  He  was  then  too  busy  pre- 
paring for  a  trip  abroad  to  undertake  the  work ;  but  later 
in  the  year,  in  his  old  home  in  Columbia,  S.  C,  whither  he 
had  gone  from  New  York  to  recuperate  from  a  severe  illness 
that  interfered  with  his  plan  of  visiting  Europe,  his  thoughts 
reverted  to  her  request,  and  in  this  period  of  enforced 
leisure  he  began  to  write  his  reminiscences.  In  the  midst  of 
the  scenes  in  which  the  events  that  he  was  narrating  occurred, 
and  surrounded  by  his  children,  grandchildren,  and  great- 
grandchildren, for  whom  the  manuscript  was  intended  and  to 
whom  from  time  to  time  portions  of  it  were  read,  he  wrote 
con  amove,  and  what  was  originally  intended  as  a  sketch 
became  a  detailed  autobiography.  On  his  return  to  California 
early  in  1901,  he  continued  the  work,  but  with  flagging  interest, 
the  latter  years  of  his  life  being  treated  in  a  comparatively 
summary  manner.  Fortunately,  however,  the  account  was 
brought  down  to  a  few  months  before  his  death,  and  concluded 
with  a  statement  of  what  he  himself  considered  of  most 
value  in  his  life  work. 

Dr.  Le  Conte  was  a  descendant  of  Huguenot  stock, 
and  was  born  on  a  Georgia  estate,  where  he  and  his 
brothers  were  brought  up  with  the  fine  culture  that 
sprang  so  often  from  the  Southern  slave-holding 
aristocracy  in  its  more  benign  aspects.  Of  his  mother, 
who  died  when  he  was  but  three  years  of  age,  he  says : 

A  mother's  love  I  never  consciously  knew — yet  who  can 
tell  how  much  I  owe  to  my  mother?  How  much  of  character 
may  be  formed  before  three  years  of  age,  before  the  utmost 
limit  of  memory?  My  mother  was  passionately  fond  of  art. 
and  especially  of  music.  Who  can  say  how  much  her  cradle 
songs  may  have  impressed  my  innermost  spiritual  nature ? 
My  father's  tastes,  on  the  other  hand,  were  mainly  scientific. 
To  this  double  inheritance  I  suppose  I  owe  my  equal  fondness 
for  science  and  art.  Again,  of  all  the  influences  determining 
my  character  and  tastes,  the  personality  of  my  father  was 
by  far  the  most  potent.  Next  in  importance  to  this,  un- 
doubtedly, was  the  freedom  of  my  babyhood  life  in  a  country 
abounding  in  game  of  all  sorts.  This  developed  a  passionate 
fondness  for  nature  in  all  departments.  As  1  grew  older  this 
love  of  nature  took  on  higher  forms.  First  in  the  study  of 
ornithology,  and  later  in  camping  trips,  undertaken  partly  in 
the  spirit  of  adventure  and  partly  for  the  geological  study 
of  the  mountains. 

On  January  9,  1838,  the  very  day  set  for  the  de- 
parture of  young  Le  Conte  and  his  brother  for  college, 
their  father  died,  after  a  short  illness,  from  blood- 
poisoning.    Dr.  Le  Conte  says: 

The  death  of  my  father  simply  stunned  me — I  was  dazed. 
I  could  not  realize  it.  It  had  seemed  to  me  that  I  might 
possibly  be  able  to  bear  that  of  brother  or  sister,  but  my 
father's  possible  death  filled  me  with  terror.  I  simply  shut  it 
out  of  my  mind  as  a  thing  I  could  not,  I  must  not,  think 
about.  And  now  the  thing  that  I  most  dreaded  had  come  to 
pass.  All  the  next  day  I  wandered  in  the  beautiful,  beloved 
garden  in  a  state  of  mental  paralysis. 

Intensely  interesting  are  his  chapters  on  his  college 
life  at  Athens  and  wanderings,  especially  his  remark- 
able trip  through  the  North-West  at  a  time  when  Min- 
neapolis was  still  a  camping-ground  for  Indians.  At 
twenty-two,  Joseph  Le  Conte  was  graduated  as  doctor 
of  medicine,  and  in  that  year  he  met  his  future  wife, 
Miss  Bessie  Nisbet,  who  was  being  entertained  by  his 
sister.  During  a  trip  to  the  Georgia  mountains,  the 
following  incident  occurred: 

I  had  borrowed  for  Miss  Bessie,  Lewis  Jones's  pony. 
Tiger,  a  perfectly  gentle  but  high-spirited  and  sensitive 
animal.  Ah!  what  a  fairylike  picture  it  was,  the  beautiful 
maiden  on  the  beautiful  pony !  But  she  was  timid,  inex- 
perienced, and  unsteady  in  the  saddle ;  I  watched  them  un- 
easily. We  were  riding  alone  to  meet  a  lady  and  gentleman 
at  a  trysting-place  a  couple  of  miles  away.  The  pony  was 
ambitious  ;  the  rider  did  not  know  how  to  check  him  ;  he  be- 
gan to  go  faster  and  faster.  I  had  to  do  the  same  to  keep 
alongside ;  this  again  stimulated  Tiger  to  get  ahead ;  soon 
we  were  in  full  gallop,  and  Bessie,  becoming  alarmed,  dropped 
the  bridle  and  took  hold  of  the  pommel.  I  saw  at  once  that 
we  should  have  a  runaway  and  a  catastrophe  unless  I  could 
quiet  Tiger.  I  could  have  taken  hold  of  the  bit  and  checked 
him  by  force,  but  I  knew  that,  with  his  spirit,  this  would 
have  required  a  hard  struggle.  I  could,  perhaps,  have  lifted 
her  from  her  saddle  to  my  own,  but  1  was  not  sufficiently 
sure  of  either  my  strength  or  my  horsemanship.  I  knew 
that  the  pony  was  perfectly  gentle,  for  I  had  ridden  him  a 
hundred  times.  1  therefore  dropped  back  a  little,  only  a  little, 
and  called  to  him,  "Whoa,  Tiger,  whoa!"  and  to  the  rider, 
"  Pull  the  rein  gently."  She  did  so.  Tiger  came  down  to  a 
trot,  then  in  a  few  minutes  to  a  walk,  and  all  danger  was  over. 

Dr.  Le  Conte  is  charmingly  frank  in  his  account 
of  his  courtship  and  wedding.  For  some  time  he  loved 
Miss  Nesbit  secretly,  but  finally  he  decided  to  bring 
matters  to  a  crisis  and  learn  his  fate,  for  he  was  not 
altogether  certain  that  his  love  was  reciprocated: 

The  fateful  day  came  at  last.  It  was  Sunday,  the  twentieth 
of  September.  A  cousin  whom  I  asked  to  help  me  was 
astounded,  having  never  dreamt  of  such  a  thing,  but  arranged 
that  I  could  walk  to  church  with  Bessie  that  evening,  and  he 
gave  her  a  hint  of  what  was  coming  after  the  service.  I  was 
by  no  means  certain  of  the  result,  and  need  not  say  how 
anxious  I  was,  or  how  I  blundered,  saying  the  things  I  ought 
nut  to  have  said,  and  leaving  unsaid  the  things  I  ought  to  have 
said.  I  shall  not  attempt  any  account  of  what  took  place. 
Suffice  it  to  say  that  her  acceptance  was  conditioned  on  her 
father's  will.  This  was  all  I  could  expect ;  it  assured  me 
ci  '  er  consent — what  could  I  desire  more?  We  became  en- 
ga,  .d  and  agreed  to  n:.  ry  in  January,  and  after  a  month  in 
Mi  vay,  I  went  down  fo  the  old  homestead  to  remain  until 
that  time.     Heretofore,  m  all   my  visits  to  Liberty,   1  had  de- 


voted much  time  and  energy  to  hunting,  but  this  time  I  could 
think  of  nothing  but  the  coming  January.  Early  in  the  month 
I  went  to  Macon,  and  there  impatiently  awaited  the  ap- 
pointed time,  writing  to  Bessie  every  day.  We  were  married 
at  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  January  14,  1846,  by  the 
Rev.  John  Baker.  As  is  usual  on  such  occasions,  the  groom 
was  uneasy,  awkward,  nervous,  with  a  painful  sense  of  being 
unnecessary;  the  bride,  calm,  quiet,  and  dignified,  as  if  con- 
scious of  her  importance. 

In  1850,  with  his  cousin,  Louis  Jones,  he  decided  to 
go  to  Harvard  to  prepare  for  the  teaching  of  geology 
and  zoology  under  Agassiz,  who  had  just  been  made 
professor  of  these  subjects.  Under  the  genial  influ- 
ence of  Agassiz,  Le  Conte  developed  an  enthusiasm 
that  lasted  through  life,  and  made  of  him  a  scientist 
only  less  eminent  than  Agassiz  himself.  For  fifteen 
months  he  was  associated  with  the  great  teacher  from 
eight  to  ten  hours  daily,  exploring  with  him  the  fos- 
siliferous  fields  of  New  York,  and  pursuing  zoological 
studies  along  the  shores  of  Massachusetts  and  the  reefs 
of  Florida.  He  says  that  Agassiz's  glee  was  almost 
childlike  when  anything  new  was  brought  to  him.  "  I 
never  saw  any  one  work  like  Agassiz,"  he  adds;  "for 
fourteen  hours  a  day  he  would  work  under  high  pres- 
sure, smoking  furiously  all  the  time.  The  harder  he 
worked  the  faster  he  consumed  cigars." 

While  becalmed  off  a  little  island,  some  ten  miles 
from  Dry  Tortugas,  one  day,  Le  Conte  and  Dr.  Jones 
passed  the  time  searching  for  specimens: 

The  water  was  about  twenty  feet  deep,  and  so  clear  that 
the  waving  of  sea-fans  and  switch  corals  (Gorgonias).  and 
the  gorgeously  colored  fish  swimming  among  their  branches, 
were  almost  as  distinct  as  if  there  had  been  no  water  at  all. 
What  a  beautiful  place  for  a  dive!  No  sooner  said  than  done. 
I  stripped,  plunged  head  foremost  from  the  deck,  and  easily 
reached  the  bottom,  from  which  I  tore  Gorgonias  and  sponges 
that,  on  rising,  I  handed  to  the  sailors.  While  I  was  thus 
amusing  myself,  an  old-style  naturalist  who  had  joined  our 
party  for  this  excursion,  much  to  the  disgust  of  Agassiz,  as 
I  thought,  came  paddling  around  the  ship  in  a  little  boat.  He 
was  a  poky  old  fellow,  and  was  slowly  paddling  and  peering 
over  the  gunwale  in  an  aimless  way.  I  gave  a  wink  to  the 
sailors,  who  were  looking  on,  took  hold  of  the  keel  of  the  boat 
behind,  lay  on  my  back  with  my  legs  under  the  boat  and  my 
head  hidden  by  the  stern,  and  began  to  swim  backward.  The 
boat  began  mysteriously  to  move  the  wrong  way.  The  "  pro- 
fessor," as  he  called  himself,  paddled  more  strongly,  but  the 
boat  continued  to  move  backward.  He  became  alarmed — 
some  devilfish  was  running  away  with  him  !  He  peered  over 
the  gunwale  and  over  the  bows,  but  saw  nothing.  He  now  paddled 
frantically,  his  strength  increased  by  terror;  but  still  the  boat 
moved  backward !  At  last  the  laughter  of  the  sailors,  no 
longer  restrainable,  revealed  the  situation  to  him.  He  looked 
over  the  stern,  and  I,  fearing  a  retributive  blow  of  the  paddle 
on  my  head,  let  go  and  swam  away,  convulsed  with  laughter. 
After  the  first  flush  of  anger,  he  took  the  joke  in  good  part, 
and  joined  in  the  fun. 

Of  his  life  in  Cambridge,  where  he  met  a  galaxy 
of  stars — Guyot,  Wyman,  Gray,  Peirce,  Longfellow, 
Lowell,  Holmes,  and  Felton — he  says: 

I  was  in  almost  daily  contact  on  the  most  intimate  terms 
with  all  of  them.  Emerson  I  saw  sometimes,  but  not  often. 
Richard  Dana  I  met  thrice  every  day  at  the  table  of  the  house 
at  which  I  boarded  after  returning  from  Florida.  The  effect 
of  this  intellectual  atmosphere  was  in  the  highest  degree 
stimulating,  giving  incredible  influence  to  thought.  Mrs.  Le 
Conte,  too,  associated  intimately  with  the  families  of  the 
professors,  especally  with  those  of  Agassiz,  Felton,  and  Peirce. 
Boston,  moreover,  was  near  by,  and  we  took  advantage  of  op- 
portunities of  hearing  there  the  greatest  musicians,  as  Jenny 
Lind  and  Parody;  and  I  attended  the  meetings  of  the  scientific 
societies — the  American  Academy  and  the  Society  of  Natural 
History.  The  result  of  my  long,  intimate  association  with 
Agassiz  was,  on  my  part,  a  great  and  ever-increasing  love, 
admiration,  and  reverence  for  him,  both  as  a  scientist  and 
as  a  man,  and  on  his  part,  I  am  sure,  a  very  strong  and 
affectionate  regard. 

Agassiz  took  a  great  fancy  to  Le  Conte's  little 
daughter  Sallie,  who  had  been  born  in  Cambridge, 
and  was  then  just  three  years  old.  Says  Dr.  Le 
Conte : 

She  was  very  bright  and  very  quick  to  learn,  and  spoke 
with  remarkable  distinctness.  Agassiz  taught  her  the  names 
of  all  his  dearest  specimens ;  and  partly  because  she  pro- 
nounced the  difficult  word  so  distinctly,  with  true'  French 
accent,  partly  because  she  was  a  little  quick-tempered,  he 
called  her  "  the  little  Echinoderm."  A  little  child  in  the 
home!  It  seemed  to  bring  back  the  joy  of  his  early  married 
life.  He  was  continually  playing  with  the  child,  even  taking 
her  on  his  back,  and  getting  down  on  his  hands  and  knees 
and  "  playing  horse  "  all  around  the  dining-table.  This  fond- 
ness for  little  children,  this  child-likeness  of  nature,  was  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  traits  of  Agassiz's  character;  and  yet 
it  is  not  brought  out  in  any  of  his  biographies,  not  even  in 
that  written  by  his  wife.  Women,  I  think,  are  so  jealous  of 
the  dignity  of  their  husbands,  that  they  do  not  like  such  ex- 
hibitions of  primal  nature  in  the  presence  of  others.  Agassiz 
in  all  of  his  subsequent  letters  to  me  never  failed  to  ask  after 
"  the  little  Echinoderm." 

For  thirteen  years  "Dr.  Le  Conte  was  a  professor  at 
the  South  Carolina  College  and  University.  During  this 
time  the  Civil  War  took  place,  and  in  one  of  his  most 
interesting  chapters  he  describes  his  sufferings,  ad- 
ventures, and  losses  when  Sherman's  army  marched 
through  Georgia.  His  repeated  and  narrow  escapes 
from  capture,  as  he  lurked  in  the  woods  day  after  day, 
read  more  like  romance  than  sober  fact.  Concerning 
the  reconstruction  period  in  the  South,  Dr.  Le  Conte 
writes: 

After  the  war  came  what  was  worse  than  the  war  itself, 
the  occupation  by  Federal  troops  and  the  humiliations  neces- 
sarily attendant  thereon.  This,  of  course,  we  expected.  But 
far  worse  was  the  arrival  of  "  treasury  agents,"  those  vultures 
hovering  over  the  rear  of  the  army  of  occupation,  sniffing  for 
carrion,  hunting  for  property  to  confiscate,  taking  accusations 
of  any  and  all  kinds,  especially  those  by  irresponsible  blacks. 
Then  followed  the  utter  demoralization  of  all  labor,  and  the 
intolerable  insolence  of  the  negroes  suddenly  set  free  with  all 
their  passions  not  only  uncontrolled  but  often  even  encouraged. 
As  I  can  not  speak  of  these  matters  with  any  calmness  I 
forbear  to  speak  of  them  at  all. 

As  a  result  of  the  war,  Dr.  Le  Conte  lost  everything 
he  had  in  the  world,  for,  except  the  .eight  thousand 
dollars  in  bonds  lost  during  the  war,  all  his  property 
was  in  lands  and  negroes.     He  adds: 

But  this  total  loss  did  not  in  the  least  dishearten  me ;  I 
did  not  lose  a  wink  of  sleep.  This  was  partly  because  every- 
body else  had  suffered  in  the  same  way,  partly  because  I  felt 
sure    that    I    could    make    my    living    somehow,    partly  —  and 


perhaps  chiefly — because  I  had  always  been  oppressed  by  the 
ownership  of  slaves.  Not  because  I  felt  any  conscientious 
scruples  about  it,  but  because  I  felt  distressingly  the  re- 
sponsibility of  their  care;  because  I  felt  that  those  who  own 
slaves  ought  personally  to  manage  them,  as  my  father  did. 
This  I  could  not  do  without  sacrificing  all  my  ambition  in 
life  and  the  health  of  my  family.  The  income  from  my 
land,  on  account  of  its  situation,  had  always  been  far  smaller 
than  its  market  value  warranted,  and  I  could  at  any  time 
during  the  twenty  years  previous  to  the  war  have  sold  it, 
and  changed  the  form  of  investment  with  great  advantage 
to  myself.  This  I  refused  to  do  purely  out  of  kindness  to 
the  negroes,  and  because  of  a  sense  of  responsibility  for  their 
welfare.  By  their  emancipation,  therefore,  I  felt  that  an  in- 
tolerable burden   had  been   lifted   from  my   shoulders. 

In  1868,  he  could  bear  his  surroundings  no  longer, 
and,  accompanied  by  his  brother  John,  accepted  a  pro- 
fessorship in  the  University  of  California.  It  was  here 
that  he  achieved  his  life  work  as  a  scientific  investi- 
gator and  author.  At  the  close  of  his  volume,  Dr. 
Le  Conte  thus  sums  up  the  scientific  movement  of 
which  he  was  a  part,  as  follows : 

I  would  say  that  the  role  of  Lamarck  was  to  introduce 
evolution  as  a  scientific  theory;  that  of  Darwin  to  presenl 
the  theory  in  such  wise  as  to  make  it  acceptable  to  and  ac- 
cepted by  the  scientific  mind ;  that  of  Spencer  to  generalize  it 
into  a  universal  law  of  nature,  thereby  making  it  a  philosophy 
as  well  as  a  scientific  theory.  Finally,  it  was  left  to  American 
thinkers  to  show  that  a  materialistic  implication  is  wholly  un- 
warranted, that  evolution  is  entirely  consistent  with  a  rational 
theism  and  with  other  fundamental  religious  beliefs.  My  own 
work  has  -been  chiefly  in  this  direction.  I  was  the  pioneer  in 
this  reaction  against  the  materialistic  and  irreligious  implica- 
tion of  the  doctrine  of  evolution.  I  look  with  greater  pleasure 
on  this  than  on  anything  else  that  I  have  done. 

The  volume  is  illustrated  with  eight  well-chosen 
half-tone  photographs,  including  an  excellent  frontis- 
piece portrait  of  Dr.  Le  Conte,  and  pictures  of  his 
wife  and  brother,  John  Le  Conte. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York;  $1.25 

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^  ■  m 

THE    PRAIRIE. 

My  soul  is  out  on  the  prairie,  where  the  eye  may  sweep  afar 
From  gold  of  the  burnished  heavens  to  the  silver  evening  star. 
I  am  not  fenced  by  human  eyes 
That  shut  me  in  from  nature's  guise, 
To   shroud   me  in  convention,  make  my  spirit  one  with  those 
That  pace  some  narrow  close. 
The  grass  in  its  tangled  sweetness, 
The  sky  in  its  wide  completeness, 
The  breath  of  the  wind  that  strays  and  tarries, 
The  misty  line  where  the  earth  hue  marries 
The  blue  of  heaven;  these  suffice 
To  give  to  my  raptured  spirit  the  thrilling  of  surprise, 
And  laughter  to  my  eyes. 

However  long  the  prairie  swells  may  wait  for  heaven's  tears 
To  fall  with  loving  tenderness  for  blight  and  dearth  of  years, 
The  gentian  springs  when  first  she  smiles, 
The  wind-flower  wakens,  yellow  isles 
Of  goldenrod  start  up  between 
The  billowy  reaches  of  sun-kissed  green ; 
The  soul  of  the  prairie  knows  no  longer 
The  ache  ot  waiting;  a  passion  stronger 
Than  life  or  loving  or  hero-burning, 
Or  warm  caressing  of  mother-yearning, 
Grows  subtly  sweet  in  the  wind  and  weather, 
In  wooing  touch  of  the  swan's  dropped  feather; 
And  over  the  sea  of  the  prairie  lightly  the  heart  looks  far  away 
For  sails  to  show  in  the  offing  through  the  sunset  gates  of  day. 

The  twilight  fades   on  the  prairie,  the  night  comes  wide  and 

far; 
The   hush   of  the   soft  wind  deepens  in  the  light  of  one  pale 

star. 
And  faintly,  sweetly,  slowly,  through  infinitudes  of  space, 
New-glowing  out  of  darkness  like  the  love  of  some  rapt  face, 
Flames    out    the    sudden    brightness    of    the    gloom-discovered 

suns, 
And  awe  and  rapture  quicken  to  a  hope  that  hope  outruns. 
The   vastness   that  is   time   and   space   and   love   broods   warm 

and  near; 

The  silence  is  a  glory  and  the  dark  is  crystal  clear. 

My    soul    is    akin    to    the   prairie   with    its    wild   and   steadfast 

mood; 
The  brown   hills  hide  their  tenderness   like  a  maiden  not  yet 

wooed. 
And  blossom  and  life  and  color  are  but  waiting  for  the  rain, 
To  thrill  to  the  kiss  of  summer  after  cold  and  drouth  and  pain  ; 
To  sway  as  the  wind  blows  over, 
Half  won  by  the  light-heart  rover; 
To  lift  in  the  sun  and  the  rain  and  dew 
Unwavering  eyes  to  the  star-deep  blue; 
To  make  sweet  food  for  the  wild  deer  straying, 
And  grassy  paths  for  the  rabbits  playing ; 
To  hear  the  ring-dove's  wailing  flight, 
The  wolf's  long  howl  through  the  silent  night, 
And  low  and  clear, 
And  sweet  and  near, 
The  plash  of  the  river  winding  slow 
By  the  sedgy  bank  where  the  willows  grow, 
And,  soft  as  the  murmur  of  swarming  bees, 
The  sigh  of  wind-bowed  trees. 

The  sun  and  the  rain  of  God's  great  love  shall  touch  my  life 

some  day, 
And  cold  and  drouth  of  the  burdened  years  shall  blossom  into 

May. 
The  wind-swept  perfumes  over  me  shall  beat  from  the  land  of 

balm ; 
Wide-arching  heavens  shall  flood  my  soul   with  deep  on   deep 

of  calm. 
The  passion  of  the  prairie  out  of  self  shall  take  me  far, 
As  I  look  along  the  reaches  to  the  dim  horizon  bar, 
Where  earth   and   heaven  are  met  and  mixed   in   amethystine 

light, 
The  flush  of  morning  purpled  with,Jhe  glory  of  the  night. 

— Lewis    Worthington    Smith    in    the    Critic. 


\ 


The  Commercial  Pacific  Cable  Company,  whose  en- 
tire system  from  San  Francisco  to  Manila  is  now 
open  for  public  traffic,  announces  that  the  rates  from 
San  Francisco  to  Honolulu  will  be  reduced  from  50 
cents  a  word  to  35  cents.  The  following  rates  are 
given:  From  San  Francisco  to  Midway  Islands,  60 
cents  a  word;  Guam,  85  cents  a  word;  Luzon,  $1.05 
a  word;  all  other  Philippine  islands,  $1.15  a  word; 
Hong  Kong,  $1.10  a  word;  China,  $1.10  a  word;  Macao, 
$1.15  a  word;  Japan,  $1.41  a  word;  Chemulpo,  Fusan, 
and  Seoul,  in  Corea,  $1.41  a  word;  other  places  in 
Corea,  $1.49  a  word;  Formosa,  $1.21  a  word. 


September  7,   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


149 


THE    MALINGERER. 

An  Incident  of  the  Fight  Outside  El  Paco. 

The  long  anticipated  had  come  to  pass.  The  opening 
gun  had  been  fired — it  might  be  said — almost  acci- 
dentally, and  all  through  the  night  of  February  4,  1899, 
the  land  side  of  Manila  was  a  semicircle  of  crashing 
Springfields  and  sputtering  Krag-Jorgensons.  Outside 
that  semicircle  the  Filipinos  were  rapidly  losing  self- 
confidence  and  gaining  respect  for  the  Americans. 
Within  it  the  United  States  troops  of  the  reserve 
checked  an  attempt  at  an  uprising,  and  waited  impa- 
tiently for  orders  to  the  front.  But  that  semicircle 
remained  unbroken  through  the  night. 

In  the  cool  of  the  morning  the  "  flying  battalion  " 
of  the  First  California  Regiment  hurried  along  the 
road  to  El  Paco  to  join  the  First  Brigade.  At  inter- 
vals, a  brown  face  would  peep  through  the  door  of  one 
of  the  nipa  huts  as  the  troops  passed,  only  to  be  with- 
drawn quickly.  There  was  a  continuous  conglomera- 
tion of  sound  very  similar  to  the  disturbance  created 
in  any  large  city  on  Independence  Day.  It  increased 
in  volume  as  the  soldiers  moved.  The  men  should 
have  been  in  a  sober  frame  of  mind,  but  they  seemed 
to  be  thrilled  with  unholy  joy,  for  they  whistled  to  the 
effect  that  there  would  be  a  hot  time  presently,  and 
profane  witticisms  were  shouted  from  one  end  of  the 
line  to  the  other.  There  was  an  impatient  acceleration 
of  step,  but  the  rhythmic  swing  of  the  blue  sleeves 
and  the  leggined  limbs  would  have  passed  muster  at 
dress  parade. 

They  found  the  brigadier  and  his  staff  on  a  little 
hillock  outside  of  El  Paco.  The  order  their  colonel  re- 
ceived was  whispered  through  the  ranks,  "  Two  com- 
panies to  the  block-house  on  the  double.  Report  to 
Colonel  Whalley !"  The  commanding  officer  swung 
his  horse  about  and  met  the  pleading  eyes  of  four 
captains.  All  of  them  wanted  the  chance;  but  there 
was  no  time  to  weigh  their  claims. 

"  F  and  M."  he  said,  quickly.  A  sharp  command, 
emphasized  by  an  oath,  and,  with  a  stifled  cheer,  two 
companies  rushed  around  a  bend  in  the  road  into  the 
zone  of  stray  bullets,  just  as  two  crashing  reports  that 
seemed  to  minimize  the  incessant  rattle  of  the  rifles 
announced  that  an  American  field-battery  had  begun 
to  clear  the  way  for  an  advance.  The  zeu  of  the 
Mauser  bullets  overhead  was  the  signal  for  some  in- 
stinctive ducking,  and  a  repetition  of  the  jesting, 
forced  and  otherwise.  First-Sergeant  Joyce,  of  F, 
was  one  of  the  humorists.  "  If  we  were  forty  feet 
high  a  hell  of  a  lot  of  us  would  be  hit  in  the  head," 
he  remarked. 

The  two  companies  trotted  up  a  slight  incline  in 
the  road  to  a  noisy  little  block-house  that  almost  hid 
itself  in  the  smoke  of  thirty  Springfields.  In  the 
shelter  of  the  block-house  a  surgeon  and  two  hospital 
stewards  were  working  over  some  of  the  "  casualties." 
There  were  white  faces  and  bloody  linen  bandages, 
and  farther  on  some  motionless  forms  with  campaign 
hats  covering  their  glazed  eyes  and  set  features,  but 
even  where  the  knife  glittered  there  was  no  sound  of 
complaint. 

To  the  right  of  the  block-house  was  an  irregular  line 
of  gray  smoke-puffs  where  a  battalion  of  Washington 
volunteers  were  sprawled  behind  a  dyke  in  the  rice- 
fields.  One  of  them,  a  few  yards  from  the  road,  rose 
suddenly,  and  fell  forward  on  his  face.  Two  of  his 
fellows  lifted  him  quickly  and,  crouching  close  to  the 
ground,  half  carried,  half  dragged,  him  to  the  dressing 
station. 

The  captain  of  F  Company  threw  aside  his  cigar, 
and  turned  to  Joyce,  who  lay  close  beside  him.  His  nar- 
row eyes  seemed  a  bit  bigger,  and  he  gnawed  his  gray 
mustache  reflectively  for  an  instant. 

"  Joyce,"  he  said,  sharply,  "  if  I  get  it,  you  be  good 
to  my  little  girl — damned  good." 

"  Yes,  sir,"  said  Joyce,  quietly,  "  and  if  it's  my  turn 
— tell  her — you  know." 

The  field  officer  in  command  in  the  block-house  hur- 
ried out.  His  round  face  was  lit  with  a  triumphant 
smile.     "  Get  ready !     The  artillery's  got  'em  going." 

"  Ready  to  move,"  cried  the  captain,  and  there  was 
a  tightening  of  straps.  Haversacks  were  thrown  wide 
open.  The  men  wanted  to  rid  themselves  of  their  extra 
cartridges  first. 

"  We'll  advance  by  platoons.  You  have  command 
of  the  second — a  good  chance  for  you,"  said  the  captain 
to  Joyce.  "What  in  hell  is  the  matter?"  he  cried, 
abruptly,  for  Joyce's  face  was  distorted  and  of  a  green- 
ish hue.  and  he  lay  with  his  knees  pressed  up  toward 
his  face. 

"  Cramps,"  moaned  the  first  sergeant,  in  agonized 
tones. 

"  Rush  right  out  at  command,"  shouted  the  field 
officer.    "  Get  ready." 

"  Get  up !"  cried  the  captain,  fiercely,  to  the  sergeant. 
"Pull  yourself  together!" 

"  I  can't,"  wailed  the  prostrate  man,  twisting  his 
body,  apparently  in  the  throes  of  the  sharpest  pain. 

"  You   dirty   cur — you   malingering   hound  !" 

There  was  an  almost  imperceptible  lull  in  the  noise 
of  the  bullets. 

"  Forward !  And  give  them  hell !"  shouted  the  field 
officer. 

The  captain  kicked  the  shaking  man  on  the  ground 
with  savage  force,  and  echoing  the  command,  melted 
into  a  swirling  mass  of  blue  and  khaki  that  floundered 
into  the  rice-field  ahead  of  the  Washington  men,  and 
separated   swiftly   into   a   skirmish   line. 

One  of  the  men  stopped  for  a  fraction  of  a  moment 


and  clutched  Joyce  by  the  arm.  "  For  God's  sake, 
Billy,  come  !"  he  said,  and  dragged  him  a  few  feet  to- 
ward the  road.  Then  he  desisted  and,  with  a  parting 
"  Stay  and  be  damned  to  you,"  rushed  after  his  com- 
pany. That  was  Joyce's  bunkie  fulfilling  the  office  of 
a  bunkie. 

Joyce  dragged  himself  toward  the  surgeon,  who 
knelt  over  a  prostrate  soldier  bandaging  a  wound 
in  the  thigh.  The  man's  trouser's  leg  had  been  cut 
off  at  the  hip,  leaving  one  sinewy  limb  bare.  If  the 
wound  caused  him  pain  he  did  not  give  evidence  of  it, 
for  his  face  wore  an  exceedingly  cheerful  grin,  and 
he  remarked,  every  now  and  then :  "  I  wouldn't  care 
a  but  the  spoiled  my  only  pair  of  pants." 

The  surgeon  glanced  at  Joyce.  "  Where  are  you 
hurt?"  he  asked,  quickly. 

"  It's  not  a  bullet.  It's  cramps,"  gasped  Joyce, 
doubling  up  and  writhing  on  the  ground. 

"  It's  a  damned  funny  time  to  have  cramps.  You've 
got  cold  feet,"  snapped  the  surgeon. 

Two  men  of  the  hospital  corps  stumbled  across  the 
road  bearing  a  recumbent  figure  on  a  litter.  The 
wounded  man  was  spattered  with  mud  from  head  to 
feet,  and  there  were  splashes  on  his  white  face.  It  was 
Joyce's  bunkie. 

The  doctor  tore  open  the  blue  shirt,  revealing  a  cir- 
cular wound  on  the  left  breast.  He  shook  his  head, 
and  the  litter-bearers  quickly  deposited  their  burden 
beside  the  motionless  figures. 

"  For  God's  sake,  doctor,  give  me  something — give 

me ,"  moaned  Joyce.     "  I'm  not  faking,  I  tell  you. 

I  can't  straighten  out.  For  God's  sake  give  me  a 
chance !" 

"  Here,"  said  the  doctor,  contemptuously,  throwing 
him  a  little  cardboard  box,  "  and  shut  up  or  I'll  kick 
the  life  out  of  you." 

There  were  two  pills  of  camphor  and  opium  in  the 
package,  and  Joyce  swallowed  them  at  a  gulp.  For  a 
time  that  agonizing  pain  continued  to  gnaw.  He  lay 
moaning  and  twisting  about  like  a  wounded  animal. 
Meanwhile,  the  field-guns  were  throwing  shrapnel 
into  the  Filipino  rifle-pits,  and  the  American  line  was 
drawing  nearer  and  nearer   Santa  Ana. 

Suddenly,  far  to  the  right,  across  the  rice-field,  a  long 
line  of  skirmishers  rose  to  their  feet  and  doubled  to 
flank  the  town.  The  men  in  the  centre  rushed  forward 
with  a  cheer,  and  a  battalion  of  Idaho  men,  with  their 
regimental  colors  at  their  head,  clattered  up  to  the 
block-house  from  El  Paco,  and  hurried  by  it  toward  the 
town.     Santa  Ana  was  taken. 

Joyce  felt  the  pain  gradually  disappear.  He  straight- 
ened himself  up  with  some  difficulty,  and  was  about 
to  stagger  after  the  Idaho  men. 

"  Oho,"  said  one  of  the  hospital  stewards.  "  Your 
cramps  all  right  now,  Mr.  First  Sergeant.  Don't  be 
afraid,  soldier  man,  the  fighting's  all  over." 

Joyce  looked  first  at  the  outskirts  of  the  town,  then 
at  the  wounded,  most  of  whom  were  grinning  at  him 
scornfully.  He  drew  his  bayonet  and,  inserting  the 
point  beneath  the  seam  of  one  of  his  first-sergeant's 
chevrons,  wrenched  it  from  the  sleeve.  The  one  on 
the  other  arm   followed   its  mate. 

"  That  won't  save  you  from  hearing  what  the  boys 
think  of  you — and  it  won't  save  you  from  Bilibid, 
either,"  said  a  boy  with  a  bandaged  head  from  his  own 
company.  The  youngster  was  bursting  with  pride, 
for  he  had  been  "  wounded  in  action." 

Joyce  looked  at  the  group  of  faces  that  mocked  and 
jibed  and  jeered,  and  then  toward  the  Filipino  town 
where  the  colors  of  the  Idaho  regiment  disappeared 
into  the  bamboo  hedge  that  girdled  it.  Across  the  rice- 
fields  came  the  sound  of  exultant  cheering.  A  realiza- 
tion of  the  mesh  of  circumstances  that  had  wound 
round  him  smote  him  so  that  he  staggered.  He 
clenched  his  hands  till  the  nails  tore  through  the  skin 
in  a  fierce  effort  to  check  a  burst  of  despair.  The  heat 
of  the  sun  blinded  him,  and  Joyce  saw  a  girl's  face. 
The  eyes  blazed  scornful  like  her  father's. 

"  Catch  his  arm — quick  !"  shouted  the  surgeon. 

But  a  pistol  cracked,  and  Joyce  dropped  in  a  shape- 
less heap,  still  clutching  the  smoking  weapon.  The 
surgeon  quickly  picked  up  a  campaign  hat  and  covered 
the  face. 

"  Guess  he  wasn't  faking  after  all,"  he  remarked, 
"  but  it  was  a  damned  bad  time  to  have  cramps." 

Bernard  Barry. 

San  Francisco,  August,   1903. 


In  his  volume,  "  The  Unfilled  Field,"  George  Moore 
says :  "  In  the  country  districts  Irish  life  is  one  of  stag- 
nant melancholy,  the  only  aspiration  that  comes  into  their 
lives  is  a  religious  one,  . .  .  the  Irish  are  too  poor  to  pay 
for  pleasure,  but  they  are  not  too  poor  to  spend  fifteen 
millions  a  year  upon  religion.  .  .  .  The  church  is  very 
rich  in  Ireland.  If  Ireland  is  the  poorest  country  in 
the  world,  the  Irish  church  is  richer  than  any  other. 
All  the  money  in  Ireland  goes  into  religion.  There  is 
only  one  other  trade  that  can  compete  with  it.  Heaven 
may  be  for  the  laity,  but  this  world  is  certainly  for  the 
clergy.  .  .  .  Nothing  thrives  in  Ireland  but  the  celi- 
bate, the  priest,  the  nun,  and  the  ox.  ...  A  girl  mar- 
ries at  once  or  becomes  a  nun — a  free  girl  is  in  danger. 
There  is  no  courtship.  .  .  .  Passion  ...  is  reduced  to 
the  mere  act  of  begetting  children." 


In  so  far  as  alcohol  allows  a  temporary  relief  from 
the  burden  of  life,  the  London  Lancet  thinks  that  "  to 
such  a  degree  as  that  burden  is  lightened  or  removed 
in  other  ways,  so  will  diminish  the  demand  for  intoxi- 
cants." 


ALPINE    ACCIDENTS. 


This  Summer's  Long  List  of  Disasters  and  Fatalities. 

The  Geneva  correspondent  of  the  London  Daily 
Express  says  that  never  in  the  history  of  the  Alps  have 
death  and  disaster  been  so  common  on  the  mountains 
as  during  the  present  season.  Over  300  accidents  have 
occurred,  resulting  in  the  loss  of  no  fewer  than  150 
lives.  No  district  has  this  year  escaped  disaster.  From 
the  Jura  Mountains,  the  Dauphine,  and  Maritime  Alps, 
the  great  Swiss  ranges,  and  the  Austrian  peaks,  the 
story  is  the  same — an  almost  daily  tale  of  perilous 
adventure,  accident,  and  death.  The  general  cause  of 
disaster  has  been  the  exceptionally  unfavorable  weather, 
combined  with  imprudence  and  false  economy.  Enor- 
mous quantities  of  snow  fell  on  the  mountains  in  May, 
June,  and  even  July,  rendering  high  climbing  almost 
impossible. 

Over  half  of  this  season's  accidents  have  happened 
to  Germans  and  Austrians,  who,  partly  from  bravado 
and  partly  from  pecuniary  reasons,  have  climbed  with- 
out guides.  This  was  the  cause  of  the  death  of  Herr 
Liewora,  of  Vienna,  who  was  killed  near  Innsbruck 
early  in  May,  falling  sheer  over  a  1,000- foot  precipice; 
of  a  party  of  Heidelberg  students,  who  met  a  terrible 
death  near  Feilbach ;  of  two  twin-brothers  from 
Munich,  who  were  dashed  to  death  during  a  furious 
storm  on  the  Untersberg;  and  of  dozens  of  other  Ger- 
man climbers  who  have  been  killed  within  the  past  few- 
weeks  in  the  Tyrol,  the  Engadine,  the  Bernese  Ober- 
land,  and  the  Austrian  Alps. 

When  the  first  ascent  of  Mont  Blanc  for  this  season 
was  made  on  June  26th  by  M.  Cachat,  an  experienced 
Chamonix  mountaineer,  with  two  guides,  new  snow 
lay  thick.  The  climbing  was  most  difficult  and  risky, 
and  beyond  the  power  of  any  ordinary  Alpinist;  yet 
three  weeks  earlier,  on  June  5th,  a  young  Geneva 
climber,  Charles  Schmidt,  persuaded  a  companion 
named  Maurice  Kurtz  to  ascend  Mont  Blanc  without 
even  a  guide  or  porter.  Kurtz  refused  at  first,  saying 
that  it  was  too  dangerous  and  too  early  in  the  season, 
but  finally  Schmidt,  who  promised  to  pay  all  expenses, 
persuaded  him.  Amid  the  tears  and  entreaties  of  wives 
and  children,  the  two  young  men  started  on  their  fatal 
trip.  Soon  after  commencing  the  ascent  they  en- 
countered thick  fresh  snow,  and  Kurtz  wished  to  turn 
back.  His  companion  refused,  however,  to  relinquish 
the  struggle  until  late  in  the  afternoon,  when  both  men 
were  utterly  exhausted,  and  owing  to  the  state  of  the 
snow,  found  that  it  was  quite  impossible  to  continue. 
To  avoid  the  danger  of  avalanches  and  falling  stones, 
they  determined  to  descend  separately,  and  unroped. 
Hardly  had  they  started  when  Schmidt  lost  his  balance, 
and  dashed,  half-rolling,  half-falling,  from  one  sharp 
rocky  spur  to  another,  until  his  mangled  body  reached 
the  ridge  thousands  of  feet  below.  Kurtz  was  miracu- 
lously saved  from  death. 

Another  sad  accident — also  due  to  the  lack  of  guides 
— was  that  which  befell  Professor  Hofmann,  a  Swiss 
clergyman,  who  was  killed  while  making  a  scientific 
exploration  of  Mont  Preningard,  near  the  Lac  Noir. 
On  the  same  day,  M.  Egon  de  Steiger,  a  popular  mem- 
ber of  the  Berne  Alpine  Club,  while  ascending  the 
Balmhorn  with  a  servant,  but  without  a  guide,  had  a 
fatal  fall  of  1,200  feet. 

Seven  German  students,  most  of  them  mere  boys, 
bad  a  thrilling  experience  and  a  marvelous  escape  from 
death  while  madly  attempting  to  scale  Mont  Blanc 
without  guides  or  proper  equipment  in  stormy  weather 
at  the  end  of  June.  Five  of  the  party  were  struck  by  light- 
ning while  endeavoring  to  seek  shelter  from  an  awful 
storm,  and  when  finally  rescued,  after  six  days'  priva- 
tion and  exposure  on  the  mountain,  they  were  light- 
headed, partially  paralyzed,  terribly  frostbitten,  and 
in  the  last  stages,  of  starvation.  Their  bodies  and  limbs 
were  burned  and  twisted  by  lightning,  and  their  escape 
from  death  was  little  short  of  miraculous. 

These  typical  cases  show  the  madness  of  attempting 
serious  Alpine  ascents  without  guides.  What  can  be 
said  when  school-masters  recklessly  lead  their  trusting 
pupils  into  danger  on  the  mountains?  This  was  the 
cause  of  the  awful  avalanche  disaster  near 
Airolo  in  June,  when  two  professors  from  a 
Zurich  college  took  sixteen  of  their  pupils  to  make 
the  ascent  of  the  Piz-Blas.  The  weather  was  bad,  and 
soon  after  noon  the  party  was  suddenly  overwhelmed 
by  an  immense  avalanche,  which  swept  away  one  of  the 
professors  and  two  of  the  pupils ;  the  other  professor 
and  three  of  the  boys  had  their  skulls  terribly  fractured, 
and  most  of  the  others  were  gravely  injured. 

Since  the  commencement  of  July  accidents  have  he- 
come  so  terribly  numerous  that  it  is  impossible  to  detail 
them.  One  day  no  fewer  than  nine  accidents  hap- 
pened, seven  proving  fatal.  The  greater  number  have 
occurred  in  the  Tyrol  and  Austrian  Alps,  but  the  Jura, 
the  Mont  Blanc  peaks,  and  the  central  and  the  eastern 
Pennines  have  been  responsible  for  many  sad  fatalities. 
The  foolish  and  increasing  practice  of  women  climbing 
mountains  in  long  skirts,  lace  petticoats,  and  patent- 
leather  shoes  has  caused  several  deaths.  Climbing 
Mont  Pilatus  in  a  smart  spring  toilet  caused  the  fatal 
fall  of  Miss  Julia  Dillman  in  May.  and  at  Cherncx 
the  same  reason  all  but  ended  the  life  of  Mile,  de 
Sarnikoff,  a  young  Russian  lady,  who  was  climbing 
one  of  the  highest  peaks  in  the  neighborhood  utterly 
unequipped  for  mountaineering.  In  July,  a  Polish 
lady,  Mme.  Rouben-Petradoff.  while  climbing  a  French 
peak,  Mont  Reposoir,  was  killed  by  a  terrible  fall  which 
was  directly  due  to  her  smart  clothes  and  thin  Paris 
shoes. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


September  7,  1903. 


PASSING    OF    PHIL    MAY. 


Incidents  in  the  Checkered  Career  of  the  Famous  Black-and-White 

Humorist— Early  Struggles  in  London     With  the  Sydney 

"  Bulletin  "—His  Work  on  "Punch." 


"  Poor  Phil,"  I've  heard  a  dozen  people  say  since 
the  untimely  death,  last  Wednesday,  of  Phil  May,  un- 
doubtedly the  most  brilliant  black-and-white  artist  of 
his  day.  He  was  a  great  London  favorite,  and  as  his 
work  is  almost  as  well  known  in  America  and  France 
as  in  England,  his  death  will  be  sincerely  mourned  by 
the  countless  admirers  who  delighted  in  his  humorous 
drawings.  He  was  generous  to  a  fault,  high-spirited, 
full  of  good-natured  mischief,  and  over-fond  of  late 
hours.  When  he  got  up  in  the  morning  and  when  he 
did  his  work  was  always  a  mystery.  It  was  this  gay 
bohemian  existence  which  shattered  his  health,  brought 
on  consumption,  and  resulted  in  his  being  cut  off,  at 
thirty-nine,  at  the  very  height  of  his  popularity.  In- 
deed, Phil  was  his  own  worst  enemy,  and  it  is  sad  to 
think  that  a  man  who  was  able  to  make  as  much, 
sometimes,  as  five  hundred  dollars  a  day,  should  have 
left  hardly  a  penny  behind  him  for  his  widow. 

Phil  May  was  one  of  those  men  of  genius  who  have 
triumphed  alike  over  humble  birth  and  lack  of  training. 
He  was  born  at  Leeds  on  April  22,  1864,  and  at  the 
early  age  of  twelve  years,  having  been  left  an  orphan, 
was  compelled  to  earn  his  own  living.  Phil  him- 
self confessed  that  at  his  first  occupation  —  that 
of  time-keeper  in  a  large  iron  foundry — he  was  a  con- 
spicuous failure,  his  employers  being  suddenly  amazed 
at  the  punctuality  observed  by  their  entire  staff,  for  he 
hadn't  the  heart  to  mark  any  one  tardy,  and  in  many 
cases  failed  even  to  note  the  absence  of  some  of  the 
men.  He  next  followed  the  bent  of  his  maternal  stock 
— his  mother  was  the  daughter  of  a  fairly  well-known 
actor — and  went  on  the  stage,  making  his  first  appear- 
ance, at  the  age  of  fifteen,  at  the  Spa  Theatre,  Scar- 
borough. He  not  only  acted,  but  assisted  the  scene- 
painter,  designed  costumes,  and  drew  sketches  for  the 
play-bills,  receiving  as  payment  for  the  many  parts 
which  he  played  twelve  shillings  a  week.  For  two 
years  this  remuneration  and  the  attraction  of  seeing 
his  drawings  in  the  streets  contented  him.  Then,  abso- 
lutely friendless,  he  saved  a  few  shillings  and  started 
for  London. 

It  was  winter  when  he  arrived  in  the  metronolis. 
His  money  lasted  only  a  day  or  two,  and  work  there 
was  none.  He  walked  the  streets,  and  slept  in  the  parks 
and  under  the  carts  in  Covent  Garden,  begged  for 
work  and  begged  for  bread,  and  literally  starved.  Be- 
yond the  occasional  sale  of  a  drawing,  he  had  nothing 
but  hope  to  keep  him  alive.  At  length,  by  an  introduc- 
tion from  one  of  the  actors  at  the  Comedy  Theatre, 
May  became  known  to  Lionel  Brough,  who  sent  him 
on  to  a  little  paper  called  Society,  for  which  he  did  a 
few  drawings,  notably  a  large  sheet  of  caricatures  of 
celebrities  of  the  day.  This  work  secured  him  an  offer 
from  the  St.  Stephen's  Review,  which  was  about  to 
issue  an  illustrated  Christmas  number.  May  did  all 
but  three  of  the  illustrations  for  this  special  number, 
"  The  Great  White  Spot."  From  this  time,  which  was 
marked  by  a  happy  marriage,  he  enjoyed  a  more  pros- 
perous career. 

In  1884,  an  agent  came  from  Australia  to  secure  an 
artist  for  the  Sydney  Bulletin,  and  May,  who  was  in 
poor  health  and  wanted  a  change,  got  the  place.  In 
the  Antipodes  he  attracted  much  attention,  the  peculiar 
characteristic  of  his  work  being  the  elimination  of 
every  line  which  could  possibly  be  regarded  as  super- 
fluous. He  reduced  the  art  of  line  drawing  to  the 
mathematical  problem  of  using  the  fewest  strokes. 
With  a  dozen  touches  of  his  pencil  he  could  convey 
the  whole  character  of  any  figure  he  might  see.  It  is 
related  that  in  Sydney,  on  one  occasion,  twelve  men 
had  been  condemned  one  December 'to  death.  They 
were  to  )be  hanged  on  Christmas  Eve.  There  was  a 
revulsion  of  feeling  in  Australia  in  favor  of  reprieving 
them;  and  many  petitions  had  at  last  an  effect  upon 
the  governor.  The  governor  resolved  to  pardon  six  of 
them — a  truly  extraordinary  decision.  May  obtained 
permission  to  go  round  the  prison  with  the  chaplain 
when  the  news  of  their  pardon  was  to  be  made  known 
to  the  reprieved  men.  He  expected  an  outburst  of 
joy.  Instead  of  that,  he  said:  "They  didn't  seem  to 
care  about  it  either  one  way  or  the  other.  They  most 
of  them  turned  over  to  sleep  again."  But  the  other 
six  men  were  hanged  together,  and  May  saw  the 
execution.  He  hurried  home  and  made  a  drawing,  so 
compbsed  that  the  gallows  looked  like  a  great  cross. 
This  drawing  came  out  in  the  Bulletin  on  Christmas 
Day,  and  underneath  it  was  written  "  Peace  and  Good 
Will."  This  was  certainly  a  curious  inspiration  for 
an  artist  who  called  himself  a  humorist. 

The  fine  air  and  climate  of  Australia  was  the  mak- 
ing of  May  physically.  On  his  return  to  London,  via 
Paris,  in  1890,  he  began  for  the  St.  Stephen's  Reviezv 
that  inimitable  series  of  weekly  sketches  "The  Parson 
and  the  Painter,"  in  many  respects  the  finest  work  of 
his  life.  His  drawings  were  really  the  one  amusing 
feature  of  St.  Stephen's  Reviezv,  which,  eventually, 
owing  to  the  dullness  of  the  rest  of  the  periodical, 
suspended  publication  in  the  'nineties.  This  seeming 
misfortune  to  its  light-hearted  contributor  was  in  real- 
ity .he  turning  point  in  his  fortunes.  Some  fellow- 
artists  induced  May  to  submit  several  of  his  drawings 
to  (he  late  W.  L.  Thomas,  of  the  Graphic.  One  of  them 
Wi  called  "The  Smile,"  in  which  a  number  of  people, 
^•1  ng  in  a  ring  round  a  salesman  of  quack  medicines, 
are  beginning  to  grin  at  one.  of  the  shrewd  salesman's 


remarks.  As  soon  as  Mr.  Thomas  saw  it,  he  declared 
May  was"  the  best  humorist  he  had  met  since  the  late 
Randolph  Caldecott,  and  he  forthwith  employed  him. 
About  this  time  May  visited  the  United  States,  and 
contributed  many  excellent  drawings  of  American  life 
to  the  Graphic. 

It  was  inevitable  that  the  genial  Phil  should  gravi- 
tate to  Punch.  He  joined  the  staff  at  the  "Round 
Table  "  in  1894,  on  the  death  of  Du  Maurier,  and  since 
then  his  work  has  been  seen  almost  exclusively  in  the 
pages  of  Punch,  in  "  Phil  May's  Annual  "—begun 
just  eleven  years  ago — and  in  certain  occasional  publi- 
cations, such  as  "  Gutter  Snipes "  and  "  Phil  May's 
A.  B.  C."  His  contributions  to  Punch,  of  course, 
were  very  different  from  those  of  Du  Maurier.  The 
latter  was  never  so  happy  as  when  representing  types 
of  the  aristocratic  and  fashionable  world;  he  simply 
could  not  make  a  life-like  picture  of  a  vulgar  man  or 
woman.  May,  on  the  contrary,  concentrated  all  his 
powers  of  observation  on  people  on  the  lowest  rungs 
of  the  social  ladder.  The  children  of  the  streets  es- 
pecially attracted  his  attention  and  sympathy,  because 
he  knew  what  it  was  to  be  poor,  and  some  of  his  carica- 
tures and  drawings  taught  lessons  which  could  not 
have  been  enforced  with  columns  of  literary  effort. 
His  'Arrys  and  'Enerys,  his  little  'Arriets,  with 
their  wisps  of  hair,  his  costers,  cabmen,  bootblacks, 
and  "  mud-larks  "  are  among  the  best  and  most  truth- 
ful portraits  of  slum  types  yet  produced. 

May  was  very  proud  of  his  connection  with  Punch, 
and,  in  recent  years,  one  of  the  few  engagements  he 
kept  with  punctuality  was  the  weekly  Wednesday 
evening  dinner  of  the  staff  of  that  paper.  He  resided 
in  St.  John's  Road,  and  spent  much  of  his  "  leisure  " 
hours  in  strolling  about  the  streets  on  the  lookout  for 
types.  But  he  did  not  always  find  it  necessary  to  go 
to  the  East  End  for  his  coster  girls  and  gutter  snipes. 
In  his  later  and  more  affluent  days  he  employed  a  man 
for  the  special  purpose  of  luring  models  to  his  studio. 

May's  personal  appearance  is,  doubtless,  familiar 
to  thousands  of  American  readers,  for  he  more  than 
once  pictured  himself  in  sportive  riding  costume  or 
smoking  a  fat  cigar,  with  his  straight  hair  combed 
over  his  forehead  in  a  bang.  In  life,  as  in  art,  he  was 
a  jester  and  a  wit.  A  few  years  ago,  at  the  Savoy 
Hotel,  a  supper-party  was  being  given  in  honor  of  the 
birthday  of  Mme.  Amy  Sherwin,  on  whose  menu-card 
May  made  an  exquisite  little  drawing.  This  was  seen 
by  a  wealthy  woman  present,  who  sent  the  waiter  with 
a  ten-pound  note  to  the  artist  asking  him  to  do  a 
similar  drawing  for  her.  May,  disgusted  at  the 
woman's  impertinence,  took  a  good  look  at  her,  and 
then  made  an  appallingly  truthful  caricature  of  her 
features  on  the  back  of  the  bank-note,  which  he 
returned.  It  was  rather  a  severe  rebuke,  but  well- 
deserved,  for  he  looked  upon  the  ten-pound  note  as  a 
direct  insult.  Had  the  unfortunate  lady  treated  him 
as  one  of  the  guests,  she  might  have  fared  better,  but 
■May  had  little  use  for  would-be  social  lights  or  snobs, 
and  never  lost  an  opportunity  to  topple  them  off  their 
shaky  pedestals.  Piccadilly. 

London,  August  10,  1903. 

Charges  of  the  Southern  Press  Against  Roosevelt. 

Several  Southern  papers,  among  them  the  Atlanta 
Constitution  and  the  Memphis  Commercial  Appeal. 
lay  the  blame  for  the  present  revival  of  race  animosity 
on  the  shoulders  of  President  Roosevelt.  The  Constitu- 
tion declares  that  it  has  "  sought  honestly  to  find  the 
genesis  of  this  renaissance  of  racial  antagonisms,  and 
can  find  no  other  cause  for  it  than  the  agitations  that 
have  grown  out  of  the  Crum  case  at  Charleston. 
S.  C.  .  .  .  From  that  Crum  appointment  the  arrogances 
and  encroachments  of  the  negroes  upon  the  whites  have 
grown  with  visible  zeal,  until  the  feeling  between  the 
races  to-day  is  less  friendly  and  less  good  for  the  coun- 
try's welfare  than  at  any  time  since  the  bayonet- 
bolstered  governments  of  the  South  were  dispersed." 
To  this,  the  Springfield  Republican  makes  reply  by  cit- 
ing a  number  of  flagrant  cases  of  Northern  lynchings 
which  occurred  in  1900  and  1901,  before  President 
Roosevelt  assumed  office.  It  continues :  "  The  real 
cause  must  be  found  back  of  the  present  administration 
and  apart  from  negro  appointments  to  public  office — 
for  no  one  pretends  to  ascribe  the  earlier  crimes  against 
the  negro  to  the  McKinley  appointments.  If  the  Con- 
stitution is  as  honest  in  its  search  as  it  claims  to  be, 
it  must  now,  we  submit,  extend  the  hunt  back  of  this 
administration.  It  will  then  be  found  that,  while  Mr. 
Roosevelt  is  not  without  grave  responsibility  in  the 
matter,  he  is  not  by  any  means  alone  responsible,  but 
that  the  whole  nation  is  responsible  with  him." 


In  a  Western  State,  an  armless  man  recently  under- 
took to  swim  across  a  river.  It  is  not  so  remarkable 
when  one  considers  that  the  animals  most  famous  for 
their  swimming,  such  as  fishes  and  ducks,  have  no  arms 
either,  but  an  enormous  crowd  gathered  to  see  the  feat. 
Most  of  the  people  gathered  on  a  weak  old  bridge  to 
see  the  sight,  and  before  the  hour  for  the  exhibition 
the  bridge  collapsed,  and  the  swimming  of  the  day  was 
done  by  people  in  possession  of  all  their  members. 


Since  the  entire  destruction  of  vegetation  on  the 
Island  of  Krakatoa  by  the  great  volcanic  outbreak  of 
1883,  a  dozen  kinds  of  ferns  and  more  than  sixty  kinds 
of  other  plants  have  been  introduced,  the  seeds  having 
been  conveyed  by  birds  and  strong  winds,  or  left  on 
the  beach  by  the  ocean  waves 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 

As  predicted   in   a  recent  letter  of  our   New  York    1 
correspondent,  "  Flaneur,"  Frank  A.  Munsey  has  pur- 
chased Colonel  Brown's  one  hundred  and  forty  shares 
in  the   New  York  Daily  News,  and  is  now  the  sole 

owner  of  that  paper. 

Blanche  Marsy,  the  Comedie-Francaise  actress,  who 
was  to  have  married  the  late  Max  Lebaudy,  the  million- 
aire spendthrift,  after  whose  death  she  left  the  stage 
and  became  very  religious,  has  just  been  wedded,  in 
Paris,  to  the  Comte  Louis  de  Vassart,  a  well-known  I 
owner  of  horses. 

Alfred  G.  Vanderbilt  is  now  a  citizen  of  the  town 
of  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  and  hereafter  will  be  entitled 
to  vote  in  that  town.  For  some  time  the  farmers  on 
the  island  have  been  trying  to  persuade  Mr.  Vanderbilt 
to  take  up  his  legal  residence  in  Portsmouth,  where  he 
is  the  heaviest  taxpayer,  and  he  has  complied  with  their 
wishes. 

Two  Englishwomen  have  received  from  Heidelberg 
the  first  honorary  degree  of  doctor  of  theology  granted 
by  a  German  university  to  a  woman.  They  are  the 
twin  sisters — Mrs.  Agnes  Smith  Lewis  and  Mrs.  Mar- 
garet Dunlop  Gibson — who  discovered  the  Sinaitic 
palimpsest,  and  have  done  important  work  in  Bible 
research. 

It  is  rather,  remarkable,  points  out  the  Washington 
Post,  that  in  the  long  line  of  men  who  have  been  and 
who  will  be  at  the  head  of  the  army,  until  the  retire- 
ment of  Wood  in  1924,  none  since  Schofield  has  been 
or  will  be  West  Point  men.  Generals  Miles,  Young, 
Corbin,  Chaffee,  MacArthur,  and  Wood  are  not  gradu- 
ates of  the  famous  military  academy. 

Stephen  Carlton  Clark  celebrated  his  coming  of  age 
at  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  on  Saturday  last,  at  a  brilliant 
ball  given  by  his  mother,  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Potter.  By 
the  will  of  his  grandfather,  Edward  S.  Clark,  and  the 
bequest  made  by  his  father,  Alfred  Corning  Clark, 
he  now  comes  into  possession  of  about  ten  millions  of  ] 
dollars.  Young  Clark  was  graduated  from  Yale  in 
June,  and  immediately  went  abroad.  He  is  to  enter 
the  Harvard  Law  School  this  month. 

Menotti  Garibaldi,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Italian 
patriot,  who  died  in  Rome  on  August  22d,  was  the  living 
picture  of  his  father,  having  the  same  leonine  head 
and  the  same  herculean  proportions,  allied  to  a  re- 
markably sweet  and  almost  feminine  expression  in  his  I 
eyes.  After  fighting  in  all  the  wars  for  independence, 
he  was  made  a  general  on  the  battle-field,  but,  like  his 
father,  he  turned  his  mind  to  the  economic  regeneration 
of  Italy,  beginning  with  a  plan  to  redeem  the  Campagna 
Romano.  Menotti  died  poor,  leaving  his  family  almost 
without  means,  and  it  is  supposed  that  the  government 
will  make  arrangements  to  have  the  pension  he  enjoyed 
as  the  son  of  Garibaldi  pass  to  his  family. 

Edwin  A.  Abbey  is  hard  at  work  on  his  big  painting 
of  the  coronation  of  Edward  the  Seventh,  for  which 
the  king  and  queen  have  given  him  sittings,  with  others 
to  be  held  in  the  future.  A  number  of  the  titled  folk 
in  the  pageant  have  been  going  to  Abbey's  London  stu- 
dio in  order  to  be  portrayed  in  the  exact  costume  they 
wore  on  the  occasion.  The  order  for  this  large  canvas 
was  not  given  by  the  government,  as  at  first  announced, 
but  by  a  firm  of  art  dealers,  the  Messrs.  Agnew.  When 
finished  it  will  be  forwarded  to  the  United  States  for 
exhibition,  and  will  be  shown  in  many  of  the  large 
cities.  The  general  impression  is  that  the  Agnews  in-  , 
tend  to  "  star  "  the  picture,  relying  on  the  curiosity  of  j 
all  good  republicans  to  see  what  royalty  does. 

The  democratic  marriage  of  Camille  Pelletan,  the 
French  minister  of  marine,  to  the  sister  of  the  sheriff's 
officer  who  formerly  worried  him  with  so  many  writs  as  I 
to  establish  an  acquaintanceship,  afterward  deepening 
into  warm  friendship,  has  made  the  bridegroom  sud-  . 
denly  popular  in  Paris.  The  groom  is  fifty-six  years 
of  age,  and  his  bride,  Mile.  Adele  Josephine  Denise, 
thirty-three.  The  Parisians  are  wondering  whether  M. 
Pelletan,  now  that  he  is  married,  will  change  his  habits, 
and  whether  his  wife  will  allow  him  to  walk  about  the 
streets  of  Paris  dressed  in  the  familiar  neglige  manner. 
Should  she  manage  to  induce  him  to  pay  more  atten- 
tion to  his  personal  appearance,  there  is  no  one  who  will 
deplore  the  fact  more  than  the  French  caricaturists, 
for  M.  Pelletan  has  been  one  of  their  favorite  subjects 
for  many  years  past. 

Maitre  Fernand  Labori,  who  recently  defended  the 
notorious  Humberts  in  Paris,  made  his  reputation  as  I 
a  remarkably  clever  criminal  lawyer  in  the  case  of  the 
Anarchist  Duval,  and  in  the  defense  of  the  Niort 
brothers,  accused  of  parricide."'  Among  the  other  well- 
known  cases  with  which  Labori  has  been  connected 
may  be  cited  the  Numa-Gilly  affair,  the  action  of  La  \ 
Plume  against  the  Sieur  Paladan,  the  Maizeroy  cases,  t 
the  case  of  M.  Prieu  against  the  minister  of  foreign 
affairs,  the  queer  case  of  the  comic  actor  Chirac, 
several  lawsuits  against  the  Gil  Bias,  the  case  of  the 
Plista  Virgile,  the  Vaillant  anarchist  trial  in  1894,  and 
a  great  number  of  cases  involving  questions  of  literary 
property  and  copyright.  His  pleadings  in  the  Zola 
and  Dreyfus  trials  have  also  greatly  enhanced  his 
professional  reputation,  not  only  for  forensic  eloquence, 
but  for  the  adroit  and  skillful  handling  of  his  case. 
He  is  a  past-master  of  the  intricacies  of  French  pro- 
cedure. 


September  7,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT . 


151 


LONDON'S     LATEST    DRAMATIC    SENSATION 


Arthur  Bourchier's  Revolting  Dramatic  Version   of 

Edgar  Allan  Poe's  Story,  "The  System  of 

Dr.  Tarr  and  Professor  Fether." 


It  is  doubtful  if  any  recent  play  has  been 
so  thoroughly  roasted  by  the  English  press 
as  the  one-act  horror,  "  The  Soothing  Sys- 
tem," which  Arthur  Bourchier  is  presenting 
to  large  audiences  at  the  Garrick  Theatre. 
London.  The  play  is  based  on  one  of  Edgar 
Allan  Poe's  sombre  tales,  and  was  first  pro- 
duced in  Paris,  at  the  Grand  Guignal,  several 
months  ago,  under  the  title  "  Le  Systeme  du 
Docteur  Goudron  et  du  Professeur  Plume," 
and  proved  a  far  more  nerve-racking  play  even 
than  "  Heard  Through  the  Telephone,"  drama- 
tized from  Charles  Foley's  well-known  short 
story. 

The  idea  of  the  play  (Says  London  Truth) 
is  fearful  in'  its  simplicity.  In  the  open- 
ing scene  you  observe  two  young  journ- 
alists who  have  found  their  way  into 
the  study  of  a  mad  doctor  at  the  asylum. 
They  peer  around,  wondering  why  no 
one  has  come  in  answer  to  their  repeated 
ringing  of  the  bell.  Suddenly  their  conversa- 
tion is  interrupted  by  a  groan  and  a  dull  thud 
without,  and  a  moment  after  the  mad  doctor 
stands  before  them.  Fury  gleams  in  his  eye 
as  he  surveys  his  unexpected  guests.  It  is 
in  vain  at  first  that  they  explain  their  object 
in  calling,  but  at  last  adroit  flattery  makes 
the  angry  specialist  more  amenable,  and  he 
begs  them  to  be  seated  while  he  explains  the 
excellence  of  his  system.  "  Gentleness  pro- 
duces gentleness,"  says  the  eminent  specialist, 
as  his  eye  roams  from  one  to  the  other  guest. 

Suddenly  a  terrible  low  groan  is  heard,  and 
the  doctor  springs  excitedly  to  his  feet. 
"There  he  is  again,"  says  he;  "I  thought  I 
had  quieted  him.  That  patient  -  behind  the 
door  is  the  only  one  with  whom  my  method 
has  been  a  complete  failure.  Pray  excuse 
me  a  moment,  gentlemen."  The  doctor  slips 
out,  and  the  same  terrible  groans  are  again 
heard,  followed  by  the  same  low  thud.  The 
doctor  returns,  and  says  that  this  time  he  be- 
lieves he  has  quieted  the  recalcitrant  patient 
The  journalists  listen  politely,  but  exchange 
glances  of  scepticism  as  to  the  gentleness  of 
the  doctor's  treatment,  at  any  rate  of  this 
case. 

Meanwhile,  through  another  door  files  into 
the  study  the  oddest  collection  of  people. 
Old  men  and  young  women,  with  one  or  two 
more  youthful-looking  men  among  them. 
They  utter  strange  greetings,  and  at  the  stern 
order  of  the  mad  doctor,  eventually  seat  them- 
selves in  a  semi-circle,  facing  toward  the 
two  journalists.  Before  very  many  moments 
have  elapsed  each  gives  unequivocal  signs 
of  his  or  her  madness  —  by  cock-crowing, 
making  faces,   and  the  like. 

The  two  journalists  are  getting  uneasy,  and 
rise  to  go  toward  the  door  of  exit.  Suddenly 
the  mad  doctor  screams  out  "  His  eye.  his 
accursed  eye,  is  upon  me!"  and  at  the  same 
time  hurls  himself  upon  one  of  the  two  visit- 
ors. Several  of  the  lunatics  (of  whom  it  is 
now  evident  that  he  is  the  leader)  aid  him 
in  seizing  the  young  journalist,  and  the 
spectator  is  left  to  suppose  that  they  are  en- 
gaged in  gouging  out  the  objectionable  eyes 
upon  the  table.  This  terrible  scene  is  con- 
cealed from  the  audience  by  the  group  around 
the  table,  while  the  other  young  man  is  set 
upon  by  the  women. 

While  all  are  struggling  together  another 
door  is  suddenly  thrown  open,  and  a 
very  different  set  of  individuals  make 
their  appearance.  These  are  the  real  of- 
ficials of  the  asylum,  and  in  a  very 
few  moments  they  have  cleared  the  room 
of  the  lunatics,  and  carried  away  the 
bleeding  body  of  one  of  the  journalists. 
A  voice  asks:  "Where  is  the  doctor?"  Then 
the  journalist,  who  is  able  to  speak,  tells  of 
the  groans  he  heard  behind  the  door.  They 
rush  to  it  and  force  it  open.  A  moment 
after  they  appear  with  a  terrible  burden — the 
body  of  the  real  mad  doctor  mangled  and 
bruised  and  cut  and  torn  by  the  hatred  and  I 
fury  of  the  false  Dr.  Goudron.  The  ex- 
planation of  this  lurid  little  drama  is  now 
clear  enough.  The  lunatics  had  obtained 
possession  of  the  keys,  locked  out  their 
warders,  and  proceeded  to  take  vengeance  on 
their  hated  master,   Dr.   Goudron. 

In  the  English  version,  which  has  been  so  [ 
unanimously  condemned,  every  effort  is  made  i 
to  render  the  play  nerve-racking.  There  is 
abundance  of  direful  music,  of  jangling  of 
chains,  and  of  screams  off  the  stage;  rolling 
cannon-balls  suggest  thunder,  lightning- 
flashes  are  exhibited,  and  there  are  hideous 
revels  of  the  mad  people.  The  whole  thing 
is  very  revolting,  and  Mr.  Bourchier's  own 
acting  as  the  chief  lunatic  is  said  to  be  hor- 
ribly  ingenious   and  painfully   clever. 

Mr.  Bourchier  pretends  to  be  unable  to  un- 


derstand the  feeling  which  has  been  aroused 
over  his  performance.  In  an  interview,  he 
defends    his   production   by   saying: 

"  Why  do  many  critics  clamor  for  the 
licensing  of  Ibsen's  'Ghosts'?  Surely  that  is 
a  play  which  can  be  really  termed  revolting 
in  every  sense.  I  insist  that  '  The  Soothing 
System  '  is  not  grewsome,  for  the  reason  that 
it  ends  happily.  No  one  is  killed.  When  1 
saw  the  play  as  it  was  performed  in  Paris  I 
pronounced  it  revolting,  because,  among  other 
things,  the  eye  of  one  of  the  visitors  to  the 
asylum  was  gouged  out  on  the  stage,  and  the 
real  asylum  doctor  was  taken  out  of  a  cup- 
board dead,  with  his  face  covered  with  blood. 
As  I  have  adapted  the  play,  it  is  merely  a 
'  thriller,'  and  the  character  of  Dr.  Goudron 
is  a  great  study.  Whether  I  do  it  properly 
or  not  I  can  not  say ;  but  it  is  a  great  study. 
If  there  is  a  moral  to  the  play,  it  is  '  Don't 
visit  lunatic  asylums.'  An  official  at  Broad- 
moor told  me  once  that  lunatics  dislike  visit- 
ors intensely.  If  no  ailments  are  permissible 
on  the  stage,  we  could  not  bring  Caliban  on 
the  stage,  or  a  hunchback,  or  a  lame  man. 
Blindness  is  a  painful  thing,  but  there  was 
nothing  sad  about  '  The  Light  That  Failed.'  " 

It  is  understood  that  Richard  Harding  Davis 
has  bought  the  American  rights  of  "  The 
Soothing  System,"  and  will  prepare  a  version 
of  his  own  for  early  production  in  New  York. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Kipling's  Woman  Rival  in  the  Indian  Field. 

Announcement  of  the  publication  of  a  new 
book  by  Flora  Annie  Steel  has  aroused  the 
usual  interest  among  the  many  admirers  of 
Mrs.  Steel's  literary  gifts,  who  may,  how- 
ever, feel  proportionately  disappointed  on 
discovering  that  it  is  a  volume  of  short 
stories. 

Mrs.  Steel's  strongly  characteristic  style, 
with  its  frequent  obscurities,  its  graphic  de- 
scriptiveness,  and  its  underlying  minor  strain, 
has  become  familiar  to  thousands,  some  of 
whom  place  her  above  Kipling.  She  does  in- 
deed excel  him  in  delicacy  of  perception  and 
fine  spiritual  insight  into  the  native  character, 
as  well  as  in  understanding  the  secret  springs 
of  motive  governing  the  frequent  mysteries 
of  their  conduct.  If  she  could  borrow  some 
of  Kipling's  directness,  and  he  some  of  her 
refinement  and  sympathy,  each  would  be  the 
gainer. 

Mrs.  Steel  ranks  considerably  higher  than 
the  merely  superficial  woman  novelist,  not  only 
from  the  literary  art  which  she  employs  in 
dealing  with  novel  material,  but  from  the 
masculine  grasp  she  displays  on  many  phases 
of  Indian  life,  both  of  natives  and  Europeans. 

In  the  seventeen  stories  collected  under  the 
one  title,  "  In  the  Guardianship  of  God,"  one, 
"  In  a  Fog,"  shows  a  knowledge  of  military 
tactics.  "  Little  Henry  and  His  Bearer "  is 
a  curious  tale  of  religious  fanaticism  which 
shows  a  knowledge  of  the  secret  sects  of 
stranglers  who  propitiate  Kali  by  human  sac- 
rifice ;  "  The  Keeper  of  the  Pass  "  could  only 
be  written  by  one  who  has  made  a  study  of 
primitive  conditions  and  family  traditions  that 
prevail  in  ancient  India;  each  story,  in  fact, 
reveals  a  knowledge  beyond  the  ordinary, 
which  would  preclude  the  merely  superficial 
observer  from  trying  issues  with  Mrs.  Steel 
in  the  field  that  she  has  made  her  own. 

Her  leading  fault  as  a  writer  is  an  inability 
to  comprehend  that  what  she  sees  and  under- 
stands clearly  can  not  be  perceived  with  equal 
clearness  of  vision  by  another.  Hence,  the 
reader  occasionally  falls  into  a  slough  of 
mystification,  from  which  he  is  rescued  only 
by  the  persuasive  grace  with  which  Mrs. 
Steel  conducts  him  to  a  view-point  from 
which  he  may  witness  the  fogs  rolling  away. 

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The  Latest  from  Lilian  Bell. 

Whether  it  be  through  inflated  patriotism, 
extreme  intolerance,  or  a  commercially  in- 
spired pose,  Lilian  Bell,  in  the  majority 
of  her  novels,  exalts  the  mental  and  physical 
attributes  of  her  countrywomen  above  those 
of  their  transatlantic  sisters  to  the  height 
of  absurdity.  This  writer  is  so  extreme  in 
her  views  that  they  can  not  be  received  with 
respect,  or  even  be  taken  seriously ;  but  a  much 
graver  defect  in  her  writings  is  her  tendency 
to  compel  even  her  more  favored  characters 
far  to  overstep  the  limits  of  good  taste  and 
good  feeling. 

In  her  latest  book,  entitled  "  The  Dowager 
Countess  and  the  American  girl,"  a  sequel, 
by  the  way,  to  "  Sir  John  and  the  American 
Girl,"  she  has  painted  the  character  of 
English  ladies  of  family  and  high  standing  so 
black  that  even  Thackeray's  formidable 
dowagers  are  models  of  right  feeling  and 
amiability   in   comparison. 

Lilian  Bell  is  a  ready  and  fluent  writer, 
turning  out  numerous  books  with  apparently 
little  effort,  but,  as  a  result,  she  writes  care- 
lessly, and  is  guilty  of  violent  inconsistencies 
and  occasional  lapses  of  memory.  She  states, 
in  the  first  part  of  the  book  under  review,  that 


"  Sir  John  .  .  .  would  have  been  incapable 
of  the  cruelty  of  the  earl's  will.  His  nature 
was  larger,  grander,  more  generous,  and  more 
forgiving."  Toward  the  end  of  the  book,  how- 
ever, the  grand,  generous,  and  forgiving  gentle- 
man referred  to  spitefully  flourishes  in  his 
wife's  face  a  will  which  cuts  her  off  from  all 
but  her  legal  inheritance  of  his  wealth,  mak- 
ing the  while  numerous  remarks  of  an  un- 
pleasant and  taunting  nature.  That  his  wife 
richly  deserved  them  does  not  do  away  with 
the  author's  inconsistency  in  thus  lowering 
a  character  which  she  had  affirmed  in  a  pre- 
vious chapter  was  the  "  embodiment  of  old 
English  chivalry." 

Edith,  the  American  girl,  is  endowed  with 
all  the  proverbial  charm  of  our  fair  country- 
women, easily  outshining  the  most  beautiful 
and  spirited  members  of  British  female 
aristrocacy  in  style,  beauty,  breeding,  grace, 
and  wit.  Her  attractions,  however,  are 
scarcely  enhanced  in  the  reader's  eyes  by 
her  spirited  defense  of  the  acts  of  her  South- 
ern countrymen  in  burning  alive  negroes  at 
the  stake ;  a  defense  which  included  a  dis- 
cussion of  crimes  whose  nature  usually  tabooes 
them  as  subjects  of  dinner-table  conversation. 

The  author  permits  herself  to  say  slurring 
things  about  her  own  sex  that  they  have 
learned  to  endure  meekly  enough  from  men. 
but  that  have  a  treasonable  sound  coming 
from  one  of  their  number.  "  Most  women," 
so  she  declares,  "  are  cats  at  heart."  In  an- 
other paragraph,  Sir  John,  the  chivalric, 
retails  for  the  diversion  of  his  American 
protegee  the  respestive  liaisons,  past  and  pres- 
ent, of  all  the  men  and  women  assembled 
at  a  house-party  to  which  she  is  bidden. 

The  hostility  and  violent  prejudice  exhibited 
toward  the  French  aristocracy  in  "  The  Ex- 
patriates"  by  this  author  is  shown,  although 
in  a  less  virulent  form,  toward  the  women 
of  the  English  upper-classes  in  "  The  Dowager 
Countess  and  the  American  Girl."  The  writer's 
varied  experiences,  however,  enable  her  to 
turn  off  a  readable  story,  and,  however  much 
one  may  cavil  at  its  manner,  one  is  tolerably 
sure  to  read  it  to  the  close. 

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Outing  for  September. 
Sir  Thomas  Lipton's  third  attempt  to  lift 
the  America's  Cup  is  the  leading  subject  in 
September  Outing.  "  Sailing  a  Cup  De- 
fender," by  William  E.  Simmons ;  "  The  Evo- 
lution of  the  Racing  Yacht  Model,"  by  G.  A. 
Cormack,  secretary  of  the  New  York  Yacht 
Club ;  "  The  Men  Who  Have  Defended 
America's  Cup,"  by  W.  J.  Henderson ;  and 
"  A  Critical  Comparison  of  Shamrock  and 
Reliance"  by  John  R.  Spears,  being  some  of 
the  articles  touching  that  subject.  People  who 
fish  and  others  will  enjoy  "  Grover  Cleveland 
Goes  a-Fishing,"  "  Random  Fish  Talk,"  by 
W.  C.  Harris,  and  Leonidas  Hubbard,  Jr.'s, 
"  Off-Days  On  Superior's  North  Shore,"  and 
those  who  shoot,  Edwyn  Sandys'  good  story, 
"  Four  of  a  Kind,"  and  his  observations  about 
"  The  Game  Field  in  September,"  as  well  as 
W.  A.  Baillie-Grohman's  adventure  stories, 
which  explains  something  about  the  sense  of 
hearing  of  mountain  game.  Among  the  other 
interesting  things  in  Outing  are  a  human-in- 
terest sketch  of  "  New  York  in  the  Good  Old 
Summer  Time,"  by  Charles  Belmont  Davis; 
Leon  Vandervort's  profusely  illustrated  article 
about  the  "  New  Appalachian  Forest  Re- 
serve" ;  "  Field  Dogs  in  Action,"  by  Howard 
C.  Rathbone;  "Modern  Pirates,"  with  striking 
pictures,  by  J.  W.  Muller ;  "On  No-Names 
Key,"  more  of  Ralph  D.  Paine's  Cuban  filibus- 
tering experience  of  1896;  Franklin  Matthew's 
description  of  "  How  a  Great  Ship  is 
Launched,"  and  "  International  Automobile 
Racing,"  with  photographs  of  the  course  in 
Ireland. 


The  Russian  press  censor  is  evidently  not 
interested  in  British  horse-racing.  The  Lon- 
don Referee  recently  stated  that  "  so  far  as 
the  Czarowitz  is  concerned  this  animal  occu- 
pies an  absurd  position.  He  had  no  chance, 
and  the  sooner  he  is  added  to  the  list  of  '  dead 
'uns'  the  better."  This  part  was  blacked  out 
by  the  Russian  censor.  The  editor  expostu- 
lated, but  was  told  that  to  refer  to  the 
Czarowitz  as  "  this  animal "  was  insolent, 
and  to  suggest  that  he  should  be  murdered 
was  infamous.  In  September,  1889,  the 
Argonaut  printed  a  story  of  Russian  nihilists, 
a  translation  from  the  French  of  Edmond 
Lepelletier,  entitled  "  The  Wage  of  Treason." 
It  was  a  stirring  tale,  but  pure  fiction.  A 
few  weeks  later,  a  St.  Petersburg  subscriber 
returned  a  copy  of  the  issue  to  us  to  show 
how  completely  the  censor  had  blacked  out 
what  he  considered  objectionable  matter. 


HUMOROUS    VERSE. 


"  London  in  the  Time  of  the  Stuarts,"  by 
the  late  Walter  Besant,  is  among  the  autumn 
announcements  of  the  Macmillan  Company. 


Col.  D.  Streamer,  whose  shocking  verses 
about  "  Little  Willy,  dressed  in  sashes,"  and 
Aunt  Maria  and  the  well,  have  amused 
thousands,  is  out  with  a  new  book  of  humor 
ous  rhymes,  entitled  *'  Perverted  Proverbs :  A 
Manual  of  Immorals  for  the  Many."  Our 
quotation  is  of  sufficient  length  to  perform 
the  function  both  of  expositor  and  critic: 
"virtue  is  its  own  reward." 
Virtue    its    own    reward?      Alas! 

And  what  a  poor  one  as  a   rule! 
Be    Virtuous   and    Life    will    pass 

Like  one  long  term  of  Sunday-school. 
(No   prospect,    truly,    could    one    find 
More   unalluring   to   the   mind.) 

You  may  imagine  that  it  pays 
To  practice  Goodness.     Not  a  bit! 

You    cease    receiving  any   praise 
When  people  have  got  used  to  it; 

'Tis    generally    understood 

You  find  it  easy   to  be  good. 

The    Model    Child    has    got    to    keep 
His  fingers  and  his  garments  white. 

In  church  he  may  not  go  to  sleep. 
Xor  ask  to  stop  up  late  at  night. 

In   fact  he  must  not  ever  do 

A  single  thing  he  wishes  to. 

He  may  not  paddle  in   his  boots, 
Like  naughty  children,   at  the    Sea; 

The  sweetness  of  Forbidden  Fruits 
Is  not,  alas!   for  such  as  he. 

He   watches,   with    pathetic   eyes, 

His    weaker    brethren    make    mud-pies. 

He    must    not    answer    back,    oh    no! 

However    rude    gTOwn-ups    may    be, 
Eut  keep   politely  silent   tho' 

He   brim    with   scathing   repartee; 
For  nothing  is  considered  worse 
Than   scoring  off   Mamma   or   Nurse. 

He   must    not    eat   too   much    at   meals. 
Nor  scatter  crumbs  upon    the  floor; 

However  vacuous  he  feels. 

He  may  not  pass  his  plate  for  more; 

— Not  tho'  his  ev'ry  organ  ache 

For    further    slabs    of    Christmas    cake. 

He  is  commanded  not  to  waste 

The  fleeting  hours  of  childhood's  days 

By   giving   way   to   any   taste 
For  circuses  or  matinees; 

For  him  the  entertainments  planned 

Are    "  Lectures    on    the    Holy    Land." 

He  never  reads  a  story  book 

By   Rider  H.   or  Winston   C, 
In  vain  upon  his  desk  you'd  look 

For  tales  by  Richard  Harding  D.; 
Nor  could  you  find  upon  his  shelf 
The    works    of    Rudyard — or    myself!  .  .  . 

The  Naughty  Boy  gets  much  delight 
From  doing  what  he  should  not  do; 

But,   as  such  conduct  isn't   Right, 
He  sometimes  suffers  for  it,  too. 

Yet,    what's   a   spanking   to   the    fun 

Of   leaving   vital    things    Undone? 

If  he's  notoriously  bad. 

But  for  a  day  should  change  his  ways. 
His  parents  will  be  all  so  glad, 

They'll  shower  him  with  gifts  and  praise! 
(It  pays   a  connoisseur   in  crimes 
To  be  a  perfect  saint  at  times.) 

Of  course  there  always  lies  the  chance 
That  he  is  charged  with  being  ill, 

And  all  his  innocent  romance 
Is  ruined  by  a  rhubarb  pill. 

(Alas!    'Tis  not  alone  the  Good 

That  are  so  much  misunderstood.) 

But.    as    a    rule,    when    he    behaves 

(Evincing   no    malarial    signs). 
His   friends  are   all   his   faithful   slaves, 

Until    he    once    again    declines 
With   easy  conscience,  more  or  less, 
To    undiluted    wickedness. 
The    Wicked   flourish    like   the   bay. 

At  Cards  or  Love  they  always  win. 
Good  Fortune  dogs  their  steps  all  day. 

They  fatten  while  the  Good  grow  thin. 
The    Righteous    Man    has  much   to   bear; 
The  Bad  becomes  a  BulHonaire!  .  .  . 
But  having  had  your  boom  in  oil, 

And  made  your  millions  out  of  it. 
Would  you  propose  to  cease  from  toil? 

Great   Vanderfeller!      Not  a  bit! 
You've  got  to  labor,  day  and  night. 
Until  you   die — and  serve  you   right!  .  .  . 
/  am  not  saint  enough  to  feel 

My  shoulder  ripen  to  a  wing. 
Nor  have  I  wits  enough  to  steal 

His    title    from    the    Copper    King; 
And  there's  a  vasty  gulf  between 
The  Man   I  Am  and  Might  Have  Been; 
But   tho'   at  dinner   I   may   take 

Too  much  of  Hetdsick  (extra  dry). 
And  underneath  the  table  make 

My  simple  couch  just  where  I  lie. 
My  mode  of  roosting  on  the  floor 
Is  just  a   trick  and  nothing  more. 
And  when,  not  Wisely  but  too  Well, 

My  thirst  I  have  contrived  to  quench, 
The  stories  I  am  apt  to  tell 

May  be,  perhaps,  a  trifle  French; 
(For  'tis  in  anecdote,  no  doubt. 
That    what's    Bred     in      the      Beaunc     comes 
out)  .  .  . 

And   this   I'm  sure   of,   more  or   less. 
And   trust   that   you   will   all   agree. 

The  Elements  of  Happiness 

Consist  in   being — just  like   Me; 

No  sinner,  nor  a  saint  perhaps. 

But — well,  the  very  best  of  chaps. 

Share  the    Experience   I   have   had. 

Consider  all  I've  known  and  seen. 
And  Don't   be  Good,  and   Don't  be    Bad 

But    cultivate    a    Golden    Mean. 


What    makes    Existence    really    nice 
Is  Virtue — with  a  dash  of  Vice. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


September  7.  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Two  Women  and  a  Socialist. 
The  two  themes  discussed  and  illustrated 
by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Dixon  in  his  new  novel 
"  The  One  Woman."  are  most  profound.  They 
are  Socialism  ptrsus  Individualism,  stricl 
monogamy  versus  a  view  of  marriage  which 
regards  the  divorce  court  without  appre- 
hension. Since  Socialism's  late  large  gains  l«>th 
at  home  and  abroad,  it  has  become  a  vital 
problem.  On  both  sides  of  the  question  are 
ranged  men  of  intellectual  weight.  We  would 
go  far  to  hear  a  debate  on  Socialism  between 
Mr.  Herbert  Spencer  and  Hcrr  Auguste  Bebel. 
We  think,  however,  treatment  of  the  theme 
in  a  highly  sensational  manner  by  a  loose- 
thinking  Nortll  Carolina  Baptist  preacher- 
r  i>  calculated  to  confuse  the  average 
reader  and  render  even  more  desperate  the 
present  condition  of  intellectual  chaos  on  this 
\cxed  question. 

The  Reverend  I>ix<>n's  work,  in  style  and 
manner  of  treatment,  resembles  closely  edi- 
torials in  the  New  York  Journal  and  the  San 
Francisco  EjroMUMr.  We  have  about  as  much 
nee  in  his  judgment  as  in  theirs.  There 
is  no  evidence  that  he  knows  much  about 
modern  socialism.  In  fact,  there  is  consider- 
able evidence   that   he  does  not. 

His  knowledge  of  human  character  is 
equally  slight.  The  men  and  women  of  the 
book  arc  mere  puppets  in  the  hands  of  the 
author.  A  woman  who.  at  the  book's  begin- 
ning, is  a  sweet  Sunday-school  teacher,  to- 
ward its  end  calmly  perjures  a  man's  life 
away.  A  staid  and  practical  middle-aged 
banker  consents  to  fighting  a  duel  in  the  dark 
with  paper-knives.  Other  unfortunate  persons 
do  equally  preposterous  things  when  the 
exigencies    of   the   plot    require. 

But  despite  all  this,  we  presume  the 
Reverend  Dixon's  book  will  be  widely  read. 
It  is  oratorical,  grandiloquent,  sentimental, 
illogical,  demagogic,  rhetorical;  all  qualities 
held  in  high  repute  in  certain  quarters.  Mr. 
Dixon  btdfl  fair  to  be  the  Hall  Cainc  of 
America,  the  Corelli  of  North   Carolina. 

The  plot  of  this  remarkable  novel,  briefly 
stated,  is  as  follows  :  The  Rev.  Frank  Gordon, 
a  popular  preacher  and  social  dreamer  of 
New  York,  determines  to  build  a  socialistic 
temple.  He  appeals  to  his  congregation  for  a 
million  dollars,  and  gets  twenty  thousand  dol- 
lars, lait  the  difference  is  made  up  by  a 
lout  if  ul  woman  who  has  aided  him  in  his 
work  of  "  uplifting  the  masses."  Gordon, 
though  married  and  having  two  children,  is 
overwhelmed  by  her  generosity — and  inci- 
dentally by  her  voluptuous  beauty — and  dc 
cides  to  desert  his  wife,  and  marry  the  woman 
by  the  "  ceremony  of  announcement,"  accord- 
ing to  what  he  thinks  is  the  socialistic  idea. 
Two  years  pass.  Gordon's  beaut  i  f  ul  w  i  fe 
tires  of  him.  tells  him  she  now  loves  his 
friend,  and.  applying  the  principles  he  had 
*o  eloquently  enunciated  at  the  time  of  their 
marriage,  leaves  him.  Gordon,  throwing  so- 
called  socialistic  philosophy  to  the  winds,  tells 
her  that  she  leaves  him  at  her  peril,  and  when 
she  persists,  kills  her  lover.  Gordon's  first 
wife  had  all  along  been  true  as  steel,  and  now 
[.he  begin*  a  campaign  to  save  him  from  the 
electric  chair,  finally  winning  a  pardon  from 
the  governor  of  New  York  (and  her  lover) 
at  the  last  moment. 

B.  West  Clinedinst  is  the  author  of  eight 
very    bad    illustrations. 

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"My  Priend  Annabel  Lee." 

don  n     Mary     Marl-inc's     second 

1.00k    with    mingled    feeling*.      Lei    ui 

I  it  the  Philistine  will  have  none  of  it. 
in*  nothing  that  i«.  sensational,  nothing, 
in  fact,  that  is  not  quite  ladylike  The  interest 
and  charm  which,  for  a  few  readers,  it  will 
Indnbttabl)  powcai  will  lie  in  the  wl 
humor,  the  quaint  philosophy,  and  the  real 
*ki1l  with  which  the  author  handlcf  words — a 

»kitl    111    thr       -  'ling    common    WOTOI 

'   indefin- 

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Awaj     iii.ni    the    hij(h    hill    of    the    cherry- 

■ 

d  that  a 
Mm*-'  t   wa*  only  blue. 

fit   and 
1  hythniM.il  repetitions  bcti 
mci    into    affectation!,    but    in 

10  the  twenty  five  chapter- 
that  comprise  the  i«.<-k,  ■  M>    Friend    tanahcl 
■  -  ■  ad  genuine,  but,  wr 

»y,  spread  out  extremely  thin.  They  arc 
I    1  retj   young  woman,  ol  Inda 

it    intellectual    ambi 

■■   with  keen  sympathy  for.  and  unerring 

Mich    character*    as    her    limited 

nee    baa   brought    within    *.cr   purview. 


She  has  also  a  turn  for  introspection,  a  Whit- 
manesque  love  for  common  things,  a  delight 
in  the  sea,  hill,  and  sky.  and  finds  a  singular 
satisfaction  in  "  delicate  incongruities."  She 
conceives,  for  example,  that  in  summer  time 
Mrs.  Fiske  (whom  she  had  seen  as  Mary  of 
Magdala)  might  wade  in  a  brooklet  or  swing 
in  a  barrel-stave  hammock,  and  in  the  picture 
of  the  actress  thus  engaged  she  finds  something 
enchantingly  humorous.  The  philosopher  who 
died  laughing  at  seeing  a  donkey  eat  figs  out 
of  a  silver  dish  was  a  temperamental  kinsman 
of  Mary  MacLane 

The  two  best  articles  in  the  book,  however, 
are  "  The  Young-Books  of  Trowbridge "  and 
"  Little  Willy  Kaatcnstcin."  The  first  of  these 
is  a  fine  bit  of  appreciation.  She  finds  Trow- 
bridge a  restful  and  altogether  satisfying 
writer.  "  When  I  go  to  a  theatre,"  she  re- 
marks, in  illustration.  "  I  enjoy  it  thoroughly. 
A  theatre  is  a  good  thing,  and  the  actor  a  stun- 
ning person — but  how  eagerly  and  gladly  I 
come  back  into  my  own  room,  where  there  is 
a  faithful  little  tan  deer  standing  waiting,  all 
so  pathetic  and  sweet,  upon  the  desk."  "  Lit- 
tle Willy  Kaatenstein  "  is  one  of  the  best 
stories  of  children  we  have  read — and  wc 
say  it  advisedly,  with  due  deference  to  Miss 
Daskam  (that  was),  Mrs.  W'iggin.  and  the 
rest  of  them. 

Altogether.  "  My  Friend  Annabel  Lee.  ' 
while  not  a  book  of  any  great  weight,  is  re- 
markably creditable  to  a  girl  of  twenty-one. 
and  may  prove  an  early  milestone  upon  a  long, 
straight  road. 

At  least,  Mary  MacLane,  among  the  great 
crowd  of  authors,  male  and  female,  seems  to 
us — a  delicate  incongruity. 

Published  by  Herbert  S.  Stone  &  Co.,  Chi- 
cago. 


Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Winston  Churchill  has  sent  a  portion  of  the 
manuscript  of  his  new  novel  to  the  Macmillan 
Company,  and  is  rapidly  bringing  the  work  to 
completion.  In  point  of  time  this  novel — 
which  is  provisionally  labeled  "The  Con- 
quest." although  that  is  not  to  be  its  final 
title — is  the  second  in  Mr.  Churchill's  histori- 
cal series.  The  theme  is  the  conquest  of  the 
Louisiana  territory  by  gradual  occupation  and 
settlement. 

The  Century  Company  has  on  its  fall  list 
"  Under  the  lack-Staff."  by  Chester  Bailey 
Fernald.  author  of  "  The  Cat  and  the  Cherub." 

The  new  volume  contains  eleven  stories  of  an 
Irish  man-o"-war's  man, 

Henry'  James's  novel,  "  The  Ambassadors." 
cow  appearing  serially  in  the  North  American 
Review,  will  be  published  in  book-form  this 
autumn.  The  novel  is  not.  as  the  title  might 
indicate,  a  story  "of  diplomatic  life,  but  deals 
with  an  American  gentleman  who  went  upon 
a  very  delicate  mission  as  a  private  embassa- 
dor from  an  American  lady  to  her  son  living 
in  Paris. 

Dr.  Scott  Keltie,  of  the  Royal  Geographical 
Society,  has  undertaken  to  edit  a  scries  of 
popular  works  to  be  called  "  The  Story  of 
Exploration."  The  first  volume,  "  The  Nile 
Quest,"    is    by    Sir    Harry    Johnston.      I-ater, 

The  Siege  of  the  North  Pole."  by  Nanscn. 
will  appear,  and  the  explorations  of  Cartier. 
La  Salle,  Cook,  Stanley,  and  others  will  fol- 
low. 

Maurice  Maeterlinck's  much-discussed  play. 
"  Monna  Vanna."  which  gave  both  critics  and 
censors  much  to  think  about  when  the  at- 
tempt WOJ  first  made  to  produce  it  in  France. 
lomewhal  more  than  a  year  ago.  is  now  to  b-: 
issued  in  an  English  version. 

It  was  the  intention  of  the  late  Dr.  Samuel 
<  1.  Howe  to  write  a  detailed  account  of  the 
education  of  Laura  Bridgman.  but  he  never 
found  leisure  to  accomplish  the  work.  Two 
oi  his  daughti  1      Maude  Howe  and 

Florence  Howe  Hall  have  utilized  his  rec- 
ords, and  his  pupil's  journal,  as  well  as  the 
different  teachers,  to  prepare  a 
volume  which  will  shortly  be  published  under 
the  title  "  Laura  Bridgman,  !  hr,  Howe's  Fa- 
mous   Pupil,   md   What    He  Taught   Her." 

John     Hay's    "Cutilian      Days"      is     being 

oul   in   ■   holiday  edition   by   Hough 

ton,   Mifflin  *\  Co.,  with  illustrations  done  by 

Pennell,     The  book   will  be  ready  in 

'  tetober, 

i-.rr..w's  Tangle,"  Gcraldinc  Bonner's 
second  novel,  which  is  to  Ik-  published  i"  Oc- 

niian.     lull     ol 

color  an.)  incident.     It  opens  in  the  foothills 

in  the  early  'fifties,      Here  the  threads  of  four 

'tie    together     in    the    knot,    or    tangle. 

which  gives  the  book  its  name.     The  singular 

incident    which    creates   the    tangle    i*    not    fic- 

1!    fact,  one  of  the  remarkable  and   pic- 

UC    occurrences    which    made    the    early 

days   of   California    so    full    of    drama.      The 

story    proper    opens    twenty-five    years    later, 


when  the  unraveling  of  the  tangle  takes  place. 
The  characters  are  essentially  Californian  in 
type,  and  the  situation  in  which  they  find 
themselves  one  that  could  hardly  develop  in 
any  other  community.  This  main  portion  of 
the  novel  shows  San  Francisco  at  the  end  of 
the  Bonanza  days,  when  the  diminishing  glow 
of  the  Comstock  excitement  was  still  in  the 
air,  and  millions  had  suddenly  enriched  men 
and  women  who  began  life  in  the  cabins  of 
the  foothill  camps. 

E.  W.  Hornung  has  a  new  story,  "  Dennis 
Dent."  running  serially,  which  is  soon  to  be 
brought  out  in  book-form. 

Dr.  Oberholtzer's  biography  of  "  Robert 
Morris :  Patriot  and  Financier,"  to  be  pub- 
lished at  once,  is  written  largely  from  new- 
materials,  including  sixteen  manuscript  vol- 
umes by  Morris  himself. 


RECENT    VERSE. 

A  Sea  Lyric. 
There  is  no  music  that  man  has  heard 

Like  the  voice  of  the  minstrel  Sea, 
Whose  major  and  minor  chords  are  fraught 

With    infinite   mystery — 
For  the  Sea  is  a  harp,  and  the  winds  of  God 

Play  over  his  rhythmic  breast. 
And  bear  on  the  sweep  of  their  mighty  wings 

The  song  of  a  vast  unrest. 

There  is  no  passion  that  man  has  sung. 

Like  the  love  of  the  deep-souled  Sea, 
Whose  tide  responds  to  the   Moon's  soft  light 

With    marvelous    melody — 
For  the  Sea  is  a  harp,  and  the  winds  of  God 

Play  over  his  rhythmic  breast. 
And  bear  on  the  sweep  of  their  mighty  wings 

The  song  of  a  vast  unrest. 

There  is  no  sorrow  that  man  has  known. 

Like  the  grief  of  the  worldless  Main. 
Whose  Titan  bosom  forever  throbs 

With    an    untranslated    pain — 
For  the  Sea  is  a  harp,  and  the  winds  of  God 

Play   over   his   rhythmic   breast. 
And  bear  on  the  sweep  of  their  mighty  wines 

The  song  of  a  vast  unrest. 
-William    Hamilton    Hay  tic    tti    Atlantic    Monthly. 


Summer  Clouds. 
They  are  ships  without  rudder  or  topmast  or  sail; 
They  are  ships  without  captain  or  sailor  or  cook. 
Their  decks  are  not  guarded  by  canvas  or  rail. 
And  there's  no  place  to  stand  whence  the  watch- 
man can  look. 

They  are  ships  without  chart,   without  compass  or 
spar; 
They    arc    ships    without  capstan    or   anchor  or 
chain; 
And  they  sail  without  aid  of  a  planet  or  star; 
Nor  reckon  they  aught  or  of  loss  or  of  gain. 

They  follow  no  well-beaten  paths  through  the  sky. 
O'er  which  they  are  seemingly  sailing  in   sport; 

And  the  prow  from  the  stern  is  not  easy  to  spy, 
While  the  starboard   is  not  to  be  told   from   the 
port. 

They  are  built  not  of  iron,  or  oak,  or  of  pine: 
Their    sides    are    not    sheeted    with   coatings  of 
steel ; 

They've  no  log  to  mark  with  its  unerring  line 
The  knots  as  they  fly  from  the  nautical  reel. 

They  are  wanting  in  armament  suited  for  war; 

They  arc  destitute  quite  of  cannon  and  shell; 
But  when  they  do  battle,  they're  heard  from  afar. 

And  their  lightnings  seem  born  in  the  bosom  of 
hell. 

They  come  from  no  country  familiar  to  men; 

Over  mountain  and  ocean  like  spirits  they  rise; 
And  the  port  they  arc  seeking — there's  no  mortal 
ken, 

To  tell  where  it  is.  or  even  surmise. 

Their  changeable  color  confuses  the  eye, 

They  have  caught  the  chameleon's  mystical  art. 
One  moment  with  hues  of  the  rainbow  they  vie 

And  while  wc  arc  Easing   their  glories  depart. 
Oh,    tenuous   ships  of   the   measureless   air! 

Sail  on  o'er  the  depths  of  the  fathomless  blue; 
In  beaut]    ><    hail   from  the  land  of  the  fair. 

And   vanish   from  sight  like   the  sweet   morning 

dew. 
— Thomas  Pardon  Wilson  in  the  Independent. 


The  Sea  at  Noon. 
In  the  little  billows  of  the  deep. 
Thai,  curved  as  grace   itself,   they   kiss   the   air. 
Then  sink  in  curves,  and  with  the  noon-day  share 
The  Stillness   lli.it  can  neither  laugh   nor   weep? 
\\  bat   languid  revels  do  the  sea  -nymphs  keep 
1  -n  the  rammer,  when  the  days  arc  fair, 

1  .    gai  I  indfi  rare 

1  flowers,    though    the    blue    seems    fixed    in 

ilecpl 

Always  the  joy  of  life  lies  in  the  sea — 
\\  I10  knowi  it,  loves  it,  and  Ins  fancies  play 

With  all   it-  in is   foi    joy     whether  it  wakes 

.iv   dawn   upon   the   bright    To    Be 

or,  dashing  high  its  spray, 
The  world  with  ecstacy  of  tumuli 
—Maurice  Francis  Egan  in  September  Lippineottfs. 


A  pair  of  properly  fitted 
glasses  will  chase  away  that 
headache. 


Hirsch  &   Kaiser, 

7    Keamv    St.  Opticians. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Biography. 
There  are  already  several  biographies  of  James 
Madison,  but  they  none  of  them  equal  in  scope  or 
approach  in  merit  "The  Life  of  James  Madison," 
by  Gaillard  Hunt,  just  published.  Mr.  Hunt  has 
previously  edited  the  writings  of  "  the  father  of 
the  Constitution  "  and  third  President,  and  his 
work  is  not  only  just,  but  sympathetic,  both  schol- 
arly and  marked  by  humor  and  a  feeling  for  the 
picturesque.  His  book  will  long  remain  a  standard 
authority.  We  quote  a  brief  description  of  Madison 
when  he  took  his  seat  in  the  Virginia  convention: 
"  He  was  five  feet  six  and  one-quarter  inches  tall, 
and  his  body  was  thin  and  delicate.  His  pale 
face  was  lighted  up  by  a  pair  of  hazel  eyes,  which 
were  ready  to  reflect  a  quiet  humor,  but  his  fea- 
tures were  irregular  and  not  handsome  and  his 
countenance  bespoke  the  suffering  of  bad  health. 
His  hair  was  light,  combed  back  and  gathered  in  a 
small  queue  behind,  tied  with  a  plain  ribbon.  He 
was  clothed  so  soberly  that  he  looked  more  like  a 
dissenting  divine  than  the  heir  of  a  planter  of 
large  estate,  and  before  his  election  his  neigh- 
bors declared  he  was  more  of  a  minister  than  a 
statesman."  The  work  is  embellished  with  a  por- 
trait. Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New 
York;    $2.50. 

A  field  of  inquiry  hitherto  quite  untilled  has  been 
invaded  by  George  M.  Gould,  M.  D„  in  his  "  Bio- 
graphic Clinics."  He  has  investigated  the  per- 
sonal history  of  De  Quincey,  Carlyle,  Darwin,  Hux- 
ley, and  Browning,  collecting  every  scrap  of  infor- 
mation available  about  them.  He  has  then  endeav- 
ored to  determine  by  study  of  this  material  from 
what  causes  arose  the  chronic  ill-health  of  each 
of  these  five  great  men.  One  fruit  of  his  investi- 
gation is  the  conviction  that  simple  eyestrain  was 
an  enormous  factor  in  the  ill-health  of  his  "  pa- 
tients." He  speaks  of  eyestrain's  "subtle  and  as- 
tonishing influence  upon  character,  upon  litera- 
ture, and  even  upon  history."  "  What  could  these 
men  not  have  done,"  he  says,  "  if  this  morbidiz- 
ing  horror  had  not  clutched  their  hearts  with  its 
palsying  and  despoiling  hand?"  Published  by  P. 
Blakiston's  Sons  &  Co.,  Philadelphia- 
John  Albee,  who  owns  to  an  "  aversion  to  long, 
laborious,  and  usually  frigid  biographies,"  and  to 
an  admiration  for  "  artless  yet  affectionate  mem- 
ories," has  endeavored  to  approach  his  ideal 
in  a  little  volume  called  "  Remembrances  of  Em- 
erson " — a  book  of  appreciation  for  Emerson's 
books  and  one  also  containing  an  account  of  an 
interesting  visit  to  the  philosopher.  Published  by 
Robert  Grier  Cooke,  Mew  York. 

February  4,  1901,  was  the  centennial  anniver 
sary  of  John  Marshall's  inauguration  as  Chier 
Justice  of  the  United  States.  This  date,  by  prior 
arrangement,  was  dedicated  and  devoted  by  tin- 
different  Bar  associations  of  the  country  as  a 
fitting  time  to  commemorate  and  perpetuate  the 
memory  of  the  great  chief  justice.  The  event  was 
national  in  its  character,  being  celebrated  in  thirty- 
seven  States  and  Territories,  while  more  than 
fifty  principal  addresses  were  delivered  by  leaders 
of  the  Bar,  members  of  high  Federal  and  State 
courts,  eminent  statesmen  and  scholars,  and  by 
members  of  Congress.  An  important  work  has 
now  been  published,  entitled  "  John  Mar- 
shall: Life,  Character,  and  Judicial  Services," 
being  a  record  of  the  centenary  and  me- 
morial addresses  and  proceedings.  It  con- 
tains, in  addition,  orations  of  Binney,  Story, 
Phelps,  Waite,  and  Rawle,  and  is  edited  with  an 
introduction  by  Judge  John  F.  Dillon.  The  work 
is  handsomely  printed,  and  is  illustrated  with  por- 
traits and  facsimiles.  It  includes,  necessarily, 
much  that  is  superficial,  but  several  of  the  memor- 
ial addresses  are  real  masterpieces.  Published  by 
Callagban  &  Co.,  Chicago;  (three  vols.)  $9.00  net. 
It  is  impossible  to  believe  Charles  Barr  Todd's 
"  The  Real  Benedict  Arnold,"  the  "  true,  unbiased 
biography  of  Benedict  Arnold,"  which  he  pro- 
claims it.  A  book  which  shall  "palliate"  Arnold's 
treason  needs  to  give  chapter  and  verse  of  the 
authorities  upon  which  such  a  revolutionary  judg- 
ment may  be  based.  Mr.  Todd  does  nothing  of 
the  sort.  His  work  contains  few  citations  and  no 
index.  Mr.  Todd's  mere  say-so  is  scarcely  con- 
vincing. Such  a  book  has  scarcely  more  author- 
ity than  an  historical  novel.  Published  by  A. 
S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  New  York;    $1.00  net. 


Miscellaneous  Books. 
Everything  that  comes  from  the  pen  of  Jacob  A. 
Riis  is  interesting,  but  his  latest  book,  "  The  Peril 
and  the  Preservation  of  the  Home,"  being  the 
William  L.  Bull  lectures  for  1903,  appears  to  cover 
less  completely  the  same  ground  as  "  The  Battle 
with  the  Slum."  Nearly  all  the  illustrations  are 
also  from  that  or  other  of  his  books.  Published  by 
George  W.  Jacobs  &  Co.,  Philadelphia. 

'*  The  Smyrna  Fig  at  Home  and  Abroad,"  by 
George  C.  Roeding,  is  described  as  "  a  treatise  on 
practical  Smyrna-fig  culture,  together  with  an  ac- 
count of  the  introduction  of  the  wild,  or  Capri,  fig 
and  the  establishment  of  the  fig  wasp  (Blastophaga 
grossorum)  in  America."  It  is,  in  fact,  a  brief 
history  of  one  of  the  most  striking  achievements  in 
the  horticultural  field  of  the  past  twenty-five  years. 
The  once-unsuspected  service  of  the  fig  wasp  in 
producing  perfect  fruit  seems  to  belong  rather  to 
the  romance  of  nature  than  to  the  domains  of 
fact,  but,  thanks  to  Mr.  Roeding,  the  matter  is  now 
beyond  dispute.  This  little  book  of  Mr.  Roeding's 
is  unpretentious,  but  very  interesting.  Published 
by  the  author,   Fresno,  Cal. 

Mexico,  with  its  fifty-five  presidents,  two  emper- 
ors, and  one  regent,  and  its  innumerable  revolu- 
tions, between  1S21  and  18S4,  offers  a  fertile  field 
for  tillage  to  the  writers  of  boys'  books  of  adven- 
ture. W.  O.  Stoddard,  in  "  Ahead  of  the  Army,"' 
dealing  with  the  period  of  our  war  with  Mexico, 
has  made  good  use  of  his  stirring  material.  Pub- 
lished by  the  Lothrop  Publishing  Company,  Boston; 
$1.00  net. 

"  How  and  Where  to  Sell  Manuscripts,"  is  a 
little  book  for  amateur  authors,  the  information 
contained  in  which  will,  if  followed,  make  the 
path  of  editors  a  rosier  one,  and  greatly  increase 
the  chances  for  acceptance  of  manuscripts.  Pub- 
lished by  the  United  Press  Syndicate,  Indianapolis, 
Ind. 

Professor  Robert  de  Courcy  Ward,  of  Harvard, 
has  translated  an  exhaustive  treatise  by  Dr.  Julius 
Hann,  of  the  University  of  Vienna,  under  the  title 
"  Handbook  of  Climatology."  Perhaps  a  few  se- 
lected chapter-headings  will  best  give  an  idea  of 
the  book's  scope:  "Temperature";  "The  Moisture 
of  the  Atmosphere:  Humidity,  Precipitation,  and 
Cloudiness ";     "  Winds,     Pressure,     and     Evapora- 


tion";  "Solar  Climate";  "Influence  of  Land  and 
Water  Upon  the  Distribution  of  Temperature": 
"  Influence  of  Ocean  Currents  Upon  Climate  "; 
"Mountain  and  Valley  Winds";  "The  Foehn, 
Sirocco,  Bora,  and  Mistral  ";  "  Periodic  Varia- 
tions of  Climate."  Published  by  the  Macmillan 
Company,  New  York. 

The  well-known  French-English  and  English- 
French  dictionary  of  James  and  Mole  has  been 
brought  up  to  date,  revised,  and  enlarged  by  over 
three  hundred  pages,  by  Louis  Tolhausen  and  Georg 
Payn.  The  new  work  is  compact,  typographically 
attractive,  and  appears  to  be  authoritative.  Pub- 
lished by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New  York : 
$1.50. 

"  The  Poultry  Book,"  a  standard  English  work, 
by  Harrison  Weir,  F  R.  H.  S.,  is  appearing  serially 
in  this  country,  with  considerable  revision  hy  Willis 
Grant  Johnson  and  George  O.  Brown,  the  editors, 
assisted  by  other  experts.  It  will  be  complete 
in  eighteen  parts.  Part  II  is  just  to  hand,  and 
contains  notably  good  half-tone  pictures  and  draw- 
ings, and  some  colored  plates.  Such  captions  as 
"Eggs  from  a  General  Point  of  View  "  strike  us  as 
funny.  Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New 
York;  60  cents. 


Literature  and  Criticism. 

Along  with  Rolfe  and  Hudson  and  Lee  and  the 
rest  of  the  famous  Shakespearean  scholars  must  be 
ranked  the  Furnesses,  father  and  son.  The  form- 
er's Variorum  Shakespeare,  in  which  the  volume 
containing  "  Macbeth  "  appeared  in  1873,  has  long 
been  standard  authority.  The  latter's  hand  now 
takes  up  the  life  work  of  revision.  The  "  Revised 
Edition  "  of  "  Macbeth  "  is  before  us,  and  "  Rich- 
ard the  Third  "  is  promised  in  the  near  future. 
The  first-mentioned  is  an  octavo  of  close  on  six 
hundred  pages,  with  voluminous  notes — pages 
sometimes  being  devoted  to  a  single  passage.  It 
is  for  the  student  of  Shakespeare  an  invaluable 
aid.  In  the  preface  of  this  volume  Horace  Howard 
Furness  formally  relinquishes  his  life-long  labor 
of  love.  "  Surely,"  he  says,  with  very  pardon- 
able pride,  "  the  instances  are  not  many  where  a 
literary  task  begun  by  a  father  is  taken  up  and 
carried  forward  by  a  son;  still  fewer  are  they 
where  the  father  can  retire  within  the  shadow,  with 
such  conviction,  as  is  now  mine,  that  the  younger 
hands  are  the  better  hands."  Published  by  the 
J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  Philadelphia;  $4.00  net. 

In  the  second  and  last  volume  of  his  "  Anthol- 
ogy of  Russian  Literature  " — the  pioneer  work  in 
that  field — Leo  Wiener  gives  interesting  extracts 
from  some  fifty  Russian  authors  from  the  time  of 
Karamzin  to  that  of  Merezhkovski.  Each  extract 
is  prefaced  by  a  brief  biographical  note,  and  "A 
Sketch  of  Russian  Literature  in  the  Nineteenth 
Century  "  serves  as  an  introduction  to  the  vol- 
ume. Professor  Wiener  occupies  the  chair  of 
Slavic  languages  in  Harvard.  Published  by  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons,  New  York:  per  volume,  $300. 

To  the  many  American  literatures  which  pro- 
fessors in  our  colleges  seem  to  have  been  irresist- 
ibly impelled  to  write  may  be  added  "  A  History 
of  American  Literature,"  by  William  P.  Trent, 
M.  A.,  LL.D.,  professor  of  English  literature  in 
Columbia  University.  The  work  covers  the  period 
1607-1865,  and  appears  to  be  scholarly  and  accurate 
enough,  though  somewhat  uninspired.  Published 
by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York;  $1.40. 


Novels  of  the  Moment. 
"  The  Sociable  Ghost,  being  the  adventures  of 
a  reporter  who  was  invited  by  the  sociable  ghost 
to  a  grand  banquet,  ball,  and  convention  under  the 
ground  of  old  Trinity  church-yard:  a  true  tale  of 
the  things  he  saw  and  did  not  see  while  he  was 
not  there."  That  is  the  title-page  description  of  a 
book  recently  committed  by  Olive  Harper  and 
Another.  The  official  puff  says  the  story  is  "  grimly 
grotesque,  yet  screamingly  funny."  Also  that  it  is 
"  richly  illustrated,"  and  "  one  of  the  most  grimly 
humorous  books  every  published."  Doubtless  Olive 
really  thinks  so.  Let  us  not  disturb  so  roseate 
a  dream.  Published  by  the  J.  S.  Ogilvie  Publish- 
ing    Company,     New    York ;     $1 .50. 

"  Kent  Fort  Manor,"  by  William  Henry  Bab- 
cock,  is  a  Civil  War  romance  with  some  curious 
psychological  complications.  The  Claibornes,  mem- 
bers of  which  family  figure  prominently  in  the 
book,  have  the  eerie  power  of  recalling,  under 
certain  circumstances,  what  happened  to  their  an- 
cestors^— a  sort  of  inherited  memory.  Plainly  here 
is  a  fictional  field  with  wide  possibilities  of  ex- 
ploitation. And  Mr.  Babcock  has,  in  fact,  made 
a  fairly  good  story  out  of  his  odd  theories.  Pub- 
lished by  Henry  T.  Coates  &  Co.,  Philadelphia; 
$1.50. 

"  Jack  Hardin's  Arabian  Nights  "  is  a  translation 
from  the  scholarly  English  of  Lane  into  the  slang 
of  to-day  of  some  of  the  tales  in  the  great  classic. 
The  author  is  J.  W.  Scott,  a  newspaper  man.  The 
book  will  amuse  some  readers.  Published  by  Herbert 
B.  Turner  &  Co.,  Boston;  $1.00. 

Several  good  stories  of  the  sea  by  George  S. 
Wasson,  which  have  appeared  in  the  Atlantic, 
Scribner's,  Century,  and  Harper's  Weekly  during 
the  past  year  or  so,  have  now  been  published  in 
book-form.  The  author  has  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  that  whereof  he  writes,  a  healthy  sense  of 
humor,  and  a  mastery  of  the  dialect  of  deep-sea 
fishermen.  Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
Boston;    $1.50. 

"  Nine  Points  of  the  Law,"  by  Wilfrid  Scar- 
borough Jackson,  and  "  The  Gap  in  the  Garden," 
by  Vanda  Wathen-Bartlett,  are  novels  puhlished 
by  John   Lane,   New  York;   each,   $1.50. 

"  The  Mahoney  Million,"  a  novel  by  Charles 
Townsend,  is  published  by  the  New  Amsterdam 
Book  Company,  New  York;  $1-25- 

"  The  Lighted  Taper,"  a  novel  by  M.  Oakman 
Pitton,  is  published  by  the  Botolph  Book  Company, 
Boston. 

Among  recent  novels  are  "  A  Coin  of  Edward 
VII,"  a  detective  story,  by  Fergus  Hume;  "  Be- 
cause of  Power,"  a  "  drama  of  the  heart,"  by  Ella 
Stryker  Mapes;  and  "The  Gilded  Lady:  Being  the 
True  Story  of  a  Crime  Against  the  United  States 
Government  As  Recorded  by  Henry  V.  Chardon, 
late  of  the  Secret  Service,"  by  Will  M.  Clemens. 
Published  by  the  G.  W.  Dillingham  Company,  New 
York;  each,  $1.50. 

"Muscovy,"  writes  Henry  Iliowizi,  in  the  pref- 
ace to  the  novel,  "  The  Archierey  of  Samara," 
'"  is  in  many  respects  the  China  of  the  civilized 
world;  exclusive,  intolerant,  inhospitable,  cunning, 
suspicious,  despotic,  holy,  and  ludicrously  conceited 
as  to  her  theocratic  destiny  among  the  nations." 
Exactly.  But  it  need  hardly  be  expected  that  the 
heated  marshaler  of  so  many  epithets  will  be  es- 
pecially concerned  about  the  reality  of  his  char- 
acters,   or   fine   points   in  story-telling,    and    this   is 


the  case.  The  story  is  merely  a  medium  through 
which  this  author— himself  the  son  of  parents  who 
suffered  cruel  wrongs  in  Russia— is  able  to  vent 
his  hatred  and  contempt  for  the  land  of  the  Czar. 
He  himself,  "  in  the  midst  of  the  scenes  he  de- 
scribes "  has  "  loved  and  suffered."  The  volume 
has  not  a  little  interest  at  the  present  time.  Pub- 
lished by  Henry  T.  Coates  &  Co.,  New  York;  $1.50. 

"  Sinful  Peck  "  is  described  on  the  cover  as  a 
"  funny  story,"  but  it  certainly  needs  a  broad  and 
liberal  sense  of  humor  to  stomach  the  series  of 
practical  jokes  therein  described.  A  practical  joke, 
by  the  way,  is  the  abhorrence  of  many  real  humor- 
ists. Mark  Twain,  for  example.  No  person,  there- 
fore, need  mourn  an  inability  to  laugh  over  this 
story,  by  Morgan  Robertson,  of  a  stag  dinner-party 
all  the  guests  at  which  are  maliciously  made  drunk 
and  shanghaied  on  a  sailing  ship  bound  for  Singa- 
pore, where  they  suffer  a  succession  of  barbarities 
invented  for  them  by  the  author  with  a  really 
diabolical  ingenuity.  It  is  a  thoroughly  unpleasant 
book,  entirely  unworthy  of  Mr.  Robertson.  Pub- 
lished   by    Harper    &    Brothers,    New    York. 

"The  Tu-Tze's  Tower,"  by  Louise  Betts  Edwards, 
is  hereby  guaranteed  to  give  even  the  most  hard- 
ened novel-reader  a  new  thrill.  Tu-Tze  is  a  mon- 
arch who  lives  on  the  edge  of  Thibet.  To  Tu-Tze 
venture  Winifred  Blaize,  wife  of  an  explorer  who 
had  lost  his  life  there ;  Emma  Alvina  Guthrie, 
sometime  librarian  in  the  town  of  Essex,  Mass., 
but  present  lady's  maid ;  and  Candace  Roberts, 
daughter  of  an  American  missionary  who  had  gone 
to  the  bad,  and  a  Chinese  woman.  Candace  had 
been  sold  as  a  slave  so  that  her  parents  could  buy 
opium,  and  is  rescued  by  Winifred  Blaize.  The 
book  is  highly  interesting  and  amusing,  and  has  a 
family  resemblance  to  works  of  the  late  lamented 
Stockton — "  The  Casting  Away  of  Mrs.  Leeks  and 
Mrs.  Alshine,"  for  example.  Published  by  Henry 
T.  Coates  &  Co.,  Philadelphia;  $1.50. 

"  The  Victim's  Triumph "  is  a  novel  of  New 
York  "  high  life,"  and  concerns  a  Russian  count, 
his  pseudo-sister,  an  English  lord,  and  various 
members  of  the  Four  Hundred.  The  book  is  said 
to  be  founded  on  fact,  but  is  neither  well  written 
nor  generally  interesting.  Published  by  the  G.  W. 
Dillingham  Company,  New  York;  $1.50. 

Three  Books  on  Musical  Themes. 
The  tragic  possibility  of  an  infant  Beethoven's 
being  apprenticed  in  a  boiler-factory,  or  a  budding 
Jenny  Lind  to  a  milliner,  will  be  minimized  in  those 
families  where  Albert  Lavignac's  "  Musical  Edu- 
cation "  penetrates.  He  answers  lucidly  all  those 
questions  which  doting  parents  of  suspected  young 
geniuses  ask,  and  gives  valuable  information  upon 
many  other  musical  topics  besides.  For  instance, 
the  proper  age  at  which  to  begin  the  study  of 
music,  the  importance  of  hearing  good  music,  the 
influence  of  method,  difficulties  connected  with 
various  instruments,  the  hygiene  of  the  voice,  how 
to  rectify  an  ill-directed  education,  the  comparative 
merits  of  individual  and  class  instruction,  are 
among  the  subjects  discussed.  Professor  Lavignac 
is  a  well-known  authority,  and  occupies  a  chair 
in  music  at  the  Paris  Conservatoire.  This  work, 
as  well  as  his  several  previous  ones,  is  competently 
translated  by  Esther  Singleton.  It  not  only  con- 
veys sound  advice  and  much  useful  knowledge, 
but  is  vivaciously  written.  It  is  among  the  best 
books  on  music  to  appear  this  year.  Published  by 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.,   New  York;  $2.00. 

"  The  Organ  and  Its  Masters,"  being  "  a  short 
account  of  the  most  celebrated  organists  of  former 
days,  as  well  as  some  of  the  more  prominent  organ 
virtuosi  of  the  present  time,  together  with  a  brief 
sketch  of  the  development  of  organ  construction, 
organ  music,  and  organ  playing,"  by  Henry  C. 
Lahee,  is  published,  with  many  illustrations,  by 
L.    C.    Page   &    Co.,    Boston;    $1.60. 

"  Orchestral  Instruments  and  their  Use,"  an 
illustrated  work  by  Arthur  Elson,  "  giving  a  de- 
scription of  each  instrument  now  employed  by 
civilized  nations,  a  brief  account  of  its  history, 
an  idea  of  the  technical  and  acoustical  principles 
illustrated  by  its  performance,  and  an  explanation 
of  its  value  and  functions  in  the  modern  orchestra," 
is  published  by  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.,  Boston;  $1.60. 


New  Editions. 

The  amusing  vicissitudes  of  a  book  are  related 
with  evident  appreciation  by  the  Right  Hon.  William 
Edward  Hartpole  Lecky  in  the  preface  to  a  new 
and  enlarged  edition  of  his  "  Leaders  of  Public 
Opinion  in  Ireland."  The  first  edition  appeared 
in  1 86 1,  when  the  author  was  twenty-three,  and 
fell,  he  says,  "  absolutely  dead."  Thirty  copies 
were  sold,  and  it  got  one  review  from  a  Cork 
paper.  Ten  years  later,  the  Irish  question  being 
then  uppermost  in  the  public  mind,  Lecky  revisea 
and  published  another  edition,  "  toning  down  a 
rhetoric  which  savored  too  much  of  a  debating 
society."  This  book  also  "  made  no  considerable 
impression  "  until  Gladstone's  conversion  to  Home 
Rule,  when  it  leaped  into  sudden  popularity.  It 
was  quoted  everywhere.  "  Even  the  first  still- 
born edition  had  a  strange  resurrection."  "  i 
remember  on  one  occasion,"  writes  Mr.  Lecky, 
"  that  Mr.  Justin  McCarthy,  in  describing  the 
growth  of  the  Home  Rule  idea,  gave  a  conspicuous 
place  to  the  influence  of  my  book  when  it  first 
appeared  [those  thirty  copies!],  and  Mr.  Gladstone, 
while  praising  greatly  the  existing  edition  [of 
1871]  urged  those  who  could  procure  it  to  specially 
study  the  earlier  and  more  authoritative  one.  [!!!] 
Some  of  the  worst  specimens  of  its  boyish  rhetoric 
were,  indeed,  frequently  quoted — usually  without 
the  smallest  intimation  that  they  had  been  sup- 
pressed by  the  author  in  a  later  edition."  This, 
surely,  is  a  curious  instance  of  the  public's 
vagaries.  The  present  edition  is,  of  course,  in- 
dispensable to  all  students  of  Irish  history.  Much 
new  matter  from  official  papers  has  been  utilized. 
Published  by  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  New  York; 
(two   vols.)    $4.00  net. 

Of  the  new  edition  of  Sir  Arthur  Helps's  "  The 
Spanish  Conquest  in  America,"  two  volumes  are 
before  us,  the  second  and  third.  They  are  well 
printed  on  moderately  thin,  light  paper,  and  the 
bindings  are  also  light.  As  the  work  appeared 
in  1851,  the  publishers  have  thought  it  well  to 
introduce  a  few  notes  correcting  obvious  misstate- 
ments and  elaborating  other  passages  by  citations 
from  later  authors.  This  work  has  been  done 
by  M.  Oppenheim,  who  also  writes  an  introduction. 
Published  by  John   Lane,   New   York. 

The  "  History  of  Criticism  and  Literary  Taste 
in  Europe,"  by  Professor  George  Saintsbury, 
which  was  noticed  in  last  week's  A  rgonaut,  is 
published  by  Dodd.  Mead  &  Co.,  New  York,  a 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


SJ©WS« 


The  universal  desire  to  experience  a  new 
sensation  has  been  the  means  of  bringing  suc- 
cess to  those  who  first  originated  the  idea  of 
making  the  public  acquainted  with  a  typical 
representation  of  an  old  morality  play.  The 
artistic  success  of  any  undertaking  of  the  kind 
must  be  measured  by  the  strength  of  the  im- 
pression, and  the  effect  left  upon  the  mind  by 
"  Everyman  "  is  totally  alien  to  the  superficial 
impression  which  we  carry  away  from  theatri- 
cal representations  in  the  playgoer's  routine. 

One  carries  away,  not  only  vivid  mental  pic- 
tures of  the  figures  and  groupings,  but  this 
simple  allegory,  Written  five  centuries  ago  for 
audiences  that  have  long  since  crumbled  to 
dust,  still  has  the  power  to  brush  aside  a 
modicum,  at  least,  of  our  twentieth-century 
frivolity,  flippancy,  and  self-conscious  sophis- 
tication, and  induce  a  certain  simplicity  of 
response. 

It  is  impossible  to  attain  to  the  mental  atti- 
tude of  the  literal  and  devout  listeners  to 
whom  the  play  was  first  addressed,  but  imagi- 
nation, that  nimble  scaler  of  obstructions,  as- 
sists us  to  some  approximation  of  their  re- 
ceptive state. 

"  Everyman  "  was  designed  by  its  author,  a 
priest  who  lived  during  the  fifteenth  century, 
to  inspire  in  the  heedless  a  reverence  for  the 
teachings  of  religion.  Everyman,  a  thought- 
less youth,  who  is  "  Lyvynge  without  drede  in 
worldly  prosperyte,"  and  who  stands  in  his 
single  person  for  all  human  creatures,  is  re- 
garded with  disapproval  from  the  "  hevenly 
spere."  God  summons  his  mighty  messenger, 
Dethe,  to  call  the  sinner  to  his  account,  and 
prepare  for  the  journey  to  the  grave.  Every- 
man, fearing  the  dread  solitude  of  the  long 
journey,  prays  piteously  that  he  may  have 
"  company  fro  this  vale  terry stryall,"  and  with 
the  permission  of  Dethe  calls  upon  those  to- 
ward whom  he  has  borne  love  and  compan- 
ionship to  go  with  him  upon  his  pilgrimage. 
But,  one  by  one,  Feloship,  Kynrede,  Cosin, 
and  Goodes,  abandon  him,  and  the  dying 
sinner  is  forced  to  turn  to  Good-dedes,  who  by 
his  sins  is  "  so  sore  bound,"  that  she  can  not 
aid  him.  Knolege,  her  sister,  who  represents 
religion,  now  comes  to  his  relief,  and  leads 
him  to  that  "  holy  man,  Confessyon,"  who 
delivers  over  to  him  the  "  scourge  of  pen- 
aunce."  Everyman  thus  brought  under  the  in- 
fluence of  the  church,  and  cleansed  of  his  sins 
by  confession,  relieves  Good-dedes  of  her 
sore  strait.  And  then,  clad  in  the  white  robe 
of  contrition,  he  is  led  by  Knolege  and  Good- 
dedes  to  the  door  of  his  tomb.  There,  aban- 
doned by  Beauty,  Strengthe,  Dyscretion,  and 
Fyve  Wyttes,  and  supported  alone  by  Good- 
dedes  and  Knolege,  who  administer  the 
ghostly  counsels  of  the  church,  he  sinks  into 
the  open  grave ;  two  black-hooded  figures 
cover  it  from  sight  and  Everyman  appears  no 
more. 

It  is  obvious  that  only  the  curiosity  inspired 
by  a  fitting  revival  of  the  dead  drama  of  dead 
ages  could  reconcile  the  lively  modern  to 
this  lugubrious  bit  of  symbolism.  But  the  al- 
legory is  presented  in  such  a  manner  that  its 
medieval  origin,  its  religious  symbolism,  and 
its  human  interest,  are  fully  developed.  The 
scenery  and  costumes  are  copied  from  ancient 
models,  giving  a  general  effect  of  artistic 
beauty  and  impressiveness,  and  many  of 
the  exits  and  entrances  are  from  the  front, 
as  in  ancient  times.  The  orchestra  and  the 
singers  are  invisible,  but  two  figures  in  the 
dress  of  monks  remain  seated,  during  the  per- 
formance, at  either  side  of  the  stage,  fixed  and 
immovable.  The  solemn  chanting  of  invis- 
ible voices  is  heard  from  the  curtained  space 
above  the  stage,  an  organ  sounds  a  subdued 
and  sombre  diapason,  and  a  low  tone  is  heard 
in  prayer,  as  Everyman  fades  away  from 
earthly  vision. 

At  one  stage  of  the  performance,  a  pro- 
cessional headed  by  Everyman  in  the  white 
rcjes  of  redemption,  bearingacrossupon  which 
he  fixes  the  rapt  gaze  of  the  redeemed  sinner, 
aid  followed  by  Good-dedes,  Knolege,  and  the 
jut  personification      f  his  abstract  qualities, 

'sses  through  the  luuse,  while  incense  is 
v.  ifted  upon  the  air  from  an  invisible  quarter. 


The  entire  effect  is  sombre,  religious,  mysti- 
cal, yet  human.  That  long  dead,  yet  not  un- 
forgotten  priest,  who  wrote  the  little  poem- 
play  for  the  glory  of  the  church,  evidently  had 
a  blending  of  poet  and  psychologist  in  his 
nature,  since  his  play,  after  the  lapse  of  cen- 
turies, can  thus  hold  a  modern  audience. 

Not  that  one  is  continually  at  a  tension  of 
interest.  An  adherence  to  tradition  has  im- 
posed a  sombre,  measured  style  of  delivery 
upon  the  players,  which,  with  the  quaint 
phraseology  in  which  the  lengthy  lines  are 
couched,  makes  occasional  waverings  of  at- 
tention from  the  text  pardonable.  Adonai, 
who  represents  God,  and  who  remains  invisi- 
ble (a  variation,  by  the  way,  from  the  East- 
ern presentation),  speaks,  like  Hamlet's  fa- 
ther, in  a  measured  monotone.  Knolege,  who 
personifies  the  church,  half  chants  her  lines, 
at  moment  intervals.  Everyman,  and  the 
companions  of  his  gayer  hours,  employ  the 
style  of  delivery  generally  used  in  poetic 
drama.  A  curiously  successful  effect  of  the 
characters  being  mere  abstractions  is  obtained, 
the  personality  of  the  players  being  entirely 
held  in  reserve,  except  in  the  case  of  Every- 
man, which  character  is  assumed  by  a  woman. 
She  is  a  slight,  delicate-featured  girl,  and,  at 
first,  in  spite  of  the  depth  and  strength  of  her 
contralto  voice  and  the  painted  tan  of  her  skin, 
can  not  do  away  with  the  pronounced  feminin- 
ity of  her  appearance.  This  effect  lessens, 
however,  as  the  play  proceeds,  and  Everyman 
begins  to  assume  the  guise  of  the  soul  of  hu- 
manity in  the  abstract. 

Dethe,  in  habiliments  painted  to  resemble  a 
skeleton's  outline,  and  with  a  face  made 
up  like  that  of  its  fleshless  skull,  is 
singularly  impressive,  in  spite  of  his  curious 
headgear,  which,  like  the  rest  of  his  make-up, 
was  correctly  copied  from  mediaeval  prints. 
He  speaks  in  an  abrupt,  harsh,  imperious 
monotone,  thus  giving  the  impression  of  lit- 
eral and  unquestioning  obedience  to  the  de- 
crees of  "  the  chefe  lord  of  paradyse."  All 
of  the  players,  save  the  four  who  personify 
Everyman's  abstract  qualities,  and  Kno- 
lege, whose  voice  and  appearance  lacked  the 
impressiveness  and  physical  fitness  notice- 
able in  the  others,  were  well  within  the 
picture. 

In  spite  of  the  admirable  dignity"  and  ex- 
pressive elocution  with  which  Everyman  was 
rendered,  there  is  little  doubt  that  the  ab- 
sence from,  the  cast  of  Miss  Wynne  Matthie- 
son,  the  English  actress,  who  made  such  a 
favorable  impression  in  New  York,  has  sub- 
tracted from  the  character  something  of  intel- 
lectual comprehension  and  simple  and  mov- 
ing humanity.  But  the  dignity,  beauty,  and 
naive  and  appealing  simplicity  of  the  entire 
presentation  is  quite  beyond  our  ordinary  ex- 
periences. Everybody,  to  be  sure,  will  not 
care  for  Everyman.  People  who  are  pene- 
trated with  a  lively  intellectual  curiosity, 
seekers  after  novelty,  religious  people,  aesthetic 
people,  literary  people,  scholarly  people,  and 
even  a  certain  proportion  of  frivolous  people, 
will  recognize  its  claim. 

I  cast  an  eye  around  the  audience  occasion- 
ally during  the  performance  to  see  how  they 
took  it,  and  concluded  that  the  women,  some 
of  whom  no  doubt  had  dragged  their  husbands 
there  in  matrimonial  chains,  were  the  most 
responsive  to  its  peculiar  influence.  On  the 
whole,  in  spite  of  an  occasional  fugitive 
yawn  (generally  masculine),  the  audience  was 
deeply   attentive. 

The  entomologists  tell  us  of  a  certain 
species  of  ant  that  begins  life  with  wings, 
which  subsequently  unhook  themselves,  leav- 
ing the  denuded  insect  to  crawl  tamely  for 
the  rest  of  its  days.  Alas,  that  one's  im- 
agination can  show  a  similar  capacity  for 
settling  down  from  soaring  to  crawling.  I 
can  remember  halcyon  days  when  my  fancy 
as  well  as  my  ear  was  thrilled  by  the  delights 
of  opera — when,  if  the  tenor  was  not  too 
stodgy  and  stout,  and  the  soprano  had  a  rag 
of  youth  and  charm  left,  it  was  not  impossible 
to  thrill  with  romantic  delight  over  the  il- 
lusion of  this  species  of  vocalized  drama.  I 
remember  once  experiencing  a  certain  shock 
upon  hearing  a  music-teacher,  whose  tastes 
inclined  to  the  severely  classic  school,  express 
indifference,  even  distaste,  for  opera.  She 
even  uttered  the  dreadful  heresy  that  the 
actors  disturbed  her  enjoyment  of  the  music. 
Such  sentiments,  I  then  felt,  were  as  much 
open  to  suspicion  as  an  assertion  that  stealing 
is  a  moral  and  edifying  occupation. 

These  retrospective  reflections  have  been 
inspired  by  "  Lucia,"  which  is  alternating 
with  the  ever-faithful  "  Aida "  this  week  at 
the  Tivoli. 

"  Lucia "  has  all  the  faults  and  all  the 
charts  of  the  old  Italian  school  of  opera. 
It    is,    after   one   has    listened   to,    say,   one's 


sixtieth  opera,  just  about  impossible  to 
take  the  acting  seriously  in  operas  of  this 
type.  The  music's  the  thing.  One  looks  on 
apathetically  while  the  distraught  Lucia 
writhes  upon  the  floor,  and,  after  the  in- 
evitable wrestling  contest,  is  knocked  down 
in  the  second  round  by  Edgardo,  whose  fight- 
ing blood  is  up.  Perhaps  one  indulges  in 
the  irreverence  of  an  inward  smile  upon  see- 
ing this  sort  of  thing  the  sixty-first  time. 
But  the  music,,  if  it  has  not  been  heard  too 
often,  holds  its  own.  It  has  so  many  de- 
liciously  melodious  spots ;  and  how  exquisite 
is  the  harp  interlude  that  precedes  the  appear- 
ance of  Lucia.  It  is  a  sort  of  sweet,  in- 
articulate heralding  of  the  coming  of  youth 
and  maidenhood,  love  and  sorrow,  reminding 
one,  by  its  suggested  pathos,  of  the  plaintive 
prelude    to    the    death     act     in     "  Traviata." 

Adeline  Tromben  made  her  first  appearance 
before  a  Tivoli  audience  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing, and  won  general  favor  as  Lucia.  She 
is  evidently  very  young.  Indeed,  her  voice 
has  not  as  yet  entirely  lost  its  juvenile  tone. 
and  is  scarcely  able  to  express  the  note  of 
pathos.  There  are  the  unevennesses  of  im- 
maturity in  her  vocalization,  and  the  emission 
of  tone  is  faulty.  She  compresses  her  voice 
between  the  teeth,  thus  lessening  its  volume, 
and  injuring  its  tone.  But  her  voice  has  the 
true  soprano  quality,  being  high  and  true, 
not  uniformly  sweet,  but  possessing  many 
fugitive  notes  of  attractive  quality.  She 
is  not  altogether  stereotyped  in  her  acting, 
being  intelligent  enough  to  aim  at  expressing 
more  than  the  mere  pantomime  of  emotion, 
but  has  been  trained  in  the  good  old  Italian 
way  of  making  her  exit  at  an  agitated  canter. 
Giuseppe  Zanini,  the  Henry  of  the  cast,  is 
young  and  tall,  with  a  good  head  of  hair,  an 
artless  frown,  and  a  big,  fine,  round,  musical 
baritone  voice.  Our  old  friend  Agostini,  as 
Edgardo,  was,  as  usual,  too  generous  with  his 
beautiful  tenor,  which  once  or  twice  showed 
a  thread   of  hoarseness. 

Dado  is  putting  his  excellent  bass  to  exacting 
service,  and  sings  every  night  this  week, 
since  he  appears  in  both  operas  in  the  usual 
priestly  roles  which  it  is  the  lot  of  the  basso 
to  assume.  A  large  house  gave  a  hearty 
greeting  to  the  new  singers,  and  a  cordial 
welcome  to  the  old  ones,  showing  the  usual 
indiscreet  tendency  to  let  its  feelings  get  the 
better  of  it  by  joining  in  the  last  notes  of  its 
favorite  numbers  with  a  shower  of  bravos. 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


The  3Iother's  Friend 

when  nature's  supply  fails  is  Borden's  Eagle  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.  It  is  a  cow's  milk  adapted  to  in- 
fants according  to  the  highest  scientific  methods. 
An  infant  fed  on  Eagle  Brand  will  show  a  steady 
gain  in  weight. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,    Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


SYMPHONY  CONCERTS 

FRITZ  SCHEEL,  Director. 
GRAND    OPERA    MOUSE 

Orchestra  of  TO  musicians. 

Concerts  every  Tuesday  aiternoon.  3:15,  until  Oct.  6th. 
Prices  of  seals,  50c,  $1.00,  $1.25,  $1.50. 


TWO    GRAND    POPULAR    CONCERTS 

MECHANICS'   PATH, ION. 

Labor   Day,   Monday,  Sept.   7th,  3  P.  M.     Admission 
Day,  Wednesday,  Sept.  9th,  3  p.  m. 
Popular  music.     Popular  prices— 25c,  50c,  75c. 


Seats  for  all  concerts  for  sale  at  Sherman 
&  Clay's  music  store. 

STEIN  WAY  HALL         3  2  3  Sntter  SI  reet 

MR.  DENISO'SULLIVAN 

Friday  Evening,  Sept.  11th,  at  8:15 

ONLY  SONG  RECITAL  THIS  SEASON. 

Seats  75c  -and   $1.00.      At    Sherman,   Clav  &  Co.'s 
September  7th,  Sth,  9th,  10th,  nth. 

gTEtNWAY   HALL  223  Sutter  Street 

Popular  Sundav  Night  Psychological  Lectures.     SL'N- 
DAY.  September  6lh,  S:is  p.  M.. 

TYNDALL 

°fo  has  invited   DR.    ALBERT  J. 
fj  ATKINS  to  talk  on 

"      HOMAN  ELECTRICITY 

villi     demonstrations     oi     the 
power  of  the  Sub-conscious 
Mind  by  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall. 
Tickets,  25c,  50c,    and    75c. 
Box-office  open  1  to  5.  Satur- 
day. 

Sunday  eve,  September  13th,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tvndall  on 
'  Divorce:  Its  Relation  to  Psychology." 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL! 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FKAKCISCO 


September  7,  1903. 


Duplicates  and  replaces 

BROKEN 

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For  50  cents. 


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Phone  Main  10 


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*TIVOLI* 

GRAND  OPERA  SEASON.  Monday,  Wednesday, 
Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings,  Gounod's  lamous  opera, 
FAUST.     Signorina  Tina  deSpada  as  Marguerite. 

Tuesday.  Thursday,  and  Sundav  evenings,  Saturday 
matin£e,  Verdi's  great  lyric  drama,  RIGOLETTO. 


No  increase  in  prices — 25c.  50c,  and  75c.        Tel.  Bush  9. 

QOLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

Monday.  September  7th.  fourth  week,   HENRY  MIL- 
LER and  MARGARET  ANGLIN.     Monday,  Tues- 
day and  Wednesday  nights,  Wednesday  matinee, 
THE     DEVIL'S     DISCIPLE 

Thursday,    Friday,   and    Saturday  nights,    Saturday, 
matinee, 
THE     TA7VUIMG     OF?     HELEN 
September  14th — The  Aftermath. 

J\LGAZAR    THEATRE.     Phone"  Alcazar." 

Belasco  &  Maver Proprietors 

E.  D.  Price General  Manager 

Regular  malin£es  Thursday  and  Saturday.      Monday, 

Sept.  7th.  FLORENCE  ROBERTS'S  last  week  of  ' 

THE    UNWELCOME   MRS.    HATCH 


Evenings,  25c  t07.se.     Saturday  matinee,  15c  to  50c. 

T.X  GIOCONDA.  by  D'Annunzin,  will  be  given 
at  the  matinee,  Thursday.  September  10th,  when  night 
prices  will  prevail.     September  14th,  Magda. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Maver Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Beginning  Monday;  September  7th,  matinees  Saturday 

and  Sunday,   the  richest,   rarest,    raciest, 

farce-comedy  of  them  all, 

WHOSE    BABY    ARE    YOU  *? 


Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  September  14th— The  Cherry  Pickers. 

QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

This  afternoon,  to-night  and  to-morrow  (Sundav)  after- 
noon. POLLARD^  LILLIPUTIAN  OPERA  COM- 
PANY. Last  times  of  THE  BELLE  OF  NEW 
YORK. 


To-morrow     (Sunday)     night,     the     musical-  Amedy 

success  of  two  hemispheres, 

-A.     GAIETV     GIRL 

Matinees  Labor  Day  and  Admission  Day 


Prices — Nights,  15c,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.     Matinees,  15c, 
25c,  and  50c. 

CALIFORNIA  THEATRE. 

Commencing  to-morrow    night,   farewell  week   of  the 

NEILL-MOROSCO  COMPANY,  presenting  for 

the    first    time  outside  of   New   York, 

Victor    Hugo's    great    and 

powerful  story, 

-:=       NOTRE     DAME       -=■ 

A  remarkable  play  infive  acts  and  eight  tableaux 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  September  6th, 
Special  matinee,  Labor  Day,  Monday,  September  7th. 
Vaudeville  Eye-Openers !  Frederic  Bond  and  Com- 
pany :  Original  Rio  Brothers:  Almont  and  Dumont; 
Fischer  and  Wacker;  T.  Nelson  Downs;  LaVine- 
Cameron  Trio ;  Marguerite  and  Henley ;  George 
Schindler;  and  last  week  of  Bloom  and  Cooper. 


Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Last  of  QUO  VASS  !SS 

THE  BIG  LITTLE  PRINCESS? 

Next  Monday,  September  7th. 
THE  CON-QUERERS  and  THE  GLAD  HAND 

Extremely  funny  burlesques.  New  songs,  dances 
and  specialties.  Our  "all  star"  cast.  Kolb  and  Dill 
Barney  Bernard,  Blake,  Hermsen,  Maude  Amber,  etc 


Reserved  seats — Nights,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  matr 
nees,  10c  and  25c. 


l^YRtG  HALL         Eddy  St.,  above  Mason 
CHARLES   FROHMAN  presents 

EVERYMAN 

The  fifteenth-century  morality  play,  under  the  persona 
direction  of  Ben  Greet. 


TO-NIGHT,    at    8:30.      Even,'  night,    Sundays    ex 
cepted,  for  next  two  weeks. 
Matinees  Thursdays  and  Saturdays  at  3:00  o'clock 


Reserved  seats,  $2.00,  $1.50,  and  $1.00.  On  sal1 
Sherman.  Clay  &  Co.  for  next  week.  Box-office  Labo 
and  Admissfon  Days  only,  Lyric  Hall. 


September  7,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


155 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


"The  Aftermath"  at  the  Columbia. 
On  Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Wednesday 
nights  and  at  the  Saturday  matinee  next  week, 
Margaret  AngHn  and  Henry  Miller  are  to  re- 
vive Bernard  Shaw's  "  The  Devil's  Disciple," 
and  on  Thursday.  Friday,  and  Saturday 
nights,  and  at  the  Saturday  matinee,  Richard 
Harding  Davis's  "  The  Taming  of  Helen  "  is 
to  be  the  bill.  For  their  fifth  and  last  week, 
beginning  Monday,  September  14th,  they 
will  offer  a  new  version  of  George  Oh- 
net's  "  Le  Maitre  de  Forge,"  under  the 
title  "  The  Aftermath."  This  strong  love- 
Story  has  not  been  given  here  by  a 
first-class  company  for  ten  years,  and 
so  will  be  practically  new  to  the  younger 
generation  of  theatre-goers.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Kendal  produced  the  play  in  November,  1894. 
but  neither  of  the  stars  were  especially  suited 
to  the  leading  characters.  Mrs.  Kendal,  al- 
though a  fine  actress  in  certain  roles,  had  not 
the  winsome  capriciousness,  the  wayward 
charm  of  youth,  to  play  Claire  de  Beaupre.  This 
role,  however,  should  especially  suit  the  tem- 
perament and  personality  of  Miss  Anglin,  for 
she  is  better  able  than  any  of  our  younger 
actresses  of  prominence  to  portray  the  many 
little  outfiowerings  of  sentiment  and  deli- 
cately gracious  touches  of  feeling  with  which 
the  French  drama  abounds.  Mr.  Miller  will 
appear  as  Philippe  Derblay,  and  others  in  the 
long  cast  will  be  Walter  Hitchcock,  Morton 
Selten,  George  S.  Titheradge.  Robert  Mackay. 
Walter  Allen,  Kate  Pattison  Selten.  Martha 
Waldron.  Victoria  Addison,  and  Claire  Kulp. 
The  play  is  in  four  acts  and  five  scenes,  and 
will  be  beautifully  staged.  The  first  act  takes 
place  in  the  Garden  of  the  Chateau  de  Beau- 
lieu  :  the  second  and  third  in  a  room  of  the 
Derblay  mansion.  The  last  act  is  in  two 
scenes,  one  representing  Philippe's  study,  and 
another,  a  glade  in  Derblay 's  forest,  where 
the  Due  and  Philippe  fight  a  duel  with  pistols. 

[1    and  Claire  and  her  husband  are  really  united 

I    for  the  first  time  in  their  lives. 

"Notre  Dame"  at  the  California. 
On    Sunday    night   the    Neill-Morosco    com- 
pany will  present  Paul  M.  Potter's  dramatiza- 
i      tion    of    Victor    Hugo's    "  The    Hunchback    of 
1      Notre    Dame/'    in     which     Hilda     Spong    ap- 
|     peared  in  the  East  last  year.     The  story  deals 
with   the   love   of   a   beautiful    gypsy    girl    for 
a   king's    archer,    and    the    unfailing    devotion 
I    of  a  hunchback,  who  saves  her  from  the  fury 
I    of    an    angry    mob,    which    has    accused    the 
I,    girl  of  being  a  witch  and  sorceress.     She  fin- 
I     ally    dies    at    the    burning   stake    just    as    her 
I     lover    arrives    with    a    pardon    from    the    king. 
I     The  play  is  in  five  acts  and  eight  scenes,  and 
I     will    be    superbly    mounted.     "  Notre     Dame " 
will    be    given    until    Thursday    night,    when 
i     the    company    departs    for    Portland,    Or.,    for 
I    an   extended   engagement.      The   regular   com- 
I    bination    season    of   new    companies    will    be- 
|     ein  with  a  new  farce,  "A  Friend  of  the  Fam- 
m   ily,"  in  which  George  Barnum  and  Alice  John- 
|    son  will  be  seen. 

m 

"Whose  Baby  Are  You?" 
The  Central  Theatre's  attraction  next  week 

■'  will  be  a  laughable  farce-comedy  entitled, 
"Whose  Baby  Are  You?"  of  which  the  man- 
I  agement  says  :  "  To  give  the  plot  would  spoil 
1  the  fun  of  the  surprises  in  store  for  those  who 
1    intend    to    see    the    play.      The    whole    action 

J    takes    place    between    breakfast    and    bedtime. 

1  The  mix-up  of  sweet  babies  jeopardizes  repu- 
I  tations.  stirs  fighting  blood,  breeds  gossip  and 
I  scandal,  threatens  the  sanity  of  blameless  in- 
I  dividuals.  causes  tears,  agony,  wailing,  and 
I  gnashing  of  teeth,  and  then  suddenly  ttie  ex- 
I  citement  gives  place  to  mirth  over  the  discov- 
I  ery  of  the  error.  Laughter  takes  the  place 
I  of  tears,  the  duelists  lay  down  their  guns  and 

<l  take  up  the  ale-mug.  the  gossips  are  disap- 
I  pointed,   and   everything  ends    happily."      Not 

.1  only  will  all  the  favorites  of  the  Central  be  in 
I  the  cast,  but  there  will  be  three  genuine  ba- 
bies on  the  stage. 


At  the  Orpheum. 
Frederick  Bond,  the  well-known  legitimate 
actor,  will  make  his  first  vaudeville  appear- 
ance in  this  city  at  the  Orpheum  next  week, 
presenting  a  clever  new  sketch  entitled  "  My 
Awful  Dad."  Among  the  other  new-comers 
are  the  Rio  brothers,  who  do  an  original  act 
on  the  flying  rings ;  Almont  and  Dumont,  the 
"  instrumental  hussars,"  who  play  on  saxo- 
phones, cornets,  trumpets,  coaching-horns,  and 
all  kinds  of  wind  instruments ;  and  Fischer 
and  Wacker,  comic  Tyrolean  duetists.  Those 
retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  T.  Nelson 
Downs,  correctly  denominated  "  King  of 
Coins,"  who  will  continue  his  sleight-of-hand 
work ;  the  Lavine- Cameron  trio,  eccentric 
acrobats ;  George  Schindler,  the  unique  har- 
monica player;  Lew  Bloom  and  Jane  Cooper. 
in  their  original  playlet.  "  A  Picture  from 
Life  " ;  and  Marguerite  and  Henley,  the  sen- 
sational gymnasts. 


least,  is  Maude  Amber's  song.  "  My  Pauline." 
One  of  the  features  of  the  new  bill  will  be 
a  number  of  trick  scenes,  expressly  arranged 
for  *'  The  Con-Querers." 


Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
Gounod's  ever-popular  "  Faust "  and  Verdi's 
"  Rigoletto."  will  be  the  operas  to  be  sung  at  the 
Tivoli  Opera  House  next  week.  In  the  former 
opera,  which  will  be  given,  on  Monday, 
Wednesday,  Friday,  and  Saturday  even- 
ings, Tina  de  Spada  will  make  her 
first  appearance  this  season,  as  Mar- 
querite,  and  her  many  friends  and  ad- 
mirers will  doubtless  give  her  a  warm  wel- 
come. Agostini,  who  is  to  sing  Faust,  is 
also  sure  of  an  enthusiastic  reception,  for  he 
is  a  'great  San  Francisco  favorite.  Dado's 
Mephisto  will  be  remembered  as  one  of 
the  best  things  he  does.  The  part  of  Valen- 
tine will  fall  to  the  lot  of  Zanini :  Cortesi  is 
to  appear  as  Wagner;  Eugenie  Barker,  an 
American  girl,  who  has  recently  returned 
from  a  long  engagement  with  the  Carl  Rosa 
Company  in  England,  has  been  engaged  for 
the  part  of  Seibel  ;  and  Miss  Deglow  will  sing 
Martha.  As  the  Duke  of  Mantua,  Alfredo  Te- 
deschi  will  be  heard  in  San  Francisco  for  the 
first  time.  He  is  the  youngest  tenor  on  the 
Italian  stage,  but  he  has  already  won  his  way 
to  the  front  of  his  profession.  Adamo  Gre- 
goretti,  the  baritone,  who  made  such  a  hit  in 
"  Aida."  will  have  the  title-role  in  "  Rigo- 
letto." which  is  to  be  presented  on  Tuesday. 
Thursday,  and  Sunday  evenings  and  Saturday 
matinee.  Adelina  Tromben,  who  sung  Lucy 
Ashton  in  "  Lucia "  this  week,  will  be  the 
Gilda ;  Cleo  Marchesini  is  cast  for  Magdalena, 
and  Travaglini.  for  Sparafucile. 

Florence  Roberts's  Great  Hit. 
That  Florence  Roberts  has  a  very  large  fol- 
lowing in  San  Francisco,  has  again  been  dem- 
onstrated this  week,  for  she  was  given  a  ver- 
itable ovation  on  her  reappearance  on  Monday 
night,  and  the  Alcazar  Theatre  has  been 
crowded  every  night.  On  Thursday  morning, 
it  was  impossible  to  purchase  a  single  seat  for 
any  of  the  remaining  performances  this  week, 
as  the  house  had  been  completely  sold  out. 
Of  course.  Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  is  entitled 
to  much  of  the  credit  of  Miss  Roberts's  great 
success  in  "  The  Unwelcome  Mrs.  Hatch."  for 
she  has  provided  the  popular  actress  with 
some  strong  emotional  scenes,  and  every  cur- 
tain ends  with  an  effective  climax,  which  is 
repeatedly  encored.  Indeed,  it  is  a  long  time 
since  Miss  Roberts  has  played  a  part  which 
has  proved  more  convincing,  more  appealing, 
more  pathetic,  than  Mrs.  Hatch,  the  frivolous, 
impulsive  little  divorced  woman,  who  is  heart- 
hungry  for  a  mere  glimpse  of  her  child.  On 
next  Thursday  afternoon.  Miss  Roberts  will 
begin  her  series  of  Thursday  matinee  per- 
formances with  an  English  adaptation  of 
D'Annunzio's  much-discussed  poetic  drama. 
"  La  Gioconda."  hitherto  associated  with  the 
name  of  Eleanora  Duse. 

Precocious  Juveniles  in  "  A  Gaiety  Girl." 
The  Pollard  Juvenile  Opera  Company  will 
change  their  offering  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House  next  week  to  the  London  musical  suc- 
cess, "  A  Gaiety  Girl,"  which  made  such  a  hit 
at  the  Baldwin  Theatre  some  years  ago,  when 
it  set  the  town  to  whistling  "  Tommy  At- 
kins," and  introduced  us  to  a  bevy  of  English 
beauties.  Little  Daphne  Pollard.  Teddy  Mc- 
Namara.  and  Jack  Pollard  will  have  the  lead- 
ing roles,  and  all  the  other  clever  little  young- 
sters will  have  a  chance.  The  opera  calls  for 
some  picturesque  stage  settings,  and  as  Life 
Guards.  ladies  of  fashion,  and  Gaiety  dancers, 
the  children  will  wear  some  fetching  costumes. 
A  grand  Pierrot  ballet  is  to  be  one  of  the 
features. 


One  of  the  early  attractions  for  the  Colum- 
bia Theatre  is  Robert  Edeson  in  "  Soldiers  of 
Fortune."  The  play  is  by  Richard  Hardine 
Davis  and  Augustus  Thomas,  and  is  based  on 
Davis's  well-known  novel. 


As  Monday  and  Wednesday  are  legal  holi- 
days, the  sale  of  seats  for  "  Everyman  "  will 
be  transferred  from  Sherman  &  Clay's  store 
to  the  box-office  at  Lyric  Hall. 

"  Little  Mary  "  is  the  title  which  J.  M.  Bar- 
rie   has   selected   for   his   new   comedy. 


Dr.  Tyndall's  Popular  Lectures. 
At  Steinway  Hall  on  Sunday  night,  Dr.  Mc- 
Ivor-Tyndall  will  again  entertain  his  audience 
with  experiments  in  the  power  of  thought, 
while  the  lecture  preceding  the  demonstrations 
will,  by  invitation  of  Dr.  Tyndall,  be  given 
by  Dr.  Albert  J.  Atkins,  the  young  San  Fran- 
cisco physician,  whose  recent  discovery  that 
it  is  not'  oxygen  that  gives  life  to  the  blood, 
has  caused  a  sensation  in  medical  and  scien- 
tific circles.  Dr.  Atkins  will  tell  of  his  dis- 
covery, in  a  lecture  on  "  Human  Electricity." 
On  Sunday  night,  September  13th,  Dr.  Tyn- 
dall will  lecture  on  "  Divorce :  Its  Relation 
to  Psychology." 


Banks  and  Insurance. 


Joseph  Haworth,  who  was  last  seen  here  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House  in  a  repertoire  of 
well-known  plays,  died  of  heart  disease  in 
Willoughby,  O.,  on  August  28th.  He  was  forty- 
eight  years  of  age,  and  has  been  prominent  in 
the  theatrical  world  for  twenty-five  years.  Ha- 
worth played  last  season  with  Richard  Mans- 
field in  "  Julius  Caesar,"  appearing  as  Cassius. 
Later  he  was  the  leading  man  to  Blanche 
Walsh  in  Tolstoy's  "  Resurrection." 


George  E.  Lask,  for  many  years  connected 
with  the  stage  management  of  the  Tivoli 
Opera  House  and  Fischer's  Theatre,  is  to 
Leave  for  New  York  next  month,  to  join 
David  Belasco,  with  a  special  assignment  to 
the  production  of  "  The  Darling  of  the  Gods," 
in  which  Blanche  Bates  is  to  star  for  another 
season. 


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September  7,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


According  to  the  New  York  papers,  the 
hotels  of  the  metropolis  were  crowded  during 
the  first  "  yacht  race  week  "  as  they  have  not 
been  crowded  for  many  a  day.  From  noon  on 
the  morning  of  the  initial  race,  hotels  all  over 
the  city  were  turning  away  patrons,  and  put- 
ting up  cots  to  take  care  of  those  whom  they 
endeavored  to  accommodate.  At  the  Waldorf- 
Astoria  the  unprecedented  number  of  593 
persons  registered  during  twenty-four  hours, 
and  the  house  turned  away  guests  at  night, 
despite  its  1.400  rooms.  At  the  Albemarle, 
which  has  only  100  rooms,  there  were  84  per- 
sons registered  during  the  day,  and  none 
were  taken  after  six  o'clock  at  night.  The 
Hoffman  House  and  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel 
turned  away  all  applicants  after  six  o'clock, 
and  at  that  time  had  in  service  every  cot. 
At  the  other  houses  all  along  Broadway  the 
conditions  were  the  same,  and  the  hotel  man- 
agers say  that  the  demand  for  accommoda- 
tions during  the  first  week  was  greater  than 
during  any  of  the  preceding  sailing  of  inter- 
national yacht  races.  Apartment-houses  and 
all  sorts  of  outside  accommodations  were 
called  into  service  by  the  various  big  hotels. 

New  York  harbor  presented  a  brilliant 
scene  during  the  races,  for  every  craft  that 
could  float  was  out  on  the  bay.  There  were 
Sound  and  Hudson  Bay  boats  black  with 
people,  and  disreputable  looking  old  hookers 
and  dingy  tugs  which  were  pressed  into  ser- 
vice, went  down  the  harbor  with  their  lower 
decks  flush  with  the  water,  and  their  paddle- 
wheels  on  the  side  furthest  from  the  racers 
fanning  the  air.  Saturday,  August  22A,  was  a 
half-holiday,  and  on  that  day  everybody,  from 
the  "  boss  "  in  his  private  yacht  to  the  clerk  and 
typewriter  and  office  boy  on  the  "  dollar-per 
boats,  was  out.  And  in  addition  to  these 
were  the  visitors  from  Wayback,  Red  Dog, 
Kalamazoo,  or  Oshkosh.  who  wore  yachting 
togs  for  the  first  time,  and  wrere  proud  of 
them.  Fakirs  were  abundant  on  the  boats, 
and  there  was  a  medley  of  hoarse-voiced 
calls.  "  Show  your  color !  Shamrock  or 
Reliance,  Only  twenty-five  cents."  "  Souve- 
nirs of  the  race.  Here  you  are."  "  Full  and 
official  guide  an'  programme  of  the  races." 
"  Smelling  salts,  smelling  salts !  Just  what 
you  want  for  that  funny  feeling.  Get  your 
smelling  salts  and  you'll  be  happy." 


Society,  too,  made  a  brave  showing.  Among 
the  most  notable  private  yachts  and  their 
owners  who  entertained  large  parties  were : 
The  North  Star.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cornelius  Van- 
derbilt:  the  Nourmahal,  Colonel  and  Mrs. 
John  Jacob  Astor;  the  Surf,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Adrian  Iselin;  the  Narada,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Pembroke  Jones;  the  Electra,  ex-Commodore 
and  Mrs.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry;  the  Varuna, 
Eugene  Higgins;  the  Seminole,  John  M.  Rob- 
bins;  the  Wanderer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  A. 
C.  Taylor;  the  Emerald.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George 
Gould;  the  Corsair,  J.  Pierpont  Morgan;  the 
Aloha,  Commodore  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Curtiss 
James;  the  Sagamore.  Commodore  and  Mrs. 
Frederick  Thompson  Adams ;  the  Sea  Fox, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Post,  Jr. ;  the  Dela- 
ware, Commodore  and  Mrs.  Frederick  B. 
Bourne ;  the  Rambler.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis 
Cass  Ledyard ;  the  Helenita,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frank  Gould ;  the  Noma.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  B.  Leeds  ;  the  Katiazvha,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  H.  Rogers;  the  Privateer,  R.  A.  C. 
Smith ;  the  Aquilo.  William  P.  Eno ;  the 
Wacoula.  James  J.  Hill,  Jr.;  the  Free  Lance. 
Frederick  Augustus  Schermerhorn ;  the  Mar- 
guerite, Isaac  A.  Emerson;  the  Colonia,  Clar- 
ence Mackay;  the  Elsa.  Miss  Eloise  Breese ; 
the  Josephine,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Widencr ; 
the  May,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexander  Van  Rens- 
selaer; the  Mayflower.  Mrs.  Theodore  Roose- 
velt, Miss  Alice  Roosevelt.  Miss  Nora  Iselin, 
and  party.  Last  but  not  least  was  Sir  Thomas 
Lipton's  the  Erin,  on  which  he  entertained 
the  Earl  and  Countess  of  Shaftesbury,  and 
a  large  number  of  distinguished  foreigners, 
who  came  to  America  to  see  him  "  lift  the 
cup." 


if  he  champions  the  Faubourg's  views  and 
ideals.  As  these  adoptions,  which  have  always 
been  rare,  are  becoming  still  more  so,  one  may 
say  the  world  at  large  does  not  count  for  the 
Faubourg.  If,  through  some  peculiar  circum- 
stances, a  few  atoms  of  the  outside  world  are 
admitted  into  the  noble  institution,  they  are 
accepted  as  curiosities,  as  phenomena,  or 
distractions."  _ 

"  However,"  adds  Mr.  Weiller.  "  the  Fau- 
bourg is  not  wholly  what  it  used  to 
be.  It  has  sustained  the  damages  re- 
sulting from  new  times  and  new  habits. 
It  has  partly  left  '  la  rive  gauche '  of 
the  Seine,  where  it  used  to  dwell,  and  has 
scattered  itself  in  the  new  quarters — Champs 
Elysees,  Place  Monceau.  Aristocratic  fami- 
lies do  not  all  live  in  private  houses  any 
longer;  they  sometimes  know  the  promiscuity 
of  a  neighboring  "bourgeois'  flat.  Under  the 
threat  of  misery  those  of  the  Faubourg  have 
had  to  take  into  consideration  the  new  econ- 
omic conditions  surrounding  them.  In  all 
times  the  sons  of  the  noble  have  married  a 
plebeian  dot;  if  we  denied  that  fact  we 
would  have  to  do  away  with  a  large  part  of 
our  history  and  of  our  literature.  But  these 
bargains,  which  one  condemns  and  at  the  same 
time  envies,  have  never  been  as  frequent  as 
in  the  last  and  present  generations.  It  seems 
as  though  an  irresistible  current  were  estab- 
lished between  money  and  position.  It  is 
useless  to  try  to  find  out  if  money  seeks  posi- 
tion or  position  money.  They  both  go  toward 
each  other  with  equal  eagerness,  because  they 
complete  each  other  so  well.  '  The  craving 
for  luxuries,*  said  M.  de  Tocqueville,  '  is 
a  desire  which  increases  through  being  grati- 
fied.' So  the  Faubourg  St.  Germain  has  been 
invaded,  not  only  by  manufacturers'  daugh- 
ters marrying  young  noblemen,  but  even  by 
manufacturers,  who  have  been  clever  enough 
to  win  aristrocratic  young  girls.  Most  of  these 
last  ones  have  appealed  to  the  Pope,  begging 
permission  to  add  a  title  to  their  plebeian 
name,  and,  their  request  being  granted,  they 
have  distinguished  themselves  by  being  more 
exclusive  than  the  oldest  families.  The  'bour- 
geois '  forgive  them  and  smile.  Their  ser- 
vants bow  in  uttering  the  title  ;  the  Faubourg 
alone  objects  and  delays  receiving  them. 


Points  of  contrast  between  our  Four  Hun- 
dred and  the  Faubourg  St.  Germain  have  re- 
cently been  discussed  by  Lazare  Weiller,  a 
member  of  the  Legion  of  Honor  and  special 
emissary  of  the  French  Government  to  study  the 
economic  and  social  conditions  in  the  United 
States.  "  What  astonishes  the  foreigner  upon 
entering  into  American  society,"  he  says,  "  is 
to  find  it,  like  that  of  the  Old  World,  divided 
into  carefully  sifted  clans.  In  Paris  we  have 
the  Faubourg  St.  Germain,  or,  as  we  usually 
call  it,  '  le  Faubourg.'  It  is  a  coterie  formed 
mostly  of  titled  families,  who  keep  to  them- 
elves,  and  allow  no  '  bourgeois '  intrusion. 
Vet  it  is  possible  to  enter  the  Faubourg  with- 
r-it  belonging  to  it.  .v  foreigner,  a  politician, 
a  prominent  man  of  any  kind,' may  be  received 


has    an    estate    near    Astrosnitz,    Prussia,    and 
has   become   a   naturalized    German. 

August  Ohlburger,  a  Chicago  mere  man, 
says  he  knows  the  solution  of  the  domestic 
problem.  He  succeeded  in  keeping  a  working 
housekeeper,  Anna  HoHmann,  for  thirty-one 
years  by  observing  the  following  rules : 
"  Don't  expect  from  a  servant  more  work  than 
you  could  do  yourself.  Remember  that  your 
servant  is  a  human  being,  not  a  beast  of  bur- 
den. Follow  the  golden  rule."  Miss  Holt- 
mann  also  has  her  rules  for  servants :  "  Do 
faithfully  all  the  work  you  are  expected  to  do 
and  a  little  more.  Try  to  anticipate  the  wants 
of  your  employer.     Don't  grumble." 

Paper  clothes  are  the  latest  novelty,  accord- 
ing to  the  World's  Paper  Trade  Review. 
This  journal  tells  us  that  a  Berlin  tailoring- 
house  is  now  offering  complete  paper  suits 
for  $2.50.  The  prospectus  gives  full  instruc- 
tions for  measuring  one's  self,  and  the  firm 
also  advertises  in  foreign  journals,  evidently 
expecting  to  do  an  export  business.  The  mate- 
rial is  woven  and  pressed,  of  a  dull  cream 
color,  and  apparently  not  very  light. 


"  In  New  York  the  Faubourg  is  represented 
by  a  group  of  American  families,  constituting 
the  aristrocracy  and  called  the  Four  Hundred. 
The  Four  Hundred  are  very  exclusive.  One 
belongs  to  the  Four  Hundred  as  one  belongs 
to  the  Eleven  Hundred  of  the  Stock  Exchange, 
except  that  one  neither  needs  to  buy  his  en- 
trance nor  wait  for  some  one  to  step  out  in 
order  to  take  his  place.  They  have  not  yet  the 
vices  of  the  old  and  worn  aristocracies,  and  if 
they  succeed  in  avoiding  them,  there  is  no 
reason  why  they  should  not  succeed  in  creating 
a  corps  d'clite.  It  is  the  privilege  of  those  who 
are  sincerely  attached  to  American  people  to 
warn  them  against  the  regrettable  tendencies 
which  draw  them  toward  the  older  races; 
although  we  well  know  that  their  fondness 
for  ancient  tradition  will  never  predominate 
over  their  practical  sense.  I  will  never  be  the 
one  to  reproach  them  for  marrying  into  our 
nobility,  especially  now  when  experience  is 
teaching  them  to  be  more  circumspect.  But 
they  sometimes  go  too  far  in  their  enthusiasm 
over  a  famous  name." 


Miss  Marie  Satterlee.  of  Titusville,  Pa.,  by 
the  way,  seems  to  be  one  of  those  unfortunate 
American  heiresses  who  have  rushed  blindly 
into  a  foreign  marriage  only  to  repent  at 
leisure,  for  a  clique  of  Berlin  usurers  and 
marriage-brokers  have  recently  been  making 
things  unpleasant  for  her  husband,  Count 
Franz  Joseph  Maria  von  Larisch-Monnich 
since  his  marriage,  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y..  in  June, 
1901.  They  have  been  demanding  something 
like  $50,000  from  him,  and  the  count  has  re- 
fused to  pay  the  sum.  The  public  prosecutor 
has  now  brought  proceedings  against  the 
usurers  for  attempted  swindling.  Some  time 
before  Count  Larisch-Monnich  visited  Am-erica, 
the  accused  persons  assert,  they  supplied  him 
with  funds  to  go  to  Nuremburg  and  court  the 
daughter  of  Faber.  the  pencil  manufacturer, 
and  that  the  count  signed  a  note  for  $50,000. 
payable  on  condition  that  he  married  Miss 
Faber.  He  went  to  Nuremburg,  it  is  asserted, 
properly  supplied  with  cash,  and  paid  his 
addresses  to  Miss  Faber,  but  was  not  accepted. 
Later,  the  count  went  to  America,  pre- 
sumably at  his  own  expense,  and  eventually 
married  Miss  Satterlee.  The  group  which 
avers  that  it  financed  the  Faber  affair  de- 
manded $50,000,  not  on  the  conditional  note, 
but  on  another,  which  it  is  insisted  Count 
Larisch-Monnich  signed,  and  which  he  re- 
fused to  pay.  Count  Larisch-Monnich  be- 
longs   to    the    Austrian    nobility.      His    father 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and 
fiamnialions  of  the  skin. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 

From    Official     Report     of    Alexander  G.    McAdie, 
District   Forecaster. 

Max.      Min.      Rain-  State  of 

Tern,      Tern.      fall.  Weather. 

August  27th 6S            56              °°  Pt.  Cloudy 

"        28th 60           52           .00  Cloudy 

"        2gth 64           54           .00  Clear 

"        30th 62           50           .00  Clear 

31st    76           54           .00  Clear 

September  1st 76           54            °°  Clear 

'•              2d So           52           -°°  Clear 


THE    FINANCIAL    "WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  September  2. 
1903,  were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Sid.  Asked 

U.  S.  Coup.  3% 10,000    @  106^  io6J^ 

Cal.  Central  G.   E. 

5%  ..-. 4,000    @  103  103 

Contra  Costa  W  5%    2,000    <S>  100 
LosAn.  Ry5%  ....     5.0™    @  "4J4 
Market  St.  Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 11,000    @  1155^-118        115K 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5?£...     4,000    @  119 

N.  Pac.  C.  Ry.  5%-    3.°°°    @  loS 

N.  Shore  Ry.  5% . .  -     5,000    @  100  99        101 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%.  24,000    @  106%  106& 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% I.OOO     @  119  H9K      I2" 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 2,000    @  107^-ioS 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%,  1910 8,000    @  108  108% 

S.  P-  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 5.000    @  1075$  107 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5%  18,000    @  119  nSJ£     119 

S.  P.  R.  ofCal.Stpd 

5%  20,000    @  10S  108 

S.V.  Water  4% 11,000    @   99^  99% 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Valley 105    @    84^-  85         84  85 

Banks. 

American  Ntt "     50    @  122^-125 

Street  R.  R. 

California  St 50    @  200 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 470    @    65-      67         64^ 

Suga  rs. 
Hawaiian  C.  &S...  75    @    44  43%      44# 

Honokaa  S.  Co. . . .        350    @    i3#-  n%      n% 

Hutchinson 500    @    13%-  14  1354      14^ 

Onomea  S.  Co 200    @    30-      30^      30 

Paauhau  S.  Co 620    @    15-      i6J£      16 

Gas  and  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric...     1,460    @    13^-  14^      13%      14 
Pacific  Gas  Impt..        365    ©   53-      55^      55J4      55% 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric     1,115    @    66^-70         69^      70 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric    1,195    @    65^-70         69%      70 

Miscella  neons. 
Alaska  Packers  ...       430    @  i47J£-i49M     i49#     150 
Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         50    @    90 
Pac.  Coast  Borax..         50    @  165-    167 

There  has  been  a  very  good  demand  for  the  gas 
stocks,  with  small  offerings,  San  Francisco  Gas 
and  Electric  selling  up  three  and  one  half  points  to 
70  ;  Pacific  Gas,  two  and  one-half  points  to  55^  on 
sales  of  365  shares  ;  Mutual  Electric,  on  sales  of 
1,460  shares,  sold  up  to  14 y8,  closing  at  14  asked. 

Giant  Powder  sold  off  two  points  to  65  on  sales  of 
470  shares,  closing  at  65%  bid. 

Alaska  Packers  was  strong,  and  on  sales  of  430 
shares  sold  up  two  points  to  149^2,  closing  at  149& 
bid,  150  asked. 

Spring  Valley  Water  sold  off  one  point  to  84 14  on 
small  sales. 

The  sugar  stocks  have  been  in  better  demand, 
about  1.745  shares  of  all  kinds  changing  hands,  with 
gains  of  from  one-half  to  one  and  one-half  points  ; 
the  latter  in  Paauhau. 


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STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay.  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


A  Western  congressman  was  asked  if  he  | 
did  not  think  President  Roosevelt  certain  to  ' 
be  reelected,  barring  any  "big  mistake"  the 
candidate  might  make.  *'  Yes,"  was  the  reply, 
"  but  let  me  tell  you  that  the  biggest  mistake 
he  possibly  could  make  would  be  to  allow  the 
crops  to   fail  next  year." 


A  friend  of  Edward  MacDowell  attended 
a  recital  given  by  a  mediocre  teacher's 
pupils,  and  when  be  met  the  American  com- 
poser, he  remarked:  "I  heard  one  of  the 
pupils,  a  little  girl  of  eight,  play  your  '  To  a 
Wild  Rose.'  "  The  composer  sighed  dejectedly. 
"  I  suppose."  MacDowell  remarked,  "  that  she 
pulled  it  up  by  the  roots." 

During  the  protracted  sessions  of  the  Par- 
nell  commission.  Justice  Day  habitually  sai 
with  closed  eyes.  It  was  commonly  supposed 
that  his  lordship  was  sleeping,  and  the  late  Sir 
Frank  Lockwood,  observing  that  the  learned 
judge  was  very  much  awakened  by  a  little  tiir 
between  the  president  and  Sir  Charles  Russell, 
exclaimed,  quite  audibly:  "This  is  the  dawn 
of  Day ! " 

Chauncey  M.  Depew  declares  that  when 
King  Edward,  as  Prince  of  Wales,  visited  the 
United  States,  the  old  Duke  of  Newcastle  used 
to  scan  the  accounts  of  expenditure.  At  th-; 
end  of  one  hotel  bill  he  one  day  found  a  charge 
which  he  couldn't  make  out.  "  What's  that 
charge  for?"  asked  the  duke  of  the  hotel  pro- 
prietor. "  For  making  such  a  damned  fuss," 
was  the  immediate  reply. 


General  Nelson  A.  Miles  says  that  during 
the  Civil  War  there  was  one  conscription 
fakir  who  made  thousands  of  dollars  before 
the  authorities  restrained  him.  This  rascal 
would  send  letters  broadcast,  wherein  he  said 
he  would  communicate  for  two  dollars  a  sure 
means  of  escaping  the  conscription.  Letters, 
inclosing  two-dollar  notes,  poured  in  on  him, 
and  in  reply  to  each  letter  he  would  send  a 
printed  slip  reading:  "Join  the  nearest  vol- 
unteer regiment." 


An  old  negro  living  in  Carrollton  was 
taken  ill  recently,  and  called  in  a  physician 
of  his  race  to  prescribe  for  him.  But  the  old 
man  did  not  seem  to  be  getting  any  better, 
and  finally  a  white  physician  was  called.  Soon 

after    arriving.    Dr.    S felt    the    darkey's 

pulse  for  a  moment,  and  then  examined  his 
tongue.  "  Did  your  other  doctor  take  your 
temperature?"  he  asked.  "I  don't  know, 
sah,"  be  answered,  feebly ;  "  I  haint  missed 
anything  but  my  watch  as  yit,  boss." 


One  of  Pere  Ollivier's  flock,  a  very  beauti- 
ful and  handsomely  dressed  woman,  coming 
very  late  to  church  one  Sunday  morning, 
caused  some  disturbance  and  stir  among  the 
Worshipers  by  her  entrance,  and  interrupted 
the  flow  of  eloquence  of  the  worthy  father, 
Who,  very  irritable  and  easily  put  out,  said : 
"  Madame  perhaps  waited  to  take  her  choco- 
late before  coming  to  church  ?"  To  this, 
madame,  by  no  means  abashed,  graciously  re- 
plied:  "Yes,  mon  pere;  and  two  rolls  with 
it." 


It  is  related  that  the  American  commissioner 
of  fine  arts  at  a  Paris  exposition  once  wrote 
to  several  artists — to  Whistler  among  them — 
saying  that  he  would  be  in  Paris  shortly,  and 
mention  the  time  at  which,  and  the  place 
where,  he  would  like  them  to  call  upon  him. 
Whistler  was  asked  to  call  at  four-thirty 
wecisely.  He  wrote:  "  De.\r  Sir:  I  have 
received  your  letter  announcing  that  you  will 
in  Paris  on  the  — th.  I  congratulate  you. 
1  have  never  been  able  and  never  shall  be 
ible  to  be  anywhere  at  '  four-thirty  pre- 
Kely.*  Yours  most  faithfully,  J.  McN. 
AThistler." 

At  the  period  when  British  Columbia  was 
hreatening  to  withdraw  from  the  Dominion 
if  Canada  because  the  Carnarvon  settlement 
lad  been  ignored  by  the  Mackenzie  adminis- 
ration.  the  late  Lord  DurTerin  took  part  in  a 
mblic  function  in  Quebec.  While  the  pro- 
■ession  was  moving  through  the  principal 
treets,  a  gentleman,  breathless  with  excite- 
aent,   hurried  up  to  his  excellency's  carriage 

Eo  say  a  "  rebel  "  arch  had  been  placed  across 
he  road,  so  as  to  identify  the  viceroy  with 
he  approval  of  the  disloyal  inscription 
hereon.  "  Can  you  tell  me  what  words  there 
re  on  the  arch  ? "  quietly  asked  Dufferin. 
Oh,  yes."  replied  his  informant;  "they  are 
arvon  Terms  or  Separation.'  "  "  Send 
committee  to  me,"  commanded  his  excel- 


I 


Carna 
he  cor 


lency.  "  Now  gentlemen,"  said  he.  with  a  smile 
to  the  committee.  "  I'll  go  under  your  beautiful 
arch  on  one  condition.  I  won't  ask  you  to  do 
much,  and  I  beg  but  a  trifling  favor.  I  merely 
ask  that  you  alter  one  letter  in  your  motto. 
Turn  the  S  into  an  R — make  it  '  Carnar- 
von Terms  or  Reparation,"  and  I  will  gladly 
pass  under  it."  The  committee  yielded,  and 
eventually  Dufferin  contrived  to  smooth  over 
the  difficulties  and  to  reconcile  the  malcon- 
tents. 


By  his  tact  and  amiability.  Sir  Thomas  Lip- 
ton  has  made  thousands  of  friends  during  his 
visit  in  New  York  City.  One  day  recently  on 
the  Erin  he  was  watching  the  Shamrocks  from 
the  bridge,  and  his  guests,  among  whom  were 
some  pretty  girls,  were  on  the  deck  below, 
screened  from  the  sun  by  awnings.  Sir 
Thomas  went  down  to  chat  with  them  for  a 
few  minutes,  and  then  said:  "I  think  I'll 
have  the  awning  taken  down."  "  Don't,  Sir 
Thomas,"  the  women  all  exclaimed  in  chorus, 
"  we'll  roast  here."  "  But,"  tactfully  replied 
the  baronet,  "  I'm  lonely  on  the  bridge,  and  I 
miss  your  pretty  faces."  No  one  objected  to 
the  awning  coming  in  after  that 


Here  is  one  of  Lew  Dockstader's  latest 
stories :  Two  brothers  had  more  or  less 
trouble  with  the  boy  next  door,  and  hadn't 
always  come  out  victors.  In  fact,  the  boy- 
next  door  was  so  much  bigger  that  he  seemed 
to  have  the  best  of  it  invariably.  So  it 
wasn't  an  unusual  thing  when  one  of  the  boys 
came  into  the  house  with  a  badly  bruised  eye. 
Moreover,  he  was  crying  when  his  aunt 
stopped  him  in  the  hall.  "  Hush,  Willie,"  she 
said ;  "  you  musn't  make  any  noise."  "  What 
— what's  the  ma-matter!"  he  asked,  between 
his  sobs.  "  You  may  disturb  your  new 
brother,"  said  his  aunt,  soothingly.  He  dried 
his  eyes  in  a  minute.  "  Have  I  got  a  new 
brother?"  he  asked.  His  aunt  nodded.  "One 
besides  Jim?"  She  nodded  again.  "Bully!" 
he  exclaimed.  "  You're  glad  of  it?"  she 
asked.  "  You  bet!"  Willie  fairly  shouted;  "  if 
Jim  and  me  and  the  new  one  can't  lick  that 
feller  next  door,  we'd  better  move." 

A  pretty  story*,  illustrative  of  the  change 
of  feeling  which  has  come  over  the  Irish 
peasant  toward  King  Edward  since  the  recent 
royal  visit,  appears  in  the  English  press.  Two 
London  journalists,  on  their  way  from  Dublin 
to  Cork,  accosted  a  shaggy,  farmer-looking 
native  at  a  Queen's  County  station  with  the 
words  :  "  Well,  Pat,  what  do  you  think  of  the 
King  of  England  now?"  "King  of  England. 
is  it?"  replied  the  Irishman,  and  there  stole 
over  his  face  an  inimitable  expression  of  drol- 
lery as  he  went  on  in  a  stage  whisper :  "  Sure, 
avic.  ye'Il  want  a  viceroy  over  there,  I'm 
thinkin.'  Himself  an'  herself  are  not  goin" 
back  to  yez  at  all !"  An  old  dame  in  Galway 
who  had  spoken  with  the  king,  was  questioned 
as  to  what  she  thought  of  his  majesty.  She 
delivered  herself  of  a  long  and  enthusiastic 
eulogy,  to  the  effect  that  "  Edward  the  First 
of  Ireland"  was  "a  grand  man  entirely," 
closing  with  the  remark  that  she  had  "  only 
wan  thrilling  fault  to  find  with  him,"  and  that 
was  that  "  they  keep  the  poor  man  so  long 
in  the  Phaynix  Park  beyant  that  they  have 
him  talkin'  with  a  strong  Dublin  accent." 

"  Punch's  "  Interview  with  H.  G.  Wells. 
Some   member   of   Punch,    with    a   turn    for 
genial  fooling,  writes  a  "  Sketchy  Interview  " 
with  H.  G.  Wells,  the  pseudo-scientific  writer, 
in  which  he  says : 

On  our  pressing  the  electric  button,  the 
door  was  opened  by  a  welt-trained  Martian, 
who,  in  answer  to  our  question,  hooted  po- 
litely that  Mr.  Wells  was  out  on  his  aero- 
plane, superintending  the  flying  drill  of  the 
Sandgate  Highlanders,  and  was  for  the  time 
being,  an  invisible  man,  but  that  he  was 
expected  in  any  moment. 

While  he  was  speaking  a  whirring  noise 
was  heard  overhead,  and  Mr.  Wells  swooped 
to  earth.  Divesting  himself  of  his  celluloid 
cloak,  studded  with  plasmon  buttons,  Mr. 
W'ells.  on  demanding  and  receiving  our  assur- 
ance that  we  belonged  to  the  middle  classes, 
ushered  us  into  his  sanctum.  We  experienced 
considerable  difficulty  in  keeping  our  feet,  ow- 
ing to  the  curvature  of  the  floor — Mr.  Wells 
adopts  this  system  to  prevent  the  collection 
of  dust — but  finally  succeeded  in  anchoring 
ourselves  to  a  selenite  paperweight,  while  our 
host  settled  himself  comfortably  in  the  cush- 
ioned seats  of  his  time  machine  and  began 
to  talk. 

Uneasy  lies  the  tooth  that  wears  a  crown. — 
Col.  D,  Streamer  in  "  Perverted  Proverbs." 


Moore's  Poison-Oak  Remedy 
cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tbsla  Coal  Co.  ,  phone  South  95. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 

The  Ballet  Girl. 
With  complexion  like  the  rose 

'Mid  the  snows. 
Due  to  powder  on  her  nose, 

I  suppose. 
She  twirls  upon  her  toes 
In    abbreviated    clothes 
And  exhibits  spangled  hose 

To  the  beaux. 

When  the  cruel  time  bestows 

Adipose. 
Fairy  parts  and  all  those 

She  outgrows. 
And  murmuringly  goes 
To   the  very  hindmost   rows. 
To  pirouette  and  pose 

With   the  "  crows." 

When  life  frayed  and  faded  grows. 

Like  her  bows. 
She  in  garrets  sits  and  sews 

Furbelows 
Till   her  weary   eyelids  close 
In  the  peace  of  death's  repose; 
Is  she  reaping  what  she  sows? 

Heaven  knows. 

— Lippincott's  Magazine. 

An  Old  Story  in  Verse. 
He  was  a  guileless  college  youth. 
That  mirrored  modesty  and  truth; 
And  sometimes  at  bis  musty  room 
His  sister  called,  to  chase  the  gloom. 
One  afternoon,  when  she  was  there. 
Arranging  things  with  kindly  care. 
As  often  she  had  done  before. 
There  came  a  knock  upon  the  door. 
Our  student,  sensitive  to  fears 
Of  thoughtless  comrades'  laughing  jeers. 
Had  only  time  to  make  deposit 
Of  his  dear  sister  in  a  closet: 
Then  haste  the  door  to  open  wide: 
His  guest  unbidden  slept  inside. 

He  was  a  cheery-faced  old  man. 

And  with   apologies  began 

For  calling,  and  then  let  him  know 

That  more  than  fifty  years  ago. 

When  he  was  in  his  youthful  bloom. 

He'd  occupied  that  very  room; 

So  thought  he'd  take  the  chance,  he  said. 

To  see  the  changes  time  had  made. 

"  The  same  old  window,  same  old  view — 
Ha,  ha!   the  same  old  pictures,  too!  " 
And  then  he  tapped  them  with  his  cane. 
And  laughed  his  merry  laugh  again. 

"  The  same  old  sofa,  I  declare! 
Dear  me!     It  must  be  worse  for  wear. 
The  same  old  shelves!  "    And  then  he  came 

And  spied  the  closet  door.     "  The  same 

Oh,  my!  "     A  woman's  dress  peeped  through. 
Quick  as  he  could  he  closed  it  to. 
He  shook  his  head.     "  Ah!  ah!  the  same 
Old  game,  young  man,  the  same  old  game!  " 

"  Would  you  my  reputation  slur?  " 

The  youth  gasped;  "  that's  my  sister,  sir:'" 
"  Ah!  "   said   the  old  man.   with  a  sigh, 
"The  same  old  lie — the  same  old  lie!" 

— Judge. 

A  Revised  Quotation. 
Be  strenuous,  and  let  who  will  be  clever. 

Strike    crashing    blows,    not    shun    them    all    day- 
long: 
And  so  make  life,  death,  and  the  vast  forever — 
One  Chinese  Gong  !  !  !  — Life. 


[Dr. 


Germicide. 
Heneage    Gibbes,    the     bacteriologist     and 


pathologist,    of    Detroit,    announces    that    alcohol    _ 
sure  death  to.  infusorial  organisms  and  bacilli.] 

When    the    microbe    diabolic    in    your    system    tries 

to   frolic,   filling  you   with   grippe   and  colic,   or 

the  pangs  of  rheumatiz. 
When   the   microscopic   pirate   in   your   insides   tries 

to    gyrate,    you    may    calm    his    feelings    irate, 

you   may  check   him   in   his   biz. 
When   the   fussy  old  bacilli  make  you   feverish  or 

chilly,    you    can    knock    it    silly,    if    you    only 

know  the  ropes. 

You  can  stop  his  wicked  wiggle  and  his  never 
destroying  wriggle;  at  his  sorry  fate  you'll 
giggle  when  you  blast  his  rising  hopes. 

Be  he  germ  or  protoplasm,  you  can  throw  him 
in  a  spasm,  make  him  think  he  surely  has'm, 
give  him  something  like  a  jar. 

Be  he  big  or  moleculish,  you  can  check  his  man- 
ner mulish;  you  can  make  him  know  it's  fool- 
ish   to   come   rambling   where   you   are. 

If  when  he  attacks  at  first  he  then  discovers  you 
are  thirsty,  he  will  fear  to  do  his  worst,  be 
will   be  sorry  he  essayed 

To  give  you  appendicitis,  mumps,  or  spinal  menin- 
gitis— not  a  germ  will  dare  to  bite  us  if  this 
doctor  is  obeyed. 

For  the  julep,  bland  and  minty.  makes  the  germ 
go  like  McGinty,  gives  him  an  impressive  hint 
he   can   not   longer    linger   here. 

And  the  bourbon,  rye,  or  brandy — either  one  that 
is  most  handy — makes  the  microbe  understand 
be  can   no  more  fill   us  with   fear. 

So  from  now  on  drop  the  acid,  that  but  makes 
the  microbe  flaccid  and  leaves  him  serenely 
placid,  or  some  word  to  that  effect. 

And  fill  up  with  joyful  juices,  with  the  drink  that 
cheer  induces — there's  the  best  of  all  excuses: 
You    but    try   to    disinfect. 

— Chicago    Tribune. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    YORK.— SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

St.  Louis Sept. 9.10am  I  Phl'delphia  .Sept.  23,  to  am 

New  York .. .Sept.  16. 10  am  j  Si.  Louis Sept.  30, 10 am 

Philadelphia—  Queenstown-  Liverpool. 
Belg'nPnd Sept  12. 12.50pm  I  N'oordland  ...Sept. 26,  ipm 
Haveriord Sept  19,9  am  |  Friesland Oct.  3.9  am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YOEK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Mesaba   Sept.  12,9  am  I  Min'apolis. .  Sept.  26,9am 

Minnetonka.. Sept.  19,4pm  [  Minnehaha Oct. 3, 3pm 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON-yUEENSToWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Mayflower Sept.  to  |  Mayflower Oct.  8 

Commonwealth    ..Sept.  24     Columbus  (new)  .  ..Oct.  15 

New  England Oct.  1  |  Commonwealth  .  .  .Oct.  22 

Montreal—  Liverpool  —  Short  sea  passage. 

Kensington .Sept.  12  |  Sou  thwart.  ...   Oct.  3 

Canada Sept.  26  [  Dominion     Oct.  10 

Bo*1™    Mediterranean    D««<* 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Cambroman Saturday,  Sept.  19,  Oct.  31.  Dec.  12 

Vancouver Saturday.  Oct.  10.  Nov.  21 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— ANTWERP— PAEIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  ra. 

Finland Sept.  12  I  Kroonland Sept  26 

Vaderland  Sept.  19  |  Zeeland Oct.  3 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— QUEENSTOWN— L1VEEPOOL. 

Cedric Sept.  11.  S  am  I  Oceanic. Sept.  23,  7am 

Majestic Sept.  16,  noon  I  Cymric Sept.  25,  Sam 

Celtic Sept.  18.  3  pm  |  Viitorian....Sept.  29.  noon 

C.   D.  TAYLOR,    Passenger  Agent.   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  31.,  ior 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  iollows:  1903 

Gaelic Friday,  September  11 

Doric ..."Wednesday,  October  7 

Coptic   Saturday,  October  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)  Wednesday,  Nov.  25 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS.  General  Manager. 


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IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
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Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  u.  ior  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  ot  sailing.       1903 

Hongkong  Maru Saturday,  September  19 

(Calling  at  Manila) 

Nippon  llarn   Thursday,   October  15 

America  Maru Tuesday,  November  10 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

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OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  j  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.    Alameda,  ior    Honolulu  only,  Sept.  5,  1903, 

at  it  a.  m. 
S.  S.  Sonoma,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Sept.  17,  1903,  at  2  p.  u. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  tor  Tahiti,  Sept.  20,  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 

J.  D.  Sprockets  &  Eros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

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THE        ARGON  AUT 


September  7,  1903. 


society. 

Notes  and  -Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Mary 
Kip,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Ingraham  Kip,  and  Dr.  Ernest  Franklin  Rob- 
inson, of  Kansas  City. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Marion  Jones,  second 
daughter  of  ex-Senator  John  P.  Jones,  and 
Mr  Robert  Farquarson,  of  New  York,  will 
take  place  in  New  York  on  Wednesday,  Sep- 
tember 29th,  at  Grace  Church.  Following 
the  church  service  there  will  be  a  reception 
at  the  home  of  relatives.  On  September  30th 
the  young  couple  will  sail  for  Europe 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Maud  Cluff,  eldest 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Cluff,  and 
Mr.  George  W.  Downey  will  take  place  at  the 
Palace  Hotel  on  November  oth 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Marshall  Comstock 
have  sent  out  cards  announcing  the  marriage 
of  their  daughter,  Miss  Bertha  Louise  Corn- 
stock  to  Mr.  Harvey  Marshall  Toy  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Toy.  The  wedding  took 
place  at  Prudence  Park.  R.  I.,  on  Tuesday, 
August  1 8th.  . 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bessie  Haynes. 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  Jay  Haynes,  and 
Captain  Frederick  T.  Arnold,  Fourth  Cavalry, 
USA.  will  take  place  on  Tuesday,  Septem- 
ber 15th  at  Yellowstone  Park.  Captain 
Arnold  and  his  bride  will  reside  at  Fort  Riley. 
Kan 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Kathryn  Robinson, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Preston  Robin- 
son and  Mr.  George  P.  Beardsley,  Jr.,  took 
place  at  the  Swedenborgian  Church,  corner 
of  Lyon  and  Washington  Streets,  on  Tuesday 
afternoon.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at 
five  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  Joseph  Worcester 
The  bride  was  unattended.  Mr.  Charles  Wood 
acted  as  best  man.  Later  in  the  evening  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Beardsley  departed  for  Southern 
California  on  their  wedding  journey.  On 
their  return,  in  a  fortnight,  they  will  reside 
on  Sutter  Street  near  Fillmore. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bess  Virginia  Taylor, 
daughter  of  Captain  and  Mrs.  Thomas  G. 
Taylor  and  Mr.  Herman  L.  E.  Meyer,  Jr.. 
son  of'  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herman  L.  E.  Meyer, 
took  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents, 
191 1  Pine  Street,  on  Tuesday  evening.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  by  the  Rev.  F.  W. 
Clampett.  Miss  Elizabeth  Taylor  was  her 
sister's  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss  Laura  Tay- 
lor and  Miss  Anita  Meyer  were  the  brides- 
maids. Mr.  W.  H.  Meyer,  the  groom's  brother, 
acted  as  best  man,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Taylor. 
Jr.,  and  Dr.  Lawrence  Draper  served  as 
ushers.  Upon  their  return  from  their  wedding 
journey  in  Southern  California.  Mr.. and  Mrs. 
Meyer  will  reside  at  2999  Pacific  Avenue. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Blanche  Wilkinson, 
daughter  of  Mr.  William  Wilkinson,  of  Chi- 
cago, and  Captain  Edwin  M.  Supplee,  Four- 
teenth Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  took  place  last  Sat- 
urday evening  at  The  Colonial.  The  cere- 
mony was  performed  by  the  Rev.  J.  P. 
Turner.  Miss  Hattie  Blaine,  of  Chicago,  was 
the  bridesmaid,  and  Lieutenant  Grayson  V. 
Heidt,  Fourteenth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  was  the 
best  man. 

The  first  of  the  season's  dances  will  be  the 
annual  charity  ball,  which  will  be  given  on 
October  23d,  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  hospital  fund  of  the  Albert 
Sidney  Johnston  Chapter.  Among  the 
patronesses  are  Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst,  Mrs.  A. 
H  Voorhies,  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin,  Mrs. 
William  F.  Herrin,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Foster,  and 
Mrs.  John  Garber. 

Captain  Parker  W.  West,  U.  S.  A'.,  gave  a 
farewell  dinner  on  Monday  evening  in  honor 
of  Major  Francis  H.  Hardie,  who  sailed  on 
Tuesday  for  the  Philippines.  Others  at  table 
were  Captain  Charles  Lyman,  U.  S.  A.  (re- 
tired). Captain  T.  R.  Rivers.  Fourth  Cavalry, 
U.  S.  A.,  Major  Ogden  Rafferty,  Medical 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  Commissioner  J.  L.  Howell. 
Mr.  Thomas  Barbour,  and  Captain  Thomas 
Darrah  and  Captain  Kirby  Walker,  Four- 
teenth Cavalry,  U.  S.  A. 

Mrs.  Earle  Brownell  was  the  guest  of  honor 
at  a  tea  given  on  Wednesday  afternoon  by 
Mrs.  William  McAfee.  Among  others  present 
were  Miss  Leontine  Blakeman,  Mrs.  Frank 
Griffith,  Miss  Charlotte  Ellinwood,  Miss  Alice 
Sprague,  Miss  Lucie  King,  Miss  Ethel  Cooper, 
and  Miss  Emily  Wilson. 

A  hop  was  given  at  the  Presidio  compli- 
mentary to  the  Fourteenth  Cavalry  on  Tues- 
day night.  The  hosts  were  the  Coast  Artil- 
lery and  the  Seventh  Infantry.  Those  receiv- 
ing were  Mrs.  Rodney,  Mrs.  Kendall,  Mrs. 
Partello,  Mrs.  Hobbs,  Mrs.  J.  D.  White,  and 
Mrs.  Albert  Todd. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Stetson  gave  a  dinner  on 
Wednesday  evening,  in  honor  of  Judge  and 
Mrs.  Estee.  Others  at  table  were  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Deering,    Mr.    and    Mrs.    Henry    Payot.    Judge 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  n  *  substitute 


and    Mrs.    William    Wallace,    and    Judge    and 
Mrs.  James  Cooper.  i 

The  Pacific-Union  Club's  New  Home. 

Excellent  progress  is  being  made  in  the 
erection  of  the  new  elub-house  of  the  Pacific 
Union  Club,  on  the  corner  of  Post  and  Stock- 
ton Streets.  The  building  will  cover  the  en- 
tire lot,  80  by  129  feet,  will  be  five  stories  in 
height  and  have  its  membership  entrance  on 
Post  Street,  with  a  service  entrance  at  the 
north  end  of  the  lot.  The  structure  is  to  be 
semi-fireproof  in  character,  with  the  entire  ex- 
terior of  sandstone.  The  ground  floor  will  be 
entered  from  Post  Street  by  a  vestibule  and 
an  entrance  in  marble  continued  in  the  form 
of  a  hallway.  To  the  right  of  the  entrance 
will  be  the  reception-room,  27  by  30  feet  in 
size,  while  on  the  left  will  be  the  library.  The 
remaining  space  on  the  ground  floor  will  be 
occupied  by  cloak-rooms,  etc.,  and  the  service 
entrance  from  Stockton  Place.  Two  passen- 
ger elevators  and  one  freight  elevator  will 
lead  to  and  from  the  upper  part  of  the 
building. 

The  first  floor  above  the  street  will  contain 
a  reading-room  on  the  Post  Street  front,  30  by 
48  feet,  a  social  hall  on  the  corner,  with 
rounded  end,  from  which  an  unobstructed 
view  will  be  obtained  of  Union  Square;  bil- 
liard and  card  rooms,  wine  room,  and  the  of- 
fice. On  the  second  floor,  above  the  reading- 
room  on  the  Post  Street  front,  will  be  the 
breakfast-room,  27  by  32  feet;  while  on  the 
corner  over  and  extending  beyond  the  library, 
will  be  the  main  dining-room,  32  by  71  feet, 
into  which  the  sunlight  will  stream  during  the 
greater  portion  of  the  day.  Between  it  and 
the  breakfast-room  will  be  a  reception-room, 
separated  by  panels,  which  may  be  removed, 
and  all  three  apartments  thrown  into  one 
grand  banquet  halL  On  this  floor  will,  also, 
be  tw'o  private  dining-rooms,  and  a  commo- 
dious kitchen.  The  remaining  two  floors  will 
be  arranged  in  chambers,  thirty-four_  in  all. 
each  with  its  own  bath-room  adjoining  and 
ample  closet  space. 

The  contracts  call  for  the  completion  of 
the  structure  within  a  year.  The  building  is 
estimated  to  cost  $250,000,  while  the  lot  cost 
$272,000,      making      the      entire      investment 

$522,000. 

1     m     ■ 

The  White  Star  liner  Majestic,  one  of  the 
fast  ships  of  the  fleet  of  the  International 
Mercantile  Marine  Company,  has  just  re- 
turned to  the  New  York-Liverpool  service 
after  having  been  thoroughly  renovated  at 
Belfast.  The  chief  changes  consist  in  im- 
proved passenger  accommodations  for  all 
classes.  The  deck  house  on  the  upper  deck 
has  been  lengthened.  The  promenade  deck 
has  been  extended,  and  at  the  forward  end 
of  it  a  new  house  has  been  constructed  con- 
taining ten  additional  deck  state-rooms  for 
first-class  passengers,  some  of  them  suites 
with  bath-rooms.  The  library  has  been 
thoroughly  remodeled,  the  cover  over  the 
saloon  dome  having  been  removed,  thus  add- 
ing considerably  to  the  size  of  the  room, 
which  has  been  refurnished  and  redecorated. 
Another  important  improvement,  adding 
much  to  the  beauty  of  the  ship,  is  the  fitting 
of  a  new  ornamental  glass  dome  of  elaborate 
design  over  the  first-class  dining  saloon.  Like 
the  other  White  Star  ships,  the  Majestic 
receives  no  more  first-class  passengers  than 
the  dining  saloon  will  accommodate  at  one 
sitting.  There  is  no  "  second  table  "  on  the 
ship. 

C.  V.  Miller,  a  San  Franciscan,  who  re- 
cently returned  to  New  York  from  Europe, 
is  highly  incensed  over  what  he  terms  the 
outrageous  treatment  given  him  by  customs 
officers  on  the  Red  Star  Line  dock  last  week. 
Miller  claims  that  as  he  walked  down  the 
gang  plank  he  was  roughly  seized  by  the  col- 
lar and  searched,  several  diamonds  which  he 
had  owned  for  years  being  taken  from  him. 
He  adds  :  "  I  was  put  under  arrest,  insulted. 
bullied,  and  taken  before  Solicitor  Francis  F. 
Hamilton  at  the  custom-house.  Mr.  Staiger, 
of  the  firm  of  Jung,  Staiger  &  Klitz,  of  Maiden 
Lane,  identified  me,  and  the  diamonds  were 
returned.  I  have  been  outrageously  treated. 
The   collector   should   investigate." 


MUSICAL    NOTES. 


An  important  change  has  been  made  in  the 
Southern  Pacific  time-card  at  San  Jose.  The 
train  that  has  been  leaving  the  narrow-gauge 
depot  at  3  146  p.  m.  will  now  leave  from  the 
broad-gauge  depot  at  3  :4s  p.  m.,  and  the  train 
formerly  leaving  the  broad-gauge  depot  at  5  :40 
p.  M.  will  now  leave  the  narrow-gauge  depot 
at  5  -.36  p.  m.  The  theatre  train  will  now 
run  through  to  San  Jose  every  night,  leaving 
San  Francisco  at  11  :3c  p.  M.,  and  arriving  at 
San  Jose  at  12  158  A.  M.  A  new  train  has  been 
added  to  the  schedule,  leaving  San  Jose  daily 
except  Sunday  at  5  a.  m.  via  Menlo  Park. 

Robert  J.  Johnstone,  the  professional  of  the 
San  Francisco  Golf  Club,  is  the  champion  of 
the  Pacific  Coast  Golf  Association  for  1903. 
He  won  that  title  and  a  prize  of  one  hundred 
dollars  on  the  Del  Monte  links  last  Saturday, 
with  a  score  of  296  for  seventy-two  holes.  F. 
J.  Reilly,  the  professional  of  the  Burlingame 
Country  Club,  took  second  place,  and  a  money 
prize  of  thirty  dollars,  with  a  score  of  299. 
Third  place  and  a  prize  of  twenty  dollars 
were  captured  by  George  Smith,  the  profes- 
sional of  the  Oakland  Golf  Club. 


This  is  the  time  of  year  to  visit  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais,  if  you  wish  to  see  gorgeous  sun- 
sets. By  taking  the  last  train  in  the  after- 
noon, you  ascend  the  mountain  just  as  the 
fiery  orb  is  sinking  in  the  west.  The  after- 
glow on  the  sky,  water,  clouds,  and  fog  is 
indescribably    beautiful. 


Denis  O'Sullivan's  Song  Recital. 

The  only  recital  which  Denis  O'Sullivan 
will  give  during  his  present  visit  to  San 
Francisco,  will  take  place  on  Friday  evening, 
at  Steinway  Hall.  The  programme  is  as  fol- 
lows : 

"  Im  Fruhling,"  Schubert ;  "  Herr  LenE,~ 
•'  Morgen,"  and  "  Fur  funfzehn  Pfenmge/' 
Richard  Strauss;  "  L'Angelus "  (Old  Breton 
folk  song),  arranged  by  Bourgault-Ducou- 
dray;"  Canzone  di  Taormina  "  (Sicilian  moun- 
tain song),  arranged  by  Maude  Valerie 
White;  "The  Two  Grenadiers,"  Schumann; 
"  Anacreons  Grab  "  and  "  Fussreise,"  Hugo 
Wolf;  "  Schumacherlied,"  Felix  Wemgart- 
ner;  "  Trommellied  "  and  "  Butzemann,  _ 
Taubert ;  "  Hang  Me,  Ladies,  at  Your  Doore  " 
(1652)  Henry  Lawes ;  "Sweet  Rhodoclea. 
Here  I  Bring,"  "  If  I  Were  But  the  Wind, 
•'  Marching  Song,"  and  "  Every  Night  My 
Prayers  I  Say,"  Liza  Lehman ;  "  O'Sullivan 
Mor"  (Old  Irish),  arranged  by  Jose;  "The 
Short  Cut  to  the  Rosses"  (Old  Irish),  ar- 
ranged by  Mrs.  MilHgan-Fox ;  and  the  follow- 
ing group,  which  was  sung  by  Mr.  O'Sullivan 
last  June  in  the  House  of  Commons,  when  he 
was  the  guest  of  the  Irish  party — the  first 
and  only  time  when  songs  have  been  heard 
in  the  House — "  Savourneen  Dheelish "  (in 
Gaelic),  "The  Croppy  Boy's  Lament,"  "The 
Wearing  of  the  Green,"  "  The  Donovans," 
'■  The  West's  Awake,"  "  Widow  Malone,"  and 
"  I'm  Not  Myself  at  All."  Frederick  Maurer, 
Jr.,   will   act  as   accompanist. 

The  Scheel  Symphony  Concerts. 

The  programme  of  Fritz  Scheel's  next  sym- 
phony concert  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on 
Tuesday  afternoon  will  be  an  unusually  inter- 
esting one,  for  it  contains  no  less  than  three 
new  numbers.  It  will  include  Richard  Wag- 
ner's "  Kaiser  March  "  ;  Anton  Dvorak's  sym- 
phonic, "The  New  World";  G.  F.  Handel's 
"Grand  Concerto"  (first  time);  "Dance  of 
the  Sylphs,"  from  Hector  Berlioz's  "  The 
Damnation  of  Faust"  (first  time);  B.  Go- 
dard's  mazourka,  "  Ancients  and  Moderns  "  ; 
and  the  overture  to  Thomas's  "  Mignon  "  (first 
time). 

The  two  popular  symphony  concerts  to  be 
given  at  the  Mechanics'  Pavilion  on  the  aft- 
ernoons of  Monday  and  Wednesday,  Septem- 
ber 7th  and  9th,  Labor  Day  and  Admission 
Day,  promise  to  be  well  attended,  for  already 
there  has  been  a  large  sale  of  tickets.  Seats 
are  on  sale  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s  store, 
and  on  the  days  of  the  concert  they  may  be 
obtained  at  the  Pavilion. 


Victoria  Addison,  of  the  Miller-Anglin  com- 
pany, is  known  in  private  life  as  Victoria 
Maude  Peixotto.  Her  father  is  a  brother  of 
Raphael  Peixotto,  of  this  city,  making  her 
the  cousin  of  Edgar  Peixotto,  the  attorney ; 
Ernest  Peixotto,  the  artist ;  Sidney  Peixotto, 
the  well-known  leader  of  the  Columbia  Park 
Boys'  Club ;  and  Miss  Jessica  Peixotto.  who 
has  distinguished  herself  by  attaining  the 
dignity  of  doctor  of  philosophy.  This  is  Miss 
Addison's  first  visit  to  California. 


Jessie  Bartlett  Davis  is  to  return  to  light 
opera.  She  is  to  appear  in  an  all-star  cast 
revival  of  "  Erminie,"  in  which  Francis 
Wilson  and  Pauline  Hall  will  also  be  seen. 
Mrs.  Davis  will  probably  take  the  part  of 
Eugene,  and  in  other  revivals  and  productions 
of  light  opera  will  play  men  and  boy  roles, 
again  assuming  the  doublet  and  hose.  Her 
appearance  in  "  Erminie  "  will  be  her  first  on 
the  operatic  stage  since  she  left  the  Boston- 
ians. 

W.  A.  Babcock,  who  has  for  years  acted  as 
manager  of  the  Hotel  del  Coronado.  has  been 
forced  to  resign,  owing  to  ill-health,  and 
George  Schonewald,  who  has  had  nineteen 
years'  experience  at  the  Hotel  del  Monte 
and  various  other  large  hotels  on  the  Coast, 
has  been  appointed  his  successor. 

Mary  J.  Gerberding,  widow  of  the  late  C. 
O.  Gerberding,  died  on  Monday  of  heart  fail- 
ure. She  leaves  four  children,  Mrs.  C.  W. 
Bard,  Mrs.  Thomas  R.  Bard  (who  is  at  present 
in  Europe) ,  F.  W.  Gerberding,  and  E.  O. 
Gerberding. 

Liiebold  Harness  Company. 

If  you  want  an  up  to-date  harness,  at  a  reasonable 
price,  call  at  211  Larkin  Street.  We  have  every- 
thing for  the  horse  and  stable. 


The  Ladiks'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  of  the 
coast  is  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  Sao  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  (or  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

1THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City— all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  o[  this  most  famous  hotel. 


ears 


To  keep  the  skin  clean 
is  to  wash  the  execretions 
from  it  off ;  the  skin  takes 
care  of  itself  inside,  if  not 
blocked  outside. 

To  wash  it  often  and 
clean,  without  doing  any 
sort  of  violence  to  it  re- 
quires a  most  gentle  soap, 
a  soap  with  no  free  alkali 
in   it. 

Pears',  the  soap  that 
clears  but   not    excoriates. 

Sold  nil  over  the  world. 


THE   COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  and  Jones  Sta. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam,  heated 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

1012  van  mess  a  venue 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur 
chased  the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU  CO. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.     Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-hall 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
eau,  n  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O, 


Golf  at  Hotel  del  Monte 

CALIFORNIA 

The  links,  full  18-hole  course,  are  laid  a 
short  distance  only  from  the  hotel,  and  are 
the  finest  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

They  are  the  only  first-class  grounds  in 
California  available  to  the  public.  The 
greens  are  always  green.  Sunshine  and 
cool  breezes  from  the  sea  are  always  pres 
ent  and  refreshing,  the  weather  never  inter- 
fering. You  can  play  winter  and  summer, 
the  year  round*." 

Play  golf  at  Del  Monte,  the  ideal  retreat 
for  all  golfers. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 
Manager, 


MOTEL   RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  from  San  Francigco.     Twenty-     ^ 
f«iux    1  ruins    daily    each    way.      Open    all 
the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST.    ] 

R.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor.      I 

For  booklet  and  information  inquire  at  city  office,  i< 
Post  St.,  telephone  Bush  125. 
Have  representative  call  on  vou. 


SEPTEMBER    J,    I9O3. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 

Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

1  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Carolan  sailed  from 
;New  York  for  Europe  last  week  on  the  White 
Star  steamship  Oceanic. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  left  early  in  the  week 
with  her  son,  Mr.  Walter  S.  Martin,  for  Port- 
land, Or.  After  a  short  stay  there,  Mrs.  Mar- 
tin will  proceed  to  Newport,  where  she  will 
be  the  guest  of  her  son,  Mr.   Peter  Martin. 

Mrs.  Jane  L.  Stanford  arrived  in  Auckland 
on  Monday. 

I     Miss    Marie    Voorhies    has    returned    from 

tlSanta  Cruz,  where  she  was  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Frank  Sullivan  at  "  Phelan  Park." 

I  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Doubleday,  of 
Cleveland,  O.,  have  been  the  guests  of  Mr. 
John  W.  Doubleday,  of  Alameda. 
I  Mr.  John  D.  Spreckels  and  Miss  Spreckels 
were  in  Santa  Barbara  early  in  the  week. 
:  Mr.  William  F.  Herrin  and  Miss  Alice  Her- 
rin  returned  on  Wednesday  from  their  Euro- 
pean trip. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Crocker  and  the 
Misses  Rutherford  have  been  spending  the 
summer  months  at  Bar  Harbor. 

ji  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pease,  Miss  Maylita 
Pease,  and  Mrs.  R.  L.  Ogden,  who  have  been 
spending  the  summer  in  Portland,  Or.,  expect 
:o   return   to   town   this   month. 

Miss  Leontine  Blakeman  has  been  spending 
he  week  with  Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  at  Menlo 
Hark. 

Mrs.  Potter  expects  to  join  her  husband, 
-ieutenant  Ashton  Potter,  in  the  Philippines 
text  month. 

Mrs.  Oscar  F.  Long  and  her  two  daughters 
ire  sojourning  in  Santa  Barbara.  They  are 
o  be  there  some  time,  and  then,  later  in  the 
all,  Mrs.  Long  will  join  General  Long  in 
A'ashington,  D.  C. 

I  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  F.  Dutton,  who  have 
ust  returned  from  their  extended  trip  abroad, 
lave  taken   the  Kimball   house   on    Broadway 

[  or  the  winter. 

I    Mrs.    John    Johnston    is    the    guest    of    her 

1  nother,    Mrs.    William    Landers,    at    San    L»- 
.ndro. 
Mr.    and    Mrs.    William    Giselman    and    Mr. 

-  vlarshall    W.   Giselman   have   arrived   in    New 

t  t'ork,  en  route  to  Europe. 

Mr.  C.  Frederick  Kohl  was  in  Washington, 
I).  C,  during  the  week. 

I     Mrs.  Alexander  Center  and  Miss   Elizabeth 
.enter  sailed  on  the  Korea  for  the  Orient  on 
hursday,  and  expect  to  be  absent  a  year. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Magee  have  returned 

0  Oakland  from  a  visit  to  Lake  Tahoe. 
Mr.     and     Mrs.     Daniel    O'Callaghan    regis- 

ered  at  the   Tavern  of  Tamalpais   last   week. 
Mrs.  Henry  P.  Sonntag  expects  to  leave  for 

he  East  in  a  fortnight  to  place  her  daughter, 
Iiss  Edith  Sonntag.  in  school  there. 

Miss  Virginia  Rogers  Nokes,  who  has  been 
isiting    in    Portland,    Or.,    is    expected    home 
ext  week. 
Judge   M.   M.   Estee  will  sail   for   Honolulu 

J-day    (Saturday),    but    Mrs.    Estee    will    re- 

lain  here  until  September  26th. 
Mr.    and    Mrs.    Willis    Polk    will    sail    from 

.urope  for  New  York  to-day  (Saturday) 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin  will  leave  soon 

x  Iv  ew  Y  ork,  where  they  expect  to  spend  the 
inter. 

Mr.   and   Mrs.   Gavin   McNab   were   visitors 
I  t  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  last  week. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  Buckbee  are  makin= 
trip  through   Yellowstone  Park. 
I  Mr.Athole  McBean  was  a  guest  at  the  Hotel 

afael  a  few  days  ago. 
Mrs.  Ray  Sherman,  who  has  been  the  guest 

t   her   mother,    Mrs.   J.    L.    Moody,    will   join 
ler  husband  in  the  Orient  this  fall. 
Mrs.  Charles  Webb  Howard  has  been  spend- 

ig  a  few  weeks  at  St.  Helena. 
I  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Liebmann  sailed  on 
Sunday  last  from  New  York  for  Europe. 
Senator   Francis    G.    Newlands,    of   Nevada, 

as  at  the  Palace  Hotel  during  the  week. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grayson  Dutton  left  this  week 

>r  New  York. 
i  Mr.    and    Mrs.    Harvey    M.    Toy    were    the 

Jests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  D.  Toy  at  the 

otel  Rafael  last  Sunday. 

Mr.    and    Mrs.    George    F.    Belden,    of    Cm- 

nnati,   O.,   Mr.   and  Mrs.   Charles  A.   Belden 

id  two  children,   of  New   York,   Mr    Geor-e 

.  Belden,  Jr.,  Miss  L.  Belden,  and  Mr.  J    ft 

elden     registered    at     Hotel     Vendome    last 

eek,  where  they  visited  Mrs.  Josiah  Belden 
1  ho  has   been   sojourning  in    San  Jose.     The 

irty  has  just  returned  from  a  camping  trip 
N  the  Big  Kern  Canon.  Mrs.  Belden's  sons 
1  Ti I  Char,es  F-  Belden  and  Mr.  George  F. 
lelden,  were  brought  up  during  their  boyhood 
nys  in   San  Jose  in   the   old  family  mansion 

at    occupied    the    site    of    Hotel    Vendome. 

heir   father  was  one   of  the   earliest  settlers 
Santa  Clara  Valley.     He  owned  the  present 

endome  property,  and  his  mansion  was  one 
the  largest  and  handsomest  in  the  city.  He 

quired  much  wealth,  and  finally  returned  to 

e   East,    where    he   afterward   resided.      The 

operty  was  sold  many  years  ago  to  ex-Sen- 

or  Maddox,  and  later  was  conveyed  by  him 
the   Hotel   Vendome  Company. 

Mrs.    George    Thorndyke    Folsom,   who  re- 

ntly  arrived  in   New   York   from   Paris    has 

turned  to  San  Francisco. 

Mr.   and   Mrs.    William   M.    Gwin    were   the 

rests   of   Mr.   and   Mrs.   James   Follis   at   the 

otel  Ratael  last  week. 

Mr.  Paul  Bancroft  is  visiting  friends  in  New 

}rk. 

Mr.   and   Mrs.   Marion   A.    Hirschman   have 

turned  from  London,  where  they  have  been 

r  the  last  two  years. 

Among    the    week's    guests    at    the     Hotel 

ifael  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  Hatch    Mrs    C 
Ewing,  Mrs.  L.  H.  Moise,  Mrs.  W.  Hirsch- 

Idt     Mrs.    M.    Eskey,    Miss    Eskey,    Mr.    B 

ood  Mr.  H.  Hope  Doeg,  Mr.  Clay  P.  Good- 
s'.   Mr.    A.    C.    Pillsbury,    Mr.    C.    V.    Este-> 

i  w'   B.   Collier,  Jr.,   Mr.   Grant  M.   Smith, 

'd  Mr.  D.  MacGavin. 

Among   the   week's    arrivals    at    Byron    Hot 


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Springs  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  K.  Burkett  of 
Honolulu,  Miss  M.  J.  McNamara,  Mr  C  E 
McCarthy,  Mr.  J.  Becker,  Mr.  M.  M.  Sampsen 
??d  M,r',E-  J'  YounS.  of  Berkeley,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  W.  Stevens,  of  Oakland,  Mrs  Arthur 
Jellison,  Mrs.  A.  V.  Brown,  Mrs.  Sol  Lipp- 
man,  Miss  Edna  Lippman,  and  Dr.  T  H 
Morris. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
lamalpais  were  Captain  and  Mrs.  Charles  D 
A.  Loeffler  and  Mr.  A.  D.  Harrison  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  B.  Tufts,  Mr. 
,  ■_*  "nanday,  of  Los  Angeles,  Mr.  and  Mrs 
'■  °-,  .ESan>  °f  Detroit,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kohn 
of  Chicago,  Mr.  L.  Barton  and  Mr.  Francis 
Barton,  of  London,  Mr.  T.  Taylor  Griffith,  of 
Toronto,  Mr.  A.  B.  Williams  and  Mr.  George 
M.  Williams,  of  Santa  Barbara,  Mr.  Charles 
Shaw,  of  New  York,  Mr,  and  Mrs  F  D 
Bates,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  B.'  Cutter 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Major-General  Arthur  MacArthur  USA 
departed  on  Tuesday  for  Southern  California 
on  a  general  tour  of  inspection  of  the  fortifi- 
cations and  barracks  in  that  part  of  the  State 
and  a  visit  to  the  Grand  Canon  of  the  Colo- 
rado. General  MacArthur  is  accompanied 
on  his  tour  by  his  aid,  Captain  Parker  W 
West,  U.  S.  A.,  Mrs.  MacArthur,  and  his  son 
Lieutenant  Douglas  MacArthur,   U.  S    A 

Major  Francis  H.  Hardie,  Fourteenth 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  sailed  for  the  Orient  on 
the  transport  Thomas  on  Tuesday  in  charge 
of  seven  millions  of  dollars  in  Philippine 
pesos,  sent  to  Manila  by  the  United  States 
Government. 

TT1crS\Wood'  wife  of  General  Leonard  Wood 
t  d,.-,'-'  IS  exPected  hei"e  soon,  en  route  from 
tl!e  Philippines.  She  will  spend  about  a  fort- 
night   in     San    Francisco    before    proceeding 

Captain  Edward  A.  Millar,  U.  S  A  who 
has  been  adjutant  at  the  Presidio  for 'some 
lime,  left  with  Mrs.  Millar  and  their  children 
for  Washington,  D.  C,  a  few  days  ago 

Major  William  D.  Crosby,  Medical  Depart- 
ment U.  S.  A  was  among  the  passengers  who 
lett  for  the  Philippines  on  the  Thomas  on 
I  uesday. 

Major  Charles  W.  Hobbs,  Artillery  Corps, 
U.  i>.  A.,  and  family  will  leave  in  a  fortnight 
tor   Jackson    Barracks,    near    New    Orleans 

Surgeon-General  Robert  M  O'Reilly  U  S 
A  accompanied  by  Major  William  C.  Borden' 
U.  S.  A.,  arrived  in  San  Francisco  early 
in  the  week  to  inspect  the  general  hospital 
at  the  Presidio. 

Mrs.  Amos  H.  Martin,  who  goes  to  join 
her  husband,  Captain  Martin,  U.  S.  A.,  in  the 
Philippines,  was  one  of  the  passengers  on  the 
transport  Thomas  on  Tuesday 

Captain  James  V.  Heidt,  Tenth  Infantrv, 
u.  b.  A.,  has  succeeded  Major  Francis  H 
Hardie  as  officer  on  duty  at  the  United  States 
Mint  in  this  city. 

Captain    Richard    M.    Cutts,    U.    S     M     C 
sailed    tor    the    Philippines    on    the    transport 
1  nomas  on  Tuesday. 

Colonel  Palmer  H.  Ray,  Fourth  Infantry, 
f„'j  ,i-  W'i'  1ai1  otl  the  transport  Logan 
D;d?y  (Satur<lay)  to  join  his  company  in  the 
Philippines. 

Captain  Austin  F.  Prescott,  Seventh  In- 
tantry,  TJ  S.  A.,  leaves  soon  for  Fort  Lincoln 
A.  D.,  where  he  has  been  ordered 

Captain  Charles  W.  Exton,  U.  S  A  has 
departed  for  West  Point,  where  he  is  to  be 
instructor. 


Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest: 

The  estate  of  the  late  Gilbert  Palache  has 
S^"o  aPSa'Sed,  at  *,IO,.°69-43.  It  consists  of 
?3i,o,,.68  cash    realty  in  this  city  and  Marin 

wortnhy*,WOfh   ?3S'°10'   and  stock*   a"d  b™d" 
worth  $32,601.75. 

The  will  of  the  late  Alexander  Hay,  ot  Oak- 
land, has  been  filed  for  probate.  His  estate 
is  supposed  to  be  worth  $250,000,  and  is  left 
in  equal  shares  to  his  sister  Jane  MacDonald, 
and  his  two  children,  Warren  B.  Hay  and  Flor- 
ence A.  Hay.  The  property  consists  of  his 
interest  m  the  corporation  of  Hay  &  Wrieht 
shipbuilders.  In  the  will  Elijah  B.  Wright' 
Joseph  Hutchinson,  and  Jane  MacDonald  are 
named  as  executors  of  his  will,  but  owing  to 
the  death  of  Wright  not  long  since,  Hutchin- 
son and  Jane  MacDonald  will  act  as  execu- 
tor and  executrix  of  the  testament 

In  the  suit  brought  by  Mrs.  Mary  F  Barron 
to  set  aside  the  trust  clause  in  the  will  of  her 
father,  James  Stanton,  Judge  Troutt  recently 
gave  judgment  in  her  favor.  The  trust  clause 
covered  two  valuable  pieces  of  realty,  that  on  the 
south-west  corner  of  Kearny  and  Post  Streets 
and  that  on  the  north-west  corner  of  Mission 
and  Fifteenth  Streets.  James  Stanton,  who 
owned  much  property  in  addition  to  this  realty 
left  five  children— Mrs.  Barron,  John  A.  Stan- 
ton Frank  J.  Stanton,  William  M.  Stanton 
and  Mrs.  Katherine  T.  Buckley.  In  his  will' 
his  three  sons  and  his  son-in-law,  Daniel  j' 
Luckley,  were  named  as  executors  and  trus- 
tees. The  trustees  were  directed  to  hold  the 
two  pieces  of  realty  during  the  life  of  Stan- 
ton s  five  children,  and  to  pay  the  net  income 
to  them  or  their  children.  The  trust  was 
to  continue  until  the  death  of  the  last  of  Stan- 
ton s  five  children,  and  he  directed  that  the 
property  should  then  vest  in  his  grandchildren 
It  was  contended  on  Mrs.  Barron's  behalf  that 
the  trust  was  in  violation  of  section  857  of  the 
Civil  Code.  Under  Judge  Troutt's  decision 
she  and  her  sister  and  brothers  become  entitled 
to  one-fifth  each  of  the  property,  the  distribu- 
tion to  be  made  to  them  in  the  course  of  the 
estate's  administration. 


Damaees  for  the  "Rio  de  laneiro"  Claimants. 
On  Tuesday,  Judge  de  Haven,  of  the  United 
States  District  Court,  handed  down  a  decision 
fixing  the  awards  of  the  claimants  against  the 
Pacific   Mail   Steamship    Company,  on  account 
of  the  loss  of  the  steamer  Rio  de  laneiro.    The 
ship  went  down  on  the  morning  of  February 
22,  1901,  after  striking  a  rock  just  outside  the 
Golden  Gate.     She  was  a  total  loss,  and  nearly 
all    on    board    were    drowned.      The    ship    has 
never  been  recovered,  and  two  life-boats  worth 
about    $150    were    the    only    bits    of    property 
saved.      As    the    accident   was    caused    by    the 
negligence     of    the    pilot,     and     not    through 
carelessness   on   the   part   of   the   owners,    the 
company    is    liable   only    for    that    which    was 
saved  from  the  wreck.     This  aggregates  $24.- 
997-93,  of  which  $24,827.93   is  money  due  the 
lost  ship  for  freight  charges.     The  company's 
liabilities   were    limited    to    this    sum,    and    by 
the    decision    of   the    court,    this    amount    will 
be   distributed  pro   rata  among  the   claimants 
which  will  give  each  about  70  per  cent,  of  the 
amount  sued  for.     In  many  instances  no  dam- 
age for  loss  of  baggage  was  allowed,  as  satis- 
factory evidence  as  to  its  value  was  not  pro- 
duced.   The  following  damages  were  awarded : 
Sarah  Jehu,  for  the  death  of  her  daughter 
Sarah   Rowena  Jehu,   $1,200;   Kate   West    for 
personal  injuries  resulting  in  loss  of  time  and 
tor  loss  of  baggage,   $750 ;   B.   C.   Hawes,   ad- 
ministrator of  the  estate  of  Naomi  Wakefield 
tor  loss  ot  baggage,  $1,000;   Ruth  Miller    ex- 
ecutrix of  the  estate  of  Sarah  Wakefield    for 
r?Sf-   °Vbaggage'    S"'200;    Maria   Gussoni    and 
Felice   Gussoni,   $5,000;    Frances   Ripley    loss 
of  baggage,  $400  ;   William  F.  Aldrich,  execu- 
tor of  the  estate  of  Letitia  Aldrich  Wildman 
$2,200,   $1,000   thereof  on   account   of  loss   of 
baggage  and  $1,200  for  the  use  and  benefit  of 
Virginia  Foot  Aldrich,  mother  of  the  deceased 
for  damages  resulting  to  her   from  the   death 
ot    such   deceased ;    Sarah    Guyon,   administra- 
trix   of    the    estate    of    Henry    Guyon,    $7,000 
damages  on  account  of  the  death  of  said  de- 
ceased;   Russel    Harper,   damages   in   the   sum 
of   $5,000 ;    William    Brander,    $400 ;    Richard 
«i    if"f?     '  administrator  of  the  estate  of  A 
W.  Uodd,  $2,500,  $t,ooo  on  account  of  loss  of 
baggage    and   $1,500    for    the   use   and    benefit 
ot  Mrs.  G.  A.  Denhof,  sister  of  the  deceased 
damages    sustained    by    her   by    reason    of   his 
death;   R.shard  P.  Henshall,  administrator  of 
the   estate   of   William    A.     Henshall,    S6  000 
damages  occasioned  by  the  death  of  said  de- 
ceased ;    Lawrence    T.    Wagner,    guardian    of 
frank    \\ oodworth,   a  mfhor,   damages   on  ac- 
count of  the  death  of  the  father  of  said  minor 

$.2,000. 


NO   OUST 
WHILE  DANCING 

Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Was  sinks  into 
the  wood  and  becomes  a  part  of  Ihe  beautifully 
polished  dancing  surface.  11  makes  no  dust 
does  not  rub  into  lumps  or  stick  to  the  shoes' 
Just  sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  ihe 
rest.  Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  ol  the 
finest  fabric. 

,na°oSa-e  bv  Ma?k  &  Co-  La"8ley&  Michaels, 
and  Redington  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk 
Oeary  &  Co.,  Sacramento  ;  and  F.  W.  Braun  61 
Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

L-  Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax.  . 
■^^— ■■  ■  J 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR 

That  greatest  of  all  disfigurements  of  a  woman's 
face,  permanently  removed,  in  Ihe  only  successful  way 
-with  the  ELECTRIC  .NEEOI.E,  as  operated  by- 
Mrs.  Harrison.  ' 
Wans,  Freckles,  Moles,  Pimples,  and  Wrinkles 
quickly  removed  under  my  personal  treatment  at 
my  Dermatological  Parlors. 


HR5.    NETTIE    HARRISON 

DERMATOLOQIST, 

140  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 


ENNEN'S'tS 


tTgl  LET 


'PRICKLY  HEAX -~™ 
CHAFING,  and  ?Sss.r- 
SUNBURN,  "VMS" 

Removes  all  odor  of  pctsplndoo.    De- 

llsbrful  after  Shaving.     Sold  everywhere,  or 

-_    Get  Mennen's  (ihe  original).     SJmpic  Free. 

C.EBHAHO  ME.SNEV  COWASV.N.vMa.m. 


Dr.  Hans  Herman  Behr.  vice-president  and 
curator  of  the  California  Academy  of  Sciences, 
recently    celebrated    the    eighty-fifth    anniver- 

SoF>o  °'  ^1S  blrth'  He  was  born  August  18 
ti>i8,  m  Cocthen,  Germany.  After  completing 
his  studies  he  spent  several  years  in  Asia  and 
Australia  in  scientific  research.  He  also 
lived  in  Manila  two  years  as  a  practicing 
physician  and  surgeon.  He  came  from  the 
Philippines  to  San  Francisco  in  1S50,  and  has 
resided  here  since. 

Irving  M.  Dewey,  one  of  the  most  popular 
American  advertising  specialists  of  the  United 
States,  has  been  visiting  San  Francisco  with 
his  wife.  He  is  well  known  all  over  the  coun- 
try, and  is  at  present  vice-president  and 
treasurer  of  the  Lyman  D.  Morse  Advertising 
Agency   of   New   York   and   Boston. 


HUNTER 
BALTIMORE    RYE 


Wins  and  Wears. 


The  Greatest  Doclora- 
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Quina 

lAROCHE 

A  Ferruginous  Tonic 

r\  combination  of  the  best  Cinchonas,  Rich 
Wine  and  Iron  as  a  specific  remedy  for 

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^  and  Slow  Convalescence. 

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Mrs.  Catherine  Marston,  the  mother  of 
Timothy  Hopkins,  the  adopted  son  of  the  late 
Mark  Hopkins,  died  at  her  home  in  Woodland 
on  August  25th.  Mr.  Hopkins  was  the  issue  of 
a _  former  marriage  with  Thomas  Nolan,  who 
died  in  Sacramento  in  the  early  'seventies. 


The  Del  Monte  cup  for  women  was  won  last 
Friday  by  Miss  Edith  Chesebrough,  who  de- 
feated Miss  Bertha  Dolbeer,  in  the  final  round, 
by  a  score  of  5  up  and  4  to  play. 


Something   New. 

A.  Kirschman,  Market  and  Geary  Streets,  is 
showing  artistic  long  chains  in  oxidized  silver, 
ornamented  with  India  Stones. 


C.  H.  REHNSTROMS 

FORMERLY    SANDERS    &   JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 
Phelan  Building,  Rooms'),  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  53s;.  SAX   FRAXCISCO. 

LACKHEADS,  PIMPLES, 
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Tourist_Policies 

Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation  Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN     FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Therelsnoremedy  which  ■wflt  restore  the  complarioo 
as  quickly  as  Mme.  A.  Ruppen's  Face  Bicach-  Thous- 
omlsof  pairons  afflicted  wib  mos:  miserable  skins  have 
been  delighted  with  Its  use.  Many  skim  covered  with. 
Pimples,  freckles,  wrfn'-  1m.  ecremalcus  eruptions  (Itcb. 
Ine.  burning  and  annoying),  (jIIowucss,  br.wn  patches 
and  blockheads  have  ben  quickly  cbanEed  to  bright, 
beautiful  complexions.  Skin  troubles  which  havcbatiled 
the  most  eminent  phys.dani  have  been  cupr<1  promptly, 
and  many  have  emiy;'ii-.i  thHr  ProfeqOdjMl  thantl  (or  my 
wonderful  Face  Bleach. 

This  marvelous  remedy  will  be  sent  to  any  iitTnaa 
upon  rerelpt  of  price.  Ja.co  per  single  bottl*,  ot  IbfM 
bottles  ('usually  required). f  £OCs 

Book,  "Ho-  to  be  BeauHTul,-  mailed  force. 

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SOHMER 
PI  A  MO 
AGEMCY. 


WARRANTED     IO     YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

IW~  The  CECILIAN- The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


FIANOS 

308-312   Poll  St. 

Saul  Francisco. 


160 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


September 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, ag  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSF1ELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 
A  M  — f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  ni,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (tliird  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 

-♦VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 
J§  /l /J  P  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  DueStock- 
m9'm%0%M  ton  7.10pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
n.io  a  m. 
|P  M  — *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (lourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  Iree 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
J  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


8.00 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tlburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

vVEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  8.00,  9.00,  11.00  am;  12.35,  2.30, 
3.40,  5.10,5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra 
trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 7.30,  8.00,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  f2.oo,  3,40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7-35.  9-20,  11.15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcepl  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week    |    Sun- 
Days.    1     days. 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  pm 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.45  a  m 
8,40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  pm 

Novato 

Petal  uma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  ni 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

745  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8  00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 

7-25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  ni 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 

■!.?.<>  ]•  HI 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Hop  land 

and  ukiah. 

10,20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  ni 

7.25  p  m 

8.00  a  ni 
2.30  p,  m 

IS. mi  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

Guerueville. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  pm 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

8,00  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

S.oo  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

Sebastopol. 

8.40  a  m 
6. 20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  lor  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lyttou  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrim  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens 
Hopkins  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Lahlo,  Covelo.  Luytonvilk-,  Cummiugs,  Bell's  Springs 
Harris,  olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepper  wood  .Scotia 
and  Eureka.  ' 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-lrip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rales. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.X.RYAN, 

Gen,  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


MOUNT  TAMALPAIS  RAiLWAV 


Leave 
SanFran. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days 


Via  Sausalilo    ftnj 
foot  Qt  Muriel  St. 


8:00a 

9:0Oa 

r  10:00a 

.11:30a 

1:30p 

..    2:3Sp 

SSL  i  *******    St„  (North  Shore  Railroad") 
OrHOB   }  and  Sausau  ro  Fhrry    Foot  Market  St 


Arrive 
San  Fran. 


Sun- 
days 


wiar 

Day*. 
9:15a 
3:30p 
6:50r 


i'-4:O0n 
13:505 

3:30p 

4:35p 

5:45r 

»:00p  .... 
fli=*0F,irrm3.y.  ili30p 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Ample:  Ada — "Do  you  get  much  exer- 
cise?" May — "Why,  yes.  I  have  no  maid, 
and  I  have  a  waist  that  buttons  in  the  back." 
— Judge. 

Equivocal :  She — "  Do  you  remember  be- 
fore we  were  married,  dear "    He—"  Why, 

it's      among      my      happiest      recollections." — 
Yotikcrs  Statesman. 

A  little  previous:  "Well,"  said  the  doctor, 
"how  do  you  feel  to-day?"  "Oh,  doctor," 
replied  the  patient,  wearily,  "  I  am  suffering 
the  torments  of  the  damned."  "What!  Al- 
ready?" inquired  the  doctor,  pleasantly. — 
Chicago    Post. 

Wife — "  I  wish  we  had  a  nice  large  country 
place,  v/here  I  could  give  a  lawn-party." 
Husband — "  Just  for  the  pleasure  of  inviting 
some  of  your  friends,  eh?"  Wife — /'Well, 
yes  ;  and  the  pleasure  of  not  inviting  some." — 
Philadelphia  Ledger. 

"  Doctor,"  said  the  sweet  young  thing,  "  I've 
been  told  that  eating  cucumbers  will  remove 
freckles."  "  So  it  will,  under  one  condition," 
replied  Dr.  Gruff.  "  And  what  is  that  ?" 
"  That  the  freckles  are  on  the  cucumbers." — 
—Ph  iladelph  ia    Press. 

George  Washington  was  asked  why  he 
crossed  the  Delaware  on  the  ice.  "  Because," 
he  answered,  "  if  I  had  crossed  the  Ohio,  history 
would  have  mixed  me  up  with  Eliza."  Here, 
again,  he  demonstrated  his  wonderful  fore- 
sight.— New  York  Sun. 

Willing  to  oblige:  Mrs.  Goodart — "See 
here!  If  I  give  you  some  money  I  don't  want 
you  to  spend  it  in  that  saloon  over  there." 
Thirsty  Tom — "  All  right,  lady.  If  you're 
toutin'  for  some  udder  joint  I'll  be  glad  ter 
patronize  it." — Philadelphia  Press. 

Followed  directions :  Mahoole—"  Aint  yez 
th'  wan  that  towld  me  niver  to  dhrink  wather 
widout  boilin'?  "  Physician — "  Yes,  sir." 
Mahoole — "  Thin  Oi  hov  a  moind  to  murther 
ye.  Oi  dhrank  boiled  wather  awn  awlmost 
burned  me  mouth  off." — Chicago  Times. 

"  I  heard  to-day  that  your  son  was  an 
undertaker.  I  thought  you  told  me  he  was 
a  physician."  "  Not  at  all."  "  I  don't  like 
to  contradict,  but  I'm  positive  you  did  say 
so."  "  You  misunderstood  me.  I  said  he 
followed  the  medical  profession." — Phila- 
delphia  Press. 

Jack — "  I  hear  you  are  going  to  marry  Miss 
Prettyun.  Permit  me  to  congratulate  you  on 
your  excellent  taste."  Tom — "  But  the  en- 
gagement is  off.  I'm  not  going  to  marry  her 
or  any  one  else."  Jack — "  Indeed!  Then  allow 
me  to  congratulate  you  on  your  good  sense." 
— Chicago  Evening  Post. 

Just  like  real  lovers  :  Miss  Romanz — "  Of 
course,  you've  read  that  new  love-story  of 
his?"  Mr.  Crabbe  (reviewer) — "Yes;  I  had 
to.^  Very  realistic,  wasn't  it?"  Miss  Romans 
— "Oh,  the  idea!  Why,  the  dialogue  between 
the  lovers  was  perfectly  silly."  Mr.  Crabhe 
— ■'  Well?" — Philadelphia   Press. 

A  feeling  of  security:  "I'm  so  surprised 
to  hear  your  wife  likes  the  house  so  much — 
it's  so  small."  "  Yes,  but  there  are  lots  of 
closets  in  it."  "  True,  but  they're  extremely 
small,  too."  "  That's  just  it.  My  wife  is 
satisfied  that  not  one  of  them  is  big  enough 
to     hold     a     burglar." — Philadelphia    Ledger. 

Happy  in  the  assurance:  She  was  going 
away.  "Oh,  John!"  she  sobbed,  "  J-John. 
are  y-you  quite  sure  you'll  m-miss  me?  " 
"  Darling,"  replied  her  big  husband,  "  I'll  miss 
you  as  much  as  I  do  the  morning  train."  Thus 
assured  she  picked  up  her  grip  and,  with  a 
sweet  smile,  started  for  the  seashore. — Chicago 
News. 

"  There's  a  strange  man  at  the  door,  sir," 
announced  the  new  servant  from  Boston. 
"What  does  he  want?"  asked  the  master  of 
the  house,  impatiently.  "  Begging  your  pardon, 
sir,"  replied  the  servant,  a  shade  of  disap- 
proval manifest  in  his  voice,  "  he  wants  a  bath, 
but  what  he  is  asking  for  is  something  to  eat." 
— Syracuse  Herald. 

Good  for  the  heart:  Mrs.  Blokey  Jr. 
(who  is  of  a  romantic  turn) — "My!  aint  the 
moon  lovely,  glitterin"  on  the  waves!  It  does 
ones  heart  good  to  see  it."  Mr.  B.  (Blokey  & 
Son) — "  Ah  !  and  wouldn't  it  do  one's  'art  good 
to  see  '  Blokey  &  Son's  Pickles  '  printed  right 
across  it,  big  enough  for  all  the  world  to  read 
with  the  naked  eye?" — Tit-Bits. 

Mrs.  Subbubs — "  Henry,  Bridget  broke  three 
of  our  very  best  plates  to-day."  Mr.  Subbubs— 

Heavens !  Could  anything  possible  be 
worse!  "  Mrs.  Subbubs—"  Sh  !  it  isn't  as  bad 
as  it  might  be.  She  immediately  hid  the 
pieces  and  if  we  can  only  look  pleasant  and 
pretend  we  know  nothing  about  it,  I  think 
shell  stay."— Philadelphia  Press. 

For  her  farewell  tour  of  America,  the  Chi- 
cago Tribune  suggests  the  following  pro- 
gramme for  Adelina  Patti :  "Farewell  For- 
ever," "  Say  Au  Revoir,  But  Not  Good-By  "' 
"  How  Can  I  Leave  Thee,"  "  She  Said  Good- 
By,  "  Bid  Me  Good-By  and'  Go,"  "  I  Don't 
Care  If  You  Never  Come  Back,"  "  Tosti's 
Good-By,"  "  Fare  Thee  Well,  for  I  Must  Leave 
1  hee,  "  Take  Your  Clothes  and  Go,"  "  I  Will 
Return   Again." 


St^dman's  Soothing  Powders  for  fifty  years  the 
most  popular  English  remedy  for  teething  babies 
feverish  children. 


Hobson's  choice:  Guest  (in  cheap  res- 
taurant)—" Well,  waiter,  what  have  you  got?" 
Waiter—"  Beefsteak  and  fish— but  the  fish  "is 
all  out.     Which'll  you  have?"— Chicago  News. 

—  DrEO  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  ••  Mrs.  Winslow's 
toothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething. 


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GARRY 

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For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,   ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART  WEEK    DAYS— 6.45,  f*7. 
8.45,9-45.   "  A.  M.;  12.20,  *i.45,  3.15,  4.: 
t5-i5.  *6.i5,  6,45,  9,  U-45  p-  M- 
7.45  a.  m.  week  days  does  not  run  to  Mil!  Valley. 
DEPART  SUNDAY^?,  |8.  f*9,   t*io,    n,  +11.30 
M.;  +12-3°.  t*'-3°,  2-35,  *3-50.  5.  6,  7.30,  9,  11.45  P-  m- 
Trains    marked    *     run     to    San    Quentin.      Thoi 
marked    (f)    to  Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.  m.  Saturda 
Saturday's  3.15  p.  M.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.45  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tomali 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    p.    m.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way  station 
Sundays,  8  A.  M. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays,  10  a.  m.— Point  Reyes  and  intermediate. 
Legal  Holidays — Boats  and  trains  on  Sunday  time. 
Ticket  Offices — 626  Market;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
liivr      —    Fki.ji  September  2,  1903. 


SAN  FRANCISCO, 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 


AKHIl 


7.00a  Benicla,  Siitsuu.  K I  mini  uuil  Sacra- 
mento         7-25p 

7.00a    Viiciivllle.  Winters,  Runiscy 7.25p 

7.30a    Martinez,     Sun     Ramon,     Vallejo, 

Napa,  Calf  stoga,  Santa  Kosa 6-25r 

7  30a   Nlles,  Llverrnore,  Lathrop.  Stock- 
Ton 7.25c 

P  00a  DavlB.  Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
MaryBVllle,  Orovlile,  (connects 
atMarysville  for  Grldley,  Biggs 
and  Chlco) 7.55c 

[  00a    Atlantic  Express—  Ogdennnd  Last.    10.25* 

8.00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antioch.  By- 
ron, Tracy,  Si  ockton.Saeramen  to. 
Los  Banos,  Mendota.  H mi  ford, 
VlBiilla.  Portcrvllle 4.25^ 

T  00*  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop, Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen  Junction,  Hauford,  VI- 
811 1  In.  Rakersllcld 5.25p 

P.3Da  Shasta  Express  —  Davis.  WilllaiiiE 
(for  Uartlett  Springs).  Willows, 
tFruto,  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7-B5i' 

8. 30a  Nlles,  San  Jobc  Llverrnore,  Stock- 
ton,]one,Sacrnmento,Placer\  Illo. 
Marysvllle,  Chlco,  Red  Bluff 4-25h 

8- 30a  Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  So- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4-26p 

9.00a   Martinez  and  Way  Stations 6.65p 

10-OOa  Vallejo 12.25p 

10-OOa  El  Paso  Passenger,  Eastuound  — 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced.  Raymond,  Fresno,  Han- 
ford.  YlBalla,  Bakersfield,  Lob 
AngeleB  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
hound  arrives  via  Coast  Line)...  el. 30'' 
10.00a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 6-25e 

12.00m  Hayward.  Nilcs  and  Way  StatlonB.     3-25p 
'LOOp  Sacramento  River  Steamers tll.OOr 

3.30p  Benicla,  "Winters,  Sacramento, 
"Woodland,  Williams,  Colusa.Wll- 
lows.  Knights  Lauding.  Marya- 
vllle,  Orovllle  and  way  stations..    10.65a 

3-30p   Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-55p 

4.00p   Martlnez.Sau  Uamou,  Vallejo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa 8.25a 

4-OOp   Martinez, Tracy.Lathrop.Stockton.    10.25a 

4.00p   Nlles,  Llverrnore.  Stockton,  Lodl..      4-25p 

4.30p  Hayward,  Nlles,  Irvlngton,  San  I    r8.55A 
Jose,  Llverrnore f  111.55a 

5.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare, 

Bakers  Held,  Loa  AngeleB 8.65  a 

6.00c  Port  Costa,  Tracy,    Stockton,  Loa 

Banos 1  2-25p 

'530p  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25a 

6.00p    Hayward,  Nlles  mid  San  Jobb 10.26a 

6.00p  Oriental  Mall— Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Pert  Costa,  Benicla,  Sul- 
eun,  Elmtra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklin,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca,  Battle 

Mountain,  Elko 4-25 1 

6. .  Reno,  Truckee,  Sacramento,  Davis, 

Sulsun,  Benicla,  Port  Costa 7-55* 

6.00p  Vallejo,  dally,  except  Sunday I      7  ccD 

7-OOp  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      /,0bP 

7.00p  San  Paulo,  Port  Cobeb,  Martinez 

and  Way  Stationa 11  ,26a 

8.06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, MaryBvIlle,  Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8. 55a 

9.10p  Hayward,  NlleB  and  San  Joae  (Sun- 
day only) 11.66  a 

11.26p  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 
Bemlte),  Fresno,  Hanford,  VI- 
Balla,  Bakersllcld 12-26P 

COAST    LINE     (Narrow  Gauge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

746a    Santa    Cruz    Excursion    (Sunday 
only) . .  ...  8.10  p 


815a  Newark.  Centerville.  Sen  Joae, 
Felton,    Boulder     Creek.    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6  25" 

!  2  1  Bi  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    10  "i3 

4  16p  Newark,  San  JoBe,  Loa  Gatos  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz;  Monday  only  from  Santa 
Cruz).  Connects  at  Felion  to 
and  from  Boulder  Cr<M>k '8-55 


OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY 

hrom  SAN  L-'RANCISUO,  Fool  oi  Market  St.  (Slip 
— tf:I5.  9:U)     11:00a.m.      LOO     3  00    5-15i-.m 
From  OAKLAND,  foot  of  Broadway  —  |<i:Ul     \AM 
t8:0.>     10:00  a. H.       12  00     2.00     4.00  p.m. 

COAST 

G3T  (Third 

LINE     (Broad  l.ftiiKi')- 

and    Townsend  Streets.) 

8  3) 
4.10 


10  15 


1.20P 


4.35 


6.10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  3'h 

t7.00a    San  Joae  and  Way  Stations 6  3G 

7.15a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 

800a  New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld.,  only), 
8  till  a  Cops  t  Line  LIml  ted— Stops  only  SaD 
Jobc  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llBtcr),  Pajaro.  Castrovllle,  Sa- 
linas. San  *\rdo,  Paso  RohlcB. 
SantaMargarlla. San  Luis  imlsp", 
Guadalupe.  Surf  (connection  for 
Lompoc),  Santa  Barbara.  Saugus 
and  Lob  Angeles.  Connection  at 
Castrovllle  In  and  from  Mouterey 

and  Pad  lie  Grove 

8,110*  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
SautaCruz.PaclucGrove.SiillnHs, 
San  Luis   Obispo   and    Principal 

In  termed  late    S  tn  tlons    

10-30a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

11-00a  Cemetery  PasBeuger — South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 1 .051 

11.30a   Santa  Clara,    San   Jose.  Los  GatOB 

and  Way  Stations         7.30 

£*1.30p   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations v.  7  00 

2-OOp   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 59  40 

2.30p  Cemetery   Passenger  — South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 

13.001-  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara. 
San  Jose,  Del  Monie,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points)  (12-1  i 
3.30P  Pacific  Grove  and  Way  Stations— 
liurllngame.San  Mateo, Red  wood, 
MenloPaik.  Palo  Alto  May  Held, 
Mountain  View,  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara,  San  Jose,  (Gllroy.  Hollls- 
ter,  Tres  Plnos),  Pajaro,  WatBon- 
vllle,  Capltola,  Santa  Cruz,  Cas- 
trovllle, Salinas 10-45. 

4-30P  San  Joae  and  Way  Stations B-36a 

6.00P  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Lob 
Gatos.  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Stations  (except  Sunday) g. 

£6.30i    San  Joae  and  Principal  Way  Stations    tS.DO- 
I6.16r  San  Mateo,  Beresford,  Belmont.  San 
CarlOB,     Redwood,     Fair     Oaka, 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto 19.45) 

fc.iCr  SanJc     and  Way  Stations 6.36J 

7-lt0i'   Sunst'       United,  EaBtbouud.— San 

Lufci  10,  Santa  Barbara,  L08 

Aogeli  u    !  1   :'ilug.  El  Paso,  New 

fork,  (Westbound 

;  -iiilnValli-y)   .. 

8.00'   ! ■'■  ■' ■  '  nations 

11. 3r  .cu.    M Illume. 

1      Snn    Mateo,    Bcl- 

rlos,    Redwood, 

On!         ,cnlo  Park.    Palo 

.1  id.  Mountain  View, 

Lawrence,     Sauta 

1  Sau  Jose 


9.00A 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Wall  Street's  Attack  on  the  President — The  "Sun" 
Owned  by  Morgan,  Fights  Roosevelt — "  Harper's  Weekly" 
Doubts  that  Roosevelt  Will  Be  Elected — The  Facts  in  the 
Case — A  National  Park  on  Mt.  Tamalpais — Dupont  Street 
Bondholders  Will  Be  Paid — To  Restrain  Labor- Union 
Lawlessness — Immigration  is  Still  Increasing — Canal  Pro- 
posed to  Relieve  Levees — Pacific  Mail  Versus  China  Com- 
mercial— King  Peters  Troubles — The  Remedy  for  Sensual 
Crime — Railroads  Will  Do  No  Building  in  1904 — Is 
Havana  Healthy? — Editors  Throw  Verbal  Bricks — Political 
Gossip  of  the  Week — The  President  on  Labor  and  Capital 
— The  Labor  Day  Marchers  —  The  Truth  About  Cali- 
fornia     161-163 

The  Cruise  of  the  Yacht  "Tolna":  Count  Rudolph  Fes- 
tetics  de  Tolna's  Sumptuous  Volume,  "  Among  the  Canni- 
bals " — A  South  Sea  Honeymoon  Cruise  Which  Lasted 
Eight   Years   and   Ended   in    Divorce 163-164 

Old  Favorites:    "The  Men  of  'Forty-Nine,"  by  Joaquin  Miller; 

"The   Land   of   the   Setting   Sun,"   by  J.    D.    P 164 

A   Cannery  Foreman's   Waterloo:     The    Fruits    of    a    Harmless 

Flirtation.       By    William    Hopkins 165 

Stocks  and  Summer  Hotels:  "Van  Fletch  "  on  the  Beautiful 
Maine  Coast — Three  Servants  to  One  Guest — The  Awful 
Auto — Sardine    Signals — An     Injunction    Against    Noise. . . .    166 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent  People  All   Over  the 

World     167 

Recent  Verse:      "  The     Last     Whinny,"     by     Blanche     Nevin; 

"  Unanswered    Questions,"    by    Lucius    Harwood    Foote.  . . .    168 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications     167-160 

Drama:     Florence    Roberts    in    "  The   Unwelcome    Mrs.    Hatch  " 

at  the  Alcazar.      By  Josephine    Hart    Phelps 170 

Stage  Gossip    171 

Vanity  Fair:  What  the  President's  Callers  Wear — The  Kan- 
sas Man  Who  Ltft  His  "  Glad  Rags  "  at  Home— The 
Deceptive  Secret  Service  Official — A  New  Legal  Point — Can 
a  Man  Be  Slandered  Over  the  'Phone? — An  Amusing 
Mix-LTp  of  Laundry  Aboard  a  West  Indian  Excursion 
Steamer — The  College  Boys  in  the  Wheat-Fields — Dueling 
in     Alabama 17^ 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Other  wise — 
Put  Snuff  in  the  Sermon — Dewey  Squelches  a  Too-Familiar 
Person — Painting  a  Picture  With  the  Thumb  Through  It — 
Phil  May's  Queer  Cricketer— -The  Fisherman,  the  Church- 
Bells,  and  the  Parson — Bishop  Doane's  "  Plagiarized  " 
Sermon — Whistler's  White  .Lock  and  Another— How  Lord 
Lyuns  Prevented  War — Bill  Nye's  Head  as  an  Ostrich 
Egg— -The  Grave  Judge  and  the  Gay  Boy — The  Genderal 
Eccentricities  in  Mrs.  Langtry's  Filly's  Pictures — A  Con- 
ceited   Army    Captain 173 

Re  Tuneful  Liar:  "To  Miss  Lou  Dillon,"  by  William  J. 
Lampion ;  "  Hyphenated  Names  ";  "  Prayer  of  the  Small 
College"    • 173 

Society:      Movements     and     Whereabouts — Notes    and     Gossip — 

Army     and     Navy     News 174-175 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits    of    the    Day 176 


Some  little  time  ago,  the  editor  of  the  Chicago  Journal 
Wall  Street's  ^ad  an  nlterv'ew  with  President  Roose- 
Afttack  on  velt.     A  few  days  later,  there  appeared 

THE  PRES.DKNT.  jn     the     C0lumnS     Qf     the     J 0urnai     2.     ?ZXa.- 

?raph  which  said: 

Two  influential  newspaper  publications  have  incurred  Presi- 
lent  Roosevel  t's  keen  displeasure ;  they  are  the  New  York 
Sun  and  Harper's  Weekly.  The  President  believes  that  they 
ire  at  all  times  malicious  and  unfair.  They  are  the  only 
organs  in  the  country  with  which  he  has  any  quarrel.  He 
s  they  are  not  content  with  criticising  him   and  his  public 


acts,  but  they  strike  at  him  through  his  friends,  and  seek  by 
ingenious  untruth  to  annoy  him..  At  no  time,  he  says,  are  they 
more  vicious  than  when  they  pretend  to  be  acting  as  friendly 
organs,  voicing  his  views. 

If  this  statement  was  true  at  the  time  it  was  made, 
it  is  undoubtedly  true  still.  The  attitude  of  Harper's 
Weekly  toward  the  President  is  unchanged,  though 
that  journal  took  editorial  cognizance  of  the  statement 
we  have  quoted,  avowed  its  disbelief  that  it  represented 
the  opinions  of  the  President,  and  (naturally)  denied 
that  its  editorial  policy  was  either  malicious  or  unfair. 
The  New  York  Sun,  so  far  as  we  know,  took  no  notice 
of  this  statement,  but  its  criticisms  of  President  Roose- 
velt have  daily  grown  more  bitter,  not  to  say  venomous. 
It  is  now,  we  believe,  the  only  newspaper  in  the  United 
States  which  is  conducting  an  active  campaign  to  pre- 
vent, if  possible,  the  nomination  or  election  of  Theodore 
Roosevelt  to  the  chief  magistracy. 

Whence  arises  the  animus  of  these  attacks?  The 
Sun  is  a  Republican  paper.  At  the  beginning  of  Roose- 
velt's administration  it  was  favorable  to  him.  Why  is 
it  now,  of  all  newspapers,  his  one  open  enemy  ?  The 
answer  lies  in  the  fact,  or  alleged  fact,  that  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan  is  the  owner  of  the  Sun.  Morgan  is  personally 
antagonistic  to  Roosevelt.  He  it  is  who  is  said  to  con- 
trol the  Sun's  policy,  and  dictate  what  opinions  it  shall 
hold.  "  The  voice,"  as  it  were,  "is  the  voice  of  Jacob, 
but  the  hands  are  the  hands  of  Esau." 

The  anti-Roosevelt  campaign  of  the  Sun,  voicing  the 
views  of  Morgan  and  his  financial  brethren  in  Wall 
Street,  has  now  extended  over  several  months.  Triple- 
leaded  editorials  appear  at  intervals,  and  less  preten- 
tious statements  of  reasons  why  Roosevelt  is  a  danger- 
ous man  to  be  intrusted  with  Presidential  power,  appeal 
daily.  The  Sun's  main  contentions,  presented  with 
great  brilliancy  and  in  an  exhaustless  variety  of  forms, 
are  two.  The  Sun  holds,  first,  that  the  intervention  of 
the  President  at  the  time  of  the  anthracite  coal  crisis 
is  the  main  cause  of  the  more  arrogant  and  lawless 
attitude  of  the  labor  unions  during  the  past  year.  The 
Sun  draws  the  parallel  between  the  official  course 
of  Grover  Cleveland  and  that  of  Theodore  Roosevelt 
in  what  it  conceives  were  like  circumstances.  Of 
Cleveland's  course  at  the  time  of  the  railroad  riots  in 
Chicago,  it  says: 

The  strong  hand  of  the  Federal  authority,  the  hand  of  the 
Constitution  and  the  Law,  reached  out  to  Chicago,  and  the 
rioters  dropped  their  torches,  the  patriots,  who  ought  to  have 
been  in  Washington,  went  to  jail,  the  courts  exercised  their 
functions,  and  peace,  order,  and  individual  liberty  were  re- 
stored.    How  commonplace ;   but,  formerly,  how-  American  ! 

Another  quotation: 

What  Debs  and  Sovereign  would  have  done  in  the  light 
of  these  more  sophisticated  times,  would  have  been  to  delegate 
the  conduct  of  the  rioting  and  murdering  and  burning  to  their 
lieutenants  and  go  themselves  to  Washington  and  demand 
audience  at  the  White  House.  It  is  not  difficult  to  imagine 
the  manner  of  their  reception.  .  .  .  We  can  see  the  horny 
hand  of  toil  crushed  in  a  grasp  as  good  again,  and  the  incisor- 
canine-tricuspid-and-molar  disclosure  of  honest  sympathy,  the 
outward  and  visible  sign  of  a  heart  ever  ready  to  bleed  for 
toil — when  organized.  Then  the  pressure  of  the  bell,  the 
appearance  of  the  faithful  Cortelyou,  and  the  swift  dispatch  of 
telegraphic  summonses  to  the  guilty  myrmidons  of  capital  to 
appear   and  plead   at   the   improvised   bar. 

The  influence  of  the  President's  intervention  in  the 
coal  strike,  according  to  the  Sun,  has  been  to  plunge 
labor  "  into  such  turbulence,  unrest,  and  discontent 
as  never  were  known  before."  He  has  "  consorted 
with  walking  delegates,  the  men  whose  trade  is  agita- 
tion, and  whose  tools  are  strikes;  he  has  ignored  law- 
lessness and  the  overthrow  of  liberty,  and  has  arraigned 
the  employer  at  an  arbitrary  bar." 

That  is  one  count  in  the  Sun's — or  Morgan's,  if  you 
please — case  against  Roosevelt.  The  other  relates  to 
the  President's  campaign  against  trusts.  This  Wall 
Street  organ  holds  that  no  superfluity  of  water,  no 
reckless  and  unconsidered  speculation,  neither  the 
"  indigestibility  "  of  securities  nor  the  desire  of  some 


people  "  to  lithograph  themselves  into  a  fortune,"  as 
Russell  Sage  put  it,  was  the  cause  of  the  recent  mem- 
orable panic  in  the  Street.  The  cause  was  elsewhere, 
namely,  in  the  trust  speeches  of  the  President,  in  1902, 
in  the  thus-instigated  legislative  acts  of  Congress, 
and  in  the  successful  action  at  law  against  the  Northern 
Securities  Company.  At  the  mere  suggestion  of  Pub- 
licity, Capital  trembled,  grew  ashy  pale,  cast  one  wild 
glance  around  the  horizon,  and  then  precipitately  fled 
into  its  "  mysterious  caves."  There  was  nothing  really 
the  matter  of  Wall  Street.  All  the  trusts  were 
as  sound  as  a  dollar.  "  But,"  says  the  Sim,  "  there  is 
nothing  else  in  all  the  world  so  sensitive  to  every  wind 
that  blows.  .  .  .  Disturb  confidence  and  capital  con- 
tracts, shrivels,  and  hides  itself."  Confidence  was  dis- 
turbed by  the  President.  Therefore  the  Sun  unabash- 
edly asks  that  he  recommend  in  his  message  to  Con- 
gress the  repeal  of  the  anti-trust  laws  now  in  force. 
Even  the  Independent  Evening  Post  is  constrained  at 
this  to  remark  that  one  small  ballot-box,  placed  at  the 
corner  of  Wall  and  Broad  Streets,  would  hold  the  bal- 
lots of  all  in  favor  of  such  congressional  action. 

But  what  motive  has  Wall  Street  in  conducting  so 
vigorous  a  campaign  against  Roosevelt?  What  does  it 
expect  to  gain?  Certainly  the  country  at  large  believes 
that  Wall  Street  was  reckless,  and  that  therefore  it 
came  to  grief.  The  press  takes  no  stock  in  the  Sun's 
ingenious  theory.  But  that  there  is  method  in  this 
madness  is  plain,  and  for  an  explanation  of  it  we  must 
needs  turn  to  the  other  journal  under  the  ban  of  the 
President's  displeasure.  In  a  late  number  of  Harper's 
Weekly,  we  find  an  article  on  the  Presidential  outlook. 
We  find  that  the  Weekly  seizes  upon  the  arguments 
of  its  friend,  the  Sun,  and  deduces  therefrom  several 
conclusions.  It  says  that,  on  account  of  the  Booker 
T.  Washington  incident  and  others,  the  President  will 
have  small  chance  of  carrying  any  of  the  Southern  or 
border  States.  If,  then,  the  Democratic  candidate  can 
carry  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Connecticut,  and  Indi- 
ana, besides,  Roosevelt  will  yet  be  beaten.  His  danger 
of  losing  those  States  resides  in  the  antagonism  of  those 
who  have  lost  money  in  the  stock  slump.  "  There  is," 
say  the  Weekly,  "  probably  not  a  voter  in  the  three  piv- 
otal States  just  named  [New  York,  New  Jersey,  and 
Connecticut]  who,  if,  during  the  last  year  and  a  half 
he  has  lost  money  through  shrinkage  of  values  on  the 
stock  exchange,  does  not  hold  Mr.  Roosevelt  respons- 
ible, directly  or  indirectly,  for  his  misfortune." 

Here,  then,  is  a  movement  of  magnitude,  backed  by 
Wall  Street,  and  having  for  its  object  the  burdening 
of  President  Roosevelt  with  responsibility  for  all  direct 
or  indirect  losses  anybody  may  have  suffered  through 
stock  speculation  during  the  past  year  and  a  halt.  It 
remains  to  be  seen  whether  or  not  it  will  succeed. 


King 

Peter's 

Troubles. 


Troubles  rain  thick  about  the  devoted  head  of  Peter, 
by  grace  of  God  King  of  Servia.  Only 
the  other  day  he  announced  his  irre- 
vocable determination  to  "  suppress  the 
military  malcontents  with  an  iron  hand."  But  has  King 
Peter  got  an  "iron  hand"?  We  wot  not.  Plots  and 
counterplots  follow  each  other  in  rapid  succession. 
Arrests  follow  arrests,  and  Belgrade  is  in  an  uproar. 
The  latest  is  a  proclamation  by  many  army  officers, 
demanding  the  trial  by  court-martial  of  the  assassins 
of  King  Alexander  and  Queen  Draga.  Another  group 
of  officers  seem  to  think  that  justice  walks  with  tardy 
feet,  and  they  have  engaged  in  a  conspiracy  to  kill  the 
conspirators.  For  this  they  have  been  arrested.  The 
foreign  minister  who  objected  to  their  arrest  has  re- 
signed. At  safe  distance  the  world  watches  the  sordid 
drama  with  poignant  interest.  Will  King  Pete 
eagerly  grasped  the  blood-stained  sceptre,  him- 


162 


THE 


ARGONAUT. 


September  14,  1903. 


with  sanguinary  dyes  the  palace  halls?  Will  the  curtain 
fall  on  this  bloody  melodrama  with  right  or  with  wrong 
triumphant?  Poor  King  Peter!  He  must  by  this  time 
be  in  a  mood  to  appreciate  the  melancholy  query  of 
King  Henry — 

"  Gives  not  the  hawthorne  bush  a  sweeter  shade 
To    shepherds,    looking    on    their    silly    sheep, 
Than  doth  a  rich  embroider'd  canopy 
To  kings  that  fear  their  subjects'  treachery?  " 

But  still  the  glamour  of  kingship  restrains  him  from 
quitting  Belgrade  by  night  and  returning  to  the  humble 
but  healthy  occupation  of  teaching  languages  at 
Geneva. 


The  President 
on  Labor 
and  Capital. 


The  address  of  President  Roosevelt,  at  the  New  York  State 
Fair  on  Labor  Day,  was  characterized  by  per- 
fect fairness  and  good  sound  sense.  It  was 
not  only  sensible  and  true,  but  it  was  fit  to 
the  occasion,  and  spoken  at  a  time  when  the 
crying  need  for  such  sane  words  is  visible  on  all  sides.  Every 
citizen  ought  to  read  all  of  it.  We  regret  that  we  have  not 
space  to  print  it  here.  But  we  may,  at  least,  call  attention  to 
one  or  two  striking  paragraphs.     The  President  said: 

We  can  keep  our  government  on  a  sane  and  healthy  basis, 
we  can  make  and  keep  our  social  system  what  it  should  be, 
only  on  condition  of  judging  each  man,  not  as  a  member  of  a 
class,  but  on  his  worth  as  a  man.  It  is  an  infamous  thing 
in  our  American  life,  and  fundamentally  treacherous  to  our 
institutions,  to  apply  to  any  man  any  test  save  that  of  his 
personal  worth,  or  to  draw  between  two  sets  of  men  any 
distinction  save  the  distinction  of  conduct,  the  distinction  that 
marks  off  those  who  do  well  and  wisely  from  those  who  do 
ill  and  foolishly. 

There  is  no  worse  enemy  of  the  wage-worker  than  the  man 
who  condones  mob  violence  in  any  shape  or  who  preaches  class 
hatred;  and  surely  the  slightest  acquaintance  with  our  indus- 
trial history  should  teach  even  the  most  short-sighted  that  the 
times  of  most  suffering  for  our  people  as  a  whole,  the  times 
when  business  is  stagnant,  and  capital  suffers  from  shrinkage 
and  gets  no  return  from  its  investments,  are  exactly  the  times 
of  hardship  and  want  and  grim  disaster  among  the  poor. 
If  all  the  existing  instrumentalities  of  wealth  could  be  abol- 
ished, the  first  and  severest  suffering  would  come  among  those 
of  us  who  are  least  well  off  at  present.  The  wage-worker 
is  well  off  only  when  the  rest  of  the  country  is  well  off ;  and 
he  can  best  contribute  to  this  general  well-being  by  showing 
sanity  and  a  firm  purpose  to  do  justice  to  others. 

Ours  is  a  government  of  liberty,  by,  through,  and  under 
the  law.  Lawlessness  and  connivance  at  lawbreaking — whether 
the  lawbreaking  take  the  form  of  a  crime  of  greed  and  cunning, 
or  of  a  crime  of  violence — are  destructive  not  only  of  order,  but 
of  the  true  liberties  which  can  only  come  through  order.  If 
alive  to  their  true  interests,  rich  and  poor  alike  will  set  their 
faces  like  flint  against  the  spirit  which  seeks  personal  advan- 
tage by  overriding  the  laws,  without  regard  to  whether  this 
spirit  shows  itself  in  the  form  of  bodily  violence  by  one  set 
of  men,  or  in  the  form  of  vulpine  cunning  by  another  set  of 
men. 

When    Pulitzer   selected   members    of   the   advisory    board    for 
the      new       school       of      journalism,       from 

Editors  among     the     "  greatest     riving     editors,"  "  he 

Throw  Verbal  ,  _.  '  .  .         ...      .  , 

_  hurled  the  Apple  of  Discord  into  the  editorial 

Bricks.  *^ 

Olympus.  Never  again,  we  fear,  will  Har- 
mony spread  her  brooding  wings  over  metropolitan  newspa- 
perdom.  To  begin  with,  the  Evening  Post,  whose  editor  was 
not  invited  to  share  in  the  solemn  councils  of  the  advisory 
board,  commented  on  the  proposed  school  thus  caustically : 

A  general  refusal  to  buy  or  advertise  in  a  newspaper  which 
persistently  sins  against  good  taste  and  decency  would  do  far 
more  in  a  month  to  "  tone  up  "  our  daily  press  than  would  the 
graduation  of  hundreds  of  "  bachelors  of  journalism."  .  .  .  We 
are  bound  to  say  that  no  great  moral  uplift  can  derive  from  a 
source  which  has  done  so  much,  in  the  past  twenty  years,  to 
degrade  American  journalism — even  if  the  gift  be  made  by  way 
of  expiation. 

Thereupon  Advisory  Board  Member  McKelway,  through  his 
paper,  the  Brooklyn  Eagle,  magisterially  rebuked  the  Post 
for  its  "  cynicism."  More  in  sorrow  than  in  anger  the  Eagle 
pointed  out  that,  by  his  unjust  criticism,  the  Post's  editor  had 
forever  dashed  his  chances  of  being  one  of  Pulitzer's  journal- 
istic Immortals.  "  It  is  within  the  knowledge  of  the  present 
members  of  the  advisory  board  of  the  proposed  school,"  said 
the  Eagle,  "  that  it  was  Mr.  Pulitzer's  intention,  on  his  return 
in  October,  to  request  a  well-known  member  of  the  staff  of  the 
Post  to  become  a  member  of  the  board."  "  If  we  had  only 
known !  "  tragically  exclaims  the  Post  at  this  awful  revela- 
tion,  metaphorically    tearing   the   editorial   locks. 

But  the  Eagle  was  not  yet  through  with  the  Post.  Listen  to 
this: 

Happily,  the  understudy  of  qualities,  which  should  neither 
be  imitated  nor  emulated,  is  marked  by  a  weakness  of  denote- 
ment and  a  feebleness  of  delivery  which  reduce  the  damage, 
though  without  decreasing  the  elementary  indecency  and  the 
clotted  inanity  of  the  performance. 

And  here  is  another  choice  bit  from  the  World  itself,  ap- 
lopos  of  some  misstatements  about  it  by  its  evening  contempo- 
rary : 

It  is  possible  that  the  management  of  the  Columbia  School 
of  Journalism  may  think  it  desirable  to  establish  a  kinder- 
garten department  in  which  budding  journalists  may  learn 
that  moral  censors  should  not  habitually  lie  about  their  neigh- 
bors. Such  a  department  would  justify  its  existence,  even  if 
it  trained  no  other  pupils  than  the  editors  of  the  Evening 
Post. 

What  good  examples  these  editors  are  setting  to  the  downy- 
lipped  pupils  in  the  school  of  journalism  1 


California  is  in  a  parlous  condition.     Up  in  Lake  County,  the 
population   has   decreased   a   thousand   in   ten 
The  Truth  years.     The  crops  this  year   are  short.     The 

_  ,  production      of     quicksilver    has     fallen    off. 

The  hop-raising  industry  has  been  abandoned. 
,',n  Shasta  County,  labor  troubles  have  disorganized  the  smelt- 
ing industry.  Real  estate  at  Keswick  has  decreased  in  value 
one-third.  In  Siskiyou,  the  mines  have  "  gone  backward." 
Vwenty     thousand    acres    of    timber     have    been    destroyed    by 


fire.  Sacramento  County  has  never  had  a  boom.  In  Sutter 
County,  there  is  a  "  sad  state  of  affairs."  The  county  is  bur- 
dened with  debris  from  hydraulic  mining.  The  seepage  from 
the  Yuba  River  is  yearly  getting  worse.  In  Modoc,  the 
"price  of  stock  is  depreciating."  The  yield  of  wheat  this 
year  was  scant.  In  Amador,  the  mining  conditions  are  not 
encouraging.  Business  has  been  paralyzed  by  strikes.  Popu- 
lation has  decreased.  Vacant  houses  are  numerous.  In  Kern 
County,  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  people  who  invested  in  oil  are 
now  bankrupt.  Oil  sells  for  fifteen  cents  a  barrel.  Land 
values  are  low.  The  wheat  crop  in  Tulare  is  almost  a  failure. 
The  banks  are  foreclosing  many  mortgages.  In  the  city  of  Santa 
Barbara  there  was  a  boom.  Then  there  wasn't.  Pockets  were 
empty,  but  pride  kept  heads  high.  Stock  has  suffered  badly 
from  drought.  A  considerable  revenue  is  derived  from  tour- 
ists. Solano  County's  grain  lands  have  decreased  in  value. 
A  farm  that  sold  for  $125  per  acre  in  1893  has  recently  sold 
for  $60.  In  Butte  County,  things  are  so  bad  that  farmers 
can't  pay  the  interest  on  their  mortgages.  Fruit-growers 
barely  pay  expenses.  Labor  is  dear.  In  Yuba,  many  mines 
have  closed  down.  Population  has  fallen  off.  School  districts 
have  lapsed.  In  Ventura,  crops  are  not  particularly  good.  In 
Stanislaus,  there  is  a  lot  of  litigation  over  water  rights.  In 
San  Joaquin,  lands  have  depreciated  in  value.  In  Riverside, 
irrigation  districts  have  been  wrecked.  The  county  is  bur- 
dened with  bonds.     The  grain  crop  has  failed  for  five  years. 

This  is  the  sad,  sad  story,  the  very  distressing  tale,  told  by 
the  county  assessors  to  the  State's  tax-gatherers. 


At  this  writing,  only  a  few  days  before  the  municipal  con- 
vention, the  Republican  party  leaders  are  no 
Political  Gossip  nearer  a  decision  on  a  mayoralty  candidate 
on  the  Eve  of  than  th  w£re  the  day  after  the  primaries. 
Conventions.  ,  ,  .  „   , 

It  is  known  that  the  anti-Schmitz  organiza- 
tion committee  this  week  offered  Justice  Garoutte  the  chance, 
and  that  he  declined  it — with  thanks.  They  are  now  said 
by  the  political  wiseacres  to  be  urging  the  place  on  George  A. 
Knight.  Knight  has  before  declined  the  honor — with  thanks — 
but  it  is  hoped  that  he  will  make  the  run  if  enough  pressure  is 
brought  to  bear.  He  is  at  present  out  of  the  city.  If  Knight 
is  unyielding,  then  John  Lackmann  is  looked  upon  favorably. 
He  has  hitherto  expressed  an  unalterable  determination  not 
to  run  against  Lane.  But  it  is  pointed  out  that  if  the  alterna- 
tives of  taking  the  nomination  or  getting  out  of  politics  are 
presented  to  him,  he  may  be  successfully  coerced  into  ac- 
cepting— with  thanks.  Others  whom  the  Republican  leaders 
still  think  of  shanghaiing  are  F.  W.  Dohrmann,  John  F. 
Merrill,  and  Henry  J.  Crocker.  There  are  no  self-avowed  can- 
didates. The  chairmanship  question  remains  unchanged.  The 
gossips  say  it  is  either  Ach,  Ruef,  or  a  compromise.  If  a 
compromise,  the  chances  favor  John  S.  Partridge.  The  fact 
that  the  mayor  preserves  an  attitude  of  utter  unconcern  regard- 
ing the  Republican  indorsement  of  his  candidacy  seems  to  have 
led  many  to  think  that  he  really  does  not  want  it,  holding  that 
a  straight  three-cornered  contest  will  be  more  conducive  to  his 
success.  The  all-important  question  in  that  case  is,  What  will 
Ruef  do?  Will  he  bolt  the  Republican  ticket?  Can  he  carry 
his  followers  with  him?  Or  will  he  keep  out  of  the  convention 
altogether?  Will  he  try  to  secure  the  nomination  of  a  weak 
candidate  ?  On  all  these  questions  everybody  may  hold  what 
opinions  he  pleases.  The  call  has  been  issued  for  the  Re- 
publican convention.  It  will  meet  in  the  Alhambra  Theatre, 
Tuesday  evening,  September  15th,  at  eight  o'clock.  After  or- 
ganizing, it  is  expected  that  an  adjournment  will  be  taken 
until  September  22a.  The  Democrats  will  meet  on  September 
14th,  organize,  and  adjourn,  but  the  plan  is  to  meet  and  nom- 
inate candidates  before  the  Republicans  do.  The  Union  Labor 
party  is  said  to  be  considering  the  advisability  of  nominating 
a  straight  ticket  throughout,  indorsing  nobody.  The-  figurers 
assert  that  Mahoney,  who  wants  the  Democratic  nomination, 
has  only  91  ballots,  while  the  Lane  faction  has  24S — though 
Lane  has  not  yet  specifically  said  he  would  accept  the  mayor- 
alty nomination. 


Labor 


Line. 


Something  more  than  mere  numbers  made  impressive  and 
inspiring  the  parade  of  San  Francisco's  work- 
ingmen  on  Labor  Day.  The  spotless  uni- 
forms, the  jaunty  air  with  which  the  march- 
ers bore  themselves,  the  handsome  banners 
and  decorated  floats,  testified  eloquently  to  the  strength  and 
prosperity  of  labor.  From  other  cities  of  the  country  come 
reports  of  great  labor  demonstrations.  In  Chicago,  between 
100,000  and  125,000  men  are  said  to  have  been  in  line.  In- 
dianapolis had  the  largest  parade  in  its  history.  Milwaukee's 
parade  numbered  ten  thousand,  and  the  Denver  demonstration 
excelled  all  previous  efforts.  Here,  as  usual,  estimates  of  the 
number  in  line  vary.  Last  year  the  Call  said  30,000,  the 
Examiner,  40,000,  the  Chronicle,  50,000.  This  year,  the  Exam- 
iner and  the  officials  of  the  unions  say  50,000,  but  a  count  by 
the  police  showed  22,522  in  both  parades.  The  Chronicle's 
count  showed  23,238.  The  teamsters'  union  did  not  parade. 
The  allied  printing  trades,  numbering  4,000  men,  were  too  busy 
to  march.  The  sailors'  union,  of  4,000  or  thereabouts,  also  re- 
fused to  march,  and  President  McArthur  did  not  speak  at  the 
Chutes,  as  announced,  because  his  union  was  not  in  line.  But 
even  without  these,  the  marching  hosts  of  labor  made  a  stir- 
ring spectacle.  Many  trades  whose  names  and  very  existence 
are  unknown  to  the  average  man  were  there  in  force.  March- 
ing at  the  front  of  the  Labor  Council  parade  were  the  gas 
workers,  electrical  workers,  linemen,  street  railroad  employees, 
stationary  firemen.  Then  came  the  ice-wagon  drivers  and 
helpers,  retail  delivery  drivers,  soda  and  mineral  water  drivers, 
hackmen,  wholesale  butcher  drivers,  sanitary  wagon  drivers, 
laundry  drivers,  milk  wagon  drivers,  expressmen,  furniture 
and  piano  drivers.  Following  these  were  retail  clerks,  sales- 
ladies and  milliners  (whom  the  crowd  cheered  to  the  echo), 
drug  clerks,  blacksmith  helpers,  casting  chippers  (How  many 
knew  that  casting  chipping  was  an  organized  trade?),  boiler- 
makers'  helpers,  amalgamated  engineers,  patternmakers,  black- 


smiths, united  metal  workers,  boilermakers,  ship  drillers,  iron 
molders,  steam  fitters  and  helpers,  machinists'  apprentices, 
machinists,  sugar  workers,  carpenters,  joiners,  boat  builders, 
picture  frame  workers,  reed  and  rattan  workers,  box  makers 
and  sawyers,  rope  and  cordage  workers,  broom  makers,  glass 
bottle  blowers,  cigarmakers,  cloakmakers,  capmakers,  bicycle 
and  automobile  mechanics  (What,  is  there  not  a  chauffeurs' 
union  yet!),  stove  mounters,  rammermen,  pavers,  coopers, 
fish  handlers,  steam  laundry  workers,  French  laundry  work- 
ers, garment  workers,  upholsterers,  soap,  soda,  and  candle- 
workers,  undertakers'  assistants,  carriage  painters,  carriage 
woodworkers,  shoeworkers,  shoe  cutters,  shoe  repairers,  glove- 
workers,  leatherworkers  on  horse  goods,  leatherworkers,  tan- 
ners, barbers,  bootblacks,  stablemen,  shippers,  packers  and 
porters,  canmakers,  journeymen  tailors,  bakers  and  confec- 
tioners, cracker  bakers,  pie  bakers,  brewers  and  malsters,  beer 
bottlers,  beer  drivers,  butchers,  cooks,  cooks'  helpers,  waiters, 
soda  and  mineral-water  bottlers. 

What  a  list  1  What  a  triumph  of  organization  is  it  when  all 
these  widely  differing  trades  unite  in  a  single  body  for  mutual 
help  and  protection  !  And  this  list  includes  none  of  the  many 
unions  associated  in  the  Building  Trades  Council. 

A  movement  has  been  inaugurated  to  have  Mt.  Tamalpais  and 

the    adjoining    Marin    slopes    set    apart    as    a 

ANational  Park   national    park    by    the    Federal    government. 

The  idea  is  being  pushed  by  the  Tamalpais 
Forestry  Association  and  the  Lagunitas 
Country  Club.  These  associations  have  called  a  meeting  to 
be  held  on  the  grounds  of  the  Lagunitas  Country  Club  to-day 
(Saturday),  to  which  a  number  of  prominent  residents  of  this 
city  have  been  invited.  The  purpose  is  to  formulate  plans  at 
this  meeting  to  carry  out  the  proposition  and  secure  favorable 
action  by  the  Federal  government.  The  present  idea  is  to 
form  an  association  of  broader  scope  than  either  of  the 
organizations  now  pressing  the  question.  It  is  urged  that,  by 
having  this  tract  set  apart  as  a  national  reserve,  the  residents 
of  San  Francisco  and  its  vicinity  will  have  at  their  door  a 
park  similar  to  the  Yellowstone  Park,  though  necessarily  on 
a  much  smaller  scale.  Gifford  Pinchot,  chief  of  the  United 
States  Bureau  of  Forestry,  has  already  expressed  himself  in 
favor  of  the  project.  In  addressing  the  California  Club, 
which  is  taking  an  interest  in  the  matter,  he  said  that  he  had 
inspected  the  land,  and  that  for  purposes  of  a  national  park, 
Mt.  Tamalpais,  in  situation,  in  variety  of  growth,  and  in  va- 
riety of  view,  is  unrivaled.  At  the  coming  meeting  addresses 
will  be  delivered  by  Dr.  Jordan,  Mr.  Pinchot,  and  others. 


Mt.  Tamalpais. 


The  Universal  Peace  Union,  which  has  lately  been  in  session 

in    Connecticut,    passed   a    resolution   relating 

he     emed\  to   tjle   lyj^hing   evfi     which    was   marked   by 

for  Sensual  .     ,.  ,  ,         ,        ,  .  ,  , 

c  sane    practicality    rather   than   by    that   sickly 

sentimentality  too  often  characterizing  the 
"  resolutions  "  of  self-styled  humanitarians.  The  declaration 
was  as  follows : 

Lynching  is  a  monstrous  peace-breaker,  and  we  call  upon 
State  and  national  legislation  to  take  early  and  united  action 
upon  its  suppression.  Let  the  individuals  composing  the  mobs 
set  a  good  example  of  purity  themselves,  and  give  their  time 
to  educating  and  uplifting  the  ignorant  and  depraved.  Let  the 
courts  insure  speedy,  certain,  and  impartial  trials,  and  pity  and 
curative  treatment  take  the  place  of  hate  and  vengeance. 
If  there  be  uncontrollable  passions  in  the  depraved  victim  of 
lynching,  there  is  a  remedy  which  medical  skill  may  well  be 
called  upon  to  apply,  as  it  would  for  any  other  diseased  condi- 
tion;  for  the  increase  of  sensual  criminality,  affecting  present 
morality  and  future  generations,  forces  the  suggestion  that 
this  remedy,  administered  with  wisdom  and  the  best  surgical 
ability,  would  be  a  protection  to  society  and  a  kindness  and 
mercy  to  the  offender. 

The  fluctuations  in  the  tide  of  immigration  into  this  country 
furnish  a  very  fair  index  of  its  material 
condition.  When  times  are  good,  immigrants 
pour  in,  and  judged  by  this  standard  this 
country  is  now  enjoying  an  unprecedented 
era  of  prosperity.  During  the  year  ending  June  30th,  the 
number  of  immigrants  was  857,046 — a  number  considerably 
greater  than  during  any  previous  year.  The  immigration  dur- 
ing 1902  was  about  200,000  less  than  this,  and  the  indications 
point  to  a  further  increase  during  the  current  year.  The 
number  of  immigrants  fluctuates  from  month  to  month,  July 
and  August  being  months  of  small  immigration.  Nevertheless, 
a  comparison  with  the  corresponding  months  of  last  year 
shows  the  heavy  increase  in  those  now  coming.  On  the  basis 
of  each  100  arriving  during  the  corresponding  months  of  last 
year,  the  figures  for  this  year  would  be  March,  118;  April, 
132;  May,  128;  June,  130;  July,  133.  During  the  five  months 
the  actual  increase  was  115, 383,. or  more  than  one-half  of  the 
total  increase  for  the  fiscal  year  1902-3.  In  the  quality  of  the 
immigrants,  there  is  no  cause  for  reassurance.  The  hardy, 
industrious  races  of  Northern  Europe  are  coming  in  decreased 
proportion ;  the  undesirable  races  of  Southern  and  Eastern 
Europe  are  coming  in  large  numbers.  From  Austria-Hungary, 
Italy,  and  Russia  43,319  immigrants  came  last  year,  an  increase 
of  9,885  over  1902,  the  greatest  increase  being  from  Austria-: 
Hungary,  while  there  was  a  decrease  of  630  from  Italy. 


Immigration 
Is  Still 
Increasing. 


Dupont  Street 
Bondholders 
Will  Be  Paid. 


In  the  United  States  Circuit  Court,  Judge  Beatty  has  renderec 
a  decision  that  will  probably  put  an  end  to  2 
case  that  has  been  before  the  courts  for  man] 
years,  and  to  a  dispute  of  twenty-sevei 
years'  standing.  In  1 876,  the  legislature 
passed  a  law  providing  for  the  widening  of  Dupont  Stree 
from  Market  to  Filbert  Street,  and  for  the  issuing  of  bond; 
in  the  sum  of  one  million  dollars.  To  pay  these  bond 
with  interest,  an  assessment  was  levied  upon  the  abutting 
property.  The  plan  was  carried  out  only  in  part,  the  portioi 
of  Dupont  Street  between  Bush  and  Filbert  Streets  remaininj 
unwidened,  and  only  about  four-fifths  of  the  bonds  were  takei 
up.     There  were  no  funds  available  for  the  redemption  of  th< 


September  14,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


-  33 


Labor-Union 
Lawlessness. 


remainder.  The  holders  of  these  bonds  let  their  claims  run 
until  nearly  four  years  had  elapsed,  and  then  brought  suit 
to  prevent  the  statute  of  limitations  barring  their  claim.  The 
case  came  up  in  the  Circuit  Court,  where  Judge  Morrow  sus- 
tained a  demurrer  interposed  by  the  property-owners  in  behalf 
of  the  city.  The  Court  of  Appeals  reversed  the  decision,  and 
remanded  the  case  for  a  new  trial.  Judge  Gilbert,  in  render- 
ing the  decision  for  the  Court  of  Appeals,  held  that  the  interest 
that  had  run  beyond  the  statutory  period  of  four  years  could 
not  be  collected,  but  that  there  was  liability  for  the  principal 
and  subsequent  interest.  Judge  Beatty  has  now  rendered  a 
decision  for  the  principal  and  interest  on  the  last  two  coupons 
dating  from  January  i,  1897.  The  bondholders  lose  the  in- 
terest for  nineteen  years.  The  city  must  now  proceed  to  col- 
lect the  money  from  the  property-owners  and  pay  it  over  to 
the  bondholders. 

An  organization  has  been  completed  at  Fort  Bragg  which  has 
the  novel  purpose  of  compelling  an  element 
of  the  community  to  obey  the  laws  of  the 
whole  community.  Fort  Bragg  is  in  the 
lumber  district,  and  the  people  of  that  com- 
munity depend  for  their  prosperity  almost  exclusively  upon 
the  lumber  industry.  For  some  time  there  has  been 
an  industrial  struggle,  marked  by  the  usual  inci- 
dents of  strike  and  lock-out,  between  the  lumber- 
men and  those  who  handle  their  product.  Both  sides  to  the 
struggle  have  suffered,  but,  as  is  invariably  the  case,  those 
of  the  community  who  are  not  directly  interested  in  the  strug- 
gle have  been  equally  heavy  losers.  They  have,  for  their  own 
protection,  organized  "  The  Citizen's  League  of  Fort  Bragg, 
No.  1,"  a  secret  organization,  which  has  for  its  purpose  the 
prevention  of  such  struggles  between  labor  and  capital.  The 
idea  of  the  league  was  obtained  from  a  similar  organization 
known  as  the  "'  Independent  American  Mechanics*  Union," 
formed  at  Indianapolis  last  March,  and  with  which  the  Fort 
Bragg  league  has  affiliated.  The  objects  of  the  league  are 
to  maintain  amicable  relations  between  employers  and  em- 
ployed;  to  advance  the  interests  of  labor  by  securing  better 
wages  and  shorter  hours;  to  promote  all  forms  of  productive 
industry ;  to  prevent  unlawful  discrimination  against  any 
members  by  any  person  or  organization,  and  against  attempts 
to  prevent  their  working  for  such  wages  as  shall  be  mutually 
satisfactory  to  the  individual  workman  and  his  employer ; 
to  prevent  strikes,  lock-outs,  boycotts,  and  black-lists;  and 
to  compel  labor  unions  to  obey  the  laws.  It  is  expected  by 
the  Fort  Bragg  people  that  similar  leagues  will  be  formed 
in  other  cities  on  the  Coast. 


According  to  the  story  published  by  a  daily  paper,  the  Pacific 
Mail    Steamship    Company    is    suffering    from 
Pacific  Mail  ^    effectjve    retaliation    of    the    China    Com- 


Versus  China 
Commercial. 


raercial  Company.  It  seems  that  the  former 
company  instituted  a  rate  war  on  this  side 
of  the  Pacific  in  order  to  prevent  its  rival  getting  any  of  the 
Oriental  trade.  The  Pacific  Mail  has  somewhat  of  an  ad- 
vantage on  this  side,  and  the  Chinese  company  felt  the 
pressure.  But  the  Chinese  company,  being  owned  by  Chinese, 
had  much  more  influence  on  the  other  side  than  did  its  rival. 
It  began  a  rate  war  in  China,  and  the  Chinese  merchants  sup- 
ported it.  The  Pacific  Mail  Company's  liner  Korea,  with  a 
capacity  of  11,000  tons,  came  into  port,  the  other  day,  with 
2,790  tons  of  freight  in  its  hold.  The  Occidental  and  Oriental 
liner  Gaelic,  with  a  capacity  of  more  than  3.000  tons,  came 
into  port  a  few  days  later  with  1,875  tons  of  freight.  The 
China  Commercial  Company  has  now  cut  the  rates  for  steer- 
age passage.  According  to  this  authority,  a  lively  rate  war  is 
in  prospect  unless  the  older  company  withdraws  from  its 
position. 


Is 

Havana 

Healthy? 


The  wonderful  success  of  General  Leonard  Wood  in  "  clean- 
ing up "  Havana,  and  thereby  decreasing 
the  death-rate  to  a  point  where  it  compares 
favorably  with  the  death-rate  of  Northern 
cities,  has  been  the  theme  of  many  eulogists. 
But  now  comes  F.  L.  Hoffman,  a  university  lecturer  on 
actuarial  subjects,  with  a  different  story-  Before  the  fourth 
international  congress  of  life-insurance  actuaries,  held  in  New- 
York  last  week,  he  made  this  statement : 

When  we  are  told  by  a  Secretary  of  War  that  the  mortality 
in  Cuba  is  not  more  than  that  in  the  city  of  New  York,  it  does 
:iOt  require  much  actuarial  knowledge  to  cause  one  to  smile 
and  to  know  that  it  is  nonsense  The  statement  that  the  death- 
rate  of  Havana  is  no  greater  than  that  of  Washington  is  un- 
true. For  some  time  to  come  the  death-rate  of  Havana  will 
be  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  per  cent,  greater  than  that  of 
any  Northern  city.  This  information  is  disseminated  to  an 
ignorant  public  for  political  purposes.  Our  census  reports 
are  very"  far  from  being  what  they  ought  to  be.  They  are  not 
prepared  with  the  proper  skill ;  they  are  not  backed  up  by  the 
proper  actuarial  knowledge  to  make  them  of  value  to  the  in- 
surance companies  as  they  ought  to  be. 

A  recent  dispatch  to  the  Chronicle  from  Pittsburg,  Pa., 
contains  some  facts  regarding  large  build- 
ing enterprises  that  have  been  discontinued 
until  the  labor  conditions  are  more  favor- 
able. Comment  is  unnecessary.  The  dis- 
patch  says : 

There  is  likely  to  be  a  general  cessation  of  building  opera- 
tions during  1904,  which  will  make  that  year  memorable.  The 
statement  of  one  of  the  largest  contracting  concerns  in  the 
country  connected  with  railroad  construction  work  is  the  basis 
for  the  assertion  that  at  least  $180,000,000  worth  of  building 
operations  proposed  for  1904  have  actually  been  called  ort. 
The  Pennsylvania  Railroad,  which  now  has  enough  improve- 
ments under  way  and  contemplated  to  make  an  expenditure  of 
$50,000,000  during  1904,  has  decided  to  withdraw  all  of  these 
plans,  and  do  nothing  further  with  them  until  there  is  a  more 
placid  condition  of  the  labor  market.  Information  given  out 
shows  that  in  New  York  alone  there  is  at  least  $60,000,000  of 
new  building  for  1904  involved  in  the  general  plan  of  with- 
drawal. In  Chicago,  where  the  labor  troubles  have  been 
continuous  for  months,  it  is  said  that  more  than  $70,000,000 
of  new  work  has  been  abandoned.  In  this  city.  Henry  Phipps. 
H.  C.  Frick,  and  H.  W.  Oliver  will  delay  contemplated  work. 


Railroads  will 
do  no  Building 
in  1904. 


THE   LOG    OF   THE   YACHT   "  TOLNA." 

Count  Rudolph  Festetics  de  Tolna's  Sumptuous  Volume,  "  Among  the 

Cannibals"— A  South  Sea  Honeymoon  Cruise  Which  Lasted 

Eight  Years  and  Ended  in  Divorce. 

Why  did  the  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  leave  the  Count 
Festetics  de  Tolna  ? 

This  is  a  question  which  has  mightily  puzzled  San  Francisco 
society.  It  is  now  about  ten  years  ago  that  Count  Tolna  won 
the  heart  and  hand  of  Miss  Haggin,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Louis  Haggin.  of  San  Francisco.  The  countess  was  thus  a 
granddaughter  of  James  B.  Haggin.  and  likewise  a  granddaugh- 
ter of  Samuel  Butterworth,  two  of  San  Francisco's  prominent 
citizens  in  the  early  times.  James  B.  Haggin  is  to-day  one 
of  America's  millionaires  and  a  leading  sportsman  on  the  race- 
track. Samuel  Butterworth.  once  one  of  San  Francisco's 
leading  citizens,  has  been  for  many  years  dead.  Blanche 
Butterworth,  his  daughter,  was  a  great  belle  in  San  Francisco 
not  so  many  years  ago,  and  her  marriage  to  Louis  Haggin. 
son  of  the  millionaire  Haggin.  was  one  of  the  social  events  of 
the  times.  In  addition  to  wealth  and  beauty,  Blanche  Butter- 
worth Haggin  is  a  woman  of  unusual  talent.  She  compiled 
and  published,  some  years  ago,  a  book  entitled  "  Le  Livre 
D'Amour."  It  was  printed  in  an  edition  de  luxe,  on  vellum 
paper,  from  specially  cast  type,  in  a  limited  edition.  It  was  a 
very  beautiful  book,  and  is  to-day  a  bibliographical  rarity. 

Altogether,  it  will  be  seen  that  when  Count  Rudolph  Festetics 
de  Tolna  conferred  his  name  and  his  title  upon  Miss  Ely 
Haggin,  he  was  not  wedding  a  humble  wayside  flower.  If  her 
name  was  not  so  long  as  his,  the  California  heiress  was  right 
smart  of  a  personage  herself. 

The  Haggin  family  did  not  enthuse  over  the  match.  The 
count  was  an  extremely  eccentric  person,  and  intended  to  take 
his  bride-to-be  honeymooning  on  a  yacht  through  the  Southern 
Seas.  This  in  itself  was  unusual.  But  to  add  to  the  yachting 
scheme,  the  count  became  involved  in  about  seventeen  different 
kinds  of  lawsuits  over  the  building  and  outfitting  of  his  yacht. 
He  even  had  a  lawsuit  before  she  was  built,  for  a  shipbuilder 
brought  suit  against  him  for  an  unused  plan.  He  had  another 
lawsuit  with  a  professor  of  navigation  concerning  some  ques- 
tion of  charges  for  his  nautical  education.  He  had  six  dis- 
tinct and  several  rows  with  the  ship-chandlers,  stevedores,  and 
bum-boat  men  who  fitted  out  and  handled  cargo  and  ballast ; 
and,  last  of  all,  just  as  he  was  about  to  get  ready  to  sail,  the 
customs  authorities  refused  him  his  clearance  papers  because 
he  was  not  an  American  citizen.  This  seemed  an  almost 
insurmountable  difficulty.  How  it  was  overcome  we  shall  tell 
in  a  moment. 

Count  Tolna  has  just  published  the  log  of  his  yacht.  It  is 
issued  in  a  luxuriously  printed  form  by  a  Paris  publishing 
firm  with  the  title  "  Among  the  Cannibals :  Eight  Years  of 
Cruising  in  the  Pacific  Ocean  On  Board  the  Yacht  Le  Tolna. 
with  Two  Hundred  Engravings  and  Maps.  After  Photographs 
and  Studies  by  the  Author." 

This  volume  begins  with  the  departure  of  the  yacht  from 
San  Francisco.  But  Count  Tclna  does  not  tell  how  he  over- 
came the  non-citizenship  difficulty.  He  confines  himself  to 
these  guarded  words :  "  At  last  this  difficulty  had  been 
smoothed  away."  The  manner  in  which  it  was  smoothed  away 
is  so  remarkable  that  it  is  worth  printing  to  make  up  the 
omission  in  the  count's  book.  So  rigid  are  the  laws  of  the 
United  States  that  Count  Tolna  would  never  have  sailed  the 
salt  seas  in  a  yacht  with  an  American  bottom  unless  he  shed 
his  countship  as  a  snake  sheds  his  skin  and  took  out  natu- 
ralization papers.  Uncle  Sam  in  these  matters  is  rigid.  But 
the  ""  difficulty  was  smoothed  over"  by  little  Miss  Ely  Haggin, 
seventeen  years  old  and  a  timid  bride,  taking  the  oath  of 
allegiance  and  receiving  clearance  papers  as  captain,  skipper, 
and  sailing-master  of  the  good  ship  Tolna.  In  short,  as  she 
was  a  citizen  and  he  was  not,  the  bride  became  the  boss  of  the 
boat. 

On  the  fourth  page  of  his  book,  Count  Tolna  tells  a  terrible 
tale  of  *'  Ketty,"  a  maid  of  Mrs.  Louis  Haggin,  coming  to  see 
him  in  secret.    Listen  to  the  count: 

She  seemed  very  much  embarrassed  and  moved.  I  asked 
her  what  was  the  matter.  After  having  made  me  promise  not 
to  betray  her,  she  said  she  wished  to  warn  me  about  ray  first 
officer,  Wickmann ;  that  he  was  her  sweetheart ;  that  he  was 
a  former  pirate,  and  was  yearning  to  return  to  his  old  calling ; 
that  the  evening  before  they  had  been  to  a  German  beer-hall 
together,  and,  under  the  influence  of  beer,  he  had  confided  to 
her  his  project  for  seizing  the  yacht,  kidnaping  the  young 
couple,  and  then  returning  and  extorting  a  large  sum  in 
ransom  from  Mr.  Haggin. 

"  As  soon  as  we  have  left  the  port  of  San  Francisco,"  said 
he,  *"  I  shall  put  the  count  in  irons,  and  I  shall  maroon  him 
and  his  wife  on  an  uninhabited  island,  which  1  have  picked 
out  on  the  map.  Then  I  shall  bring  back  the  yacht  to  San 
Francisco  and  notify  Mr.  Haggin  that  I  will  tell  him  where 
the  island  is  if  he  will  give  me  the  Tolna  for  my  own  and  a 
large  sum  of  money.  If  he  doesn't  pony  up,  I  shall  leave 
these  two  turtle-doves  to  die  of  hunger  on  their  island." 

The  count  knew  not  what  to  think  of  this  remarkable  tale. 
Finally  he  concluded  to  watch  Wickmann,  but  retain  him  in 
his  post. 

Again  let  us  leave  the  count  to  take  up  the  narrative : 

On  October  18,  1893,  at  seven  o'clock  in  the  morning,  ac- 
companied by  the  Haggin  family,  we  left  Vallejo  Street  wharf 
on  the  tug-boat  Sea  King,  which  took  us  aboard  the  Tolna, 
and  towed  us  outside  the  bay.  When  we  were  there,  the 
Haggin  family  went  over  the  side,  and  were  rowed  back 
in  the  yacht's  dinghy  to  the  tug.  while  Mme.  Haggin  watched 
her  daughter  through  her  tears. 

The  next  day  the  count  finds  that  First  Officer  Wickmann 
is  fooling  with  the  compass,  or  else  the  vessel  is  not  sailing 
on  her  course.  The  count's  calculations  show  that  she  should 
be  thirty-five  miles  further  to  the  west  and  sixty  miles  further 
to  the  south  than  the  position  on  the  chart.  He  studies  the 
situation  closely  for  a  couple  of  days,  but  finds  the  divergence 
growing  greater.  At  last  he  bethinks  himself  of  a  pocket- 
compass  in  his  stateroom.  He  gets  it,  mounts  to  the  deck, 
and  steals  a  stealthy  glance  in  the  binnacle.    He  finds  that  the 


yacht   is    really    headed    south-south-west,    when    the    doctored 
compass  is  making  her  course  west-south-west.  This  would  take 
1  her  far  away   from   Honolulu,   to  which  port  she  was  bound. 
Thus  says   the  count : 

There  was  no  longer  any  doubt.  This  man  Wickmann  was 
taking  us  away  from  our  destination.  I  grew  hot  with  anger. 
I  clenched  my  fists  ready  to  spring  upon  him.  But  it  was 
only  for  a  moment.  I  looked  around  me.  No  one  was 
observing  me.  no  one  had  seen  the  gesture  of  fury  which  had 
escaped  me.  Becoming  calmer,  I  descended  again  to  my 
cabin.  There  I  became  the  prey  of  melancholy  reflections. 
There  was  no  longer  any  doubt — Wickmann  was  about  to  carry 
out  the  kidnaping  plan  that  Ketty  had  warned  me  of.  I  was 
alarmed — not  so  much  over  the  danger  as  at  the  ridiculous 
side  of  the  affair.  To  this,  then,  had  led  my  long  preparations. 
The  San  Francisco  newspapers  had  kept  their  readers  posted 
on  all  the  details  of  the  construction  01  my  yacht.  They  had 
published  designs  and  descriptions,  with  interviews  from  men 
concerning  my  nautical  qualifications.  They  had  even  printed 
the  percentage  of  my  certificate  passed  upon  by  the  directors 
of  the  nautical  school — and  all  my  nautical  science  had  resulted 
in  permitting  my  fine  yacht  to  be  captured  by  a  clever 
scoundrel. 

The  count  goes  on  to  tell  how  he  determined  to  frustrate  the 
plans  of  Wickmann.  He  teaches  his  wife  to  take  the  sun, 
although  he  does  not  confide  to  her  his  suspicions.  He  tells 
her  that  it  is  in  order  to  teach  her  navigation,  and  that  it  will 
amuse  her.  Then  it  becomes  a  duel  between  the  count  and 
Wickmann.  The  count  insists  that  the  compass  has  deviated 
by  means  of  magnetic  attraction,  and  persists  in  holding  a 
course  based  on  his  pocket-compass  which  he  keeps  concealed. 
Wickmann  gnashes  his  teeth,  but  can  not  resist.  But  the  vil- 
lainous Wickmann  is  not  content  with  monkeying  with  the 
compass.     Listen  to  the  count: 

I  suspected  that  Wickmann  had  gone  to  my  stateroom.  I 
left  the  deck.  I  crossed  the  cabin,  where  my  footsteps  made 
no  noise  on  the  thick  carpet.  I  arrived  at  the  door  of  my 
stateroom,  where  I  saw  Wickmann.  He  did  not  hear  me.  He 
had  his  hand  on  the  chronometer.  He  was  just  about  to 
change  the  chronometer  as  he  had  changed  the  compass.  I 
saw  his  face  reflected  in  the  mirror.  It  had  a  frightful  ex- 
pression, like  that  of  a  poisoner  as  he  pours  his  poisonous 
potion  into  a  glass.  With  cat-like  tread  I  withdrew  to  the 
cabin  companion-way.  Then,  making  some  noise  to  warn 
him,  I  came  into  the  cabin  again,  giving  Wickmann  time  to 
put  the  chronometer  back  in  its  place.  It  became  vital  that  I 
should  not  forget  to  wind  my  watch.  Henceforth,  there  was 
nothing  but  my  watch  and  my  pockt t-cotnpass  to  guide  us 
through  the  vast  PaciHc  Ocean. 

At  this  point  the  most  light-hearted  leader  of  Count  Tolna's 
book  begins  to  have  the  creeps.  But  again  the  question  arises. 
Why  did  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  leave  Count  Festetics  de 
Tolna? 

For  several  days  nothing  took  place  aboard  the  yacht 
but  this  continual  watching  and  counter-watching.  The 
countess  had  not  only  learned  to  take  the  sun.  but  she  also 
cast  an  eye  upon  the  compass  as  she  passed  the  binnacle : 
she  went  below  occasionally,  to  see  that  Wickmann  had  not 
changed  the  chronometer  again ;  she  kept  her  watch  on  deck 
while  her  husband  was  below  asleep.  Thus,  on  their  honey- 
moon trip,  the  Count  and  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  kept 
watch  and  watch  like  the  first  and  second  officers  of  a  lumber 
schooner. 

But  why  did  the  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  leave  the 
Count  Festetics  de  Tolna? 

As  the  yacht  continued  to  near  Honolulu,  despite  the  efforts 
of  Kidnaper  Wickmann,  the  count  noticed  that  "  Wickmann, 
more  fierce  than  ever,  walked  the  deck  like  a  wild  beast 
in  a  cage.  Sometimes  he  clenched  his  fists  and  darted  furious 
glances  at  me."  But  the  count,  taking  heart  of  grace,  began 
to  laugh  at  him.  One  day,  however,  Wickmann  gives  an  order 
to  bring  the  yacht  about  unexpectedly  when  the  count  was 
below,  and  the  countess  was  on  deck,  hoping  by  the  sudden 
movement  to  carry'  the  countess  overboard  by  the  swinging  of 
the  main  boom.  Fortunately  he  failed.  But  the  countess  was 
knocked  senseless.     Thus  the  count : 

While  I  was  asleep  below  I  was  awakened  by  a  frightful 
noise  on  deck.  It  seemed  as  if  everything  had  been  reduced 
to  kindling  wood.  I  ran  up  the  companion-way.  There  I 
found  my  wife  extended  on  the  deck,  unconscious,  in  the  midst 
of  some  broken  top-hamper.  As  soon  as  I  had  convinced 
myself  that  she  had  received  no  wounds,  and  was  only  in- 
sensible from  the  violence  of  the  shock.  I  put  her  in  the  hands 
of  her  negress,  who  took  her  below.  Then  drawing  my  re- 
volver. I  marched  straight  on  Wickmann. 

"  Who  was  at  the  wheel?"  said  I. 

"  Tom,  sir." 

"  Take  these  fetters ;  put  them  on  him  immediately,  or  I 
will  blow  out  your  brains." 

"  Captain,  it  wasn't  his  fault." 

"  No  back  talk.  I  give  you  two  minutes  to  put  this  man  in 
irons  and  give  me  the  key  or  I  will  kill  you  like  a  dog." 

Wickmann  at  once  took  the  irons  and  put  them  on  Tom. 
to  whom  he  whispered  a  few  words.  When  he  brought  me 
back  the  key  I  threw  it  into  the  sea,  saying:  "Those  irons 
will  stay  on  him  until  some  Honolulu  locksmith  can  take  them 
ort.  And  now  listen  to  me.  Things  are  going  on  here  which 
would  justify  me  in  shooting  you  all.  I  warn  you  that  at  the 
first  sign  of  mutiny  from  any  man  I  will  blow  his  brains  out." 

Again  we  ask,  "  Why  did  the  Countess  Festetics  leaver " 

But  to  our  tale. 

It  is  a  lamentable  anti-climax  to  this  dreadful  story — 
which  sounds  as  if  it  came  from  a  pirate's  own  book — to 
narrate  that  they  arrived  at  Honolulu  on  the  twenty-fourth 
of  October  without  anything  further  happening,  and  that  the 
count  allowed  Wickmann  to  leave  the  ship  without  taking 
any  particular  action  concerning  him. 

The  count  describes  his  stay  at  Honolulu,  and  speaks  of  so- 
cial   relations    there    with    startling    frankness.      He    mentions 

one  ex-premier,  Mr.  C ,  as  living  "  in  the  most  patriarchal 

relations  with  his  wife  and  other  women  under  the  same 
roof."  For  example,  he  says,  his  host  thus  introduced  his 
feminine  surroundings : 

"Mme.    C .   my   legitimate   wife:    Mme.   E ,   my   first 

mistress ;     Mme.     M ,    my    second    mistress ;     K .    ray 

legitimate    daughter;     R ,     my      natural      daughter,      etc." 

"  But,"  adds  the  count,  "  these,  our  hospitable  friends,  women 
and  young  girls,  unequal  before  the  law.  were  equal  by  their 
charm  and  hospitality." 

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164 


THE        ARGONAUT 


September  14,  1903. 


the    Countess    Festetics    de    Tolna    should    have    left    Count 
Festetics  de  Tolna. 

As  the  count  takes  us  from  island  to  island,  all  sorts  of 
charming  things  occur,  calculated  to  appeal  to  a  bride.  For 
example,  they  go  to  Fanning  Island,  and  there  is  a  large 
photograph  of  the  count  with  "  on  my  right,  the  young  maiden 
whom  the  king  offered  to  me,  decorated  for  this  occasion. 
I  am  seated  at  the  left."  At  this  same  island  the  honey- 
mooners  were  regaled  with  the  following  sight: 

Weird  bursts  of  music  were  heard,  and  a  group  of  young 
girls,  almost  nude  and  clad  in  girdles  of  leaves,  began  a  kind 
of  danse  du  ventre,  their  shoulders  remaining  rigid,  while 
their  bodies  worked  in  the  most  vertiginous  fashion.  These 
dances  were  of  lascivious  significance.  .  .  .  Suddenly  a  group 
of  young  native  men  made  their  entrance,  dancing  around  the 
young  girls  with  demoniac  contortions. 

In  the  midst  of  these  interesting  and  charming  scenes,  how 
did  it  ever  occur  to  the  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  that 
she  would  one  day  want  to  leave  the  Count  Festetics  de 
Tolna? 

When  the  yacht  arrived  at  Tahiti,  the  count  speedily  be- 
came acquainted  with  some  of  the  leading  persons  there,  in- 
cluding the  royal  princess,  a  dark  lady  with  a  weakness  for 
gin,  cigarettes,  and  palm  oil  as  a  cosmetic.  She  and  some 
other  distinguished  persons  accompanied  the  count  and 
countess  on  a  picnic: 

Arranged  on  the  grass  were  pandennis  leaves,  which  made 
the  table-cloth,  while  we  seated  ourselves  on  palm  leaves. 
The  servant  climbed  a  cocoa-tree  and  gathered  cocoanuts  for 
us.  Then  he  made  a  trench  in  the  earth  and  lit  a  fire,  on 
which  he  put  a  young  pig.  On  top  of  this  pig,  bananas  and 
bread  fruits  were  placed.  Then  he  gathered  oysters — for  this 
was  on  the  beach — fish  which  we  ate  raw,  likewise  little  crabs 
and  shrimps.  He  also  gathered  centipedes  which  our  host 
ate,  but  which  we  did  not  touch. 

Two  photographs  are  given,  one  of  the  picnic-party  eating 
baked  pig  and  raw  fish,  and  another  of  the  same  party  after 
this  repast,  with  the  princess,  her  face  shining  with  gin, 
benevolence  and  palm  oil,  affectionately  pressing  the  hand 
of  the  little  countess  and  gazing  into  her  eyes. 

More  and  more  mysterious  does  it  become  why  the  Countess 
Festetics  de  Tolna  should  ever  have  left  the  Count  Festetics 
de  Tolna. 

From  Tahiti  the  yacht  goes  to  Raro  Tonga,  and  we  have  a 
picture  of  the  count  in  the  costume  of  the  natives.  There 
are  pictures  of  the  queen  and  the  queen's  ladies  of  honor  and 
ladies  in  waiting.  They  have  more  titles  than  clothes.  Thence 
the  yacht  goes  to  Samoa,  where  the  following  incident  is 
narrated  by  the  count: 

The  day  of  our  arrival  I  saw  coming  aboard  a  white  man 
in  his  shirt-sleeves,  with  bare  feet  and  with  his  trousers  rolled 
up  to  his  knees.  He  carried  a  letter  of  introduction  from 
a  countryman  of  mine,  Count  Robert  Wurmbrand  Stuppach, 
brother  of  Count  Leo  Wurmbrand  Stuppach,  first  chamberlain 
of  His  Imperial  and  Royal  Highness  the  Archduke  Francis 
Ferdinand.  In  this  letter  he  urged  me  to  visit  Stevenson, 
the  celebrated  American   (sic)   writer,  who  lived  in  Apia. 

"  When  can  I  see  Mr.  Stevenson?"  asked  I  of  the  barefooted 
man  ;  "  tell  him  I  shall  be  charmed  to  meet  him,  and  that  I 
will  go  this  very  day  to  call." 

The  barefooted  man  looked  at  me  in  astonishment.  "  Meet 
Mr.  Stevenson!"  he  repeated,  "why  you  have  met  him.  I  am 
Mr.  Stevenson." 

I  excused  my  error,  which  made  us  both  smile,  and  ac- 
companied Stevenson'  to  the  cabin,  where  I  presented  him 
to  the  countess,  and  where  we  took  a  glass  of  champagne. 
Later,  we  called  upon  him,  and  were  presented  to  Mine. 
Stevenson,  whom  we  found  barefooted  as  well  as  all  the  other 
members  of  the  family.  She  is  an  agreeable  and  witty  woman, 
who  writes  all  her  husband's  books  after  his  dictation.  This 
great  American  was  like  a  king  among  the  natives ;  therefore, 
the  Germans  hated  him. 

From  Samoa  the  yacht  sailed  to  Fiji,  where  the  count  caught 
a  snap-shot  of  a  number  of  natives  attacking  a  boat-load  of 
white  men  with  their  poisoned  lances.  It  is  not  explained 
whether  the  picture  is  a  fake  or  not.  Numbers  of  other  Fiji 
views  are  taken  by  the  count,  most  of  them  of  young  ladies 
wearing  nothing  but  the  microscopic  leaf  girdle  of  which  the 
count  has  spoken.  This  is  diversified  by  one  Fiji  belle,  who 
is  wearing  a  girdle  made  of  human  hair.  They  are  doubt- 
less nice  girls,  but  scarcely  such  as  one  would  choose  for 
pink  teas. 

From  Fiji  the  yacht  sails  for  Sydney.  On  the  way  they 
had  a  cyclone,  and  a  few  other  trifling  things  happened,  but 
the  most  striking  was  this: 

We  had  aboard  a  large  black  dog  called  Bob.  One  morning, 
I  heard  from  my  stateroom  an  unusual  noise  on  deck.  I  hur- 
ried up  and  saw  that  all  the  crew  had  fled  to  the  rigging. 
Running  up  and  down  the  deck  was  Bob,  with  bloodshot  eyes, 
his  hair  standing  up  on  his  neck,  and  his  tongue  hanging  out, 
with  flecks  of  foam  drooling  from  his  jaws.  The  first  officer 
shouted  to  me :  "  Look  out,  count,  the  dog  is  mad !  " 

"In  that  case,"  said  I,  "-we  must  take  him  in  a  boat  and 
put  him  on  that  liLtle  island  near  at  hand." 

"  Yes,  count,  but  the  men  have  already  tried  to  catch  him, 
and  they  have  all  been  bitten,  and  they  are  afraid  to  touch 
him." 

"  And  have  you  been  bitten?  "  asked  I. 

"  No." 

"  Then  let  us  lower  a  boat,  and  you  and  I  will  throw  him 
in." 

We  tried  it,  but  the  furious  animal  was  too  much  for  us, 
he  bit  both  me  and  Philip  before  we  could  get  him  into  the 
boat.  Then  we  succeeded  in  binding  him  and  taking  him 
ashore.  When  we  got  him  there,  we  threw  him  out  on  the 
sand  and  returned  to  the  yacht.  But  all  the  rest  of  that  day, 
as  we  had  no  wind,  we  could  see  him  going  through  horrible 
antics  on  the  shore  until  nearly  nightfall,  when  he  died  in  hor- 
rible convulsions. 

Fvery  one  of  the  crew  had  been  bitten  except  the  old  negro 
cook.  They  were  all  afraid  of  having  hydrophobia.  The 
first  officer  came  and  asked  me  to  let  him  have  the  medicine 
book,  in  order  to  find  out  the  symptoms.  I  ought  to  have 
refused  him,  but  I  was  weak  and  let  him  have  it.  After  the 
crew  had  learned  the  symptoms  they  all  had  them,  and  went 
around  wth  haggard  eyes  and  slavering  tongues. 

The  efore,  as  they  neared  the  port  of  Levouka,  the  count 
determined  to  put  his  crew  ashore  before  they  all  went  mad, 
and  rf hip  a  new  crew.  But  when  they  arrived,  he  found  that 
the':  tort  was  so  infect (d  with  smallpox  that  it  was  more 
danj-rous  to  take  sailor-  from  there  than  to  keep  the  ones  he 
ind   when   the   health   officers   learned   that    his   men   had 


hydrophobia  they  refused  to  allow  them  ashore.  In  the  midst 
of  all  these  troubles  the  yacht  headed  again  for  Sydney, 
when  she  ran  into  a  hurricane  which  nearly  finished  the  whole 
business,  hydrophobia  and  all,  But  she  finally  succeeded  in 
teaching  the  harbor  in  a  much  battered  condition. 

Why  did  the  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  ever  conclude  she 
wanted  to  leave  the  Count  Festetics  de  Tolna? 

After  a  short  stay  in  Sydney,  the  yacht  sailed  for  Tanna, 
a  cannibal  island.  The  count  relates  a  number  of  agreeable 
anecdotes  about  the  habits  of  the  natives  whom  they  met  there. 
One  is  curious — their  fashion  of  preserving  the  bodies  of  their 
relatives  to  use  as  material  for  poisoning  their  arrow  tips 
and  lances.  In  Sydney,  the  count  meets  Louis  Becke,  who  has 
written  a  number  of  books  about  these  South  Sea  islands. 
At  Rubiana,  the  count  advises  the  countess  to  follow  his 
example   and   begin   eating  betel    nuts : 

This  made  our  lips  and  teeth  black,  and  had  the  advantage 
of  thus  cheapening  our  heads.  With  black  teeth  heads  have 
much  less  value  in  these  islands,  and  therefore  they  are  much 
more  apt  to  stay  upon  our  shoulders.  We  visited  a  village, 
not  far  from  our  anchorage.  The  natives  had  gathered  in  con- 
siderable numbers,  and  made  a  cannibal  festival  in  our  honor. 
They  forced  us  to  eat  with  them.  I  found  their  conduct  a  lit- 
tle disquieting.  They  formed  in  little  groups,  and  gathered 
around  with  threatening  airs  and  with  their  hatchets  in  their 
hands.  However,  the  women  did  not  go  away,  and  this  re- 
assured us.  My  wife,  who  accompanied  me,  seated  herself 
in  the  midst  of  the  women.  The  women  were  much  flattered. 
They  felt  of  her  gown,  examined  it  carefully,  and  closely 
scrutinized  all  of  her  garments. 

Again  one  wonders  why  the  Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna, 
at  the  close  of  the  cruise,  desired  to  leave  Count  Festetics  de 
Tolna. 

The  yacht  then  goes  to  Epi,  to  Pentecost  Island,  then  to 
Espiritu  Santo,  then  to  the  New  Hebrides,  to  Santa  Anna,  to 
the  Island  of  Florida,  and  to  many  other  little-known  can- 
nibal islands.  But  space  is  lacking  to  follow  the  cruise  of  the 
Tolna  in  her  wanderings  over  the  trackless  Pacific  Ocean. 
Apparently,  the  troubles  of  those  on  land  afflicted  those 
aboard  the  yacht.  Here,  for  an  example,  is  a  description  of 
an  earthquake : 

The  first  shock  lasted  three  minutes,  and  then  abruptly 
ceased.  A  torrential  rain,  accompanied  by  thunder  and  light- 
ning, followed  it.  At  half-past  two  o'clock,  another  shock 
was  felt,  and  at  six  o'clock  seven  distinct  shocks  came.  The 
feeling  was  as  if  the  boat  were  in  a  large  caldron  of  water, 
while  the  caldron  was  being  rapidly  moved.  These  oscilla- 
tions went  on  two  or  three  times  a  day  for  two  weeks. 

This  was  at  the  harbor  of  Fasi.  There  lived  here  a  white 
man.  one  Tyndal.  When  the  yacht  arrived,  the  Tyndals 
were  barricaded  in  their  house,  which  was  surrounded  by 
blood-thirsty  natives,  led  by  one  Long  Ferguson,  their  king. 
The  count  took  his  crew  and  such  other  white  men  as  could 
be  gathered  up,  and  went  to  the  rescue  of  the  Tyndals.  But 
the  natives  were  too  numerous,  and  the  count  and  his  friends 
were  forced  to  beat  a  retreat,  and  fled  again  to  the  yacht.  But 
the  count  conceived  the  idea  of  letting  off  rockets  and  other 
fireworks,  which  he  did.  This  scared  the  daylights  out  of  the 
natives.  They  took  their  canoes  and  fled  to  the  neighboring 
islands  for  twenty  miles  around. 

This  is  the  last  exploit  which  is  narrated  in  the  book.  The 
count  briefly  summarizes,  however,  his  adventures;  he  speaks 
of  the  "  dreadful  typhoon,"  in  which  they  barely  escaped  with 
their  lives  at  the  Admiralty  Island;  of  the  geisha-girls  in 
Japan — the  genuine  ones  rarely  shown. to  strangers  who  are 
"  too  gross  to  be  pleased  with  their  platonic  reticent 
caresses  " ;  he  promises  to  tell  of  his  stay  at  Manila  during 
the  Spanish-American  War,  where  he  learned  curious  details, 
hitherto  unpublished,  about  the  destruction  of  the  Spanish 
fleet  by  Admiral  Dewey ;  he  promises  also  to  tell  in  a  new 
volume  of  the  reef  at  Minicoy,  where  an  unknown  current 
shipwrecked  them  at  night;  of  the  wreck  of  the  Tolna;  of 
how  he  set  fire  to  her  rather  than  let  the  natives  get  hold 
of  her  ;  of  the  anger  of  the  natives  at  taking  their  legitimate 
spoil  from  them  ;  of  the  plots  of  his  mutinous  crew;  drunk 
with  the  choice  wine  which  they  had  stolen  from  the  yacht's 
cabin;  of  their  attempt  to  assassinate  him  because  he  tried 
to  prevent  them  from  pillaging  the  wrecked  yacht ;  of  the 
long  captivity  of  the  countess  and  himself  on  a  light-house 
island  waiting  to  be  rescued  by  a  passing  sail. 

When  one  reads  of  this  delightful,  idyllic,  romantic  honey- 
moon trip,  amid  sunlit  isles  of  Eden  lying  in  dark  purple 
spheres  of  sea,  the  wonder  grows  more  and  more  why  the 
Countess  Festetics  de  Tolna  should  ever  have  left  the  Count 
Festetics  de  Tolna. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 


Until  comparatively  recent  time  there  was  a  medical 
prejudice  against  drinking  water.  Sir  William  Vaughan,  in  his 
"  Natural  and  Artificial  Directions  for  Health,"  declared  that 
water  "  ought  seldom  to  be  drunk."  Another  doctor  admitted 
that  it  might  be  healthful  for  children,  but  not  for  men — 
"  except  some  odd,  abstemious,  one  among  a  thousand  per- 
chance, degenerate  and  of  a  doggish  nature,  for  dogs  of  nature 
do  abhor  wine."  Indeed,  the  recommendation  of  water  as  a 
beverage  was  supposed  to  be  the  sign  of  the  quack.  Even 
Wesley  in  his  "  Primitive  Physic  "  wrote  of  it  with  caution  : 
"Drink  only  water  if  it  agrees  with  your  stomach;  if  not, 
good,  clear,  small  beer." 


The  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  pub- 
lished in  Chicago,  has  been  investigating  the  evil  results 'of  the 
American  method  of  celebrating  a  national  holiday,  and  finds 
that  on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1903,  the  killed  and  wounded,  so 
far  as  could  be  ascertained,  reached  the  formidable  total  of 
4,449  persons.  The  number  of  deaths  from  tetanus  was  406. 
In  addition  to  the  mortality  from  tetanus  there  were  60  deaths 
from  other  causes;  10  persons  were  made  blind;  75  lost  one 
eye ;  54  lost  arms,  hands,  or  legs  ;  174  lost  one  or  more  fingers  ; 
and  3,670  received  other  injuries. 


Acting  Secretary  of  the  Navy  Darling  has  .decided  that  for 
purposes  affecting  deserters  from  the  United  States  navy  the 
Spanish  war  ended  December  10,  1898,  the  date  of  the  signing 
of  the  treaty  of  peace.  This  conclusion  disagrees  with  a  ruling 
of  the  War  Department  to  the  effect  that  the  war  was  not 
closed  for  administrative  purposes  in  that  department  until 
April  ii,  1899,  the  date  of  the  exchange  of  ratification  of  the 
treaty. 


The  Men  of  'Forty-Nine. 
Those  brave  old  bricks  of  'forty-nine  ! 
What  lives  they  lived!  what  deaths  they  died! 
A    thousand    canons,    darkling    wide 
Below  Sierra's  slopes  of  pine, 
Receive  them  now.     And  they  who   died 
Along  the  far,  dim,  desert  route — 
Their  ghosts  are  many.     Let  them  keep 
Their  vast  possessions.     The  Piute, 
The  tawny  warrior,   will   dispute 
No   boundary  with   these.      And  I 
Who  saw  them  live,  who  felt  them  die, 
Say,  let  their  unplow'd  ashes  sleep, 
Untouch'd  by  man,  on  plain  or  steep. 

The  bearded,  sunbrown'd  men  who  bore 
The  burden  of  that  frightful  year, 
Who  toil'd,  but  did  not  gather  store, 
They  shall  not  be  forgotten.     Drear 
And  white,  the  plains  of  Shoshonee 
Shall  point  us  to  that  farther  shore, 
And  long,  white,  shining  lines  of  bones, 
Make  needless  sign  or  white  mile-stones. 

The  wild  man's  yell,  the  groaning  wheel ; 
The  train  that  moved  like  drifting  barge; 
The  dust  that  rose  up  like  a  cloud — 
Like  smoke  of  distant  battle  !     Loud 
The  great  whips  rang  like  shot,  and  steel 
Of  antique  fashion,  crude  and  large, 
Flash'd  back  as  in  some  battle  charge. 

They  sought,  yea,  they  did  find  their  rest. 
Along  that  long  and  lonesome  way, 
These  brave  men  buffet'd  the  West 
With  lifted  faces.     Full  were  they 
Of  great  endeavor.     Brave  and  true 
As  stern  Crusader  clad  in  steel, 
They  died  a-field  as  it  was  fit. 
Made  strong  with  hope,  they  dared  to  do 
Achievement  that  a  host  to-day 
Would  stagger  at,  stand  back  and  reel, 
Defeated  at  the  thought  of  it. 

What  brave  endeavor  to  endure  ! 
What  patient  hope,  when  hope  was  past  1 
What    still    surrender    at    the    last, 
A  thousand  leagues  from  hope !  how  pure 
They  lived,  how  proud  they  died ! 
How  generous  with  life  1      The  wide 
And  gloried  age  of  chivalry 
Hath  not  one  page  like  this  to  me. 

Let  all  these  golden  days  go  by, 
In  sunny  summer  weather.     I 
■  But  think  upon  my  buried  brave, 
And   breathe   beneath   another  sky. 
Let  Beauty  glide  in  gilded  car, 
And  find  my  sundown  seas  afar, 
Forgetful  that  'tis  but  one  grave 
From  eastmost  to  the  westmost  wave. 

Yea,  I  remember  !    The  still  tears 
That  o'er  uncoffin'd  faces  fell ! 
The  final,  silent,  sad  farewell  1 
God  !   these  are  with  me  all  the  years  I 
They  shall  be  with  me  ever.     I 
Shall  not  forget.     I  hold  a  trust. 
They  are  part  of  my  existence.     When 
Swift  down  the  shining  iron  track 
You  sweep,  and  fields  of  corn  flash  back, 
And  herds  of  lowing  steers  move  by, 
And  men  laugh  loud,  in  mute  mistrust, 
I   turn   to   other   days,   to   men 
Who   made  a  pathway  with  their  dust. 

— Joaquin  Miller. 


The  Land  of  the  Setting  Sun. 
In  solitude  there  once  reposed  a  State 

Which  compassed  in  itself  th'  extensive  range 
Of  human  wants   and  hopes   insatiate — 

Where  mountains  held  the  ingots  men  exchange 

For  product  of  the  valley  and  the  grange; 
And  from  the  portals  stretched  a  highway  far, 

Leading  to  many  a  clime  and  country  strange — 
But  none  came  either  to  enjoy  or  mar, 
Save,  daily,  on  its  rounds,  Apollo's  fiery  car. 

Still  Nature  unmistakably  proclaimed 

This,  o'er  the  world,  her  principality; 
For  in  her  loveliest  moods  she  here  remained 

And  reared  her  wondrous  works  in  each  locality, 

And  showed  that  gen'rous  partiality 
Which  ever  follows  in  the  train  of  love; 

For,  oh,  'tis  not  a  blind  fatality 
That  tints  some  spots  with  colors  from  above, 
And  bids,  past  other  States,  a  favored  one  to  move. 

O  California!  bounteous  paradise, 

In  merry  vintage,  grain,  and  glitt'ring  ore, 
As  winning  as  the  strains  that  did  entice 

The  hapless  traveler  to   the   Siren's  shore. 

But  not  as  they  of  old  dost  thou  implore 
But  to  deceive  ;  for  though  seductively 

Thy  music  sounds,  thy  merits  still  are  more ; 
And  e'en  the  garish  traveler  of  the  sky 
Enamored  of  thee  is — parts  not  without  a  sigh. 

Just  as  the  lover,  leaving,  gazes  round — 

And  by  the  portal,  on  his  destined  way, 
His  wand'ring  eyes  the  loved  one  there  has  found — 

Unconscious  of  the  homage  friends  may  pay, 

He  hurries  on  impatient  of  delay; 
And  his  inamorata  warmly  clasped, 

Ah,  then  he  lingers,  though  he  fain  would  stay : 
So  Phcebus  runs  perfunctorily  and  fast 
O'er  other  lands,  but  thou,  reserved,  he  kisses  last. 

But  strange  in  such  a  land,  whose  rich  demesnes 

Were  watered  by  the  complemental  seas, 
That  none,   except  the  vagrant  Bedouins, 

Might   boast   themselves   the   aborigines ; 

But  though  primeval  they,  to  them  the  keys 
Which  patent  made  its  treasures  were  unknown; 

For  watchful  Nature,  just  in  her  decrees, 
Ordained  that  Labor's  guerdon  is  to  own, 
And  so  the  native  failed  to  reap — he  had  not  sown. 

Now  time  was  ripe,  and  California's  face 
Gave  signal,  and  there  came  a  gallant  band, 

Which  scattered  far  the  least-deserving  race 
That  ever  languished  in  a  flowing  land, 
And  raised  their  banners  on  her  golden  strand, 

And  gave  to  freedom  for  all  coming  years 
The  masterpiece  of  the  creating  hand; 

And  here  they  build  a  commonwealth,  which  rears 

To-day  its  crested  head  to  praise  the   Pioneers. 

— J.  D.  P 


September  14,   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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A  CANNERY  FOREMAN'S  WATERLOO. 

The  Fruits  of  a  Harmless  Flirtation. 

"  If  we  can't  get  out  a  full  pack  this  season  we  are 
gone,"  the  manager  of  the  I  X  L  Company  remarked 
to  Tyson,  the  foreman.  And  Tyson  grasped  the  situa- 
tion in  its  entirety,  and  one  over.  The  scarcity  of  labor 
was  bad  enough  to  have  to  contend  with,  but  when  the 
rival  companies  began  raising  rates,  the  outlook  grew 
discouraging. 

"  It's  getting  competent  women  or  girls  to  take  charge 
of  the  different  departments  that  gives  me  the  most 
trouble,"  Tyson  answered:  "girls  who  are  used  to  the 
work,  and  who'll  stay  with  you  after  you've  got  'em." 

"  The  wonder  of  it  is  that  we  ever  get  anybody,  con- 
sidering the  way  the  other  canneries  hang  out  their  no- 
tices right  under  our  noses,"  the  manager  ruminated 
in  aggrieved  tones.  "  Coming  down  the  road  yesterday 
I  ran  upon  a  flaming  red  placard  proclaiming: 

•  MEN  AND  WOMEN  WANTED  AT  MARYSVILLE  CANNERY.  \ 
Best  Accommodations  Given. 

And  a  few  miles  farther  on  I  found  a  blue  sign,  saying: 

I     HELP  WANTED   AT   THE    GR1DLEY   CANNERY. 
I  Highest  Prices  Paid  for  Piece-Work. 


You  bet  I  tore  'em  down  wherever  I  saw  'em,  but  right 
up  here  at  Murphy's  I  saw  a  big  yellow  sign  on  a 
telegraph  pole,  and  when  I  pulled  up  to  see  whether  it 
was  smallpox  or  measels  they  had,  it  turned  out  to  be 
the  Chico  cannery's  flyer,  saying: 

:     STEADY   WORK   GUARANTEED   ALL  SEASON,     j 

"  Oh,  well,  don't  let  that  rile  you,"  Tyson  broke  in 
in  soothing  tones.  "We  get  in  on  the  Yuba  City  can- 
nery's tack.  When  the  prospective  employee  has  seen 
'em  all  and  weighed  in  his  mind  the  relative  merits 
of  '  highest  prices,'  '  best  accommodations,'  and  '  steady 
work,'  he  strikes  the  poser  that  says : 


\     DANCE  EVERY  SATURDAY  NIGHT     : 
j  AT  YUBA  CITY  CANNERY. 

It  was  a  massive  brain  that  conceived  that  ad." 

And.  fortunately  for  the  I  X  L  Cannery,  it  was  situ- 
ated within  the  sacred  precinct  of  the  dance-giving  can- 
nery. Being  a  new  enterprise,  it  was  not  strong 
enough  on  its  financial  legs  to  make  any  startling  in- 
ducements on  its  own  account. 

Tyson  had  reached  his  present  post  of  responsibility 
through  his  shiftiness  in  emergencies,  so  when  the  man- 
ager closed  their  exchange  of  confidence  with,  "  Well, 
it's  up  to  you  to  manage  the  women,"  he  bent  his 
shoulders  to  the  task.  The  goat  of  his  ambition  was  to 
get  the  management  of  the  cannery  into  his  own  hands 
so  he  accepted  the  responsibility  of  the  inconstant 
women,  and  trusted  to  his  luck. 

Results,  however,  soon  began  to  make  him  fear  his 
luck  was  against  him,  for  when,  by  Saturday  night, 
after  scouring  the  highways  and  hedges  all  week,  they 
had  managed  to  get  the  help  they  needed,  the  following 
Monday  morning  found  the  fold  scattered,  and  the 
week's  work  begun  with  a  double  quantity  of  fruit  ac- 
cumulated by  the  day  of  rest,  and  only  half  the  required 
number  of  hands  to  handle  it. 

"  I'll  have  to  do  something  about  this,"  Tyson  said 
to  himself  on  one  of  these  blue  Mondays.  And.  having 
no  pretentions  to,  or  aspirations  for.  anything  but  the 
all-mighty  dollar,  he  decided  promptly  upon  his  plan. 

The  head  of  the  cutting  department  was  held  by  one 
Rosie  McGee,  a  buxom  young  woman  who  suggested 
latent  powers  of  speed  in  every  movement,  but  who 
dawdled  over  her  work,  flirting  with  the  boys  in  the 
preserving  department,  and  interfering  with  their 
work.  When,  after  watching  her  a  few  moments, 
Tyson  sauntered  up  within  earshot  and  murmured  in 
an  undertone  that  she  was  a  "  peach,"  the  metaphor 
struck  much  nearer  the  mark  than  her  home-made  wit 
realized.  At  the  moment  of  this  observation,  the  girl 
was  much  more  like  a  peach  than  a  rose.  Peach  juice 
oozed  from  her  fingers  and  trickled  down  her  sleeve 
as  the  half-peeled  fruit  slipped  through  her  hands  to 
the  floor;  the  peach  fuzz  that  filled  the  air  like  a  mist 
irritated  her  eyes,  making  them  red  and  swollen;  and 
the  floor,  sticky  and  slippery  by  turns,  held  her  fast 
or  tripped  her  up  as  the  mood  took  it.  But  in  the 
"  can-town "  vernacular  the  word  peach  expresses 
everything  lovely  and  lovable,  and  at  the  foreman's 
half-audible  remark  the  girl's  spirits  rose,  her  hands 
became  animated  as,  with  an  admirable  frankness,  she 
confided  to  him  that  he,  too,  was  "all  right." 

Thus  there  grew  up  an  understanding  between  the 
head  cutter  and  the  foreman.  Thereafter  there  was  no 
more  dawdling  on  the  part  of  Rosie  McGee.  Her  trays 
were  filled  evenly  and  quickly,  for  as  the  foreman  was 
a  so  much  more  shining  mark  than  the  boys  in  the 
preserving  department,  her  eyes  were  no  longer  at- 
tracted to  their  direction.  As  a  consequence,  at  the 
end  of  the  day  when  No.  68's  time-card  was  punched, 
it  showed  twenty-one  punches  as  against  sixteen  the 
day  before. 

"It  works,"  Tyson  said  to  himself,  as  he  watched  the 
energetic  Rosie  take  her  hat  off  the  peg  and  start  camp- 
ward.  And  with  judicious  handling  his  scheme  con- 
tinued to  work. 

"  If  they  would  work  as  well  in  all  the  departments 


as  they  do  at  the  cutting  tables  we  would  be  all  right," 
Tyson  remarked  to  the  manager,  a  few  days  later,  as 
he  noted  the  effect  of  Rosie's  industry  upon  the  others. 

"  If  I  could  jolly  up  the  peelers  in  the  same  way " 

Here  his  thoughts  were  turned  suddenly  from  the  cut- 
ters by  a  defiant  glance  from  a  little  black-eyed  girl 
who  took  her  own  good  time  to  gossip  with  her 
neighbor,  pat  her  fuzzy  pompadour  into  shape,  and  go 
to  the  faucet  to  wash  her  hands.  Since  he  could  not 
follow  his  first  impulse  to  wring  her  insolent  little  neck, 
he  calmed  himself,  and  walked  over  to  the  window 
where  he  might  watch  her  and  consider  her  case. 
His  diagnosis  of  the  defiant  Lily  and  the  remedy  it 
suggested  also  worked,   after  a  bit  of  experimenting. 

"  Women,"  he  mused,  when  a  day  or  two  later  he 
again  stood  at  the  window,  and  this  time  watched  the 
contest  between  the  peelers  and  cutters,  headed  by  Lily 
and  Rosie — "  women  are  all  alike.    If  you  want  them  to 

do  a  thing  for  you "  But  here  the  acclamations  from 

the  crowd  when  the  time-keeper  punched  Lily's  card 
for  the  twenty-fourth  time  drowned  his  thoughts  and 
interrupted  his  philosophizing. 

"  You  don't  seem  to  be  having  much  trouble  with 
your  help  now,"  the  manager  remarked  to  Tyson,  a 
few  weeks  later. 

"No?"  answered  Tyson,  laconically. 

"  You  keep  your  help  right  along,  week  after  week," 
he  went  on. 

But  still  Tyson  did  not  take  the  bait  to  explain  the 
secret  of  his  success.  He  merely  answered,  surlily: 
"  I'm  having  plenty  of  trouble,  though." 

But  trouble  or  no  trouble,  the  pack  of  the  I  X  L 
was  now  an  assured  thing,  and  the  I  X  L  Company  had 
not  paid  as  high  wages  as  the  other  canneries,  either. 
The  hands,  mostly  girls,  worked  as  late  every  night  as 
the  management  required,  often  all  day  Sunday,  too. 
Even  when  the  force  struck  on  'cots,  and  the  company 
was  facing  the  dilemma  of  not  being  able  to  get  an 
apricot  stock  on  the  market,  a  sudden  lull  fell  upon  the 
troubled  seas,  the  hands  went  back  to  work,  and  the 
'cot  pack  turned  out  as  large  as  they  could  carry.  In 
every  department — peeling,  canning,  syruping,  solder- 
ing, jelly-making,  carrying,  labeling,  capping,  stamp- 
ing— the  work  was  carried  on  systematically  and  with- 
out interruption. 

"  One  more  week  safely  over,"  the  manager  called 
out  from  the  office  at  the  close  of  the  Tuesday  pay- 
day.    "Finding  hands  still  plentiful?" 

"  Still  plentiful  ?"  the  foreman  mocked.  "  That  shows 
how  much  you  know  about  the  running  of  a  cannery. 
Of  course,  they're  not  plentiful.  If  I've  managed  to 
keep  enough  people  together  to  scratch  along,  its  only 
by  making  myself  a  wreck  in  the  effort.  No,  sir ! 
Help  is  not  plentiful,  just  understand  that,  and  it  is 
getting  scarcer  every  year." 

The  foreman  did  seem  to  be  laboring  under  a  ner- 
vous strain  of  some  sort,  so  the  manager  turned  on  his 
heel,  when  he  saw  the  terror  of  the  place  making 
straight  for  him.  But  he  was  not  quite  beyond  ear- 
shot when  he  turned  to  see  whether  the  tender  dulcet 
tones  that  reached  him  were  constructed  by  the  same 
vocal  organs  he  had  listened  to  a  moment  before. 
"  But  you  can't  leave  me  now,  Curly,  dear,"  he  heard 
Tyson  saying,  in  "  extra-pure  "  syrupy  tones,  and  draw- 
ing away  from  the  tables  to  insure  privacy,  the  fore- 
man's head  ducked  down  and  his  face  took  on  such  an 
angelic  smile  it  caused  the  manager  to  take  a  second 
look  to  see  if  he  also  held  a  harp  within  his  hand. 

But  this  time  poor  Tyson's  well-worn  method  did 
not  work.  Curly  was  a  'Frisco  girl,  from  the  south- 
of-Market-Street  district,  and  there  was  not  a  trick 
of  the  trade  she  did  not  know.  Instead  of  the  reluctant 
smile,  the  cov  hesitancy,  final  capitulation,  and  subse- 
quent mutual  understanding  scheduled  to  follow  his 
methods,  the  foreman  found  himself  this  time  up 
against  his  Waterloo. 

The  conference  did  not  last  long,  for  Curly  was 
of  the  touch-and-go  variety  that  took  no  nonsense.  But 
when  Tyson  watched  her  snatch  her  hat  from  its  peg 
and  slap  it  backward  on  her  head,  he  knew  there 
was  war  to  the  teeth  between  them. 

It  was  a  relief,  however,  to  have  her  out*  of  the  can- 
nery thereafter,  for  she  had  been  the  one  disturbing 
element,  and,  as  her  place  was  filled  the  next  day  by 
an  understudy,  poor  Curly,  out  of  sight,  was  also  out 
of  mind. 

But  Curly,  although  out  of  sight  and  mind,  was  not 
out  of  mischief,  for  when  silly  little  Pansy  Pike  said 
to  her:  "  What  did  you  quit  for  when  you're  so  stuck 
on  the  boss?"  she  assured  her  it  was  only  a  "josh," 
for  she  had  a  "  steady  "  in  'Frisco.  But  her  apparent 
powers  of  appreciation  won  for  her  the  confidence  of 
the  other  exponents  of  the  foreman's  methods. 

"You  see,  since  you've  quit  workin'  for  him  I  don't 
care  if  I  do  tell  you  that  he  thinks  the  world  an'  all 
of  me,"  Rosie  McGee  confided.     "He  calls  me  a  peach, 

and  he  says  I'm  the  best  hand  he's  got.  he  says " 

And  the  remainder  of  the  noon-hour  was  filled  with 
"  he  says  "  and  "  I  says." 

The  next  day  Curly  found  she  would  have  to 
economize  her  time  if  she  hoped  to  make  the  rounds 
before  she  took  the  evening  train  for  home,  so  she  in- 
vited Lily  to  share  her  lunch,  and  dropped  the  remark: 
"  I  wouldn't  'a'  quit,  but  some  of  the  girls  thought  I  was 
stuck  on  the  boss,  an'  I  just  want  to  show  'em  I  aint." 
Whereupon,  Lily  fell  into  her  trap,  and  gave  confidence 
for  confidence,  admitting  that  she  and  the  boss  were 
just  as  good  as  engaged,  "  that  is.  he  told  me  he  was 
just  plum  daffy  about  me  the  day  we  was  canning 
'  yellow-egg '  plums." 


Which  was  all  Curly  wanted  to  know,  so  she  im- 
proved the  next  few  moments  by  dropping  in  to  Daisy's 
tent  to  say  "  good-by  "  before  departing  for  the  city. 
"Let  me  hear  from  you  if  anything  happens,  won't 
you?"  she  said,  with  an  encouraging  little  laugh,  and 
Daisy,  being  from  the  Wild  Hog  Glory  precinct,  did 
not  suspect  the  craft  of  the  city  girl. 

"  Why,  what  do  you  mean  ?"  she  tittered.  "  Th'  aint 
nothin'  goin'  to  happen  that  I  know  of."  Then,  with 
a  little  flattering  and  coaxing,  she  admitted:  "Well, 
it  does  beat  all,  but  it's  God's  own  truth  I'm  givin'  ye. 
He  told  me  not  more'n  a  month  ago  that  he  didn't  care 
a  tig  for  the  rest  of  the  girls,  he  was  that  took  up  with 
me.  That's  why  I  didn't  leave  the  I  X  L  when  the  old 
cannery  offered  the  raise  on  clings." 

All  this  was  not  exactly  soothing  to  Curly's  wounded 
heart,  but  she  endured  this  turning  of  the  knife  as  an 
unpleasant  means  to  a  great  end.  She  would  not  have 
willingly  betrayed  Daisy's  confidence  if  there  had  been 
any  other  way  to  pump  Violet,  but  there  seemejl  no 
other  way,  and  in  a  moment  Violet  was  on  the  war- 
path. 

"  Did  she  say  a  *  fig '?  Well,  that  just  shows  what  a 
big  fool  she  is.  Fig  is  not  in  it  at  all.  When  I  first 
come  to  this  cannery,  the  very  day  after  the  first,  he 
says  to  me,  when  he  was  havin'  such  a  time  to  git  girls 
to  cut  'cots — he  was  sweet  on  me  from  the  very  first, 
you  see — you're  it,  Vi'let,  you're  the  queen  of  the  'cot 
cutters  !  I  had  told  him  I  didn't  think  I  would  cut  'cots 
at  the  I  X  L,  for  they  were  payin'  more  at  Gridley. 
but  he  says  somethin'  I  didn't  quite  catch  about  a 
humble  cot  for  me  to  queen  it  over.  That  shows  how 
matters  stands  between  him  an'  me,  don't  it?" 

Curly  admitted  it  did,  and  then  slipped  quietly 
away,  heart-sore,  but  determined,  for  "  hell  hath  no 
fury,"  we  are  told,  "  like  a  woman  scorned,"  to  say 
nothing  of  being  "  fired." 

Meantime,  Tyson  and  the  manager  were  closeted  in 
the  office,  exulting  over  the  letter  from  the  board  of 
directors.  "  It's  all  through  your  own  efforts,  too," 
the  manager  was  saying.  "For  if  it  hadn't  been  your 
management  of  those  women — and  the  Lord  knows  how 
you've  done  it — we  couldn't  have  gotten  out  any  kind 
of  a  pack.  You'll  make  a  fine  manager,  and  I  feel  bet- 
ter about  retiring,  now  that  I  know  you  are  to  be  at  the 
head  of  things  next  year." 

And  Tyson,  the  ambition  of  his  life  at  last  gratified, 
turned  his  back,  and  gave  a  dyspeptic  grunt  so  that 
nobody  should  suspect  there  were  tears  of  joy  in  his 
eyes. 

"  Of  course,  I'll  meet  you  at  eight  o'clock,  whoever 
you  are."  he  chuckled,  a  few  moments  later,  as  he  read 
a  little  note  scrawled  on  a  time-card.  "  Some  little 
fool,  I  suppose,  wants  to  congratulate  me  upon  my 
luck." 

But  there  had  been  other  time-card  scrawls  in  cir- 
culation through  the  cannery  that  day,  and  twenty 
hearts  fluttered  high  with  hope,  twenty  maiden  avowals 
were  being  composed  in  flowery  language,  and  twenty 
pairs  of  eyes  watched  the  clock,  and  wondered  if  the 
blissful  stroke  of  eight  would  ever  sound. 

The  spot  chosen  for  the  meeting-place  might  have 
been  more  secluded,  Tyson  thought,  as  he  sauntered 
toward  the  bend  beyond  the  depot,  for  that  was  a  spot 
where  everybody  passed  to  and  from  the  post-office. 
But  his  mind  was  on  next  year's  managership  as  he 
walked  along,  only  touching  the  ground  in  high 
places. 

On  the  stroke  of  eight,  from  across  the  street,  from 
out  of  the  depot,  where  they  had  been  bidding  Curly 
good-by,  from  adjoining  tents  and  cottages,  on  bicycles 
ridden  at  full  speed,  with  frizzled  hair,  starched  skirts, 
and  flying  ribbons,  the  Lilys  and  Rosies  and  Pearlies 
of  every  type  and  degree  came  flocking.  The  coy  ones, 
who  had  not  wanted  to  seem  too  anxious,  flitted  breath- 
lessly up  on  the  outskirts,  each  one  eying  the  others 
as  rank  intruders. 

Tyson  was  dumfounded  at  the  gathering,  but  he  was 
not  kept  guessing  long,  for  a  few  minutes  later  the 
eight-o'clock  train  crawled  out  of  the  depot  with  Curly 
standing  on  the  platform,  waving  her  handkerchief 
frantically.  "  By-by,  Tyson,"  she  cried,  as  the  train 
went  by,  "  I  see  your  finish."  Then  she  added,  in  a 
tone  of  disgust :  "  Gee,  but  you're  an  easy  bunch,  girls, 
to  be  fooled  by  that  bad  actor !"  The  next  minute  she 
had  disappeared  in  a  second-class  car,  as  the  train  sped 
about  a  curve,  and  was  lost  to  view. 

First  incredulity,  then  chagrin,  then  indignation  took 
possession  of  each  trusting  heart.  It  was  not  light 
enough  to  read  the  faces  clustering  about  him,  but 
Tyson,  the  gratification  of  his  prospective  managership 
crowded  out  of  sight  by  the  tragedy  of  the  present  mo- 
ment's forcmanship,  stood  like  a  wooden  man  in  their 
midst.  Too  late,  he  realized  that  he  had  been  outwitted 
by  Curly,  that  next  "day  his  former  worshipers  would 
clamor  for  their  pay.  boycott  the  establishment,  and 
betake  themselves  to  other  near-by  canneries. 

All  of  which  duly  came  to  pass,  for  neither  pleadings 
nor  weak  explanations  cnuld  induce  the  girls  to  return 
to  work.  Curly's  little  farewell  joke  had  completely 
shattered  all  their  dreams  and  illusions. 

The  I  X  L  Company  was  managed  next  season  by 
a  man  named  Smith,  for  Tyson,  the  ambition  of  a  life- 
time almost  within  his  grasp,  never  came  back  to  claim 
his  own — much  to  the  regret  of  the  fathers  and  brothers 
and  reinstated  sweethearts  of  the  Lilys  and  Rosies 
and  Pearlies  who  planned  to  give  the  flirtatious  foreman 
a  decidedly  warm  reception  if  he  ever  again  dared  set 
his  foot  in  their  midst.  William  Hopkins. 

San  Francisco,  September,   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


September  14,  1903. 


STOCKS    AND    SUMMER    HOTELS. 

'  Van  Fletch  "  on  the  Beautiful  Maine  Coast— Three  Servants  to  One 
Guest -The  Awful  Auto -Sardine  Signals — An  Injunc- 
tion Against  Noise. 


This  is  a  sorry  summer  for  the  three-month  hotels. 
Their  normal  condition  in  the  height  of  the  season 
is  to  be  turning  away  many  people  daily,  and  so 
to  discriminate  among  applicants  for  rooms  that  the 
harmoniously  desirable  only  are  accepted,  and  the  un- 
desirable or  uncertain  are  held  aloof.  It  was  high  and 
mighty  top-loftiness,  nursing  its  annual  popularity  as 
a  grand  summer-suit  show,  that  made  it  possible  to 
build  these  sumptuous  three-month  hostelries  by  the 
seashore  and  among  the  mountain  fastnesses  far  from 
the  busy  marts  of  business. 

This  year,  the  piazzas  are  half  empty,  and  the  clerks 
and  servants  are  yawning  about  in  swarms  trying  to 
keep  each  other  awake  and  amused.  I  have  heard  of 
one  great,  expensive,  exclusive,  midsummer  tavern,  hav- 
ing a  capacity  of  five  hundred  guests,  struggling  along 
in  high  season  with  one  hundred  paying  guests  to  keep 
three  hundred  servants  employed. 

A  servant  to  every  expected  guest  is  not  unusual  in 
sumptuous  city  hotels  nowadays,  and  an  army  of  twelve 
to  fourteen  hundred  is  maintained  to  look  after  a  pos- 
sible one  thousand  roomers  and  twelve  thousand 
"raealers"  at  the  Waldorf-Astoria  in  New  York;  but 
three  servants  to  one  victim  is  a  pretty  heavy  sentence, 
making  it  impossible  to  help  one's  self  to  a  thing  or  do 
a  bit  of  individual  exercise  by  which  to  recuperate  in  a 
summer  vacation.  The  hotel  people  lay  their  bad  sea- 
son to  the  slump  in  stocks. 

At  the  Wentworth,  in  Newcastle.  N.  H.,  one  of  the 
most  fashionably  expensive  of  the  shore-hotels,  they 
have  prided  themselves  on  the  possession  of  one  of  the 
best  hotel  stables  and  driving  outfits  in  the  country. 
There  is  space  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  horses  and 
scores  of  beautiful  vehicles  of  the  horsey  order.  Drags, 
carts,  landaus,  broughams,  buckboards.  four-in-hands, 
buggies,  phaetons,  smilaxes,  and  trepidations — in  red, 
green,  vellow.  black,  and  combination-striped — shine  out 
brightly  under  the  coats  of  telescopic  varnish,  and  all 
these  were  formerly  in  constant  demand  because  the 
roads  around  Newcastle  are  splendid,  and  the  driving 
has  been  considered  one  of  the  principal  charms  of  the 
place.  But  the  carriages  and  the  horses  are  for  sale 
cheap,  partly  owing  to  the  badness  of  the  season,  from 
a  hotel-manager's  standpoint,  and  principally  because 
the  regular  summerers  of  middle  or  prime  old  age  have 
struck  riding  out  of  their  amusements  on  account  of 
the  fearful  automobile. 

Last  Sunday,  at  Little  Bay.  on  the  South  Shore.  I 
was  riding  along  happily  with  a  party  driven  by  an 
accustomed  horsewoman,  all  intent  upon  a  quiet  enjoy- 
ment of  the  beauties  of  the  summer  w-oods,  when  the 
harsh  sqmvack  of  an  auto-horn  sounded  far  behind 
down  the  road.  The  autoists  had  seen  us  half  a  mile 
away,  before  the  hot  and  heavy  breathing  of  their  ma- 
chine had  reached  our  enchanted  ears.  At  the  sound 
of  the  warning  squzcack, our  driver  whipped  up  the  team 
as  if  to  escape  a  flash  of  lightning,  and  galloped  the 
pair  three  hundred  yards  to  the  turn  that  led  into  the 
grounds  of  my  hosts.  We  were  less  than  twenty  yards 
inside  the  private  preserve  when  the  fiendish  touf-touf 
tore  by  with  a  smell,  a  rush,  and  a  trailer  of  dust,  and 
then  on  down  a  slope  in  the  road  at  fifty  miles  an  hour 
at  least. 

"  Are  the  horses  still  afraid  of  autos?"  I  asked,  noting 
that  they  paid  no  attention  to  the  passing  machine. 

"  Oh.  bless  you  no,"  replied  my  hostess;  "  the  animals 
are  not  afraid  of  anything,  but  I  recognized  the  horn 

of  that  idiot.  A ,  who  hasn't  a  grain  of  sense,  and 

delights  to  run  risks  on  his  machine.  Did  you  see  him 
try  to  pass  us?  He  would  have  done  the  same  if  we 
hadn't  turned  in  as  we  did,  and  I  haven't  enough  con- 
fidence in  A to  risk  my  life  in  the  same  road  with 

him  if  I  can  help  it." 

"Why  don't  you  have  him  arrested?"  queried  I,  in 
wonder  at  such  abuses  in  a  civilized  country. 

"  Oh.  he  is  one  of  the  old-family  fellows,  and  one 
doesn't  want  to  turn  informer  against  him.  He  will 
forget  where  he  is  some  time  when  there  are  duly  ap- 
pointed officers  around,  and  in  time  he  will  get  sick 
of  paying  fines.  The  auto  is  a  toy  as  yet,  and  until  it 
gets  to  be  too  serious  a  thing  for  child's  play,  we  will 
have  to  put  up  with  it." 

Sumptuous  is  hardly  an  adequate  term  for  describing 
some  of  the  seaside  villas  that  have  grown  up,  forming 
almost  a  continuous  fringe  around  the  coast  of  Maine, 
New  Hampshire,  and  Massachusetts  in  the  two  hun- 
dred and  eighty  odd  years  since  the  Pilgrim  Fathers 
and  their  English  followers  first  set  their  feet  on  the 
rugged  New  Hampshire  rocks  in  1623.  Last  week,  I 
was  the  week-end  guest  at  one  of  these  fairy  villas. 
What  a  principality  of  luxury  !  Every  want  and  every 
sense  gratified  but  not  surfeited !  Perfect  seclusion 
and  perfect  quiet,  except  when  the  thundering  surf  rolls 
in;  and  yet  within  hail  by  telephone  of  Chicago,  New 
York,   Boston,  and  near-by  Portsmouth. 

Boothbay.  at  the  mouth  of  the  Kennebec  River,  with 
its  hundreds  of  harbors,  its  tortuous  channels  between 
tall  rocks  made  velvety  by  pines,  its  wealth  of  color 
from  t\e  low  level  of  the  tide  to  its  highest  spring,  its 
fleet  ft  sail-boats,  and  the  clarity  of  the  air  above  it, 
is  one  if  the  most  picturesquely  beautiful  spots  on  earth. 
Fa  ;,'the  whole  thrci  lousand  miles  of  the  coast-line 
M  -:'ne  have  no  cause  to  be  jealous  of  any  other 


coast-line  in  the  world.  It  is  only  two  hundred  and  fifty 
miles,  as  a  crow  might  fly,  from  one  seaside  boundary 
of  Maine  to  the  other;  from  New  Hampshire  on  the 
west  to  Newfoundland  on  the  east,  and  yet  its  coast- 
line measures  more  than  three  thousand  miles.  Think 
of  the  chances  of  picturesqueness  in  this  twelve-fold 
crumpling  of  granite  mountains,  of  rock  pasted  all 
over,  along  the  twelve-foot  tide-line,  with  seaweed  and 
kelp  and  mosses,  and  the  islands  themselves  thickly 
covered  with  evergreen  forestry,  picked  out  in  spots 
with  a  variety  of  deciduous  growths,  having  all  the 
color  possibilities  of  the  palette  of  an  artist !  It  is 
here  that  the  frost  comes  suddenly,  catching  the  forests 
when  they  are  yet  juicy  with  the  sap  of  spring,  and 
turning  them  to  a  million  tones  of  red  and  yellow,  with 
each  leaf  varnished  to  reflect  the  rays  of  the  sun  and  the 
light  of  the  sky. 

This  morning  I  am  enjoying  the  hospitality  of  the 
Charley  Jay  Taylors — he  of  the  Taylor-Made  Girl  in- 
spiration, and  the  occasional  smile-mixer  for  Life, 
Judge,  and  Punch.  Recently,  he  played  a  good  joke  on 
Sir  Thomas  Lipton  and  Edward  Redfield,  the  artist, 
who  is  a  medal-of-honor  winner  at  the  Pennsylvania 
Academy  of  Fine  Arts,  a  medalist  of  the  French  Salon, 
and  a  Pennsylvania  farmer,  by  serious  occupation.  Mr. 
Redfield  thinks  he  can  build  better  boats  and  sail  them 
better  than  any  of  the  Reliance-Shamrock  entourage. 

Out  of  this  boat  material.  Charlie  Taylor  constructed 
a  letter  to  Sir  Thomas  Lipton,  which  read  something 
as  follows : 

Dear  Sir  Thomas  :  This  is  to  inform  you  that  I  have  built 
a  catboat  and  named  it  Shamrock  IV.  If  you  come  to  this 
country  again  to  "  lift  that  blooming  cup  "  you  will  be  pre- 
vented from  using  the  name  of  my  boat,  and  hence  if  you 
desire  to  have  any  Shamrock  whatsoever  do  the  "lifting"  I 
advise  you  to  "get  busy  "  about  it  "  this  time." 
Yours   very  respectfully. 

Captain  Edward  Redfield. 

Boothbay    Harbor.    Me. 

P.  S. — If  you  fail  this  voyage.  I  will  let  you  have  my  boat 
for  a  consideration,  and  will  guarantee  to  "  lift "  any 
"  blooming  cup."  if  I  am  permitted  to  sail  the  boat  myself 
and  can  command  the  wind. 

"  Captain  "  Redfield  received  one  morning  an  im- 
posing-looking letter,  which  was  decorated  interiorly 
with  yacht  signals  in  colors  and  bore  the  stamp  of  the 
Erin.  The  letter  was  a  serious  and  courteous  reply  to 
the  joking  provocation,  and  thanked  "  Captain  "  Red- 
field  most  gratefully  for  his  interest  in  the  Shamrocks, 
and  was  signed  Thomas  Lipton,  Bart. 

Mr.  Taylor  tells  me  .that  the  nuisance  of  the  touf- 
touf  launch  and  the  touf-touf  fishing-smack  prevents 
one  from  thoroughly  enjoying  the  loveliness  of  nature 
•n  these  secluded  and  consecrated  Paradises  of  Maine, 
because  of  the  sounding-board  quality  of  the  water.  A 
Boston  syndicate  once  purchased  the  available  sur- 
roundings of  Boothbay  Harbor,  and  thought  to 
make  it  a  fine  summer  resort,  but  they  counted  without 
the  assistance  and  without  the  consent  of  the  phosphate 
works  and  the  sardine  factory.  The  latter  is  the  chief 
offender,  but  its  noisiness  of  the  present  is  a  sort  of 
death  rattle.  When  it  settled  here  to  can  anything  it 
could  catch  and  call  it  all  sardines,  the  bays  were  full 
of  fish,  but  with  the  greed  of  the  get-rich-quick  Ameri- 
can the  waters  were  sw'ept  by  every  device  possible 
to  invent,  and  now-  the  fish  can  not  breed  fast  enough  to 
satisfy  the  rapacity  of  the  factory  people.  They  have  a 
fleet  of  touf-touf  terrors,  with  cracked  automobile  horns 
to  serve  in  place  of  whistles.  So  eager  are  the  managers 
to  learn  the  last  news  of  the  catch  that  every  time  a 
shrimp  or  a  sardine  is  brought  aboard  from  the  nets  the 
screecher  is  blown.  There  is  a  regular  Morse-code  un- 
derstanding between  the  principals  ashore  and  the 
captains,  so  that  every  individual  shrimp  or  minnow 
caught  is  reported  by  whistle  from  the  smack  to  the 
factory,  and  the  factory  repeats  the  signal  so  as  to 
assure  the  smack  that  it  has  been  heard. 

Between  the  noisy  whistles  and  the  sputtering  of  the 
cheap  motors  that  propel  fishing-smacks  and  so-called 
pleasure  launches,  beautiful  Boothbay  Harbor  is  no 
longer  quiet.  But  there  is  hope  of  reform  in  these 
nuisances.  A  Supreme  Court  decision  has  been  recently 
rendered  in  the  case  of  injured  property-holders  against 
the  Boston  Elevated  Railway  Company.  This  decision 
declares  noise  to  be  an  element  of  injury,  for  which 
damages  can  be  obtained.  The  whole  of  the  country, 
from  centre  out  to  circumference,  will  soon  have  this 
decision  out  against  their  local  noise  nuisances. 

Van  Fi.etch. 

Boothbay  Harbor,  Me.,  August  30.  1903. 

The  treaty  providing  for  the  acquisition  by  the 
United  States  of  the  Danish  West  Indies  is  officially 
dead.  If  Denmark  should  conclude  to  sell  the  islands  to 
the  United  States  it  would  be  possible  to  revive  the 
provisions  of  the  treaty  which  recently  failed;  mean- 
while the  position  of  the  State  Department  is  comfort- 
able, for  having  done  its  part  toward  completing  the 
bargain,  the  American  Government,  of  course,  could 
not  sanction  the  sale  of  the  islands  by  Denmark  to  any 
other  government. 


Fire-insurance  companies  did  a  profitable  business  in 
Wisconsin  last  year,  receiving  more  than  two  and  a 
half  times  as  much  for  premiums  as  was  paid  out  for 
losses.  This  is  shown  by  the  annual  report  of  Insurance 
Commissioner  Host.  The  amount  of  business  written 
in  Wisconsin  during  the  year  1902  was  $414,762,277.40. 
for  which  $5,999,788.81  was  received  as  premiums,  and 
upon  which  $2,270,833.42  was  paid  for  losses,  making 
the  ratio  of  losses  paid  to  premiums  received  37.84  per 
cent. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


William  Jennings  Bryan  will  go  to  Europe  this 
month  for  the  purpose  of  studying  sociological  condi- 
tions under  monarchical   forms  of  government. 

Word  conies  from  Fort  Sill  that  Geronimo,  the  fa- 
mous Apache  chief,  has  united  with  the  Methodist 
Church,  and  made  a  public  confession  of  his  many 
bloody  deeds  committed  when  he  and  his  tribe  were 
on  the  warpath. 

The  New  York  Tribune  declares  that  people  close  to 
William  E.  Corey,  Charles  M.  Schwab's  successor  as 
head  of  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation,  actually 
fear  he  will  kill  himself  working.  They  say  he  is  so 
wrapped  up  in  the  affairs  of  the  steel  corporation  that 
he  is  literally  "  working  himself  to  death."  For  in- 
stance, they  say  that  he  lies  awake  night  after  night 
solving  or  attempting  to  solve  problems  that  come  up, 
and  frequently  at  two  or  three  o'clock  in  the  morning 
will  call  up  his  lieutenants  by  telephone  to  consult 
them.  His  friends  believe  that  no  living  man  can  go 
through  this  sort  of  thing  and  survive  it. 

It  is  said  that  ex-Queen  Liliuokalani  expects  soon 
to  return  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  be  present  during  the 
extra  session  of  Congress.  The  ex-queen  seems  still 
to  be  confident  that  Congress  will  make  an  appropria- 
tion for  her  in  payment  of  her  claims  for  the  crown 
lands,  and  in  compensation  for  her  loss  of  the  throne. 
She  is  at  present  paid  an  annuity  by  the  Territory,  as 
she  was  previously  by  the  Republic  of  Hawaii  and  the 
provisional  government,  but  it  has  always  been  voted 
as  an  act  of  courtesy  and  not  as  a  recognition  of  any 
claim  of  right  to  it.  She  has  always  promptly  accepted 
these  payments,  her  agents  collecting  them  at  the  terri- 
torial  treasury  punctually  when  they  are  payable. 

William  H.  Taft  who,  it  is  announced,  will  become 
Secretary  of  War  next  January,  on  the  retirement  of 
Elihu  Root,  was  appointed  chairman  of  the  commission 
to  the  Philippines  for  the  purpose  of  "  organizing  and 
establishing  civil  government,  already  commenced  by 
the  military  authorities  "  in  March.  1900,  by  President 
McKinley.  This  work  was  begun  in  April,  and  a  pre- 
liminary report  was  made  in  August.  In  June,  1901, 
the  commission  completed  a  code  of  laws  for  the 
islands,  arranged  a  judiciary  system,  and  appointed  a 
judge  and  law  officers.  On  July  4.  1901.  Judge  Taft 
became  civil  governor,  and  the  work  of  promoting 
peace  and  prosperity  in  the  islands  has  steadily  con- 
tinued under  his  administration. 

Dorothy  Lillian  Solomon,  the  twenty-year-old  daugh- 
ter of  Lillian  Russell,  the  actress,  and  Abbot  Louis 
Einstein,  son  of  Benjamin  F.  Einstein,  a  well-known 
New  York  lawyer,  recently  eloped,  were  married,  and 
are  now  spending  their  honeymoon  in  an  up-town 
apartment  in  the  metropolis  prior  to  sailing  for  Europe. 
They  are  determined  to  be  independent.it  would  appear, 
of  both  their  parents.  Miss  Russell  offered  to  settle 
an  income  of  several  hundred  dollars  a  month  on  her 
daughter,  but  it  was  declined  with  thanks.  "  You  are 
always  so  kind  and  generous."  Mrs.  Einstein  is  said  to 
have  written  to  her  mother,  "but  we  can  get  along 
without  any  assistance  from  any  one,  and  I  hope  we 
shall  always  be  able  to  do  it.  Abbot  is  going  into  busi- 
ness, and  we're  going  to  try  to  be  very  happy." 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  May  Goelet, 
daughter  of  the  late  Ogden  Goelet,  and  the  Duke  of 
Roxburghe,  aid-de-camp  to  the  Prince  of  Wales.  Miss 
Goelet  is  now-  about  twenty-three  years  old.  and  is  heiress 
to  a  fortune  variously  estimated  at  from  $20,000,000  to 
$30,000,000'.  The  Duke  of  Roxburghe  is  a  Scottish 
peer,  and  sits  in  the  House  of  Lords  as  Earl  Innes. 
He  was  born  on  July  23,  1876.  and  succeeded  to  the 
title  on  the  death  of  his  father,  the  seventh  duke,  in 
1892.  During  the  last  three  years  rumors  of  Miss 
Goelet's  engagement  to  men  of  title  have  been  fre- 
quent. Among  those  mentioned  were  the  Duke  of 
Manchester,  before  his  marriage  to  Miss  Helen  Zim- 
merman, of  Cincinnati,  and  Prince  Hugo  von  Hohen- 
lohe,  who  was  said  to  have  dealt  writh  a  matrimonial 
agent  for  an  opportunity  of  meeting  Miss  Goelet. 

With  Lord  Salisbury  passes  the  last  of  the  great 
aristocratic  prime  ministers.  Into  a  democratic  age  he 
carried  the  feelings  and  manners  of  a  Stuart  or  Bour- 
bon nobleman ;  and  his  ineffectualness  at  home,  com- 
pared with  his  notable  success  in  dealing  with  foreignna- 
tions,  came  largely  from  the  fact  that  he  was  frequently 
very  much  a  stranger  in  his  various  Tory  Cabinets, 
while  in  dealing  with  foreign  chancellories  he  moved 
among  his  peers  and  was  at  ease.  Born  an  aristocrat, 
he  never  wavered  in  his  belief  in  the  right  of  his 
class  to  rule.  On  one  occasion  -(says  the  New  York 
Evening  Post)  he  defended  the  House  of  Lords  with 
an  argument  which  Gladstone  might  have  envied  him: 
he  said  that  it  was  an  ideal  upper  house,  precisely  be- 
cause its  members  were  generally  absent,  frequently 
timid,  and  universally  retroactive.  His  inborn  aloof- 
ness, as  well  as  his  temporary  necessities,  drove  him 
into  scholarship  and  journalism  in  the  bitterest  days 
of  the  Saturday  Review,  made  him  absolutely  disre- 
garded of  the  ordinary  political  amenities,  and  out- 
wardly found  expression  in  extreme  carelessness  of 
dress.  A  credible  legend  has  it  that  he  was  once  de- 
nied admission  to  the  Casino  at  Monte  Carlo  because, 
to  the  porter's  eye,  he  looked  something  less  than  a 
gentleman. 


September  14.  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


"Journey's  End." 

A  little  problem  is  propounded  to  readers 
of  "  Journey's  End  " — a  mild  little  love-prob- 
lem, discussion  of  which  romantic,  stage-struck 
young  people  will,  no  doubt,  derive  vast  pleas- 
ure and  entertainment.  "  Journey's  End "  re- 
lates the  experience  gained  by  the  impover- 
ished young  scion  of  a  noble  English  famly, 
who,  too  proud  to  appeal  to  his  wealthy  rela- 
tives when  he  finds  himself  penniless,  comes  j 
to  America  to  earn  his  bread  for  himself. 
The  young  sprig  of  aristocracy,  who  is  a 
nice,  modest  fellow,  with  a  moderate  concep-  | 
tion  of  his  own  attractions,  and  a  boundless 
confidence  in  the  good  faith  and  friendliness 
of  the  whole  world,  starts  out  as  a  salesman 
in  a  shop  where  photographs  of  celebrities  are 
sold.  Young  Calthrop  there  unknowingly 
wins  the  love  of  a  nice  but  plain  saleswoman, 
and  subsequently  inflicts  a  deep  dent  on  the 
susceptibilities  of  a  leading  New  York  actress, 
who  is  also  very,  very  nice.  He  has  also  left  a 
nice  English  girl  behind  him,  who  is  con- 
stant, but  who,  apparently  without  the  au- 
thor remarking  the  omission,  fails  to  make 
that  fact  plain  until  Calthrop  falls  heir  to  the 
title. 

In  the  meantime  he  has  written  a  play 
that  is  a  work  of  genius  all  around  the  very 
nice  personality  of  the  very  nice  actress,  with 
whom  he  is  half  in  love  in  spite  of  the 
beautiful  English  Molly  awaiting  him  at 
home.  The  play,  although  seasoned  play- 
wrights would  smile  to  see  the  ease  with 
which  it  is  attained,  is  an  unqualified  success, 
the  nice  actress  makes  a  stupendous  hit,  and 
Ihe  author  is  loaded  with  praise  and  honors. 

Just  at  this  juncture  he  falls  heir  to  the 
family  title  and  estates,  and  the  reader  is  re- 
quested to  decide  for  himself  whether  the 
agreeable  young  Englishman  pursues  his  suc- 
cessful career  in  America  or  returns  to  the 
pleasures  and  responsibilities  attached  to  his 
inherited  honors.  The  author — Justus  Miles 
Form  an — has  an  exuberantly  fresh  and 
youthful  sentiment,  a  light,  agreeable  style, 
and  a  fund  of  cheerful  optimism.  His  sketch 
of  young  Calthrop.  though  too  rose-colored 
for  nature,  is  pleasing,  and  the  English  slang 
and  idioms  of  his  hero  add  considerably  to 
the  variety  and  spice  of  his  dialogue.  The 
book  is  daintily  bound  and  illustrated. 

Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co,  New 
York;  price,  $1.50. 


A  First-Rate  Juvenile. 

A  healthy,  wholesome,  hearty,  humorous 
story  for  boys,  big  and  little,  is  "  Tommy 
Wideawake."  by  H.  H.  Bashford.  Tommy's 
father  was  a  colonel  in  the  English  army,  and 
before  he  went  to  the  front  he  asked  his  four 
good  friends — the  vicar,  the  doctor,  the  poet, 
and  the  teller  of  the  tale — to  look  after  Torarav 
should  he,  perchance,  not  come  back  from  the 
wars.  He  does  not  come  back,  and  the  four 
friends  do  their  best  for  the  boy,  who  is  an 
altogether  likeable  fellow,  with  plenty  of 
faults — but  more  virtues.  Just  the  sort  of  a 
lad  he  is  may  be  guessed  from  this  speech  of 
Tommys  when  he  gets  home  from  school. 
"  I  say,  it  is  ripping  to  get  back  here  again, 
an'  I've  got  into  the  third  eleven,  an'  that 
bat  you  sent  me  is  an  absolute  clinker,  an' 
how's  the  poet,  an'  did  you  have  a  good  time 
in  Italy,  an',  I  say,  >-ou  are  shoving  on  weight, 
you  know,  an'  there's  old  Berrill,  an',  I  say. 
Berrill,  that's  a  ripping  young  jackdaw  you 
sent,  an'  he's  an  awful  thief — that  is,  he  was, 
you  know,  but  young  Jones's  dog  ate  him,  or 
most  of  him,  an'  I  punched  young  Jones's 
head  for  letting  'em  be  together,  an',  I  say — 
how  ripping  the  downs  are  looking,  aren't 
they?"  When  we  say  that  Tommy  brings 
home  a  bride  before  the  book  ends,  and  that 
some  of  his  guardians  get  entangled  in  affairs 
of  the  heart,  it  will  be  apparent  that  the  story 
is  not  alone  for  those  in  their  nonage. 

Published  by  John  Lane,  New  York. 

Short  Stories  for  Summer  Reading. 

Charles  Battell  Loomis  has  hit  upon  a  very 
auspicious  title  in  "  Cheerful  Americans,"  his 
latest  volume  of  short  stories,  since  the  cheer- 
fulness of  his  characters  can  scarcely  fail  to 
be  reflected  by  his  readers.  There  are  some 
seventeen  of  these  sprightly  tales,  all  of  them 
written  in  excellent  spirits,  and  characterized 
by  that  peculiarly  American  quality  of  humor 
which  consists  in  affecting  a  profound  gravity 
over  things  which  no  gravity  could  long  re- 
sist. 

Mr.  Loomis  has  hit  upon  all  kinds  of  sub- 
jects, and  presented  quite  a  gallery  of  humor- 
ous types.  His  stories  have  such  a  breezy 
up-to-dateness  about  them,  that  it  is  inevit- 
able that  the  automobile  should  run  riot 
through  several  tales.  Trips  across  the  Atlan- 
tic and  humorous  exaggerations  of  the  sort  of 


people  one  picks  acquaintance  with  on  the 
way,  turn  up ;  types  of  the  transplanted  rustic, 
of  the  superior  traveler  who  is  penetrated  with 
a  cosmopolitan  scorn  for  everything  he  sees, 
and  of  the  commercial  American  who  thinks 
"  There's  only  one  Noo  York."  All  these 
people  speak  their  several  vernaculars  with 
absolute  accuracy,  for  Mr.  Loomis  can  trans- 
fer to  the  written  page  the  jargon  of  a  Bowery 
tough,  a  "  down-East  "  granger,  or  even  of  a 
fluffy  summer  girl,  with  that  deftness  apper- 
taining to  the  owner  of  an  ear  that  delights 
in  the  varieties  of  our  English  speech. 

The   volume  is   appropriately  illustrated   by 
a  number  of  clever  half-tones,  the  majority  of 
which    are    by    Florence    Scoville    Shinn    and 
Fanny  Y.  Cory- 
Published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New  York. 

Fine  'Work  from  the  Castles. 

It  would  seem  as  if  Agnes  and  Egerton 
Castle  had  set  themselves  to  the  task  of  prov- 
ing that  they  could  follow  up  "  The  Secret  Or- 
chard "  with  a  story  of  pure  and  romantic 
love,  which  would  avoid  all  approach  toward 
the  sex  or  problem  novel.  More  than  their 
usual  effort  is  perceptible  in  "  The  Star 
Dreamer,"  the  period  of  which  is  set  during 
the  reign  of  George  the  Third,  while  its  style 
is  plainly  fashioned  on  literary  models  of  an 
earlier  date  than  ours. 

There  is  more  than  a  hint  of  Bulwer  ap- 
parent in  the  contrasted  portraits  of  the  two 
saz'ants,  the  star-dreamer,  young  and  vigorous, 
scanning  distant  worlds  through  his  telescope ; 
the  venerable  simpler,  testing  the  virtues  of 
strange  plants  in  his  crucibles,  and  studying 
nature  with  dim  eyes  through  the  crystal- 
spanned  fields   of  his  microscope. 

There  is  a  picturesque  and  strongly  roman- 
tic quality  in  this  latest  novel  of  the  Castles, 
although  it  lacks  originality.  There  are  per- 
petual haunting  suggestions  from  other  sources 
following  the  reader  as  he  travels  through 
the  book. 

David,  lord  of  Bindon,  wrapped  in  a 
mantle  of  melancholy  abstraction,  recalls  the 
poetic  figure  of  Alfred,  the  heir  of  Rudolstadt. 
and  inheritor  of  a  mysterious  grief,  from 
George  Sand's  "  Consuelo." 

The  authors  have  introduced  a  group  of 
gayer  and  more  worldly  people  as  a  contrast 
to  the  quiet  dwellers  of  Bindon.  against  whose 
peace  strange  plots  and  counterplots  are 
developed  in  the  course  of  an  old-fashioned 
tale  charged  with  strange  and  romantic  hap- 
penings. And  they  have  evidently  been 
prodigal  of  labor  in  looking  up  the  quaint 
and  storied  lore  of  healing  simples  and  in 
furnishing  appropriate  quotations  from  Old- 
World  writers  long  since  dead. 

All  of  the  graces  of  that  polished,  if  some- 
what self-conscious,  style  for  which  the  two 
Castles  are  espeeially  admired  have  been  taxed 
to  the  utmost,  and  "  The  Star  Dreamer "  is, 
if  less  talked  about,  a  work  of  considerable 
more  pretension  than  those  whose  lighter  and 
more  frivolous  quality  have  made  them  es- 
pecially adaptable  to  stage  treatment. 

Published  by  the  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Com- 
pany, New  York ;  $1.50. 


Napoleon  First's  Sedan  Prophecy. 
In  1870,  after  Sedan.  Theophile  Gautier,  His. 
went  as  the  confidential  agent  of  the  Empress 
Eugenie  to  undertake  an  agreement  with 
Bismarck,  by  the  terms  of  which  Strassburg 
should  be  saved  to  France.  On  his  somewhat 
devious  route  from  London  to  Versailles,  M. 
Gautier  found  occasion  to  visit  the  battle-field 
of  Sedan.  Here  the  question  arose  in  his 
mind — Was  not  the  first  Napoleon  gifted 
with  some  sort  of  prophetic  instinct  when  he 
wrote  of  Sedan  the  words  which  occur  in  his 
correspondence  under  the  date  of  August  30, 
1803?: 

Could  not  the  fortifications  of  Sedan  be 
destroyed?  There  is  no  disguising  that  it 
would  take  millions  to  put  the  place  in  order, 
that  the  system  is  extremely  vicious,  and  that 
if  the  enemy  came  upon  it  they  could  take  it 
easily.  We  should  thus  lose  a  garrison,  a 
large  quantity  of  artillery,  and  the  moral  effect 
of  the  capture  of  so  well-known  a  place  would 
be  of  the  worst. 

Napoleon  the  Third,  who  edited  the  corre- 
spondence of  the  great  emperor,  might  have 
given   these  lines   more  careful  attention. 


St.  Pierre  Revisited. 
Professor  Angelo   Heilprin  has  recently  re- 
visited   St.    Pierre,    and    says    that    the    silent 
city  remains  much  as  it  was  at  the  time  of  his 
last  visit,  nine  months  before.     He  adds : 

A  little  more  ash  has  accumulated  here 
and  there,  and  some  of  it  has  been  taken  off 
elsewhere ;  but  the  ruins  are  the  same  battered, 
crumbling  walls,  unchanged  save  that  they 
have  gained  in  color  through  the  washing  off 
of  the  ash-mud  that  plastered  and  cloaked  their 
vertical  sides.  In  a  few  places  excavations 
were  being  made  to  recover  "  treasure  "  or  to 


locate  sites,  but  the  prowlers  among  the  dead 
were  few,  and  what  was  recovered  was  in  most 
cases  insignificant.  One  significant  change 
has  come  over  St.  Pierre.  It  is  no  longer 
an  absolute  desert,  for  little  colonies  of  ants 
and  other  insects  are  inhabiting  the  ruins,  and 
the  land-snail  has  come  to  live  with  them. 
Green  creepers  and  many  plants  with  bright 
flowers  here  and  there  hang  about  the  battered 
masonry,  and  from  some  of  the  old  gardens 
rise  up  stocks  of  the  chou  caraibien  and  the 
banana.  And  even  the  few  trees  that  have 
been  left  standing  on  the  surrounding  heights, 
and  thought  to  be  dead,  have  sprouted  out  new 
leaves,  and  give  a  new  sunshine  to  the  land- 
scape. Well  up  on  the  volcanic  slope,  beyond 
the  Roxelane,  and  quite  to  the  Riviere  des 
Peres,  these  signs  of  returning  vegetation  are 
apparent,  and  on  one  side  of  the  Roxelane 
itself  everything  is  green.  But.  after  all,  it 
is  more  the  immediate  foreground  that  gives 
these  signs  of  resuscitation,  for.  farther  be- 
yond, and  below  the  hanging  volcanic  cloud. 
the  grays  are  as  gray  as  ever,  and  the  valley 
of  the  Riviere  Blanche,  choked  with  the  im- 
mense amount  of  debris  that  has  been 
thrown  into  it,  is  white  like  snow  with  the  new 
ash  that  is  periodically  being  swept  over  its 
course. 


A    MAMMOTH    PRESERVED    IN    ICE. 


How  It  was  Accidentally  Discovered  in  Siberia. 


Officers  Who  Abuse  Their  Privileges. 
The  War  Department  authorities  have  been 
constrained  to  call  attention  to  the  abuse  of 
a  privilege  by  officers  of  the  army  returning 
from  foreign  stations,  especially  from  those 
in  the  Philippines.  In  many  cases  (points 
out  the  New  York  Times)  officers  returning 
home  have  brought  with  them  servants  of 
both  sexes,  the  females  as  servants  to  their 
wives.  There  is  no  objection  to  bringing  ser- 
vants who  are  employed  by  the  families  of 
officers,  provided  provision  is  made  for  their 
retention  for  a  reasonable  time  following  their 
arrival  in  this  country,  or  until  profitable  em- 
ployment can  be  found  for  them,  it  has  hap- 
pened, however,  that  a  greater  number  of 
Filipino  and  Japanese  servants  have  been 
brought  than  was  justified.  For  example,  in 
one  case  a  young  lieutenant  brought  three 
Filipino  boys  as  servants,  and  a  married  officer 
brought  a  Filipino  boy  and  two  Japanese 
women  as  servants  for  his  wife.  The  War 
Department  has  been  called  upon  to  send 
some  of  the  Filipinos  and  Japanese  servants 
back  to  their  homes,  those  bringing  them  here 
having  no  further  use  for  them.  This  same 
abuse,  to  a  limited  extent,  was  practiced  for 
a  time  by  officers  returning  from  duty  in 
Porto  Rico  and  Cuba,  until  checked  by  direc- 
tion of  the  Secretary  of  War,  who  required 
several  of  the  officers  to  return  the  servants  at 
their  own  expense.  The  quartermaster-general 
has  caused  a  circular  letter  to  be  sent  to  the 
Philippines  directing  attention  to  the  fact  that 
servants  brought  to  this  country  from  the 
archipelago  by  officers  and  their  families  can 
not  be  returned  in  the  government  transports, 
and  admonishing  officers  that  they  may  be  held 
liable  for  the  return  of  Filipino  and  Japanese 
servants  brought  by  them  to  this  country. 


How  Ade  Came  to  'Write  Fables. 
George  Ade's  own  account  of  how  he  came 
to    write   the   fables   that   have   made   him   fa- 
mous   is    given    as    follows     in     the     Boston 
Literary  World: 

In  1890,  having  risen  to  a  weekly  income 
of  fifteen  dollars,  I  lit  out  for  Chicago,  where 
I  got  a  job  on  the  Morning  News,  later  the 
Record,  as  a  reporter.  The  following  year  I 
had  pretty  good  assignments,  and  in  1893  I 
did  special  World's  Fair  stories.  When  the 
fair  closed  up  I  became  the  father  of  a 
department  in  the  paper  called  "  Stories  of  the 
Street."  I  had  to  fill  two  columns  every*  day. 
which,  with  a  cut  or  two.  meant  from  twelve 
hundred  to  two  thousand  words.  My  stuff 
was  next  to  -  Eugene  Field's  "  Sharps  and 
Flats."  When  Field  died  I  got  his  desk. 
I  used  to  get  desperate  for  ideas  sometimes. 
One  lucky  day  I  wrote  a  story*  on  a  church 
entertainment,  in  which  Artie  was  the  spokes- 
man. That  was  in  1895.  I  heard  from  that 
story  so  much  that  Artie  was  given  a  show 
once  a  week.  In  1898.  I  ran  up  against  the 
fable  of  the  old  serio-comic  form.  I  had 
learned  from  writing  my  department  that  all 
people,  and  especially  women,  are  more  or 
less  fond  of  parlor  slang.  In  cold  blood  I 
began  writing  the  fables  to  make  my  depart- 
ment fantastic,  but  I  had  no  idea  that  those 
fantastic  things  would  catch  on  as  they  have. 
My  first  one  was  entitled  "  The  Blond  Girl 
Who  Married  a  Bucket-Shop  Man."  Soon 
other  papers  asked  permission  to  copy  the 
fables,  and  then  to  share  them  with  the 
Record,  and  by  and  by  a  publisher  collected 
them  and  made  up  a  copyrighted  book.  There 
you  have  the  whole  thing  in  a  nutshell. 


The  Life  Publishing  Company  is  getting 
out  a  collection  cf  the  vers  de  societe  of  Tom 
Masson  to  be  called  "  In  Merry  Measure." 
The  book  will  be  ready  early  in  the  fall, 
and  will  be  similar  in  make-up  to  the  vol- 
umes "  Taken  from  Life  "  and  "  Rhymes  and 
Roundelays." 


Siegfried  Wagner  is  relentlessly  continuing 
his  career  as  an  operatic  composer.  He  now 
has  a  new  work,  "  The  Gnome,"  which  will  be 
produced  in  Leipsic  toward  the  end  of  Sep- 
tember. 


The  huge  body  of  the  Siberian  mammoth, 
which  was  discovered  in  the  summer  of  10.01, 
has  now  been  erected  in  the  museum  of  the 
Academy  of  Sciences  at  St.  Petersburg.  The 
unique  interest  of  this  discovery"  lies  in  the  fact 
that,  though  many  fossil  remains  of  mam- 
moths have  been  found  and  other  preserved 
bodies  of  mammoths  seen,  no  body  so  com- 
plete as  this  one  has  ever  before  been  brought 
home  to  civilization.  The  hide,  hair,  eyes, 
flesh,  and  bones  of  the  mammoth  brought  home 
by  Dr.  Otto  Herz  are  all  marvelously  pre- 
served by  a  set  of  circumstances  similar  to 
those  which  have  given  us  the  actual  feathers 
of  the  extinct  moa  bird  and  the  bony  hide 
of  the  mylodon  (points  out  the  London 
Graphic).  In  this  case  the  perishable  flesh 
has  been  preserved  by  means  of  a  most  perfect 
freezing  and  "  cold-storing  "  process. 

When  first  seen  by  the  Cossack.  Jawlowsky, 
the  mammoth  was  nearly  covered  with  ice. 
and  it  was  owing  to  a  slight  melting  of  the 
surface  that  a  clear  space  enabled  him  to  see 
the  strange,  hoary  relic  of  a  vanished  age 
glinting  through  the  ice.  The  discovery  was 
promptly  notified  to  St.  Petersburg  by  way  of 
Yakutsk,  and  Dr.  Otto  Herz.  of  the  Imperial 
Museum,  was  immediately  sent  with  a  nu- 
merous party  to  procure,  if  possible,  the  body 
entire.  To  accomplish  this  he  was  given  a 
company  of  Cossack  troopers  commanded  by 
a  lieutenant  and  fifty  horses  for  trans- 
port. A  tremendous  journey  over  trackless 
mountains  and  swamps  was  undertaken,  and 
the  spot  finally  reached.  To  quote  Dr. 
Herz's  own  words  : 

We  were  at  a  loss  to  proceed  further,  for 
the  maps  of  the  district  are  not  detailed,  and 
we  found  ourselves  in  the  midst  of  a  vast 
number  of  exactly  similar  ice  mounds.  Finally, 
however,  my  nostrils  detected  a  strange  odor, 
and  it  occurred  to  me  that  it  might  be  the 
flesh  of  the  monster  which  had  become  un- 
covered and  was  decomposing.  By  dint  of 
walking  in  the  direction  whence  the  smell 
seemed  to  come.  I  finally  located  the  grave. 
In  my  excitement  I  ran  the  last  mile  of  the 
way  against  the  fast  increasing  stench.  At  the 
grave  I  found  a  faithful  Cossack,  who  for  fifty 
days  had  stood  guard  over  the  carcass  at  the 
command  of  his  superior  officer.  He  had 
covered  it  entirely  over  with  dry  soil  to  a 
depth  of  three  feet,  but  even  through  this 
protection  the  smell  made  its  way. 

Dr.  Herz  says  the  stomach  of  the  mammoth 
was  found  full  of  undigested  food.  The  attitude 
in  which  he  was  found  shows  that  he  met  his 
death  by  slipping  on  a  slope,  for  his  rear  legs 
are  bent  up  so  that  it  would  be  impossible  for 
him  to  raise  himself.    Dr.  Herz  adds: 

The  impromptu  grave  into  which  the  animal 
plunged  was  made  of  sand  and  clay,  and  his 
fall  probably  caused  masses  of  neighboring 
soil  to  loosen  and  cover  him  completely.  This 
happened  in  the  late  autumn,  or  at  the  be- 
ginning of  winter,  to  judge  by  the  vegetable 
matter  found  in  the  stomach ;  at  any  rate, 
shortly  afterward  the  grave  became  flooded, 
ice  following.  This  completed  the  cold  stor- 
age, still  further  augmented  by  vast  accumu- 
lations of  soil  all  round — a  shell  of  ice  hun- 
dreds of  feet  thick  inclosed  by  yards  upon 
yards  of  soil  that  remained  frozen  for  the 
greater  part  of  the  year.  Thus  the  enormous 
carcass  was  preserved  for  how  long  no  one 
knows,  through  hundreds  of  centuries  perhaps, 
until  not  so  many  years  ago  some  movement 
of  the  earth  spat  forth  the  fossil  mausoleum, 
leaving  it  exposed  to  sun  and  wind  until  grad- 
ually, very  gradually,  the  ice  crust  wore  off 
and  revealed  to  the  passing  Cossack  the  long 
hidden  treasure. 


King  Menelek  of  Abyssinia  is  preparing  to 
have  a  mint  in  full  operation  at  his  capita!. 
Addis  Ababa,  by  the  first  of  the  year.  The 
mint  outfit  was  purchased  in  Vienna,  and  a 
competent  mechanic  will  accompany  the  ma- 
chinery to  put  it  in  working  order.  On  arrival 
at  Djibouti,  the  machinery  will  be  transported 
to  the  interior  by  rail  to  New  Harrar.  about 
one  hundred  and  fifty  miles,  the  end  of  the 
road.  Thence  it  will  be  transported  by  cara- 
van to  the  capital,  the  caravan  journey  occu- 
pying more  than  a  month.  For  several  years 
King  Menelek  has  had  a  limited  silver  coinage 
circulating  in  his  kingdom,  the  minting  be- 
ing done  in  France.  Of  late  he  has  been  put- 
ting aside  bullion  for  coinage  purposes,  and 
now  it  is  understood  that  he  has  over  110.230 
pounds  of  gold  bullion  on  hand,  besides  a 
larger  amount  of  silver. 


Mrs.  Craigie  (John  Oliver  Hobbes)  went 
to  the  recent  Durbar  festivities  as  the  guest 
of  Lord  and  Lady  Curzon,  and  she  has  re- 
corded her  impressions  of  the  pageant  in  a 
little  book  which  will  soon  be  published, 
"  Imperial  India :  Letters  from  the  East." 


One  of  the  early  Columbia  Theatre  attrac- 
tions will  be  Virginia  Harned  in  an  elaborate 
production    of    Pinero's   "  Iris." 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


September  14,   1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


G.  K.  Chesterton's  "Browning." 

No  one  interested  in  poetry,  and  certainly 
no  one  especially  interested  in  Robert  Brown- 
ing, can  afford  to  leave  unread  G.  K.  Chester- 
ton's "  Robert  Browning  "  in  the  English  Men 
of  Letters  Series.  Such  incessant  play  of 
verbal  fireworks  has  illuminated  no  other  book 
of  the  series.  Chesterton  is  nothing  if  not 
an  epigrammatist,  a  fashioner  of  brilliant 
phrases,  a  splendid  paradoxist.  But  then, 
Browning  was  paradoxical,  and  so  is  the 
world,  for  that  matter.  Surely,  he  who  writes 
of  paradoxes  may  be  allowed  to  be  paradoxical. 

Very  little  space  does  Mr.  Chesterton  devote 
to  giving  details  about  Browning's  life.  His 
book  is  rather  a  study  than  a  biography.  The 
main  points  that  he  makes,  very  roughly 
stated,  are  that  Browning  was  essentially 
a  middle-class  Englishman;  that  he  was  poet 
first,  philosopher  afterward  (reversing  the 
average  Browningite's  idea)  ;  that  his  ob- 
scurity was  due  to  the  poet's  essential  clarity 
of  mind ;  that  he  was  not  an  opponent  of 
spiritualism,  though  an  opponent  of  spiritual- 
ists ;  that  his  chief  service  to  mankind  was 
in  impressing  upon  it  the  vast  significance  of 
the  insignificant;  that  the  artistic  methods 
of  Browning  were  based  on  true  principles; 
that  one  of  his  great  triumphs  was  in  using 
in  poetry  the  grotesque ;  that  another  was  his 
realization  of  the  necessity  in  poetry  for  "  free 
speech  "  in  its  highest  sense.  These  phrases 
sound  queer  enough,  but  Mr.  Chesterton's 
spirited  enunciation  of  queer-sounding  ideas 
and  spirited  defense  of  the  same  are  some- 
thing worth  while. 

Browning  could  scarcely  have  wished  for  a 
more  passionately  partisan  biographer  than 
Chesterton.  A  dozen  times  the  biographer 
speaks  of  Browning  as  the  "  greatest  mind  in 
our  annals."  He  continually  draws  the  parallel 
between  Browning  and  Whitman,  and  plainly 
shows  where  his  sympathies  lie  by  a  con- 
stant, but  perhaps  unconscious,  disparagement 
of  Swinburne  and  Tennyson.  For  the  "de- 
cadents." under  which  term  we  suppose  he 
includes  the  Pre-Raphaelites  and  such  poets 
as  Arthur  Symons  and  Richard  le  Gallienne. 
Mr.  Chesterton  has  an  unconquerable  con- 
tempt. 

People  who  are  temperamentally  an- 
tagonistic to  Whitman,  and  who  can  not 
stomach  the  whimsicality  of  Bernard  Shaw, 
will  not  like  Mr.  Chesterton.  But  the  con- 
verse is  equally  true — or  more  so. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  75  cents. 

"  The  Mystery  of  Murray  Davenport." 

Mysteries  in  novels,  aside  from  those  of  the 
detective-story  order,  do  not  now  figure  as 
frequently  as  they  did  before  the  present 
era  of  realism  in  fiction.  The  author's  pur- 
pose, however,  is  boldly  avowed  in  the  title  of 
"  The  Mystery  of  Murray  Davenport " — a 
mystery  which  apparently  starts  out  to  be  of 
a  psychological  nature,  and  ends  by  having 
its  most  incredible  features  made  plausible 
through  the  agency  of  surgery ;  thus  again 
bringing  the  story  within  the  realm   of  realism. 

It  is  the  story  of  a  man  so  persistently  pur- 
sued by  malignant  ill-luck  that  his  native 
ability  can  not  enable  him  to  rise  above  its 
subduing  influence.  He  becomes  the  prey  of 
a  settled  pessimism,  until,  in  an  effort  to  es- 
cape from  the  circle  of  gloom  and  defeat  in 
which  his  life  is  passed,  he  evolves  a  plan 
whose  details  it  would  be  more  appropriate 
to  leave  for  the  reader's  own  personal  perusal. 

The  author,  Robert  Neil  Stephens,  has 
shown  some  originality  in  his  main  idea,  and 
considerable  ingenuity  in  working  it  out  to  a 
practical  conclusion. 

His  style  has  that  journalistic  aptness  and 
fluency  (we  rather  suspect  the  writer  to  be  a 
New  York  journalist)  which  give  it  the 
readable  quality  so  necessary  to  light,  inter- 
esting, summer  fiction — a  class  to  which  "The 
Mystery    of    Murray    Davenport"    belongs. 

Published  by  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.,  Boston; 
$1.50. 

Beautiful,  but  Heartless. 

The  mere  glance  of  the  cockatrice,  so  the 
ancients  believed,  was  death.  Mr.  Frederick 
Eldridge  has  turned  this  venerable  tradition 
to  literary  account  in  the  striking  title  of  his 
first  novel,  "  A  Social  Cockatrice,"  as  an 
intimation  of  the  peril  attached  to  loving  the 
beautiful  heroine.  From  this  foreshadowing, 
the  reader  may  prepare  himself  for  incidents 
somewhat  out  of  the  ordinary.  Nor  will  his 
expectations   fail  to  be  realized. 

Th<  heroine,  indeed,  is  painted  in  extreme 
colons,  being  intended  to  illustrate  the  type 
of  sncial  aspirant  gone  mad;  one  to  whom  a 
risv  in  social  position  is  the  be-all  and  end- 
al!    '?  existence. 


To  this  aim,  Beatrice  Cameron,  a  woman 
of  surpassing  beauty,  absolute  selfishness,  and 
utter  lack  of  heart,  uses  all  her  suitors  as 
stepping-stones  to  her  ambition,  '  and  passes 
on  to  distant  heights  of  social  attainment, 
forgetting. 

The  type  is  rare  in  fiction,  and,  let  us  hope, 
in  real  life.  It  serves,  however,  to  point  a 
moral,  if  not  to  adorn  a  tale,  and  lends  to  the 
tragic  events  attendant  on  the  wooing  of  such 
a  woman  an  interest  that  lifts  them  some- 
what out  of  the  ordinary. 

Mr.  Eldridge  is  very  much  of  an  extremist, 
showing  in  his  creation  of  Edith  Cameron's 
character,  as  well,  a  similar  departure  from 
ordinary  literary  routine.  The  nature  of 
Edith,  in  its  nobility  and  strong  integrity,  is 
designed  as  a  contrast  to  that  of  her  sister. 
But  her  actions  toward  the  end  of  the  book 
so  startle  and  shock  the  reader,  and  are  so 
irreconcilable  with  her  character  as  already 
outlined,  and  her  after  fate  is  so  pitiable, 
that  the  reader  closes  the  book  not  only  with 
a  sense  of  rebellion,  but  with  a  conviction 
that  the  author  has  not  been  above  sacrificing 
truth  to  sensationalism. 

In  spite  of  the  exaggerations,  both  of 
motive  and  incident,  which  mar  his  first  book, 
Mr.  Eldridge  has  done  remarkably  well, 
being  the  fortunate  possessor  of  a  style  that  is 
elastic,  varied,  and  at  times  rises  almost  to 
brilliancy.  Such  indications,  both  of  literary 
industry — for  style  demands  polish — and  of 
originality,  even  if  somewhat  outre,  promise 
well  for  Mr.  Eldridge's  future  development 
in  fiction. 

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Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Jack  London,  who  has  just  achieved  such 
a  wide  success  with  his  dog  story,  "  The  Call 
of  the  Wild,"  will  publish  in  the  early 
autumn  a  book  on  life  in  the  East  End  of 
London.  It  is  stated  that  he  has  been  "  slum- 
ming," and  that  in  the  description  of  his  ex- 
periences he  will  give  "  a  vivid  picture  of  the 
conditions    of   existence    in    squalid    districts." 

"A  Queen  of  Tears"  is  the  title  of  a  life  of 
Caroline  Matilda,  Queen  of  Denmark,  and 
youngest  sister  of  George  the  Third.  The 
book,  which  will  be  in  two  volumes,  is  by 
W.  H.  Wilkins,  author  of  "  The  Love  of  an 
Uncrowned  Queen." 

Several  notable  volumes  of  fiction  to  be 
published  this  month  are  Conan  Doyle's  new 
story,  told  by  a  soldier  of  Napoleon's  army, 
"  The  Adventures  of  Gerard " ;  a  novel  by 
Stanley  Weyman  entitled  "The  Long  Night"; 
"  In  Babel :  Stories  of  Chicago,"  by  George 
Ade ;  "  Sea  Scamps,"  by  H.  C.  Rowland ; 
"  Love,  the  Fiddler,"  by  Lloyd  Osbourne ; 
"Silver  Linings,"  by  Nina  Rhoades ;  and 
"  Comedies  in  Miniature,"  by  Margaret  Cam- 
eron. 

"  The  Vagabond,"  by  Frederick  Palmer, 
will  appear  this  week  from  the  press  of 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  The  book  will  be 
illustrated  by   Harrison   Fisher. 

Charles  Josselyn,  author  of  "  The  True 
Napoleon,"  has  in  press  for  early  publication 
by  Paul  Elder  &  Co.  a  collection  of  interest- 
ing selections  from  famous  authors,  entitled 
"  My  Favorite  Book  Shelf."  The  work  will 
make  a  handsome  octavo,  interestingly  printed 
and  rubricated.  The  binding  is  from  a  design 
by   Gordon   Ross. 

-  Beulah  Marie  Dix  has  just  finished  her 
new  novel,  "  Blount  of  Breckenhow."  The 
scenes  are  laid  in  England  in  the  years 
1642-45. 

Gelett  Burgess  has  written  "  A  Second  Book 
of  Goops,"  which  will  contain  narrative  as 
well  as  pictures. 

Senator  Hoar's  entertaining  remembrances 
of  "  Some  Famous  Judges."  extending  over 
a  period  of  seventy  years,  is  to  be  brought  out 
by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  in  two  volumes 
next  month. 

The  second  volume  of  the  great  work  which 
the  late  Sir  Walter  Besant  had  planned  and 
which  was  to  have  been  entitled  "  The  Survey 
of  London,"  is  shortly  forthcoming  from  the 
Macmillan  Company.  It  is  called  "  London 
in  the  Time  of  the  Sluarts,"  thus  antedating 
in  subject  the  volume  which  appeared  last 
winter — "  London  in  the  Eighteenth  Century." 

Field-Marshal  Lord  Wolseley  has  completed 
his  long-expected  memoirs,  and  has  arranged 
for  their  publication  in  London  this  autumn 
under  the  title  of  "  The  Story  of  a  Soldier's 
Life." 

Cyrus  Towusend  Brady  has  written  a  new 
story  for  the  Boys  of  the  Service  Series, 
which  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  will  issue  next 


week.  It  is  entitled  "  In  the  War  with 
Mexico :  A  Midshipman's  Adventures  on 
Ship  and  Shore." 

Another  volume  in  the  beautiful  Goupil 
Series  of  Historical  Monographs  is  being 
written  by  Frederic  Masson.  It  will  treat 
of  Napoleon  and  his  son.  and  will  be,  like  all 
of  its  predecessors,  sumptuously  illustrated. 

•'  The  Little  Shepherd  of  Kingdom  Come," 
the  new  novel  by  John  Fox,  Jr.,  which  has 
been  running  serially  in  Scribner's  Magazine, 
will  be  published  in  book-form  this  month. 

"  The  Heart  of  Hyacinth,"  by  Onoto 
Watanna,  is  to  be  brought  out  uniform  with 
"  A  Japanese  Nightingale,"  and  will  contain 
marginal  drawings  in  tint  by  a  Japanese  artist, 
Kiyokichi  Sano.  The  heroine  is  an  American 
girl  born  in  Japan,  reared  and  mothered  by  a 
Japanese  woman. 

J.  L.  Garner,  official  translator  of  the  United 
States  Mint,  has  very  nearly  completed  his 
translation  of  Ferdinand  Gregorovius's 
"  Lucrezia  Borgia,"  which  will  be  published, 
with  twenty-four  illustrations,  in  the  early 
autumn. 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  have  in  prepara- 
tion a  volume  containing  letters  in  which 
"  Paris  Before  the  War  "  is  described.  These 
letters,  together  with  newspaper  articles,  were 
written  by  Mme.  Northpeat,  the  wife  of  the 
minister  of  the  interior  in  France  during 
the  siege  of  Paris  and  the  Commune. 

Tom  Moore  will  be  represented  in  the  En- 
glish Men  of  Letters  Series  in  a  book  by 
Stephen  Gwynn,  the  author  of  a  forthcoming 
novel,  "  John  Maxwell's  Marriage."  Alfred 
Ainger's  biography  of  Crabbe  will  be  added 
to  the  series  before  Mr.  Gwynn's  book  is 
ready.  Dr.  Van  Dyke's  life  of  Lowell  is  also 
to  be  brought  out  soon. 

RECENT    VERSE. 

The  Last  "Whinny. 
Good-by,  Champagne,  my  pretty  Champagne, 
With  the  white  tail  and  the  foaming  mane, 
Good-by,   forever  and  ever  again. 

Friends  were  we  through  the  summer  weather. 

Climbing   the  mountain   roads   together, 
Nipping  buds  in   the  heart  of  the  wood, 
I    sang,    you   whinnied,    each    understood, 
And  the  sky  was  blue  and  life  was  good. 

There  were  the  streams  and  under  the  dint 
Of  your  slender  hoofs  the  fragrant  mint; 
There  was  the  moss,  and  the  wild  grape  vine, 
The  rhododendron,   laurei,   and  pine, 
The  honeysuckle,  the  columbine. 

Remote    from   struggle,    away   from   care, 
Peace  profound  in  the  rarefied  air; 
Without  temptation  to  sin — no  need 
To  worry  ourselves  with    anxious  creed; 
The  very  God  seemed  with  us  indeed. 

Good-by,  Champagne,  my  pretty  Champagne, 
With  the  white  tail,  and  the  foaming  mane, 
Sad  on   the  mountain  sobs  the  rain. 

It's  likely  I'll  go  to  Heaven  some  day, 
When    this  poor  body  is   sloughed   away, 
If    I    am    good   and   absolved   of  sin, 
But  that   is  a  goal   you  can   not  win; 
For   Heaven   they. don't  let   horses  in. 

I  am  glad  you  do  not  understand 

That  this  is  the  last  touch  of  my  hand; 

That   into   Heaven   you  can   not  get, 

That  you  don't  know  why  my  cheeks  are  wet 

As  you  bend  to  me  your  neck  to  pet. 

Now  here  are  queries  to  pose  the  knowledge 
Of  each  trustee  of  Carnegie's  college: 
Why  I  have  a  soul  and  you  have  none; 
Why  you  must  perish,  and  I  go  on. 
Which  to-day  is  the  pitiful  one? 

Happy  it  is  in  Heaven,  no  doubt, 
Yet,   surely,    some    day,    I   will   look   out; 
Mine  eyes  through  infinite  space  will  strain 
For   a   glint   of  snowy  tail   and   mane, 
As   you    whinny,    whinny,    once    again, 

Good-by,  Champagne,  my  pretty  Champagne, 
With  the  white  tail,  and  the  foaming  mane, 
Out   of   the   shadows    whinny    again! 

— Blanche  Nevin  in  the  Independent. 


Unanswered  Questions. 
When  in  the  eyes  of  my  dumb  friend  I  gaze — 

My  faithful  dog,  his  head  upon  my  knee — 
A    fixed   and   fond  solicitude  betrays 

The  premonition  of  a  devotee: 
'Tis  then  the  haunting  question   I   propound — 

A  question  asked,  but  never  answered  yet — 
Does  that  rare  insight  reach  beyond  the  bound 

Where  those  who  die,  forsake  us  and  forget? 
He  might  reveal  the  secret  if  he  dare, 

And  give  the    fateful   answer   which   I  seek, 
Of  life  before  and  after,  whence  and  where, 

Alas!   God  made  him  dumb,  he  can  not  speak. 
— Lucius    Harwood    Foote. 


Professor  Erich  Narcks,  the  biographer  of 
Emperor  William  the  First,  has  been  asked  by 
Prince  Herbert  Bismarck  to  write  a  life  of  his 
father. 


We  can  find  the  flaw  in 
your  vision,  and  can  tell 
you  what  glasses  to  wear 
to  remedy  the  defect. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


"Practical  Journalism." 

"Sleep  on  newspapers  and  eat  ink"  was 
Horace  Greeley's  injunction  to  the  young  man 
who  would  a  journalist  be.  "  Of  all  horned 
cattle,  deliver  me  from  the  college  graduate," 
is  another  of  his  sayings.  Both  of  these 
picturesque  dicta  are  in  essentials  indorsed  by 
E.  L.  Shuman  in  his  book,  "  Practical  Journal- 
ism." The  college  man,  he  thinks,  is  less 
likely  to  rise  to  the  highest-paid  position 
on  a  newspaper  than  the  man  without  a  col- 
lege training.  Country  correspondent,  re- 
porter in  a  small  town,  reporter  in  a  city, 
copy-reader,  telegraph  editor,  city  editor, 
managing  editor,  are,  according  to  Shuman, 
the  right  rungs  by  which  to  climb  from  bottom 
to  top  in  newspaperdom.  Experience  (to 
paraphrase  Franklin)  keeps  a  dear  school, but 
journalists  can  learn  in  no  other,  and  scarce 
in  that. 

Mr.  Shuman's  book,  however,  is  full  of 
priceless  hints  for  both  veteran  and  novice. 
It  abundantly  justifies  the  adjective  in  its  title. 
It  gives  sound  and  interesting  information 
about  "  Positions  and  Salaries,"  "  How  the 
News  is  Gathered,"  "  Editors  and  their 
Methods,"  "  Writing  Advertisements,"  "  The 
Law  of  Libel,"  and  many  other  subjects.  The 
casual  reader  will  find  it  entertaining. 
And  though  "  Practical  Journalism  "  can  not 
make  a  journalist  any  more  than  a  text-book 
on  music  a  musician,  the  young  and  earnest 
aspirant  to  journalistic  honors  will  not  go 
far  wrong  if  he  learns  it  by  heart. 

Mr.  Shuman  himself  is  a  newspaper  man 
of  twenty  years'  experience.  He  is  at  present 
literary  editor  of  the  Chicago  Record-Herald. 
He  is  a  book-reviewer  from  whose  opinions 
one  always  regrets  to  differ.  He  has  served 
as  typesetter,  proof-reader,  college  journalist, 
editor  of  a  country  weekly,  correspondent  of 
a  large  city  paper,  and  as  reporter,  copy- 
reader,  telegraph  editor,  exchange-reader, 
book-reviewer,  and  editorial  writer  on  Chi- 
cago dailies.  He  is  therefore  eminently 
qualified  to  speak  "  as  one  having  authority." 

No  small  part  of  the  charm  of  this  volume 
lies  in  Mr.  Shuman's  excellent  literary  style. 
We  have  seldom  read  a  book  written  in  more 
pellucid,  straightforward,  and  vigorous  En- 
glish. He  avoids,  on  the  one  hand,  the 
affectations  of  the  literary  person,  and.  on  the 
other,  the  stylistic  crudities  of  the  ordinary 
reporter.  Mr.  Shuman  neither  splits  iris 
infinitives  nor  mixes  his  subjunctives — which 
is  almost  a  miracle.  We  trust  the  advisory 
board  will  see  to  it  that  "  Practical  Journal- 
ism "  is  included  in  the  list  of  text-books  of 
the   Pulitzer   College  of  Journalism. 

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"There's  Millions  In  It!" 
Semi-occasionally  some  crank  turns  up  with 
a  claim  that  he  or  she  is  the  real  owner  of 
some  vast  or  valuable  piece  of  real  estate,  and 
that  present  holders  are  usurpers  and  inter- 
lopers. Usually  such  contestants  base  their 
claims  upon  some  old  grant.  The  thing  has 
happened  in  every  large  city  of  the  East.  It 
has  happened  in  San  Francisco.  But  generally 
such  persons  fail  to  make  out  a  case.  They 
commonly  give  property-owners  a  few  bad  mo- 
ments, and  then  fade  away  into  legal  in- 
tangibility. 

But  what  shall  we  say  to  a  handsomely  il- 
lustrated book  of  three  hundred  and  fifty 
pages  devoted  to  demonstrating  that  the 
ancient  corporate  town  of  New  Harlem,  now 
a  part  of  New  York  City,  is  still  an  entity, 
and  that  the  heirs  of  its  inhabitants  still  hold 
title  to  all  its  extensive  common  lands! 
The  boomers  of  that  great  Dutchman,  Anneke 
Jans,  must  now  hide  their  heads  in  utter 
shame. 

The  persons  behind  the  publication  are  two. 
oh,  so  disinterested,  lawyers  of  New  York. 
Their  noble  spirits  revolt  at  what  they  elo- 
quently term  "  the  most  extraordinary  civic 
injustice  in  the  history  of  the  American  com- 
monwealth," and  which  they  say  is  "  at  last 
to  stand,  stripped  of  its  giant's  robe,  before 
the  tribunal  of  American  law."  Mr.  Henry 
Pennington  Toler,  who  modestly  describes 
himself  as  a  "man  hating  injustice  under 
whatever  guise"  is  one  of  the  gentlemen  en- 
gaged in  the  labor  of  love.  He  is  ably  as- 
sisted by  William  Pennington  Toler  and  Har- 
mon de  Pau  Nutting  (These  be  names  to  con- 
jure with!),  members  of  the  New  York  Bar. 
It  is.  however,  the  "  righteous  enterprise  "  of 
Mr.  Henry  Pennington  Toler  that  has  "  bridged 
the  mighty  chasm  created  by  the  absence  of 
the  long  lost  records."  At  the  present  mo- 
ment (so  he  says,  and  who  could  doubt  it?) 
he  "  stands  with  full  grasp  upon  the  most 
extraordinary  situation."  We  must  say  that 
we    don't   quite   understand    Mr.    Henry    Pen- 


t 


nington  Toler's  figure  here.  That,  like  other 
phrases  in  "  New  Harlem  Past  and  Present," 
is  queer  English.  But  perhaps  it  is  not  in- 
tended to  be  understood.  Perhaps,  like  a  cer- 
tain Shakespearean  worthy's  "  Ducdame, 
ducdame,  ducdame,"  it  is  only  a  charm  to  call 
fools   into  a  circle.      Who  knows? 

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Popular  Verse. 
"  Lee  at  Appomattox,"  "  Doggie's  Dot  Pup- 
pies," "  Rastus,"  "  I  Can  Lick  Any  Boy  in  the 
Block,"  "  Old  Glory,"  "  The  Girl  that  Winked 
Her  Eye  " — these  are  some  typical  titles  from 
Fred  Emerson  Brooks's  volume  of  dialect  and 
other  verse  in  strains  sentimental,  humorous 
and  pathetic,  entitled  "  Pickett's  Charge,  and 
Other  Poems."  The  Man  in  the  Street  will 
find  them  highly  interesting  and  amusing. 
Here  is  a  dialect  piece  of  average  excel- 
lence : 

THE   DAGO. 
I    am-a   one   Ital-ian 
People  call-a  me  Da-go-man; 
I    lik-a   live   U-ni-ted    State, 
Mak-a  heap  o'  raon-a  any  rate; 
Smok-a  vera  cheap-a  ciga-ret, 
Eat-a  macaroni  an"   spaget'; 
I   am-a   descended   from 
Christoph'   Colomb' ! 

I   bring-a  dis-a  leetal   monk 
Ovair   in   dis-a  leetal    trunk; 
Though-a   vera   homely   one. 
He  help- a  me  mak-a  da  mon. 
Irish  man  he  call-a  me, 
De  leetal  monkey  pedigree; 
Call-a  da  monk  ancestor  from 
Christoph'    Colomb' ! 

I  drag  piano  through  de  town; 
People  throw  me  da  nickel  down; 
I   mak-a  vera  sweet-a  bow 
To   servant    gal,    she    mak-a    row; 
Call-a  mc  da  piann   horse! 
Say  pian'  so  old,  o'  course 
It    was-a    descended    from 
Christoph'   Colomb' ! 

Beeg-a  fool  come  evair  day, 
Ask-a  where  I  learn  to  play; 
Tell-a   me   I   must-a   he 
Great-a  lik-a  Pad-a-ru-si-kee! 
Small   boy   mak-a   bad-a   face; 
Call-a  me  dar-a  stumpy  race — 
Mis-fit-a  descended  from 
Christoph'    Colomb' ! 

Cable  car   he   bump-a   me, 
Police-a-man   he   thump-a   me, 
Truck-a-man    upset-a    me, 
Sprinkle-a-man  he  wet-a  me, 
Fire-a-engine  come-a  dash, 
Break  da  organ  all-a  smash! 
Kill   da   monk  descended   front 
Christoph*    Colomb' ! 

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New  Publications. 
"  Mr.  Keegan's  Elopement."  by  Winston 
Churchill,  is  a  skillfully  told,  light,  and  amus- 
ing novelette.  It  is  the  latest  in  the  series 
of  Little  Novels  by  Favorite  Authors,  pub- 
lished by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New  York; 
75    cents. 

We  have  received  the  report  for  1902  of  the 
Historical  Landmarks  Committee  of  the  Na- 
tive Daughters  of  the  Golden  West,  of  which 
committee  Eliza  D.  Keith  was  chairman. 
The  book  contains  a  California  bibliography 
and  other  interesting  matter. 

The  admirable  subscription  edition  of  the 
works  of  F.  Hopkinson  Smith,  previous  vol- 
umes of  which  we  have  found  occasion  to 
praise,  is  complete  with  "  The  Under  Dog," 
a  book  of  short  stories,  the  trade  edition  of 
which  we  reviewed  recently.  Published  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New  York ;  per  set 
(ten  vols.),  $15.00. 

As  everybody  knows,  the  streets  of  Boston 
are  crooked  as  cow-paths,  and  the  Western 
urbanite,  whose  town  is  laid  out  like  1 
checker-board,  is  greatly  bemused  thereby. 
For  this  reason,  perhaps,  and  for  many  others, 
certainly,  Edward  M.  Bacon  has  prepared  a 
neat  little  work  called  "  Boston:  A  Guide 
Book."  It  contains  lots  of  good  half-tone 
illustrations,  fine  maps,  and  an  adequate  index. 
Moreover,  it  is  scholarly  and  authoritative. 
We  wish  some  one  might  write  as  good  a 
guide-book  for  San  Francisco.  Published  by 
Ginn  &  Co.,  Boston. 

It  is  nearly  ten  years  since  the  Argonaut 
published  several  striking  stories  by  J.  Per- 
cival  Pollard,  under  the  titles,  "  A  Tale  of 
Two  Tramps,"  "  The  Blonde  Dragon,"  and 
"  Beyond  Recall."  Some  of  our  readers  may 
still  remember  the  story  of  the  two  lovers 
shot  to  death  by  two  tramps  as  they  slowly 
rode  along  on  horseback  in  mutual  embrace. 
These  stories  of  the  two  tramps,  with  the 
addition  of  several  others,  have  now  been 
published  in  book-form,  the  author  having 
in  the  meantime  attained  a  considerable  repu- 
tation through  the  publication  of  a  novel 
called  "  The  Imitator."  "  Lingo  Dan  "  is  the 
book's  title.  Were  it  not  for  the  fact  that 
these  stories  were  written  ten  years  ago,  the 


astute  critics  would,  we  are  sure,  say  that 
Mr.  Pollard  was  an  imitator  of  the  Russian, 
Gorky.  Published  by  the  Neale  Publishing 
Company,  Washington,   D.  C. 

Two  more  numbers  of  the  reissue  in  twelve 
volumes  of  Professor  Arber's  "  An  English 
Garner,"  have  reached  us.  The  one  is  in- 
troduced by  C.  H.  Firth,  and  contains  docu- 
ments of  the  period  1603-1693  relating  to 
travels,  royal  entertainments,  battles  and 
campaigns,  and  strange  happenings.  The 
other  is  introduced  by  Alfred  W.  Pollard, 
and  sub-titled  "  Fifteenth  Century  Prose  and 
Verse."  It  contains  John  Lydgate's  poem  on 
the  siege  of  Harfleur  and  the  Battle  of 
Agincourt,  Thomas  Occleve's  poem  entitled 
"  A  Letter  to  Cupid."  the  ballad  of  Robin 
Hood,  some  English  carols,  examinations  (in 
prose)  of  heretics,  several  prologues,  and  two 
miracle  plays:  "A  Miracle  Play  of  the  Na- 
tivity" and  "  Everyman."  Published  by  E. 
P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York;  each.  $1.25. 

S.  Whinery,  civil  engineer,  is  the  author 
of  a  practical  book  called  "  Municipal  Public 
Works,"  intended,  as  he  states,  for  the  inex- 
perienced city  official  and  for  the  urban  citi- 
zen. The  treatment  is  untechnical,  and  prin- 
ciples of  municipal  administration  rather  than 
statistics  and  details  have  been  dealt  with. 
There  are  chapters  on  direct  work  and  con- 
tract work ;  advertising,  opening  bids  and 
the  awarding  of  contracts;  the  contractor: 
the  supervision  of  public  work:  economy,  real 
and  false;  the  guaranteeing  of  public  work; 
special  assessments;  municipal  accounts  and 
uniform  accounting.  The  author  is  not  an  ad- 
vocate of  municipal  ownership  of  public 
utilities;  neither  does  he  unreservedly  oppose 
it.  The  work  contains  much  useful  informa- 
tion. Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company. 
New  York ;  $1.50. 

"  A  man  who  talks  to  me  about  prosody 
is  making  a  brutal  assault  upon  my  care- 
fully guarded  innocence,"  writes  Andrew 
Lang — and  yet  he  is  a  poet !  So  lesser 
rhymsters  plainly  need  not  fret  even  if  they 
know  not  the  difference  between  an 
Alexandrine  and  a  one-stress  iambic.  Those 
whom  ignorance  irks,  however.  will  find 
example  and  definition  sufficient,  we  should 
think,  for  all  needs  in  "  English  Verse,"  a 
remarkably  sane  little  book  by  Raymond  Mac- 
Donald  Allen.  Ph.  D.,  of  Stanford.  This 
writer's  aim  has  been  not  so  much  dog- 
matically to  advance  a  new  theory  of  English 
verse  as  to  illustrate,  by  examples  from  many 
sources,  the  chief  varieties.  Accordingly,  the 
book's  contents  is  about  nine-tenths  quota- 
tion, and  one-tenth  comment,  but  it  is  none 
the  less  admirable  for  that.  Published  by 
Henry   Holt  &  Co.,   New   York. 

"  A  Victim  of  Conscience,"  by  Milton  Gold- 
smith, is  a  story  of  a  Jew  by  a  Jew,  Isaac 
Schwartz,  pursued  by  misfortune  in  his  native 
land,  emigrates  from  Germany  to  America 
in  the  early  'forties.  There  ill-luck  follows 
him.  He  is  a  veritable  Schlemiel.  Every- 
thing he  touches  turns  to  ashes.  At  last  he 
determines  to  seek  his  fortune  in  California 
gold-fields.  There  he  suffers  untold  persecu- 
tion at  the  hands  of  miners  who  despise  him. 
This  treatment  he  long  patiently  endures,  but 
finally,  driven  to  the  wall,  he  hurts  a  pick  at 
a  persecutor's  head,  and  leaves  him  for  dead. 
He  returns  East  with  forty  thousand  dollars 
in  his  pocket,  and  thenceforward  everything  he 
touches  turns  to  gold.  But  his  conscience 
will  not  let  him  be  happy.  It  is  Schwartz's 
endeavors  to  escape  its  gnawings  that  is  the 
main  theme  of  the  book.  The  literary  style 
of  Mr.  Goldsmith  is  atrocious,  but  the  story 
he  tells  is  rather  strong.  Published  by  Henry 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


September  14,  1903. 


If  all  the  tears  that  are  being  shed  at  the 
Alcazar  this  week  could  be  sluiced  off  into 
one  current,  they  would  easily  make  a  young 
river.  The  Alcazar  clientele  is  young  and 
tender,  and  loves  to  weep  the  easy  tears  of 
easy  sentiment.  And  the  pathos-inspiring 
situation  in  "  The  Unwelcome  Mrs.  Hatch  " 
is  such  that  even  a  rather  tough  and  hardened 
sensibility  could  not  unwillingly  respond  to 
its  appeal. 

It  is  becoming  a  very  common  thing  in 
American  contemporary  life  for  families  to  be 
split  up  by  divorce,  and  for  the  offspring  of 
a  first  marriage  to  take  its  chances  with  the 
putative  maternity  or  paternity  of  a  second. 
There  are  many  well-known  examples  of  the 
kind  in  our  charmingly  unconventional  city, 
in  which  the  prototypes  of  the  unwelcome 
Mrs.  Hatch  have  not  even  that  impetuous  and 
ill-balanced  lady's  fault  to  arouse  reprobation. 
These  are  women  of  the  spiritless  type  who 
lack  that  piercing  vision  and  prehensile  grasp 
for  the  main  chance  which  might  impel  them 
to  oppose  vigorously  the  establishment  of  the 
hew  dynasty.  Such  women,  when  they  find 
their  reign  is  over-,  like  Louise  de  la  Valliere, 
shrink  humbly  away  into  obscurity,  sometimes 
appalled  by  the  future  dreariness  and  neediness 
of  their  lot,  leaving  the  care  of  their  children. 
uncontested,  to  their  successors.  Indeed,  it  is 
not  improbable  that  a  few  replicas  in  front  of 
Gladys  Lorrimer  have  wept  a  little  weep  of 
passing  sympathy  for  the  mother  that  is  almost 
forgotten.  Truly,  as  the  little  boy  indited  in 
his  diary,  when,  unlike  his  seniors,  he  was  de- 
nied a  second  helping  of  jam  tart:  "It  is  a 
very  ungust  world." 

Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  was  wise  enough  to 
leave  margin  for  an  ample  claim  on  the 
Simpathies  by  making  her  heroine's  provoca- 
tion unbearable,  and  her  offense  the  result 
of  an  impulsive  and  uncalculating  nature. 
Mrs.  Hatch,  we  are  to  assume,  I  believe,  un- 
der the  influence  of  a  mad  jealousy,  merely 
went  through  the  form  of  an  elopement.  That 
point,  however,  is  a  little  obscure.  She  then. 
from  the  hands  of  a  husband  already  absorbed 
in  an  illicit  passion  for  her  successor,  received 
the  legal  punishment  which  banished  her  from 
her  little  kingdom,  and  separated  her  from  her 
child.  The  story,  it  will  be  seen,  bears  a 
great  resemblance  to  "  East  Lynne,"  but  is 
presented  in  a  more  lively  and  modernized 
aspect. 

The  first  and  third  acts  are,  from  the  dra- 
matic point  of  view,  the  best.  The  dialogue 
in  the  first  puts  the  spectator  en  rapport  with 
things  from  the  start,  incidentally  throws  a 
revealing  light  upon  Mrs.  Hatch's  mercurial 
and  emotional  nature,  and  tells  a  sufficiently 
touching  and  dramatically  effective  story. 

In  the  ^econd  act,  the  onward  movement 
of  the  play  is  arrested,  entertainingly  enough, 
by  the  spectacle  of  a  May  festival  in  Central 
Park  of  the  children  from  the  tenement 
quarter.  The  spontaneously  joyful  jiggetty 
jigs  of  the  youthful  band,  and  the  somewhat 
feeble  persiflage  of  the  bong-tong,  with  some 
further  bits  of  realism  thrown  in  by  the  intro- 
duction of  a  tramp,  a  few  flirting  nurse-maids, 
some  courting  tougheys,  and  a  couple  of  con- 
sequential policemen,  all  lend  animation  and 
variety  to  the  scene.  The  grand  culmination 
of  agony,  during  which  the  audience  revels 
in  woe.  comes  in  the  third  act,  in  which  Mrs. 
Hatch  revisits  her  former  kingdom,  and,  in 
the  guise  of  a  dressmaker,  puts  the  finishing 
stitches  to  her  daughter's  wedding  dress.  A 
final  act  brings  the  daughter  to  the  mother's 
arms,  carrying  the  play  to  its  conclusion  in 
a  rather  old-timey,  Frou-Frouish  sort  of  style. 
The  introduction  of  the  unsuccessful  suitor 
seems  unnecessary,  more  especially  as  he  gets 
in  the  way  in  the  last  act.  temporarily  hust- 
ling Gladys  out  of  the  maternal  embrace  while 
he  prefers  his  claims.  I  felt  that,  under  the 
circumstances,  Gladys  could  have  justly  re- 
peated the  interrogation  immortalized  in  those 
beaut 'ful  lines:  "  Sj,ys  the  ant  to  the  elephant, 
'  Who  are  you  shoving  '?" 

T'rie  play  strikes  one  as  rather  a  light-weight 
for  he  intellectual  aLi)-  Hes  of  a  Minnie  Mad- 
den Fiske,  but  it  is  a  very  good  vehicle  for 
ihi:   exercise  of  Florence  Roberts's  emotional 


methods.  Long  experience  in  such  roles,  as 
well  as  the  exercise  of  a  natural,  if  sometimes 
misdirected,  talent,  enables  that  actress  to 
charge  her  voice  with  a  tremor  of  suppressed 
sobs  that  starts  the  stealing  tear  into  the  bright 
eyes  of  the  most  scoffing  matinee  girl.  And 
then  Miss  Roberts  is  not  essentially  theatric, 
and  the  character  of  Mrs.  Hatch,  with  its  bursts 
of  gayety  and  its  hatred  of  sham,  gives  her 
occasion  to  employ  a  frank,  natural  manner 
that  is  easily  hers  when  the  groundwork  of  her 
part  is  not  that  of  artificial  sentiment.  There 
are,  to  be  sure,  banalities  in  the  play  to  which 
Miss  Roberts  lends  herself  readily.  It  was 
Mrs.  Burton  Harrison  who  originated  the  idea  of 
the  impoverished  mother,  weakened  and  haggard 
from  illness,  wrapping  herself  in  a  tea-gown — 
preserved  by  the  old  servant  as  a  possible 
shroud — in  which  to  receive  her  child.  It  is  the 
unquenchable  love  of  dress  in  the  female  breast 
which  impels  to  such  folly.  And  certainly  the 
spectacle  of  a  dying  woman — although  I  am 
not  yet  dead  sure  whether  Mrs.  Hatch  lives 
or  dies  at  the  end — clothing  herself  in  a  low- 
necked,  tinsel-trimmed,  lace-hung  tea-gown  is 
sufficiently  incongruous  to  excite  disapproval 
and  even  a  sardonic  smile. 

It  is  necessary  to  call  upon  a  large  cast  to 
play  the  piece,  and  there  are  so  many  strange 
faces  at  the  Alcazar  that  it  almost  seems  as 
if  they  had  already  introduced  the  new  com- 
pany advertised  to  appear  in  the  middle  of  Oc- 
tober. 

Howard  Scott  reappeared,  being  cast  as  the 
cold  and  selfish  husband,  who,  not  having  been 
found  out,  climbs  up  on  the  gunwale  of  safe 
respectability,  pushing  his  wife  back  the  while 
into  the  engulfing  waves  of  disgrace.  As 
usual,  he  was  so  consistently  disagreeable  that 
the  villainy  of  the  villain  excited  the  "  Teh  " 
of  outraged  sensibilities  all  over  the  house. 
Poor  villain.  I  wonder  if  he  never  grows 
weary  of  his  success  in  awakening  the  reproba- 
tion of  the  good-hearted. 

Lucius  Henderson,  whom  I  remember  hav- 
ing seen  in  "  Friends "  some  years  ago,  did 
not,  in  the  role  of  the  lover,  succeed  in  mak- 
ing evident  the  development  so  noticeable  in 
his  subsequent  work  in  D'Annunzio's  play. 
The  remaining  men  in  the  cast  were  all 
thorough,  careful,  and,  as  a  result,  natural, 
in  their  roles.  Harry  Hilliard  doing  particu- 
larly well  with  the  prominent  part  of  Jack 
Adrian ;  something  of  a  promotion,  it  would 
seem. 

A  cloud  of  more  or  less  attractive  girls  as 
society  buds  and  bridesmaids  enlivened  things 
in  the  second  and  third  acts.  Nobody's  talent 
seemed  of  a  sufficiently  burning  brightness  to 
set  the  Thames  on  fire,  but  they  were  a  pleas- 
ant element  in  the  piece,  and,  albeit  a  trifle 
shrill,  did  very  well  in  their  exhibition  of 
girly  girliness. 

Miss  Virgina  Brissae  was  simple  and  sin- 
cere as  the  daughter,  showing  promise  for  so 
young  an  actress,  and  Miss  Bertha  Blanchard, 
although  as  yet  somewhat  stilted,  deserves,  too, 
a  word  of  encomium.  Miss  Edith  Angus,  who 
has  gained  in  looks,  and  poise,  was  a  showy 
and  vulgar  Mrs.  Lorrimer  the  second,  although 
looking  entirely  too  young  for  the  part.  She 
had,  indeed,  every  appearance  of  being  the 
contemporary  of  the  bridesmaids,  but  in  other 
respects  filled  the  part  very  satisfactorily. 

Miss  Marie  Howe  is  becoming  quite  indis- 
pensable at  the  Alcazar,  having  acquired  a 
hearty  realism  of  manner  that  enables  "fier  to 
pass  from  the  role  of  bustling  New  England 
housewife  in  "  The  Dairy  Farm  "  to  that  of 
a  faithful  Biddy  in  the  present  piece,  with 
very  creditable  success. 

The  play  is  appropriately  mounted  in  the 
thorough  manner  with  which  they  do  such 
things  at  the  Alcazar,  the  childrens'  May-Day 
frolics  being  particularly  well  put  on,  and  a 
genuine  little  actress,  Ollie  Cooper,  by  name, 
fortunately  sparing  us  the  ordeal  of  lis- 
tening to  the  usual  automaton  with  the 
gramaphone  voice. 

Although  it  is  too  late  for  a  review  of  D'An- 
nunzio's "  Gioconda."  there  is  space  left  warmly 
to  commend  Miss  Roberts's  presentation 
of  the  title-role,  and  the  complete  manner  in 
which  the  piece  has  been  put  on.  The  most 
immature  players  have  seemed  to  borrow  dig- 
nity and  grace  from  their  roles,  and  the  spec- 
tator comes  away  feeling  that  he  has  had 
more  than  a  half  glimpse  into  this  remarkable 
tragedy  of  a  divided  heart. 


What  a  fortunate  thing  it  is  that  the  shades 
of  the  mighty  dead  do  not  revisit  the  glimpses  of 
the  calcium  moon,  and  see  their  finest  and 
rarest  works  filtered  through  the  convention- 
bound  imaginations  and  methods  of  a 
twentieth-century  dramatist  and  stock  com- 
pany. There  is  actually  something  pathetic, 
even  pitiable,  in  seeing  Victor  Hugo's  "  Notre 
Dame "    stripped     of     its     wild     imaginative 


splendor,  its  superbly  conceived  atmosphere 
of  the  Middle  Ages,  and  its  power  for  inspiring 
dread  and  horror  by  the  exercise  of  a  sombre 
and  relentless  fatalism.  If  one  has  read  the 
book  recently  enough  to  be  still  under  its  in- 
fluence, it  is  like  nothing  so  much  as  seeing 
the  desecration  of  a  monument  reared  to 
genius. 

Perhaps  this  is  an  extreme  view.  If  one  has 
never  read  the  book,  or  almost  forgotten  it. 
one  may  easily  carry  away  nothing  more 
than  the  impression  of  a  turgid,  overcrowded, 
old-fashioned  melodrama  that  promises  much 
more  than  it  fulfills.  Compressing  a  story  of 
such  a  nature  into  a  three-hour  piece  on  the 
boards  necessarily  entails  a  hasty  dashing  in 
of  colors,  and  the  barest  suggestion  of  out- 
lines. It  is  a  fact,  although  not  necessarily 
a  melancholy  one,  that  great  novels  do  not 
as  a  rule  make  great  plays.  Victor  Hugo 
lavished  many  pages  of  description  upon 
Quasimodo  and  his  affliction,  the  unthinking 
superstition  and  cruelty  of  the  ignorant 
Parisian  populace,  the  proud,  bewildered 
stoicism  with  which  he  suffered  persecution 
at  their  hands,  his  public  flagellation,  his  hour 
of  agony  on  the  pillory,  and  the  immense  flood 
of  revivifying  gratitude  that  surged  through 
his  being  when  he  received  the  gentle  minis- 
trations of  the  gypsy  girl.  A  careless,  sketchy 
scene  lasting  five  minutes  does  duty  in  the 
play  for  all  this.     There  is  no  time  for  more. 

In  Paul  Potter's  version,  Captain  Phoebus, 
who,  in  the  book,  is;a  selfish,  soulless,  mind- 
less voluptuary,  in  the  play  is  a  hybrid  sort 
of  thing — a  combination  of  dandy,  gallant,  and 
Quixotic  lover.  Hugo's  conception  of  the 
character  and  destiny  of  the  gypsy  girl  is 
sacrificed.  He  painted  her  as  a  fresh  flower  of 
gentle,  laughing  maidenhood,  astray  like  a 
tender  lamb  in  a  wild  waste  full  of  ravening 
wolves.  In  the  play,  she  is  a  rash,  mettlesome 
street  gypsy,  who  is  not  above  practicing  a 
slight  deception  to  secure  her  lover  to  her- 
self, and  who  defies  Fleur  de  Lys  to  her  face. 
Miss  Kemble,  in  appearance,  was  almost 
an  ideal  Esmeralda,  although  too  self-con- 
fident to  convey  the  naive  and  wistful  charm 
of  the  street-dancer.  Thomas  Oberle  played 
the  priest — without  a  tonsure — in  the  glary- 
eyed  manner  peculiar  to  the  melodramatic  actor 
pictured  on  the  bill-boards.  Charles  Wyn- 
gate  pitched  the  part  of  Phoebus  in  a  strained 
and  exaggerated  key,  and  kept  it  there.  Mr. 
MacVicar's  Quasimodo  was  necessarily  merely 
a  suggestion  of  the  original,  and  consequently 
nothing  much  beyond  a  husky  voice  and  the 
make-up  of  a  Caliban.  The  character  of 
Fleur  de  Lys,  liberally  touched  up  to  melo- 
dramatic prominence,  was  too  much  for  Miss 
Andrews,  and  the  remaining  parts  were 
merely  the  insignificant  details  in  an  over- 
crowded picture. 

Josephine  Hart   Phelps. 


Willard  on  American  Actors. 
E.  S.  Willard,  in  a  recent  interview  on  the 
stage  in  America,  said,  when  asked  for  a  com- 
parison between  the  theatres  in  England  and 
America,  that  both  stages  seemed  to  be  in  a 
fairly  flourishing  condition.  America  was, 
however,  more  fortunate  than  England  in  hav- 
ing stock  companies  in  nearly  every  city  of 
the  Union.  Unluckily,  they  had  two  perform- 
ances daily,  which  gave  the  actor  no  time  to 
study  properly  any  part  intrusted  to  him.  In 
regard   to   number   of   performances,   he   said : 

Two  performances  on  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urdays are  trying.  Keane  and  Macready 
rarely  played  more  than  three  or  four  times  a 
week.  Nor  did  Salvini.  Intervening  nights 
were  filled  up  by  his  son.  Alexander,  who  took 
his  place.  I.  myself,  do  not  think  it  possible 
for  a  man  to  act  the  same  part  well  twice  on 
the  same  day.  I  prefer  to  act  one  part  at  a 
matinee  and  a  different  part  at  night.  In  the 
first  play  one  enters  into  the  part  with  spirit 
and  with  natural  feeling.  But  if  the  same  part 
has  to  be  played  again  on  the  same  day  one 
feels  it  is  not  real,  because  one  has  done  it 
before  without  being  refreshed  by  sleep  in  the 
interval.  That  may  be,  however,  a  peculiaritv 
of  my  own. 

Victorien  Sardou's  new  play,  "  La  Sor- 
ciere,"  is  to  be  given  at  Sarah  Bernhardt's 
theatre  during  the  coming  winter.  Its  story 
is  largely  concerned  with  the  sorcery  and 
black  arts  of  the  Middle  Ages.  Another  of  M. 
Sardou's  works  is  to  be  seen  again  in  an 
entirely  new  form,  namely,  "  Theodora," 
which  is  being  turned  into  an  opera  with 
music  by  Xavier  Leroux,  the  composer  of 
"  Astarte." 

Grace  Elliston,  a  former  favorite  here  in  the 
Miller  company,  is  to  be  the  leading  lady  of 
Richard  Mansfield  this  season  in  "  Ivan  the 
Terrible  "  and  "  Old  Heidelberg." 

I>r.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

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*TIVOLI* 

Week  of  September  14th,  Monday,  Wednesday,  Friday, 

and  Saturday  nights,  Verdi's  famous  opera, 

I  Xj     T  I*-  O  V  -A.  T  O  X1.S 

Tuesday,    Thursday    and    Sunday    nights,    Saturday 

maimer,    Bellini's  great  work, 

!Ij.A_    S  O IVTJXT  A  OVI  IB  XT  Ij^A. 

Prices  as  usual— 25c,  50c,  and  75c.     Telephone  Bush  9. 

QOLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

Beginning    Mpndav,    September    14th,    last    week    of 

HENRY     MILLER    and    MARGARET 

ANGLIN.     First  time  here  of 

-:-    THE     A  PTERIVI  ATH        -:- 

An  adaptation  by   Henry  Miller  of   George    Ohnet's 
novel,  "  Le  Maitre  de  Forge." 

Matinees  Wednesday  and  Saturday. 
September  21st-  The  Prince  of  Pilsen. 

J±LCAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone"  Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Maver,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

Matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday.     Commencing  Mon- 
day, September  14th,  FLORENCE  ROBERTS  in 
-:-  MAC+TJ  A  -:- 


Evenings,  25c  to  75c.    Saturday  matinee,  15c  to  50c. 
GIOCONDA,  by  D'Annunzio,  will  be  repeated  at 
the  matinee,  Thursday,  September  17th.     Night  prices. 

September  2ist-THE  ADVENTURE  OF  LADY  URSULA. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Beginning  Monday,  September    14th.  matinees  Satur- 
day and  Sunday,  the  magnificent  mili- 
tary spectacle, 
THE    CHERRY     PICKERS 

A  drama  of  love  and  war  in  India. 
Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  roc,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  September  21st— The  Bowery  Girl. 


QRAND   OPERA   HOUSE. 

To-night    last    time    of    A    GAIETY    GIRL.     To- 

■  morrow  matinee,   to-morrow  night,  Monday, 

Tuesday,  and  Wednesday  nights, 

-:-      THE     LADY    SLAVEY     -r- 


Thursday,     Friday    and    Saturday    nights,    and    Sat- 
urday matinee, 
-:-  T  H  E     G  E  I  S  H  A  -:- 


Prices— Nights,  15c,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.     Matinees,  15c, 
25c,  and  50c. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  September  13th. 
Vaudeville  Rarities!  E.  Rousby's  spectacular  nov- 
elty. "  In  Paris,"  an  electrical  review  in  Four  tableaux  ; 
Arnesen  ;  James  Richmond  Glenroy;  Princess  Losoros  ; 
Original  Rio  Brothers;  Almont  and  Dumont ;  Fischer 
and  Wacker;  the  Biograph  ;  and  tremendous  success' 
of  Frederick  Bond  and  Company, 

Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Another  tremendous  hit.     Great  double  bill, 
THE  GLAD  HAND  and  THE  CON-CURERS 

Brim  full  of  new  novelties.     Our  "  all  star"  cast. 
Magnificent  stage  settings  and  costumes. 

Reserved  seats— Nights,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati- 
nees, ioc  and  25c. 

SYMPHONY    CONCERTS 

FRITZ  SCHEEL,  Director. 


CjRaind  opera,  house; 

Orchestra  of  70  musicians. 

Concerts  every  Tuesday  afternoon.  3:15,  until  Oct.  6th. 
Prices  of  seats,  50c,  $1.00,  $1.25,  $1.50. 


Seats   for  all  concerts  for  sale  at  Sherman 
&  Clay's  music  store. 

BONESTELL,.  RICHARDSON  &  CO. 


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SQUARE  CAKE! 


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Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


September  14,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT  . 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


The  Miller-Anglin  Farewell  'Week. 
j      The  fifth  and  last  week  of  the  Miller-Anglin 
company's  engagement  at  the  Columbia  Thea- 
tre is  to  be  devoted  to  a  new  four-act  version 
of  George  Ohnet's  "  Le  Maitre  de  Forge,"  en- 
titled   "  The    Aftermath."      Miss    Anglin    will 
have  the  role  of  Claire  de  Beaupre.  and   Mr. 
Miller    will     be     Philippe     Derblay,     the     iron- 
master,   and    others    in   the   long   cast   will   be 
Bertha  Creighton,  who  has  been  specially  en- 
gaged,    Charles    Gotthold,    who    is    coming   all 
the  way   from   New   York  to  play  the  role  of 
Octave'      Walter      Hitchcock,      Morton      Sel- 
I  ten.     George     S.     Titheradge,     Robert     Mac- 
[jkay,  Walter     Allen,     Kate     Pattison     Selten. 
Martha      Waldron,      Victoria     Addison,      and 
Claire      Kulp.      The      next      attraction      is      to 
Ilbe  Frank  Pixley  and  Gustav  Luder's  musical 
■comedy.     "  The     Prince     of     Pilsen,"     which 
I  has      been      a    big      success      in      the      East. 
lit  is  said  to  be  one  of  the  few  musical  come- 
[jdies  which  has  a  plot  worth  the  name.     The 
central    figure   is    a    Cincinnati   brewer   travel- 
ling abroad  with  his  daughter.     He  is  mistaken 
'    ||by  the  residents  of   Nice   for  the  real   Prince 
J  of  Pilsen  while  visiting  his  son,  an  officer  in 
tthe  United  States  navy.     The  real  prince  does 
L    |not     expose     the     harmless     and     blundering 
|brewer,    and    decides    to    remain    for    a    while 
-  Wlncognito.     He  falls  in  love  with  the  brewer's 
daughter.     All  the  complications  are  unraveled 
before  the  last  act  is  ended  in  a  manner  satis- 
.  Ifactory    to    all    involved.      The    opera    revels 
I  in    stirring    ensembles    and    catchy    solos,    in- 
Icluding  the  already  familiar  Heidelberg  stein 
;■    fcong,  "  Pictures  in  the  Smoke,"   "  Biff-Bang," 
End  a  pretty  "  Shell "  song. 


"The  Lady  Slavey"  and  "The  Geisha." 
The  Pollard  Juvenile  Company  have  been 
drawing  large  houses  at  the  Grand  Opera 
House  in  "  A  Gaiety  Girl,"  which  is  pre- 
sented in  a  manner  that  would  reflect  credit 
on  any  company  of  adults.  On  Sunday,  Mon- 
day. Tuesday,  and  Wednesday  nights,  "  The 
Lady  Slavey  "  will  be  played  with  a  cast  that 
will  include  Daphne  Pollard,  Jack  Pollard, 
;ddy  McNamara,  and  many  other  of  the  little 
'orites.  Thursday,  Friday,  and  Saturday 
hts  and  Saturday  matinee,  they  will  put  on 
:  pretty  Japanese  opera,  "  The  Geisha," 
ich.  during  the  past  few  years,  has  enjoyed 
/eral  long  runs  at  the  Tivoli.  Alice  Pollard 
11  again  appear  as  O  Mimosa  San ;  Connie 
'ollard  as  the  French  girl ;  Little  Daphne 
dlard  as  Mollie  Seymour,  the  pert  English 
rl  who  disguises  herself  as  a  geisha  and  is 
bought  by  the  noble  marquis ;  and  Oscar 
^eintz  as  the  Marquis  Imari,  Edwin  Stevens's 
jjeat  role.  The  only  matinees  of  the  Pollards 
vill  take  place  Saturdays  and  Sundays,  and 
it  all  of  them  souvenir  pictures  of  the  dirrrinu- 
ive  favorites  will  be  presented  to  the  ladies 
md  children  present. 

"  The  Cherry  Pickers  "  at  the  Central. 

The  Central  Theatre  will  follow  the  amus- 
ng  farce  comedy,  "Whose  Babe  Are  You?"  with 
stirring  military  spectacle,.  "  The  Cherry 
3ickers."  from  the  pen  of  Joseph  Arthur,  au- 
hor    of    "  Blue    Jeans,"    "  Still    Alarm,"    and 

Lost  River."  The  title  is  taken  from  an 
£nglish  regiment  in  India,  called  "  The 
Therry  Pickers  "  on  account  of  their  famous 
ed  trousers,  and  the  play  tells  a  thrilling 
tory  of  conflict  between  the  proud  Eurasians 
:nd  the  aggressive  English,  during  the  British- 
\fghan  War  of  1879-80.  The  plot,  briefly,  runs 
follows:  An  English  colonel,  Brough, 
luarrels  with  a  half-caste  officer,  Nazare, 
»ver  a  beautiful  Eurasian  girl.  The 
olonel  has  a  wife  in  England,  and  Nazare 
s  betrothed  to  the  Indian  maid.  The  half- 
aste  seeks  to  avenge  the  insults  to  his  sweet- 
teart.  but  fails  in  an  attempt  upon  the  life 
f  the  colonel,  and  is  condemned  to  long  im- 
irisonment.  He  escapes  and  disguises  him- 
elf  as  a  native.  His  father  is  tortured  to 
leath  by  Brough  in  an  effort  to  wrest  from 
dm  the  secret  of  the  son's  hiding-place. 
Jrough  captures  Nazare  and  plans  to  have 
iim  blown  to  atoms  at  the  cannon's  mouth. 
n  the  nick  of  time  Nourmalee  saves  her 
over  by  a  clever  ruse,  and  Nazare  slays 
Jrough,  and  is  then  pardoned  on  account  of 
lis  heroic  deeds  in  the  war.  The  play  is  full 
■f  powerful  situations,  and  the  great  gun 
cene  is  said  to  be  a  real  "  thriller." 


Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 

So  far,  the  grand-opera  season  has  been  a 
reat  success  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House, 
*hich  has  been  crowded  nightly  with  enthu- 
iastic  audiences.  The  coming  week's  bill 
.ill    include    the    ever-popular    Verdi    opera, 

II  Trovatore,"  and  "  La  Sonnambula,"  which 
'ill  almost  be  new  to  San  Francisco  music- 
jvers,  as  it  has  not  been  produced  here  for 
ome  time.     In  "  Trovatore,"   Emanuele  Isch- 

:rdo  will  appear  as  Manrico,  Adamo  Grego- 
etti  as  Count  di  Luna,  Baldo  Travaglini  as 
'errando,  Lina  de  Benedetto  as  Leonora,  and 

leo  Marchesini  as  Azucena.  In  "  Sonnam- 
flla,"  Agosto  Dado  will  appear  as  Count 
.odolfo,  Alfredo  Tedeschi  as  Elvino,  Adelina 

romben    as    Amina,    and    Marie    Welsh    as 

■isa.     Both  casts  are  exceedingly  strong,  and 

ne  performances  are  assured. 


At  the  Orpheum. 

E.  Rousby,  who  will  head  the  bill  at  the 
•rpheum  next  week,  will  present  his  latest 
jectacular  novelty,  "  In  Paris."  The  enter- 
linment  consists  of  an  electrical  review  in 
)ur  tableaux,  showing  the  most  interesting 
matures  of  Parisian  life  during  the  Exposition 
f  1900.    The  first  tableau  shows  the  main  en- 

ance  to  the  grounds,  by  day  and  night;  the 
:cond  represents  a  Swiss  village  during  a 
mnder-storm ;  the  third  is  entitled  "  The  Pal- 


ace of  Illusions  "  ;  and  the  fourth  portrays  a 
night  festival  in  front  of  the  Chateau  d'Eau. 
The  other  new-comers  are  Arnesen,  an  agile 
gymnast ;  James  Richmond  Glenroy,  "  the 
man  with  the  green  gloves  "  ;  and  the  Princess 
Losoros,  a  prima  donna  of  royal  lineage,  who 
will  sing  for  the  first  time  in  this  city.  Those 
retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  Frederic 
Bond  and  his  company,  in  their  amusing  com- 
edietta, "My  Awful  Dad":  Almont  and  Du- 
mont,  the  "  instrumental  Hussars  "  ;  Fischer 
and  Wacker,  the  comic  Tyrolean  singers  ;  and 
the  original  Rio  Brothers. 

Florence  Roberts  as  Magda. 
Next  week  Florence  Roberts  is  to  appear 
in  a  new  version  of  Sudermann's  "  Magda." 
Her  interpretation  is  sure  to  be  interesting, 
for  her  conception  of  the  character  of  the  will- 
ful, obstinate,  capricious,  yet  successful  opera- 
singer,  who  breaks  her  father's  heart  rather 
than  rehabilitate  herself  by  marriage  with  the 
man  who  has  wronged  her.  is  said  to  differ 
materially  from  that  of  Modjeska,  Nance 
O'Neil  or  Mrs.  Patrick  Campbell,  who  have 
already  been  seen  here.  On  Thursday  after- 
noon Miss  Roberts  will  give  the  second  of  her 
special  "  Gioconda "  matinees,  and  on  Mon- 
day, September  21st.  she  will  appear  in 
Anthony  Hope's  charming  romance,  "  The  Ad- 
venture of  Lady  Ursula."  The  new  stock 
company,  recently  engaged  in  New  York  for 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  by  their  general  manager. 
E.  D.  Price,  will  inaugurate  the  fall  and 
winter  season  on  October  12th,  in  a  powerful 
Pinero  play  that  has  never  been  seen  in  this 
city. 

Fischer's  Popular  Double  Bill. 
*"  The  Glad  Hand  "  and  "  The  Con-Curers," 
the  new  burlesques  at  Fischer's  Theatre,  are 
having  a  prosperous  run.  Both  pieces  contain 
plenty  of  catchy  music,  sprightly  dances,  a 
wealth  of  picturesque  scenery  and  pretty  cos- 
tumes,and  numerous  specialties  that  are  enthu- 
siastically received.  The  most  popular  songs 
are  "  Who's  Your  Lady  Friend,"  "  Pierrot," 
"  My  Cocoanut  Lou."  Lee  Johnson's  new  song 
and  dance.  "  My  Pauline  "  and  "  Honey,  Will 
You  Miss  Me  When  I'm  Gone?" 


Tyndall  on  Divorce. 
"Divorce:  Its  Relation  to  Psychology"  will 
be  the  subject  of  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall's  lec- 
ture at  Steinway  Hall  on  Sunday  night.  The 
subject  is  one  that  has  been  pretty  thoroughly 
discussed  from  the  pulpit  and  the  law  courts, 
but  the  psychological  cause  for  the  so-called 
'"  evil  "  has  never  been  given  a  hearing.  Be- 
sides the  lecture,  there  will  also  be  an  after 
entertainment  in  the  wonders  of  psychic  mani- 
festations. On  Sunday  evening,  September 
20th,  Dr.  Tyndall  will  talk  on  "  Hypnotism : 
Good  and  Bad." 

This  has  certainly  been  a  busy  week  for 
Fritz  Scheel.  On  Monday  and  Wednesday 
afternoons  he  conducted  popular  concerts  at 
the  Mechanics'  Pavilion,  and  on  Tuesday  after- 
noon the  third  symphony  concert  was  given 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  under  his  able 
baton.  The  attendance  on  all  three  occasions 
was  encouragingly  large  and  enthusiastic.  On 
Tuesday  the  next  concert  will  be  given  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House,  when  an  interesting  pro- 
gramme, containing  several  compositions  new 
to  San  Francisco,  will  be  offered. 


E.  H.  Sothern  is  to  make  his  debut  as  a  se- 
rious dramatist  after  all.  Before  beginning  her 
regular  season  in  Pinero's  "  Iris,"  his  wife, 
— known  on  the  stage  as  Virginia  Harned — 
will  appear  for  a  week  in  Washington  in  "  The 
Light  That  Lies  in  Women's  Eyes,"  a  four-act 
play  which  Mr.  Sothern  wrote  for  her  two 
years  ago.  If  it  proves  successful.  Miss  Har- 
ned will  add  it  to  her  repertoire  and  will 
produce  it  in  New  York  after  she  has  con- 
cluded her  Western  tour  in  "  Iris." 


John  C,  Fisher  and  Thomas  W.  Ryley  have 
signed  a  contract  for  three  years  with  Isadore 
Rush,  who  is  to  visit  us  this  fall  in  "  Floro- 
dora,"  playing  Lady  Holyrood.  At  the  first 
of  the  year  she  will  return  to  New  York  to 
play  Miss  Ventnor  in  "  The  Medal  and  the 
Maid,"  which  will  be  produced  at  the  Broad- 
way Theatre  on  January  nth.  The  season 
following  Messrs.  Fisher  and  Ryley  have 
agreed  to  "  star  "  her  in  a  new  musical  comedy. 


Cause  of  Wagner's  111 -Health. 
Readers  of  an  elaborate  life  of  Wagner,  or 
of  his  letters  to  Liszt,  Uhlig,  Wesendonck, 
and  other  friends,  will  remember  the  fre- 
quency, impatience,  and  despair  with  which 
he  dwells  on  his  ill-health.  The  London 
Lancet  of  August  1st  devotes  eight  columns 
of  fine  type  to  extracts  describing  the  symp- 
toms and  results  of  his  frequent  indisposi- 
tion ;  and  Dr.  George  M.  Gould,  editor  of 
American  Medicine,  the  compiler  of  these 
extracts,  deduces  from  them  the  conclusion 
that  Wagner  (Jike  De  Quincey.  Carlyle,  Dar- 
win. Huxley,  Browning.  Spencer,  and  Park- 
man,  as  he  has  shown  in  a  recent  volume), 
owed  his  life-long  misery  mainly  to  eyestrain, 
which  might  have  been  easily  cured  by  the 
wearing  of  proper  spectacles.  Headache,  sick 
headache,  dyspepsia,  nervousness,  melancholy, 
insomnia,  indescribable  suffering — these  were 
the  more  prominent  symptoms,  some  of  which 
the  authors  just  mentioned  had  sometimes  or 
always;  Wagner  had  all  of  them  nearly  all  of 
the  time.  Dr.  Gould's  argument  is  absolutely 
convincing,  and  it  provides  much  food  for 
thought.  Wagner  possessed  the  gentle  art  of 
making  enemies  to  perfection  ;  but  his  irasci- 
bility was  due  chiefly  to  his  ill-health.  Tre- 
mendous worker  though  he  was,  he  often  could 
compose  only  an  hour  or  two  a  day,  and  that 
only  by  a  heroic  effort  to  bear  the  pains  of  a 
martyr  at  the  stake.  A  pair  of  spectacles 
might  have  enabled  him  to  write  several  more 
of  his  immortal  operas  and  to  enjoy  life.  It 
is  a  pitiful  story  :  none  more  so.  "This  poor 
patient."  Dr.  Gould  concludes,  "  may  be  ex- 
cused for  not  recognizing  the  simplest  conclu- 
sion that  the  eyes  were  at  the  bottom  of  all 
his  suffering.  With  difficulty,  however,  may 
the  medical  men  of  his  day  be  excused,  and 
there  is  no  excuse  for  the  most  cruel  of  crimes, 
the  brutal  obstinacy  which  to-day  makes  a  few 
ultra-conservative  physicians,  and  even  some 
careless  ophthalmologists,  deny  that  such 
symptoms  in  thousands  of  patients  are  due  to 
eyestrain,  and  are  daily  cured  by  its  correc- 
tion." 


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Laurence  Irving  has  finished  a  translation 
of  three-act  play  by  the  Russian  dramatist  and 
novelist.  Gorky,  which  will  be  acted  in  Lon- 
don in  November.  It  is  called  "  The  Lower 
Depth." 

Inconsistent  baby  :  Christian  Science  mamma 
— "  He  must  imagine  he  has  the  colic." 
Christian  Science  papa — "  I  wish  he'd  imagine 
I'm   walking  the   floor  with  him." — Puck. 


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VANITY    FAIR. 


Very  few  of  President  Roosevelt's  guests 
this  summer  at  Oyster  Bay  have  worn  frock 
ccats  and  high  hats,  or  been  dressed  up  gen- 
erally as  they  would  be  on  a  visit  to  the 
President  in  Washington.  On  the  contrary 
(says  the  New  York  Sun)  nearly  all  have 
come  wearing  everyday  clothes.  Roosevelt 
himself  has  encouraged  a  general  disregard 
for  formal  dress  in  persons  coming  to  see 
him  in  the  daytime.  In  the  morning  the 
President  invariably  wears  a  soft  neglige 
shirt  and  a  light  tweed  suit  or  riding  trousers 
and  a  Norfolk  jacket.  He  usually  receives 
his  guests  at  luncheon  in  a  black  cutaway. 
At  dinner,  however,  he  always  appears  in 
evening  clothes,  and  persons  who  come  to 
see  him  after  six  o'clock  are  expected  to  be 
dressed  accordingly.  That  is  about  the  only 
rule  in  dress  that  the  President  likes  to  have 
observed  during  his  vacation.  In  all  other 
respects  he  is  glad  to  have  his  guests  visit 
him  fixed  up  in  any  old  comfortable  way.  The 
rule  about  evening  clothes  has  been  a  source 
of  inconvenience  to  some  visitors.  The  story 
of  the  Western  newspaper  editor  who  came 
to  Oyster  Bay  without  any  "  glad  rags/'  and 
finally  got  fitted  out  by  borrowing  a  coat  here 
and  a  shirt  there  and  other  things  somewhere 
else  among  the  newspaper  correspondents,  has 
been  told,  but  nothing  has  been  said  about 
the  troubles  of  the  man  from  Kansas  who 
was  looking  for  a  post-office  appointment.  He 
couldn't  get  a  room  at  the  hotel  in  which 
to  change  his  clothes,  as  everything  had  been 
taken  for  the  night.  So  he  dressed  In  a 
back  room  in  one  of  Oyster  Bay's  reputable 
saloons,  leaving  his  common,  ordinary,  every- 
day Kansas  suit  in  the  saloon  while  he  went 
to  Sagamore  Hill  to  try  to  see  the  President. 
The  next  morning  he  left  town  in  his  spike- 
tail  coat,  and  his  other  suit  has  been  here 
since  perambulating  the  streets  in  doubtful 
company. 

All  visitors  before  they  see  the  President 
at  Sagamore  Hill  visit  first  with  a  secret  ser- 
vice man,  who  is  stationed  about  a  hundred 
feet  from  the  house.  He  sits  in  a  big  elk-horn 
chair  which  was  given  to  the  President  on 
his  recent  Western  trip,  and  looks  like  almost 
anybody,  except  the  person  whom  most  of  the 
guests  expect  to  see.  They  all  look  for  a  man 
with  a  heavy,  dark  mustache  and  a  glint  of 
steel  in  his  eye — the  real  sleuth  they've  read 
about.  Instead,  they  usually  find  a  trim,  well- 
built  man,  who  steps  up  to  their  carriage  and 
inquires  whether  they  have  an  engagement 
with  the  President  or  not.  If  they  have,  he 
takes  their  names,  compares  them  with  the 
names  on  the  list  which  has  been  given  to 
him,  and  if  there  is  no  disagreement,  passes 
them.  If  the  visitors  haven't  an  appointment, 
he  directs  them  to  the  secretary's  office  down 
town.  Under  no  circumstances  are  cards 
taken  in  to  the  President  unless  an  appoint- 
ment has  first  been  made  through  the  executive 
office.  In  this  respect  it  is  much  harder  to 
see  Mr.   Roosevelt  there  than   in  Washington. 

A  correspondent  of  the  San  Francisco  Bul- 
letin, who  visited  the  West  Indies  last  January 
on  a  palatial  steamship,  which  was  on  her 
maiden  trip,  writes :  "  Among  the  notable 
features  is  a  gymnasium  with  electric  ap- 
pliances. There  is,  for  instance,  a  figure  of  a 
horse.  You  take  your  seat  in  the  saddle,  put 
your  feet  in  the  stirrups,  take  hold  of  the 
reins  and  then  touch  a  button,  and  the  exact 
motion  of  a  trotting  horse  is  reproduced.  You 
may  lessen  and  increase  the  motion  at  will, 
and  so  thoroughly  enjoy  the  benefits  that  come 
from  equestrian  exercise  on  shore.  A  similar 
arrangement  for  bicycle.  There  is  also  me- 
chanical electrical  massage  with  rollers  going 
up  and  down  your  back.  There  are  lifting 
machines,  dumb-bells,  and  in  fact  a  complete 
gymnasium  is  at  your  disposal.  The  ship  has 
also  a  laundry  to  do  the  washing  for  the 
passengers,  but  the  force  employed  for  that 
purpose  proved  too  small,  and  so  the  laundry 
was  a  failure.  When  the  institution  was  a 
fortnight  behind  in  its  work,  and  the  soiled 
linen  of  two  hundred  passengers  had  accu- 
mulated, the  washing  was  sent  ashore,  but 
on  account  of  stormy  weather  the  ship  had  to 
leave  earlier  than  was  anticipated,  and  before 
the  washing  had  been  done,  so  this  mountain 
of  linen  was  returned  on  board  in  a  most  un- 
satisfactory condition.  On  some  the  work  had 
not  even  commenced,  some  was  washed  but  not 
ironed,  some  was  just  soaked  and  dripping. 
The  various  bundles  belonging  to  several  pas- 
s«  ngers  had  been  opened,  the  clothes  had  be- 
come mixed,  and  there  was  endless  confusion. 
Two  hundred  people  in  a  tropical  climate 
.  there,  whether  you  will  or  not,  you  are 
obliged  to  change  soinctimes.twice  a  day,  make 
'  heap  of  washing,  and  so  thousands  of  pieces 


of  linen  and  underwear  belonging  to  both 
sexes  were  thrown  on  .the  floor  in  the  social 
hall,  and  then  each  one  commenced  to  hunt 
for  what  belonged  to  him  or  her.  The  more 
aristocratic  ladies  and  gentlemen  sent  their 
maids  and  valets,  but  a  plain  American  like 
your  correspondent  was  obliged  personally  to 
pitch  into  the  fray.  The  battle  raged  for  two 
days.  Frequently,  costly  embroidered  garments 
of  the  most  intimate  character  had  several 
claimants.  Somehow  all  the  nice  things  were 
picked  up  first,  and  the  late-comers  had  to 
content  themselves  with  what  remained.  A 
number  of  articles  which  gave  evidence  of  long 
and  faithful  service  were  not  claimed  at  all. 
This  scene  of  two  hundred  fashionable  pas- 
sengers of  all  ages  and  both  sexes  wrestling 
for  the  possession  of  soiled  linen  would  have 
made  an  interesting  picture  for  some  kodak 
artist.  It  was  indeed  funny,  but  when  some 
of  us  had  to  lay  in  a  new  stock  of  furnishings 
and  haberdashery  at  the  next  port,  we  failed 
to   appreciate  the  fun." 


A  new  point  is  raised  by  a  suit  recently 
filed  in  the  circuit  court  of  Macon,  Mo.  D.  S. 
Farmer,  of  Hart,  treasurer  of  the  Lunday  and 
Zion  Telephone  Company,  demands  of  B.  F. 
Jenkins,  a  stockholder,  seventy-five  hundred 
dollars  damages  for  slandering  him  over  the 
wire.  He  expects  to  make  his  case  on  the 
testimony  of  a  number  of  patrons  along  the 
line  who  had  their  telephone  receivers  down 
to  hear  what  was  going  on.  This  is  the 
language  the  treasurer  accuses  Jenkins  of  ad- 
dressing to  him  over  the  wire :  "  You  have 
squandered  three  or  four  hundred  dollars  of 
the  company's  money,  and  I  will  make  you 
account  for  it  at  the  next  meeting,  or  I  will 
go  after  your  bondsmen."  He  took  pains  to 
write  the  message  down.  The  petitioner  says 
the  language  was  slanderous,  in  that  it  charged 
him  in  the  hearing  of  many  of  the  patrons 
of  the  line  with  embezzling  or  stealing  the 
funds  of  the  telephone  company.  Under  the 
law  of  slander  the  offensive  language  must  be 
used  "  in  the  presence  and  hearing  of  others." 
In  this  case  it  can  only  be  charged  that  it 
was  "  in  the  hearing  of  others,"  'as  those 
who  heard  it  were  admittedly  not  present. 
Farmer's  lawyers  will  contend  that  the  effect 
was  the  same. 

Quite  a  deal  of  fun  is  being  poked  at  heroic 
college  lads  of  the  East,  who  rushed  to  Kan- 
sas to  enlist  in  the  army  of  wheat  harvesters. 
Those  who  have  parents  have  by  this  time 
returned  to  their  homes  through  the  kindly 
assistance  of  immediate  remittances.  The 
rest,  it  is  said,  are  either  walking  out  of 
Kansas,  assisted  by  occasional  rides  upon 
nocturnal  freight  trains,  or  selling  books  to 
acquire  funds  to  transport  them  to  the  East. 
The  Newark  News  rejoices  to  know  that 
these  young  men  have  learned  in  a  week  to 
differentiate  between  a  rowing-shell  and  a 
Kansas  reaper.  They  have  discovered  the 
difference  between  a  football-field  and  a 
wheat-field.  Their  outlook  upon  athletics 
has  been  wonderfully  widened,  and  their  grasp 
of  the  exact  relation  between  Kansas  labor 
and  Kansas  oratory  is  at  last  perfect.  In 
addition  to  this,  their  walk  home  will  give 
them  striking  conceptions  of  the  real  magni- 
tude of  their  native  land,  and  enable  them  to 
plunge  into  their  studies  this  fall  with  un- 
accustomed zest.  Most  of  them,  too,  having 
now  had  a  little  try  at  the  methods  whereby 
their  papas  accumulated  fortunes,  will  be  more 
economical  in  the  future,  which  is  something 
to  be  greatly  desired.  The  Galveston  News 
adds:  "Nobody  is  astonished  to  find  that  the 
college  athletes  tired  and  sickened  of  the 
wheat-field  before  the  morning  and  the  even- 
ing of  the  first  day.  There  was  little  money 
in  it,  no  adventure,  no  applause,  no  glory. 
Such  is  the  monotonous  and  tiresome  round 
of  the  wage-earner  on  the  farm.  A  college 
man  spends  for  luxuries  and  decoration  alone 
a  week's  wages  in  a  single  day.  The  stringent 
economy  of  it  is  entirely  too  much  for  him, 
and  when  it  comes  to  the  hard  work  in  the 
sun,  he  will  do  almost  anything  else,  includ- 
ing suicide,  before  he  will  adhere  to  it." 

Since  the  duello  was  outlawed  in  the  South, 
shooting  on  sight  has  come  into  vogue,  es- 
pecially in  Alabama;  and  recent  occurrences 
seem  to  indicate  that  parts  of  South  Carolina 
and  Kentucky  are  growing  nervously  precipi- 
tate about  using  pistols.  It  is  against  the  law 
to  carry  concealed  weapons  in  Alabama ;  yet 
a  judge  on  the  bench  has  to  give  special  warn- 
ing that  if  any  are  carried  into  the  court- 
room during  a  trial  he  will  punish  the  of- 
fenders. Judge  Thomas,  the  other  day,  in 
giving  his  charge  to  the  grand  jury,  said  that 
in  this  country  three  times  as  many  deaths 
resulted  in  one  year  from  homicides  as  re- 
sulted  in   one   year    from   the   Transvaal   war, 


and  that  Alabama  stood  in  the  list  of  States 
and  Territories  where  homicide  is  most  fre- 
quent. "  A  sad  reflection,"  he  went  on, 
"  that  in  this  '  land  of  the  free  and  home 
of  the  brave,'  with  its  vast  commercial  inter- 
course, the  average  citizen  is  in  more  danger 
of  being  murdered  than  killed  by  railway 
accident.  Does  the  rate  of  homicide  tell  of 
too  many  cowards  who  sought  unfair  ad- 
vantage of  their  fellow-man,  and  the  same  rate 
tell  of  too  few  brave  men  obeying  the  law 
of  God  and  man?"  Another  illustration  of 
what  the  old  "  code "  has  come  to  in  parts 
of  the  South  is  thus  given  by  a  writer  in  the 
New  York  Evening  Post:  A  young  clerk 
became  involved  with  the  young  wife  of  his 
employer.  A  note  had  been  found  asking  her 
to  meet  him.  The  husband  got  it,  was  pre- 
vailed on  not  to  shoot  him,  and  compromised 
by  commanding  him  to  leave  town.  The  lad 
did  not  prosper,  so  he  returned.  When  the 
business  man  heard  of  it  he  loaded  a  shot- 
gun, and  sat  in  a  drug  shop  by  the  square 
all  one  Sunday  morning,  waiting  for  the  boy 
to  pass.  At  last  the  boy  come  in  sight.  He 
was  with  his  mother,  returning  from  church. 
When  they  came  opposite  the  drug  shop  the 
boy  caught  sight  of  the  gun  leveled  at  him, 
and  drew  away  from  his  mother.  Both  bar- 
rels were  emptied  into  him,  and  he  died  right 
there.  Not  even  an  indictment  was  returned 
against  his  coldly  patient  slayer. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 

Excellent  domestic  fue 

Since  recently  improved. 

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A  ton — and  please  you 

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THE  FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Tuesday,  September  8,  roo3, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa  W  5%    5,000    @  103-    1035^     101 

Market  St.  Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 3,000    @  ii5#  1155^ 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%..     2,000     (5>  119  ug% 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%    42,000    @  106^-108^    no        no££ 
S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%,  1910  1,000    @  ioo,J£ 

S.  P-  R.  of  Cat.  6% 

1906 11,000    @  ioj%-io7l4     107H     107^8 

S.  V.  Water 6%....     5,000     @  106  105% 

S.V.  Water  4% 1,000    @    99^  99%     100 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa 15    ©50 

Spring  Valley ■     55    @    84-      84^      83% 

Street  R.  R. 
Presidio    30    @    40  42 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 290    @    65-      66         64 J£      65 

Vigorit 50    @     5#  5 

Sugars. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...         50    @    44  43^      46 

Hutchinson 40    @    13^  13  14 

Paauhau  S.  Co 240    @    16-      i6#      16  i6J£ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Central  L.  &  P 325     @      5  AY*         5% 

Mutual  Electric...       210    @    13%- 14        14 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       195    @    6g#-  70J4      67%      69 

U.  Gas  Electric 50    @    35 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S-F.  Gas  &  Electric       685    @    68-      70  67^      69 

Misce  lla  neoiis. 
Alaska  Packers  ...        170    @  149^-150^     i49$£ 
Cal.  Fruit  Canriers.         10    @    90 

Cal .  Wine  Assn 185®    97-      98         97  9S 

Pac.  Coast  Borax..  5    ©167  167 

Alaska  Packers  has  been  fairly  active,  and  on  sales 
of  170  shares  sold  up  to  rsoM,  closing  at  149!^  bid. 

The  sugars  have  been  quiet  and  made  fractional 
declines. 

Giant  Powder  on  small  sales  sold  off  one  point 
to  65. 

Spring  Valley  Water  has  kept  steady,  with  no 
change  worth  mentioning. 

There  has  been  a  very  good  demand  for  the  gas 
stocks,  with  small  offerings — San  Francisco  Gas 
and  Electric  selling  up  one  and  one-half  points  to 
7oJ£  on  sales  of  195  shares,  closing  at  67%  bid,  69 
asked. 


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September  14,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


An  old  Scotchwoman,  when  advised  by  her 
minister  to  take  snuff  to  keep  herself  awake 
during  the  sermon,  replied:  "Why  dinna 
ye  put  the  snuff  in  the  sermon,  mon?" 


Not  long  ago,  while  out  walking  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Admiral  George  Dewey  was 
accosted  by  an  effusive  stranger  who  grasped 
his  hand  and  said :  "  Georgie,  I'll  bet  you 
don't  know  me."  The  admiral  looked  his  dis- 
pleasure as  he  answered,  grimly.  "  You  win," 
and  walked  on. 


The  late  Phil  May  once  drew  a  picture  of  a 
cricket  match,  which  To-Day  says  preyed 
on  the  mind  of  Dr.  Grace,  who  afterward 
raised  a  protest.  On  arriving  at  the  office  one 
day,  Phil  found  the  following  telegram: 
"  Why,  oh  why,  does  square  leg  wear  wicket- 
keeper's  gloves  ?"  About  two  o'clock  in  the 
morning  the  cricket  champion  was  roused  out 
of  bed  by  a  special  telegraph  messenger  to 
read  the  humorist's  reply,  which  ran :  "  To 
keep  his  hands  warm. — Phil  May." 


A  well-known  landscape  painter  was  busy 
•  dashing  in "  the  colors  of  a  sunset  in  the 
:ountry-  The  tints  were  hurriedly  conveyed 
from  tube  to  palette,  and  from  palette  to 
:anvas,  for  the  artist  was  anxious  to  catch  the 
effect.  A  rustic  standing  by  observed  the 
aperation  for  a  little  while,  and  then  re- 
narked  :  "  Ah,  3'ou  be  a-painting  two  pictures 
:t  once.  That's  clever."  He  paused  a  mo- 
ient,  and  blurted  out :  "  I  like  that  picture 
Dest — the  one  you've  got  your  thumb  through  !" 


If 


"  Don't  you  hear  the  bells  summoning  you 
o  church  ?"  asked  an  indignant  country 
lergyman  of  a  fisherman  whom  he  met  on  his 
*ay  to  church.  The  wayward  angler  put  an 
nquiring  hand  to  his  ear.  Encouraged,  the 
:Iergyman  repeated  the  question.  But  once 
[gain  the  fisherman  asked  for  a  repetition, 
ind  then  again,  and  even  yet  again.  Flushing 
"rom  overmuch  bawling,  the  parson  was  about 
:o  proceed  on  his  way  when  the  fisherman 
;poke  :  "  Very  sorry,  guv'nor,"  he  said,  "  but 
:hem  bloomin'  bells  make  such  a  hell  of 
f    1  clatter  that  I  can't  hear  a  word  you  says." 

When  Bishop  Doane,  of  Albany,  was  the 
ector  of  an  Episcopal  church,  in  Hartford, 
\Iark  Twain  occasionally  attended  the  ser- 
ices.  One  Sunday,  at  the  end  of  the  sermon, 
he  humorist  said:  "Dr.  Doane,  I  enjoyed 
-'our  sermon  this  morning.  I  welcomed  it  like 
.n  old  friend.  I  have,  you  know,  a  book  at 
lome  containing  every  word  of  it."  "  You 
iave  not,"  said  Dr.  Doane.  "  I  have  so," 
■aid  the  humorist.  '*  Well,  send  that  book  to 
I'd  like  to  see  it."  "  I'll  send  it,"  Twain 
eplied.  And  he  sent  the  next  morning  an  un- 
tbridged  dictionary  to  the  rector. 


jAs  long  as  the  name  of  James  McNeill 
Afhistler  lives  among  those  who  saw  him,  it 
vill  recall  the  famous  white  lock  which  stood 
ut  so  conspicuously  from  the  mass  of  his  black 
iair.  It  was,  as  he  used  to  say  himself,  "  well 
ilaced,"  and  was  always  treated  from  the 
larmonious  point  of  view,  to  develop  its 
neatest  effect  in  his  appearance.  One  day, 
vhen  Dorothy  Menpes,  daughter  of  the  well- 
aiown   English  artist,  Mortimer  Menpes,  was 

baby  and  was  asleep  on  her  pillow,  Whistler 
vent  to  see  her.  A  white  feather  had,  by 
hance,  settled  on  her  head,  and  lay  in  a  spot 
■xactly  corresponding  with  the  white  lock 
■n  his  own  head.     "  That  child  is  going  to  de- 

elop    into    something    great,"    he    exclaimed, 

for,  see,  she  begins  with  a  feather,  just  like 


The  late  Captain  Philip  was  fond  of  relating 
n  experience  he  once  had  when  he  was  sta- 
ioned  at  the  Cramps's  ship-yard  in  Phila- 
I  lelphia  as  inspector  of  the  cruiser  New 
■  'ork,  which  was  then  building  there.  One 
ay,  when  work  was  stopped  for  the  noon 
our,  he  saw  a  soldierly  looking  man  come 
board  with  some  ladies,  and  proceed  to 
how  them  about  the  ship  with  as  much 
uthority  as  if  he  were  the  designer  and 
uilder.  The  soldierly  man  stopped  beside 
couple  of  ventilators,  which  were  lying  on 
eck  ready  to  be  put  in  place,  and,  touching 
ne  of  them  with  his  little  cane,  remarked, 
zith  an  air  of  profound  wisdom :  "  These 
re  the  smoke-pipes,"  and  approaching  the 
ammo  ck- nettings,  and,  putting  out  his  gloved 
and,  he  added:  "This  is  the  place  where 
he  heavy  armor  is  put  on.  This  is  to  be  one 
f  the  armored  fighting  ships,  you  know." 
"his  was  too  much  for  Captain  Philip,  and 
o  he  approached  the  party,  and  touched  his 


cap,  as  he  said:  "Excuse  me,  sir,  that  is 
not  the  place  for  the  armor.  That  is  a  hammock- 
netting,  where  the  men  stow  their  hammocks 
during  the  day.  And  these  are  not  smoke- 
pipes,  but  ventilators."  The  military  man  drew 
himself  up  to  his  greatest  height,  and  surveyed 
the  man  in  dungarees  with  glacial  dignity. 
"  Excuse  me,"  he  said,  with  heavy  emphasis 
on  the  me,  "  but  I  am  Captain  Blank  of  the 
army,  and  I  think  I  know  a  smoke-pipe  when 
I  see  one."  Captain  Philip  declared  that  it 
would  have  been  almost  a  crime  to  take  down 
a  conceit  like  that,  and  he  made  no  reply 
to  the  military  man  whatever ;  but  turned 
and  went  about  his  work,  leaving  Captain 
Blank  to  finish  explaining  the  intricacies  of 
the  cruiser  to  his  friends. 


When  Lord  Lyons  was  the  English  embassa- 
dor to  the  United  States,  the  grave  difficulty 
over  the  Mason  and  Slidell  case  arose.  Lord 
Lyons  was  instructed  from  home  to  present 
an  ultimatum,  afford  twelve  hours  for  its  ac- 
ceptance, and,  the  latter  not  being  forthcom- 
ing, he  was  to  break  off  relations  and  leave 
the  country.  The  twelfth  hour  expired,  Slidell 
and  Mason  were  not  surrendered,  and  there 
remained,  apparently,  only  the  dire  prospect 
of  war.  "Give  me  another  twelve  hours," 
said  Seward,  the  Secretary  of  State.  It  was 
an  entire  contradiction  of  official  orders,  but. 
nevertheless,  "  I  will,"  said  Lyons.  From  six 
o'clock  that  night  until  six  the  next  morning 
Seward  battled  with  the  recalcitrants.  Then 
Lyons  received  an  intimation  that  the  Con- 
federate envoys  would  be  given  up.  So  by 
the  insubordination  of  an  embassador  war 
was  avoided. 

Senator  Hoar  tells  an  amusing  story  of  a- 
rather  dissipated  lawyer  who  had  a  case  ap- 
proaching on  the  docket.  One  day  he  told  his 
office-boy  to  "  go  over  to  the  Supreme  Court 
and  see  what  in  hell  they  are  doing."  The 
court  were  hearing  a  very  important  case,  in 
which  Mr.  Choate  was  on  one  side  and  Mr. 
Curtis  on  the  other.  The  bar  and  the  court- 
room were  crowded  with  listeners.  As  Mr. 
Curtis  was  in  the  midst  of  his  argument,  the 
eye  of  the  chief  justice  caught  sight  of  a 
young  urchin,  ten  or  eleven  years  old,  with 
yellow  trousers  stuffed  into  his  boots,  and 
with  his  cap  on  one  side  of  his  head,  gazing 
intently  up  at  him.  He  said  :  "  Stop  a  mo- 
ment, Mr.  Curtis."  Mr.  Curtis  stopped,  and 
there  was  a  profound  silence  as  the  audience 
saw  the  audacious  little  fellow  standing  en- 
tirely unconcerned.     "  What  do  you  want,  my 

boy  ?"    said    the    chief    justice.      "  Mr.    P 

told  me  to  come  over  here  and  see  what  in  hell 
you  was  up  to,"  was  the  reply. 


When  Bill  Nye  one  day  happened  on  the 
modest  sign  of  the  late  Major  Pond,  the  lect- 
urer manager,  in  a  window  of  the  Everett 
House,  in  New  York,  he  said  to  a 
friend  who  accompanied  him :  "  Here's 
the  man  that  incites  the  lecturers,  let's 
go  in  and  see  if  we  can't  induce  him 
to  lead  a  better  life."  Entering,  Nye 
removed  his  hat  and  ran  his  hand  over  the 
hairless  expanse  of  his  head,  and,  after  staring 
about  for  a  moment,  said:  "This  is  Major 
Pond,  I  believe."  "  Yes,  sir.  What  can  I  do 
for  you?"  answered  the  major.  "I  want  to 
get  a  job  on  the  platform,"  returned  Nye. 
"  Ah — yes,"  said  the  major,  slowly ;  "  have 
you  had  experience?"  "Well,  I've  been  be- 
fore the  public  for  a  couple  of  years."  "  Yes? 
May  I  ask  in  what  capacity?"  "I've  been 
with  Barnum.  Sat  concealed  in  the  bottom 
of  a  cabinet  and  exhibited  my  head  as  the 
largest  ostrich  egg  in  captivity." 


"  My  filly  Virgie  made  lots  of  money  for  me 
this  season,"  said  Mrs.  Langtry,  the  other 
day,  to  a  New  York  reporter ;  "  in  fact  I  was 
so  proud  of  Virgie  that  I  sent  over  a  little 
photograph  of  her  to  my  press-agent  and  told 
him  that  he  might  get  it  published  whenever 
he  could.  Well  he  has  !"  laughed  the  Jersey 
Lily,  as  she  held  up  a  sheaf  of  out-of-town 
papers ;  "  look  at  them.  They're  all  the  same 
picture,  as  you  see,  but  good  heavens  !  observe 
the  difference  in  the  captions.  This  first  one 
from  Chicago  is  quite  correct — '  Virgie,  Mrs. 
Langtry's  famous  filly.'  But  look  at  this  one 
from  Milwaukee — '  Virgie,  Mrs.  Langtry's  fa- 
mous brood  mare';  and  worst  of  all.  this  one 
from  Rochester — 'A  picture  of  Mrs.  Langtry's 
famous  stallion,  Virgie.'  It  seems  to  me  that 
they're  trying  to  make  Virgie  represent  her 
whole  family.  After  this  it  wouldn't  surprise 
me  in  the  least  if  they  published  a  picture  of 
a  young  automobile,  and  then  accused  poor  lit- 
t'e  Virgie  of  being  its  dam!" 


Moore**  Poison-Oak  Remedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


To  Miss  Lou  Dillon. 
Ah,   there 
Whoa    there. 
Lady  Lou, 
Your  record  of  2. 
Flat 

Shows    where    you    are    at. 
And  the  others? 
Oh   say,    Lou, 
They  aint  in  it  with  you. 
And  say, 
Aint     it     gay 

To  think  that  one  of  the  inferior  sex 
Has   made   wrecks 
Of  the  so-called  superior  sex, 
And    a    lady    leads? 
Don't  it  bust  all  the  male  creeds? 
And  make  you  want  to  go  out 
And  shout. 
And  rip  and  tear 
And   get   full   and   swear 
And    wear 
Whiskers  and   pants. 
And  vote 
And    tote 
A   gun. 

And  have  fun 

Whooping  it  up  all  along  the  line. 
As  do  those  who  claim 
The  right  divine? 
Oh,  me!  oh,  my! 
As  you  went  by 
The  stand 
And 
Broke 

The  record,   the   weaker  sex   spoke 
In  thunder  tones  that  She 
Was  a  better  thing  than  He; 
Oh,    my!    oh,    me! 
Oh,  Lou. 
Oh,    Lady    Lou, 
Aint    you 
Too   2 

For  any  use? 
Well,  we  should  smile; 
A  mile, 
In  2  flat, 
That 
Is  what 

You  are  to  trot. 
And  you  are  a  lady,  too; 
Oh,  Lou. 
— William  J.  Lampton  in  New  York  Sun. 

Prayer  of  the  Small  College. 
Give  me  a  million  of  dough.  Mammon, 

Give  me  a  million  of  dough, 
To  keep  the  little   life   I   have — 

You'll   never  miss   it,   you   know. 

My    best    professors    leave    me, 

They're   out   for  coin,   and   so, 
If  bigger   wages  offer. 

Quite  naturally  they  go. 
Then  give  me  a  million  of  dough.   Mammon, 

Only  a  million  of  dough. 

I  can't  afford  a  football  coach, 

I  make  a  sorry  show — 
A  stickful  on  the  sporting  page — 

Ob,  do  not  say  me  no. 
But  give  me  a  million  of  dough.   Mammon. 

Only  a  million   of  dough. 


A   draft, 
Mats  r 


ENVOVZZ. 

.  check  or  cash  will  do- 
nvoyez,    et   p.    d.   q. 


-Life. 


Hyphenated  Names. 
See  the  hyphenated  name 
Of  the  fashionable  dame 
In  the  Sunday  morn  edition 
Of  the  Social  Statistician — 
See  the  name: 

Mistress   Stensellaer-VanCooger-Fitz-Llewellyn- 
S  tan  d  ish  -  Sm  yth ! 

Now,,  therewith 
Goes  descent  from  Knickerbockers 
Sturdy   puritanic   knockers 
Who   knocked  royalty  to  bits. 
Welshmen— kindly  note  the  "  Fitz!" 

So  you  see 
That   the  name's   a  pedigree. 

Should  this  style  continue  for 
Say,  an  hundred  years  or  more 
Fashionable  appellations 
Will  display  their  hyphenations 
By  the  score: 

Mistress   Stensellaer-VanCooger-Fitz-Llewellyn- 
Standish- Smyth- Hohenstauff  er-Pon  iatowski- 
Montmorency-Metternich-Probenuszoff- 
Fusiyama-The   O'Grady-Wu   Ting   Fang- 
Mc  In  tosch-  Car  race  iolo-  Hassan  -Athenopou  los- 
Penaloza-Esterhazy-Aguinaldo-Crazy-Horse! 

Thus,  of  course, 
Showing    the    ramifications 
Grafted    on    by  all    nations — 
For,  in  those  days,  of  the  man 
And  the  maid  American 

Such    will    be 
Probably  the  pedigree. 

— New    Orleans    Times-Democrat. 


If  You   TVant 

a  perfect  cream,  preserved  without  sugar,  order 
Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream.  It 
has  a  delightful,  natural  flavor  and  is  superior  to 
the  richest  raw  cream  you  can  buy,  with  the 
added  assurance  of  being  sterilized.  Prepared  by 
Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    yORK-SuLTHAMPTON-LONDoN. 

Phl'delphia  .Sept.  23.  to  am  I  New  York Oct.  7, 10  am 

St.  Louis Sept.  30,  ioam  |  Phil'delphia  Oct.  14,  10 am 

Philadelphia—  yueenntown-  Liverpool. 
Noordland  .  ..Sept.  26, 1  pm  I  West'iil'iidOd.  10, 1 1.30  am 
Friesland Oct.  3,  9  am  |  Belgenland  ...Oct.  17,  9am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YOKE— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Min'apolis  . .  Sept.  26,9  am  I  Mesaba Oct.  10,  9  am 

Minnehaha Oct.  3,  3  pm  |  Min'el'nka.Oct.  17, 1.30  pm 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

EOSTON-yCELNSTOWN— UVEBPOOL 
Commonwealth  ...Sept.  24  j  Columbus  (new)  ...Oct.  15 

New  England Oct.  1  J  Commonwealth Oct.  22 

Mayflower Oct.  8  |  New  England Oct.  29 

Montreal— Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Sept.  26  I  Dominion Oct.  10 

Southwark Oct.  3  I  Southwark Oct.  17 

Boston    Mediterranean    o'^ct 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Cambroman .Saturday,  Sept.  19.  Oct.  31.  Dec.  12 

Vancouver. Saturday,  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP-PAEIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  tn. 

Kroonland Sept  26  I  Finland Oct.  to 

Zeeland  Oct.  3  |  Vaderland  Oct.  17 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORE— QUEEN STOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Oceanic Sept.  23,  7  am  I  Teutonic Sept.  30,  noon 

Cymric Sept.  25,  Sam  I  Arabic Oct.  2,  2,30  pm 

Victorian Sept.  29,  noon  [  Germanic Oct.  7.  noon 

C.  1>.  TAYLOR,    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA.  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Wednesday,   Oct.  7 

Coptic Saturday,  Oct.  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila;  ■Wednesday,  Nov.  35 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  23 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 


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U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets.  1  p.  u.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogoj,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India.-etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.  1903 
Hongkong  Maru  .  ....Saturday,  September  19 
(Calling  at  Manila) 

Nippon  Maru Thursday,  October  15 

America  Maru Tuesday.  November  10 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
431  Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.   H.  AVERY.  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Sonoma,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Sept.  17,  1003,  at  2  p.  h. 
S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  Sept.  20,  1003,  at  it  a.  m. 
S.    S.    Alameda,  tor  Honolulu  only,   Sept.  26,  1903, 

at  it  a.  ai. 
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Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


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174 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


September  14,  1903. 


society. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

Mrs  Reel  B.  Terry  announces  the  engage- 
ment of  her  daughter,  Miss  Birne  Terry,  to 
Mr.  Frank  Allen  West,  son  of  the  late  George 
West,  of  Stockton. 

At  a  dinner  at  the  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma 
Sorority  House  on  Monday  night,  the  engage- 
ment was  announced  of  Miss  Irene  Strang 
Hazard,  daughter  of  Mrs.  J.  R.  Hazard,  of 
San  Diego,  and  Mr.  George  T.  Gerlmger,  son 
of  Mr.  Louis  Gerlinger.  of  Portland.  Or. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Mrs.  Allie 
Taylor  and  Mr.  John  F.  Siebe. 

The  engagement  is  announced  or  Miss 
Louise  Rivas.  daughter  of  Dr.  Isaac  Rivas,  to 
Mr  Rafael  de  Zayas,  the  landscape  painter, 
and  a  son  of  the  Mexican  consul  resident  in 
San  Francisco.  , 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Marion  Holden  and 
Mr  Charles  Stockton  Pope,  son  of  the  late 
Colonel  Pope,  U.  S.  M.  C,  will  take  place  at 
Trinity  Church  on  Monday  afternoon.  Sep- 
tember 21st,  at  four  o'clock.  Miss  Holden  s 
sister.  Miss  Milward  Holden.  will  act  as  maid 
of  honor,  and  Miss  Anna  Holden  and  Miss 
Lutie  Collier  will  be  the  maids  of  honor. 
Little  Miss  Mary  Pope,  the  groom  s  young 
sister,  will  act  as  flower-girl. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Elizabeth  \oung. 
daughter  of  Lieutenant-General  S.  B.  M. 
Young,  and  Lieutenant  John  R.  Hannay,  U.  S. 
A  will  take  place  in  Washington,  D.  C,  this 
month,  somewhat  earlier  than  first  planned, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  Lieutenant  Hannay  s 
regiment  has  been  ordered  to  the  Philippines. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Anita  Lohse,  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  F.  Lohse,  and  Mr.  David 
McClure  Gregory,  took  place  on  Tuesday  after- 
noon at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  in 
Oakland.  13S5  Webster  Street.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  at  half  after  four  o'clock  by 
Rev.  Father  Ramm.  of  St.  Mary's  Cathedral. 
Miss  Clarisse  Lohse  was  the  maid  of  honor, 
and  Miss  Elsie  Gregory  served  as  brides- 
maid. Mr.  Benjamin  Bakewell  was  the  best 
man,  and  Miss  Noelle  de  Golia.  Miss  Helen 
Davis,  Miss  Jane  Crellin.  and  Miss  Edith 
Gaskill  were  the  ribbon-bearers.  The  cere- 
mony was  followed  by  a  reception  and  wedding 
supper,  after  which  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gregory  de- 
parted for  Southern  California  on  their  wed- 
ding journey. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Florence  I.  Porter, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  T.  Porter,  and 
Mr.  John  W.  Rogers  took  place  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  parents,  133  Haight  Street,  on 
Tuesday.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at 
noon  by  the  Rev.  E.  R.  Dille.  Miss  Elsie  I. 
Irving  was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  Charles 
H.  -Rogers,  the  groom's  brother,  was  the  best 
man.  Later  in  the  day.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rogers 
departed  for  Del  Monte  on  their  wedding 
journey. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Virginia  Russell 
Ledyard  and  Mr.  Earl  L.  Beeny,  of  Oakland, 
took  place  at  Grace  Church  on  Wednesday. 
afternoon.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at 
one  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Ernest  Bradley. 
The  bride  was  given  into  the  keeping  of. the 
groom  by  her  uncle.  Mr.  I.  L.  Bevans  ;  Miss 
Dorothy  Ledyard,  the  bride's  sister,  acted  as 
maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  George  Beeny  attended 
his  brother  as  best  man.  Upon  their  return 
from  their  wedding  journey.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Beeny  will  reside  in  Oakland. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Anne  Apperson  and 
Dr.  Joseph  Marshall  Flint  will  take  place 
on  Tuesday  at  Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst's  hacienda 
at  Pleasanton.  Rev.  Dr.  Gallwey,  of  Menlo 
Park,  will  officiate.  Miss  Elsa  Woolworth, 
of  New  York,  will  be  the  maid  of  honor. 
Upon  their  return  from  their  wedding  journey. 
Dr.  Flint  and  his  bride  will  occupy  their 
residence  on  Broadway. 

Mr.  McBean  gave  a  luncheon  at  the  Pacific 
Union  Club  on  Tuesday  complimentary  to 
General  Robert  M.  O'Reilly.  U.  S.  A.  Others 
at  table  were  Major  Borden,  Major  Ogden 
Rafferty,  Mrs.  Lansing  Kellogg,  and  Dr.  Kier- 
stead. 

Commander  Cottman  and  the  officers  of  the 
monitor.  Wyoming  gave  a  luncheon  on  Satur- 
day last  on  board  the  Wyoming  at  Mare  Island 
in  honor  of  Mr.  Henry  T.  Oxnard.  Others  at 
table  were  Captain  B.  H.  McCalla,  Captain 
B.  F.  Tilley,  Commander  C.  B.  T.  Moore, 
Lieutenant  W.  G.  Miller,  and  Mr.  W.  D. 
Pennycook. 

The  dance  in  the  club-house  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  last  Saturday  evening  was  a  very  en- 
joyable affair.  Among  others  present  were 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  G.  Buckbee,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  James  Follis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Crooks. 
Colonel  and  Mrs.  Seymour,  Miss  Seymour, 
Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  A.  S.  Fechteler.  Mrs. 
and  Miss  Purington.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry 
Breeden,  and   Mr.   William   B.   Collier. 

An  interesting  entertainment  is  to  be  given 
at   the   Marie   Kip   Orphanage   on    Friday   and 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

MAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  no  substitute 


Saturday,  November  6th  and  7th.  The  affair 
will  be  in  the  nature  of  a  bazaar,  and  will  end 
with  a  dance  on  the  evening  of  the  seventh. 
The  board  of  managers  which  has  the  arrange- 
ments in  charge  comprise  Miss  Carrie  Gwin, 
Mrs  Thomas  P.  Woodward,  Mrs.  Sidney 
Worth  Mrs.  R.  B.  Sanchez,  Mrs.  George  H. 
Buckingham,  Mrs.  Arthur  Holland,  Mrs. 
Simons,  Mrs.  E.  D.  Bullard,  Miss  Mary  Heath. 
Miss  Eva  Maynard,  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Brown. 


"Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest : 

The  will  of  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Gerberding,  writ- 
ten by  herself  on  June  8,  1903,  has  been  filed 
for  probate  by  Senator  Thomas  R.  Bard,  her 
son-in-law,  and  Frederick  W.  Gerberding,  her 
son,  who  are  the  executors,  and  both  of  whom 
reside  at  Hueneme,  Ventura  County.  To 
Senator  Bard's  wife,  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Bard, 
who  had  paid  off  a  mortgage  of  $5,000  on 
the  home  of  the  testatrix,  her  mother.  Mrs. 
Gerberding,  bequeathed  this  home,  situated  on 
Clay  Street,  near  Jones,  stating  that  it  was 
her  desire  that  the  property  should  not  pass 
out  of  the  possession  of  the  family,  and  that 
it  should  not  be  used  for  hospital  or  business 
purposes  It  is  valued  at  about  $10,000.  To 
her  other  daughter.  Clara  W.  Bard,  of  Liver- 
more,  Mrs.  Gerberding  bequeathed  her  piano 
and  articles  of  furniture,  and  to  her  son, 
Frederick,  she  gave  articles  of  furniture. 


A  Mansion  on  The  Alameda. 
F.  B.  Myers,  an  Eastern  capitalist,  has  pur- 
chased the  handsome  Wilcox  house  on  The 
Alameda — the  fine  avenue  running  from  San 
Jose  to  Santa  Clara.  The  house  was  erected 
by  Charles  Wilcox,  who  died  some  time  ago. 
Since  his  death  the  property  has  been  in  the 
hands  of  the  Commercial  and  Savings  Bank 
of  San  Jose  for  sale.  The  purchaser  intends 
improving  the  already  handsome  grounds,  and 
has  employed  a  landscape  gardener  to  lay 
them  out.  The  house  is  a  fine  one,  containing 
twenty-four  master's  rooms,  finished  in  hard 
woods,  with  the  usual  wine-cellars,  butler's 
pantries,  and  other  servants'  offices.  The 
mural  decorations  of  the  house  are  very 
elaborate.  There  also  are  a  number  of  antique 
fire-places  of  great  size,  with  old-fashioned 
settees.  Altogether,  it  is  one  of  the  finest 
houses  on  The  Alameda,  on  which  avenue 
there  are  a  number  of  handsome  country 
places.  This  is  the  first  sale  in  that  neigh- 
borhood of  recent  years  to  an  Eastern  capital- 
ist. Since  San  Jose  has  become  a  station  on 
the  main  overland  line,  the  number  of  Eastern 
people  who  stop  over  there  is  vastly  increased, 
and  the  many  attractions  of  the  Garden  City 
are  inducing  some  of  them  to  remain. 


Several  of  the  most  important  New  York 
theatres  are  to  open  their  fall  season  with 
promising  attractions  next  week.  On  Mon- 
day evening  Stephen  Phillips's  "  Ulysses " 
will  be  produced,  with  Rose  Coghlan 
as  Penelope  and  Tyrone  Powers  as  Ulysses. 
On  the  same  evening,  Minnie  Maddern 
Fiske  will  return  to  the  Manhattan  Theatre 
with  "  Mary  of  Magdala,"  her  offering  of  last 
year,  and  Charles  Warner,  the  English  actor, 
will  be  seen  at  the  Academy  of  Music  in  the 
melodrama  "  Drink,"  from  Zola's  "  L'Assom- 
moir."  On  Tuesday,  John  Drew  will  begin 
his  fall  season  at  the  refurbished  Herald 
Square  Theatre,  in  his  new  play,  "  Captain 
Dieppe,"  by  Anthony  Hope  and  Harrison 
Rhoades,  and  on  Wednesday,  Charles  Haw- 
tree  will  begin  his  American  season  at  the 
Criterion  with  his  Prince  of  Wales  Theatre 
success,  "  The  Man  from  Blankley's." 


Prince  A.  Poniatowski,  the  well-known 
capitalist  and  railway  promotor,  has  tendered 
his  resignation  as  president  of  the  Sierra 
Railway.  In  all  probability  the  prince's  suc- 
cessor to  this  responsible  position  will  be 
T.  S.  Bullock,  who  makes  his  home  much  of 
the  time  at  the  Hotel  Vendome  in  San  Jose. 
Mr.  Bullock  is  at  present  the  general  manager 
of  the  road,  and  has  been  associated  with 
Prince    Poniatowski    in    its    construction. 


Louis  Eaton  will  resume  the  series  of  organ 
recitals  at  Trinity  Church  on  Thursday  even- 
ing. September  17th,  at  eight  o'clock,  when  the 
following  programme  will  be  rendered:  Fuge 
in  G-major,  Book  IX.  Bach;  concert  overture 
in  E-flat,  Faulkes ;  seventh  sonata  (new), 
Guilmant ;  caprice,  Wolstenholme ;  overture, 
"  Tannhauser,"  Wagner. 


A  trip  up  Mt.  Tamalpais  affords  a  pleasant 
day's  outing,  full  of  enjoyment  and  devoid  of 
tedium,  for  there  is  an  ever-changing  pano- 
rama as  you  make  the  ascent  on  the  Scenic 
Railway.  The  accommodations  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  for  remaining  overnight  are 
excellent. 


William  Waldorf  Astor  has  sent  his  check 
for  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  the  cancer 
research  fund  in  England.  This  contribution 
was  made  as  the  result  of  an  appeal  made  by 
Prime  Minister  Balfour  at  a  meeting  held  on 
July  30th. 

• — ^    » 

Something  New, 

A.  Kirschman,  Market  and  Geary  Streets,  is 
showing  artistic  long  chains  in  oxidized  silver, 
ornamented  with  India  Stones. 


—  Make  no  mistake,  Kent,  Shirt  Tailor, 
121  Post  St.,  cuts  fine-fitting  Shirt  Waists  for  ladies. 


Another  Bret  Harte  Story  Dramatized. 
The  dramatization  of  Bret  Harte's  "  Snow- 
Bound  at  Eagle's,"  in  which  T.  Edgar  Pem- 
berton  is  named  as  collaborator,  has  been  pro- 
duced at  Bedford  by  Arthur  Bourchier,  who 
will  take  it  to  London,  it  is  said,  after  a  short 
provincial  tour.     An  English  paper  adds  : 

The  action  of  the  piece  takes  place  in  Cali- 
fornia, the  period  is  1S60,  and  the  story  opens 
at  Heavy  Tree  Hill,  where  the  California 
coach  is  "  held  up  "  by  George  Lee,  who  re- 
ceives assistance  from  his  friend,  Ned  Falk- 
ner,  who  by  these  means  recovers  some  prop- 
erty that  had  otherwise  been  lost.  But  one  of 
those  sudden  snow-storms  peculiar  to  the 
California  ranges  overtakes  both  the  pas- 
sengers of  the  coach  and  the  robbers,  the  re- 
sult being  that  they  get  snowed  up.  George, 
who  has  been  accidentally  shot  in  the  leg, 
manages  to  get  as  far  as  the  house  of  John 
Hale,  who  was  a  passenger  in  the  coach,  un- 
able to  reach  his  home  on  account  of  the 
snow.  Here  we  find  Hale's  wife,  his  mother- 
in-law,  and  his  wife's  sister,  three  charming 
ladies,  who  have  given  these  highwaymen  a 
hearty  welcome,  not  for  a  moment  guessing 
whom  they  are  entertaining.  They  are  com- 
pletely snowed  up  for  a  fortnight,  during 
which  time  George  and  Ned  find  themselves 
in  love  with  the  two  younger  ladies.  They  de- 
cide that  the  only  honorable  course  for  them 
to  pursue  is  to  quit  the  house.  This  they  do, 
after  leaving  a  note  for  Hale,  with  which 
they  return  the  sum  of  money  taken  from  the 
coach.  However,  after  several  exciting  inci- 
dents, a  happy  ending  is  arrived  at,  Kate 
Scott  and  Ned  Falkner  being  united,  and  John 
Hale  and  George  Lee  becoming  the  best  of 
friends.  This  termination  is  come  to  after 
several  sensational  scenes,  not  the  least  no- 
table being  the  robbery  at  Eagle's  Court  by  a 
couple  of  desperadoes,  who  break  in  in  the 
dead  of  night,  expecting  to  only  find  ladies 
in  the  house,  but  are  disagreeably  surprised 
at  finding  the  two  men. 

M.  Richepin  has  written  a  new  play  called 
"  Mile.  Napoleon,"  which  will  be  produced  in 
this  country  by  Anna  Held.  M.  Richepin  is 
best  known  as  the  author  of  "  Le  Chemineau," 
of  which  an  English  version  was  played  by 
Beerbohm  Tree  under  the  name  of  "  Ragged 
Robin."  In  the  new  play  the  chief  characters 
will  be  Napoleon  himself  and  Mile.  Mars, 
while  other  historical  persons  are  introduced, 
including  Ney,  Murat,  Lefebvre,  Fouche,  and 
many  more.  The  scenes  will  include  the  foyer 
of  the  Comedie-Frangaise,  and  the  Cafe  de  la 
Paix  in   1809. 


The  double  tracks  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
Company  from  San  Francisco  to "  San  Jose 
will  be  completed  and  in  use  within  thirty 
days.  This  road  will  be  the  finest  piece  of 
railway   work   west   of   the    Mississippi    River. 


Pears' 

Whoever  wants  soft 
hands,  smooth  hands,  white 
hands,  or  a  clear  complex- 
ion, he  and  she  can  have 
both :  that  is,  if  the  skin  is 
naturally  transparent;  un- 
less occupation  prevents. 

The  color  you  want  to 
avoid  comes  probably  nei- 
ther of  nature  or  work,  but 
of  habit. 

Use  Pears'  Soap,  no 
matter  how  much;  but  a 
little  is  enough  if  you  use 
it  often. 

Established  uver  loo  years. 


ROBERT  TITTLE  McKEE 

Consulting  Decorator  and  Designer 

Formerly  with  JlcCano,  Belcher,  and  Allen, 
San  Francisco, 

CAN     BE     SEEN     BY     APPOINTMENT 
AT    HIS    STUDIO 

307  Fifth  Avenue 

One  block  south  of  Waldorf-Astoria. 
Telephone  967  R  Madison  Square. 


Clients  wishing  to  select  directly  from  the  trade 
Imported  Fabrics,  Paper  Hangings,  (English, 
French,  and  German),  Upholstery,  Objects  of  Art, 
Furniture,  Prints  or  Pictures  will  find  Mr.  McKee 
acquainted  with  the  best  art  dealers  and  wholesale 
shops. 

Mr.  McKee  can  show  the  most  artistic  color  com- 
binations and  give  ideas  for  the  newest  designs  in 
making  and  arranging. 

CORRESPONDENCE    SOLICITED. 


No  Time  Like  the  Present.     Act  Quickly  ! 


If  you  ever  expect  to 
want  a  PIANO,  lose  no 
time  investigating  our 
REMOVAL  SALE  offers. 


KOHLER  &  CHASE 

Established    1850 
Now  at  No.  28=30  O'Farrell  St.    *•    Later  Kearny  and  Post  Sts. 


September  14,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  ior  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IO IS  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur 
chased  the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  and  Jones  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  p.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 

HOTEL   RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.  Twenty- 
four  trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all 
the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

K.  V.  HALTO>-,  Proprietor. 

For  booklet  and  information  inquire  at  city  office,  14 
Post  St.,  telephone  Bush  125. 
Have  representative  call  onvou. 


Golf  at  Hotel  del  Monte 

CAL.IRORINIA 


The  links,  full  18-hole  course,  are  laid  a 
short  distance  only  from  the  hotel,  and  are 
the  finest  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

They  are  the  only  first-class  grounds  in 
California  available  to  the  public.  The 
greens  are  always  green.  Sunshine  and 
cool  breezes  from  the  sea  are  always  pres- 
ent and  refreshing,  the  weather  never  inter- 
fering. You  can  play  winter  and  summer, 
the  year  round. 

Play  golf  at  Del  Monte,  the  ideal  retreat 
for  all  golfers. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 
Manager. 


C.  H.  REHNSTROM 

FORMERLV  SANDERS   4  JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 
Pbelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  53*7-  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Homer  S.  King  were  at  Shasta 
Springs  during  the  week. 

Mr.  John  D.  Spreckels  and  Miss  Grace 
Spreckels  have  returned  from  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  W.  McNear  have 
taken  a  house  on  Pacific  Avenue,  near  La- 
guna,  for  the  winter. 

Miss  Ruth  McNutt  expects  to  sail  for  the 
Orient  with  her  sister,  Mrs.  Ashton  Potter, 
who  will  leave  on  the  steamship  Siberia  on 
October  28th. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Truxtun  Beale  have  returned 
from  their  European  wedding  journey,  and 
are  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Miss  Katherine  Dillon  and  Miss  Patricia 
Cosgrove,  who  were  in  London  when  last 
heard  from,  will  sail  from  England  for  New 
York  next  Tuesday. 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Boalt  is  spending  the  summer 
in  the  Tyrol.  She  will  return  to  Germany 
early  in  the  autumn,  and  will  pass  the  winter 
in  Italy. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Denis  O'Sullivan  will  return 
to  their  new  home  in  Holland  Park,  London, 
next  week,  after  a  brief  visit  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. They  expect  to  sail  from  New  York 
on   September  23d. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adam  Grant  were  at  Paso 
Robles  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker  were  guests 
at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  R.  L.  Ogden  and  R.  H.  Pease,  Jr.,  re- 
turned on  Monday  from  Portland,  after  pass- 
ing the  summer  there. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller  will  leave 
soon  for  a  trip  to  New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  de  Sabla  and  Miss 
Charlotte  Russell  have  returned  from  the 
country,  and  are  occupying  their  city  resi- 
dence. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Beardsley  (nee  Rob- 
inson) have  returned  from  their  wedding 
journey,  and  are  occupying  their  apartment 
at  the  corner  of  Sutter  and  Fillmore  Streets. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Bosqui  and  Miss 
Bosqui  left  on  Tuesday  for  a  trip  to  Ensenada, 
Mexico. 

Miss  Charlotte  Ellinwood  has  been  sojourn- 
ing at  the  Bancroft  farm  in  Contra  Costa 
County  during  the  past  fortnight. 

Mrs.  William  Burling,  who  has  been  at 
Coronado  all  summer,  will  spend  the  winter 
in  San  Francisco  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  John 
E.  Page,  who  has  taken  a  house  on  Clay 
Street  for  the  season. 

Mr.  Richard  W.  Tobin  was  in  Santa  Barbara 
during   the   week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colin  M.  Boyd  have  de- 
parted for  the  East,  via  Canada. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Payne,  who  will 
occupy  Mrs.  Loughborough's  house  on  O'Far- 
rell  and  Franklin  Streets  this  winter,  are  ex- 
pected in  town  some  time  next  month. 

Mrs.  Louis  Hanchett  has  returned  from  her 
visit  to  Sacramento,  where  she  was  the  guest 
of  her  brother,  Mr.  Upson. 

Miss  Lena  Blanding  will  spend  the  winter 
at  the  Hotel  Knickerbocker. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Hush,  of  Oakland, 
have  taken  a  house  on  Haight  Street  for  the 
winter  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Davis  and  family  have 
returned  from  their  country  place  in  the 
Santa  Cruz  Mountains. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  and  family 
will  return  to  the  city  from  their  country 
place,  "  Meadowlands,"  in  San  Rafael,  next 
week. 

Mrs.  George  Gibbs  has  returned  to  her 
residence  on  Jackson  Street  from  a  visit  of 
several  weeks  at  Lake  Tahoe. 

Mrs.  Ives  and  Miss  Florence  Ives,  who  have 
been  spending  the  summer  in  San  Jose,  will 
return  to  town  next  week. 

Mrs.  Louis  T.  Haggin  and  the  Countess 
Festetics  de  Tolna  are  spending  the  summer 
at  their  country  place  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

Mr.  Frank  B.  King  has  gone  on  a  business 
trip   to   Portland,   Or. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  Buckbee  have  been 
visiting  the  Yellowstone  Park. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Pond  were  guests  at 
the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  L.  Ehrman  have  re- 
turned after  a  three  weeks*  trip  to  the  Yellow- 
stone Park. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edmund  Baker  have  been  in 
Seattle  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parker  Whitney  have  departed 
for  the  East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  A.  Pomeroy  sailed 
from   New   York  for   Europe   last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Byron  Mauzy  and  family,  ac- 
companied by  Miss  Mauzy,  Miss  Young,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Batkin,  and  Miss  Batkin  were 
at  the  Hotel  del  Monte  during  the  week  for 
a  short  stay. 

Mr.  George  T.  Marye  has  returned  from  a 
visit  of  several  months  to  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sterling  Postley  expect  soon 
to  leave  for  a  trip  to  New  York. 

Mrs.  John  L.  Bradbury  and  Mrs.  Linda  H. 
Bryan  leave  for  a  two  months'  visit  to  New 
York  this  (Saturday)  evening. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  S.  Macdonald  were  guests 
at  the  Hotel  del  Monte  during  the  week. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Mrs.  N.  J.  Somers,  Mrs.  M.  P.  Jones, 
Mrs.  L.  Berryman,  Mrs.  R.  N.  Whitney,  Mrs. 
E.  A.  Brady,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker,  Miss  Baker, 
Miss  D.  Baker,  Miss  C.  Stewart,  Miss  S. 
Talbot,  Miss  Vera  Talbot,  Mr.  C.  Griffin,  Mr. 
Charles  Sonntag,  and  Mr.  Gerald  Chamber- 
laine. 


President  Jordan  has  presented  to  Stanford 
University  his  valuable  library  of  three  thou- 
sand volumes  on  the  subject  of  fishes.  This 
collection  is  one  of  the  finest  of  its  kind  in 
existence,  and  for  over  thirty  years  has 
served  as  the  personal  working  library  of  Dr. 
J  ordan. 


Array  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

General  Arthur  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
party  are  expected  back  from  their  visit  to 
Southern  California  early  next  week. 

Colonel  William  S.  Patten,  U.  S.  A.,  the 
new  chief  quartermaster  of  the  Department 
of  California,  is  expected  to  arrive  here  next 
week. 

Major  George  O.  Squier,  U.  S.  A.,  chief 
signal  officer  of  the  Department  of  Califor- 
nia, will  spend  the  next  two  months  in  the 
East  on  leave. 

Captain  Russell  C.  Langdon,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Langdon  have  returned  from  a  long 
absence  in  Europe,  and  are  at  the  Presidio. 

Mrs.  Garrard,  wife  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Garrard,  U.  S.  A.,  commanding  troops  at  Camp 
Wood,  near  Wawona,  accompanied  by  her  two 
daughters,  who  are  to  resume  their  studies  at 
Baltimore,  arrived  in  town  on  Tuesday. 

Major  William  E.  Birkhimer,  artillery  in- 
spector, U.  S.  A.,  has  returned  from  San 
Diego  Barracks,  where  he  went  to  superin- 
tend the  test  of  the  four  ten-inch  guns. 

Commander  Richardson  Clover.  U.  S.  N., 
and  Mrs.  Clover,  who  have  been  spending 
several  weeks  at  their  summer  place  at  Napa, 
were  at  the  Palace  Hotel  during  the  week. 

Lieutenant-Commander  John  B.  Blish,  U. 
S.  N.v  who  is  under  treatment  at  the  Mare 
Island  hospital,  has  been  relieved  as  the 
executive  officer  of  the  Alert  by  Lieutenant- 
Commander  George  H.  Stattord,  U.  S.  N. 

Captain  George  W.  Mclver,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Mclver  have  just  returned  from  Port- 
land, Or.,  where  Captain  Mclver  has  been  on 
recruiting  duty,  prior  to  his  departure  for  the 
Philippines  with  his  regiment,  the  Seventh 
Infantry. 

Brigadier-General  William  H.  Bisbee,  U.  S. 
A.,  who  was  formerly  stationed  in  California 
with  the  First  Infantry,  has  proceeded  to 
Denver,  after  a  visit  on  this  Coast. 

Lieutenant  William  Graham,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Graham  are  spending  a  week  in  Berkeley 
prior  to  their  departure  for  Fort  Sheridan, 
where  Lieutenant  Graham  will  join  the  Twen- 
tieth  Infantry. 

Chaplain  Joseph  A.  Potter,  Seventh  In- 
fantry- U.  S.  A.,  has  returned  to  the  Presidio, 
after  a  fortnight's  leave  of  absence. 

Lieutenant  J.  F.  Franklin.  U.  S.  A.,  who 
recently  arrived  from  Nashville.  Tenn.,  en 
route  to  Manila,  is  the  guest  of  Colonel  H. 
Bendel    in    Oakland. 


The  Interchangeable  Hero. 
The  gallant  hero  in  the  book 

May   fight   a  daybreak  duel 
To  cure  the  villain  of  his  look, 

Which    is    intensely  cruel. 
The   hero — you   may   take   your   pick — 

He   always    is   a    marvel, 
If  he  appears  as  Deadwood  Dick 

Or  shines  as  Richard  Carvel. 

The  noble  hero  of  the  tale 

For  fight  is  always  spoiling — 
The  villain — this  can  never  fail — 

Forever   gets   a    foiling. 
No   matter    where   the   hero   roams. 

He's  something  of  a   martyr; 
He's  fine  if  he  is  Sherlock  Holmes 

And   wicked    if    Nick    Carter. 

The  dashing  hero  swings  his  sword 

Or  fills  a  page  with  shooting — 
You  buy  the  book  you  can  afford. 

Sure  of  the  hero  suiting. 
But — this  is  nothing  but   the  truth — 

No   matter   what   his   mettle, 
He's  bad  if  he  comes  as  Old  Sleuth 

And  good  if  Captain  Kettle. 

The  hero  may  be  garbed  in  lace 

And  have  a  manner  airy. 
Or  he  may  flit  from  place  to  place 

Scalp   lifting  on   the   prairie — 
Hut  that  is  neither  here  nor  there; 

Distinction  can't  be   fairer: 
He's  excellent   if   he's   Beaucaire 

And  vile  if  Tim  the  Terror. 

—Chicago  Tribun 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 

—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.   Hatter.  746  Market  St. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Properly  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAN    FRAINCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


The  CLUB 

are  the  original  bottled  Cocktails. 
Years  of  experience  have  made 
them  THE  PERFECT  COCKTAILS 
that  they  are.  Do  not  be  lured 
into  buying  some  imitation.  The 
ORIGINAL  of  anything  is  good 
enough.  When  others  are  offered 
it  is  for  the  purpose  of  larger  prof= 
its.  Insist  upon  having  the  CLUB 
COCKTAILS,  and    take  no  other. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEIN  &  BRO.,  ScU  PnfrUton 

29  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn.  London 


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400-404  Battery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR 

That  greatest  of  all  disfigurements  of  a  woman's 
face,  permanenttv  removed,  in  the  only  successful  way 
—with  the  ELECTRIC  NEEDLE,  as  operated  by 
Mrs.  Harrison. 

Warts,  Freckles,  Moles,  Pimples,  and  Wrinkles 
quickly  removed  under  my  personal  treatment  at 
my  Dermatological  Parlors. 

HRS.    NETTIE- HARRISON 

DER-MATOLOaiST, 

140  Geary  Street,  San  Francisco. 

AS  PRESCRIBED  BY  A  LAW, 
enacted  by  the  last  Legislature, 
the  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Optometry  has  ISSUED  CER- 
TIFICATES TO  THE  UNDER- 
SIGNED FlRflS,  entitling  them 
and  their  employees  to  practice  the 
fitting  of  spectacles  and  eye-glasses: 

201  Kearny  Street. 


GEO.  H.  KAHN, 

HENRY  KAHN  &  CO.  (The  Ocularium), 

642  Market  Street. 


HOQUE  OPTICAL  CO., 


211  Post  Street. 


HIRSCH  &  KAISER,  7  Kearny  Street. 

STANDARD  OPTICAL  CO., 

217  Kearny  Street. 

BERTLINQ  OPTICAL  CO., 

16  Kearny  Street. 

HASKELL  &  JONES  OPTICAL  CO., 

243  Grant  Avenue. 


CHINN-BERETTA  OPTICAL  CO., 

991  Market  Street. 


CALIFORNIA  OPTICAL  CO., 

207  Kearny  Street. 

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Illustrated  catalogue.  All 
departments  open  Septem- 
ber 14,  1003. 
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Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenty  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.     Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  fine  property.     For  circu- 
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PIANO 

AGENCY. 


PIANOS 
308-312   Poal  St. 

San  Francisco. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


September  14,  1903. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  JHE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

M  —  *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  ni,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  pm.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 

A  M  —  I"  THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  in.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining-car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-ctass  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  J11.10  p  m. 

I  A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  ni,  Fresno  3.20  p  111,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  recliiiing- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11.10  p  in. 

1  p  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11.10  a  m. 

«g%g%  P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
m%M%M  Stockton  11.15  P  m>  Fresno  3.15  a  ni, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
recti ning-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
J  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express   Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  ni. 


7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


4.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

vVEEK  DAYS— 7.30.  8.00,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2-3o. 
3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays — Extra 
trip  at  1,30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 7.30,  S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  -f2.oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m;  1.45.3.40.4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
fExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.iop  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
§.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni 
7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  ni 
7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  ni 
7-25  P  m 

7.45  a  ni 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
800am 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  ni 

Fulton. 

10,20  a  ni 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsbunj, 

Lylton.  " 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10,20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m 

Wilhts. 

7-25  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

S.oo  a  ni 
2.30  p  ni 

Guemeville. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  P  m 

Sjoo  a  in 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

Sebastopol. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

m..-.'M  ;l  111 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Kullon  for  Altruria  and  Mark  Wesi 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytlon  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood  ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelsevville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlelt  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Ponto,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's 
BucknelPs,  Sanheclriii  Heights.  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Hali-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fori  Bragg,  West  port 
Usal;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Canto,  Covelo,  Laylonvill.  ,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs 
Harris,  Olsen's.  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood, Scotia 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rales. 

On  Sundays  round- trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office.  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building 

H.C.  WHITING,  R.X.RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agl. 


MOUNT  TAMALPAIS   RAILWAY 


Leave 
San  Fran. 


Week 

Days. 


Sun- 
days 


7ii  Siaaalito   Perrr 
Foot  01  lUrlcei  31. 


9:45*  8:00a 
l:45p  9:00a 
&:l."p  10:00a 

11:30a 

1  ,    ■  .     l:30p 

... ,.1  »:35p 

Ma'igi  onJj,  am  Tavern 

iiT    j  628  Majulkt  St.,     Jorth  Shore  Railroad 
y   "OB   )  ind  Sausauto  Fkrhv    Foot  Markei  Si 


Arrive 
San  Fran. 


Sun- 
days 
12:OOn  i 

2:50  p  ; 

3:30p 

4:3.-.  j-  . 
5:45p  . 

I    8:00p  

fl:30p,irrmS7,  ll:30r 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


At  the  seaside :  Clerk — "  That  back  piazza 
is  pretty  shaky.  It  may  break  down  some 
night."  Proprietor — "Must  it  be  rebuilt?" 
Clerk — '*  Oh.  no  ;   light  it  up." — Toivn  Topics. 

At  the  photographer's  :  "  Have  I  the  pleas- 
ant expression  you  need?  "  (Voice  from  under 
the  cloth) — "Perfectly,  sir."  "TherMet  her 
go  quick,  governor;   it  hurts  my  face." — Life. 

As  defined :  "  Say,  mamma,"  queried  little 
Mary  Ellen,  "what's  a  dead  letter?"  "Any 
letter  that  is  given  to  your  father  to  mail,  my 
dear."     replied     the     wise     mother. — Chicago 

News. 

Employer — "  Yes,  I  advertised  for  a  strong 
boy.  Think  you  will  fill  the  bill?"  Applicant 
— "Well,  I  just  finished  lickin'  nineteen  other 
applicants  out  in  de  hall." — Philadelphia  In- 
quirer. 

Sincerity  :  "  One  o'  de  sad  things  'bout  dis 
life,"  said  Uncle  Eden,  "  is  dat  it's  so  much 
easier  to  depend  on  de  enmity  of  yoh  enemies 
dan  on  de  friendship  of  yoh  friends." — Wash- 
ington Star. 

Lacked  experience  :  Mamma — "  Don't  let 
me  catch  you  in  a  lie  again,  you  naughty 
boy!"  Johnny — "I  won't  if  I  can  help  it; 
but  I  haven't  had  the  experience  that  pa  has 
had." — Boston   Transcript. 

First  explorer — "  We  must  hurry  back." 
Second  explorer — "  But  the  North  Pole  is 
ours  if  we  keep  on."  First  explorer — "  But 
if  we  don't  get  back  now,  we'll  be  too  late 
for  the  lecture  season." — Life. 

Had  won  her  :  The  chronic  bachelor  finally 
turned  to  the  quiet  man,  who  had  taken  no 
part  in  the  discussion.  "  Would  you,  sir,"  he 
said,  "  marry  the  best  woman  in  the  world?" 
"  I  did,"  was  the  reply. — Judge. 

Bigby — "  I'm  saving  up  money  to  go  to 
Europe."  Higby — "Indeed!  How  are  you 
getting  on?"  Bigby — "Fine!  I've  already 
got  together  enough  for  the  tips,  and  as  soon 
as  I  can  scare  up  traveling  expenses  I'm  off." 
— Chicago  Daily  News. 

Could  keep  a  secret:  Smith — "May  I  make 
a  confidant  of  you?"  Jones — "Why,  cer- 
tainly." Smith — "  Well,  I'm  hard  up  and 
want  ten  pounds."  Jones — "  You  can  trust 
me  ;  I  am  as  silent  as  the  grave.  I  have  heard 
nothing." — Pick-Me-Up. 

More  coming:  It  is  reported  that  a  young 
married  man  of  Golconda,  wrapped  in  the 
greatest  excitement,  flew  to  the  telegraph- 
office  of  his  town  and  wired  his  wife's  rela- 
tives a  happening  as  follows:  "Twins-to-day, 
more  to-morrow." — Lyre. 

Patsy — "  Mom,  won't  yer  gimme  me  candy, 
now?"  Mrs.  Casey — "Didn't  oi  tell  ye  oi 
wouldn't  give  ye  anny  at  all  if  ye  didn't  kape 

still?  "     Patsy — "  Yes'm,  but "     Mrs.Casey 

— "  Well,   the  longer  ye  kape  still   the  sooner 
ye'll   get  it." — Philadelphia  Press. 

"  I  reckon  you  won't  believe  it,"  remarked 
Farmer  Hayrix,  "  but  that  old  rooster  what 
jist  crow'd  is  more'n  twenty  years  old."  "  Oh, 
I  believe  it  all  right  enough,"  replied  the  sum- 
mer boarder,  "  and  I  am  also  willing  to  believe 
that  the  old  hen  we  had  for  dinner  was  his 
grandmother." — Chicago  Daily  News. 

Another  brute :  Mrs.  Pretty — "  Isn't  it 
strange?  Mrs.  Beauti  has  not  put  on  mourn- 
ing for  her  husband."  Mr.  Pretty — "  I  un- 
derstand that  her  late  husband  particularly 
requested  that  she  should  not."  Mrs.  Pretty 
— "  The  brute !  I  suppose  he  knew  how 
lovely  she  would  look  in  it." — Pick-Me-Up. 

Peters — "  Her  marriage  is  like  a  romance." 
Parr — "  So  ?  "  Peters — "  Yes  ;  she  eloped 
with  Iter  father's  chauffeur.  The  automobile 
blew  up  and  killed  him  before  they  got  to  the 
minister.  The  man  who  rescued  her  from  the 
wreck  proposed  to  her  on  the  way  home,  and 
was  accepted.  They  were  married  yesterday." 
— Baltimore  A  merican. 

Casey — "  Shure,  they  do  be  tellin'  me  that 
Big  Moike  Monohan  wor  knocked  down  be 
an  autymobile.  yisterday ;  wor  there  any 
bones  broke,  I  dunno?  "  Conlcy — "  Troth, 
an'  there  wor ;  th'  owner  av  th'  divil-wagon 
got  his  nose  broke,  th'  chawfer  got  his  jaw 
broke,  an'  Big  Moike  broke  th'  sicond  knuckle 
•av  his  roight  fisht !  " — Puck. 

Dangerous  examples  :  Mrs.  Long  (who  rec- 
ommended a  servant) — '"  Yes,  she  was  an  ex- 
cellent girl  in  every  way,  except  she  would 
imitate  me  in  dress,  and  things  like  that." 
Miss  Short — "  Ah.  yes.  I  noticed  she  began 
doing  it  when  she  came  to  me;  but  she's  given 
it  up  now."  Mrs.  Long — "I'm  glad  to  hear 
it.  I  expect  she  saw  she  was  making  herself 
ridiculous." — Punch. 

No  difference:  The  Frenchman  did  not 
know  all  about  the  English  language.  "  I 
vould  like  to  come  see  you  ver'  much.  In 
fact,  I  vould  have  came,  only  I  thought  you 
vere  ver'  busy.  I  do  not  like  to  cockroach 
upon  your  time."  "  Not  '  cockroach,'  that's 
not  right.  You  should  say  '  tfi/croach,  en- 
croach.  Aha,  that  is  it,  '  Ae»croach,  hen- 

croach.'     I  see.     1   have  got  der  gender  of  de 
verb    wrong." — Lippincott's   Magazine. 

StMdman's  Soothing  Powders  for  fifty  years  ihe 
most  popular  Knglish  ren.edy  for  teething  babies 
feverish  children. 


If,  as  suggested,  the  Republicans  should 
adopt  "  the  full  baby-carriage "  as  the  cam- 
paign slogan,  the  Democrats  will  concede 
Utah.— Salt   Lake   Herald. 


—  Ur  E  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  kemoveu  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  antj  use  "  Mrs.  Winsi.ow's 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething. 


OVtVSTANIMRDS 


Sperrys  Beat  Family. 

Drifted.  Snow. 
Golden  Gate  Extr-a.. 


vSperry  Flour  Company 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART   WEEK    DAYS—6.45.   t*7-45 
S-45.  9-45.  "  A-  M-;  I2-2°.  *M5,  3-!5.  4-15. 
15-15.  *6.i5.  6.45.  9,  "-45  P-  M- 
7,45  a.  M.  week  days  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley. 
DEPART  SUNDAY— 7,  f8.  f*9.  t*'°.    ",  t»-3P  A. 
M.;  |i2.30,  f*i-30.  2-35,  *3-5°.  5.  6,  7.30,  9,  11.45  P-  "■ 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (f)    to   Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.   M.  Saturday. 
Saturday's  3.15  p.  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax, 
7.45  a.  M.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    p.    M.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
Sundays,  8  A.  M. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays,  10  a.  M.— Point  Reyes  and  intermediate. 
Legal  Holidays — Boats  and  trains  on  Sundav  time. 
Ticket  Offices— 626  Market;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


In  addition  to  its  regular  superior  news  service 

THE  SUNDAY  CALL 

is  now  publishing  the  latest  and  best  novels  complete 
in  two  or  three  editions. 

HALF-HOUR  STOKYJETTES  — the  choicest 
obtainable. 

Have  you  read  "  Letters  by  a  Self-Made  Merchant  to 
His  Son  "  ?  They  are  being  published  every  Sunday  in 
the  CALL.  Then  there  is  the  Comic  Supplement, 
which  is  really  funny. 

A  Puzzle  Page  for  the  children. 

Something  good  for  everybody,  and,  in  addition  to 
all  these,  the  PICTURES— real  art  products,  ready 
for  framing.  It  all  goes  with  the  regular  subscription 
price. 

Daily  and  Sunday  delivered  by  carrier,  75  cents 
a  month. 


170,000 


PERSONS  IN  ALAMEDA 

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FOR   ALL  THE   INEWS 


The  Herald  is  absolutely  the  Home  Paper  of 
Greater  Oakland  and  of  Alameda  County. 

The  Herald  publishes  each  day  complete  for- 
eign, cable,  and  domestic  telegraphic  news. 

The  Herald  records  fully  each  day.  and  par- 
ticularly on  Saturday,  the  doings  of  Greater  Oakland 
society. 

The  Herald  is  without  question  the  best  adver- 
tising medium  in  the  County  of  Alameda. 


Rusty  Mike's  Diary.  — You'd  think  it 
was  a  crazy  farmer  who  only  milked  his 
cows  once  a  month — some  advertisers  are 
just  as  crazy. —  White's  Sayings. 


Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
liitk     —   Fkom  September  2.  1903. 


SAN  F 
ARRIVE 


7.D0A 

7.30a 


7-30a 
8.00a 


Benlcla,  Sulsun,  Elmtra  and  Sacra- 
mento     

Vacavlllc,  Winters,  Rumsey 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo, 
Napa,  Calistoga,  Santa  Koea 

Nlles,  Livermore,  Lathrop,  Stock- 


roD.. 


7-25p 
725p 


G-251- 
7.25 1- 


7.65e 
10.25a 


Davis. Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllie,  Oroville,  (connects 
at  Marysvllie  for  Gridley,  Blgga 
and  Chlco) 

AtlantlcExpresa— Ogden  and  East. 

Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch.  By- 
ron.Tracy,  Stockton,  Sacramento, 
Los  Banos,  Mendota,  Hanfurd. 
VlBalla,  Portervllle 

Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lalh- 
rop,  Modesto,  Merced,  FreBno, 
Goshen  Junction,  Hauford,  VI- 
salla.  Bakersfield 

Shasta  Express  —  Davis,  Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Willows, 
tFruto,  Ked  Bluff,  Portland 

Nlles,  San  JoBe,  Livermore.  Stock- 
ton, lone,  Sncramento.Placerv  Ille. 
Marysvllie,  Chlco,  Red  Bluff 

Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown.  So- 
nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 

Vallcjo 

El  PaBO  Passenger,  Eastbound.— 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond,  Fresno,  Han- 
ford.  Vlsalla.  Bakersfield,  Lob 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line)... 

The  Overland  Limited  — Ogden. 
Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 

Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations. 

Sacramento  River  Steamera 

Benlcla;  Winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Williams,  Colusa,  WI1- 
lows,  Knights  Landing.  MaryB- 
vllle,  Oroville  and  way  stations.. 

Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.. 

Martinez, San  Rumon,  Vallcjo, Napa, 
Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa 

Martinez,  Tracy,  Lathrop.Stockton. 

Nlles,  Livermore.  Stockton.  Lodl.. 

Hayward.  Nlles,  Irvlngton,  San  I 
Jobc  Livermore f 

The  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakersfield,  Los  Angeles 

Port  Uosta,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Los 
Banos 

Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 

Hayward,  NIleB  and  San  JoBe 

Oriental  Mall— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Beuicla,  Sul- 
sun, Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rock  I  In,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wada- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca,  Battle 
Mountain,  Elko 

Reno,  Trucki-e,  Sai-ramento,  Davis, 
Sulsun,  Benlcla,  Port  Costa 

Vollejo.  dally,  except  Sunday ( 

Vallejo,  Sunday  only ( 

San  Pablo.  Port  Costa,  Martinez 
and  Way  Stations 

Oregon  &  California  ExpreBB— Sac- 
rAinento,  Marysvllie,  Redding, 
Porthmd,  Puget  Sound  and  EaBt. 

Hayward,  Nllea  and  San  JoBe  (Sun- 
day only)  

Port    Costa,   Tracy,  Lathrop,   Mo- 

dcBto,  Merced,  Raymond  (to  To- 

eemlte),     Fresno,    Han  ford,    VI- 

walla.  BakerBfleld 12-25p 

COAST    LINE    (Narrow  Iteuge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Struct  ) 

745a    Santa.    Cruz    Excursion    'Sunday 
only)....       ...  S.iop 


9-OOa 
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330  p 


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RANCISCO,  (Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 

8.16a  Newark.  Centervllle.  San  Jobc 
Felton,  Boulaer  Creek,  Santa 
Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6  25> 

■2.16i'  Newark,  Centervllle.  San  Joae, 
New  Almaden.  Lub  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz   and 

Principal  Way  Stations    10  55. 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Faithful  and  Giaour  in  Bloody  War — A  Sketch 
of  the  Causes  Leading  Up  to  the  Present  State  of 
Anarchy  in  the  Ealkans — The  Outlook  for  Bulgaria — 
Postal  Scandal  Reaches  This  City — More  Factional  Troubles 
in  Delaware — The  State  Board  Unequalizes  Assessments — 
Utilization  of  Inland  Water  Ways — San  Jose  and  Its  Mail 
Facilities — Forest-Reserve  Policy  Proposed  for  California — 
Bonaparte  to  Probe  Indian  Frauds — Can  We  Colonize  the 
Philippines? — Dewey  Sank  No  Spanish  Ships! — Chinese  for 
South  Africa — The  Lesson  of  Labor  Day — Local  Politics 
Getting    Warm 1 77- 1 79 

Virginia  City:      A     Place    of    Dreams    and     Nightmares.       By 

Geraldine  Eonner 179-180 

Individualities:     Notes  About   Prominent  People  All   Over  the 

World   1S0 

Not  Down  in  the  Log:      The     Story    of   -the    Famine    on    the 

Schooner   "  Hulda   Spidds."      By  John    Fleming  Wilson 1S1 

Mrs.  Diaz  at  Chapultepec:    A   Visit  to  the  Wife  of  Mexico's 

President.     By  Mrs.  F.  D.  Merchant 182 

New  York's  Fashion  Show:  Lavish  Display  of  Women's 
Raiment — One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Paris  Creations — Sixteen 
Beauties  Who  Show  the  Gowns  Off  to  Advantage — Some 
Strong    American     Competitors 182 

Anecdotes  of  Salisbury:  His  Marriage  Against  His  Father's 
Wishes — Negligence  in  Dress — Caustic  Wit — Bad  Memory 
for  Faces 183 

Benevolent  Assimilation :  "Coming  Through  the  Rice"; 
"The  Song  of  the  Campfollowers  ";  "The  Little  Brown 
Brother,"  by  Robert  F.  Morrison 183 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications   183-185 

Drama:  Florence  Roberts  in  "  Gioconda  "  at  the  Alcazar — 
"  The  Aftermath  "  at  the  Columbia.  By  Josephine  Hart 
Phelps 180 

Stage  Gossip    187 

Vanity  Fair:  Who  Are  the  Best-Dressed  Actors? — A  Noted 
New  York  Tailor  Discusses  the  Sartorial  Standing  of  Drew, 
Mansfield,  Henry  Miller,  and  Charles  Richman — Dancing- 
Masters  Object  to  Football  Tactics  in  the  Ball-Room — 
Swindlers  on  Shipboard  Not  Amenable  to  Law — Music  at 
Meals — Kitchner  as  a  Host  in  India 188 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
No  Labor  Party  in  Heaven — The  Difference  Sometimes 
Between  a  "  Shift  "  and  a  "  Chemise  " — Fish  and  Brains — 
Stevenson  on  His  Mannerisms — Still  Another  Witty  Irish- 
man— Sir  Thomas  Lipton  Tells  a  Good  One — When  Cleve- 
land Got  Lost  at  Barnegat  Bay — A  Tale  of  French  Thrift 
and  Police  Sagacity — The  New  Pope  and  the  Tearful 
Dame   of  Tombola — The   Superstitions   of    Mexican    Peons..    189 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "Science  for  the  Young";  "The  Seven 
Ages  of  Hair,"  by  Frank  Roe  Batchelder;  "Ballad  of  the 
Beauty  Doctor  ";   "  Our  Slang  Abroad  " 189 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 190-191 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 1 92 


Turkey  in  Europe  is  divided  into  seven  vilayets — Con- 
„      ,_  stantinople,  Scutari,  Janina,  where  there 

The  Faithful  v     '  '  J  ' 

and  giaour  is  a  sort  of  peace ;  and  Monastir,  Salon- 

m  bloody  war.  icaj  Kossovo,  and  Adrianople,  where  civil 
war  now  rages.  These  last  four  vilayets  are  wild  and 
mountainous.  They  are  peopled  by  the  greatest  mix- 
ture of  races  and  creeds  in  the  world.  There  are  Al- 
banians, Greeks,  Jews,  Serbs,  Gypsies,  Magyars.  There 
are  Turks,  Rumanians,  Wallachs,  Bulgars.  There  are 
half  as  many  creeds  as  breeds.  Every  distinct  race 
hates  every  other  race.     Each  creed  abhors  all  alien 


creeds.  The  Christian  hates  the  Turk,  the  Turk  the 
Jew,  the  Jew  the  Christian.  But  the  great  dividing 
line  is  between  the  Turk,  the  Moslem  master,  and  the 
Christian  Bulgars,  who  form  the  larger  part  of  the 
population  of  the  vilayets  to  which  is  vaguely  applied 
the  name  of  Macedonia.  In  the  racial  and  religious 
hatred  of  their  brutal  Moslem  oppressors  the  Bulgars 
of  Macedonia  have  the  sympathy  and  help  of  their  kins- 
men in  Bulgaria.  With  that  sympathy  and  help  they 
are  now  making  a  fierce  and  bloody  effort  to  throw  off 
the  Turkish  yoke.  Their  hope  and  desire  is  to  make 
Macedonia  an  autonomous  Christian  kingdom  or  integ- 
ral part  of  Christian  Bulgaria. 

Seven  years  ago  the  Macedonian  Revolutionary  Com- 
mittee was  formed.  To-day  it  has  an  organized  army 
of  ten  thousand  and  a  system  of  secret  police.  It  holds 
courts,  levies  taxes,  conducts  a  post-office,  and  has  an 
express  service.  Two  governments,  says  its  American 
agent,  Tsanoff,  rule  Macedonia.  By  day,  it  is  the  Turk. 
But  at  night  the  Turkish  zaptieh  retires  to  the  konak. 
the  soldiers  to  their  barracks,  and  the  government 
passes  into  the  swift  hands  of  the  Vutreshna  Organi- 
zatsia.  The  committee  has  forty-five  thousand  rifles 
and  tons  of  dynamite  hidden  away  under  hay-stacks. 
The  ransom  of  Miss  Stone  bought  part  of  them.  Be- 
fore the  breaking  out  of  open  hostilities  August  2d,  one 
great  function  of  the  committee  was  to  revenge  private 
wrongs  of  the  Bulgars.  If  a  Turk  ravished  a  Chris- 
tian girl,  he  was  marked  for  death,  and  soon  or  late  he 
was  assassinated  by  the  Macedonian  secret  police. 

Early  in  the  present  year  it  was  reported  that  the 
Macedonian  Committee  had  planned  for  an  uprising. 
April  1st  was  the  day  fixed.  But  before  that  time  came, 
Russia  and  Austria  had  secured  from  the  Sultan  prom- 
ise of  reforms — which,  however,  amounted  to  nothing. 
April  1st  passed  without  a  determined  revolt.  But  the 
Macedonian  Committee  continued  active.  It  began  a 
campaign  to  enrage  the  always  brutal  Turks  to  mur- 
derous madness.  If  Macedonia  could  be  made  a  sham- 
bles, no  matter  how,  the  Powers  would  interfere  to  the 
hurt  of  the  Turk — so  reasoned  the  committee.  There- 
fore, the  bank  of  Salonica  was  destroyed  by  dynamite. 
Trains  were  wrecked.  Villages  were  burned.  The  in- 
surgents rejoiced  in  the  murder  of  the  Russian  con- 
suls, for  it  brought  nearer  intervention  by  the  Powers. 
While  the  Turks  burned  and  butchered,  the  Bulgars 
butchered  and  burned.  Brutal  Turkish  misrule  is  now 
become  wholesale  murder.  Between  forty  thousand 
and  fifty  thousand  people  are  said  to  have  met  violent 
death  in  Macedonia  within  the  year.  "  Solitudinem 
faciunt,  pacem  appellant."  The  Turkish  atrocities 
have  at  no  time  been  more  fearful  than  at  the  present 
moment.  Bulgaria  is  thoroughly  roused,  and  has  dis- 
patched a  note  to  the  Powers  imploring  them  in  the 
name  of  humanity  to  end  the  Turkish  massacres,  and 
the  march  of  Turkish  troops  toward  her  borders.  She 
feels  that  if  the  Powers  do  not  act  she  must  fight  the 
Turk. 

The  Macedonian  Committee  has  thus,  after  many 
years,  almost  gained  its  goal.  If  the  Powers  interfere, 
if  Bulgaria  wage  successful  war  with  Turkey,  Mace- 
donia will  doubtless  be  forever  freed  from  Moslem  dom- 
ination. But  in  reaching  this  point  by  methods  only 
less  barbarous  than  those  of  the  Turk  himself,  the 
Macedonian  insurgents  have  lost  much  of  the  sympa- 
thy of  Christendom.  Between  a  "  Christian  "  murderer 
and  a  heathen  one,  there  is  little  choice.  It  is  doubtless 
partly  because  of  the  deep-seated  belief  that  both  the 
Bulgar  and  the  Turk  are  wretched  encumberers  of  the 
earth  that  the  world  has  lately  watched  them  cut  each 
other's  dirty  throats  with  only  a  mild  disposition  to  in- 
terfere. "  The  Bulgarians  who  hacked  Stambuloff  to 
pieces  are  the  lineal  descendants  of  the  mediaeval  sav- 
ages  who   did   the   bidding   of   their  yet  more   savage 


chieftains,"  says  an  English  writer.  "  The  spirit  of 
Basil  the  Bulgar-slayer,  Dustan  the  Strangler,  and 
Vlad  the  Impaler,  still  lives." 

What  would  be  Bulgaria's  chances  in  a  war  with 
Turkey?  At  first  glance  it  seems  that  the  latter  must 
overwhelmingly  prevail.  In  the  war  with  Greece,  the 
Sultan  easily  mobilized  six  hundred  thousand  men.  G. 
W.  Steevens,  the  brilliant  English  correspondent,  who 
accompanied  the  army,  said  they  were  the  best  soldiers 
in  the  world.  On  paper,  the  troops  number  one  million. 
Bulgaria  has  only  about  three  hundred  thousand  sol- 
diers all  told.  The  Turk  who  dies  fighting  the  infidel 
enters  a  heaven  where  seventy-two  lovely  houris  await 
him.  He  avoids  the  terrible  bridge  "  el  Sirat."  This 
makes  him  brave.  But  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that 
the  Sultan  rules  by  force.  While  he  wages  war  in  Bul- 
garia, large  bodies  of  soldiers  will  be  required  to  gar- 
rison Asiatic  and  European  Turkey.  Again,  the  fight- 
ing will  be  in  a  mountainous  country,  where,  even  now, 
some  hundred  thousands  of  bashi-bazouks  are  being 
harassed  by  a  few  thousand  insurgents.  It  might  be 
another  Briton-Boer  affair.  Besides,  Bulgaria  has 
been  steadily  preparing  for  war.  She  has  plenty  of 
guns  and  ammunition.  Her  soldiers  are  excellent 
marksmen.  In  the  wars  of  1876  and  1885  they  gave  a 
good  account  of  themselves.  Again,  though  Steevens 
praised  the  Turkish  soldiery,  he  said  the  officers  were 
the  worst  in  the  world.  And  as  the  Turkish  proverb 
has  it,  "  The  dead  fish  stinks  first  from  the  head."  Be- 
yond all  this,  there  is  always  the  probability  that,  in  the 
event  of  a  Turko-Bulgarian  war,  Russia  and  Austria 
will  intervene,  and  thus  forever  end  the  rule  of  the 
Turk  in  Europe. 

Meanwhile,  the  United  States  looks  on  calmly.  It  is 
none  of  our  funeral.  There  has,  indeed,  been  some 
criticism  of  the  President  for  sending  the  Mediterra- 
nean squadron  to  Beirut  on  the  false  report  that  our 
consul,  Magelessen,  had  been  shot.  The  President's 
critics  hold  that  the  act  was  hasty  and  tended  to  encour- 
age the  insurgents.  They  think  that  the  squadron 
should  only  have  been  sent  to  Crete,  near  enough  to 
act  in  emergency,  far  enough  away  not  to  stir  up 
trouble.  However  this  may  be,  it  seems  unlikely  that 
the  United  States  will  be  further  involved  unless, 
indeed,  as  some  think,  the  breaking  out  of  war  with 
Bulgaria  should  be  a  signal  for  a  massacre  of  Bulga- 
rians and  other  Christians  in  Constantinople.  A 
doubtful  dispatch  from  Berlin  says  that  the  Sultan  has 
announced  his  inability  to  protect  foreign  legations  in 
the  capital.  If  the  Sultan  can  not,  then  the  warships  of 
the  Powers  must.  Our  squadron  will  do  its  share.  But 
that  such  a  massacre  will  be  attempted  is  very  doubtful. 


A  late  dispatch  announces  that  Charles  J.   Bonaparte 
Bonaparte  nas   been   aPP°'nted   to    investigate   the 

to  probe  Indian  land  frauds  in  Indian  Territory. 

Indian   Frauds.       He    ;s    known    as    a    keen    lawyer    and    a 

fearless  man.  It  is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  bring  the 
grafters  to  bar.  The  main  facts  in  the  affair  thus  far  are 
these:  The  Creeks,  Chickasaws,  Choctaws,  Cherokees, 
and  Seminoles,  tribes  numbering  400,000,  own  lands 
worth  about  $200,000,000.  Part  pf  these  lands  the  law 
now  permits  them  to  sell.  Most  of  the  remainder  may  be 
sold  after  the  lapse  of  a  few  years.  The  Indians  are 
ignorant  and  shiftless,  their  lands  rich  and  fertile,  the 
whites  unscrupulous  and  eager  to  get  hold  of  them  al 
the  lowest  possible  prices.  To  protect  the  Indians,  by 
overseeing  sales  and  preventing  fraud,  the  Dawes  Com- 
mission of  five  was  appointed  some  years  ago.  It  is 
now  headed  by  Tarns  Bixby,  and  one  of  its  members 
is  ex-Governor  Stanley,  of  Kansas.  It  is  charged  by 
S.  N.  Brosius,  member  of  the  Indian  Rights  Associa- 
tion, that  the  very  members  of  this  commission  fori 
to  protect  the  Indians  are  interested  in  comp 


178 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


September  21,  1903. 


gaged  in  buying  up  oil  and  agricultural  lands  from  In- 
dians. It  is  even  said  that  speculative  companies  and 
government  officials  occupied  the  same  offices,  and 
that  Poor  Lo  gave  options  on  his  lands  to  a  company 
under  the  impression  that  he  was  dealing  with  the  gov- 
ernment officers.  "  The  watchdogs  have  joined  the 
wolves "  is  the  way  one  paper  puts  it.  Secretary 
Hitchcock  has  published  a  letter  in  regard  to  these 
charges,  in  which  he  deplores  the  fact  that  the  charges 
were  given  to  the  press  before  a  clear  case  was  made 
out,  inasmuch  as  the  names  of  honest  officials  should 
not  be  smirched  by  the  publication  of  mere  suspicions. 
To  this,  the  president  of  the  Indian  Rights  Association 
pointedly  replies  that  "the  inspector  should  be  above 
suspicion,  and  when  an  inspector  accepts  the  hospitality 
of  the  man  he  is  sent  to  inspect,  thus  taking  a  bribe  in 
his  favor,  or  listens  only  or  chiefly  to  one  side,  or  favors 
his  congressional  backer  in  any  way,  he  is  not  above 
suspicion." 

The    removal    of    Miss    Huldah    E.    Todd    as    postmistress    at 
Greenwood,   Dela.,   and  the  substitution  of  a 
More  Factional  frjend  of   Senator  Addicks,  has   excited  con- 
Troubles  in  siderable   comment   in   the   East.      Miss   Todd 

Delaware.  ,  -   .  , 

has  served  one  term   of  four  years,   and  was 

reappointed  a  year  ago.  Her  removal  was  a  surprise  to  her, 
and  when  in  person  she  demanded  from  Postmaster-General 
Payne  the  reason  for  her  removal,  she  was  informed  that  it 
was  because  she  was  "  particularly  and  personally  obnoxious 
to  Senator  Allee."  To  explain  this  statement,  it  will  be  neces- 
sary to  recall  that  the  long  deadlock  of  last  winter  in  the 
Delaware  legislature  over  the  election  of  United  States 
senators  was  caused  by  the  conflict  between  the  efforts  of  the 
"  Union "  Republicans  to  elect  J.  Edward  Addicks  and  the 
avowed  purpose  of  the  "  Regular"  Republicans  to  defeat  him. 
A  compromise  was  finally  effected  by  the  selection  of  Senator 
Allee,  an  Addicks  adherent,  for  the  long  term,  and  Senator 
Ball  of  the  opposing  faction,  for  the  short  term.  As  soon 
as  that  matter  was  settled,  the  question  of  the  distribution  of 
Federal  patronage  became  important  to  both  factions,  and  ic 
was  settled  by  another  compromise,  by  which  it  was 
agreed  that  the  nominations  of  Senator  Ball  should 
prevail  in  Newcastle  County  and  those  of  Senator  Allee 
in  Sussex  and  Kent.  Senator  Allee  maintains  that  this  agree- 
ment was  in  writing  and  signed,  which  Senator  Ball  denies, 
but  both  agree  that  the  arrangement  was  concurred  in  by  the 
representatives  of  the  administration  in  Washington.  Green- 
wood is  in  Sussex  County,  and  the  charge  is  made  that  the 
Addicks  faction  have  commenced  a  campaign  for  the  removal 
of  all  "  Regular "  Republican  officials  from  their  patronage 
bailiwicks.  Miss  Todd's  numerous  friends  and  relatives  have 
been  open  and  active  opponents  of  Addicksism,  and  therein 
lies  the  gist  of  the  whole  matter.  Says  Senator  Allee  in  ex- 
tenuation :  "  There  is  nothing  irregular  in  the  removal  of 
Miss  Todd.  Fourth-class  postmasters  are  kept  in  office  at 
the  pleasure  of  the  Postmaster-General.  Miss  Todd  has  held 
it  five  years.  The  civil  service  has  nothing  to  do  with  it. 
The  Republicans  down  there  are  not  Republicans  at  all.  They 
coalesced  with  the  Democrats  last  year.  The  new  appointee, 
Mr.  Houseman,  enjoys  the  confidence  of  a  majority  of  all  the 
district." 

Senator  Ball,  on  the  contrary,  sees  in  the  removal  of  Miss 
Todd  a  purpose  on  the  part  of  the  other  faction  to  remove 
every  "  Regular  "  Republican  postmaster  in  Kent  and  Sussex 
and  supplant  them  with  Addicks  workers.  For  that  reason, 
he  is  taking  a  hand  in  the  fight  for  the  reinstatement  of  Miss 
Todd — a  fight  which  has  been  lost  in  the  first  skirmish  before 
the  Postmaster-General,  but  which,  it  is  claimed,  will  be  car- 
ried up  to  the  President,  and  promises  to  reopen  the  whole 
factional  fight  in  Delaware.  Senator  Ball  says  the  agreement 
to  divide  patronage  did  not  contemplate  removals  tor  political 
purposes,  and  therefore  the  dismissal  of  Miss  Todd  is  a  viola- 
tion of  it.  It  is  claimed  that  the  Addicks  programme  is  to  get 
full  control  in  the  next  legislature,  and  insure  his  own  election 
to  the  Senate  when'  Senator  Ball's  term  expires.  What  is 
deemed  most  likely  to  happen,  if  the  fight  continues,  is  that 
both  factions  will  be  defeated,  turning  the  State  over  to  the 
Democrats  and  electing  a  Democratic  senator,  as  well  as  de- 
priving President  Roosevelt  of  the  electoral  vote  of  Delaware 
if  he  secures  a  renomination  next  year.  There  will  be  lively 
interest  taken  in  the  President's  action  when  the  Todd  case  is 
brought  to  his  attention. 


For    some    weeks    following    the    last    indictment     of     A.     W. 

Machen  and  that  of  George  W.  Beavers — 
Postal  Scandal     ..     .   .     .  c.       ,   ,  ,      .,      _     .   .  _ 

that  is  to  say,  after  July  31st — the  Postal  De- 

this  City  partment  inquiry   seemed  to  have   sailed   into 

the  doldrums.  There  appeared  to  be  no  sub- 
stantial progress  in  the  investigation,  nor  any  new  disclosures 
of  peculations.  What  was  the  reason  no  one  seemed  to  know. 
Perhaps  it  was  the  weather.  Perhaps  it  was  something  else. 
At  any  rate,  the  stagnation  attracted  the  attention  of  the 
President,  who  had  Assistant  Postmaster-General  Bristow  over 
at  Oyster  Bay  for  a  confab,  since  when  there  has  been  "  some- 
thing doing." 

Louis  Kempner,  superintendent  of  the  registry  system,  is 
charged  with  systematic  smuggling  of  Cuban  cigars  through 
the  registered  mails.  Proof  is  said  to  be  in  hand  that  fifty 
or  sixty  boxes  have  been  imported  in  that  way  without  the 
payment  of  duty,  and  that  many  boxes  have  been  sold  to 
varif.  us  officials  of  the  Washington  post-office,  including 
Posjmaster  Merritt  himself. 

mO  ;orge    E.    Green,    a    New     York    State    senator,    has     been 

chi.iged   with   being   \n.c   icated   with    George   W.   Beavers,   the 

i'oi  -i.er    superintendent     .  f    salaries    and    allowances,    in    the 

n  sale  purchases  of  Bundy  time  clocks.,  which  were  bought 


at  $125  apiece,  and  placed  in  hundreds  of  offices  where  there 
were  only  two  or  three  postal  employees  to  be  checked  by  the 
time  recorder.  Beavers,  by  the  way,  has  surrendered  himself 
and  given  bonds  in  $5,000  for  his  appearance  before  United 
States  Commissioner  Hitchcock. 

Within  the  week,  seven  new  indictments  have  been  found, 
but  the  names  of  the  accused  and  their  shortcomings  have 
not  yet  been  made  public.  Spice  has  been  added  to  the  local 
interest  in  the  scandals  by  the  involvement  of  local  post-office 
officials  in  the  operations  of  the  Postal  Device  and  Improve- 
ment Company.  This  company — of  which  D.  S.  Richardson, 
superintendent  of  the  San  Francisco  post-office,  is  president — 
was  organized  to  make  and  sell  a  letter-box  device  to  the 
government.  The  stock,  amounting  to  $200,000,  is  asserted 
to  be  largely  in  the  hands  of  postal  officials.  It  is  charged 
that  the  concern  disposed  of  some  twelve  thousand  devices 
for  attachment  to  letter-boxes  to  indicate  the  time  of  collec- 
tion of  mails,  at  exorbitant  prices,  netting  some  $30,000, 
and  that  more  than  half  of  them  are  now  lying  in  warehouses 
unused.  The  methods  of  the  company  are  said  to  have  been 
to  distribute  its  stock  where  it  would  do  the  most  good.  Its 
shares  have  been  traced  to  the  possession  of  both  Machen  and 
Beavers  in  Washington.  While  Postmaster  Montague  is  ex- 
tremely reticent,  it  is  known  that  he  was  president  of  the 
original  company,  and  is  considered  a  stockholder  in  the 
present  one,  but  efforts  to  connect  ex-Congressman  Loud  as 
a  stockholder  have  not,  it  seems,  succeeded.  Richardson  was 
summoned  to  Washington  recently  in  connection  with  the 
affair,  and  is  said  to  have  told  the  whole  story.  As  a  result. 
Post-Office  Inspector  J.  W.  Erwin,  stationed  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, has  been  indicted  and  dismissed  from  his  office.  A 
warrant  charging  him  with  conspiracy  was  served  on  Wednes- 
day. It  is  believed  that  Postmaster  Montague  will  be  asked  to 
send  in  his  resignation.  Erwin  admits  that  he  was  interested 
in  the  company,  but  says  it  involved  no  wrong-doing.  Be- 
sides, he  more  than  intimates  that  Richardson  has  made  him 
the  scapegoat.  At  the  same  time,  it  is  persistently  asserted 
that  the  contracts  were  obtained  from  the  authorities  in 
Washington  by  means  of  bribes  in  the  way  of  stock,  or  cash, 
or  both.  With  the  business  transactions  of  the  company 
Erwin  disclaims  all  connection,  other  than  that  of  having 
accompanied  Richardson  to  Washington,  and  introduced  him 
to  Machen.  According  to  his  statements,  his  six  hundred 
shares  of  stock  were  given  to  him  by  the  company  for  his 
services  in  perfecting  the  mechanical  device  which  it  has  been 
unloading  on  the  government,  and  which  he  considers  a 
valuable  improvement.  Just  now  the  atmosphere  in  post- 
office  circles  here  is  full  of  rumors,  and  the  situation  is  one 
of  waiting  to  see  what  will  come  out  of  it  all.  Every  official 
with  postal-device  stock  in  his  pocket  is  trembling  in  his 
boots.  In  all  other  respects,  it  is  claimed  that  the  affairs 
of  the  local  office  are  in  good  shape.  One  of  the  rumors 
is  that  the  resignation  of  Postmaster  Montague  is  already  in 
Washington,  and  merely  waits  acceptance,  and  that  his  suc- 
cessor, in  the  person  of  Arthur  G.  Fisk,  has  already  been 
decided  upon.  At  this  writing,  the  news  has  not  been  con- 
firmed. 


On  Labor  Day,  in  San  Francisco,  23,000  workingmen  marched 

in  line.  In  the  city  of  Chicago  the  Labor 
One  Lesson  -p.  ,  T      >T        „     , 

Day  parade  was  75,000  strong.     In  New  York, 

Labor  Dav  a    city   ten    times    tne    s'ze   of    San    Francisco, 

nearly  twice  as  large  as  Chicago,  there 
marched  exactly  8,953  men.  And  the  reason  for  this  in- 
significant showing  was — Sam  Parks.  It  is  Parks  who  has 
posed  in  New  York  as  the  idol  of  Union  Labor,  and  has 
boasted  of  the  loyalty  to  him  of  organized  workingmen.  And, 
in  fact,  though  he  was  convicted  of  extortion  and  sentenced 
to  Sing  Sing,  he  was  elected  marshal  of  the  Labor  Day 
parade,  and  given  a  vote  of  confidence.  But  you  can't  fool 
all  the  workingmen  all  the  time.  Parks  was  their  leader,  and 
they  stuck  to  him  long  after  it  was  apparent  to  outsiders 
that  he  was  an  unprincipled  grafter.  But  once  convinced  be- 
yond peradventure  that  Parks  was  a  rascal,  the  majority  of 
the  laboring  men  quit  him.  More  than  a  hundred  trades  were 
in  line  in  San  Francisco,  in  New  York  there  were  fourteen. 
3y  their  refusal  to  march  the  men  proved  that  they  love  de- 
cency and  fair-dealing,  and  will  not  long  tolerate  tyrannous 
and  unjust  exercise  of  official  power.  The  case  of  Parks  con- 
clusively demonstrates  that  there  is  no  speedier  way  to  bring 
disaster  upon  union  labor  than  to  elect  men  as  walking 
delegates  who  are  not  conservative  and  honest,  not  only  with 
the  men,  but  with  employers.  That  is  the  lesson  of  Labor 
Day  for  officers  of  labor  unions,  and,  in  fact,  for  every  work- 
ingman. 


All   three   political  parties   have   met   in   municipal   convention 

this  week.     On  Monday  night  the  Democrats 
Municipal  ,  .  ,  , 

Politics  convened,  and  with   much  tumult  and  shout- 

Getting  Warm.  ing  elected  Thomas  W.  Hickey  chairman  and 
Walter  J.  de  Martini,  secretary.  The  ballot 
showed  that  the  McNab  faction  had  about  205  votes,  the 
Horses  and  Carts  133.  The  chairman's  speech  favored  the 
bond-issue,  which  makes  it  probable  that  the  platform  will 
contain  such  a  clause.  A  committee  of  seven  was  appointed 
to  recommend  names  for  supervisoral  nomination.  The  con- 
vention then  adjourned,  subject  to  the  call  of  the  chairman. 

In  marked  contrast  to  the  disorderly  convention  of  the 
Democrats  was  the  harmonious  meeting  of  the  Republicans 
on  Tuesday,  lasting  just  an  hour.  As  expected,  John  S.  Part- 
ridge was  unanimously  elected  chairman,  and  Clifford  Mc- 
Clellan  temporary  secretary.  A.  P.  Williams,  president  of  the 
United  Republican  League,  made  a  speech,  pleading  for  a 
"  progressive  San  Francisco."  Partridge  made  another  of  like 
tenor.  Committees  were  appointed,  and  the  convention  ad- 
journed to  Wednesday  night  next. 

The  Union  Labor  party  nominated,  on  Wednesday  evening, 
Powell  Frederick,  for  county  clerk;  John  F.  Dillon,  for  coro- 
ner; and  J.  J.  Conley,  for  public  administrator.  Its  chairman 
took  occasion  to  denounce  as  "  unspeakable  cheek  and  insuffer- 
able gall,"  the  statement  of  Democratic  Chairman  Hickey  that 


the  "  so-called  labor  party  has  been  betrayed  into  the  hands  of 
Republican  politicians  by  false  leaders."  He  affirmed  that 
"  the  labor  party  has  come  to  stay."  The  tenor  of  proceedings 
showed  that  every  effort  is  being  made  to  harmonize  the  two 
factions  of  the  labor  party. 

The  hope  that  George  A.  Knight  might  be  induced  to  take 
the  Republican  nomination  for  mayor  has  vanished.  From  his 
ranch  in  Mendocino  County  he  writes  to  De  Young  that  "  under 
no  conditions  will  I  accept  the  honor  if  tendered."  Simul- 
taneously with  his  disappearance  from  the  list  of  possibilities 
there  appears  thereon  the  name  of  Henry  J.  Crocker.  He  has 
announced  his  willingness  to  run,  and  is  satisfactory  to  De 
Young.  Those  who  claim  to  know  affirm  that  he  now  stands 
the  best  chance  of  anybody.  If,  however,  something  happens 
to  put  him  out  of  the  running.  Supreme  Justice  Ralph  C. 
Harrison,  General  Stone,  and  John  McDougald  are  talked  of — 
though  they  all  have  heretofore  refused  the  honor.  As  for  the 
lesser  offices,  it  is  said  that  seven  supervisors — Boxton,  Wilson, 
Alpers,  Eggers,  Bent,  Rea,  and  Walsh — will  be  renominated; 
that  J.  Harry  Scott  is  slated  for  public  administrator,  Jake 
Steppacher  for  recorder,  Colonel  T.  F.  O'Neil  for  county 
clerk,  Frank  McGowan  for  district  attorney,  John  E.  Mc- 
Dougald for  treasurer,  Harry  Baehr  for  auditor,  Ed  Smith 
for  tax  collector,  and  Henry  H.  Lynch  for  sheriff.  Nobody 
has  been  found  who  wants  to  make  the  run  against  Washington 
Dodge. 

The  question  of  Schmitz's  indorsement  by  the  Republicans 
is,  of  course,  by  no  means  absolutely  settled.  The  ovation 
given  him  on  Labor  Day  by  the  twenty  odd  thousand  work- 
ingmen in  line  must  have  given  some  anti-Schmitz  Republican 
managers  serious  qualms.  The  question  is  still  as  pertinent 
as  ever,  Can  any  of  the  Republicans  named  win? 

The    most   important   question   now   before   the    State   of   New 
York  is  whether  the  Erie  Canal  shall  be  im- 
tilization  proved  so  as  to  make  it  capable  of  accommo- 

of  Inland  ,     .  ,  ,  ,  ™,  . 

Water  Ways  dating    thousand-ton    barges.       I  his    question 

is  shortly  to  be  submitted  to  the  people  of  the 
State  for  decision.  The  Erie  Canal  was  constructed  at  a  time 
when  the  railroad  had  not  become  a  factor  in  the  transporta- 
tion problem,  or  it  would  probably  not  have  been  constructed 
yet.  The  people  of  this  country  were  for  a  time  carried  away 
by  railroad  construction,  and  had  no  thought  for  any  other 
means  of  transportation.  The  necessity  for  cheapening  pro- 
duction has  again  called  attention  to  the  canal,  and  has  also 
called  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  canal  as  a  factor  in  trans- 
portation does  not  exist  in  this  country.  Attention  was  called 
recently  in  these  columns  to  the  fact  that  Montreal  is  divert- 
ing the  grain-shipping  trade  from  the  Atlantic  ports  of  this 
country  because  of  the  cheapness  of  its  water  transportation. 
New  York  City  has  long  felt  the  loss  of  business  resulting 
from  the  incapacity  of  the  Erie  Canal  to  handle  Western  prod- 
uce on  the  scale  that  it  is  handled  on  the  Great  Lakes.  In 
Europe  the  value  of  the  canal  is  more  justly  appreciated.  In 
Germany  the  natural  interior  water  ways  have  long  been  con- 
nected by  canals,  the  most  important  connecting  the  Oder  and 
the  Elbe.  A  more  ambitious  project  that  is  to  connect  the 
Elbe,  the  Weser,  and  the  Rhine  is  now  under  consideration. 
In  Russia,  as  in  France,  the  commercial  value  of  the  rivers  has 
been  greatly  increased  by  the  construction  of  connecting 
canals.  It  is  time  that  more  attention  should  be  paid  in  this 
country  to  this  method  of  cheapening  transportation  where 
time  in  transit  is  not  a  controlling  factor. 


A  conflict  has  arisen  between  the  railway  mail  authorities  and 
the  business  men  of  San  Jose  over  a  change 
m°S    AND  *n  t^ie  iime  °t  dispatching  mails  from  that  city 

Facilities  t0  ^an  Francisco.     Formerly  there  was  a  mail 

leaving  San  Jose  for  this  city  at  5  :4s  P.  M. 
That  service  has  now  been  discontinued,  and  now  there  is  no 
mail  leaving  there  between  three-forty-five  in  the  afternoon 
and  eight  o'clock  in  the  evening.  The  San  Jose  merchants 
protest  that  on  the  five-forty- five  mail  they  were  able  to  send 
letters  to  San  Francisco  after  their  afternoon  business  was 
closed,  and  by  means  of  a  special-delivery  stamp  have  them 
delivered  the  same  evening.  Under  the  present  arrangement 
the  three-forty -five  mail  is  too  early  to  cover  any  of  the 
afternoon  business,  and  is  also  too  close  to  the  time  of  the  local 
San  Luis  Obispo  train.  On  the  other  hand,  the  eight-o'clock 
train  is  too  late,  since  special-delivery  letters  must  lie  in  the 
post-office  until  the  next  day.  The  postal  authorities  say  that 
the  five-forty-five  broad-gauge  train  by  which  this  mail  was 
dispatched  has  been  discontinued,  and  it  is  on  this  account 
that  the  service  is  no  longer  furnished.  There  is  a  five-thirty- 
six  narrow-gauge  train  from  San  Jose,  and  there  is  no  appa- 
rent reason  why  the  mail  should  not  be  dispatched  by  this 
train.  The  postal  authorities  would  do  well  to  heed  the  pro- 
tests of  the  merchants  of  San  Jose. 

Those  who  thought  that  the  country  members  of  the  board  of 
equalization   would  lack  the  courage  to   raise 


The  State  Board 


San    Francisco's    assessment    without    having 


Unequalizes 

Assessments  any    justification    for    doing    so,    have    been 

disappointed.  The  assessment  of  this  city 
has  been  increased  thirty  per  cent.  This  increase  will  probably 
not  affect  the  city  and  county  taxes,  for  they  will  be  levied 
on  the  original  valuation,  but  it  will  compel  the  people  of  this 
city  to  pay  taxes  on  $118,000,000  in  excess  of  their  fair  share 
of  the  taxation.  The  first  intimation  of  the  intention  of  the 
board  was  a  notice  served  upon  the  board  of  supervisors 
fixing  a  time  for  the  city  to  show  cause  why  the  assessment 
should  not  be  increased.  The  board  had  previously  engaged 
an  expert  to  try  to  pick  flaws  in  the  city  assessments  that 
would  justify  an  increase  of  valuation,  but  on  the  hearing  his 
flaws  were  proved  to  be  imaginary.  The  board  laid  great  stress 
upon  a  comparison  of  the  amounts  loaned  on  mortgages  and 
the  assessed  valuation.  According  to  these  figures  and  the 
mortgage  figures  in  other  counties,  it  would  appear  that  San 
Francisco's  assessment  was  very  low.  But  it  was  shown  by 
the   statements    of   savings   banks   that   it   was    the   custom   to 


September  21,  1903. 


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lend  more  than  twice  the  amount  on  their  appraisement  of 
city  property  than  they  do  on  country  property  of  the  same 
valuation,  so  this  basis  of  comparison  fell  to  the  ground. 
Assessor  Dodge,  who  conducted  the  city's  case,  "showed  that 
within  the  last  thirteen  years  San  Francisco's  assessment  has 
been  increased  $127,000,000,  while  that  of  all  the  rest  of  the 
State  has  been  increased  only  $148,000,000  during  the  same 
period.  As  this  city  contains  only  one-third  of  the  wealth  and 
population  of  the  State,  a  just  increase  for  the  interior  would 
have  been  $254,000,000.  To  make  a  comparison  with  the  next 
largest  city  in  the  State,  Los  Angeles  city  increased  in  popula- 
tion during  ten  years  more  than  one  hundred  per  cent.,  while 
San  Francisco  increased  during  the  same  period  only  twenty 
per  cent.  The  assessment  in  Los  Angeles  County  was  increased 
$53,000,000  this  year,  but  there  was  a  low  assessment  during 
the  four  previous  years,  while  San  Francisco  during  those  four 
years  increased  $75,000,000.  Yet  the  State  board  leaves  the 
Los  Angeles  assessment  unchanged,  and  raises  that  of  San 
Francisco  thirty  per  cent.  It  is  not  probable  that  the  taxpayers 
of  this  city  have  any  remedy  against  this  act  of  injustice  ;  a 
taxing  body  has  power  to  use  its  own  judgment  in  levying 
taxes.  The  appeal  lies  only  to  the  voters,  and  it  is  well  for 
them  to  remember  that  the  security  of  all  property  in  a 
democratic  government  rests  only  upon  the  sense  of  right  that 
exists  in  the  body  of  the  people.  Those  that  have  little  or  no 
property  outnumber  those  who  have  wealth,  and  if  confiscation 
is  practiced  under  the  forms  of  law,  the  step  to  confiscation 
without  the  forms  of  law  is  both  easy  and  natural. 


Can  We 
Colonize  the 
Philippines? 


The  New  York  Evening  Post  prints  some  striking  facts  and 
figures  in  the  course  of  a  discussion  of  the 
effect  of  the  Philippine  climate  on  the  health 
of  the  white  race.     It  says : 

Any  white  man  who  remains  in  the  Philip- 
pines longer  than  three  years  is  in  danger  of  complete  break- 
down. The  climatic  influences  which  hold  most  enmity  to  the 
blood  of  the  white  man  in  the  Philippines  are  heat  and 
humidity.  The  bulletin  of  the  American  Geographical  Society 
for  June  presents  statistics  showing  that  the  temperature  at 
Manila  is  above  ninety  degrees  at  some  hour  almost  every- 
day of  the  year — usually  about  2  p.  m.  The  maximum  in  the 
month  of  May  is  frequently  above  one  hundred  degrees.  The 
minimum,  which  is  just  before  sunrise,  ranges  from  66  degrees 
in  December  to  75  degrees  in  May.  The  mean  temperature 
for  the  year  is  83  degrees.  The  mean  annual  humidity  is  79 
per  cent.,  and  the  annual  rainfall  at  Manila  75  Yi  inches.  In 
the  year  1S67  it  was  117  inches.  The  average  number  of  rainy 
days  in  the  year  is  136.  This  conjunction  of  high  temperature, 
high  humidity,  and  excessive  rainfall  makes  the  climate  almost 
unendurable  to  the  American  races.  Surgeon  Charles  F.  Ma- 
son, U.  S.  A.,  asserts  in  an  official  report  that  there  is  no  such 
thing  as  acclimatization.  "  The  great  majority  of  white  men 
in  the  tropics,"  he  says.  '*  suffer  gradual  deterioration  of 
health,  and  year  by  year  become  less  and  less  fit  for  active 
service."  The  London  Lancet  considers  the  effects  01 
tropical  climates  on  Europeans  detrimental  in  a  marked  degree 
during  childhood  and  youth.  In  other  words,  no  prudent  white 
father  would  attempt  to  rear  a  family  in  the  Philippines. 
All  the  recognized  authorities  concur  in  the  opinion  that  colo- 
nization of  the  islands  by  Americans  is  impossible. 


VIRGINIA  CITY. 


Canal  Proposed 
to  Relieve 
Levees. 


It  is  probable  that  a  canal  will  be  cut  to  relieve  the  pressure 
of  water  during  flood  seasons  about  the  city 
of  Marysville,  though  at  present  there  is  a 
hitch  in  the  negotiations.  The  army  officers 
who  are  in  charge  of  the  work  of  the  Federal 
government  in  improving  the  channels  of  the  Sacramento  and 
Feather  Rivers,  had  recommended  that  a  canal  be  cut  at 
Daguerre  Point,  ten  miles  above  Marysville.  Governor  Pardee 
and  Secretary  Melick,  of  the  State  Board  of  Examiners, 
risked  the  spot  and,  after  an  examination,  declared  themselves 
in  favor  of  letting  the  contract  for  the  work,  which  involves 
an  estimated  outlay  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight  thousand 
dollars.  But  State  Debris  Commissioner  W.  W.  Waggoner 
opposed  the  contract  as  an  unnecessary  waste  of  public  money. 
He  claimed  that  the  canal  would  be  a  feeder  that  would  throw 
the  debris  into  the  Sacramento  and  Feather  Rivers.  The 
army  officers  contended  that  the  brush  barriers  would  restrain 
the  heavier  pait  of  the  debris,  and  the  smaller  portions  would 
go  down  anyway.  Commissioner  Waggoner  was  unconvinced, 
however,  and  the  meeting  that  had  been  called  to  settle  the 
matter  recently  was  indefinitely  postponed.  It  is  under- 
stood that  since  the  postponement  of  the  meeting.  Commis- 
sioner Waggoner  has  become  convinced,  and  that  he  no  longer 
opposes  the  letting  of  the  contract. 


The  work  of  raising  the  vessels  of  the  Spanish  fleet  sunk  in 
the  harbor  of  Manila  on  May  1,  1898,  is  now 
Dewey  Sank  ended        Tfae     famous      flagship,      the      Reiua 

no  Spanish  _  .    .  _  ,     '      ,  , 

,.        ,  Lristina,  is  again  afloat,  and  will  be  used  as 

a  collier.  The  other  vessels  will  be  variously 
utilized.  But  the  singular  fact  revealed,  according  to  the 
Manila  Sunday  Sun,  is  that  "  the  Spanish  ships  of  war  do  not 
bear  the  mark  of  an  American  shell  near  or  below  the  water 
line.  The  Spaniards  burned  and  sank  their  own  vessels,  and 
many  of  them  went  to  death  with  their  ships  in  preference 
to  bearing  the  disgrace  of  defeat."  Not  only  this,  but  the  Sun 
affirms  that,  in  the  opinion  of  Captain  Garry,  "the  Spaniards 
set  fire  to  their  own  vessels  and  afterward  scuttled  them.  The 
America  shells  did  not  sink  them/'  Captain  Garry  is  the 
manager  of  the  American  company  which  is  raising  the 
vessels. 

Californians    especially    will    watch    with   keenest   interest    the 
result  of  importing  Chinese  into  South  Africa, 

as  now  planned.  The  London  correspondent 
for  ,-»-,-, 

South  Africa.         of  a  New  York  PaPer  wntes  : 

Despite  what  a  few  months  ago  seemed  to 
be  an  insurmountable  opposition,  the  introduction  of  Asiatic 
labor  in  the  South  African  Rand  is  now  practically  assured. 
Mr.  Chamberlain  took  a  wise  course  and  saved  himself  from 
attack  by  leaving  the  question  to  local  decision.  Authoritative 
news  comes  this  week  that  the  labor  commission's  report 
will  advocate  the  importation  of  Chinese  labor  as  the  only 
way  of  developing  the  agricultural  and  mining  resources  of  the 
country.  The  Boers  even  are  supporting  this  solution.  The 
commission  is  expected  to  report  in  about  a  month,  and 
Asiatics  probably  will  be  working  in  the  mines  before  the  end 
of  the  year. 


A   Place  of  Dreams   and   Niehtmares. 

Nature  places  her  mineral  treasures  in  her  most  unsmiling 
and  inaccessible  regions.  She  is  jealous  of  them.  She  locks 
them  away  in  the  fastnesses  of  frowning  hills,  surrounds  them 
with  a  belt  of  desert,  chills  with  snow  the  peaks  that  guard 
them.  Then,  deep  down,  she  lets  her  silver  and  gold  trickle 
through  the  ribs  of  the  hills,  to  lie  hidden  till  the  percolation 
of  mountain  rills  carries  away  particles  that  some  day  will 
glitter  in  the  prospector's  pan. 

The  State  of  Nevada  to-day  is  much  what  it  was  when  the 
pioneers  trailed,  desperate  and  exhausted,  across  it.  The  bust- 
ling life  of  California  is  shut  out  from  it  by  a  rampart  of 
mountains.  It  is  a  State  of  serene  stillness,  of  vast,  pri- 
mordial calm.  Man  has  made  but  little  impress  on  it,  and 
yet  seems  an  intruder  who  creeps,  a  mere  speck  of  life,  be- 
tween the  huge  indifference  of  the  arch  of  sky  and  the  floor 
of  earth. 

Here  and  there  deserts  spread  in  chrome-colored  patches, 
the  lividness  of  alkali,  breaking  out  like  an  eruption.  But, 
for  the  most  part,  it  is  a  landscape  of  idle  plains  and  un- 
dulating mountains,  stippled  with  sage,  dappled  with  cloud- 
shadows,  at  sunset  taking  on  gem-like  tints  of  purple  and 
heliotrope  and  thin  transparent  blues.  Far-flung  bastions  of 
mountains,  lifting  snow-enameled  crests  against  the  sky, 
rise  in  remote,  clear  distances,  and  lines  of  green-fringed 
river  wind  through  the  sage.  It  is  the  world  before  man, 
before  the  mammoth  and  the  mastodon,  silent,  savage,  un- 
troubled. 

In  the  wildest  corner  of  this  wild  region  that  seam  of 
gold  and  silver,  which  men  call  the  Comstock,  was  hidden. 
It  was  a  treasure  of  fabulous  worth,  and  nature  guarded  it 
with  corresponding  care.  ./Eons  passed  and  it  lay  secure,  swept 
about  by  scorched  deserts,  encircled  by  mountain  walls.  Man 
passed  it  over,  haggard  and  hungry-eyed  in  his  haste  to  reach 
the  gold  rivers  of  California.  Indians  camped  on  the  slopes 
under  which  it  lay.  Here  and  there  its  outcrop  broke  through 
the  soil  in  up-tilted  splinters  of  rock.  A  spring  that  bubbled 
from  the  mountain  side  carried  its  riches  to  the  surface,  and 
scattered  them  along  its  course  in  grains  of  gold  and  earth 
heavy  with  silver.  But  though  there  was  a  little  tentative 
prospecting  along  the  canons  that  run  up  to  the  sides  of  Mt. 
Davidson,  it  was  ten  years  after  gold  was  found  in  California 
that   the  mineral   wealth  of  Nevada  was  realized. 

Then  the  discovery  was  made,  the  treasure-chamber  was 
broken  open,  and  its  riches  torn  out.  But  at  what  deadly  cost ! 
Misfortune  attended  the  steps  of  nearly  every  one  of  that 
group  of  men  who  were  the  discoverers  and  early  exploiters 
of  the  Comstock  Lode.     Nature  fought  for  her  treasure. 

The  two  Grosh  brothers,  Hosea  and  Allen,  educated  miners 
and  men  of  character,  are  generally  supposed  to  have  been 
the  original  finders  of  the  vein.  They  had  a  cabin  in  Gold 
Canon  in  1857.  Here  they  prospected,  and  here  discovered, 
according  to  letters  written  to  their  father,  what  they  de- 
scribed as  "  two  veins  of  silver  at  the  forks  of  Gold  Canon. 
One  of  these  veins  is  a  perfect  monster."  This  "  perfect 
monster  "  is  now  supposed  to  have  been  the  south  end  of  the 
Comstock.  Here,  in  the  bleakness  of  a  mountain  winter, 
Hosea  struck  his  foot  with  a  pick,  and  died  of  blood-poisoning. 
Before  this  a  partnership  had  been  made  with  one  Brown,  of 
Gravelly  Ford,  who  was  to  furnish  funds  for  the  opening  up 
of  the  ledge.  But  before  Brown  could  get  to  his  partners  he 
was  killed  by  desperadoes.  Then  Allen  Grosh  attempted  to 
cross  the  Sierra  in  winter  with  a  companion,  Richard  Bucke, 
a  Canadian.  After  a  series  of  hardships  they  reached  the 
Last  Chance  Camp,  where  Allen  died  from  the  result  of  frost- 
bite and  exposure. 

Such  was  the  fate  of  the  discoverers  of  the  Comstock.  It 
inaugurated  a  doom  of  misfortune  which  fell  on  all  connected 
with  the  early  days  of  the  mine.  A  short  time  after  the 
Grosh  brothers'  death,  Pat  O'Riley  and  Peter  McLaughlin, 
panning  for  gold  at  the  head  of  Six  Mile  Cation,  discovered 
what  they  sought,  throwing  away  the  "  blue  dirt "  which  was 
heavy  in  the  pan.  This  was  the  top  of  the  Ophir,  the  "  blu" 
dirt "  sulphuret  of  silver  assaying  three  thousand  dollars 
to  the  ton. 

On  Gold  Hill,  almost  simultaneously,  four  prospectors  came 
on  the  same  precious  metal.  Joined  by  five  others,  they  staked 
out  the  ground,  working  with  their  long-toms  and  rockers, 
while  below  their  feet  lay  the  undreamed-of  treasures  of  the 
Yellow  Jacket,  Crown  Point,  and  Belcher.  These  men,  the 
simplest  and  most  ignorant  of  miners,  after  tasting  the  glory 
of  sudden  riches,  were  crushed  like  flies.  The  All-mother's 
wrath  pursued  them,  implacable  as  Destiny  in  a  Greek  drama. 
Of  the  nine  original  locaters  of  the  Gold  Hill  claims  all  died 
poor.  James  Fennimore,  whose  sobriquet  of  "  Old  Vir- 
ginia "  gave  the  camp  its  name,  was  thrown  from  his  horse 
and  killed.  Rodgers  committed  suicide.  Comstock.  after 
whom  the  lode  was  called,  lost  his  mind  and  committed  sui- 
cide. Of  the  Ophir  discoverers,  McLaughlin  sold  his  share 
for  $3,500,  became  cook  in  a  mining-camp,  and  died  in  the 
almshouse.  O'Riley  held  his,  got  $40,000  for  it,  lost  it  all  in 
stock  speculations,  and  died  mad. 

But  others  rose  in  a  night  to  take  their  places — thousands 
of  men  streamed  across  the  mountain  wall  that  shut  the 
desert  from  the  garden  of  California.  From  the  summit  they 
looked  into  the  land  of  Canaan,  and  saw  a  huge,  sage-colored 
expanse,  across  which  the  green  ribbon  of  a  river  wandered, 
r;n>1  whereon  lay  imbedded,  here  and  there,  mirror-like  lakes. 
Then   they  poured  down,  an  invading  army. 

The  great  vein  was  ripped  open.  Peering,  gasping,  hurry- 
ing, the  invaders  bored  their  way  into  its  secret  places.  On 
the  slope  of  Mt.  Davidson  a  mushroom  city  rose.  There 
was  no  time  for  leveling  grades  or  building  streets,  so  it 
^rew  in  tiers,  lines  of  houses  above  lines  of  houses,  kitchens 
looking  over  roofs,  all  the  mounting  rows  of  windows  staring 
out  over  one  another  at  the  mutilation  of  the  wilderness. 

With    the    throbbing   of    machinery   and    feathers    of   smoke 


smudging  the  sky's  purity,  Mt.  Davidson  was  disemboweled. 
Its  hoary  flanks  were  pierced  on  every  side,  sometimes  with 
the  pin-prick  of  the  lone  prospector,  then  drilled  into  with 
the  giant  machinery  raised  by  companies  of  men.  The  city 
rose  tier  on  tier  above,  and  the  gray  dumps  grew  below. 
As  the  mountain  was  undermined  by  a  network  of  tunnels, 
the  weight  of  buildings  it  bore  grew  heavier.  Mansions  were 
raised  and  clung  perilously  aloft  amid  the  sagebrush,  their 
bay-windows  looking  out  over  the  panorama  of  suave,  deep- 
colored  hills,  each  defined  against  the  other  in  lines  clear  as  the 
cutting  of  a  cameo. 

Finally  the  streets  roared  with  men  and  traffic.  The  great 
days  of  Virginia  City  had  begun.  The  population  leaped 
from  the  hundreds  to  the  thousands.  In  its  heyday  there 
were  thirty  thousand  souls  in  the  terraced  town  overlooking 
the  wilderness.  You  could  get  anything  there  gold  could 
buy.  There  were  French  restaurants  where  the  dinners  wer^ 
the  best  to  be  found  between  San  Francisco  and  New  York. 
Jewels  of  the  finest  quality  were  for  sale  in  small  shops  on  C 
Street.  The  cigars  and  wines  sold  over  counters  or  at  the 
hotels  were  the  choicest  money  could  command.  Dresses 
shaped  by  the  cunningest  fingers  in  Paris  swept  the  dust  of 
the  ascending  streets.  Men  who  had  wielded  the  pick  saw 
their  fortunes  mounting  by  dizzying  bounds,  built  themselves 
stately  homes,  and  lived  sumptuously.  Women,  who  as  girls 
had  run  barefoot,  fed  from  the  finest  glass  and  silver,  and 
wore  their  diamonds  like  queens. 

It  was  an  orgie  of  luxury'  encompassed  by  desolation.  In 
the  heart  of  the  wilderness,  ringed  about  with  the  silence 
of  the  early  world,  a  whirlpool  of  life  seethed.  In  was  a 
volcano  of  human  activity  in  the  midst  of  the  desert.  There 
was  no  outlet  for  its  population.  Its  people  were  penned 
in  close  and  tight  in  their  little  town,  while  around  them, 
pressing  its  loneliness  upon  them,  spread  the  unconquered 
wild.  All  day  and  most  of  the  night,  restless  crowds  passed 
down  one  street  and  up  the  other  in  a  perpetually  animated 
eddy.  Restlessness  was  the  keynote  of  their  life.  It  seemed 
intensified  by  the  solemn  quietude  that  besieged  them — the 
calm  of  the  night  sky  strewn  with  a  few  lustrous  stars,  the 
still  serenity  of  the  virgin  desert  dreaming  in  primeval  isola- 
tion. Man  and  his  petty  passions  looked  more  feebly  futile 
than  ever  in  the  heart  of  this  austere  solitude. 

But  Nature  was  not  passively  watching  him.  She  was 
unappeased  and  belligerent.  As  the  drifts  penetrated  deeper 
into  the  roois  of  the  hills,  she  sent  a  fiery  heat  down  levels 
where  the  miners  sweated  in  a  torrid  inferno.  She  drove 
water  in  upon  them  in  floods  before  which  their  machinery 
was  futile.  She  breathed  poisonous  vapors  on  them,  or 
trapped  them  in  torture-chambers  of  heat  and  suffocation. 
Many  experienced  mining  men  say  the  great  bonanzas  of  the 
Comstock  are  far  from  exhausted,  that  the  treasure-house  is 
still  richly  supplied.  But  water  and  heat  have  driven  them 
up  from  the  lowel  levels,  and  to  fight  the  enemy  new  machin- 
ery is  even  now  being  installed.  Forty  years  after  its  discov- 
ery, Man  and  Nature  are  still  struggling  in  their  giant  battle 
for  supremacy. 

To  the  modern  traveler  to  Virginia  City,  it  would  seem  that 
Nature  is  now  the  victor.  Crossing  the  Geiger  Grade,  one 
descends  upon  the  famous  camp  by  a  road  that  loops  back 
and  forth  over  the  sage-dotted  hills.  Rounding  one  of  the 
curves,  the  town,  dun-colored  in  its  gray-green  environment, 
breaks  upon  one's  view.  A  scattered  city,  prominently  perched, 
ascends  Mt.  Davidson's  sloping  side,  and  after  a  few 
streets  stops  in  a  debris  of  houses  and  unturned  earth.  It 
suggests  that  the  town  has  once  aspired  to  climbing  far  up 
the  mount,  and  then  lost  heart  and  collapsed. 

Round  about  its  feet  stand  the  dumps,  mountains  in  them- 
selves, and  above  them  the  slanting  roofs  and  windowed 
walls  of  the  hoisting-works.  Their  chimneys  rise  black  against 
a  sky  of  Italian  blue,  but  no  smoke  issues  from  them,  no 
thud  or  burr  of  machinery  disturbs  the  mountain  peace.  In 
close  line,  one  beside  the  other,  dotted  along  the  lode,  they 
stand.  Mighty  names  in  the  world  of  finance  are  here:  C  & 
C.  Ophir,  Gould  &.  Curry-.  Hale  &  Norcross,  Savage,  Belcher, 
Chollar.  In  the  early  'seventies,  when  their  cages  were  sliding 
up  and  down  and  their  chimneys  were  belching  smoke  into  the 
sky,   they   were  names   that   shook   the   world. 

That  was  the  time  when  there  were  thirty  thousand  people 
in  Virginia  City.  Now  it  is  said  there  are  scarce  fifteen  hun- 
dred. With  the  people  the  houses  have  vanished.  Where 
was  once  a  city  is  now  a  straggling  congeries  of  thoroughfares 
passing  between  vacant  walls,  thoroughfares  steeped  with  the 
clear  Nevada  sunshine,  and  filled  with  whirling  clouds  of  white 
Nevada  dust.  The  sunshine  beats  upon,  and  the  dust  blows 
upon,  groups  of  Indians  sitting  motionless  on  comfortable 
corners,   groups   of  men   lolling   listlessly   about   saloon   doors. 

From  some  of  the  upper  streets  which  were  once  thickly 
populated,  the  houses  have  been  completely  swept  away. 
Foundations  alone  remain;  sometimes  not  even  these;  only  a 
raw  wound  in  the  hillside,  which  was  once  somebody's  cellar. 
The  sage-brush  is  invading  this  territory  from  which  the 
enemy  has  retired.  Many  of  the  houses  that  have  thus  van- 
ished have  been  removed  wholesale.  They  built  well  in  the 
great  days  of  Virginia  City,  and  it  paid  to  take  one's  house 
away  in  pieces.  Houses  from  there  have  wandered  far.  They 
are  dotted  all  over  Nevada,  and  one  has  found  its  way  as  far 
afield  as  Los  Angeles  in  California.  Many  of  the  cheaper 
ones  have  been  torn  down  for  firewood.  Many  have  quietly 
collapsed  where  they  stood. 

Those  that  are  occupied  have  an  air  of  trim,  cared-for  come- 
liness oddly  at  variance  with  the  dejected  air  of  the  town. 
But  salaries  in  Virginia  are  still  high.  Miners  still  get  four 
dollars  a  day,  only  three  other  camps  in  the  United  States 
paying  such  a  wage.  There  are  blooming,  well-kept  gardens, 
in  the  spring  time  blushing  with  blossoms,  round  these 
tenanted  dwellings ;  and  buxom  housewives  sit  on  the  front 
piazzas  doing  the  mending.  Of  passersby,  on  the  residence 
streets,  there  are  few.  Now  and  then,  down  their  deserted 
length,  walking  in  the  middle  of  the  road  (as  the  sidewalks 
are  dangerous),  one  sees  the  muslin-clad  girl  in  sumi 
She  wears  a  flower-wreathed  hat,  and  white  shoes   cor 


THE        ARGONAUT 


September  21,  1903. 


go  beneath  the  frilled  skirts  she  holds  so  daintily  out  of  the 
dust.  She  might  be  going  to  a  tennis-party  or  garden  fete, 
walking  thus  in  the  midst  of  desolation,  encircled  by  the  pre- 
historic world. 

On  many  stoops  and  under  the  trees  of  many  gardens  sit 
white-bearded  old  men,  flotsam  and  jetsam  left  by  the  re- 
ceding wave  of  Comstock  glory.  They  have  grown  old  with 
the  mushroom  city.  It  and  they  were  in  their  prime  together. 
Now  they  are  too  old  to  leave  it  and  seek  a  new  life  else- 
where, and  sit  smoking  under  the  trees,  dreaming  of  the 
splendid  past.  They  have  seen  C  Street  in  its  shifting  aspects 
of  dullness  and  roaring  excitement.  They  have  felt  the  wild 
thrills  that  passed  through  men  when  the  Big  Bonanza  was 
uncovered.  They  have  forced  their  way  through  the  crowds 
at  the  stock-broker's  windows  to  read  the  bulletins  which  told 
how  fortunes  were  lost  and  made.  They  have  seen  men  rich 
on  Monday  and  poor  on  Tuesday,  men  who  are  now  million- 
aires working  in  the  drifts  with  a  pick,  men  who  were  then 
millionaires  bowed  and  broken,  trying  to  borrow  a  quarter. 
They  have  lived  against  the  bone  of  life,  have  known  how 
hot  ginger  may  be  in  the  mouth,  and  can  say  more  truthfully 
than  Justice  Shallow, 

'■  Jesu.  the  mad  days  that  I  have  spent !  " 
In  1875,  when  the  excitement  of  the  Big  Bonanza  was  aJ 
its  height,  and  a  frenzy  of  stock  gambling  had  possession  of  the 
people,  Virginia  City  was  swept  by  fire.  Two-thirds  of  the 
town  was  burned  down,  and  most  of  the  old  landmarks  went. 
The  houses  built  by  James  G.  Fair  and  John  W.  Mackay,  after 
their  prosperity  had  begun,  were  left  untouched.  The  former 
stands  as  it  was  when  he  deserted  Virginia  for  the  superior 
attractions  of  San  Francisco.  It  is  a  roomy,  square  building 
of  wood,  skirted  with  balconies,  and  with  wide  windows 
giving  on  wonderful  sweeps  of  mountain  and  desert.  It 
had  been  built  on  the  site  of  a  former  house  that  had  housed 
the  Bonanza  King  in  his  early  days.  This  had  been  the  "  one 
and  a  half-story  frame  "  of  the  period,  with  a  pointed  roof, 
and  the  humble  accommodations  that  were  enough  for  the 
ordinary  mining  man,  his  wife,  and  children.  The  Mackay 
house  was  recently  moved  to  Reno,  where  it  stands  overlooking 
the  Truckee  River,  a  comfortable,  porticoed  structure  of  two 
stories,  bay-windowed  and  roomy. 

Some  of  the  builders  of  "  mansions  "  that  still  stand  have 
already  passed  out  of  the  ken  of  men.  The  Edgington  house 
was,  in  its  day,  one  of  the  boasts  of  Virginia  City.  It  stood 
high  aloft,  overtopping  even  the  Fair  mansion,  with  descend- 
ing terraces  of  steps  and  garden  leading  to  the  street.  There 
its  inmates  lived  on  that  plane  of  sensational  extravagance 
which  marked  Virginia  in  its  brilliant  prime.  Now  they  have 
passed  from  the  knowledge  and  lips  of  men  as  cobwebs  from 
the  grass.  Their  house  is  more  enduring.  Albeit  its  stone 
wall  is  cracked,  its  balconies  all  askew,  its  garden  a  riotous 
growth  of  overgrown  shrubs  and  grass,  it  still  stands  as  a 
monument  of  a  picturesque  and  wondrous   day. 

From  its  front  porch  one  can  see  the  almshouse  below  in 
the  valley,  a  red  brick  building  gleaming  between  the  green, 
poniard-like  shapes  of  poplars.  There  lived  one  who,  too, 
had  his  day,  when  his  fortune  was  counted  by  six  naughts, 
and  men  were  glad  to  call  him  friend.  He"  was  accounted 
one  of  the  successful  men  of  the  Comstock,  built  a  block  of 
houses  in  San  Francisco,  and,  for  a  space,  rode  the  crest 
of  the  wave.  Then  the  wave  broke,  the  money  so  quickly 
made,  so  splendidly  spent,  vanished  like  morning  mist,  and  the 
Virginia  poorhouse  became  a  haven. 

But  the  most  remarkable  and  romantic  story  of  the  ups 
and  downs  of  the  Comstock  millionaires  was  that  of  Sandy 
Bowers  and  his  wife.  Sandy  was  a  teamster,  his  wife  a 
buxom  and  not  uncomely  Scotchwoman,  who  took  in  wash- 
ing and  kept  a  miners'  boarding-house.  It  was  in  the  early 
days  of  Virginia,  before  men  had  grasped  the  full  value  of  the 
discovery,  and  the  teamster,  in  company  with  others  of  his 
kind,  came  into  possession  of  several  hundred  feet  on  the 
lode  at  Gold  Hill. 

His  claim  became  one  of  the  bonanzas  of  the  region,  and 
Sandy  found  himself  richer  than  he  had  ever  thought  any  one 
could  be.  Neither  he  nor  his  wife  ever  rose  to  the  level  of 
their  fortunes ;  they  remained  the  teamster  and  the  washer- 
woman to  the  end.  There  is  a  story  that  neither  could  read 
or  write.  After  giving  an  entertainment  at  the  International 
Hotel  such  as  that  hostelry  of  many  grandeurs  had  never 
before  seen,   they   went  to   Europe   for  two  years. 

When  they  came  back  they  were  still  the  teamster  and  the 
washerwoman.  Europe  had  added  no  veneer.  But  the  money 
was  still  in  plenty.  "  Money  to  throw  to  the  birds,"  as  the 
old  man  was  wont  to  say.  Nevada  was  more  to  their  taste 
than  anywhere  else,  so  they  elected  to  remain  there,  and  that 
strange  monument  of  wealth,  which  is  known  all  through  Ne- 
vada and  California  as  the  Bowers'  mansion,  was  built  on  the 
shore  of  Washoe  Lake. 

The  site  was  one  of  extraordinary  beauty,  with  the  wall 
of  snowcapped  Sierra  behind  it,  the  sapphire  sweep  of  water 
in  front.  Money  was  never  considered  in  its  construction. 
It  was  built  of  quairied  stone,  and  furnished  with  the  cost-. 
licst  San  Francisco  could  supply.  A  library  of  books  with 
Sandy's  name  on  every  volume  was  one  of  its  features.  The 
door  handles  were  of  silver,  the  table  furnishings  the  finest 
to  be  had  at  that  place  at  that  time. 

Here  the  old  people — for  they  were  getting  old — settled 
and  dispensed  a  lavish  hospitality.  Here  an  adopted  child, 
whom  they  dearly  loved  and  had  named  Persia,  died.  Here, 
too,  later  on,  Sandy  died,  and  was  buried  in  the  garden,  under 
the  shadow  of  the  Sierra.  And  here — the  shades  of  evening 
beginning  to  close  on  this  strange  drama — poverty  overtook 
his  widow.  She  strove  to  redeem  her  first  losses  by  specula- 
tion, throwing  good  money  after  bad.  In  her  case  the  wheel 
of  fortune  made  a  complete  revolution.  Her  old  age  saw  her 
as  p  <or  as  she  had  been  in  her  youth.  She  passed  from  stage 
to  ntage,  and  finally  made  a  livelihood  by  practicing  fortune- 
telling  in  San  Francisco,  it  having  been  always  understood 
tf?' ;  she  had  the  gift  of  second  sight.  The  crystal  in  which 
sb;  gazed  had  shown  Ucr  many  things,  but  nothing  stranger, 
m*yre  dramatic,  and  varied  than  her  own  life. 


The  "  mansion "  still  endures.  The  Lombardy  poplars 
planted  about  it  have  thriven,  and  now  make  a  line  of  sentinel 
foliage  round  its  walls.  In  the  wilderness  of  the  Nevada 
landscape  it  has  the  air  of  an  Italian  villa.  Its  look  of  formal 
elegance,  backed  by  a  mighty  mountain  range  and  surrounded 
by°the  sweeping  desolation  of  sage-brush  hills,  is  arresting, 
almost  startling.  The  wayfarer,  ignorant  of  its  history,  gazes 
at  it  in  slow  surprise.  Who  came  thus  far  afield  to  rear  a  villa 
in  the  wilderness?  The  walls  of  yellowish  stone  gleam  between 
the  poplars,  the  mountains,  snow-crested,  rise  abruptly  behind, 
before  it  the  glassy  lake  lies  picturing  the  sky.  It  is  like  a 
bit  of  old  Europe  dropped  suddenly  into  the  heart  of  new 
America. 

These  were  the  wrecks  of  the  Comstock — the  victims  which 
followed  the  procession  that  the  Grosh  brothers  led.  Of  the 
many  who  withdrew  from  the  whirlpool  with  comfortable  for- 
tunes, one  hears  little.  Virginia  City  history  has  always  been 
written  in  the  superlative  degree.  Its  tragedy  is  dark  and 
overwhelming,  its  comedy  lurid  and  fantastic.  On  the  one 
side  is  suicide,  beggary,  madness  ;  on  the  other,  riches  past  the 
dream  of  avarice,  successes  never  looked  for  in  the  wildest 
moments  of  castle-building,  mundane  glories  more  splendid 
than  the  most  extravagant  pipe-dream. 

Could  the  four  men  who  discovered  the  Big  Bonanza  have 
looked  into  the  future,  would  they  have  been  able  to  believe 
what  they  saw  ?  A  blacksmith,  a  miner,  and  two  saloon- 
keepers became  possessed  of  a  property  that  in  five  years 
yielded  one  hundred  and  ten  millions  of  dollars.  These  men 
entered  the  mining  city  unknown,  and  one,  at  least,  penniless. 
Where,  later  on,  they  were  to  tap  one  of  the  greatest  ore 
bodies  ever  discovered,  sage  and  grass  grew.  Hundreds  of 
feet  beneath  this,  one  of  the  four  was  to  follow  a  seam  of 
bluish  clay,  at  first  a  mere  thread  in  the  face  of  the  drift, 
that  like  a  magic  clue  was  to  lead  them  into  one  of  the 
world's  treasure-chambers. 

As  this  thread  widened  and  developed,  so  did  their  fortunes 
and  futures.  Where  miners'  boarding-houses  and  foothill 
cabins  had  sheltered  their  youth,  their  maturity  saw  them 
raising  palaces  and  rifling  Europe  for  their  contents.  Step 
by  step  they  rose  to  places  undreamed  of  in  their  wildest 
imaginings.  They  were  swept  on  the  crest  of  their  millions 
so  far  from  their  early  beginnings  that  it  did  not  seem  pos- 
sible that  one  career  could  touch  such  divergent  points.  They 
were  the  conquerers,  the  figures  that  stood  at  the  end  of  the 
pendulum's  swing  opposite  to  that  where  stand  the  Grosh 
brothers'  tragic  spectres.  Geraldine  Bonner. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Carnegie  History  Retold. 
There  has  just  been  published  in  a  limited  edition  a  "  His- 
tory of  the  Carnegie  Steel  Company,"  by  James  Howard 
Bridge,  at  one  time  private  secretary  to  Andrew  Carnegie. 
Of  this  book,  which  is  not  particularly  sparing  of  criticism 
upon  Mr.  Carnegie,  the  New  York  Tribune  says: 

It  traces  in  close  detail  the  history  of  the  latter's  steel  busi- 
ness from  its  inception  in  1858  to  its  absorption,  as  the  Car- 
negie Company,  in  1901,  by  the  United  States  Steel  Corpora- 
tion. Much  space  is  devoted  to  the  effort  made  by  Henry  C. 
Frick,  Henry  Phipps,  and  Judge  William  H.  Moore,  in  1890, 
to  arrange  for  the  purchase  of  the  Carnegie-Frick  properties, 
with  the  view  of  combining  them.  Mr.  Carnegie  asked 
$1,000,000  for  a  ninety  days'  option  on  his  entire  interest, 
at  a  price  of  $157,950,000,  and  afterward  raised  the  option 
figure  to  $1,170,000.  If  the  sale  had  been  consummated,  Mr. 
Bridge  says,  it  would  have  been  on  the  basis  of  $250,000,000 
for  the  entire  property,  except  the  company's  holdings  of  the 
H.  C.  Frick  Coke  Company  and  allied  interests.  The  money 
market  disturbance,  due  to  the  death  of  ex-Governor  Flower, 
however,  made  it  necessary  for  Judge  Moore  and  his  associates 
to  seek  an  extension  of  their  option;  but  this  Mr.  Carnegie 
refused  to  grant,  and  he  also  exacted  payment  of  the  $1,000,000 
forfeit,  according  to  the  book. 

When  the  Carnegie  Company  was  sold  to  the  United  States 
Steel  Corporation,  Mr.  Bridge  says,  if  all  the  stockholders  of 
the  former  company  had  been  treated  alike,  the  price  received 
would  have  been  $626,267,040  in  securities  of  United  States 
Steel,  which  at  the  market  price  would  have  been  worth 
$447,416,340,  or  nearly  double  the  price  at  which  Judge  Moore 
obtained  an  option  on  the  property. 

The  attempted  transfer  of  Mr.  Frick's  stock,  without  his 
consent,  under  the  so-called  "ironclad  agreement";  Mr. 
Frick's  vigorous  resistance  and  the  Atlantic  City  compromise, 
and  the  consequences  of  the  threat  of  Mr.  Carnegie  to  con- 
struct a  tube  plant  at  Conneaut  Harbor,  on  Lake  Erie,  are  fully 
treated.  The  book  also  contains  a  letter  said  to  have  been 
written  to  Mr.  Frick  on  May  15,  1899,  by  Charles  M.  Schwab, 
who  said  that  England  could  not  make  steel  rails  at  a  net 
cost  of  less  than  $19  a  ton,  while  the  Carnegie  Steel  Company 
could  make  rails  at  less  than  $12  a  ton  and  ship  them  abroad 
so  as  to  net  $16  at  the  works  for  foreign  business.  The  price 
of  steel  rails  here  at  the  time  was  $28.12  a  ton,  with  some  con- 
tracts running  below  $20.  Mr.  Schwab  prophesied  on  the 
basis  of  this  fact  that  the  Carnegie  Steel  Company  was  going 
to  control  the  steel  business  of  the  world. 

There  is  perhaps  no  elevator  in  the  world  more  exclusive 
than  that  provided  at  the  Capitol  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  for 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  That  elevator  can 
be  used  by  exactly  eleven  people,  and  no  one  else  would  for 
a  moment  consider  entering  it  except  as  the  guest  of  one  of 
these  eleven  privileged  gentlemen.  The  fortunate  eleven 
are  the  nine  justices  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court, 
the  clerk,  and  the  marshal  of  the  court.  The  elevator  goes 
from  the  ground  floor  of  the  Capitol  to  the  main  floor,  on 
which  is  located  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 
It  is  a  small  elevator,  so  that,  with  its  conductor,  three  portly 
forms  of  justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States 
would  fill  it.  It  is  one  of  the  very  latest  designs  of  electric 
elevators,  and  is  finished  in  magnificent  style. 


"A  topheavy  community"  is  the  teim  applied  to  Johannes- 
burg by  Arthur  Hawkes  in  a  vivacious  article  in  the  Review 
of  Reviews.  The  phrase  describes  well  enough  British  South 
Africa  as  a  whole.  The  gold  and  diamond  craze,  ably  abetted 
by  the  campaign  of  Cecil  Rhodes's  agents,  has  peopled  the 
country  with  managers  and  employers.  Labor  is  deficient.  The 
farm  laborer  in  Rhodesia,  after  a  short  term  service,  buys  him 
a  wife,  supported  by  whom  he  lives  happy  ever  after.  Of  the 
Kaffirs  writes  Mr.  Hawkes :  "  They  work  part  of  the  time. 
rest  most  of  the  time,  and  talk  all  the  time." 


Thirteen  silver  Apostle  spoons,  with  figures  of  Christ  and 
the  twelve  Apostles  upon  them,  were  auctioned  at  London 
recently.  They  brought  the  record  price  of  twenty-four  thou- 
sand five  hundred  dollars.  The  spoons  were  dated  1536,  and 
constitute   the  earliest  complete   set  known. 


Walter  J.  Travis,  who  held  the  title  in  1900  and  1901,  won 
the  amateur  championship  of  the  United  States  Golf  Asso- 
ciation for  the  third  time,  recently,  by  defeating  Eben  M. 
Byers  by  5  up  and  4  to  play. 

Carrie  Nation,  following  the  example  of  John  L.  Sullivan, 
James  J.  Corbett,  and  others  of  her  predecessors  in  the 
strenuous  life,  is  going  on  the  stage.  She  is  to  appear  in  a 
new  version  of  "  Ten  Nights  in  a  Bar  Room,"  and  one  of  the 
scenes  will  represent  her  using  her  famous  hatchet  to  ad- 
vantage. 

Aguinaldo,  the  ex-revolutionary  leader,  now  a  pronounced 
supporter  of  the  policy  maintained  by  the  United  States  in  the 
Philippine  Islands,  has  just  addressed  a  letter  of  advice  to  his 
countrymen.  In  this  he  urges  them  to  forsake  their  besetting 
sin  (gambling),  to  improve  their  methods  of  agriculture,  and 
to  attend  the  public  schools  so  generously  provided  to  furnish 
them  educational  facilities. 

Shortly  after  he  was  elected  president  of  France,  M.  Loubet 
offered  a  large  sum  for  the  Castle  of  Mezenc,  which  once  be- 
longed to  Diana  of  Poitiers,  the  favorite  of  Henry  the  Second. 
His  offer  was  refused  at  the  time,  but  recently  he  succeeded 
in  getting  the  chateau,  which  is  most  picturesquely  situated, 
near  Montelimar,  and  has  a  waterfall,  three  ponds  filled  with 
trout,  and  a  large  park  with  plenty  of  game.  The  price  paid 
was  one  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  francs.  From  his 
tower  the  president  can  now  see  his  birthplace,  Marsanne, 
where  his  mother  still  lives. 

In  the  class  which  has  just  entered  the  Naval  Academy  at 
Annapolis,  there  are  several  grandsons  and  descendants  of 
naval  fighters  and  other  notables  who  have  made  a  name  for 
themselves  in  the  country's  history.  The  young  son  of  Admiral 
Sampson — Ralph  E.  Sampson — who  received  his  appointment 
from  President  Roosevelt,  is  at  the  academy.  He  is  small,  and 
bears  little  likeness  in  person  to  his  father.  The  grandson 
of  Commodore  Truxton,  who  came  into  prominence  at  the 
time  of  our  unpleasantness  with  France,  is  in  the  "  plebe  " 
class,  as  is  also  the  grandson  of  General  Beauregard. 

Lord  Dudley,  who  is  considered  the  most  popular  viceroy 
Ireland  has  ever  had,  is  a  remarkable  man  in  many  ways.  He 
is  one  of  the  richest  peers- in  Great  Britain.  He  has  no  need 
of  his  salary  of  $100,000  a  year  as  lord  lieutenant  of  Ireland. 
Indeed,  the  cost  of  maintaining  his  viceregal  office  far  exceeds 
that  sum.  His  collieries  in  the  "  Black  Country  "  alone  return 
him  over  $200,000  a  year,  and  he  also  owns  deposits  of  minerals 
in  Staffordshire  and  Worcestershire,  iron  works,  agricultural 
estates  in  various  parts  of  England,  and  plantations  in  Jamaica 
and  other  West  Indian  islands.  Shortly  after  Lord  Dudley 
was  made  viceroy,  he  toured  Ireland  in  his  automobile  with 
Lady  Dudley,  and  when  they  returned  to  Dublin  he  had 
made  hosts  of  friends  everywhere,  and  there  was  hardly  a 
phase  of  Irish  life  with  which  he  was  unfamiliar. 

Abdul  Hamid,  Sultan  of  Turkey,  believes  that  he  needs  a 
competent  press-agent,  so  he  has  engaged  Joseph  E.  Mor- 
combe,  of  Cedar  Rapids,  la.,  to  act  in  that  capacity.  Morcombe 
was  picked  up  by  Chekib  Bey,  the  Turkish  minister,  who  was 
attracted  by  Morcombe's  vigorous  reports  from  Des  Moines 
during  the  recent  political  convention.  The  Sultan  thinks  he 
is  getting  the  worst  of  it  in  international  diplomacy  on  account 
of  the  alert  and  complete  methods  of  the  Western  nations  in 
making  their  side  of  the  story  public.  In  view  of  the  fact  that 
American  newspaper  men  are  always  at  the  front,  Abdul  Hamid 
sent  instructions  to  Chekib  Bey  to  select  a  good  man  and  send 
him  over.  It  will  be  Morcombe's  duty  to  issue  all  official  state- 
ments of  affairs  in  the  Turkish  Empire,  particularly  troubles 
in  which  foreigners  are  involved.  He  will  also  censor  all  press 
matter  sent  from  Turkey. 

An  anonymous  writer  in  the  Boston  Transcript  declares  that 
John  D.  Rockefeller's  death  would  make  no  great  difference 
as  regards  the  future  of  his  benefactions  ;  for  if  ever  a  man  had 
a  son  after  his  own  pattern — mind  and  heart — he  has.  "  John 
D.  Rockefeller,  Jr.,  is  a  chip  of  the  old  block,"  continues  the 
writer.  "  He  is  accessible.  He  has  a  pleasant  manner.  He 
goes  to  his  office  in  the  Standard  Oil  Building  every  day  when 
he  is  in  New  York,  He  works  hard  and  regularly.  But  there 
is  the  Rockefeller  sphinx-like  method  in  all  that  he  does. 
He  holds  his  father  in  great  respect — in  reverence,  in  fact. 
He  has  the  same  church  creed.  He  maintains  and  conducts  a 
large  Bible  class — with  sincerity  and  a  good  deal  of  zeal. 
He  keeps  himself  informed  of  the  management  of  the  great 
Rockefeller  interests,  benefactions,  and  all.  He  is  a  man  of 
the  same  simple  tastes  and  quiet  life,  and  of  few  diversions. 
Yachts  and  great  social  display — he  has  none  of  them.  He  is 
the  heir  presumptive  who  is  most  seriously  training  himself 
for  his  great  responsibilities  and  duties." 

During  the  recent  Humbert  trial,  the  French  cartoonists 
found  great  delight  in  poking  fun  at  the  "  grande  Therese." 
In  almost  every  one  of  the  illustrated  papers  she  was  repre- 
sented as  a  corpulent,  coarse-featured  woman,  with  none 
of  that  feminine  grace  or  charm  which  is  the  possession  of 
nearly  every  Frenchwoman.  However,  acording  to  one  corre- 
spondent who  w:as  present  at  the  trial,  Mme.  Humbert  is  not 
unhandsome.  She  is  neither  stout  nor  ungainly,  nor  vulgar. 
Her  features  are  fairly  regular  and  well-defined,  her  nose  is 
aquiline,  and  her  hair,  which  is  abundant,  is  jet  black.  "  From 
time  to  time,"  says  the  writer,  "  she  raised  her  head  and  looked 
slowly  round  the  court,  and  at  such  moments  one  could  well 
believe  that  in  the  zenith  of  her  golden  days,  when  diamonds 
sparkled  in  her  raven  hair  and  her  figure  showed  to  advantage 
in  a  fashionable  Parisian  toilet,  ministers  of  state  and  high  Re- 
publican functionaries  counted  it  not  beneath  them  to  pay  court 
to  Mme.  Humbert  in  her  box  at  the  Opera.  Even  in  the  dock 
she  dressed  with  good  taste  and  simplicity,  and  the  impression 
she  made  was  by  no  means  unfavorable." 

Theodore  Roosevelt  is  the  first  President  of  the  United  States 
for  many  years  to  write  his  own  messages  and  speeches.  It  is 
usually  supposed  (remarks  William  E.  Curtis)  that  the  words 
of  a  ruler  are  his  own,  and  his  acts  the  acts  of  his  ministers, 
but  as  a  rule  the  speeches  of  emperors,  kings,  and  Presidents 
are  composed  by  their  ministers,  or  at  least  the  material  is  fur- 
nished them.  The  speech  from  the  throne  of  a  European  mon- 
archy is  seldom  the  composition  of  a  sovereign,  but  is  aimost 
invariably  prepared  by  his  ministers  for  him  to  deliver.  This 
is  the  case  with  every  sovereign  in  Europe  except  Wilhelm  of 
Germany,  who,  like  Mr.  Roosevelt,  never  allows  anybody  to  put 
words  into  his  mouth,  although  he  often  has  several  accom- 
plished gentlemen  to  collect  facts  "and  statistics  for  him.  The 
massages  of  the  Presidents  are  usually  composites  constructed 
by  the  several  Cabinet  officers.  Mr.  Adee,  second-assistant 
secretary  of  state,  has  written  the  foreign  affairs  of  the  Presi- 
dent's message  every  year  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  until  last 
year,  and  his  copy  has  been  usually  accepted  with  very  few 
changes.  Last  year  it  went  into  the  waste-basket,  although 
no  doubt  the  President  got  many  good  ideas  from  it.  Ordi- 
narily, the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  prepares  that  part  of  the 
message  which  relates  to  the  finances,  the  Postmaster-General 
that  which  refers  to  postal  affairs,  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture 
that  which  relates  to  the  condition  of  the  crops,  and  the  prod- 
ucts of  the  country,  and  the  rest  of  the  Cabinet  furnish  con- 
tributions about  the  matters  which  come  under  their  jurisdic- 
tion, but  that  plan  was  abandoned  when  the  present  occupant 
of  the  White  House  sent  his  first  message  to  Congress  in  De- 
cember, 1 90 1,  and  to  this  day  he  has  continued  to  prepare  his 
own  messages,  as  he  prepares  his  own  speeches,  and  it  costs 
him  a  great  deal  of  labor. 


September  21.  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


NOT    DOWN    IN    THE    LOG. 

The  Story  of  the  Famine  on  the  S=hooner  "  Hulda  Spidds." 

Captain  Podweed.  master  of  the  American  schooner 
Hulda  Spidds,  gazed  at  the  solitary  biscuit  in  the  mid- 
dle of  the  bread-basket.  It  alternately  diminished  and 
grew  before  his  eyes,  for  it  was  the  last  one.  and  had 
now  for  three  days  been  the  sole  representative  of  food 
on  his  craft.  Mrs.  Podweed.  angular  and  dignified, 
sat  on  a  locker  and  swayed  genteelly  back  and  forth  as 
the  Hulda  wabbled  in  the  seaway. 

"  It's  a  darned  small  thing,  that  biscuit."  remarked 
her  husband,  wiping  his  eyes.  "  Have  you  still  got  the 
potato?" 

Mrs.  Podweed  stiffly  put  her  hand  into  a  voluminous 
pocket  of  her  black  alpaca  and  extracted  a  diminutive 
and  withered  ruber  about  the  size  of  a  hen's  egg. 
"  You  don't  suppose  I'd  et  it?"  she  inquired,  with  feeble 
asperity.  "  I  think.  Hiram,  after  the  way  I've  darned 
your  socks  for  twenty  years  you'd  know  better  than 
to  accuse  me." 

Mrs.  Podweed  wept  into  a  starched  handkerchief, 
and  her  gaunt  husband  pushed  his  cap  off  his  forehead 
impatientlv.  "  Xow,  look  here,  Susan."  he  said,  testily, 
"  you  don't  suppose  I  meant  anything  by  that,  did  you  ? 
Eat  it  and  welcome  for  all  I  care." 

"  But  it  would  be  improper."  protested  his  wife. 
with,  however,  a  yearning  glance  at  the  runt  of  a 
potato  in  her  palm.  "  to  eat  it  when  our  hands  are  with- 
out anvthing.  We  should  show  them  that  we  are  above 
it ;  we  must  set  them  an  example,  Hiram." 

Captain  Podweed  gazed  through  the  open  skylight 
at  a  fleecy  cloud  over  the  main  truck.  His  pale  lips 
closed  sharply,  and  he  nodded  till  the  thin  chin  whisker 
over  his  throat  waved  aggressively.  "  It's  four  days 
since  we  et  anything,"  he  continued.  "  Let's  see.  We 
had  a  biscuit  twice  a  day  before  that.  I  reckon,  Susan, 
vou  must  be  hungry." 

The  woman  on  the  locker  smoothed  out  her  im- 
maculate apron  and  looked  at  the  deck.  Her  lips 
quivered  as  she  bent  over  to  hide  the  moisture  in  her 
eyes.  "  I  wish  we  had  somethin'  sort  o'  stren'thenin' 
for  you,  Hiram." 

"  Well,"  said  the  skipper  of  the  Hulda  Spidds,  "  it 
aint  exactly  Christmas  with  any  of  us.  I  wish  I  knew 
why  we  don't  sight  nothing." 

"Are  we  fetchin'  along  any?"  asked  Mrs.  Pod- 
weed. 

"  No.  the  hands  are  tuckered  out.  Firkin  says  we 
can't  even  flatten  a  sheet.  The  men  are  getting  ugly, 
too.  Prob'ly  we'll  have  to  see  to  it.  If  they  get  reel 
mean  it  might  be  necessary  to  do  something."  The 
captain  drew  himself  up. 

"A  mutiny?"  ventured  his  wife,  sitting  up  very 
straight.  "  Why,  Hiram,  they  dasn't !  You've  done 
all  you  could.     We  aint  had  as  much  to  eat  as  them. 

I — I "   but   she    w-as    too   overcome    to    finish,    and 

Captain  Podweed,  with  a  curt  nod,  slowly  ascended  the 
steps  to  the  deck. 

The  Hulda  Spidds  was  rocking  in  the  trough  of  a 
sparkling  sea.  Her  slim  masts  were  bare  of  sails,  and 
at  the  wheel  a  scrawny  sailor  hung,  evidently  in  the 
last  stages  of  weakness.  Others  were  scattered  in  the 
waist  or  sprawled  on  the  little  fo'c's'lehead.  Firkin,  the 
huge-fisted  mate,  leaned  over  the  rail  watching  dully 
the  play  and  splash  of  the  water  rustling  in  from 
westward.  All  this  Captain  Podweed  took  in  with  one 
comprehensive  glance.  Then  he  strode  over  to  the 
mate's  side.  "  We  aint  sixty  miles  off  shore,  I'll  bet," 
he  said. 

"  I  been  figgurin'  it  out  myself."  responded  Firkin. 
"  If  the  sight  we  got  this  morning  was  all  right  and 
our  chronometers  aint  off,  San  Francisco  ought  to  be 
right  in  there."  He  pointed  a  crooked  and  unsteady 
hand  to  the  east,  where  a  thin  line  of  haze  obscured 
the  horizon. 

"  I  wish  we  could  get  some  sail  on  her,"  pursued  the 
skipper,  casting  his  eyes  aloft. 

That  aint  to  be  done,"  the  mate  answered,  thickly. 

At  this  instant  Mrs.  Podweed's  head  was  stuck  up 
from  the  companion-way.  Later  her  bony  shoulders 
followed,  and  with  a  roll  of  the  schooner  she  was 
thrown  out,  as  it  were,  upon  the  deck,  where  she 
swayed  in  frigid  dignity.  The  skipper  made  his  slow 
way  over  to  her  and  helped  her  to  the  skylight,  where 
she  sat  down,  still  nursing  carefully  the  spotlessness 
of  a  white  apron.  She  trembled  slightly  when  she  was 
seated,  and  turned  to  look  at  the  man  behind  her  at 
the  wheel.  He  glanced  at  her  indifferently,  and  al- 
lowed the  spokes  to  slip  uselessly  in  his  nerveless 
hands. 

"Are  you  very  hungry?"  asked  Mrs.  Podweed. 

The  sailor  saluted  her  with  a  feeble  flourish.  "  No 
more  than  yourself,"  he  responded. 

"  I'm  saving  that  last  biscuit,"  she  continued,  a  flush 
on  her  meagre  cheek.  "  I  think  it  might  make  a  pud- 
ding, if  any  one  got  reel  sick.  I'm  a  great  hand  at 
making  Brown  Betty.  Did  you  ever  eat  Brown 
Betty?" 

"What's   it  like,   ma'am?" 

Mrs.  Podweed  grew  quite  animated  in  her  descrip- 
tion of  the  mysteries  of  this  dish,  and  her  angular  form 
fairly  filled  out  with  reminiscent  enthusiasm. 

In  the  meantime,  Captain  Podweed  and  Mr.  Firkin 
discussed  the  chances  of  a  rescue.  Firkin  was  dubious, 
and  frequentlv  had  to  stop  and  cough.  which,  he  care- 
fully explained,  made  him  warmer.  "  This  breeze  cuts 
into  a  chap  so,"  he  remarked.  "  I  aint  been  rightly 
warm  for  a  week." 


The  skipper  nodded  and  thrust  his  hands  into  the 
pockets  of  his  jacket.  Then  he  called  to  the  cook,  who 
was  huddled  in  the  lee  of  his  abandoned  galley.  "  Bring 
me  my  glasses  from  the  cabin  rack,"  he  ordered. 

The  cook  obeyed,  treading  softly  and  casting  frequent 
glances  backward  at  the  two  officers.  When  he  re- 
appeared his  lips  were  moist  and  his  jaws  were  work- 
ing stealthily.  Podweed  snatched  the  glasses  and  put 
them  up  to  his  eyes.  The  minutes  dragged  while  he 
scanned  the  horizon  for  a  sail.  Mrs.  Podweed's  voice 
rose  and  fell  shrilly,  with  an  occasional  break  as  she 
exchanged  epicurean  confidences  with  the  helmsman. 

At  last  the  captain  dropped  the  glasses  and  looked 
at  his  mate.  "  I  don't  see  a  dummed  thing,"  he  said, 
shortly.     "  Try  your  hand  at  it." 

The  mate  gazed  long  and  earnestly.  He,  too,  saw 
nothing,  and  the  glasses  were  finally  thrust  into,  the 
case  by  the  binnacle.  Then,  with  a  needless  injunction 
to  keep  a  bright  lookout,  Captain  Podweed  called  to 
his  wife,  and  they  went  below. 

A  moment  later  a  scream  issued  from  the  cabin.  The 
mate  hobbled  to  the  open  skylight  and  peered  down. 
He  saw  Mrs.  Podweed  with  her  face  buried  in  her 
apron,  and  heard  the  deep  and  blasphemous  accents 
of  the  skipper. 

"What's  the  matter?"  screeched  Firkin. 

Then,  as  his  eye  caught  the  emptiness  of  the  bread- 
basket, he  stepped  away. 

Later.  Captain  Podweed  again  searched  the  horizon. 
Presently  he  called  Firkin  to  his  side,  and,  with  sup- 
pressed excitement,  pointed  out  to  him  an  object  on 
the  sea-line.  Then  both  swung  around,  and  five  min- 
utes later  the  solitary  flag  that  floated  upside  down 
from  the  main  truck  was  joined  by  another  and  an- 
other, till  the  flag  locker  was  empty,  and  the  Hulda 
Spidds  was  dressed  as  for  a  gala  day. 

The  point  on  the  horizon  grew  in  size.  Pretty  soon 
the  helmsman  saw  it  and  swore  it  was  a  steamer.  "  I 
can  see  the  smoke."  he  w'hispered,  huskily. 

A  quarter  of  an  hour  passed.  Captain  Podweed 
suddenly  ordered  the  flags  down.  "  This  aint  no  holi- 
day." he  vouchsafed  to  the  grumblings  of  his  crew. 
"  They  see  us  all  right,  and  there  aint  no  use  playing 
the  goat." 

When  the  steamer  was  within  three  miles,  Firkin 
recognized  it  as  a  San  Francisco  coaster.  "  She's 
pretty  far  out,  I  guess,"  he  said,  in  wavering  tones. 
"  But  then  we're  farther  in,  maybe,  than  we  thought." 

"  I  wish  we  could  get  them  jibs  up,"  murmured 
Podweed. 

"  Oh,  she'll  get  us  soon  enough,"  said  the  mate. 
"  She's  coming  this  way,  and  she'll  see  we're  in  distress. 
The  Hulda's  poking  her  nose  into  all  quarters  at  once." 

Spite  of  an  empty  belly  and  swimming  eyes,  Pod- 
weed was  recovering  himself  as  rescue  grew  closer. 
In  all  his  life  he  had  never  asked  man's  aid  nor  un- 
bent an  inch  of  his  cast-iron  backbone.  He  was  a 
hard  man.  and  he  gloried  in  it.  But  here  was  the  end 
of  his  self-satisfied  course;  he  was  to  be  ignominiously 
rescued  within  fifty  miles  of  his  port — charitably  as- 
sisted— and  he  ground  his  teeth  as  he  thought  of  how 
skippers  from  San  Diego  to  Puget  Sound  would  re- 
joice at  his  downfall.  He  fought  back  the  weakness 
that  would  gladly  have  yielded  and  fallen  upon  the 
mercy  of  the  master  of  the  steamer  coming  up  from 
the  south.  With  a  grim  pleasure  he  remembered  that 
not  a  word  of  tht  straits  of  the  past  three  weeks  was 
in  the  log.  He  had  not  been  brought  to  that.  And 
while  he  studied  the  new-comer,  he  formulated  a  plan 
to  save  his  reputation,  his  crew,  and  his  money.  When 
the  coaster  was  within  a  mile  he  called  up  his  crew. 
They  all,  for  the  first  time  in  three  days,  responded 
to  his  command.     "Get  them  jibs  up."  he  ordered. 

There  was  a  moment's  hesitation,  and  then  three 
men  went  slowly  forward  and  tailed  on  to  a  halliard. 
The  mate  joined  them,  and  slowly,  inch  by  inch,  the  sail 
crept  upward,  bellying  and  flapping  in  the  breeze. 
When  it  stuck,  Podweed's  profanity  was  breathless. 
In  the  dull  silence  after  a  paroxysm  of  his  blasphemy, 
Mrs.  Podweed  emerged  from  the  cabin  and  came  for- 
ward. In  her  black  alpaca  and  starched  apron  she 
seemed  an  incongruous  figure.  Her  eyes  were  moist 
and  her  thin  cheeks  very  pale.  But  the  stiff  dignity  of 
many  years  had  not  left  her.     "Hiram!"   she   called. 

Captain  Podweed  turned  on  his  heel  and  stared  at 
his  wife.  "What  is  it?"  he  demanded,  curtly,  while 
the  sailors  gaped. 

"  I  thought  maybe  the  men  were  hungry,"  she  began, 
"  so  I  just  thought  I'd  see  if  any  one  reelly  needed 
this  potato."  The  dried  and  withered  vegetable  re- 
posed in  her  palm. 

In  the  quiet  that  ensued  one  of  the  sailors  slouched 
forward.  "  I  reckon,  sir,"  he  mumbled,  "  the  old  lady's 
daffy.     She  aint  had  nothin'  to  eat." 

The  skipper  of  the  Hulda  pulled  at  his  whisker  and 
tried  to  stand  on  his  dignity.  But  the  sight  of  the 
faithful  wife  rocking  on  the  careening  deck  was  too 
much.  A  tear  started  down  his  deeply  lined  cheek, 
and  he  gently  held  out  his  hand  to  her.  "  I  guess  we'll 
save  that  potato,"  he  said,  gruffly.  "  It  aint  exactly 
what  we  hanker  for  just  now.  And  I'm  expectin'  a 
full  meal  by  that  steamer  off  there." 

"  If  I  had  some  good  dry  bread  and  some  dried 
apples."  Mrs.  Podweed  went  on.  picking  nervously  at 
the  hem  of  her  white  apron,  "  I  could  make  some 
Brown  Betty." 

"We  don't  want  any  of  your  Brown  Betty!"  roared 
the  skipper  in  futile  rage. 

Slow  tears  welled  into  the  eyes  of  his  wife,  and  her 
thin  hand  shook  as  she  stealthily  wiped  them  away. 
"  You  allays  used  to  like  my  puddings,"  she  said.    And 


as  the  Hulda,  answering  to  the  pull  of  the  half-raised 
head-sail,  pointed  into  the  wind,  Mrs.  Podweed  tottered 
away. 

The  steamer  was  now  a  quarter  of  a  mile  to  wind- 
ward, and  the  dazed  crew  of  the  schooner  waited  for 
their  captain's  orders,  with  an  occasional  glance  at  the 
flag  fluttering  at  the  masthead,  now  right  side  up. 

"  I'm  going  off  to  arrange  for  a  tow,"  said  Podweed. 
"  And  I'll  bring  off  something  to  eat.  Clear  away  a 
boat.  Mr.  Firkin." 

The  crew  jumped  at  the  word  of  command,  and  when 
the  steamer  Full  Value,  in  answer  to  a  hail,  came  to. 
a  hundred  yards  to  leeward,  the  small  boat  was  already 
in  the  water  and  pulling  away  slowly.  The  rest  watched 
the  two  men  rowing,  and  cursed  because  they  made 
too  little  progress  to  suit  the  exigency  of  hunger. 

When  he  was  under  the  counter  of  the  Full  Value 
Captain  Podweed  caught  the  end  of  a  rope-ladder,  gave 
an  order  to  his  men,  and  went  up.  When  he  climbed 
over  the  side  he  was  greeted  by  the  captain  of  the 
coaster,  who  desired  to  know  what  he  could  do  for  him. 

"  I'm  after  a  tow."  said  Podweed.  "  I'm  alreadv 
late  to  save  my  charter:  that  is,  I  will  be.  if  I  don't 
make  'Frisco  by  noon  to-morrow.  It'll  take  me  three 
days  to  fetch  the  Golden  Gate  with  this  slant  o'  wind, 
and  I  thought  maybe  you  could  help  me  out." 

The  captain  of  the  Full  Value  squinted  at  the  Hulda 
and  then  at  her  skipper.  "  I  don't  know  as  I  feel  like 
taking  a  tow,"  he  said.  "  I  aint  in  the  business,  and 
I've  a  lot  of  passengers.  Of  course,  if  you're  in  dis- 
tress and  it's  worth  my  while.  I  might  take  you  in." 

With  this  introduction  the  two  men  got  down  to  a 
hard  bargain.  They  argued  and  reargued ;  Podweed's 
offers  were  rejected  with  scorn,  and  the  other's  de- 
mands characterized  by  Podweed  as  outrageous.  At 
last  an  agreement  mutually  profitable  was  reached, 
and  Podweed  prepared  to  go  back  to  his  own  craft. 
But  he  dared  not  face  his  crew  empty-handed,  and  the 
picture  of  his  starving  wife  rose  harshly  before  him. 
He  had  saved  money  on  the  deal,  and  his  inbred 
parsimony  was  satisfied.  Now  that  the  excitement 
was  over,  he  felt  strangely  weak,  and  his  stomach 
ached  miserably.  He  turned  again  to  the  skipper 
of  the  Full  Value.  "  Say,  captain,"  he  began.  "  you 
haven't  got  any  fresh  meat  aboard,  have  you?  My 
men  are  hungry  for  it.  We  left  Santa  Rosalia  two 
months  ago." 

"  Why,  yes,"  was  the  response.  "I  can  let  you  have 
a  little;  enough  for  one  mess.  I've  got  some  vege- 
tables, too." 

Podweed  sniffed  the  air  hungrily.  "  You've  got  some 
cooking  now,"  he  suggested.  "  What's  the  matter  with 
my  paying  you  two  bits  a  head  and  sending  my  crew 
over  for  a  feed?" 

"  All  right,"  said  the  other,  genially.  "  Send  'em 
over,  a  watch  at  a  time,  and  we'll  have  a  potlach. 
Just  pass  that  hawser  and  let's  get  started  for  San 
Francisco.     That'll  bring  us  in  there  by  nightfall." 

The  hawser  was  passed,  though  how  they  got 
through  with  it  the  crew  of  the  Hulda  never  could  tell. 
Then  Captain  Podweed  piled  his  watch  into  a  boat 
with  his  wife,  and  before  the  Full  Value  had  tautened 
the  tow-line  a  half-dozen  famished  sailors,  obeying 
their  skipper's  order  as  to  silence  about  their  ex- 
periences, were  stuffing  themselves  at  the  rate  of  twenty- 
five  cents  apiece,  according  to  the  bargain  of  the  cap- 
tains, while  the  steward  of  the  steamer  toiled  in  the 
galley  with  the  cook  to  keep  pace  with  the  demand 
for  boiled  beef  and  steamed  potatoes.  In  the  cabin. 
Mrs.  Podweed.  in  a  fresh  white  apron,  was  trying  to 
stifle  her  sobs  as  she  satisfied  the  craving  of  many 
long  and  weary  days. 

In  the  Hulda  Spidds  behind,  Firkin  kept  an  in- 
subordinate remainder  of  the  crew  from  climbing  out 
and  crawling  along  the  tow-line  to  the  source  ot  the 
sweet  incense  wafted  to  them  of  meat  and  vegetables. 

In  due  time  the  surfeited  port  watch  returned  with 
Podweed  at  their  head,  holding  in  his  arms  Mrs. 
Podweed,  who  was  weeping  now  without  restraint 
over  a  fresh  potato.  Firkin  and  his  men  were  en- 
joined to  say  nothing,  but  to  eat.  They  put  off  wildly, 
while  the  Full  Value  started  up  again.  It  was  two 
hours  before  they  returned,  and  they  came  rejoicing, 
bringing  with  them  sundry  articles  of  cooked  food 
which,  as  Firkin  explained,  they  had  been  too  full  to 
devour. 

At  sunset  that  evening,  the  Full  Value  steamed  into 
the  Golden  Gate,  and  astern  of  her  frolicked  the  Hulda 
Spidds,  her  crew  singing  into  the  eye  of  the  moon,  care- 
less of  the  plight  of  the  skipper  of  the  coaster  who, 
amid  the  execrations  of  his  dinnerless  passengers  and 
hands,  was  trying  to  figure  his  loss  by  the  bargain 
with  Captain  Podweed  which  had  resulted  in  scraping 
clean  of  the  very  galley  pots  and  pans. 

And  in  the  pantry  of  the  Full  Value,  gorged  to  re- 
pletion, the  fugitive  cook  of  the  schooner  tried  to  ex- 
plain that  for  two  months  the  crew  of  the  Hulda 
Spidds  had  lived  on  one  potato  and  Brown  Betty.  "  If 
your  skipper  had  a  particle  of  sense."  he  concluded, 
drowsily,   "  you'd   all   be   in   for  salvage.      She's  got  a 

valuable  cargo,  and "     Here  he  fell  asleep.     When 

roused  for  a  moment  from  his  slumber  to  describe  the 
nature  of  the  costly  burden  that  had  eluded  the  grasp 
of  the  Full  Value,  he  stated  in  positive  terms  that  it 
was  Brown  Betty. 

"  He's  a  darned  fool,"  said  the  captain  of  the  coaster, 
who  had  been  called  in  to  listen  to  the  wondrous  story. 
"  but  I  guess  we  don't  put  this  down  in  the  log." 

Which  is  the  reason  the  tale  has  never  been  told  be- 
fore. John  Fleming  Wilson. 

Sax  Francisco,  September,  1903. 


L82 


THE       ARGONAUT. 


September  21,  1903. 


NEW    YORK'S    FASHION    SHOW. 

Lavish  Display  of  Women's  Raiment— One  Hundred  and  Fifty  Paris 

Creations —  Sixteen  Beauties  'Who  Show  the  Gowns  Off  to 

Advantage— Some  Strong  American  Competitors. 

The  latest  bid  for  feminine  approval  and  popularity 
in  the  shape  of  annual  exhibitions  is  the  Fashion  Show, 
which  opened  last  week  in  Madison  Square  Garden. 
Dressmakers  and  dealers  from  all  over  the  United 
States  and  Canada  have  come  to  town  to  see  what  the 
fall  and  winter  styles  are  to  be,  and  are  loud  in  their 
praises  of  this  opportunity  to  post  themselves  two 
months  earlier  than  usual,  as  they  have  for  years  pre- 
ferred to  postpone  their  visits  to  the  metropolis  until 
November,  during  Horse  Show  week,  which  heretofore 
has  ushered  in  the  winter  styles  and  practically  opened 
the  social  season. 

The  most  famous  dressmakers  of  Paris  and  other 
European  capitals  have  sent  over  models  to  the  Fashion 
Show — one  hundred  and  fifty  in  all — and  probably  never 
before  have  so  many  handsome  Paris  frocks  been  shown 
to  the  public  here  at  one  time.  They  are  displayed  in 
the  gallery  of  the  Garden,  and  are  of  every  conceivable 
type,  from  evening-gowns  to  street-gowns,  ranging  in 
price  from  $3,000  down  to  a  modest  $200.  Some  of  them 
are  weird,  many  are  striking  rather  than  beautiful,  but 
a  large  number  are  really  lovely,  and  all  should  furnish 
a  liberal  supply  of  valuable  ideas  to  dressmakers  and 
buyers  who  are  no  longer  forced  to  go  abroad  to  study 
French  modes  in  Parisian  ateliers. 

The  American  exhibit,  too,  is  admirable.  It  is  sup- 
posed to  include  models  from  all  over  the  country,  but 
New  York  makers  dominate,  and  certain  well-known 
establishments  have  furnished  models  that  will  bravely 
bear  comparison  with  the  imported  garments  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  hall.  A  majority  of  these  frocks 
are  on  view  in  the  gallery,  though  one  noteworthy 
group  is  upon  the  main  floor,  and  a  spectacular  display 
of  automobile  toggery,  upon  waxen  chauffeurs  and 
chauffeures,  is  also  a  feature  of  the  main-floor  exhibit. 
Here,  too,  are  a  host  of  booths  in  which  silks,  laces, 
velvets,  hosiery,  neckwear,  hats,  and  innumerable  dress 
accessories  are  displayed.  In  fact,  on  the  main  floor 
the  visitor  finds  himself  lost  in  a  wilderness  of  booths 
festooned  with  all  manner  of  advertisements,  for  every- 
thing that  pertains  to  beautifying  woman  is  there. 

A  booth  that  attracts  a  good  deal  of  attention  from 
the  out-of-town  visitors  is  the  one  containing  a  beau- 
tiful corset  in  a  glass  case,  guarded  by  a  youth  who 
has  a  pleasing  voice,  a  persuasive  way,  and  a  rather 
remarkable  vocabulary.  He  announces  to  the  admiring 
groups  of  women  who  gather  about  him  that  the  fasten- 
ings of  the  corset  are  of  gold,  diamond  studded,  and  that 
the  value  is  $300. 

Another  attraction  is  the  loom  weaving  "Moneyback" 
silks,  exhibited  by  John  YVanamaker.  Obeying  the  in- 
structions given  by  those  in  charge,  the  women  take 
hold  of  pieces  of  the  silk,  crumple  it  in  their  hand, 
smooth  it  out  to  see  if  it  will  wrinkle,  and  then  with 
their  thumb-nails  scrape  diligently  across  the  goods  to 
see  if  the  threads  will  slip.  When  they  are  satisfied 
that  the  tests  are  satisfactory,  they  watch  the  loom  at 
work,  until  it  is  time  to  move  away  to  some  other  at- 
taction,  such  as  the  exhibit  of  Hackett,  Carhart  &  Co., 
treasures  from  the  women's  department  of  Lord  &  Tay- 
lor, and  the  Saks  display  of  automobiling  costumes. 

The  drawing  card  of  the  show  in  the  evening,  how- 
ever, has  been  the  exhibition  of  Paris  gowns  by  six- 
teen tall,  handsome  models  who  rival  in  form  and 
beauty  Anna  Held's  famous  "  Sadie  "  girls.  In  a  car- 
peted ring,  twenty-five  feet  in  diameter,  under  the 
play  of  colored  calcium  lights,  these  stunning  creatures 
display  the  latest  fashions  from  Paris.  It  is  here  that 
the  Johnnies  and  the  husbands  who  have  been  dragged 
to  the  show  against  their  wishes  can  be  found  about 
nine  o'clock,  for  it  is  really  the  only  display  which 
arouses  their  especial  interest.  A  dozen  seats  are  set 
inside  the  ring,  and  at  intervals  four  or  six  of  the  girls 
rest  while  the  others  keep  on  moving,  turning  slowly  as 
they  shift  about,  so  that  the  curious  onlookers  may  have 
the  best  view  of  the  fit  and  hang  of  the  garments.  Over 
evening-gowns  they  put  stoles  of  ermine,  evening- 
cloaks  of  many  furs,  and  wonderful  opera-wraps.  After 
a  few  turns  around  the  circle,  the  furs  are  laid  aside. 
Interchanges  of  conversation  between  models  and  spec- 
tators make  an  interesting  phase  of  the  entertainment. 
Unless  their  attention  is  drawn  in  a  manner  that  can 
not  be  ignored,  the  models  pretend  not  to  hear  the  in- 
quiries of  the  inquisitive.  But  the  milliners,  dress- 
makers, and  transients  who  have  come  from  a  distance 
have  slight  regard  for  the  affectations  of  the  models, 
whom  they  seem  to  view  in  the  same  light  as  the  very 
pink  and  smiling  ladies  in  wax  who  stand  in  demure  re- 
pose in  the  gallery  to  show  the  lesser  frocks. 

Apart  from  the  display  of  Parisian  gowns  and  the 
many  other  exhibits,  there  is  a  department  devoted  ex- 
clusively to  social  costumes  relating  to  the  proper  style 
of  gowns  to  be  worn  at  weddings,  dinners,  and  after- 
noon and  evening  receptions.  This  department  is  in 
keeping  with  the  idea  of  making  the  Fashion  Show 
educational  as  well  as  interesting.  Well-known  author- 
ities on  dress  are  to  deliver  lectures  each  daw  and 
there  will  be  special  functions  to  illustrate  the  subject. 
The  first  will  be  a  wedding,  with  clergyman,  ushers, 
brides.naids,  bride,  and  bridegroom  in  attendance. 

The  show  is  to  be  continued  a  fortnight  at  the  Gar- 
den, ind  judging  from  the  unusually  large  attendance 
this  veek,  it  ought  to  rT>ve  a  big  financial  success.  A 
view   of  the  model  gov.    s  and  coats  is  alone  worth  the 


price  of  admission,  for  they  are  really  beautiful,  and 
must  not  fpr  a  moment  be  placed  in  the  same  category 
with  the  melancholy  display  of  frocks  that  graced  the 
Dressmakers'  Convention  last  spring.  Of  course,  the 
interest  centres  entirely  in  the  exhibits  and  not  in  the 
spectators,  so  the  Fashion  Show  will  never  prove  a  se- 
rious rival  of  the  Horse  Show,  the  chief  attraction  of 
which  is  not  the  pedigreed  horses  in  the  tan-bark  arena, 
but  the  gorgeously  gowned  representatives  of  New- 
York's  Four  Hundred,  whose  every  movement  in  the 
glittering  array  of  boxes  is  followed  with  breathless  at- 
tention by  the  thousands  of  curious  spectators  who 
flock  to  Madison  Square  Garden  to  see  the  much-be- 
paragraphed  social  leaders.  Flaneur. 

New  York,  September  8,  1903. 


MRS.    DIAZ    AT    CHAPULTEPEC. 

A  Visit  to  the  Wife  of  Mexico's  President. 

On  a  bright  summer  afternoon  we  were  speeding  over 
the  well-macadamized,  eucalyptus-shaded  road  that 
leads  to  President  Porfirio  Diaz's  part-of-the-year 
home,  the  old  Castle  of  Chapultepec.  We  were  ex- 
pected by  Mrs.  Diaz,  and  for  sundry  reasons  were 
privileged  guests. 

The  sun  shone  as  benignantly  upon  the  sparsely  clad 
Indian  women,  the  loaded  burros,  and  the  cattle  grazing 
in  the  green  fields  on  either  side  the  boulevard,  as  upon 
our  French  frocks  and  irreproachable  turnout,  but  the 
sun  is  more  democratic  than  a  president's  retinue,  and, 
as  we  approached  the  sentries  stationed  on  the  grounds, 
we  realized  we  were  entering  under  circumstances  of 
marked  courtesy.  Hardly  had  the  sentries  saluted 
when  a  mounted  guard  of  soldiers  met  us,  barring  the 
way  to  the  regular  road  which  winds  on  cobblestones 
to  the  top  of  the  castle  hill,  for  we  were  to  enter  by  the 
private  way. 

We  left  our  carriage  and,  met  by  an  obsequious 
footman  in  livery,  were  ushered  into  what  seemed 
nothing  more  or  less  than  a  hole  in  the  wall,  rendered 
ingratiating  by  the  pink  geranium  hanging  over  the 
perpendicular  rock  which  forms  the  castle's  foundation 
on  one  side.  Behind  us  was  the  bright  sun,  the  flower- 
scented  air,  and  the  wideness  of  the  earth ;  before  us, 
a  tunnel-like  passage,  still  and  dim,  suggestive  of 
ancient  tragedies,  of  bloody  encounters  and  escapes. 

At  the  cave-like  entrance,  the  imaginative  among 
us  began  to  feel  that  the  frou-frou  of  silken  skirts  was 
out  of  place,  and  to  wish  modernity  might  fall  from 
us  like  a  mantle.  Instinctively,  we  lowered  our  voices 
lest  they  might  jar  in  this  chilling  silence.  But  sud- 
denly we  encountered  an  elevator,  carpeted,  upholstered, 
mirrored.  The  footman  bowed  us  into  the  care  of  a 
different-liveried  elevator  man,  whose  manner  left 
nothing  to  be  desired.  It  was  a  relief  to  find  that  the 
elevator  did  not  dart  upward,  but  rose  slowly,  giving  us 
time  to  adjust  ourselves  to  this  sudden  combination  of 
modern  lift  and  Aztec  palace. 

The  electric  lighting  of  the  inner  ascent  is  not  over 
bright,  and  when  we  emerged  into  the  dazzling,  glowing, 
living  sun  and  flower  light  of  what  seemed  a  marvelous 
hanging  garden,  only  those  of  us  who  had  been  there 
before  preserved  due  decorum.  We  were  high  above 
the  valley  in  a  wonderfully  brilliant,  if  artificially  ar- 
ranged, series  of  gardens,  terraces,  and  pillared  porticos. 
Birds  in  number  were  singing  about  us.  The  marble 
and  onyx  floors  and  columns  were  shiningly  spotless. 
Everything  was  radiant  with  light  and  color.  A  man 
in  full  dress  received  us  as  we  shook  our  draperies  out 
of  the  elevator ;  another  awaited  us  at  the  door  of  the 
drawing-room,  and  held  it  wide  in  silence. 

The  wide  salon  seemed  dark  at  first.  We  saw  shadowy 
forms,  and  then  we  heard  a  gracious  voice,  and  the  first 
lady  of  Mexico  had  shaken  us  cordially  by  the  hand,  and 
made  us  welcome  in  a  charmingly  spontaneous  man- 
ner. 

Carmen  Romero  Rubio  de  Diaz,  daughter  of  one  of 
Mexico's  best  aristocrats,  has  the  distinction  of  having 
joined  Mexico's  two  formidable  political  interests  at  a 
crucial  point  in  her  country's  history,  making  prac- 
ticable the  combination  which,  under  General  Diaz, 
has  carried  Mexico  swiftly  to  the  front.  She  is  more 
the  wife  of  the  president  than  of  the  man,  and  General 
Diaz  has  children  by  a  former  marriage  nearly,  if  not 
quite,  as  old  as  Carmen  Romero  Rubio.  She  is  slender 
and  of  medium  height,  with  graceful  and  rather  quick 
motions  of  body  and  hands.  Her  face  is  fair  and  oval, 
her  eyes  dark  and  penetrating,  her  expression  alert  and 
perhaps  a  trifle  nervous. 

Mrs.  Diaz  wore  a  clinging,  modiste  afternoon  gown, 
and  fingered  a  long  gold  chain  which  caught  the  gleam 
of  handsome  jewels  on  her  hands  and  at  her  throat. 
She  spoke  to  us  in  excellent  English,  without  hesi- 
tancy, and  conversation  did  not  flag,  even  after  tire 
customary  lengthy  question  as  to  the  health  and  condi- 
tion of  each  member  of  our  respective  families  had  been 
satisfactorily  answered.  "The  general,"  she  assured 
us,  "  is  well,  but  very  busy  always.  He  should  take  a 
rest,  but  he  is  so  engrossed,  so  interested  in  public  af- 
fairs, that  a  real  vacation  seems  impossible  to  him." 

Mrs.  Diaz  is  a  devout  and  painstaking  member  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church,  giving  liberally,  if  privately, 
to  its  support,  even  practicing  small  economies — so 
whisper  the  tradespeople — to  devote  more  and  more 
of  her  fortune  to  this  cause.  She  is  charitable  to  the 
poor,  reserved  to  acquaintances,  gracious  to  her  own 
familiar  friends,  and  loyal  and  affectionate  to  her 
family. 


The  other  guests  were  duly  presented,  and  each 
murmured  her  own  name,  and  placed  herself  at  the  new 
acquaintance's  orders,  just  as  in  every  other  Mexican 
drawing-room.  When  a  friend  is  met,  the  soft,  un- 
demonstrative kiss  on  each  cheek  is  given  with  a 
rapidity  and  ease  the  Anglo-Saxon  must  practice  long 
and  patiently  to  attain. 

We  met  Mrs.  Romero  Rubio,  Mrs.  Diaz's  mother, 
a  tall,  thin,  dignified  woman,  with  a  simple  manner. 
Her  plain  gown  and  shawl  showed  that  in  Mexico  the 
mothers  do  not  dress  in  the  same  manner  as  the  daugh- 
ters. We  also  were  introduced  to  the  president's 
daughter,  Mrs.  Diaz's  step-daughter,  recently  married, 
but  still  with  sufficient  leisure  to  study  English  a  little, 
and  to  read  an  occasional  novel  of  Scott.  Why  Sir 
Walter.  I  wondered,  for  well  I  know  how  difficult  he  is 
in  translation,  but  I  checked  any  suggestion,  remember- 
ing how  apt  we  Americans  are  to  begin  our  Spanish 
reading  with  Don  Quixote. 

The  dimensions  of  the  drawing-room  at  the  Castle 
of  Chapultepec  are  its  chief  claim  to  distinction.  The 
carpet  is  of  the  best,  and  the  castle  is  reproduced  in 
detail  in  its  centre.  The  heavily  upholstered  and  gilded 
furniture,  the  hangings,  and  a  few  paintings  suggest 
any  formal  European  apartment. 

From  the  outer  wall,  as  we  bade  Mrs.  Diaz  good-by, 
we  secured  a  magnificent  view  of  the  valley  below. 
The  long  straight  stretch  of  tree-lined  road  connecting 
Chapultepec  with  the  city  was  dotted  with  all  kinds  of 
pleasure  vehicles,  and  gayly  dressed  people  were  driv- 
ing and  promenading  in  the  park  below  the  castle. 
Mexico's  many  spires  rose  above  its  flat-roofed  houses 
and  the  narrow  streets  dim  in  the  distance,  and  the 
snowcapped  mountains  beyond,  on  the  right,  stood 
guard,  just  as  they  did  when  the  first  Indian  ruler  held 
court  on  his  floating  island  domain  in  the  years  ago 
when  the  valley  of  Mexico  was  a  great  lake. 

Mrs.  Diaz  went  herself  with  us  to  the  wall,  and 
seemed  to  take  pleasure  in  our  admiration.  In  the 
bright  light  of  the  setting  sun  she  appeared  older  than 
I  had  at  first  thought,  and  not  over  strong.  As  we  made 
our  good-bys,  Mrs.  Diaz's  handclasp  was  given  with 
both  hands,  her  eyes  and  lips  showered  kindly  ex- 
pressions upon  us,  and  we  left  her,  pleased  with  our- 
selves, the  world,  and,  most  of  all,  with  her. 

Our  carriage  awaited  us  on  the  upper  terrace  at  the 
Military  Academy  entrance  to  avoid  the  descent 
through  the  dark  passage,  and  I  was  glad  to  carry  away 
the  memory  of  the  outer  world  instead  of  those  gloomy 
shades.  The  air  was  chilling  rapidly  as  we  hurried 
toward  home  and  dinner ;  the  eucalyptus  shadows  were 
strange-shaped  and  black.  To  our  right,  Popocatepetl 
and  Iztaccihuatl  were  fading  away  under  their  white 
counterpanes,  and  twilight  came  quickly.  Some  one 
said.  "  Look  back !"  Turning,  we  saw  Chapultepec, 
h'ke  a  fairy  palace  against  the  grayness,  with  its  hun- 
dreds of  electric  lights.  "  Hill  of  the  grasshopper." 
exclaimed  one  of  us,  recalling  the  Aztec  name,  while 
another  added,  "Transformed  by  modern  magic  into 
hill  of  the  million  fireflies." 

Mrs.  F.  D.  Merchant. 

The  remorseless  policy  of  absorption  adopted  by 
Russia  in  Finland  is  bearing  fruit  in  Sweden  and  Nor- 
way, where  the  progress  of  events  has  been  watched 
with  indignation  mingled  with  apprehension.  As  a  re- 
sult, the  relations  between  Sweden  and  Norway  have 
improved  after  an  estrangement  that  lasted  for  twenty 
years.  The  cause  of  the  change  of  feeling  in  the  two 
countries  is  Russia's  oppression  of  the  Finlanders.  It 
is  necessary  to  bear  this  fact  in  mind  to  realize  the  stu- 
pidity of  the  fratricidal  quarrel.  At  last  the  country 
understands  that  the  real  danger  comes  from  the  east, 
and  that  it  is  a  tragic  burlesque  to  leave  the  frontier 
toward  Russia  exposed  while  that  between  Sweden  and 
Norway  is  bristling  with  cannon. 


What  is  said  to  be  a  new  world's  record  in  long-dis- 
tance train  running  has  just  been  made  on  the  Baltimore 
and  Ohio  road  out  in  Ohio  and  Indiana,  where  128  miles 
were  covered  without  stops  in  125  minutes.  In  the 
course  of  the  run  a  speed  of  85  miles  an  hour  was 
reached,  and  much  of  the  distance  was  run  at  the  rate 
of  70  and  75  miles  an  hour. 


The  Controller  of  the  United  States  Treasury  has  de- 
cided that  an  assistant  foreman  of  the  government 
printing-office  at  Washington  is  not  an  official  but  an 
employee,  whose  pay  is  forfeited  during  his  absence 
from  his  post.  The  inference  is  that  government  em- 
ployees classed  as  officials  draw  pay  whether  they  are  at 
their  posts  or  not. 

The  De  Pierrecourt's  fortune  of  $600,000  left  to  the 
city  of  Rouen  for  the  propagation  of  a  race  of  giants, 
is  to  be  diverted  from  this  purpose,  and  $160,000  will  be 
retained  by  the  Rouen  foundation  for  a  philanthropic 
institution,  the  rest  to  go  to  the  natural  heirs,  who  con- 
tested the  will  on  the  ground  of  immorality. 


Paris'  Eiffel  Tower  will  stand  for  only  a  few  years 
longer.  A  commission  appointed  to  decide  on  the  uses 
to  which  the  Champ  de  Mars  shall  be  put  has  ordered 
that  the  tower  be  torn  down  at  the  end  of  the  concession, 
which  expires  in  1910. 


It  is  safe  to  say  that  for  every  life  that  is  saved 
through  the  curative  effects  of  cod-liver  oil  another  is 
lost  in  catching  the  fish. 


September  21,  1903. 


THE ARGONAUT 


.:3 


ANECDOTES    OF    LORD    SALISBURY. 


His  Marriage  Against  His   Father's   'Wishes — Neg- 
ligence in  Dress— Caustic   'Wit— Bad 
Memory   for  Faces. 


Few  great  statesmen  have  supplied  such  a 
wealth  of  material  for  anecdote  as  the  late 
Marquis  of  Salisbury,  who  four  times  served 
as  premier  of  England.  The  stories,  which 
are  sprinkled  through  the  latest  English  pa- 
pers to  hand,  deal  with  Salisbury's  marriage, 
his  political  career,  and  his  striking  person- 
ality, and  cast  more  light  upon  his  char- 
acter, perhaps,  than  any  amount  of  critical 
biography. 

During  his  career  in  the  Commons  he  fell 
in  love  with  Georgina  Alderson,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  the  judge  and  baron  of  that 
name.  She  was  neither  rich  nor  a  great 
beauty,  yet  she  was  a  maiden  of  fine  appear- 
ance, comely,  witty,  and  accustomed  to  the 
elevating  and  informing  society  of  the  lead- 
ing men  on  the  bench,  at  the  bar,  and  in  liter- 
ature. The  young  lord,  whose  father  appears 
to  have  been  an  ungracious  parent,  severe  in 
the  exercise  of  his  authority,  and  close  in  the 
sharing  of  his  means  with  this  son  at  least, 
opposed  this  love-match.  But  Lord  Robert, 
either  through  infatuation,  wisdom,  or  will- 
fulness, persisted  in  the  courtship,  and  at 
twenty-seven  years  of  age  married  the  lady 
of  his  choice.  This  marriage  led  to  another 
extraordinary  phase  of  the  budding  premier's 
career.  When  thrown  upon  his  own  resources 
as  a  youth  he  had  traveled  far  and  sought  his 
fortune  in  rough  fields ;  now,  refused  assist- 
ance by  the  father  who  insisted  that  he  should 
have  married  an  heiress,  he  set  himself  up  in 
modest  chambers  near  the  newspaper  offices, 
and  worked  as  a  journalist.  He  chose  the 
fields  of  an  essayist  and  a  leader-writer,  and 
contributed  to  the  then  brilliant  Saturday  Re- 
view, the  Quarterly,  and  the  Morning  Chron- 
icle, as  well  as,  to  a  considerable  extent,  to 
the  editorial  page  of  the  Times.  From  his 
marriage  in  1857  until  the  death  of  his  elder 
brother,  when  he  became  Lord  Cranborne,  he 
made  his  living  as   a  writer  for  the  press. 

The  late  marquis  was  always  very  negligent 
as  far  as  dress  was  concerned,  his  mind  seem- 
ingly always  being  occupied  with  cares  of 
state.  It  has  been  related  that  one  Levee  Day, 
when  Lord  Salisbury  was  prime  minister,  he 
was  in  the  midst  of  serious  business  up  to 
the  last  moment.  He  rushed  home,  turned 
out  a  large  bundle  of  uniforms,  and  took  the 
first  that  came  to  his  hand,  with  the  aston- 
ishing result  that  he  wore  a  coat  that  belonged 
to  the  Elder  Brethren  of  Trinity  House,  a 
deputy-lieutenant's  pair  of  trousers,  and  a 
hat  of  the  Royal  Archers.  Even  that  was  not 
the  worst.  He  wore  his  sword  on  the  wrong 
side  and  his  garter  on  the  wrong  side,  and 
things  reached  their  climax  in  the  waist- 
coat, which,  dating  from  an  earlier  and 
less  robust  period  of  his  life,  left  between 
it  and  the  trousers  what  was  once  called,  in 
the  case  of  another  great  parliamentarian,  "  a 
lucid  interval." 

Parliamentarians  noticed  that  he  always 
spoke  best  when  resting  his  elbows  on  some- 
thing. In  the  House  of  Lords  he  usually 
found  the  support  he  needed  in  two  or' three 
books,  placed  one  above  the  other.  Somebody 
one  day  removed  one  of  these  (it  was  some 
book  of  reference)  and  Lord  Salisbury  missed 
it  immediately.  His  eloquence  was  checked, 
he  floundered  in  his  speech,  and  did  not  re- 
sume it  until  the  book  was  returned.  On  an- 
other occasion,  at  his  own  house,  where  there 
was  a  political  meeting,  he  began  to  speak 
rather  lamely,  and  after  considerable  hesi- 
tation he  walked  across  his  drawing-room  to 
where  there  was  a  rather  high  fire-screen.  He 
got  inside  this,  with  his  back  to  the  fire,  and, 
facing  his  audience,  with  his  elbow  on  the 
screen,  proceeded  to  make  a  most  eloquent 
harangue. 

It  was  at  the  time  that  bicycle- riding  was 
all  the  rage  that  Salisbury  became  the  ardent 
tricyclist  which  made  him  so  easily  distin- 
guished a  figure  in  Hyde  Park  in  the  early 
mornings.  It  was  there  that  he  developed  on 
these  morning  journeys,  during  which  he  be- 
came a  prey  to  snap-shot  photographers,  like 
other  sensitive  eminent  men,  an  inveterate 
objection  to  the  process.  If  walking,  he 
would  flourish  his  stick  at  an  enterprising 
camera  man,  and  on  one  occasion  he  suddenly 
turned  his  back  on  one  photographer,  only  to 
present  his  face  to  another,  who  thus  secured 
a  good  picture. 

That  Lord  Salisbury  possessed  a  gift  for 
repartee  is  well  enough  known,  and  the  fol- 
lowing will  serve  as  an  example  of  his  pow- 
ers in  that  respect :  A  heated  discussion  hav- 
ing been  carried  on  for  some  time  in  his 
presence,  relating  to  a  current  topic,  one  of 
the  most  emphatic  of  the  party  remarked : 
"  I  shan't  get  any  of  you  to  agree  with  me, 


you  are  such  a  complete  set '  of  Philistines." 
Lord  Salisbury  quietly  asked  if  he  recollected 
what  happened  to  the  Philistines.  The  reply 
was.  '"  Certainly  not."  "  They  were  smitten 
by  the  jawbone  of  an  ass,"  was  the  caustic 
rejoinder.  During  his  earlier  days.  Lord 
Salisbury  wrote  a  considerable  amount  of  fic- 
tion. An  enterprising  publisher  once  re- 
quested permission  to  publish  some.  "  No," 
was  his  decided  response.  "  certainly  not ;  I 
want  my  old  age  to  be  as  honorable  as  pos- 
sible." Once  he  was  going  out  to  lunch  one 
rainy  day  when  his  secretary  ran  after  him 
with  an  umbrella  which  he  had  forgotten. 
The  premier  rejected  it,  saying:  "  No,  no,  I've 
lost  too  many  at  the  Athenaeum  already.  You 
can't  trust  those  bishops !  " 

A  story  strikingly  illustrative  of  Lord  Salis- 
bury's bad  memory  for  faces,  was  told  just  a 
little  while  previous  to  his  resignation  of  the 
premiership.  An  elderly  Liberal -Unionist 
baronet,  of  somewhat  Lilliputian  stature,  was 
among  the  considerable  number  of  invited 
guests  to  a  garden-party  at  Hatfield.  In  the 
course  of  the  afternoon.  Lord  Salisbury  laid 
hold  of  the  baronet's  arm.  saying:  "I  want  a 
quiet  word  with  you."  It  was  at  the  time  of 
one  of  the  "  regrettable  incidents  "  of  the  war. 
and  the  guest,  who  had  just  returned  from  a 
hasty-  visit  to  South  Africa,  was  delighted, 
though  scarcely  surprised,  to  find  that  the  pre- 
mier's next  remark,  as  they  turned  aside, 
showed  a  keen  desire  to  obtain  his  view  of 
the  situation.  The  baronet  at  once  poured 
forth  his  criticisms  on  the  recent  events  of  the 
war  with  the  freedom  and  certainty  that  are 
the  characteristics  of  the  civilian,  and  the  pre- 
mier honored  him  with  by  far  the  longest 
conversation  of  the  whole  afternoon.  On  re- 
joining the  family  group,  his  nephew  re- 
marked to  Lord  Salisbury:  "I  am  particularly 

glad  that  you  recognized  Sir  T  but  what 

did  you  find  to  talk  about  for  so  long  a  time?" 
"  I  don't  know  what  you  mean,"  was  the 
reply,  "  I  never  spoke  to  the  man  in  my  life. 
I  have  just  been  having  a  long  and  important 
talk  with  Lord  Roberts.  And  I  certainly 
found  him  thoroughly  outspoken." 

Miss  Johnson,  librarian  of  the  Carnegie 
Library  at  Nashville.  Tenn..  discoursing  to  the 
Librarians*  Association  on  Southern  libraries  in 
general,  reports  (and  justifies  the  fact)  that 
they  are,  with  few  exceptions,  "  rigidly  ex- 
clusive of  blacks."  With  the  old  trust  in 
Providence  and  "  its  own  good  time  and  way  " 
for  the  abolition  of  slavery,  "  the  librarians 
and  library  boards  are  disposed  to  do  all  in 
their  power  to  aid  the  colored  people  in  se- 
curing libraries  of  their  own  zvhenever  the 
opportune  time  arrives." 


BENEVOLENT    ASSIMILATION. 


"THE    LAW    OF    LIFE." 


Baron  Henri  de  Rothschild  appeared  in  the 
Paris  police  courts,  the  other  day.  to  answer 
the  charge  of  automobile  scorching.  The  case 
came  up  previously  before  the  courts,  but  was 
postponed.  His  defense  was  that  he  had  a 
permit  from  the  ministry  of  the  interior  as 
a  doctor,  allowing  him  to  disregard  the  speed 
regulations.  He  was,  nevertheless,  sentenced 
to  one  day's  imprisonment  and  a  fine  of  ten 
francs. 

The  Treasury  Department  has  received  a 
dispatch  from  the  consul  at  Smyrna  saying 
that  smallpox  is  epidemic  there  among  a 
population  engaged  in  hand-picking  figs  for 
the  American  market.  Six  deaths  a  day  are 
officially  reported,  but  the  consul  believes 
the  number  is  three  times  as  large.  It  is  prob- 
able that  orders  will  be  issued  forbidding  fig 
importation   for  the   present   from   that  point. 


Mrs.  Mary  Elizabeth  Sherwood,  noted  as  a 
writer  and  a  leader  of  New  York  society  a 
generation  ago,  died  suddenly  of  heart  disease 
in  New  York  on  Saturday  last.  She  was 
eighty  years  old.  and  had  been  an  invalid  ten 
years.  "  An  Epistle  to  Posterity,"  "  A  Trans- 
planted Rose."  and  "  Here,  There,  and  Every- 
where." were  her  principal  books.  She  also 
wrote  an  admirable  book  on  etiquette. 


The  Metropolitan  Police  Department  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  has  adopted  the  card-index 
system  of  recording  arrests.  In  the  past,  the 
only  record  of  arrests  kept  at  each  of  the  ten 
police  stations  of  Washington  has  been  a 
large  blotter,  or  arrest  book.  These  volumes 
were  bulky,  and  much  time  has  been  lost 
fingering  the  pages  in  search  of  arrests  hidden 
somewhere  in  the  record. 


In  England,  last  year.  Constable  Jones,  ot 
Leeds,  exhibited  a  clever  painting  at  the 
Academy.  Now  another  policeman,  Charles 
Teike,  of  Potsdam,  Germany,  has  become  a 
musical  composer  of  some  celebrity.  A  march 
composed  by  him  has  attained  popularity  in 
all  parts  of  the  world,  and  commissions 
are  said  to  be  pouring  in  upon  the  fortunate 
constable. 


[General  Sanger  has  lately  completed  the  census 
of  the  Filipinos — that  is,  of  all  who  would  stand  and 
be  counted — and  finds  that  we  have  6.976,574 
"  civilized  "  little  brown  brothers.  The  "  wild 
tribes "  are  estimated  to  number  600,000.  How 
these  wards  of  ours  are  being  benevolently  as- 
similated with  the  white  population  of  the  Philip- 
pines may  be  guessed  from  these  verses  from  the 
Fourth  of  July  issue  of  the   Manila  Sunday  Sun] : 

Coming  Through  the  Rice 
Gin  a  Googoo  meet  a  Googoo 

Coming  through  the  rice: 
Need  a  Googoo  help  a  Googoo 

Rid  himself  of  lice? 

Gin  a  Googoo  meet  a  Googoo 

Whom  he  thinks  a  spy, 
Gin  a  Googoo  kill  a  Googoo — 

Need  3  white  man  cry? 

Gin  a  Googoo  meet  you  "  solo  " 

Coming  through   the  cane; 
Need  a  Googoo  pull  a  bolo — 

Would  it  cause  you  pain? 

Gin  a  Googoo  hear  "  Soldados  " 

Coming  through  the  bog; 
Need  a  Googoo  hide  his  bolo 

Underneath   a  log? 


The  Song  of  the  Campfollowers. 
Eight  thousand  miles  of  a  tumbling  sea 

From  a  land  where  the  good  God  rules. 
We  are  here  on  the  edge  of  the  farthest  East 

A  brigade  of  disgusted  fools. 
We  have  left  behind  what  makes  life  seem  good 

For  this  land  of  the  prickly  heat, 
Of  cholera,  plague,  and  of  Chinese  cooks. 

Who  spoil  what  we  have  to  eat- 
But,   to  compensate,   we  have  "  brothers   brown  " 
And  some  beautiful  tropic  scenes 

Of  these  damned  unhealthy, 
Turbulent,   wealthy. 
Beautiful   Philippines. 

We  thought  when  at  home,  we  were  honest  men. 

But  we  learn  out  here  that  we're  not — 
Campfollowers,  grafters,  and  thieves,  and  rogues, 

Ts  the  name  that  we  now  have  got. 
We  have  fought  for  our  flags  on  a  hundred  isles. 

And  this  is  the  thanks  they  give — 
But  we're  here  (God  help  us):  and  give  our  thanks 

To  the  "Powers"  we're  allowed  to  live; 
We  may  add  that  our  living  is  rather  scant. 

Mere    bacon,    and    pork    and    beans — 
In  these  restless,   bloody, 
Wet  and  muddy, 
Beautiful   Philippines. 

We  have  learned  some    things,    and   have  learned 
them  well. 
But  the  lessons  they  teach  won't  down — 
For  instance,  the  thought  that  a  white-skinned  man 

Is  not  as  good  as  a  brown. 
It  is  true  we  can  leave  (if  we've  got  the  price), 

For    that's    what    the    "  Powers "    have    said, 
This  land  where   we've  suffered,   and   fought,   and 
starved — 
This  land  where  we've  left  our  dead. 
Folks  at  home  may  talk  of  the  "  strenuous  life," 
But  they'll  never  know  what  it  means. 
Till  they've  lived  flat  busted 
And    sore    disgusted 
In    these   beautiful    Philippines. 


The  Little  Brown  Brother. 
I'm    only    a    common    Soldier-man,    in    the    blasted 

Philippines, 
They    say    I've    got    Brown    Brothers    here,    but    I 

dunno  what  it  means. 
I   like  the   word   Fraternity,    but  still    I    draw   the 

line. 
He  may  be  a  brother  of  William  H.  Taft,  but  he 

aint   no   friend   of  mine. 

/  never  had  a   brother,    who   would    beg  to   get   a 

drink. 
To    keep    himself    from    dying,    when    he    hovered 

on   the   brink. 
And  when  my  Pal  had  give  it  him,   and  emptied 

out  his  sack. 
Would   take  the   opportunity    to   stick   him    in    the 

back. 

/  never  had  a  brother,  who  could  take  a  wounded 
Boy, 

And  bury  him  to  the  armpits,  with  a  most  un- 
holy joy, 

Then  train  the  Red  Ants  on  him,  like  some  caged 
Bubonic  Rat! 

Thank  God,  I've  got  no  brother  who  would  ever 
stoop  to  that. 

Nor  yet  have  I  a  brother,  who'd  commit  a  name- 
less shame 

On  a  poor  dead  Soldier,  lying  where  he  gave  up 
hope  of  Fame. 

Who  could  mutilate  so  fiendishly,  a  piece  of  life- 
less   Clay, 

And  say  his  prayers,  the  moment  that  his  passion 
died  away. 

I'm   here  and   I    have   seen   it.   so   you  can't   make 

game    of    me, 
I'd  rather  be  an  Orphan  than  in  such  a  Familce. 
The  L.    B.    B.   may  suit  some   folks,   but  after  all 

is  said, 
The  best  one  that  /  ever  saw,  had  an  overdose  of 

Lead. 

I'm    only    a    common    Soldier-man,    in    the    blasted 

Philippines, 
They    say    I've    got    Brown    Brothers    here,    but    I 

dunno   what   it   means. 
I    like   the   word    Fraternity,    but  still    I    draw   the 

line, 
He   may   be  a   brother   of  William    H.   Taft   but   he 

aint  no  friend  of  mine. 

■ — Robert  F.   Morrison. 


Persons  who  had  not  the  advantage  of  a 
"  college  eddication  "  ought  really  to  be  grate- 
ful to  Anna  McClure  Sholl.  For  in  her  book, 
"  The  Law  of  Life,"  she  takes  the  humble 
reader  by  the  hand  and  leads  him  right  up  into 
that  very  holy  of  holies,  the  abode  of  profes- 
sors. For  five  hundred  and  thirty-seven  pages 
the  reader  breathes  the  rarefied  atmosphere  of 
Hallworth  Cniversity,  listens  to  the  wise 
words  of  learned  men  anent  "  souls  "  and 
"  ideals "  (There  is  really  too  much  about 
souls),  and  feels  mightily  the  inspiration 
thereof.  For  these  professors  are  by  no 
means  dull.  Indeed,  it  is  a  fault  of  the  story 
that  they  are  too  clever.  We  have  it  branded 
upon  our  soul  that  the  books  of  most  profes- 
sors are  deadly  dry.  Therefore  we  can  not 
easily  believe  that  in  real  life  they  talk  with 
such  amazing  cleverness  as  they  do  in  this 
entertaining  novel.  The  cleverness,  we  fear, 
is  the  author's:  though  she  writes  of  their 
"  vast  knowledge  "  like  one  who  herself  stands 
in  awe  of  them.  And  then  they  talk  about 
poets  in  a  way  to  justify  Lang's  sneer  that,  it 
a  man  knows  anything  about  Keats  in  America, 
it  means  that  he  teaches  English  in  a  high 
school. 

There  is  quite  a  variety-  of  characters  among 
the  wise  professors,  cub  students,  and  hybrid 
post-graduates  at  Hallworth.  For  example, 
there  is  Perdita,  who  looks  after  the  co- 
eds and  is  "  young  in  years,  old  in  experience, 
timeless  in  charm."  as  we  are  twice  told.  We 
like  her  very  much  until  page  379.  when 
we  learn  that  she  smokes  cigarettes. 
We  didn't  think  it  of  her,  but  it  is  for- 
givable. Another  charming  person  is  the 
Emperor,  a  subtle  but  very-  nice  sorority 
girl,  rarely  beautiful.  Waring,  a  young  man 
who  went  as  a  newspaper  correspondent  to 
Cuba,  and  afterward  returned  to  Hallworth 
for  a  doctorate,  is  also  likable,  particularly 
endearing  himself  by  supporting  the  idea  that 
"  saints  as  a  rule  are  not  well-bred."  Be- 
sides, he  is  said  to  be  a  man  "  nearly  devoid 
of  vanity."  which  is  something  amazing.  Dut- 
ton,  though  a  kind  of  a  sheep,  is  an  honest 
soul,  much  in  love,  and  the  author  of  a  book 
on  chemistry.  For  this  reason,  if  for  no  other. 
the  author  should  have  seen  to  it  that  he  didn't 
mix  his  wills  and  shalls.  Let  us  also  throw 
out  the  suggestion  that  in  future  books  there 
should  be  introduced  something  less  than  a 
hundred  boxes  of  cigars.  *Tis  too  mechanical 
a   method  of  making  the   men   appear  manly. 

The  three  characters  who  really  count  are 
Waring,  Barbara,  and  Dr.  Penfold.  Barbara 
is  a  slender,  delicate  girl,  brought  up  in 
seclusion  by  her  uncle,  an  historian.  When  he 
dies,  she  becomes  the  ward  of  Dr.  Penfold, 
a  self-absorbed,  nice  old  mathematician,  who. 
however,  eats  toast  noisily.  He  breaks  his 
arm,  and  Barbara  takes  care  ot  him  so  well 
that  he  fancies  he  loves  her.  and  she,  igno- 
rantly,  and  in  pity  for  the  barren  life  of  her 
guardian,  marries  him.  The  good  doctor  soon 
forgets  he  even  has  such  a  thing  as  a  wife. 
After  the  death  of  Barbara's  first  child,  while 
he  is  off  helping  an  astronomer  observe  the 
planet  Eros,  there  is  neither  physical  nor 
spiritual  basis  for  their  union.  So  the  in- 
evitable happens.  Waring.  Dr.  Penfold's  as- 
sistant, and  Barbara  fall  in  love.  Since  they 
are  both  high-spirited,  they  struggle  against 
their  infatuation  through  a  weary  year.  Both 
grow  pale,  haggard,  hollow-eyed.  Indeed, 
the  one  really  serious  flaw  of  the  book  is  that 
the  intense  struggle  is  so  prolonged  that  it 
becomes  painful  to  the  reader.  This  part  of 
the  book  lacks  poetry.  It  is  harsh  and  for- 
bidding. The  gift  of  the  poems  of  Fiona 
MacLeod,  and  the  incident  of  the  rose  are 
very  oases  in  a  desert  of  woe. 

The  love  of  Barbara  and  Waring  does  not. 
however,  exclude  other  matters  of  importance. 
We  get  a  glimpse  of  a  multi-millionaire  in  the 
act  of  bestowing  three  millions  on  reluctant 
Hallworth.  Waring,  as  becomes  impetuous 
youth,  fiercely  opposes  the  gift,  and  prints  the 
magnate's  interesting  but  awful  life-story  in 
the  magazine.  College  and  State.  But  coldly 
logical  President  Hunt  wins  the  gold-be- 
Klamored  faculty  over  to  his  side,  and  ousts 
Waring. 

The  author  is  exceedingly  courageous  and 
entirely  convincing  in  her  treatment  of  the 
unhallowed  love  between  Barbara  and  Waring. 
We  do  not  propose  to  reveal  what  end  that 
love  reached,  but  the  conclusion  is,  it  may  be 
remarked,  a  triumph  of  conscience  over  logic 
such  as  will  meet  the  approval  of  many  more 
earthy  people  than  the  two  lovers. 

"  The  Law  of  Life  "  is  a  strong  and  promis- 
ing first  novel. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New  York. 


General  Charles   King's  new  novel  is  to  be 
published  next  week.     It  will  be  calle  r 
Apache    Princess." 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


September  21,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Three  Wistful-Eyed  Cherubs  and  a  Bachelor. 

On  the  title-page  of  "  The  Visits  of 
Elizabeth  "  Elinor  Glyn  is  announced  as  the 
author.  On  the  title-page  of  "  Her  Mother's 
Letters  "  a  speaking  blank  stands  where  one 
would  naturally  look  for  a  similar  inscription, 
since  these  letters  purport  to  be  written  by 
the  mother  of  that  same  Elizabeth.  Now  a 
third  of  the  series  is  out,  and  although  it  is 
entitled  "  Elizabeth's  Children,"  and  an  allu- 
sion is  made  in  the  advertising  slip  to 
"  Elizabeth  of  the  '  Visits,' "  still  there  re- 
mains the  same  significant  blank  on  the  title- 
page.  From  this  omission  we  may  be  justified 
in  concluding  that  the  author  admires  the 
works  of  Elinor  Glyn,  and  is  not  adverse  to 
profiting  by  her  popularity. 
"  The  book  is  a  clever  bid  for  favor  in  more 
ways  than  one.  It  is  meant  primarily  to 
appeal  to  the  lover  of  children,  and  contains 
numerous  accounts  of  the  numerous  adven- 
tures of  a  serio-comic  nature  that  befall 
the  three  little  Anglo-French  monkeys  that 
appertain  to  Elizabeth.  The  children,  dur- 
ing a  long  cruise  of  their  parents  for  health, 
are  dumped  by  the  inconsequent  El  izabeth 
upon  Hugh  Latimer,  of  Latimer  Hall,  an  old 
bachelor  friends  of  hers,  of  remarkably  tender 
heart,  who  shows  quite  as  much  folly  in  deal- 
ing out  retributory  discipline  to  his  youth- 
ful  charges  as   the  ordinary   doting  mother. 

In  fact,  unless  one  is  extremely  accessible 
to  the  parental  emotions,  one  is  prone  to 
desire  that  some  hearty  spankings  should 
have  been  administered  to  the  wistful-eyed 
cherubs  who  for  a  time  diversify  the  bachelor 
quiet   of   Mr.   Latimer's   existence. 

The  author,  whoever  he  may  be,  views 
their  transgressions  from  a  humorous-senti- 
mental standpoint,  and  if  the  reader  can 
bring  himself  to  overlook  the  extreme  im- 
probability involved  in  allowing  a  loving 
mother  thus  to  shed  her  maternal  cares  upon 
the  irresponsible  shoulders  of  a  bachelor, 
he  may  be  able  to  extract  considerable  enter- 
tainment from  the  book. 

Interspersed  with  tolerably  amusing  de- 
scriptions of  the  juvenile  delinquencies  of  the 
three  minute  heroes  is  an  account  of  the 
troublous  wooings  of  the  children's  tem- 
porary guardian,  who,  after  a  series  of  dainty 
snubs  administered  to  him  by  the  lady  of  his 
choice,  through  the  unconscious  influence  of 
the  three  boys  finally  wins  his  way  to  grace. 

The  story  has  an  agreeable  setting  of  En- 
glish country  life,  and  the  inevitable  tea- 
table  frequently  turns  up,  with  its  pleasant 
accompaniment  of  the  idle,  amusing  chit-chat 
of  idle,  amusing  people,  during  which  bon- 
nwts  scintillate  with  a  brilliancy  worthy  of 
Elinor  Glyn,  although  lacking  the  risque 
flavor  indigenous  to  the  dialogue  of  the 
original   Elizabeth's  associates. 

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An  Introspective  Young  Woman. 

"Veronica"  is  not  a  particularly  well-bal- 
anced love-story,  the  attitude  of  the  author — 
Martha  W.  Austin — being  too  sympathetic, 
intimate,  and  admiring  toward  her  heroine. 
Veronica  is  rather  an  impracticable  young 
woman,  very  much  steeped  in  soulful  senti- 
ment, and  plunged  perpetually  in  dreams  of 
love.  This  is  perhaps  natural  in  a  beautiful 
young  girl  in  the  spring-time  of  life  and  ex- 
perience, but  the  writer,  although  bright 
enough  to  write  in  a  little  cheering  lightness 
and  dexterity  of  dialogue  occasionally,  recurs 
to  the  congenial  topic  of  Veronica's  inner  life 
of  emotion  With  a  frequency  and  prolixity 
that  becomes  fatiguing,  and  is  liable  to  in- 
duce considerable  skipping,  except  in  a  ro- 
mantic minority  of  her  readers. 

Miss  Austin  belongs  to  the  enormous  and 
ever-growing  ranks  of  American  writers  who 
have  a  turn  for  literary  expression  without, 
as  yet,  being  able  to  write  an  interesting 
novel.  She  has  a  genuine  love  for,  and  ob- 
servation of,  outdoor  nature,  but  is  rather 
too  self-conscious  in  the  expression  of  it. 
One  feels  that  she  stands  apart  and  admires 
her  word-pictures,  much  as  she  admires  the 
cmntional  organism  of  her  heroine. 

Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New 
York  ;   $1.50. 


Lilian  Bell  Runs  Amuck. 
A  good-sized  proportion  of  Lilian  Bell's 
fluent  headlong  stories  are  prone  to  run  to 
the  expression  of  a  hearty  hatred  for  some 
national,  social,  or  individual  type.  In  "  The 
Interference  of  Patricia,"  Miss  Bell  has  chosen 
Denver  for  the  object  of  her  literary  rancor. 
She  seiz-s  that  salubrious  city  by  the  scruff 
of  its  n;ck,  and  gives  it  a  shaking  that  will 
make  tlie  heads  of  the  Denverites  swim  with 
dizzyjr  wrath.  It  is  safe  to  say  that,  in  the 
future  Denver  will  be  as  completely  cut  out 
11     .1  ss  Bell's  itinerary  as  Miss  Bell  her- 


self will  be  from  fashionable  Denver's  calling 
list. 

The  story  which  records  Patricia's  inter- 
ference is  one  in  which  the  conflicting  inter- 
ests of  love  and  business  become  considerably 
involved.  Patricia  is  a  slangy  Western 
heiress,  who  carries  a  gold  riding-whip 
mounted  with  diamonds,  which  she  treats  as 
if  it  were  made  of  tin,  and  whose  vigor  of  ex- 
pression is  such  as  to  cause  even  Denverites 
— Denverites  of  the  type  that  have  especially 
incurred  Miss  Bell's  lively  animosity — to  open 
their  eyes. 

Miss  Bell,  however,  approves  of  Patricia, 
who  is  a  young  woman  of  discretion,  and 
knows  when  to  drop  slang.  In  the  love  scene 
in  which  she  charms  a  proposal  out  of  an 
English  peer,  Patricia  respects  the  sensibili- 
ties of  the  conventional,  and  uses  the  mode  of 
expression  common  to  the  well-bred  heroine 
of  a  love-story. 

Patricia  "  does "  her  father,  and  wins  her 
peer  simultaneously,  and  in  the  doing  shows, 
or  Miss  Bell  intimates  that  she  shows,  a  sense 
of  honor  that  is  almost  masculine,  and  a  more 
than  common  knowingness  in  matters  of  busi- 
ness and  finance.  Patricia,  it  may  be  said, 
has  rather  too  much  bounce  to  please  the 
public  as  thoroughly  as  she  does  the  literary 
author  of  her  being,  but  in  her  usual  slap- 
dash style,  Miss  Bell  has  turned  off  a  novel 
which  is  readable  and  fairly  credible,  al- 
though we  suspect  that  the  man  of  affairs 
would  scoff  at  her  recital  of  G.  W.'s  deal 
with  the  electric  road. 

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Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
The  early  issue  of  an  edition  de  luxe  of  se- 
lections from  the  work  of  the  late  Phil  May 
is  announced.  Most  of  the  examples  included 
in  the  collection  were  chosen  by  the  artist 
himself.  A  short  biographical  sketch  by  one 
who  knew  him  both  in  England  and  Australia 
will  preface  the  volume. 

Kipling's  new  volume  of  poems,  "  The  Five 
Nations,"  is  now  announced  to  appear  on 
October  1st. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  will  publish  this 
week  "  In  African  Forest  and  Jungle,"  the 
last  book  of  the  late  Paul  du  Chaillu.  This 
is  an  account  of  adventures  in  the  Dark  Con- 
tinent, where  the  author  won  his  first  fame. 
There  are  twenty-four  illustrations  in  the 
volume  by  Victor  Perard. 

Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.'s  list  of  fall 
biographical  volumes  and  reminiscences  in- 
cludes "  William  Wetmore  Story  and  His 
Friends,"  by  Henry  James;  "William  Ellery 
Channing,"  by  Paul  Revere  Frothingham ; 
"  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,"  by  Professor 
George  R.  Carpenter;  "  Henry  Ward  Beecher," 
by  Lyman  Abbott ;  "  The  Life  and  Letters 
of  Margaret  J.  Preston,"  by  Elizabeth  Preston 
Allan ;  "  Memoirs  of  Rufus  Putnam,"  edited 
by  Rowena  W.  Buell ;  "  Reminiscences  of  an 
Astronomer,"  by  Professor  Simon  Newcomb  ; 
and  "  My  Own  Story,"  by  J.  T.  Trowbridge. 

Alfred  Henry  Lewis  has  written  a  novel  of 
political  life,  founded  on  his  personal  ex- 
periences in  New  York  City,  which  he  calls 
"  The  Boss :  How  He  Came  to  Rule  New 
York." 

Among  the  notable  books  to  be  published  this 
fall  by  the  Century  Company  are  "  In  Search 
of  a  Siberian  Klondike,"  by  Washington  Van- 
derlip,  edited  by  Homer  B.  Hulbert ;  "Thirty 
Years  of  Musical  Life  in  London,"  by 
Hermann  Klein  ;  and  "  Theodore  Leschetizky," 
by  the  Countess  Angele  Potocka,  translated  by 
Miss  Genevieve  Seymour  Lincoln. 

"  Ponkapog  Papers,"  Thomas  Bailey  Al- 
drich's  new  volume,  contains  a  number  of  mis- 
cellaneous notes  and  essays.  The  first  part 
consists  of  Leaves  from  a  Notebook  ;  the  sec- 
ond part,  of  fifteen  brief  papers  called 
"  Asides  " ;  and  the  third  part  is  devoted  to 
a  biographical  and  critical  study  of  Robert 
Herrick. 

Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  have 
nearly  ready  a  book  of  Webster's  best  speeches, 
"  Daniel  Webster  for  Young  Americans," 
edited  by  Professor  Charles  F.  Richardson,  of 
Dartmouth. 

The  author  of  the  forthcoming  book  on 
the  life  of  Galileo  has  had  access  to  fresh 
documents  in  Italy  which  are  said  to  give  a 
special  value  to  his  study.  A  careful  biblio- 
graphy of  the  astronomer's  writings  will  be 
included  in  the  book. 

The  thousands  of  boys  and  girls  who  have 
looked  forward  each  autumn  to  a  new  Henty 
book  will  be  glad  to  hear  that  George  Henty 
had  completed  two  new  stories  at  the  time 
of  his  death.  They  will  be  published  by 
Charles     Scribner's    Sons,     with     the     titles 


"Through     Three     Campaigns:     A     Story  of 

Chitral,   Tirah,  and  Ashanti,"  and  "  With  the 

Allies  to  Pekin  :  A  Tale  of  the  Relief  of  the 
Legations." 

Some  time  this  winter  there  will  be  printed 
a  collection  of  letters  written  by  the  late  Lord 
Acton  to  Miss  Mary  Gladstone,  now  Mrs. 
Drew.  It  is  stated  that  this  correspondence, 
which  began  in  the  'seventies,  ranges  over 
literature,  history,   and  politics. 

Justin  Huntly  McCarthy's  new  romantic 
novel,  "  The  Proud  Prince,"  is  founded  on 
the  legend  of  King  Robert  of  Sicily.  The  play 
which  Mr.  McCarthy  has  made  from  this  novel 
will  be  presented  on  the  stage  on  September 
28th,  with  E.  H.   Sothern  in  the  title-role. 

"  My  Old  Maid's  Corner,"  the  series  of 
sketches  by  Lillie  Hamilton  French  which 
have  been  appearing  serially,  will  soon  be 
published  in  book-form. 

Richard  Whiteing's  "  The  Yellow  Van," 
which  has  been  running  as  a  serial,  will  soon 
be  published  in  book-form.  The  contrast  be- 
tween the  life  of  the  great  land-owners  of 
England  and  that  of  their  tenants  is  Mr. 
Whiteing's  subject  in  his  new  book. 

Messrs.  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.'s  first 
autumn  book  will  be  Guy  Wetmore  Carryl's 
volume  of  Parisian  sketches,  "  Zut  and  Other 
Parisians."  It  is  to  be  followed  by  Mrs.  KaU 
Douglas  Wiggin's  "  Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook 
Farm." 

Henry  Seton-Merriman's  novel  of  Napoleon's 
Russian  campaign,  "  Barlasch  of  the  Guard," 
which  has  been  running  serially  this  summer, 
is  due  in  book-form  in  a  few  weeks. 


William  Archer's  First  Meeting:  with  Henley. 

The  late  William  E.  Henley,  who  was  ever 
a  busy  writer  and  editor,  left  an  estate  of 
something  under  five  thousand  dollars.  He 
bequeathed  everything  to  his  wife,  and  directed 
her  to  be  guided  in  all  matters  relating  to 
his  literary  property  by  the  counsel  of  hi  = 
long-time  friend,  Charles  Whibley,  a  clever 
man  of  letters,  and  the  brother-in-law  of  the 
late  James  McNeill  Whistler.  In  the  Pall 
Mall  Magazine,  William  Archer,  by  the  way, 
thus  tells  of  his  first  meeting  with  Henley  : 

In  the  summer  of  1879,  when  the  Comedie- 
Francaise  paid  its  memorable  visit  to  the 
Gaiety  Theatre,  London,  the  back  row  of  the 
stalls  (which  covered  the  whole  floor  of  the 
house)  was  mainly  devoted  to  the  critics. 
There,  night  after  night,  one  used  to  see  the 
same  faces ;  and  very  often  the  seat  next 
to  mine  was  occupied  by  a  man,  wholly  un- 
known to  me,  who  excited  my  keenest 
curiosity.  He  partly  supported  his  large-boned, 
burly  frame  upon  a  stick  or  crutch,  which,  on 
arriving,  he  thrust  under  his  seat.  Everything 
about  him  was  on  a  large  scale,  as  of  a  torso 
rough-hewn  by  Michael  Angelo.  His  rugged, 
deep-lined  face  was  crowned  with  an  up- 
standing jungle  of  crisp  reddish  hair,  which 
looked  as  though,  at  the  slightest  touch,  it 
would  sparkle  with  electricity.  His  light- 
blue,  watery  eyes  produced  an  impression 
(fallacious,  I  believe)  of  near-sightedness ; 
and  he  used  his  opera-glass  a  great  deal. 
He  seldom  or  never  sat  out  a  whole  perfor- 
mance ;  but  what  he  did  see  he  took  in  with 
nervous  intensity.  He  rubbed  his  hands  to- 
gether, hugged  his  elbows  to  his  sides,  and 
gave  vent  to  semi-articulate  ejaculations  of 
pleasure  or  of  contempt.  Had  there  been  any 
affectation  or  self-consciousness  in  his  de- 
meanor it  would  have  been  unbearable ;  but 
he  was  evidently  quite  oblivious  of  his  sur- 
roundings, and  wholly  given  up  to  the  artistic 
sensation  of  the  moment.  He  seemed  to  know 
nobody  ;  and  as  I  was  in  the  same  condition,  I 
wondered  in  vain  who  he  was.  His  personality 
left  an  indelible  mark  on  my  memory.  I 
thought  of  him  as  a  sort  of  maimed  Berserker, 
dropped  by  some  anachronistic  freak  of 
destiny  into  the  Gaiety  stalls.  Even  if  I  had 
never  seen  him  again  and  never  succeeded  in 
identifying  him,  I  doubt  not  that  my  vision 
of  him  would  have  been  distinct  to  this  day. 

Several  years  later  he  found  out  who  this 
strange  person  was : 

Some  business  occasion  which  I  forget  led 
me  to  call  upon  W.  E.  Henley,  then  editor 
of  the  Magazine  of  Art,  and  in  him  I  rec- 
ognized my  strange  stallmate  of  the  Gaiety. 
Of  the  details  of  our  interview  I  remember 
only  this  :  I  had  shaken  hands  with  him  and 
was  opening  the  door  to  go  when  he  turned 
sharp  round  upon  me  and  said:  "By  the  way 
— one  thing  more!     What  are  your  politics?" 

"  Well,"  I  replied,  taken  aback,  as  though  a 
pistol  had  suddenly  been  held  to  my  head, 
"'  that  is  rather  a  large  order." 

"  In  one  word,"  he  said,  "  are  you  a  Con- 
servative?" 

"  In  one  word,"  I  replied,  "no." 

"  Oh  !"  was  his  sole  comment,  and,  though 
the  vowel  rhymed  to  the  ear,  it  expressed  to 
the  mind  a  sharp  and  untunable  dissonance. 


The  enormous  labor  which  the  biography  of 
Mr.  Gladstone  has  laid  on  John  Morley's 
shoulders  is  indicated  by  the  simple  state- 
ment that  he  and  his  secretaries  have,  in  the 
course  of  their  long  task,  examined  about 
four  hundred  thousand  documents.  It  is  prob- 
able that  Mr.  Morley's  volume  will  contain 
generous  extracts  from  Mr.  Gladstone's  private 
diaries. 


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your  every-day  life. 

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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Poetic  Prose  from  a  Poet. 
\V.  B.  Yeats's  latest  book,  "  Ideas  of  Good 
and  Evil,"  is  fragrant  with  his  altogether  de- 
lightful personality.  He  writes  beautiful  En- 
glish. The  essays  that  compose  the  volume 
are  not  robust,  but  each  has  its  subtle  poetic 
charm,  and  all  reveal,  on  a  second  reading, 
deeper  meanings  than  are  at  first  apparent.  It 
is  perhaps  because  Mr.  Yeats  stands  apart  from 
the  crowd  that  he  is  most  interesting.  Like 
Bernard  Shaw  and. Edward  Carpenter,  you  can 
not  classify  him  and  then  dismiss  him.  We 
believe  he  has  been  called  the  Irish  Maeter- 
link,  but  even  this  semi-demi-classification  is 
misleading. 

Needless  to  say,  Mr.  Yeats's  first  love  is 
Ireland.  It  is  a  bitter  thing  to  him  that  a  land 
once  so  rich  in  poetry  and  tradition  does  not 
now  produce  great  poets  and  writers  of  prose. 
Yeats  was  the  founder  of  the  Irish  Literary 
Society,  and  has  long  been  the  leader  in  all 
movements  looking  toward  a  Celtic  renais- 
sance. The  thread  of  regret  for  Ireland's  lost 
estate  runs  through  all  the  essays  m  "  Ideas 
of  Good  and  Evil." 

Perhaps  "Magic"  is  the  most  striking  of 
the  articles  in  the  book,  revealing,  as  it  does, 
a  naive,  mediaeval,  poetic  credulity.  The  sev- 
eral essays  on  poetry,  on  painting,  on  Celtic 
literature,  on  the  theatre,  the  two  on  William 
Blake,  the  one  on  Shelley,  and  the  several 
on  other  mystical  themes  are  all  in  their  way 
interesting.  About  William  Morris,  too,  Yeats 
writes  with  an  intelligent  appreciation  that  is 
rare.  He  brings  out  strikingly  the  fact  that 
Morris's  conception  of  love  differed  from  that 
of  most  men.  "  It  seems  at  times."  writes 
Yeats,  "  as  if  their  [the  women's]  love  was 
less  a  passion  for  one  man  out  of  all  the  world 
than  submission  to  the  hazard  of  destiny,  and 
the  hope  of  motherhood  and  the  innocent 
desire  of  the  body.  .  .  .  They  are  not  in  love 
with  love  for  its  own  sake,  with  a  love  that  is 
apart  from  the  world  or  at  enmity  with  it, 
as  Swinburne  imagines  Mary  Stuart  and  as  all 
men  have  imagined  Helen."  Which  is  an 
observation  seldom  made,  but  very  true. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York;  $1.50. 

Bears  and  Liars. 

We  are  inclined  to  think  that,  in  "  Bears  I 
Have  Met — And  Others,"  Allen  Kelly  tells  the 
true  story  of  the  capture  of  Monarch,  the  big 
grizzly  bear  in  Golden  Gate  Park.  We  come 
to  this  conclusion  party  because  the  tale  does 
not  make  its  teller  out  a  hero,  and  partly  be- 
cause it  is  told  with  much  easily  creditable 
detail.  According  to  Kelly's  story,  the  Ex- 
aminer first  tried  to  buy  a  bear  and  "  fake  a 
story  of  his  capture."  This  scheme  fell 
through  because  there  was  no  bear  to  be 
bought.  Then  the  Examiner  sent  Kelly  out 
after  one.  He  spent  three  unsuccessful  months 
in  Ventura  County,  when  the  Examiner  got 
tired  of  the  costly  enterprise,  and  wired  Kelly 
to  return.  He  sent  word  back  that  he  was  not 
coming  without  the  bear,  and  the  Examiner 
"  fired  him  by  wire."  Then  Kelly  went 
a-hunting  on  his  own  hook.  While  he  was 
waiting  for  a  bear  to  fall  into  the  trap  he  had 
built  on  Gleason  Mountain,  one  got  into  some- 
body else's  trap  near  by,  and  Kelly  bought 
him  and  brought  him  to  San  Francisco — haul- 
ing him  part  of  the  way  on  a  go-devil.  The 
Examiner  bought  him  from  Kelly,  and  faked 
a  story  of  the  capture.  "More  than  one- 
fourth  of  Joaquin  Miller's  '  True  Bear  Sto- 
ries.' "  says  Kelly,  "  consists  of  that  news- 
paper yarn,  copied  verbatim  and  without 
amendment,  revision,  or  verification."  Which 
is  interesting,  if  true.  Many  of  the  other  sto- 
ries in  Kelly's  book  are  "whimsical  romances," 
making  no  pretense  to  truth.  They  are  told 
with  a  good  deal  of  genuine  humor,  and  are 
first-rate  examples  of  camp-fire  yarns. 

Published    by    Drexel    Biddle,    Philadelphia. 


A  Humorous,  Old-Fashioned  Story. 

The  well-known  and  still  popular  veteran 
writer,  Max  Adeler,  has  added  another  vol- 
ume to  his  store  of  humorous  fiction,  entitled 
"  In  Happy  Hollow."  It  is  a  story  of  life 
in  a  country  town,  and  the  author  has  shown 
his  usual  facility  in  sketching  characteristic 
types  flourishing  in  a  rural  environment 
whose  qualities  are  humorously  exaggerated 
without   losing   their   hold   on    reality. 

The  author  has  eschewed  dazzling  attributes 
for  his  characters — the  hero  being  a  peda- 
gogue in  a  boys'  country  academy,  and  the 
heroine  a  child  actress  from  a  troupe  of 
stranded  barn-stormers.  Mr.  Adeler  brings 
his  leading  group  into  close  relation  at  the 
modest  boarding-house  of  Mrs.  Colonel 
Bantam,  wife  of  the  real  hero  of  the  tale. 
There  can  be  met  the  country  editor,  his 
path  checkered  by  the  usual  accumulations 
of  wash-tubs,  egg-beaters,  and  ladies'  millinery 


in  exchange  for  advertising  space;  a  female 
lawyer,  panting  to  cast  off  the  shackles  from 
all  womankind  ;  a  pair  of  pretty  girls,  all  un- 
conscious of  the  restraint  of  the  shackles ; 
and  last,  but  not  least,  the  colonel  himself, 
who  has  a  war  record,  having  been  clerk  in 
the  quartermaster's  department.  Although  the 
town  barber  declares  that  "  he  always  had  a 
call  to  go  and  buy  mules  up  in  Pike  County, 
when  things  was  hot  and  the  balls  a-flyin'," 
the  colonel,  magnificently  confident  in  his  war- 
like mien,  wears  an  army  hat,  walks  with 
a  limp,  always  gives  a  military  salute,  and 
makes  frequent  reference  to  his  past  counsels 
to  famous  generals  on   famous   battle-fields. 

The  book,  with  its  rustic  atmosphere,  its 
old-time  characters,  its  kindly  sentiment,  and 
innocent  fun,  has  an  old-fashioned  flavor  that 
is  not  the  least  of  its  attractions,  and  it  will 
appeal  to  those  who  enjoy  a  simple,  unpreten- 
tious story,  agreeably  diversified  with  healthy, 
wholesome  humor. 

The  volume  contains  numerous  illustra- 
tions, humorous  and  otherwise,  all  of  which 
are  clever  and  appropriate. 

Published  by  Henry  T.  Coates  &  Co.,  New 
York ;  $1.50. 


A  Dainty  Book  for  Idealists. 

The  materialist  will  pass  by  "  The  Road- 
mender,"  by  Michael  Fairless,  which  is  a 
brief  volume  full  of  the  knowledge  of  things 
which  can  only  be  transplanted  to  the  poetic  or 
the  spiritual  understanding. 

The  book  is  written  in  the  first  person,  and 
purports  to  be  the  observations,  reflections, 
speculations,  and  dreams  which  pass  through 
the  mind  of  the  roadmender,  a  poet  who 
writes  in  prose  ;  one  who  breaks  stones  for  the 
joy  of  living  in  the  world  of  outdoors;  whose 
ear  is  attuned  to  the  subtle  harmonies  of  na- 
ture, and  whose  heart  is  open  to  a  vast  love 
and  sympathy  for  the  lowly  rustics  who  trudge 
through  the  dust,  and  into  the  humble  tragedy 
of  whose  lives  the  roadside  poet  obtains  brief 
and  pitiful  glimpses. 

There  is  no  other  story  in  the  little  volume 
save,  perhaps,  of  the  gradual  birth  of  wisdom 
that  comes  to  a  soul  facing  death. 

"  The  Roadmender  "  is  written  with  great 
purity  of  style,  containing  many  passages  that 
are  little  gems  of  simple,  succinct  beautiful 
English. 

Published  by  E..  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New 
York;  $1.25. 

New  Publications. 
"  The  Rational  Method  in  Spelling,"  by 
Edward  G.  Ward,  late  superintendent  of 
schools  in  the  city  of  Brooklyn,  is  among  re- 
cent text-books  intended  for  pupils  in  the 
third  or  fourth  years  of  school.  Published 
by  Silver,  Burdett  &  Co.,  New  York;  30  cents. 

The  author  of  "  Hints  to  Golfers,"  who  calls 
himself  "  Niblick,"  is  a  master  of  the  fasci- 
nating game.  Moreover,  he  not  only  knows, 
but  can  tell  what  he  knows  to  those  who 
know  nothing — no  small  feat.  The  value  of 
this  well-illustrated  little  book  is  attested  by 
the  fact  that  it  has  passed  through  eight  edi- 
tions. Published  by  the  author;  the  Baker 
&  Taylor  Company,  New  York,  agents;  $1.25. 

"  The  Book  of  the  Honey  Bee "  seems  a 
title  too  dainty  and  poetic  to  designate  the  con- 
tents of  a  work  on  apiculture — which  prosaic 
service  it  has  been  made  to  perform.  How- 
ever, Charles  Harrison's  concise  account  of 
the  methods  employed  by  the  most  successful 
British  bee-keepers,  while  practical,  is  not 
entirely  devoid  of  poetic  feeling.  The  book  is 
well  written,  and  contains  a  number  of  illus- 
trations. Published  by  John  Lane,  New  York; 
$1.00. 

Andy  Barr,  naturally  the  chief  character 
in  a  book  of  that  title,  is  a  shrewd,  likable, 
good-hearted  old  cobbler,  with  a  useful  faculty 
for  spinning  yarns  and  turning  quaint  and 
homely  phrases.  He  is  the  guide  and  coun- 
selor of  a  "  passel  "  of  youngsters  who  vex 
a  typical  Illinois  town  with  their  vociferous 
presence.  This  story  for  boys,  by  W.  B. 
Hawkins,  is  full  of  incident,  and  ought  to  in- 
terest healthy  youth.  Published  by  the 
Lothrop    Publishing   Company,   Boston;   $1.50. 

"  Twenty  years  hence,"  says  R.  T.  Mecredy 
in  "  The  Motor  Book,"  "  very  few  horses  will 
be  seen  in  the  streets  of  London."  The  motor- 
car, he  is  sure,  will  by  that  time  have  prac- 
tically ousted  all  animal-drawn  vehicles.  Such 
confidence,  in  an  auto  expert,  is  natural,  and 
that  Mr.  Mecredy  deserves  the  title  his  com- 
pact manual  for  the  amateur  motorist  proves. 
Though  small,  we  presume  the  book  is  ade- 
quate for  the  needs  of  the  average  man, 
especially  as  Mecredy  assures  the  reader  that 
"  the  modern  petrol  car  is  so  simple  that 
any  man  of  ordinary  common  sense  can 
run  it  satisfactorily."  To  give  the  average  man 
a  working  knowledge  of  his  machine  by  means 


of  lucid  explanations  and  numerous  draw- 
ings and  photographic  illustrations  is  the 
purpose  of  "  The  Motor  Book."  Published  by 
John   Lane,   New  York. 

Elizabeth  Butler  makes  for  her  "  Letters 
from  the  Holy  Land  "  no  claim  of  literary 
worth.  They  are  hasty  and  very  feminine 
epistles  to  the  author's  mother,  written  during 
a  four  weeks'  tour.  For  the  sketches  she  also 
asks  the  reader's  indulgence,  but  unneces- 
sarily; for  the  sixteen  illustrations  in  color 
are  really  very  charming,  showing  skill  and 
artistic  feeling  of  no  mean  order.  The  book 
is  imported  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  $3.00. 

With  admirable  enterprise  the  California 
Promotion  Committee  has  collected  and  pub- 
lished in  a  tasteful  volume  "  California  Ad- 
dresses "  by  President  Roosevelt.  Numerous 
photographic  illustrations  of  notable  incidents 
in  the  President's  memorable  journey  through 
the  State  add  greatly  to  the  book's  attractive- 
ness. The  conspicuous  orthographic  error 
in  the  committee's  prefatory  note  might  well 
be  corrected  if  further  editions  are  printed. 
Published  by  the  California  Promotion  Com- 
mittee, San  Francisco. 

Multum  in  parvo  was  apparently  the  motto 
of  Deristhe  L.  Hoyt  when  he  (or  she)  wrote 
"  The  World's  Painters."  The  book  is  prac- 
tically a  painters'  biographical  dictionary,  and 
gives  in  each  case  a  few  personal  notes,  com- 
ments on  the  characteristics  of  his  works, 
and  a  list  of  his  most  noted  paintings.  A 
certain  Bostonish  pedantry  shows  its  head 
here  and  there,  but  in  general  the  work  should 
be  useful  to  travelers,  as  a  hand-book,  or  to 
young  people,  as  a  primer  in  art.  There  are 
many  illustrations.  Published  by  Ginn  &  Co... 
Boston  ;  $1.25. 

"  Why  the  Mind  Has  a  Body "  is  a  title 
provocative  of  faceticE  among  light-minded 
folk.  The  book,  however,  is  not  designed  for 
intellects  of  that  small  calibre.  On  the  con- 
trary, the  work  is  an  exceedingly  abstruse 
one,  and  from  the  pen  of  C.  A.  Strong,  pro- 
fessor of  psychology  in  Columbia  University. 
Roughly  stated,  the  book  is  an  investigation 
of  the  current  theories  on  how  the  mind  in- 
fluences and  is  influenced  by  the  physical 
being,  and  a  presentation  of  a  proposal 
whereby  the  author  believes  present  differ- 
ences between  several  schools  of  psychologists 
may  be  reconciled.  Published  by  the  Mac- 
millan   Company,    New   York;   $2.50. 

A  very  tastefully  bound  and  interesting 
little  book  has  been  prepared  in  connection 
with  the  presentation  of  the  "  Antigone "  of 
Sophocles  by  faculty  and  students  of  Stan- 
ford University  something  over  a  year  ago. 
The  volume  contains  three  essays  —  "  The 
Antigone  at  Stanford,"  by  H.  W.  Rolfe; 
"Antigone:  A  Dramatic  Study,"  by  A.  T. 
Murray;  "The  Choral  Side  of  Antigone,"  by 
H.  Rushton  Fairclough — and  the  programme 
of  the  original  presentation.  There  are,  be- 
sides, a  number  of  illustrations  from  photo- 
graphs of  scenes  and  characters  in  the  tragedy. 
Only  a  few  of  these,  however,  succeed  in  not 
conveying  the  impression  of  masquerading 
modernity.  Published  by  Paul  Elder  &  Co., 
San  Francisco;  $1.00. 

Maupassant  served  no  such  apprenticeship 
under  Flaubert  as  the  young  man  whose  por- 
trait forms  the  frontispiece  of  the  novelette, 
"  The  Saint  of  Dragon's  Dale."  According 
to  the  flattering  biographical  note,  William 
Stearns  Davis's  father  "  preserves  some  seven 
thousand  pages  of  manuscript  written  before 
the  boy  was  eighteen  "  !  But  he  doesn't  intend 
to  publish  any  of  it — for  which  let  us  give 
thanks.  The  present  work  of  this  young 
man  of  twenty-six  is  not  so  good  that  we  want 
any  that  he  wrote  at  fifteen  and  a  half.  The 
story  is  a  lurid,  fantastic  tale  of  mediaeval 
times,  couched  in  historical-novel  language, 
znd  showing  no  particular  insight  into  char- 
acter. Published,  in  the  Little  Novels  by 
Favorite  Authors  Series,  by  the  Macmillan 
Company,  New  York. 

"  The  Silent  Maid,"  by  Frederic  W.  Pang- 
born,  is  a  curious  attempt  by  a  modern  to 
imitate  the  style  and  feeling  of  a  mediaeval 
romance.  The  Rabenhorsts,  lords,  are  bound 
by  a  curse  to  "  seek  no  maiden  bride  to  wife," 
and  so  they  preserve  their  line  by  wedding 
other  men's  wives.  But  one  of  them  flaunts 
fate  by  marrying  "  the  silent  maid,"  a  forest 
child,  who  sings  but  can  not  speak.  Red  war 
comes  on  the  marriage  eve.  While  the  baron 
is  fighting  his  enemies  abroad,  the  silent  maid 
at  home  falls  in  love  with  Ola,  a  knight, 
and  when  the  baron  returns  victorious,  he 
finds  in  her  arms  a  child  not  his.  What 
happened  then  we  may  leave  the  reader  to 
discover.  The  book  may  interest  romantic 
young  persons,  but  only  such.  Published  by 
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Gabriel  d'Annunzio's  "  Gioconda "  has  for 
its  ruling  motive  the  crucifixion  of  a  woman's 
soul— a  favorite  theme,  it  would  seem,  of 
the  decadent  young  Italian  who  is  not  averse 
to  serving  up  the  funeral  baked  meats  of  dead 
passions  for  the  delectation  of  an  interested 
public.  "  The  Dead  City "  turns  the  soul 
of  Eleanora  Duse  inside  out  like  an  explored 
pocket;  and.  strangely  enough,  the  great 
actress  assists  at  this  coolly  skillful  vivisec- 
tion of  her  heart  by  acting  the  character  for 
which  she  furnishes  the  prototype. 

"  Gioconda,"  which,  during  the  Florence 
Roberts  engagement,  is  being  presented  at 
the  Alcazar  Theatre  on  Thursday  afternoons, 
leaves  a  most  baffling  impression  upon  the 
mind.  It  is  the  story  of  a  sculptor  whose  soul 
is  rent  in  twain  by  the  conflicting  claims 
of  duty  and  passion.  Silvia,  the  wife,  repre 
sents  duty.  She  is  a  woman  whose  soul 
is  all  truth  and  loveliness,  and  who  freely 
pours  forth  her  love  as  an  unstinted  oblation 
at  the  feet  of  the  man  whom  she  adores. 

Lucio,  the  husband,  is  the  artist  first  of  all. 
His  love  for  his  wife  is  the  reverence  that 
one  feels  for  a  nature  of  exalted  nobility. 
But  Gioconda,  a  woman  of  compelling  beauty, 
who  has  served  as  a  model  for  the  statue 
that  is  his  masterpiece,  is  his  natural  mate 
Silvia  learns  of  this  love,  and  suffers  ex- 
quisitely, but  in  silence.  Lucio,  who  has  the 
misfortune  to  be  an  artist  with  a  con- 
science, is  in  a  double  thrall.  In  his  love 
for  his  model  lies  the  inspiration  that  urges 
him  on  to  greater  heights  of  achievement. 
In  his  love  for  his  wife  he  experiences  only 
the  despair  of  a  nature  without  cruelty  that 
recognizes  with  horror  its  power  to  inflict 
undeserved  suffering.  He  is  stifled  by  the 
virtue  of  a  heart,  whose  martyrdom  drives 
him  to  an  act  of  expiation,  and  he  attempts 
to  cut  the  Gordian  knot  by  self-murder. 

Thus  the  situation  stands  at  the  beginning 
of  the  play.  It  is  worked  out  in  a  drama 
that  is  singularly  without  precedent,  accord- 
ing to  our  American  standards,  and  is  cast 
into  most  beautiful  prose,  of  which  ex- 
quisitely sculptured  fragments  continually  recur 
to  enchanted  memory.  Silvia  is  surrounded 
with  friends,  like  herself  full  of  goodness  and 
charm,  who  sorrow  with  her  in  her  suffer- 
ing, and  rejoice  with  her  in  her  winged 
joy,  when,  at  the  opening  of  the  play,  Lucio, 
the  wounds  in  body  and  soul  alike  healed.  Is 
returning  to  life,  animated  with  a  divine  love 
and  gratitude  to  the  wife  whose  tenderness 
has  wrested  him  from  despair  and  death. 
The  atmosphere  on  the  surface  is  calm, 
beautiful,  serene,  but  with  a  tremor  of  tense 
expectation  in  the  air. 

In  the  second  act,  the  dread  materializes. 
Lucio,  with  returning  health,  feels  the  longing 
to  recreate.  With  the  reawakening  of  this' 
instinct,  Gioconda,  who  is  always  a  mysterious 
figure  of  destiny  in  the  background,  writes 
to  him  that  she  awaits  him  daily  in  the 
studio,  guarding  the  statue  that  perpetuates 
her  beauty  and  dampening  the  cloths  upon 
the  arrested  sketch  in  clay  of  a  new  master- 
piece. Thus  the  struggle  recommences,  and  it 
is  inevitable  that  the  rivals  should  meet.  Tt 
is  at  this  point  that  D'Annunzio,  strangely 
enough,  invokes  an  element  of  physical  suf- 
fering that  is  repulsive  in  the  reading  of  the 
play,  but  lends  dramatic  strength  in  the  acting 
of  it.  Gioconda,  stung  by  the  wife's  despair- 
ing lie  into  a  fury  of  retaliation  upon  the 
lover  who.  she  believes,  has  cast  her  aside, 
rushes  to  destroy  the  statue.  Silvia,  "  of 
the  beautiful  hands,"  in  saving  it  has  her 
hands  crushed,  and  subsequently  loses  them. 
Thus  the  play  goes  out  in  sorrow.  Lucio. 
who  has  obeyed  the  call  of  destiny,  returns 
no  more,  and  Silvia  is  left,  moaning  her  ac- 
ceptance of  an  eternal  anguish  upon  the 
shoulder  of  the  little  child  whom  she  can  no 
longer  clasp  to  her  heart  with  her  maimed 
and  useless  arms. 

There  seems  almost  a  gratuitous  crueltv 
in  thus  heaping  a  mountain  of  anguish  upon 
the  wife,  whose  only  sin  is  her  surpassing 
goodness  and  truth.  When  it  is  over,  the 
profoundly  interested  observer  involuntarily 
^s's  himself:  "Wbri  does  it  all  mean?" 
ts  it.  perhaps,  tfc  c  propounding  of  an 
[-ma  that  can  not  be  solved,  or  does  this 


strange  young  genius  wish  to  assert  his  be- 
lief that  virtue  and  the  instinct  of  creation 
in  art  are  antipathetic  to  each  other,  and 
should  not  be  allied?  Or,  perhaps,  since 
Lucio,  mastered  by  his  destiny,  and  returned 
to  his  art  and  his  mistress,  is  left,  too,  cor- 
roded by  a  perpetual  nightmare  of  remorse, 
we  are  meant  to  believe  that  life  is  a  joy- 
less thing,  a  place  of  mutilated  hopes  and 
giant  despairs. 

But  however  tragic  the  impression  left, 
it  is  a  performance  that  one  can  not  afford 
to  lose.  First,  because  it  makes  us  ac- 
quainted with  the  genius  of  a  man  whose  past 
brutalities  in  degrading  literature  can  not 
do  away  with  the  fact  that  it  is  genius. 
Second,  because  "  Gioconda."  in  spite  of 
its  heavy  atmosphere  of  morbidness  and  pessi- 
mism, is  a  remarkable  composition,  wholly 
untrammeled  by  the  bonds  of  tradition,  un- 
suited,  doubtless,  to  the  tastes  of  other  than 
Latin  peoples,  but  typical  of  a  school  that 
glories  in  beauty  and  defies  despair.  And 
third,  because  the  play  was,  from  one 
point  of  view,  so  very  well  played  on  the 
occasion  o(  its  first  production. 

It  was  evidently  a  great  day  at  the  Alcazar. 
Naturally,  it  is  not  to  be  expected  that 
Florence  Roberts  would  be  able  to  interpret 
fully  a  character  that  is  written  all  around 
and  for  Duse.  What  she  has  done,  unless 
I  am  very  much  mistaken,  is  to  absorb  thor- 
oughly, so  far  as  she  was  able  during  re- 
peated hearings,  all  that  she  could  of  Duse's 
manner  and  methods  in  this  role.  The  result 
is  admirable.  Manner,  speech,  bearing,  ges- 
tures, expression,  all  seem  to  uplift  her  to  a 
higher  and  finer  plane  of  understanding.  Ex- 
cept in  her  physical  type,  which  is  not  fitted 
to  translate  and  express  such  souls  as  that  of 
Silvia  Settala,  she  never  jars. 

I  am  convinced  also  that  Miss  Roberts, 
with  a  knowledge  drawn  from  repeated  wit- 
nessings  of  Duse's  performance  in  New  York, 
has  thoroughly  coached  the  company.  At  all 
events,  they  showed  a  surprisingly  clear  under- 
standing of  the  spirit  and  meaning  of  the 
characters  portrayed.  There  seemed  to  be 
absolutely  no  guesswork,  but  the  confidence 
of  those  who  well  know  what  they  attempt 
to  express.  Lucius  Henderson,  who  is  senti- 
mental and  effeminate,  made  virtues  of  his 
very  weakness,  and  fitted  with  a  certain 
fidelity  into  the  role  of  the  artist  who  was 
the  sport,  instead  of  the  master,  of  his  ruling 
emotions. 

That  over-precision  of  enunciation  in  Mr. 
Yerrance  assisted  the  ear  in  tasting  the  beauty 
of  D'Annunzio's  prose,  and  seemed  to  tone  in 
well  with  the  portrait  of  the  good,  gentle,  old 
maestro  with  the  sympathetic  face  and  the 
Liszt-like  crown  of  silver  hair. 

Miss  Bertha  Blanchard  made  a  brief  ap- 
pearance as  Gioconda  in  the  stormy  inter- 
view between  the  rivals.  The  scene  is  a  most 
taxing  one,  demanding  a  much  finer  emo- 
tional and  intellectual  force  than  this  young 
untried  actress  is  capable  of.  The  lines  of 
Gioconda,  too,  are  extremely  exacting,  calling 
for  a  sustained  effort  that  made  the  scene 
over-long.  Nevertheless,  a  sufficiency  of  emo- 
tional effect  was  gained,  although  the  raised 
voices  of  the  two  women  wearied  the  ear  be- 
fore the  scene  was  over. 

The  author's  graceful,  poetic  conception 
of  the  character  of  La  Sirenetta  was  con- 
veyed with  charming  artlessness  by  Virginia 
Brissac,  who  looked  the  spiri£  incarnate  of  a 
sea-naiad,  with  her  strands  of  sea-shells,  her 
bare  ankles,  and  her  skirts  soaked  in  brine. 
Mr.  Hilliard  and  Miss  Angus  enacted  their 
secondary  roles  with  earnestness  and 
sympathy,  and  the  child,  Ollie  Cooper,  al- 
though better  fitted  to  portray  the  gamin  type 
that  she  represented  in  "  The  Unwelcome 
Mrs.  Hatch,"  is  too  intelligent  to  spoil  the 
piercing  pathos  of  the  closing  scene. 

The  entire  company  has  shown  an  enthu- 
siasm that  is  almost  devout  in  backing  up 
Miss  Roberts  in  her  venture,  which  promises 
to  have  a  successful  issue,  in  spite  of  the 
fact  that  the  speeches  and  scenes  in 
"  Gioconda "  are  of  a  length  and  kind  that 
might  tend  to  arouse  the  impatience  of  the 
average  American  audience  in  proportion  to 
the  intellectual  appreciation  they  would  in- 
spire in  Continentals. 


The  revival  of  "  Camille  "  and  "  The  After- 
math "  has  shown  how  desperately  hard  up 
Henry  Miller  is  for  plays.  "  Camille,"  old- 
fashioned  as  it  is,  preserves  that  indestructible 
element  of  interest  which  insures  its  perpe- 
tuity, but  "  The  Forgemaster,"  to  give  its 
former  title,  belongs  to  that  epoch  of  romance 
drama  which  is  not  remote  enough  to  have 
acquired  the  mellowness  bestowed  by  time. 
and  is  yet  so  far  off  that  its  plays  have  a 
dowdy  air  beside  our  smart,  scintillating,  real- 
istic modern  drama. 

"  The      Aftermath,"      once      a     very      good 


specimen  of  the  romantic  play,  now  goes  at 
a  pace  that  is  sobered  and  subdued.  Its  char- 
acters are  types,  instead  of  individuals,  gen- 
erally of  an  unrelieved  black  or  white,  but 
little  modified  by  intervening  shades  of  gray. 
The  graces  and  courtesies  of  the  beau-monds 
have  a  musty,  steeped-in-camphor  air.  The 
comedy  misses  fire. 

True,  the  main  situation  still  holds  its  own, 
the  second  act,  in  which  the  unloving  bride 
enters  her  new  home,  possessing  a  romantic 
verve  that  causes  it  to  retain  its  former  mo- 
mentum. 

There  is,  however,  a  puzzlingly  subdued  air 
about  the  whole  performance,  Henry  Miller 
being  the  most  subdued  of  all.  As  for  the 
scrap  between  the  "  du-chesse,"  as  they  put 
it  in  the  present  version,  and  the  iron-master's 
wife,  it  was  given  with  a  well-bred  repose 
that  would  have  amazed  some  actresses  of  the 
past,  whom  I  have  heard  screech  like  fish- 
wives through  the  scene. 

Margaret  Anglin  is  the  chief  figure,  and 
invests  with  her  usual  grace,  intelligence,  and 
charm  the  character  of  Claire,  whose  high- 
born temper,  pride,  and  lack  of  logic  require 
all  the  softening  that  is  possible  to  insure 
full  sympathy  for  her,  even  in  the  blows 
aimed   at  her  pride   and  her   affections. 

Henry  Miller  is  ill  at  ease  in  expressing 
the  quiet  intensity  of  Phillippe  Derblay's 
character,  and  his  nervous  trick  of  telescoping 
a  group  of  syllables  into  an  indistinguishable 
heap  is  more  than  usually  noticeable. 

Walter  Hitchcock  and  Bertha  Creighton  are 
so  well  suited  temperamentally  as  to  give  the 
illusion  in  their  respective  roles  of  the  duke 
and  the  duchess,  but  Miss  Waldron  and  Mr. 
Selten,  as  the  baron  and  baronne.  are  obliged 
to  cover  the  emptiness  of  their  parts,  which 
have  been  badly  done  over,  with  a  hollow 
sprightliness  that  fails  to  deceive. 

Mr.  Titheradge  and  Henry  Miller  ran  ;; 
race  in  unintelligibility,  the  former  coming 
out  ahead.  Almost  the  entire  company,  in- 
deed, spoke,  not  unintelligibly,  but  in  such 
exasperatingly  low  tones  that  one  felt  like 
crowning  Mr.  Walter  Allen  (who  played  the 
part  of  Moulinet,  the  bourgeois)  with  laurel 
in  gratitude  for  his  distinctness  of  articula- 
tion. 

The  gowns  of  the  Misses  Anglin  and  Waldron 
were  a  prominent  feature  in  the  stagescape, 
those  of  Margaret  Anglin  in  particular  bein^; 
of  a  nature  to  fill  the  feminine  bosom  with 
an  ecstasy  that  could  only  find  relief  through 
the  friendly  medium  of  the  opera-glass. 

Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


Sunday  night,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  will  give 
another  of  his  interesting  lectures  on  prac- 
tical psychology  at  Steinway  Hall.  His  sub- 
ject will  be  "  Hypnotism  :  Good  and  Bad." 
There  will  be  further  demonstrations  of  the 
marvelous  powers  of  telepathy,  thought- 
transference,  clairvoyance,  and  various  other 
manifestations  of  the  sub-conscious  mind. 
Sunday  night,  September  27th,  Dr.  Tyndall's 
subject  will  be  "What  is  Clairvoyance?" 

Robert  Edeson  in  "  Soldiers  of  Fortune  "• 
and  Virginia  Harned  in  "  Iris "  are  to  be 
early  attractions  at  the  Columbia  Theatre. 


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matinee,  Verdi's  ever  popular, 

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PRINCE    OF    PILSEN 

By    Pixley  and   Luders,  authors  of  "  King  Dodo." 
"  Vos  you  effer  in  —  Zinzinnati?" 

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THE  ADVENTURE  OF  LADY  URSULA 

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GIOCONDA,  by  D'Annunzin,  will  be  repealed  at 
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QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Matinees  Saturday  and  Snndav.  This  afternoon 
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"What  is  Clairvoyance?" 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


STAGE   GOSSIP. 


The  Prince  of  Pilsen." 
Henry  Miller  and  Margaret  Anglin  wilt 
make  their  farewell  appearance  at  the  Co- 
lumbia Theatre  this  ( Saturday)  evening  in 
"  The  Aftermath."  Next  week  the  successful 
musical  comedy,  "  The  Prince  of  Pilsen," 
bv  Frank  Pixley  and  Gustave  Luders,  will  be 
presented.  When  this  great  success  was  given 
in  New  York,  the  leading  roles  were  played 
by  John  W.  Ransone,  Helen  Bertram.  Arthur 
Donaldson,  Edgar  Norton,  Albert  Parr,  Sher- 
man Wade,  Lillian  Coleman,  Jeanette  Ba°eard. 
and  Anna  Lichter.  With  one  exception,  the 
cast  here  will  be  entirely  new.  Arthur  Don- 
aldson will  appear  as  Carl  Otto,  the  Prince 
of  Pilsen ;  Jess  Dandy  as  Hans  Wagner ; 
Henry-  Taylor  as  Lieutenant  Tom  Wagner ; 
Walter  Clifford  as  Arthur  St.  John  Wilber- 
force.  Lord  Somerset ;  Nick  Long  as 
Francois ;  Frank  D.  Randall  as  Sergeant 
Brie,  of  the  Gendarmes ;  Ada  St.  Albans  as 
Timnvy,  a  bell-boy ,  Trixie  Friganza  as  Mrs. 
Madison  Crocker,  from  New  York;  Elmira 
Forrest  as  Edith  Adams :  Idalene  Cotton  as 
Sidonie,  Mrs.  Crocker's  French  maid ;  Ruth 
Peebles  as  Nellie  Wagner,  Hans  Wagner's 
daughter;  and  Rose  Murray  as  Coralie  Crest. 
Henry  W.  Savage  has  staged  and  costumed 
the  comedy  elaborately.  It  is  in  two  acts 
the  scenes  being  laid  at  Nice,  in  the  garden 
and  court  of  the  Hotel  Internationale.  The 
piece  is  brimful  of  tuneful  music,  the  airs 
of  many  of  the  songs  being  already  familiar 
in  San  Francisco.  Some  of  the  most  popular 
numbers  are  "  Artie,"  "  The  Tale  of  a  Sea 
Shell."  "  The  Message  of  the  Violet."  "  The 
Song  of  the  Cities."  "  Pictures  in  the  Smoke." 
"The  Dutch,"  and  "Heidelberg  Stein  Song." 
During  the  engagement  of  "  The  Prince  of 
Pilsen."  there  will  be  Sunday  night  per- 
formances at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  and 
special  matinees  on  Wednesdays. 


Last  "Week  of  the  Pollard  Company. 
The  last  week  of  the  engagement  of  the  Pol- 
lard Juvenile  Opera  Company  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House  will  show  the  versatile  little 
singers  in  no  less  than  four  favorite 
operas.  At  the  Sunday  matinee  and 
evening  performances,  "'Paul  Jones"  will 
be  the  bill ;  Tuesday  and  Wednes- 
day nights  Alfred  Collier's  pastoral  comic- 
opera.  "  Dorothy,"  will  be  given ;  Thursday 
and  Friday  nights  and  Saturday  matinee 
Gilbert  and  Sullivan's  nautical  comic-opera. 
"  H.  M.  S.  Pinafore,"  will  be  presented,  with 
Daphne  Pollard  as  Sir  Joseph  Porter,  K.  C. 
B..  "the  ruler  of  the  queen's  navee."  Her  per- 
formance of  this  role  is  described  as  marvel- 
ously  clever.  Saturday  night,  the  last  of  the 
season.  "  The  Belle  of  New  York,"  will  be  re- 
peated by  special  request.  At  all  matinees 
the  ladies  and  children  in  attendance  will  be 
presented  with  souvenir  pictures  of  the  most 
popular  children  performers.  Sunday,  Sep- 
tember 27th.  James  Neill  will  appear  in  "  A 
Gentleman  of  France,"  a  romantic  drama 
which    has   never   been    given    here. 


ill 


Florence  Roberts  in  Comedy. 

After  a  round  of  emotional  plays.  "  The 
Unwelcome  Mrs.  Hatch,"  "  Magda,"  and 
"  Gioconda,"  Florence  Roberts  is  to  give  her 
admirers  an  opportunity  to  see  her  in  comedy. 
Next  week  she  will  appear  in  Anthony  Hope's 
charming  romance.  "  The  Adventures  of  Lady 
Ursula."  The  plot  revolves  about  a  resolution 
made  by  Sir  George  Sylvester,  a  disappointed 
lover,  who  vows  that  he  will  seclude  himself 
Irom  the  world  and  have  nothing  more  to  do 
with  women.  Lady  Ursula,  a  bewitching  maid 
who  lives  in  the  neighborhood  and  is  ^given 
to  mischievous  pranks,  determines  to  invade 
the  precincts  of  the  woman-hater.  By  a  clever 
ruse  she  manages  to  get  into  Sir  George's 
home,  but  before  she  reveals  her  identity  and 
wins  his  heart,  she  involves  her  brother  in 
a  duel  and  gets  herself  into  all  kinds  of  com- 
plications. At  the  Thursday  matinee  D'An- 
nunzio's  "  Gioconda  "  will  be  repeated  for  the 
third  time,  with  Miss  Roberts  in  the  role  of 
Silvia- 
Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 

Bizet's  "  Carmen,"  with  Cleo  Marchesini 
in  the  title-role,  will  be  the  bill  at  the  Tivofi 
Opera  House  on  Monday,  Wednesday.  Friday. 
and  Saturday  evenings.  Emanuele.  the  tenor 
who  did  such  excellent  work  in  ''Aida"  and 
"  II  Trovatore."  will  have  the  part  of  Don 
Jose ;  Adelina  Tromben  will  sing  Michaela. 
and  Marie  Welsh  is  cast  for  the  part  of 
Frasquita.  Giuseppe  Zanini  is  to  have  the 
part  of  Doncario  and  Giulio  Cortesi  will  sin,; 
Remendado.  On  the  alternate  evenings  and 
at  the  Saturday  matinee,  "  La  Traviata,"  the 
lyric  story'  of  Camille,  will  be  given,  with 
Tina  de  Spada  as  Violetta.  Giuseppe  Agostini 
as  Alfredo,  Adamo  Cregoretti  as  Germont, 
Baldo  Travaglini  as  Dr.  Grenvil,  Marie  Welsh 
as  Flora,  and  Nettie  Deglow  as  Annina. 
Cortesi,  Zani,  Jacques,  and  Lucino  will  com- 
plete a  strong  cast. 

The  Orpheum's  Excellent  Bill. 
Falke  and  Semon,  the  well-known  musical 
comedians,  will  return  to  the  Orpheum  next 
week,  after  an  absence  of  five  years.  The 
dialogue  in  their  act  is  said  to  be  very  amus- 
ing, and  they  play  upon  odd  instruments 
without  number.  Other  new-comers  are 
Charles  Ernest,  whose  songs  and  sayings  have 
gained  him  a  national  reputation  ;  Mario  and 
Aldo,  triple  horizontal  bar  gymnasts ;  and 
Juliet  Wood  and  Fred  Ray,  who  will  make 
their  initial  San  Francisco  appearance  in  their 
absurdity  entitled  "  A  Funny  Bunch  of  Non- 
sense." For  their  third  and  last  week, 
Frederic  Bond  and  his  company  of  clever 
comedians  will  present  for  the  first  time  on 
any  stage  a  novel  skit  in  one  act,  "  Rehearsing 
a  Tragedy."  suggested  by  a  scene  from  Richard 
»r?nsley  Sheridan's  classic  comedy,  "  The 
Critic."  Others  retained  from  this  week's  bill 


are  Princess  Losoros,  the  East  Indian  prima 
donna  soprano,  who  will  give  an  aria  rcora 
Mozart's  "  Magic  Flute "  and  Mulda's 
Staccato  Polka ;  Rousby's  electrical  review 
in  four  tableaux,  "  In  Paris " ;  Arnesen,  the 
incomparable  equilibrist ;  and  James  Rich- 
mond Glenroy.  "  the  man  with  the  green 
gloves." 

At  Fischer's  Theatre. 
Although  the  double  bill  of  burlesque  at 
Fischer's  Theatre  has  caught  the  popular 
fancy,  and  crowded  houses  are  the  rule  each 
night,  the  management  announces  that 
at  the  end  of  the  fourth  week  "  The  Con- 
Curers  "  and  "  The  Glad  Hand  "  will  be  with- 
drawn. Both  of  the  burlesques  are  filled 
with  bright  dialogue  and  amusing  stage  busi- 
ness, and  there  is  a  liberal  sprinkling  of  catchy 
songs,  stirring  choruses,  pretty  dances,  and 
beautiful  costumes.  In  fact,  it  is  a  long  time 
since  Messrs.  Kolb,  Dill,  Bernard,  Blake, 
Hermsen,  and  Maude  Amber  have  been  more 
happily  cast.  The  next  travesty  is  to  be 
"  The  Paraders,"  a  hodge-podge  of  nonsense  in 
much   the  same  vein  as  "  Fiddle-Dee-Dee." 


Last  Performances  of  "Everyman." 
The  last  opportunity  of  seeing  "  Everyman." 
the  old  morality  play,  at  the  Lyric  Hall,  will 
be  this  (Saturday)  afternoon  and  evening, 
as  the  company-  leaves  San  Francisco  to 
fulfill  engagements  at  Stanford  University, 
San  Jose,  Oakland,  and  Berkeley.  Before 
going  East  to  Pittsburg,  however,  the  company 
will  return  to  the  Lyric  Hall  for  two  days — 
September  28th  and  29th — when  Shakespeare's 
charming  comedy.  "  Twelfth  Night."  will  be 
produced  in  the  quaint  and  interesting  style 
of  the  Elizabethan  age. 


Klaw  &  Erlanger's  great  stage  spectacle. 
"  Ben  Hur,"  will  be  seen  here  for  the  first 
time  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  in  November. 


Is  Puccini's  Career  Ended? 
All  music. lovers  will  be  very'  sorry  to  hear 
that  the  latest  reports  about  the  health  of 
Giacomo  Puccini,  the  composer  of  "  La  Bo- 
heme "  and  "  La  Tosca,"  are  very'  far  from 
reassuring.  Some  months  ago  he  was  trav- 
eling one  evening  in  his  motor-car  and  was 
thrown  out,  his  thigh  bone  being  badly  broken- 
He  was  at  once  taken  home,  and  passed  many 
weeks  of  suffering,  but  was  cheerful  and  hope- 
ful, and  all  seemed  going  well.  However, 
the  weeks  passed  into  months,  and  he  still 
walks  with  crutches,  as  the  bone  will  not  knit. 
Puccini  was  noted  among  Italians  for  his 
love  of  sport,  especially  shooting.  When  his 
fingers  were  not  on  the  keyboard  of  the  piano 
they  held  a  gun,  the  tramping  and  physical 
fatigue  being  not  the  least  of  the  enjoyment. 
"  That  this  man,  almost  a  giant  in  stature 
and  strength,  should  become  a  chronic  in- 
valid must  distress  not  only  his  nearest  and 
dearest,  but  also  those  who  know  him  only 
through  his  music,"  writes  the  Italian  corre- 
spondent of  the  Pall  Mall  Gazette.  "  Puccini 
shows  the  marks  of  his  suffering,  physical 
and  mental.  He  is  gaunt  and  pale,  with  an 
expression  which  causes  the  eyes  of  those  who 
know  him  to  fill  with  tears,  since,  as  the 
Italians  say,  '  His  life  is  finished.'  " 


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September  21,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


It  is  difficult  to  realize  that  only  fifteen  or 
twenty  years  ago  Lester  Wallack  defended 
his  employment  of  English  actors  on  the 
ground  that  Americans  did  not  dress  well 
enough  to  act  in  the  society  plays  that  his 
company  usually  presented.  His  principal 
complaint  was  that  the  Americans  could  not 
wear  dress-suits.  For  that  reason  Harry 
Montague.  Osmund  Tearle,  Harry  Pitt, 
Maurice  Barrymore,  Gerald  Eyre,  Kyrle  Bel- 
lew,  and  other  English  actors  were  brought 
over  here.  But  to-day  it  is  not  necessary  to 
import  Englishmen  nor  even  English  clothes. 
The  actors  are  able  to  find  their  clothes  here 
and  wear  them  in  the  right  way  when  they 
get  them.  No  American  actor  sets  the  fash- 
ions for  well-dressed  men  here  as  Le  Bargy 
does  in  Paris,  for  example,  but  nearly  all 
our  leading  men  dress  well  nevertheless. 
"John  Drew  is.  of  course,  the  best-dressed 
actor  on  the  stage  here."  said  a  well-known 
New  York  tailor,  the  other  day;  "  and  I  might 
almost  say  in  any  other  country.  I  have  never 
seen  an  Englishman  his  superior.  Mr.  Ken- 
dall, when  he  came  here  first,  was  an  uncom- 
monly well-dressed  man,  but  he  never  had  the 
style  with  which  John  Drew  wears  all  his 
clothes.  Mr.  Kendall  looked  always  like  a 
well-dressed  English  gentleman,  while  Mr. 
Drew  is  smart  always,  not  in  a  youthful. 
inappropriate  way,  but  as  a  man  of  his  age 
should  look.  And  he  never  wears  anything 
pronounced.  He  is  careful  to  be  right  in  the 
van  with  the  new  things  that  are  acceptable 
and  suitable  to  him,  but  you  never  see  any- 
thing freakish  about  John  Drew's  dress.  The 
same  is  true  of  his  neckwear,  it  is  always 
handsome  and  rich,  but  never  loud.  His 
clothes  all  come  from  London,  and  have  been 
made  for  so  many  years  by  the  same  man 
that  they  fit  him  perfectly.  I  have  rarely 
seen  him  with  a  garment  that  did  not  fit  him. 
He  was  dressed  by  this  tailor  first  when  he 
went  to  London  nearly  fifteen  years  ago  to 
act  with  the  Daly  company.  He  has  gone 
to  him  ever  since." 

"  Richard  Mansfield,"  continued  the  fastid- 
ious New  York  tailor,  "  is  another  well- 
dressed  actor  whenever  he  gets  the  oppor- 
tunity to  appear  in  modern  dress.  His  frock 
coats  and  evening  dress  are  particularly  well 
made.  They  come  from  London.  It  is  gen- 
erally in  a  more  sombre  style  than  that 
adopted  by  Mr.  Drew  that  Mr.  Mansfield 
dresses.  I  have  never  seen  him,  in  fact,  in 
anything  but  gray  or  black;  but  the  cut  of  his 
clothes  is  always  good,  and  that  is  really  the 
most  important  feature  of  dress.  Henry  Mil- 
ler continues  to  be  about  the  best-dressed 
American  actor  after  these  two.  He  gets  all 
his  clothes  in  New  York,  and  has  never 
patronized  London  tailors.  His  suits  come 
from  a  Fifth  Avenue  shop,  and  he  probably 
pays  more  for  them  than  any  other  actor 
who  has  been  a  leading  man  so  long.  The 
actors  who  get  their  clothes  in  London  do 
not  get  any  better,  nor,  in  my  opinion,  as 
good,  clothes,  but  they  are  decidedly  cheaper. 
Charles  Richman  is  the  most  American-look- 
ing actor  I  ever  saw  on  the  stage.  If  I  were 
going  to  select  a  man  who  would  by  his  dress 
be  picked  out  as  American  above  everything 
else,  it  would  be  Mr.  Richman.  His  clothes 
fit  him  well,  and  I  suppose  would  be  regarded 
as  smart  somewhere.  But  they  do  not  look 
distinguished,  that  is  certain.  In  neckwear, 
Mr.  Richman  is  no  more  careful  of  effect. 
I  have  seen  him  wear  on  the  stage  a  light- 
gray  suit  with  a  tie  of  the  same  neutral  shade. 
Of  course,  the  effect  of  this  was  to  deprive 
both  of  contrast.  It  is  fortunate  for  him  that 
he  is  to  appear  chiefly  in  plays  demanding 
fancy  or  antique  dress,  since  few  look  better 
than  he  does  in  such  clothes.  It  is  a  lucky 
thing  for  J.  K.  Hackett  as  well  that  he  con- 
fines himself  to  costume  plays,  as  they  are 
called.  He  would  never  have  become  a 
matinee  idol  on  account  of  his  clothes." 


Contrary  to  what  many  Englishmen  thought 
before  he  went  to  India,  Lord  Kitchener  has 
been  making  himself  a  great  reputation  in 
Simla  as  a  host.  As  soon  as  he  arrived  at 
his  post  in  India,  Lord  Kitchener  began  im- 
proving the  grounds  and  transforming  the  in- 
terior of  "  Snowden."  the  official  residence 
of  the  commander-in-chief.  As  soon  as  he 
was  able  to  receive,  masculine  Simla  began 
writing  their  names  in  the  general's  visiting 
book.  This  is  an  immense  brass-bound  vol- 
ume, which  custom  decrees  shall  be  exposed, 
between  twelve  and  two  each  day,  on  a  table 
on  the  veranda  of  the  commander-in-chief's 
residence,  to  receive  the  signatures  of  all  who 
consider  themselves  entitled  to  have  social 
t  ations  with  his  military  excellency.  In  due 
c<  "irse,  this  custom* ry  courtesy  completed. 
ea^',1   caller   or   his   wife,    where    such   existed. 


received,  by  red-coated  messenger,  a  large  of- 
ficial invitation  card,  with  "  K "  printed  in 
gilt  on  the  top,  stating  that  the  commander-in- 
chief  requested  the  honor  of  their  company 
at  a  ball.  Those  who  were  either  personally 
known  to  Lord  Kitchener,  or  whose  official  po- 
sition justified  the  distinction,  had  mean- 
while been  entertained  at  dinner,  and  Simla 
had  begun  to  talk  of  gold  presentation  plate, 
of  changes  for  the  better  introduced  into  the 
arrangements  of  the  house,  of  a  pretty  taste 
in  flowers  displayed  by  its  occupant,  and  of 
a  really  excellent  cuisine.  The  ball,  which 
was  attended  by  Lord  and  Lady  Curzon  and 
some  seven  hundred  guests,  confirmed  Lord 
Kitchener's  reputation  for  hospitality.  It  was 
noticed  that  special  arrangements  had  been 
made  to  bring  every  possible  room  in  the 
building  into  requisition,  and  to  extend  the 
accommodation  by  tents  and  shamianas,  so 
that  nobody  should  be  left  out  of  the  occa- 
sion. The  guests  were  not  only  entertained 
on  a  most  generous  scale,  but  they  were 
struck  by  the  carefully  planned  arrangements 
for  their  comfort,  and  by  the  infinity  of  per- 
sonal pains  taken  to  insure  their  enjoying 
themselves.  Lord  Kitchener  received  every 
one  himself,  and  his  pleasant  handshake  of 
good-fellowship  dispelled  a  host  of  lingering 
doubts  as  to  the  manner  of  the  man. 


The  American  Society  of  Professors  of 
Dancing,  which  recently  met  in  New  York, 
has  decreed  that  football  tactics  on  the  ball- 
room floor  must  stop.  There  must  be  no  more 
"  Yale  glides,"  nor  "  Harvard  dips,"  nor  dis- 
torted attempts  to  tread  a  measure  in  two- 
four  time  when  the  music  calls  for  three  beats 
in  a  bar.  The  dancing  of  the  two-step  to 
waltz  time  and  the  grotesque  positions  as- 
sumed by  the  dancers  are  evils  attributed 
to  the  college  fads  that  have  vitiated  the 
public  taste.  "  Some  of  these  students,"  said 
one  professor,  "  invent  a  series  of  Simian 
contortions  and  football  tactics  and  give  it  a 
college  name,  and  the  public  thinks  it  is  all 
right  because  the  college  men  do  it.  Now. 
we  want  to  stop  all  this,  and  bring  dancing 
back  to  the  old  style  of  graceful  carriage 
that  enabled  the  dancers  to  express  the  beauty 
of  motion  to  music.  A  majority  of  the  people 
now  seem  to  dance  a  two-step  to  waltz  music. 
This  is  not  right.  The  two-step  is  easier  to 
teach,  as  it  is  in  common  time,  and  dancing 
it  to  waltz  music  is  not  a  correct  movement." 
Attention  was  also  drawn  to  the  rleglect  in 
the  large  cities  of  the  old  square  dances, 
which  are  still  taught  in  the  smaller  cities. 

When  the  North  German  Lloyd  steamship 
Kaiser  Wilhelm  II  reached  New  York  re- 
cently and  disembarked  her  cabin  passengers 
at  Hoboken,  one  of  them,  an  American  citi- 
zen, addressing  himself  to  a  policeman  on  the 
pier,  caused  him  to  arrest  a  fellow-traveler, 
also  a  United  States  citizen,  on  a  charge  of 
swindling,  the  fraud,  according  to  the  accusa- 
tion, having  been  perpetrated  by  means  of 
unfair  play  at  cards  during  the  voyage  across 
the  Atlantic.  The  officer,  after  having  con- 
veyed his  prisoner  to  police  headquarters, 
subsequently  arraigned  him  before  the  acting 
recorder.  The  latter  informed  both  the  plain- 
tiff and  the  police  that  his  court  had  no  juris- 
diction in  the  matter,  and  referred  him  to  the 
United  States  commissioner,  who  also  de- 
clined to  deal  with  the  case,  on  the  ground 
that  it  was  beyond  the  competence  of  the 
Federal  authorities.  The  Hoboken  police 
thereupon  communicated  with  the  German 
consul-general  at  the  port  of  New  York,  and 
on  receiving  from  him  an  intimation  that  he 
knew  of  no  law  under  which  they  could  hold 
the  prisoner,  were  obliged  to  set  the  latter  at 
liberty,  much  to  the  disgust  of  the  plaintiff, 
who  complained  that  he  and  some  of  his 
friends  had  been  victimized  to  the  tune  of 
some  ten  thousand  dollars. 


There  are  some  people  who  have  become  so 
tired  of  "  Hiawatha,"  "  Violets,"  "  The  Ro- 
sary," and  several  other  worn-out  composi- 
tions, that  they  would  hail  with  pleasure  any 
movement  which  would  serve  to  keep  such 
music  out  of  the  cafes  and  restaurants.  There 
are  now  few  eating  establishments  of  impor- 
tance not  provided  with  music  of  some  kind.  It 
may  be  a  complete  orchestra  of  twelve  or  fif- 
teen instruments,  or  it  may  be  only  two  or 
three  Italians  twanging  guitars.  But  the  mu- 
sic seems  nowadays  as  important  as  the 
napkins  and  other  established  necessities. 
Music  is  a  luxury  which  the  proprietors  would 
never  provide  unless  it  were  profitable.  But 
there  are  restaurant  patrons  who  shudder  at 
the  first  note.  These  are  they  who  habitually 
eat  in  restaurants.  To  them  music  with  their 
food  has  become  a  terror,  for  they  are  forced 
to  listen  night  after  night  to  the  same  old  tunes. 
These  apparently  seem  to  please  strangers  in 
town  and  transients,  for  they  enthusiastically 


applaud  all  "  old  favorites  "  and  bombard  the 
leader  of  the  orchestra  with  requests  for  the 
popular  melodies  of  the  hour.  It  would  seem 
that  the  restaurant  and  cafe  proprietors  were 
more  anxious  to  please  this  class  of  diners 
than  their  regular  patrons. 


Nelson's  Ainycose. 
Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From     Official     Report     of    Alexander     G.    McAdie, 
District   Forecaster. 


Max.  Miv.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

September  10th....  76  60  .00  Clear 

"  nth 76  56  .00  Clear 

12th 66  56  -00  Clear 

13th 66  54  -o°  Clear 

"  14th 75  54  -oo  Clear 

15th....  80  52  -oo  Clear 

"  16th 82  60  .00  Clear 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  September  16, 
1903.  were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Bav  Co.  Power  5%      6,ooo  @  101  103 

Cal.  Central  G.    E. 

5%  2,000  @  103 

Contra  Costa  Water 

5% 3,000  @  ioz}£ 

Hawaiian  C.  S.  5%-    4,°oo  @   99  99^     mo 

Market  St.  Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 2,000  @  115^  "55£ 

N.  Pac.  C.  Ry.  5%-     5.o°°  ®  ™VA 

Oakl'nd  Transit  5%    6,000  @hi 
Oakland       Transit 

Con.  5% 4.000  @  102-    103        ioi        105 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%.  50,000  @  no-    110^     no        m 

Park  C.  H.  Ry 7.000  ©103 

Park  Ocean  Rv.  6%     1,000  @  115 
S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% I.OOO  @  I20#  120% 

Sierra Ry.ofCal. 6%    3,000  @  112  mj£ 

S-  P.  R.  ot  Arizona 

6%  1909 6,000  @  io8J£ 

S.  P.  R-  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  3,000  @  109^  109&     109% 

S-  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 10,000  @  107J4 

S.  V.  Water  4%  —    7.000  @   99^-100  100 

S.  V.  Water  4%  3d.     2,000  ©99  100 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Valley 45  @    83^-84         8354 

Banks. 

American  Ntl 10  @  125  120        126 

Mercantile  T.  Co..  15  ©230  230 

Street  R.  R. 

Presidio    25  @    39^  41 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 90  @    63-      65M      64         65^ 

Vigorit 150  @     5#  5% 

Suga  rs. 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...        315  @    44^-45  45 

HonokaaS- Co....        365  @    13K-  *Z%      *3% 

Hutchinson 10  @    13^  13 

MakaweliS.Co 10  @    22j£  20  23% 

Onomea  S.  Co 100  @    30^-30^      30 

PaauhauS.  Co 195  @    15^-16        16^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Mutual  Electric...        100  @    13^  13}^      13% 

Pacific  Gas 120  @    53^-  54!^       54 

Pacific  Lighting....         25  @    56^  55^ 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       145  @    68-      69%      67%      68# 

Trustees  Certificates. 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       455  @    68-      69K      67^      68 

Miscellaneous. 

Alaska  Packers  ...        320  @  i5o}&-i5%lA    i$5lA     156% 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         25  @    93  93^      95 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 100  @    97  96%      97  J£ 

Oceanic  S.  Co 70  @      7  hyA        7 

The  business  for  the  week  was  small,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  Alaska  Packers  Association,  326 
shares  changing  hands.  The  stock  sold-up  to  158  y2 , 
a  gain  of  nine  points,  closing  at  155K  bid,  156^ 
asked. 

The  sugar  stocks  have  been  in  better  demand, 
making  gains  of  from  one-half  to  one  and  one-half 
points,  the  latter  in  Hawaiian  Commercial  and 
Sugar. 

Spring  Valley  Water  has  kept  steady,  with  no 
change  in  price. 

Giant  Powder  was  weak,  selling  off  two  and  one- 
half  points  to  63,  on  sale  of  90  shares. 

The  gas  stocks  have  been  quiet,  with  no  change 
in  prices. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise 


Sometimes  an  English  idiom  misleads  the 
guileless  Gaul,  when  he  translates  English 
phrases  into  French,  as  in  the  case  of  one  who 
rendered  *'  forty  odd  years "  as  "  quarante 
annees  etranges."  Even  he,  however,  did 
rather  better  than  Laplace,  who,  in  the  eight- 
eenth century,  translated  "Love's  Last  Shift" 
into  "  La  Derniere  Chemise  de  I' Amour." 

The  other  day  a  doctor  met  a  man  who  was 
in  the  habit  of  accosting  him  in  the  street, 
and,  in  the  guise  of  ordinary  conversation, 
trying  to  extract  free  medical  advice.  "  I 
hear  fish  is  an  excellent  brain  food,"  ventured 
the  inquisitive  man ;  "  do  you  think  so? " 
"  Excellent,"  was  the  physician's  reply,  "  but 
in  your  case  it  seems  a  pity  to  waste  the  fish." 


A  missionary  in  China  was  enaeavoring  to 
convert  one  of  the  natives.  "  Suppose  me 
Christian,  me  go  to  heaven  ? "  remarked  Ah 
Sin.  "  Yes,"  replied  the  missionary-  '"  -^ 
lite,"  retorted  the  heathen,  "  but  what  for 
you  no  let  Chinaman  into  Amelica  when  you 
let  him  into  heaven  ?  "  "  Ah,"  said  the  mis- 
sionary with  fervor,  "  there's  no  labor  party 
in  heaven." 


Once,  when  they  were  talking  literature, 
Mrs.  Isobel  Strong  said  to  Robert  Louis 
Stevenson :  "  At  least  you  have  no  manner- 
isms." Whereupon  Stevenson  took  a  copy  of 
his  own  "  Merry  Men."  which  she  was  read- 
ing, out  of  her  hands,  and  read,  "  It  was  a 
wonderful  clear  night  of  stars."  "  Oh,"  he 
said,  "  how  many,  many  times  I  have  written 
'  a  wonderful  clear  night  of  stars.'  " 


In  18S5  an  Englishman  and  his  wife  were 
being  driven  about  Ireland  by  a  rather  melan- 
choly jarvey,  who  could  see  no  silver  lining 
to  the  cloud  overshadowing  his  country  and 
his  own  particular  trade.  "  Never  mind,  Pat," 
said  the  Englishman,  "  you'll  have  a  grand 
time  when  they  give  you  Home  Rule."  "  Be- 
dad,  yer  hanner,  and  we  will — for  a  week." 
■'  Why  for  a  week  ?  "  "  Drivin'  all  the  gintry 
to  the  boat,"  answered  Pat. 

At  a  banquet  after  the  overwhelming  defeat 
of  Shamrock  III,  Sir  Thomas  Lipton  said : 
"  You  Americans  are  hard  to  beat.  You  re- 
mind me  of  the  Scotchman  who  came  up  to 
London  and  was  set  upon  by  two  highwaymen, 
whom  he  so  unmercifully  mauled  that  by  the 
time  they  had  overcome  him  they  were  about 
ready  to  go  to  the  hospital  themselves.  And 
they  only  found  tuppence  in  his  pocket, 
whereat  one  of  them  said:  'It's  lucky,  Bill, 
he  didn't  'ave  sixpence.  If  he  'ad,  'e'd  a  killed 
both   of  us.'  " 

It  is  related  that  on  one  cold  night  ex-Presi- 
dent Cleveland,  who  used  to  fish  and  hunt  a 
good  deal  in  the  Barneg^t  Bay  district,  got 
lost.  He  wandered  through  the  mud  and  rain 
and  darkness  for  more  than  two  hours,  but 
not  a  light  nor  a  road  could  he  see.  At  last 
he  struck  a  narrow  lane,  and  in  due  course 
a  house  appeared.  Mr.  Cleveland  was  cold 
and  tired.  So  he  banged  at  the  door  till  a 
window  on  the  second  floor  went  up  and  a 
gruff  voice  said :  "  Who  are  you  ?  "  "  A 
friend,"  said  Mr.  Cleveland,  meekly.  "  What 
do  you  want?"  "  To  stay  here  all  night." 
"  Stay  there,  then."  And  the  window  de- 
scended with  a  bang,  leaving  Mr.  Cleveland 
no  alternative  but  to  move  on. 

The  peons  of  Mexico  are  superstitious  and 
credulous  to  the  last  degree.  A  writer  in  the 
New  York  Tribune  recently  had  a  curious 
proof  of  this  last  characteristic.  He  writes  : 
**  The  planter  with  whom  I  was  staying 
wanted  to  take  me  out  for  a  day's  hunting  ex- 
pedition. But  he  was  afraid  that  the  minute 
he  left  the  plantation  all  his  laborers  would 
knock  off  work.  Now  it  happened  that  he  has 
lost  one  of  his  eyes  in  an  accident,  and  the 
missing  optic  had  been  replaced  by  a  glass 
eye.  When  all  was  ready  for  the  hunting 
trip  he  went  to  the  field  where  the  peons  were 
working.  '  I  shall  be  away  to-day,  my  children,' 
he  said  to  them  in  fatherly  tones,  '  but  I  will 
leave  ray  eye  on  guard  in  my  absence.  All  the 
day  it  will  watch  you,  and  at  night  when  I 
return  it  will  tell  me  if  any  have  failed  in 
their  duty.'  After  this  little  speech  he  care- 
fully extracted  the  glass  eye  and  left  it  on  a 
stump,  where  it  could  apparently  overlook 
the  field.  To  say  those  natives  were  amazed 
is  stating  it  mildly.  They  simply  gasped, 
and  one  and  all  solemnly  promised  they  would 
work  with  the  utmost  faithfulness  until  sun- 
set. So  my  friend  and  I  started  on  our  hunt- 
ing trip,  confident  that  the  peons  would  work 
even    better   than    if   he    was    there    to    watch 


them.  The  scheme  worked,  but  not  to  the 
perfection  we  expected.  We  returned  from 
the  hunting  trip  a  little  before  sunset.  Not  a 
native  was  working  in  the  field,  although  the 
appearance  of  the  ground  showed  that  they 
evidently  had  labored  faithfully  for  several 
hours.  Then  they  had  retired  to  sundry 
shady,  comfortable  spots  and  slept.  When  my 
friend  the  planter  looked  for  his  glass  eye  the 
mystery  as  to  how  they  had  overcome  their 
superstitious  fears  was  explained.  The  glass 
eye  was  still  on  -the  stump,  but  it  was  care- 
fully covered  with  a  little  tin  pail.  While  the 
natives  thought  the  eye  was  watching  they 
had  worked  hard.  Then  the  bright  idea  had 
occurred  to  one  of  them  that  if  the  eye  was 
covered  it  could  not  tell  anything  to  its 
owner.  They  had  acted  on  this  idea,  and  then 
promptly  knocked  off  work." 


The  French  papers  tell  of  a  thrifty  Paris- 
ian who  has  hit  upon  a  new  system  of  safety 
deposit.  A  visit  was  recently  made  to  a  po- 
lice station  in  the  Faubourg  Monmartre  by  a 
M.  Samuel  V.,  who  came  to  claim  a  parcel  of 
jewels  which  he  had  lost  a  month  previously, 
valued  at  300,000  francs.  The  commissary 
consulted  his  register.  M.  V.'s  jewels  had 
been  found  and  taken  to  the  station  by  M. 
Leon  D.  "  It  is  very  curious,"  said  an  em- 
ployee, "  these  same  jewels  were  lost  on  the 
same  date  last  year,  and  brought  here  by  a 
M.  Leon  D.,  and  claimed  a  month  afterward 
by  M.  Samuel  V."  "  It  is  very  curious  !  Too 
curious!"  said  the  commissary ;  "explain  this 
strange  coincidence."  After  a  slight  hesita- 
tion, M.  Samuel  V.  explained  that,  being 
afraid  of  burglars  while  away  ior  a  month's 
holiday,  he  thought  it  would  be  difficult  to 
find  a  more  secure  place  to  put  them. 

In  Tombola  an  amusing  story  is  told  of 
the  present  Pope  and  the  mourners'  candles. 
A  wealthy  resident  of  Tombola  died,  and  his 
funeral  ceremonies  were  the  most  elaborate 
ever  known  in  that  humble  village.  A  great 
many  mourners  were  hired,  whose  office  was 
to  bear  the  lighted  candles  beside  the  cata- 
falque in  its  progress  to  the  cemetery.  The 
candles  were  of  the  clearest  wax  and  immense 
in  size,  having  been  specially  brought  from 
Venice  for  the  occasion.  The  like  had  never 
been  seen  in  Tombola,  their  size  exceeding 
even  the  large  candles  on  the  church  altar. 
During  the  solemn  procession  the  Don  Giu- 
seppe, now  Pius  the  Tenth,  noted  how  often 
the  candles  were  extinguished.  He  could 
not  account  for  it,  as  the  day  was  a  still 
one.  He  watched  an  old  woman  nearest  to 
him,  and  saw  her  furtively  blow  out  the  can- 
dle which  her  right  arm  could  scarce  carry. 
"  How  did  you  come  to  put  out  that  candle, 
Giaccoma?"  he  queried  sternly.  The  crone 
turned  a  properly  sorrowful  face  to  him,  re-  ■ 
plying :  "  My  tears  have  put  it  out — they  fell 
so  freely."  The  excuse  caught  Don  Giuseppe's 
sense  of  humor.  "  Well,"  said  he,  relighting 
the  fine  taper,  "  see  that  your  tears  fall  to  the 
left  of  you  after  this."  The  old  woman's  light 
held  out  to  the  grave,  though  no  doubt  it 
seemed  a  pity  not  to  save  as  much  of  the  can- 
dle as  she  could  use  in  her  home. 


In  Provincetown. 
We  arose  from  the  steps  to  let  the  old  fel- 
low in,  and  he  stopped  long  enough  to  say:  ! 
■*  This  gettin'  past  you  folks  reminds  me  of 
the  summer  Squire  Hopkins's  three  daughters 
was  bein'  courted  all  at  the  same  time.  Russell 
Jaspie  was  a-courtin'  Samantha,  the  oldest 
girl ;  Frank  Atwood  was  a-courtin'  Mabel,  and 
Susie,  the  youngest,  was  bein'  courted  by  Jim 
Handy.  One  night,  pretty  late,  the  squire 
come  back  home  from  town  meetin',  and 
started  to  go  in  by  the  front  door,  but  found 
Russell  and  Samantha  a-spoonin'  on  the 
steps ;  so  he  went  to  the  side  door,  and  there 
was  Jim  Handy  settin'  close  to  little  Susie. 
He  backed  off  again  and  went  around  the  house 
to  get  in  through  the  kitchen  without  dis- 
turbin'  no  one,  and  I'm  jiggered  if  he  didn't 
stumble  onto  Frank  a-huggin'  his  other  girl. 
Then  the  squire  he  up  and  says,  says  he : 
'  Frank,  you  let  me  in  to-night  and  in  the 
mornin'  111  have  another  door  cut  through!*  " 
— Life. 


A  line  of  action :  "  You  see."  said  the 
young  lawyer,  "  my  client  is  accused  of  bigamy 
and  he's  guilty,  so  I  hardly  know  how  to  de- 
fend him."  "  Why,  that's  easy,"  said  the  old 
lawyer ;  "  defend  him  on  the  ground  of  in- 
sanity, and  get  a  few  henpecked  husbands 
on  the  jury-" — Puck. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 

Science  for  the  Youne. 
The  kangaroo  can  jump  a   bit; 

The   flea's   a  jumper,   too — 
He'll  jump,  he'll  bite,   and  then   he'll   flit. 

And  never  leave  a  clew. 

When    either  jumps,    nobody  tries 

His    jumplets    to    pursue — 
We're  glad  the  flea  has  not  the  size 

Of    the    big    kangaroo. 

— Chicago    Tribune. 


The  Seven  Ages  of  Hair. 
At  first  the  baby's    fuzzy  crown. 
Protected  by  its  cap  of  down. 

And  then   the   youngster's  curly  mop 
That's  never  known    the  barber's   shop. 

The  schoolboy,  next,  his  head  must  strip 
To    have   a   summer    "  fighting-clip." 

No  shears  the  football  age  profane — 
The  half-back  wears  a  shaggy  mane. 

The   first   white  hairs   evoke  a  sigh: 
The  beau's  convinced  that  he  must  dye. 

Still  vain,  though  older,   he's  appalled 
To  note  that  he  is  nearly  bald. 

Senile,   yet  sprightly  as  a  grig. 
He  dons  the  undeceptive  wig. 

— Frank    Roe    Batchetder    in    Life. 


Ballad  of  the  Beauty  Doctor. 
All  ye  whose  charms  appear  to  fade. 

Whose  cheeks  are  sunken,  lean,  and  lined. 
On  whom  old  Time  has  made  a  raid 

And   left   his   little  marks   behind, 
If  you   will  come  to  me  you'll   find 

With  my  renowned  May  gathered  dew — 
Wise    Nature's    boon    to    womankind — 

I  make  old  faces  into  new. 

You  may  be  forty  in  the  shade. 

You  may  have  dwindled,  peaked,  and  pined. 
And  on   the   upper  shelf   be   laid. 

But  if  you  are  you  need  not  mind; 
I'll  prove  to  all  not  deaf  and  blind 

That,  though  their  years  are  not  a  few. 
With  my  rose  cream  and  dew  combined 

I  make  old  faces  into  new. 

To   put  you  back  a   full   decade 

My   lilac    lotion    is   designed. 
My  powder's   of  the   finest   grade. 

My   essence   of  pomegranate   rind 
And   lilies,   skillfully   refined. 

Imparts  a  blooming,   youthful   hue. 
You  may  be   young,   if  so   inclined; 

I  make  old   faces  into  new. 

l'envoi. 
Princess,  of  course,  you  have  divined 

My  offer  is  not  meant  for  you. 
The    inference   perchance   might   grind: 
"  I  make  old  faces  into  new." 

— Chicago    News. 


Our  Slang  Abroad. 
They  say  that  slang  American  has  been 
Adopted  by  the  European  dandies. 
And  that  your  French,  your  German   Philistine 
His  fellow  in   the  Yankee   fashion  bandies. 
For  instance,  when  in  Dresden,  Kiel,  Berlin, 
A  chap  has  told  a  lurid  tale — at  hand  is. 
As  ever,  one  whose  heart  is  full  of  doubt 
To  bring  at  once,  extremely  pat  and  bang  in: 
(The  German   for — "  And  then  your  pipe  went 
ont!") 
"  Und  dann   ist  deine  Pfeife  ausgegangen !" 

In  Paris,  on  the  boulevard  you'll  find 
Two    dapper    little    Frenchmen,    much    excited, 
Engaged,   to   the   delight   of   gaminkind. 
In   arguing  anent   the  sad,   benighted 
Condition  of  the  country.     Deaf  and  blind 
They  would  be  till  the  world  was  fully  righted. 
But  one  outyells  the  other,   who,  at   that. 
Cries,  of  a  sudden,  with  a  gesture  showy: 
(The  Gallic  for  "He's  talking  thro'  his  hat!") 

"  O,  comme  il  parle  a  travers  son  chapeau,  eh?") 

Down  in  Madrid,  a  chappie's  done  his  best 
To  win  out  of  a  dainty  senorita's 
Black  eyes  a  glance  of  favor.     Put  to  test 
This  chappie  ev'ry  weapon  of  bis  wit  has. 
But  she  has  passed  him  by,  all  self-possessed. 
As  tho'   he  were  as  meaningless  an   "  it "   as 
Some  little  fice — A   friend  was  with  him  who 
Remarked — of  words  he  but  a  very  few  chose — 
(The  Spanish  for  "  You're  not  so  many,  you!") 

"  Se  puede  que  tu  no  estas  tan  muchos!" 

Upon    the   Corso  of  the  Caesars'    town 
Behold  a    handsome    Latin   greet    another. 
And    tell    him:      "Fled    have    all    the    beastly 

brown 
And  azure  devils  that  my  life  did  bother: 
Ten  thousand  '  lire  '  they  have  paid  me  down 
For   a  successful    ticket!      To    my   mother 
I've  given  half.     The  other  half  'tis  right 
That     we     should     spend     to     start — by     Gari- 
baldi!"— 
(The  Roman  for  "a  hot  old  time  to-night!" 

"  O,  in  la  villa  vecchia  tempi  caldi!" 

— Sew    Orleans    Times-Democrat. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW   YOBK-SUCTHAMPTON-LOXDON. 

Phl'delpbia  .Sept.  23, 10 am  I  New  York Oct.  7,  10  am 

St.  Louis Sept.  30,  10  am  1  Pbil'delphia  Oct.  14,  10  am 

Philadelphia—  o  ueena  town  —  Liverpool. 
Noordland  ...Sept. 26,  ipra  I  West'nl'ndOct.  10, 11.30am 
Friesland  ...  Oct.  3,  9  am  |  Belgenland  ...Oct.  17.  9am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW"    YOBK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Min'apolis..  Sept.  26,9am  |  Mesaba Oct.  10,  9am 

Minnehaha Oct.  3,  3  pm  [  Min'et'nka.Oct.  17. 1.30  pm 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— QCEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL 
Commonwealth  .  ..Sept.  24  I  Columbus  (new)  .  ..Oct.  15 

New  England Oct.  1     Commonwealth  ....Oct.  22 

Mayflower Oct.  S  |  New  England Oct.  29 

Montreal — Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Sept.  26  I  Dominion     Oct.  10 

Southwark  Oct.  5  |  Southwark Oct.  17 

609100    Mediterranean    ™«* 

AZORES— G  IBB  ALT  AB.—X  APLE.S—U  EN  OA, 

Cancouver Saturday.  Oct.  to,  Nov.  21 

Vambroman - Saturday,  Oct.  31,  Dec.  12 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 

Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Kroonland. Sept  26  I  Finland Oct.  10 

Zetland  Oct.  3  |  Vaderland Oct.  17 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Cymric Sept.  25, 8  am  I  Arabic Oct.  2,  2.30  pm 

Victorian Sept.  29.  noon  I  Germanic Oct.  7.  noon 

Teutonic Sept.  30,  noon  [  Cedric Oct.  9.  7  am 

C.  1>.  TAYLOK.    Passenger  Agent.  Pacific  Coast. 
21  post  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  F.  31.,  ior 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA.  Kobe,  Nagasaki.  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Wednesday,    Oct.  7 

Coptic   Saturday,  Oct.   31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)  Wednesday,  Nov.  35 

Doric Tuesday.  Dec.  32 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 


Why  Modify  Milk 

for  infant  feeding  in  the  uncertain  ways  of  the  novice 
when  you  can  have  always  with  you  a  supply  of 
Bordeii's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  a  perfect 
cow's  milk  from  herds  of  native  breeds,  the  perfec- 
1  lion  of  infant  food  ?     Use  it  for  tea  and  coffee. 


Too  strenuous:  "  If  I  give  you  a  dime 
you  will  run  straight  to  some  saloon."  "  Not 
me."  "  Will  you  promise?"  "  Yes'm  ;  I  never 
run." — Indianapolis  Sun. 


to 


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V.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Whari,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  ior  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Hongkong  Hani Saturday,  Septeuiber  19 

(Calling  at  Manila) 

Nippon  Maru Thursday,  October  IB 

America  Maru ..Tuesday,  November  10 

Via  Honolulu.    Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.   H.  AVEKT,  tieneral  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S-  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti.  Sept.  20,  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 
S.     S.    Alameda,  ior  Honolulu  only,   Sept.  26,  1903, 

at  11  a.  m. 
S.  S.  Ventura,  ior  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland- 

and  Sydney,  Thursday.  Oct.  S.  1903.  at  2  p.  m. 
J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 
Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St..  San  Francisco. 

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THE        ARGON  AUT 


September  21,  1903. 


society. 


The  Flint-Apperson  Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Anne  Apperson  and 
Dr.  Joseph  Marshall  Flint  took  place  at  the 
Hacienda  del  Pozo  de  Verona,  near  Pleasanton, 
the  country  place  of.  the  bride's  aunt.  Mrs. 
Phebe  Hearst,  on  Tuesday.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  noon  by  the  Rev.  N.  B.  Gall  way. 
Mrs.  Hearst  gave  the  bride  into  the  keeping 
of  the  groom;  Miss  Elsa  Woodworth,  of  Ne\y 
York  was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  F.  R.  S. 
Balfour  acted  as  best  man.  The  bridal  couple 
were  also  attended  by  four  little  children- 
Elizabeth  Wheeler.  Jean  Wheeler,  Edward 
Clark,  and  Randolph  Apperson.  The  ceremony 
was  witnessed  by  seventy-five  guests,  all  re- 
latives  and  intimate  friends,  and  was  followed 
by  a  wedding  breakfast  served  in  the  hacienda 
patio  Later  in  the  day.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Flint 
departed  for  "  Wyntoon,"  the  Hearst  country 
place  on  the  McCloud,  where  they  will  spend 
some  time. 

Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Bernie  Drown,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A 
N  Drown,  and  Mr.  Samuel  Boardman,  son  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  C.  Boardman 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Estelle  Splivalo,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A. 
D.  Splivalo.  and  Mr.  Dave  J.  Martin.  The  wed- 
ding will  take  place  in  November.      _ 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Louise 
Heppner.  daughter  of  Mrs.  C.  H.  Wilson,  and 
granddaughter  of  the  late  Lazard  Godchaux, 
and  Mr.  Milton  J.  Unger. 

The  engasement  is  announced  of  Miss  Ada 
Catherine  Stone,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Stone,  of  Oakland,  and  Mr.  Robert  Sibley. 
who  left  Berkeley  on  Tuesday  for  Missoula. 
Mont.,  to  enter  upon  his  new  duties  as  head 
of  the  department  of  mechanical  and  electrical 
e'nsineering  at  the  University  of  Montana. 

The  engasement  is  announced  of  Mrs. 
Eugenia  Lee  Thompson  and  Mr.  Theodore 
Mansfeldt,  the  well-known  'cellist.  The  wed- 
ding will  occur  on  Sunday  afternoon  at  three 
o'clock  at  the  Swedenborgian  Church. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bessie  Godey,  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  Mr.  C.  Frederick  Kohl 
will  take  place  at  Cleveland  Park,  a  suburb 
of  Washington,  early  next  month.  Mr.  Kohl's 
mother  and  sister  and  best  man,  Mr.  Fred 
Moody,  will  leave  for  the  East  soon  to  attend 
the  wedding.  --- 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Evelyn  Laughton, 
daughter  of  the  late  Charles  E.  Laughton,  who 
served  as  lieutenant-governor  of  "Nevada  and 
governor  of  Washington,  and  Mr.  Girard  Mor- 
ris Barreto.  of  New  York,  took  place  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs.  Flora 
Laughton,  at  Belvedere,  on  Tuesday.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  at  noon  by  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Hall,  of  San  Rafael.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Laughton  was  her  sister's  maid  of  honor. 
After  a  wedding  luncheon  had  been  served,. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barreto  left  for  Monterey. 
where  they  will  make  a  brief  stay  prior  to  their 
departure  for  New  York,  which  will  be  their 
future  home. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Edith  Grace  Cha- 
querte,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  M.  Cha- 
quette.  and  Mr.  James  W.  Redpath  took  place 
on  Monday  afternoon  at  the  Westminster 
Presbyterian  Church.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  four  o'clock  by  Rev.  Dr.  Logan. 
The  bride  and  groom  were  unattended.  Mr. 
W.  H.  Woolcock  and  Mr.  Alexander  Ross 
acted  as  ushers.  After  a  wedding  journey  in 
Southern  California,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chaquette 
will   reside   in  this  city. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Jessica  Marion  Davis. 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  M.  Davis, 
and  Mr.  Arthur  Charles  Nahl,  son  of  the  late 
Perham  Nahl,  the  well-known  artist,  took 
place  at  noon  on  Wednesday  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  parents,  1722  Pine  Street.  The 
ceremony  was  followed  by  a  wedding  break- 
fast, and  later  in  the  day  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nahl 
departed  for  a  brief  wedding  journey,  prior 
to  their  departure  for  Llano.  Mexico,  their 
future  home. 

The  wedding  is  announced  of  Miss  Georgia 
Sullivan, }  sister  of  Mrs.  Rudolph  B.  Spence, 
Mrs.  Reginald  White,  Miss  Adah  Sullivan. 
Miss  Fannie  Sullivan,  and  Mrs.  Turner,  and 
Mr.  Lewis  White,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
which  took  place  in  New  Jersey  a  fortnight 
ago.  Mrs.  Frank  J.  Sullivan  and  Miss  Phelan 
went  East  a  month  ago  in  order  to  assist  at 
the  wedding. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Haas  have  sent  out 
cards  for  the  wedding  of  their  daughter.  Miss 
Florine  Haas,  and  Mr.  Edward  Rrandenstein, 
which  will  take  place  Thursday  evening.  Sep- 
tember 24th,  at  six  o'clock  at  the  family 
residence.    2007    Franklin    Street. 

Miss  Maye  Colburn  gave  a  dinner  at  her  resi- 
dence on  Hyde  Street  on  Sunday  evening  in 
honor  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Beardsley  (nee 
Robinson).  Others  at  table  were  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Dutton.  Miss  Elsie  Sperry,  Miss 
Mabel  Toy.  Miss  Gladys  McClung,  Mr.  Ralph 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

MAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  no  substitute 


Hart,  Mr.  Philip  Paschel,  Major  William 
Stephenson,  U.  S.  A.,  apd  Captain  Frederick 
Johnson,  U.  S.  A. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chauncey  Boardman  gave  a 
dinner  on  Tuesday  evening,  at  which  they  en- 
tertained Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  Danforth  Board- 
man,  Miss  Ether  Cooper,  Miss  Bernie  Drown, 
Miss  Newell  Drown,  Mr.  Samuel  Boardman, 
and  Mr.   Philip   Simpkins. 

Mrs.  Laura  Roe  will  give  a  tea  at  her  Ross 
Valley  residence  to-day  (Saturday)  from  two 
to  half  after  five  o'clock.  She  will  be  assisted 
in  receiving  by  Mrs.  R.  J.  Davis,  Miss  Ella 
Morgan,  and  Miss  Gertrude  Wheeler. 

Mrs.  Bowman  H.  McCalla  gave  a  tea  at  her 
home  on  Friday  afternoon  in  honor  of  her 
guest.  Mrs.  Bacon,  wife  of  Paymaster  Bacon. 
The  hours  were  from  four  to  six  o'clock. 

Mrs.  Philetus  Everts  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday  in  honor  of  Mrs.  M.  M.  Estee. 
Others  at  table  were  Mrs.  Charles  Deering, 
Mrs.  T.  B.  McFarland,  Miss  McFarland,  Mrs. 
John  Phillips,  Mrs.  Jerome  Madden,  Mrs. 
James  Carolan,  and  Mrs.  William  M.  Somers. 

General  and  Mrs.  Coolridge  will  give  a  fare- 
well reception  to  their  old  regiment,  the  Sev- 
enth Infantry,  on  the  evening  of  September 
24th.  at  their  residence  on  Lombard  Street 
and  Van  Ness  Avenue. 


MUSICAL    NOTES. 


The  Scheel  Concerts. 

The  symphony  concert  which  Fritz  Scheel 
gave  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Tuesday 
afternoon  proved  a  great  treat  to  San  Fran- 
cisco music  lovers,  for  the  programme  con- 
tained several  real  novelties — the  most  inter- 
esting being  "  The  Bells  and  March  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Holy  Grail,"  from  Richard 
Wagner's  much-discussed  "  Parsifal."  By  re- 
quest, Handel's  "  Grand  Concerto "  was  re- 
peated, and  among  other  numbers  were 
Mendelssohn's  "  Midsummer  Night's  Dream  J 
and    Brahm's    beautiful    "  Symphony    No.    2." 

The  programme  for  next  Tuesday  includes 
Haydn's  fifth  symphony;  Beethoven's  "  Corio- 
lanus  "  overture;  Serenade  Op.  7.  by  Richard 
Strauss  for  two  flutes,  two  oboes,  two 
clarionets,  four  horns,  two  bassoons,  and_  one 
contra-bass ;  violin  concerto,  F-sharp,  minor, 
by  Heinrich  W.  Ernst;  J.  Massenet's  prelude, 
"  The  Last  Dream  of  the  Virgin  "  and  E.  N. 
von  Reznicek's  "  Lutspeil "  overture.  The 
last  three  numbers  will  be  given  here  for  the 
first  time.  The  Ernest  concerto,  which  was 
given  here  last  winter  by  Kocian,  will  be 
played  by  Otto  Spamer,  who  has  performed 
with  great  success  in  the  symphony  orchestras 
of  Berlin,  London,  and  other  European  cities 
as  soloist.  He  is  in  San  Francisco  at  present 
seeking  rest  and  recreation. 

First  Concert  of  the  Loring  Club. 

The  Loring  Club  announces  its  first  con- 
cert of  the  twenty-seventh  season  for  next 
Tuesday  evening,  at  Native  Sons'  Hall.  The 
important  novelty  in  the  programme  will  be 
a  setting  of  Tennyson's  "  Break,  Break,"  by 
the  American  composer,  John  Hyatt  Brewer. 
This  is  for  male-voice  chorus,  with  accompan- 
iment of  piano,  organ,  string  quintet,  flute, 
two  clarionets,  and  two  horns,  the  composer 
having  scored  the  accompaniments  for  these 
instruments  in  accordance  with  the  desire 
expressed  by  the  Loring  Club  that  this  should 
be  done.  The  largest  work  in  the  programme 
is  Heinrich  Hoffmann's  cantata,  "  Harald's 
Bridal  Voyage,"  for  male-voice  chorus  and 
baritone,  which  will  be  produced  in  its  en- 
tirety, the  exacting  solos  in  this  work  being 
intrusted   to   Herbert   E.   Medley. 

In  addition  to  a  number  of  smaller  compo- 
sitions for  male  voices,  there  will  be  pro- 
duced a  quintet  for  strings  by  Robert  Volck- 
man.  The  club  will  be  assisted  by  Mrs.  J. 
E.  Bermingham,  contralto,  and  Miss  Ruth  Lor- 
ing, pianist.  The  concert  will  be  conducted 
by  David  W.  Loring,  the  director  of  the  club. 

Sacred  Music  at  St.  Dominic's. 

The  usual  monthly  programme  of  sacred 
music  will  be  rendered  at  St.  Dominic's  Church 
on  Sunday  evening,  under  the  direction  of  Dr. 
H.  J.  Stewart,  when  the  following  selections 
will  be  given  : 

Organ  solo,  Sonata  No.  1,  in  D-minor, 
Guilmant;  soprano  solo  and  chorus,  "  Hear 
My  Prayer,"  Mendelssohn,  Miss  Camille 
Frank  ;  tenor  solo,  "  Ave  Verum,"  Silas.  Mr. 
T.  G.  Elliott;  chorus,  "  Adoro  te,"  Dethier; 
organ  solo,  air  with  variations  (Septett),  Bee- 
thoven ;  contralto  solo,  "  The  Holy  Vision," 
Gounod,  Miss  Ella  V.  McCloskey ;  soprano 
solo,  "  Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee,"  Stewart, 
Mrs.  L.  Snider  Johnson ;  chorus,  "  Ave 
Verum,"  Walter  Handel  Thorley,  At  benedic- 
tion :  "  O  Salutaris,"  Wagner ;  "  Tantum 
Ergo."  Dethier;  postlude,  "  Marche  Tri- 
omphale,"  Guilmant. 


Princess  Colonna,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mackay, 
has  decided  to  purchase  a  house  in  Paris, 
where  she  will  reside  the  greater  part  of  the 
year.  Her  decision  was  influenced  by  her  de- 
sire to  give  a  Parisian  finish  to  the  education 
of  her  daughter,  now  budding  into  woman- 
hood. The  princess's  mother,  Mrs.  Mackay, 
intends  to  spend  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
year  with  her. 

»    ^ — • 

The  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  is  a  popular  desti- 
nation point  during  these  balmy  summer  days. 
The  ride  up  the  mountain  side  abounds  in 
scenic  surprises,  and  the  views  of  the  sunset 
and  sunrise  from  the  summit  of  the  mountain 
are  especially  beautiful  at  this  time  of  the 
year. 

—  Lady,  graduate  of  North  German  Nor- 
mal  School,  gives  courses  of  German  conversation 
and  literature;  2130  Bush  Street. 


Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest : 

The  will  of  David  R.  Jones,  whose  estate 
is  valued  at  over  $650,000,  has  been  filed  for 
probate.  The  estate  includes  a  large  piece 
of  land  on  Market  Street,  between  Fifth  and 
Sixth  Streets,  on  which  stands  a  valuable 
business  building;  a  lot  and  four-story  brick 
building  on  California  Street,  near  Kearny ; 
several  other  pieces  of  realty  in  this  city ;  six 
acres  and  improvements  at  Redwood  City ;  300 
shares  of  Giant  Powder  Company  stock,  450 
shares  of  Contra  Costa  Water  Company 
stock,  thirty  shares  of  stock  in  a  savings 
bank  at  Eureka,  promissory  notes  for  $12,000, 
and  cash  amounting  to  $35,000.  The  bequests 
of  the  deceased  are  as  follows :  To  the  testa- 
tor's grandchild,  Miss  Beatrice  Jones,  of  Eureka, 
daughter  of  David  H.  Jones,  deceased,  $75.* 
000  ;  to  his  grandchild,  Miss  Mabel  Dodge,  of 
San  Francisco,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mary  Jane 
Dodge,  deceased,  $75,000;  and  the  remainder 
of  the  estate  to  Charles  C.  Bemis,  the  execu- 
tor, who  is  directed  to  hold  it  in  trust  and  to 
pay  the  net  income  monthly  to  the  testa- 
tor's son  and  daughters,  John  R.  Jones,  Mrs. 
Lily  Butterfield,  and  Mrs.  Annie  D.  Cookson, 
one-third  of  the  income  to  be  given  to  each. 
On  the  death  of  the  last  survivor  of  these 
three  children,  the  trust  property  is  to  go  to 
their  heirs. 

■    ♦    * 

When  Ben  Greet,  under  whose  personal  di- 
rection "  Everyman  "  is  now  being  played  at 
Lyric  Hall,  attended  the  midsummer  jinks  of 
the  Bohemian  Club,  he  was  greatly  impressed 
with  the  play  "  Montezuma,"  written  for  the 
occasion  .by  Louis  Robertson.  Immediately 
Mr.  Greet  saw  in  it  material  for  what  he  calls 
"  a  great  play,"  and  forthwith  wrote  of  his 
conviction  to  Charles  Frohman.  As  a  result, 
Robertson  has  been  requested  by  Frohman  to 
put  the  play  in  shape,  and  present  it  to  him 
for  consideration. 


The  Italian-Swiss  Colony  at  Asti  dedicated 
last  Sunday  the  handsome  Pompeiian  villa 
built  by  Andrea  Sbarboro.  It  is  a  massive 
structure,  with  pillars  and  pavements  and 
paintings  which  have  cost  thousands. 


The    home    of    Mr.    and    Mrs.     George    S. 
Wheaton   in    Oakland   has  been   brightened  by 

the  advent  of  a  daughter. 


Pears' 

"  Beauty  is  but  skin- 
deep  "  was  probably  meant 
to  disparage  beauty.  In- 
stead it  tells  how  easy 
that  beauty  is  to  attain. 

"  There  is  no  beauty 
like  the  beauty  of  health" 
was  also  meant  to  dis- 
parage. Instead  it  encour- 
ages beauty. 

Pears'  Soap  is  the  means 
of  h  alth  to  the  skin,  and 
so  to  both  these  sorts  of 
beauty. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


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Artistic  Advertising 


OF 


A.   Hirscliman, 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


MARQUETTE  WHISKEY 


Xavier  T.  Martinez,  one  of  the  best-known  of  San  Fran- 
cisco's artists,  is  placing  upon  the  billboards  of  the  city  the 
most  artistic  line  of  bulletin  painting  that  has  ever  been  shown 
in  advertising  pictorial  art. 

It  is  an  almost  unprecedented  occurrence  that  an  artist  of 
such  ability  and  reputation  as  Martinez  should  attend  to  the 
work  of  placing  his  artistic  creations  upon  the  boards.  Rather 
than  have  the  work  that  he  had  so  carefully  created  copied  by 
the  hands  of  some  sign-painter,  Martinez  is  doing  the  actual 
work  of  original  conception  upon  the  boards. 

These  bulletins  are  the  story,  in  pictures,  of  the  life  of 
Marquette,  the  famous  explorer.  They  take  him  through 
the  long  voyages  of  discovery  down  the  Mississippi  River, 
and  show  him  in  the  various  scenes  of  adventure  from  the 
time  that  he  started  from  the  little  Mission  in  Michigan  to 
the  day  his  bones  were  laid  away  beside  the  deep  rushing 
waters  of  the  Father  of  Rivers. 

This  is  a  rare  treat  for  the  lovers  of  the  artistic  in 
San  Francisco.  Martmez's  work  has  been  seen  and  appre- 
ciated in  many  of  our  galleries,  but  this  is  the  first  opportu- 
nity that  has  ever  been  given  for  the  masses  to  view  his  work. 

Grommes  &  Ullrich,  the  distillers  of  Marquette  Whiskey 
in  Chicago,  have  dedicated  this  series  of  beautiful  paintings 
to  the  public  of  San  Francisco,  in  the  hope  that  they  will 
be  appreciated  as  has  been  that  finest,  purest,  and  costliest 
made  whiskey  in  the  world,  Marquette. 


W.  J.   KEARNEY,  Representative 
No.  400  Battery  St.,  San  Francisco 

Telephone  Main  535 


September  21,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


191 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Poo!  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cut- 
sine  and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 


IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

laOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 

announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 

;  chased  the  property  of  the   Hotel.  Granada,  and  will 

,  ran  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 

Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU    CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  and  Jones  Sts. 
Tlie  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAIN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEORGE  WARREN  HOOPER,  Manager 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


I  Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
I  climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
I  most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
1  sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
L  malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 

Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by    Southern   Pacific,    two  and  one-hall 

hours    from  San  Francisco.     Three  trains  daily,  at 

I  8  A.  M. ,  10  A.  M. ,  and  4  P.  M. 

I     For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information   Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Rm  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 

HOTEL   RAFAEL 

Fifty  minutes  from  San  Francisco.  Twenty- 
four  trains  daily  each  way.  Open  all 
the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST. 

K.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 

\      For  booklet  and   information  inquire  at  city  office,  14 

Post  St.,  telephone  Bush  125. 
I     Have  representative  call  onvou. 


Golf  at  Hotel  del  Monte 

CALIFORNIA 


The  links,  full  18-hole  course,  are  .laid  a 
short  distance  only  from  the  hotel,  and  are 
the  finest  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

They  are  the  only  first-class  grounds  in 
California  available  to  the  public.  The 
greens  are  always  green.  Sunshine  and 
cool  breezes  from  the  sea  are  always  pres- 
ent and  refreshing,  the  weather  never  inter- 
fering. You  can  play  winter  and  summer, 
the  year  round. 

Play  golf  at  Del  Monte,  the  ideal  retreat 
for  all  golfers. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 

Manager. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the   whereabouts   of   absent   Californians : 

Prince  and  Princess  Poniatowski  and  their 
children  departed  for  the  East  on  Wednesday 
in  the  Crocker  private  car  "  Mishawauka." 
They  will  sail  from  New  York  for  Europe 
on  October  6th.  Prince  Poniatowski  expects 
to  return  to  San  Francisco  in  about  three 
months,  but  his  wife  and  children  will  remain 
abroad  about  a  year. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Alexander  and 
iamily  returned  from  Europe  a  fortnight  ago, 
and  are  at  Tuxedo  Park,  where  they  will 
spend  the  autumn. 

Mrs.  La  Montagne  has  taken  apartments 
at  the  Hotel  Granada,  after  having  passed 
some  months  in  Napa  County  at  the  country 
place  of  her  mother,   Mrs.  John  Darling. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington  have  re- 
turned from  Piedmont  to  their  residence  at 
2S40  Jackson  Street.  The  Misses  Huntington 
are  expected  home  soon  from  Los  Angeles. 

Mrs.  Downey  Harvey  and  the  Misses 
Harvey  will  spend  the  winter  in  France.  Mr. 
Harvey  will  return  to  San  Francisco  about 
the  middle  of  October. 

Judge  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Finn  are  traveling 
in  Norway  and  Sweden. 

Mr.  Gouverneur  Morris,  of  New  York,  Mr. 
G-  L.  Rathbone,  and  Mr.  Knox  Maddox  were 
visitors  at  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  last 
week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Hopkins  are  expected 
to  return  to  town  from  their  Menlo  Park 
\illa  about  the  first  of   October. 

Miss  Leontine  Blakeman  has  returned  from 
her  visit  to  Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  at  Menlo 
Park. 

Miss  Marie  Louise  Parrott  has  been  visiting 
her  sister,   Mrs.   Parker  Whitney,   at  Rocklin. 

Mr.  L.  E.  Van  Winkle  was  a  guest  at  Byron 
Springs  last  week. 

Mr.  John  I.  Sabin  was  in  Los  Angeles  last 
week. 

Colonel  John  C.  Kirkpatrick,  manager  of 
the  Palace  Hotel,  left  for  the  East  early  in  the 
week,  with  his  son,  who  is  to  reenter  college. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Macon  have  taken 
a  house  in  Oakland  on  Caledonia  Avenue. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Griffin,  who  havc- 
been  spending  some  time  at  Catalina,  have  re- 
turned to  San  Francisco. 

Bishop  and  Mrs.  Nichols  and  Miss  Mary 
Nichols  will  return  to  San  Francisco  from 
San   Mateo   about   the  first   of  October. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Blair  and  Miss  Jennie  Blair 
were  at    Marienbad   when   last   heard   from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  James  Welch  have 
returned  to  New  York  from  their  summer 
place  at  Monmouth  Beach.  They  will  visit 
San  Francisco  in  the  early  winter. 

Miss  Katharine  Dillon  and  Miss  Patricia 
Cosgrave  arrived  in  New  York  early  in  the 
week  from  Europe. 

Mr.  Julius  Kruttschnitt  left  for  New  York 
last  Saturday. 

Mrs.  John  W.  Mackay  is  spending  the 
month  of  September  at  Lucerne,  Switzerland. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  Grace  have  taken  the 
Drexler  house  on  Van  Ness  Avenue  for  the 
winter  season. 

Mrs.  Eugene  Casserly  and  Miss  Daisy 
Casserly,  who  have  been  occupying  the  Bey- 
lard  cottage  at  San  Mateo  this  summer,  will 
return  to  the  city  in  a  few  days. 

Miss  Alice  Bacon,  of  Santa  Barbara,  is  the 
guest  of  Mrs.  McCalla  at  the  Mare  Island 
Navy  Yard. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Landers,  who  have 
been  spending  the  summer  months  at  "  The 
Gables,"  their  San  Leandro  country  place, 
have  returned  to  town. 

Mr.  Harry  I.  Weil  will  return  to  Baltimore 
on  September  29th  to  resume  his  work  at 
the  Johns   Hopkins   Medical   School. 

Mrs.  George  Elden  Colby,  Miss  Phcebe 
Colby,  and  Master  Elden  Colby  have  returned 
from  their  visit  at  Applegate  on  the  Hotchkiss 
Place.  Mrs.  Colby  will  be  at  home  on  the 
first  and  third  Thursdays  at  Claremont  Ave- 
nue, Berkeley. 

Ex-Judge  Edward  A.  Belcher  has  returned 
from  his  outing  in  the  mountains  of  Trinity 
County. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Magee  were  visitors 
at    the    Tavern    of    Tamalpais    last    week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Max  C.  Greenberg  have  re- 
turned from  Honolulu,  and  will  spend  a  month 
in  San  Mateo  before  occupying  their  new  resi- 
dence  on   Jackson    Street. 

Mr.  Edouard  Clerfayt.  after  spending  several 
weeks  in  this  city  with  his  brother,  has  de- 
parted for  his  home  in  Belgium. 

Among  the  recent  arrivals  at  Byron  Hot 
Springs  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  G.  Rowelt, 
Captain  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Dowdel,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Morton  L.  Cook,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  I. 
Hawkins,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  A.  Grover. 
Mrs.  N.  J.  Evans,  Mr.  W.  A.  Westington,  Mr. 
S.  Westington,  Mr.  William  Marks,  Mr.  Louis 
Marks,  Mr.  G.  A.  Scheer,  Mr.  H.  V.  Rams- 
del,  Mr.  W.  J.  Tabor,  and  Mr.  Tohn  T.  Bow- 
ler. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  P.  Lowe, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  J.  Lowery,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A. 
S.  Wilcox,  Miss  Kain  Wilcox  and  Mr.  Allen 
Wilcox,  of  Honolulu,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  E. 
Nicholson,  of  Oakland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  S. 
Willis,  of  St.  Louis,  Miss  Du  Val,  of  Brook- 
lyn, Miss  Sheppard  and  Mr.  G.  B.  Sheppard, 
of  New  York,  Mr.  Earle  Scofield,  of  Ala- 
meda, Mr.  B.  F.  Chapman,  of  Tahiti,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  R.  L.  Toplitz,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  B. 
Sperry,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Moore. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

General  Arthur  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A.,  Mrs. 
MacArthur,  Captain  Parker  West,  U.  S.  A., 
and  Lieutenant  Douglas  MacArthur,  U.  S. 
A.,  have  returned  from  their  trip  to  Southern 
California. 

Rear-Admiral  Silas  Casey,  U.  S.  N.,  recently 
detached    from    the    command    of    the    Pacific 


squadron,  was  retired  on  September  12th  on 
account  of  age,  after  forty-seven  years'  ac- 
tive service.  His  retirement  has  resulted  in 
the  promotion  of  Captain  Charles  J.  Bar- 
clay, U.  S.  N.,  commanding  the  Puget  Sound 
Navy  Yard,  who  now  becomes  a  rear-admiral. 
Captain  Benjamin  P.  Lambert,  U.  S.  N.,  who 
is  now  ordered  to  command  the  South  Atlantic 
squadron,  now  stands  at  the  head  of  the  list 
of  captains,  and  will  become  a  rear-admiral 
on  the  retirement  of  Rear-Admiral  Louis 
KemplT,   U.   S.   N.,  on  October    nth. 

General  Robert  M.  O'Reilley  and  Major 
William  C.  Borden,  U.  S.  A.,  have  been 
spending  a  few  days  at  Santa  Barbara,  en 
route  to  Washington,  D.  C. 

Lieutenant  John  B.  Murphy.  U.  S.  A.,  has 
returned  from  his  visit  to  his  parents  ttt 
Portland,  Or. 

Lieutenant  William  Nichols,  U.  S'.  A., 
who  has  been  visiting  his  parents,  Bishop  and 
Mrs.  Nichols,  at  San  Mateo  since  his  gradua- 
tion from  West  Point,  has  been  ordered  to  join 
his  regiment  at   Fort  Assiniboine. 

Mrs.  Ovenshine.  wife  of  Captain  Alexander 
T.  Ovenshine,  Seventh  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  will 
spend  some  time  at  her  old  home  in  Columbus, 
O.,  while  her  husband  is  in  the  Philippines, 
where  she  may  join  him  later  on. 

Captain  Richardson  Clover,  LT.  S.  N„  is  to 
be  the  commander  of  the  new  battle-ship 
Ohio,  which  will  be  launched  early  in  the  new 
year. 

Major  Francis  P.  Fremont,  Twelfth  In- 
fantry, U.  S.  A.,  has  been  relieved  from  duty 
in  the  Philippines,  and  has  been  assigned  to 
the  Department  of  the  Colorado  for  dutv. 

Colonel  Samuel  R.  Whitall,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  transferred  from  the  Third  Infantry  to 
the  Twenty-Seventh  Infantry,  and  Colonel 
Harry  L.  Haskell,  U.  S.  A...  has  been  trans- 
ferred from  the  Twenty-Seventh  Infantry  to 
the   Third   Infantry. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Thomas  D.  Griffin. 
U.  S.  N.,  has  been  detached  from  the  Wyoming 
for  treatment  at  the  Naval  Hospital  at  Mare 
Island. 

Dr.  David  O.  Lewis,  U.  S.  N.,  has  been 
appointed  fleet  surgeon  of  the  Pacific  squadron. 

Lieutenant  Clarence  M.  Stone,  U.  S.  N., 
of  the  Alert,  has  been  ordered  for  duty  at 
Yerba  Buena  Island. 

Lieutenant  U.  S.  Grant,  third  grandson  of 
General  U.  S.  Grant,  has  arrived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco to  await  Companies  M  and  L,  United 
States  Corps  of  Engineers,  with  which  he  will 
sail  for  the  Philippines.  Lieutenant  Grant 
stood  sixth  in  his  class  at  West  Point,  from 
which  he  graduated  this  year.  General  Mac- 
Arthur's  son,  Lieutenant  Douglas  MacArthur. 
U.  S.  A.,  was  first  in  the  same  class.  They 
will  probably  sail  for  the  Philippines  to- 
gether. 

Lieutenant  John  D.  Beuret,  naval  con- 
structor, U.  S.  A.,  arrived  from  Manila  on  the 
Hongkong  Maru   last  week. 


The  recently  organized  Claremont  Country 
Club  of  Oakland  has  been  considering  the 
advisability  of  giving  up  the  original  plan  of 
establishing  itself  at  Claremont,  on  the  lands 
owned  by  Edson  F.  Adams,  and  taking  up  its 
headquarters  on  the  one  hundred  odd  acres 
north-west  of  Mountain  View  Cemetery,  known 
as  Rock  Ridge  Park,  and  owned  by  the 
Realty  Syndicate.  Those  who  still  favor  the 
Claremont  site  justify  their  arguments  by 
pointing  out  its  superb  natural  attractions 
and  its  accessibility  from  street-car  lines 
soon  to  be  constructed,  and  objecting  to  the 
proximity  of  Mountain  View  and  St.  Mary's 
Cemeteries  to  the  Rock  Ridge  Park.  Those 
in  favor  of  acquiring  the  latter  site,  however, 
claim  that  the  Realty  Syndicate's  land  involves 
a  saving  of  many  thousands  of  dollars  to  the 
club  in  purchase  of  lands,  and  is  amply  large 
for  all  the  purposes  for  which  the  organiza- 
tion has  been  formed. 


The  Rev.  Charles  A.  Buckbee,  D.  D.,  died 
at  his  residence,  2009  California  Street,  on 
Tuesday  evening,  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine. 
He  leaves  a  widow  and  five  children — Miss 
Annie  Buckbee,  Mrs.  Robert  Curry,  and  three 
sons,  John,   Samuel,  and  Spencer. 


The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Spreck- 
els,  Jr.,  has  been  brightened  by  the  advent  of  a 
daughter. 

—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


—  Swell  dressers  have  their  Shirt  Waists 
made  at  Kent's,  "  Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


A  Beautiful 
Dancing  Surface 

is  obtained  on  the  floor  ol  any  hall  or  ball-room 
by  the  use  of  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax. 
It  will  not  ball  up  on  the  shoes  nor  lump  on  the 
floor;  makes  neither  dirt  nor  dust,  but  forms  a 
perfect  dancing  surface.  Does  not  soil  dresses 
or  clothes  or  the  finest  fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co.,  Langley  &  Michaels, 
and  Redinglon  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk, 
Geary  &  Co.,  Sacramento;  and  F.  W.  Braun 
&  Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax. 


AS  PRESCRIBED  BY  A  LAW, 
enacted  by  the  last  Legislature, 
the  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Optometry  has  ISSUED  CER- 
TIFICATES TO  THE  UNDER- 
SIGNED  FIRHS,  entitling  them 
and  their  employees  to  practice  the 
fitting  of  spectacles  and  eye-glasses: 

HOGUE  OPTICAL  CO.,         211  Post  Street. 

H1RSCH  &  KAISER,  7  Kearny  Street. 


STANDARD  OPTICAL  CO., 


217  Kearny  Street. 


BERTLING  OPTICAL  CO., 

16  Kearny  Street. 

HASKELL  &  JONES  OPTICAL  CO., 

243  Grant  Avenue. 


CHINN=BERETTA  OPTICAL  CO., 

991  Market  Street. 


CALIFORNIA  OPTICAL  CO., 

205  Kearny  Street. 

GEO.  H.  KAHN,  201  Kearny  Street. 

HENRY  KAHN  &  CO.  (The  Ocularium), 
642  Market  Street. 

OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT 

PIANISTE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 
of  Vienna 

ANNOUNCES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSONS 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 
Phone  Larkin  291. 

C.  It  REHNSTROM 

FORMERLY   SANDERS   &JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 

Phelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  5387.  SAN   FRANCISCO. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Properly  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  ot I ier  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world- 
Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  '1  rans 
portation  Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLI.NS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIV    FRANCISCO. 
All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


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In  case  of  sudden  emergency 

wherein    a   stimulant    is    most 

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Telephone  Exchange  313. 


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The  CKCILIAN— The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


SOHMER 
PIANO 

AGENCY. 


PIANOS 

308-312  Poit  St. 

San  Francisco. 


192 


THE 


ARGON  AUT, 


September  21,  1903. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

-♦BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 

—  f  THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED ":  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m.  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining-car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  011  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  J11.10  p  m. 

M-^*VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
on  12.01  p  in,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11.10  p  m. 
1  p  M~*STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
Ii.ro  a  m. 
|P  M— *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11.15  P  "■>  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
dav)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
rec lining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       t  Monday  and  Thursday. 
I  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  ior  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express   Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


7.30 
9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
8.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641   Market   Street  and  in 
Ferrv    Depot,    San    Francisco;    and   1112  Broadway, 

Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

UESSBB 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

A'EEK    DAYS — 7.30,  S.oo,  9.00,   11.00  am;  12.35,  2-3°. 

3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra 

trip  at  1.30  p  m. 
SUNDAYS — 7.30,  S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  m;  1.30,  2.30,3.40, 

5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9,20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  t^.oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,   11. 15  a  m;  1.45,  3-40,  4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
fExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


7-3o  a 
7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 
S.oo  a  m    9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m    5.10  p  m 


2.30  p  m    9.30  a 
5.10  p  m    2.30  p  m 
5.i°pm 


7.30  a  m  7.30  a  m 
S  00  a  m  S.oo  a  ra 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a  in 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


7-3Q  a  m    7.30  a  m 


8.00  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 


S.oo  a  r 
5-iQ  P  r 


S.oo  a  1 
5.10  p  i 


7.30  a  m    7.30  a  t 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  1 


In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale, 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 
davs. 


Week 
Days. 


7-45  a  m  7.45  a  m 

S.40  a  m  S.40  a  m 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

6.00  p  m  6.20  p  m 

6.20  p  m  7.25  p  m 
7-2$  p  m 


7.45  a  m  7.45  a  m 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

6.20  p  m  6.20  p  m 

7.25  p  m  7.25  p  ra 


10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m    6.20  p  m 

I  7.25  pm 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

7.25pm    7.25pm 


10.20  a  m  10,20  a  m 

".=3  P  m  7-25  P  m 

7.25  a  m  7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m  6.20  p  m 

S.40  a  m  S.40  a  m 

6.00  p  m  6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m1   6.20  p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altrima  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Luton  ior  Lvtton  SDrings;  at  Gevserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood  ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlelt  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
.  Lakes.  Laurel  Dull  Lake,  Wilier  Springs.  Upper  Lake 
Porno.  Poller  Valley.  John  Dav's,  Riverside.  Lierlev's! 
Bucknell's.  Sanhedrii.  Heights.  Hullville.  Orr's  Hot 
Springs  Half-Way  House.  Complche,  Camp  Stevens 
Hopkins.  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Weslport, 
Usal,  at  WlllltS  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
.  Cahto.  CoveJo,  Laylonville,  Cunimrngs.  Bell's  Springs 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garbervilk-,  Pepper wood  Scotia 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to    Monday  round-trip  tickets   at   reduced 
rates. 

On   Sundays  round-irip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  hall  rates. 

£k£e^?,fe-,&°  M:irket  Slreet.  Chronicle  Building. 

H.C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN. 

Gen    Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS.  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Feirv. 
DEPART   WEEK    UAVS-6.4S.  |*7  4S 
8-45.  9-45.  11  a.  m.;  12.20,  *i.45,  3.15.  4  ,s 
1  T5-'5.  *6.i5,  6,45,  9.  H-45  p.  m. 
7.45  a.  M.  week  days  does  not  run  to  Mill  Vallev 
DEPART  SUNDAY-?,  ffi.  t*9,  t*io.    ii.  fn  30  a 
m.; :  +12.30.  t*i.30,  2.35.  *3-5o.  5.  6,  7.30.  y,   11.4s  P.  U. 

Trains     marked    *     run     to    San    Quentin        Those 
marked    (+)    lo  Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.    m.  Saturday 
Saturday's  3.15  p.  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.  5  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5  -5  P-  M-  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted}— Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
.'.  15    p.    m.    Saturdays— Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
:  undays,  8  a.  M. — Ca/ndero  and  way  stations, 
undays,  io  a.  u.— Poirv  Reyes  and  intermediate. 
L-egal  Holidays— Boat:-    i-i  trains  on  Sunday  lime. 
Ticket  Offices— 026  Market;  Ferry',  foot  Market. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Little  Ozro — "  Paw,  what  is  a  chamber  of 
horrors  ?"  Farmer  Bentovcr — "  Wa-al,  good 
land,  Ozzie !  Don't  you  know;  what  your 
maw's  spare  bedroom  looks  like?" — Puck. 

T  ozone — "  I  suppose  you  have  heard  that 
old  Lawyer  Sharpe  is  lying  at  the  point  of 
death?"  Browne — "No.  Well,  well,  the  rul- 
ing passion  strong  in  death,  eh  ?" — Phila- 
delphia Press. 

How    it    happened  :      Rooney — "  Where    did 

ye     git     th'     black     eye,     Moike?"       Clancy — 

T'  Why.  Tim  Dolan's  just  back  from  hishoney- 

moon — an"   'twas  me  advised  Tim  t'   git  mar- 

jried." — Judge. 

Improvement :  "  Is  your  daughter  improv- 
ing in  her  music?"  "I  shouldn't  be  sur- 
prised." answered  Mr.  Cumrox ;  "  the  dog  has 
quit  howling  every  time  she  sits  down  to  the 
piano." — Washington   Star. 

Nodd — "  I  told  my  wife  to  let  me  know  at 
least  a  week  ahead  when  she  was  coming 
back  to  town  from  her  vacation."  Todd — 
'Why  so  far  ahead?"  Nodd — "I  wanted  a 
chance  to  get  back  myself." — Ex. 

Brannigan — "  The  doctor  told  me  to  get  a 
porous  plasther  for  me  stomach."  Druggist — 
"Yes,  sir;  what  sort  do  you  want?"  Bran- 
nigan— "  Tis  little  I  care  what  sort  it  is  so 
long  as  'tis  aisily  digested." — Catholic 
Standard  and  Times. 

"  Language  was  given  for  the  concealment 
of  thought."  quoted  the  wily  citizen.  "  That 
is  perfectly  correct,"  answered  Senator 
Sorghum ;  "  if  every  man  voted  the  way  he 
talks  we'd  have  all  kinds  of  reform  in  no 
time." — Washington  Star. 

"  Mr.  Nozzleton,"  she  said,  "  if  you  try  to 
hug  and  kiss  me  again  I  shall  call  papa." 
"Where  is  your  father?"  he  asked.  "He's 
in  the  Yellowstone  Park,  and  will  be  beyond 
mail  or  telegraphic  communication  for  three 
weeks." — Chicago  Record-Herald. 

Dashaway — "  I  am  afraid  after  all,  old 
man,  that  I  don't  love  that  girl  the  way  I 
ought."  Cleverton — "  What  makes  you  think 
that?"  Dashaway — "Well,  I've  been  engaged 
to  her  six  months  now,  and  I  haven't  done  a 
single  thing  I  regret." — Town  Topics. 

An  unfair  deal :  "  Tried  to  skin  me,  that 
scribbler  did !"  "  What  did  he  want?" 
"  Wanted  to  get  out  a  book  jointly,  he  to  write 
the  book  and  I  to  write  the  advertisements. 
I  turned  him  down.  I  wasn't  going  to  do  all 
the  literary  work!" — Baltimore  News. 

There  is  good  land  and  poor  land  in  Mis- 
souri. In  the  south-western  section  it  is 
mostly  of  the  latter  variety.  A  farmer  who 
was  just  moving  out  says  no  one  believes  in 
hell  down  there,  because  they  think  it  would 
be  foolish  to  have  two  places  so  much  alike. — 
Alton    (Mo.)   Democrat. 

Traveler  (from  Podunk) — "Is  this  here 
th'  bureau  of  information?"  Railroad  clerk — 
"  It  is."  Traveler — "  Well,  about  six  hours 
ago  a  feller  took  my  watch  an'  satchel  around 
th'  corner  to  git  my  name  engraved  on  'em, 
so  they  wouldn't  git  lost,  an*  I  wanter  know 
if  the  engravers  of  this  'ere  town  are  all  out 
on  strike." — New  York  Weekly. 

Tact :  "  Laura,"  said  Mr.  Ferguson,  "  this 
is  Mr.  Klippinger,  of  Harkinsville,  the  town 
where  I  used  to  live.  He's  the  editor  of  the 
Echo.  I  was  telling  him  we  had  the  files  of 
his    paper    for   the    last   ten   years.      I'll    show 

them    to    you,    Mr.    Klippinger.      They're " 

"  Why,  George,"  interrupted  Mrs.  Ferguson, 
with  a  mechanical  sort  of  smile,  "  I  ought 
to  have  told  you,  but — but  they're  under  the 
dining-room    carpet." — Chicago    Tribune. 

Aunt  Jane — "They  tell  me  you  took  fifty 
dollars  of  Mr.  Young's  money  at  the  card- 
table  last  night.  I  did  not  know  that  you 
ever  gambled."  Nephew  —  "  That  wasn't 
gambling,  auntie.  Young  was  quite  elated 
at  the  hand  he  held,  and  I  bet  with  him 
merely  to  give  him  a  lesson  not  to  trust 
too  much  to  appearances."  Aunt  Jane — "  Oh. 
that  was  it.,  was  it?  I  thought  you  wouldn't 
be  so  wicked  as  to  gamble." — Boston  Tran- 
script. 

In  the  near  future :  Domestic — "  Don't 
you  want  to  go  out  this  afternoon,  Mrs.  Man- 
ning ?"  Mistress — "  Yes,  Mary,  I  should  like 
to  go  out ;  but  I'm  afraid  it  will  incommode 
you."  Domestic — "  Oh,  never  mind  me, 
marm  ;  it's  so  long  since  you've  had  an  af- 
ternoon off  I  must  insist  that  you  take  one 
to-day.  But  be  sure  and  come  home  early. 
I  may  have  callers,  you  know,  and  I  shall  want 
somebody  to  tend  the  door." — Boston  Tran- 
script. 

Hicks — "  We  had  a  great  time  at  the  club 
last  night.  Sorry  not  to  see  you  there, 
Charley."  Mrs.  Porter  (after  Hicks"  had  gone) 
— "  Why,  Charles,  you  told  me  you  spent  the 
whole  of  last  evening  at  the  club."  Mr. 
Porter  (with  great  presence  of  mind) — "  So 
I  did,  my  dear.  The  reason  Hicks  didn't  see 
me  was  because  he  wasn't  there  himself. 
Trying  to  deceive  his  wife,  probably."  Mrs. 
Porter — "  The  wretch !  And  he  would  try 
to  rob  me  of  the  confidence  I  have  in  you! 
I  always  did  see  something  about  that  man  I 
didn't  like."— Tit-Bits. 


St«dm.in's  Soothing  Powders  for  fifty  years  the 
most  popular  h-nglish  ren.edy  for  teething  babies 
and  feverish  children. 


An  absorbing  narrative:  First  Pliila- 
delphian — "  How  is  that  book?  Exciting?" 
Second  Philadelphia}! — "  Why.  I  sat  up  all 
day  reading  it!" — Town  Topics. 


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Los  Banos.  Mendota.  Hanfiml, 
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(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Willows, 
tFruto.  Ked  Bluff,  Portland 7-55p 

NlleB,  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton, I  one.Sacramento.Placerv  II  le. 
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Vallejo 12.25p 

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Port  CoBta.  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond,  FreBoo,  Han- 
ford. Vlaalla,  Bakersfield,  Los 
Angelee  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
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East.  Port  Costa,  Benicla.  Sui- 
Eun.  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln,  Auburn,  Col  fax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  He  no.  Wads- 
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Sulsun,  Benlcla,  Port  Costa 7-65a 

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800a  Coast  Line  Limited— Stops  only  San 
Jose,  Gflroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
Ilster),  Pajaro,  Castrovllle.  Sa- 
linas. San  Ardo,  Paso  Roliles. 
Santa  Margarita,  Sac  Lui-  Obispo, 
Guadalupe,  Surf  (connection  for 
Lompoc),  Santa  Barbara.  SauguB 
and  Lob  Angeles.  Connection  at 
CaBtrovIIle  to  and  from  Monterey 
andPaclfic  Grove 10- 

8.00a  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
Santa  Cruz, Pacific  Grove, Sdllnaa. 
San  Luis  Obispo  and    Principal 

Intermediate    Stations    4- 

1 0  30-*.  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1. 

11.00a  Cemetery  Passenger— South    San 

Francisco,  San  Brano 1 . 

11-30a  Santa  Clara,    Sau  Jose.  Los  Gatos 

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San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
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Bnrlln game, San  Mateo.Redwood. 
MenloPark.Palo  Alto  May  field. 
Mountain  View.  Lawrence.  Santa 
Clara.  San  Jose,  (Gliroy.  Hollls- 
ter,  Tres  Plnos),  Pajaro,  Watson- 
vtlle,  Capltola,  Santa  Cruz,  Cas- 
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6-GDp  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
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Lulu" Obispo,  Santa  Barliara,  Los 
Angeles,  Demlng.  El  Paso.  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  (Westbound 
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San  Francisco,  September  28,  1903. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Critics  of  the  President — The  Postal  Scandals 
as  a  Political  Issue — The  Effect  of  a  Period  of  Industrial 
Depression  on  the  President's  Chances — The  Case  of  Miss 
Huldah  Todd — Other  Objections  to  Roosevelt  by  His  Critics 
—The  British  Cabinet  Crisis— The  City  Tax  Rate  Muddle— 
The  Bay  Shore  Right  of  Way  Will  Be  Granted— Burials 
Within  City  Limits  Now  Prohibited — Painters'  Union  Op- 
poses Federal  Union — Work  of  the  Irrigation  Congress — 
Is  the  Boycott  Legal? — We  Are  Called  Names — The  Gilroy 
'"Telegram"  Says  We  Are  "  Sychopants  " — Shall  the  Canal 
Be  at  Panama? — A  French  Paper  Shows  Us  the  Way — 
A  Twelve- Year-Old  Murderer — Curious  Case  of  Precocious 
Criminality      »93-*9S 

From  a  Balcony.     By  Jerome  A.    Hart 195-196 

The  Kid's  Home-Coming:     How   Han  grown   Got   Its   Name.     By 

Marguerite     Stabler 197 

William  Ernest  Henley:    The  Man,  the  Poet,  and  the  Critic.   198 

Another  Lucky  English  Duke:  May  Goelet  the  Latest 
American  Heiress  to  Exchange  Her  Fortune  for  a  Coronet — 
Her  Fiance,  the  Duke  of  Roxburghe — His  Attempt  to  Win 
Pauline   Astor 198 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent  People  All  Over  the 

World *99 

Telepathy  and  Hypnotism:  *A  Scientist's  Denial  That  Tele- 
pathy Has  Been  Proved — Morality  of  Hypnotic  Experiments 
— Dr.     Mclvor-Tyndall 199 

Magazine  Verse:  "The  Drudge,"  by  John  Charles  McNeill: 
'  *'  Sweethearts  Now  As  Then,"  by  George  N.  Lowe; 
"  Reality,"  by  McCrea  Pickering 200 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications     190-201 

Drama:    "  The  Prince  of  Pilsen  "  at  the  Columbia  Theatre — The 

Orpheum's    Programme.      By   Josephine    Hart    Phelps 202 

Stage  Gossip     2°3 

Vatjity  Fair:  The  New  Martha  Washington  Hotel  Exclusively 
for  Women  in  New  York— Failures  of  Previous  Enterprises 
of  the  Sort — No  Boar  ding- Schools  This  Time — A  Dissatisfied 
Lot  of  Bell-Boys  Say  the  Women  Are  Unreasonable — The 
Reign  of  the  Whisker,  the  Tyranny  of  the  Mustache — 
The  Marriage  of  Lewis  Iselin — Nervousness  and  Piano- 
Playing    : 204 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Thackeray's  Great  Blunder — The  Wisdom  of  Adjib — The 
Minister,  Milk  Punch,  and  "  the  Glorious  Cow  " — Ber- 
nard Shaw  on  Americans — Some  of  Beecher's  Ideas  About 
Spiritualism— A  Witty  Judge — The  Champion  Circulation 
Liar — How  the  Pope's  Portrait  Was  Painted — The  Irate 
Colonel  and  the  Sagacious  Steers — A  Queer  Tale  of  the 
Poet    Shelley 205 

The  Tuneful  Liar:      "  The     Lay     of     the     City     Pavement," 

"The    Mule    and    the    Man,"    "The    Lost    Golfer" 205 

Soci  ety  :      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army    and    Navy    News 206-207 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits    of    the    Day 208 


Two  years  ago  this  month,  Theodore  Roosevelt  took 
I      „  the   oath   of   office   as    President   of   the 

The  Critics 

of  United   States.      This,    therefore,    seems 

Mb.  Roosevelt.  an  opportune  time  to  glance  at  what  the 
President's  enemies  have  had  to  say  about  him.  Have 
they  dinted  his  shield?  Have  they  pierced  his  armor? 
Are  there  any  inerasable  blots  on  the  Roosevelt 
'scutcheon?  To  those  who  say  that  the  Argonaut, 
as  a  Republican  paper,  ought  sedulously  to  refrain 
from  publishing  the  objections  to  the  President,  we  re- 


ply that  we  try  to  print  what  is  Interesting.  A  column 
of  eulogy  would  be  deadly  dull,  but  a  column  of  virulent 
abuse — well,  we  think  it  would  be  read. 

But  what  are  the  enormities  with  which  the  Presi- 
dent has  been  charged?    Here  is  the  list: 

Ate  dinner  with  Booker  T.  Washington. 

Appointed  men  to  office  without  regard  to  color. 

Refused  to  support  boycott  of  people  of  Indianola 
against  colored  postmistress. 

Is  pressing  investigation  of  postal  and  Indian  land 
frauds:  ergo  is  responsible  for  them. 

Returned  the  gift  of  a  certain  silk  flag. 

Did  not  eulogize  General  Miles  in  letter  of  retirement. 

Made  Leonard  Wood  a  brigadier-general. 

Was  a  friend  of  Congressman  Littauer,  who  is  ac- 
cused of  selling  gloves  to  the  government  while  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress. 

Recommended  enforcement  of  anti-trust  laws  against 
protests  of  Wall  Street. 

Reinstated  Bookbinder  Miller  against  protests  of 
labor  unions. 

Accepted  a  special  train  from  the  railway  company 
on  his  trip  through  the  West. 

Used  the  government  vessel  Mayflower  as  a  ship  from 
which  to  review  the  North  Atlantic  squadron. 

Interfered  in  and  settled  the  great  coal  strike. 

Probably  countenanced  dismissal  of  a  Delaware 
fourth-class  postmistress  because  offensive  to  a  United 
States  senator. 

A  curious  list,  is  it  not?  And  yet  these  are  about  all 
the  official  and  unofficial  acts  of  President  Roosevelt 
which  have  so  far  been  the  subject  of  animadversions, 
though  not  many  of  his  enemies  contend  that  they  will 
result  in  loss  to  him  of  the  nomination  to  the  Presi- 
dency, or  cause  his  defeat  at  the  polls.  Still,  some  of 
them  do  talk  of  the  government  scandals  as  a  political 
issue.  Such  a  paper,  for  instance,  as  the  Philadelphia 
Record,  holds  that  the  President  can  not  genuinely 
punish  all  the  guilty  ones,  high  and  low,  in  the  public 
service,  since  to  do  so  "  would  split  the  Republican 
party  from  top  to  bottom.  Half  of  it  can  not  expose  the 
other  half.  This  is  a  case  where  a  clean  sweep  is  the 
only  remedy  adequate  to  the  extent  of  the  disease." 
In  the  same  vein,  though  employing  a  peculiar  figure, 
speaks  the  Louisville  Courier-Journal.  It  says  tha.t 
"  Cabinet  officers  are  subservient,  public  prosecutors  are 
blind,  and  the  riot  in  plunder  goes  on  under  cover  of 
fear  lest  if  the  putrid  mass  of  corruption  is  stirred  b\ 
the  finger  of  public  exposure  and  prosecution  it  should 
smell  to  heaven  and  lead  to  a  cleaning  out  of  the 
Augean  stables."  The  Republican  press  replies  that  the 
President  has  shown  every  indication  of  a  purpose  10 
probe  the  scandals  thoroughly,  and  is  in  no  way  re- 
sponsible for  them.  "  When  a  family  moves  into  new 
apartments,"  remarks  one  paper,  "  and  finds  that  the 
previous  occupants,  in  consequence  either  of  inadver- 
tence or  of  blameworthy  love  of  dirt,  failed  to  leave  the 
premises  in  proper  condition,  we  do  not  blame  the  new- 
comer when  he  orders  the  scrub-brush  into  active  opera- 
tion." Which  one  of  these  two  opposed  views  will 
ultimately  prevail  with  the  plain  people  will  mani- 
festly depend  on  the  President's  future  course  regard- 
ing the  scandals.  If  nobody  goes  to  jail,  there  may  oe 
some  force  in  the  Democratic  contention.  With  stripes 
around  and  bars  before  an  assorted  collection  of  graft- 
ers, and  a  statement,  say,  from  Bonaparte,  the  Demo- 
cratic special  investigator  appointed  by  the  President, 
that  the  bottom  (and  top)  has  been  reached,  there 
would  seem  to  be  not  much  left  for  the  Democrats 
to  say. 

Another  matter  for  future  determination  is  the 
effect  upon  the  President's  chances  of  his  anti-trust 
campaign.  Outside  of  Roosevelt's  particular  newspaper 


enemies  in  New  York,  nobody  seems  to  take  much 
stock  in  the  idea  that  the  Wall  Street  panic  was  all 
his  doing.  But  humanity  is  notoriously  prone  to  lay  the 
burden  of  its  sins  on  the  shoulders  of  the  other  fellow. 
Suppose  the  panic  in  the  Street  should,  during  the  next 
few  months,  widen  into  a  general  business  depression 
(of  which  there  are  possibly  some  signs),  might  not  the 
disgruntled  ones  throughout  the  country  listen  to  the 
Sun's  siren  song  about  the  President's  having  fright- 
ened capital  by  ill-considered  words?  Perhaps  he  was 
a  wise  statesman  who  said  that  the  worst  thing  the 
President  could  do  was  to  let  the  crops  fail  next  year. 

Certainly,  however,  it  would  be  a  curious  state  of 
affairs  if  the  business  interests  should  oppose  Roose- 
velt because  he  is  "  hostile  "  to  capital,  and  the  labor 
unions  should  fight  him  because  he  is  an  "  enemy  " 
of  labor.  That  is  what  the  unions  threaten  to  do. 
The  Washington  Central  Labor  Union,  with  the  ap- 
proval of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor,  has  sent 
to  each  of  the  five  hundred  and  twenty  central  labor 
unions  in  the  country  a  copy  of  resolutions  which  de- 
clare that  the  President's  action  in  the  Miller  case  "  can 
not  be  regarded  in  any  but  an  unfriendly  light."  In 
an  accompanying  letter,  this  union  asks  all  the  affiliated 
bodies — said  to  be  two  million  five  hundred  thousand 
strong — to  petition  the  President  to  reverse  his  action. 
Thus  all  the  supposed  strength  with  organized  labor, 
won  at  the  time  of  the  coal  strike,  seems  to  stand  in 
danger  of  vanishing  into  thin  air.  But  whether  labor- 
union  antagonism  would  be  a  hindrance  or  a  help  ;n 
the  campaign  may  be  a  question. 

In  the  case  of  the  Delaware  postmistress,  Miss  Todd, 
whose  well-aired  woes  are  now  violently  agitating  the 
newspapers,  the  President  appears  to  be  the  victim  of 
his  virtues.  Why  should  the  dismissal,  after  a  five  years' 
tenure,  of  the  postmistress  of  a  dinky  office,  excite  the 
press  of  the  whole  country  to  virtuous  spasms,  except 
for  the  reason  that  the  President  is  a  Civil  Service  re- 
former? Words  and  deeds,  it  is  argued,  do  not  here 
agree.  What  McKinley  might  have  "  done  without 
comment,  in  the  administration  of  Roosevelt  is  sharply 
criticised.  The  New  York  Tribune,  for  example,  holds 
that  Postmaster-General  Payne  shows  in  his  utterances 
on  the  subject  an  "  utter  imperviousness  to  ideas  of 
progress  and  a  lack  of  conception  of  the  higher  stand- 
ards of  political  life."  This  view  is  general,  almost 
universal,  and  the  President  is  asked  not  only  to  rein- 
state Miss  Huldah  Todd.  but.  in  view  of  the  postal 
scandals  and  this  occurrence,  to  let  out  Mr.  Payne. 
The  dissenting  voices  come  only  from  such  old-fash- 
ioned, hard-headed,  unsentimental  journals  as  the 
Oregonian.  That  paper  "positively  declines  to  get 
excited  over  Miss  Todd."  It  thinks  she  is  of  the  same 
epicene  set  as  the  Miss  Taylor  who  made  existence 
burdensome  to  Secretary  Root  because  she  was  fired. 
When  Miss  Todd  got  her  place,  she  thought  political 
pull  a  fine  thing,  "but  it  is  everything  unholy  when 
somebody  else's  turn  has  come  around."  Moreover. 
this  journal  holds  that  women  in  politics  should  ob- 
serve the  rules  of  the  game,  or  not  play.  They  should 
learn  to  take  their  medicine,  and  not  grumble  in 
falsetto.  "  A  national  calamity  "  is  what  the  Oregonian 
thinks  the  reinstatement  of  Miss  Todd  would  be. 

We  suppose  no  one  needs  to  be  told  that  the  Presi- 
dent is  not  distinguished  for  tact.  Possibly  he  is  some- 
times guilty  of  a  breach  of  good  taste.  He  is  accustomed 
to  move  in  a  straight  line  toward  a  desired  object,  and 
whatever  is  in  the  way  is  apt  to  tumble,  sometimes  with 
a  crash  that  shocks  nervous  individuals.  Thus,  when 
the  President  got  ready,  he  said  plainly  and  publicly 
that  he  was  a  candidate  for  a  second  term.  The 
methods  of  McKinley.  under  similar  circumsl 
were  perhaps  more  dignified  and  subtle.    At  leas 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


September  28,  1903. 


President's  hostile  critics  profess  to  think  so.  Again, 
when  Roosevelt  found  that  Hanna  was  opposing  his 
indorsement  in  Ohio,  the  political  wires  did  not  work 
noiselessly  and  sure,  but  with  what  some  people 
(among  them  certainly  Senator  Hanna)  thought  was 
brutal  directness,  the  President  wired,  in  effect:  "I 
want  the  indorsement;  please  keep  hands  off."  And 
Hanna  did  as  bid.  McKinley  would  never  have  made 
the  mistake  of  taking  lunch  with  Booker  Washing- 
ton. Probably  he  would  have  swallowed  his  wrath 
and  written  a  few  eulogistic  phrases  had  it  been  his 
duty  to  retire  General  Miles.  Doubtless  there  would 
have  been  no  Indianola  post-office  squabble  had  he 
been  in  the  executive  chair.  President  Roosevelt, 
temperamentally  pugnacious  as  he  surely  is,  succeeded 
in  ruffling  tempers  and  exciting  criticism  in  all  these 
affairs.  He  seldom  ceases  to  be  the  very  centre  and 
vortex  of  public  interest.  This  leads  David  B.  Hill 
to  accuse  the  President  of  "  spectacularism "  and 
"egomania."  But  as  Collier's  remarks:  "We  should 
be  glad  if  the  President  could  do  his  work  without  un- 
necessary whistling,  blowing,  rumbling,  and  cinders; 
uut,  after  all,  he  '  draws  a  heavy  load,'  and  draws  it 
fast,  and  thus  far  safely." 

The  catalogue  of  the  President's  infirmities  would  be 
incomplete  did  we  fail  to  mention  the  Sun's  poignant 
grief  over  the  rebuff  of  the  Gallic  maid.  A  French 
girl,  it  seems,  embroidered  a  silk  flag,  and  sent  it  to 
Mr.  Roosevelt.  It  was  returned  to  her  with  a  letter 
saying  that  the  President  had  reluctantly  made  a  rule 
to  accept  no  gifts  from  strangers.  And  what  a  touch- 
ing picture  it  is  that  the  Sun  draws  of  the  beauteous 
maiden,  filled  with  patriotic  love,  bending  a  golden  head 
over  the  silken  folds  of  the  flag,  day  after  day,  to  get 
for  her  pains  only — a  brief  note  from  Mr.  Loeb !  And 
then,  how  damning  is  the  contrast  drawn  between  the 
refusal  of  the  flag,  and  the  acceptance,  by  the  Presi- 
dent, from  the  railways,  of  a  special  train  for  his  West- 
ern trip.  True,  his  predecessors  have  done  the  same 
thing,  but  what  of  that?  King  Edward  pays  his  fare! 
Besides,  Mr.  Roosevelt  not  only  rides  free  on  trains,  but 
he  is  small  and  mean  enough  to  use  one  of  the  nation's 
warships  to  voyage  to  Oyster  Bay. 

No  wonder,  in  view  of  all  this,  that  even  Republican 
papers  are  beginning  to  ask,  How  in  Sam  Hill  does 
the  government  hang  together? 


believed  he  would  not  have  long  to  wait.  The  officers  of  the 
steamships  Colon  and  City  of  Sydney,  recently  arrived  here, 
say  that  the  state  is  ripe  for  secession ;  that  nothing  can  pre- 
vent a  break  for  independence;  that  the  people  have  long 
nourished  grievances  against  the  government ;  that  the  citizens 
of  the  two  ports  are  progressive  and  energetic,  while  the  Co- 
lombian authorities  are  weak  and  reactionary ;  and  that  secret 
meetings  are  being  held  all  over  Panama  by  the  secessionists. 

It  should  not  be  forgotten  that  the  French  company  stands 
to  lose  forty  millions  of  dollars  if  the  canal  is  constructed  at 
Nicaragua.  It  would  not  be  strange  if  the  Frenchmen  were 
seeing  to  it  that  something  shall  "  turn  up  "  in  Panama  shortly. 
But  in  the  opinion  of  the  noted  Paris  journal,  Le  Matin,  the 
United  States  need  not  wait  for  treaties,  revolutions,  or  any 
thing  else.  It  may  go  ahead  at  once  and  construct  the  canal. 
The  Matin  quotes  in  support  of  this  belief  Article  35  of  the 
Treaty  of  1S46,  which  reads  as  follows: 

The  government  of  New  Granada  guarantees  to  the  govern- 
ment of  the  United  States  that  the  right  of  way  or  of  transit 
across  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  by  all  means  of  communication 
that  exist  or  may  come  into  existence  shall  always  remain 
open  and  free  to  the  government  and  to  the  citizens  of  the 
United  States  and  for  the  transport  of  all  products,  manu- 
factures, and  lawful  merchandise  whatsoever  belonging  to  the 
citizens  of  the  United  States. 

To  this  extract  the  Matin  appends  the  following  comment: 

The  right  of  way  in  the  legal  language  of  the  United  States 
is  the  right  of  passage  in  its  highest  sense ;  that  is  to  say,  not 
merely  the  right  of  bodily  locomotion,  but  the  right  of  making 
all  the  artificial  works  needed  for  locomotion  in  any  shape 
whatsoever.  The  right  of  way  is  in  reality  the  right  of  estab- 
lishing the  works  needed  for  the  passage  of  trains,  if  it  is  a 
matter  of  a  railroad,  and  for  the  passage  of  vessels,  if  it  is  a 
matter   of  vessels. 

The  importance  and  bearing  of  this  exegesis,  if  correct,  will 
be  apparent. 


The  perils  of  acting  as   buffer  between   diametrically   opposed 
opinions  are  exhibited  in  the  English  cabinet 
The  Crisis  crisis.       Premier     Balfour     has,     heretofore, 

professed  to  be  neutral  in  the  matter  of 
Chamberlain's  preferential  tariff  scheme. 
But  lately  he  has  kept  leaning  more  and  more  Chamberlain's 
way.  The  free-trade  members  of  his  cabinet  have  viewed 
their  chief's  tariff-tinged  utterances  with  increasing  alarm, 
and  three  of  them,  finding  the  gulf  between  his  ideas  and  theirs 
impassable,  have  now  resigned.  These  are  C.  T.  Ritchie, 
chancellor  of  the  exchequer;  Lord  Balfour,  of  Burleigh,  secre- 
tary for  Scotland;  and  A.  R.  D.  Elliot,  financial  secretary  to 
the  treasury.  So  far  so  good.  But  that  Joseph  Chamberlain, 
colonial  secretary,  and  Lord  George  Hamilton,  secretary  for 
India,  who  hold  ideas  exactly  antipodal  to  those  of  the  three 
officers  mentioned,  should  also  seize  this  time  to  quit  the  cab- 
inet seems,  as  Balfour  himself  says,  "  paradoxical  indeed." 
The  alleged  reason  impelling  Chamberlain  and  Hamilton  to 
this  move  is  a  desire  for  "  a  perfectly  independent  position  " 
from  which  to  promote  the  ideas  of  national  cooperation. 
Their  action,  and  that  of  their  political  opponents,  leave  the 
ministry  tottering.  It  is.  however,  idle,  in  the  face  of  so  com- 
plex a  situation,  to  predict  the  outcome.  The  immediate  in- 
terest lies  in  the  reconstruction  of  the  cabinet.  It  seems  prob- 
able that  Austen  Chamberlain  will  be  chancellor  of  the  ex- 
chequer; Arnold  Forster,  secretary  of  war;  W.  St.  John  Brod- 
erick,  secretary  for  India ;  Lord  Selborne,  secretary  for  the 
colonies.  Two  pregnant  sentences  from  Balfour's  late  utter- 
ance on  the  tariff  issue  are  bound  to  be  often  quoted  before 
the  matter  is  settled,  and  are  of  especial  interest  to  Americans. 
"  The  most  momentous,  perhaps  the  most  permanent,  victory 
for  free  trade,"  he  said,  "  was  won  when  rather  on  national 
than  on  economic  grounds  interstate  tariffs  were  forbidden  in 
the  United  States."  "  Free  trade,"  he  remarks  elsewhere, 
"was  designed  for  a  frte-nade  country  in  a  world  of  free 
traders,  and  not  tor  a  free-trade  country  in  a  world  of  pro- 
tectionists  " 

On    Tuesday    last,    the   Panama   Canal    treaty,   ratified   by    the 

United  States  Senate  at  its  last  session,  ceased 

hall  THh  tQ  j]ave  anvforce  or  effect  whatsoever.    What- 

L.ANAL   BE   AT 

Panama?  ever  res°lutl0ns  may  be  passed  or  action  taken 

by  the  Colombian  congress  henceforward  can 
only  gain  importance  through  their  recognition  by  this  govern- 
ment, transformation  into  a  definite  treaty  form,  and  rati- 
fication by  the  United  States  Senate,  with  all  the  attendant 
diificulties.  But  that  the  Panama  congress  will  take  any  fur- 
ther action  at  all  seems  doubtful.  Supposing  that  it  docs  not, 
.*-'  e  President  may  choose  either  of  two  courses.  He  may 
1)  turn  to  the  Nicaragua  route,  or  (2)  he  may  "wait  for 
.  *  nething   to   turn   up. '      If   report   from    Panama   are   to   be 


An    instance    of    criminal    precocity,  so  remarkable  that  it  is 
worthy  of  note,   is  reported   from   Baltimore. 
Twelve-  ^  negro  boy,  twelve  years  old,  has  confessed 

to  the  murder,  by  clubbing,  of  a  young  woman, 
under  circumstances  of  astounding  brutality. 
The  crime  was  deliberately  planned,  the  club — the  prop  of  a 
peddler's  cart — was  secured  the  day  before,  hid  in  a  cellar 
over  night,  wrapped  in  a  newspaper  the  next  morning,  and 
thus  carried  by  the  boy  to  the  store  where  the  girl  worked. 
There,  he  hid  under  a  table,  and  when  a  good  chance 
presented  itself,  crawled  out  and  beat  the  woman  to  death — 
all  this  with  the  expectation  of  gaining  only  an  insignificant 
sum  of  money.  When  caught  the  murderer  showed  no  remorse. 
In  court,  he  has  appeared  stolid  and  unconcerned.  In  the  cell, 
he  behaves  naturally.  Physical  examination  revealed  curious 
malformations  of  the  ears  and  arms,  indicating  atavistic 
tendencies.  Young  as  he  is,  the  boy  has  a  criminal  record. 
When  eight  years  old  he  was  arraigned  for  stealing.  Twice 
in  the  following  year,  he  was  arrested.  In  1901,  he  was  once 
before  a  magistrate.  Early  this  year,  he  was  arrested  on  a 
charge  of  larceny,  and  at  the  present  time,  in  addition  to  the 
murder  charge,  he  is  accused  of  stealing.  He  is  a  perfect 
type  of  the  born  criminal.  Had  trained  criminologists  exam- 
ined closely  into  his  case,  when  he  was  first  arrested,  this 
fact  would  have  appeared.  He  would  have  been  placed  where 
he  could  have  done  no  further  harm  to  society.  But  under  the 
lax  methods  that  now  prevail  in  Baltimore  and  elsewhere,  the 
sore  was  permitted  to  fester  in  the  flesh  of  the  body  politic. 
Foul  murder  is  the  result. 


lie  domain.  Over  the  land  laws  there  was  acrimonious  dis- 
cussion. The  majority  report  favored  the  repeal  of  the  desert 
land  act,  the  commutation  clause  of  the  homestead  act,  the 
timber  and  stone  act,  the  lieu  land  provision  of  the  forest 
reserve  act,  and  the  purchase  or  condemnation  of  private  lands 
within  forest  reservations.  The  minority  report  struck  out  all 
reference  to  the  desert  land  act,  the  timber  and  stone  act,  and 
the  commutation  provision  of  the  homestead  act.  After  heated 
discussion,  a  substitute  was  adopted,  simply  recommending 
Congress  to  modify  the  land  laws. 


The  eleventh  National  Irrigation  Congress  was  held  at  Ogden 

last  week,  and  was  attended  by  delegates 
Work  of  the  c  ,  r.^  ,        ,    ,       ,T   . 

trom  nearlv  every  State  of  the  Union,  many 
Irrigation  .    ,       „  ,    ,  '  J 

Congress.  of  the  States  of  "^  Atlantic  seaboard  being 

represented,  showing  a  realization  of  the  fact 
that  while,  practically,  irrigation  is  a  local  question,  in  a 
broader  sense  it  is  of  national  import.  The  congress  had  even 
a  wider  aspect,  for  representatives  of  the  Mexican  and  French 
Governments  were  also  present.  A  number  of  interesting 
addresses  were  delivered.  Secretary  Wilson  told  of  the  work 
being  done  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture.  He  said  that  it 
was  generally  admitted  that,  when  all  available  sources  of 
water  supply  have  been  used,  only  a  small  fraction  of  the  arid 
land  can  be  reclaimed.  The  problem  is  how  to  increase  the 
area  that  can  be  reclaimed,  and  there  are  two  courses  that  can 
be  followed.  One  is  to  increase  the  available  supply,  the  other  is 
to  increase  the  utility  of  what  we  have.  Measurements  show 
the  loss  from  main  canals  and  laterals  of  more  than  half  the 
water  diverted  from  streams.  By  more  economic  use  by  the 
farmers  the  duty  of  the  water  can  be  made  double  what  it  is 
under  present  methods.  In  both  of  these  directions  the 
utility  of  the  water  can  be  increased.  The  irrigation  laws 
of  the  various  States  are  also  being  studied  from  the  stand- 
point of  the  farmer  and  not  of  the  lawyer,  to  see  if  they  tend 
to  promote  the  best  use  of  the  water.  Congressman  Newlands 
spoke  on  cooperation  between  the  State  and  national  govern- 
ments. In  many  cases  there  is  now  friction  instead  of  co- 
operation. The  Nevada  laws  place  the  entire  streams  in  the 
hands  of  the  national  government  while  the  work  of  construc- 
tion is  going  on.  The  State  administration  works  in  harmony, 
so  that  when  the  national  government  turns  the  control  over 
to  the  State,  the  State  bureau  will  be  thoroughly  organized, 
and  possessed  of  all  the  data,  information,  and  plans  necessary 
to  go  on  with  the  work  of  administration,  and  even  of  con- 
struction, if  it  is  necessary.  The  committee  on  resolutions 
presented  a  report  favoring  the  conservation  of  the  flood  waters 
of  the  Columbia,  Sacramento,  Colorado,  Rio  Grande,  Arkansas 
and  Missouri  Rivers  and  their  tributaries,  and  the  subsequent 
extension  of  the  irrigation  projects,  and  the  supplementing 
by  the  government  of  the  present  policy  of  levee  construction 
by  a  comprehensive  reservoir  system.  It  also  recommended 
the  appointment  of  a  commission  by  the  President  to  investi- 
gate and  report  such  extension  or  amendment  of  the  land  laws 
as  may  promote  actual  settlement  and  development  of  the  pub- 


THE 

City 


In  the  matter  of  bonds,  to  be  voted  on  next  Tuesday,  the 
Chronicle  has  gradually  come  around  from  a 
position  of  doubt  and  negation,  to  a  point 
where  it  favors  the  entire  issue.  The  Call 
favors  all  but  two  propositions — $  1 ,647,000 
for  new  public-library  facilities,  and  $741,000  for  a  public  park. 
The  Examiner  favors  all.  The  various  improvement  clubs 
of  the  city  are  unanimously  favorable.  The  platforms  of  the 
three  parties  all  have  planks  advocating  the  adoption  of  the 
various  propositions.  The  postal-card  vote  of  the  Merchants" 
Association  shows  a  majority  in  favor  of  all  propositions  ex- 
cept that  providing  for  the  conversion  of  a  notorious  district 
into  a  park.  It  is,  therefore,  a  foregone  conclusion  that  most 
or  all  of  the  bonds  will  be  voted  next  Tuesday.  A  corre- 
spondent, however,  asks  us  this  question  : 

Is  this  the  best  time  to  borrow  and  expend  the  money,  when 
unions  have  so  cornered  the  market  that  lathers  get  $11  a  day, 
and  brick-layers  $7,  and  the  impossibility  of  obtaining,  at  any 
price,  the  number  of  men  that  should  be  employed  on  a  build- 
ing, together  with  the  interruptions  due  to  union  interference, 
protract  the  period  of  construction  to  thrice  what  it  should  be? 

This  is  something  to  think  about,  but  the  members  of  unions 
themselves  will  manifestly  prefer  that  the  various  public  works 
should  be  undertaken  now,  while  wages  are  high,  rather  than 
wait  for  that  time  which  our  correspondent  foresees,  when 
"  there  will  be  abatement  of  building  in  this  city,  and  the 
unions  will  be  found  more  amenable  to  reason,  .  .  .  while  the  1 
money  of  the  taxpayer  will  bring  far  larger  results."  This 
seems  to  be  a  case  where  one  man's  good  is  another's  ill 
And  we  believe  workingmen  are  in  a  majority. 


" 


Bay  Shore 
Right  of  Way 
will  be  Granted, 


The  board  of  supervisors  has  passed  to  print  the  franchise 
granting  the  Southern  Pacific  Company  the 
right  of  way  for  its  Bay  Shore  line  for  a 
period  of  fifty  years.  After  a  delay  of  ninety 
days,  as  required  by  the  charter,  the  franchise 
will  be  put  on  its  final  passage  on  December  21st,  just  before 
the  present  board  goes  out  of  office.  The  decision  to  grant 
the  franchise  was  not  reached  without  some  opposition.  The 
chief  point  in  dispute  was  the  number  of  tracks  the  company 
might  lay.  crossing  Sixteenth  Street.  Sixteenth  Street  in  this 
locality  offers  the  only  route  to  the  water-front,  and  property 
owners  protested  against  its  being  so  obstructed  as  to  interfere 
with  traffic.  Under  franchises  heretofore  granted,  the  com- 
pany has  a  right  to  maintain  eight  tracks  across  Sixteenth 
Street,  between  Pennsylvania  Avenue  and  Kentucky  Street ;  it 
asked  for  twelve  new  switching  tracks.  Upon  protest  being  made, 
the  company  consented  to  the  number  being  reduced  to  six  new 
tracks,  making  fourteen  in  all.  The  property-owners  tried  in 
vain  to  have  the  total  number  reduced  to  twelve.  An  amend- 
ment to  the  ordinance  provides  that  the  company  is  to  station 
flagmen  and  gates  at  the  crossing  when  requested  to  do  so, 
and,  further,  that  no  engines  are  to  stand  upon  the  crossing, 
and  no  cars  are  to  be  loaded  or  unloaded  there.  In  response 
to  a  request  that  grooved  rails  be  placed  at  the  crossing,  and 
that  the  company  be  required  to  keep  the  roadway  level  and 
easy  to  cross,  the  representatives  of  the  company  agreed  that 
the  work  would  be  done  in  accordance  with  the  requirements 
of  the  board  of  public  works.  It  is  also  proposed  that  the 
sidewalks  on  Sixteenth  Street,  between  Seventh  and  Kentucky, 
shall  be  done  away  with,  thus  widening  the  roadway  by  thirty 
feet. 


We  Are 

Called 

Names. 


The  Gilroy  Telegram — a  paper  of  which  we  had  never  before 
heard,  but  which  shall  henceforth  and  for- 
ever be  enshrined  in  memory's  fond  embrace 
— prints  part  of  the  Argonaut's  editorial  on 
the  action  of  labor  unions  in  forcing  their 
members  to  quit  the  militia,  and  appends  thereto  some  com- 
ment. The  Gilroy  Telegram  avers  that  the  San  Francisco 
Argonaut  "  caters  to  the  predatory  rich  "  ;  that  we,  the  editors 
thereof,  are  "  cringing  poltroons " ;  that  we  are  "  dead  and 
insensible "  to  the  violations  of  law  "  when  the  opulent  are 
interested";  and  that  we  are  "  sychopants  "  (sic).  Naturally. 
b3r  these  cruel  words,  we  were  very  much  grieved.  But  as  we 
sat,  shrouded  in  impenetrable  gloom,  bathed,  as  it  were,  in 
unutterable  woe,  mournfully  musing  on  a  shattered  reputa- 
tion, our  eyes  fell  upon  five  cheering  words  among  the  Tele- 
gram's remarks.  They  were:  "Mendacious  individuals  con- 
stituting the  government."  So  !  Well,  come  to  think  of  it, 
we  are  quite  content  to  be  called  a  "  sychopant "  by  one  who 
in  the  same  breath  calls  Theodore  Roosevelt,  John  Hay.  the 
legislative  branch,  the  judiciary,  and  everybody  else  "  constitut- 
ing the  government,"  liars.     Yes,**quite  content. 


The  City 
Tax  Rate 
Muddle. 


The  supervisors  have  accepted  Attorney  Lane's  opinion  in  the 
matter  of  the  tax  levy,  and  this  week  fixed  the 
rate  at  84.4  cents  on  every  $100.  The  old 
rate  was  $1,076  on  every  $100.  But  since  the 
State  Board  of  Equalization  raised  San  Fran- 
cisco's assessment  roll  from  $427,641,648  to  $545,855,324,  and 
every  man's  realty  assessment  is  thirty  per  cent,  higher  than 
before,  the  84.4  rate  was  supposed  to  equalize  matters  ex- 
actly, and  to  result  in  preservation  of  the  status  quo.  How- 
ever, there  is  a  hitch  in  this  programme.  The  State  Board 
of  Equalization  is  prohibited  by  law  from  raising  the  as- 
sessment of  "  any  mortgage,  deed  of  trust,  contract,  or  other 
obligation,    by    which    a    debt    is    secured,    money,    or    solvent 


September  28,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


195 


dits."  Therefore,  since  $33,596,159  of  San  Francisco's  roll 
ne  under  this  head,  that  amount  was  subtracted  by  the  board 
Tom  the  total  sum,  and  only  on  the  balance  was  the  thirty  per 
nt.  raise  made.  Thus,  with  the  new  rate  of  S4.4,  the  holders 
of  the  $33,596,159  of  mortgages,  money,  etc.,  will  be  required 
to  pay  about  $75,710  less  of  taxes  than  under  the  original 
levy,  while  the  holders  of  realty  will  pay  that  much  more. 
Another  unimportant  effect  of  the  change  is  that  the  city 
library  will  receive  a  revenue  of  $81,000  instead  of  one  of 
$63,000,  since  the  minimum  rate  is  1.5  cents.  Suit  will  be  be- 
gun at  once  by  a  taxpayer  to  determine  whether  the  recent 
action  of  the  supervisors  is  legal.  It  is  expected  that  many 
persons  will  defer  payment  of  taxes  until  the  supreme  court 
decides  the  case. 

Besides  nominating  Franklin  K.  Lane  for  mayor,  as  expected, 
the  Democratic  convention,  on  Tuesday  night, 
adopted  a  lengthy  platform  praising  the  ad- 
ministrations of  all  the  Democrats  in  office ; 
charging  the  mayor  with  "  subserviency  to 
corporate  influences "  and  various  other  things ;  condemning 
the  administration  of  the  county  clerk's  office  "  as  scandalous 
in  the  extreme " ;  advocating  the  acquisition  of  the  Geary 
Street  railway ;  pledging  its  supervisoral  nominees  to  make 
substantial  permanent  improvements  from  the  regular  taxes 
within  the  dollar  limit:  advocating  the  acquisition  by  the  city 
of  its  own  water-works ;  and  opposing  the  granting  of  railway 
franchises  through  the  Mission.  The  convention  was  a 
turbulent  one,  and  the  vote  on  the  mayoralty  nomination  of 
22^/2  to  n^Vz  showed  that  the  sentiment  for  Lane  was  far 
from  unanimous.  As  Lane,  in  his  letter  to  the  convention, 
said  he  would  not  accept  the  nomination  for  mayor  unless  it 
came  as  a  "  demand  from  the  united  party,"  and  as  several 
days  have  passed  without  formal  acceptance  of  the  nomination 
by  him,  doubt  is  expressed  that  he  will  do  so,  unless,  before  the 
convention  finally  adjourns,  all  factions  are  harmonized. 


The  Democratic 

Municipal 

Platform. 


In  conspicuous  contrast  with  the  turbulence  of  the  Democratic 
convention  was  the  Republican  harmony  on 
Wednesday  night.     The  nomination  for  mayor 


The  Republican 

Municipal 

Convention. 


of  Henry  J.  Crocker — a  prominent  and  suc- 
cessful man  of  affairs,  a  citizen  who  has 
labored  long  and  earnestly  for  the  upbuilding  of  the  State  and 
city,  and  a  man  of  great  personal  popularity,  a  lover  of 
sports,  the  head  of  a  family,  a  Native  Son — was  unanimous. 
So,  also,  were  the  renominations  of  Auditor  Baehr,  Sheriff 
Lynch,  Tax-Collector  Smith,  and  Treasurer  McDougald  to  the 
positions  they  now  hold.  The  platform  praises  President 
Roosevelt ;  commends  Governor  Pardee ;  advocates  street- 
improvement  by  appropriation  from  the  annual  revenue : 
favors  city  ownership  of  "  such  public  utilities  as  are  beneficial 
and  necessary  for  the  common  good  "  ;  demands  the  abolition 
of  cobblestone  pavements ;  recommends  measures  for  better 
fire  protection ;  favors  an  improved  system  of  public  ac- 
counting ;  pledges  the  candidates  to  uphold  the  civil  service ; 
and  favors  the  bond-issue. 

On  Thursday  night,  the  convention  completed  the  ticket 
without  serious  disagreements  and  adjourned  sire  die.  The 
nominees  are  as  follows:  County  clerk,  John  J.  Grief;  public 
administrator,  William  E.  Lutz ;  recorder,  Louis  N.  Jacobs ; 
assessor,  Charles  S.  Laumeister ;  city  attorney,  Percy  V.  Long ; 
district  attorney,  General  Edward  S.  Salomon ;  coroner,  Dr. 
T.  H.  Morris;  police  judges,  H.  L.  Joachimsen,  Edwin  M. 
Sweeney ;  supervisors,  Charles  Boxton,  Horace  Wilson,  Fred 
N.  Bent,  L.  A.  Rea,  Fred  Eggers,  George  Alpers  (incumbents), 
W.  W.  Sanderson,  Dr.  J.  I.  Stephen,  Thomas  C.  Duff,  M.  L. 
Asher,  Theodore  Lunstedt,  Robert  Vance,  Maxwell  McNutt, 
Edward  H.  Aigeltinger,  George  R.  Wells,  William  Barton, 
George  Dietterle,  and  Joseph  S.  Nyland. 


No   more  bodies   may  be  buried   within  the   city   limits.     The 
supreme   court   has   finally   decided  the   ques- 
tion.    It  is  now  several  years  since  the  west- 
City  Limits  ,  ,        ,     ,  -„      *    , 

now  Prohibited.  ward  *«>wth  ot  the  city  filled  the  gap  be- 
tween the  residence  part  of  the  city  and  the 
cemeteries  around  Lone  Mountain  and  Laurel  Hill.  Even 
before  that  had  been  accomplished,  it  was  apparent  that  it 
was  only  a  matter  of  time  when  it  would  no  longer  be  possible 
to  permit  bodies  to  be  interred  in  those  cemeteries.  But  con- 
siderable money  had  been  invested  in  the  cemeteries,  and  senti- 
mental reasons  also  contributed  to  the  postponing  of  action. 
A  few  years  ago,  however,  the  board  of  supervisors  enacted  an 
ordinance  providing  that  after  August  1,  1901,  no  more  burials 
should  take  place  within  the  city  limits,  except  on  government 
land.  The  question  was  immediately  taken  into  the  courts. 
The  superior  court  decided  in  favor  of  the  validity  of  the 
ordinance,  and  the  case  was  appealed  to  the  supreme  court. 
Now  the  supreme  court  also  has  upheld  the  ordinance.  The 
court  holds  that  the  ordinance  comes  within  the  police  powers 
of  the  city,  and  that  the  city  may  make  prohibitive  or  restrictive 
laws  when  the  future  health  of  the  community  may  be  en- 
dangered. It  was  claimed  that  the  act  forbidding  burials  in 
San  Francisco  in  any  places  other  than  exisiting  cemeteries 
had  the  effect  of  legalizing  interments  in  the  localities  desig- 
nated, but  the  court  holds  that  the  law  had  no  such  purpose 
or  force. 


Painters'  Union 
Opposes 


A  few  weeks  ago,  a  young  man,  a  painter  by  trade,  left  his 
home  in  Placerville,  and  went  to  make  his 
home  in  Sacramento.  In  the  latter  city,  he 
Federal  Union  souSnt  affiliation  with  the  Painters',  Decora- 
tors', and  Paperhangers'  LTnion,  but  he  had 
been  a  member  of  the  State  militia  in  Placerville.  so  he  was 
told  that  he  could  not  join  the  union  until  he  resigned  from 
the  militia.  He  could  not  work  at  his  trade  in  Sacramento 
without  joining  the  union,  so  he  returned  to  Placerville  and 
resigned  from  his  militia  company  to  make  himself  eligible. 
The  president  of  the  painters'  union  in  Sacramento,  one 
Nicolaus.    admits    that    this    is    the    rule    of   his    union.      The 


constitution  of  the  organization  provides  that  no  member 
of  the  union  shall  be  connected  with  the  constabulary,  the 
militia,  or  in  any  way  serve  as  an  officer  of  the  law.  The  con- 
stitution is  framed  by  the  national,  not  the  local,  organization, 
and  the  local  body  seeks  to  clear  itself  of  blame  by  saying 
that  the  Sacramento  delegates  to  the  last  convention  of  the 
union  were  instructed  to  work  for  a  change  in  the  constitution 
in  this  particular,  but  were  outvoted  by  the  Eastern  delegates. 
It  is  asserted  that  this  is  the  only  union  whose  constitution 
contains  this  provision. 


FROM    A    BALCONY. 


By  Jerome  A.  Hart. 


Did  you  ever  take  part  in  amateur  theatricals  ?  They  are 
extremely  amusing — at  least,  to  the  performers.  I  am  sorry 
that  I  can  not  say  the  same  for  the  auditors.  Their  fate,  at 
times,  has  struck  me  as  much  to  be  deplored.  Who  that  has 
attended  an  amateur  performance  has  not  gazed  with  secret 
wonder  at  his  fellow-auditors?  Who  has  not  marveled  at  their 
fixed  and  rigid  grins?  Who  has  not  doubted  whether  his  own 
mental  anguish  was  decorously  concealed  beneath  a  polite  and 
mechanical  smile? 

Once — for  my  sins — I  was  inveigled  into  being  one  of  such 
a  troupe  of  amateurs.  Or,  perhaps,  it  was  for  the  audience*^ 
sins  that  I  was  chosen.  Poor  creatures !  They  never  did  me 
any  harm.  But  your  amateur  is  merciless.  I  can  see  the 
sufferers  now,  across  the  footlights*  glow,  their  risor  muscles, 
flex  and  reflex,  ready  to  go  off  into  a  laugh  at  my  feeblest 
jest. 

But  we  on  the  hither  side  of  the  footlights  enjoyed  our- 
selves extremely. 

I  think  the  rehearsals  were  even  more  amusing  than  the  per- 
formance. They  were  controlled  by  a  board  of  stage-managers 
called  "  The  Cabinet."  As  on  the  professional  stage,  the 
stage-manager  generally  disagrees  with  the  manager,  the 
business  manager,  the  orchestra  leader,  and  all  the  actors,  we 
simplified  matters  by  having  a  number  of  stage-managers,  who 
not  only  disagreed  with  all  the  actors,  but  with  each  other 
as  well. 

At  the  rehearsals,  the  Cabinet  ladies,  being  quicker-witted 
and  nimbler-tongued  than  the  men,  speedily  got  possession 
of  the  floor — and  kept  it.  One  of  them  flashed  forth  an  idea 
which  was  unanimously  approved.  But  like  all  the  ideas 
which  were  unanimously  approved,  it  was  condemned  with 
equal  unanimity  at  the  next  meeting. 

The  idea  was  thrff:  That  a  programme  of  cosmopolitan 
songs,  dances,  and  living  pictures  should  be  arranged ;  that 
they  should  include  many  costumes  and  many  countries ;  that 
a  sort  of  illustrative  paper  should  be  prepared — a  thread  of 
comment,  as  it  were — a  species  of  vocal  placard,  saying  to  you, 
"  These  be  Brazilian  beauties,"  or  "  Odalisques  from  the 
Seraglio  of  Pasha  McFadden,"  or  "  Now  we  are  in 
Senegambia." 

Having  no  histrionic  ability,  I  was  the  person  selected  to 
prepare  this  paper.  I  was  told  that  I  must  see  these  things 
from  a  balcony,  and  that  the  paper  should  be  entitled  "  From 
a  Balcony."  Despite  my  feeble  remonstrances,  I  was  forcibly 
seized  and  placed  in  a  balcony,  where  I  remained. 

"  What  you  have  to  do,"  the  Cabinet  ladies  said,  "  is 
simply  to  write  up  something  illustrative  of  our  tableaux  and 
dances.  For  example,  you  are  supposed  to  be  in  Naples  look- 
ing from  a  balcony.  You  see  the  tarantella  dancers  flash  in 
with  Neapolitan  costumes,  mantillas,  tambourines — ah,  when 
the  gay  guitars — and  all  that  sort  of  thing — fa  ra  ra,  ta  ra  ra." 

"  But,"  said  I,  feebly,  "  I  never  saw  the  tarantella  from  a 
balcony  in  Naples." 

"  Never  mind,"  replied  one  of  the  Cabinet  ladies,  "  you  can 
imagine  you  did." 

"  But  I  only  saw  it  in  a  theatre,"  said  I,  more  feebly,  "  and 
the  women  in  Naples  do  not  dance  the  tarantella  any  more. 
They  spend  their  time  cooking  macaroni,  frying  fish,  and 
spanking  the  little  Neapolitans — all  in  the  public  streets." 

"  Oh,  pshaw,  you  have  no  imagination,"  cried  another 
Cabinet  lady;  "now  don't  be  foolish — you  saw  the  tarantella 
from  a  balcony  in  Naples,  and  you  have  got  to  describe  it." 

I  have  always  secretly  entertained  a  fear  of  lovely  woman 
when  she  talks  in  a  certain  tone  of  voice.  This  lady  talked 
in  that  tone.     I  at  once  climbed  up  into  my  balcony. 

There  I  remained.  Amid  all  the  cataclysms  of  the  Cabinet, 
my  paper  alone  was  undisturbed.  It  was  not  written,  but  it 
was  frequently  and  confidently  referred  to  as  "  that  balcony 
paper."  The  cosmopolitan  dances  faded  away ;  the  interna- 
tional tableaux  perished;  the  tarantella  dancers  were  unan- 
imously turned  down.  Comedies  were  read,  approved  of  with 
enthusiasm,  and  then  forgotten.  Dialogues  were  discussed, 
determined  upon,  and  died.  The  ruin  after  each  Cabinet  meet- 
ing brought  to  mind  the  lines: 

"  These   our  actors. 
Are  melted  into  air,   into   thin   air: 
And,  like  the  baseless  fabric  of  this  vision. 
The  cloud-capped  towers,  the  gorgeous  palaces. 
The  solemn  temples,  the  great  globe  itself. 
Yea,  all  which  it  inherit  shall  dissolve; 
And,   like  this   insubstantial   pageant   faded. 
Leave  not  a  rack  behind." 

So  it  was  after  each  meeting  of  the  Cabinet.  Not  a  wreck 
nor  a  rack  was  left  behind.  In  the  midst  of  the  earthquakes, 
catastrophes,  and  cataclysms,  as  the  Cabinet  rocked  beneath 
us.  I  sat  a  trembling  spectator,  still  ensconced  in  my  balcony. 
Amid  this  wreck  of  matter,  this  crush  of  worlds,  I  had 
hoped  that  my  paper  too  would  be  forgotten.  But  it  was  not 
to  be.  It  was  put  down  on  the  programme  so  often  (when 
there  was  nothing  else  to  put  there)  that  it  became  imbedded 
in  the  Cabinet  members'  minds.  When  I  had  prepared  it,  and 
the  dances  and  tableaux  which  it  was  supposed  to  describe  had 
passed  into  the  always-time.  I  thought  that  it  had  lost  its 
reason  for  existence.  Not  so.  The  dances  were  so  buried 
in  the  ruins  of  rehearsals  that  it  was  treated  by  the  Cabinet 


From 

THE 

Colosseum. 


ladies  as  a  series  of  thumb-nail  travel  sketches,  viewed  from 
a  balcony — therefore  entirely  independent,  and  a  distinct  entity. 
Looking  at  it  indulgently  from  this  point  of  view,  I  have 
ventured  to  reproduce  it  here,  with  this  explanation  of  its 
scrappy  nature. 

*  * 

My  Roman  balcony  was  the  topmost  gallery  of  the  Colosseum. 
1  was  standing  on  the  lo  f ty  terrace,  idly 
gazing  toward  the  Forum,  while  our  cicerone 
was  pouring  his  guide-book  gabble  into  my 
wearied  ear.  Suddenly  a  long  line  of  ve- 
hicles appeared,  wending  their  way  under  the  arch  of  Titus, 
not  far  from  the  Colosseum.  Among  them  were  numerous 
carts  gayly  bedecked  with  ribbons  and  roses,  some  of  them 
drawn  by  oxen,  and  all  filled  with  laughing  girls — pretty  yirls — 
peasant  girls — girls  from  the  Campagna — girls  with  clean 
gowns  and  fresh  kerchiefs.  These  things,  together  with  the 
further  fact  that  they  had  their  faces  washed,  showed  plainly 
that  it  was  a  festival.  As  I  looked  down  upon  them, 
Macaulay's  lines  sung  in  my  ears: 

"  And  in  the  vats  of  Luna, 

This  year,  the  must  shall  foam 
Round  the  white  feet  of  laughing  girls 
Whose  sires  have  marched  to  Rome." 

I  asked  the  guide  where  they  were  going.  "  It  is  a  feast.'* 
said  he,  '  the  festa  of  the  Divino  Amore." 

"  What  is  that?"  I  inquired. 

*"  Oh,  nobodda  know,"  replied  the  intelligent  guide,  "  once 
evera  year,  in  de  mont'  of  Maggio,  everabodda  he  go  out  on  de 
Via  Appia  to  de  feast  of  de  Divino  Amore — what  you  call  in 
English  a  peek-a-neek.     Everabodda  he  getta  drunka." 

I  reflected  that  the  Colosseum  would  be  there  for  some  time, 
while  I,  the  peasant  girls,  and  the  feast  of  the  Divino  Amore 
would  pass  away,  so  my  companion  and  I  at  once  descended, 
took  our  carriage,  and  started  to  follow  up  the  feasters. 

We  drove  for  several  miles  along  the  Appian  Way,  which 
was  clogged  with  a  continuous  stream  of  vehicles.  Among 
them  were  many  patrician  ones,  such  as  those  of  Princess 
Borghese,  Princess  Pamphyli  Doria,  Princess  Torlonia,  and 
others  of  that  ilk.  In  fact,  it  seemed,  for  the  first  three  or  four 
miles,  as  if  half  the  population  of  Rome  on  foot  had  turned 
out  to  see  the  other  half  go  by  in  vehicles.  At  last  we  reached 
the  place,  and  found,  as  our  guide  had  told  us,  that  it  was  a 
picnic.  Around  the  stones  of  a  ruined  temple,  almost  com- 
pletely buried  beneath  the  green  Campagna,  were  some  scores 
of  thousands  of  the  Roman  populace,  laughing,  chatting,  eat- 
ing, drinking,  and  love-making. 

I  was  utterly  unable  to  find  out  what  the  feast  of  the  Divino 
Amore  was  about.  Not  until  I  reached  my  hotel  that  evening, 
and  took  out  of  my  trunk  that  treasury  of  oddities,  "  Roba  di 
Roma,"  by  Story,  the  American  sculptor,  was  my  curiosity 
quenched.  There  I  found  that  the  feast  of  the  Divino  Amore 
was  a  vestige  of  the  ancient  Feast  of  the  Floreali,  an  old 
pagan  festival,  which  had  slowly  changed  into  a  Christian 
ceremony.  On  the  spot  to  which  the  Roman  populace  repaired 
there  once  had  stood,  many  centuries  before,  a  temple  vowed 
to  Venus,  and  these  people,  blindly  following  tradition,  had 
gone  out,  as  their  forefathers  had  gone  two  thousand  years 
before,  to  celebrate  the  Floreali  Feast,  For  it  was  the  middle 
of  May — the  Roman  Rose  Easter — and  the  Roman  girls  believe 
that  by  going  to  this  feast  and  decking  themselves  with  flowers 
they  will  win  husbands.  But  with  that  also  goes  the  super- 
stition that  marriage  in  the  month  of  May  is  unlucky — a 
superstition  which  has  extended  to  their  sisters  throughout 
the  world. 

It  was  by  a  lucky  accident  that  I  stumbled  on  the  feast 
of  the  Divino  Amore — just  by  looking  down  on  a  troop  of 
laughing  peasant  girls  from  a  balcony. 


To  Gibraltar  there  come  the  people  of  all  the  races  of  all  the 
countries  in  the  world.  It  is  the  great 
half-way  house  around  the  world.  It  is  said 
that  if  you  want  to  catch  a  scoundrel  you  will 
always  find  him.  if  you  wait  long  enough, 
at  Port  Said  on  the  Suez  Canal.  But  it  is  my  belief  that  you 
would  find  him  sooner  at  Gibraltar.  Next  to  Gibraltar  in  point 
of  polyglot  peoples,  I  would  place  Algiers.  Not  only  all  rac;s 
are  there,  but  all  colors.  Once  while  I  was  gazing  from  the 
Moorish  mitsharabiyeh  window  of  a  hotel  balcony  I  saw  a 
gigantic  negro  seated  on  the  ground  beneath,  counting  out  a 
large  quantity  of  coins,  mostly  copper.  He  was  probably  a 
peddler  who  had  sold  his  stock  and  was  counting  up  his  gains. 
The  idea  flashed  upon  me  that  I  might  make  a  collection  of 
coins  from  him  for  the  benefit  of  ray  Idiot  waiter  on  the 
steamship.  So  I  descended  from  my  balcony  and  effected  a 
money -changing  act  with  him,  in  which  I  think  he  did  not  rob 
me  of  more  than  fifty  per  cent,  I  subsequently  collected  other 
coins  while  floating  around  Algiers,  and  as  a  result  I  suc- 
ceeded in  making  a  curious  collection. 

My  dining-room  steward  was  a  poor  little  creature  with  a 
rudimentary  brain.  He  never  got  anything  right,  and  could 
not  remember  more  than  one  thing  at  a  time.  His  efforts 
to  try  and  memorize  a  breakfast  order  of  coffee,  toast,  and 
omelette  were  at  once  amusing  and  pitiable.  We  called  him 
"  The  Idiot."  He  did  not  speak  English  very  welt,  for  he 
evidently  regarded  this  title  as  eulogistic,  and  responded  to  it 
with  the  utmost  gravity. 

He  was  such  a  poor  creature  that  I  resolved  to  give  him 
his  regular  tip.  although  he  owed  me  money  for  mental  wear 
and  tear,  indigestion,  and  ruined  clothes.  His  regular  tip 
was  ten  marks — about  two  dollars  and  forty  cents. 

So  when  we  were  nearing  our  port,  I  counted  carefully  into 
The   Idiot's  hand  the   following  collection  : 

One  escudo  of  the  time  of  Charles  the  Third  of  Spain. 

One  piece  of  two  pesetas  of  the  time  of  Isabella  the  Second 
of  Spain. 

One  piece  of  two   francs  of  the  time  of  Louis    PI 
France. 


From 

a  Moorish 

Window. 


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September  28,  1903. 


From 
a  Paris 
Terrasse. 


One  piece  of  four  reales  of  the  time  of  the  Spanish  Pro- 
visional Government  of  1870. 

One  piece  of  one  peseta  of  the  time  of  the  Queen  Regent 
of  Spain. 

One  battered  sixpence  of  the  time  of  Queen  Victoria,  by 
the  grace  of  God,  Queen  of  England  and  Empress  of  India. 

Several  halfpence  and  a  lot  of  unidentified  Spanish  copper 
coins  from  the  time  of  the  Moors  down. 

"  Danke  schon,"  said  he  ;  "  aber  ist  das  gut  geld?" 

"  Oh,  ja,"  said  I,  "  das  ist  ganz  gut — count  it." 

"  Aber,"  said  The  Idiot,  "  Ich  kann  nicht." 

"You  can  not?"  (neither  can  I,  I  added  mentally).  But  I 
told  him  kindly  to  get  pencil  and  paper,  and  go  to  work. 

When  this  mass  of  metal  was  poured  into  The  Idiot's  hand, 
his  eyes  bulged  out  so  that  his  receding  forehead  seemed  to 
shrink  within  his  occiput.  He  overwhelmed  me  with  thanks, 
and  retired  to  his  den  behind  the  cabin  stairs  to  count  his 
gains.  But  his  weak  brain  began  presently  to  reel.  Over  and 
over  The  Idiot  counted  the  coins,  and  then  pulled  out  a  stub 
of  a  pencil  and  a  greasy  piece  of  paper,  and  began  to  make 
what  he  evidently  believed  to  be  calculations.  But  the  task- 
was  too  much  for  him — it  had  been  nearly  too  much  for  me — 
and  his  mind  clicked  and  stopped.  Over  his  countenance  there 
came  its  normal  vacuous  look,  and  his  eyelids  slowly  closed. 
Sleep,  which  knits  up  the  raveled  sleave  of  care,  had  come  to 
him.  His  head  fell  forward  on  his  bosom.  As  I  left  the 
dining  saloon  I  saw  that  The  Idiot  was  wrapped  in  slumber, 
a  peaceful  smile  upon  his  face,  while  firmly  clutched  in  his 
hand  was  my  Algerian  job-lot  tip. 
*  * 

An  affray  witnessed  from  a  cafe  balcony  in  Paris — or  as  they 
say  in  Paris,  a  "  cafe  terrasse " — has  im- 
printed itself  on  my  memory.  With  a  group 
of  friends  I  was  seated  at  a  cafe  table  on  a 
terrasse  of  the  Grand  Boulevard.  It  was 
about  an  hour  past  midnight.  The  Boulevard  was  semi-dark. 
The  shops  were  all  closed.  Only  cafes  were  open.  Many  of 
the  electric  lights  were  extinguished.  The  Paris  municipality 
has  grown  economical  of  late  years.  Suddenly  from  the  darker 
side  of  the  Boulevard,  under  the  trees  across  the  roadway, 
there  came  a  sound  of  angry  colloquy,  hot  words,  and  then 
loud  voices.  "What's  that?"  asked  one  in  our  group.  "Oh, 
only  two  Frenchmen  quarreling,"  replied  another,  "  they  never 
do  anything  but  abuse  one  another."  But  in  this  case  they  did 
— there  was  the  grunting  sound  of  a  blow,  a  hoarse  cry  0/ 
pain,  and  then  the  clap-clap  of  flying  feet  as  one  of  the  com- 
batants disappeared  in  the  darkness. 

We  rose  and  hurried  across  the  street.  There  we  found  a 
man  lying  on  his  back,  bleeding  to  death  from  a  knife-thrust 
in  the  heart.  Two  police  agents  were  on  the  scene  almost 
as  rapidly  as  we.  "What  is  the  trouble?"  I  asked  one  of 
them.  "  Oh,  monsieur,  ce  sotit  des  souteneurs,"  he  responded, 
indifferently,  "  it  n'y  a  qu'eux  qui  portent  des  couteaux."  ["  A 
fight  between  a  pair  of  procurers.  They  are  the  only  ones  who 
carry  knives."]     And  the  body  was  carried  away. 

San  Francisco  is  doubtless  looked  upon  in  Europe  as  being 
a  wild  and  lawless  place;  I  have  seen  a  few  affrays  in  San 
Francisco — some  in  which  the  pistol  was  used,  but  never  the 
knife.  It  was  reserved  for  me  to  see,  half  a  block  from  the 
centre  of  a  great  European  city,  a  hundred  feet  from  the  Place 
de  l'Opera,  in  the  heart  of  Lutetia,  whose  boast  is  that  she  is 
the  centre  of  civilization,  a  man  stabbed  to  death. 


I  recall  another  experience,  looking  from  a  balcony  in  Paris. 
It  was  the  evening  of  the   Grand   Prix.     We 
were  dining  on  the  balcony  of  the  Cafe  des 
Balcony  Ambassadeurs.     As  always,  there  was  a  great 

demand  for  tables  on  that  night,  and  we  se- 
cured one  in  the  first  row,  where  we  could  overlook  the  brilliant 
scene  below.  The  place  was  crowded,  and  the  gayly  dressed 
people,  the  lantern-hung  trees  around  the  garden,  and  the 
many-colored  lights  of  the  Champs  Elysees  made  a  picture  to 
remember.  A  performance  was  in  progress  on  the  stage, 
and  I  remember  that  both  Judic  and  Yvette  Guilbert  sang. 
But  what  most  amused  me  was  this :  There  was  a  certain 
spectacle  then  being  played  at  the  Cafe  des  Ambassadeurs 
about  which  all  Paris  was  talking.  It  was  called  "  Le  Coucher 
d'Yvette."  I  will  not  enter  into  its  details,  but  it  was  delight- 
fully improper.  Immediately  under  our  balcony  was  a  box 
containing  a  Spanish  or  Spanish-American  family.  There 
were  Papa,  Mamacita,  Lolita,  Conchita,  and  little  Manuelito. 
Just  before  the  curtain  was  to  rise  upon  the  improper  spec- 
tacle, I  saw  the  Spanish  Papa  hastily  gathering  up  his  do- 
mestic tribe  and  bundling  them  out.  "  Aha,"  I  said  to  myself, 
"here  is  a  prudent  Papa.  He  wishes  his  family  to  enjoy  the 
Cafe  des  Ambassadeurs,  but  does  not  want  them  shocked  by 
improper  plays.  Here  is  a  good  man  lost  in  Paris."  A  few 
minutes  elapsed,  and  presently  the  door  of  the  box  opened 
again,  and  a  man  appeared.  It  was  Papa.  He  had  packed 
his  family  home,  and  then  had  come  back  to  see  the  improper 
spectacle  himself.     And  he  seemed  to  enjoy  it  extremely. 

*»* 
We    had    just    finished    doing    up    a    portion    of    the    ruins    of 
Fr  ^  Pompeii.      I    think    we   struck    work    at   noon 

the  "villa  3t  the  HouSe  of  the  Dramatic   Poet,   and  re- 

Diumkl>.  paired    like    the    British    workman    to    a    hos- 

telry for  food  and  beer.  At  the  gates  of 
the  buried  city  of  Pompeii  is  a  tavern  called  the  Villa 
Diomed.  There  we  got  food  and  drink,  and  seated  on  the 
terrasse  we  gazed  out  over  the  smiling  country  which  lies 
around  the  base  of  Mt.  Vesuvius.  As  we  sat  there  smoking,  two 
bandi's  came  to  the  foot  of  the  balcony,  one  armed  with  a 
mandolin,  the  other  with  a  guitar,  and  demanded  to  know  if 
they  should  not  make  music  for  the  signore.  "  What  can 
you  play?"  said  I;  "do  you  know  the  intermezzo  from  the 
'C    -allcria    Rusticana  :  No,   they  did  not  know   the   inter- 

mei^o,  and  they  had  never  heard  of  the  "  Cavalleria   Rusti- 


cana." "Have  you  never  heard  of  Mascagni?"  I  asked.  No. 
"  Not  of  Mascagni? — Pietro  Mascagni — Mascagni  Pietro?  " 
I  asked  again,  for  the  Italians  have  the  peculiarity  of  repeat- 
ing their  names  either  way.  A  man  is  called  either  John  Smith 
or  Smith  John,  Francesco  Giannini  or  Giannim  Francesco. 
No,  they  had  never  heard  of  the  "  Cavalleria  Rusticana,"  or 
of  Pietro  Mascagni,  or  of  anything  he  ever  wrote.  But  they 
were  so  good-humored,  withal,  and  they  smiled  so  pleasantly, 
and  showed  their  white  teeth  as  they  said  they  would  play 
anything  for  the  signore,  that  I  relented  and  bade  them  play. 
So  one  said  they  would  play  un  canto  novello — something  new 
— and  they  struck  up.  And  what  do  you  think  they  played? 
There,  amid  the  ghosts  of  eighteen  centuries,  outside  of  the 
ruins  of  Pompeii,  with  the  smoke  from  the  great  cone  of 
Vesuvius  wind-blown  over  our  heads,  they  played  "  Funiculi 
Funicula,"  "  The  Washington  Post  March,"  and  followed  them 
up  with  "  Daisy  Bell." 


From  Other 
Terraces 
and  Towers. 


Another  view  I  had  from  a  Paris  balcony.  It  was  from  the 
Gallery  of  the  Trocadero  Palace  the  day  that 
a  memorial  service  was  held  in  honor  of  the 
composer  Gounod.  I  watched  with  interest 
some  fifteen  thousand  Parisian  women  pour 
in,  attired  in  sombre  colors  in  honor  of  the  dead  maestro. 
The  very  next  day  I  looked  down  from  the  terrasse  of  the 
Longchamps  race-course,  and  saw  some  scores  of  thousands 
of  Parisiennes,  this  time  in  all  the  glory  of  their  new  spring 
irocks  and  new  spring  bonnets. 

Another  balcony  in  Paris  from  which  I  gazed  was  far  up 
on  the  Tower  of  Notre  Dame,  amid  the  grinning  gargoyles 
of  stone.  And  another  was  from  those  lofty  heights  which 
from  afar  look  like  lace  or  cobwebs — cobwebs  made  from  mas- 
sive beams  of  steel — the  balcony  of  the  Eiffel  Tower. 

But  a  truce  to  balconies.  One  might  talk  indefinitely  of  views 
from  terraces  and  towers,  such  as  the  great  cathedral  at 
Milan  and  the  vast  square  beneath  it;  or  looking  at  Florence 
down  the  winding  Arno  from  the  bridge  which  spans  the 
river  between  the  Pitti  and  Uffizi  Palaces ;  or  gazing  from 
the  balcony  of  the  Hotel  de  Paris  at  Monte  Carlo  upon  the 
square  beneath  ;  or  from  the  terraced  rock  on  which  the  Casino 
stands,  on  the  beautiful  gardens,  the  blue  Mediterranean  be- 
yond, and  the  scum  of  humanity  from  every  quarter  of  the 
globe  pouring  into  the  gilded  doors  of  the  great  gambling  hell ; 
or  to  look  from  the  balcony  of  the  Schweizerhof  at  Lucerne 
upon  the  magnificent  esplanade  which  borders  the  cruciform 
lake  of  the  Four  Forest  Cantons;  or  one  might  tell  of  gazing 
down  from  the  balcony  of  one  of  crazy  King  Ludwig's  palaces 
in  Munich  upon  the  Frauenkirchen  or  the  Maximilaneum.  But 
I  will  refrain. 


From  a 

Bavarian 

Balcony. 


Still  I  would  like  to  tell  of  an  episode  which  happened  be- 
neath my  balcony  at  the  quaint  old  town  of 
Lindau,  on  the  Bavarian  shore  of  Lake  Con- 
stance, or  the  Boden-See,  as  they  call  it.  I 
was  seated  on  the  terrasse  of  that  com- 
fortable hostelry,  the  Bayrischer-Hof.  I  had  finished  an 
excellent  luncheon.  I  had  polished  off  a  pint  of  excellent 
Rhein  wine.  I  was  smoking  an  excellent  cigar.  I  rang  the 
bell,  and  bade  the  waiter  bring  me  a  telegraph-blank  and  pen 
and  ink,  which  he  did.  Then  I  leaned  back  and  did  not  write 
the  telegram,  but  did  nothing  at  all,  which  in  itself  was  agree- 
able. Instead  of  writing  I  gazed  out  on  the  beautiful  lake, 
the  queer  little  light-house  tower,  and  the  fussy  little  steamer 
lying  with  steam  up  at  her  pier,  where  the  passengers  were 
beginning  to  gather.  As  I  smoked  reflectively,  suddenly  foot- 
steps crunched  upon  the  gravelly  ground  in  front  of  where  I 
sat,  and  two  young  people  stopped  immediately  in  front  of 
me.  They  were  talking— they  were  talking  very  earnestly, 
indeed — they  were  talking  in  English. 

I  did  not  want  to  play  the  eavesdropper,  so  I  coughed  and 
modestly  looked  down  at  my  telegraph -blank.  They  looked 
up  at  me  without  much  attention,  and  went  on  talking.  They 
evidently  took  me  for  a  German  tourist  writing  "  reise-notes." 
Americans  abroad  often  converse  very  freely  under  the  im- 
pression that  no  one  around  them  understands  English.  They 
are  frequently  mistaken. 

These  young  people  were  evidently  at  the  fag-end  of  a 
scene— what  kind  I  could  not  tell.  Was  it  a  quarrel  ?  Was  it 
a  proposal?  Heaven— or  the  particular  demon  who  presides 
over  the  feminine  mind— alone  can  say.  But  should  I  leave 
my  comfortable  seat,  quit  my  cup  of  coffee,  because  two  young 
people  were  having  a  comedy— or,  perhaps,  a  tragedy— be* 
neath  my  balcony?  Perish  the  thought!  Let  them  go  on 
and  ruin  one  another's  lives,  if  they  wanted  to,  but  why  should 
/  be  d.sturbed?  Had  I  not  coughed?  Had  I  not  sneezed' 
I  had  complied  with  all  the  usages  of  polite  society  If  two 
young  people  wanted  to  come  and  fight  in  my  front-yard  let 
them.     So  I  sat,  and  smoked,  and  listened. 

He  was  pleading  with  her— not  abjectly,  but  manfully  She 
was  silent.     At  last  he  said  : 

"Unless  I  much  mistake  you,  if  I  remain  with  your  parti- 
after  th.s,  it  will  give  both  of  us  needless  pain.  If  you  say  the 
word,  I  shall  remain.  But  if  you  do  not,  I  shall  take  the  boat 
\  ou  are  going  around  the  lake.  I  shall  go  across  it  to  Roman- 
shorn,  and  there  take  the  train  for  Paris.  Shall  I  go  or  shall  I 
stay  ?" 

But  still  she  was  silent,  and  stood  there  making  holes  in  the 
sand  with  the  ferule  of  her  sunshade. 

"  Then  I  shall  say  good-by,"  he  said,  firmly,  and  he  walked 
away.  In  a  few  minutes  I  saw  him  on  the  pier,  followed  by 
a  servant,  bearing  his  luggage.  There  he  made  his  farewells 
to  a  party  of  people,  who  seemed  much  surprised  at  his  de- 
parture, one  matron  particularly  so,  whom  in  my  fancy  I 
picked  out  as  the  mother  of  the  young  lady  who  still  stood 
before  me  punching  holes  in  the  sand. 

I  felt  like  going  and  tapping  her  on  the  shoulder,  and 
saying  :  "  Young  woman,  you'd  better  call  him  back.  He'll 
come — now — but  not  later.     You'll  see." 


But  this  is  the  twentieth  century ;  there  are  no  good 
Samaritans  any  more — and  then,  she  might  have  turned  mc 
over  to  the  police.     So  I  did  nothing  but  smoke. 

The  little  steamer  tooted  her  whistle,  and  her  wheels  began 
to  revolve.  Upon  the  deck  were  sobbing  Bavarians,  who  were 
leaving  their  native  village  to  go  clear  across  to  Switzerland 
— some  twenty  or  thirty  miles.  Through  their  tears  they 
smiled  upon  friends  who  had  gathered  to  see  them  off,  and 
waved  large  bandana  handerchiets  in  token  of  farewell.  Upon 
the  deck  stood  also  the  young  man  who  had  been  one  of  the 
players  in  the  little  scene  before  me.  But  he  waved  no 
handkerchief — he  made  no  sign  of  farewell. 

As  the  little  steamer  cleared  the  mole  and  the  light- 
house tower,  she  rounded  a  headland,  and  speedily  disappeared 
from  view. 

And  as  she  did  so,  the  young  woman  who  had  followed 
the  steamer  with  her  eyes,  turned  to  go  back  to  the  hotel,  and 
I  saw  that  she  was  weeping  bitterly. 

If  her  eyes  had  only  been  "  suffused  with  tears,"  as  they 
say  in  novels,  it  might  have  been  merely  a  faint,  lady-like 
interest  in  a  nice  young  man  whom  she  had  refused.  But  she 
was  fairly  shaken  with  her  sobs.  Had  she  refused  him?  Or 
had  they  had  a  quarrel?     Who  can  tell? 

I  remember  feeling  a  sense  of  intense  irritation  at  this  young 
woman.  If  she  cried  so  bitterly,  she  must  have  wanted  him 
to  stay.  Why  did  she  not  tell  him  so?  Wnat  demon  of 
the  perverse  possessed  her?  I  remember  that  I  let  my  cigar 
go  out.  Thus  do  the  love-tragedies  of  foolish  young  people 
interfere  with  the  comfort  of  sensible  men. 

But  I  think  she  made  a  mistake,  and  I  think  that  she  is 
sorry — yet.  For  he  was  a  determined-looking  young  chap, 
with  kind  but  resolute  brown  eyes,  firm  lips,  and  a  square  jaw. 
He  was  not  made  of  the  skimble-skamble  stuff,  as  Shake- 
speare says,  out  of  which  foolish  young  women  make  play- 
things to  play  the  game  of  hearts. 

I  never  saw  either  of  them  again.  But  I  sometimes  think 
of  them,  and  wonder  whether  he  ever  did  go  back  to  her. 
But  I  do  not  think  so.  It  was  her  fault,  too.  She  could  have 
brought  him  back  to  her  there,  with  a  Word,  a  look,  or  a  sign. 
But  she  did  not  make  it,  and  he  did  not  come.  I  do  not  think 
he  ever  came.     I  hope  he  never  came.     It  will  do  her  good. 

But  I  often  think  of  the  young  couple  who  parted  there  as 
I  looked  down  at  them  at  Lindau — from  a  balcony. 


On  Receipt  of  the  Latest  Mail  from  Finland. 
(Done   into    English   verse    by   Montague   Donner.) 
Hark  to  that  cry  from  the  forest  far  north 

Across  the  gray  Bothnian  flood, 
O'er  which  the  hoarse  ravens  wheel  back  and  forth  : 

There's  sign  of  some  deed  of  blood  ! 
Glorious  song  in  those  woods  used  to  wake 

At  the  first  spring  zephyr's  breath  : 
Now,  shrieking  and  wailing,  long  discords  make. 

As  of  thousands  done  to  death  ! 

How  surely  the  dire  lamentation  doth  swell ! 

Far  more  than  a  thousand  call — 
More  than  mere  figures  of  millions  tell — 

Shall  a  National  Spirit  fall? 
Those  dead  in  its  honor  have  part  in  the  cry, 

Those  still  in  the  future's  womb 
All  cry,  yea,  the  dead,  the  unborn,  those  to  die: 
"  Our  Fatherland  save  from  the  Tomb  I" 

And  know  ye  the  import,  at  core,  of  this  wail  ? 

There's  murder  done  !     Yea,  of  the  calm 
And  the   light  of  the  will   that  together  prevail 

To  make  nations.     The  murderous  palm 
Stifles  hope  and — would  th'  Butcher  but  knew  it — 

The  innermost  thread  and  supernal 
Of  the  twist  skein  of  Life — they  shall  rue  it — 

God  thought  of  as  Goodness  Eternal. 

They  murder  the  high-minded  thinking  of  yore, 

That  e'en  from  days  heathen  degraded 
Has  built  up  the  land.     Now  the  structure  no  more 

Is  upright,  for  the  sloughs  have  invaded. 
They  murder  sweet  trust  in  the  heart  of  the  child, 

Who  learns  the  sad  doubts  of  the  old; 
They  teach  all  there  is  to  be  loathed  and  reviled, 

All  youth  and  all  joy  they  turn  cold! 

Alack !  that  this  wretch  would  a  people  destroy 

(Though  in  this  he  shall  never  succeed!) — 
Should  ever  have  been  a  Northwoman's  boy, 

Or  have  played  in  a  Danish  mead! 
But,   Denmark,   should  ever  the   Butcher  return, 

Forbid  him  an  entrance,  and  see 
Thou  bid  him,  as  Judge,  full  indignant  and  stern, 

Begone !  this  Northland's  for  the  free ! 

— Bjornstjerne   Bjornson. 


The  resignations  in  the  United  States  navy  show  no  abate- 
ment, and  it  is  likely  that  some  law  will  be  passed  by  Congress 
to  curtail  this  practice.  There  have  been  eleven  resignations 
since  January  1,  1903,  namely,  three  lieutenants,  one  junior 
lieutenant,  one  ensign,  two  passed  assistant  surgeons,  two  naval 
constructors,  one  assistant  constructor,  and  one  second  lieu- 
tenant of  marines.  The  resignation  of  the  eight  Naval 
Academy  graduates  is  especially  serious.  The  aggregate  cost 
of  these  officers  for  education  and  salaries  approximates  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  for  which  they  have 
rendered  but  little  service,  and  at  this  particular  time,  when 
every  one  of  the  lower  grades  is  short  of  officers,  the  resigna- 
tions are  rather  embarrassing  to  the  Navy  Department.  Thus, 
the  constructors'  corps,  which  on  January  1st  consisted  of  forty 
members,  still  remains  at  the  same  strength,  and  it  will  be  ut- 
terly impossible  to  increase  it  to  seventy-five  during  the  next 
six  years,  as  contemplated  by  the  law  of  last  March.  It  requires 
more  training  to  make  an  efficient  builder  of  vessels  than  is 
demanded  of  a  junior  deck  officer. 


Fat  people  are  less  able  to  resist  the  attacks  of  disease 
or  the  shock  of  injuries  and  operations  than  the  moderately 
thin.  In  ordinary  every-day  life  they  are  at  a  decided  disad- 
vantage (points  out  the  London  Hospital.)  Their  respiratory 
muscles  can  not  so  easily  act.  Their  heart  is  often  handi- 
capped by  the  deposit  on  it,  and  the  least  exertion  throws 
them  into  a  perspiration.  A  person  whose  limbs  and  body 
are  covered  with  adipose  tissue  is  in  the  position  of  a  man 
carying  a  heavy  burden  and  too  warmly  clothed. 


After  an  experience  of  almost  twelve  years  in  the  Arctic 
region,  Robert  E.  Peary  has  obtained  another  three  years* 
leave  of  absence  from  the  Navy  Department  to  enable  him  to 
make  one  more  attempt  to  reach  the  North  Pole. 


September  28.  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


THE    KID'S    HOME-COMING. 


How  Hangtown  Got  Its  Name. 


When  the  usual  quantity  of  bacon  and  beans  had 
been  consumed  and  the  leavings  cleaned  up  by  Yank, 
the  men  lit  their  pipes  and  proceeded  to  review  the 
details  of  the  recent  murder  at  Rattlesnake  Bar.  This 
subject  stimulated  thought  and  loosened  tongues  as 
nothing  else  could  possibly  have  done. 

"  You  can  see  the  whole  business  was  a  tenderfoot 
job."  opined  Pike,  the  cook,  sousing  his  kettle  into  the 
creek.  "  or  he'd  never  'a'  left  them  pigeon-toed 
tracks." 

And  thereupon  arose  a  spirited  discussion  as  to  what 
the  object  of  the  shooting  might  have  been — theft  or 
revenge.  Each  man  urged  his  own  argument,  until 
the  discussion  waxed  hot,  handled  in  the  hard,  brutal- 
ized manner  that  comes  from  the  mind  inured  to  such 
occurrences  in  a  community  where  might  makes  right 
and  the  crack  of  a  revolver  is  undisputed  law. 

With  a  deeper  disgust  than  ever  for  everything 
about  this  camp  life,  the  Kid  pushed  back  from  the 
circle,  and  slipped  away.  Into  the  ravine  he  struck, 
then  straight  up  the  mountain  where  tier  upon  tier 
the  tall  pines  girded  the  hillside  till  the  sharp,  black 
outlines  of  the  topmost  row  stabbed  the  burning 
sky. 

Tamison  was  called  the  "  Kid "  by  his  companions 
only  from  custom.  His  weather-beaten,  haggard  coun- 
tenance bore  no  suggestion  now  of  immature  youth. 
Yet  this  same  gaunt,  hairy  fellow  was  the  fair-skinned, 
ruddy  young  tenderfoot  who  had  cast  his  lot  with 
them  a  few  years  before,  and  been  ever  since  the  butt 
of  every  practical  joke  and  low.  cunning  trick  their 
idleness  might  devise.  For  the  Kid  could  not  cook 
"  sock-eye."  or  wield  a  crow-bar.  or  drive  a  pack-train, 
or  carouse,  or  even  swear,  worth  speaking  of:  and  the 
things  he  could  do,  and  do  well,  were  not  the  accom- 
plishments needed  in  prospecting  and  panning. 

Still  pulling  himself  up  by  the  stubby  chaparral,  the 
Kid  climbed,  leaving  the  camp  and  its  associations  as 
far  behind  as  possible.  At  last  the  world  was  lost 
below  him.  the  distant  cry  of  a  mountain  lion  and  the 
thick  flat  track  where  a  rattler  had  slid  through  th; 
red  dust  were  the  only  reminders  of  a  fellow-inhabi- 
tant. When  safe  from  the  intrusion  of  bacon  and 
tobacco  fumes,  and  the  suggestions  of  camp  life  that 
came  with  them,  he  drew  from  the  bosom  of  his  flannel 
shirt  a  bulky  little  packet,  and  the  next  blissful  moment 
was  thousands  of  miles  from  the  sordid  life  about  him. 
He  closed  his  eyes  to  see  a  stately  colonnade  of  tall 
white  hollyhocks  leading  up  to  a  vine-clad  porch,  the 
air  grew  heavy  with  the  breath  of  honeysuckles,  and 
on  the  steps,  under  the  clustering  yellow  roses 

A  sharp,  fierce  yap  from  Yank  smote  his  ear  and 
broke  the  spell.  With  a  bound  he  was  on  his  feet  and 
off  again,  in  search  of  a  still  rarer  atmosphere,  for  he 
was   reading  in   a  precise  little   schoolma'am  hand: 

I  have  read  your  letter  over  and  over  till  I  know  it  all  by 
heart,  and  all  day  long  I  tell  myself  you  will  be  home  next 
month,  and  all  night  long  I  dream  of  our  meeting,  but  even 
then  it  seems  too  good  to  be  true. 

And  so  on  to  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  page,  con- 
fessing the  pain  of  the  long  weary  waiting  she  had 
never  spoken  of  until  the  end  was  in  sight. 

A  great  wave  of  pity  rose  in  his  heart  for  the  fel- 
lows down  at  the  camp.  There  had  never  been  any 
sympathy  between  them,  for  he  had  felt  their  inimical 
attitude,  and  had  let  them  alone  as  much  as  he  could. 
But  his  luck  had  greatened  his  heart,  and  the  poor 
devils  at  the  camp  seemed  for  the  first  time  a  good- 
natured,  hard-working  lot.  Many  of  them,  he  knew, 
had  left  their  homes  with  the  same  hopes  and  promise; 
that  had  hallowed  his  life,  and  been  less  fortunate  than 
he.  He  had  seen  men,  whose  every  hope  was  staked 
on  some  claim,  working  early  and  late  in  a  frenzied 
determination  to  wrench  a  fortune  out  of  the  earth, 
grow  bent  and  old  in  disappointment  and  despair.  He 
had  seen  men  who  were  "  making  it."  and  whose  pros- 
pect of  going  home  with  a  goodly  pile  was  growing 
surer  even,'  day.  through  the  might  of  John  Barleycorn 
lose  fortune,  hope,  manhood.  He  had  seen  men, 
single-minded  as  himself  in  making  a  stake  and  return- 
ing to  make  a  home  for  some  waiting  one,  die  of  ex- 
posure and  overwork  in  their  zeal  to  accomplish  their 
end.  While  he,  although  his  stake  was  too  modest  to 
be  called  a  strike,  was  now  able  to  go  home  and  claim 
his  reward. 

Again  the  breath  of  honeysuckles  seemed  to  blow- 
strong  upon  him  as  he  read,  at  the  end  of  the  twenty- 
seventh  page: 

And  I  shall  meet  you  where  we  parted,  at  tbe  turn  of  "the 
lane,  where  you  shall  give  your  whistle  as  you  did  when  we 
were  children,  and  I  will  answer  back.  We  will  go  home 
together,  you  and  I.  under  the  willows  along  the  stream,  and 
if  it  should  be  twilight  when  you  come,  it  will  not  matter 
if  for  once  we  loiter  a  little  on  the  way. 

The  yap  of  Yank  was  now  too  far  below  to  reach 
him.  but  Yank  was  doing  his  best  to  make  himself 
heard,  and  the  smoking  and  talking  in  the  camp  had 
taken  on  a  new  energy.  An  excited  posse  had  riden 
over  from  Rattlesnake  Bar  and  stopped  in  front  of 
the  Round  Tent  saloon. 

"  The  tracks  were  the  freshest  along  the  creek."  the 
spokesman  of  the  posse  was  saying  as  he  dismounted, 
"and  if  he  didn't  come  through  this  camp  he'd  'a'  had 
to  go  all  the  way  'round  by  Jimtown."  eying  the  group 
of  idlers  as  if  they  might  all  have  a  charge  of  which 
to  clear  themselves. 

"  And  it  was  a  tumble  bungling  job.  anyways." 
chipped  in  Pike,  thereby  exonerating  himself  from  sus- 


picion, for  he  had  a  reputation  for  adeptness  in  that 
line. 

"  Unless  he  done  it  that  way  a  purpose  to  throw  'em 
off,"  suggested  a  bystander  with  more  meaning  in  his 
tone  than  was  wholesome  for  Pike. 

The  spokesman  of  the  posse  noticed  this  insinuation, 
and  Pike,  under  his  beard,  went  white  about  the  gills. 

"  If  it's  a  tenderfoot  you're  lookin'  for  this  camp 
aint  a  likely  place  to  find  one,"  Pike  said,  pridefully. 
"  We've  only  got  the  Kid,  but  I  wouldn't  say  a  word 
agin  him." 

"  We  tracked  the  man  a  good  way  from  the  cabin," 
the  speaker  continued:  "we  know  the  size  of  his  boot 
and  that  he  toes  in,"  keeping  an  eye  on  Pike.  "  and  it's 
a  pretty  safe  guess  he  came  from  this  direction." 

Pike's  mention  of  the  Kid  had  seemed  so  preposter- 
ous no  one  had  taken  it  up,  but  when  toeing  in  had  been 
suggested,  several  of  the  miners  exchanged  glances, 
for  the  Kid's  pigeon-toed  gait  had  been  one  of  their 
oldest  gibes. 

"  Where's  this  here  kid?"  demanded  one  of  the  Rat- 
tlesnake men. 

"  He  lit  out  when  he  heard  you  comin'  and  struck 
into  the  woods."  Pike  hastened  to  say.  And  nobody 
remembered  he  had  gone  half  an  hour  before  the 
posse  arrived. 

"  Oh.  now  don't  you  go  to  savin'  the  Kid  would  do 
a  thing  like  that,"  Pike  continued,  generously.  "You 
see  he  has  just  struck  a  little  pocket,  leastways,  he  says 
he's  struck  a  pocket,"  with  a  grin,  "  and  he's  hustlin' 
lickety-split  to  get  the  next  steamer.  Lord,  I  wouldn't 
never  suspect  the  Kid  of  such  a  thing,"  added  Pike, 
nice,  kind  Mr.  Pike,  driving  the  first  nail  securely  into 
the  Kid's  coffin. 

"  Who  is  this  fellow,"  the  Rattlesnake  men  then 
asked.  And  the  information  was  pieced  together  that 
nobody  knew  much  about  him :  that  he  kept  a  good  deal 
to  himself,  and  had  been  seen  to  strike  out  into  the 
woods  on  the  day  of  the  murder:  that  he  worked  his 
own  claim,  and  didn't  have  a  "  pardner  " ;  that  lately 
he  had  seemed  to  have  more  money  than  usual :  that 
he  had  told  several  of  the  boys  he  was  about  to  pull 
up  stakes.  Yes,  on  the  whole,  now  you  come  to  look  at 
it  that  way,  a  rather  suspicious  character ! 

And  Tamison,  the  while,  saw  nothing  but  the  tall 
white  hollyhocks,  the  moonlight  filtering  through  the 
rose-thatch  on  the  soft  hair  of  the  girl  whose  clear 
deep  eyes  answered  his  steadily,  thought  for  thought. 
A  merciful  purple  mist  arose  in  the  ravine  below, 
wrapping  the  colony  of  tents  in  a  temporary  oblivion, 
and  shutting  him  in  with  his  lost  paradise.  A  baby 
grosbeak  fluted  a  drowsy  call  above  his  head,  and  from 
under  the  log  on  which  he  sat  a  sly  little  woodrat 
sallied  forth  for  a  nocturnal  raid.  The  crimson  glow 
in  the  west  was  spent,  and  a  stealthy  twilight  gleamed 
over  the  tree-tops.  Tamison  strained  his  eyes  to  read 
the  last  few  lines  on  the  thirtieth  page: 

This  is  the  last  letter  I  will  have  to  write  you.  and  the 
gladness  of  our  meeting  makes  these  long  years  of  waiting 
almost  worth  while,  for  every  thought  has  been  with  you. 
every-  hope  has  been  for  you.  and  every  day  has  seemed  an 
eternity  until  I  shall  see  you.  But  now  that  the  suspense 
is  almost  over.  I  can  be  patient,  and  our  meeting,  when  it 
does   come,   will  be  the  sweeter  for  its  long  postponement. 

Yever  before  had  she  made  such  a  full  confession  to 
him.  Her  staid  New  England  tongue  had  never  known 
how  to  frame  impassioned  words.  He  closed  his  eyes 
to  shut  away  the  intrusive  objects  about  him.  and  tried 
to  close  his  ears  to  the  intrusive  sounds  of  hoofs  on 
the  trail  below.  Knowing  he  was  safely  out  of  sight, 
he  waited  impatiently,  but,  as  he  listened,  instead  of 
dying  away  the  sounds  came  nearer,  straight  up  the 
hillside,  for  those  were  the  days  when  El  Dorado 
County  was  young  and  trails  were  scarce,  and  any  pony 
that  couldn't  cling  like  a  fly  to  a  rocky  embankment 
and  jump  over  fallen  trees  was  not  worth  a  load  of 
buckshot. 

Jealous  of  his  solitude  and  impatient  of  this  inter- 
ruption, the  Kid  rose  again  and  started  for  the  other 
side  of  the  mountain,  but  the  pine  needles  made  such 
a  thick  carpet  he  had  miscalculated  the  distance  of  the 
horsemen.  Before  he  had  taken  a  dozen  steps  a  volley 
of  shots  struck  the  trees  around  him,  and  "Hold!" 
the  ringleader  of  the  posse  shouted.  This  intrusion 
seemed  almost  a  desecration  to  the  presence  of  his 
precious  letter,  and  before  turning  to  face  the  crowd  he 
thrust  it  hastily  into  his  shirt. 

"  Throw  up  your  arms  !"  the  voice  again  commanded. 
Then  "  Walk  ten  paces  !" 

The  original  Rattlesnake  posse,  augmented  by  as 
many  more  excitement-seekers  from  the  camp  in  the 
ravine,  lined  up  in  a  double  column,  leaving  a  space  for 
the  Kid  to  walk  between  them. 

"  Gentlemen,"  the  spokesman  announced,  solemnly, 
"  you  kin  all  see  he  is  pigeon-toed." 

Jamison,  looking  at  the  familiar  faces  in  the  crowd 
wondered  if  this  were  some  clumsy  joke,  and  admitted 
cheerfully  enough  the  incontestable  fact  that  he  did 
toe  in. 

"  Now  don't  make  up  your  minds  too  quick  about 
this,  boys."  Pike  spoke  up:  "I  reckon  them  papers  he 
hid  in  his  shirt  when  we  come  up  will  prove  his  inno- 
cence." Pike's  ferret-like  eyes  had  been  the  only  ones 
to  detect  that  move. 

His  precious  letter  in  the  hands  of  this  gang  of 
ruffians  !  Xever !  "  No.  boys,"  the  Kid  said,  posi- 
tively. "  whatever  you  may  want  with  me  can  have 
nothing  to  do  with  these  papers." 

This  stand  on  the  Kid's  part  seemed  to  make  the  chain 
of  circumstantial  evidence  complete  in  the  minds  of  his 
pursuers. 

"  If  them  papers  ye  sneaked  out  0'  sight  when  we 


caught  ye  is  straight,  I  guess  ye  won't  mind  handin'  'em 
over."  Pike  taunted. 

"  I  tell  you,  you  are  not  going  to  see  these  papers," 
the  Kid  repeated,  fiercely. 

"  We  won't,  hey?"  said  Pike,  and  before  Jamison  had 
a  chance  to  duck,  Pike's  brawny  right  had  landed  him  a 
soothing  blow, 

"  Here  now,  boys,  be  peaceable,"  interposed  the  ring- 
leader from  Rattlesnake.  "  all  we  want  is  to  see  justice 
prevail  in  these  parts,  and  we  want  to  be  peaceable 
about  it." 

It  was  growing  late:  the  pursuing  party  had  had  a 
long  ride,  and  they  were  in  a  hurry.  Lawlessness  had 
been  running  riot  long  enough,  thev  were  all  agreed, 
and  summary  justice  wreaked  on  the  head  of  the  first 
available  miscreant  would  be  a  wholesome  example 
for  a  long  time  to  come. 

"  Wall.  now.  whoever  would  'a'  thought  that  of  the 
Kid?"  exclaimed  Pike,  in  well-feigned  surprise,  draw- 
ing an  incriminating  bank-note  from  somewhere,  and 
displaying  it  to  the  crowd.  And  the  boys  from  the 
camp,  who  had  known  him  best,  looked  sorrowfully 
at  this  proof  of  the  Kid's  guilt. 

Jamison  rode  back  to  camp  at  the  head  of  the  party, 
while  the  ringleaders  dropped  back,  and  weighed  his 
case.  From  the  testimony  gotten  from  the  men  around 
the  Round  Tent  he  was  recognized  as  a  suspicious 
character.  "  Yes,  a  tumble  dangerous  feller."  Pikt 
ventured,  seeing  the  scales  turning  against  him.  He 
had  certainly  been  caught  running  away :  the  papers 
hidden  in  his  shirt  were,  of  course,  one  of  the  missing 
rolls  of  bank-notes  known  to  have  been  in  the  mur- 
dered man's  cabin:  he  was  pigeon-toed,  as  were  also 
the  tracks  leading  from  the  cabin. 

There  was  no  guard-house  at  the  camp  nor  secure 
tent  even,  so  as.  a  matter  of  expediency  the  men  lined 
up  into  a  hollow  square.  A  gnarled  old  oak  stretched 
its  gaunt  arms  across  the  creek  that  babbled  down  the 
hillside,  and  under  this  the  party  stopped.  The  grin- 
ning moon  hung  low  over  the  ghastly  scene,  and  a  few 
faint  stars  peeped  out  and  shivered  with  the  horror  of 
it  all. 

Time  was  pressing.  The  Rattlesnakers  had  a  night's 
ride  ahead  of  them,  so  no  time  was  lost  on  pre- 
liminaries. 

******* 

When  the  rigid  body  of  the  Kid  was  cut  down  next 
night.  Pike,  honest,  justice-loving  Mr.  Pike,  still  fear- 
ful lest  the  murder  might  be  traced  up  to  him.  man- 
aged to  secure  the  dead  man's  much-treasured  papers 
which  still  were  concealed  in  his  shirt.  Later,  when 
he  stealthily  consigned  the  letter  to  the  camp-fire,  he 
glanced  hurriedly  at  the  thirtieth  page,  still  bearing 
the  imprint  of  Jamison's  hand,  and  chuckled  as  he 
read:  "Our  meeting,  when  it  does  come,  will  be  all 
the  sweeter  for  its  long  postponement." 

Marguerite  Stabler. 

San  Francisco,  September.  1903. 


New  York's  Famous  Flatiron  Building. 

A  great  deal  of  fiction  has  been  printed  about  the 
fifteen-story  building  in  New  York  known  as  the  Flat- 
iron  Building.  A  fortnight  ago.  when  the  metropolis 
was  swept  by  a  furious  gale,  an  evening  paper  declared 
that  the  storm  had  broken  even,'  window  in  the  build- 
ing, and  the  tenants  were  moving  out.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  the  building  weathered  the  storm  in  great  shape, 
the  actual  damage  done  being  the  breaking  of  two  plate- 
glass  windows,  eight  ordinary  window  panes,  and  four 
fanlights — less  harm  than  that  suffered  by  many  other 
skyscrapers.  "But."  says  the  Mew  York  Sun.  "while 
there  was  so  little  doing  in  the  Flatiron  Building  dur- 
ing the  storm,  there  was  all  sorts  of  trouble  outside  the 
building.  The  policemen  at  the  crossing  say  the  wind 
never  blew  so  hard  before.  Not  only  were  men.  women. 
and  children  lifted  from  their  feet,  but  wagons  were 
overturned  and  horses  thrown.  A  crowd  stood  about 
in  the  three  sheltering  corners  and  watched  things  hap- 
pen. Only  a  few  pedestrians  had  the  nerve  to  walk  on 
the  Fifth  Avenue  and  Broadway  sides  of  the  Flatiron. 
Those  who  did  kept  their  eyes  skyward,  as  if  they  mo- 
mentarily expected  the  building  to  topple.  The  Twenty- 
Third  Street  crossing,  however,  was  braved  by  many, 
to  their  sorrow.  Women  and  children  were  tossed 
about  like  ninepins,  and  many  a  man  was  bowled  over, 
too." 

James  Huneker.  the  dramatic  critic,  says  that  not 
long  ago  he  met  George  Moore,  the  author,  in  London, 
walking  along  the  street.  He  describes  him  as  "  a  tall 
slender  man.  with  sloping  shoulders  and  narrow  chest, 
and  with  a  long  neck,  well  covered  by  a  high  col- 
lar: the  arms  long,  the  feet  listless  and  slow.  His  eyes 
are  pale  blue,  and  darken  when  he  becomes  animated — 
which  is  not  often.  The  coloring  of  hair  and  com- 
plexion is  a  kind  of  lemon-yellow,  while  about  the  tem- 
ples are  modulations  into  gray.  At  first  glance  he  gives 
the  impression  of  youth,  so  blonde  is  he:  at  a  second 
you  see  a  man  of  forty-four,  slightly  disillusioned,  very 
gentle,  and  verv  incurious.  That  is.  until  one  says 
'Boer'  or  'Irish.'  and  then  his  languor  vanishes  and 
he  becomes  a  dealer  in  affirmations." 


Another  world's  record  went  by  the  board,  the  other 
afternoon,  at  the  Glenville  track  at  Cleveland.  O..  when 
Lou  Dillon,  driven  by  Millard  Sanders,  broke  the  trot- 
ting record  to  high  sulky  of  2:o8vJ.  established  bv  Maud 
S.  in  1885.  by  negotiating  the  distance  in  2:05.  The 
fractional  time  was  3254,  1  :o+  1 :35,  2:05. 


3F 


THE       ARGONAUT 


September  28,  1903. 


WILLIAM    ERNEST    HENLEY. 


The  Man,  the  Poet,  and  the  Critic. 


Much  of  the  vast  amount  of  comment  which  has  ap- 
peared in  the  English  press  since  the  death  of  William 
Ernest  Henley  seems  to  have  been  written  by  personal 
friends  and  admirers,  whose  reminiscences  and  appre- 
ciations, even  though  a  bit  fulsome  in  their  praise,  carry 
far  more  weight  and  authority  than  the  critical  articles 
printed  in  our  papers  and  magazines,  and  based  solely 
on  Henley's  output.  For.  as  Arthur  Morrison  remarks,  in 
T.  P.  O'Connor's  Weekly:  "Nobody  knew  Henley,  no- 
body could  know  him,  who  had  not  talked  with  him  face 
to  face.  I  should  go  further,  indeed,  for  I  believe  that 
only  they  truly  knew  him — and  to  know  him  more  was 
to  love  him  more — who  had  worked  and  fought  by  his 
side  onward  from  the  gallant  old  days  of  the  National 
Observer;  who  had  seen  him  in  the  joys  and  sorrows 
of  his  own  life — sorrows  enough  were  his,  God  knows — 
and  had  lived  under  that  amazing  personal  influence 
that  surprised  and  commonly  puzzled  the  observer  from 
without.  The  like  of  that  influence  I  never  saw  else- 
where, and  never  expect  to  see  again.  It  moved  not 
only  his  nearer  friends,  not  a  man  of  whom  but  would 
give  his  last  breath  in  Henley's  service  and  memory  to- 
day, but  ever}'  honest  man  who  came  near  it." 

The  London  Spectator  comments  on  the  remarkable 
courage  with  which  Henley  bore  a  painful  malady,  and 
adds :  "  Not  only  did  it  never  break  his  spirit,  but  it  did 
not  even  dim  his  poetic  vision."  In  illustration,  it  cites 
his  last  poem.  "  A  Song  of  Speed,"  as  expressing  "  a 
rapture  and  vitality  which  made  it  seem  more  like  the 
work  of  a  youth  than  of  a  middle-aged  invalid — so  com- 
plete is  the  triumph  of  the  true  poetic  inspiration  over 
personality  and  circumstance." 

H.  B.  Marriott  Watson,  a  disciple  of  Henley,  com- 
pares him  in  the  Athentsum  to  Samuel  Johnson,  and 
says: 

Both  must,  in  all  likelihood,  owe  their  reputation  rather  to 
personality  than  actual  performance.  Henley  was  built  on  a 
scale  designed  for  exercise  and  a  vigorous  life.  Unkindly  fate 
chained  him  to  his  desk  and  his  crutch.  His  broad  face 
shining  like  John  Silver's,  bearded  like  the  pard.  he  was  a 
modern  representative  of  the  Viking — in  design.  Nature  un- 
happily marred  what  she  should  have  made  to  the  design.  His 
nature  was  simply  composite.  He  breathed  fire  with  all  the 
fury  of  his  baresark  ancestors  one  moment,  and  he  was  capable 
of  weeping  like  a  child  at  the  next.  This  feminine  or  emo- 
tional trait  entered  into  that  strange  and  virile  nature. 

A  writer  in  the  Academy  and  Literature  adds: 
Wherever  he  lived  he  was  always  at  home,  for  as  all  the 
world  knows  he  was  crippled,  dependent  upon  crutches,  and 
even  in  his  own  room  always  trying  to  get  ease  by  change 
of  position.  To  that  room,  from  time  to  time,  came  everybody, 
and  the  talk  was  unforgetable.  His  rolling  figure  filled  the 
eye.  the  great  red  man  as  he  was  before  his  hair  and  beard 
whitened,  with  the  large,  sensitive,  kindly  face,  puckering  into 
amusement,  or  expanding  with  a  great,  shaking  laugh.  So 
Dumas  must  have  laughed.  He  was  no  toyer  with  Dead  Sea 
fruit,  no  pretender  that  what  he  did  was  unimportant.  He 
loved  praise,  and  it  did  one  good  to  share  his  pride  in  his 
poems,  and  Jiear  him  purr  when  some  young  admirer  sat  at  his 
feet  and  placed  the  great  ones,  living  and  dead,  in  their  places. 
It  did  one  good  to  be  in  his  company,  for  he  truly  dwelt  in  a 
hill-city  where  winds  blow  and  men  go  forth  to  battle  shout- 
ing. He  really  meant  the  following  passage  in  the  preface 
to  his  "  Lyra  Heroica  "  :  "  To  set  forth,  as  only  art  can,  the 
beauty  and  the  joy  of  living,  the  beauty  and  the  blessedness  of 
death,  the  glory'  of  battle  and  adventure,  the  nobility  of  de- 
votion— to  a  cause,  an  ideal,  a  passion  even — the  dignity  of 
resistance,  the  sacred  quality  of  patriotism,  that  is  my  ambition 
here."  He  inspired  many  books,  and  in  the  right  way,  for  his 
cry  was  always — "  Take  yourself  seriously :  Do  your  best : 
Overcome!"  And  no  man  of  our  time  had  so  many  books 
dedicated  to  him.  But  to  the  larger  world,  as  we  have  said, 
it  is  as  a  poet  that  he  is  best  known ;  it  was  when  he  was  an  in- 
mate of  the  Edinburgh  Infirmary,  thirty  years  ago,  attracted 
there  by  the  fame  of  Lister,  that  his  muse  first  became 
articulate,  and  there  it  was.  this  week,  that  th 
met  to  record  their  deep  regret  at  his  death. 

If  he  was  hard  and  exacting  as  an  editor,  says  Vernon 
Blackburn,  in  the  Fortnightly  Review,  he  included  him- 
self in  his  severity: 

The  greatness  of  William  Ernest  Henley  will  be  realized 
later  in  the  recognition  of  the  fact  that  he  was  the  most 
magnificent  artist  in  preparation  that  modern  times  in  England 
have  seen.  His  personal  output,  as  so  many  have  been  at  pains 
to  remind  us.  was  somewhat  small:  but  the  influence  that 
brought  him  as  an  enormous  power  for  good  to  many  a  more 
verbose,  many  a  more  continuously  inspired,  artist  than  he 
himself  could  ever  have  been,  was  unexampled  in  these  latter 
days.  He  was.  for  a  few  years,  the  doorkeeper  to  fame  in  the 
literature  of  England.  Henley,  standing  at  the  postern,  went 
so  far  as  to  reject  at  times  even  Henley  the  man  of  letters 
Mis  sense  of  perfection,  so  far  as  his  own  work  was  concerned 
was  guarded  by  a  perpetual  scruple.  His  self-denial  in  lit- 
erature touched  the  line  of  asceticism:  his  renunciation,  his 
withdrawal,  became  almost  extravagant.  There  is  no  poet 
as  great  as  he,  who  so  limited  his  lines  as  did  Henley,  and  of 
set  purpose. 

Francis  Thompson,  writing  critically  of  Henlev's 
style,  says: 

It  is  a  style  artificial,  after  its  kind,  as  that  Goliath  of  the 
Philistines.   Macauley:  yet  so  pulsating  with  impulsive  energy 
,      wa"'  of.  n«ure  *  the  I**  thing  you  think  of.     A  world  of 
cultured  study  has  gone  to  the  forging  of  the  weapon  :  bickering 
;"r-hPofr'T  TtlS,S-  S'ittering  with   the  elaborate  re 

sear.h  of  phrase  which  betokens  his  poetic  discipline,  poised 
shapen  in  its  sentences  with  the  artful  and  artistic  hand  of  a 
consummate  master:  yet  the  fire,  the  off-hand  virility  of  he 
man  enable  him  to  wield  it  with  all  the  ease  and  nature 
imaginable.  It  glances  with  the  swift  and  restless  briUiance 
of  a  leaping  salmon  in  sunlight.  Mr.  Henley's  style  has  al- 
most every  quality,  in  fact,  except  repose  and  the  powers 
dependent  0n  repose-dipity,  for  instance,  or  simplicity"  just 
as  his  criticism  misses  the  crowning  excellence  of  sympathetic 
completion  and  the  balance  which  comes  of  calm  judgment 
But   h  .A   he   these   qualities   we  should  not   have   our   Henley  ■ 

dnle3,s%Sr  of  Ch°'mPaU>!e  ""Th  '5?  arrowy  scintillation  and 
ss  elan   of  his  writing.      In   his   most   characteristic   and 


managers 


high-  ,-rought  passages 
fly  1 


tithesis,  epigram,  audacious  paradox 

'     M      w  th,e  ra,C'n;   ?ve  of  the  """nee.    With  all  this, 
Mr.   Henley  learned  many  of  his   arts   from   France, 


he  is  ever  male,  sinewy,  and  English  in  essential  quality,  bear- 
ing his  British  heritage  in  the  bones  of  his  style. 

Sidney  Low,  in  the  Cornhill,  points  out  one  weak  side 
of  Henley's  character : 

I  believe  he  had  come  to  regard  himself  as  the  "  inventor  " 
of  various  distinguished  men  of  letters  of  this  era.  who  would 
assuredly  have  attained  success  if  there  had  been  no  Henley 
to  encourage  them,  and  no  National  Observer.  He  vastly 
overestimated,  and  so  I  note  have  many  other  people  since  his 
death,  his  share  in  the  making  of  Stevenson's  literary  fame. 
It  is  absurd  to  say  that  "  R.  L.  S."  owed  anything  substantial 
to  such  advertisement  and  opportunities  as  it  was  in  Henley's 
power  to  give  him.  The  great  reading  public  of  England  and 
America,  who  were  first  attracted  by  "  Treasure  Island."  and 
then  found  themselves  captivated  by  one  masterpiece  after 
another,  till  the  splendid  series  ended  with  the  broken  column 
of  "  Weir  of  Hermiston  " — these  people,  for  the  most  part, 
had  never  heard  of  Henley,  and  of  the  journals  and  articles  he 
produced  for  the  benefit  of  a  minute  literary  coterie  in  Lon- 
don. No  National  Observer,  no  journalistic  fly-posting,  was 
needed  to  spread  the  fame  of  the  man  who  could  write  "  Dr. 
Jekyll  "  and  "  Kidnapped."  But  I  do  not  think  Henley  ever 
quite  understood  this.  In  his  later  days  especially,  worn  and 
old.  and  drifted  into  a  backwater,  he  was  apt  to  magnify  the 
importance  of  his  editorial  career. 

Sidney  Colvin  also  writes  to  the  London  Times  to  cor- 
rect what  he  conceives  to  be  a  widespread  error  as  to 
the  credit  due  Henley  in  "  launching "  Stevenson  in 
literature.  When  Stevenson  wrote  "  The  New  Arabian 
Nights  "  for  Henley's  London  in  1878,  he  had  already 
been  contributing  essays  and  tales.  "  some  of  them  now 
classical,"  for  four  years  to  various  magazines,  includ- 
ing the  Cornhill.  And  when  the  Scots  Observer  was 
started,  ten  or  eleven  years  later,  Stevenson's  fame  had 
already  been  well  established  by  "  Treasure  Island," 
"  Kidnapped."  "  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde,"  "  Memories 
and  Portraits,"  and  "  A  Child's  Garden  of  Verses." 
Indeed,  Stevenson's  contributions  from  the  Pacific  to 
Mr.  Henley's  paper  were  rather  for  the  purpose  of  help- 
ing the  undertaking  of  his  "  former  friend  " — so  Mr. 
Colvin  styles  him — than  of  being  helped  by  him. 

In  the  London  Daily  News,  C.  F.  G.  Masterman  ex- 
plains Henley's  famous  attack  on  Stevenson  by  saying 
that  the  writer  of  it  was,  and  remained,  a  child: 

More  even  than  most  men  of  genius  the  child  survived 
in  Henley.  As  a  child  he  was  wayward,  capricious,  vain  :  never 
reconciled  with  the  limitations  of  life  :  difficult  to  satisfy.  He 
had  all  the  child's  passionate  loves  and  hatreds,  the  sudden 
transitions  of  temper,  an  almost  fierce  affection,  with  the  occa- 
sional inexplicable  impulses  to  injure  those  he  loved.  The  fa- 
mous attack  on  Stevenson,  which  caused  the  scandal  of  a  day. 
was  but  an  example.  It  was  one  of  the  great  friendships  of 
history,  with  depth  and  intimacy  not  yet  fully  revealed. 

Professor  Peck  considers  Henley's  services  to  man- 
kind in  "  revealing  "'  the  "  true  Stevenson  "  to  be  as 
notable  as  any  achievement  in  his  career.  "  Posterity," 
he  says,  "  will  be  grateful  to  Mr.  Henley  for  the  un- 
flinching courage  with  which  he  exposed  the  egotism, 
the  selfishness,  and  the  miserly  meanness  of  a  character 
which  was  typically  Scotch  in  its  blend  of  senti- 
mentality and  slyness." 


In  several  places  in  this  country,  especially  in  the 
West,  experiments  are  being  made  with  the  hope  of 
curing  tuberculosis  by  concentrating  the  sun's  rays 
upon  the  chests  of  the  sufferers.  The  reflector  is  gen- 
erally a  concave  miror.  about  three  feet  in  diameter, 
sometimes  overlaid  with  blue  glass.  All  the  light  re- 
flected from  it  is  concentrated  upon  an  area  six  inches 
in  diameter.  Thus  an  intense  blue  light  is  obtained, 
which,  it  is  asserted,  is  sufficiently  strong  to  pass  en- 
tirely through  the  body,  and  even  to  reproduce  a  picture 
placed  upon  the  back.  The  patient's  chest  is  bared,  and 
he  is  seated  in  front  of  the  reflector.  The  intense 
light  is  thrown  upon  his  chest  for  two  hours  or  more 
each  day.  It  is  asserted  that  the  light  penetrates  the 
lungs  and  destroys  the  bacilli. 


There  have  been  eighty  convictions  of  German  ser- 
geants for  abuse  of  privates  duringthe  past  three  months, 
and  about  two  hundred  courts-martial  are  pending.  The 
administration  of  the  army  is  making  the  most  de- 
termined efforts  to  stop  these  brutalities,  which  Herr 
Bebel.  the  Socialist  leader,  detailed  in  a  ferocious  three- 
hours'  speech  in  the  Reichstag  last  spring.  The  weak 
reply  of  General  von  Gossler  on  the  following  day  prob- 
ably cost  him  his  place  as  minister  of  war.  'it  has  long 
been  the  theory  of  German  military  men  that  a  little 
rough  treatment  was  good  for  privates,  and  cultivated 
manhood  in  them. 


A  crocodile  was  recently  killed  on  the  banks  of  the 
Teluga  River,  in  Cutch,  and  the  following  inventory 
was  made  of  the  contents  of  the  brute's  stomach  ■  A 
half-digested  little  calf,  a  human  skull,  a  silver  bangle 
some  brass  ornaments,  a  little  tin  box  containing  to- 
bacco, a  lime  case,  a  nutcracker,  a  railway  ticket,  a  horn 
case  containing  twelve  annas,  six-pice  'in  copper  and 
a  soda-water  bottle  containing  some  mustard  oil 


A  writer  in  Public  Opinion,  inspired  by  the  recent 
discussion  of  the  size  of  families,  in  which  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  has  borne  no  inconspicuous 
part,  calls  attention  to  the  low  birth  rate  in  novels 
and  plays,  which,  he  says,  will,  when  taken  in  con- 
nection with  the  high  death  rate,  "inevitably  lead  to 
the  rapid  extermination  of  the  hero  and  heroine  " 


ANOTHER  LUCKY  ENGLISH  DUKE. 


Of  the  250  persons  in  Prussia  who  were  bitten  last 
year  by  dogs   cats,  horses,  and  other  animals  suspected 

nttWP^{,a'  22?  ,Were  vaccinated  by  the  Pasteur 
method.  Of  these,  only  i.34  per  cent.  died,  while  in  the 
non-vaccmated  cases  the  mortality  was  13.04  per  cent 


May  Goelet,  the  Latest  American  Heiress  to  Exchange  Her  Fortune 

for  a  Coronet— Her  Fiance,  the  Duke  of  Roxburghe  -  His 

Attempt  to  Win  Pauline  Astor. 

The  announcement  of  the  engagement  of  Miss  May 

Goelet  to  the  Duke  of  Roxburghe — pronounced  Rox- 
burrah — recalls  the  fact  that  not  so  long  ago,  the  duke 
was  accredited  with  aspirations  for  the  hand  of  Miss 
Pauline  Astor.  Indeed,  it  was  looked  upon  as  a  sure 
thing.  What  put  an  end  to  the  negotiations  nobody  ex- 
actly knows.  For  my  own  part,  I  believe  that  Mr.  Astor 
simply  preferred  a  husband  for  his  daughter  who  was 
above  bartering  his  coronet  for  a  wife  with  a  fortune. 
Whatever  people  may  say  of  Mr.  Astor  as  an  anglo- 
maniac.  he  is  a  man  of  the  most  stalwart  independence 
of  character.  He  may  like  the  society  of  people  of  title 
because  he  finds  them  refined  and  well-bred.  He  is  a 
refined  and  well-bred  man  himself,  and  this  is  natural. 
But  he  has  the  courage  of  his  opinions,  and  does  not 
hesitate  to  express  and  act  upon  them  without  fear  or 
favor.  The  comparatively  recent  Berkeley-Milne  in- 
cident,  for  example,  proved  that. 

At  any  rate,  Roxburghe's  title  didn't  win  him  Astor's 
daughter.  He  thought  he  had  only  to  throw  the 
handkerchief.  It  was  rather  a  sell  for  him  when 
it  wasn't  picked  up.  And  the  disappointment  must 
have  been  bitter,  for  Miss  Astor's  fortune  would  have 
been  quadruple  that  which  he  is  getting  now.  After 
this,  he  was  free  to  seek  pastures  new.  The  retirement 
of  the  Duke  of  Manchester  from  the  field  left  him  a 
walk-over  for  the  Goelet  millions.  Besides,  he  was  now 
the  only  duke  left.  Practically,  he  had  nothing  to  do 
but  take  up  the  running,  and  in  due  time  declare  him- 
self. Mrs.  Goelet  kindly  gave  him  the  opportunity 
to  do  this,  and  now  sentimental  people  are  calling  it  a 
love  match. 

In  many  respects,  however,  the  duke  is  a  big  catch 
for  Miss  Goelet.  He  is  not  only  the  Duke  of  Rox- 
burghe. but  he  is  the  Marquis  of  Bowmont  and  Cess- 
ford,  the  Earl  of  Roxburghe,  Viscount  Broxmouth,  and 
Baron  Ker.  all  in  the  peerage  of  Scotland,  for  he  is  not 
an  English  duke  like  Manchester,  and  does  not  sit  in 
the  House  of  Lords  as  a  duke.  He  sits  there  on  the 
earl's  bench  only,  as  he  has  but  one  English  title,  that 
of  Earl  Innes.  He  has  really  such  a  lot  of  titles  that 
you'd  think  he  wouldn't  need  to  be  a  baronet  also.  Yet 
he  is  one.  all  the  same,  a  Scotch  title  also.  Then  he  is 
a  captain  in  the  Royal  Horse  Guards,  one  of  the  House- 
hold Cavalry  regiments  known  as  "The  Blues."  It  is 
the  same  regiment  in  which  Lady  Hesketh  has  a  son 
who  is  a  lieutenant,  and  is  one  of  the  swellest  regi- 
ments in  the  army.  It  is  not  what  you'd  call  a  fighting 
regiment,  for  as  a  corps  it  never  goes  to  the  wars. 
If  its  officers  want  to  see  active  service  thev  must  get 
temporarily  attached  to  some  other  fighting  regiment. 
It  is  true  that  portions  of  the  three  Household  Cavalry 
regiments  were  amalgamated  into  one  body  during  the 
South  African  War,  and  saw  some  service  against  the 
Boers.  However,  no  one  ever  quite  looks  on  these  regi- 
ments as  part  of  the  army;  that  is,  seriously.  They  are 
only  meant  to  escort  royalty  through  the  streets  of  Lon- 
don, and  furnish  the  mounted  sentries  at  the  Horse 
Guards  in  Whitehall,  which  are  the  wonder  of  for- 
eigners and  the  delight  of  nursemaids. 

The  duke  owns  about  sixtv  thousand  acres  of  land 
in  Scotland— moor  and  deer  forest  most,  of  it— and  has 
two  "places."  viz:  Floors  Castle  near  the  town  of 
Kelso  in  Roxburgh  County,  and  close  to  the  border: 
and  Broxmouth  Park,  in  Haddingtonshire.  He  used 
to  have  a  town  house  in  London,  in  Chesterfield  Gar- 
dens, if  I  am  not  mistaken — but  whether  he  has  one 
now  I  am  unable  to  say.  Doubtless,  he  will  build  one 
to  beat  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  when  he  gets  the 
Goelet  millions  to  do  it  with.  He  is  really  a  very  great 
swell  in  London  society,  for  apart  from  his  own  posi- 
tion he  is  very  highly  connected,  his  mother  being  a 
daughter  of  the  sixth  Duke  of  Marlborough,  and  a  lady 
who  was  for  many  years  Mistress  of  the  Robes  to  Queen 
A'ictoria.  Indeed,  the  Innes-Kers  (the  family  name) 
have  been  much  about  the  court  always.  The  duke  him- 
self is  a  great  favorite  at  King  Edward's  court,  per- 
haps not  so  much  of  the  king  as  of  Queen  Alexandra. 
She  constantly  has  him  as  a  guest  at  Sandringham, 
01-  on  the  royal  vacht,  and  no  royal  .function  seems  com- 
plete without  him.  and  in  this  respect  reminds  one  of 
poor  Oliver  Montague,  Lord  Sandwich's  son  The  re- 
semblance ceases  here,  for  Oliver  Montague  was  the 
handsomest  man  in  the  'eighties,  while  Roxburghe  can 
hardly  be  called  good-looking.  However,  he  is  better 
lookmg  than  the  present  Dukes  of  Norfolk.  Portland 
Devonshire.  Marlborough.  Manchester  or  Sutherland 
for  whom  you  wouldn't  turn  vour  head  to  look,  if  vou 
dirln  t  know  who  they  were. 

The  good  people  of  Kelso  town  are  making  a  bio- 
tuss  over  the  prospect  of  the  American  gold  that  is 
cnminsr  their  way  so  soon,  and  are  preparing  to  give 
the  dukes  American  bride  a  hearty  we  .  to  Scot- 

land London  society,  too.  looks  with  favor  on  the 
match,  for  what  better  employment  c  .  American 
dollars  he  put  to  than  the  brightening  p  of  dingy 
coronets?  Look  at  the  Marlborough  -  - -,'age-and 
the  Manchester  alliance.  Besides,  this 
other  Yankee  duchess  to  the  already  lo 
sran  years  ago  with  the  Duchess  of  I 
there  are  four  American  duchesses  <a 

London,  September  8,  1903. 


ill  add  an- 
which  be- 
Just  now 


CKAIGNE, 


September  28,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


^LBW 


TELEPATHY    AND    HYPNOTISM. 


Scientist's    Denial     That    Telepathy    Has    Been 
Proved— Morality  of  Hypnotic  Experiments— 
Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall's  Views. 


Telepathy,  hypnotism,  and  kindred  subjects, 
.vbether  discussed  in  print  or  practically 
ieraonstrated  in  public,  always  appeal  to  the 
ilert  attention  of  a  tolerably  large  proportion 
>f  the  intelligent  public,  as  has  been  shown  by 
he  interest  felt  in  a  series  of  lectures 
aeing  delivered  in  San  Francisco  by  Dr. 
Mclvor-Tyndall,  which  deal  with  these  sub- 
jects. These  branches  of  metaphysics,  in- 
vested in  earlier  days  with  the  forbidden 
'ascination  attached  to  dabblings  in  the  occult 
;ciences,  have  in  the  present  epoch  of  prose 
md  materialism  the  charm  of  the  unexplored 
and  the  unsolved.  For  even  the  rigid  scientist, 
who  rejects  everything  the  actual  existence 
If  which  is  not  practically  demonstrated, 
iccepts  hypnotism,  and  does  not  positively 
ienv  the  existence  of  telepathy. 

Science,  speaking  through  the  lips  of  Pro- 
essor  John  Trowbridge,  the  eminent  physicist 
•>{  Harvard,  says :  "  There  is  at  present  no 
vidence  of  telepathic  communication  which 
vould  be  accepted  in  a  court  of  law  ...  or 
n  a  scientific  laboratory."  The  professor. 
However,  explicitly  disclaims  any  idea  that  he 
lenies  the  existence  of  telepathy.  He  merely 
•onsiders  it  unproved,  and  that,  "  if  it  should 
je  ascertained  to-morrow  that  it  is  possible. 
(  will  be  the  first  instance  in  the  history  of 
science  of  the  discovery"  °r  a  new  manifesta- 
ion  of  energy,  or  of  a  new  law  of  nature, 
vhich  had  not  been  preceded  by  the  patient 
ttudy  of  repeatable  phenomena." 
,  The  existence  of  its  sister  science,  hypno- 
ism.  since  it  has  been  avowedly  employed 
is  a  curative  agency  by  eminent  physicians, 
•eems  now  to  be  firmly  established.  The 
:reat  question  concerning  it  is,  whether  or 
lot  its  indiscriminate  use  is  not  likely  to  de- 
:enerate  into  abuse.  Whether,  in  fact,  since 
he  operator  is  enabled  to  induce  in  the  sub- 
ect  a  mental  and  physical  responsiveness  to 
-mtside  suggestion  which,  for  a  time,  prevents 
he  latter  from  being  completely  responsible 
or  his  action,  its  use  should  not  be  forbid- 
len. 

This  subject  has  also  been  considered  from 
.  judicial  and  dispassionate  point  of  view 
>y  Dr.  Leon  Meunier,  a  French  physician, 
xtracts  from  whose  article,  originally  pub- 
ished  in  the  Cosmos,  were  partially  translated 
ind  printed  in  the  Literary  Digest.  Dr. 
*Ieunier  says :  "  Is  hypnotism  immoral  ? 
c  itself,  evidently  not.  A  hypnotized  sub- 
ect  is  for  the  time  being  deprived  of  his 
iberty.  but  it  is  right  he  should  consent  to 
his  if  he  does  it  that  he  may  in  the  end 
ecover  his  liberty,  and  his  reason,  which 
lave  been  more  or  less  enslaved  by  his 
1  nalady." 

I    The     doctor,     however,     after    pronouncing 
nedical    and    therapeutic    hypnotism    to      be 
1  noral,    condemns    its    use    in    public    exbibi- 
ions,      since      frequent     repetitions      of     the 
typnotic  state  tend  to  induce  spontaneous,  or 
1  asily  provoked  hypnosis,  or  convulsive  crises. 
I    Dr.    Alexander    Mclvor-Tyndall,    in    consid- 
j  ring  these  subjects,   has,   in  some  cases,   ac- 
!  ompanied    his   lectures    with     demonstrations 
I  ending  to  prove  the  correctness  of  his  beliefs. 
€e    is    an    uninspiring    lecturer,    but    a    good 
I  lemonstrator.      He    is    not    too    violently    ad- 
■anced   in   his  beliefs,   adhering,   to   a   certain 
xtent,    to    the   theories    of   the    cautious    and 
i  onservative    in    these     special     branches     of 
netaphysics.     Like  the  French  doctor  already 
1  uoted,    he   deprecates   the   indiscriminate   use 
<f    hypnotism,    considering    that    the    hypno- 
1  izer   is   not    held    sufficiently   responsible    for 
he    acts    of    the     hypnotized.      In     his     pre- 
'  iminary    address,    last    Sunday    evening,    Dr. 
■Iclvor-Tyndall    considered   the   possibility   of 
ypnotized  subjects  being  influenced  to   corn- 
lit   evil   under   suggestion,    asserting    his    be- 
ief  that,  in  spite  of  previous   arguments   ad- 
uced   to  the  effect  that  the  instinct  of  self- 
reservation  prevents  the  commission  of  acts 
angerous  to  the  safety  of  the  subject,  it  can 
e  and  has  been  done.    The  lecturer  mentioned 
s   an  instance  an  hypnotic  influence  exerted 
y  himself  on  a  criminal  in  Los  Angeles,  as 
elated    in    the    Los    Angeles    daily    press    of 
ebruary,   1892,  who,  his  tongue  unloosed  by 
ypnotic    suggestion,    confessed    his    criminal 
ct,     and    indicated    the    location     of    stolen 
rticles,  the  finding  of  which  established  the 
ruth  of  his  confession. 

'  The  lecturer  considers  that  the  dangers  of 
ypnotism  are  best  coped  with  by  openly 
ecognizing  them,  and  deplores  the  employ- 
lent  of  such  a  dangerous  agency  for  social 
isplay. 
At  the  close  of  the  lecture,  several  demon- 


I 


strations  were  given,  but  not  of 'a  nature 
anticipated  by  the  audience,  who  had  expected 
to  see  the  lecturer  exert  a  hypnotic  influence, 
or  induce  hypnotic  slumber  on  subjects  who 
volunteered  from  the  audience.  The  experi- 
ments or  demonstrations  given  were  confined 
to  telepathy,  and  were  interestingly  carried 
out,  although  lacking  in  novelty,  since  they 
had  been  already  witnessed  by  those  who  had 
followed  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall's  public  career 
in  this  city.  The  telepathist,  after  assem- 
bling a  voluntary*  committee,  retired  from  the 
stage  in  company  with  one  or  two  drawn 
from  their  ranks,  and  was  blindfolded,  while 
the  remaining  members  pointed  out  some 
person,  hid  some  object,  or  went  through  a 
series  of  acts,  all  of  which  were  either  to  be 
indicated  or  imitated  by  the  demonstrator. 
He  then  issued,  blindfolded,  from  his  retreat, 
and.  holding  the  hand  of  one  who  had  wit- 
nessed what  had  been  unseen  by  him,  was 
apparently  enabled,  through  the  sense  of  touch: 
to  project  his  mind  into  that  of  his  companion. 
view  the  mental  image  depicted  there,  and  act 
accordingly.  In  some  instances,  he  held  the 
hand  of  one  who,  like  himself,  was  blind- 
folded, and  unaware  of  what  has  been  done 
by  the  committee  in  sight  of  the  audience. 
At  such  times,  a  third  member  would  hold 
the  hand  of  the  uninformed  one,  ana  a  chain 
of  communication  was  thus  speedily  estab- 
lished between  him  and  the  demonstrator 
through  the  intervening  medium  01  the  igno- 
rant member. 

Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  makes  his  living 
through  his  intimacy  with  the  psychic 
sciences,  and  as  a  natural  consequence  is  given 
to  repeating  the  usual  jargon  about  "  laws  of 
harmony,"  "  mastery  of  fear,"  "  our  relation 
to  the  universe,"  etc.  But  in  the  main,  he 
impresses  one  as  an  earnest  and  reasonable 
young  man,  whose  demonstrations  are 
sufficiently  convincing  to  startle  the  believer 
and  confound  the  doubter.  His  topic  for  Sun- 
day evening  will  be  "  What  Is  Clairvoyance  ?" 
and  will  be  supplemented  with  further  ex- 
periments and  demonstrations. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


The  Laureate  on  Salisbury. 
Lay  him  in  this  quiet  spot. 

Shadowed  by   his  stately  home; 
Pompous  rite  he  needeth  not. 

Underneath  cathedral  dome. 
Simplest,  in  his  life,  of  men. 
Leave  him  now  as  he  was  then. 

Humble  heart,  majestic  mind, 

In  him  grew  from  self-same  stem; 

He  but  proffered  to  mankind 
Weighty  words  to  counsel  them. 

But  who  fain  would  learn  to  steer 

Ancient  Realm,  may  learn  it  here. 

"  Ayes  loud  and  vehement  " 

Never  were  his  quest  or  choice; 
All  he  cared  for  was  assent 

Whispered  by  the  still  small  voice, 
And  being  loved  and  understood 
By  the  just,  and  wise,  and  good. 

Death  hath  cloistered  now  his  lips, 
Hushed  his  voice,  and  sealed  his  eyes, 

Think  of  how  much  wisdom  sleeps 
In  the  churchyard  where  he  lies! 

Who  will  guide  us  now?  .  .  .  Alas! 

One  by  one  the  Sages  pass. 

Chanting  then  above  his  bier, 

Under  overarching  sky, 
Prayer  and  hymn  he  loved  to  hear 

In  ancestral  sanctuary. 
Bring  him,   for   funeral   crown 
Reverence  rather  than  Renown. 

Both  the  lordly  and  the  great 
Here  may  learn  how  Virtue  far 

Outsoars  din  and  dust  of  State, 
And  what  tinsel  Honors  are. 

Acclamations  have  their  day; 

Quiet  Fame  is  fame  for  aye. 

— From  the  London  Standard. 


It  was  recently  announced  that  Jules  Verne 
had  become  blind.  Le  Temps  of  Paris  prints 
the  following  note  just  received  by  M. 
Duquesnel,  which  will  doubtless  be  found  in- 
teresting to  the  many  American  admirers 
of  the   famous   French  story-teller : 

I    can    not   bring   myself   to    believe    that    I 
am    blind,    notwithstanding   the   statements    in 
the    newspapers.      I    accordingly    take    up    the 
pen  for  the  purpose  of  letting  you  know  that 
there   is  no  truth  in  such  statements.     There 
j   was  a  beginning  of  cataract  on  the  right  eye, 
1   and  no  more.     But  if  I  were  obliged  to  read 
1    all  the  letters  sent  to  me  on  this  subject  as- 
suredly ray  sight  would  be  weakened,  and   in 
all  likelihood  blindness  would  result.   Thanks 
for  your  remembrance  and   a  warm   grasp   of 
the   hand  from  one  of  your  oldest   friends. — 
Jules  Verne. 


Clifton  Johnson  is  following  his  enjoyable 
little  volumes,  "  Among  English  Hedgerows  " 
and  "  Along  French  Byways,"  with  a  book 
of  the  same  sort,  "  The  Land  of  the  Heather." 
It  will  be  published  this  month  by  the  Mac- 
m  ill  an   Company. 


The  Duke  of  Manchester,  who  in  1900  mar- 
ried Miss  Helen  Zimmerman,  of  Cincinnati, 
has  purchased  for  $315,000  Kylemore  Castle 
and  its  estate,  comprising  13,000  acres,  sit- 
uated on  Lough  Kylemore,  Connemara.  The 
place  formerly  belonged  to  the  late  Mitchell 
Henry,  M.  P.,  who  built  the  castle  and  im- 
proved the  grounds  at  a  cost  of  $2,000,000. 

It  is  said  that  .Andrew  Carnegie  is  nego- 
tiating for  the  purchase  of  the  famous  battle- 
field of  Bannockburn,  near  Stirling.  Scotland, 
in  order  to  save  it  from  falling  into  the  hands 
of  builders.  At  Bannockburn,  on  June  24, 
1314,  the  Scots,  under  Bruce,  defeated  the 
English,  led  by  King  Edward  the  Second.  The 
site  of  the  battle  is  marked  by  a  block  of 
granite,  called  the  "  Bored  Stane." 

President  Roosevelt  now  tips  the  scales  at 
two  hundred  and  twenty  pounds.  The  Presi- 
dent has  been  trying  to  reduce  his  weight,  but 
his  flesh  is  as  hard  as  a  knot,  and  steadfastly 
refuses  to  yield  to  ordinary  methods.  When 
he  was  sworn  in  as  President,  Roosevelt 
weighed  one  hundred  and  eighty-five  pounds, 
so  that  he  seems  to  thrive  on  the  hard  work 
connected   with   the   administration. 

D.  M.  Walker,  of  Kirksville,  Mo.,  holds  a 
record  that  really  should  bring  him  an  ap- 
pointment of  some  kind  from  President  Roose- 
velt. He  is  a  great-grandfather  at  the  age  of 
fifty-nine  years.  At  nineteen  he  was  a  father. 
and  at  thirty-eight  a  grandfather.  He  is  the 
father  of  fourteen  children,  the  eldest  being 
thirty-nine,  and  the  youngest  four  years.  He 
has  twenty-five  grandchildren.  His  one  great- 
grandchild is  the  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 
S.  Watts,  of  Pana,  III. 

Honore  Palmer  and  his  bride  had  quite  a 
number  of  mishaps  in  Switzerland  during 
their  recent  automobile  trip.  They  intended  to 
proceed  in  their  automobile  to  Chur,  by  way 
of  the  Upper  Rhone  Valley,  but  were  stopped 
by  the  Swiss  authorities  at  Brig.  They,  how- 
ever, hitched  four  horses  to  their  automobile, 
and  three  days  were  thus  required  to  reach 
Chur.  When  they  arrived  at  the  Italian  fron- 
tier the  automobile  was  set  going  under 
normal  conditions,  and  the  party  proceeded 
to  Argegno,  a  few  miles  from  Como,  where 
the  road  came  to  an  abrupt  end.  and  the  au- 
tomobile had  to  be  left  in  a  stable. 

The  reports  of  the  poor  health  of  the  Grand 
Duke  Michael,  the  heir-apparent  to  the  Rus- 
sian throne,  again  attracts  attention  to  the 
Czar's  uncle,  the  Grand  Duke  Vladimir,  who 
is  next  in  the  line  of  succession.  It  is  said 
that  the  Russians  would  be  glad  to  see  Vladi- 
mir on  the  throne.  He  is  big  and  handsome, 
over  six  feet  tall,  a  splendid  soldier,  brave 
and  reckless.  He  is  at  present  commander- 
in-chief  of  the  army.  His  wife,  the  Grand 
Duchess  Marie  Pavlovna,  as  she  is  known, 
was  a  German  princess  of  the  House  of  Meck- 
lenburg-Schwerin,  and  when  she  married  the 
son  of  Alexander  the  Second  of  Russia  she 
refused  to  become  a  member  of  the  Greek 
church.  She  still  has  her  Lutheran  chapel 
in  her  palace. 

Otto  Sarony,  who  for  nearly  thirty  years 
had  an  international  reputation  for  his  work 
in  portrait  photography,  died  in  New  York 
last  week  of  consumption,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
three.  He  was  the  son  of  Napoleon  Sarony. 
who  first  initiated  him  into  the  mysteries  of 
photography.  Old  Napoleon  possessed  a 
strong  personality.  He  had  a  long  mustache 
and  imperial,  like  Napoleon  the  Third.  He 
was  very  bald-headed,  and  always  wore  a 
skull-cap.  He  was  a  great  favorite  with  act- 
ors, actresses,  and  musicians,  and  had  known 
several  generations  of  them  in  Italy  and 
France  and  America.  His  studio  was  crowded 
with  all  sorts  of  daguerreotypes  and  photo- 
graphs, and  his  mind  was  crammed  with 
anecdotes  of  all  sorts  of  celebrities.  When  he 
died,  in  1896,  he  was  sincerely  mourned,  and 
his  son  Otto  reigned  in  his  stead. 

Leon  Hayard,  better  known  as  "  Napoleon 
Hayard,  Emperor  of  Hawkers,"  is  dead,  and 
all  the  Paris  "  camelots "  are  in  mourning. 
!  for  their  sovereign  was  a  charitable  man  and 
I  never  turned  a  deaf  ear  to  an  appeal  for  help. 
On  August  15th  last  he  was  knocked  down 
by  an  automobile,  and  he  died  the  other  day 
from  the  results  of  the  injuries  he  then  re- 
ceived. It  was  Hayard  who  supplied  all 
Paris  "camelots"  with  their  wares;  he  was 
both  an  inventor  and  an  editor.  Lampoons 
and  cartoons,  songs  and  satires  on  the  topic 
of  the  moment  were  his  specialty — the  "  last 
will  and  testament  "  of  dead  celebrities,  songs 
on  Boulanger,  Kruger,  King  Edward,  and  the 
Humberts.     Everything  gave  him  a  text,  and 


his  knowledge  of  the  fads  of  the  public  was 
unerring.  Besides  he  supplied  "  applause  " 
and  "  cheers "  at  public  meetings.  On  one 
occasion  a  debate  had  been  organized,  and 
both  candidates  came  to  Hayard  for  the  sup- 
port of  his  "  camelots.-*'  Hayard  booked  both 
orders,  and  paid  his  men  twice  the  usual  fee. 
When  the  meeting  took  place  they  cheered 
the  ministerial  candidate  for  the  first  hour 
and  his  opponent  for  the  second ! 

William  Waldorf  Astor's  son,  who  calls 
himself  Waldorf  Astor,  has  recently  evinced 
some  literary  ability,  and  his  father  is  very 
anxious  that  he  should  cultivate  it.  Waldorf 
Astor  is  the  president  of  the  Bullington  Club 
and  the  captain  of  the  Oxford  University  polo 
team.  He  intends  to  play  at  Hurlingham  next 
year,  and  it  is  said  that  he  is  a  welcome  ad- 
dition to  the  selection  there,  as  it  has  been 
largely  due  to  his  energy  and  skill  that  it 
was  possible  to  revive  last  year  the  inter-uni- 
versity polo  match,  which  had  fallen  through 
for  years.  The  match  took  place  at  Hurling- 
ham, and  resulted  in  an  easy  victory*  Ior  tne 
Oxford  team,  which  included  Mr.  Astor,  the 
Maharajah  Kumar  of  Kooch  Behar,  Lord 
Helmsley,  and  Mr.  Wade.  Mr.  Astor  cap- 
tained the  Oxford  team  this  year.  When  at 
Eton  he  was  captain  of  the  boats,  which  is 
considered  a  very  excellent  position.  He  is 
rather  slender  and  dark,  and  resembles  his 
mother's    family — the    Pauls,    of   Philadelphia. 


A  life  of  the  late  Senator  James  McMillan 
is  to  be  prepared  for  private  circulation  by 
his  confidential  secretary.  Charles  Moore. 


Ready  in  a  Few  Weeks 

TWO 

ARGONAUTS 

IN  SPAIN 

By  JEROME  HART 


A  number  of  the  recent  letters 
written  to  the  Argonaut  from 
Southern  Europe  —  principally 
from  Spain — have  been  collected 
in  a  volume.  The  book  makes 
nearly  300  pages,  and  is  now 
going  through  the  press.  It 
is  very  handsomely  printed  on 
costly  laid  paper  from  new  type. 
About  two-score  illustrations  ac- 
company the  text,  from  photo- 
graphs taken  by  the  Two  Argo- 
nauts. 

The  book  will  be  bound  in 
a  handsome  cover  emblazoned 
with  the  emblems  of  the  various 
provinces  of  Spain — castles  for 
Castile,  lions  for  Leon,  pome- 
granates for  Granada,  chains  for 
Navarre,  etc. 

Only  a  limited  edition  will  be 
printed.  Mr.  Hart's  recent  book 
of  travel,  "Argonaut  Letters," 
also  a  limited  edition,  was  out  of 
print  three  months  after  publica- 
tion. Those  desiring  the  pres- 
ent volume  will  do  well  to  apply 
at  once. 

The  net  price,  which  depends 
on  the  number  of  pages,  will  be 
fixed  next  week — it  will  prob- 
ably be  $1.35.     Address 

THE  ARGONAUT  COMPANY, 
246  Sutter  St.,  S.  F. 


iU\P 


TH  E        ARGONAUT 


September  28,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Another  Story  of  the  Bluegrass. 
"  The  Little  Shepherd  of  Kingdom  Come," 
by  John  Fox,  .Tr.,  has  been  running  serially 
in  Scribner's  for  the  last  six  months,  and  is 
now  brought  out  in  book-form.  The  story  is 
the  longest  that  Mr.  Fox  has  as  yet  written, 
and  the  entire  work  has  a  quaint  charm  quite 
distinctive. 

It  is  the  story  of  a  boy.  Chad,  the  little 
waif  of  the  Cumberland,  who  does  not  know 
his  first  home,  and  but  dimly  remembers  the 
many  others  "  where  they  were  kind  to  him," 
is  found,  when  the  story  opens,  with  his  dog 
in  the  cabin  of  a  gaunt  old  mountain  woman 
who  had  been  a  "  mother  "  to  them.  Jack  was 
a  famous  sheep-dog.  But  now,  partly  because 
of  the  dog.  and  partly  in  payment  of  a  debt, 
Chad  is  to  be  bound  out.  In  terror,  he  gathers 
together  some  food  and  takes  from  above 
the  door  an  old  flint-lock  rifle  that  the  "  old 
man  "  had  in  days  past  promised  him,  and  with 
his  dog  starts  down  the  mountains. 

This  is  Chad's  first  journey  into  the  world, 
and  he  descends  to  the  valley  with  longings 
and  dread.  The  first  settlement  he  comes 
to  is  Kingdom  Come,  where  he  and  his  dog 
tight  their  way  into  a  place  of  honor  and 
confidence.  Here  a  few  years  are  spent  in 
watching  the  sheep  and  going  to  the 
"  blab  school."  Perhaps  one  of  the  strong- 
est influences  in  Chad's  life  is  that  ex- 
erted by  the  Master,  who,  on  winter  evenings, 
reads  to  him  tales  from  "  Ivanhoe,"  "  The 
Talisman,"  and  the  Bible,  all  brought  from  the 
"  Bluegrass."  Thus  Chad  learns  the  "conscious 
scorn  of  a  He,  the  conscious  love  of  truth 
and  pride  in  courage." 

Winters,  the  men  and  big  boys  of  Kingdom 
Come  go  up  into  the  hills  and  cut  the  timber 
that  is  to  be  rafted  down  the  river  in  the 
spring,  and  on  one  of  these  rafts  Chad  and 
his  beloved  Master  go  to  see  the  "  settle- 
ments." The  quaint  little  figure  in  coon-skin 
cap,  carrying  the  old  flint-lock  over  his 
shoulder,  caused  much  merriment  in  the 
capital,  but  here,  finally,  through  a  "  hoss 
deal,"  Chad  finds  his  kinsman,  Major  Buford, 
And  were  it  not  for  that  troublesome  matter 
of  birth,  over  which  the  "  settlement  "  is  more 
particular  than  the  rugged  mountain  folk, 
his  future  would  have  been  one  of  assured 
ease  and  honor.  But  for  all  the  efforts  of 
Major  Buford,  doors  are  closed  to  him,  and 
the  negroes  look  on  him  as  "  poor  white 
trash." 

As  a  youth,  Chad's  affections  are  divided  be- 
tween Melissa,  of  the  mountain  home,  and 
Margaret,  the  daughter  of  a  proud  Southern 
family.  War  times  come  and  he  must  choose 
between  North  and  South.  He  enlists  with  the 
North.  From  this  point,  the  story  looses 
much  of  its  real  charm,  and  Chad  becomes 
the  well-known  war-hero,  with  the  many 
perilous  rides  and  heroic  adventures.  Aside 
from  the  development  of  Chad,  there  is  a 
strong  underplay  of  characters  and  incidents 
that  gives  the  book  a  specific  historical  value. 
It  is,  however,  the  development  of  the  char- 
acter of  a  lovable,  clean-hearted  boy  that 
holds  the  reader  fast. 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York ;  $1.00. 


Bret  Harte's  Later  Manner. 

A  last  collection  of  Bret  Harte's  short 
stories  has  been  published  under  the  title 
"  Trent's  Trust,"  the  name  of  a  tale  of  nov- 
elette length,  which  begins  the  volume.  These 
stories  are  all  in  Bret  Harte's  later  manner, 
in  which  still  linger  some  of  the  graces  of 
style,  but  little  or  none  of  the  inspiration, 
of  his  earlier  work. 

The  originality,  the  idyllic  quality,  and  the 
Dickensian  humor  which  brought  fame  to 
the  Bret  Harte  of  the  'sixties,  have  all  but 
evaporated  during  the  routine  work  to  which 
this  once  so  famous  author  condemned  him- 
self during  the  closing  years  of  his  literary 
productiveness,  and  which  consisted  of  careful 
but  pallid  and  ineffective  imitations  of  his 
most  notable  works. 

It  was  doubtless  the  spur  of  necessity  that 
impelled  Bret  Harte  thus  to  dim  the  lustre 
of  his  early  fame,  but  from  those  laurels 
with  which  he  was  crowned  during  the  years 
ot  his  highest  achievement,  not  a  single  leaf 
can  ever  be  stripped  away.  The  stories  and 
poems  written  by  him  thirty  years  ago  are  a 
permanent  contribution  to  literature.  Those 
written  during  the  last  ten  or  twelve  years 
of  his  life,  of  which  "  Trent's  Trust "  is  a 
good  example,  are  mere  ephemera:,  and 
doomed  to  speedy  extinction. 

T  lere  are  seven  stories  in  the  volume,  in 
some  of  which  the  old  familiar  figures- 
Jack  Hamlin,  Colonel  Starbottle,  the  honest 
a:  .^  illiterate  mine  Lhe  mysterious  and 
•V^inating  widow,  the  i  to  fane  but  chivalrous 


stage-driver — go  sadly  and  with  chastened 
mien    through   the   old   familiar  paces. 

"Trent's  Trust"  hds  gained  a  slight  touch 
of  novelty  in  having  the  action  carried  over 
to  England,  but  the  tale  is  devious  and  lack- 
ing in  interest.  Of  the  remaining  six,  only 
two  — "  Dick  Boyle's  Business  Card "  and 
"  Prosper's  Old  Mother " — are  capable  of 
rousing  a  more  than  listless  interest.  The 
former,  indeed,  is  a  capital  story  of  an  In- 
dian attack,  holding  those  elements  of  sus- 
pense which  stimulate  and  keep  up  the  in- 
terest to  the  end,  and  warmly  colored  with 
the  dusty  glory  of  frontier  life. 

Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
ton ;    $1.25. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
A  biography  of  Zola,  the  work  of  Ernest 
Alfred  Vizetelly,  translator  of  his  novels,  is 
to  be  published  this  month  by  John  Lane. 
The  work  is  said  to  be  a  very  thorough  one. 
critical  as  well  as  biographical.  It  will  be 
fully  illustrated  with  portraits  of  Zola, 
facsimiles  of  letters,  etc.,  and  will  contain 
bibliography  and  index. 

Three  long  short  stories  by  Joseph  Conrad, 
the  brilliant  author  of  "  Youth  "  and  "  Heart 
of  Darkness,"  will  be  published  in  book-form 
soon  under  the   title   "  Falk." 

Bliss  Carman's  first  book  of  prose — a  vol- 
ume of  essays  entitled  "  The  Kinship  of  Na- 
ture " — is  almost  ready  for  publication,  and 
will  be  followed  immediately  by  "  Sappho. 
One   Hundred  Lyrics." 

The  last  work  of  the  late  Paul  du  Chaillu, 
"  In  African  Forest  and  Jungle,"  has  just  been 
published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  As  the 
title  indicates,  the  book  is  one  of  travel  and 
adventure. 

"  The  Two  Little  Savages,"  Ernest  Thomp- 
son Seton's  new  book,  tells  everything  that 
boys  of  any  age  want  to  know  about  wood- 
craft, our  native  animals,  and  the  joy  of 
country  living. 

The  "  Life  of  Bret  Harte,"  in  the  American 
Men  of  Letters  Series,  will  be  written  by 
Henry  C.  Merwin,  the  author  of  a  life  of 
Aaron  Burr  and  of  the  life  of  Jefferson,  in  the 
Riverside  Biographical  Series. 

The  elaborate  work  called  "  World's  Chil- 
dren," which  Mortimer  Menpes  and  his  daugh- 
ters have  together  prepared,  is  announced 
definitely  for  this  month  by  the  Macmillan 
Company.  The  one  hundred  child  pictures 
in  color  are  by  Mr.  Menpes,  the  work  of 
reproducing  them  has  been  done  by  Miss  Maud 
Menpes,  while  the  text  is  by  Miss  Dorothy 
Menpes. 

A  volume  of  reminiscences  which  will 
doubtless  prove  of  unusual  interest  is  "  Recol- 
lections, Personal  and  Literary,"  by  Richard 
Henry  Stoddard,  edited  by  Ripley  Hitchcock, 
with  an  introduction  by  Edmund  Clarence 
Stedman. 

Rufus  S.  Zogbaum  has  made  all  the  illus- 
trations for  Mrs.  Edith  Elmer  Wood's  new 
story  of  the  new  navy,  "  The  Spirit  of  the 
Service,"  which  the  Macmillan  Company  will 
shortly  issue. 

"  Vacation  Days  in  Greece,"  by  Professor 
Rufus  B.  Richardson,  late  head  of  the  Ameri- 
can School  in  Athens,  and  "  The  Development 
of  the  Drama,"  by  Professor  Brander  Mat- 
thews, are  announced  by  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons. 

New  editions  of  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe's 
"  Agnes  of  Sorrento "  and  "  The  Pearl  of 
Orr's  Island  "  will  be  brought  out  this  week. 

William  le  Queux  has  just  published  a 
novel  entitled  "  The  Tickencote  Treasure," 
a    readable   yarn    of    adventure. 

"  Venice  and  Its  Story "  will  be  the  title 
of  one  of  the  most  elaborately  illustrated 
of  the  autumn  books.  It  is  by  Thomas  Okey, 
and  will  contain  fifty-two  superb  colored  illus- 
trations by  O.  F.  M.  Ward,  member  of  the 
Institute  of  Water-Color  Painters,  and  fifty 
full-page  drawings  in  line  by  Nelly  Erichsen. 

Henry  C.  Sturges  has  compiled,  and  will 
publish  this  month  through  D.  Appleton  & 
Co.,  *'  Chronologies  of  the  Life  and  Writings 
of  William  Cullen  Bryant,"  with  a  bibliography 
of  his  verse  and  prose.  The  volume  will  con- 
tain also  a  memoir  of  the  poet  by  Richard 
Henry  Stoddard. 

As  the  late  Phil  May  left  enough  sketches 
to  fill  four  volumes  of  his  well-known  "  An- 
nual," its  publication  will  not  cease  with  his 
death. 

Henry  Frowde  announces  that  he  has  se- 
cured a  series  of  drawings  made  by  George 
Cruikshank  nearly  fifty  years  ago  to  illustrate 


the  "  Pilgrim's  Progress,"  which  in  the  in- 
terval have  not  been  published.  They  are  be- 
ing used  in  preparing  a  special  edition  of 
Bunyar's  book  shortly  to  issue  from  the  Ox- 
ford  University   Press. 

Little,  Brown  &  Co.  have  decided  to  give 
a  new  title — "An  English  Village" — to  a  new 
edition  of  Richard  Jefferies's  "  Wild  Life  in 
a  Southern  Village."  The  twenty-five  illus- 
trations are  to  be  from  photographs  taken  in 
Wiltshire  by  Clifton  Johnson.  Hamilton  W. 
Mabie   will    contribute    an    introduction. 


MAGAZINE    VERSE. 


The  Drudge. 

Repose  upon  her  soulless  face, 

Dig  the  grave  and  leave  her; 
But  breathe  a  prayer  that,  in  his  grace, 
He  who  so  loved  this  toiling  race 
To  endless  rest  receive  her. 

Oh,  can  it  be  the  gates  ajar 

Wait  not  her  humble  quest. 
Whose  life  was  but  a  patient  war 
Against  the  death  that  stalked  from  far. 

With  neither  haste  nor  rest; 

To  whom  were  sun  and  moon  and  cloud, 

The  streamlet's  pebbly  coil. 
The  transient,  May-bound,  feathered  crowd, 
The  storm's  frank  fury,   thunder-browed, 

But  witness  of  her  toil; 

Whose  weary  feet  knew  not  the  bliss 

Of  dance  by  jocund  reed; 
Who  never  dallied  at  a  kiss? 
If  heaven  refuses  her,  life  is 

A  tragedy  indeed! 
—John  Charles  McNeill  in  the  October  Century. 


Be  Sweethearts  Now  as  Then.  ' 

Alas!  that  vows  should  broken  be, 

And  hearts  disdainful  grow. 
That  love  should  from  the  cottage  flee, 

Or  bitter  winds  should  blow; 
Her  once  kind  words  should  sting  like  whips, 

And  he  should  never  see 
The  winning  smile  on  tiny  lips 

Of  children  at  his  knee. 

But  years  of  youth  are  all  too  fleet, 

The  fires  of  love  grow  cold, 
And  winter  with  its  snow  and  sleet 

Bedims  the  summer's  gold. 
The  raven  locks  are  streaked  with  gray. 

And  brows  are  seamed  with  care — - 
O,  thou  whose  heart  is  changing!  pray 

Think  once  of  springtime  fair. 

What  though  the  years  have  left  their  trace, 

And  sorrows  thick  and  fast 
Have  clouded  thy  once  beaming  face? 

Life's  storms  will  soon  be  past. 
What  though  thy  load  seems  hard  to  bear, 

And  griefs  thy  pathway  strew? 
Remember — she — the  woman's  share 

Of  burden  bears  with  you. 

Recall  the  half-forgotten  tunes 

That  once  she  used  to  sing; 
Remember  now  the  dear,  dead  Junes 

When  life  was  blossoming. 
Let  no  day's  sun  set  on  thy  wrath — 

Each  hour  with  kindness  fill; 
'Twill  smooth  the  end  of  life's  rough  path 

When  those  dear  hands  are  still. 

Remember  now  the  wicket  gate, 

Where   purple   lilacs   grew; 
The  robin  chose  his  russet  mate — 

He  won  thy  love  from  you. 
And  thou,  in  all  thy  manly  pride, 

Thy  youth  renew  again, 
Recall  the  days  of  life's  spring-tide — 

Be  sweethearts  now  as  then. 

— George  N.  Lowe  in  the  Bookman. 

Reality. 
Is  this  the  love  she  dreamed  of,  that  should  rise 
Like  some  great,  unknown  flame  in  midnight  skies, 
Alive,  illumining,  by  whose  vast  light 
Her  soul  might  read  the  book  of  Life  aright? 

Is  this  the  love  she  dreamed  of,  this  poor  thing 
That  wakes  no  fear,  no  joy,  no  wondering? 
Failing  her  star,  she  needs  must  sit  to-night 
And   turn   a   dreary  page  by   candlelight. 
Is  this  the  love  she  dreamed  of — for  whose  sake 
Her    heart    with    too    much    bliss    or    pain    should 

break? 
Nay,  the  gods  jest  when  this  their  gift  appears, 
Too  dull  for  laughter  and  too  weak  for  tears. 

— McCrea  Pickering  in  Smart  Set. 


Cyrus  Townsend  Brady  is  certainly  a  prolific 
author.  Three  new  stories  are  due  from  him 
this  month.  A  new  novel,  "A  Doctor  of 
Philosophy,"  and  a  new  work  for  the  Boys  of 
the  Service  Series  entitled  "  In  the  War  With 
Mexico  :  A  Midshipman's  Adventures  on  Ship 
and  Shore,"  are  to  be  published  by  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons.  The  third  book,  which  will 
be  published  by  the  G.  W.  Dillingham  Com- 
pany, is  the  story  of  a  true  pirate — "  Sir  Henry 
Morgan,  Buccaneer."  Mr.  Brady  writes  in  his 
preface :  "  I  have  tried  to  exhibit  him  as  he 
was  ;  great  and  brave,  small  and  mean,  skill- 
ful and  able,  greedy  and  cruel ;  and,  lastly, 
in  the  final  and  awful  punishment  for  his 
crimes,  a  coward." 


We    manufacture    glasses 
on  oculists'  prescriptions. 

We    put    brains    into  our 
work,  honesty  into  our  ma-  I 
terials,  and  keep  faith  with 
our  customers. 


Hirsch  &   Kaiser, 
7  Kearny  St. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


An  Important  Historical  Work. 

The  late  Lord  Acton,  so  James  Bryce  tells 
us  in  his  admirable  study  of  the  great  man, 
in  his  mature  years  found  it  increasingly 
difficult  to  write  fluently  from  his  vast  store  of 
historical  knowledge.  He  had  almost  a  mania  for 
collecting  every  available  fact  about  a  subject 
upon  which  he  desired  to  write,  and  this  often 
led  to  putting  oft"  the  writing  from  day  to  day. 
and  from  year  to  year.  till.  Anally,  in  the  great 
majority  of  cases,  the  proposed  work  was 
never  written  at  all.  Thus  it  happens  that  the 
actual  output  of  one  who  knew  European 
history  better  than  any  man  of  the  time  was 
so  small. 

But,  perhaps,  as  valuable  a  bequest  to  the 
world  as  anything  he  wrote  will  be  the 
"  Cambridge  Modern  History,"  which  he  con- 
ceived and  planned,  and  of  which  Volume  I. 
entitled  "The  Renaissance,"  and  Volume  VII 
(the  second  in  point  of  publication),  entitled 
"  The  United  States,"  are  before  us.  This 
work,  under  the  editorship  of  A.  W.  Ward, 
Litt.  D.T  G.  W.  Prothero,  Litt.  D.,  and  Stanley 
Leathes.  M.  A.,  will  be  complete  in  twelve 
octavo  volumes,  each  of  about  eight  hundred 
pages.  Each  will  be  the  product  of  several 
writers,  who,  in  accordance  with  Lord  Acton's 
plan,  will  confine  themselves  to  some  special 
subject  or  to  some  special  phase  of  a  subject. 
The  complete  work  will  have,  however,  a 
certain  unity.  "  By  a  universal  modern  his- 
tory," say  the  editors,  "  we  mean  something 
distinct  from  the  combined  history  of  all  coun- 
tries— in  other  words,  we  mean  a  narrative 
which  is  not  a  mere  string  of  episodes,  but 
displays  a  continuous  development.  It  moves 
in  a  succession  to  which  the  nations  are 
subsidiary."  "  The  two  main  features  of 
modern  history,"  writes  the  Bishop  of  London 
in  the  introductory  note,  "  are  the  develop- 
ment of  nationalities,  and  the  growth  of  re- 
ligious freedom.  The  interest  which  above 
all  others  is  its  own  lies  in  tracing  these 
processes  intimately  connected  as  they  are 
with  one  another."  These  sentences  are  the 
keynote  of  the  monumental  work,  final  judg- 
ment on  which  must  await  its  completion. 
We  have  room  here  but  to  list  the  articles  in 
the  two  volumes,  leaving  it  for  the  mostly 
well-known  names  of  the  writers  and  the  fame 
of  Lord  Acton  to  serve  as  sufficient  com- 
mentary. 

The  articles  in  the  volume  called  "  The 
Renaissance"  ($3-75)  are: 

"  The  Age  of  Discovery,"  by  E.  J.  Payne, 
M.  A. ;  "  The  New  World."  by  E.  J.  Payne. 
M.  A. ;  "  The  Ottoman  Conquest,"  by  J.  B. 
Burg,  Litt.  D.,  LL.  D. ;  "  Italy  and  Her  In- 
vaders," by  Stanley  Leathes,  M.  A. ;  "  Flor- 
ence (I):  "Savonarola."  by  E.  Armstrong, 
M.  A.;  "Florence  (II):  Machiavelli,"  by  L. 
Arthur  Burd,  M.  A. ;  "  Rome  and  the  Tempo- 
lal  Power."  by  Richard  Garnett,  C.  B..  LL.  D. ; 
"  Venice,"  by  Horatio  Brown,  LL.  D. ;  "  Ger- 
many and  the  Empire,"  by  T.  F.  Tout,  M.  A. ; 
"  Hungary  and  the  Slavonic  Kingdoms,"  by 
Emil  Reich,  Dr.  Jur. ;  "  The  Catholic  Kings," 
by  H.  Butler  Clarke,  M.  A. ;  "  France,"  by 
Stanley  Leathes,  M.  A. ;  "  The  Netherlands," 
by  A.  W.  Ward.  Litt.  D„  LL.  D. ;  "  The  Early 
Tudors,"  by  James  Gairdner,  C.  B.,  LL.  D. ; 
"  Economic  Change,"  by  the  Rev.  William 
Cunningham,  D.  D. ;  "  The  Classical  Re- 
naissance." by  Sir  Richard  C.  Jebb,  M.  P. ; 
"  The  Christian  Renaissance."  by  M.  A. 
James,  Litt.  D. ;  "  Catholic  Europe,"  by  Rev. 
William  Barry.  D.  D. ;  "The  Eve  of  the  Ref- 
ormation," by  Henry  Charles  Lea. 

The  contents  of  the  volume  on  the  United 
States    ($4.00)    are : 

Four  chapters  by  John  A.  Doyle,  M.  A., 
on  "  The  First  Century  of  English  Coloniza- 
tion," "  The  English  Colonies,"  "  The  Quarrel 
with  Great  Britain,"  and  "  The  War  of  Inde- 
pendence " ;  "  The  French  in  America,"  by 
Miss  Alary  Bateson  ;  "  The  Conquest  of  Can- 
ada," by  A.  G.  Bradley  ;  "  The  Declaration  of 
Independence,"  and  "  The  Constitution,"  by 
Melville  M.  Bigelow  ;  three  chapters  by  J.  B. 
McMaster  on  "  The  Struggle  for  Commercial 
Independence,"  "  The  Growth  of  the  Nation," 
"  Commerce,  Expansion,  and  Slavery  "  ;  two 
chapters  by  H.  W.  Wilson  on  "  The  War  of 
1812-1815,"  and  "  Naval  Operations  of  the 
Civil  War " ;  "  State  Rights,"  by  Woodrow 
Wilson;  three  chapters  on  the  Civil  War  and 
one  on  "  The  North  During  the  War,"  by 
John  G.  Nicolay;  "The  South  During  the 
War,"  by  John  Christopher  Schwab  ;  "  Polit- 
ical Reconstruction,"  by  Theodore  Clarke 
Smith ;  "  The  United  States  as  a  World- 
Power. "  by  John  B.  Moore;  "Economic  De- 
velopment of  the  United  States."  by  Henry 
Crosby  Emery ;  and  "  The  American  Intel- 
lect," by  Barrett  Wendell. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York. 


Funny  Mr.  Ford. 
When  the  reader  who  loves  his  laugh  opens 
"  A  Few  Remarks "  and  reads :  "  I  was 
raised  in  the  State  of  Connecticut,  but  it  was 
no  fault  of  mine,"  he  is  pretty  sure  to  read 
„...  And  as  he  turns  the  leaves  he  will  dis- 
cover that  Simeon  Ford,  the  author  of  the  book 
in  question,   is  a  most  prolific  humorist,  who 


turns  out  a  joke  for  every  sentence  with  an 
ease  that  is  calculated,  to  quote  Mr.  Ford 
himself,  "  to  have  a  benign  and  mellowing  ef- 
fect upon   the  liver"  of  the  reader. 

Mr.  Ford  has  evidently  figured  as  a  speech- 
maker  upon  all  sorts  and  kinds  of  occasions, 
and  it  is  evident  that  he  is  pretty  sure  to 
please  his  audience.  Some  of  his  speeches 
need  the  inspiration  of  the  moment,  and  all 
the  good-fellowship  and  mellowness  of  mood 
that  follows  the  pledging  of  toasts,  to  brin^ 
out  the  fullness  of  their  humor;  but  all  told. 
the  collection  is  very  amusing,  with  the  ready, 
rattling,  surface  humor  of  the  funny  column 
in  the  newspaper. 

Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New 
York ;  $1.00. 


A  New  California  Poet. 
We  take  keen  delight  in  being  able  to 
present  to  the  readers  of  the  Argonaut  the 
following  beautiful  example  of  contemporary 
Berkeley  poetry.  It  occurs  on  the  sixty-sixth 
page  of  a  thin  volume,  by  Frederick  Milton 
Willis,  uniquely  entitled  "  The  City  of  Is 
[pronounced  Iss.  so  a  foot-note  says]  and 
Other  Poems"  Let  the  poem  speak  eloquently 
in  its  own  behalf: 

EXCESS. 
(Song  from  an   unpublished  romance.) 
Bury  me  deep  in  a  grave,  oh. 
And    cover    it    over    with    snow,    oh. 
For — a  ha,  he,  ha.  and  a  ho,  ho,  ho — 
This  is  too  merry  a  world,  oh! 

Carry  me   up  on   a  cliff,   oh, 
And  off  of  it  heartily  throw,  oh, 

For — a  ha,  ha,  ha.  and  a  ho,  ho,  ho — 

This  is  too  joily  a   life,   oh! 

Drop  me  into  the  sea,  oh, 
And  religiously  let  me  be,  oh. 

For — a  ha,   ha,   ha,  and  a  ho,   ho,  ho — 

I   am   too  happy  entirely,   oh! 

Build  me  a  funeral  pyre,  oh, 
And  burn  me  up  in  the  lire,  oh, 

For — a  ha,   ha,  ha,  and  a  ho,  ho,   ho — 
This  glee  will  be  fatal  to  me,  oh! 

Published  by  the  Mercury  Press,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

New  Publications. 
"  San  Francisco  and  Its  Environs."  a  guide- 
book,   is   published   by   the   California   Promo- 
tion   Committee ;    25    cents. 

"  Travellers'  Colloquial  Spanish."  a  hand- 
book of  idiomatic  Spanish  phrases,  by  Howard 
Swain,  is  published  by  Brentano's.  New  York. 

A  little  book  entitled  "  Dogs :  How  to  Care 
for  Them  in  Health  and  Treat  Them  When 
III,"  by  E.  P.  Anshutz,  gives  homeopathic 
remedies  only.  It  is  published  by  Boericke 
&  Tafel,  Philadelphia. 

"  Prince  Hagen :  A  Phantasy,"  by  Upton 
Sinclair,  tells  the  story  of  a  conscienceless 
young  man  from  Nibelheim  who  comes  up  to 
New  York  to  be  educated  in  the  ways  of  civil- 
ization. As  he  has  gold  galore,  and.  as  we 
say,  no  conscience,  he  has  a  very  devil  of  a 
time.  The  story  lacks  that  imagination  and 
humor  which  would  make  it  interesting.  Pub- 
lished by  L.  C.   Page  &  Co.,   Boston. 

A  rather  "  footle "  juvenile  book  is  Oscar 
von  Gottschalck's  "  Innocent  Industries,"  con- 
taining pictures  and  verses.  We  utterly  fail 
to  comprehend  how  the  infant  mind  can  find 
it  either  instructive  or  amusing.  It  seems 
rather  a  pity  that  so  much  real  talent  for 
vigorous  drawing  should  be  wasted  on  a  book 
which  children  will  surely  find  merely  per- 
plexing. Published  by  R.  H.  Russell,  New 
York. 

"  The  intelligent  believer  of  our  own 
day,  .  .  .  instead  of  accepting  Christianity  on 
the  ground  of  the  miracles,  accepts  it  in 
spite  of  the  miracles."  This  saying  of  Pro- 
fessor Adeney's,  James  Morris  Whiton, 
Ph.  D.,  takes  as  the  text  for  a  reverent  little 
book  entitled  "  Miracles  and  Supernatural 
Religion."  Some  of  the  Biblical  "  miracles  " 
this  writer  finds  not  supernatural  but 
natural.  He  even  admits  that  the  Im- 
maculate Conception  and  the  Resurrection 
were  subjective  considerations  in  the  minds 
of  pious  believers  rather  than  objective  fact. 
Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  75  cents. 

The  special  summer  number  of  the  Inter- 
national Studio  is  described  as  the  "  first 
serious  effort  to  do  some  measure  of  justice 
to  the  work  of  J.  S.  Cotman,  of  David  Cox. 
and  of  Peter  de  Wint.  Hitherto,  in  all  articles 
and  books,  these  masters  of  the  brush  have 
been  represented  only  by  black-and-white 
illustrations,  whereas  the  present  volume  con- 
tains numerous  plates  in  color,  which  have 
been  reproduced  by  an  elaborate  process,  in 
which  every  combination  of  tint  has  been 
closely  imitated."  Three  essays  on  these  noted 
painters  are  from  the  respective  pens  of 
Laurence  Binyon.  A.  L.  Baldry,  and  Walter 
Shaw    Sparrow.      The    work    contains    in    all 


twenty-five  colored  plates  and  one  hundred  and 
fifty-eight  fine  illustrations  in  half-tone.  Pub- 
lished  by  John   Lane,    New    York;   $2.00. 

People  who  do  not  hold  the  opinion  to 
which  we  confess,  that  photographs  of  strenu- 
ous scenes  from  plays  are  wooden  and  dis- 
illusionizing affairs,  will  be  pleased  to  get 
the  "  Illustrated  Popular  Edition  "  of  Kip- 
ling's "  The  Light  That  Failed,"  with  portraits 
of  Forbes  Robertson,  Gertrude  Elliott,  and 
other  illustrations.  The  volume  is  nicely 
printed  and  bound,  and  is  "  the  story  as  it 
was  originally  conceived  by  the  writer,'- 
though  a  note  carefully  explains  that  the 
"  happy  ending "  is  the  one  used  in  the 
dramatization.  Published  by  Doubleday,  Page 
&  Co.,  New  York. 

"  Rational  Home  Gymnastics "  is  the  title 
of  a  little  book  by  Hartvig  Nissen,  a  be- 
whiskered  gent,  whose  numerous  portraits  in 
various  interesting  and  graceful  postures  form 
about  a  third  of  the  volume.  The  Baroness 
Rose  Posse  contributes  the  illustrations  of 
exercises  for  women,  and  the  remainder  ot 
the  book  is  letterpress,  giving  directions 
how  to  exercise  and  thereby  keep  well  and 
strong.  We  should  think  the  volume  would 
prove  useful  to  those  rare  spirits  of  miraculous 
will  who  are  able  to  keep  their  good  resolu- 
tions "  to  exercise  regularly."  Published  by 
E.   H.   Bacon  &  Co.,   Boston. 

Cirillo  was  a  poor,  but  handsome,  Italian 
tenor.  Alina  was  a  rich,  but  beautiful,  Vir- 
ginia girl.  They  loved.  But  the  Virginia 
pater  was  Gibraltarian.  He  dragged  Alina 
from  Italy — and  Cirillo.  But  presto  !  Behold 
Cirillo  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House.  New 
York,  singing  divinely  to  five  thousand  rapt 
American  souls.  What  could  the  harsh  father 
do  but  yield?  So  he  does.  The  last  lines 
in  the  book  are:  "A  little  heaven  upon 
earth."  The  story,  which  is  entitled 
"  Cirillo,"  is  told  in  pleasing,  poetic  fashion 
by  Effie  Douglass  Putnam.  The  book  is 
luxuriously  bound  in  scarlet  leather,  with  gilt 
top  and  gold  tooling,  and  is  published  by  the 
Life   Publishing  Company,  New  York. 

While  Victoria  Claudel,  along  with  many 
other  art  students,  was  in  Brittainy  witness- 
ing the  curious  mediaeval  processions  they 
have  there,  she  saw  Valdeck.  a  shrewd  and 
handsome  criminal,  fleeing  from  a  house  he 
had  robbed  of  priceless  jewels.  She  gave  the 
alarm,  but  he  escaped.  Later,  in  New  York, 
she  again  saw  Valdeck,  posing  in  high  society 
as  a  Polish  patriot,  and  the  object  of  the  blind 
infatuation  of  Philippa  Ford.  Valdeck 
recognizes  Victoria,  and  tries  to  blacken  her 
character  before  she  shall  his,  and  so  a  merry 
social  war  rages  for  a  time,  though  finally  it 
all  ends  right.  This  frankly  melodramatic, 
but  rather  vigorous,  story  by  Edith  Watts 
Mumford  is  .crisply  entitled  "  Whitewash." 
Published  by  Dana  Estes  &  Co.,  New  York ; 
$1.50. 

A  keen  recollection  of  the  merits  of  Roscoe 
Lewis  Ashley's  "  American  Federal  State " 
in  advance  disposes  us  favorably  toward 
"  American  Government :  A  Text-Book  for 
Secondary  Schools  "  which  has  just  appeared. 
Examination  justifies  the  pre-judgment.  Stu- 
dents will  find  the  essential  facts  regarding 
our  government,  State,  national,  and  muni- 
cipal, here  admirably  set  forth.  A  system  of 
marginal  notes,  paragraph  headings  and  num- 
bering, "Practical  Questions"  at  the  end  of 
each  chapter,  general  references  to  standard 
works,  a  number  of  well-chosen  illustrations, 
and  an  adequate  index,  all  enhance  the  vol- 
ume's usefulness.  The  work  should  shortly 
come  into  use  in  the  schools  of  California. 
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September  28,  1903. 


In  "  King  Dodo."  San  Francisco  had  a  pre- 
vious opportunity  to  judge  the  work  of  Frank 
Pixley  and  Gustav  Luders.  who  wrote  "  The 
Prince  of  Pilsen,"  which,  without  possessing 
any  particular  originality  to  distinguish  it 
from  its  numerous  predecessors  in  the  comic- 
opera  line,  is,  nevertheless,  a  melodious  and 
spectacular  success.  Some  of  the  musical 
numbers  had  already  become  somewhat  famil- 
iar to  theatre-goers,  but  there  are  many  pret- 
tily jingling  and  sentimentally  murmuring 
melodies  in  the  score  that  still  have  the  charm 
of  novelty.  "  Pictures  in  the  Smoke,"  the 
Heidelberg  Stein  song,  and  the  "  Song  of  a 
Sea-Shell "  make  tuneful  appeal  to  the  ear, 
and  will  probably  have  an  era  of  popularity. 

The  book,  like  the  music,  will  please, 
through  its  safe  adherence  to  tradition. 
Neither  author  nor  composer  has  struck  out 
a  new  path  in  these  well-trodden  fields,  having 
guided  themselves  by  their  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  what  the  public  likes.  The  result  is 
the  usual  light,  bright  melange  of  fun.  non- 
sense, sentiment,  and  spectacle ;  the  latter, 
it  is  unnecessary  to  say,  being  comprised  in 
groups  of  prettily  costumed  girls  engaged  in 
a  sprightly  exhibition  of  dancing,  concerted 
pantomine.  coy  fiutterings  of  silken  draperies 
to  display  daintily  shod  feet,  the  outer  wearing 
of  gay-colored  ribbons  in  the  dance,  and  all 
the  usual  panoply  of  witchery  plied  by  these 
nimble  priestesses  of  stage  display. 

"  The  Prince  of  Pilsen  "  was  not  built  for 
the  exaltation  of  the  star,  there  being  four 
female  roles  with  but  little  individual  promi- 
nence in  one  to  distinguish  it  from  the  others. 
Trixie  Friganza.  who  has  the  chief  claim  to 
distinction,  is  a  handsome,  stylish  brunette, 
with  a  pretty  figure  and.  oddly  enough,  just  the 
least  lingering  suggestion  of  stiffness  in  her 
manner:  a  quality  which  in  general  is  easily 
extinguished  in  this  kind  of  frisky,  dignity- 
upsetting  entertainment.  This  little  air  of 
formality,  however,  was  not  out  of  place  in 
several  scenes,  particularly  in  that  during 
which  she  acted  as  cicerone  to  the  girls  that 
were  typical  of  various  cities. 

This  song  and  act  is  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar in  the  piece,  and  one  which  shows  up  in- 
dividual prettiness  among  the  girls.  The 
brightest,  best-looking,  and  most  graceful  are 
chosen,  and  while  they  fall  short  of  display- 
ing the  physical  splendors  of  Anna  Field's 
"  Sadie  girls,"  they  are  an  attractive  group,  and 
do  their  handsome  costumes  credit.  The  girls 
indeed  are  handsomely  costumed  all  through ; 
more  and  more  money  seems  to  be  lavished 
on  this  sort  of  stage  embellishment  nowadays, 
the  least  conspicuous  members  of  the  chorus 
having  as  much  thought  and  money  expended 
upon  their  get-up  as  was  formerly  bestowed 
upon  the  prima  donna.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  there  is  money  in  it  to  the  managers,  for 
the  chorus  is  always  fully  as  important  an 
attraction  as  the  principals.  It  is  surprising 
how  universally  popular  is  this  form  of  en- 
tertainment ;  one.  by  the  way,  for  which  San 
Francisco  shows  a  steady  preference.  One 
would  scarcely  think,  upon  seeing  the  rear 
rows  of  the  parquette  circle  well  filled  at  the 
Columbia  this  week,  that  but  a  month  since 
had  seen  the  closing  of  a  successful  season 
at  the  Grand  Opera,  during  which  enter- 
tainments of  a  similar  nature  were  enthu- 
siastically patronized  by  a  never-surfeited 
public. 

There  are  no  voices  there  to  speak  of  among 
the  principals,  although  their  mild  little  warb- 
lings  are  sweet  and  pleasing.  But  neither 
Trixie  Friganza  nor  the  lesser  three  can  pipe 
a  note  loud  enough  to  soar  above  the  chorus. 
Miss  Lockwood's  voice,  though  sweet,  is  as 
light  as  the  tripping  of  her  feet ;  Ruth  Peebles 
sings  faintly,  rolls  her  eyes  in  a  fetchingly 
timid  manner,  and  clings  bewitchingly  to  the 
paternal  coat-collar.  Idalene  Cotton  is  just 
Idalene  Cotton  ;  pert,  Frenchy.  self-possessed, 
and  a  dancer  whose  twinkling  foot  flights 
are  as  ex;  ctly  regulated  as  the  movements  of 
machinery. 

A    mar,    named    Arthur    Donaldson,    with    a 

Germar    cast    of    features    and    an    accent    to 

match,     f  the  real   Prince  of    Pilsen,   and  tri- 

0  er    this    handicap    of    his    imperfect 


English  by  the  intelligence  both  of  his  delivery 
and  acting;  added  to  which,  his  good  looks, 
foreign  appearance,  and  fine  deportment  lent 
vraiesemblance  to  his  role. 

The  comedian.  Jess  Dandy,  plays  the  part 
of  the  Cincinnati  brewer  and  pretended  prince 
with  the  unctuous  humor  required  for  the 
part.  He  has  that  absolutely  correct  take-off 
on  the  German  accent  which  these  dialect  com- 
edians get  down  to  such  a  fine  point,  and  a 
bronchially  breathful  laugh  that  you  would 
almost  swear  was  the  genuine  article. 

Nick  Long  plays  a  good  second  as  a  funny 
man,  representing  a  French  concierge  with  a 
redundancy  of  exclamatory  and  gesticulatory 
Gallicisms  that  makes  his  contribution  quite  a 
finished  little  sketch  of  its  kind. 

A  very  English  lord  is  aptly  represented  by 
Walter  Clifford,  and  Henry  Taylor,  although 
a  little  disposed  to  choke  off  some  of  his  notes, 
sings  in  a  light  and  agreeable  tenor  the  love- 
ditties  of  the  young  lieutenant. 

There  is  considerable  variety  in  both  score 
and  action,  and  with  marches,  decorative 
dance  figures,  and  novel  effects  in  stage  em- 
bellishment, the  spectator  can  comfortably 
give  his  mind  a  rest,  while  eye  and  ear  sur- 
render themselves  to  the  delectations  of  pleas- 
ing color,  motion,  and  sound. 


The  Orpheum  has  a  good  bill  this  week, 
principally  through  the  merits  of  the  hold- 
over attractions  from  last  week's  programme. 
Glenroy.  the  monologist.  has  a  lot  of  funny 
sayings  that  are  helped  out  by  the  broken- 
hearted voice  and  lugubrious  sniffs  which  he 
offers,  but  the  man  himself  is  not  intrinsically 
humorous.  No  one  is  who  is  obliged  to  eke  out 
his  native  humor  with  rank  vulgarities.  The 
humor  that  often  lies  in  the  sudden  and  ac- 
cidental letting  down  of  decorums  has  the 
spontaneity  of  the  unpremeditated,  but  de- 
liberate grossness  of  allusion  always  leaves 
a  bad  taste  behind,  and  causes  one  to  look 
askance  at  the  methods  of  those  who  are 
obliged  to  have  recourse  to  such  means  of 
provoking  laughter. 

The  comedians,  Ray  and  Falke.  in  their  re- 
spective scenes  had  almost  nothing  to  w:ork 
with,  the  slender  structure  of  amusing  non- 
sense which  the\r  reared  during  their  ten  or  fif- 
teen minutes'  turn,  leaving  nothing  more  behind 
it  than  so  much  froth.  But  while  it  lasted 
people  were  continually  being  surprised  into 
laughter  over  the  merest  nothings  by  the  in- 
nate humor  of  the  two  men.  Ray.  in  par- 
ticular, has  a  turn  for  burlesque  which  per- 
petually finds  expression  in  his  bunch  of  dis- 
connected nonsense,  but  his  talent  needs  some- 
thing more  to  feed  on. 

Frederick  Bond  has  a  new  playlet  this  week, 
called  "  Rehearsing  a  Tragedy,"  which  is 
reminiscent  of  "The  Pantomime  Rehearsal." 
and  has  a  similar  vein  of  humor.  Mr.  Bond 
gives  an  amusing  sketch  of  the  strenuous 
stage-manager,  whose  moods  alternate  between 
profound  absorption  in  the  matter  in  hand 
and  exasperation  at  the  conspiracy  directed 
against  his  peace  of  mind  by  poor  players, 
scrub  ladies,  and  stage  carpenters. 

The  pretty,  rippling  soprano  of  the  East 
Indian  princess  can  be  heard  again  this 
week,  the  face  and  figure  of  the  singer  strik- 
ing an  odd,  bizarre  note  amid  the  preponder- 
ance of  prosaic  American  types.  The  princess 
commits  the  usual  error  of  dusting  her  clear 
brown  skin  with  white  powder  until  it  ac- 
quires an  ashy  tint,  but  she  is  nevertheless 
pretty  and  picturesque,  in  spite  of  the  bead- 
trinketed  cheapness  of  her  costume. 

"  In  Paris "  is  a  purely  spectacular  num- 
ber, showing  on  models  of  such  familiar  struc- 
tures as  the  Eiffel  Tower  numerous  striking 
effects  with  colored  electric  lights,  and  cast- 
ing on  painted  landscapes  the  varying  degrees 
of  light  and  shade  that  accompany  dawn,  sun- 
set, and  stormy  weather. 

Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


Sarah  Bernhardt  is  very  much  displeased 
with  her  Paris  public.  During  her  provincial 
tour,  she  determined  to  keep  her  Paris  theatre 
open  with  a  revival  of  "  L'Aiglon."  in  which 
her  latest  protege,  young  Max,  was  to  play 
the  hero.  But  Sarah  has  worn  L'Aiglon's 
breeches  so  effectively  that  the  Parisians  re- 
fused to  accept  any  mere  man  in  the  role. 
One  of  the  critics  wrote  :  "  After  the  remark- 
able non-success  which  has  greeted  Mr.  Max's 
appearance  as  L'Aiglon,  we  have  no  doubt 
that  next  season,  out  of  the  goodness  of  her 
heart.  Mme.  Bernhardt  will  promote  him  to 
her  other  great  role,  Marguerite  Gauthier." 

• — -•- — a 

The  students  of  Stanford  University  are 
making  great  preparations  for  their  night  at 
Fischer's  Theatre,  on  November  14th,  the  day 
of  the  football  game. 


The  Longest  Spree  on  Record  and  Other  Things. 

Appletons  are  publishing  an  interesting 
series  of  new  editions  of  minor  works  popular 
in  England  during  the  early  years  of  the  last 
century-  One  of  these  is  '■  Memoirs  of  the 
Life  of  John  Mytton,"  by  "  Nimrod "  —  a 
pseudonym,  we  believe,  for  Charles  James 
Apperley.  Mytton  was  an  eccentric,  joke- 
loving,  pugnacious,  violent,  jolly,  sporting  old 
English  squire,  of  Shropshire,  whose  is  the 
distinction  of  having  been  "jjnink  for  twelve 
successive  years,"  and  yet  of  being  _able  with 
a^fifTe  "  tohit  'the  edge  of  a  razor  at  a  dH- 
tance  jii— tbittv_yard^  and  occasionally  to 
split  his  ball!"*  He  was  deaf,  and  therefore 
nofbeing  much  of  a  conversationalist  he  made 
it  up  in  exploits  that  endeared  him  to  the 
yokels  of  country  side,  but  were  of  a  sort 
like  to  fright  the  ladies. ,  Among  the  scores 
of  anecdotes  that  "  Nimrod"  tells  with  a 
comrade's  gusto  is  this  one :  One  evening. 
Mytton  had  been  out  with  some  roistering 
fellows  in  London  town,  and  returned  late 
somewhat  "  sprung,"  in  the  slang  of  the  day, 
and  with  a  violent  hiccup.  The  hiccup  an- 
noyed him.  Finally,  to  quote  from  "  Nimrod," 
"  '  Damn  this  hiccup,'  he  shouted,  as  he  stood 
undressed  on  the  floor,  apparently  in  the  act 
of  getting  into  his  bed ;  '  but  I'll  frighten 
it  away ' ;  so.  seizing  a  lighted  candle,  applied 
it  to  the  tail  of  his  shirt,  and — it  being  a  cot- 
ton one — he  was  instantly  enveloped  in 
flames."  When,  through  the  prompt  exertions 
of  his  friends,  the  blazing  shirt  was  torn 
off  him.  and  the  fire  put  out.  the  battered 
squire   got   unsteadily   on  his    feet   and   gazed 

about   him.      "  '  The  hiccup   is   gone,   by .' 

said  he.  and  reeled  into  bed."  Truly,  a 
robustious   old   gentleman   was   John  _Myttnn  I   |j 

The  present  edition  contains  many  illustra- 
tions in  color  by  contemporary  artists — H. 
Aiken  and  T.  J.  Rawlins — and  is  based  on  the 
second  edition  of  1837. 

Two  other  books  in  the  same  series  are 
"  The  Tour  of  Doctor  Syntax  in  Search  of 
the  Picturesque."  with  three  colored  illustra- 
tions, by  Thomas  Rowlandson.  and  "The 
History  of  Johnny  Qua?  Genus,  the  Little 
Foundling  of  the  Late  Doctor  Syntax."  also 
with  twenty-four  of  Rowlandson's  inimitably 
humorous  drawings  in  color.  Since  neither 
of  these  works,  as  now  issued,  has  a  word 
of  explanation  beyond  the  statement  that 
they  are  reprinted  from  the  editions  of  181 7 
and  1822.  it  may  be  interesting  information 
that  both  were  written  by  one  William  Combe. 
a  Grub  Street  hack-writer,  who  flourished  be- 
tween 1760  and  T823.  and  who  was  the  author 
of  some  four-score  books,  of  which  "  Doctor 
Syntax "  was  the  most  famous  in  its  day. 
It  is  in  rhyme — very  dull  rhvme  it  now 
seems — and  is  said  to  have  been  written 
around  and  for  Rowlandson's  oictures.  Its  chief 
nresent  interest  is  in  showing  what  the  pre- 
Victorians  thought  funny. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New  York: 
$1.50. 

A  snberine  corrective  of  the  pxalred  tin- 
tinn  manv  npnnle  rmve  as  tn  trip  salaries  naid 
on  the  legitimate  sta<re  is  fnund  in  some  recent 
'eeal  testimonv  over  a  broken  contract.  The 
actor  in  Question  is  Tvrone  Power,  whose 
Tudas  in  Mrs.  Fiske's  presentation  of  "  Marv 
nf  Ma-?da]a."  was  amone  the  most  admirable 
and  striking  achievements  in  acting  seen  on 
the  American  staee  last  season  Tt  created  a 
profound  impression,  brought  Mr.  Power 
yards  of  enthusiastic  notices,  and  moreover 
was  a  verv  tryintr  part,  and  yet  he  received 
only  one  hundred  and  twentv-five  dollars  a 
week,  less  than  many  vaudeville  actors  are 
supposed  to  receive.  The  court  judged  the 
contract  such  a  one-sided  affair  that  it  re- 
leased the  actor  from  it.  Mr.  Powers  has  just 
secured  another  hit  in  the  title-role  of 
"  Ulysses."  Stephen  Phillips's  poetic  drama, 
which  is  crowding  the  Garden  Theatre.  New 
York.  Tt  is  described  as  "  a  bewildering 
spectacle,  a  drama  of  uncommon  beauty  and 
merit,  strong  in  emotional,  interest,  and  not 
devoid   of   spiritual    episodes." 


"  I  see  that  old  Closefist  has  begun  to  wear 
glasses."  "  Yes.  I  think  he's  injured  his 
eyesight  looking  out  for  number  one." — Puck. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Building,    806    Market    Street.     Specialty : 
"  Colton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 

fJYRIC  HALL         Eddy  St.,  ahove  Mason 

TWELFTH  NIGHT 

Will  be  acted  by  the  Everyman  Company 
"  as  Shakespeare  wrote  it." 


//y\  Supplies  proper  (V^~\S 

(\  GLASSES 

—  TO  — 

Schoolchildren 

At  Moderate  Prices 

w642  'MarkeltSt. 

*TIVOLI* 

To-night,  CARMEN.     Sunday  night,   last    perform- 
anceof  TRAVIATA  (CamilleJ. 

Next  week,  Monday,  Wednesday,  Friday,  and  Satur- 
day nights.  THE  BARBER  OF  SEVILLE. 
Tuesday,  Thursday,  aod  Sunday  nights,  Saturday 
matinee,   CARMEN. 

Prices  as  usual— 25c.  50c,  and  75c.    Telephone  Bush  9. 

QOLUMBIA    THEATRE, 

To-night,  Sunday  night,  and  for  one  more  week  only. 
Second  and  last  week  begins  Monday.  Matinees 
Wednesday  and  Saturday.  Henry  W.  Savage  an- 
nounces the  greatest  of  all  musical  comedy  hits, 

PRINCE    OF"    PILSEN 

By  Pixley  and  Luders,  authors  of  "  King  Dodo." 
October  5th— Florodora,  by  a  star  cast. 

ALCAZAR    THEATRE,    Phone  "  Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.    E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

Regular  matinees  Thursday  and  Saturday.  Commenc- 
ing Mondav  evening  next,  September  28th,  FLOR- 
ENCE ROBERTS  in 

-=-       2i  A  Z  J±.       -:- 

Evenings,  25c  to  75c.    Saturday  matinee,  15c  to  50c. 

GIOCONDA,  by  D'Annunzio,  will  be  repeated  at 
the  matinee.  Thursday,  October  1st.    Night  prices. 

October  12th— The  New  Alcazar  Stock  Company  in 
Ptnero's  Lady  Bountiful. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Beginning  Monday.  September  28th,  matinees  Satur- 
day and  Sunday.  CHARLES  A.  HOYT'S, 
A     TE  M  F>  E  R  A.  NCE     T  O  W  IV 
Special  engagement  of  L.  R.  Stockwell. 

Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.    Matine.es,  10c,  15c,  25c. 

Week  of  October  5th — My  Friend  From    India. 

GRAND  OPERA   HOUSE. 

Regular  matin&es  Thursdays,  Saturdays,  and  Sundays. 
Week  beginnine  with  to-morrow  (Sunday)  mat- 
inee, JAMES  NEILL  and  the  incom- 
parable Neill  Company  in 
A    GENTLEMAN    OF    FRANCE 

Prices— Nights.  15c.  25c,  50c.  and  75c.  Matinees,  15c. 
25c,  and  50c. 

Week  of  October  6th— Last  of  Mr.  Neill  in  Under 
Two    Flags. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  September  27th. 
Vaudeville  Dazzlers!  Mvles  McCarthy,  assisted  by 
Miss  Aida  Woolcott ;  the  Great  Alexius;  Carlton  and 
Terre;  Paula  and  Dika  ;  Falke  and  Semon ;  Charles 
Ernest:  Mario  and  Aldo;  moving  pictures  showing 
"  LTncle  Tom's'Cabin"  :  and  last  week  of  E.  Rousby's 
spectacular  novelty,  "  In  Paris." 


Reserved  seats,  25c ;  balcony,  10c;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Only  two  weeks  more  of 
THE  GLAD  HAND  and  THE  CON-CURERS 

The  funny  burlesques  that  made  all  Frisco  laugh. 


Something  new  —  Monday,  October  5th,  The  Pa- 
radern,  the  great  Eastern  musical  comedy  success. 
Seats  now  on  sale. 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved, 

TESLA   COAL  CO. 

Phoue  South  95. 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL! 


Next    Monday,    Sept.    28lh,     at    8:15;     next 
Tuesday,  Sept.  39th,  at  3:15  and  8:15. 


Reserved  seats  SI. 50  and  SI. 00,  at  Sher- 
man, Clay  &  Co. 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


September  28,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


203 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Florence  Roberts  as  Zaza." 
N'ext  week  Florence  Roberts  is  to  revive 
David  Belasco's  much-discussed  play,  "  Zaza." 
at  the  Alcazar  Theatre.  Her  impersonation 
of  the  fiery,  impetuous  music-hall  artist  is 
remarkably  strong,  especially  in  the  famous 
denouement  scene  in  the  fourth  act,  where  she 
acts  with  a  fever  and  excitement  which  car- 
ries the  audience  away  as  completely  as  did 
Mrs.  Leslie  Carter.  "  Zaza "  will  probably 
run  for  a  fortnight,  when  Miss  Roberts's  very 
successful  engagement  comes  to  a  close. 
M  Gioconda "  will  be  repeated  at  the  two 
Thursday  matinees.  The  regular  Alcazar 
stock  company  will  open  its  season  on  Octo- 
ber 12th,  when  "Lady  Bountiful,"  by  Arthur 
\V.  Pinero.  will  have  its  first  San  Francisco 
hearing.  The  important  new  members  of  the 
company  will  be  Adele  Block,  leading  lady; 
James  Durkin,  leading  man ;  Frances  Starr, 
ingenue;  and  John  B.  Maker,  character  come- 
dian. 

Last  Week  of  the  "Prince  of  Pilsen." 
On  Monday  next  the  "  Prince  of  Pilsen " 
enters  upon  the  second  and  last  week  of  its 
stay  at  the  Columbia  Theatre.  The  next 
attraction  will  be  the  big  star  cast  production 
of  "  Florodora."  with  Isadore  Rush,  R.  E. 
Graham,  Philip  H.  Ryley.  Thomas  A.  Kiernan, 
Donald  Bine.  Joseph  Phillips.  Edith  Yerring- 
ton.  Harriett  Merritt,  Lillian  Spencer,  in 
the  leading  roles.  With  such  a  cast,  "  Floro- 
dora "  is  sure  to  draw  crowded  houses  again 
during  its  run.  for  its  libretto  is  amusing  and 
its  music  is  tuneful,  the  most  popular  num- 
bers being  "  The  Shade  of  the  Palms."  "  The 
Queen  of  the  Philippine  Islands."  "  The  Fel- 
low Who  Might."  "  Tact."  "  Phrenology."  "  I 
Want  to  be  a  Military  Man."  "  The  Silver 
Star  of  Love."  "  I've  an  Inkling."  and  the  gem 
of  the  whole  production,  the  "  Tell  Me  Pretty 
Maiden  "  sextet. 

Return  of-James  Neil!. 
James  Xeill  will  begin  a  brief  engagement 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Sunday  after- 
noon in  the  romantic  melodrama.  "  A  Gentle- 
'man  of  France."  Harriet  Ford's  dramatiza- 
tion of  Stanley  Weyman's  novel.  The  play 
opens  with  Gaston  de  Marsac  suing  at  the  court 
of  Henry  of  Navarre  for  a  chance  to  show 
his  prowess,  and  ends  with  his  attracting  the 
attention  of  the  handsome  Mile,  de  la  Vire, 
who  gives  him  a  rose.  In  the  next  scene, 
Xavarre  and  Baron  Rosny  come  to  Marsac's 
poor  apartments  to  offer  him  the  dangerous 
mission  of  rescuing  Mile,  de  la  Vire  from 
the  castle  of  Chize.  whither  Turenne.  Na- 
varre's rival  in  the  favor  of  the  Huguenots, 
has  contrived  to  banish  her.  De  Marsac  ac- 
cepts the  mission,  and  accomplishes  the  res- 
cue. In  the  fourth  scene.  Fresnoy  asserts  that 
De  Marsac  boasted  of  Mile,  de  la  Vire's  favor, 
and  convinces  her  that  he.  and  not  De  Marsac. 
was  deputed  by  Navarre  to  rescue  her.  In  the 
end  De  Marsac  wins  the  good  will  of  Navarre, 
who.  by  the  death  of  Henry  the  Third,  becomes 
King  of  France.  The  new  leader  loads  him 
with  riches  and  honors,  and  Mile,  de  la  Vire. 
whose  imperious  love  has  been  won  against 
heavy  odds,  sives  him  her  heart  and  hand. 
Mr.  Neill  will  appear  as  De  Marsac.  and 
Edythe  Chapman  as  the  haughty  court  beauty. 
Mlle.  de  la  Vire.  The  other  characters  will 
be  played  by  Donald  Bowles,  Clifford  Demp- 
sey.  George  Bloomquest.  Jean  de  Lacey.  Reg- 
inald Travers.  Robert  Morris.  John  W.  Bur- 
ton. Robert  Siddle.  Elmer  Bloomauest.  W.  H. 
Harkness.  Morris  Cytron.  Roy  Davis.  Rob- 
ert Banks.  Edward  Whitcomb.  Lillian  An- 
drews. Edith  Campbell.  Ruth  Hickstein.  Ger- 
trude Keller,  and  Dorothy  Sidney.  During 
the  Neill  engagement,  there  will  be  matinees 
Thursdays.  Saturdays,  and  Sundays. 

The  Fischer  Burlesques. 
Only  another  week  remains  of  the  present 
double  bill  at  Fischer's  Theatre.  "  The  Glad 
Hand  "  is  composed  of  the  best  selections  from 
the  Weber  &  Fields  successes,  and  the  fun 
is  kept  up  from  start  to  finish.  The  songs  of 
Maud  Amber.  Eleanor  Jenkins.  Winfield  Blake. 
Harry  Hermsen.  Miss  Vidot.  and  the  Misses 
Hope  and  Emerson,  are  especially  catchy  and 
popular.  "  The  Con-Curers,"  a  travesty  on  the 
play,  "  The  Conquerors."  is  also  full  of  mirth 
and  melody.  One  of  the  most  taking  features 
is  the  quartet.  "  Honey.  Will  You  Miss  Me 
When  I'm  Gone?"  which  gets  several  encores 
nightly.  "  It  Was  the  Dutch."  by  Kolb.  Dill 
and  Bernard:  "  My  Pauline."  by  Miss  Amber; 
and  the  song  and  dance.  "  Honey.  Send  Home 
for  Money."  by  Flossie  Hope  and  Gertie 
Emerson,  are  also  great  favorites.  On  Mon- 
day evening.  October  5th,  the  new  burlesque. 
"  The  Paraders,"  will  be  given. 

The  Orpheum's  Excellent  Bill. 
The  young  Irish  singing  comedian.  Myles 
MoCarthy.  will  make  his  vaudeville  debut  in 
this  city  at  the  Orpheum  next  week,  assisted 
by  Miss  Aida  Wooicott.  when  he  will  present 
his  sketch.  "  The  Race  Tout's  Dream."  An- 
other notable  new-comer  will  be  Alexius,  who 
■gives  a  startling  bicycle  act.  He  turns  somer- 
saults from  a  bounding  pad,  while  his  feet 
and  legs  are  strapped  to  a  unicycle,  and  he 
turns  a  complete  somersault  over  a  table, 
while  mounted  on  a  safety  His  crowning 
feat  is  the  mounting  of  a  stairway  with  about 
thirty  steps,  which  he  accomplishes  by  short 
leaps  on  his  wheel.  Other  new  specialties 
will  be  Al  Carleton  and  Williard  Terre,  in  a 
skit  entitled  "  A  String  Town  Yap " :  and 
Paula  and  Dika.  Parisian  singers  and  dancers, 
who  are  both  capital  entertainers  and  are  as- 
sured a  hearty  welcome  after  an  absence  of 
five  years.  Those  retained  from  this  week's 
bill  are  Falke  and  Semon,  the  musical  come- 
dians, who  will  vary  their  act;  Charles  Ern- 
est, in  new  songs  and  stories ;  Mario  and  Aldo, 


in  their  remarkable  triple  horizontal-bar  per- 
formance ;  and  E.  Rousby's  electrical  specta- 
ular  novelty,  "  In  Paris."  A  great  innovation 
in  biograph  pictures  will  be  introduced  for  the 
first  time  in  this  city,  when  the  principal 
scenes  from  the  drama  of  "  Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin "  will  be  reproduced  in  most  realistic 
style.  There  are  several  thousand  feet  of 
film  in  this  striking  series  of  animated  tab- 
leaux. 

Stockwell  at  the  Central  Theatre. 
At  the  Central  Theatre,  on  Monday  evening, 
the  popular  comedian,  L.  R.  Stockwell,  will  ap- 
pear in  Charles  A.  Hoyt's  "  A  Temperance 
Town."  Mr.  Stockwell  originally  created  the 
part  of  Launcelot  Jones,  better"  known  as 
Mink,  the  town  drunkard,  a  role  which  affords 
him  plenty  of  opportunity  to  show  his  pow- 
ers as  a  comedian.  The  play  is  filled  with 
amusing  character  parts,  which  have  been  in- 
trusted to  capable  hands — Gentleman  Jack, 
"who- might  be  somebody  if  he  was  a-mind 
to," ;  the  bombastic  country  squire,  "  who 
once  tried  a  case  in  Boston " ;  the  druggist 
who  shouts  for  temperance,  but  sells  liquor 
on  a  prescription ;  the  clergyman  who  leads 
the  crusade  against  rum  :  and  the  interesting 
females  of  his  family,  including  a  daughter 
with  a  ''smattering  of  law." 

Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
Bizet's  "  Carmen "  never  seems  to  lose  its 
hold  on  San  Francisco  music-lovers,  and  this 
week  there  has  been  such  a  brisk  demand  for 
tickets  for  this  opera  that  it  is  to  be  continued 
next  week,  alternating  with  "  The  Barber  of 
Seville,"  which  will  be  presented  on  Monday. 
Wednesday.  Friday,  and  Saturday  nights.-  The 
cast  for  "  Carmen  "  will  be  the  same  as  that 
of  the  present  week,  except  that  Tina  de  Spada 
will  reolace  Adelina  Tromben  as  Michaela. 
Cloe  Marchesini  has  made  a  distinct  hit  as 
Carmen,  despite  a  cold,  and  will  be  heard 
at  her  best  now  that  she  has  almost  recovered- 
Ischierdo  and  Zanini  do  excellent  wnrk  as  Don 
Tose  and  Escamillo.  In  the  "  Barber  of 
Seville."  Adelina  Tromben  will  sin?  the  role 
of  Rosina,  and  Figaro  will  be  entrusted  to 
Adamo  Gregoretti,  who  is  considered  one  of 
the  best  Figaros  on  the  Italian  stage  to-day. 
Alfredo  Tedeschi.  the  young  tenor,  is  cast  for 
the  part  of  Count  Almaviva. 


"Twelfth  Night"  at  the  Lyric 
On  Monday  and  Tuesday  evenings.  Ben 
Greet's  Enelish  comoany  will  act  Shake- 
speare's "  Twelfth  Nisbt "  at  Lyric  Hall 
in  old  Elizabethan  fashion.  The  comedv  will 
be  given  in  its  entiretv.  A  stage  w-ill  be 
especially  constructed  for  its  representation, 
and  upon  this  the  company,  which  has  received 
such  encomiums  for  its  work  in  "  Every- 
man." will  act  the  merriest  of  Shakespeare's 
comedies.  The  costumes  will  be  conies  nc 
those  in  vogue  in  1603.  The  music,  which  will 
be  of  the  sixteenth  centurv  consisting  of 
such  selections  as  "  Oh.  Mistress  Mine." 
"  Come  Away,  Death."  will  be  rendered  by 
musicians  seated  in  a  balcony  over  the  staae. 
The  cast  will  be  as  follows :  Duke  Ofsino. 
Tohn  Saver  Crawlev :  Sebastian.  Beatrice 
Whitney:  Antonio.  Clive  Currie:  Valentine. 
Mildred  Tones :  Curao.  Cecilia  Griffith :  Sir 
Toby  Belch.  Robert  Smilev:  Sir  Andrew 
Aguecheek.  Robert  Halford  Forster:  Malvolio. 
Ben  Greet :  Fabian.  C.  Arthur  Collins ;  Feste. 
a  clown.  Dallas  Anderson:  a  priest.  S.  H. 
Goodwyn  :  Olivia.  Alys  Rees :  Viola,  Con- 
stance Crawley ;  Maria.  Margaret  Bucklin. 
The  prices  for  the  performances  will  be  Si.^o 
and  Si.oo.  Students  and  teachers  will  be 
allowed  special  rates. 


It  is  now  definitely  settled  that  Nance 
O'Neil  will  be  seen  in  New  York  in  January  in 
a  new  classical  play.  The  theatre  has  not 
yet  been  decided  upon.  Meanwhile,  the  act- 
ress has  contracted  to  open  the  new  Cleve- 
land Theatre,  in  Chicago,  on  October  3 1st. 
She  will  appear  in  a  repertoire  of  four  plays. 


Paul  Gerson  will  give  one  of  his  after- 
noon dramatic  entertainments  at  Fischer's 
Theatre  on  Friday.  October  9th. 


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Charles  'Warner's  Remarkable  Hit. 
Charles  Warner,  for  nearly  forty  years  one 
of  the  foremost  actors  on  the  English  stage, 
who  for  nearly  a  generation  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  character  of  Coupeau  in  Charles 
Reade's  "  Drink '" — dramatized  from  Zola's 
novel.  "  L'Assommoir  " —  made  his  first  ap- 
pearance in  America  at  the  Academy  of  Music 
in  New  York  last  week,  and  scored  what 
Acton  Davies  terms  "  an  electric  success." 
The  critic  adds :  "In  a  long  experience  of 
New  York's  first-night  receptions  to  strange 
stars,  we  have  never  seen  a  more  spontaneous 
demonstration  than  that  which  greeted  Mr. 
Warner  after  the  fifth  act  of  "  Drink."  A 
large  audience,  almost  frightened  out  of  their 
skins  by  the  horror  of  his  death  scene,  liter- 
ally rose  to  the  actor  and  proclaimed  him 
great.  After  seeing  this  performance  it  is 
easy  to  comprehend  the  hold  which  Mr.  War- 
ner's Coupeau  has  taken  on  the  English- 
speaking  world.  It  is  a  more  minute,  graphic, 
and  terrible  study  of  character  than  any 
which  Sir  Henry  Irving  ever  gave ;  it  makes 
Richard  Mansfield's  dual  creation  of  Dr. 
Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde  seem  like  a  babe  in  arms. 
In  fact,  in  the  marvelous  way  in  which  he 
piles  horror  upon  horror  during  that  awful 
fit  of  delirium  tremens.  Mr.  Warner,  in  this 
role  at  least,  stands  alone.  It  is  a  creation 
to  be  seen  once  and  remembered  forever." 


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ing the  theatre  one  evening,  and  objecting  to 
have  the  horses  taken  out  of  her  carriage,  the 
police  were  obliged  to  interfere,  in  order  to 
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VANITY    FAIR. 


The  Martha  Washington  Hotel  in  New 
York,  which  was  built  exclusively  for  women 
and  receives  no  men  guests  under  any  cir- 
cumstances., is  the  only  hotel  of  the  kind  in  the 
world,  although  the  St.  James  in  London,  the 
Franklin  Square  in  Boston,  and  the  Marie 
Louise  on  Sixteenth  Street,  New  York,  are 
also  exclusively  for  women.  At  each  of  them, 
however  (says  William  E.  Curtis),  there  are 
certain  rules  and  restrictions  and  more  or  less 
of  religious  influences  and  motives.  About 
twenty-five  years  ago,  the  late  A.  T.  Stewart 
built  the  Park  Avenue  Hotel  in  New  York  ex- 
clusively for  women,  but  it  was  a  failure.  There 
were  too  many  rules.  He  attempted  to  make 
it  an  Adamless  Eden.  No  men  were  ad- 
mitted except  to  certain  parlors  between  cer- 
tain hours  of  the  day;  no  pianos,  or  cats,  or 
dogs  were  allowed,  and  every  guest  had  to  be 
in,  with  the  light  out,  at  a  certain  time  every 
night.  It  was  run  like  a  boarding-school, 
and  self-respecting  women  who  were  old 
enough  to  take  care  of  themselves  would  not 
stay  there.  So  Mr.  Stewart  had  to  abandon 
his  plan,  and  the  hotel  was  opened  to  the 
general  public. 

The  Martha  Washington  Hotel  is  a  hand- 
some fireproof  building,  twelve  stories  high, 
and  furnished  with  every  comfort  and  con- 
venience at  a  cost  of  about  $750,000.  It  is 
the  result  of  a  movement  organized  by  several 
philanthropic  ladies,  who  thought  that  in  the 
metropolis  there  ought  to  be  at  least  one  hotel 
where  women  can  go  without  escort  and  feel 
perfectly  safe  and  at  home.  It  is  owned  by  a 
stock  company  incorporated  two  years  ago. 
and  most  of  the  shares  are  held  by  women. 
The  hotel  can  accommodate  500  guests,  and 
at  present  there  are  about  350  in  the  house. 
Of  these  about  200  are  regular  boarders — 
teachers,  bookkeepers,  stenographers,  mu- 
sicians," artists,  newspaper  writers,  students, 
cashiers,  head-saleswomen  for  big  mercantile 
houses,  designers,  and  other  professional 
women.  They  can  hire  a  small  room  on  the 
European  plan  as  low  as  $9  a  week,  which 
is  the  minimum,  with  meals;  $'7-5°  a  week 
being  the  maximum,  which  pays  for  a  sitting- 
room  and  a  little  bedroom.  Most  of  the 
transient  guests  are  from  New  England,  New 
Jersey,  and  other  localities  around  New  York, 
who  come  to  town  to  shop.  The  hotel  has  been 
open  only  a  few  months,  and  has  never  been 
advertised. 


Mr.  Curtis  points  out  the  fact  that  the 
Martha  Washington  Hotel  is  wide  open.  There 
are  no  rules  or  restrictions  whatever.  Guests 
of  the  house  may  receive  men  visitors  when- 
ever they  like  as  freely  as  if  they  were  in  any 
ordinary  hotel,  and  no  questions  are  asked. 
They  are  not  allowed  to  receive  men  callers 
in  their  bedrooms,  but  if  they  have  a  parlor  or 
sitting-room  it  is  permitted.  There  are  two 
dining-rooms.  One  on  the  ground  floor,  open- 
ing from  the  office  and  from  the  street,  is 
run  on  the  European  plan,  and  the  other  on 
the  first  or  parlor  floor  is  run  on  the  American 
plan.  Both  are  open  to  men  as  well  as  to 
women,  and  several  men  who  have  business 
in  the  neighborhood  are  in  the  habit  of  tak- 
ing their  meals-  there.  Boarders  can  invite 
gentlemen  friends  to  lunch  or  dine  with  them 
in  either  dining-room.  Those  who  are  ac- 
customed to  ordinary  hotels  complain  that  the 
portions  are  small,  but  the  prices  correspond. 
The  manager  says  that  his  women  guests  do 
not  want  large  portions,  and  he  tries  to  fur- 
nish as  much  as  they  need  at  a  reasonable 
price.  The  charges  are  about  one-half  what 
they  are  at  the  other  first-class  hotels,  and 
the  room  rates  correspond.  An  ordinary  room 
on  the  European  plan  costs  $1  a  day,  and  with 
a  bath  $2.50.  On  the  American  plan  similar 
rooms  cost  from  $2.50  to  $5.  There  is  no 
bar  or  cigar-stand,  but  there  is  a  news- 
stand kept  by  a  good-looking  young  lady. 


Since  its  opening,  the  manager  has  been 
having  a  great  deal  of  trouble  with  his  help. 
He  can  not  keep  bell-boys.  They  will  not  stay 
with  him  more  than  two  or  three  days,  and 
the  entire  force  is  changed  nearly  every  week. 
The  boys  complain  that  the  women  are  un- 
reasonable, and  give  no  tips,  while  at  other 
hotels  they  almost  invariably  duplicate  their 
wages,  and  sometimes  make  two  or  three 
times  as  much  in  dimes  and  quarters.  The 
manager  of  the  woman's  hotel  tried  girl 
"  bell-boys,"  but  the  guests  of  the  hotel  did 
not  like  them,  and  they  were  found  to  be 
incompetent.  When  the  institution  opened 
every  employee  under  the  roof,  except  the 
manager,  the  porters,  the  engineer,  the  fire- 
i.T ,  and  elevator  conductors,  were  women. 
T:;i;re  were  only  aboi.i.  a  dozen  men  about 
the  place,  and  they  were  necessary  for  work 


which  women  could  not  do.  There  was  a 
woman  bookkeeper,  a  woman  cashier,  and  all 
the  waiters  in  the  dining-rooms  were  women. 
The  first  innovation  was  a  man  for  head- 
waiter,  because  the  woman  who  occupied  that 
position  could  not  enforce  discipline  among 
the  girls ;  and  then  it  became  necessary  to  em- 
ploy robust  youths  to  carry  the  soiled  dishes 
from  the  dining-rooms  to  the  kitchen,  because 
some  of  the  tender-hearted  guests  declared 
that  the  work  was  too  heavy  for  girls.  Re- 
cently, all  of  the  girl  waiters  struck,  and  their 
places  have  been  filled  with  men — ordinary, 
cheap,  professional  hotel  waiters,  secured  at 
the  employment  agencies  on  Fourth  Avenue. 
It  is  not  believed,  however,  that  they  will  re- 
main long,  because  they  will  doubtless  make 
the  same  complaint  as  the  bell-boys  that 
women  do  not  give  tips.  Thus  far  the  kitchen 
has  been  run  with  women  cooks  without  the 
slightest  difficulty. 

Some  surprise  has  been  expressed  owing  to 
the  announcement  that  Lewis  Iselin,  of  New 
York,  who  is  to  marry  Miss  de  Neufville. 
is  to  have  the  ceremony  performed  in  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Incarna- 
tion, because  it  was  generally  supposed  that 
he  was  a  Roman  Catholic.  It  has  been  ex- 
plained that,  although  Mr.  Iselin's  father. 
Columbus  O'Donnell  Iselin,  is  a  member  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  his  wife,  who  was 
a  Miss  Jones,  was  a  Protestant,  and  that  the 
young  man  who  is  to  wed  Miss  de  Neufville 
was  brought  up  in  that  faith.  Several  hundred 
years  ago  (points  out  the  New  York  Tribune) 
the  ancestors  of  the  young  couple,  who  were 
Huguenots,  fled  together  from  France  after 
the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  and 
settled  in  Switzerland.  Miss  de  Neufville's 
great-grandfather,  Abram  de  Neufville, 
founded  a  banking-house  at  Frankfort,  and 
afterward  became  a  business  associate  of 
members  of  the  Iselin  family.  Intimate  friend- 
ship has  existed  between  the  two  families 
for  more  than  two  hundred  years.  Miss  de 
Neufville's  mother  was  Marion  Parker. 

An  eminent  Berlin  nerve  specialist,  who  had 
his  attention  attracted  to  the  chronic  nervous- 
ness of  many  pianists,  has  been  studying  the 
piano  from  the  pathological  point  of  view. 
Out  of  one  thousand  young  girls  whom  he 
examined,  each  of  whom  had  begun  to  study 
the  piano  under  the  age  of  fourteen,  no  less 
than  six  hundred  had  some  nervous  malady, 
while  out  of  one  thousand  who  had  never 
studied  that  instrument,  only  one  hundred 
were  afflicted.  The  Berlin  specialist  has 
promulgated  the  theory  that  no  child  should 
be  allowed  to  learn  the  piano  before  the 
age  of  sixteen. 

Commenting  on  the  fact  that  Governor 
Alexander  Monroe  Dockery  has  just  divested 
his  countenance  of  a  celebrated  and  almost 
immortal  set  of  whiskers,  the  New  York  Sun 
says :  "  The  twentieth  century  is  beginning 
somewhat  as  the  nineteenth  century  began, 
though,  of  course,  not  so  strictly  and  uni- 
versally smooth,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  it  will 
run  parallel  through  all  its  quarters  with  its 
predecessor.  There  were  no  mustaches,  no 
beards,  when  the  nineteenth  century  dawned. 
Side  whiskers  began  to  curl  and  sprout  before 
it  had  run  far  in  its  course,  and  they  grew 
bolder  after  a  time  and  encircled  the  throat 
and  chin,  leaving  bare  the  upper  lip.  The  lip 
was  submerged  about  i860,  and  in  the  later 
-years  of  destruction  was  last  to  yield  to  the 
assaults  of  the  barber.  The  human  coun- 
tenance began  to  exhibit  itself  again  not  long 
after  the  war,  and  from  that  time  down  to  the 
very  recent  past  the  unsupported  mustache 
was  the  prevailing  mode.  Now  fashion  is 
changing  again,  so  that  the  young  men  are 
commonly  completely  shaved,  and  their  fathers 
have  covered  lips.  The  youth  of  to-day  have 
the  weight  of  civilized  precedent  with  them. 
An  examination-  of  the  family  albums  of  the 
last  four  centuries  will  demonstrate  that  the 
unwhiskered  have  had  by  far  the  better  of  it. 
For  nearly  two  hundred  years  of  that  time  the 
beard  was  not  permitted  to  sprout.  A  great 
deal  of  encouragement  for  the  shaven  but 
ambitious  young  man  may  be  found  in  the 
Presidency  of  the  United  States.  From  the 
beginning  with  Washington  down  to  Lincoln's 
time  whiskers  found  lodgment  in  the  White 
House  only  three  times,  and  in  every  case 
they  were  of  the  remote  variety  known  as 
sideboards,  which  offered  no  considerable  ob- 
struction to  the  observation  of  the  faces  to 
which  they  were  linked.  John  Quincy  Adams 
presented  a  stubborn  pair,  Martin  Van  Buren's 
were  amiable  in  their  moods,  and  Zachary 
Taylor's  were  evidently  the  unobstrusive  ex- 
pression of  a  fancy  for  trimmings.  Lincoln 
inaugurated  the  bearded  era,  which  was  car- 
ried   on    by    Grant,    Hayes,    Garfield,    Arthur 


(with  Dundrearys),  and  Harrison,  though  Har- 
rison yielded  not  a  little  of  his  expanse  before 
he  retired  from  office.  Cleveland  was  the  first 
mustached  President,  and  Roosevelt  the  sec- 
ond, while  McKinley  preserved  the  tradition 
of   the   smooth   face. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 
Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and 
flammations  of  the  skin. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From     Official     Report     of    Alexander     G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  IVeaOier. 

September  17th So  57  -°°  Clear 

"  iSth 56  50  .00  Cloudy 

19th 6S  50  .00  Clear 

"  20th 58  50  .00  Pt.  Cloud} 

zist 60  54  -00  Cloudy 

"  22d 62  52  .00  Clear 

"  23d 66  50  .00  Clear 


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The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  September  23. 
1903,  were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Cal.  Central  G.    E. 

5%  S,ooo  @  103  io3# 

LosAn.Ry5%  5.000  @  115K  "5#     "7 

Market  St.  Ry.  6%.     7,000  @  11S  11S 

Market  St.  Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 6,000  @  115K  "5K 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%..     2.000  @  119 

North  Shore  Ry  5%    6,000  @.    99M-100         ioo^ 

Oakland  Gas  5%.. .     5,000  @  io8#  no 

Oakl'nd  Transit  6%  10,000  @  121  121 

Pac.  Elect.  Rv.  5%-     5.000  @  no-    noj£ 
S.  F.  &  S.J.  Valley 

Ry.5% z.000  @  i2oK-i2oJ^     i2oJ£ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 4,000  @  107%  107^     10S 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  2,000  @  ioq}£ 

S-  P-  R-  of  Cal.  6% 

1912 5.000  @  117  # 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.Stpd 

5%      15.000  @  108  10S 

S.  V.  Water  6% 5.000  @  106  106 

S.  V.  Water  4% 12,000  @  100  100 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa  35  @    49  49         50 

Spring  Valley 275  @    83^-84%      84^      84^ 

Street  R.  R. 

California  St 35  @  200 

Powders, 

Giant  Con 220  @    64^-66         65^      67 

Sugars. 

Hawaiian  C.  &S...        225  @    45^  45J£      46^ 

Honokaa  S-  Co 215  @    13^-14  13^      14 

Hutchinson 150  @    13-      13J4      12.%      13^ 

Kilauea  S.  Co 5  @     5 

Makaweli  S.  Co 100  @    2oJ4- 21  21  J£ 

Onomea  S.  Co 220  @    31-      32  J£      32^      34 

PaauhauS.  Co 815  @    16-      16%      16^      17 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Mutual  Electric-..  5  @    \i%  \2.%      14 

S-F.  Gas  &  Electric       210  @    67^-68         67%      68& 
.     Trustees  Certificates. 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       245  @    67^-68         67^      68# 

Miscellaneous. 

Alaska  Packers  ...        200  @  154-    156^     154        156 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         30  @    95-      97         96^ 

Cal.  Wine  Assn So  @    96K- 97         96^      97^ 

Oceanic  S.  Co 10  @      7 

Pac.  Coast  Borax..  20  @  167  167 

The  sugars  have  been  active,  and  on  sales  of  1,730 
shares  made  gains  of  from  one  quarter  to  two  and 
one  quarter  points;  Hawaiian  Commercial  and  Sugar 
selling  at  45^;  Honokaa  at  14;  Hutchinson  at  13^; 
Makaweli  at  21  %\  Onomea  at  3234 ;  Paauhau  at 
16^;  closing  in  fairly  good  demand  at  4sM  bid  for 
Hawaiian  Commercial  and  Sugar;  Honokaa  Sugar 
Company,  13^  bid;  Hutchinson,  12^  bid;  Maka 
weli,  %i%  bid;  Onomea,  3254  bid;  Paauhau  Sugar 
Company,  i6ss  bid. 

G  ant  Powder  was  strong,  and  on  sales  of  220 
shares  sold  up  one  and  one-half  poinls  to  66,  closing 
at  65^  bid,  with  no  stock  offered. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  in  good  demand,  and  on 
sales  of  275  shares  sold  as  high  as  %A%;  closing  at 
84M  bid.  84K  asked. 

Alaska  Packers  was  weaker,  selling  off  to  154  on 
sales  of  200  shares. 

The  gas  stocks  have  been  inactive,  without 
change  in  quotations. 


INVE5THENTS. 

Local  Stocks  and  Securities.     Refer  by   permission 
to  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  and  Anglo-  Californian  Banks 

A.  W.  BLOW, 

Member  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange. 

A.  W.  BLOW  &  CO. 

Tel.  Bush  24.  304.  Montgomery  St..  S.  V. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


205 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


At  a  dinner  in  London,  the  other  day,  Ber- 
nard Shaw  remarked  to  an  American  guest : 
"  What  a  lot  of  you  Americans  come  over 
here  every  summer!  "  "  Yes,"  replied  the  fair 
American,  "  England  has  come  to  be  a  favor- 
ite summer  resort  for  Americans."  "  Well, 
we  won't  complain  of  that,"  said  Shaw;  "but 
for  heaven's  sake,  don't  make  it  a  winter  re- 
sort also." 


A  very  interesting  and  racy  character,  ac- 
cording to  Senator  Hoar,  was  Judge  Theron 
Metcalf,  who  used  to  say  of  himself  that  he 
"  was  taken  to  fill  a  gap  in  the  court  as  peo- 
ple take  an  old  hat  to  stop  a  broken  window." 
He  hated  statutes,  and  on  one  occasion  when 
he  asked  to  have  the  legislature  pass  a  law 
simplifying  court  proceedings  in  certain  cases, 
and  was  told  that  a  statute  to  that  effect  al- 
ready existed,  he  replied,  with  great  disgust : 
"  I  have  said,  sir,  that  if  they  did  not  repeal 
that  thing  I  would  read  it." 


While  in  England.  Henry  Ward  Beecher 
was  entertained  by  a  gentleman  who  believed 
in  spiritualism  and  was  himself  a  medium. 
One  day  he  asked  if  Beecher  would  like  to 
talk  with  the  spirit  of  his  father.  Dr.  Lyman 
Beecher.  Mr.  Beecher  replied  that  it  would 
please  him  immensely.  After  the  seance  was 
over,  he  was  asked  how  it  had  impressed 
him,  at  which,  with  the  twinkle  in  his  eye, 
Beecher  responded :  "  All  I  have  to  say  is 
that  if  I  deteriorate  as  fast  for  the  first  ten 
years  after  I  am  deacf  as  my  father  has,  I 
shall  be  a  stark-naked  tool." 

The  Manila  American  has  discovered  "  the 
champion  circulation  liar."  He  is  acting  as 
editor  of  the  Thundering  Dawn,  a  Buddhist 
organ  just  started  in  Tokyo.  Here  is  his 
greeting  to  the  public :  "  This  paper  has  come 
from  eternity.  It  starts  its  circulation  with 
millions  and  millions  of  numbers.  The  rays 
of  the  sun,  the  beams  of  the  stars,  the  leaves 
of  the  trees,  the  blades  of  grass,  the  grains 
of  sand,  the  hearts  of  tigers,  elephants,  lions, 
ants,  men,  and  women  are  its  subscribers. 
This  journal  will  henceforth  flow  in  the  uni- 
verse as  the  rivers  flow  and  the  oceans 
surge." 


It  is  related  that  when  he  first  visited  Ire- 
land, Thackeray  took  a  drive  on  a  Dublin 
car  some  distance  into  the  country-  Mile- 
stones had  recently  been  erected  along  the 
roads,  and  on  each  was  printed  the  number 
of  miles,  with  the  letters  "  G.  P.  O.,"  dis- 
tances being  measured  from  the  general  post- 
office.  Thackeray  was  unaware  of  this,  and 
;r.  his  thirst  for  information  asked  the  car- 
man what  the  letters  meant.  The  prompt  re- 
ply was:  "God  preserve  O'Connell."  Thack- 
eray believed  what  he  was  told,  but  the  inci- 
dent only  appeared  in  the  first  edition  of  his 
book. 


When  a  boy  in  Smyrna,  Justice  David  J. 
Brewer,  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court, 
once  paused  to  speak  to  Adjib,  a  scribe  of 
Smyrna,  on  the  highway.  Adjib's.  robe  was 
as  white  as  snow,  but  there  was  a  hole  in  it. 
"  There  is  a  hole  in  your  robe,  Adjib,"  Justice 
Brewer  said.  "  I  know  it,"  Adjib  replied. 
"If  you  know  it  why  don't  you  darn  it?" 
Brewer  asked.  "  For  the  sake  of  appear- 
ances," Adjib  answered;  "'a  hole  may  be  an 
accident  of  the  most  recent  happening.  A 
hole  will  pass  upon  a  king,  a  noble,  or  the 
most  rich  and  powerful  person.  But  a  darn 
is  the  sign  of  poverty.  There  is  no  getting 
around  it,  no  misunderstanding  it.  I  can  not 
afford  to  wear  a  darned  robe." 

In  his  "  Rossetti  Papers."  William  Rossetti 
says  that  when  Shelley  was  staying  in  the 
villa  of  the  Gisbornes  a  most  droll  incident 
occurred.  It  appears  that  his  servants,  Giu- 
seppe and  Annunziata,  who  were  man  and 
wife,  quarreled ;  and  Shelley,  hearing  Giu- 
seppe abusing  his  wife  very  savagely,  and  also 
ill-using  her,  rushed  upon  him  with  a  pistol, 
shouting,  "I'll  shoot  you!  I'll  shoot  you !  " 
The  startled  fellow  ran  for  his  very  life,  Shel- 
ley after  him,  till  the  servant,  coming  to  a 
shrubbery  of  laurels,  managed  to  slip  under 
them.  Shelley  in  his  eagerness  darting  past 
him,  he  in  a  few  minutes  found  it  possible 
to  dodge  back  into  the  house  unperceived. 
Shelley,  seeing  him  no  more,  at  last  went 
back  to  the  house,  where,  to  his  unutterable 
surprise,  he  found  Giuseppe  and  Annunziata 
sitting  together  in  the  most  amicable  manner, 
addressing  each  other  as  ""Caro  "  and  "  Caris- 
sima."  "  But  were  you  not  quarreling  even 
now  ?  "  exclaimed  the  perplexed  poet.    "  Quar- 


reling," gasped  Giuseppe,  in  amazement;  "no, 
signor,  we  never  quarreled."  **  But  I  have 
been  running  after  you  in  order  to  shoot  you." 
'*  No,  signor,  you  never  ran  after  me,  for  I 
have  been  sitting  here  for  the  last  hour  or 
more.  You  must  have  fancied  all  this."  And 
Giuseppe  and  Annunziata  (who  had  both 
been  considerably  frightened)  continuing  to 
assure  him  that  they  had  had  no  quarrel,  and 
Marj-  Shelley,  whom  they  had  let  into  the 
secret,  saying  the  same,  Shelley  was  at  last 
utterly  mystified,  and  inclined  himself  to  be- 
lieve that  he  must  have   fancied  it." 


It  was  the  custom  of  a  certain  minister, 
when  dining  at  the  home  of  one  of  his  best 
friends,  to  consume  a  glass  of  milk,  and 
then,  without  more  ado,  fall  to  and  enjoy  the 
spread,  which  was  always  elaborate  when  he 
was  expected.  One  day  when  .the  minister 
was  scheduled  to  appear,  instead  of  the  foamy 
glass  of  milk,  delicious  and  creamy,  his 
friend  placed  beside  his  plate  a  good,  stout 
rich  glass  of  milk  punch,  so  clearly  and  clev- 
erly prepared  that  it  resembled  nature's  con- 
coction to  a  nicety.  The  dinner  hour  duly 
arrived,  and  after  a  short  blessing  the  minis- 
ter seized  his  glass  and  quaffed.  Not  a  tre- 
mor, not  a  move,  not  an  exclamation,  did  he 
make,  until  the  beverage  was  consumed,  and 
t  hen  he  exclaimed,  as  he  pushed  the  glass 
from  him,  closed  his  eyes  and  smacked  his 
lips  :  '*  Ah  !  a  glorious  cow  !  " 


In  Arizona,  when  a  man  buys  a  thousand 
head  of  steers,  it  is  customary  to  allow  him  a 
ten  per  cent.  cut.  Old  Colonel  Gray  was 
selling  a  train  load  to  a  young  Califomian 
who  knew  his  business,  and,  though  nothing 
had  been  said  about  the  cut,  the  buyer  was 
making  the  accustomed  selections,  when  the 
colonel  happened  along  in  an  ill  humor,  and 
forbade  any  further  choice ;  whereupon  the 
young  man  refused  to  take  the  cattle.  The 
irate  colonel  swore  a  great  oath,  loaded  his 
steers,  and  started  for  Nevada ;  but  finding 
no  sale  for  them  there,  he  swore  some  more 
and  took  his  train  to  Colorado,  then  to  Kan- 
sas, and  then  to  Nebraska,  until  he  had  spent 
the  worth  of  his  cattle  in  transportation,  and 
had  loaded  and  unloaded  until  they  looked 
like  a  famine  in  a  dry  land.  At  last  in  des- 
peration he  began  selling  a  few  at  a  time. 
An  old  farmer  from  the  plains  came  in  to 
buy  a  band.  "  Can  you  load  'em  on  the 
kears?"  he  asked.  "Oh,"  said  the  exasper- 
ated colonel,  "  when  those  steers  hear  the  toot 
of  a  locomotive  you  can't  hold  'em.  They'll 
run  forty  miles  and  climb  aboard  themselves." 

Royalties  'Who  Didn't  Look  Royal. 

According  to  Hrolf  Wisby,  in  the  Inde- 
pendent, an  incident  which  King  Christian 
of  Denmark  never  tires  of  telling  as  a  good 
joke  on  royalty  occurred  when  he  and  his 
oldest  son,  the  Crown  Prince  Frederik,  ac- 
companied the  late  Czar  Alexander  the  Third 
of  Russia  on  a  pedestrian  tour  in  Denmark. 
Weary  of  walking,  they  asked  a  peasant  to 
give  them  a  ride  home,  to  which  he  assented. 
It  was  evident  from  the  peasant's  manner 
that  he  had  no  knowledge  who  were  his 
august  passengers.  The  king  made  up  his 
mind  to  play  a  practical  joke  on  the  man. 
but  as  it  happened  the  man  turned  the  joke 
on  the  king.  Nudging  the  Czar  with  his 
elbow,  the  king  said  to  the  peasant:  "Good 
man,  tell  me  have  you  ever  seen  the  Crown 
Prince  of  Denmark?" 

"Crown  Pete? — No,"  responded  the  man, 
his  answer  being  a  vernacular  pun  on  the 
Crown  Prince's  title;  "but  I  know  he  lives 
up  there  in  the  castle." 

"  Well,  I  am  the  Crown  Prince  of  Den- 
mark," announced  the  holder  of  that  title, 
restraining  himself  from  laughter  with  great 
difficulty. 

"  And  I  am  the  King  of  Denmark,"  sup- 
plemented King  Christian,  impressively. 

"  And  I  am  the  Czar  of  Russia,"  broke  in 
the  late  Czar  with  his  barbarous  pronuncia- 
tion of  Danish,  which  on  the  tongue  of  the 
present  Czar,  Nicholas,  sounds  like  that  of  a 
native. 

The  peasant  looked  them  over  slowly,  one 
by  one,  with  a  mischievous  eye,  and  barely 
removing  the  pipe  stem,  he  said  in  a  slow, 
crooning  voice : 

"  Weel-a-weel  !  If  you're  the  Crown  Pete, 
and  you're  the  King  Bee,  and  that  is  the 
Czarri  o'  Russialand,  then — I  am  the  Imperor 
o'  Chinah  J" 


The  Perfection 

of  a  pure,  rich,  •insweetened  condensed  milk  is 
Borden's  Peerless  btind  Evaporated  (  ream.  It  is 
always  available  for  eviry  use  to  which  raw  milk  or 
cream  is  devoted,  and  u  far  superior  to  the  average 
quality  of  either.  Prepaid  by  Borden's  Condensed 
MOk  Co. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 

The  Lay  of  the  City  Pavement. 
They  took  a  little  gravel. 

And  they  took  a  little  tar. 
With  various  ingredients 

Imported  from  afar. 
They  hammered  it  and  rolled  it. 

And  when  they  went  away 
They  said  they  had  a  pavement 

That  would  last  for  many  a  day. 

But  they  came  with  picks  and  smote  it 

To  lay  a  water  main: 
And  then  they  called  the  workmen 

To  put  it  back  again. 
To  run  a  railway  cable 

They  took  it  up  some  more; 
And  then  they  put  it  back  again 

Just  where  it  was  before. 

They  took  it  up  for  conduits 

To  run  the  telephone. 
And  then  they  put  it  back  again 

As  hard  as  any  stone. 
They  took  it  up  for  wires 

To  feed  the  'lectric  light. 
And  then  they  put  it  hack  again, 

Which  was  no  more  than  right 

Oh,  the  pavement's  full  of  furrows; 

There  are  patches  everywhere; 
You'd  like  to  ride  upon  it, 

But  it's  seldom  that  you  dare. 
It's  a  very  handsome  pavement, 

A  credit  to  the  town; 
They're  always  diggin'   of   it   up 

Or  puttin'  of  it  down. 

— Chicago    Inter-Ocean. 

The  Mule  and  the  Man. 
The  mule  he  is  a  gentle  beast; 
He's  satisfied  to  be  the  least; 

And  so  is  man. 
Like  man  he  may  be  taught  some  tricks; 
He  does  his  work  from  8  to  6; 
The  mule — when  he  gets  mad  he  kicks; 

And  so  does  man. 

The  mule — he  has  a  load  to  pull; 
He's  happiest  when  he  is  full; 

And  so  is  man. 
Like  man  he  holds  a  patient  poise, 
And  when  his  work's  done  will  rejoice. 
The  mule— he  likes  to  hear  his  voice; 

And  so  does  man. 

The  mule — he  has  his  faults,  'tis  true; 

And  so   has  man. 
He  does  some  things  he  should  not  do; 

And  so  does  man. 
Like  man  he  doesn't  yearn  for  style, 
But  wants  contentment  all  the  while. 
The  mule — he  has  a  lovely  smile; 

And  so  has  man. 

The  mule  is  sometimes  kind  and  good; 

And  so  is  man. 
He  eats  all  kinds  of  breakfast   food: 

And  so  does  man. 
Like  man  he  balks  at  gaudy  dress 
And  all  outlandish  foolishness. 
The  mule's  accused  of  mulishness; 

And  so  is  man. 

— 5"*.  Louis  Globe- Democrat. 


The  Lost  Golfer. 
[The  sharp  decline  of  ping-pong,  whose  attrac- 
tions at  its  zenith  seduced  many  golfers  from  the 
nobler  sport,  has  left  a  marked  void  in  the  breasts 
of  these  renegades.  Some  of  them  from  a  natural 
sense  of  shame  hesitate  to  return  to  their  first 
love.  The  conclusion  of  the  following  lines  should 
be  an  encouragement  to  this  class  of  prodigal.] 

Just  for  a  celluloid  pillule  he  left  us. 

Just  for  an  imbecile  batlet  and  ball, 
These  were  the  toys  by  which  Fortune  bereft  us 

Of  Jennings,  our  captain,  the  pride  of  us  all. 
Shopmen  with  clubs  to  sell  handed  him  rackets. 

Rackets  of  sand-paper,  rubber,  and  felt. 
Said  to  secure  an  unplayable  service, 

Pestilent  screws  and  the  death-dealing  welt. 
Oft    had    we    played    with    him,    partnered    him, 
swore  by  him, 

Copied  his  pitches,  in  height  and  in  cut, 
Hung  on  his  words,  as  he  delved  in  a  bunker, 

Made  him  our  pattern  to  drive  and  to  putt. 
Benedick's  with  us,  the  major  is  of  us, 

S wiper  the  county  bat's  still  going  strong. 
He  alone  broke  from  the  links  and  the  clubhouse. 

He  alone  sank  in  the  slough  of  Ping-Pong. 

We  have  "come  on" — but  not  his  the  example; 

Sloe-gin  has  quickened  u; — not  bis  the  cash; 
Holes  done  in  6  where  a  4  would  be  ample 

Vexed  bim  not,  busy  perfecting  a  smash. 
Rased  was  his  name  as  a  decadent  angel, 

One  more  mind  unhinged  by  a  pirTulent  game. 
One  more  parlor-hero,   the  worshiped  of  school- 
girls. 

Who    once    had    a    princely    "  plus    5  "    to    his 
name. 
Jennings  is  gone;   yet  perhaps  he'll  come  back  to 
us. 

Healed  of  his  hideous  lesion  of  brain. 
Back  to  the  links  in  the  daytime;  at  twilight 

Back  to  his  cozy  club-corner  again. 
Back  for  the  Medal  Day.  back  for  our  foresomes. 

Back  from  the  tables'  diminishing  throng. 
Back  from  the  infantile,  ceaseless  half-volley. 

Back  from  the  lunatic  lure  of  Ping-Pong. 

— Punch. 


Uoore'H  Poison-Oak  Remedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

St.  Louis Sept.  30,10am  I  Phil'delphia  Oct.  14,  10am 

New  York Oct.  7, 10  am  j  St.  Louis Oct.  21, 10  am 

Philadelphia— Queen -(town  — Liverpool. 

Friesland Oct.  3,  9  am  I  Belgenland  .  ..Oct.  17.  9am 

West'nl'd  Oct.  10.  11.30am  |  Haverf  rd. Oct.  24. 11.30am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 
Minnehaha — Oct.  3,  3  pm  I  Min'el'nka. Oct.  17,  1.30  pm 

Mesaba Oct.  10.  9  am  |  Min'apolis. .    Oct.  24,  Sam 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON-UUEENSTUWN— LIVERPOOL. 

New  England Oct.  I  I  Commonwealth Oct.  22 

Mayflower Oct.S     New  England Oct.  29 

Columbus  {new)  ...Oct.  15  |  Mayflower Nov.  5 

Montreal — Liverpool— Short  sea  passage. 

Southwark Oct.  3  J  Kensington Oct.  17 

Dominion Oct.  10  1  Canada Oct.  31 

Boston    Mediterranean    Dlrect 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Vancouver Saturday,  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

Cambroman Saturday,  Oct.  31.  Dec.  12 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Zetland  Oct.  3  I  Vaderland  Oct.  17 

Finland Oct.  10  |  Kroonland Oct.  24 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   TORK-QCEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL 

Victorian Sept.  29.  noon  I  Germanic Oct.  7,  noon 

Teutonic Sept.  30,  noon  I  Cedric Oct.  9. 7  am 

Arabic Oct.  2,  2.30  pm  |  Armenian. .  ..Oct.  13, 10am 

C.  1>.  TAYLOR.   Passenger  Agent,  Pacific  Coast, 
21  post  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  \Vhari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  F.  M.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Wednesday,   Oct.  7 

Coptic Saturday,  Oct.   31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)  "Wednesday,  Nov.  25 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  23 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates'. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 


V  TOYO 

W*w  KISEN 

1|S  KAISHA 

r^^B       OR,ENJAL  s-  s-  co- 

I  [    ^^B  IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 

■'  ^*  U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  u.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo;,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon  Haru Thursday,   October  15 

America  Marti Tuesday,  November  10 

Hongkong  Maru Thursday,  December  3 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421  Market  Street.  comer'First. 

W.   H.   AVKKY.  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  \  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Ventura,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday.  Oct.  S,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 
S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,    Oct.    17,    1903, 

at  11  a.  si. 
S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti.  Oct.  26,  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 
J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 
Street.    Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 

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THE        ARGON  AUT 


September  28,  1903. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Mary 
Harrington,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Har- 
rington, of  Colusa,  and  Lieutenant-Commander 
Albert  P.  Niblack,  U.  S.  N. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Caroline  Stetson  Ayers,  daughter  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Grosvenor  P.  Ayers,  and  Mr.  Dennis 
S  c '  i  r  1 1."  ^ 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of  Miss 
Marjorie  Moore,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H. 
K.  Moore,  and  Mr.  Hugh  H.  Brown. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Ade- 
laide Deming,  daughter  of  Mr.  E.  O.  Deming, 
and  Mr.  Robert  Mein,  of  Oakland. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Daisy 
Burns,  daughter  of  Captain  A.  M.  Burns,  and 
Mr.  Jason  Gould. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  P.  Jones  have  sent  out 
invitations  for  the  wedding  of  their  daughter. 
Miss  Marion  Jones,  to  Mr.  Robert  D.  Farquhar, 
in  New  York,  on  Tuesday,  September  29th. 
The  ceremony  will  be  performed  at  Grace 
Church  at  noon.  A  wedding  breakfast  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  parents  on  East  Seven- 
teenth  Street,  Stuyvesant  Square,  will  follow. 

Invitations  have  been  sent  out  for  the  wed- 
ding of  Miss  Therese  Morgan,  daughter  of 
'Mrs.  William  P.  Morgan,  and  Mr.  Norns  King 
Davis  which  will  take  place  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  mother,  2211  Clay  Street,  on 
Wednesday  evening,  October  7th,  at  nine 
o'clock.  , 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Marion  Comn  and 
Mr.  John  Shepard  Eells  will  take  place  to-day 
(Saturday)  in  the  Episcopal  church  in  Ross 
Valley.  The  maid  of  honor  will  be  Miss 
Natalie  Coffin. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Marion  Holden,  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  S.  P.  Holden,  and  Mr.  Charles 
Stockton  Pope  took  place  on  Monday  in  Trin- 
ity Episcopal  Church.  Bishop  Nichols  offici- 
ated assisted  by  Rev.  Frederick  Clampett, 
rector  of  the  church.  Miss  Milward  Holden 
was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss  Anna 
Holden  and  Miss  Lutie  Collier  acted 
as  bridesmaids.  Mr.  William  Knowles  was 
best  man,  and  Mr.  Gustavus  Pope,  Dr. 
Saxon  Pope,  Mr.  James  Keith,  and  Major 
Julius  Penn  served  as  ushers.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Pope  left  later  in  the  day  on  their  wedding 
journey,  and  on  their  return,  in  a  fortnight, 
will  oecupy  the  former  residence  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wallace  Irwin  on  Russian  Hill. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Adelaide  Fairbanks, 
daughter  of  Senator  and  Mrs.  Fairbanks,  and 
Ensign  John  W.  Timmons,  U.  S.  N.,  took 
place  in  Washington,  D.  C,  last  Saturday  af- 
ternoon, the  ceremony  being  performed  by 
Chaplain  Clark,  U.  S.  N. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Jessie  Scott  Easton, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Easton,  and 
Mr.  Loren  E.  Hunt  will  take  place  at  noon, 
Tuesday,  October  6th,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  parents,  109  Fell  Street.  The  cere- 
mony will  be  performed  by  the  Rev.  William 
Kirk  Guthrie,  and  only  relatives  and  intimate 
friends  will  be  present. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Sara  K.  Robertson, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Robert- 
son, of  Honolulu,  and  Mr,  James  Donahue 
Dougherty,  son  of  Mrs.  Joseph  Spear,  took 
place  on  Wednesday  evening  at  "  Punahoe," 
the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  in   Honolulu. 

Invitations  are  out  for  the  first  Assembly, 
to  be  given  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Novem- 
ber 23d.  The  patronesses  of  this  club  are  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Martin,  Mrs.  W.  H.  McKittrick,  Mrs. 
William  Irwin,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Voorhies,  Mrs. 
John  D.  Spreckels,  Mrs.  McClung,  and  Mrs. 
Bowman  McCalla.  The  dates  of  the  two  other 
assemblies  will  be  December  31st  and  January 
29th. 

Mrs.  William  C.  Van  Fleet  will  give  a  tea 
next  Friday  in  honor  of  her  cousin,  Mrs.  Sloat 
Fassett,  of  New  York,  and  Miss  Margaret 
Fassett.  Those  who  will  assist  in  receiving 
are  Mrs.  F.  H'.  Green,  Miss  Margaret  Bender, 
Mrs.  H.  J.  Crocker,  Miss  Helen  Dea'n,  Miss 
Emily  Wilson.  Miss  Elizabeth  Huntington, 
Miss  Marion  Huntington,  Miss  Katharine  Dil- 
lon, and  Mrs.  Herrin. 

Airs.  Laura  Roe  gave  a  lawn  tea  at  her  resi- 
dence in  Ross  Valley  last  Saturday,  and  many 
San  Francisco  ladies  crossed  the  bay  to  bt 
present.  The  hours  were  from  half  after  two 
o'clock  until  half  after  five.  Mrs.  Roe  was 
assisted  in  receiving  by  Mrs.  R.  J.  Davis,  Mrs. 
Charles  Belden,  Mrs.  H.  E.  Bothin,  Miss  Ger- 
trude Jones,  Miss  Ethel  Valentine,  Miss  Clara 
Rice,  Miss  Ella  Morgan,  Miss  Elsie  Marsh, 
and  Miss  Gertrude  Wheeler. 

Mr.  James  D.  Phelan  gave  a  luncheon  at 
his  residence  on  Valencia  Street  on  Wednes- 
day, at  which  he  entertained  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Truxton  Beale,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Martin, 
Mrs.  McLean  Martin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Grace,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Miss 
JolifFe,   Mrs.  Oxnard.   Miss   Kipp.   Miss   Marie 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

fhere  is  no  substitute 


Wells,  Mr.  Joseph  Tobin,  Mr.  William  Greer 
Harrison,  Mr.  Enrique  t  Grau,  Mr.  Thomas 
Magee,  and  Captain  Robert  Fletcher. 

Mrs.  J.  H.  Jewett  gave  a  luncheon  on  Tues- 
day in  the  Palm  Garden  of  the  Palace  Hotel 
in  honor  of  Mrs.  M.  M.  Estee.  Others  at 
table  were  Mrs.  Charles  Deering,  Mrs.  T.  B. 
McFarland,  Mrs.  Mann  Wilson.  Mrs.  Alfred 
H.  Voorhies,  Mrs.  Norris,  Mrs.  Adam  Grant, 
Mrs.  North,  Miss  Carrie  Ayers,  and  Miss  Mc- 
Farland. 

MUSICAL     NOTES. 


Marriage  of  Kubelik. 

Accounts  are  just  coming  to  hand  of  the 
marriage  of  Jan  Kubelik,  the  famous  Bohemian 
violinist,  and  the  Countess  Marienne  Csaky- 
Szell.  at  Debreczin,  Hungary,  on  August  26th. 
The  happy  pair  are  almost  the  same  age. 
Kubelik  was  born  at  Michle,  near  Prague, 
in  1S80,  the  son  of  a  market  gardener^  and 
d^*  -■  --*•-*■ ---'■'  - ■■-  vear  his  junior.-  She  is  the 
daii  ■'"  ,,1fqang  von  Szell  Bessen- 

yei,  •     '■  ■    I       :■!■■■   senate   at   Debreczin. 

At   lac  a&v  she   married   a   Hun- 

garian count,  L  u  luc  Liuiun  was  of  short  du- 
ration, the  countess  securing  n  divorce  after 
a  few  weeks  of  wedded  life. 

It  was  at  Kubelik's  initial  appearance  at  De- 
breczin, in  1900,  that  he  first  set  eyes  on  the 
lovely  countess,  with  whom  he  fell  immedi- 
ately in  love.  But  he  resolved  not  to  be 
swayed  by  a  momentary  impulse,  and  post- 
poned his  proposal  for  three  years,  during 
which  he  kept  up  a  correspondence  with  her. 
The  feminine  enthusiasm  lavished  upon  him 
in  America  and  England,  and  the  offers  of 
marriage  he  received  did  not  estrange  him 
from  his  "  ideal,"  as  he  termed  the  countess. 
It  was  on  February  27,  1903,  in  Vienna, 
just  before  a  concert  which  he  gave,  that 
Kubelik  formally  offered  his  hand  to  the 
lovely  Hungarian  and  was  accepted.  That 
evening  she  appeared  in  one  of  the  boxes, 
and  the  brown-haired  and  brown-eyed  beauty 
divided  with  him  the  attention  of  the  audi- 
ence. Her  relatives  opposed  the  match,  but 
her  persistence  and  determination  ultimately 
converted  them  to  her  side.  Their  wedding 
trip  is  to  be  a  sort  of  triumphal  journey,  for 
during  October  and  November  Kubelik  will 
give  concerts  in  England,  Scotland,  and  Ire- 
land. For  December  he  is  engaged  in  Rus- 
sia; for  January,  1904,  in  the  large  towns  of 
Austria  ;  Italy,  the  South  of  France,  and  the 
Riviera  will  be  visited  in  February ;  March 
will  be  spent  in  Paris;  April  and  May  in 
Belgium  and  Holland.  In  June  and  July 
Kubelik  returns  again  to  Great  Britain,  and 
then  he  will  rest  in  Hungary.  It  is  said  that 
the  unhappy  dispute  which  broke  out  last  year 
between  Kubelik  and  his  family,  owing  to  in- 
vestments he  had  made,  is  now  finally  settled, 
and  that  peace  is  restored  between  himself, 
his  mother,  and  his  brothers  and  sisters. 


Lillian  Nordica  has  the  distinction  of  being 
asked  to  sing  Isolde  in  "  Tristan  und  Isolde  " 
at  the  Wagner  festival  now  in  progress  in 
Munich,  over  all  the  available  prima  donne. 
She  had  been  engaged  to  sing  in  the  cycle 
of  "  The  Ring,"  and  one  presentation  of 
"  Tristan,"  but  she  was  so  triumphant  in 
that  one  that  Director  von  Possart  asked 
her  to  sing  in  both  the  remaining  presenta- 
tions. Failing  to  secure  her  for  the  second. 
Von  Possart  wrote:  "Will  you  not  at  least 
give  us  your  highly  artistic  assistance  in  the 
third  and  last  presentation  of  the  work,  which 
takes  place  on  September  5th  ?  Your  ex- 
traordinary success  leads  me  to  beg  you  to 
give  the  international  public,  and  the  people 
of  Munich  in  attendance  at  the  festival,  an- 
other opportunity  to  witness  your  masterly 
interpretation."  Mine.  Nordica  acceded  to 
this   humble  request. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  many  of  the  Tivoli 
Opera  House  musicians  who  have  been  play- 
ing at  the  symphony  concerts  find  the  Scheel 
rehearsals  and  the  grand-opera  rehearsals  too 
taxing  on  their  time  and  strength,  it  has  been 
decided  to  give  them  a  week's  rest,  and  the 
concert  announced  for  next  Tuesday  will  be 
abandoned.  The  final  Scheel  concert  will 
take  place  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Tues- 
day afternoon,  October  6th,  when  the  prin- 
cipal novelties  of  the  programme  will  be  the 
"  Rustic  Wedding "  symphony  of  Goldmark. 
and  the  music  of  "  Montezuma "  (music 
drama),   by   Dr.    H.   J.   Stewart. 

Manager  Will  Greenbaum  announces  for  the 
opening  of  the  concert  season  at  the  Lyric 
Hall,  the  young  American  pianist,  Augusta 
Cottlow,  who  created  an  immense  sensation 
here  some  years  ago  when  she  appeared  as  a 
child.  Natorp  Blumenfeld.  a  talented  young 
violinist,  has  been  especially  engaged  for  these 
concerts,  which  will  take  place  on  the  nights 
of  October  13th  and  15th  and  Saturday  after- 
noon, October  17th. 

A  splendid  programme  will  be  given  in  the 
musical  service  at  Trinity  Church  on  Sundav 
evening.  September  27th,  at  eight  o'clock,  when 
Edward  Elgar's  masterpiece.  "  Lux  Christe," 
a  short  oratorio,  will  be  rendered  by  Trinity 
choir,  under  the  direction  of  Louis  Eaton, 
organist. 

Mme.  Schuman-Hink,  the  famous  contralto, 
who  was  such  a  favorite  here  with  the  Grau 
Grand  Opera  Company,  will  shortly  give 
S^v,ewM,  "c,tals  in  this  city  under  the  direction 
of  Will  Greenbaum. 

Among  other  plays  which  Mrs.  Patrick 
Campbell  hopes  to  bring  out  in  the  course  of 
her  autumn  season  is  "Tristan  and  Iseult  " 
by  Joseph  Comyns  Carr. 


Damages  Awarded  Marriott. 
The  jury  in  the  suit  of  Frederick  Marriott 
against  Thomas  H.  Williams  and  Truxtun 
Beale  for  $100,000  damages,  returned  a  ver- 
dict in  favor  of  Marriott  and  against  Williams 
alone  for  $16,780.  Judge  Sloss  instructed  the 
jury  that  it  might  find  a  verdict  against  one 
of  the  defendants  if  it  did  not  wish  to  decide 
against  both.  The  jury  was  polled,  and  the 
verdict  was  found  to  be  unanimous.  It  is 
understood  that  the  attorney  for  Williams  will 
ask  for  a  new  trial.  He  contends  that_  error 
was  committed  by  the  court  in  admitting  in 
evidence  statements  made  by  Mrs.  Marriott 
the  night  of  the  shooting.  In  the  event  that 
Judge  Sloss  should  deny  the  motion  for  a  new 
trail,  an  appeal  will  be  taken  to  the  supreme 
court.  In  the  verdict  of  the  jury  $6,780  were 
fixed  as  the  amount  of  the  actual  damages 
suffered  by  Marriott.  This  was  the  sum  he 
asked  for  in  payment  of  his  doctor's  bills  and 
the  other  expenses  of  his  illness.  The  other 
$10,000  was  added  as  exemplary  damages.  The 
jury  was  composed  of  George  R.  Armstrong, 
William  Rayhill,  William  D.  Ball,  Charles  W. 
Chapman.  John  Tonningsen,  Charles  Ober- 
deener,  John  R.  McGuffick,  William  J.  Evans, 
John  Stokes,  C.  H.  Ingerson,  James  G.  Boobar, 
and  Samuel  Isaacs. 


For  a  New  City  and  County  Hospital. 
The  urgent  necessity  for  a  new  City  and 
County  Hospital  is  recognized  by  all  who  are 
acquainted  with  the  existing  conditions.  The 
following  committee  earnestly  request  all  citi- 
zens of  San  Francisco  to  inquire  into  this 
matter  and  vote  for  the  appropriation  of  a 
new  City  and  County  Hospital  at  the 
bond  election  next  Tuesday :  Mrs.  Will- 
iam Crocker,  Mrs.  Horace  Davis,  Mrs.  L. 
L.  Baker,  Mrs.  George  Gibbs,  Mrs.  M.  H. 
Hecht,  Miss  Elizabeth  Ashe,  Miss  Kohl,  Mrs. 
Phebe  Hearst,  Mrs.  C.  P.  Pomeroy,  Mrs.  H. 
M.  Sherman,  Mrs.  William  Smedberg,  Mrs.  F. 
G.  Sanborn,  Mrs.  Frank  L.  Symmes,  Mrs. 
William  Tevis,  Mrs.  Cyrus  Walker,  Mrs.  Nor- 
man McLaren,  and  Mrs.  Lovell  White. 


Maxine  Elliott's  girlish  figure  on  her  return 
from  Europe,  a  few  weeks  ago,  astonished 
her  friends.  Miss  Elliott  had  faded  away  to 
the  proportions  of  a  sylph.  The  fact  was  that 
while  her  husband,  Nat  Goodwin,  was  enjoy- 
ing an  outing  in  Yosemite  Valley,  she  had 
been  preparing  for  her  first  season  as  a  star 
not  by  a  summer  of  rest,  but  by  one  of  star- 
vation. In  her  determination  to  lose  all  the 
flesh  possible  in  three  months,  she  neglected 
as  far  as  she  dared  the  necessary  formality 
of  eating.  Now  she  is  suffering  the  conse- 
quences of  her  excess,  but  as  the  doctors 
have  decided  that  she  needs  only  a  few  square 
meals  to  make  her  well  again,  there  is  no 
real  alarm  over  her  condition. 


A  movement  is  on  foot  to  organize  a  new 
social  club  in  San  Francisco,  to  be  composed 
exclusively  of  members  of  the  railroad,  steam- 
ship, and  electric  railway  fraternities.  It  will 
incorporate  when  it  attains  a  membership  of 
one  hundred,  and  an  effort  will  be  made  to 
secure  the  top  floor  of  the  new  Flood  Build- 
ing at  Powell  and  Market  Streets  for  club- 
rooms.  It  is  expected  that  all  the  prominent 
railroad  and  steamship  officials  in  San  Fran- 
cisco will  identify  themselves  with  the  new 
oganization. 

The  first  open  meeting  of  the  Outdoor  Art 
League  since  the  summer  vacation  will  take 
place  at  Sorosis  Club-Rooms,  1620  California 
Street,  on  Monday  afternoon,  September  28th, 
at  three  o'clock.  The  Rev.  Father  Caraher, 
the  public-spirited  priest,  will  speak  on  "  The 
Necessity  of  Preserving  Telegraph  Hill."  Miss 
Ina  D.  Coolbrith  will  read  a  poem,  and  Mrs. 
Fassett  will  give  her  impressions  of  the  hill 
cities  of  Europe.  All  interested  in  the  preser- 
vation of  Telegraph  Hill  are  urged  to  be 
present. 

The  municipality  of  Carlsbad,  the  cele- 
brated health  resort  in  Bohemia,  is  taking  a 
loan  of  about  two  million  five  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  to  be  expended  in  improvements 
and  new  structures,  among  the  latter  being  a 
bathing-hall  and  an  assembly  building,  and 
the  extension  of  the  water-works  and  of  the 
electric  plant. 


—  Correct,  natty,  are  the  Ladies'  Shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  •"Shirt  Tai  or,"  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,   Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Franco,  C; 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVEI  1 
with  difficulty  recognize  thf  RT 
into  which  for  twenty-fivt  i.-es 
have  been  driven.  This  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  the 
addition  of  very  haudsoi  e  I  jgs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropic:  .  _  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  r  EST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

1THE  EMPIRE  P 
ROOM,  furnished  ir 
and  Pool  tables  for  ■ 

XV  PARLOR-the  'l.\\i 
ROOM,  and  nunie'  Jern  im- 
provements, loget'  died  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  tioninthe 
City — all  add  mu  -  increasing 
popularity  of  thr  iotel. 


I 


Pears' 

Pretty  boxes  and  odors 
are  u«ed  to  sell  such 
soaps,  as  no  one  would 
touch  if  he  saw  them  un- 
disguised. Beware  of  a 
soap  that  depends  on 
something   outside   of  it. 

Pears',  the  finest  soap 
in  ihe  world  is  scented  or 
not,  as  you  wish ;  and  the 
money  is  in  the  merchan- 
dise, not  in  the  box. 

Established  over  100  years. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  aud  Jones  .Sis, 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GKOKGE   WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 

HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  MESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1 0OO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Kichelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU  CO. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
maiaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.     Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  p.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, ir  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H-  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P»  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty    minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  «four  trains    daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

R.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 

HIINTFR  WHISKEY 

Orallflen    md  Always  Satisfies. 

C.  H.  REHNSTROM    , 

FORMERLY   SANDERS   &  JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 

Phelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  53S7.  SAN  FRANCISCO 


September  28. 


1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


207 


MOVEMENTS    AND    -WHEREABOUTS. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the   whereabouts   of  absent    Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chauncey  R.  Winslow  have 
returned  to  San  Francisco,  after  a  stay  of 
several  months  East. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Kittle  and  Miss  Kittle  returned 
to  San  Francisco  last  week,  after  an  absence 
of  several  months. 

Prince  and  Princess  Andre  Poniatowskt, 
who  have  arrived  in  New  York,  will  sail  for 
Europe  on  October  6th. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  B.  Crockett  will  spend 
the  winter  at  their  cottage  at  Burlingame. 

Mr.  Charles  Rollo  Peters  came  up  this  week 
from  his  country  place  at  Monterey.  Mr. 
Peters  contemplates  going  to  England  in  the 
near  future. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Parrott  have  taken  the 
Loughborough  house  on  O'Farrell  Street  for 
the  winter  season,  and  expect  to  occupy  it  next 
month. 

Mr.  Theodore  Wores  when  last  heard  from 
was  in  Granada,  Spain. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins,  who  left 
town  some  weeks  since  for  the  mountains, 
have  returned  to  the  Coast.  Mr.  Hopkins  will 
leave  for  the  East  on  Sunday. 

Mrs.  C.  T.  Deane  has  just  returned  from  a 
trip  to  Lake  Tahoe. 

Dr.  Henry  Gibbons  and  Miss  Florence  Gib- 
bons were  among  the  visitors  at  Santa  Barbara 
last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Truxtun  Beaie  were  at  the 
Hotel   Rafael   during  the  week. 

Miss  Katharine  Dillon  and  Miss  Patricia 
Cosgrove  returned  to  San  Francisco  on  Sunday 
last,  after  an  extended  stay  abroad. 

Mr.  Julius  Kruttschnitt,  Jr.,  after  a  short 
visit  to  New  York,  has  entered  Yale  College. 

Miss  Daisy  Van  Ness  has  returned  from 
Calistoga,  where  she  has  spent  the  summer. 

Mrs.  Herbert  Gee,  of  Reno,  is  visiting  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Albert  Redding,  who  has  been 
quite  ill.  __ 

Miss  Lucie  King  was  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Schwerin  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  McClure  Gregory  (nee 
Lohse)  have  returned  from  their  wedding 
journey  in  Southern  California. 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling  and  Mr.  Frederick 
Hotaling  have  departed  for  Europe. 

Mrs.  Clinton  Jones  will  close  her  country- 
residence  at  Ross  Valley  on  October  ist,  and 
spend  the  winter  at  The  Colonial. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Huntington  and  Miss  Marion 
Huntington  have  returned  from  their  visit 
to  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  McNear  have  taken 
a  house  on  the  corner  of  Pacific  Avenue  and 
Octavia  Street  for  the  winter. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Ellinwood  and  Miss  Char- 
lotte EUinwood  will  spend  the  month  of 
October  in  Southern  California. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Allen  and  family,  who 
are  to  occupy  the  Mills  residence  on  Jackson 
Street  during  the  winter,  will  return  to  town 
from  Ross  Valley  next  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  M.  Starr  and  Miss 
Starr  have  taken  apartments  for  the  winter 
at  1 812  Van  Ness  Avenue. 

Mrs.  Morton  Gibbons  is  entertaining  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Sunderland,  of  Reno,  at  hex  resi- 
dence on  Franklin   Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  H.  Umbsen  will  spend  the 
autumn  and  winter  at  The  Colonial. 

Mr.  James  D.  Phelan  left  for  the  East  on 
Thursday. 

Mr.  Harry  Mendell  and  family  are  guests  at 
the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Miss  Mary  Harrington  and  Miss  Louise  Har- 
rington have  returned  from  their  visit  to  Mrs. 
"  McCalla,  at  Mare  Island. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willis  Polk  arrived  from  the 
East  early  in  the  week,  after  an  absence 
abroad. 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Loughborough,  accompanied  by 
her  daughter,  Miss  Loughborough,  will  leave 
for  Europe  about  the  middle  of  October.  They 
expect  to  spend  the  winter  in  Rome. 

Mr.  Athole  McBean  was  a  guest  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Page  will  spend  the 
coming  winter  in  San  Francisco,  having  taken 
a  house  on  Octavia  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller  expect  to 
spend  the  fall  months  in  New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Casey,  after  passing 
the  summer  at  the  Hotel  Rafael,  are  occupying 
their  new  residence  on  Broadway. 

Mrs.  M.  M.  Estee,  after  a  month's  stay  in 
San  Francisco,  will  sail  for  Honolulu  (to-day) 
Saturday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  and  the 
Misses  de  Young  have  returned  to  town,  after 
spending  the  summer  in  San  Rafael. 

Mrs.  Mclvor,  of  Portland,  Or.,  is  the  guest 
of   her  parents,    Colonel   and   Mrs.    Smedberg. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Mr.  D.  J.  Bonsfield,  of  London, 
England,  Mr.  George  C.  Holberton  and  Mr.  A. 
G.  Whittemore,  of  Cedarville,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Wilson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fremont  Older, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lorenzo  Sosso,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry  Levy,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  L.  Hamilton, 
Mrs.  John  Weiglein,  Miss  Hazel  Weiglein, 
Miss  Marie  Wells,  Miss  L.  Swanberg,  Mr. 
Francis  J.  Heney,  Mr.  Charles  E.  Stolkes, 
Mr.  George  W.  Heintz,  Mr.  P.  B.  Ausoacher, 
and  Mr.  H.  C.  Brundy. 

Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

General  Robert  L.  Mead,  U.  S.  M.  C,  Mrs. 
Mead,  Miss  Mead,  and  Miss  Henrietta  Mead 
are  registered  at  The  Colonial. 

Colonel  William  S.  Patten,  U.  S.  A.,  arrived 
from  the  East  last  Monday,  and  on  Tuesday 
assumed  the  duties  of  chief  quartermaster  of 
the  Department  of  California.  Colonel  and 
Mrs.  Patten  have  been  the  guests  this  week 
of  their  son  at  Alcatraz  Island. 

Colonel  Thomas  C.  Woodbury,  Thirteenth 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  has  gone  to  Angel  Island, 


where  he  will  remain  in  charge  of  the  depot 
of  recruit  instruction. 

Colonel  Charles  H.  Noble,  Tenth  Infantry". 
U.  S.  A.,  arrived  with  his  regiment  from 
Manila  last  week,  and,  being  the  senior  officer, 
is  in  charge  of  the  post. 

Miss  Jennie  Miller,  daughter  of  Rear- 
Admiral  Miller,  U.  S.  N.,  has  returned  from 
her  extended  Eastern  trip,  and  has  joined  her 
parents  at  The  Colonial. 

Major  Benjamin  H.  Randolph,  Artillery 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  in  the  East 
for  several  months,  returned  to  his  duty  in 
California  a  few  days  ago. 

General  G.  B.  Dandy.  U.  S.  A.,  Mrs.  Dean, 
and  Captain  J.  F.  Dean,  U.  S.  A.,  have  taken 
apartments  at  The  Colonial  for  the  coming 
season. 

Major  James  B.  Aleshire,  quartermaster's 
department,  U.  S.  A.,  who  arrived  from  the 
Philippines  on  the  transport  Sherman  last 
week,  has  proceeded  to  Washington,  D.  C. 
where  he  will  be  on  duty  in  the  office  of  the 
quartermaster-general. 

Major  Hobart  K.  Bailey.  U.  S.  A.,  who  ha= 
been  inspector-general  of  the  Island  of  Luzoi 
returned  from  the  Philippines  on  the  transpor 
Sherman. 

Colonel   C.   A.    Booth,    U.    S.   A.,    and    M. 
Booth  are  at  The  Colonial. 

Lieutenant  Douglas  MacArthur,  Engineer 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  will  sail  for  Manila  on  the 
transport  leaving  here  next  Thursday. 


Craze  of  the  Alaska  Indians  for  Alcohol. 
Florida  Water,  containing  ninety-six  per 
cent,  of  wood  alcohol,  has  decimated  the 
Ketchikan  Indians  on  Prince  of  Wales  Island, 
Alaska.  It  was  sold  to  them  last  spring  by 
Zumdiock  and  his  wife,  who  keep  a  store  at 
Ketchikan.  Three  Indians  died,  after  suffer- 
ing great  agony,  and  many  others  were  made 
very  sick.  One  of  them  has  been  rendered 
permanently  blind.  The  grand  jury  indicted 
Zumdiock  and  his  wife  for  selling  liquor 
to  Indians,  but  they  have  just  been  acquitted, 
after  admitting  that  they  sold  Florida  Water, 
but  denying  knowledge  of  its  composition. 
United  States  Marshal  Shoup  brought  down 
samples  of  the  Florida  Water  for  analysis 
at  the  university,  and  ascertained  that  it 
consisted  chiefly  of  wood  alcohol.  The 
Alaskan  Indians  are  in  the  habit  of  buying 
anything  which  contains  alcohol.  The  Florida 
Water  offered  them  a  new  opportunity,  which 
they  embraced,  with  deadly  results.  The  re- 
sult of  the  acquittal  of  the  Zumdiocks  will  be 
to  place  in  jeopardy  the  lives  of  white  pros- 
pectors in  that  part  of  Alaska.  This  is  due 
to  the  Indian  custom  that  the  life  of  a  white 
man  shall  be  taken  in  revenge  for  every  In- 
dian killed. 


Postmaster  Hawley,  of  San  Jose,  has  been 
notified  that  his  request  made  to  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  railway  mail  service  here  for  a 
mail  by  the  theatre  train  has  been  approved, 
and  that  it  will  be  put  on  as  soon  as  the 
necessary  authority  for  the  messenger  service 
is  received  from  Washington.  By  the  new 
arrangement  letters  mailed  in  San  Francisco 
between  6  and  10  p.  m.,  as  well  as  the  Eastern 
mails  due  here  early  in  the  evening,  will  be 
received  in  San  Jose  and  distributed  for  de- 
livery by  carriers  on  the  first  morning  delivery 
— a  net  gain  of  several  hours.  An  additional 
mail  connecting  at  San  Francisco  for  Northern 
California,  Oregon,  and  Washington  points 
has  also  been  allowed.  This  mail  will  close  at 
San  Jose  at  5  p.  m.  Heretofore,  the  last  con- 
nection  for  these  points  was  at  3  :45   p.   M. 


While  playing  polo  at  Onwentsia  field  last 
Saturday,  Nathan  Swift,  son  of  Louis  N. 
Swift,  the  Chicago  packer,  was  hit  by  a  polo 
ball.  Mr.  Swift  did  not  appreciate  his  danger 
until  too  late,  the  glare  of  the  sun  preventing 
him  from  following  the  ball  in  its  flight.  When 
the  ball  hit  him  he  did  not  fall  from  his  saddle, 
and  when  his  companions  galloped  to  his  side 
he  was  at  first  inclined  to  make  light  of  the 
injury.  He  was  induced  to  dismount,  and 
walked  without  aid  from  the  field.  Arriving 
home,  he  complained  of  dizziness,  and  later 
went  into  a  delirium.  During  the  night  an 
operation  was  performed  to  relieve  a  ruptured 
blood  vessel  near  the  brain.  This  gave  only 
temporary  relief  to  Mr.  Swift,  who  later  died. 


During  the  run  of  "  Ben  Hur  "  at  the  Grand 
Opera  House,  excursions  are  to  be  run  to  this 
city  from  San  Jose,  Santa  Cruz,  Sacramento, 
Santa  Rosa,  and  Stockton  in  order  that  people 
from  all  over  the  State  may  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  see  this  elaborate  spectacle.  "  Ben 
Hur "  is  not  to  be  presented  in  any  city  in 
California  outside  of  San  Francisco,  owing 
to  the  magnitude  of  the  production  and  the 
lack  of  stage  facilities. 

There  is  no  more  delightful  way  of  enjoying 
a  day's  outing  than  in  making  a  trip  up  Mt. 
Tamalpais.  In  addition  to  the  pleasant  journey- 
up  the  bay  to  Sausalito  you  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  admire  the  beautiful  scenery'  of  Mill 
Valley,  while  the  panoramic  views  from  the 
veranda  of  the  Tavern  and  the  summit  of  the 
mountain  are  glorious. 


Kyrle  Bellew  is  starring  this  season  in  a 
dramatization  of  E.  W.  Hornung's  "  Tales  of 
an  Amateur  Cracksman,"  the  leading  charac- 
ter being  Raffles,  the  gentleman  burglar,  who 
sadly  abused  the  hospitality  of  his  aristocratic 
friends  and  even  aspired  to  the  hand  of  a 
beautiful  heiress. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


A.  Hirachinan, 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


The  United  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy. 
The  third  annual  convention  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Division  of  the  United  Daughters  of  the 
Confederacy  will  meet  on  Monday  morning, 
October  5th,  at  21  n  California  Street,  at  ten 
o'clock.  The  following  day  (Tuesday,  the 
sixth),  the  convention  will  be  held  in  Century 
Hall,  1215  Sutter  Street,  at  ro  a.  m.  There 
will  be  given  in  connection  with  the  conven- 
tion two  receptions  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Jefferson  Davis  Chapter,  U.  D.  C. — the  first  to 
Confederate  veterans  and  Daughters  of  the 
Confederacy  on  Wednesday  evening,  October 
7th,  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  R.  E.  Queen,  2212 
Sacramento  Street,  San  Francisco ;  and  the 
second  on  Thursday  afternoon,  October  8th, 
at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  W.  A.  Clark  and  Mrs. 
W.  O.  Minor,  2719  Dwight  Way,  Berkeley. 
This  last  reception  will  be  given  in  honor 
of  the  retiring  and  the  incoming  officers  of  the 
division,  and  to  all  delegates,  alternates,  and 
evprmiv,-  r^mrpiu^es  as  well  as  to  all  members 

■ 


It  is  announced  that  after  all  claims 
against  Augustin  Daly's  estate  are  met  there 
will  be  a  balance  of  $184,194.  Litigation  in 
England  involved  the  ownership  of  the  lease 
of  Daly's  Theatre  in  London.  The  ownership 
of  the  lease  was  not  determined  until  after 
Daly's  death,  but  the  judgment  of  the  court 
was  in  favor  of  the  estate.  In  this  country 
Ada  Rehan's  claim  for  $60,000  was  admitted 
and  paid  in  full.  Since  then  she  has  begun 
action  against  the  estate  for  the  payment  of 
$6,000,  which  she  asserts  is  due  to  her  for 
salary-  The  executors  are  disputing  her  right 
to  this  money.  The  executors  say  the  London 
theatre  has  been  continued  at  a  profit,  and  it 
is  added  that  the  lease  of  Daly's  Theatre  in 
New  York,  together  with  the  scenery,  prop- 
erties, costumes,  and  furnishings,  has  been  sold 
for  $50,000. 


The  San  Jose  Mercury  says :  "  James  W. 
Rea  recently  presented  Santa  Clara  College 
with  a  beautiful  Holstein  heifer.  It  is  one 
of  the  finest  in  the  State,  and  is  greatly  ad- 
mired. The  college  faculty  is  very"  thankful 
to  Mr.  Rea  for  the  valuable  gift,  and  as  a 
token  of  grateful  remembrance  the  heifer  will 
be   named   '  Beautiful   Rea.'  " 


Jerome  Hart's  Letters. 

Ready  in  a  few  weeks,  "  Two  Argonauts  in 
Spain,"  by  Jerome  Hart.  A  number  of  the 
recent  letters  written  to  the  Argonaut  from 
Southern  Europe — principally  from  Spain — 
have  been  collected  in  a  volume.  The  book 
makes  nearly  three  hundred  pages,  and  is  now 
going  through  the  press.  It  is  very  hand- 
somely printed  on  costly  laid  paper  from  new 
type.  About  two-score  illustrations  accompany 
the  text,  from  photographs  taken  by  the  Two 
Argonauts. 

The  book  will  be  bound  in  a  handsome  cover 
emblazoned  with  the  emblems  of  the  various 
provinces  of  Spain — castles  for  Castile,  lions 
for  Leon,  pomegranates  for  Granada,  chairs 
for  Navarre,  etc. 

Only  a  limited  edition  will  be  printed.  Mr. 
Hart's  recent  book  of  travel,  "  Argonaut  Let- 
ters," also  a  limited  edition,  was  out  of  print 
three  months  after  publication.  Those  desir- 
ing the  present  volume  will  do  well  to  apply 
at  once. 

The  net  price,  which  depends  on  the  number 
of  pages,  will  be  fixed  next  week — it  will  prob- 
ably be  $1.35.  Address  the  Argonaut  Com- 
pany,   246    Sutter   Street,    San    Francisco. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULUNS,  Manager. 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAN    PRAMCISCO. 
All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Golf  at  Hotel  del  Monte 

CALIFORNIA 

The  links,  full  18-hole  course,  are  laid  a 
short  distance  only  from  the  hotel,  and  are 
the  finest  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

They  are  the  only  first-class  grounds  in 
California  available  to  the  public.  The 
greens  are  always  green.  Sunshine  and 
cool  breezes  from  the  sea  are  always  pres- 
ent and  refreshing,  the  weather  never  inter- 
fering. You  can  play  winter  and  summer, 
the  year  round. 

Play  golf  at  Del  Monte,  the  ideal  retreat 
for  all  golfers. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 
Manager. 


AS  PRESCRIBED  BY  A  LAW, 
enacted  by  the  last  Legislature, 
the  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Optometry  has  ISSUED  CER- 
TIFICATES TO  THE  UNDER- 
SIGNED FIROS,  entitling  them 
and  their  employees  to  practice  the 
fitting  of  spectacles  and  eye-glasses: 

STANDARD  OPTICAL  CO., 

217  Kearny  Street. 

BERTLINQ  OPTICAL  CO., 

16  Kearny  Street. 

HASKELL  &  JONES  OPTICAL  CO., 

243  Grant  Avenue. 


CHINN-BERETTA  OPTICAL  CO., 

991  Market  Street. 


CALIFORNIA  OPTICAL  CO., 


205  Kearny  Street 
GEO.  H.  KAHN,  201  Kearny  Street. 

HENRY  KAHN  &  CO.  (The  Ocularium), 

642  Market  Street. 


HOGUE  OPTICAL  CO.. 
HIRSCH  &  KAISER," 


211  Post  Street. 
7  Kearny  Street. 


OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT 

PIAMSTE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 

of  Vienna 

4NN0UNGES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSON; 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 

Phone  Lark  in  291. 


Educational. 


Oregon.  Portland. 

St.  Helen's  Hall 

Home  school  for  Girls. 
Ideal  location.  Expert 
teaching  in  all  departments. 
Outdoor  exercise.  1 1 1  u  s  - 
trated  book  of  information 
sent  on  application. 

ELEANOR  TEBBETTS 

Principal. 


Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladies. 

Twenty  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.     Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  fine  property.     For  circu- 
lars address        Miss  Sylvia  J.  Eastman,  Principal. 
Ogontz  School  P.  O.,  Pa. 


BUSINESS 
COLLEGE, 

24  Post  St.  S.  F 

Send  for  Circular. 


TELEPHONE   BUSH    196 

WRIGHT  HARDWARE  CO. 

66  THIRD  ST.  (Winchester  Hotel  Block) 

SAiN    FRANCISCO. 


Importers  and  Dealers  in 

BUILDERS'  HARDWARE 
and  TOOLS, 

Cutlery.  Cabinet   Hardware, 
Mill  Supplies.  Etc. 


SOHMER 
PIANO 

AGENCY. 


WARRANTED     IO     YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

Uf  The  CECILIAX- The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


PIANOS 

308-312  Po.t  St. 
Sao  Francisco. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


September  28,  1903. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San    Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7    9/)   A  M  —  *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:   Due 
fv  V     Stockton    10.40  a  m,   Fresno    2.40    p    m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.    Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.      Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 
Q     O/l    A    M—  f'THE     CALIFORNIA      LIM- 
w*w  C#     ITED  "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,   Bakersfield  6.00  p   m,   Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m.  Chicago  (third 
day)    2.15   p    m.      Palace    sleepers    and 
dining  -  car    through    to    Chicago.      **' 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  t 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jn.iop  1 
Q     O/l  A   M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  St 
%M*m9%J    ton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.10  p  m.  Bal 
field  6.00  p  m.    The  fastest  train   in 
Valley.     Carries  composite  and  reclir 
chair  car.     No  second-class  tickets 
ored  on  this  train.    Corresponding  t 
arrives  at  n.iop  m. 
Jt    g%g%  P  M-*STOCKTON  LOCAL:  DueStock- 
mTM%M%0     ton  7.10pm.     Corresponding  train  arrives 
1 1. 10  a  m. 

S/l/1  P  M— *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
mW  Stockton  11.15  P  ">.  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m.  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       +  Monday  and  Thursday. 
I  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

-A/EEK  DAYS — 7.30,  SFoo,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2-30, 
3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays— Extra 
trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS — 7-30,  S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 
12.50,  f2.oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7-35.  9.2°,  it- 15  a  m ;  M5.3-4o.4-5o, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week         Sun- 
Days,         days. 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 
8.00  a  m    9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m    5.10  p  m 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  in    7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m    8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m    9.30  a  m 
5.10  p  m    2.30  p  m 
5-10  P  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 

7.45  a  m 

6.20  pm 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
8  00  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  p  m 

7.30  a  ml  7-30  a  m 
2.30  p  m'  2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2,30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Hoplaud 
andUkiah. 

10,20  a  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  m 

7-25  p  m 

S.oo  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

8.00  a  m,  8.00  a  m 
5-iop  m!  5.10  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelsevville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay.  Lakeport,  and  Bartletl  Springs- 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Wilier  Springs,  Upper  Lake 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierlev's' 
Bucknetls,  Sanhedrii-  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Hall-Way  House,  Complche,  Camp  Stevens 
Hopkins  Mendocino  City.  Fort  Bragg,  Westport. 
Usa  ;  at  V.  1  his  tor  Fort  Bragg,  Weslport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo.  Laylonville,  Cummrags,  Bells  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen  s.  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood.  Scotia 
and  Eureka. 

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rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  hall  rates. 

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For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,   ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART   WEEK     I  JAYS— 6.4 «;.   +*7  45 
S45.  9-45.   11   a.  m.;   12.20,  *i,4s,  3.1s.  4  15 
1  t5-<5.  *6i5.  6,45,  9,  11.45  P-  M. 
7.45  a.  m,  week  days  does  not  run  to  Mill  Y'allev 
DEPART  SUNDAY— 7,  fS.  }*q,  f»io    11    +"30  a 
m.;  ti.2.30,  1*1.30,  2.35.  *3-5«.  5.  <>,  7.30,  9,  n"..^  P;M. 

Trains     marked    *     run     to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    if)    to   Fairfax,   except  5.1s   P.   M.   Saturday 
Salurda-'s3.i5  p.  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7-45  a-  »*  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
515  P-  M.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted)— Tomales 

and   .  3y  stations. 
3.15    p     "-    Saturdays— Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
Soni-    t,  S  a.  m. — Cazadero  ami  way  stations. 
Sund:. .  s,  10  a.  m.— Point  Reye-    nd  intermediate. 
Lugnl     ViHdays — Boats  and  tra>  1    on  Sunday  time. 
'  I  Hikes— 626  Market ;  Ferry,  foot  Market 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


She  (reproachfully) — "Before  we  were 
married  you  used  to  say  you  couldn't  live 
without  me."  He — "  A  man  never  knows 
what  he  can  do  till  he  tries." — Life. 

Fond  mother  (who  is  sure  the  visitor  would 
like  to  hear  her  infant  prodigy  on  the  violin) — 
"  Johnnie  is  so  far  advanced  that  now  we  can 
almost  tell  whether  he  is  tuning  or  playing." — 
Punch. 

His  guess:  "Well,  I  think  I  made  an  im- 
pression on  her  anyway,"  said  the  automobile 
enthusiast,  as  he  glanced  back  at  the  fair 
young  woman  lying  in  the  road. — Chicago 
Record-Herald. 

Doctor — "  Ah  !  out  for  a  constitutional  ?  " 
She — "Yes;  I  walk  two  miles  before  break- 
fast every  morning  for  my  complexion." 
Doctor — "Is  the  drue  store  so  far  as  that?" 


Ana  it  swaiiowea  tne  nook  :  ""  so  you  caught 
■a  catfish  that  weighed  38  pounds."  "  Hook 
and  all,  that  wuz  its  weight."  "  Hook  and 
all?"  "Yep;  the  hook  I  was  using  weighed 
37  pounds." — Indianapolis  Sun. 

Medium  (at  spiritualistic  seance") — "  Is 
Mr.  Keezicks  present?  His  deceased  wife 
wishes  to  communicate  with  him."  Mr. 
Keezicks  (in  an  agitated  voice) — "  Tell  her 
I'd  rather  not.  I'm  married  again." — Chicago 
Tribune. 

The  visitor — "  Why  are  you  here,  my  mis- 
guided friend?"  The  prisoner — "I'm  the 
victim  of  the  unlucky  number,  thirteen."  The 
visitor — "  Indeed  ;  how's  that?  "  The  pris- 
oner— "  Twelve  jurors  and  one  judge." — 
Sporting  Times. 

A  useful  attache :  "  Why  should  I  give  this 
man  a  position?"  said  the  Sultan  of  Turkey. 
"  Because  he  may  be  very  useful  in  an  emer- 
gency," answered  the  grand  vizier;  "he 
knows  how  to  say  '  We  apologize  *  in  every 
modern    language." — Wash  ington    Star. 

Promoters  of  courage:  Spartacus — "  Women 
are  a  great  incentive  to  manly  courage." 
Smarticus — "  That's  right.  Since  I've  been 
married  and  had  a  few  tilts  with  my  wife, 
the  prospect  of  a  scrap  with  the  meanest  man 
on  earth  seems  like  mere  child's  play  to  me." 
— Baltimore  American. 

"Fine,  wasn't  it?"  exclaimed  Citiman, 
after  the  trombone  soloist  had  finished  his 
star  performance ;  "  that  was  really  clever, 
eh?"  "Oh,  shucks,"  replied  the  Milpitas 
country  cousin ;  "  he  didn't  fool  me  a  little 
bit.  That's  one  o'  them  trick  horns.  He 
didn't  really  swaller  it." — Ex. 

Class  amusements:  "Don't  you  think  the 
amusements  of  many  society  people  are  very 
nonsensical?"  "Sometimes,"  answered  Miss 
Cayenne,  "  but  not  as  nonsensical  as  the 
amusements  of  those  people  who  amuse  them- 
selves by  imagining  how  society  people  amuse 
themselves." — Washington  Star. 

The  order  of  precedence :  First  citizen — 
"  We  shall  have  to  have  these  resolutions  of 
thanks  about  the  new  library  of  ours  done  all 
over  again."  Second  citizen — "  What's  the 
matter?"  First  citizen — "Why,  by  a  clerical 
error,  the  name  of  the  Lord  was  placed  be- 
fore  that   of  Andrew   Carnegie." — Ex. 

Like  father :  Rangle — "  What  were  you  pun- 
ishing your  boy  for  this  morning?  "  Angle — 
"  For  lying.  He  said  he  saw  a  fish  in  the 
millpond  as  big  as  the  one  I've  been  telling 
about  that  got  away  from  me  there  last  week." 
Rangle — "  But  maybe  he  did  see  it."  Angle — 
"  Nonsense !  There  isn't  a  fish  that  big  in 
the  pond." — Philadelphia  Press. 

He  had  risked  his  life  to  rescue  the  fair 
maid  from  a  watery  grave,  and,  of  course,  her 
father  was  duly  grateful.  "Young  man,"  he 
said,  "  I  can  never  thank  you  sufficiently  for 
your  heroic  act.  You  incurred  an  awful 
risk  in  saving  my  only  daughter."  "  None 
whatever,  sir."  replied  the  amateur  life-saver; 
"  I  am  already  married." — Chicago  Daily 
News. 

Economical :  First  farmer — "  Did  they  hev 
fire-escapes  at  the  hotel  where  ye  slept, 
Zeke?  "  Second  farmer — "  No,  but  it  was  the 
most  eckernomical  tavern  I  ever  seen."  First 
farmer — "  In  what  way,  Zeke? "  Second 
farmer — "  Why,  they  had  a  rope  hanging  in 
every  room,  so  that  you  could  commit  suicide 
without  wastin'  the  gas." — Philadelphia  Even- 
ing Telegraph. 

Easy  and  effective :  "  Before  I  consent  to 
let  you  have  my  daughter,"  said  the  square- 
jawed  captain  of  industry.  "  I  want  you  to 
answer  a  question.  What  would  you  do  if  I 
were  to  give  you  one  million  of  dollars?" 
After  the  coroner  had  viewed  the  remains 
and  decided  that  death  was  due  to  heart  fail- 
ure, caused  by  a  sudden  shock,  the  old  man 
lit  another  cigar  and  murmured:  "That's 
worth  tryin'  again  some  time." — Chicago  Rec- 
ord-Herald. 

Stwdman's  Soothing  Powders  for  fifty  years  the 
most  popular  English  remedy  for  teething  babies 
and  feverish  children. 


His  failure:  "  Do  you  know  anything  about 
flirting?  '  "  No,"  he  replied,  sadly  ;  "  I  thought 
I  did,  but  when  I  tried  it.  hanged  if  the  girl 
didn  t  marry  me." — Chicago  Post 


—  Dr.  E.  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Ruilding. 


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Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
Luve      —    From  S»PTgMB»B  2.  1903.    —     akbivb 
7.00a  Benlcla,  Sulsun.  Elintraand  Sacra- 
mento         7.25p 

7.00a   Vacavllle,  WlnterB.  RumBey... 7.26p 

7.30*    Martinez,     San     Ramon,    Vallejo, 

Napa.  Calistoga,  Santa  KoBa 6-25p 

7  30a   Nlles,  Llvermore,  Latbrop.  Stock- 
ton...      7.25** 

800*  Davis. Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
Maryavllle.  Orovllle,  (connects 
at  Marysrille   for  Gridley,  Biggs 

and  Chico) 7-66p 

800*    Atlantic  ExpreBS—Ogden  and  East.  10-25* 
BOO*    Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch.  By- 
ron,Tracy,  Stockton,  Sacramento. 
Los  BanoB,    Mendota,    Hanford, 

Vlsalla.  Porterville 4.25p 

°  00*  Port  CoBto,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Latb- 
rop. Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen   Junction,    Hanford,  VI- 

Balla.  Bakersfield 6-25p 

8.30*  Shasta  Express — Davie.  Wllllame 
(for  Bartlett  Springs),  Willows, 

tFruto,  Ked  Bluff.  Portland 7.55p 

8-30*  NlleB,  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton, lone,  Sacramento.  Placerv  III  e. 

MaryBvllle.  Chlco.  Red  Bluff 4-25p 

8-30*  Oakdale.  Chinese,  JameBtown.  So- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Angela 4-25p 

9.00*  Martinez  aDd  Way  Stations 6-55p 

10-00*  Vallejo 12.25P 

10.00a  EI  Paao  Passenger,  Eastbonnd.— 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Latbrop,  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond.  FreBno,  Han- 
ford. Vlsalla.  Bakersfield,  Lob 
Angeles  and  EI  Paso.  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line)., 
10-00*  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaba,  Chicago B-25p 

1200k  Haywavd.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3-25p 

I.OOp  Sacramento  River  Steamers tll.OOr 

3.30T  Benlcla.      Winters,      Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Williams,  Colusa, Wil- 
lows, Knights    Landing.  MaryB- 
vllle, Orovllle  and  way  stations.. 
330p   Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.. 
4.00p   Martinez, San  Rrimon.ValleJo.Napa, 

Callstuga,  Santa  Rosa 

4.00p  Martinez,  Tracy.Lathrop.Stockton.  10-25* 
4  OOP  NlleB.  Llvermore.  Stockton,  Lodl..  4-25p 
4-30p  Hayward.  NlleB,  Irvlngton,  San  t    t8.55* 

Jose,  Llvermore f  111.55* 

5.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno.  Tulare, 

BakerBfield,  Los  AngeleB 8.55a 

5.00i*  Port  Costa,  Tracy,    Stockton,  Lot 

Banoa 1  2-25p 

5.30p  Hayward.  Nllee  and  San  Jobc 7.25i 

6-OOp  Hayward.  NIIcb  and  San  Jose 1025-> 

6.00p  Oriental  Mall— Ogden.  Den ver, 
Omaba,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul- 
snn,  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Bocklln,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnnemncca,  Battle 

Mountain,  Elko 4.25^ 

b..  Eeno,  Truckee,  Sacramento,  Davis, 

Sulsun,  Benlcla,  Port  Costa 7.65a 

8.00p   Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday... ,  I      7  RCn 

7-OOp  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f 

7.00p  San  Pablo.  Port  Coata,  Martinez 

and  Way  Stations. 11 -25a 

8.0Bp  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Maryevllle,    Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  EaBt.     8. 55a 
9-1  Op  Hayward,  Nllea  and  San  JoBe  (Sun- 

dayonly) 11.55  a 

M-25P  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 
semltc).    FreBno,    Hanford.   VI- 

ealla,  BnkerHfleld 12-26p 

COAST    LINE     (Narnm  (Jauge). 
(Foot  of  Market  Street  J 


SAN  FRANCISCO 


«1.30p 


10.55* 
7-55p 


d.25* 


746a    Santa    Cruz    Excursion 
only.) . 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 
B.15a  Newark.    Centervllle.    San     Jose, 
Felton,    Bouluer    Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 6  25'- 

21  Bi  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jobb, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Bonlder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Statlona   10  55 

4-16P  Newark-,  San  Jobc  Los  GatOB  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cruz;  Monday  only  from  Santa 
Crnz).  Connects  at  Felton  to 
m and  from  BonlderCreek 18-55 

OAKLAND     HARBOR    FERRY 

l-rom  BAM  FRANCISCO,  Foot  of  Marki-t  St.  (Slip 
— +7:15    a:0u     11:00  a.m.     100    3  00    5-15  i*.m 
trom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  16:00    (*:» 
18:05    10:00  a.m.       12  00    2-00    4.00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE     (Broad  l.auge). 
t3T  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets.) 

6-10 a    San  JoBe  and  Way  Stations 6  3l)i 

17-00 a   San  Joee  and  Way  Statlona .         5  3G 

7-1  6a  Monterey  and  Santa  Crnz  Excur- 
sion (Snnday  only) 8  31 

8-OOa  New  Almaden  (Tuea.,  Frld..  only),     4. 10 

8 -00a  Coaet  Line  Limited — Stops  only  San 
Joae,  Gflroy  (connection  for  Hoi 
lister),  Pajaro,  Castrovllle,  Sa- 
linas. San  Ardo,  Paso  Kobk'B. 
Santa  Margarita.  San  Luis  Oblepo, 
Guadalupe,  Surf  (connection  for 
Lompoc).  Santa  Barbara.  Saugua 
and  Los  Angeles.  Connection  at 
Castrovllle  to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove 

9,00*  San  JoBe.  Tres  Plnos.  Capltola. 
San  ta Cruz, Pacific  Grove, Salinas, 
San  LuIb   Obispo  and    Principal 

Intermediate    Stations  

10.30a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

11  00a  Cemetery  Passenger — South   San 

Francisco.  San  Brnno 1  .06p 

11 -30a  Santa  Clara,    San   Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations         7.30 

al.30P   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations >.  7  00 

2.00P   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations !940* 

2.30p  Cemetery   Passenger  —  South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 4.35i- 

13. OOP  Del  Monte  Express — Santa  Clara. 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points)  r  1 2- 1  ->' 

3.30P  Pacific  Grove  and  Way  Stations— 
Bnrllngame.San  Mateo, Redwood, 
MenloPark.  Palo  Alto  May  field, 
Mountain  View,  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara,  San  Jose,  (Gllroy,  Hollie- 
ter,  Tres  Plnos).  Pajaro,  Watson- 
vBIe.  Capltola,  Santa  Cruz,  CaB- 
trovllle,  Salinas 10-45* 

4-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8-36* 

6.0Qp  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Loe 
Gatos.  Wright  and  Principal  Way 

Stations  (except  Sunday) 9-OOa 

£6-301'  San  Jose  and  Principal  May  Stations    t8.D0A 
tG.IBp  San Mateo.Beresford, Belmont. San 
Carlos.     Redwood,     Fair     Oaka. 
MenloPark.  Palo  Alto (9.45p 

6.30i    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 636* 

7 -OOp  Sanset  Limited,  EaBtbound.— San 
LuIb  Oblapo.  Santa  Barbara,  Los 
Angeles,  Demlng.  £1  Paso.  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  (WeBthonnd 
arrivcB  via  San  J  oaf)  ulu  Valley ). . .    ■-  8  25* 

8.00  i-  Palo  Alto  and  Way  Statlous 10.16a 

11. 30p  South  San  Francisco.  Mlllbrae,' 
Burllngame.  San  Mateo.  Bel- 
mont, San  Carlos,  Redwood, 
Fair  Oaks,  Menlo  Park.  Palo 
Alto,  Mayfleld,  Mountain  View. 
Sunnyvale.  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara  and  San  Jose 


1045' 


4  1  > 
1-20P 


'6  46* 
I9-45P 


'Sunday 


a  for  morning,  p  for  afternoon.  ■  Saturday  and  Sunday  only.  %  Sunday  only.  §  Stops. at"  all 
stations  on  Sunday,  t  Sunday  excepted,  a  Saturday  only,  e  Via  Coast  Line,  a*  Via  San  Joaquin  Valley. 
b  Reno  train  eastbonnd  discontinued.  AS--  Only  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  Street  south-bound  are  6.10 
a.  m.,  t7-oo  A.  m.,  11:00  a.  m.,  2:30  p.  m.,  and  6.30  P.  M.  

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San  Francisco,  October  5,  1903 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Head  of  the  Socialistic  Camel — Reasons  Why 
the  Geary  Street  Bonds  Should  Xot  Be  Voted — Municipal 
Ojraership  in  England — Socialism  Not  in  Accord  With  Free 
Institutions' — The  Militia  at  Cripple  Creek  and  Else- 
where— The  Reason  of  the  Movement  Against  the  Militia — 
Contrast  of  Conditions  at  Home  With  Those  Abroad — 
The  "  Science  "  of  War — Unpreparedness  of  England, 
America,  and  France  —  Tolstoy's  '*  Physiologie  de  la 
Gusrre  " — Blundering  Generals — Green  Apples  and  Green 
Almonds — Governor  Censures  Folsom  Officials — Fall  Cam- 
paigns in  Ohio  and  Other   States   200-211 

The  Verge  of  Scandal:    The  Story  of  a  Tenor  and  a  Society 

Girl.     By    Charles    Fleming    Embree 212 

Shall  the  Woman  Make  Love:      The    Outspoken    Heroines   of 

Shakespeare    and    Bernard    Shaw.      By    Geraldine    Bonner..   213 

Individualities:     Notes   About    Prominent   People   All   Over   the 

World    213 

Max  Muller's  Life  and  Letters:  His  Courtship  and  Mar- 
riage— Some  Caustic  Comments  on  Oxford — Attacks  on 
Him  by  the  German  and  American  Press — Lecturing 
Before    Queen    Victoria ..   214 

The  Original  Evangeline:  Wherein  She  Differs  From  Long- 
fellow's    Heroine     215 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications      216-217 

Autumn  Verse:  '*  When  the  Hounds  Are  Out,"  by  F.  S. 
Palmer;  "The  Hunt."  by  Mercy  E.  Baker;  "Autumn 
Song,"   by   Virginia   Woodward    Cloud 217 

Drama:  The  "  Everyman  "  Company  in  the  Elizabethan  Pro- 
duction of  "Twelfth  Night."  By  Josephine  Hart 
Phelps    21S 

Stage  Gossip     210 

Vanity  Fair  :  Boston  Stern  Against  Kissing — Canoeists  on 
Charles  River  Not  Allowed  to  Snuggle — The  Experiences  of 
a  Certain  Flora  and  Her  Matthew — A  De6ant  New  York  Girl 
on  the  Situation — A  Society  Woman  Thinks  Three  Days  a 
Week  Enough  to  Be  Married — '*  Uninterrupted  Matri- 
mony Can  Become  the  Greatest  Bore  on  Earth  " — The  Prize 
Definition  of  "  Style  " — "  Plug  "  Hats  in  Texas — How 
Salisbury  Dressed' — A  Woman's  Paper  Turns  Up  Its 
Toes — Cake-Walk    Now    in    Disfavor    Abroad 220 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Why  One  Black  Barber  Quit  the  Church — How  the  Presi- 
dent Shocked  the  Governor  of  Nebraska — A  Funereal 
Wooing — An  Equivocal  Farmer — A  Diplomatist  Afoot — 
The  Two  Tennessee  Qualifications  for  a  Preacher — The 
Force  of  Appearances — How  Senator  Bailey  Got  His  Start — 
How  a  Duke  Came  to  Drink  Dishwater — -Two  Venerable 
Secretaries    221 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "Evolution,"  "No  Escape,"  "The  Auto- 
matic Life,"  "A  Ballad  of  Oyster  Bay"   221 

The  New  Amphitheatre:  W.  R.  Hearst's  Gift  to  the  State....   222 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and   Navy  News 222-223 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits  of   the   Day 224 


An  interesting  and  anomalous  condition  of  affairs  has 

_      _.  recently  existed  at  Cripple  Creek,  Colo., 

The  Militia  at  j  rr 

Cripple  Cheek  where  a  strike  of  miners  is  in  progress. 
and  elsewhere.  The  governor  of  the  State,  in  pur- 
suance of  his  duty  of  preserving  law  and  order,  sent 
several  companies  of  militia  to  the  scene  of  threatened 
sedition  and  insurrection.  Martial  law  was.  however, 
not  declared.  The  militia  officers  arrested  several 
persons  on  various  charges,  and  habeas-corptts  pro- 
ceedings were  at  once  instituted  in  the  district  court 


to  secure  the  release  of  the  men  so  held.  The  position 
of  the  generals  in  command  of  the  State  troops  was 
that,  although  martial  law  did  not  exist  in  Cripple 
Creek,  still  the  military  ruled,  and  that  the  court  had 
no  right  to  interfere  with  their  prisoners  by  habeas- 
corfus  proceedings.  The  court  held  that  there  was  no 
force  in  this  contention,  and  ordered  that  the  men  be 
released,  which,  after  some  delay,  has  been  done,  and 
the  men  are  now  at  large.  Governor  Peabody,  com- 
menting on  this  decision,  says: 

Judge  Seeds  has  decided  against  the  military,  and,  as  the 
national  guard  is  in  the  district  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  the 
courts  and  civil  authorities  generally,  there  was  nothing  left 
for  me  to  do  except  to  order  that  the  prisoners  be  turned  over 
to  the  civil  authorities. 

This  is  undoubtedly  the  only  correct  position  to  take, 
and  it  answers  completely  the  questions  of  a  corre- 
spondent who  asks  the  Argonaut,  among  other  things, 
'*  if  the  officers  of  State  militia  have  authority 
either  under  the  Federal  Constitution  or  the  laws  of 
Colorado  to  arrest  and  imprison  American  citizens." 

But  the  correspondent  also  inquires  if  the  action  of 
the  military  in  holding  prisoners  **  does  not  partake 
of  despotism,"  and  to  this  we  answer,  No.  The  viola- 
tion of  statutes,  either  by  individuals  or  officers  of  a 
State,  hardly  constitutes  despotism,  and,  as  a  matter 
of  fact,  the  affair  has  been  peaceably  settled* by  due 
and  proper  recourse  to  the  courts. 

But  why  are  men  so  quick  to  talk  of  "  despotism  " 
where  the  State's  guards  are  concerned?  Why  is  it 
that  the  *"  soldiers-is-pizen  "  doctrine  is  now  so  popu- 
lar? Why  is  it  that  in  labor-union  councils  the  epithets 
"  hirelings  "  and  '*  trust  servants  "  are  so  often  applied 
to  the  State's  troops? 

Can  these  things  have  come  about  because  of  an  im- 
perfect realization  by  people  of  the  absolute  power  of 
the  State?  Has  the  burden  of  citizenship  rested  so 
lightly  upon  men  since  the  Civil  War  that  they  have 
at  length  come  to  resent  any  intervention  whatsoever 
of  government  in  their  affairs  ?  This  would  seem  to  be 
the  truth.  How  else  shall  we  explain  the  fact  that, 
though  the  United  States  has  relatively  the  smallest 
standing  army  of  any  nation  in  the  world,  yet  a  move- 
ment exists  so  to  weaken,  if  not  to  destroy,  the  militia 
forces  upon  which  each  State  relies  to  preserve  order 
that  insurrection,  riot,  anarchy  may  prevail  and  the 
State  have  no  power  to  suppress  it? 

If  the  labor-union  campaign  against  the  militia 
should  unhappily  succeed  (which  we  think  it  will  not), 
the  government,  of  necessity,  would  be  obliged  to  em- 
ploy an  increased  number  of  Federal  troops  in  its  place. 
As  the  governor  of  New  York  pointed  out  in  a  recent 
speech,  we  have  now  no  large  standing  army  solely 
*'  because,  in  the  repression  of  disorder  and  the  enforce- 
ment of  law,  every  citizen  is  clothed  with  police  power, 
which  it  is  his  duty  to  offer  in  defense  of  our  rights  and 
our  liberties." 

It  is  Herbert  Spencer,  we  believe,  who  speaks  of  the 
curious  fact  that  "  the  more  things  improve  the  louder 
become  the  exclamations  against  their  badness,"  and 
"  as  the  evil  decreases  the  denunciation  of  it  increases." 
So  in  America.  Here  a  man  may  go  whithersoever  he 
please.  In  European  countries,  no  denizen  may  leave 
his  city  without  notifying  the  police;  he  must  carry 
with  him  his  papers;  he  must  report  to  the  police  in 
the  city  where  he  stops'  he  may  at  any  time  be  brought 
before  police  officials  and  exhaustively  interrogated; 
if  he  refuse  to  answer,  he  may  be  arrested;  if  the  an- 
swers be  not  satisfactory,  he  may  also  be  arrested;  in 
short,  every  person  is  constantly  spied  upon.  In  the 
chief  Continental  countries,  also,  of  every  male  citizen 
military  service  is  required;  this  service  takes  the  best 
years  of  each  man's  life;  in  or  about  every  city,  are 
garrisoned   large  bodies  of  troops — in  large  towns  as 


many  as  one  hundred  thousand  men :  these  soldiers  are 
liable  to  be  called  upon  at  all  times  to  suppress  riots; 
they  do  not  hesitate  to  shoot  to  kill;  they  are  main- 
tained at  vast  expense,  so  that  it  is  said  that  every 
workman  carries  a  soldier  on  his  back.  Yet  despite 
all  this,  as  we  have  said,  some  millions  of  citizens  of 
the  United  States  are  endeavoring  to  impair  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  inexpensive  citizen  soldiery,  few  in  num- 
bers, and  certainly  in  no  way  oppressive.  And,  what 
is  more,  the  measure  employed  to  achieve  these  ends 
verge  on  treason.  "  Any  action  which  may  tend  to  dis- 
courage enlistment  by  either  an  employer  or  a  fellow- 
laborer,"  says  Governor  Odell,  "  is  a  distinct  crime 
against  the  State." 

This  is  one  of  the  worst  phases  of  the  whole  matter. 
For  is  not  this  a  republic?  Are  there  not  ballot-boxes? 
Has  not  every  male  citizen  a  vote  ? 


The  apathetic  citizen  is  the  torpid  liver  of  the  bodv 
the  head  of  politic  His  inactivity  permits  the  sys- 
the  socialistic  tem  of  government  to  become  an  easy 
Camel.  ^Tty    t0    ^    encroachment    of    disease 

and  the  maladies  of  misrule. 

The  Argonaut  has  no  quarrel  with  the  bonded  debt 
that  makes  for  municipal  progress,  but  it  has  a  distinct 
dislike  and  antagonism  for  the  bonded  debt  that  com- 
mits this  city  to  the  doctrine  of  municipal  socialism. 
Municipal  socialism  means  something  in  the  world. 
It  has  proceeded  far  enough  in  England  at  last  to 
awaken  the  apathetic  citizen,  and  now,  while  the  mis- 
chief is  at  its  height,  the  heretofore  complaisant 
Britisher  who  permitted  the  crime,  is  out  shaking  his 
tax  bill  in  one  hand  and  a  bludgeon  in  the  other. 

Municipal  ownership  of  tramways  has  not  proved  a 
success.  This  is  a  broad  statement,  but  the  records 
demonstrate  it  to  be  the  fact.  Take  Glasgow — for  that 
city  is  paraded  before  the  American  voter  most  fre- 
quently as  an  example  for  us  to  follow — a  recent 
financial  report  boasts  that  the  Glasgow  municipal 
tramway  paid  into  the  city  in  relief  of  rates  (taxes) 
the  beggarly  sum  of  £12,500,  or  about  $62,500,  for  a 
year's  work.  One  San  Francisco  railway  system  alone 
pays  into  the  city  treasury  of  San  Francisco  over 
$365,000  per  annum  in  taxes,  licenses,  and  franchise 
percentages.  One  private  corporation  pays  to  San 
Francisco  six  times  as  much  as  the  entire  municipal 
system  of  Glasgow. 

Harper's  Weekly  of  March  14,  1903,  in  an  article 
on  American  municipalities,  while  not  advocating  the 
craze,  said;  "As  regards  municipal  ownership,  we  are 
a  hundred  years  behind  Great  Britain." 

Sidney  Brooks,  Harper's  London  correspondent, 
showed  this  paragraph  to  an  English  member  of  Par- 
liament, who  has  been  twice  mayor,  and  for  over 
ten  years  a  councilor,  or  alderman,  of  one  of  the  largest 
cities  in  England.  "  His  comment,"  says  Mr.  Brooks, 
"  was  startling." 

"Happy  America."  he  exclaimed;  "long  may  she 
remain  so!"  He  then  proceeded  to  denounce  the  ex- 
cesses of  municipal  socialism  in  these  words : 

Our  local  governing  authorities  have  gone  crazy  over  munic- 
ipal trading.  .  .  .  The  municipalities  are  the  socialism  of  the 
future  in  embryo,  and  the  men  who  compose  them,  whether 
they  know  it  or  not,  are  playing  the  game  of  socialism  tn 
perfection.  If  municipal  speculation  goes  on  at  its  present 
rate,  it  is  my  opinion  we  must  either  end  in  a  sort  of  local 
bankruptcy,  or  else  in  such  a  widespread  atrophy  of  private 
initiative  as  will  work  our  commercial  ruin.  That  is  why.  a* 
a  life-long  friend  and  admirer  of  America,  I  am  glad  to 
hear  she  is  a  hundred  years  behind  us  in  the  matter  of  munic- 
ipal ownership.  That  is  why  I  say:  "Long  may  she  remain 
so." 

In  England,  municipal  socialism  has  led  to  a  dou- 
bling, tripling,  and  even  a  quadrupling  of  municipal 
indebtedness. 

The  great  danger  to  San  Francisco  lies  in  thi- 
rection,   and   it   is   a  grave   and   serious  danger. 


210 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


October  5,  1903. 


world  recognizes  that  out  upon  this  West  Coast  there 
is  to  grow  up  a  great  seaport — a  Western  New  York. 
The  world  knows  that  we  have  a  harbor  unmatched 
in  all  of  the  world.  In  the  race  for  that  commercial 
supremacy  that  is  ours  by  right  of  geographical  posi- 
tion and  natural  advantages,  we  are  far  ahead  of  all 
rivals.  But  we  must  bear  this  fact  well  in  mind:  An  ad- 
vantageous business  location  does  not  insure  an  exact- 
ing merchant  a  large  volume  of  business.  The  intelli- 
gent world  now  knows,  thanks  to  the  experiments  of 
England  and  Australia,  just  what  municipal  socialism 
means.  If  owning  a  street  railroad  on  Geary  Street 
began  and  ended  with  a  loss  of  $710,000,  the  city 
could  bear  the  loss  without  much  discomfort.  Upon 
the  figures  submitted  by  the  city  engineer,  although 
they  are  altered  and  doctored  in  an  attempt  to  cure  the 
vices  of  last  year's  figures,  they  show  a  loss  to  the 
city  of  nearly  $40,000  per  annum.  But  the  money 
loss  is  the  smallest  item  that  will  tell  against  us  as  a 
city.  We  can  only  grow  to  greatness  through  the 
coming  of  people  from  the  outside  world.  We  must 
attract  outside  capital,  not  repel  it.  And  once  we 
serve  notice  on  the  world  that  we  as  a  community 
are  committed  to  municipal  socialism  of  the  rank 
character  that  begins  with  operating  street  railways, 
that  moment  we  stamp  this  community  as  "  Unsafe." 
This  city  has  already  suffered  immeasurably  through 
Kearneyism  and  other  vicious  forms  of  agitation,  and 
it  would  be  little  short  of  criminal  at  this  hour  to  run 
up  the  flag  of  socialism  and  make  capital  give  pause 
before  entering  here. 

It  is  idle  to  say  the  road  will  pay,  idle  to  say  we  are 
only  trying  the  experiment,  idle  to  apologize  or  at- 
tempt to  gloss  over  the  socialistic  features — the  facts 
remain  that  it  is  socialism,  and  that  it  does  not  pay  and 
has  never  paid  anywhere  on  earth. 

Charles  Francis  Adams,  writing  recently  to  a  cor- 
respondent in  Kansas  City,  in  expressing  his  opposition 
to  municipal  street-railway  lines,  says  the  municipal 
system  in  use  in  Glasgow  would  lead  to  a  riot  in  twenty- 
four  hours  if  tried  in  Kansas  City,  and  he  adds: 
"  Please  don't  talk  to  me  of  doing  business  through 
governmental  machinery.  It  is  one  colossal  exhibition 
of  waste,  extravagance,  and  incompetence." 

Let  the  merchant  and  taxpayer  remember  this:  To 
our  north  is  Seattle,  with  the  millions  of  Jim  Hill, 
tugging  and  straining  to  strip  us  of  trade;  to  the  south 
are  Los  Angeles  and  San  Pedro,  where  the  government 
is  putting  millions  of  dollars  into  a  harbor.  We  may 
sneer  at  these  rivals  because  of  our  unique  position. 
We  did  that  some  years  ago  to  our  loss. 

Vote  to  make  San  Francisco  a  safe  place  for  capital 
to  seek  investment. 

If  municipal  socialism  and  high  taxes  will  operate 
to  keep  out  new  capital  and  drive  out  movable 
money,  how  may  the  taxpayer  who  is  now  per- 
manently located  here  secure  relief?  There  will  be  no 
relief  for  him.  He  will  discover  that  his  property  has 
been  mortgaged  for  a  something  he  does  not  want, 
but  must  pay  for,  so  that  a  small  minority  may  pur- 
chase a  something  they  want  and  can  not  pay  for. 

There  are  about  72,000  registered  voters  in  San 
Francisco.  At  the  last  municipal  railway  bond  election 
only  26,615  votes  were  cast.  The  bonds  received 
15,120  votes.  A  handful  more — 2,624 — could  have  car- 
ried the  election,  and  so  we  would  have  witnessed  the 
spectacle  of  17,744  votes,  less  than  one  twenty-eighth 
of  the  population  of  the  city,  fastening  upon  the 
municipality  the  stigma  of  ultra-socialism  with  all  of 
its  attendant  ills. 

This  is  no  time  to  say  "  we  will  vote  for  a  municipal 
railway  so  that  the  socialists  may  make  a  failure  of  it 
and  put  an  end  to  the  movement."  The  moment  is  too 
critical  for  any  such  loose  procedure.  If  you  are  one 
of  the  forty-six  thousand  voters  who  failed  to  cast,  a 
ballot  at  the  last  Geary  Street  election,  you  are  urged 
to  assist  toward  swelling  the  majority  vote  against 
municipal  socialism  to  such  a  figure  as  will  forever 
bury  it  beyond  resurrection. 

The  very  name  "  republic  "  is  repugnant  to  social- 
ism. Where  absolutism  reigns ;  where  the  frown  of 
a  Czar  sends  a  shudder  of  fear  through  a  broad  em- 
pire; where  one  look  of  disapproval  from  a  nation's 
War  Lord  bids  the  discontented  murmurings  of  a  mil- 
lion people  change  lo  smiles  of  satisfaction;  where  the 
go  'ernment,  lodged  in  a  single  hereditary  ruler,  is 
greater  than  the  governed  millions ;  where  the  indi- 
^v'dual  effort- is  crushed  and  restricted;  where  liberty 
<-;cid  freedom  of  acUon  are  stifled  and  restrained,  there 
In  i  the  fecund  field  where  all  the  dreamy  hopes  of  so- 


AND  THE 

Labor  Leaders, 


cialism  must  thrive,  there  is  the  land  that  gave  it  birth, 
there  the  wrongs  that  gave  it  inspiration.  In  such  an 
environment  was  socialism  born.  The  lean  hand  that 
rocked  its  rudely  fashioned  cradle  was  manacled  to  a 
thousand  years  of  serfdom  and  oppression.  Stunted 
and  dwarfed  in  mind,  yet  sore  and  chafed  in  spirit, 
it  rebelled  against  the  tyranny  of  years.  Its  creator  did 
not  dare  to  dream  of  a  republic  where  successful  in- 
dividual effort  without  governmental  interference, 
would  be  possible.  He  did  not  dare  to  dream  of  a 
tanner  of  hides  as  a  nation's  chief  magistrate.  He  did 
not  dare  dream  that  a  poor,  unlettered  apprentice  lad, 
a  tow-boy,  or  a  hewer  of  wood,  would  grow  to  be  the 
ruler  of  millions  of  freemen.  His  people  had  been 
governed  since  governments  began— governed  harshly, 
governed  cruelly,  but  always  governed  by  an  aristoc- 
racy. They  were  the  unhappy  children  of  feudalism 
and  fate.  The  thing  that  oppressed  them,  and  genera- 
tions before  them,  typified  all  power.  It  could  and  it 
must,  according  to  this  very  pretty  theory,  now  father 
them  and  house  them,  care  for  them,  and  feed  them, 
and,  putting  aside  the  iron  hand  of  despotism,  kindly 
lead  and  guide  them  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave. 

Republics  are  founded  upon  broader,  manlier  lines. 
Their  ideals  are  loftier,  and  their  purpose  is  to  raise, 
not  to  lower,  mankind;  to  bring  out  the  best,  not  the 
worst,  in  man. 

In  a  nation  of  intelligent  freemen,  in  a  land  like  this, 
where  the  citizen  of  to-day  is  the  chief  executive  of 
to-morrow,  socialism  has  no  place  and  is  repugnant 
to  the  true  spirit  of  a  progressive,  intelligent,  and  free 
people. 

The  executive  council  of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor 
called  on  President  Roosevelt  at  the  White 
The  President  House  on  September  29th.  Among  them  were 
Samuel  Gompers,  president  of  the  federation, 
and  John  Mitchell,  president  of  the  Miners' 
Union,  and  protagonist  of  the  anthracite  coal  strike.  These 
labor  leaders  called  to  urge  the  President  to  dismiss  Foreman 
Miller,  of  the  government  printing-office,  because  he  had  been 
expelled  by  his  union".  The  President  had  reinstated  him, 
but  these  labor  leaders  wanted  Mr.  Roosevelt  to  dismiss  him 
again.  The  President  did  not  mince  matters,  but  replied  in 
part  as  follows : 

"  I  am  dealing  purely  with  the  relation  of  the  government 
to  its  employees.  I  must  govern  my  action  by  the  laws  of  the 
land,  which  I  am  sworn  to  administer,  and  which  differentiate 
any  case  in  which  the  government  of  the  United  States  is  a 
party  from  all  other  cases  whatsoever.  These  laws  are  enacted 
for  the  benefit  of  the  whole  people,  and  can  not  and  must  not 
be  construed  as  permitting  discrimination  against  some  of  the 
people.  I  am  President  of  all  the  people  of  the  United  States, 
without  regard  to  creed,  color,  birthplace,  occupation,  or  social 
condition.  My  aim  is  to  do  equal  and  exact  justice  as  among 
them  all.  In  the  employment  and  dismissal  of  men  in  the 
government  service  I  can  no  more  recognize  the  fact  that  a  man 
does  or  does  not  belong  to  a  union  as  being  for  or  against 
him  than  I  can  recognize  the  fact  that  he  is  a  Protestant  or  a 
Catholic,  a  Jew  or  a  gentile,  as  being  for  or  against  him. 
In  the  communication  sent  me  by  various  labor  organizations 
protesting  against  the  retention  of  Miller  in  the  government 
printing-office  the  grounds  alleged  are  two  fold.  First,  that  he 
is  a  non-union  man ;  second,  that  he  is  not  personally  fit. 
The  question  of  his  personal  fitness  is  one  to  be  settled  in  the 
routine  of  administrative  detail,  and  can  not  be  allowed  to  con- 
flict with  or  to  complicate  the  larger  question  of  govern- 
mental discrimination  for  or  against  him  or  any  other  man  be- 
cause he  is  or  is  not  a  member  of  a  union.  This  is  the  only 
question  now  before  me  for  decision,  and  as  to  this  my  decision 
is  final." 

We  are  glad  to  see  that  Mr.  Roosevelt  has  the  courage  of  his 
convictions.  He  has  been  accused  by  the  New  York  Sim. 
Harper's  Weekly,  and  other  hostile  journals  of  coquetting  with 
the  labor  vote.  They  have  accused  him  of  striking  a  blow  at 
the  Federal  Constitution,  at  property  rights,  and  at  law  and  or- 
der, by  his  action  in  the  anthracite  coal  crisis.  But  from  his 
present  action,  it  is  evident  that  if  Mr.  Roosevelt  can  be  bold 
in  espousing  the  cause  of  labor,  he  can  also  be  bold  in  at- 
tacking it  when  it  is  wrong.  The  President  has  voiced  the 
sentiments  of  all  intelligent  and  reasonable  men  in  the  fore- 
going expression  of  his  views.  Workingmen  have  a  perfect 
right  to  combine.  They  have  a  right  to  form  labor  unions. 
They  have  a  right  to  elevate  their  wages  and  to  improve  their 
conditions.  But  they  have  no  right  to  prevent  other  men 
from  earning  a  living,  even  if  they  do  not  happen  to  belong 
to  the  labor  unions.  We  are  glad  that  President  Roosevelt  has 
spoken  in  so  unmistakable  a  manner. 


The  political  campaigns  this  fall  in  the  several  States  holding 
elections   are   decidedly   dull.      The   reason   it: 

that  in  every  State  but  one  the  result  is 
Campaigns  in  ,        ,  . 

Various  States      a'reaoy    known.       lhe    politicians    confidently 

predict  that  Ohio,  Iowa,  and  Massachusetts 
will  go  Republican.  They  are  equally  confident  that  Ken- 
tucky will  go  Democratic.  Maryland  alone  is  doubtful.  She 
has  four  Republican  congressmen  out  of  a  total  of  six,  but  a 
Democratic  governor;  and  last  year  a  legislature  with  a  Demo- 
cratic majority  of  fifteen  elected  Gorman  senator.  In  1900, 
McKinley  had  only  a  plurality  of  13,941  out  of  a  total  vote  of 
264,511.  What  the  result  will  be  this  fall  is  therefore 
sufficiently  uncertain  to  give  the  campaign  interest. 

In  Ohio,  it  is  chiefly  interesting  because  Senator  Hanna 
and  the  perpetually  picturesque  Mr.  Johnson  (otherwise  known 
as  Three-Cent  Tom)  are  taking  the  stump.  "  Let  well  enough 
alone,"  "  stand  pat,"  "  continue  to  stand  pat,"  "  hands  off," 
"  for  God's  sake   keep  letting  well   enough   alone  " — these   are 


the  injunctions  of  Mr.  Hanna  to  his  constituents.  He  holds 
that  to  take  the  tariff  off  all  articles  manufactured  by  trusts, 
as  urged  by  the  Ohio  Democrats,  would  result  in  "  shutting  up 
seventy-five  per  cent,  of  the  industrial  institutions  of  the 
United  States  until  labor  came  down  to  European  standards." 
His  opponent,  John  H.  Clarke,  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
United  States  senator,  has  challenged  Hanna  to  joint  debate, 
but  Hanna  has  declined  to  engage  in  any  such  contest.  Clarke's 
campaign  speeches  are  devoted  to  the  propositions  that  the 
present  Wall  Street  panic  has  been  largely  brought  about 
by  high-tariff  taxes  which  have  locked  up  millions  of  the  peo- 
ple's money  in  the  Treasury ;  that  the  tariff  should,  there- 
fore, be  removed ;  that  the  capitalization  of  corporations 
should  be  limited  to  the  value  of  the  property;  and  that  the 
Filipinos  should  immediately  be  given  their  independence. 
Tom  Johnson,  the  candidate  for  governor,  is  making  his  cam- 
paign on  local  issues.  But  that  he  will  win  his  fight  is  very 
doubtful,  indeed. 


There    is    a   great   uproar   in    England   over   the   report   of   the 

South  African  War  Commission.     This  report 

fHE  makes  four  large  volumes,  and  it  shows  that 

Great  Britain   went  into   the  war  in   an  even 
of  War. 

more  unprepared  condition  than  our  own  be- 
fore the  Spanish  war  of  189S.  It  has  developed,  since  that 
time,  that  President  McKinley  moved  heaven  and  earth  to  hold 
back  Congress  from  declaring  war  for  a  few  months,  in  order 
to  enable  the  War  Department  to  secure  more  powder.  It 
seems  that  we  lacked  not  only  the  guns,  and  the  bullets  to 
fire  out  of  the  guns,  but  we  lacked  the  powder  with  which 
to  shoot  them  off.  In  war,  even  if  cannon-balls  and  bullets  be 
not  propelled  with  accuracy  against  the  enemy,  it  is  necessary 
to  make  a  loud  noise,  and  we  had  no  powder  with  which  to 
make  a  loud  noise.  Hence,  Mr.  McKinley's  praiseworthy  (and 
successful)   efforts  at  delay. 

So,  in  Great  Britain,  it  has  now  been  discovered  that  during 
the  Boer  war  there  was  practically  no  commissary,  no  trans- 
ports, no  reserve  supply  of  guns  or  ammunition,  no  horses, 
no  maps,  and  no  plan  of  campaign.  It  will  be  remembered  that 
Great  Britain'  had  to  charter  a  number  of  transatlantic  liners 
for  the  transport  service,  and  that  she  had  agents  all  over  our 
Southern  States,  buying  horses  and  mules. 

This  astounding  condition  of  affairs  seems  to  leak  out  after 
every  war.  After  the  Franco-Prussian  campaign,  it  was  dis- 
covered that  France  entered  upon  the  war  in  a  condition  so 
unprepared  that  it  was  appalling.  In  the  legislative  chamber, 
before  war  was  declared,  the  opposition  one  day  asked  the 
minister  of  war  if  the  army  was  ready ;  he  arose  in  his  place, 
and 'said,  solemnly:  "There  is  not  a  button  missing  from  a 
gaiter."  It  was  soon  discovered  that  he  was  right,  the  reason 
being  that  there  were  no  gaiters.  In  fact,  before  a  fortnight 
many  of  the  French  soldiers  not  only  had  no  gaiters,  but  they 
had  no  shoes.  The  officers  had  no  maps,  except  maps  of  Ger- 
man territory,  and  lost  their  way  in  their  own  country. 

These  developments  make  a  non-military  person  wonder 
whether  there  is  a  "  science  "  of  war.  A  military  campaign, 
to  a  layman,  seems  a  series  of  blunders,  and  the  general  who 
makes  the  least  blunders  is  called  the  successful  one. 

In  his  famous  book  on  Napoleon's  Russian  campaign,  the 
"  Physiologie  de  la  Guerre,"  Count  Tolstoy  gives  a  version  of 
that  military  fiasco  which  is  well  worth  perusal  by  those  who 
have  never  read  any  but  the  accounts  of  French  and  other 
historians.  Tolstoy  says  that  Napoleon  never  had  any  plan  of 
campaign ;  that  the  Russian  generals  never  had  any  plan  of 
campaign ;  that  Napoleon  apparently  expected  that  the  Russians 
would  give  him  battle ;  that  the  Russians  apparently  intended 
to  do  so,  but  were  prevented  by  internecine  dissensions  and 
jealousy  among  the  corps  commanders;  that  as  Napoleon 
advanced  toward  the  eastward,  the  Russian  army  was  ordered 
by  the  Czar  to  stand  and  fight ;  that  the  Russian  army  wanted 
to  fight;  that  Koutousoff,  the  commander-in-chief,  distrusted 
the  generals  commanding  the  army  corps  ;  that,  doubting  their 
loyal  adherence,  he  was  afraid  to  give  battle ;  that  some  of 
these  generals  determined  to  bring  about  a  battle,  thinking 
that  the  result  would  be  a  success  for  the  French  armies,  and 
hoping  thus  to  ruin  Koutousoff ;  that  while  these  intrigues 
were  in  progress,  a  battle  was  brought  on  by  the  impetuosity 
of  the  soldiers  in  the  ranks;  that  the  Battle  of  Borodino  was 
not  expected  by  Napoleon,  and  not  intended  by  Koutousoff; 
that  after  the  battle  was  over,  the  Russians  had  whipped  the 
French  and  did  not  know  it ;  that  the  Russians  retired  in 
good  order,  not  knowing  what  terrible  disasters  had  been  in- 
flicted on  the  French;  that  Napoleon,  although  his  army  was 
a  mere  military  mob,  immediately  claimed  the  victory,  be- 
cause the  Russians  had  retired;  that  the  Battle  of  Borodino 
broke  the  back  of  the  Grand  Army,  but  the  Russians  did  not 
suspect  it  then ;  that  when  Napoleon  entered  Moscow  he  knew 
not  why  he  entered,  and  never  could  tell  why  he  remained; 
that  when  the  city  was  burned  the  French  claimed  the  Russians 
did  it;  the  Russians  claimed  the  French  did  it;  the  Russian 
governor  first  denounced  the  French  as  barbarians  for  causing 
the  fire,  and  then  subsequently  boasted  that  he  had  himself 
fired  his  own  house  with  his  own  hands  ;  that  if  anybody  was 
the  cause  of  the  burning  of  Moscow  it  was  God ;  that  any 
large  wooden  city,  suddenly  occupied  by  a  force  of  dissolute 
and  careless  soldiery,  is  bound  t0"be  consumed;  that  when  the 
French  left  Moscow  and  started  to  retire  they  did  not  know 
where  they  were  going;  that  Napoleon  had  no  plan  of  cam- 
paign, either  marching  east  or  retiring  west;  that  he  took  his 
army  back  over  the  same  road,  wasted  and  worn  by  their 
journey  of  a  few  months  before;  that  he  might  easily  have 
traveled  a  few  score  miles  south,  through  fat  and  juicy 
provinces,  where  food  and  forage  abounded ;  that  the  sole  end 
of  himself  and  his  generals  seemed  to  be  to  get  to  Smolensk; 
that  they  had  nothing  to  go  to  Smolensk  for ;  that  when  they 
got  there  they  did  not  not  know  the  reason  of  their  haste ; 
that  Smolensk,  empty  of  food  and  forage,  was  nothing  but  a 
smoking  ruin;  that  as  the  French  continued  their  march  to- 
ward the  frontier  the  Russian  army  continued  to  march  on  a 
parallel  line  to  the  northward;   that  historians  have  said  that 


October  5,  1903. 

the  Russian  army  continued  to  "  hang  upon  and  harass  "  the 
French  army;  that  as  a  matter  of  fact  the  official  documents 
prove  that  the  Russian  army  never  knew  where  the  French 
army  was,  till  near  the  frontier ;  that  all  of  the  "  harrying  " 
of  the  French  army  was  done  by  the  outraged  peasantry,  the 
Cossacks,  and  other  irregular  guerrilla  forces ;  that  the  Czar 
was  urging  Koutousoff  to  take  the  French  army  prisoners ; 
that  Koutousoff  had  not  food  enough  for  his  own  men,  and  the 
few  French  prisoners  he  had  nearly  all  starved  to  death  ;  that 
subsequent  Russian  historians  have  praised  him  for  his  cun 
ning  in  driving  the  French  to  the  frontier  without  giving  them 
battle;  that  in  reality  the  reason  Koutousoff  did  not  give  them 
battle,  as  ordered  by  the  Czar,  was  because  he  could  not  catch 
up  with  them,  they  traveled  so  fast;  that  in  regard  to  praising 
him  for  his  wisdom  in  doing  no  more  than  driving  them  to  the 
frontier,  it  was  ardently  urged  among  the  Russian  generals 
to  cross  the  Beresina  and  pursue  them  beyond  the  river ; 
that  the  only  reason  this  pursuit  into  foreign  territory  was  not 
attempted  was  because  the  Russian  army  had  no  commissary 
and  no  transportation  department. 

These  astounding  statements  Count  Tolstoy  makes  and 
backs  up  with  citations  from  official  documents  in  the  Russian 
archives.  Very'  likely  they  are  true.  What  a  remarkable 
story !  And  yet  this  aggregation  of  colossal  blunders  was  per- 
formed under  the  direction  of  the  man  who  was  admittedly 
the  greatest  soldier  that  the  world  has  seen  for  two  thousand 
years.     What  a  stinging  indictment  on  the  science  of  war ! 

Again  we  ask,  is  war  really  a  science?  Or  is  a  military 
campaign  a  game  of  blind-man's-buff  in  the  dark?  Is  it  a 
series  of  stumbles  and  blunders,  in  which  the  man  who  makes 
the  least  blunders  and  falls  the  least,  is  the  one  who  appa- 
rently wins  the  game?     Or  is  war  a  "science"? 

If  war  is  a  science,  then  going  into  the  Boer  war  as  the 
British  did.  without  any  commissary  or  transports,  or  into 
the  Spanish  war  as  we  did  without  any  powder,  is  certainly 
unscientific  war. 


The  Break-Up 
of  THE 

Trusts. 


When  we  read  such  a  statement  as  that  the  shrinkage  in  the 
market  value  of  Steel  Trust  securities  for  one 
day  amounted  to  $30,000.000 — enough  money 
to  buy  every  small  boy  in  the  United  States 
a  new  suit  of  clothes — we  realize  faintly  how 
vast  is  the  disaster  that  has  overtaken  Wall  Street,  and 
especially  Mr.  Morgan.  For,  in  the  reports  of  the  liquidation 
at  the  end  of  last  week,  it  is  stated  that  "  the  Morgan  stocks 
were  the  weakest  on  the  list."  How  different  this  from  the 
conditions  of  a  year  ago,  when  the  publishers  of  Wall  Street 
hand-books  listed  the  Morgan  stocks  separately,  "  as  possessing 
special  elements  of  strength !" 

On  Monday,  Steel  Trust  common  stock  sold  at  15  and  pre- 
ferred at  595-4.  Since  then,  it  has  rallied  and  Wall  Street 
hopes  that  the  worst  is  over.  Vet  the  enormous  slump  in 
securities,  so  long  continued,  so  all-embracing,  can  only  be 
viewed  with  great  uneasiness.  Will  Wall  Street's  disease  infect 
the  country  at  large  ? — that's  the  question. 

In  New  Jersey,  since  the  first  of  the  year,  forty-four  cor- 
porations have  gone  into  the  hands  of  receivers.  Their  total 
authorized  capital  was  $80,340,000,  their  liabilities  $17,272,333, 
their  assets  (estimated),  $1,564,684.  In  1901,  New  Jersey  re- 
ceived filing  fees  from  corporations  of  $887,439.  In  1902,  she 
received  $465,089.  This  year,  they  have  amounted  so  far  to 
$228,892.  In  May,  they  were  $58,208.  Last  month,  they  were 
only  $10,000.  These  figures  show  that  the  business  of  forming 
trusts,  which  was  at  its  height  in  1901,  has  now  shrunk  to 
almost  nothing.  What  is  more,  the  existing  trusts  are  flounder- 
ing. 

Take  the  case  of  the  Lake  Superior  Consolidated  Company. 
It  is  a  striking  one.  According  to  the  figures  printed  in  the 
New  York  Evening  Post,  the  market  valuation,  which  seven- 
teen months  ago  was  $50,000,000,  on  September  21st  was 
$885,000.  The  $28,000,000  of  preferred  stock  fell  from  80 
to  2I/2,  its  $74,000,000  of  common  stock  from  36  to  a  quarter 
of  one  per  cent.  "  At  the  stockholders  meeting,"  says  the  Post, 
"  the  remarkable  spectacle  was  presented  of  a  corporation 
with  $102,000,000  nominal  capital,  and  with  a  recent  market 
valuation  of  $50,000,000,  preparing  to  close  its  works  and  see 
its  belongings  sold  at  public  auction,  because  it  has  not  the 
credit,  with  its  shareholders  or  the  public,  to  raise  $5,000,000." 

So  far,  these  disasters  have  had  little  effect  upon  the  country 
in  general.  The  "  crop  scare  "  of  a  few  weeks  ago  has  not  been 
encouraged  by  later  advices.  Still,  merchants  are  beginning 
to  be  cautious.  A  prominent  California  business  man,  who 
recently  returned  from  the  East,  is  quoted  as  saying  that  "  this 
depression  is  creeping  on  slowly,  but  it  is  increasing  surely." 
He  attributes  the  trouble  to  three  distinct  causes.  First,  "  the 
pricking  of  the  Wall  Street  bubble  of  inflated  values."  Sec- 
ond, the  great  cotton  corner.  Third,  widespread  labor  troubles. 
"  Merchants,"  he  is  reported  to  have  said,  "are  not  buying  so 
freely  as  formerly,  and  the  tendency  seems  to  carry  smaller 
stocks  of  goods.  In  short,  business  is  depressed,  and  trade  i= 
slow  and  uncertain.  There  is  a  lack  of  confidence,  and  buyers 
of  all  kinds  of  merchandise  are  cautious.  The  future  outlook 
is  not  flattering." 

The  one  cheering  note  among  his  depressing  statements  is 
the  assurance  that  "  this  feeling  of  uncertainty  is  not  as  yet 
felt  in  California." 

The   political   fight   in   the  city   this   year    is   a  triangular   one, 
and  the  result  of  a  triangular  fight  is  always 
The  Poutical         difficult  to  forecast.     It  is  hard  to  tell   from 
Situation  in  which    of    the    old    parties    the    Union    Labor 

San   Francisco.  ... 

will    draw    the    largest    portion    of    its    vote. 

Ordinarily,  it  would  draw  from  the  Democrats,  but  matters 
at  present  are  sc  complicated  by  faction  fights  that  this  rule 
may  be  reversed. 

To  begin  with  the  Republican  ticket:  the  nominee  for 
mayor,  Henry  J.  Crocker,  is  a  man  of  the  highest  character, 
and  ordinarily  would  command  the  full  strength  of  the  Re- 
publican vote.  But  our  short-sighted  local  leaders  have  for 
years    encouraged    so    many    "  non-partisan  "    and    other    side- 


THE        ARGONAUT  . 

show  tickets  that  the  Republican  party  in  San  Francisco  never 
polls  its  full  strength  on  a  municipal  ticket.  The  Argonaul 
has  always  labored  for  regularity  in  Republican  municipal 
politics,  but  has  usually  labored  alone.  This  so-called  "  non- 
partisanism  "  has  generally  seemed  to  us  to  mean  more 
Democratic  mayors.  The  last  two  elections,  the  Republican 
nominee  has  been  defeated — one  by  treachery,  the  other  by 
faction  fights.  The  treatment  of  Horace  Davis,  a  stainless 
Republican,  by  the  Republican  party  of  San  Francisco  was 
an  ineffaceable  stigma  upon  the  party. 

Xow  there  is  another  breach  in  the  party  ranks.  The  ad- 
visory- committee  of  the  Republican  League  has  just  demanded 
the  resignation  of  A.  Ruef,  who  has  hitherto  been  its  leader. 
Mr.  Ruef  is  a  personal  and  political  friend  of  Mayor  Schmitz. 
and  desired  to  bring  about  the  indorsement  of  his  friend  by 
the  Republican  convention.  Failing  in  this,  he  concluded  to 
abstain  from  active  participation  in  the  campaign.  Would  it 
not  have  been  the  part  of  wisdom  in  the  Republican  League 
committee  to  permit  him  to  do  so?  They  could  scarcely  expect 
him  to  work  actively  to  bring  about  the  defeat  of  his  friend 
Schmitz.  Now,  however,  by  their  action  they  may  force  Ruef 
into  an  attitude  of  semi-hostility  to  the  Republican  ticket,  and 
of  covert  if  not  open  assistance  to  the  Union  Labor  ticket. 
Ruef  certainly  has  much  influence  with  a  powerful  wing  of  the 
Republican  party,  which  is  largely  made  up  of  labor  votes. 
The  Republican  League's  action  seems  inclined  to  divert  these 
Republican  workingmen's  votes  into  the  labor-union  camp. 
The  aim  of  politics  is  to  keep  votes,  not  to  lose  them. 

The  Democratic  nominee,  Franklin  K.  Lane,  is  a  man  of 
high  standing,  of  ability  as  a  lawyer,  and  has  an  excellent  rec- 
ord as  city  attorney.  His  popularity  is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
in  the  last  gubernatorial  election  he  polled  in  San  Francisco 
33.743  votes  as  against  24,109  for  Pardee.  It  was  this  sweep- 
ing victory  that  led  the  Argonaut  to  warn  the  Republican 
leaders  that  Lane  was  a  candidate  to  be  feared,  and  that  they 
must  put  up  a  ticket  that  would  poll  not  only  the  full  Republi- 
can vote,  but  other  votes  as  well.  But  the  action  of  the  Repub- 
lican League's  committee  seems  inclined  to  drive  the  labor 
voters  out  of  the  Republican  ranks  and  into  the  ranks  of  the 
Union  Labor  party.  However,  Mr.  Lane  will  poll  no  such 
vote  this  year.  Many  of  his  adherents  in  the  gubernatorial 
election  will  be  found  in  the  Union  Labor  ranks.  Then  there 
is  a  bitter  fight  in  the  Democratic  ranks  between  the  McNab 
and  O'Brien  factions.  It  is  so  bitter  that  some  political  quid- 
nuncs opine  that  the  O'Brien  faction  intend  to  support  Crocker. 
Although  we  hope  so,  we  doubt  it.  When  election  day  comes 
it  is  difficult  to  make  a  dyed-in-the-wool  Democrat  poll  a  Re- 
publican ballot. 

Mayor  Schmitz,  the  nominee  of  the  Labor  Union  party,  has 
also  got  a  faction  fight  on  his  hands.  Michael  Casey,  the 
leader  of  the  teamsters'  strike,  was  appointed  to  a  fat  office 
by  Schmitz,  and  seems  now  to  have  become  a  political  Frank- 
enstein. In  the  battle  between  the  Casey  and  Parry  factions 
of  the  labor  party,  however,  Mayor  Schmitz  carried  off  the 
honors,  and  it  seems  as  if  he  would  poll  the  entire  vote  of  the 
Union  Labor  party  except  the  negligible  Casey  quantity. 

But  what  is  the  total  vote  of  the  Union  Labor  party  ?  That 
is  the  question.  Doubtless  Messrs.  Crocker,  Schmitz,  and  Lane 
would  all  be  glad  to  know. 


Governor    Pardee    this    week   made   public   the    report   of   the 
prison  directors  on  the  Folsom  break,  accom- 
Go\i-.rnor  panying    it    with    a    long    letter    in    comment. 

Censures  Fol-         _,  .         ,       u  . 

The  governor  says  that  he  most  sincerely 
son  Officials.  &  j  j 

agrees "  with  the  directors  that  the  prison 
force  showed  "  a  total  want  of  capacity  and  efficiency  " ;  that 
if  the  officers  and  guards  had  shown  the  same  daring  and  nerve 
as  the  convicts,  the  latter  would  never  have  left  the  prison 
grounds  alive ;  that  henceforward  guards  must  fire  whatever  the 
danger  of  injuring  fellow -officers ;  that  "  orders  given  by 
officials  in  the  hands  of  convicts  are  not  the  orders  of  officials, 
but  are  the  orders  -of  the  convicts  themselves."  He  also 
"  hopes  the  directors  will  not  put  off  very  long  "  the  work  of 
thoroughly  reorganizing  Folsom,  with  the  necessity  of  which 
they  affirm  they  are  impressed.  The  substitution  of  the  present 
congregate  system  for  the  cellular  system  is  approved  by  the 
governor,  and  it  may  be  inferred  from  what  be  says  that  he 
will  present  recommendations  along  this  line  to  the  next 
legislature.     We  hope  he  will  do  so. 


Green  Apples 
and  Green 
Almonds. 


A  dispatch  from  Woodland,  Cal.,  tells  us  that  last  week  two 
children  died  there  "  from  ptomaine  poison- 
ing, due  to  eating  green  almonds."  This  is 
news,  indeed.  It  is  remarkable  how  rapidly 
technical,  scientific,  and  learned  slang  is 
picked  up  and  understanded  of  the  common  people — even  by 
telegraph  operators  and  reporters.  It  is  a  number  of  years 
since  the  medical  profession  first  demonstrated  the  existence 
of  leucomaines,  ptomaines,  and  other  toxic  organisms  which 
irritate  people's  insides,  and  sometimes  send  them  into  the 
other  world.  The  most  common  form  is  that  resulting  from 
changes  in  milk,  an  article  of  diet  used  by  all.  and  by  children 
more  than  by  adults.  Another  deadly  form  is  that  once  known 
as  "  tyrotoxicon,"  which  is  merely  one  of  the  many  toxic 
products  of  milk,  but  found  in  its  deadliest  form  in  ice-cream. 
It  has  been  frequently  known  to  knock  out  an  entire  Sunday- 
school  picnic.  Ptomaines  are  found  in  canned  "  boned 
turkey,"  "  lunch  tongues,"  sardines,  pati  de  f'oie  gras,  and  the 
plainer  but  equally  deadly  leberwurst,  or  liver  sausage  of  the 
Germans,  and  all  the  various  forms  of  refuse  meat  and  offal 
which  are  put  up  in  tins  with  handsome  labels  to  be  sold 
to  unsuspecting  consumers.  On  this  coast  the  favorite  medium 
for  poisoning  people  scientifically  is  canned  salmon.  Doubtless 
Pacific  Coast  canned  salmon — when  it  was  overripe — has  sent 
more  people  into  the  sweet  by-and-by  than  any  variety  of 
canned   ptomaines   known    to   the  trade. 

But  we  should  give  the  devil  his  due — he  is  never  so  black 
as  he  is  painted.  People  who  have  picked  up  the  word 
"  ptomaine "    should    use    it    understandingly.      The    ptomaine 


ill 


never  comes  from  vegetable  matter.  It  is  the  result  of  the 
decomposition  of  animal  organisms,  and  is  a  toxic  albumenoid, 
therefore  identical  with  those  toxic  alkaloids  which  are  the 
result  of  cadaveritic  decomposition. 

In  short,  it  is  about  the  same  as  a  decaying  human  body, 
and  that  is  what  people  eat  who  consume  animal  foods  that  are 
not  sound.  But  vegetable  foods  that  are  too  green,  or  too 
ripe,  or  far  gone  in  fermentation,  do  not  develop  these  deadly 
albumenoids.  They  have  their  own  types  of  poisons,  but  they 
are  similar;  they  frequently  kill  children,  but  rarely  compass 
the  destruction  of  adults,  who  have  tougher  gastro-intestinal 
tissues.     They  only  make  them  sick  and  sorry. 

There  are  vegetable  as  well  as  animal  albumenoids.  and  it 
is  theoretically  possible  that  their  degeneration  might  lead 
to  the  generation  of  ptomaines.  But  it  is  practically  im- 
possible. The  vegetables  made  up  most  largely  of  vegetable 
albumens,  such  as  the  bean  and  the  pea,  keep  the  longest,  the 
best,  and  the  soundest. 

The  deaths  at  Woodland  may  be  set  down  not  to  ptomaine 
poisoning,  but  to  the  plain  intestinal  inflammation  which  little 
boys  in  less  scientific  days  used  to  get  from  eating  green  apples, 
and  which  in  those  days  used  to  be  called  either  colic  or 
cholera   morbus. 


The   Democratic 

Municipal 

Nominees. 


It  is  indisputable  that  there  was  a  good  deal  of  inharmony  in 
the  Democratic  convention,  but  the  action  of 
Mahoney,  the  minority  candidate,  in  moving 
the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  wait  upon 
Mr.  Lane  and  ask  him  to  accept  the  nomina- 
tion, brought  about  at  least  a  semblance  of  political  peace,  and 
permitted  Lane,  without  inconsistency,  to  accept  the  nomina- 
tion "  from  the  united  party."  One  statement  in  Lane's  ad- 
dress was  notable — that  he  will  make  no  pledges  of  patronage 
during  the  campaign. 

The  nominees  of  the  convention  are  as  follows :  For  mayor, 
Franklin  K.  Lane;  for  assessor,  Dr.  Washington  Dodge;  for 
district  attorney,  Lewis  F.  Byington ;  for  coroner,  Dr.  T.  B.  W. 
Leland ;  for  recorder,  Edmond  Godchaux ;  for  public  adminis- 
trator, M.  J.  Hynes ;  for  city  attorney,  Crittenden  Thornton ; 
for  sheriff,  Peter  J.  Curtis;  for  county  clerk,  W.  W.  Wehe ;  for 
treasurer,  William  M.  Hinton ;  for  auditor,  William  Broderick ; 
for  tax  collector,  Edward  J.  Forest ;  for  police  judges,  George 
H.  Cabaniss  and  Edmund  P.  Mogan ;  for  supervisors,  James 
P.  Booth,  Henry  U.  Brandenstein,  Samuel  Braunhart,  A. 
Comte,  Jr.,  John  Connor,  A.  A.  d'Ancona,  Henry  Payot,  Robert 
J.  Loughery,  John  A.  Lynch,  George  B.  McClellan,  Frank  J. 
Grace,  T.  Cary  Friedlander,  Dr.  Fred  A.  Grazer,  Oscar  Hocks, 
John  Barnett,  Edward  R.  Rock,  Carl  Westerfield,  Edward  H. 
Gleason. 

Our  daily  journals  are  now  pretty  well  lined  up  on  the  political 
situation.  The  Chronicle  seems  to  have  taken 
a  brief  for  Crocker,  and  is  attacking  Lane  and 
Schmitz  with  unction.  The  Call,  notwith- 
standing the  rumored  antipathy  of  John  D. 
Spreckels  to  the  Republican  mayoralty  candidate,  is  following 
the  lead  of  its  Republican  contemporary",  though  it  managed  to 
report  the  Democratic  convention  with  some  degree  of  fairness, 
and  in  its  news  columns  did  not  substitute  for  Lane's  really 
good  speech  a  mixture  of  a  few  garbled  quotations  and  adverse 
comment  on  the  same,  as  did  the  Chronicle.  De  Young's  paper 
also  makes  out  that  Lane's  reception  by  the  convention  was 
only  mildly  enthusiastic,  which  was  plainly  not  the  case.  The 
Examiner  so  far  has  showed  no  disposition  to  attack  Mayor 
Schmitz  in  its  news  columns,  and  reported  both  Union  Labor 
and  Democratic  conventions  with  equal  fairness.  It  looks 
as  though  the  bulk  of  its  energy  would  be  directed  toward  dis- 
crediting the  Republican  nominees,  while  leaving  Mayor 
Schmitz  strictly  alone.  The  Bulletin,  on  the  other  hand,  has 
come  out  for  Lane  with  that  suddenness  peculiar  to  it,  and  will 
undoubtedly  champion  his  cause  till  the  campaign  is  over,  and 
then  resume  the  pleasant  task  of  writing  editorials  on  women's 
fashions  and  men's  morals. 


AND  THE 

Candidates. 


The  Result 

of  THE 

Bond  Election 


In  the  bond  election,  Tuesday,  27,234  persons  voted.  For  gov- 
ernor, last  fall,  the  total  vote  was  60,067. 
Accordingly,  a  little  less  than  half  the  regular 
voters  turned  out  this  week.  In  the  Mission, 
the  largest  proportional  vote  was  cast ;  in  the 
wealthy  resident  district,  the  smallest.  The  total  bonded  debt 
incurred  by  the  election  is  $17,771,000.  Ten  of  the  propositions 
carried,  two  were  lost — $159,000  for  establishing  a  public  park 
in  the  Twin  Peaks  tract,  and  $205,000  for  the  establishment 
of  St.  Mary's  Square  Park.  Following  is  the  list  of  proposi- 
tions carried,  with  approximate  proportional  vote;  City  and 
county  hospital  ($1,000,000)  10  votes  for  to  1  against;  new- 
sewers  ($7,250,000)  5  to  1 ;  school-houses  and  play  grounds 
($3.595-ooo)  7  to  1 ;  repairing  streets  ($1,621,000)  5  to  1 ;  new 
county  jail  and  improving  hall  of  justice  ($697,000),  library 
($'.647,000),  children's  playgrounds  ($741,000),  connecting 
Golden  Gate  Park  and  Presidio  ($330,000).  Mission  Park 
i  $293,000),  all  three  votes  for  to  one  against.  The  proposition 
to  issue  $597,000  in  bonds  for  acquiring  land  for  Telegraph  Hill 
Park  barely  carried  by  a  margin  of  466  votes. 


The  M  vtter  of 
RATES  the  Sub- 
ject of  Suit. 


As  clearly  foreseen  last  week  would  be  the  case,  two  taxpayers 
have  begun  friendly  suit  against  Auditor 
Baehr  in  order  to  determine  what  is  the  right 
and  proper  method  of  procedure  in  view  of 
the  raise  of  thirty  per  cent,  in  the  assessment 
of  San  Francisco  by  the  State  Board  of  Equalization.  Tw<> 
suits  have  been  brought  by  employees  of  the  Hibernia  Bank, 
acting  under  its  direction.  One  suit  will  compel  the  auditor 
to  show  cause  why  he  should  not  collect  taxes  on  the  new 
valuation  at  the  old  rate  of  $1.07  instead  of  at  84.4.  The  other 
suit  will  compel  him  to  show  why  he  should  not  collect  taxes 
at  $1.07  on  the  valuation  fixed  by  Assessor  Dodge.  The  third 
possible  course — the  one  taken  by  the  supervisors — will 
lined  by  Baehr  in  his  answer,  and  the  supreme  cour 
decide  which  of  the  three  is  the  correct  one. 


212 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  5,  1903. 


THE    VERGE    OF    SCANDAL. 


The  Story  of  a  Tenor  and  a  Society  Girl. 


One  midnight,  rich  Oliver  Scranton,  caustic  of  mood, 
tramped  into  the  library  of  his  handsome  home  in  the 
aristocratic  Westlake  District  of  Los  Angeles.  His 
daughter  was  just  come  from  a  musicale,  and  looked 
tired  and  dreamy.  Oliver's  face  was  red,  and  upon  the 
back  of  his  neck  were  folds  of  flesh  that  squirmed. 

"  Who  is  the  insufferable  person  that  stuck  that  little 
chicken-coop  of  a  house  on  the  fourth  of  those  vacant 
lots  next  door?  Outrage!  A  cottage  on  this  street  is 
a  disgrace  to  a  locality  of  such  pretentions.  There  were 
building  restrictions !— not  less  than  two  stories  and 
■  four  thousand  dollars  !" 

Mabel  looked  startled.  "Some  think  the  cottage 
artistic,"  she  protested. 

"  The  devil  they  do !"  fumed  Scranton.  "  Who  gives 
a  pancake  for  artistic?  It's  bigness  that  goes  in 
America  I" 

She  arose  impatiently,  and  said,  half  proud,  halt 
timid:     "Anyhow,  he  sings  beautifully." 

"  Thunder,"  swore  Scranton.  As  she  floated  upstairs, 
he  stood  in  wrath.    "  Gad,  if  the  girl  isn't  an  idiot !" 

When  she  came  into  her  enchanting  bedroom  she 
turned  on  electric  lights,  and  sighed.  "  I  am  tired  of 
society,"  she  murmured.    "  I  want  something  else." 

She  put  out  the  lights  again  after  awhile,  and  sat  at 
her  open  window;  the  moon  floated  over  the  distant 
park;  the  city  was  still.  Below  her  were  three  vacant 
lots,  and  beyond  them  on  the  fourth  stood  the  stranger's 
new  cottage,  its  Oriental  outlines  barely  visible.  Across 
her  cheek  the  Pacific,  greatest  of  lovers,  sent  his  night- 
kiss.  She  began  to  sing  to  herself  notes  that  nestled 
in  her  throat,  and  flew  out,  trembling  fledglings : 
"  I  am  not  lost  to  thee." 

She  laid  her  head  down  in  the  moonshine,  and  in  her 

eyes  were  idle  tears.     Now  the  night  answered;  over 

the  vacant  lots  came  a  tenor  voice,  clear,  passionate: 

•'  Although   my  wanderings   bear  my   earthly   life  and   hopes 

away  from  thee." 

Silence  again. 

She  stared  out,  startled.  There  was  nothing  to  be 
seen  but  the  moon  and  vague  outlines.  Heart  in  a  flut- 
ter, yet  touched  with  resentment,  tenderly  outraged,  she 
rose  and  closed  the  inner  shutters.  How  beautiful  it 
had  been !  She  opened  them  a  crack  again.  She  would 
give  worlds  to  sing  once  more !  But  her  father  might 
hear,  although  his  bedroom  was  distant.  She  would 
slip  out  to  an  upper  balcony-like  porch  that  opened 
from  her  room,  and  was  quite  removed.  Music  made 
her  madcap,  and  out  in  the  moonlight  she  came  like  a 
silver  fish  darting  into  view  in  the  crystal  bowl  of  night. 
She  half  opened  her  lips. 

What !  She  on  the  verge  of  a  deed  so  scandalous  ? 
She  couldn't !  The  moon  saw  her  creep  away ;  how 
foolish  had  her  heart  been,  and  what  an  insolent 
neighbor ! 

Oliver  owned  business  blocks  on  Broadway,  and 
pompously  drove  forth  every  day  to  look  after  his  in- 
come and  other  matters.  Oliver  was  quite  a  big  thing 
in  Los  Angeles,  but,  just  like  a  poor  man,  he  ate  ham 
for  breakfast;  while,  droopy  from  loss  of  sleep,  she  sat 
guilty-eyed,  casting  up  furtive  yet  defiant  glances  at 
him.  What  if  she  had  actually  let  those  answering  notes 
out  last  night ! 

"  I'll  inquire  about  that  insufferable  party  and  his 
chicken-coop,"  announced  Scranton.  "  Some  low  being. 
I've  seen  the  kind  of  men  that  come  to  see  him.  I 
passed  one,  pah  !     He  smelled  of  oil !" 

Mabel  laid  down  her  spoon;  Mabel  ate  not  one  bite. 
And  Scranton  drove  away. 

In  the  afternoon  she  came  home  from  a  reception, 
where  society  ladies  flattered  her  voice. 

"  Unsatisfying,"  said  Mabel,  and  went  slowly  up- 
stairs, as  though  there  were  no  particular  interest  up 
there  at  all.    Languid  and  moody  was  she. 

The  windows  toward  the  insolent  neighbor  were  up, 
but  the  shutters  were  closed.  She  looked  at  the  slats. 
She  took  off  her  hat  and  dropped  it  on  a  chair.  She 
looked  at  the  slats.  All  of  a  sudden  she  went  quickly 
like  a  thief  who  snatches  things,  and  turned  the  slats 
edgewise  to  look  through. 

The  owner  of  the  vacant  lots  had  raised  oats  on  them. 
Think  of  it.  Oats  in  swelldom.  Over  grain,  nodding 
in  the  evening  sunlight,  she,  hidden,  gazed. 

The  cottage  was  a  gem.  Stupid  American  ideals  of 
bigness  !  How  exquisite  its  lines.  It  shone  like  filigree 
work.  To  the  rear  was  a  space,  half  garden,  half 
court,  surrounded  by  walls  over  which  she  could  see. 
It  had  trellises,  and  new  vines  started,  and  potted  palms. 
Under  a  magnolia-tree  sat  a  man.  Her  hands  rose 
and  fell  on  her  bosom. 

"  A  very  handsome  one,"  she  sighed,  after  a  time. 
"  His  face  has  a  sad  look." 

Maybe  it  did;  but  her  thinking  so  would  never  have 
proved  it.  She  could  not  see  what  he  was  doing — and 
she  longed  to  !     Her  opera-glasses  were  within  reach. 

"  Surely,"  she  murmured,  "  nothing  is  wrong  that 
nobody  in  the  world  ever  finds  out !" 

Boudoir  philosophy !  She  took  her  opera-glasses  in 
eag-.r  hands,  and  looked  at  the  man  through  them,  hav- 
ing a  tremorous  and  guilty  feeling. 

Why,  the  man  was  writing  music,  composing!     Ro- 

m  ntic   truth,   smitli\    her  heart  amidships.     He  was 

ve  y  near-sighted,  an.'  leaned  close  to  the  paper.    Hav- 

g   written  a  phrase  he  sang  it  in   tenor,  like  gentle 


swells  of  ocean.  Yes— his  music  was  a  fluid  poured 
wave-like  on  her  heart-sands;  and  sank  into  them  like 
water. 

He  wrote  more,  and  she  stood  fixed  as  he  sang  again ; 
and  after  that  she  sighed.  When  he  had  finished,  she 
knew  the  song  by  heart,  so  thirstily  had  her  heart- 
sands  drunk  it  up.  She  laid  the  opera-glasses  down, 
leaned  her  head  against  the  shutters,  and  closed  her 
eyes.  Now  he  began  to  sing  again,  and  her  spirit 
rose  on  the  wings  of  what  he  sang.  So  maddening  was 
it,  therefore,  to  have  him  stop  near  the  end,  and  go  to 
writing  again,  that  before  she  knew  what  she  did  her 
own  voice  floated  out  in  answer  over  the  nodding  grain, 
over  the  wall,  completing  that  which  he  had  failed  to 
finish. 

When  she  knew  what  she  had  done,  she  grew  stiff, 
then  melted  in  hot  blushes.  He  had  glanced  up.  She 
could  not  but  shut  the  sight  away,  and  went  down- 
stairs all  a-tremble  as  fast  as  she  could,  her  prudence 
dinning  in  her  ears,  "  Are  you  a  flirt?  Are  you  a  flirt ?" 
In  the  library,  she  stamped  her  foot.  "  I  am  not !" 
she  cried,  angrily,  but  her  lips  were  trembling  and  her 
eyes  were  wet. 

The  next  morning  Mabel  washed  her  golden  hair.  She 
always  came  out  on  the  upper  balcony-like  rear  porch 
to  dry  it.  There  the  sun  poured  warmly,  and  breezes 
helped.  But  to-day  how  could  she?  Yonder  he  was 
fooling  with  plants,  and  sometimes  writing  and  singing. 
He  would  see  her — consummation  to  be  approached 
not  without  agitation.  But  when  you  get  grand  opera 
into  your  blood  you  do  anything.  She  knew  that  she 
was  most  beautiful  with  her  hair  down  (that  is,  after 
it  was  partially  dried;  goodness  knows  it  looked  ratty 
enough  while  it  was  wet!).  She  longed  to  do  that  wild 
thing.  Oh,  tame  society,  caging  convention  !  His  voice 
had  made  her  mad. 

So  she  half-dried  it  elsewhere,  and  then,  just  at  the 
time  when  it  had  begun  to  crinkle  all  up,  and  curl  all 
round,  and  cling,  and  wave,  and  take  tender  hold  upon 
her  cheek  and  neck,  and  flutter  like  love's  wings  upon 
her  bosom,  and  shine,  and  glisten,  and  ripple  round 
her  shoulders — at  that  bewitching  moment  she  stepped 
out  on  the  upper  porch — innocent,  unconscious  ! 

She  sat  in  the  sun,  tremorous,  and  blushed  so  violently 
that  she  must  hide  her  face  by  letting  the  hair  tumble 
all  over  it.  Thus  she  was  blinded,  tented  in  it  for  one 
long,  delicious  half-hour.  And  the  strangest  result 
was  this :  Though  the  neighbor  had  occasionally  been 
singing  before,  during  all  that  time  he  sang  never  a 
note. 

She  longed  to  look  up.  Was  he  looking  at  her?  How 
angry  she  grew  at  his  possible  insolence — how  mean  it 
would  be  if  he  didn't !  Oh,  what  did  he  do  all  that  half- 
hour  during  which  she  sat  tented  in  gold? 

She  could  bear  the  suspense  no  more;  if  she  died 
for  it  she  would  find  out  what  he  was  doing;  though  she 
was  no  flirt,  all  the  same.  She  lifted  her  hand,  put  it 
under  the  cascade  of  hair,  and  flung  it  from  her  face, 
which  was  revealed  to  the  wandering  kisses  of  ocean, 
and  to  the  bright  eyes  of  the  morning. 

A  terrible  shock !  Yonder  stood  the  man  in  his  little 
court  looking  through  immense  field-glasses  which, 
resting  upon  the  top  of  the  wall,  were  apparently 
trained  upon  her ! 

Her  blushes  fled.  Monumental  impudence  !  "  It's 
what  you  get !"  hoarsely  grated  the  voice  of  prudence 
in  her.  Ay,  that  is  what  she  got.  Yet — was  he  any 
worse  than  she  ?  She  had  trained  opera-glasses  on  him. 
Her  boudoir  philosophy  died.  Instead  of  secrecy  mak- 
ing her  act  lawful,  it  made  it  more  pusillanimous.  He, 
at  least,  was  honest !  Also,  near-sighted,  which  was 
more  to  the  point.  Had  she  not  secretly  wished  him 
to  see  her  openly?  And  how  could  he  see  her  without 
glasses  when  he  was  near-sighted? 

"  Justice  is  the  greatest  of  qualities,"  cried  she, 
wrought  up  and  fleeing.    "  I  will  be  just !" 

She  buried  her  face  in  pillows,  and  had  an  upheaval. 
Horrid  man  !  Excusable  man  !  Eccentric  genius  !  Shame 
went  trooping  through  her  heart  with  a  dozen  other 
things   that  blush   as   red. 

After  two  hours  came  his  song,  seeming  to  plead 
forgiveness.  She  arose;  the  affair  was  becoming 
serious;  and  stood  at  the  shutters,  but  would  not  look. 
He  stopped  at  the  phrase  which  she  had  taken  up  before. 
She  could  not,  she  could  not  refrain !  She  sang  it — 
sang  it  with  all  her  heart. 

"  Flirt !"  shrieked  prudence  in  her. 
"  I  don't  care,"  she  cried,  wretchedly ;  and  then  looked 
out  over  the  oats. 

There,  plumped  upon  her  like  rude  insult,  were  those 
field-glasses.  These  two  hours  he  must  have  been 
staring.  Insufferable  man  !  But  at  all  events  he  could 
see  only  the  shutters.  She  was  in  a  mixed  condition 
of  heart  all  day,  bewildered,  mortified ;  for,  fact  fraught 
with  danger  from  Oliver,  there  those  glasses  remained 
the  live-long  day,  and  every  few  minutes  till  dewy  eve 
the  neighbor  came  and  looked,  and  looked,  and  looked. 

The  secret  of  her  wounded  heart  made  its  way  into 
Oliver's  suspicious  skull.  In  the  evening  when  he  saw 
those  field-glasses  trained  in  the  direction  of  her 
window,  his  anger  was  awful,  but  at  first  he  concealed 
it,  seeking  a  way  to  crush  the  thing.  He  glowered  on  his 
uneasy  yet  defiant  daughter,  and  abused  the  furniture 
till  eleven  o'clock. 

"  I'll  sue  the  owner  of  that  lot  for  violating  building 
restrictions.     I'll  show  him!" 

She,  in  tragic  anguish,  fled  to  bed.  So  strong  was  the 
feminine  instinct  to  defend  the  abused  that  it  canceled 
all  resentments.  Her  grand-opera  mood  was  on  again. 


Round  the  corner  of  his  house  at  midnight,  Oliver 

Scranton  crept  in  pajamas,  and  stood  under  her  window. 

Flute-like,  loaded  with  longing,  her  notes  came  forth : 

"  Ah,   I   have  sighed  to  rest  me." 

"Perdition;  she  might  at  least  have  sung  something 

new,"  swore  Oliver,  under  his  breath. 

Now  the  answer  came: 

"  Deep  in  the  silent  grave." 

The  night  was  lonely;  the  breath  of  the  Pacific 
fanned  Oliver  Scranton's  pajamas.  "  Oh,  you  villain  !" 
he  roared. 

Dead  silence.  Oliver  went  charging  round  his. house, 
upstairs,  and  into  her  room.  She  lay  in  profound 
slumber !  He  turned  on  all  the  lights,  banged  down 
all  the  windows,  clattered  to  all  the  shutters,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  make  a  terrible  row. 

"Oh,  I'll  fix  you!  Shame!"  raged  he;  but  he  fixed 
nothing. 

The  stunned  and  miserable  maid  heard,  yonder  in  the 
night,  the  song  die  down,  sorrowful: 

"  My  Leonora,  fare  you  well,  farewell." 

So  disgusted  with  life  did  that  inappropriate  senti- 
ment make  Scranton,  that  his  anger  forsook  him,  and 
in  flabby  mood  he  went  forth,  slamming  the  door. 

"What  in  the  dickens  can  you  do  with  'em?"  mut- 
tered he  throughout  the  night. 

The  next  day  was  a  distressful  one  for  her;  all  morn- 
ing there  were  the  field-glasses  aimed  hither.  She  dared 
not  stir  out;  really,  that  was  too  much!  At  noon  Oliver 
Scranton  came  into  her  room,  gray. 

"  If  those  glasses  stay  there  one  hour  more,"  cried  he, 
vicious,  while  she  flung  herself  upon  his  breast,  "  I'll 
go  there  and  smash  his  skull." 

"  Oh,  father,  don't !  Oh,  don't  make  so  dreadful  a 
scandal.    Maybe  he  doesn't  mean  anything!" 

"  Lord  have  mercy  on  us,"  said  Oliver,  mopping  his 
brow  and  glaring  out  of  the  window,  while  she  sobbed 
on  his  commodious  bosom.  "Mean  anything?  I  give 
him  one  hour!" 

One  hour  she  clung  to  him;  and  he  sat  with  watch 
in  hand.     At  its  end,  there  were  the  glasses  still,  and 
the   composer,  looking  through   them,   began   to  sing: 
"  I  am  not  lost  to  thee." 

Scranton  gnashed  his  teeth  and,  flinging  her  off, 
strode  out. 

Through  the  oats  he  went  with  devastating  tread. 
And  over  his  shoulder,  once  turning  his  red  eye,  he  be- 
held his  daughter  on  the  balcony-like  porch,  flung  down 
a  tragic  spectator,  her  hands  clasped. 

An  artistic  spot  was  the  composer's  court,  shady,  full 
of  books.  His  face  was  intellectual,  abstracted.  Calmly 
he  went  from  field-glasses  to  work.  His  expression, 
as  he  looked  through  those  instruments,  was  calculating, 
watchful. 

A  stupendous  pounding  on  his  garden  door;  a  voice: 
"  Let  me  in  !" 

He  did. 

"  What  do  you  mean  by  staring  at  my  daughter 
through  that  telescope  !"  roared  Scranton.  "  Impudent 
scoundrel.  Was  your  singing  insolence  not  enough  but 
that  you  must  glare  at  her  for  two  days  at  a  stretch, 
through  that  infernal  telescope — heh?"  And  Scranton 
dashed  the  glasses  to  earth. 

"Father  !"  cried  Mabel,  yonder,  stretching  forth  tragic 
hands. 

"  It  is  false,"  said  the  composer,  rather  coolly.  "  I 
used  the  glasses  for  no  such  purpose." 

Scranton  walked  at  him.  "  Aimed  at  my  house  for 
forty-eight  hours !" 

"  Not  so,"  the  musician  answered,  as  coolly  as  before. 

Right  there  Scranton  hit  him  a  terrible  blow  on  the 
jaw,  a  blow  answered  by  a  piercing  shriek  from  Mabel. 
"  You  call  me  a  liar,  eh?"  said  Scranton. 

The  musician  had  staggered,  yet  kept  remarkable 
control  of  himself.  He  saw  the  distress  of  the  girl,, 
and  determined  to  reward  it;  he  said:  "  I  will  not  fight 
you.  Look  where  I  point;  over  your  roof.  See.  At 
those  I  looked  through  the  glass;  not  at  your 
daughter." 

Scranton  looked ;  over  his  roof,  a  mile  away,  rose  the 
hills  that  bound  Los  Angeles  on  the  north  and  west, 
covered,  disfigured,  by  their  forest  of  oil-well  derricks. 

"  I  can  just  see  my  twenty  wells  from  here,  through 
those  glasses,"  said  the  composer,  sarcastic  amusement 
on  his  face.  "  I  am  expecting  a  strike.  The  workmen 
have  threatened.  I  watch  to  see  if  the  engines  are 
working.  The  moment  they  strike — and  leave  me — I 
could  know  it,  had  it  not  been  for  your  little  indiscretion 
just  now  with  my  field-glasses.  I  regret  that  the  young 
lady  so  misinterpreted  my  aim!" 

Scranton  stood  dull.     "  You  own  twenty  ?"  he  mut-  . 
tered. 

"  Certainly,"  answered  the  Gomposer. 

"  Who  in  the  devil  are  you  ?"  blurted  Scranton. 

"  The  interior  of  the  devil  is  less  familiar  to  me  than 
I  fancy  it  to  be  to  you,"  said  the  other.  "  But  I  am 
Theodore  C.  Barclay." 

Scranton  opened  his  red  eyes  wide.  "  Perdition ! 
They  call  you  a  millionaire !" 

"  They  will  talk,"  said  Theodore. 

"  Gad,"  said  Scranton.  "  You  owned  this  block  when 
I  bought  my  lot  of  your  agent." 

"  The  same,"  said  Theodore. 

Scranton  grew  hearty,  overflowing.  He  seized  the 
other's  hand.  "  A  terrible  mistake  !  A  terrible  mistake  ! 
But  it  was  only  to  protect  my  daughter." 

"  Don't  mention  it,"  said  Barclay. 

His  tone  was   cold;   and   Oliver  lost  color.     Gad — 


October  5,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


what  a  match  it  would  have  been  !  And  he  had  spoiled 
it.  The  scramble  in  the  old  gentleman's  brain  was 
pitiful.  He  would  have  given  half  his  fortune  to  bag 
this  game  for  Mabel.    Thus  thinking  he  grew  cunning. 

"See  here,"  he  said  (Barclay  was  clearing  up 
debris).  "  Of  course,  it's  all  right;  but  since  my  daugh- 
ter still  thinks  that  you  were  insulting  her,  don't  you 
think  some — some  reparation " 

Barclay  thought  that  he  comprehended.  They  looked 
at  each  other  significantly,  and  Theodore's  face  showed 
humor.  "  Sir,"  he  said,  infinitely  gallant,  "  for  the  fear- 
ful wrong  which  I  unwittingly  did  your  daughter  I  beg 
permission  to  walk  over  and  apologize  !" 

"  Sir."  said  the  exultant  old  fraud,  "you  should!" 

Sedately  they  entered  the  Scranton  library,  and 
Oliver  brought  his  pallid  daughter  down.  Pompous  in 
false  wrath  was  he. 

"  Mabel."  he  said,  hands  on  stomach,  "  this  is  Mr. 
Theodore  Barclay.  Sir,  I  leave  you;  you  will  pardon 
an  irate  father's  abruptness.  Though  the  cause  is  re- 
moved I  can  not,  sir.  be  otherwise  than  angry  still.  I 
can  not  bear,  sir,  to  be  present  at  this  painful  scene. 
I  could  not  stand  it.  sir  !" 

And  the  old  fraud  marched  out.  Beautiful  she  was, 
but  miserable — half  the  apologies  came  from  her. 

To  the  rear  of  the  house  Oliver  Scranton  was  tramp- 
ing up  and  down,  saying  to  himself,  with  pomp: 
"  Woman  of  extraordinary  discrimination — extraordi- 
nary discrimination !" 

The  cards  are  out.        Charles  Fleming  Embree. 

San  Francisco.  September,  1903. 

SHALL    THE    WOMAN    MAKE    LOVE  ? 

[The  Outspoken  Heroines  of  Shakespeare  and  Bernard  Shaw. 

Talking  with  a  friend,  the  other  day.  about  the  de- 
fects of  "The  Devil's  Disciple."  we  both  agreed  thnt 
one  of  the  main  ones  was  the  unattractive  and  uncalled- 
for  proffer  of  affection  that  the  parson's  wife  makes  to 
Dick  Dudgeon.  Had  Dick  done  anything  to  provoke 
this  tender  admission  no  one  would  have  caviled  at  it. 
though  there  is  still  a  large  percentage  of  respectable 
folk  who  find  the  sight  of  a  woman  making  love  to  a 
man  an  unseemly  one.  But  the  Devil's  Disciple  had 
only  spoken  to  the  lady  twice  (the  first  time  in  a  very 
cavalier  strain),  had  never  breathed  word  of  ten- 
derness or  flirtation  to  her,  had  not  even  paid  her  the 
compliment  of  an  attentive  survey  of  her  features, 
which  were  well  worth  it.  It  was  therefore  somewhat 
of  a  shock  when  the  hitherto  immaculate  wife  of  the 
minister  suggests  to  the  indifferent  stranger  that  he 
escape  from  prison  and  elope  with  her.  The  Devil's 
Disciple,  though  he  was  an  obliging  and  kindly  man. 
had  no  such  idea  in  his  head,  and  told  her  so. 

All  this  was  completely  destructive  to  interest  and 
svmpathy  in  the  heroine  of  the  piece.  Nobody  liked  her 
any  more.  She  had  not  only  forgotten  herself — which 
is  often  a  very  dramatic  thing  to  do,  and  provocative 
of  sympathy  in  spectators  who  would  never  have  the 
courage  to  do  it  themselves — but  she  had  thrown  her- 
self at  a  man  who  did  not  want  her,  had  never  asked 
for  her,  and  never  suggested  to  her  that  he  had  the 
slightest  intention  of  ever  doing  so.  She  not  only 
stepped  off  her  pedestal,  but  she  and  the  pedestal  came 
down  together  with  a  crash. 

Modern  audiences  and  the  modern  people  who  make 
them  up,  have  an  ineradicable  prejudice  against  the 
love-making  woman.  She  is  like  the  well-bred  child 
at  table — must  wait  until  she  is  asked.  Of  course,  the 
minister's  wife  in  "  The  Devil's  Disciple "  was  a 
fantastic  creation  of  the  Shaw  mind.  If  there  ever 
was  any  woman  like  her  she  was  certainly  not  of  the 
right  texture  to  put  in  a  play.  But  she  who,  with  decent 
intelligence  and  dexterity',  stalks  her  game,  rounds  him 
up,  and  drives  him  into  the  corral,  is  still  held  in  low 
esteem  by  the  men  who  have  lost  their  liberty  by  just 
these  manoeuvres,  and  the  women  who  have  conducted 
precisely  similar  chases  with  probably  only  a  little  less 
skill. 

Ask  nine  people  out  of  ten  and  they  will  tell  you  no 
well-bred,  self-respecting  woman  ever  made  an  advance 
in  a  love-affair.  She  flees,  and  the  enamored  one 
pursues,  like  Hermia  and  her  swain  in  the  enchanted 
Athenian  wood.  And  it  is  not  a  fictitious  flight  during 
which  she  keeps  a  vigilant  backward  glance  on  the 
pursuer  to  see  that  she  doesn't  leave  him  too  far  behind. 
She  is  really  flying  from  her  future  spouse  with  the 
distinct  intention  of  escaping  him.  Arsthusa  was  not 
more  determined  to  elude  Alpheus  than  the  modern 
young  lady  is  to  shun  the  advances  of  her  adoring 
suitor. 

This  is  what  the  high-minded  and  sedately  re- 
spectable like  to  think.  This  is  the  man's  ideal.  Per- 
haps he  has  formed  it  from  having  had  so  many  hair- 
breadth escapes  from  infatuated  females.  One  of  the 
peculiarities  of  men  is  that  they  are  so  prone  to  imagine 
their  capture  is  being  planned  when  no  one  is  thinking 
of  it;  and  when  it  really  is  being  adroitly  and  skillfully 
accomplished,  that  they  are  besieging  the  capturer  who 
is  making  a  spirited  fight  at  the  last  ditch. 

The  blindness  of  men  on  this  point  is  one  of  their 
most  endearing  young  charms.  It  is  so  instructive  and 
interesting  to  have  them  tell  you  about  some  love-affair 
where  the  dear  girl  was  50  coy  and  retiring,  and  you 
happen  to  know  that  she  was  lying  awake  nights  plan- 
ning the  campaign,  and  borrowing  your  best  clothes 
for  crucial  occasions.  And,  on  the  other  hand,  how  en- 
gaging it  is  to  be  the  recipient  of  confidences  "  about  a 


fellow  I  once  knew — call  him  Jones,"  who  was  beloved 
by  a  lady  who  quite  embarrassed  Jones  by  the  persist- 
ence of  her  addresses.  You  know  who  the  lady  was. 
and  who  Jones  is,  and  you  have  recollections  of  the  for- 
mer describing  the  latter  as  "  a  queer,  silly  man  who 
lets  you  see  he  thinks  every  woman  who  is  civil  to  him 
is  trying  to  marry  him." 

It  would  be  interesting  to  get  the  opinion  of  a  pro- 
gressive, intelligent,  thoughtful  modern  as  to  how  far  a 
modest,  well-behaved  woman  may  be  permitted  to  assist 
in  her  own  courtship.  The  average  man  will  tell  you 
not  at  all.  She  should  hang  back  and  at  the  utmost 
merely  permit  herself  to  be  wooed.  There  are  a  good 
many  women  (versed  in  the  subtle  deceptions  in  which 
their  sex  are  experts),  who  frankly  admit  that  in  many 
cases  the  girl  has  conducted  the  campaign  with  a  high 
hand.  Among  the  normal,  domestic  majority  this 
feminine  taking  of  the  initiative  is  regarded  with  scant 
approval.  "  She  met  him  half-way  "  is  a  sentence  very 
damning  to  the  dignity  of  a  bride. 

Yet  we  know  that  numerous  charmers  of  fact  and 
fiction  have  done  just  this  thing,  and  lost  none  of  their 
feminine  fineness.  When  Longfellow'  made  Priscilla 
take  her  courage  in  both  hands  and  suggest  to  John 
Alden  that  he  should  plead  his  own  cause  instead  of 
that  of  his  friend,  he  did  not  intend  to  take  from  her 
a  shade  of  her  maidenly  daintiness.  He  loved  the  way 
she  modestly  and  yet  forcibly  grappled  with  the  occa- 
sion. She  had  a  very  stupid  man  to  deal  with,  and  also 
one  rendered  particularly  bashful  by  his  own  un- 
declared passion.  And  nothing  could  have  been  more 
direct  and  yet  more  delicate  than  the  way  she  suggested 
to  him  that  she  would  rather  he  proposed  for  himself 
than  for  the  captain  of  Plymouth. 

Nearly  all  the  Shakespeare  heroines  have  been  in- 
clined to  meet  their  lovers  half-way.  There  was  noth- 
ing shy  or  retiring  about  Juliet.  Like  Pamela,  in  Rich- 
ardson's novel,  her  main  concern  was  to  know  whether 
Romeo's  purpose  was  marriage.  Once  assured  of  this, 
she  flung  caution  and  reserve  to  the  winds.  She  had 
qualms  that  she  had  been  too  ready  to  confess  her  love, 
but  Romeo  very  soon  dispelled  them.  Look  at  Des- 
demona  !  Flattering  the  simple,  artless  soldier  till  she 
flattered  an  offer  of  marriage  out  of  him.  There  was 
literally  nothing  else  for  him  to  have  said  after  Des- 
demona  observed  that  if  he  had  a  friend  who  could 
talk  as  he  could,  and  had  had  such  interesting  ad- 
ventures, to  bring  him  along  and  she  would  marry  him. 
"  Upon  this  hint  I  spake,"  remarked  the  modest  Moor. 
It  was  very  gentlemanly  of  him  to  call  it  "  a  hint." 

Viola,  who  was  one  of  the  immortal  bard's  most 
gently  lovely  heroines,  confesses  her  love  to  the  duke 
in  that  favorite  old  form  that  it  was  her  sister's  story 
she  was  telling.  Rosalind,  masquerading  in  her  boy's 
clothes,  suggests  to  Orlando  that  they  pretend  she's 
a  girl  and  he  her  lover,  and  that  he  declare  himself 
and  court  her  in  the  approved  manner. 

Some  of  the  subsidiary  heroines  institute  a  pursuit 
fully  as  enthusiastic  and  spirited  as  that  of  the  min- 
ister's wife  in  "  The  Devil's  Disciple."  Olivia  is  hardly 
backward  in  her  attempts  to  win  Cesario,  and  when 
she  meets  the  twin  Sebastian  and  finds  him  in  a  melting 
mood,  she  loses  no  time  in  leading  him  to  the  adjacent 
chantry  where  there  is  a  holy  man  all  ready  to  marry 
them.  And  nobody  ever  thought  or  suggested  that 
Olivia  was  not  a  perfectly  charming  and  well-bred 
person.  Helena's  infatuation  for  Bertram  is  of  an 
equally  determined  kind.  She  marries  him  against  his 
will  by  a  royal  command,  follows  his  fleeing  steps  into 
strange  countries,  and  finally  accomplishes  his  capture 
by  a  trick,  which  was  not  just  what  one  would  expect 
of  a  lady.  But  even  so,  we  can  see  that  Shakespeare 
thought  Helena  a  fine  woman,  and  that  her  passion 
for  Bertram  excused  the  persistence  with  which  she 
camped  on  his  trail. 

We  see  by  this  that  the  master  of  Anglo-Saxon  ro- 
mance had  but  small  respect  for  the  woman  who. 
once  in  love,  thinks  it  her  duty  to  pretend  she  is  not, 
and  draws  back  from  the  addresses  of  the  object  be- 
loved. Shakespeare  evidently  regarded  the  chilly  coy- 
ness which  most  women  assume  as  false  and  con- 
temptible. To  his  large  and  fervid  brain  the  great 
passion  made  for  absolute  sincerity,  and  where  the 
woman  loved  she  was  ready  to  admit  it  as  soon  as  she 
was  asked,  and  sometimes  before  she  was.  To  his  mind 
there  was  nothing  to  be  ashamed  of  in  it,  and  the  only 
thing  to  be  dreaded  as  a  misfortune  was  that  the  man 
might  not  be  worthy  of  it,  or  might  have  it  in  him  to 
change. 

It  will  take  more  than  Bernard  Shaw  to  educate  the 
average  man  and  woman  of  to-day  up  to  this  point. 
Every  now  and  then  some  daring  being  of  advanced 
views  unfurls  his  banner  to  the  breeze,  and  says  that 
women  have  the  right  to  propose.  Then  a  hush  falls 
upon  the  face  of  Nature,  and  each  woman  looks  at  her 
neighbor,  waiting  to  see  if  she  is  going  to  take  the 
initiative.  But  nobody  does.  The  general  argument 
against  the  offer  coming  from  the  woman  is  that  the 
woman  could  not  survive  a  refusal.  The  thought  of 
doing  the  proposing  is,  by  itself,  not  fraught  with  such 
horror.  But  the  thought  of  being  refused  is  too  intol- 
erable to  be  contemplated.  Women  of  all  ages  and 
conditions  will  tell  you  that.  As  the  faltering  "no" 
fell  from  the  beloved  one's  bearded  lips,  the  lady  would 
suffer  a  blow  to  her  pride  unlike  anything  known  to  the 
most  conceited  of  men.  Rather  than  have  this  hap- 
pen, she  would  die  a  spinster,  or  marry  one  she  hated, 
so  far  are  we  yet  from  the  emancipated  days  of  Shake- 
speare and  Bernard  Shaw.  Geraldine  Bonner. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


The  Rev.  Dr.  Edmund  Dowse,  who  has  been  nearly 
sixty-five  years  in  the  pulpit,  celebrated  his  ninetieth 
birthday,  a  fortnight  ago.  He  has  been  pastor  of  the 
Pilgrim  Church  in  Sherborn,  Mass.,  since  1838,  and  is 
said  to  be  the  oldest  Congregationalist  minister  in  ac- 
tive service  in  this  country.  He  was  born  in  Sherborn, 
and  there  has  held  his  only  pastorate. 

Gustave  Larroumet,  who  died  on  August  25th, 
went  to  Paris  as  a  young  man,  after  having  risen  rap- 
idlv  through  a  brilliant  academic  career.  His  work  on 
Marivaux  obtained  the  praise  of  the  Academy,  and  in 
1888,  when  M.  Lockroy  became  minister  of  public  in- 
struction, Larroumet  was  appointed  as  his  chef  de 
cabinet.  He  subsequently  published  a  number  of  his- 
torical and  critical  works,  among  others  a  study  of 
Lord  Brougham.  He  succeeded  Sarcey  as  art  and 
dramatic  critic  of  the  Temps,  and  it  is  probable  that  his 
work  for  this  journal  will  presently  be  collected  in  a 
volume. 

Italian  journals  announce  that  Ricciotti  Garibaldi, 
the  younger  son  of  the  eminent  warrior,  is  planning 
an  extensive  trip  of  exploration  in  Patagonia.  His 
brother  Menotti,  who  died  recently,  took  little  interest 
in  politics;  although  he  accepted  the  place  of  a  deputy 
for  a  time,  he  soon  resigned  and  devoted  himself  to  agri- 
culture in  the  Campagna  Romana.  His  death  recalls 
the  fact  that  in  1840,  a  few  months  before  he  was  born, 
his  mother  followed  her  husband  into  the  midst  of  a 
battle,  and  fought  her  way,  revolver  in  hand,  until  her 
horse  was  shot.  She  was  captured,  but  managed  to 
escape  three  days  later. 

A  souvenir  of  an  unpleasant  experience  the  late  Lord 
Salisbury  once  had  is  preserved  in  a  cabinet  at  Hat- 
field House.  It  is  an  ugly  looking  stone,  of  over  a  pound 
in  Height,  with  which  a  window  of  a  carriage  contain- 
ing his  lordship  and  his  two  daughters  was  smashed 
at  Dumfries,  on  the  evening  of  October  21,  1884.  The 
marquis  had  delivered  the  last  of  a  series  of  political 
speeches  in  Scotland,  and  there  was  a  riot  in  the  streets 
at  the  close  of  the  meeting.  The  occupants  of  the  car- 
riage were  fortunately  unharmed,  and  Salisbury's 
daughters  secured  the  missile  and  took  it  with  them 
to  Hatfield,  to  show  to  the  marchioness.  A  card  tied 
to  the  stone  bears  its  history  in  the  handwriting  of 
Lady  Salisbury. 

Mrs.  Little,  in  the  Comhill  Magazine,  says  that  re- 
cently a  little  American  girl  was  among  the  guests  at  one 
of  the  Chinese  empress's  parties,  and  the  emperor  at 
once  took  her  up  and  kissed  her,  till  the  child,  looking 
at  her  mother,  said :  "  He  does  like  me,  mother,  doesn't 
he?"  In  commenting  on  this  incident,  Mrs.  Little  is  at 
a  loss  to  explain  how  the  very  idea  of  such  a  thing  was 
ever  suggested  to  the  emperor.  No  Chinese  man 
throughout  the  whole  length  and  breadth  of  the  vast 
Chinese  Empire  ever  kisses  wife  or  child,  unless  he  has 
been  taught  to  do  so  by  a  foreigner.  No  Chinese 
mother  even  kisses  her  child;  the  nearest  she  gets  to  it 
is  lifting  her  child's  face  up  to  hers.  Who.  Mrs.  Lit- 
tle wonders,  taught  Emperor  Kwang-su  to  kiss? 

When  President  Roosevelt  jumped  to  the  wharf  at 
Ellis  Island  from  the  immigration  cutter  H.  B.  Cham- 
berlain, the  other  afternoon,  and  ran  forward  to  shake 
hands  with  Commissioner-General  Frank  P.  Sargent, 
a  powerful  gust  caught  the  skirts  of  his  frock-coat 
and  whirled  them  against  the  back  of  his  head.  Those 
New  Yorkers,  who  stood  behind  the  President,  saw  a 
sight  that  evoked  much  comment.  Sticking  out  of  his 
right-hand  hip-pocket  was  the  handle  of  a  revolver. 
One  of  the  secret-service  men  quickly  restored  the 
skirts  of  the  President's  coat  to  their  proper  place. 
The  President,  it  is  said,  has  carried  a  pistol  ever  since 
he  took  the  oath  of  office.  He  has  the  greatest  faith  in 
the  ability  of  the  dozen  or  more  secret-service  agents 
who  guard  him.  but  prefers  to  be  armed  himself  in  case 
of  emergency. 

Charles  J.  Bonaparte,  of  Baltimore,  who  has  con- 
sented to  undertake  the  investigation  of  the  charges  af- 
fecting the  administration  of  Indian  Territory,  has  been 
an  enemy  of  the  professional  politician  for  over  twenty 
vears.  He  has  done  more  fighting  against  rings  and 
ringsters  than  any  dozen  reformers  in  the  State  of 
Maryland,  and.  from  the  bosses  down  to  petty  ward 
executives,  all  dislike  him  as  much  as  the  devil  is  sup- 
posed to  dislike  holy  water.  One  reason  why  he  has 
been  requested  by  the  President  to  assist  in  these  in- 
vestigations is  because  he  has  a  reputation  for  never 
letting  up  after  he  has  once  become  engaged  in  a  fight, 
when  he  believes  it  to  be  against  wrong.  Mr.  Bona- 
parte's income  from  his  law  practice  is  about  thirty  thou- 
sand dollars  annually. but  he  is  also  a  large  owner  of  real 
estate  in  and  around  Baltimore,  and  one  of  the  heaviest 
taxpayers.  Several  years  ago  he  purchased  a  home 
in  the  suburbs  of  Baltimore  for  about  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  located,  as  he  thought,  far  enough  away  to  be 
free  from  the  noise  of  the  street  cars;  but  the  track- 
layers followed  him.  and  the  surveyors  laid  their  lines 
directly  in  front  of  his  residence.  The  story  goes  that 
he  offered  the  street-car  company  a  small  fortune  to 
go  in  another  direction,  but  the  offer  was  refused.  He 
accordingly  sold  the  house,  upon  which  he  had  made  a 
number  of  improvements,  for  about  half  of  what  it  cost 
him,  and  bought  a  high  hill  nearly  twenty  miles  from 
the  city,  on  which  he  has  erected  one  of  the  finest  re=:- 
dences  in  Maryland. 


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THE       ARGONAUT 


MAX  MULLER'S  LIFE  AND  LETTERS. 

His  Courtship  and  Marriage  —  Some  Caustic  Comments  on   Oxford- 
Attacks  on  Him  by  the  German  and  American  Press- 
Lecturing  Before  Queen  Victoria. 

Mrs.  Max  Miiller  has  followed  the  two  books 
written  by  her  husband,  "  Auld  Lang  Syne  "  and  the 
"  Autobiography,"  with  two  new  volumes  entitled  "  The 
Life  and  Letters  of  the  Right  Hon.  Friedrich  Max 
Miiller,''  her  object  being  to  let  his  correspondence  re- 
veal to  the  world  the  real  character  of  the  man,  as  dis- 
tinguished from  the  scholar.  "  Auld  Lang  Syne  "  gave 
recollections  of  Muller's  large  circle  of  distinguished 
friends  and  acquaintances  in  every  walk  of  life,  while  his 
"  Autobiography  "  is  incomplete,  death  having  cut  short 
his  account  of  his  life  at  the  very  threshold  of  his 
career.  Mrs.  Miiller  has  pursued  the  plan  of  permitting 
the  letters  of  her  husband,  and  a  few  of  those  addressed 
to  him  by  his  friends  to  speak  for  themselves,  con- 
tributing 'herself  only  a  slight  thread  of  explanatory 
narrative.  It  seems  that  a  great  many  letters  that 
might  have  proved  interesting  have  been  lost,  including 
some  to  Emerson  and  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  to 
Carlyle  and  Froude,  to  Humboldt,  to  the  brothers 
Curt'ius,  and  to  Mommsen.  The  respondent  letters, 
however,  from  some  of  these  famous  men  have  been 
included,  and  make  interesting  reading. 

Miiller  rose  from  poverty,  not  to  riches,  but  to  the 
distinction  of  being  one  of  the  really  eminent  men  of 
his  day.  To  his  mother's  self-sacrificing  devotion  he 
owed  much — a  debt  which  he  never  forgot;  to  his  own 
unflagging  industry  and  dogged  determination  he  owed 
more.  Penniless,  he  contrived  to  secure  a  university 
education,  and  eventually,  when  but  twenty-one  years 
old.  made  his  way  to  Paris,  where  was  first  suggested 
to  him  the  great  work  which  was  to  bring  him  wide  re- 
nown— the  collection  and  correction  of  the  Hymns  of 
the  Rig- Veda,  together  with  a  perfect  text  of  Sayana's 
Commentary.  The  priceless  help  given  to  the  young 
stranger  by  Professor  Bunsen  is  attested  in  scores  of 
letters  that  were  scattered  along  the  course  of  a  life- 
long friendship.  If  it  had  not  been  for  Bunsen  the  Rig- 
Veda  would  never  have  been  published  in  England.  The 
magnitude  of  the  undertaking  is  indicated  by  the  fact 
that  Miiller  worked  almost  daily  for  twenty-five  years 
on  the  first  edition  before  it  was  completed.  And  yet, 
shortly  after  Miiller's  death,  the  New  York  Nation 
published  an  attack  upon  him  containing  these  words: 
"  What  Max  Miiller  constantly  proclaimed  to  be  his 
own  great  work,  the  edition  of  the  Rig- Veda,  was  in 
reality  not  his  at  all.  A  German  scholar  did  the  work, 
and  Miiller  appropriated  the  credit  for  it."  Mrs.  Miiller 
takes  pains  to  refute  this  slander  in  detail.  She 
says: 

The  German  scholar  alluded  to  is  Dr.  Aufrecht,  for  many 
years  professor  of  Sanskrit,  in  Edinburgh,  and  then  in 
Bonn.  The  passage  in  the  Nation  is  as  insulting  to  him  as  to 
Max  Miiller.  Dr.  Aufrecht  would  be  the  first  to  acknowledge 
that  the  first  volume  of  the  Rig-Veda  had  been  published  three 
years  before  he  and  Max  MuUer  ever  met,  and  that  when  he 
arrived  in  England  to  work  under  Max  Miiller  the  second 
volume  was  already  nearly  finished.  In  the  prefaces  to  the  sec- 
ond, third,  and  fourth  volumes,  Max  Mullet  fully  acknowledges 
his  indebtedness  to  Dr.  Aufrecht. 

Mrs.  Miiller  introduces  many  of  the  letters  which 
passed  between  her  husband  and  his  mother,  to  whom 
he  was  devotedly  attached.  Shortly  after  his  arrival 
at  Oxford,  she  amused  herself  in  recommending  a  wife 
to  her  son.     In  replying,  Miiller  writes  in  one  letter: 

That  you  are  so  anxious  to  find  me  a  wife  is  very  good  of 
you !  But  I  am  afraid  there  are  difficulties,  and  in  such  things 
we  must  take  life  as  God  sends  it.  A  happy  marriage  must  be 
a  great  blessing,  but  how  few  marriages  are  happy.  I  have  no 
opportunity  of  really  knowing  and  observing  young  girls,  as 
one  can  if  one  lives  at  home,  and  where  families  know  each 
other,  and  live  much  together.  I  should  not  fall  in  love  with  a 
merely  pretty  face,  and  for  a  mariage  de  convenance  there  is 
plenty  of  time.  Elise.  who  delighted  you  so  much  in  Karlsbad, 
seemed  to  me  pleasant  enough :  but,  as  I  had  no  opportunity 
of  knowing  her  better.  I  have  never  thought  more  about  her. 
If  you  are  writing,  greet  her  kindly,  but  don't  make  any  pro- 
posals for  her  hand  !  Perhaps  if  Krug  sends  you  this  year  to 
Karlsbad,  you  can  tell  me  if  she  is  the  sort  of  daughter-in-law 
you  would  like. 

In  November.  1853,  Miiller  met  his  future  wife,  Miss 
Georgina  Grenfell.  for  the  first  time  at  the  house  of  her 
father.  Rivesdale  Grenfell.  Mr.  Froude,  her  uncle  by 
marriage,  had  often  spoken  of  his  clever  young  German 
friend,  and  his  brother-in-law  asked  him  to  bring  Miil- 
ler for  a  Saturday  to  Monday  visit.  Years  after,  he 
told  her  that  as  soon  as  he  saw  her,  he  felt,  "that  is 
my  fate."    Mrs.  Miiller  adds : 

The  party  assembled  at  Ray  Lodge  was  a  pleasant  one,  and 
he  at  once  fascinated  all  present  by  his  brilliant,  lively  con- 
versation and  exquisite  music.  He  was  very  dark,  with  regular 
features,  fine  bright  eyes,  and  a  beautiful  countenance  full  of 
animation,  and  it  was  difficult  to  reconcile  his  youthful  appear- 
ance with  his  already  great  reputation.  Two  days  later  they 
met  again,  this  time  at  Oxford,  where  the  family  from  Ray- 
Lodge  went  for  a  meeting  of  the  leading  church  choirs  of  the 
diocese.  Max  Miiller  was  their  constant  guide,  and  Magdalen 
Merton,  Christ  Church,  the  Bodleian,  etc..  were  visited  in  his 
company.  He  was  asked  to  spend  Christmas  at  Ray  Lodge, 
but  fealty  to  Bunsen  and  the  work  he  was  engaged  in  kept  him 
at  Oxford. 

Six  long  years  passed  hefore  the  brilliant  scholar 
was  able  to  claim  his  bride.  The  day  after  the  an- 
nouncement of  his  engagement,  Miiller  wrote  to  his 
fiancVs  uncle,  his  friend,  Charles  Kingsley: 

Can  you  believe  it?     I  can  not.     I  knew  not  that  the  world 

contained  such  happiness.     You  know  what  we  have  suffered, 

agr1  now  think  of  us.  and  pray  for  us  to  God.  that  He  may  help 

terch  us  how  to  bea^  such  joy  and  blessing.     The  past  was 

rk  and  awful,  and  til'  world  now  is  so  happy  and  brig!  t.  Wc 

1    meet  on  Tuesday.  I  long  to  see  my  new  dear  aunt,  my  old 


dear  friend,   Mrs.   Kingsley.   Oh,   this  world  of  God  is  full  of 
wonders,  but  the  greatest  of  all  wonders  is  love. 

His  devoted  mother  wrote,  on  receiving  the  news  o£ 
his  engagement  from  her  son: 

Carlsbad,  June  16,  1859. 

My  Dear  My  Happy  Max:  I  write  to  you  a  few  lines  in 
the  greatest'  excitement  of  body  and  mind,  so  that  my  most 
ardent  wishes  and  blessings  may  reach  you  even  before  I  seem 
to  be  able  to  take  in  all  the  happiness.  Yes,  I  thank  God  with 
all  mv  heart  for  my  son,  who  is  the  pride  and  happiness  and 
blessing  of  my  life !  I  thank  God  with  all  my  heart  for  my  son 
to  whom  He  has  given  his  heart's  desire,  and  I  ask  God  that 
it  may  be  for  His  children's  blessing ! 

A  being  whom  von  have  chosen  and  whom  you  have  known 
and  loved  for  such  a  long  time,  must  be  worthy  of  you,  and  I 
will  love  her  with  you,  as  long  as  I  live.  My  dear,  dear  Max, 
if  I  could  but  throw  my  arms  round  you  and  press  you  to  my 
heart !  Here  I  am  all  alone,  so  far  from  you.  and  I  have  no- 
body near  who  could  calm  and  understand  my  over-full  heart. 

Think  what  all  those  who  love  you  so  will  say  to  it!  And 
soon  you  will  have  a  wife,  and  the  happy  time  of  your  engage- 
ment will  be  very  short,  and  I  am  to  see  you  in  your  great 
happiness  with  your  wife  ! 

I  can  not  write  any  more,  my  dear,  good  Max,  the  excite- 
ment has  been  too  much  for  me ;  and  you  know  all  I  should 
like  to  say  to  you,  you  know  how  I  love  you  1  And  for  this 
my  love's  sake,  your  wife  will  love  me  a  little!  God's  richest 
blessings  be  on  you  both !  I  press  you  to  my  full  heart  in 
deepest  love,  and  I  thank  God  with  you. 

If  you  can.  write  to  me  soon  again.  You  can  imagine  how 
much  I  should  like  to  know  everything.  Farewell,  my  dear, 
good  Max.  and  bring  your  G.  to  see  me  as  soon  as  possible. 
With  truest  love,  Your  Faithful  Mother. 

On  August  3,  1859,  Max  Miiller  was  married  at  Bray 
Church.  A  week  was  spent  at  Eversley  Rectory,  lent  by 
the  Kingsleys,  a  spot  that  was  very  dear  to  both  of  them, 
in  wandering  about  the  lovely  moors  of  beautiful 
Bramshill.  when  they  were  not  occupied  with  the 
papers  of  the  examinations,  on  which  Miiller  had 
been  busy  almost  up  to  his  wedding  day.  Then  two  or 
three  days  were  given  to  Heidelberg,  to  the  fatherly 
friend,  whose  affection  for  her  husband  made  a  deep 
impression  on  the  young  wife.  From  there  they  went 
on  to  Dresden,  where  the  meeting  with  the  mother  took 
place,  and  the  three  went  together  to  Chemnitz  to  the 
sister,  and  then  to  Dessau.  After  a  happy  wedding 
journey,  they  settled  down  in  a  modest  home  at  Oxford, 
some  years  later  occupying  a  pretty  place  in  Nordham 
Gardens,  where  many  notable  guests  were  entertained. 

Miiller  spent  some  fifty-four  years  in  England,  but 
we  are  told  that  for  all  that  his  heart  was  German, 
and  until  his  last  years  he  never  gave  up  the  hope  that 
some  way  would  open  bv  which  he  could  wisely  go  back 
to  Germany  to  live  and  work.  Max  Miiller  admired  Eng- 
land immensely,  and  appreciated  in  a  remarkable  way 
the  points  in  which  she  was  superior  to  his  own  land, 
but  he  was  always  more  or  less  homesick  in  Oxford. 
His  comments  on  that  famous  seat  of  learning  are  espe- 
cially interesting.    For  example,  he  writes  to  Bunsen : 

Here  in  Oxford  everlasting  quarrels  and  squabbles,  and  lies 
and  slander,  and  nowhere  courage  and  faith,  and  no  one  can 
speak  the  truth,  and  any  one  who  tries  to  do  it  brings  a  perfect 
hornet's  nest  about  his  ears.  Can  you  believe  that  they  have 
refused  an  excellent  Orientalist.  Dr.  W.  Wright,  for  the  place 
of  under  librarian  at  the  Bodleian,  because  he  has  dared  to 
affirm  that  the  language  of  the  Phoenician  inscriptions  is 
Semitic  and  not  Hamitic,  because  he  doubts  that  Ham  was  the 
father  of  the  Canaanites,  and  denies  that  Moses  wrote  the  ac- 
count of  his  own  death  ? 

Elsewhere  he  speaks  of  Oxford  as  being  "more  a 
high-school  than  a  university,"  and  in  another  letter 
to  Bunsen,  written  amid  much  discouragement  as  to 
his  own  work,  he  bursts  forth  with.  "  And  what  is  to 
be  done  here?  here  in  England?  here  in  Oxford? 
Nothing  but  to  help  polish  up  a  few  ornaments  on  a 
cathedral  which  is  rotten  at  the  base." 

Miiller  has  sometimes  been  accused .  of  exhibiting 
snobbish  characteristics.  There  is  no  particular  evi- 
dence of  them  in  these  letters,  though  one  can- but  no- 
tice with  what  impressiveness  his  recognition  by  the 
royalty  and  nobility  of  England  is  chronicled.  For  ex- 
ample, here  is  his  account  of  his  first  lecture  delivered 
at  court  at  the  command  of  Queen  Victoria : 

My  first  lecture  is  over,  and  from  all  I  can  hear  it  has  not 
been  a  failure.  Yesterday,  in  the  afternoon.  I  had  a  very 
pleasant  walk  with  Princess  Helena  and  Mrs.  Bruce.  Princess 
Helena  showed  me  their  private  museum,  which  thev  keep  in  a 
bwiss  cottage,  full  of  curious  things  which  have  been  given 
them  or  which  the  princes  have  collected  in  their  foreign 
travels.  There  were  the  queen's  former  playthings,  and  a 
kitchen  where  the  princesses  cook  and  bake,  and  kitchen 
gardens,  one  for  each  of  them,  and  the  Princess  Royal  every 
year  gets  her  green  peas  from  her  own  plot  sent  to  Berlin 
and  enjoys  them  greatly.  Everything  is  full  of  recollections 
of  the  prince,  and  they  all  talk  about  him  as  if  he  were  still 
among  them.  This  is  thoroughly  German,  and  it  always  struck 
me  in  England  how  carefully  all  conversation  on  those  who 
have  gone  before  us  is  avoided,  and  how  much  of  comfort  and 
good  influence  derived  from  the  memory  of  those  we  loved  is 
thereby  lost.  After  we  came  home  from  our  walk.  I  had  just 
time  to  prepare  for  my  lecture,  and  to  get  my  diagrams 
mounted.  At  six  all  the  people  assembled  in  the  Council 
Chamber,  and  after  a  time  came  the  queen  and  the  princesses 
I  he  queen  had  not  attended  a  lecture  for  more  than  ten  years 
and  everybody  was  surprised  at  her  appearing.  She  listened 
very  attentively,  and  did  not  knit  at  all.  though  her  work  was 
brought.  After  the  lecture,  the  queen  conversed  with  mc  for  a 
long  time,  asking  many  shrewd  questions,  as  did  her  sister 
Princess  Hohenlohe.  It  was  then  time  to  dress  for  dinner, 
and  then  to  bed.  This  morning  I  had  an  interview  with 
Princess  Beatrice,  who,  however,  was  a  little  shy  at  first  but 
became  after  a  time  very  amusing.  She  talks  English.  French, 
and  German. 

At  the  earnest  request  of  Prince  Christian,  Miiller 
undertook,  early  in  1900,  to  defend  and  uphold  the 
correctness  of  the  British  Government's  view  of  Eng- 
land's rights  in  the  Transvaal.  The  article  which  he 
sent  to  the  Deutsche  Rundschau  was  rejected  by  that 
periodical,  but  subsequently  appeared  in  the  Deutsche 
Revue.  Professor  Mommsen  wrote  a  reply  for  the  same 
review,  and  Miiller  sent  a  rejoinder.  The  epistolary 
warfare  did  not  in  the  least  affect  the  friendly  feeling 
which  had  existed  for  many  years  between  Miiller  and 


Mommsen,  but  so  angry  were  the  German  public  at  the 
former's  article  in  the  Deutsche  Revue  that  the  Leipsic 
branch  of  the  Pan-Germanic  League  drew  up  a  solemn 
protest  against  Muller's  apologia  for  England.  The 
protest  closed  with  the  words,  "  You  have  no  longer  the 
right  to  call  yourself  a  German,"  and  one  newspaper 
expressed  the  wish  to  see  Max  Miiller  "  hanging  on  the 
same  gallows  with  Chamberlain  and  Rhodes,  and  the 
vultures  picking  his  naked  bones."  Even  after  his 
death,  in  many  of  the  foreign  obituary  notices 
vituperative  paragraphs  appeared  in  connection  with 
this  subject,  and  a  German  in  England  did  not  hesitate 
to  speak  of  the  "  cloud  of  obloquy  which  thus  suddenly 
overshadowed  his  name  and  dimmed  the  lustre  of  his 
renown  near  the  end  of  his  laborious  life." 

Mrs.  Miiller  takes  pride  in  narrating  how  devoted 
were  the  Hindoos  to  her  husband,  who,  although  his  life 
was  largely  given  to  a  cause  that  was  wholly  theirs, 
never  saw  India.  When  he  was  young  and  able  to  take 
the  long  voyage,  he  was  too  poor  to  afford  it ;  when  he 
had  the  means,  he  was  too  old  to  venture  on  the  journey. 
But  the  Hindoos  never  forgot  him,  and  it  was  a  source 
of  the  liveliest  joy  to  the  aged  professor,  when  his  life 
was  slowly  fading  away,  to  know  that  in  the  far  off 
country,  in  a  temple  where  prayers  had  never  before 
been  chanted  save  for  a  Hindoo  by  birth,  a  priest  was 
appealing  to  his  God  to  restore  the  great  white  Pundit 
to  health. 

The  volumes  are  supplemented  with  an  elaborate 
table  of  contents,  an  index,  and  several  interesting  ap- 
pendixes, including  a  chronological  list  of  works,  and 
six  illustrations,  showing  Miiller  at  the  age  of  forty, 
fifty,  and  seventy-four,  and  views  of  his  home  and 
library  at  Oxford. 

Published  by  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.,  New  York; 
$6.00  net  (two  volumes).  \ 


GEARY    STREET    RAILWAY    BONDS. 


Lo5S    $20,600 

A  private  corporation  would  annually  pay  in  taxes 
In  licenses 


10.000 
45° 


In   percentages  of  receipts    8,400 

Total     $18,850 


Loss  in  operating. 
Loss  in  taxes    .  .  . 


$20,600 
1 8.850 


Total  loss  per  year   $39,450 

In  the  life  of  the  bonds,  forty  years,  this  would 
mean  a  loss  of  $1,576,000  to  the  taxpayers. 

3.  Wherever  municipal  socialism  has  taken  root  an 
army  of  tax-eaters  has  been  created.  One  brings  on 
another  until  the  tax-eater  governs  instead  of  the  tax- 
payer. The  tax-eaters  combine  and  squeeze  the  man 
who  pays  the  taxes.  It  will  set  up  a  new  crop  of  tax- 
eaters  and  encourage  bossism. 

4.  It  will  help  political  bossism  and  give  a  setback 
to  reform.  The  only  power  a  boss  may  use  to  secure 
votes  is  the  giving  out  of  positions.  Patronage  makes 
bossism.     Municipal  socialism  would  create  patronage. 

5.  It  will  prevent  the  construction  of  new  lines  of 
railway  by  private  capital. 

6.  It  means  socialism  of  a  most  obnoxious  char- 
acter. 

7.  The  Geary  Street  road  as  proposed  will  constitute 
only  a  fragment  of  a  tj3k(i,  beginning  at  Kearny  Street 
and  ending  at  the  Park.  In  the  absence  of  special  ar- 
rangements it  will  have  no  transfer  privileges,  aiu! 
passengers  will  take  the  competing  lines,  where  ttLse 
privileges  are  free. 

S.  If  the  municipal  ownership  of  the  Geary  Street 
road  will  be  a  benefit  to  any  section,  it  will  be  "confined 
to  the  route  of  the  Geary  Street  road  itself,  yet  the 
people  all  over  the  city  will  be  taxed  for  the^uestion- 
able  benefits  of  a  few.  """  ." 

9.  Municipal  ownership  will  practicalb  "'_  Jroy  all 
hope  for  compensation  for  injury  to  person  or  to 
property. 

10.  The  bonded  indebtedness  will  be  a  mortgage 
on  every  home  in,  the  city.  Bonds  should  be  based 
on  the  road  itself.  If  the  city  can  operate  the  road  at  a 
profit,  these  bonds  would  be  safe.  If  it  can  not  make 
a  profit,  the  bonds  should  not  be  issued.  The  official 
estimates  put  before  the  people  show  a  loss  to  the  city. 


Ten  Good  Reasons  for  Voting  Against  Them. 

1.  It  will  retard  the  growth  of  the  city  by  increasing 
taxes  and  frightening  outside  capital  away. 

It  will  increase  taxes  in  this  way: 

(a)  We  must  pay  $1,420,000  in  bonds  and  interest 
on  the  bonds. 

(b)  When  the  city  owns  the  road  it  will  not  be  tax- 
able, so  that  it  will  cut  out  $19,000  per  annum  in  taxes, 
which  the  present  company  pays,  and  which  for  the 
forty-year  right  of  the  bonds  would  amount  to  $760,000 
(more  than  the  road  originally  cost)  in  additional  taxes 
spread  over  the  tax  bills  of  other  unfortunate  tax- 
payers. 

2.  It  will  prove  a  constant  loss  to  the  city.  The 
figures  of  the  city  engineer  show  estimated  earnings 
per  year,  $200,000.    As  against  this  it  shows : 

Operating    expenses    $148,000 

Maintenance    of  plant    30.000 

Interest   payments    24.850 

Annual  sinking  fund  for  bonds  required  by  law 17.750 

Total  cost  per  year   $220,600 

Engineer's  estimated  earnings    200.000 


I 


October  5,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Romance  of  a  Hack- Writer. 

'"  Good-Bye,  Proud  World "  is  a  story  of 
journalism  in  general,  and,  in  particular,  of 
a  woman  hack-writer  at  the  head  of  the 
"  Hearth  and  Home  Department "  of  a  metro- 
politan daily.  To  this  department  all  the  odds 
and  ends  of  information  were  sent,  all  the 
chit-chat  and  society  gossip ;  even  the  poet 
found  his  way  there.  This  heroine  of  pad 
and  pencil,  says  the  author,  "  knew  her  place ; 
she  was  there  to  round  off  the  corners,  to  save 
the  time  of  the  real  workers  on  the  paper. 
to  take  the  many-sidedness  of  things." 

For  nine  years,  Milicent  Waldo  (that  is  the 
name  of  the  hard-worked  young  lady)  labored 
on  the  Dawn,  turning  out  a  column  each 
for  morning  and  evening  editions,  double  that 
amount  for  Saturday,  and  on  Sunday  a  whole 
page.  "  I  have  written  reams  on  reams  of 
paper  full,"  she  exclaims  in  one  rebellious  mo- 
ment. "  I  have  written  all  day  and  all  night. 
I  have  written  sitting,  standing,  lying  down. 
I  have  written  all  I  know.  I  have  written 
all  I  have  seen,  and  felt,  and  heard,  all  that 
ever  happened  to  nre  or  to  any  of  my  rela- 
tions. All  was  fish  that  came  to  my  net. 
all  was  grist  that  could  be  ground  in  my  mill."' 
We  think  all  newspaper  people  will  sympa- 
thize with  Milicent,  whose  conception  of  hap- 
piness finally  came  to  be  "  just  to  sit  still 
and  see  the  grass  grow." 

But  good  luck  befalls  her.  At  thirty-four. 
Miss  Waldo  came  into  possession  of  a  small 
estate  as  "sole  next  of  kin."  This  turn  of 
fortune  found  her  just  when  she  could  best 
appreciate  the  really  good  things  of  life, 
for  she  was  a  woman,  we  are  told,  whom 
disillusionment  had  not  embittered,  but  who 
looked,  from  her  vantage-point  of  experience 
and  knowledge,  with  charity  and  calmness 
upon  the  world. 

The  house  she  inherited  had  been  in 
the  family  for  many  generations,  and  was 
the  pride  and  glory  of  a  little  New  England 
town  on  the  coast  of  Maine.  The  characters 
in  this  conservative  old  village  are  very  quaint 
and  lovable ;  Mr.  Ransom,  the  lawyer,  whose 
loyalty  to  the  family  he  had  served  so  long  re- 
sulted in  establishing  the  claim  of  Milicent 
Waldo,  is  particularly  interesting,  and  full  of 
whimsical  philosophy.  Of  the  domestic  rela- 
tion, he  says:  "What  a  man  likes  in  the 
woman  who  is  to  pour  him  out  his  coffee  at 
breakfast,  morning  after  morning,  is  a  con- 
sistent attitude  of  adoration." 

In  all  that  Ellen  Olney  Kirk  has  written 
there  is  a  wholesome  tone,  with  a  sense  of 
humor  that  is  neither  obtrusive  nor  yet 
blunted.  "  Good-Bye.  Proud  World "  is  not 
without  its  "  love  theme."  Just  as  the 
puritanic  severity  of  the  old  house  was  re- 
lieved by  the  presence  of  a  secret  niche  in  the 
hall,  with  its  sliding  panel,  and  a  romantic, 
overgrown  garden,  with  its  sundial,  so  the 
harsh  lines  of  Milicent's  life  were  softened 
in  the  glow  of  a  pretty,  if  somewhat  belated, 
romance.  As  the  author  finds  it  best,  for 
artistic  reasons,  to  keep  the  secret  of  the 
story  hidden  until  the  proper  moment,  we  cer- 
tainU-  shall  not  be  so  rude  as  to  reveal  it 
here. 

Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  New 
York:  $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Winston  Churchill's  new  novel  will  make 
its  appearance  late  in  November,  under  the 
title  "  The  Crossing."  Apropos  of  a  certain 
historical  anniversary,  the  background  of  the 
story  is  the  Louisiana  Purchase,  and  those 
stirring  scenes  along  the  Mississippi  in  the 
early  years  of  the  last  century.  The  book 
naturally  takes  its  place  as  the  second  novel 
in  the  series  in  which  an  attempt  has  been 
made  to  trace  the  development  of  the  Cavalier 
and  Puritan  in  this  country,  the  first  of  which 
was  "  Richard  Carvel "  and  the  fourth  of 
which  was  "  The  Crisis." 

The  third  novel  of  Francis  Charles  is  to  be 
published  this  month.  It  is  entiti  i  '*  The 
Awakening  of  the  Duchess."  and  tells  of  a 
mother's  love  which  for  a  long  time  is  with- 
held  Vom  her  only  child. 

F.'  Hopkinson  Smith  has  consented  to  relate 
further  incidents  in  the  career  of  Colonel  Carter, 
of  Carterville,  which  will  appear  in  the  form 
of  a  story  »  -titled  "  Colonel  Carter's  Christ- 
mas." The  book,  which  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons  hav  ,st  put  to  press,  will  have  eight 
illustrat'  j  in  :olor  by  F.  C.  Yohn.  All  the 
old  characters  are  met  again — the  inimitable 
Chad,  Nancy,  Fitz,  Klutchem — together  with 
two  new  ones. 

Mrs.  Zella  Nuttall  will  shortly  publish  her 
second  volume  on  the  anonymous  Spanish- 
Mexican  codex  in  the  National  Central  Library 
of  Florence,  "  Libro  de  la  Vida  que  los  Indios 


antiguamente  hazian."  She  will  follow  up  her 
facsimile  with  the  Spanish  text,  an  English 
version,  and  a  commentary,  the  labor  of  ten 
years. 

"  The  Nemesis  of  Froude,"  the  reply  of  Sir 
James  Crichton-Browne  and  Alexander  Car- 
lyle  to  Froude's  posthumous  statement  on  the 
Carlyle  controversy,  is  to  be  brought  out  this 
month. 

The  late  Stephen  Crane,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, was  at  work,  just  before  his  death,  on 
an  Irish  romance.  "  The  O'Ruddy."  Two- 
thirds  of  the  writing  had  been  done  before  his 
fatal  illness  began.  After  that  he  discussed 
the  novel  at  length  with  his  friend.  Robert 
Barr,  and  expressed  the  wish  that  in  case  of 
bis  death  Mr.  Barr  would  bring  the  book  to 
completion.  After  several  years,  in  which  he 
has  been  wholly  occupied  with  his  own  work, 
Mr.  Barr  has  found  time  to  finish  the  story", 
which  is  to  be  published  in  a  short  time. 

Hermann  Klein,  a  musical  critic  in  London 
for  some  thirty  years  now.  has  recorded  many 
of  his  recollections  of  musical  folk  in  a  book 
which  is  being  published  under  the  title  "Thirty 
Years  of  Musical  Life  in  London."  Parti,  the 
De  Reszkes.  Wagner,  Beethoven.  Harris,  and 
others  appear  in  the  author's  anecdotes. 

Norman  Duncan  has  written  another  volume 
of  stories  of  Newfoundland  fisher  folk,  which 
will  be  brought  out  this  month  under  the  title 
"  The  Way  of  the  Sea." 

Lilian  Whiting,  the  author  of  "  Boston 
Days."  has  written  a  book  entitled  "  The 
Life  Radiant,"  which  she  will  publish  through 
Little,  Brown  &  Co.  It  will  be.  in  a  manner, 
a  companion  volume  to  her  "  The  World 
Beautiful." 

The  English  "  Who's  Who "  and  the  Chi- 
cago "  Who's  Who  in  America  "  are  to  be  sup- 
plemented by  "  Who's  Who  in  New  York." 

"  The  Despised  Sex  "  is  the  title  of  W.  T. 
Stead's  lately  published  extravaganza.  He  de- 
scribes a  visit  paid  to  London  by  a  states- 
woman  of  the  Xanthians.  a  mid-African  tribe 
in  which  women  rule,  and  devotes  much  space 
to  her  opinions  concerning  her  "  oppressed " 
Anglo-Saxon  sisters. 

H.  C.  Beeching's  "  Life  of  Jane  Austen  "  is 
one  of  the  volumes  to  be  issued  this  fall  in  the 
English  Men  of  Letters  Series.  Before  it,  how- 
ever, will  come  Canon  Ainger's  "  Life  of 
Crabbe,"  and  other  books  are  soon  due  in  this 
series — "Lowell,"  by  Dr.  Henry  van  Dyke; 
"Emerson,"  by  Professor  Woodberry;  "Frank- 
lin," by  Owen  Wister ;  and  "  Hobbes,"  by  Sir 
Leslie  Stephen. 

The  volume  of  correspondence  between  Bis- 
marck and  Emperor  William  the  First  and 
various  other  dignitaries  and  rulers,  will  prob- 
ably be  the  last  Bismarck  book  to  be  pub- 
lished for  a  long  while.  The  contents  of  this 
volume  cover  a  long  period,  from  1852  to  the 
close  of  1887.  The  letters  of  William  the 
First  were  selected  and  carefully  arranged  for 
publication  by  Bismarck  himself,  and  they 
reveal  clearly,  the  intimate  relations  between 
the  Chancellor  and  the  emperor. 

Eden  Phillpotts's  new  story,  "  The  Golden 
Fetich,"  which  has  just  been  published,  is  a 
tale  of  adventure.  It  tells  of  a  young  man 
who,  on  the  death  of  his  father,  is  left  penni- 
less, but  comes  into  possession  of  the  "  Golden 
Fetich."  He  goes  in  search  of  the  treasure  to 
which  it  points,  and  has  many  adventures  in 
the  heart  of  Africa. 

There  is  to  be  a  new  edition,  in  two  volumes, 
of  Mr.  Meredith's  "  Poems,"  uniform  in  style 
with  the  pocket  edition  of  his  novels  published 
in  this  country  by  the  Scribners.  That  edition, 
we  may  note,  is  a  boon  for  convenience  of 
form  and  reasonableness  of  cost. 

F.  Berkelej'  Smith's  new  volume  will  de- 
scribe  "  Budapest,   the   City   of   the    Magyar." 

Messrs.  Little,  Brown  &  Co.  will  shortly 
publish  a  little  volume  representing  the  poetic 
talents  of  a  family.  "  The  Ballads  of  New 
England "  contains  verses  written  during 
leisure  moments  of  a  good  many  years  by 
Edward  Everett  Hale,  Arthur  Hale,  Edward 
E.  Hale,  Jr.,  Herbert  D.  Hale,  Robert  D. 
Hale,  and  others  of  the  family,  members 
of  which  have  also  contributed  the  ten  full- 
page  illustrations. 


THE    NEW    AMPHITHEATRE. 


■William  R.  Hearst's  Gift  to  the  State. 


"  Those  who  follow  the  light  fiction  market 
with  interest,"  states  the  New  York  Evening 
Post,  "  must  be  impressed  with  the  exceedingly 
high  ton  of  the  1903  midsummer  output."  It 
is  all  but  impossible  to  turn  the  leaves  of  the 
August  magazines  that  specialize  on  "ham- 
mock reading,"  we  are  told,  "  without  light- 
ing upon  an  earl,  the  Waldorf-Astoria,  or,  at 
the  lowest,  a  girl  with  a  million  dollars," 


On  Thursday  afternoon.  September  24th,  in 
the  presence  of  an  audience  of  eight  or  nine 
thousand  people,  there  was  formally  dedicated, 
as  a  gift  from  William  Randolph  Hearst  to 
the  University  of  California,  the  first  Greek 
amphitheatre  that  has  been  built  since  the  days 
of  "  the  glory  that  was  Greece." 

This  impressive  structure  is  erected  in  a 
hollow  in  the  Berkeley  hills  that  in  itself  forms 
a  natural  amphitheatre,  having  been  utilized 
for  that  purpose  on  many  previous  class-days 
by  the  addition  of  temporary  stands  and  seats. 
The  edifice,  as  it  now  stands,  is  built  of  con- 
crete, modeled  on  ancient  lines,  but  adapted 
to  modem  use.  It  has  the  ancient  circular 
orchestra  at  the  lowest  level  of  the  natural 
depression  in  which  it  is  built.  Sweeping  up  to 
an  imposing  height  some  forty  odd  feet  above, 
are  the  great  concentric  tiers,  which 
are  at  once  seats  and  stairs ;  and  facing  this 
imposing  multiplication  of  benches  in  stone 
rises  a  lofty  sounding-board,  below  whose 
pillared  walls  is  an  elevated  stage  some  hun- 
dred and  twenty  feet  in  width.  The  whole  effect 
of  this  classically  beautiful  structure  is  in 
harmony  with  the  architect's  hopes  and  ideals : 
"  warmly  pure  in  its  detail,  generously  free  in 
its  proportions,  delicate  in  finish,  bold  in 
modeling." 

The  occasion  of  its  dedication  was  made 
notable  by  the  presence  of  the  donor  and  his 
friends,  the  discoverer  of  the  site,  and  the 
architect  who  designed  the  theatre,  and  by  a 
dramatic  performance  given  by  members  of  the 
student  body  of  Aristophanes's  comedy,  "  The 
Birds,"  in  the  original  Greek. 

Preceding  the  presentation  of  the  comedy, 
brief  addresses  were  made  to  the  interested 
multitude  assembled  by  President  Wheeler,  by 
Mr.  Ben  Weed,  of  the  class  of  '94.  who  first 
discovered  the  site,  by  John  Galen  Howard, 
the  university  architect,  and  finally  by  Mr. 
William  R.  Hearst,  the  giver  of  the  gift.  These 
speeches  were  the  means  of  making  remarkable 
demonstration  of  the  wonderfully  perfect 
acoustic  properties  of  the  edifice.  Both 
naturally  and  artificially  they  are  flawless, 
auditors  in  the  highest  tiers  of  seats  being 
as  advantageously  placed  for  hearing  as  those 
in  the  lowest,  and  absolutely  no  echoes  being 
audible  to  blur  the  sound. 

Thousands  of  people  crossed  over  the  ferry 
from  San  Francisco  on  the  day  of  the  dedica- 
tion, and  a  whisper  went  around  the  boat  that 
left  the  slip  at  one-thirty-  that  William  R.  Hearst 
and  his  bride  were  present.  Enterprising  pas- 
sengers finally  identified  the  latter  through 
her  proximity  to  her  husband,  and  the  ladies 
scanned  her  costume  with  lynx  eyes,  and 
subsequent  gasps  of  amazement. 

The  bride  only  needed  a  Red  Riding  Hood 
cloak  to  be  attired  in  the  primary  colors.  Her 
hat  was  bright  blue  velvet,  with  a  violent 
eruption  of  California  poppies  on  its  crown. 
Her  wrap,  which  reached  to  the  hem  of  her 
gown,  was  green.  The  bridegroom  had  made 
a  festal  addition  to  his  usual  toilet  of  a  high 
hat  and  a  beaming  smile.  Later,  an  immense 
wave  of  relief  surged  through  feminine 
bosoms  when  young  Mrs.  Hearst  appeared  at 
the  amphitheatre  minus  the  green  wrap,  and 
gowned  prettily  in  white  lace,  whose  tasteful 
simplicity  softened  the  oriflamme  on  her  head, 
and  made  obvious  its  graceful  purport — the 
wearing  of  the  university  colors. 

The  rooters,  who  were  assembled  in  a  com- 
pact mass  in  the  main  body  of  the  amphi- 
theatre, under  the  leadership  of  their  chosen 
yell-master,  did  honor  by  means  of  the  college 
cries  to  Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst,  Mr.  William  R. 
Hearst  and  his  wife  (whose  upward  look  and 
smile  of  acknowledgement  revealed  her  to  be 
young  and  pretty) ,  President  Wheeler,  Dr.  David 
Starr  Jordan,  Mr.  Weed.  Mr.  Howard,  the 
architect,  the  day,  the  college,  the  colors,  and 
everything  appropriate  to  the  occasion  that 
was  cheerable. 

President  Wheeler,  Mr.  Hearst,  and  Mr. 
Weed  faced  the  audience,  seated  on  stools 
without  backs,  in  one  of  which  Mr.  Hearst 
subsided  under  his  high  hat  in  an  apparently 
crushed  and  dejected  heap,  while  the  three 
who  preceded  him  made  graceful,  feeling,  and 
interesting  addresses. 

The  multitude,  when  they  saw  the  hero  of 
the  day  mournfully  perusing  the  gravel,  ner- 
vously wiggling  his  toes,  and  hugging  his 
knees,  thought  pityingly.  "  Poor  fellow,  he  has 
stage  fright!"  and  gave  a  concerted  sigh  of 
sympathy  when  his  turn  came.  But  not 
the  New  York  statesman.  Mr.  Hearst 
rose,  removed  his  hat,  showing  the  sleek  head  of 
hair  made  familiar  to  the  public  in  caricatures, 
hesitated  a  moment,  and,  while  the  rooters 
burst  into  "  He's  a  Jolly  Good  Fellow,"  put 
his  hands  in  bis  pockets  and  resumed  his  de- 


jected contemplation  of  the  gravel.  It  was  at 
this  auspicious  moment  that  the  camera  fiend 
to  the  delight  of  the  audience,  snapped  a  por- 
trait of  the  future  Presidential  candidate.  The 
sympathizers,  however,  were  obliged  to  tuck 
their  sympathies  away  when  the  speaker 
began,  for,  although  his  voice  is  flat  and  lacks 
sonority,  he  revealed  at  once  his  familiarity 
with  the  useful  art  of  speech-making,  and  his 
readiness  and  ease  before  an  audience  even 
of  the  size  of  that  assembled.  Mr.  Hearst's 
address,  made  without  notes,  was  brief,  but 
well  conceived  and  well  expressed.  It  was  en- 
livened by  an  apt  funny  story,  the  point  of 
which  was  creditable  to  the  speaker's  modesty 
concerning  his  gift.  In  fact,  his  speech,  like 
his  wife's  hat,  justified  its  existence. 

Following,  came  a  very  creditable  represen- 
tation of  the  promised  comedy  in  Greek,  in 
which  both  actors  and  costumes  were  worthy 
of  high  praise. 


Dr.  Albert  F.  Sawyer,  who  died  in  San  Diego 
on  Tuesday,  was  a  'forty-niner,  and  figured  in 
the  pioneer  history  of  the  State.  He  was  born 
at  Medford,  Mass.,  and,  years  ago.  was  one  of 
the  most  noted  physicians  of  the  country.  He 
had  been  an  invalid  for  a  long  time  prior  to 
his  death. 

The  "  Memoirs  "  of  the  late  M.  Henri  de 
Blowitz,  Paris  correspondent  of  the  London 
Times,  will  be  published  next  week. 


Ready  about  Oct.  20th 

A  NEW  BOOK 

-  ON  — 

SPAIN  IN  1903 


A  number  of  the  recent  letters 
written  to  the  Argonaut  from 
Southern  Europe  —  principally 
from  Spain — have  been  collected 
in  a  volume.  The  book  makes 
nearly  300  pages,  and  is  now 
going  through  the  press.  It 
is  very  handsomely  printed  on 
costly  laid  paper  from  new  type. 
Over  a  score  of  illustrations  ac- 
company the  text,  from  photo- 
graphs taken  by  the  Two  Argo- 
nauts. 

A  rich  rubricated  title,  in 
pseudo  -  Arabic,  framed  in  a 
Moorish    archway    copied     from 


TWO 

ARGONAUTS 

IN 

SPAIN 


BY 

JEROME 
HART 


the  Alhambra,  begins  the  book. 
A  colored  map  of  Spain  will  be 
found  a  very  useful  addition  to 
these  travel  sketches. 

Only  a  limited  edition  will  be 
printed.  Mr.  Hart's  recent  book 
of  travel,  "Argonaut  Letters," 
also  a  limited  edition,  was  out  of 
print  three  months  after  publica- 
tion. Those  desiring  the  pres- 
ent volume  will  do  well  to  apply 
at  once. 

The  net  price,  which  depends 
on  the  number  of  pages,  will  be 
fixed  in  a  few  days — it  will  prob- 
ably be  $1.35.     Address 

THE  ARGONAUT  COMPANY, 
246  Sutter  St.,  5    F 


216 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  5,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Wellington's  Looks,  Loves,  Drinking  Habits. 

A  truthful  and  entertaining  picture  of  army 
and  civilian  life  in  India  and  England  at  the 
beginning  of  the  last  century  is  contained  in 
a  wordy  volume  entitled  "  The  Memoirs  of 
George  Elers.  Captain  of  the  Twelfth  Regi- 
ment of  Foot."  Captain  Elers  is  revealed  by 
the  narrative  to  have  been  only  a  fairly  brave 
soldier,  prudent,  indolent,  unimaginative, 
generous,  not  very  patriotic,  a  sober  wooer, 
a  safe  friend,  a  lover  of  good  company  and 
of  a  fine  horse,  always  a  gentleman,  but  in 
his  maturity  rather  a  disappointed  man. 

The  Duke  of  Wellington  figures  prominently 
in  the  book,  and  is  thus  described  as  he 
appeared  at  twenty-seven  while,  as  Arthur 
Wellesley,  he  was  a  colonel  in  India: 

In  height  he  was  about  five  feet  seven 
inches,  with  a  long,  pale  face,  a  remarkably 
large  aquiline  nose,  a  clear  blue  eye,  and  the 
blackest  beard  I  ever  saw.  He  was  remarkably 
clean  in  his  person,  and  I  have  known  him 
to  shave  twice  in  one  day,  which  I  believe 
was  his  constant  practice.  ...  He  spoke  at 
this  time  remarkably  quickly,  with,  I  think, 
a  very,  very  slight  lisp.  He  had  very  narrow 
jaw  bones,  and  there  was  a  great  peculiarity 
in  his  ear,  which  I  never  observed  but  in  one 
other  person,  the  late  Lord  Byron — the  lobe 
of  the  ear  uniting  to  the  cheek. 

At  this  time  (1796)  Captain  Elers  was  in- 
timate with  Colonel  Wellesley,  often  dining 
with  him.  That  those  were  days  of  hard 
drinkers  is  somewhat  amusingly  shown  by 
this  remark  of  our  military  author:  "  H^ 
[Wellesley]  was  very  abstemious  with  wine: 
drank  four  or  five  glasses  with  people  at 
dinner,  and  about  a  pint  of  claret  after.  ' 
Though  this  statement  may  not  be  doubted, 
the  captain,  we  fear,  sometimes  draws  the 
long  bow.  like  some  others  of  his  profession, 
perhaps.  "  I  could  leap  both  backward  and 
forward  eighteen  feet,"  he  coolly  remarks 
in  one  place,  and  caps  this  with  the  state- 
ment that  a  private  of  his  company  could 
beat  him  by  five  feet !  He  also  tells  of  a 
journey  by  a  small  boat  from  Calcutta  to 
Diamond  Harbor,  during  one  night  of  which 
his  craft  lay  off  Sangor  Island — a  spot  "  full 
of  jungle  and  infested  with  royal  tigers " 
which  he  heard  "  roaring  all  night  long," 
evidently  is  very  unsoldierly  trepidation,  for 
he  solemnly  avers  that  "  it  is  not  unusual  for 
them,  when  they  are  very  hungry,  to  swim 
off  to  the  boats  and  endeavor  to  get  on  board, 
■which  is  not  a  very  difficult  thing  to  do 
if  the  boats  are  small,  as  was  the  case  with 
mine."  Passing  along  from  the  subject  of 
aquatic  tigers  we  find  another  amusing  ref- 
erence to  Wellington  who,  says  Elers,  "had 
at  that  time  a  very  susceptible  heart,  par- 
ticularly toward,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  married 
ladies,    and    his    pointed    attention    to    a    Mrs. 

F gave   offense,   not   to  her  husband,   but 

to  the  colonel's  own  aid-de-camp,  who  con- 
sidered it  highly  indecorous  and  immoral." 
Naturally,  this  officious  person  got  himself 
disliked,  and  we  are  not  surprised  to  hear  that 
he  and  the  Iron-Duke-to-be  "  did  not  speak  " 
for  a  long  time.  At  this  Elers  is  constrained 
to  remark:  "For  my  own  part,  I  abhor  the 
seduction  of  innocent  girls,  and  I  think  it  wrong 
to  intrigue  with  married  women ;  but  if  I 
witness  anything  going  on  between  two  peo- 
ple, and  the  husband  does  not  see  or  choose 
to  take  notice  of  it,  I  think  none  but  a  father 
or  a  brother  has  a  right  to  interfere.  You  are 
sure  to  get  into  a  scrape,  and  make  enemies 
of  all  parties."  Plainly,  this  warrior  is  also 
a  philosopher! 

Some  letters,  both  amiable  and  curt,  from 
Wellington,  and  lady-like  epistles  from  Maria 
Edgeworth,  the  novelist,  who  was  a  relation 
of  Elers,  form  an  appendix  to  this  naive 
and  entertaining  narrative,  the  editors  of 
which  are  Lord  Monson  and  George  Leveson 
Gower. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York; 
$3.00  net. 

A  Book  to  Make  Good  Citizens  Better. 

A  high  place  among  young  and  progressive 
American  economists  belongs  by  right  to  Pro- 
fessor Richard  T.  Ely,  of  the  University  of 
Wisconsin.  His  books  on  the  various  phases 
of  his  science  are  distinguished  by  lucidity 
of  thought,  clearness  of  expression,  and  an 
application  to  the  problems  of  the  hour  that 
make  them  as  interesting  and  intelligible  to 
the  eager  laymen  as  they  are  stimulative  and 
valuable  to  the  special  student. 

His  latest  work  is  "  Studies  in  the  Evolution 
of  Industrial  Society,"  and  belongs  to  the 
Citizen's  Library.  It  lacks  homogeneity,  due 
to  the  fact  that  several  chapters  have  here- 
tofore appeared  as  separate  papers,  one,  even, 
being  a  book-review ;  but  that  is  the  sole 
serious  objection,  and  a  fault  that  may  readily 
be  verlooked  by  searchers  after  meaty  expo- 
sit  ■>n  of  some  of  the  vast  economic  questions 
that  confront  Americans. 


Professor  Ely  is  not  a  Socialist,  but  an 
optimistic  believer  in  the  soundness  of  our 
present  social  system.  He  holds  that  com- 
petition is  the  life  of  society,  but  he  strenu- 
ously insists  that  one  of  the  greatest  functions 
of  government  is  to  regulate  and  control  com- 
petition, while  preserving  the  great  economic- 
juridical  institutions  of  society. such  as  private 
property  and  vested  interests.  He  believes 
that  mankind  to-day  is  healthier,  happier, 
physically  and  mentally  stronger  than  at  any 
time  in  the  world's  history.  Upon  the  growing 
social  demand  that  the  pauper  and  the  crim- 
inal shall  not  be  permitted  to  perpetuate  their 
kind,  he  bases  confidence  in  the  future  of  the 
race.  In  the  extension  of  an  inheritance-tax 
system,  he  sees  a  method  of  taxation  less  op- 
pressive and  more  just  than  any  other  form. 
"  Could  any  claim  be  more  monstrous,"  he 
pertinently  asks,  "  than  to  hold  that  a  man 
may  establish  certain  regulations  for  the 
use  of  property  after  he  is  dead  and  gone, 
and  that  these  regulations  must  be  binding 
upon  all  future  generations?  It  is  in  itself 
the  extremest  radicalism."  Public  ownership 
of  railways,  telephones,  and  telegraphs  he 
favors  as  the  lesser  of  two  evils.  As  to  trusts, 
he  thinks  the  laws  enacted  by  Congress  this 
year  excellent,  so  far  as  they  go,  and  has 
but  little  confidence  in  the  efficacy  of  tariff- 
reform  as  a  remedy. 

From  this  sketchy  outline  of  some  of  the 
main  points  it  will  be  seen  that  Professor 
Ely's  work  is  eminently  practical.  It  is  the 
sort  of  book  that  business  men  will  like. 
It  is  much  too  reasonable  and  far  to  fair 
to  offend  those  who  differ  from  it.  And. 
finally,  it  is  imbued  with  sane  optimism  that 
inspires  the  reader  to  renewed  effort  toward 
making  his  city.  State,  and  country  a  better 
place  in  which  to  live. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York  ;  $1.25  net. 


■Women  and  Marriage. 
"  Compiled  by  an  old  maid,  and  approved  by 
a  young  bachelor.  Illustrated  by  an  ex- 
bachelor.  Published  by  a  young  married  man  " 
— thus  runs  the  title-page  of  "  Bachelor 
Bigotries,"  a  little  book  of  quotations  for  every 
day  in  the  year.  Each  page  is  attractively 
decorated  with  marginal  designs  in  black  and 
red,  and  there  are,  besides,  several  clever 
illustrations  by  A.  F.  Willmarth.  A  few 
quotations  will  suffice  to  give  a  taste  of  its 
quality : 

All  my  friends  who  have  embraced  Popery 
have  done  better  than  those  who  have  embraced 
wives. — Houghton. 

Keep  your  eyes  wide  open  before  marriage : 
half-shut    afterwards. — Poor    Richard. 

Women  admire  the  brave,  but  they  prefer 
the  audacious. — Edgar  Saltus. 

Love  burns  as  long  as  a  lucifer  match. 
Wedlock's  the   candle. — George  Meredith. 

A  second  marriage  is  the  triumph  of  hope 
ever  experience. — Dr.  Johnson. 

Wedding  is  destiny  and  hanging  likewise. 

Marriage  is  a  feast  where  the  grace  is  some- 
times better  than  the  dinner. — Colton. 

Published  by  Paul  Elder  &  Co.,  San  Fran- 
cisco ;  75  cents. 

Stevenson's  Portraits  of  Women. 
In   an   appreciative  article  on   Robert  Louis 
Stevenson,   in   the   September  Fortnightly  Re- 
view,  H.  B.  Marriott  Watson  says : 

A  point  which  has  been  often  brought 
against  Stevenson  is  his  alleged  inability  to 
draw  a  woman.  I  believe  that  this  criticism 
originated  with  himself,  for,  at  any  rate,  he 
was  wont  to  say  that  he  was  afraid  of  essaying 
the  sex  as  "  they  invariably  turned  to  bar- 
maids on  his  hands."  But  here  I  maintain 
he  did  himself  injustice,  if,  indeed,  his  re- 
marks were  anything  more  than  an  ex- 
travagant expression  of  discontent  with  his 
own  handiwork.  He  did  not  (it  is  true)  ad- 
venture many  portraits  of  women,  but  those 
either  elaborated  or  suggested  by  him  are  full 
of  fidelity.  Mrs.  Henry,  in  the  "  Master  of 
Ballantrae,"  is,  to  my  mind,  a  conspicuously 
successful  representation  of  an  honest,  narrow 
woman  of  a  certain  class.  Seraphina  is  de- 
lightfully and  annoyingly  feminine ;  Provi- 
dence von  Rosen  alone  should  redeem  her 
author  from  his  own  charge;  while  Catriona 
and  Miss  Grant  are  in  their  several  ways 
attractive  young  women.  They  have  only  one 
demerit  that  I  know — which  is,  that  they  have 
inspired  a  veritable  legion  of  young  women 
on  the  same  lines  by  inferior  writers.  It  is 
possible  indeed  to  overdo  the  arch  and  the 
playful  young  woman  even  in  fiction.  Never- 
theless, it  is  clear  that  Stevenson  himself  dis- 
trusted his  own  power  in  delineating  women  ; 
for  not  only  did  he  avoid  them  when  he  could. 
but  when  they  were  indispensable  features  of 
his  tale,  he  preferred  to  thrust  them  in  by 
suggestion.  I  have  already  referred  to  the 
admirable  portrait  of  Mrs.  Weir,  and  to  that 
may  be  added  Kirstie  in  the  same  story,  as 
well  as  sundry  smaller  personages  in  the 
shorter  tales. 


It  has  just  been  announced  that  William 
Winter  is  the  dramatist  who  prepared  the 
English  version  of  Paul  Heyse's  "  Mary  of 
Magdal*,"  made  familiar  to  the  American 
public  by  Minnie  Maddern  Fiske. 


AUTUMN    VERSE. 

When  the  Hounds  are  Out. 
High  in  a  birch,  like  a  carven  bird. 
A  gray  grouse  stands — for  he  has  heard; 
Even  the  squirrel   does  not  stir, 
Crouching,  a  frightened  tuft  of  fur; 
Glad  of  its  wings  the  wood-hawk  soars, 
The  shelldrake  leaves  the  forest  shores, 
Along  the  brook  no  young  mink  play, 
Black  bear  has  heard  and  hurried  away, 
Splashed    through    a    pool    and    leaped    to    a 

spruce — 
'Tis    hush    and    hide    when    the    hounds    are 

loose! 
Far  back  in  the  spruce  a  pond  lies  brown 
And  by  it  a  deer  had  lain  her  down, 
A  slender  deer  who  wakes  to  hear 
The  cry  that  crazed  the  bear  with  fear. 
That  turned  the  grouse  to  a  carven  thing. 
That  drove  the  hawk  to  take  to  wing — 
The  cry  of  hounds  that  howl  their  way 
Fierce  on  her  trail  of  yesterday, 
No  hope  for  her  in  thicket  to  hide; 
Lithe  limb  must  tire  and  her  throbbing  side 
Must  tell  of  a  long  race  bravely  run 
If  she  be  alive  at  set  of  sun. 
In  brush-filled  valley,  on  beechy  hill, 
The  life  of  the  forest  is  strangely  still. 
And  waits  to  hark  with  straining  ear 
Till  fades  afar  the  hunt  of  the  deer. 
And  the  wood,  unvexed  by  hounds  and  men. 
Takes  heart  and  breathes  and  smiles  again. 
— F.  S.  Palmer  in  Harper's   Weekly. 


The  Hunt. 
Oughn!   Oughn!     The  hounds  are  away, 
They  are  out  and  abroad,  on  the  dunes  to-day: 
And  the  crows  are  still, 
On    the   tree   by   the    hill ; 
And     the     wildcat     shrinks,     and     cowers,     and 

blinks, 
And    peers    through    the    woven    pine    bough's 

chinks; 
And    the    black    snake    slides,    and    slips,    and 

t  glides 
From    the   hot   south    slope   where  he   suns   his 

sides; 
And  the  blue  jay  hushes  his  peevish  note, 
And  the  catbird's  warble  dies  in  his  throat, 
As  he  darts  to  a  snug  oak  spray. 
But    the    fox — the    fox    is    stealing    away, 
Silent  and  swift, 
Just  an  ear  to  lift. 
For   the    sound    of   the    distant    bay; 
Noiseless    and    fast   as   the   ses-fog   drifts 
Through    the    winding   dunes,    when    the   shore 

wind  shifts; 
By  bog,    and   thicket,   and   path   he  creeps. 
And  over  the  fallen  log  he  leaps; 
Bold  in  the  blow-hole  his  eye  has  scanned — 
For    he    knows    the    lay    of    the    wind-heaved 

land — 
His   quick    feet    dimple   the   tawny    sand; 
By  the  Deep  Bog  ditch  and  along  the  ridge, 
Where    a    cat    may    cross    on    the    grapevine 

bridge, — 
Over  the  ridge;  and  he  dives  at  last, 
Safe  and  fast. 
In    his    burrow    deep. 
On  the  northern  steep, 
Under    the    dune, 
Where    no    August    noon 
Can  crumble  the  wall  away — 
Where    the    first    frost   catches 
The   ivy  patches, 

And  the  woodbine  reaches  its  blazing  lines, 
Wreathing  the  stems  of  the  leaning  pines, 
And  hiding  the  lichens  gray; 
While  the  Horseneck  lies  in  a  mute  surprise, 
Waiting  and  wise,   till  the  tumult  dies; 
For    the    hounds    are    abroad    to-day. 

— Mercy  E.   Baker  in   the   October  Critic. 


Autumn  Song. 
Wrap  us  round,  O  mother  Autumn,  with  a  silence 

all  unbroken, 
With  the  royal   purple  semblance   of  a   passion   all 

unspoken, 
While   the   bird   of   life   wings   backward,    with    the 

reddening,  waning  day, 
To    a    thrill    of    long-lost    laughter,    to    a    love    that 

could  not  stay! 

Now  the  spirits  of  all  lost  things,   softly,    silently 

have  found  us. 
Stealing    through    the    gold    and    grayness,    through 

the  prisoned  flame  around  us, 
And    the   weary   heart    within    us   wakens    fearfully 

again, 
To  the  old,  exquisite  measure,  to  the  long-forgotten 

pain. 

Now  the  savage  child  within   us   leaps  the  thicket, 

flying  faster, 
Barefoot    through     the     voiceless     forest,     treading 

fern  and  leaf  and  aster, 
Leaping    brook    and    laughing    upward,    where    the 

broken  blue  beguiles, 
Speeding  on — O  heart,  fly  faster! — down  the  light 

of  memory's  isles  1 

Now  the  scent  of  grape  and  hollow  stirs  the  sense 

and  fans  the  ember, 
And  wind  above  the  waiting  sheaves  is  whispering 

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THE    STORY    OF    A    BOOK. 


In  Three  Chapters. 


CHAPTER     1. 


THE    MEN    WHO    MADE    IT. 

years     ago     Noah     Webster 


One  hundred 
— journalist,  scholar,  patriot — was  brooding 
a  great  undertaking.  He  had  worked  with 
Jay  and  Hamilton  for  the  adoption  of  the  con- 
stitution and  the  support  of  Washington's  ad- 
ministration :  freedom  and  order  were  estab- 
lished ;  now  for  a  science  and  literature 
worthy  of  the  young  republic !  At  the  foun- 
dation of  all  is  language.  Webster  had  already 
made  a  Speller  which  speedily  became  and 
long  remained  a  text-book  for  the  entire 
people,  training  to  uniformity  of  spelling  and 
pronunciation,  and  yielding  the  author  a  main- 
tenance which  enabled  him  to  carry  on  the  vast 
and  uncompensated  work  of  "An  American 
Dictionary  of  the  English  Language."  In  the 
exposition  of  that  language  no  real  advance 
had  been  made  since  Johnson's  dictionary  sixty- 
years  before.  The  new  age  and  the  new  country 
had  produced  a  flood  of  new  words  and  usages 
for  which  there  was  no  interpreter  or  arbiter. 
Webster  essayed  to  cover  the  whole  literature 
and  the  living  use  of  the  English-speaking 
race,  with  special  inclusion  of  the  new  nation- 
ality. He  brought  to  the  task  a  natural  genius 
for  language,  a  special  aptitude  for  lucid,  exact, 
and  terse  definition,  a  ripe  scholarship,  and  a 
tireless  industry'-  With  his  work  well  begun. 
he  stopped  to  broaden  his  knowledge,  and 
mastered  the  main  vocabularies  of  twenty  lan- 
guages. He  studied  for  a  year  in  Europe. 
Johnson  worked  intermittently  for  eight  years 
on  his  dictionary'  '•  Webster  spent  twenty  years 
on  his.  He  gave  it  to  the  world  in  1828 — a 
splendid  monument  of  scholarship,  and  in  its 
substance  fitted  to  every-day  needs.  But  it  was 
in  two  bulky  volumes,  its  price  was  $20.  it  con- 
tained a  few  eccentricities  of  spelling,  and  the 
American  public  was  not  yet  emancipated  from 
deference  to  English  authority.  The  first 
edition  of  2.500  copies  was  enough  for  thirteen 
years.  Webster  stood  to  his  guns,  bated  no  jot 
of  his  peculiarities  even  where  most  unpopular, 
revised  the  work  on  its  original  lines,  and 
brought  out  a  new  edition,  at  $15,  in  1841. 
That.  too.  found  little  sale:  and  in  1843  Web- 
ster passed  away,  after  a  full  and  happy  life, 
but  with  his  magnum  opus  lying  stranded  like 
Robinson  Crusoe's  boat,  a  vessel  too  big  for 
the  builder  to  launch. 

One  hundred  years  ago.  to  a  country  printer 
in  Western  Massachusetts  was  born  his  first 
son,  George  Merriam.  The  second  son  was 
Charles,  and  then  came  a  flock  of  brothers  and 
sisters.  The  boys  were  educated  in  the  district 
school  and  the  printing  office  ;  they  toiled  early 
and  late ;  when  their  father  died  they  gave 
their  slender  patrimony  to  their  mother  and 
sisters,  and  pushed  their  own  way ;  and  in 
1831  G.  &  C.  Merriam  began  business  as  retail 
booksellers  in  Springfield.  Mass.  They  gave  to 
business  every  hour  not  given  to  their  families 
or  their  church.  They  began  publishing  in  a 
modest  way.  notably  an  admirable  series  of 
school-readers — the  "  Child's  Guide."  "  Village 
Reader."  etc. — compiled  by  the  elder  brother. 
When  at  Dr.  Webster's  death,  his  book  came 
into  the  market,  they  discerned  something  of 
its  potential  value,  and  bought  the  unsold  edi- 
tion and  the  publishing  right.  That  purchase 
marked  an  alliance  of  business  and  scholarship 
which  has  borne  fruit  for  sixty  years.  The 
new  publishers'  first  care  was  to  fit  the 
scholar's  wares  to  the  public's  want.  They  em- 
ployed Professor  Chauncey  A.  Goodrich.  Web- 
ster's son-in-law  and  literary'  heir,  to  reedit 
the  book ;  the  eccentric  spellings  were  dropped 
and  the  reasonable  changes  retained ;  such 
scientists  as  SilHman  and  Dana  were  employed 
as  contributors  ;  and  in  1847  the  full  work  was 
brought  out  in  one  volume  for  $6.  The  public 
favor  was  instantly  won  and  never  was  lost. 
Webster's  executors  had  appraised  the  copy- 
right for  the  unexpired  ten  years  at  $3,000,  and 
the  Merriams  bought  it  for  that.  They  so  in- 
creased its  value  that  when  the  copyright  was 
renewed  for  fourteen  years  they  made  terms 
with  the  Webster  family  by  which  during  that 
period  they  paid  to  them,  for  the  large  book 
with  its  Abridgments  and  the  Speller,  a  quarter 
of  a  million  dollars.  The  Merriams  leased  the 
Abridgments  and  the  Speller  to  other  houses. 
and  concentrated  their  whole  energy  on  the 
large  book. 

In  1850  it  was  proposed  in  the  Massachusetts 
legislature,  unsuggested  by  the  publishers,  that 
a  copy  of  Webster's  large  dictionary'  be  placed 
in  every  district  school.  Before  the  legislative 
committee  the  advocate  of  a  rival  book  sneered 
at  Webster  as  an  ignorant  pretender.  Pro- 
fessor Noah  Porter,  of  Yale  college,  replied  with 
so  eloquent  a  vindication  of  Webster's  scholar- 
ship and  services  that  local  prejudice  was  con- 


quered. The  schools  were  offered  their  choice. 
and  3.035  took  Webster  and  105  its  competitor. 
Soon  after,  New  York  State  placed  10.000 
copies  of  Webster  in  its  schools,  and  thus 
began  its  acceptance  as  a  school  standard 
which  to-day  extends  over  the  entire  country. 
When  in  England  the  Imperial  Dictionary- 
was  made  almost  bodily  from  Webster  (in  the 
absence  of  international  copyright),  and.  soon 
after,  the  enlargement  of  Worcester  to  an 
illustrated  quarto  was  announced,  the  Webster 
publishers  made  a  prompt  counters troke.  They 
put  into  a  supplement  a  large  number  of  classi- 
fied illustrations — a  new  feature  in  an  Ameri- 
can dictionary — added  a  supplement  of  new 
words  which  had  long  been  accumulating ; 
appended  a  valuable  table  of  synonyms  by- 
Professor  Goodrich :  and  brought  out  their 
enlarged  work  well  in  advance  of  the  new 
Worcester,  which  never  approached  it  in 
popularity. 

Then  they  set  to  work  on  a  radical  and 
thorough  revision.  Under  Dr.  Porter's  super- 
vision, with  the  aid  of  a  group  of  eminent 
scholars,  the  advances  in  linguistic  science  and 
in  popular  usage  were  inwrought  with  Web- 
ster's solid  groundwork.  The  period  of  this 
revision  was  that  of  the  Civil  War;  husiness 
fell  off:  the  Southern  market  was  lost;  the 
income  from  the  Speller  was  intermitted,  and 
payments  to  the  Webster  family  were  by- 
amicable  arrangement  postponed :  war  taxes 
were  heavy :  but  the  three  brothers  ( Homer 
Merriam  being  now  included)  pushed  steadily 
the  revision,  while  they  supported  the  war,  and 
looked  for  the  return  of  peace  and  prosperity. 
So  came  to  birth  the  great  book  of  1864. 
known    familiarly    as   "  The    Unabridged."' 

A  battle  of  pamphlets  turning  largely  on  the 
question  of  spellings :  the  general  prevalence 
of  the  Websterian  practice,  and  an  eclipse  of 
all  rivalry'  in  the  commercial  field:  a  fresh 
supplement  of  new  words  in  1879  :  the  gradual 
addition  of  biographical  and  geographical 
tables — these  were  incidents  preliminary  to  the 
next  great  revision.  To  this  revision — a  work 
covering  ten  years  and  costing  over  a  third  of 
a  million  dollars — were  given  the  fuller  elabor- 
ation, the  larger  permanent  staff,  the  freer 
employment  of  specialists,  and  the  exact  atten- 
tion to  every  detail,  which  accord  with  the 
advanced  methods  of  modern  scholarship  and 
business.  In  a  work  carried  on  thus  through 
generations,  there  has  developed  a  special  art 
of  dictio nary-making,  with  an  invaluable  tra- 
dition of  experience. yet  progressive  and  always 
expanding  to  meet  the  new  conditions.  The 
result  appeared  in  1S90  in  a  work  whose  title 
marked  the  supremacy  won  throughout  the 
English-speaking  world.  WEBSTER'S  INTER- 
NATIONAL DICTIONARY. 

Its  improvement  has  never  ceased  for  a  day. 
New  matter  has  been  added :  tables  have  been 
scrupulously  brought  up  to  date ;  the  accumu- 
lation and  sifting  of  new  words  and  meanings 
has  gone  steadily  on.  A  supplement  of  new- 
words  in  1900;  tables  of  biography  and  geo- 
graphy substantially  made  over  in  1902;  a 
steady  accession  of  improvements  with  no 
special  announcement — this  has  been  the  later 
history  of  the  book.  To  the  chief  editorship,  so 
long  and  ably  filled  by  President  Porter,  has 
succeeded  Dr.  W.  T.  Harris,  United  States 
Commissioner  of  Education  and  a  scholar  of 
the  highest  repute. 

It  is  to  the  alliance  of  scholarship  and  busi- 
ness sagacity  that  Webster  has  owned  its  suc- 
cess and  growth.  From  that  alliance  has 
sprung  a  harmonious  aim  and  a  comprehensive 
plan  of  work.  Before  setting  forth  that  ideal, 
a  word  more  may  be  given  to  the  personnel  of 
the  combination,  past  and  present.  On  the 
publisher's  side  the  force  was  strengthened  in 
1877  by  the  addition  of  Mr.  O.  M.  Baker, 
trained  as  an  educator  and  a  school  superin- 
tendent:  an  experienced  and  able  bookseller. 
Mr.  H.  C.  Rowley,  came  in  two  years  later ; 
the  change  by  incorporation  to  "  The  G.  &  C. 
Merriam  Company  "  in  1892  was  a  change  of 
form  only,  the  same  hands  still  manning  the 
ship;  to  the  directors  was  added  Mr.  K.  N. 
Washburn,  who  had  been  long  engaged  in  the 
company's  service ;  and  while  the  first  two 
Merriam  brothers  have  passed  away,  the  direc- 
torship includes  two  of  the  family  name,  and 
Homer  Merriam  still  presides  in  a  hale  old  age. 

At  the  head  of  the  editorial  force  have  been 
in  succession  three  scholars  of  high  repute; 
Dr.  Goodrich,  the  heir  of  Dr.  Webster  in 
mental  acumen  ;  President  Porter,  with  a  rare 
combination  of  original  intellect,  acquired 
knowledge,  and  practical  sagacity:  and  Dr. 
Harris,  officially  the  first  man  in  the  American 
educational  world,  and  eminent  in  a  wide 
variety  of  studies.  Next  to  these  have  been  a 
group  of  contributors  of  the  highest  standing 
in  general  scholarship  or  special  branches,  such 
as  Dr.  Mahn.  of  Germany,  Professor  W.  D. 
Whitney,   President  D.   C.   Gilman,   Professors 


Hadley,  Lounsbury.  Sheldon.  Remsen,  Yerrill. 
Justice  Brewer — the  list  could  be  indefinitely 
prolonged.  Of  highest  practical  service  have 
been  men  perhaps  less  famous  who  have 
through  arduous  years  perfected  themselves  in 
the  technical  art  of  dictionary-making :  as 
chiefs  of  staff  should  be  named,  among  the 
departed.  William  A.  Wheeler  and  Loomis  J. 
Campbell,  and.  among  the  living,  F.  Sturges 
Allen.  With  these  have  been  scores  of  faith- 
ful and  serviceable  workers,  whose  lot  has 
been  "  to  widen  knowledge  and  escape  the 
praise." 

This  of  the  men  who  have  made  the  book ; 
the  ideals  they  have  followed  and  the  methods 
they  have  used  will  be  given  next  week. 

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Among  recent  novels  of  passing  interest 
is  "  Johanna."  a  story"  of  Ireland,  by  Bertha 
M.  Croker.  Published  by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott 
Company.    Philadelphia;    $1.00. 

"  The  Fairies'  Circus."  by  Neville  Cain,  is 
a  verse-picture  book  for  small  children.  "  where 
elves  and  sprites,  with  one  another  vie,  in  feats 
of  most  unique  agility."  Published  by  Harper 
&  Brothers,  New  York:  $1.25. 

"  Signora.  a  Child  of  the  Opera  House." 
by  Gustav  Kobbe.  is  a  story'  of  a  little  girl 
who  was  the  pet  of  an  opera  company  on  its 
tour,  and  who  herself  achieved  a  great  tri- 
umph. The  book  gives  an  interesting  picture 
of  "  life  behind  the  scenes."  and  many  of  the 
characters  are  but  thinly  disguised.  Published 
by  R.  H.  Russell,  New  York^ 

The  virile  sea-stories  of  several  writers. 
which  have  appeared  of  late,  rather  spoil 
one  for  such  a  mild  and  prosy  book  as  Charles 
Protheroe's  "  Life  In  the  Mercantile  Marine." 
The  author,  evidently  enough,  knows  the  sea 
and  has  sailed  in  many  a  ship,  but  he  lacks 
the  gift  of  visualizing  his  experiences,  and 
we  are  compelled  to  vote  him  a  bit  dull.  Pub- 
lished by  John  Lane.  New  York:  $1.25. 

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ley,  with  introductions  by  the  author's  son, 
Maurice  Kingsley.  is  approaching  completion. 
"'  Two  Years  Ago."  the  latest  addition,  is  in 
two  well-bound  volumes,  and  it  strikes  us  that 
the  illustrations  made  by  Lee  Woodward 
Zeigler  are  much  superior  to  those  that  have 
gone  before.  Indeed,  they  are  praiseworthy. 
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We  have  received  "  Edwin  Drood "  in  a 
biographical  edition  of  the  works  of  Charles 
Dickens  in  twenty  volumes.  The  biographical 
introduction  occupies  some  twenty  pages,  and 
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W.  H.  Yan  der  Smissen,  M.  A.,  author  of  a 
compilation  entitled  "  Shorter  Poems  of  Goethe 
and  Schiller,"  claims  for  his  volume  that  it 
is  "  the  first  attempt  not  only  to  treat  the 
two  greatest  of  German  poets  cojointly  in  this 
way.  but  to  weave  together  the  biographical 
sketch  and  the  poems  in  chronological  order." 
Besides  the  biographical  sketch,  there  are  ex- 
haustive notes  to  the  poems,  and  a  number 
of  illustrations.  The  poems  are.  of  course, 
in  German,  and  the  notes,  etc.,  in  English. 
Published  by   D.  Appleton  &  Co..   New   York 

In  response  to  the  vociferous  clamor  for 
"  more  of  the  same  "  from  some  thousands  of 
readers.  W.  Clark  Russell  puts  forth  his 
twenty-ninth  story'  of  the  sea  under  the  title 
"  The  Captain's  Wife."  There's  a  hairy, 
spidery  villain  in  it.  a  treasure  of  forty  thou- 
sand golden  sovereigns  sunk  deep  in  the 
sea.  and,  of  course,  the  captain's  wife,  who 
is  a  spirited  and  altogether  admirable  creature. 
Admirers  of  Mr.  Russell's  melodramatic  ro- 
mances will  gravitate  irresistibly  toward  this 
new  one.  Published  by  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.. 
Boston  ;   $1.50. 

Mrs.  Pendelton's  Four-In-Hand.  the  story  of 
which  is  told  in  Mrs.  Gertrude  Atherton's 
novelette  of  that  title,  was  composed  of  four 
men  who  each,  in  all  seriousness,  sent  letters 
of  proposal  to  Mrs.  Pendelton  on  the  same 
day.  Mrs.  Pendleton  thought  it  a  very'  bad 
joke.  Subsequent  events  are  amusing,  though 
rather  painful.  The  book  belongs  to  Mac- 
millan's  Little  Novels  by  Favorite  Authors 
Series,  and  contains  a  fine  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Atherton,  as  well  as  several  other  illustrations. 
Published  by  the  Macmilian  Company,  New- 
York  ;  75  cents. 


SUPERFLUOUS  HAIR 

That  greatest  oi  ail  disfigurements  of  a  woman's 
face,  permanentlv  removed,  in  the  only  successful  way 
—with  the  ELKCTRIC  NKEUI.KJ  as  operated  by 
Mrs.  Harrison. 

Warts.  Freckles.  Moles.  Prmples.  and  Wrinkles 
quickly  removed  under  my  personal  treatment  at 
my  Dermatological  Parlors. 


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October  5,  1903. 


Shakespeare's  "Twelfth  Night,"  given  on 
the  same  lines  as  performances  by  the  Eliza- 
bethan Stage  Society  of  London,  was  acted 
•  by  the  "  Everyman  "  company  at  Lyric  Hall 
the  first  of  the  week,  under  the  direction  of 
Ben  Greet.  The  performance  was  one  of 
scholarly  merit,  the  dramatic  or  moving  ele- 
ment being  pitched  in  a  comparatively  sub- 
dued key. 

The  principals  of  the  company  are  fine  and 
finished  readers,  rather  than  excellent  actors, 
Mr.  Greet's  impersonation  of  Malvolio  being, 
in  fact,  the  fullest  of  character  and  abandon 
of  any  presented  on  that  occasion. 

The  greatest  interest,  naturally,  centred  in 
Mrs.  Crawley's  Viola,  general  admiration  hav- 
ing been  expressed  for  her  Everyman. 
Her  beautiful  contralto  voice  is  peculiarly 
well  fitted  to  deliver  Shakespearean  lines, 
and  she  carries  her  boy's  dress  with  graceful 
unconsciousness.  Both  Mrs.  Crawley  and 
Alys  Rees — the  Good-Dedes  of  the  "  Every- 
man "  cast,  and  Olivia  in  "  Twelfth  Night  " — 
gave  refined,  intelligent,  and  most  pleasing 
renderings  of  their  parts. 

Neither,  however,  gave  sufficient  round- 
ness and  vitality  to  these  two  characters. 
There  was  a  sort  of  pictorial  flatness  of  effect 
in  those  few  scenes  of  delicately  modulated 
sentiment  which  come  like  delicious  inter- 
ludes of  poetry  between  the  prolonged  revel- 
ries of  Olivia's  unruly  household.  We  are 
accustomed  to  this  in  the  Olivias  of  the  stage, 
to  the  generality  of  whom  Miss  Rees  is  in- 
finitely superior.  But  Viola,  with  her  youth's 
gallant  bearing,  disguising  the  womanly,  maid- 
enly heart  within  her,  drowned  in  a  losing 
love  for  the  duke,  should  move  the  imagina- 
tion to  the  purest,  most  romantic,  most  ex- 
quisite sympathy.  Up  to  a  certain  point,  Mrs. 
Crawley  was  most  satisfying.  Past  that,  she 
left  us  comparatively  unmoved. 

John  Sayer  Crawley,  who  gave  the  impres- 
sive performance  of  Dethe  in  "  Everyman," 
was  a  duke  of  dignity,  and,  although  lacking 
in  physical  advantages,  of  some  distinction  of 
manner. 

The  young  doctor,  or  messenger,  of  "  Every- 
man "  was  the  clown,  and  gave  to  the  part  by 
means  of  his  songs,  his  attractive  appearance, 
and  his  quick,  light,  graceful  antics,  something 
of  the  picturesqueness  attached  to  the  char- 
acter in  romances  of  older  days.  The  unction 
of  the  ordinary  Shakespearean  clown  was 
absent,  and  not  unpleasantly  so,  but  some 
natural  humor  was  lacking  as  well.  In  ex- 
ternals, Mr.  Anderson's  fool  was  admirable, 
but  in  nature  he  is  cut  out  for  more  serious 
parts,  his  physiognomy  not  being  that  of  a 
natural  comedian. 

The  comedy  scenes  are  given  with  much 
zest,  and  an  admirable  simulation  of  the  ani- 
mal spirits  of  the  thoughtless  crew  who 
planned  Malvolio's  undoing.  Yet,  in  spite  of 
all  the  loyal  praise  of  all  the  commenta- 
tors, who  declare  the  humor  of  the  piece  to 
be  unfading  in  its  power  to  awaken  delight,  I 
can  not  but  realize,  when  I  see  an  audience 
confronted  with  this  tragic-comic  phase  of  the 
play,  that  we  sensitive  moderns  have  grown 
too  squeamish  to  enter  with  any  zest  into  the 
"sportful  malice"  of  the  joke  that  so  delighted 
our  forefathers.  The  cruel  baiting  of  Malvolio, 
whose  real  worth  and  devotion  to  his  lady's  in- 
terests make  his  unduly  excited  vanity  and  as- 
piring folly  merely  a  superficial  offense,  parti- 
ally quenches  the  humor  of  the  situation,  and 
denies  gentleness  and  point  to  the  satire.  That 
is,  perhaps,  why  the  laughter  of  the  lookers- 
on  so  seldom  rivals  in  volume  that  of  the 
performers. 

Just  which  were  the  dramatic  students  who 
assisted  in  the  representation  is  difficult  to 
say.  I  recognized  several  of  the  blonde- 
wigged  quartet  from  "  Everyman,"  Maria,  of 
the  realistic  smile,  among  the  number,  and 
Clive  Gunie,  who  played  an  excellent  Antonio. 
I  knei  to  be  Goodes,  from  a  peculiar  flatness 
of  tone  that  was  recognizable.  Sir  Andrew 
Ague;:heek  was  probably  Felawship,  Sir  Toby  I 
coal  '  not  place,  Sebastian,  I  am  uncertain.  If 
she  is  one  of  the  company,  then  she  would  do 
well  to  hie  her  straight  lo  a  physical-culture 
ckiss   and  take   lessons   in   correct' carriage   of 


the  body.  Even  non-professionals,  in  these 
beauty-loving  days,  are  careful  to  suppress  the 
abdomen,  and  an  actress  assuming  this  male 
part  is  unforgiveable  for  making  Sebastian 
look  as  if  he  had  put  on  his  breeches  hind 
side  before. 

The  play  was  given  without  scene-shifting 
of  any  kind,  a  state  of  things  to  which  the 
audience  grew  speedily  accustomed,  so  quickly 
does  the  imagination,  under  appropriate  sug- 
gestion, come  into  play. 

Some  years  ago,  an  ancient,  partially  ruined 
Roman,  theatre  in  the  South  of  France,  some- 
where in  the  neighborhood  of  Marseilles,  was 
restored,  and  for  the  first  time  in  many 
centuries  put  to  its  original  use.  One 
of  the  famous  tragedies  of  the  ancients. 
"  Antigone,"  perhaps,  was  there  enacted  by 
members  of  the  Comedie-Francaise  before  a 
distinguished  audience  which  had  assembled 
to  celebrate  the  restoration  of  the  theatre 
to  its  former  purpose.  The  performance  took 
place  at  night,  and  there  were  beautiful  illus- 
trations accompanying  articles  published  in 
some  of  the  magazines  relating  these  facts, 
which  showed  how  strikingly  the  classically- 
draped  figures  of  the  players  were  thrown 
in  relief  against  the  thick  night  shadows 
of  the  hoary  stone  walls  which  encompassed 
them.  No  doubt,  thousands  who  read  the 
article  longed  for  an  opportunity  to  witness 
so  unique  and  picturesque  a  spectacle. 

And  now,  here  on  the  westernmost  edge 
of  the  New  World,  in  a  community  whose 
traditions  have  scarcely  half  a  century  behind 
them  to  give  them  dignity  and  vitality,  there 
has  been  erected  a  model,  simple  in  design  but 
perfect  in  proportion,  of  the  old  Grecian 
amphitheatre,  within  whose  walls  used  for- 
merly to  assemble  the  valor,  strength,  and 
beauty  of  Greece.  What  a  rare  opportunity 
the  possession  of  this  unique  monument  to 
antique  art  offers  for  the  aesthetic  development 
of  the  students  who,  from  its  banked  tiers, 
shall  gaze  upon  their  mates  interpreting  to 
their  eager  minds  the  wonders  of  ancient 
art.  It  will  be  to  them  a  perpetual  incentive 
to  spirited  endeavor,  to  successful  achievement, 
whether  its  walls  shall  witness  a  Greek  tragedy 
or  a  celebration  of  the  merry  rites  of  class- 
day. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  dedication  of  the 
theatre  last  week,  the  students  chose  Aristo- 
phanes's  comedy  of  "  The  Birds  "  for  repre- 
sentation, attracting  many  thousands  of 
auditors,  besides  the  usual  number  that  arc 
wont  to  assemble  as  spectators  to  college 
celebrations.  I,  in  common  with  many  others, 
had  never  seen  a  Greek  play,  and  went  there 
resolved  to  see  it  out,  even  if  I  missed  my 
dinner  hour,  and  thereby  forever  forfeited 
the  regard  of  my  cook.  And,  again  in  com- 
mon with  many  others,  I  discovered  that  to 
witness  a  Greek  play  with  sustained  interest, 
cne  must  either  be  an  enthusiastic  college 
student,  or  a  relative  of  one,  or  a  member 
of  a  college  faculty,  or  an  antiquarian,  or 
an  archaeologist,  or  a  philologist,  or  a  linguist, 
or  a  classic  authority,  or  bound  by  ties  of 
friendship,  duty,  or  affection  to  any  one  of 
the  learned  species  mentioned.  Being  none 
of  these,  I  tried  the  translation,  but  ex- 
cellently as  it  is  done,  only  to  confront  again 
that  good  old  truth  that  the  drama  to  reach 
our  interest  must  be  a  mirror  reflecting  popu- 
lar thought.  The  drama  of  the  ancients  is  a 
mine  of  riches  for  the  student,  whose  eager 
mind  and  unjaded  imagination  ardently  strive 
to  bridge  the  gulf  between  the  prosaic  present 
and  the  picturesque  past  of  antiquity.  But 
to  the  idle  observer  it  is  merely  a  dramatic 
curio  of  transitory  interest. 

One  can  never  pass  a  wholly  intelligent 
verdict  on  dramatic  representations  in  an  un- 
known tongue,  and  therefore  the  popular 
judgment  of  the  performance  must  be  of  ne- 
cessity superficial.  The  assembly  of  birds, 
their  costumes,  and  their  grotesque  move- 
ments were  mere  spectacle,  and  as  such 
cleverly  planned  and  carried  out.  The  prin- 
cipals,    whose     work     was     limited     to     long 


colloquies,  with  comparatively  little  ac- 
tion, were  as  self-possessed  as  professionals, 
and  easy  both  in  demeanor  and  gesture.  Per- 
haps the  athletic  college  sports  conduced  to 
bodily  ease  under  such  unfamiliar  conditions. 
but  they  showed  no  consciousness  of  their 
classic  dress,  and  nobody's  arms  and  legs 
had  the  slightest  tendency  to  get  in  the  way. 

One  of  the  ancient  authors  has  described 
a  contrivance,  habitually  used  by  Greek  actors 
in  addressing  an  audience  of  some  -thirty 
thousand,  which  increased  the  stature,  added 
to  which  a  mask  with  a  mouth-piece  for 
emphasizing  the  vocal  volume,  greatly  as- 
sisted the  multitudes  in  seeing  and  hearing. 
The  young  voices  of  the  students,  however, 
were  round,  sonorous,  and  perfectly  audible. 
and  the  Greek  tongue  fell  musically  from 
their  lips.  The  lines  of  their  features  were 
touched  up,  which  gave  them  a  more  manly 
air,  and  added  character  and  strength  to  their 
general    appearance. 

The  lyrics  in  the  play  were  agreeably  sung 
at  intervals  by  a  chorus  on  the  great  stage, 
concealed  behind  a  screen  of  green  branches, 
the  performance  proper  taking  place  in  the 
circular  orchestra  below,  in  accordance  with 
the  traditions  of  Aristophanes's  time. 

As  a  spectacle,  the  play  was  interesting,  but 
being  just  a  leetle  bit  rusty  in  the  spoken 
Greek,  I  confess  without  shame  that  I  was  an 
early  and  enthusiastic  attendant  at  the  dinner- 
table,  and  the  cook  and  I  are  still  friends.  And 
yet,  I  would  not  willingly  forego  my  recollec- 
tion of  the  scene ;  the  players  in  their  antique 
garb,  the  monster  birds  flapping  their  wing- 
like draperies,  the  great  peristyle  towering 
above  them,  and  the  stone-like  structure  ris- 
ing tier  on  tier  to  the  highest  confines  of  the 
amphitheatre,  from  whence  the  blue  sky  of 
California,  ringed  round  with  a  mighty  curve 
of  dark-green  foliage,  looked  down  with  the 
unchanging  smile  loved  by  the  ancient  Greek. 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 

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stating  that  Pietro  Mascagni  had  produced, 
with  great  success  at  the  Theatre  Goldo.ni,  his 
new  opera,  "  William  Ratcliff."  The  audience 
received  the  new  work  with  enthusiastic 
plaudits.  However,  Mascagni  belongs  in  Leg- 
horn, and  it  is  barely  possible  that  local 
pride  may  have  had  something  to  do  with  the 
success  of  his  new  work.  We  will  await 
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where before  making  up  our  mind  as  to  its 
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hall.  Cottlow.  Blumenfeld,  Weiss,  and  Maurer. 
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THE        ARGONAUT. 


219 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Florodora"  at  the  Columbia. 
The  final  performance  of  "  The  Prince  of 
Pilsen "  will  take  place  on  Sunday  evening 
at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  and  next  week  the 
ever-popular  musical  comedy,  "  Florodora  " 
will  be  revived  on  an  elaborate  scale.  The 
leading  members  of  the  company  this  year  are 
Isidore  Rush,  Robert  E.  Graham,  Philip  H. 
Ryley,  Greta  Risley.  Donald  Brine,  Harriett 
Merritt,  Joseph  Phillips.  Lillian  Spencer,  and 
Thomas  A.  Kiernan.  There  is  a  chorus  of 
seventy,  six  stunning  "  pretty  maids  "  and  as 
many  handsome  youths  for  the  double  sextet, 
and  a  special  orchestra  of  twenty-five.  Miss 
Rush  will  wear  some  very  fetching  gowns  as 
Lady  Holyrood,  and  Dolores,  the  sextet,  the 
Spanish  girls,  and  the  chorus  will  be  decked 
out  in  a  bewildering  array  of  gorgeous  new 
costumes,  which,  it  is  promised,  will  prove  a 
"  treat  to  the  eye  and  set  a  mild  feeling  of 
envy  in  motion  among  the  women  in  the 
audience."  "  Florodora "  will  run  for  two 
weeks,  and  then  comes  Robert  Edeson  in 
"  Soldiers  of  Fortune." 

Last  "Week  of  Florence  Roberts. 
For  the  farewell  week  of  her  engagement  at 
the  Alcazar  Theatre,  Florence  Roberts  will 
continue  to  present  David  Eelasco's  "  Zaza," 
in  which  she  has  been  repeating  her  great 
success  of  last  year  in  the  title-role.  On  Mon- 
day evening,  October  12th,  the  new  Alcazar 
stock  company  will  open  its  season  in  "  Lady 
Bountiful,"  a  Pinero  play  which  has  never 
been  given  here.  Among  the  new  members 
in  the  company  will  be  Adele  Block,  who  was 
the  original  Iras  in  "  Ben  Hur."  and  leading 
lady  for  E.  H.  Sothern  and  Henrietta  Cross- 
man;  James  Durkin,  who  has  scored  hits 
in  "  Faust,"  "  The  Middleman,"  "  Secret  Ser- 
vice/' and  "  Resurrection  "  ;  Frances  Starr, 
for  three  years  ingenue  of  the  Murray  Hill 
stock  company  in  New  York;  and  John  B. 
Maher,  the  comedian,  who  recently  has  been 
connected  with  the  Pike  stock  company,  of 
Cincinnati. 

The  New  Fischer  Bill. 
"  The  Glad  Hand  "  and  "  The  Con-Curers  " 
will  give  way  on  Monday  night  at  Fischer's 
Theatre  to  a  new  musical  comedy,  "  The 
Paraders,"  by  Raymond  W.  Peck  and  Robert 
Hood.  The  piece  ran  through  nearly  an  entire 
season  in  Chicago,  and  is  said  to  abound  in 
catchy  songs,  choruses,  and  new  specialties. 
It  is  in  two  acts,  the  scenes  being  laid  at 
Coronado  Beach  and  on  the  battle-ship 
Oregon.  Many  novel  mechanical  effects 
are  to  be  introduced,  and  the  chorus 
will  appear  in  some  pretty  dances  and  striking 
marches  arranged  by  Stage-Manager  Charles 
H.  Jones.  All  the  favorites  will  be  in  the 
cast,  and,  as  the  company  has  had  ample  time 
for  rehearsal,  the  first  performance  will  be  a 
smooth  one.  The  house  is  practically  sold  out 
for  the  opening  night. 


"My  Friend  From  India." 
L.  R.  Stockwell  has  attracted  large  audiences 
to  the  Central  Theatre  during  the  week  to  see 
his  amusing  performance  in  Hoyt's  laughable 
comedy,  "  A  Temperance  Town."  Next  week 
he  will  appear  in  another  mirtb-provoker,  "  My 
Friend  From  India,"  the  role  of  A.  Keene 
Shaver  being  especially  suited  to  his  droll 
personality.  The  play  is  full  of  humorous 
situations,  and  tells  how  a  barber  got  mixed 
up  with  a  missionary  from  the  land  of  the 
Mahatmas,  and  how  his  dilemma  involved 
the  whole  family  of  a  rich  Chicago  pork- 
packer  determined  to  break  into  New  York's 
Four  Hundred.  Others  in  the  cast  will  be 
Eugenia  Thais  Lawton,  Genevieve  Kane, 
Myrtle  Vane,  Marie  Howe.  Georgie  Wood- 
thorpe,  and  Messrs.  Mayall.  Shummer,  Emery, 
Howell,  Booth,  Nicholls,  and  Whipple. 


New  Specialties  at  the  Orpheum. 
Arthur  Cunningham,  the  well-known  oper- 
atic baritone,  who  made  many  friends  here 
during  his  long  connection  with  the  Tivoli 
Opera  House,  will  doubtless  receive  a  hearty 
welcome  when  he  makes  his  vaudeville  debut 
at  the  Orpheum  next  week.  Among  the  other 
new-comers  are  the  Clayton  White  and  Marie 
Stuart  Company,  in  a  sketch  called  "  Paris  "  ; 
the  Golden  Gate  Quartet,  assisted  by  Fanny 
Winfred ;  and  the  celebrated  Pantzer  Trio, 
assisted  by  Mrs.  Carl  Pantzer,  in  a  new  com- 
edy acrobatic  act  entitled  "  A  Gymnast's  Par- 
lor Amusement."  Those  retained  from  this 
week's  bill  are  Carleton  and  Terre,  who  have 
made  an  emphatic  hit  with  their  "  String 
Town  Yap  " ;  Alexius,  the  wonderful  acro- 
batic bicyclist;  Myles  McCarthy,  who  has  set 
the  city  laughing  at  his  "  Race  Track  Tout  "  ; 
and  Paulo  and  Dika,  in  their  amusing  comedy 
and  singing  concoction,  "  A  French   Frappe." 


The  Neill  Company  in  "Under  Two  Flags." 
James  Neill  and  his  clever  company  will 
devote  the  second  and  last  week  of  their 
stay  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  to  a  dramati- 
zation of  Ouida's  novel,  "  Under  Two  Flags." 
The  play  is  in  five  acts,  and  tells  the  story 
of  the  unrequited  love  of  Cigarette,  the  vivan- 
dicre  and  pride  of  the  regiment,  for  a  hand- 
some soldier,  an  Englishman,  who  remains,  in- 
different to  her  adoration.  The  opening  scene 
at  Rouen  discloses  the  plot  laid  by  the  Mar- 
quis of  Chateauroy,  colonel  of  French  cavalry, 
called  by  his  intimates  the  "  Black  Hawk,"  to 
defraud  his  cousin,  Bertie  Cecil.  From  Rouen 
to  Algiers  the  scene  shifts  to  show  the  wine- 
shop of  the  "  Ace  of  Spades,"  where  the  sol- 
diers of  the  army  of  Africa  are  assembled. 
The  other  scenes  represent  the  Casbah,  or  cit- 
adel of  Algiers,  the  Castle  of  Cigarette,  the 
Villa  Aiyussa,  Blidah  Fort,  a  military  oi'tpost, 


and  Chellala  Gorge,  a  seemingly  inaccessible 
mountain  of  rocks.  Here  Bedouins  are  con- 
cealed, lying  in  wait  for  Cigarette,  who  es- 
capes upon  her  horse  in  a  wild  ride  up  the 
cliff.  In  the  last  act.  Cigarette  saves  Cecil, 
whom,  unwittingly,  she  has  betrayed  to  his 
superior  officer,  now  married  to  Lady  Vene- 
tia,  formerly  betrothed  to  her  adored.  As 
Cecil  is  about  to  leave  the  garret  he  is  fired 
upon,  the  shots  entering  the  bosom  of  Ciga- 
rette, who  has  flung  herself  before  him  and 
intercepted  them.  Very  gently  the  soldiers 
bear  the  girl  to  her  room,  and  there,  in  the 
arms  of  the  man  she  vainly  loved,  Cigarette, 
the  pride  of  the  regiment,  breathes  her  last. 
Edythe  Chapman  will  play  the  title-role,  and 
Mr.  Neill  will  appear  as  Bertie  Cecil.  On 
Monday,  October  12th,  the  Bothwell  Brown 
Juvenile  Company  will  present  the  burlesque 
extravaganza,  "  Cleopatra." 


Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
At  the  matinee  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House 
this  (Saturday)  afternoon  and  on  Sunday 
night  Bizet's  ever-popular  opera,  "  Carmen," 
will  be  given  with  Cleo  Marchesini  in  the  title- 
role  and  Ischierdo  as  Don  Jose.  This  (Sat- 
urday) evening  Rossini's  comic  opera,  "  The 
Barber  of  Seville,"  will  be  repeated,  with 
Gregoretti  as  Figaro.  Next  week  Verdi's 
"  Otello  "  and  Puccini's  "  La  Boheme  "  will  be 
sung.  The  latter  will  be  given  on  Monday. 
Wednesday,  Friday,  and  Saturday  nights,  with 
Tina  de  Spada  as  Mimi,  Adelina  Tromben  as 
Musette,  Agostini  as  Rudolph.  Zani  as  Marcel, 
and  Dado  as  Collini.  Lina  de  Benedetto  will 
appear  as  Desdemona  in  "  Otello."  to  be  given 
on  Tuesday,  Thursday,  and  Sunday  nights, 
and  at  the  Saturday  matinee.  She  first  sang 
the  part  with  the  great  Tomagno,  who  created 
the  title-role  at  La  Scala.  Milan.  Ischierdo 
will  be  the  Otello ;  Gregoretti  the  Iago ;  Te- 
deschi,  the  Cassio  ;  and  Miss  Eugenie  Barker, 
who  made  so  good  an  impression  as  Siebel  in 
"  Faust,"   the   Emelia. 

MUSICAL     NOTES. 


Augusta  Cottlow  at  Lyric  Hall. 
Augusta  Cottlow,  the  eminent  pianist, 
who  created  such  a  furor  here  as  a  child  won- 
der some  years  ago,  when  she  played  a  Cho- 
pin concerto  with  the  Bauer  Symphony  Or- 
chestra at  the  Tivoli.  will  open  the  concert 
season  at  Lyric  Hall.  Since  her  appearances 
here.  Miss  Cottlow  has  been  working  dili- 
gently with  the  best  masters  in  Europe.  She 
was  engaged  three  times  in  one  season  as  so- 
loist with  the  Berlin  Philharmonic  Orchestra, 
and  afterward  toured  Holland  with  that  or- 
ganization. In  Russia  she  has  also  won  suc- 
cess. Natorp  Blumenfeld.  a  talented  young 
German  violinist,  and  Arthur  Weiss,  our  local 
'celloist,  will  be  heard  with  Miss  Cottlow.  The 
dates  of  her  concerts  here  will  be  Tuesday 
and  Thursday  nights,  October  13th  and  15th. 
and  Saturday  matinee.  October  17th.  Seats 
will  be  on  sale  on  Wednesday  at  Sherman, 
Clay  &  Co.'s  store,  where  complete  pro- 
gammes  may  be  obtained. 

The  Final  Scheel  Symphony  Concert. 
The  last  symphony  concert  to  be  given  un- 
der the  direction  of  Fritz  Scheel  will  take 
place  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Tuesday, 
when,  for  the  first  time  in  public.  H.  J.  Stew- 
art's music  from  the  musical  drama  of 
"  Montezuma "  will  be  given.  This  music 
made  a  deep  impression  upon  all  who  listened 
to  it  at  the  Bohemian  Club  jinks  this  year. 
The  other  numbers  on  the  programme  will  be 
"  Leonora  Overture,"  No.  3,  L.  von  Beethoven  ; 
"  Symphony  in  C-major,"  No.  10.  Franz  Schu- 
bert ;  and  "  Rhapsodie  Hongroise,"  No.  2, 
Franz  Liszt. 


Isabel  Morgan  will  give  a  lecture  at  her 
studio,  218  Haight  Street,  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing, on  "  Song  Interpretation,"  illustrated 
with  songs  by  Scarlatti,  Purcell,  Mozart,  Men- 
delssohn, Schumann,  and  other  modern  com- 
posers, sung  by  Mrs.  Lilian  Werth  Fruhling. 
soprano,  one  of  her  pupils.  Wilbur  McColl 
will  act  as  accompanist. 

Don't  fail  to  make  a  trip  to  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  before  the  wet  weather  sets  in. 
Mill  Valley,  in  its  autumn  garb,  is  a  pleasant 
sight  to  the  eye.  Those  who  stay  over  night 
at  the  Tavern  this  week  will  have  the  advan- 
tage of  some  beautiful  moonlight  views  of  the 
surrounding  country. 


Tyndall's  Sunday  Lecture. 
On  Sunday  night,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  will 
deliver  a  lecture  at  Steinway  Hall  on  "  The 
Elixir  of  Life,"  in  which  he  will  treat  the 
subject  from  a  theoretical  rather  than  a  literal 
standpoint.  Particularly  interesting  will  be 
his  own  acount  of  his  marvelous  recuperation 
from  the  severe  nervous  strain  of  years  of 
mental  labor,  by  which  he  was  enabled  to  re- 
appear here  several  years  younger  looking  than 
during  his  previous  visit  to  San  Francisco. 
On  Sunday,  October  nth,  he  will  talk  on  the 
cause  of  decay  and  death,  repeating  some  of 
his  remarks  on  "  The  Thought  That  Kills." 
Each   lecture   includes   psychic   manifestations. 


A  New  Book  on  Spain   in    l'J03. 

Jerome  Hart's  recent  letters  written  to  the 
Argonaut  from  Southern  Europe — principally 
from  Spain — have  been  collected  into  a  vol- 
ume, and  will  be  ready  in  a  few  weeks  under 
the  title  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain."  The 
book  makes  nearly  three  hundred  pages,  and 
is  now  going  through  the  press.  It  is  very 
handsomely  printed  on  costly  laid  paper  from 
new  type.  Over  a  score  of  illustrations  ac- 
company the  text,  from  photographs  taken 
by   the  Two  Argonauts. 

A  rich  rubricated  title  in  pseudo-Arabic. 
framed  in  a  Moorish  archway  copied  from 
the  Alhambra,  begins  the  book.  A  colored 
map  of  Spain  will  be  found  a  very  useful 
addition  to  these  travel  sketches. 

The  book  will  be  bound  in  a  handsome  cover 
emblazoned  with  the  emblems  of  the  various 
provinces  of  Spain — castles  for  Castile,  lions 
for  Leon,  pomegranates  for  Granada,  chains 
for  Navarre,  etc. 

Only  a  limited  edition  will  be  printed.  Mr. 
Hart's  recent  book  of  travel.  "  Argonaut  Let- 
ters," aiso  a  limited  edition,  was  out  of  print 
three  months  after  publication.  Those  desir- 
ing the  present  volume  will  do  well  to  apply 
at  once. 

The  net  price,  which  depends  on  the  number 
of  pages,  will  be  fixed  in  a  few  days — it  will 
probably  be  $1.35-  Address  the  Argonaut 
Company,    246    Sutter    Street,    San    Francisco. 


Add    a   New    Department. 

Barnhart  &  Swasey,  the  advertising  firm  of 
San  Francisco,  have  added  an  engraving  plant 
to  the  departments  of  their  business.  The 
latest  machinery  has  been  purchased,  and  the 
best  workmen  to  be  obtained  employed.  They 
will  manufacture  line  and  half-tone  cuts 
of  the  best  grade  for  the  users  of  plates  upon 
the  Pacific  Coast.  Their  establishment,  at 
the  corner  of  Mission  and  New  Montgomery 
Streets,  is  one  of  the  largest  of  its  class  in 
the  West.  Ten  thousand  feet  of  floor  space 
are  used  by  the  various  departments  of  the 
business,  and  besides  writing  advertising*  mat- 
ter, planning  campaigns  for  the  expenditure 
of  advertising  appropriations,  they  have  an  art 
department  which  employs  twenty  high-class 
artists,  a  printing  plant  fully  equipped,  and 
their  latest  addition  is  a  photo-engraving 
plant. 


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October  5,   1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Boston  has  decided  that  kissing  on  the 
Charles  River  is  a  crime,  and  that  even  re- 
clining side  by  side  in  a  canoe  is  worthy  of  a 
twenty-dollar  fine.  One  of  the  new  set  of 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  Metropolitan 
Park  Commission  stipulates  that  "  no  person 
shall  commit  any  obscene  or  indecent  act," 
and  the  police  insist  that  this  clause  bars  all 
holding  hands,  kissing,  snuggling  together  in 
the  bottom  of  the  canoe,  or  resting  a  tired 
head  in  the  lap  of  lady  fair.  To  prove  it,  the 
other  day,  they  arrested  Matthew  A.  Peterson 
and  Flora  Smith.  A  policeman  in  citizen's 
clothes,  paddling  a  canoe,  sneaked  into  the 
little  cove  in  which  Peterson's  canoe  was 
drifting.  The  hand  of  the  fair  Flora  was  be- 
ing firmly  held,  and  the  police  flashlight  dis- 
closed it  all.  The  young  man  ?.nd  the  police- 
man had  a  heart  to  heart  talk,  and  rather 
stormy  things  were  said.  "  I've  warned  you. ' 
said  the  policeman;  "you've  got  to  sit  up 
decent  in  your  canoe,  or  be  arrested."  Five 
minutes  later  he  slipped  back  into  the  cove, 
and  again  his  light  flashed.  It  was  a  dread- 
ful thing  he  witnessed.  Actually  (says  the 
New  York  Tribune's  Boston  correspondent) 
they  were  kissing.  It  made  the  Puritan  blood 
in  his  Pilgrim  veins  run  cold,  and  so  he 
swooped  down  and  arrested  them.  Matthew 
stormed  and  said  things,  and  fair  Flora  clung 
tighter  and  cried,  but  it  was  all  in  vain.  The 
police  light  of  Boston  virtue  had.  found  them 
out.  A  few  days  later,  in  the  district  court, 
Peterson  paid  a  fine  of  twenty  dollars,  and  the 
case  against  Miss  Smith  was  placed  on  file. 
The  judge,  with  surprising  chivalry  for  Bos- 
ton, argued,  it  is  said,  that  the  getting  to- 
gether in  the  canoe  was  mostly  the  young 
man's  fault. 


On  pleasant  Saturday  afternoons  and  even- 
ings there  are  between  4,000  and  4.500  canoes 
on  the  river,  and  often  a  fleet  of  1,000  gather 
where  concerts  are  given  by  the  band.  As  soon 
as  a  crowd  gets  settled  on  the  river,  the  police 
canoes,  to  the  number  of  twenty-five,  put  out 
on  their  prying  expeditions.  The  policemen 
are  dressed  in  plain  clothes,  and  go  up  and 
down  the  river  peering  into  each  canoe,  to 
see  if  the  occupants  are  obeying  the  rules  to 
the  letter.  An  indignant  New  York  girl, 
who  recently  visited  Boston,  thus  commented 
on  the  new  rule :  "  I'd  like  to  see  them 
try  anything  like  this  in  New  York.  Why,- 
the  canoe  police  would  be  in  the  water  half 
the  time.  We'd  dump  them.  In  New  York 
you  can  make  love  in  the  parks,  on  the 
elevated,  in  Coney  Island  cars,  and  even  in  the 
Broadway  electrics,  and  no  one  ever  says 
a  word.  When  we  get  the  new  underground 
railway  they  will  have  '  spooning '  seats,  I'm 
told.  And  why  not?  They  say  the  objection 
here  in  Boston  comes  from  men  who  go 
out  with  their  wives  for  a  row  on  the  river, 
and  who  are  disgusted  because  they  see  people 
loving.  Now,  it  should  remind  these  men  and 
women  of  the  days  of  their  youth,  when  they 
were  in  love.  Perhaps  it  reminds  them  how 
cold  they  have  become  to  each  other.  Let 
them  keep  off  the  river,  I  say,  if  they  can't 
stand  a  little  sentiment.  I  tell  you  one  thing. 
if  John  Henry  wants  to  hold  my  hand  and 
I'm  willing,  I'd  like  to  see  any  Boston  police- 
man make  him  let  go." 

A  well  known  New  York  woman  says  that 
she  is  morally  certain  neither  friends  nor 
"home  folk"  would  find  her  so  agreeable 
were  it  not  for  the  fact  that  she  makes  it  a 
point  to  take  periodical  vacations  from  all 
of  them.  "  It  is  impossible,"  she  says,  frankly, 
"  for  human  beings  made  after  the  average 
pattern  not  to  bore  each  other  to  extinction 
if  they  have  to  look  into  each  other's  faces 
three  hundred  and  sixty-five  days  out  of  the 
year.  A  woman  is  infinitely  more  attractive 
to  her  husband  if  he  hasn't  seen  her  for  a 
little  while,  and  a  man  is  far  more  lovable 
to  a  woman  if  there  is  some  variation  in 
the  periods  of  his  homecoming.  Certain  it  is 
that  any  woman  who  has  wrestled  with  the 
servant  question  for  a  whole  year,  who  has 
thought  up  one  thousand  and  ninety-five  regu- 
lar meals  and  several  hundred  irregular  ones, 
who  has  had  to  cater  to  fastidious  appetites 
on  a  quick-lunch  basis  of  expenditure,  that 
woman  without  doubt  has  earned  a  vacation 
from  servants,  appetites,  and  eaters  of  meals, 
and  all  of  these  will  fare  the  better  if  the 
vacation  is  taken.  Uninterrupted  matrimony 
can  become  the  greatest  bore  on  earth.  In 
six  months  a  man  has  told  his  wife  pretty 
much  everything  he  knows  that  he  has  any  in- 
tertion  of  telling  her.  and  has  listened  to  her 
t  nion  on  every  subji  t  under  the  sun  times 
V.?  Jurat  number,  and  In?  best  thing  they  both 
ra;     do    is   to    go    foraging    for,  three    months 


for  something  new  to  think  and  talk  about, 
and  give  absence  a  chan'ce  to  make  the  heart 
grow  fonder.  If  people  were  married  only 
three  days  in  the  week  instead  of  seven,  there 
would  be  fewer  divorces.  Somebody  says 
that  the  reason  many  a  man  is  able  to  endure 
his  home  is  that  he  has  the  business  day 
respite  from  it  to  brace  him  up,  and  that  the 
insane  asylums  are  so  overcrowded  with 
women,  married  women,  simply  because  their 
lives-  are  crammed  so  full  of  the  same  peo- 
ple, prejudices,  and  points  of  view  day  after 
day.  The  summer  hegira  is  distinctly  a 
'  first  aid  to  domestic  peace.'  This  is  possibly 
not  the  conventional  vacation  point  of  view, 
but  it  is  unquestionably  one  that  commends 
itself  to  the  seeker  after  things  harmonious 
as  well  as  the  student  of  sociology.  At  least 
it  behooves  the  homemaker  to  consider  the 
vacation  receipe  as  a  cure  for  the  domestic 
distemper  that  sooner  or  later  seems  to  attack 
the  average  family." 

The  Fronde,  the  Paris  women's  daily,  after 
seven  years'  existence,  fighting  for  the  rights 
of  "  feminisme,"  has  ceased  publication.  It 
has  had  an  interesting  career.  When  founded 
by  Mme.  Marguerite  Durand,  who  was  for- 
merly an  actress  at  the  Comedie-Francaise. 
it  was  the  butt  of  much  ridicule  on  the  boule- 
vards and  in  journalistic  circles,  and  was  re- 
garded as  a  joke,  but  it  soon  became  clear 
that  the  paper  had'  been  started  in  real  earn- 
est. It  was  edited,  composed,  and  published 
by  women.  Even  the  office  "  boy "  was  a 
girl,  and  the  printer's  "  devil "  was  of  the 
gentler  sex.  The  only  male  person  allowed 
in  the  establishment  was  a  man  who  polished 
the  office  floor.  Mme.  Durand,  in  her  last 
leader,  claimed  that  the  purpose  for  winch 
it  was  started  had  been  served.  "  Feminisme." 
she  says.  "  is  strong  enough  now  to  go  along 
without  further  assistance  from  the  Fronde." 
Financial  reasons,  however,  have  probably 
had  something  to  do  with  its  passing.  The 
editorial  staff  has  been  taken  over  by  L' Action 
the  new  anti-clerical  organ,  and  Mme.  Du- 
rand becomes  a  co-director. 


A  fashion  magazine  offered  twenty-five  dol- 
lars for  the  best  definition  of  "  style."  The 
prize  was  won  by  Frank  D.  Blake,  of  Clay 
Centre,  Kan.,  who  was  reared  in  an  atmos- 
phere of  jackrabbits  and  buffalo  grass  far 
from  the  world  of  dress.  His  definition 
fetched  him  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents 
a  word.  It  was  this:  "That  visible  expres- 
sion of  some  conception  of  beauty  by  which 
a  standard  of  excellence  is  established  or 
changed  is  '  style.'  " 


If  it  is  a  fact  that  a  recent  homicide  in 
Texas  was  due  to  the  victim  having  worn  a 
silk  hat,  commonly  denoted  "  plug,"  in  the 
Western  country,  then  there  are  at  least 
three  Texas  members  of  Congress  who  should 
avoid  that  particular  section  of  the  Lone  Star 
State.  Thomas  H.  Ball,  of  the  eighth  district. 
Albert  S.  Burlson,  of  the  tenth  district,  and 
James  L.  Slayden,  of  the  fourteenth  district, 
all  wear  high  silk  hats.  They  wear  them  ap- 
propriately too,  with  stylish  frock-coats  and 
patent-leather  or  well-polished  shoes.  The 
average  Southern  congressman  is  no  stranger 
to  the  long  frock-coat,  but  he  seldom  follows 
the  dictates  of  fashion  and  wears  a  silk  tile 
with  it.  On  the  contrary,  the  long  frock-coat 
and  the  broad-brimmed,  high-crowned  black 
felt  slouch  hat  seem  to  go  together  in  the 
dress  of  the  men  in  Congress  from  the  South, 
and  if  a  string  tie,  black  or  white,  is  a  part 
of  the  tout  ensemble,  then  you  can  gamble 
that  the  wearer  is  a  Southerner.  Mr.  Ball 
was  once  asked  if  he  sported  the  same  tile 
in  Texas  as  he  does  on  Pennsylvania  Ave- 
nue, in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  he  replied: 
"  Sure.  I  wear  a  high  silk  hat  in  my  district, 
and  in  all  proper  places  as  I  do  here.  I  do 
not  change  the  style  of  my  clothes  when  I 
go  home.  When  I  first  went  campaigning  in 
a  silk  hat  there  was  a  disposition  to  criticise 
me  as  '  putting  on  style.'  I  replied  by  saying : 
'  When  you  folks  go  visiting,  don't  you  wear 
your  best  clothes?  Well,  that's  what  I  am  do- 
ing. I  am  visiting  you  people,  and  my  best 
clothes  are  none  too  good  for  me  to  wear 
when  I  come  among  you.'  I  never  heard  a 
word  after  that  about  my  '  plug  bat.'  "  The 
late  Lord  Salisbury,  by  the  way,  had  an  utter 
disregard  for  clothes,  and  on  several  occa- 
sions his  attire  was  referred  to  with  regret 
by  sartorial  writers.  So  long  as  his  coat 
hung  fairly  well  from  the  shoulders,  the 
deceased  premier  cared,  little,  but  he  never 
went  the  length  of  Mr.  Gladstone,  whose 
clothes  were  often  so  shabby  that  only  an 
eminent  person  would  wear  them.  The  suc- 
cessor- of  Salisbury  and  Gladstone  are,  on 
the    other    hand,    careful    dressers,    especially 


Lord  Rosebery.  who  designed  a  collar  for  him- 
self with  the  turn-over  peaks  rounded  for 
greater  comfort  and  durability.  Mr.  Balfour's 
appearance  is  usually  very  smart  on  social 
occasions,  although  he  seemingly  does  not  en- 
deavor to  attain  the  well-groomed  condition  of 
Joseph  Chamberlain. 


"  Are  your  new  neighbors  all  right  so- 
cially?" "Oh,  yes;  they  have  six  autos,  ten 
bulldogs,    and   one   child." — Puck. 

Nelson's  Amycose* 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Deutist, 

Phelan     Building.    806    Market    Street      Specialty : 
""Colton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER, 


From     Official     Report     of    Alexander     G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Afin.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

September  24th 66  50  .00  Clear 

25th 62  52  .00  Clear 

"  26th 64  52  .00  Cloudy 

"  27th 58  56  .00  Cloudy 

"  28th 62  56  .00  Cloudy  " 

29th 56  54  .00  Cloudy 

30th 58  50  .00  Cloudy 


THE    FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  September  30, 
1903.  wpre  as  follows: 

Bonos.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.  S.  Coup.  2%  Reg  10,000    @  108% 
Bay  Co.  Power  5%      3,000    (5mo4&  104        106 

HawaiianC.  S.  5%.     3,000    @  ioiJ£  iooJ4     102J4 

LosAn.Ry5%   ....   10,000     @ii5j£-i'5^     115^ 
Market  St.  Ry.  5%.     1,000     @  116 

Oakl'nd  Transit  6%    3,000    @  121  121 

S.  F.  &  S.  J-  Valley 

Ry-5% T2,ooo    @  120&-120J4     i2o# 

Sierra  Ry.  of  Cal. 6%    5,000    @  112%  "2j£ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909     15.000    @  107%  108% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  1,000    @  109^  10S        109& 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905.  S.  A 1,000    @  105% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  Stpd 

5%     25,000    @  108  107% 

S.  V.  Water  6%  ...     2,000    @  105%  105^     106^ 

S.  V.  Water  4%.. ..  27,000    @  100  100 

S- V.  Water  4%  3d.    4,000    @    99J4  99^ 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa  5    @    52  51^      54 

Spring  Valley 210    @    84-      84^      84^      84% 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 10    @    66  655^      66J£ 

Vigorit 150    @      5  414        5 

Sug-a  rs. 

Hana  P.  Co 350    @    25-      30  25 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...        300    @    46  45%      46$*. 

Honokaa  S.  Co 20    @    13%  1314       14 

Hutchinson 85    @    1254  13 

Makaweli  S.  Co . . . .         25    @    21 J^  20 J4      22 

Onomea  S.  Co 50    @    33  32  33^ 

Paauhau  S.  Co 50    @    16^  i6J£      17 

Gas  a  nd  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric...        190    @    12-      12*^       10  11^ 

Pacific  Gas 55    @    53  52^ 

S.  F.  Gas&  Electric         ro    @    67 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       200    @    67^-67^      66         67^ 

Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  . . .        150    @  155^-158 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners         425    @    95^-  96 %     97 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 60    @    96^-96%      97% 

Pac.  Coast  Borax..  10    @  167  167 

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The  sugars  were  traded  in  to  the  extent  of  870 
shares  of  all  kinds,  and  closed  in  fair  demand  at 
fractional  gains. 

The  powder  stocks  have  been  steady,  and  very 
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The  gas  stocks  have  been  inactive,  without  change 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


221 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


James  Cobb  tells  a  curious  story  of  a  lady, 
a  sister  of  Owen  Tudor,  who,  like  Henry  the 
Eighth,  was  greatly  given  to  marrying,  and 
did  not  die  until  she  had  been  led  seven  times 
to  the  altar.  When  she  was  following  her 
fourth  husband  to  the  grave,  the  gentleman 
behind  whom  she  rode  on  horseback  ventured 
to  urge  his  suit.  "  Unhappily."  said  the 
dame,  "  thou  art  too  late,  seeing  that  I  am 
plighted  already;  yet  do  not  lose  heart,  for. 
should  it  fall  out  that  I  have  again  to  perform 
this  melancholy  office,  I  will  bear  thee  in 
mind." 


A  colored  barber  thus  explained  to  Senator 
Hoar  his  reason  for  resigning  from  a  certain 
African  church :  "  I  jined  that  ch'uch  en 
good  faith,  and  de  fust  yeah  I  give  $10  to'ds 
the  stated  gospel,  an'  all  de  chu'eh  people 
calls  me  '  Brudder  Dickson.'  De  second  yeah 
me  bizness  fell  off,  en  I  give  $5 ;  en  all  dc 
chu'eh  people  dey  call  me  '  Mistah  Dickson.' 
De  third  yeah  I  feel  so  pohly  dat  I  don't  give 
third  yeah  I  feel  so  pohly  dat  I  don't  give 
nuthin'  t'all  for  preachin',  en  all  de  chu'eh 
people  dey  pass  me  by  en  say,  '  Dat  ole 
niggah   Dickson.'     After  dat  I  quit  'em." 

A  well-known  professor,  having  boarded 
a  few  weeks  with  a  farmer  who  was  in  the 
habit  of  taking  a  few  summer  guests  into  hi~ 
house  to  help  pay  the  rent,  decided  to  spend 
his  vacation  there  again  this  year.  In  no- 
tifying the  farmer  of  his  intentions,  he  wrote  : 
"  There  are  several  little  matters  that  I  de- 
sire changed,  should  my  family  decide  to 
pass  the  vacation  at  your  house.  We  don't 
like  the  maid  Mary.  Moreover,  we  do  not 
think  a  sty  so  near  the  house  is  sanitary." 
This  is  what  he  received  in  reply :  "  Mary 
has  went.  We  haint  hed  no  hogs  sence  you 
went  away  last  September." 

When  the  President's  special  train,  during 
his  recent  tour  of  the  West,  reached  Ne- 
braska, Governor  Mickey  joined  the  party  to 
escort  the  President  across  the  State.  The 
President  was  delighted  to  meet  the  governor 
of  Nebraska,  and  asked  him  about  a  hundred 
questions — political,  industrial,  social,  and  per- 
sonal— winding  up  with  :  "  How  many  children 
have  you,  governor?"  "  Nine,"  answered 
Governor  Mickey.  "  You  are  a  damn  good 
man,"  exclaimed  President  Roosevelt ;  "  you 
are  a  better  man  than  I  am.  I  have  had  only 
six."  And  Governor  Mickey,  who  is  a  Metho- 
dist elder,  gasped  with  astonishment. 


The  oratorical  gift  of  the  preachers  of 
mountain  regions  of  Tennessee  is  much  ad- 
mired by  their  simple  parishioners.  In  fact, 
nearly  every  youth's  ambition,  it  is  said,  is  to 
be  a  preacher,  although  it  is  an -affectation 
among  the  horny-handed  portion  of  the  popula- 
tion to  pretend  to  despise  those  who  do  not  en-, 
gage  in  manual  labor.  A  traveler  recently  asked 
a  bright-eyed  youngster  in  Tennessee:  "What 
are  you  going  to  do  when  you  grow  up?" 
The  boy  turned  his  head  away,  blushed  with 
embarrassment,  and  began  to  draw  semi- 
circles in  the  dust  with  his  bare  toe.  In  the 
mean  time  his  father  answered  for  him : 
"  I  reckon  that  boy  '11  be  a  preacher ;  he's 
a  powerful  pert  talker  when  he  aint  bashful, 
an'   he's  too   darn   lazy  to   work." 

Leschetizky,  the  Russian  composer,  was  an 
instructor  in  the  imperial  institute  for  young 
women  at  Smolna.  Some  of  the  pupils  of  the 
institute,  girl-like,  had  complained  of  the 
quality  of  their  food,  and  rumors  of  their 
complaint  reached  the  ears  of  the  emperor, 
who  ordered  the  Duke  of  Oldinburg,  presi- 
dent of  Smolna,  to  look  into  the  matter.  "  I 
was  not  very  fond  of  his  excellency,"  says 
Leschetizky;  "he  was  a  man  of  sour  disposi- 
tion— tall,  thin,  quick,  and  angular  in  his 
movements,  with  little,  blinking,  beady  black 
eyes  that  took  note  of  everything ;  and  his 
nose  in  everybody's  business.  The  emperor's 
command  was  no  sooner  issued  than  Oldin- 
burg started  for  Smolna,  arriving  just  at 
dinner  time.  Stationing  himself  not  far  from 
the  kitchen,  he  awaited  the  passage  of  the 
soldiers  on  duty  in  the  dining-room.  Pres- 
ently two  went  by,  carrying  a  soup-tureen. 
'  Set  that  down  on  the  floor  and  fetch  me 
a  spoon,'  thundered  the  duke.  The  soldiers 
looked  up  in  evident  surprise,  but,  too  well 
disciplined  to  speak  except  in  answer  to  a 
question,  obeyed;  then  stood  submissively 
awaiting  further  orders.  The  duke,  wearing 
a  severely  critical  expression  of  face,  dipped 
the  spoon  in  the  gray,  murky  liquid,  but  had 
no    sooner    touched    it    to    his    lips    than    he 


angrily  rejected  it,  shrieking,  '  Why,  it's 
dish-water !'  '  As  your  highness  says,' 
answered  the  terrified  soldiers.  And  so  it  was 
— dish-water  being  carried  away  in  a  cast- 
off  soup-tureen,  used  for  washing  knives  and 
forks." 

The  other  day,  a  lady,  while  shopping, 
accidentally  picked  up  another  lady's  umbrella 
from  the  counter,  and  had  the  mistake 
pointed  out  to  her  rather  frigidly.  She  re- 
turned the  umbrella  with  apologies,  and  then 
remembered  that  she  had  no  umbrella  witn 
her  at  all.  But  as  it  had  begun  to  rain,  she 
bought  one  for  herself,  as  well  as  one  for  a 
birthday  present  for  some  one  else.  With 
the  two  umbrellas  in  her  hand,  she  boarded 
a  car.  and,  as  luck  would  have  it,  sat  down 
opposite  the  very  lady  whose  umbrella  she 
had  inadvertently  picked  up  earlier  in  the 
day.  The  coincidence  was  too  much  for 
the  other  lady.  "  I  congratulate  you  on  your 
successful  morning,"  she  said,  sarcastically, 
as  she  swept  out  of  the  car.  Innocence 
should  have  asserted  itself;  but  the  rightful 
owner  of  the  two  umbrellas  found  herself  so 
embarrassed  that  she  was  speechless.  Ap- 
pearances often  make  cowards   of  us   all. 

It  is  related  that  when  Senator  Bailey,  of 
Texas,  was  a  struggling  young  lawyer,  tnere 
was  a  Democratic  Congress  convention  in  his 
neighborhood,  and  he  started  to  walk  to  it. 
On  the  way  he  met  a  farmer,  who  gave  hiin 
a  lift,  "Going  to  the  convention?"  asked 
Bailey  after  awhile.  "  Yep,"  said  the  farmer. 
"  Ever  hear  of  a  young  lawyer  named  Bailey 
'iound  here?"  asked  Bailey.  "  Nope,"  said  the 
farmer.  "  Good  speaker  and  bright  fellow , 
I  understand,"  suggested  Bailey.  "  S'pose 
so,"  said  the  farmer.  "  Yep,"  continued  Bailey, 
"  and  he  will  be  over  there  to-day,  and  1 
tell  you  what  we'll  do.  We'll  call  on  him 
to  make  a  speech.  You  see  all  your  friends, 
tell  them  about  Bailey,  and  we'll  call  on  him." 
The  farmer  said  "  All  right."  No  more  was 
mentioned  about  the  matter  until  there  was 
a  lapse  in  the  convention  during  the  pre- 
liminary movements  of  the  body.  Suddenly 
the  old  farmer  up  and  suggested  that  the 
convention  hear  from  Mr.  Bailey,  "  a  risin' 
young  lawyer  of  these  diggin's."  he  said. 
"  an*  a  feller  who  talks  like  puttin'  out  fire." 
"Bailey!  Bailey!  Bailey!"  more  than  a  dozen 
yells  went  up,  and  Bailey  came  forth.  Joe 
Bailey  made  one  of  the  hottest  speeches  of  his 
life,  and  the  upshot  of  the  whole  thing  was 
that  the  "  risin*  young  lawyer  of  these  dig- 
gin's "   got   the   nomination   for  Congress. 

William  E.  Curtis  says  that  during  the  last 
days  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes's  life  he 
visited  Washington,  D.  C,  in  company  with 
Robert  C.  Winthrop,  and  both  of  the  vener- 
able men  visited  the  Senate  chamber  on  the 
occasion  of  some  ceremonies  which  crowded 
the  galleries  with  people,  so  that  they  were 
unable  to  obtain  seats.  They  sent  their  cards 
to  Mr.  Evarts,  hoping  that  he  might  arrange 
a  place  for  them,  and  when  he  met  them  in 
the  marble  room  he  explained  the  difficulty. 
"  The  galleries  are  crowded,  as  you  know," 
he  said,  "  and  the  rules  of  the  Senate  admit 
to  the  floor  of  the  chamber  only  members  of 
the  two  Houses  of  Congress,  members  of  the 
Cabinet,  Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court,  ex- 
senators,  persons  who  have  received  the 
thanks  of  Congress,  and  private  secretaries 
to  senators.  I  can  not  get  you  admission  in 
any  other  capacity,  but  if  you  will  accept 
highly  respectable  and  remunerative  employ- 
ment as  my  private  secretaries  I  will  find  you 
seats  on  the  floor."  Both  the  poet  and  the 
statesman  accepted,  and  Mr.  Evarts  took  them 
to  the  door,  where  he  addressed  the  door- 
keeper as  follows :  "  My  dear  sir,  these  two 
young  men  are  my  private  secretaries.  You 
will  observe  that  they  are  both  very  green 
and  ignorant,  but  I  am  trying  to  have  patience 
with  them  and  overlook  their  deficiencies.  I 
wish  you  would  take  a  good  look  at  them,  so 
that  when  they  come  here  again  to  see  me  you 
will  know  them,"  and  with  that  he  pushed 
open  the  swinging  doors  and  motioned  to  Dr. 
Holmes  and  Mr.  Winthrop  to  pass  in,  while 
the  doorkeeper,  in  a  bewildered  sort  of  way, 
remarked  in  an  undertone:  "Well,  I'll  be 
blanked!  " 


Some  fools  and  their  money  are  parted  only 
by  death. — Puck. 


Moore's  Poison-Oak  Remedy 

cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases     Sold  by  nil 
druggists. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


THE    TUNEFUL-    LIAR. 

Evolution. 
She  sketched  a   husband  strong  and   brave 

On  whom  her  heart  might  lean; 
None  but  a  hero  would  she  have — 

This  girl  of  17. 

Her  fancy  subsequently  turned 

From  deeds  of  derring-do: 
For  brainy  intercourse  she  yearned 

When  she  was  22. 

The  years  sped  on,  ambition  taught 

A   worldly  wise  design; 
A  man  of  wealth  was  what  she  sought 

When  she  was  29. 

But  time  has  modified  her  plan; 

Weak,  imbecile,  or  poor — 
She's  simply  looking  for  a  man 

Now  she  is  34.  — Punch. 


No  Escape. 
Boracic  acid  in  the  soup. 

Wood  alcohol  in  wine, 
Catsups  dyed  a  lurid  hue 

By  using  aniline; 

The  old  ground  hulls  of  cocoanuts 

Served  to  us  as  spices; 
I   reckon  crisp  and  frigid  glass 

Is   dished   out   with   the   ices. 

The  milk — the  kind  the  old  cow  gives 

Way  down   at   Cloverside — 
It's  one-third  milk  and  water,  and — 

Two-thirds   formaldehyde. 

The  syrup's  bleached  by  using  tin. 

And  honey's  just  glucose. 
And  what  the  fancy  butter  is. 

The  goodness  gracious  knows! 

The  olive  oil's  of  cottonseed, 

There's  alum   in  the  bread; 
It's  really  a  surprise  to  me 

The  whole  durned  race  aint  dead. 

Meantime  all  the  germs  and  things 

Are  buzzing  fit  to  kill; 
If  the  food  you  eat  don't  git  you. 

The  goldarned  microbes  will. 

— New  Orleans   Times-Democrat. 


The  Automatic  Life. 
This  life  will  soon  become  a  thing 

Of  cylinders  and  wheels. 
Push  buttons,  dynamos,  and  cogs,     , 

And  batteries  and  reels. 
Each  day  a  man  will   be  aroused 

By  some  u.Viquc  machine 
Which  will  bring  in   his  clothing,  then 

Shave  him  both  quick  and  clean. 

Fond  lovers,  when  they  feel  inclined 

To  softly  bill  and  coo. 
Will  start  a  phonograph  which  asks 
"  Whose  ootsey  '00  is  '00?" 
His  pocket  phonograph  will  ask 

If  she  will  be  his  bride — 
Her  phonograph  will  breathe  the  "  Yes 

Which  waits  in  its  inside. 

When  mother  goes  to  call  on  friends. 

Or  to  her  club,  she  won't 
Be    anxious    for    the   children;    she 

Will  start  the  auto"  Don't  " 
To  going  in  the  nursery 

And  hasten  on  serene, 
And  knowing  that  she  may  rely 

Upon  the  spank  machine. 

When  father  comes  in  much  too  late 

He'll  stumble  on  the  stair. 
And  hear  a  terse  "  How  came  you  so?  " 

Come  megaphoning  there. 
And  after  while  this  life  will  be 

Without  a  thing  to  do — 
Some  one  will  make  a  grand  machine 

To  press  the  buttons,  too. 

— Chicago   Tribiitu 


A  Ballad  of  Oyster  Bay. 
He  was  an  honest  Oysterman, 

(At  least  he  seemed  to  be.) 
I  met  him  on  a  neck  of  land 

That  jutted  out  to  sea. 
And  when  I  asked  him  who  he  was. 

He  answered  pleasantly: 
"  I  am  the  House,  and  the  Senate  bold. 

The  chief  of   the   Navy   Crew. 
The  Cabinet,  and  you  just  bet 

I'm  boss  of  the  Army,  too." 

1  fixed  him  with  an  anxious  look. 
"  Dear  sir,  how  can  this  be? 
Although  quite  plain,  your  answer  seems 

Impossible  to  me." 
He  merely  looked  at  me  and  smiled, 

And  added  thoughtfully: 
*'  And  I  am  a  strenuous,  steadfast  type — 

A  scholar,  a  sportsman  true, 
A  diplomat,  a  plutocrat. 

And  a  writer  and  fighter,  too." 

"  He  is  a  lunatic,"  I  thought — 
"  A  poor,  deluded  thing. 
Whose  fancy  'tis  to  play  the  role 

Of  some  archaic  king." 
And  as  I  turned  upon  my  heel 
I  heard  him  muttering: 
"I'm  the  boss,  you  know,  of  the  whole  blame 
show, 
In  every  respect  but  this — 
'Tis  very  plain   that   Mr.    I'ayne 

Is  in  charge  of  the  Post-Office." — Life. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— SOUTHAMPTON  — LONDON. 
New  York  ...  .Oct.  7, 10am  I  St.  Louis   . .  .Oct. 21, 10am 
Phil'delphia  Oct. 14,10am  |  New  York  .  ..Oct.  2S,  10 am 

Philadelphia— Oueenstown  — Liverpool. 
West'nl'd  Oct.  10, 11.30am  I  Haverfrd.Oct.24, 11.30am 
Belgenland  ...Oct.  17,  9  am  I  Noordland  .  ..Oct.31.gam 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Mesaba   Oct.  10,  9  am  I  Min'apolis  . .  .Oct.  24,  8am 

Min'et'nka  Oct.  17, 1.30  pm  |  Miu'ehaha.Oct.  31,  1.30  pm 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— U.UEENSTUWN— LIVERPOOL 

Mayflower Oct.  8  I  New  England Oct.  29 

Columbus  (new)      .Oct.  15     Mayflower Nov.  5 

Commonwealth Oct.  22  |  Columbus Nov.  12 

Montreal  -Liverpool  -Short  sea  passage. 

Dominion     Oct.  to  I  Canada Oct.  31 

Soulhwark  Oct.  17  |  Soulhwark Nov.  7 

Boston    Mediterranean    *>'«** 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Cambroinaii ...    Saturday,  Oct.  31.  Dec.  12 

Vancouver Saturday,  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  in. 

Finland Oct.  10  I  Kroonland. Oct.  24 

Vaderland  Oct.  17  |  Zeeland  Oct.  31 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Germanic Oct.  7,  noon  I  Majestic Oct.  14,  noon 

Cedric Oct.  9, 7  am  I  Celtic     — Oct.  16,  1.30  pm 

Armenian. .  ..Oct.  13, 10 am  |  Oceanic Oct.  21,  6am 

C.   U.  TAYLOR,    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  31.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,   Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Ooric Wednesday,   Oct.  7 

Coptic   Saturday,  Oct.  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)   Wednehday,  Nov..  25 

Doric Tuesday.  Dec.  22 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates'. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

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1/  ^*  U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon   Haru Thursday,   October  IB 

America  Mara Tuesday,  November  IO 

Hongkong   Maru Thursday,  December  3 

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For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
4-21   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

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Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Ventura,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Oct.  S,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 
S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu   only,    Oct.    17,    1903, 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


SOCIETY.     . 


The  "Winter  Dances. 

All  the  dates  for  the  principal  winter  dances 
have  now  been  practically  arranged.  The  first 
ball  of  the  season  will  be  given  by  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  Confederacy  at  the  Palace  Hotel 
on  October  23d. 

The  dances  of  the  Friday  Night  Club,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway, 
will  take  place  at  Native  Sons'  Hall  on  De- 
cember 4th.  January  8th,   and   February    12th. 

The  Assembly  dances,  which  are  to  take 
the  place  of  the  former  La  Jeuhesse  balls,  will 
be  given  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  November 
2jd,°  December  31st,  and  January  29th.  The 
patronesses  of  this  club  are  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Martin  Mrs.  W.  H.  McKittrick,  Mrs.  William 
Irwin.  Mrs.  A.  H.  Voorhies.  Mrs.  John  D. 
Spreckels,  Mrs.  McClung.  Mrs.  Bowman  Mc- 
Calla   and  Mrs.  J.  W.  McClung. 

The  Friday  Fortnightly  cotillions,  under  the 
direction  of  Mrs.  Monroe  Salisbury,  will  be 
held  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  November  27th. 
December  30th.  January  22d,  and  February 
5th.  . 

Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  he  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

Mrs.  George  Crocker  has  announced  the 
engagement  of  her  younger  daughter.  Miss 
Emma  Wallace  Rutherford,  to  Mr.  Philip 
Kearney,  son  of  General  John  Watts  Kearney, 
of  New  York. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Georgie  Smith,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hiram  Smith,  and  Mr.  Frederick  Palmer,  of 
New    York. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Therese  Morgan, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  William  P.  Morgan,  and  Mr. 
Norris  King  Davis,  will  take  place  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  mother,  ^2iiClay  Street, 
on  Wednesday  evening  at  nine  o'clock.  Miss 
Ella  Morgan  will  be  her  sister's  maid  of 
horror;  Miss  Genevieve  King,  Miss  Mary 
Josselyn,  and  Miss  Helen  Dean  will  act  as 
bridesmaids ;  and  Mr.  John  Rush  Baird  will 
be  the  best  man. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Wright 
Young,  youngest  daughter  of  Lieutenant- 
General  S.  B.  M.  Young.  U.  S.  A.,  to  Lieu- 
tenant John  Robert  Rigby  Hannay,  of  the 
Twenty-Second  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  will  take 
place  Wednesday  at  four  o'clock  at  St. 
Thomas'  Episcopal  Church.  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  bridesmaids  will  be  Miss  Margaret  Knight, 
daughter  of  Major  John  G.  D.  Knight,  U. 
S.  A.,  Miss  Kelly,  of  Springfield,  O.,  Miss 
Klein,  of  St.  Louis,  Miss  Gertrude  Bayne,  and 
Miss  Edith  Needham,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  H.  H.  Wood  announces  the  marriage 
of  his'  daughter,  Miss  Mabel  Gertrude  Wood, 
to  Lieutenant  Charles  F.  Martin,  Fifth  Cav- 
alry, U.  S.  A.  The  ceremony  took  place  at  the 
American  consulate  in  Nagasaki,  Japan,  on 
August  28th.  Lieutenant  Martin  and  his  bride 
will  return  with  the  Fifth  Cavalry  on  the 
transport  Sheridan,  due  about  October  15th. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Bessie  Godey,  of 
Washington,  D.  C.,  and  Mr.  C.  Frederick 
Kohl,  of  this  city,  will  take  place  this  month 
at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs. 
Godey,  at  Cleveland  Park.  Miss  Claire  Crosby, 
of  New  York,  and  Miss  Jennings  Caroll,  of 
Baltimore,  will  be  the  bridesmaids,  and  Mr. 
Fred  Moody  will  act  as  best  man.  A  wedding 
breakfast  will   follow  the  ceremony. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bessie  Trowbridge 
Ames  and  Mr.  Joseph  Foxton,  of  Riverside, 
will  take  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
sister,  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Newhall,  in  Los  An- 
geles, on  Wednesday.  Mr.  Foxton  and  his 
bride  will  reside  in  Riverside,  and  will  re- 
ceive their  friends  after  November   1st. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marcus  Peirce  Hall  announce 
the  marriage  of  their  daughter,  Miss  Mabelle 
Page  Hall,  to  Mr.  Alpheus  Williams  Clement. 
The  wedding  took  place  in  Dawson  City  on 
September  23d. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Marion  Jones,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  P.  Jones,  and  Mr. 
Robert  D.  Farquhar  took  place  in  New  York 
on  Tuesday.  The  ceremony  was  performed  at 
Grace  Church  at  noon.  Miss  Georgiana  Jones 
was  her  sister's  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr. 
Chester  Aldrich  acted  as  best  man.  A  wedding 
breakfast  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents 
on  East  Seventeenth  Street,  Stuyvesant 
Square,   followed  the  ceremony. 

Cards  announcing  the  wedding  of  Miss 
Emilic  Helen  Richardson  to  Dr.  Edward 
Shepard  Grigsby,  which  occurred  in  Nome, 
Alaska,  on  July  27th,  have  just  been  received. 
Dr.  Grigsby  is  the  uncle  of  Mr.  Silas  Palmer 
and  of  Mrs.  George  Wheaton,  of  Oakland. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Grigsby  expect  to  spend  the 
winter  in  California. 

Mr.  Frederick  Greenwood  gave  a  dinner  in 
the  Red  Room  of  the  Bohemian  Club  on 
Monday  evening  in  honor  of  Captain  Louis 
H.  Bash,  of  the  Seventh  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
who  sailed  with  his  regiment  for  Manila 
on   the  transport  Sherman   on   Friday.    Others 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

There  is  no  substitute 


at  table  were  Captain  Gopdin,  Captain  Ander- 
son, Lieutenant  Babcock,  Lieutenant  Terry, 
Mr.  Noble  Eaton,  Mr.  James  Graham,  Mr. 
Newton  Tharp,  Mr.  Orrin  Peck,  Senator 
Hardin,  of  Nevada,  Mr.  Riley  Hardin,  and 
Captain     Faison.  _  ., 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Van  Fleet  gave  a  tea  on  Friday 
afternoon  at  her 'residence,  2020  Pacific  Ave- 
nue in  honor  of  Mrs.  Sloat  Fassett,  of  New 
York,  and  her  daughter,  Miss  Margaret  bas- 
sett  The  hours  were  from  four  to  seven 
o'clock  and  among  those  who  assisted  m  re- 
ceiving were  Mrs.  F.  H.  Green,  Miss  Margaret 
Bender.  Mrs.  H.  J.  Crocker  Miss  Helen 
Dean  Miss  Emily  Wilson.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Huntington.  Miss  Marion  Huntington,  Miss  , 
Katharine    Dillon,    and    Mrs.    Herrin. 

Mrs     W.    H.    Morrow    gave    a    progressive-  j 
euchre  party  on  Wednesday  at  her  residence,  ; 
-421    Washington   Street,  at   which   she  enter- 
tained   Mrs.    B.   "Hofracker,    Mrs     T.    B     Mc-  | 
Farland    Miss  McFarland.  Mrs.  James  Irvine. 
Mrs     Denver.    Mrs.    Charles    Bandman,    Mrs.  | 
Frank  Bates,  Mrs.  Charles  Fonda,  Mrs.  Ritchie 
Dunn.    Mrs.    Helen    Tay,    Mrs.    Eugene    Free- 
man    Mrs.    Charles    M.    Plum.    Mrs.    John    P. 
Young,    Mrs.    Eugene    Bresse,    Mrs.    Howard 
Holmes,    Mrs.    E.    G.    Randolph     Mrs     Ruby 
Bond     Mrs.    Fennimore,    Mrs.    Albert    Galla- 
tin    Mrs.    L.    Sawyer,    Mrs.    J.    C.    Andrews, 
Mrs    John  Spaunce,   Miss   Leta  Gallatin,   Miss 
Minnie  Martin,  and  Miss  Lillian  Deane.  I 

Miss  Ardella  Mills  and  Miss  Elizabeth 
Mills  eave  an  informal  tea  last  Sunday  after- 
noon from  four  to  six,  at  their  residence  on 
Jackson  and  Devisadero  Streets.  They  were 
assisted  in  receiving  by  their  mother,  Mrs. 
W.  H.   Mills. 

Miss  Belle  Harmes  will  give  a  luncheon 
in  honor  of  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton  on  Wednes- 
day. October  7th.  . 

Mrs  Henry  Wetherbee  will  give  a  charity 
entertainment  at  her  Fruitvale  residence  this 
(Saturday)  evening.  A  musical  programme 
will  be  presented,  several  of  the  singers  ot  the 
Tivoli  taking  part.  Articles  will  be  sold.  *"<* 
refreshments  will  be  served.  Mrs  Wetherbee 
will  be  assisted  in  receiving  by  Mrs.  David 
Edwards,  Mrs.  Howard  Bray,  Mrs.  B.  A. 
Bray  Mrs.  Alfred  Cohen,  Mrs.  G.  B.  Cook. 
Miss' Emma  Grimwood,  Mrs.  George  Hammer, 
Miss  Louise  Thornton,  Miss  Violet  Albright, 
Miss  Sanborn.  Miss  Wellman,  Miss  Laura 
Sanborn,  Miss  Florence  Hush,  Miss  Elsie 
Marwedel  Miss  Chrissie  Taft.  Miss  Alice 
Knowles  Miss  Ruth  Knowles,  Miss  Bessie 
Palmer  Miss  Emma  Mahoney,  Miss  Vira 
Nicholson.  Miss  Gertrude  Allen,  the  Misses 
Crellin    and  Miss  Catharine  Jackson. 

Mrs.'  Washington  Irving  Marion  gave  a  tea 
at  her  residence  on  Bush  Street  on  Thursday 
afternoon  from  three  to  six  o'clock.  .  Those 
who  assisted  her  in  receiving  were  Mrs. 
Edward  Olney,  Mrs.  H.  Edward  Gedge.  Mrs. 
Bernard  Rowley,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Rowley,  Mrs. 
Walter  B.  Honeyman,  of  Portland,  Or..  Mrs. 
Christopher  Bauer,  Miss  Emily  Sankey,  Miss 
Florence  Rochat,  Miss  Emily  Rochat,  Miss 
May^jackson,  and  Miss  Maude  Jackson. 

A  'garden  fete  will  be  g^ven  this  (Saturday) 
afternoon  at  Mrs.  Kent's  residence  at  Kent- 
ville  between  Larkspur  and  Ross  Valley,  in 
aid  of  the  San  Francisco  Presbyterian  Or- 
phanage   and    Farm    at    San    Anselmo. 


ART    NOTES. 


The  Fall  Photographic  Salon. 
The  fall  season  in  the  local  art  world  will  be 
opened  at  the  Mark  Hopkins  Institute  with  a 
Photographic  Salon.  These  characteristic  ex- 
hibitions of  pictorial  photographs,  which  have 
for  their  object  the  embodiment  of  artistic 
thought  and  feeling,  although  of  comparatively 
recent  devising,  now  have  a  recognized  place 
in  the  events  of  the  art  institutes  of  many  of 
the  large  cities  of  the  East  and  Europe.  It  is 
interesting  to  know  that,  according  to  the  pho- 
tographic magazines  which  speak  with  au- 
thority, the  salons  held  in  this  city  under 
the  auspices  of  the  California  Camera  Club 
and  the  San  Francisco  Art  Association,  rank 
third  in  importance  in  the  salons  of  the  world. 
In  addition  to  the  pictures  sent  from  all 
countries  for  the  inspection  of  the  jury,  a 
special  collection  received  from  the  Photo- 
Secessionists,  a  New  York  organization  aim- 
ing at  the  highest  and  most  advanced  forms  of 
camera  art,  will  add  great  interest  to  the 
present  display.  A  first-night  reception  and 
promenade  concert  will  be  held  on  Thursday 
evening,  after  which  the  exhibition  will  re- 
main open  until  Saturday,  October  24th. 


Lectures  on  Italian  Painting. 
Mrs.  Horace  Wilson  will  give  the  first  of  a 
series  of  twelve  lectures  on  Italian  painting 
at  Centurty  Hall,  on  Monday  morning,  at  half 
after  ten  o'clock,  her  subject  being  "  Early 
Christian  Painting."  The  other  lectures  will 
be  given  at  Century  Hall  on  the  succeeding 
Monday  mornings,  at  the  same  hour,  and  will 
conclude  with  a  lecture  on  "  The  Florentine 
School  and  Modern  Italian  Painters."  The 
series  are  under  the  patronage  of  Mrs.  William 
H.  Mills,  Mrs.  Philip  King  Brown.  Mrs.  E.  B. 
Pond,  Mrs.  Horace  Hill,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Wright, 
Mrs.  Henry  E.  Huntington,  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Martin,  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill,  Mrs.  Florence 
Frank,  Mrs.  Samuel  Knight,  Mrs.  De  Greayer, 
and  Miss  Kate  W.  Beaver. 


Willis  E.  Davis,  president  of  the  Hopkins 
Art  Association,  is  planning  to  add  new  inter- 
est to  the  fall  water-color  exhibition  by  in- 
cluding studies  and  sketches  in  all  mediums. 
Such  an  exhibition,  full  of  all  the  vim  and 
vigor  of  the  artist's  pristine  idea,  before  it  is 
worked  up  or  worked  out.  as  sometimes  hap- 
pens, can  not  fail  to  be  a  most  attractive  reve- 
lation. 

The  California  School  of  Design  has  begun 
the  term  with  an  unusually  large  attendance. 
Mrs.  Alice  B.  Chittenden,  who  for  so  many 
years    conducted   the    Saturday    class,    has    re- 


turned after  a  year's  leave  of  absence  devoted 
to  the. study  of  artistic  work  and  conditions  in 
the  cities  of  the  East.  In  view  of  the  un- 
precedented growth  of  the  Saturday  class,  the 
board  of  directors  has  deemed  it  advisable 
to  retain  the  services  of  Miss  Maren  M.  Froe- 
lich,  who  so  ably  conducted  the  class  during 
Mrs.  Chittenden's  absence.  The  new  depart- 
ment of  applied  arts  has  proved  so  success- 
ful that  its  permanency  has  become  assured. 
Practical  wood-carving  will  be  added  to  the 
course  as  the  class  progresses. 

Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest: 

Alexander  Boyd's  estate  has  been  appraised 
at  $1,140,725.64  by  B.  M.  Gunn,  William 
Broderick,  and  Robert  Haight.  The  estate  is 
the  community  property  of  the  deceased  and 
his  wife,  Jean  McGregory  Boyd.  It  consists  j 
wholly  of  realty,  with  the  exception  of 
$2,225.64  in  cash.  The  principal  pieces  of  realty 
are :  On  California  Street,  west  of  Drumm, 
valued  at  $165,000 ;  north-east  corner  of 
Market  and  Front,  $300,000  ;  north-west  corner 
of  Pine  and  Battery,  $100,000;  Front  south 
of  Pine,  $120,000;  Battery,  south  of  Califor- 
nia, $90,000;  Front,  south  of  Pine,  $90,000; 
north-east  corner  of  California  and  Battery, 
$125,000  ;  north-west  corner  of  California  and 
Drumm,   $145,000 

A  petition  for  the  distribution  of  the  estate 
of  the  late  John  W.  Mackay  has  been  filed  by 
Clarence  H.  Mackay,  executor  of  his  father's 
will.  The  petition  is  for  the  distribution  of 
realty  worth  $173,400,  to  Mrs.  J.  W.  Mackay 
and  the  petitioner,  share  and  share  alike. 
The  petition  recites  that  the  realty  involved 
is  all  of  the  estate  of  the  millionaire  that 
was  not  disposed  of  prior  to  his  death. 

The  estate  of  the  late  Mary  J.  Gerberding 
has  been  appraised  at  $17,692.77.  It  consists  of 
$2,027.27  cash,  realty  worth  $14,000,  and 
personal  property  valued  at  $1,665.50. 

The  report  of  the  appraiser  appointed  to 
estimate  the  value  of  the  estate  of  the  late 
Melanie  Langley  has  been  filed.  It  shows  that 
the  deceased  was  worth  $63,950.26.  The  es- 
tate consists  of  $3,560.26  in  cash,  184  shares 
of  stock  in  the  Langley  &.  Michaels  Company, 
worth  $9,200 ;  other  stocks  and  bonds  worth 
$44,340,  and  promissory  notes  for  $6,850. 


The  Earl  and  Countess  of  Lonsdale  were 
guests  at  the  Palace  Hotel  during  the  week. 
They  attended  the  Durbar  in  India,  and, 
during  the  past  few  months,  have  been  visit- 
ing   the    Orient    and    Australia. 


—  A    DESIRABLE     FURNISHED     HOUSE    OF    NINE 

rooms  and  bath,  seivants'  bath,  laundry,  and  garden; 
light  all  around  ;  2  to  40  clock,  2837jackson  bireet. 


—  '"Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,  Halter,  746  Market  St. 


October  5,  1903. 

Pears' 

Why  is  Pears'  Soap — the 
best  in  the  world,  the  soap 
with  no  free  alkali  in  it — 
sold  for  15  cents   a  cake? 

It  was  made  for  a  hos- 
pital soap  in  the  first 
place,  made  by  request, 
the  doctors  wanted  a  soap 
that  would  wash  as  sharp 
as  any  and  do  no  harm 
to  the  skin.  That  means 
a  soap  all  soap,  with  no 
free  al'-ali  in  it,  nothing 
but  soap;  there  is  nothing 
mysterious  in  it.  Cost  de- 
pends on  quantity;  quan- 
tity comes  of   quality. 

Sold  all  over  the  -world. 


ENNETN'S 


BORATED 
TALCUM 


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OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT 

PIANI  STE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 
of  Vienna 

ANNOUNCES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSONS 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 

Phone  Larkin  291. 


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AND 


"Special  Reserve" 

(registered    brands) 

leif  @go  Wgooshi 

To  be  obtained  of  all 
Wine  Merchants  &  Dealers. 


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PACIFIC    COAST    AGENTS. 


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Where  the  work  is  hardest, 

Where  the  need  for  strength  and  reliability  is  greatest. 

There  you  will  always  find  the 

Remington 

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228    Hush   Street,  San  Francisco. 


October  5,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  tor  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room  .THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City— all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


For  (liM-i-  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN   AND  EUROPEAN   PLAN" 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GKOKGE  WARREN"  HOOPER.  Leasee. 

HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  HESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU   CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  and  Jones  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  lieated 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
I  climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
a  most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
|  sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
I    malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
I     Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-hall 
I  hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
I     8  a.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
I     reau,  11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P,  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  =  four  trains   daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

K.  V.  HALTO>T,  Proprietor. 


Golf  at  Hotel  del  Monte 

CALIFORNIA 


The  links,  full  18-hole  course,  are  laid  a 
short  distance  only  from  the  hotel,  and  are 
the  finest  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

They  are  the  only  first-class  grounds  in 
California  available  to  the  public.  The 
greens  are  always  green.  Sunshine  and 
cool  breezes  from  the  sea  are  always  pres- 
ent and  refreshing,  the  weather  never  inter- 
fering. You  can  play  winter  and  summer, 
the  year  round. 

Play  golf  at  Del  Monte,  the  ideal  retreat 
for  all  golfers. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 
Manager. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 

Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the   whereabouts   of   absent   Californians : 

Mrs.  Walter  S.  Martin  and  Mrs.  Burton 
Harrison  have  departed  for  the  East.  Mrs. 
Martin  will  be  the  guest  of  Mrs.  Harrison, 
both  at  New  York  and  at  Newport,  where 
she  will  also  visit  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  Martin. 
Mrs.  Sidney  Smith  and  her  daughters,  Miss 
Helen  Smith  and  Miss  Bertha  Smith,  are  at 
Geneva.  Switzerland. 

Mr.  Theodore  Wo  res  is  on  his  way  to 
Tangiers.  where  he  expects  to  remain  until 
he  leaves  for  New    York,   in   December. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Blair  and  Miss  Jennie  Blair 
were  in  Paris  when  last  heard  from. 

Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels,  Miss  Lillie  Spreck- 
els.  and  Miss  Grace  Spreckels  left  for  the 
East  on  Wednesday  to  be  absent  several 
weeks. 

Mrs.  William  S.  Tevis,  who  has  returned 
from  her  villa  at  Lake  Tahoe,  has  been  pass- 
ing the  past  fortnight  in  San  Francisco,  prior 
to  her  departure  for  Bakersfield.  where  she 
will  remain  during  October. 

Mr.  William  H.  Crocker  will  leave  soon 
for  New  York,  en  route  to  Europe,  where  he 
will  join  Mrs.  Crocker,  who  intends  to  remain 
abroad  a  couple  of  months  longer.  She  is  at 
present  sojourning  in  Lucerne. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Downey  Harvey  and  their 
daughters,  when  last  heard  from,  were  taking 
a  trip  through  Norway. 

Miss  Azalea  Keyes  will  spend  the  winter 
in  Paris. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  I.  Sabin,  Miss  Pearl 
Sabin,  and  Miss  Irene  Sabin  are  again  occu- 
pying their  residence  on  California  Street, 
after  having  spent  the  summer  at  their  coun- 
try place  in  Santa  Clara  County. 

Mrs.  Henry'  T.  Scott  and  Miss  Laura  Mc- 
Kinstry  were  in  Carlsbad  when  last  heard 
from. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  is  the  guest  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.   Peter  Martin  at  Newport. 

Mrs.  William  Kohl  was  in  New  York  dur- 
ing the  week. 

Miss  Florence  Dunham  expects  to  spend 
the  winter  in  Rome. 

Mrs.  C.  A.  Belden  and  Mrs.  Louis  F. 
Monteagle  left  on  Monday  for  New  York, 
where  Mrs.  Monteagle  will  be  Mrs.  Belden's 
guest  for  a  short  time. 

Mrs.  Thurlow  McMullin  and  Mrs.  McNulty 
have  rented  their  house  on  California  Street 
for  the  winter  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Tubbs, 
and  will  spend  the  winter  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  G.  Buckbee  were 
among  the  recent  visitors  at  Byron  Springs. 

Miss  Edith  Pillsburv  has  departed  for  the 
East. 

Miss  Mollie  Dutton  and  her  brother,  Mr. 
Frank  Dutton,  will  depart  this  week  for  New 
York,  en  route  to  Europe. 

Mrs.  Theodore  Tomlinson  has  arrived  from 
the  East  for  a  brief  visit  here. 

A  party  including  Mr.  William  tJourn,  Mr. 
Carter  P.  Pomeroy,  Mr.  Mountford  S.  Wilson, 
Mr.  W.  F.  Berry,  Mr.  Osgood  Hooker,  Mr. 
William  H.  Crocker,  Mr.  Thomas  Robbins,  Mr. 
Lansing  Mizner,  Mr.  Charles  Eells,  and  Mr. 
M.  F.  Michael  visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais 
last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Newhall  were  in  Paris 
when  last  heard  from. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Bonynge,  who  has  resided  for  a 
number  of  years  in  London,  has  Deen  making 
one  of  his  periodical  business  visits  to  San 
Francisco. 

Miss  Bessie  Bowie,  whose  health  has  much 
improved  during  her  sojourn  in  California, 
expects  to  return  to  Paris  on  Octouer  iSth. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Blanchard  Chase  have 
returned  from  "  Stag's  Leap,"  their  country- 
place  in  Napa  Valley,  where  they  spent  the 
summer   months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Asa  R.  Wells  are  residing  at 
1406  Jackson  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Moore,  who  have  re- 
turned from  Menlo  Park,  where  they  have 
been  spending  the  summer,  have  taken  apart- 
ments at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Pease  and  Miss  Maylita 
Pease  have  returned  from  Portland,  where 
they   have   been   spending   the   summer. 

Mrs.  R.  W.  Cry  an,  who  will  spend  the 
winter  with  her  family  in  Rome,  intends  pay- 
ing a  short  visit  before  Christmas  to  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Henry  Matthews,  of  Oakland. 
Mrs.  Cryan  will  return  to  Rome  for  the  holi- 
days. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Milan  Soule  are  at  the  Palace 
Hotel  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  C.  Talbot  were  guests  at  the 
Hotel   Rafael  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  W.  L.  Ashe  was  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Gaston  Ashe  in  Sausalito  during  the  week. 

Mr.  Julius  Kruttschnitt  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Henry  Wetherbee  has  returned  to 
Fruitvale,  after  a  visit  to  Byron  Springs. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  S.  Moody  were  in  New 
York  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  M.  M.  Estee,  wife  of  Judge  Estee, 
who  has  been  visiting  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Charles  Deering,  sailed  for  Honolulu  last 
Saturday. 

Judge  William  B.  Gilbert,  of  Portland,  Or., 
was  at  the   Palace   Hotel   during  the   week. 

Miss  Mary  Ursula  Stone,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Charles  Bertody  Stone,  left  last 
week  to  spend  the  winter  in  the  South.  She 
will  be  the  guest  of  her  brother,  Lieutenant 
Charles  B.  Stone,  Jr.,  at  Fort  McPherson.  Ga. 
Mrs.  E.  B.  Young  has  returned  from  Cherry, 
near  Hayward,  where  she  spent  the  summer. 
Dr.  Clinton  S.  Cushing  will  return  from  his 
European  trip  the  last  of  October. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  O.  Scott  have  taken 
apartments  at  the  corner  of  Sutter  and  Gough 
Streets  for  the  winter. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Dr.  Sisson.  of  Santa  Rosa.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  Gerrard.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  A.  Hun- 
saker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Blaisdell.  Mrs.  Henry 
Mever.  Miss  Ruth  Adler,  Miss  Ruby  Adler, 
Mis's  Collins,  Miss  L.  M.  Bolton.  Mr.  Alfred 
F.   Meyer,  Mr.   L.   Stanford  Ransdell,   Mr.   H. 


Deduky,  Jr.,  Mr.  Frank  S.  Kins,  and  Mr.  Paul 
Leidell. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Moore, 
Mr.  William  Moore,  of  Pittsburg,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  B.  F.  Bullard,  of  Savannah,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  David  Fellars.  of  Detroit,  Mrs.  John  C. 
Statelv  and  Miss  Stately,  of  Chicago,  Mrs. 
Mason,  Miss  Mason,  and  Mr.  J.  E.  Bell,  of 
Sausalito.  Mr.  Arthur  P.  Pugh.  of  Virginia 
City.  Mrs.  Emil  Pohli,  and  Mrs.  Winston 
Anderson. 

Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Rear-Admiral  Henry  Glass,  U.  S.  N..  has 
transferred  his  flag  from  the  New  York  to  the 
Boston.  He  will  again  transfer  his  flag  to 
the  Marblehead  next  week,  on  which  he  will 
remain  until  the  repairs  to  the  .Wit'  York 
are  completed. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  George  H.  Torney, 
deputy  surgeon-general.  U.  S.  A.,  now  on  sick 
leave  here,  has  been  relieved  from  further  duty 
in  the  Philippines,  and  will  assume  charge 
of  the  medical  supply  depot  in  San  Francisco, 
relieving  Lieutenant-Colonel  Louis  M.  Maus, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  will  proceed  to  Fort  Riley.  Kan. 

Rear-Admiral  Louis  KempfT.  U.  S.  N..  and 
his  daughter,  Miss  Cornelia  Kempff.  will, 
upon  the  admiral's  retirement  this  month,  de- 
part for  Texas,  where  they  will  reside. 

Commander  George  L.  Dyer,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
the  Misses  Dyer,  who  arrived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco recently,  en  route  to  Manila,  are  the 
guests  of  Miss  Ida  Gibbons  at  her  residence  on 
Polk    Street. 

Colonel  Johnson  Van  Dyke  Middleton. 
medical  department.  U.  S.  A.,  retired,  and 
Mrs.  Middleton  expect  to  leave  about  the 
middle  of  October  for  a  visit  to  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

Mrs.  Clover,  wife  of  Commander  Richard- 
son Clover,  U.  S.  N.,  and  her  two  daughters 
will  spend  a  few  days  in  town  next  week, 
en  route  from  Napa  to  Santa  Barbara,  where 
they  will  make  a  short  sojourn  before  re- 
turning to  Washington,  D.  C,  for  the  winter. 

Major  Charles  R.  KrauthofY,  U.  S.  A.,  chief 
commissary*  of  the  Department  of  California, 
and  Mrs.  Krauthoff  are  at  The  Colonial  for  the 
winter. 

Lieutenant  John  B.  Murphy,  Artillery  Corps, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  stationed  here  for 
the  past  two  years,  has  been  ordered  for  duty 
with  the  Thirteenth  Field  Battery,  to  Fort 
Russell,  Wyo. 

Mrs.  Ovenshine,  wife  of  Captain  Alexander 
Ovenshine,  Seventh  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  left 
last  Thursday  for  Columbus,  O.,  where  she 
will  spend  the  coming  year. 

Lieutenant  Frederick  B.  Moore,  Twenty- 
Second  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  will  be  on  duty 
at  the  United  States  Branch  Mint,  in  this 
city,  during  the  month  of  October.  He  will 
sail  on  a  transport  for  the  Philippines  the 
latter  part  of  the  month. 

George  A.  Newhall  is  having  trouble  over 
his  plans  for  removing  his  residence  from 
Sutter  Street  and  Van  Ness  Avenue  to  the 
proposed  new  location  on  Pacific  Street,  near 
Fillmore.  There  exists  an  ordinance  which 
forbids  moving  houses  along  boulevards,  and 
on  this  ground  objection  was  made  when  per- 
mission was  asked. 


Mrs.  Albert  P.  Redding,  of  Menlo  Park, 
died  last  Saturday  from  the  effects  of  a  stroke 
of  paralysis.  Before  her  marriage,  she  wai 
a  Miss  Mau,  connected  with  the  well-known 
local   family   of  that   name. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co..  746  Market  Street. 

A.    Hirschman, 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


The  Ladies'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  of  the 
coast  is  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tailor,''  121  Post  St..  S.  F. 


Dancing  Masters 
Recommend  It 


Dancing  Masters  all  over  the  United  States 
recommend  Bowdiear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax. 
It  makes  neither  dust  nor  dirt,  does  not  slick  to 
the  shoes  or  rub  into  lumps  on  the  floor. 
Sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  the  rest. 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  oi  the  nnest 
fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co.,  Langley  &  Michaels, 
and  Redington  &  Co..  San  Francisco:  Kirk, 
Geary  &  Co..  Sacramento;  and  F.  \V.  Braun  & 
Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdiear's  Floor  Wax. 


AS  PRESCRIBED  BY  A  LAW, 
enacted  by  the  last  Legislature, 
the  State  Board  of  Commissioners 
of  Optometry  has  ISSUED  CER- 
TIFICATES TO  THE  UNDER- 
SIGNED FIRflS,  entitling  them 
and  their  employees  to  practice  the 
fitting  of  spectacles  and  eye-glasses: 

HASKELL  &  JONES  OPTICAL  CO., 

243  Grant  Avenue. 


CHINN-BERETTA  OPTICAL  CO., 

991  Market  Street. 


CALIFORNIA  OPTICAL  CO., 

205  Kearny  Street. 


201  Kearny  Street. 


GEO.  H.  KAHN, 

HENRY  KAHN  &  CO.  (The  Ocularium), 

642  Market  Street. 

HOGUE  OPTICAL  CO.,         211  Post  Street. 

HIRSCH  &  KAISER,  7  Kearny  Street. 

STANDARD  OPTICAL  CO., 


217  Kearny  Street. 


BERTLING  OPTICAL  CO., 


16  Kearny  Street. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes, 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  broker,  or  Trans 
portation  Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN     FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


Uniform  Excellence 


The  highest  standard  of  quality 
in  what  is  best  is  uniform  ex 
cellence.     That  of 


Hunter 
Baltimore  Rye 


is  out  of  reach  of  competition. 
Popular  preference,  here,  there, 
everywhere  has  but  one  ver- 
dict for  this  whiskey,  viz  : 

There  Is  No  Fault  To  Find 


HILBERT   MERCANTILE  CO. 

213-215  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Telephone  Exchange  313. 


Importers  and  Dealers  In 

BUILDERS'  HARDWARE 
and  TOOLS, 

66  THIRD  ST.  (Winchester  Hotel  Block)  Cutlery,  Cabinet  Hardware, 

SAIN    FRANCISCO.  Mill  Supplies,  Etc. 


TELEPHONE  BUSH   196 

WRIGHT  HARDWARE  CO. 


SOHMER 
PI  A  HO 
AGENCY. 


WARRANTED     lO     YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

tW~  The  CECILIAN- The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


PIA.KTOS 

308-312  Poll   SI. 

San   Frsnci^io 


224 

Santa  Fe 

ALLJTHE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7.30 


9.30 
9.30 




-*BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7-I5P  ni.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 

M  —  f"  THE     CALIFORNIA     LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,   Bakersfield  6.00   p    m,   Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)    2.15    p    m.      Palace    sleepers    and 
dining  •  car    through    to    Chicago.      No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 
1  A    M— *VALLEY   LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.     The  fastest  train   in  the 
Valley.    Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.     No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.     Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 
,  p  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  DueStock- 
>n  7.10pm.     Corresponding  train  arrives 
.10  a  m. 

M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11.15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7-35  a  ni,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
recti ning-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily-       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
j  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Kafael. 

vVEEK   DAYS— 7.30,  8.00,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  2-3o, 
3,40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.    Saturdays — Extra 
trip  at  r.30  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 7.30,  S.oo,  9.30,   11.00  a  m  ;   1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 
,WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,   9.20,  11.15  a   m; 
1     12.50,  t2-°°.  3-4°i  5-00.  5-2°.  6.25  p  m.    Saturdays— 
.    Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35.  9-20,  11. 15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4-5°. 
5.00,  5.20,  6,10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Les 
San  Fr 
Week 
Days. 

ve 
incisco. 

Sun- 
days. 
7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  pm 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Destination. 

Ar 

San  Fr 
Sun- 
days. 

ive 

iiicisco. 
Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
J  S.oo  a  in 
.  2.30  p  m 
I  5.10  pm 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  ni 
S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7-45"  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  ni 

-  7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  in 

"r  2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 
7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Nova  to 

Petal  u  ma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7.45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  ni 

7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  ni 

■  7.30  a  m 
j  8  00  a  m 
;  2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m" 
"  2.30  p  m 

7.3d  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
,  2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10,20  a  m 

7.25  p  in 

'.  7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  am 
2.30  p  m 
8.00  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  in 

7.25  p  in 

1  8.00  a  m 
«  2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  pm 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  in 
6.20  p  m 

-  8.00  a  m 
'  5.10  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  in 
6.20  p  m 

.  7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  in 

2.3-jp  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  m 
6. 20  p  in 

:  Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  lor  Altniria  and  Mark  West 
•Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Gevsers, 
BooneviTle,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlelt  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside.  Lierley's 
Bucknell's,  Sanhed'riii  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City.  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  West  port,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Lavtonville,  Cummiiigs,  Bell's  Springs, 
[Harris, Olsen-s,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
-and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to   Monday  round-trip   tickets   at   reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building 

H.C.  WHITING,  R.X.RYAN. 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agl. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS.  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART   WEEK    DAYS— 6.45,  f*745 
8-45i  9-45,   11  a.  m.;   12.20,  +1.45,  3.1s.  4.15, 
u  tS-'S.  *6-l5.  6,45.  9.  'M5  P.  M. 
7.45  a.  h.  Week  days  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley 
DEPART  SUNDAY— 7,  fS.  t*y,  t*io,    11,  fn.jo  a. 
m.;  fi2-30.  t*'-3o,  2.35,  *3.5o.  5,  6,  7.30,  g,   11.4s  r.  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    San    Quentin.     Those 
marked    (t)    to   Fairfax,   except  5.15   p.    m.   Saturday. 
Sal  lrday's  3.15  E,  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.1  ■,  a.  iff.  week  days-Cazadero  and  way  stations, 
5  15  p.  M.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted)— Tomalcs 

and  way  stations. 
aJ'fSc-P.    M.   Saturdays— Cazadero    and    way  stations. 
*     ,ndays,  8  a.  m. — Cazadr-      and  u;iv  stations. 
:  mndays,  10  a.  m.— Point  i-=yes  and  intermediate. 
■gal  Holidays — Boats  ami  trains  on  Sunday  time. 
Yickel  Offices — 626  Market;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


He — "And  at  last  they  agreed  to  marry." 
She — "  Yes,  and  it  was  the  last  thing  they 
agreed  on." — Denver  Republican. 

Wife — "  What  do  you  think  of  my  picture?" 
Husband — "  It  will  do.  Evidently  a  snap- 
shot, my  dear."  "Why?"  "Your  mouth  is 
shut." — Ex. 

Alas:  Miss  de  Muir  —  "Were  you  ever 
hypnotized,  Mr.  Hector?"  Hector  (sadly) 
— '■  That  is  my  excuse  for  being  married." — 
Town   Topics. 

"  The  expedition  endured  the  extremest 
hardship."  "  Yes ;  I  understand  they  were 
locked  in  the  ice  during  two  lecture  seasons." 
— Detroit  Fress  Press. 

Wasted  no  time  :  "  The  manager  says  he 
engaged  the  forty  chorus-girls  in  twenty 
minutes."  "  Gracious,  but  he's  quick  at 
figures." — Town   Topics. 

A  magnate:  "Is  he  very  rich?"  "Rich? 
Why,  he's  so  rich  he  daren't  look  twice  at  a 
girl  for  fear  she'll  bring  a  breach  of  promise 
suit." — Philadelphia  Ledger. 

Evidence  of  an  eye-witness:  Qitest-^-"  Why 
do  you  believe  in  second  sight,  major?"  Major 
Darby  (in  an  impressive  whisper) — "Because 
I  fell  in  love  at  first  sight." — Punch. 

The  lady — "  So  your  brother  fell  at  Vicks- 
burg,  my  poor  man.  Was  it  a  cruel  bullet 
that  did  the  work?"  The  tramp — "  No'm  : 
he  fell  off  a  freight  car." — Chicago  Daily 
News. 

Not  wasting  time :  "  What's  the  matter 
with  old  Fred?"  asks  one  workman.  "  "E's 
got  a  splinter  in  his  'and."  says  another. 
"Why  don't  'e  pull  it  out?"  "Wot!  In  his 
dinner    hour!      Not    likely!" — Tit-Bits. 

The  imposter:  "  So  the  audience  jumped  on 
the  pianist,  broke  both  his  legs  and  both  arms, 
four  ribs,  cracked  his  skull,  and  swung  him 
up  to  a  pole."  "  And  by  that  time,  1  sup- 
pose, he  was  a  finished  musician." — Balti- 
more Nezvs. 

"Won't  you  have  another  biscuit?"  asked 
the  hostess.  "  No,  thank  you,"  she  replied  ; 
"  really  I  don't  know  how  many  I  have  eaten 
already."  "  I  do,"  said  little  Robbie,  eagerly  ; 
"  you've  ate  seven.  I've  been  counting." — 
Toum  and  Country. 

A  change  of  luck:  Sportieigh — "  I  won 
fifty  dollars  on  a  horse-race,  old  fellow,  and 
lost  it  before  I  left  the  track."  Clubleigli— 
"  How's  that?"  Sportieigh — "  I  rubbed  up 
against  a  pickpocket  who  was  picking  win- 
ners."— Tozvn  Topics. 

Mrs.  Stubbs — "John,  I  don't  believe  the  man 
you  gave  the  dime  to  is  really  blind."  Mr. 
Stubbs — "  Why  not,  my  dear?"  Mrs.  Stubbs 
— "  I  heard  him  whisper  to  his  partner  that 
he  was  going  down  the  street  to  get  an  eye- 
opener." — Chicago  Daily  News. 

The  princes  in  the  tower  were  trying  to 
fathom  their  uncle's  motive.  "  But  why  do 
you  suppose  he  wants  to  murder  us?"  asked 
Edward.  "  I  don't  know,"  returned  his 
brother,  "  unless  somebody  has  been  trying  to 
tell  him  some  of  the  bright  things  we  get 
off." — Harper's  Bazar. 

President  Roosevelt's  announcement  that  he 
will  write  a  history  of  Texas  when  he  retires 
from  the  Presidency  has  led  some  uninformed 
people  to  remark  that  Texas  will  object  to  it. 
Texas  will  not  object,  and  will  show  by  its 
vote  next  year  that  it  will  be  willing  for  him 
to  begin  work  on  the  history  as  early  as 
March    5,    1905. — Dallas   News. 

Judge — "  You  say  you  got  that  black  eye 
as  the  result  of  a  blow  by  the  defendant?" 
Prosecuting  witness — "  Yes,  sir."  Judge — 
"  Tell  me  the  circumstances  under  which  he 
struck  you?"  Prosecuting  witness  —  "This 
man   met  me  as  I   was   coming  along   Calvert 

Street   whistling   '  Hiawatha,'    and "  Judge 

"  That'll  do.  The  prisoner  is  dismissed." — 
Baltimore  American. 

Tommy  Tucker  had  been  hurt  while  per- 
forming the  act  he  called  flipping  a  freight 
train.  "Will  he  get  well,  doctor?"  dis- 
tractedly asked  Mrs.  Tucker ;  "  is  he  out  of 
danger?"  "He  will  get  well,  madam,"  re- 
plied the  surgeon,  "  but  I  can't  say  he  is  out 
of  danger.  He  will  probably  do  the  same 
thing  again  the  first  chance  he  has." — Chi- 
cago  Tribune. 

Catching  up:  "I  suppose  a  fellow  ought 
to  have  a  good  deal  of  money  saved  up  be- 
fore he  thinks  of  marrying."  "  Nonsense ! 
I  didn't  have  a  cent  when  I  started,  and  I'm 
getting  along  fine  now."  "That  so?  In- 
stallment plan?"  "Yes;  and  we've  only  been 
married  and  keeping  house  for  a  year,  and 
I've  got  the  engagement  ring  all  paid  for 
now." — Philadelphia   Press. 

"  No,  Mr.  Spoonamore,  I  never  could  be 
happy  with  a  man  of  your  habits."  "  My 
habits.  Miss  Pimmie !  What  do  you  know  of 
my  habits,  may  I  ask?"  "  You  haven't  been 
in  this  room  more  than  half  an  hour,  and 
in  that  time  you  have  sat  on  my  sofa  pillows, 
leaned  your  head  back  against  my  rocking- 
chair  tidy,  and  put  your  feet  on  my  embroid- 
ered   foot-stool." — Chicago    Tribune. 

—  Sicilian's  Soothing  Powders  claim  10  be  pre 
ventative  as  well  as  curative  The  claim  has  been 
recognized  for  over  fifty  years. 


"  And  so  they  are  married.  Do  you  think 
they  will  be  happy?"  "They  ought  to  be. 
He  has  no  friends,  and  she  has  no  relatives." 
— Ex. 


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ford,  Vlsalla,  Bakersfield,  Loe 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
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Sau  taCruz, Pacific  Grove, S'lHnas. 
San  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 
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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Stirring  Times  in  Old  England — Great  Political 
Crisis — Events  Which  Have  Lead  Up  to  the  Present  Situa- 
tion— Preferential  Tariffs  the  Issue — The  King's  Unsus- 
pected Capacity — The  Case  of  Captain  Carter  Revived — 
Tulare  Has  a  Bond  Fire — Late  Phases  of  the  Postal  De- 
vice Investigation — Mules,  Zebras,  and  Zebrulas — The  For- 
eign Invasion  of  Our  Shores — The  Germans  to  Fight  Us? — 
The  Great  Goat  Island  Grab  Redevivus — Where  is 
Diogenes  With  His  Lantern? — Target  Practice  With  the 
Big  Guns — A  New  Use  for  Petroleum — An  Important  De- 
cision Regarding  Divorce — The  Danbury  Boycott 225- 

tamboul  Seen  from  the  Sea:  Picturesque  Site  of  Constanti- 
nople—  Wooden  Houses  and  Fire  Risks  —  Stamboul  a 
Gigantic  Chinatown — Footmen  Have  Xo  Rights — Where 
Did  You  See  the  Dardanelles?     By  Jerome  Hart 

RE  End  of  the  Game:  Sidelights  on  an  Election  in  Long 
Valley   Township.      By   George   S.    Evans 

he  First  Elopement:  From  the  Annals  of  Alta  California. 
By  Katherine  Chandler 

iDtviDiFALlTtES:  Notes  About  Prominent  People  All  Over  the 
World    

wo  Popular  Stage  Beauties:  Maxine  Elliott's  Hit  in  Clyde 
Fitch's  Play,  "  Her  Own  Way  " — Incidents  of  Her  First 
Night    in    New    York — Lily    Langtry    in    "  Mrs.    Deering*s 

I      Divorce."     By  "  Flaneur  " 

There  a  Catholic  "  Peril  "    

he  Santa  Fe  Trail.    By  Sharlot  M.  Hall 

HE  Original  Evangeline:  Wherein  She  Differs  from  Long- 
fellow's Heroine   

iterary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications   231- 

ecent  Verse:  "King  Eaby,"  by  Laurence  Alma-Tadema; 
"  Naughtiness, "  by  Florence  Wilkinson;  "  The  Sandman," 
by  Marie  Van  Vorst;  "  The  Lost  Child,"  by  Fanny  Kemble 
Johnson   

ram.'.:     "  Under    Two    Flags "    at    the    Grand    Opera    House — 

"  Otello  "  at  the  Tivoli.      By  Josephine  Hart   Phelps 

age  Gossip    

unity  Fair:  New  York's  "  Four  Hundred "  Criticised  by 
Bronson  Howard — He  Says  Women  Drink  Too  Much  Wine 
,  — Constant  Scandal  About  Society  Women  Being  In- 
toxicated— Drinking  in  the  Olden  Time — Empress  Dowager 
of  China  Takes  to  European  Cooking — Cooperative 
Housekeeping    Experiment — Costly    Elk-Hunting    in    Sweden 

— Scraps   Over    Headgear   at    Stanford 

oaVETTES:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
John  A.  Logan  and  the  Venerable  Liar — Four  Millionaire 
*'  Runts " — An  Anecdote  of  the  Musical  Conductor  Who 
Saw  Ghosts — When  Stevenson  Played  Poker — Thackeray 
and  the  Tuft-Hunter — Kipling  as  a  Sign-Painter — H.  J.  W. 

Dam's  Experience  with  an  Angry  Audience 

IE  Tuneful  Liar:  "To  Shakespeare,"  "The  Universal 
Target,"     "  A     Latter-Day     Lullaby,"      "  Football      Days." 

The    Eternal    Feminine  " 

ciety:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 238- 

e  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits    of    the    Day 


Mever,  probably,  in  the  whole  history  of  constitutional 
ajtiNc  government  has  so  extraordinary  a  cri- 

*es  in  sis  come  about  as  that  with  which   we 

i  England.  are  confr0nted  to-day,"  exclaimed  a 
eat  London  journal  upon  Chamberlain's  resignation. 
vo  weeks  now  have  passed,  and  the  situation  is,  if 
ything,  more  complex,  the  feeling  more  intense — 
on  the  one  hand  profound  apprehension,  upon  the 
ier  eager  hope  that  the  British  Empire  is  about  to 


enter  upon  a  new  era  in  its  history.  Already  the  pre- 
mier has  declared  that  he  is  ready  "  to  reverse,  annul, 
and  altogether  delete  "  a  policy  that  England  has  pur- 
sued for  three-score  years.  The  late  address  of  Cham- 
berlain at  Glasgow  is  said  to  have  been  awaited  by 
Englishmen  with  more  intense  curiosity  and  deeper 
concern  than  the  words  of  any  public  man  whatsoever 
within  the  memory  of  this  generation.  No  wonder  that 
the  attention  of  the  whole  world  is  attracted  to  so  ex- 
traordinary a  national  crisis. 

At  the  risk  of  repeating  that  which  may  be  familiar 
to  some,  in  the  hope  of  clarifying  the  situation  for 
more,  let  us  briefly  sketch  the  course  of  events  leading 
up  to  the  present  critical  moment. 

For  a  long  time  the  relations  between  England  and 
her  colonies  have  been  growing  more  and  more  tenu- 
ous. Canada  and  Australia  have  each  become  increas- 
ingly independent — less  dependent  upon  England.  It 
became  apparent  to  Mr.  Chamberlain — whom  they  are 
now  calling  "  the  greatest  living  Imperialist  " — that 
something  must  be  done  if  the  British  Empire  were  to 
have  national  solidity,  and  not  be  an  aggregation  of 
loosely  connected  countries,  liable  to  fall  apart  in  time 
of  stress.  So  the  conference  of  colonial  premiers  was 
called  last  year  to  decide  upon  a  plan  of  action.  It 
failed;  no  plan  could  be  agreed  upon.  But  the  great 
problem  how  to  achieve  national  unity  remained. 

Meanwhile,  England  herself  has  become  disturbed  by 
internal  troubles.  As  Mr.  Chamberlain  points  out, 
exports  are  stationary  in  amount  and  declining  in  char- 
acter. England  receives  from  her  competitors  a  larger 
proportion  of  manufactured  goods,  and  sends  them  i 
larger  proportion  of  raw  materials,  than  formerly.  One 
by  one  markets  are  closed  by  hostile  tariffs.  England's 
supremacy  in  many  lines  has  either  been  wrested  from 
her  or  is  gravely  menaced. 

It  was  these  two  factors — the  weakening  bond  be- 
tween England  and  her  colonies,  the  decline  of  Eng- 
land's industrial  interests — that  spurred  Mr.  Chamber- 
lain to  renewed  effort.  Last  May,  he  promulgated  his 
scheme  of  preferential  tariff's — a  scheme  utterly  antago- 
nistic to  England's  fixed  free-trade  policy,  and  one 
which,  in  a  few  short  months,  has  not  only  disrupted 
the  ministry,  but  has  stirred  the  electorate  to  a  pitch 
of  excitement  almost  unparalleled  in  English  political 
annals. 

Mr.  Chamberlain,  till  lately,  has  failed  to  be  con- 
crete. He  has  dealt  much  in  generalities,  glittering  and 
otherwise.  But  in  his  Glasgow  speech  on  Tuesday  he 
came  down  to  facts  and  figures.  He  proposes  a  tariff 
on  foreign  wheat  of  eight  cents  a  bushel,  but  none  on 
wheat  from  the  colonies;  a  still  larger  but  unspecified 
tax  on  flour;  a  five  per  cent,  tax  on  foreign  meat  and 
dairy  products,  excluding  bacon;  also  a  tax  on  wines 
and  liquors.  On  manufactures  he  would  place  a  tariff 
of  ten  per  cent.,  and  would  remove  the  larger  part  of 
the  tax  on  tea,  sugar,  coffee,  and  cocoa. 

The  taxing  of  manufactured  imports  ns  expected  to 
prevent  the  dumping  in  England  of  the  surplusage  of 
American  and  German  manufacturers.  The  tariff  is 
also  expected  to  give  England  a  weapon — Mr.  Balfour 
.says  "  a  loaded  revolver  " — for  negotiating  reciprocity 
treaties.  The  vast  industrial  progress  of  the  United 
States  is  believed  by  Mr.  Chamberlain  to  be  due  (i)  to 
the  great  internal  free  trade,  amounting  to  more  than 
three  billions  annually,  and  (2)  to  our  tariff  on  foreign 
imports.  Something  like  the  same  industrial  relations 
between  the  divisions  of  the  British  Empire  as  between 
the  States  of  the  Republic;  and  between  the  Empire  as 
a  whole  and  the  rest  of  the  world,  as  between  the  Re- 
public as  a  whole  and  the  world,  is  what  Mr.  Chamber- 
lain would  fain  achieve. 

When  Mr.  Chamberlain  submitted  his  grandiose  plan 


to  the  country  last  May.he  was  a  member  of  the  Cabinet, 
part  of  whom  soon  ranged  themselves  against  him. 
The  premier  himself  declared  that  his  was  an  "open 
mind";  that,  therefore,  he  could  neither  ask  Mr.  Cham- 
berlain nor  his  opponents  in  the  Cabinet  to  resign. 
Needless  to  say,  the  situation  has  for  months  been  one 
almost,  if  not  absolutely,  without  precedent.  It  has  ended 
with,  what  is  practically  a  triumph  for  Chamberlain. 
For,  says  the  Pall  Mall  Gazette,  "  he  has  won  more 
than  any  one  dared  to  dream  of  six  months  ago.  The 
policy  of  fiscal  reform  has  advanced  from  the  region 
of  the  practically  impossible  until  one  portion  of  it. 
the  right  to  retaliate  upon  the  foreigner,  has  been  defi- 
nitely adopted  by  the  prime  minister  as  the  principle 
for  which  he  will  ask  a  mandate  of  the  country."  This 
half  acceptance  by  Balfour  of  the  Chamberlain  scheme 
resulted  in  the  resignation  of  the  free-trade  members 
of  his  Cabinet.  Because  it  was  only  a  half  acceptance, 
Chamberlain  also  thought  it  best  to  go.  "  The  extremes 
have  gone,  the  means  remain."  But  nothing  is  clearer 
than  that  the  premier  and  Chamberlain,  in  essentials, 
are  thoroughly  in  sympathy,  and  while  the  latter,  now 
free  and  unfettered,  is  devoting  all  his  persuasive  pow- 
ers of  argument  to  convincing  the  people  that  fiscal 
reform  is  the  one  salvation  of  the  Empire,  Balfour  will 
cautiously  follow  the  trend  of  public  opinion,  as  he  has 
done  in  the  past,  only  modifying  his  position  from  time 
to  time,  when  convinced  of  the  political  wisdom  of  such 
a  course.  In  short,  Balfour  is  Chamberlain's  silent 
partner.  In  view  of  the  appointment  of  Austen  Cham- 
berlain to  the  post  of  chancellor  of  the  exchequer,  the 
separation  of  the  premier  and  his  colonial  secretary 
has  been  wittily  described  as  "  a  collusive  divorce,  in 
which  Mr.  Balfour  retains  the  custody  of  the  child." 

The  most  striking  phase  in  the  reconstruction  of  the 
Cabinet  is  the  intervention  of  King  Edward.  That 
unsuspected  capacity  which  the  king  showed  in  bring- 
ing about  more  friendly  relations  than  ever  before  be- 
tween France  and  England,  in  effecting  an  alliance  with 
Portugal,  and  in  gaining  the  good  will  of  his  Catholic 
subjects  by  his  unprecedented  visit  to  the  Pope — this 
capacity,  we  say,  is  again  exhibited  in  the  Cabinet  cri- 
sis. The  king  is  not  partisan.  He  intervened  only  in 
the  interests  of  efficiency.  But  his  bold  act  has  aston- 
ished the  English  public.  A  sovereign  determined  not 
only  to  reign  but  to  govern  is  a  factor  in  affairs  whose 
influence  no  one  may  calculate. 

The  story  runs  that  when  Balfour  came  to  Balmoral 
with  a  cut  and  dried  scheme  of  reconstruction,  the 
king  said:  "  What  do  you  propose  to  do  regarding  the 
war  office?"  Balfour,  though  much  disconcerted,  re- 
plied that  he  thought  the  matter  of  change  not  pressing. 
The  king  retorted  that,  as  he  was  in  Austria  when  the 
war  commission's  report  was  published,  he  read  the 
revelations  exploited  by  the  Continental  press,  an.! 
was  "  inexpressibly  shocked,"  and  that,  besides,  he  was 
exposed  to  "  much  not  wholly  palatable  banter  from  im- 
perial and  royal  personages  at  the  Austrian  court." 
Therefore,  he  wanted  somebody  put  in  the  place  of 
Broderick.    And  Balfour  acquiesced. 

It  is  too  early  to  say  that  the  Balfour  ministry  will 
weather  the  storm,  or  that  Chamberlain  will  gain  the 
ends  upon  which  he  has  staked  his  political  all.  But  at 
least,  in  furtherance  of  his  inspiring  idea  of  a  close- 
knit  ejnpire,  Chamberlain  has  won  the  attention  of  the 
nations,  and  is  the  most  striking  political  figure,  without 
office  or  title,  in  the  world  to-day. 

But  the  United  States  is  interested  in  Chamberlain 
not  alone  because  he  is  a  picturesque  and  admirable 
statesman.  Meat,  flour,  wheat — these  products  upon 
which  Chamberlain  proposes  to  put  a  tariff,  are  our 
chief  exports  to  England.  What  will  be  the  utK 
on  our  commerce,  on  our  tariff  policy,  on  our  in 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


October  12, 


1903. 


Boycott 
Legal? 


progress.,  if  he  succeed  ?  He  calls  our  tariff  "  an 
abomination,  it  is  so  immoderate,  unreasonable  " — shall 
we  have  to  lower  it  at  the  flourish  of  Mr.  Balfour's 
"loaded  revolver?"  Shall  we  be  compelled  to  abate 
a  little  of  our  self-sufficiency?  Or  shall  we,  undis- 
turbed, go  merrily  on  our  way?  These  are  pertinent 
questions.  It  is  time  we  began  to  think  about  their 
answers. 

A  damage-suit  against  a  labor  union,  which  promises  to  be- 
come of  national  importance,  is  in  progress 
at  Danbury,  Conn.  A  firm  of  hatters,  D.  E. 
Loewe  &  Co.,  was  boycotted  by  the  union  be- 
cause it  refused  to  hire  only  union  men. 
Theirs  was  an  "  open  shop."  In  course  of  time,  the  boycott, 
which  was  national  in  scope,  seriously  injured  the  firm's 
business.  It  has  therefore  now  brought  suit  against  the 
officers  of  the  United  Hatters  of  North  America,  the  officers 
of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor,  and  two  hundred  and 
fifty  union  hatters  as  individuals,  both  under  the  State  laws 
relating  to  unlawful  conspiracy,  and  under  the  Sherman  anti- 
trust act.  Real  estate  assessed  at  $128,000,  and  bank  accounts 
aggregating  $52,000,  have  been  covered  by  attachments  amount- 
ing to  $60,000.  The  case  is  now  being  heard  before  the  su- 
perior court.  In  the  prosecution,  Loewe  &  Co.  are  backed  by 
the  American  Anti-Boycott  Association,  and  it  is  proposed  to 
carry  the  case  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  if  neces- 
sary. The  two  fundamental  questions  that  the  court  will  have 
to  answer  are  these. 

1.  Are  the  members  of  a  voluntary,  unincorporated  asso- 
ciation responsible  for  the  acts  of  its  officers  and  agents? 

2.  Is  boycotting  a  man's  trade  beyond  the  border  of  his  own 
State  a  criminal  offense  under  the  Sherman  anti-trust  law? 

An  affirmative  decision  on  either  of  these  questions  will 
clearly  be  of  great  importance.  The  moral  effect  of  such  de- 
cision upon  the  conservative,  property-owning  members  of 
unions  will  also  be  large.  This  phase  of  the  matter  is  well 
set  forth  by  the  president  of  the  anti-boycott  association,  who 
writes : 

If  the  personal  responsibility  of  the  members  of  an  associa- 
tion can  be  established,  on  the  principle  of  the  law  of  agency, 
it  will  have  a  far  greater  deterrent  influence  on  all  property- 
holders  in  the  union  than  any  attack  on  the  treasury  of  the 
organization.  There  are  almost  always  a  large  number  of  the 
members  of  the  union  who  are  property-holders ;  and  these 
constitute  the  intelligent,  conservative,  and  law-abiding  element. 
When  such  men  are  confronted  with  individual  responsibility 
for  the  acts  of  lawless  leaders  and  officers,  they  will  see  the 
alternative  that  confronts  them — reform  the  union  or  sever 
their  connection  with  it.  Without  the  cooperation  of  such 
thrifty  citizens,  organized  labor  can  never  command  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  the  American  people. 

Employers  and  unionists  alike  are  everywhere  vitally  con- 
cerned in  this  suit. 


Captain  Carter 
Revived. 


The  struggle  of  Captain  Oberlin  M.  Carter  to  avoid  punish- 
ment for  robbing  the  government  attracted 
attention  throughout  the  whole  country  a 
few  years  ago.  The  case  aroused  interest, 
not  only  from  the  large  amount  that  Carter 
was  accused  of  having  stolen,  but  also  on  account  of  the  un- 
usual pressure  that  was  brought  to  bear  in  his  favor.  Carter 
was  supervising  officer  in  charge  of  the  government  improve- 
ments on  Savannah  River  and  adjoining  waters,  and,  during 
a  period  of  fourteen  years,  he  controlled  expenditures  of 
$7,000,000.  By  failing  to  advertise  for  bids  he  succeeded 
in  having  all  the  contracts  but  one  covering  this  expenditure 
given  to  the  Atlantic  Contracting  Company,  composed  of  two 
contractors,  Greene  and  Gaynor,  and  himself.  It  was  claimed 
that,  in  this  way,  he  secured  $2,000,000  for  himself.  After  a 
sensational  trial,  he  was  convicted  and  sentenced  to  a  term  at 
Fort  Leavenworth.  His  term  will  expire  on  November  28th, 
and  at  that  time  Carter  promises  to  reopen  the  whole  case. 
During  his  imprisonment,  the  government  officials  unearthed 
$750,000  of  his  property,  which  was  seized.  The  officials 
claim  that  they  can  prove  this  to  be  a  part  of  the  embezzled 
funds.  Carter,  on  the  other  hand,  claims  that  it  is  not,  and 
threatens  to  sue  the  government  for  its  recovery.  At  the  same 
time,  he  makes  a  statement  that  promises  new  developments 
in  the  case.  He  declares  that  he  has  been  a  victim  of  a  con- 
spiracy of  Greene  and  Gaynor.  These  two  are  now  in  Canada, 
and  have  successfully  resisted  all  attempts  at  extradition. 
Efforts  are  now  being  made  in  London  to  secure  their  extra- 
dition, and  if  these  are  successful  it  is  assumed  that  Carter 
will  attempt  to  secure  vindication  upon  their  return.  His 
social  standing  has  not  suffered,  for  it  is  reported  that  society 
leaders  in  Washington,  New  York,  and  Savannah  propose  to 
make  his  release  the  occasion  for  an  ovation. 


The  Whlk 
in  Local 
Politics. 


The  Chronicle  announces  editorially,  under  scare-heads,  that 
this  is  a  "  stinkpot  political  campaign,"  and 
it  must  therefore  be  so.  That  journal  gets 
thus  excited  because  the  Exanmier  has  been 
busily  engaged  during  the  week  in  hunting 
up  and  printing  the  disagreeable  things  that  the  Call  and 
Chronicle  once  said  about  several  of  the  present  Republican 
candidates.  It  is  very  irritating.  The  Examiner,  so  far,  has 
discovered  that  one  Republican  supervisoral  candidate  and 
the  nominee  for  sheriff  were  denounced  by  the  Chronicle 
as  boodlers;  that  two  supervisors  once  conducted  side-door 
saloons ;  and  that  another  was  once  charged  with  receiving 
stolen  goods.  The  Republican  papers  have  "  come  back  "  by 
charging  the  Examiner  with  inconsistency  in  denouncing  Lane 
last  year  as  a  boss's  candidate,  while  supporting  him  now — 
"  which  nobody  can  deny." 

Quite  the  sensation  of  the  week  was  the  resignation  of 
Countryman  and  Son  from  the  Republican  campaign  com- 
mittee. The  alleged  reason  for  the  former's  retirement  is 
dissatisfaction  witi  the  nomination  of  Percy  V.  Long  for  city 
attorney,  and  the  "  turning  down  "  of  Judge  Harrison.  That 
they   may  have  taken  some   votes  with  them   is  probable.     It 


seems  also  probable,  as  the  Argonaut  pointed  out  last  week, 
that  Mr.  Crocker  lost  not  a  few  votes  when  Ruef  was  forced 
out.  The  Bulletin,  which  is  rooting  for  Lane,  and  this  week 
sent  its  phrenologist  to  interview  him,  estimates  that  he  took 
2,500  votes  into  the  Schmitz  camp.  At  the  same  time,  the 
mayor  in  a  speech  on  Monday  night,  made  the  interesting 
statement  that  "  the  fight  is  between  Henry  J.  Crocker  and 
the  labor  candidate,  and  not  between  Franklin  K.  Lane  and 
myself.     Lane  is  not  to  be  considered  in  this  contest." 

The  line  of  argument  employed  by  the  Republican  papers 
has  so  far  not  been  very  full  of  novelty.  Their  main  argu- 
ment against  Lane  is  that  he  is  not  a  business  man.  The 
Chronicle  argues  by  not  reporting  its  opponent's  political 
meetings.  Thus,  it  gave  only  a  column  to  the  grand  ratifica- 
tion of  the  Democrats  at  the  Alhambra  Wednesday  night, 
while  the  Call  gave  the  meeting  a  page,  and  the  Examiner 
three  of  them.  We  thought  the  Chronicle  professed  to  be  a 
ueu'.spaper.  Surely  Democratic  rallies  are  interesting  affairs, 
even  to  Republicans. 

The  mayor  has  been  hearing  this  week  about  the  enormity 
of  his  conduct  in  campaigning  for  Hearst  in  the  New  York 
Tenderloin.  The  Call  avers  that  he  stayed  at  the  Waldorf- 
Astoria  while  there,  and  accordingly  is  not  the  sort  of  man 
the  hornj'-handed  workingman  should  vote  for.  Evidently 
we  shall  hear  more  of  this.  Strangely  enough,  however,  the 
Republican  papers  are  saying  little  about  acts  of  the  mayor, 
for  which  rightly  or  wrongly  they  criticised  him  at  the  time. 
There  was  the  Mershon  affair  with  which  Frank  Schmitz 
was  mixed  up,  the  case  of  Parry  and  the  colt,  and  the  alleged 
discharge  of  competent  men  to  make  room  for  "  favor- 
ites,"   etc. 

Probably  the  silence  in  these  particulars  is  what  has  led 
that  doughty  San  Francisco  champion  of  Tom  Johnson  and 
the  Single  Tax,  the  Star,  to  believe  that  there  is  existent  a 
tremendous  and  really  shocking  conspiracy  to  loot  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  Star  is  very  much  worked  up  about  it,  and  its  novel 
theories  are  at  least  interesting.  It  avers  the  bad  cor- 
porations control  both  Republican  and  Union  Labor  parties; 
that  their  candidate  for  mayor  is  Schmitz;  that  their  candi- 
dates for  supervisors  are  the  Republican  list ;  that  Crocker  was 
put  up  to  be  defeated;  that  Ruef  engineered  the  whole  deal; 
that  his  falling  out  with  the  Republican  committee  was  a  fake; 
that  the  Call  and  Chronicle  "  know  the  truth  about  the  in- 
famies of  the  Schmitz  administration,  but  not  a  word  of  it  do 
they  print";  and  that  they  know  that  $100,000  of  corporation 
money  is  ready  for  use  to  reelect  the  mayor.  Finally,  the  Star 
insinuates  that  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company  has  already 
furnished  thousands  to  pay  for  Schmitz  buttons,  electric 
signs,  banners,  posters,  etc. 

Some  figures  from  previous  elections  may  be  interesting 
just  now  for  purposes  of  comparison.  The  vote  when  Schmitz 
was  elected  was  :  Schmitz,  21,776  ;  Wells,  17,718  ;  Tobin,  12,647. 
But  since  that  time  the  population  of  San  Francisco  has 
increased,  so  that  while  only  53,493  votes  were  cast  in  that 
election,  60,067  were  cast  for  governor  last  fall,  and  a  stilt 
larger  vote — say  62,000 — may  be  expected  this  time.  Those 
who  believe  that  Pardee  was  "  knifed,"  and  for  that  reason, 
rather  than  because  Lane  was  popular,  ran  behind  his  ticket, 
point  to  the  vote  on  the  minor  offices  as  evidence  that  San 
Francisco  is  normally  Republican.  The  vote  for  attorney- 
general,  both  candidates  for  which  office  lived  outside  the  city, 
was  28,218  against  24,803,  a  Republican  majority  of  3,400. 

The  failure  of  the  Geary  Street  proposition  by  a  vote  of 
14,381  to  10,955  is  a  good  omen  for  Crocker. 


It  used  to  be  as  undisputed  as  the  law  of  gravitation  that  the 
zebra   was   untamable.      The   belief   was   even 

„  '  crystallized    by    the    epigrammatist    into    the 

Zebras,  and  ,  ,.    ,         ,       ,  ,  ,     , 

Zebrulas  phrase,       the    desolate    treedom    of    the    wild 

ass."  But,  like  many  other  popular  beliefs, 
this  concerning  the  zebra  has  been  knocked  in  the  head  by 
facts.  The  British  Government  is  experimenting  with  the 
zebra  for  draught  purposes,  and  is  also  breeding  European 
mares  to  African  zebra  stallions.  The  progeny,  which  is  called 
the  "  zebrula,"  is  said  to  be  admirably  suited  for  rough  trans- 
port work,  because  of  its  hard  hoofs,  its  liveliness,  its  intelli- 
gence, and  its  good  nature.  In  the  latter  trait,  it  surpasses  the 
mule.  No  one  has  ever  questioned  the  intelligence  of  the  mule 
as  compared  with  the  horse,  but  the  mule  is  not  cheerful.  He 
is  distinctly  sombre,  not  to  say  sinister,  in  temper.  There  are 
those  who  maintain  that  it  is  impossible  to  drive  mules  without 
profanity.  Stonewall  Jackson,  the  famous  Southern  soldier, 
was  a  godly  man,  and  permitted  no  profanity  in  his  presence. 
But  he  made  an  exception  in  the  matter  of  mules.  No  one  ever 
heard  Stonewall  Jackson  rebuke  his  mule-drivers  for  sweariny 
when  a  baggage  train  was  stalled.  True,  he  was  pious,  but 
he  wanted  to  get  where  the  enemy  was. 

These  experiments  of  the  British  Government  in  hybridizing 
are  not  only  interesting,  but  they  may  prove  useful.  Equine 
hybrids  beat  horses  for  some  purposes.  Not  many  mules  are 
seen  in  California,  but  throughout  the  West  and  South  they 
are  more  frequently  utilized  for  draft  animals  than  horses  are. 

Apropos  of  hybridizing,  do  all  equine  experts  know  that  there 
is  a  difference  between  the  hybrid  progeny  of  the  horse  and  of 
the  mare?  Probably  all  know  that  the  mule  is  sterile.  Of  him 
the  old  joke  runs  that  "  he  has  no  pride  of  ancestry,  no  hope 
of  posterity."  But  the  breeders  say  in  Kentucky — which  is  the 
great  breeding-ground  of  mules  and  jacks — that  the  mule 
(.which  is  the  progeny  of  the  ass  and  the  mare)  is  sterile,  but 
that  the  hinny  (which  is  the  progeny  of  the  stallion  and  the 
jenny,  or  she-ass)  is  not  always  so.  The  subject  is  an  obscure 
one,  as  all  matters  of  hybridizing  are.  But  the  experience 
of  many  ages  has  shown  that  these  hybrids  can  not  breed 
among  themselves.  For  example,  the  male  mule  (out  of  ass 
and  mare)  is  distinctly  sterile.  The  female  mule  (out  of  ass 
and  mare)  can  be  bred  with  the  pure  ancestral  type,  but  rarely 
brings  forth  a  living  foal.  The  male  hinny  (out  of  stallion  and 
she-ass)  is  distinctly  sterile.  The  female  hinny  (out  of  stallion 
and  she-ass)  can  be  bred  with  the  pure  ancestral  type,  but 
rarely  brings  forth  a  living  foal.     Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  both 


hybrid  females  are  embryonic  breeders.     Both  hybrid  males  are 
not  so. 

Although  equine  hybridizing  is  almost  as  old  as  the  humai 
race,  there  is  to-day  no  race  of  mules.  Yet  it  is  probable  th 
there  are  many  intelligent  persons  who  do  not  know  these 
curious  facts  concerning  so  common  an  animal  as  the  mule 
Those  who  may  be  disposed  to  pooh-pooh  at  any  interest  ic 
that  useful  quadruped  may  be  silenced  by  telling  them  thai 
General  George  Washington  was  a  skillful  breeder  of  mules 
and  that  the  neighboring  country  gentlemen  for  miles  arount 
used  to  send  their  mares  to  be  bred  at  Mt.  Vernon. 

Uncle    Sam's    artillerymen    at    San    Francisco    did   some    grea-. 

shooting  with  the  big  guns  last  week.  Aimint 

Target-Practice    ^   &  pyramida]    mov{ng  target   of  nfteen-foo< 

WITH   THE  ,  ,      ,  r         -, 

Big  Guns  edge,  two  and  a  half  miles  away  at  sea,  thrj 

Sixty-First  Company  of  Coast  Artillery 
commanded  by  Captain  Cloke,  fired  five  shots  from  a  twelve 
inch  gun,  near  Lime  Point,  and  scored  one  hundred — that  is 
every  shot  would  have  hit  a  three-hundred-foot  battle-ship  ii| 
the  same  position  as  the  target.  One  shot  actually  did  hit  thi 
moving  speck  and  smashed  it  to  smithareens.  Another  set  o| 
artillerymen  with  the  same  gun  scored  between  sixty  an- 
seventy  per  cent.,  while  of  seven  shots  fired  by  members  0: 
the  Sixty-Fifth  Company,  Captain  Abernathy,  with  the  ne» 
seven-inch  rifle  at  Angel  Island,  five  were  bull's-eyes.  Thea 
projectiles  reached  an  elevation  of  two  hundred  feet;  the  6*3 
tance  was  four  and  a  half  miles.  Sixteen  shots  in  all  wer 
fired  at  a  cost  of  twenty  thousand  dollars.  If  the  men  behinr 
the  guns  guarding  San  Francisco  shoot  as  well  in  war  as  ii 
peace,  it  is  clear  that  no  hostile  battle-ships  will  ever  ge 
through  the  Golden  Gate. 


: 


The  Great  Goat 
Island  Grab 
Redivivus. 


The  Argonaut  has  noticed  with  some  amusement  and  with*  n 
alarm,  the  tendency  of  late  on  the  part  o 
newspapers  here  and  hereabouts  to  remark  0' 
the  excellence  of  Goat  Island  as  a  site  of 
union  railway  station.  It  is  indeed  an  ad 
mirable  location  for  such  a  purpose.  But  have  any  of  qfl 
readers  long  enough  memories  to  recall  what  was  known  as 
Great  Goat  Island  Grab  ?  Do  they  remember  how  the  peopl 
of  the  bay  cities  fought  tooth  and  nail  against  the  terribk 
grasping  railroad ;  how  for  months  the  papers,  led  by  th 
Bulletin,  stormed  and  gnashed  their  teeth;  how  it  was  th: 
every  man  who  favored  the  "  grab  "  was  called  a  traitor,  an 
otherwise  abused,  and,  finally,  what  ululations  of  thanksgivin 
rose  to  heaven  when  the  awful  railroads  were  at  last  defeat© 
and  Goat  Island  preserved  to  the  sole  use  of  weather-shard 
and  buoy  builders?  And  now — well,  does  anybody  ever  wonde 
what  he  got  so  excited  about  ?  The  island  was  not  a  bettt 
site  for  a  depot  then  than  it  is  now.  Everybody  then  kne,; 
that  in  time  several  railroads  would  reach  here.  Yet  the  pn, 
ject  was  bitterly  opposed.  Why?  One  of  the  little  eccer| 
tricities  of  human  nature  we  think  it  must  have  been.  "  '  Bi 
'twas  a  famous  victory,'  said  little  Peterkin." 


The 

Germans  to 
Fight  Us? 


Chicago  University  is  a  well  of  wisdom  undefiled — even  by  oi 
Whenever  a  Chicago  professor  opens  h 
mouth  countless  pearls  gush  forth  from  tl 
buccal  orifice  and  chase  each  other  all  ovi 
the   country.      The   latest  professorial    geysc 

bears  the  deceptive  name  of  Small,  and  has  just  returned  fro 

a  vacation  in  Germany.     Hear  him : 

I  have  no  more  doubt  that  Germany  is  deliberately  caj 
culating  on  the  day  and  hour  of  her  ability  to  give  us  a  thrasl 
ing  than  I  have  that  from  the  moment  Bismarck  became  tl 
master  mind  of  Prussia  he  was  getting  ready  for  Sedan, 
plain  English,  the  attitude  of  the  Germans  toward  us,  tl 
United  States,  is:  "We  like  you  awfully,  but  we've  got  \ 
fight  you  all  the  same."  This  doesn't  mean  trade  haraperiil 
with  tariff  regulations.  It  means  sooner  or  later  shooting  I 
kill. 

Ugh  !  Could  not  the  professor  find  a  more  euphemistic  e 
pression  than  "shooting  to  kill"?  It  is  disturbing  to  tint] 
souls.  In  fact,  the  only  cheering  thing  we  see  in  the  who 
affair  lies  in  the  phrase,  "  We  like  you  awfully,  but  we've  g| 
to  fight  you."  Lo,  after  two  thousand  years  the  injunctioj 
"  Love  your  enemies,"  is  to  be  obeyed — according  to  the  grej 
Professor  Small. 


> 

i 


Some  Questions 

About 

the  Militia. 


1 


We  are  asked  some  questions  by  a  correspondent  regarding  ti 
militia    in    Colorado.      We   shall    endeavor 
answer  them. 

In  the  Argonaut's  article  last  week,  entitle 
"  The  Militia  in  Colorado  and  Elsewhere 
it  was  stated  that  "the  governor  of  Colorado,  in  pursuance _ 
his  duty  of  preserving  law  and  order,  sent  several  compani 
of  militia  to  the  scene  of  threatened  sedition  and  insurrection 
Had  the  authority  and  power  of  the  sheriff  of  the  coun 
where  was  "  threatened  sedition  and  insurrection,"  to  preser 
law  and  order  been  invoked  and  exercised  and  found  inae 
quate,  when  the  governor  "  sent  several  companies  of  milii 
to  the  scene  of  threatened  sedition  and  insurrection""" 

This   is   a   question   of   fact.      Only   a  judicial    investij 
could  determine  it.     Therefore,  we  reply,  we  do  not  know. 

If  not,  was  not  the  act  of  the  governor,  in  spirit  and  in  fa 
violative  of  the  Constitution  and  a  usurpation  of  authority, 
the  absence  of  a  call  by  the  sheriff  for  militia  aid? 

No. 

(1)  At  whose  instance  did  the  governor  of  Colorado  send  t 
militia  to  Cripple  Creek;  and   (2)   who  was  authority  for  1 
statement   that   there  was   there   "  threatened   sedition   an/ 
surrection  "  ? 

(1)  It  is  stated  that  the  Mineowner's  Association  reqm 
troops.      (2)   It  makes  no  difference  who  did,  if  the  govern 
believed  it. 

In  the  absence  of  a  formal  declaration  of  martial  law,  si 
declaration  being  permissible  under  the  Constitution  only_ 
time  of  dire  necessity  occasioned  by  'he  impotency  of  the  ci 
authorities  to  preserve  the  law  der  and  protect  lives  a 

property,  is  there  any  provisia  wering  militia  officers 

arrest  and  imprison  American  ci.     ~       for  any  alleged  offei  | 
against  the  civil  law  ? 

The    court   said   that   no   prii  might   be   held   by 


d    t' 


jh 


October  12,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


militia    against    whom    there    were    no    formal    charges,    and 
ordered  the  release  of  such  prisoners.  They  have  been  released. 

If  not,  and  such  arrest  and  imprisonment  be  made  by  militia 
officers,  are  they  not  guilty  of  both  despotism  and  anarchy  in 
over-riding  the  law  and  usurping  authority  ? 

They  are  not  "  guilty  of  both  despotism  and  anarchy." 

Is  it  the  opinion  of  the  Argonaut  that  militia  officers  may. 
with  impunity,  arrogate  to  themselves  the  prerogatives  of 
sheriff,  prosecutor,  judge,  and  jury  at  Cripple  Creek,  and  not 
be  guilty-  of  despotism  ? 

No. 

Are  not  the  "  State's  troops  "  as  much  for  use  in  furthering 
the  demands  of  the  organized  miners  of  Colorado,  as  the  de- 
mands of  the  organized  mine-owners  of  that  State? 

For  neither.     Their  duty  is  to  preserve  order. 

When  General  Chase,  of  the  Colorado  militia,  declared, 
"  the  militia  is  here  to  settle  this  strike,"  and  thereupon  pro- 
ceeded to  arrest  and  imprison — no  mine-owners,  no  capital- 
ists, but  mine  workers,  heads  of  miners'  unions,  only — did  he 
not  give  convincing  reason  why  it  is  that  the  "  epithets,  '  hire- 
lings '  and  '  trust  servants  *  are  so  often  applied  to  the  State's 
troops  "  ? 

We  do  not  know  whether  or  not  General  Chase  made  such 
a  statement.  If  he  did,  he  was  talking  foolishly.  To  the 
entire  question,   No. 

By  the  way,  it  is  reported  that  General  Chase  has  been 
superseded ;  also  that  Governor  Peabody  has  been  sued  by 
persons  who  allege  they  were  wrongfully  imprisoned  for  sums 
amounting  to  a  million  dollars.  It  looks  as  if  the  duly  con- 
stituted authorities  might  be  trusted  to  right  any  wrongs  of 
which  too-zealous  militia  officers  may  have  been  guilty. 


Where  is 
Diogenes  with 
His  Lantern? 


Political  platforms,  as  is  known  of  all  politicians.  "  are  made  to 
get  in  on,  not  to  stand  on."  Men  who  refuse  to 
run  for  office  because  they  do  not  agree  with 
the  platform  of  their  party  are  as  scarce  as  white 
blackbirds.  To  discover  one  in  San  Francisco 
is  almost  a  miracle.  But  such  men  are  admirable,  and  there- 
fore we  give  prominence  to  the  letter  of  Crittenden  Thornton, 
who  was  nominated  in  absentia,  for  the  office  of  city  attorney 
by  the  Democrats.  His  letter  of  declination  to  Chairman 
Hickey  speaks  for  itself.     Here  is  part  of  what  he  wrote  : 

I  have  read  the  platform  and  declaration  of  principles  of  the 
convention,  and  regret  that  there  is  one  subject  of  municipal 
policy  upon  which  I  am  not  in  accord  with  the  convention. 

I  refer  to  the  plank  in  the  platform  which  favors  the 
acquisition  of  the  Geary  Street  Railroad.  ... 

Since  I  have  been  old  enough  to  form  and  express  opinions 
of  public  policy,  I  have  believed  in  the  declaration  of  Jefferson 
that  "  the  best  government  is  that  which  governs  the  least." 

As  a  corollary  to  that  principle,  I  am  opposed  to  the  inter- 
vention of  government  in  any  class  of  enterprises  which  are 
in  conflict  with  and  opposition  to  private  undertakings.  .  .  . 

I  am  unwilling,  even  by  silence,  to  obtain  the  vote  of  any 
elector  acting  in  ignorance  of  my  declared  opinion. 


STAMBOUL    SEEN    FROM    THE    SEA. 


Late  Phases  of 
Postal  Device 
i nvkstigation. 


The  facts  in  connection  with  the  swindling  of  the  government 
by  means  of  the  Postal  Device  and  Develop- 
ment Company  become  more  obscure  rather 
than  clearer  as  the  investigation  goes  on. 
Some  time  ago,  Daniel  S.  Richardson,  general 
superintendent  and  secretary  of  the  San  Francisco  post-office, 
was  called  to  Washington  in  connection  with  the  investigation. 
Shortly  after,  the  grand  jury  in  Washington  indicted  James  W. 
Erwin,  charging  him  with  defrauding  the  government  by  giv- 
ing to  A.  W.  Machen,  superintendent  of  the  free-delivery  divis- 
ion, and  G.  W.  Beavers,  superintendent  of  the  salary  and 
allowance  division,  blocks  of  stock  in  the  postal-device  com- 
pany to  induce  them  to  adopt  the  device  owned  by  the  com- 
pany. A  certified  copy  of  the  indictment  was  sent  to  the  dis- 
trict attorney  in  this  city,  asking  that  Erwin  be  sent  to  Wash- 
ington to  stand  trial.  Mr.  Erwin  made  a  strong  legal  fight 
against  extradition.  In  his  defense  it  was  claimed  that  Erwin 
had  become  a  stockholder  in  the  company  when  he  was  postal 
inspector,  and  so  could  have  no  official  connection  with  the 
awarding  of  contracts  for  the  time-indicator  device;  that  there 
was  no  law  forbidding  such  an  official  being  a  stockholder. 
Further,  it  was  not  alleged  in  the  indictment  that  Erwin  knew 
that  the  immediate  delivery  of  the  indicators  was  not  neces- 
sary, or  that  the  price  was  exorbitant.  The  prosecution  laid 
particular  stress  upon  the  fact  that  Erwin  went  to  Washing- 
ton, taking  with  him  a  memorandum  of  what  he  was  to  see 
Machen  about  in  connection  with  a  further  sale  of  boxes  given 
to  him  by  Richardson,  but  could  not  recall  the  conversation 
with  Machen.  Stress  was  also  laid  upon  the  fact  that  he 
knew  Machen  and  Beavers  to  be  stockholders  in  the  postal- 
device  company,  yet  made  nd  statement  of  that  fact  to  the 
proper  officials.  The  commissioner  took  under  advisement  the 
question  of  whether  Erwin  should  be  sent  to  Washington  to 
stand  trial. 


Tulare 
Has  a 
Bond  Fire 


The  people  of  Tulare  and  vicinity  are  rejoicing  over  the  suc- 
cessful termination  of  litigation  that  has  con- 
tinued thirteen  years.  In  1S90,  the  Tulare 
Irrigation  District  was  formed,  and  bonds  to 
the  amount  of  $500,000  were  issued.  A  few 
years  later,  the  people  of  the  district  realized  that  they  would 
not  be  able  to  pay  the  bonds  in  full  because  a  question  of  the 
legality  of  the  district  had  arisen.  The  tax-collector  was  re- 
strained from  collecting  taxes  for  the  payment  of  the  bonds. 
The  tax-payers  won  in  the  superior  court,  but  modifications  of 
the  decision  in  the  supreme  and  district  courts  made  it  evi- 
dent that  the  question  would  be  settled  in  the  courts  oniy 
after  long  and  expensive  litigation.  Attempts  were  then  made 
to  secure  a  compromise.  By  this  time  the  bonds,  with  accrued 
interest,  amounted  to  $546,150.  The  bondholders  agreed  to 
take  fifty  cents  on  the  amount  due.  An  assessment  was  made 
to  raise  the  money,  and,  by  agreement  of  the  board  of  trade 
of  Tulare,  the  validity  of  the  assessment  was  sustained  in  the 
court.  The  tax-payers  contributed  their  share  and  by  volun- 
tary subscriptions  the  amount  was  increased  by  $10,000.  The 
money  was  deposited  in  the  bank,  and  a  committee  of  citizens 
of  Tulare  came  to  this  city,  received  the  bonds,  and  returned 
to  Tulare  to  burn  them  amid  general  rejoicing. 


By  Jerome  A.  Hart. 


It    was 


Where  Did 
You  See  the 
Dardanelles? 

mind    the    old 
their      return 
were      abroad 
family     looked 


beautiful  morning,  and  we  were  bound  from  the 
Piraeus  to  Constantinople,  steaming  along  the 
waterway  between  Europe  and  Asia.  We  had 
left  the  .^gean  Sea  behind  us,  and  were 
in  the  Dardanelles.  There  flashed  into  mv 
joke  about  the  new-rich  family,  who,  on 
from  Europe,  were  asked :  "  When  you 
did  you  see  the  Dardanelles?"  The 
puzzled  for  a  moment,  but  Materfami- 
lias,  with  great  presence  of  mind,  promptly  replied : 
"Oh,  yes;  we  met  them  in  Rome."  I  thought  of  springing 
this  aged  story  on  my  fellow-passengers,  but  it  was  so  vener- 
able that  I  refrained.  At  luncheon,  however,  I  heard  the  story 
told  by  the  ship's  wit;  it  was  greeted  with  roars  of  laughter. 
and  was  received  by  all  hands  as  perfectly  new. 

Beside  me,  on  the  ship's  deck,  stood  a  European  dragoman — 
one  of  those  queer  mongrels  one  meets  in  the  Orient — the  son 
of  an  English  father  and  a  Greek  mother — speaking  heaven 
knows  how  many  tongues  with  equal  fluency.  His  English, 
by  the  way.  was  flavored  with  a  strong  Cockney  accent.  Him 
I  asked :  "  What  is  the  name  of  that  town  on  the  Asiatic 
side?"  indicating  a  city  on  the  starboard  hand. 

"  Better  call  it  Dardanelles,"  briefly  replied  the  dragoman. 

At  this  I  took  slight  umbrage.  Quoth  I  to  myself:  "Evi- 
dently this  fellow  thinks  I  can  not  pronounce  it,  so  he  gives 
me  the  name  of  the  waterway  instead  of  the  town."  I  de- 
termined to  look  it  up,  and  when  I  went  below  I  did  so.  In  the 
great  atlas  on  the  cabin  table  I  found  this  pleasing  variety  of 
names:  "  Sultaniyeh-Kalesi,  or  Chanak-Kalesi,  generally  called 
by  Europeans  Dardanelles."  I  did  not  wonder  at  the  drago- 
man's laconicism. 

I  noticed  that  some  of  my  fellow-passengers  pronounced  the 
name  "  Dardanee/s."  while  their  favorite  pronunciation  of 
"'  Bosphorus "  did  not  rhyme  with  "  phosphorus."  but  rather 
with  "  before  us." 

Before  being  permitted  to  land  at  a  Turkish  port  it  is 
necessary  to  secure  a  "  tezkereh,"  otherwise  you  may  land, 
but  you  may  not  leave.  We  already  had  passports  vised  by  a 
Turkish  consul  in  America,  but  "  tezkerehs  "  were  necessary 
in  addition — two  dollars  apiece.  The  blanks  issued  for  filling 
out  these  documents  were  in  French  on  one  side,  Turkish  on  the 
other.  One  passenger  went  to  the  purser  with  his  French 
blank,  and  pointing  to  the  phrase  couleur  des  cheveitx,  asked: 
"  What  does  that  mean?" 

"  That?  "  said  the  purser  ;  "  that  means  color  of  hair." 

"  The  h —  it  does,"  replied  the  passenger.  "  I  s'posed  it 
meant  color  of  eyes,  and  I  wrote  blue." 


The  city  of  the  Sultan  looks  much  better  from  the  water  than 

it    does    when    viewed    ashore.      The    tourist 

Picturesque  who   toucnes   at  ^e  port    remains  on  board, 

Site  of 


Constantinople. 


and  sees  the  city  only  from  the  sea,  retains 
an  entirely  different  impression  from  that  of 
him  who  goes  ashore.  Seen  from  the  water,  Constantinople 
is  very  beautiful.  Seen  from  the  shore,  it  is  the  apotheosis 
of  everything  that  is  filthy  and  foul.  I  do  not  say  that  it  is 
unworthy  of  a  visit,  but  I  do  say  that  he  who  stays  on  board 
will  take  away  a  much  more  picturesque  impression. 

The  site  of  Constantinople  is  ideal.  There  is  probably  no 
finer  site  for  a  city  in  the  world.  It  is  situate  on  the 
Bosphorus,  between  the  Mediterranean  and  the  Black  Sea;  It 
lies  between  Europe  and  Asia,  for  Scutari  is  part  of  Con- 
stantinople, and  Scutari  is  on  the  Asiatic  shore;  it  is  cut  off 
by  natural  boundaries  into  municipal  divisions,  for  the  Golden 
Horn  divides  Stamboul,  the  Mohammedan,  from  Galata,  the 
Christian  city;  so  the  Bosphorus  divides  Scutari,  the  Asiatic, 
from  Constantinople,  the  European  city,  yet  all  of  these  places 
make  one  great  city  under  the  general  name  "  Constantinople.  ' 
And  this  great  city  is  guarded  also  by  nature;  it  has  the  Sea 
of  Marmora  close  at  hand,  with  fortifications  at  either  end 
of  this  great  water  highway,  rendering  the  city  unassailable 
by  sea;  it  has  a  peninsular  conformation  which  also  renders 
it,  properly  fortified,  impregnable  by  land  as  well  as  by  sea. 
It  is  as  if  San  Francisco  were  to  have  batteries  of  heavy  artil- 
lery all  around  her  water-front,  from  India  Basin  to  the  Pre- 
sidio, from  the  Presidio  to  Lake  Merced,  and  then  across  the 
neck  of  the  peninsula  from  Lake  Merced  to  India  Basin.  With 
all  these  factors  in  its  favor,  no  wonder  that  Constantinople 
has  always  been  looked  upon  as  an  ideal  site  for  a  city.  That 
so  many  races  should  have  battled  over  Byzantium  for  so 
many  hundreds  of  years  is  not  surprising. 

Beautiful,  picturesque,  though  she  may  be.  seen  from  the  sea, 
Constantinople  is  unlovely  from  the  land.  What  God  has  done 
at  this  meeting  of  the  waters  is  entirely  admirable.  But  the 
handiwork  of  man  as  there  set  forth  excites  sometimes  pity, 
and  sometimes  scorn. 

The  bridges  across  the  Golden  Horn  I  have  already  written 
about.  The>  are  such  venerable,  patched-up  wrecks  that  I 
wonder  the  Turks  use  them  so  freely.  One  day,  not  long 
ago,  a  piece  of  the  lower  bridge  fell  into  the  water,  carrying 
with  it  three  or  four  dozen  Turks,  who  went  to  the  Mohamme- 
dan heaven  sooner  than  they  had  intended. 

In  the  Golden  Horn  there  lie  rows  of  Turkish  warships. 
These  grim  black  monsters  look  formidable,  but  I  was  told 
that  some  of  them  had  not  been  to  sea  for  twelve  years,  and 
that  the  engineers  did  not  dare  to  get  up  steam  in  them. 

*  * 

*    ■ 

Much  of  Galata  and  Pera,  the  Christian  quarters  of  Con- 
stantinople, are  built  of  stone,  stucco-covered  ; 
in  fact,  the  buildings  are  much  like  those 
of  Southern  Europe.  There  are,  of  course, 
many  wooden  houses  inhabited  by  the 
poorer  classes.  But  all  of  Stamboul  is  built  of  wood.  In  the 
Turkish  city  one  sees  mile  after  mile  of  shabby  wooden 
houses.     They  might  be  workmen's  cottages,  such  as  one  sees 


Wooden  Houses 

and 

Fire  Risks. 


in  manufacturing  towns  in  America,  but  they  are  much  in- 
ferior to  the  workmen's  houses  in  most  of  the  large  towns  of 
Europe.  In  European  cities,  wood  is  little  used  for  building 
houses.  In  fact,  I  can  recall  no  city  in  Occidental  Europe  where 
its  use  is  common.  Constantinople,  in  that  respect,  is  much 
like  the  cities  of  Western  America.  Like  them,  too,  vast 
amounts  of  money  are  made — and  lost — in  fire  insurance.  As 
you  drive  through  the  streets  of  Stamboul,  you  will  notice 
that  all  the  trumpery  little  houses  have  trumpery  little  tin 
insurance  labels.  I  observed  that  these  labels  nearly  all  bore 
the  names  of  French  insurance  companies.  From  the  frequency 
of  fires  in  Constantinople,  the  inefficiency  of  the  firemen,  and 
the  fact  that  the  fires  nearly  always  result  in  total  loss,  the 
stockholders  in  these  insurance  companies  must  be  desperate 
gamblers. 

In  the  insurance  business  there  is  said  to  be  a  "  moral  risk  " 
as  well  as  a  "  fire  risk " ;  certain  communities  in  Western 
America  are  looked  at  askance  by  insurance  companies,  who 
charge  them  high  rates  for  their  low  morals  and  frequent 
fires.  The  risk  from  fire  in  Stamboul  is  certainly  very  great 
— I  wondered  whether  there  was  a  moral  hazard  as  well. 


Stamboul  Like 
a  Gigantic 
Chinatown. 


Footm  EN 
Have  no 
Rights. 


In  Stamboul,  there  are  miles  of  markets  in  the  streets.  I  do 
not  mean  the  great  bazaars,  most  of  which 
are  covered.  But  along  the  open  streets  are 
booths  containing  all  manner  of  articles. 
Food  and  wearing  apparel  are  the  most  com- 
mon, and  of  these,  bread,  dates,  and  figs  seem  to  be  the  staple 
articles.  These  eatables  are  exposed  in  the  open,  and  consider- 
ing the  awful  filth  of  the  streets,  it  makes  one  shudder  at  the 
thought  of  eating  them.  I  suppose  the  European  hotels  of 
Pera,  the  European  quarter,  get  their  supplies  from  other 
sources.     As  we  put  up  in  Pera,  I  sincerely  hope  so. 

There  are  markets  of  different  nationalities  in  Stamboul. 
The  city  is  divided  into  various  quarters — the  Greek  quarter, 
the  Jewish  quarter,  etc. — and  each  quarter  seems  to  have 
its  own  market.  On  the  outlying  streets,  up  toward  the  Sweet 
Waters  of  Europe,  there  are  spaces  of  ground  where  other 
markets  are  held  on  certain  days  of  the  week.  Among  them 
you  see  old-clothes  markets,  like  the  "  rag  fairs  "  of  England, 
and  other  markets  in  which  are  sold  old  kettles,  worn-out 
pots,  ancient  pans,  rusty  ironmonger}-,  decrepit  tongs,  broken- 
winded  bellows,  toothless  curry-combs — objects  that  the  poor- 
est beggar  in  our  land  would  not  take  the  trouble  to  carry' 
away. 

In  some  of  these  crowded  market  streets  you  often  see  a  cob- 
bler seated  in  a  hole  in  the  sidewalk,  only  his  head  protruding 
from  the  hole.  Behind  him  is  a  lifted  trap-door,  fastened  to 
the  wall.  There  are  many  of  these  cobbler-shops,  and  the 
cobbler  shuts  up  shop  by  letting  down  the  trap-door.  Many 
of  these  cobblers  I  saw  working  in  their  dens  in  filthy  streets, 
where  gutters  filled  with  sewage  trickled  under  their  very 
noses.  This  and  many  other  similar  things  strongly  reminded 
me  of  San  Francisco's  Chinese  quarter.  Stamboul  in  many 
respects  is  like  a  gigantic  Chinatown. 

* 

One  of  the  peculiarities  of  Stamboul  is  the  insolent  demeanor 
of  the  horseman  to  the  footman.  Many  times 
daily  you  will  see  some  rascal  of  a  cabman 
trying  to  drive  down  a  well-dressed  man  on 
the  street.  The  drivers  rarely  take  the 
trouble  to  shout  as  they  approach  pedestrians.  I  was  often 
filled  with  wonder  at  observing  the  meekness  with  which  well- 
dressed  Turks  on  foot  submitted  to  such  treatment  from 
shabby  Turks  on  carriage-boxes.  Even  when  no  injury  was 
done  to  such  a  pedestrian,  he  was  often  bespattered  with  mud. 
Stamboul  must  be  an  unpleasant  place  in  which  to  live.  Were 
cabmen  in  our  country  to  treat  pedestrians  so  recklessly,  there- 
would  be  many  cases  of  assault  and  battery',  and  I  think  some 
mortality  among  the  Jehus. 

One  day  I  saw  a  uniformed  Turk  picking  his  way  across  the 
street,  using  his  sabre  as  a  walking-stick.  A  carriage  suddenly 
dashed  down  on  him,  and  its  driver,  after  nearly  running  over 
him,  hurled  at  him  a  volley  of  what  sounded  like  choice 
Turkish  abuse.  The  uniformed  Turk  retorted  not ;  he  scraped 
the  mud  off  his  uniform,  stuck  his  sabre  under  his  arm,  and 
waded  ashore.  In  our  country  a  man  with  a  sabre  would  have 
used  it  on  the  driver's  head.  By  this  I  do  not  mean  that  the 
Turks  are  lacking  in  spirit.  Far  from  it — they  are  fierce 
fighters.  But  apparently  it  would  seem  to  be  the  custom  of  the 
country  that  the  man  on  foot,  as  against  the  man  on  horse- 
back, has  no  rights. 

It  is  not  only  at  Constantinople  that  pedestrians  are  thus 
treated.  All  over  the  Orient  the  footman  has  no  rights.  But 
at  Constantinople  he  seems  to  be  more  brutally  treated  than 
elsewhere.  There  the  drivers  seem  to  try  to  run  him  down 
without  warning.  But  in  Cairo  they  have  a  series  of  curious 
cries  with  which  they  warn  a  footman.  They  specify  the  par- 
ticular part  of  his  anatomy  which  is  in  danger,  as  thus: 

"  Look  out  for  thy  left  shin,  O  uncle  [  " 

"  Boy,  have  a  care  for  the  little  toe  on  thy  right  foot!  " 

"'  O  blind  beggar,  look  out  for  thy  staff!  " 

And  the  blind  beggar,  feeling  his  way  with  the-  staff  in  hi? 
right  hand,  at  once  obediently  turns  to  the  left. 

"  O  Frankish  woman,  look  out  for  thy  left  foot !  " 

"  O  burden-bearer,  thy  load  is  in  danger!  " 

"  O  water-carrier,  look  out  for  the  tail  end  of  thy  pig-skin 
water-bottle !  " 

"  O  son  of  Sheitan,  conceived  in  the  Bab-El-Tophet,  have  a 
care  and  look  to  thy  camel's  left  pannier,  or  it  will  be  hurt!  " 

"  O  fellah  farmer,  swing  around  thy  buffalo  so  that  his  left 
buttock  may  not  strike  on  my  right  wheel !  " 

"  O  carter,  why  dost  thou  let  thy  cart  project  across  the 
Khedive's  highway?" 

"  O  group  of  four  fellaheen,  standing  in  the  roadway,  if  the 
gent  on  the  left,  him  with  the  blue  gown  and  the  white  turban, 
does  not  get  a  wiggle  on  him  quick,  my   horse  will  send  him 
where  the  black-eyed  houris  are  comforting  the  true 
Cluck  !  Git-ep  !     La-AIlah-il-Allah  !     Wow  I  *' 


228 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  12,  1903. 


THE    END    OF    THE    GAME. 


Sidelights  on  an  Election  in  Long  Valley  Township. 


The  Hon.  Dudley  Collier  was  justice  of  the  peace  of 
Long  Valley  Township,  and  had  been  such  from  a  time 
whereof  the  memory  of  man  ran  not  to  the  contrary. 
He  was  proud  of  his  title  of  judge;  he  considered  that 
the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his  fellows  was  a  mark 
of  high  favor  and  esteem.  What  mattered  it  if  he  did 
preside  over  but  one  case  a  year  on  an  average  ?  At 
the  trial  of  that  one  case  he  was  in  the  public  eye. 
What  if  on  one  occasion  he  had  heard  one  lawyer 
whisper  to  another  that  "  the  presumption  that  a  justice 
of  the  peace  knows  no  law  is  indisputable  in  this  in- 
stance?" What  was  the  difference  if  his  fame  had  gone 
abroad  because  it  was  his  invariable  rule  during  a  trial 
to  rule  in  favor  of  one  litigant,  and  then  rule  in  favor 
of  the  other  one  in  order  to  balance  the  account?  The 
emoluments  of  the  office  were  not  great :  it  was  not  for 
them  that  he  coveted  the  position,  but  the  dignity ! — 
that  was  the  thing.  It  gave  him  a  standing.  That  was 
his  reason  for  holding  on  so  tenaciously. 

"I  jess  naturally  need  that  office  in  my  business," 
was  his  explanation. 

But  his  sway  was  threatened.  An  election  was  again 
at  hand,  and  James  Kelsey,  more  familiarly  called 
"  Jim "  Kelsey,  his  life-long  opponent,  was  likely 
to  be  elected.  Collier  was  a  Democrat,  and  had  polled 
eight  out  of  the  fifteen  votes  in  the  township  at  the  last 
six  elections,  while  Kelsey,  who  was  a  Republican,  as 
uniformly  polled  the  other  seven.  Each  candidate  voted 
for  himself,  for  every  vote  was  needed. 

"  Dud  Collier  '11  stay  with  this  game  until  he  gets 
defeated,"  said  Kelsey.  "  No  man  except  George  Wash- 
ington ever  escaped  defeat  if  he  stayed  with  the  game 
long  enough.  Defeat  is  the  ultimate  lot  of  the  poli- 
tician. Ingratitude  is  his  reward.  Dud  Collier  '11 
catch  it." 

A  few  months  before  the  election,  the  widow  Scott 
had  sold  her  ranch  to  a  new-comer,  John  Clark.  Now 
it  happened  that  Clark  had  two  sons  of  voting  age.  The 
introduction  of  these  three  elements  into  the  politics  of 
Long  Valley  made  such  politics  uncertain.  Try  as  they 
might,  neither  the  Collier  nor  Kelsey  adherents  could 
get  any  satisfaction  out  of  the  Clarks.  When  inter- 
viewed they  maintained  a  strict  silence  as  to  their  po- 
litical convictions. 

The  campaign  opened  with  a  rally  by  the  Collier 
faction  at  the  school-house.  Those  present  were  Col- 
lier and  his  seven  faithful  followers,  their  wives  and 
children.  The  Clarks  had  been  invited  to  come  by  the 
eight  voters,  but  they  didn't  come.  Henry  Marders, 
who  had  served  as  a  supervisor  years  before,  was  the 
chairman  of  the  meeting.  He  waxed  eloquent  over  the 
virtues  of  his  candidate  for  the  office  of  justice  of  the 
peace.  There  was  a  man  who  was  entitled  to  the  suf- 
frages of  his  fellow-citizens,  because  he  had  always 
answered  duty's  call.  It  was  true  he  had  served  as 
justice  of  the  peace  for  twenty-four  years,  but  the 
speaker  believed  in  keeping  true  merit  in  office.  Dudley 
Collier  was  a  representative  citizen  of  Long  Valley, 
and  it  behooved  all  good  men  to  vote  for  him.  Then 
Collier  arose.  While  it  is  generally  considered  a  viola- 
tion of  political  ethics  for  a  judicial  candidate  to  take 
the  stump,  Collier  was  not  troubled.  He  was  ignorant 
of  such  section  in  the  Code  of  Political  Ethics.  He 
met  with  a  rousing  reception.  His  adherents  cheered 
and  applauded.  Collier  spoke  at  great  length.  He  re- 
viewed his  past  services.  He  pointed  at  his  untarnished 
record.  He  spoke  feelingly  of  his  party  loyalty,  of  his 
efforts  in  behalf  of  the  Democratic  party.  He  thought 
that  he  was  deserving  of  reelection  because  of  his 
administration  of  justice  in  the  township.  He  didn't 
know  that  lawyers  that  came  from  the  county  seat  to 
try  cases  in  his  court  spoke  of  him  as  a  judge  who 
dispensed  with  justice. 

The  next  night  the  Kelsey  faction  held  a  rally. 
Kelsey  was  there  with  his  six  adherents.  The  Clarks 
were  not  in  evidence — the  people  Kelsey  hoped  to  reach. 
The  same  proceedings  were  gone  through  with  at  the 
Kelsey  meeting  that  were  had  at  the  Collier  "  opening 
gun."  There  was  the  same  vociferous  applause,  the 
same  enthusiasm.  There  were  exhortations  to  stand 
by  the  party.  All  the  old-time  tropes,  the  ancient  stock 
of  the  political  orator,  were  brought  out  and  re- 
introduced to  the  audience — "  the  tocsin  has  sounded," 
"  beacons  will  blaze,"  "  the  gage  of  battle  has  been 
thrown  down,"  "  victory  will  perch  upon  our  banner," 
and  so  on,  and  so  on. 

How  to  reach  the  Clarks !  That  was  the  problem 
confronting  the  politicians  of  Long  Valley.  The  power 
to  change  the  face  of  the  politics  of  that  region  lay 
in  the  hands  of  this  new  factor.  If  Kelsey  could  onl'v 
get  those  votes  his  election  was  assured.  His  faithful 
servants  reasoned  with  the  Clarks.  They  pointed  out 
how  Collier  had  held  the  office  for  years  and  years ; 
that  a  change  in  the  administration  of  justice  was 
needed. 

"  He's  had  the  office  till  he  thinks  he's  got  a  mort- 
gage on  it,"  was  the  way  one  put  it. 

"  He  ought  to  get  out  and  give  somebody  else  a 
clnnce,"  said  another. 

But  despite  the  pleadings  and  cajolings,  the   Clarks 
would  give  no  intimation  of  their  position. 
.     The  members  of  the  Collier  faction  also  called  on  the 
■iew   voters.     Thc_,    showed   how    Collier   had   always 

done  the  right  thing."  If  they  couldn't  vote  for  him, 
they  ought  not  to  vote,  because  perhaps  they  had  not 


lived  in  the  vicinity  long  enough  to  learn  the  true  condi- 
tion of  'affairs.  But  the  Clarks  maintained  the  same 
discreet  silence  with  the  representatives  of  this  faction, 
as  in  the  other  case. 

"  We  haven't  made  up  our  minds  yet.  We  are  seek- 
ing for  light.  We  hope  to  vote  right  on  election  day," 
was  all  they  would  vouchsafe. 

The  week  before  the  election  came.  The  canvass 
had  been  unusually  warm.  Aspersions  on  the  character 
of  the  opposing  candidate  had  been  made  by  each 
faction,  and  excitement  ran  high.  The  seven  tried  and 
true  friends  of  Collier  had  never  been  more  steadfast 
in  their  allegiance.  The  six  "  stalwarts  "  of  Kelsey  had 
never  been  so  active. 

Collier  was  to  close  his  campaign  the  night  before 
election  eve,  and  Kelsey  was  to  wind  his  up  on  that 
eve.  Imagine  the  surprise  of  Collier  and  his  men, 
when  the  Clarks  came  in  and  seated  themselves  just 
as  his  meeting  began.  Surely  it  was  a  good  omen.  If 
he  could  win  their  votes  he  was  out  of  danger.  His 
hopes  rose  high.  The  father  and  sons  listened  at- 
tentively to  the  speeches,  but  did  not  manifest  their  feel- 
ings by  applause.  After  the  meeting  was  over,  there 
was  an  impromptu  reception  to  them  as  the  guests  of 
honor.  They  said  on  leaving  that  they  had  enjoyed 
the  evening,  and  had  listened  to  the  speeches  with  in- 
terest. 

The  next  evening  Kelsey  wound  up  his  effort.  His 
loyal  six  were  as  loyal  as  ever.  They  cheered  as  lustily 
as  if  the  Clarks  hadn't  attended  Collier's  meeting  of  the 
night  before.  The  chairman  had  called  the  meeting 
to  order,  and  Lafe  Thomas  had  begun  to  speak,  when 
the  sound  of  approaching  footsteps  was  heard.  In 
marched  the  three  Clarks.  The  applause  that  greeted 
their  appearance  was  long  and  hearty. 

While  apparently  listening  to  the  grandiloquent  ap- 
peal of  Thomas  in  behalf  of  Kelsey,  John  Clark  was 
in  reality  otherwise  occupied.  His  mind  was  busy  with 
his  own  thoughts.  He  was  something  of  a  politician 
himself,  although  he  would  have  scornfully  denied  such 
an  accusation.  He  would  have  "  allowed  "  that  he  was 
"  some  "  on  human  nature,  but  politics — never  !  While 
sitting  and  apparently  listening  to  Thomas,  Clark  was 
mentally  canvassing  the  political  situation.  He  noted 
the  steadfast  loyalty  of  each  faction  to  its  candidate. 
He  figured  on  the  number  of  votes — the  combinations 
possible  to  make  with  such  elements. 

It  was  at  John  Clark,  especially,  that  the  oratory  of 
Thomas  was  aimed.  If  he  could  convert  him  to  the 
Kelsey  side  of  the  fight,  undoubtedly  the  father  would 
convert  his  two  sons  to  his  way  of  thinking.  John  Clark 
sat  wrapt  in  deliberation.  Before  he  was  aware  of  it 
he  slapped  his  boot  and  chuckled  to  himself,  half 
aloud :   "  I've  a  scheme  that  ought  to  work." 

"What  is  it,  father?"  asked  Frank  Clark,  in  a 
whisper. 

"  I'll  tell  you  later,"  vouchsafed  the  father,  curtly. 

Lafe  Thomas  did  not  notice  the  whispered  conversa- 
tion. He  was  too  busy  portraying  the  merits  of  his 
tried  and  true  standard-bearer.  After  he  had  finished, 
Kelsey  spoke.  The  Clarks  listened  just  as  attentively 
to  the  speeches  of  Kelsey  and  his  stalwarts  as  they 
had  to  the  speeches  of  Collier  and  his  followers.  The 
same  scene  ensued  at  the  end  of  this  meeting  as  at  the 
other.  There  was  a  reception,  the  same  fulsome  flattery 
bestowed,  the  same  hope  expressed  that  they  could  see 
their  way  clear  to  vote  for  Kelsey  as  for  Collier.  The 
meeting  closed  with  three  rousing  cheers.  Each  side 
went  to  bed  confident  of  victory. 

Election  morning  dawned.  By  nine  o'clock  the 
eighteen  votes  had  been  cast,  but  the  law  required 
the  polls  to  be  kept  open  until  sunset,  and  accordingly 
the  voters  and  election  board  lounged  around  all  day. 
The  day  was  interminably  long,  but  all  days  must  end. 
The  ballot-box  was  opened  amid  suppressed  excite- 
ment. The  clerk  of  the  board  began  to  read  off  the 
ballots. 

"  For  justice  of  the  peace  of  Long  Valley  Town- 
ship— Dudley  Collier,"  was  the  first. 

Fifteen  ballots  were  called  off,  and  the  vote  on  the 
tally-sheet  stood: 

Dudley  Collier 8 

J  ames  Kelsey   7 

Three  more  ballots  remained  to  be  counted. 

"  For  justice  of  the  peace  of  Long  Valley  Township 
— Dudley  Collier." 

A  cheer  went  up  for  Collier. 

"  Aint  you  fellers  got  any  more  idea  of  the  solemnity 
of  this  proceedin'  'n  to  cheer?"  asked  Lafe  Thomas, 
one  of  the  inspectors  of  election. 

"  For  justice  of  the  peace  of  Long  Valley  Town- 
ship— James  Kelsey." 

"  For  justice  of  the  peace  of  Long  Valley  Town- 
ship— James  Kelsey." 

A  cheer  went  up  for  Kelsey,  led  by  Lafe  Thomas. 

The  final  vote  stood: 

Dudley  Collier  9 

James  Kelsey   9 

"  Wall  I'll  be  durned,"  was  the  expressed  emotion 
of  the  township  at  the  result. 

A  special  election  was  called  for  the  election  of  a 
justice  of  the  peace.  The  vote  was  the  same  as  at  the 
previous  election.  A  deadlock  existed.  Not  one  of 
those  stubborn  farmers  could  be  induced  to  change  his 
vote.  Feeling  ran  high.  It  mattered  little  who  was 
justice  of  the  peace  so  far  as  the  welfare  of  the  com- 
munity was  concerned.  In  fact  it  is  almost  certain  it 
could  have  existed  without  su  :e.     But  to  these 

farmers  politics  took  the  place  .       ther  amusements. 

Another  special  election  was  And  now  came 


the  surprise.  John  Clark  announced  himself  an  inde- 
pendent candidate  for  the  contested  office.  He  had  three 
votes  to  begin  with — his  own  and  those  of  his  two  sons. 
These  three  votes  represented  the  balance  of  power. 
Both  warring  factions  recognized  this.  Cast  for  Clark 
the  old  result  would  come  about,  Collier  eight  and 
Kelsey  seven;  cast  for  Kelsey,  the  vote  would  be  Kelsey 
ten  and  Collier  eight;  cast  for  Collier  the  result  would 
be  Collier  eleven,  Kelsey  seven.  Excitement  reached 
high-water  mark  in  that  township.  It  seemed  as  though 
the  deadlock  would  be  broken  at  last.  Each  voter  ap- 
parently retained  his  ingrained  stubbornness. 

James  Kelsey  recognized  that  if  each  voter  remained 
true  to  his  convictions,  he  was  a  defeated  man.  A 
brilliant  idea  occurred  to  him.  If  he  could  not  be 
elected,  he  could  at  least  keep  Collier  from  being  re- 
elected. Giving  up  his  cherished  ambition  did  not 
appeal  particularly  to  Kelsey,  but  politics  was  politics. 

"  I'll  retire  that  man  to  private  life,"  threatened 
Kelsey. 

He  held  a  conference  of  his  adherents.  At  this  con- 
ference Kelsey  said:  "I  can't  be  elected,  and  so  I'm 
willing  to  help  beat  the  other  fellow.  Of  course,  I'd 
rather  win  than  lose,  but  seeing  as  I  can't  win  I'd 
rather  see  a  dark  horse  win  than  to  see  Collier  win.' 

After  a  stormy  time,  it  was  decided  to  transfer  the 
Kelsey  support  to  Clark.  Would  Collier  be  surprised? 
Well,  rather. 

Dudley  Collier  was  deeply  troubled.  There  were 
signs  of  disaffection  in  his  ranks.  Two  of  his  stanch- 
est  supporters  were  suspected  of  being  Clark  sympa- 
thizers. Not  that  there  was  any  reasonable  ground  of 
suspicion.  Trifles  light  as  air  make  politicians  change 
their  plans.  Confirmation  of  political  suspicions  is 
never  required.  From  mere  trouble,  Collier  passed  to 
worry,  and  from  worry  to  terror.  Defeat  stared  him 
in  the  face.  Whatever  might  happen,  Jim  Kelsey  should 
not  have  the  office.  He  had  an  inspiration.  If  he 
couldn't  be  elected,  neither  could  Kelsey.  He  decided 
on  a  conference.  His  faithfuls,  with  two  exceptions, 
attended  the  meeting.  The  exceptions  were  the  ones 
he  suspected  of  treachery.  After  a  long  discussion,  it 
was  decided  to  throw  the  Collier  strength  to  Clark.  The 
decision  was  to  be  kept  secret.  It  was  "  allowed " 
that  Jim  Kelsey  would  die  of  sheer  surprise. 

Election  day  came,  and  when  the  votes  were  counted 
the  result  stood  thus: 

Dudley  Collier   2 

James  Kelsey  o 

John  Clark   16 

"  I  always  said  Dud  Collier  'd  catch  it,"  said  Kelsey 
to  Clark,  "  but  I  didn't  think  his  defeat  'd  be  so  near 
unanimous."  George  S.  Evans. 

San  Francisco,  September,  1903. 


Prosperous  Colonel  Bryan. 

If  William  J.  Bryan  continues  to  prosper  at  the  rate 
he  has  during  the  past  three  years,  he  will  soon  earn 
the  title  of  "  Lincoln's  richest  citizen."  His  wealth  now 
is  estimated  all  the  way  from  one  hundred  to  five  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars.  His  weekly  newspaper,  accord- 
ing to  a  correspondent  in  the  New  York  Sun,  has  been 
a  tremendous  money-maker:  "  It  began  with  a  paid-up 
circulation,  in  January,  1901,  of  50,000  copies.  To-day, 
its  circulation  is  said  to  be  148,000.  If  the  concern 
were  capitalized  on  the  basis  of  its  net  earnings  at  six 
per  cent.,  it  would  be  worth  all  the  way  from  a  quarter 
to  a  half  million  of  dollars.  Lincoln  publishers  esti- 
mate its  net  earnings  all  the  way  from  $20,000  to 
$40,000  a  year.  As  editor  of  the  paper,  Bryan  draws 
a  salary  of  $5,000  a  year.  The  remainder  of  the  profits 
of  the  enterprise  are  invested,  largely  in  government 
securities,  in  what  he  calls  a  trust  fund  for  his  sub- 
scribers. The  purpose  of  this  is  to  provide  the  paper 
with  an  income  permanent  in  its  character,  so  as  to  in- 
sure its  life  for  an  indefinite  number  of  years.  In  other 
words,  he  has  provided  for  the  eternal  publication  of  the 
Commoner  without  any  drain  upon  his  other  resources, 
even  if  the  subscription  list  dwindles  to  nothing.  He 
has  one  experienced  newspaper  w;riter  constantly  em- 
ployed. This  man  does  the  paragraphs  and  the  sum- 
marizing of  events.  If  Bryan  is  unable  while  away  to 
send  in  his  ordinary  copy,  the  work  is  done  by  R.  L. 
Metcalfe,  editor  of  the  Omaha  World-Herald,  under 
whom  Bryan  took  his  first  lessons  as  a  newspaper 
man." 


The  Crown  Prince  and  Princess  of  Greece  were,  the 
other  da)',  the  central  figures  in  a  singular  incident 
at  the  theatre  of  Phaleron,  where  they  were  making  a 
short  stay.  Their  royal  highnesses  were  occupying  the 
only  box  in  the  house  during  the  performance  of  a 
French  operetta,  when  suddenly  a  quietly  dressed  man 
entered,  and  began  a  furious  tirade  against  the  princess, 
whom  he  threatened  to  strike.  The  crowm  prince 
sprang  to  his  feet,  and  first  flung  the  intruder  violently 
against  the  partition,  and  then  literally  kicked  him  out 
of  the  box.  When  removed  to  the  police  station,  the 
man  proved  to  be  mad  drunk,  and  on  sleeping  himself 
sober  was  evidently  amazed  to  learn  of  the  scene  he  had 
created.  At  the  intercession  of  the  princess  he  was 
not  prosecuted. 

■  ■  m 

Count  de  la  Vaulx  and  Conn  i'O  itremont  descended 
recently  in  a  balloon  near  I  Yorkshire,  having 
journeyed  from  Paris  in  seven:  and  three-quarter 
hours.  This  is  the  first  time  th; .  .  .  dloon  has  success- 
fully traveled  from  France  ti  Li  jland.  Count  de 
la  Vaulx  is  one  of  the  best  know  French  aeronauts, 
and  he  has  made  several  interest  ;  jrial  voyages. 


October  12,  1903. 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


THE    FIRST    ELOPEMENT. 


From  the  Aonals  of  Alta  California. 


Five  decades  passed  over  the  European  settlements 
of  California  and  witnessed  only  marriages  consum- 
mated without  breath  of  scandal.  Seiiors  wooed,  senori- 
tas  loved,  parents  finally  consented,  and  the  whole  terri- 
tory danced  at  the  wedding  feast.  The  people  were  all 
of  one  race,  all  of  one  religion,  and  all  of  one  style  of 
living,  so  that  even  the  most  critical  parents  could  not 
find  insurmountable  obstacles  to  their  children's  union. 

But  with  the  sixth  decade  a  new  element  entered  the 
country.  Early  in  the  nineteenth  century  the  Yankee 
vessels  discovered  that  the  California  trade  paid  three 
hundred  per  cent,  on  their  investments,  and  they  began 
to  include  her  in  their  itinerary.  When  a  vessel  an- 
chored in  a  port,  immediately  the  whole  population 
flocked  down  to  examine  the  merchandise  and  to  pur- 
chase, so  that  the  officers  met  every  inhabitant,  of  every 
age  and  of  either  sex. 

The  commercial  regulations  were  so  strict  that  a  ves- 
sel was  detained  weeks  before  it  could  get  cleared*. 
During  this  interval,  the  hospitable  Californians 
showered  entertainments  on  the  captain.  Ball 
followed  dinner:  merienda  chased  ball.  While  the 
mornings  might  be  devoted  to  business,  the  afternoons 
and  evenings  were  all  spent  in  festivity.  Most  of  the 
captains  were  young  Americans,  energetic  and  daring: 
and  after  the  perilous  voyage  around  the  Horn,  with 
only  the  masculine  society  of  their  crews,  this  country 
of  good  cheer  seemed  a  paradise,  and  the  gracious,  dark- 
eyed  maidens  were  houris.  Small  wonder  that  they 
surrendered  their  hearts.  On  the  other  hand,  it  is  not 
surprising  that  the  maidens  capitulated  to  the  visitors 
who  symbolized  to  them  all  the  wonders  of  the  foreign 
world.  Ever,  as  in  the  days  of  Desdemona,  has 
woman's  heart  been  won  by  tales  of  adventures. 

With  the  avowal  of  affection,  the  stern  parent  stepped 
in,  impelled  by  both  the  ecclesiastical  and  the  civil 
authorities.  The  American  captain  was  a  foreigner 
and  a  heretic.  Never  should  he  easily  wed  a  daughter 
of  the  country. 

Such  opposition  did  Captain  Henry  Fitch  meet  when, 
in  the  winter  of  1826,  he  asked  for  the  hand  of  Josefa, 
the  winsome  daughter  of  Joaquin  Carrilo.  of  San  Diego. 
No,  no.  He  was  a  very  good  friend,  this  Captain  En- 
rico, but  for  a  son-in-law  it  was  necessary  to  have  a 
compatriot.  Let  him  sell  his  goods  and  return  to  his 
own  land  for  a  wife.  Josefa  must  choose  her  husband 
from  the  Californians,  or,  at  farthest,  from  the  Spanish 
fold.  They  were  young;  and,  once  separated,  their 
memories  of  each  other  would  be  effaced  by  the  living 
presence  of  another  charmer.     So  said  the  parents. 

Captain  Fitch  and  Josefa  disdained  the  insinuation 
against  their  constancy.  Even  if  the  spinster  Fates  re- 
garded their  attachment  with  jealousy  and  drew  asun- 
der the  paths  of  their  lives,  they  would  be  eternally 
faithful  and  to  each  other  alone.  In  1827,  they  ex- 
changed written  promises  to  marry,  when  they  knew 
not;  but  some  time,  they  felt  sure.  Captain  Fitch  an- 
nounced his  determination  to  trade  up  and  down  the 
Pacific  Coast,  without  returning  to  the  Atlantic  until 
he  had  won  his  heart's  desire. 

His  perseverance  arid  his  undeviating  devotion  finally 
won  the  parents'  approval.  In  1829.  Sefior  Carrillo  in- 
timated that,  if  Fitch  were  only  a  member  of  the  Holy 
Church,  his  being  a  foreigner  might  be  overlooked. 
What  joy  to  the  lovers  !  Fitch  had  been  studying  the 
creed  for  a  year,  and  thanks  to  the  convincing  argu- 
ments of  Father  Menendez,  of  San  Diego,  and  to  the 
trustful  novenas  of  the  zealous  Tosefa,  he  was  ready  to 
enter  the  Church.  They  allowed  no  time  for  the  Carril- 
los  to  change  their  minds.  The  records  of  the  presidiai 
church  at  San  Diego  show  that  on  April  14,  1829,  Fa- 
ther Menendez  baptized  Enrico  Bautisto  Fitch  into 
the  Catholic  faith.  The  priest,  who  was  much  inter- 
ested in  their  story,  promised  to  marry  them  the  next 
morning,  but  advised  secrecy  until  the  ceremony  was 
over.  The  laws  of  California  demanded  that  a  for- 
eigner should  secure  a  permit  from  the  governor  before 
marrying  a  daughter  of  the  country:  but  it  was  com- 
mon property  that  His  Excellency  Governor  Echean- 
dia  was  himself  a  suitor  of  the  fair  Josefa,  and  would 
never  sanction  her  union  with  Fitch.  If  the  sacrament 
of  marriage  were  once  administered  he  could  do  noth- 
ing to  harm  them. 

So  Josefa  and  her  mother  gathered  together  her  be- 
longings in  secrecy.  If  she  regretted  that  she  had  not 
r  the  usual  elaborate  trousseau,  or  that  her  marriage 
would  not  be  solemnized  with  the  usual  fiestas  of  the 
,  country,  the  thought  did  not  pass  her  lips.  Her  mirror 
,  told  her  she  would  be  as  beautiful  a  bride  as  any  the 
populace  had  applauded:  but.  Holy  Virgin,  one  could 
•  not  have  everything,  and  she  had  Enrico  ! 

Sefior  Carrillo  spoke  to  a  few  friends.  On  the  morn- 
.  ing  of  April  15th,  they  dropped  in  casually  to  call  on  the 
sefiora.  Father  Menendez  sauntered  over  from  the 
I  chapel,  and  as  they  sipped  their  coffee,  it  was  nothing 
1  unusual  to  have  Captain  Fitch  and  his  friend  Captain 
I  Barry  happen  in.  The  servants  were  dispatched  on 
I  natural  errands.  Senorita  Josefa  entered,  in  her  best 
white  gown.  Fitch  stood  beside  her.  Father  Menen- 
|dez  had  just  opened  the  prayer-book  at  the  marriage 
J  ceremony,  when  clatter,  clatter,  steps  raced  to  the  salon. 
I  Before  vows  could  be  exchanged.  Sefior  Domingo  Car- 
rillo, the  uncle  of  the  bride  and  aid  to  the  governor,  ap- 
jpeared  at  the  doorway,  waving  a  mandate  from  his 
excellency    forbidding    the    marriage.      Consternation 


seized  the  group.  Who  had  let  the  secret  out?  Suspi- 
cion pointed  to  Don  Domingo,  but  he  protested  that  the 
order  was  issued  at  the  dictates  of  the  governor's  sus- 
picious jealousy,  and  not  from  facts  he  might  possess. 

Josefa  wept.  Fitch  swore  it  was  a  damnable  country 
where  two  good  Christians  loving  each  other  had  to  be 
separated  by  the  machinations  of  a  Mexican.  Father 
Menendez  suggested  that  there  were  other  countries, 
countries  in  which  the  church  could  unite  its  children 
without  the  interference  of  outsiders.  Then  Josefa 
looked  up  through  her  tears  and  murmured :  "  Why 
don't  you  take  me  to  those  countries.  Don  Enrico?" 

Before  Fitch  could  answer.  Sehora  Carrillo  cried : 
"  Shame,  Josefa !  To  suggest  such  a  thing !  Go  to 
your  room  and  pray  for  a  purification  of  your  heart." 
Tosefa  dared  not  disobey.  As  she  passed  out,  her  young 
cousin,  Pio  Pico,  held  the  door,  and  whispered :  "  I  will 
see  you  during  the  siesta  hour,  Ninita." 

That  evening  San  Diego  bade  farewell  to  Captain 
Barry,  whose  ship,  the  Vulture,  was  putting  forth  to 
Chile.  Josefa  did  not  appear.  Fitch  seemed  gloomy. 
After  the  Vulture  departed,  he  went  aboard  his  own 
vessel  without  asking  any  one  to  accompany  him.  Soon 
he  was  seen  in  a  boat,  pulling  from  his  ship  out  after 
the  Vulture.  He  was  alone.  What  did  he  mean  ?  The 
Vulture  came  to  anchor  just  within  Point  Loma.  Fitch 
pulled  off  to  the  northern  shore.  Then  the  observers 
saw  speeding  along  the  hillside  a  horse  heavy  laden. 
It  reached  the  point  where  the  boat  waited.  Two  fig- 
ures descended.  One  got  into  the  boat  and  went  with 
Fitch  to  the  waiting  ship.  Soon  the  Vulture  disap- 
peared from  the  horizon.  Then  the  horseman  galloped 
back  to  town.  It  was  Pio  Pico,  and  he  smilingly  an- 
nounced that  his  cousin  was  safe  with  her  lover,  bound 
to  Chile  to  get  married. 

Such  excitement  as  ensued !  Up  and  down  the  ter- 
ritory, from  presidio  to  mission,  from  pueblo  to  iso- 
lated rancho.  spread  the  tidings  of  this  unprecedented 
proceeding.  Morals  were  deduced.  It  only  proved  the 
advisability  of  strict  laws  against  the  foreigners.  Given 
a  slight  foothold,  they  seduced  one's  daughters  and 
scandalized  the  country. 

The  story  was  still  interesting,  when  in  July.  1830, 
Fitch  returned  to  San  Diego  as  master  of  the  Leonor. 
bringing  with  him  his  wife  and  infant  son,  their  mar- 
riage certificate,  and  the  record  of  the  baptism  of  the 
child,  certifying  to  its  legitimacy.  They  had  been  mar- 
ried in  Valparaiso  by  the  curate  Orrego. 

Immediately,  Fitch  was  summoned  to  the  court  of  the 
vicar-general  at  San  Gabriel  to  answer  for  his  scandal- 
ous conduct.  He  sent  his  marriage  certificate,  and 
proceeded  to  Monterey.  Here  the  fiscal  appointed  bv 
the  vicar  overtook  him,  and  arrested  both  him  and  his 
wife.  Josefa  was  "  deposited "  in  "  the  respectable 
house  "  of  Mrs.  Cooper,  while  Captain  Fitch  was  taken 
to  San  Gabriel,  via  San  DiegO.  After  her  husband's 
removal.  Josefa  petitioned  the  governor  that  she  be 
allowed  to  go  south.  He  had  evidently  outgrown  his 
jealousy,  for  he  ordered  her  to  be  taken  to  San  Gabriel. 
Here,  she  was  placed  in  the  custody  of  Dona  Eulalia 
Perez,  and  later  in  the  care  of  Mrs.  William  H.  Rich- 
ardson. When  Fitch  was  brought  up,  he  was  im- 
prisoned in  a  room  in  the  mission.  The  fiscal  was 
indignant  at  the  governor  for  allowing  Joseta  to  come 
south,  and  denounced  his  act  as  a  "  gross  infringement 
on  ecclesiastical  authority,"  declared  him  a  "  culprit 
before  God's  tribunal,"  and  urged  the  vicar  to  have  him 
arrested  and  brought  to  trial.  However,  the  vicar  was 
more  level-headed,  and  decided  that  enough  scandal 
had  already  been  raised  by  the  case,  without  arresting 
the  governor  for  it. 

The  trial  of  Fitch  lasted  for  nearly  a  month.  Many 
witnesses,  both  at  San  Gabriel  and  at  San  Diego,  were 
examined.  The  fiscal  acknowledged  that  Fitch's  mo- 
tives were  pure,  but  said  he  believed  the  marriage  "  null 
and  void,"  it  having  been  performed  outside  of  the 
bride's  parish  without  a  proper  permit.  Fitch  pleaded 
that  he  would  be  willing  to  have  the  marriage  declared 
null  and  void  and  to  remarry  in  this  country  only  that 
that  course  would  itlegitimatize  his  son. 

Finally,  the  vicar  delivered  his  decision  on  December 
28,  1830.  He  said  that  though  he  did  not  consider 
such  an  irregular  marriage  legitimate,  still  it  was 
"  valid  "  and  "  not  null  and  void."  He  ordered  that 
the  defendants  be  set  at  liberty  and  the  wife  given 
to  her  husband;  that  they  become  velados  on  the  fol- 
lowing Sunday,  receiving  the  sacrament  that  should 
have  preceded  the  marriage  ceremony;  that  they  pre- 
sent themselves  in  church  with  lighted  candles  to  hear 
mass  on  three  feast  days:  and  that  they  recite  to- 
gether for  thirty  days  the  Rosary  of  the  Blessed  Virgin. 
Then  concluded  the  good  old  man :  "  Yet,  considering 
the  great  scandal  which  Don  Enrico  has  caused  in  this 
province,  I  condemn  him  to  give  as  a  penance  and 
reparation  a  bell  of  at  least  fifty  pounds  weight  for  the 
church  at  Los  Angeles,  which  barely  has  a  borrowed 
one." 

Light  seemed  the  punishment  after  all  the  possibilities 
that  had  arisen  during  the  fiscal's  prosecution,  and 
Captain  Fitch  was  only  too  willing  to  stand  it.  He 
and  his  Josefa  were  even  more  closely  united  by  their 
many  trials.  Only  one  cloud  darkened  their  release. 
The  vicar  had  ordered  an  investigation  against  Father 
Menendez  for  advising  the  couple  to  flee  to  other 
lands.  However,  this  investigation  was  soon  closed 
without  a  reproof  to  the  worthy  priest.  Then  the  fa- 
mous case  of  Fitch  was  banished  from  the  legal 
calendar,  and  the  couple  settled  down  on  a  large  grant 
to  enjoy  the  happiness  they  had  striven  so  hard  to 
secure.  {Catherine  Chandler. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 

James  McNeill  Whistler's  estate  has  been  valued  at 
about  fifty-four  thousand  dollars.  The  greater  portion 
of  it  is  left  to  his  wife's  sister,  Rosalind  Birnie  Philip. 
He  directs  that  she  shall  aid  his  step-son,  Edward 
Godwin,  to  complete  his  studies  as  a  sculptor.  When  he 
reaches  the  age  of  twenty-three  years,  Godwin  is  to  re- 
ceive a  portion  of  the  estate. 

For  fourteen  years  Clark  Russell  has  been  crippled 
with  rheumatism,  and  has  not  set  foot  to  ground  nor 
had  a  day's  freedom  from  racking  pain.  Nevertheless, 
he  works  with  as  much  youthful  energy  as  when,  in 
years  gone  by,  he  went  down  to  the  sea  in  ships  and 
gained  that  knowledge  of  "  merchant  Jack "  he  was 
subsequently  to  turn  to  such  splendid  account. 

Jacques  Lebaudy,  son  of  a  multi-millionaire  sugar  re- 
finer, and  brother  of  the  ill-fated  Max  Lebaudy,  who 
lost  his  life  while  serving  as  a  conscript  with  the 
French  army,  has  recently  attracted  much  attention  by 
proclaiming  himself  "  Emperor  of  the  Sahara."  The 
new  emperor  inherited,  with  his  brother  Robert,  a  vast 
fortune  from  his  father,  and  with  this  money  he  has  en- 
joyed to  the  full  every  pleasure  that  Paris  and  Europe 
can  provide.  Now  he  has  turned  his  attention  to 
founding  an   empire   amid   the  wastes  of  the   Sahara. 

The  Pope's  entourage  have  silenced  his  family.  Its 
members  talked  too  much  to  newspaper  reporters  from 
all  quarters  of  the  globe.  His  three  spinster  sisters  are 
now  in  Rome,  but  not  in  a  convent.  They  lodge  in  a 
street  near  the  Vatican,  which  is  in  a  populous  quarter 
of  the  city,  on  a  third  floor.  The  brother,  who  keeps 
an  inn  at  Riese,  is  about  to  sell  it.  Emily  Crawford 
says  that  the  Curia  thinks  that  if  it  is  no  harm  to  be  of 
humble  birth,  it  is  not  a  thing  to  parade,  and  that  all 
the  talk  about  the  Pope's  lowly  origin  is  getting  on  the 
nerves  of  educated  Catholics. 

Elizabeth  Marbury,  who  deals  in  foreign  plays, 
has  purchased  a  villa  near  Versailles,  with  the  idea 
of  living  abroad  permanently.  Miss  Marbury  and  Elsie 
de Wolfe,  the  actress,  live  in  one  of  the  most  picturesque 
houses  in  New  York.  It  is  the  little  yellow  brick  building 
at  Irving  Place  and  Seventeenth  Street,  once  owned  and 
occupied  by  Washington  Irving.  It  is  a  museum  of 
valuable  objects  collected  in  Europe  by  the  two  occu- 
pants. Miss  Marbury's  lease  on  the  house  expires  at 
the  end  of  a  year,  and  after  that  she  will  go  to  live  in 
Versailles,  returning  to  the  United  States  only  for  a 
few  months  in  every  year  for  the  transaction  of  her 
theatrical  business. 

The  Menpes  family  furnish  a  signal  instance  of  suc- 
cessful cooperation  in  bookmaking.  In  the  preparation 
of  their  beautiful  volume.  "  World's  Children."  Mor- 
timer Menofls.  the  artist,  and  Miss  Dorothy  Menpes 
gathered  trie  material  in  the  course  of  many  long 
journeys.  Mr.  Menpes  selected  from  his  paintings  of 
children  of  twenty  or  thirty  different  races  one  hundred 
of  the  best,  and  these  are  reproduced  in  color  in 
"  World's  Children  "  by  the  elder  daughter.  Miss  Maud 
Menpes,  at  the  Menpes  Press,  near  London.  Miss 
Dorothy  Menpes,  who  supplies  the  text,  is  not  yet  out 
of  her  teens.  She  has  just  completed  another  volume, 
entitled  "  The  Durbar,"  which  will  be  illustrated  with 
another  collection  of  her  father's  paintings. 

Sir  Michael  Herbert,  the  British  embassador  to  the 
United  States,  who  died  a  fortnight  ago  at  Davos- 
Platz.  Switzerland,  was  a  son  of  the  first  Baron  Herbert 
of  Lea,  and  was  born  January  25.  1857.  In  1888.  he 
acted  as  recording  secretary  to  Lord  Sackville-West. 
who  was  then  British  minister  at  Washington.  D.  C. 
The  historic  Murchison  letter,  published  during  the 
political  campaign  of  that  year,  resulted  in  Lord  Sack- 
ville's  recall,  and  during  the  exciting  period  preceding 
the  appointment  as  minister  of  Sir  Julian  (later  lord) 
Pauncefote,  Mr.  Herbert  acted  as  charge  d'affaires. 
and  passed  through  the  diplomatic  crisis  with  distinc- 
tion. It  was  at  this  time  that  his  acquaintance  with 
Miss  Leila  Wilson,  daughter  of  Richard  Wilson,  of  New 
York,  ripened  into  a  closer  intimacy,  and  on  November 
27,  1888.  they  were  married.  Mr.  Herbert  becoming 
through  the  union  brother-in-law  of  Mrs.  Ogden  Goelet 
and  of  Mrs.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt.  Jr.  Besides  his  widow. 
Sir  Michael  leaves  two  sons — Sydney,  aged  thirteen. 
and  Michael,  ten  years  old. 

The  Marquis  Sacchetti,  who  is  grand  marshal  of  the 
court  of  the  Vatican,  is  a  nobleman  of  Florentine  ori- 
gin, who  may  be  said  to  owe  his  fortune  to  the  fact 
that  while  an  officer  of  the  Noble  Guard  of  the  Pope 
he  managed  to  secure  both  the  heart  and  the  hand  of 
Donna  Maria  Rarberini.  the  only  daughter  and  heiress 
of  the  last  of  the  Barberini  princes.  Donna  Maria, 
who  is  a  beautiful  woman,  brought  tn  her  husband  not 
only  an  enormous  fortune,  but  likewise  the  famous 
Barberini  palace,  the  picture  gallery  and  library  of 
which  are  both  of  world-wide  fame,  the  former  contain- 
ing the  celebrated  portrait  of  Beatrice  Cenci,  while  the 
library  comprises  no  less  than  seven  thousand  manu- 
scripts of  extraordinary  value.  Leo  the  Thirteenth, 
with  whom  the  young  officer  was  a  particular  favorite, 
not  only  authorized  him  to  assume  his  wife's  name  of 
Barberini,  but  likewise  her  father's  title  of  Prince 
Palestrina.  The  Barberini  palace,  it  may  be  added,  is 
constructed  in  great  part  with  stones  taken  from  the 
Coliseum,  which  led  to  the  old  Roman  saying  that 
"  what  the  barbarians  had  spared  the  Barbers 
spoiled." 


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THE       ARGONAUT 


October  12,  1903. 


TWO    POPULAR    STAGE    BEAUTIES. 

Maxine  Elliott's  Hit  in  Clyde  Fitch's  Play,  "  Her  Own    Way  "—Inci- 
dents of  Her  First-Night  in  New  York— Lily  Langtry 
in  "Mrs.  DeerinE's  Divorce." 

Ever  since  it  was  announced  that  Maxine  Elliott  had 
decided  to  sever  her  theatrical  connections  with  her 
husband.  Xat  Goodwin,  and  branch  out  as  an  inde- 
pendent star,  there  have  been  all  sorts  of  rumors  of 
domestic  discord  and  family  jars  circulated  in  the  pa- 
pers. The  simple  fact  is  that  they  realized  the  family 
exchequer  might  be  still  further  enriched  if  each  headed 
a  separate  company.  E.  H.  Sothern  and  his  wife,  Vir- 
ginia Harned,  and  James  K.  Hackett  and  his  wife, 
Mary  Mannering.  have  succeeded,  so  they  saw  no  rea- 
son why  they  should  not  follow  suit.  On  Monday 
night,  at  the  Garrick  Theatre.  Miss  Elliott  made  her 
stellar  debut  in  Clyde  Fitch's  latest  play,  "  Her  Own 
Way,"  and,  to  her  credit  be  it  said,  came  through  the 
trying  ordeal  with  flying  colors.  However,  it  is  diffi- 
cult to  say  who  deserves  the  most  praise  for  the  genuine 
hit  she  has  scored — the  actress  herself,  Mr.  Fitch,  the 
playwright,  or  her  manager,  Charles  Dillingham,  who 
has  provided  her  with  one  of  the  best  supporting  com- 
panies seen  on  Broadway  in  many  a  long  day. 

With  the  possible  exception  of  William  Winter,  who 
considers  Fitch's  pictures  of  the  doings  of  New  York's 
social  set  "  absurdities."  and  the  play,  as  a  whole,  "  a 
prolix  tissue  of  coarse  and  platitudinous  collo- 
quv,"  all  of  the  critics  agree  that  "  Her  Own  Way  " 
is  one  of  the  best  plays  which  this  prolific  dramatist  has 
written.  It  is  true  that  Mr.  Fitch  again  deals  with 
familiar  material  and  some  old  situations,  but  they  are 
all  so  ingeniously  handled,  so  abundantly  supplied  with 
characteristic  little  touches  that  have  come  to  be  known 
as  Fitchisms,  that  the  audience  is  prepared  to  overlook 
his  lack  of  original  plot.  For  example,  in  the  opening 
scene,  instead  of  a  funeral,  as  in  "  The  Climbers,"  or 
the  heaving  deck  of  an  ocean  steamship,  as  in  "  The 
Stubbornness  of  Geraldine,"  he  has  given  us  a  nursery 
where  four  children  are  stuffing  themselves  with  good 
things,  it  being  the  birthday  of  one  of  them.  The  act- 
ing of  children  is  usually  a  bore,  but  Mr.  Fitch  has  the 
happy  faculty  of  putting  real  children  on  the  stage. 
The  juvenile  actors  in  "  Her  Own  Way  "  understand 
their  parts  and  play  them  intelligently  and  with  unction, 
one  little  chap,  Master  Donald  Gallaher.  being  abnor- 
mally clever. 

It  was  some  moments  after  her  appearance  on  Mon- 
day night  before  Miss  Elliott  could  proceed  with  her 
lines,  for  the  friendly  audience  greeted  her  with  enthu- 
siastic applause.  And  after  each  act  they  insisted 
upon  calling  her  out  repeatedly.  The  popular  actress 
never  appeared  more  radiantly  beautiful,  and  when  the 
hair-dresser,  in  the  third  act,  said  to  her,  wrhile  she 
was  having  her  hair  done  up,  "  Oh.  but  those  society 
ladies  would  never  mind  the  headache  if  they  could 
look  like  you.  mum !"  the  audience  thought  so,  too,  and 
made  a  great  to-do.  However,  it  was  not  the  handsome 
woman  Monday  night  who  called  for  the  chief  applause, 
but  the  convincing  actress.  For  the  role  of  Georgians 
Carley,  the  self-willed  beauty  who  insists  upon  marry- 
ing the  man  she  loves,  is  excellently  suited  to  her  his- 
trionic powers  and  her  temperament,  and  she  plays  it 
with  insight,  sympathy,  and  sincerity.  Mr.  Fitch,  by 
the  way,  was  called  out  at  the  end  of  the  third  act,  and 
made  the  usual  speech,  which,  to  his  everlasting  credit, 
consisted  of  about  one  line. 

Over  at  the  Savoy  Theatre,  Mrs.  Langtry  is  appear- 
ing for  the  last  week  in  Percy  Fendall's  clever  three-act 
comedy,  "  Mrs.  Deering's  Divorce."  When  the  Jersey 
Lily  secured  an  option  on  this  play  last  year  in  London, 
she  really  did  not  think  much  of  it.  However,  to  avoid 
paying  a  forfeit,  she  produced  it  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
at  the  tag  end  of  her  New  England  tour  last  spring,  and 
to  her  amazement  and  that  of  the  entire  company,  it 
scored  a  most  pronounced  hit.  Fearing  that  the  lesser 
city's  verdict  was  only  that  of  a  provincial  audience, 
she  decided  to  give  the  comedy  a  further  test  in  Boston. 
"  The  Hub  "  also  received  "  Mrs.  Deering's  Divorce  " 
with  such  marked  favor  that  Mrs.  Langtry  has  wisely 
determined  to  make  it  the  exclusive  vehicle  for  her  tour 
this  year. 

Mr.  Fendall  is  a  promising  young  English  author  and 
playwright,  and  has  hit  upon  a  good  idea  for  his  play. 
Its  value  lies  not  so  much  in  its  plot  and  situations 
as  in  its  very  amusing  society  talk,  its  truthful  por- 
trayal of  smart  modern  social  life,  and  its  fair  analysis 
of  an  inconsequent,  rather  weak,  woman's  character. 
Its  motive  is  the  love  that  sometimes  exists  between  a 
man  and  woman,  even  though  they  have  decided  to  be 
divorced.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Deering  have  been  separated 
by  the  courts,  and  after  a  time  each  is  about  to  remarry. 
She  is  to  wed  a  society  youth  who  has  been  following 
her  about  for  months;  he  is  to  marry  a  spinster  of  forty 
hard  summers,  who  is  not  in  love  with  him.  but  finds  he 
is  the  only  man  who  is  willing  to  take  her  face  and  her 
fortune.  The  spinster,  wise  in  her  maturity,  thinks  it 
well  to  get  a  "  character  "  from  Deering's  last  place, 
so  to  speak,  and  comes  to  the  divorced  Mrs.  Deering 
to  inquire  as  to  her  former  husband's  general  habits. 
Her  coming  and  Deering's  chance  arrival  start  some 
capital  comedy  scenes  and,  needless  to  say,  by  the  time 
the  curtain  is  ready  to  be  rung  down  Captain  Deering 
and  his  divorced  wife  are  reunited. 

.     In  the  last  act.  Mr.  Fendall  transports  all  his  people 

l.i  a  dressmaker's  ;'..jp  in  Bond  Street,  where  he  allows 

.■■  audience  to  see  Mrs.  Deering  take  off  her  gown, 

and  appear  in  a  confection  of  lace,  pink  ribbons,  and 


white  silk  brocade.  This  is  the  much-heralded  and 
widely  advertised  disrobing  scene  which  is  stronglv 
reminiscent  of  a  similar  scene  in  Sardou's  "  Divorcons," 
and  Sadie  Martinot's  much-discussed  appearance  in 
that  vulgar  French  adaptation,  "  The  Turtle." 

Mrs.  Langtry,  this  season,  looks  even  more  youthful 
than  she  did  last  year.  Rarely,  too,  has  she  worn  more 
becoming  gowns  than  she  does  in  "  Mrs.  Deering's  Di- 
vorce." The  delighted  "  Ohs  "  and  "  Ahs  "  from  the 
feminine  portion  of  the  audience  that  greet  every 
change  of  costume  are  good  proof  of  the  novelty  and 
effectiveness  of  the  creations  made  especially  for  the 
play.  Some  prudish  persons  may  object  to  the  partial 
disrobing  scene,  on  the  ground  that  it  is  unnecessary, 
but  they  will  realize  their  mistake  when  they  stop  to 
think  that  the  play  has  only  three  acts,  and.  therefore. 
Mrs.  Langtry  could  have  worn  only  three  gowns.  As  it 
is.  the  disrobing  episode  enables  the  audience  to  see,  in 
addition  to  the  semi-mourning  robe  of  the  first  act,  the 
white  evening-gown  of  the  second  act.  and  the  black 
velvet  gown  of  the  third  act.  a  charming  pink  ball- 
gown which  the  Lily  dons  behind  a  screen. 

As  for  her  acting,  Mrs.  Langtry  is  still  self-conscious 
and  amateurish  at  times.  However,  Mr.  Fendall's 
play  is  light  and  not  taxing,  and  as  the  actress  is,  there- 
fore, called  upon  only  to  look  pretty,  smile,  and  speak 
witty  and  well-pointed  lines,  she  succeeds  easily  in 
pleasing  her  audiences.  Flaneur. 

New  York,  October  2,  1903. 


THE    SANTA    FE    TRAIL. 


This  way  walked  Fate ;  and  as  she  went,  flung  far  the  line  of 

destiny 
That   bound  an   untracked   continent  to   brotherhood    from   sea 

to   sea — 
That  long,  gray  trail  of  dream  and  hope  marked  mile  by  mile 

with  graves  that  keep 
On  every  barren  hill  and  slope  some  stout  heart  lost  in  dream- 
less sleep. 
Patience    and     faith    and    fortitude     were    willed     to    it,    and 

justified  ; 
Stern,  homely  virtues,  plain  and  rude :  eternal  as  the  sky  and 

wide. 
Xor  ever  Viking  dared  the  sea  in  braver  mood  than  these  who 

went 
Strong-armed  to   wrest   from    Mystery   their  birthright,   half   a 

continent. 

Gay.    hawk-eyed,    dark-faced    voyageurs.    tired    of    the    river's 

muddy  tide. 
Or    drawn    by    whispered,    golden    lures,    or    beckoned    by    the 

prairies   wide. 
These  first,  and  lightly  down  the  wind  their  songs  float  back- 
ward as  they  pass ; 
So  light  they  go.  nor  leave  behind  scarce   one   deep   footprint 

on  the  grass. 
And  after  them,  lean.  keen,  and  grim,  one  fit  untrodden  heights 

to  scan  ; 
The  gray  peak  looking  down  on  him  knew  something  kindred 

in  the  man. 
Half  prophet,  seer,  his  eyes  could  trace,  in  those  lone  wastes 

that  seemed  to  wait. 
The  larger  promise  of  his  race,  the  germ  of  many  an  unborn 

State. 

Then    Fremont,    passing   not    alone ;    beside   him.    silent,    dim, 

unguessed. 
Unheralded,    to    claim    her   own.   the    Soul    of   the    Awakening 

West. 
Behind,    above    the    thundering    herds    of    fear-swept    bison. 

seemed  to  beat 
A    hymn    prophetic   without    words,    the    trample   of    a    million 

feet. 
That  long  gray  trail !      That  path  of  fate  !      For  gain   or  loss. 

for  life  or  death. 
Driven  by  greed,  or  hope,  or  hate,  it  drew  them  to  the  latest 

breath : 
It  broke  them  to  its  mighty  mold :  it  seared  their  weakness  to 

the  bone : 
It    stripped    them     stark    to    sin     and    cold,    and     mocked    at 

whimperer  and  drone. 

And  they  were   Men   who  bore  its  mark  :   and  they  were   Men 

its  service  made — 
Strong-souled  to  face  the  utter  dark,  and  watch  with  Fear  still 

unafraid : 
Stern   school   of  heroes  unconfessed :   unweighed   for   meed   of 

right  or  wrong ; 
By    glib    late-comers    dispossessed    of    honors    that    to    them 

belong : 
As  in  the  fire-tried  furnace  hour,  strange,  warring  elements  will 

fuse 
To   purpose,   unity   and   power,    to    truer    strength    and   nobler 

use ; 
Unconscious — save  that  here  was  life  a  man  might  live  as  man- 
hood meant — 
They  wrought  a  nation  from   their  strife,  and  shaped   it  with 

their  discontent. 

Xo    pulseless,    still-born    hope   was    theirs ;    each    man    a    later 

Argonaut. 
Who    from    great    dreams    and    ceaseless    cares    out-wrove    the 

Golden  Fleece  he  sought ; 
And  single-handed  out  of  need  made  potent  opportunity  ; 
Xor    shamed    the   hour    with    laggard    deed,    nor   quailed    from 

naked    Destiny. 
They  touched  the  wilderness  to  flower  :  they  gave  the  unvoiced 

solitudes 
A  tongue  that  spoke  with  trumpet  -power  the  message  of  their 

iron    moods  : 
But  ha!   the  cost!     The  hands  that  bled!     The  toll  of  heart- 
aches  and  of  tears ! 
The  stern,  white  faces  of  the  dead  that  paved  that  highway 

through   the   years ! 

The    long    grass    hides    the    rutted    trail    where    tra'cked    those 

mighty    caravans 
Whose  far-lit  camp-fires  low  and  pale  elude,  howe'er  the  vision 

scans 
That    lost    horizon,    shrunk   to    fit    the   little    roads    that   come 

and  go, 
By  easy  ways  (of  greatness  quit),  that  any  chance-drawn  foot 

may   know ; 
Light  trails  that  traffic  o'er  the  dust  of  them  that  were  a  braver 

breed, 
Forgotten    in    the    careless    lust    fo"    larger    gain    and    lesser 

deed. 
Mother  of  all  the  roads  that  hold  the  )'er  men  that  makes 

or  mars ! 
These  lead  to   cities,  lands,  and  g<  ;   led  to   the  eternal 

stars  ! — Sharlot  U.  Hall  in  (  (. 


IS    THERE    A    CATHOLIC    "PERIL"? 

A  Noted  Frenchman's  American  Observations. 

M.  Urbain  Gohier  has  been  studying  religious  condi- 
tions in  the  United  States,  and  is  much  impressed  by  the 
growing  power  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  In  his 
new  book  on  the  American  people,  he  declares  that  the 
Catholic  question  in  the  United  States  is  one  of  ex- 
treme interest,  and  predicts  that,  "  within  a  few  years, 
it  will  be  the  Catholic  peril."    He  goes  on  to  say: 

The  Roman  Church,  which  in  the  United  States  numbered 
44,500  communicants  in  1790,  to-day  numbers  12,000.000  or 
more.  The  total  population  of  the  country  is  twenty  times 
more  numerous  than  at  that  epoch ;  the  Catholic  population 
three  hundred  times  more  numerous.  To  this  we  must  now 
add  6,500.000  of  Catholics  in  the  Philippines  and  1,000.000  in 
Porto  Rico.  The  territory  of  the  republic  maintains  1  cardi- 
nal. 17  archbishops,  81  bishops;  administering  82  dioceses  and 
5  apostolic  curateships.  almost  11.000  churches,  more  than 
5,000  chapels,  with  12,500  officiating  priests.  There  are  81 
Catholic  seminaries.  163  colleges  for  boys,  629  colleges  for 
girls,  3.400  parochial  schools,  250  orphanages,  and  nearly 
1.000  other  various  institutions.  Finally,  the  United  States 
alone  sends  more  Peter's  pence  to  Rome  than  all  the  Catholic 
countries  together. 

Two  incidents  which  he  thinks  have  served  within 
recent  months  to  reveal  the  real  significance  of  the 
"  Catholic  question  "  are  the  Pennsylvania  coal  strike 
and  the  situation  in  the  Philippines.     He  writes: 

While  the  Protestant  clergy  were  divided  in  their  partisan- 
ship between  the  strikers  and  the  operators,  the  Catholic 
clergy  went  solidly  for  the  strikers.  Its  attitude  and  policy 
was  directly  contrary  to  that  which  it  holds  in  Europe,  except 
that  it  was  the  essential  Catholic  policy  of  playing  for  favor. 
In  the  United  States  the  Catholic  population  is  in  the  lowest 
stratum  of  society,  comprising  Irisb,  Polish,  and  Italian  immi- 
gration of  the  pauper  class,  besides  a  large  influx  of 
Canadians,  who  are  as  abjectly  submissive  to  their  priests  as 
their  forefathers  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Under  these  con- 
ditions the  politics  of  the  Catholic  Church  is  and  will  con- 
tinue to  be  that  of  demagogues.  In  the  case  of  the  recent  strike 
it  is  to  be  remarked  that  John  Mitchell.  "  the  Bonaparte  of 
the  miners."  is  a  Catholic,  the  son  of  an  Irish  Catholic,  and 
his  oldest  son  is  being  educated  for  the  Catholic  priesthood; 
that  the  Federation  of  Catholic  Societies  of  the  United  States 
petitioned  President  Roosevelt  to  end  the  strike  ;  and  that  on 
the  request  from  the  operators  that  a  clergyman  be  included 
in  the  arbitration  committee,  the  President  chose  a  Catholic 
bishop. 

The  question  of  the  status  of  the  friars  in  the  Philip- 
pines gives  a  striking  illustration  of  the  changed  po- 
sition of  the  United  States: 

In  1776,  the  government  in  its  infancy  forbade  the  Pope 
the  nomination  of  a  single  prelate,  and  refused  to  make  any 
kind  of  recognition  of  the  Holy  See.  To-day  the  outcome  of 
the  Philippine  issue  is  that  the  Pope  has  the  official  nomination 
of  one  hundred  prelacies  within  American  territory,  with  the 
added  triumph  of  having  received  American  embassadors  at 
the  Vatican.  The  mission  of  Governor  Taft,  it  is  true,  was 
represented  by  the  government  at  Washington  as  without  any 
official  character,  but  this  flimsy  hooding  of  the  facts  can  not 
bear  examination.  As  the  Independent  observed.  Judge  Taft 
was  equipDed  with  credentials  and  empowered  to  negotiate 
with  the  Vatican  as  formally  and  completely  as  any  other 
embassador.  The  conduct  of  Catholic  leaders  in  America  at 
the  beginning  of  the  agitation  against  the  friars  was  significant. 
Archbishop  Ireland  counseled  prudence  and  forbearance  as  the 
course  for  the  church,  lest  public  apprehensions  should  be 
roused  by  a  revelation  of  the  power  of  the  Catholic  com- 
munity now  solid  and  formidable  in  the  heart  of  the  American 
nation.  His  counsels,  however,  were  not  adopted  by  the 
Federation  of  Catholic  Societies,  then  in  convention  at  Chi- 
cago. Bishop  McFauI.  of  Trenton,  led  in  a  bold  arraignment 
of  the  American  administration  in  the  Philippines,  declaring 
that  it  had  been  animated  by  Protestant  fanaticism,  and  calling 
on  the  President  to  do  his  duty  under  the  Constitution  and 
secure  personal  rights  and  property — to  the  friars — in  the 
Philippines.  This  means  that  Catholicism  in  the  United  States 
feels  itself  sufficiently  powerful  to  lay  aside  diplomacy. 

In  brief,  M.  Gohier  thinks  that  "  the  power  and  suc- 
cess of  the  Catholic  Church  are  apparent  to  discerning 
eyes  in  every  part  of  America."    He  says  in  conclusion: 

The  public  press,  for  example,  carefully  tempers  its  news 
and  its  views  in  deference  to  its  Catholic  patronage.  In  most 
of  the  largest  towns  the  Catholic  youth  are  not  only  united 
in  special  societies  and  clubs,  but  even  in  military  organiza- 
tions. The  church  even  derives  profit  from  the  American 
weakness  for  marrying  foreign  titles  by  introducing  young 
Catholic  aristocrats  into  the  society  of  millionaires,  and  she 
is  often  rewarded  not  only  by  gaining  control  of  great  dowries. 
but  even  by  gaining  fair  converts,  who  embrace  the  ancient 
faith  for  the  pleasure  of  being  married  by  a  bishop  or  cardinal 
amid  the  theatrical  and  mediaeval  pomp  of  Rome.  The 
Catholics,  it  is  true,  are  a  minority  ;  but  they  are  a  minority 
that  is  homogeneous,  organized,  and  disciplined.  They  form  a 
solid  block  in  the  midst  of  a  heap  of  crumbling  Protestant 
fragments.  They  are,  it  is  true,  the  lowest  element  of  the  na- 
tion ;  but  under  universal  suffrage  the  vote  of  a  brute  is  worth 
that  of  a  Newton.  When  there  shall  be  an  army  of  fifteen  or 
twenty  millions  of  Catholics,  firmly  united  by  a  tyrannical 
faith,  trained  under  the  regime  of  the  confessional,  blindly 
committed  to  the  wrill  of  their  priests,  and  directed  by  the 
brains  of  a  few  high  Jesuits,  we  shall  see  how  much  of  a 
showing  there  will  be  for  American  liberty. 

M.  Gohier's  utterance  has  aroused  unusual  interest  in 
the  religious  press,  and  his  alarmist  views  are  indorsed 
by  more  than  one  evangelical  paper. 


Some  people  may  have  the  idea  that  the  song 
"  Dixie  "  does  not  mean  much  to  the  Southerner  of  to- 
day, but  this  is  a  mistake,  as  was  shown  at  a  recent 
Confederate  reunion  in  Columbia,  Mo.  A  motion  was 
introduced  to  the  effect  that  a  movement  be  started  to 
change  the  words  of  the  song  and  substitute  some 
which  might  be  a  bit  more  serious,  and  a  panic  almost 
ensued.  Gray-haired  men  in  old  gray  uniforms  climbed 
on  chairs  and  protested,  saying  that  the  wonderful  old 
song  had  been  good  enough  for  them  once  upon  a 
time  and  was  good  enough  for  them  now. 


The  charge  of  salt-watering  the  productive  oil  wells 
on  Spindle  Top,  in  the  Beaumc  :.,  district,  for  the 

sake  of  depressing  their  value  w.\C,     .   uiring  possession 
of  the  property,  is  being  reite  y  a   Fort  Worth 

paper  againsj:  the  Standard  Oil       n    .  :ry. 


October  12,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Two  Poetic  Dramas. 
A  comedy  in  verse  entitled  "  The  Canter- 
mry  Pilgrims,"  dedicated  to  E.  H.  Sothern 
iy  the  author.  Percy  Mackaye.  son  of  Steele 
»Iackaye,  is.  in  many  respects,  a  very  notable 
■ontribution  to  recent  poetical  work.  The  great 
Chaucer  figures  as  the  hero,  a  role  which  was 

0  have  been  destined  for  Sothern  himself. 
It   is   part    romance    and   part    comedy,    but 

omedy  is  the  ruling  spirit  of  the  play,  which 
iresents  a  most  animated  picture  of  the  assem- 
>ling  of  pilgrims  at  Tabard  Inn.  and  of  the 
isterous  merry-makings  of  the  commoners, 
"he  author  has  completely  absorbed  the  spirit 
nd  form  of  legitimate  comedy  of  the  old 
chool,  thus  the  literary  quality  of  the  play 
B  of  a  high  order. 

As  an  acting  play  the  dramatic  movement 
k  partially  sacrificed  to  atmosphere,  and  the 
hterest  is  too  widely  diffused,  there  being  fifty 
peaking  parts,  which  have  a  tendency  to 
rowd  upon  each  other.  The  dramatic  merit 
f  the  piece,  however,  seems  to  appeal  to 
ractical  players,  since  Sothern  secured  the 
ghts  and  began  rehearsals,  with  the  intention 
f  bringing  out  the  play  during  the  coming 
;ason.  Practical  demonstration  proved  that 
he  character  of  Alisoun  overcast  that  of 
haucer  in  dramatic  prominence,  and  hence 
le  acting  rights  were  transferred  to  Amelia 
ingham.  who  will  assume  the  character  of 
ie  roystering  wife  of  Bath  this  summer. 
A  brief  extract  will  give  an  idea  of  the 
igh  quality  of  Mr.  Mackaye's  verse: 
What  beauty  dreams  in  silence!  The  white  stars. 
Like  folded  daisies  in  a  summer  field. 
Sleep  in  their  dew,  and  by  yon  primrose  gap 
In    darkness    hedge    St    Ruth    hath    dropped    her 

sickle." 
Another,  and  much  shorter  and  less 
nbitious,  work,  entitled  "  Bethlehem,"  is  a 
ativity  play,  and  is  evidently  designed  par- 
rularly  for  presentation  at  Christmas  enter- 
inments  and  the  like.  It  is  by  Laurence 
'ousman,    who    has    already    proved    himself 

■  be  the  possessor  of  genuine  poetic  feel- 
g,  and  who  in  "  Bethlehem  "  has  succeeded. 

tith  simply-worded  unstilted  verse,  in  convey- 

g  the  effect  of"  the  holy  stillness  of  the  night 
the  Xativity  and  the  devout,  humble  talk 
the    shepherds,    who   watch    at   night   near 

.-thlehem  and  who  assembled  at  Gabriel's 
fhest    to    worship    the    Babe    "  cradled    amid 

e  kine." 

Mr.  Housman  has  gained  a  peculiarly  happy 
i:sult  in  modeling  the  rustic-  talk  of  the 
liepherds  on  that  of  the  English  peasantry  in 
p  hill  countries.  A  shepherd's  song  is  here 
l/en  as  an  instance  of  the  effective  sim- 
icity  of  Mr.  Housman's  style: 

"  The  world  is  still  to-night, 
The  world  is  still: 

■  The  snow  on  vale  and  hill 

1  Like  wool    lies  white,    like    wool    lies   white. 
And  so  it  was,   and  so 

I     A  thousand  years  ago, 

I    And  so  will  be,  good  lads,  when  we  lack  will." 

I  Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
'rk. 


One  of  the  Prophets. 
'  Tolstoy  is  the  protagonist  to-day  of  the 
f  jna  of  the  human  soul,"  writes  Ernest  Crosby 
]  rard  the  end  of  a  brief  essay  in  book-form. 
;  titled  "Tolstoy  and  His  Message."  A  large 
:  rase,  is  it  not?  And  yet,  what  figure  looms 
.  re  grandly  on  the  shadowy  horizon,  what 
i  rsonality  draws  all  eyes  unto  it  more 
EDngly  than  that  of  this  venerable  Russian? 
fey  say  that  the  daily  visitors  at  Yasnaia 
*  liana  are  of  every  civilized  race.  Not  only 
*\ 1*  serious  periodicals,  but  our  yellowest 
j  repapers,  find  that  the  public  interest  in 
i  Istoy  in  America  is  great  enough  to  warrant 
'  I  sending  of  a  constant  stream  of  corre- 
'A\  -ndents  to  besiege  his  doors.  Probably 
\rc  is  no  Protestant  preacher  of  note  in  the 
1  jrld  whose  ideas  have  not  been  sensibly 
.;  :uenced  by  the  man. 

Ifut   singularly    enough,    the    most    popular 

fi  iern    writer    in    English,    if     not     in     any 

linage,  is  the  one  most  thoroughly  alien  in 

;sipathy   and   thought   to    Tolstoy.      Kipling. 

u  last  analysis,   is   as  consistent  a  champion 

othe  right  of  might  as  Tolstoy  of  the  doc- 

tfI  e,  "  Resist  not  evil."  Kipling,  unconsciously 

c  btless,    is    a    Nietzscheian,    and    Nietzsche 

i    Tolstoy    stand    at    opposite    poles.      Tol- 

'  hitman.  Morris,  Thoreau,  Carpenter — 

tl  ;e  are  the   salient   figures   on   one    side   of 

•  t   Crosby   is   pleased   to   call    the    "  drama 

^  he  soul."     Upon  the  other  side,  the  mad 

P  osopher  and  the   author  of  "  The  Rhyme 

0  the    Three    Captains "    stand    forth    con- 

s  mous. 

rnest   Crosby   is   a  writer   whose   personal 

■  erience  gives  weight  to  his  words.     In  the 

\  sent  essay  he  hints  at  the  story,  but  does 

i  tell  it    He  was,  we  believe,  judge  of  the 


international  court  at  Alexandria,  Egypt,  when 
Tolstoy's  "On  Life"  fell  into  his  hands.  He 
read  the  book,  resigned  his  post,  visited  Tol- 
stoy at  his  home,  and  returned  thence  to 
America,  where  he  has  since  been  one  of  the 
very  few  persons  courageous  enough  actually 
to  practice  as  well  as  intellectually  to  ac- 
quiesce in  Tolstoy 's  doctrines.  The  book. 
"  Tolstoy  and  His  Message,"  is,  therefore, 
from  many  points  of  view,  an  interesting  one. 
Published  by  the  Funk  &  Wagnalls  Com- 
pany. New  York  ;  50  cents. 

Cupid  in  a  Typhoon. 

When  the  good  ship  Sirdar  is  broken  amid- 
ships on  the  coral  reef,  as  a  stave  is  broken 
over  the  knee,  Jenks.  the  hero  and  steward, 
a  cashiered  officer  of  the  British  army. 
catches  the  flying  figure  of  a  girl — haply 
the  beautiful  daughter  of  the  baronet  owner 
of  the  vessel — and  with  superhuman  strength 
braves  the  storming  elements.  Again  and 
again  he  is  dragged  down  with  his  unconscious 
burden.  Now  he  grasps  at  the  binnacle  pil- 
lar as  it  sweeps  by.  only  to  be  hurled  beneath 
a  mass  of  timbers  !  Now  he  is  buoyed  upon 
the  ceiling  of  the  music-room !  Deafened  by 
the  roar  of  the  waves,  blinded  by  the  spray, 
benumbed  by  the  cold,  instinct  only  guides 
him  !  But  at  last  he  feels  a  firm  foundation 
beneath  him.  It  is  sand  !  Blind  and  dumb. 
he  is  tossed  upon  the  beach  of  an  unknown 
island,  holding  fast  his  still  unconscious  but 
"  lovely  burden." 

Morning  comes,  and  the  sun's  rays  warm 
him  into  life,  but  the  girl  lies  there,  pale  and 
all  but  dead.  He  tries  to  unfasten  her  collar 
and  waistbands  :  he  thrusts  his  hand  into  his 
pocket  for  his  knife,  and  for  the  first  time 
notices  his  hart. 

The  nail  of  his  forefinger  had  been  torn  out 
and  is  hanging  by  a  small  piece  of  skin.  With 
a  savage  jerk  he  tears  it  completely  away  with 
his  teeth.  Bending  to  resume  his  task,  he 
finds  those  eyes  of  "  heavenly  blue "  upon 
him.  "  Why  do  you  do  that?  "  she  whispers. 
'  Do  what  ?" 

"  Bite  your  nail  off." 

"  It  was  in  my  way.  I  wished  to  cut  your 
dress  open  at  the  waist.  You  were  col- 
lapsed, almost  dead.  I  thought,  and  I  wanted 
to   unfasten  your  corset." 

The  color  came  back  with  remarkable  ra- 
pidity. From  all  the  rich  variety  of  English 
tongue  few  words  could  have  been  selected 
of  such  restorative  effect.  "  How  ridiculous," 
she  said,  with  a  little  note  of  annoyance  in 
her  voice. 

With  this  bit  of  conversation  the  wheel 
of  fortune  turns,  and  nature  smiles  upon  her 
lost  children.  A  pitcher  plant  slakes  their 
thirst,  the  cocoanut  and  plantain  furnish  food, 
and  a  cave  shelters  them  :  the  sea  gives  up  her 
treasure  in  the  way  of  a  case  of  Lee-Metford 
rifles,  quantities  of  ammunition,  champagne, 
brandy,  biscuits,  hams,  and  canned  meats. 

Ah.  this  is  a  situation !  Rather  delicate, 
too.  But  Louis  Tracy  handles  it  very  cleverly, 
and  however  much  you  may  pooh-pooh  the 
story  or  feel  superior,  *'  The  Wings  of  the 
Morning  "  is  one  of  those  books  that  you  just 
have  to  read  to  see  how  it  all  comes  out. 

Published  by  Edward  J.  Clode.  New  York ; 
$1.50. 


Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Next  to  Morley's  "  Life  of  Gladstone," 
which  the  Macmillan  Company  promise  this 
month,  the  most  notable  biography  of  the 
season,  from  a  literary  point  of  view,  will 
undoubtedly  be  Henry  James's  volume  on 
"  William  Wetmore  Story  and  His  Friends," 
which  is  also  to  be  brought  out  this  month  in 
two  volumes. 

"  Mrs.  Wiggs  of  the  Cabbage  Patch "  and 
'"  Lovey  Mary "  have  reached  the  dignity  of 
"  art  editions."  The  Century  Company  will 
have  special  issues  of  these  two  books  of  Mrs. 
Hegan-Rice  ready  in  time  for  the  holiday 
season. 

"  The  Adventures  of  an  Army  Nurse  in 
Two  Wars "  is  one  of  the  interesting  titles, 
on  Little,  Brown  &  Co.'s  fall  list.  The  book 
is  edited  by  James  Phinney  Munroe  from 
the  diary  and  correspondence  of  Mary 
Phinney,  Baroness  von  Olnhausen. 

Mrs.  W.  K.  Cliffords  next  book  will  not  be 
a  novel  in  her  usual  sombre  and  powerful 
vein,  but  a  book  for  children. 

President    David    Starr    Jordan,    of    Leland 
Stanford   Jr.   University,    has    written   a   book  ; 
for  the  hour,  "  an  appeal  to  young  men,"  with 
the   title,   "The   Call   of   the   Twentieth    Cen-  | 
tury."      The    volume    will    have    the    imprint  ' 
of  the  American  Unitarian  Association. 

H.  G.  Wells  has  two  new  books  coming 
from  the  press.  One  will  consist  of  the  papers 
on   "  Mankind   in   the    Making,"   which   have  | 


been  running  in  the  Fortnightly  Review,  and 
will  form  a  companion  volume  of  his  "  An- 
ticipations." The  other  is  a  work  of  fiction, 
entitled  "  Twelve  Stories  and  a  Dream." 

Alice  Morse  Earle's  "  Two  Centuries  of 
Costume  in  America,"  will  be  published  in  two 
illustrated  volumes. 

A  new  work  by  Andrew  Lang.  "  The  Valet's 
Tragedy,  and  Other  Studies  in  Secret  His- 
tory." is  to  be  published  this  fall.  Mr.  Lang's 
new  Christmas  book  will  be  called  the 
"  Purple  Fairy  Book." 

Beatrice  Harraden's  new  novel.  "  {Catherine 
Frensham,"  has  for  a  hero  a  man  of  thirty- 
five.  "  who  has  been  thwarted  in  his  life 
work  by  the  incompatibility  of  his  wife,  whose 
influence  follows  and  nearly  wrecks  his  sensi- 
tive nature — even  after  her  death." 

Jack  London's  new  novel,  which  he  is  just 
finishing,  is  to  appear  serially  in  the  Century 
Magazine. 

A  volume  of  "  Letters  From  a  Chinese  Of- 
ficial "  will  be  published  anonymously  this 
month.  Wu  Ting-fang,  former  Chinese  min- 
ister to  the  United  States,  is  said  to  be  the 
author. 

A  new  book  by  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin, 
"  Half-a-Dozen  Housekeepers :  A  Story  for 
Girls  in  Half-a-Dozen  Chapters."  has  just  been 
published.  It  records  the  pranks  of  six  school- 
girls who  are  installed  for  a  fortnight  in  an 
old  Maine  homestead  during  the  absence  of  its 
owner,  an  indulgent  father. 

"  Count  Falcon  of  the  Eyrie "  is  the  title 
of  a  forthcoming  novel  by  Clinton  Scollard. 
It  is  described  as  "  a  stirring  tale  of  Italy  in 
the  days  of  passion  and  feud,"  and  "  a  faithful 
picture  is  presented  of  many  phases  of  Italian 
life  in  the  Middle  Ages." 

F.  Marion  Crawford's  new  novel  will  be 
published  this  month.  It  is  called  "  The  Heart 
of  Rome:  A  Tale  of  the  'Lost  Water.*" 

An  authorized  life  of  John  Fiske  has  been 
prepared  from  his  remaining  papers,  letters 
and  documents,  and  will  be  brought  out 
anonymously  by  the  Macmillan  Company  in 
two  volumes. 

"  Eleanor  Lee  "  is  the  title  of  a  new  novel 
by  Mrs.  Margaret  Sangster.  The  scene  is 
laid  among  the  wealthier  class  of  a  small 
American  city  after  the  close  of  the  Civil 
War. 

A  new  book  of  travel  will  be  "  The  Heart  of 
Japan,"  by  Clarence  Ludlow  BrownelL  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Japanese  Society  of  London. 

The  Scribners  announce  a  one-volume  edi- 
tion of  "  The  Story  of  the  Revolution,"  by 
Henry  Cabot  Lodge.  The  only  edition  to 
date  was  in  two  volumes,  and  sold  for  six 
dollars.  The  new  edition  contains  all  the 
original  illustrations,  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
eight  in  number. 

A  new  book  of  verse  by  William  Butler 
Yeats,  the  Irish  poet,  entitled  "  In  the  Seven 
Woods,"  and  further  described  as  "  Being 
Poems  Chiefly  of  the  Irish  Heroic  Age,"  is  to 
be  brought  out  this  month.  In  addition  to  the 
poems  the  volume  contains  a  new  play,  "  On 
Baile's  Strand."  Special  interest  attaches  to 
the  volume  because  it  has  been  printed  in  red 
and  black  ink  by  the  author's  sister.  Miss 
Elizabeth  C.  Yeats,  at  her  own  Dun  Emmer 
Press,  in  Dublin. 


THE    ORIGINAL    EVANGELINE. 


The  proposed  removal  of  the  greater  part  of 
the  newspapers  in  the  British  museum  to  a 
separate  building  at  a  distance,  has  led  a  Lon- 
don writer  to  go  over  some  of  the  old  files 
to  show  what  picturesque  and  valuable  history 
is  contained  in  these  archives.  Among  the 
curious  incidents  recorded  is  a  case,  ten  years 
after  the  Times  had  begun  to  appear,  where 
a  man  was  fined  twenty-five  dollars  for  letting 
people  sit  in  his  room  and  read  his  paper  at 
a  charge  of  a  penny  each.  There  were  no  free 
reading-rooms  in  those  days,  and  a  daily  news- 
paper was  a  luxury  far  beyond  the  means  : 
of  the  comnjon  people.  In  fact,  the  govern- 
ment objected  seriously  to  cheap  newspapers, 
and  a  tax,  which  sometimes  was  as  high  as 
eight  cents  on  each  copy  circulated,  tended 
to  make  newspapers  not  only  dear,  but  few. 


Mrs.  Sutherland  Orr.  the  friend  of  Robert 
Browning,  who  is  often  addressed  in  "  Aso- 
Isndo,"  is  dead  after  a  long  sickness.  She 
was  a  sister  of  the  late  Lord  Leighton,  presi- 
dent of  the  Royal  Academy.  Mrs.  Orr  com- 
filed  the  valuable  "  Handbook  to  the  Works 
of  Robert  Browning,"  and  wrote  the  author- 
ized biography  of  the  poet.  She  also  prepared 
a  good  many  thoughtful  articles  on  philosoph- 
ical topics. 


Wherein  She  Differs  from  Longfellow's  Heroine. 

A  descendant  of  Mme.  Bordea.  an  ancestor 
of  Senator  Alexander  Mouton.  who  told  Long- 
fellow the  story  of  the  Nova  Scotia  exiles,  on 
which  he  based  his  "  Evangeline."  says  that 
the  family  legend  of  Evangeline  differs  ma- 
terially from  the  version  which  the  poet  used. 
In  the  Bookman,  H.  L.  Sayler  suggests  that  a 
variation  of  the  tale  may  have  best  suited 
Longfellow,  just  as  the  essence  of  the  topog- 
raphy of  the  country  sufficed  him.  And  again. 
he  says  that  details  of  the  Nova  Scotia  tragedy 
may  have  been  altered  to  suit  the  demands  of 
a  fresh  conception,  just  as  the  poet  failed  to 
reconcile  dates  and  distances  in  writing  of  a 
land  he  had  never  seen. 

The  true  story  of  the  original  Evangeline, 
as    related   by    Mme.    Bordea,    is    as    follows : 

Emmeline  Labiche.  the  real  Evangeline, 
was  an  orphan  girl  of  Acadia,  whose  parents 
died  when  she  was  yet  a  child,  and  who  was 
taken  into  my  great-great-grandfather's  family 
and  adopted.  She  was  sweet-tempered,  loving, 
and  grew  to  womanhood  with  all  the  attrac- 
tions of  her  sex.  Although  not  a  beauty  in 
the  sense  usually  given  to  the  word, 
she  was  looked  upon  as  the  handsomest 
girl  in  St.  Gabriel.  Her  fine,  transparent, 
hazel  eyes  mirrored  truthfully  her  pure 
thoughts.  Her  bewitching  smile,  her  dark- 
brown  hair,  her  symmetrical  shape,  all  com- 
bined to  make  her  an  attractive  picture  of 
maiden  loveliness.  Emmeline  had  just  com- 
pleted her  sixteenth  year  and  was  on  the  eve 
of  marrying  a  deserving,  laborious,  and  well- 
to-do  man  of  St.  Gabriel,  named  Louis  Ar- 
senaux.  Their  mutual  love  dated  back  to  their 
earliest  years,  and  was  concealed  from  no 
one.  .  .  .  Their  banns  had  been  published  in 
the  village  church,  the  nuptial  day  was  fixed, 
and  their  young  love-dream  was  about  to  be 
realized,  when  the  barbarous  scattering  of  our 
colony  took  place.  Our  oppressors  had  driven 
us  toward  the  seashore,  where  their  ships 
rode  at  anchor,  and  Louis,  resisting  with 
rage  and  despair,  was  wounded  by  them. 
Emmeline  witnessed  the  whole  scene.  .  .  . 
Tearless  and  speechless,  she  stood  fixed  to  the 
spot.  .  .  .  When  the  white  sails  vanished  in 
the  distance  .  . ..  she  clasped  me  in  her  arms, 
and  in  an  agony  of  grief  sobbed  piteously.  By 
degrees  the  violence  of  her  grief  subsided,  but 
the  sadness  of  her  countenance  betokened  the 
sorrow  that  preyed  upon  her  heart- 
Henceforward  she  lived  a  quiet  and  retired 
life,  mingling  no  more  with  her  companions 
and  taking  no  part  in  their  amusements.  The 
remembrance  of  her  lost  love  remained  en- 
shrined in  her  heart.  .  .  .  Thus  she  Jived  in 
our  midst,  always  sweet-tempered,  with  such 
sadness  depicted  on  her  countenance  and  with 
smiles  so  sorrowful  that  we  had  come  to  look 
on  her  as  not  of  this  earth,  but  rather  as  our 
guardian  angel.  Thus  it  was  that  we  called 
her  no  longer  Emmeline,  but  Evangeline,  or 
"  God's  little  angel." 

The  sequel  of  her  story  is  not  gay,  my 
children.  My  poor  old  heart  breaks  when 
I  recall  the  misery  of  her  fate.  ...  Emme- 
line had  been  exiled  to  Maryland  with  us.  .  .  . 
She  followed  me  in  my  long  overland  route 
from  Maryland  to  Louisiana.  When  we 
reached  the  Teche  country  at  the  Poste  de 
Attakapas  we  found  the  whole  population  con- 
gregated to  welcome  us.  When  we  landed 
from  the  boat  Emmeline  walked  by  my  side. 
.  .  .  Suddenly,  as  if  fascinated  by  a  vision, 
she  stopped,  and  then,  the  silvery  tones  of  her 
voice  vibrating  with  joy.  she  cried:  "  Mother! 
mother!  It  is  he!  It  is  Louis!"  And  she 
pointed  to  the  tall  figure  of  a  man  standing 
beneath  an  oak.  It  was  Louis  Arsenaux.  .  .  . 
She  flew  to  his  side,  crying  out  in  an  ecstasy  of 
joy  and  love.  He  turned  ashy  pale,  and  hung 
his  head  without  uttering  a  word.  .  .  . 
"  Louis,"  she  said.  "  why  do  you  turn  you«- 
eyes  away?  ...  I  am  still  your  Emmeline 
.   .  .  your  betrothed !  " 

With  quivering  lips  and  trembling  voice,  he 
answered :  "  Emmeline.  do  rot  speak  so  kindly 
to  me.  I  am  unworthy  of  you.  I  can  love  you 
no  longer.  I  have  pledged  my  faith  to  an 
other.  Tear  from  your  heart  the  remembrance 
of  the  past  and  forgive  me."  Then  he  wheeled 
away  and  disappeared  in  the  forest.  .   .  . 

I  took  her  hand  It  was  icy  cold.  A  pallor 
overspread  her  countenance  and  her  eyes  had 
a  vacant  stare.  .  .  .  She  followed  me  like  a 
child,  without  resistance.  I  clasped  her  in 
my  arms  and  wept  bitterly.  "  Emmeline,  my 
dear,  be  comforted.  There  may  yet  be  happi- 
ness in  store  for  you."  "  Emmeline.  Emme- 
line." she  muttered  to  herself,  as  if  to  recall 
that  name,  and  then  :  "  Who  are  you  ?  "  She 
turned  away,  her  mind  unhinged.  This  last 
shock  had  been  too  much  for  her  broken  heart 
and  she  was  hopelessly  insane.  .  .  .  Emmeline 
never  recovered  her  reason,  and  a  deep  melan- 
choly ever  possessed  her.  Her  beautiful  coun- 
tenance was  lighted  by  a  sad  smile,  which 
made  her  all  the  fairer.  She  never  recognized 
any  one  but  me.  and  nestling  in  my  arms 
she  would  bestow  on  me  the  most  endearing 
names.  .  .  .  She  spoke  of  Acadia  and  Louis 
in  such  terms  that  one  could  not  listen  to  her 
without  shedding  tears.  She  fancied  herself 
still  the  sweet  girl  of  sixteen,  on  the  eve  of 
marrying  her  chosen  one.  whom  she  loved 
with  so  much  devotion  and  constancy.  .  .  . 
Sinking  at  last  under  the  ravages  of  her  men- 
tal disease,  she  expired  in  my  arms.  .  .  .  She 
sleeps  in  her  quiet  grave  by  the  tall  oak  near 
the  little  church  at  the  Poste  de  Attakapas. 
and  that  grave  has  been  kept  green  as  long 
as  your  grandmother  has  been  able  to  visit  it. 


Mrs.  Archibald  Little,  who  has  lived  much 
in  China  and  has  written  a  good  deal  about 
the  country  and  its  people,  has  completed  1 
biography  of  Li  Hung  Chang. 


232 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  12,  1905 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Hussar  of  the  Grande  Armee. 

Sherlock  Holmes  will  ever  remain  Conan 
Doyle's  masterpiece  of  characterization.  But 
Etienne  Gerard,  the  vain,  brave,  garrulous, 
boastful  dandy  of  Napoleon's  army,  is  never- 
theless a  literary  triumph.  In  "  The  Adven- 
tures of  Gerard  "  we  find  the  brigadier,  now 
an  old  man,  rehearsing  in  a  Paris  cafe  the 
glories  of  his  youth  to  those  who  will  buy  him 
the  wines  of  Burgundy  or  Bordeaux.  Time 
has  but  heightened  the  beauty  of  the  women 
he  loved  and  the  valor  of  the  deeds  he  did. 
In  the  first  story,  he  tells  us  of  a  certain 
Venetian  Lucia.  "  She  was  of  an  exquisite 
loveliness,"  he  proudly  says — "  and  when  I, 
Etienne  Gerard,  use  such  a  word  as  '  exquisite,' 
my  friends,  it  has  a  meaning.  I  have  judg 
ment,  I  have  memories,  I  have  the  means  of 
comparison.  Of  all  the  women  who  have 
loved  me,  there  are  not  twenty  to  whom  I 
could  apply  such  a  term  as  that."  It  was  for 
this  Lucia  that  Gerard  lost  his  ear,  though  he 
saved  his  life  for  future  exploits  innumerable. 
At  Saragossa,  he  challenged  twelve  officers 
at  once  to  duels,  and  the  same  night  captured 
the  city.  When  the  army  was  before  Torres 
Vedras.  he  went  on  a  perilous  mission,  saving 
his  skin  that  time  by  rolling  in  a  wine-barrel 
down  a  rocky  mountain-side,  pursued  by 
fiendish  and  amazed  brigands.  In  Russia,  he 
bravely  rode  to  Minsk,  and  only  failed  to 
achieve  triumph  because  his  will,  as  always, 
was  made  weak  as  water  by  a  pretty  woman's 
smile.  How  he  bore  himself  at  Waterloo: 
how  he  -ventured,  though  with  discontented 
stomach,  on  a  high-purposed  voyage  to  St. 
Helena  ;  how  he  triumphed  in  England,  are  all 
graphically  set  before  us  by  the  old  brigadier. 

But  the  most  side-splitting  adventures  in  the 
book  are  the  killing  of  the  fox,  the  bout  at 
the  "  box-fight."  and  the  cricket  game.  Im- 
agine Gerard,  inadvertently  drawn  into  a  fox- 
hunt, suddenly  possessed  with  the  joy  of  the 
chase,  riding  over  the  hounds  to  their  hurt, 
and  slashing  the  fox  into  two  red  halves  with 
his  sabre,  all  the  while  believing  he  is  playing 
the  game  exquisitely  well  and  is  the  pride  and 
envy  of  all  the  gesticulating  and  horrified 
huntsmen  behind.  The  news  of  this  "  crime — 
which  was  unspeakable,  unheard  of,  abomin- 
able; only  to  be  alluded  to  with  curses  late  in 
the  evening" — was  "carried  back  to  England, 
and  country  gentlemen  who  -knew  little  of  the 
details  of  war  grew  crimson  with  passion  when 
they  heard  of  it,  and  yeomen  of  the  shires 
raised  freckled  fists  to  heaven  and  swore." 
This  feat  of  Gerard's  was  only  matched  by 
him  when,  in  a  boxing-match  with  an  English- 
man, he  conceived  that  the  proper  thing  to 
do  was  to  seize  his  opponent's  nose,  hair,  and 
ear,  and  ram  his  own  head  in  the  Briton's 
stomach,  following  this  by  biting  the  fellow's 
beefy  arm.  "Can  I  forget  it?"  asks  Gerard 
in  his  old  age — "  the  laughter,  the  cheering, 
the  congratulations !  Even  my  enemy  bore 
me  no  ill-will,  for  he  shook  me  by  the  hand. 
For  my  part,  I  embraced  him  on  the  cheek. 
Five  years  afterward  I  learned  from  Lord 
Rufton  that  my  noble  bearing  upon  that  even- 
ing was  still  fresh  in  the  memory  of  my  En- 
glish friends."  Gerard's  self-esteem  was  ir- 
refragable. He  is  worthy  of  a  niche  among 
literary  immortals,  not  far  from  the  place 
where  stands  D'Artagnan  himself. 

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Men,  Maids,  and  "Wives. 
"  Marriage  in  Epigram,"  the  latest  and  last 
of  a  series  of  four  little  books,  compiled  by 
F.  W.  Morton,  the  previous  numbers  of  which 
have  dealt  with  love,  men,  and  women  in 
epigram,  is  not  a  whit  less  clever  than  its 
predecessors.  The  quotations,  numbering  over 
one  thousand,  cover  the  whole  of  literature, 
ancient  and  modern,  in  all  languages.  Here 
are  a  few  of  them  : 

He  who  has  a  handsome  wife,  a  castle  on 
the  frontier,  or  a  vineyard  on  the  roadside,  is 
never  without  war. — Spanish  maxim. 

To  this  burden  are  women  born  ;  thev  must 
obey  their  husbands,  be  they  never  such"  block- 
heads.— Cervantes. 

Why  does  the  blind  man's  wife  pain^  her- 
self?— Franklin. 

Next  to  nae  wife,  a  gude  wife  is  the  best. — 
Scotch  proverb. 

Marriage  may  often  be  a  stormy  lake,  but 
celibacy  is  almost  always  a  muddv  horsepond. 
— T.  L.  Peacock. 

Marriage  is  a  desperate  thing.  The  frogs 
in  JEsop  were  extremely  wise;  they  had  a 
great  mind  to  some  water,  but  they  would  not 
leap  into  the  well,  because  they  could  not  gee 
out  again. — John  Seldon. 

A  rich  widow  is  the  only  kind  ot  second- 
hand goods  that  will  always  sell  at  prime  cost. 
-  -Franklin. 

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^oon, 


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Alice  Jean  Patterson's  profusely  illustrated 
volume  on  spiders  should  be  very  interesting 
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Spider  Family  "  is  the  title,  and,  for  the  most 
part,  the  information  given  is  accurate.  Some 
errors,  however,  are  noticed.  To  say,  for  ex- 
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gay-covered  book,  "  Songs  from  the  Hearts 
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preface  that  he  means  hymns.  Of  these  the 
volume  contains  one  hundred,  covering  a 
period  of  two  hundred  years,  and  each  pos- 
sessing, in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Smith,  the 
essentials  of  the  best  sacred  lyrical  poetry — 
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less imagery.  A  brief  sketch  of  the  author 
of  the  hymn  is  given  in  each  case.  -Published 
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in  the  long  procession  of  animal  stories  for 
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cover,  and  quite  a  few  full-page  pictures  in 
colors.  As  for  the  stories,  we  think  they  arc 
quite  innocuous,  and  we  observe  that  they 
have  already  been  tried  by  the  author  on  her 
"  own  little  boy,"  who  is  reported  by  her  to 
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could  be  no  better  recommendation  than  that 
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Seldom  a  book  has  less  excuse  for  exist- 
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Ballads."  Six  months  or  so  ago  there  ap- 
peared from  the  Macmillan  press  "  A  Book  of 
Old  English  Ballads,"  collected  and  intro- 
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two  or  three,  and  many  more  that  are  not 
herein  contained.  In  make-up  the  previous 
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The  Rev.  James  M.  Campbell,  D.  D.. 
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He  says  that  book-writers  make  deacons  small 
and  mean,  given  to  cant  and  sanding  sugar. 
"  This  wicked,  senseless  caricature,"  he  con- 
tinues, warming  up,  "  can  not  be  too  hotly  re- 
pudiated." He  proceeds  to  do  the  hot  re- 
pudiating, giving  us  in  the  volume,  "  Typical 
Elders  and  Deacons,"  what  he  thinks  are 
truthful  pictures  of  silent  deacons,  jovial 
deacons,  manly  deacons,  strict  deacons,  etc. 
It  is  interesting  to  learn  that  the  ideal  deacon 
should  have  "  liquid  hazel  eyes  which  resemble 
those  of  a  fawn."  Novelists,  not  a  bene!  Pub- 
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theless possesses  not  a  little  interest  even  for 
the  general  reader,  is  Clement  Huart's  "  A 
History  of  Arabic  Literature."  The  fact  that 
the  earliest  Arabic  writings  (about  600 
A.  D.)  were  poetry,  not  prose;  the  sketch  of 
the  history  of  the  Koran ;  the  story  of  the 
"  Arabian  Nights  " — its  origin,  its  authorship, 
its  truthfulness  as  a  picture  of  Arabian  life; 
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astronomy,  and  mathematics,  many  works  ir 
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lated in  Europe;  their  special  skill,  also,  in 
surgery  and  medicine — cauterization,  for  ex- 
ample, having  been  early  employed — all  these 
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them  by  us  that  this  is  a  unique  work  by  one 
who,  in  his  field,  has  only  a  few  peers  among 
the  scholars  of  the  Western  world.  Published 
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RECENT    VERSE. 

King  Baby. 
King  baby  on  his  throne 

Sits  reigning  O,  sits  reigning  O! 
King  baby  on  his  throne 
Sits  reigning  all  alone. 

His  throne  is  mother's  knee. 

So  tender  O,  so  tender  O! 

His  throne  is  mother's  knee. 

Where  none  may  sit  but  he. 

His  crown  it  is  of  gold, 

So  curly  O,  so  curly  O! 
His  crown  it  is  of  gold, 
In  shining  tendrils  rolled. 

His  kingdom  is  my  heart, 
So  loyal  O,  so  loyal  O! 
His  kingdom  is  my  heart, 
His  own  in  every  part. 

Divine  are  all  his  laws, 

So  simple  O,  so  simple  O! 
Divine  are  all  his  laws, 
With  love  for  end  and  cause. 

King  baby  on  his  throne 

Sits  reigning  O,  sits  reigning  O! 
King  baby   on  his   throne 
Sits  reigning  all  alone. 

— Laurence  Alma-Tadema. 


Naughtiness. 
Why  am   I  sometimes   naughty 

And  sometimes  very  good? 
What  makes  me  act  so  different? 

I  never  understood. 

When  in  the  morning  I  wake  up 

I  don't  know  which  'twill  be, 
A  day  all  full  of  naughtiness 

Or  a  good  day  for  me. 

But  when  I  go  to  bed  at  night 

I  know  which  I  have  been, 
A  Mamma's  Joy  all   day  or  else 

A  creature   full   of  sin. 

"  I  thank  thee.  Lord,  for  my  good  heart," 
This  is  the  prayer  I  make; 
Or  else:    "  Forgive  my  naughtiness, 
Dear  God,  for  Jesus'  sake." 
—Florence     Wilkinson     in     McClure's     Magazine. 


The  Sandman. 
The  Sandman  comes  across  the  land, 

At  evening,  when  the  sun   is  low: 
Upon  his  back,  a  bag  of  sand — 

His  step  is  soft  and  slow. 
/  never  hear  his  gentle   tread, 
But  when  I  bend  my  sleepy  head, 
"The    Sandman's    coming!  "    mother   says, 
And  mother   tells   the   truth,    always! 

He  glides  across  the  sunset  hill, 

To  seek  each  little  child,  like  me: 
Our  all-day-tired  eyes  to  fill 

With  sands  of  sleep,   from  slumber's  sea. 
I  try  my  best  awake  to  stay, 
But  I  am  tired  out  with  play; 
"  I'll  never  see  him!"  mother  says. 
And  mother   tells  the   truth — always! 

— Marie    Van    Vorst    in    Ex. 

The  Lost  Child. 
It  was  far  to  go  for  the  little  fellow, 

And  I  think  it  was  dark  out  there, 
Away    from    the  sunshine,    warm    and   mellow, 

That  sweetened  his  earthly  air- 
It  was   far  to  go,   it  was   dark,   I   know, 
And  it  broke  my  heart  that  it  should  be  so. 

The  distance  between  a  joy  and  joy 

Or  between  a  star  and  a  star, 
Some  measure  like  this  we  may  employ. 

Nor  measure  at  last  how  far. 

And  they  were  not  fleet,  they  were  little  feet 
That  stumbled  beside  me  in  the  street. 

Oh  little  fellow,  dear  little  fellow, 
Once,  where  the  strange  paths  crossed 

In  magical  woods  of  sunlit  yellow, 
You,   lagging  behind,    were  lost — 

Just  a  step  aside;  but  I  knew  that  wide 
And  terrified  look,  the  day  you  died! 

When   it  is  day  I  can   dissemble 

And  cover  from  sight  my  care, 
But  when  it  is  dark,  in  tears  I  tremble — 
"'  What  if  he  be  lost  out  there?" 

In  my   troubled   sleep,    I   cower,    I    weep, 
I   am  little  and  lost,   and   the  dark   is   deep. 

When  the  ghost  moon  steals  down  the  mountain 
hollow 

To    glide    through    my    window    bars, 
I    wake  and  pray  to  be  dead,  to  follow 

His  stumbles  between  the  stars. 
— Fanny  Kcmble  Johnson  in  Harper's  Magazine. 

The  correct  way  to  pronounce  the  name  of 

eterlinck,  the  Belgian  author  and  dramatist, 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


233 


THE    STORY    OF    A    BOOK. 


In  Three  Chapters. 


'CHAPTER    2.       HOW    THE    BOOK    IS    MADE. 

"  All  young  people  should  have  a  dictionary 
at  their  elbow,  and  while  you  are  about  it, 
get  the  best — get  Websters."  So  said  a  school 
journal  many  years  ago,  and  the  G.  &  C.  Mer- 
riam  Company  took  the  phrase  as  their  motto. 
"  Get  the  Best  " — this  for  the  public.  "  Make 
the  Best  " — this  for  themselves. 

Successful  business  rests  on  two  principles  : 
make  a  good  article,  and  let  the  world  know 
it.  In  their  work  the  Merriams  have  empha- 
sized quality  even  more  than  publicity.  Start- 
ing sixty  years  ago  with  the  great  fabric  Noah 
Webster  had  reared,  they  spent  years  in  re- 
fashioning it  for  popular  needs  before  publish- 
ing, and  the  Webster's  International  Dictionary 
of  to-day  is  the  result  of  a  long  series  of  re- 
visions. Spending  freely  for  advertising,  they 
have  in  the  last  quarter-century  spent  a  much 
larger  sum  for  improvements,  in  reediting  and 
recasting.  Some  leading  member  of  the  firm 
has  always  had  the  editorial  work  as  his 
specialty,  and  between  publishers  and  editors 
there  has  been  thorough  harmony  and  co- 
operation. 

The  constant  aim  has  been  to  make  the  best 
possible  one-volume  dictionary,  for  the  use  of 
the  man  on  the  street,  the  cultivated  reader, 
the  teacher  and  pupil,  the  scholar  and  expert, 
the  mechanic,  the  foreign  student,  the  whole 
reading  public.  The  basal  principle  has  been 
to  employ  the  amplest  stores  of  scholarship  so 
as  to  best  serve  the  average  consulter.  The 
qualities  kept  in  view  have  been  Accuracy, 
Clearness,  Fullness,  Convenience,  Attractive- 
ness. Any  single  word  in  the  vocabulary  will 
illustrate  these  principles.  First,  the  word  is 
easily  found — a  strict  alphabetical  order  being 
followed,  with  ingenious  resources  of  arrange- 
ment and  type  to  facilitate  the  search.  Next. 
note  that  the  word's  mere  presence  in  the 
vocabulary  shows  that  it  has  a  certain  stand- 
ing. There  has  been  no  attempt  to  pile  up 
numbers  ;  neither  dead  words  nor  gutter-scrap- 
ings have  been  favored ;  something  of  merit 
and  permanence  is  implied  in  each  word. 
Then  comes  the  pronunciation — a  respelling 
which  is  quickly  caught  by  the  ordinary  eye 
and  ear;  and  a  use  of  the  phonetic  marks 
which  every  public-school  child  has  learned. 
Substantially  these  same  marks,  beginning  with 
Webster's  Speller  and  extending  into  the  na- 
tion's school-books,  have  been  unifying  the 
pronunciation  of  the  whole  people  for  a  cen- 
tury. 

Next  comes  the  etymology — the  parentage  of 
the  word  in  earlier  tongues.  Into  this  has  gone 
a  world  of  toil.  When  Dr.  Johnson  was  ques- 
tioned as  to  the  source  of  his  etymologies,  he 
answered  easily,  "  Why,  sir,  here  is  a  shelf 
with  Junius  and  Skinner  and  others;  and  there 
is  a  Welch  gentleman  who  will  help  me  with 
the  Welch."  But  Webster,  though  at  the  out- 
set well  equipped  according  to  the  standard  of 
the  time,  stopped  in  his  work  for  years  to 
acquire  twenty  foreign  vocabularies.  The  next 
generation  saw  a  great  advance  in  linguistic 
science,  and  the  fruits  of  this  were  harvested 
by  a  distinguished  German  scholar,  Dr.  Mahn, 
for  the  1864  edition.  The  later  gains  in  ety- 
mology have  been  inwrought  in  the  Inter- 
national and  its  Supplement  by  the  eminent 
Professor  Edward  S.  Sheldon,  of  Harvard.  As 
a  result,  each  word's  treatment  opens  with  its 
clear  and  exact  lineage,  on  which  the  scholar's 
eye  pauses  with  fascination. 

Then  comes  the  definitions  in  their  historical 
order.  Accuracy  and  lucidity  of  definition, 
Webster's  special  distinction,  have  been  the 
first  aim  and  constant  care  of  his  successor's 
in  the  work.  The  searcher  for  a  special  mean- 
ing finds  it  easily  and  to  his  satisfaction;  and. 
beyond  his  original  quest,  his  attention  is  apt 
to  be  caught  by  the  curious  way  in  which  one 
meaning  has  grown  out  of  another,  by  some 
bit  of  interesting  fact,  by  a  felicitous  quota- 
tion or  striking  picture,  and  so  his  eye  wanders 
over  the  page  from  one  attraction  to  another. 
The  old  story  of  the  man  who  found  the  dic- 
tionary interesting  reading  but  with  a  frequent 
change  of  subject,  has  a  solid  basis.  There  are 
few  more  entertaining  volumes  for  a  leisure 
hour  than  Webster's  International. 

The  book  has  been  naturally  broadened  by 
the  addition  to  its  vocabulary  of  various 
Tables.  One  goes  to  the  dictionary  for  all 
sorts  of  words;  why  not  then  for  proper 
names,  which  require  not  definition  but  in- 
formation? So  here  in  one  Appendix  are  the 
world's  distinguished  people  of  all  times,  some 
10,000;  name  and  its  pronunciation,  nation- 
ality,   characteristic,    birth    and    death    dates. 


•Chapter  i  of  "  The  Story  of  a  Book  ' 
Hshed  in   last  week's  issue. 


was  pub- 


Here  is  the  Gazetteer  with  more  than  25,000 
geographical  titles,  each  line  a  miracle  of  con- 
densed information.  And  here  is  a  Dictionary 
of  Fictitious  Persons  and  Places  in  Literature, 
which  one  should  hardly  consult  when  his 
.moments  are  precious,  so  strongly  do  its 
pages  fascinate  and  detain.  These,  and  various 
other  Tables — foreign  proverbs,  abbreviations, 
etc. — too  many  to  be  here  set  down.  Taken  as 
a  whole,  Webster's  International  is,  in  the 
words  of  President  Eliot,  of  Harvard,  "  a  won- 
derfully compact  storehouse  of  accurate  in- 
formation." 

This  whole  mass  of  information — vocabu- 
lary and  appendixes — is  constantly  brought  up 
to  the  latest  date  by  an  unintermitted  process 
of  revision.  The  results  appear  partly  in 
occasional  Supplements,  more  rarely  in  general 
revisions,  and  constantly  in  minute  corrections 
made  without  announcement  Thus  to  the 
vocabulary  of  the  International  of  1890  there 
was  added  ten  years  later  a  Supplement  of 
25.000  new  words  and  meanings.  On  the  mere 
number  no  stress  is  laid;  nothing  is  easier  than 
to  pitchfork  words  together  by  the  thousand 
and  ten  thousand — technical,  obsolete,  disreput- 
able, and  useless.  The  real  need,  the  real 
task,  comes  in  the  sifting,  the  chosing  from  the 
huge  welter  of  written  and  spoken  language 
those  words  which  have  an  individuality  and 
in  some  way  a  real  use.  The  International  had 
made  a  satisfactory  record  of  the  English  lan- 
guage until  1890  ;  the  addition  of  25,000  words, 
phrases,  etc.,  was  a  fair  representation  of  the 
actual  growth  of  the  language  for  a  decade  in 
this  swift  rushing  and  prolific  age.  The  con- 
tributors to  this  Supplement,  besides  the  office 
staff,  were  such  specialists. as  President  Rem- 
sen,  of  Johns  Hopkins  University,  Justice 
Brewer,  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
General  Greeley,  of  the  United  States  Army, 
Professor  Chittenden,  director  of  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School,  Mr.  Dudley  Buck,  and  a 
score  of  other  eminent  experts.  At  this  time 
the  plates  of  the  entire  work  were  newly  cast. 

Of  other  improvements  a  good  instance  is 
the  very  recent  and  thorough  revision  of  the 
Biographical  Dictionary  and  Gazetteer.  These 
have  been  worked  over  line  by  line  and  word 
by  word,  with  reference  to  spelling  and  pro- 
nunciation as  well  as  other  information.  In 
geography  the  publications  of  official  boards 
have  been  consulted ;  in  hundreds  of  cases  not 
thus  to  be  settled  recourse  has  been  had  to 
Mr.  Henry  Gannett,  chairman  of  the  U.  S. 
Board  on  Geographical  Names ;  uncounted 
letters  have  been  written  to  local  authorities. 
The  biographies  have  not  only  been  amended 
to  include  the  fresh  death  dates,  but  old  dates 
have  been  corrected,  sometimes  fifteen  cen- 
turies back,  and  many  minor  points  retouched. 
This  revision,  the  work  of  able  scholars,  was, 
like  the  Supplement  of  New  Words,  super- 
vised by  Dr.  W.  T.  Harris,  U.  S.  Commissioner 
of  Education. 

As  occasions  arise,  new  words  and  meanings 
are  frequently  inserted  in  the  body  of  the  work 
by  costly  plate  corrections.  When  Ohm  and 
Volt  were  redefined  by  International  Congress 
and  U.  S.  statute,  the  new  measurements  went 
into  the  body  of  the  vocabulary;  when  the 
Roentgen  ray  was  discovered,  it  was  given  due 
place  and  description;  when  Appendicitis  began 
to  plague  humanity  under  its  own  name,  it 
was  duly  entered ;  and  so  in  hundreds  of  cases. 

In  its  mechanical  features,  the  International, 
like  its  predecessors,  is  a  serviceable,  durable, 
and  beautiful  book.  Made  at  the  Riverside 
Press,  by  H.  O.  Houghton  &  Co.,  its  binding, 
paper,  typography,  all  are  fully  up  to  the 
standard  set  long  ago  by  its  manufacturers  and 
publishers. 

On  the  commercial  side  of  their  business, 
the  G.  &  C.  Merriam  Company  have  found  no 
occasion  to  resort  to  premiums,  "  combines," 
"  great  reductions,"  and  the  various  devices  by 
which  wares  are  foisted  on  indifferent  or  re- 
luctant buyers.  They  have  steadily  offered 
good  value  for  a  reasonable  price,  and  have 
found  always  an  ample  market.  They  have 
made  a  Subscription  Edition  of  the  Inter- 
national, with  a  Historical  Supplement,  corre- 
sponding in  merit  and  attractiveness  to  the 
main  work.  The  regular  edition  is  sold  through 
the  bookstores,  and  it  is  a  great  satisfaction 
to  the  publishers  that  their  relations  with  "  the 
trade " — as  the  bookselling  fraternity  is  for 
some  occult  reason  entitled — have  always  been 
marked  by  confidence  and  cordiality. 

For  some  years  past,  the  market  has  been 
flooded  with  large  "  Webster  Dictionaries " 
other  than  the  International,  generally  at  a  low 
price  and  often  with  extravagant  claims  as  to 
authenticity  and  value.  All  these  books  have 
the  same  basis,  the  Webster's  of  1847,  on 
which  the  copyright  has  expired,  and  which 
was  completely  superseded  by  the  "  Un- 
abridged"    of    1864,   and   that   in   turn   by   the 


editions  of  1879,  1890  and  1900.  This  now 
ancient  volume  of  1847,  reprinted  by  cheap  pro- 
cesses which  have  faithfully  reproduced  all  the 
obsolete  scholarship,  all  the  discredited  ety- 
mologies, all  the  statements  falsified  by  modern 
discovery,  every  accidental  misprint,  every 
blurred  line  and  broken  letter  in  the  original  ; 
padded  out  with  supplementary  matter,  in  one 
or  two  instances  of  some  real  value,  in  most 
cases  crude  and  of  little  worth,  and  in  no  case 
of  first-class  scholarship  ;  made  generally  with 
poor  paper,  print,  and  binding ;  sold  sometimes 
under  fairly  honest  descriptions,  but  frequently 
under  false  pretenses  of  being  the  authentic, 
modern,  and  best  Webster — these  books  have 
no  standing  with  scholars,  and  for  the  general 
public  they  have  no  recommendation  in  com- 
parison with  the  International,  except  their 
cheapness. 

"  The  best  "  is  never  the  cheapest.  More 
exactly,  using  "  cheap "  as  meaning  "  low- 
priced,"  the  best  is  never  the  cheapest ;  while 
using  cheap  to  signify  good  value  relative  to 
price,  the  best  is  generally  the  cheapest.  Web- 
ster's International  is  an  expensive  book,  com- 
pared with  dictionaries  of  a  lower  grade;  it 
is  not  expensive,  compared  with  other  works 
resembling  it  in  the  mental  and  material  toil  and 
cost  involved  in  the  construction.  "  The  best  " 
is  stamped  on  every  stage  of  its  production  ; 
on  the  original  genius  and  life-long  labor  of 
Noah  Webster ;  the  succession  of  eminent 
scholars  who  have  perfected  it;  the  care  which 
keeps  it  always  abreast  of  modern  knowledge  ; 
and  the  mechanical  processes  which  make  a 
volume  unsurpassed  in  usability,  durability, 
and  beauty. 

The  series  of  authorized  Abridgments, 
headed  by  the  admirable  Webster's  Collegiate 
Dictionary,  and  ended  by  the"  Pocket,"  meet 
the  various  wants  of  different  classes.  But 
the  English-speaking  public  has  been  educated 
by  Webster  and  his  successors  beyond  any 
other  people  to  the  common  use  of  the  large 
one-volume  dictionary — a  work  of  some  2,400 
pages,  with  5,000  illustrations ;  a  complete  in- 
terpreter of  the  English  language;  a  treasure 
of  general  information.  Not  for  the  scholar 
and  the  expert  only,  but  for  the  merchant,  the 
mechanic,  the  housewife,  the  professional  man 
the  average  man  and  woman,  "the  best"  is 
none  too  good. 

But  what  impartial  and  competent  authority 
shall  decide  among  various  claimants  to  su- 
periority which  is  the  best?  Next  week  shall 
be  cited  on  that  question  the  pronouncements 
of  three  tribunals,  widely  diverse  in  character, 
and  all  of  the  highest  standing. 


General  John  B.  Gordon,  whose  "  Remi- 
niscences of  the  Civil  War  "  are  to  be  pub- 
lished by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  was  in  most 
of  the  great  fights  of  General  Lee's  army  from 
Bull  Run  to  Appomattox.  He  knew  the  leaders 
of  the  Confederacy  intimately,  and  his  ac- 
quaintance was  enlarged  during  his  career  as 
a  United  States  senator  by  intimate  associa- 
tion with  leaders  of  the  Union  cause.  He 
was  the  friend  of  General  Grant  to  the  end  of 
his  life.  His  narrative  is  not  a  history  of  the 
war,  but  a  record,  with  anecdote  and  inci- 
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"  Otello "  is  one  of  those  operas  from 
whose  libretto  one  should  be  inseparable  dur- 
ing the  performance.  Only  a  glance  may  be 
necessary  to  put  the  spectator  an  fait  of  the 
situation,  for  one  can  not  afford  to  guess  and 
flounder  in  an  opera  that  is  Shakespeare  set 
gloriously  to  music.  Boito  has  done  nobly 
with  his  task,  having  shown  an  inclination  to 
tamper  as  little  as  may  be  with  the  original 
text,  and  giving  to  such  additions  as  were  nec- 
essary a  finely  literary  quality. 

"Otello"  is  one  of  the  "most  powerful  and 
moving  tragedies  in  the  language,  and  in  its 
operatic  form  stimulates  even  opera-singers  to 
act.  The  result  is  that  we  have  been  witness- 
ing a  really  dramatic  as  well  as  a  musical  rep- 
resentation at  the  Tivoli  this  week.  For  there 
is  Gregoretti's  Iago.  Good  heavens,  but  how 
that  favorite  of  fortune  has  the  game  of  life 
in  his  hands  !  Young,  handsome,  with  strongly 
molded  features,  beautiful  teeth,  a  fine  figure. 
an  imposing  stage  presence,  magnetism,  dra- 
matic abandon,  qualified  with  stately  self-poise, 
and,  to  crown  all,  a  glorious  voice ;  what  else 
can  the  man  want?  A  million,  perhaps,  and 
then  he  would  over-eat  and  over-drink,  racket, 
and  dissipate,  certainly  diminish,  and  perhaps 
destroy,  the  mellow  volume  and  smooth  round- 
ness of  his  superb  baritone.  At  present  there 
is  some  hope  that  he  will  retain  his  voice  fpr 
a  reasonable  time,  for  in  response  to  the  tem- 
pest of  acclamation  that  greeted  his  "  Credo  " 
he  had  the  excellent  good  sense  to  evade  the 
usual  vocal  prodigality,  and  deny  an  encore. 
Ischierdo  is  not  so  richly  dowered  vocally,  but 
he  is  a  personable  man,  with  ample  dramatic 
talent,  personal  dignity,  and  features  that 
well  reflect  the  sombre  passions  of  the  Moor. 
His  voice  is  not  always  reliable,  showing  an 
occasional  tendency  to  shriek  or  break,  but  it- 
is  a  powerful  and  penetrating  tenor  of  strongly 
dramatic  quality. 

Tedeschi,  the  young  tenor  who  undertook 
the  role  of  Cassio,  is  a  graceful,  pensive  boy, 
with  a  sweet  unchanging  face,  a  light  but 
charming  voice,  and  a  prettiness  and  youth  so 
obvious  as  to  almost  make  him  chuckable- 
under-the-chinable. 

The  part  of  Desdemona  was  agreeably  sung 
by  Signorina  de  Benedetto,  whose  voice,  how-, 
ever,  comes  forth  with  a  sluggish  richness  that- 
is  often  a  characteristic  of  these  over-plump 
sopranos.  For  the  lady's  vocal  organs  are 
buried  down  deep  under  many  pounds  weight 
of  solid,  snowy  flesh.  She  is  a  pretty  woman, 
in  a  sweet,  placid,  pudgy  way  ;  is  young,  beau- 
tifully wigged,  gracefully  costumed,  over- 
painted — especially  in  the  death  scene — and 
occasionally  lets  forth  a  note  or  two  that 
startles  by  its  volume  and  rich  sweetness. 

Cortesi,  Travaglini,  Zani,  and  Miss  Eugenie 
Barker  were  of  notable  assistance  in  sustaining 
the  general  meritoriousness  of  the  presenta- 
tion, and  the  chorus  and  the  beautiful  orches- 
tral work  were  done  with  the  sureness  and 
poise  resulting  from  repeated  performances  of 
this  most  striking  and  most  strongly  modern- 
ized of  Verdi's  operas. 


Sometimes  when  we  remark  the  brevity  of 
the  vogue  enjoyed  by  a  popular  novelist,  we 
cast  our  thoughts  backward  and  wonder  if 
"  the  bubble  reputation  "  was  as  easily  pricked 
before  the  literary  arena  was  so  thickly  popu- 
lated. 

Who,  for  instance,  ever  hears  of  Du 
Maurier  now?  The  man  himself  is  no  deader 
than  the  furor  whose  enthusiastic  clamor 
almost  worried  him  into  his  too-early  grave. 
What  about  Kipling?  Ten  years  aso.  he  was 
eagerly  hailed  as  a  genius.  To-day,  the  author 
of  "  Stalky  &  Co."  and  "  Kim "  is  voted 
brutal  and  a  bore.  It's  a  mad  world,  my  mas- 
ters, and  a  fickle.  Let  no  flattered  literary 
light  complacently  encourage  the  undue  exten- 
sion of  his  head-piece,  for  he  may  live  to  find 
himself  stripped  as  bald  of  laurels  as  Csesar 
was  of  hair. 

And  yet.,  and  yet,  when  we  look  back  to 
earlier,  1  ,ore  old-fashioned,  and  less  pro- 
gressive times,  it  did  not  seem  to  be  so.  Those 
novel-reriders  who  cut  their  baby  teeth  on 
"Rutle  ;e."  "St.  Elmo."  and  "Under  Two 
Flaes."  were  constant  to  the  output  of  their 
authors      as      long      as      it      lasted. 


Ouida's  vogue  was  as  enduring  as  it  was  wide- 
spread. Her  fame  has  even  reached  the 
fiction-fed,    novel-satiated   present    generation. 

What  was  her  charm  ?  She  was  unreal, 
turgid,  grandiloquent.  She  expressed  life  and 
character  in  windy  superlatives.  Truth  and 
Ouida  had  only  a  bowing  acquaintance.  Still, 
slight  as  it  was,  it  was  an  acquaintance,  and 
on  this  modicum  of  truth  she  built  airy, 
castellated  structures  of  romance — romance  in 
which  all  the  men  were  brave,  and  all  the 
women  fair,  and  a  certain  proportion  only  in- 
different virtuous.  Her  sinners  were  always 
delightfully  immoral,  breaking  the  command- 
ments with  a  high-bred  grace  which  lent  charm 
to  the  infraction.  Ouida's  books,  indeed,  were 
never  a  school  of  morals.  Pluck,  a  darkly 
picturesque  melancholy,  an  aristocratic  and 
all-pervading  charm,  a  notable  capacity  for 
getting  into  debt,  and  a  total  absence  of  com- 
mon sense,  were  the  ingrained  characteristics 
of  her  favorite  heroes.  Bertie  Cecil  in  "  Under 
Two  Flags  "  is  an  excellent  example. 

Beauty,  refinement,  distinction,  high  rank, 
fascination,  constancy  in  love,  and  a  mys- 
terious melancholy  rivaling  the  hero's  in  depth, 
were  frequently  the  distinguishing  marks  of 
her  heroines,  save  when  she  went  to  the 
lower  ranks  for  one,  as  was  the  case  in 
"  Under  Two  Flags." 

Setting  aside  her  pretty  little  child  idyls 
of  peasant  life.  "  Under  Two  Flags "  was 
easily  her  best  book.  There  was  spirit,  dash, 
vitality,  picturesqueness  in  that  tale  of  pas- 
sionate love  under  the  hot  Afric  sun.  which. 
minimized  its  romantic  improbabilities  and 
the  unreality  of  its  pathos.  In  its  day,  it  went 
straight  to  the  elastic  and  ardently  responsive 
imagination  of  youth,  and  present-day  au- 
diences are  taking  to  it  amazingly  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House,  and  metaphorically 
clasping  Cigarette  to  their  heart  of  hearts. 

Cigarette,  although  picturesquely  so,  is 
tough,  and  San  Francisco  audiences  adore 
tough  heroines  who  retain  their  femininity. 
For  poor  little  Cigarette  had,  in  varying  de- 
grees of  undevelopment,  all  the  virtues  of  her 
sex,  except  timidity  and  maidenly  reserve. 

Edythe  Chapman  has  slipped  into  the  role 
of  the  little,  vivid,  flashing,  darting,  im- 
petuous creature  with  a  quickened  sympathy 
and  the  intelligence  that  she  always  shows 
in  her  work.  Her  Cigarette,  amid  the  many 
absurdities  of  this  warmly  colored  melo- 
drama, is  yet  alive,  having  inherited  from 
Ouida's  original  creation  a  grace  of  the 
spirit  which,  in '  some  measure,  enables  her 
to  reach  the  sympathies.  Miss  Chapman,  too. 
has  adhered  to  reality,  and,  avoiding  a  merely 
pretty  and  theatric  make-up.  has  painted  her- 
self a  vivid  coppery  tint  to  simulate  the  tan 
of  an  Afric  sun.  Her  short-skirted.  Zouave- 
jacketed  costume  suggests  service,  and  her  leg- 
gings are  marred  by  the  dust  of  the  desert. 
If  she  did  not  allow  Cigarette  to  scream 
so  much,  there  would  not  be  a  flaw  to  pick 
in  her,  although  it  is  true  that  well-modulated 
tones  are  not  to  be  found  in  the  women  of 
the  people. 

James  Neill  was  Bertie  Cecil,  the  white- 
handed,  imperturbable  aristocrat,  who,  to  save 
a  woman's  honor  and  a  brother's  name,  joined 
the  French  army  at  Algiers  as  a  private.  I 
am  afraid  that  the  Bertie  Cecils  of  real  life 
would  be  regarded  as  among  the  dead  failures. 
But  in  Ouida's  pages,  he  has  had  great 
power  to  ensnare  the  susceptibilities  of  youth- 
ful hearts.  Mr.  Neill  tried  his  best  to  repre- 
sent a  quietly  intense,  exaltedly  chivalrous 
English  swell  in  the  uniform  of  a  French 
private,  but  the  all-conquering  Bertie  seemed 
merely  a  subdued,  gentlemanly,  amiable,  good- 
looking,  well-set-up  soldier.  Actors  who  can 
portray  a  Bertie  Cecil  are,  indeed,  rather 
scarce.  The  type  is  passing  away,  both  from 
fiction  and  the  drama.  Guy  Standing,  the 
matinee  idol  of  New  York,  comes  the  nearest 
to  it.  The  unreality  of  such  a  character  when 
seen  on  the  stage  becomes  too  obvious.  Even 
in  fiction,  the  type  has  been  scoffed  at  by  Bret 
Harte  in  his  "  Condensed  Novels."  He  held 
up  to  ridicule  Guy  Livingston,  a  famous,  ro- 
mantic   figure    of   the   times   who,    although   a 


mere  Rochester-like  personage,  represems  that 
special  species  of  hero  very  well.  " '  Poor 
little  beasts,' "  he  is  represented  as  saying, 
"when  the  conversation  turned  on  any  of  his 
fresh  conquests.  Then,  passing  his  hand  ovi^r 
his  marble  brow,  the  old  look  of  stern  fixed- 
ness and  unflinching  severity  would  straighten 
the  lines  of  his  mouth,  and  he  would  mutter. 
half  to  himself,  '  S'  death  !'  " 

"  Under  Two  Flags "  fills  a  thick  volume, 
and,  as  a  consequence,  the  incidents  of  the 
dramatized  version  follow  each  other  with  the 
rapidity  of  the  pictures  thrown  from  a 
biograph.  The  Lady  Beatrice  Guinevere  is 
swiftly  propelled  into  the  first  act  as  from  a 
catapult,  and  departs  on  a  jog  trot.  Scenes 
revealing  the  brother's  weakness,  the  accusa- 
tion of  forgery,  the  attack,  the  escape,  the 
fidelity  of  Rake,  the  chivalry  toward  Lady 
Beatrice,  the  cold  heartlessness  of  Cecil's  ex- 
plosive papa,  rush  by  like  the  wind. 

A  little  breathing  space  comes  with  the 
appearance  of  Cigarette,  but  the  race  begins 
again  when  the  high-born  princess  appears 
and  almost  instantly  disappears  in  the  last 
act.  the  prudent  dramatist  recognizing 
Cigarette's  right  to  have  the  centre  of  the 
stage,  uncontested  by  her  lily-handed  rival. 

And  so,  valiant  little  Cigarette,  flashing  in, 
a  flying  figure  of  fidelity  and  love,  meets  her 
death  amid  the  smoke  of  a  dozen  rifles  in  the 
arms  of  the  man  whose  reprieve  she  has  risked 
her  life  to  bear.  And  a  good  end,  too ;  the 
only  one  possible.  We  wept  in  our  romantic 
and  impractical  school-days  over  her  untimely 
taking  off,  but  the  practical  vision  of  maturity 
foresees  the  horror  that  her  life  would  be  if 
rounded  out  to  its  natural  completion.  Aside 
from  Miss  Chapman  and  Mr.  Neill's  work, 
there  is  none  especially  worthy  of  mention, 
although  the  princess  was  pretty  and  refined, 
and  Mr.  Bloomquest,  as  usual,  did  reliable 
work. 

The  play  is  well  put  on,  and  a  really  truly 
horse,  which  Miss  Chapman  mounts  and  rides, 
lights  up  the  rocky  perspective  of  the  gorge. 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 

Frau  Marie  Geistinger,  the  actress  and 
singer,  died  recently  at  Klagenfurt,  near 
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To-night,  last  of  LA  BOHEME.  Sunday  night, 
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Evenings,  25c  to  75c  Saturday  and  Sunday  Mati- 
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Sunday. 


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Pinero's  '  Lady  Bountiful." 
The  most  notable  event  at  the  theatres 
next  week  will  be  the  new  stock  company's 
appearance  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  on  Monday 
night  in  Pinero's  "  Lady  Bountiful,"  which 
has  not  yet  been  given  in  San  Francisco.  It 
is  a  modern  play  of  English  life,  with  genial 
humor  and  abundant  love  interest,  and  was 
selected  by  the  management  for  the  opening 
performance  because  it  has  so  many  good 
parts  that  it  will  permit  all  the  new  members 
of  the  company  to  appear  to  excellent  ad- 
vantage. Adele  Block,  who  will  have  the 
leading  role  of  Camilla  Brent,  has  a  splendid 
record  of  achievement.  She  made  her  debut 
as  Kate  Kennion  in  Belasco  and  Fyles's  "  The 
Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me."  Three  seasons  of 
exacting  experience  with  Albaush's  original 
Baltimore  stock  company,  the  Grand  Opera 
House  stock  in  !N7ew  Orleans,  and  the  David- 
son Theatre  Stock  in  Milwaukee  prepared  her 
for  association  with  leading  stars.  During 
an  entire  season  at  Daly's  Theatre.  New  York. 
Miss  Block  supported  E.  H.  Sothern  in  "  The 
King's  Musketeer "  and  "  The  Song  of  the 
Sword."  She  was  then  engaged  as  Iras,  the 
Egypti311  girl  in  the  original  production  of 
"  Ben  Hur "  at  the  Broadway  Theatre,  New- 
York,  made  a  special  tour  of  the  South  as 
Glory  Quayle  in  "  The  Christian."  and  was 
more  than  two  years  leading  woman  with 
Henrietta  Crossman.  scoring  special  successes 
in  "  The  Sword  of  the  King."  "  Mistress 
Nell."  and  as  Celia  in  "As  You  Like  It." 
Among  others  in  the  cast  will  be  James 
Durkin  as  Donald  Heron,  Frances  Starr  as 
Margaret.  John  B.  Maher  as  Roderick  Heron, 
and  Harry  S.  Hilliard  as  Sir  Lucian  Brent. 
Clyde  Fitch's  comedy.  "  The  Lady  and  the 
Cowboy."  written  for  Nat  Goodwin  and 
Maxine  Elliott,  will  be  the  second  production. 


Last  Week  of  Florodora." 
Those  who  have  not  heard  "  Florodora " 
during  its  two  previous  weeks  here,  will  find 
much  to  entertain  and  amuse  them  in  the 
present  production,  for  the  principals  are  all 
fair,  the  music  just  as  tuneful  as  ever,  and  the 
costuming  and  mounting  tasteful  and  pretty,  if 
not  elaborate.  Isidore  Rush,  a  dainty  bit  of 
blonde  femininity,  with  a  "  funny  little  voice," 
as  she  herself  admitted  in  the  last  verse  of 
"  Tact."  on  Monday  night,  makes  a  chic  Lady 
Holyrood.  and  wears  three  really  stunning 
gowns.  Robert  E.  Graham  is  an  amusing 
Gilfain.  and  Philip  Ryley  repeats  his  clever 
impersonation  of  Tweedlepunch.  the  phre- 
nologist, who  pesters  every  new-comer  with  his 
photograph.  Those  who  have  already  seen 
"  Florodora."  however,  once  or  even  twice, 
will  be  disappointed,  for  one  can  not  help  mak- 
ing comparisons  and  wishing,  for  example, 
that  Grace  Dudley.  Laura  Millard.  Eleanor 
Falk,  Corinne.  Charles  H.  Bowers.  Will 
Carleton.  Alf  C.  Wheelan  —  who  died  some 
months  ago  in  Arizona — or  any  of  the  other 
former  favorites  might  again  be  in  the  cast 
at  the  Columbia.  And  the  sextet,  the  biggest 
hit  of  the  opera !  Gone  are  the  enticing  maids 
and  handsome  chappies.  In  their  place  is  a 
strange  array  of  raw-boned  girls  and  a  collec- 
tion of  wooden  men,  who  go  through  the  song 
and  dance  like  so  many  automatons.  It  is 
true  that  they  receive  several  encores  nightly, 
but  this  is  more  a  tribute  to  the  catchy  music 
and  words  of  the  song  than  to  the  gingerless 
antics  of  the  performers.  "  Florodora  "  will 
be  continued  another  week,  and  then  comes 
Robert  Edeson  in  Augustus  Thomas's  drama- 
tization of  Richard  Harding  Davis's  novel, 
"  Soldiers  of  Fortune."  Mr.  Edeson  has  been 
well  received  in  the  East  as  Robert  Clay,  the 
young  American  civil  engineer  of  obscure 
birth,  who  becomes  embroiled  in  a  South 
American  revolution,  and  is  finally  proclaimed 
dictator  by  the  people. 

"Cleopatra"  Up  to  Date. 
James  Neill  will  conclude  his  engagement  at 
the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Sunday  night  in 
"  Under  Two  Flags,"  and  next  week  a  hun- 
dred precocious  youngsters,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Bothwell  Browne,  will  present  the 
spectacular  burlesque  extravaganza.  "  Cleo- 
patra." There  will  be  many  novel  specialties 
including  a  juvenile  rag-time  sextet,  a 
symbolical  ballet,  entitled  "  The  Storm."  and 
a  stirring  song.  "  The  "Way  of  the  Cross," 
pantomimed  and  sung  by  the  entire  company. 
The  little  ones  have  been  recruited  prin- 
cipally from  Mr.  Browne's  dancing-classes, 
and  one  of  them  the  press-agent  terms  "  the 
smallest  toe  dancer  in  the  world  and  the 
youngest  specialty  artist  on  the  stage."  On 
Sunday  afternoon.  October  iSth,  Hall  Caine"; 
dramatization.  "  The  Christian,"  will  be  re- 
vived for  a  week. 


Hoyt's  "A  Midnight  Bell." 
L.  R.  Stockwell  is  to  appear  at  the  Central 
Theatre  next  week  in  another  favorite  Hoyt 
comedy-drama.  "  A  Midnight  Bell."  It  will  oc 
remembered  that  when  the  play  had  its 
original  production  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre 
many  years  ago.  Mr.  Stockwell  created  the 
role  of  Deacon  Tidd.  Joseph  Grismer  was  the 
Lawyer  Keene,  and  Phoebe  Davis  the  school- 
teacher. Norah.  In  this  revival,  Mr.  Stock- 
well  will  again  be  seen  in  his  imitable  im- 
personation ;  Herschel  Mayall  will  be  the 
lawyer,  and  Eugenia  Thais  Lawton  the  schoo'- 
teacher.  Others  in  the  cast  will  be  Henry 
Skinner  as  Labaree,  the  bank  cashier,  and 
Myrtle  Vane  as  Dot,  the  parson's  daughter. 


tions,  amusing  stage  business,  and  taking  songs 
to  insure  it  a  month's  run.  The  story  deals 
with  the  arrival  of  a  bogus  German  diplomat 
at  a  California  summer  resort,  where  he  is  met 
by  a  German  brewer,  anxious  to  entertain  him. 
They  reach  the  resort  at  the  time  the  navy  is 
holding  its  manoeuvres,  are  suspected  of  being 
spies,  and  for  a  while  have  a  hot  time  getting 
out  of  their  trouble.  Maude  Amber,  as  the 
American  millionairess,  scores  a  big  hit  with 
her  new  song,  "  My  Alameda  Rose,"  which 
already  is  being  whistled  on  the  streets.  Win- 
field  Blake  also  gets  many  encores  for  his 
ditty.  "  Tie  Your  Answer  to  the  Old  Date- 
Tree."  Harry  Hermsen.  Eleanor  Jenkins,  and 
Kolb,  Dill,  and  Bernard  contribute  humorous 
songs  which  are  popular.  Not  a  little  credit 
for  the  success  of  "  The  Paraders "  is  due 
Charles  Jones,  the  stage  manager,  who  has 
arranged  a  striking  new  march  and  some  pic- 
turesque settings. 

At  the  Orpheum. 
Colombino,  who  plays  a  whole  farce  by  him- 
self, impersonating  six  different  characters, 
will  make  his  first  appearance  at  the  Orpheum 
this  coming  week.  "  Canalconte  "  is  the  name 
of  his  skit,  and.  in  addition,  he  presents  carica- 
tures of  celebrated  composers,  including  Wag- 
ner. Bizet.  Rossini,  Gounod,  Mascagni.  and 
Strauss.  The  other  new-comers  are  the  Sisters 
Rappo,  Russian  dancers :  the  three  Crane 
Brothers,  in  a  unique  offering  entitled  "  The 
Mudtown  Minstrels."  a  burlesque  on  a  con- 
ventional first  part :  Wallace  Brownlow.  a 
well-known  English  baritone,  whose  selections 
will  be  "When  Bright  Eyes  Glance,"  by  Hedge- 
cock,  and  "  Doreen,"  by  Allon ;  and  A.  P.  Ros- 
tow.  the  Russian  equilibrist.  Those  retained 
from  this  week's  bill  are  Juliet  Wood  and 
Fred  Ray.  whose  "  Funny  Bunch  of  Non- 
sense "  made  such  a  hit  here  a  fortnight  ago : 
the  Pantzer  trio  of  contortionists  :  the  Golden 
Gate  Quartet,  assisted  by  Fanny  Winfred.  in 
new  songs,  dances,  and  quick  changes ;  and 
Clayton  White  and  Marie  Stuart,  assisted  by 
Pauline  Taylor,  in  their  amusing  sketch. 
"'  Paris." 

"Mignon,"  "Cavalleria,"  and  "TPaeliacci." 
At  the  Tivoli  Opera  House  next  week 
"  Mignon  "  will  be  given  on  Monday.  Wednes- 
day. Friday,  and  Saturday  nights,  and 
"  Cavalleria  Rusticana  "  and  "  I'Pagliacci  " 
will  be  the  alternating  bill  on  Tuesday.  Thurs- 
day, and  Sunday  nights,  and  at  the  Saturday 
matinee.  In  "  Mignon."  Cloe  Marchesini  will 
appear  in  the  title-role.  Adelina  Tromben  as 
Felina.  Alfredo  Tedeschi  as  Wilhelm  Meister, 
Baldo  Travaglini  as  Lothario,  and  Eugenie 
Barker  as  Frederick.  In  "  Cavalleria."  Lina 
de  Benedetto  will  be  Santuzza.  and  Eugenie 
Barker,  the  Lela ;  Giuseppe  Agostini.  the  Tur- 
ridu ;  and  Giuseppe  Zanini.  the  Alfio.  Tina  de 
■Spada  will  be  heard  again  this  year  as  Nedda 
in  "  I'Pagliacci."  Emanuele  Ischierdo  is  cast 
as  Canio.  Adamo  Gregoretti  as  Tonio,  and 
Giulio  Cortesi  as   Peppe. 


Four  tin  canisters  containing  ashes  of  cre- 
mated persons,  addressed  from  New  York  to 
San  Francisco,  were  sent  to  the  Post-Office 
Department  at  Washington.  D.  C,  recently  for 
classification,  in  order  to  determine  postal 
charges.  Second-Assistant  Postmaster-General 
Maddern  has  decided  that  the  ashes  of  a 
human  being  may  be  classed  as  "  merchan- 
dise." providing  the  matter  is  securely  packed. 
The  required  postage  of  one  cent  for  four 
ounces  has  been  paid,  and  the  relics  are  now 
on  the  way  to  San  Francisco. 


The  eleventh  annual  benefit  in  aid  of  the 
charity  fund  of  San  Francisco  Lodge.  No.  21. 
Theatrical  Mechanics'  Association,  will  take 
place  at  the  Alhambra  Theatre  on  Friday  af- 
ternoon, October  23d.  The  performances 
given  to  help  along  the  good  work  of  the 
"  men  behind  the  scenes  "  are  always  notable 
events,  and  this  year's  programme  will  be  one 
of  the  strongest  ever  offered.  Every  theatre 
in  the  city  has  promised  to  contribute  the  best 
features  from  their  current  bill. 

Great  alterations  are  already  being  made  on 
the  Grand  Opera  House  stage  for  "  Ben  Hur," 
which  will  open  an  engagement  on  November 
2d.  Besides  the  three  hundred  people  appear- 
ing in  the  play,  there  will  be  a  stage  force  of 
over  one  hundred.  An  orchestra  of  twenty- 
four  will  render  the  special  music  prepared  by 
Edgar   Stillman   Kelley. 


Automobile  Races  at  Ingleside. 
The  Automobile  Club  of  California,  of  which 
the  officers  are  F.  A.  Hyde,  president :  E. 
Courtney  Ford,  vice-president ;  and  E.  P. 
Brinegar,  secretary,  will  hold  two  days  of  rac- 
ing at  Ingleside  on  Friday  and  Saturday,  No- 
vember 6th  and  7th.  There  will  be  five  or 
more  races  each  day.  and  it  is  intended  to 
bring  several  of  the  crack  automobile  racing 
men  out  from  the  Eastern  States.  The  com- 
mittee in  charge  is  composed  of  F.  P.  Lowe, 
chairman,  Samuel  Buckbee,  E.  P.  Brinegar.  E. 
Courtney  Ford,  N.  T.  Messer,  Jr.,  and  Charles 
A.  Hawkins. 

On  Sunday  evening,  at  Steinway  Hall, 
Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  will  again  dem- 
onstrate the  marvels  of  psychic  power  in  his 
peculiarly  entertaining  manner.  The  experi- 
ments will  include  the  famous  "  wire "  test, 
which  has  caused  so  much  discussion  on 
former  occasions.  "  The  Thought  that  Kills  " 
will  be  the  subject  of  the  lecture  preceding  the 
demonstration.  "  Money  "  will  be  the  subject 
discussed  Sunday  evening,  October  12th. 


Virginia    Harned,    in    Pinero's    "  Iris,"    will 
be  an  early  attraction  at  the  Columbia  Theatre. 


Ready  about  the  end  of  October — 
a  new  book  on  Spain  in  1903. 

A  number  of  the  recent  letters 
written  to  the  Argonaut  froiu 
Southern  Europe  —principally  from 
Spain  —  have  been  collected  in  a 
volume.  The  book  niakes  nearly 
300  pages,  and  is  now  going 
through  the  press.  It  is  very  hand- 
somely printed  on  costly  laid  paper 
from  new  type'.  Over  a  score  of 
illustrations  accompany  the  text, 
from  photographs  taken  by  the 
Two  Argonauts. 

A  rich  rubricated  title,  in  pseudo- 
Arabic,  framed  in  a  Moorish  arch- 
way   copied    from    the   Alhambra, 


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ARGONAUTS 

IN 

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& 

BY 

JEROME 

HART 


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October  12,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Again  New  York's  "  Four  Hundred "  are 
held  up  to  scorn,  this  time  lightly  by  Mr. 
Bronson  Howard,  the  dramatist.  He  does  not 
go  the  length  of  reproachful  criticism  which 
Colonel  Henry  Watterson  permitted  himself, 
but  he  believes  that  the  "  escapades  "  of  the 
women  in  the  exclusive  set  "  are  responsible 
for  the  bad  name  the  women  of  New  York  arc 
receiving  all  over  the  world."  The  gist  of  his 
indictment  lies  in  these  words:  "The  mem- 
bers of  it  drink  much  wine,  and  daily  we  hear 
stories  in  New  York  of  some  woman  who  is 
a  recognized  member  of  this  set  having  be- 
come intoxicated  at  some  one  of  the  many 
dinners  or  functions  given  under  its  auspices, 
making  herself  ridiculous  or  committing  some 
act  that  afterward  becomes  notorious,  while 
under  the  influence  of  wine.  They  are  not  all 
true,  but  I  believe,  in  speaking  of  that  certain 
class,  it  might  truthfully  be  said  that  the  drink 
habit  is  increasing.  The  Four  Hundred  does 
not,  however,  influence  the  manners  or  cus- 
toms of  society  in  any  part  of  the  country 
to  the  least  degree.  It  is  looked  upon  more 
as  a  curiosity  than  a  body  of  people  whose 
'antics'  or  manner  of  living  should  be  imi- 
tated. By  their  fast  living  the  members  of  the 
Four  Hundred,  and  particularly  women  mem- 
bers, have  divorced  themselves  from  New 
York  society,  and  have  been  ignored  by  the 
more  genteel,  refined,  and  temperate  element. 
So  it  is  all  over  the  country.  Any  person, 
it  makes  no  difference  how  exalted  her  social 
position  may  be,  who  undertakes  the  pursuit 
of  pleasure  by  becoming  immoderate  and  in- 
temperate in  the  use  of  liquor  or  by  fast 
conduct,  is  soon  divorced  by  her  former  as- 
sociates. The  tendency  of  the  present  times 
is  toward  moderation  in  all  things,  and  there 
are  no  grounds  for  the  widely  circulated  re- 
port that  the  habit  of  drink  is  increasing  so 
rapidly  among  the  women  of  New  York  that 
it  may  be  expected  that  within  a  few  years 
public  drinking-places,  where  wine  is  served 
and  similar  in  character  to  the  bar-room  con- 
ducted for  the  use  of  the  male  population. 
will  be  opened  in  New  York  to  supply  the 
demand  of  the  women  of  that  city  for  liquor." 

The  New  York  Sun  thinks  Mr.  Howard 
is  right  in  saying  that  immoderate  drinking 
has  fallen  into  disuse  and  reproach  in  all  re- 
spectable circles  of  men  at  this  period,  and 
refers  to  an  article  in  the  London  Saturday  . 
Review,  which  discusses  the  "  fashion  of  wine" 
when  even  swinish  indulgence  in  drink  was 
esteemed  a  peculiarly  gentlemanlike  accom- 
plishment. In  the  eighteenth  century,  and  even 
up  to  nearly  the  middle  of  the  last  century, 
judges,  clergy,  and  gentry  absorbed  wines  in 
prodigious  quantities,  and  supplemented  them 
with  deep  potations  of  whisky,  brandy,  and 
usquebaugh.  Lord  Hermand,  for  example, 
"  made  a  virtue  of  drinking,"  "  and  his  almost 
unparalleled  feats  were  surpassed  by  those 
of  his  brother  bencher.  Lord  Newton."  "  Dr. 
Webster,  a  pious  leader  in  the  Kirk,  was  no- 
torious as  a  '  five-bottle  man.'  "  "  The  con- 
sumption of  liquor  at  Brechin  Castle,  and 
elsewhere  sounds  almost  incredible " ;  Lord 
Panmure  was  "  a  seasoned  cask  and  one  of  a 
famous  trinity  from  the  three  kingdoms  who 
could  boast  of  putting  six  bottles  of  port 
under  their  belts  and  carrying  them  off  com- 
fortably," J  Lord  Dufferin  and  Lord  Blayney 
being  his  compeers.  All  this  is  changed  now- 
adays. 

In  a  letter  to  the  Argonaut,  Charles  Lor- 
rimer  writes  "  that  the  Empress  Dowager  of 
China  has  taken  a  liking  to  French  cooking. 
One  of  the  Misses  Zu,  daughter  of  the  ex- 
minister  to  Paris,  was  the  means  of  intro- 
ducing her  majesty  to  creamed  oysters, 
vol-au-vent  financier,  and  pudding  di- 
plomatique. The  experiment  was  evidently 
delightful,  as  the  Empress  Dowager  declared 
herself  highly  pleased  with  the  new  dishes, 
and  demanded  an  encore.  Court  favor  will  be 
less  precarious  and  intricate  in  future  now 
that  the  ruler  has  exposed  her  weak  spot. 
The  courtier  who  makes  the  finest  omelette 
holds  the  fortunes  of  China  in  the  palm  of  his 
hand.  A  European  kitchen  will  shortly  be 
equipped  and  set  up  in  the  palace  to  meet  this 
new  demand.  What  a  splendid  diplomatic 
controversy  the  ministers  will  have  over  the 
nomination  of  the  chef,  and  what  an  infinite 
vista  of  international  jealousies  will  be  opened 
up  to  the  new  regime." 


Tl  irteen  families,  comprising  twenty-nine 
citizens  of  the  best  social  and  business  stand- 
ing of  the  village  of  Holley,  N.  Y..  have 
fc  led  what  they  term  a  Cooperative  Board- 
ing Association,  their  ■  Iject  being  the  solu- 
tion of  the  servant-girl  problem..   The  idea  is 


unique,  and  has  attracted  no  little  attention, 
not  only  in  Holley,  but  iri  all  the  surrounding 
towns.  The  object  and  scope  of  the  associa- 
tion are  well  explained  in  the  following  rules 
which  have  been  adopted :  The  supplies  shall 
be  purchased  by  a  supply  committee,  consist- 
ing of  two  members,  who  shall  serve  for  a 
term  of  two  weeks,  such  term  to  commence 
and  end  on  Monday  morning.  Bills  for  such 
supplies  must  be  obtained  by  the  committee 
before  the  expiration  of  its  term,  and  pre- 
sented to  the  trustees  for  auditing.  .  .  .  The 
trustees  shall,  from  the  list  of  bills  and  ex- 
penses, figure  the  pro  rata  expense  for  the 
two  weeks  and  post  the  same  in  the  dining- 
room  each  week,  not  later  than  Monday,  for 
the  benefit  of  the  members.  The  trustees 
shall  make  a  list  of  each  member's  indebted- 
ness, including  deductions  for  absences  or  ad- 
ditions for  visitors,  and  give  it  to  the  secre- 
tary for  record.  The  secretary  shall  file  it 
with  the  treasurer  for  collection,  members 
to  pay  such  indebtedness  not  later  than  Tues- 
day. ...  A  book  will  be  provided  in  which 
members  will  record  absences  and  visitors, 
giving  date,  number  of  meals,  and  what 
meals.  ...  It  is  understood  that  all  members 
are  to  take  their  meals  at  the  association 
rooms  so  far  as  possible.  Being  absent  from 
the  lesser  meals  will  not  be  allowed  for  unless 
on  account  of  sickness  or  other  good  cause, 
when  arrangements  must  be  made  with  the 
trustees.  The  outcome  of  this  cooperative 
boarding-house  experiment  will  be  awaited 
with  interest. 


Frank  G.  Carpenter,  who  is  traveling  in 
Sweden,  recently  dropped  into  our  legation 
at  Stockholm  and  found  that  the  American 
minister  had  gone  off  ptarmigan  shooting 
for  a  month.  Mr.  Carpenter  writes  :  "  The 
American  minister  is  the  best  shot  in  Sweden. 
He  can  hit  the  fleetest  bird  on  the  wing.  The 
office  of  the  legation  has  trophies  of  former 
hunts  in  the  shape  of  wild  ducks,  snipe,  and 
the  heads  and  hoofs  of  elk.  Speaking  of 
hunting,  Norway  and  Sweden  are  rented  out 
much  like  Scotland.  The  best  shooting 
grounds  bring  so  much  a  week,  and  I  heard. 
the  other  day,  how  Burton  Harrison  paid 
1,000  kroner,  or  $260,  for  twp  weeks'  sport. 
He  came  here  to  shoot  elk.  but  found  that  the 
best  forests  were  owned  by  private  parties, 
who  did  not  care  to  rent  them.  He  could 
not  shoot  in  the  crown  woods  without  the 
royal  permission,  and  he  failed  to  get  that. 
He  then  advertised  in  the  papers,  offering  to 
pay  a  big  price  for  the  right  to  hunt  during 
the  season  on  any  good  estate,  but  received 
no  satisfactory  answer.  Finally,  an  Ameri- 
can here  asked  one  of  the  wealthy  forest 
owners  to  allow  Mr.  Harrison  the  privilege 
of  shooting  in  his  woods.  The  man  replied 
that  he  would  grant  it  for  two  weeks  for  1,000 
kroner.  Harrison  accepted  the  offer,  and  killed 
six  elks  during  that  time.  At  this  rate  the  elks 
cost  him   about  $43   apiece." 


At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  sophomores  of 
Stanford  University,  who  gathered  for  the 
purpose  of  selecting  some  sort  of  characteristic 
hat,  most  of  those  present  favored  the  adoption 
of  "  beanies."  But  a  delegation  of  girls  ob- 
jected, and  finally  a  compromise  upon  a  Turk- 
ish fez  was  decided  upon.  Then  all  the  girls 
of  the  class  who  had  not  been  present  at  the 
meeting  called  a  caucus  and  declared  they 
would  don  no  such  hideous  garb  as  the  Turk's, 
and  furthermore  they  would  wear  nothing 
in  common  with  the  men  of  the  class.  In  the 
meantime,  over  one  hundred  of  the  men, 
although  thoroughly  disappointed  over  the  fact 
that  the  girls  euchered  them  out  of  their 
"  beanies,"  have  ordered  their  white-tasseled, 
cardinal-colored  hats  of  the  Far  East,  and  will 
wear  them  in  defiance  of  the  women  on  the 
quadrangle  to-day  (Saturday).  The  girls  are 
still  looking  for  an  emblem.  White  mortar- 
boards seem  to  be  the  choice,  but  the  junior 
and  senior  girls  believe  their  heretofore  un- 
challenged right  to  wear  mortar-boards  should 
not  be  infringed  upon.  The  men  have  a  new 
idea,  borrowed  from  Cornell,  by  which  they 
hope  to  discipline  the  girls.  It  is  an  agree- 
ment merely  to  bow  to  the  girls  as  they  pass 
upon  the  quadrangle  instead  of  lifting  the  hat. 
Just  how  the  women  would  accept  such  an 
innovation  is  yet  to  be  learned. 

Turkey  has  a  race  suicide  question,  despite 
the  provisions  which  the  Prophet  Mohammed 
made  against  that  contingency.  Fifty  years 
ago  the  rule  among  Turks  was  to  marry 
young  and  to  espouse  several  wives,  and  as 
a  rule  families  were  correspondingly  large. 
Now,  all  this  is  changed.  Marriages  are  late, 
and  in  the  enormous  majority  of  cases  are 
monogamous,  while  families  are  becoming 
small  to  a  degree  which  has  alarmed  the  gov- 
ernment.     The    Sultan    has    recently    promul- 


gated an  trade  on  the  subject,  abolishing  much 
of  the  expensive  display  connected  with  Turk- 
ish marriage,  and  condemning  present  ten- 
dencies as  threatening  to  depopulate  the  em- 
pire. 


At  a  recent  London  wedding  in  high  life, 
instead  of  pelting  the  bride  and  groom  with 
showers  of  rice,  miniature  shoes  and  little 
horse-shoes,  made  of  silver  paper,  was  thrown 
after  them. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


Dr.  Charles  V? .  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Ruildin^,    806    Market    Street      Specialty : 
"  Colton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official     Report  of    Alexander  G,    McAdie, 
District   Forecaster. 

Max.  Min.      Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.       fall.  Weather. 

October     1st 62  52           .00  Clear 

"          2d 60  52           .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

"          3d 60  54           .00  Rain 

4lh 6S  58            .00  Clear 

5th 68  56            .00  Clear 

6th 66  56           .00  Clear 

"          7th 74  56           .00  Cloudy 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 

for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  October  7,  1903, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Bav  Co.  Power  5%      2,000  @  103^  103%     106 

Hawaiian  C.  S.  5%-    3.ooo  @    90  98% 

Los  An.  Ry  5%  1,000  ©113  in 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  6%...     9,000  @io7%  107K     10S 

North  Shore  Ry  5%    2,000  (Si  100  roo 

OakI'ndTransit6%     1,000  @  i2o}£  121 

Oakl'nd  Transit  5%     5,000  @  in  ...    .     ii2# 

Sierra  Ry.  of  Cal.  6%    5,000  @  112^  112^ 
S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909  g.ooo  @  107%  107^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  9,000  @  ioSJ4  10S54 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Con 7.000  @  117K  "8 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd       45,000  @  ioS-ioSJ^        108 

S.V.  Water  6%  ...     4.000  @  105^  105^ 

S.  V.  Water  4%. . . .     4,000  @  100  99^     100 

S.  V.  Water  4%  3d.     2,000  @    99%  gg^ 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.                   Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa  75  @    50  50 

Spring  Valley  W  ..        145  @    81^-84^ 

Spring  Vall'yW-Co        120  @    41M-  W%      4^H      4*% 

Banks. 

Bank  of  California           28  (01  485  475        490 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 210  @    64-  65^      65H 

Sugars. 

Hana  P.  Co 315  @    15-  25          15          20 

Hawaiian  C.  &S...          10  @    46  45J£ 

Honokaa  S.  Co 250  @    13-  13H      13          13% 

Hutchinson 277  @    12  11  J£ 

Makaweli  S.  Co 90  @    21  21          22 

Onomea  S.  Co 240  @    32-  32%       32          32^ 

Paauhau  S.  Co 50  @    16  17 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Mutual   Electric...        130  @    nj^-  12&       I2J4       13 

5.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       250  ©66-67  66%      67 

Trustees  Certificates. 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric         50  @    66  66         67  # 

Miscellaneous. 

Alaska  Packers  ...  30  @  155K-156        i55fc*     156 

Cal.  Fruit  Caiiners.          10  @    94J4  94}^ 

Pac.  Coast  Borax..           5  @  167  167 

The  market  has  been  very  quiet  in  all  lines; 
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The  sugars  were  traded  in  to  the  extent  of  1,222 
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Spring  Valley  Water  sold  off  o  ne  point  to  83^  on 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


237 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


Some  time  before  the  Civil  War,  and  while 
he  resided  in  Southern  Illinois,  John  A.  Lo- 
gan once  found  it  necessary  to  doubt  the  ve- 
racity of  a  man  considerably  older  than  him- 
self, and  told  him  so.  "  Don't  you  call  me  a 
liar,  sir,"  said  the  man,  excitedly  ;  "  I  have  a 
reputation  to  maintain,  and  I  mean  to  main- 
tain it  if  I  have  to  do  it  at  the  point  of  a  pis- 
tol." "  Oh,"  Logan  is  said  to  have  calmly  re- 
torted, "  that  won't  be  necessary.  You  main- 
tain your  reputation  all  right  every  time  you 
tell  a  lie." 


Andrew  Carnegie  is  only  a  few  inches  above 
five  feet  in  height.  Henry  W.  Phipps,  his  old 
partner,  is  not  an  inch  taller,  and  John 
Walker,  the  other  member  of  the  trio  who 
revolutionized  the  manufacture  of  steel,  has 
perhaps  a  little  the  better  of  both  Carnegie 
and  Phipps.  As  for  Henry  C.  Frick,  his  head 
would  just  about  reach  to  the  shoulder  of  a 
man  of  ordinary  height.  It  is  said  that  one 
day,  when  these  four  steel  masters  were  walk- 
ing together  on  the  streets  of  Pittsburg,  a  boot- 
black called  out  to  his  business  rival  further 
down  the  block,  as  the  millionaires  passed : 
"  Eh,  Jimmy,  git  onto  der  runts  !  " 


Some  curious  anecdotes  are  related  of  Her- 
mann Zumpe,  the  Wagnerian  conductor  ar 
Munich,  who  died  suddenly  a  few  weeks  ago. 
He  was  well  known  to  be  a  spiritualist,  and 
believed  that  the  ghosts  of  dead  composers  in- 
spired his  conducting  of  their  works.  One  day 
Zumpe  told  another  conductor  of  note  how  Bee- 
thoven's spirit  was  present  during  the  per- 
formance of  one  of  the  symphonies,  and  so 
pleased  was  the  ghost  that,  after  the  end  of 
the  first  movement,  he  exclaimed  :  "  At  last!  " 
"  Ah,  my  dear  fellow,"  exclaimed  the  other 
conductor,  "  surely  Beethoven  made  a  mistake. 
He  thought  it  was  the  end  of  the  last  move- 
ment," 


Henry  Labouchere,  as  a  young  diplomat, 
was  fond  of  amusing  and  bewildering  his  su- 
periors. For  instance,  it  is  said  that  once 
he  was  instructed  to  come  home  to  London 
from  Constantinople.  He  wasn't  heard  of  for 
some  time ;  and  was  apparently  lost  in  the 
midst  of  the  Black  Forest,  or  some  of  the 
other  lands  that  intervened  between  him  and 
home.  He  was  at  last  traced ;  and  then  calmly 
wrote  that  he  was  obeying  orders,  and  was 
making  his  way  homeward ;  but  that  as  his 
chief  had  forgotten  to  send  him  any  money 
to  pay  the  expense  by  the  ordinary  methods 
of  traveling,  he  was  working  his  slow  passage 
on  footl 


When  the  late  William  Ernest  Henley  was 
editing  London,  he  had  no  one  on  his  start 
of  writers  whom  he  valued  so  highly  as  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson,  who  prepared  for  him  the 
brilliant  series  of  stories  that  are  now  called 
"  The  New  Arabian  Nights."  It  is  related  that 
one  night  they  sat  down  to  play  a  game  of 
poker.  The  luck  from  the  start  was  with 
Henley.  He  won  pot  after  pot.  Stevenson 
was  lucky  if  in  any  deal  he  got  a  pair  of  treys. 
Disgusted,  at  last,  with  the  turn  the  cards 
had  taken,  he  threw  up  his  arms  and  apos- 
trophized fortune  in  this  quaint  way:  "For- 
tune, you  fickle  wench,  it  is  true  that  you  can 
make  me  lose,  but  you  can  never  make  me 
pay !" 


Commenting  on  the  receptions  of  his  various 
plays,  H.  J.  W.  Dam  recently  told  a  reporter 
that  at  one  time  at  the  opening  production  of 
his  play,  "  The  Coquette,"  he  thought  no- 
body connected  with  the  entertainment 
would  leave  the  theatre  alive.  "  The  house," 
he  said,  "  was  the  little  Prince  of  Wales,  man- 
aged by  Oscar  Lowenthal.  The  piece  did  not 
go  very  well,  and  at  the  end  there  were  calls 
for  the  author.  I  did  not  mind  going  out,  for 
a  similar  play  of  mine,  '  The  Shop  Girl,'  had 
run  twenty  months  in  the  Gaiety,  and  I  felt 
jthat  the  pit  and  gallery  would  treat  me  with 
some  courtesy,  as  one  who  had,  at  least, 
pleased  them  once.  But  the  '  Boo  !  '  that  came 
over  the  footlights  that  night  as  I  made  my 
appearance  was  really  like  a  tornado  !  It  was 
almost  palpable.  I  fairly  reeled  and  staggered 
back  as  it  came  at  me  like  something  that 
might  be  warded  off  bad  I  the  thickness  of 
the  curtain  between  me  and  it.  And  it  en- 
dured, too — endured  until  I  felt  myself  pulled 
and  jerked  about,  and  realized  that  the  curtain, 
to  the  end  of  which  I  had  been  holding  with 
one  clenched  hand,  was  ascending.  I  looked 
about,  and  there  stood  Lowenthal,  the  color  of 
pure  marble.  He  stepped  down,  pushed  me 
aside,  and  then  gave  that  audience  a  vast 
amount  of  information  concerning  the  private 


character  of  each  and  every  individual  com- 
posing it.  I  do  not  believe  that  a  coster  from 
Whitechapel  could  have  competed  with  the 
manager  that  night  in  the  expert  use  of  choice 
Billingsgate.  He  blackguarded  them  until 
they  were  stilled,  and  then  he  blackguarded 
some  more.  He  paid  for  that  speech 
with  a  fortune,  for  popular  indignation  told 
against  the  Prince  of  Wales  Theatre,  and  he, 
too  stubborn  to  let  go,  held  on  until  he  was 
wiped  out." 

Justin  McCarthy  says  that  Thackeray  often 
created  quite  erroneous  impressions  of  him- 
self by  indulging  in  irony  in  the  presence  of 
people  who  were  incapable  of  understanding 
it.  One  curious  instance  which  he  gives  is 
this :  "  Thackeray  had  been  dining  at  the 
'  Garrick,'  and  was  talking  in  the  smoking- 
room  after  dinner  with  various  club  acquaint- 
ances. One  of  them  happening  to  have  left 
his  cigar-case  at  home,  Thackeray,  though 
disliking  the  man,  who  was  a  notorious  tuft- 
hunter,  good-naturedly  offered  him  one  of 
his  cigars.  The  man  accepted  the  cigar,  but, 
not  finding  it  to  his  liking,  had  the  bad  taste 
to  say  to  Thackeray,  '  I  say,  Thackeray,  you 
won't  mind  my  saying  1  don't  think  much  of 
this  cigar.'  Thackeray,  no  doubt  irritated  at 
the  man's  ungraciousness,  and  bearing  in  mind 
his  tuft-hunting  predilections,  quietly  re- 
sponded, '  You  ought  to,  my  good  fellow,  for  it 
was  given  me  by  a  lord.'  Instead,  however, 
of  detecting  the  irony,  the  dolt  immediately  at- 
tributed the  remark  to  snobbishness  on  Thack- 
eray's part,  and  to  the  end  of  his  days  went 
about  declaring  '  that  Thackeray  had  boasted 
that  he  had  been  given  a  cigar  by  a  lord ! 

Rudyard  Kipling  once  visited  the  late  Cecil 
Rhodes  at  Lekkerwijn,  one  of  his  fruit  farms 
at  Paarl,  South  Africa.  One  morning  Rhodes 
went  round  his  farm  before  breakfast,  leaving 
his  guest,  who  was  not  so  energetic,  behind- 
Time  went  on,  and  Rhodes  did  not  appear. 
Hunger  soon  roused  Kipling  to  action,  and  in 
a  short  while  he  was  very  busy  on  his  own 
account.  As  Rhodes  returned  he  found  his 
trees  bearing  a  new  kind  of  fruit  in  the  shape 
of  placards,  inscribed  in  huge  black  letters 
with  "  Famine  !  "  "  We  are  starving !  "  "  Feed 
us !  "  etc.  On  reaching  the  front  door  he  was 
confronted  with  the  following,  in  still  larger 
type :  "  For  the  Human  Race  —  Breakfast 
tones  the  mind,  invigorates  the  body.  It  has 
sustained  thousands  ;  it  will  sustain  you.  See 
that  you  get  it."  Then  in  the  house,  on  every 
available  wall,  he  came  across  other  mysteri- 
ous placards,  in  more  and  more  pathetic  ap- 
peal: "Why  die  when  a  little  breakfast  pro- 
longs life? "  Larger  and  larger  grew  the 
type:  "It  is  late,  it  is  still  later''  leading  at 
last  into  the  little  breakfast-room,  where  he 
found  Kipling  reading  his  paper  in  peaceful 
innocence,  but  very  hungry.  It  did  not  need 
much  ingenuity  to  guess  the  author  of  these 
broadsides. 


Yo 


Heard  on  the  Street. 

Ardent  Youth  (at  the  rendezvous) 
see,  I  have  came  as  promised. 

His  New  Found  Friend  :  I'm  so  glad  you 
done  so. 

A.  Y. :  Clara  Warner  asked  me  to  call  on 
her  to-night,  but  I  wouldn't  of  went  for  any- 
thing. 

H.  N.  F.  F. :  I  seen  her  to-day.  She 
looked  awful  pale — powder,  I  guess. 

A.   Y. :      She  didn't  used  to  look  so  bad. 

EL  N.  F.  F.:  Oh,  I  aint  never  thought  her 
pretty. 

A.  Y. :  I  guess  I  won't  go  to  see  her  no 
more.     I  like  you  more  than  her. 

H.  N.  F.  F. :     Aw,  you  don't  neither. 

A.  Y. :  That's  right ;  I  guess  I've  fell  in 
love  with  you. 

H.  N.  F.  F. :  You're  jollyin'  me.  Boys 
can't  jolly  me  no  more. 

Here  a  man  rush  up  and  killed  both  perpe- 
trators.— Toledo  Blade. 


Angeline  Murphy — "  Hold  on  dere,  Jimmy 
Kelly!  Yer  needn't  read  me  no  more  items 
out'n  dat  newspaper  'bout  soda-fountains 
explodin'  an'  manglin'  de  customers,  an'  girls 
gittin'  poisoned  by  ptomaines  in  ice  cream. 
If  yer  dead  broke,  jest  say  so,  like  a  man,  an' 
I'll  t'ink  jest  as  much  uv  yer." — Judge. 


If  Your  Physician 

prescribes  a  milk  diet,  for  its  easy  digestibility  it  will 
be  well  to  use  Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated 
Cream  to  get  a  rich,  deliciously  flavored  milk  food, 
perfectly  sterilized,  according  to  latest  sanitary 
methods.  For  general  household  uses.  Prepared  by 
Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tksla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 

To  Shakespeare. 
They  say  you  are  immortal ; 

They  say  it  with  reason. 
For  still  you  endure 
Though  you're  murdered  each  season. 
—  ll'dshingtoti  Star. 

The  Eternal  Feminine. 
When  mid- Victorian   fashions   failed 

To  tempt  the  laggard  lover. 
Our  Grandmammas  in  sorrow  wailed 

Their  weakness  to  discover; 
And  modes  arrived,  and  altered  fast. 

Until  at  length  was  seen. 
In  all  its  glory  wide  and  vast. 
The  Crinoline! 

But  fickle  man  was  never  yet 

Content  with  present  hlisses. 
And  woman's  wit  anew  was  set 

To  reinforce  her  kisses; 
While  Cupid  simply  stood  apart 

And  watched  the  mental  tussle. 
Until   in   Fashion's  shifting  mart 
Appeared  the  Bustle! 

Alas!  the  struggle  even  then 

Was  only  just  beginning. 
For  still  the  ranks  of  single  men 

Are  far  too  slowly  thinning. 
And  now,  to  match  the  low-cut  wear 

That  eve  to  Eve  allows. 
Behold  by  day  the  open-air 

Pneumonia  Blouse! — Punch. 


The  Universal  Target. 
Speak  kindly  to   the  millionaire; 

Perhaps  he  does  his  best. 
Don't  try  to  drive  him  to  despair 

With  rude,  unfeeling  jest. 
Don't  laugh   at  portraits   which   display 

His  face  with  comic  leer. 
And  when  he  gives  his  wealth  away 

Don't  take  it  with  a  sneer. 
Speak  kindly  to   the  millionaire. 

He  has  a  right  to  live 
And  feel  the  sun  and  breathe  the  air 

And  keep  his  coin  or  give. 
You  may  be  rich  yourself,  you  see, 

Before    your    life    is    through. 
Speak  kindly  and  remember  he 

Is  human,  just  like  you. 

— Washington   Star. 

A  Latter-Day  Lullaby. 
Hushaby,  lullaby,  go  to  sleep  now! 

There    is    your    patent   self-rocking   crib,    dear! 
You've  had  your  milk   from   a  sterilized  cow, 

From   microbes   and   germs   you    have   nothing  to 
fear. 

Hushaby,  lullaby. 

Shut  your  blue  eyes, 
A  babe  of  to-day 

Never  whimpers  or  cries! 

Hushaby,  lullaby,   th'  food   that  you  had 

Came   straight    from    the   chemist — prepared   just 
for  you. 
Fed  by  machinery,  are  you  not  glad 
That    science    has   taught    all    these    methods    st 
new? 

Hushaby,  lullaby, 
Baby  so  sweet, 
(Crying  is  out  of  date, 
I  must  repeat!) 

Hushaby,  lullaby!     If  you  are  good 

Mother  will  call  on  you  once  every  day, 
So  you  may  recognize  her,  as  you  should — 
Ah,  she  is  rearing  you  in  the  right  way! 
Hushahy,   lullaby. 
Dear  little  man, 
I  hope  you  appreciate 
This  splendid  plan! 
— Cincinnati  Commercial  Tribune. 


Football  Days. 
The  football  days  have  come  again,  the  gladdest  of 

the  year; 
One  side  of  Willie's  nose  is  gone,  and  Tom  has  lost 

an   ear; 
Heaped  on   the   field,   the  players  jab,   and  punch, 

and  claw,  and  tear. 
They    knock    the    breath    frum    those    beneath    and 

gouge  without  a  care; 
They  break   each   other's  arms  and   legs,   and   pull 

joints  out  of  place. 
And  here  and  there  is  one  who  gets  his  teeth  kicked 

from  his  face. 

The   freshman   and  the  sophomore,   besmeared   with 

grime  and  mud, 
Go  gallantly  to  get  the  ball  and  quit  all  bathed  in 

blood; 
The  senior  knocks  the  junior  down   and  kicks   him 

in  the  chest, 
The    high   school    boy    is    carried    home    and    gently 

laid  at  rest, 
While    here   and   there   a   crowded    stand   collapses 

'ncath  its  weight. 
And   forty  people  get  more  than  they  paid   for  at 

the  gate. — Chicago  liecord-Hcrald. 


Surprised  at  her :  Mrs.  Joilyboy — "  But 
during  our  courtship  you  totd  me  that  you  had 
never  loved  any  girl  but  me."  Joilyboy — 
"  I  thought  you  were  too  wise  to  pay  any  at- 
tention to  campaign  canards." — Chicago  News. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    TORK-SULTIIAMPTON— LONDON. 
St.  Louis   ..  .Oct. 21, 10am  I  Phjl'delphia  Nov. 4,10am 

New  York  ...Oct.  2S,  10am  |  St.  Louis Nov.u.ioam 

Philadelphia— Queens  town— Liverpool. 

Belgenland  .  ..Oct.  17,  9am  I  Noordland  ....Oct. 31,  gam 
Haverf'rd. Oct.  24, 11.30am  [  Friesland  ...Nov.  7,  10  am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW     YORK— LONDuN     DIRECT. 
Min'et'nka  ( >ct   17,  1.30  pm  I  Min'ehalia.Oct.  31, 1.30pm 
Min"apolis....Oct.  24,8am  |  Mesaba Nov.  7.9am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— yUEENST'OWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Commonwealth  .  ...Oct.  22  I  Columbus Nov.  12 

New  England Oct.  29  I  Commonwealth. .  .Nov.  19 

Mayflower Nov.  5  |  Kensington Now  2^ 

Montreal  —  Li verpool—  Short  sea  passage. 

Soulhwark Oct.  17  I  Southwark Nov.  7 

Canada Oct.  31  |  Dominion Nov.  14 

6051011    Mediterranean    Dlrect 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Vancouver Saturday,  Oct.  10,  Nov.  21 

Cambroman Saturday,  Oct.  31 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— ANTWERP-PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Vaderland Oct.  17  I  Zeeland Oct.  31 

Kroonland Oct.  24  |  Finland Nov.  7 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— QL'EENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Oceanic Oct.  21,  6  am  I  Arabic Oct.  30,  12.30  pm 

Cymric   Oct.  23,  7  am  I  Victorian Nov.  3,  3  pm 

Teutonic Oct.  2$,  noon  |  Cedric Nov.  4,  3.30  pm 

C.  1*.  TAYLOK,    Passenger  Agent,  Pacific  Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND   CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M-,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Coptic   Saturday,  Oct.  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)   Wedneoday,  Nov.  35 

Doric. .Tuesday.  Dec.  22 

Coptic Friday,  January    15,   1904 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  treight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  comer  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 


TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

(ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL   JAPANESE   AND 
(J.  S-  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  u.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  tHiogot,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon   Mam Thursday,   October  15 

America  Maru ..Tuesday.  November  IO 

Hongkong   Maru Thursday,  December  3 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rales. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

TV.   H.  AVEKY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 


Sierra, < 


oma,  6200  tons  1  Ventura,  62ootons 


S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu   only,    Oct.    17,   1903, 

at  11  A.  m. 

S.  S.  .Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  Oct.  26.  1903,  at  11  a.  H. 

S.  S.    Sierra,  tor    Honolulu,  Pago   Pago,   Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Oct.  29,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


RUBBER 


LA  ZACUALPA 

Rubber  Plantation 
Company 

•  713  Market  SL.S.F. 
AN  INVESTMENT  WORTH  INVESTIGATING 


BONESTELL,  RICHARDSON  &  CO. 


DEALERS 
IN 


PAPER 


8F  All 
KINDS. 


a„Faor^™pp."nKe.I-   401-403  Sansome  St. 


PHOTOGRAPHY. 


Moore's  Poison-Oak   Remedy- 
cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


DEVELI  HMNG  PLATES  AND  FILMS.  WE  HAVE 
a  neu  and  original  process  through  which  we 
are  enabled  to  save  over  50  per  cent,  of  the  pic- 
tures formerly  lost  by  under  exposure.  Each  film 
is  developed  separately,  thus  making  it  possible 
1<i  assure  the  correct  treatment  for  every  ex- 
posure. There  is  no  increase  in  cost ;  simply 
more  satisfaction  to  our  patrons.  Let  us  de- 
velop your  next  roll.  Kirk.  Geary  .S:  Co.,  "  Every- 
thing in  Photography."  112  Geary  Street,  San 
Francisco.  __^_ 

LIBRARIES. 

FRF.NCH  LIBRARY.  135  GEARY  STREET.  ESTAB- 
li'-hed   1876—18,000   volumes. 

LAW  LIBRARY,  CITY  HALL.  ESTABLISHED 
[865—38,000   volumes. 

Mli  HANICS1  INSTITUTE  LIBRARY,  ESTAB- 
lished    1855,    re-incorporated    1869-108.000   vo 


MERCANTILE       LIBRARY      ASSOCIATION.      223 
Sutter  Street,  established  1852—80,000  volumes. 


PUBLIC      LIBRARY,      CITY       HALL,     OPENED 

June  7.  1879 — 146,297  volumes. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


POSTER  PICTURES. 
Most  striking  trie -:ls  are  produced  by  premium  pictures 
mounted  US  tinted   raw   silk  mat  boards 

—greens,  grays,  black,  and  red:  most  slut. 
artistic  tor  a  very  moderate  outlav  San! 
i:  Co.,  741  Market  Street. 


238 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


October  12,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


The  Davis-Morgan  Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Therese  Morgan, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  William  P.  Morgan,  and  Mr. 
Norris  King  Davis  took  place  on  Wednesday 
evening,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother, 
2'ii  Clay  Street.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  nine  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  Frederick 
Clampett,  rector  of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church, 
assisted  by  Rev.  Bradford  Leavitt,  of  the  First 
Unitarian  Church.  Miss  Ella  Morgan  was  her 
sister's  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss  Mary  Josselyn, 
Miss  Helen  Dean,  and  Miss  Genevieve  King 
acted  as  bridesmaids.  Mr.  John  Rush  Baird 
was  the  best  man.  The  ceremony  was  followed 
by  a  wedding  supper.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  journey  in  Southern  Califor- 
nia. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  will  occupy  their 
residence  on  Pacific  Avenue. 


The  Hannay-Young  Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Young, 
daughter  of  Lieutenant-General  Samuel  B.  M. 
Young  U.  S.  A.,  and  Captain  John  Robert 
Ri^by  Hannay,  Twenty-Second  Infantry,  U. 
S  A.,  took  place  in  St.  Thomas  Church, 
Washington,  D.  C,  on  Wednesday  afternoon, 
at  four  o'clock.  Miss  Margaret  Knight,  a 
niece  of  the  bride  was  the  maid  of  honor,  and 
the  bridesmaids  were  Miss  Edith  Needham, 
Miss  Mary  Wallace,  Miss  Gertrude  Bayne, 
Miss  Carlotta  D.  Klein,  of  St.  Louis,  and  Miss 
Ruth  Kelly  and  Miss  Leah  Kelly,  of  Spring- 
field O.  Captain  Peter  W.  Davison,  Twenty- 
Second  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  was  the  best  man. 
and  Colonel  Clarence  R.  Edwards,  U.  S.  A., 
Captain  Robert  L.  Hamilton.  U.  S.  A.,  Captain 
Horace  M.  Reeve,  U.  S.  A..  Captain  Frank 
Dewitt  Ramsley,  U.  S.  A..  Captain  Robert  M. 
Mearus.  and  Lieutenant  Hanford  acted  as 
ushers.  President  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Roose- 
velt and  Admiral  and  Mrs.  George  Dewey. 
U.  S.  N.,  were  among  the  notable  guests  who 
attended  the  wedding.  A  reception  followed 
at  the  residence  of  General  Young.  Captain 
Hannay  and  his  bride  will  arrive  in  San 
Francisco  the  latter  part  of  October.  They 
are  scheduled  to  sail  for  Manila  on  the  trans- 
port Sheridan  on  October  31st. 

Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Elsie 
Beatrice  Bennet,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Bennet,  of  Oakland,  and  Mr.  William  Lynham 
Shiels,  son  of  the  late  William  Shiels,  and  a 
brother  of  Dr.  George  F.  Shiels  and  Dr.  J. 
Wilson  Shiels.  The  wedding  will  take  place 
next  month,  and  the  ceremony  will  be  per- 
formed by  the  Rev.  William  Carson  Shaw. 
After  a  brief  wedding  journey,  Mr.  Shiels 
and  his  bride  will  return  to  Oakland  and 
take  up  their  residence  at  13 18  Jackson  Street, 
where  a  home  is  now  being  prepared  for  them. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Jean  Nokes,  daughter 
of  Mrs.  M.  L.  Nokes,  and  Lieutenant  John  B. 
Murphy  will  take  place  on  Thursday  afternoon, 
October  27th.  Miss  Anna  Sperry  will  be  the 
maid  of  honor,  Dr.  Greenleaf  the  best  man, 
and  Mr.  H.  C.  Rodgers,  Jr.,  Mr.  J.  Brockway 
Metcalf,  Lieutenant  Edward  Shinkle,  U.  S.  A., 
and  Lieutenant  P.  K.  Brice,  U.  S.  A.,  the 
ushers.  The  ceremony  will  be  performed  at 
four  o'clock  by  the  Presidio  chaplain.  Lieuten- 
ant Murphy  and  his  bride  will  leave  the  fol- 
lowing day  for  his  new  post  at  Fort  Russell, 
Wyoming. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bertie  Bruce,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bruce,  and  Mr. 
Ferdinand  Stephenson  will  take  place  at  noon 
at  Trinity  Church,  October  20th.  The  cere- 
mony will  be  performed  by  the  Rev.  Clifton 
Macon,  assisted  by  Rev.  Frederick  Clampett. 
Miss  Gertrude  Van  Wyck  will  be  the  maid  of 
honor. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Bessie  Godey,  of 
Washington.  D.  C,  and  Mr.  C.  Frederick 
Kohl,  took  place  on  Wednesday  at  the  resi- 
dence of  the  bride's  mother,  Mrs.  Catherine 
Smith  Godey,  in  Cleveland  Park.  Miss  Claire 
Crosby,  of  New  York,  and  Miss  Jennings 
Caroll,  of  Baltimore,  were  the  bridesmaids, 
and  Mr.  Fred  Moody  acted  as  best  man.  A 
wedding  breakfast  followed  the  ceremony. 
After  an  extended  wedding  journey  in  the 
East,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kohl  will  reside  at  San 
Mateo. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Gertrude  Sullivan, 
daughter  of  Judge  and  Mrs.  Sullivan,  and  Mr. 
Bernard  Breedon,  of  Des  Moines,  la.,  took 
place  at  the  residence  of  the  bride  on  Vallejo 
Street  on  Wednesday.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  noon  by  the  Rev.  Father  Cottle. 
Only  the  immediate  relatives  of  the  bride  and 
groom  were  present.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  trip,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Breedon  will 
reside  on  Pacific  Avenue. 

Miss  Ella  Bender  and  Miss  Cherry  Bender 
gave  a  tea  at  their  residence  on  Green  Street 
on    Thursday   afternoon,    from    four   until    six 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

MAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

fhere  is  no  substitute 


o'clock,  in  honor  of  Miss  Margaret  Fassett. 
Those  who  assisted  in,  receiving  were  Miss 
Katherine  Herrin,  Miss  Katherine  Dillon, 
Miss  Patricia  Cosgrave,  Miss  Genevieve  King, 
Miss  Boyd,  and  Mrs.  Davis. 

Miss  Christine  Pomeroy  will  make  her 
formal  debut  at  a  tea  to  be  given  by  her 
mother,  Mrs.  Carter  P.  Pomeroy,  Saturday 
afternoon,  October  31st. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lewis  R.  Mead  entertained  a 
house-party  of  fourteen  at  Byron  Hot  Springs 
from  Friday  until  Monday  last  week.  Their 
guests  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  B.  Sperry, 
Miss  Elsie  Sperry,  Mrs.  Henry  Wetherbee, 
Mrs.  W.  H.  Reed,  of  Chico,  Miss  Agnes  Bu- 
chanan, Mrs.  John  C.  Klein,  Dr.  Charles  V. 
Cross,  Mr.  Maddox,  Mr.  T.  J.  Barbour,  Mr. 
E.  C.  Bray,  and  Mr.  Clarence  Doane. 

Mrs.  Henry  Crocker  gave  a  dinner  on  Tues- 
day evening  at  the  Palace  Hotel  in  honor  of 
Miss  Margaret  Fassett. 

Miss  Belle  Harmes  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday  at  her  residence,  "  Oak  Knoll," 
in  Sausalito,  in  honor  of  Miss  Gertrude  But- 
ton. Others  at  table  were  Mrs.  George  Spauld- 
ing,  Mrs.  Frank  Bates,  Mrs.  George  Beardsley, 
Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Miss  Mabel  Toy.  Miss 
Edna  Middleton,  Miss  Maylita  Pease,  and 
Miss  Mabel  Cluff. 

Mrs.  Monroe  Salisbury  gave  a  tea  in  the 
palm  garden  of  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Monday 
afternoon    in    honor    of    Miss    Bernie    Drown. 

Miss  Jessie  Fillmore  gave  a  card-party  on 
Monday  afternoon  at  her  residence  on  Broad- 
way in  honor  of  Miss  Pearl  Seeley  and  Miss 
Bessie  Drake,  of  Los  Angeles.  Among  those 
present  were  Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Miss  Kath- 
arine Duval,  Miss  Ethel  Wallace,  Miss  Aileen 
Towle,  Miss  Jessie  Ewing,  Miss  Helen  Gibbs, 
Miss  Frances  Harris,  Miss  Pearl  Sabin,  Miss 
Gertrude  Palmer,  Miss  Amy  Gunn,  and  Miss 
Beatrice  Fife. 

Mrs.  Charles  Deering  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday,  complimentary  to  Mrs.  H.  M.  A. 
Miller,  at  which  she  entertained  Mrs.  Alex- 
ander Keyes,  Mrs.  D.  H.  Deering,  Mrs.  George 
Moore,  Mrs.  Frank  Bates,  Mrs.  John  Evelyn 
Page,  Mrs.  Willard  Wayman,  Mrs.  I.  W.  Hell- 
man,  Jr.,  Mrs.  George  Roe,  and  Mrs.  Lewis 
Hanchette. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Trilley  has  sent  out  invitations 
for  a  "  euchre-party "  to  be  given  at  two 
o'clock  on  Wednesday,  at  her  residence  on 
Fillmore  Street. 

Miss  Noelle  de  Golia,  who  has  recently  re- 
turned from  school  in  New  York,  made  her 
formal  debut  at  a  reception  given  on  Wednes- 
day evening  by  her  mother,  Mrs.  George  ck 
Golia,  at  her  residence  on  Harrison  Street, 
Oakland. 

Mrs.  Allen  Chickering  has  issued  invitations 
for  a  reception  to  be  given  this  (Saturday) - 
afternoon  in  honor  of  Miss  Irene  S.  Hazard. 

Lieutenant  and  Mrs.  Mac  Arthur  recently 
gave  a  dinner  at  their  residence  at  Mare 
Island  complimentary  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Kindel- 
berger.  Others  at  table  were  Naval  Con- 
structor and  Mrs.  F.  B.  Zahm,  Lieutenant  and 
Mrs.  Theodore  Fenton,  Mrs.  R.  M.  Cutis,  Jr., 
and  Pay-Inspector  Leeds  C.  Kerr. 


Wills  and  Successions. 
The  supreme  court  has  decided  that  Alfred 
C.Rulofson  is  the  sole  heir  to  the  four  hundred 
thousand  dollar  estate  of  the  late  Captain 
Winslow  G.  Hall,  as  his  adopted  son.  This 
decision,  which  reverses  the  judgment  of  the 
lower  court,  ends  litigation  begun  five  years 
ago,  and  is  based  upon  a  specific  contract  en- 
tered into  by  Hall  when  he  adopted  the  boy  in 
March,  1 87 1.  Rulofson  was  the  son  of 
William  H.  Rulofson,  now  deceased.  In  1871 
he  ran  away  from  home  and  shipped  on  the 
Sarah  H.  Merrill,  of  which  Captain  Hall  was 
the  master,  for  a  trading  voyage  to  South 
America,  under  the  name  of  Arthur  Brooks. 
Hall  learned  of  the  youth's  identity,  became 
attached  to  him,  and  with  the  father's  consent. 
adopted  Rulofson  as  his  own  son.  Hall  con- 
tracted to  raise  the  boy  as  his  own,  and  to 
leave  him  all  his  property  at  his  death.  Young 
Rulofson  also  renounced  his  father  and  all 
claim  to  his  estate.  At  Captain  Hall's  death, 
it  was  discovered  that  by  a  will  made  in  1897, 
he  had  left  his  entire  estate  to  nieces  and 
nephews,  naming  George  E.  Billings,  husband 
of  a  niece,  his  executor.  Rulofson  was  not 
mentioned  in  the  will.  Suit  was  begun  against 
Billings  as  executor  under  the  will,  and  the 
lower  court  found  in  favor  of  the  defendant, 
after  permitting  testimony  regarding  state- 
ments of  Hall  that  he  was  merely  the  guard- 
ian of  Rulofson.  The  supreme  court  held,  in 
the  decision  just  handed  down,  that  the  ad- 
mission of  such  testimony  was  in  error,  and 
that  Rulofson's  claim  of  right  had  its  origin 
in  the  contract  whereby  Hall  agreed  to  leave 
Rulofson  all  his  property  on  his  death. 


Eugene  N.  Deuprey,  the  well-known  attor- 
ney, died  on  Sunday  of  heart  failure.  He  was 
born  in  New  Orleans  and  was  fifty-five  years 
old  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  came  to  this 
city  when  a  lad,  received  his  education  here, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  this  State, 
where  he  soon  built  up  a  lucrative  practice. 
Mr.  Deuprey  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  secured  a  divorce  from  him  in  this  city 
on  December  23,  1899,  and  was  given  the  cus- 
tody of  the  four  minor  children.  His  second 
wife  was  Mrs.  J.  Craig  at  the  time  of  her 
wedding,  and  is  a  half-sister  of  Gertrude  Ath- 
erton,  the  novelist. 


On  October  15th,  Julian  M.  Brownell,  for 
many  years  chief  clerk  of  the  Occidental 
Hotel,  is  to  take  up  the  position  of  chief 
clerk  at  the  Palace  Hotel.  Brownell  has  been 
identified  with  a  great  many  of  the  leading 
hotels  in  the  United  States  for  the  past  twenty 
years,  and  has  made  hundreds  of  friends,  who 
will  be  delighted  to  hear  of  his  step  upward. 

The  accommodations  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  for  those  desiring  to  stay  over  merit 
are  excellent.  The  trip  on  the  Scenic  Railway 
through  Mill  Valley  is  especially  beautiful  at 
this  time  of  the  year. 


MUSICAL     NOTES. 


The  Last  Symphony  Concert. 

Fritz  Scheel  was  given  a  rousing  farewell 
reception  at  his  last  symphony  concert  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House  on  Tuesday  afternoon. 
The  occasion  also  resolved  itself  into  quite  an 
ovation  for  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  whose  inci- 
dental music  written  for  Louis  Robertson's 
drama,  "  Montezuma,"  was  heard  here  for  the 
first  time.  One  enthusiastic  critic,  commenting 
on  Stewart's  orchestral  suite,  said  : 

The  prelude,  "  Darkness  and  Dawn,"  can 
easily  take  rank  beside  the  "Hymn  to  the  Sun," 
from  Mascagni's  "  Iris."  The  "  Intermezzo  " 
is  a  charming  bit,  with  a  lilting  melody  that 
tells  a  story  of  love  not  to  be  mistaken.  •  The 
third  part,  the  "  Valse  Lente,"  is  sparkling 
with  its  delightful  rhythmic  measures.  Ring- 
ing forcefulness  and  a  melodic  majesty  char- 
acterize the  march  which  concludes  the  suite, 
but  in  the  play  announces  the  entrance  of 
sovereign  and  court.  The  presentation  of  this 
music  was  something  of  a  revelation  to  those 
in  the  audience,  who  had  no  idea  of  the  merit 
of  the  entertainments  at  the  Bohemian  jinks  in 
the  redwoods.  After  hearing  it,  it  is  easy  to 
understand  why  old  members,  no  longer  resi- 
dent in  California,  cross  continent  or  ocean  to 
be  present  at  the  jinks.  The  music  of  "  Mon- 
tezuma "  will  unquestionably  be  heard  in  the 
East  before  long.  On  the  recommendation  of 
Ben  Greet,  Mr.  Robertson  is  rewriting  and  ex- 
tending the  play  for  presentation  to  Frohman, 
and  Dr.  Stewart  is  arranging  the  music  ac- 
cordingly. 

Augusta  Cottlow  at  Lyric  Hall. 
Augusta  Cottlow  will  open  the  musical 
season  at  Will  Greenbaum's  Lyric  Hall  on 
Tuesday  night,  when  Natorp  Blumenfeld,  the 
violinist,  will  make  his  local  debut.  The  first 
programme  will  be  a  most  interesting  one. 
Miss  Cottlow  will  play  a  Bach  prelude  and 
fugue  arranged  by  the  great  Busoniy ;  the 
Cappricio  in  B-minor  by  Brahms ;  Nocturne 
in  F-sharp  minor,  and  Scherzo  in  C-sharp 
minor,  by  Chopin  ;  Romanze  op.  5  of  Tschai- 
kowsky ;  and  Etude  de  Concert  and  Polonaise 
E-major,  by  Liszt.  With  Blumenfeld  and  Ar- 
thur Weiss  she  will  play  Rubinstein's  trio 
for  piano,  violin  and  'cello.  Mr.  Blumenfeld, 
accompanied  by  Fred  Maurer,  will  play 
Bruch's  arrangement  of  the  old  Hebrew  mel- 
ody, "  Kol  Nidrei  "  ;  two  movements  from  a 
Bach  sonata ;  "  Air  Savoyard  and  Reverie," 
by  Vieuxtemps  ;  and  Wieniawski's  "  Romanze 
et  Rondo  Elegante."  Thursday  night  will  be 
entirely  devoted  to  a  recital  by  Miss  Cottlow, 
when  she  will  play  Beethoven's  thirty-two 
variations  in  C-minor,  MacDowell's  Polonaise, 
the  rarely  played  F-major  Ballade  of  Chopin, 
and  other  interesting  works,  including  an  idyl 
and  scherzo  by  a  prominent  young  American 
composer,  Samuel  Bollinger,  now  a  resident 
of  this  city.  On  Saturday  afternoon  Miss 
Cottlow  and  Mr.  Blumenfeld  will  again  appear 
and  play  Beethoven's  "  The  Kreutzer  Sonata." 
Seats  for  all  the  concerts  are  now  on  sale  at 
Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s,  the  prices  being  75 
cents,  $1.00  and  $1.50. 

The  Photographic  Salon. 
The  Photographic  Salon,  held  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  San  Francisco  Art  Association 
and  the  California  Camera  Club,  was  opened 
on  Thursday  evening  with  a  reception  and 
promenade  concert,  when  the  following  pro- 
gramme was  rendered  under  the  direction  of 
Henry  Heyman  : 

March,  Komzak ;  overture,  "  Orpheus," 
Offenbach  ;  song,  "  Violets,"  Wright ;  waltz, 
"  Thousand  and  One  Nights,"  Strauss  ;  idyll, 
Hager ;  selection,  "  Carmen,"  Bizet ;  inter- 
mezzo, "  Anona,"  Grey;  a  stein  song,  Bullard ; 
selection,  "  Prince  of  Pilsen,"  Luders  ;  popular 
melodies,  Hayes ;  waltz,  "  La  Barearolle," 
Waldteufel ;  and  march,  "Dixieland,"  Haynes. 

The  exhibition  will  be  open  daily  for  a  fort- 
night, from  nine  till  five  o'clock,  and  also  on 
the  evenings  of  Thursday,  October  15th,  and 
Saturday,  October  24th,  when  musical  pro- 
grammes will  be  rendered. 

An  Interesting  Musical  Recital. 
Miss  Isabel  Morgan  gave  a  lecture  at  her 
studio,  218  Haight  Street,  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing, on  "  Song  Interpretation."  Four  groups 
of  songs,  representing  sentiment,  gayety,  sad- 
ness, and  lullabys,  were  sung  by  Mrs.  Lilian 
Werth  Friihling,  soprano,  one  of  her  pupils. 
Wilbur  McColl  acted  as  accompanist.  The  se- 
lections included  '*  Le  Violette,"  A.  Scarlatti ; 
"Das  Veilchen,"  Mozart;  "The  First  Violet,' 
Mendelssohn ;  "  The  Violet,"  Mildenberg ; 
"  Nymphs  and  Shepherds,"  Purcell ;  "  The 
Song  Fairy,"  Bemberg;  "The  Girls  of  Se- 
ville," Denza ;  "  In  a  Foreign  Land,"  Schu- 
mann ;  and  "  You  and  I  "  and  "  Mother, 
Sleep."  Liza  Lehman. 

Louis  H.  Eaton  will  give  his -eighteenth 
organ  recital,  assisted  by  Mr.  L.  J.  von  der 
Mehden,  the  'celloist,  at  Trinity  Church,  on 
Wednesday  evening,  at  eight  o'clock.  The 
programme  will  consist  of  Prelude  in  E-minor, 
Bach  ;  Vorspiel  to  "Tristan  and  Isolde"  and 
"  Parsifal  " ;  introduction  to  third  act  and 
bridal  chorus  "  Lohengrin " ;  romance  and 
overture  "  Tannhauser."  Mr.  von  der  Mehden 
will  play  Walther's  prize  song  from  "  The 
Meistersinger." 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
nc  ,       Eugene  Korn.  Halter,  746  Market  St. 


NO    MISTAKE,    KENT,    SHIRT  TAILOR, 
I~1  cms  fine-fitting  Shirt  Waists  for  ladies. 


Pears'  I 

The  skin  ought  to  be 
clear  ;  there  is  nothing 
strange  in  a  beautiful  face. 

If  we  wash  with  proper 
soap,  the  skin  will  be  open 
and  clear,  unless  the 
health  is  bad.  A  good 
skin  is  better  than  a 
doctor. 

The  soap  to  use  is 
Pears';  no  free  alkali  in  it. 
Pears',  the  soap  that 
clears  but  not  excoriates. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 

OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT 

PIAN1STE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 
of  Vienna 

ANNOUNCES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSONS 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 

Phone  Larkin  291. 


The  CLUB 

are  the  original  bottled  Cocktails. 
Years  of  experience  have  made 
them  THE  PERFECT  COCKTAILS 
that  they  are.  Do  not  be  lured 
into  buying  some  imitation.  The 
ORIGINAL  of  anything  is  good 
enough.  When  others  are  offered 
it  is  for  the  purpose  of  larger  prof- 
its. Insist  upon  having  the  CLUB 
COCKTAILS,  and   take  no  other. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEIN  &  BRO.,  SolcPropriturs 

29  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn.  London 


PAllFIT   COAST   ACHNTs 

THE  SPOHN-PATRICK  CO. 

400-404  Battery  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


is  quickly  settled  with  a. 

MARTSMORW 

Shade  Holler. 


Itsnves  time,  worry  and  shadcts. 
you  wain  the  genuinu  Iol-U  for  the  sig- 
nature on  the  label- 


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HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL  CO. 

Phone  South  95. 


C.  H.  WHNSTROM 

FORMERL  :RS   &.  JOHNSON 

TAILOR     A  ISO     IMPORTER 
Phelan  Buil  Rooms  1 ,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAII  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


October  12,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


239 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  ior  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES"  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modem  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN   PLAN 

A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEORGE  WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

1012  VAN  MESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1 0OO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU    CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  and  Jones  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steani  heated 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout. 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
maiaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.     Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-hali 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

-     Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 
Twenty  =  four  trains   daily   each 
way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

R.  V.  HALTOX,  Proprietor. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 


California's  beautiful  winter  and  summer 
hotel.  Weather  is  ideal  the  year  round  for 
surf-bathing,  hunting,  automobiling,  polo, 
and  pony  racing.  The  United  States  report 
of  minimum  temperatures  shows  what  a 
delightful  spot  Del  Monte  is  at  all  seasons 
of  the  year:  January,  44.4  ;  February,  46.1  ; 
March,  51.8;  April,  52.2. 

THE  GOLF  LINKS-fulli8-hole  course, 
greens  and  tees  always  green— are  consid- 
ered the  finest  in  the  States. 

In  touring  California,  visit  and  prolong 
your  stay  at  this  delightful  resort. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 

Manager. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  S.  Tubbs  will  sail 
from  New  York  for  Europe  on  October  20th. 
They  will  go  from  Paris  to  Rome,  where  they 
will  spend  some  weeks,  and  then  to  Egypt  for 
the  winter.  They  expect  to  remain  abroad  a 
year. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Burton  Harrison  have 
returned  to  New  York,  and  are  occupying  their 
Fifth  Avenue  residence.  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Mar- 
tin, who  accompanied  them  East,  has  been 
making  a  short  stay  with  them,  prior  to  visit- 
ing Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  D.  Martin  at  Newport. 

Mr.  C.  Augustus  Spreckels  sailed  from  New- 
York  last  week  for  Paris  to  spend  October 
with  his  wife  and  daughter.  They  expect  to 
pass  the  winter  months  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels  and  her  daughters, 
Miss  Grace  Spreckels  and  Miss  Lillie 
Spreckels,  have  arrived  in  New  York,  where 
they  will  spend  some  weeks. 

Mrs.  J.  C.  Stubbs  is  expected  here  soon  on 
a  visit  to  her  daughter.  Mrs.  Morton  Gibbons. 
She  will  also  spend  some  time  with  her 
daughter.  Mrs.  Sunderland,  of  Reno,  and  with 
her  son  in  Mexico  before  returning  East. 

Mrs.  William  F.  Herrin  and  Miss  Alice 
Herrin,  who  left  recently  for  the  East,  are  at 
present  in  New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry-  Butters,  Miss  Mar- 
guerite Butters,  and  Miss  Marie  Butters  have 
departed  for  the  East. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Kierstedt  and  Mrs.  Peter 
McG.  McBean  will  leave  for  Washington,  D. 
C.    within   a   fortnight. 

Mrs.  Phebe  Hearst  and  party,  which  in- 
cluded Mrs.  Clara  Reed  Anthony  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  H.  M.  Rogers,  of  Boston,  sailed  on 
Wednesday  on  the  Japanese  steamer  Nippon 
Mant  for  Yokohama.  They  expect  to  spend 
several  months  in  the  Orient,  and  will  later  be 
joined  in  India  by  Mr.  Orrin  Peck,  who  will 
sail  on  the  next  steamer. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Breeden  have  de- 
parted for  the  East.  They  expect  to  be  absent 
about  five  or  six  weeks. 

Mrs.  George  Crocker,  Miss  Alice  Ruther- 
ford, and  Miss  Emma  Rutherford  are  spend- 
ing several  weeks  at  Virginia  Hot  Springs. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crocker  expect  to  open  their 
Fifth  Avenue  residence  in  New  York  about 
November  1st. 

Judge  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Finn  were  traveling 
in  Holland  when  last  heard  from. 

Mr.  Barbour  Lathrop,  an  old-time  member 
of  the  Bohemian  Club,  is  visiting  San  Fran- 
cisco, after  a  trip  to  South  Africa. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  R.  Hearst  have  re- 
turned to  New  York. 

Mrs.  John  Evelyn  Page  has  taken  a  house 
on  the  corner  of  Sacramento  and  Lyon 
Streets  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred  S.  Moody  were  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  during  the  week. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Marshall  Flint  (nee 
Apperson)  have  returned  from  their  wedding 
journey,  and  are  occupying  their  residence  on 
Green  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  W.  Hopkins  and  family- 
are  occupying  their  residence  on  California 
Street,  after  spending  the  summer  at  their 
Menlo  Park  villa. 

Mrs.  Rosenstock,  who  is  at  present  in  the 
East,  expects  to  spend  the  winter  in  San 
Francisco  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  R.  C. 
Nuttall. 

Bishop  William  Ford  Nichols  and  family 
have  returned  from  San  Mateo,  where  they 
spent  the  summer  months,  and  are  residing  at 
1905  Pacific  Avenue. 

Mr.  Stuyvesant  Fish  and  party-  returned 
from  a  visit  to  the  Yosemite  Valley  early  in 
the  week,  and  were  at  the  Palace  Hotel  for  a 
short  stay. 

Senator  W.  A.  Clark,  of  Montana,  arrived 
from  the  East  last  week,  having  been  called 
here  by  the  serious  illness  of  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Clark  at  San  Mateo. 

Mr.  Timothy  Hopkins  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jay  Lugsdin  and  Miss  Woods 
were  in  London  when  last  heard  from. 

Mr.  Gardner  F.  Williams,  the  general  man-  \ 
ager  of  the  South  African  diamond  fields,  j 
sailed  from  New  York  for  South  Africa  last  ' 
week,  after  a  visit  of  several  months  in  Cali-  | 
fornia  and  the  East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  O.  McCormick  leave  for  | 
the  East  this  week. 

Mrs.  William  Kohl  and  Miss  Kohl  were  in 
New  York  last  week. 

Miss    Dyer    and    Miss    Dorothy    Dyer,    of  ' 
Annapolis,  Md.,  Miss  Gibbons,  and  Miss  Mar-  , 
gery  Gibbons  visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais 
last  week. 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling  and  her  son,  Mr.  Fred-  ' 
erick    Hotaling.    have   arrived    in    New    York, 
en  route  to  Europe. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Parks,  of  Marysville,  and  her 
daughter,  Miss  Emily  H.  Parks,  who  are  in 
San  Francisco  for  the  winter,  are  stopping 
at  The  Colonial. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais    were    Mr.    and    Mrs.    Henry    M. 
Rogers  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raymond  Hayes,  of 
Boston,   Mr.   and  Mrs.   R.   W.   Hoffman,   Mrs. 
Nash  RockwGod,  Mr.  Charles  M.  Creamer  and 
Mr.  R.  J.  Keeler,  of  New  York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  1 
R.    H.    Ingram.    Mrs.   J,   B.    Banning   and   Mr. 
William    Banning,    of    Los   Angeles.    Mr.    and 
Mrs.  F.  E.  Magee,  Mr.  Horace  H.  Miller  and 
Mr.  Paul  L.  Miller,  of  Oakland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  | 
Atkins,  of  Piedmont,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.   Stout, 
of  St.  Augustine.  Fla.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shepard  | 
Ells,   Mr.  and   Mrs.   E.   H.   Parrish,  and   Miss  , 
Clara  Augstin. 

Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  note?  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Rear-Admiral  Louis  Kempff,  U.  S.  N.,  was 
detached  from  duty  as  commandant  of  the 
Pacific  naval  district  last  week.  He  goes  on 
the  retired  list  on  Sunday. 

Major  Ogden  Rafferty,  medical  department, 


U.  S.  A.,  who  is  on  duty  at  headquarters  in 
this  city,  has  been  in  Seattle  during  the  past 
week  inspecting  the  sanitary'  condition  of  the 
army  transports  at  that  port. 

Captain  David  S.  Stanley,  quartermaster's 
department,  U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  stationed 
at  the  Presidio  during  the  last  few  months, 
has  been  ordered  to  Chicago  to  act  as  assistant 
in  the  office  of  the  chief  quartermaster  of  the 
Department  of  the  Lakes. 

Major  William  B.  Rochester,  paymaster  de- 
partment. U.  S.  A.,  returned  from  the  East 
last  week,  and  is  again  on  duty  here. 

Captain  David  P.  Wheeler,  Twenty-Second 
Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  will  be  on  special  duty  at 
the  United  States  Branch  Mint  this  month. 

Commander  Richardson  Clover,  U.  S.  N.. 
and  family  came  down  from  their  country 
home  in  Napa  early  in  the  week,  and  were  at 
the  Palace  Hotel. 

Major  Robert  C.  Van  Vliet.  U.  S.  A.,  com- 
manding the  Third  Battalion,  Tenth  Infantry, 
accompanied  by  his  wife,  has  arrived  from 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  reported  for  duty. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Charles  Laird.  L".  S. 
N.,  formerly  in  command  of  the  Boston,  and 
Mrs.  Laird  have  departed  for  the  Naval  Hos- 
pital at  Hot   Springs.  Ark. 

Captain  Percy  Kessler,  Lr.  S.  A..  Mrs.  Kess- 
ler,  and  their  little  son  have  been  the  guests 
of  Mrs.  Kessler's  mother,  Mrs.  Robert  Cun- 
ningham, at  her  residence  on  Clay  Street. 
They  are  en  route  to  Fort  Toten. 

Colonel  Charles  Morris.  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  to 
be  the  new  commander  at  the  Presidio  is  ex- 
pected to  assume  charge  to-day  (Saturday). 

Colonel  Luigi  Lomia.  of  the  Artillery  Corps. 
U.  S.  A.,  is  in  command  at  Fort  Baker,  having 
arrived  from  the  East  on  Tuesday. 

Lieutenant-Commander  Thomas  D.  Griffin. 
U.  S.  N..  when  discharged  from  treatment  at 
the  Naval  Hospital,  Mare  Island,  will  be 
granted  a  three  months'  sick  leave. 


The  Alden  Club,  a  branch  of  the  Califor- 
nia Sunshine  Society,  will  give  a  '*  household 
shower  "  at  the  rooms  of  the  Sorosis  Club  on 
Saturday  afternoon.  October  17th,  from  two 
until  six  o'clock.  There  will  be  articles  for 
sale,  and  a  musical  programme.  Among  oth- 
ers who  will  take  part  are  Miss  Jean  Durell. 
Miss  Lilian  Quinn.  Miss  Gertrude  Wheeler, 
and  Mr.  Edward  Navier  Rolker.  The  patron- 
esses are  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill.  Mrs.  Ella  M. 
Sexton,  Mrs".  Josephine  de  Greayer.  Mrs. 
John  H.  Jewett,  Mrs.  Isidore  Burns.  Mrs. 
George  W.  Caswell,  Mrs.  G.  J.  Bucknall,  and 
Mrs.  Washington  Ayer. 


The  first  of  the  concerts  of  the  Twentieth 
Century  Music  Club  is  to  be  given  on  October 
29th,  when  the  Metropolitan  Orchestra  and 
Mrs.  Katherine  Fiske,  the  contralto,  and  Na- 
than Franko,  the  violinist,  who  are  to  come 
here  with  Nordica,  will  entertain  the  guests 
of  the  club.  Another  concert  will  be  given 
early  in  December,  when  the  programme  is 
to  be  taken  from  the  early  French  school  and 
will  include  a  portion  of  Gluck's  "  Orpheus." 
The  Saturday  afternoon  musicales  will  take 
place  on  October  31st,  November  28th,  and 
January  9,   1904. 


Edward  V.  Hull,  whose  father  was  the 
builder  and  the  principal  owner  of  the  first 
street-car  line  of  San  Francisco,  known  as  the 
Omnibus  line,  died  at  St.  Malo,  France,  a 
fortnight  ago.  of  heart  failure,  at  the  age  of 
forty-three.  He  was  a  brother-in-law  of  Jo- 
seph D.  Grant,  having  married  Miss  Ella 
Nunnemacher.  daughter  of  Hermann  Nunne- 
macher,  of  Milwaukee,  in  1S93,  in  London.  In 
1899,  they  went  to  Paris  to  live,  and  have  made 
the  French  metropolis  their  home  ever  since. 
They  have  one  child,  now  eight  years  of  age, 
born  in  Japan. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved   in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co..  746   Market  Street. 


A.   Hirsehman. 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


r 


Zbt  favorite  Champagne 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against  I 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes,  ( 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULUNS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

AH  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 


J  WILLIAM  WOLfT&CO.t 

1  Pacific  Coast  agents  L 


Political  Announcements 


For 
Mayor 


HENRY  J.  CROCKER 


Republican 
Nominee 


For  Tax  Collector 

EDWARD  J.  SMITH 

[V  UMBENTI 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 
For  District  Attorney 

EDWARD  S.  SALOMON 

Republican  Nominee 


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WRIGHT  HARDWARE  CO. 

66  THIRD  ST.  (Winchester  Hotel  Block  I 

SAIN    FRAiNCISCO. 


Importers  and  Dealers  in 

BUILDERS'  HARDWARE 
and  TOOLS, 

Cutlery,  Cabinet    Hardware, 
Mill  Supplies.  Etc. 


WARRANTED    lO    YEARS. 

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The  CECILIAN— The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


SOHMER 
PI  A  MO 

AGENCY. 


FIAKTOS 

308-312   Pn,t   St. 
Smn  Fr 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


October  12,  1903. 


Santa  Fe 

ALLJTHE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San  Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7.30 


9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
8.00 


A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  P  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  pm.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 
A  M  —  t"THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED ":  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 

A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  tn,  Fresno  3.2c  p  m,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair'car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored 011  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11.10  p  m. 

P  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10pm.     Corresponding  train  arrives 


P  M— *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
X  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

UESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tibui'on  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

*VEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  S.oo,  9.00,  11.00  am;  12.35,  2-3°. 
3.40,  5.10,  5.50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.  Saturdays — Extra 
trip  at  1.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 7.30,  8.00,  9.30,  11.00  a  m  ;  1.30,  2.30,  3.40, 
5.10,  6.30,  11.30  pm. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  in; 
12,50,  f2.oo,  3,40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.  Saturdays- 
Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7.35,  9.20,  11. 15  a  m;  1.45,3.40,4.50, 
5.00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
tExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 

7.3°  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  pm 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7-25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.11pm 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  P  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
800am 
2.30  p  m 

7-30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 

7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  ni 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10,20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 

7.30  a  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  m 

7.25  p  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30'p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

8.40  a  m!  S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m    6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  ni 
2.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m    6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedriu  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  Cilv,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cab  to,  Covelo,  Laylonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Mondav  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Buildine 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
MMn       DEPART    WEEK     DAYS-6.45.  f*7-45 
EliaUJJ   8-45.  9-45.   "    A-   M-:    '-■-"■  *i -45,       '-'■■  4.15 
g^^^w^B  15-15.  *6.J5,  6,45.  9.  U-45  p.  m. 
7.45.A.  m.  week  davs  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley. 
DEPART   SUNDAY— 7.  |8.  f*9,   t*">.    ".   t«-3°   A 
M.;  fi2-30,  t*i-30.  2-35.  *3-50,  5.  6.  7. 3D,  9,   n.45  p.  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run    to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (t)    lo   Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.   m.  Saturday. 
Saturda;  's  3.15  p.  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.45  a.  v,  week  days—  Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    P.    M.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way   stations, 
Suitd-p    ',  8  a.  m. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sund.i  ,3,  10  a.  m.— Point  Reyc  a.nd  intermediate. 
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THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


"Don't  you  think  that  woman's  clever?" 
"  Clever!  Why,  she's  so  clever  she  can  make 
all  her  clothes  without  other  women  knowing 
it !" — Brooklyn  Life. 

An  eloquent  objection  :  Mrs.  Newlyblessed 
— "But  you  certainly  don't  object  to  such  a 
wee  little  baby  as  that?"  Janitor — "Oh,  it 
aint  the  size  as  counts,  mum — it's  the  principle 
uv  the  thing." — Judge. 

Husband — "  Where  did  you  get  that  side- 
board?" Wife — "At  an  auction,  for  $100." 
Husband — "  Awful !  I  could  have  bought  the 
same  thing  for  $50."  Wife—"  Well,  I  wasn't 
going  to  let  that  woman  across  the  way  outbid 
me." '^-Brooklyn  Life. 

Man  dressmaker — "Well,  what  now?"  Ap- 
prentice— "  I  have  discovered  a  way  to  make 
a  woman's  dress  so  that  she  will  look  like  a 
hump-backed  baboon  with  bat's  wings."  Man 
dressmaker — "  Glorious  !  It  will  become  the 
rage." — New  York   Weekly. 

"  It  is  her  proud  boast  that  she  has  never 
heard  an  opera  in  her  life."  "  You  must  be 
mistaken.  She  isn't  a  Puritan  at  all,  but  quite 
a  gay  society  girl."  "  That's  just  it.  She  never 
goes  to  the  opera  except  as  one  of  a  box- 
party." — Philadelphia  Press. 

"Aren't  there  some  jealousies  in  your  pro- 
gressive-euchre club  ?"  "  No,  indeed,"  an- 
swered young  Mrs.  Torkins ;  "  when  we  buy 
prizes  we  are  always  careful  to  select  things 
that  no  one  really  wants,  so  that  the  winner 
will  not  be  an  object  of  envy:" — Washington 
Star. 

Mr.  Kidder — "  Ah,  how-der-do,  doctor  !  If 
you  have  a  few  minutes  to  spare.  I  wish  you 
would  come  over  to  my  house  and  chloroform 
my  youngest  boy."  Dr.  Price — "  What  is  the 
matter  with  the  lad?"  Mr.  Kidder — "Oh,  his 
mother  wants  to  comb  his  hair." — Harper's 
Bazar. 

"Yes,"  said  the  dentist,  "to  insure  painless 
extraction  you'll  have  to  take  gas,  and  that's 
fifty  cents  extra."  "  Oh !"  said  the  farmer. 
"  I  guess  the  old  way'll  be  best ;  never  mind 
no  gas."  "  You're  a  brave  man."  "  Oh  !  it 
aint  me  that's  got  the  tooth  ;  it's  my  wife." — 
Philadelphia  Ledger. 

"  Oh,  yes,  I've  opened  an  office,"  said  the 
young  lawyer  ;  "  you  may  remember  that  you 
saw  me  buying  an  alarm  clock  the  other  day." 
"  Yes,  replied  his  friend ;  "  you  have  to  get 
up  early  these  mornings,  eh?"  "Oh,  no.  I 
use  it  to  wake  me  up,  when  it's  time  to  go 
home." — Philadelphia  Press. 

A  hopeless  case :  "  A  great  big,  able- 
bodied  man  like  you  ought  to  be  ashamed  to 
ask  a  stranger  for  money,"  said  the  well-to-do 
citizen.  "  I  know  I  ought,"  answered  Meander- 
ing Mike;  -'but,  mister,  I'm  jes'  naturally  too 
kind  hearted  to  tap  'im  on  de  head  and  take 
it  away  from  him." — Washington  Star. 

Sad  part  of  it :  "  What  did  you  do  with  that 
fellow  who  stole  the  horse?"  asked  the  tender- 
foot. "  Nothin'  much,"  answered  Broncho 
Bill — "  jist  took  the  hoss  away  from  him." 
"Is  that  all?"  "Yep.  He  war  settin'  in  the 
saddle  with  a  rope  around  his  neck  tied  to  a 
tree  when  we  took  the  hoss  away,  though." — 
Indianapolis  Sun. 

He — "So  the  engagement  is  broken  off?" 
She — "  Yes.  He  told  her  he  thought  she 
should  stop  reading  novels  and  read  some- 
thing more  substantial ;  something  that  would 
improve  her."  He — "Well?"  She — "Well, 
the  idea  of  a  man  intimating  to  his  fiancee 
that  she  could  be  improved  in  any  way!" — 
Philadelphia   Press. 

Up-to-date  revolutionary  methods  :  "  Well, 
this,"  said  the  South  American  citizen,  "  is 
carrying  things  too  far  in  our  base  and  servile 
imitation  of  Yankee  methods."  "  What  is 
that?"  "Why,  the  insurgent  and  government 
authorities  are  having  forenoon  and  afternoon 
programmes  printed  for  all  our  revolutions!" 
— Town   and   Country. 

The  youth  stood  in  front  of  the  quick-lunch 
establishment  and  wept  bitterly.  "  Why  this 
grief  ?"  asked  the  benevolent  citizen.  "  Me 
fadder's  dead,"  replied  the  blubbering  urchin. 
"How  do  you  know  it?"  asked  the  benevolent 
citizen.  "  Because  he  went  into  dat  quick- 
lunch  place  five  minutes  ago  an'  he  haint 
never  come  out  yit." — Baltimore  American. 

"  But  what  is  the  use?"  said  the  private  sec- 
retary, "  of  advertising  for  your  lost  pocket- 
book,  when  it  contained  only  a  dollar  or  two 
in  money  and  a  few  papers  of  no  importance?" 
"It  gives  me  the  opportunity,"  replied  the 
distinguished  statesman,  lowering  his  voice  to 
a  confidential  tone,  "  of  conveying  the  idea 
to  the  public  that  I  don't  carry  any  railroad 
passes." — Chicago  Tribune. 

A  sordid  soul :  "  Is  Samson  Huskiman 
going  to  coach  your  football  team  this  sea- 
son?" asks  the  visitor  of  the  quarter-back. 
"  Samson  Huskiman?  Don't  repeat  that  name 
on  the  campus."  "  Why,  is  there  anything 
wrong  about "  "Wrong?  Listen.  In- 
stead of  playing  with  the  boys  this  year,  what 
do  you  suppose  he  is  going  to  do?"  "  Going 
into  professional  athletics?"  "Worse — in- 
finitely worse  !  He  has  accepted  the  offer  of  a 
thousand  dollars  a  week  as  demonstrator  for  a 
hair-tonic." —  Judge. 


—  SLf^dman's  Soothing  Powders  claim  10  be  pre- 
ventative as  well  as  curative  The  claim  lias  been 
recognized  for  over  fifty  years. 

The  tactful  woman  :  A  tactful  woman  is  a 
woman  who  can  live  within  her  income  with- 
out seeming  to. — Detroit  Free  Press. 


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ARRIVE 


.  .,.,„„  Benlcia,  SutBun,  Elmira  and  Sacra- 
mento          7.2Bp 

7.00a  Vacavllle,  Winters,  Rumsey 7-25P 

7.30a  Martinez,    Ban     Ramon,    Vallejo, 

Napa,  Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa G-25i' 

7.30a   Nlles,  Liver/more,  Lathrop,  Stock- 

ron 7.25iJ 

8.00a  Dav  I  a.  Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle,  (connects 
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and  Chlco) 7.55p 

8  00a   Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  East.    10.25a 

8. 00a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch.  By- 
ron,Tracy,  Stockton,  Sacramento, 
Los  BanoB,  Mendota,  Hanford, 
Vlsalla,  Portervllle 4.25p 

0  00a  Port  COBta,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop,  Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen  Junction,  Hanford,  Vl- 
salla. BakerBfield 5.25p 

P. 30a  Shasta  ExpreBs  — Davis.  Wllllame 
(for  Bartlett  Springs),  Willows. 
tFruto,  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7.55p 

B-30a  Nlles,  San  Jose.  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton.Ione.Sflcramento.Placervllle, 
Marysvllle.  Chlco,  Red  Bluff 4-25p 

8.30a  Oakdale,  Chinese,  Jamestown,  So- 

riora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.26p 

9.00a   Martinez  and  Way  Stations 6 .55  r- 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.25p 

1000a  El  Paso  PasBenger,  Eaatbound. — 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond,  FreBno,  Han- 
ford. Vlsalla,  Bakersfield,  Lob 
Angelea  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line)...  e1.30f 
10.00*   The    Overland    Limited —  Ogden, 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 6.26h 

12.00m  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.      3-25p 
'I.OOp   Sacramento  River  Steamers tll.OOt* 

S.30r  Benlcia,  Winters,  Sacramento, 
Woodland,  Williams,  ColuBa,W(l- 
lows,  Knights  Landing.  Marys- 
vllle, Orovllle  and  way  stations..    10.55a 

3.30p   Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-55r 

A  OOp   Marttnez.San  Ramon, Vallejo.Napa, 

Calls  toga,  San  ta  Roaa »-25  a 

4-OOp   Martinez,  Tracy, Latbrop.Stockton.   10-25a 

4  00p  Nlles,  Llvermore.  Stockton,  Lodl..     4.25i' 

4.30p  Hayward,  Nlles,  Irvlngton,  San  I    tfl.55A 
Joae,  Llvermore f  111.55a 

B.OOp  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno. Talare. 

Bakersfield,  Los  Angeles 8.55a 

500!    Port  Costa,  Tracy,   Stockton,  Los 

Banos 1  2.25P 

5-30p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25a 

G.OOp   Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 10.26a 

G.OOp  Oriental  Mall— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  CoBta,  Benlcia,  Sul- 
Bun,  Elmira,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rock  1  in.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  WadB- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca,  Battle 

Mountain,  Elko 4-26p 

b. .  Reno,  Truckee,  Sacramento,  Davla, 

Sulsun,  Benlcia,  Port  Costa 7.55a 

6.00p    Vallejo,  daily,  except  Sunday....  J       7  cc„ 

7-OOp  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  oor 

7.00s    San  Pablo,  Port   CoBta,  Martinez 

and  Way  Stations 11.26a 

8-OBp  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, Marysvllle,  Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8. 55a 

9.10p  Hayward,  Nlles  andSan  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) 11.65  a 

11.25p  Port    Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 
semlte),    Fresno,    Hanford,   VI- 
sails,  Bakerefield 12-2dp 

COAST    LINE    (Narrow  Uftuge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

746a    Santa    Cruz    Excursion    (Sunday 

°"'y)  8.10  p 


(Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 

8-16a  Newark.  Centervllle.  Ban  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulaer    Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations G  25i* 

'2.16p  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  JoBe, 
New  Almaden.Loe  Gatos,  Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    10  55  ■ 

4-16p  Newark,  Sao  Jose,  Los  Gatos  and 
way  Btatlons  (on  Saturday  and 
Sunday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Crnz;  Monday  only  from  Santa 
Crnz).  ConnectB  at  Felton  to 
and  from  Boulder  Creek 18-55  > 

OAKLAND     HARBOR    FERRY 

from  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  ul  Market  St.  <SII|> 
— .f?M5    9:00    11:00a.m.     1.00    300    5-15p.m 
From  OAKLAND.  Foot  or  Broadway—  ffi:00    13:11 

18:05    10:00  a.m.      12  00    2.00    4-00  p.m.     

COAST    LINE    (Hroad  (JaiiKe). 

_     tS~  (Third  ami  Townseud  StreetB.) 

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36' 


6.10a   San  Joee  and  Way  Stations 6 

t7.00A   San  Joae  and  Way  Stations 5 

7.16a  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 8 

800a  New  Almaden  (Tuea.,  Frld.,  only),     4 

B  00*  Coast  Line  Limited— Stops  only  San 
Joae,  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llBter),  Pajaro.  Caatrovllle.  Sa- 
linas, San  ATdo,  Paso  Rubles. 
BantaMargarl ta.  San  Luis  OblBpo, 
Guadalupe,  Surf  (connection  for 
Lompoc).  Santa  Barbara.  Saugus 
and  Los  Angeles.  Connection  at 
Caatrovllle  to  and  from  Monterey 
andPaclfic  Grove 10 

t.OOA  San  Jose.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
SantaCruz.PacIOcGrove.SHMnaB. 
San  Luis   Obispo  and    Principal 

Intermediate    Stations    4 

10.30a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations I 

11.00a  Cemetery  Passenger— South   San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno , . .      1 

11.30a  Santa  Clara,    ban   Jose,  Los  GatOB 

and  Way  StHtlon6         7. 

g1-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations x7 

2-OOp  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations !9 

2.30p  Cemetery  Passenger  — South    San 

Francisco,  San  Bruno 4. 

t3.00P  Del  Monte  Express— Santa  Clara. 
Ban  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points)  it  2. 

3.30P  Pacific  Grove  and  Way  Stations— 
Burllngame.San  Mateo.Redwood, 
Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto  May  field, 
Mountain  View,  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara,  San  Jose,  (Gllroy.  Hollia- 
ter,  Tres  Plnos).  Pajaro,  Watson- 
vllle,  Capltola,  Santa  Cruz,  Caa- 
trovllle, Salinas 10. 

4.30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8- 

6. OOP  San  JoBe,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
GatOB,  Wright  and  Principal  Way 
Stations  (except  Sunday) g. 

£6-30p  SanJoBeandPrlncfpalWayStatlonB    f8. 

tfi.lfiP  San  Mateo,  Beresford,  Belmont. San 
CarloB,    Redwood,    Fair     Oaks. 

Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto 

6.30c  Ban  JoBe  and  Way  Stations _ 

7  00p  Sunset  Limited,  Eastbound.— San 
LulB  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 
AngeleB,  Demlng.  El  Paso,  New 
OrleanB,  New  York.  (WeBtbound 
arrives  via  SunJotiquliiValli-y)  ..   "8 

8-00  p  Palo  Alto  and  Wav  Stations 10 

11.30P  South  San  Francisco.  'M  (librae,  1 
Bnrllngame,  San  Mateo,  Bel- 
mont, San  Carlos,  Redwood,  .- 
Fair  Oaks,  Menlo  Pnrk.  Palo  r  \% 
Alto,  Mayfleld,  Mountain  View,  ra 
Sunnyvale,  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara  and  San  Jose J 


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stations  on  Sunday,  f  Sunday  excepted,  a  Saturday  only,  e  Via  Coast  Line,  w  Via  San  Joaquin  Valley. 
b  Reno  train  eastbound  discontinued.  #jr-  Only  trains  slopping:  at  Valencia  Street  south-bound  are  6:10 
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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  The  Change  in  Kipling — Has  the  Author  of  the 
"  Recessional  "  Reached  the  Meridian  of  His  Powers? — 
His  New  Volume  of  Poems — His  Fame  Compared  With 
Tennyson's  and  Browning's  at  the  Same  Age — Democrats 
Still  in  Search  of  a  Leader  —  Congress  in  Its  Winter 
Solstice — Market  Street  Railway  Problem — Hotels,  North 
and  South  —  Taxes  Upon  the  Assessor's  Valuation  —  To 
Exclude  Coreans  and  Japanese — Stanford  to  Have  Adequate 
Library — Corbin,  Chaffee,  and  Young — A  Stir-Up  in  Army 
Circles — Topolobampo  a  Rival  of  San  Francisco? — The 
True   Inwardness   of  Trust-Promoting 241-243 

Johnny's  Inglorious  Exit:     How  a  Loyal  Partner  and  a  Parson 

Hoodwinked  a  Devoted  Mother.     By  Bourdon  Wilson 244 

Don  Pedro  Alvarado:       The     Richest     Man     in     Mexico.       By 

Elizabeth    Gibert    245 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent   People  All   Over  the 

World  245 

Kipling's  New  Book:  Some  of  the  Best  Poems  from  "The  Five 

Nations  "    246 

Tolstoy's  Courtship  and  Marriage:     His  Novel  Declaration  of 

Love    247 

Old  Favorites:     "After  the  Wedding,"  by  William   L.   Keese.  248 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications      247-249 

Drama:  The  New  Stock  Company  in  Pinero's  "  Lady  Boun- 
tiful "   at   the   Alcazar   2so 

Stage  Gossip  251 

Vanity  Fair:  "Ned"  Townsend  on  the  Good  Wine  of  Cali- 
fornia —  The  Psychological  Effects  of  Labels  —  A  New 
Yorker's  Queer  Experience — The  Servant  Problem  in  the 
South  More  Serious  Than  in  the  North — An  Epidemic  of 
Army  Weddings — Titled  Women  to  Visit  America — The 
Appendix  Vermiformis  Question — The  Theatre-Hat  in  the 
Antipodes    25  2 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Beecher  on  an  "  April  Fool  "  Letter — How  Henley  Loved 
His  Enemies — A  Good  Musical  Joke — George  Ade's  Brief 
and  Pointed  Speech — Sir  William  Harcourt's  Famous  Com- 
pliment to  Lady  Beaconsfield — When  Beresford  Was  De- 
scribed as  a  "  Plasterer  "  —  A  Brave  Woman  and  a 
Burglar — The  Pope's  Loyalty  to  Old  Friends — A  Memorable 
Bull-Ring-  Episode — Did  Lily  Langtry  Drop  a  Lump  of 
Ice    Down    King    Edward's    Back? 253 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army    and    Navy    News 254-255 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 256 


Thk  Change 


Rudyard    Kipling    is    thirty-eight    years    old,    and    his 
poems    fill    three    volumes — in    all    there 
are  a  scant  two  hundred  of  them. 
Kipling.  Tennyson,  at  thirty-eight,  had  just  re- 

ceived a  pension  of  two  hundred  pounds  a  year,  the 
fourth  edition  of  his  "  Poems  "  in  two  thin  volumes  was 
selling  slowly,  and  "  The  Princess  "  had  just  been  pub- 
lished. He  had  yet  to  give  to  the  world  "  In  Memo- 
nam,"  "  Maud,"  "  The  Idyls  of  the  King."  and  other 
Arthurian  poems,  "  Enoch  Arden,"  and  the  two  dramas 
-in  short,  his  best  work. 

Swinburne,  at  thirty-eight,  had  written  scarcely  the 
f  of  those  poems,  so  marvelously  shapen  of  words 
:licate  and  fair,  to  which  the  gross  world  gives  scant 
leed.  He  had  just  finished  "  Bothwell,"  the  longest 
letrical  drama  in  the  language,  and  he  was  yet  to  send 


forth    from    his    pleached    garden    twenty    volumes    of 
beautiful  and  sensuous  poetry. 

Browning,  at  thirty-eight,  had  published  fourteen 
books,  extending  over  a  period  of  as  many  years.  Yet 
six  years  after  "  Paracelsus "  was  printed,  Lowell, 
with  all  his  keen  scent  for  good  poetry,  had  not  even 
heard  of  him,  and  when  he  did  hear  of  him  a  little  later, 
it  was  only,  as  he  confesses,  through  two  verses  pub- 
lished in  a  newspaper.  Indeed,  so  little  known  was 
Browning  in  his  later  thirties,  that  Lowell  was  con- 
strained to  remark:  "  Formerly  a  man  who  wished  to 
withdraw  himself  from  the  notice  of  the  world  retired 
into  a  convent.  The  simpler  modern  method  is  to  pub- 
lish a  volume  of  poems." 

How  different  is  the  case  of  these  poets  from  that  of 
Kipling.  Loudly  hailed,  not  many  years  ago,  as  the 
worthy  bearer  of  the  mantle  of  English  bards,  already 
the  sapient  critics  say  that  "  Kipling  is  dead."  The  con- 
tents of  "  The  Five  Nations  "  is  '"  mostly  doggerel." 
Glorious  dawn,  lordly  noon,  the  pitiful  setting  of  his  sun 
are  all  discerned  at  a  time  of  life  when  Tennyson  and 
Browning  were  famous  only  among  a  few,  unknown  to 
the  many. 

And  it  is  indeed  true  that  a  spirit  of  change  has 
come  over  Kipling's  poetry.  It  is  not  the  Kipling  of 
"Barrack-Room  Ballads,"  or  the  Kipling  of  "The 
Seven  Seas "  that  speaks  to  us  from  "  The  Five 
Nations."  It  is  an  almost  humorless  Kipling,  a  Kip- 
ling who  takes  his  work  over-seriously,  a  less  buoyant, 
less  spontaneous,  less  careless  poet.  No  more  he  writes 
of  pink  dominoes  and  missent  kisses  in  the  dark,  no 
more  he  versifies  so  well  some  whispered  story  of  amo- 
rous misadventure  that  all  the  world  pauses  to  laugh 
thereat.  In  the  "  Seven  Seas,"  is  printed  that  fine  love- 
poem,  "  The  Miracles  " ;  in  the  new  book  of  poems, 
there  is  not  a  love-song,  not  even  a  reference  to  the 
ways  of  a  man  with  a  maid,  since  history's  dawn  the 
theme  of  poets.  Per  contra,  "  The  Second  Voyage  " 
may  properly  be  described  as  a  Browningesque  poem 
of  marital  disillusionment. 

Again,  for  the  first  time,  Kipling's  poems  here  need 
annotation.  Take  up  "  The  Seven  Seas,"  and  they  re- 
quire no  notes.  But  such  poems  in  his  last  book  as 
"  The  Truce  of  the  Bear,"  "  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows," 
"  Kitchener's  School,"  "  The  Old  Issue,"  and  "  The 
Lesson,"  demand  an  intimate  knowledge  of  current 
politics  for  their  proper  understanding  and  apprecia 
tion.  They  are  as  argumentative  as  an  editorial.  They 
begin  to  lack  the  splendid  detachment  from  petty  parti- 
sanship that  we  like  to  think  is  characteristic  of  the 
great  poet.  That  the  passage  of  but  a  few  years  has 
so  changed  them  to  our  eyes  speaks  not  well  for  their 
permanence. 

It  is  not  alone  in  those  tractarian  appeals  to  the  En- 
glish people  that  Kipling  shows  a  falling  off  in  power. 
In  all,  there  is  greater  soberness  without  greater 
strength.  He  has  lost  lightness  without  gaining  im- 
pressiveness.  Once,  Kipling  seemed  to  delight  in  merry 
rhyme  and  rollicking  rhythm  for  their  own  sake.  Now, 
it  is  as  if  he  regarded  his  poems  only  as  pack-horses  to 
freight  his  Imperial  ideas.  The  English-speaking 
world  is  like  to  lose  a  poet;  the  British  empire  has 
gained  a  large-ideaed  and  jealous  councilor  who  ad- 
monishes it  in  rhyme. 

But  despite  these  mournful  facts,  we  hasten  confidently 
to  disagree  with  those  who  think  Kipling's  last  book 
"  mostly  doggerel."  He  is  still,  in  our  opinion,  a  very- 
great  poet.  It  would  puzzle  his  severest  critics  to  name 
his  peer,  excepting  only  Swinburne,  among  living  En- 
glish poets.  It  is  only  when  we  measure  the  Kipling  of 
to-day  with  the  Kipling  of  yesterday  that  he  suffers  in 
comparison.  Fancy  putting  Stephen  Phillips,  or  Alfred 
Austin,   or,    perchance,    Mr.     Lang,    or    even    Arthur 


Symons.    on    a    higher    Parnassian    pinnacle    than    the 
author  of  "  McAndrew's  Hymn  "  ! 

To  become  specific  as  to  excellence :  the  best  poem 
in  "  The  Five  Nations  "  is  "  The  Bell  Buoy,"  which 
appeared  in  a  periodical  several  years  ago.  What  joy 
of  service  in  storm  and  stress  are  here,  what  scorn  of 
him  who,  with  easy  conscience,  choses  the  part  of  sloth  ! 
"  The  Feet  of  the  Young  Men  "  is  a  poem  that  makes 
splendidly  articulate  that  longing  for  the  forest,  or  the 
water,  or  the  hills,  that  is  known  of  so  many  men  in 
cities  unhappily  housed.  The  joy  in  the  sea  and  hills 
is  the  theme,  also,  of  the  fine  poem  that  begins  the 
book,  and  "  White  Horses,"  another  poem  of  the  sea, 
is  as  stirring  as  a  trumpet  call.  That  deep,  abiding 
love  for  the  land  is  the  real  inspiration  of  "  The  Set- 
tler," and  the  same  spirit  speaks  in  "  Sussex  "  —  a 
sincere  and  touching  covenant  of  allegiance.    It  begins : 

"  God  gave  all  men  all  earth  to  love. 
But  since  our  hearts  .are  small 
Ordained  for  each  one  spot  should  prove 
Beloved  over  all." 

Of  a  poet  who  can  write  lines  like  these,  it  is  idle 
dogmatically  to  assert  that  he  has  passed  the  meridian 
of  his  powers.  Yet  it  is  impossible  to  deny  that  this 
volume  gives  some  support  to  that  view.  Bryant  wrote 
"  Thanatopsis  "  at  eighteen,  and  never  excelled  it.  At 
the  same  age,  Rossetti  wrote  his  masterpiece,  "  The 
Blessed  Damozel."  The  undergraduate,  Bourdillon. 
won  fame  with  eight  lines,  and  then  was  dumb.  There 
are  those  who  think  that  Death  was  kind  to  Keats  and 
Shelley  when  she  hushed  their  songs  at  the  topmost 
note.  Will  the  gray  years  too  make  harsh  the  music  of 
the  lyre  that  gave  us  "  Mandalay  "? 


Army  circles  have  been  deeply  stirred  by  the  transfer 
Corbin  °^  General  Corbin  from  the  general  staff 

Chaffee,  to  command  of  the  Department  of  the 

and  young.  Eastj  with  headquarters  at   New   York. 

\  arious  sinister  explanations  are  given  for  the  move, 
but  it  is  clear  that  the  obvious  reason  is  the  true  one. 

For  more  than  twenty  years,  Corbin,  as  adjutant- 
general,  has  been  stationed  at  Washington.  He  ex- 
celled as  a  diplomat,  was  expert  as  a  politician.  In  the 
army  he  built  up  a  "  machine."  Promotions  were 
largely  through  the  grace  of  Corbin.  His  real  power 
was  greater  than  that  of  General  Miles  during  the  last 
few  years.  His  relations  with  Secretaries  of  War  have 
always  been  of  the  best. 

When  the  general  staff  idea  was  broached,  in  Mc- 
Kinley's  time,  it  was  understood  that  Corbin  would  be 
the  first  chief  of  staff.  McKinley  died,  Roosevelt  suc- 
ceeded him,  and  it  was  shortly  discovered  that  he  had 
other  ideas.  He  favored  General  Young  as  first  chief 
of  staff,  and  it  is  known  that  Chaffee  will  succeed 
Voting.  Then  Corbin  will  follow  for  a  period  only  of 
six  months. 

The  new  general  staff  act  went  into  effect  a  short 
time  ago.  Corbin  thereby  became  assistant  to  the  chief 
of  staff — a  position  of  small  importance.  An  attempt 
by  Corbin  to  maintain  his  old  prestige  in  the  new  place 
would  have  been  sure  to  result  in  friction.  The  best 
way  out  of  a  delicate  position  was  seen  to  be  the  trans- 
fer of  Corbin  to  a  good  post  in  the  line.  The  decision 
to  do  this  was  evidently  arrived  at  after  full  and 
amiable  discussion,  in  which  the  President,  Root,  Cor- 
bin, and  others  concerned  took  part. 

In  some  quarters,  there  is  considerable  criticism  of 
the  transfer  for  the  reason  that  Corbin  has  long  served 
as  a  staff  officer,  and  has  seen  very  little  work  in  the 
field.  It  is  a  violation  of  precedent  to  put  an  officer  so 
long  on  staff  assignment  in  command  of  troops.  It  is 
argued  that  giving  Corbin  so  important  a  command  is 
"  certain  to  increase  the  discontent  already  existing 
among  line  officers  with  the  new  organization  < 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


October  19,  1903. 


Unions,  and 
Prosperity. 


army."  Those  army  officers  who  take  the  opposite  view  say 
that  the  new  general  staff  act  contemplates  the  interchange- 
ability  of  line  and  staff,  and  that  this  is  one  of  the  first  moves 
in  that  direction.  _ 

When  disaster  first  overtook  Wall  Street  not  long  since,  the 
New  York  Sun,  as  Argonaut  readers  know, 
pointed  the  accusing  finger  at  Theodore 
Roosevelt.  He  it  was,  said  the  Sun,  who, 
by  oratorically  attacking  the  trusts,  had 
"  disturbed  confidence,"  and  caused  affrighted  capital  to  with- 
draw into  its  "  mysterious  caves."  'Twas  a  pretty  theory.  But 
he  will  be  a  bold  man  who  lays  the  burden  of  blame  for  Wall 
Street's  troubles  upon  the  shoulders  of  Roosevelt  in  the  face 
of  the  astounding  revelations  of  rottenness  in  the  very  centre 
and  vortex  of  Trustdom.  The  Lake  Superior  crash  and  Ship- 
building Trust  scandal  show  of  what  queer  materials  those 
corporations  were  constructed.  What  could  have  been  expected 
but  catastrophe? 

The  investigation  in  the  case  of  the  Shipbuilding  Trust  is 
now  in  progress.  Nobody  knows  what  may  be  discovered,  or 
who  may  be  implicated  in  shady  transactions,  before  it  ends. 
So  far,  Schwab  has  been  the  chief  object  of  attack.  He  is 
accused  of  fraudulently  selling  the  Bethlehem  Steel  Works  to 
the  trust  for  $30,000,000  in  securities,  "  well  knowing,"  the 
complaint  reads,  "  that  in  truth  the  said  property  was  not 
worth  at  most  $10,000,000";  of  representing  that  the  yearly 
profit  was  $1,441,000  and  the  surplus  $4,118,000,  "whereas, 
in  fact  these  statements  were  false";  of  withholding  the 
profits  of  the  Bethlehem  company  with  intent  to  wreck  the 
Shipbuilding  Trust;  and  of  making  a  secret  agreement  with  the 
trust  officers  to  dispose  of  his  shares  before  others  were  put  on 
the  market.  Moreover,  it  is  alleged  that  $64,894,000  out  of  a 
total  of  $79,951,000  of  shipbuilding  stocks  were  pure  water. 
How  the  disclosures  were  regarded  in  New  York  may  be 
guessed  from  this  paragraph  from  the  Evening  Post : 

Seldom  can  there  have  been  uncovered  a  more  vulgar  con- 
spiracy to  pluck  or  shear  the  investing  public — goose  or  lamb. 
the  vendors  of  "salted"  mines  are  entitled  to  hold  up  their 
heads,  compared  with  the  discovered  tricksters.  Their  moral 
traud  was  most  unblushing.  To  be  both  purchaser  and_  seller, 
to  have  a  pool  within  a  pool,  and  an  agreement  behind  an 
agreement,  and,  at  the  same  moment  that  a  lying  prospectus 
was  issued  to  the  public,  to  fleece  the  investor  even  before 
he  invested — that  is  the  kind  of  thing  in  which  supposedly 
honest  men  were  engaged.  What  the  law  will  say  about  their 
transactions  we  must  wait  to  see.  It  is  certain  that  under  such 
a  company's  act  as  England  has,  the  whole  proceeding  would 
have  been  set  aside  by  the  courts,  and  the  promoters  compelled 
to  disgorge  their  concealed  profits.  On  the  moral  aspect  of  the 
matter,  however,  every  intelligent  man  is  competent  to  pro- 
nounce judgment.  His  verdict  will  be  that  the  methods 
practiced  were  no  more  reputable  than  those  of  the  common 
sharper.  Nearly  every  element  of  indecent  cheating  appears 
to  have  been  present,  while  the  attempt  to  hoodwink  and  bleed 
the  public  could  not  have  been  more  unblushing. 

No  wonder  that  Wall  Street  is  staggered  at  this  disclosure, 
and  that  prices  have  again  slumped.  The  feeling  of  insecurity 
is  heightened  by  the  announcement  that  the  Steel  Trust 
dividend  on  the  $500,000,000  common  stock  for  this  quarter 
will  be  exactly  cut  in  half.  This  affects  thirty  thousand  or 
more  holders  of  the  stock.  It  is  generally  believed,  however, 
that  the  move  is  a  wise  and  conservative  one,  amply  justified 
by  the  fact  that  business  has  fallen  off. 

The  troubles  in  the  Street  are  affecting  more  or  less  the 
general  business  of  the  country,  and  in  this  they  are  ably 
assisted  by  labor  agitation,  especially  in  the  building  trades. 
A  New  York  paper  vouches  for  the  statement  that  $50,000,000, 
which  was  to  have  been  expended  in  building  operations,  has 
been  withdrawn  until  the  reign  of  Parks  and  his  ring  of 
grafters  is  over.  Though  Parks  came  back  triumphant  from 
the  convention  at  Kansas  City,  there  are  some  signs  that  he 
will  not  be  permitted  to  hold  up  New  York  very  much  longer. 
Gompers  has  for  some  time  been  endeavoring  to  straighten 
things  out,  and  a  late  dispatch  says  that  the  statement  by 
Parks  that  he  "  is  willing  to  meet  the  employers  and  talk  over 
a  plan  of  arbitration  "  is  taken  to  indicate  that  he  has  tired 
of  warfare.  Besides,  his  rehearing  on  the  charge  of  extortion 
will  shortly  recommence,  and  all  good  citizens  devoutly  hope 
that  his  sentence  to  Sing  Sing  may  be  confirmed. 

The  things  which  breed  optimism  in  viewing  the  condition 
of  the  country  at  large  are:  favorable  crop  reports,  increase  in 
railroad  earnings,  non-materialization  of  the  apprehended 
money  stringency,  and  average  increase  of  '  bank  clearings 
over  the  same  week  last  year,  except  in  New  York,  Boston,  and 
Philadelphia.  On  the  other  hand,  there  is  a  strong  downward 
tendency  in  prices  of  manufactures,  indicating  over-production  ; 
New  England  cotton  mills  are  running  on  reduced  time ;  the 
cotton  crop  is  smaller  than  expected  ;  and  there  is  a  marked 
falling  off  in  the  price  of  provisions  and  cereals,  with  a  gen- 
eral tendency  everywhere  to  "  go  slow." 

The  encouraging  feature  locally,  as  heretofore  noted,  is  that 
business  on  the  Pacific  Coast  still  continues  brisk. 


The 

Government 
in  Business. 


Only  25,259  voters,  out  of  a  total  of  73,702  registered,  cast 
their  ballots  on  the  Geary  Street  Railway 
bonding  proposition  last  week,  but  the  result 
was  sufficiently  decisive  to  indicate  that  the 
people  of  San  Francisco  do  not  want  to  run 
a  railway,  and  saddle  property  with  the  inevitable  burden 
of  loss.  It  is  only  those  citizens  who  will  take  the  trouble  to 
go  to  the  polls  whose  opinions  are  worth  considering.  There- 
fore the  vote,  though  light,  may  be  held  to  express  the  intel- 
ligent verdict.  San  Franciscans  refuse  to  embark  on  more 
socialistic  experiments.  They  are  wise.  Every  department 
of  government — city,  State,  and  national — which  engages  in 
business,  does  the  work  ill. 

Take  the  Post-Office  Department.  Thirty  persons  have  now 
ben  indicted  for  fraud.  On  everything  the  government  bought 
there  was  a  rake-off.  Machen  levied  his  tribute  on  letter- 
b(  xes,  carrier's  satchels,  straps,  etc.  Beavers  made  the  sellers 
';  cash-registers,  time  ocks,  and  typewriters  "  divvy."  Metcalf 
1  'd  up  the  money-ord--  blank  makers  for  a  percentage  Tyner 
ei   fraudulent  concerns   use  thje  mails   for   a  consideration  of 


twenty  thousand  dollars.  These  thirty  are  only  the  cases  where 
the  grafters  failed  to  cover  their  tracks.  How  many  undis- 
coverable  "  deals  "  there  were  will  never  be  known.  And  as 
long  as  congressmen  and  senators  have  friends  in  the  Post- 
Office  Department  these  friends  will  loaf  and  depend  on  pull 
rather  than  on  good  service  to  hold  their  jobs,  making  the  de- 
partment an  extravagant,  wasteful,  costly,  and  incompetent 
institution.  Despite  the  fact  that  receipts  during  the  last  fiscal 
year  have  increased  $12,376,396,  the  annual  deficit  is  increas- 
ing, and  now  amounts  to  $4,500,000. 

What  is  true  of  the  nation  is  true  of  the  State.  Only  the 
other  day,  President  Fitzgerald,  of  the  State  Board  of  Prison 
Directors,  remarked  that  the  "  charges  of  the  State  printing- 
office  are  from  three  to  four  times  higher  than  the  terms  of  an 
ordinary  commercial  firm."  The  government  printing-office  is 
the  largest  establishment  in  the  world.  Yet  it  still  employs 
hand  compositors  at  an  immensely  greater  cost  than  linotypes 
would  entail. 

As  for  city  mismanagement  of  affairs — will  any  one  contend 
that  San  Francisco's  Board  of  Public  Works  is  an  efficient 
body? 

We  think  Crittenden  Thornton  exactly  right  when  he 
wrote :  "  I  am  opposed  to  the  intervention  of  government  in 
any  class  of  enterprises  which  are  in  conflict  with  and  in 
opposition  to  private  undertakings." 


Notable 
Policy. 


Recently  published  facts  relating  to  the  betterment  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  under  the  direction  of  Presi- 
dent Harriman  make  interesting  reading  to 
everybody  that  rides  on  railroads.  Within 
three  years,  $86,603,938  is  said  to  have  been 
spent  in  improvements  on  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Union 
Pacific  alone.  On  the  entire  Harriman  system,  the  tremendous 
sum  of  $104,348,369  has  been  expended.  The  Salt  Lake  cut- 
off alone  cost  $4,000,000.  By  it,  one  hundred  and  three  miles 
of  old  and  crooked  track  is  replaced  with  a  line  of  forty-four 
miles,  straight  across  the  lake.  Engineering  difficulties  in- 
numerable were  encountered  and  overcome,  and  now  only 
nine-tenths  of  a  mile  of  track  remains  to  be  constructed. 
New  bridges  elsewhere  have  been  built,  light  rails  have  been 
replaced  by  heavy  ones,  curves  have  been  transformed  into 
straight  tracks,  grades  have  been  reduced  or  abolished,  and 
fifty-three  new  stations  have  been  built.  Sixty  million  tons 
of  steel  have  been  used  during  three  years  in  bridge-building 
and  track-laying.  As  to  rolling  stock,  hundreds  of  new  pas- 
senger coaches  of  the  best  type  have  been  purchased,  and 
15,616  freight  cars  have  been  added.  The  striking  statement 
is  made  that,  if  the  cars  were  strung  together,  they  would 
make  a  train  one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  miles  long,  while 
Z27  costly  new  locomotives  would  make  a  line  four  miles  long. 
Another  interesting  move  is  the  conversion  of  nearly  five  hun- 
dred locomotives  into  oil-burners  and  the  employment  of  oil 
on  tracks  to  make  them  dustless.  It  is  planned  to  oil  the  en- 
tire trackage  in  sandy  regions.  The  construction  of  several 
new  tunnels,  the  building  of  new  machine-shops,  the  introduc- 
tion of  the  block  system  on  part  of  the  track,  and  the  extensive 
advertising  of  the  State  are  all  notable  features  of  the  Harri- 
man regime.  But  what  will  strike  the  busy  man  most  is  the 
statement  that,  when  the  new  cut-off  is  finished,  the  travel 
time  between  San  Francisco  and  Chicago  will  be  reduced 
seven  hours.  Surely,  California  should  tender  a  vote  of  thanks 
to  E.  H.  Harriman. 


Local 

Politics 

of  the  Week 


Considering  the  fact  that  Governor  Pardee's  plurality  in  the 
election  last  fall  was  only  2,549,  and  that 
only  a  twelvemonth  away  is  a  Presidential 
election,  the  argument  advanced  by  Henry 
J.    Crocker    in    several    recent    speeches,    that 

Republicans    in    national    politics    should    avoid    permitting    a 

strong  Democratic  machine  to  be  built  up   in   San   Francisco, 

has  not  a  little  force.     He  said : 

Next  year  you  have  a  Presidential  contest.  Next  year  you 
have — what?  Where  the  very  life  of  this  nation  may  be  at 
stake.  Do  you  mean  to  tell  me  that  San  Francisco  is  not  going 
to  have  the  sense  that  has  always  characterized  the  Republican 
party  from  the  days  of  '56  up  to  the  present  time?  Do  you 
mean  to  tell  me  that  you  are  going  to  sell  your  birthright  for 
a  mess  of  pottage,  and  quibble  as  to  whether  your  nominee 
for  mayor  is  going  to  win  or  not?  Stand  by  your  organiza- 
tion, fellow-Republicans. 

This  is  good  sense  and  sound  argument.  Theodore  Roose- 
velt may  urgently  need  all  of  California's  votes. 

In  general,  nothing  more  exciting  than  scraps  between  the 
editors  of  the  dailies  has  happened  this  week.  The  Call 
and  Chronicle  continue  to  aver  that  Lane  is  out  of  the  race, 
while  directing  toward  him  the  most  of  their  attention. 
Schmitz,  strangely  enough,  is  getting  off  very  lightly  at  the 
hands  of  his  Republican  opponents.  These  facts  lead  the 
Bulletin  to  accuse  Spreckels  and  De  Young  (whom  it  hates 
with  unction  anyway)  of  having  some  good  but  mysterious 
reason  for  not  leveling  deadly  shafts  at  the  mayor. 

But  the  Bulletin  makes  up  for  any  omissions  of  theirs. 
It  is  running  a  series  of  such  bitter  cartoons  of  Schmitz  that 
he  has  been  stirred  into  fiercely  articulate  wrath.  He  has  de- 
nounced these  cartoons  in  a  recent  speech,  accusing  Lane  of 
being  their  instigator.  The  Casey  wing  of  the  labor  party 
continue  to  accuse  Schmitz  of  corporation  obligations.  They 
continually  put  the  question :  "  Where  did  you  get  the 
money  for  so  many  electric  signs  and  buttons?"  The  Union 
Labor  Central  Club,  which  repiesents  the  anti-Schmitz  wing  of 
of  the  Union  Labor  party,  brought  up  this  matter  in  a  recent 
series  of  denunciatory  resolutions.  They  also  dwelt  much 
on  the  perfidy  of  John  Shakespeare  Parry,  and  upon  the  letter 
of  Schmitz  to  Ruef,  when  Schmitz  was  first  elected,  in  which 
the  mayor  formally  recognized  the  attorney  as  his  councilor. 
This  letter,  according  to  the  Union  Labor  Central  Club,  was  a 
notice  to  all  the  slot-machine  men  and  saloonkeepers  to  "  see 
Ruef."  There  are  many  politicians — mostly  anti-Schmitz — 
who  predict  that  the  connection  between  Ruef  and  Schmitz 
will  cause  the  mayor's  political  ruin.  However  that  may  be, 
the   two    men    stick    loyally    together.      It   may   be   interesting. 


in  this  connection,  to  note  that  in  the  town  of  Waterbury, 
Conn.,  which  was  recently  racked  by  a  street-railway  strike, 
the  Democrats,  who  allied  themselves  with  the  Union  Labor 
forces,  were  defeated  in  an  election  by  the  largest  majorities 
every  known  there.  The  Republicans  thus  defeated  Demo- 
crats and  labor  men  together  by  appealing  only  to  the  con- 
servative anti-union  element. 

Lane  has  been  speaking  in  former  Schmitz  strongholds 
south  of  Market  this  week,  and  apparently  has  had  good 
audiences.  A  ten-year-old  epigrammatist  down  there  deserves, 
some  high  office  at  the  hands  of  Lane,  if  elected,  for  evolving 
the  campaign  slogan:  "  Dere  he  is,  a  short  Lane  widout  no 
turnin'."  Lane  told  the  workingmen  the  story  of  the  Trojan 
horse,  putting  Ruef  inside  it,  in  the  application.  Homer  was 
greatly  appreciated  by  the  stevedores,  so  'tis  said. 

But  Lane's  devious  path  through  "  south  of  Market "  has 
not  been  all  roses.  His  pro-Schmitz  opponents  in  that  dis- 
trict are  presenting  such  arguments  as  the  following  from  the 
address   of  J.    C.    Williams,    the   labor   nominee    for   recorder: 

In  the  great  teamsters'  strike,  which  is  fresh  in  youi 
memory,  Franklin  K.  Lane  advised  Mayor  Phelan  to  put 
policemen  on  the  trucks  to  use  clubs  on  the  strikers,  and  I 
carry  scars  on  my  head  and  my  shoulders  to-day  because 
Franklin  K.  Lane  so  advised  the  placing  of  the  armed  men 
on  the  drays. 

This  is  surely  an  argument  ad  hominem.  "  A  vote  for  Lane 
is  a  vote  for  McNab,  who  says  :  '  Go  back  to  work  or  get 
clubbed,'  "   is  the  slogan  of  this  party. 

Even  Dr.  Dodge's  lucid  diagrams  showing  how  much  his 
policy  of  taxation  has  saved  the  city  will  scarcely  convince 
men  to  whom  the  scars-on-the-head  argument  applies. 

The  Examiner  is  supporting  Lane,  leaving  Schmitz  severely 
alone,  but  attacking  the  Republican  nominees  personally, 
though  it  reports  Republican  meetings  at  length,  and  with 
considerable  fairness.  It  is  still  making  it  exceedingly  un- 
pleasant for  the  Call  and  Chronicle  by  printing  facsimiles  of 
ugly  things  they  once  said  about  present  Republican  candi- 
dates. To  this  sort  of  thing  they  can  obviously  make  no 
effective  reply.  Lane's  apparent  and  widely  advertised  de- 
light in  the  fact  that  the  Chronicle  is  attacking  him,  since  for 
ten  years  no  candidate  backed  by  that  paper  has  been  elected, 
must  also  make  Mr.  de  Young  feel  very  sore. 

Henry  Crocker  is  making  a  good,  clean,  manly  fight.  He 
is  not  attacking  his  opponents  personally.  They  are  not  so 
considerate.  But  the  attacks  on  him  like  those  in  the  Bulletin 
accomplish  nothing.  It  can  not  be  denied  that  he  is  winning 
votes  from  day  to  day. 


About 

College  Pranks. 


According  to  an  item  in  the  Chronicle,  some  sophomores  at  the 
University  of  California  gained  entrance  to  a 
5  freshman  reception  last  Saturday  night,  and 
put  "  dope "  in  the  punch  that  was  being 
served.  The  word  "  dope "  we  translate 
"  poison."  Several  young  men  were  made  ill.  The  Chronicle's 
account  speaks  of  the  "  mischievous  sophomores."  We  should 
rather  call  them  incipient  criminals. 

Another  Chronicle  dispatch  is  from  Topeka,  Kan.  It  says 
that  seventy-five  girls  of  Washburn  College  fought  on  Satur- 
day, in  the  chapel,  before  an  audience  of  five  hundred.  Clothes 
were  torn  and  eyes  blacked.  The  round  lasted  twenty  minutes, 
when  the  faculty  trainers  interfered. 

From  Ann  Arbor  comes  the  news  that  Policeman  Isbell,  who 
was  hit  with  a  club  by  a  college  student  during  the  progress  of 
a  college  "  lark "  on  Friday  night,  may  die.  The  college 
student  was  arrested.  President  Angell  is  reported  to  have 
refused  to  interfere  with  the  affair  in  any  way,  and  to  have 
said  that  the  case  is  one  to  be  dealt  with  by  the  law.  He  is 
right.  If  there  were  more  police  arrests  and  less  faculty 
"  disciplining "  when  hair-brained  young  men  break  laws, 
there  would  be  fewer  laws  broken.  The  difference  between  a 
free  fight  with  brass  knucks  in  a  brothel  among  too  ex- 
uberant jack-tars  just  back  from  a  voyage,  and  the  "  pranks  " 
of  undergraduates,  is  one  of  degree  rather  than  of  kind.  The 
police  attend  to  the  one  case ;  they  ought  to  the  other.  Let 
them  begin  on  the  sophomores  who  poisoned  the  punch. 


Democrats  Still 
in  Search  of 
a  Leader. 


Of  the  latest  batch  of  Presidential  gossip,  anent  the  cam- 
paign of  next  year,  about  three-quarters  is 
Democratic  speculation,  so  settled  seems  to 
be  the  expectation  that  Mr.  Roosevelt  will  be 
nominated  to  succeed  himself.  On  the 
Democratic  side,  chaos  still  prevails.  In  the  matter  of  prin- 
ciples, this  is  as  true  as  in  the  matter  of  leadership.  In  de-  j 
clining  to  consider  the  proposed  debate  between  Senator 
Hanna  and  the  Democratic  aspirant  for  senator  in  Ohio, 
Chairman  Dick  called  attention  to  the  conglomerate  ex- 
hibition of  Democratic  principles,  "  running  the  entire  gamut 
from  doctrine  to  dogma — Democratic,  Populistic,  Agrarian,, 
and  Socialistic!"  The  party  stands  for  free  raw  material. 
and  protected  finished  products  in  New  England,  while  in 
Texas  it  shouts  for  protected  raw  material  and  free  finished 
products.  Within  the  party,  the  tariff  question  is  divided  into 
tariff  for  revenue  only,  tariff  with  incidental  protection,  and 
no  tariff  at  all.  In  these,  as  in  currency  questions,  Philip- 
pine questions,  and  the  war  amendments,  it  presents  a  "  very 
Babel  of  clashing  opinions  jumbled  together  in  a  noisy  con- 
fusion of  noisy  tongues."  When  a  party  so  constituted  dis-  I 
cusses  the  personality  of  a  nominee  for  the  Presidency,  it  is  \ 
bound  to  present  the  same  confusion.  Hill  and  Gorman  forces, 
with  unknown  numbers  and  mysterious  plans,  are  keeping  up 
their  still  hunts.  Bryan  has  not  fallen  on  Grover  Cleveland's 
neck,  except  with  a  malevolent  purpose.  The  Cleveland  boom 
continues  persistently,  although  it  has  aroused  several  varieties 
of  opponents  in  Democratic  ranks.  There  are  quite  a  number 
of  party  papers  which  maintain  that  Grover  Cleveland  "  is  thd 
only  Democrat  who  can  be  regarded  as  a  genuine  personal 
force " ;  as  "  the  only  Democrat  whose  opinions  and  utter- 
ances are  taken  to  heart  by  the  American  people  "  ;  as  "  the 
only  Democrat  who  has  a  record  of  genuine  achievement"; 
as    "  the   only   Democrat   who   could   carry    New    York,    New 


October  19,  1903. 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


Jersey,  Connecticut,  and  Indiana " ;  as  "  the  only  Democrat 
who  would  attract  Republican  votes."  On  the  other  hand, 
there  is  the  Bryan  battalion  which,  if  offered  the  alternative 
of  Cleveland  or  ruin,  would  choose  the  latter,  and  still  another 
contingent  which,  while  not  antagonistic  to  the  ex-President, 
is  morally  certain  that  Mr.  Cleveland  can  not  possibly  obtain 
a  two-thirds  vote  in  a  national  Democratic  convention,  and 
that,  if  he  could,  he  would  have  to  depend  upon  Republican 
votes  to  elect  him.  The  same  notions  are  not  lacking  even  in 
the  solid  South,  where  the  Atlanta  Constitution  declares  that 
"the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland,  if  such  a  thing  were 
possible,  would  totally  disrupt  the  Democratic  organization  in 
two-thirds  of  the  Southern  States,  not  to  speak  of  the  Western 
and  other  States."  Most  of  these  thinkers  are  turning  their 
attention  to  Richard  Olney.  Believing  that  Cleveland  is  out 
of  the  question,  they  are  looking  about  for  the  man  nearest 
to  him  in  Presidential  size,  and  are  advocating  Olney  as  that 
individual.  Olney,  they  insist,  is  the  residuary  legatee  of  all 
the  credit  that  inures  from  the  Cleveland  administration.  His 
was  the  directing  force  that  curbed  the  Chicago  riots,  and 
his  the  dogged  persistence  which  brought  England  to  terms 
in  the  Venezuela  imbroglio.  Therefore,  Olney  is  the  man  of 
the  hour — a  man  with  all  the  attributes  of  Cleveland  politically, 
but  without  his  adaptability  for  making  enemies  within  the 
party.  Moreover,  he  is  a  Massachusetts  man,  and  Massa- 
chusetts has  not  had  a  man  in  the  White  House  since  John 
Quincy  Adams.  But  the  Cleveland  boomers  are  pointing  out 
that  Massachusetts  is  so  hopelessly  Republican  that  the  State 
can  not  hope  for  a  candidate  in  either  party.  What  is  really 
wanted  is  a  man  who  is  strong  enough  to  carry  New  York, 
New  Jersey,  Connecticut,  and  Indiana,  and  weak  enough  to 
truckle  to  Bryanism.  Such  a  political  monstrosity  has  not 
yet  been  discovered,  and  seems  unlikely  to  be  in  the  present 
state  of  Democratic  harmony — even  though  Senator  Morgan 
does  say  that  Democracy  has  three  hundred  and  fifty  better 
men  than  Roosevelt. 


To  Exclude 
coreans  and 
Japanese. 


As  agent  of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor,  Edward 
Rosenberg  has  been  visiting  the  Philippines 
and  Hawaii  to  study  the  conditions  of  Asiatic 
labor  in  those  possessions.  As  a  result  of  his 
study,  he  recommends  that  Congress  be  called 
upon  to  extend  the  provisions  of  the  Chinese  exclusion  acJ 
to  cover  Japanese  and  Coreans  as  well.  His  report  is  to  be 
considered  at  the  annual  convention  of  the  federation  to  be 
held  in  Boston  next  month.  He  says  that  in  the  Philippines 
an  effort  is  being  made  to  open  the  doors  to  Chinese  labor, 
because  that  labor  is  cheaper  and  will  enable  employers  to 
amass  fortunes  in  a  few  years.  In  accordance  with  this  policy, 
an  effort  is  being  made  to  discredit  Filipino  labor.  Neverthe- 
less, he  claims  that  under  the  Spanish  rule  the  condition  cf 
the  Filipinos  was  similar  to  that  of  slaves.  But  they  readily 
grasp  the  opportunity  to  secure  better  conditions,  and,  when 
fairly  paid  and  decently  treated,  do  good  work.  In  Hawaii, 
says  Rosenberg,  the  Sugar  Planters'  Association  controls 
everything,  and  its  policy  is  to  discourage  settlers  and  all 
immigration,  except  that  of  the  Japanese  and  Coreans,  the  lat- 
ter working  for  less  than  either  Chinese  or  Japanese.  Ten 
thousand  Coreans  are  now  being  brought  into  Hawaii,  where 
they  displace  the  Japanese,  the  latter  moving  on  to  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Rosenberg  will  recommend  that  Congress  be  urged 
to  keep  both  Japanese  and  Coreans  out  of  Hawaii,  as  well  as 
out  of  this  country,  and  that  the  policy  of  exclusion  of  the 
Chinese  be  continued  in  the  Philippines. 


Congress  in 
Its  Winter 
Solstice. 


The  tall  and  winter  season  of  national  legislation  is  about 
opening  in  Washington.  The  President  has 
returned  from  Oyster  Bay,  and  finds  awaiting 
him  an  enormous  body  of  work,  which  will 
tax  the  physical  and  mental  vigor  he  claims 
to  have  gained  from  his  summer  "  outing."  There  is  the  dead- 
lock in  the  Isthmian  Canal  matter  to  consider.  What  our 
course  will  be  is  quite  a  problem.  Shall  we  wait  for  Colombia 
to  make  an  acceptable  proposition?  Shall  we  encourage 
Panama  to  secede?  Or  shall  we  wash  our  hands  of  Colombia 
and  turn  our  attentions  to  Nicaragua  and  Costa  Rica  ?  The 
postal-fraud  reports  will  soon  be  ready  for  the  President. 
Then  there  is  the  extra  session  of  Congress  to  prepare  for, 
as  it  seems  to  be  understood  that  it  will  be  called  soon  to  meet 
about  the  ninth  of  November.  A  message  must  be  prepared 
for  that,  but  it  is  expected  to  be  short,  for  the  only  proposition 
to  be  laid  before  Congress  in  November  will  be  the  question 
of  Cuban  reciprocity. 

The  regular  session  of  the  Fifty-Eighth  Congress,  which  be- 
gins in  December,  will  require  a  more  elaborate  message. 
What  it  will  contain  is  already  a  matter  of  considerable  con- 
jecture. There  will,  of  course,  be  something  on  the  canal 
matter.  No  one  knows  what  its  tenor  will  be.  Tariff  must 
also  come  in  for  a  mention,  but  while  it  is  predicted  from 
Washington  that  the  message  will  hint  at  the  necessity  for 
revision  of  the  schedules  some  time  in  the  future,  it  is  as 
confidently  asserted  that  the  President  will  not  discuss 
readjustment  as  freely  as  he  did  a  year  ago.  A  Presidential 
election  is  coming  on,  and  it  is  not  likely  that  the  message 
will  be  designed  to  create  new  issues  unnecessarily,  or  throw 
out  any  firebrands  which  might  start  a  conflagration  in  the 
party.  He  will  recommend  financial  legislation  on  the 
lines  hitherto  followed.  He  will  repeat  what  he  said  then, 
and  add  some  details.  The  main  suggestion  will  be  for  such 
a  reform  as  will  produce  a  currency  that  will  admit  of  adjust- 
ment to  conditions.  Legislators  have  plans  for  monetary 
systems  which  will  expand  and  contract  automatically,  and 
Congress  will  be  expected  to  examine  and  compare  them  this 
winter.  The  message  will  go  over  the  situation  in  the  Philip- 
pines, and  will  urge  upon  Congress  a  liberal  and  progressive 
course  of  action  for  the  upbuilding  of  the  navy.  An  important 
subject  is  likely  to  be  that  of  giving  improved  government  to 
Alaska.  The  demand  for  it  in  the  Far  North  is  exigent,  and 
the  President  has  given  the  matter  much  thought.  The  post- 
office  and  Indian  scandals  will  be  laid  before  Congress,  which 


body,  it  is  opined  by  Washington  quidnuncs,  will  not  make 
an  independent  investigation.  When  Mr.  Bristow  is  througn 
it  is  believed  there  will  be  nothing  left  uncovered.  The  whole 
evidence  will  have  been  gathered  and  passed  upon  by  grand 
juries,  and  handed  over  to  legal  tribunals.  As  Congress  could 
do  no  more,  there  is  little  likelihood  that  the  subject  will  re- 
ceive marked  attention,  except  by  the  members  from  "  Bun- 
combe." On  the  whole,  the  coming  regular  session  is  likely 
to  be  a  very  busy  one,  as  well  as  an  interesting  one.  Canal 
matters  and  financial  questions,  navy  bills  and  ship  subsidies, 
are  all  likely  to  be  prominent,  besides  which  the  country  wiil 
be  entertained  by  a  vigorous  and  virtuous  desire  on  the  part 
of  the  Democrats  to  investigate  every  nook  and  cranny  of  the 
administration  for  political  purposes. 


The  value  of  alligators  in  the  economy  of  nature  was  recently 
demonstrated    in    Florida.       Hunters    having 
decimated    the    alligators,    the    muskrats    on 
Petroleum  which   the   saurians    feed   began    to    multiply. 

For  domestic  purposes,  they  honeycombed 
with  holes  the  river  levees.  These  holes  caused  leak- 
age, the  leakage  caused  breaks  in  the  banks,  and  great 
destruction  of  property  resulted.  California  has  no  alligators, 
but  many  cousins  of  the  muskrat.  Hitherto  they  have  been 
exceeding  troublesome  to  the  farmers  along  the  Sacramento. 
A  remedy  for  these  burrowing  rodents  is  now  announced — 
oil.  It  not  only  drives  away  the  gophers  and  squirrels,  but, 
according  to  Stockton  experimenters,  retards  the  washing 
away  of  the  banks  by  water,  and  the  loss  of  the  loose  earth 
at  the  top  by  high  winds.  The  oil  is  applied  hot  from  a  barge 
in  the  river,  and  contracts  have  been  let  for  extensive  oiling. 
If  experience  prove  the  scheme  as  valuable  as  the  experiments 
have  led  those  interested  to  believe  another  important  use 
for  oil  will  have  been  found — not  only  in  this  State,,  but  on 
all  the  leveed  rivers  of  this  and  other  countries,  where  similar 
conditions  prevail. 


Hearst's 

New 

Venture. 

Los  Angeles. 


There  have  been  rumors  that  the  insatiable  ambition  of  Will- 
iam Randolph  Hearst  would  soon  lead  him  to 
establish  newspapers  in  St.  Louis  and  Wash- 
ington. He  now  appears  to  have  relinquished 
his  designs  in  these  directions  in  favor  of 
It  is  reported  that  a  complete  newspaper  plant 
is  ready  for  shipment  in  New  York,  and  will  be  forwarded  as 
soon  as  D.  H.  Robert,  Mr.  Hearst's  representative,  now  in 
Los  Angeles,  can  make  arrangements  for  office  room.  Mr. 
Hearst  first  tried  to  buy  the  Herald,  but  considered  the  price 
fixed — $350,000 — too  high.  His  new  paper  will  be  a  morning 
daily,  Democratic  in  politics.  Los  Angeles  now  has  three 
prominent  dailies — the  Times,  edited  by  Harrison  Gray  Otis, 
upon  which  the  typographical  union  is  waging  a  bitter  but 
apparently  unsuccessful  war ;  the  Herald,  edited  by  W.  L. 
Hardison  ;  and  the  Express,  an  evening  paper,  edited  by  Sam 
T.  Clover. 


M\rket  Street 

Railway 

Problem. 


Market  Street  is  the  main  artery  of  the  city,  and  it  has  for  a 
long  time  been  evident  that  the  street-rail- 
way system  on  that  thoroughfare  is  in- 
adequate to  meet  the  demands  made  upon  it 
during  the  busy  part  of  the  day.  Between 
five  and  six  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  thousands  of  people  leave 
offices  and  stores  in  the  down-town  section  to  seek  their  homes 
in  the  western  part  of  the  city.  Only  a  small  fraction  of  these 
people  are  lucky  enough  to  secure  an  opportunity  to  hang  on 
to  the  outside  of  the  car.  Not  a  seat  is  to  be  had  after  the  car 
leaves  the  ferry.  The  remedy  that  suggests  itself — to  put  on 
more  cars — can  not  be  adopted  because  the  cars  can  not  be 
handled  more  rapidly  on  the  turntable  at  the  ferry.  It  re- 
quires half  a  minute  for  a  car  to  be  turned  around  and  to 
leave  the  turntable  ready  for  the  next  car.  Under  these  cir- 
cumstances, it  is  impossible  to  run  the  cars  more  frequently 
than  a  half-minute  headway.  Under  existing  conditions,  there 
is  a  blockade  of  cars  at  the  ferry  every  afternoon,  and  pas- 
sengers desiring  to  take  the  ferry  are  frequently  obliged  to  run 
a  block  to  catch  their  boat.  The  railway  company  now  pro- 
poses to  build  a  double  loop  at  the  ferry  to  relieve  the  pres- 
sure upon  the  turntable.  This  will  be  of  some  use,  but  at  best 
it  can  be  considered  but  a  temporary  expedient.  With  the  in- 
crease of  traffic  it  also  will  be  found  inadequate.  The  only 
effective  remedy  lies  in  substituting  electricity  as  a  moti-ze 
power  in  place  of  the  cable. 


Topolobampo 

to  Rival 

San  Francisco? 


Not  only  has  San  Francisco  commercial  rivals  on  the  north 
and  to  the  south  in  this  State,  but  if  we  may 
believe  the  Mexican  papers,  that  country  is 
soon  to  be  a  formidable  competitor  for  the 
commerce    of    the    Pacific.       Listen    to    this 

grandiose  prophecy  from  the  Mexican  Herald,  a  paper  printed 

in  English  in  Mexico  City : 

Mexico  is  building  port  works  on  her  Pacific  coast.  Her 
long  frontage  on  the  world's  greatest  ocean  gives  her  an 
interest,  and  a  great  one,  in  the  vast  sea  stretching  between 
her  and  Asia.  Railways  are  now  heading  for  Topolobampo  and 
Manzanillo.  Fleets  of  ocean  steamers  are  to  connect  her  ports 
with  Manila,  Yokohama,  Shanghai,  and  Hong  Kong.  As 
in  a  vision.  Baron  von  Humboldt  saw  Mexico  become  "  the 
bridge  of  the  world's  commerce,"  and  the  Scotsman  Patterson 
declared,  long  ago.  that  the  Isthmus  of  Tehuantepec  would  be 
the  "  key  of  the  universe " ;  and  now  acrcss  Tehuantepec  a 
British  contractor,  of  world-wide  fame,  is  getting  a  great  rail- 
way in  readiness  for  interoceanic  traffic.  The  Mexican  who 
is  blind  to  his  country's  glorious  future,  who  can  not  see 
what  his  children  are  to  possess,  is  blind  indeed.  The  times 
demand  the  continuance  of  the  broad  statesmanship  that  has 
characterized  the  Diaz  administration  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years. 

The  editor  of  one  of  the  papers  of  Southern  California  has 
been  presenting  his  views  regarding  the  ad- 
vantages the  northern  part  of  the  State  would 
receive  from  having  good  hotels.  He  begins 
by  calling  attention  to  the  fact  that  there  is 

not  one  town  in  Southern  California  that  has  not  a  good  hotel. 

and   hardly   a    town   in    Northern    California    that   has   a   good 


Hotels 
North  and 
South. 


one.  This  is  a  charge  that  has  been  brought  before,  so  it 
may  be  passed  over  to  consider  what  he  says  regarding  the 
benefits  of  good  hotels.  He  cites  the  case  of  a  new  hotel  that 
was  opened  in  one  of  the  southern  cities  eight  months  ago. 
During  the  first  three  months  from  five  hundred  to  eight  hun- 
dred and  fifty  guests  were  registered  at  this  hotel.  The  fact 
that  the  other  hotels  were  well  filled  at  the  same  time  shows 
that  the  patronage  of  this  hotel  was  not  drawn  from  the  others, 
but  from  the  outside.  Many  visitors  were  undoubtedly  drawn 
to  the  city  by  the  fact  that  the  hotel  had  been  opened,  and 
undoubtedly  many,  who  would  have  come  anyway,  were  in- 
duced to  prolong  their  stay  from  the  same  cause.  This  pa- 
tronage left  thousands  of  dollars  in  the  city,  apart  from  the 
benefit  to  the  hotel  itself.  First  impressions  count  for  much, 
and  a  stranger  draws  his  first  impressions  of  a  place  from  the 
hotel  he  stops  in.  The  man  of  wealth,  seeking  a  new  place  to 
make  his  home,  is  not  likely  to  be  attracted  to  a  town  where 
he  has  had  to  put  up  with  inconveniences  in  the  hotel  service. 


Taxes  Upon 
the  Assessor's 
Valuation. 


The  supreme  court  has  decided  that  the  State  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion has  power  to  change  the  valuation  oi 
city  property  only  for  purposes  of  State  tax- 
ation, and  that  the  city  levy  must  be  upon  the 
city  valuation.  When  the  State  Board  of 
Equalization  increased  the  assessment  list  of  this  city,  the 
question  arose  whether  the  city  tax  levy  should  be  based  upon 
the  original  valuation  or  the  increased  valuation.  In  June,  thf 
supervisors  had  fixed  the  rate  at  $1,076  on  the  assessor's 
valuation;  in  September,  a  new  rate  of  84.  cents  was  fixed  or. 
the  increased  valuation.  In  order  to  determine  the  question 
legally,  the  supreme  court  was  appealed  to,  to  issue  an  order 
restraining  the  auditor  from  recognizing  the  new  rate  in 
making  out  the  tax  rolls.  In  behalf  of  the  old  rate  and  old 
valuation,  it  was  argued  that  the  charier  confers  the  right  of 
taxation  for  municipal  purposes  upon  the  city  and  county,  and 
that  nothing  in  the  constitution  conflicts  with  this  grant.  It 
was  further  pointed  out  that  the  result  of  taking  the  increased 
valuation  would  simply  be  to  increase  the  burden  of  taxation 
upon  owners  of  real  estate,  and  decrease  that  upon  owners 
of  personal  property,  since  the  board  of  equalization  could 
not  increase  the  value  of  money  and  solvent  credits,  but  must 
put  the  entire  increase  upon  the  valuation  of  real  estate.  The 
supreme  court  deferred  the  filing  of  a  written  opinion  until 
a  later  date,  but  in  sustaining  the  old  rate  and  the  old  valua- 
tion confirmed  the  validity  of  this  line  of  reasoning. 

It  is  reported  that  Stanford  University  is  to  have  a  new  mil- 
lion-dollar library  building,  and  a  further  per- 
bTANFORD  to  manent    endowment    of    one    million    dollars 

Have  Adequate      c        ,  ,  -.,»_,. 

.  for  the  purchase  ot  books.     According  to  the 

rumor,  Mrs.  Stanford  is  to  furnish  the  funds 
for  the  new  building,  while  either  Thomas  Welton  Stanford, 
a  brother  of  the  late  Senator  Stanford,  residing  in  Australia, 
or  Mrs.  Stanford  herself,  will  furnish  the  endowment.  All 
of  this  is  as  yet  rumor,  but  there  are  good  grounds  for  be- 
lieving the  rumor  true.  When  Mrs.  Stanford  transferred  to 
the  trustees  the  property  of  the  university,  she  spoke  of  the 
plans  for  a  new  library  building.  To  some  of  her 
friends  she  said  that  a  gift  of  the  money  for  the 
building  would  be  made,  and  to  her  intimates  she 
announced  her  intention  to  defray  the  expense  her- 
self. On  her  tour  around  the  world,  she  went  first  to  Mel- 
bourne, the  home  of  Thomas  Welton  Stanford,  and  the  plans 
for  the  new  library  building  followed  her  there.  When  the 
funds  of  the  university  were  so  tied  up  that  there  were  not 
funds  for  the  running  expenses  of  the  university,  it  was 
Thomas  Welton  Stanford  who  came  forward  with  a  check 
for  a  quarter  of  a  million  for  a  library  building  which  was 
then  sorely  needed,  and  each  year  since  there  have  been  addi- 
tions to  the  library  due  to  his  generosity  and  interest.  It  was 
Mrs.  Stanford's  desire  that  ground  should  be  broken  for  the 
new  building  during  January,  but  it  is  hardly  probable  that  the 
preliminaries  will  be  completed  in  time  for  this. 

The  practical  effect  of  Premier  Combes's  wise  and  courageous 
course    in    breaking    up    the    reactionary    and 

Public  Schools        unrepublican       congregational        schools       in 

Replace  Private    _,  .  „       .  ,  _     . 

in  France  ranee,     is     well     shown     by    a    recent     Pans 

dispatch.    It  says : 

The  Paris  schools  have  just  been  opened  to  receive  the 
largest  registration  of  children  in  their  history.  In  spite  of 
the  expected  overcrowding,  accommodations  have  proved 
sufficient,  which  is  a  great  disappointment  to  the  opponents  of 
the  ministry,  who  wanted  to  present  a  pathetic  picture  of 
little  children  wandering,  without  education,  in  the  streets, 
deprived  of  their  birthright  by  an  irreligious  government. 
Throughout  France  1,600,000  additional  children  have  been 
enrolled  in  the  public  schools  in  consequence  of  the  famous 
congregations  law.  The  school  administration  calculates  that 
this  influx  of  children  will  cost  an  additional  So. 000. 000  francs 
($15,440,000). 

Even  if  it  be  true  that  the  American  race  is  "  suiciding,"  there 
is  still  evidently  no  danger  that  the  total 
population  of  the  United  States  will  de- 
crease. Immigration  for  the  last  fiscal  year 
amounted  to  857,046  souls,  68,054  in  excess 
of  any  previous  year.  But  the  first  two*  months  of  the  present 
fiscal  year  show  a  gain  over  the  corresponding  months  of  last 
year  of  thirty-eight  per  cent.  August  alone  shows  a  gain  o» 
forty-two  per  cent.  If  the  rate  for  August  is  maintained  during 
the  year,  the  total  immigration  will  be  in  the  neighborhood  of 
1,250,000. 


The  Foreign 
Invasion  of 
Our  Shores. 


The  Chicago  Chronicle  says:  "  More  than  any  other  city  in 
the  United  States,  the  Pacific  Coast  metropolis  has  been  the 
field  of  the  wild  theorist.  From  Sand  Lot  Kearney  to  the 
garrets  and  basements  of  the  maudlin  revolutionists  of  many 
shades,  the  cries  of  demagogue  and  doctrinaire  have  passed 
and  repassed  until  the  din  was  almost  unbearable.  They  made 
their  first  organized  assault  upon  the  common  sense  of  the  city 
in  a  howling  demand  for  issuance  of  bonds  to  buy  a  street  rail- 
way. The  balloting  was  conclusive  against  municipalization. 
In  spite  of  years  of  pestilent  nagging,  in  which  it  was  •< 
that  the  brain  of  San  Francisco  had  been  turned 
concussion,  that  vigorous  community  has  shown 


244 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  19,  1903. 


JOHNNY'S    INGLORIOUS    EXIT. 

How  a  Loyal  Partner  and  a  Parson  Hoodwinked  a  Devoted  Mother. 

"  Keep  a  stiff  upper  lip,  Johnny;  we'll  soon  be  there; 
yonder's  th'  old  town  at  last." 

"  Oh,  hell,  Dick !  What's  the  good  of  dragging  me 
any  farther?"  Johnny  moaned,  weakly.  "For  God's 
sake,  let  me  stop  here  and  croak  in  peace." 

For  two  hundred  weary  miles  of  mountain  and  plain, 
of  rock  and  sand  and  cactus,  Dick  had  heard  this  same 
protesting  moan  at  every  step,  for  fifteen  long  days  of 
hunger  and  thirst  and  blistering  sun,  and  he  heard  it 
now  as  he  had  heard  it  from  the  beginning — with  silent 
disregard.  Less  than  two  months  before  he  had  per- 
suaded Tohnny  to  go  with  him  on  a  prospecting  trip 
down  in  the  Sierra  Madre,  but  they  had  found  lead 
instead  of  gold— whistling,  whining  pellets  of  lead,  hot 
from  the  muzzles  of  Apache  rifles,  and  one  of  which 
had  found  a  target  in  Johnny's  breast.  Out  in  the 
wilderness,  the  wounded  man  must  surely  die;  but  back 
in  town,  with  a  doctor  and  medicine,  he  would  have  a 
chance  for  his  life,  Dick  thought;  and  feeling  himself 
largely  responsible  for  his  plight,  he  had  set  himself 
the  task  of  getting  him  back  to  civilization  alive,  in 
which  not  even  Johnny  himself  should  be  allowed  to 
interfere. 

Slowly  they  moved  on,  toiling  along  the  trail  leading 
down  from  the  foot-hills  back  of  the  little  mining  town, 
Dick  walking  and  holding  the  other  limply  astride  their 
faithful  little  burro,  at  last  reaching  level  ground;  and, 
avoiding  the  houses  of  the  town,  they  made  for  a  poor 
little  hut,  almost  hidden  by  feathery  mesquite  bushes  on 
the  river  bank,  where  they  halted,  and  Johnny  was 
carefully  lifted  off  the  animal's  back  and  laid  on  the 
earth.  Still  silent,  Dick  pushed  open  the  door,  then 
unpacked  the  burro  and  took  their  outfit  inside,  where 
he  busied  himself  a  few  minutes  preparing  a  bed. 

Presently  he  came  out  again.  "  Now,  then,  pardner," 
he  said,  "yore  bunk's  all  skewvee,  an'  soon  's  I  throw 
yuh  in  it,  I'm  goin'  to  skip  up  town  an'  rustle  up  a 
doctor  an'  some  physic  for  yuh.  Come  along  now,  put 
yore  arms  roun'  my  neck  an'  take  a  holt,"  he  went  on, 
bending  over  Johnny.  "  That's  right :  now  then,  up  yuh 
come."  And  the  sufferer  was  carried  to  the  bunk  and 
put  in  it  as  carefully  as  his  own  mother  would  have 
done  it. 

"  Won't  git  lonesome  while  I'm  gone,  will  yuh  ?  " 
Dick  asked,  giving  the  sunken  face  a  playful  little  pat. 
"  Quicker  I  git  the  doctor  here,  th'  quicker  he'll  git 
yuh  out  an'  on  yore  pins  again,  yuh  know.  I'm  ready 
to  gamble  't  won't  take  him  a  month." 

"  You'd  only  lose,  Dick,"  Johnny  whispered ;  "  th' 
devil's  got  his  hooks  too -deep  set  in  me  for  that.  I've 
got  to  go  over  the  range,  and  that  mighty  pronto,  I'm 
thinking.  Just  bring  me  a  bottle  of  booze,  and  let  the 
rest  go." 

"  Now,  now,  old  feller,  don't  throw  up  yore  hands  till 
it  comes  to  a  show-down,"  Dick  returned,  encourag- 
ingly. "  Keep  up  yore  nerve,  an'  play  th'  game  out, 
won't  yuh  ?  " 

Johnny  impatiently  turned  his  face  to  the  wall.  "  Go 
on  and  bring  me  the  whisky,  I'm  nearly  dead  for  a 
drink,"  he  said,  crossly. 

Dick  went  out  and  walked  hurriedly  into  the  town, 
turning  into  the  one  straggle  of  street  that  it  boasted, 
and  made  a  bee-line  for  a  building  bearing  a  physician's 
sign,  finding  its  owner  within. 

The  doctor  was  reluctant  to  go  with  him.  "  What's 
the  good,"  he  objected.  "Johnny  Fraser  aint  worth 
hell-room,  and  you  know  it.  Why,  if  I  get  him  well, 
he'll  just  go  on  bummin'  round  the  saloons  and  gamblin' 
houses,  helpin'  skin  every  poor  sucker  that  comes  along, 
and  drinkin'  up  every  cent  of  money  he  gets  his  hands 
on.    He  ought  to  die,  and  be  quick  about  it." 

"  But  he's  human,  Dock,"  Dick  urged,  "  an'  he's  got  a 
pore  old  widow  mother  somewheres  back  East.  An' 
he's  my  pardner;  I've  eat  with  him,  an'  slept  with  him, 
an'  fought  those  d — d  Indians  with  him — he  aint  no 
coward,  Dock,  I  can  say  that  for  him- — an'  so  I  just 
can't  throw  him  down,  nohow." 

"All  right,  I'll -go  see  him,"  the  doctor  answered, 
"  but  I'll  look  to  you  for  my  pay." 

On  their  way  to  the  cabin,  Dick  stopped  long 
enough  to  buy  a  bottle  of  whisky.  He  gave  Johnny  a 
drink,  and  the  doctor  proceeded  to  make  an  examina- 
tion of  the  wound.  It  was  a  bad  one,  a  great  hole 
drilled  through  the  lung,  and  hut  little  more  than  a 
glance  was  needed  to  tell  the  man  of  medicine  that  it 
would  prove  fatal.  Dressing  it,  he  measured  out  some 
medicines,  designed  solely  to  make  the  patient's  end 
free  from  suffering,  and  giving  Dick  instruction  as  to 
their  use,  started  home. 

Dick  followed  him  outside,  closing  the  door  so  that 
Johnny  would  not  hear.  "  How  'bout  him,  Dock?"  he 
asked,  anxiously. 

"  Did  you  say  that  he  has  a  mother  back  East?  "  the 
other  answered. 
"  Yes,"  said  Dick. 

"  Then  you'd  better  write  her  to  come  in  a  hurry,  if 
she  wants  to  see  him  alive  again,"  the  doctor  replied. 
"  I  don't  give  him  more  than  ten  or  fifteen  days  longer." 
Dick  had  expected  such  a  reply,  but  it  came  to  him 
as  a  shock,  nevertheless;  a  man  does  not  "pardner" 
with  another  without  forming  more  or  less  affection 
for  him.  He  sighed,  and  was  silent  a  few  moments. 
-"  If  that's  th'  case,"  he  answered,  finally,  "  I  reckon  it 
1  on  t  hurt  if  I  give  him  all  th'  whisky  he  wants,  will 


"  Not  a  bit,"  answered  the  doctor.  "  It's  what  he 
wants  more  than  anything  else,  and  you  might  as  well 
let  him  have  it.    I'll  come  again  to-morrow." 

Johnny  demanded  more  whisky  the  moment  Dick's 
face  showed  inside  again,  and  Dick  gave  him  the  bottle. 
He  was  punishing  its  contents,  heavily,  when  Dick 
asked :  "  Where  do  yuh  come  from,  Johnny,  anyhow  ?  " 
Johnny  removed  the  bottle  from  his  lips  long  enough 
to  answer:  "  Ohio." 

"  Is  yore  mother  still  there?  "  Dick  went  on. 
"  Oh,  I  don't  know,"  Johnny  answered,  thickly,  and 
with  utter  indifference.  "  She  was  back — back  on  the 
old  farm  last  time  I  heard  from  her.  Maybe  dead  for 
all  I  know."  He  was  fast  passing  into  a  drunken 
stupor. 

"Where  is  th'  old  farm?  What's  th'  name  o'  th' 
town  ?  "  Dick  persisted. 

"  St.  Clair,"  Johnny  mumbled.  "  Now,  go  to  the 
devil,  and  don't  bother  me  any  more." 

He  soon  fell  asleep,  when  Dick  stole  out  and  went 
up  town  again,  walking  slowly  and  with  the  air  of  one 
lost  in  thought.  Turning  into  the  principal  gambling 
place,  he  was  greeted  warmly  by  the  men  gathered 
there;  but  he  declined  their  proffered  drinks;  he  was 
not  bent  on  social  intercourse,  he  had  a  duty  to  per- 
form— and  duty  always  came  first  with  Dick. 

"  Billy,  lend  me  yore  writin'  outfit,"  he  said  to  the 
proprietor  of  the  place. 

Billy  fished  pen,  paper,  and  ink  from  somewhere  be- 
hind the  bar.  "  Goin'  to  write  yore  will  ?  "  he  asked, 
facetiously. 

"  Nope,"  Dick  answered.  And  seating  himself  be- 
hind a  faro-table  that  was  idle  for  the  while,  he  began 
writing.  A  blot  appeared  before  he  had  completed  the 
first  sentence,  and  he  cursed  it  softly;  another  came 
presently,  and  he  cursed  that  one  louder:  his  stiffened 
fingers  were  far  better  adapted  to  the  guidance  of  pick 
and  shovel  than  of  the  quill.  But  he  persisted;  an 
hour  he  labored,  growing  warmer  and  cursing  louder 
as  the  blots  and  erasures  grew  thicker,  and  finally  his 
task  was  completed:  a  letter  to  Johnny's  mother,  telling 
her  of  her  son's  approaching  demise.  Wiping  tne  beads 
of  perspiration  from  his  face,  he  sat  a  few  minutes, 
reading  over  what  he  had  written,  and  then  grabbed  up 
the  pen  to  add  a  postscript. 

"  Johnny's  a  mighty  fine  feller,"  he  wrote,  "  there  aint 
a  finer  in  new  Mexico,  an  therl  Shore  be  a  Sorry  lot  of 
boys  in  this  Town  when  he  Quits.  Mrs.  Fraser,  You 
Shore  aint  got  nofhin  to  be  ashamed  of  in  Johnny. 
Hes  all  right  or  Im  a  Greaser." 

Borrowing  a  stamp,  he  went  out  and  posted  his  letter, 
and  then  went  back  to  the  bed  of  his  stricken  partner. 
And  there  he  stuck,  day  after  day  and  night  after  night, 
attending  Johnny  as  best  he  could,  cooking  his  food, 
dressing  his  wound,  administering  medicine,  or  trot- 
ting to  town  and  back  with  whisky,  but  with  never  a 
sharp  word  or  cross  look  at  the  querulousness  and 
abusive  language  with  which  the  patient  often  received 
his  attentions. 

At  last  the  long-expected  answer  from  Mrs.  Fraser 
came.  Her  health  was  failing  fast,  and  she  was  too 
poor  in  purse  to  make  so  long  a  journey,  even  to  be 
with  her  darling  boy  in  his  last  moments,  she  wrote. 
Her  heart  cried  out  to  be  with  him,  her  only  child,  but 
the  dear  Lord,  in  His  wisdom,  had  willed  it  otherwise. 
Her  grief  could  hardly  be  contained,  and  her  only  con- 
solation was  the  trust  that  they  would  soon  be  re- 
united in  that  glorious  life  where  misery  and  suffering 
and  death  are  unknown.  She  knew  that  Johnny  was  still 
the  good  Christian  boy  that  he  was  when  he  left  her  to 
go  out  into  that  great  wild  West.  How  well  she  re- 
membered, and  how  dearly  she  treasured  the  memory, 
of  that  blessed  day,  just  four  short  weeks  before  he 
went  away,  that  he  was  received  into  the  fold  of  Jesus. 
She  would  pray  for  him  night  and  day  until  the  end. 
And  she  would  pray  for  the  dear  kind  men  among 
whom  her  unfortunate  boy  had  fallen;  she  knew  they 
were  Christian  men,  to  be  so  good  to  him.  And  would 
Dick  be  so  kind  as  to  write  again,  immediately  ?  She 
was  hungry  for  news  of  him ;  and  Dick  must  tell  her  of 
his  spiritual,  as  well  as  of  his  bodily,  condition.  Did 
he  bear  himself  as  the  Christian  should? — with  res- 
ignation, with  faith  in  the  resurrection,  and  in  the 
goodness  of  God?  She  knew  that  he  read  his  Bible 
daily,  for  it  had  been  his  custom  to  do  so  from  child- 
hood up.  In  conclusion,  she  poured  out  her  very  heart 
in  a  loving  message  to  Johnny,  bidding  him  be  of  good 
cheer,  and  to  keep  strong  his  faith  in  God's  unfailing 
mercy. 

It  was  the  letter  of  not  only  the  heart-broken  mother, 
but  of  a  refined,  educated  woman  as  well.  Dick  read 
it  leaning  against  the  billiard-table  in  Billy's  place, 
and  his  face  wore  a  look  as  blank  as  a  pine  board 
when  he  finished.  A  full  minute  he  stood  there,  speech- 
less; then  came  to  his  aid  a  part  of  his  vocabulary  that 
never  failed  him  for  long,  and  he  began  swearing, 
incoherently  at  first,  but  presently  as  though  by  note. 
And  the  essence  of  his  remarks  was  condemnation  of 
his  foolishness. 

"What's  th'  matter,  Dick?  Somebody  been  jumpin' 
yore  claim?"  asked  Billy,  attracted  by  the  force  of 
Dick's  oratory. 

Dick  handed  over  Mrs.  Fraser's  letter.  "  Just  read 
that,"  he  said.  "  I'm  up  against  it,  good  an'  hard,  or 
I'm  a  greaser." 

Billy  read  it  with  unconcern,  and  passed  it  back. 
"What's  wrong  with  it?"  he  asked.  "Don't  yuh 
sabe  it?" 

"  Course  I  sabe  it !"  Dick  snorted.     "  But  I've  got 


to  write  back  to  her,  aint  I?     I  can't  throw  up  my 
hand  just  'cause  she's  returned  my  lead,  can  I?" 

"  Well,  that's  an  easy  proposition,"  Billy  returned, 
cheerfully.  "  Just  tell  her  that  he's  th'  oneryest  son-of- 
a-gun  that  ever  hit  th'  West,  an'  aint  no  more  of  a  Chris- 
tian 'n  I  am,  an'  that  she'll  fall  down  a  plenty  hard  if 
she  makes  any  bets  on  meetin'  him  where  th'  good 
people  go." 

"  No,  no,  yuh  don't  sabe  th'  case,"  Dick  exclaimed. 
"  Can't  yuh  see  't  would  'most  kill  her  to  know  how 
tough  he  is?  What  in  hell's  th'  good  o'  givin'  her  th' 
truth?  I've  got  to  make  her  keep  on  thinkin'  that  he's 
a  little  tin  angel  on  wheels,  but  I  don't  sabe  th'  lingo 
to  fix  it  up  in — she  '11  ketch  on  if  I  don't  ring  in  th' 
proper  gospel  talk.     That's  what's  got  me  rattled." 

Billy  reflected  a  minute.  "  Why  don't  you  go  an'  get 
th'  parson  into  th'  game?"  he  said,  finally.  "There's 
one  moved  to  town  while  you  was  away.  I  don't  know 
just  what  kind  of  a  sport  he  is,  but  this  deal  you're 
makin'  seems  to  me  to  be  just  in  his  line.  You'll  find 
him  down  in  th'  shack  where  Mother  Jones  used  to 
live." 

Dick  jumped  at  this  suggestion,  and  hurried  to  call 
on  the  missionary,  finding  him  at  home.  He  was  one 
of  those  broad-souled  men  of  the  West,  so  often  found 
sowing  the  seeds  of  the  gospel  in  the  stony  places  of 
the  frontier,  with  a  full  understanding  and  apprecia- 
tion of  the  goats  composing  his  flock.  His  manner  was 
so  cordial  and  encouraging  that  Dick  was  not  long  in 
unburdening  himself. 

Laughing  in  good  nature,  more  at  Dick's  predicament 
than  at  the  strangeness  of  the  object  of  his  visit,  the 
minister  took  a  few  minutes  in  which  to  think  the  mat- 
ter over.  Then  he  took  the  letter  from  Dick,  and  read 
it  through.  There  were  tears  in  his  eyes  when  he 
reached  its  end. 

"  Poor  old  mother !"  he  exclaimed,  pityingly. 

"  Hold  on,  Parson,"  Dick  stammered.     "  Le'  me  tell 

yuh  'bout  Johnny,  first.    He's — he's Why,  Parson, 

like  as  not  we'll  find  him  drunker  'n  a  biled  owl !  " 

"  All  the  more  reason  why  I  should  go  at  once,"  the 
minister  returned.  "  Come  along,  we'll  talk  as  we  go." 
Dick  went  reluctantly.  Reaching  the  shack  and  go- 
ing inside,  Johnny  was  found  in  the  condition  Dick 
had  predicted,  but  not  so  drunk  that  he  did  not  begin 
cursing  them  both  the  moment  he  learned  the  mission 
upon  which  the  visitor  had  come.  But  there  was  so 
little  life  left  in  him  that  he  soon  exhausted  himself, 
and  hushed,  when  the  missionary  knelt  at  his  bed  and 
silently  sent  up  a  prayer  in  his  behalf. 

"  I'm  afraid  he'll  have  to  go  as  he  is,"  the  minister 
said,  in  tones  of  horror,  when  they  left  the  room. 
"  What  a  fearful  thing  to  appear  before  one's  maker  in 
such  a  state  as  that !  Oh,  if  I  had  only  known  in  time, 
I  might  have  softened  him,  might  at  least  have  prepared 
him  to  appear  at  the  throne  of  grace  in  a  penitent  mood. 
But  we  must  do  as  you  wish,  his  poor  old  mother  must 
remain  forever  in  ignorance  of  his  awful  end." 

That  night  another  letter  from  Dick  sped  on  its  way 
eastward  to  the  old  mother  waiting  so  eagerly  for  news 
of  her  boy,  a  letter  that,  partly  dictated  by  the  mission- 
ary, was  filled  with  "  gospel  talk  "  so  proper  that  she 
could  not  suspect  the  lie  that  it  was,  and  that  all  but 
quenched  in  happiness  the  tears  of  grief  she  shed. 

Johnny  died  on  the  second  day  after  the  minister's 
visit,  unrepentent  and  defiant  to  the  end.  This  called 
for  the  writing  of  still  another  letter,  which  the  mis- 
sionary himself  undertook,  and  the  message  it  con- 
tained, breathing  unwavering  faith  in  the  life  to  come,  1 
and  undying  love  for  his  mother,  which  Johnny  should 
have  uttered  with  his  last  breath,  but  did  not,  was  cal- 
culated all  but  to  remove  the  pain  from  the  blow  it 
would  deal. 

The  funeral  was  on  the  day  following,  and  was  con- 
ducted with  all  the  outward  marks  of  respect  that 
Dick's  influence  with  his  fellows  could  command,  a 
coffin  with  silver-plated  handles,  which  "  any  man  'd  be 
proud  to  wear,"  as  Dick  expressed  it,  having  been  pur- 
chased for  the  occasion,  as  well  as  a  lot  in  the  cemetery, 
where,  later,  a  little  "  marker  "  of  white  marble  would 
stand  above  the  grave — all  mute  evidence  of  Dick's 
loyalty  to  the  man  who  had  been  his  partner.  On  his 
part,  the  missionary  contributed  a  touching  "  send-off," 
in  which  he  wisely  avoided  speculation  as  to  Johnny's 
whereabouts  since  his  demise,_  instead  confining  his  re- 
marks to  comments  on  the  wonderful  strength  of  the 
old  mother's  faith  in  her  wayward  boy,  and  on  the 
power  of  faith  as  a  means  to  grace. 

A  week  later,  he  received  a  letter  in  a  strange  hand, 
which  proved  to  be  from  a  minister  of  his  own  creed 
in  the  little  town  of  St.  Clair.  Immediately  upon  receipt 
of  the  news  of  Johnny's  death,  his  mother  was  stricken 
with  paralysis,  and,  a  few  days  later,  the  stranger  wrote, 
had  died  contented  and  happy  in  the  knowledge  that 
she  was  so  soon  to  be  reunited  with  her  noble  boy  in 
that  joyous  life  beyond  the"  grave.  "  What  a  noble 
youth  he  must  have  been,  to  inspire  her  with  such  im- 
plicit faith,"  he  added,  "  and  what  a  pity  that  he  should  i 
be  cut  down  at  the  beginning  of  a  life  that  would  have 
been  as  a  light  in  the  window  in  this  age,  so  black  with  I 
the  darkness  of  sin  and  unbelief." 

Dick  was  the  second  to  read  this  letter,  and  his  eyes  \ 
were  moist  when  he  finished  it.  "  Parson,  yuh're  a 
crack-a-jack,  d — d  if  yuh  aint!  "  he  exclaimed,  in  deep 
admiration.  "  My  hands  go  up,  yuh  can  beat  me  lyin', 
all  to  hell  an'  back  !  But  eee  whiz  !  how  disappointed 
Johnny's  mother  musl  h  been  when  she  entered  the 
pearly  gates  !  "  Bourdon  Wilson. 

San  Francisco,  O  t9°3- 


October  19,  1903. 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


245 


DON  PEDRO  ALVARADO. 


The  Richest  Man  in  Mexico. 

We  had  seen  the  so-called  yacht  races,  and  were  on 
our  way  back  to  Mexico  on  an  Erie  diner  when  I  picked 
up  a  New  York  Herald,  which  printed  long  articles 
describing  the  death  of  Don  Pedro  Alvarado,  generally 
known  as  "  Mexico's  richest  man."  Naturally,  we  were 
interested,  for  we  lived  in  Parral,  within  three  or  four 
doors  of  the  new  fine  palace  which  the  Mexican  million- 
aire has  been  building.  When  we  reached  El  Paso 
every  one  was  talking  about  his  demise,  and  the  mining 
fraternity  were  conjecturing  as  to  the  future  of  the 
"  Palmilla,"  the  mine  from  which  Alvarado's  great 
riches  have  been  taken.  Promoting  schemes  were 
thicker  than  Tammany  thieves,  and  one  enterprising 
individual  was  just  starting  North  to  get  a  few  millions 
together  for  the  purpose  of  buying  out  the  Widow  Al- 
varado's right,  title,  and  interest  in  La  Palmilla. 

So  we  reached  Parral.  The  little  up-and-downey 
mining  town  looked  about  as  usual :  there  were  no  vis- 
ible signs  of  mourning  for  the  deceased  millionaire, 
and  in  point  of  fact,  in  the  excitement  of  reaching  home 
again,  I  had  forgotten  all  about  Don  Pedro.  Just  about 
dusk  of  that  day,  however,  the  matter  re-occurred  to  me. 
I  was  going  into  our  own  door  at  the  time,  and  hap- 
pened to  glance  down  the  street  to  where  Alvarado's 
big,  new  white  house  gleamed  out  from  its  adobe  sur- 
roundings. Thought  I:  "It's  quite  dusky,  but  I'll  go 
down  and  see  how  nearly  done  the  poor  man's  house 
was  at  the  time  of  his  death."  It  has  been  under  con- 
struction for  heaven  knows  how  long,  and  isn't  yet 
done. 

The  doors  and  windows  aren't  yet  placed,  so  I  passed 
in  at  the  entrance  door,  and  strolled  about  in  the  gray 
dimness,  noting  carelessly  the  big.  lofty  rooms,  with 
their  ornate  decorations  and  ever-present  saints.  Alva- 
rado, in  his  devotion,  had  ordered  saints  galore  to  be 
placed  in,  around,  and  upon  the  house;  one  particularly 
strapping  figure,  with  halo  and  wings,  surmounts  the 
house  itself,  just  under  the  lightning-rod.  The  effect 
is  remarkable,  to  say  the  least,  and  one  can  not  but 
admire  his  reasoning,  which  is  presumably  that  the 
saint  will  keep  away  the  lightning,  and  the  rod  will  in- 
sure the  fact ! 

I  had  just  finished  counting  the  saints,  when  it  oc- 
curred to  me  that  it  was  getting  both  dark  and  late, 
and  that  it  would  take  me  a  minute  or  so  to  crawl 
down  from  my  perch  in  the  second  story.  The  stairs 
were  not  in  shape,  and  I  had  to  get  down  as  best  I 
could.  Within  four  feet  of  the  downstairs  floor.  I 
heard  a  slight  rustle  somewhere  near  me.  Thinking 
that  it  was  one  of  the  watchmen,  I  glanced  around.  I 
froze  stiff  where  I  stood.  It  seemed  as  if  my  hair  stood 
straight  up  on  end,  and  my  heart  stopped  beating. 
Truly,  I  never  had  such  a  terrible  scare  in  all  my  life. 
And  no  wonder;  for  there,  within  ten  feet  of  me,  and 
coming  straight  forward,  was  nothing  less  than  Alva- 
rado himself — Alvarado,  whose  death  had  been  so  fully 
written  up :  whose  riches  so  thoroughly  described ;  and 
whose  mine  American  syndicates  were  on  the  point  of 
buying !  If  you  have  ever  seen  a  ghost,  or  thought  that 
you  saw  one,  judge  of  my  feelings  then. 

I  stood  stock  still,  glaring,  unable  to  move,  while  the 
figure,  in  its  mournful  black  clothes,  came  slowly  on. 
In  another  second,  it  would  be  right  under  me !  The 
thought  moved  me  to  action,  and  I  made  a  wild  leap, 
shutting  my  eyes  so  that  I  wouldn't  see  the  phantom, 
caught  in  a  pile  of  boards,  and  scraped  my  shins  most 
unmercifully.  As  I  desperately  untangled  myself,  I 
distinctly  saw  the  figure  stop  its  onward  motion,  and 
cross  itself  before  one  of  the'numerous  saints.  But 
that  is  all  that  I  did  see,  for  I  fairly  tore  from  the 
house,  not  daring  to  cast  one  "  fleeting,  glimmering 
glance  behind."  Nor  did  I  rest  until,  breathless,  dis- 
heveled, scratched,  and  almost  weeping  with  terror,  I 
gained  the  safety  of  our  own  domicile,  and  unfolded  the 
story  of  my  plight  within  the  bosom  of  my  own  family. 

Eixpecting  sympathy,  I  was  met  with  jeers,  ridicule, 
and  bursts  of  laughter.  And  finally,  our  servants  in- 
formed me  that  Don  Pedro  Alvarado  had  not  died;  that 
the  newspaper  reports  were  absolutely  unfounded;  and 
that  what  I  had  seen  was  no  wraith,  but  poor  Alvarado 
himself,  innocently  inspecting  his  new  house  in  the 
gloaming ! 

One  comfort  I  was  able  to  take  to  myself — I  had 
frightened  him  almost  as  much  as  he  had  me !  For 
next  morning  the  workmen  reported  that  Don  Pedro, 
walking  about  the  new  house,  had  been  startled  by  the 
sudden  apparition  of  a  woman  in  white,  appearing  out 
of  the  air  itself.  She  was  floating  toward  him,  with 
threatening  gestures,  when,  calling  upon  the  Virgin, 
and  crossing  himself  before  one  of  the  saints,  he  caused 
the  apparition  to  disappear,  leaving  no  trace  or  token 
behind. 

It  developed  afterward  that  a  rich  Mexican,  one  Don 
Pedro  Torres,  was  the  one  who  died.  American  corre- 
spondents in  this  country,  never  too  careful  about  veri- 
fying their  news,  cabled  to  New  York  and  elsewhere 
of  the  death  of  Pedro  Alvarado,  and  so  the  mistake 
got  about.  Alvarado  himself  was  amused,  and  read 
with  glee  his  own  obituaries.  Not  so  the  writer,  who, 
remembering  that  bad  quarter  of  an  hour  in  Alvara- 
do's house,  would  like  to  say  a  few  words  in  private  to 
the  careless  American  correspondent. 

Waiving  the  matter  of  ghosts,  however,  it  is  not 
probable  that  any  public  character  of  the  day  is  more 
mistakenly  talked  about  than  this  same  Pedro  Alvarado. 


If  you  pay  attention  to  the  absurd  stories  afloat,  mostly 
originating  from  El  Paso  newspapers,  you  gather  the 
idea  that  Alvarado  is  a  cross  between  Andrew  Carne- 
gie and  an  idiot,  in  that  he  tries  to  pay  his  country's 
national  debt,  and  carpets  his  house  with  silver  bars; 
surrounds  himself  with  a  guard  of  ruralcs;  buys  up  all 
the  sewing-machines,  pianos,  and  jewelry  that  he  puts 
eyes  upon ;  and  otherwise  disports  himself  like  a  first- 
class  lunatic. 

Some  one  told  him,  last  year,  that  the  Mexican  na- 
tional debt  was  about  fifty  thousand  dollars.  Don  Pedro 
is  not  up  in  matters  political,  and  being  somewhat  flush 
at  the  time  from  his  Palmilla,  which  brings  him  in 
hundreds  of  thousands  right  along,  offered  the  govern- 
ment the  said  amount  for  payment  of  the  debt.  It  is 
hardly  probable  that  he  would  have  offered  the  entire 
amount,  had  he  known  what  it  really  was.  This  offer 
of  his  does  not  seem  more  extraordinary  than  that  of 
Carnegie  in  relation  to  the  Venezuela  dispute,  a  few 
years  ago,  and  is  at  least  dictated  by  a  feeling  of  pure 
patriotism. 

Certainly  it  is  true,  however,  that  Alvarado  doesn't 
know  just  how  to  employ  his  fabulous  amount  of 
money.  How  can  one  expect  him  to?  Up  to  a  short 
time  ago,  he  was  a  mere  poor  mining  Mexican,  slightly 
better  than  the  peons  who  work  for  him  at  fifty  and 
sixty  cents  a  day;  he  had  hardly  been  out  of  Parral 
itself — which  is  a  mere  mining-camp,  with  no  claim  to 
culture  or  anything  else  that  pertains  to  most  cities, 
even  in  Mexico ;  he  had  toiled  away  at  what  was  con- 
sidered a  losing  hope,  the  Palmilla  Mine,  and  really 
had  no  chance  in  any  way.  Now  that  he  has  struck 
it  rich,  his  principal  idea  seems  to  be  to  distribute  much 
of  his  money  in  charity,  in  building  churches  and  altars, 
and  in — so  to  speak — propitiating  the  powers  that  be. 
His  works  are  good,  and  his  gifts  to  the  poor  are  nu- 
merous. He  maintains  dozens  of  poor  beggars,  takes 
special  care  of  his  old  compadres.  or  fellow-workmen, 
and  his  watchword  is:  "The  Palmilla  gives  for  all." 

Alvarado  is  a  man  of  middle  age,  slight,  wiry,  and 
perfectly  unnoticeable.  You  would  never  think  him  to 
be  one  of  the  richest  men  on  the  Western  Continent ; 
rather  would  you  set  him  down  as  a  clerk  at,  say,  sixty 
or  seventy-five  dollars,  Mexican,  a  month.  He 
dresses  invariably  in  native-made  black  clothes,  and 
seems  to  have  no  fads  or  particular  foibles.  His 
senora  is  like  unto  him  in  that  she  also  is  unassuming 
and  very  plain.  They  have  two  or  three  children,  who 
are  in  process  of  education  here  in  Parral,  and  the 
family  occupy,  pending  the  completion  of  the  new 
house,  a  very  meek-looking  little  building  in  a  very  un- 
assuming location,  keep  one  servant,  and  their  sole 
amusement  or  recreation  seems  to  be  the  purchase  and 
maintenance  of  dozens  of  green  parrots,  big  and  little, 
with  which  the  patio  and  entire  house  seem  to  over- 
flow. 

By  the  way,  when  Alvarado  decided  to  build  himself 
the  great  new  house,  people  were  amazed  and  shocked  at 
the  site  which  he  selected,  backing  out  on  the  river-bed, 
and  almost  entirely  surrounded  by  dirty  little  adobe 
huts.  He  owns  plenty  of  land  in  and  around  the  town, 
and  could  have  put  his  house  very  nearly  where  he 
pleased ;  but  no — on  the  very  spot  where  the  new  palace 
is  built  once  stood  the  little  jacal  where  he  was  born, 
and  in  which  his  people  lived.  And  this  is  the  reason 
for  his  choosing  one  of  the  unlikeliest  spots  in  the 
town  of  Parral.  Most  of  the  newly  rich  avoid  poverty- 
stricken  pasts,  but  Alvarado  does  not. 

Meanwhile,  his  wealth  is  piling  up  day  after  day, 
and  the  Palmilla  shows,  they  say,  no  signs  of  giving  out. 
It  is  still  a  bonanza,  and  work  goes  merrily  on.  It  has 
also  proved  something  of  a  bonanza  to  American  pro- 
moters, all  of  whom,  if  they  have  a  mine  within  fifty 
miles  of  the  Palmilla,  tell  credulous  purchasers:  "We 
are  right  on  the  Palmilla  vein,  sir,  and  bound  to  strike 
the  same  ore  that  Alvarado  has  got."  Of  course,  it  is 
unnecessary  to  state  that  the  Palmilla  leads  and  vein 
are  tightly  protected,  and  not  an  inch  can  be  had  for 
love  or  money.  Elizabeth  Gibert. 

Parral,  Chih.,  Mexico,  October  5,  1903. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


In  London,  British  consols  have  for  a  couple  of  cen- 
turies been  accepted  as  an  index  to  the  condition  of  in- 
vestment capital.  In  New  York,  since  the  great  pro- 
motion craze  of  1901,  securities  of  the  Steel  Corpora- 
tion have  been  accepted  as  an  equally  important  index. 
Shortly  before  the  Transvaal  war,  British  consols  sold 
at  114;  at  the  opening  of  1903  their  price  was  93.  On 
September  29th  they  were  quoted  for  less  than  88,  the 
lowest  price  in  thirty-seven  years.  In  1901,  preferred 
stock  of  the  Steel  Corporation,  paying  7  per  cent,  divi- 
dends, sold  at  101%,  and  the  common,  paying  4.  brought 
55.  Last  week  these  two  stocks  sold,  respectively,  at 
6oj4  and  16. 

m  m  m 

The  war  against  the  French  still  continues  in  Strauss- 
burg.  A  merchant  who  had  a  French  signboard  up 
was  compelled  the  other  day  to  change  it  for  its  German 
equivalent,  and  at  the  second  performance  of  a  new 
operetta  the  French  soldiers  in  it  had  to  appear  in  black- 
trousers  instead  of  the  red  they  had  worn  on  the  pre- 
ceding evening. 

^  •  ^ 

In  Japan,  where  massage  is  much  in  vogue,  the  blind 
man  who  is  otherwise  healthy  can  always  earn  a  liveli- 
hood, and  a  notable  feature  of  any  Japanese  town  to- 
ward evening  is  the  blind  masseur  as  he  walks  along, 
announcing  himself  with  his  peculiar  sounding  whistle, 
jn  search  of  work,  which  he  can  always  find  in  plenty. 


The  important  post  of  dramatic  critic  of  the  Paris 
Temps,  left  vacant  by  the  death  of  M.  Larroumet,  has 
been  given  to  Adolphe  Brisson,  the  son-in-law  of 
Francisque  Sarcey. 

The  Marquis  of  Donegal,  who,  although  he  has  been 
married  three  times,  has  hitherto  been  childless,  last 
week  became  a  father  at  the  age  of  eighty-two.  He  mar- 
ried his  third  wife,  a  daughter  of  Henry  Twining,  of 
Halifax,  N.  S.,  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.  She  is 
twenty-two  years  old.  The  child,  a  boy,  will  inherit 
the  title,  but  comparatively  little  else,  past  generations 
of  the  family  having  squandered  the  estate. 

It  is  generally  imagined  that  Sarah  Bernhardt  has 
accumulated  a  large  fortune,  but  such  a  supposition  is 
entirely  erroneous.  Only  the  other  day,  she  told  a  re- 
porter that  if  she  were  rich,  she  would  immediately  re- 
tire from  the  stage  and  start  on  a  trip  around  the 
world.  Her  move  from  the  Theatre  de  la  Renaissance 
to  the  Theatre  Sarah  Bernhardt  is  considered  unfortu- 
nate by  her  admirers,  who  declare  that,  although  she 
earns  a  considerable  sum  during  her  tours,  all  the 
profits  she  makes  are  spent  in  maintaining  her  theatre 
in  Paris. 

The  President  has  assigned  Major-General  Henry  C. 
Corbin  to  command  the  Department  of  the  East,  re- 
lieving Major-General  Chaffee,  who  is  to  become  assist- 
ant to  the  chief  of  staff  at  the  War  Department.  The 
purpose  of  the  transfer  is  that  General  Chaffee  may 
make  himself  familiar  with  the  duties  of  the  general 
staff,  of  which  he  is  destined  to  be  chief  on  Lieutenant- 
General  Young's  retirement,  on  Tanuary  4.  1904.  It  is 
understood  that  on  General  Chaffee's  retirement,  on  or 
before  April  14.  1006.  General  Corbin  will  be  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-general. 

Commenting  on  the  attempt  of  Peter  Elliott,  the  armed 
madman,  to  kill  President  Roosevelt  at  the  White 
House,  a  fortnight  ago.  Walter  Wellman  says  that  the 
President  is  disgusted  because  he  can  not  take  his  coun- 
try drives  or  walks,  or  a  stroll  about  the  city  without 
being  attended  by  a  guard.  In  deference  to  the  wishes 
of  Mrs.  Roosevelt,  he  rarely  takes  a  walk  in  Washing- 
ton. If  he  could  do  as  he  likes  he  would  often  start 
out  for  a  ramble  as  Presidents  Harrison  and  McKinley 
used  to  do.  Mr.  McKinley  was  absolutely  fearless.  He 
did  not  believe  there  was  a  wretch  on  earth  low  enough 
to  hurt  him.  Mr.  Roosevelt  is  just  as  fearless  as  Mr. 
McKinley  was,  but  in  the  light,  of  what  has  happened 
in  the  last  two  years,  he  has  not  so  much  confidence  in 
human  nature. 

One  of  the  largest  items  in  the  estate  left  by  Pope 
Leo  was  his  jubilee  jewelry  gifts — valued  at  about  five 
millions  of  dollars.  The  late  Pope's  executors  have  de- 
cided to  sell  all  that  is  devoid  of  historical  or  artistic 
interest.  But  the  question  is  how  to  sell.  Donors  would 
be  deeply  hurt  were  their  gifts  put  up  at  auction. '  The  ex- 
hibition of  jubilee  offerings  in  Roman  sale-rooms  could 
not  fail  to  shock  many  pious  Catholics,  and  still  more 
the  eager  bidding  of  Jewish  brokers  against  Christian 
relic-hunters.  Emily  Crawford  says  that  it  has  been 
proposed  to  send  them  to  the  auction  mart  of  the  Rue 
Drouot.  in  Paris,  where  the  jewels  Queen  Isabella  took 
with  her  from  Spain  were  disposed  of.  Paris  is  more 
accessible  to  buyers  from  everywhere  than  the  Eternal 
City,  and  its  press  and  auctioneers  know  how  to  get  up 
a  purchasing  craze. 

James  L.  Kernochan,  the  popular  New  York  club- 
man, and  one  of  the  most  widely  known  cross-country 
riders  in  America,  died  at  his  country-seat,  "  The 
Meadows,"  at  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  on  October  6th,  at  the 
age  of  thirty-five.  He  was  a  fearless  rider,  and  so 
prejudiced  against  automobiles  that  he  would  not  allow 
one  on  his  grounds.  His  death  was  due  to  injuries  to 
his  spine,  sustained  last  summer  at  one  of  the  hunts  of 
the  Meadow  Brook  Club.  In  fact,  on  many  occasions, 
Mr.  Kernochan  took  bad  croppers,  and  it  was  said  of 
him  that  he  had  hardly  a  bone  in  his  body  that  had  not 
been  broken  at  one  time  or  another.  But  though  he 
might  be  carried  home  unconscious,  a  few  days  later 
he  generally  appeared  as  ready  as  ever  to  follow  the 
hounds.  His  most  famous  hunter.  Retribution,  he 
piloted  to  victory  on  many  occasions  in  various  sections 
of  the  country,  and  fifty  cups  won  by  this  horse,  who  is 
still  alive  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  are  in  the  trophy- 
rooms  at  "  The  Meadows." 

Austen  Chamberlain,  who  has  just  succeeded  Charles 
T.  Ritcju'c  as  chancellor  of  the  exchequer  in  the  British 
Cabinet,  is  the  eldest  son  of  Joseph  Chamberlain  by  his 
first  wife,  Harriet,  daughter  of  the  late  Archbishop 
Kenrick  of  Birmingham.  His  father  first  sent  him  to 
Rugby,  then  to  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  and  after 
that  to  Paris  and  Berlin.  Having  passed  through  these 
stages  in  his  education,  he  was  made  private  secretary 
to  his  father.  By  serving  in  this  capacity  he  was  readily 
able  to  get  an  inside  view  of  British  politics,  so  that 
eleven  years  ago  he  was  ready  to  represent  the  eastern 
division  of  Worcestershire.  He  made  a  good  name  for 
himself  with  his  party  associates  for  his  services  as 
Liberal-Unionist  whip  under  the  last  government,  and 
as  a  civil  lord  of  the  admirality  under  the  present  one. 
In  1902,  he  was  chosen  postmaster-general.  Mr. 
Chamberlain  is  an  excellent  speaker,  and  was  warmly- 
congratulated  by  Mr.  Gladstone  on  his  maiden  speech 
in  the  House  of  Commons.  He  is  forty  years 
married,  and  still  lives  with  his  father. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


October  19,  1903. 


KIPLING'S    NEW    BOOK. 


Some  of  the  Best  Poems  from  "The  Five  Nations." 

Significant  of  the  personal  change  in  Kipling  is  the 
alteration  of  a  single  word  in  the  poem  following,  from 
"The  Five  Nations.''  When  "The  Bell  Buoy"  ap- 
peared in  McClure's  Magazine,  some  years  ago,  the  pe- 
nultimate line  of  the  second  verse  read: 

"Could   I   wait  my  turn  in  the  pimping  choir?" 
The  soberer  and  more  critical   Kipling  of  to-day  evi- 
dently finds  the  word,  which  doubtless  came  currents 
calamo,   somewhat   offensive   and   the   unobjectionable 
but  rather  colorless  "godly  "  replaces  it: 

THE    BELL    BUOY. 

They  christened  my  brother  of  old — 

And  a  saintly  name  he  bears — 
They  gave  him  his  place  to  hold 

At  the  head  of  the  belfry-stairs, 

Where  the  minster-towers  stand 
And  the  breeding  kestrels  cry. 

Would  I  change  with  my  brother  a  league  in- 
land? 
(Shoal!     'Ware  shoal!)     Not  I ! 

In  the  flush  of  the  hot  June  prime, 

O'er  smooth  flood-tides  afire, 
I  hear  him  hurry  the  chime 

To  the  bidding  of  checked  Desire; 

Till  the  sweated  ringers  tire 
And  the  wild  bob-majors  die. 

Could  I  wait  for  mv  turn  in  the  godly  choir? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  I! 

When  the  smoking  scud  is  blown. 

When  the  greasy  wind-rack  lowers, 
Apart  and  at  peace  and  alone, 

He  counts  the  changeless  hours. 

He  wars  with  darkling  Powers 
(I  war  with  a  darkling  sea)  ; 

Would  he  stoop  to  mv  work  in  the  gusty  mirk? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  he  ! 

There  was  never  a  priest  to  pray, 

There  was  never  a  hand  to  toll. 
When  they  made  me  guard  of  the  bay. 

And  moored  me  over  the  shoal. 

I  rock,  I  reel,  and  I  roll— 
My  four  great  hammers  ply — 

Could  I  sneak  or  be  still  at  the  Church's  will? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  I! 

The  landward  marks  have  failed. 

The  fog-bank  glides  unguessed, 
The  seaward  lights  are  veiled. 

The  spent  deep  feigns  her  rest: 

But  mv  ear  is  laid  to  her  breast, 
I  lift  to  "the  swell — T  cry  ! 

Could  I  wait  in  sloth  on  the  Church's  oath? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  T! 

At  the  careless  end  of  night 

I  thrill  to  the  nearine  screw, 
I  turn  in  the  nearing  light 

And  I  call  to  the  drowsy  crew  : 

And  the  mud  boils  foul  and  blue 
As  the  blind  bow  backs  awav. 

Will  they  cive  me  their  thanks  if  they  clear  the 
banks  ? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  they! 

The  beach-pools  cake  and  skim. 

The  bursting  spray-heads  freeze, 
I  gather  on  crown  and  rim 

The  grey,  grained  ice  of  the  seas. 

Where,  sheathed  from  bitt  to  trees, 
The  plunging  colliers  lie. 

Would    I    barter    my    place    for    the    Church's 
grace  ? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  T  ! 

Through  the  blur  of  the  whirling  snow, 

Or  the  black  of  the  inky  sleet, 
The  lanterns  gather  and  grow, 

And  I  look  for  the  homeward  fleet. 

Rattle  of  block  and  sheet — 
"  Ready  about — stand  bv  !  " 

Shall  T  ask  them  a  fee  ere  thev  fetch  the  quav? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal!)     Not  I ! 

I  dip  and  I  surge  and  I  swing 

In  the  rip  of  the  racing  tide, 
By  the  gates  of  doom  I  sing. 

On  the  horns  of  death  I  ride. 

A  ship-length  overside, 
Between  the  course  and  the  sand. 

Fretted  and  bound  T  bide 
Peril  wliereof  I  cry. 

Would  I  change  with  mv  brother  a  league  in- 
land? 
(Shoal!    'Ware  shoal ! )     Not  I ! 
[Copyright.  1896.  by  Rttdyard  Kipling.'] 

"The  Sea  and  the  Hills,"  unlike  "The  Bell  Buoy," 
has  never  before  been  printed.  It  begins  the  volume, 
and  not  unauspiciously : 

THE    SEA    AND    THE    HILLS. 

Who    hafh    desired    the    Sea? — the    sight    of    salt    water    un- 
bounded— 

The   heave   and   the   halt   and   the   hurl    and   the   crash    of   the 
comber  wind-hounded? 

The   sleek-barrelled  swell  before   storm,   grey,   foamless,   enor- 
mous, and  growing — 

Stark   calm   on   the  lap   of  the   Line   or   the   crazy-eyed   hurri- 
cane blowing — 

His  Sea  in  no  showing  the  same — his  Sea  and  the  same  'neath 
each  showing — 

His  Sea  as  she  slackens  or  thrills? 

So  and  no  otherwise — so  and  no  otherwise  hillmen  desire  their 
Hills! 

Who  hath   desired  the   Sea? — the  immense  and  contemptuous 
surges  ? 

The    shudder,    the    stumble,    the    swerve,    as    the    star-stabbing 
bowsprit  emerges? 

The  orderly  clouds  of  the  Trades,  and  the  ridged,  roaring  sap- 
phire thereunder — 

Unheralded  cliff-haunting  flaws  and  the  headsail's  low-volley- 
ing thunder — 

His  Sea  in  no  wonder  the  same — his  Sea  and  the  same  through 
each  wonder : 

His  Sea  as  she  rages  or  stills? 

So  and  no  otherwise — so  and  no  otherwise  hillmen  desire  their 
Hills. 

W   0  hath  desired  the  S    ■?     Her  menaces  swift  as  her  mercies, 
T!  '   in-rolling  walls  of   "he   fog  and  the   silver-winged  breeze 
that  disperses? 


The   unstable   mined   berg   going   South   and   the   calvmgs   and 

groans  that  declare  it ; 
White    water    half-guessed    overside    and    the    moon    breaking 

timely  to  bear  it ; 
His   Sea   as   his   fathers   have   dared — his   Sea   as   his    children 

shall  dare  it — 

His  Sea  as  she  serves  him  or  kills? 
So  and  no  otherwise — so  and  no  otherwise  hillmen  desire  their 

Hills. 

Who  hath  desired  the  Sea?     Her  excellent  loneliness  rather 
Than    forecourts    of   kings,    and    her   outermost    pits    than    the 

streets  where  men  gather 
Inland,  among  dust,  under  trees — inland  where  the  slayer  may 

slay  him 
Inland,  out  of  reach  of  her  arms,  and  the  bosom  whereon  he 

must  lay  him — 
His  Sea  at  the  first  that  betrayed — at  the  last  that  shall  never 

betray  him — 

His  Sea  that  his  being  fulfills? 
So  and  no  otherwise — so  and  no  otherwise  hillmen  desire  their 

Hills. 

[Copyright,  1903.  by  Rttdyard  Kipling.] 

Not  a  few  of  those  exiled  Englishmen  of  whom  Kip- 
ling writes  in  "  The  Broken  Men  "  are  residents  of  San 
Francisco,  hobnobbing  with  the  "  remittance  men,"  and 
posing,  perhaps,  as  favorite  sons  on  their  travels.  This 
is  a  poem  in  which  all  is  said  in  the  last  few  lines: 

THE    BROKEN    MEN. 

For  things  we  never  mention, 

For  Art  misunderstood — 
For  excellent  intention 

That  did  not  turn  to  good ; 
From  ancient  tales'  renewing. 

From  clouds  we  would  not  clear — 
Beyond  the  Law's  pursuing 

We  fled,  and  settled  here. 

We  took  no  tearful  leaving. 

We  bade  no  long  good-byes  ; 
Men  talked  of  crime  and  thieving, 

Men  wrote  of  fraud  and  lies. 
To  save  our  injured  feelings 

'Twas  time  and  time  to  go — 
Behind  was  dock  and  Dartmoor, 

Ahead  lay  Callao  ! 

The  widow  and  the  orphan 

That  pray  for  ten  per  cent.. 
They  clapped  their  trailers  on  us 

To  spy  the  road  we  went. 
They  watched  the  foreign  sailings 

(They  scan  the  shipping  still), 
And  that's  your  Christian  people 

Returning  good  for  ill ! 

God  bless  the  thoughtful  islands 

Where  never  warrants  come  ! 
God  bless  the  just  Republics 

That  give  a  man  a  home, 
That  asjc  no  foolish  questions. 

But  set  him  on  his  feet ; 
And  save  his  wife  and  daughters 

From  the  workhouse  and  the  street ! 

On  church  and  square  and  market 

The  noonday  silence  falls  ; 
You'll  hear  the  drowsy  mutter 

Of  the  fountain  in  our  halls. 
Asleep  amid  the  yuccas 

The  city  takes  her  ease — 
Till  twilight  brings  the  land-wind 

To  our  clicking  jalousies. 

Day  long  the  diamond  weather, 

The  high,  unaltered  blue — 
The  smell  of  goats  and  incense 

And  the  mule-bells  tinkling  through. 
Day  long  the  warder  ocean 

That  keeps  us  from'our  kin. 
And  once  a  month  our  levee 

When  the  English  mail  comes  in. 

You'll  find  us  up  and  waiting 

To  treat  you  at  the  bar  ; 
You'll  find  us  less  exclusive 

Than  the  average  English  are. 
We'll  meet  you  with  our  carriage, 

Too  glad  to  show  you  round. 
But — we  do  not  lunch  on  steamers, 

FnrtT]py-arp  English  firpnflp1      - 

We  sail  o'  nights  to  England^ 

And  join  our  smTTmg  Boards  ; 
Our  wives  go  in  with  Viscounts 

And  our  daughters  dance  with  Lords. 
But  behind  our  princely  doings. 

And  behind  each  coup  we  make, 
We  feel  there's  Something  Waiting, 

And — we  meet  It  when  we  wake. 

Ah  God!     One  sniff  of  England —  - 

To  greet  our  flesh  and  blood — 
To  hear  the  hansoms,  slurrine^^, 

Once  more' through  LonaojlauidJ 
Our  towns  of  wasted  hohdr^— 

Our  streets  of  lost  delight ! 
How  stands  the  old  Lord  Warden? 

Are  Dover's  cliffs  still  white? 
[Copyriglit,  1903,  by  Rudyard  Kipling.'] 

It  was  Stevenson  who  prayed  "  not  to  be  embittered," 
and  Kipling,  in  the  past,  has  seemed  to  have  avoided 
that  canker  of  life.  But  in  "  The  Old  Men  "  there  is 
discernible  a  trace  of  fear  for  that  time  when  "the  lamp 
of  our  youth  will  be  utterly  out,"  and  yet  we  shall  be 
senilely  complacent: 

THE    OLD  MEN. 

This  is  our  lot  if  zve  live  so  long  and  labor  unto  the  end — 
That  we  outlive  the  impatient  years  and  the  much  too  patient 

friend : 
And  because  we  know  we  have  breath  in  our  mouth  and  think 

we  have  thought  in  our  head, 
We  shall  assume  that  we  are  alive,  whereas  we  are  really  dead. 

We  shall  not  acknowledge  that  old  stars  fade  or  alien  planets 

arise 
<  That  the  sere  bush  buds  or  the  desert  blooms  or  the  ancient 

well-head  dries), 
Or   any    new    compass   wherewith    new    men    adventure    'neath 

new  skies. 

We  shall  lift  up  the  ropes  that  constrained  our  youth  to  bind 
on  our  children's  hands  ; 

We  shall  call  to  the  water  below  the  bridges  to  return  and  re- 
plenish our  lands ; 

We  shall  harness  horses  (Death's  own  pale  horses)  and 
scholarly  plow  the  sands. 

We  shall  lie  down  in  the  eye  of  the  sun  for  lack  of  a  light  on 
our  way — - 


We  shall  rise  up  when  the  day  is  done  and  chirrup,  "  Behold, 
it  is  day  !  " 

We  shall  abide  till  the  battle  is  won  ere  we  amble  into  the 
fray. 

We  shall  peck  out  and  discuss  and  dissect,  and  evert  and  ex- 
trude to  our  mind. 

The  flaccid  tissues  of  long-dead  issues  offensive  to  God  and 
mankind — 

(Precisely  like  vultures  over  an  ox  that  the  army  has  left  be- 
hind). 

We  shall  make  walk  preposterous  ghosts  of  the  glories  we  once 
created — 

(Immodestly  smearing  from  muddled  palettes  amazing  pig- 
ments mismated) 

And  our  friends  will  weep  when  we  ask  them  with  boasts  if 
our  natural  force  be  abated. 

The  Lamp  of  our  Youth  .will  be  utterly  out  ]_  but  we  shall  sub- 
sist on  the  sirrell  ot  it, 

And  whatever  we  do,  we  shall  fold  our  hands  and  suck  our 
gums  and  think  well  of  it. 

Yes,  we  shall  be  perfectly  pleased  with  our  work,  and  that  is 
the  perfectest  Hell  of  jt '  _ 

This  is  our  lot  if  we  live  so  long  and  listen  to  those  who  love 

us 

That  we  are  shunned  by  the  people  about  and  shamed  by  the 

Powers  above  us. 
Wherefore  be  free  of  your  harness  betimes ;  but  being  free  be 

assured, 
That  fiejmkp  hath  not  endured  to  the  death,  from  his  birth  he 

•*"*7zatrt  never  endured '/_      ''--1  ■ ■  - — - 

^■^opyrrgfttT'ipoj,  by  Rudyard  Kipling.] 

Kipling  was  not  only  the  rapt  admirer  of  Cecil  Rhodes, 
the  nation-builder,  but  he  was  also  his  friend  and  had 
been  his  guest.  No  wonder,  then,  that  when  he  came  to 
write  "The  Burial"  the  words  should  be  characterized 
by  perfect  appropriateness  and  poetic  eloquence.  "  The 
Burial  "  is  simple,  but  impressive: 

THE    BURIAL. 
C.  J.  Rhodes,  buried  in  the  Matoppos,  April  10,  1902. 

When  that  great  Kings  return  to  clay, 

Or  Emperors  in  their  pride. 
Grief  of  a  day  shall  fill  a  day. 

Because  its  creature  died. 
But  we — we   reckon   not   with   those 

Whom  the  mere  Fates  ordain, 
This  Power  that  wrought  on  us  and  goes 

Back  to  the  Power  again. 

Dreamer  devout,  by  vision  led 
Beyond  our  guess  or  reach, 

The  travail  of  his  spirit  bred 
Cities  in  place  of  speech. 

So  huge  the  all-mastering  thought  that  drove- 
So  brief  the  term  allowed — 

Nations,  not  words,  he  linked  to  prove 
His  faith  befo?f~Yhe  TTftWrfT**" 

It  is  his  will  that  he  look  forth 

Across  the  world  he  won — 
The  granite  of  the  ancient  North— 

Great  spaces  washed  with  .siin" 
There  shall  he  patient  make  his  scat 

f  As  when  the  Death  he  dared) 
And  there  await  a  people's  feet 

In  the  paths  that  he  prepared. 

There,  till  the  vision  he  forsaw 

Splendid  and  whole  arise, 
And  unimagined  Empires  draw 

To  council  'neatrTTTTsTltitj.-- 
The  immense  and  brooding  Spirit  still 

Shall  quicken  and  control.        "J 
Living  he  was  the  land,  and  dead. 

His  soul  shall  be  TieT*souLL^'*^ 
[Copyright.   1003,   by  Rittlyard  Kipling.] 

Published  by  Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.,  New  York; 
$1.40. 

^  m  ^ 

A  distinguished  American  artist,  Miss  Carl,  one  of  the 
few  women  painters  admitted  as  members  of  the  Paris 
Salon,  is  now  living  in  the  summer  palace  near  Pekin 
as  the  guest  of  the  Empress  Dowager,  whose  portrait 
she  is  painting.  The  empress,  to  make  up  for  her  for- 
mer deficiencies  and  the  long  unperpetuated  line  of  her 
ancestors,  is  having  three  pictures  done  of  herself.  One 
will  be  hung  in  her  private  apartments,  another  in  the 
Hall  of  Audience,  and  the  third  will  be  sent  to  the  St. 
Louis  exhibition.  The  last  named  is  to  be  the  most 
ambitious  work,  showing  the  Empress  Dowager  in  full 
panoply,  tricked  out  in  satins  and  brocades,  "  armed 
for  defense,  feathered  to  fortify."  She  will  wear  the 
head-dress  known  in  China  as  the  "shower  of  pearls," 
in  which  ropes  of  beautifully  matched  pearls  hang  like 
a  curtain  to  her  shoulders,  as  well  as  her  barbaric 
bracelets  and  priceless  earrings.  She  has  also  ordered 
the  emperor  to  sit  for  his  portrait,  and  it  probably  will 
be  completed  in  a  fortnight  or  three  weeks.  Miss  Carl's 
brother,  a  high  official  in  the  imperial  Chinese  customs, 
has  been  chosen  to  escort  China's  delegate.  Prince  Pu 
Lun,  to  the  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition. 


The  negro  residents  in  Berlin,  of  whom  there  are 
about  two  hundred,  mostly  Americans,  have  complained 
to  the  police  recently  of  various  attacks  made  on  col- 
ored men.  In  two  or  three  instances  in  the  East  End.  . 
where  most  of  them  live,  negroes  have  been  subjected 
to  severe  beatings.  -These  occurrences  are  ascribed  to 
the  lynching  news  which  the  New  York  correspondents 
of  German  papers  are  particularly  fond  of  sending  by 
cable,  the  impression  being  produced  on  the  Berlin 
roughs  that  this  is  the  proper  way  to  treat  negroes. 


The  bark  Amy  Turner  recently  arrived  at  Hilo  from 
San  Francisco  with  a  remarkable  story  of  the  escape  of 
her  carpenter  from  drowning.    The  carpenter  fell  over- 
board astern,  and  was  left  far  behind.     Though  tin;  1  ■■■ 
to  swim  he  caught  hold  of  the  log  line  and  took 
round  his  wrist  with  it.     He  was  finally  picked  I  [ 
conscious,  but  hanging  on  to  the  line  with  a  deal     i     p 
which  there  was  some  difficulty  in  opening.     I         : 
revived. 


October  19,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


247 


TOLSTOY'S    COURTSHIP    AND    MARRIAGE. 


His  Novel  Declaration  of  Love. 


Edward  A.  Steiner.  who  has  written  a  book 
on  Tolstoy — "  Tolstoy  the  Man,"  he  calls  it — 
which  the  Outlook  Company  announces  for 
early  publication,  has  lately  returned  from 
Russia,  where  he  spent  several  months  writing 
his  book.  Through  the  kindness  of  the 
"  Tolstoy  Circle  "  in  Moscow,  he  had  access 
to  all  available  material.  He  has  known  the 
philosopher  himself  for  seventeen  years. 
Tolstoy,  in  fact,  read  his  latest  book  to  him. 
and  supplied  him  with  much  information. 
In  a  recent  installment  of  the  book  dealing 
with  "  Tolstoy's  Marriage  and  Family  Life," 
which  appeared  in  the  Outlook.  Mr.  Steiner 
said: 

'  When  Tolstoy  tells  in  his  story,  "  Family 
Happiness."  of  the  growth  of  the  love  of 
Sergei  Michaelovitsch  for  Mascha,  the  daugh- 
ter of  a  childhood's  friend,  he  is  simply  tell- 
ing the  story  of  his  own  love  for  Sofia 
Andrejevna,  whose  mother,  a  Russian  woman, 
was  his  dear  friend  (and  only  about  a  year 
and  a  half  his  senior),  and  whose  father  was 
Dr.  Baer,  a  German  physician.  Tolstoy  was 
attracted  to  their  home,  not  only  by  the  friend- 
ship which  bound  him  to  the  mother,  but  also 
because  he  found  in  its  pure  and  hospitable 
atmosphere  much  of  that  which  other  houses 
lacked.  Countess  Tolstoy  says  that  her  hus- 
band was  attracted  to  her  parents'  home  be- 
cause of  its  fine  aristocratic  spirit,  while  he 
maintains  that  it  was  because  of  the  demo- 
cratic principles  which  prevailed  in  it,  for  the 
daughters  not  only  knew  how  to  speak  four 
languages  fluently  and  how  to  play  the  piano 
artistically,  but  could  supervise  a  household, 
and  if  necessary  perform  all  the  labor  them- 
selves. 

Although  Tolstoy  was  many  years  older 
than  the  young  woman  upon  whom  his  choice 
fell ,  his  love  from  the  first  was  ardent 
and  strong,  but  he  hesitated  to  declare  it, 
and  his  attentions  were  so  general  that  the 
friends  who  kept  a  watchful  eye  upon  him 
could  not  determine  whether  his  visits  were 
intended  for  the  mother  or  the  daughters. 
However,  when  his  fate  was  sealed,  Mrs. 
Baer  and  her  daughters  made  a  three-days' 
visit  at  his  estate,  "  Yasnaia  Poliana."  Says 
Mr.  Steiner : 

When  the  guests  departed,  there  was  some- 
thing in  the  glance  of  Tolstoy's  eyes  and  in 
the  pressure  of  his  hand  when  he  bade  Sofia 
good-by  which  made  his  riding  after  them  in  a 
few  days  and  his  appearance  at  Ivizy  quite 
natural  and  not  unexpected  to  her.  He  came 
with  the  desire  to  ask  Sofia  to  be  his  wife. 
and  while  they  were  alone  under  a  shading 
tree,  she  sitting  on  a  wooden  bench  in  front 
of  a  table,  he  looking  down  on  her  chestnut- 
brown  hair  and  into  her  grayish-blue  eyes, 
the  desire  ripened  into  determination.  She 
was  playing  with  a  piece  of  chalk,  writing  on 
the  table,  or  rather  just  making  marks,  when 
he  said,  "  I  have  been  wishing  to  ask  you 
something  for  a  long  time,"  and  the  grayish- 
blue  eyes  looked  into  his.  frightened  but 
friendly,  as  she  said,  "  Please  ask."  He  took 
the  piece  of  chalk  out  of  her  fingers  and  wrote 
the  first  letters  of  the  words  of  a  sentence 
which  was  very  complicated  and  which  she 
had  to  decipher.  "  And  what  is  this,  and  what 
is  that?"  he  asked  of  one  word  after  another, 
and  with  wrinkled  forehead  and  blushing 
cheek  she  answered  him.  "And  this  word?" 
he  asked  again,  and  she  said.  "  It  means 
never,  but  it  is  not  so."  and,  taking  the 
crumbling  chalk  from  him,  she  wrote  four 
letters  which  did  not  form  the  words  of  a 
complicated  sentence,  and  he  needed  no  one 
to  ask  him,  "What  is  this,  or  what  is  that?" 
He  knew  what  they  meant,  for  all  she  wrote 
was  e-v-e-r. 

This  declaration  of  his  love  he  used  in  a 
more  complicated  form  in  his  "  Anna 
Karenina,"  where  Levin  thus  declares  himself 
to  Kitty,  his  future  wife.  While  in  the  story 
the  mother  seemed  at  first  opposed  to  the 
union,  in  reality  it  was  the  father.  Dr.  Baer, 
who  bluntly  and  definitely  refused  to  give  his 
consent : 

He  wished  to  see  his  oldest  daughter  married 
first,  and  not  until  Tolstoy  threatened  to  shoot 
himself  if  the  father  persisted  in  his  refusal 
did  he  yield.  Tolstoy  wished  to  be  married 
immediately;  he  did  not  understand  why  he 
should  have  to  wait  for  the  consummation  of 
his  wishes  until  the  trousseau  was  finished, 
and  he  begged  off  month  after  month  of  the 
time  set  by  Mrs.  Baer,  until  finally  the  twenty- 
third  of  September,  1862,  was  settled  upon  as 
the  date  on  which  the  ceremony  was  to  be 
performed.  He  went  at  everything  connected 
with  the  business  of  being  married  in  an 
awkward  and  reluctant  fashion,  and  his 
struggle  was  especially  great  when  he  had  to 
go  to  confession,  a  matter  which  he  had  long 
neglected  and  in  which  he  did  not  believe,  but 
without  which  he  could  not  marry.  Yet  he 
would  have  gone  through  the  fire  if  it  had 
been  between  him  and  his  Sofia,  so  he  went 
to  the  church  and  down  upon  his  stiff  knees, 
and  received  absolution  from  the  gentle, 
simple-minded  priest,  "  who,  indeed,  could  pull 
1  tooth  without  hurting,"  or,  in  other  words, 
who  could  forgive  sins  without  disturbing 
:he  conscience.  Tolstoy  listened  to  the  service 
I  low  absent-mindedly  and  now  critically,  for 
ilthough  he  did  not  believe  anything,  he  did 
]QOt  yet  know  but  that  he  ought  to,  and  al- 
though he  denied  his  faith  before  the  priest, 
lie  was  not  quite  sure  when  he  reached  home 
J  whether,  in  trying  to  be  perfectly  honest,  he 
lad  not  after  all  told  an  untruth. 

The  day  of  the  wedding  found  Tolstoy  more 


nervous  and  excited  than  the  cool-headed 
bride.  He  had  to  be  ordered  about  like  a 
school-boy,  and  was  as  much  confused  about 
the  right  and  left  hand  as  a  raw  Russian  re- 
cruit who  receives  his  first  lesson  in  drilling. 
"  Fjett,  dear  old  boy,  dearest  friend,"  wrote 
Tolstoy,  intoxicated  by  his  happiness,  "  I  am 
married  two  weeks  and  am  a  new,  an  en- 
tirely  new,    creature." 

Sofia  entered  completely  into  the  thoughts 
and  plans  of  her  husband: 

She  was  as  idealistic  as  he,  but  much  more 
practical :  she  took  possession  of  keys  and 
closets,  brought  order  into  confusion,  and 
drove  the  leisurely  horde  of  servants  and 
peasants  into  desperation,  if  not  into  a  faster 
gait.  She  had  inherited  from  her  father  some- 
thing of  German  thrift,  and  the  rubles 
were  not  permitted  to  roll  out  faster  than  the 
kopeks  came  walking  in.  She  kept  the  book 
and  the  cash, became  general  manager  and  over- 
seer, and  again  Tolstoy  writes  to  Fjett,  "  1 
have  made  an  important  discovery:  Inspec- 
tors, overseers,  and  village  elders  are  a  nui- 
sance. I  have  done  away  with  them,  and  Sofia 
and  I  are  way  up  to  our  ears  in  farming.  We 
have  bees,  sheep,  a  new  orchard,  and  a  dis- 
tillery. I  live  in  a  world  which  lies  so  far 
away  from  all  literature  and  all  criticism 
that  when  I  receive  a  letter  like  yours,  my  first 
thought  is  one  of  astonishment  and  surprise 
as  to  who  has  written  '  The  Kosaks,'  or 
'  Polikushka  ' !" 

Countess  Tolstoy  has  in  many  respects  been 
a  model  wife.     Says  Mr.  Steiner : 

Uncomplainingly  and  joyfully,  she  bore  him 
thirteen  children  in  twenty-seven  years,  nurs- 
ing all  of  them,  but  one.  herself.  She  was  their 
companion  and  friend,  and  nine  of  them  grew 
into  manhood  and  womanhood  by  her  side. 
For  love  of  her  husband  she  buried  herself 
with  him  in  Yasnaia  Poliana,  until  she 
thought  that  for  the  sake  of  the  children  they 
must  move  to  Moscow.  She  went  with  him 
through  every  phase  of  his  moral  and  spiritual 
development,  and  stopped  short  only  when  tn 
continue  would  have  endangered  the  educa- 
tional and  social  standing  of  the  children.  One 
can  not  blame  her  for  stopping  just  where  she 
did.  but  one  can  not  help  regretting  it.  True 
it  is  that  the  children  might  have  grown 
up  like  peasants,  but  they  would  have  been 
the  sires  of  such  a  peasantry  as  Russia  has 
never  known,  and  of  which  it  is  sorely  in 
need.  Nine  such  peasants  would  have  stood 
like  strong  pillars  in  a  new  social  temple, 
while  they  are  now  nine  aristocrats  among 
ninety  thousand  or  more  of  their  kind,  no 
worse  and  no  better  than  the  others.  Among 
the  sons,  Leo,  Jr.,  alone  has  literary  tendencies 
and  some  talent.  He  has  written  a  number  of 
plays,  and  in  one  of  them  his  father  discovers 
real  dramatic  power,  although  the  public  does 
not  seem  to  share  this  opinion.  He  is  married 
to  an  excellent  Danish  woman,  and  lives  in 
St.  Petersburg,  where  he  is  endeavoring  to 
be  of  some  public  service.  Another  son  is  an 
official  in  the  government  service,  while  the 
others  have  married  rich  wives. 

Two  of  Tolstoy's  daughters  have  married 
nobles  of  the  highest  rank,  so  that  nearly  all 
his  children  have  gone  over  into  the  camp 
of  the  sworn  enemies. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Death  of  Colonel  Savage. 

Richard  Henry  Savage,  soldier,  lawyer,  and 
author,  died  in  New  York  on  October  nth, 
from  the  effects  of  injuries  he  received  on 
the  night  of  October  3d,  when  he  was  run 
down  by  a  wagon  at  Forty-Second  Street  and 
Sixth  Avenue,  and  three  of  his  ribs  were 
broken.  He  was  fifty-seven  years  old,  and 
is  survived  by  a  widow,  who  lives  in  Berlin. 
Colonel  Savage  was  born  in  Utica.  N.  Y.,  and 
as  a  lad,  arriving  in  California  in  1852,  at- 
tended the  first  public  school  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, being  the  youngest  scholar  in  the  first 
class  of  the  high  school.  Taken  to  the  wilds 
of  Nevada  County,  where  his  father  was  a 
merchant,  the  youth  saw,  in  his  prime,  the 
wild  life  of  Bret  Harte's  heroes.  Later,  in 
San  Francisco,  he  witnessed  the  vigilance 
committee's  sway  of  1856. 

Mr.  Savage  studied  law,  then  entered  West 
Point,  where  he  was  graduated  with  honors. 
Three  years  later,  in  1871,  he  resigned  from 
the  army,  and  visited  Europe  for  two  years. 
During  Grant's  administration,  he  acted  as 
United  States  consul  at  Marseilles  and  Rome. 
After  leaving  the  diplomatic  service,  he  en- 
gaged in  railroad  engineering  in  Texas,  and 
later  practiced  engineering  in  California.  In 
1884,  he  again  took  up  the  practice  of  law  in 
New  York,  but.  after  a  few  years,  he  devoted 
himself  entirely  to  writing.  Among  Colonel 
Savage's  most  successful  works  may  be  men- 
tioned "  My  Official  Wife,"  "  A  Daughter  of 
Judas,"  "The  Masked  Venus,"  "The  Little 
Judge  of  Lagunitas,"  "  In  the  Shadow  of  the 
Pyramids,"  "  Last  Days  of  Ismail  Khedive," 
"  Brought  to  Bay,"  and  "  Poems." 

Dr.  Henry  Van  Dyke's  new  book,  "  Joy  and 
Power,"  is  shortly  to  appear  with  the  imprint 
of  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.  In  the  volume 
will  be  included  three  of  the  author's  ad- 
dresses. 


For  the  Stage-Struck  Girl. 

No  doubt,  John  D.  Barry,  the  author  of 
"  A  Daughter  of  Thespis,"  has  mapped  out  and 
written  this  photographic  record  of  an  actress's 
daily  life  in  recognition  of  the  general  curi- 
osity felt  concerning  the  private  experiences 
and  routine  work  of  players.  The  author  has  not 
started  out  to  flash  startling  adventures  before 
his  readers,  but  rather  to  give  them  some 
idea  of  the  plain  prose  in  the  life  of  second- 
class  players. 

For  Evelyn  Johnson,  his  heroine,  although 
the  leading  lady  of  a  theatrical  company, 
spends  the  greater  part  of  her  time  on  the 
road,  playing  sentimental  roles  in  cheap,  in- 
ferior plays,  and  during  her  days  of  constant 
travel  and  unrest,  longing  as  intensely  as  the 
incarcerated  desire  freedom  for  an  escape  from 
what  to  her  is  a  dismal  daily  grind.  While  he 
is  not  too  determinedly  pessimistic  in  his 
pictures  of  the  play-acting  life,  Mr.  Barry's 
story  is  written  in  a  tone  of  moderation  that 
will  impel  even  the  impracticable  and  vision- 
ary stage-struck  girl  to  realize  that  the  career 
of  an   actress   is   not   all   beer   and   skittles. 

As  a  contrast  to  the  type  of  half-hearted 
actress,  there  is  Madge  Guernsey,  a  warm- 
hearted, slangy  soubrette,  who  generally  has 
an  enamored  young  actor  in  tow,  and  who 
shudders  at  the  mere  thought  of  returning 
to  the  dull  routine  of  home  life.  A  typical 
leading  man,  a  successful  playwright,  and  a 
dramatic  critic  figure  among  the  prominent 
characters,  and  there  is  an  account  of  all  the 
bustle  and  excitement  and  suspense  attendant 
upon  the  New  York  production  of  a  new  play. 

As  far  as  an  outsider  may  judge,  the  book- 
is  a  truthful,  though  superficial,  record  of 
superficial  lives,  entertainingly  and  discern- 
ingly written,  if  we  except  the  emotional 
epochs  in  the  heart-history  of  the  heroine, 
when  a  spirit  of  tameness  seems  to  descend 
upon  Mr.  Barry's  pen. 

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Conan  Doyle  is  to  have  the  honor  of  a  col- 
lected edition  .of  his  writings,  of  which  a 
thousand  copies  will  be  printed  on  especially 
fine  paper,  and  signed  by  the  author. 


The  Evolution  of  the  Stage. 

A  book  from  Brander  Matthews  on  "  The 
Development  of  the  Drama "  is  a  literary 
event  of  no  small  interest.  Few  American 
essayists  occupy  a  more  distinguished  niche 
in  American  letters  that  does  he,  and  few 
speak  with  greater  authority  on  themes  dra- 
matic. In  this,  his  latest  book,  he  turns  from 
study  of  the  great  playwrights  to  an  investi- 
gation of  the  evolution  of  the  stage — a  mere 
corner  in  the  general  evolution  of  civiliza- 
tion. This  evolution,  Professor  Matthews  be- 
lieves, was  largely  independent  of  the  per- 
sonalities of  dramatists,  however  great.  They 
have  all  had  to  submit  to  inherent  laws  rather 
than  to  proclaim  any.  "  Dramaturgic  princi- 
ples," says  the  author,  "  are  not  mere  rules 
laid  down  by  theoretical  critics,  who  have 
rarely  any  acquaintance  with  the  actual  thea- 
tre;  they  are  laws,  inherent  in  the  nature  of 
the  art  itself,  standing  eternal,  as  immitig- 
able to-day  as  when  Sophocles  was  alive,  or 
Shakespeare,  or  Moliere."  Accordingly,  he 
thinks  that,  in  the  primitive  pantomimes  of 
the  Aleuts  or  the  Australian  blacks,  are  to  be 
found  dramatic  principles  operative  in  the 
latest  play. 

Prefacing  the  book  only  by  a  brief  but  illu- 
minative chapter  on  the  art  of  the  dramatist, 
Professor  Matthews  takes  up  in  order  Greek 
tragedy  and  the  Greek  and  Roman  comedy ; 
the  Mediaeval  drama  ;  and  the  drama  in  Spain. 
England,  and  France.  In  the  three  last  chap- 
ters, the  drama  in  the  eighteenth  and  nine- 
teenth centuries,  and  the  future  of  the  drama, 
are  considered.  Throughout,  there  has  been 
taken  into  account  "  the  threefold  influence 
exerted  on  the  form  of  the  drama  of  every 
epoch  by  the  demands  of  the  actors,  by  the 
size  and  shape  and  circumference  of  the  the- 
atres of  the  time,  and  by  the  changing  pre- 
judices of  the  contemporary  audiences." 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York. 

Household  Economy. 
We  don't  know  how  it  is  in  San  Francisco, 
but  Emily  Holt,  who  hails  from  Chicago, 
affirms  that  maids  of  all  work  and  milk-men 
are  there  commonly  in  a  conspiracy,  so  that 
the  former  rushes  out  to  the  latter  with  a 
pitcher  a  third  full  of  water.  This  interest- 
ing statement  we  find  in  chapter  eight  of  Miss 
Holt's  "  Encyclopedia  of  Household  Econ- 
omy," which  seems  to  us  an  excellent  work. 
It  is  direct,  it  is  authoritative,  it  is  clear. 
There  is  no  nonsense  about  it.  The  author 
seems  equally  at  home  and  confident  when 
telling  her  readers  to  give  the  city  horse-barn 
roof  a  good  pitch,  since  it  affords  more  loft- 
space,  as  when  advising  that  finger-stalls  be 
kept  in  stock  where  there  are  many  boys  in  the 


family.  There  is  a  good  index  to  the  work, 
which  bulks  to  four  hundred  pages,  and  covers 
such  subjects  as  "  Kitchen  Convenience." 
"  Repairs  and  Restorations,"  "  Concerning 
Closets,"  "  House  Cleaning,"  "  In  the  Laun- 
dry," "  Cleaning  of  China.  Glass,  and  Metal," 
"  Keeping  Things."  "  Four-Footed  Friends," 
"  Pets  and  Poultry'."  "  Lawn  and  Garden," 
etc.  Miss  Holt,  we  believe,  has  for  years 
conducted  a  household  department  in  the 
Chicago  Record-Herald,  which  even  men  have 
been  constrained  to  read  shamefacedly  though 
it  is  true. 

Published  by  McClure.  Phillips  &  Co.,  New- 
York  :  $1.00. 


A  San  Francisco  Stevenson  Club. 
A  club  for  the  perpetuation  of  the  memory 
of  Robert  Louis  Stevenson  is  to  be  formed  in 
San  Francisco.  It  is  to  be  known  as  the 
"  Stevenson  Fellowship,"  and  its  object  will 
be  to  commemorate  the  birthday  of  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson,  collect  information  regard- 
ing his  life  and  writings,  and  keep  the  mem- 
bers informed  of  important  Stevensonia  pub- 
lished from  time  to  time.  A  committee,  com- 
posed of  A.  M.  Sutherland.  Frederick  Ilsen. 
and  A.  A.  Dennison.  met  a  few  weeks  ago  and 
drew  up  a  constitution,  which  now  awaits 
ratification ;  and  proceeded  to  plan  for  the 
coming  celebration,  to  be  held  on  November 
13th.  A  meeting  for  the  purpose  of  perfect- 
ing the  organization  will  be  held  in  a  few 
weeks,  and  San  Francisco  will  have  added 
another  club  worthy  of  ranking  high  in  the 
list  of  literary  clubs.  The  membership  of  the 
"  Stevenson  Fellowship  "  will  be  limited,  for 
the  present,  to  twenty,  but  one  hundred  tick- 
ets will  be  issued  for  the  banquet.  A.  Suther- 
land. 56  Sacramento  Street,  San  Francisco, 
will  furnish  any  admirers  of  Stevenson  with 
further  particulars  about  this  organization. 


Alfred  Austin's  drama,  "  Flodden  Field," 
which  was  presented  on  the  London  stage  this 
season  by  Beerbohm  Tree,  has  just  been 
brought  out  in  book-form.  The  chief  male 
personages  of  the  drama  are  James  the  Fourth 
of  Scotland  and  the  Earl  of  Surrey,  but  the 
character  of  Lady  Heron — the  woman  upon 
whose  intrigue  the  plot  turns — is  an  invention 
of  the  poet  laureate's. 


Some  of  Richard  Watson  Gilder's  most 
popular  poems  relating  to  the  Christmas  sea- 
son have  been  gathered  into  a  beautiful  vol- 
ume, set  in  a  new  style,  with  border  decora- 
tions, title-page,  and  frontispiece  by  Henry 
McCarter.  The  collection  is  called  "  A  Christ- 
mas Wreath,"  and  it  will  be  ready  in  time 
for  the  holidays. 


Mrs.  Edith  Wharton,  author  of  the  novel  of 
Italian  life,  "  The  Valley  of  Decision,"  is 
writing  for  the  Century  a  series  of  papers 
on  Italian  gardens,  which  Maxfield  Parrish 
will  illustrate.  The  first  article  will  appear 
in  the  November  issue  of  the  magazine. 


Spain  in  1903. 

Jerome  Hart's  new  book.  "  Two  Argonauts 
in  Spain,"  makes  nearly  three  hundred  pages, 
and  will  be  out  about  the  end  of  October. 
It  is  very  handsomely  printed  on  costly  wove 
paper  from  new  type. 

Over  a  score  of  illustrations  accompany  the 
text,  from  photographs  taken  by  the  Two 
Argonauts.     Among  them  are  these: 

"  Moorish  Archway,  Alhambra  "  :  "  Bridge 
Between  the  Frontier  and  Barcelona " ; 
"  Columbus  Monument,  Montjuich  in  the 
Background " ;  "  On  the  Rambla  Roadway, 
Barcelona":  "Battle  Armor  of  Charles  V  in 
Madrid  Armory " :  "  Portrait  of  the  Poet 
Becquer " ;  "Forest  of  Columns  in  the  Cor- 
dova Mosque " ;  "  Gypsy  Group.  Albaycin 
Quarter  "  ;  "  Torre  de  la  Vela,  Granada  "  ; 
"  Gate  of  Justice,  Alhambra " :  "  Archi- 
tecture Details,  Alhambra  "  ;  "  Gypsy  Dancers 
at  Granada " ;  "  An  Arcade  of  the  Alcazar, 
Seville " ;  "  Group  in  the  Gate  of  a  Ducal 
Palace,  Seville " ;  "  Puerta  del  Perdon,  Se- 
ville"; "Seville  Cathedral  and  Giralda 
Tower." 

The  book  has  a  rich  rubricated  title  in 
pseudo-Arabic,  framed  in  a  Moorish  arch- 
way copied  from  the  Alhambra.  and  a  colored 
map  of  Spain. 

It  is  bound  in  a  handsome  cover  emblazoned 
with  the  emblems  of  the  various  provinces  of 
Spain — castles  for  Castile,  lions  for  Leon, 
pomegranates  for  Granada.  chains  for 
Navarre,  etc. 

Only  a  limited  edition  will  be  printed.  Mr. 
Hart's  recent  book  of  travel,  "  Argonaut  Let- 
ters," also  a  limited  edition,  was  out  of  print 
three  months  after  publication. 

Price  to  Argonaut  subscribers.  $1.50.  The 
Argonaut  Company.  246  Sutter  Street,  San 
Francisco. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


October  19,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Much-Discussed  Play. 

Maurice  Maeterlinck's  drama,  "  Morma 
Vanna."  has  been  produced  on  the  stage  both 
at  home  and  abroad,  and  so  the  critics  have 
had  their  say  about  its  merits  as  an  acting 
play.  It  may  be  interesting,  however,  to  con- 
sider it  here  merely  from  the  standpoint  of 
the  closet  reader,  apropos  of  the  appearance 
of  M.  Alexis  Irenee  Du  Pont  Coleman's  En- 
glish version.  This  translation,  by  the  way, 
seems  to  be  a  very  capable  one,  and  the  En- 
glish, considered  simply  as  prose,  certainly  has 
a  high  degree  of  merit. 

The  action  in  "  Monna  Vanna  "  is  almost 
nil.  The  situations,  however,  are  all  charged 
with  feeling.  Of  the  characters  that  count, 
there  are  only  four — Guido.  commander  of  the 
garrison  of  Pisa;  Marco,  his  father;  Vanna, 
his  wife;  and  Prinzivalle.  captain  of  the  le- 
gions that  besiege  the  city.  The  nexus  of  the 
play  is  the  demand  of  Prinzivalle  that  the 
wife  of  Guido  shall  come  to  him,  clothed  only 
in  a  cloak,  and  remain  from  darkness  until 
dawn.  The  alternative  is  the  sacking  of  the 
city.  Guido  wildly  refuses  to  pay  the  awful 
price,  but  Vanna  calmly  says  that  she  will  go. 
She  goes:  she  finds  that  Prinzivalle  was  her 
boyhood  lover;  he  touches  her  not;  and  they 
return  to  the  city  together.  But  Guido  will 
not  believe  what  Vanna  tells  him.  Furious, 
he  prepares  to  torture  Prinzivalle.  Vanna, 
by  a  desperate  untruth,  saves  Prinzivalle  from 
the  wrath  of  Guido,  and  the  reader  may  infer 
that  together  they   escape. 

The  much-discussed  scene  between  Vanna 
and  Prinzivalle  in  his  tent,  whatever  it  may 
be  made  on  the  stage,  in  the  book  is  without 
the  faintest  shadow  of  suggestiveness.  On  the 
contrary,  the  tone  of  that  scene  and  of  the 
whole  play  is  pure  and  noble. 

The  characters  of  the  four  chief  actors  are 
logically  developed  and  perfectly  consistent 
throughout.  There  are,  however,  none  of 
those  swift  and  striking  phrases  that  let  the 
reader  glimpse  the  man  behind  the  mask.  It 
is  only  when  the  book  is  finished  and  put 
aside  that  the  perfect  harmony  of  the  plav 
becomes  vividly  apparent.  Let  us  quote  one 
passage  from  the  words  of  Prinzivalle  to 
Vanna  in  the  tent.  It  is  typical  of  the  style 
and  spirit  of  the  drama: 

Men  often  say  they  have  but  one  love  in 
their  life — and  it  is  seldom  true.  They  trick 
out  their  desire  or  their  indifference  with  the 
marvelous  unhappiness  that  belongs  to  those 
who  are  created  for  this  single  love.  When 
one  of  these,  speaking  the  same  words  that 
are  but  a  lie  upon  the  lips  of  others,  comes  to 
tell  the  profound  and  grievous  truth  that  rav- 
ages his  life,  lo  !  the  words  too  often  used  by 
happy  lovers  have  lost  all  their  force,  all  their 
weight :  and  she  who  hears  them  unthinkingly 
rates  the  poor  words,  so  sacred  and  often  so 
sad,  at  their  profane  value,  in  the  smiling 
sense  that  they  have  among  other  men. 

Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New  York. 

A  Novel  Worth  "While. 
It  is  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  since 
Arthur  Sherbourne  Hardy  wrote  "  The  Wind 
of  Destiny."  It  is  a  book  quite  out  of  the 
ordinary,  for  the  author  was  then  more  than 
the  mere  novelist,  heart  and  soul  being  fully 
instinct  with  the  strange,  searching,  subtle 
lore  of  the  poet.  One  can  re-read  the  book 
that  wove  its  spell  in  youth,  and  find  its  at- 
mosphere still  pervaded  with  a  melancholy, 
yet  penetrating,  charm  ;  the  charm  of  haunting 
memories,  of  youthful  dreams,  and  all  the 
sweet,  unsatisfied,  intangible  aspirations  of  the- 
heart. 

Now,  after  a  silence  of  many  years,  during 
the  greater  number  of  which  he  has  lived 
abroad  as  an  American  consul,  Mr.  Hardy  has 
taken  up  the  pen  he  had  cast  aside,  and  in  a 
novel  called  "  His  Daughter  First,"  intro- 
duces his  readers  to  the  generation  directly 
succeeding  those  who  figured  as  the  main 
characters  in  the  earlier  story. 

It  is  very  interesting  to  observe  in  this 
later  work  the  change  that  has  passed  over 
Mr.  Hardy's  style.  It  is  like  the  noon-day 
calm,  after  the  glory  of  a  summer  dawn- 
that  early  keenness  of  emotion  is  gone.  In  its 
place,  is  the  calm,  wise,  judicial  survey  of 
life  by  the  trained  observer,  keen  yet  kind. 
•'  His  Daughter  First  "  is  a  story  of  the  sel- 
fishness of  a  daughter.-  orphaned  on  the  moth- 
er's side,  who  has  quite  definitely  settled  ii 
in  her  mind  that  her  father  shall  not  marry 
a  second  time.  She  is  a  brilliant  and  beautiful 
creature,  a  daughter  of  the  Gladys  of  "  The 
Wind  of  Destiny,"  and,  like  Gladys,  born 
sophisticated.  In  the  book  she  dazzles  and 
ch  irms  all  who  come  under  her  influence  by 
the  sovereignty  of  her  beauty  and  distinction. 
But  the  reader,  who  is  behind  the  arras,  al- 
-  lough  perceiving  and  admiring  her  charm, 
'eels "  repelled  by  the  unconscious  arrogance 
a-d  selfishness  of  this  young  scion  of  Ameri- 


can aristocracy.  There  is  a  contrasting  por- 
trait in  the  book — that  of  a  woman,  young  and 
lovely  also,  but  handicapped  by  nature  and 
circumstances.  She  is  a  governess  and  com- 
panion to  the  young  heiress,  and  Mr.  Hardy. 
in  projecting  his  thoughts  into  the  inner 
chambers  of  her  mind  and  heart,  has  shown 
a  wizard's  penetration  in  divining  the  doubts 
and  fears,  the  hopes  and  dreams,  and  the 
emotional  limitations  of  a  timid,  dependent, 
self-distrustful   woman. 

The  main  events  of  the  story  take  place 
during  a  house-party  gathering  at  a  country 
mansion,  at  which  a  number  of  characters  of 
more  or  less  importance  appear.  All,  however, 
whether  in  the  background  or  the  foreground, 
are  limned  with  the  hand  of  the  expert.  The 
picture  drawn  of  American  country  life  of 
elegant  leisure  is  most  interesting,  reflect- 
ing, we  imagine,  some  early  impressions  of  the 
author  on  his  first  return  to  America  from 
abroad.  Mr.  Hardy's  style  is  still  full  of  grace 
and  charm,  but  that  early  flowering  of  poetic 
feeling  and  expression  so  noticeable  in  "  The 
Wind  of  Destiny,"  which  was  strewn  with 
lovely  thoughts  set,  like  gems,  in  sentences  of 
chiseled  beauty,  is  no  longer  apparent  in  this 
his  latest  book.  "  His  Daughter  First "  is 
written  by  a  student,  a  thinker,  and  an  ob- 
server, but  the  poet  who  wrote  "  The  Wind  of 
Destiny"  is  "in  these  later  years  merged  into 
the  man  of  the_  world. 

Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
ton ;  $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Jack  London's  new  book  is  called  "  People 
of  the  Abyss."  A  little  more  than  a  year  ago 
Mr.  London  went  down  into  the  East  End  of 
London  and  lived  for  a  few  months  anions 
the  poorer  working  people  of  the  slums;  and 
in  this  book  he  tells  what  he  saw  and  did,  and 
how  the  people  in  that  part  of  London  live. 

Mary  Johnston,  author  of  "  To  Have  and 
to  Hold  "  and  "  Audrey,"  has  written  a  new 
novel,  which  will  begin  serial  publication  in 
the  November  number  of  one  of  the  Eastern 
magazines.  The  story  is  entitled  "  Sir  Mor- 
timer," and  will  be  illustrated"  by  F.  C.  Yohn. 

Booth  Tarkington  has  finished  seeing  his 
new  novel,  "  Cherry."  through  the  press,  and 
has  sailed  for  London,  accompanied  by  Mrs. 
Tarkington,  for  an  extended  tour  of  Europe. 
Mr,  Tarkington  only  recently  recovered  from 
a  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever,  and  the  pres- 
ent trip  is  undertaken  chiefly  for  the  improve- 
ment of  his  health. 

The  present  Countess  Potocka  is  the  author 
of  an  intimate  story  of  the  life  of  the  piano 
teacher,  Leschetizky,  which  is  among  the  Cen- 
tury Company's  new  .books.  Among  Les- 
chetizky's  pupils  have  been  Paderewski, 
Slivinski,  Fanny  Bloomfield  Zeisler,  Mmc. 
Hopekirke,  and  others. 

"  Hawthorne  and  His  Circle,"  by  Julian 
Hawthorne,  is  to  be  published  this  month. 
It  is  expected  that  many  of  Mr.  Hawthorne's 
reminiscences  of  his  father  will  be  found  en- 
tirely new.  The  book  is  to  be  illustrated  from 
photographs  and  sketches. 

Charles  Major's  new  novel,  "  A  Forest 
Hearth,"  which  is  to  be  published  by  the  Mac- 
millan  Company,  is,  the  preliminary  announce- 
ment says,  "  a  vigorous,  breezy  story  of  out- 
door life  in  Indiana,  the  life  of  the  men  and 
women,  boys  and  girls,  who  conquered  '  the 
great  wilderness '  during  the  eighteen-thir- 
ties." 

Henry  James's  biography  of  "  William  Wet- 
more  Story  and  His  Friends,"  has  just  been 
published.  Story  was  a  sculptor,  lawyer,  and 
poet,  and  his  acquaintance  was  wide  and 
notable  enough  to  render  his  correspondence 
of  added  interest  for  biographical  purposes. 
The  book,  which  is  illustrated  with  portraits 
in  photogravure,  is  published  in  two  volumes. 

The  Macmillan  Company  has  on  its  fall  list 
a  new  library  edition  of  the  complete  poetical 
writings  of  Alfred,  Lord  Tennyson.  1  he 
edition  is  to  be  in  six  volumes,  each  opening 
with  a  portrait. 

Little.  Brown  &  Co.  were  obliged  to  print 
a  second  edition  of  George  Wharton  James's 
"Indians  of  the  Painted  Desert  Region"  be- 
fore publication  day. 

Geraldine  Bonner,  who  departed  for  the 
East  last  week,  will  soon  resume  her  New 
York  correspondence  for  the  Argonaut.  Her 
new  California  novel,  "Tangled  Tomorrows,' 
has  just  been  published  by  the  Bobbs,  Merrill 
Company. 

The  enormous  labor  which  the  biography 
of  Gladstone  has  laid  on  John  Morley's 
shoulders  is  indicated  by  the  simple  statement 
that  he  and  his  secretaries  have  in  the  course 
of  their  long  task  examined  about  four  hun- 
dred thousand  documents.    Mr.  Morley's  work 


is  said  to  contain  generous  extracts  from  Mr. 
Gladstone's  private  diaries. 

Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  have  nearly 
ready  a  new  edition  of  "  The  Autobiography 
of  Leigh  Hunt,"  with  an  introduction  by 
Thornton  Hunt,  and  new  editing  by  Robert 
Ingpen,   in  two  volumes. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 


After  the  "Wedding. 
All  alone  in  my  room  at  last- — 

I  wonder  how  far  they  have  traveled  now; 
They'll  be  very  far  when  the  night  is  past — 

And  so  would  I  if  I  knew  but  how. 
How  lovely  she  looked  in  her  wreath  and  dress, 

She  is  queenlier  far  than  the  village  girls; 
There  were  roses,  too,  in  her  wreath,  I  guess 

'Twas  they  made  the  crimson  among  her  curls. 
She  is  good  as  beautiful,  too,  they  say, 

Her  heart  is  gentle  as  any  dove's; 
She'll  he  all  that  she  can  to  him  always — 

(Dear,  I  am  tearing  my  new  white  gloves!) 
How  calm  she  is  with  her  saint-like  face, 

Her  eyes  are  violet — mine  are  blue — 
(How  careless  I  am  with  my  mother's  lace!) 

Her  hands  are  white,  and  softer,  too. 
They've  gone  to  the  city  beyond  the  hill. 

They    must    never    come    back    to    this    place 
again; 
I'm  almost  afraid  to  be  here  so  still — 

I  wish  it  would  thunder  and  lighten  and  rain. 
Oh,  no!  for  some  may  not  be  abed; 

Some  few,  perhaps,  may  be  out  to-night; 
I  hope  that  the  moon  may  come  out  instead, 

And  heaven  be  starry  and  earth  be  light. 
It's  only  a  summer  since  she's  been  here. 

It's  been  my  home  for  seventeen  years; 
But  her  name  is  a  testament,  far  and  near. 

And   the    poor    have    embalmed    it    in    priceless 
tears. 
I   remember  the  day  when   another  came — 

(There,  at  last   I've  tied  my  hair!) 
Her  curls  and  mine  are  nearly  the  same. 

But  hers  are  longer  and  mine  less  fair. 
They're  going  across  the  sea,  I  know; 

Across  the  ocean — will  that  he  far? 
(Did  I  have  my  comb  a  moment  ago? 

I  seem  to  forget  where  my  things  all  are.) 
When  ships  are  wrecked  do  people  drown? 

Is  there  never  a  boat  to  save  the  crew? 
Poor  ships!     If  ever  my  ship  goes  down 

I'll  want  a  grave  in  the  ocean,  too. 
Good-night,  good-night!     It  is  striking  one. 

Good-night   to   bride   and   good-night   to   groom! 
The  light  of  my  candle  is  almost  done — 

(How    I    wish    that   my  bed    were    in    mother's 
room.) 
How  calm  it  looks  in  the  midnight  shade! 

Those  curtains  were  hung  there  clean  to-day; 
They're  almost  too  white  for  me,  I'm  afraid — 

Perhaps  I  may  be  soon  as  white  as  they. 
Dark — all  dark — for  the  light  is  dead; 

Father  in  heaven,  may   I  have  rest! 
One  hour  of  sleep  for  my  aching  head — 

For  this  aching  heart  in  my  poor,  poor  breast. 
For  his  sweet  sake  do  I  kneel  and  pray: 

0  God!  protect  him  from  every  ill, 
And  make  her  worthier  every  day — 

The  older,  the  purer,  the  lovelier  still. 
(There,  I  knew  I  was  going  to  cry!) 

1  have  kept  the  tears  in  my  soul  too  long. 
Oh,  let  me  say  it,  or  I  shall  die! 

As  heaven  is  witness  I  mean  no  wrong, 
lie  shall  never  hear  from  this  secret  room, 

He  never  shall  know  in  the  after  years, 
How  seventeen  summers  of  happy  bloom 

Fell  dead  one  night  in  a  moment  of  tears. 
I  love  him  more  than  she  understands, 

For  him  1  loaded  my  soul  with  truth; 
For  him    I  am  kneeling  with  outstretched  hands 

To  lay  at  his  feet  my  shattered  youth. 
I  love,  I  adore  him  just  the  same, 

More  than  father,  or  mother,  or  life; 
My  hope  of  hopes  to  bear  his  name, 

My  heaven  of  heavens  to  be  his  wife. 
His  wife!     Oh,  name  that  the  angels  breathe. 

Let  it  not  crimson  my  cheek  with  shame! 
It  is  her  name,  her  word  to  wreathe 

In    the    princely    heart    from    whose    blood    -t 
came. 
Oh,  hush!     Again  I  behold  them  stand, 

As  they  stood  to-night,  by  the  chancel  wall; 
I  see  him  take  her  white-gloved  hand, 

I  hear  his  voice  in  a  whisper  fall. 
I  see  the  minister's  silver  hair, 

I  see  them  kneel  at  the  altar-stone; 
I  see  them  rise  when  the  prayer  is  o'er — 

He  has  taken  their  hands  and  made  them  one. 
The  fathers  and  mothers  are  standing  near, 

The  friends  are  pressing  to  kiss  the  bride — 
One  of  those  kisses  had  birthplace  here, 

The  dew  of  her  lips  is  not  yet  dried. 
His  lips  have  touched  hers  before  to-night — 

Then  I  have  a  grain  of  his  to  keep; 
This  midnight  darkness  is  flecked  with  light, 

Some  angel  is  singing  my  soul  to  sleep. 
He  knows   full   well   why  many  a  knave 

So  close  to  his  lady's  lips  should  swim; 
God  only  knows  that  the  kiss  I  gave 

Was  set  in  her  mouth  to  give  to  him. 

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THE    STORY    OF    A    BOOK. 


In  Three  Chapters. 


'CHAPTER    3.    A    TRIPLE    VERDICT. 

•'  Get  the  best  " — this  to  the  public  ;  "  make 
the  best "  —  this  to  themselves  has  been 
the  motto  of  the  publisher's  of  Webster's  In- 
ternational Dictionary-  Their  aim  has  been  to 
make  the  best  popular  dictionary  in  the  En- 
glish language,  in  respect  to  accuracy,  clear- 
ness, fullness,  convenience,  and  usefulness  to  all 
classes  of  consulters.  Comparison  is  not  here 
made  with  the  many-volume  and  encyclopedic 
works,  but  with  those  whose  size  and  form 
adapt  them  to  quick  and  easy  use;  the  one- 
volume  books  which  aim  to  serve  all  classes 
from  the  erudite  scholar  to  the  school-child. 

Without  a  word  of  disparaging  comment  on 
other  works  which  claim  to  rival  Webster,  let 
us  seek  the  verdict  of  some  tribunal  so  high 
in  character  and  intelligence,  so  numerous  in 
membership,  and  so  impartial  in  constitution, 
as  to  give  a  sanction  like  that  of  a  court  of 
last  resort.  Three  such  tribunals  will  be  cited 
as  to  the  merits  of  Webster's  International 
Dictionary,  in  comparison  with  all  works  of 
similar  aim. 

To  what  authority  upon  doubtful  questions 
do  the  American  people  habitually  pay  the 
highest  deference?  Unquestionably,  to  the 
National  and  State  Supreme  Courts.  They  are 
not  only  accepted  as  final  arbiters  on  the  vast 
and  vital  matters  within  their  immediate 
sphere,  but  in  great  emergencies,  like  a  dis- 
puted presidency  or  a  wide-spread  labor  dis- 
turbance, the  national  impulse  turns  to  these 
courts  as  the  strongholds  of  broad  intel- 
ligence and  the  highest  fairness.  Weighty 
then  are  their  opinions  on  a  subject  so  pecu- 
liarly within  their  range  as  text-books  of 
definitions.  Language,  the  medium  through 
which  all  statutes  and  precedents  are  ex- 
pressed, is  the  very  subject  matter  with  which 
courts  are  continually  dealing.  It  is  of  the 
first  consequence  to  them  to  have  some  stand- 
ard of  appeal  as  to  the  meaning  and  usages  of 
words,  which  is  not  only  of  the  first  order  of 
intrinsic  merit,  but  is  so  widely  recognized  as 
to  command  popular  approval.  Hear  then  the 
opinions,  first  of  individuals  and  then  virtually 
of  the  entire  body  of  the  highest  judiciary  of 
the  country-. 

In  the  United  States  Supreme  Court.  Chief 
Justice  Fuller  says  of  the  Internationa! :  "  I 
regard  it  as  of  the  utmost  value  in  accuracy  of 
definition,  and  have  found  it  in  all  respects 
complete  and  thorough."  Justice  Gray:  "I 
always  considered  Webster's  Dictionary  as  the 
best  in  the  language  in  the  matter  of  defi- 
nitions." Justice  Brewer :  "  From  my  child- 
hood up.  Webster's  Dictionary  has  been  my 
authority.  The  last,  the  International  Dic- 
tionary- is  the  perfection  of  dictionaries." 
Justice  Brown,  after  a  life-long  experience,  has 
found  it  "  invaluable  as  a  book  of  easy  refer- 
ence." and  believes  "  it  will  succeed  for  many 
years  in  maintaining  its  position  as  the  leading 
dictionary  of  the  language."  Justice  Shiras  is 
no  less  emphatic.  Justice  Harlan  says :  "  It 
should  be  in  the  library  of  every  American 
judge.  lawyer,  preacher,  journalist,  statesman 
and  student" ;  and  while  it  is  desirable  to  have 
more  than  one  dictionary  always  at  hand,  "  if 
only  one  can  be  afforded,  preference  should  be 
given"  to  Webster's  International  Dictionary-" 
Justice  McKenna  has  "  always  used  the  Web- 
ster "  and  finds  its  old  reputation  as  to  com- 
pleteness and  accuracy  sustained  by  the  In- 
ternational. Justice  White  in  "daily  use" 
finds  the  book  "  of  the  greatest  utility"  ;  and 
Justice  Peckham,  praising  especially  the  Sup- 
plement of  1900,  regards  the  whole  work  as 
constituting  "  a  perfect  exposition  of  the  En- 
glish language  as  existing  at  this  time." 

Turning  now  to  the  highest  courts  of  all  the 
States,  we  find  an  almost  unanimous  consensus 
to  the  same  effect.  Thus  Chief  Justice  Knowl- 
ton.  of  the  Massachusetts  Supreme  Court,  says  : 
"  For  all  who  want  but  one  dictionary  of  the 
English  language  for  general  use  in  any  de- 
partment of  study,  or  in  literary  or  profes- 
sional work,  I  regard  Webster's  International 
as  decidedly  the  best."  And  so  on  through  the 
State  Courts,  the  entire  body  of  judges  gener- 
ally speaking  as  one.  In  many  instances  the 
statement  is  explicit  that  the  International  is 
preferred  before  all  others.  The  most  guarded 
expression  is  that  of  the  Justices  of  the  New- 
York  Court  of  Appeals,  and  they  speak  of  the 
International  as  "in  no  respect  falling  behind 
its  numerous  rivals,  however  remarkable  for 
their  extent  and  accuracy."  The  opinions  of 
the  entire  bench  of  other  State  Supreme 
Courts  may  be  briefly  sampled.  Pennsylvania : 
'  No  other  single  volume  is  so  valuable  or  so 


Chapter  i  of  "  The  Story  of  a  Book  "  was  pub- 
lished in  the  issue  October  5th.  Chapter  2  ap- 
peared in  last  week's  issue. 


satisfactory."  New  Hampshire :  "  The  best 
one-book  dictionary'  of  the  English  language." 
Arkansas.  California.  Oregon,  and  Wisconsin 
say  the  same.  Kentucky  calls  it  "  the  most 
comprehensive  and  accurate  dictionary  in  ex- 
istence." Nevada  says:  "In  our  library  we 
have  many  other  dictionaries,  but  all  of  them 
put  together  are  not  consulted  as  much  as 
Webster."  New  Jersey :  "  For  every-day  use. 
no  English  lexicon  is  at  all  comparable  with 
Webster's  International."  Equally  emphatic 
are  Delaware.  Idaho.  Kansas.  Michigan,  Min- 
nesota. Mississippi,  Rhode  Island.  Tennessee. 
Vermont,  Virginia,  and  Washington.  All 
these  are  explicit  in  affirming  the  International 
as  the  best  for  general  use ;  and  this  is  since 
the  publication  of  all  its  would-be  rivals.  The 
Florida  Justices  define  its  peculiar  service  to 
the  bench :  *'  Frequently  the  proper  interpreta- 
tion of  an  instrument  or  a  statute,  before  us 
for  review,  hinges  upon  the  accurate  definition 
of  a  word :  in  all  such  cases  we  turn  with  con- 
fidence to  Webster's  International."  Others 
dwell  upon  the  fund  of  general  information  ; 
thus  the  North  Dakota  Justices:  "No  other 
single  book  extant  contains  such  stores  of  rich, 
varied,  and  exact  knowledge."  The  Ohio  Su 
preme  Court:  "The  new  ( 1900J  edition  of 
Webster's  International  seems  to  have  reached 
the  acme  of  perfection  in  book-making,  edi- 
torially and  mechanically."  In  brief,  the 
entire  body  of  Judges  in  the  National  and 
State  Supreme  Courts,  with  the  exception  of 
hardly  a  dozen  individuals  land  these  recom- 
mended no  other),  have  borne  testimony  to  the 
preeminent    worth    of   the    International." 

To  the  question,  "  What  popular  dictionary 
is  accepted  as  of  the  highest  authority  and 
value  by  the  people  of  the  United  States  " — 
could  there  be  any  more  weighty  answer  than 
this  almost  unanimous  testimony  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  Judges  of  the  Nation  and  all  the 
States  ? 

And  another  tribunal  may  be  cited,  which  in 
a  different  field  carries  not  less  authority,  and 
which  speaks  with  one  voice.  The  public- 
school  systems  of  the  forty-five  States  are 
practically  a  unit  in  favor  of  the  International. 
Every  one  of  their  State  Superintendents 
recommends  it  in  the  highest  terms.  In  every 
State  Normal  school  it  is  the  accepted  standard 
Wherever  State  funds  have  been  appropriated 
for  the  purchase  of  a  large  dictionary  for  the 
schools.  Webster's  has  been  the  book.  The 
school-books  of  the  country,  wherever  they  are 
of  such  character  as  to  require  a  standard  in 
spelling,  pronunciation,  and  definition,  follow 
the    International  with   hardly  an  exception. 

The  highest  judiciary  and  the  entire  public- 
school  system — better  indexes  of  American 
opinion  can  hardly  be  named.  It  remains  to 
question  that  broader  constituency  which  the 
name  "  International  "  suggests — the  English- 
speaking  peoples  beyond  America.  It  has  been 
said  that  the  judgment  of  foreigners  carries 
a  weight  like  that  of  posterity— owing  to  its 
freedom  from  local  or  temporary  bias.  Taking 
first  Great  Britain :  the  popular  test  shows  a 
sale  of  the  International  far  beyond  that  of 
any  other  one-volume  dictionary--  English  or 
American.  The  official  test  is  given  by  the  fact 
that  the  only  governmental  departments  of 
Great  Britain  using  any  standard  of  language 
— the  Postal  and  Telegraphic,  both  managed 
entirely  by  the  Government — follow  the  Inter- 
national. The  scholar's  test  may  be  best  in- 
dicated, to  take  from  many  tributes  the  most 
authoritative  and  impressive,  by  the  unsolicited 
words  of  Dr.  Murray,  editor  of  the  unfinished 
many-volumed  Oxford  Dictionary,  and  prob- 
ably the  highest  individual  authority  on 
lexicography  in  the  English-speaking  world: 
"  In  this  its  latest  form,  and  with  its  large 
Supplement  and  numerous  Appendices,  Web- 
ster's International  Dictionary  is  a  wonderful 
volume,  which  well  maintains  its  grounds 
against  all  rivals,  on  its  own  lines."  And 
again  :  "  The  last  edition  of  Webster,  the  In- 
ternational, is  perhaps  the  best  of  one-volume 
dictionaries." 

In  Canada,  the  International  far  outsells  all 
rivals.  In  Australia  it  has  the  field  to  itself, 
and  with  special  reason  ;  for  this  great  com- 
monwealth has  been  explored  with  the  utmost 
thoroughness  as  to  its  wealth  of  new  words 
and  usages,  by  representatives  of  Webster  on 
the  ground,  cooperating  with  the  best  local 
scholarship,  and  reaping  a  harvest  which  the 
home  office  has  winnowed  and  inwrought  with 
the  main  work.  In  the  new  American  Colo- 
nies in  South  Africa,  in  India,  in  China,  in 
Japan,  throughout  Continental  Europe,  and 
wherever  flies  the  Stars  and  Stripes  or  the 
Union  Jack,  the  International  goes  as  a  chief 
symbol  and  agent  of  that  language  which  leads 
the  world's  civilization. 

"The  story  of  a  book" — it  has  been  shown 
as  a  story  of  supreme  concentration ;  Noah 
Webster  devoting  a  lifetime  of  genius,  learn- 


ing, and  character  to  one  book ;  the  G.  &  C. 
Merriam  Company  giving  their  whole  energy 
for  sixty  years  to  perfecting  and  spreading  the 
work.  It  has  been  a  story  of  the  close  alliance 
of  Scholarship  and  Business;  the  scholar's 
thirst  for  perfection  wedded  to  the  business 
man's  sense  of  practical  needs.  It  is  a  story 
of  growth,  the  patriot  scholar's  lonely  dream 
of  an  "American  Dictionary  of  the  English 
Language."-  maturing  to  an  "International 
Dictionary,"  the  accepted  authority  of  a 
world-encompassing  race. 

The  blue-backed  Webster's  Speller,  of  which 
the  public  have  consumed  some  seventy-five 
million  copies,  concluded  with  a  few  pungent 
fables,  "  The  Milkmaid,"  "  The  Old  Man's 
Apple  Tree  and  the  Rude  Boy,"  etc..  and  to 
each  fable  was  appended  a  moral.  To  the 
present  Story  the  Moral  may  be  given  in 
words  a  little  amplified  from  an  old  quotation: 
All  young  persons,  and  all  older  ones  no  less, 
should  have  a  dictionary  at  their  elbow  ;  and 
while  you  are  about  it,  get  the  best — get 
Webster's  International. 


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"  The  Rational  Method  in  Reading,"  a  fifth 
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"  The  Man  in  the  Camlet  Cloak."  an  his- 
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published  by  the  Saalfield  Publishing  Com- 
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In  "  The  Stories  of  Peter  and  Ellen,"  Ger- 
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or  so  full-page  colored  pictures  are  a  distinct 
addition  from  the  child's  view-point.  Pub- 
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With  respect  to  binding,  size,  general  ap- 
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"  New  Spanish  Dictionary"  "  is  a  very  pleasing 
book.  Its  author  is  Arturo  Cuyas.  and  the 
work  takes  the  place  of  the  old  Velazquez's 
"  Abridged  Dictionary."  Those  students  of 
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dictionary  of  Professors  Gray  and  Iribas  ex- 
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"  How  to  Keep  Well  "  is  a  five-hundred-page 
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of  twenty  years'  experience."  He  has  nothing 
startling  to  say,  but  his  advice  is  mostly 
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facts,  that  "  the  whole  country  has  a  grievance 
against  the  health  authorities  of  that  city." 
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He  never  has  to  wash  himself. 
He  is  not  very  neat." 
Thus   writes   Johnny   Jones   in   his   "  Book   of 
Nature,"   accompanying  the   truthful   quatrain 
with   a   picture   that   may   most   accurately   be 
described  as  a  line  drawing.     On  other  pages 
of  this   sanguinary  covered   brochure.  Johnny 
lisps  in  numbers  about  various  winged,  finned, 
and  quadrupedal  creatures,  presenting  in  each 
case  realistic  drawings.     The  booklet  is  among 
the    publications    of    Paul    Elder   &    Co.,    San 
Francisco. 

What  interest  there  can  be  in  a  group 
picture  of  the  late  Pope's  coachmen  and 
stable-boys,  or  why,  in  a  volume  entitled  "  The 
Life  and  Labors  of  Pope  Leo  XIII,"  there 
should  be  printed  a  picture,  however  hand- 
some, of  a  certain  Daniel  Shea,  professor  of 
physics  in  an  American  Catholic  university, 
are  total  mysteries  to  us.  Still,  it  is  only  fair 
to  say  that  the  majority  of  the  many  illustra- 
tions in  this  bulky  book  are.  unlike  these,  very 
interesting.  Indeed,  they  excel  in  that  respect 
the  text  by  Mgr.  Charles  de  T'Serclaes.  who 
was  "  prelate  of  the  household  of  his  holiness 
and  president  of  the  Belgian  College,  Rome." 
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indiscriminate  praise.  The  get-up  of  the  vol- 
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popular  circulation.  It  resembles  nothing  so 
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October  19,  1903. 


It  is  always  a  piece  of  great  good  luck 
when  we  are  given  an  opportunity  to  see  the 
unknown  plays  of  famous  playwrights;  and 
Pinero's  "  Lady  Bountiful  "  adds  to  such  claim 
on  the  interest  the  further  advantage  of  being 
a  particularly  good  vehicle  for  exploiting  the 
abilities  of  the  new  Alcazar  company. 

"  Lady  Bountiful,"  for  some  reason  difficult 
to  define,  has  not  made  much  noise  in  the 
world.  It  does  not  belong  to  the  epoch- 
making  period  of  Pinero's  problem  plays. 
which  have  set  audiences  to  arguing  and 
critics  to  quarreling  more  or  less  ever  since 
their  first  production.  It  has  no  such  intel- 
lectual and  spectacular  brilliancy  as  these 
exotics  of  a  later  growth!  But  in  viewing  it 
away  from  the  neighborhood  of  such  brilliant 
company,  the  undazzled  judgment  declares  it 
to  be  a  play  that  any  one  of  the  living 
dramatists  would  be  proud  to  claim.  Its  senti- 
ment, though  quietly  conventional,  is  true  and 
sound,  its  technique  has  the  deftness  we  have 
been  trained  to  expect  from  Pinero,  and  its 
dialogue,  situations,  and  atmosphere  have  that 
coloring  of  reality  which  makes  the  scenes 
of  the  play  seem  like  a  reflection  of  life. 

In  the  character  of  Roderick  Heron,  the 
cheerful  egotist,  whose  life  is  a  perpetual  and 
unscrupulous  ministry  to  self,  we  find  abun- 
dance of  that  incisive  and  searching  satire 
which  is  an  essential  part  of  Pinero's  abound- 
ing talent. 

The  story  of  "  Lady  Bountiful  "  is  one  that 
has  several  morals.  One  points  out  the  folly 
of  giving  to  a  youth  with  no  expectations  the 
bringing  up  of  an  "heir  to  wealth.  Another 
brings  home  the  futility  of  educating  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  people  to  be  a  lady.  The  third  says  : 
"  Beware  of  the  plausible  vaporer  who  wants 
money  without  security." 

The  character  of  Roderick  Heron,  the 
egotist  and  money-borrower,  is  the  best  piece 
of  characterization  in  the  play,  and  the  one 
that  provides  excellent  material  for  the  comedy 
element.  It  is  satirical  comedy  of  the  best 
kind,  and  is  fortunately  placed  m  the  hands 
of  an  actor  who  knows  how  to  avail  himself 
of  his  opportunities.  For  Mr.  John  B.  Maher, 
the  new  comedian,  is  an  actor  of  first-class 
merit ;  one  who  unites  to  his  unerring  concep- 
tion of  the  part  a  quick,  bright  deftness  in 
translating  it  into  physical  expression ;  an  ex- 
pression of  which  the  brightly  plausible  man- 
ner, with  its  swift,  politic  adaptations  to  the 
mood  of  the  one  to  be  shorn,  and  the  jauntily 
expressed  confidence  of  the  time-server,  who 
has  an  abounding  conviction  that  he  deserves 
well  of  Providence  merely  for  existing,  were 
all  admirably  indicated  by  an  actor  who  was 
sure  of  himself. 

Mr.  James  Durkin,  the  new  leading  man, 
has,  oddly  enough,  a  face  that  suggests  the 
comedian.  One  looks  momentarily  to  see  the 
semicircular  lines  of  mirth  and  mischief  curve 
around  his  mouth,  only  to  discover  in  time 
that  it  is  the  outline  and  not  the  expression 
of  the  features  that  is  misleading.  Mr.  Durkin 
is  an  agreeable  actor,  simple  in  method,  and 
sincere  in  expression.  Except  for  a  lack  of 
sufficient  suggestion  of  the  difference  in  caste 
between  himself  and  the  Veales.  Mr.  Durkin 
was  well-placed  in  the  part  of  Donald  Heron, 
the  manly  youth  who,  undeceived  in  his  be- 
lief that  he  was  supported  by  a  wealthy  fathef. 
flung  himself  into  the  plebeian  occupation  of 
a  riding-master  rather  than  continue  to  live 
on  the  generosity  of  his  cousin,  the  Lady 
Bountiful. 

Donald  is  a  thoroughly  nice  fellow  ;  the  kind 
who  is  the  joy  of  a  household,  but  who  doesn't 
know  how  to  make  his  own  way.  Just  the 
sort,  in  fact,  for  a  Lady  Bountiful  to  marry. 
Socially  agreeable,  domestically  a  seraph, 
morally  as  safe  as  a  church,  he  is  the  sort 
of  man  that,  were  he  widowed  half  a  dozen 
times,  he  would  inevitably  remarry  each  time, 
and  finally  sink  into  the  grave,  leaving  behind 
him  the  bright  record  of  having  made  six 
women  happy.  There  is,  it  is  true,  a  little 
marital  unhappiness  hinted  at  in  the  play,  but 
that  is  not  Donald's  fault,  but  the  inexorable 
grind  '>f  circumstances. 

M'i    .    Frances    Starr,    -.    pretty,    intelligent. 

1    -mest  young  actress,  olayed  the  part  of 

1   tig  wife,  to  wed  whom  Donald  stooped 


from  his  high  estate  of  impecunious  gentle- 
manhood.  Miss  Starr  struck  the  right  note  in 
her  moving  little  scene  of  renunciation  of  life 
and  love,  and  acted  as  an  effectively  fragile 
foil  to  her  rosy  and  vigorous  rival,  in  her  frail 
and  pathetic  loveliness. 

The  usual  well-meant  energy  of  the  lime- 
light man  all  but  ruined  the  closing  tableau 
of  this  act  by  casting  a  fluctuating  but  pene- 
trating glare  upon  the  pallid  little  figure  and 
the  mourner  by  its  side.  An  inexcusable 
custom,  and  one  from  which  the  theatrical 
manager  is  absolutely  undetachable. 

The  new  leading  lady.  Miss  Adele  Block,  is 
good  to  look  at,  and  is  a  dresser.  She  is  young, 
slender,  shapely,  dark-eyed,  pretty,  and  pleas- 
ing. She  plays  the  easy  role  of  Camilla  Brent, 
the  Lady  Bountiful ;  an  heiress  full  of  the 
milk  of  human  kindness,  whose  pockets  are 
ever  at  the  disposal  of  her  poor  relatives. 

Camilla  has  thorns  but  for  one  person,  her 
cousin  Donald,  whom  she  loves,  and  has  a 
womanly  longing  to  respect.  To  all  others, 
she  is  kind,  indulgent,  tender.  The  character 
is  an  attractive  one,  but  as  Camilla,  by  chance, 
faces  and  fights  down  each  shock  of  sorrow 
in  the  presence  of  witnesses,  there  is  no  single 
scene  in  which  Miss  Block  may  let  herself  go 
and  show  her  emotional  mettle  to  its  fullest 
extent.  Her  task  was  to  represent  a  sweet, 
generous,  lovable,  and  loving  nature,  dowered 
with  youth,  health,  wealth,  and  attractiveness, 
and  this  she  did  with  ample  charm. 

Miss  Anita  Allen,  another  new-comer,  who 
will  doubtless  assume  roles  hitherto  sacred  to 
the  sprightly  Oza,  played  the  small  part  of  a 
priggish  child  with  some  stiffness.  I  fancy. 
however,  from  a  certain  little  air  of  com- 
petency about  the  young  lady  that,  give  her 
a  chance,  and  she  can  do  a  thing  or  two.  The 
remainder  of  the  cast  was  assumed  by  fa- 
miliar figures — George  Osbourne  and  Marie 
Howe  doing  up  the  general  utility  old  man  and 
woman  parts  in  good  style,  while  Harry 
Hilliard's  sprouting  wings  were  meekly  folded 
for  the  nonce  in  an  insignificant  role.  Fred 
Butler  was  pretty  good  as  a  middle-aged 
wooer.  Mr.  Walter  Belasco  was  clever  in  the 
small  character  part  of  the  sexton,  and  Miss 
Frances  Gordon,  eliminating  her  good  looks 
and  style  under  the  smudges  and  frowsiness  of 
a  London  slavey,  came  out  quite  strong  in  her 
new  departure. 

Miss  Belgarde  undulated  around  the  stage 
a  little  too  fashionably  and  self-consciously 
as  the  sensible,  sterling  aunt,  but  the  tone 
of  the  general  presentation  of  the  play  was 
high.  Indeed,  there  are  various  signs  that 
the  Alcazar  management  has  definitely  de- 
cided to  raise  the  standard,  both  of  plays  and 
players,  above  that  hitherto  maintained.  A 
wise  move,  for  San  Francisco  is  very 
definitely  in  need  of  a  stock  company  that  can 
present  good  plays  in  good  style. 


One  may  hear  the  retrospective  laughter  of 
the  down-Easter  this  week  at  the  Central, 
where  they  have  put  on  Hoyt's  "  Midnight 
Bell  "  in  particularly  good  shape,  with  Stock- 
well  in  the  congenial  role  of  Deacon  Tidd. 
The  familiar  scene  at  the  school  play-ground 
is  given  with  great  zest,  not  only  by  the  adult 
players,  but  by  a  crowd  of  enthusiastic  young- 
sters, who  shriek  forth  a  lusty  enjoyment  of 
the  pastime  of  cotton-snow-balling  the  grown- 
ups with  an  enthusiasm  that  is  reflected  by 
the  urchins  sliding  down  a  snowy  looking 
hill  in  that  reckless  pose  so  dear  to  the  heart 
of  coasting  boyhood  popularly  described  as  a 
"  belly-buster." 

We  have  been  accustomed  in  Hoyt's  typical 
caricatures  to  a  confident  boldness  of  outline 
that  makes  them  very  telling.  One  notes 
with  consequent  surprise  the  contrasting  hesi- 
tancy of  stroke  with  which  this  former  dealer 
in  broad  burlesque  has  painted  the  portraits 
of  the  truly  good — as  witness  the  pale,  blood- 
less figures  of  the  minister  and  the  school- 
teacher. They  are  merely  figure-heads  in 
garments,  while  the  lawyer,  the  deacon,  the 
boy  with  the  changing  voice,  the  old  maid, 
and  the  kittenish  young  one  all  have  a  firm 
hold  on  reality. 


How  an  audience  does  love  a  school-room 
scene  on  the  stage  !  It  may  be  the  perennial 
delight  of  seeing  new  generations  pass 
through  their  time  and  turn  of  pedagogic  tor- 
ment, but  it  strikes  me  as  being  rather  a 
retrospective  revivification  of  one  of  the  active 
joys  of  childhood.  For  who  does  not  cherish 
recollections  of  that  joyous  community  life 
which,  is  fortunately  experienced  when  the 
gregarious  instinct  was  at  its  fullest  flower. 

The  scene  of  the  committeeman's  examina- 
tion went  capitally,  the  genial  blue  glare  of 
Stockwell's  bulging  orbs  doing  admirable 
duty  as  Gorgons  to  discourage  undue  pre- 
cocity in  the  young.  Stockwell,  indeed,  was 
in  great  shape,  taking  a  turn  at  the  coasting 
with  a  wild  light  in  his  eye,  and  with  such 
energy  as  to  collide  with  and  knock  the  snow 
stuffing  off  the  property  school-house. 

Millar  Bacon,  who,  as  the  school-boy,  as- 
sumed an  expression  of  imbecile  good-nature 
crossed  by  occasional  gleams  of  boyish  mis- 
chief, Myrtle  Vane,  as  his  fair  coadjutor  in 
mischief,  Herschel  Mayall,  and  Georgie  Wood- 
thorpe,  all  fell  into  the  spirit  of  the  fun,  and 
ably  seconded  Mr.  Stockwell  in  affording  an 
evening  of  light  but  jovial  entertainment. 

Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


A  small  edition  of  "  My  Own  Story,"  by 
J.  T,  Trowbridge,  has  been  issued  in  uncut 
style,  bound  in  boards  with  paper  label,  each 
copy  being  signed  by  the  author.  It  is  being 
quickly  taken  up  by  collectors  and  book- 
lovers. 

The  Mackay  property  on  the  corner  of 
Market  and  Fourth  Streets  was  this  week  sold 
to  a  syndicate  of  local  men  for  $1,200,000. 


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FISK,  contralto:  Mr.  NATHAN  FRANKO, 
violinist. 


Tuesday  night,  October  27th,  NORDICA,  soloist. 

Wednesday  matinee,  "  Pop "  Concert  for  school- 
children and  teachers  at  3:1s-  (Special  rates  for  this 
concert  as  below.)  MRS.  FISK  and  MR.  FRANKO, 
soloists. 

Thursday  night,  October  29th,  great  special  pro- 
gramme under  auspices  of  Twentieth  Century  Club. 
First  performance  on  the  Coast  of  a  Richard  Strauss 
tone  poem,  "  Don  Juan."  Mrs.  Fisk  and  Mr.  Franko 
in  special  solos. 

Friday  afternoon,  FAREWELL  CONCERT.  NOR- 
DICA and  Franko,  soloists. 


Reserved  seats,  $1.00,  $1.50,  $2.00.  and  $3-00.  Box 
seats.  $3.50  and  $4  00. 

Prices  for  special  "  Pop"  Wednesday  matinee,  from 
50c  to  $2  00  Box-office  at  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s  next 
Wednesday  morning  at  9  A.  M. 


Special— Oakland,  Wednesday  night,  October  28th, 
Macdonough  Theatre,  with  NORDICA.    Same  prices. 

Next— ELLERY'S  ITALIAN  BAND.  Better  than 
ever.  With  the  great  conductor,  ChiafTarelli.  One 
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To-night,  last  of  MTGNON.     Sundav  night,   last  "of 
CAVALLERIA  and  I'PAGllACCI. 

Monday,  Wednesday,  Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings, 
"  La  Boheme."  Tuesday,  special  Verdi  night,  selec- 
tions from  ■' Aida,"  "  Rigoletto,"  "II  Trovatore," 
"  Forza  del  Destino,"  "  Nabucco,  Traviata."  etc. 
Thursday  and  Sunday  evenings,  Saturday  matinee, 
"  Andre  Chenier." 

Prices  as  usual— 25c,  50c,  and  75c.    Telephone  Bush  9. 

QOLUMBIA    THEATRE, 

Two  weeks.     Beginning  Monday,  October  19th,  mati- 
nee Saturday,  initial  appearance  here  of  ROBERT 
EDESON  (management  Henry  B.  Harris), 
in    Richard   Harding  Davis's 

SOLDIERS  OF?  FORTUNE 

Stage  version  by  Augustus  Thomas.     Third  vear  of 
its  popularity. 

J^LGAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone" Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.     Commenc- 
ing Monday  evening  next,  October  19th, 

THE    COWBOY    AND    THE    LADY 

Clyde  Fitch's  comedy  drama. 

Evenings,  25c  to  75c     Saturday  and  Sundav  Mati- 
nees, 15c  to  50c.     Matinee  next  Sunday. 

Monday,  October  26th— Under  the  Red  Kobe. 

QENTRAL    THEATRE.     Phone  South  533 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week  beginning  Monday,  October  19th,  matinees  Sat- 
urday and  Sunday,  Meredith's  celebrated 
border  drama, 

RATMCH    XO 

Special  engagement  of  L.  R.  STOCKWELL. 
Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  October  26th— Uncle  Tom's  Cabin. 

QRAND   OPERA  HOUSE. 

Regular  matinees  Sunday,  Thursday,   and  Saturday. 

Week  beginning  matinee  to-morrow  (Sunday), 

Hall  Caine's  powerful  play, 

TH^S    CHHISTIAN 

Cathrine  Countiss  as  Glory'  Quayle;   Asa  Lee  Wil- 
lard  as  John  Storm. 

Prices— Evenings,  15c,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.     Matinees, 
15c,  25c,  and  50c. 

Beginning  Sundav  matinee,    October    25th,    Spot- 
less Town. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  October  i8tb. 
A  Vaudeville  Carnival !  Waterbury  Brothers  and 
Tenny;  Whistling  Tom  Browne;  Herbert  Lloyd,  as- 
sisted by  Lillian  Lilvan ;  Sisters  Rappo ;  Three  Crane 
Brothers ;  Wallace  Brownlow ;  A.  P.  Rostow ;  Golden 
Gate  Quartet  and  Fanny  Winfred ;  and  last  week  of 
Columbine 


Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Crowded  to  the  doors, 

THE PARADERS 

The  biggest  hit  yet. 


Reserved  seats— Nights,  25c,  50,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati- 
nees, 10c  and  25c. 

Next  play— Rubes  and  Roses. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


251 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Robert  Edeson  in  "Soldiers  of  Fortune." 
A  treat  is  in  store  for  San  Francisco  theatre- 
goers next  week,  when  Robert  Edeson  makes 
his  first  appearance  here  at  the  Columbia  The- 
atre in  Augustus  Thomas's  dramatization  ot" 
Richard  Harding  Davis's  stirring  South 
American  tale,  "  Soldiers  of  Fortune."  When 
the  book  was  published  in  1897.  Mr.  Davis 
was  anxious  to  have  his  story  utilized  for 
stage  purposes,  but  he  could  find  no  actor 
who  possessed  the  qualities  necessary  to 
give  a  convincing  impersonation  of  his  hero, 
Robert  Clay,  who  became  embroiled  in  a 
South  American  revolution,  and  was  finally 
proclaimed  dictator  by  the  people.  Mr.  Davis 
witnessed  Robert  Edeson's  portrayal  of 
Edward  Warden  in  Amelia  Bingham's  pro- 
duction of  "  The  Climbers  "  when  it  was  first 
given  in  New  York,  and  he  at  once  saw  in  him 
the  man  best  fitted  to  create  the  hero  of  his 
story  because  of  his  virile  personality  and 
natural  methods  of  acting.  Oddly  enough. 
Mr.  Edeson  had  read  "  Soldiers  of  Fortune." 
and  when  Henry  B.  Harris  first  broached  the 
plan  of  starring  him,  Mr.  Edeson  suggested 
"  Soldiers  of  Fortune  "  as  the  vehicle.  It  was 
shortly  after  this  that  the  manager  learned 
through  Mr.  Davis's  agent  that  he  was  anxious 
to  place  the  book  at  Edeson's  disposal.  Mr. 
Harris  lost  no  time  in  taking  advantage  of  the 
offer  and  in  securing  for  the  work  of 
dramatization  Augustus  Thomas,  who  has 
turned  out  a  very  creditable,  high-class  melo- 
drama, which  closely  follows  Mr.  Davis's 
story-  The  play  is  divided  into  four  scenes, 
which  picture  Clay's  camp  at  the  mines,  the 
exterior  of  the  Langhams'  cottage,  the  hall  of 
the  president's  palace,  and  the  interior  of  the 
Los  Bocos  custom-house  and  telegraph  station. 
The  personnel  of  Mr.  Edeson's  company,  by 
the  way.  is  practically  the  same  as  when  he 
appeared  in  New  York  last  season,  the  leading 
players  being  Harry  Harwood,  Ellen  Burg. 
Edwin  Brandt.  Helen  Ware,  E.  W.  Morrison, 
Dorothy  Tennant,  Frazer  Coulter,  Taylor 
Holmes.  Sydney  Ainsworth.  Macey  Harlan, 
Richard  Sterling,  and  Byron  Ongley. 


"  The  Cowboy  and  the  Lady." 
Pinero's  pretty  little  play,  "  Lady  Bountiful." 
will  find  a  strong  contrast  in  Clyde  Fitch's 
comedy-drama,  "  The  Cowboy  and  the  Lady," 
which  is  to  be  the  offering  at  the  Alcazar  next 
week.  The  play  was  written  for  Nat  Goodwin 
and  Maxine  Elliott,  and  enjoyed  a  long  run 
in  New  York.  In  London,  however,  it  was 
not  liked,  and  Madeleine  Lucette  Ryley's  "An 
American  Citizen,"  was  hastily  put  on  to  fill 
out  the  Goodwin  season  in  the  English  me- 
tropolis. The  plot  of  Mr.  Fitch's  play  revolves 
about  a  Harvard  lad,  who  becomes  a  Colorado 
cowboy,  and  a  beautiful  well-bred  woman  of 
fashion,  who  is  unhappily  married.  The 
scenes  represent  a  picturesque  mountain  pass, 
a  dance-hall,  and  a  country  court-house,  where 
the  hero  is  tried  for  his  life,  and  many 
characteristically  Western  types  figure  prom- 
inently in  the  unraveling  of  the  story.  The 
parts  written  for  Mr.  Goodwin  and  Miss  El- 
liott will  fall  to  James  Durkin  and  Adele 
Block :  Frances  Starr  will  be  the  adopted 
daughter  of  the  rancher :  Luke  Conness  makes 
his  debut  as  the  murderous  half-breed  Indian  ; 
Marie  Howe  will  appear  as  the  piano  player 
of  the  dance-hall:  and  Adele  Belgarde  will  be 
the  reckless  keeper.  The  third  production 
of  the  new  stock  company  will  be  the  romantic 
costume  play,  "  Under  the  Red  Robe." 

Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
Next  to  Bizet's  "Carmen."  Puccini's  "La 
Boheme  "  seems  to  hold  the  most  popular  place 
in  the  favor  of  the  Tivoli  Opera  House  audi- 
ences. So  great  was  the  demand  for  seats  last 
week,  when  it  was  produced  with  Tina  de 
Spada  and  Agostini  in  the  leading  roles,  that 
the  management  has  decided  to  repeat  it 
again  next  week  on  Monday.  Wednesdav.  Fri- 
day, and  Saturday  nights.  Tuesday  night  will 
be  a  gala  affair — a  Verdi  anniversary'  night — 
when  selections  from  "  Aida."  "  Rigoletto." 
"  II  Trovatore."  "  Forza  del  Destino."  "  Na- 
bucco."  "  Traviata."  and  "  Otello "  will  bp 
sung.  The  entire  cast  of  artists  now  at  the 
Tivoli  will  contribute"  to  the  evening's  enter- 
tainment. On  Thursday  and  Sunday  nights 
and  at  the  Saturday  matinee.  "Andre  Chenier  " 
will  be  the  bill.  Ischierdo  will  appear  in  the 
title-role.  Grezaretti  as  Girard.  Dodo  as 
Rucher  and  Peter  Fleville.  Benedetto  as  Mad- 
delcna.  and  Marchesini  as  Bersi  and  Madelon. 


The  Christian  "  at  the  Grand. 
Next  week.  Hall  Caine's  "  The  Christian  " 
is  to  be  presented  at  the  Grand  Opera  House. 
Catherine  Countiss  will  have  the  role  of  Glory 
Quayle,  and  Asa  Lee  Willard  will  be  the  John 
Storm.  Others  in  the  cast  will  be  Allan  St. 
John.  Arthur  Lane,  W.  B.  Fredericks.  Nicholas 
Cogley,  Frederick  Esmelton.  Charles  Edwin 
Inslee,  Edwin  J.  Kadow,  Thomas  de  Laney. 
Winona  Bridges,  Charlotte  Hammer.  Hazel 
Kilday.  Efilena  Blair.  Paula  Herbert,  and 
Marie  Horton.  At  the  Sunday  matinee  on 
October  25th,  the  amusing  farce-comedy. 
"  Spotless  Town."  will  be  produced,  with 
Leslie  Morosco,  who  has  a  host  of  friends  and 
admirers  here,  and  Lelia  Shaw  in  the  leading 
roles. 

Novelties  at  the  Orpheum. 
The  Waterbury  brothers  and  Tenney,  one  of 
the  best  trios  of  musical  comedians  before  the 
public,  will  reappear  at  the  Orpheum,  after  a 
long  absence,  next  week.  They  are  all  accom- 
plished musicians,  and  Ernest  Tenney,  in  black 
face,  is  a  whole  show  in  himself.  It  is  said 
that  their  act  this  season,  entitled  "  A  Cold 
Day  in  July,"  is  the  best  they  have  ever 
offered.  The  other  new-comers  will  be 
"Whistling  Tom  Browne,"  who  piped  his  way 
into    popularity    as    the    bartender    in    Hoyt's 


"  Trip  to  Chinatown,"  and  comes  back  after  a 
triumphal  tour  of  the  world,  and  Herbert 
Lloyd,  a  comedy  juggler.  The  hold-overs  are 
Wallace  Brownlow.  the  English  baritone,  who 
will  sing  "  On  the  Road  to  Mandalay,"  the 
toreador  song  from  "  Carmen,"  and  "  Sky- 
lark," by  Arthur  Leonard:  the  three  Crane 
brothers,  in  their  skit,  "  The  Mudtown  Min- 
strels "  ;  the  sisters  Rappo,  Russian.  Siberian. 
Tscherkess.  and  Cossack  dancers;  A.  P.  Ros- 
tow,  the  wonderful  equilibrist;  Colombino.  who 
presents  a  farce  with  a  cast  of  six  characters 
all  by  himself;  and  the  Golden  Gate  Quartet 
and  Fanny  Wilfred,  singers,  dancers  and  com- 
edians, who  will  vary  their  act. 

Melodrama  at  the  Central. 
Meredith's  Western  border  play.  "  Ranch 
Ten,"  is  to  be  the  bill  at  the  Central  The- 
atre next  week.  It  contains  several  thrill- 
ing climaxes,  and  tells  the  story  of  how  the 
mysterious  slayer  of  an  Indian  girl  was  at  last 
brought  to  justice.  A  Portuguese,  known  as 
"  Red  Bullet."  charges  the  crime  to  a  cattle- 
owner  named  McClelland.  The  circumstances 
are  strongly  against  the  accused,  and  a  mob 
gathers  for  a  lynching  bee.  The  accused  mar. 
flees,  assisted  by  his  sweetheart.  The  mob 
searches  the  premises,  and  finds  McClelland's 
twin  brother,  who  has  just  arrived  in  camp. 
He  is  locked  up  in  a  storehouse  on  Ranch 
Ten,  the  headquarters  of  the  cowboys,  and  a 
crowd  attacks  him  there.  In  desperation,  he 
lights  a  fuse  that  connects  with  a  barrel  of 
powder,  admits  the  gang,  and  escapes  by  a 
clever  ruse  just  in  time  to  avoid  the  disastrous 
results  of  the  explosion.  At  the  trial,  which 
takes  place  later,  it  developes  that  the  would-be 
lynchers  of  McClelland  had  made  a  gross  error 
and  that  Portuguese  Toe  was  the  guilty  man. 
L.  R.  Stockwell's  role  in  "  Ranch  Ten  "  will  be 
that  of  a  "  little  sawed-off  judge  from 
Cheyenne,"  who  manufactures  laws  to  suit  his 
prejudices,  and  makes  decisions  the  same  way. 


Banks  and  Insurance. 


The  Paraders  "  at  Fischer's. 
Now  that  the  rough  edges  have  been  worn 
off  the  musical  comedy,  "  The  Paraders."  the 
performance  at  Fischer's  Theatre  is  a  very 
smooth  and  diverting  entertainment,  with  op- 
portunities enough  for  all  the  principals  to 
score.  Of  the  seventeen  musical  numbers, 
the  gems  undoubtedly  are  Maude  Amber's 
"  My  Alameda  Rose."  Winfield  Blake's  "  Tie 
Your  Answer  to  the  Old  Date-Tree."  and 
Eleanor  Jenkins's  "  My  Everglade  Queen." 
Kolb.  Dill.  Bernard,  and  Hermsen  go  through 
some  droll  stage  business,  and  Flossie  Hope 
and  Gertie  Emerson  have  a  new  dancing  spec- 
ialty, which  wins  them  much  applause- 
Charles  Jones,  considering  the  size  of  Fisher's 
stage,  has  outdone  himself  in  the  matter  of 
groupings,  marches,  and  ballets,  and  the  new 
electrical  effects  he  introduces  are  novel  and 
pretty.  "  Rubes  and  Roses,"  by  the  authors  of 
"  The  Paraders,"  is  to  be  the  next  musical 
comedy  offered. 


Henry  Savage  Landor,  the  well-known 
traveler  and  author,  arrived  in  San  Fran- 
cisco early  in  the  week,  en  route  to  his  home 
in  England.  He  has  spent  a  year  in  the  Phil- 
ippines, and  is  preparing  a  book  describing 
the  archipelago,  based  on  his  observations. 


"  The  Storks,"  one  of  the  big  musical 
successes  of  last  seasan,  is  to  follow  Robert 
Edeson  at  the  Columbia  Theatre. 


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the  wood  and  becomes  a  part  of  the  beautifully 
polished  dancing  surface.  It  makes  no  dust, 
does  not  rub  into  lumps  or  stick  to  the  shoes. 
Just  sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  the 
rest.  Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  of  the 
finest  fabric. 

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THE        ARGONAUT, 


October  19,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


In  discussing  the  question  whether  Ameri- 
cans drink  wine  labels  or  wine,  Edward  W. 
Townsend  says :  "  They  have  been  making 
wine  out  in  California  for  more  than  a  cen- 
tury— some  Franciscans  started  the  industry 
in  1776 — and  it  is  not  strange  that  now  they 
have  come  to  an  understanding  of  what  vines 
are  adapted  to  what  soil  and  climate.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  they  have  made,  and  are  now 
making,  some  first-class  dry  wine,  white  and 
red;  and  some  sweet  wines  which  come  near 
to  being  first  class.  Some  army  officers  dis- 
covered this  when  stationed  at  San  Francisco, 
and  their  mess  tables  in  posts  about  here  are 
usually  supplied  with  a  good  California  claret. 
It  was  in  that  way  that  a  New  Yorker,  who 
entertains  much  at  his  own  table,  came  to 
stock  his  cellar  with  a  certain  brand  of  Cali- 
fornia claret,  which  he  was  wise  enough  to 
recognize  as  a  good  article.  He  can  afford 
to  buy  any  wine  he  fancies,  and  it  was  purely 
on  its  merit  that  he  made  this  innovation. 
But  his  guests  suffered.  They  saw  the  label 
and  suffered.  He  explained  the  merits  of  the 
product,  but  they  still  suffered.  It  was  not  an 
affectation ;  they  did  not  enjoy  his  dinners 
and  told  him.  He  visited  a  shop  where  any 
label  you  want  can  be  had,  and  he  bought 
some  chateau  wine  and  had  his  butler  paste 
the  chateau  wine  label  over  the  California. 
Then  his  stag  parties  rejoiced  at  his  return 
to  reason,  and  smacked  their  lips,  and  said 
he  was  a  bully  boy,  and  they  would  not  cut 
out  his  dinners,  as  they  had  contemplated  do- 
ing. They  are  so  dead  in  earnest  that  he 
does  not  dare  to  tell  them,  for  they  would 
make  a  deuce  of  a  row,  he  says.  So  they 
drink  the  labels,  and  he  drinks  the  wine,  and 
all  are  happy.  Here's  the  psychological  point : 
He  says  that  his  guests'  misery  was  real 
when  they  knew  they  were  drinking  Cali- 
fornia wine.  It  disagreed  with  them  physi- 
cally through  the  operation  of  their  minds. 
They  grow  fat  and  witty  now  on  the  labels.  ' 

The  fact  that  a  number  of  British  women 
of  high  degree  are  to  visit  American  friends 
during  this  winter  has  given  rise  to  the 
query  :  "  Are  they  coming  to  exchange  their 
titles  for  American  husbands  and  thus  turn 
the  tables  on  the  Yankee  girls?"  Perhaps 
the  star  of  the  titled  visitors  will  be  Miss 
Gordon  Lennox,  daughter  of  Lord  and  Lady 
Algernon  Gordon-Lennox,  of  London.  Be-. 
sides  holding  a  high  social  position,  Lady 
""  Algy,"  as  her  chums  call  her.  enjoys  th': 
title  of  the  "  best-dressed  woman  in  Eng- 
land.*' And  her  daughter  is  almost  equally 
well  f rocked  and  even  more  beautiful  than 
her  mother.  The  Gordon-Lennoxes  will  be 
the  guests  of  William  C.  Whitney,  and  many 
notable  functions  are  already  planned  in  their 
honor.  The  Countess  Fabricotti  is  also  com- 
ing. She  was  in  New  York  last  season,  and 
enjoyed  herself  so  much  that  she  has  already 
booked  passage  for  another  New  York  winter. 
She  is  smart,  beautiful,  of  excellent  Irish 
family.  The  gossips  are  linking  her  nam': 
with  that  of  August  Belmont.  Another  no- 
table visitor  will  be  Princess  Victoria  of 
Scbleswig-Holstein.  granddaughter  of  the  late 
Queen  Victoria,  and  niece  of  King  Edward. 
Lady  Isabel  Innes-Ker,  sister  of  the  Duke  of 
Roxburghe,  will  also  shortly  come  to  the 
United  States  to  attend  the  marriage  of  her 
brother  to  Miss  May  Goelet.  Expected,  too, 
are  Miss  Post  {daughter  of  Lady  Barrymore), 
the  Marchioness  of  Granby.  the  Marquise  de 
Mores,  Miss  Moreton  Frewen,  several  of  the 
Guinesscs,  and  Lady  Sibyl  Cutting's  younger 
sister. 


Accustomed  as  our  Northern  housekeepers 
are  to  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  good  ser- 
vants, their  lot.  however  trying,  is  still  far 
happier  than  that  of  the  Southern  women 
who  have  to  wrestle  with  the  problem  of  do- 
mestic service.  On  its  face  this  should  not  be 
the  case  (remarks  the  New  York  Evening 
Post).  There  is  apparently  an  abundance  of 
very  cheap  colored  labor  in  the  South,  and 
the  splendid  qualities  of  the  "  mammy  "  and 
the  old-time  negro  cook  and  butler  have  been 
set  forth  by  every  one  of  the  numerous 
w  riters  who  have  been  flooding  the  book- 
market  with  stories  or  novels  of  the  "  Old 
South,"  until  their  traits  and  characteristics 
have  become  almost  proverbial.  Yet,  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  it  is  growing  more  and  more 
difficult  throughout  the  South  to  get  faithful 
servants  who  have  any  knowledge  of  their 
dut'es.  As  a  social  phenomenon  this  is  of 
vastly  greater  importance  than  is  our  similar 
problem  in  the  North,  for  it  brings  up  the  race 
jv  ue  at  once.  In  the  Northern,  Eastern,  and 
"1 .  cstern  cities  and  towns  the  housekeeper  has 
choice  of  German,  Irish,  Norwegian, 
edish,  or  colored  servants.    'If  she  is  will- 


ing to  pay  enough,  she  may  still  find  well- 
trained  English  servants  who  "  know  their 
place  and  their  duties."  But  the  white  do- 
mestic is  to  all  intents  and  purposes  entirely 
unknown  in  the  South;  it  is  to  the  colored 
race,  therefore,  that  resort  must  be  had  when- 
ever a  domestic  is  to  be  chosen.  The  com- 
petent old  "  mammys  "  are  fast  disappearing, 
and  many  of  the  younger  servants,  who  arc 
worth  having,  are  lured  to  the  North  by  reason 
of  the  much  higher  wages  and  the  com- 
parative absence  of  race  prejudice.  For  six 
and  eight  dollars  a  month  in  parts  of.  the 
South,  a  servant  may  still  be  had  who  could 
earn  from  twenty  to  forty  dollars  in  New 
York  or  Chicago.  In  the  latter  city,  by  the 
way,  one  employment  agency  had  fifteen 
hundred  applications  for  colored  servants  dur- 
ing 1902.  It  could  supply  only  one  thousand. 
In  view  of  this  fact,  it  is  not  surprising  to 
read  in  the  Lynchburg  (Va.)  News,  for  ex- 
ample, that  a  large  boarding-house  at  Bedford 
City  has  been  closed  for  lack  of  servants, 
and  that  there  are  many  households  in  that 
town  "  where  for  the  same  reason  the  mistress 
is  enacting  the  role  of  cook,  chambermaid, 
and  general  maid-of-all-work."  Moreover,  it 
does  not  add  to  the  happiness  of  the  whites 
that  there  are  any  number  of  colored  women 
in  the  town  who  decline  to  enter  service,  but 
who,  none  the  less,  prosper  by  one  means  or 
another.  Yet  the  Bedford  City  situation  is 
merely  typical  of  what  is  going  on  all  over 
the  South.  At  the  same  time  there  is  a 
growing  dearth  of  trusty  male  workers.  "  The 
negro  men  have  gone  to  the  mines,  to  the 
public  works,  to  the  North,  to  the  cities  and 
towns,  or  somewhere  else,  in  far  greater  num- 
bers," says  the  New  Orleans  Picayune,  "  than 
most  people  imagine." 

Adjutant-General  Corbin's  declaration  that 
young  officers  in  the  army  should  not  marry, 
but  wait  until  their  pay  becomes  large  enough 
to  support  two  persons,  has  received  a  severe 
jolt.  The  officers  of  the  Twenty-Second  In- 
fantry are  contemplating  a  sort  of  round- 
robin  wedding,  and  ten  of  them  will  take 
their  brides  with  them  when  the  Sheridan 
sails  from  San  Francisco  for  Manila,  on  Oc- 
tober 3 1  st.  Lieutenant-General  S.  B.  M. 
Young's  daughter.  Miss  Elizabeth  Young,  who 
was  married  to  Captain  John  R.  R.  Hannay, 
the  other  day.  will  be  one  of  the  brides.  This 
general  surrender  of  bachelor  warriors  to 
Hymen  is  causing  no  end  of  fun  in  army 
circles.  Their  brother- officers  are  suggesting 
to  the  powers  that  the  transport  should  be 
painted  white  and  pink,  and  the  figurehead 
changed  to  a  pretty  Cupid.  They  say  such  an 
event  has  not  before  happened  in  the  annals 
of  the  War  Department,  and  that  it  should 
be  properly  recognized. 

New  Zealand  is  bothered  by  the  theatre-hat 
question.  A  Miss  McDermott  recently  tried 
to  settle  it  in  a  practical  manner.  She  was 
seated  in  a  theatre  of  the  town  of  Oamaru, 
and  in  front  of  her  was  Mrs.  Brady,  wearing 
voluminous  headgear.  As  Mrs.  Brady  refused 
to  remove  the  obstructive  hat.  Miss  McDer- 
mott borrowed  a  gentleman's  walking-stick 
and  tilted  it  out  of  her  line  of  vision.  But 
Mrs.  Brady  was  not  prepared  to  wear  her 
hat  at  a  rakish  angle  all  the  evening,  and  so 
she  put  it  straight  again.  Every  time  she  did 
so  Miss  McDermott  repeated  the  perfor- 
mance with  the  walking-stick.  The  magis- 
trates decided  that  Miss  McDermott  had  com- 
mitted "  a  series  of  minor  but  aggravating 
assaults,"  and  fined  her  $2.50,  plus  $14  costs. 
The  money  was  promptly  subscribed  by  the 
citizens  as  a  protest  against  large  hats  in 
theatres. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  State  Medical  So- 
ciety of  Pennsylvania  at  York,  a  few  days  ago, 
papers  dealing  with  appendicitis  were  read 
by  Dr.  John  B.  Deaver,  of  Philadelphia,  and 
Dr.  Richard  Henry  Gibbons,  of  Scranton,  both 
prominent  surgeons.  Dr.  Deaver  said  that 
he  had  during  the  past  year  operated  in  5O0 
cases  of  appendicitis,  which  indicates  that  the 
disease  is  as  fashionable  as  ever.  The  strange 
part  of  the  doctor's  statement,  however,  was 
that  only  five  per  cent,  of  these  560  cases 
had  terminated  fatally,  and  they,  he  de- 
clared, would  not  have  resulted  thus  if  they 
had  not  been  neglected.  The  thing  to  do, 
according  to  Dr.  Deaver,  is  to  have  the 
vermiform  appendix  snipped  out  the  minute 
it  begins  to  be  troublesome.  "  I  advocate  in- 
stant operation,"  he  explained,  "  and  I  never 
cut  so  that  a  stitch  is  necessary."  In  ether 
words  (says  the  Chicago  Record-Herald), 
the  patient  who  goes  to  Dr.  Deaver  in  time 
shuts  his  eyes,  takes  a  long  breath,  there  is 
a  tweak  and  a  snip,  and  lo !  the  great  expert 
flips  the  appendix  into  a  pile  of  them  in  a 
corner,  and  the  business  is  done  with.     This 


is  encouraging,  and  should  serve  as  a  strong 
incentive  to  people  whose  vermiform  ap- 
pendices don't  properly  behave  to  have  them 
out.  Dr.  Gibbons  is  even  more  relentless  than 
Dr.  Deaver  in  his  opposition  to  the  appendix. 
He  was  known,  he  said,  as  a  physician  who 
was  "  always  cutting  out  the  appendix,"  and 
he  always  advocated  the  removal  of  all  ap- 
pendices, whether  they  were  supposed  to  be 
diseased  or  not.  Removing  a  healthy  vermi- 
form appendix,  he  declared,  was  no  more 
dangerous  than  having  one's  hair  cut,  and 
with  the  "  infernal  member,"  as  he  called  it, 
gone,  there  would  be  a  serious  danger  out  of 
the  way  forever.  He  admitted  that  he  cut 
out  the  troublesome  thing  every  time  he  got 
a  chance,  and  his  remarks  clearly  indicated 
that  he  would  as  soon  see  a  child  of  his  grow- 
ing up  with  horns  as  with  a  vermiform  appen- 
dix. 

Lachrymal  amelioration  :  "  Poor  thing,  did 
she  take  her  husband's  death  much  to  heart?" 
"  Why,  she's  prostrated  with  grief !  She 
can't  see  a  soul,  except  the  dressmaker." — 
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THE    FINANCIAL    WEEK.  . 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  October  14,  1903, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.S.  Coup.  4%  Old 

Reg 10,000    @  no# 

Bay  Co.  Power  5%      8,000    @  104  103%     104 J4 

Los  An.  Ry  5%  9,000    @  113  113        114 

Market  St.  Ry.  6%.     6,000     @  11S  118         118K 

North  Shore  Ry  5%    4,000    <S>  ioo#  100 

Omnibus  C.  Ry.  6%     1,000    (Si  122  122% 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%     1S.000    @  109K-109K     109K     109J4 

Powell  St.  Rv.  6%  ..    5,000     @  11254  114 

S.  F.  &S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.5% 1,000    @  117  ii~j% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 16,000    @  10734  10734 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  29,000    @  108^-108^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905.  S.  A 2,000    @  i02j£"  102 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

S.  B 10,000    @  103 j£  103        103J4 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd  3§;ooo    @  ioS^-108%     io8J£ 

S-  P.  Branch.  6%..    12,000     @  131}^  127^ 

S.V.  Water  6%   ..       5,000     @  105^  105% 

S.  V.  Water 4%....   11,000     (ffl    9954  99^     100 

S.  V.  Water  4%  3d.    4,000    @    99J4  99 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Vall'yW.Co       330    @    4°K-  4i#      40 
Powders. 

Giant  Con So    @    65-      65^      65         66 

Suga  rs. 

Hana  P.  Co. 150    @    15  15 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...        100    @    43-      46         43 

Honokaa  S.  Co 160    @    12^-13  1254      13 

Hutchinson.: 115    @    iofg-  11        1034 

MakaweliS.Co 75    @    21  2054 

Onomea  S.  Co no    @    32  32  33 

Gas  and  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric...         70    @    12-      12}^      1154      13 

Pacific  Gas 15    @    52K  52K      53K 

Pacific  Lighting....         75    @    55H  55 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       255    @    66-      67         66%      67*4 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.  Gas&El'ctric        100    @    6554-665$ 
Miscella  neons. 

Alaska  Packers  ...         50    @  154  156 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         40    @    94  94 

Oceanic  S.  Co 50    @     6J£  6%        6% 

The  business  for  the  week  was  small. 
The  sugars  have  been  quiet  and  made  fractional 
declines. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  weak,  selling  off  one- 
half  point  to  4034. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  was  in  better  de- 
mand, selling  up  one  point  to  67  on  sales  of  255 
shares,  closing  at  66*4  bid,  67K  asked. 

Giant  Powder  was  steady  with  no  change  in  price. 


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October  19,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


Once,  on  the  first  of  April,  Henry  Ward 
Beecher  found  in  his  morning  mail  a  letter 
containing  only  the  words  *'  April  Fool."' 
"Well!  well!"  he  is  said  to  have  remarked; 
"  I  have  received  many  a  letter  where  a  man 
forgot  to  sign  his  name ;  this  is  the  first  time 
I  ever  knew  of  a  writer  signing  his  name  and 
forgetting  to  write  a  letter." 

It  is  related  that  shortly  after  Runciman, 
the  well-known  writer  on  seafarers  and  smug- 
glers and  poachers,  had  bitterly  fallen  out  with 
the  late  W.  E.  Henley,  he  lay  dying  in  Lon- 
don. To  Henley  in  Edinburgh,  lame  and  ill, 
came  an  indirect  message  that  Runciman  be- 
lieved that  if  Henley  could  come  and  look  on 
him  he  would  get  well.  It  was  a  dying  man's 
whimsey,  but  Henley  took  the  train  from 
Edinburgh — and  arrived  in  London  to  find  his 
friend  dead. 


Sir  William  Harcourt,  a  political  rival,  but 
still  an  admirer  of  Disraeli,  once  paid  a  pretty 
compliment  to  Lady  Beaconsfield.  He  was 
dining  with  the  Disraelis,  and  sat  beside 
the  hostess,  who  observed  that  he  was  looking 
at  the  picture  of  a  lightly  robed  lady  on  the 
wall  opposite,  and  said :  "  It  oughtn't  to  be 
allowed  in  here ;  but  it  is  nothing  to  the 
Venus  that  Dizzy  has  up  in  his  bedroom." 
"  That  I  can  well  believe,"  replied  he,  with  a 
gallant  bow.  This  was  one  of  the  rare  occa- 
sions on  which  Disraeli  is  said  to  have  smiled. 


Glen  MacDonough,  who  wrote  the  libretto 
for  the  comic  opera,  "  Babes  in  Toyland,"  was 
sitting  in  a  New  York  cafe  recently  with  Vic- 
tor Herbert,  the  composer,  when  a  waiter  ap- 
proached to  take  his  order.  The  waiter  smiled 
at  Mr.  MacDonough,  and  said :  "  You  don't 
remember  me,  do  you  ?  I  used  to  sing  in  one 
of  your  companies."  "  I  remember  you  very 
well,"  said  Mr.  MacDonough.  "  Are  you  sur- 
prised to  see  me  here  as  a  waiter?  "  asked  the 
other.  '*  Not  a  bit,"  replied  the  librettist, 
cheerfully ;  "  you  know,  I  have  heard  you 
sing." 


The  late  British  embassador,  Sir  Michael 
Herbert,  was  a  guest  at  a  dinner  at  one  of  the 
clubs  in  Washington  not  many  months  before 
his  death.  He  was  one  of  the  speakers  of  the 
evening,  and  was  to  be  followed  by  Rear- 
Admiral  Charles  Beresford.  "  I  am  to  be  fol- 
lowed by  a  little  sailor  man,"  he  observed, 
after  an  extremely  felicitous  speech  in  a  more 
serious  vein,  "  at  least,  he  has  been  a  sailor. 
I  believe  he  is  engaged  at  present  in  the  plas- 
tering business."  There  was  a  little  polite 
laughter  from  those  who  felt  sure  that  a  joke 
was  intended,  while  others  waited,  believing 
that  the  final  touch  was  to  come.  **  I  see  you 
don't  understand  my  joke,"  said  the  embas- 
sador, taking  in  the  situation ;  "  I  mean  that 
he  is  engaged  in  cementing  the  good  relations 
between  England  and  America." 


Here  is  a  heart-to-heart  talk  which  a  coun- 
try editor,  who  evidently  has  troubles  of  his 
own,  recently  gave  to  his  delinquent  sub- 
scribers :  "  Good-morning.  Have  you  paid 
your  subscription  this  year?  Perhaps  you 
owe  for  last  year,  or  several  years.  Now,  you 
understand,  we  don't  need  money ;  we  have 
millions — to  get.  But  it  is  really  an  imposi- 
tion to  let  people  go  on  carrying  our  money 
when  we  are  strong  and  healthy,  and  so 
abundantly  able  to  bear  the  burden  ourselves. 
For  this  reason  we  ask  anybody  who  has  any 
of  our  money  in  his  possession  to  leave  it  at 
the  office,  or  send  it  by  post,  freight  train, 
express,  or  any  other  way,  just  so  it  gets  here. 
Silver  and  gold  are  heavy,  and  it  would  be  a 
matter  of  life-long  regret  if  anybody  should 
get  bow-legged  carrying  it  about  for  us." 


The  other  evening,  a  lady,  whose  husband 
had  gone  out  for  the  evening,  was  about  to  re- 
tire for  the  night  with  her  infant  child,  when, 
to  her  amazement,  she  perceived  the  foot  of 
a  man  beneath  the  bed.  Instead  of  calling  for 
assistance,  she  coolly  went  to  the  child's  cot 
and  sat  and  sang  till  the  little  one  went  to 
sleep.  Two  hours  then  remained  before  her 
husband  came  in.  He  was  surprised  to  find 
her  waiting  up,  but  when  his  wife  handed  him 
an  envelope,  saying:  "You  might  run  and 
post  this,"  the  cause  of  her  waiting  was  re- 
vealed. Instead  of  a  letter  the  following  was 
written  en  the  envelope  :  "  A  burglar  is  under 
the  bed;  run,  fetch  police."  The  husband 
returned  in  a  few  minutes  with  a  policeman, 
and  the  man  was  arresttl.  The  burglar,  when 
brought  up  before  the  magistrate,  remarked 
that  he  had  come  across  a  few  brave  women 
in   his    time,    but   this   one   must  have   had   a 


nerve  like  iron,  for  she  sat  there  for  three 
solid  hours.  He  had  no  idea  that  she  knew 
he  was  there  until  the  policeman  pulled  him 
out. 


The  death  of  the  famous  Spanish  toreador. 
Reverte,  recalls  to  the  London  Globe  one  of 
the  most  thrilling  incidents  ever  witnessed  in 
the  arena.  It  was  at  Bayonne.  After  dispos- 
ing of  two  bulls,  Reverte  had  twice  plunged 
his  sword  into  a  third,  of  great  strength  and 
ferocity,  and  as  the  beast  continued  careering 
wildly,  the  spectators  began  to  hiss  Reverte 
for  bungling.  Wounded  to  the  very  quick  of 
his  pride,  the  Spaniard  shouted.  "  The  bull  is 
slain!"  and.  throwing  aside  his  sword,  sank  on 
one  knee  with  folded  arms  in  the  middle  of  the 
ring.  He  was  right,  but  he  had  not  allowed 
for  the  margin  of  accident.  The  wounded 
beast  charged  full  upon  him,  but  the  matador. 
splendid  to  the  last,  knelt  motionless  as  a 
statue,  while  the  spectators  held  their  breath 
in  horrified  suspense.  Reaching  his  victim, 
the  bull  literally  bounded  at  him,  and  as  he 
sprang  he  sank  in  death,  with  his  last  effort 
giving  one  fearful  lunge  of  the  head  that 
drove  a  horn  into  the  thigh  of  the  kneeling 
man,  and  laid  bare  the  bone  from  the  knee  to 
the  joint.  Still  Reverte  never  flinched,  but 
remained  kneeling,  exultant  in  victory,  but 
calmly  contemptuous  of  applause,  till  he  was 
carried  away  to  heal  him  of  his  grievous 
wound. 


A  Wedding  Au  Naturel. 

There  was  a  wedding  yesterday  in  Grace- 
less Church. 

Lord  Baldknob,  of  Kiltshire,  England,  mar- 
ried Miss  Sallie  Panhandle,  of  East  Pitts- 
burg. 

The  bridal  party,  including  the  attorneys 
for  both  sides,  formed  in  the  alcove  promptly 
at  11  130. 

At  1 1  :45  the  real  estate  in  the  bride's  name 
was  transferred  to  his  lordship. 

At  11:50  a  million  dollars  in  legal  tender 
changed  hands. 

At  high  noon  all  the  railroad  first  mort- 
gage bonds  known  to  be  in  the  bride's  pos- 
session were  handed  over. 

A  vote  of  thanks  was  then  passed  to  his 
lordship  for  leaving  the  bride's  father  enough 
to  live  on  comfortably  until  the  next  rise  in 
Wall  Street,  which  is  predicted  for  next 
spring. 

At  12:15  two  bishops,  four  clergymen,  two 
real-estate    lawyers,    and    a    barrister,    repre- 


senting the  plaintiff,  pronounced  the  benedic- 
tion. 

The  groom  will  pass  the  next  three  weeks 
with  his  bride  at  his  estates  in  England,  after 
the  roof  has  been  repaired. 

After  this,  it  is  understood,  they  will  sepa- 
rate and  enter  society. — Life. 


Sh-h-b ! 
My  maw — sbe's  upstairs  in  bed, 

An'  It's  there  wif  her. 
It's  all  bundled  up  an'  red — 

Can't  nobody  stir; 
Can't  nobody  say  a  word 

Since  it  come  to  us. 
Only  thing  'at  I  have  heard, 

'Cepting  all  Its  fuss. 
Is  "Sh-h-h!" 

That  there  nurse,  she  shakes  her  head 
When  I  come  upstairs. 
"  Sh-h-h!  "  she  sez — 'at's  all  she's  said 
To  me,  anywheres. 
Doctor — lie's  th"  man  'at  brung 

It  to  us  to  stay — 
He  makes  me  put  out  my  tongue, 
"Xen  sez,   "Sh-h-h!" — *at  way! 
Jest   "Sh-h-h!" 

I  goed  in  to  see  my  maw. 

Wen  dumb  on  th'  bed. 
Was  she  glad  to  see  me?      Pshaw! 

"  Sh-h-h  " — 'at's  what  she  said! 
'Ken  I  blinked  and  tried  to  see — 

'Xen    I    runned   away 
Out  to  my  old  apple-tree 

Where  no  one  could  say 
"  Sh-h-h!" 

'Xen   I   lay  down   on   th'   ground 

An*  say  'at  I  jest  wish 
I  was  big!     An'  there's  a  sound — 

'At  old  tree  says  "  Sh-h-h!  " 
*Nen  I  cry  an'  cry  an'  cry 

TUI  my  paw,  he  hears 
An'   corned   there   an'    wiped   my   eye 

An'  mop  up  th'  tears — 
'Nen  sez  "  Sh-h-h!  " 

I'm  go*  tell  my  maw  "at  she 

Don't  suit  me  one  bit — 
Why  d'  all  say  "Sh-h-h!"  to  me 

An'  not  say  "  Sh-h-h!  "  to  It? 

— Chicago   Tribune. 


Probably :  His  pa — "  Bobby.  I  merely  pun- 
ish you  to  show  my  love  for  you,  my  boy." 
Bobby — "  If  I  was  only  bigger,  pa,  I'd  return 
your   love." — Tit-Bits. 


AMERICAN  LINE, 


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cures  poison  oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  ail 
druggists. 


Marquette. 
Whiskey 


Marquette    leads    in    quality   and    purity. 

There  is  no  other  whiskey  in  its  high  class. 

There  are  no  doubt  many  good  whiskies, 
but  their  goodness  is  not  sufficient  for  Marquette.  It 
is  absolutely  the  purest  of  whiskies. 

GROMMES  S:  ULLRICH,  Distillers,  Chicago. 

W.  J.  KEARNEY,  Representative, 
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Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  (or 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai. 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Coptic   Sal  ur.i.iy.  Oct.  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila)   Wednesday,  Nov.  25 

Doric Tuesday.  I»ec.  22 

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calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
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2b4 


THE        ARGON  AUT. 


October  19,  1903. 


society. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past   week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Isabel  McKenna,  daughter  of  Justice  Stephen 
McKenna.  of  -the  United  States  Supreme 
Court,  and  Mr.  Pitts  Duffield,  son  of  General 
and  Mrs.  Henry  Duffield,  of  Detroit,  and  a 
nephew  of  Justice  Brown,  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court,  one  of  Justice  Mc- 
Kenna's  associates. 

The  enaagement  has  been  announced  of 
Miss  Eleanor  Carlisle  Eckart,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  R.  Eckart.  and  Mr. 
Charles  Edwin  Hume,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Weber  Hume,  of  Oakland. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of 
Miss  Florence  Boone,  daughter  of  Professor 
R  Boone,  of  Berkeley,  and  Mr.  Ralph  L. 
Phelps,  son  of  J.  L.  Phelps,  of  the  Stockton 
Independent. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Rattigan  have  announced 
the  engagement  of  their  daughter.  Miss  Sadie 
Elizabeth  Rattigan,  to  Mr.  Paul  Jerome 
Regan,  son   of   Mr.   and   Mrs.    T.  J.   Regan. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Bertie  Bruce,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bruce,  and  Mr. 
Ferdinand  Stephenson  will  take  place  at  noon 
at  Trinity  Church,  October  29th.  The  cere- 
mony will  be  performed  by  the  Rev.  Clifton 
Macon,  assisted  by  Rev.  Frederick  Clampett. 
Miss  Gertrude  Van  Wyck  will  act  as  maid  of 
honor,  and  the  bridesmaids  will  be  Miss  Lucie 
King  Miss  Ethel  Cooper.  Miss  Margaret  Sin- 
clair, and  Miss  Bernie  Drown.  The  best  man 
will  be  Mr.  Philip  Clay,  and  Mr.  James  K. 
Moffitt.  Mr.  Franklyn  Wakefield,  of  Oakland, 
Mr.  Eugene  Beck,  and  Mr.  Sam  Boardman  will 
serve  as  ushers. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Eleanor  Glynn,  niece 
of  Judge  R.  J.  Tobin,  and"  Captain  John 
Mooney  will  take  place  at  high  noon  on 
Wednesday  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral.  The 
Rev.  Father  Prendergast  will  perform  the 
ceremony,  and  Miss  Louise  Glynn  will  be  the 
maid  of  honor. 

Invitations  have  been  sent  out  for  the  wed- 
ding of  Miss  Jean  Nokes.  daughter  of  Mrs. 
M.  L.  Nokes,  and  Lieutenant  John  B.  Murphy. 
The  ceremony  will  be  performed  at  the  home 
of  Miss  Nokes's  grandmother.  Mrs.  Rodgers, 
on  Thursday  afternoon,  October  27th.  Miss 
Anna  Sperry  will  be  the  maid  of  honor.  Dr. 
Harold  Greenleaf  the  best  man,  and  Mr.  H.  C. 
Rodgers,  Jr..  Mr.  J.  Brockway  Metcalf. 
Lieutenant  Edward  Shinkle.  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Lieutenant  P.  K.  Brice,  U.  S.  A.,  the  ushers. 
Lieutenant  Murphy  and  his  bride  will  leave 
the  following  day  for  his  new  post  at  Fort 
Russell,  Wyo. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Ottilie  Schucking. 
formerly  of  this  city,  and  Mr.  William  Graf, 
of  Constanz,  Germany,  will  take  place  on 
Thursday  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Ludwig 
Sutro,  44  West  Seventy-Sixth  Street,  New 
York  City. 

Miss  Grace  Sperry  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Tuesday  at  "  Arbor  Villa,"  Piedmont,  at  which 
she  entertained  Miss  Margaret  Sinclair,  Miss 
Florence  Hush.  Miss  Florence  Starr,  Miss 
Ethel  Moore.  Mrs.  Walter  Starr,  Miss  Jane 
Rawlings.  Mrs.  Henry  D.  Nichols.  Miss  Bessie 
Palmer.  Miss  Mona  Crellin,  Mrs.  Dan  Belden. 
Mrs.  William  Gardiner  Cooke,  Mrs.  C.  Oscar 
Gowing.  Miss  Carolyn  Oliver,  Miss  Mae 
Burdge.  Miss  Florence  Nightingale,  Miss 
Marion  Smith,  and  Miss  Evelyn  Ellis. 

Miss  Gertrude  Van  Wyck  will  give  a  lunch- 
eon on  Wednesday  in  honor  of  Miss  Bertie 
Bruce. 

Miss  Ardella  Mills  gave  an  informal  tea 
on  Monday  afternoon  in  honor  of  Miss  Bernie 
Drown.  She  was  assisted  in  receiving  by 
her  mother.  Mrs.  William  H.  Mills  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Mills. 

Mrs.  Henry  Foster  Dutton  will  be  "  at 
home  "  on  the  third  and  fourth  Fridays,  at  her 
residence.   2515   Broadway. 

Mrs.  Colburn  and  Miss  Maye  Colburn  have 
issued  invitations  to  a  large  luncheon  to  be 
given  at  the  University  Club  in  honor  of 
Mrs.  Henry  Dutton  on  Thursday. 

Mr.  Emerson  Warfield  gave  a  dinner  at  the 
California  Hotel  on  Tuesday  evening,  at  which 
he  entertained  Mrs.  R.  H.  Warfield,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Dutton,  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton, 
Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Captain  Frederick  John- 
son, U.  S.  A.,  and  Mr.  Ralph  Hart. 

Mrs.  William  Gilman  Thompson  has  sent 
out  cards  for  a  large  tea  to  be  given  on  Oc- 
tober 31st,  from  four  to  seven,  at  the  Pome- 
roy  home  at  the  north-east  corner  of  Hyde 
and  Clay  Streets,  when  Miss  Christine  Morris 
Pomeroy  and  Miss  Lucy  Gurn  Coleman  will 
make  their  formal  debut. 

Invitations  are  out  for  the  charity  ball  to  be 
given  by  the  Albert  Sidney  Johnston  Chapter, 
United  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy,  on  Fri- 
day evening,  at  nine  o'clock,  in  the  new  ball- 
room of  the  Palace  Hotel.  The  patronesses 
are  Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Foster,  Mrs.  William  M. 
Gwin.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Herrin.  Mrs.  William  B. 
Collier,  Mrs.  Selden  S.  Wright.  Mrs.  Alfred 
H.     Voorhies,     Mrs.    Wakefield     Baker,     Mrs. 


The  Old  Reliable 

ROYAL 

BAKING  POWDER 

ABSOLUTELY 

PURE 

fhere  is  no  substitute 


Phebe  Hearst,  Mrs.  John  Garber,  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Martin,  Mrs.  Ynez  Shorb  .White,  Mrs.  William 
S.  Duff,  and  Mrs.  William  B.  Pritchard. 
Over  a  thousand  invitations  have  been  issued, 
and  the  ball  promises  to  be  a  brilliant  one. 

Mrs.  Ida  S.  Lewis  will  give  a  combination 
tea,  euchre-party,  and  musicaLe  on  Thursday 
afternoon,  October  29th.,  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.  Joseph  Trflley  gave  a  euchre-party  at 
her  residence,  2847  Fillmore  Street,  _  on 
Wednesday  afternoon,  at  which  she  ^entertained 
Mrs.  H.  C.  Coolidge.  Mrs.  George  Gibbs,  Mrs. 
Glass  Mrs.  Frederic  Lefavor.  Mrs.  L.  A. 
Kelley,  Mrs.  Norris,  Mrs.  E.  B.  Pond,  Mrs. 
Horace  Davis,  Mrs.  N.  P.  Chipman.  Mrs. 
Ynez  Shorb  White,  Mrs.  Andrews,  Mrs.  Todd. 
Mrs.  Lewis,  Mrs.  Lassiter,  Mrs.  Charles 
Woods,  Mrs.  E.  Selfridge.  Mrs.  A.  S.  Baldwin. 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Milton,  Mrs.  Farnsworth,  Mrs.  V. 

C.  Cottman,  Mrs.  Brooks.  Mrs.  Irvine,  Mrs. 
Clarke,  Mrs.  Richards,  Mrs.  Horace  Hill,  Mrs. 
Vanderlyn  Stow,  Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington,  Mrs. 

D.  A.  Bender,  Miss  Katherine  Selfridge,  Miss 
Mattie  Milton,  Miss  Ruth  Gidney,  Miss  Annie 
Miller,  Miss  Elsie  Dorr,  Miss  Laura  Farns- 
worth. Mrs.  Henry  Crocker,  Mrs.  John  Water- 
man Phillips,  Mrs.  Charles  Lyman  Bent,  Mrs. 
Gerrett  Lansing,  Mrs.  Miller.  Mrs.  Charles 
Mullins,  and  Mrs.  John  Clark. 


MUSICAL     NOTES. 


Otto  Spamer's  Concerts. 

Otto  Spamer,  the  violinist  who  recently 
scored  such  a  success  with  the  Scheel  orches- 
tra, and  who  is  a  pupil  of  the  great  Wilhelming, 
is  to  give  two  concerts  next  week  at  Lyric 
Hall,  under  the  patronage  of  Mrs.  James  E. 
Tucker,  Mrs.  Ralph  C.  Harrison,  Mrs.  James 
M.  Goewey,  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill,  Miss 
Ames,  Mrs.  Norman  McLaren,  Mrs.  Phebe 
Hearst,  Mrs.  E.  W.  McKinstry,  Mrs.  Horace 
Davis,  Mrs.  Pelham  W.  Ames,  Mrs.  Clinton 
Day,  and  Mrs.  Emma  Shafter  Howard.  Mr. 
Spamer  will  be  assisted  by  Mrs.  M.  E.  Blan- 
chard, soprano ;  Mrs.  L.  Snider-Johnson,  so- 
prano ;  and  Frederick  Maurer,  Jr.,  accom- 
panist. The  programme  for  Wednesday  even- 
ing will  be:  Concerto,  D-maj  or,  Pagan  ir.i-Wil- 
helmj  ;  aria,  "Pleurez,  mes  Yeux  "  (Le  Cidj, 
Massanet,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Blanchard;  "Romance," 
"  Polonaise,"  Wilhelmj  ;  chaconne  for  violin 
solo.  Bach ;  songsL  "  Ruhe,  Siissliebchen," 
"  Vergebliches  Standchen,"  "  Hanselein," 
Taubert,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Blanchard  ;  nocturne  op. 
9,  No.  2,  Chopin-Sarasate ;  and  "Airs 
Russes,"   Wieniawski. 

On  Saturday  afternoon,  the  programme  will 
include  concerto  G-minor,  allegro  moderato- 
adagio,  allegro  energico,  Bruch  ;  songs,*  "  Bit- 
ter-Sweet "  (J.  R.  Lowell),  "She  Is  Not 
Fair  to  Outward  View,"  "  Within  My  Heart  a 
Song  I  Found,"  Shafter-Howard,  August 
Bungert,  Mrs.  L.  Snider-Johnson  ;  paraphrase 
from  "  Seigfried,"  Wagner-Wilhelmj  ;  intro- 
duction, theme  and  variations,  Paganini- 
Wilhelmj  ;  preludium  and  fugue  from  1,  so- 
nata for  violin  solo,  Bach;  aria,  "Joan  of 
Arc,"  Bemberg ;  and  fantasie  based  on  Gou- 
nod's "  Faust,"  Wieniawski. 


The  Metropolitan  Opera  House  Orchestra. 
The  first  big  event  of  the  fall  musical  season 
will  be  the  concerts  to  be  given  by  the  or- 
chestra of  the  New  York  Metropolitan  Opera 
House,  under  the  direction  of  the  well-known 
conductor,  j.  S.  Duss.  The  soloists  with  the 
organization  arc  Nordica,  the  popular  Wagner- 
ian singer,  who  has  recently  been  winning 
new  triumphs  in  Munich ;  Mrs.  Katharine 
Fisk,  the  contralto  ;  and  Nathan  Franko,  the 
violinist.  The  concerts  will  be  given  at  the 
Alhambra  Theatre,  the  first  occurring  on  Tues- 
day night,  October  27th,  when  Nordica  will 
be  the  soloist,  and  an  excellent  programme 
will  be  rendered,  including  Weber's  "  Invi- 
tation to  the  Dance,"  by  Weingartner ;  the 
march,  "  With  Pomp  and  Circumstance," 
composed  for  King  Edward's  coronation  by 
Edward  Elgar ;  the  overture  to  Goldmark's 
"  Cricket  on  the  Hearth " ;  introduction  to 
"  Parsifal,"  and  other  new  works.  Tuesday 
afternoon  will  be  a  popular  concert,  at  which 
the  suite  to  "  Lorna  Doone,"  by  Nevin,  and 
solos  by  Mrs.  Katharine  Fisk  and  Nathan 
Franko  will  be  the  special  features.  Thurs- 
day night,  the  concert  will  be  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Twentieth  Century  Music 
Club.  On  this  occasion,  for  the  first  time, 
local  music-lovers  will  have  an  opportunity  to 
hear  Richard  Strauss's  tone  poem.  "  Don 
Juan."  Other  numbers  will  be  the  "  Dream 
Pantomime  "  from  "  Hansel  and  Gretel."  the 
"  Dance  of  the  Sun  feast  "  (American  Indian), 
by  Waller,  and  other  notable  works.  Mrs. 
Fisk  will  sing  the  aria,  "  Softly  Awakens  My 
Heart,"  from  "  Samson  and  Delilah,"  and  "  A 
Summer's  Night,"  by  Goring  Thomas,  with 
'cello  obligato  by  Paul  Miersch.  Nathan 
Franko  will  play  "  Theme  and  Variations," 
by  Corelli.  Friday  matinee  will  be  the  fare- 
well concert,  when  another  interesting  pro- 
gramme will  be  rendered,  with  Nordica  and 
Franko  as  soloists.  The  prices  will  range  from 
$1.00  to  $3.00,  with  special  rates  of  from 
50  cents  to  $2.00  for  the  Wednesday  popular 
concert,  which  will  begin  at  3  115  p.  m.  so  as 
to  allow  school-children  and  teachers  to  at- 
tend. 


The  Minetti  Orchestra,  a  symphony  orches- 
tra, which  has  just  been  successfully  organ- 
ized, will  prove  a  boon  to  all  local  amateur 
musicians,  who  are  anxious  to  secure  an  op- 
portunity to  gain  practical  experience  in  the 
proper  study  and  in  the  artistic  performance 
of  the  best  in  music.  Applications  for  mem- 
bership may  be  addressed  to  Meredith  Saw- 
yer, secretary  of  the  orchestra,  city,  P.  O. 
Box  2673. 

• — ■•» — + 

Experienced    Housekeeper. 

Position  wanted  by  a  housekeeper,  either  hotel, 
first-class  rooming-house,  or  private  home.  Best  of 
references.      Address  Box  511,  Argonaut  office. 


The  Photographic  Salon. 
The  third  Photographic  Salon  held  under 
the  auspices  of  the  San  Francisco  Art  Asso- 
ciation and  the  California  Camera  Club  at 
the  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art  has  been  attract- 
ing much  attention  during  the  week,  for  the 
one  hundred  and  seventy-five  pictures  on  ex- 
hibition in  the  Mary  Frances  Searles  Gallery 
cover  a  wide  range  of  subjects  and  light  ef- 
fects, and  are,  for  the  most  part,  of  unusual 
excellence.  The  catalogue  which  has  been 
prepared  is  unquestionably  the  most  artistic 
thing  of  the  kind  ever  made  in  this  city.  Six- 
teen illustrations  are  used,  the  reproductions 
doing  full  justice  to  the  originals.  Those 
selected  from  the  exhibition  for  this  honor 
are:  "Breton  Shell  Gatherers,"  by  Walter 
Zimmerman ;  "  The  Swans,"  by  Victor 
Stouffs  ;  "  Mother  and  Child  II,"(by  Adelaide 
Hanscom ;  "  Trees  and  Clouds,"  by  P.  S. 
Bruguiere ;  "  Cleaning  Brass,"  by  Myra  Al- 
bert Wiggins ;  "  At  the  Door  of  the  Fonda," 
by  Gustav  Eisen ;  "  California  Peonies,"  by 
F.  E.  Monteverde;  "Crossing  the  Desert,"  by 
Edward  H.  Kemp ;  "  A  Newsboy  at  Night," 
by  Grace  Hubley ;  "  On  the  Chicago  River," 
by  William  P.  Gunthorp ;  "  Playmates,"  by 
Dr.  F.  Detle  Detlefsen ;  "  A  Note  from  the 
Sea,"  by  Herbert  Arthur  Hess ;  "  Kittens," 
by  B.  W.  Crandall ;  "  At  Rest,"  by  C.  George 
Bull,  M.  D. ;  and  a  portrait  of  Joaquin  Miller, 
by  O.  H.  Boye.  The  last  promenade  concert, 
under  the  direction  of  Henry  Heyman,  will  be 
given  next  Saturday  evening,  when  the  ex- 
hibition comes  to  a  close. 


The  Coming  Automobile  Meet. 

The  card  for  the  two-day  automobile  racing 
meet,  to  be  held  at  Ingleside  track  Friday  and 
Saturday,  November  6th  and  7th,  has  now  been 
practically  completed.  Cash  prizes  aggrega- 
ting about  $1,500  and  a  number  of  silver  cups 
are  to  be  offered,  as  well  as  a  special  prize  for 
the  best  mile  done  under  one  minute.  The 
officials  will  be:  Judges — J.  D.  Spreckels,  T. 
H.  Williams,  and  R.  P.  Schwerin  ;  referee,  L. 
L.  Lowe ;  clerk  of  the  course,  Robert  Lenny  ; 
timer,  Samuel  Buckbee. 

Each  of  the  two  days  will  see  eight  races, 
all  of  them  prospective  of  good  sport.  The 
programme  will  begin  at  1:30  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  and  the  events  will  be  pulled  oft  at 
intervals  of  a  half  hour  until  5:30  o'clock. 
Places  will  be  given  on  the  programme  to  cars 
from  the  lightest  to  the  heaviest,  and  one  race 
will  be  set  aside  each  day  for  cars  legitimately 
owned  in  California.  In  order  to  give  every- 
body a  chance,  the  last  race  of  each  day  will 
be  a  handicap  event  for  those  who  have  taken 
part  in  the  foregoing  contests. 


A.    U  ir-ch  man  , 
712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


An  amusement  event  of  unusual  importance 
will  be  the  eleventh  annual  benefit  in  aid  of 
the  charity  fund  of  San  Francisco  Lodge, 
No.  21,  Theatrical  Mechanics'  Association,  to 
take  place  at  the  Alhambra  Theatre  next 
Friday  afternoon  at  two  o'clock  sharp.  The 
best  dramatic  talent  in  the  city  will  be  brought 
together,  the  managers  of  all  the  theatres 
having  kindly  promised  to  aid  "  the  men 
behind  the  scenes."  The  music  will  be  one  of 
the  strong  features  of  the  programme,  and 
several  of  the  changes  of  scenery  will  be  made 
in  full  view  of  the  audience  by  members  of  the 
lodge.  Reserved  seats  can  be  obtained  at  the 
Alhambra  box  office  at  nine  o'clock  on  Monday 
morning. 

This  is  the  time  of  the  year  for  brilliant 
sunsets,  after  glows,  and  sunrises,  and  at  no 
place  can  they  be  seen  to  such  advantage  as 
from  the  summit  of  Mt.  Tamalpais.  It  will 
more  than  repay  all  lovers  of  nature  to  staj' 
over  night  at  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  to 
witness  these  grand  sights. 


Peter  J.  Curtis. 
Peter  J.  Curtis,  the  Democratic  nominee 
for  sheriff,  and  also  the  choice  of  the  Union 
Labor  party,  is  eminently  well  qualified  for  that 
important  office.  His  four  years'  record  as 
supervisor  is  spotless.  He  has  consistently 
and  continually  opposed  all  measures  designed 
to  squander  public  moneys.  He  is  strongest 
in  the  district  whence  he  came,  and  is  person- 
ally popular,  and  deservedly  so.  The  office  of 
sheriff  derives  its  particular  importance  at 
this  time  from  the  fact  that  a  dishonest  sheriff 
is  frequently  able  to  pack  juries  and  defeat 
the  ends  of  justice.  It  often  happens  that  vast 
issues  depend  upon  decisions  of  juries,  and  no 
pains,_  therefore,  should  be  spared  to  place  the 
sheriffs  office  in  the  hands  of  a  man  well 
known  to  be  incorruptible.  Such  a  man  is 
Peter  J.  Curtis. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


T— "— - 


Cbe  favorite  Champagne   t 


Pears' 

Agreeable  soap  /or  the 
hands  is  one  that  dissolves 
quickly,  "washes  quickly, 
rinses  quickly,  and  lt-aves 
the  skin  soft  and  comfort- 
able.    It  is  Pears'. 

Wholesome  soap  is  one 
that  attacks  the  dirt  but 
not  ihe  living  skin.  It  is 
Pea.-V. 

Economical  ;  oap  is  one 
that  a  touch  of  cleanses. 
Ai.d  this  is  Pears'. 

"RptabKshed  over  ioo  years. 


Centemeri 
a  good  glove 

for 

a  dollar  and  a  half 

Salesroom   200  Post  Street 
Corner  Grant  Ave. 


OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT  \ 

PIANISTE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 
of  Vienna 

ANNOUNCES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSON  ■    | 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 

Phone  Larkin  291. 

ROBERT  TITTLE  McKEE 

Consulting  Decorator  and  Designer 

Formerly  with  flcCann,  Belcher,  and  Allen, 
San  Francisco, 

CAN     BE    SEEN     BY     APPOINTMENT 
AT    MIS    STUDIO 

307  Fifth  Avenue 

One  block  south  of  Waldorf-Astoria. 
Telephone  967  R  Madison  Square. 

Clients  wishing  to  select  directly  from  the  trade 
Imported  Fabrics.  Paper  Hangings  (English, 
French,  and  German).  Upholstery.  Objects  of  Art, 
Furniture,  Prints  or  Pictures  will  find  Mr.  McKee 
acquainted  with  the  best  art  dealers  and  wholesale 
shops. 

Mr.  McKee  can  show  the  most  a  lislic  color 
combinations  and  give  ideas  for  the  -newest  designs 
in  making  and  arranging. 

CORRESPOXDENCE    SOLICITED. 

GOODYEAR  RUBBER  COMPANY 

Certain  parties  are  using  the  name 
"Goodyear"  in  selling  mackin- 
toshes and  rain  coats  and  letting  the 
customer  understand  they  are  Good= 
year  Rubber  Company's  goods. 


The    genuine    garment    has    the    "Gold     Seal"] 
trade-mark  on.      'I  he  Goodyear  Rubber  Company 
has  but  one  store  in  San  Francisco,  which  is  located 
at    573,    575,  577,  and    579    Market    St.. 
near  Second. 


]  WILLIAM  WOLrT&  CO.  I 

Pacific  Coast  Agents  t 


11    "*" fo; 

CHAPPED  HANDS,  CHAFING, 
Vani  a2  afflictions  of  tl*  skin.  "A  Utile 
higher  in  price,  perhaps,  Shan  worthless 
substitutes,  but  a  reason  for  it."  De- 
lightful afiir  shaving-  Sold  evtrjwbeiE,  or 
.  receipt  of  25c 
"  IARD   MENNEN  CO.,   Newark.  N.  J. 


C.  H.  RE3NSTR0M 

[>RRS  £  JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 

Ph     .n  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPH  --  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


October  19,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COL'RT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  ot  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

ITHE  EMPIRE  PARLOR— the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  Indies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  oi  this  most  famous  hotel. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

iaaa  sutter  street 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU    CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Fine  and  Jones  Sts. 
The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEORGE  WiEBES  HOOPER.  Lessee. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 

malaria 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  ODe-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
8  a.  m..  10  a.  M.,  and  4  p.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

Hm  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O, 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  =  four  trains   daily  each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

R.  V.  HAITOS,  Proprietor. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 


California's  beautiful  winter  and  summer 
hotel.  Weather  is  ideal  the  year  round  for 
surf-bathing,  hunting,  automobiling,  polo, 
and  pony  racing.  The  United  States  report 
of  minimum  temperatures  shows  what  a 
delightful  spot  Del  Monte  is  at  all  seasons 
of  the  year:  January,  44.4  ;  February,  46.1  ; 
March,  51.8;  April,  52.2. 

THE  GOLF  LINKS-fullio-hole  course, 
greens  and  tees  always  green— are  consid- 
ered the  finest  in  the  States. 

In  touring  California,  visit  and  prolong 
your  stay  at  this  delightful  resort. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 

Manager. 


! 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments, to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Prince  and  Princess  Andre  Poniatowski  and 
family,  after  a  fortnight's  stay  in  New  York, 
sailed  for  Europe  on  October  6th. 

Mrs.  J.  C.  Stubbs,  accompanied  by  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Morton  R.  Gibbons,  whom  she 
has  been  visiting,  will  leave  for  the  East  on 
Sunday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Worthington  Ames  have  re- 
turned to  town,  after  having  spent  the  summer 
with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edgar  F.  Preston  at  their 
country  place  at  Redwood. 

Mrs.  Alexander  Loughborough  and  Miss 
Josephine  Loughborough  have  departed  for 
Xew  York,  where  they  will  remain  about  two 
weeks  before  sailing  for  Europe.  They  expect 
to  be  abroad  until  next  spring. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Augustus  Spreckels  and 
Miss  Lurline  Spreckels  sailed  from  Cherbourg 
for  Xew  York  on  Tuesday. 

Mrs.  Charles  Josselyn  and  the  Misses  Josse- 
lyn  expect  to  sail  on  November  3d  from  New 
York  for  Europe,  where  they  will  remain  dur- 
ing the  winter. 

Mrs.  Theodore  Tomlinson,  who  has  been 
visiting  her  mother,  Mfs.  Keeney,  for  several 
weeks,  will  return  to  New  York  this  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  O.  McCormick  left  in  their 
private  car  for  the  East  on  Friday.  Mrs. 
Salisbury,  who  was  one  of  their  party,  expects 
to  be  away  several  weeks. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Frederick  Kohl  are  making 
a  visit  to  New  York,  prior  to  coining  to  Cali- 
fornia for  the  winter. 

Mrs.  Irving  Scott  expects  to  spend  the 
winter  months  in  Santa  Barbara. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  C.  N.  Ellinwood  have  de- 
parted for  Southern  California,  where  they 
will  remain  for  several  weeks. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sterling  Postley  have  arrived 
in  New  York,  where  they  intend  spending  the 
winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  L.  Eyre,  who  have 
spent  the  summer  at  Menlo  Park,  have  re- 
turned to  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Gwin  will  spend  the 
winter  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  J.  Crittenden  Watson,  who  has  been 
spending  several  weeks  with  her  mother,  Mrs. 
J.  B.  Thornton,  at  her  residence  on  Jackson 
Street,  departed  for  Washington,  D.  C,  last 
Saturday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Bishop  expect  to  spend 
the  autumn  months  at  their  ranch  near  Santa 
Barbara. 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Hotaling  and  her  son,  Mr. 
Frederick  C.  Hotaling,  sailed  from  New  York 
for  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sylvain  Weill  sailed  from 
New  York  last  week  for  Paris,  where  they 
will  make  their  future  home. 

Mrs.  H.  T.  Lally  and  her  daughter.  Miss 
Charlotte  Lally,  left  for  New  York  early  in 
the  week.  They  will  be  absent  about  two 
months. 

Senator  Francis  Newlands  sailed  from  New 
York  for  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  L.  Brown  and  son  have 
returned  from  their  European  tour,  and  are 
visiting  Mr.  and  Mrs.  I.  Lowenberg  at  their 
residence,   1950   California  Street. 

Mrs.  Ramon  E.  Wilson  and  her  daughter, 
Miss  Marion  R,  Wilson,  are  in  Paris,  after 
having  spent  the  winter  in  Italy  and  Greece, 
and  the  summer  on  the  Rhine  and  in  the 
Netherlands.  They  are  accompanied  by  Miss 
Mary  Louise  Rowe,  of  San  Mateo. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  were  in  New 
York  during  the  week. 

Mr.  Frank  C.  Dutton  and  his  sister.  Miss 
Molly  Dutton,  are  making  a  short  stay  in 
New  York  before  sailing  for  Europe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stuyvesant  Fish,  Miss 
Cameron,  and  Mr.  Ogden  Codman,  Jr.,  visited 
the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  last  week- 
Mrs.  Max  Vagedes  (nee  Roeding),  of  Cas- 
sel,  Germany,  is  spending  the  winter  months 
here  with  her  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  Roe- 
ding,  at  1910  Washington  Street.  She  will  be 
at  home  the  third  and  fourth  Thursdays. 

Among  the  week's  guests  at  the  Occidental 
Hotel  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  R.  Culbertson,  of 
Spokane,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hathaway,  of  San  Le- 
andro,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Norris.  of  New 
York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  R.  Maize,  of  San 
Diego,  Mr.  L.  Hall,  of  Honolulu,  Captain  and 
Mrs.  J.  M.  Healey,  and  Major  and  Mrs.  F.  K. 
Ward. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  D.  Wheat- 
land, of  Sausalito,  Mrs.  F.  H.  Conant.  Mrs. 
T.  M.  Conant,  Mr.  Roger  Conant,  and  Mr. 
Frank  H.  Conant,  of  Berkeley,  Mrs.  M.  T. 
Campbell,  of  New  York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  F. 
Kelly,  of  Oakland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sam  Beh- 
rendt,  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  K. 
Lynch,  of  Alameda,  Mr.  J.  Ebner,  of  Sacra- 
mento, Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ellis  Parrish,  Mrs.  C. 
E.  Green,  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  de  Ruyter. 

Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Captain  Benjamin  P.  Laraberton,  U.  S.  N., 
Captain  French  E.  Chadwick,  U.  S.  N.,  Captain 
Bowman  H.  McCalla,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Captain 
William  H.  Whiting,  U.  S.  N.,  have  been 
advanced  to  the  ranks  of  rear-admiral  through 
the  retirement  of  Rear-Admiral  Louis  Kempff, 
U.  S.  N.,  last  Sunday. 

Major  Ogden  Rafferty,  medical  department, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  attending  surgeon  at 
department  headquarters  during  the  past  two 
years,  has  received  orders  transferring  him 
to  Fort  Monroe,   Va. 

Captain  Charles  H.  Hunter,  Artillery  Corps,  I 
U.  S.  A.,  is  in  command  at  Fort  Miley.  having 
succeeded  Major  Henry  H.  Ludlow,  Artillery 
Corps,   U.  S.  A.,  who  is  now  on  duty  at  the 
State  Agricultural  College  at  Jackson,  Miss. 

Captain  Benjamin  M.  Koehler,  Artillery 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  has  departed  for  his  new 
station  at  Fort  Schuyler,  N.  Y. 

Captain  James  A.  Cole,  Sixth  Cavalry'.  L1*. 
S.  A.,   returned  from   the   Philippines   on   the 


transport  Sheridan,  accompanied  bv  Mrs. 
Cole. 

Major  Ben  H.  Fuller.  U.  S.  M.  C,  is  now 
in  command  of  the  marine  barracks  at  the 
Mare  Island  Navy  Yard. 

Major  Guy  L.  Edie.  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  at 
present  stationed  at  Columbus  Barracks,  has 
been  ordered  to  the  Philippines. 

Mrs.  Sebree,  who  has  been  spending  the 
summer  in  Missouri  as  the  guest  of  relatives. 
has  returned  to  San  Francisco.  After  a  stay  of 
several  weeks  here,  she  will  sail  for  the  Orient 
to  join  her  husband.  Captain  Uriel  Sebree. 
U.  S.  N.,  who  is  in  command  of  the  Wis- 
consin. 

Colonel  Charles  Morris.  U.  S.  A.,  accom- 
panied by  his  family,  arrived  from  the  East 
last  week,  and  on  Saturday  assumed  command 
of  the  post  at  the  Presidio. 

Major  John  S.  Mallory.  U.  S.  A.,  arrived 
from  the  Philippines,  en  route  to  Washington, 
D.  C,  last  week. 

Major  Leon  S.  Roudiez.  Twenty-Fifth  In- 
fantry, U.  S.  A.,  who  returned  from  the 
Philippines  on  the  transport  Sheridan  last 
Sunday,  is  under  orders  to  take  station  at  Fort 
Reno,  Okla. 

Mrs.  Lassiter,  wife  of  Major  William  Las- 
siter.  Fifteenth  Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  who  is 
stationed  at  Monterey,  has  been  the  guest 
this  week  of  Miss  Laura  Farnsworth  at  her 
residence  on  Washington  Street. 

Captain  David  S.  Stanley,  quartermaster's 
department.  U.  S.  A.,  left  for  his  new  post  of 
duty  at  Chicago  on  Tuesday. 

Commander  Charles  E.  Fox.  U.  S.  N..  and 
Mrs.  Fox  arrived  from  Washington  early  in 
the  week  and  registered  at  the  Occidental 
Hotel. 


Tyndall's  Lecture  Course  Drawing  to  a  Close. 
'"Money:  the  Psychic  Law  Governing  It" 
will  be  the  subject  of  Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor- 
Tyndall's  lecture  next  Sunday  evening,  at 
Steinway  Hall.  Only  one  other  lecture  is 
announced  thus  far,  "  The  World  Invisible." 
which  is  the  subject  selected  for  the  : 
ing  Sunday  night,  October  25th.  Some  cap- 
italists of  Los  Angeles,  who  have  become  in- 
terested in  the  work  of  the  famous  exponent 
of  psychic  science,  have  opened  an  institute 
there,  and  have  induced  Dr.  Tyndall  to  take 
the  presidency.  It  is  more  than  likely,  there- 
fore, that  the  series  of  lectures  being  given 
here  will  soon  cease,  unless  Dr.  Tyndall  can 
be  persuaded  to  found  a  similar  institute  here, 
which  does  not  seem  likely,  although  Dr.  Mc- 
Ivor- Tyndall  has  done  more  for  the  advance- 
ment of  ""  New  Thought  "  ideas  in  San  Fran- 
cisco than  any  one  who  has  ever  visited  the 
Coast.  He  possesses,  in  addition  to  a  cul- 
tured mind  and  rare  psychic  powers,  a  mod- 
esty and  gentleness  of  manner  that  is  par- 
ticularly pleasing  to  his  audiences,  which  have 
been  composed  of  the  city's  best  element. 


Model  Gowns  and 
French  Lingerie  Keduced. 

Beginning  next  Monday,  October  19th,  the 
Emporium's  beautiful  model  gowns  tor  fall 
and  winter,  1903-4,  will  be  ottered  at  a  reduc- 
tion of  one-third  to  one-half  of  the  original 
prices.  These  charming  examples  of  the  dress- 
maker's art,  designed  by  some  of  the  most  fa- 
mous modistes  in  Europe,  have  been  in  the 
store  but  little  more  than  a  month  ;  but  the;. 
have  served  their  purpose  as  model  gowns, 
and  now,  right  at  the  beginning  of  the  season, 
they  are  offered  at  less  than  the  actual  cost  of 
importation. 

In  conjunction  with  this  sale,  a  large  line 
of  French  lingerie — single  pieces  and  bridal 
sets — will  be  ottered  at  one-third  less  .  than 
regular  prices.  Every  garment  is  made  by 
hand,  charmingly  designed,  and  beautifully 
trimmed. 


—  A  YOUNG  WOMAN  OF   NOBLE   FAMILY,    St-EASC- 

ing  French  and  English  fluently,  wishes  place  as 
secretary  or  companion  for  a  few  hours  a  dav.  also 
French  conversation.     Address  X,  Argonaut  office. 


—  "Knox'"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.  Hatter,  746  Market  Sl 


—  Swell  dressers  have  their  Shirt  Waists 
made  at  Kent's.  "Shirt  Tailor."  121   Post  St.,  S.  F. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire.  Collision.  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  ihe  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  broker,  or  Trans 
portation  Agent. 


To  be  sure  and  to 
be  satisfied    ask    for 

Dorflinger 
Glassware 

and  look  for  the 
above  trade-mark 
'abel  on  each  piece. 


HUNTER 
BALTIMORE    RYE 

Perfection  in  Age,  Purity,  Flavor. 

Political  Announcements 

For 
Mayor 

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Republican 
Nominee 


For  Tax  Collector 

EDWARD  J.  SMITH 


INCUMBENTI 


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For  Sheriff 


PETER  J.  CURTIS 


1  "Imirman  Street  Committee  of  Present 
Board  of  Supervisors 

Democratic  Nominee 
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For  District  Attorney 


Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

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All  closes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


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importers  and  Dealers  Id 


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SAN    FRANCISCO.  Mill  Supplies,  Etc. 


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PIANOS 

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San  K- . 


256 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


October  19,  1903. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San  Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

A  M  — 'BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  715  P  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 

A  M-f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m.  Kansas 
Cilv  (third  day)  2.35  a  m.  Chit  ago  (third 
dan  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  •  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  f'.io  p  m. 
A  M—  *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  320  p  m.  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair'car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11.10  p  m. 
J§    £%g%  PM— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock 

1 1. 10  a 

«/)/)  p  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
»*/•#  Stockton  11.15  P  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
davt  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day}  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m- 

*  Daily.       +  Monday  and  Thursday. 
j  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personalis-  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


ton  7.10pm.     Corresponding  train  arrives 
11. 10  a  m. 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferrv  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  N08TB  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry.  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

vVEEK   DAYS — 7.30,  S.oo,  9.00,  11.00  am;  12.35,  2.30, 

3.40,  5.10,5,50,  6.30,  and  11.30  p  m.     Saturdays — Extra 

trip  at  1.30  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 7.30,  S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  m;  1.30,  2.30,3.40, 

5.10,  6.30,  11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK  DAYS— 6.05,  6.50,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m; 

12.50,  fz-oo,  3.40,  5.00,  5.20,  6.25  p  m.    Saturdays — 

Extra  trip  at  1.45  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 6.50,  7-35.  9.2o,   11.15  a  m  ;  1.45,  3-4Q,  4.50. 

5,00,  5.20,  6.10,  6.25  p  m. 
fExcept  Saturdays. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
May  3,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week        Sun- 
Days,        days. 

Destination. 

Sun-     |    Week 
days.    ]    Days. 

7.30  a  m 
7.30  a  m    S.00  a  m 
S.oo  a  m    9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  ra    2.30  p  m 

5.10pm    5.10pm 

Ignacio. 

7-45  a  m    745  am 
S.40  a  m    S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m    6.20  pm 
6.20  p  m    7.25  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m    9.30  a  m 
5.10  p  m    2.30  p  tn 
5-1°  P  ni 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7.45  a  m    7.45  a  m 
10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  ni    6.20  p  m 
7.25  pm    7.25  pm 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  ra 
Sooam    S.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m    6.20  p  m 

7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  ra    2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 

1 
7.25  P  ni    7.25  p  m 

1 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10.20  a  m  10,20  a  m 
7.25  p  m    7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  ni    7-25P  m 

S.oo  a  m,  S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m  10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m    6.20  p  m 

S.oo  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
5.10  pm    5.10  pm 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  m    S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m    6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m    7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m    2.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  ro  10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  ml  6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lyltou  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers. 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs.  Highland  Springs,  Kelsevville.  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bav,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlelt  Springs- 
at  Ukiah  for  Yichv  Springs.  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs.  Upper  Lake, 
Pomo,  Potter  Valley.  John  Day's.  Riverside,  Lierleys 
Bucknell's.  Sanhedriif  Heights.  Hullville.  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half  Way  House,  Comptche.  Camp  Stevens 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo.  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs 
Harris,  Olsens.  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

Ou  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street.  Chronicle  Buildine 

H.C  WHITING.  R.X.RYAN.        S 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agl. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL. 
ROSS.  MILL  VALLEY.   ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART    WEEK    DAYS— 645.  f»7-45 
5.45.9-45.   I"  a.   m.;    12.20,  *i.45,  3.1s.  4.15, 
1  *5-i5.  "6.15.  6.45,  9,  11.45  i'    M. 
745  *■■  M.  week  davs  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valic,- 
DEPART  SUNDAY-7,  f8.  t*9.  t*>o.    11,  fn  30  a 
m.:  fi2.30.  f*i.30,  2.35,  *3.50,  5,  6.  7.30,  9,  11.45  P-  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run    1.0    San    Quentin.     Those 
marked    (t)   to  Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.   m.  Saturday. 
Satur  lay's  3.15  P.  M.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
745  -•■  m.  week  days—  Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  M.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted)— Toraales 

ati'i  way  stations. 
2}r    p.    M.    Saturdays — Caradero    and    way  stations, 
Si:     jays,  S  a.  m. — Cazad^-.        ad  way  stations. 

iys,  10  a.  m.— Point  Re«rs  and  intermediate. 
Hi  >li davs — Boats  and  l    tins  on  Sunday  time. 
Ti  kel  Offices— 626  Market;  Ferrv,  fool  Market. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Business  sense  :  "  The  P.  X.  &  Y.  is  the 
most  enterprising  railroad  in  the  country-" 
htmpuppe — ,'Why?"  "They  now  run  excur- 
sions and  observation  trains  to  the  scenes  of 
all  their  important  wrecks." — Ex. 

"  Let  us  have  peace,"  said  the  English  in- 
vader ;  "can  you  not  see  that  the  white 
strangers  love  the  Redmen?"  "  Ah,  yes. ' 
replied  the  intelligent  Indian,  "  they  love  the 
very  ground  we  walk  upon." — Philadelphia 
Press. 

Silence  fell  as  a  pall :  Young  wife  (at  din- 
ner)— "  I  didn't  tell  you,  Adolphus,  I  cooked 
the  dinner  to-day  myself."  Husband — "In- 
deed. Then  in  my  thoughts  I  have  been  do- 
ing poor  Mary  Ann  a  great  injustice." — Pear- 
son's Weekly. 

A  rare  chance :  Nell — "  I  was  delighted  to 
meet  her  at  a  bargain  sale  to-day."  Belle — 
"  I  thought  you  detested  her."  Nell — "  So  I 
do ;  and  during  the  crush  I  found  a  chance 
to  give  her  a  few  good  pokes  on  my  own 
account." — Philadelphia  Ledger. 

Passerby — "  Well  well !  Have  you  been 
getting  a  licking.,  little  man?"  Little  man — 
"  You  called  de  turn,  stranger.  Foist  de  Tone* 
kid  he  licked  me, den  ma  licked  me  fer  fightTrV. 
den  wen  pa  came  home  he  "licked  me  fer  losin' 
to  de  Jones  kid  !"— Boston  Post. 

Fond  of  fancy  work :  "  Does  your  wife  do 
much  fancy  work  ?"  "  Fancy  work  ?  She 
won't  even  let  a  porous  plaster  come  into  the 
house  without  crocheting  a  red  border  round 
it  and  running  a  yellow  ribbon  through  the 
holes." — Tit-Bits. 

"  Well,  John,"  said  the  eminent  personage, 
who  was  now  an  invalid,  "who  is  it  wishes 
to  see  me  now?  My  biographer.''"  "  No, 
your  exellency,"  replied  the  butler,  "  your 
physician."  "  Ah !  Almost  the  same  thing. 
He's  at  work  upon  my  life,  too." — Philadelphia 
Press.     '         —  " 

No  advantage  to  her :  "  Are  you  training 
your  daughters  in  the  household  arts?"  "  No. 
What's  the  use?  Jest  as  soon  as  I  got  one  of 
them  trained  so's  she  could  help  me  some  man 
would  come  along  an'  marry  her.  An'  men 
are  havin'  it  too  easy  these  days  anyhow." — 
Chicago  Post. 

"  I  see  you  have  chicken  for  dinner." 
"  Yessuh,"  said  Erastus  Pinkley.  "  I  hope  you 
bought  the  chicken."  "  Well,  no ;  but  the 
transaction  were  strictly  regular.  Dat  chicken 
has  been  roostin'  on  my  fence  foh  months . 
wifout  payin'  nuffin',  an'  I  reckoned  it  were 
"bout  time  to   fohclose." — Washington  Star. 

Stranger — "  Are  the  waiters  here  attentive 
to  you?"  Pretty  cashier  —  '*  Sir-r-r-r !" 
Stranger — "  Oh,  no  offense,  I  assure  you.  I 
was  only  carrying  out  the  instructions  printed 
on  the  bill  of  fare,  which  say :  *  Please  re- 
port any  inattention  of  waiters  to  cashier.' 
And  I  thought  if  they  were  inattentive  to  you 
I  would  report  them — that's  all." — Baltimore 
American. 

Didn't  stand  for  it:  Btnks — "I  hear  that 
Jawkins  called  you  a  fool  at  the  club  the  other 
night.  How  could  you  stand  that?"  Jinks — 
"  I  didn't  stand  it."  Binks — "  That's  right. 
I  suppose  you  made  him  apologize?"  Jinks — ■ 
"  Er — well — the  fact  is.  when  he  called  me 
a  fool  I  called  him  another,  and  immediately 
I  found  myself  sitting  on  the  floor.  So  nobody 
can  say  that   I  stood  it." — Tit-Bits. 

Icy  :  "  Didn't  you  git  no  money  from  dat 
woman  yer  held  up?"  asked  the  first  footpad. 
"  Naw,"  replied  the  other,  shivering  slightly  ; 
"  she  wuz  from  Boston."  "  Well.  Boston  peo- 
ple has  money."  "  Mebbe  dey  has,  but  when 
I  sez  to  her,  '  Money  or  yer  life,  lady,'  she 
sez,  '  How  dare  ye  speak  ter  me  widout  de 
formality  of  a  interduction,'  sez  she.  an' 
leaves   me    froze  stiff?'— Philadelphia   Press. 


Overheard  in  court:  Counsel  (to  witness) 
— "  How  can  you  prove  that  the  prisoner  stole 
six  of  your  handkerchiefs  ?"  "  Why,  because 
they  were  ray  handkerchiefs  that  were  found 
on  him.  Look  at  them  for  yourself.  They  are 
exactly  the  same  as  mine."  "  That  proves 
nothing.       I     have     some    hanHkpi-fhipfs.     like 

thfi££^  "  That's-. qpjf p  ppg^jblp/'  f^pItVH  the 
witnjess,  "  several  more  of  mine  are  missing." 

Well  trained:  "I'm  anxious  to  get  the 
names    of    all    present,"    said    the    reporter ; 

"will    you   oblige   me "      "Oh!"    said    the 

meek  little  man,  "  you  may  put  down  '  Mrs. 
Henry  Peck  and  husband.' "  "  You  mean 
'Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Peck,'  don't  you?"  "I 
would  prefer  that."  he  replied,  with  a  furtive 
glance  over  his  shoulder,  "  but,  for  goodness' 
sake,  don't  say  I  gave  it  to  you  that  way." — 
Philadelphia  Press. 

In  the  near  future  :  Domestic — "  Don't  you 
want  to  go  out  this  afternoon,  Mrs.  Man- 
ning f"  Mistress — "  Yes,  Mary,  I  should  like 
to  go  out,  but  I'm  afraid  it  will  incommode 
you."  Domestic — "  Oh,  never  mind  me, 
marm  ;  it's  so  long  since  you've  had  an  after- 
noon off  I  must  insist  that  you  take  one  to- 
day. But  be  sure  and  come  home  early. 
I  may  haveB1rallers.--you  know,  and  I  shall  want 
somebody  t.,  tend  the  door." — Boston  Tran- 
script. 

■    ♦ — « 

—  St«dman's  Soothing  Powders  claim  lo  be  pre- 
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recognized  for  over  fifty  years. 


Dye  know.  Hooligan,  you  look  like  the 
divil  wid  a  mustache?"  "  Yis;  I'm  goin'  to 
shave  it  off."  "  Lave  it  on  ;  yez'll  look  worse 
widout  it.  — Life. 


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mento    7-25p 

7.00a   VacavUle,  Winters.  Rnmsey 7.25p 

7.30*   Martinez,    Ban     Ramon,    Vallejo, 

Napa,  Callstoea,  Santa  Rosa G-25p 

7-30*   NMes,  LlTermore,  Lathrop.  Stocfc- 

*on 7.25f 

B.00*  Davie. Woodland.  Knlghta  Landing, 
MaryBville,  Orovllle,  (connects 
at  Maryevllle  for  Grldley,  Biggs 
and  Chlco) 7.55r- 

8  00a    Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  East.   10.25* 

B.00*  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch,  By- 
ron.Tracy,  Stockton, Sacramento. 
Los  BanoB,  Mendota,  Hanford. 
Ylsalla,  Portervllle 4.25* 

r  00a  Port  Costn,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lath- 
rop, Modesto,  Merced,  Fresuo, 
Goshen  Junction,  Hanford,  VI- 
salla.  Bakersfield B.25p 

P. 30a  Shasta  Express  —  Davis.  Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Springs).  Wlllowa. 
tFruto,  Red  Blnff.  Portland 7-55p 

0.30*  Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermore,  Stock- 
ton,lone,  Sacramento,  Placerv  Hie. 
MarysTllle.  Chlco,  Red  Bluff 4.25h 

8.30a  Oakdale.  ChlneBe,  Jamestown.  So- 

nora,  Tnoluinne  and  Angels 425p 

9.00a   Martinez  and  Way  Stations 6.55p 

10-00*  Vallejo 12.25p 

10.00a  El  Paso  Passenger,  Eastbonnd.— 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop,  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond.  Fresno,  Han- 
ford, Vlsalla,  Bakersfield,  Los 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line)...  «l-30^ 
1000a  The    Overland    Limited  — Ogden, 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago S.25p 

12- 00m  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.      3-25e 
'I.DOp   Sacramento  River  Steamen tll.OOi- 

3.30r  Benlcia,  Winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Williams,  Colosa,Wll- 
Iowb,  Knights  Lauding.  MaryB- 
ville, Orovllle  and  way  stations..    1055* 

3-3Dp   Hayward.NlleBandWay  Stations..      755p 

4  C0p   Martinez, SauRHmon.ValleJo.NapB, 

Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa ».25* 

4.00p   Martinez, Tracy. Lathrop.Stocklon.    10-25* 

4  00p  Nlles,  Llvermore.  Stockton,  Lodi..     4-25i- 

430p  Hayward.  NileB,  Irvlngton,  San  I    t8.55* 
Jose,  Llvermore f  111.55* 

5. 00p  The  Owl  Limited— Fresno. Tulare, 

Bakersfield,  Los  Angeles S.55* 

6.00r-  Port  Costa,  Tracy,    Stockton,  Loa 

Banos 12-25p 

6  30j-  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25a 

6.OO1     Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 10  25* 

6-OOp  Oriental  Mall—  Opden.  Den  yer, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  CoBta,  Benlcia,  Sal- 
sun,  Elmlra,  Darls,  Sacrameuto, 
Rockl  In,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlonemncca,  Battle 

Mountain.  Elko 4.2B*- 

%..  Reno,  Truckee,  Sacramento,  Davis, 

Sulsun,  Bentcla,  Port  Costa 7-65* 

B.OOp    Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday...,  i      7  ccp 

7.00p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only (      '•°° 

7.00*    San  Pablo.  Port   Costa,  Martlnex 

and  Way  Stations 11.25* 

E-OBi'  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, MaryBville,  Redding, 
Portland,  Pugct  Sound  and  East.     8-55* 

9.10p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only)  11-55  a 

I1.25P  Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Lathrop,  Mo- 
desto, Merced,  Raymond  (to  Yo- 
semlte),    Fresno,    Hanford.   VI- 

sails.,  B_akersfl-'Id 12-25p 

COAST    LINE     (Sarrow  Uange). 
(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

745*.    Bant*    Crux    Excursion    'Snndfty 
only) 8.10  p 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  (Main  Line,  foot  of  Market  St.) 

abbivk  B.igA  Newark.    CentervIIle.    San     Jose. 

Felton,    Boolaer    Creek,    Santa 

Cmx  and  Way  Stations 6  25 

2.161-  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations   10  55 

4  1Bp  Newark,  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos  and 
way  stations  (on  Saturday  and 
6nnday  runs  through  to  Santa 
Cniz;  Monday  only  from  Santa 
Cruz).  Connects  at  Felton  to 
and  from  Bonlder  Creek t8-55 

OAKLAND     HARBOR    FERRY 

1-romSAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  of  Mnrket  St.  (Sll|> 

— Ti:15    9:00    11:00  a.h.      1  00    300    5-15  p.u 

trom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  tfi:0U     hJ:ll 

18:05    10:00  a.m.       12  00    2.00     4.00  p.m. 

COAST     LINE     (Broad  liauKe). 

t*~  (Third  and    1'ownsepd  StreetB.) 


6.10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

'7  00*    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

7.15a  Monterey  and  Santa  Crux  Excur- 
sion (Sunday  only) 

■■00a  New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frld..  only), 
8  00*  Coast  Line  Limited— Stops  only  San 
Jose,  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llster),  Pajaro.  Castrovllle,  Sa- 
linas. San  Ardo,  Paso  Roulca, 
Santa  Margarita.  San  LuIb  Obispo. 
Guadalupe.  Surf  (connection  for 
Lompoc).  Santa  Barbara.  Saugus 
and  Los  Angeles.  Connection  at 
Castrovllle  to  and  from  Monterey 
and  Pacific  Grove .  

13,00*  San  Jobc  Trea  PInos.  Capltola, 
SantaCruz.PaciflcGrove.Snllnaa, 
San  Luis  OblBpo  and  Principal 
In  term  ed  late    Stations    

10.30a   San  JOBe  and  Way  Stations 

11410a.  Cemetery  Passenger  — South  San 
Francisco.  San  Bruno 

11. 30*  Santa  Clara,  San  Jose.  Los  GatOB 
and  Way  Stations         

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2- OOP   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

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Francisco,  San  Bruno 

t3.00P  Del  Monte  Express — Santa  Clara. 
Ban  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
3.30f  Pacific  Grove  and  Way  Statluns— 
Unrllngame.San  Mateo.Rcdwood. 
Menlo Park.  Palo  Alto  Mayileld. 
Mountain  View,  Lawrence,  Santa 
Clara,  San  Jose,  (Gllroy.  Hollhv 
ter,  TreB  Plnos).  Pajaro,  Wataon- 
vine,  Capltola,  Santa  Cruz,  Caa- 

trovllle,  Salinas 

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6.00?  San  Jose,  (via  Sunt*  Clara)  L«b 
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S6-3QP  San  Jose  and  Principal  Way  Stations 

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Lule  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 
Angeles,  Demlng.  EI  Paso.  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  (Westtiound 
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Burllngame,  San  Mateo,  Bel-  I 
moot,  San  Carlos,  Redwood,  1 
Fair  Oaks,  Menlo  Park.  Palo  > 
Alto.  Mayfleld.  Mountain  View, 
Sunnyvale.  Lawrence,  Santa  I 
Clara  and  San  Jose J 


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Vol.  LIII.     No.   1389. 


San  Francisco,  October  26,  1903. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Russia,  Japan,  and  China — The  Greatest  National 
Robbery  of  Modern  Times — Russia's  Aggression  in  Corea — 
Can  Japan  Whip  Russia? — A  Comparison  of  Fighting 
Strength — Is  There  a  "Yellow  Peril"? — Should  the  United 
States  Sympathize  with  Japan? — Opinions  of  Students  of 
the  Eastern  Question  on  the  "  Yellow  Terror  " — Hearst  an 
Active  Candidate  for  the  Presidency  —  Plain  Plasterers 
Posing  as  Fancy  Sculptors — The  Philippine  Peso  Already 
in  Danger  —  Smoot  Must  Answer  Polygamy  Charge — 
Trouble  Among  Atlantic  Steamship  Lines  —  Fire-Proof 
Sleeping-Cars  Promised — New  Rumors  Regarding  Western 
Pacific — Electric  Lines  and  Public  Highways — Faith  Cure 
for  Medical  Attendance Z57 

\ndrew  Hansen's  Debt:  How  a  Salmon  Fisherman  Proved 
His  Honor  Stainless.     By  John  Fleming  Wilson 

\  Famous  Paris  Beauty:  How  Eugenie  Fougere  Was  Mys- 
teriously Murdered  at  Aix-les-Bains — Her  Long  Reign  as  a 
Demi-Mondaine  Queen  —  Costly  Jewels  and  Beautiful 
Toilets    

Jowie's  "  Invasion  "  of  New  York:  Marvelous  Success  of 
Elijah  the  Restorer — Reputation  as  a  Fighter — His  Power 
to  Get  Cash  from  His  Followers — Founding  of  Zion  City 
Near  Chicago 

\s  International  Romance:  From  the  Annals  of  Alta  Cali- 
fornia.     By  Katherine    Chandler 

individualities:  Notes  About  Prominent  People  All  Over  the 
World  

.iterary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications   263- 

cecent  Verse:  "Dies  Ultima,"  by  Frank  Dempster  Sherman; 
"  Memories,"  by  Edith  Turner  Newcombe;  "  The  Empty 
Garden,"  by  Richard  Arthur 

)rama:  Robert  Edeson  in  "  Soldiers  of  Fortune."  By  Josephine 
Hart   Phelps 

iTACE  Gossip  

/amity  Fair:  The  Visit  of  King  Victor  Emmanuel  and  Queen 
Helena  to  Paris — Its  Effect  on  the  Social  Status  of  "  Mme. 
la  Presidente  " — Her  Peculiar  Position  in  French  Society — 
A  "  No  Tipping "  Society  —  For  "  Gigman  "  Read 
"  Yachtsman  " — Did  Lily  Langtry  Drop  Ice  Down  King 
Edward's    Back? 

'TORyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
The  Difference  Between  a  Misfortune  and  a  Calamity — 
Poetry  Too  Cheap — "  Joe  "  Cannon  on  Speechmaking — 
Satirical  Robert  Browning — George  Ade's  Brief  But  Pointed 
Speech — How  Chopin  Composed  the  "  Funeral  March  " — A 
Clever  Picture-Dealer  and  Morland,  the  Painter — The 
Pope's  Loyalty  to  His  Friends — Joaquin  Miller's  Big  Yarn. 

'be  Tuneful  Liar:     "What  Mary  Had":  "Over-Population," 

by  J.  A.   Edgerton;    "For  Manners,   Mexico!" 

ociety:  Movements  and  Whereabouts — Notes  and  Gossip- 
Army  and  Navy  News 270- 

he  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 


)ne   of  the  most   stupendous    national    robberies    in 

K  modern  times  was   practically  consum- 

n.'and  mated  by  Russia  on  October  8th.     On 

*■  that  date  she  had  promised  to  evacuate 

lanchuria.  Before  the  day  arrived  she  demanded  of 
Ihina  concessions  which  China  can  not  grant.  Her 
lternative  was  to  continue  holding  Manchuria.  "  '  In 
'hat  sauce  would  you  like  to  be  cooked?'  the  birds  were 
sked.  '  Why,  in  none  whatever,'  they  timidly 
nswered.  '  But  you  travel  from  the  question,'  they 
'ere  told;  and  then  their  fate  was  decided."  So  with 
hina.    Russia,  indomitable,  persistent,  with  a  thousand 


pretexts,  but  with  a  single  purpose,  from  the  first  occu- 
pation to  the  present  moment  has  been  severing  one 
by  one  the  bonds  that  bound  Manchuria  to  the  empire, 
and  grappling  the  fertile  province  to  herself  with  hooks 
of  steel.  Hers  now  is  a  country  embracing  400,000 
square  miles — thrice  as  large  as  California — containing 
a  population  of  15,000,000,  rich  in  minerals,  with 
vast  areas  that  promise  to  rival  the  wheat  regions  of 
this  country  in  production  of  that  cereal.  No  great 
European  power  has  an  interest  in  Manchuria  suf- 
ficient to  compel  interference.  France  is  Russia's  ally. 
Germany  is  friendly  to  her.  England,  with  the  rank- 
ling memory  of  South  Africa,  shrinks  from  thought  of 
another  war.  We,  the  United  States,  protest,  and  let  it 
go  at  that.  China  herself  is  supine.  Indeed,  so 
masterly  is  her  passivity  that  it  lends  force  to  the 
charge  that  her  highest  officials  have  seen  the  color  of 
Russian  gold.  Four  million  roubles,  so  Chinese  papers 
assert,  reached  the  authorities  of  the  empire  through 
the  eunuch  Li  Lien  Ying,  and  a  "  certain  princess." 
Japan  alone  among  all  nations,  trembling  with  rage, 
watches  the  huge  and  hairy  paw  of  the  Russian  Bear 
stretch  over  Manchuria.  Yet  even  she  will  not 
fight  to  prevent  what  is  else  inevitable.  It  is  too 
late  now.  So  there  Russia  stands,  cool,  defiant, 
shameless,  her  word  of  honor  no  longer  valued  at  a 
straw's  worth  by  any  nation,  but  with  the  long-coveted 
ice-free  port  on  the  Yellow  Sea  securely  held  in  her 
unrelaxing  grip. 

But  Russia's  lust  for  land  is  not  even  stayed  by 
Manchuria.  Between  that  country  and  the  Japan  Sea 
lies  the  peninsula,  Corea,  its  northern  boundary  the 
Yalu  River,  its  southern  shore  not  a  hundred  miles 
across  the  shallow  strait  from  the  Japan  coast.  Over 
Corea  Japan  holds  a  sort  of  suzerainty.  Strategists 
agree  that  this  suzerainty's  continuance  is  vital  to  Japan. 
It  is  a  matter  of  national  life  and  death.  Russia  in 
Corea  would  be  a  far  greater  menace  to  the  island  king- 
dom than  would  be  to  England  the  possession  of  Hol- 
land and  Belgium  by  Germany — a  thing  whose  mere 
suggestion  ever  stirs  Britain  to  the  depths,  therefore, 
when  Russia,  along  in  the  summer,  claimed  the  right 
to  send  soldiers,  under  the  name  of  "  forest-guards," 
into  Corean  woods,  Japan  was  alarmed.  She  protested. 
That  proved  unavailing.  Now,  while  still  negotiating 
peaceably,  she  is  actively  preparing  for  hostilities. 
This,  and  natural  tension  resulting  from  the  expected 
but  wrath-provoking  non-evacuation  of  Manchuria  on 
October  8th,  have  brought  about  the  present  situation 
where  war  is  every  day's  possibility.  Most  of  the  re- 
ports and  rumors  are  obviously  canards,  but  the 
residuum  suffices  to  draw  to  the  Far  East  the  world's 
attention. 

In  event  of  war,  which  would  be  victorious?  Japan 
is  a  nation  of  patriots;  she  is  vain,  and  dandies  fight 
well ;  her  people  are  trained  to  war ;  those  who  looked 
on  when  the  allies  marched  to  Pekin  put  the  Japanese 
soldier  above  the  Russian  soldier;  the  Jap  is  small,  but 
his  rifle  carries  far,  and  he  is  well  armed;  the  regular 
army  numbers  200,000;  the  total  war  strength  is 
632,000.  But  it  is  the  Japanese  navy  that  would  strike 
the  first,  and  doubtless  the  decisive,  blow.  Japan's 
navy  is  to-day  an  efficient  engine.  According  to  Archi- 
bald Hurd  and  Joseph  H.  Longford,  two  naval  ex- 
perts, who  have  recently  published  learned  articles  on 
the  subject,  the  Japanese  navy  is  equal  to  any  fighting 
fleet  of  its  size  in  the  world.  It  is  new ;  it  is  officered 
by  English-trained  Japanese,  who  gained  experience 
with  English  squadrons;  English  officers  of  high  rank, 
including  Yice-Admiral  Douglas,  have  taught  the  art 
of  war  at  the  Tokio  Imperial  Naval  College;  the 
vessels  are  skillfully  navigated;  they  are  kept  as  clean 
as  British  ships;  the  men  are  drawn  from  the  fishing 


population,  and  know  and  love  the  sea ;  the  Japanese 
engineers  are  masters  of  the  most  intricate  machinery 
of  the  modern  battle-ship;  fatalists  as  they  are.  the 
little  brown  sailormen  equal  in  courage,  skill,  and  dis- 
cipline any  sailors  of  any  nation.  Furthermore,  Japan 
has  a  naval  arsenal.  Cruisers  of  four  thousand  tons 
have  been  built  in  it;  the  principal  dock  will  accommo- 
date the  biggest  battle-ship  afloat;  it  is  well  defended 
by  batteries ;  there  are  two  other  dockyards ;  and  it  is 
said  that  short  of  turning  out  a  battle-ship  there  is 
nothing  of  which  the  master  mechanics  of  the  Japanese 
arsenal  are  not  capable.  Deductions  drawn  from  com- 
parison between  the  tonnage  of  the  Russian  and 
Japanese  fleets  are  dangerous  and  misleading.  There 
are  too  many  things  that  figures  do  not  show.  For  one 
thing,  the  Russian  fleet  is  scattered  over  the  world. 
Some  ships  are  in  the  Baltic,  some  in  the  Black  Sea, 
the  remainder  in  the  Pacific.  In  the  Crimean  War,  the 
Russian  navy  proved  inefficient.  In  the  war  with 
China,  Japan's  navy  was  weighed,  and  found  not  want- 
ing. It  may  be  stated,  however,  inconclusive  as 
figures  are,  that  the  Russian  navy  contains  seventy- 
eight  vessels,  excluding  fifty-three  torpedo  boats  "  built 
and  building."  The  Japanese  fleet,  also  exclusive  of 
torpedo  boats,  numbers  forty-seven.  Considering  only 
the  more  important  vessels,  each  has  six  battle-ships. 
Japan  has  six  armored  cruisers  to  Russia's  seven,  and 
fourteen  protected  cruisers  to  Russia's  nineteen.  All 
things  taken  into  account,  the  weight  of  opinion  among 
those  most  competent  to  judge  seems  to  be  in  favor  of 
Japan.  That  it  will  be  a  single-handed  fight  is  also 
probable.  During  the  year,  thanks  to  Edward  the 
Peacemaker,  France  has  grown  too  friendly  to  England 
to  think  of  aiding  Russia.  The  terms  of  the  Anglo- 
Japanese  treaty  only  bind  England  to  come  to  Japan's 
aid  if  she  is  attacked  by  two  powers. 

Probably  the  average  American,  if  asked  which  of  the 

two  nations  he  would  rather  see  victor- 
is  THERE  A 

"  yellow  tons,  would  say  Japan.  The  world  as  a 

Peril"?  ru^e   loves    David    and  abhors    Goliath. 

Japan  is  so  small,  so  plucky,  her  progress  has  been  so 
great,  and  her  enterprise  so  admirable,  that  she  has 
won  the  surprised  respect  of  the  nations.  But  there 
is  another,  and  perhaps  more  philosophic  and  farther- 
seeing  view  that  is  at  least  worthy  of  consideration. 
It  is  the  view  of  those  who  think  witli  Professor  Peck 
that  for  Western  civilization  to  permit  the  Mongol 
races  to  unite  would  be  a  "  perilous  mistake,"  and  who 
profoundly  believe  the  ultimate  world-conflict  will  be 
"  the  white  race  against  the  brown  race  and  the  yellow." 
Plainly,  Japan  victorious  would  be  in  an  infinitely  bet- 
ter position  to  accomplish  the  work  of  "  Japanning " 
China;  of  officering  China's  millions  with  her  trained 
men:  of  fitting  (as  Heard  puts  it)  the  steel  head  to  the 
useless  wooden  spear  shaft  that  China  is  to-day.  On 
the  other  hand,  Japan  whipped,  with  Russia  holding 
Corea,  might  forever  be  prevented  from  adding  her 
military  skill  to  China's  strength  of  uncounted  num- 
bers, and  thus  menacing  the  world.  After  all,  Russia 
is  white.  Russia's  daughters  have  infused  their  blood 
into  the  veins  of  every  royal  family  of  Europe.  So 
long  as  our  ports  are  open  to  any  European  emigrants, 
they  will  be  open  to  the  Russian.  But  the  Japanese 
are  Orientals.  No  almond-eyed  daughter  of  Dai-Nippon 
will  ever  wed  with  England's  royal  sons.  The  Chinese 
we  already  exclude  from  our  shores.  It  is  not  unlikely 
that  we  shall  soon  bar  out  the  Japanese  as  well.  Why, 
then,  should  they  have  our  sympathy  in  a  conflict  with 
Russia?  If  it  be  said  that  Russia  is  perfidious,  we  re- 
ply: True,  but  little  more  perfidious  than  England 
who,  in  the  early  'eighties,  pledged  herself  to  evacuate 
Egypt     in     three    years,    but     is    still     there.     If 


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October  26, 


1903- 


be  said  that  the  Japanese  are  no  longer  Ori- 
ental in  spirit,  but  Western,  we  reply  that  they  learn 
our  science,  wear  our  clothes,  imitate  our  customs, 
but  in  character  remain  utterly  unchanged.  Deep  down 
there  is  an  intense,  unquenchable  hatred  for  the  for- 
eigner, as  enduring  as  race  itself.  How  else,  for  ex- 
ample, should  we  explain  the  fact  that  foreign  professors 
in  Japanese  schools  grow  yearly  fewer;  that  discrimina- 
tions are  forcing  out  every  foreign  business  firm;  and 
that  of  all  the  military  and  naval  instructors  Japan  once 
had,  only  six  remain  in  her  service — two  German  officers 
and  one  Frenchman,  a  French  tactician,  an  Italian 
ordnance  expert,  and  a  French  bandmaster?  On  the 
other  hand,  two  thousand  young  Chinese,  sons  of  high 
officials,  are  getting  their  education  in  Japan.  There 
are  said  to  be  thirteen  hundred  or  more  Japanese  at 
Tientsin,  and  five  hundred  at  Pekin.  They  are  sup- 
planting European  professors  wherever  they  are  em- 
ployed in  China. 

Vague  and  distant  as  the  "  yellow  peril "  may  now 
seem  to  some,  it  is  a  very  tangible  danger  in  the  opinion 
of  numerous  students  of  the  Far  Eastern  question, 
whose  experience  should  give  weight  to  their  words. 
Dr.  Pearson,  in  his  "  National  Life  and  Character," 
of  course  long  ago  directed  attention  to  it.  Albert  D. 
Ashmead,  late  head  of  the  medical  school  at  Tokio, 
holds  that  Russia's  prospective  victory  over  Japan 
would  be  "the  salvation  of  the  West."  Augustine 
Heard,  formerly  United  States  minister  to  Corea,  re- 
cently contributed  to  the  New  York  Tribune  an  ex- 
haustive article  on  the  subject,  in  the  course  of  which 
he  remarked:  "I  believe  firmly  that  sooner  or  later 
the  fusion  will  come.  It  is  fated."  Further:  "And 
when  that  time  does  come,  Europe  may  well  beware. 
There  will  then  be  no  question  of  dividing  China,  but 
Europe  may  shudder  at  the  thought  of  being  over- 
run herself.  She  may  try  to  console  herself  by  the  be- 
lief that  Asiatics  can  never  be  persistent  and  practical, 
that  the  alliance  will  break  to  pieces  at  the  first  shock, 
and  that  there  are  no  broad,  statesmanlike  minds 
among  them  capable  of  carrying  their  plans  out  to  suc- 
cess, but  history  tells  a  different  story.  Whenever  the 
intellects  of  the  East  and  the  West  have  been  pitted 
against  each  other,  it  is  not  the  Eastern  which  has 
shown  inferiority."  And  to  conclude :  in  "  Letters  of 
a  Chinese  Official,"  a  book  anonymously  published,  but 
attributed  to  Wu  Ting-fang,  occurs  this  prophesy, 
following  the  statement  that  his  countryman  are  learn- 
ing that  Right  is  powerless  unless  it  be  supported  by 
Might:  "Woe  to  Europe  when  we  have  acquired  it! 
You  are  arming  a  nation  of  four  hundred  millions — a 
nation  which,  until  you  came,  had  no  better  wish  than 
to  live  at  peace  with  themselves  and  all  the  world.  In 
the  name  of  Christ  you  have  sounded  the  call  to  arms ! 
In  the  name  of  Confucius  we  respond !  " 

Whether  Japan  and  Russia  fight  or  no,  it  should  be 
clear  that  the  prizes  now  at  stake  in  the  Far  East  are 
of  no  common  sort. 


Although   Senator  Reed  Smoot,  of  Utah,  was  allowed  to  take 
his  seat  last  March,  there  is  still  a  question^ 
Smoot  Must  whether    he     will     be    allowed    to    keep     it. 

Answer  Polyg-        „.  ....  ,  . 

amy  Charge  e  <luestlon  w»l  turn  on  the  point  whether 

or  not  he  is  a  polygamist.  The  same  in- 
fluences which  were  active  in  debarring  Roberts  from  the 
House  are  preparing  to  take  up  the  cudgels  against  Smoot. 
The  people  of  Utah  are  apparently  satisfied  that  their  senators 
may  be  equally  divided  between  Gentiles  and  Mormons,  but 
they  insist  that  the  latter  must  be  a  monogamist.  There  are 
plenty  of  people  outside  of  the  State  to  lend  a  helping  hand. 
The  opposition  to  Smoot  has  had  an  agent  in  Utah,  gather- 
ing information,  and  it  is  said  that  he  has  returned  with  the 
testimony  of  plenty  of  residents  at  Provo  City  to  the  effect 
that  Senator  Smoot  has  more  than  one  wife,  although  the  only 
reference  in  the  Congressional  Directory  to  the  subject  is  that 
he  was  married  "  September  17,  1884,  to  Alpha  M.  Eldredge." 
The  case  in  the  Senate,  it  is  understood,  will  be  handled  by 
Senator  Dubois,  of  Idaho,  who,  as  well  as  his  State,  has  a 
definite  interest  in  the  subject.  When  he  first  went  to  Idaho 
as  United  States  marshal,  he  found  the  Mormons  arrayed 
against  him  politically,  and  there  has  been  friction  ever  since. 
When  the  Mormon  church  issued  its  manifesto  abandoning 
its  polygamous  doctrines  in  obedience  to  the  laws  of  the 
United  States,  the  church  was  taken  at  its  word,  and  the  test 
oath  aimed  against  polygamous  Mormons  in  Idaho  was  re- 
pealed. It  is  now  claimed  that  the  Mormon  church  has  not 
lived  up  to  its  manifesto.  Polygamy  is  being  openly  practiced, 
and  the  promise  of  the  church  to  keep  its  hands  oft7  from 
politics  has  been  repeatedly  violated.  In  addition  to  the  fight 
against  Smoot  in  the  Senate,  Senator  Dubois  is  announced 
t  .  lead  a  Democratic  campaign  in  Idaho,  for  the  purpose  of 
having  the  test  oath  reestablished.  As  in  the  Roberts  case, 
'vomen  are  preparing  to  aid  in  the  battle  in  the  Smoot  case. 

Already   thousand?   of  petitions   are  being  circulated,   and  are 
-eceiving  the  signaures  of  women  in  numerous  communities. 

nhey  are  requests  to  senators  to  investigate  the  charges  against 


Smoot,  and,  if  he  be  found  to  be  a  polygamist,  to  expel  him 
from  the  Senate  as  a  common  violator  of  the  law.  The 
Women's  Christian  Temperance  Union  and  the  Interdenomina- 
tional Council  of  Women  are  the  active  organizations.  Of  the 
latter,  Mrs.  Darwin  R.  James  is  president,  and  Miss  Helen 
M.  Gould  is  vice-president.  Each  society  is  preparing  to  send 
out  from  ten  thousand  to  twelve  thousand  petitions. 


The  Trusts 

and 

business. 


The  uneasiness  in  commercial  circles  has  been  somewhat 
heightened  during  the  week  by  the  failure 
of  several  large  trust  companies.  Most  prom- 
inent among  these  were  the  Maryland  Trust 
Company  and  the  Union  Trust  Company,  both 
of  Baltimore,  with  total  liabilities  exceeding  ten  millions  of 
dollars.  Odoriferous  revelations  in  the  Shipbuilding  Trust 
investigation  continue  to  be  made.  It  has  been  shown  that 
cheap  clerks,  scarcely  yet  of  age,  were  directors  in  the  cor- 
poration, and  blithely  voted  millions,  though  they  did  not 
know  even  the  location  of  the  various  plants — whether  the 
Union  Iron  Works,  for  instance,  was  in  San  Francisco  or  Key 
West.  Each  of  these  boy-financiers  had  one  share  of  stock, 
and  voted  as  he  was  told  by  the  lawyers.  Amazing  as  these 
revelations  are,  more  and  worse  are  promised.  President 
Lewis  Nixon  testified  on  Wednesday,  according  to  the  reports, 
that  the  prospectus  of  the  Shipbuilding  Trust  issued  to  the 
public  was  absolutely  false.  He  also  gave  testimony  tending 
to  show  that  J.  P.  Morgan,  not  Schwab,  was  the  real  mover 
in  the  shameful  Bethlehem  steel  plant  hold-up  game.  One 
remarkable  thing  in  connection  with  the  revelations  of  Mr. 
Dresser  and  others  is  that  the  editorial  pages  of  the  New  York 
Times,  Tribune,  and  Sun  have  been  dumb  on  the  news  that 
stirred  the  whole  country  profoundly.  Business  conditions 
in  general  are  stagnant.  The  encouraging  features  are  increase 
in  railway  earnings  and  prospects  of  a  large  corn  crop.  Busi- 
ness on  the  Coast  continues  good.  Bank  clearings,  however, 
have  shown  a  falling  off  of  24.3  per  cent  from  the  same  week 
last  year,  and  prices  have  fallen.  The  poor  man  seems  to  be 
getting  the  best  of  it  these  days. 

The  managers  of  the   St.   Louis   Exposition  have  so   far  done 

their    best    to    avoid    any    conflicts    with    or- 

Plain  Plaster-        garnzed  labor,  but  they  have  not  been  entirely 

„  _.  successful,  as  the  unique  demands  of  the  local 

Fancy  Sculptors.  '  M 

plasterers'  unions  will  show.    The  art  features 

of  the  fair  constructions  are  to  be  more  than  usually  prom- 
inent. A  large  sum  has  been  appropriated  to  display  the  work 
of  American  sculptors,  and  many  artists  have  contributed. 
They  have  forwarded  many  plaster  statues  and  groups  of 
colossal  proportions  to  the  chief  of  the  art  department,  Mr. 
Karl  Bitter.  These  works  arrive  in  sections,  and  naturally 
many  of  them  are  broken  in  transportation,  and  the  setting  up 
requires  a  high  degree  of  skill  in  joining  the  various  parts  and 
in  renewing  the  broken  portions.  Mindful  of  the  sensitiveness 
of  union  labor,  Mr.  Bitter  handed  this  work  over  to  the  best 
sculptors  of  the  St.  Louis  modelers'  and  sculptors'  union, 
thinking  to  gain  efficiency,  and  at  the  same  time  recognizing  the 
principle  of  union  labor.  But  the  rampant  spirit  of  unionism 
was  not  satisfied.  The  modelers  were,  of  course,  content,  but 
another  union  of  plain  plasterers  promptly  declared  that  the 
work  should  be  given  to  them,  and  accompanied  their  demand 
for  it  with  a  threat  to  organize  a  general  strike  of  all  ex- 
position workmen  if  their  claims  were  not  acceded  to.  The 
statues  were  made  of  plaster,  and  that  was  enough  for  them  to 
base  their  claims  upon.  Mr.  Taylor,  the  director  of  public 
works,  a  known  friend  of  unionists,  was  appealed  to,  and  he 
decided  in  favor  of  the  sculptors.  His  decision  was  entirely 
ignored,  and  the  matter  was  brought  to  the  attention  of  the 
Missouri  State  Board  "of  Arbitration,  where  a  similar  finding 
resulted,  after  a  thorough  examination  of  the  matter  and 
several  public  hearings.  The  plasterers'  union  flatly  refused 
to  abide  by  this  decision,  taking  the  ground  that  they  could 
remodel  a  broken  hand,  or  face,  or  arm  as  well  as  any  "  high- 
toned  "  sculptor.  In  despair,  the  chief  of  sculpture  appealed  to 
the  head  of  the  Plasterers'  International  Association,  who 
resides  at  Colorado  Springs.  He  set  forth  the  situation  with 
fairness,  but  compared  the  fitness  of  common  plasterers  for 
the  work  with  a  supposititious  claim  on  his  own  part  to  be  an 
astronomer  because  he  could  look  through  a  telescope.  After 
a  month  of  waiting,  the  decision  arrived  from  Colorado 
Springs  that  "  the  plasterers  shall  do  all  the  pointing." 
Whereupon,  the  modelers'  union  got  square  by  notifying  Mr. 
Bitter  that  their  wages  would  have  to  be  increased  ten  cents 
an  hour  to  avoid  trouble  with  them,  as  the  modeling,  although 
not  the  pointing,  seemed  to  be  left  in  their  hands.  The  in- 
cident shows  how  art  may  become  democratized,  and  furnishes 
an  illustration  of  the  value  of  arbitration  in  disputes  with 
labor   unions. 

Whatever  the  motives  of  Mr.  Hearst  in  Convoying  a  body  of 
legislators    across    the   continent    to    see   with 

their  own  eyes  whether  or  no  the  Territories 
and  His  z, 

Congressmfn  are  Statehood,  his  enterprise  can  only 

bring  good  results.  The  more  congressmen 
know  about  the  subjects  upon  which  they  legislate  the  better 
for  the  country.  They  can't  know  too  much  or  become  too 
intelligent,  that's  sure.  On  the  trip,  they  will  not  only  learn 
a  lot  about  the  people  of  the  Territories,  but  they  will  increase 
their  fund  of  information  on  the  subject  of  irrigation — a  sub- 
ject that  is  vital  to  California.  Therefore,  we  say:  Good  for 
Hearst. 

In  reference  to  the  admission  of  the  Territories,  two 
things  should  not  be  lost  sight  of.  First,  that  both  political 
parties  are  pledged  to  give  them  Statehood.  Second,  that  in 
many  matters — especially  irrigation — the  interests  of  the  whole 
West  are  identical.  The  votes  of  four  or  six  more  senators 
are  not  to  be  sneezed  at.  Already  it  is  asserted  that  only  a 
rare  combination  of  circumstances  permitted  the  passage  of 
the  irrigation  law  last  year.  If  the  legislators  of  the  West 
and  South  had  known  that  there  would  be  so  many  millions 
to  spend,  as  have  now  become  available,  it  is  said  that  the 


Political 

Gossip 

of  the  Week. 

to  ten  on  Lane. 


measure  would  never  have  gone  through.  The  Eastern  farmer 
doesn't  think  very  highly  of  the  idea  of  irrigating  the  wasti 
places,  and  through  increased  production  forcing  the  prici 
of  what  he  raises  down  still  lower.  It  is  said  that  any  furthe: 
irrigation  measures  will  have  hard  sledding.  This  is  somethini 
for  Californians  who  have  hitherto  opposed  .the  admission  o 
the  Territories  to  think  about. 

According  to  the  Chronicle,  the  betting  men  believe  that  Henry 
J.  Crocker  stands  a  good  chance  to  win,  and  are  I 
willing  to  back  their  opinion  with  their  money.  | 
The  bookmakers  are  said  to  be  quoting  Crocker  j 
ten  to  eight,  six  to  five  on  Schmitz,  and  thirty  ( 
According  to  Hatton,  the  sporting  politician,  | 
who  hebdomadally  sizes  up  the  San  Francisco  situation  for  an  ! 
Oakland  paper,  last  Saturday  Crocker  and  Schmitz  were  listed 
at  six  to  five  against  each  of  them,  while  Lane  was  two  and 
a  half  to  one.      If  these  are  indeed   the  facts,   and   Lane  is  a  1 
bad   third,    with    "  downward   tendencies,"    among   the    betting 
men,  the  statement  of  Schmitz  and  his  opponents,  the  Repub- 
lican press,  that  the  fight  is  between  him  and  Crocker,  would 
seem  to  be  well   founded. 

Arguing  statistically,  the  Crocker  men  now  figure  it  out  this 
way:  Two  years  ago,  Wells  got  17,700  votes,  Tobin  12,642, 
and  Schmitz  21,774.  But  Wells  was  an  old  man,  charged  with 
being  a  tool  of  the  bosses,  and  opposed  by  the  Republican 
dailies.  These  three  things,  it  is  argued,  lost  him  5,000  votes, 
which  Crocker  will  have.  With  them,  Crocker  will  win. 
Again,  in  the  governorship  election,  the  vote  was:  Pardei 
24,106;  Lane,  33,743.  Pardee  was  opposed  by  the  unions  on 
account  of  his  labor  record.  Therefore,  it  is  said,  these  24,106 
votes  represent  the  solid  Republican  vote  which  Crocker  will 
get.  The  Lane  33,743  will  be  divided  between  himself  and 
Schmitz.  A  third  statistical  reason  for  optimism  is  found  in  the 
last  primary,  when  13,306  Republican  votes,  7,443  Democratic 
votes,  and  5,066  Labor  votes,  were  cast.  The  fact  that  there 
were  more  Republican  votes  than  Democratic  and  Union  Labor 
votes  combined  is  held  to  argue  well  for  Crocker. 

Another  statistical  gentleman,  who  describes  himself  as  "  ai 
observant  and  analytical  looker-on,"  figures  it  out  this  way 
Schmitz  has  the  advantage  of  a  patronage  machine.  Casey's 
opposition  will  not  hurt  him  perceptibly.  P.  H.  McCarthy, 
president  of  the  Building  Trades'  Council,  who,  in  the  last 
campaign,  was  against  Schmitz,  is  now  for  him.  Here  is 
quite  a  block  of  votes.  The  carmen's  union,  non-existent  two 
years  ago,  will  vote  for  Schmitz  to  a  man.  They  number 
3,000.  Schmitz  will  have  the  support  of  the  fire  and  police 
departments.  Therefore,  this  statistician  prophesies  that  the  vote 
will  stand:  Schmitz,  26,000;  Crocker,  22,000;  Lane,  17000- — 
"  unless  there  shall  be  a  combination  on  Lane  or  Crocker  to 
defeat  Schmitz." 

In  general,  the  political  events  this  week  have  not  been  of 
very  striking  character.  The  Bulletin  accuses  Schmitz  sup- 
porters of  stamping  copies  of  that  paper  with  a  line  across  the 
top  reading:  "  Schmitz  is  our  choice  for  mayor."  This,  thinks 
the  Bulletin,  shows  that  Schmitz  is  getting  desperate.  The 
Chronicle  also  avers  that  the  mayor  is  making  a  "rowdy  fight." 
Lately,  the  Chronicle  has  been  getting  back  at  the  Examiner 
by  showing  that,  when  the  gas-rate  matter  was  up  before  the 
board  of  supervisors,  the  "  pet  saints  in  the  Examiner's 
hagiarchy,"  Supervisors  Booth,  Brandenstein,  Braunhart,  ComteJ 
Connor,  Curtis,  D'Ancona,  and  Payot,  voted  to  raise  the  price1 
of  gas  to  $1.20.  "  Who  is  subservient  to  the  corporations, 
now?"  asks  the  Chronicle.  The  Examiner  has,  for  the  most 
part,  left  off  mud-slinging  this  week,  and  devoted  itself  to  the 
proposition  that  Herrin  owns  the  Republican  nominees  body 
and  soul.  It  is  leaving  Schmitz  severely  alone,  but  warming 
up  in  praise  of  Lane  as  the  campaign  progresses. 

All  the  candidates  have  been  hard  at  work  making  speeches, 
seemingly  to  good  audiences.  The  Union  Iron  Works  seems  to 
be  the  centre  of  conflict.  All  the  mayoralty  candidates  have 
there  been  treated  courteously. 

The  charge  that  Lane  advised  the  placing  of  policemen  on 
the  trucks  during  the  teamsters'  strike  has  been  denied  by 
D.  I.  Mahoney,  who  writes  to  Lane :  "  It  is  within  my  knowl- 
edge that  you  did  not  advise  the  placing  of  police  on  W 
trucks,  or  have  any  connection  with  the  affair."  Such  solicitude 
on  Lane's  part  is  not  calculated  to  strengthen  him  with  the 
conservative  classes,  whose  vote  he  must  have  to  win. 

The  mayor  has  made  at  least  two  interesting  revelations 
in  his  speeches  this  week.  He  told  of  a  trip  he  made  among 
business  men,  his  personal  friends,  who  told  him  they  would 
not  vote  for  him.  "These  men,"  explained  the  mayor,  "were  not 
against  me  personally,  but  against  my  principles.  They  frankly 
told  me  this,  and  it  shows  us  plainly  this  is  not  a  battle  of 
men,  but  of  principles.  If  you  believe  in  labor  unionism  you 
must  vote  the  labor  ticket." 

Another  secret  that  the  mayor  has  let  out  is  that,  when  it 
was  proposed  by  the  labor  party  last  year  to  put  Schmitz  in 
the  field  as  a  gubernatorial  candidate,  he  had  a  conference 
with  Lane,  and  told  Lane  that  he  (Schmitz)  would  not  run  foi 
governor.  Lane  thanked  him,  and  assured  him  that  whenevei 
he  (Schmitz)  ran  for  office,  he  (Lane)  would  not  run  against 
him.  "  Two  months  ago,"  Schmitz  continued,  "  he  announced 
that  he  was  not  a  candidate  -for  mayor.  He  came  into  flic 
fight,  not  expecting  election,  because  even  his  friends  admit 
that  he  has  no  show,  but  to  help  defeat  me  and  elect  the, 
capitalistic  candidate,  Mr.  Crocker." 


The  Alaska 

Boundary 

Decision. 


The  final  decision  of  the  Alaska  Boundary  Commission  prac- 
tically gives  the  United  States  everything 
it  contended  for,  with  the  exception  01 
Pearse  and  Wales  Islands  on  the  Portlani 
Canal.  The  1<->cs  of  these  islands  was  at  firs 
thought  to  be  important,  but  ■    later  pointed  out  that  tb< 

upholding  of  this  governmen.  1   to  two  adjacent  island: 

robs  them  of  strategic  imports  ich  is  all  the  importanct 

they  possess.     The  two  Canadi.  1  aissioners  have  not  onlj 

expressed  their  disgust  and  disa    ,  >ent,  but  withdrew  fron 


October  26,  1903. 


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the  tribunal,  and  refused  to  sign  the  findings,  which,  however, 
do  not  need  their  signatures  to  be  absolutely  binding.  The  com- 
missioners base  their  objections  upon  the  allegation  that  the 
attitude  of  the  other  commissioners  was  not  "  judicial," 
insinuating  thereby  that  a  desire  on  Lord  Al  vers  tone's  part  to 
cement  relations  between  England  and  the  United  States,  or 
some  similar  purpose,  entered  into  the  case.  Canada  in  gen- 
eral seems  to  share  her  commissioners'  bitterness.  In  British 
Columbia,  prominent  men  are  reported  to  have  said  that  if 
England  is  going  to  sacrifice  Canada's  interest  to  American 
friendship  in  this  way,  Canada  had  better  join  the  United 
States,  and  have  done  with  England  for  good  and  all.  Hos- 
tility is  now  expressed  to  Chamberlain's  tariff  schemes,  to 
which  before  Canada  was   favorable. 


That  Cuban 
reciprocity 
Treaty  Again. 


Mr.  Roosevelt. 


The  President  has  called  an  extraordinary  session  of  Congress, 
to  convene  on  November  9th.  for  the  purpose 
of  approving  the  Cuban  reciprocity  treaty. 
This  treaty  was  signed  by  representatives  of 
Cuba  and  the  United  States  on  December  11. 
1902,  and  ratified  by  the  Senate  with  the  amendment  that  it 
should  not  take  effect  without  the  approval  of  Congress,  since 
it  affects  the  revenues  of  the  United  States,  with  which  the 
House  is  concerned.  But  now  comes  Congressman  Littlefield, 
who  is  a  leader  in  the  House,  and  in  a  powerful  article  in  the 
American  Economist  says  that  this  amendment  is  of  no  effect; 
that  the  House  can  not  approve  or  disapprove  a  treaty ;  that 
the  present  so-called  treaty  is  unconstitutional ;  that  it  is  a 
usurpation  by  the  President  and  the  Senate  of  power  residing 
solely  in  the  House  of  originating  all  measures  affecting  reve- 
nue. If  Mr.  Littlefield  is  right,  the  whole  vicious  plan  to  help 
Eastern  manufacturers  at  the  expense  of  Western  farmers 
is  done  for.  Senator  Perkins  appears  also  to  be  of  that  opinion. 
He  recently  returned  from  Europe,  stopping  in  New  York. 
where  the  gimlet-eyed  reporters  observed  him  conferring  with 
Mr.  Oxnard.  On  reaching  San  Francisco,  he  is  reported  by  the 
Examiner  as  saying: 

While  I  do  not  wish  to  be  considered  as  criticising  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt,  yet  I  am  constrained  to  say  that  the  convening 
of  Congress  in  extra  session  is  at  least  impolitic.  Nothing  will 
be  accomplished  at  the  extra  session.  It  will  be  merely  talk, 
talk,  talk.  Of  course,  the  Democrats  will  make  all  the  capital 
out  of  the  session  they  can,  and  as  a  Republican  I  feel  that  the 
party  should  not  give  the  Democrats  an  opportunity  to  store 
ammunition  for  the  ensuing  political  campaign. 

When  the  war  with  Spain  broke  out,  Theodore  Roosevelt  was 
assistant  secretary  of  the  navy.  John  D. 
Long  was  Secretary  of  the  Navy.  The  war 
had  been  on  but  a  few  months  when  Mr. 
Roosevelt  resigned,  and  went  to  Cuba.  John 
D.  Long  was  still  Secretary  of  the  Navy  when  Mr.  Roosevelt 
became  President  through  the  death  of  McKinley.  But  soon 
Mr.  Long  retired  to  private  life,  and  Moody  reigned  in  his 
stead.  These  are  elementary  facts,  but  they  need  to  be  borne 
in  mind  by  readers  of  Secretary  Long's  article  in  the  Outlook 
for  October  10th,  one  paragraph  of  which  is  bound  to  make 
a  stir.     We  print  it  without  present  comment : 

His  [Roosevelt's]  activity  was  characteristic.  He  was  zeal- 
ous in  the  work  of  putting  the  navy  in  condition  for  the  ap- 
prehended struggle.  His  ardor  sometimes  went  faster  than 
the  President  or  the  department  approved.  Just  before  the 
war  he,  as  well  as  some  naval  officers,  was  anxious  to  send  a 
squadron  across  the  ocean  to  sink  the  ships  and  torpedo-boat 
destroyers  of  the  Spanish  fleet  while  we  were  yet  at  peace  with 
Spain. 

The  law  has   refused  to  recognize  the   efficacy  of   faith   cure. 
Two  years  ago,  a  man   living  in   New    York 
Cure  State  refused  to  procure  medical  attendance 

for  his  adopted  daughter,  a  minor,  who  had 
been  stricken  with  bronchial  pneumonia.  He 
believed  in  faith  cure,  and  not  in  medicine,  but  nevertheless 
the  girl  died.  The  penal  code  of  New  York  provides  that  any 
person  who  omits,  without  lawful  excuse,  to  perform  a  duty 
by  law  imposed  upon  him  to  furnish  food,  shelter,  clothing. 
or  medical  attendance  to  a  minor  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 
Under  this  section,  a  conviction  was  had,  and  the  case  was 
taken  to  the  court  of  appeals.  The  apellate  court  held  that, 
while  the  wording  of  the  law  might  be  improved,  the  intention 
was  clear.  The  law  contemplates  that  there  are  persons  upon 
whom  the  law  casts  the  duty  of  caring  for  minors,  and  the 
accused  was  such  a  person.  While  there  are  persons  who  be- 
lieve that  the  divine  power  can  be  invoked  by  faith  to  heal  the 
sick,  and  others  who  believe  that  the  Creator  has  supplied  the 
earth,  nature's  store-house,  with  the  remedies  for  the  ills  of  the 
flesh,  and  still  others  who  believe  that  nature  and  faith  must  go 
hand  in  hand,  it  is  not  the  court's  duty  to  decide  which  is 
right.  It  is  the  court's  duty  to  interpret  the  law  as  it  finds  it. 
and  the  girl  did  not  receive  medical  attendance  within  the 
meaning  of  the  law.     So  the  conviction  was  sustained. 

The  outcome  of  the  financial  legislation   for  the   Philippines, 
last  winter,  it  will  be  remembered,  was  a  de- 
Thr  Philippine       termination  to  retire  the  Mexican  dollar  as  a 
Ptso,  Already         ,        ,  ,  ,         ,  -        -  , 

D  n-er  legal  tender,  and  replace  it  with  a  new  silver 

coin,  minted  in  the  United  States,  and  known 
as  the  peso.  Thereupon,  the  Treasury  authorities  started  in 
to  buy  silver  for  the  new  coin,  and  did  buy  eight  million 
ounces,  paying  about  fifty-eight  and  a  quarter  cents  per  ounce. 
There  have  now  been  sent  to  the  islands  about  seventeen  mil- 
lion nine  hundred  thousand  dollars  in  pesos,  and  about  a  mil- 
lion more  is  ready  for  shipment.  A  singular  condition  has  now 
put  a  period  to  the  operation,  and  made  it  quite  possible  that 
the  whole  issue  of  pesos  may  quickly  find  its  way  to  the  melt- 
ing pot,  and  the  Philippines  be  left  without  a  circulating 
medium  after  January-  1st.  The  large  purcaases  made  by  the 
United  States,  coupled  with  a  heavy  demand  ."or  silver  in  India, 
and  by  France  for  her  Asiatic  possessions,  and  an  active  silver 
demand  in  London  markets,  have  so  enhanced  the  price  of 
the  white  metal  that  it  is  feared  the  silver  in  the  peso  may 
soon  be  worth  more  than  its  face  value  for  bullion.  A 
natural   consequence   would   be   that   the  peso,  as   well   as  the 


for  Medical 
Attendance. 


Mexican  dollar,  would  be  bought  up  by  the  Chinese  in  the 
islands  and  shipped  to  China  to  be  recoined.  A  further  rise 
in  price  of  four  or  five  cents  an  ounce  would  make  it  a  cer- 
tainty. Another  factor  which  supports  the  expectancy  of  such 
a  rise  in  the  price  of  silver,  is  the  movement  to  furnish  China 
with  a  metallic  currency.  The  demand  from  that  country  would 
require  more  than  six  hundred  and  fifty  million  ounces  to  fur- 
nish a  per  capita  circulation  of  one  dollar.  The  fluctuation 
in  the  value  of  silver  is  quite  remarkable.  In  1835,  it  was 
worth  $1.32;  in  1873,  it  sold  for  $1.29.  By  1S83  it  had  fallen 
to  $1.10,  and  by  1893,  to  78  cents.  Last  year,  the  ratio  of  silver 
to  gold  was  39.15  to  1,  and  now  the  government  has  stopped 
buying  for  fear  the  demand  will  force  the  metal  up  to  the 
exorbitant  price  of  sixty  cents  an  ounce.  What  can  best  be 
done  for  the  Philippines,  under  the  circumstances,  is  being 
considered.  One  suggestion  is  to  renew  the  bill  offered  last 
winter  extending  the  United  States  monetary  system  to  the 
islands,  and  another  is  to  melt  down  the  new  pesos  and  recoin 
them  with  increased  alloy  sufficient  to  prevent  their  being 
bought  up  for  bullion. 


Trouble  Among 
Atlantic  Stfam- 
ship  Lines. 


Upon  the  heels  of  the  collapse  of  the  Shipbuilding  Trust  come 
reports  of  trouble  for  the  Steamship  Trust. 
The  continental  lines,  including  the  North 
German  Lloyd,  the  Hamburg-American,  the 
Holland-American,  and  the  French  trans- 
atlantic companies,  have  given  notice  of  withdrawal  from  the 
North  Atlantic  conference  agreement  fixing  the  minimum 
rates  of  first  and  second  class  fares.  Next  comes  the  an- 
nouncement that  the  sailing  date  of  the  American  Line  (of  the 
irustt  from  New  York  is  to  be  changed  to  Saturday.  This  is 
the  sailing  date  of  the  Cunard  Line,  which  withdrew  from  the 
agreement  because  of  the  Friday  service  of  the  White  Star 
Line,  and  further  because  the  Etruria  and  Umbria  were  not  al- 
lowed sufficient  differentials.  Whether  the  change  of  the 
American  Line  means  more  active  competition  against  the 
Cunard  Line,  or  is  caused  by  the  sailing  days  of  the  other  lines 
and  the  agreement  not  to  interfere  with  the  German  lines. 
is  not  yet  apparent.  The  Cunard  Line  announces  no  change 
for  the  present,  and  the  other  lines  are  in  a  state  of  expectancy. 
It  is  rumored  that  the  Cunard  Line's  intention  to  put  on  a 
Mediterranean  line,  already  announced  by  that  company,  is  the 
cause  of  the  trouble,  but  on  the  other  hand,  the  French  line 
reports  that  the  Cunard  company  has  received  no  permission 
to  enter  Italian  ports,  and  is  not  likely  to  get  such  permission, 
the  Italian  Government  believing  that  there  are  already  ships 
enough  to  carry  the  business  between  Italy  and  this  country. 


New  Rumors  Re- 
garding the 
Western  Pacific. 


Highways. 


The  Western  Pacific  continues  to  be  the  enigma  of  the  rail- 
way situation  upon  the  Pacific  Coast.  The 
energy  with  which  work  has  been  pushed,  the 
territory"  that  it  will  tap,  and  its  terminal  points, 
all  indicate  that  there  is  some  solid  financial 
backing  behind  it.  But  what  is  that  backing?  The  fact  that 
the  project  appeared  shortly  after  Gould  had  announced  his 
determination  to  extend  his  system  to  the  Pacific  Coast  within 
two  years,  created  a  generral  belief  that  he  was  furnishing  the 
money  for  the  new  enterprise.  Now,  however,  a  dispatch  from 
Chicago  asserts  that  it  is  the  Burlington  line  that  is  behind 
the  Western  Pacific,  and  not  the  Gould  system.  The  Bur- 
lington is  controlled  by  the  Great  Northern  and  Northern 
Pacific  lines,  at  the  head  of  which  combination  is  James  J. 
Hill.  It  has  long  been  known  that  Hill  has  had  his  eye  upon 
the  California  field,  but  his  intention  was  supposed  to  be  to 
run  a  line  from  Portland  to  this  city  along  the  coast,  tapping 
a  rich  lumber  country.  There  would  be  nothing  inconsistent 
in  Hill's  having  both  routes  in  contemplation.  According  to 
another  theory,  both  Hill  and  Gould  are  behind  the  Western 
Pacific.  Hill  taps  the  northern  part  of  the  Mississippi  Valley, 
the  Gould  system,  the  southern  part.  The  Western  Pacific, 
without  conflict,  could  offer  a  western  outlet  for  both  systems. 

The  development  of  suburban  electric  railways  in  the  Eastern 

States  has   been   very   rapid   in   recent  years. 

Electric  Lines      an(j  tjje;r  construction  has  not  only  increased 

and  Public  .  ,  ,  .... 

property    values    throughout    a    wide    circuit 

surrounding  the  larger  cities,  but  has  made 
life  much  pleasanter  for  those  whose  business  compels  them 
to  be  in  the  city,  while  health  and  inclination  suggest  life 
in  the  country.  The  construction  of  suburban  electric  lines  is 
only  just  beginning  in  this  part  of  California,  and  while  the 
movement  is  yet  in  its  infancy,  one  rule  should  be  adopted 
from  which  there  should  be  no  departure.  Electric  railway 
companies  should  be  compelled  to  secure  their  own  right  of 
way.  They  should  not  be  given  the  rights  of  way  over  high- 
ways that  belong  to  the  public.  In  Los  Angeles  County,  there 
has  been  considerable  development  of  electric  suburban  lines. 
To  the  earlier  lines  rights  of  way  were  granted  over  public 
roads.  The  result  was  that  many  people  were  injured,  more 
were  annoyed,  and  there  was  general  dissatisfaction.  The  rail- 
way people  themselves  found  it  unsatisfactory',  and  later  fran- 
chises have  been  over  private  rights  of  way.  In  Santa  Clara 
Valley,  electric  railway  building  is  very  active  just  now. 
The  first  line,  connecting  San  Jose  and  Los  Gatos  by  way  of 
Saratoga,  was  granted  a  right  of  way  over  the  county  road, 
which  had  been  in  use  by  the  public  since  the  valley  was  first 
settled.  The  result  is  that  the  public  has  been  deprived  of  the 
use  of  that  road,  and  will  have  to  secure  a  new  right  of  way, 
and  build  a  new  road  at  considerable  expense.  Safety  and 
convenience  both  demand  that  electric  railways  should  se- 
cure private  rights  of  way. 


It  is  said  that,  in  ten  years.  2.600  years  01  imprisonment 
have  been  inflicted  upon  those  who  have  dared  to  talk  irrever- 
ently of  Kaiser  Wilhelm.  In  the  Reichstag,  a  deputy  shouted 
out  the  other  day:  "One  may  mention  the  name  of  God,  but 
not  the  name  of  William  the  Second."  But  times  are  chang- 
ing. The  socialist  power  is  growing.  It  is  the  rumor  in  Berlin 
that  the  Kaiser  is  having  a  certain  island  fortified  to  which 
he  may  escape  in  case  of  insurrection. 


POLITICAL    NOTES. 


Henry  J.   Crocker. 

As  the  municipal  campaign  draws  toward  its  close,  people 
are  becoming  more  and  more  impressed  with  the  fact  that  there 
is  nearly  eighteen  millions  of  dollars  to  be  expended  by  the  next 
administration,  and  that  the  one  man  who  will  direct  its 
expenditure  most  wisely  and  judiciously  is  neither  a  lawyer 
nor  a  musician,  but  an  energetic  and  successful  business  man. 
Such  a  man  is  Henry  J.  Crocker.  Every  desperate  attempt  that 
has  been  made  during  the  campaign  to  distort  the  truth,  and 
make  it  appear  that  Mr.  Crocker  is  not  a  successful  manager 
of  large  business  enterprises,  has  met  with  conspicuous  failure. 
When  the  lying  story  was  circulated  that  Mr.  Crocker's  ad- 
ministration as  president  of  the  Olympic  Club  had  not  been 
successful,  members  and  officers  of  the  club — men  at  un- 
doubted standing  and  character — came  forward  with  facts  and 
figures  that  could  not  be  gainsaid,  showing  the  story  to  be 
without  foundation.  It  was  proved  by  the  testimony  of  Henry 
B.  Russ,  an  officer  of  the  club  for  thirty  years.  John  A.  Ham- 
mersmith, of  the  firm  of  Hammersmith  &:  Field,  and  John 
Elliott,  secretary  of  the  club.  that,  far  from  having  "  ruined  " 
the  club.  Mr.  Crocker  established  its  credit  and  increased  its 
membership.  When  he  took  the  presidency,  the  club  had  a 
floating  debt  of  $56,000  and  a  membership  of  1.855.  When  he 
relinquished  the  presidency  on  account  of  pressure  of  his  own 
business,  the  debt  had  been  reduced  to  $29,500,  the  membership 
had  been  increased  to  2,267 — the  largest  in  its  history. 

Again,  when  it  was  alleged  that  the  Wine  -Association  had 
met  disaster  in  Mr.  Crocker's  hands,  Mr.  Sbarboro,  the  one 
man  who  knew  all  the  facts,  and  has  the  public's  implicit  con- 
fidence, promptly  nailed  the  lie. 

Mr.  Crocker  is  not  a  politician  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the 
word.  But  he  is  emphatically  a  politician  as  the  word  was 
defined  in  a  notable  address  by  the  "  only  living  ex-President," 
recently — "  One  who  concerns  himself  with  the  regulation  or 
government  of  a  nation  or  State  for  the  preservation  of  its 
safety,  peace,  and  prosperity."  Though  never  before  has  he 
sought  a  public  office  at  the  hands  of  the  people,  he  has  been 
an  indefatigable  laborer  for  developing  the  resources  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  an  efficient  worker  for  the  upbuilding  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. During  the  dark  days  of  distress  and  panic  in  the  early 
"nineties,  he  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee intrusted  with  the  disbursement  of  funds  raised  by 
popular  subscription  to  give  employment  to  men  out  of  work 
in  constructing  drives  and  boulevards  in  the  city  parks.  Time. 
money,  good  judgment.  Mr.  Crocker  gave  to  the  work  that 
helped  to  make  the  results  of  the  charity  a  permanent  con- 
tribution to  the  welfare  of  San  Francisco. 

Again,  Mr.  Crocker  rendered  a  conspicuous  service  to  the 
city  and  State  by  his  early  work,  as  president  of  the  Hall 
Million  Club,  in  advertising  California  and  San  Francisco. 
Capital  was  brought  here,  settlers  were  induced  to  come,  and 
the  movement,  as  a  whole,  resulted  in  substantial  progress. 
His  work  at  the  head  of  the  winemakers'  corporation  is  too 
well  known  to  need  detailing.  Suffice  it  to  say.  that  wine 
grapes,  which  sold  at  six  dollars  and  eight  dollars  a  ton  before 
Mr.  Crocker  took  hold  of  the  industry',  have  since  regularly 
sold  for  nearly  double  that  price,  and  have  never  since  fallen 
to  the  level  at  which  they  once  were.  This  achievement  was 
of  advantage  not  only  to  the  wine-growers,  but  to  every  citizen 
of  the  State,  since  the  prosperity  of  so  important  a  class  must 
affect  the  prosperity  of  all  in  city  and  country- 
Beneficent,  also,  were  Mr.  Crocker's  disinterested  labors 
during  the  campaign  of  1896.  The  State  was  in  imminent 
peril  of  surrendering  to  the  great  wave  of  Bryanism  then 
sweeping  over  the  country.  Mr.  Crocker,  uninfluenced  by  what 
have  since  been  recognized  as  false  and  vicious  doctrines,  but 
which  then  deceived  many  intelligent  men.  saw  the  danger, 
and  was  the  one  to  issue  a  stirring  appeal  to  business  men 
of  every  party  to  organize  in  support  of  sound  money.  The 
result  of  the  call  was  a  great  gathering  at  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  followed  by  the  organization  of  the  Sound  Money 
League,  by  whose  efforts  the  State  was  saved  from  the  silver 
craze,  and  safely  placed  among  the  sound-money  supporters 
and  followers  of  McKinley. 

Nor  have  Mr.  Crocker's  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  common- 
wealth been  less  vigorous  and  valuable  in  recent  years.  Only 
a  year  ago,  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  president  of  the 
United  Republican  Club,  formed  to  protect  the  primaries  in 
the  governorship  contest  then  pending.  Nor  are  these  by  any 
means  all  of  his  public  activities.  His  willingness  to  help  in 
all  good  movements,  little  or  large,  is  well  illustrated  by  the 
disclosure,  at  a  meeting  in  the  thirty-third  assembly  district 
of  this  city,  recently,  that  Mr.  Crocker  had  long  been  a 
member  of  the  Holly  Park  Improvement  Club.  He  does  not 
live  in  the  district;  he  has  no  property  there,  but  simply  a 
characteristic  readiness  to  "  lend  a  hand "  in  any  enterprise 
likely  to  help  the  city  had  led  him  to  give  liberally  of  his 
time  and  money.  Quite  by  accident,  also,  was  the  disclosure, 
the  other  day,  that  Mr.  Crocker,  of  all  the  mayoralty  candi- 
dates, was  the  only  one  to  help  defray  the  expense  of  the 
campaign  to  secure  the  adoption  of  the  bond-issue.  Mr. 
Crocker  gave  liberally,  though  at  that  time  he  was  not  3 
candidate  for  any  office. 

Is  it  any  wonder,  in  view  of  all  these  facts,  that  the  can- 
didacy of  a  man  so  tested  and  tried  in  so  many  relations,  pub- 
lic and  private,  should  hourly  be  gaining  strength  with  intel- 
ligent citizens  in  every  class,  rich  and  poor,  workers  and 
employers?  For  all  good  citizens,  whatever  their-  station  in 
life,  have  this  in  common — that  they  desire  the  highest  office 
in  their  gift  shall  be  administered  honestly,  ably.  fairl>. 
economically. 

Such  an  administration  Henry  J.  Crocker  will  give  to  the 
people  of  San  Francisco. 

William  E.  Lutz. 
William  E.  Lutz,  the  Republican  nominee  for  the  office  of 
public  administrator,  is  essentially  a  self-made  man.  Though 
only  a  boy  of  sixteen  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  be  was 
one  of  those  who  was  prompt  to  enlist  and  hasten  to  the  front. 
He  served  through  the  entire  war.  received  an  honorable  dis- 
charge, and  is  now  a  member  of  the  George  H.  Thomas  Post 
of  this  city.  He  was  secretary  of  the  executive  committee 
that  had  charge  of  the  G.  A.  R.  National  Encampment,  held 
here  last  August. 

Like  thousands  of  other  young  men,  after  the  war  Mr. 
Lutz  turned  his  face  to  the  great  West.  San  Francisco  si-emed 
to  him  the  city  of  the  future,  and  here  he  settled.  Here  he  has 
lived  for  almost  forty  years.  At  first,  ht  worked  at  his  trade 
as  a  butcher  in  the  California  Market.  There  he  gained 
acquaintances  and  won  many  friends  among  those  in  similar 
lines  of  business.  But  his  ambition  spurred  him  on  to  im- 
prove his  position  in  life.  During  the  years  that  he  was  work- 
ing at  his  trade,  he  devoted  all  his  spare  time  to  stud>. 
he  was  able  to  advance  himself.  an-I  for  >e,"ir^  past  has  occu- 
pied positions  requiring  strict  integrity  and  unquestioned 
ability.  He  is  at  present  agent  of  large  insurance  companies, 
with  offices  at  205  Sansome  Street,  and  is  also  secretary  of 
many  business  associations. 

The  public  administrator  is  intrusted  with  estates  where 
it  is  incumbent  upon  him  to  protect  the  interests  of  widows 
and  orphans,  and  he  should  therefore  be  a  man  of  absolute 
honesty  and  large  capacity  —  a  man  of  mature  years  and 
sound  judgment. 

William  E.  Lutz  possesses  all  these  qualifican  ink 

therefore,   that    he   is   justly   entitled    to   the    sutiri. 
voters  of  San  Francisco. 


260 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  26,  1903. 


ANDREW    HANSEN'S    DEBT. 

How  a  Salmon  Fisherman  Proved  His  Honor  Stainless. 

Andrew  Hansen  spent  an  hour  figuring  at  a  desk  in 
the  outside  office  of  the  Astoria  Crescent  Cannery.  His 
heavy  brows  were  drawn  down  over  his  gray  eyes,  and 
under  an  unkempt  beard  his  mouth  worked  uneasily. 
When  he  finished,  he  strode  over  to  the  cashier.  "  You 
cheat  me!"  he  cried,  thickly.  "  By  Jee,  you  cheat  me 
twenty  dollar !  " 

"  Nonsense,  Andrew,"  said  the  cashier,  "  you're  off. 
Your  account  is  just  eighty-three  dollars  and  six  bits 
due  you.    Not  a  cent  more.    Our  books  don't  lie." 

The  fisherman  hitched  up  his  trousers,  and  his  voice 
fell  two  notes.  "  You  cheat  me,"  he  muttered,  dog- 
gedly. "  I  bring  in  two  hundred  pound  more  fish.  It's 
down  in  my  book.    See  ?" 

The  young  fellow  who  had  charge  of  the  fish-delivery 
books  received  gingerly  the  greasy  pages  thrust  in  at 
him,  and  rapidly  compared  the  entries  there  with  those 
in  his  ledger.  Every  now  and  then  he  jotted  a  number 
on  a  pad  of  blank  paper  before  him,  and  when  he  had 
run  through  all  the  pages  of  the  fish-book,  he  added  to- 
gether his  jottings,  and  looked  up  with  a  weary  smile. 
"  You're  wrong,  Andrew,"  he  said.  "  See  here  where 
you've  gone  off  your  reckoning.  This  entry  calls  for 
only  twenty  pounds  of  fish,  and  you've  read  it  two  hun- 
dred. This  here  is  forty-five  pounds  of  steelhead,  and 
you've  made  it  salmon.  You  better  be  careful  how  you 
say  we  cheat  you.  You  are  trying  to  do  some  cheating 
yourself  with  a  darned  blunt  pencil.  Take  your  book 
and  clear  out." 

The  heavy-eyed  captain  of  boat  No.  345  loosed  his 
neckerchief  and  pulled  again  at  his  trousers.  "  You 
cheat  me !"  he  yelled,  shrill)'.  "  Ole,  he  put  him  down 
that  way,  and  I  know  how  much  fish  I  bring  in.  I  don't 
change  him  in  the  book.    You  cheat  me  !" 

A  rough  order  to  clear  out  w-as  the  only  response,  and 
Andrew  blew  like  a  porpoise.  Then  his  clumsy  tongue 
gathered  articulateness,  and  he  called  down  the  curse 
of  God  upon  the  Astoria  Crescent,  with  special  reference 
to  the  white-faced  cashier  and  Ole,  the  weigher.  His 
strident  tones  resounded  in  the  building,  and  presently 
the  manager  of  the  cannery  came  from  his  private  office 
to  see  what  the  matter  was.  Andrew  turned  to  him 
with  a  cry  for  justice. 

"  But  your  account  is  all  straight,"  said  the  manager, 
after  a  quick  glance  at  the  book  the  fisherman  held  out 
to  him.  "  What  the  devil  do  you  mean  by  making  such 
a  fuss  ?" 

"  But  Ole  make  the  wrong  number,"  Andrew  expos- 
tulated. "  He  put  down  twenty  pound  of  fish  on  your 
book  when  I  have  two  hundred  on  mine.    He  cheat  me." 

"  If  you  make  any  more  howl,"  said  the  manager, 
roughly,  "  I'll  seize  your  boat.  You  owe  us  a  hundred 
on  last  season." 

There  was  a  deep  silence,  while  the  huge  fellow 
shambled  back  as  if  to  gather  himself  for  a  blow.  Then 
in  some  way  he  realized  his  helplessness,  and  strove 
to  subdue  his  voice.  "  It  aint  right,"  he  mumbled.  "  I 
owe  you  no-ting.  I  pay  him  all  oop.  Ole  make  wrong 
number.    You  can't  take  my  boat." 

Possibly  the  manager  of  the  cannery  was  doubtful 
of  his  own  position,  or  else  he  was  incited  by  a  charit- 
able thought  of  Andrew's  wife  and  small  baby.  He 
pulled  a  gold  piece  from  his  pocket  and  flung  it  at  the 
fisherman.  "  Take  this,  Andrew,  and  don't  let  me  hear 
any  more  of  your  nonsense.  That's  a  brand  new  ten- 
dollar  piece,  and  I'll  bet  you  spend  it  in  a  saloon,  and 
curse  me  over  your  glass.    Now  clear  out !" 

Hansen  looked  at  the  money  in  his  calloused  palm, 
and  then  at  the  retreating  form  of  the  manager.  "  Clear 
out !"  said  the  clerk, "  or  we'll  throw  you  out,  you  darned 
beggar !" 

Mrs.  Hansen  wept  when  her  husband  told  her  curtly 
that  she  was  to  have  no  new  dress.  When  he  refused  to 
buy  a  baby  carriage  for  the  first  born,  there  was  deep 
gloom  in  the  little  house  tucked  up  under  the  hill  above 
the  gas-works.  But  Andrew  did  not  explain,  though 
he  gazed  a  long  time  at  the  white-haired  son,  whose 
legs  were  sure,  according  to  his  mother,  to  be  bent  like 
the  staves  of  a  fish-barrel  did  he  have  no  carriage  to 
ride  in. 

Two  days  later,  Andrew  paid  off  his  boat-puller.  It 
took  all  the  money  to  his  credit  at  the  cannery.  Then 
he  went  out  to  the  racks  on  which  his  net  was  hung, 
and  worked  there  for  a  week.  Later,  he  drew  his  boat 
out  on  the  beach,  and  scraped  and  cleaned  her  through 
without  painting  a  strake.  From  that  time  till  Sep- 
tember 10th  he  sat  on  the  wabbling  wharf  over  the  tide, 
and  figured  in  his  smeary  fish-book,  and  seemed  to  be 
nursing  some  secret  sorrow,  so  that  his  acquaintances 
nodded  their  heads,  and  said  with  many  oaths  that  An- 
drew was  an  ill  husband,  and  was  spending  nis  season's 
wages  in  sullen  drinking. 

But  when  he  quietly  put  his  net  in  No.  345  on  the 
tenth,  and  started  out  "  fall  fishing,"  the  nods  of  head 
changed  to  open-mouthed  astonishment.  For  Andrew 
was  forehanded  in  his  way,  and  enjoyed  the  reputation 
of  making  enough,  even  in  a  poor  summer,  to  avoid  the 
necessity  for  drifting  for  the  slimy  salmon  that  enter 
the  Columbia  in  the  later  months. 

Instead  of  six  cents,  fish  now  commanded  onlv  one 
cent  at  the  cannery  scales,  and  Andrew  grew'  gaunt  and 
haggard  before  September  was  out.  One  day  he  brought 
in  two  hundred  and  fifty  pounds,  his  biggest  catch.  His 
I'.'.!;.--  e  at  the  Astoria  Crescent  was  bettered  some  nine 
by  two  weeks'  work.  And  Andrew  had  no  boat- 
r  '0  share  his  profits,  but  toiled  alone,  he  and  his 


alarm  clock  that  warned  him  to  wake  and  work  when 
sleep  was>  heavy  upon  him. 

One  Sunday  at  noon,  Andrew  came  down  from  the 
little  house  under  the  hill,  shambling  sullenly  out  on  the 
wharf  to  where  his  boat  lay  nosing  a  fender  pile.  His 
pipe  was  gripped  in  his  teeth,  and  he  raged  that  the  day 
should  be  so  fine  when  he  must  go  cut  and  spend  it  in  a 
dirty  boat  alone,  while  his  wife  sat  in  white  anger  at 
his  parting  silence. 

After  a  slow  look  over  the  bay,  he  jolted  down  the 
ladder,  pulled  his  boat  in  sharply,  and  dropped  on  the 
net-heaped  amidships.  Then  with  quick  jerks  he 
stepped  the  mast,  threw  off  the  riding  line,  and  with  a 
thrust  of  an  oar  was  out  in  the  stream.  Five  minutes 
later  No.  345  was  speeding  across  toward  the  deep  calm 
in  the  lee  of  the  Washington  hills.  Bowed  in  the  stern 
was  Andrew  Hansen  clutching  his  tiller  in  one  hairy 
hand  and  holding  the  sheet  in  the  other.  Only  once 
did  he  glance  back,  to  see  if  the  fish  warden's  launch 
was  st/ill  tied  up  by  her  dock.  For  Sunday,  until  six 
o'clock  in  the  evening,  is  "  closed." 

Sunset  found  him  below  Sand  Island  stowing  the  last 
fathoms  of  his  reeking  net.  A  dozen  poor  fish  slid  back 
and  forth  in  the  well  to  the  tumble  of  the  boat.  Andrew 
flung  in  the  last  armful  of  net,  and  stood  up  to  ease 
his  aching  back.  His  eye  caught  a  solitary  pink  cloud 
riding  high  in  the  evening  sky,  and  his  gaze  fastened 
on  it  truculently. 

Gradually  the  ocean  wind  chilled,  and  the  dusk  came 
on  like  puffs  of  smoke  before  it.  The  crystal  of  the  lee 
shores  dimmed,  and  the  bar  leaped  higher  against  the 
blackened  embers  of  the  west.  The  clear  gleam  from 
a  lighthouse  threaded  the  twilight,  and  No.  345  plunged 
wildly  over  gray  combers.  Still  Andrew  poised  his 
bulk  over  the  boat,  and  as  the  seas,  rising  with  the  tide, 
tossed  it  angrily,  his  grim  face  hardened.  Before  his 
mind  rose  the  image  of  the  manager  who  had  cheated 
him,  of  the  fellow  fisherfolk  who  had  looked  at  him 
quizzically,  or  hostilely,  or  pityingly.  His  big  fists 
clenched  because,  were  it  not  for  one  thing,  he  was 
strong  enough  to  fend  against  them  all.  That  one  thing 
had  ridden  his  heart,  till  the  very  thought  of  it  made 
his  teeth  fasten  in  his  lips  and  the  blood  swell  his  veins 
to  bursting. 

With  a  sudden  access  of  rage,  he  pulled  out  of  his 
jacket  pocket  his  fish-book,  and  held  its  almost  obliter- 
ated pages  up  before  him.  The  crabbed  scrawls  of 
many  weighers  were  jumbled  in  its  rude  columns.  But 
hate  knew  the  false  entries,  and  his  finger,  shriveled 
by  the  cold  brine,  shook  as  it  traced  them  out.  Then 
the  vision  of  the  little  home  under  the  hill,  a  pale-faced 
wife,  and  a  babe  with  tiny  fists  blurred  his  sight  and 
effaced  the  sordid  characters.  And  then  a  sand-laden 
wave  fell  on  No.  345,  and  flooded  it  till  Andrew  was 
knee  deep  in  water. 

With  a  leap  he  seized  an  oar,  swung  the  boat  round 
till  it  met  the  next  roller  head  on,  and  with  a  few  swift 
jerks  raised  the  sail.  The  wind  was  getting  up  fast, 
but  in  pure  defiance  he  put  in  the  sprit,  and,  before  No. 
345  could  yield  dangerously  to  its  pressure,  drove  the 
boat  into  the  eye  of  the  gale  with  another  sweep  of  the 
oar,  and  then  fell  upon  the  tiller.  The  fish-book  floated 
in  the  water  among  the  slimy  chums. 

It  was  black  night,  and  Andrew  set  to  scanning  the 
lights  before  running  up  the  bay.  The  roar  of  the  surf 
was  growing  shriller  and  the  foam  that  blew  past  him 
was  alive,  not  dead  from  long  drifting.  In  his  wide 
sweep  of  the  river's  mouth  he  caught  sight  of  a  strange 
light  off  the  south  end  of  the  bar.  He  looked  again  and 
again.  He  forgot  his  wrath  in  this  new  matter,  and 
peered  under  the  foot  of  his  shaking  sail,  careless  of  the 
fact  that  his  boat  was  half  water-logged  and  that  his 
catch  was  slopping  about  in  the  bottom.  For  Andrew 
knew  that  that  glimmer  was  on  another  boat,  and  from 
its  position  he  also  knew  that  it  was  driving  into  the 
terror  of  all  who  use  Astoria  Bay,  the  chops  off  Clatsop 
Spit. 

Then  his  anger  came  over  him  again.  Had  it  not 
been  for  the  false  entry  in  his  fish-book,  and  the  harsh 
injustice  of  the  manager,  he  would  not  now  be  out  in 
the  night,  helplessly  watching  some  unknown  fellow 
struggling  with  death.  He  seemed  to  catch  a  glimpse 
of  a  smart  house,  with  a  red  fire  in  a  grate,  and  the 
manager  of  the  Astoria  Crescent  toasting  himself  and 
talking  to  his  wife.  His  own  clothes  were  sour  upon 
him,  and  the  brine  hardening  about  his  eyes  made  it 
torture  to  look  into  the  wind.  Then,  with  a  defiant 
curse  at  the  transient  vision,  he  stooped  to  his  net,  and. 
raising  it  fathoms  at  an  armful,  thrust  it  over  the  side! 
It  is  the  last  sacrifice  a  Columbia  River  fisherman 
makes.  But  out  in  the  tossing  surges  of  the  bar  he  saw 
still  a  wavering  light. 

Unburdened,  No.  345  answered  her  helm  quickly. 
With  one  hand  on  the  tiller  Andrew  bailed  in  wild  haste 
with  the  other,  throwing  the  water  to  leeward  and  look- 
ing to  the  lashings  of  the  heavy  ballast-bags.  Then, 
when  all  was  clear  as  he  could  make  it,  he  dexterously 
undid  his  cumbersome  jacket  and  stuffed  it  under  the 
thwart.  Another  lull  in  the  wind  allowed  him  to  un- 
lash  a  second  oar,  and  he,  with  this  in  reserve,  settled 
himself  down  stolidly  to  his  task. 

The  breasts  of  the  fishboat  threw  the  waves  aside  in 
blinding  spray  as  he  neared  the  chops,  and  when  a  roar- 
ing sea  swept  across  the  tumbling  rafBe  Andrew  taut- 
ened every  muscle.  The  sea  passed  in  thunder  into  the 
darkness,  whither  he  dared  not  look,  and  left  the  sturdy 
craft  still  heading  on  the  starboard  tack  toward  the 
feeble  gleam  in  the  murk  ahead.  The  sail  was  wet  to 
the  top  of  the  mast,  and  from  the  folds  where  the  sprit 
wrinkled   it  the  wind  blew  the  water  in  white   foam. 


Then  a  short  expanse  of  less  troubled  sea  intervened, 
and  Hansen  managed  by  a  quick  leap  and  hot  return  to 
throw  the  sprit  out.  He  was  just  in  time;  for  a  moun- 
tain of  water  shut  out  the  wind,  and,  as  the  boat  fell 
away,  broke  in  boiling  foam.  Two  minutes  later  No. 
345  was  again  on  her  course,  half  filled,  hard  to  hold, 
and  dipping  deeply  at  every  plunge.  But  the  light  was 
close  aboard  and  the  fisherman  saw  to  leeward  of  him 
the  blotted  outlines  of  a  small  yacht.  It  was  under  bare 
poles,  and  every  lurch  sent  the  spray  soaring  toward 
the  shrilling  stars  from  its  bluff  sides. 

When  he  got  within  a  hundred  yards  of  it,  Hansen 
shouted  and  luffed.  The  gale  bore  him  down  on  the 
yacht  in  an  instant,  and  as  he  was  driven  past,  he  saw 
a  man  wave  his  arm  frantically,  and  then  the  light 
went  out. 

Steadying  No.  345  with  one  powerful  hand  on  the 
tiller,  keeping  her  almost  in  the  eye  of  the  wind,  Andrew 
Hansen  waited.  Suddenly  his  free  arm  went  out  and 
caught  something.  A  strong  pull,  and  a  white  face  was 
lifted  to  the  thwart;  with  a  wrench  that  started  his 
joints,  he  dragged  a  girl  into  his  boat.  Still  he  waited, 
edging  up  a  litSe  whenever  he  saw  the  chance,  but  still 
waiting.  An  arm  was  flung  out  at  him  from  a  rush  of 
foam,  and  again  Andrew  snatched  his  prey.  This  time 
it  was  a  man,  and  he  fell  beside  the  girl.  "  Is  that  all?" 
yelled  the  fisherman  over  them. 

There  was  no  answer,  and  again  No.  345  was  steadied 
into  the  wind,  though  the  streaming  waves  now  carried 
a  thrill  that  warned  the  fisherman  that  but  little  time 
was  left  to  try  the  last  chance. 

But  no  other  form  was  seen,  and  when  a  towering 
wall  of  spumy  water  tossed  the  capsized  yacht  within 
ten  fathoms  of  his  boat,  Andrew  eased  the  sheet  from 
about  his  leg,  and  then  started  on  his  way  to  catch  the 
thread  of  the  tide.  He  knew  that  for  three  hours  yet  it 
would  be  flooding  in,  and  he  felt  that  no  mortal  hand 
could  save  No.  345,  unless  he  could  make  this  instream- 
ing  current,  and  there  lie  to  until  he  was  beyond  the 
clutch  of  the  devouring  bar.  So  inch  by  inch  he  ate 
his  way  out,  rushing  his  plunging  boat  over  the  smaller 
waves,  and  hanging  her  lightly  on  the  sheer  steeps  of 
crumbling  combers  only  to  flirt  her  over  when  the 
cataract  fell. 

Time  and  again  No.  345  rolled  in  helplessness  till  her 
skipper  could  furiously  clear  her  of  some  of  the  inpour- 
ing  water;  and  he  gave  little  heed  to  the  man  and  the 
girl  lying  across  his  feet,  except  to  avoid  them  as  he 
moved.  But  his  efforts  told,  and  foot  by  foot  he  crept 
out  of  the  edge  of  the  chops  and  into  the  more  regular 
wilderness  of  the  deeper  channel. 

Once  out  of  the  deadly  trap  where  every  surge  car- 
ried death,  Andrew  relaxed  a  little  and  peered  down  at 
the  two  people  he  had  saved.  When  he  got  a  mo- 
ment's breathing  space  he  put  his  hand  on  the  girl 
and  she  stirred  under  it.  The  man  shuddered  to  his 
knees,  and  threw  his  hands  out  to  the  fisherman.  Sat- 
isfied, Andrew  threw  his  weight  on  the  tiller  and  eased 
the  sheet  slightly.  Five  minutes  later  they  stemmed  the 
main  rush  of  the  tide,  and  Andrew  tied  the  oars  to- 
gether and  made  them  fast  to  the  painter,  and  threw 
them  overside  so  that  No.  345  rode  to  them,  shipping 
no  more  water  than  could  be  baled  out.  Then  Hansen 
pulled  out  his  flask,  and  addressed  himself  to  his  pas- 
sengers. 

It  was  nearly  dawn  when  Andrew  threw  his  boat's 
nose  in  by  the  wharf  of  the  Astoria  Crescent  Cannery. 
He  clambered  forward,  and  groped  for  the  ladder. 
When  his  hands  grasped  it,  he  made  the  boat  fast,  and 
climbed  up  to  the  roadway.  He  returned  with  a 
lantern,  and  set  it  at  the  ladder's  head.  Then  he  went 
down  into  the  rolling  craft  again,  and  picked  up  the 
girl.  Followed  by  the  man,  he  bore  her  up  the  ladder, 
and  set  her  down  on  the  planks.  The  other  stopped 
in  the  feeble  light  of  the  lantern,  and  fumbled  in  his 
sodden  clothes.  Andrew  glanced  at  him,  and  awk- 
wardly stooped  to  wring  the  water  from  the  girl's 
skirts.  She  shivered,  and  laid  her  cold  hands  on  his, 
and  spoke  to  him  through  her  chattering  teeth.  He  re- 
plied with  a  gesture,  and  picked  up  the  lantern.  Its 
pale  rays  fell  on  the  face  of  the  manager  of  the  can- 
nery, who  was  dragging  out  his  purse. 

"  You've  saved  our  lives,"  said  the  manager,  hoarsely. 
"  If  I  can  ever  do  anything  for  you,  say  it.  Take  this 
now." 

Andrew  thrust  his  hand  into  the  bosom  of  his  shirt, 
and  pulled  out  a  handkerchief.  He  unknotted  it,  and 
there  rolled  into  his  palm  a  coin,  glittering  moistly. 
With  a  jerk  he  dropped  it  into  the  manager's  hand,  and 
strode  to  the  ladder,  taking  no  notice  of  the  purse  held 
out. 

"  But  where  are  you  going?"  asked  the  other,  shiver- 
ing with  the  chill.  "What's  this  for?  Aint  you  go- 
ing to ?" 

Andrew  halted  on  the  ladder  with  his  grim  face  at  the 
level  of  the  planks.  "  You  cheaf'me !"  he  said,  harshly. 
"  You  make  wrong  number,  by  Jee !" 

The  manager  stumbled  hastily  forward.  His  foot 
struck  the  lani . r  :  nd  knocked  it  overboard.  As 
its   glimmer   var:i-  in   the   black   water,   he  called, 

shrilly,  "  Where  a        ou  going  ?    Come  back  and  let  me 


pay  you !  " 

There  was  r 
345  put  out  int 
to  retrieve  his    . 
settled  down  i 


sponse.  But  in  the  faint  light  No. 
channel  again.  Andrew  was  going 
i  -  haply  he  might  find  it,  and  as  he 
reeking  clothes  he  glanced  up  to  the 


little  house  tuck  inder  the  hill  above  the  gas-works, 
and  smiled.  was  thinking  of  his  honor,  now  un- 
stained. John  Fleming  Wilson. 
San  Fras  October,  1903. 


October  26,  1903. 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


261 


A    FAMOUS    PARIS    BEAUTY. 

How    Eugenie    Fougere    was    Mysteriously    Murdered     at    Aix-les- 

Baius  —  Her    Long   Reign    as   a   Demi-Mondaine   Queen  — 

Costly  Jewels  and  Beautiful  Toilets. 


Owing  to  the  varied  nature  of  her  population,  Paris 
harbors  parasites  of  all  descriptions,  who  are  attracted 
in  swarms  by  the  prospect  of  rich  returns  from  the 
pursuit  of  their  nefarious  occupations.  Among  this 
class  are  a  peculiar  set  of  criminals,  who  have  come  to 
be  known  here  as  "  Apaches."  They  find  in  the  gay 
lives  led  by  the  famous  queens  of  the  demi-monde  a 
direct  means  of  supplying  the  sinews  of  war  necessary 
to  their  own  execrable  existence,  and  when  these  well- 
known  beauties  cease  to  respond  to  the  ordinary 
methods  of  threats  and  cajolery,  the  more  desperate 
method  of  assassination  is  very  frequently  resorted  to. 

Several  such  cases  have  recently  baffled  the  police  and 
sent  a  thrill  of  terror  through  all  France.  In  fact,  the 
papers  now  are  full  of  details  concerning  the  horrible 
crime  committed  on  the  night  of  September  20th.  when 
one  of  the  most  renowned  demi-mondaines  of  Paris  was 
brutallv  strangled  in  her  beautiful  villa  at  Aix-les- 
Bains.  One  of  the  suspected  assassins  was  a  former 
lover  called  "  Handsome  Arthur."  the  chief  of  an  inter- 
national band  of  chloroform  thieves. 

Mme.  Fougere  and  her  companion.  Mile.  Giriat.  upon 
their  return  from  the  theatre,  retired  immediately. 
Some  hours  later.  Mile.  Giriat  was  awakened  by  a  noise 
in  the  passage,  and  upon  rising  to  investigate  was  seized 
by  two  men;  a  towel  was  thrown  with  lightning  speed 
around  her  neck,  and  she  was  quickly  choked  into 
insensibility  and  left  for  dead.  When  she  recovered 
consciousness,  she  dragged  herself  to  the  window  and 
screamed  wildly  for  help.  Then  she  sank  again  into  a 
deep  swoon  before  assistance  arrived.  Her  miraculous 
escape  from  death,  however,  was  not  shared  by  either 
Eugenie  or  her  maid.  Thev  were  both  found  dead  from 
strangulation.  The  autopsy  clearly  demonstrated  that 
the  maid  had  been  dead  several  hours  before  the  attack 
upon  Mme.  Fougere  and  her  companion  was  perpe- 
trated. The  stranglers  evidently  gained  entrance  while 
they  were  at  the  theatre,  and  proceeded  to  dispatch  the 
maid,  after  which  they  concealed  themselves  and 
awaited  the  return  of  her  mistress. 

In  addition  to  a  large  sum  of  money  which  Fougere 
was  known  to  have  with  her  at  her  villa  at  Aix-les- 
Bains.  she  was  robbed  of  upward  of  twenty  thousand 
dollars'  worth  of  jewels,  among  which  were  the  follow- 
ing named  articles :  a  necklace,  consisting  of  four  hun- 
dred pearls,  valued  at  $3,500:  a  pearl  collar,  $1,000; 
a  collar  of  coral,  with  settings  of  brilliants.  $800 ;  six 
valuable  gold  chain  bracelets,  set  with  diamonds  and 
brilliants :  pearl  earrings,  each  one  formed  of  a  large 
single  pearl,  $2,000 :  emerald  earrings,  set  with  dia- 
monds. $500:  diamond  solitaire  earrings.  $1,000;  mar- 
quise ring.  $600;  watch  catch  of  brilliants,  rubies, 
emeralds,  and  sapphires,  $800 :  brooch  formed  of  a  gold 
bar,  in  which  were  set  two  large  pearls  between  two 
solitaire  diamonds,  $2,500;  brooch  of  large  rubies,  sur- 
rounded by  large  brilliants,  $1,000 ;  a  large  sapphire 
and  diamond  ring.  $1,000:  numbers  of  valuable  pins, 
watches,  and  minor  jewels. 

Twenty  years  ago.  Eugenie  Fougere  came  to  Paris 
from  the  village  of  Chambon  in  the  Creuse.  Her  beauty 
was  a  splendid  example  of  what  is  called  in  Paris,  "le 
genre  spirituelle."  She  was  possessed  of  a  handsome 
figure,  delicate  features,  and  a  charming  personality. 
and  succeeded  in  maintaining  her  position  as  one  of  the 
leaders  of  beauty  and  fashion  far  beyond  the  term  of 
years  usually  allotted  to  the  career  of  Parisian  demi- 
mondaines.  She  was  a  great  chum,  by  the  way,  of 
Liane  de  Pougy.  and  was  often  seen  in  the  Bois  in 
company  with  Emelienne  d'Alencon.  La  Belle  Otero, 
La  Belle  Guerrero,  and  Cleo  de  Merode. 

Only  once  did  Fougere  leave  the  stirring  scenes  of  her 
beloved  Paris.  That  was  some  years  ago.  when  she  threw 
her  troops  of  admirers  into  the  deepest  consternation 
by  suddenly  disappearing.  It  was  during  this  four  years' 
absence,  spent  in  Brazil  in  company  with  an  immensely 
rich  South  American,  that  she  accumulated  the  wealth 
which  enabled  her  to  dazzle  Paris  on  her  return;  for  it 
was  an  ordinary  event  to  see  Fougere  at  the  opera, 
scintillating  with  diamonds,  surpassing  with  her  toilets 
the  most  stylish  and  aristocratic  ladies  of  Paris.  So 
great  was  her  vogue,  that  the  most  fashionable  dress- 
makers not  only  sought  her  patronage  with  bitter  riv- 
alry, but  were  only  too  glad  to  clothe  her  for  nothing, 
and  pay  her  handsomely  besides  for  launching  their 
creations. 

Like  most  of  her  class,  she  took  a  keen  delight  in 
going  about  at  all  times  literally  loaded  down  with 
diamonds  and  precious  stones  of  all  descriptions.  No 
occasion  appeared  too  small  to  satisfy  her  love  of  dis- 
play. She  was  repeatedly  warned  at  Longchamps  and 
Auteuil  as  to  the  danger  of  wearing  so  much  jewelry  in 
the  daytime.  But  she  only  laughed  and  took  no  heed. 
It  was  no  uncommon  thing,  too.  to  see  Fougere  at 
Maxim's,  wearing  upward  of  sixty  thousand  dollars' 
worth  of  diamonds.  Another  great  fad  of  hers  was  to 
display  the  large  sums  of  money  which  she  carried. 
One  evening,  totally  unconscious  of  the  sensation  she 
was  producing,  she  drew  out  a  roll  of  forty  or  fifty 
1.000  franc  notes  to  pay  for  a  bottle  of  champagne. 
Upon  the  receipt  of  a  handful  of  bank-notes  in  change. 

»she  crumpled  the  entire  lot  carelessly,  and  threw  it  to 
her  maid,  with  a  mild  order  to  replace  it  in  her  bag. 
This  off-hand  sort  of  procedure  naturally  attracted  the 


attention  of  some  Apache  spectators,  and  it  is  quite 
certain  that  on  some  such  occasion  as  described,  the 
resolution  was  taken,  and  the  plan  formulated,  which 
eventually  led  to  her  murder  for  the  robbery  of  her 
money  and  jewels.  St.  Martin. 

Paris,  October  3,  1903. 

m  m  ^ 

DOWIE'S  "INVASION"  OF  NEW  YORK. 

Marvelous  Success  of  Elijah  the  Restorer-Reputation  as  a  Fighter— 
His  Power  to  Get  Cash  from  His  Followers  — Found- 
ing  of  2ion   City    Near   Chicago. 


John  Alexander  Dowie,  who  calls  himself  "  Elijah 
the  Restorer,"  met  with  a  strange  reception  in  New 
York  last  Sunday,  when  he  preached  to  his  first  congre- 
gation at  Madison  Square  Garden.  Thousands  of  curi- 
ous people  fought  their  way  into  the  garden  to  get  a 
glimpse  of  the  prophet  and  his  "  restoration  host."  but 
as  soon  as  their  curiosity  was  satisfied  and  the  service- 
began,  a  third  of  the  audience  departed.  Whereupon, 
Dowie  ordered  the  doors  closed  and,  when  quiet  was 
restored,  remarked  in  very  emphatic  language:  "If 
this  is  a  typical  New  York  congregation.  I  am  in  the 
face  of  a  new  experience.  I  think  that  some  of  the 
people  that  came  in  thought  this  was  a  Buffalo  Bill 
show.  I  wonder  if  the  congregations  of  the  churches 
here  enter  and  leave  as  they  please.  I  reckon  we  have 
learned  something,  and  will  be  prepared  hereafter." 
Dowie  and  his  four  thousand  followers  have  planned 
to  spend  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  during  their 
two  weeks*  crusade  in  New  York,  and  they  are  con- 
fident that  a  convert  to  the  faith  will  be  secured  for 
every  dollar  spent.  "  If  you  say  to  me  in  New  York. 
'  Get  out  of  here.'  I  won't  get,"  Dowie  remarked  later 
on  Sunday,  and  added:  "They  said  to  me  in  Chicago 
they  would  drive  me  out  of  the  city,  but  I  told  them  the 
only  way  they  could  drive  me  out  would  be  by  killing 
me  and  driving  me  out  in  a  hearse." 

It  was  just  before  the  opening  of  the  World's  Fair 
that  Dowie  first  tried  to  get  a  foothold  in  Chicago. 
The  newspapers  called  him  a  quack,  a  charlatan,  a 
hypocrite,  a  clever  man  who  feathered  his  nest  at  the 
expense  of  his  ignorant  dupes.  He  scored  the  press, 
too,  at  his  services  and.  during  the  World's  Fair, 
meetings  were  held  daily  in  a  small  wooden  tabernacle 
in  Woodlawn,  near  one  of  the  entrances  to  the  grounds. 
Contrary  to  prevailing  accounts,  the  attendance  at  first 
was  meagre,  the  audiences  rarely  reaching  fifty.  In  the 
winter  of  1893-4  the  tide  turned.  The  tabernacle  was 
packed,  and  crowds  stood  outside,  trying  to  see  or  hear 
through  doors  and  windows.  From  that  time  there  was 
a  steady,  at  times  phenomenal,  growth.  Says  a  writer 
in  the  New  York  Sun: 

Meetings  were  held  in  Central  Music  Hall.  Battery  D. 
Tabernacle  No.  2.  at  Sixty-First  Street  and  Stony  Island 
Avenue,  in  the  Tabernacle  at  Sixteenth  Street,  and  finally  in 
the  Auditorium.  Ths  work  was  carried  on  at  first  under 
the  auspices  of  the  International  Divine  Healing  Association, 
but  on  February  22,  1896.  Dowie  organized  the  Christian 
Catholic  Church  in  Zion.  and  became  its  general  overseer. 
The  year  1S95  will  always  be  known  by  the  sect  as  "the  year 
of  persecution."  Dowie  was  arrested  a  hundred  times  for 
violation  of  the  city  ordinances  relating  to  the  care  of  the  sick. 
The  arrests  were  made  at  all  hours,  but  he  never  failed  to  se- 
cure bail.  He  won  in  the  end.  but  his  counsel  fees  and  court 
expenses  were  estimated  at  fully  twenty  thousand  dollars. 

Of  his  healing  powers,  a  writer  in  the  New  York 
Times  says: 

For  him  the  faith-cure  business  was  as  sure  as  "heads  T 
win.  tails  you  lose "  proposition  of  youthful  gaming  days. 
If  a  patient  recovered — and  many  did — the  faith  cure  did  it. 
If  a  patient  died — and  there  were  some  of  these,  according 
to  a  record  of  indictments  brought  against  Dowie  at  different 
times  by  the  Chicago  authorities — the  trouble  was  that  the  un- 
fortunate did  not  have  the  requisite  faith,  and  allowed  the 
devi!  to  get  the  upper  hand  in  the  battle.  All  the  glory  of  the 
cures  effected  Dowie  piously  ascribed  to  the  Lord,  but  that  did 
not  injure  his  own  reputation  or  financial  prospects,  because 
even  if  the  Lord  did  do  the  curing,  Dowie  was  his  personal 
instrument,  and  such  instruments  were  rare  and  valuable. 

That  Dowie  sometimes  claims  special  privileges  for 
himself,  however — privileges  which  he  denies  his  fol- 
lowers— was  shown  at  the  time  his  only  daughter.  Es- 
ther, met  her  death  in  a  horrible  manner  bv  fire.  Says 
the  New  York  Tribune: 

Miss  Dowie  was  using  a  curling-iron,  and  her  clothing 
caught  fire  from  a  lamp.  At  the  inquest,  Dowie  admitted  that 
in  the  awful  emergency,  with  his  only  child  dying  from  her 
burns,  he  forsook  his  own  strict  teachings  and  summoned  a 
physician.  He  made  this  confession  in  the  presence  of  half 
a  dozen  newspaper  men.  The  tears  were  streaming  down  his 
face.  Dowie,  the  aggressive,  defiant,  imperious  Dowie.  was 
crying  like  a  little  child. 

"  I  wished  to  give  her  every  chance  there  might  be."  said 
Dowie,  half  apologetically,  as  he  choked  back  his  grief.  Then 
he  added,  somewhat  hastily: 

"  But  there  was  nothing  for  the  physician  to  do :  he  did 
nothing  at  all.    I  only  wanted  to  assure  myself,  you  "see." 

Then  Dowie.  restraining  his  tears,  told  the  coroner's  jury 
that  his  daughter  had  met  her  death  in  disobeying  him  in  the 
use  of  the  lamp.  As  an  explanation  for  the  failure  of  his 
prayers  to  heal  her,  he  said  his  daughter's  disobedience  had 
brought  down  the  wrath  of  God. 

The  incident  of  Miss  Dowie's  death,  in  the  face  of  the 
prayers  of  the  leader  and  his  chief  deacons,  made  no  im- 
pression, however,  on  the  implicit  faith  of  the  Zionites. 

In  due  time  a  large  hospital  for  the  healing  of  the 
sick  was  built  in  Chicago,  at  the  corner  of  Michigan 
Avenue  and  Twelfth  Street,  a  college  for  the  training 
/•f  missionaries  organized,  a  printing  plant  established, 
*;  rescue  for  erring  women,  and  many  other  institutions 
opened.  These  years,  however,  were  not  free  from  in- 
cident: 

In  1899.  Dowie  was  nearly  mobbed  at  Hammond.  Ind..  and  a 
number  of  members  of  Zion  Guard,  his  faithful  attendants. 
were  severely  wounded  by  flying  stones  and  other  missiles. 
At  Mansfield,  O.,  his  elders  were  maltreated  and  driven  out 


repeatedly,  until  Dowie  ordered  them  to  abandon  "  Devilsfield." 
At  Evanston.  in  1901.  after  a  failure  to  disperse  a  mob  that  had 
gathered  at  a  large  open  meeting  in  the  little  public  square. 
the  fire  hose  was  finally  turned  upon  the  crowd  of  exhorters 
and  exhorted. 

Feeling  that  he  had  made  substantial  progress,  even 
in  hostile  Chicago.  Dowie,  in  the  fall  of  1899,  began 
what  thus  far  has  been  the  most  spectacular  and  suc- 
cessful move  in  his  entire  career: 

He  quietly  began  the  purchase  of  a  site  for  a  city  on  the 
Northwestern  road,  some  six  miles  north  of  Waukegan  and 
forty-two  miles  north  of  Chicago.  So  cleverly  were  the  opera- 
tions carried  out  by  his  agents  that  options  were  secured  on 
about  six  thousand  five  hundred  acres  without  the  identity 
of  the  purchaser  and  his  plans  being  discovered.  On  January 
1.  1900.  the  plans  were  made  public,  and  in  July.  1901.  the  lots 
were  selected.  A  month  later,  the  first  building  was  erected. 
In  March.  1902.  Dowie  took  up  his  residence  in  Zion  City, 
which  to-day  has  a  population  of  ten  thousand. 

The  principal  industry  is  lace-making,  which  is  car- 
ried on  in  a  building  covering  three  acres  and  employ- 
ing more  than  four  hundred  hands  : 

This  was  established  by  Samuel  Stevenson,  an  English  lace 
manufacturer,  who  was  converted  to  Zion  during  Dowie's  Con- 
tinental trip,  and  married  his  sister.  After  his  wife's  death. 
Stevenson  and  Dowie  failed  to  agree.  Considerable  litigation 
was  in  prospect,  and  at  one  time  a  receivership  was  imminent. 
Favorable  terms  of  settlement,  however,  were  offered  to 
Stevenson.  These  he  accepted,  and  returned  to  England.  There 
are  also  a  large  candy  factory,  whose  wares  are  eagerly  sought, 
a  box  factory,  a  brickyard,  and  other  industries.  There  is  not  a 
vacant  house  in  the  city-,  and  new  houses  are  constantly 
going  up.  Most  of  the  homes  are  pleasant  and  comfortable, 
while  many  are  quite  elaborate  and  expensive  for  a  city  of  the 
size. 

In  Zion  City,  as  well  as  in  the  church.  Dowie  is 
supreme : 

The  title  of  the  six  thousand  five  hundred  acres,  bought  with 
the  money  of  the  sect,  rests  in  him.  and  lots  are  leased,  not 
sold.  It  is  said  that  this  is  for  convenience  in  administration, 
and  to  avoid  legal  complications,  that  Dr.  Dowie  has  repeatedly 
proposed  that  control  be  vested  in  a  body  of  trustees,  and  that 
he  has  been  urged  to  retain  absolute  control.  "  John  Atex. 
Dowie"  appears  everywhere  on  the  baggage  wagons  at  the 
station,  the  stores,  the  hotel,  and  the  administration  building. 
Those  who  reeard  him  in  an  unfavorable  light  point  to  the 
unlimited  possibilities  for  self  enrichment  in  such  a  plan,  while 
his  followers  place  supreme  faith  in  his  integrity  and  honesty. 

In  the  encouragement  of  congregational  giving  Dowie 
is  without  a  peer.  He  never  pleads,  never  begs  for 
money:  rather,  he  commands,  denounces,  and  raves. 
Recently  in  addressing  a  meeting  at  Zion.  he  said: 

"  If  you  will  smoke,  you  stinkpots :  if  you  will  drink,  you 
beerpots.  and  whiskypots.  and  winepots.  and  all  other  kinds  of 
disgusting  alcoholic  pots:  if  you  will  go  to  the  theatres  and 
listen  to  Mephistopheles,  the  devil,  and  Marguerite,  the  harlot, 
and  Faust,  the  doctor — a  nasty  combination  :  if  you  will  de- 
vour the  oyster,  which  is  the  scavenger  of  the  sea.  and  the 
pie.  which  is  the  scavenger  of  the  land  with  which  they  are 
talking  about  cleaning  the  streets  of  Chicago— I  say,  if  you 
will  do  the  devil's  work  and  eat  the  devil's  food,  you  can  re- 
main with  the  Methodists,  or  the  Baptists,  or  somewhere  else. 
You  have  no  place  in  Zion."  Then,  turning  to  the  tithing 
question,  he  remarked:  "Do  you  give  tithes  to  God?  Rise 
you  who  give  tithes  to  God."  fAnd  when  some  were  still 
seated.)  "That's  a  pack  of  thieves  down  there:  they're  sitting 
all  over  this  place,  and  do  not  give  their  tithes  to  God.  I 
know  where  those  thieves  are.  What  is  going  to  be  done  to 
you  thieves?    There  is  nothing  but  Fire!  Fire!  Fire!" 

Dowie's  methods  of  getting  cash  have  invariably 
been  so  successful  that  the  envy  of  dreamers  and 
"  grafters "  in  his  own  fold  has  many  times  been 
aroused  to  a  high  pitch,  and  not  a  few  imitators  have 
sprung  up  for  a  short  season  of  prosperity  or  failure. 
Recently.  Dowie  was  sued  by  one  Samuel  Priddle  for 
slander: 

Priddle  was  a  former  follower  of  Dowie.  but  owing  to  jeal- 
ousy among  the  members  of  the  church,  had  been  barred  from 
the  benefits  of  the  community.  At  an  unfortunate  moment  the 
prophet  had  dug  deep  into  the  character  and  acts  of  Priddle. 
and.  according  to  the  testimony,  the  latter  saw  a  chance  to  get 
a  little  Zion  money,  provided  the  jury  would  look  at  the  matter 
in  the  same  light.  Priddle  had  started  out  in  the  "  prophet  " 
business  and  adopted  the  title  of  Samuel  the  Second.  His 
following  was  small,  but  his  courage  was  good.  The  chief 
source  of  fun  for  the  court  and  the  loungers  lay  concealed  in 
the  method  of  both  "prophets"  and  their  attorneys.  Disre- 
garding all  rules  of  procedure,  they  insisted  on  trying  the  case 
as  though  both  complainant  and  defendant  possessed  super- 
natural powers.  Samuel  the  Second  finally  recovered  a  few 
thousand  dollars  from  Dowie  by  virtue  of  the  jury's  verdict, 
and  his  success  has  led  dozens  of  other  disaffected  Dowieites 
to  bring  suit  against  Elijah  the  Restorer.  At  present  there 
are  scores  of  suits  pending  against  Dowie.  but  the  court 
bailiffs  meet  failure  in   attempts  to  serve  processe?  tm  him. 

Dowie  has  a  strong-grounded  hatred  for  the  indefat- 
igable reporter,  whom  he  once  dubbed  "  the  vermin  of 
the  press."  He  refuses  to  be  interviewed,  and  goes  out 
of  his  way  to  keep  as  much  information  from  the  news- 
paper men  as  possible.  They,  in  turn,  have  for  years 
suffered  in  comparative  silence.  The  opportunity  to  get 
even  with  Elijah  the  Second,  however,  came  with  the 
last  annual  call  of  the  assessor: 

For  some  reason  or  other  Dowie  had  been  able  to  sidetrack 
his  taxes  on  much  of  his  Zion  property,  presumably  on  the 
ground  that  Zion  City  was  a  religious  institution.  The  report- 
ers investigated  the  matter  thoroughly,  however,  and  with  the 
assistance  of  a  smart  attorney  urged  the  board  of  review  to 
invite  Dowie  and  his  books  tn  come  before  the  board  and  show 
cause  why  he  should  not  be  assessed  on  his  holdings,  every- 
thing in  Zion  City  and  Chicago,  forming  the  church  and  co- 
operative propertv.  being  in  the  prophet's  name.  Dowie  re- 
luctantlv  complied  with  the  request,  and  the  visit  resulted  in 
the  uncovering  of  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  worth  of  as- 
sessable property. 

The  lesson  given  to  Dowie  by  the  reporters  was  an 
expensive  one  for  him,  but.  much  to  the  regret  of  the 
perpetrators,  it  has  not  altered  his  attitude  toward  the 

press. 

■•  •  »■ 

The  percentage  of  cases   of  diseases   of  the  heart 
doubled  within  twenty  years  in  the  British  army.  a=  well 
as  among  the  conscripts.    The  reasons  for  thi  = 
given   bv  medical   experts   are  over-exertion     • 
insufficient  time  to  rest,  abuse  of  spirit 
and  extravagances  in  sport. 


262 


THE        ARGONAUT 


October  26, 


1903- 


AN    INTERNATIONAL    ROMANCE. 


From  the  Annals  of  Alta  California. 


The  first  prominent  international  romance  of  Cali- 
fornia, and  the  one  that  surpasses  in  interest  all  that 
have  followed,  was  between  children  of  the  two  Powers 
that  first  settled  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  While  Spain  was 
planting  her  banners  to  the  south  of  Mexico,  Russia 
was  exploring  the  northern  seas;  and  as  early  as  1745 
a  Russian  fur  company  extended  its  settlements  to  the 
coast  islands  of  America.  Here  it  enslaved  the  natives, 
and  annually  secured  princely  cargoes  of  furs.  As  one 
breeding-place  was  devastated,  the  boats  pushed  farther 
southward,  and  following  them  sprang  up  new  factories 
for  the  collection  and  shipment  of  the  skins.  The  news 
of  their  advance  was  transmitted  from  St.  Petersburg 
to  Madrid,  and  thence  to  Mexico.  Jealous  eyes  fore- 
saw an  intrusion  on  Spanish  soil,  and  the  settlement  of 
Alta  California  was  hastened  to  check  the  intruders. 

The  Spanish  colonists  had  the  advantage  of  a  climate 
that  demanded  little  labor  for  the  necessities  of  exist- 
ence. Time  counted  for  nothing,  and  each  man  had 
whole  days  to  devote  to  neighborly  deeds.  In  the  idyllic 
period  that  ensued,  the  colonists  forgot  Andalusia  or 
Sonora,  and  taught  their  children  that  California  was  a 
God-bestowed  home,  and  that  they  should  rejoice  in 
their  birthright. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  Russians  could  secure  noth- 
ing from  their  new  environment  but  fish  and  flesh. 
Every  kernel  of  grain  had  to  be  shipped  to  them  from 
the  home  mainland.  Frequently,  the  provision  ships 
were  wrecked  en  route,  and  every  year  they  endured  a 
period  of  almost  starvation.  Sickness  and  discontent 
followed.  In  their  dreams,  the  old  Russian  home  took 
on  Edenic  characteristics,  and  the  feeling  of  all  was 
expressed  in  a  letter  from  one  of  the  officers :  "  We  live 
in  Sitka  only  upon  the  hope  of  leaving  it." 

Into  this  region  of  dissatisfaction,  some  Yankee  ships 
carried  tidings  of  the  near-by  land  of  sunshine  and 
plenty.  In  1803,  the  American  Captain  O'Cain  per- 
suaded the  Russian  American  official  to  furnish  a  crew 
of  Aleuts  to  hunt  otter  on  the  Californian  coast.  This 
contract  was  kept  for  a  dozen  years,  and  the  hunters 
returned  annually  with  tales  of  the  wonderful  south- 
land, wherein  cold  and  hunger  never  intruded. 

In  1805,  the  Russian  chamberlain,  Nikolai  Peterovich 
Rezanof  arrived  in  Sitka  as  imperial  inspector  of  the 
north-east  establishments,  and  as  plenipotentiary  of  the 
Russian  American  Company.  He  was  instructed  to  in- 
vestigate the  condition  of  the  colonies,  to  make  what 
immediate  improvement  was  possible,  and  to  suggest 
any  reforms  to  increase  their  prosperity. 

On  the  way  to  Sitka.  Rezanof  had  been  embassador 
extraordinary  to  Japan,  coming  there  with  Krusen- 
stern  and  Lisiansky,  who  were  in  charge  of  the  first 
Russian  voyage  around  the  world.  In  June,  1805,  Re- 
zanof and  Langsdorff,  a  surgeon  and  naturalist,  sailed 
in  the  Neva  to  the  Russian  American  settlements,  while 
Krusenstern  in  the  Nadeshda  continued  his  voyage. 

When  Rezanof  reached  Sitka,  he  found  that  the  first 
essential  was  to  secure  a  regular  food  supply.  While 
this  question  was  being  pondered,  Captain  Wolfe  ar- 
rived in  the  American  ship  Juno.  He  enthusiastically 
supported  the  floating  stories  of  California's  abundance, 
while  at  the  same  time  he  declared  it  impossible  to 
secure  trade  relations  because  of  the  Spanish  restrictive 
commercial  laws.  Rezanof  determined  to  bluff  the  Cal- 
ifornia officials.  He  knew  that  the  Czar  had  secured 
from  the  King  of  Spain  the  assurance  that  in  all  his 
colonies  supplies  and  assistance  would  be  given  to 
Krusenstern  on  his  scientific  voyage.  Rezanof  calcu- 
lated that  Krusenstern  could  not  yet  have  reached  Cali- 
fornia, and  that  if  he  himself  coasted  down  at  once  he 
might  secure  a  supply  of  food  for  needy  Sitka. 

The  Neva  requiring  repairs,  he  bargained  with  Cap- 
tain Wolfe  for  the  Juno,  and  purchased  it  and  its  cargo 
for  eight  thousand  dollars.  Then,  after  having  scoured 
Sitka  for  every  article  that  might  prove  tempting  to  the 
Californians,  he  and  Langsdorff  sailed  on  March  8, 
1805.  The  crew  was  sick  with  scurvy,  and  they  were 
delayed  off  the  mouth  of  the  Columbia,  but  finally,  on 
April  5th.  they  entered  San  Francisco  Bay. 

To  the  comandante  of  the  presidio.  Rezanof  ex- 
plained that  he  was  a  part  of  the  Krusenstern  expedi- 
tion, and  wished  to  see  the  governor.  With  the  greatest 
of  courtesy,  Comandante  Arguello  bade  him  rest  and 
refresh  himself  at  San  Francisco,  while  a  courier  would 
speed  to  Monterey  and  summon  his  excellency  to  greet 
the  distinguished  visitor.  In  vain  did  Rezanof  invent 
reasons  why  he  himself  should  journey  to  the  gov- 
ernor: the  Spanish  laws  forbade  exposing  the  interior 
of  the  country  to  a  foreigner,  and  the  comandante  was 
a  loyal  officer.  He  was  also  a  hospitable  host,  and  never 
wearied  in  entertaining  the  visitors. 

Among  the  members  of  his  family,  the  most  inter- 
esting to  the  Russians  was  his  daughter,  Concepcion, 
then  a  beautiful  girl  of  fifteen.  She  was  slender  and 
graceful,  with  dusky  eyes  and  heavy  black  braids  that 
reached  to  her  arched  insteps.  Vivacious  and  gracious, 
her  repartee  was  fresh  and  sparkling.  With  manners 
that  would  grace  any  European  court,  she  was  known 
to  bt  not  entirely  satisfied  with  her  country.  "  Califor- 
nia a  paradise !  "  she  is  reported  to  have  exclaimed. 
"  Oh,  no.  A  good  soil,  a  warm  climate,  plenty  of  grain 
an'  cattle,  but  nothinq-  else."  Rezanof,  although  twice 
her  age.  a  widower,  and  a  courtier  who  had  shone  in 
seveval  European  capitals,  soon  found  himself  exert- 
all  his  ability  to  please  this  unschooled  Californian. 


His  tales  of  the  outer  world  naturally  charmed  her, 
and  by  the  time  Governor  Arrillaga  arrived  at  San 
Francisco,  on  April  18th,  the  Russians  had  at  least  one 
strong  advocate  among  the  Californians. 

The  governor  agreed  that  it  would  be  an  advantage 
to  California  to  ship  its  produce  to  Sitka,  but  the  Span- 
ish laws  prohibited  trading  with  foreign  vessels,  and 
so  he  could  not  countenance  it.  Neither  would  he  con- 
sent to  the  padres  exchanging  any  of  their  surplus  for 
the  cargo  of  the  Juno.  All  of  Rezanof's  diplomacy 
was  of  no  avail  against  the  governor's  strict  sense  of 
his  duty.  Concepcion  tried  by  sundry  suggestions  to 
open  a  way  for  the  trade,  and  her  ready  sympathy 
awakened  a  deeper  feeling  in  Rezanof's  heart. 

He  could  not  overlook  the  political  advantages  there 
would  be  in  a  marriage  uniting  Alaska  and  California, 
but  there  is  no  reason  to  doubt  that  his  personal  feel- 
ings were  deeply  involved.  At  this  time  he  wrote  in  his 
journal :  "  Seeing  that  my  situation  was  not  improving, 
expecting  every  day  that  some  misunderstanding  would 
arise,  and  having  but  little  confidence  in  my  own  people, 
I  resolved  to  change  my  politeness  to  a  serious  tone. 
Finally  I  imperceptibly  created  in  her  an  impatience  to 
hear  something  serious  from  me  on  the  subject,  which 
caused  me  to  ask  for  her  hand,  to  which  she  consented. 
My  proposal  created  consternation  in  her  parents,  who 
had  been  reared  in  fanaticism;  the  difference  in  religion 
and  the  prospective  separation  from  their  daughter 
made  it  a  terrible  blow  for  them.  They  ran  to  the 
missionaries,  who  did  not  know  what  to  do;  they  hus- 
tled poor  Concepcion  to  church,  confessed  her,  and 
urged  her  to  refuse  me,  but  her  resoluteness  finally 
overcame  them  all.  The  holy  fathers  appealed  to  the 
decision  of  the  throne  of  Rome,  and  if  I  could  not  ac- 
complish my  nuptials,  I  had  at  least  the  preliminary  act 
performed,  the  marriage  contract  drawn  up,  and  forced 
them  to  betroth  us." 

The  formal  betrothal  changed  the  attitudes  of  the 
little  group.  Rezanof  was  no  longer  a  visitor,  but  a 
son  of  the  house,  nearer  even  than  the  comandante's 
dear  old  friend,  Governor  Arrillaga.  He  began  to  rule 
the  port  as  he  wished.  Concepcion,  always  well- 
beloved  by  her  parents,  now  grew  dearer  in  view  of  a 
future  parting,  and  the  comandante  yielded  to  her 
supplications  for  her  lover's  needs.  Governor  Arril- 
laga could  not  resist  the  new  logic  that  Comandante 
Arguello  could  now  apply  to  the  case,  and  a  scheme  was 
devised  by  which  the  padres  at  the  mission  could  ex- 
change their  stores  for  the  Juno's  wares,  with  an  im- 
aginary currency  payment  between. 

Rezanof  made  every  effort  to  have  the  marriage  cere- 
mony performed  that  he  might  carry  Concepcion  with 
him,  but  the  padres  were  firm  in  demanding  a  dispensa- 
tion from  the  Pope.  So  he  planned  to  go  home  to  St. 
Petersburg;  there  to  get  appointed  envoy  extraordinary 
to  the  court  of  Spain ;  to  proceed  to  Madrid  and  estab- 
lish commercial  relations  between  California  and 
Alaska,  and  then  to  speed,  via  Mexico,  to  San  Francisco 
to  claim  his  bride.  On  May  21st  he  sailed  from  San 
Francisco,  promising  to  return  within  two  years. 

It  was  only  the  prospect  of  the  future  that  buoyed 
up  Concepcion.  She  would  surprise  her  lover  by  im- 
proving her  mind  in  his  absence,  trying  to  make  herself 
a  worthy  mate  for  this  accomplished  nobleman.  The 
padres  were  called  upon  for  their  French  and  Latin, 
and  she  improvised  new  accompaniments  on  the  guitar 
for  her  tender  Spanish  love-songs.  Then  she  filled 
chest  after  chest  with  such  drawnwork  and  embroidery 
as  would  delight  the  artistic  for  generations.  Not  a 
moment  was  idle,  and  yet  the  two  years  dragged. 

Then  they  lengthened  into  three,  and  still  no  Rezanof. 
Concepcion's  trust  was  unshaken;  she  waited  patiently. 
Finally  a  ship  brought  a  farewell  message  from 
him — a  farewell  of  intense  love  and  regret,  uttered 
with  his  last  breath.  He  had  been  seized  by  a 
fever  while  crossing  Siberia.  Eager  to  accomplish  his 
mission  and  speedily  return  to  California,  he  had 
started  again  on  his  journey  while  still  too  weak  to 
travel,  and  had  been  thrown  from  his  horse.  The  fall 
brought  on  a  relapse,  and,  on  March  1,  1807,  in  the 
little  hamlet  of  Krasnoyarsh,  his  spirit  had  slipped  from 
this  world. 

In  the  first  intensity  of  her  sorrow,  Concepcion  be- 
seeched  God  to  take  her,  too;  but  she  was  strong  and 
young,  and  as  physical  strength  held  on,  she  determined 
to  make  her  spiritual  and  mental  grasp  reach  to  the 
realms  of  her  betrothed.  She  continued  her  studies, 
and  began  to  teach  others,  just  for  love;  She  learned 
the  healing  secrets  from  the  old  women,  and  did  sick- 
ness visit  a  household,  Concepcion  Arguello  hastened 
to  combat  it.  Her  face  grew  even  more  beautiful. 
Suitors  in  numbers  sought  her  hand ;  but,  with  the  habit 
of  women,  she  raised  her  dead  above  his  own  humanity 
to  the  plane  of  her  highest  ideal,  and  no  living  man 
could  hope  to  rival  hirn. 

By  her  good  works  and  beautiful  spirit  she  gained 
throughout  the  country  the  title  of  "  La  Beata,"  "  the 
pious    one,"    and   when   the   Dominican    convent    was 
founded  at  Benicia,  no  one  was  surprised  to  have  C 
cepcion   the   first   Californian   to   take   a   nun's    vr 
Here,  in  1857,  she  died,  but  her  character  left  a  str 
impression  on  her  own  people.    Her  memory  vindic 
California  womanhood.    Instead  of  the  reckless,  br; 
creature  that  literature  has  held  up  as  typical  of 
State,  the  ideal  that  has  been  reverenced  for  sev 
generations  is  a  woman  as  essentially  feminine  as  ;  ny 
ever  produced  in  a  strictly  conventional  community — 
beautiful,  gracious,  charitable,  helpful,  and,  through 
a  long,  unselfish  life,  loyal  even  unto  death. 

Katherine  Chandle- 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Sir  Frederick  Treves,  the  famous  English  surgeon, 
who  has  just  retired,  established  a  record  in  perform- 
ing one  thousand  consecutive  operations  for  ap- 
pendicitis without  a  death. 

Great  interest  has  been  aroused  in  London  by  the 
announcement  that  the  Marchese  Karlo  di  Rudini,  son 
of  the  former  Italian  premier,  is  to  marry  Dora 
Labouchere,  daughter  of  Henry  Labouchere,  the  noted 
editor  of  Truth. 

During  his  lifetime,  Gordon  McKay,  the  wealthy 
inventor  of  the  machine  that  revolutionized  shoe- 
making,  who  died  at  Newport  last  week,  deeded  all 
his  property,  valued  at  four  millions  of  dollars,  to 
Harvard  University,  retaining  an  income  for  life. 

Next  month,  Mark  Twain  and  his  wife  will  take  up 
their  residence  in  Florence.  They  have  leased  the 
Villa  Papiniano,  which  belonged  originally  to  the 
sculptor  Baccio  Bandinelli,  a  contemporary  and  rival 
of  Michael  Angelo.  The  villa  is  pleasantly  located 
about  half  way  between  Florence  and  Tiesole,  and  con- 
nected with  the  modern  town  and  the  old  Etruscan 
stronghold  by  a  line  of  electric  cars. 

That  much-quoted  superstition,  "  three  times  a 
bridesmaid  never  a  bride,"  seems  to  have  no  terrors  for 
Alice  Roosevelt,  who  has  accepted  an  invitation  to 
serve  in  this  capacity  at-  the  approaching  marriage  of 
Miss  Lilia  McCauley  and  Mr.  Wolcott  Tuckerman, 
which  will  take  place  in  Washington,  D.  C,  November 
25th.  Miss  Roosevelt  was  a  bridesmaid  at  the  wedding 
of  Miss  Ruth  Pruyn  and  Mr.  David  M.  Goodrich,  in 
Albany,  last  June,  and  also  at  the  marriage  of  Miss 
Madeline  Jackson  to  Mr.  George  C.  Lee,  Jr.,  in  Boston, 
several  years  ago. 

Pope  Pius  has  appointed  Mgr.  Merry  del  Val  to  be 
Papal  secretary  of  state.  It  is  reported  that  the  nomina- 
tion, however,  will  not  be  made  officially  until  the  next 
consistory,  when  the  monsignor  will  also  be  made  a 
cardinal.  Mgr.  del  Val  is  under  forty  years  of  age,  and 
is  descended  from  one  of  Spain's  noblest  families.  His 
mother  was  an  Englishwoman,  and  he  was  born  in 
Engkand,  receiving  his  early  education  from  the  Jesuit 
fathers  in  Stonyhurst  College.  His  higher  education 
was  received  in  the  Academy  of  Nobles,  in  Rome,  the 
institution  of  which  he  is  president. 

New  York  clubmen  are  going  in  for  politics  with 
a  vengeance.  It  is  evidently  the  intention  of  both 
Democratic  and  Republican  parties  to  have  representa- 
tive men  as  aldermen.  Eddie  Crowninshield,  who -is  a 
member  of  the  Knickerbocker  Club,  one  of  the  Rough 
Riders,  and  a  leading  spirit  in  a  great  many  social  and 
other  enterprises,  is  to  run  on  the  Tammany  ticket  for 
alderman  in  the  "  kid-glove  "  district.  In  the  Repub- 
lican camp,  there  is  Beverley  R.  Robinson,  son  of  Dr. 
Beverley  Robinson,  who  is  to  be  the  candidate  in  the 
twenty-ninth  aldermanic  district,  which  comprises  the 
territory  on  Fifth  Avenue,  between  Fifty-Second  and 
Fifty-Fourth  Streets. 

Helen  Keller  has  just  begun  her  senior  year  at  Rad- 
cliffe.  Her  studies  this  year  will  consist  of  Professor 
Kittredge's  Shakespearean  course,  Dr.  Neilson's  En- 
glish literature,  Professor  Moore's  course  in  Plautus, 
Cicero,  and  Lucretius,  and  Professor  Morgan  and  Dr. 
Rand's  course  in  Latin,  which  covers  the  annals  of 
Tacitus,  the  satires  and  epistles  of  Horace,  and  selec- 
tions from  Catullus.  Up  to  the  present  time,  Miss 
Keller  has  passed  with  credit  all  her  college  exami- 
nations. When  she  has  completed  this  year's  work, 
as  outlined,  she  will  have  accomplished  more  in  the 
way  of  scholarship  than  any  other  person  who  has  been 
handicapped  with  the  loss  of  sight,  hearing,  and  speech. 

When  Eleanor  Calhoun,  the  California  actress,  was 
married,  a  few  months  ago,  to  Laczarovitch,  the  Ser- 
vian leader,  she  announced  to  her  friends  that  she 
might  some  day  return  to  the  stage.  She  has  now, 
however,  abandoned  all  such  ambitions,  and  has  thrown 
herself  enthusiastically  into  assisting  her  husband  with 
his  political  writings,  and  into  looking  after  his  three 
children.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Laczarovitch, 
according  to  his  own  statement,  was  approached  by 
certain  Servians  prior  to  the  massacre  of  King  Alex- 
ander and  Queen  Draga,  and  asked  to  accept  the 
throne  as  next  in  line  of  succession  should  the  plot 
prosper.  Laczarovitch,  however,  having  no  desire  to 
rule  the  kingdom,  not  only  refused  to  be  a  candidate, 
but  left  the  country.  It  was  then  he  came  to  London, 
met  the  California  actress,  and  married  her. 

When  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  who  has  just  resigned 
from  the  British  ministry,  and  the  present  Duke  of 
Manchester's  grandfather  were  young,  they  loved 
Louisa,  daughter  of  the  Count  d'Alten  of  Hanover. 
Devonshire,  then  known  as  Lord  Hartington,  was  a 
'aggard  in  his  love  affairs,  as  he  has  been  in  every- 
hing  else,  and  so  the  lady  became  Duchess  of  Man- 
chester in  1852,  and  duchess  she  remained  for  forty 
years.  But,  though  she  married  the  other  man,  her 
devotion  to  Lord  Hartington  and  his  devotion  to  her 
were  famous.  She  counseled  him  in  all  the  important 
affairs  of  his  public  life,  spurred  him  on,  and  was  his 
nearest  friend.  Nobody  thought  of  inviting  one  with- 
out the  other.  At  last  Manchester  died,  Hartington 
himself  shortly  afterward  succeeded  to  a  dukedom, 
and  in  1892  the  widow,  still  one  of  the  beautiful  women 
of  England,  became  a  bride  and  a  duchess  again, 


October  26,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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STAGE    GOSSIP. 


A  Romantic  Costume  Play  at  the  Alcazar. 
The    new    members    of    the    Alcazar    stock 

,  company  will  have  another  opportunity  to 
show  their  versatility  next  week,  when  Edward 
Rose's  costume  play,  based  on  Stanley  Wey- 
man's  romantic  tale,  "  Under  the  Red  Robe," 
will    be    produced.      James    Durkin    will    im- 

,  personate  the  heroic  swashbuckler,  Gil  de 
Berault.  and  Adele  Block  will  find  her  first  real 
chance  as  the  spirited,  sensitive,  but  fiery  and 
fearless  ward  of  the  great  Richelieu.  It  is  a 
Viola  Allen  role,  and  one  of  the  sort  that  is 
best  suited  to  the  manner  and  temperament 
of  the  new  leading  woman.  George  Osbourne 
will  appear  as  the  cardinal,  and  Frances  Starr. 
John  B.  Mater,  and  all  the  other  Alcazar 
favorites  will  be  in  the  long  cast.  "Under 
the  Red  Robe"  has  but  a  week  to  run.  and 
then  begins  a  month  of  comedy,  which  will 
be  inaugurated  on  Monday  evening,  November 
4th,    with    William    Gillette's    amusing    play, 

1 "  Too  Much  Johnson."' 


Spectacular  Production  of  "Ben  Hur." 
1  On  Thursday  morning,  the  advance  sale  of 
the  long-awaited  "  Ben  Hur  "  will  begin.  The 
engagement  is  for  a  month,  and  it  is  safe 
to  predict  that  there  will  be  a  tremendous 
demand  for  tickets  for  the  opening  week. 
Everv  one — even  the  pious  people  who  usually 
shun  the  theatre — will  want  to  see  William 
Young's  dramatization  of  General  Lew 
Wallace's  novel,  for.  from  a  spectacular  stand- 
point, it  has  become  universally  accepted  as 
the  most  magnificent  and  most  gorgeous  pro- 
duction on  the  stage.  Its  record  since  the 
initial  performance,  four  years  ago.  has  made 
stage  history*  by  establishing  a  new  mnrk  in 
attendance  and  receipts  in  every  theatre  in 
which  it  has  played,  both  in  this  country  and 
abroad.  Last  month  the  play  was  re- 
vived in  New  York  on  an  elaborate  scale. 
the  cast  being  as  follows  :  Characters  in  the 
prelude  :  Balthasar.  the  Egyptian,  Charles  T. 
Wilson ;  Gaspar,  the  Greek.  T.  Jones :  and 
Melchior.  the  Hindoo,  Thomas  Walker. 
Characters  in  the  drama:  Ben  Hur.  Tudah. 
son  of  Ithamar.  Henry  Woodruff :  Messala. 
Charles  Mackay ;  Simonides.  T.  E.  Dodson : 
Balthasar.  Charles  J.  Wilson  :  Ilderim.  Harry 
Weaver :  Malluch.  James  J.  Ryan :  Meteltus. 
F.  Walker :  Khaled.  Thomas  F.  Tracey ; 
Cecilius.  James  Murphy :  Sanballat.  Ben  S. 
Mears :  Drusus.  George  Seybolt :  Centurion. 
William  Dixon;  officer,  M.  Cody:  Iras.  Annie 
Irish:  motherof  Ben  Hur.  Mabel  Bert:  Esther. 
Ellen  Mortimer:  and  Tirzan.  Charlotte  Leslay. 
Whether  this  is  the  company  to  appear  at  the 
Grand  Opera  House  has  not  yet  been  an- 
nounced, but  it  is  to  be  hoped  so.  for  the  New 
York  press  has  been  especially  enthusiastic 
in  its  praise  of  the  acting  of  Harry  Woodruff. 
J.  E.  Dodson,  and  Annie  Irish. 


Robert  Edeson's  Last  "Week. 
Robert  Edeson  has  scored  a  well-deserved 
success  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  in  Augustus 
Thomas's  excellent  dramatization  of  Richard 
Harding  Davis's  stirring  novel.  "  Soldiers  of 
Fortune."  His  engagement  promises  to  be  a 
most  profitable  one.  the  demand  for  seats  for 
the  second  and  last  week  being  very  large.  On 
Monday  evening,  November  2d.  another 
musical    comedy.    "The    Storks."    will    be   pre- 

1  sented  here  for  the  first  time.  It  is  in  two 
acts  and  three  scenes,  the  book  being  the 
work  of  Richard  Carle  and  Guy  F.  Steele, 
and  the  music  by  Frederic  Chopin.  The  cast 
will  include  Gus  Weinberg.  Gilbert  Gregory. 
Francis  Lieb.  George  Shiels.  George  Romain. 
Abbott  Adams.  George  McKay.  Alma  Cole 
Youlin.   Countess   von    Hatzfelt.   Ada   Deaves. 

f  Dorothy  Choate,  and  Myra  Davis. 

At  Fischer's  Theatre. 
"  The  Paraders "  is  still  enjoying  a  pros- 
perous run  at  Fischer's  Theatre,  thus  enabling 
the  company  to  rehearse  thoroughly  the  next 
musical  comedy.  "  Rubes  and  Roses,"  which 
is  said  to  be  written  on  different  lines  from 
any  of  the  burlesques  yet  produced  at  this 
popular  play-house.  Several  new  singers  have 
been  secured  for  this  production — Georgia 
Oramey.  a  clever  soubrette.  who  arrived  from 
New  York  last  week,  and  Ben  T.  Dillon,  the 
popular  comedian,  who  is  expected  here  from 
the  East  in  a  few  days.  The  successful  bur- 
lesque. "  Chow-Chow."  is  to  be  one  of  the 
future  offerings  at  Fischer's. 


L.  R,  Stockwell  in  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin." 
I  A  spectacular  production  of  "  Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin,"  the  ever-popular  story  of  ante-bel- 
lum days  in  the  South,  is  to  be  given  at  the 
Central  Theatre  next  week,  with  L.  R.  Stock- 
well  in  his  favorite  role  of  Marks,  the  lawyer. 
Others  in  the  cast  will  be  Herschel  Mayall  as 
George  Harris.  Eugenie  Thais  Lawton  as 
Eliza.  Ernest  Howell  as  Uncle  Tom.  Myrtle 
Vane  as  Topsy,  Henry  Shumer  as  Simon 
Legree.  and  Edwin  T.  Emery"  as  St.  Claire. 
The  lesser  roles  will  be  played  by  Margaret 
Leavy,  Genevieve  Kane.  Anita  Fallon.  Grace 
Stoddard,  and  Messrs.  Webster.  Nicholls. 
Booth,  Whipple,  and  Edwards.  The  mounting 
if  the  seventeen  scenes  will  be  elaborate,  the 
Tentral's  artist  having  taken  particular  pains 
with  his  pictures  of  the  ice-clogged  river 
iver  which  Eliza  flees  from  the  pursuing 
bloodhounds,  and  the  entrance  of  little  Eva 
nto  the  pearly  gates.  A  number  of  specialties 
will  be  introduced,  including  Southern  planta- 
:ion  singing,  buck  and  wing  dancing,  and  a 
:ake-walk.  "  _ 

The  Orpheum's  New  Bill. 

McWatters  and  Tyson   will   appear  for  the 

irst   time   in   this   city   at   the    Orpheum   next 

1  week    in    a    novel    vaudeville    sketch.      Their 

stage  setting  shows  the  interior  of  a  dressing- 


room.  The  players  make  up  and  dress 
for  their  various  roles  in  full  view  of  the 
audience,  do  their  different  specialties,  and 
then  the  scene  suddenly  changes  to  a  swamp, 
filled  with  giant  lilies.  The  flowers  open  and 
th'e  performers  emerge  from  the  beautiful 
blossoms.  The  other  new-comers  are  Cole- 
man's dogs  and  cats :  the  three  Richards,  re- 
markable acrobats ;  Crawford  and  Manning, 
one  of  the  best  black-face  teams  on  the  stage: 
and  Wenona  and  Frank,  who  hold  the  world's 
championship  for  rifle  and  pistol  shooting. 
Those  retained  from  this  week's  bill  are 
"  Whistling  Tom  Browne,"  who  has  captured 
the  town  with  his  solos,  duets,  and  imitations : 
Herbert  Lloyd,  the  "  king's  jester."  assisted 
by  Lillian  Lilyan.  who  will  continue  his 
comedy  juggling  act :  and  the  Waterbury 
brothers  and  Tenney.  The  motion  pictures 
next  week  will  include  one  showing  automo- 
biles speeding  at  the  rate  of  seventy  miles  an 
hour  in  the  great  contest  for  the  Gordon 
Bennett  Cup  in  Ireland. 


Leslie  Morosco  in  Spotless  Town." 
Leslie  Morosco  will  make  his  reappearance 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Sunday  after- 
noon in  a  new  musical  comedy,  "  Spotless 
Town."  after  an  absence  of  several  years  in 
the  East  and  Southern  California.  Leslie  was 
a  great  matinee  idol  when  he  used  to  play 
leading  juvenile  in  the  Morosco  melodramas, 
and  his  many  former  admirers  will  doubtless 
sive  him  a  warm  welcome.  "  Spotless  Town  " 
is  a  satire  on  municipal  government,  which 
is  said  to  have  been  popular  in  the  East.  The 
people  of  this  strange  town  enact  a  law  fining 
any  one  ten  dollars  who  is  found  with  a  spot 
of  dirt  on  him,  or  any  of  his  helongings.  As 
a  result,  each  citizen  is  always  on  the  lookout 
to  catch  his  neighbor  with  a  spot  on  his  gar- 
ments, or  any  other  property  he  may  possess. 
The  troubles  of  the  townspeople  are  increased 
by  the  arrival  of  two  Germans,  who  want  to 
buy  the  place.  Being  travel-stained  and  dirty, 
they  are  pounced  upon  by  the  entire  mu- 
nicipality, and  hurried  to  jail.  for.  while  they 
might  be  able  to  buy  the  town,  they  might 
not  be  able  to  pay  their  fine.  At  least  so 
reason  the  zealous  officials,  who  are  taking  no 
chances.  The  dilemma  of  the  unfortunate 
Germans  entails  a  number  of  amusing  compli- 
cations and  situations,  which  have  their 
climax  when  they  are  carried  through  space 
on  the  sails  of  a  windmill  to  escape  captivity. 


Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
Verdi's  "  Masked  Ball."  which  has  not  been 
heard  here  for  two  years,  will  be  given  at  the 
Tivoli  Opera  House  on  Monday,  Wednesday. 
Friday,  and  Saturday  nights.  Agostini  is  to 
appear  as  Ricardo,  Zani  as  Renato.  Travaglini 
as  Samuel.  Benedetto  as  Amelia,  and  Adelina 
Tromben  as  Oscar.  On  the  alternating  nights 
and  at  the  Saturday  matinee.  "  Andre  Che- 
nier  "  will  be  repeated,  with  Tina  de  Spada  in 
the  role  of  Maddelena  in  place  of  Benedetto. 
Ischierdo.  Gregorerti.  Dado,  Marchesim.  and 
Eugenie  Barker  will  continue  in  the  same  parts 
they  have  been  singing  this  week. 


Two  Notable  Theatrical  Failures. 
Willie  Collier's  season  in  New  York  has 
proved  a  costly  venture  for  his  new  mana- 
gers. Weber  &  Fields.  Within  a  month  he 
proved  a  flat  failure  in  two  productions,  and 
now.  as  a  last  resort,  he  is  to  present  Mr. 
Broadhurst's  farce,  "  A  Fool  and  His  Money." 
in  which  Jameson  Lee  Finney  has  been  appear- 
ing. Collier's  first  offering  was  Eugene  Pres- 
bury's  comedy.  "  Personal."  which  was  speedily 
followed  by  "  Are  You  My  Father?"  a  costume 
play  founded  on  Captain  Marryat's  old  story'. 
"  Japhet  in  Search  of  His  Father."  The  latter 
play  was  unmercifully  roasted,  one  of  the 
critics  remarked: 

How  any  sane  creature  could  imagine  that 
any  modern  audience  would  sit  through  such 
a  lot  of  balderdash  passes  comprehension,  and 
how  Mr.  Collier  ever  hypnotized  himself  into 
the  belief  that  either  he  or  his  wife.  Miss 
Louise  Allen,  was  fitted  to  play  in  a  costume 
play  is  another  interesting  question.  Mr. 
Collier  can  blame  neither  his  managers,  Weber 
&  Fields,  nor  his  stage  manager.  Ben  Teal, 
for  his  fiasco.  They  were  all  bitterly  opposed 
to  the  production  of  this  play,  but  Mr.  Collier 
was  so  infatuated  with  it  that  he  insisted  upon 
its  production.  And  after  a  man  has  let  three 
big  successes  slip  through  his  fingers,  as  Mr. 
Collier  has,  you  can't  wonder  at  his  managers 
allowing  him  to  paddle  his  own  canoe  more 
or  less.  "  Checkers  "  was  written  especially  for 
Mr.  Collier.  Henry  Blossom  worked  for  a 
year  on  the  character  to  fit  it  to  Mr.  Collier's 
personality,  only  to  have  Mr.  Collier  turn  it 
down  peremptorily.  Edwin  Milton  Royle.  the 
author  of  "  My  Wife's  Husbands,"  one  of  the 
merriest  and  most  original  farces  in  years, 
offered  his  wares  to  Mr.  Collier,  but  was 
turned  down  in  favor  of  "  Personal."  and  "A 
Fool  and  His  Money."  a  play  which,  with  Mr. 
Collier  in  it.  would  have  probably  been  running 
yet.  made  the  third  attraction  which  this 
fatuous  young  man  threw  into  the  discard. 
These  remarks  are  not  made  by  way  of  rub- 
bing it  into  Mr.  Collier.  He  is  probably  blue 
enough  as  it  is,  for  it  falls  to  the  fate  of  few 
actors  to  run  up  against  such  a  hopeless 
failure  as  he  did' in  "Are  You  My  Father?" 
But  the  sooner  he  realizes  that  he  does  not 
know  a  good  play  when  he  reads  one,  and  the 
quicker  he  impresses  his  wife  with  the  idea 
that  she  is  a  character  and  burlesque  actress. 
and  not  a  leading  woman,  the  better  it  will  be 
for  both  of  them  and  the  public. 

William  H.  Crane  has  been  almost  as  un- 
fortunate with  his  production  of  Edward 
Rose's  dramatization  of  H.  L.  Wilson's  suc- 
cessful novel,  "  The  Spenders."  Says  another 
New  York  critic : 

Of  the  charm  and  power  and  pathos  of  Mr. 


Wilson's  novel,  the  play  gives  not  a  trace. 
These  characters  which  Mr.  Rose  has  placed 
upon  the  stage  couldn't  ever  bleed  ice-water. 
Every  old  stage  type  that  passed  into  oblivion 
a  decade  ago  has  been  dragged  out  of  its 
grave  to  rattle  its  bones  in  his  latest  case  of 
Rose  rash.  Even  Mr.  Crane's  role  is  no  more 
than  a  shadow.  He  performed  all  his  familiar 
little  specialties,  and  was  obliged  to  overwork 
and  overdo  most  of  them,  because,  like  the 
little  frog  in  May  Irwin's  song.  "  He  hadn't 
nothin*  else  to  do."  One  such  crude  and  in- 
excusable performance  as  this  is  enough  to 
wipe  out  the  memory  of  a  dozen  "  David 
Harums."  The  strongest  star  that  ever  drew 
an  audience  could  not  hope  to  survive  in  such 
a   play. 

The  Coming  Automobile  Races. 
Unusual  interest  is  being  taken  all  over  the 
State  in  the  automobile  and  motor-cycle  races 
which  are  to  be  held  at  Ingleside  Track  on 
the  afternoons  of  Friday  and  Saturday,  No- 
vember 6th  and  7th.  under  the  direction  of 
the  Automobile  Club  of  California.  It  is  an- 
nounced that  the  automobile  champion.  Bar- 
ney Oldfield.  will  not  be  the  only  stellar  attrac- 
tion. Henry  Cunningham,  who  figures  well 
up  in  the  class  with  Oldfield.  will  be  here  with 
his  "  Gray  Wolf."  Both  of  Oldfield's  cars 
have  already  been  shipped  with  San  Francisco 
as  their  destination.  One  of  them  is  the  Win- 
ton  Bullet,  with  which  he  did  a  mile  at  the  Em- 
pire City  track  recently  in  o  156  Walter  Dro- 
the  will  bring  a  1904  White  touring  car,  with  a 
wind-splitting  nose.  Frank  A.  Garbutt  and 
H.  A.  Merritt,  two  Los  Angeles  drivers  of 
national  reputation,  are  also  coming.  Garbutt 
with  a  1903  White  and  Merritt  with  his  Mer- 
cedes.    There  will  be  eight  races  each  day. 


Spain  in  1903. 

Jerome  Hart's  new  book,  "  Two  Argonauts 
in  Spain,"  makes  nearly  three  hundred  pages, 
and  will  be  out  about  the  end  of  October. 
It  is  very  handsomely  printed  on  costly  wove 
paper  from  new  type. 

Over  a  score  of  illustrations  accompany  the 
text,  from  photographs  taken  by  the  Two 
Argonauts.     Among  them  are  these: 

"  Moorish  Archway,  Alhambra  " :  "  Bridge 
Between  the  Frontier  and  Barcelona " ; 
"  Columbus  Monument,  Montjuich  in  the 
Background " :  "  On  the  Ramtla  Roadway, 
Barcelona  " ;  "  Battle  Armor  of  Charles  V  in 
Madrid  Armory " ;  "  Portrait  of  the  Poet 
Becquer " ;  "  Forest  of  Columns  in  the  Cor- 
dova Mosque " ;  "  Gypsy  Group,  Albaycin 
Quarter  "  ;  "  Torre  de  la  Vela,  Granada  "  ; 
"  Gate  of  Justice,  Alhambra " ;  "  Archi- 
tecture Details,  Alhambra  "  ;  "  Gypsy  Dancers 
at  Granada " ;  "  An  Arcade  of  the  Alcazar, 
Seville " ;  "  Group  in  the  Gate  of  a  Ducal 
Palace,  Seville";  "  Puerta  del  Perdon.  Se- 
ville " ;  "  Seville  Cathedral  and  Giralda 
Tower." 

The  book  has  a  rich  rubricated  title  in 
pseudo- Arabic,  framed  in  a  Moorish  arch- 
way copied  from  the  Alhambra.  and  a  colored 
map  of  Spain. 

It  is  bound  in  a  handsome  cover  emblazoned 
with  the  emblems  of  the  various  provinces  of 
Spain — castles  for  Castile,  lions  for  Leon, 
pomegranates  for  Granada,  chains  for 
Navarre,  etc. 

Only  a  limited  edition  will  be  printed.  Mr. 
Hart's  recent  book  of  travel,  "  Argonaut  Let- 
ters," also  a  limited  edition,  was  out  of  print 
three  months  after  publication. 

Price  to  Argonaut  subscribers.  $1.50,  The 
Argonaut  Company,  246  Sutter  Street,  San 
Francisco. 

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Coroner Dr.  Thos.  H.  Morris 

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Supervisors  : 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


October  26,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Impossible  Heroine. 

She  has  been  longed  for — mainly  by  the 
shallow-minded  and  disgruntled — the  plain, 
the  mediocre  heroine :  one  whose  eyes  are  not 
"  unfathomed  mysteries,"  nor  "  dark  as  mid- 
night skies,"  nor  yet  of  "  azure  blue " ;  but 
just  ordinary,  common,  every-day  eyes, 
whose  color  is  nothing  in  particular,  and 
not  worth  mentioning.  For  the  most  part. 
we  want  nothing  of  the  sort.  There  is  already 
too  much  of  "  everydayness  "  ;  the  sane  reader 
longs  for  a  dash  of  romance — "  some  great 
princess,  six  feet  high,  grand,  epic,  homicidal." 

No  novelist  has  had  the  temerity  to  make  a 
heroine  out  of  purely  neutral  qualities.  Suc- 
cessful as  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin  has  always 
been  in  her  stories  of  "  common  "  people,  and 
as  truthful  as  is  her  last  story  of  uncondi- 
tioned poverty,  she  still  is  powerless  to  create 
an  unlovely  heroine.  And  it  is  rather  amusing 
to  see  the  effort  she  makes  in  this  book  to 
keep  her  child-heroine  from  being  a  prodigy. 

"  Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm "  is  the 
story  of  a  New  England  child,  who,  by  force 
of  circumstance,  is  doomed  to  be  reared  by 
those  bugaboos  of  New  England  literature. 
two  spinster  aunts.  She  comes  to  them  at  the 
age  of  ten,  small,  dark,  thin,  and  untrained 
as  to  the  proper  workings  of  a  respectable 
household.  All  her  life  she  has  "  done  noth- 
ing but  put  babies  to  bed  at  night,  and  take 
them  up  in  the  morning."  and  as  she  explains  : 
"  If  you  have  seven  children  you  can't  keep 
buttonin'  and  unbuttonin'  'em  all  the  time." 
So  they  wore  their  dresses  in  perpetuity  but- 
toned "  up  before." 

This  untrained,  wild-eyed  little  creature  is 
welcomed  into  her  new  home  with  such  a 
broadside  of  "  do "  and  "  don't,"  and  the 
spotless  neatness  and  order  of  the  "  brick 
house  "  so  overpower  her  that  she  precipitates 
herself  into  the  middle  of  her  immaculate 
bed  on  the  day  of  her  arrival  and  pulls  the 
counterpane    over   her   head. 

In  school,  Rebecca  excels  in  history,  but  can 
not  "cipher";  she  writes  verses,  but  can  not 
evolve  a  composition  that  is  a  credit  to  the 
school ;  she  is  not  a  beauty,  "  but  you  never 
get  farther  than  her  eyes."  As  Mrs.  Wig- 
gin  says  :  "  Rebecca's  eyes  were  like  faith — 
the  substance  of  things  hoped  for.  the  evidence 
of  things  not  seen."  Wherever  the  child  went 
she  was  the  cynosure  of  all  eyes,  and  this  by 
sheer  force  of  her  irresistible  enthusiasm. 
Fate  seems  stronger  than  Mrs.  Wiggin's  pen, 
however,  and  Rebecca  developes  from  a  lanky 
girl    into    a    charming   young    woman. 

Just  in  the  nick  of  time,  she  wins  a  fifty- 
dollar  prize  for  an  essay,  and  so  meets  the 
annual  payment  on  the  mortgage.  A  prince 
charming  makes  his  appearance,  too.  and  the 
book  ends  in  the  langorous  haze  of  "  love's 
young  dream." 

Much  as  the  satiated  novel  reader  may 
long  for  the  "  mediocre  heroine."  she  can  not 
be  found  here  ;  the  very  words  are  a  contra- 
diction. 

It  is  a  good  story,  full  of  humor,  and  Mrs. 
Wiggin's  readers  will  all  take  to  it. 

Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
ton ;  $1.25. 

A  Cross-Section  from  Life. 
A  brief,  brutal,  but  true  and  striking  story 
is  "  His  Little  World,"  by  Samuel  Merwin. 
The  chief  character  is  Hunch  Badeau,  the 
rough,  uneducated,  profane,  but  manly  captain 
of  a  little  lumber  schooner  on  Lake  Michigan. 
The  book  is  the  story  of  his  generous  love — 
a  story  characterized  by  sheer  realism.  It  is 
evident  that  the  author  not  only  has  imagina- 
tion, but  that  he  has  come  in  contact  with  the 
hard-drinking,  hard-fighting,  but  sterling  men 
who  work  in  Michigan  woods  or  sail  the  little 
freight  carriers  across  that  shallow  and 
treacherous  lake.  The  poverty  of  language 
among  this  class  of  men  and  women  has  sel- 
dom been  better  shown  in  fiction  than  here. 
The  conversation  is  like  that  of  Ibsen's 
plays  in  its  terse  meaningfulness  The 
story  is  not  pretty,  but  Hunch  Badeau  is 
likable,  and  the  reader  will  be  satisfied  with 
the  end.  There  is  more  human  nature  and 
truth  in  "His  Little  World"  than  in  many 
a  bulkier  and  more  pretentious  book. 

Published  by  A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,  New 
York ;  $1.25. 

Big  Intentions,  Slightly  Fulfilled. 
Clever  and  industrious  people  who  have  ex- 
pe  ienced  emotions  or  sensations  which  they 
value,  frequently  hasten  to  commit  them  to 
p-int.  That,  we  fancy,  is  the  cause  for  be- 
-  ;g  of  "  Bubbles  W  Buy,"  by  Alice  Jones, 
^e  daughter  of  the  lieutenant-governor  of 
?  wa  Scotia. 

The  author  evidently  takes  a  mingled  inter- 


est in  art  life  and '  society  life,  and  has 
a  pronounced  bent  toward  modern  aesthetics. 
She  has  sought  to  blend  all  three  elements 
into  a  story  whose  principal  virtue  is  that 
the  events  which  compose  it  are  somewhat 
out  of  the  ordinary. 

As  yet  her  style  is  crude  and  faulty,  show- 
ing little  evidence  of  the  necessary  polishing. 
Miss  Jones,  too,  finds  herself  unable  to  re- 
sist the  temptation  of  describing  the  women's 
gowns,  which  are  invariably  of  picturesque 
design  and  in  perfect  taste. 

Such  a  tendency,  however,  is  one  to  be 
sternly  combated  by  the  owner,  suggestive 
as  it  is  of  trivial  aims.  There  are  numerous 
evidences,  however,  that  the  writer  has  striven 
to  equip  herself  for  her  task  of  story-telling 
by  looking  up  certain  subjects  which  figure 
in  her  book,  and  upon  which  some  little 
knowledge  is  necessary.  As,  for  instance, 
piracy  and  pirates'  spoils,  race  instincts, 
growing  insanity,  etc.  As  the  story  stands 
it  is  one  of  big  intentions  but  slightly  ful- 
filled, being  merely  a  fairly  interesting  novel 
that  will  please  the  summer  girl  by  its  roman- 
tic color. 

Published  by  H.  B.  Turner  &  Co.,  Boston  ; 
$1.50.  _ 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
In  writing  his  novel  about  "  Hetty  Wes- 
ley." A.  T.  Quiller-Couch  took  the  true  story 
of  the  unhappy,  brilliant  sister  of  John  and 
Charles  Wesley  as  his  theme.  The  picture 
of  the  life  at  Epworth  Parsonage  is  said  to 
be  vivid.  The  book,  which  is  published  by 
the  Macmillan  Company,  is  timely,  in  view 
of  the  Wesley  bicentennial   celebrations. 

Jacob  A.  Riis,  recently  speaking  of  the 
stories  in  his  new  book,  "  The  Children  of 
the  Tenements,"  said  that  every  incident  re- 
lated in  the  book  as  fiction  actually  happened 
within  his  own  knowledge.  The  Macmillan 
Company  will  bring  out  the  volume  at  the 
end   of  this   month. 

William  Watson's  new  volume  of  poetry  -is 
entitled  "  For  England  :  Poems  Written  Dur- 
ing Estrangement." 

Sarah  Bernhardt  is  engaged  on  a  volume 
of  memoirs,  which  will  be  published  by 
Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  It  will  be  illus- 
trated with  portraits  of  the  actress  in  her 
favorite  parts,  and  with  caricatures  which 
have  been  done  of  her  in  all  the  countries 
which  she  has  visited. 

Gelett  Burgess  and  Will  Irwin  are  the 
authors  of  "  The  Reign  of  Queen  Isyl,"  an 
amusing  story  now  running  serially  in  an 
Eastern  magazine.  Besides  the  main  story, 
short  tales  of  adventure  in  love  are  inter- 
spersed. 

Clara  Morris  has  finished  her  new  novel. 
"  Hulda's    Brat." 

"Sea  Scamps"  is  the  title  chosen  by  Dr. 
Henry  C.  Rowland  for  a  little  book  of  mari- 
time adventure  that  has  just  been  issued.  The 
region  in  which  the  author's  band  of  sailors 
operate  is  one  much  in  public  notice  at  pres- 
ent— the   Philippines,   China,   and  Japan. 

The  Kentucky  form  of  feud  has  supplied 
the  material  for  a  novel  written  by  Joseph  S. 
Malone.   and   called   "  Sons   of   Vengeance." 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  will  soon  publish 
"  Stately  Homes  in  America,  from  Colonial 
Times  to  the  Present  Day,"  by  Harry  W. 
Desmond  and  Herbert  Croly.  The  book  will 
contain  one  hundred  and  fifty  full-page  illus- 
trations showing  such  homes  as  those  of  J. 
P.  Morgan,  the  Vanderbilts.  the  Potter  Palmer 
mansion  in  Chicago,  the  White  House,  Mount 
Vernon,  the  Astor,  Carnegie,  and  Tiffany 
residences,  and  many  others. 

The  heroine  of  Charles  Major's  new  ro- 
mance, "  A  Forest  Hearth,"  is  Rita  Bays,  who 
is  domineered  over  by  her  stern  mother.  Rita 
loves  a  farmer  of  Indiana,  and  he  loves  her. 
But  her  mother  determines  to  marry  her  to 
a  wealthy  Bostonian.  The  hero's  love  for  Rita 
carries  him  through  many  adventures  in  the 
wilderness  and  in  Indianapolis. 

Mrs.  Paget  Toynbee's  long-announced 
edition  of  "  The  Letters  of  Horace  Walpole  " 
will  shortly  be  issued  by  the  Clarendon  Press 
in  three  forms:  a  limited  edition  in  sixteen 
volumes,  the  regular  edition  in  smaller  octavo. 
and  an  India  paper  edition  in  eight  volumes. 

The  biography  of  Dean  Farrar,  written  by 
his  eldest  son,  with  the  assistance  of  some 
of  the  friends  of  the  late  dean,  will  be  pub- 
lished some  time  this  month.  It  will  contain 
much  matter  relating  to  Farrar's  friendships 
among  literary  men  as  well  as  churchmen. 

Messrs.  Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  im- 
ported a  volume  entitled  "  Old  English  Door- 
ways," in  which  examples  are  reproduced  from 


the  Tudor  times  to  the  present.  Seventy 
plates  in  collotype  have  been  prepared  from 
photographs  by  W.  Galsworthy  Davie.  H. 
Tanner,  Jr.,  contributes  the  historical  and 
descriptive  notes,  and  also  some  three  dozen 
drawings  and  sketches. 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  are  bringing  out 
the  sixth  edition  of  Frank  R.  Stockton's  post- 
humous  story,    "  The    Captain's    Toll-Gate." 


RECENT    VERSE. 


Dies  Ultima. 
White  in   her  woven  shroud. 

Silent  she   lies, 
Deaf  to  the  trumpets  loud 

Blown  through  the  skies: 
Never  a  sound  can  mar 

Her  slumber  long; 
She  is  a  faded  star — 

A  finished  song! 

Over  her  hangs  the  sun, 

A    golden    glow; 
Round  her  the  planets  run. 

She  does  not  know: 
For  neither  gloom  nor  gleam 

Can  reach  her  sight: 
She  is  a  broken  dream — 

A  dead  delight! 

No  voice  can  waken  her 

Again  to  sing; 
She  nevermore  will  stir 

To  feel  the  spring; 
Through  the  dim  ether  hurled 

Till  Time  shall  tire. 
She  is  a  wasted  world — 

A    frozen    fire! 
—Frank  Dempster  Sherman  in  Atlantic  Monthly, 

Memories. 
An  empty  room,  and  yet  how  full 

Of  her  since  she  has  gone; 
No  trifle  but  becomes  a  thing 

For  thought  to  dwell  upon. 

The  very  silence  misses  her. 
And  moves  on  noiseless  feet. 

Fearing  to  wake  some  memory 
The  brave  heart  could  not  meet. 

Irrevocable  fate  is  felt 

In  every  place,  and  look! 
How  firm  its  iron  hand  has  grasped 

That  open  half-read  book. 
— Edith  Turner  Ncivcomb  in  the  Bazar. 

The  Empty  Garden. 
Garden  of  Love,  thy  soul  is  fled 

The  spirit  that  made  thee  so  fair  and  gay! 
Garden  of  Eros,  dank  and  dead! 

Dewy  daisies,  well  do  ye  shed 

Tears  on  this  sorrowful  morn   of   May. 
Garden  of  Love,  thy  soul  is  fled! 

Why  do  ye  bloom  on,  roses  red? 

Know  ye  not  she  has  gone  away? 
Garden  of  Eros,  dank  and  dead! 

Think  ye,  foolish  flowers,  to  wed 

Yours     with     her     honied     breath     again  ? 
Nay- 
Garden  of  Love,  thy  soul  is  fled! 

Silly  birds  that  her  white  hand  fed, 

Why  do  ye  sing?     She  is  gone,  I  say. 
Garden  of   Eros,  dank  and  dead! 

O  my  long-time  worshiped. 

Empty  of  thee,  my  life  is  a  gray 
Garden  of  love  whose  soul  is  fled, 
Garden  of  Eros,  dank  and  dead! 
— Richard  Arthur  in   Harper's   Magazine. 


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Historical  Works. 

*'  Jewish  Forerunners  of  Christianity "  is  the 
title  of  an  interesting  compilation,  with  illumina- 
tive notes,  by  Adolph  Danziger,  wherein  he  seeks 
"  to  sketch  from  contemporary  Hebrew  literature 
the  workings  of  the  Jewish  mind  "  during  the  last 
two  centuries  of  the  Jewish  nation's  separate  exist- 
ence. His  sources,  says  Mr.  Danziger,  are  mainly 
the  Babylonian  andjerusalcmic  Talmuds.  The  chief 
characters  among  those  whom  he  has  chosen  to 
illustrate  the  trend  of  Jewish  thought  and  ideals 
are  Hillel,  Shammai,  Yochanen  ben  Zakkai,  'Han- 
inah  ben  Dosa,  Eliezer  ben  Hyrkanos,  Joshua  ben 
Hananiah,  Akibah,  Rabbi  Mair,  Acher,  Simon  ben 
Yohai,  and  Rabbi  Juda.  The  book  is  dedicated  to 
Phebe  A.  Hearst.  Published  by  E.  P.  Dutton  & 
Co.,  New  York;  $1.50. 

A  "  History  of  the  United  States  Marine  Corps  " 
has  been  written  by  Major  Richard  S.  Collum. 
U.  S.  M.  C,  whose  distinguished  portrait  appears 
on  page  one  hundred  and  ninety-three.  Begin- 
ning with  the  organization  of  the  colonial  marines 
in  1740,  Major  Collum  carries  the  record  forward 
in  due  order,  giving  an  account  of  each  instance 
where  the  marines  were  engaged  up  to  iqoi.  Sev- 
enteen chapters  suffice  for  the  period  1 740-1860, 
eleven  are  devoted  to  the  Civil  War,  and  thirty- 
three  to  the  subsequent  years.  The  work  is  alone 
in  its  special  field,  and,  though  presenting  the  rec- 
ord of  the  marines  always  in  the  most  favorable 
light  possible,  it  should  be  of  use  not  only  to  offi- 
cers of  the  corps,  but  to  historical  investigators  in 
general.  The  insertion  of  insurance  and  bankers' 
advertisements  in  the  book  strikes  us  as  a  singu- 
lar proceeding.  Published  by  the  L.  R.  Hamersly 
Company,  New  York. 

The  fourth  number  in  the  admirable  series  of 
source-readers  in  American  History  is  entitled. 
"  The  Romance  of  the  Civil  War."  The  series 
is  under  the  general  editorship  of  Albert  Bushnell 
Hart,  of  Harvard,  with  whom,  in  this  volume, 
Elizabeth  Stevens  collaborates.  Each  volume  is 
well  illustrated,  and  the  selections  dovetail  in- 
struction and  amusement  very  neatly.  Published 
by  the  MacmiHan  Company,   New   York;   60  cents. 

"  First  Lessons  in  United  States  History,"  by 
Edward  Channing,  is  among  recent  school-books. 
The  letter-press  has  the  usual  merit  of  such  vol- 
umes, but  many  of  the  illustrations  seem  to  us  atro- 
ciously bad.  By  the  way,  who  are  the  diminutive 
females  in  decollete  gowns,  who  seem  to  be  hiding 
behind  the  chair  in  the  picture  entitled  "  Wash- 
ington Resigning  His  Commission?  "  We  should 
think  they  might  greatly  bemuse  the  infant  mind. 
Published  by  the  MacmiHan  Company,  New  York; 
60   cents. 

Few  modern  historians  have  in  greater  degree 
than  Justin  McCarthy  the  gift  of  making  their 
narratives  entertaining.  He  has  the  rare  power 
of  engaging  the  reader's  attention,  and  holding 
his  interest.  You  read  McCarthy  not  so  much  foi 
what  you  may  learn,  as  for  what  you  may  enjoy. 
Particularly  happy  has  he  been  in  his  "  The  Reign 
of  Queen  Anne  " — a  period  distinguished  by  great 
and  interesting  figures  in  politics,  as  well  as  in 
literature.  The  multi-colored  threads  of  interest 
the  historian  has  here  woven  together  into  a 
seamless  fabric,  a  task  by  no  means  contemptible 
considering  the  complexity  of  the  bearing  of  events 
upon  character  and  the  many  national  move- 
ments whose  boundaries  must  be  defined,  and  whose 
relation  to  the  period  rendered  coherent.  Some 
of  the  figures  which  move  across  the  author's  stage 
are  Marlborough,  Balingbroke,  Walpole,  Harley, 
as  well  as  Addison,  Defoe,  Swift,  Pope,  Hogarth, 
■  and  many  others.  All  are  limned  with  a 
skillful  pen.  The  handsome  binding  in  which  the 
work  is  issued  accords  with  its  high  merit.  Pub- 
lished  by    Harper   &   Brothers.    New   York. 

A.  G.  Bradley's  "  The  Fight  with  France  for 
North  America"  (E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.,  New  York; 
$3.00)  is  the  detailed  narrative  of  an  interesting 
period  in  American  history,  marred,  however,  by 
the  fact  that  it  is  partisanly  British.  It  covers 
the  same  field  which  Parkman  has  heretofore  tilled, 
and  is  chiefly  valuable  because  it  presents  the 
whole  subject  in  a  single  volume. 


New  Juveniles. 

What  has  become  of  the  sweetness,  the  sym- 
pathy, and  vivacious  humor  that  made  the  first 
stories  by  Laura  E.  Richards  so  charming? 
"  Captain  January  "  and  "Melody  "  were  handed 
about,  and  even  read  out  loud  at  small  gatherings 
in  country  villages.  But  what  was  sentiment, 
purity,  and  grace  in  her  former  stories  has  de- 
veloped into  cant  in  the  last  two  books.  The  publish- 
ers have  spent  much  fine  art  and  good  printing  to 
make  them  attractive;  our  imagination,  however, 
fails  to  conjure  up  the  child  that  could  be  held  by 
any  of  the  highly  moral  "  More  Five  Minute 
Stories"  (Dana  Estes  &  Co.,  Boston:  $1.00),  or 
the  still  more  elaborate  fables,  "The  Golden 
Windows"  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston).  In 
both    books,    the    illustrations    arc   very    good. 

"  The  Wonderful  Electric  Elephant,"  by 
Francis  Trego  Montgomery,  makes  the  books  of 
Jules  Verne  look  like  thirty  cents.  We  think  boys 
of  about  ten  will  like  it,  though  for  several  days 
after  its  perusal  they  are  likely  to  feel  very  much 
dissatisfied  with  ordinary  mundane  existence.  It 
is  profusely  illustrated.  Published  by  the  Saalfield 
Publishing  Company,  New  York;  $1.50. 

Superior  to  the  general  run  of  picture-books  for 
"  very  little  folks  "  is  "  Baby  Days,"  a  new  selec- 
tion of  songs,  stories,  and  pictures,  with  an  intro- 
duction by  Mary  Mapes  Dodge.  Among  the  three 
hundred  illustrations  are  drawings  by  such  artists 
as  Fannie  Y.  Cory,  Mills  Thompson,  and  Adelaide 
Chase.  Most  of  the  selections  have  before  ap- 
peared in  St.  Nicholas.  Published  by  the  Century 
Company,  New  York;  $1.50. 

"Tales  from  Wonderland,"  by  Rudolph  Baum- 
bach,  has  been  translated  into  English  by  Helen 
B.  Dole,  and  adapted  for  American  children  by 
William  S.  M.  Silber.  Published  by  A.  Lovell 
&  Co.,  New  York;  30  cents. 

J.  G.  Francis's  pictures  in  a  little  book  called 
"  Cheerful  Cats  and  Other  Animated  Animals  "  are 
manifestly  intended  to  bear  the  same  relation  to, 
and  have  a  like  effect  upon,  the  child  mind,  as  the 
chaptered  pictures  in  Puck  and  Judge  upon  obese 
and  bald-headed  men  in  barber -shops.  And  we 
think  they  will.  Before  being  collected  in  book- 
form  they  ran  a  prosperous  course  through  St. 
Nicholas.  Published  by  the  Century  Company, 
New  York;  $1.00. 

"Six  Fairy  Plays  for  Children,"  by  Netta  Syrett, 
will  surely  be  accepted  with  acclaim  by  all   those 


who  have  anything  to  do  with  children's  enter- 
tainments; even  the  hostess  of  a  summer  or  win- 
ter house-party,  groping  for  something  new,  could 
not  find  anything  more  charming  with  which  to 
delight  her  guests  than  these  same  little  plays. 
They  are  especially  adapted  for  outdoor  perform- 
ances. Each  of  the  six  is  prefaced  with  a  few 
general  suggestions  as  to  costumes  and  stage  set- 
tings. Miss  Syrett  sagaciously  says :  "  I  have 
taken  care  to  provide  most  of  the  plays  with  a 
sufficient  number  of  court  ladies,  pages,  fairies, 
or  goblins  to  allow  of  the  introduction  of  as  many 
minor  characters  as  circumstances  may  render 
advisable."     Published  by  John  Lane,  New  York. 

Gift  Books. 

A  pretty  volume,  embodying  a  unique  idea,  is 
"A  Little  Book  of  Poet's  Parleys,"  selected  and 
arranged  by  Charlotte  Porter  and  Helen  A.  Clarke. 
The  idea  has  been  to  place  in  juxtaposition  lines 
from  the  poets  on  identical  subjects,  wherein  they 
differ  or  agree  with  each  other.  Published  by  T. 
Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New  York;   75  cents. 

Bound  in  white  "  leatherette  " — whatever  that 
may  be — and  decorated  in  various  tints  of  green 
and  gold  to  catch  the  eye  of  the  holiday  seeker 
after  "  gift  books,"  are  the  seven  small  but  moral 
volumes  whose  titles  are  as  follows :  "  Medita- 
tions," by  Joseph  Roux;  "The  Face  of  the  Mas- 
ter," by  J.  R.  Miller;  "  The  New  Ethics,"  by 
William  DeWitt  Hyde;  "A  Sailor  Apostle,"  by 
Frank  T.  Bullen;  "How  to  Be  Self-Supporting  at 
College,"  by  James  Melvin  Lee;  "  Mary  of 
Bethany,"  by  J.  R.  Miller;  "  The  Poet's  Vision 
of  Man,"  by  John  Walker  Powell.  Published  by 
T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New  York;  each  30  cents 
net. 

It  takes  all  kinds  of  people  to  make  a  world,  and 
some  of  them  like  "  gift  books."  Some  don't. 
For  those  that  do,  here  is  a  brochure  entitled  "  My 
Desire  "  ($1.00),  and  containing  eleven  quota- 
tions from  various  writers,  one  to  a  page,  printed 
on  gold-flecked  paper,  each  with  a  hand-colored 
initial,  the  whole  bound  in  white  with  green 
doublures.  Here  also  is  a  volume  of  moral  essays 
by  Leigh  Mitchell  Hodges,  entitled  "  The  Great 
Optimist  "  ($1.00).  It  is  printed  from  orna- 
mental type,  and  every  other  page  bears  only  a 
quotation,  in  old  English  type,  with  a  hand-colored 
initial.  It  is  bound  in  some  sort  of  white  compo- 
sition and  padded  like  a  pillow.  "  The  Book  of 
Joy "  and  "  The  Book  of  Cheer  "  ($1.00),  are 
bound  in  white  like  the  above,  but  their  marginal 
decorations,  in  many  colors,  are  by  a  clever  expo- 
nent of  I'art  nouveau.  The  contents  are  quota- 
tions from  Stevenson,  Drummond,  Van  Dyke,  etc. 
Published  by  the  Dodge  Publishing  Company,  New 
York. 

The  Scott-Thaw  Company  is  making  an  enviable 
reputation  for  good  book-printing.  A  first-rate 
example  of  its  work  is  a  reprint  of  Edward  Fitz- 
gerald's "  Polonius :  A  Collection  of  Wise  Saws 
and  Modern  Instances,"  originally  published  in 
1852.  This  pocket-book  of  quotations,  grave  and 
gay,  appears  in  ornamented  leather  binding,  and 
is  printed  artistically  in  two  colors.  Fitzgerald's 
selections  were  all  meaty,  and  the  volume  well 
deserves  reissue  in  such  attractive  form.  Published 
by  the  Scott-Thaw  Company,  New  York;  $1.00. 


Miscellaneous  Publications. 

"  Something  in  the  City,"  a  trashy  novel  by 
Florence  Warden,  is  published  by  F.  M.  Buckles 
&   Co.,    New  York;   $1.25. 

"  The  Knocker  "  is  a  little  volume  of  "  con  " 
talks,  by  Frank  C.  Voorhies,  with  pictures  by  E. 
B.  Bird.  All  the  drummers  will  like  it.  Pub- 
lished by   the   Mutual   Book   Company,    Boston. 

"  Wide  Awake  Dialogues,"  by  T.  S.  Denison, 
being  a  collection  of  playlets  suitable  for  "  last 
days "  at  country  schools  and  similar  occasions, 
is    published   by    the   author,    Chicago;    25    cents. 

"  Loyal  Traitors,"  by  Raymond  L.  Bridgman, 
is  the  story  of  three  Americans  who,  inspired  by 
what  they  consider  lofty  patriotism,  go  from  Bos- 
ton to  fight  on  the  side  of  the  Filipinos.  Pub- 
lished by  the  James  H.  West  Company,  Boston; 
$1.00  net. 

The  title-page  adequately  describes  the  contents 
of  a  compact  little  volume  compiled  by  the 
Rev.  Charles  H.  Pope.  It  runs:  "The  Gos- 
pels Combined,  parallel  passages  blended,  and 
separate  accounts  connected;  presenting  in  one 
continuous  narrative  the  life  of  Jesus  Christ,  as 
told  by  Matthew,  Mark.  Luke,  and  John,  His  words 
in  special  type."     Published  by  the  Author,  Boston. 

"  Principles  and  Ideals  for  the  Sunday-School  " 
($1.00),  by  Ernest  De  Witt  Burton  and  Shailer 
Matthews,  professors  in  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, is  the  fruit  of  long  experience,  mostly  with 
girls  and  boys  of  grammar  and  high-school  age. 
The  book  should  prove  helpful  to  Sunday-school 
teachers  similarly  placed.  Loran  David  Osborn, 
Ph.  D.,  the  author  of  "The  Recovery  and  Restate- 
ment of  the  Gospel"  ($1.50),  believes  that  the  real 
teachings  of  Christ  have  become  obscured  in  the 
course  of  the  Gospel's  historical  development.  The 
"  guiding  thread  "  of  this  book  was  "  the  turning 
from  contemporary  theology,  where  there  are  such 
widely  differing  opinions,  back  to  the  New  Testa- 
ment, in  an  earnest  and  open-minded  desire  to 
understand  its  teachings."  Published  by  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  Press,  Chicago. 

Imogen  Holbrook  Vivian  is  the  author  of  an 
interesting  little  book  about  her  husband,  entitled 
"  A  Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Charles 
Algernon  Sidney  Vivian."  It  was  Vivian  who,  in 
1867,  founded  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  which  has  since  grown  into  a  great  and 
powerful  organization,  with  lodges  the  country 
over.  The  account  is  straightforward  and  enter- 
taining, and  illustrated  with  a  number  of  photo- 
graphs. It  also  contains  a  poem  in  memoriam,  by 
Joaquin  Miller.  Published  by  the  Whitaker  & 
Ray  Company,   San  Francisco;   $1.00. 

The  small  books  belonging  to  the  Golden  Treas- 
ury Scries  to  our  mind  are  extremely  neat.  The 
last,  like  all,  is  bound  in  blue,  decorated  in  gilt, 
has  uncut  edges,  and  is  printed  on  thin  paper 
from  a  pretty  face  of  type.  It  is  "The  Autocrat 
at  the  Breakfast  Table,"  and  contains  a  portrait 
of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  and  an  introduction 
by  Leslie  Stephen.  Published  by  the  MacmiHan 
Company,   New  York;   $1.00. 

Mary  J.  Holmes  still  writing!  So  it  seems,  for 
here  is  "  The  Merivale  Banks,"  a  novel,  with  her 
name  on  the  title-page.  But  we  doubt  whether 
young  people  of  to-day  "  have  "  Mary  J.  HoUnes,  as 
they  have  measles.  That  was  the  blissful  privilege 
of  the  oldsters.  The  saner  generation  of  the  pres- 
ent do  not,  we  think  and  hope,  shed  copious  tears 


over  "  Darkness  and  Daylight "  and  "  Hugh 
Worthington  " — though  the  publishers  claim  that 
three  million  of  her  books  have  been  sold,  and  that 
they  are  still  selling  well.  Published  by  the  G.  W. 
Dillingham  Company,  New  York;  Jt.oo. 

Educational  Publications- 

"  The  Lady  of  the  Lake,"  by  Walter  Scott, 
edited  by  James  Chalmers,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  is 
among  the  school-readers  published  by  D.  Ap- 
pleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

Among  recent  school-books  are  "  Primary 
Arithmetic"  {25  cents),  by  William  J.  Milne. 
Ph.  D.,  LL.  D. ;  "Stories  of  Great  Artists"  (40 
cents)  (in  Eclectic  School  Readings),  by  Olive 
Browne  Home  and  Kathrine  Lois  Scabey;  and 
"  Le  Petit  Robinson  de  Paris,"  by  Mme.  Eugenie 
Foa,  edited  with  notes  and  vocabulary,  by  Louise 
de  Bonnerville.  Published  by  the  American  Book 
Company,  New  York. 

Among  Appleton's  recently  published  text-books 
there  are  three  on  languages — "  A  First  Latin 
Book"  ($1.00),  by  Clifford  Herschel  Moore, 
Ph.  D-,  assistant  professor  in  Harvard,  "  intended 
to  provide  the  necessary  preparation  for  the  read- 
ing of  Nepos  and  Caesar";  "Greek  Lessons  for 
Beginners"  ($i,io),  by  Frederick  Stillman  Mor- 
rison, of  the  Hartford  High  School,  and  Thomas 
Dwight  Goodell,  professor  of  Greek  in  Yale;  and 
"  First  Six  Books  of  Virgil's  Aeneid,"  with  intro- 
duction, notes,  and  vocabulary,  and  many  illus- 
trations from  old  prints,  by  Jesse  Benedict  Carter, 
professor  of  Latin  in  Princeton.  Two  other  text- 
books are  "First  Book  in  Hygiene"  (60  cents), 
by  William  O.  Krohn,  of  Yale,  intended  for  very 
small  children,  and  containing  many  illustrations; 
and  "  Animal  Structure  "  (75  cents),  a  "  laboratory 
guide  in  the  teaching  of  elementary  zoology,"  by 
David  Starr  Jordan  and  George  Clinton  Price. 
Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

"  Byron's  Shorter  Poems,"  edited  by  Ralph 
Hartt  Bowles,  A.  M. ;  Macaulay's  "  Life  of  Samuel 
Johnson,"  edited  by  William  Schuyler,  A.  M. ; 
and  "  Oliver  Goldsmith,"  by  Washington  Irving, 
edited  by  Gilbert  Sykes  Blakeley,  A.  M..  are  new 
additions  to  the  Series  of  Pocket  American  and 
English  Classics.  Each  volume  contains  an  intro- 
duction, notes,  and  a  portrait.  Published  by  the 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


October  26,  1903. 


We  Americans  are  often  moved  to  a  good- 
natured  contempt  for  the  hazy  knowledge,  or 
lack  of  knowledge,  displayed  by  the  English 
concerning  the  geographical  locations  of  our 
glorious  republic.  On  the  other  hand,  we  rarely 
stop  to  think  of  our  own  limitations  in  that 
respect  when  it  comes  to  the  political  institu- 
tions and  divisions  of  our  sister  continent 
below  the  equator. 

No  doubt  South  Americans  reciprocate  the 
polite  lack  of  interest  we  feel  in  them  and 
their  affairs.  We  regard  the  whole  continent, 
with  more  or  less  correctness,  as  a  collection 
of  mushroom  republics,  the  rise  and  fall  01 
whose  comic-opera  governments  are  less  im- 
portant than  the  fluctuations  in  the  wheat 
market.  They  probably  unite  In  regarding  us 
as  a  reprehensible  aggregation  of  frantic  and 
misdirected  energy — which  occasionally  dis- 
turbs them  by  an  incursion  into  their  own 
territory,  stirring  them  into  lazy  and  easily 
discouraged  competition. 

Occasionally,  but  not  often,  we  get  side- 
lights thrown  upon  the  South  American  char- 
acter from  a  literary  quarter.  Novel-writing 
men  of  the  present  are  so  young  that  they  have 
adventurous  blood  bubbling  in  their  veins,  and 
turn  it  to  account  by  gaining  color  and  realism 
for  their  novels.  Once  upon  a  time,  the  story- 
writer  imagined  adventures.  Now  he  experi- 
ences them. 

It  is  odd,  with  all  those  Latin  admixtures 
seething  in  the  hot  blood  of  the  South  Ameri- 
can, that  he  does  not  figure  more  oft  and  pic- 
turesquely in  fiction.  It  may  be  that  the  mon- 
grel breeds  predominating  there  offer  little 
opportunity  for  romantic  idealization.  At  all 
events,  contact  with  these  alien  races  seems 
to  inspire  in  the  American  or  British  mind  no 
greater  emotion  than  distrust  and  hearty  con- 
tempt. 

This  contempt  finds  free  expression  in 
Richard  Harding  Davis's  "  Soldiers  of  For- 
tune," in  which  all  the  virile,  hardy,  resource- 
ful characters  are  American  or  English,  while, 
the  knaves  and  cowards  are  natives  of  Olan- 
cho,  the  imaginary  republic  in  which  Mr. 
Davis  has  located  his  story. 

South  American  history  is  limited  in  in- 
terest ;  necessarily  so,  for  the  indolent  popu- 
lation en  masse  is  incapable  of  heroism.  It 
merely  looks  on  idly  at  the  petty  squabbles  of 
petty  rulers  with  petty  insurrectionists,  and  as 
Clay  says  in  the  book,  in  speaking  of  the 
pueblos :  "  Different  parts  of  the  same  tree 
furnish  them  with  food,  shelter,  and  clothing  ; 
the  sun  gives  them  fuel,  and  the  government 
changes  so  often  that  they  can  always  dodge 
the  tax-collector." 

The  South  American  characters,  however, 
make  excellent  dramatic  material  in  the  play; 
even  more  so  than  in  the  book,  in  which,  with 
the  exception  of  Mme.  Alvarez,  they  play  a 
much  smaller  part  than  the  Americans.  Mr. 
Davis's  book  shows  a  knowledge  of  the 
country  and  conditions  there  that  lends  it 
novelty  of  atmosphere.  But  the  story  proper 
is  of  no  great  merit,  having  a  tendency  to 
ramble,  and  become  diffuse  over  characteristic 
gallery-play  diversions  that  are  not  essential 
to  the  plot. 

Mr.  Davis,  judging  from  "  The  Taming  of 
Helen,"  can  not  carry  out  his  love  of  dra- 
matics into  practical,  working  shape.  Lucky, 
he  was1,  that  so  experienced  a  playwright  as 
Augustus  Thomas  took  hold  of  "  Soldiers  of 
Fortune  "  and  cast  it  into  dramatic  form. 

The  book  offered  Mr.  Thomas  the  oppor- 
tunity to  develop  his  great  specialty — the 
bringing  out  of  local  atmosphere.  Thus,  the 
whole  play  smacks  of  South  America — just 
what  part  of  South  America  troubles  us  not. 
Davis  makes  reference  in  his  book  to  Olancho's 
boundary  disputes  with  Venezuela  and  Ecua- 
dor. So,  if  we  like,  we  may  locate  Olancho 
in  the  space  held  by  the  United  States  of  Co- 
lombia, although  it  is  elsewhere  mentioned  as 
being  on.  the  north-eastern  coast  of  South 
America.  Alvarez  is  its  president,  and  Men- 
doza  the  leader  of  the  opposition — two  names 
comm-  1  in  South  American  political  and 
milita.y  annals.  They  souiul  so  like  truth  that 
'.".  b-^i  one  to  wondering  \  aguely  if  they  are 
borne  by  real  personages,  and  to  recalling 
hazy   impressions   as   to   the   identity   of 


deposed  rulers  and  their  audacious  antagonists. 
In  slight  but  telling  touches,  Mr.  Thomas  lays 
on  his  color,  indicating  the  climatic  heat,  the 
indolence  of  the  native  character,  the  worth- 
lessness  of  the  army,  the  corruption  of  officials, 
and  some  slight  glimpses  into  social  customs. 
His  dialogue  is  pat  and  crisp,  the  situations 
follow  each  other  logically,  and  there  is 
plenty  of  good  American  comedy  carefully 
hedging  in  the  love  scenes. 

For  the  discerning  dramatist  has  now  thor- 
oughly recognized  his  cue — every  burst  of 
sorrow,  .sentiment,  or  seriousness  must,  of 
necessity,  have  its  antithesis  in  a  burst  of 
humor.  That  is  one  of  the '  essentials  de- 
manded by  the  American  people  in  the  native 
drama.  And  so  "Soldiers  of  Fortune"  is  a 
capital  play.  Yes,  one  says  quite  positively, 
"a  capital  play,"  and  comes  away  remaining 
placidly  unstirred  to  any  particular  emotion  by 
this  capital  play — the  fault,  I  fancy,  of  the 
original  author  rather  than  the  dramatist. 
For  Mr.  Davis  does  not  write  things  that  go 
deeply;  they  merely  stir  the  surface  sensations. 
In  the  book,  Robert  Clay  makes  frequent  mock, 
during  Hope  Langham's  offerings  of  hero-wor- 
ship, of  his  having  performed  certain  heroic 
feats  as  gallery-play,  and,  oddly  enough,  the 
reader  detects  a  certain  gallery-play  in  his  be- 
littling of  himself.  And  that  is  the  trouble 
with  the  book  and  the  lack  in  the  play,  even 
in  its  most  melodramatic  moments — the  con- 
ventional twist  in  the  Davis  mind  which  en- 
feebles his  sentiment  to  the  color  of  claptrap 
or  sentimentality. 

The  piece  is  capitally  acted  by  a  company 
which  has  held  together  for  some  time. 
although  one  may  see  from  the  illustrations 
in  the  1903  edition  of  the  book  that  there  have 
been  changes  in  the  original  cast. 

Mr.' Edeson,  in  his  forthright  Americanism, 
is  perfectly  adapted  to  the  character  of  Robert 
Clay.  He  gives  good,  clean  comedy,  as  sincere 
sentiment  as  the  Davis  groundwork  will  allow, 
and  carries  the  melodramatic  situations  with 
dash  and  vigor.  He  has  almost  escaped  the 
prevailing  fault  of  the  long-run  player,  which 
generally  tends  toward  the  purely  mechanical. 
Miss  Ellen  Burg,  from  a  superficial  descrip- 
tion, would  be,  one  would  say,  well  adapted  to 
the  role  of  Hope  Langbam.  Miss  Burg,  or 
Mrs.  Edeson,  as  she  is  in  fact,  is  tiny  in  size, 
and  clever.  Hope  is  "  not  out,"  is  frequently 
referred  to  as  "  little  girl,"  and  is  full  of 
animation.  Miss  Burg,  although  not  otherwise 
physically  adapted  to  the  role,  fills  out  these 
three  qualifications  fairly  well,  but,  at  the  same 
.  time,  there  is  something  in  her  personality 
that  utterly  refuses  to  fit  into  the  character  of 
Hope  Laugh  am.  One  feels  no  illusion.  This  is 
not  the  daintily  pretty  American  heiress,  be- 
witching with  her  frank  enthusiasm,  her  Ameri- 
can grit,  and  her  delicate  girl's  beauty,  the 
men  who  out  of  the  dullness  of  their  arid 
lives  yield  manly  homage  to  her  young  graces. 
Rather  it  is  the  painstaking  actress,  who 
speaks  her  lines  with  correctness  of  inflection 
and  expression,  but  who,  nevertheless,  evinces 
a  temperamental  inability  to  sink  herself  in 
the  character  that  is  so  marked  as  to  cause 
her  to  seem  like  a  cleverly  manipulated,  ex- 
clamatorylittle  toy. 

Dorothy  Tennant,  who  at  first  seemed 
almost  too  impassive,  turned  out  to  be  just  the 
actress  for  the  role  of  Alice  Langham,  the 
elegantly  self-contained  product  of  later  Ne.w 
York.  Miss  Tennant  has  style,  beauty,  and 
self-poise,  and  fell  admirably  into  the  spirit  of 
the  thing  in  the  glacial  marriage  proposal 
scene;  a  bit,  by  the  way,  of  Mr.  Thomas's 
own  apparently,  since  the  scene  does  not  ap- 
pear in  the  book.  The  dramatist  has  done 
wisely,  I  think,  in  eliminating  Clay's  previous 
tendresse  for  Alice,  such  changes,  frequent 
2nd  inevitable  as  they  are  in  life,  being  rather 
disturbing  to  roma'ntic  unities — if  there  be 
such  a  thing — of  a  play. 

The  company  has  fortunately  retained  its 
original  comedian,  for  Mr.  Thomas  has  en- 
larged the  part  of  MacWUliams  for  the  neces- 
sary comedy  element.  The  man  who  plays 
the   part,  is   mentioned    on    the   bill    as    Harry 


Harwood;  that,  however,  is  an  insignificant 
detail,    for   he    is   MacWilliams   so    completely 

the    Gus   Thomas's    MacWilliams,    that  is— 

that  it  will  be  absolutely  impossible  to  re- 
member him  by  any  other  name.  Helen  Ware, 
a  graceful  and  picturesque  woman,  played  the 
part  of  Mme.  Alvarez,  E.  W.  Morrison  that 
of  the  luckless  president,  and  Edwin  Brandt, 
the  perfidious,  white-teethed  Mendoza.  all 
with  a  very  good  effect  of  foreignness.  Indeed. 
the  company  throughout  is,  with  the  exception 
already  mentioned,  well  chosen,  and  in  har- 
mony with  the  various  characters  represented. 
An  important  role,  that  of  Captain  Stewart, 
assumed  by  Mr.  Macey  Harlam,  has  much  to 
do  with  the  purely  theatrical  movement  of  the 
play,  and  hence  conveys  in  some  degree  an 
effect  of  insincerity.  I  rather  think  the  aux 
dience  was  in  a  state  of  polite  amaze  over  the 
emotion  displayed  by  Clay  when  Stewart  was 
shot — a  state  of  mind  resulting  from  the  close 
friendship  of  two  Anglo-Saxons  in  a  land  of 
mixed  races,  which  Mr.  Thomas,  in  the  re- 
stricted action  of  the  play,  was  unable  to  make 
sufficiently  clear.  The  original  scene,  however, 
having  dramatic  possibilities,  he  transferred 
it  almost  bodily. 

Mr.  Thomas,  himself,  is  occasionally  guilty 
of  claptrap,  as  witness  in  "  Arizona"  Denton's 
needless  acceptance  of  the  onus  of  having 
stolen  Estella's  jewels.  And  as  Richard  Hard- 
ing Davis  has  freely  and  hospitably  thrown 
open  his  pages  to  buncombe,  it  is  scarcely 
surprising,  in  spite  of  its  quietly  realistic 
opening,  that  "  Soldiers  of  Fortune  "  becomes 
rather  wild-eyed  toward  the  close.  From  this 
and  many  shallow  Davisisms  of  sentiment  as 
well,  it  follows  that  one  regards  the  play  as 
wholly  entertaining,  but  not  exactly  in  the 
line  of  serious  drama. 

Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


It  is  announced  that  Helen  Bertram,  the 
comic-opera  singer,  and  Edward  J.  Morgan 
were  recently  married  in  Windsor,  Canada. 
This  is  Miss  Bertram's  third  matrimonial 
venture.  She  was  a  chorus  singer  in  the  Mc- 
Catill  Opera  Company  when  Signor  Tomassi, 
then  the  conductor,  discovered  what  a  good 
voice  she  had,  saw  that  she  was  promoted, 
and  afterward  married  her.  He  secured  a 
divorce  from  her  in  1892,  and  she  married 
E.  J.  Henley,  the  actor.  Tomassi  soon  after- 
ward committed  suicide,  and  Henley  Ave 
years  ago  died  of  consumption. 


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Wednesday,  Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings,  "  Un 
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Thursday,  and  Sunday  nights,  Saturday  matinfie, 
"Andre  Chenier." 

Prices  the  same  as  ever— 25c,  50c,  and  75c.    Telephone 
Bush  9. 

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To-night,    Sunday  night,   and  for  another  week,    re- 
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SOLDIERS  OR  FORTUNE 

Stage  version  by  Augustus  Thomas.     Matinee  Sat- 
urday only. 


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Evenings,  25c  to  75c.     Saturday  and  Sunday  Mati- 
nees, 15c  to  50c. 

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Week  beginning  Monday,  October  26th,  matinfies  Sat- 
urday and  Sunday,  spectacular  production  of 
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Lawyer  Marks. 

Prices — Evenings,  ioc  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  November  2d — All  on  Account  of  Eliza. 


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Matinees  Sunday,  Thursday,   and  Saturday.     Week 
beginning  to-morrow  matinee,   the  incom- 
parable musical  farce, 
SIE'OTIjrESS    TOWN 

Presented  by  Leslie  Morosco  and  Leila  Shaw,  sup- 
ported by  an  excellent  company.  Beautiful  scenery, 
costumes,  and  effects. 


Prices — Evenings,  15c,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.    Matinees, 

15c  25c,  and  50c. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee.  October  25th. 
New  acts,  faces,  sensations!  McWatters  and  Tyson; 
Coleman's  Dogs  and  Cats  ;  the  Three  Richards  ;  Craw- 
ford and  Manning;  Wertona  and  Frank;  Whistling 
Tom  Browne ;  Herbert  Lloyd,  assisted  by  Lillian 
Lilyan  ;  new  motion  pictures,  and  last  week  of  Water- 
bury  Brothers  and  Tenney. 

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box  seats,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


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magnificent  scenery  and  costumes,  the  talk  of  all 
'Frisco. 

Reserved  seats— Nights,  25c,  50,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati- 
nees, ioc  and  25c. 


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Return   of  the  Favorites.     One   week   only, 

commencing  Sunday  matinee, 

November  1st, 

ELLERY'S  ROYAL  ITALIAN  BAND 

Half  a  hundred  artists.  Signor  Chiaffarelli,  con- 
ductor. Great  classical,  operatic,  and  popular  pro- 
grammes. 

Prices,  50c,  75c,  and  $1.00.  Box-office  Wednesday, 
Ocf  28th,  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.'s. 

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.■  f.  November 
uarp. 

EASTERN  AND  LOCAL  ATTRACTIONS 

■  10 


October  26,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


267 


MUSICAL     NOTES. 


The  Metropolitan  Symphony  Orchestra.  * 

On  Tuesday  evening,  the  Metropolitan 
Symphony  Orchestra  will  give  its  first  concert 
at  the  Alhambra  Theatre,  under  the  direction 
of  J.  S.  Duss.  The  programme  will  include 
Weingartner's  arrangement  of  Weber's  "  Invi- 
tation to  the  Dance";  "With  Pomp  and  Cir- 
cumstance," the  march  composed  for  King 
Edward's  coronation  by  Edward  Elgar ;  the 
overture  to  Goldmark's  "  Cricket  on  the 
Hearth  "  ;  introduction  to  "  Parsifal  "  ;  Tschai- 
kowsky's  overture,  "  1812  " :  and  numbers 
from  the  Copellia  ballet  by  OlHbes.  Lillian 
Nordica  will  be  the  soloist,  her  selections  be- 
ing the  "  Liebestod  "  from  Wagner's  "  Tris- 
tan and  Isolde,"  and  the  polonaise  from 
"  Mignon,"  "by  Thomas.  Wednesday  afternoon 
will  be  a  popular  concert,  at  which  the  suite 
to  "  Lorna  Doone."  by  Nevin.  and  solos  by 
Mrs.  Katharine  Fisk,  the  noted  contralto,  and 
Nathan  Franko.,  the  violinist,  will  be  the 
special  features.  Thursday  night,  the  concert 
will  be  under  the  auspices  of  the  Twentieth 
Century  Music  Club.  On  this  occasion,  for 
the  first  time,  local  music-lovers  will  have 
an  opportunity  to  hear  Richard  Strauss's  tone 
poem,  "  Don  Juan."  Other  numbers  will  be 
the  "Dream  Pantomime"  from  "Hansel  and 
Gretel,"  the  "  Dance  of  the  Sunfeast " 
(American  Indian),  by  Waller,  and  other 
notable  works.  Mrs.  Fisk  will  sing  the  aria, 
"  Softly  Awakens  My  Heart,"  from  "  Samson 
and  Delilah,"  and  "  A  Summer's  Night."  by 
Goring  Thomas,  with  'cello  obligato  by  Paul 
Miersch.  Nathan  Franko  will  play  "  Theme 
and  Variations,"  by  Corelli.  Friday  matinee 
will  be  the  farewell  concert,  when  another 
interesting  programme  will  be  rendered,  with 
Nordica  and  Franko  as  soloists. 


Ellery's  Royal  Italian  Band. 
Following  the   Metropolitan   Symphony   Or- 
chestra    at     the     Alhambra     Theatre,     comes 
Ellery's     Royal     Italian     band,     which     is     to 
play     an     engagement     for     one     week,     un- 
der     the       management      of      Will       Green- 
baum .      beginning      Sunday      afternoon,      No- 
•  veniber   1st.     The  band   has   a   new   leader  in 
kSignor    Manfredo    Chiffairelli,    one    of    Italy's 
'greatest  bandmasters,  and  a  composer  of  repu- 
tation. The  personnel  of  the  hand  is  about  the 
same  as  last  year,  but  four  new  soloists  have 
been   added,   among  others   Signor   Decimo,   2 
clarinetist  of  note.     The  repertoire  has  been 
'  increased  by  many  new  operatic  works  and  a 
large   number   of  popular   American   composi- 
tions.      The   prices    will   be   popular,    ranging 
from   fifty   cents  to   one   dollar.      The   sale   of 
seats    will    be    open    Wednesday    morning    at 
Sherman,  Clay  &  Co's.     The  programmes  will 
be  changed  nightly,  and  matinees  will  he  given 
on  Saturday  and  the  two  Sundays  during  the 
engagement.     A  new  sounding  board  is  being 
placed   over  the  Alhambra   stage   for  this   en- 
gagement. 

"  The  World  Invisible "  is  the  title  which 
Dr.  Alex  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  has  chosen  for  his 
next  lecture  and,  as  most  people  are  interested 
in  hearing  such  topics  as  mental  healing, 
spiritual  vision,  prophecy,  thought-transfer- 
ence, and  all  the  phases  of  invisible  forces, 
intelligently  discussed,  there  will  doubtless  be 
another  large  audience  at  Steinway  Hall  on 
Sunday  night.  Dr.  Tyndall  will  supplement 
his  talk  with  some  marvelous  experiments  in 
telepathy.  On  Sunday  night.  November  1st, 
Dr.  Tyndall  will  talk  on  "  Spiritualism." 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


October  26,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


The  visit  of  King  Victor  Emmanuel  and 
Queen  Helena  of  Italy  to  Paris  last  week 
brought  about  a  revolution  in  the  status  of 
the  wife  of  the  chief  magistrate  of  the  French 
Republic.  Until  now  "  Mme.  la  Presidente  " 
has  been  to  all  intents  and  purposes  officially 
ignored.  There  has  been  no  place  for  her 
on  the  statutory  table  of  precedence.  It  was 
expressly  stipulated  that  she  should  not  be 
regarded  in  any  sense  of  the  word  as  an  of- 
ficial personage,  and  to  such  an  extent  has 
this  principle  been  enforced  that  the  president 
could  make  no  use  of  a  military  mounted 
escort  when  he  had  his  wife  with  him.  Thus, 
for  instance  (points  out  the  Marquise  de 
Fontenoy  in  the  New  York  Tribune),  when 
he  drives  each  year  in  state  to  the  Grand 
Prix  at  Longchamps,  he  is  unable  to  have 
his  wife  beside  him  in  the  carriage,  but  is 
obliged  to  content  himself  with  the  company 
of  either  the  premier  or  one  of  the  ministers. 
He  rides  in  a  carriage  and  four,  followed  and 
preceded  by  a  cavalry  escort,  while  "  Mme.  la 
Presidente "  follows  in  a  carriage  and  pair 
unobstrusively,  without  any  escort.  When 
the  Czar  and  Czarina  paid  their  memorable 
visit  to  Paris,  neither  the  wife  nor  the  daugh- 
ter of  President  Faure  took  any  official  part 
in  the  reception  of  the  imperial  guests.  They 
were  seen  nowhere  in  public  with  the  latter, 
the  president  alone  accompanying  the  Czar 
and  Czarina  everywhere.  Mme.  Faure  and 
Mile.  Faure  did  not  even  appear  at  the  gala 
opera,  and  if  they  were  present  at  the  state 
banquet  given  in  honor  of  Nicholas  and  his 
consort  at  the  Elysee  Palace,  it  was  because, 
living  on  the  premises,  it  was  impossible  to 
prevent  their  attendance.  When  monarchs 
have  visited  Paris  and  called  at  the  Elysee 
it  has  always  been  considered  in  the  light  of 
a  delicate  but  unnecessary  piece  of  courtesy 
when  they  asked  leave  before  quitting  the 
palace  to  pay  their  respects  to  "  Mme.  la 
Presidente,"  and  while  every  queen  and  em- 
press who  has  sojourned  on  the  banks  of  the 
Seine  has  received  a  call  from  the  president 
of  the  republic,  none  of  them  have  ever 
taken  the  trouble  of  returning  the  call  at  the 
Elysee  on  his  wife,  invariably  contenting  them- 
selves with  merely  sending  their  principal 
gentlemen-in- waiting  or  the  chief  dignitary 
in  their  train  to  acknowledge  in  their  stead 
at  the  Elysee  the  president's  courtesy.  Last 
week,  however,  at  the  triumphal  entry  into 
Paris,  at  the  state  banquet,  at  the  gala  opera 
performance,  at  the  grand  military  review  at 
Vincennes,  and  at  all  the  other  entertain- 
ments planned  in  honor  of  the  royal  visitors, 
Mme.  Loubet  played  an  important  role. 

It  is  true  that  there  has  been  reason  for 
this  treatment  of  some  of  the  wives  of  the 
former  French  presidents.  Mme.  Grevy.  dur- 
ing the  presidency  of  whose  husband  much  of 
the  ceremonial  was  arranged  and  royalties 
commenced  once  more  to  frequent  the  French 
capital,  was  entirely  unsuited  to  social  and 
ceremonial  scenes.  Queen  Victoria  spent  a 
few  days  at  Paris  when  Grevy  was  president, 
and  while  he  called  upon  her  at  the  English 
embassy,  she  did  not  dream  of  visiting  Mme. 
Grevy,  who  was  ignored  in  a  similar  fashion 
by  the  now  widowed  Czarina  of  Russia,  by 
her  mother,  the  Queen  of  Denmark,  and  her 
sister.  Queen  Alexandra,  then  Princess  of 
Wales,  when  they  came  to  Paris  to  attend  the 
marriage  of  the  daughter  of  the  French  Duke 
de  Chartres  to  Prince  Waldemar  of  Denmark. 
Great  ladies  in  France  in  the  past  have  seen 
fit  to  take  their  cue  from  the  foreign  queens 
and  empresses,  and  to  treat  the  wife  of  the 
president  with  a  disdain  that  was  apparently 
due  more  to  the  fact  that  she  was  mistress  of 
Elysee  Palace  than  owing  to  her  personal 
character.  For  Mme.  Casimir-Perier,  a 
charming  woman,  related  to  several  houses 
of  the  oldest  aristocracy,  found  herself,  dur- 
ing her  husband's  brief  tenure  of  the  presi- 
dency, shunned  by  all  the  great  world  in 
which  she  had  been  accustomed  to  move  prior 
to  taking  up  her  residence  in  the  Elysee. 
Now,  however,  that  Queen  Helena  of  Italy 
has  established  a  precedent,  it  may  safely  be 
taken  for  granted  that  every  other  foreign 
empress,  queen,  or  royal  princess  who  visits 
Paris  will  be  obliged  to  treat  the  wife  of  the 
president  with  the  same  consideration  and 
respect,  and.  this  being  the  case.  French  so- 
«iety  will  doubtless  follow  suit,  and  honor 
itself  by  honoring  the  woman  who  occupies 
for  the  time  the  position  of  the  First  Lady  of 
Frpnce. 


A  movement  has  just  been  started  in  Berlin 

t      abate,    if   possible,    the   practice   of   tipping 

ii      cafes    and    restaur.-, its.      An    anti-tipping 

lee  rue    has    been     founded     in.  Berlin,     with 

ranches  in  the  principal  cities  of  Germany. 


The  members  of  the  league  sign  a  pledge  to 
frequent  only  those  restaurants  and  cafes  in 
which  tipping  is  strictly  prohibited.  The  pro- 
prietors of  the  establishment  which  abolish 
the  tipping  will  be  supplied  gratis  with  a  big 
sign  bearing  the  letters  "  O.  T."  (Ohne  trink- 
gerd)  meaning  "  no  tips."  printed  in  large 
type.  The  waiters  themselves  profess  to  be 
in  favor  of  the  innovation  as  long  as  their 
employers  pay  them  a  wage  sufficiently  large 
to  enable  them  to  dispense  with  tips.  It 
would  be  a  great  relief  to  the  traveling  public, 
and  particularly  to  American  tourists,  who 
at  home  are  not  accustomed  to  be  taxed  at 
every  turn,  if  the  league  should  become  a 
success. 

Vesta  Tilley,  the  English  actress,  who  is 
famous  for  her  male  impersonations,  and  is 
starring  in  the  East  this  season  in  "  Algy,"  a 
musical  comedy,  has  long  been  regarded  as 
the  best-dressed  "  man  "  on  the  London  stage. 
In  an  interview,  the  other  day.  she  thus  de- 
scribed a  new  waistcoat  intended  for  morning 
wear,  which  is  now  popular  in  London : 
"  They  are  made  of  pure  Spitalfields  silk, 
and  have  a  dainty,  well-defined  floral  or 
feather  pattern  resembling  the  old-fashioned 
brocade  used  for  waistcoats  by  our  grand- 
fathers. Several  titled  ladies  in  London, 
about  eighteen  months  ago,  formed  an  asso- 
ciation or  guild  to  revive  the  old  Spitalfields 
silk  industry,  and  King  Edward  was  so  pleased 
with  the  material  produced  that  he  forth- 
with ordered  various  patterns  of  it  to  be 
made  up  into  vests  for  his  own  use.  I  was 
fortunate  enough  to  get  the  second  selection, 
and  I  have  five  or  six  of  the  vests  with  me. 
which  I  expect  will  make  a  sensation.  They 
are  all  in  subdued  colors,  with  light  back- 
grounds, and  some  of  them  are  iridescent, 
producing  a  particularly  beautiful  effect.  The 
vest  ought  to  be  double-breasted,  cut  high 
and  tapering  from  the  waist  down  to  a  sharp 
point  in  front.  I  ought  to  say,  perhaps,  that 
they  are  expensive,  costing  six  dollars  in 
London." 


The  New  York  Evening  Post  points  out  the 
fact  that  Carlyle's  favorite  definition  of  re- 
spectability, a  "  gigman,"  seems  obsolete  in  the 
light  of  modern  developments.  In  place  of  the 
old  standard  "he  keeps  a  gig."  we  have  sub- 
stituted "  he  has  a  steam  yacht."  Most 
amusingly  was  this  latter-day  measure  of 
wealth  brought  out  in  the  letters  from  Paris 
of  the  promoter  in  search  of  an  underwriter. 
Question  arose  as  to  the  financial  responsi- 
bility of  one  ready  subscriber  (apparently 
without  ready  cash),  and  the  astute  Ameri- 
can applied  himself  to  the  task  of  rating  the 
fellow.  But  how  did  he  go  to  work?  Did  he 
go  to  the  banks,  the  agencies,  the  Bourse? 
No,  he  simply  observed  the  man's  manner  of 
life.  When  he  discovered  that  the  backward 
underwriter  kept  a  yacht,  his  doubts  were 
instantly  relieved,  and  he  cabled  the  joyful 
news  to  New  York.  Evidently,  we  say,  in  the 
lexicons  of  to-day  we  must  look  to  see  the 
entry:      "Gigman;    modern,    yachtsman." 


In  commenting  on  that  interesting  and  now 
historical  episode  in  which  she  was  said  to 
have  playfully  sent  a  lump  of  ice  tobogganing 
down  the  spinal  column  of  the  present  Ed- 
ward Rex,  Lily  Langtry  said  to  Acton  Davies, 
the  other  day:  "  There  is  no  reason  in  the 
world  why  I  shouldn't  tell  the  truth  about 
that  little  matter,  for  the  very  good  reason 
that  it  never  occurred.  When  the  king,  then 
the  Prince  of  Wales,  heard  the  story,  he  asked 
me  if  I  knew  how  on  earth  it  could  have  been 
started.  Of  course  I  couldn't.  However,  my 
old  friend,  Mrs.  Cornwallis-West,  finally 
solved  the  mystery  of  how  the  story  started, 
and  her  explanation,  though  a  very  weak  one 
I  admit,  is  the  only  peg  on  which  any  of  us 
have  been  able  to  hang  this  story.  An  in- 
formal dinner  was  given  one  night  at  which 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cornwallis-West  and  myself 
were  guests.  The  Prince  of  Wales  was  not 
present.  It  was  a  very  jolly  little  party; 
we  all  knew  each  other  very  well,  and  every 
one  was  having  a  beautiful  time  with  the  ex- 
ception of  Mr.  Cornwallis-West,  who  was  tired 
and  wanted  to  go  home.  Several  times  he 
asked  his  wife  to  make  a  start,  but  she  was 
enjoying  herself  and  refused  point  blank. 
Finally  he  became  quite  angry,  and  begged  her 
to  start.  The  ices  were  still  on  the  table,  and. 
taking  a  spoonful  of  hers,  Mrs.  Cornwallis- 
West  laughingly  slipped  it  under  her  husband's 
collar,  with  the  remark:  '  There,  my  dear  boy, 
that  will  cool  you  off  -for  a  few  moments.' 
This  story  must  have  been  repeated  by  some  of 
the  guests,  and  enlarged  upon  until  it  was 
landed  upon  his  royal  highness  and  myself. 
That,  I  assure  you.  is  all  I  know  about  the 
matter.  Even  my  enemies  must  admit  that  I 
have   always   been   noted   for   gentle   manners, 


and  that  I  or  any  other  woman  would  ever 
have  dared  take  such  a  liberty  with  the  prince 
is  too  ridiculous.  His  royal  highness  was 
charming  and  most  good-natured  about  the 
whole  matter.  In  fact,  only  this  past  sum- 
mer, when  the  king  was  talking  to  me  at 
Newmarket  about  my  last  American  tour,  he 
remarked,  with  a  twinkle  in  his  eyes:  'I  sup- 
pose they  are  still  telling  that  lump  of  ice 
story  on  us  in  America,'  and  I  answered,  '  Yes, 
and  I'm  afraid  they  will  continue  to  do  so  for 
all   time.'  " 

According  to  the  London  Express,  the  favor 
of  the  cake-walk  abroad  is  waning.  Those 
who  went  into  raptures  over  the  rhythmic 
wiggling  imported  from  this  country  are  be- 
ginning to  believe  that,  after  all.  it  is  no 
dance  for  the  home  circle  or  the  ball-room. 
Germany,  we  are  told,  has  condemned  the 
cake-walk  as  rowdy,  improper,  and  ungraceful. 
Paris  has  vetoed  it  with  the  label  of  bad  form, 
and  now  London  is  becoming  tired  of  it  also. 
A  popular  English  dancing-master  is  quoted 
as  saying:  "For  a  little  while  1  engaged  a 
colored  lady  to  come  to  my  class  once  a  week 
to  show  how  it  should  really  be  done.  But 
after  awhile  the  craze  began  to  dwindle.  My 
lady  pupils  realized  that  the  cake-walk  was 
not  suited  to  the  decorum  of  modern  ball- 
rooms. Nor  am  I  sorry.  The  effects  of  the 
cake-walk  were  not  good.  It  had  too  disturb- 
ing a  tendency.  It  caused  some  of  my  very 
best  waltzers  to  acquire  a  suspicion  of  a 
jump  in  their  step.  How  can  you  have  a  good 
dance  if  the  waltzing  is  open  to  criticism. 
and  how  can  waltzing  be  good  if  those  who 
ought  to  do  it  spend  half  their  time  prancing 
about  like  marionettes  on  a  string?" 

Invitation   is  the  sincerest  flattery. — Life. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 

Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official     Report     of    Alexander     G.    McAdie, 
District   Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

October     15th S4  5S  -00  Clear 

"  16th 66  54  .00  Clear 

17th 80  54  .00  Clear 

"         iSth S4  56  -oo  Clear 

19th So  58  .00  Clear 

20th 64  52  .00  Clear 

"  21st 60  50  .00  Clear 


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for  the  week  ending  Wednesday.  October  21,  1903. 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Bay  Co.  Power  5%     10,000    @  10354  103K    104 

Oakland     Transit 

Con,  5% 5,000    (51  102  103        105 

Pac.  Elect.  Rv.  5%  ■  15.000    @  ™>9%  10S        10SK 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.5% 30.000    @  116  117 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 7-,ooo    @  107-     107  J4     107J4. 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910 5,000    (S)  loSJi  10SK     109K 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd      3,000    @  108^  108^     109 

S.V.  Water  6%.. .      9.000    @  106  105^     io6# 

S.  V.  Waler4% 2,000    @    99J4  99        100 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa  10    @    40  3954      50 

Spring  Valley  W  ..        S20    @    40  39^ 

Street  R.  R. 
Presidio 10    @    39 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 40    @    67  65^      67^ 

Sugars. 

Hutchinson 175    @    10  ioJ^      toJ£ 

MakaweliS.  Co 75    @    21  21  22 

Onomea  S.  Co 25    @    32  J4  32 

Paauhau  S.  Co 50    @    16  15J4      165^ 

Ga  s  a  nd  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric...         85    @    11-      n^       ioJ4      11 

Pacific  Gas 10    @    53  52^ 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric       2S0    @    66-      67         66J4.      66^ 

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Spring  Valley  Water  on  sales  of  820  shares  sold 
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Giant  Powder  on  small  sales  advanced  one  and 
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The  sugars  were  traded  in  to  the  extent  of  325 
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269 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


"  What  is  the  difference  between  a  misfor- 
tune and  a  calamity  ?  "  somebody  once  asked 
Disraeli.  "  Well,  if  Gladstone  fell  into  the 
Thames,"  was  the  reply,  "  that  would  be  a  mis- 
fortune;  and  if  anybody  pulled  him  out,  that, 
I  suppose,  would  be  a  calamity." 

The  other  day,  an  Irishman  bought  a  copy 
of  "  Irish  Melodies "  at  a  second-hand  Lon- 
don book-store  for  a  shilling.  The  book- 
seller was  surprised,  a  few  moments  later, 
when  the  excited  purchaser  returned  and. 
shaking  his  fist  at  him,  cried:  "I  could  kill 
ye  for  selling  these  immortal  gems  so  cheap  !" 

At  the  Hamilton  Club  banquet  in  Chicago 
recently,  Speaker  Cannon  said:  "I  never 
wrote  a  speech  in  my  life,  and  never  but 
once  used  one  that  another  man  had  written. 
I  envy  the  man  who  can  sit  down  in  cold 
blood  and  achieve  a  thought,  then  dress  it — 
put  clothes  on  it,  pants,  coat,  vest,  shoes,  and 
collar,  and  turn  it  out  in  full  attire,  as 
Minerva  sprouted  from  the  brain  of  Jupiter." 


At  a  dinner  in  Boston,  the  other  evening, 
the  guests  insisted  upon  George  Ade,  of 
"slang  fable  "  fame,  making  a  speech.  Finally, 
in  sheer  desperation,  after  all  the  others  pres 
ent  had  sang  songs  or  told  stories,  he  rose 
and  said :  "  I  will  tell  you  of  an  excellent 
trick  in  parlor  magic.  You  take  a  tumbler 
and  fill  it  two-thirds  full  of  filtered  water. 
Then  you  insert  in  the  water  a  lump  of  sugar 
and  a  spoon,  and  you  begin  to  stir.  In  a  few 
minutes  the  sugar  will  become  invisible." 

A  medley  of  young  literary"  men  were  once 
gathered  to  meet  Robert  Browning.  The  most 
aggressively  literary  of  the  group  was  first  in- 
troduced, and  at  once  began  to  pour  out  his 
personal  delight  and  admiration  with  so  un- 
ceasing a  flow  that  the  other  introductions 
were  being  held  in  abeyance,  and  the  other 
literary  young  men  starved.  Browning  en- 
dured it  with  great  good  humor  for  some  time. 
At  last,  he  put  his  hand  almost  affectionately 
the  egotist's  shoulder,  and  said:  "But  I 
monopolizing  you." 


The    story    of    how    Chopin    composed    his 

,  famous  "  Funeral  March "  is  related  by  M. 
Ziem,  the  celebrated  painter,  who  still  lives  in 
Paris.  Ziem  was  the  friend  and  comrade 
of  Chopin,  and  it  was  in  the  former's  studio 

I  that  a  bohemian  repast  was  given,  with  Ludre, 
De    Polignac    (the    musician),    Richard    (the 

I  painter),  Chevandier  de  Valdrome,  and  Chopin, 
as  gay  and  festive  spirits  around  the  table. 
There  was  an  old  rickety  piano  in  the  corner, 
all    the    panels    having    been    taken    out    for 

i  pictures,  as  Ziem  was  poor,  and  had  to  econ- 

|  omize.  Behind  a  curtain  was  a  skeleton, 
and  this  gave  an  idea  to  Ziem,  who  brought 
the    skeleton    out,    covered    it    with    drapery, 

1  and  began  to  agitate  it  with  realistic  effect. 
De    Polignac   then    took   the    skeleton   to    the 

I  piano,  and  sat  with  it  as  though  to  make  it 
play.  It  was  at  this  moment  that  Chopin, 
who   had  been  rather  quiet,   was   seized  with 

I  sudden  inspiration.  Uttering  an  ejaculation, 
he  rushed  forward  to  the  piano,  pushed  aside 
De  Polignac,  and  to  the  stupefaction  and  awe 

i  of   his   friends,   improvised   the  world-famous 

i '"Funeral  March." 


9  Mr.  Spielmann,  the  art  critic,  tells  the  fol- 
lowing story  of  Morland,  the  painter,  who  was 
popular  enough  to  have  his  work  forged  in  his 
ifetime :    A  dealer,  unknown  to  him.  employed 

I  Morland  to  paint  so  many  pictures,  provided 
'him  with  a  studio,  free,  in  an  upper  floor  of 
nis  (the  dealer's)  house,  and  begged  that  he 
would  not  trouble  to  paint  for  longer  than 
:he  morning.  The  terms  were  good,  and  the 
utist,  who  was  more  than  ever  in  want  of 
noney,  readily  agreed.  But  what  Morland 
lid  not  know  was  that  as  soon  as  he  had  left, 
m  and  from  the  very  first  day,  the  dealer 
ntroduced  some  six  hack  copyists  into  the 
'00m  with  similar  canvases,  to  reproduce 
:xactly  what  the  painter  had  done  in  the 
norning;  and  in  the  evening  all  traces  of  the 
ncursion  were  removed.  Each  day,  until  the 
completion  of  the  picture,  the  process  was 
continued,  and  thus,  at  the  end  of  the  en- 
:agement,  the  dealer  not  only  possessed  the 
■riginal  pictures,  but  six  copies  of  each,  pro- 

I I  luced  stage  by  stage  in  the  same  way  as  Mor- 
ind's  own.  This,  perhaps,  accounts  for  some 
f  the  best  copies  extant. 


He    had    a    telegram    sent    to    him    requesting 
him    to    come    to    Rome    without    delay.      The 
Padre  Cavallari,  a  homely,  rubicund,  pleasant 
old    priest,    at    once    took    the    train    for    the 
Eternal  City  and  went  to  the  Vatican,  where 
Pius      received     him      with     unaffected     cor- 
diality.     In    the    middle    of    the    conversation 
the  Pope  remarked  quite  casually :     "  Do  you 
know  that  I  shall  have  you  consecrated  bishop 
I    next    Sunday  ?"      Cavallari    is    said    to    have 
;    turned    red    and    commenced    to    fidget    in    an 
;    embarrassed  manner.     "  But  your  holiness.   1 
1    have   only   my   plain   cure's   cassock   with   me, 
and — and  I  am  not  prepared,"  he  stammered. 
There  was  laughter  in  the  Pope's  eyes.    "  That 
.    will   be   well.     I   shall   see   that  you   are   pro- 
vided   with    all    that    is    necessary."    he    said. 
j    He  touched  the  bell  and  Mgr.  Bisleti  entered. 
I    To  him  Pius  the  Tenth  gave  this  order :  "  You 
will  have  the  needful  bishop's  vestments  made 
for  Don   Cavallari  here.     Also  put  down  the 
cost  of  the  reception  and  all  other  incidental 
expenses    which    his   consecration    will    entail. 
Afterward  bring  the  bill  to  me." 

At  one  of  his  lectures,  just  after  his  return 
from  the  Klondike,  Joaquin  Miller  told  the 
following  story' :  "One  night  I  was  invited  to 
a  dance  in  a  miner's  cabin,  and  while  Bill 
Dalton  scraped  away  on  his  fiddle  we  just 
hoed  it  down. .  But  the  miners  tramped  in  and 
out  so  much  between  dances  that  before  mid- 
night the  ladies  declared  the  floor  was  so 
slippery  they  couldn't  dance  another  step  un- 
less something  was  done.  Then  something 
was  done  that  never  was  possible  in  mining 
days  in  California.  Each  miner  gallantly 
opened  his  buckskin  powder  pouch  and 
sprinkled  gold  dust  on  the  floor !  And  this 
was  repeated  throughout  the  night.  And  in 
the  morning,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  those 
miners  never  troubled  themselves  about 
sweeping  up  that  gold  dust.  They  just  hitched 
up  their  dog-sleds  and  rode  away."  At  this 
point  of  Miller's  narrative,  there  was  a  slight 
agitation  in  the  audience,  an  ominous  sign  of 
incredulity,  but  Miller  was  equal  to  it-  With  a 
wave  of  his  hand  toward  one  of  the  boxes, 
he  said  :  "  And  my  old  friend  up  there  in  the 
box,  Captain  John  Healy,  will  substantiate 
what  I  say."  It  was  a  master  stroke  of  the 
poet,  for  the  house  burst  into  applause,  and 
greatly  embarrassed  the  modest  millionaire 
mining  and  railroad  promoter  of  Alaska,  who. 
unsuspectingly,  had  accepted  Miller's  invitation 
to  attend  the  lecture  in  the  afternoon. 

As  It  May  Be. 

"Hello,  Laura,  is  that  you  ?" 

"  Yes." 

"  This  is  George.  Say,  I  can't  get  anything 
to  eat  down  town  here  to-day.  The  hotels 
and  restaurants  are  all  closed  on  account  of 
the  strike.  Have  a  good  dinner  ready  for  me 
this  evening  when  I  get  home." 

"  I  can't  do  it,  George.  The  girl  says  all 
the  grocery  stores  and  meat  markets  out  here 
are  closed  on  account  of  the  strike." 

"  Well,  cook  up  a  pudding  or  something  of 
that  kind." 

"'  Can't  do  that,  either.  No  milk  to-day. 
The  milkmen  are  all  on  a  strike." 

■'  Well,  great  Scott !  Can't  you  send  one 
of  the  children  in  with  a  luncheon  of  bread 
and  molasses?" 

"  No.  Johnny  says  there  are  no  trains  or 
street-cars  running.  All  the  men  have  just 
gone  on  a  strike.     But,  say,  maybe  I  can " 

"Well,  go  on.     Maybe  you  can  what?" 

But  there  was  no  response. 

Everybody  at  the  telephone  office  had  gone 
on  a  strike. — Chicago   Tribune. 


That  Pope  Pius  is  very  loyal  to  his  old 
riends  is  evidenced  by  his  decision,  recently, 
o  make  a  bishop  of  a  certain  village  cure 
fith    whom    he   was    once   closely    associated. 


The  Way  of  the  'World. 

"  When  we  were  poor,"  remarked  the  pros- 
perous man,  reflectively.  "  we  looked  forward 
to  the  time  when  we  could  have  a  summer 
home." 

"Well?" 

"  Well,  when  we  got  rich  enough  to  have 
one,  we  didn't  like  going  to  the  same  place 
every  summer,  because  it  was  monotonous, 
and  we  looked  forward  to  the  time  when 
we  could  have  another  for  variety." 
■  Well?" 

"*  Well,  we  got  another,  and  then  we  began 
to  long  for  a  winter  place,  so  that  we  wouldn't 
have  to  be  so  much  in  the  big  house  in  the 
city." 

"  Well  ?" 

"  Well,  we've  got  them  all  now." 

"And  are  you  happy?" 

"  I  suppose  so.  At  least,  I  suppose  my  wife 
is.  She  keeps  them  all  shut  up,  and  spends 
most  of  her  time  in  Europe,  but  she  knows 
she  has   them." — Chicago  Evening   Post. 

Moore's  Poison-Oak  Remedy 
cures  poison-oak  and  all  skin  diseases.    Sold  by  all 
druggists. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 

What  Mary  Had. 
Mary   had   a  little   lamb. 

Likewise   an    oyster    stew. 
Salad,  cake,   a  piece  of  pie 

And  a  bottle  of  pale  brew — 
Then  a  few  hours  later 
She  had  a  doctor,  too. 

— Chicago   Daily   Netri 


For  Manners,  Mexico! 

For  your  wines,  to  Rhenish  regions;  for  your 
olives,  to  the  land 

Of  the  Argive;  and  for  women,  fair  beyond  the 
telling  and 

The  believing,  to  New  Orleans! — but  for  man- 
ners, there  is  no 

Spot  in  all  the  world  they  grow  in  as  they  grow 
in   Mexico! 

Don  Clemente  de  Morales,  as  he  welcomes  you. 
bis  guest, 

U  ill  assure  you,  while  he's  bowing  with  his  arms 
across  his  breast: 
"  Sir,   this  home  of  mine — I   wish   it   were  a   truly 
royal  place — 
It  is  yours,  ay,  house  and  acres,  tho*  too  humble 
for  Your  Grace!" 

At  the  cost  of  a  centavo,  which  is  Mexican  for 
sou, 

Beautifully  varied  blessings  will  the  beggar  call 
on  you. 

The  policeman  who  arrests  you — when  you're 
wicked — is  a  prize — 

For  his  hand  upon  your  collar  deeply  he'll  apolo- 
gize. 

Market  women,  ancient  Aztec  dames — of  prehis- 
toric days 

To  the  seeming  of  the  stranger — too.  have  sweet 
and  gentle  ways. 
*'  True,"  they'll  cry,  "  these  aguacates  are  not  good 
enough  for  one 

Such  as  you,  lord,  tho'  there  never  ripened  finer 
in   the   sun!  " 

And  the  Jehus,    far  from  swearing,   bullying,   or 

bawling  threat 
After  threat  at  him  who  hasn't  generously  tipped 

them  yet, 
Never  lose  the  suave  politeness  of  the  race,  but 

drive  along 
Puffing    softly    a    cigarro,     humming    happily    a 

song. 

Last,    the   noiseless,    swift    assassin,    whom    your 

enemy  has  hired 
(Cheap),    will    tell    you    ere   in    darkness    of   his 
knife-thrust  you've  expired: 
"  Good  seiior,  I  pray,  you  bear  me  no  resentment; 
nay,  forgive; 
You're  a  worthy  caballero,  doubtless!    But  a  man 
must  live!  " 

— New   Orleans    Times-Democrat. 


Overpopulation. 
We  have  often  read  the  Scriptural  command  about 
increasing. 
Multiplying  and  replenishing  the  earth; 
Which  the  same  the  human   race  has  been   respect- 
ing without  ceasing. 
Since  the  time  our  first  progenitors  had  birth. 
We  have  also  read  the   Malthus  screed,    in   which 

the  fact  is  stated 
That  if  we  don't  stop  this  programme  we'll  be  over- 
populated; 
And  it  frankly  is  admitted,  if  some  lines  had  been 
abated, 

Or  had  never  seen  existence. 
We'd  be   better  situated; 

As,  for  instance: 

There's    the    man    who    gets    a    job    because    he    is 
somebody's  son; 

He's  too  numerous. 
There's  the  man  behind  the  jimmy,  there's  the  man 
behind  the  gun; 

He's  too  numerous. 
There's  the  fossil'  who  is  out  of  date,  and  should 

be  on  the  shelf; 
There's  the  pauper  as  to  intellect,  who's  left  a  wad 

of  pelf, 
Lives    by   other   people's   work,   and   never  does   a 
lick  himself; 

He's  too  numerous. 

There's    the    fellow    who    imagines   he's    the  whole, 
blamed,  blooming  show; 
He's  too  numerous. 
There's  the  man  who  thinks  he  knows  it,  and  lays 
out  to  tell  you  so; 

He's  too  numerous. 
There's  the  man  who's  after  dollars  and  who  has 

no   higher  aim; 
There's  the  man   who  has  all  truth   staked    in    his 

theologic  claim; 
There   are   several   million    others   whom    1    haven't 
time  to  name; 

They're  too  numerous. 

— /.  A.  Edgerton  in  Life. 


Many    Appetizing   Dishes 

can  be  made  doubly  delightful  and  nutritious  by  the 
use  of  Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream, 
which  is  not  only  superior  lo  raw  cream  but  has  (he 
merit  of  being  preserved  and  sterilized,  thus  keeping 
perfectly  for  an  indefinale  period.  Borden's  Con- 
densed Milk  Co.,  proprietors. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— SMITH AMPTON— LONDON. 
St.  Louis.. Nov.  14,9.30am  I  St.  Paul .  -Nov.  Si, 9.30am 
New  York. Nov.21, 9.30am  |  Phl'd'lphia  Dec.  5, 9.30am 

Philadelphia— <Jueeii><towu  — Liverpool. 
Noordland  .—Oct. 31,  9am  I  West'mland. -Nov.  14.9am 
Friesland  ...Nov.  7,  10am  |  Marion Nov.  23, 3.30  ptu 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    rOEK-LoNDu.N    DIRECT. 
Min'ehaba.Oct.31, 1.30pm  I  Min'et'nka.Nov  14,  1.30pm 

Mesaba Nov.  ;,  9  am  |  Min'apolis  . .  Nov.  21,  7  am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— <jlEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL 

Cambroman  Oct.  29  I  Columbus Nov.  12 

Mayflower   Nov.  5  |  Commonwealth   ..Nov.  19 

Montreal  -Liverpool-Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Oct.  31  I  Kensington Nov.  29 

Southward  .    Nov.  7  j  Canada Dec.  6 

Boston    Mediterranean    Dir«* 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES—  GENUA. 
Vancouver Saturday  Nov.  21 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10  a  m. 

Zeeland Oct.  31  1  Vaderl'd. Nov.  14.  10.30am 

Finland...   Nov.  7,  10.30  am  |  Kroonl'd  Nov.  21,  10.30am 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 
Arabic — Oct.  30,  12.30  pm  |  Majestic ...   .Nov. 11, noon 

Victorian Nov.  3,  3  pm     Celtic   Nov.  13,  noon 

Cedric Nov.  4,  3.30  pm  |  Armenian. .  ..Nov.  17.3  pm 

C.  1>.  TAYLOK.    Passenger  Ageut,   Pacific   Coast. 
21  post  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND   CHiNA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  31.,  tor 

Honolulu.  YOKOHAMA.  Kobe,  Nagasaki.  Shanghai 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Coptic   Saturday,  Oct.  31 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila;    Wednesday,  Nov.  25 

Doric Tuesday.  Dec.  22 

Coptic Friday,  January   15,   1904 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  oi  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  ireight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 


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KISEN 

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IMPERIAL   JAPANESE   AND 

U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  M.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

America  Mam Tuesday,  November  10 

Hongkong  ilaru Thursday,  December  3 

Nippon  Uaru Wednesday,  .December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 
Via  Honolulu.    Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street.  corner'Firat. 

W.   H.  AVEKT,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  1  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti.  Ovt.  26.  1003,  at  11  a.  m 
S.  S.  Sierra,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Oct.  29,  1903.  at  2  p.  m. 
S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,    Nov.   7,    1903, 

at  11  a.  m. 
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Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St..  San  Francisco. 


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270 


THE        ARGON  AUT. 


October  26,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  .the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  .will  be  found  !in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Caroline  Rixford,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
A.  P.  Rixford.  and  Mr.  Covington  Johnson. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Clara 
Lewys  of  Boston,  to  Mr.  Charles  P.  Hubbard 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Hubbard,  of 
Vernon    Heiahts,   Oakland. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Jean  Nokes.  daughter 
of  Mrs  M.  L.  Nokes.  and  Lieutenant  John 
B  Murphv  will  take  place  on  Thursday  after- 
noon at  the  home  of  the  bride's  grandmother. 
Mrs  Rodgers.  Miss  Anna  Sperry  will  be  the 
maid  of  honor.  Dr.  Harold  Greenleaf  the  best 
man.  and  Mr.  H.  C.  Rodgers.  Jr.,  Mr  J.  Brock- 
way  Metcalf.  Lieutenant  Edward  Shinkle.  U. 
S  "V.  and  Lieutenant  P.  K.  Brice.  U.  S.  A 
will  act  as  ushers.  Lieutenant  Murphy  and 
his  bride  will  leave  on  Friday  for  his  new  post 
at  Fort  Russell,  Wyo. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Elinor  Glynn,  niece 
of  Judge  R.  I.  Tobin.  and  Captain  John 
Mooney  took  place  on  Wednesday  at  St. 
Mary's  Cathedral.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  noon  by  Rev.  Father  Prendergast 
Miss  Louise  GIvnn  was  her  sister's  maid  of 
honor.  The  church  ceremony  was  followed  by 
a  wedding  breakfast  at  the  residence  of  Judge 
Tobin.  on  Geary  Street.  After  a  wedding 
journey  to  Southern  California.  Captain  and 
Mrs.  Mooney  will  settle  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu 
for  the  winter. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Eleanor  Olney.  daugh- 
ter of  Mrs.  E.  M.  Olney.  and  Mr.  George 
Babcock  took  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
mother,  in  East  Oakland,  on  Wednesday. 
The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Rev.  Carson 
Shaw  Miss  Donaldine  Cameron  was  the 
maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  Benjamin  Pendleton 
was  the  best  man.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  journey,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Babcock 
will  take  up  their  residence  with  the  brides 
motner   in    East   Oakland. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Irene  Hazard,  of  San 
Diego  and  Mr.  George  Gerlinger  took  place 
at  St.  Mark's  Church  in  Berkeley  on  Wednes- 
day evening.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  Rev.  George  Swan.  Miss  Gladys  Hazard 
was  her  sister's  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Mills.  Miss  Myrtle  Simms.  Miss 
Elsie  Everson.  Miss  Alice  Treanor,  Miss 
Gladys  Meyer,  and  Miss  Elsa  Lichtenberg 
were  the  bridesmaids.  Mr.  Paul  Bates,  of 
Portland,  was  the  best  man,  and  Mr.  Arthur 
Traphaaen.  Mr.  William  Powell,  Mr.  Alvin 
Powell.'and  Mr.  Paul  Milton  served  as  ushers. 
A  reception  was  held  after  the  ceremony 
at  the  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma  House,  to  which 
fraternity   Mrs.  Gerlinger  belongs. 

Miss  Bertie  Bruce,  whose  marriage  to  Mr. 
Ferdinand  Stephenson  will  take  place  at 
Trinity  Church  next  Thursday  noon,  was  the 
guest  of  honor  at  a  luncheon  given  by  Miss 
Gertrude  Van  Wyck  on  Wednesday.  Others 
at  table  were  Mrs.  Henry  Dutton.  Mrs.  Silas 
Palmer.  Mrs.  George  Toland  Cameron.  Mrs. 
Arthur  V.  Callahan.  Mrs.  John  Rodgers  Clark. 
Miss  Sinclair.  Miss  Ethel  Cooper.  Miss  Lucie 
King,  and   Miss  Bernie  Drown. 

Mrs.  Edward  L.  Eyre  gave  an  informal 
luncheon  on  Wednesday  at  her  residence  on 
Sacramento  Street,  in  honor  of  two  of  the  sea- 
son's debutantes — Miss  Christine  Pomeroy  and 
Miss    Olga    Atherton.      Covers    were   laid    for 

ten-  „     , 

Miss  Lucie  King  gave  a  luncheon  on  Friday 
in  honor  of  Miss  Bertie  Bruce  and  Miss 
Bernie  Drown.  Miss  Drown  will  be  the  guest 
of  honor  at  a  tea  given  by  Miss  Juliet  Garber. 
of  Berkeley,  this    (Saturday)    afternoon. 

Miss  Julia  de  Laveaga.  whose  engagement 
to  Mr.  Andrew  Welch  was  recently  an- 
nounced, was  the  guest  of  honor  on  Wednes- 
day at  a  luncheon  given  by  Mrs.  Charles  H. 
Harley  at  her  residence  on  Devisadero  Street. 
Others  at  table  were  Mrs.  Eugene  Lent.  Mrs. 
Louis  Welch.  Miss  Fortmann.  Miss  Deming. 
Miss  Florence  Callahan.  Miss  Alice  Butler. 
Miss  Anita  Meyer,  and  Miss  Margery  Gib- 
bons. 

Mrs.  Henry  F.  Dutton  will  be  "  at  home  " 
on  the  third  and  fourth  Fridays  of  the  month 
at  her  residence,  2515   Broadway. 

Mrs.  Charles  Deering  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Tuesday  at  her  residence  on  Broderick  Street, 
at  which  she  entertained  Mrs.  L.  L.  Dunbar, 
Mrs.  Ferdinand  Peterson.  Mrs.  Angelo  Duperu. 
Mrs.   A.   H.   Vail.   Mrs.   W.    D.    Warren,   Mrs. 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absolutely  Pure 
THERE  IS  NQ  3UBST1TUTE 


Eugene  Eresse,  Mrs.  Julian  Sonntag,  Mrs. 
M  Porter  Mrs.  William  H.  Sherwood,  Mrs. 
James   Irvine,   and   Mrs.   W.   H.    Morrow. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  J.   McCutcheon  gave    ^ 
a  tug-party  last  Saturday  afternoon  in  honor 
of  Miss  Bernie  Drown  and  Mr.  Samuel  Board-    I 
man.     Among  the  other  guests  were  Mr.  and   ; 
Mrs.    E.    G.    Schmidell,    Mr.   and   Mrs.    Albert 
Dibblee,    Mr.    and    Mrs.      Harrison     Dibblee, 
Mr    and  Mrs.  Alexander  Keyes,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
T    Danforth  Boardman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel 
Buckbee,    Mr.    and    Mrs.    Frederick    McNear, 
Miss    Genevieve    Carolan.    Miss    Ethel    Tomp- 
kins,   Miss    Sara    Collier,    Mr.    Harry    Poett, 
and    Mr.    Philip    Tompkins. 

Miss  Maye  Colburn  gave  a  luncheon  in 
honor  of  Mrs.  Henry  Dutton  at  the  University 
Club  on  Thursday. 

Mrs      George    Toy,     Miss    Toy,     and     Mrs. 
Harvey    Marshall    Toy    will    be    "  at    home 
on  the  first  and  second  Fridays  in  November, 
at  their  residence,    1806  Vallejo  Street. 

Miss  Margaret  Sinclair  gave  a  luncheon 
on  Tuesday  at  "  Level  Sea."  in  Fruitvale,  in 
honor  of  Miss  Bertie  Bruce.  Those  at  table 
were  Miss  Gertrude  Van  Wyck,  Miss  Bernie 
Drown,  Miss  Lucie  King.  Miss  Ethel  Cooper. 
Mrs.  Clifton  Macon.  Mrs.  Robert  Lee  Ste- 
phenson, and  Miss  Edna  Barry- 
Mrs.  Carey  Friedlander  will  give  a  luncheon 
at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Monday,  November 
2d,  in  honor  of  Miss  Mary  Harrington  and 
Miss   Louise   Harrington.  — 

General  and  Mrs.  Corbin  recently  gave 
a  dinner  at  their  residence  in  Washington. 
D.  C,  complimentary  to  Mrs.  William  Kohl 
and  Miss  Kohl,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fred 
Moody.  Those  invited  to  meet  the  guests  of 
honor  were  Lieutenant-General  S.  B.  M. 
Young  and  General  Crozier,  ordnance  depart- 
ment,  U.    S.  A. 

Mrs.  Charles  L.  Rhodes  will  give  a  lun- 
cheon at  the  Colonial  Hotel  to-day  (Saturday), 
complimentary  to  Mrs.  Charles  D.  Rhodes, 
who  leaves  on  the  next  steamer  for  Honolulu 
to  join  her  son.  Paymaster  Stewart  Rhodes. 
U.  S.  N.  Those  invited  to  meet  the  guest 
of  honor  are  Mrs.  Merrill  Miller,  Mrs. 
F.  J.  Drake.  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Wheeler.  Mrs. 
[oshua  Freeman.  Mrs.  S.  B.  Blake.  Mrs. 
Frank  G.  Sanborn,  Mrs.  John  Gue  Barker, 
Mrs.  A.  T.  Vogelsang,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Coombs, 
Miss  Hughes.  Mrs.  A.  L.  House,  Mrs.  George 
F  Richardson.  Mrs.  L  Eugene  Freeman,  Mrs. 
Marvin  R.  Higgins.  Mrs.  Peek.  Mrs.  J.  K.  S. 
Latham,  Mrs.  W.  W.  Grissim,  and  Mrs.  S.  B. 
Johnson. 

The  cruiser  Baltimore,  which  has  been  out 
of  commission  since  she  returned  from  Ma- 
nila, where  she  participated  in  the  great- 
battle  under  Admiral  Dewey,  is  sooir  to  act 
as  escort  to  a  unique  torpedo-boat  flotilla, 
which  will  leave  the  Eastern  coast  for  the 
Philippines.  It  is  figured  that  six  months 
will  be  required  for  the  torpedo-boat  flotilla 
to  reach  Manila.  Five  boats — the  Decatur. 
Brandburg,  Barry,  Chouvcey.  and  Dale — will 
go,  and  a  remarkable  course  of  sixteen  thou- 
sand miles  has  been  mapped  out.  A  straight 
course  will  be  taken  from  Hatteras  to  "Ber- 
muda, then  the  Barbadoes  will  be  made,  and 
continuing  south  by  east  the  northern  shore 
of  South  America  will  be  hugged,  stops  be- 
ing made  every  day  or  two.  From  Brazil 
a  course  will  be  steered  back  over  the  equator 
for  the  open  sea.  The  flotilla  will  proceed  up 
the  West  African  Coast  and  past  the  Cape 
Verde  group  to  the  Canaries.  The  next  stop 
will  be  the  Madeira  Islands,  whence  the 
course  will  be  set  for  the  Mediterranean  and 
Suez  Canal. 


•When  Noted  Artists  Disagree. 
A  heated  conflict  has  broken  out  between 
Frederic  Remington  and  Charles  Schreyvogel, 
painters  of  Western  scenes.  Mr.  Schreyvogel 
recently  exhibited,  in  New  York,  a  painting, 
"  Custer's  Demand,"  which  he  claimed  to  be  a 
historical  representation  of  one  of  General 
Custer's  peace  negotiations.  Indians  and  fron- 
tiersmen are  grouped  about  in  the  foreground, 
and  the  painting  is  very  striking  in  effect. 
But  Mr.  Remington  says  he  objects  to  such 
"half-baked  stuff"  being  considered  seriously 
as  history.  He  says  Schreyvogel  has  shown 
his  ignorance  by  putting  pistol  holsters  on  the 
horses,  when  as  a  matter  of  fact  holsters  were 
not  generally  used  until  long  after  the  time  in 
which  the  scene  is  laid.  Also  he  objects  to 
Sioux  war  bonnets  on  South-Western  Indians, 
and  to  white  campaign  hats  on  the  soldiers, 
which  he  says  were  not  worn  till  years  after- 
ward. The  yellow  stripes  in  the  saddle  blankets 
he  also  declares  to  be  a  mistake,  and  that  Cus- 
ter's boots,  as  shown  in  the  picture,  are  in  real- 
ity of  a  much  later  design.  Stirrup  covers,  he 
declares,  were  not  worn  at  that  time,  and 
Custer  never  rode  a  horse  of  the  size  depicted 
in  the  painting.  To  all  this  criticism  Mr. 
Schreyvogel  has  made  a  spirited  reply,  inti- 
mating that  Remington  is  merely  jealous  of 
his  reputation  as  a  painter  of  Western  scenes. 
"  In  France  such  a  controversy  would  doubt- 
less lead  to  a  duel."  comments  the  Denver 
Republican,  'but  in  this  country  it  will  prove 
not  only  harmless,  but  beneficial.  It  shows 
that  our  painters  are  seeking  to  depict  the 
realities  of  life,  and  that  false  canvases  will 
not  be  tolerated.  Remington  is  to  be  com- 
mended for  his  attack,  and  Schreyvogel  for  his 
spirited  defense.  No  doubt,  between  the  two 
artists  the  truth  will  be  thrashed' out,  and  many 
future  mistakes  will  be  avoided.  If  Western 
authors  were  only  as  careful  of  their  *  local 
color'  as  the  artists  seem  to  be  of  their  can- 
vases, this  section  of  the  country  would  be  rid 
of  a  lot  of  irritating  misrepresentation." 


The  Yosemite  Valley  Commissioners  have 
again  leased  the  Sentinel  and  Glacier  Point 
Hotels  for  a  term  of  four  years  to  J.  B.  Cook, 
the  lessee,  who  offered  $2,200  a  year  for  both 
hotels,  and  agrees  to  expend  $3,340  in  im- 
provements, which  will  revert  to  the  State. 
He  also  agrees  to  live  up  to  the  one  clause 
in  the  lease,  which  forbids  the  lessee  to  have 
an  interest  in  either  stage  line  or  road  leading 
to  the  valley,  and  demands  impartial  treat- 
ment for  all  guests.  The  commission  de- 
cided upon  a  new  telephone  and  a  new  water 
system  for  the  valley.  The  water  is  to  come 
from  the  new  source,  a  spring  across  Glacier 
Point  trail. 

a — -o» • 

The  following  railroad  changes  are  an- 
nounced :  Trains  leaving  San  Francisco  for 
San  Jose  at  4:30  p.  m..  5  p.  m..  and  8  p.  m. 
are  discontinued  ;  also  those  leaving  San  Jose 
8  a.  M.  and  Wrights  6  :40  a.  m.,  also  Sunday 
excursions  to  Monterey  and  Santa  Cruz. 
The  3:30  p.  M.  train  will  run  to  Gilroy  only; 
3  p.  M.  to  Del  Monte  daily.  Sunset  Limited 
leaves  at  6  p.  m.  instead  of  7  p.  m.  Train 
for  San  Jose  formerly  leaving  at  2  p.  m. 
now  leaves  1 :3o  p.  m.  daily.  New  train 
for  Los  Gatos  making  all  stops  will  leave 
San  Francisco  4 145  p.  m.  and  Los  Gatos 
7:15    a.    m..    Sundays   excepted. 


Miss  Marie  Archer,  formerly  of  Milwau- 
kee, who  sued  the  Sacred  Heart  Convent  of 
London  for  damages  for  dismissal  from  the 
order  and  incarceration  in  an  asylum,  on  the 
ground  of  insanity,  and  also  for  remuneration 
for  seventeen  years'  services,  has  been 
awarded  $8. 000  damages,  $3,000  for  wages 
and  $5,000  for  wrongful  dismissal  after  her 
liberation  from  the  asylum.  The  verdict  of 
the  jury  was  cheered  in  court. 

Have  you  ever  visited  the  beautiful  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais,  which  stands  near  the  summit 
of  Mt.  Tamalpais.  at  the  terminus  of  the 
Scenic  Railway?  It  is  built  on  solid  rock,  is 
lighted  by  gas,  and  is  furnished  throughout 
with  every  convenience;  The  water  supply 
is  from  pure  mountain  springs,  and  the  sani- 
tary arrangements  are  faultless. 

—  Wadding  invitations  engraved  i\  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


Visiting  Bankers  at  the  Hopkins  Institute. 

The  visiting  delegates  of  the  American 
Bankers  Association,  which  has  been  holding 
its  twenty-ninth  convention  in  San  Francisco 
during  the  week,  were  tendered  a  reception 
at  the  Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art  on 
Wednesday  evening.  Among  the  ladies  who 
assisted  in  receiving  were  Mrs.  L.  L.  Baker, 
Mrs.  F.  G.  Sanborn.  Mrs.  K.  J.  Wilson. 
Miss  Wilson,  Mrs.  Homer  King,  Mrs.  Lovell 
White,  Mrs.  William  Thomas,  Mrs.  T.  B. 
Bishop,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Voorhies  and  Mrs.  John 
F.  Merrill. 

During  the  evening  the  following  musical 
programme  was  rendered  under  the  direction 
of  Henry   Heyman : 

"  Greeting,"  Batkin,  Knickerbocker  Male 
Quartet  (.Herbert  Williams,  first  tenor;  Dr.  R. 
W.  Smith,  second  tenor;  D.  B.  Crane,  first 
bass;  L.  A.  Larsen,  second  bass)  ;  organ. 
"  March  Triomphale,"  Lemmens  ;  song,  '*  Hos- 
anna,"  Granier,  S.  Homer  Henley  ;  aria,  "  Pag- 
liacci,"  Leoncavallo,  Mrs.  Grace  Davis  North- 
rup  ;  organ,  "  Largo,"  Haendel ;  recitative  and 
air.  "  My  Heart  Is  Weary,"  Goring  Thomas, 
Mrs.  Carroll-Nicholson ;  song,  "  If  I  Were 
King."  L.  Campbell-Tipton.  S.  Homer  Henley; 
duet,  "  The  Gypsies,"  Brahms,  Mrs.  Northrup 
and  Mrs.  Nicholson;  quartet.  "She  Is  Mine," 
Dudley  Buck,  Knickerbocker  Male  Quartet ; 
organ.  "  Au  Revoir,"  Wilson. 


Special  attention  is  directed  to  the  adver 
tisement  elsewhere  in  these  pages  of  the 
International  Banking  Corporation,  which  is 
the  chief  American  bank  authorized  to  do 
business  outside  of  the  United  States.  The 
bank  is  already  doing  a  large  and  profitable 
business  in  China  and  the  Philippine  Islands, 
where  it  is  the  designated  fiscal  agent  of  the 
United  States  Government,  and  is  doing 
splendid  work  in  advancing  the  interests  of 
American  commerce  abroad.  It  must  not  in 
any  way  be  confused  with  the  International 
Bank  and  Trust  Company  of  America,  which, 
according  to  recent  dispatches  from  the  City 
of  Mexico,  has  closed  its  doors.  The  branch 
bank  of  the  latter  company  was  established 
here  early  in  August  of  the  present  year, 
but  it  has  not  yet  engrafted  itself  sufficiently 
into  the  business  of  the  city  for  its  closing 
to   have   any   appreciable   effect. 


"  The  Cross  and  the  Crescent,"  the  English 
opera  that  won  the  prize  of  $1,250  offered 
some  time  ago  by  Charles  Manners,  head  of 
the  Moody-Manners  Opera  Company,  was 
produced  by  that  organization  recently  at 
Covent  Garden  Theatre,  London.  It  is 
by  an  Englishman,  Colin  MacAlpin,  and  is 
founded  upon  Copee's  play,  "  Pour  la 
Couronne." 

The  Flood  place  at  Menlo  Park,  which 
Miss  Jennie  Flood  recently  re-purchased  from 
the  State  University  and  presented  to  her 
brother  for  a  summer  residence,  is  being  reno- 
vated   and    modernized    thoroughly. 


Pears' 

People  have  no  idea  how- 
crude  and  cruel  soap  can  be. 

It  takes  off  dirt.  So  far, 
so  good;  but  what  else  does 
it  do. 

It  cuts  the  skin  and  frets 
the  under-skin;  makes  red- 
ness and  roughness  and 
leads  to  worse.  Not  soap, 
but  the  alkali  in  it. 

Pears'  Soap  has  no  free,  al- 
kali in  it.  It  neither  reddens 
nor  roughens  the  skin.  It  re- 
sponds to  water  instantly;  wash- 
es and  rinses  off  in  a  twinkling;  is 
as  gentle  as  strong;  and  the 
after-effect  is  every  way  goodk 

Established  over  ioo  years. 

Centemeri 
a  good  glove 

for 

a  dollar  and  a  half 

Salesroom   200  Post  Street 
Corner  Grant  Ave. 

OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT 


PIAN1STE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 
of  Vienna 


ANNOUNCES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSONS 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 

Phone  Larkin  291. 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Now  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL   CO. 

Ph. ..it-  South  95. 

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Genuine  Works  of  Art. 
One  or  the  principal  attractions  of  the  citv,  is  the 
Gump  collection  of  fine  oil  paintings,  embracing  a 
numb-r  of  canvases  from  this  year's  Paris  Salon,  and 
from  all  the  different  art  centres  of  Europe,  also  a 
very  choice  selection  of  beautiful  water  colors.  S.  & 
G.  Gump  Co..  113  Geary  Street. 


A.    II  i  r-i'h  111:1  n, 
712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 

I>r.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Building,    806    Market    Street.     Specialty : 
Colton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth 


c>\>  Cocte^ 


The  art  of  cocktail  mixing  is  to  so  blend 
the  ingredients  that  no  one  is  evident,  but 
the  delicate  flavor  of  each  is  apparent. 
Is  this  the  sort  of  cocktail  the  man  gives 
you  who  does  it  by  guesswork?  There's 
never  a  mistake  in  a  CLUB  COCKTAIL. 
It  smells  good,  tastes  good,  is  good 
always.  Just,  strain  through  cracked  ice. 
Seven  kinds — Manhattan,  Martini,  Ver- 
mouth, "Whiskey,  Holland  Gin,  Tom  Gin 
and  York. 

G.  F.  HEUELEIN  &  BRO„  Sole  Proprietors, 
Hartford  New  York  London 


PACIFIC    COAST    AGENTS 

THE  SPCHN- PATRICK   CO. 
400-404  Battery  St.,  Sau  Francisco, Cal. 


C.  H.  REHNSTROM 

FORMERLY   SANDERS   &  JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 

Phelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  5387.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


October  26,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  ditnculty  recognize  the  famous  COl."  RT 
into  which  lor  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  tor  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES"  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modem  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  oi  this  most  famous  hotel. 


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MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Pine  ami   Jones  Sta. 

The  Select  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAIN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GKOKGE  WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout. 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations . 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-hall 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8  A.  M.,  10  a.  m..  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, ii  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Rm  WARMER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  =  four  trains   daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

K.  V.  HALTOX,  Proprietor. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 


California's  beautiful  winter  and  summer 
hotel.  Weather  is  ideal  the  year  round  for 
surf-bathing,  hunting,  automobiling,  polo, 
and  pouy  racing.  The  United  States  report 
of  minimum  temperatures  shows  what  a 
delightful  spot  Del  Monte  is  at  ail  seasons 
of  the  year:  January,  \\.\  ;  February,  46.1  ; 
March,  51.8;  April,  52.2. 

THE  GOLF  LINKS-full  18-hole  course, 
greens  and  tees  always  green— are  consid- 
ered the  finest  in  the  States. 

In  touring  California,  visit  and  prolong 
your  stay  at  this  delightful  resort. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 

Manager. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Califomians  : 

Mr.  J.  Downey  Harvey  has  returned  to  San 
Francisco,  after  an  absence  of  several  months 
in  Europe.  Mrs.  Harvey  and  the  Misses  Har- 
vey have  remained  abroad,  and  are  now  in 
France. 

Mr.  Henry.  T.  Scott  and  Mr.  Walter  S. 
Martin  were  in  New  York  during  the  week. 
Mr.  Martin  will  return  soon  with  his  wife, 
who  has  been  visiting  Mrs.  Francis  Burton 
Harrison  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  spent  last  week  in 
Xew  York,  but  has  returned  to  Newport, 
where  she  is  the  guest  of  Mr.  anl  Mrs.  Peter 
D.  Martin. 

Mrs.  Abby  M.  Parrott  and  family  will  come 
up  to  town  from  San  Mateo  for  the  winter 
on  November  1st. 

Miss  Maud  O'Connor,  Miss  Cecilia  O'Con- 
nor, Miss  Isabelle  O'Connor,  and  Miss  Ella 
O'Connor  have  returned  from  Coronado,  and 
have  taken  apartments  at  the  Hotel  Granada, 
where  they  will  remain  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  S.  Tubbs  have  been 
making  a  short  stay  in  New  York  before  sail- 
ing for  Europe. 

Mrs.  Wiruhxop  Lester  with  her  two  children 
is  staying  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.  Loughborough  and  Miss  Josephine 
Loughborough,  who  have  arrived  in  New 
York,  are  making  a  brief  visit  with  Mrs. 
Allen  Wallace  before  going  abroad. 

Miss  Gertrude  Eells,  who  spent  last  week 
at  Mare  Island  as  the  guest  of  the  Misses 
McCalla,  has  returned  to  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  A.  J.  Pope  and  Mrs.  Florence  Frank 
have  closed  their  country  place  at  Burlingame, 
and  are  occupying  their  house  on  Van  Ness 
Avenue. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  D.  Grant  leave  tor  the 
East  October  28th.  They  will  stop  at  Mil- 
waukee on  their  way  to  New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin  and  family 
arc  at  the  Hotel  Granada  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  T.  Haggin  have  closed 
their  country  place  at  Closter,  N.  J.,  and  are 
in  New  York  for  the  winter. 

Mrs.  George  Oulton  has  returned  to  the 
Hotel  Richelieu  from  a  visit  to  Mrs.  McCalla 
at  Mare  Island. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  B.  Alexander  have 
been  visiting  at  Newport. 

Miss  Helen  Bowie  is  visiting  her  aunt,  Mrs. 
Bowie- Derrick,  at  her  residence  on  Jackson 
Street- 
Mr.  E.  M.  Greenway  has  returned  from  an 
extended  trip  in  the  North-West. 

Mr.  Walter  L.  Dean  was  a  guest  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  J.  I.  Falk  and  the  Misses  Falk  arrived 
on  Monday  on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Sierra 
from  Sydney,  and  are  stopping  at  the  Hotel 
Granada. 

Mrs.  Malcolm  Henry  and  her  children  are 
the  guests  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Yoorhies.  They 
expect  to  remain  in  San  Francisco  until  the 
end  of  November. 

Mrs.  J.  Sloat  Fassett,  Miss  Margaret  Fassett, 
and  Miss  Ella  Margaret  Bender  expect  to  leave 
for   Elmira,    N.   Y.,   next   Wednesday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Macfarlane  are  ex- 
pected here  from  Honolulu  about  December 
1st,  on  a  visit  to  Mrs.  Macfarlane's  sister, 
Mrs.  Henry  F.  Dutton. 

Mrs.  Horace  Hill,  after  having  placed  her  son 
Horace  in  school,  will  spend  a  few  weeks  in 
Philadelphia,  Washington,  Boston,  and  New 
York  before  returning  to  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  James  Phelan,  Miss  Mollie  Phelan,  Mrs. 
Frank  bullivan,  and  the  Misses  Alice  and 
Gladys  Sullivan,  who  have  been  spending  the 
past  month  in  the  East,  have  returned  to  San 
Francisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Mintzer  and  family 
and  Mrs.  Terksburg  have  returned  to  the  city. 
and  are  settled  for  the  winter  at  the  Hotel 
Granada. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Giselman  are  ex- 
pected back  from  Europe  soon.  Mr.  Marshall 
Giselman  is  in  London  pursuing  his  musical 
studies. 

Mrs.  Charles  Lyman  Bent  has  decided  to 
remain  with  her  mother,  Mrs.  A.  A.  Cohen. 
at  ■' Fernside,"  Alameda,  until  the  return  of 
Captain  Bent's  regiment,  in  December,  when 
she  will  go  East  with  the  regiment,  which 
has  been  ordered  to  the  Department  of  the 
Missouri. 

Mrs.  G.  T.  Fife  and  Miss  Beatrice  File 
were  in  New  York  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Spieker  and  their  daugh- 
ter Georgie  have  returned,  after  a  year's  ab- 
sence in  Europe. 

Mr.  Thomas  Hill,  the  artist,  whose  summer 
residence  is  at  Wawona,  will  spend  the  winter 
at  Raymond. 

Mrs.  F.  W.  Van  Sicklen  and  son  and  Miss 
Pillsbury  were  in  New  York  last  week.  Mrs. 
Van  Sicklen  has  been  visiting  friends,  and 
will  place  her  daughter  at  school  before  re- 
turning home. 

Major  and  Mrs.  B.  C.  Truman  and  Miss 
Truman,  who  have  been  sojourning  at  \\  awona 
for  three  months,  have  returned  to   Los  An- 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Pope  and  Mrs.  Frank- 
expect  to  leave  for  the  East  soon. 

Mrs.  J.  C.  Kirkpatrick  was  in  New  \ork 
during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Stewart  are  registered 
at  the  Hotel  Granada. 

Mr.  John  Morrisey,  the  popular  resident 
manager  of  the  Orpheum,  accompanied  by 
Mrs.  Morrisey,  left  Tuesday  morning  for  a  | 
brief  sojourn  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
State.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morrisey  will  spend  a  | 
few  days  at  Santa  Barbara,  Los  Angeles,  and 
Catalina  Island. 

Mr.    and    Mrs.    William    Romaine    have    re-  | 
turned    from    a    two    months'    stay    in    Marin 
County,   and   are   residing   on   Jackson    Street 
for  the  winter. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nicholas  Bowden. 
of  San  Jose,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sam  Behrendt,  of 
Los  Angeles,  Mr.  F.  C.  Edmtnston,  of  Cin- 
cinnati, Mr.  John  .Landlord,  of  Sydney.  Mr. 
F.    P.    Sherwood,    of    London,    Miss    Ada    B. 


Sissons,  of  Santa  Rosa,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lorenzo 
Sosso.  Mrs.  J.  R.  Umbsen.  Miss  H.  A. 
Umbsen,  Mr.  W.  E.  Donnallen.  Mr.  Leland 
S.  Ransdell.  Mr.  Leon  L.  Gassner.  Mr. 
Clarence  Cook,  and   Mr.  John  Hoffmann. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

General  Nelson  A.  Miles.  I*.  S.  A.,  retired. 
arrived  in  Los  Angeles  last  week,  after  a 
leisurely  trip  through  Texas.  New  Mexico, 
and  Arizona,  during  which  he  investigated  oil 
lands  in  Texas  in  which  he  is  interested. 
He  will  remain  in  Los  Angeles  for  several 
days,  and  then  come  to  San  Francisco  for  a 
short  stay.  During  a  recent  interview. 
General  Miles  stated  that  he  might  eventually 
build  a  home  in  Southern  California  and 
locate  there. 

Lieutenant- Colonel  F.  N.  Robinson.  U.  S. 
A.,  has  been  transferred  from  the  Fifth 
Cavalry  to  the  Thirteenth  Cavalry,  and  will 
return  to  the  Philippines,  from  whence  he  so 
recently  arrived. 

Captain  James  A.  Cole.  Sixth  Cavalry.  Lr. 
S.  A.,  accompanied  by  Mrs.  Cole,  left  last 
Thursday  for  Fort  Meade,  N.  D..  which  is  to 
be  his  new  station. 

Captain  John  Stafford.  Eighth  Infantry. 
L*.  S.  A.,  has  been  ordered  to  Governors 
Island,  New  York  Harbor,   for  duty. 

Dr.  Henry  S.  Kiersted.  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs. 
Kiersted  will  spend  the  winter  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  where  the  doctor  has  been  assigned  to 
the  army  medical  school. 

Lieutenant  Robert  K.  Spiller.  Twenty- 
Sixth  Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  recently  invalided 
from  the  Philippines,  is  on  leave  at  his  home 
in  Virginia. 

Lieutenant  Commander  T.  D.  Griffin  and 
Mrs.  Griffin,  who  have  been  spending  some 
time  at  St.  Helena,  have  returned  to  the  Mare 
Island  Navy  Yard. 

Lieutenant- Commander  R.  F.  Lopez.  U.  S. 
N.,  has  been  detached  from  the  Pensacola 
Naval  Station,  and  ordered  to  the  Xew  York 
as  navigator. 

Captain  J.  T.  Nance.  Ninth  Cavalry.  L".  S. 
A.,  who  has  been  on  duty  at  Camp  Wood 
for  several  months  past,  arrived  from  Wawona 
on  October  12th,  and  is  at  the  Presidio  await- 
ing orders. 

Mrs.  Rifenberick.  wife  of  Colonel  Richard 
P.  Rifenberick,  U.  S.  A.,  retired,  and  her  son. 
Lieutenant  Richard  P.  Rifenberick.  Jr. 
Twenty-Ninth  Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  are  visiting 
friends  in  Los  Angeles. 

Major  Ogden  Ratferty,  Medical  Department, 
U.  S.  A.,  expects  to  leave  for  his  new  station. 
Fort  Monroe,  Va.,  about  November  1st. 

Mrs.  Charles  D.  Rhodes  has  been  visiting 
Mrs.  Franklin  J.  Drake,  wife  of  Commander 
Drake,  U.  S.  N\,  at  Mare  Island  during  the 
week. 

I3IFOKT£D    GOWN'S    AND     COATS 


Have  been  Reduced  One-Third  to  One-Half. 

The  Emporium's  magnificent  fall  and  win- 
ter model  gowns  and  coats,  designed  by  such 
famous  Paris  and  Vienna  modistes  as  Rattan. 
Francis,  Blanch  Le  Bouvier,  Braunstein.  Pur- 
deaux.  Beer,  Sara  Mayer,  Maurice  Mayer. 
Gerson  Blum,  Drescoll.  Leroy,  Walles.  Dou- 
cet.  Harvct,  and  Callot  Soevrs,  are  now  of- 
fered at  their  cost  in  Europe,  or  even  less. 
which  means  a  saving  to  good  dressers  of  at 
least  the  duties  and  cost  of  transportation 

The  big  store's  entire  stock  of  beautiful 
hand-made  imported  French  lingerie,  is  also 
on  sale  during  the  coming  week  at  a  reduc- 
tion of  one-third  from  regular  prices.  This 
means  French-made  garments  of  the  very 
finest  materials  and  trimmings  at  the  price  of 
fine  domestic  under-muslins.  It  is  an  unusual 
buying  chance  for  prospective  brides. 

—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn.  Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


— Correct,  natty,  are  the  Ladies'  Shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tai  or."  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco. 


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wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  broker,  or  '1  rans- 
portation  Agent. 


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SOUTHERN  PACIFIC 

Trains  leave  innl  are  due  to  arrive  a: 
sAN    F1CAN  CISCO. 

(Muln  Llue,   Kout  of  Market  Su-eiH 


j.bavk 


t.iM  OCI011BK-a.   IWd. 


7  00* 


7.00a 
7.30a 


7  30a 
B-OOa 


8  00a 

0  30a 


"30a 


B-30a 


ills  1 


.  Elm 


•iud  Siu-ni- 


Beulclu, 

lui-nlu    

Vhcu villi-,  Winters.  Kuinsey 

Martliicz.     Sun      Uiimoii,     VhNcJo 

N»ra.  Oallutogu,  bantu  lt"sn 

Nlles,  Livei'inore,  Tracy,  Lntlirup. 

Stock:un 

DavlB.Wooillnhil.  KnlL-'liti-  L.-inuim,'. 

Marys vllle,  Oro villi-. 

itlHiiilufcxpreH— Ot'ik-iisnd  Kast. 

PortU'ista.  Mai-Llnez.  Aulluuli.  By 

rou,  Tracy,  Siucktuu.Stinrninen  to. 

Newman,   Los   UnUus.    Meudota, 

Armuim,      Lemoore,       llauford 

Vlsalhi.  Port wvll If ■■ 

PortCoatn.  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lain 
rop,  Modesto,  Merced.  Fresno. 
Goshen  J  unction.  Lemoore,  Hau 

ford,   Vlsulla.  Hakersflcld 

Shasta  Express  — Davis.  Williams 
(for  Uartlett  SprlURH).  Willows. 
tFrulo,  Red  111 u IT,  Portland 

S.30a  Nlles.  Sau  Jose,  Llvtiruiore,  Stock- 
ton.lone.SaerHiiu-iito.Placervllle. 
Marysvllle,  Chlco,  lied  IllufC 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 
nora,  TuolmniM'  and  Angels 

9.00a   Martinez  and  Wny  Stations 

10.00a   Vallejo •■■■ 

10.00a  El  Paso  PaesenRer.  EaatUouud  — 
Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Byron. 
Tracy,  Lath  rop.  Stockton, 
Merced.  Raymond.  Fresno,  Han 
ford,  Vlsolla,  Uaki'raneld,  Los 
Angeles  and  EI  Paso.  (West- 
liound  arrives  via  Coast  Line)... 
10-OOa   The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogdeo. 

Denver,  Omaha,  Chicago 

12-OOm   Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations. 
+1.00P   Sacram«nto  Ulver  Stoamers 

S.30p  rtenlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
stations — 

3  30?   Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.. 

3  3Qh  Port  Costa,  Martiuez.  Uyrou, 
Tracy,  Latbrop,  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions bevontl  Port  Costa 

3-30p   Martinez,  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl... 

4.G0P  Marllin'7.,San  lUmoii,  VulleJo.Napa. 
Call*  toga.  San  in  Uuaa 

i  00p   Nlles.  Tracy.  Stockton,  Lodl 

430p  Hayward.  Nlles,  lrvlngton,  San* 
Juse.  Llvermore f 

B.OOr  The  Owl  Limited— Nuwm  -n,  Los 
Bhu.iH  MciitlutH  Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakerslleld.  Los  Angeles 

6.00i-   Port  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 

tB  30p  Havward    Nlles  and  San  Jose 

6.001'    Hayward,  NHesand  Sau  Jose 

6.00r  Oriental  Mall  —  Ogden.  Den ver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul* 
sun.  Elmlra,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Rock!  In.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Iteno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnneinucca,  Battle 
Mountain.  Elko 

6  00p   Vallejo  dally,  except  Sunday...    | 

7.00P  Vallejo.  suuday  only f 

7.00i-  Sau  Pablo,  Port  Costa,  Martinez 
and  Way  StatlooB 

8-06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, Marysvllle,  Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East. 

9,10p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  Sau  Jose  (Sun- 
day uDly)1I1111Llli:_^^li:i:_:_ 


6.2o 
7  25 


455> 
7-55i 


425. 

6.551- 
12.25i 


G.25i 

3.251' 

tll.OOi 


10.55* 
7  55e 


12.2a. 
10.25a 

9.25- 

4.25i 

18-55  > 

111.55. 


8.55. 
12.2r>i 

7.25* 
10.25* 


4.25 
755i 


8-55a 
1155  - 


COAST    LINE    (Jiarrnw  «mB«). 

(Fool  .11   Market  Street.)   " 


8.1Ba  Newark,    ^entervllle.     San     JoBe. 
Feltou.    Boulder     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  aud  Way  Stations....- 5-55 

t2.15i-  Newark,  Centervllle,  Safl  Jose, 
New  Alinaden.Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    10-55. 

4  16p  Newark.  San  Jose,  Los  Oatos  and 

way  stHtTons 18-55  \ 

ad  30p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  StntloiiB.     Sunday 
only  returns  from  Los  Gntos j7  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

rromSAN  FUA.NCISCO,  Foot  ot  Market  St.  (Slip- 

-ri:15    9:00     11:00a.m.     100    300    5-15  p.u 

From  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  |li:lKl     M:i> 

18:0.1     10:00  a.m.        12  00     2-00     4-00  P.M. 

COAST    LINE     (IM011.I  UauiriO. 

US'"  (Third  iiii'l  Townaeiid  Streets.) 


G-IOa    San  Jose  and  Way  StailonB 

7  00a    San  Jose  mnl  Wav  -Stations 

8-OOa   New  AliniHli-n  (Tues..  Frld.,  only). 


fl.OD* 


j  00a  CoastLlue  Limited— Stops  only  San 
JoBe,  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hoi 
lister).  Pajaro,  Castrovllle,  Sa- 
BnaB.  Sun  Ardo,  Paso  Robles. 
SantaMui-garlla.San  Lnls  Oblspn, 
Principal  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Loinpoc)  princi- 
pal stations  thence  Santa  Bar- 
bara aud  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion  at  Castrovllb-    to  and  from 

Monterey  and  Paclllc  Grove 

.  San  Jose.  Treu  Pliios,  Cnpltola, 
SaniaCruz.PacI  Hi- Grove.S.i  Unas, 
San  Lulu   Obispo   and    Principal 

Way  Stations    ...       

10.30a    Jrim  Jose  aud  Way  Stations 

11  30a  Santa  Clara,  .sau  Jose,  Los  Gatos 
and  Wav  Sta  dons         

1-30p   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

6-IiOp  PaclOc Grove  Hxpieaa— SantaCIara 
San  Joae,  Del  Motue,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (conuects  at  Santa 
CJara  for  Sauta  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Poluts> 
at  Gllroy  for  Hoillster.  Trea 
PInos,  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas. 

i-?0i    Gllroy  Way  Passenger 

■*4  4EiP  Sun  Jose,  (via  SantaCIara)  Los 
Gatos,  and  Prluc.pal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) 

San  JoBeand  Principal  Way  Stations 
"Sunset  Limited,  ICuHtho-uud.—  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Sum  it  Barbara,  Los 
AngeleB,  Iteming,  El  Paao.  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  ( Wc.itliouiid 
an  Ives  via  San.  I  i.aq  it  1. 1  Valley  1   .. 

16.1  dp  San  Mateo.Beresford.Belmoni.San 
Carl  ob,  Redwood.  Fair  Oaks, 
MenloPark.  Palo  Alto 

t  .30i-  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 

11  .30p  South  S*n  FranclHCO.  M  lllbrae,  Bur- 
llngame,  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
Suu  Carlos.  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 
MenloPark  and  I'm. i  Alto 
O11-30P  Mayik-ld,  Mountain.  View,  Sunny- 
vale, Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  aud 


B   i-3- 
,1-10 


;fa.30i 
6- 00p 


San  Jose.. 


41  l- 
1.20i- 

7.3Q- 

a  .iGv 


12  1  '.'■ 
$10  4™ 


+9. 26a 
la.UJA 


1G.4BA 
G.36a 


945p 
J9.45p 


A  for  Morning.  p  for  Arternoou. 

1  Sunday  ouly 

(  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 

1  buuday  excepted  a  Saturday  only. 

'  \  la  CosM  Line.  "  Via   Sun  Joaquin  Valley. 

t»"Ouly  trains  mopping  at  Valencia  st.souibbound 
ureii:Hl  a.m.,  t?:I.K)A.M.,11::ti.)A  in..  H::'.l)  p.m.  and  ti:30i».M. 
Tin-  UN  IO*  TiiANM'Ki;  COMPANY 
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THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


"  I  won't  be  good,"  said  Willy.  "  Then 
Santa  Claus  won't  bring  you  any  presents." 
"  Wasn't  I  bad  last  year,  and  didn't  I  get 
more'n  ever?  " — Cincinnati  Commercial  Tri- 
bune. 

Sword  swallower  :  "  Yes,  John  has  quit  ac- 
cepting invitations  to  dinner  at  the  Bagsleys'." 
"He  has?  Why,  what's  the  matter?"  "He 
says  their  knives  are  so  sharp  they  cut  his 
mouth." — Ex. 

Knew  what  struck  him  :  Daly — "  Ye  were 
sunstruck,  ye  say?  Why  man  alive,  the 
sun  could  never  disfigure  a  man's  face  like 
that."  Riley — "  Ye  don't  know  me  son,  Daly." 
— Brooklyn  Life. 

"  But  why  did  you  not  send  for  the  doctor 
next  door  when  you  became  suddenly  ill?" 
asked  his  friend.  "  You  forget,"  answered  the 
sufferer,  "  that  I  have  been  learning  to  play 
the  cornet  recently." —  Puck, 

"  Mistah  Pinkley,"  said  Miss  Miami  Brown, 
"  you  sings  jes'  like  you  was  a  bird."  "  'Deed, 
Miss  Miami,"  was  the  rejoinder,  "  if  I  was  a 
bird  I  reckon  I  wouldn't  be  able  to  sing.  I'd 
be  a  chicken-hawk." — Washington  Star. 

A  good  point :  He — "  There  is  one  thing  in 
particular  I  like  about  spinsters."  She — 
"What  is  that?"  He — "They  never  bore  a 
fellow  by  telling  him  how  they  used  to  do  this 
and  that  before  he  was  born." — Tit-Bits. 

A  beautiful  romance  headed  off:  "You  don't 
mean  to  tell  me  you  rescued  a  young  lady 
from  drowning  and  didn't  even  stop  to  learn 
her  name  !  "  "  That's  what  I  did.  My  wife 
was  there  when  I  got  the  girl  ashore." — Ex. 

Fuddy — "  Aren't  you  going  to  take  any  no- 
tice of  the  libelous  charges  that  have  been 
circulated  about  you?"  Duddy — "  Not  on  your 
life.  If  I  did  they  might  come  to  the  knowl- 
edge of  somebody  who  had  not  heard  them." 
— Boston  Transcript. 

Hoogley — "  When  I  entered  your  yard  last 
evening  your  dog  barked  at  me."  WUby — 
"  You  could  hardly  expect  me  to  keep  servants 
and  let  them  fill  in  their  time  barking  at 
folks,  and  I'm  too  busy  myself  to  attend  to  it." 
— Boston  Transcript. 

A  journalist  sat  for  many  weary  minutes 
in  the  waiting-room  of  one  of  our  medical 
celebrities.  His  patience  at  an  end,  he  called 
the  servant  and  said:  "My  man,  just  go  in 
and  tell  your  master  that  if  I  am  not  admitted 
in  five  minutes  I  shall  be  well  again." — Ex. 

"  It  was  careless  of  me  to  say  that  I  ad- 
mired Bacon,"  remarked  the  young  woman 
with  glasses.  "  Did  you  offend  some  Shakes- 
pearean student?"  "No.  It  was  a  Chicago 
pork-packer.  He  frigidly  remarked  that  he 
didn't  care  to  talk  shop." — Washington  Star. 

"Shouldn't  wonder  ef  that  boy  gits  to  be 
President  some  day."  "  What  makes  you 
think  so?"  "Got  all  the  qualifications:  kin 
ride  the  wildest  hoss  in  the  country,  an'  hit 
the  bull's-eye  o.n  a  barn  door,  with  a  shot-gun, 
nine  times  out  o'  ten  I  " — Atlanta  Constitution. 

Bliggins's  blunder:  "  Bliggins  is  very  unfor- 
tunate in  his  love  affairs."  "  Yes,"  said  the 
girl  with  yellow  hair;  "you  see,  Mr.  Bliggins 
makes  the  great  mistake  of  trying  to  converse 
intelligently,  when  he  ought  to  be  simply  hold- 
ing hands  and  looking  as  if  he  were  stupefied 
with  joy." — Washington  Star. 

Brand  new  :  Mrs.  Dove — "  Henry,  I  think 
you  are  positively  cruel.  Here  I've  tried  so 
hard  to  cook  you  a  nice  dinner,  and  you 
haven't  had  a  word  to  say  to  me  about  it." 
Mr.  Dove — "  Darling,  I  love  you  too  much  for 
that.  If  I'd  said  what  I  thought,  you'd  never 
speak  to  me  again." — Boston  Transcript. 

Mother — "  You  can't  stay  in  this  hot  city. 
Why  don't  you  tell  your  husband  you  must 
go  to  a  summer  resort?"  Bride — "I — I  don't 
dare."  Mother — "Why  not?"  Bride — "If 
he  says  '  no,'  I  will  be  miserable  because  I 
can't  go,  and  if  he  says  '  yes,'  I  will  be  miser- 
able because  he  can  live  without  me." — New 
York  Weekly. 

Setting  himself  right:  "What  do  you  con- 
sider the  greatest  object  of  interest  in  Eng- 
land?" asked  the  interviewer,  "Well,"  an- 
swered the  great  lecturer  from  abroad,  "  I  ar- 
rived here  yesterday,  and "     "Of  course," 

exclaimed  the  interviewer,  apologetically,  "  I 
meant  the  greatest  object  of  interest  next  to 
yourself." — Tit-Bits. 

The  dominant  janitor:  Mrs.  McCall — "And 
what  did  you  say  your  eldest  boy's  full  name 
was  ?  "  Mrs.  De  Coursey — "  Michael  Branni- 
gan  De  Coursey."  Mrs.  McCall — "  Well — er 
— that's  rather  odd."  Mrs.  De  Coursey — 
"  Yes,  but,  you  see,  when  he  was  born  we 
were  living  in  a  flat,  and  we  didn't  want  to 
move  out.  Mr.  Michael  Brannigan  was  the 
janitor." — Philadelphia  Press. 

The  strategy  of  Samuel :  Proud  father — 
"  I  tell  you,  sir,  that  boy  of  mine  will  be  a 
wonder!"  Friend  (wearily) — "What  won- 
derful thing  has  he  done  now?  "  Proud  father 
— "  Why,  the  other  day  he  ate  all  the  pre- 
serves in  the  pantry.  I  overheard  him  say, 
as^  he  smeared  the  cat's  face  with  the  stuff  : 
'  I'm  sorry,  Tom,  to  do  this,  but  I  can't  have 
the  old  folks  suspect  me.'  " — Smart  Set. 


—  Stftrdman's  Soothing  Powders  claim  to  be  pre 
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and '  "      Newitt — "  And    the    dollars    will 

take  care  of  your  heirs." — Philadelphia  Press. 


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Destination. 

Arrive 
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Week 
Days. 

Sun- 
days. 
7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  pm 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

Iguacio. 

7.45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.00  p  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7-45  a  m 
8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6,20  pm 
7-25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 
5.10  p  in 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

7-45  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
8  00  a  m 
2,30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
S.oo  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.20  a  m 

7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
7-25  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  P  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10,20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

7-3°  a  m 
8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Willits. 

7.25  a  m 

7.25  P  m 

8.00  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10.20  a  m 

725  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.00  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
5-10  P  m 

8.00  a  m 
5.10  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

8.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
2.30  p  m 

7.30  a  in 
2.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.20  a  m 
7.25  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur 
Springs ;  at  Fulton  for  Altruria  and  Mark  West 
Springs;  at  Lytton  for  Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville 
for  Skaggs  Springs;  at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers, 
Booneville,  and  Greenwood  ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan 
Springs,  Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad 
Springs,  Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs; 
at  Ukiah  for  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Saiihed'riu  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City.  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport,  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Monday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sundays  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  650  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.C.  WHITING,  R.X.RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,    ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
DEPART  WEEK    DAYS— 6.45,  t*7-45 
8.45.9-45,  11  a.  M.;  12.20,  *i.45,  3.iS.  4.15, 
T5-15,  *6-i5.  <M5.  9.  H-45  f-  M. 
7.45  A.  M.  week  davs  does  not  run  to  Mill  Vallty. 
DEPART  SUNDAY-7,  fS-  t*9,   t*io,    11,  tn.30  A. 
M-;  t'2.30.  t*'-3o.  2.35,  *3.50.  5,  6,  7.30,  9,  11.45  f-  M- 

Trains    marked    *     run     lo    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (|)    to  Fairfax,  except  5.15  p.   m.  Saturday. 
Saturday's  3.15  p".  m.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.45  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    P-    M.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way  stations, 
Sundays,  8  a.  m. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays,  10  a.  m.— Point  Reyes  and  intermediate. 
Legal  Holidays — Boats  and  trains  on  Sunday  time. 
Ticket  Offices — 626  Market ;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


9.30 

4.00 
8,00 


A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 
A  M  —  t"THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m.  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining-  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 
A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 

PM— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10  p  m.    Corresponding  train  arrives 


P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
%  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Hearst's  Ventures  North  and  South — His  Moral 
Newspaper  Rivals — "  Examiner  "  Cleaner  Than  New  York 
"  Journal  " — Talk  About  His  Invading  Portland — The  Con- 
ditions There — Conditions  in  Los  Angeles — Cleveland  Boom 
Looking  Up  —  Speaker  Cannon  and  the  House  Com- 
mittees —  Stagnation  Among  Office-Holders  —  Modesty  and 
Publicity  in  Elections — Southern  Pacific  Improvements  and 
Retrenchments — Opposition  Gas  Company  Rumored — The 
Incoming  Mayor  and  His  Appointments — Pacific  Naval  Ap- 
propriations— The    French     Canal    System 273-275 

Josiah,  the  Claim-Jumper:     How  His  Shot  in  the  Dark  Went 

True.     By  Rufus  M.   Steele 276 

The  Moment's  Novelties:  Autumn  in  New  York — The  Effect 
of  the  Wall  Street  Panic — Styles  in  Vehicles — Maxine  Elli- 
ott and  Other  Actresses — Dowie — A  Singular  Painting.  By 
Geraldine  Bonner    277 

The  Birthplace  of  Dickens:  The  City  of  Portsmouth  to  Make 

a  Museum  of  It.     By  "  Cockaigne  "  277 

Gabriel  and  Uriel.     By  Jerome  A.  Hart   27S 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent   People  All  Over  the 

World  279 

Trowbridge's  "Own  Story":  Some  Interesting  Literary  Rem- 
iniscences       279 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications     279-281 

Old  Favorites:"  The  Raggedy  Man,"  by  James  Whitcomb  Riley  2S0 

Drama:  The  Duss  Metropolitan  Orchestra  at  the  Alhambra — 
"  Andre  Chenier  "  at  the  Tivoli — The  Orpheum  Perform- 
ance.    By  Josephine  Hart  Phelps   282 

Stage  Gossip    283 

Vanity  Fair:  Why  Married  Thespians  Prefer  to  Star  Apart — 
Some  Notable  Instances — Not  Domestic  Troubles,  but 
Thrifty  Business  Sense  the  Cause — A  Determined  Suitor 
Cows  an  Objecting  Parent  with  a  Motor-Car — The  Social 
Outlook  in  London — The  Horrors  of  the  Pullman — Red  Ties 
Popular  in  New  York — The  Picture  Post-Card  Fad — The 
Change  in  the  Character  of  Young  French  Girls  During 
Twenty-Five    Years 284 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
How  Lady  Beaconsfield  Helped  Disraeli  Take  His  Bath — 
How  Many  Skulls  Had  Cromwell? — The  Scotchman  and  the 
Ice — Another  Bath-Room  Story — J.  M.  Barrie's  Pet  Whale — 
Poetry  Not  a  Profession  but  a  Disease — Hugo,  the  Megalo- 
maniac— The  Stupid  Millionaire,  the  Witty  Churchman — 
About  Babies — King  Menelik  and  the  French  Toys 285 

The  Tuneful  Liar:    "Melancholy    Days";    "Prairie    Poet    at 

Work"    285 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and   Navy  News    286-287 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day   288 


At  John  Alex.  Dowie's  big  religious  circus  in  little  old 
New   York  —  undoubtedly   the   greatest 

Hearst  s  New  j  ° 

Ventures  North  show  of  its  kind  on  earth  —  the  country 
and  south.  stands  at  gaze.     The  man  in  the  street 

is  genuinely  curious  and  mildly  amused,  though  he 
doesn't  much  concern  himself  about  the  morals  of  the 
affair.  The  press  regard  Dowie  with  a  gently  cool 
scientific  interest,  tinged  with  a  certain  temperamental 
jocularity.  In  fact,  nobody  has  thought  it  worth  while 
to  get  very  excited  —  except  the  New  York  clergy. 
They  alone  are  wrought  up  and  denunciatory.  Is  this 
professional  jealousy?  Do  they  regard  Dowie  as  a 
rival  ? 
Not  to  draw  the  parallel  too  severely  close,  we  think 


the  average  reader  of  these  lines  watches  the  career 
of  the  young  millionaire  who  has  established  three  big 
papers  in  three  great  cities,  and  now  has  aspirations  to 
the  Presidency,  with  feelings  similar  to  those  that 
Dowie  inspires  —  interest  not  anger,  amusement,  per- 
haps, but  not  alarm,  curiosity  rather  than  disgust. 
Not  so  the  daily  press.  They  know  that  Hearst  is  a 
bad,  wicked  man.  The  editors  who  live  in  New  York, 
Chicago,  and  San  Francisco,  are  much  more  sure  of  it 
than  those  who  live  in  towns  where  the  yellow  press 
is  but  a  name.  Yet  even  they  slang-whang  him  when 
they  can.  Who  knows  when  Hearst  may  swoop  down 
upon  them  with  a  new  paper  that  shall  debauch  the 
city's  youth,  demoralize  its  homes,  corrupt  the  govern- 
ment, encourage  anarchy,  and — horror  of  all  horrors 
—  steal  away  their  subscribers  ?     Eusiness ! 

But  Mr.  Hearst  is  not  a  competitor  of  ours;  our 
withers  are  unwrung;  and  therefore  we  view  with 
perfect  equanimity  and  considerable  interest  the  re- 
ports that  he  is  about  to  invade  lovely  Los  Angeles  and 
plupluvial  Portland  with  two  brand-new  newspapers. 

Doubtless  the  character  of  these  journals  will  depend 
largely  on  the  character  of  the  newspapers  already 
established  in  each  of  these  towns,  and  upon  the 
towns  themselves.  That  is  the  case  with  Mr.  Hearst's 
present  papers.  Those  who  see  both  the  New  York 
Journal  and  the  Examiner  know  that  the  former  is 
much  the  more  saffron  of  the  two.  And  the  reason  is 
plain.  Here  the  Examiner  has  only  to  be  a  little  more 
sensational  than  its  fairly  respectable  morning  com- 
petitors to  catch  all  the  readers  who  like  sensationalism. 
In  Xew  York,  the  Journal  has  a  formidable  competitor 
which  is  also  yellow7 — the  World — and,  in  order  to  get 
subscribers,  the  Journal  has  been  forced  to  a  lower 
plane.  The  World  has  gradually  grown  better.  Thus 
the  two  papers  occupy,  as  it  were,  the  two  halves  of  the 
yellow  field,  which  in  San  Francisco  is  monopolized 
by  the  Examiner  alone. 

Curiously  enough,  New  York  really  has  better  news- 
papers than  that  city  deserves.  The  papers  are  more 
moral  than  the  people.  The  mayoralty  campaign  now 
on  proves  it.  The  issue  is  simply  between  vice  and 
virtue,  a  "  wide-open  "  town  and  decency,  an  honest 
government  and  Tammany  graft.  Yet  the  result  is  in 
doubt.  The  betting  favors  Low  only  a  little.  But  the  great 
newspapers  —  the  World,  Times,  Sun,  Evening  Post, 
Tribune,  Commercial  Advertiser,  Herald.  Mail  and  Ex- 
press,  Journal  of  Commerce,  Press  —  are  solidly  for 
Low.  Only  the  Journal  and  American  take  the  Tam- 
many side.  In  other  words,  nine-tenths  of  the  news- 
papers are  expressing  opinions  in  their  editorial  col- 
umns with  which  close  to  half  of  the  people  of  New 
York  disagree.     There's  a  virtuous  press   for  you ! 

But  to  return  to  our  muttons.  In  Portland,  the  news- 
paper conditions  are  queer.  Though  a  city  of  nearly 
a  hundred  thousand,  Portland  has  only  one  morning 
and  one  evening  paper.  The  evening  paper's  circula- 
tion is  slight  outside  the  city,  and  its  influence  small. 
But  the  Portland  Oregonian  is  a  power  in  the  land. 
It  was  established  in  1850.  Harvey  W.  Scott  has  been 
its  editor  since  1862.  Its  editorial  page  is  more  bril- 
liantly conducted  than  that  of  any  daily  newspaper 
whatsoever  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  Though  claiming  a 
circulation  of  only  thirty-five  thousand,  the  Oregonian 
reaches  the  most  intelligent  people  of  the  North- West. 
But  the  paper  has  its  faults.  For  one  thing,  it  is  in 
politics;  its  editor  ran  last  year  for  United  States 
senator,  and  was  defeated  by  only  a  few  votes.  The 
Oregonian  has  plenty  of  political  friends  to  serve, 
and  enemies  galore  to  punish.  During  its  fifty  years' 
career  it  has  made  thousands  of  bitter,  uncompromis- 
ing foes.  Many  web-feet  hate  the  Oregonian  like 
poison.  Recent  labor  troubles  in  Portland  found  the 
Oregonian  on  the  fence.     It  is  solid  neither  with  the 


unions  nor  with  employers.  It  is  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, but  the  State  is  now  Democratic,  a  Democrat  hav- 
ing been  elected  governor  last  year  by  a  small  majority. 
As  for  Portland  itself,  it  is  not  a  puritanic  city.  In 
fact,  its  tenderloin  is  extensive  and  worse  than  any- 
thing in  San  Francisco. 

These  are  the  conditions,  favorable  and  unfavorable, 
that  Mr.  Hearst's  new  paper  will  face.  On  the  surface, 
it  looks  as  though  he  would  be  able  to  make  it  a  suc- 
cess, but  the  fact  is  that  many  a  paper  has  confidently 
gone  up  against  the  Oregonian  ere  this  and  met  defeat. 
Old  man  Scott  has  so  far  proved  too  much  for  every  one 
of  them.  In  the  case  of  Hearst  we  shall  see  what  we 
shall  see. 

The  Los  Angeles  Times  is  in  many  respects  like  the 
Oregonian.  Both  papers  are  edited  by  grizzled  vet- 
erans —  good  haters,  politically  ambitious,  and  un- 
afraid. The  Times  prints  all  the  news,  and  is  read  by 
many  who  dislike  its  editor  and  disagree  with  its 
policies.  It  far  outstrips  its  two  competitors,  the  Ex- 
press and  Herald.  And  judging  by  its  appearance,  size, 
and  all  the  reports  from  various  sources  *  that  come 
to  us,  the  war  of  the  labor  unions  against  it  has 
operated  to  its  advantage.  It  is  obvious,  however, 
that  in  the  Times' s  strong  stand  against  unions.  Mr. 
Hearst  thinks  he  sees  his  chance.  Certainly  Otis  will 
find  Mr.  Hearst  a  different  sort  of  a  fighter  than  the 
editors  of  his  two  present  newspaper  competitors. 
Los  Angeles  is  a  growing  city,  but  the  character  of  the 
population  is  higher  than  in  Portland.  Too  .many  of 
its  families  are  respectable,  well-to-do  Easterners  for 
a  journal  of  pronounced  yellowness  to  find  all  at  once 
a  large  and  eager  constituency.  Altogether,  Mr.  Hearst 
seems  to  have  his  work  cut  out  for  him  in  both  the 
northern  and  the  southern  city. 

Mr.  Cleveland's  address  on  good  citizenship  at  Chicago 
recently  was  the  signal   for  all  his  edi- 

The  Cleveland  j  ° 

boom  torial  enemies  to  let  fly  at  him  winged 

looking  Up.  shafts  of  criticism,  and  for  all  those  who 

regard  his  candidacy  with  auspicious  eye  to  renew 
their  oaths  of  allegiance.  This,  therefore,  is  a  good 
moment  to  estimate  the  condition  of  the  Cleveland 
boom.  Plainly  it  is  far  from  being  in  state  of  collapse. 
We  find  Senator  Jones,  of  Arkansas,  saying  that,  al- 
though Mr.  Cleveland  could  get  no  votes,  in  convention, 
from  the  South,  yet  if  he  were  nominated,  he  would  get 
every  Southern  electoral  vote.  Some  Southern  papers 
take  a  more  favorable  view  than  this.  The  Nashville 
American,  an  influential  journal,  says  that  "  there  is  a 
large  sprinkling  of  Democrats  in  the  South  who  favor 
the  nomination  of  Mr.  Cleveland."  The  Charleston 
Mews  and  Courier  avers  that  "  the  strongest  man  in  the 
party  is  Mr.  Cleveland."  Ex-Congressman  Jefferson 
M.  Levy,  of  New  York,  who  has  just  returned  from  a 
Southern  trip,  finds  "  the  tide  in  the  States  he  visited 
setting  strongly  toward  Mr.  Cleveland."  Senator  Cul- 
lom  is  reported  as  saying,  in  an  interview,  that  "if 
Grover  Cleveland  could  be  nominated  he  would  get 
more  votes  than  any  other  Democrat  in  the  coun- 
try. .  .  .  He  would  get  a  lot  of  Republican  votes ;  .  .  . 
the  rabid  Populists  and  unconverted  Silverites  against 
him  would  be  more  than  offset  by  the  support  he  would 
receive  from  Republicans."  The  Chattanooga  News  is 
sure  that  "  Cleveland  could  carry  New  York  by  100,000 
majority."  Most  of  the  papers  seem  to  think  that  the 
anti-third  term  sentiment  will  not  amount  to  much. 
According  to  the  Chicago  Jnter-Ocean,  of  those  who 
pressed  forward  to  shake  hands  with  Mr.  Cleveland 
after  he  had  spoken,  every  third  man,  on  the  average, 
expressed  the  hope  of  having  the  opportunity  to  vote 
for  him.  According  to  the  Xew  York  Sun,  a  vote  on 
the  question,  "  Who  should  be  the  Democratic  candidate 
for  President?"  taken  by  Home  and  Farm,  a   5 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  2,  1903. 


field,  Mass.,  weekly,  resulted  in  12,833  Cleveland  votes, 
more  than  were  received  by  Bryan,  Tom  Johnson, 
Hearst,  and  Hill  combined.  Another  test  ballot  taken 
by  the  Iowa  State  Register  gave  Mr.  Cleveland  1,838 
votes.  Mr.  Bryan  was  second  with  938.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  the  New  York  Sun  would  support  Cleveland 
in  the  event  that  both  he  and  Roosevelt  are  nominated. 


and  the  House 
Committees. 


In  preparing  for  the  coming  long  session  of  Congress,  a  most 
important,  though  not  the  most  spectacular, 
NNON  part  of  the  work  falls  to  Speaker  Cannon  in 
the  arrangement  of  committees,  and  the  se- 
lection of  members  of  the  House  to  fill  them. 
That  work  is  necessarily  under  way,  and  some  of  the  condi- 
tions affecting  it  have  been  interestingly  outlined  in  news- 
paper columns,  which,  though  not  "  inspired,"  are  guided  by 
astute  observers  of  political  movements  in  the  national  cap- 
ital. An  important  question  now  occupying  the  attention  of 
Speaker  Cannon  is  the  formation  of  the  Committee  on  Rules, 
which,  acting  in  conjunction  with  the  Speaker,  plays  a  lead- 
ing part  in  the  game  of  practical  legislation.  The  new  Speaker 
finds  on  that  committee  of  the  last  session  the  names  of 
Dalzell,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Grosvenor,  of  Ohio,  who  were 
the  trusted  lieutenants  of  Speaker  Henderson.  They  hold 
seniority  positions  on  the  committee,  which  traditionally  en- 
title them  to  reappointment  by  a  Speaker  of  their  own  party. 
Besides,  they  are  strong  men  in  the  House  and  in  the  party, 
and  can  not  easily  be  ignored  on  that  account.  At  the  same 
time,  it  is  being  considered  that  they  practically  represent  only 
one  small  section  of  the  country  enclosing  the  few  hundred 
miles  between  Lake  Erie  and  the  Alleghanies.  They  both 
represent  the  one  idea  on  the  tariff  of  uncompromising  opposi- 
tion to  any  change  in  the  schedules  which  tends  toward  a 
lowering  of  duties.  The  subject  of  tariff  revision  is  more 
popular  in  the  West,  and  the  difference  of  opinion  on  the 
subject  of  the  steel  schedules,  for  instance,  between  Dalzell, 
who  represents  the  producers  of  Pittsburg,  and  Governor 
Cummins,  who  regards  with  more  interest  the  consumers 
of  Iowa,  is  decidedly  marked.  For  these  reasons,  Mr.  Cannon 
finds  it  necessary  to  make  that  committee  more  representative 
of  the  whole  country.  It  is  suggested  that  his  purpose  is  not 
to  displace  Grosvenor  and  Dalzell,  but  to  enlarge  the  com- 
mittee in  order  that  their  influence  may  be  diluted,  and  other 
sections  and  other  opinions  given  some  scope  for  activity. 
Mr.  Hepburn,  of  Iowa,  has  advocated  the  election  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Rules  in  order  to  insure  their  individual  inde- 
pendence, which  is  liable  to  be  endangered  when  the  member- 
ship of  the  committee  is  determined  by  the  Speaker  alone. 
If  the  House  caucus  decides  on  an  enlargement,  the  places 
are  expected  to  be  filled  by  some  of  the  younger  members 
drawn  from  different  sections  of  the  country. 

There  is  also  some  speculation  that  the  Post-Office  Com- 
mittee will  be  materially  changed,  and  it  is  predicted  that 
Overstreet,  of  Indiana,  will  be  made  its  chairman,  although 
he  is  now  not  even  a  member  of  the  committee.  He  is  at  least 
being  seriously  considered.  What  member  he.  will  displace 
if  the  appointment  is  made  is  one  of  the  delicate  subjects  for 
the  new  Speaker.  The  committee  ought  to  be  composed  of  the 
ablest  men  of  the  House  from  a  business  standpoint.  It  is 
in  reality  the  governing  body  of  an  immense  business  estab- 
lishment. The  appropriations  handled  approximate  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  millions  of  dollars  a  year,  and  are  increasing 
rapidly.  The  men  who  direct  its  expenditure  must  be  not  only 
good  judges  of  business  policy,  but  must  have  the  clearest 
discernment,  that  the  measures  they  may  propose  will  have 
the  support  of  the  House. 

The  Appropriation  Committee,  in  the  long  session,  does  its 
most  exhaustive  work,  and  though  the  special  session  will  be 
confined  to  consideration  of  the  Cuban  treaty,  this  committee 
may  be  appointed  in  November,  so  that  it  may  organize,  name 
its  sub-committees,  and  begin  the  work  of  studying  the 
financial  requirements  of  the  government.  The  composition 
of  the  new  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means  offers  an  unusual 
opportunity  for  new  men.  Of  its  Republican  members.  Hop- 
kins, of  Illinois,  and  Long,  of  Kansas,  have  been  elected  sen- 
ators, while  Newlands,  of  Nevada,  a  Democrat,  has  received 
the  same  promotion.  Another  Democrat,  George  B.  McClellan, 
is  running  for  mayor  of  New  York,  and  if  elected  would  leave 
another  Democratic  vacancy  on  the  Committee  of  Ways  and 
Means. 


modestv  and 

Publicity 

in  Elections. 


Sometimes  the  newspapers  may  talk  too  much  about  the 
virtues  of  advertising,  but  in  San  Francisco 
the  practice  of  non-advertising  at  times  is 
carried  to  an  extent  bordering  on  the 
ludicrous.  In  New  York  City,  one  may  take 
up  the  Herald  with  the  certainty  of  finding  the  advertisement 
of  every  railway  line  running  into  or  near  New  York,  every 
transatlantic  line,  every  coast  line,  and  every  steamer  line 
running  to  the  West  Indian  Islands.  In  San  Francisco  one  may 
take  up  the  daily  papers  with  the  certainty  of  finding  all  the 
transportation  advertisements  in  no  one  paper,  and  few  of 
them  in  all  the  papers.  Yet  these  advertisements  are  really 
news,  and  their  absence  vexes  many  readers.  In  some  cases, 
the  transportation  people  have  a  quarrel  with  the  editors;  in 
others,  the  editors  have  a  quarrel  with  the  transportation  peo- 
ple. In  still  others  the  various  parties  are  rivals  in  business 
— the  publisher  may  be  in  the  transportation  business  on  the 
side,  and  the  transportation  people  may  be  in  the  newspaper 
business  on  the  quiet.  Then  again  some  of  the  transportation 
men  here  are  back  numbers,  who  want  to  save  a  nickel  and  lose 
a  dollar.  In  the  East,  they  would  be  sidetracked  at  once ; 
here  they  soon  will  be,  by  the  new  Eastern  men  who  are  com- 
ing to  the  front  here  in  the  transportation  business. 

Witj  all  these  particular  and  peculiar  cases,  we  have  no 
quarrel.  If  any  man,  anywhere,  must  go  anywhither,  by  rail 
or  s*'  amer,  go  he  must :  but  on  this  Coast,  he  must  go  in  one 

way  and  by  one  line   and   be   d d  to  him,  or  else  walk. 

1  h^oTore,   it   may   make   j.o    difference   to   the    transportation 


people  whether  they  advertise  or  not.  It  makes  a  great  deal 
of  difference  to  their  patrons,  but  that  is  of  no  consequence. 
That  is  the  old,  back-number,  or  Pacific  Coast  idea — that  "  the 
man  who  is  going  to  travel  has  got  to  go,  he  has  got  to  go 
over  our  line,  and  what's  the  diff?"  The  modern  or  Eastern 
idea  is  that  in  addition  to  the  man  who  has  got  to  go,  there 
are  many  men  who  had  no  idea  of  going,  but  who  may  be 
persuaded  to  go.  Thus  there  is  just  so  much  new  travel 
created. 

The  old  non-advertising  Pacific  Coast  ideas  mi:y  do  for  the 
transportation  business  in  a  country  where  there  is  only  one 
line,  called  "  the  railroad."  In  the  matter  of  elections,  how- 
ever, things  are  different.  While  there  are  many  candidates 
who  idolize  animals,  only  one  person  can  be  elected  pound- 
keeper.  Many  are  called,  but  few  art-  cv  en.  Therefore, 
why  the  many  who  are  striving  for  place  should  also  strive  so 
assiduously  to  keep  their  candidacy  a  secret  is  matter  for 
marvel.  There  is  no  law  compelling  a  man  to  run  for  office, 
but  when  he  does,  why  should  he  conceal  the  fact?  Modesty 
is  an  excellent  virtue,  but  that  which  is  excellent  in  a  maiden 
or  a  timid  wood-violet,  is  out  of  place  in  a  politician.  The 
leather-lunged  Rienzi  who  .clamors  loudly  for  office  in 
market-place  or  forum,  stands  the  best  show.  The  modest 
candidate,  who  sits  in  his  white  toga  in  the  far  corner  of  the 
forum,  waiting  for  the  multitude  to  come  and  crown  him 
aedile,  is  sympathetic  and  dramatic,   but  he   rarely  gets  there. 

These  remarks  are  not  designed  to  drum  up  advertising  for 
the  Argonaut.  As  the  election  takes  place  before  our  next  issue, 
it  would  be  too  late,  even  if  that  were  our  object.  But  it  is 
not.  These  reflections  are  inspired  by  the  following  curious 
fact:  On  October  24th,  only  a  few  days  before  the  election, 
we  sat  down  with  the  three  San  Francisco  morning  papers 
before  us,  intending  to  write  a  few  personal  paragraphs 
urging  the  election  of  a  few  personal  acquaintances.  There 
are  men  on  both  the  Democratic  and  Republican  Lickets  whom 
we  know  personally,  and  we  think  that  some  of  the  men 
on  the  Democratic  supervisoral  ticket  are  better  than  some 
of  the  men  on  the  Republican  supervisoral  ticket.  There  are 
over  a  hundred  candidates  in  the  field,  and  it  is  difficult  to 
remember  so  many  names,  much  less  so  many  men.  We  went 
through  the  daily  papers  carefully,  but  we  saw  no  ticket — 
Republican,  Democratic,  or  Labor  Union.  We  went  through 
them  again.  We  went  through  them  three  times.  We  found 
no  tickets  at  all.  We  were  obliged  to  give  it  up.  The  only 
names  that  we  could  remember  were  Crocker,  Schmitz,  Lane, 
and   Washington    Dodge. 

In  default  of  specific  names,  therefore,  we  can  only  assure 
our  readers  that  there  are  some  .excellent  men  running  on  the 
Democratic  ticket  for  supervisor,  and  that  there  are  some 
weak,  some  corrupt,  and  some  bad  men  running  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket  for  supervisor.  Owing  to  the  extreme  economy 
of  the  various  campaign  committees,  the  tickets  do  not  appear 
in  the  advertising  columns  of  the  dailies. 

We  close  as  we  began  by  saying  that  modesty  is  an  excellent 
thing;  that  the  man  who  shrinks  from  the  glare  of  publicity 
we  all  admire;  that  the  good  citizen  who  keeps  his  personality 
out  of  the  lime-light  and  his  name  out  of  the  papers  meets 
with  the  approval  of  his  fellow-men.  But  when  a  man  is  run- 
ning for  office  he  should  not  hide  his  talents  in  a  napkin ;  he 
should  not  put  his  light  under  a  bushel,  but  let  it  shine  forth 
and  be  seen  of  men;  if  he  is  a  candidate,  he  should  not  keep 
the  fact  concealed ;  for  if  he  does,  he  may  conceal  it  so  skill- 
fully that  no  one  may  know  he  is  running,  and  the  procession 
will  pass  him  unheeded  by — he  will  get  no  seat  in  the  band- 
wagon, but  will  remain  in  the  darkness  outside  the  circus- 
tent,  where  the  small  boy  waileth  and  there  is  gnashing  of 
teeth. 


A  few  weeks  ago,  the  Argonaut  printed  a  paragraph  in  which 
were  summarized  the  statements  of  assessors 

ZHK.  fS!.E!SOR!,  before  the  State.  Board  of  Equalization  re- 
garding the  prosperity   or  lack   of  prosperity 


The  Argonaut, 
and  the  Press. 


in  their  respective  counties.  These  state- 
ments of  the  assessors  were  in  tone  lugubrious.  The  Argonaut 
did  not  comment  upon  the  showing  they  made.  We  merely 
appended  to  the  summary  the  statement :  "  This  is  the  sad, 
sad  story,  the  very  distressing  tale,  told  by  the  county 
assessors  to  the  State's  tax-gatherers." 

The  paragraph  we  refer  to  seems,  like  many  another  of  the 
Argonaut's  editorials,  to  have  been  extensively  copied  by 
Eastern  papers.  We  have  noticed  it  in  the  Springfield  Re- 
publican, Philadelphia  Public  Ledger,  and  in  many  other  widely 
circulated  papers.  As  is  usual  in  such  cases,  the  paragraph  has 
been  reprinted  from  these  influential  journals  by  small  town 
and  country  papers,  and  will  doubtless  continue  to  be  heard 
from  for  many  months  to  come. 

In  printing  the  paragraph,  one  agricultural  journal  said: 
"  We  would  like  to  know  what  our  California  readers  have  to 
say  about  it,"  and  the  Philadelphia  Public  Ledger  draws 
therefrom  unflattering  conclusions.  A  Thompsonville,  N.  Y., 
correspondent  of  a  Los  Angeles  paper  writes  thus  to  that 
journal :  "  I  enclose  clipping  from  a  California  paper  that  has 
been  copied  very  extensively  by  the  Eastern  papers,  and  it  has 
created  a  bad  impression.  Is  this  a  true  account  of  the  real 
condition  of  the  State?  " 

In  answering  these  several  questions  and  replying  to  criti- 
cisms, California  editors,  rural  and  otherwise,  have  some  of 
them  been  constrained  verbally  to  rap  the  Argonaut  over  the 
knuckles.  Look  how  the  Colusa  Sun  emits  moonshine  in  dis- 
cussing this  theme : 

Sometimes  people  get  sarcastic  and  say  too  much.  The 
San  Francisco  Argonaut  is  an  illustration.  The  editor  wanted 
to  satirize  the  several  counties  who  went  to  Sacramento  to 
show  why  the  assessments  should  not  be  raised,  and  the  first 
thing  it  knew  the  Eastern  papers  began  to  reproduce  the 
article,  and  then  the  Argonaut  would  have  been  glad  if  it  had 
resisted  the  temptation  to  become  sarcastic. 

Indeed  !  We  compliment  the  Sun's  editor  on  the  possession 
of  such  remarkable  "  psychic "  powers  as  to  enable  him — 
even  at  the  distance  of  Colusa — to  tell  what  is  going  on  in  the 
Argonaut's  editorial  mind.     But  passing  that,  may  we  be  per- 


mitted, very  mildly,  to  ask  how  it  can  be  that  we  got 
"sarcastic"  and  said  "too  much,"  when  the  fact  is  we  said 
nothing  at  all.  The  Argonaut  only  printed  what  the  county- 
assessors  said.  It  neither  added  to,  subtracted  from,  or 
otherwise  embellished,  the  county  assessors'  statements  to  the 
board  of  equalization.  All  this  was  printed  in  the  daily  news- 
papers. What  the  Argonaut  did  was  to  collect  and  summarize. 
If  the  Eastern  press  took  notice  of  the  Argonaut's  summary 
rather  than  of  the  daily-paper  accounts,  it  was  perhaps  be- 
cause the  Argonaut  circulates  more  widely  in  the  East,  or 
is  more  attentively  read,  or  peradventure  because  what  is 
printed  in  it  carries  greater  weight.  Why,  then,  should  we  be 
repentant  for  anything?  Are  we  the  keeper  of  the  county 
assessors  ?  Must  we  shout  from  the  housetops  all  the  promo- 
tion committee  tells  us  about  the  glorious  prosperity  of  Cali- 
fornia, but  preserve  a  dense  silence  on  what  is  said  about 
local  adversity?  If  the  assessors  are  telling  the  truth  are  we 
estopped  from  publishing  it,  and  if  they  are  lying,  are  we  sup- 
posed, like  Brer  Rabbit,  to  "  lie  low  an'  say  nuffin'?"  In  short, 
what  are  the  ethics  of  this  matter,  wherein  the  Colusa  Sun 
and  others  think  they  have  a  grievance  against  us?  Is  what  we 
did  in  bad  taste,  like  mentioning  rope  in  a  family  where 
somebody  has  been  hanged?  A  diplomat  has  been  defined 
as  an  honest  man  at  home,  sent  abroad  to  lie  for  his  country. 
Are  assessors  to  be  regarded  in  the  same  light — as  honest  men 
sent  before  the  board  to  lie  for  their  county?  By  all  means, 
let  us  be  informed. 

Passing  over  the  remarks  of  the  Imperial  Press,  which 
gravely  naively  asks  us  if  we  don't  know  "  that  at  tax-paying 
time  the  property-owner  has  his  saddest  tale  to  tell,"  we 
observe  that  the  gentleman  who  writes  signed  editorials  for 
the  Bulletin  charges  us  with  having  "  given  our  Eastern 
friends  some  ground  on  which  to  oppose  the  Eastern  move- 
ment West,"  and  also  refers  to  us  as  his  "  doleful  contempo- 
rary." It  is  rather  odd  that  the  Western  Empire,  in  explain- 
ing the  true  inwardness  of  the  Argonaut's  article  to  its  corre- 
spondent, should  characterize  this  journal  as  "  a  funny  paper 
of  somewhat  the  same  character  as  Puck,  Judge,  and  Life." 
Now  how  the  deuce  can  we  be  both  a  "  doleful  contemporary  " 
and   like  Puck,  Judge   and  Life  all  to   oncet? 

It  remains  for  the  Alameda  Encinal  (whose  article  we  note 
the  Examiner  reprints)  and  the  Riverside  Enterprise  to  lift 
the  staggering  burden  of  responsibility  off  our  shoulders  onto 
those  of  the  county  assessors.  The  Encinal  hopes  that  "  those 
erring  officials  will  take  warning  from  this  experience,  and  in 
future  refrain  from  giving  any  ground  for  such  criticism," 
while  the  Riverside  paper  courageously  condemns  the  "  silly 
system  of  knocking  practiced  here  in  California  by  each  county 
upon  its  own  industries  and  resources  for  the  sake  of  saving  a 
few  dollars  of  its  share  of  the  State  tax,"  and  adds  : 

The  board  of  equalization  hears  nothing  but  calamity.  For 
a  few  hours  each  year  all  the  energies  and  influence  of  the 
several  counties  are  directed  toward  making  it  seem  that  their 
sections  are  upon  the  verge  of  bankruptcy.  The  result  is  the 
absurd  showing  which  the  Argonaut  has  printed.  For  the  sake 
of  the  State's  reputation  abroad,  California  valuations  ought 
to  be  raised  where  they  belong,  and  then  maintained  there. 
The  assessor  who  "  knocks  "  his  county  ought  to  be  ostracised 
as  a  public  nuisance.  We  might  then  have  a  tax  rate  which 
would  not  give  the  Easterner  a  cold  chill  every  time  it  is 
quoted  to  him,  and  which  very  often  scares  him  so  completely 
that  he  decides  to  invest  his  capital  elsewhere.  The  Argonaut  s 
article  bears  home  a  good  lesson  here  in  California. 

It  almost  seems  as  if  our  article  might  have  encouraged 
so  commonplace  a  virtue  as  telling  the  truth. 


Friedlander 


Elsewhere  we  have  remarked  that  we  could  not  find  the 
Democratic  ticket  in  the  dailies,  and  there- 
fore had  no  means  of  segregating  the  few 
Supervisor  sheep  from  the  large  majority  of  goats.     Five 

days  have  elapsed,  and  we  have  not  seen 
the  ticket  yet.*  However,  we  have  heard  in  conversation  a  few 
names  mentioned  as  being  on  the  Democratic  ticket — among 
them  that  of  T.  Carey  Friedlander.  We  have  known  Carey 
Friedlander  for  many  years,  and  never  knew  anything  against 
him,  except  that  he  was  a  Democrat.  We  have  labored  with 
him — struggled  with  him — argued  with  him.  No  use :  he  re- 
mained a  Democrat  still,  stubbornly  devoted  to  free  trade, 
State  sovereignty,  Jeffersonianism,  and  the  Virginia  and  Ken- 
tucky resolutions  of  179S.  So  we  gave  it  up — we  concluded 
that  he  was  born  so,  and  would  probably  die  a  Democrat. 
But  waiving  this  curious  mental  squint — which  probably  he 
can  not  help — he  is  a  man  of  intelligence,  of  civic  spirit,  and 
will  make  a  very  much  better  supervisor  than  some  of  the 
candidates  on  our  ticket.  We  hope  some  of  our  Republican 
readers  will  vote  for  him — all  of  our  Democratic  readers 
will. 

We  would  like  to  say  a  word  to  our  Republican  readers  con- 
cerning the  candidacy  of  Dr.  Washington 
Dodge  for  assessor.  Although  he  is  on  the 
Democratic  ticket,  we  think  no  Republican 
would  make  a  mistake  in  voting  for  Dr. 
Dodge.  He  has  been  in  office  now  for  some  years,  and  he  has 
shown,  in  our  opinion,  not  only  honesty  and  ability,  but 
marked  qualifications  for  the  assessorship.  It  is  a  very  dif- 
ficult post  to  fill.  Dishonest  men  make  corrupt  money  out 
of  it;  weak  men  let  evil  bosses  rule  them;  routine  men  let 
moldy  precedents  do  harm.  Dr.  Qodge  has  reformed  much 
of  this.  He  has  made  the  tax-shirkers  pay  their  share,  and 
thus  relieved  the  honest  men  who  do  pay  from  the  unjust  bur- 
dens imposed  on  them  by  those  who  do  not.  He  has  hunted 
down  the  millionaires  who  hide  their  wealth  in  safe-deposit 
boxes  here  or  in  New  York,  or  who  temporarily  pauperize 
themselves  about  assessment  time  by  dummy  draft- drawing. 
At  least,  he  has  hunted  down  some  of  them — no  one  man 
could  hunt  down  all  of  them,  and  no  mortal  man  could  make 
them  pay  all  they  owe.  There  is  nothing  meaner  than  a  mean 
millionaire.  Further,  Dr.  Dodge  has  battled  stoutly  for  his 
city  against  the  attempted  hold-up  of  the  hay-seed  equalizers. 
For  this.  Mr.  Lane  is  now  attempting  to  steal  his  thunder — 
we  think  most  unjustly.  And  lastly,  Dr.  Dodge  has  not  at- 
tempted to  make  a  record  by  squeezing  the  ultimate  dollar  out 


Dr.  Dodge 

for 

Assessor. 


November  2,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT  . 


of  the  taxpayers.  He  has  reduced  as  well  as  raised.  There 
are  thousands  of  taxpayers  in  San  Francisco  who  for  years 
have  been  paying  at  the  same  rate  on  old  buildings — some- 
times structures  a  third  of  a  century  old.  This  was  unjust 
and  preposterous,  and  Dr.  Dodge  has  wiped  away  this  in- 
justice. But  at  the  same  time  he  has  increased  the  assessment 
roll  by  fifty  millions  of  dollars.  He  is  an  honest  and  able 
man,  and  has  made  a  good  assessor.  We  recommend  Repub- 
licans to  vote  for  him. 

Among  the  names  on  the  Democratic  supervisoral  ticket,  there 
is  one  to  which  we  would  call  the  attention 
of  our  readers.  It  is  that  of  Henry  Payot. 
Mr.  Payot  is  an  old  and  valued  citizen  of  San 
Francisco.  He  has  been  in  business  here  for 
many  years,  and  has  accumulated  a  competence.  While  devot- 
ing much  of  his  well-earned  leisure  to  the  pleasures  of  travel. 
he  has  considered,  and  rightly,  that  there  are  civic  dutie? 
incumbent  on  the  man  of  means  and  leisure.  So  believing,  he 
accepted  the  nomination  for  supervisor  at  the  last  election, 
and  has  since  filled  the  post  conscientiously  and  well.  He  is 
a  good  man  to  vote  for,  whether  you  are  Republican  or  Demo- 
crat.    Vote  for  him. 


Pavot 

for 

Supervisor 


The  nominees  for  police  judges  on  the  Democratic  ticket  are 
George  Cabaniss  and  E.  P.  Mogan.  When 
the  teamsters'  strike  was  on,  and  when  in- 
offensive workingmen  were  having  their 
wrists  broken  with  iron  bars,  and  their  heads 

battered  into  a  bloody  pulp,  these  two  judges  let  most  of  the 

assailants  go  scot-free.     All  those  in  favor  of  the  same  will 

so  signify  by  saying  "  NO  !  " 


The 

Democratic 
Police  Judges. 


We  would  like  to  say  a  word  urging  Argonaut  readers  to  vote 
for  John  McDougald  for  treasurer.  He  is 
the  present  incumbent,  and  is  the  Republican 
nominee.  Mr.  McDougald  is  an  honest  man. 
a   good    Republican,    and    has    made    a    good 

treasurer.      We   have   known    him    for   many    years,    and    never 

knew    anything   but    good    of   him.      Vote    for    him — you    will 

make  no  mistake  if  you  do. 


McDougald 

for 

Treasurer. 


A  Whirlwind 
Finish  for  the 
Campaign. 


The  mental  tympana  of  most  voters  must,  we  think,  by  this 
time  be  pretty  weary  of  political  clamor. 
The  shrilling  of  the  daily  newspapers  for 
and  against  the  various  political  Toms,  Dicks, 
and  Harrys  has  this  year  been  exceptionally 
incessant  and  loud.  We  are  now  close  upon  the  end  of  it 
all,  and  we  opine  that  everybody  is  glad  that  it  is  so.  After 
Tuesday,  a  restful  silence  will  prevail.  Tom  Moore  wrote, 
nearly  a  century  ago : 

"  As   bees,   on    flowers    alighting,    cease   to   hum, 
So,  settling  upon  places,  Whigs  grow  dumb," 

and  time  has  not  yet  robbed  the  couplet  of  appositeness. 

San  Francisco  has  discovered,  during  the  week,  that  she 
owns  two  great  Caseys.  Michael  we  all  know.  "  Ed "  had 
greatness  thrust  upon  him  by  the  Bulletin  on  Sunday.  That 
paper  is,  indeed,  making  a  gamy  and  resourceful  fight  for 
Lane.  Without  the  Bulletin,  the  last  ten  days  of  the  campaign 
would  have  been  dull  enough,  but  as  it  is,  the  Republican 
papers  have  been  kept  busy  denying  the  Bulletin's  sensational 
allegations,  while  the  interested  citizen  has  been  hard  at  work 
trying  to  figure  out  who's  the  liar. 

As  to  "Ed"  Casey,  the  Bulletin  alleges  that  he  "'is  very 
intelligent  and  truthful  " ;  that  he  is  a  clerk  in  the  county 
clerk's  office  ;  that  he  is  working  for  John  D.  Greif.  the  Repub- 
lican nominee  ;  that  in  pursuance  of  his  labors  Casey  visited 
Lou  Brown;  that  Lou  Brown  is  a  "tool"  of  W.  F.  Herrin, 
of  the  Southern  Pacific;  that  the  wicked  Lou  Brown  said  to 
the  "intelligent  and  truthful"  Casey:  "You  are  to  turn  your 
strength  to  Schmitz.  Go  and  see  Reuf.  He  will  deliver  to  you 
a  big  bunch  of  votes.  Those  are  Herrin's  orders."  The  Bul- 
letin further  alleges  that  John  D.  Siebe,  also  said  to  be  Her- 
rin's repesentative.  shocked  the  "  truthful  and  intelligent  " 
Casey  by  saying:  "It's  Schmitz  and  Bahrs.  That  is  the  pro- 
gramme. Crocker  is  a  goner."  It  seems  to  make  no  difference 
to  the  Bulletin  that  Mr.  Siebe  and  Lou  Brown  deny,  over 
their  signatures,  that  they  ever  thus  shocked  Casey,  and  one 
of  them  that  he  ever  met  Herrin.  Casey,  for  his  part,  proves 
his  intelligence,  if  not  his  truthfulness,  by  sticking  to  his  story. 
Another  Iast-days-of-the-campaign  specialty  of  the  Bulletin  is 
discovering  "  prominent  "  Republicans  who  will  vote  for  Lane. 
Among  these  are  John  E.  Quinn,  W.  S.  Morrill,  B.  P.  Flint, 
once  Republican  candidate  for  mayor,  and  Asa  R.  Wells,  can- 
didate for  mayor  at  the  last  election.  John  M.  Murphy,  Union 
Labor  assemblyman  from  the  twenty-eighth  assembly  district, 
also  writes  to  the  Bulletin,  and  says  he  is  for  Lane.  Wells, 
in  the  statement  published  over  his  signature,  says  that  "  the 
defeat  of  Crocker  is  inevitable."  The  Bulletin  declares  that 
it  has  received  "  statements  similar  to  that  of  Mr.  Wells " 
from  P.  B.  Cornwall  and  W.  R,  Wheeler,  and  it  also  alleges 
.  that  F.  W.  Dohrman.  Ernest  A.  Denicke.  John  Nightingale, 
George  K.  Fitch,  L.  H.  Bonestell,  E.  J.  Le  Breton,  J.  B.  Stet- 
son, Lewis  Gerstle,  and  Horace  Davis  are  for  Lane. 

One  funny  thing  about  this  list  is  that,  the  day  after  it  was 
printed,  the  Bulletin  editorially  explained:  "Through  an  in- 
advertence the  name  of  Lewis  Gerstle.  who  is  dead,  was 
printed  on  this  list  yesterday  instead  of  Mark  L.  Gerstle." 
It  is  to  laugh ! 

Meantime,  the  Republican  press  has  not  been  altogether  idle. 
The  Chronicle  announces  the  formation  of  a  Henry  J.  Crocker 
Club  among  the  workingmen.  and  presents  an  imposing  array 
of  officers  and  members.  The  president  is  F.  P.  Nicholas,  a 
carpenter.  The  vice-presidents  are  J.  Hamersley,  electrical 
worker ;  Charles  A.  Nelson,  carpenter ;  Emmett  Brannan, 
bricklayer;  Joseph  A.  McAuliffe,  plumber;  C.  E.  Travis, 
roofer ;  Robert  McCann,  engineer ;  C.  M.  Hayble,  polisher. 
Many    other    names    are    printed,    and    all    trades    seem    to    be 


represented.  Lengthy  resolutions  have  been  passed  by  the 
club,  denouncing  Schmitz  as  a  traitor  to  unionism,  and  espous- 
ing the  cause  of  Crocker. 

The  Chronicle  has  also  printed  a  formal  statement  from  the 
Republican    campaign    and    organization    committees,    reading: 

The  undersigned,  after  a  careful  investigation  and  canvass, 
do  positively  declare  that  Mr.  Lane  has  no  possible  chance  of 
election.  Mr.  Crocker  has  made  accessions  from  the  Demo- 
cratic ranks  and  from  voters  who  are  members  of  labor  union?. 
The  contest  is  strictly  between  Mr.  Crocker  and  Mr.  Schmitz. 
Mr.  Crocker's  election  is  certain. 

This  statement  is  signed  by  the  following:  A.  P.  Williams. 
Dr.  W.  F.  McNutt,  Henry  Ach.  David  Rich,  John  C.  Lynch, 
W.  J.  Dutton,  Arthur  G.  Fiske,  John  S.  Partridge,  Daniel  A. 
Ryan,  Edgar  D.       i..ot:o,  J.  Steppacher. 

Several  unions  Have  lately  passed  resolutions  denouncing 
the  mayor.  The  Theatrical  Employees  Union  is  one  of  these, 
their  denunciation  being  particularly  fierce.  Other  unions  have 
indorsed  the  mayor  by  resolution,  while  still  others  have 
denounced  the  Crocker  Workingmen's  Club  as  an  attempt  to 
mislead  the  real  workingmen,  and  still  others  have  written  to 
the  Lane  papers  that  their  names  were  used  without  their  con- 
sent. In  the  betting,  Schmitz  and  Crocker  are  still  said  to  be 
neck  and  neck,  with  Lane  a  bad  third. 

These  are  the  principal  new  developments  in  politics  this 
week.  They  none  of  them  are  of  a  sort  to  convince  anybody 
with  his  mind  made  up  to  the  contrary.  The  word  of  the 
"  truthful  and  intelligent "  Casey  will  scarcely  send  Repub- 
lican thousands  into  the  Lane  camp,  and  the  Crocker  Working- 
men's  Club  will  not  wean  the  labor  unionists  from  Schmitz. 
The  cleanest  campaign  of  the  three,  however,  has  been  made 
by  Mr.  Crocker,  and  looking  back  over  the  events  of  the  past 
few  weeks,  and  considering  only  general  outlines  and  larger 
tendencies,  we  see  no  reason  why  good  Republicans  should  not 
vote  a  good  Republican  into  the  mayor's  chair  next  Tuesday. 


General   Manager  Kruttschnitt,   of  the  Southern  Pacific  Com- 
pany, nas  Dcen  explaining  tne  recent  i_-nanges 
Southern  Pacific 

in    operating    tnat    roaa.      tie    says    ttiat    tne 
Improvement  and      , 

Retrenchment.  changes  are  in  the  line  of  taking  advantage 
of  recent  improvements  rather  than  of  re- 
trenchment. Millions  of  dollars  have  been  expended  in 
straightening  out  curves,  reducing  grades,  and  improving  road- 
beds, and  these  improvements  result  in  a  saving  of  operating 
expenses.  On  some  lines,  trains  that  were  not  justified  by  the 
volume  of  business  have  been  discontinued,  and  this  has 
enabled  them  to  use  the  locomotives  on  other  lines  to  better 
advantage,  for  the  general  volume  of  business  has  increased 
so  rapidly  that  they  have  been  unable  to  increase  the  motive 
power  sufficiently  to  handle  the  business.  The  Ogden-Lucin 
cut-off  will  probably  be  in  shape  to  be  used  by  November 
20th,  when  President  Harriman  visits  Salt  Lake,  though  it 
will  probably  not  be  used  regularly  until  some  time  after 
that  date.  The  Chatsford  Park  cut-off,  which  will  afford  an 
easier  and  shorter  route  to  Santa  Barbara,  will  probably  be 
completed  by  the  end  of  the  year.  There  are  three  tunnels 
on  the  line,  all  of  which  are  completed.  All  that  remains  to 
be  done  is  to  lay  the  track  and  put  the  roadbed  in  proper 
shape.  The  crooked  line  between  Montalvo  and  Saugus  and 
the  heavy  grades  over  the  San  Fernando  Mountains  will  be 
avoided  by  this   cut-off. 


There  is  a  persistent  rumor  to  the  effect  that  the  San  Fran- 
cisco   Gas    and    Electric    Company    has    suc- 

„      „       '  ceeded  in  absorbing  the  rival  companies  only 

Gas  Companv  °  r  j 

Rumored  to    "ave    a    new    opposition    spring    up.      The 

identity  of  the  promoters  of  the  new  enter- 
prise is  still  shrouded  in  mystery,  but  the  rumor  has  it  that 
the  company  will  be  in  operation  within  a  year,  and  some 
well-known  names  are  being  mentioned  in  connection  with  it. 
One  of  these  is  Rudolph  Spreckels.  He  resigned  from  the 
directorate  of  the  San  Francisco  Company  when  W.  B.  Bourn 
was  voted  a  salary  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  and  he 
was  known  to  be  strongly  opposed  to  that  generosity.  But  he 
represents  fifty-two  thousand  shares  of  the  stock  of  the 
company,  and  to  unload  this  would  be  a  slow  operation. 
Henry  Bothin,  who  is  also  mentioned,  is  in  a  similar  position. 
He  also  resigned  from  the  directorate  when  the  president's 
salary  was  fixed,  and  he  also  represents  a  large  block  of  stock. 
W.  R.  Whittier,  who  is  also  spoken  of  as  one  of  the  pro- 
moters, is  not  at  present  interested  in  gas  stock.  Opinion 
as  to  the  wisdom  of  starting  a  new  opposition  to  the  San 
Francisco  Company  is  divided.  Some  hold  that  the  old  com- 
pany would  be  a  hard  corporation  to  fight  with  its  present 
capitalization,  for  it  could  cut  rates  to  crowd  out  any  opposi- 
tion. Others  regard  the  bonded  indebtedness  as  a  disadvantage 
rather  than  an  advantage,  while  still  others  hold  that  the 
opposition  would  be  inadvisable  now,  but  that  in  a  year  there 
will  be  a  field  for  it. 


Stagnation 
Among  the 

Office-Holders. 


Under  a  government  by  parties,  machine  politics  are  sure  to 
have  a  strong  influence  on  the  Presidential 
elections.  The  machine  work  done  in  the 
way  of  organization,  presenting  the  issues, 
and  getting  out  the  vote,  is  frequently  vastly 
aided  by  the  entourage  which  a  President  may  have  built  up 
by  appointments  to  the  Federal  offices.  These  naturally  want 
to  continue  under  a  new  administration  of  the  power  which 
appointed  them.  When  not  too  conspicuous,  they  are  a  power- 
ful aid  to  the  candidate,  and  sometimes  when  too  aggressive 
they  repel  votes.  But  there  are  "outs"  as  well  as  "ins." 
There  are  plenty  of  Republicans  not  in  office  who  would  like 
to  be.  and  the  question  comes  up  as  to  how  the  "  outs  "  will 
look  upon  President  Roosevelt's  election.  His  administration 
has  practically  been  a  continuance  of  that  of  McKinley.  Con- 
tinuing the  same  policies,  he  has  in  a  large  number  of  cases 
continued  the  same  men  in  the  important  Federal  offices  which 
are  distributed  among  the  States.  Some  of  the  influential 
workers  who  want  to  get   into  office,  are  noting  that  the  in- 


cumbents have  served  through  four  years  of  McKinley,  will 
have  served  four  more  with  Roosevelt,  and  are  now  asking 
if  their  terms  will  be  extended  to  twelve  years  if  Roosevelt 
becomes  his  own  successor.  The  expectation  of  men  who 
control  votes  of  getting  into  office  by  the  use  of  them  adds 
a  vim  to  a  national  campaign,  which  is  apt  to  suffer  inertia 
when  the  chances  of  changes  in  office  are  not  encouraging. 
The  alternation  in  office  between  the  parties  during  the  periods 
when  Cleveland  twice  broke  into  the  White  House,  supplied 
the  campaign  vigor  required  by  political  machines  on  both 
sides.  Even  prior  to  that,  during  the  long  Republican  occu- 
pancy of  the  Presidency,  similar  incentive  was  not  lacking. 
President  Arthur's  administration  was  not  in  harmony  with 
that  of  Hayes,  whom  he  in  effect  succeeded.  That  of  Hayes 
was  hostile  to  the  Grant  administrations,  and  consequently 
promised  a  readjustment  of  the  important  Federal  offices. 
The  administrations  of  McKinley  and  Roosevelt  have  all  the 
practical  outward  effect  of  one  administration  so  far  as  the 
politicians  are  concerned.  In  some  of  the  Middle  West  States 
the  party  managers  are  asking  if  the  same  set  of  office-holders 
are  to  continue  indefinitely,  or  whether  new  men  will  be  given 
a  chance  at  the  honors.  It  is  one  of  the  weaknesses  of  a  long 
period  of  control  by  a  single  party,  and  is  apt  to  have  a 
benumbing  effect  upon  the  efforts  of  the  machine  in  a  cam- 
paign. How  to  surmount  the  obstacle  is  a  delicate  question 
for  any  Presidential  candidate.  On  his  second  election.  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  announced  that  he  would  not  reappoint  his  old 
office-holders.  If  President  Roosevelt  should  make  a  similar 
stand  before  election,  it  would  be  matter  of  conjecture  whether 
the  atrophy  which  would  settle  on  the  incumbents  would  be 
worse  than  the  supineness  now  apt  to  prevail  among  the 
ambitious  "  outs." 


The    mayor,    who    is    to    be    elected   next    Tuesday,    will    have 
considerable  patronage  at  his  disposal.     The 

terms  of  eleven  members  of  executive  boards 
Mayor  and  His  ...  .  ,.       ,  -  , 

Appointments  w         expire     immediately    after    he     assumes 

office.  On  the  board  of  public  works  will  be 
Marsden  Manson,  with  a  salary  of  $4,000 ;  on  the  civil  service 
commission  is  P.  H.  McCarthy,  salary  $1,200;  on  the  board  of 
education  is  Lawrence  F.  Walsh,  salary  $3,000  ;  on  the  police 
commission  is  Thomas  Reagan,  salary  $1,200;  on  the  fire 
commission  is  Rolla  V.  Watt,  salary  $1,200;  on  the  park  com- 
mission are  A.  B.  Spreckels  and  Jasper  McDonald ;  on  the 
board  of  health  are  Dr.  R.  W.  Baum  and  Dr.  V.  P.  Buckley; 
on  the  election  commission  are  Jeremiah  Deasy  and  Oliver 
Everett,  salary  $1,000.  Should  Dr.  Lewitt  resign  from  the  board 
of  health,  as  he  has  intimated  he  would,  there  would  be  another 
vacancy  to  fill.  In  January,  1905,  there  will  be  eleven  more 
vacancies  on  these  boards,  and  the  filling  of  these  vacancies 
will  give  the  control  of  the  boards  to  the  incoming  mayor 
for  the  first  time.  Besides  the  executive  boards,  there  are 
several  other  positions  at  the  disposal  of  the  mayor.  The  term 
of  Registrar  of  Voters  Walsh  will  expire  on  January  Sth.  The 
position  of  the  secretary  of  the  public  works  board  depends 
upon  the  election.  The  success  of  Schmitz  would  seal  his 
doom;  the  success  of  either  of  the  others  might  enable  him  to 
hold  on.  In  a  similar  way,  the  tenure  of  a  number  of  other 
subordinates,  among  them  the  city  engineer,  whose  salary  is 
$5,ooo,  the  city  architect,  and  a  number  of  employees  in  the 
health  department,  depends  upon  the  personality  of  the  new- 
mayor. 


Canal 
System 


The  revolution  effected  in  transportation  methods  by  the  dis- 
covery of  how  to  utilize  steam-power  to  land 
travel,  has  until  very  recently  closed  the 
eyes  of  the  people  of  this  country  to  the  fact 
that  the  transportation  problem  has  two 
aspects.  There  must  be  rapid  transportation  for  goods  whose 
nature  is  perishable,  or  whose  value  is  sufficient  to  allow  high 
freight  payments;  and  comparatively  slow  transportation  for 
goods  on  which  the  freight  charges  form  a  more  important 
element  than  the  time  does.  For  slow  and  cheap  transporta- 
tion canals  and  interior  water-ways  offer  an  economical  ser- 
vice that  has  almost  been  overlooked  in  this  country.  In 
Europe,  the  struggle  for  existence  is  more  strenuous  than  it  is 
in  this  country,  so  such  factors  can  not  be  overlooked  there. 
France  has  probably  done  more  than  any  other  European 
country  to  develop  its  interior  water-ways.  The  rivers  of 
France  are  not  large,  nor  are  they  particularly  favorable 
naturally  for  commercial  highways.  But  the  channels  have 
been  improved,  and  connecting  canals  have  been  constructed, 
until  now  France  has  an  elaborate  system  of  interior  water- 
ways. More  than  four  thousand  miles  of  rivers  have  been 
improved,  and  these  have  been  connected  by  three  hundred 
thousand  miles  of  canals,  built  at  a  cost  of  one-third  of  a 
billion  dollars.  At  the  mouth  of  the  Rhone — as  a  special  in- 
stance illustrating  the  policy — a  canal  is  being  built  to  assist 
up-stream  commerce,  that  will  cost  fourteen  million  two  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  when  completed.  The  people  of  this 
State  can  not  take  up  the  problem  of  improving  the  interior 
water-ways  for  commerce  too  soon,  for  favorable  conditions 
exist,  and  the  necessity  is  already  here. 


LITERARY   SVPPLEMEXT. 


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tain the  usual  miscellany.  The  number  will  be  printed  on 
heavy  dated  paper,  handsomely  illustrated,  and  will  consist 
of  forty  pages.  Price,  ten  cents.  Xewsdealers  would  do  well 
to  send  their  orders  in  advance. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  2,  1903. 


JOSIAH    THE    CLAIM-JUMPER. 

How  a  Shot  in  the  Dark  Went  True. 

Josiah  Godbolt  was  new  to  the  Shasta  hills.  He  was 
new  to  anv  hills,  and,  of  course,  he  was  new  to  the 
mines.  He  was  new  to  everything  Western,  and  new 
to  almost  everything  not  relating  directly  or  indirectly 
to  the  swamp  lands  of  the  Mississippi,  where  boys 
grow  so  fast  into  human  saplings  that  by  the  time  they 
are  stubbly  of  chin  their  legs  are  long  enough  for  them 
to  stride  away,  or  to  the  locomotion  of  a  St.  Louis 
street-car.  Godbolt  had  been  a  conductor  on  a  street-car 
until  that  eventful  day  when  his  car  collided  while  he 
was  engaged  in  helping  a  small  girl  with  her  basket, 
and  he  was  discharged.  He  had  had  wages  due  him 
sufficient  to  pay  his  fare  to  California,  which  seemed 
the  place  most  distant  from  the  scene  of  his  yielding 
to  a  weakness.  Hither  he  had  come  in  a  hurry.  But 
Josiah  knew,  or,  to  be  precise,  he  "  allowed  "  that  he 
wanted  a  copper  mine.  As  he  had  no  snug  fortune  with 
which  to  buy  one,  his  recourse  was  to  discover  a  new 
ledge  and  plaster  his  notice  of  location  upon  it.  These 
are  sidelights  upon  the  trail  along  which  Fate  led 
Josiah  to  Pete  Barclay. 

Barclay  was  a  tenderfoot — nearly  twenty  years  be- 
fore Josiah  was  born.  Four  decades  he  had  spent  in 
getting  into  such  close  and  fortune-hunting  communion 
with  the  "  likely  spots  "  of  the  Sierra  Nevadas  and  the 
Coast  Range,  that  he  had  really  become  a  part  of  the 
mountains.  He  was  so  gray  and  weathered,  and  so 
perfectly  attuned  to  the  surroundings,  that  he  could 
squat  among  the  little  bowlders  on  a  Shasta  hillside 
and  a  jack-rabbit  might  hop  over  and  scratch  its  back 
against  a  corner  of  him  without  noting  the  difference. 
Fortune  had  not  always  been  mean  to  him,  and  if  he 
was  forever  at  the  ebb  it  was  mainly  because,  like  all 
chronic  prospectors,  he  knew  a  good  deal  more  about 
hunting  for  mineral  than  about  using  it  after  he  found 
it.  Once,  at  Cherokee,  he  took  out  nuggets  as  large  as 
buzzards'  eggs;  at  Oak  Bar  he  piped  down  a  bank 
which  washed  ten  thousand  dollars  in  ten  days,  and  a 
week  later,  in  a  gambling-house — but  that  is  not  this 
story. 

Josiah  Godbolt,  tired  of  mucking  at  the  Iron  Moun- 
tain, and  resolved  to  make  a  find  for  himself,  drew  his 
stipend  and  went  to  Redding.  Pete  Barclay,  driven 
away  from  the  high  altitudes  of  Coffee  Creek  by  the 
flying  snow,  was  in  town  with  the  price  of  four  weeks' 
living  used  out  of  his  shallow  dust-sack  when  he  met 
Josiah  in  the  Blue  Goose  resort  "  You're  fresh  enough 
from  nowhere  to  have  some  greenhorn  luck  with  you," 
commented  Barclay.  "  You're  long  enough  on  the  belt 
to  teach  me  how  to  find  a  copper  mine,"  was  Josiah's 
theory.    And  so  the  partnership  was  formed. 

Barclay  did  know  of  a  copper  prospect  which 
seemed  large  enough  to  meet  the  ideas  of  the  young 
Missourian,  to  say  nothing  of  his  own  hopes,  now  modi- 
fied by  experience.  He  knew  wmere  a  streak  as  of  half 
worn  off  red  paint  ran  through  a  ravine  and  over  a  hill- 
top, back  from  Copley,  within  rifleshot  of  the  great 
Balaklala.  This  red  gossan  meant  more  than  an  iron 
cropping,  of  that  he  was  certain.  On  the  Fourth  of 
July,  when  every  miner  of  the  section  had  gone  to  Red- 
ding for  the  celebration,  he  had  improved  the  un- 
watched  opportunity  to  pick  into  the  vein  where  the 
hill  sloughed  away,  and  he  had  found  copper  sulphu- 
rets.  The  obstacle  which  prevented  Barclay  from  tak- 
ing up  the  two  claims  which  the  red  streak  crossed  was 
that  they  already  bore  the  location  notices  of  Henry 
Flatfoot,  half-breed,  drunkard,  and  fighter.  The  half- 
breed  had  been  keen  enough  to  see  that  there  was  value 
there,  but  too  lazy  to  get  down  to  it,  or  even  to  do  his 
assessment  work,  required  by  law.  Pete  Barclay  had 
waited  this  opportunity.  In  another  night  the  year 
would  expire,  and  with  it  the  location  notices  of  the 
half-breed.  The  first  man  upon  the  spot  after  the  hour 
of  midnight  could  re-locate  those  two  valuable  claims. 
The  surest  way  was  for  a  man  to  be  on  each  of  the 
claims  exactly  at  twelve  o'clock  to  tear  down  Flatfoot's 
notices  and  post  new  ones  of  their  own.  This  was  what 
Pete  Barclay  had  in  mind  in  taking  a  partner. 

An  old  miner  and  a  young  one  dropped  from  the  ca- 
boose of  the  afternoon  freight  train  at  Copley,  and 
slung  down  their  packs  while  they  went  in  to  patronize 
the  bar,  which  constituted  half  the  town.  The  older 
miner  was  careful  to  explain  to  the  dispenser  of  re- 
freshments and  the  loungers  in  the  place  that  he  and 
his  companion  were  going  to  the  Balaklala  to  work. 
"  Seeing  you've  got  jobs,  it  aint  worth  mentioning," 
said  the  proprietor,  "  but  Injun  Flatfoot,  who's  a-gamb- 
ling  in  the  back  room  now,  says  he's  willing  to  pay  big 
for  somebody  to  go  up  the  hill  with  him  to-night  and 
keep  some  old  claim  or  other  from  being  jumped." 

The  remark  was  not  lost  upon  Josiah  Godbolt,  and  as 
he  toiled  after  Barclay  along  the  trail,  winding  up  hill- 
sides and  around  little  peaks,  sometimes  under  trees  and 
usually  through  dense  chemise,  he  asked :  "  Will  this 
Flatfoot  party  try  to  interfere  with  us  to-night,  do  you 
reckon  ?  " 

"  You'd  better  save  your  wind  to  get  up  these  hills, 
instead  of  wasting  it  asking  questions,"  answered  old 
Pete;  "  and  besides,  a  pine-tree,  such  as  you  be,  with  a 
six-shorter  handy,  ought  to  be  able  to  bluff  off  a  half- 
breed,  anyway." 

It  w;  s  while  they  were  cooking  supper  in  a  secluded 
spot  '}..  the  ravine,  just  below  the  first  of  the  claims 
they  h  .  1  come  to  operate  upon  that  night,  that  Josiah 


learned  more  of  Henry  Flatfoot.  It  would  seem  that  he 
must  be  the  boss  bad  citizen  of  Shasta  County.  Bar- 
clay told  Josiah  that  the  half-breed  had  shot  at  many 
men  in  various  fights,  had  stabbed  one  or  two,  and 
bore  the  record  of  his  encounters  in  scars  over  his 
body  and  a  long  knife  mark  across  his  left  cheek.  "  He 
served  a  term  in  San  Quentin,"  went  on  Barclay,  ru- 
minating. "  It  was  after  he  tried  to  hold  up  the  Bieber 
stage,  up  yon  way,  and  was  shot  in  the  shoulder.  They 
chased  him  for  five  days.  He  was  so  near  petered  out 
that  he  even  threw  away  his  gun,  or  some  of  them 
wouldn't  have  been  so  hot  to  overtake  him.  At  last 
they  caught  him  in  a  deep  cave  on  the  McCloud,  and 
how  do  you  s'pose  they  knew  he  was  back  in  the  dark 
hole?  It  was  by  the  shine  of  his  eyes;  they  were  just 
like  an  animal's.  People  say  it's  due  to  the  fact  that  a 
wildcat  crawled  into  his  mother's  cabin  one  night  not 
long  before  he  was  born." 

It  was  very  dark  in  the  hills  at  nine  o'clock.  At  that 
hour,  Pete  Barclay  stationed  Josiah  Godbolt  beside  the 
scrub-oak  upon  which  Henry  Flatfoot's  location  of  the 
claim  was  posted,  with  the  instruction  that  when  he 
could  feel  both  hands  of  his  big  silver  watch,  from 
which  the  crystal  had  been  removed,  pointing  straight 
upward,  he  was  to  tear  down  the  half-breed's  notice 
and  tack  up  their  own  as  noiselessly  as  posible.  Then 
he  was  to  stand  guard  beside  the  sign  of  their  posses- 
sion until  morning.  Pete  would  do  the  same  on  the 
other  claim. 

"  And  what  if  somebody  comes  snorting  around  here 
and  wants  to  clean  me  out  ?  "  asked  Josiah. 

"  Well,  the  law  gives  a  man  the  right  to  defend  his 
property  in  the  certainest  way  he  knows  how,  and  that's 
my  best  gun  you've  got  in  your  belt  there,"  replied 
Pete,  as  he  felt  his  way  into  the  little  trail  which  led 
to  the  other  claim,  half  a  mile  away  over  the  hill. 

Josiah  found  his  vigil  growing  tedious  rapidly  He 
feared  to  move  about  in  the  darkness,  lest  he  should  lose 
the  tree,  and  he  had  been  advised  not  to  disclose  his 
presence  to  chance  prowlers  by  striking  a  light.  For 
the  same  reason  he  checked  a  half-involuntary  impulse 
to  whistle.  He  slid  to  the  ground,  with  his  back  against 
the  tree,  and  occupied  himself  with  thinking  over  all  he 
had  heard  about  the  half-breed,  who  would  own  the 
very  ground  upon  which  he  was  sitting  for  more  than 
two  hours  to  come.  Supposing  Henry  Flatfoot  should 
take  a  notion  to  visit  the  claim  while  it  still  belonged  to 
him?  Who  would  be  the  intruder  then,  and  on  whose 
side  would  the  law  be  ?  -  Josiah  moved  his  big  foot,  and 
the  crackling  of  a  twig  beneath  it  startled  him  and  set 
his  heart  to  beating. 

The  darkness  was  so  intense  that  Josiah  could  see  as 
little  with  his  eyes  open  as  with  them  shut.  He  could 
not  see  the  hand  on  his  crooked-up  knee,  and  he  could 
not  see  his  right  hand,  which,  somehow,  seemed  com- 
fortable only  when  it  rested  upon  the  butt  of  the  revol- 
ver swung  loosely  in  his  leather  belt.  Many  the  night 
when  he  had  followed  the  dogs  at  a  run  in  the  bottoms 
along  the  Mississippi  until  the  'possum  was  treed  and 
the  axes  could  be  swung  to  fell  the  perch,  but  he  had 
not  supposed  that  a  night,  when  neither  snow  nor  rain 
was  falling,  could  be  as  dark  as  this.  Clouds  hid  every 
star.  In  shifting  his  position  he  was  delighted  to  dis- 
cover a  glow-worm.  He  seized  the  insect,  and  drawing 
up  his  cowhide  shoes,  smeared  phosphorous  on  the  toe 
of  each.  He  could  now  follow  the  motion  of  his  feet 
when  he  moved  them,  and  he  felt  more  collected. 

With  limbs  numb  from  sitting  so  long  in  this  posture, 
Josiah  pulled  out  his  watch  in  haste.  Surely  it  was 
already  past  midnight.  The  long  hand  was  undoubtedly 
pointing  straight  up,  but  an  angle  separated  the  short 
hand  from  it.  It  was  eleven  o'clock.  If  Henry  Flat- 
foot  were  coming  to  try  to  save  his  claims  he  would 
arrive  during  the  next  hour.  Josiah  tried  to  keep 
thoughts  of  the  desperate  Indian  out  of  his  mind.  The 
night  had  been  very  still.  Suddenly  the  brush  crackled 
slightly.  Josiah  found  when  all  was  silent  again  that 
he  had  unconsciously  risen  to  his  feet  and  was  support- 
ing himself  with  one  hand  against  the  tree  while  in  the 
other  he  gripped  his  revolver.  It  was  only  a  rabbit 
moving  in  the  chemise,  of  course.  He  restored  the 
weapon  to  its  place,  and  sank  down  again.  After  a  time  a 
sound  in  the  brush  off  to  the  other  side  set  him  a-quiver 
again,  but  he  convinced  himself  that  only  a  toad 
could  make  such  a  wee  noise,  though  it  had  sounded 
loud  enough  at  first.  When  a  strange  night  bird  cried 
out  he  did  not  move  or  touch  his  gun,  and  he  told  him- 
self that  he  had  banished  his  silly  fears.  The  night 
was  cold,  but  somehow  he  did  not  feel  the  chill. 

During  the  last  half-hour  before  midnight,  Josiah 
held  his  watch  on  his  palm,  and  with  his  fingers  fol- 
lowed the  long  hand  as  it  mounted  the  dial.  Anybody 
would  know  that  if  the  half-breed  Henry  Flatfoot  were 
coming  to  prevent  his  location  notice  from  being  torn 
down,  he  would  not  have  waited  until  so  late  to  come. 
Josiah  could  feel  his  palm  perspiring  beneath  the 
cold  case  of  the  watch  when  at  last  both  hands  were 
squarely  upon  the  figure  twelve.  In  a  moment  he  was 
upon  his  feet  ripping  the  half-rotten  cloth  sign  from 
its  place  upon  the  tree.  The  new  piece  of  cloth  a  foot 
square  he  spread  against  the  trunk,  whether  right  side 
or  wrong  side  to  the  bark  he  neither  knew  nor  thought, 
and  began  to  drive  in  tacks  with  his  heavy  pocket-knife. 
The  sound  of  the  hammering  was  like  the  thundering 
of  a  stamp-mill  to  him,  and  yet  his  ears  -caught  that 
cautious  sound  in  the  chemise.  He  dropped  his  knife 
and  drove  in  the  rest  of  the  tacks  with  the  sheer 
strength  of  his  callous  fingers.  Then  he  dropped  to  the 
ground  upon  his  knees,  and  waited. 

The  quiet  was  absolute.     Yet  Josiah  knew  that  the 


sound  he  had  heard  was  not  made  by  a  rabbit  or  by  a 
toad.  Something  a  good  deal  larger  than  either  had 
moved  in  the  brush  within  a  hundred  feet  of  him.  He 
was  on  his  own  ground  now,  but  somehow  he  was  more 
nervous  than  before.  Tensely  he  waited.  At  last  it 
came  again,  just  as  he  knew  it  would.  Something  or 
somebody  was  moving  slowly  toward  the  little  clearing, 
in  the  midst  of  which  was  the  tree  beneath  which  he 
crouched.  Two  steps,  three  steps,  the  thing  would 
stop,  wait  in  silence,  and  then  come  on.  With  his  long 
pistol  across  his  knees  and  gripped  tightly,  Josiah  bent 
forward.  The  sound  was  most  like  that  which  a  man 
would  make  in  crawling.  Only  one  man  on  earth  could 
have  any  reason  to  approach  that  lonely  spot  by  stealth 
at  that  hour  of  the  night,  and  that  man  would  be  Henry 
Flatfoot,  the  half-breed  desperado,  coming  to  see 
whether  the  notice  by  virtue  of  which  he  had  held  this 
mining  claim  had  been  disturbed.  The  sounds  were  re- 
peated, and  again  ceased.  Another  sound  broke  the 
hush:  "Henry  Flatfoot,  the  lawr  is  now  on  my  side; 
you'd  better  go  back — so  help  you  Gawd !" 

There  was  a  light  commotion  in  the  chemise.  Per- 
haps the  unseen  had  heeded  the  warning,  and  was  now 
retreating.  But  in  another  ten  seconds  the  steps  came 
on  again. 

Upon  the  strained  gaze  of  Josiah  there  burst  two 
balls  as  of  yellow  fire.  They  dazzled  him  even  as  his 
senses  told  him  what  they  must  be.  Such  eyes  as  those 
burning  out  of  the  darkness  there  into  his  own,  Josiah 
Godbolt  had  never  dreamed  existed,  and  he  knew  negro 
superstitions  like  a  book.  The  hellish  eyes  were  grow- 
ing into  the  size  of  full  moons,  and  they  seemed  to  be 
coming,  coming. 

Silence,  awful,  ominous;  then  a  pistol  shot  rang 
out.  Two  screams  succeeded  almost  on  the  instant. 
One  shrill  cry  was  from  Josiah,  who  had  fired,  the  other 
from  the  spot  where  the  eyes  had  vanished,  and  the 
brush  crackled  as  with  a  heavy  body  plunged  back 
into  it. 

When,  just  as  daylight  was  chasing  away  the  last 
shadow,  Pete  Barclay  stepped  from  the  trail  into  the 
clearing  where  he  had  left  his  partner,  the  spectacle 
which  met  him  caused  him  to  stop  and  utter  a  char- 
acteristic exclamation.  In  a  heap  upon  the  ground 
by  the  tree  was  Josiah.  His  face  was  white  and  drawn 
almost  past  recognition.  His  eyes  were  bleared  and 
teary.  In  both  hands  his  pistol  was  clutched,  and  it 
was  held  ready  for  instant  use.  Barclay  moved  up 
to  him  and  gently  wrenched  away  the  weapon.  "  What 
in  the  name  of  all  the  ghosts  has  happened  to  you, 
Jo?"  he  asked,  with  a  tenderness  of  which  no  one 
would  have  suspected  him. 

"  Over  there,"  whispered  Josiah,  pointing. 

"  What's  over  there,  the  ghosts  ?" 

"  The  half-breed,"  piped  Josiah.  "  Lord  Gawd,  I  had 
to  kill  him."    He  sank  his  head  upon  his  knees. 

Pete  Barclay  went  over  to  where  the  brush  was 
beaten  down,  and  peered  into  the  thicket.  There,  life- 
less, lay  a  gaunt,  ugly  form.  Josiah  had  shot  the 
panther  squarely  between  the  now  half-closed  eyes. 

Rufus  M.  Steele. 

San  Francisco,  October,  1903. 


It  is  somewhat  of  a  coincidence  that  Lord  Salisbury's 
will  should  disclose  an  estate  within  a  couple  of  thou- 
sands or  so  of  his  father's  which,  thirty-five  years  ago, 
was  valued  at  $1,500,000.  The  present  premier,  Arthur 
Balfour,  is  much  wealthier  than  was  his  uncle,  his  in- 
come, it  is  said,  being  about  $350,000  a  year.  The 
money  came  from  his  grandfather,  who  earned  a  vast 
fortune  in  India  at  the  beginning  of  last  century  by  con- 
tracting for  the  navy,  making  as  much  as  $1,500,000  in 
four  years.  When  the  income  tax  stood  so  high  during 
the  Boer  war,  it  was  stated  that  Mr.  Balfour  handed 
over  to  the  inland  revenue  an  amount  equal  to  his 
salary  as  prime  minister.  Lord  Rosebery  is  another 
exceedingly  wealthy  man  who  has  been  premier.  Mr. 
Gladstone,  on  the  other  hand,  was  a  comparatively 
poor  man,  although  so  skilled  at  finance.  He  was  fairly 
wealthy  at  one  time,  but  unfortunate  investments  in 
mines  reduced  his  capital  very  much. 

Professor  Jonathan  Hutchinson,  the  well-known  sur- 
geon and  expert  on  leprosy,  in  a  letter  to  the  London 
Times,  renews  his  former  endeavor  to  establish  the  con- 
nection between  the  eating  of  decayed  fish  on  religious 
fast  days  and  the  spread  of  that  loathsome  disease.  In 
India,  he  points  out,  where  in  vast  districts  fish  is  for- 
bidden food,  the  ratio  of  leprosy  is  6  per  10,000;  in 
Colombia,  where  the  consumption  of  fish  is  stimulated 
by  religious  ritual,  the  leprosy  ratio  is  nearly  70  per 
10,000.  Mr.  Hutchinson  again  expresses  the  hope 
that  the  authorities  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  will 
devote  earnest  thought  to  the  subject. 


Eight  valuable  photographic  films,  which  Professor 
George  Grant  McCurdy,  of  Yale,  used  to  secure  pic- 
tures of  special  interest  in  Europe  last  summer,  have 
been  ruined  by  the  inspection  of  the  New  York  customs 
service.  Dr.  McCurdy  had  packed  the  films  in  a  box, 
and  sent  them  to  the  United  States,  as  he  preferred  to 
have  them  developed  here.  The  box  was  opened  and 
light  let  in  on  the  films. 


The  photographers  of  Great  Britain  and  the  Conti- 
nent of  Europe  are  up  in  arms  against  the  illustrated 
post-card,  which  is  charged  with  ruining  the  traffic  in 
photographic  views,  from  which  they  formerly  derived 
large  revenues. 


November  2,  1903. 


THE        ARGON  AUT 


THE    MOMENT'S    NOVELTIES. 


Autumn  in  New  York— The  Effect  of  the  Wall  Street  Panic— Styles 

in  Vehicles  —  Maxine  Elliott  and  Other  Actresses  — 

Dowie  —  A  Singular  Painting. 

New  York  is  having  a  late  autumn.  The  season  for 
early  frosts  is  almost  here,  and  the  air  is  still  mild 
and  surcharged,  with  just  the  faintest  underbreath  of 
cold.  If  one  were  in  the  country  now.  the  distances 
would  be  gray  and  misty,  the  woods  densely  brilliant 
masses  of  crimson  and  orange  and  yellow.  There 
would  be  a  continual,  slow  circling  downward  of 
browned  leaves,  a  smell  of  wood  fires  in  the  air,  and 
clear,  red-glowing  sunsets.  The  West  offers  nothing 
finer  than  autumn  in  the  country  round  New  York. 
It  has  a  curious  intimate  charm.  Nature  in  her  beautiful 
decline  comes  closer  than  ever  to  man,  surrounds  him 
with  an  atmosphere  of  poetic  melancholy,  stimulates 
him  with  the  whispered  suggestion  of  winter  and  its 
bracing  cold. 

One  sees  nothing  of  this  in  the  city.  Here  and  there 
a  little  park  shows  an  expanse  of  damp,  grizzled  turf, 
or  a  few  half-bared  trees,  with  a  scattering  of  leaves 
fluttering  raggedly  from  black  boughs.  But  the  air 
is  warm,  almost  balmy,  and  the  sun  shines  benignly 
on  streets  full  of  people  still  wearing  their  summer 
clothes.  Nothing  suggests  that  winter  is  lurking  just 
outside  the  door. 

Nevertheless,  though  the  season  is  late  and  quantities 
of  houses  still  have  the  blue  blinds  down,  the  town 
looks  very  full.  Women,  who  last  year  flourished 
about  in  watering-places  and  country  houses  till  late  in 
November,  are  this  year  coming  back  in  October.  A 
good  many  of  them  look  rather  down  on  their  luck, 
and  are  wearing  much  less  radiant  clothes  than 
formerly.  The  recent  failures  and  dropping  of  stocks 
in  Wall  Street  have  hit  aristocratic  New  York  hard. 
It  is  said  to  have  been  "  a  rich  man's  panic,"  and 
families  who  last  year  spent  fifty  thousand,  are  this 
year  cutting  things  down  to  a  thirty-thousand  rate 
of  expenditure.  That  in  New  York's  "  hupper 
suckles  "  really  means  pinching.  The  red  automobile 
is  laid  upon  the  shelf,  and  one  no  longer  gets  one's 
clothes  from  Paris. 

To  the  eve  of  the  traveler,  there  is  no  difference  in 
the  gayety.  brilliancy,  and  general  splendor  of  the 
crowds  on  the  Avenue,  in  the  shops,  and  at  the  the- 
atres. Everybody  seems  to  be  spending  money  as 
freely  as  of  vore.  From  what  I  hear,  dressmakers  are 
not  going  down  in  prices,  and  all  the  world  cheerfully 
pays  two  dollars  and  a  half  for  its  theatre  tickets. 
There  are  still  lines  of  footmen  holding  dogs  outside 
the  big  department-stores,  and  hansoms  are  still 
ranged  along  the  kerb  at  Mrs.  Osborne's  dressmaking 
establishment,  the  face  of  which  is  decked  with  rows 
of  flower-boxes,  and  within  wdiich  one  can  buy  a 
"  sweet  little  frock  "  for  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

Every  afternoon,  the  Avenue  is  so  crowded  that  the 
vehicles  congest  at  the  wider  cross-streets.  They  have 
set  up  a  mounted  policeman  at  Thirty-Fourth  Street, 
where  he  sits  immovable,  with  the  traffic  breaking 
round  him  like  the  Johnstown  flood,  and  where  he  yells 
and  uplifts  his  hand  all  day.  I  don't  notice  so  many 
automobiles  as  T  did  last  year,  but  the  smart  private 
turn-outs  are  just  as  numerous.  A  high  basket  phaeton 
seems  to  be  one  of  the  innovations,  the  seat  set  aloft 
on  slender  red  wheels.  From  that  to  the  respectable 
family  landau,  which  is  so  wide  and  roomy  that  the 
occupants  have  the  appearance  of  sitting  in  a  large, 
deep  bath,  every  sort  of  city  conveyance  is  repre- 
sented. 

Interesting  professional  people  are  beginning  to  ap- 
pear, for  the  theatres  are  all  opening.  I  saw  Maxine 
Elliott  in  a  hansom,  the  other  afternoon,  quietly  dressed 
and  not  looking  half  so  handsome  as  she  does  on  the 
stage.  The  story  that  she  almost  starved  herself  in 
her  efforts  to  get  thin  she  denies.  She  says  she  got 
herself  down  to  her  present  sylph-like  proportions — 
for  she  is  slim  as  a  young  girl — by  athletic  exercise. 
Behind  the  footlights  she  is  as  beautiful  as  ever — 
quite  the  handsomest  woman  on  the  stage  in  this  coun- 
try. Her  blonde  rival — rival  as  far  as  beauty  goes.  I 
"mean — Lillian  Russell,  is  also  to  be  seen  taking  an 
afternoon  outing  in  a  very  elegant  victoria.  Lillian 
is.  as  ever,  made  up  in  the  most  miraculous  manner. 
She  has  the  appearance  of  being  in  a  painted  case  or 
shell,  which  looks  as  if  it  might  come  off  at  night  and 
be  hung  on  the  gas.  She  has  a  strange,  unreal  sort 
of  beauty,  like  an  idealized  painting,  and  with  her 
golden  hair  in  a  scoop  on  her  forehead,  and  a  bright 
purple  hat  on  her  head,  is  really  a  sight  to  take  away 
your  breath. 

Rose  Coghlan.  who  has  reappeared  after  some  years 
of  seclusion  to  make  the  hit  of  "  Ulysses."  and  be  in  the 
mouth  of  everv  one  who  knows  anything  of  good  play- 
ing, goes  tooling  by  in  her  hansom  with  a  woman  friend 
beside  her.  Rose  must  be  getting  on  in  years,  but  she 
is  a  personable  looking  woman  still,  with  a  good  deal 
of  color  left  in  her  blue  eyes,  and  a  handsome,  master- 
ful sort  of  face.  It  is  wonderful  how  actresses  wear. 
Their  life  is  one  of  hard  work,  perpetual  strain,  and 
incessant  worry,  yet  they  retain  their  looks  longer  than 
any  other  class  of  women  in  the  world.  They  furnish 
a  direct  refutation  of  the  theory  that  beauty  is  pre- 
served by  an  easy  life  and  a  freedom  from  strenuous 
endeavor.  Look  at  Patti  and  Bernhardt !  In  their 
'sixties,  and  from  their  childhood  two  of  the  hardest- 
'  working  women  of  their  day. 


Of  the  sensations  and  on-dits  of  the  moment,  the 
most  prominent  at  this  writing  is  John  Alexander 
Dowie — otherwise  Elijah  the  Restorer.  If  the  Chicago 
prophet  (or  "profit,"  as  the  irreverent  call  him), 
wanted  to  create  an  excitement  he  has  certainly  done 
so.  The  city  is  deeply  wrought  up  over  him — not  as 
a  missionary,  but  as  an  astonishing  personality.  I  can't 
write  about  him  in  this  letter  as  I  have  not  room 
enough,  but  he  has  stirred  up  Gotham  to  its  depths. 
Ever}'  one  has  an  anecdote  to  communicate  about  the 
bands  of  Zion  to  any  one  who  will  listen,  and  as  one 
walks  by  the  Madison  Square  Garden  one  is  constantly 
greeted  by  hails  of  "  Peace  to  thee !"  When  a  Dowieite 
says  this  to  you,  you  are  supposed  to  respond:  "  Peace 
to  thee  multiplied !"  It  is  as  if  the  hosts  of  Brigham 
Young,  before  they  became  as  rich  and  powerful  as  they 
are  now,  had  come  and  settled  in  the  midst  of  an  old 
and  conventionalized  community,  loudly  voicing  their 
intention  of  converting  it. 

The  newest  things  after  Dowie  are  of  varying  im- 
portance, according  to  your  point  of  view.  If  you  are 
of  the  female  persuasion  and  find  the  weird  and  un- 
accountable fluctuations  of  fashion  matter  of  mo- 
ment, it  may  interest  you  to  know  that  when  a  lady 
wears  heavy  gloves  she  does  not  button  them.  I  drove 
up  Fifth  Avenue,  the  other  morning,  in  a  stage  which 
was  filled  with  women  of  varying  ages,  all  prettily  and 
richly  dressed.  Their  hands  were  in  their  laps  and,  it 
being  in  the  morning,  each  pair  was  encased  in  dog- 
skin or  castor  gloves,  and  each  glove  was  unbuttoned, 
with  the  wrist  hanging  down  over  the  back.  It  struck 
me  as  so  odd  that  a  whole  stage  full  of  women  should 
have  forgotten  to  button  their  gloves,  that  I  asked  a 
wise  friend  about  it,  and  my  ignorance  was  enlightened. 
Heavy  gloves  are  not  buttoned,  and  it  is  the  correct 
thing  to  wear  the  wrists  of  them  turned  over  and 
pulled  down.  I  think  it  very  kind  of  me  to  have  noted 
this  and  imparted  it  to  that  wild  section  of  the  country 
where  such  useful  information  would  be  long  in 
arriving. 

This  is  the  latest  fad  I  can  report  in  fashion.  There 
may  be  others,  but  I  have  not  come  upon  them  yet,  and 
I  don't  think  any  others  could  be  more  singular.  Purple 
is  the  new  color — so  loud  you  hear  it  calling  out  greet- 
ings like  the  Dowieites  as  it  comes  down  the  street. 
If  you  have  a  bright  purple  hat  with  a  bright  purple 
feather  flowing  over  your  hair,  and  your  gloves  not 
buttoned,  you  will  do.  Have  no  fears.  Elijah  the  Re- 
storer may  call  you  "  a  miserable  mosquito "  or  "  a 
dirty  dog"  (two  of  his  favorite  epithets  in  addressing 
the  unruly  members  of  his  congregations),  but  well- 
dressed  New  York  will  approve  of  you,  and  what  can 
one  want  more? 

In  matters  artistic,  the  metropolis  boasts  of  but  one 
novelty.  This  is  a  picture  which  has  suddenly  bloomed 
in  every  window  where  photographs  and  engravings 
are  for  sale.  It  bears  the  inscription :  "  The  Sensation 
of  the  Paris  Salon  of  1903,"  and  its  name  is  "  Vertige." 
Need  one  say  after  this  that  it  represents  a  gentleman 
kissing  a  lady?  Pictured  kisses  are  rarely  graceful  or 
beautiful.  However  attractive  a  kiss  may  be  in  the 
doing,  it  is  not  a  thing  which  lends  itself  well  to  pic- 
torial representation.  Great  artists  have  avoided  it 
as  a  dangerous  snare.  The  Old  Masters  only  painted 
such  peaceful  and  holy  kisses  as  that  with  which 
Elizabeth  greeted  Mary,  or  the  Madonna  gave  her  babe. 
Correggio's  "  Jupiter  and  Io  "  is,  at  this  moment,  the 
only  celebrated  painting  I  can  think  of  which  repre- 
sents a  kiss,  and  the  two  groups  of  Rodin  and  Canova 
the  only  pieces  of  sculpture. 

"  The  Sensation  of  the  Paris  Salon  "  is  well  drawn 
and  graceful.  The  artist  has  avoided  the  banalite  of 
painting  the  two  faces,  and  this,  I  should  fancy,  was  the 
reason  of  the  picture's  success.  The  lady,  in  modern 
evening  dress,  sits  on  a  sofa,  one  arm.  in  its  long, 
loose  glove,  thrown  along  the  back.  The  man  has  been 
standing  just  behind  the  sofa,  and  to  speak  to  him 
she  has  had  to  lean  her  head  far  back  on  the  cushions, 
and  thus  presents  her  upturned  face  to  his  scrutiny  in 
what  must  have  been  a  very  tempting  manner.  He 
was  evidently  of  the  opinion  of  that  modern  philos- 
opher who  said  "  that  the  best  way  to  get  rid  of  a  temp- 
tation was  to  yield  to  it."  The  picture  represents  him 
in  the  act  of  yielding.  He  has  bent  down  over  the 
sofa  back,  his  hand  closed  lightly  on  the  woman's  arm 
in  its  long  glove.  The  top  of  his  smooth  dark  head 
is  presented  to  the  spectator,  and  of  the  woman's  face 
one  only  sees  a  portion  of  her  cheek  and  ear.  The 
kiss  is  thus  artistically  concealed,  and  of  the  two  figures 
— which  are  excellently  drawn — one  really  only  sees  the 
woman's,  which  is  lithe  and  elegant,  suggesting  a 
proud,  fine  beauty.  Geraldine  Bonner. 

New  York,  October  22,  1903. 


According  to  Charcot,  of  the  school  of  the  Sal- 
petriere.  hypnotism  is  an  artificial  neurosis,  and  can  be 
produced  with  hysterical  persons  only.  It  can  be  ap- 
plied but  rarely,  the  dangers  of  hypnotism  being  greater 
than  its  advantages,  because  it  may  bring  to  life  the 
latent  hysteria  and  unbalance  the  nervous  system. 
Liebault  and  Bernheim,  the  founders  of  the  Nancy 
school,  assert  the  contrary,  that  nothing  can  be  more 
erroneous  than  the  above-mentioned  supposition:  that 
every  person  is  more  or  less  suggestible,  and  that  no 
harm  or  inconvenience  whatever  results  from  hypno- 
tization,  provided  the  suggestive  method  be  used.  The 
Nancy  school  defines  hypnotism  as  a  physiological 
state,  closely  allied  to  sleep,  in  which  the  suggestibility 
of  a  person  is  greatly  exalted.  It  bases  hypnotism  and 
its  therapeutic  action  entirely  on  suggestion. 


THE  BIRTHPLACE  OF  DICKENS. 


The  City  of  Portsmouth  to  Make  a  Museum  of  It. 


The  sale  at  Portsmouth,  on  Tuesday  last,  of  the  home 
where  Charles  Dickens  was  born,  and  its  purchase  by 
the  corporation  of  that  city  for  the  purpose  of  convert- 
ing it  into  a  museum  of  relics  and  articles  of  interest 
connected  with  the  famous  novelist,  has  brought  to 
light  a  flood  of  reminiscences  in  the  papers.  When  I 
was  last  down  at  Portsmouth,  during  the  visit  of  the 
American  squadron  under  Admiral  Cotton  in  July. 
I  saw  the  house — a  small,  red  brick  residence  of  two 
stories  and  a  basement,  which  stands  back  from  the 
road,  with  a  little  "  garden  "  in  front,  an  iron  railing 
enclosing  it  from  the  thoroughfare.  Commercial  Road. 
It  is  really  situated  at  the  end  of  a  row  of  pretentious 
modern  houses,  known  as  Mile  End  Terrace,  and  is  a 
fine  sample  of  the  better  sort  of  house  of  the  early  part 
of  the  last  century,  which  were  inhabited  by  middle- 
class  people  in  easy  circumstances.  It  is  what  is 
known  in  England  as  semi-detached,  and  over  the  front 
door  is  the  number  393.  In  Dickens's  time  the  number 
was  387,  but  the  corporation  renumbered  the  house. 

The  last  occupant  of  Dickens's  birthplace  was  a  Miss 
Pearce,  and  it  was  her  executors  who  sold  the  house. 
The  rent-book  in  the  possession  of  Miss  Pearce's 
executors  shows  that  the  father  of  the  great  novelist 
was  a  clerk  in  the  navy  pay  office,  and  that  he  rented 
the  house  from  June  24,  1809.  and  entered  into  pos- 
session shortly  after  his  marriage  in  that  year.  The 
first  child  of  this  marriage  was  born  in  the  second  year 
of  the  tenancy,  and  was  named  Frances  Elizabeth,  but 
was  commonly  known  and  referred  to  by  the  novelist 
as  Fanny.  Here  about  two  years  later,  on  February  17. 
1812,  Charles  Dickens  first  saw  the  light.  He  was  born 
on  a  Friday,  like  David  Copperfield:  in  fact,  Dickens 
is  known  to  have  regarded  Friday  as  his  lucky  day,  as 
many  important  things  happened  to  him,  and  many  of 
his  books  are  said  to  have  been  begun,  on  that  dav. 
Whether  the  latter  was  intentional  on  his  part  no  one 
knows. 

When  hardly  a  month  old  he  was  baptised  at  the 
parish  church  at  Portsted.  This  church  has  now  become 
one  of  the  finest  and  most  imposing  edifices  in  the 
South  of  England.  It  is  the  church  whose  lofty  spire 
at  once  attracts  the  eye  of  the  passenger  approaching 
Portsmouth  by  train,  and  can  always  be  seen  from  the 
windows  on  the  right  of  the  carriage  as  you  draw  near 
to  the  famous  dock-yard  city  of  Hampshire.  The 
church  was  restored  at  a  large  outlay  some  years  ago. 
the  chief  contributor  to  the  extent  of  many  thousands 
of  pounds  being  Mr.  W.  H.  Smith,  the  head  of  the 
great  firm  of  railway  stall  news-venders,  who  hold  the 
monopoly  of  selling  books  and  papers  at  every  railwav 
station  in  England.  Dickens  was  baptised  by  the  name 
of  John  Charles  Huffam.  This  is  incorrectly  spelled 
"  Huffham  "  in  the  church  register.  It  is  well  known 
that  Dickens  never  used  either  his  first  or  third  Chris- 
tian name.  They  are  not  included  in  his  signature 
on  his  marriage  certificate.  The  stone  slab  which  marks 
his  last  resting  place  in  Westminster  Abbey  does  not 
bear  them,  as  all  good  Americans  who  come  to  London 
know  full  well.  Just  outside  the  house  in  the  pave- 
ment, a  tablet  is  fixed,  which  says :  "  In  this  house 
Charles  Dickens  was  born."  giving  the  date  of  birth. 
Several  of  the  letters  of  the  inscription  are  missing,  no 
doubt  the  prey  of  vandal  relic  hunters.  Tndeed.  pre- 
cautions against  depredations  have  been  found  neces- 
sary for  some  time  past.  The  two  cellar  windows  have 
been  backed  with  iron,  and  the  street  door  has  no  less 
than  five  bolts. 

The  rooms  within  are  exactly  eight  in  number,  and 
include  a  parlor  and  dining-room,  and  two  good  bed- 
rooms, back  and  front.  Which  of  these  was  the  novel- 
ist's birth  spot  is  not  known,  but  it  is  naturally  assumed 
to  have  been  the  "best,"  or  front  bedroom,  whose 
windows  look  on  the  street. 

In  those  days  the  house  was  far  out  of  town :  now  it 
is  quite  within  reach  of  everything,  as  electric  tram- 
cars  pass  the  main  street  of  Portsmouth.  The  town- 
hall,  the  railway  station,  the  general  post-office,  and  the 
leading  theatre,  as  well  as  all  the  best  shops,  stand 
upon  it.  The  Dickens  familv  left  the  old  house  in 
1812.  and  went  to  live  in  Hawke  Street.  Portsted.  Here 
they  lived  until  Charles  was  ten  years  old.  and  it  be- 
comes incidentally  a  matter  of  interest  to  think  that. 
as  a  boy,  he  undoubtedly  witnessed  the  fitting  out  of  the 
frigate  Shannon,  which  afterward  captured  the 
Chesapeake  in  the  famous  naval  battle. 

It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  sale  of  the  old  house  by 
auction  has  attracted  much  attention  all  over  England. 
The  Portsmouth  city  authorities,  after  much  cogitation, 
decided  to  buy  it.  There  was  considerable  opposition 
from  unsentimental  rate-payers.  Fortunately.  Sir  Will- 
iam Dupree.  the  city's  mavor.  is  a  man  of  wealth,  and. 
though  essentially  self-made,  has  a  soul  above  buttons. 
His  influence  prevailed,  and  at  the  sale  he  became  the 
purchaser  at  the  high  price  of  five  thousand  six  hundred 
and  twenty-five  dollars,  more  than  twice  the  real  market 
value  of  the  premises.  There  have  been  some  groans 
about  it.  but  on  the  whole  I  think  the  mayor  and  'he 
people  of  Portsmouth  are  to  be  congratulated.  Years 
hence,  the  property  will  be  priceless.  One  reason  for 
its  purchase  by  the  city  was  the  fear  of  the  house 
being  altered  or  pulled  down.  This  would,  indeed,  have 
been  a  calamity,  for  the  Dickens's  home  has  always 
been  one  of  the  chief  points  of  interest  in  Portsmouth, 
and  has  attracted  manv  visitors  and  tourists. 
London,  October  3.  1903.  Coc 


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THE        ARGON  AUT 


November  2,  1903. 


GABRIEL    AND    URIEL. 


By  Jerome  A.  Hart. 


On  our  second  day  in  Jerusalem,  when  our  dragoman, 
Gabriel  (Armenian  and  Christian),  took  us  into  a  Turkish 
bazar,  and  said  that  he  thought  the  Turkish  shopkeepers  were 
more  honest  than  the  Latin  Christians,  the  Greek  Christians, 
the  Syrian  Christians,  or  the  Jews,  he  rather  surprised  me. 

"How   about  the  Armenians,    Gabriel?"   I   asked. 

"  They  are  the  most  bad  of  all,"  he  replied. 

While  Gabriel  was  trying  to  persuade  the  Turkish  shop- 
keeper to  show  us  some  goods  (Turks  are  not  "hustlers"), 
I  stepped  across  the  street  to  look  at  some  photographs  in  a 
window  there. 

I  was  immediately  beset  by  touts.  I  shook  them  off — all  but 
one.  Of  him  anon.  Let  me  preface  my  experience  with  him 
by  some  moral  reflections  on  anger.  To  begin  with,  never 
get  angry  when  traveling.  It  is  a  grave  error.  Anger  con- 
gests your  cerebral  blood-vessels,  affects  your  nerves,  gives 
you  pipe-stem  arteries,  and  seriously  interferes  with  digestion. 
Never  get  angry,  particularly  while  traveling — there  are  plenty 
of  things  which  occur  while  traveling  calculated  to  make  you 
angry,  but  never  permit  them  to  do  so. 

But  sometimes  you  may  permit  yourself  to  pretend  to  be 
angry.  In  the  Orient,  much  business  is  transacted  by  means  of 
personal  abuse.  For  example,  the  man  on  horseback  always 
abuses  the  man  on  foot;  the  man  driving  a  carriage  always 
abuses  the  pedestrian ;  the  footman  hurls  back  the  abuse  at 
the  horseman,  but  takes  care  to  get  out  of  his  way.  The  police- 
man in  the  Orient  abuses  everybody  ;  true,  he  frequently  uses 
a  stout  cane  to  chastise,  but  he  rules  the  populace  principally 
by  abuse.  Therefore,  it  is  often  useful  in  Oriental  cities  to 
indulge  in  loud  and  noisy  talk  in  order  to  accomplish  whatever 
end  you  may  have  in  view.  If  a  tout  annoys  you  by  his  loud 
importunities,  abuse  him  even  more  loudly.  If  a  dragoman  or  a 
boatman  tries  to  impose  upon  you  and  begins  to  yell  at  you, 
always  yell  back  at  him,  and  yell  louder. 

Jerusalem  is  infested  by  the  most  noisy  and  pestiferous 
shop-touts  I  ever  saw.  As  I  said,  gangs  of  them  lie  in  wait 
for  the  unfortunate  tourist;  they  pester  him,  dog  his  foot- 
steps, and  almost  pull  him  into  their  shops.  This  particularly 
persistent  tout  addressed  me  as  I  was  approaching  his  photo- 
graph shop.  I  immediately  worked  myself  into  a  furious 
rage. 

"What  do  you  mean?"  I  bawled,  "I  was  about  to  go  into 
your  shop,  where  I  would  have  bought  at  least  20  francs' 
worth  of  photos,  when  you  get  between  me  and  the  window, 
and  prevent  me  from  seeing  the  very  views  I  intended  to 
purchase." 

In  Oriental  countries  most  people  have  nothing  to  do,  and 
a  crowd  speedily  gathered.  The  proprietor  hastened  out  of  the 
shop — he  was  alarmed — he  tried  to  pacify  me.  But  I  would 
not  be  pacified. 

"What  sort  of  a  shop  do  you  keep,  anyway?"  I  yelled. 
"And  what  sort  of  shopmen?  I  would  have  bought  50  francs' 
worth  of  photos  if  it  were  not  for  this  fellow's  interference." 

The  proprietor  again  tried  to  mollify  me,  but  I  would  not 
listen. 

"  But,  sir,"  said  he,  appealingly,  "  I  beg  you  to  overlook  it." 

"Overlook  nothing!"  I  replied.  "I  will  not  overlook  it.  I 
will  warn  all  the  other  tourists  in  the  hotel  to  keep  away  from 
your  place,  and  I  will  tell  them  to  go  to  the  shop  across  the 
street." 

Here  I  started  ostentatiously  for  the  rival  shop. 

The  proprietor  played  his  last  card.  He  pointed  to  the  crest- 
fallen tout,  who  stood  with  almost  tearful  countenance,  listen- 
ing to  my  bitter  indictment. 

"  Pardon  the  young  man,  sir.  I  beg  of  you,"  he  said,  "  really 
he  did  not  mean  it.  He  knows  no  better,  sir.  He  is  not  from 
Jerusalem.     He  comes  from  Bethlehem." 

On  our  third  day  in  Jerusalem,  our  dragoman,  Gabriel,  fell 
ill.  I  do  not  wonder  at  it.  How  any  one  can  stay  well  in 
Jerusalem  with  its  awful  filth,  its  mephitic  air,  and  its  rain- 
water tanks  full  of  the  foulness  of  ages,  is  to  me  incompre- 
hensible. 

Anyway.  Gabriel  fell  ill,  and  his  son  dragomanned  in  his 
stead.  Like  his  father,  the  youth  was  named  Gabriel.  But 
in  order  to  avoid  mixing  up  young  and  old  Gabriel,  I  con- 
cluded to  call  the  youth  "  Uriel."  Close  students  of  "  Paradise 
Lost "  will  remember  that  Uriel  slid  down  to  Gabriel  on  a 
sunbeam — "  gliding  through  the  even  swift  as  a  shooting- 
star."  This  simile  of  Milton's  seems  to  me  a  poetic  way  of 
indicating  how  old  Gabriel  acquired  young  Gabriel  much  more 
poetic  than  is  the  old  story  of  the  stork. 

We  found  the  youthful  Uriel  rather  more  interesting  than  his 
father,  for  these  old  dragomans  get  to  be  frightful  bores.  They 
are  like  music-boxes — when  they  get  wound  up  they  have  to 
go  through  the  whole  tune  without  missing  a  note.  If  you 
stop  the  music-box  by  asking  a  question,  the  mechanism  clicks, 
and  the  dragoman  goes  back  to  the  beginning  of  the  music- 
barrel,  and  gives  it  to  you  all  over  again.  Young  Gabriel,  be- 
ing new  to  his  business,  had  not  learned  his  lessons  thor- 
oughly, and  therefore  could  answer  questions.  Furthermore, 
he  was  quite  intelligent,  fairly  educated,  and  spoke  both 
French  and  English  as  if  he  had  been  taught  them  in  schools. 
I  asked  him  where  he  learned  his  languages,  and  he  told  us 
that  he  had  been  a  pupil  at  the  Franciscan  monastery.  He 
offered  to  take  us  to  his  alma  mater,  whither  we  went  willingly, 
and  were  repaid  with  a  fine  view  of  Jerusalem  from  the  flat 
roof  of  the  lofty  building. 

»  » 

Jerusalem  is  no  longer  confined  within  walls.  As  we  stood  on 
the  flat  roof  of  the  Franciscan  monastery, 
and  surveyed  the  extensive  prospect,  we  ob- 
served that  the  ground  covered  with  build- 
ings uuiside  the  walls  exceeded  the  area 
In  fact,  there  ha.^  been  a  building  boom  at  Jerusalem. 


Native  and 
Fori.ign 


This  has  brought  about  a  vast  deal  of  grading  and  filling  out- 
side the  walls,  for  the^  country  is  mountainous,  and  abounds 
in  deep 'gorges.  The  physical  changes  taking  place  around 
Jerusalem  to-day  give  one  an  idea  of  how  the  ancient  city 
has  come  to  be  buried,  for  in  places  it  lies  more  than  a 
hundred    feet   below   the   present  level. 

In  reply  to  my  questions,  our  young  friend  Uriel  gave  me 
some  data  about  Jerusalem  and  the  Jerusalem  Jews.  When  it 
came  to  proper  names,  he  very  obligingly  wrote  them  in  my 
note-book.  Unfortunately,  he  put  Jewish  names  in  Hebrew 
characters,  Syrian  names  in  Syriac — in  fact,  each  language  in 
its  own  character.  When  I  was  forced  to  admit  that  I  could 
not  read  them,  Uriel  was  surprised,  but  sympathetic.  Between 
us,  we  transliterated  them  into  English — with  what  success 
I  do  not  know.  Some  of  Uriel's  facts  and  names  are  here 
set  down. 

There  has  been  a  vast  influx  of  people  to  Jerusalem  of  late 
years,  principally  Jews.  There  are  no  census  figures  obtain- 
able, but  the  foreign  consuls  estimate  that  there  are  about 
fifty  thousand  Jews  in  Jerusalem — about  twice  as  many  as  all 
the  other  inhabitants  combined.  The  Jews  are  divided  into 
two  groups — the  descendants  of  the  ancient  Israelites 
(Sephardim)  and  the  new  immigrants  (Ashkenazin).  There 
is  no  love  lost  between  the  Sephardim  and  the  Ashkenazin. 
They  differ  radically  in  language  and  in  customs.  The 
Sephardim  speak  Oriental  dialects,  while  the  Ashkenazin  from 
Germany,  Poland,  and  Russia  speak  Yiddish.  The  Jewish 
immigrants  from  Asia  and  Africa  consort  with  the  Sephardim, 
and  the  two  clans  seem  to  be  divided  on  Oriental  and  Occi- 
dental lines, 

Uriel  rather  surprised  me  by  saying  that  the  number  of 
Spanish-speaking  Jews  is  very  large,  and  that  the  Spanish 
Jews  consort  with  the  Oriental  clan. 

One  of  the  causes  of  jealousy  between  the  two  groups  is  the 
enormous  charitable  fund,  called  the  Halucca,  which  is  sent 
to  Jerusalem  by  Jews  all  over  the  world.  Prior  to  the 
Jerusalem  boom,  and  the  advent  of  the  new-comers,  the 
Sephardim  lived  in  luxury  on  the  Halucca.  They  were  well 
treated  by  the  Turks,  practiced  polygamy  like  them,  and  were 
quite  friendly  with  the  governing  people.  But  with  the 
arrival  of  the  Ashkenazin  all  this  was  changed.  The 
Ashkenazin  brought  to  Jerusalem  all  manner  of  European 
prejudices  against  the  Turks,  and  the  Turks  speedily  resented 
their  attitude.  Before  long,  the  Turks  lumped  the  two  Jewish 
clans  together,  and  treated  the  Sephardim  as  severely  as  they 
did  the  Ashkenazin.  Thus  the  Sephardim  have  suffered 
both  socially  and  financially.  Prior  to  the  boom,  the 
Sephardim  received  from  the  -Halucca  enough  to  live  on  in 
comfort — sometimes  even  in  luxury.  Since  the  arrival  of 
the  Ashkenazin,  the  Halucca  has  been  so  divided  up  that 
both  clans  are  barely  able  to  exist.  Some  of  them  have  been 
forced  to  go  to  work.  Playing  on  the  feelings  of  charitable 
Jews  throughout  the  world,  and  thereby  increasing  the 
Halucca,  is  quite  a  business  in  Jerusalem.  On  mail  day  the 
various  post-offices  of  the  different  European  nations  are 
crowded  with  Jews  sending  off  begging  letters. 

In  addition  to  the  thousands  of  Jews  who  are  maintained 
individually  by  the  Halucca,  there  are  many  colonies  of  Jews 
subsidized  by  foreign  associations  or  individuals.  Baron 
Rothschild  supports  one  at  Mt.  Carmel.  There  are  other 
colonies  in  different  parts  of  Palestine.  They  are  not  at- 
tractive places,  and  do  not  compare  with  the  Russian  and 
German  settlements,  where  the  colonists  are  self-sustaining. 
The  acceptance  of  alms  seems  to  cause  atrophy  of  the  moral 
fibre.  I  never  saw  a  Jewish  beggar  in  the  United  States, 
and  I  know  of  no  race  or  religion  that  takes  better  care 
of  its  weaklings  than  do  the  Jews  in  our  country.  But  the 
condition  to  which  these  pauperized  Jews  have  fallen  in  these 
subsidized  Palestine  colonies  shows  the  depths  reached  by 
him  who  has  ceased  to  support  himself. 


A  Club-Room 


Jerusalem. 


When  we  had  finished  our  inspection  and  Uriel  had  finished 
his  lecture,  we  descended  from  the  roof  of 
the  Franciscan  monastery  to  view  the  in- 
terior. 

Young  Uriel  took  us  all  over  the  estab- 
lishment, which  includes  a  number  of  buildings.  Amon?  them 
there  is  a  school  conducted  by  the  Christian  Brothers.  Hang- 
ing on  the  wall  are  specimens  of  the  pupils'  handwriting.  A 
glance  at  this  collection  shows  how  curiously  jumbled  the 
nationalities  are.  The  autographs  are  in  Roman,  in  Cursive, 
in  Arabic,  in  Hebraic,  and  in  other  Oriental  alphabets. 

With  great  pride,  young  Uriel  took  us  into  the  "  Club 
Room."  It  seems  that  the  Alumni  of  the  institution,  of  whom 
he  was  one,  had  formed  a  club,  and  the  Franciscan  fathers 
had  placed  at  their  disposal  quarters  in  the  monastery.  Here 
they  had  reading  and  writing  rooms,  although  I  saw  no 
facilities  for  drinking  and  smoking.  In  their  club-rooms,  they 
held  assemblies  at  stated  intervals,  where  papers  were  read, 
short  plays  acted,   and  other  entertainments  given. 

I  complimented  young  Uriel  on  the  up-to-dateness  of  the 
Jerusalem  youth.  "  I  belong  to  several  clubs,"  said  I,  with 
much  gravity,  "but  I  have  never  seen  one  exactly  like  this." 
This  was  strictly  true. 

Young  Uriel  was  much  gratified  by  my  implied  flattery,  and 
replied  :  "  Yes,  we  are  all  very  pride  of  our  club,  but  it  has 
many  of  the  difficulties." 

"What  are  they,  pray?"  I  inquired,  sympathetically. 

"  The  principal  difficulty."  said  young  Uriel,  severely,  "  is 
that  much  of  the  members  refuse  to  fill  the  offices  at  the 
club,  and  when  they  do  fill  them,  they  refuse  to  perform  their 
performances." 

"  Plait-il?"  said  I;  "come  again,  please." 

"To  transact  their  acts,"  added  Uriel,  explanatorily;  "to 
make  their  duties." 

"Ah,  yes,"  I  interrupted;  "to  do  their  doings,  you  mean." 

"Yes,"  said  Uriel,  "to  do  their  doings.  Thus  all  the  work 
falls  on  the  government  committee,  and  the  members  hold  the 
government  responsible  for  everything,  and  abuse  at  the  gov- 


ernment committee  all  the  times.  I  appertain  to  the  govern- 
ment committee,"  added  young  Uriel,  with  a  pained  air,  "  and 
we  are  all  very  much  broken-hearted,  and  we  have  thought  of 
resigning  our  functions  so  ungrateful." 

The  good  fathers,  I  learned,  are  very  much  surprised  at  these 
hitches  in  the  club  ;  they  think  that  if  club-rooms  are  provided, 
a  club  should  run  smoothly  and  automatically.  The  worthy 
fathers  are  unworldly  men,  or  they  would  know  that  this  is 
the  weakness  of  all  clubs. 


Franciscans 
as  Makers 
of  Books. 

are     taught 
berry     of 


The  most  interesting  sights  of  this  monastery  are  the  work- 
shops, where  all  sorts  of  crafts  are  fol- 
lowed. There  are  workers  in  iron  and 
workers  in  wood,  workers  in  leather  and 
grinders  of  grain  ;  all  sorts  of  primitive  crafts 
that  primitive  country,  from  turning  the 
the  wheat  into  flour,  making  the  flour  into 
bread,  the  dressing  of  hides,  making  leather  into  shoes, 
weaving  cloth  and  making  it  into  garments.  The  high- 
est of  the  crafts  here  represented  was  the  typographic 
art  and  kindred  crafts,  for  there  was  a  large  estab- 
lishment here  devoted  to  type-setting,  printing,  engraving, 
lithography,  and  book-binding.  I  inspected  the  machinery  with 
some  curiosity ;  I  found  that  it  came  from  Germany,  Bel- 
gium, and  Italy — none  from  the  United  States.  It  did  not 
seem  to  me  to  compare  in  workmanship  and  finish  with  the 
printing  machinery  made  here.  In  addition  to  type-setting  and 
printing,  there  was  also  a  small  type-foundry  in  operation.  I 
watched  the  youths  who  were  being  trained  in  operating  the 
type-casting  machines.  They  knew  nothing  of  the  linotype 
machine.  When  I  described  to  them  this  machine,  which  casts 
a  solid  type-bar  with  letters  on  its  face,  their  surprise  was 
amusing.  They  none  of  them  spoke  English,  but  all  spoke 
French,  and  some  Italian.  It  was  a  little  difficult  for  me  to 
describe  so  complicated  a  machine  in  a  foreign  language,  but 
I  succeeded  in  describing  something,  for  after  I  had  gone  to  the 
other  end  of  the  room  the  type-founders  assembled  in  a  body, 
talked  it  over,  and  sized  me  up.  They  either  believe  that 
the  linotype  is  the  boss  machine  of  the  twentieth  century,  or 
that  I  am  the  boss  liar,  and  I  am  not  quite  certain  which. 

As  a  souvenir  of  our  visit  we  purchased  one  of  the  books 
printed  by  the  Franciscan  establishment.  It  was  a  guide-book 
in  three  volumes,  and  very  neatly  printed  and  bound.  Its 
author  was  one  of  the  reverend  fathers  belonging  to  the 
monastery.  The  book  begins  with  a  most  sweeping  retraction 
of  anything  he  might  say  that  might  be  condemned  by  the  Holy 
See.     Translated,  it  reads  as  follows  : 

"  I,  the  undersigned,  hereby  declare  that  I  am  ready  to  re- 
tract and  to  strike  out  from  my  book  anything  which  may 
have  crept  into  it  without  my  intention  that  might  be  contrary 
to  the  Christian  faith  and  to  the  teachings  of  the  Holy  Catholic 
and  Apostolic  Church.  As  I  belong  to  the  great  Franciscan 
family.  I  have  learned  from  its  venerable  Father  the  most 
docile  submission  to  the  Church  of  Rome,  mother  and  mistress 
of  all  churches.  Father  Lievin  de  Hamme." 

Next  comes  this  : 

"  Having  had  this  book  examined  by  two  theologians,  they 
permitted  its  publication.  Father  Aurelius  de  Buja. 

"  Custodian  of  the  Holy  Land." 

And  the  third  declaration  is  this : 

"  Let  it  be  imprinted.  Father  Ludovicus. 

"  Patriarcha   Hierosolymitanus." 

The  last  gentleman,  the  Patriarch  of  Jerusalem,  thus  permits 

its   publication.      Otherwise,   it  would  be   anathema.      And  yet 

it  is  only  a  guide-book. 

* 

When    we    left    the    Franciscan    monastery,    and    walked    down 

one  of  the  Jerusalem  stair-case  streets,  we 
Flirting  with  _   .  -i   j    t     1  ■  t.  i-     w 

„  met    a    veiled    iurkish    woman    climbing    up. 

a  Turkish  T  .      ,  . 

.  1   noticed  an  apparent  movement  of  recogni- 

tion on  the  part  of  Uriel,  and  the  Turkish 
lady's  balloon-like  form  undulated  slightly  all  over,  as  if  she 
noted  the  recognition. 

"  Come,  come,  Uriel,"  said  I,  severely.  "  This  will  never  do. 
This  thing  of  flirting  with  Turkish  ladies  is  strictly  pro- 
hibited by  the  Koran,  article  steen,  sections  4,  11,  44.  You  are 
young  and  heedless.  I  have  often  heard  of  foreigners  being 
done  to  death  by  the  indignant  Turkish  husbands  of  lady 
Turkesses  at  whom  foreigners  had  winked.  Much  as  it  would 
pain  me  to  think  of  your  losing  your  young  life,  it  would  pain 
me  more — infinitely  more — to  think  of  your  losing  mine. 
Prithee  no  more  of  this,  good  Uriel.  If  you  are  going  to  mash 
any  more  Turkish  ladies,  please  do  it  when  you  are  not  taking 
us  through  Turkish  towns." 

Uriel  turned,  and  knocked  me  out  with  a  phrase  :  "  It  is  my 
mother,  sir,"  he  responded,  simply. 

I  gazed  at  him  and  gasped.  When  I  had  recovered  my 
breath,  I  cried :  "  Your  mother !  How  is  it  that  you,  a 
Christian,  a  student  at  the  Franciscan  monastery,  should  have 
a  Turkish  mother?" 

"  My  mother  is  not  Turkish,"  said  Uriel,  with  a  smile,  "  but 
many  womans  here,  Christians,  Jewesses,  and  others,  wear  the 
Turkish  dress  in  order  to  avoid  insult.  Mohammedan  womans 
are  respected  of  all.  But  womans  who  are  not  Mohammedans 
are  not  respected  of  the  MohamrmVdans.  It  is  not  proper  for 
me  to  recognize  my  mother  in  public,  but  I  could  not  help 
a  slight  motion.     You  will  pardon  me,  will  you  not,  sir?" 

"  But  how  can  you  tell  your  mother?  All  these  women 
in  Turkish  dress  look  alike." 

In  truth  they  do.  They  may  be  any  age  from  nineteen  to 
ninety,  and  they  ay  be  beautiful  Circassians  or  Abyssinian 
women  as  blacl:  as  charcoal — they  all  look  alike,  and  they 
all  look  like  the V  e         -ver  mind,  they  all  look  alike. 

"  I    can    r  .  riel,    reflectively.      "  I    not    know 

every  woman  that  I  know  but  I  think  every  man  he  know  his 
mother." 

It   ser  he   whole,   and   I   felt   quite   apologetic 

towarr1  r  having'  suspected  him  of  trying  to  mash  his. 

moth 


November  2,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT . 


TROWBRIDGE^S    "OWN    STORY." 


Some  Interesting  Literary  Reminiscences. 


One  of  the  most  popular  writers  a  genera- 
tion ago  was  Johnson  Townsend  Trowbridge 
whose  entertaining  autobiography,  "  My  Own 
Story,"  has  just  been  brought  out.  Mr.  Trow- 
bridge is  now  in  his  seventy-sixth  year.  He 
has  been  in  turn  school-teacher,  farmer,  news- 
paper writer,  writer  of  short  stories,  of  novels, 
of  boys'  stories,  and  of  books  of  travel.  He 
contributed  to  the  first  number  of  the  At- 
lantic, and  was  a  friend  of  the  New  England 
immortals.  "  That  something  of  the  fresh- 
ness of  dawn,"  he  says,  "  is  preserved  for  me 
in  the  evening  of  my  days,  I  believe  that  I 
owe  primarily  to  a  sound  though  delicate  con- 
stitution :  to  an  instinctive,  never  ascetic 
obedience  to  the  laws  of  health,  and  above 
all  to  a  mind  open  to  the  "  beauty  and  wonder " 
of  the  existence  in  which  we  are  '  em- 
bosomed.* " 

Mr.  Trowbridge  made  his  reputation  with 
"  Neighbor  Jackwood  "  before  the  Civil  War 
broke  out.  This  he  followed  with  "  The 
Drummer  Boy"  and  "  Cud  jo's  Cave,"  and 
other  successes.  He  had  a  pretty  knack  at 
poetry,  too,  and  even  to-day  some  of  his 
poems,  like  "  The  Vagabonds."  "  We  Are  Two 
Travellers.  Roger  and  I."  and  "  Darius  Green 
with  His  Flying  Machine "  are  included  in 
the  school-readers  or  selected  for  recitations. 

"  A  Backwoods  Boyhood "  is  the  title  of 
Mr.  Trowbridge's  opening  chapter,  in  which 
he  tells  of  his  youthful  struggles  to  secure 
an  education  at  Ogden,  in  Western  New  York, 
then  almost  a  wilderness.  He  attended  the 
primitive  district  school  of  those  days,  and 
at  thirteen  began  to  write  verses.  The  young 
poet  made  his  first  appearance  in  print  at  six- 
teen, in  the  county  newspaper.  His  verses. 
on  the  Tomb  of  Napoleon,  had  been  written 
as  a  school  exercise,  and  owed  their  publica- 
tion either  to  his  teacher  or  to  his  father. 
After  much  private  reading  and  study,  a  taste 
of  the  classics  at  a  Lockport  academy,  and 
two  terms  of  school-teaching,  he  started  at 
nineteen  for  New  York  City  to  earn  his  liv- 
ing by  his  pen — of  course,  with  the  traditional 
roll  of  manuscript  in  his  pocket  or  in  his 
carpet-bag. 

He  applied  to  Major  Noah,  then  editor  of 
the  Sunday  Times,  for  advice  as  to  his  pur- 
suit of  writing  as  a  profession.  He  submitted 
samples  of  his  verse  and  a  story  to  him.  and 
Major  Noah,  after  reading  them  and  learning 
that  he  had  no  other  means  of  support  unless 
he  went  back  to  school-teaching  or  farming, 
advised  him  to  write,  sticking,  for  the  time 
being,  to  prose :  "  If  you  devote  yourself  to  it 
there  is  no  reason  why  you  shouldn't  succeed." 
Mr.  Trowbridge  adds : 

I  do  not  know  that  ever  in  my  life  any 
words  had  made  me  so  happy  as  these.  In  sub- 
sequent years  of  struggle,  when  more  than 
once  I  was  on  the  point  of  flinging  down  my 
pen,  I  sometimes  wondered  whether  they  were 
wise  for  him  to  speak  or  good  for  me  to  hear. 
But  now  that  more  than  half  a  century  has 
passed,  and  I  can  look  back  upon  my  early 
life  almost  as  dispassionately  as  if  it  were 
that  of  another  person.  I  can  thank  him  again 
for  the  first  authentic  judgment  ever  pro- 
nounced upon  my  literary  possibilities. 

Here  is  an  amusing  anecdote  which  Mr. 
Trowbridge  relates  that  will  endear  him  still 
further  to  his  admirers : 

After  I  had  been  so  far  prospered  as  to  be 
able  to  place  a  small  deposit  in  a  savings- 
bank,  the  father  of  a  family  once  besought 
me  for  a  loan  of  sixty  dollars.  When  I  told 
him,  to  my  sincere  regret,  that  I  had  no  such 
sum  at  command,  he  made  answer  that  his 
quarter's  rent  was  due,  that  he  had  been  un- 
able to  collect  some  bills  he  had  relied  on  to 
make  up  the  needful  sum.  and  he  didn't  know 
which  way  to  turn,  if  I  couldn't  help  him. 
"  I  haven't  it,"  I  repeated ;  "  but " —  I 
thought  of  my  poor  little  savings-bank  de- 
posit, and  of  a  family  man's  natural  distress 
on  being  unable  to  pay  his  rent — "  I  might 
possibly  raise  it  for  you."  Although  I  knew 
there  would  be  a  loss  of  accumulated  and 
prospective  interest  if  I  withdrew  my  money 
from  the  bank,  and  I  could  not  think  of  taking 
interest  from  a  friend,  his  expressions  of  grati- 
tude paid  me  in  advance  for  any  such  sacrifice. 
I  went  at  once  and  drew  the  sixty  dollars. 
which  I  handed  him  without  saying  how  I 
had  come  by  it.  He  paid  me  in  a  week  or  two. 
thanked  me  warmly,  and  added  this  naive  re- 
mark :  "  If  you  hadn't  lent  me  the  money.  I 
should  have  had  to  take  it  out  of  the  savings- 
bank,  and  have  lost  the  interest."  I  smiled 
and  held  my  peace. 

In  his  interesting  chapter  on  "  Recollections 
of  Noted  Persons,"  Mr.  Trowbridge  proves 
conclusively  that  Walt  Whitman's  "  Leaves  of 
Grass  "  was  not  written  until  the  poet  had  be- 
come a  reader  and  admirer  of  Emerson.  He 
describes  one  early  interview  with  Whitman 
in  which  the  poet  told  him  how  the  chance 
reading  of  a  volume  of  Emerson's  essays  had 
aroused  his  powers : 

_  His  half-formed  purpose,  his  vague  aspira- 
tions, all  that  had  Iain  smoldering  so  long 
within  him,  rushed  into  flame  at  the  touch  of 


those  electric  words.  He  freely  admitted  that 
he  could  never  have  written  his  poems  if  he 
had  not  first  "  come  to  himself."  and  that 
Emerson  helped  him  to  find  himself.  I  asked 
him  if  he  thought  he  would  have  come  to  him- 
self without  that  help.  He  said.  "  Yes,  but  it 
would  have  taken  longer."  And  he  used 
this  characteristic  expression:  "I  was  sim- 
mering, simmering,  simmering ;  Emerson 
brought  me  to  a  boil." 

The  eccentric  poet's  sturdy  defiance  of 
criticism  is  illustrated  in  a  small  way  by  his 
refusal  to  correct  a  false  phrase,  Santa  Spirita 
which  he  had  coined  and  printed  as  good 
Italian,  although  it  was  pointed  out  to  him 
afterward  that  Spirito  Santo,  or,  indeed.  Holy 
Spirit,  would  serve  his  purpose  equally  well. 
But  he  perversely  retained  the  original  blunder 
in  later  editions. 

As  a  lecturer,  Mr.  Trowbridge  says  that 
Emerson  was  curiously  unconventional  and 
quite  without  art.  He  was  at  times  amusingly 
careless  with  his  manuscript.  "  losing  his 
place  and  searching  for  it  with  stoical  in- 
difference to  his  patiently  waiting  audience — 
'  up  to  my  old  tricks,'  as  I  once  heard  him 
say  when  he  was  an  unusually  long  time 
shuffling  the  misplaced  leaves."  Mr.  Trow- 
bridge adds : 

He  had  the  same  habit  that  marked  his  con- 
versation, of  seeming  often  to  pause  and  hesi- 
tate before  coming  down  with  force  upon  the 
important  word.  His  voice  was  a  pure 
baritone,  and  a  perfect  vehicle  for  his  thought, 
which  in  great  and  happy  moments  imparted 
to  it  a  quality  I  never  heard  in  any  other 
human  speech.  .  .  .  Emerson  was  no  orator. 
He  had  no  qift  of  extemporary  utterance,  no 
outburst  of  improvisation.  But  in  the  expres- 
sion of  ethical  thought,  or  in  downright  moral 
vehemence.  I  believed,  and  still  believe,  him 
unequaled.  Well  I  remember  how  he  once 
thrilled  an  immense  audience  in  Tremont 
Temple  in  the  Kansas  Free  State  war  days, 
in  speaking  of  the  principles  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  which  Rufus  Choate 
had  recently  brushed  rather  contemptuously 
aside  as  "  glittering  generalities."  Emerson 
quoted  the  phrase,  then,  after  a  moment's 
pause,  hurled  at  the  remotest  benches  these 
words.  like  ringing  javelins :  "  They  do 
glitter!  They  have  a  right  to  glitter!"  with  a 
concentrated  power  no  orator  could  have  sur- 
passed. 

Apropos  of  Bronson  Alcott's  extraordinary 
indifference  to  the  necessity  of  providing  for 
his  family,  and  his  readiness  to  submit  to  any 
kind  of  money  obligation,  Mr.  Trowbridge  re- 
lates  this  story : 

A  friend  of  mine  once  saw  him  on  a 
Nantasket  boat,  without  a  ticket,  or  money  to 
pay  for  one.  When  called  to  account  by  the 
faretaker.  he  remarked  innocently  that  the 
triD  had  attracted  him.  and  that  he  believed 
"  there  would  be  some  orovision  " — a  belief 
that  was  immediately  vindicated  by  a  pas- 
senger recognizing  him  and  stepping  up  to 
make   the    said    "  provision." 

Mr.  Trowbridge  called  upon  Longfellow 
one  day  just  after  he  had  received  a  visit 
from  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Longfellow 
had  a  headache : 

When  I  inquired  the  cause,  he  replied :  "  The 
movement  of  his  mind  is  so  much  more  rapid 
than  mine  that  I  often  find  it  difficult  to  fol- 
low him,  and  if  I  keep  up  the  strain  for  any 
length  of  time  a  headache  is  the  penalty." 
Every-  one  who  knew  the  autocrat  must  have 
been  impressed  bv  this  trait  ascribed  to  him 
by  Longfellow — the  extraordinary  rapidity  of 
his  mental  processes.  Not  that  he  talked  fast, 
but  that  his  turns  of  thought  were  surprisingly 
bright  and  quick,  and  often  made  with  a  kind 
of  scientific  precision  agreeably  in  contrast 
with  the  looseness  of  statement  commonly 
characterizing  those  who  speak  volubly  and 
think  fast. 

Over  thirty  illustrations  —  mostly  portraits 
and  many  of  them  unfamiliar — -supplement 
the  text  and  add  not  a  little  to  the  attractive- 
ness of  the  volume. 

Published  by  Houghton.  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
'ton ;  $2.50  net. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


President  Roosevelt  celebrated  the  forty- 
fifth  anniversary  of  his  birth  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  on  Tuesday. 

The  board  of  trustees  of  Princeton  Univer- 
sity have  elected  H.  A.  Garfield,  son  of  the 
murdered  President,  professor  of  politics,  the  I 
post  formerly  held  by  John  H.  Finley.  now 
president  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New- 
York. 

Sands.  Queen  Victoria's  old  coachman,  who  j 
drove  her  for  more  than  forty  years,  and 
without  whom  she  would  not  go  out  in  a 
carriage,  may  be  seen  daily  upon  the  streets 
of  Windsor,  and  if  you  can  warm  him  up  a 
little,  says  William  Curtis,  he  will  relate 
anecdotes  of  the  late  queen  by  the  hour.  He 
is  retired  on  a  pension  of  seven  hundred  and 
[  fifty  dollars,  and  has  been  given  a  little  cottage 
:    on   the   royal   estates   at   Eton  to  live   in. 

Three  of  the  five  women  on  the  Revolution- 
ary   War   pension    roll    are    New    Englanders. 

j  They  are  Hannah  Newell  Barrett,  of  Boston, 
one  hundred  and  three,  pensioned  by  special 
act    as    the    daughter    of    Noah    Harrod,    who 

.    served   two   years   as   private  with   the   Mas- 


sachusetts   line ;     Esther    S.    Damon,    of    Ply- 
mouth.   Vt.,    eighty-nine,    pensioned    as    the 
widow    of   Noah    Damon,   who   served   in    the   I 
Massachusetts  line  from  April,   1775,  to  May, 
1780;    and    Rhoda    Augusta     Thompson,     of 
Woodbury.    Conn.,    eighty-two,    pensioned    by- 
special    act    as    the     daughter     of     Thaddeus    , 
Thompson,   who    served   six   years   as   private   [ 
in  Colonel  John  Lam's  New  York  regiment. 

Ex- Queen  Ranavalo  of  Madagascar  has 
been  spending  a  short  holiday  in  France  by 
permission  of  the  French  authorities.  The 
queen  resides  at  Algiers,  where  the  govern- 
ment provides  her  with  a  house  and  a  miser- 
able pittance  that  barely  allows  her  to  keep 
herself  decently.  During  the  first  week  of 
her  stay  in  Paris,  she  was  forced  to  live  so 
modestly  that  the  papers  chided  the  govern- 
ment for  not  providing  her  with  an  extra 
allowance  of  spending  money.  As  a  result, 
sympathizers  came  to  her  rescue.  One  lady 
loaned  her  her  carriage,  others  sent  her 
various  tickets  and  invitations,  so  that  after 
all    she    has    had    a    fair    time. 

Robert  W.  Wilcox,  who  died  in  Honolulu 
on  October  24th  from  consumption,  played  a 
prominent  part  in  the  political  affairs  of  the 
Hawaiian  Islands.  In  January.  1895.  he  led 
a  revolution  against  the  government  of  Hawaii 
to  restore  Queen  Liliuokalani  to  the  throne. 
His  plans  were  a  failure,  and  he  was  sentenced 
to  death  by  a  court-martial  of  the  Dole  govern- 
ment. On  the  intervention  of  the  United 
States,  however,  the  sentence  was  commuted 
to  thirty-five  years'  imprisonment  at  hard  labor 
and  a  fine  of  ten  thousand  dollars.  In  January- 
1896,  he  was  given  a  conditional  pardon  by 
President  Dole,  and  in  1S98  a  full  pardon. 
In  November,  1900,  he  was  elected  by  the 
Independent  Native  party  as  the  first  delegate 
to  the  Congress  of  the  L'nited  States  from 
Hawaii,  defeating  Samuel  Parker,  the  Re- 
publican, and  Prince  David,  the  Democratic 
nominee. 

John  Alexander  Dowie's  recent  threat  to 
spank  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hillis  and  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Henson,  of  Brooklyn,  recalls  the  incident  in 
his  Western  experience  which  is  thought  to 
have  been  responsible  for  his  hostility  to  the 
Plymouth  Church  minister.  Dr.  Hillis.  in  the 
early  stages  of  Dowie's  Chicago  evolution, 
occasionally  attended  a  Zionite  service.  Dowie 
knew  him  well  by  sight,  and  was  noticeably 
uncomfortable  when  he  was  present.  One 
day,  "  Elijah  the  Restorer,"  was  explaining 
to  a  gaping  multitude  his  own  relation  to  the 
moral  system  of  the  universe.  "  Men  and 
brethren."  said  the  prophet,  "  I  am  not  as  other 
religious  leaders  have  been.  I  am  myself. 
I  stand  or  fall  by  myself.  The  first  Elijah 
went  gloriously  into  the  desert — probably  on 
a  camel.  When  the  Founder  of  Christianity 
entered  Jerusalem  he  rode  in  the  beauty  of 
modesty  upon  an  ass.  If  it  comes  my  hour 
to  triumph — when  I  enter  some  great  city, 
through  gates  flung"  wide  to  receive  me — I 
shall  know  how  to  go  humbly.  I  shall  have 
not  even  an  ass  to  carry  me.  I  shall  go  on 
foot"  From  a  seat  under  the  tabernacle  gal- 
lery, and  suspiciously  near  that  of  Dr.  Hillis. 
came  the  response :  "  Quite  right,  Dowie  ! 
One  ass  will  be  enough." 

Political  Announcements 


For 
Mayor 


HENRY  J.  CROCKER 


Republican 
Nominee 


The  re-election  of 

EDMOND  GODCHAUX 

{DEMOCRATIC  NOMINEE) 

COUNTY  RECORDER 

means  a  continuance  of  the  business  meth- 
ods in  vogue  in  that  department  of  the  Cily 
Hall  during  the  past  three  years. 


BAHR5 


For  Tax  Collector 

EDWARD  J.  SMITH 

[INCUMBENT] 

Regular  Republican  Nominee 
For  District  Attorney 

EDWARD  S.  SALOMON 

Republican  Nominee 


REPUBLICAN 

TICKET 

1903 


Mayor    Henry  J.  Crocker 

Auditor Harry  Baebr 

City  Attorney Percy  V.  Long 

Sheriff'. Henry  H.  Lynch 

Assessor Geo.  H.  Bahrs 

Tax  Collector    Edward  J.  Smith 

Treasurer John  E.  McDougald 

Recorder Louis  X.  Jacobs 

County  Clerk John  J.  Greif 

District  Attorney   Edward  S.  Salomon 

Coroner ..Dr.  Thos.  H.  Morris 

Public  Administrator William  E.  Lutz 

Supervisors  : 

Edward  Aigeltinger 
George  Alpers 
Maurice  L.  Asher 
\Ym.  Barton 
Frederick  N.  Bent 
Dr.  Chas.  Boxton 
Geo.  Dietterle 
Thos.  C.  Duff 
Frederick  Eggers 
Theodore  Lunstedt 
Maxwell  McNutt 
Joseph  S.  Nyland 
L.  A.  Rea 
\V.  W.  Sanderson 
Dr.  J.  I.  Stephen 
Robert  Vance 
.  Geo.  R.  Wells 
Horace  Wilson 

Police  judges  : 

H.  L.  Joachimsen 
Ed.  M.  Sweeney 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


November  2,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


"  Old  English  Comedies," 
For  the  benefit  of  the  student  of  literary 
history,  Professor  Charles  Mills  Gayley  has 
compiled  a  number  of  representative  old  En- 
glish comedies,  many  of  them  heretofore  in- 
accessible to  the  public,  and  so  arranged  as  to 
indicate  the  development  of  a  literary  type 
by  a  selection  of  its  representative  specimens. 
The  volume  begins  with  an  essay  by  Pro- 
fessor Gayley  himself,  in  which  is  reviewed 
the  beginnings  of  English  comedy,  including 
necessary  discussion  of  the  early  saints' 
plays  and  parodies,  and  the  miracle  cycles, 
and  coming  down  to  the  period  of  transition, 
which  finally  resulted  in  the  evolution  of  the 
secular  drama. 

There  follows  representative  plays,  arranged 
in  the  order  of  their  production,  and  selected 
from  the  works  of  some  half-dozen  or  more 
notable  dramatists  who  flourished  prior  to 
Shakespeare's  time. 

These  comedies  are  accompanied  by  bio- 
graphical and  critical  essays,  and  interspersed 
by  occasional  monographs,  in  which  are  in- 
dicated important  dramatic  periods  or  move- 
ments contemporary  to  the  epoch  discussed. 
The  essays  are  by  different  authors — 
learned  men  well  known  in  the  field  of  En- 
glish letters — but  they  follow  a  general  plan 
outlined  by  Professor  Gayley  in  order  to  se- 
cure continuity  and  scientific  value, 

To  the  student  whose  interests  are  closely 
concerned  with  the  evolution  of  the  literary 
drama,  the  volume  will  be  one  of  unusual 
interest  and  high  authority,  for  it  includes, 
both  by  example  and  precept,  so  comprehen- 
sive a  view  of  the  growth  of  English  comedy 
within  the  time  indicated  that  the  -attentive 
reader  may  perceive  for  himself  its  gradual 
evolution,  from  the  embryonic  struggles  in 
Heywood's  "Play  of  the  Wether"  to  Henry 
Porter's  realistic  comedy  of  middle-class  life 
and  manners  in  "  Two  Angry  Women  of 
Abington." 

This  brings  the  reader  to  the  period  of 
Shakespearean  productions,  and  the  volume 
closes  with  a  fine  and  analytical  essay  by  Pro- 
fessor Gayley  on  that  side  of  Shakespeare's 
multiform  genius  which  found  its  expression 
in   his   immortal   and   ever-joyous   comedies. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  $1.50. 


A  Strenuous  but  Satisfying  Romance. 

What  a  villain  was  John  Buckhurst !  "His 
eyes  were  almost  stone  white  in  the  lamp- 
light," we  read  on  page  50  of  Robert  W. 
Chambers's  "  The  Maids  of  Paradise " — 
"  white  as  his  delicately  chiseled  hands."  And 
again,  on  page  93,  this  description:  "Small 
of  hand  and  foot — too  small  even  for  such  a 
slender  man — clean  shaven,  colorless  in  hair, 
skin,  lips,  he  challenged  instant  attention  by 
the  very  monotony  of  his  bloodless  symmetry. 
There  was  nothing  of  positive  evil  in  his  face, 
nothing  of  impulse,  good  or  bad,  nothing  even 
superficially  human.  .  .  .  There  was  in  his 
ensemble  nothing  to  disturb  the  negative  har- 
mony save,  perhaps,  an  abnormal  flatness  of 
the  instep  and  hands."  How  Whistler  would 
have  liked  to  have  painted  John  Buckhurst. 

But  with  all  his  villainous  shrewdness.  John 
Buckhurst  was  no  match  for  M.  Scarlett — 
that  is,  in  the  end.  Scarlett  was  an  officer  of 
the  Imperial  Military  Police,  and  while  the 
Prussian  army  was  fearfully  descending  upon 
fair  France^  in  that  memorable  August  of 
1870,  we  find  Scarlett  at  the  home  of  the 
lovely  Countess  de  Vassart,  near  Morsbronn, 
his  mission  being  to  arrest  Buckhurst  for  the 
theft  of  "  a  big  gold  crucifix,  marvelously 
chiseled  from  a  lump  of  the  solid  metal."  set 
with  countless  diamonds,  belonging  to  the 
crown.  Thus  goes  the  story  from  the  lips 
of  Scarlett : 

"  Stop  !  Stand  back  from  that  table  !  "  I 
cried. 

"  I  beg  your  pardon."  he  said,  coolly. 

'"  Madame."  said  I,  without  taking  my  eyes 
from  him,  "  in  a  community  dedicated  to 
peace,  a  revolver  is  an  anachronism.  So  I 
think— if  you  move  I  will  shoot  you,  Buck- 
hurst!— so  I  think  I  had  better  take  it,  table- 
drawer  and  all " 

"  Stop!"  said  Buckhurst, 

''  Oh.  no.  I  can't  stop  now,"  said  I,  cheer- 
fully, "and  if  you  attempt  to  upset  that  lamp 
you   will   make  a  sad  mistake.     Now,  walk  to 

the    door!      Turn    your   back!      Go    slowlv  ' 

halt!"  J  ' 

With  the  table-drawer  under  one  arm  and 
my  pistol-hand  swinging,  I  followed  Buck- 
hurst out  into  the  hall." 

But  this  time  Buckhurst  got  away,  after  all. 
A  company  of  Uhlans  swept  down  like  a 
storm  "n  the  villa.  Scarlett  was  wounded 
and  tacen  prisoner  along  with  Countess  de 
Vassar;.  Buckhurst,  who,  besides  being  a 
thief  ,nd  an  anarchist,  was  a  German  spy, 
t  from  under  at  the  proper  moment. 
Then    .vents    followed   fast.      From   the   high 


window  of  a  house  in  Morsbronn,  Scarlett 
and  his  fair  nurse  looked'  down  upon  the  aw- 
ful slaughter  of  the  French  cuirassiers  in  the 
barricaded  streets.  From  Morsbronn,  a  little 
later,  Officer  Scarlett  escaped  to  Paris.  There 
he  found  a  traitor  at  the  head  of  the  police. 
He  himself  was  dismissed,  disgraced.  But 
soon  he  found  himself  again  mixed  up  with 
Mr.  Buckhurst,  whose  fierce  hope  was  to  seize 
all  the  treasure  and  jewels  of  France  as  they 
were  being  sent  to  the  port  of  Paradise  to  be 
conveyed  on  a  French  cruiser  to  Aden.  Of 
course,  Scarlett  foils  the  scheme,  with  the 
help  of  the  Countess  de  Vassart,  whose  gray 
eyes,  we  are  pleased  to  say,  now  lighten  at 
the  sight  of  the  gallant  officer. 

"  The  Maid  of  Paradise "  is  a  very  good 
romance,  and  when  the  war  is  over,  the  mis- 
understandings cleared  up,  the  wrongfully 
dismissed  reinstated,  and  the  vile  traitors 
dead  or  fled,  we  are  deeply  satisfied  to  hear 
Scarlett  say  of  the  lovely  countess :  "  She 
turned  in  my  arms  and  clasped  her  hands  be- 
hind my  head,  pressing  her  mouth  to  mine." 

Published  by  Harper  Brothers,  New  York  ; 
$1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Canon  Ainger's  "  Life  of  Crabbe "  will  be 
the  next  volume  to  appear  in  the  English  Men 
of  Letters  Series.  The  Macmillan  Company 
announce  for  publication  this  fall  in  the  same 
series  a  biography  of  "  Lowell,"  by  Dr.  Henry 
Van  Dyke,  and  H.  C.  Beeching's  "  Life  of 
Jane  Austen."  A  little  later  there  will  be 
Owen  Wister's  "  Benjamin  Franklin,"  Profes- 
sor Woodberry's  "  Life  of  Emerson,"  and  Sir 
Leslie  Stephen's  "  Hobbes." 

Harry  Furniss,  the  well-known  caricaturist. 
is  writing  his  first  novel,  a  love-story,  which 
he  will  illustrate,  following  the  example  of 
Du  Maurier,  his  one-time  colleague  on  the 
staff  of  Punch. 

The  scene  of  Joseph  Conrad's  new  novel,  on 
which  he  is  at  present  working,  is  laid  in 
South  America,  a  country  which  he  has  never 
hitherto  treated  in  his  stories,  but  with  which 
he  is  familiar.  Mr.  Conrad  has  also  just'writ- 
ten,  in  collaboration  with  F.  M.  Hueffer,  a 
new  volume,  entitled  "  Romance  :  A  Novel." 

Albert  Bigelow  Paine  has  just  completed  a 
set  of  papers  called  "  Tom  Nast.  Cartoonist." 
Mr.  Nast.  shortly  before  his  death,  invited  Mr. 
Paine  to  look  over  his  old  scrap-books  and 
memoranda  containing  the  materials  out  of 
which  he  had  built  his  great  cartoons.  He' 
then  told  Mr.  Paine  that  he  intended  to  make 
the  latter  his  literary  executor.  Mr.  Paine 
assented,  and  the  present  memoirs  show  an 
ample  fulfillment  of  his  office.  They  will  be 
presented  serially  in  an  Eastern  magazine  in 
six  or  eight  parts,  the  first  dealing  with  Nast's 
early  career. 

General  John  B.  Gordon's  "  Reminiscences 
of  the  Civil  War "  has  just  been  issued  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  The  extracts  already 
published  in  Scribner's  Magazine  indicate  a 
valuable  historical  contribution  as  well  as  a 
most  interesting  book  of  memoirs. 

The  great  pioneer  missionary  of  the  Episco- 
pal Church  in  the  North-West,  Dr.  J.  Lloyd 
Breck,  is  to  be  the  subject  of  a  volume  of 
missionary  biography  and  reminiscences  soon 
to  be  published,  under  the  title  of  "  An  Apos- 
tle of  the  Wilderness."  The  author  is  the  Rev. 
Theodore  I.  Holcombe. 

John  Lane  will  soon  bring  out  a  posthumous 
volume  by  Aubrey  Beardsley.  It  will  contain 
essays  in  prose  and  verse,  including  the  un- 
finished story,  "  Under  the  Hill,"  from  which 
the  book  will  take  its  title.  There  will  be  a 
number  of  illustrations. 

C.  D.  Gibson's  double-page  cartoons,  entitled 
"  The  Weaker  Sex,"  have  been  collected  in 
portfolio  from  Collier's  Weekly,  where  they 
originally  appeared,  and  will  be  published 
uniform  with  former  Gibson  annuals  by 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

Messrs.  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.  will  publish 
"  Christmas  Songs  and  Easter  Carols,"  by  the 
late  Phillips  Brooks,  Bishop  of  Massachusetts, 
in  two  editions — one  with  broad  margins, 
paper  boards,  and  vellum  backing,  and  the 
other  in  popular  form.  Both  will  have  appro- 
priate wood-cut  frontispieces  and  designs. 

"  The  Land  of  Heather  "  is  the  title  of  the 
new  book  by  Clifton  Johnson  which  the 
Macmillan  Company  are  publishing,  uniform 
with  his  "  Among  English  Hedgerows "  and 
"  Along   French   Byways." 

"  John  S.  Sargent :  A  Collection  of  Sixty 
Reproductions  in  Photogravure  of  the  Finest 
Paintings,"  with  a  critical  introduction  by 
Mrs.  Alice  Meynell,  will  be  published  this 
week  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.  It  in- 
cludes, among  others,  portraits  of  Mrs.   Mey- 


nell (frontispiece),  Carmencita,  Ellen  Terry 
as  Lady  Macbeth,  Lady  Hamilton,  Miss  Daisy 
Leiter,  Mrs.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  the  Duke 
of  Portland,  Mme.  Duse,  Henry  Marquand, 
Paul  Helleu,  and  Theodore  Roosevelt.  The 
book  appears  in  folio  edition  and  a  limited 
edition  de  luxe. 

The  Dodge  Publishing  Company  has  in 
press  new  editions  of  two  books  by  Mary  W. 
Tileston  which  they  will  issue  for  the  holidays 
— "  Daily  Strength  for  Daily  Needs,"  in  two 
editions,  and  "  Joy  and  Strength  for  the 
Pilgrim's  Day,"  a  companion  to  the  first, 
also    in    two    editions. 

Robert  Hichens  is  writing  a  new  novel,  to 
be  published  in  the  spring,  entitled  "  The 
Woman  and  the  Fan."     He  is  now  in  Algeria. 

Messrs.  Holt  &  Co.  have  in  preparation  for 
publication  this  month  an  American  edition 
of  Werner's  "  Heimathklang,"  edited  for 
schools  by  Marian  P.  Whitney.  The  story 
has  had  some  success  in  Germany,  and  is  said 
to  be  a  graphic  tale,  with  a  slight  element 
of  sentimental  love. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 

The  Raggedy  Man. 
Oh,  the  Raggedy  Man!     He  works  fer  Pa; 
An'    he's  the  goodest  man   ever  you  saw! 
He   conies   to   our   house    every   day, 
An'  waters  the  horses  an'  feeds  'em  hay; 
An'  he  opens  the  shed — an'  we  all  ist  laugh 
When    he    drives    out    our    little    old    wobbely 

calf; 
An'  nen — ef  our  hired  girl  says  he  can — 
He  milks   the  cow   fer  'Lizabuth  Ann. 
Aint  he  a'  awful  good  Raggedy  Man? 
Raggedy!    Raggedy!    Raggedy  Man! 

W'y,  the  Raggedy  Man — he's  ist  so  good 
He  splits  the  kindlin'  an'  chops  the  wood; 
An*  nen  he  spades  in  our  garden,  too, 
An'   does  most  things   'at  boys  can't  do. 
He  clumbed  clean  up  in  our  big  tree 
An'  shooked  a'   apple  down   fer  me — 
An'   nother'n.   too.    fer  'Lizabuth    Ann — 
An'    nother'n,    too,    fer    The    Raggedy    Man. 
Aint   he   a*    awful    kind    Raggedy    Man  ? 
Raggedy!    Raggedy!    Raggedy  Man! 

An'  the  Raggedy  Man,  as  knows  most  rhymes. 
An'  tells  'em,  ef  I  be  good,  sometimes; 
Knows  'bout  Giunts,  an'  Griffuns,  an*  Elves, 
An*   the   Squidgicum-Squees   'at  swallers  their- 

selves ! 
An'  wite  by  the  pump  in   our  pasture-lot. 
He  showed  me  the  hole  'at  the  Wunks  is  got, 
'At  lives  'way  deep  in  the  ground,   an'  can 
Turn   into  me,   er  'Lizabuth   Ann! 
Aint  he  a  funny  old  Raggedy  Man? 

Raggedy!    Raggedy!    Raggedy  Man! 

The    Raggedy    Man— one  time    when   he 
Was  makin'  a  little  bow'n-n'-orry  fer  me. 
Say,  "  When  you're  big  like  your  Pa  is. 
Air  you  go'  to  keep  a  fine  store  like  his — 
An'     be     a     rich     merchant  —  an'     wear      fine 

clothes? — 
Er  what  air  you  go*  to  be.  goodness  knows!" 
An'  nen  he  laughed  at  'Lizabuth  Ann, 
An'  I  says,  "  'M  go'  to  be  a  Raggedy  Man! — 
I'm  ist  go'  to  be  a  nice  Raggedy  Man!" 

Raggedy!    Raggedy!    Raggedy  Man! 
-James    Whitcomb    Riley   in    "  Rhymes    of   Child- 
hood." 


Arthur  Brereton  has  written  a  book  on  "The 
Lyceum  and  Henry  Irving."  It  is  a  complete 
history  of  the  theatre  from  its  origin  in  1772 
to  the  present  day,  with  many  illustrations 
which  have  never  appeared  before.  The  book 
contains  color  reproductions  of  Edwin  Long's 
painting  of  Sir  Henry  Irving  as  Hamlet,  and 
of  Sargent's  portrait  of  Miss  Ellen  Terry  as 
Lady  Macbeth,  and  has  a  special  chapter  on 
the  Sublime  Society  of  Beef  Steaks,  which 
met  at  the  Lyceum  for  sixty  years,  and  which 
included  many  of  the  most  noted  men  of  the 
day  among  its  members. 


They  who  make  the  glasses 
we  sell  are  skilled  workmen 
of  the  highest  grade. 

A  lens  that  we  produce  -is 
perfect — you  are  invited  to 
visit  our  factory. 

Hirsch  &   Kaiser, 

7  Kearny  St.  Opticians. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Some  Good  Children's  Books. 

The  decorated  covers  of  the  volumes  in  the 
series  of  Twentieth  Century  Juveniles  arc 
exceptionally  artistic  and  pleasing.  These 
books  are  all  similar  in  style,  but  not  uniform  : 
tbey  are  well  printed,  and  the  illustrations 
from  photographs,  as  well  as  the  drawings, 
sre  interesting. 

"  The  Mislaid  Uncle "  (60  cents),  by 
Evelyn  Raymond,  is  a  story  of  a  little 
girl  who  was  duly  ticketed  and  labeled, 
and  consigned  by  her  mother  on  the  Pa- 
cific Coast  to  an  uncle  in  Baltimore.  She 
reaches  the  wrong  Uncle  Joseph,  and  compli- 
cations, pleasant  and  unpleasant,  follow, 
though  the  ending  is  happy.  The  little  girl 
is  preternaturally  good,  though  otherwise 
natural,  and  the  illustrations  from  drawings 
will  please  children. 

"How  the  Two  Ends  Meet"  (60  cents), 
by  Mary  F.  Leonard,  is  the  story  of  how  the 
rich  and  poor  people  living  on  a  certain  city 
square  come  finally  to  fraternize  through  the 
friendship  of  a  rich  and  handsome  young  man 
with  a  poor  but  pretty  little  girl.  There  are 
four  illustrations. 

Anna  Chapin  Ray  has  made  use  of  her 
intimate  knowledge  of  the  lives  of  children 
of  the  slums  in  the  story  "  Sheba "  {60 
cents).  Sheba  is  a  little  Jewish  girl — a 
pathetic  figure — whose  joys  and  sorrows  are 
sympathetically  chronicled.  Jacob  A.  Riis  is 
said  to  have  remarked  of  this  book:  "It 
tells  the  whole  story  of  the  children  of  the 
poor."  There  are  many  illustrations  from 
photographs. 

"  Twilight  Tales  Told  to.  Tiny  Tots  "  (50 
cents)  is  the  suggestive  title  of  a  volume  of 
fairy-stories,  by  Anita  D.  Rosecrans.  They 
are  all  short  and  simple,  and  read  as  if  they 
might  be  interesting  to  small  folks. 

It  is  stated  that  Clarence  Hawkes,  author 
of  a  book  of  animal  stories,  entitled  "The 
Little  Foresters  "  (60  cents)  has  been  totally 
blind  since  boyhood.  The  reader  of  his  ani- 
mated volume  would  never  suspect  it;  for  not 
only  are  descriptions  accurate  and  graphic, 
but  many  things  that  keen  eyes  fail  to  see 
are  noted.  The  fact  of  the  author's  blind- 
ness will  impress  the  young  readers  of  the 
book.  The  drawings  of  bird  and  beast  by 
Charles  Copeland  are  unusually  good. 

"  Jim  Crow's  Language  Lessons "  (50 
cents)  contains  a  series  of  stories  by  Julia 
Darrow  Cowles.  intended  only  for  very  small 
children.      There   are   illustrations. 

Published  by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New 
York. 

New  Publications. 
"  Character    Reading,"    by    Mrs.    Symes,    is 
published    by    the    Saalfield    Publishing    Com- 
pany. New  York;  50  cents. 

"A  Red,  Red  Rose,"  a  mild  novel  of  En- 
glish life,  by  Katherine  Tynan,  is  published 
by  the  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company,  New  York ; 
$1.50. 

A  prettily  decorated  edition  of  Robert 
Louis  Stevenson's  "  A  Child's  Garden  of 
Verses  "  is  published  by  the  Dodge  Publishing 
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and  rearrangement  of  Orton's  comparative 
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Legends  of  the  French  Provinces,"  trans- 
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bound  and  illustrated  holiday  juveniles.  Pub- 
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transplanting  from  the  English  soil  in  which 
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interesting,  but  the  story  certainly  is  not.  It 
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though  the  beloved  did  have  "  ineffable  eyes."' 
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Deer."  the  artist,  Charles  Copeland,  or  the 
author,  William  J.  Long.  The  former's  wash 
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joys  of  the  chase,  the  least  is  the  mere  kill- 
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November  2,  1903 


That  extraordinary  aggregation  of  stripes 
and  sprays  on  the  Alhambra  stage  -wall- 
paper formed  an  unabashed  background  to  a 
distinguished  company  on  Tuesday  night, 
when  J.  S'-  Duss  rallied  his  symphony  or- 
chestra, and,  with  No-rdica  iot  the  central 
jewel,  presided  over  a  programme  that  was  as 
a  chaplet  of  musical  gems. 

In  spite  of  an  unavoidable  delay  that  might 
well  have  ruined  the  temper  of  the  audience, 
the  evening  was  a  booming  and  blooming 
success.  In  the  first  place,  the  programme 
was  particularly  well  selected,  beginning  with 
Elgar's  brilliant  and  showy  "  Pomp  and  Cir- 
cumstance," which,  with  Goldmark's  "  Cricket 
on  the  Hearth,"  with  its  lovely  burden  borne 
so  tenderly  by  the  'cellos,  and  Massenet's 
"  Herodiade "  brought  us  to  Nordica's  place 
on  the  programme  almost  before  we  were 
aware. 

Duss  is  the  kind  of  leader  whose  sway 
is  exerted  without  undue  demonstration  on 
his  part.  He  is  outwardly  quiet,  but  intensely 
pervasive  in  spirit,  prompt  as  a  clock,  when 
the  moment  for  action  comes,  and  domi- 
nating with  his  musical  interpretations  the 
first  and  least  of  the  musicians  under  him. 

Nordica,  with  a  tiara  of  diamonds  and 
turquoises  on  her  chestnut  hair,  and  strings 
of  the  same  jewels  circling  neck  and  arms, 
almost  rivaled  their  brightness  with  the 
warmth  and  glow  of  her  response  to  San 
Francisco's  greeting.  She  has  a  delightful 
Presence  on  the  concert  platform,  and  re- 
turns to  us  with  her  vocal  abilities  practically 
unimpaired. 

It  is  really  extraordinary  for  how  long  a 
term  the  voices  of  great  artists  can  stand  the 
wear  and  tear  of  an  operatic  career,  and  re- 
main untarnished.  Nordica  has  been  before 
the  public  for  thirty  years.  Yet  one  can 
close  one's  eyes  while  she  is  singing  and 
almost  believe  that  hers  is  the  voice  of  youth. 
Not  quite,  perhaps,  for  while  it  has  absolutely 
no  threadbare  spots,  its  dramatic  power, 
flawless  technique,  and  unbroken  volume  sug- 
gest rather  the  strength  and  poise  of  maturity 
than  the  fresh,  lyric,  flute  notes  of  youth. 

To  Nordica,  acting  is  so  much  a  part  of 
singing  that  during  the  great  Wagnerian  num- 
bers it  is  impossible  for  her  wholly  to  refrain. 
Her  body  sways,  her  foot  retains  itself  with 
difficulty  from  an  imperious  stamp,  and  her 
arms  visibly  feel  the  impulse  to  stretch  forth 
in  the  familiar  dramatic  gesture  that  seems  to 
undam  the  rushing  vocal  flood  and  give  it  vent. 
She  was  generous  on  her  opening  night ; 
more  generous  than  we  had  a  right  to  ex- 
pect. I  wonder  what  the  audience,  who  had 
paid,  let  us  say  for  four  numbers  (she  was 
down  for  two,  which  with  encores  means 
four) ,  arid  got  double  the  number,  would 
have  thought  if,  in  response  to  their  insistent 
and  determined  demand  for  more,  Nordica  had 
suddenly  called  out :  "  Well,  my  lads,  let  me 
see  the  color  of  your  money  first."  They 
would  have  been  shocked,  affronted,  disgusted, 
and  utterly  oblivious  of  the  fact  that  they 
had  been  begging  a  world-renowned  singer  to 
give  them  of  her  almost  priceless  wares  for 
nothing.  It  is  always  apparent,  too,  that  an 
audience  is  fatuously  pleased  with  itself  when 
artists  are  "  held  up "  on  the  platform  and 
compelled,  willy-nilly,  to  disgorge.  True, 
Nordica  yielded  with  the  best  grace  in  the 
world.  Her  abounding  cheerfulness  and  good 
will  are  a  part  of  her  charm.  Her  voice  seems 
tireless,  and,  withal,  she  employs  the  pianis- 
simo effect  with  remarkable  ease,  taming 
and  subduing  its  great  volume  to  the  softest 
murmur. 

Although,  through  the  early  delay  and  un- 
expected extension  of  the  programme,  doz- 
ens were  obliged  to  leave  before  the  conclu- 
.  sion,  the  orchestra,  after  Mme.  Nordica's 
final  disappearance,  held  a  rapt  audience  to 
the  close.  Their  numbers  throughout  were 
of  the  choicest.  We  heard  the  "  Vorspiel  " 
from  "  Parsifal,"  and  listened  to  long-drawn, 
strr.ngely  penetrating  harmonies  that  were 
to  the  thrilled  ear  as  a  broad  band  of  blinding 
iir/lt  shining  upon  the  Grail.  Following  its 
fi,,al  rally  of  glorious  chords  came  a  couple 
o\  numbers  by  Delibes  ;  delicate  shimmering 
filings,    in   which   one   could   hear   the   rhythm 


and  slide  of  dancing  feet,  and  the  frou-frou 
of  whirling  drapery. 

A  pleasant  feature  in  the  evening's  enter- 
tainment was  the  unexpected  hearing  of 
"  Traumerei,"  given  as  an  encore,  more  par- 
ticularly by  Nahan  Franko,  the  violinist,  who 
played  the  solo  part,  and  whose  pure  and 
mellow  tone  had  already  won  warm  apprecia- 
tion in  a  previous  number. 

Mrs.  Fiske,  the  contralto,  did  not  appear, 
the  series  of  concerts  having  been  so  arranged 
that  Nordica  sings  again  at  the  Friday  matinee 
concert,  while  Mrs.  Fiske  is  to  be  the  soloist 
on  Thursday  evening. 

As  is  usually  the  case,  you  could  walk  over 
heads  at  the  Orpheum  this  week,  and  find 
scarcely  a  vacant  space  to  slip  into.  Although 
one  specialty  scarcely  rises  above  another  in 
general  interest,  Wenona  and  Frank,  tiie  cham- 
pion shooters,  are  without  doubt  the  superior 
attraction  in  actual  merit.  They  do  wonders, 
shooting  at  a  swinging  target,  at  a  ball  whirl- 
ing in  the  air,  or  held  in  a  man's  fingers, 
at  a  candle's  flame,  and  at  the  lighted  end  of 
a  cigar  in  a  man's  mouth,  and  practically 
striking  the   object   aimed   at   every   time. 

"  Whistling  Tom  Browne  "  flutes  like  a  bird, 
being  especially  expert  in  the  prestissimo 
movements,  and  possessing  a  curious  and  ap- 
parently unexplainable  ability  to  whistle  two 
parts  simultaneously. 

Goleman  is  here  again  with  his  trained  dogs 
and  cats.  Poor  little  beasties,  how  one  pities 
them,  thwarted  of  their  natural  destiny  of 
taking  life  easy.  It  is  plain  to  see,  in  spite 
of  the  occasional  perfunctory  pat  of  the 
trainer,  and  his  "  Look  pleasant  "  expression, 
that  the  animals  are  not  trained  by  moral 
suasion,  a  trainer  of  dumb  brutes  discovering 
no  resemblance  whatever  to  a  Sunday-school 
superintendent.  One  feels  ashamed  of  one's  self 
for  laughing  at  a  wild-eyed  tabby  taking  a 
jolting  ride  on  the  back  of  a  leaping  dog,  and 
trying  desperately  to  hang  on  to  her  usual 
aspect  of  feline  sedateness  ;  but  even  the  most 
thoughtless  has  a  fellow-feeling  for  the  plucky 
animal  when  she  pauses  at  the  top  of  a  tall 
ladder,  and  makes  up  her  little  mind  to  jump. 

The  remainder  of  the  programme  consists 
of  the  usual  mixture  of  idiotic  fooling,  which 
awakens  laughter  at  the  time,  and  leaves 
scarcely  a  coherent  recollection  behind.  Her- 
bert Lloyd,  I  remember,  hypnotized  the  au- 
dience into  a  state  of  profound  attention 
while  he  removed  various  sections  of  a  rum- 
mage-sale wardrobe  which  adorned  his  person, 
being  especially  attentive  to  several  dozen 
dickies  which,  in  spasms  of  burlesque  frenzy, 
he  plucked,  in  time  to  rapid  music,  from  the 
place  where   his  shirt   front   ought  to  be. 


"  Andre  Chenier,"  the  opera  of  the  week  at 
the  Tivoli,has  its  share  of  the  faults  of  the  new 
school,  the  most  noticeable  of  which  is  a  ten- 
dency to  introduce  meaningless,  harmonic 
(and  sometimes  inharmonic)  orchestral  clam- 
ors at  stages  in  the  performance,  when  the 
vocalization  is  unduly  obscured. 

The  complete  work,  however,  inspires  re- 
spect, both  for  Giordano,,  and  for  Illica,  the 
dramatist.  The  opera,  which  in  its  totality  is 
one  long  crescendo,  begins  lightly,  with  the 
festal  music  and  action  of  the  fete.  The  spec- 
tator when  he  sees,  in  the  first  act,  its  most 
dramatic  character  in  livery,  singing  an  aria, 
with  his  eye  in  a  fine  frenzy  rolling,  and  a 
feather  duster  in  his  hand,  perceives  anew 
that  the  epoch  of  operatic  realism  is  here. 

One's  imagination  is  not  held  in  thrall  dur- 
ing this  act,  more  particularly  as  Benedetto, 
in  virginal  blue  and  white,  is  disillusioniz- 
ingly  massive  as  the  girlishly  sportive  Mad- 
dalena. 

Benedetto,  however,  in  spite  of  the  tremolo 
and  unevenness  of  her  voice,  has  the  soul  of 
an  artist  tucked  away  somewhere  under  that 
expansive  bodice  of  hers.  She  was  able,  dur- 
ing the  dramatic  scene  in  which  Gerard  pur- 
sues Maddalena  with  his  thwarted  and  jealous 
passion,  to  make  us  forget  the  unromantic 
breadth  of  her  solid  little  person  ;  and,  indeed, 


she  maintained  that  hard-won  dignity  during 
the  remainder  of  the  opera.  A  lady  of  her 
proportions,  nevertheless,  should  be  allowed 
to  renounce  the  prescribed  costume,  and  dress 
in  more  flowing  garments  that  would  disguise 
her  shape  more  effectively.  Even  her  face- 
could  have  its  width  partially  concealed  by 
allowing  the  hair  to  fall  Madonna-wise  over 
the  ears. 

Gregoretti  sings  beautifully,  and  acts  with 
fire.  He  is  a  joy.  His  voice  is  in  that  state 
of  perfect  balance  when  its  young  glory  is  not 
obscured  by  a  single  overworked  note.  He 
looked,  in  his  curious  costume  of  a  revolu- 
tionist, something  like  a  majestic  Indian  chief 
in  borrowed  finery,  more  particularly  during 
the  curtain-calls ;  at  such  times,  he  always  re- 
fuses to  mar  his  Indian  stoicism  by  the  weak- 
ness of  an  acknowledging  smile.  Fine  actor 
that  he  is,  he  just  falls  short  in  temperament. 
being  unable,  at  odd  times,  to  prevent  his 
thrilling  gaze  from  falling  on  the  nearest 
pretty  woman  in  the  audience,  and  silently 
and  soulfully  absorbing  her  hero-worship. 

Ischierdo  acts  the  part  of  Chenier  with 
dignity,  but  repeatedly  forces  out  notes  that 
beat  distressingly  on  one's  tympanum.  He  is 
following  in  Agostini's  path — Agostini,  the 
prodigal,  who  is  singing  all  the  velvet  of  his 
voice  away.  They  all  do  it,  more  or  less,  but 
Ischierdo's  tenor,  which  lacks  in  lower-note 
solidity,  has  a  quality  that  can  very  easily 
deteriorate  into  shriekiness  or  bleatiness,  un- 
less the  owner  guards  himself  against  forcing 
the  notes  that  make  the  sensation-lovers  shout 
bravos. 

Marchesini  has  her  big  moment  in  the  opera, 
singing  with  emotional  fervor  the  farewell  of 
Madelon,  grandam  to  the  pretty  youth  whom 
she  dedicates  to  the  service  of  his  country. 
When  the  scene  is  over,  however,  she  ruins 
the  effect  of  her  dramatic  abandon  by  drop- 
ping the  broken-hearted  business  and  step- 
ping out  of  her  role,  acknowledging  with  a 
broad  and  beaming  smile  the  plaudits  of  her 
admirers. 

What  a  very  pretty  girl  they  have  chosen 
for  the  soldier  boy;  intelligent,  too,  for  she 
managed  to  keep  up  an  expression  appropriate 
to  the  occasion  during  the  whole  episode — 
far  ahead  in  this  respect,  I  should  say,  of  the 
chorus  in  general.  The  latter,  by  the  by,  did 
badly  in  the  choruses,  a  fact  which  even  the 
most  fervent  optimists  in  the  audience  per- 
ceived for  themselves. 

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To-night,  "  The  Masked  Ball."  Sunday  night,  "  Andre 
Chenier."  Next  week — Monday,  Wednesday,  Fri- 
day, and  Saturday  evenings,  "  La  Favorita."  Tues- 
day, Thursday,  and  Sunday  evenings,  Saturday 
matinee  (by  special  request},  the  great  double  bili, 
"  Cavalleria  Rusticana  "  and  "  I'Pagliacci." 


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Two  weeks,  beginning  Monday,  November  2d,  every 

night,    including  Sunday,   matinee    Saturday, 

the  merrv  musical  fantasy, 

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A  glorious  production  by  the  best  singing  company 
on  tour,  with  the  famous  Rosebud  Garden  of  girls. 
Every  song  a  hummer. 


J^LGAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone"  Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

"  The  new   stock  company  a  triumph  for  the  Alca- 
zar."—  Town  Talk. 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.     Week  com- 
mencing Monday  evening  next,  November  2d, 

=:-      TOO    IWUGI-I     JOHINSOIN      -=- 


Evenings,  25c  to  75c.     Saturday  and  Sunday  Mati- 
nees, 15c  to  50c. 

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Week    beginning    Monday,    November    2d,    matinees 

Saturday  and  Sunday,  the  Revolutionary 

War  drama, 

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Magnificent  production.     Brilliant  cast. 

Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  ioc,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  November  9th—  The  Counterfeiters. 


QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Four  weeks,  beginning  Monday,  November  2d,  every 
night  except  Sunday,  matinees  Wednesday  and  Sat- 
urday, Klaw  &  Erlanger's  stupendous  production  of  ■ 
General  Lew  Wallace's 

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Dramatized  by  William  Young.     Three  hundred  and 

fifty  people  in  the  production. 

Prices,  ?2.oo,  $1.50,51.00,  75c,  and  50c. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  November  1st. 
Jovial  vaudeville!  "Village  Choir"  Quartette;  Max 
Waldon  ;  Clivette;  Two  Roses ;  Goleman's  Dogs  and 
Cats;  Three  Richards;  Crawford  and  Manning; 
Wenona  and  Frank ;  and  last  week  of  McWatters 
and  Tyson. 

Reserved  seats,  25c  ;  balcony,  ioc  ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c ;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Monday  night,  November  2d,  an  original,  rural  musi- 
cal comedy, 
-:-        RUBES     AIND      ROSES        -:- 

A  triple  cast  of  principals:  Kolb  and  Dill,  Barney 
Bernard,  Winfield  Blake,  Maude  Amber,  Georgia 
O'Ramey,  Ben  T.  Didon. 

Reserved  seats— Nights,  25c,  50,  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati- 
nees, ioc  and  25c. 


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Beginning     to  -  morrow,     Sunday     matinee, 
;>n<l  night, 

ELLERY'S  ROYAL  ITALIAN  BAND 

Half  a  hundred  artists,  conducted  by 
CHIAFPARELLI. 

One  week  of    magnificent  programmes.      Matinee" 
Saturday  and  Sunday.      No    concert  this    (Monda; 
night. 

Popular  prices,  50c,  75C,  and  Si.oo.     Box-office,  She, 
man,  Clay  &  Co.'s.    Sunday  at  theatre. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


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STAGE    GOSSIP. 


"Ben  Hur"  at  the  Grand. 
The  most  notable  event  at  the  theatres  next 
week  will  be  the  first  presentation  here  of 
William  Young's  dramatization  of  General 
Lew  Wallace's  famous  story,  "  Ben  Hur." 
The  demand  for  tickets  for  the  four  weeks' 
engagement  has  already  been  very  large,  and 
only  a  few  seats  for  the  opening  night,  which 
promises  to  be  a  gala  occasion,  are  still  to  be 
had.  During  the  run  of  "  Ben  Hur  "  no  per- 
formances will  be  given  on  Sunday  nights,  but 
matinees  will  take  place  on  Wednesday  and 
Saturday  of  each  week.  Special  attention  is 
called  to  the  fact  that  the  curtain  will  rise  at 
eight  o'clock  each  evening,  and  at  two  o'clock 
on  matinees.  The  play  starts  with  the  beauti- 
ful prelude,  "  The  Star  of  Bethlehem,"  which 
necessitates  a  darkened  auditorium,  and,  after 
the  curtain  rises,  no  one  will  be  seated  until 
the  conclusion  of  this  opening  scene. 

The  first  act  pictures  the  roof-top  of  the 
Palace  of  Hur,  overlooking  Jerusalem.  To 
his  home,  the  young  Jew,  Ben  Hur,  brings  his 
friend  Messalaj  a  cynical  Roman  soldier,  with 
whom  he  suddenly  enters  into  a  heated  discus- 
sion concerning  the  supremacy  of  Rome.  Bit- 
ter words  pass  between  them,  and  Messala 
leaves  in  hot  anger.  Looking  then  from  the 
roof  on  a  passing  procession  of  Roman  sol- 
diers, Ben  Hur  and  his  sister  see  that  a  stone 
has  been  thrown  and  has  felled  a  soldier.  In 
an  instant  the  cry  is  raised — it  seems  to  come 
from  Messala — "  that  stone  was  thrown  by 
Ben  Hur,  the  Jew."  There  is  a  rush  of  sol- 
diery to  the  house-top,  Ben  Hur  is  dragged 
away  to  the  galleys,  and  his  mother  and  sister 
are  thrown  into  prison. 

Next  follows  the  picture  of  the  interior  of 
the  galley  in  which  Ben  Hur  is  chained.  A 
big.  brutal  Roman  sits  on  a  low  platform,  beat- 
ing time  for  the  strokes  of  the  oars,  wielded 
by  half-naked  slaves.  A  Roman  officer  ap- 
pears and  looks  indifferently  at  the  crew,  his 
careless  eye  stopping  at  the  Jew's  figure.  He 
perceives  that  Ben  Hur  is  a  man  of  gentle 
blood,  and  asks  him  of  what  crime  he  is  ac- 
cused. Ben  Hur  tells  him,  and  also  states 
that  he  is  innocent  "  They  all  say  that,"  re- 
plies the  tribune ;  "  go  back  to  your  oar — but 
forward  there.  Unlock  this  man's  chains." 
The  ship  is  then  attacked  and  sinks.  Ben  Hur 
seizes  the  wounded  tribune  in  his  arms,  and 
jumps  with  him  into  the  sea. 

The  next  scene  is  in  the  house  of  Simonides, 
an  aged  merchant  of  Antioch.  Simonides  is 
lamenting  that  his  magnificent  surroundings 
are  a  mockery.  "  Slave  you  are  in  spite  of 
all,"  they  seem  to  shriek  at  him.  He  confides 
the  secret  of  his  slavery  to  his  daughter. 
Esther.  "Rich  as  we  are,  you  and  I  and  all 
of  this  belongs  to  the  house  of  Hur,"  he  says. 
Esther  kneels  and  prays. 

Then  follows  the  picture  of  the  Grove  of 
Daphne,  wherein  beautiful  nymphs  weave 
their  spells.  It  is  to  this  grove  that  Simonides 
and  Esther  have  journeyed  in  their  search  for 
Ben  Hur,  to  whom  they  desire  to  surrender 
themselves  and  their  riches.  He  is  touched 
by  the  magnanimity  of  their  sacrifice,  and 
raises  the  father  and  daughter  to  their  feet, 
looking  reverently  and  tenderly  at  Esther- 
Iras,  a  beautiful  and  dangerous  Egyptian,  in 
whose  company  the  young  Hebrew  is,  notes 
this  look  and  smiles.  But  she  knows  her 
power.  She  hears  a  desert  sheik  invite  Si- 
monides, Esther,  and  Ben  Hur  to  a  feast.  She 
sees  Ben  Hur  follow  the  father  and  daughter 
from  the  tent,  leans  back  easily  among  her 
cushions,  toys  with  the  silken  fringe  of  her 
tunic,  and  softly  sings.  Ben  Hur  hears, 
flushes,  and  turns  back  and  joins  the 
Egyptian  charmer. 

The  picture  of  the  exterior  and  great  gate- 
way of  the  circus  of  Antioch  comes  next. 
Messala  has  seen  Iras  and  coveted  her  smiles. 
Ben  Hur,  angry  at  the  small  triumphs  of  the 
man  who  had  so  deeply  injured  him,  remon- 
strates with  the  lady.  Angry  in  turn,  dazzled 
also  by  the  Roman  scarlet  and  gold,  she  dis- 
cards Ben  Hur  for  the  Roman,  and  the 
Hebrew's  score  is  yet  one  deeper  against  Mes- 
sala. 

Then  comes  the  famous  arena  scene,  with 
its  illusion  of  flying  landscape  and  sixteen 
galloping  horses.  The  Jew  and  the  Roman  are 
driving  for  what  is  sweeter  to  them  than  their 
lives — revenge.  Messala  bends  far  over  his 
chariot.  His  horses  seem  to  have  wings.  He 
is  ahead.  He  shouts  triumphantly.  Ben  Hur. 
too.  leans  far  over  his  chariot.  His  Arabian 
horses  plunge  forward  in  a  grand  "  spurt " 
and  pass  the  goal.  The  Jew  wins,  and  the 
curtain    falls   upon   his   victory. 

To  Ben  Hur,  in  the  old  palace  of  the  Prince 
of  Hur,  comes  Amrah,  the  servant  who  has 
followed  the  sad  fortunes  of  the  prince's  out- 
cast mother  and  sister.  She  kneels  before 
him,  and  tells  him  that  they  have  become 
lepers.  The  grief  of  the  prince  at  this  new 
and  greatest  blow  is  pitiful.  He  remembers 
that  the  Nazarene  has  healed  such  ills  as 
these.  With  Amrah  he  sets  forth  to  find  him. 
In  a  barren  valley.  Amrah  comes  upon  the 
leper  mother  and  sister.  She  implores  them 
to  go  with  her  to  meet  the  Saviour.  They 
consent,  and  on  the  road  pass  Ben  Hur,  who. 
worn  out  with  seeking  them,  has  fallen  asleep 
on  a  rock.  Tirzah  stoops  to  kiss  him.  Her 
mother  draws  her  back,  and  whispers  "Un- 
clean." The  lepers  and  their  faithful  servant 
kneel  and  pray  upon  the  hillside.  The  Christ 
is  not  visible,  '  but  a  great  radiance  that 
emanates  from  him  floods  the  picture.  It 
falls  upon  the  kneeling  figures.  The  hideous 
whiteness  of  the  lepers  changes  to  the  hue  of 
health.  They  rise  proclaiming  themselves 
healed.  Ben  Hur  leads  Esther  to  them.  She 
kisses  the  women.  A  chorus  of  "  Hosanna. 
Hosanna,  Hosanna.  in  the  Highest "  closes 
the  scene  and  the  play. 

The  Tivoli  Offerings. 
NText  week  Verdi's  "La  Favorita"  is  to  be 
sung  on  Monday,  Wednesday,  Friday  and 
Saturday  evenings.  On  the  alternate  nights, 
and  at  the  Saturday  matinee,  Mascagni's 
"  Cavalleria  Rusticana "  and  Leoncavallo's 
"  I'Pagliacci  "    will   be   the   bill.      In    "  Caval- 


leria," Lina  de  Benedetto  will  be  Santuzza, 
and  Eugenie  Barker,  the  Lola ;  Giuseppe 
Agostini,  the  Turridu ;  and  Giuseppe  Zanini. 
the  Alfio.  Tina  de  Spada  will  be  heard 
again  this  year  as  Nedda  in  "  I'Pagliacci. " 
Emanuele  Ischierdo  is  again  cast  as  Canio. 
Adamo  Gregoretti  as  Tonio,  and  Giulio  Cor- 
tesi  as  Peppe. 

"Too  Much  Johnson." 
A  season  of  comedy  performances  is  to  be 
inaugurated  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  on  Mon- 
day night  with  William  Gillette's  amusing 
play.  "  Too  Much  Johnson."  The  ever-popu- 
lar comedy,  as  every  one  must  know  by  this 
time,  revolves  about  a  Yonkers  man  who  goes 
gallivanting  about  gay  Coney  Island  while 
pretending  to  be  on  a  visit  to  a  mythical 
Cuban  sugar  plantation.  Billings,  the  monu- 
mental and  versatile  liar,  will  be  played  by 
James  Durkin ;  John  B.  Mather  will  "be  the 
fiery  French  wine  importer;  and  Fred  J. 
Butler  the  irascible  Johnson.  Adele  Block 
will  appear  as  the  confiding  wife,  Marie  Howe 
as  the  suspicious  mother-in-law,  George 
Osbourne  as  Faddish  of  Quebec,  and  Frances 
Starr  as  Leonora.  On  November  oth  one 
of  the  most  famous  of  farcical  comedies. 
"  The  Private  Secretary,"  will  be  the  bill. 

"The  Storks"  at  the  Columbia. 
Robert  Edeson  will  conclude  his  successful 
engagement  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  to-night 
(Saturday)  in  "  Soldiers  of  Fortune,"  and  next 
week  the  musical  comedy,  "  The  Storks."  will 
be  given  its  first  presentation  here.  It  en- 
joyed a  long  run  in  Chicago  last  season,  and 
has  done  very  well  on  tour.  The  cast  includes 
Ada  Deaves  (the  character  actress  who  was  a 
former  favorite  here  in  the  Henderson  ex- 
travaganzas). Countess  von  Hatzfelt  (who 
sings  several  catchy  songs,  assisted  by  the 
"  Flirty-Gertie  Girls,"  a  bevy  of  youthful 
and  graceful  singers  and  dancers),  Gus  Wein- 
berg. Gilbert  Gregory,  Francis  Lieb,  George 
Shields,  George  Romain,  Abbott  Adams. 
George  McKay.  Alma  Cole  Youlin,  Dorothy 
Choate,  and  Myra  Davis. 


Historical  Melodrama  at  the  Central. 
A  thrilling  Revolutionary  War  drama.  "  At 
Valley  Forge,"  will  follow  "  Uncle  Tom's 
Cabin,"  at  the  Central  Theatre  next  week. 
The  action  of  the  play  begins  in  Philadelphia 
in  the  winter  of  1777  with  a  love  meeting 
between  a  Tory  officer's  daughter  and  a  rebel 
leader  who  has  stolen  through  the  British 
lines.  The  latter  is  detected  in  the  home  of 
his  sweetheart,  and  an  attempt  to  capture  him 
is  foiled  in  a  sensational  manner  by  the  brave 
girl.  The  rebel  hero  meets  his  enemies  again 
in  close  quarters  at  the  Hessian  camp  on  the 
Delaware.  It  is  the  dark  hour  of  the  war  and, 
when  firing  is  heard,  the  rebel  is  told  that  the 
guns  are  ringing  the  deathknell  of  the  rebel 
host.  Instead,  it  proves  to  be  a  Christmas 
greeting  from  the  Continental  army,  which, 
with  Washington  in  command,  has  crossed 
the  Delaware.  After  the  trials  of  Valley 
Forge  comes  the  defeat  of  Cornwallis,  and  the 
reunion  of  the  now  triumphant  American  of- 
ficer and  the  daughter  of  England,  who  had 
secretly  done  what  she  could  to  aid  the  Con- 
tinentals. The  cast  will  be  an  excellent  one, 
and  the  scenery  and  costumes  strikingly 
picturesque  and  accurate. 


A  New  Musical  Comedy  at  Fischer's. 
"  Rubes  and  Roses  "  will  be  given  its  initial 
performance    here      on      Monday      night      at 
Fischer's  Theatre  and,  if  it  is  half  as  amusing 
as  the  management  claims,   it  ought  to   score 
a  big  hit.     The  plot  revolves  about  two  farms. 
one  in  Indiana  and  the  other  in  Illinois,  each 
owned    by    a    German,    who    get    into    trouble 
every    time    they    attempt    to    cross    into    the 
other   State.     They  can   come  up   to  the  line, 
but  the   moment  a  hand   or   foot   is   over   the 
mark    there    is   trouble.      A    shrewd    attorney.  ! 
Mr.   Fixit    (Barney   Bernard)   one  day  nettles  j 
the    officers   by   placing    one    foot    in    Indiana 
and  the  other  in  Illinois.     He  defies  the  law.  ! 
because  he   claims  any  person   is  secure    from  j 
the    law    when   standing   in    two    States   at   the  j 
same    time.       Other    leading    characters    are 
Bud    Conalong    (Winfield    Blake)    who    makes  1 
it  his  business  to  annoy  the  Germans  and  the  > 
attorney,  and  Miss  Starring   (Maude  Amber), 
a    lady    of    wealth,    who    seeks    fame    by    pre-  i 
senting    property    to    one    of    the    fashionable  ! 
canoe   clubs.      In   addition   to   all    the   leading  ' 
Fischer    favorites,    the    new    musical    comedy  1 
will     introduce     Miss     Georgia     O'Ramey.     a 
clever   soubrette,   and   one   of  the   best-known 
American  comedians,  Ben  T.  Dillon. 


The  Orpheum's  Bill. 
The  "  Village  Choir,"  composed  of  Charlotte 
Miller,  soprano,  Nellie  Hart,  contralto,  Arthur 
Thrasher,  tenor,  and  Glover  Ware,  basso,  will 
sing  for  the  first  time  in  San  Francisco  at  the 
Orpheum  next  week.  The  other  new-comers 
will  be  Max  Waldon,  a  European  transforma- 
tion artist,  who  will  reappear  in  this  city  after 
a  long  absence  abroad;  Clivette,  "the  man  in 
black."  who  stands  without  an  equal  as  a 
silhouettist,  magician,  and  juggler  all  rolled 
into  one ;  and  the  two  Roses,  who  come  direct 
from  New  York  with  a  dainty  musical  skit. 
Those  retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  Mc- 
Watters  and  Tyson  who.  with  their  clever 
company,  will  continue  in  their  sketch. 
"  Scenes  in  a  Dressing-Room " ;  Goleman's 
dogs  and  cats ;  Crawford  and  Manning,  popu- 
lar singers  and  dancers  :  Wenona  and  Frank, 
the  remarkable  rifle  shots ;  and  the  three 
Richards,  agile  acrobats. 


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Miss  Clara  Alexander  is  to  give  a  farewell 
Dixie  darkey  recital  at  Lyric  Hall  on 
Wednesday  evening,  which  will  be  under  the 
patronage  of  a  number  of  well-known  society 
ladies.  Willard  Young,  a  member  of  the 
Twentieth  Century  Club,  will  make  his  debut 
at  the  concert.  He  will  sing  several  songs 
for  baritone,  among  them  one  by  Shafter 
Howard.  Mrs.  Fred  Slavan  will  act  as  ac- 
companist and  pianist. 


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States,  but  they  have  concluded  that  their 
stay  in  Europe  will  likely  last  for  four  or 
five  years,  and  in  consequence  they  have 
placed  with  Messrs.  A.  J.  Rich  &  Co.,  real- 
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home  at  private  sale.  The  size  of  the  lot  is 
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November  2,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Forty  years  ago,  the  French  girl  was  mod- 
est, retiring,  simple  in  dress,  diffident  in  talk, 
and  respectfully  obedient  to  her  parents — 
either  from  natural  bent  and  the  powerful 
influence  of  her  surroundings,  or  through  the 
discipline  of  education  and  the  weight  of  pub- 
lic opinion  in  her  own  country.  That  some 
French  girls  were  by  nature  coquettish,  fond 
of  finery  and  show,  impatient  of  restraint 
and  control,  can  not  be  doubted,  but  when 
these  tendencies  did  exist,  they  had  to  be  care- 
fully hidden  behind  the  outward  appearance 
of  a  willing  and  contented  self-effacement  in 
all  circumstances  by  every  girl  who  wished 
to  be  thought  bicn  elevce.  For  the  slightest 
deviation  from  this  strict  rule  was  sufficient 
to  mark  her  as  mal  elevce,  and  to  banish  her 
from  the  intimacy  of  all  friends  who  wished 
to  be  comme  il  font.  To-day,  Mrs.  Philip 
Gilbert  Hamerton  says,  the  modern  French 
girl  would  be  astonished  were  she  told  not 
to  take  the  leading  part  in  conversation,  not 
to  giggle  loudly,  not  to  set  her  arms  akimbo, 
and  never  to  talk  privately  with  a  young 
gentleman.  "  She  would  think,"  adds  Mrs. 
Hamerton,  "  that  such  recommendations  were 
perfectly  ridiculous  as  preventing  all  possible 
flirtations,  for  the  art  of  flirtation  is  never 
at  its  best  unless  practiced  in  private.  But 
forty  years  ago,  when  parents  deemed  that 
marriage  was  not  a  proper  subject  for  the 
thoughts  of  their  daughters,  flirtation — even 
as  a  word — was  unknown  in  France.  At  that 
time  simplicity  in  dress  was  the  order  of  the 
day  for  young  maidens,  and  even  conferred 
a  certain  distinction,  being  carried  as  far  as 
possible  among  the  aristocracy.  There  were 
special  light  silks  and  inexpensive  trinkets  for 
jeunes  Hlles,  set  with  corals,  enamels,  and 
pearls,  among  which  the  tiniest  of  diamonds 
would  never  have  been  tolerated  any  more 
than  costly  laces,  furs,  or  elaborate  trim- 
mings. At  a  glance  it  was  easy  to  ascertain 
by  the  style  of  dress  whether  a  young  woman 
was  married  or  not,  whereas  it  is  not  by  any 
means  so  easy  now,  the  same  satins,  velvets, 
feathers,  and  jewels  being  worn  alike  in  both 
cases.  And  it  is  not  any  easier  to  guess  from 
the  behavior  in  society,  for  it  may  happen 
that  the  conversation  is  taken  up  and  carried 
on  by  the  girls  in  their  desire  to  shine  and  to 
attract  attention  —  the  married  ladies  being 
silenced  and  ignored  in  the  midst  of  the  ex- 
citement and  amusement  artfully  created  by 
free  sallies,  unrestrained  laughter,  and  much 
attitudinizing.  No  doubt,  the  conventional  re- 
strictions of  forty  years  ago  were  somewhat 
excessive,  and  kept  French  girls  till  after 
marriage  in  a  state  of  prolonged  childhood ; 
nevertheless,  it  remains  to  be  seen  whether 
the  rapid  change  which  has  supervened  is  a 
real  gain,  for  if  it  has  remedied  some  evils 
of  the  old  system,  it  has  also  engendered  new 
ones,  and  on  that  account  many  thoughtful 
French  parents  are  now  seriously  disquieted 
about  the  future  of  their  daughters." 


The  social  outlook  for  the  winter  season 
in  London  is  most  promising  now  that  the 
English  royal  family  is  out  of  mourning,  and 
King  Edward  and  Queen  Alexandra  have 
begun  to  entertain  lavishly.  The  sisters  of  the 
king  are  also  throwing  off  the  mantle  of  sor- 
row. The  papers  comment  enthusiastically 
on  the  recent  brilliant  dinner-party,  followed 
by  a  balj,  given  on  the  Isle  of  Wight  by 
Princess  Beatrice,  the  widow  of  Prince  Henry 
of  Battenberg,  the  handsomest  of  all  the 
"  handsome  Battenbergs."  Her  mourning  for 
Prince  Henry  has  been  long  and  sorrowful,  but 
she  would  have  emerged  sooner  from  the  gloom 
that  enshrouded  her  life  for  so  many  years 
had  she  been  less  the  principal  companion 
of  Queen  Victoria,  and  been  allowed  to  follow 
the  natural  bent  of  her  years,  for  of  all  the 
children  of  the  late  queen  there  are  none 
that  seemingly  love  the  pleasant  things  of  this 
world  more  than  her  eldest  son,  King  Edward, 
and  her  youngest  daughter,  Beatrice.  Ac- 
cording to  the  London  correspondent  of  the 
New  York  Herald,  she  is  far  more  at- 
tractive than  some  of  the  younger  mem- 
bers of  the  royal  family  in  manner  and 
appearance,  although  prone  to  stoutness, 
like  Princess  Christian,  her  eldest  sister 
now  living,  and  of  late  also  the  dispenser  of 
considerable  hospitality  at  her  new,  beautiful 
town  house  in  Pall  Mall.  The  most  attrac- 
tive of  the  king's  sisters  is  Princess 
Louise,  otherwise  the  Duchess  of  Argyll, 
whose  London  residence  is  Kensington 
Palace,  where  her  youngest  sister,  Princess 
Beat-ice,  has  also  had  willed  to  her 
for  life  a  suite  of  spacious  apartments. 
Princess  Louise  has  never  acted  as  hostess 
*9  ny  great  extent,  and  even  since  the  acces- 
s:i)(i  of  her  husband  a.-,  the  sixth  Duke  of 
Ar^/Il     (who    has      nearly      a      dozen      other 


hereditary  titles  in  addition,  and  innumerable 
posts  that  increase  his  income),  the  expendi- 
ture of  Princess  Louise  for  purely  social  hos- 
pitality is  very  limited,  both  in  London  and 
at  her  Scottish  seats. 

According  to  the  Paris  correspondent  of  the 
London  Telegraph,  a  determined  suitor  re- 
cently found  a  new  way  of  using  the  motor- 
car for  matrimonial  purposes.  The  object  of 
his  affection  was  willing  to  wed  him,  but  her 
parents  were  obdurate.  He  pretended  to 
give  up  hope,  and  to  be  reconciled  to 
the  idea  of  being  merely  a  friend  of 
the  family,  and  he  took  out  the  girl 
and  her  father  for  an  automobile  drive 
to  Havre.  At  a  dangerous  part  of  the 
road  he  suddenly  put  on  full  speed,  and 
the  car  sprang  away  at  a  terrific  rate.  The 
girl  sat  still  and  showed  no  fear,  but  her  ter- 
rified father  shouted  to  the  man  who  wanted 
to  be  his  son-in-law  to  stop.  "  Consent  to 
my  marriage  with  your  daughter  "  was  all  the 
motorist  replied.  Still  the  car  tore  along, 
and  if  any  obstacle  had  appeared  in  the 
road  at  least  three  fatalities  would  have 
occurred.  "Stop!  We  shall  all  be  killed!" 
the  girl's  father  continued  to  cry.  "  Most 
certainly  we  shall,"  said  the  determined  young 
man,  grimly;  "if  you  don't  consent  at  once 
I  am  going  to  send  the  machine  into  the 
ditch,  and  at  this  rate  that  means  quick 
death."  As  he  spoke  he  imparted  violent 
lurches  from  side  to  side  to  the  car.  "  I  con- 
sent!" gasped  the  now  vanquished  parent. 
Immediately  the  car  slowed  down,  and  the 
rest  of  the  journey  was  done  at  a  steady 
touring  pace.  But  during  the  motor's  pre- 
vious mad  career  a  policeman  had  jotted  down 
its  number.  When  the  girl's  father,  to  whom 
the  machine  belongs,  appeared  in  court  to 
answer  to  the  summons,  his  future  son-in-law 
accompanied  him,  and  looked  exceedingly 
pleased  with  himself.  When  a  fine  of  six- 
teen francs  was  imposed,  the  younger  man 
said  he  would  pay  it  himself  with  pleasure. 
He  confided  to  the  magistrate  that  the  day 
has  been  named. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  Truth,  Henry  La- 
bouchere  says :  "  I  have  never,  as  yet,  been 
able  to  understand  why  the  sovereign  of  a 
country  should  array  himself  in  a  military 
uniform  when  he  visits  a  brother  sovereign, 
or  why  he  should  assume  this  uniform  when 
he  appears  in  some  ceremony  within  his  own 
dominions,  although  he  may  not  himself  be 
a  soldier.  The  etiquette,  too,  seem  to  be  that 
the  visitor  should,  on  seeing  his  royal  brother, 
be  arrayed  in  a  uniform  of  the  country  that 
he  visits,  and  the  host  in  one  pertaining 
to  the  country  of  his  guest.  To  me  all  this 
is  as  absurd  as  it  would  be  for  a  person  visit- 
ing another  to  exchange  coats  with  him.  It 
is  apparently  a  habit  peculiar  to  monarchs, 
for  their  staffs  do  not  travesty  themselves ; 
nor  did  President  Loubet  on  his  visit  to  Eng- 
land wear  either  an  English  or  a  French 
uniform." 

It  is  filthy  lucre  and  not  family  jars,  as  a 
rule,  that  causes  so  many  popular  married 
Thespians  to  separate  and  star  at  the  head 
of  their  own  companies.  So  long  as  they  are 
nobodies,  marriage  makes  no  difference,  but 
once  they  stand  in  the  fierce  light  that  beats 
on  the  centre  of  the  stage  it  seems  best  for 
them  to  separate.  Maxine  Elliott,  who  has 
just  broken  loose  from  her  husband,  Nat 
Goodwin,  so  far  as  her  theatrical  efforts  are 
concerned,  had  become  quite-  too  popular  to 
share  business  and  public  favor  with  her  clever 
husband.  C.  B.  Dillingham,  who  is  starring 
her,  was  confident  that  she  would,  in  a  success- 
ful play,  draw  audiences  just  as  large  as  she 
and  her  husband  had  drawn  together.  That 
his  judgment  was  good  is  proved  by  the  fact 
that  in  Clyde  Fitch's  latest  play,  "  Her  Own 
Way,"  she  is  crowding  the  Garrick  Theatre  in 
New  York.  In  the  present  arrangement,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Goodwin  are  able  to  get  parts 
that  suit  them  without  having  to  strug- 
gle to  find  plays  that  show  them  both 
to  equal  advantage.  James  K.  Hackett  is 
another  popular  actor  who  no  longer 
appears  with  his  wife.  It  is  not  prob- 
able that  their  earnings  would  be  materially 
increased  if  they  played  together.  The  case 
of  E.  H.  Sothern  and  Virginia  Harned  is  the 
same.  They  find  it  much  more  profitable  to 
be  single  stars.  Richard  Mansfield  is  also  able 
to  do  better  work  now  that  his  wife  has  re- 
tired from  the  stage.  Charming  as  Beatrice 
Cameron  was  in  many  roles,  there  were 
others  totally  unsuited  to  her;  but  as  the 
wife  of  the  star  she  had  to  have  always  the 
part  next  to  his.  This  not  only  damaged  many 
of  the  Mansfield  productions,  but  it  was  a 
great  injustice  to  the  actress,  who  was  called 
on  for  work  she  could  not  do.  Now  that 
Mrs.  Mansfield  has  retired,  her  husband  can 


engage  the  woman  best  suited  to  the  leading 
parts  in  his  play.  Julia  Marlowe's  great 
financial  success  began  only  after  her  appear- 
ance as  a  separate  star  without  the  support  of 
her  husband,  Robert  Taber.  One  of  the 
crimes  charged  against  the  theatrical  syndi- 
cate was  that  it  forced  Robert  Taber  and 
his  wife,  who  were  acting  together,  to  go  into 
different  companies.  As  they  were  divorced 
a  short  time  after  this  artistic  separation 
ocurred,  however,  the  separation  could  not 
have  been  very  difficult  for  them  to  bear. 
Miss  Marlowe's  position  is  better  now  than 
it  ever  was,  and  Mr.  Taber  is  one  of  the 
most  successful  London  actors  to-day.  No 
American  has,  indeed,  done  half  so  well  in 
London  for  such  a  long  time.  Were  he  in 
this  country,  he  would  certainly  be  a  star. 
Difficulties  in  finding  plays  for  co-stars  have 
always  troubled  managers,  and  ultimately  lead 
to  the  artistic  separation  of  the  actors.  Louis 
Mann  and  Clara  Lipmann,  who  were  married 
before  they  made  their  first  success  in  "  The 
Girl  From  Paris,"  tried  for  four  years  to  get 
a  play  that  would  suit  both  of  them,  and  met 
with  very  moderate  success.  Now  they  have 
separated,  and  prosperity  once  more  perches 
on  their  banners.  Kyrle  Bellew  has  been  a 
much  more  successful  actor  during  the  last 
few  years  than  he  ever  was  during  the  days 
of  his  artistic  partnership  with  Mrs.  Potter. 
And  she,  too,  has  fared  better  since  they 
have  been   traveling   in   single   harness. 


Nelson's  Amycose. 
Infallible  remedy  for  catarrh,  sore  throat,  and  in- 
flammations of  the  skin. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander    G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain- 
Tern.  Tent.  fall. 

October     22d 60  52  .00 

23d 62  54  .00 

24th 64  54  .00 

"  25th 68  52  .00 

"  26th 76  54  .00 

"  27th 60  52  .00 

28th 68  54  .00 


State  of 
Weather. 
Clear 
Pt.  Cloudy 
Clear 
Clear 
Clear 
Clear 
Pt.  Cloudy 


THE  FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


Closed 

Bid. 

Asked 

™3}i 

U2'A 

113% 

112 

114 

"5 

101 

i°7K 

log 

108^ 

109 

108K 

109*4 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  October  28,  1903. 
were  as  follows : 

Bonds. 
Shares. 
Bay  Co.  Power  5%      2,000    @  103^ 

Los  An.  Ry  5%  10,000    ©113 

Market  St.  Ry.  5%.  5,000  @  113% 
N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%...  3,000  @  114^ 
North  Shore  Ry  5%  1,000  @  iooj^ 
Oakland  Gas  5%. . .  2,000  @  io8# 
Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%.  2,000  @  109 
S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  6,000    @  108^-109 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

I905,  S.  A IO.OOO      @   I02}£  I02&       102% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905.  S.  B 2,000  @  ro3#  103        105 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 2,000  @  105  104 ]A     106 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal,  6% 

1912  10,000  @  114^  IH% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal,  5% 

Stpd 7,000  @  108^  108%     109 

S.  V.  Water  6% 5,000  @  106  i06# 

S.  V.  Water  4% 12,000  @    99^  99^ 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa    80    @    40-      a,i%      41^      45 

Spring  Valley 330    @    39^-40        40 

Banks. 
London,  Paris,  and 

American 50    @  160  160 

Powders. 
Giant 10    @    66$£  65         6654 

Sugars. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...  10    @    44%  44         45 

Honokaa  S-  Co. . . .        525    @    13^  i3#      13^ 

Hutchinson 260    @    10-      10%        9%      ioJ£ 

MakaweliS.Co 115    @    21-      22  22 

OnomeaS.  Co 100    @    32^-32^      32         32^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Mutual  Electric. ..        135    @    11-      i\%     12 

Pacific  Gas 25    @    55 

S- F.  Gas  &  Electric       625    @    66^-69^      69K      70 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.Gas&El'ctric       695    @    66^-69%      69^      70 

Miscellaneous. 

Alaska  Packers  ...  7    @  154  rrr 

Cal.  Wine  Assn no    @    92^-94  93  94 % 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  was  strong,  and 
advanced  three  and  three-eighths  points  to  67^,  on 
sales  of  625  shares,  closing  at  69K  bid,  70  asked, 
with  small  offerings. 

The  sugars  have  been  weak,  and  on  sales  of  1,010 
shares  sold  down  from  one  half  to  one  and  three- 
quarters  points  ;  the  latter  in  Hutchinson. 

The  water  stocks  have  been  quiet,  with  no  change 
worth  mentioning. 

California  Wine  Association  closed  in  better  de- 
mand, at  93  bid,  94  %  asked. 


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THE        ARGONAUT, 


285 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


Mrs.  Disraeli  once  said  to  an  astonished 
circle  in  an  English  country  house :  "  Dizzy 
has  the  most  wonderful  moral  and  political 
courage,  but  he  has  no  physical  courage.  I 
always  have  to  pull  the  string  of  his  shower 
bath." 


It  is  related  that  a  woman,  who  visited  the 
British  Museum  recently,  said  to  an  attendant: 
"  I  have  been  looking  about  for  a  skull  of 
Oliver  Cromwell.  Have  you  no  skull  of 
Cromwell  here?"  "No,  madam,"  the  at- 
tendant answered.  "  How  very  odd,"  she  ex- 
claimed;  "  they  have  a  fine  one  in  the  museum 
at  Oxford." 

On  his  first  visit  to  London,  an  Aberdeen 
youth  visited  a  refreshment  parlor  and,  noting 
a  woman  eating  an  ice,  said  to  the  waiter : 
"  Hi,  man,  gi'e  me  yin  o'  thae."  Being  sup- 
plied, he  took  a  spoonful,  and  made  a  wry 
face.  "  I'm  dootin'  it's  a  bit  frost  bitten, 
mister,"  said  he.  "  Oh,  no,  sir,"  remarked 
the  waiter,  "  it's  an  ice."  "  Gosh  !  Do  they 
eat  ice  in  London  ?"  asked  the  wondering 
Aberdonian ;  "  man,  we  ■  slide  an'  skate  on't 
in   Aberdeen!" 

James  M.  Barrie,  the  novelist,  has  no  pa- 
tience with  reporters  who  try  to  pry  into  his 
private  affairs.  On  one  occasion  he  was 
asked  to  pen  a  short  autobiography.  At  first 
he  refused,  and  then,  when  the  reporter  began 
to  coax  him,  he  stopped  him,  took  up  his  pen, 
and  wrote  as  follows  :  "  On  arrival  in  Lon- 
don it  was  Mr.  Barrie's  first  object  to  make 
a  collection  of  choice  cigars.  Though  the 
author  of  '  My  Lady  Nicotine  '  does  not  him- 
self smoke,  his  grocer's  message-boy  does. 
Mr.  Barrie's  pet  animal  is  the  whale.  He 
feeds  it  on  ripe  chestnuts." 

One  afternoon  during  a  lull  in  the  bathing 
demands  on  a  certain  transatlantic  liner, 
George,  the  youth  who  had  charge  of  the  five 
bath-rooms  used  by  the  saloon  passengers, 
decided  to  take  a  bath,  so  he  locked  himself 
in  one  of  the  rooms  used  by  the  men.  Sud- 
denly he  was  disturbed  by  a  rap  at  the  door, 
and  heard  a  woman's  voice :  "  Honey  Honey  ! 
Are  you  there?"  No  reply  coming  from  the 
room,  the  lady  spoke  again.  "  Honey,  are 
you  there?"  As  an  explanation  was  needed, 
George  spoke:  "Beg  your  pardon,  lady,  but 
this  aint  no  beehive;  this  is  a  bath-room." 


Apropos  of  the  Hugo  Museum,  Le  Gaulois 
recalls  the  story  of  the  young  man  who  at 
one  of  the  poet's  receptions  became  engaged 
in  argument,  and  lost  his  temper.  Hugo  sol- 
emnly rebuked  him,  and  he  subsided.  Pres- 
ently the  guests  retired.  One  of  them,  how- 
ever, had  forgotten  his  umbrella,  and  returned 
to  get  it.  Looking  through  an  open  door 
from  the  vestibule  he  perceived  the  young 
man  on  his  knees  before  the  poet,  sobbing 
out  his  apologies  for  his  disrespect,  while 
Victor  Hugo,  with  almost  regal  dignity,  ex- 
tended his  hand  to  him  and  bade  him  rise. 


Walking  home  from  school,  the  other  day. 
some  children  were  discussing  the  perfection 
and  usefulness  of  their  respective  fathers. 
"  My  father's  the  best  man  in  the  world," 
said  one  little  girl ;  "  he  is  a  minister.  He 
makes  people  go  to  church."  "  Mine  is  the 
best,"  piped  up  another;  "he's  a  doctor.  He 
makes  sick  people  well  so  they  can  go  to 
church."  Three  or  four  more  enlarged  upon 
the  benefit  the  world  derived  from  their 
fathers,  when  finally  a  sweet,  blue-eyed  little 
girl  said  :  "  My  papa's  the  best  of  all.  He's 
a  poet."  "  A  poet !"  said  another,  in  sym- 
pathetic surprise ;  "  why,  a  poet  isn't  a  pro- 
fession !     It's  a  disease  1" 


It  is  the  custom  in  Abyssinia  for  all  foreign 
missions  to  bring  presents  to  King  Menelik. 
The  French,  some  years  ago,  brought  a  lot 
of  Parisian  mechanical  toys — sheep  that 
squeaked,  pigs  that  ran  about  on  their  hind 
legs,  and  dolls  that  talked.  They  thought  such 
things  would  be  certain  to  tickle  the  fancy 
of  a  dusky  king.  Menelik  looked  at  them 
for  a  moment  with  disgust  and  rage,  then 
fie  thrust  them  aside.  "  Do  you  think,"  he 
isked,  "  that  I  am  a  child  or  a  savage,  that 
t  should  delight  in  toys?"'  The  Russian  and 
English  emissaries  showed  a  truer  insight  into 
lis  character.  They  brought  him  Mauser 
ristols,  revolvers,  and  the  latest  and  best 
"ifles  they  could  buy.  He  was  delighted. 
'  These  are  gifts  worthy  to  be  received  by  a 
warrior  and  a  king,"  he  declared.  The  in- 
luence  of  the  Russians  and  English  over 
Menelik   dates   from   that   lucky    incident,   but 


the  French  have  always  been  badly  repre- 
sented at  his  court.  After  Kitchener's  victory 
at  Omdurman,  the  French  at  Addis  Abeba 
assured  Menelik  that  the  English  had  been 
beaten,  with  the  loss  of  16,000  men.  When 
he  heard  the  truth  later,  that  Kitchener  had 
crushed  the  dervishes  with  the  loss  of  only 
323  of  his  soldiers,  he  exclaimed  in  disgust: 
"What  liars  they  are!"  Since  then  he  has 
never  believed  a  word  the  French  envoys 
have  told  him,  and  he  always  speaks  of  them 
with  contempt. 

One  evening,  during  his  recent  visit  to 
England,  Rear-Admiral  Charles  S.  Cotton  was 
entertained  at  dinner.  Among  the  other  guests 
were  the  Bishop  of  Durham,  a  clergyman 
noted  for  his  wit,  and  a  millionaire  manu- 
facturer, a  stout  man  with  a  loud,  coarse 
laugh,  who  ate  and  drank  a  good  deal,  and  who 
cracked  every  little  while  a  stupid  joke.  He 
did  not  know  the  bishop  from  Adam,  but 
seeing  his  clerical  garb,  he  decided  he  must 
be  a  parson,  and  that  here  was  a  chance  for 
him  to  poke  a  little  fun  at  the  parson's  trade. 
"  I  have  three  sons,"  he  began,  in  a  loud 
tone,  nudging  his  neighbor  and  winking  to* 
ward  the  bishop — "  three  fine  lads.  They  are 
in  trade.  I  had  always  said  that  if  I  ever 
had  a  stupid  son  I'd  make  a  parson  of  him." 
The  millionaire  roared  out  his  discordant 
laugh,  and  the  Bishop  of  Durham  said  to  him 
with  a  quiet  smile:  "Your  father  thought 
differently  from  you,  eh?" 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Prairie  Poet  at  Work. 
"  Hard  by  yon  hedge  that  skirts  the  lane — " 
(I  guess  that  line  will  do — 
It's  quite  like  any  Goldsmith  strain.) 

— "  A  modest  flower  grew! 
It  flung  its  perfume  to  the  air — " 

(That  sounds  a  little  slow, 
But  some  one's  calling  "  Copy!  "  there, 
I'll  have  to  let  it  go!) 

A  flower  it  was  of  beauty  rare — " 

("  Oh,  Lord!     That's  worse  and  worse! 
Now  shall  I  use  "  compare  "  or  "  fair  " 

To  finish  out  the  verse?) 
"  It's  sweetheart,  Westwind,  bending  low 

Pressed  on  its  lips  a  kiss — " 
(I  think  I  certainly  deserve 

To  get  a  hand  on  this!) 

"  The  Westwind  stooped,  its  love  to  slake 
At  morn  and  night  and  noon — " 
(Say,  Finnegan,  for  heaven's  sake 
Don't  whistle  that  darned  tune!) 
"  All  through  the  summer,  though  unheard, 
They  pledged  their  love  anew — " 
(I  wish  I  had  some  other  word 
To  rhyme  back  there  with  "  grew  "!) 

'  In  autumn  we  will  wed,'  said  he, 
And  brought  a  rosy  blush — " 
(I've  got  to  work  in  something  here 
About  the  twittering  thrush.) 
"  He  bade  his  sweetheart  then  good-night — 
(How  much?     Two  verses  more 
You  say  you  need?     This  is  a  fright! 
I  wish  I'd  known  before!) 

"  In  autumn  then  the  Westwind  came," 
(Now  what  will  rhyme  with  that? 
Oh,  yes!)  "His  bride  the  Flower  to  claim — 
(I  call  those  two  lines  pat.) 
'  But  lo!     His  sweetheart  lay  in  dust — " 
(I  hate  "  Chill  winter's  breath," 
But  here  goes!     If  I  must  I  must!) 
His  bride  was  wed  with  Death! 

"  And  that  is  why  the  Westwind  sighs, 
Because    his    heart    is    sore — " 
(I'd  like  to  quit  here,  but  I've  got 
To    work   in   six   lines   more.) 
"  He's  chanting  dirges  o'er  her   grave, 
The   Flower   whom  Death  had   won." 
(Hi  therel     Here  is  that  Sunday  stuff! 
Thank   Goodness  that  is  done!) 

— Bismarck  (N.  D.)  Tribune. 


Melancholy  Days. 
We're  bored  to  death  by  arguments  on  Russia  and 

Japan, 
The  barge  canal,  on  politics,  does  Kipling's  poetry 

scan? 
Will  Langley  ever  sail  through  space?     Will  Peary 

reach  the  pole? 
Is  Maeterlinck  a  dramatist  or  poet  of  the  soul? 
Will  steel  securities  be  squeezed  until  they're  limp 

and  dry? 
Will    Carnegie    be    poor    enough    in    fifty    years    to 

die? 

Oh!  what's  the  use  of  anything?  What  matters 
how  or  where? 

And  yet  we  keep  on  living,  and  keep  right  on 
breathing  air; 

There's  nothing  new  to  startle  us,  same  sun  and 
same  old  moon. 

Same  getting  up  for  breakfast,  same  grab- bag 
lunch  at  noon; 

Same  stories  by  same  authors,  and  same  songs, 
and  same  old  plays, 

The  same  old  smoky  autumn  and  the  same  No- 
vember days. — Rochester  Post-Express. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist. 

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Literary  Notes. 

Owing  to  the  great  interest  manifested  in 
the  "  MS.  in  a  Red  Box,"  so  ingeniously  ad- 
vertised by  John  Lane,  it  is  announced  that 
Modd,  Dead  &  Co,  will  soon  publish  an  ad- 
venture story  to  be  known  as  the  "  MS.  in 
a  Brown  Paper  Parcel."  It  is  explained  that 
the  story  was  picked  up  by  the  wife  of  one 
of  the  publishers  in  mistake  for  a  parcel  of 
rolled  oats  she  had  bought  in  a  grocery  store. 
The  firm  has  advertised  for  the  author,  but  he 
or  she,  apparently,  has  been  ashamed  to 
claim  the  book,  a  feeling  that  will  be  quite 
intelligible  to   those  reading   it. 

Moughton,  Hifflin  &  Co.  are  about  to  pub- 
lish the  "  MS.  Wrapped  Around  a  Pork 
Chop."  The  story  was  bought  by  Mr.  Hifflin 
because,  as  he  explains,  it  had  something 
good  in  it. 

"  The  MS.  found  in  an  Ash  Barrel " 
(Mobbs-Berrill  Company)  is  said  to  be  a  sure 
success.  It  was  discovered  by  Mr.  Mobbs's 
son  as  he  was  hunting  for  a  tomato  can  to 
hold  bait.  As  the  ash  barrel  belonged  to  the 
Booth  Tarkington  Doughnut  Factory,  it  is 
evident  the  story  must  be  a  good  one. 

The  next  book  promised  from  Rentano's 
is  the  "  MS.  Found  on  the  Pantry  Shelf." 
This  priceless  story  was  being  used  by  Mrs. 
Rentano  to  keep  jam  stains  off  the  shelf, 
when  it  was  discovered  by  Tommy  Rentano, 
who  had  gone  to  swipe  sugar.  He  became  so 
absorbed  in  the  story  that  he  read  four  shelves 
of  it,  throwing  pots  of  jam  to  the  floor  as 
they  obstructed  his  view. — Chicago  Record- 
Herald.  

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and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Nov.  19,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

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quality  and  purity.  Costing  over  twenty 
per  cent,  more  to  produce  than  the  next 
best  whiskey  on  the  market,  it  is  to-day 
the  purest  and  costliest  of  all  whiskies, 
and  is  therefore  just  such  goods  as  all 
should  drink  who  desire  the  best. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


November  2,  1903. 


The  Murphy-Nokes  "Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Virginia  Rodgers  Nokes. 
daughter  of  Mrs.  M.  L.  Nokes,  and  Lieuten- 
ant John  B.  Murphy  took  place  on  Tuesday 
afternoon  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  grand- 
parents. Captain  and  Mrs.  Augustus  F.  Rod- 
gers, 2616  Broadway.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  four  o'clock  by  Chaplain  Harte,  of 
the  Presidio.  Miss  Anna  Sperry  was  the 
maid  of  honor,  Dr.  Harold  Greenleaf  the  best 
man  and  Mr.  Henry  C.  Rodgers,  Jr.,  Mr.  J. 
Brockway  Metcalf,  Lieutenant  Edward  Shin- 
kle  U.  S.  A.,  and  Lieutenant  P.  K.  Brice,  U. 
S.  A.,  acted  as  ushers.  The  ceremony  was 
followed  bv  a  wedding  breakfast,  and  later  in 
the  day  Lieutenant  Murphy  and  his  bride  de- 
parted for  Southern  California.  On  their 
return  from  their  wedding  journey  in  a  fort- 
night, they  will  proceed  to  Fort  Russell.  Wyo., 
the  groom's  new  station. 

The  Stephenson-Bruce  "Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Bertie  Bruce,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Bruce,  and  Mr. 
Ferdinand  Stephenson  took  place  on  Thurs- 
day at  Trinity  Church.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  noon  by  the  Rev.  Clifton  Macon, 
assisted  by  Rev.  Frederick  Clampett.  Miss 
Gertrude  Van  Wyck  was  the  maid  of  honor, 
and  the  bridesmaids  were  Miss  Lucie  King, 
Miss  Ethel  Cooper.  Miss  Margaret  Sinclair, 
and  Miss  Bernie  Drown.  Mr.  Philip  Day 
acted  as  best  man.  and  Mr.  James  K.  Moffitt, 
Mr  Franklyn  Wakefield,  of  Oakland,  Mr. 
Eu"ene  Beck,  and  Mr.  Samuel  Boardman 
served  as  ushers.  The  church  ceremony  was 
followed  by  a  small  reception  at  the  home 
of  the  bride's  parents  on  Jackson  Street,  at 
which  only  relatives  and  intimate  friends 
were   present.  ^^^^^ 

Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Mrs. 
Louise  Catherwood  Montagne,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  John  A.  Darling,  and  Mr.  C.  E.  Maud, 
of  Southern  California. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Mabel  Quatinan,  daughter  of  Mrs.  H.  Quat- 
inan  and  Lieutenant  Alexander  N.  Mitchell, 
U.  S  N„  son  of  Judge  J.  M.  Mitchell,  of 
Ohio.  Miss  Quatman  is  a  sister  of  Mrs. 
George  E.  Perkins,  of  Oakland,  and  a  niece 
of  General  J.  F.  Sheehan,  formerly  adjutant- 
general   of  the  State. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Carolan  have  sent  out 
invitations  for  the  marriage  of  their  daughter 
Genevieve  and  Mr.  Henry  Williams  Poett  on 
Tuesday,  November  17th,  at  noon,  at  their 
residence,    1714  California  Street. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Edythe  Wardwell 
Marion,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Washing- 
ton Irving  Marion,  and  Mr.  Joseph  Charles 
Meyerstein  took  place  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  parents  on  Wednesday  evening.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  at  nine  o'clock  by 
Rev.  I.  C.  Meserve,  pastor  of  the  Plymouth 
Presbyterian  Church.  Miss  Florence  Sankey 
was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Dr.  Harold  Brunn 
acted  as  best  man.  A  wedding  supper  fol- 
lowed the  ceremony.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  journey  in  Southern  California, 
in  three  weeks,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Meyerstein 
will  occupy  apartments  at  the  California 
Hotel  until  their  new  residence  on  California 
Street  is  completed. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Alice  Belau.  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  Belau.  and  Mr.  Emery 
W.  Elliot,  son  of  Mr.  Charles  E.  Elliot,  took 
place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  grandparents, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  D.  Siebe,  at  2217  Sacra- 
mento Street,  on  Wednesday  evening.  The 
ceremony  was  performed  at  six  o'clock  by 
Rev.  Bradford  Leavitt.  Miss  Elsa  Hoesch 
was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  William 
Sherman  Bacon  acted  as  best  man.  Upon  their 
return  from  their  wedding  journey  in  a  fort- 
night, they  will  reside  at  the  California  Ho- 
tel. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Rosa  Hooper,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Major  W.  B.  Hooper,  and  Mr. 
Charles  Albert  Plotner  took  place  in  Phila- 
delphia on  Sunday  afternoon.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  by  the  Rev.  Alfred  P.  J.  Mc- 
Clure,  of  Church  House.  Philadelphia.  Among 
others  at  the  wedding  were  Mrs.  Hooper,  the 
bride's   mother,   Mr.   George   Kent   Hooper,   of 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absolutely  Pure 
HERE  IS  NO  bUBSTITUTE 


San  Francisco,  the  bride's  brother,  who  was 
best  man.  Lieutenant  Perry,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs. 
Perry,  the  bride's  sister. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  gave  a  luncheon  in 
the  Palm  Garden  of  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Wed- 
nesday, in  honor  of  Mrs.  Maus.  Among  others 
at  table  were  Mrs.  Robert  _  Oxnard,  Mrs. 
Henry  Glass,  and  Mrs.  Schwerin. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Evans  Cook  announce  the 
marriage  of  their  daughter,  Miss  Edna 
Francenia  Cook,  to  Captain  Edwin  Towne 
Huffman.  The  wedding  was  celebrated  on 
Tuesday,  October  2othf  in  the  study  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church.  Only  the  families 
and  intimate  friends  were  present.  A  re- 
ception  followed  at  the  bride's  home. 

Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway  will  give  a 
birthday  dinner  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on 
Wednesday  evening.  Covers  will  be  laid  for 
about   sixty   guests. 

Mrs.  Harry  N.  Gray  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday  in  honor  of  Mrs.  J.  Malcolm 
Henrv  and  Miss  Marie  Voorhies.  at  which 
she  entertained  Mrs.  Spalding,  Mrs.  Thomas 
Bishop,  Mrs.  George  Cameron,  Mrs.  Lyle 
Fletcher.  Mrs.  E.  A.  Belcher,  Mrs.  Wakefield 
Baker,  and  Miss  Florence  Ives. 

Mrs.  William  J.  Dutton  will  give  a  lun- 
cheon in  honor  of  her  daughter.  Miss  Ger- 
trude Dutton,  on  Monday,  at  the  University 
Club.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Foster  Dutton 
will  give  a  dinner  at  the  Bohemian  Club  in 
honor  of  Miss  Dutton  on  Tuesday  evening, 
November    ioth. 

Mrs.  Charles  Morrison  Woods  (nee  Gunnel 
will  be  "  at  home  "  at  her  residence  on  Pierce 
Street    on    Wednesdays    in    November. 

Mrs.  George  D.  Toy  and  Miss  Mabel  Toy 
gave  a  luncheon  on  Wednesday,  at  which 
they  entertained  Miss  Mabel  Cluff,  Miss 
Norma  Castle.  Miss  Florence  Callahan,  Miss 
Eleanor  Eckart,  Miss  Lita  Gallatin,  Miss  Ra- 
chel Hovey,  Miss  Belle  Harmes,  Miss 
Mabel  Hogg,  Mrs.  Charles  Harley,  Miss  Maye 
Colburn,  Mrs.  Harvey  Toy.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Painter,  Miss  Georgie  Spieker.  Miss  Paula 
Wolff,  Miss  Eleanor  Warner,  and  Miss  Amy 
Porter.  _      

MUSICAL     NOTES. 


Ellery's  Royal  Italian  Band. 

The  popular  Ellery's  Royal  Italian  Band, 
which  played  such  a  long  season  here  last 
winter,  returns  for  a  season  of  ten  concerts, 
beginning  Sunday  afternoon  and  concluding 
Monday,  November  gth.  On  Monday  night  no 
concert  will  be  given,  as  the  theatre  has  been 
engaged  for  that  night  by  other  parties.  There 
will  be  matinees  on  next  Saturday  and  Sun- 
day. The  prices  will  be  popular,  ranging  from 
fifty  cents  to  one  dollar.  The  programme  will 
be  changed  nightly,  and  the  ten  great  soloists 
of  the  organization  will  be  heard  in  some 
fine  new  numbers,  recently  added  to  the  reper- 
toire of  the  band.  The  new  leader,  Manfredo 
Chiffarelli,  is  a  composer  of  fine  reputation, 
and  a  number  of  his  works  will  be  played. 
The  programme  for  the  opening  concert  on 
Sunday  afternoon  is  as  follows:  March,  "Am- 
erican Belle,"  Bentley;  overture  "La  Fan- 
ciulla."  Secchi ;  suite  "  L'Arlesiene,"  Bizet ; 
selections  from  "Prince  of  Pilsen,"  Lueders  ; 
"  Love  in  Idleness,"  Macbeth  ;  grand  fantasie 
"  Faust."  Gounod;  and  a  march  by  Chiffarelli. 
The  soloist  will  be  Antonio  Decimo.  the  fa- 
mous clarinetist. 

In  the  evening,  the  overture  to  "  Tann- 
hauser,"  the  "  Albumblatt."  by  Wagner,  the 
sextet  from  "  Poliuto,"  a  grand  potpourri  from 
"  La  Boheme,"  and  the  fantasie  from  "  Car- 
men "  will  be  played.  The  special  features 
will  be  a  trumpet  solo  from  "  Mignon," 
played  by  Signor  Palmaand,  and  a  quartet 
of  saxophones  which  will  render  "  Oh  for  the 
Wings  of  a  Dove." 


A  Notable  Orchestral  Concert. 

One  of  the  most  enjoyable  ana  meritorious 
musical  events  given  in  San  Francisco  for  a 
long  time  was  the  orchestral  concert  which 
Henry  Heyman  directed  at  the  reception  in 
honor  of  the  visiting  bankers  at  the  Hop- 
kins Institute  of  Art  last  week.  The  or- 
chestra was  composed  of  thirty  of  the  finest 
musicians  of  this  city.  The  programme, 
which  was  given  in  the  Mary  Searles  Gallery, 
included   the   following   numbers : 

March,  "  King  John,"  Hauschild ;  over- 
ture, "  Tannhauser,"  Wagner  ;  melody,  "  Soli- 
tude," Ole  Bull,  harmonized  for  strings  only 
by  Svendsen ;  selections,  "  Faust,"  Gounod ; 
serenade  (horn  solo  and  flute  obligato),  Titl  ; 
waltz,  "Artist  Life,"  Strauss;  songs,  "Sere- 
nade," cornet  solo,  "  Am  Meer,"  trombone 
solo,  Schubert;  selections,  "Carmen,"  Bizet; 
"  Dance  of  the  Hours,"  "  Gioconda."  Pon- 
chielli ;  and  American  national  airs,   Gilmore. 

Adelina  Patti  and  her  supporting  company 
of  musicians  will  arrive  in  New  York  this 
week.  Among  the  soloists  will  be  Miss  Vera 
Margolies,  pianist,  heard  principally  in  Lon- 
don; Anton  Hegner,  'cello  virtuoso;  Wilfred 
Vrigo,  tenor;  Miss  Kathleen  Howard,  con- 
tralto; Miss  Rosa  Zamels,  violinist;  Claude 
A.  Cunningham,  baritone;  and  Signor  Sapio, 
conductor. 

The  first  concert  of  the  1903-1904  season 
of  the  Minetti  Orchestra  will  be  given  at  the 
Alhambra  Theatre  on  the  evening  of  De- 
cember 14th.  The  weekly  rehearsals  are  be- 
ing held  on  Monday  evenings  at  eight  o'clock 
at  the  hall  of  the  Century  Club,  1215  Sutter 
Street.  The  organization  is  a  very  creditable 
one,  and  its  prospects  are  extremely  promis- 
ing. 

• — — »    » 

—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746   Market   Street. 


The  Ladies'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  of  the 
coast  is  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


The  Automobile  Races. 
The  automobile  and  motor  cycle  races  at 
Ingleside  Track  on  next  Friday  and  Saturday 
are  to  be  preceded  on  Thursday  night  by  a 
monster  automobile  parade,  in  which  over  one 
hundred  machines  will  be  in  line.  Three 
special  prizes — a  one-hundred  dollar  cup,  fifty 
dollars  in  cash,  and  a  fifty-dollar  handsome 
trophy — are  to  be  offered  for  the  best  deco- 
rated automobiles.  The  starting  point  will  be 
at  the  corner  of  Van  Ness  Avenue  and  Golden 
Gate  Avenue,  and  the  route  of  the  procession 
will  be  down  Market,  up  Kearny  to  Bush,  then 
over  to  Montgomery,  and  back  Market  Street 
to  the  starting  place.  At  Ingleside,  for  a  week 
sixteen  men  have  been  getting  the  track  in 
iine  condition.  There  will  be  eight  races  each 
day,  with  a  half-hour  intermission  between 
each  event.  Barney  Oldfield,  the  automobile 
champion,  is  to  arrive  from  Denver  Wednes- 
day with  his  two  cars,  the  Winton  Bullet  and 
the  Bullet  No.  2.  Two  other  strong  com- 
petitors will  be  F.  A.  Garbutt,  whose  White 
won  several  of  the  races  at  the  recent  Del 
Monte  meet,  and  H.  C.  Merritt,  whose  sixty- 
horse-power  Mercedes  is  said  to  be  a  wonder. 


George  P.  Snell,  one  of  the  best  known 
hotel  men  on  the  Coast,  has  just  accepted 
the  management  of  the  Hotel  del  Monte  at 
Monterey.  The  selection  of  Mr.  Snell  as 
manager  of  the  Monterey  resort  will  meet 
with  public  favor,  for  during  his  connection 
with  the  Hotel  Vendome  he  has  succeeded 
in  getting  it  out  of  a  rut  and  placing  it  on 
a  paying  basis,  much  to  the  satisfaction  of 
the  stockholders,  who,  through  Mr.  Snell's 
efforts,  were  finally  relieved  of  the  disagree- 
able necessity  of  paying  assessments.  It  was 
his  success  at  the  Vendome,  together  with 
his  long  and  creditable  management  of  the 
Lick  House,  that  suggested  his  name  to 
Manager  Shepard,  of  the  Pacific  Improvement 
Company,  when  he  began  to  look  around  for 
a  new  manager  for  the  Hotel  del  Monte. 


Senator  William  Morris  Stewart,  of  Ne- 
vada, was  married  in  the  private  parlor  at 
the  Piedmont  Hotel,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  Monday 
evening  to  Mrs.  May  Agnes  Cone,  of  Madi- 
son, Ga.,  the  widow  of  Theodore  C.  Cone. 
Judge  Thomas  M.  Norwood,  of  Savannah, 
was  best  man,  and  the  only  other  witnesses 
were  State  Treasurer  R.  E.  Park  and  Mrs. 
Park,  Clark  Howell,  and  the  minister  who 
performed  the  ceremony,  Rev.  H.  S.  Bradley, 
of  the  Methodist  Church.  Senator  Stewart's 
first  wife,  the  daughter  of  Governor  Henry 
S.  Foote,  of  Mississippi,  whom  he  married 
in  1S55,  was  killed  by  being  thrown  from  an 
automobile   in  Alameda  last  year. 


The  following  officers  were  chosen  directors 
at  the  annual  election  of  the  Bank  of  Cali- 
fornia :  William  Alvord,  James  M.  Allen, 
Frank  B.  Anderson,  William  Babcock, 
Charles  R.  Bishop,  Antoine  Borel,  Warren 
D.  Clark,  George  E.  Goodman,  Adam 
Grant,  Edward  W.  Hopkins,  John  F.  Merrill, 
and  Jacob  Stern ;  William  Alvord,  president 
(for  the  twenty-sixth  consecutive  term)  ; 
Frank  B.  Anderson,  vice-president ;  Charles 
R.  Bishop,  vice-president ;  James  M.  Allen, 
attorney ;  Allen  M.  Clay,  secretary ;  Irving  F. 
Moulton,  cashier ;  Samuel  H.  Daniels,  as- 
sistant cashier;  and  William  R.  Pentz,  as- 
sistant cashier. 


Judge  M.  M.  Estee,  for  many  years  one 
of  the  most  prominent  lawyers  of  California, 
died  in  Honolulu  on  Tuesday,  from  the  effects 
of  an  operation  performed  for  kidney  trouble. 
Mr.  Estee  is  survived  by  a  widow  and  daugh- 
ter, Mrs.  Charles  J.  Deering.  Mr.  Estee  was 
twice  the  candidate  of  the  Republican  party 
for  governor  of  California,  but  each  time  was 
defeated.  In  1SS9,  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Harrison  as  delegate  to  the  Pan- 
American  Congress,  which  met  at  Washing- 
ton in  October  of  that  year,  and  in  June, 
1900,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Mc- 
Kinley    as    United    States    District    Judge    for 


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OLGA  BLOCK  BARRETT 

PIANISTE 

Graduate  Teacher  of  the  University  of  Music 
of  Vienna 

ANNOUNCES  THE  RESUMPTION  OF  LESSONS 

Residence,  1849  Leavenworth  St.,  cor.  Green 

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Phelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

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Merchant  Tailors, 

622  Market  Street  (Upstairs), 

Bicycle  and  Oolf  Suits.  Opposite  the  Palace  Hotel. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  ror  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  oi  over  a 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropica!  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  MESS  A* 

HOTEL  GRANADA 


IOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


THE    COLONIAL 

S.  E.  cor.  Fine  aud.  Jones  Sts. 
The  Seleet  Hotel  of  San  Francisco 


All  apartments  steam  heated 


for  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAIN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN   PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GKOKGE  WAKKEN  HOOPEK,  Lessee. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily,  at 
8  A.  u.,  10  A.  M.,  and  4  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  R.   WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  - four  trains   daily  each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

R.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 


HOTEL  DEL  MONTE 


California's  beautiful  winter  and  summer 
hotel.  Weather  is  ideal  the  year  round  for 
surf-bathing,  hunting,  automobiling,  polo, 
and  pony  racing.  The  United  States  report 
of  minimum  temperatures  shows  what  a 
delightful  spot  Del  Monte  is  at  all  seasons 
of  the  year:  January,  444  ;  February,,  46.1  ; 
March,  51.S;  April,  52.2. 

THE  GOLF  LINKS— full  18-hole  course, 
greens  and  tees  always  green— are  consid- 
ered the  finest  in  the  States. 

In  touring  California,  visit  and  prolong 
your  stay  at  this  delightful  resort. 

GEO.  W.  REYNOLDS, 

Manager. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  H.  Sprague  leave 
next  week  for  their  Louisiana  plantation. 
After  a  short  stay  there,  they  intend  going 
abroad. 

Mr.  Amadee  Joullin  leaves  San  Francisco 
in  a  few  weeks  for  a  prolonged  stay  abroad. 
He  expects  to  be  in  Paris  for  much  of  the 
time. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Carolan  were  in  Lon- 
don when  last  heard  from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  S.  Tubbs  sailed  from 
New  York  for  Europe  on  October  20th.  They 
expect  to  remain  abroad  for  a  year. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  returned  last  week 
from  her  visit  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  D. 
Martin  at  Newport. 

Miss  Marie  Voorhies  will  sail  to-day  (Sat- 
urday) on  the  transport  Sheridan  for  Manila, 
where  she  will  be  the  guest  of  General  and 
Mrs.  Luke   Wright. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norris  Davis  (nee  Morgan) 
have  returned  from  their  wedding  journey, 
and  will  be  the  guests  of  Mrs.  Morgan  until 
their  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue  is  ready 
for  occupancy. 

Mrs.  Edith  B.  Coleman,  who  will  spend  a 
part  of  the  winter  in  San  Francisco,  is  ex- 
pected to  arrive  here  in  a  fortnight. 

Mrs.  Jerome  Lincoln  and  her  daughter,  Miss 
Ethel  Lincoln,  have  returned  from  their  long 
absence  in  the  East  and  Europe,  and  are  at 
their  residence  on   Harrison   Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burke  Holladay  are  visiting 
relatives  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  Onativia  (nee  Hastings)  is  here  on  a 
visit  to  her  sister,  Mrs.  Darling,  and  is  at  the 
Occidental  Hotel. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Pope  and  Mrs.  F.  A. 
Frank  left  for  the  East  last  week,  and  will 
be  away  the  rest  of  the  year. 

Mrs.  Ketchum,  who  has  been  visiting  her 
mother,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Little,  in  Oakland,  has 
returned    to    the    East. 

Mr.  Frederick  Greenwood  was  in  Southern 
California    during   the    week. 

Mr.  Valentine  G.  Hush  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  S.  L.  Bee  has  returned  from  a  visit 
to  the  Eastern  States,  and  is  residing  at  1055 
Bush  Street. 

Mrs.  Sidney  H.  Smith,  Miss  Helen  Smith, 
Miss  Bertha  Sidney  Smith,  and  Mrs.  Philip 
Lansdale  were  in  Geneva  when  last  heard 
from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  M.  H.  de  Young  and  Miss 
Helen  de  Young  were  in  Boston  during  the 
week. 

Mrs.  Henry  Scott  and  Miss  Laura  McKin- 
stry,  who  at  present  are  traveling  in  India,  ex- 
pect to  reach  San  Francisco  before  Christmas. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  L.  Van  Wyck  and  Miss 
Gertrude  Van  Wyck  are  occupying  their  resi- 
dence on  Steiner  Street. 

Mrs.  A.  E.  Head  and  Miss  Anna  Head  were 
in  Germany  when  last  heard  from  with  Mr.  A. 
E.  Montenay  Jephson,  Miss  Head's  fiance, 
whose  health  is  still  far  from  satisfactory. 

Dr.  Clinton  Cushing  has  returned  from 
Europe. 

Miss  Elise  Clarke  has  returned  from  her 
visit  to  Mrs.  H.  McD.  Spencer  at  Menlo 
Park. 

Mrs.  H.  R.  Muzzy,  Miss  Irene  Muzzy,  Mrs. 
Margaret  Jones,  and  Master  Russell  B.  Jones 
sailed  from  New  York  for  Europe  last  Satur- 
day. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Baker,  of  New  York. 
Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Van  Duyne,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Edmond  Baker  visited  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Starr  have  taken 
a  house  on  Ridge  Road,  Berkeley,  for  the 
winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Flood  and  Miss  Sallie 
Maynard,  who  have  been  abroad  for  several 
months,  expect  to  sail  from  Europe  for  New 
York  on  November  1  ith. 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Voorhies  will  leave  this  week 
for  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  she  goes  as  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Convention  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  Confederacy.  Mrs.  Voorhies 
will  be  absent  about  a  month. 

Mrs.  J.  Sloat  Fassett  and  Miss  Margaret 
Fassett,  after  a  visit  of  several  months  to 
California,  have  departed  for  their  home  at 
Elmira,  N.  Y.  They  were  accompanied  by 
Miss  Ella  Bender,  who  will  be  absent  for 
about  a  year. 

Mrs.  H.  M.  A.  Miller  was  in  New  York  last 
week. 

Mrs.  Isaac  Hecht  leaves  for  Boston  in  a 
few  days  to  meet  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Helen 
Hecht,  who  has  been  traveling  abroad  the  past 
four  years.  They  intend  to  spend  the  greater 
portion  of  the  winter  in  New  York. 

Sabit  Bey  and  Mme.  Sabit  Bey,  of  Paris, 
are  visiting  Mrs.  J.  Dennis  Arnold.  Sabit  Bey 
is  the  Khedive's  nephew  and  cousin  of  Prince 
Devlet  Guerii,  aid-de-camp  to  -the  Czar. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Caldwell 
Hardy,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  S.  Curtis,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Gaul,  Mr.  G.  E.  Lewis,  and  Mr. 
Daniel  B.  Curtis,  of  New  York,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chandler  and  Mr.  Ellis  H.  Roberts,  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Mr,  and  Mrs.  D.  E.  Hayes  and 
Miss  Florence  E.  Hayes,  of  Eastland,  Mr.  A. 
W.  Burnett,  of  Orange,  N.  J.,  Mr.  J.  R.  Main- 
ster,  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  Hanfro,  Mr.  R.  W. 
Grenfell,  and  Mr.  Charles  B.  Swift,  of  London, 
Mrs.  Guy  T.  Wayman,  Mr.  Will  H.  Stinson, 
Mr.  A.  J.  Carmany,  and  Mr.  C.  J.  Hunt. 


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Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Rear-Admiral  Bowles,  chief  of  the  bureau 
of  construction  and  repair  of  the  Navy  De- 
partment, has  tendered  his  resignation  as  an 
officer  in  the  United  States  navy  to  the 
President,  and  requested  that  it  take  effect 
November  3d.  Constructor  L.  W.  Capps,  now 
on    duty   at   the   New   York   Navy    Yard,    has 


been  selected  by  the  President  for  the  va- 
cancy. Admiral  Bowles  has  the  distinction 
of  being  the  youngest  officer  (forty-five  years) 
who  ever  held  the  title  of  rear-admiral.  He 
was  also  the  first  member  of  the  instruction 
corps  to  graduate  from  the  Naval  Academy. 

Major  Benjamin  H.  Randolph,  Coast  Artil- 
lery. U.  S.  A.,  has  been  granted  a  month's 
sick  leave,  which  he  intends  spending  in 
Southern  California. 

Captain  and  Mrs.  John  Robert  Rigby 
Hannay  (nee  Young),  of  the  Twenty- Second 
Infantry,  arrived  here  early  in  the  week,  and 
registered  at  the  Occidental  Hotel.  They  will 
sail  to-day  (Saturday)  on  the  transport  Sheri- 
dan   for   Manila. 

Colonel  Marion  P.  Maus,  Twenty-Second 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  accompanied  by  Mrs. 
Maus,  has  been  spending  the  week  in  San 
Francisco,  en  route  to  the  Philippines.  They 
will  sail  with  the  regiment  on  the  transport  | 
Sheridan  to-day    (Saturday). 

Major  William  E.  Birkhimer.  Artillery- 
Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  who  is  one  of  the  board  of  ' 
officers  selected  to  choose  a  site  for  a  military 
post  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  sailed  for 
Honolulu  on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Sierra 
on  Thursday. 

Major  William  Lassiter,  Fifteenth  Infantry'. 
U.  S.  A.,  who  is  stationed  at  Monterey,  was 
in  town  during  the  week,  and  stopped  at  the 
Occidental  Hotel. 

Captain  Robert  H.  Noble,  Third  Infantry- 
U.  S.  A.,  is  expected  here  before  long,  en  route 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  from  Manila,  with 
Judge  Taft. 

Dr.  Henry  S.  Kiersted,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs. 
Kiersted    left    on    Monday    for    Washington,  \ 
D.  C,  where  they  will  pass  the  winter.     Mrs.  1 
Peter  McG.  McBean.  who  accompanied  them, 
expects  to  be  away  several  weeks. 

Captain  Charles  H.  McKinstry,  U.  S.  A., 
has  been  relieved  from  duty  as  engineer  at 
the  School  of  Application,  Washington  Bar- 
racks, and  ordered  to  take  station  at  Los  An- 
geles, relieving  Major  Joseph  H.  Willard. 
U.  S.  A. 

Colonel  Robert  L.  Meade,  U.  S.  N.,  who. 
at  his  own  request,  is  shortly  to  be  retired 
from  the  navy,  after  forty  years  of  active  ser- 
vice in  the  marine  corps,  will  leave  Mare 
Island  next  Monday,  accompanied  by  Mrs. 
Meade,  and  after  a  stay  in  San  Francisco 
will  proceed  to  New  York,  where  he  will  re- 
side. 

Major  Robert  R.  Stevens,  U.  S.  A.,  upon 
his  arrival  from  the  Orient,  will  proceed  to 
Fort  Sheridan.  111.,  to  assume  charge,  under 
the  direction  of  the  quartermaster-general 
of  the  army,  of  construction  work  at  that 
post,  relieving  Captain  Morton  F.  Smith, 
U.  S.  A. 

Dr.  Tyndall's  Sunday  Lectures. 
"  Spiritualism  "  will  be  the  subject  of  Dr. 
Mclvor- Tyndall's  psychic  science  lecture  at 
Steinway  Hall  on  Sunday  night.  Although 
Dr.  Tyndall  has  accepted  the  presidency  of  a 
newly  organized  Institute  of  Suggestive 
Therapeutics,  in  Los  Angeles,  the  large  au- 
diences that  attend  his  public  lectures  here, 
and  more  particularly  the  private  classes  he 
is  teaching,  will  keep  him  here  for  another 
month,  and  possibly  longer.  A  splendid  au- 
dience greeted  him  last  Sunday  night,  the 
lecture  being  on  "  The  World  Invisible." 
Some  seemingly  miraculous  proofs  of  an  in- 
visible world  about  us  were  deduced  from 
recorded  instances,  and  the  lecture  on  the 
whole  was  an  exposition  of  advanced  and 
advancing  thought  along  this  line.  On  Sun- 
day night,  November  8th.  Dr.  Tyndall  will 
talk  on  "  Hypnotism  and  Crime." 


Don't  fail  to  make  a  visit  to  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  before  the  rainv  weather  sets  in. 
The  trip  through  Mill  Valley  is  delightful, 
and  the  advantageous  views  of  the  gorgeous 
sunsets  at  this  time  of  the  year  alone  ought 
to  be  incentive  enough  to  make  people  anxious 
to  take  the  journey. 

Belle  Thome,  a  former  favorite  at  the 
Tivoli  Opera  House,  is  to  be  the  soloist  at 
Holy  Cross  Church  on  Sunday,  when  the  first 
mass.  Opus  5,  by  her  husband,  Herman  Per- 
let,  will  be  sung  for  the  first  time. 


A  Beautiful 
Dancing  Surface 

is  obtained  on  the  floor  oi  any  hal!  or  ball-room 
by  the  use  or  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax. 
It  will  not  ball  up  on  the  shoes  nor  lump  on  the    m 
floor  ;  makes  neither  dirt  nor  dust,  but  forms  a     I 
perfect  dancing  surface.     Does  not"  soil  dresses    — 
or  clothes  01  the  finest  fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  &  Co..  Langley&  Michaels, 
and  Redington  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk, 
Geary  A:  Co.,  Sacramento;  and  F.  \V.  Braun 
&  Co.,  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax. 


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Genuine   "Works   *>f  Art. 

One  of  the  principal  attractions  of  the  city,  is  the 
Gump  collection  of  fine  oil  paintings,  embracing  a 
number  of  canvases  from  this  year's  Paris  Salon,  and 
from  all  the  different  art  centres  of  Europe,  also  a 
very  choice  selection  of  beauiiful  water  colors-  S.  & 
G.  Gump  Co.,  113  Geary  Street. 


Tourist  Policies 


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through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


November  2,  1903. 


SOUTHERN  PACIFIC 

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(Main  Lliie,  Foot  of  Market  Street  ■ 

LEATB       —        FKOM  OCTOBEF.21,   1903.       —       AUKlVh" 

7.00a  Benlcia,  Soisun.  Elmlra  and  Sacra- 
mento       .     Z2^' 

7.00a   Vacavllle,  Winters.  Ramsey 7  5a' 

7  30a   Martinez,     San     Ramon,     Vallejo. 

Napa.  Callstogn,  Santa  liusa 6.25' 

7.30a   Nlles.  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Lathrop, 

Stockron 7  25' 

8  00a    Davis,  Woodland.  Knlnlits  Landing. 

Marysvllle.  Oroville 7-55 

6  00a    Atlantic  Expres.t—Ogdcn  and  KftBt.    10.25 

8  30a  Fort  Costa.  Martinez.  Antloch,  By- 
ron.Tracy,  Stockton,  Sacramento. 
Newman,  Los  Banos,  Mendota, 
Armooa,  Leinoore,  Han  ford 
Vinalla.  Portervllle 4.2a 

f  30a  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Lath 
rop.  Modesto,  Merced.  Fresno. 
Goshen  Junction,  Lemoore,  Han 
ford.  VIsalla.  Bakersfleld 455' 

B-30a  Shasta  Express  — Davis.  Wllll«me 
(for  Barilett  Springs).  Willows, 
tFruto.  lied  BlulT,  Portland 7.55' 

8-30a  N"IJes,  San  .lose,  Llvrmore,  Stock- 
ton,Ione,Sacrnmi.']it.».Piacervllle. 
Marysvllle,  Chlco,  lied  Bluff 4.25' 

8.30a   Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 2i|' 

9.00a    Martinez  and  Way  Stations .122?,, 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.25'- 

10.00a  El  Paso  Passenger,  Easti'ound.— 
Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy.  La  tbrop.  Stockton, 
Merced,  Raymond.  Fresno,  Han- 
ford.  VIsalla.  Bakersfleld,  Los 
Angeles  and  El  Paso.  (West- 
bound  arrives  via  Coast  Line)...  el.30i 
10.00a   The     Overland    Limited  —  Ogden. 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago S??1' 

12.00m   Hnyward.  Klles  and  Way  Stations.      3.25I1 
tI.OOf   Sacramento  River  Steamers nl.00> 

330r  Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Lauding, 
Marysvllle,  Oroville  and  way 
stations 10-55* 

3.30F   Hayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..      7-bbr 

3  30p   Fort      Costa,      Martinez.      Byron, 

Tracy,  Lathrop,  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno  and  "Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 1225i 

330p  Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton,  Lodi...   10.25a 

4  00p   Martlnez.Sauliuinou.Vallejo.Napa. 

Calls  toga,  Santa  Rosa 9-25  a 

4  00p   Nlles.  Tracv.  Stockton.  Lodl 4.25r 

4  30p   Hayward.   Nlles,   Irvlngton,  San  I     18.55a 

Jose.  Llvermore (111.55* 

E-OOp  The  Owl  Limited— Newmin,  Los 
Bhuos   Mt-udoia.  Fresno.  Tulare, 

Bakersfleld.  Los  Angeles 8-55* 

6.00>   Fort  Costa.  Tracy,  Stockton 12-25"' 

t6  30p  Havward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25* 

6.00p    Hayward.  NHes  and  San  Jose 1025* 

6-OOp  Oriental  Mall— Ogden.  Denver. 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla.  Sui- 
eun,  Elmlra,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Rocklln,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee.  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wi  nn  emucca.  Battle 

Mountain,  Elko 4-25 

6.00i'    Vallt -jo  dally,  except  Sunday —  I       7rr 

7-O0p  Yalk-jo.  Sunday  only I       '  ° 

7.00>   San  Pablo,  Pore    Costa.  Martinez 

and  Way  Stations 11-25* 

£.06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,     Redding. 
Portland,  Fuget  Sound  and  East.     8-55* 
9.10p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jobc  (Sun- 
day  only) 1155* 

COAST    LINE    (Narrow  «aog«). 

[Foul  or  Market  Street.) 

8-16*  Newark,  Ceutervllle.  San  Jose. 
Felton,    Bouloer    Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-65 

t2-15'  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Los  Gatos, Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    10-55. 

4  16i-  Newark.  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos  and 

way  Btatlons 18.55a 

09  30p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only.  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.  Sunday 
only  returns  from  Los  Gatos 17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

from  SAN  FRANCISCO.  Fool  ul  Market  St.  (Slip'. 

-t7:!5    9:00    11:00a.m.     100    300    5.15  p.m 

from  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  tt>:«)    t3:d' 

|8:0.~.    lU:0u  a.m.       12  0D    2-00    4.00  p.m. 

COAST     LINE     (Itroad  llaiiicp). 

I3f"  (Third  and  Townseud   Streets.) 
G  10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  lOi 

7  00a    San  Jose  and  Way  stations 5  jgj- 

8  00a   New  Almaden  (Tucs..  Frld..  only),     4.10- 
8  00a   CoastLlneLImlted— Stopsonly  San 

Jose,  Gilroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llster),  Pajaro.  Casirovllle,  Sa 
Unas.  San  Ardo.  Paso  Robles, 
SantaMaigarHa.San  Luis  Obispo, 
Principal  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Lompoc)  princi- 
pal stations  thence  Santa  Bar- 
bara and  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion  at  Castrovllli'    to  and  from 

Monterey  and  Pacific  Grove 1045 

9.0Da   San    Jose.   Trea    Plnos,    Cfl.pl  tola, 

SautaCruz.Paclllcfirove.Sallnas, 

•    San  Luis   Obispo  HUd    Principal 

Way  Stations 4-1  I 

1020*   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1-20i 

11  ^0a  Santa  Clara,    San   Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations         7.30'- 

1  -30*-   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  ^6  » 

a.ODp  Pacific  Grove  Express— San taClara 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gilroy  for  Holllster,  Tres 
Plnos,  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.   12. 1^. 

3.20i    Gilroy  Way  Passenger 51045a 

t4  4E*i-  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Lob 
Gatos,    and   Principal   Way    Sta- 

tlous  {except  Sunday) t9-26* 

ib.301'  San  JoBeandPrluclpalWayStatlonB    tB  00* 

G.OOp   SunBet   Limited.   Eastbound.— San 

Luis  OhiBpo,  Santa  Barbara,  Los 

Angeles.  Demlng.  EI  Paso.  New 

Orleans,  New  York.  (Westbound 

,_„         arrlvesvlaSanJoBqulaVallcy)  ..  r/ 9.25  a 

Ib.lbP  San  Mateo. Beresford.Belmont.San 

Carlos.     Redwood,     Fair     Oaki, 

MenloPark.  p8lo  Alto t6.<*6a 

6.30i'  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  36a 

11  .30p  South  San  Francisco.  M  lllbrae.  Bur- 
llngame.  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
San  Carlos.  Redwood,  FBlr  Oaks, 

Menio  Park,  and  FhIo  Alio 9  45p 

er11-3Qp  Mayfield.  Mountain  View.  Sunny- 
vale, Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

S»n  Jose t9.45p 

A  for  Morning.  p  for  Afternoon. 

i  bunday  only 

:.  Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday, 
t  Sunday  excepted  a  Saturday  only. 

'  \  la  Coast  Line.  "  Via  San  Joaquin  Valley 

ta^Only  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
arctt:  10  A.>i.,t7:00A.M..H:3.)A  M..  3:;ii.ip.M.  and  li:3Qp.M. 
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THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


"Pa,  what's  platonic  love?"  "It's  gener- 
ally a  bunch  of  trouble  in  disguise." — Chicago 
Record-HeralZ. 

The  explanation :  "  He  says  he  moves  in  the 
best  society."  "  So  he  does ;  he  owns  a  fur- 
niture van." — Smart  Set. 

Politician  —  "  Congratulations.  Sarah  I've 
been  nominated."  Sarah  (with  delight)— 
"Honestly?"  Politician  — "  What  difference 
does  that  make  ?  "—Detroit  Free  Press. 

Doctor— "  Want  to  get  up,  eh?  Ah  I 
thought  my  medicine  would  fetch  you  out  of 
bed."  Tommy—-  Yes,  an'  then  besides,  I  seen 
a  circus  poster."— Philadelphia   Bulletin. 

Perverted  pride  :  "  Aren't  you  ashamed  of 
that  last  massacre?"  "I  don't  see  why  1 
should  be,"  answered  the  Sultan.  it  wasn  t 
such  a  very  small  one."— Washington  Star. 

Mr.    Jackson  —  "Huh!       Dat    new-fangled 
coffee-mill    yo'    bought    doan    grind    at    all. 
Mrs.    Jackson  — "  Yeas,    its    lak    some    hus- 
bands.    Expensive,  goes  aroun    a  lot,  en  doan 
do  no  wuk." — Puck. 

Senator  Morgan  says  there  are  500  men  in 
the  Democratic  party  who  would  make  better 
Presidents  than  Mr.  Roosevelt.  The  senator 
should  give  us  the  names  of  his  499  friends. 
— Washington  Post. 

Disabled :     "  Why  don't  you  eat  your  pie, 
Uncle  Reuben?     Don't  you  like  pumpkin  pie.' 
"  Yes   I  like  it  all  right,  but  that  young  woman 
you've   got   helpin'   you   around   here   took   my 
knife  away."— Chicago  Record-Herald. 

Bride  (disconsolately)—"  Half  my  wedding 
presents  are  cheap  plated  things. '  Mother 
—■■  Never  mind,  my  dear ;  no  one  will  suspect 
it  I  have  hired  two  detectives  to  make  them- 
selves conspicuous  watching  them.  — Nevl 
York  Weekly. 

Lady  visitor  (to  little  girl)—"  What  became 
of  the  little  kitten  you  had  here  once?  Little 
„r!—"  Why,  haven't  you  heard?  Lady  visitor 
—"No  Was  he  drowned?"  Little  girl— 
"  Why,  no.  It  growed  up  to  be  a  cat.  — 
Illustrated  Bits. 

Dashaway—A  few  short  hours  ago  I  was 
sitting  with  a  girl,  telling  her  she  was  the 
only  Sne  in  all  the  world  I  ever  loved  ajds 
forth,  and  so  forth."  Cleverton—  And  she 
believed  you,  didn't  she?".  "  How  could  she 
help  it?    Why.  I  believed  it  myself.  — Life. 

The  receiver  for  the  United  States  Ship- 
building Company  charges  Charles  M.  Schwab 
with  having  fraudulently  unloaded  a 
$10,000,000  plant  on  the  trust  for  $30,000,000. 
Still  there  are  some  persons  who  imagine 
that  Mr.  Schwab  has  paresis.— Washington 
Post. 

"  How  do  you  account  for  the  sudden  epi- 
demic of  grafting  in  all  departments  of  public 
service?"  asked  the  reporter.  Grafting  is 
neither  sudden  nor  recent,"  replied  the  prac- 
tical politician;  "hunting  put  and  exposing 
the  grafters  is  the  latest  fad— that  s  all.  — 
Chicago   Tribune. 

Doctor— ■"  Well,  Mrs.  O'Brien.  I  hope  your 
husband  has  taken  his  medicine  regularly, 
eh'"  Mrs  O'Brien—-  Sure,  then,  doctor  I  ve 
been  sorely  puzzled.  ,  The  label  says.  One 
pill  to  be  taken  three  times  a  day.  and  for  the 
life  of  me,  I  don't  see  how  it  can  be  taken 
more  than  once." — Punch. 

The  ambitious  climber  :  The  guide—"  Well, 
here  we  are  on  the  peak  at  last.     The  tourist 

"  Oh    guide    do   you  mean  to   say  we  can 

get  no 'higher?  Don't  say  that  I  can  ascend 
no  further?"  The  guide—  Well,  you  can 
climb  up  this  alpenstock  if  you  want  to.  it  s 
seven  feet  long."— Chicago  Tribune. 

Mrs  Planebuddy—"  My  husband  wanted  me 
to  have  my  picture  taken,  but  I  told  him  1 
didn't  have  a  dress  nice  enough  for  the  pur- 
pose "  Mrs.  Navbor — "  And  is  he  going  to 
buy  you  one?"  Mrs.  Planebuddy— ■"  Oh  no. 
but  the  servant  girl  overheard  me.  and  she 
offered  to  lend  me  one  of  hers." — Philadelphia 
Ledger. 

Undaunted :  They  dug  the  bruised  and  bat- 
tered form  of  the  inventor  out  from  under  the 
ruins  of  his  flying  machine.  "  I  want  to  say. 
he  whispered,  hoarsely.  "  that  my  invention 
is  going  to  be  a  magnificent  success  !  I  have 
found  out  just  what  ails  it  1"  Waving  the  sur- 
geons away,  he  continued  to  talk  to  the  re- 
porters.— Chicago   Tribune. 

Miss  Basting — "  It  couldn't  have  been  very 
comfortable  automobiling  along  that  back  road 
yesterday."  Miss  Flurtey—'  Oh  !  did  you  see 
Mr.  Huggard  and  me?"  Miss  Bosling — "  \es. 
and  when  I  saw  you,  you  were  oscillating 
from  one  side  to  the  other."  Miss  Flurtey 
— "  Oh !  that's  a  fib !  The  osculating  was  all 
on  his  side." — Philadelphia  Press. 

Giving  evidence  of  character  for  a  man 
charged  at  North  London,  a  witness  declared 
that  he  was  eccentric.  Mr.  Fordham — "  Can 
you  give  an  instance  of  his  eccentricity?"  The 
witness — "  Well,  yes.  I  can  ;  during  the  four- 
teen years  I  have  known  him  he  has  never 
been  a  minute  late  in  getting  to  his  work." 
Mr.  Fordham — "  And  you  call  that  being 
eccentric?"  The  witness  —  "Yes.  certainly, 
for  a  workingman." — Ex. 


—  Slfednian's  Soothing  Powders  claim  10  be  pre 
ventative  as  well  as  curative  The  claim  has  been 
recognized  for  over  fifty  years. 

Quite  different:  She — "And  what  would 
you  be  now  if  it  weren't  for  my  money?" 
He — "  A  bachelor." — Tit-Bits. 


—  Dr.  K  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Ruilding. 


MOTHERS  BE  SURE  AND  USE  "  MRS.  WlNSLOW'S 

I  Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED" 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 


Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  to  St. 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Route  and  Missouri 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-car  service,  new 
equipment 

For  sleeping  -  car  reservation  and  full  informa- 
tion apply  to 

GENERAL  TICKET  OFFICE 

625  riarket  Street,  S.  F. 

Under  Palace  Hotel. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Tiburon  Ferry,  Toot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m;  12.35,  3-3°.  5-i°i 
6.30  p  m.     Thursdays— Extra  trip  at  11,30  p  m. 
Saturdays— Extra  Trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  pm. 

SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.30,  11.00  am;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 
11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK   DAYS— 6.05,   7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m;    12.50; 

3.40.  5.00,  5.20  p  m.    Saturdays — Extra  trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m, 
SUNDAYS — 8.00,  9.40,  11.15  a  m;  1.40,  3.40,  4.55,  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


7.30  a  m    8.00  a  1 

9.30  a  1 

3.30  p  m    3.30  p  1 

5-10  P  rn    5  00  p  1 


7.30  a  m 

8.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m    9.30  a 
,5.10  p  m    3.30  p  m 
5-QQp 


7-30  a  m 

8  00a  m 
3-3°  P  m    3.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m 
3.30  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
3-30  P  m 


7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 
3.30  a  ml  3.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m    8.00  a  1 


7.30  a  mj  S.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m;  3.30  P  m 


7.30  a  m    S.00  a  m 
5.iopm    5-o°  P  m 


7  30  a  m    8.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m    33°  P  m 


In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytlon, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 

Week : 

days. 

Days. 

9.10  a  m 

8.40  a  m 

10.40  a  m 

10.20  a  m 

6.05  p  m 

6.20  p  m 

7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7.35Pm 


10.40  a  m 
7-35  1'  m 
7-35  P  rn 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
9.10  a  m 
6-05  P  m 


0.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 


8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


6.20  p  r 


10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
S.40  a  ?n 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  in 


Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  ior  San  Quentin;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
ior  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs:  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs; 
at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs, 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlelt  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  tor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs.  Upper  Lake, 
Porno.  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's.  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Complche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins.  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg.  West  port, 
Qsal;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Cahto.  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris.  Olsen's.  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Raiael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  630  Market  Street.  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C-  WHITING,      -  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


For  SAN  RAFAEL, 
ROSS,  MILL  VALLEY,   ETC., 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
KH       DEPART    WEEK     DAYS-6-45,    r*7-45 
rT'1rJll3il  ""-'  9-45,   '  1    -   m  .    1     20,  -■  )  45,  3.1s.  4.15, 
tBSSfiS*SI  t5-i5.  *6-i5.  6,45.  9,  H-45  p-  M. 

7.45  a.  m,  week  days  does  not  run  to  Mill  Valley. 

DEPART  SUNDAY-7,  |S.  t*9,   t*">,    11,  tn-3°  a. 
m.;  fi2-30.  f*t-30,  2.35,  *3.5°-  5.  6.  7-30,  9.  "-45  P-  M. 

Trains    marked    *     run     to    San    Quentin.      Those 
marked    (f)    to   Fairfax,   except  5.15  p.   M.  Saturday. 
Saturday's  3.15  p.  M.  train  runs  to  Fairfax. 
7.45  a.  M.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.  m.  week  ways  (Saturdays  excepted) — Tomales 

and  way  stations. 
3.15    p.    m.    Saturdays — Cazadero    and    way  stations, 
Sundays,  8  a.  m. — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays,  10  a.  m.— Point  Reyes  and  intermediate. 
Legal  Holidays — Boats  and  trains  on  Sunday  time. 

Ticket  Offices — 626  Market ;  Ferry,  foot  Market. 


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THE  TRIBUNE 

covers  the  field  so  thoroughly  that  it  is 
not  necessary  to  use  any  other  paper. 

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President. 


T.  T.   DARGIE, 

Secretary. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfleld  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 

A  M— f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM-4 
ITED  "  :  Due  Stockton  12  01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfleld  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining-  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 
\  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  rechning- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.     Corresponding  train 

ives  at  11. 10  p  m. 
PM— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10pm.     Corresponding  train  arrives 
11. 10  a  m. 

EXPRESS:  Due 
,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfleld  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  {iourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
%  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


4.00 


«A||F    M-*OVERLAND 
■W     Stockton    11. 15 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  The  Commercial  Outlook — Doubts  About  Prosperity 
— The  Facts  Which  Tend  to  Discourage — The  Bright  Side 
of  the  Picture — Periodic  Financial  Crises — Can  They  Be 
Prevented? — A  Law-Giver  Breaking  the  Law — Federal 
Commissioner  of  Immigration  in  a  Bad  Fix — New  Dis- 
closures in  the  Erwin  Postal  Case — Water  Fight  Threatened 
by  Santa  Clara — The  Outlook  for  Cuban  Reciprocity — The 
Elections  in  the  East — The  Lessons  of  the  Mayoralty 
Contest — The  Record  of  Republican  Failure — The  Revolu- 
tion   in   Panama    280-201 

Communications:     "  How  to  Fix  the  Trust  Promoters  " 291 

The  Higher  Hypnotism:      How    Cristoforo    Won    the    Prize   of 

Death.     By  Charles -Fleming  Embree 292 

The  Casting  Out  of  Love:     A  Plea  for  the  Heart  Interest  in 

Novels.      By    Geraldine    Bonner 293 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent    People  All    Over  the 

World 294 

The  First  Divorce:     From  the  Annals  of  Alta  California.     By 

Katherine    Chandler    294 

Old  Favorites:     "  Concepcion  de  Arguello."     By  Bret  Harte...   294 

The  Brutalities  of  Football:     "  Van  Fletch's  "   Views  on  the 

Subject     295 

Literary  Notes    296-297 

Drama:     The  Perfc-mance  of  "Ben  Hur  "  at  the  Grand  Opera 

House.      By  Josephine    Hart   Phelps 298 

Stage  Gossip   .  . . '. 299 

Vanity  Fair:  The  Increasing  Love  of  Country  Life  Among 
the  Wealthy  —  George  W.  Vanderbilt's  Famous  Place, 
"  Biltmore  " — How  the  Natives  View  Their  Rich  Neighbors 
— Remarkably  Fine  Telephone  System  in  Stockholm — Golfers 
Bad  Husbands  —  The  "Honeymoon"  Transport  —  Race 
Suicide  in  France — The  Demands  of  North-Western  Co-Eds 
— Styles  in  Ties — A  Palo  Alto  Party 300 

Sro<YETrEs:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise— 
t  The  Highland  Waiter  and  Max  O'Rell  —  A  Stammer 
Tributary  to  Wit — Tweed's  Diamonds  and  Suspender  Button 
—When  Hell  Was  Plumb  Full — A  Sauce  Seller  on  a  Pulpit 
Stair — Bishop  Potter  Gives  a  Bogus  Dollar  to  a  Bogus 
Beggar — A  Good  Story  of  the  New  Pope — Are  Bret  Harte's 
Characters  Exaggerated? — He  Said  No — A  Western  Editor 
on  Babies — Hitting  Whistler  With  a  Water  Bottle — A 
Pension    Check    for    Seven    Cents 3ot 

Society:  Movements  and  Whereabouts — Notes  and  Gossip- 
Army    and    Navy    News 302-303 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 304 

Literary  Supplement  305-324 


Will   prosperity   continue?     That   is    a   question    that 

pierces  the  shell  of  indifference  for  all 
The  v 

Commercial  who  wear  it.     It  is  a  question  of  bread 

Outlook.  an(j  butter,  and  questions  of  bread  and 

butter  are  everybody's  questions.     Will  prosperity  con- 
tinue ? 

Perhaps  there  is  no  really  good  reason  why  this 
question  should  be  asked  at  this  time.  But  the  fact  is, 
it  is  being  asked.  More,  it  is  being  answered  by  dif- 
ferent people  in  different  ways.  Some  authorities, 
little  and  large,  say :  "  A  crisis  is  impending,  but  may 
be  averted."  Others  publicly  scout  the  possibility,  but 
secretly  have  doubts.  Others,  still,  will  prove  to  you 
by  figures  that  a  commercial  crisis  can  not  be.  Others 
say  that  conditions  in  the  East  are  dubious,  but  the 
West  stands  on  firm  foundations.  And  so  it  may  be 
interesting,   at   this   time,   to   array   the    facts  pro   and 


contra  as  fairly  and  impartially  as  may  be,  taking  first 
those  of  pessimistic  tone. 

It  is  everywhere  agreed  that  the  panic  in  Wall  Street 
was  local.  It  had  its  origin  in  methods  akin  to  those 
of  "  marked-card "  gamblers,  green-goods  men,  and 
gold-brick  operators  on  the  part  of  a  small  body  of 
"  financiers,"  and  in  a  wild,  foolish  orgie  of  speculation 
on  the  part  of  a  somewhat  larger  number.  Now  the 
day  of  reckoning  has  come.  The  few  have  lost  their 
paper  millions.  So  far  so  good.  But  sound  securities 
have  diminished  in  apparent  value  with  the  unsound. 
This  affects  capitalists,  here  and  there,  all  over  the 
country.  It  makes  them  "  feel  poor."  They  hesitate 
to  put  money  into  any  new  enterprises.  They  feel  like 
"  going  slow  " — there  is  no  doubt  about  that.  The  only 
question  is,  How  catching  is  this  "  go-slow  "  germ  ? 
How  favorable  a  nidus  for  its  growth  does  the  coun- 
try's financial  organ  present?  It  seems,  at  least,  to  have 
gained  a  foothold — if  such  an  expression  may  be  used 
of  so  apodal  an  organism — among  some  railroad  mag- 
nates. "  No  recent  movement  in  corporation  finance 
has  excited  more  combined  interest  and  perplexity  than 
the  sudden  movement  of  the  railways  to  reduce  expendi- 
ture," says  one  financial  journal.  It  was  the  Pennsyl- 
vania that  sounded  the  first  note  of  severe  retrench- 
ment in  '93.  It  is  the  Pennsylvania  that  now  announces 
that  work  involving  ten  million  expenditure  has  been 
deferred.  It  is  not  a  question  of  lack  of  money,  for  that 
railroad  is  not  hampered  in  that  way.  It  is  not  a  ques- 
tion of  decreased  earnings,  for  earnings  have  in- 
creased. The  only  discoverable  reason  is  the  fear  of 
future  falling  off  in  traffic.  The  United  States  Steel 
Corporation's  cut  in  wages  seems  to  be  capable  of 
similar  explanation. 

Other  ill-omened  events  are  the  failure  of  banks  and 
trust  companies  in  Baltimore  and  Pittsburg,  and  a 
singular  run  on  the  trust  companies  of  St.  Louis,  started 
by  a  mere  street  rumor  that  spread  like  wild  fire,  and 
died  out  almost  as  quickly  as  it  began.  Surely  it  betrays 
a  strange  condition  of  doubt  and  suspicion  when  a 
panic  of  depositors  can  be  so  easily  caused. 

This  is  about  all  adverse  that  is  tangible,  though 
distributing  centres  like  Chicago  report  that  the 
"  edge  is  off  "  the  demand  for  manufactured  articles — 
in  some  lines  a  decrease  of  ten  per  cent.,  in  others,  of 
twenty-five. 

On  the  other  side  of  the  question  there  are  many 
encouraging  facts  applying  especially  to  the  West. 
While  Cassett,  of  the  Pennsylvania  railroad  system,  is 
cutting  down  expenditure,  the  Gould  interests  are  pre- 
paring to  spend  between  $40,000,000  and  $50,000,000 
in  the  Mississippi  Valley.  Whatever  may  happen  in  the 
future,  railroad  earnings  are  still  up  to  the  mark.  The 
corn  crop  will  be  near  two  million  bushels.  The  wheat 
crop  is  almost  average.  The  cotton  crop  is  estimated  at 
eleven  million  bales.  Prices  for  the  products  are  good 
Treasurer  Roberts  points  out  that,  by  January  1st,  the 
amount  of  gold  in  the  United  States  will  exceed  that 
in  the  whole  of  Europe,  with  a  population  five  times  as 
large.  Since  1898  the  money  circulation  in  this  coun- 
try has  increased  by  $588,000,000,  or  from  $24.24  to 
$29-75  Per  capita.  Great  Britain's  per  capita  is  $18.29, 
Germany's  $20.48.  We  annually  produce  more  than 
one-fourth  of  the  world's  gold  supply. 

It  is  also  pointed  out  in  many  quarters  that  condi- 
tions on  the  Pacific  Coast  are  somewhat  different  from 
what  they  were  in  '93.  It  is  alleged  that  whether  or  no 
the  Far  East  has  a  period  of  depression  the  Far  West 
is  likely  to  remain  prosperous.  It  is  estimated  that 
$10,000,000  once  paid  to  the  East  for  fuel  is  now  here 
produced  by  oil  wells  and  power  plants.  Mines  which 
were  unproductive  a  decade  ago  now  annually  yield 
$15,000,000.     We  find  markets  for  an  increased  fruit 


production  not  only  in  the  East  but  in  England, 
Australia,  and  other  places.  The  commerce  on  the 
Pacific  has  practically  been  created  since  1893.  And 
added  to  all  this,  the  falling  off  in  trade  reported  from 
the  Middle  West  cities  has  here  no  counterpart.  It  is 
these  facts  that  lead  the  Sacramento  Union  to  say: 
"  We  are  standing  more  than  at  any  former  time  upon 
an  independent,  productive,  and  commercial  footing. 
and  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  events  which  do  not  affect' 
our  independent  and  foreign  connections  can  ever 
seriously  limit  our  activities  or  our  general  prosperity." 
In  like  manner,  the  leading  paper  of  the  Pacific  North- 
West  points  out  that  the  wheat,  fruit,  hop,  livestock, 
and  lumber  industries  are  flourishing.  "  All  the 
securities  which  Oregon,  Washington,  and  Idaho  have 
to  offer,"  it  says,  "  are  easily  '  digestible.'  Steel  stocks 
are  said  to  have  shrunk  $300,000,000,  but  there  has  been 
no  shrinkage  in  livestock.  We  are  long  on  the  latter 
and  short  on  the  former." 

The  bankers,  when  they  were  here,  contributed 
largely  to  the  body  of  encouraging  opinion.  The  presi- 
dent of  the  Illinois  Bankers'  Association  said:  "The 
disturbed  conditions  in  Wall  Street  do  not  indicate  any 
serious  trouble."  The  president  of  a  Chicago  bank 
said :  "  The  so-called  Wall  Street  crisis  is  largely  a 
matter  of  bookkeeping,  and  no  general  business  dis- 
turbance will  follow."  The  comptroller  of  the  currency 
remarked  that  prosperity  "  is  not  going  to  disappear  or 
vanish  in  a  day  because  of  a  slump  in  stocks  or  the 
collapse  of  a  few  underwriting  syndicates."  President 
Hardy  of  the  association  declared  that  "  general  con- 
ditions are  sound." 

In  spite  of  this  gravamen  of  favorable  fact  and 
opinion  we  are  constrained  to  say :  "  But "  All  na- 
ture is  periodic.  Everything  in  nature  is  in  a  condi- 
tion of  flux  and  change,  progression  and  recession,  ebb 
and  flow.  In  organic  evolution,  scientists  tell  us,  short 
periods  of  rapid  change  are  followed  by  long  periods 
of  comparative  quiescence.  The  progress  of  no  world- 
movement  is  in  a  straight  line.  Who  shall  say  what 
is  the  deep  fundamental  cause  why  empires  grow,  ex- 
pand, reach  high  levels  of  civilization,  and  then  de- 
cline? How  strange  that  the  art  of  sculpture  should 
burst  into  perfect  flower  in  ancient  Greece,  then  wither 
and  decay.  How  comes  it  that  English  literature  should 
be  suddenly  illumined  by  such  a  constellation  of  poets 
as  were  Keats  and  Shelley,  and  Byron.  Coleridge,  and 
Wordsworth.  "  All  progress,"  said  Goethe,  "  moves  in 
a  spiral."  And  so  it  is  perhaps  not  unreasonable  to 
wonder,  as  we  look  back  at  the  series  of  panic-periods 
at  intervals  of  ten  years,  whether  their  causes  lie  deeper 
than  we  can  see;  are,  in  fact,  in  the  nature  of  things, 
largely  independent  of  material  conditions.  If  all  bodily 
ills  were  real,  not  imaginary,  there  would  be  a  million 
less  Christian  Scientists.  Perhaps  it  would  be  worth 
the  financial  doctors'  while  not  only  to  test  the 
strength  of  the  commercial  pulse-beat,  but  to  ascertain 
if  the  patient  is  a  victim  of  incurable  periodic  hysteria. 

Not  long  ago,  in  San  Francisco,  three  British  tars — 
a  law-giver  RiIev>  Sheehan,  and  Davis— deserted 
breaking  from  that  stout  lime-juicer,  the  Clock; 

the  law.  thereafter,   while  going  along  the   San 

Francisco  water-front  they  maliciously,  feloniously, 
and  contrary  to  the  peace  and  dignity  of  the  State  01 
California,  did  steal  a  certain  case  or  box  of  apples 
with  which  to  regale  their  inner  man  (or  men).  For 
this,  they  were  arrested  by  the  harbor  police,  and  put 
in  the  municipal  tank.  While  the  sword  of  justice  was 
still  dangling  over  their  heads,  the  stout  lime-juicer 
Clock  sailed  for  home.  Thereupon,  a  certain  North, 
Federal  Commissioner  of  Immigration,  discovered  that 
the  three  British  tars  were  illegally  upon  our 
soil;  that  they  had  no  right  to  disembark  thi 


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November  9,  1903. 


legally  they  did  not  belong;  here;  and  Commissioner 
North  hastened  to  lay  the  facts  before  Federal  Judge 
De  Haven.  The  Federal  judge  was  shocked  by  this 
invasion  of  Federal  territory  and  infraction  of  Federal 
laws;  he  at  once  issued  an  order  to  the  Federal  Immi- 
gration Commissioner.  With  this  order  the  commis- 
sioner hastened  to  the  chief  of  police,  who  held  in 
his  possession  the  bodies  of  the  three  illegal  British 
tars.  When  threatened  with  all  the  terrors  and  pow- 
ers of  the  Federal  Government,  the  alarmed  chief  of 
police  made  haste  to  turn  the  tars  over  to  the  Federal 
commissioner.  The  commissioner  at  once  took  the  der- 
elict tars  out  into  the  stream,  intending  to  place  them 
on  board  the  Inverskip,  another  British  lime-juicer 
belonging  to  the  same  line  as  the  Clock.  But  here  a 
stumbling-block  was  found.  The  Inverskip  skipper  de- 
clared that  the  three  British  tars  were  sons  of  every- 
thing except  their  mothers;  he  talked  freely  of  rope's- 
ends  and  belaying-pins;  he  more  than  hinted  at  Davy 
Jones;  and  he  flatly  defied  the  Federal  Government 
and  denied  its  right  to  put  the  derelict  tars  aboard  his 
ship.  So  the  tars  were  shipped  ashore  again.  Some- 
what puzzled  over  his  predicament,  the  Federal  com- 
missioner attempted  to  return  the  tars  to  the  police 
chief.  But  the  chief,  with  a  grim  smile,  remarked  that 
the  commissioner  could  keep  his  tars — he  would  none 
of  them. 

At  last  accounts  the  Federal  Commissioner  of  Immi- 
gration still  had  in  his  custody — illegally — three  im- 
migrants for  whose  presence  here  he  has  no  warrant. 

It  is  painful  to  see  an  administrator  of  Federal  laws 
thus  deliberately  breaking  them,  and  with  the  derelict 
bodies  in  his  possession  as  evidence  of  his  crime. 


for  Cuban 
Reciprocity 


The   outlook  in   national  politics   is   that  the  long-delayed   so- 
lution  of   the   question   of   Cuban   reciprocity 
'"'    ' '''  I;  will  engage  the  attention  of  the  public  during 

the  month  of  November.  The  subject  is  ex- 
pected to  be  the  single  proposition  to  be  taken 
up  by  the  extraordinary  session  of  Congress  which  the  Presi- 
dent has  called  to  meet  on  the  ninth  of  this  month. 
That  body  is  called  upon  by  the  President's  message  to  give 
its  sanction,  or  refuse  it,  to  the  tariff  concessions  granted  to 
Cuba  by  what  is  known  as  the  Bliss-Zaldo  treaty.  The  pro- 
posed compact  was  laid  before  an  extra  session  of  the  Senate 
last  March  for  its  approval.  It  was  at  that  time  confirmed  by 
the  Senate,  but  was  so  amended  as  to  require  the  concurrent 
approval  of  the  House.  The  latter  body  has  not  since  been 
in  session,  and  the  treaty  has  hung  in  the  air  all  summer. 
What  Congress  will  do  with  it  this  month  is  a  matter  of  much 
speculation,  and  the  result  of  its  deliberations  is  not  con- 
fidently forecasted  by  either  the  friends  or  the  opponents  of 
the  treaty.  Some  features  of  the  question  seem  to  be  clear. 
The  treaty  is  not  entirely  satisfactory  to  Cuba.  It  does  not 
grant  all  the  tariff  concessions  which  that  country  would  like 
to  have,  but  it  does  include  all  that  can  be  at  present  hoped 
for  from  its  more  powerful  neighbor,  and  is  therefore  ac- 
cepted on  the  principle  that  half  a  loaf  is  preferable  to  no 
bread.  The  "  moral  obligation "  which  was  formerly  so 
vehemently  urged  has  practically  disappeared.  Cuba's  dire 
needs  and  our  responsibility  for  their  relief  are  no  longer 
valuable  arguments  for  the  treaty.  Economic  distress  and 
financial  disaster  no  longer  threaten  immediately  to  engulf 
the  island  republic.  Though  still  poor,  the  Cubans  have  a  de- 
cidedly more  hopeful  outlook.  They  have  pulled  themselves 
together,  confronted  their  misfortunes,  and  in  a  large  measure 
conquered  them.  There  remains,  however,  another  obligation, 
definitely  potent  and  moral,  to-wit :  that  the  question  should 
be  determined  pro  or  contra.  That  consummation  is  equally 
desirable  on  both  sides.  If  our  markets  are  to  be  opened 
to  theni  on  more  favorable  terms,  the  Cubans  are  entitled 
to  know  it.  If  not,  they  should  be  promptly  informed  %of  the 
alternative  in  order  that  they  may  adjust  their  affairs  to  that 
condition. 

The  "  moral  obligation  "  having  fallen  flat,  the  main  argu- 
ment of  the  friends  of  the  treaty  is  the  shrinkage  of  our 
trade  with  the  island  which  European  nations  have  eagerly 
seized.  "  Not  long  ago,"  they  say,  "  under  Spanish  rule  eighty 
per  cent,  of  the  imports  into  Cuba  were  shipped  from  the 
United  States,  while  now  we  furnish  only  about  forty  per  cent. 
A  recent  report  of  Consul-General  Steinhart,  saying  that  our 
merchandise  sales  to  Cuba  were  $29,181,700  in  1899,  and 
$26,053,395  in  1902,  is  one  of  the  bases  of  the  argument.  The 
total  purchases  of  Cuba  in  those  years  suffered  a  diminution 
of  $4,500,000,  but  it  is  pointed  out  that  our  percentage  of  those 
purchases  has  fallen  from  forty-four  to  forty-two.  The 
strongest  objection  to  the  treaty  heretofore  has  been  that 
the  most  important  concession  proposed  relates  to  facilitating 
the  entry  of  Cuban  sugar  to  our  markets  through  lower  duties. 
That  involved  the  certainty  that  the  growing  interest  in  beet- 
sugar  production  in  this  country  would  have  to  bear  the  burden 
of  Cuban  reciprocity,  and  the  result  has  been  that  the  beet- 
sugar  States  have  put  up  a  strenuous  fight.  At  present,  beet- 
sugar  people  seem  to  be  resting  on  their  oars.  Michigan  has 
been  the  centre  of  opposition  to  Cuban  reciprocity  to  such  an 
extent  as  to  threaten  a  factional  division  in  Republican  party 
co  mcils.  The  announcement  has  now  been  made  that  the 
Republicans  who  blocked  reciprocity  legislation  in  the  Fifty- 
S':venth  Congress  have  given  up  the  fight,  and  that  Represen- 
'  tive  William  Alden  Smith,  of  Michigan,  a  most  active 
'jader  of  the  opposition,  would  no  longer  oppose  the  treaty 
c  ncessions.     Whether  true  or  not,  it  is  also  said  that  ten  of 


Michigan's  eleven  congressmen  met  at  Grand  Rapids,  the 
other  day,  and,  after  some  discussion,  decided  "  to  postpone 
committing  the  delegation  to  any  position  on  Cuban  reciprocity 
until  the  opening  of  Congress."  This,  in  conjunction  with 
the  fact  that  both  Michigan  senators  voted  to  ratify  the  treaty 
last  March,  indicates  some  weakening  on  the  part  of  beet 
sugar.  Only  one  explanation  of  this  condition  appears..  The 
American  Sugar  Refining  Company — the  Sugar  Trust — has 
been  quietly  buying  up  controlling  interests  in  the  beet- 
sugar  plants,  which  make  it  appear  that  the  tacit  assent  of 
the  beet-sugar  people  to  the  treaty  is  really  the  assent  of  the 
trust.  If  the  treaty  is  ratified,  a  great  quantity  of  Cuban  sugar 
will  come  to  this  market.  The  trust  will  handle  ninety-five 
per  cent,  of  it.  The  trust  will  also  produce  an  enormous 
amount  of  it  in  Cuba,  and  being  the  only  buyer  will  give  the 
outside  Cuban  planter  none  of  the  benefits  of  a  reduction  in 
duty.  The  profits  would  enable  the  trust  to  buy  up  and  shut 
down  the  beet-sugar  factories,  and  so  reduce  prices  as  to  pre- 
vent new  capital  from  engaging  in  the  business. 


Election 
Rrturns  from 
Other  States. 


The  number  of  States  holding  general  elections  in  "  off " 
years  is  not  so  large  as  formerly,  when  such 
elections,  held  in  the  fall  preceding  a  na- 
tional election,  came  to  be  taken  as  a  fore- 
cast of  the  next  Presidential  contest.  This 
year  there  are  only  seven  States  which  have  balloted  on  full 
State  tickets.  Massachusetts  Republicans  have  elected  every- 
thing from  governor  down.  The  party  has  not  lost  the  gover- 
norship in  twelve  years.  As  a  Democratic  candidate  for  the 
office  last  year,  William  A.  Gaston  cut  down  the  big  McKinley 
plurality  by  half.  He  was  again  the  nominee  this  year,  but 
was  beaten  by  John  L.  Bates  by  over  35,000  plurality. 

In  Ohio,  Myron  T.  Herrick,  Republican,  has  been  elected 
governor  over  Tom  L.  Johnson,  Democrat,  by  a  majority  of 
115,000 — a  figure  which  has  only  once  been  exceeded  in  the 
State.  It  seems  that  now  Johnson's  political  measure  has  been 
taken  in  Ohio  finally.  Last  year,  he  was  practically  the 
issue,  and  though  not  a  candidate,  was  running  the  Demo- 
cratic campaign  autocratically.  His  party  was  then  beaten 
by  over  90,000.  This  year,  he  was  the  candidate  for  governor, 
and  has  made  his  usual  whirlwind  campaign,  in  which  he  has 
strained  every  nerve  to  elect  a  legislature  which  would  com- 
pass Senator  Hanna's  defeat  for  senator.  The  result  is  over- 
whelmingly against  him.  Not  only  has  he  been  defeated  as 
stated,  but  the  legislature  elected  shows  a  majority  of  93  on 
joint  ballot  for  Senator  Hanna.  Two  years  ago,  when  Foraker 
was  elected,  the  Republicans  had  35  majority  on  joint  ballot, 
which  was  considered  unprecedented.  The  figures  indicate 
the  magnitude  of  Johnson's  defeat,  which  will  put  him  out 
of  the  Presidential  class,  if  not  out  of  politics.  Had  he  lost 
the  governorship,  but  defeated  Hanna,  he  might  still  have 
been  in  the  ring. 

While,  at  this  writing,  the  returns  are  incomplete,  it  ap- 
pears probable  that  Maryland  has  gone  Democratic,  electing 
Edwin  Warfield  for  governor.  The  issue  there,  under  the 
direction  of  Senator  Gorman,  has  turned  largely  on  race 
questions.  During  the  campaign,  President  Roosevelt  was 
severely  attacked  for  his  acts,  letters,  and  general  attitude  on 
the  color  question.  "  Negro  domination "  has  been  the 
slogan  in  every  part  of  the  State.  The  President  has  also 
been  charged  with  summoning  Maryland  Republicans  to  the 
White  House  to  confer  on  the  election  outlook  in  the  State, 
which  furnished  ground  for  another  issue  of  "  Presidential 
interference  in  State  politics." 

Rhode  Island  has  again  gone  Democratic,  reelecting  Lucius 
Garvin  as  governor,  but  by  a  reduced  majority.  In  Iowa, 
the  Republicans  were  victorious,  and  reelected  Governor 
Albert  B.  Cummins,  and  the  whole  ticket  goes  in  with  him. 
The  Populists  had  a  full  ticket  in  the  field.  Kentucky  and 
Mississippi  have  elected  Democratic  State  tickets  as  might 
have  been  expected.  Among  the  States  where  minor  State 
officers  only  were  balloted  for,  Pennsylvania,  Nebraska,  and 
Colorado   have  all   given  Republican  majorities. 

The  off  year  in  "New  York  was  made  unusually  interesting 
by  the  struggle  in  New  York  City  for  the  mayoralty.  During 
the  campaign,  the  result  has  been  considered  close,  but  the 
returns  show  that  George  B.  McClellan,  the. Tammany  candi- 
date, has  defeated  Seth  Low  by  over  60,000.  The  great  city 
has  chosen  to  go  back  under  Tammany  rule.  Edward  M. 
Grout  and  Charles  V.  Fornes  were  elected  two  years  ago  as 
fusion  candidates  to  the  offices  of  comptroller  and  president 
of  the  board  of  aldermen,  respectively.  This  year  they  were 
both  renominated  by  fusion,  then  indorsed  by  Tammany,  and 
thereupon  stricken  by  the  fusionists  from  their  ticket.  They 
have  been  reelected  by  the  largest  majorities  of  any  candidates. 
The  indications  are  that  most  of  the  voters  in  New  York 
City  have  tired  of  civic  virtue,  and  are  out  for  a  more  open, 
if  not  a  wide  open,  town. 

In  New  York  State  at  large,  the  Republicans  have  succeeded 
in  electing  their  ticket  of  minor  '  offices,  of  which  a  judge 
of  the  court  of  appeals  was  at  the  head.  The  question  of  im- 
proving the  canals  has  been  a  burning  one  there  for  some 
years.  The  legislature  has  voted  $100,000,060  for  the  purpose, 
and  the  question  was  before  the  voters  this  year  in  the  form 
of  a  referendum.  It  was  carried  by  a  majority  of  about 
250,000.  The  project  is  to  widen  and  deepen  the  Erie  and 
other  canals  to  accommodate  larger  barges,  in  order  to  pre- 
vent the  railroads  from  making  exorbitant  rates  for  freight 
transportation.  The  first  issue  of  bonds,  covering  two  years' 
work,  and  running  eighteen  years,  is  to  be  for  $10,000,000. 

The  long-expected  revolution  in  the  State  of  Panama  is  a  re- 
The  ality-     Its  cause  was  the  practical  veto  put  by 

Revolution  the  Colombian  Government  upon  the  construc- 

in  Panama.  tion  of  the  Panama  Canal  by  the  United  States 

or  anybody.  Its  hope  is  to  make  the  canal 
property  legally,  as  it  is  geographically,  the  possession  of 
Panama,  and  then  to  negotiate  a  treaty  with  the  United  States 
and  let  us  go  ahead  and  "  dig  the  ditch,"  thus  bringing  pros- 


perity to  the  Isthmus.  Already  the  new  government  has  asked 
for  recognition  from  the  United  States,  and  though  our  State 
Department  has  declined  to  grant  it,  recognition  is  said  only  to 
await  the  official  advices  from  our  consular  officer  at  Panama 
that  the  Panama  government  is  duly  established. 

The  revolution  lacked  none  of  the  picturesque  features  of 
such  South  American  episodes.  It  was  scheduled  for  2  p.  m., 
Wednesday,  but  the  unexpected  landing  of  five  hundred  Co- 
lombian troops  at  Colon  caused  a  change  of  date  to  5  p.  m., 
Tuesday,  and  later  the  leaders  decided  that  7  p.  m.  would  be  a 
more  convenient  hour.  But  the  rank  and  file  got  tired  of  wait- 
ing, and  revoluted  on  their  own  hook  shortly  after  five  o'clock. 
Thereupon  the  "  leaders  "  fell  in  with  the  idea  and  got  busy. 
General  Tovar — whose  troops  were  at  Colon — and  his  staff 
were  arrested.  The  flag  of  Panama  was  "  given  to  the  breeze." 
Independence  was  proclaimed,  and  the  names  of  the  ministers 
of  the  government,  of  finance,  foreign  relations,  public  instruc- 
tion, justice,  and  war  and  marine  were  announced.  While  the 
ministers  were  conferring  on  high  questions  of  state,  the  com- 
mander of  the  Colombian  warship  Bogota  sent  word  that  he 
would  fire  on  the  city  of  Panama  unless  the  revolutionists  "  re- 
stored the  government."  He  kept  his  word.  The  revolution- 
ists' gunboat  Padilla  and  the  guns  of  the  town  gallantly  re- 
turned the  fire.  It  was  a  fine  battle  and,  fortunately,  nobody 
was  hurt — or  at  least  only  a  Chinaman. 

This  was  on  Tuesday.  On  Wednesday,  Colon  was  still  in 
the  hands  of  the  Colombian  authorities.  Trains  were  run- 
ning between  that  city  and  Panama.  The  United  States 
cruiser  Nashville  had  landed  marines  to  preserve  order,  and 
Commander  Hubbard  had  prohibited  the  transportation  of 
troops  by  railway  in  either  direction.  Dispatches  trom  Wash- 
ington said  that  the  commander  of  our  cruiser  Boston  had 
been  directed  to  prevent  the  Bogota  from  resuming  hostilities; 
and  that  the  Marblehead,  Wyoming,  and  Concord,  then  in 
adjacent  waters,   had  been   ordered   to   Panama. 

The  right  of  the  United  States  to  intervene  in  this  manner 
rests  upon  treaty  provisions,  in  which  this  country  agrees  to 
keep  an  uninterrupted  right  of  way.  The  tone  of  Washington 
dispatches  and  the  facts  themselves  indicate  that  the  Wash- 
ington government  intends  to  take  high  ground  and  construe 
almost  any  hostile  act  as  a  possible  hindrance  of  traffic.  Such 
a  course  is  evidently  of  immense  assistance  to  the  revolution- 
ists. In  fact,  there  is  reason  to  think  that,  though  Secretary 
Hay  knows  his  business  too  well  to  violate  any  international 
laws,  substantial  encouragement  is  being  given  to  the  revolu- 
tion. This  surmise  is  made  almost  a  certainty  by  the  latest 
dispatches  which  announce  that,  through  the  good  offices  of 
Commander  Hubbard,  the  Colombian  troops  at  Colon — 28 
officers  and  435  men — have  been  induced  to  sail  on  the  steamer 
Orinoco  for  Carthagena,  leaving  Colon,  Panama,  and  conse- 
quently practically  the  whole  isthmus,  in  undisputed  possession 
of  the  revolutionists.  Washington  dispatches  tell  of  pro- 
tracted conferences  between  the  President  and'  army,  navy, 
and  Cabinet  officers.  The  Isthmus  is  now  the  focus  of  at- 
tention, and  it  is  likely  to  remain  so  for  some  time  to  come. 

It  is  the  prime  function  of  a  political  party  to  elect  its  candi- 
dates, but  it  has  been   fourteen  years  since 

The  Lesson  of       the   RepuDiican   party   of    San    Francisco   has 

the  Mayoraltv        laced    its    nominee    jn    the    mayor's    chair. 

Election.  *_,,  ,  - 

Ellert,   non-partisan,    served   as   mayor   from 

1891  to   1895;   Sutro,  non-partisan,  from   1895   to   1899;   and 

Phelan,    Democrat,    from    1897    to    1901,    when    Schmitz    was 

elected  on  the  Union  Labor  ticket.     Here  is  an  amazing  record 

of  municipal  unsuccess   on  the  part  of  the   Republican  party, 

It  is  a  timely  moment  to  ask,  To  what  has  it  been  due? 

It  can  not  have  been  due,  in  the  first  place,  to  an  absolute 
lack  of  Republican  votes.  In  1900,  San  Francisco  gave  Mc- 
Kinley a  majority  of  7,214.  In  1896,  she  gave  him  a  small 
plurality.  Even  this  present  year,  13,306  Republican  votes 
were  cast  at  the  primary  election,  against  7,433  Democratic 
and  only  5,066  Union  Labor  votes.  This  showed,  at  least, 
that  the  Republican  electors  were  alive  to  their  civic  duties 
and  ready  to  do  their  part  if  but  given  the  chance. 

If,  therefore,  Republican  failures  can  not  be  attributed  to 
the  inherent  numerical  weakness  of  the  party,  then  their 
cause  necessarily  lies  in  bad  generalship,  or  unwise  nomina- 
tions, or  the  insistence  upon  suicidal  policies  by  those  in 
position  to  bring  pressure  to  bear  upon  committees  or  con- 
ventions.    No  other  sufficient  reasons  can  be  adduced. 

So  far  as  the  failures  of  the  past  are  concerned,  we  shall 
not  discuss  them.  But  perhaps  the  Republican  readers  of  the 
Argonaut  will  tolerate  a  suggestion  or  two  regarding  the 
municipal  election  just  past — not,  indeed,  showing  how  the 
final  result  could  have  been  altered,  but,  in  our  opinion,  show- 
ing how  the  Republican  party  here  might  have  avoided  be- 
coming— as  it  is  not  elsewhere — an  anti-union  party,  arraying 
"  business  men "  against  workingmen,  engendering  bitter 
hatreds,  and  driving  from  the  Republican  ranks  thousands 
of  citizens,  who  happen  not  to  work  with  their  heads  but  with 
their  hands. 

In  its  issue  following  the  primary  on  August  9th,  the  Argo- 
naut advised  the  Republican  party  to  indorse  the  nomination 
of  Mayor  Schmitz.  We  said  that  he  was  a  Republican  in  nW 
tional  politics ;  that  no  nominee  having  only  the  Republican 
vote  could  be  elected  this**  year  in  this  city ;  and 
that,  by  his  indorsement,  the  success  of  most  of  the  minor 
Republican  nominees  would  be  assured.  We  think  all  that  we 
said  then  was  true.  But  the  party  managers  thought  dif- 
ferently. They  secured  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Crocker.  They 
did  more.  There  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  when 
the  name  of  Treasurer  John  E.  McDougald  came  up  in  party 
councils  on  a  question  of  indorsement,  it  was  objected  to  on 
the  ground  that  he  was  a  union  workingman.  Let  us  just 
pause  to  remark  that  McDougald  was  reelected  by  41,625  votes, 
the  highest  on  the  list  1  Let  us  add  to  this  the  further  re- 
mark that  we  know  John  McDougald — that  we  have  known 
him  for  many  years — that  he  is  a  fine  type  ol  the  American 
workingman,  as  good  a  man  as  ever  stoon  in  s  b  oe-leather, 
and  a  good  deal   better   than  some   of   tb  politicians 


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November  9,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


who  "  doubted  the  expediency  of  nominating  a  union  work- 
ingman."  It  is  that  kind  of  counsel  which  wrecked  the  Re- 
publican party  at  this  election.  It  is  also  asserted  that  another 
one  of  the  "  inner  circle "  proclaimed  the  present  a  good 
time  to  make  a  fight  against  organized  labor.  Whether  true 
or  not,  one  of  the  first  acts  of  the  organization  committee 
was  to  force  Ruef  out  of  the  party  because  he  would  not  take 
up  the  cudgels  against  his  friend  Schmitz.  With  Ruef  went 
a  host  of  Republican  workingmen,  and  the  issue  was  joined 
between  class  and  class. 

Scarcely  yet  do  people  realize  the  mischief  that  has  been 
wrought.  The  smoldering  embers  of  the  fires  of  hatred, 
kindled  by  the  great  teamsters'  strike,  have  again  been  fanned 
into  flame.  The  forcing  of  Ruef  from  the  Republican  party 
can  only  make  him  bitter  toward  it,  and  his  influence,  hereto- 
fore conservative,  is  likely  henceforth  to  be  tinged  with 
radicalism.  How  much  better  would  it  have  been  for  the  Re- 
publican party  to  have  indorsed  Mr.  Schmitz,  making  him  thus 
equally  responsible  to  all  classes  of  the  community.  As  it  is, 
he  is  placed  in  the  position  of  being  the  champion  of  one-half 
of  the  body  politic  against  the  other.  Furthermore,  all  the 
union  workingmen  in  the  Republican  party,  and  a  good  many 
others  besides,  have  been  driven  into  the  ranks  of  the  Union 
Labor  party.  They  are  now  talking  of  running  a  State  ticket 
at  the  next  election. 

With  the  kind  of  leadership  in  the  Republican  party  that 
drives  out  voters  and  wrecks  party  prospects,  no  wonder  we 
have  not  elected  a  mayor  in  fourteen  years.  If  that  kind 
of  leadership  continues,  we  shall  not  elect  a  mayor  in   forty. 

Our  readers  well  know  that  the  Argonaut  is  uncompro- 
misingly hostile  to  the  violent  and  lawless  methods  that 
have  been  too  often  employed  by  labor  unions.  But  we  do 
not  for  that  reason  oppose  labor  unions  as  such.  We  think 
it  spells  ruin  for  any  political  party  to  do  so.  Their  right  to 
organize  is  deeply  imbedded  in  the  minds  of  American  work- 
ingmen. 

In  this  election  the  Republican  campaign  leaders  chose 
to  raise  the  issue  of  class  against  class.  It  was  not  the 
other  side  that  did  it.  It  was  not  until  toward  the  end  of  the 
campaign  that  the  Republican  dailies  began  it.  The  moment 
they  did  so,  the  workingmen  took  alarm.  The  ugly  echoes 
of  the  teamsters'  strike  two  years  ago  had  died  away.  There 
was  no  need  to  reawaken  them.  But  it  was  done,  and  when 
it  was  done  the  Republican  ticket  began  to  drop  behind.  Up 
to  that  time  we  think  Henry  Crocker  was  leading.  But*  day  by 
day  Republican  workingmen  deserted  the  party,  as  their  party 
organs  clamored  against  the  "  working  classes,"  and  day  by 
day  Crocker's  chances  declined.  He  made  a  gallant,  a  clean, 
and  a  manly  fight.  But  it  was  a  forlorn  hope.  We  are  sorry 
for  the  party  defeat,  and  we  are  sorry  for  Mr.  Crocker.  Like 
Horace  Davis,  four  years  ago,  another  good  and  loyal  Re- 
publican, Henry  Crocker,  has  been  offered  up  by  the  local  Re- 
publican leaders  as  a  sacrifice  on  the  altar  of  faction  fights. 


The  demands  of  the  three  thousand  carmen  of  this  city  on  the 
United  Railroads  were  for  a  working  day  of 
bTREbT-CAR  Men    njne  kours  an(j  a  raise  in  wages  from  twenty- 
five  cents  per  hour  to  thirty  cents.      The  de- 
Arbitration.  r  .  .     . 

cision  of  the  arbitration  commission,  consist- 
ing of  Patrick  Calhoun  for  the  company,  W.  D.  Mahon  for 
the  men,  and  Oscar  Straus,  rejects  the  first  demand,  and 
grants  an  increase  to  twenty-seven  and  one-half  cents  an  hour 
to  men  that  have  been  in  the  company's  service  more  than  two 
years,  and  an  increase  to  twenty-six  and  one-fourth  cents 
per  hour  to  all  others.  The  wage  scale  in  force  hitherto  is 
higher  than  in  any  large  city  of  the  United  States.  This  was 
not  denied.  But  the  men  asserted  that  the  cost  of  living  is 
higher  here  than  elsewhere,  supporting  the  assertion  by  volu- 
minous testimony,  to  which  the  company  offered  evidence  in 
rebuttal.  The  decision  is  a  compromise.  The  railway's  arbi- 
trator did  not  assent  to  it,  but  the  president  of  the  company 
announces  that  it  will  be  considered  absolutely  binding,  though 
"  the  news  was  disappointing."  Richard  Cornelius,  the  presi- 
dent of  the  carmen's  union,  finds  it  more  than  "  disappointing.'' 
He  is  reported  as  saying  that  Arbitrator  Straus  was  "preju- 
diced against  the  carmen " ;  "  that  arbitration,  so  far  as  the 
workingman  is  concerned,  is  a  failure  "  ;  and  that  the  carmen 
here  will  never  resort  to  arbitration  again.  However,  he  says 
that  they  will  abide  by  the  decision. 

The  hearing  before  Commissioner  Heacock  to  determine 
whether  James  W.  Erwin  should  be  sent  to 
New  Disclosures  Washington  to  be  tried  for  complicity  in  the 
frauds  connected  with  the  adoption  of  the 
device  of  the  Postal  Device  and  Improvement 
Company  by  the  government,  was  reopened  to  take  tKe  testi- 
mony of  D.  S.  Richardson  and  Post-Office  Inspector  Wayland. 
Richardson,  who  was  president  of  the  Postal  Device  Company, 
frankly  told  all  he  knew  about  the  matter.  Four  years  ago. 
the  device  company  sent  Richardson,  as  president,  and  Erwin, 
as  a  stockholder,  to  Washington  to  advance  the  interests 
of  the  company.  The  two  representatives  were  allowed  seven 
hundred  dollars  for  their  expenses  and  one  thousand  shares 
of  the  stock  of  the  company  in  fifty-share  certificates  to  use  in 
"  forwarding  the  interests  of  the  company  in  every  legitimate 
way."  Upon  their  return,  a  report  was  presented,  signed  by 
both  of  them,  accounting  for  the  money  but  silent  as  to  the 
disposal  of  the  stock.  It  was  during  this  visit  to  Washington 
that  Machen  and  Beavers  were  made  stockholders  in  the  com- 
pany. Richardson  testified,  however,  that  Erwin  knew  nothing 
of  the  transfer  of  the  stock  to  Machen  and  Beavers  at  the 
time.  With  the  charge  of  participating  directly  in  the  bribery 
thus  disposed  of,  the  evidence  against  Erwin  narrows  down 
to  the  question  whether  he  dealt  with  Machen  concerning  the 
devices  after  knowing  that  Machen  had  been  bribed.  In  this 
connection,  three  letters  written  by  Erwin  to  Machen  about 
the  business  of  the  device  company  and  the  memorandum 
of  matters  he  was  to  talk  to  Machen  about  while  in  Wash- 
ington, given  by  Richardson  to  Erwin,  are  produced.  One 
of   these   letters   asking   that   the  matters   of   the   company   be 


in  the  Erwin 
Postal.  Case. 


expedited,  Erwin  declared  was  written  by  Richardson  and 
brought  to  him  to  sign.  In  another  letter,  he  asked  that  the 
devices  be  introduced  in  Sacramento,  and  Attorney  Wood- 
worth  attempted  to  wring  from  him  a  confession  that  he  sus- 
pected the  bribery  before  this  letter  was  written.  Erwin, 
however,  testified  that  he  knew  nothing  absolutely  about  the 
bribery  until  Richardson  told  him  of  it  on  July  20,  1903,  and 
that  he  could  not  fix  the  time  when  he  began  to  suspect  that 
there  had  been  bribery.  Erwin  gave  as  a  reason  for  not  telling 
his  suspicions  to  the  inspectors  when  they  were  first  aroused, 
that  the  inspectors  did  not  ask  what  he  suspected,  but  only 
what  he  knew.  Concerning  the  fact  that  the  device  had  been 
adopted  without  bids  being  called  for,  while  the  law  provides 
that  no  patented  device  shall  be  purchased  until  after  bids 
have  been  received,  Erwin  pleaded  ignorance  of  the  law,  and 
it  was  urged  that  there  being  no  other  such  device  bids  would 
be  useless.  To  refute  this,  Inspector  Wayland  testified  that 
there  were  a  number  of  similar  devices,  one,  in  particular, 
being  as  good  as  this,  and  far  cheaper.  Wayland  further  tes- 
tified that,  when  he  investigated  the  case  a  year  ago,  Erwin's 
testimony  was  not  given  freely,  but  had  to  be  extracted  from 
him  by  the  production  of  other  evidence.  Richardson's  evi- 
dence, whatever  effect  it  may  have  upon  the  attempt  to  impli- 
cate Erwin,  certainly  incriminates  himself,  but  it  is  believed 
that  he  has  been  promised  immunity  in  consideration  of  his 
full  confession,  which  weaves  the  net  closely  around  Machen 
and   Beavers. 


The  complete  election  returns  in  this  city  disclose  many  inter- 
esting facts.     The  total  vote,  59,767,  exceeded 
Interesting  ,  £  .,  .   . 

F  .  by  over  6,000   the   total   vote  two  years  ago. 

Figures.  **  was  only  a  *ew  nun<fred  less  than  the  vote 

on  governor  last  fall,  and  was  only  exceeded 
by  about  3,000  in  the  Presidential  contest  of  1900.  Over  5,000 
voters,  who  did  not  vote  for  Schmitz  two  years  ago,  cast  their 
ballots  for  him  this  time.  Lane  actually  got  fewer  votes 
than  Tobin,  despite  the  larger  total  vote.  Crocker  secured  a 
little  less  than  2.000  votes  more  than  Wells.  Lane  carried  only 
one  precinct  in  the  entire  city.  The  number  of  voters  who 
cast  a  straight  Union  Labor  ballot  was  much  smaller  than  the 
number  of  those  who  voted  for  Schmitz.  Twelve  of  the  Union 
Labor  supervisoral  candidates  received  between  14,000  and 
16,000  votes,  which  may  be  taken  as  the  party  strength.  Only 
one  Union  Labor  supervisor  was  elected,  Thomas  F.  Finn. 
Nine  Democratic  supervisors  were  reelected — Booth,  Branden- 
stein,  Braunhart,  Comte,  Conner,  D'Ancona,  Payot,  Lough- 
ery,  McClellan — and  one  Democrat,  E.  R.  Rock,  was  elected. 
The  Republican  supervisors  reelected  were  Algers,  Bent,  Box- 
ton,  Eggers,  and  Rea.  The  last  had  the  Union  Labor  indorse- 
ment, and  got  30,013  votes.  There  are  two  new  Republican 
supervisors.  Sanderson  and  Lundstedt.  Some  of  the  pluralities 
of  other  candidates  were  simply  huge.  Treasurer  McDougald 
(Republican  and  Union  Labor)  leads  with  29,525,  Byington 
was  reelected  district  attorney  with  24,657  votes  to  spare, 
Dodge's  plurality  was  19,425,  Baehr's  11,491,  Smith's  16,049, 
Godchaux's  10,233,  Leland's  9,498,  Hynes's  7,342.  These  were 
all  second-termers.  The  new  names  are  Percy  V.  Long,  Repub- 
lican, city  attorney,  by  22,505  ;  Peter  J.  Curtis,  Democrat  and 
Union  Labor,  sheriff,  by  10,110;  John  J.  Greif,  Republican, 
county  clerk,  by  7.305.  The  number  of  persons  elected  to  mu- 
nicipal office  on  Tuesday  was  thirty.  Of  these  twenty-three  are 
reelected.  The  status  quo  is  preserved  with  the  exception  of 
four  supervisors,  and  three  other  minor  officers. 

The  people  of  Santa  Clara  County  are  up  in  arms.    A  corpora- 
tion  known. as   the    Bay    Cities    Water   Com- 
Water     ight         pany    has    been    formed,    which    proposes    to 
Threatened  bv  ,  .      .        _  IT 

c    .  A  r*  impound    the    waters    of    the    Coyote,    Uvas, 

and  Llagas  watersheds  in  Santa  Clara  County, 
and  furnish  to  the  cities  of  San  Francisco  and  Oakland  one 
hundred  million  gallons  of  water  daily.  To  oppose  this  pro- 
posed .diversion  an  association  has  been  formed,  known  as 
the  Home  Protective  Association,  which  proposes  to  raise  a 
fund  to  pay  the  expenses  of  any  necessary  litigation.  The 
basis  upon  which  the  land-owners  of  the  valley  rest  their  op- 
position is  not  that  the  water  is  to  be  diverted  from  the 
streams,  but  that  it  is  to  be  prevented  from  irrigating  the 
orchards  of  the  valley  through  percolation.  It  was  claimed 
that  the  artesian  belt  of  the  Coyote  is  closely  connected  with 
the  belts  of  the  Los  Gatos,  Alamitos,  Guadalupe,  San  Tomas 
Aquinas.  Campbell,  and  other  creeks  of  the  valley.  This  belt 
furnishes  water  in  any  part  of  the  valley  when  it  is  tapped, 
and  also  furnishes  moisture  for  vegetation.  On  the  Coyote,  a 
gauge  showed  forty  million  gallons  flowing  a  day,  while  not 
one  drop  was  to  be  found  flowing  on  the  surface  a  few  miles 
farther  down  the  channel,  thus  proving  the  extent  to  which 
the  water  is  distributed  by  percolation.  On  the  basis  that  it 
requires  one  cubic  foot  of  water  to  irrigate  each  square  foot  of 
land,  it  is  figured  out  that  the  quantity  of  water  which  it  is 
proposed  to  divert  would  be  sufficient  to  irrigate  one  hundred 
and  forty  square  miles,  or  more  than  one-fourth  of  the  whole 
area  under  cultivation  in  the  county. 

Should  the  question  be  brought  into  the  courts,  some  very 
interesting  legal  questions  will  be  raised.  It  will  be  re- 
membered that,  when  this  city  was  considering  Lake  Tahoe 
as  a  source  of  water  supply,  a  few  years  ago,  the  people  of 
Nevada  entered  a  very  decided  protest.  The  waters  of  Lake 
Tahoe  drain  into  Nevada  through  the  Truckee  River,  and  the 
water  of  this  river  is  largely  used  for  purposes  of  irrigation 
in  Nevada.  In  this  case,  however,  it  was  proposed  to  divert 
the  water  for  San  Francisco  from  the  river  beyond  the 
boundary  line,  and  these  questions  of  jurisdiction  complicated 
the  questions  of  riparian  rights.  The  general  riparian  doctrine 
is  that  owners  of  land  abutting  upon  streams  may  not  divert 
the  water  to. an  extent  that  will  diminish  the  flow  over  lands 
farther  down  the  stream.  In  the  Santa  Clara  case,  however. 
it  is  not  the  flow  of  water  above  the  surface,  but  that  below 
the  surface  that  is  involved,  and  we  are  not  aware  that  the 
relative  rights  in  such  a  case  have  ever  been  determined  by 
an  American  court  of  law.     There  is  a  leading  English  case 


— "  In  re  the  Town  of  Croydon,"  we  believe — which  bears 
upon  the  matter.  There  is  the  general  principal  that  no  person 
shall  use  his  property  in  such  way  as  to  injure  the  property 
of  another,  and  this  proposed  decision  would  injure  the  prop- 
erty of  the  fruit-growers  of  Santa  Clara  Valley.  But,  on  the  other 
hand,  how  are  these  rights  underground  to  be  determined? 
Can  a  man  be  restrained  from  sinking  a  well  on  his  property 
because  he  would  thereby  diminish  the  flow  of  another  man's 
well?  And  how  is  it  to  be  determined,  with  the  certainty 
required  by  law,  whether  the  flow  would  be  diminished?  There 
are  some  hard  questions  here  for  the  lawyers  to  solve. 


Mr.  Hearst  is  conducting  a  more  extensive  Presidential  press- 
bureau  than  any  other  candidate.      It   is   en- 
Hkarst  an  Ac-  .    .  ,  ,      . 

tive  Candidate  8  g  m  manufact"ring  popularity  by  what 
for  PREstDENCV.  seems  an  artificial  process.  Small  papers  are 
being  subsidized  in  many  communities,  and  a 
staff  of  experienced  and  trained  men  are  boosting  his  candi- 
dacy in  every  quarter. 

Much  of  the  work  so  far  has  been  given  to  securing  the  in- 
dorsement of  labor  unions  everywhere.  Political  agents  are  be- 
ing sent  continually  to  members  of  labor  organizations  to  in- 
duce them  to  work  up  an  enthusiasm  for  Mr.  Hearst,  and  ex- 
press the  same  publicly  in  resolutions  adopted  by  the  bodies. 
The  Hearst  boom  is  said  to  have  taken  the  place  of  that  of 
Judge  Parker  in  the  Southern  States,  and  it  is  now  dividing 
the  sentiment  among  Democrats  in  that  section  with  the  ad- 
herents of  Senator  Gorman.  It  now  has  the  support  of  Con- 
gressman Griggs,  of  Georgia,  who  is  chairman  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Congressional  Campaign  Committee.  Another  strong 
card  for  Mr.  Hearst  is  the  National  Association  of  Demo- 
cratic Clubs,  of  which  he  is  president,  but  it  is  not  known 
to  what  extent  that  organization  is  being  used  for  its  executive 
head.  One  of  the  many  circulars  distributed  by  the  Hearst 
press-bureau  contains  the  following  resume  of  Mr.  Hearst's 
claims  on  the  Presidency: 

Politician  enough  to  obtain  the  greatest  popular  indorsement 
at  the  polls  ever  given  any  one  in  New  York  State.  Youna 
enough  to  be  progressive,  yet  old  enough  to  have  exceeded 
Bryan's  age  when  the  latter  was  nominated  in  1896,  and 
Roosevelt's  age  when  Roosevelt  was  nominated  in  1900. 
Philanthropic  enough  to  endow  seats  of  learning,  sell  coal  at 
cost  to  the  freezing  poor,  and  give  away  hot  coffee  and  sand- 
wiches nightly  to  New  York's  homeless  and  starving  thousands 
in  the  winter  time,  etc. 

This  is  an  effective  sort  of  argument  among  certain  classes, 
and  the  leaven  seems  to  be  working.  The  staid  Providence 
Journal,  for  instance,  remarks : 

Especially  in  the  South  has  sentiment  that  does  not  bear  the 
earmarks  of  New  York  manufacture  sprung  up  in  favor  of  him, 
and  day  by  day  we  hear  of  Democrats  and  Popocrats  eminent 
in  their  immediate  localities  who  speak  with  surprising  charity 
of  his  candidacy  for  the  Presidential  nomination. 

Thomas  E.  Watson,  of  Georgia,  helps  the  boom  along  by 
inscribing  his  new  volume,  "  The  Life  and  Times  of  Thomas 
Jefferson,"  to  Mr.  Hearst.     Here  are  the  impassioned  words: 

Because  he  has  dedicated  his  wealth,  talent,  and  energies  to  ■ 
the  improvement  of  the  conditions  under  which  the  masses  of 
our  people  live;  because  he  has  shown  an  earnest,  fearless, 
and  consistent  interest  in  the  cause  of  the  weak  and  oppressed : 
because  he  is  to-day  working  with  splendid  ability  along  the 
same  lines  which  Mr.  Jefferson  marked  out  a  hundred  years 
ago,  I  dedicate  this  book  to  William  Randolph  Hearst. 


How  to  Fix  the  Trust  Promoters. 

San  Francisco,    November   2,    1903. 
Editors  Argonaut  :      The    following   appeared    in    the    San 
Francisco  Chronicle  of  October  30th: 

San  Bernardino,  October  29. — Colonel  J.  J.  Sullivan,  president 
of  the  Cincinnati  clearing-house,  was  interviewed  here  to-day  re- 
garding the  failure  of  the  Shipbuilders'  Trust.  He  declared  that 
the  trust  was  purposely  organized  by  J.  P.  Morgan  and  Charles 
Schwab  to  swindle  the  people,  and  its  success  had  been  complete. 
Speaking  of  the  business  outlook  of  the  country.  Sullivan  viewed  the 
situation  with  alarm,  saying:  "  The  disclosures  brought  about  by 
the  crash  of  the  Shipbuilders'  Trust  make  it  natural  for  the  public 
to  conclude  that  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation  and 
kindred  combines  formed  by  Morgan  are  also  nothing  but  swindling 
schemes,  and  have  no  substantial  basis.  An  uneasiness  has  been 
created  in  financial  circles  which  has  led  to  bank  disasters  in  Balti- 
more and  St.  Louis,  and  I  believe  will  result  in  further  crashes 
in  other  sections,  if  it  does  not  cause  a  repetition  of  another  Black 
Friday.  The  financial  interests  of  the  country  art  r 
together  that  such  disturbances  in  one  part  will  be  communicated 
to  all  parts.     A  crisis  is  impending,  but  may  be  postponed." 

This  must  have  wounded  the  sensibilities  of  that  particular 
class  of  bankers  engaged  in  the  flotation  of  paper  on  the  con- 
fiding public. 

To  think  that  a  brother-banker  should  make  such  a  state- 
ment was  altogether  too  much  to  believe,  and  was  no  doubt 
explained  as  being  probably  a  fake  interview,  a  newspaper 
man's  concoction. 

But  recent  flotations  of  paper  by  this  class  of  bankers, 
who  take  themselves  seriously  and  imagine  themselves  to  be 
immune  from  severe  criticism,  have  made  the  American  public 
ponder,  and  hereafter  it  will  not  be  as  easy  for  thein  to  de- 
ceive the  public  with  their  flotations.  Unfortunately,  the 
banker  to  whom  clients  can  safely  go  for  advice  about  in- 
vestments is  becoming  more  difficult  to  find,  and  is  being 
replaced  by  that  class  of  banker  who  is  ever  on  the  alert 
to  work  off  flotations  he  is  interested  in. 

It  is  about  time  to  pass  laws  to  curb  cupidity  by  compelling 
corporations  to  issue  actually  fully  paid  up  stock,  by  limiting 
the  issuance  of  bonds  to  say  from  fifty  to  sixty  per  cent, 
of  the  actually  fully  paid  up  stock  (a  margin  such  as  a  savings 
bank  requires  on  loans)  by  making  bond  issues  salable  for  not 
less  than  par  (in  California  public  bonds  can  not  be  sold  for 
less  than  par),  and  by  compelling  stockholders  to  hold  stock 
in  their  individual  names. 

This  would  do  away,  for  example,  with  the  present  practice 
of  forming  corporations  with  millions  of  dollars  of  capital 
stock  by  a  coterie  who  put  up  practically  no  money,  issuing 
bonds  to  the  full  extent  of  the  capital  stock,  which  the  board 
of  directors  usually  proceed  to  sell  to  a  "  syndicate  "  at  what- 
ever price  they  see  fit.  the  "  syndicate  "  being  generally  largely 
composed  of  the  directors  under  some  form  or  guise.  The 
"  syndicate "  then  proceeds  to  work  off  the  bonds  on  the 
public  at  a  large  profit,  notwithstanding  the  anomaly  that  a 
profit  to  the  "  syndicate  "  is  usually  a  loss  to  the  stock! 
Leslie's  Weekly  of  October  29th  states:  "One  excellent  re- 
sult of  this  speculative  craze  through  which  we  have  been 
passing  will  probably  be  found  in  a  general  uprising  of  share- 
holders against  promoters  who  have  '  milked  '  them  and  the 
corporations  so  heavily.  If  it  were  possible  to  overthrow 
some  of  the  combinations  thus  illegally  formed,  and  to  despoil 
the  promoters  of  their  booty,  and  even  to  punish  them  by 
fine   or    imprisonment,    as    they    deserve,    soi  II 

would  come  out  of  the  'reign  of  terror'  thr^n. 
Street   is  passing."  Stock- 


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THE    HIGHER    HYPNOTISM. 


How  Cristoforo  Won  the  Prize  of  Death. 

When  they  found  Cristoforo,  a  third  of  the  blade 
was  buried  in  his  breast,  and  the  rest  of  the  machete 
stood  straight  up.  Though  Maria  lay  on  the  pavement 
of  the  court  before  the  churcli  not  far  away,  all  her 
muscles  were  paralyzed,  remained  so  for  months ;  and 
even  after  she  recovered,  it  was  proved  that  she  could 
not  have  had  the  strength  to  drive  that  machete  so 
deep. 

Yet  it  is  now  clear  from  Cristoforo's  papers  that  at 
the  time  he  returned  from  abroad,  his  calm  exterior 
hid  a  terrible  thirst  for  revenge  because  she  would 
not  wed  him;  and  that,  even  while  he  mingled  in  so- 
ciety, life  was  but  bones  to  him;  and  he  had  sworn  the 
destruction  of  them  both. 

In  San  Angel,  an  hour  from  the  City  of  Mexico  by 
electric  cars,  is  a  cosmopolitan  circle.  Editors,  travel- 
ers, Basque  musicians,  poets,  astronomers,  a  world  of 
eccentric  genius;  no  American  thimble-parties  to  dawdle 
over;  no  English  teas.  Bohemianism  lifted  into  phil- 
osophy, science  and  its  occult  shadow  rushing  from 
brain  to  brain — such  is  their  unusual  life.  It  is  an 
upper,   rarefied  stratum  of  the  Mexican  society. 

Don  Cristoforo,  back  from  a  year  in  Paris  and 
Vienna,  sat  next  to  Flora  at  one  of  her  eleven-o'clock 
suppers.  Opposite  was  Maria  (whom  all  the  world 
knew  he  had  tried  so  hard  to  marry)  as  placid,  as 
glorious  in  Andalusian  beauty,  as  ever,  and  just  as  able 
to  look  him  straight  in  the  eye.  Because  it  used  to  be 
hinted  that  Cristoforo  had  even  tried  hypnotism  in  his 
desperation  to  win  Maria,  Flora,  the  malicious  (who 
would  have  given  her  head  to  marry  the  Machiavellian 
fellow  herself),  would  keep  the  conversation  on  that 
science;  which  nettled  Cristoforo. 

"  The  old  stupid  sort  of  hypnotism — controlling  one 
mind  by  another — is  a  back  number,"  said  Cristoforo, 
stroking  his  lean,  sallow  face  after  a  custom  of  his, 
and  looking  solemnly  cunning.  "  It  is  as  bungling  as 
telegraphy  with  wires." 

There  was  a  general  outburst;  ladies  forgot  their 
dessert;  musicians  ceased  sipping  black  coffee.  Flora 
cried  out:  "What !  He  has  brought  home  to  us  some  new 
European  mystery.  Explain.  Is  the  new  hypnotism 
to  be  more — ah — more  effective  than  the  old?" 

Some  of  the  company  politely  chortled  in  their 
throats.  That  was  a  direct  stab  at  his  failure  to  win 
Maria.  Cristoforo  turned  his  cold  eye  from  Flora  to 
Maria  (who  answered  it  with  wide  glowing  orb  of 
self-possession)  and  back  again.  Then,  piqued,  daring, 
he  replied :    "  It  is." 

"  Oh,  tell  us !"  cried  a  dozen  men  and  women,  lean- 
ing eagerly  over  the  board. 

Cristoforo  cleared  his  throat  and  toyed  with  his 
coffee  cup.  "  The  higher  hypnotism  has  arrived,"  said 
he,  slowly.  "  As  in  telegraphy,  we  are  now  on  the 
point  of  doing  away  with  cumbersome  wires,  and  send 
the  spark  of  intelligence  leaping  the  sea  by  Marconi's 
system,  so  in  hypnotism.  The  old  way  is  stupid,  my 
mind  acting  on  yours,  leaving  yours  to  move  your 
muscles.  But  as  psychology,  electricity,  and  chemistry 
are  now  approaching  one  another,  and  the  greatest 
minds  begin  to  see  that  life  is  electricity,  that  chemical 
action  and  brain  power  are  electricity,  so  hypnotists 
begin  to  comprehend  that  the  mind  of  one  person  may 
act  directly  on  the  muscles  of  another — that  is,  upon 
the  nerves  that  move  those  muscles — with  no  clumsy 
substituting  of  the  second  mind.  The  spark  of  my 
brain's  power  might  leap  the  gulf  between  me  and 
your  hand,  and  move  that  hand.  Your  mind  would 
play  no  part  in  that.  In  a  few  years  the  hypnotist 
will  no  more  act  upon  the  subject's  brain,  clumsily 
suggesting  that  it  move  the  muscle.  No.  The  hypno- 
tist's own  brain  will  move  it !" 

The  company  gazed  on  Don  Cristoforo's  sharp, 
leathery  countenance.  Flora  sneered.  Maria's  full  red 
lips  smiled  idly,  but  her  eyes  were  winking  in  curious 
fashion. 

"What!"  cried  Flora,  sarcastic,  "will  you  be  able 
to  move  the  other  person's  tongue,  too  ?" 

"I?"  asked  Cristoforo,  cold  and  surprised.  "Not  I. 
The  hypnotists." 

He  had  a  queer,  strained  look,  as  though  all  his 
muscles  were  powerfully  contracted.  His  brow  was 
moist  as  with  great  effort.  His  eyes  wide,  lids  motion- 
less, stared  at  the  coffee  cup.  Across  the  table  the 
lids  of  Maria's  black  Andalusian  orbs  were  batting  with 
unwonted  rapidity.  She  put  up  her  hand  and  rubbed 
them,  surprised  at  their  nervous  tricks.  A  long  sigh 
as  of  immense  effort  suspended,  escaped  Cristoforo; 
his  own  lids  shut  and  opened;  he  let  down  from  his 
tenseness,  and  turned  with  polished,  clever  ease  to 
Flora. 

"  As  for  tongues,"  he  said,  "  some  day  when  you  are 
inclined  to  be  cutting,  I  may,  at  a  distance,  hold 
yours." 

The  company  applauded  that  breezily.  Flora  was 
one  of  those  women  who  think  they  may  finally  win 
an  old  bachelor  after  all,  if  they  keep  jabbing  at  him 
long  enough.  An  editor,  an  astronomer,  and  a  dil- 
klante  in  art  took  up  the  subject.  The  conversation 
became  rare,  imaginative,  racy. 

Maria  was  always  wearied  by  Don  Cristoforo.     She 

was.!- dined  to  yawn.     She  thanked  her  stars  that  she 

'  not  been  fool  enough  to  marry  so  repulsive  a  man, 

a    looking  at  a  diamond  that  flashed  on  her  right 


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middle  finger.  As  she  did  so,  the  finger  twitched.  It 
seemed  that  she  was  extraordinarily  nervous.  Then 
unawares  the  finger  lifted  itself,  made  a  tiny  circuit, 
and  fell  back.  She  shivered,  sweeping  the  company 
with  furtive  glance.  All  were  absorbed  in  the  higher 
hypnotism — save  Cristoforo,  on  whose  forehead  she 
saw  the  gleaming  beads  of  sweat.  Again  she  heard 
that  long  sigh  of  effort  suddenly  suspended. 

"Do  we  intend  to  linger  with  Flora  all  night?"  said 
he,  with  easy  camaraderie;  and  the  company  arose. 
Maria  was  dumb,  as  she  retired  with  her  uncle,  the 
astronomer,  to  that  old  walled  domain  of  theirs,  just 
beyond  the  great  trees  of  the  Plaza  de  San  Jacinto. 

Cristoforo  kept  bachelor  rooms  in  the  house  of  a 
French  acquaintance,  who  was  rapidly  ruining  him- 
self at  Monte  Carlo.  The  building  was  opposite  a 
quaint  church,  with  a  paved  court,  surrounded  by  a  wall. 
In  his  bedroom,  Cristoforo  looked  at  his  eyes  in  a 
mirror. 

"  They  smart;  they  are  inflamed,"  he  said. 

Then  he  wrote  in  a  journal : 

February  3D — Succeeded  in  controlling  eyelids.  Find  that 
it  reacts  on  my  own.  My  eyes  smart  as  though  they  had 
been  held  open  too  long.  Succeeded  in  controlling  finger. 
Find  that  my  own  is  a  little  stiff  so  that  I  write  with  difficulty. 

There  are  no  others  of  God's  creatures  so  calm  as 
certain  Mexican-Andalusian  women  like  Maria.  But 
as  the  days  went  on,  she  grew  nervous,  suffered  from 
insomnia,  lost  color  and  flesh;  and  among  her  friends 
it  was  whispered  that  she  had  grown  eccentric. 

On  a  Sunday,  Maria  and  Flora  went  to  mass  to- 
gether. As  they  entered  the  little  paved  court  of  the 
church  they  passed  Cristoforo  going  in,  too,  dressed  as 
for  a  promenade  on  the  Parisian  boulevards.  Maria, 
haughty  and  splendid  being,  did  not  even  look  at  him, 
but  Flora  made  one  of  her  polite  jabs  at  his  expense. 
The  women  knelt  bareheaded  on  the  stone  floor  of  the 
church,  he  seating  himself  on  a  bench  behind  them. 
The  devil  was  in  him. 

Of  a  sudden  the  shapely  right  arm  of  Maria  raised, 
made  a  circle  through  the  air,  and  landed  a  blow  on  the 
head  of  Flora.  An  instant's  profound  amazement,  then 
Maria  toppled  over  in  a  faint  A  hubbub  arose ;  Flora, 
at  first  angry,  then  excusing  the  act  as  a  nervous  acci- 
dent, got  her  now  reviving  companion  home. 

Immediately  upon  the  fainting  of  Maria,  Cristoforo 
had  been  seen  walking  briskly  out  of  the  church.  In 
haste  he  had  retired  to  his  "rooms,  where  he  arrived 
in  an  exhausted  condition,  heart  failing  him,  cold  sweat 
dripping  from  his  brow,  yet  with  a  demoniac  exultation 
expressed  by  every  line  of  that  cunning,  leathery  face. 
His  right  arm  hung  stiff  at  his  side.  Having  lain  down 
for  an  hour  till  his  exhaustion  was  relieved,  he  wrote 
in  his  book: 

February  24TH — Progress  is  on  the  whole  rapid.  Succeeded 
in  controlling  whole  arm.  But  the  reaction  on  self  becomes 
more  and  more  plain.  Using  the  power  on  her  seems  to  im- 
pair the  use  of  it  on  me.  My  right  arm  was  helpless  for  an 
hour,  and  is  now  so  numb  I  write  with  difficulty. 

When  he  had  written  that,  he  sat  for  a  long  time  with 
his  head  in  his  hands.  His  arm  felt  paralyzed.  So  ter- 
rible were  the  possibilities  into  which  his  thoughts  ran; 
so  dreadful  the  results  that  might  ensue,  did  he  suc- 
ceed to  the  utmost  in  his  diabolical  plan  of  revenge, 
that  at  length  when  he  arose  he  looked  like  a  physical 
wreck. 

"  I  will  not  give  it  up  if  it  kills  me,"  he  said.  "  She 
has  ruined  me  as  it  is;  I  shall  conquer  her  and  die  for 
it  if  I  must." 

Two  weeks  went  by;  it  was  whispered  about  that 
Maria  was  certainly  crazy,  so  queerly  she  acted;  also 
that  Don  Cristoforo,  her  old  lover,  was  losing  his  health 
alarmingly;  he  suffered  from  an  intermittent  paralysis. 
Ah — how  powerful  his  love  for  her  had  been,  that  these 
mental  eccentricities  of  hers  so  affected  him.  No 
wonder  that  Cristoforo  looked  like  a  wreck,  when  he 
loved  Maria  so  that  all  Europe  could  not  keep  him 
away  from  her;  when  she  still  drove  him  to  despair 
with  scorn;  and  when,  to  cap  the  climax,  before  his 
very  eyes  was  the  magnificent  beloved  losing  her  mind. 

Even  yet,  however,  both  occasionally  appeared  at 
little  social  functions  of  the  distinguished  circle  in 
which  they  had  been  wont  to  move. 

Again  into  Flora's  dining-room  (hung  with  tapestries 
of  the  Empire,  by  the  way)  the  same  guests  appeared 
on  a  night  in  March.  Through  the  doors  they  trooped, 
gayly  chaffing  Cristoforo  about  some  occultism  or 
other.  Maria  was  before  him;  he,  like  a  skull,  a  smile 
dried  on  his  lips,  walked  after.  It  was  then  that  there 
occurred  a  thing  so  unaccountable  and  distressing  that 
the  company  halted  where  they  were,  as  though  at- 
tacked with  some  sickness.  Maria  had  just  uttered  a 
particularly  scornful  sentiment  derogatory  of  his  po- 
sition in  some  psychological  matter.  Then  it  was  that 
her  long  antagonism  so  maddened  him  that  the  whole 
of  his  queer  power  leaped  up  to  humble  her.  He 
stopped.  His  muscles  seemed  drawn  into  knots.  His 
eyes  were  on  the  floor;  his  face  became  ghastly;  and 
the  force  began  to  act. 

She  suddenly  ran  before  the  guests  and,  wheeling  so 
that  she  faced  them,  deliberately  sat  herself  down  upon 
the  table  and  swung  her  feet  like  a  school-girl  sitting 
on  a  fence.  But  the  puerility  and  misplaced  frolic 
of  that  act  were  offset,  rendered  sickening,  by  the  agony 
of  struggle  depicted  upon  her  countenance.  Her  free 
mind  protested,  fought  for  her  body's  liberty,  and  as 
she  sat  she  shrieked,  and  fell  senseless  across  clattering 
dishes. 

They  carried  her  out ;  but  here  was  Cristoforo  fallen 
to  the  floor. 


November  9,  1903. 


"  Help  me  up,"  he  said,  hoarsely.  "  I've  lost  the  use 
of  my  limbs  somehow." 

He,  too,  was  borne  home.  There  was  no  supper  at 
Flora's  that  night,  but  the  guests  remained  there  an- 
other hour  to  hear  news  of  the  two  stricken  ones. 

"  Plainly  insane,"  whispered  they.  "  Terrible !  Ter- 
rible !  And  poor  old  Don  Cristoforo,  how  incredibly 
her  misfortune  affects  him  !" 

Grim,  Cristoforo  lay  gritting  his  teeth  in  his  bed. 
He  had  a  nurse  sent  to  care  for  him.  His  legs  were 
completely  paralyzed,  and  many  of  the  muscles  of  his 
trunk  were  temporarily  useless. 

In  a  few  days,  he  had  himself  wheeled  out  in  an  in- 
valid chair.  Sometimes  he  could  hobble  a  few  steps 
himself.  He  met  all  his  old  associates  in  the  Plaza 
de  San  Jacinto,  and  sat  there  on  a  bench  chaffing  with 
them,  scoffing  at  their  sympathy.  Always  his  eyes 
looked  hither  and  thither,  searching  for  Maria. 

One  day  she,  ghost  of  herself,  came  walking  near, 
unconscious  of  him.  Cristoforo  lay  in  his  invalid  chair 
under  the  big  trees  chatting  with  a  Basque  musician. 
The  musician  saw  his  muscles  stiffen,  saw  the  sweat 
upon  his  brow,  saw  the  glare  in  his  eyes.  Then  he  per- 
ceived that  Maria,  walking  yonder,  acted  strangely.  She 
raised  her  arms,  and  went  crying  out  in  a  loud  and 
solemn  tone :  "I  have  loved  Don  Cristoforo  all  my 
life!" 

This  she  cried  three  times,  her  face  drawn  into  an 
expression  of  horror;  the  while  she  walked  before 
the  public  of  San  Angel.  Staggering  like  a  drunken 
woman,  she  disappeared  into  her  uncle's  house.  And 
Cristoforo  lay  dumb. 

They  wheeled  him  home,  and  his  friends,  coming 
there,  shook  their  heads  over  him,  and  whispered  of 
the  latest  freak  of  the  mad  Maria.  Could  it  be  ?  Had 
she  really  loved  him  all  this  time  ?  What  was  the  awful 
thing,  then,  that  had  held  them  apart — that  was  slay- 
ing them  ? 

Cristoforo  slowly  grew  a  little  better.  He  could 
speak  thickly;  he  could  move  his  legs  and  arms  a  little. 
But  his  will  would  not  give  up  yet ;  the  last  ignominy 
was  still  to  be  heaped  upon  her.  See  how  surely  he 
recovered — though  slowly — after  every  fresh  blow. 

One  'week  later  they  wheeled  him  into  the  plaza.  It 
was  noised  about  as  a  sort  of  gala  occasion  for  Don 
Cristoforo,  that  being  his  saint's  day,  whereon  he  was 
going  to  celebrate  the  fact  that  the  paralysis  was  leav- 
ing him.  A  dozen  of  his  friends  came  through  the 
plaza  to  cheer  the  bachelor  up,  and  the  astronomer,  too, 
walked  yonder  with  his  niece,  Maria,  approaching. 
Here  was  Flora,  still  bantering  Don  Cristoforo,  and 
here  came  the  editor,  the  musicians,  the  dilletantes  in 
art.     The  supreme  moment  was  at  liana. 

It  seemed  that  Don  Cristoforo  was  all  at  once  thrown 
into  a  cataleptic  fit.  Staring  at  him,  the  company  was 
alarmed  by  the  terrible  look  on  his  face,  the  sweat 
there,  the  knotted  muscles,  the  diabolical  smile.  He 
lay  stretched  out  in  his  invalid  chair,  still,  cold,  staring 
up  at  the  trees  of  the  beautiful  Plaza  de  San  Jacinto. 

Maria  yonder  disengaged  her  arm  from  that  of  her 
uncle,  and  approached.  Her  face  wore  its  look  of 
horror.  Solemnly  she  came  forward  among  the  sym- 
pathetic company  of  her  friends,  and,  pausing  before 
Cristoforo,  bent  down  and  kissed  him  on  the  lips. 
"  I  love  you,"  she  said.  "  I  want  to  marry  you." 
The  mad  act  stupefied  them.  Don  Cristoforo,  with  a 
last  effort  that  seemed  to  crack  his  bones,  and  was  the 
fierce  fight  with  the  paralysis  that  then  accomplished  his 
doom,  cried  out  in  exultation,  guttural  and  thick : 
"  Woman,  what  do  I  want  with  you  ?" 

As  usual,  she  became  helpless;  and  they  carried  her 
home.  Cristoforo  was  also  taken  to  his  house,  being 
now  dumb  and  motionless.  Hardly  any  of  his  muscles 
could  he  move;  but  after  a  day  he  was  able  to 
whisper  a  little  again  and  make  his  wants  known. 

Now,  her  humiliation  fully  accomplished,  he,  with  no 
real  desire  for  life,  nevertheless  bent  his  mind  toward 
health.  He  watched  his  muscles  for  a  week;  they  im- 
proved no  more.  A  month.  They  improved  not.  His 
mind  staggered;  his  doom  was  surely  at  hand.  He  had 
gone  too  far.     Calmly,  he  decided  to  slay  himself. 

But  how  accomplish  that  self-destruction  now  at 
last  so  passionately  desired?  He  had  some  little  use 
of  his  own  limbs  to  be  sure;  but  no  power  to  strike  a 
blow,  no  means  of  obtaining  poison.  Throughout  the 
unspeakable  hours  of  a  dozen  lonely  nights  he  lay 
planning.  And  the  new  science,  the  accursed  secret, 
should  die  with  him — but  how?  Ah — illuminating 
thought  at  last.  True  that  he  had  no  control  over  his 
own  muscles;  he  had  transferred  that  control  to  hers. 
Hers  would  still,  perhaps,  obey  him. 

"Juan,"  muttered  he  to  the  servant,  "come;  put  me 
in  the  chair;  wheel  me  out  to  the  church-y^d.  I  want 
to  bask  in  the  sun  of  that  still  spot." 

The  summer  day  was  beautiful-and  warm.  The  paved 
court  of  the  church  was  very  lonely  when  they  came 
through  the  big  wooden  doors  and  rested  therein. 

"  Leave  me,  Juan,  and  go  buy  me  some  oranges," 
muttered  Cristoforo,  stretching  out  stiff  in  his  chair 
and  turning  his  eyes  to  the  sky.  "  I  want  to  swallow 
a  little  of  the  juice.  You  can  squeeze  it  into  my  mouth 
for  me,  Juan." 

Juan's  white  clothes,  Juan's  sandals,  Juan's  black 
hair,  disappeared. 

The  church  doors  yonder  were  closed;  the  shadows 
of  trees  lay  on   these  paving  stones;   and  here  in   a 
secluded  and  lonely  corner  lay  Don  Cristoforo  stret'- 
out  stiff,  like  a  mummy. 

For  the  last  time  the  muscles  on  his  fac  J 


November  9,  1903. 


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knotted,  and  the  cold  sweat  stood  out  in  beads.     For 
ten  long  minutes  thus  he  lay. 

In  the  astronomer's  house,  beyond  the  beautiful 
Plaza  de  San  Jacinto,  Maria,  who  had  seemed  better 
of  late,  arose  from  her  chair.  Her  face,  wore  its  look 
of  horror  again;  its  evidences  of  fight  between  the  free 
mind  and  the  enslaved,  controlling  muscles.  On  the 
wall  hung  swords,  daggers,  machetes — a  style  of  orna- 
ment affected  by  her  uncle  and  familiar  to  her  friends. 
One  of  the  machetes  she  took,  huge,  heavy,  blunt  thing, 
and  withal  murderous. 

Out  of  the  house,  under  the  trees,  Maria  walked 
steadily;  the  whole  width  of  the  plaza,  and  on  into  a 
narrow  street.  Here  was  the  high  wooden  door,  giving 
entrance  through  the  wall  into  the  court  of  the  church. 
Maria  walked  through.  All  was  still,  warm,  the  air 
dreamy  with  summer;  yonder  lay  Don  Cristoforo,  the 
sweat  glistening  on  his  forehead,  his  body  stretched  out. 
Maria  came  to  him,  and  both  hands,  holding  the, 
machete,  were  raised.  She  tried  to  shriek;  a  convulsion 
shook  her  body ;  her  whole  soul  strove  against  the 
crime.  But  he,  too,  strove.  His  eyes  were  shut;  his 
face  was  drawn  and  quivering;  his  nerves  were  like 
wires  that  break.  For  one  instant  their  minds  fought ; 
conflict  terrific.  But  the  spark  of  command  leaped  the 
gulf;  he  operated  the  muscles  of  her  arms.  She  raised 
them  high.      She  struck. 

Charles  Fleming  Embree. 

San  Francisco,  November,  1903. 


THE    CASTING    OUT    OF    LOVE. 

A  Plea  for  the  Heart  Interest  in  Novels. 

The  other  day,  looking  over  a  list  of  popular  novels, 
I  was  struck  by  the  fact  that  several  of  them  were  tales 
that  concerned  themselves  but  little  about  what  pub- 
lishers call  the  "love  interest."  Other  factors  and 
emotions  in  the  great  game  of  life  were  introduced  as 
leading  preoccupations  and  motives.  One  of  the  books 
— Jack  London's  "  Call  of  the  Wild  " — entirely  ignored 
all  suggestion  of  amatory  sentiment.  There  was  but 
one  woman  in  the  story,  and  she  passed  through  it  as  a 
peevish,  futile  shadow. 

Others  of  them  had  "  love  interests  "  that  were  sec- 
ondary to  the  aim  and  matter  of  the  plot.  The  book 
concerned  itself  with  an  outside  problem  like  "  The 
Leopard's  Spots,"  the  raison  d'etre  of  which  is  a  lurid 
presentation  of  the  race  problem  in  the  South.  There 
is  love  and  a  woman  in  the  story,  but  both  are  obviously 
"  mgged  ln  "  as  a  concession  to  popular  taste,  and  have 
little  weight  and  no  influence  in  the  real  attracting 
power  of  the  book.  Even  "  The  Pit,"  by  Frank  Norris, 
while  it  had  a  sentimental  complication  and  two  women, 
each  with  a  separate  love  imbroglio  of  her  own,  gained 
all  its  force  and  interest  from  the  financial  situation 
that  was  its  pivot,  and  the  large  and  masterful  manner 
in  which  that  situation  was  presented. 

It  will  be  interesting  to  watch  this  tendency  and  see 
if  it  is  to  make  a  lasting  impression  on  our  romantic 
literature.  Every  year  the  field  of  fiction  grows  wider. 
History  has  always  encroached  on  it.  The  reformer  has 
entered  it  as  the  best  vantage  point  from  which  to  ex- 
ploit his  ideas.  Men  of  science  have  condescended 
to  employ  it  to  put  forth  their  opinions.  Any  one  with 
a  message  to  deliver  takes  the  novel  as  the  best  ve- 
hicle of  delivery.  The  romanticist,  pure  and  simple, 
whose  mission  was  to  delight,  entertain,  and  amuse, 
has  been  joined  by  a  great  throng,  who  are  eager  to 
instruct,  guide,  and  enlighten.  The  socialist,  the 
anarchist,  the  doctor,  the  astronomer,  the  politician,  the 
prima  donna,  the  clergyman,  when  they  happen  to  have 
anything  new  to  say,  say  it  in  a  novel. 

With  this  multitude  of  other  objects  and  interests 
crowding  in,  love  gets  rather  squeezed  out.  The  doctor 
who  wants  to  demonstrate  his  theory  that  all  mental 
force  is  abnormal  and  the  result  of  disease,  does  not 
care  to  hamper  the  flow  of  his  ideas  with  an  ordinary 
love-story.  The  politician,  who  intends  to  expose  the 
fraudulent  methods  of  the  ninth  ward,  finds  that  the 
"  heart  interest  "  gets  decidedly  in  his  way.  The  so- 
cialist, who  is  going  to  prove  to  his  own  and  every  one 
else's  satisfaction  that  the  only  true  civilization  is  for 
the  world  to  unite  in  brotherly  love  and  share  the  ill- 
gotten  gains  of  the  millionaires,  does  not  want  to  di- 
minish the  force  of  his  arguments  by  dragging  in  such 
extraneous  matter  as  the  love  of  man  and  maid.  Even 
the  clergyman,  who  is  trying  to  show  to  an  ignorant 
world  that  the  Scriptures  are  inspired,  and  that  David 
was  behaving  as  the  Lord's  favorite  should  when  he 
stole  the  wife  of  Uriah,  finds  it  hard  to  drag  in  a 
love-story  that  won't  look  pale  and  tame  beside  the 
Biblical  one. 

It  is  from  among  this  class  of  writers  that  we  hear 
a  plaint  rising  against  the  "  tyranny  of  the  heart  in- 
terest." We  are  told  that  modern  life  is  offering  so 
many  other  occupations  and  activities  that  love  is  ceas- 
ing to  hold  the  prominent  place  it  has  occupied  for 
centuries.  The  romance  of  business  is  coming  to  the 
fore.  The  tragedies  of  financial  distresses  are  taking 
the  place  of  the  tragedies  of  passion.  If  Shakespeare 
had  written  "  Romeo  and  Juliet "  in  New  York  in  1903 
instead  of  in  London  some  time  in  the  end  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  he  would  have  made  old  Capulet  a 
Captain  of  Industry,  while  old  Montague  would  have 
been  a  small  financier  he  was  wiping  out,  and  to  this 
great  drama  the  little  drama  of  the  loves  of  their  chil- 
dren would  have  been  a  pale  pendant. 

This  is  what  the  male  writers  and  the  male  readers 


tell  us.  With  women,  both  as  readers  and  writers,  love 
is  still  the  preoccupying  emotion  of  the  novel.  As  far 
as  I  know,  no  woman  ever  wrote  a  great  romance  that 
did  not  concern  itself  principally  with  the  "  heart  in- 
terest," except  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe.  And  "  Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin  "  was  written,  not  as  a  work  of  fiction, 
but  as  a  sort  of  evangel  of  freedom ;  in  the  same  spirit 
in  which  Julia  Ward  Howe  wrote  "  The  Battle  Hymn 
of  the  Republic."  Both  women  were  lifted  out  of  them- 
selves by  the  fever  of  the  times.  Neither  gave  forth 
a  typical  expression  of  her  temperament  or  her  sex.  In 
a  white  flame  of  excitement  each  produced  a  work  that 
was  beyond  her  powers.  Neither  ever  again  touched 
the  same  high-water  mark  of  achievement. 

What  a  woman  wants  to  read  of  in  a  novel  is  love, 
and  where  one  man  reads  a  novel  ten  women  do.  The 
woman's  life  is  arranged  on  a  basis  of  sentiment,  and 
love  is  the  core  of  it.  Money  making,  the  excitement 
of  business,  the  thrill  and  struggle  of  work,  are  noth- 
ing to  her  when  pitted  against  that  great  passion  by 
which  she  lives  and  fulfills  her  destiny.  She  may  be  a 
money-maker  herself.  She  may  have  an  office  down 
town  and  wear  a  tailor  suit  and  men's  shoes,  and  drive 
hard  bargains,  and  be  "  a  sharp  customer  to  get  ahead 
of,"  but  when  she  turns  to  literature  for  relaxation  you 
will  notice  that  she  will  not  read  Kipling's  "  Day's 
Work  "  or  Stevenson's  "  Kidnapped."  What  she  will 
take  up  will  be  "  Tess  of  the  D'Urbervilles,"  or  "The 
Little  Minister,"  or  "  Eleanor,"  or,  perhaps,  even 
"  Moths,"  or  "  In  Maremma." 

The  novelists  who  neglect  love  are  in  turn  neglected 
by  women.  How  many  of  us  know  a  woman  who  really 
loves  Stevenson  ?  I  have  heard  innumerable  men — men 
who  read  little,  men  who  find  their  bank-books  and 
their  ledgers  interesting  enough  literature — suddenly 
become  enthusiastic  in  speaking  of  the  author  of  "  The 
Master  of  Ballantrae."  But  not  women.  That  he  had 
little  to  say  of  them  they  might  have  borne.  But  that 
he  had  little  to  say  of  the  sentiment  which  fills  up  and 
illumines  their  lives  was  the  unpardonable  sin.  I 
often  wonder  if  "  Wier  of  Hermiston "  had  been 
finished  would  it  have  placed  Stevenson  in  the  same 
position  in  the  estimation  of  women  that,  say,  Mrs. 
Humphry  Ward  holds?  It  was  a  love-story.  What 
some  one  has  called  "  the  thrill  of  sex  "  was  there  from 
the  entrance  of  the  heroine  on  the  scene.  The  disturb- 
ing tone  of  dormant  passion  stirring  into  life  vibrated 
through  each  page.  It  is  one  of  the  tragedies  of 
literature  that  it  should  have  remained  a  fragment. 

One  of  two  elements  are  found  in  all  the  great  ro- 
mances of  the  world — heroism  or  love.  While  men  and 
women  have  blood  to  be  stirred  and  hearts  to  be  moved, 
the  doing  of  heroic  deeds — the  endangering  or  sacrific- 
ing of  life  and  happiness  for  the  advantage  of  others, 
will  cast  a  spell  upon  them.  Horatius  at  the  bridge  can 
thrill  others  than  school-boys  to-day.  Leonidas  and 
his  Spartans  will  be  a  living  story  when  Macaulay's 
New  Zealander  is  looking  at  the  ruins  of  St.  Paul's. 
The  heroic  legend  goes  back  farther  than  the  amatory 
one.  Perhaps  love  was  not  held  in  the  high  esteem  it 
enjoyed  later  because  of  the  subject  condition  of 
women.  The  woman  had  little  say  or  choice  about  the 
disposal  of  herself,  and  her  sentiments  on  the  subject — 
if  she  dared  to  have  any — were  not  usually  expressed. 

Bravery  was  the  inspiration  of  the  early  romancer's 
muse.  The  loves  of  Helen  and  Paris  were  not  of  so 
much  moment  as  the  conflicts  of  the  Greek  and  Trojan 
chiefs.  The  woman  and  the  complications  she  brought 
with  her,  were  of  subsidiary  interest.  She  was  the 
warrior's  reward,  the  entertainment  of  his  leisure  hours, 
taking  the  position  in  man's  life  that  Nietzsche  thinks 
she  should  hold  to-day ;  that  of  the  most  dangerous  and 
alluring  toy  that  man  in  his  times  of  play  can  find  for 
his  diversion.  Even  in  stories  of  such  universal  human 
interest  as  that  of  Joseph  and  his  brothers  in  the  Bible, 
the  woman  plays  a  very  meagre  part.  Joseph's  loves 
are  not  of  sufficient  moment  to  be  recorded.  His  repuls- 
ing of  the  wife  of  Potiphar  was  one  of  the  ascending 
steps  in  his  wonderful  career.  It  was  his  heroism  and 
ability  as  a  man,  and,  above  all,  his  largeness  of  heart, 
the  vast  magnanimity  of  his  nature,  that  was  the  point 
the  biographer  dwelt  upon. 

It  was  with  the  Christian  era  that  love  entered  into 
even  competition  with  heroism,  and  finally  conquered 
it.  The  Anglo-Saxons  felt  the  charm  of  "  the  heart 
interest "  from  the  first.  Shakespeare  only  wrote  three 
plays  without  it.  The  political  and  revolutionary  side 
of  "  Julius  Caesar  "  are  so  interesting  of  themselves  that 
they  "  make  it  go."  But  in  "  Coriolanus  "  the  lack  of 
amatory  sentiment  is  keenly  felt,  and  one  is  conscious 
all  the  time  that  the  drama  suffers  from  their  absence. 
"  Timon  of  Athens  "  is  never  played.  Queen  Elizabeth 
admired  Falstaff,  the  fat  knight,  above  all  Shakespeare's 
creations,  and  Pepys  thought  "  Romeo  and  Juliet  "  "  the 
worst  plav  that  ever  I  heard."  but  it  is  by  the  pieces  that 
turn  on  the  pivot  of  love  that  the  bard  has  lived. 

From  his  time  on  to  our  own,  what  great  work  of  im- 
aginative literature  is  there  that  has  no  "  heart  inter- 
est"? The  only  one  that  at  this  moment  I  can  re- 
member is  "  Robinson  Crusoe."  But  that  is  a  unique 
production — never  before  or  since  repeated — the  story 
of  one  human  being  isolated  from  his  kind.  No  great 
romancer  has  given  us  comedy  or  tragedy  without  a 
woman  in  it — a  woman  who  either  feels  or  evokes  love. 
Many  may  have  attempted,  but  no  one  has  succeeded 
in  making  a  successful  romance  without  a  woman  and 
the  turbulence  she  is  bound  to  create  either  quite  in  the 
centre  of  the  stage  or  only  a  little  to  one  side. 

Geraldine  Bonner. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 

Richard  Strauss — now,  since  his  recent  degree  in 
philosophy  from  the  University  of  Heidelberg,  "  Dr." 
Richard  Strauss — is  to  be  the  editor  of  a  new  magazine 
soon  to  make  its  appearance  in  Berlin  under  the  title 
of  Die  Musik.  It  will  be  devoted  to  musical  aesthetics 
and  biography. 

German  scholars  are  noted  for  their  longevity,  but 
few  even  of  them  retain  their  mental  powers  as  long 
as  Professor  Edward  Zeller,  who,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine,  has  just  brought  out  the  last  volume  of  the  fourth 
edition  of  his  history  of  Greek  philosophy,  with  sixty- 
three  pages  added. 

Henry  A.  Garfield,  of  Cleveland,  who  will  accept  the 
chair  of  politics  at  Princeton  University,  and  expects 
to  begin  work  next  February,  has  a  law  practice  in 
Cleveland  which  is  said  to  be  worth  twenty  thousand 
dollars  a  year.  He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Garfield, 
Garfield  &  Howe.  The  Garfields  (James  R.  and  Harry) 
are  sons  of  the  late  President  Garfield.  James  R.  is 
now  United  States  Commissioner  of  Corporations  un- 
der Secretary  Cortelyou. 

Edward  W.  Stewart  is  said  to  be  the  first  naturalized 
citizen  of  Chicago  to  renounce  his  allegiance  to  the 
United  States.  Recently,  he  wrote  to  the  clerk  of  the 
circuit  court  of  Cook  County  from  Falcoragh,  County 
Donegal,  Ireland,  saying:  "I  forward  to  you  my  citi- 
zenship papers.  Hereafter  I  relinquish  all  rights  to 
same,  also  all  claims  of  any  kind  I  have  had  up  to  the 
present  against  the  United  States  of  America.  It  is 
with  regret  I  do  this,  but  necessity  compels  me." 

Senator  Stewart,  of  Nevada,  who  was  married  at 
Atlanta  last  week,  is  a  picturesque  character  in  Wash- 
ington. He  is  six  feet  tall,  broad-shouldered,  has  a 
flowing  white  beard  of  the  patriarchal  fashion,  and 
always  wears  a  big  black  sombrero.  Though  seventy- 
six  years  old,  he  is  very  active.  In  the  Senate,  he  is  a 
frequent  talker,  and,  as  his  speeches  are  usually  long- 
winded  and  not  very  much  to  the  point,  Walter  Well- 
man  says,  his  fellow-senators  shudder  whenever  he 
takes  the  floor.  He  has  been  dubbed  by  them  "  Senator 
Polonius."  Senator  Stewart  was  first  elected  to  the 
United  States  Senate  in  1S64,  and  has  been  there  ever 
since,  except  from  1875  to  1887. 

John  Alexander  Dowie's  "  invasion  "  of  New  York 
with  his  Restoration  Host  has  proved  a  big  frost.  When 
he  left  Zion  City  for  the  metropolis.  Dowie  promised 
thathe  would  fill  Madison  Square  Garden  with  converts, 
festoon  the  walls  of  the  garden  with  crutches  and  canes 
of  those  who  were  healed,  baptize  thousands,  drive  the 
devil  from  Manhattan  Island,  and  take  fifty  millions  of 
dollars  back  to  Zion.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  his  sermons 
have  made  absolutely  no  impression  on  New  York- 
ers because  they  were  composed  principally  of 
billingsgate  and-  abuse;  he  did  not  heal  a 
body  or  convert  a  soul ;  he  did  not  baptize  a  man, 
woman,  or  child;  he  had  his  horses  attached  by  the 
sheriff;  he  publicly  proclaimed  himself  of  illegitimate 
birth  ;  and  spent  something  like  a  quarter  of  a  million 
of  dollars  without  taking  in  enough  even  to  pay  the  gas 
bills  of  Madison  Square  Garden,  which  cost  him  one 
thousand  dollars  a  day  rental. 

The  murderer  of  Eugenie  Fougere.  the  noted  Parisian 
beauty,  of  whom  our  Paris  correspondent,  "  St.  Martin," 
recently  wrote,  has  at  last  been  discovered  through  the 
suicide  of  Ladermann.  an  accomplice.  The  crime,  it 
appears,  was  planned  by  Fougere's  maid.  Mile.  Giriat. 
and  her  lover,  Henri  Dussat.  Ladermann  agreed  to 
assist  in  the  theft  of  Fougere's  jewels  upon  condition 
that  there  be  no  killing.  He  secreted  himself  in  the 
garden  of  the  murdered  woman's  villa.  When 
Fougere's  maid  came  into  the  house  she  was  bound 
and  gagged  by  Mile.  Giriat,  who  then  treated  Fougere 
in  the  same  manner.  After  handing  Ladermann  the 
jewels,  the  Giriat  woman  strangled  Fougere,  whom 
she  hated.  Then,  in  order  to  dispose  of  the  witness 
to  the  crime,  she  strangled  the  maid.  Mile.  Giriat  then 
ordered  Ladermann  to  bind  and  gag  her.  This  he  did 
before  leaving  the  villa  with  the  jewels,  and  the  plan 
worked  so  admirably  that  it  took  the  police  a  long  time 
to  discover  that  Mile.  Giriat's  miraculous  escape  from 
being  strangled  was  really  only  a  bit  of  clever  acting. 

Sir  Mortimer  Durand,  who  is  to  be  the  new  British 
embassador  at  Washington,  is  a  man  of  different  stamp 
and  career  than  his  recent  predecessors  in  that  office. 
Sir  Lionel  Sackville-West,  Lord  Pauncefote.  and  Sir 
Michael  Herbert  were  all  what  London  society  calls 
"  foreign  office  "  men.  They  were  trained  in  the  for- 
eign office  itself.  They  served  in  secondary  legations 
and  in  subordinate  posts  in  embassies,  and  finally  gained 
what  has  come  to  be  one  of  the  prizes  ct{  the  service, 
the  post  at  Washington,  D.  C.  All  three  lived  their 
lives  in  civilized  places,  and  did  their  work  among 
civilized  men.  Sir  Mortimer,  on  the  other  hand,  until 
he  was  sent  as  embassador  to  Madrid,  in  1900.  made  his 
career  in  India  and  in  Central  Asia.  His  appointment 
in  another  respect  is  notable.  It  has  been  won  on  the 
merit  of  work  done  and  high  qualities  proved.  Few 
men  of  his  rank  in  the  British  diplomatic  service  have 
had  less  social  influence  at  their  command  or  have  owed 
less  of  their  advance  to  it  than  has  he.  A  cloud  of 
feminine  intrigue  for  and  against  Sir  Michael  Herbert 
hung  about  his  appointment.  It  has  been  active  of  late 
to  further  the  interests  of  some  who  would  have  suc- 
ceeded him. 


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A  K  U  U  JN  A  U   1 


November  9,  1903. 


THE    FIRST    DIVORCE. 


From  the  Annals  of  Alta  California. 


In  the  days  of  pastoral  California,  the  command, 
"  Whom  God  hath  joined  together  let  no  man  put 
asunder  "  was  obeyed  without  question.  Marriage  was 
a  sacrament  bestowed  by  heaven ;  and  if  crosses  some- 
times accompanied  it,  they  were  considered  part  of  the 
discipline  of  the  all-wise  Father,  to  be  borne  with  pa- 
tience, though  without  understanding.  If  life  seemed 
unbearable  to  a  certain  couple,  the  Church  stepped  in 
and  pointed  out  to  each  the  other's  virtues,  and  en- 
joined them  to  set  aside  selfish  desires  and  become 
examples  to  the  neighborhood.  Generally  a  rec- 
onciliation was  effected,  and  these  sometimes  blos- 
somed into  the  happiest  marriages.  In  the  few  stub- 
born cases  of  positive  dislike,  a  legal  separation  was 
allowed,  although  deplored;  but  neither  party  was  free 
to  marry  again  until  the  other's  death.  That  would 
have  violated  a  sacrament  which  the  Church  regarded 
as  most  holy.  Yet  when  the  first  divorce'  occurred  in 
the  province,  it  was  the  Church  that  granted  it. 

One  of  the  earliest  papers  issued  by  the  first  Bishop 
of  California  after  his  arrival  here  in  1842,  was  a  letter 
to  the  prefect  of  Los  Angeles,  denying  his  "  faculty  to 
pass  on  the  validity  of  marriage,  a  faculty  which  be- 
longs only  to  the  Church,"  and  ordering  him  to  send 
all  the  testimony  in  the  case  of  Sepulveda  versus 
Trujillo,  upon  which  he  had  presumed  to  act,  to  the 
ecclesiastical  see  at  Santa  Barbara.  The  prefect's 
answer  explained  that  he  was  forced  to  act  in  the 
case,  since  the  parish  priest  had  neglected  his  duty 
when  appealed  to.  He  accompanied  his  reply  by  many 
documents,  and  from  these  we  get  the  story  in  detail. 

The  recital  of  Casilda,  the  wife,  is  intensely  dra- 
matic. She  was  but  fifteen  years,  and  "  had  no  desire 
to  marry  any  one."  Her  father,  Enrique  Sepulveda. 
was  in  love  with  the  widow  Matilde  Trujillo.  a 
Mexican,  who  would  not  consent  to  marry  him  unless 
Casilda  would  marry  her  son,  Antonio  Teodoro 
Trujillo.  Casilda  had  "no  desire  to  marry  this  Tru- 
jillo," and  "resisted  absolutely."  (Whether  her  "re- 
sistance "  was  due  to  personal  dislike  or  to  the  Cali- 
fornian's  usual  feeling  of  superiority  to  the  Mexican, 
she  does  not  state.) 

Her  father  urged,  prayed,  and  commanded  in  vain. 
The  more  he  was  opposed,  the  more  "  violently  in  love  " 
with  the  widow  he  became;  and  the  firmer  the  Senora 
Trujillo  stood  on  her  condition  that  she  "  would  not  go 
to  church  with  him  "  unless  Casilda  would  go  at  the 
same  time  with  her  son. 

Finally  Casilda  pitied  her  father,  and  "  condescended 
to  go  to  church  with  them,"  but  in  her  mind  she  was 
still  firmly  resolved  "  never  to  marry  Teodoro."  The 
four  went  together  to  the  Mission  San  Gabriel,  and 
stood  before  Father  Estenaga  to  be  joined  in  the  bonds 
of  holy  matrimony.  First  the  padre  "  joined  the  hands  " 
of  Matilde  Trujillo  and  Enrique  Sepulveda  and  had 
them  exchange  vows.  Then  he  told  Casilda  to  "  give 
her  hand "  to  Teodoro,  but  she  answered,  "  No,  no, 
no."  The  priest  questioned  her,  but  she  "  always 
answered  '  No,' "  and  he  finally  said :  "  God  be  with 
you,  my  daughter.  If  it  is  not  your  wish  to  marry,  no 
one  can  force  you."  Then  he  advised  her  to  go  to  the 
home  of  her  grandmother,  Fernanda  Tapia.  At  the 
same  time,  he  cautioned  her  father  against  punishing 
her.  and  assured  her  that  she  could  feel  safe,  as  after 
his  warning  her  father  would  "  not  dare  touch  a  hair 
of  "  her  "  head."  Casilda  preferred  to  return  with  her 
father  and  his  new  wife  to  their  ranch. 

The  marriage  occurred  on  Sunday,  and  her  father 
did  not  mention  it  to  her  until  the  next  Wednesday 
morning.  Then,  as  she  was  strolling  in  the  wheat  field, 
he  came  to  her  and  urged  her  to  marry  Teodoro  so 
that  "  he  would  not  break  his  word."  She  refused. 
He  exclaimed :  "  That  is  all  right.  Go  home  and  I 
will  fix  you." 

She  returned  to  the  house,  and  her  statement  tells 
what  ensued:  "My  father  came  into  my  room.  He 
beat  me,  slapped  my  face,  hit  me  in  one  eye,  threw  me 
on  the  floor,  struck  me  several  blows  on  the  head, 
and  left  me  stunned.  Then  he  went  out,  locked  the 
door,  and  left  me."  In  a  little  while  he  returned,  and 
found  her  sitting  up,  with  one  eye  swollen  closed.  He 
said ;  "  I  have  given  my  word  that  you  should  marry, 
and  you  have  made  a  fool  of  me;  but  you  shall  marry, 
and  this  very  day."  He  ordered  her  to  get  ready,  as 
the  animals  were  waiting  to  carry  them  to  the  Mission. 
Before  their  departure,  he  led  her  into  a  room  and 
showed^ her  a  rope  hanging  from  the  ceiling.  "Look 
at  that,"  he  said,  "  and  take  warning.  If  you  refuse 
to  marry  at  the  church,  I  will  hang  you  up  there  when 
we  return." 

All  the  way  to  the  Mission,  Casilda  wept,  and  she 
naively  describes  how  unprepossessing  she  looked  with 
her  black  eye  and  her  shower  of  tears.  At  the  altar, 
Father  Estenaga  asked  her  "  three  times "  if  she 
"wished  to  marry  that  Trujillo,"  and  she  "always 
answered  '  No.'  "  Then  the  padre  insisted  that  she  give 
her  hand  to  Teodoro.  The  poor  child  writes:  "  Being 
flustered  with  the  excitement,"  "  remembering  the 
threats,"  "not  knowing  how  to  get  out  of  my  situa- 
tion." "  but  knowing  that  my  father  was  the  principal 
author  of  my  misery  and  that  he  would  keep  his  word, 
I  finally  gashed  '  Yes,'  but  only  through  fear."  Then! 
with  her  rejoicing  family,  she  rode  back  to  the  ranch! 
weep   )g  every  step  of  t]~  e  way. 

Th"   next   day,   her  O'andmother,    Fernanda  Tapai, 


complained  to  the  prefect  of  Los  Angeles  of  Sepulveda 's 
cruelty,  and  he  took  Casilda  from  her  father's  ranch, 
and  brought  her  to  "  the  respectable  house  of  Abel 
Sterns  "  in  Los  Angeles.  After  listening  to  her  story, 
the  judge  declared  her  marriage  "null  and  void." 

Then  Father  Estenaga  interfered,  and  produced  an 
order  from  the  bishop,  which,  Casilda  writes,  em- 
powered him  "  to  join  me  to  the  man  whose  hand  I 
had  held,  to  confess  me,  and  to  give  me  nuptial  bene- 
diction." Upon  this  order,  the  judge  allowed  Casilda 
to  go  to  the  Mission.  There  the  priest  put  her  in  charge 
of  Victoria,  a  good  old  neophyte.  That  afternoon, 
during  the  siesta  hour,  an  employee  from  her  father's 
ranch  passed  Victoria's  rooms,  and  warned  Casilda 
that  her  father  was  coming  that  night  to  take  her 
back  to  the  ranch.  So  the  little  girl  stole  away,  while 
the  others  slept,  and  was  taken  back  to  the  home  of 
Abel  Sterns.  From  there  she  petitioned  the  prefect 
"  to  order  Father  Estenaga  to  know  that  he  had  no 
authority  "  over  her  and  "  to  appoint  a  guardian  to 
protect  her."  She  added  that  she  hoped  that  the  pre- 
fect would  overlook  the  fact  that  her  petition  is  written 
on  common  paper,  as  she  could  not  obtain  the  proper 
stamped  sheets. 

The  prefect's  account  to  the  bishop  emphasized  the 
facts  of  Casilda's  tale,  and  more  sharply  criticised 
Father  Estenaga.  The  priest,  he  said,  knew  all  the 
"  violences  the  father  had  committed,"  and  "  lacked  in 
the  duty  of  his  ministry "  by  giving  up  "  the  said 
Casilda  into  the  hands  of  her  executioner,  her  father, 
for  so  he  must  be  called."  "  The  blows,  threats,  and 
scandal  were  in  the  open  sight  and  knowledge  of  the 
parish,"  and  it  was  only  "  the  priest  who  took  no  no- 
tice and  wished  to  carry  on  the  marriage."  However, 
"  such  marriage  could  not  be  legitimate,"  as  it  "wanted 
the  girl's  consent."  The  prefect  added  that  he  sent 
the  bishop  such  a  detailed  history  of  the  case,  not  be- 
cause he  lessened  his  own  authority,  but  to  give  his 
grace  "  all  points  of  the  compass." 

When  all  the  evidence  of  the  case  was  presented  to 
the  bishop's  court,  the  ecclesiastical  lawyer.  Father 
Narciso  Duran,  argued  that  "  lacking  the  full  and 
deliberate  consent  of  Casilda,  without  which  there  is 
not,  nor  can  there  be,  a  valid  marriage,  as  the  Holy 
Church  has  held  and  constantly  holds,  the  marriage 
is  of  no  value." 

The  bishop  supported  this  opinion,  and  declared  "  the 
marriage  of  Antonio  Teodoro  Trujillo  and  Casilda 
Sepulveda  to  be  null  and  void,"  and  that  "  both  are 
as  free  as  they  were  before  the  thirteenth  day  of 
April,  or  before  the  celebration  of  this  fatal  and 
scandalous  marriage."  His  grace  also  decreed  that 
Casilda  was  "  not  to  be  punished  for  perjury  "  in  finally 
saying  "  yes,"  but  rather  "  to  be  treated  charitably  and 
justly,"  and  she  was  to  be  placed  in  some  respectable 
house  by  the  prefect,  and  there  maintained  at  the  ex- 
pense of  her  father.  He  admonished  Sepulveda,  and 
ordered  him  to  regard  Casilda  "  with  love  and  sweet- 
ness, throwing  a  veil  over  what  is  past,"  or  else  be 
prepared  to  "  suffer  all  the  rigors  of  the  law."  Two 
copies  of  the  decision  were  made  August  20,  1842,  one 
for  the  prefect  and  the  other  for  Father  Estenaga,  to  be 
read  at  high  mass  at  the  Mission  San  Gabriel  on  the 
first  feast  day  after  its  receipt. 

In  the  whole  case,  the  bridegroom  remains  skulking 
in  the  background,  never  stepping  forward  to  win 
Casilda.  nor  seeming  to  have  any  will  in  the  matter. 
Whether  he  cared  mostly  for  herself  or  for  her  broad 
inheritance,  or  whether  he  was  but  a  tool  in  the  hands 
of  his  mother,  the  papers  do  not  reveal.  All  the  testi- 
mony dwells  on  the  contest  between  Casilda  and  her 
cruel  father. 

Sepulveda  could  not  be  reformed  by  a  bishop's  de- 
cree, and  suit  had  to  be  brought  against  him  to  secure 
Casilda  her  property  rights.  His  temper  was  not  im- 
proved by  his  legal  difficulties,  and  evidently  his 
"violent  love"  for  Matilde  Trujillo  did  not  exhibit 
itself  in  acts  of  consideration  for  her  when  she  was 
once  Senora  Sepulveda.  And  on  her  side,  she  re- 
gretted the  day  she  had  listened  to  his  pleadings.  Much 
as  she  had  criticised  Casilda  for  breaking  her  in- 
voluntary marriage  vows,  she  herself,  in  less  than  two 
years,  secured  a  divorce.  Evidently,  the  blame  was 
Sepiilveda's  in  this  case,  also,  as  both  civil  and 
ecclesiastical  courts  warned  him  that  no  longer  would 
the  community  endure  any  of  his  ill-doings,  and  that  if 
he  scandalized  it  in  the  future,  he  must  expect  the 
just  punishment  his  acts  deserved,  but  from  which  he 
had  hitherto  escaped. 

And  so  the  first  divorce  in  the  territory,  granted  by 
the  Church  to  remedy  a  flagrant  injustice,  speedily 
served  as  a  precedent  to  relieve  other  marital  miseries, 
and  in  time  led  on  to  the  abuses  our  legislature  has 
had  to  condemn.  Whatever  laxity  may  underlie  these 
latter-day  cases,  no  suspicion  of  criticism  can  be  at- 
tached to  Casilda  Sepulveda,  who,  although  only  a  child 
of  fifteen,  really  introduced  divorce  into  California. 
Her  suit  was  based  on  her  belief  in  the  sanctity  of  mar- 
riage, and  the  resulting  necessity  of  personal  agreement 
between  the  parties  most  concerned.  As  such,  it  could 
not  invoke  prayers  nor  commands  for  patience  with 
another's  faults  and  for  a  revival  of  a  former  affection. 
Its  very  character  forced  the  dear  old  Bishop  Diego  y 
Moreno  to  decree  that  "  the  consent  of  bpth  parties  is 
indispensable  for  the  value  of  this  holy  sacrament," 
and  in  pastoral  California  "  the  consent  of  both 
parties  "  usually  signified  an  abiding  love  that  founded 
a  happy  home  and  had  little  need  of  the  divorce  court. 
Katherine  Chandler. 


OLD    FAVORITES. 


Conception   de  Arguello. 
(PRESIDIO    DE   SAN    FRANCISCO,     180O.) 

Looking  seaward,  o'er  the  sand-hills  stands  the  fortress,  old  and 

quaint, 
By   the   San   Francisco   friars   lifted   to   their   patron    saint — 
Sponsor  to  that  wondrous  city,  now  apostate  to  the  creed. 
On  whose  youthful  walls  the  Padre  saw  the  angel's  golden  reed; 
All  its  trophies  long  since  scattered,  all  its  blazon  brushed  away; 
And  the  flag  that  flies  above  it  but  a  triumph  of  to-day. 
Never  scar  of  siege  or  battle  challenges  the  wandering  eye; 
Never   breach   of  war-like  onset    holds   the  curious   passerby; 
Only  one  sweet  human  fancy  interweaves  its  threads  of  gold 
With    the    plain    and    home-spun    present,    and    a    love    that    ne'er 

grows   old: 
Only  one  thing  holds  its  crumbling  walls  above  the  meaner  dust — 
Listen  to  the  simple  story  of  a  woman's  love  and  trust. 

Count  von  Rezanoff,  the  Russian,  envoy  of  the  mighty  Czar, 

Stood  beside  the  deep  embrasures  where  the  brazen  cannon  are; 

He  with  grave  provincial  magnates  long  had  held  serene  debate 

On  the  Treaty  of  Alliance  and  the  high  affairs  of  state; 

He  from  grave  provincial  magnates  oft  had  turned  to  talk  apart 

With  the  Comandante's  daughter  on  the  questions  of  the  heart, 

Until  points  of  gravest  import  yielded  slowly,  one  by  one. 

And  by  Love  was  consummated  what  Diplomacy  begun; 

Till  beside  the  deep  embrasures,  where  the  brazen  cannon  are, 

He  received  the  two-fold  contract  for  approval  of  the  Czar; 

Till  beside  the  brazen  cannon  the  betrothed  bade  adieu, 

And,  from  sallyport  and  gateway,  north  the  Russian  eagles  flew. 

Long  beside  the  deep  embrasures,  where  the  brazen  cannon  are, 
Did   they   wait  the   promised   bridegroom   and    the    answer   of  the 

Czar; 
Day  by  day  on  wall  and  bastion  beat  the  hollow,  empty  breeze — 
Day  by  day  the  sunlight  glittered  on  the  vacant,  smiling  seas; 
Week    by    week    the    near    hills    whitened    in    their    dusty    leather 

cloaks — 
Week    by    week    the    far    hills    darkened    from    the    fringing    plain 

of  oaks; 
Till   the  rains  came,   and   far-breaking,   on   the  fierce  south-wester 

tost, 
Dashed  the  whole  long  coast  with  color,  and  then  vanished  and 

were   lost. 
So  each   year  the  season   shifted — wet  and  warm   and  drear  and 

dry; 
Half  a  year  of  clouds  and  flowers,  half  a  year  of  dust  and  sky. 
Still    it  brought  no  ship  nor  message— brought  no  tidings,    ill  or 

meet. 
For    the    statesmanlike    Commander,    for    the    daughter    fair    and 

sweet. 
Yet  she  heard  the  varying  message,  voiceless  to  all  ears  beside: 
"  He    will    come,"    the    flowers    whispered;    "  Come   no    more,"    the 

dry  hills  sighed. 
Still  she  found  him  with  the  waters  lifted  by  the  morning  breeze — 
Still  she  lost  him  with  the  folding  of  the  great,  white-tented  seas; 
Lentil  hollows  chased  the  dimples  from  her  cheeks  of  olive  brown. 
And  at  times  a  swift,  shy  moisture  dragged  the  long,  sweet  lashes 

down; 
Or    the   small    mouth    curved    and    quivered,    as    for    some    denied 

caress. 
And  the  fair  young  brow  was  knitted  in  an  infantine  distress. 
Then  the  grim  Commander,  pacing  where  the  brazen  cannon  are. 
Comforted  the  maid  with  proverbs— wisdom  gathered  from  afar; 
Bits  of  ancient  observation  by  his  fathers  garnered,   each 
As  a  pebble  worn  and  polished  in  the  current  of  his  speech: 
'  Those  who  wait  the  coming  rider  travel  twice  as  far  as  he  '; 
'Tired  wench  and  coming  butter  never  did  in  time  agree'; 
'  He    that   getteth    himself   honey,    though    a   clown,    he   shall    have 

flies  ' ; 
'In    the   end   God   grinds  the  miller';    'In   the   dark  the  mole   has 

eyes  ' ; 
'  He   whose  father   is  Alcalde   of  his  trial   hath   no    fear  ' — 
And   be  sure  the  Count  has   reasons   that  will  make   his   conduct 

clear." 
Then    the    voice    sententious    faltered,    and    the    wisdom    it    would 

teach 
Lost  itself  in   fondest  trifles  of  his  soft  Castilian  speech. 
And    on    "  Concha,"    "  Conchitita,"    and    "  Conch ita "    he    would 

dwell 
With  the  fond  reiteration  which  the  Spaniard  knows  so  well. 
So  with  proverbs  and  caresses,  half  in  faith  and  half  in  doubt. 
Every  day  some  hope  was  kindled,  flickered,  faded,  and  went  out. 

Yearly,  down  the  hillside  sweeping  came  the  stately  cavalcade, 
Bringing  revel  to  vaquero,  joy  and  comfort  to  each  maid; 
Bringing  days  of  formal  visit,  social  feast,  and  rustic  sport 
Of  bull-baiting  on   the  plaza,  of  love-making  in  the  court. 
Vainly,    then,    at    Concha's   lattice,    vainly    as    the    idle    wind, 
Rose    the    thin,    high    Spanish    tenor    that    bespoke    the    youth    too 

kind; 
Vainly,  leaning  from  their  saddles,  caballeros,  hold  and  fleet, 
Plucked  for  her  the  buried  chicken  from  beneath  their  mustangs' 

feet; 
So  in  vain  the  barren  hill-sides  with  their  gay  serapes  blazed. 
Blazed  and  vanished  in  the  dust-cloud  that  their  flying  hoofs  had 

raised. 
Then    the    drum    called    from    the    rampart,    and   once    more,    with 

patient  mien. 
The  Commander  and  his  daughter  each  took  up  the  dull  routine — 
Each  took  up  the  petty  duties  of  a  life  apart  and  lone. 
Till  the  slow  years  wrought  a  music  in  its  dreary  monotone. 

Forty  years  on  wall  and  bastion  swept  the  hollow,  idle  breeze, 
Since   the    Russian   eagle  fluttered    from    the    California  seas; 
Forty  years  on  wall  and  bastion  wrought  its  slow  but  sure  decay, 
And  St.  George's  cross  was  lifted  in  the  port  of  Monterey; 
And  the  citadel  was  lighted,  and  the  hall  was  gayly  drest, 
AH   to    honor  Sir  George   Simpson,   famous  traveler   and   guest. 
Far  and  near  the  people  gathered  to  the  costly  banquet  set, 
And   exchanged  congratulations   with   the    English   baronet; 
Till,  the  formal  speeches  ended,  and  amidst  the  laugh  and  wine, 
Some  one  spoke  of  Concha's  lover — heedless  of  the  warning  sign. 
Quickly  then  cried  Sir  George  Simpson:     "Speak  no  ill  of  him, 

I  pray; 
He  is  dead — he  died,  poor  fellow,  forty  years  ago  this  day. 
Died    while    speeding    home    to    Russia,    falling    from    a    fractious 

horse. 
Left    a    sweetheart,    too,    they    tell    me.      Married,    I    suppose,    of 

course? 
Lives  she  yet?  "        A    death-like  silence   fell    on   banquet,    guests, 

and  hall, 
And  a  trembling  figure  rising  fixed  the  awe-struck  gaze  of  all. 
Two    black    eyes    in    darkened    Orbits    gleamed    beneath    the    nun's 

white  hood; 
Black  serge  hid  the  wasted  figure,   bowed  and  stricken   where  it 

stood. 
"  Lives    she    yet?  "    Sir    George    repeated.      All    were    hushed    as 

Concha  drew 
Closer  yet  her  nun's  attire.     "  Senor,  pardon,  she  died,  too!  " 

— Bret  Hartc. 


A  French  physician,  Dr.  Marechal,  advocates  the 
passing  of  a  law  making  the  wearing  of  a  corset  by  any 
woman  under  thirty  an  offense,  punishable  by  three 
months'  imprisonment  if  she  is  of  age,  and  a  fine  of 
$20  to  $200  imposed  on  her  parents  or  guardians  if  she 
is  under  age. 


November  9,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT . 


A    NEW    BOOK    ON    SPAIN. 


"Two  Argonauts  in  Spain,"  by  Jerome  Hart. 


Two  Argonauts  in  Spain.  By  Jerome  Hart. 
San  Francisco :  Payot,  Upham  &  Co., 
1904.  Pages  i — xii,  i — 256,  and  Index. 
Sixteen  full-page  half-tone  plates ;  illus- 
trations and  facsimiles  in  the  text;  col- 
ored map  of  Spain.  Cloth  binding,  with 
stamp  on  side  in  two  colors  and  gold. 
Bound  in  boards  with  full  gold  stamp  on 
side.     Gilt  top.     Price,  $2.00. 

The  book,  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain,"  is  a 
handsome  121110.  volume  of  nearly  three  hun- 
dred pages.  It  is  the  fruit  of  a  flying  trip 
through  Spain,  entering  it  from  Southern 
France  by  the  Gate  of  the  Pyrenees;  travel- 
ing thence  through  the  North  of  Spain,  by 
way  of  Barcelona.  Saragossa,  and  Lerida 
to  Madrid;  thence  into  Andalusia  by  way  of 
Toledo  and  Cordova;  then  follows  an  account 
of  a  stay  at  Seville ;  thence  the  Two  Argo- 
nauts cross  Andalusia,  and  make  their  way 
over  the  mountains  to  Granada ;  the  Al- 
hambra  is  touched  upon ;  from  there  they 
make  their  way  out  of  Spain  by  the  south- 
em  gateway,  Algeciras,  and  Gibraltar. 

The  book  discusses  Spanish  railways,  ho- 
tels, theatres,  operas,  circuses,  bull-fights,  and 
Spanish  amusements  generally.  It  touches  at 
some  length  on  the  hotels  of  Madrid,  arid 
pokes  good-natured  fun  at  the  much-over- 
rated square  there,  the  Puerta  del  Sol,  or 
"  Gateway  of  the  Sun."  Other  Madrid  topics 
discussed  are  the  costumes  of  the  women  at 
the  opera,  the  theatres,  and  the  bull-fights ; 
the  people  in  the  parks,  including  those  in 
carriages,  on  horseback,  and  on  foot ;  the 
great  picture  galleries  of  Spain ;  the  beautiful 
Armory  of  Madrid :  the  Spanish  newspapers  ; 
the  Madrid  dailies,  with  their  illustrations, 
their  web-perfecting  presses,  and  their  semi- 
American  methods ;  the  "  society  weeklies," 
with  their  portraits  of  "  society  ladies  " ; 
the  theatrical  weeklies ;  the  bull-fighting 
journals;  and  the  Spanish  press  generally  is 
interestingly  dwelt  upon.  The  peculiar  Span- 
ish amusements,  such  as  the  bull-ring  and  the 
pelota  games,  are  also  described.  The  writer 
shows  good  judgment  in  giving  less  space 
to  the  bull-fight  itself — a  somewhat  hack- 
neyed subject — than  to  the  spectators  and  to 
the  incidents  around  the  bull-ring. 

Not  a  little  space  is  devoted  to  the  cigarette 
habit  in  Spain,  and  to  its  effect  on  the  Span- 
iards. The  writer  seems  to  believe  that  their 
physical  and  mental  degeneration  is  largely 
due  to  the  abuse  of  the  cigarette.  In  a 
chapter  on  Cordova,  considerable  space  is 
given  to  Spanish  beggary,  some  manifestations 
of  which  are  as  peculiar  as  they  are  amusing. 
It  is  stated  in  the  book  that  Spanish  beggars 
who  go  to  work  are  thereafter  looked  upon 
with  scorn  by  their  kindred. 

An  amusing  incident  of  travel  is  that  told 
of  the  trip  between  Cordova  and  Toledo, 
where  the  travelers  were  assured  that  a 
fellow-voyager  was  the  Alcalde  of  that  ancient 
city,  Toledo.  The  unexpected  denouement 
will  be  found  in  the  book. 

On  reaching  Granada,  the  author  was  much 
surprised  at  its  size  and  importance;  he  de- 
votes a  number  of  pages  to  the  city,  its  shops 
its  newspapers,  its  churches,  and  its  sugar- 
beet  industry.  From  him  we  learn  that  this 
ancient  city,  like  some  of  our  Western  towns, 
is  also  expecting  a  boom.  Further,  he  tells 
us  that  Granada  is  much  troubled  with  labor 
strikes.  In  fact,  all  over  Spain  the  author 
observes  indications  of  labor  troubles  and 
continual  strikes. 

In  Granada  he  buys  some  Spanish  transla- 
tions of  Irving's  books,  and  is  moved  to  se- 
vere criticism  on  the  wretched  typography, 
comparing  it  disadvantageously  with  that  of 
the  early  Spanish  printers.  He  tells  some 
amusing  incidents  of  the  lightning  tourists 
who  shoot  into  the  Alhambra  and  shoot  out 
again  on  the  same  day.  It  will  surprise  many 
people  to  learn  what  numbers  of  American 
tourists  go  to  the  Alhambra  via  Gibraltar, 
and   what  rapid   time  they   make. 

While  the  writer  freely  admits  the  beauty 
of  the  Alhambra,  he  thinks  that  many  tourists 
'  and  travelers  are  apt  to  gush  unduly  over  it. 
and  he  does  not  hesitate  to  point  out  the 
many  unattractive  sides  of  the  pilgrimage 
thither. 

Oddly  enough,  he  devotes  more  space  to 
Granada  itself  than  to  the  Alhambra.  In  fact, 
all  through  the  book  it  is  the  unusual  which 
seems  to  strike  htm.  Therefore,  the  book  is 
certainly  unhackneyed,  and  not  the  usual 
commonplace  narrative  so  often  found  in 
books  of  travel.  The  writer  visits  the  gypsy 
quarters,  both  at  Seville  and  Granada;  he 
does  not  find  the  female  gypsies  so  beautiful 
nor  the  male  gypsies  so  picturesque  as  we  are 
generally  told  they  are.  He  warns  tourists 
that  in  Granada — as  in  all  the  Spanish  cities 
— practically  no  English  is  spoken  at  the 
hotels,  and  very  little  French.     He  also  warns 


them  that  "  sunny  Spain  "  in  winter  is  a  very 
arctic  place ;  that  the  hotels  are  all  un- 
heated,  and  that  if  they  go  to  Spain,  they 
ought  to   take   their  winter  clothes. 

Probably  the  most  attractive  chapter  in 
the  book  is  that  devoted  to  Seville.  Although 
the  Granada  and  Madrid  chapters  are  both 
interesting,  the  author  seemed  to  be  more 
fascinated  by  Seville.  From  his  narrative  it 
certainly  must  be  a  city  of  great  charm.  He 
briefly  touches  on  the  usual  sights  of  Seville, 
dismissing  the  famous  tobacco  factory  with 
the  remark  that  "  the  beautiful  cigarette  girls 
of  song  and  story  turned  out  to  be  some  thou- 
sands of  tired,  sallow  females,  many  of  whom 
are  old,  most  of  whom  are  middle-aged,  and 
all  of  whom  are  ugly."  He  describes  hu- 
morously the  well-dressed  professional  men 
in  Seville  going  home  to  lunch  along  narrow, 
crooked  lanes — streets  so  narrow  that  the 
laden  donkeys  fill  them  from  wall  to  wall ; 
as  he  expresses  it,  the  prominent  citizens 
make  their  way  along  "  jumping  into  door- 
ways dodging  donkeys." 

The  writer  tells  us  of  the  clubs  in  Seville, 
which,  it  seems,  are  not  few — they  are  lux- 
uriously furnished,  and  somewhat  resemble 
the  London  clubs  in  the  way  their  windows 
give   prominently   upon   the   streets. 

If  at  times  the  writer  takes  us  into  well- 
trodden  places,  like  the  cathedral  and  sac- 
risty of  Seville,  he  finds  there  unusual  sights, 
such  as  the  Columbus  Monument.  This,  he 
tells  us,  was  moved  from  Havana  when  it 
ceased  to  be  Spanish  soil,  and  was  estab- 
lished in  Seville  with  a  new  pedestal  com- 
memorating   the    fact.      He    also    gives    some 


which  are  admirably  reproduced  in  the  book 
as  half-tone  plates.  The  book  begins  with  a 
unique  and  handsome  rubricated  title-page; 
it  is  a  half-tone  of  a  Moorish  archway  in  the 
Alhambra;  framed  in  the  black  arch  is  a  rich 
red  design — apparently  an  Arabic  inscription. 
But  on  a  closer  inspection  the  Arabic  letters 
resolve  themselves  into  the  legend.  "  Two  Ar- 
gonauts in  Spain."  The  lettering  is  most 
cunningly  designed,  and  at  a  cursory  glance 
nine  out  of  ten  would  take  it  for  an  Oriental 
inscription. 

Among  the  other  pictures  in  the  book,  there 
are  the  following : 

"  Bridge   Between   the   Frontier   and   Barce- 
lona." 

"  Columbus    Monument,    Montjuich    in    the 
Background." 

"  On  the  Rambla  Roadway,  Barcelona." 
"  Battle    Armor    of    Charles    V    in    Madrid 
Armory." 

"  Portrait  of  the  Poet  Becquer." 
"  Forest     of     Columns     in     the      Cordova 
Mosque." 

"  Gypsy  Group,  Albaycin  Quarter." 
"■  Torre  de  la  Vela,  Granada." 
"  Gate  of  Justice,  Alhambra." 
"  Architectural    Details,   Alhambra." 
"  Gypsy  Dancers  at  Granada." 
"  An  Arcade  of  the  Alcazar,  Seville." 
"  Group  in  the  Gate  of  a  Ducal  Palace,  Se- 
ville." 

"  Puerta  del   Perdon,   Seville." 
"  Seville  Cathedral  and  Giralda  Tower." 
Most  of  these  contain  spirited  groups,  not- 
ably    the     "  Gypsy     Dancers     at     Granada," 
"  Group  in  the  Gate  of  a  Ducal  Palace,"  and 


THE  BRUTALITY  OF  FOOTBALL. 


Van  Fletch"s"  Views. 


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Cover  Design  of  Jerome  Hart's  New  Book  of  Travel  Sketches. 


interesting  notes  about  the  enormous  num- 
ber of  books  on  the  Seville  cathedral — of 
which  we  learn  there  are  five  hundred  and 
ninety- four. 

He  tells  us  that  while  sherry  may  be  had 
in  Seville  as  cheap  as  forty-five  cents  a 
bottle,  some  of  it  sells  for  four  dollars.  We 
also  learn  that  the  sherry  sold  there  is  a  light, 
dry  wine,  utterly  unlike  the  strong  bev- 
erage we  know  under  that  name. 

A  visit  to  the  House  of  Becquer,  the  pas- 
sionate Spanish  poet,  is  described,  and  the 
book  closes  with  a  chapter  vividly  painting  a 
scene  on  the  tower  of  the  Giralda.  This  is 
a  graphic  piece  of  work.  It  was  at  the  sunset 
hour,  but  the  sunset  itself  is  barely  touched 
upon.  What  so  vividly  struck  the  writer  was 
the  ringing  of  the  great  chime  of  bells  in  the 
tower  by  a  band  of  men  and  boys.  The  men 
were  the  regular  bell-ringers,  and  the  boys 
were  apparently  apprentices.  As  he  describes 
the  scene,  with  the  boys  whirling  at  the  ends 
of  the  bell-ropes  and  flying  like  birds  in  the 
air  around  the  tower,  the  sight  must  certainly 
have  been  one  to  remember.  It  is  a  pity  that 
there  was  not  an  artist  there  to  depict  it  for 
us  with  the  pencil,  as  the  writer  did  it  with 
the  pen. 

There  are  many  other  scenes  here  touched 
upon,  which  would  have  made  admirable  ma- 
terial for  an  artist.  The  writer,  with  whim- 
sical sorrow,  bewails  the  mishaps  that  befall 
their  camera.  "  All  the  groups  in  the  sun." 
he  says,  "  are  never  worth  taking.  All  the 
groups  worth  taking  are  never  in  the  sun." 

None  the  less,  the  Two  Argonauts  suc- 
ceeded in  securing  nearly  a  score  of  pictures, 


"  Gypsies  in  the  Albaycin  Quarter."  The 
portrait  of  the  poet  Becquer  is  in  etched  line, 
after  an  etching,  and  is  a  striking  portrait  of 
a  very  handsome  man.  with  fine  features  and 
haunting  eyes 

For  other  illustrative  matter  the  book  con- 
tains several  facsimiles,  some  handsome  ini- 
tials, a  few  head  and  tail-pieces,  and  a  col- 
ored map  of  Spain  and  Portugal. 

The  cover,  like  the  rest  of  the  book,  is  dis- 
tinctive. The  binding  is  in  two  styles,  in 
boards  and  in  cloth,  but  in  both  the  same  de- 
sign is  used,  while  differently  treated.  The 
emblems  of  the  various  provinces  of  Spain — 
castles  for  Castile,  lions  for  Leon,  pome- 
granates for  Granada,  chains  for  Navarre — 
are  richly  emblazoned  on  the  cover.  In  the 
cloth  binding  this  design  is  treated  in  gold  and 
two  colors.  The  book  is  also  tooled  in 
gold  and  the  tops  gilded.  In  the  books  bound 
in  boards  the  design  is  stamped  in  full  gold 
on  a  rich  brown  tint  on  a  complementary 
shade  of  brown  board. 

The  effect  of  the  gold  on  the  two  shades  of 
brown  is  very  effective. 

The  letter-press  is  printed  on  thick  linen- 
fibre  wove  paper,  which  was  brought  here 
specially  from  the  East,  there  being  no  such 
high-grade  paper  in  the  local  market.  The 
plates  are  printed  on  the  finest  coated 
Stirling  art  paper  obtainable.  The  letter  used 
is  a  handsome  new  Caslon  type,  and  the  page 
is  very  satisfactory  to  the  eye.  The  book  has 
been  printed  by  the  Argonaut  Press,  and  every 
care  has  been  lavished  on  its  production.  As 
a  piece  of  local  book-making  the  craf*:  here 
may  take  pride  in  it. 


After  witnessing  the  superb  athletic  perfec- 
tion of  the  American  national  game  of  base- 
ball, as  exemplified  in  the  post-season  series 
between  the  Boston  American  and  the  Pitts- 
burg National  clubs,  a  visit  to  one  of  the  col- 
legiate football  games  brought  on  a  train  of 
thought  which  at  no  time  freed  itself  from  a 
strong  tinge  of  sadness  and  disgust.  It  was 
the  Harvard-Brown  game  on  Soldiers*  Field, 
Cambridge,  yesterday,  and  the  game  was 
looked  upon  as  a  sort  of  test  of  Harvard's 
chances  against  Yale  when  the  contest  of  final 
yearly  interest  is  decided.  Yale  played  West 
Point  at  the  same  time  at  West  Point  or  New 
Haven,  and  both  games  were  supposed  to  be 
indicative  of  the  final  probabilities. 

Football  is  not  an  open  game.  A  friend  of 
mine  recently  attended  a  college  contest  with 
an  ex-captain  of  Harvard,  and  sought  to  be 
enlightened  as  the  game  progressed  on  the 
fine  points  of  the  play.  The  ex-captain  was 
frank,  and  admitted  that  he  could  not  tell 
what  they  were  up  to,  and  only  an  occasional 
catch  and  a  dodging  run  occurred  to  break 
the  monotony  of  the  tedious  rough-and-tumble 
mix-up,  with  an  occasional  pause  to  resusci- 
tate a  disabled  player.  Yet  the  crowd 
screamed  itself  hoarse  with  its  monotonous 
rah !  rahs ! !  and  the  clownishly  dressed 
"  Dickey "  pennancers  performed  monkey 
tricks  to  give  color  to  the  scene. 

We  sat  behind  the  Brown  seat,  and  saw- 
several  players  retire  for  sponging  off,  with 
blood  running  down  their  faces  or  limping 
with  hurts  about  the  body.  Harvard  had  the 
heavier  team,  and  momentum  won.  Beef  and 
superior  padding  constituted  the  offense  and 
defense  most  of  the  time,  and  trickery  was  the 
other  factor  in  this  game  of  muscular  bluff 
with  only  a  rarely  occasional  clever  bit  of 
kicking  to  give  it  a  football  semblance. 

In  the  days  of  human  brute  force,  when 
muscular  superiority  won  victories  over  ag- 
gressive enemies,  and  was  the  means  of  hu- 
man defense  against  despoilation.  cultivation 
of  brute  force  was  necessary,  but  in  these 
days  of  firearms  and  diplomacy  it  is  merely  a 
survival   of  primitive  brutalities. 

I  sat  at  a  round-table  of  college  presidents, 
deans,  and  professors  last  year,  after  the  last 
Harvard- Yale  game,  and  heard  a  discussion 
which  deplored  the  necessity  of  allowing  foot- 
ball as  a  college  attraction,  and  heard  it 
roundly  scored  as  a  disgrace  to  modern  civili- 
zation, but  at  the  same  time  there  is  being 
built  at  Cambridge  a  "  Stadium  "  of  concrete, 
in  imitation  of  that  at  Athens  built  of  marble, 
to  cost  $300,000,  with  the  idea  of  encouraging 
these  very  brutal  antiquities. 

In  the  different  university  clubs  where  I 
have  been  a  guest,  football  has  been  the  topic 
of  most  general  conversation,  and  betting  on 
the  games  is  prevalent  in  graduate  circles  al- 
most to  the  exclusion  of  learning,  literature, 
and  politics. 

The  games  I  saw  in  Buda-Pesth.  and  de- 
scribed for  you  two  years  or  so  ago.  were 
much  more  truly  athletic.  The  team-work  of 
Oxford  against  All  Hungary  was  masterly, 
and  there  was  rarely  a  mix-up  of  brutal 
strength  ;  but  the  American  game  has  all  the 
degrading  features  uppermost  in  the  play. 

American  football,  to  accentuate  the  bru- 
tality, is  played,  rain  or  shine,  cold  or  warm, 
and  such  is  the  affected  enthusiasm  of  its 
followers  that  many  a  fatal  cold  is  invited 
by  frail  women  to  emulate  the  don't-care-a- 
damnedness  of  the  sport.  I  saw  numbers  of 
frail  physical  creatures  shivering  with  a  mix- 
ture of  excitement  and  cold  yesterday,  and  saw 
the  crowd  trudge  away  from  the  field  in  a 
cloud  of  catarrhal  dust  for  the  half-mile 
access  to  over-crowded  trolley-cars. 

It  was  a  marvel  to  see  scores  of  smelly 
automobiles  pick  their  way  through  that 
dense  crowd,  and  a  wonder  that  many  were 
not  crushed  under  the  Juggernautal  rubber 
tires ;  but  somehow  or  other  no  one  seemed 
to  get  killed  outright,  but  the  doctors  will 
reap  a  harvest  next  week  attending  the  cases 
of  catarrhal  colds  that  must  result  from  the 
exposure  to  chill  and  dust. 

There  may  be  a  hitch  in  the  completion  of 
the  Stadium,  as  the  fund  is  some  $80,000  shy 
of  completion,  but  with  the  present  enthusiasm 
of  attendance  at  the  games  the  shortage  does 
not  seem  important.  The  great  Stadium  is 
built  in  the  form  of  a  horseshoe,  of  wood  and 
iron,  and  the  exterior  surface,  seats  and  all, 
is  covered  with  molded  concrete  in  imitation 
of  stone.  I  hear  that  the  seats  will  be  super- 
surfaced  with  wood  to  check  the  chill  of  the 
concrete,  and  folding  cushions  are  rented  as 
an  extra  buttal  protection.  Van  Fletch. 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Powerful  Drama  of  the  West. 

Geraldine  Bonner's  new  novel,  "  To-Mor- 
row's Tangle,"  opens  with  a  desert  scene — 
■'  The  vast  gray  expanse  of  the  desert  lay 
still  as  a  picture  in  the  heat  of  the  early 
afternoon."  On  the  desert  there  is  but  one 
spot  of  human  life.  An  emigrant  wagon 
makes  the  "  one  shadow  "  in  that  land.  In 
that  shadow  a  child  of  three  lies  struggling 
for  life.  Beside  him  sits  his  mother,  weak 
and  nerveless,  only  a  girl  in  age,  but  made 
a  woman  in  appearance  by  the  hardships  she 
has  undergone.  The  husband  and  father,  "  a 
lean  but  powerful  man.  worn  away  by  the 
journey  to  bone  and  muscle,  but  of  an  iron 
fibre."  sits  there,  too,  and  beside  him  another 
woman,  also  his  wife,  whose  buxom  beauty 
he  had  lusted  after,  and  to  win  whom  he  had 
embraced  the   Mormon   faith. 

Toward  sunset  the  child  dies.  Its  mother 
too  weak  and  weary  and  broken-hearted  even 
to  weep,  accepts  its  death  calmly.  The  man 
and  his  vigorous,  handsome  Mormon  spouse 
dig  the  grave  and  bury  the  little  body.  From 
the  wagon  where  the  girl-wife  has  gone  come 
low  moans,  and  when,  later,  the  man,  who  has 
fallen  into  a  deep  sleep,  wakes,  he  hears  "  in 
the  stillness  of  the  night  the  cat-like  mew  of 
the  new-born." 

The  next  day,  the  man — Jake  Shackleton 
is  his  name — pushes  on  with  the  wagon.  The 
horses  are  nearly  exhausted,  but  he  finally 
succeeds  in  reaching  the  camp  of  two  miners 
up  in  the  Sierras,  "  where  the  foothills  fold 
back  upon  one  another  in  cool,  blue  shadows." 
There,  one  of  the  horses  falls  dead.  The 
young  wife,  with  her  girl  baby,  is  too  weak 
to  go  forward  on  foot  or  on  the  other  horse. 
The  man  has  no  money  to  purcnase  the  two 
horses  the  miners  have.  And  hence  he  is 
filled  with  hard  rage  and  savage  despair  that 
his  journey  into  the  promised  land  has  been 
blocked  by  the  weak  and,  to  him,  useless 
woman.  It  is  at  this  point  that  the  kindness 
of  one  of  the  miners  to  the  wife  and  child 
breeds  a  desperate  idea.  Take  taunts  the 
miner  into  saying  he  will  let  the  girl  stay 
there  till  she  gets  stronger,  and  then  " '  I 
am  not  giving  anything  away  just  now,'  he 
answered.  '  But  I'll  swap  her  for  your  two 
horses.' "  And  to  this  cruel  and  heartless 
proposition  the  miner,  in  indignation  and  dis- 
gust, agrees. 

The  girl  mother — she  is  only  nineteen — 
gets  well.  The  roses  come  back  to  her  cheeks. 
The  child  lives.  Fletcher,  one  of  the  men. 
goes  away  to  the  town  and  does  not  come 
back  again.  And  so  the  inevitable  happens. 
Propinquity  does  its  perfect  work.  When  the 
deep  snows  come  to  the  high  Sierras,  they 
shut  in  not  only  Moreau,  the  gently  bred  gold- 
hunter,  and  the  girl  and  her  child,  but  the 
little  god  of  love.  In  the  spring,  the  twain 
go  down  to  Hangtown.  and  are  married.  Both 
know  the  union  is  not  legal,  but  both  believe 
that  the  secret,  known  only  to  five  persons, 
will  remain  theirs  forever.  But  she  keeps 
her  first  marriage  certificate. 

Here  is  the  "  tangle "  as  set  forth  in  the 
prologue.  And  "  to-morrow  " — that  is.  in 
twenty  years — when  Jake  Shackleton  has  be- 
come a  Bonanza  King,  when  Moreau  has 
died,  and  the  mother  and  lovely  daughter. 
Mariposa,  have  come  to  San  Francisco,  it 
becomes  apparent  what  a  tragic  tangle  it  is. 
No  one  who  has  read  the  prologue  will  put 
the  book  down  until  it  is  finished. 

This  novel  is  typically  Californian.  Miss 
Bonner  has  achieved  that  difficult  task  of 
giving  to  perfectly  familiar  San  Francisco 
scenes  an  atmosphere  of  romance  and  charm. 
From  the  first  page  to  the  last  the  plot  stead- 
ily gathers  force  till  the  striking  climax 
is  reached.  What  that  climax  is  it  would 
be  unfair  to  both  reader  and  author  to  say. 
but    it    is    strong. 

Our  readers  will  pardon  us.  in  this  instance, 
for  adding  to  what  may  perhaps  be  a  biased 
judgment,  the  certainly  unbiased  ones  of  three 
influential  journals.  The  New  York  Sun 
says  of  "  To-Morrow's  Tangle  "  : 

Here  is  realism  and  a  very  unconventional 
situation.  Yet  the  book  might  be  put  into 
the  hands  of  a  school-girl.  The  desert  and 
the  tragedy  that  happened  there,  the  solitary 
mining-camp,  the  man  and  the  woman,  and  the 
incidents  that  brought  them  together,  are  de- 
scribed powerfully,  yet  with  lightness  of 
touch. 

The  New  York  Mail  and  Express  calls  it  a 
'"  good  story,  well  worth  the  telling,  and  well 
told."     Further : 

Miss  Bonner  gathers  the  threads  of  her  plot 
easily  and  naturally  in  the  beginning,  weaves 
them  together  loosely  at  first,  then  draws 
tighu-r  the  strands  until  to-morrow's  tangle 
ensu  s,  all  but  inextricable.  Anxiety,  watch- 
fur,  ss,  a  desire  to  rigb!  a  wrong  as  far  as  it 
is  Possible  _  without  exposure ;  unsuspected 
knowledge    in    one    quarter,    suspicion    in    an- 


other, proof  here,  evidence  yonder,  pride, 
love,  cupidity,  craft,  crime — all  these  are 
strands  that  go  to  the  rnaking  of  this  tangle 
whose  centre  is  a  young  girl. 

The  Literary  Digest  says  that  the  author 
has  handled  her  material  "  with  tact. 
courage,  and  strength.  .  .  .  The  earlier  por- 
tions give  a  sense  of  largeness,  an  almost 
Biblical  freedom  for  the  emotions  amid  an 
atmosphere   of  primitive   nature." 

These  reviews,  the  only  ones  that  have 
reached  us.  indicate  a  remarkably  favorable 
reception  of  "  To-Morrow's  Tangle "  by  the 
press,  and  also  a  prosperous  career  with  the 
public. 

The  book  contains  a  number  of  fine  illustra- 
tions in  monochrome  by  the  noted  artist, 
Arthur  I.  Kellar. 

Published  by  the  Bobbs-Merrill  Company, 
Indianapolis ;    $1.50. 

"Famous  Assassinations." 

Francis  Johnson  in  this  latter  day  has  per- 
formed the  feat  of  discovering  and  working  a 
brand-new  field  in  historical  research.  In  his 
"  Famous  Assassinations "  we  have  the  de- 
tailed account  of  thirty-one  notable  assassina- 
tions that  cover  a  period  of  almost  twenty- 
four  centuries,  each  one  of  which  is  the 
central  scene  of  some  political,  religious,  or 
national  crisis.  In  almost  every  instance  it 
appears  a  noteworthy  fact  that  the  personality 
of  one  individual  weighed  against  the  life 
of  a  cause  or  a  nation,  making  the  assassin 
merely  a  blind  tool  in  the  hands  of  Fate,  and 
in  his  way  a  liberator. 

But  underlying  the  red  record  of  "  Famous 
Assassinations  "  is  a  wealth  of  sentiment,  for 
while  the  blood-stained  pages  cry  out  their 
chronicles  of  crime,  there  runs  an  under- 
current of  romance  and  pathos  that  should 
appeal  equally  to  the  sentimentalist  and  sen- 
sationalist. 

Such  material  as  Mr.  Johnson  has  chosen 
lends  itself  readily  to  the  skill  and  imagina- 
tion of  a  forceful  writer,  and  in  his  hand 
these  incidents  grow  into  beacon  lights  of 
national  history.  Among  these  detailed  ac- 
counts that  supply  the  pathos  is  that. of  the 
beautiful  Inez  de  Castro,  who  lived  not  wisely 
but  too  well,  and  whose  tragic  story  has 
awakened  echoes  of  pity  and  sorrow  through 
five  succeeding  centuries.  Still  more  vital  in 
our  sympathy  lies  the  story  of  Thomas  a 
Becket.  whose  fearless,  "  I  am  here  !"  guided 
the  feet  of  his  murderers  in  the  dark  sanc- 
tuary, and  cost  England  her  famous  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury. 

Of  the  political  leaders,  around  whose 
history  gathers  less  of  song  and  story,  but 
whose  names  stand  synonymous  with  the 
iron  will  and  heavy  hand,  are  Ivan  the  Ter- 
rible. David  Rezzio,  Peter  the  Third  of  Rus- 
sia, Jean  Paul  Marat,  and  Henry  the  Fourth 
of  France. 

The  work  in  this  book  shows  faithful  re- 
search through  public  annals  and  private 
memoirs,  contains  twenty-nine  illustrations 
of  its  characters,  and  as  a  reference  on  these 
subjects  merits  a  niche  of  its  own. 

Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago ; 
$1.50. 


The  Story  of  a  San  Francisco  Mother. 

Frances  Charles  has  told  with  delicate  art 
the  story  of  a  mother's  awakened  love.  She 
calls  it  a  fable.  It  is  written  so  simply  a 
child  could  understand  it.  Yet  it  is  deeply  in- 
teresting to  those  who  have  left  childhood 
far  behind.  Just  what  is  the  saving  grace  that 
keeps  the  story  from  becoming  twaddle,  it  is 
hard  to  say.  Laura  E.  Richards  possessed  it  in 
her  earlier  charming  stories,  but  has  lost  it 
in  her  later  books. 

"  The  Awakening  of  the  Duchess  "  is  not  a 
child's  story,  nor  the  story  of  a  child,  but 
rather  a  story  of  the  artificial  life  of  a  society 
woman,  and  the  unconscious  dwarfing  of  those 
instinctive  and  fundamental  characteristics  of 
the  woman  and  mother-nature.  Forms  and 
customs  so  envelop  this  beautiful  and  lovable 
woman  that  her  child  is  eight  years  old  be- 
fore she  realizes  what  a  void  there  has  been 
in  her  life,  and  finds  solace  in  her  awakened 
love.  The  story  might  be  true  of  any  city, 
but  Miss  Charles,  a  Western  woman,  gives 
her  art  its  true  atmosphere,  and  makes  San 
Francisco  the  setting  for  her  delicate 
admonition  to  those  exotic  flowers  of  our 
"  leisure  class,"  the  exquisite,  sheltered,  and 
wholly  dependent  women  who  have  been 
robbed  of  the  sweetest  privileges  of  mother- 
hood by  the  paid  service  of  the  nursery- 
maid. 

The  illustrations,  by  I.  H.  Caliga,  are  in 
color,  and  very  charming. 

Published  by  Little,   Brown  &  Co.,    Boston. 


"  The  Romance  of  a  Rogue,"  a  novel,  by 
Joseph  Sharts,  is  published  by  Herbert  S. 
Stone  &  Co.,  Chicago, 


The  November  Century  Magazine. 
An  unusually  beautiful  number  is  the  No- 
vember issue  of  the  Century  Magazine.  In 
addition  to  three  handsomely  reproduced 
colored  pictures  by  Maxfield  Parrish,  supple- 
menting Edith  Wharton's  descriptive  paper 
on  "  Florentine  Villas."  there  are  striking 
colored  pictures  by  F.  W.  Stokes  and  Charles 
R.  Knight,  depicting  two  brilliant  "  Sunsets 
in  Tropical  Seas,"  and  several  studies  of 
animals  in  the  lion-house  in  the  New  York 
Zoological  Park.  Among  the  notable  de- 
scriptive, informational,  and  literary  articles 
are  "Life  on  the  Flood:  The  New  York 
Stock  Exchange  from  Within,"  by  Edmund 
Clarence  Stedman  ;  "  Fable  and  Woodmyth," 
with  illustrations,  by  Ernest  Thompson  Seton  ; 
"  Thackeray's  Friendship  With  an  American 
Family,"  by  Lucy  W.  Baxter;  "A  World's 
Congress  of  Lions."  by  Henry  Fairfield 
Osborn :  the  third  installment  of  "  Chapters 
From  My  Diplomatic  Life,"  by  Andrew  D. 
White ;  and  "  The  Present  Epidemic  of 
Crime,"  by  James  M.  Buckley.  LL.  D.  The 
short-story  writers  are  H.  Addington  Bruce. 
Anne  Warner,  Henry  Wallace  Phillips, 
Benjamin  H.  Ridgley.  David  Gray,  and  S. 
Weir  Mitchell,  and  besides  the  usual  de- 
partments, verse  is  contributed  by  Henry 
Van  Dyke.  Arthur  Stringer,  Marion  Conthony 
Smith,  Maurice  Francis  Egan.  Evelyn  Phinney. 
Clinton  Dangerfield,  Elsa  Barker,  and  Charles 
Benton   Cannaday. 


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peared in  1885,  and  the  fourth  has  not  yet 
been  issued.  His  treatment  of  the  political 
and  social  development  of  Rome  extends 
from  the  beginning  of  Roman  history  to  the 
imperial  epoch ;  it  is  based  on  the  most 
minute  knowledge  of  all  the  literary  and 
monumental  remains  bearing  on  this  time, 
and  the  keenest  critical  estimate.  Eight 
editions  of  it  have  appeared,  unfinished  though 
it  is,  and  it  has  been  translated  into  English. 
French,  Italian,  Russian.  Polish,  and  Spanish, 
and  Germans  are  proud  to  consider  it  as  much 
a  part  of  their  national  literature  as  the 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Dr.  Jordan's  Inspiring  Work. 

It  is  easy  to  imagine  that  if  Theodore 
Roosevelt  were  president  of  a  great  univer- 
sity— as  it  is  said  he  would  like  to  be  when 
he  has  served  another  term  in  his  present 
high  office — his  public  utterances  would 
greatly  resemble  in  spirit  and  content 
those  of  Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan,  which  are 
printed  in  the  volume  just  from  the  press, 
called  "  The  Voice  of  the   Scholar." 

The  two  men  hold  practically  the  same 
civic  ideal.  Both  have  a  profound  contempt 
for  the  educated  man  who  fails  to  use  his 
wisdom  and  his  knowledge  for  the  public  good, 
both  have  an  abiding  belief  in  democracy, 
both  are  never  weary  of  impressing  upon  the 
individual  that  in  his  civic  integrity  and 
alertness,  not  in  any  laws  or  regulations,  rests 
the  salvation  of  the  Republic. 

"  The  Voice  of  the  Scholar  "  contains  ad- 
dresses and  papers  delivered  and  published 
at  various  times  during  the  last  five  years. 
Their  scope  is  indicated  by  their  titles — 
"  The  Building  of  the  University,"  "  Relative 
Values  in  Knowledge."  "  The  Higher  Educa- 
tion of  the  Business  Man."  "  The  Woman 
and  the  University-,"  "  College  Spirit." 
"  Politics  in  the  Schools,"  "  The  Lessons  of 
the  Tragedy"  (the  murder  ot  McKinley). 
'*  Recent  Tendencies  in  College  Education," 
etc. 

Many  passages  are  very"  striking — for  ex- 
ample this : 

The  greatest  need  of  popular  government 
is  the  university.  The  greatest  need  of 
higher  education  is  democracy.  The  scholar 
and  the  man  must  work  together.  The  free 
man  must  be  a  scholar.  The  scholar  must 
be  a  free  man. 

And  these  sentences,  chosen  almost  at  ran- 
dom : 

The  presence  of  the  king  is  not  the  essential 
feature  of  monarchy.  It  is  the  absence  of  the 
people. 

The  function  of  democracy,  as  I  have  said 
many  times,  is  not  good  government.  Its 
effect  is  to  stimulate  people  to  broader  out- 
look, to  deeper  interest  in  public  affairs. 

The  highest  force  of  the  university  lies  in 
its  moral  training.  It  is  the  contagion  of 
high  thought,  of  noble  purpose,  of  lofty-  deed, 
that  "  strikes  the  heart  of  youth  in  flame." 

Oxford  and  Cambridge  are  still  choked  by 
the  dust  of  their  own  traditions.  Because  this 
is  so  we  may  doubt  whether  England  has  to- 
day any  universities  at  all,  but  merely  inge- 
nious and  venerable  substitutes. 

Doubtless  the  average  professor  isn't  worth 
two  thousand  a  year.  Doubtless  you  could  fill 
every  chair  here  on  five  hundred.  But  that  is 
not  the  point.  The  fact  is,  the  average  college 
professor  is  worth  very  little  indeed.  It  is  not 
average  men,  but  real  men.  that  make  a  uni- 
versity. Some  real  men  you  have,  and  you 
know  who  they  are.  There  is  no  excuse  for 
you  to  employ  any  others.  Average  men  and 
average  teachers  you  can  buy  tied  in  bunches 
at  anv  price  vou  choose  to  offer.  For  real  men 
you  must  look  far  and  wide,  for  they  are  in 
constant  demand. 

"  The  Voice  of  the  Scholar "  is  indeed  an 
inspiring  work. 

Published  by  Paul  Elder  &  Co.,  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


"The  Silver  Poppy." 

Although  a  little  top-heavy  with  poetry, 
epigrams,  tropes,  and  metaphors.  "  The 
Silver  Poppy  "  is  a  well-written  and  interest- 
ing story,  presenting  a  new  version  of  an  old 
idea.  It  is  that  of  the  pigmy  masquerading  in 
the  giant's  robe;  or,  in  other  words,  merely 
clever  mediocrity-  appropriating  and  claiming 
the  work  of  a  veritable  creator. 

It  is  probable  that  Mr.  Stringer  belongs 
to  the  ranks  of  those  who  aspire  to  write  the 
great  American  novel,  for  his  work  bears  evi- 
dences— almost  too  much  so,  in  truth— of  the 
tool  of  the  polisher.  Each  chapter  is  headed 
with  two  quotations,  of  somewhat  strenuous 
brilliancy,  one  in  poetry  and  one  in  prose. 
which  play  the  part  of  excerpts  from  the 
works  of  the  two  leading  literary  characters 
in  "  The   Silver  Poppy." 

The  reader  is  favored  with  several  glimpses 
of  New  York  literary  circles,  in  which  lions 
roar  gently  in  the  language  of  epigrams. 
Doubtless  the  author  has  turned  social  as  well 
as  professional  experiences  to  account,  more 
especially  in  the  chapter  describing  John 
Hartley's  experience  with  the  syndicate 
bureau,  which  reflects  a  phase  of  the  life 
journalistic  that  will  startle  the  green  as- 
pirant. Indeed,  the  literary  aspect  of  the 
story  will  be  particularly  interesting  to  young 
writers  and  would-be  journalists  of  high  ideals, 
who,  from  the  plain  truths  that  are  vigorously 
put  forth  by  the  author,  may  learn  a  dis- 
quieting thing  or  two  about  the  standards  of 
New  York  editors. 

Mr.  Stringer  aims  to  be  a  stylist,  but  as 
yet  many  of  his  figures  of  speech  are  either 
over-florid,  or  so  labored  as  to  act  as  slight 
stumbling-blocks  to  the  free  action  of  the 
story.      But   the    purposes    and    ambitions,    as 


well  as  the  ability,  of  the  writer,  are  worthy 
of  respect,  for  he  has  succeeded  in  writing 
a  novel  whose  plot  is  well-balanced,  con- 
sistent, and  carefully  cumulative,  whose  char- 
acterization shows  an  acuteness  that  disdains 
mere  sentimentality,  and  whose  style,  barring 
the  faults  already  mentioned,  is  direct  and 
sincere. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co..  New  York; 
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An  Absorbing  California  Story. 
This  review  of  "  The  Golden  Chain  "  is 
proportioned  to  the  length  of  the  story,  not 
,  to  its  degree  of  merit.  For,  indeed,  though 
I  brief,  this  tale  by  Gwendolen  Overton  of  a 
mining  town  at  the  desert  edge  has  not  a  little 
charm.  What  an  admirable  character  is 
Dudley  Keble.  the  cowboy,  strong,  gentle, 
clean-hearted.  How  sweet  is  the  young  girl, 
Felicia,  enamored  of  the  role  of  Juliet,  the 
member  of  a  traveling  "  show."  and  yet  withal 
simple  and  unspoiled.  The  pictures  of  the 
desert,  where  horned  toads  "  scuttled  along 
leaving  the  trail  of  their  peaked  tails  thread- 
like in  the  sands  "  :  of  the  home  of  the  rancher 
on  the  edge  of  the  Indian  reservation ;  of  the 
little  town  of  Mexicans  leavened  (or  polluted) 
by  the  influx  of  gold-seekers  with  their  fol- 
lowing of  brazen  women,  all  show  intimate 
and  sympathetic  knowledge.  And  the  plot  is 
fresh,  the  action  brisk,  and  the  story,  as  a  re- 
sult, absorbing.  It  belongs,  and  rightly,  to 
the  Series  of  Little  Novels  by  Favorite 
Authors.  It  contains  two  interesting  illustra- 
tions by  the  Kinneys.  and  a  brief  sketch  of  the 
author. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company.  New 
York ;   50  cents. 

A  Frothy  Skit  by  Mrs.  Sewell. 

With  the  facile  pen  of  practice,  Mollie  El- 
liot Sewell  has  turned  off  another  superfi- 
cially entertaining  story,  entitled  "  The  For- 
tunes of  Fifi." 

Fifi  is  a  merry  little  Parisian,  who.  in  the 
time  of  the  first  Napoleon,  acts  as  leading  lady 
at  a  theatre  in  the  Parisian  tenderloin,  for  a 
salary  of  twenty-five  francs  a  week.  She  had 
been  but  an  orphaned  waif,  picked  up  in  Man- 
tua by  one  of  Napoleon's  grenadiers,  and  was 
tenderly  reared  by  the  honest  fellow,  who 
guarded  her  with  the  affection  of  a  father  and 
the  fidelity*  of  a  mastiff,  concealing  the  real 
nature  of  his  love  for  her. 

A  shower  of  exciting  events  happens  to 
sever  her  from  the  faithful  service  of  her 
benefactor,  and  Fifi  finds  herself  kinswoman 
to  Pope  Pius  the  Seventh,  the  owner  of  a 
fortune  drawn  in  the  lottery,  and  the  betrothed 
of  a  solemn  young  French  advocate,  almost 
in  a  day. 

Subsequent  chapters  relate  Fifi's  ennui  in 
her  new  life,  her  distaste  for  her  betrothed, 
and  the  pranks  by  which  she  succeeds  in  rid- 
ding herself  of  her  fortune  and  the  suitor  !t 
has  attracted,  and  joyously  reverting  to  her  old 
life  of  hard  work  under  the  tutelage  of  her 
faithful  guardian. 

The  story  is  light  in  character,  improbable 
in  incident,  and  might  be  classified  as  bearing 
the  same  relation  to  serious  fiction  as  comic 
opera  does  to  legitimate  drama. 

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In  November,  1895.  Mr.  Lecky  was  elected 
to  Parliament  as  the  representative  of  the 
University  of  Dublin,  a  tribute  to  the  efficient 
service  which  he  had  done  for  Ireland  in  his 
various  historical  writings.  He  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  counsels  of  the  Liberal 
Unionists,  but  did  not  achieve  any  great 
triumphs  as  a  political  debater.  Lecky  once 
tried  poetry,  and  published  a  volume  of  verse. 
It  revealed  him,  however,  rather  a  master  of 
didactic  prosody  than  a  poet- 


Death  of  Lecky,  the  Historian. 

William  Edward  Hartpole  Lecky.  who  for 
so  many  years  occupied  a  prominent  place 
in  the  first  rank  of  English  historians,  died 
in  London  on  October  23d  of  heart  disease. 
He  was  born  in  Dublin  in  1838.  educated  at 
Trinity-  College,  and  from  the  first  devoted 
himself  to  the  pursuit  of  literature.  His 
first  effort,  "  Leaders  of  Public  Opinion  in 
Ireland."  was  published  anonymously  while 
he  was  still  an  undergraduate,  and  was  not 
republished  over  his  own  name  until 
1871.  Long  before  this  his  "  History  of 
the  Rise  and  Influence  of  the  Spirit  of  Ra- 
tionalism in  Europe,"  which  appeared  in 
186 1  and  1865,  had  insured  his  reputation 
as  a  scholar  and  historian.  A  few  years  later, 
in  1869.  his  "  History  of  European  Morals 
from  Augustus  to  Charlemagne "  appeared. 
This  was  followed  by  his  "  History  of  England 
in  the  Eighteenth  Century."  which  required 
ten  years  for  its  completion.  The  last  five 
of  these  were  devoted  to  Ireland  and  Irish 
affairs  down  to  the  time  of  the  Addington  \ 
ministry. 

In   1896,  he  published  his  "  Democracy  and  j 
Liberty,"     which     dealt      with      contemporary   | 
politics,    and    obtained    wide    circulation.       Its 
comments  upon   the  career  of   Mr.   Gladstone 
provoked  some  acrimonious  discussion.     This  ' 
book   has  passed   through   a  great   number   of  | 
editions.     His  latest  work,  "  The  Map  of  Life, 
Conduct,    and    Character,"    appeared    in    1899, 
and  was  rich  in  the  fruits  of  long  experience, 
keen  observation,  and  power  of  analysis. 


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Whenever  a  big  theatrical  production  is 
freely  advertised  without  special  mention 
in  advance  of  the  names  of  the  company,  we 
are  safe  in  assuming  them  to  be  nobodies. 
So  it  turns  out  with  the  "  Ben  Hur  "  players. 
We  have  never  heard  of  them  before.  There 
is  not  a  single  drawing  card  in  the  list. 

Not  that  it  makes  a  very  vast  amount  of 
difference,  for  "  Ben  Hur."  like  "  Quo  Vadis," 
dramatizes  merely  into  spectacular  melo- 
drama. Picturesqueness  of  appearance  and 
confidence  in  attacking  the  sounding  lines  are 
the  main  requisites  of  the  players.  For  the 
old,  grand  manner,  and  heroic  style  of  the 
legitimates  is  extinct,  except  with  a  few  has- 
beens,  who  are  too  old  to  fill  the  "  Ben  Hur  " 
roles.  The  modern  substitute  for  the  grand 
manner  is  a  sort  of  long-drawn,  preacher's 
intonation  that  subtly  suggests  a  Sunday  ser- 
mon and  an  accompanying  absence  of  mind 
in   undevout   listeners. 

Not  that  "  Ben  Hur  "  is  absolutely  dull,  but 
the  lines  are  too  long-drawn  for  modern  tastes, 
and,  while  the  listener  listens,  he  does  so  at 
times  with  restrained  impatience.  But  the 
spectacle,  although  evidently  falling  below 
the  standard  of  the  Eastern  presentation 
is  very  good,  the  stage  is  well  crowded 
with  people,  the  costumes  of  tasteful 
design,  and  the  ninety  seconds  of  chariot 
racing — well,  that  is  the  core  and  the  climax 
of  the  whole  thing.  I  doubt  very  much 
whether  "Ben  Hur"  would  have  been  drama- 
tized if  there  hadn't  been  a  chariot  race  in 
the  book.  The  chariot  race  is  one  of  those 
things  that  appeal  strongly  to  the  public, 
knocking  out  art,  literature,  poetry,  and 
beauty,  in  its  drawing  power.  The  getters 
up  of  the  whole  affair  depended  on  it  to  bring 
them  financial  success.  Practically,  the  em- 
ployment of  the  same  mechanical  appliance, 
minus  some  improvements,  including  a 
greater  picturesqueness  of  effect  in  "  Ben 
Hur,"  built  a  fortune  for  Neil  .Burgess  out 
of  the   stupid,   trivial   "  County  Fair." 

Many  non-theatre  goers  feel  it  incumbent 
upon  them  to  see  "  Ben  Hur "  for  three 
reasons:  First,  because  of  the  religious  ele- 
ment in  the  piece.  Second,  because  of  the 
fame  of  General  Wallace's  book.  Third,  be- 
cause their  curiosity  is  excited  about  the 
chariot  race. 

The  play  has  six  acts,  which  include  thir- 
teen scenes,  and  an  additional  opening 
tableau  of  the  "  Three  Wise  Men  "  prostrating 
themselves  at  the  sight  of  the  mysterious  star. 
For  some  curious  reason  of  a  psychological 
nature,  possibly  from  the  lingering  influence 
left  on  the  most  indifferent  mind  by  the 
supernatural  beauty  of  the  mystic  legend  first 
received  and  cherished  by  the  tenacious  mem- 
ory in  childhood,  there  is  more  thrill  to  be 
experienced  during  this  silent  picture  of  mute 
worship  than  at  any  subsequent  moment  in 
the  play.  The  gray-blue  light  of  dawn  is 
there,  and  the  distant  desert.  The  three 
figures  fall  in  adoration,  the  glow  of  the 
star  deepens,  and  its  rays  spread.  And  all  the 
while  Edgar  Kelley's  beautiful  music  sends 
thrills  down  your  spine,  and  almost  starts, 
the  unreasoning  tear.  After  the  emotion  and 
exaltation  induced  by  these  sights  and  sounds, 
the  first  speaking  scene,  with  its  commonplace 
people,  comes  as  an  anti-climax. 

For  the  actors,  it  can  not  be  denied,  break 
the  spell.  There  is  the  usual  difficulty  when 
dramatizing  a  book  with  such  extensive  rami- 
fications of  plot  and  historical  and  religious 
interest  as  "  Ben  Hur."  in  condensing  neces- 
sary information  in  the  dialogue  for  the  ben- 
efit of  the  uninformed  spectator.  We  are  apt 
to  assume  that  everybody  has  read  such  a 
book  as  "  Ben  Hur,"  if  we  ourselves  have 
done  so.  Nevertheless,  there  are  quantities 
of  people  that  would  succumb  before  they  had 
concluded  the  first  chapter.  Its  reverential 
tone,  its  occasional  assumption  of  a  style  of 
Biblical  solemnity,  its  wealth  of  scholarly  de- 
tail, its  leisurely  amplification,  its  atmosphere 
of  ar  tiquity,  would  trouble  the  butterfly 
reader  ,  and  drive  them  away.  But,  besides 
the  1  ally  interested  rea>  rs,  there  are  the 
hit iti  ones,  who  join  reeling  clubs  and  get 
.  >und   with   the   soothing   diversion   of 


social  intercourse  to  lure  them  past  the  heavy 
walking,  where  the  feet  tread*  in  sand. 

In  book  dramatizations,  however,  I  always 
feel  that  the  listener  who  comes  with  a  mind 
uninfluenced  by  preconceived  images  of  the  au- 
thor is  ahead.  I  believe  firmly  in  the  effi- 
cacy of  surprise  in  the  drama.  The  unex- 
pected should  always  await  us  in  the  next 
scene. 

And  besides,  there  is  always  the  danger  to 
be  dreaded  of  characters  enshrined  in  the 
light  of  the  imagination  becoming  earthy  and 
prosaic  in  the  hands  of  commonplace  actors. 
Palaces  transported  to  the  stage  lose  their 
architectural  beauty  and  majestic  area,  gar- 
ments of  ancient  style  lose  their  grace,  and 
one  ugly,  intrusive,  Middle  West  ah-ur-r  can 
straightway  knock  a  filleted  and  gorgeously 
betunicked  Roman  out  of  the  dawn  of  the 
Christian  era  into  the  light  of  common  day. 

It  is  odd,  by  the  way,  that  there  is  such  a 
scarcity  of  Jews  in  the  cast.  Within  the  last 
ten  years  there  has  been  an  immense  acces- 
sion of  Jewish  players  on  the  American  stage. 
Many  of  them,  men  and  women,  fairly  hand- 
some, and  some  of  them  with  a  capacity  for 
picturesqueness  in  the  ancient  or  Oriental 
dress  not  always  attainable  by  the  strictly 
American  citizen.  I  have  seen  roles  spoiled 
by  the  too  pronounced  Jewishness  of  type  of 
certain  players  in  certain  plays.  Now,  when 
they  are  needed,  they  are  conspicuous  by  their 
absence. 

Ben  Hur  is  played  by  a  fine  young  Irish- 
man, and  the  ladies  of  the  House  of  Hur 
are  as  American  as  they  make  them.  Esther, 
too — the  prettiest  girl  on  the  stage,  by  the 
way — is  of  a  purely  American  type,  with  the 
blonde  hair,  the  girlish  innocence  of  expres- 
sion, and  the  flower-like  slenderness  of  youth. 

Iras,  the  Egyptian,  was  played  by  a  woman 
who  might  be  Jew  or  Gentile.  Her  type  is  a 
little  out  of  the  ordinary.  Although  she  is 
too  mature  for  the  role,  she  was  tolerably  well 
suited  to  a  very  imperfectly  developed  part. 

Messala  is  played  by  a  good-looking  youth 
who  misuses  his  r's,  but  carries  his  Roman 
costume  with  a  bold,  confident  air. 

In  all  the  lengthy  cast,  however,  there  is 
no  one  figure  that  stands  out  in  the  trans- 
forming light  of  the  imagination.  Mr.  Kelley, 
who  plays  Ben  Hur,  is  a  useful  actor,  who  in- 
tones lengthily  m-i-i-n-e  o-o-wn,  and  /  lo-o-ve 
thee-ee,  and  who  only  quite  fits  in  physique. 
He  did  not  seem  to  be  Ben  Hur,  but  a  well- 
developed  youth,  conscientiously  striving  to 
stand  in  the  shoes  of  the  Judean  prince. 

However,  what  does  it  matter?  I  suspect 
that  a  first-class  company  would  be  thrown 
away  in  the  piece.  Personality  and  appear- 
ance would  count,  of  course,  but  there  would 
be  little  opportunity  for  the  employment  of 
twentieth-century  histrionic  art  of  the  kind 
we  are  trained  to  enjoy.  The  play  runs  to 
closing  tableaux,  with  some  features  of  the 
old-time  absurdity.  The  Roman  gallery,  with 
its  files  of  muscular  rowers,  timing  their 
rhythmical  motion  to  the  gavel  of  the  hortator 
accorded  well  with  the  description  in  the 
book,  but  the  scene  closed  with  the  attack  of 
the  pirates,  whom  Ben  Hur  knocked  down  by 
the  half-dozen  with  but  a  slight  fillip  of  the 
hand.  They  fell  like  nine-pins,  without  a 
struggle,  in  the  immemorial  manner  sacred  to 
the  traditions  of  the  supiest  stipes. 

Similarly,  during  the  sacking  of  the  palace 
of  the  Hurs,  the  soldiers  struck  a  motionless 
pose,  and  silently  threatened  the  servitors 
with  their  weapons.  We  are  too  sophisticated 
nowadays  to  be  carried  away  by  that  sort  of 
thing.  Besides,  the  training  of  stage  mobs 
has  grown  into  an  art,  and  the  mobs  in  "  Ben 
Hur  "  make  themselves  into  compact  bunches, 
unsuggestive  of  numerous  accessions  extend- 
ing beyond  the  stage  under  view. 

The  scene  on  the  open  sea  came  to  us  like 
a  novelty.  Such  views  on  the  stage  have  be- 
come comparatively  rare  in  the  twentieth- 
century  drama,  and  the  mechanism  of  the  res- 
cuing galley  worked  without  a  hitch.  It  really 
gives  the  beholder  a  sense  of  heaving  waves 
and    stretches    of    open    sea,    and    made    him 


almost    forget   the    perspiring   muscles    under- 
neath. 

There  is  no  doubt  that  there  is  plenty  of 
spectacle  for  your  money  in  "  Ben  Hur. 
There  is  the  Grove  of  Daphne,  where  rows  of 
garlanded  women  and  children  file  in  joyous 
processional  to  the  sound  of  lyres  and  the 
chanting  of  their  own  voices,  or  leap  in  joy- 
ous dance  to  the  rhythmical  clamor  of  the 
cymbals.  There  is  old  Balthazar's  camel, 
with  a  swaying  howdah  on  his  back  (to  which 
none  of  the  stage-folk  seemed  anxious  to  in- 
trust themselves),  chewing  a  special  brand  of 
camel-gum  with  that  look  of  infinite  patience 
characteristic  of  these  gentle  beasts  of  the 
desert.  And  Messala's  chariot  dashes  in. 
from  which  descends  with  a  graceful  bound  its 
scarlet  tunicked  owner,  to  offer  audacious 
homage  to  the  beauty  of  the  lithe  Egyptian. 
Anon  he  is  up  again,  and  away  dash  the 
horses  with  carefully  proportioned  leaps,  and 
an  ardor  suggestive  of  a  bran-mash  awaiting 
their  immediate  attention. 

Then  there  is  the  grove  of  palms,  sur- 
rounding the  lake,  on  whose  moonlit  bosom 
glides  the  shallop  of  Iras  and  Ben  Hur,  while 
a  somewhat  sharp  voice  from  the  wings  sings 
Egyptian  love-songs  with  which  to  lure  the 
wealthiest  prince  in  Jerusalem.  There  is  the 
huge  tent,  with  its  multiform  drapings,  in 
which  during  the  time  of  the  race  dwells  the 
Sheikh  of  Ilderim.  Hither  gather  Ben  Hur 
and  his  friends,  and  thence  goes  the 
former  from  the  banquet  to  the  arms  of  Iras, 
when,  as  he  says,  "Balthazar  tells  fits  tale 
again."  Innocent  dramatist,  you  did  not  know 
there  was  the  touch  of  nature  there  in  the 
escape  of  ardent  youth  from  the  oft-told  tale 
of  the  greybeard. 

The  chariot  race  it  is  unnecessary  to  de- 
scribe. Everybody  Has  read  of  it.  The  illusion  is 
very  good.  But  I  felt  cheated  that  they  did 
not  raise  the  curtain  for  a  second  view,  al- 
though true  it  is  that  the  minute  and  a  half 
seems  longer. 

The  music  is  beautiful  all  through,  possess- 
ing the  power  to  influence  strongly  the  imagi- 
nation, and  work  upon  the  emotions.  There 
are  times  when  the  performance  suddenly  be- 
comes grand  opera,  and  during  moments  of 
dialogue  one  fails  to  regard  as  an  intrusion  the 
repetition  of  the  beautiful  musical  motives 
that  come  with  the  mention  of  Christ  and  the 
Three  Magi,  or  the  sinister  chords  that  warn 
of  the  evil  influence  of  Iras.  The  parting 
scene  is  that  of  the  lepers  awaiting  healing 
in  the  Vale  of  Hinnom,  where  is  visible  the 
ray  of  supernatural  light  that  miraculously 
cures.  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


The  fifth  annual  benefit  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Associated  Theatrical  Managers  of  San 
Francisco,  in  aid  of  their  charity  fund  for  the 
sick  and  needy  in  the  profession,  will  take 
place  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  Friday  after- 
noon, November  20th,  at  one  o'clock  sharp. 
Tickets,  which  are  on  sale  at  the  various 
theatre  box-offices,  are  one  and  two  dollars. 


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Note— Performances  begin  at  eight  sharp,  Saturday 
matinee  at  two  sharp. 

To-night,  "  Favorita."  Sunday  night,  "  Cavalleria  " 
and  "  I'Pagliacci."  Next  week — Monday,  Wednes- 
day, Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings,  "  Tosca." 
Tuesday,  Thursday,  and  Sunday  evenings,  Saturday 
matinee  "  II  Trovatore." 

Prices  as  usual— 25c,  50c,  and  75c.    Telephone  Bush  9. 

COLUMBIA    THEATRE, 

To-night,   Sunday  night,   and   for  a   second  and  last 
week.     Beginning  next  Monday,  matinee  Sat- 
urday, the  merry  musical  fantasv, 

=t=   the    s  t  o  r  k  S    =:- 

A    whirlwind  of    mirth  and  an    endless  delight  in 
music. 


November  16th— Virginia  Harned  in  Iris. 

ALCAZAR    THEATRE*    Phone"  Alcazar." 
Belasco&  Maveb,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

"  An  ideal  stock  company."-^H//f/;'«. 
"  It  is  wonderfully  versatile. "r—  Post. 


Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.     Week  com- 
mencing Monday  evening  next,  November  9th, 
THE     PRIVATE    SECRETARY 

Evenings,  25c  to  75c.    Saturday  and  Sundav  Mati- 
nees, 15c  to  50c. 


Monday.  November  16th— The  Club's  Baby. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week    beginning    Monday,    November   gth,  matinees 
Saturday  and  Sunday,  L.  R.  STOCKWELL'S 

mammoth  production  of 

UNCLE      TOM'S      CABIN 

Most  stupendous  success  of  the  year. 

Prices — Evenings,  ioc  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 

Week  of  November  16th— Under  the  Polar  Star. 

QRAND  OPERA   HOUSE. 

Monday-     November     9th.     second     week,     matinee 
Wednesday  and   Saturday.      No    Sundav    perform- 
ances.    Klaw   &    Erlanger's   stupendous  production 
of  General  Lew  Wallace's 
-:-       BS3NT     HTJB.       -:- 
Three  hundred  and   fifty  people  in   the  production. 

Engagement  limited  to  four  weeks. 

Prices,  $2.00,  S1.50.S1.00,  75c,  and  50c. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  November  Sth. 
Peerless  vaudeville !  Bellman  and  Moore ;  Warren 
and  Elanchard;  Jack  Theo  Trio;  Phil  and  Nettie 
Peters;  "Village  Choir"  Quartette;  Max  Waldon ; 
Clivette;  the  Two  Roses;  and  last  week  of  Goleman's 
Dogs  and  Cats. 

Reserved  seats,  25c ;  balcony,  ioc;  oper,a  chairs  and 
box  seals,  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


The  crowds  pour  in  to  see 
-:-        RUBES      AIVD      ROSES        -:- 

Awfully  funnv  and  magnificently  staged.  Our  "all 
star"  cast,  including  Kolb  and  Dill,  Barney  Bernard, 
Wiufield  Blake,  Maude  Amber,  Georgia  O'Ramey, 
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STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Last  'Week  of  The  Storks." 
An  abundance  of  tuneful  music,  a  bewilder- 
ing array  of  tastefully  costumed  maidens,  and 
several  really  handsome  stage  pictures  make 
*'  The  Storks  "  one  of  the  most  entertaining 
•'  musical  fantasies "  which  have  visited  us 
for  some  time.  Richard  Carle  and  Guy  F. 
Steely  are  responsible  for  the  rather  thin 
libretto,  which  tells  of  the  amusing  predica- 
ments of  the  Bungaloo  of  Baktera  and  Slim- 
guff,  the  court  shoemaker,  who  are  trans- 
formed into  storks  by  partaking  of  magic 
pills.  They  go  on  a  hunt  for  the  royal 
sceptre,  which  has  been  carried  off  by  a  stork, 
and  many  humorous  situations  are  brought 
out  while  the  twain  are  endeavoring  to  re- 
member the  magic  word  through  which  only 
they  can  regain  their  original  forms.  Gus 
Weinberg  is  the  Bungaloo.  and  Gilbert  Greg- 
ory the  Slimguff.  and  their  songs  and  antics 
are  provocative  of  much  laughter.  Our  old 
friend.  Ada  Deaves,  of  Henderson  ex- 
travasanza  fame,  has  another  eccentric  part 
in  Penelope,  which  gives  her  an  admirable 
opportunity  to  score.  The  other  principals 
deserving  of  mention  are  Alma  Youlin,  who 
takes  the  role  of  Helen;  Olgar  von  Hatzfeldt 
— no  longer  countess  on  the  programme — as 
Violet:  and  Dorothy  Choate  as  Peggy.  The 
chorus  is  composed  of  a  surprisingly  large 
number  of  pretty  girls,  who  infuse  much 
snap  and  ginger  into  their  songs  and  dances. 
Perhaps  the  most  enchanting  stage  picture 
is  the  night  scene  in  the  second  act.  where 
a  glorious  orange  moon  rises  over  the  hills 
of  Nod.  In  fact,  the  color  scheme  in  the 
costuming,  and  the  light  effects  throughout 
the  opera,  are  artistically  conceived  and 
carried  out.  Virginia  Harned  in  Pinero's 
much-discussed    play,    "  Iris,"    is    to    follow. 

Comedy  at  the  Alcazar. 
John  B.  Maher,  who.  within  a  month,  has 
established  himself  as  a  great  San  Francisco 
favorite,  is  to  have  the  leading  role — the 
patheticallv  droll  and  plaintively  humorous 
Rev  Mr.  Spalding — in  that  amusing  farce- 
comedy,  "  The  Private  Secretary,"  which  is 
to  be  produced  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  next 
week  Adele  Block.  Frances  Starr,  James 
Durkin.  and  Mr.  Hilliard  will  also  be  in  the 
cast,  and  an  enjoyable  performance  is  as- 
sured. On  Monday  evening,  November  16th. 
Jacob  Litt's  comedy  success,  "  The  Club's 
Babv."  is  to  be  the  bill.  It  is  said  to  be  a 
great  mirth-provoker.  the  fun  being  based 
on  the  responsibilities  and  embarrassments 
which  result  from  a  bachelor's  club  adopting 
a  precocious  infant. 


Fischer's  Latest  Hit. 
"  Rubes  and  Roses  "  is  a  great  improvement 
on  Raymond  Peck  and  Robert  Hood's  former 
musical  hodge-podge,  ""  The  Paraders."  The 
music  is  of  a  popular  and  tuneful  order,  and 
the  libretto  abounds  in  droll  lines  and  humor- 
ous situations.  Georgia  O'Ramey  supplies  a 
long-felt  want  in  the  Fischer  productions — 
a  character  comedienne  who  can  do  some- 
thing more  than  wear  pretty  clothes  and 
smile  coquettishly.  As  Susie  Snowbird,  a 
guileless  maid  from  Grassville,  she  plays  a 
sort  of  Sis  Hopkins  role  for  all  it  is  worth, 
and  she  secures  as  many  laughs  for  her  ef- 
forts as  any  of  the  popular  burlesquers.  Ben 
T.  Dillon,  the  new  comedian,  also  is  sure 
to  be  a  favorite.  He  sings  and  dances  well, 
his  ditty,  "  The  Czar  of  Country  Town,"  re- 
ceiving many  encores  nightly.  The  other 
song  hits  are  Maude  Ambers  "  The  American 
Beauties."  Kolb  and  DilFs  "  Come  Out  in  the 
Garden  With  Me,"  Winfield  Blake's  "  Mean- 
dering With  Mary,"  and  Barney  Bernard's 
parodies  on  popular  airs. 

" Uncle  Tom's  Cabin"  Again. 
The  great  success  of  the  recent  production 
of  '"  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin  "  at  the  Central  The- 
atre has  induced  the  management  to  revive  it 
on  Monday  night  for  another  week's  run. 
L.  R.  Stockwell  will  again  impersonate 
Lawyer  Marks.  Ernest  Howell  will  appear  as 
Uncle  Tom.  Henry  Shumer  as  Simon  Legree. 
and  Myrtle  Vane  as  Topsy.  A  number  of  new 
specialties  are  to  be  introduced,  including  a 
colored  chorus  of  fifty  people,  who  will  sing 
a  new  set  of  Southern  melodies.  Another 
novelty  will  be  a  gorgeous  tableau  entitled 
"  Slavery  Days." 


The  Music  of  "Ben  Hur.r 
One  of  the  most  notable  features  of  "  Ben 
Hur."  which  has  done  a  record-breaking  first 
week's    business   at   the    Grand    Opera    House, 
is    the    impressive    music    written    by    Edgar 
Stillman  Kelley.     It  is  doubtful  if  any  better 
-  qualified  American  composer  could  have  been 
•   selected    to    prepare    the    musical    setting    for 
:his    melodramatic    dramatization    of    General 
Wallace's  story.     Mr.  Kelley's  mother  was  a 
skilled    musician,    and    taught    him    the   piano  [ 
rrom  his  eighth  year  to  his  seventeenth.  Then  l 
le '  went    to    Chicago,    and    studied    harmony  | 
ind    counterpoint   under    Clarence    Eddy,    and  j 
he    piano    under    Ledochowsk.       After    two  I 
/ears    in    Chicago,    Mr.    Kelley    went    to    Ger-  \ 
nany.  where  in  Stuttgart,  he  studied  the  piano 
rith  Krugar  and  Spidel.  the  organ  with  Fink, 
ind     composition      and      orchestration      with 
Seiffritz.       While    in     Germany,     Mr.     Kelley 
vrote   a   brilliant   and   highly   successful   con-  , 
:ert  polonaise   for  four  hands,  and  a  compo-  : 
•ition  for  strings.     In   1880.  he  came  back  to 
iVmerica,  and  settled  in  this  city,  with  whose 
nusical  life  he  became  prominently  identified 
is   a   teacher   and   composer.      Here   he   wrote 
lis    first    large    work,    the    well-known    music 
or    "  Macbeth."      A    local    benefactor.    John 
5arrott.  paid  the  expense  of  a  public  perform- 
tnce.    the    great    success    of    which    persuaded 
VlcKee  Rankin,  the  actor,  to  make  an   elabo-  ! 
ate  production  of  both  play  and  music.  This 
an  for  some  weeks  in  San  Francisco,  attract- 
ng    large    audiences.      Mr.    Kelley    was    then 


persuaded  to  write  a  comic  opera  to  the  artis- 
tic libretta,  "  Puritania."  by  C.  M.  S.  McLel- 
lan.  the  satirist.  The  work  won  high  praise 
in  Boston,  where  it  enjoyed  a  run  of  one 
hundred  performances,  and  later,  when  it  went 
on  tour,  Mr.  Kelley  acted  as  musical  con- 
ductor. A  "Humorous  Symphony"  and  a 
"  Chinese  Suite  "  are  among  his  other  notable 
compositions. 

Grand  Opera  at  the  Tivoli. 
The  Tivoli  offers  a  particularly  attractive 
bill  next  week.  On  Monday.  Wednesday. 
Friday,  and  Saturday  evenings  Puccini's  "  La 
Tosca  "  is  to  be  presented.  This  work,  which 
was  given  for  the  first  time  in  San  Francisco 
last  season,  is  founded  on  Sardou's  drama, 
and  has  won  almost  as  much  success  here 
and  abroad  as  "  La  Boheme."  the  orchestra- 
tion being  particularly  brilliant.  The  title- 
role  is  to  be  assumed  by  Tina  de  Spada, 
while  Agostini  will  appear  as  Cavaradossi. 
Zanini  as  Scarpia.  and  Dado  as  Angelotti. 
Zani.  Cortesi,  Napoleoni,  and  Miss  Phyllis 
Partington  will  also  be  in  the  cast.  On  the 
alternate  nights  —  Tuesday.  Thursday,  and 
Sunday — and  at  the  Saturday  matinee.  Verdi's 
"  II  Trovatore "  will  be  presented  with  the 
same  cast  that  won  such  favor  earlier  in  the 
season.  This  will  be  the  last  chance  to  hear 
Gregoretti  as  Count  di  Luna.  Ischierdo  as 
Manrico.  Travaglini  as  Ferrando.  Benedetto 
as  Leonora,  and   Marchesini  as  Azucena. 

The  Orpheum's  Bill. 
Frank  Bellman  and  Lottie  Moore,  who  have 
a  sketch  out  of  the  ordinary  in  "  A  Gallery 
Goddess,"  by  Edmund  Day  and  A.  Hobart 
Davis,  will  make  their  reappearance  at  the 
Orpheum  next  week.  The  other  new-comers 
are  Warren  and  Blanchard.  comedians  and 
great  favorites  in  this  city ;  Fred  Warren, 
one  of  the  best  black-face  comedians  before 
the  public,  and  his  partner,  who  is  a  vocalist 
of  renown:  the  Jack  Theo  Trio,  noveltv  and 
acrobatic  dancers :  and  Phil  and  Nettie 
Peters,  laughmakers.  whose  conversational 
quips  are  clever  and  amusing.  The  specialties 
retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  the  "  Village 
Choir"  Quartette,  which  will  sing  new  "old 
songs."  including  "  Come  Where  My  Love 
Lies  Dreaming,"  "  Sally  in  Our  Alley."  and 
"  Songs  of  Other  Days  "  ;  Max  Waldon  in  his 
transformation  act :  "  Two  Roses."  who  will 
vary  their  selections — the  'cellist  playing 
Schubert's  Serenade  and  "  Narcissus."  and 
the  violinist  giving  Hauser's  Hungarian 
Fantasie ;  Clivette.  the  magican,  juggler,  and 
silhouettist ;  and  Goleman's  well-trained  dogs 
and  cats. 


Dr.  Tyndall's  Sunday  Lecture- 
"Hypnotism  and  Crime"  will  be  the  sub- 
ject of  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall's  psychological 
lecture  at  Steinway  Hall  on  Sunday  night. 
This  subject  is  one  upon  which  there  seems 
to  be  great  diversity  of  opinion  among  those 
who  claim  to  know  something  of  its  phenom- 
ena. Some  noted  authorities  claim  that  hyp- 
notism may  be  used  to  instill  a  desire  to  com- 
mit crime,  the  majority  of  experimenters  and 
public  performers,  as  strenuously  contend 
that  it  can  not,  and  that  a  person  in  a  hyp- 
notic trance  can  not  be  made  to  do  anything 
that  he  would  not  do  in  his  natural  senses  so 
far  as  his  moral  nature  is  concerned.  The 
local  interest  lately  aroused  in  the  subject 
has  resulted  in  numerous  inquiries  directed 
to  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  as  a  reliable  authority 
on  the  subject,  and  so  he  has  decided  to 
speak  on  this  subject  on  Sunday  evening.  In 
addition.  Dr.  Tyndall  will  give  some  new  ex- 
periments in  telepathy.  On  Sunday  evening. 
November  15th.  Dr.  Tyndall  will  talk  of  "  The 
Elements  of  Success." 


Robert  Edeson,  in  collaboration  with  Byron 
Ongley,  the  actor,  is  preparing  a  stage  version 
of  "  Conjuror's  House,"  a  story  of  the  Hudson 
Bay  territory",  by  Stewart  Edward  White. 


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and  he  will  secure  absolutely  the  finest  brand 
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Death  of  Mrs.  Knox -Goodrich. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Louise  Knox-Goodrich,  one  of 
the  most  prominent  women  of  the  State,  died 
in  San  Jose  on  October  30th,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-seven.  With  her  husband,  Dr.  Will- 
iam James  Knox,  she  came  to  California  in 
1852,  and  settled  in  Nevada  City.  Dr.  Knox 
built  the  South  Yuba  ditch  there,  and  sold 
water  to  the  miners,  and  made  a  fortune  from 
the  venture.  In  1861,  they  removed  to  San 
Francisco,  where  they  remained  until  1864. 
when  they  went  to  San  Jose.  Dr.  Knox,  with 
E.  Ellard  Beans,  established  the  Bank  of  San 
Jose,  and  Knox  was  the  first  president  of 
the  bank.  In  1867,  Knox  was  elected  State 
senator  from  this  county,  and  a  few  months 
after  died  while  on  a  visit  to  San  Francisco. 
Mrs.  Knox  married  Levi  Goodrich,  a  prom- 
inent architect,  in  San  Jose  in  1870.  Good- 
rich died  in  1886  at  San  Diego,  while  on  a 
visit  to  that  city.  Mrs.  Knox  is  survived  by 
her  daughter,  Mrs.  Virginia  Knox-Maddox, 
and  leaves  an  estate  estimated  at  about  five 
hundred  thousand  dollars. 


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Bicycle  ind  Golf  Suits.  Opposite  the  Palace 


.-3M 

300 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


November  9,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


The  love  of  country  life,  combined  with 
the  great  increase  of  wealth  in  this  country, 
has  brought  into  existence  many  beautiful 
country  estates.  The  tendency  among  wealthy 
Americans  to  have  fine  places  in  the  country 
grows  stronger  every  day.  and  such  places  are 
springing  up  everywhere.  A  quarter  of  a 
century  ago  the  homes  of  the  rich  along  the 
banks  of  the  Hudson  River  were  a  unique 
feature  of  life  about  the  metropolis.  Now 
every  great  city  has  its  beautiful  country 
homes  scattered  through  the  territory  about 
it,  and  more  and  more  the  wealthy  are  show- 
ing a  tendency  to  leave  earlier  each  summer 
for  the  country,  and  remaining  in  their  sylvan 
retreats  until  the  cold  weather  forces  them 
back  to  town  again.  Some  pessimists  have 
recently  maintained  that  a  reaction  had  come 
in  the  craze  for  country  humes,  instanc- 
ing the  reported  intention  of  George  W.  Van- 
derbilt  to  give  up  his  famous  "  Biltmore  "  es- 
tate, near  Asheville,  N.  C.  It  now  turns  out 
that  Mr.  Vanderbilt  has  no  intention  of  dis- 
posing of  his  country  place,  and  that  his  wil- 
lingness to  lease  the  hunting  and  fishing  priv- 
ileges of  his  preserve  of  150,000  acres  is  due 
to  the  fact  that  he  expects  to  spend  a  year 
or  more  in  Europe.  This  hunting  preserve, 
one  of  the  finest  and  best-stocked  game  pre- 
serves in  the  entire  Appalachian  system,  has 
almost  been  untouched  for  years,  as  Mr.  Van- 
derbilt is  not  an  enthusiastic  sportsman.  It  is 
plentifully  supplied  with  deer,  black  bear, 
turkey,  pheasant,  and  quail,  and  also  contains 
many  miles  of  trout  streams  that  are  fairly 
jumping  with  fine  fish.  This  immense  tract 
is  almost  entirely  covered  with  a  heavy 
growth  of  virgin  forest,  and  in  it  are  found 
many  of  the  loftiest  and  most  picturesque 
mountains  in  North  Carolina.  Only  a  lim- 
ited number  of  permits  for  the  hunting  and 
fishing  privilege  will  be  granted.  The  pre- 
serve at  all  times  will  be  under  the  personal 
direction  of  Dr.  Schenck,  of  the  Biltmore  for- 
estry department,  and  patroled  as  heretofore 
by  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  game  wardens.  Mr.  Van- 
derbilt will  retain  unlimited  game  privileges 
for  himself  and  his  friends.  The  game  pre- 
serve is  separate  from  the  home  tract  of  about 
8,000  acres  immediately  surrounding  Biltmore. 
The  report  that  the  beautiful  estate  has  been 
either  partly  or  entirely  closed  is  also  false. 
Not  a  single  department  on  the  estate  has 
been  abandoned.  More  than  300  men  are  em- 
ployed. 

That  the  acquiring  of  such  large  estates  is 
not  looked  on  with  favor  by  these  wealthy 
men's  working-class  neighbors  is  well  known. 
What  exasperates  and  embitters  the  latter  is 
the  encroachment  upon  their  time-honored, 
if  not  strictly  legal,  privileges  which  is  too 
frequently  involved.  The  warning  away  of 
trespassers  from  regions  which  were  the  free 
hunting-ground  of  their  ancestors ;  the  at- 
tempted closing  of  trails  and  carries  ;  the  gen- 
erally offensive  air  of  exclusive  ownership 
without  use — this  is  the  sort  of  thing  which 
angers  the  native  of  the  wilderness.  On  the 
carry  between  Forked  and  Raquette  Lakes, 
for  example  (says  the  New  York  Evening 
Post)  a  sign  is  posted :  "  Private  Property. 
No  Thoroughfare.  W.  C.  Whitney."  An  old 
guide  was  heard  to  observe,  with  great  scorn, 
as  he  contemptuously  ignored  the  warning : 
"  Oh,  shucks !  This  here  was  a  thoroughfare 
before  Bill  Whitney  was  born,  and  I  guess 
it  will  be  long  after  his  grandchildren  are 
dead!  "  Friction  over  land  titles,  and  a 
feeling  that  the  State  authorities  have  been  in 
collusion  with  wealthy  men  to  bring  about 
the  alienation  of  a  common  birthright  in  the 
stretches  of  woodland  and  water,  come  into 
the  problem  in  too  many  cases.  All  told, 
there  is  evidence  in  plenty,  to  any  one  who 
will  look  for  it,  that  the  method  of  acquiring 
and  administering  the  extensive  holdings  of 
land  in  the  Adirondacks  is  offensive  to  the 
majority  of  the  people  of  the  locality. 

Frank  Carpenter  is  very  enthusiastic  over 
the  telephone  service  in  Sweden.  "  There  are 
two  telephone  companies  in  Stockholm,"  he 
writes,  "one  belonging  to  the  government 
and  the  other  owned  by  a  syndicate  of  Ger- 
mans. Neither  company  charges  more  than 
$10  a  year  per  dwelling,  and  this  charge  in- 
cludes a  radius  of  forty  miles  about  Stock- 
holm. It  gives  you  400  conversations  a  year, 
and  for  a  few  dollars  more  the  service  is  un- 
limited. Business  houses  pay  only  $25,  and 
some  only  $20.  The  street  telephones  stand 
alone  on  the  corners  or  in  the  parks  looking 
like  sentry-boxes  walled  with  glass.  Each 
has  slots  for  small  coins,  and  in  each  is 
printed  the  rates  for  Stockholm  and  all 
Sw  :den.  You  can  have  a  five-minute  talk 
v  n  any  one  in  Stoci-:  im  or  within  a  radius 
mi    'orty  miles  outside      '  it  for  z^/2   cents,  or 


to  any  part  of  Sweden  for  7  cents.  There  are 
telephones  in  the  restaurants,  some  of  the 
tables  have  electric  connection.  Suppose 
you  are  eating  there,  and  want  to  send  a  mes- 
sage home,  or  to  ask  a  question  of  some  one 
in  another  part  of  the  country.  All  you  do  is 
to  crook  your  finger  and  the  waiter  brings  a 
'phone  to  your  table  and  you  talk  away.  I 
have  a  telephone  in  my  room  at  the  hotel, 
and  this  is  the  case  with  every  guest  here. 
The  'phone  has  a  switch,  so  made  that  by 
turning  it  I  have  connection  with  the  office 
and  bell-boy,  and  so  that  on  reversing  I  am 
in  connection  with  the  central  station,  and  can 
bring  all  Sweden  and  Norway  to  my  ear  at 
a  moment's  notice.  The  '  hello  girls  '  here  are 
government  officials,  for  the  government  runs 
the  telephones.  They  are  very  polite,  and  you 
don't  have  to  ring  more  than  once.  They 
pronounce  the  word  '  hello  '  as  though 
it  were  spelled  '  haloo,'  with  the  accent  on 
the  last  syllable,  and  they  never  tell  you  the 
line  is  busy  when  it  is  not.  At  present,  all  the 
wires  in  Stockholm  are  being  placed  in  un- 
derground conduits,  and  altogether  the  lines 
are  expensively  constructed.  Notwithstanding 
this  the  companies  make  money  and  pay  divi- 
dends at  a  2^-cent  rate." 

Judging  from  the  number  of  complaints 
and  confessions  made  by  wives  which  appear 
every  week  in  the  Scotsman,  golfers  must  be 
ranked  among  the  most  neglectful  of  hus- 
bands. Golf,  we  are  told,  has  paralyzed  the 
enterprise  and  energy  of  many  breadwinners. 
Every  moment  which  at  one  time  was  given 
by  the  golfer  to  the  companionship  of  his  wife 
and  family  is  spent  on  the  links.  His  con- 
versation is  confined  to  mere  club-room  gos- 
sip. He  has  no  interest  in  any  literature  save 
that  in  the  golfing  papers  and  magazines.  The 
neglected  wives  complain  bitterly  that  they 
have  sunk  to  the  level  of  mere  housekeepers 
since  their  husbands  have  become  golf 
maniacs. 

The  co-eds  of  Northwestern  University  are 
at  it  again.  They  are  threatening  a  strike 
unless  the  following  demands  are  granted : 
The  privilege  of  going  out  of  town  without 
personal  interview  with  the  dean  ;  permission 
to  have  callers  every  school  night  until  9:30 
o'clock ;  that  the  senior  parlor  at  Willard 
Hall  be  reserved  for  seniors ;  repeal  of  the 
rule  which  requires  seniors  to  attend  chapel ; 
privilege  of  going  to  the  theatre  without  a 
chaperon ;  privilege  of  staying  out  until  ten 
o'clock  without  having  to  give  a  written  expla- 
nation to  the  dean ;  and  permission  to  use 
the  telephone. 


Seven  brides  of  officers  of  the  Twenty- 
Second  Regiment  were  the  centre  of  attraction 
when  the  honeymoon  transport  Sheridan 
sailed  for  Manila  last  Saturday.  They  in- 
cluded Mrs.  John  R.  R.  Hannay  (who  is  the 
daughter  of  General  Young),  Mrs.  James  Jus- 
tice, Mrs.  Robert  Whitfield,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Hu- 
guet,  Mrs.  David  L.  Stone,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Curtis. 
and  Mrs.  Henry  A.  Ripley.  Along  with  them 
was  Miss  Nellie  W.  Murphy,  who  is  on  the 
way  to  Manila  to  become  the  bride  of  Lieuten- 
ant McAndrews,  of  the  First  Cavalry.  She  is 
accompanied  by  Miss  McAndrews,  who  is  to 
be  a  bridesmaid  at  the  wedding  ceremony. 
Photographers  were  at  the  gang-plank  of  the 
steamer  to  get  snap-shots  at  the  blushing 
brides,  but  the  ladies  were  wary  and  the 
camera  men  had  great  difficulty  in  catching 
their  fair  faces  unawares.  The  photographers 
resorted  to  all  sorts  of  ruses,  and  succeeded 
in  getting  some  pictures. 


Race  suicide  is  a  serious  question  in  France. 
The  population  of  the  country  is  decreasing, 
not  by  emigration,  for  very  few  Frenchmen 
leave  their  native  country  compared  with 
those  of  other  nations,  but  because  the  death 
rate  is  greater  than  the  birth  rate.  People 
are  dying  faster  than  they  are  born.  Ac- 
cording to  the  returns  of  the  bureau  of  vital 
statistics  there  were  25,988  more  deaths  than 
births  in  France  last  year,  and  20,000  less 
births  than  during  the  previous  year,  while 
the  increase  in  the  number  of  deaths  was  37,- 
052.  The  record  shows  only  827,297  births 
for  a  population  of  more  than  39,000,000. 
There  was  a  slight  increase  in  the  number  of 
marriages,  and  a  slight  decrease  in  the  num- 
ber of  divorces,  which  fell  off  from  7,179  to 
7.157-  There  were  16,815  more  boys  born 
than  girls.  Among  the  various  remedies  to 
arrest  the  decay  of  France  it  is  proposed  to 
offer  prizes  for  large  families,  the  remission 
of  taxes  to  people  who  have  a  number  of 
sons,  the  extra  taxation  of  childless  families 
and  bachelors,  and  one  interesting  plan  is 
to  make  bachelors  ineligible  for  official  posi- 
tions under  the  government  and  the  munici- 
palities. Another  ingenious  gentleman  sug- 
gests that  married  men  and  fathers  of  chil- 
dren   be    exempt    from    military    service,    and 


that  the  French  army  be  limited  to  bachelors 
only. 

A  Palo  Alto  paper  says :  "  Miss  Grace 
Bruckman  gave  a  unique  party  on  Saturday 
night  at  her  home  on  Waverly  and  Lytton 
Streets.  The  affair  was  called  a  '  slang  rough 
house,'  and  each  guest  was  requested  to  repre- 
sent some  slang  phrase,  and  one  well-known 
favorite  among  the  ladies  had  his  clothes 
covered  with  cards  bearing  the  queen  of 
hearts  and  carried  a  copy  of  the  Stanford 
Quad,  thus  exemplifying  the  slang  term  of 
'  queening  on  the  quad.'  The  party  was 
greatly  enjoyed  by  all  the  guests,  and  Miss 
Bruckman   was   voted   a   charming  hostess." 

Autumn  finds  the  cardinal  four-in-hand 
tie  very  much  in  evidence  in  New  York. 
Frederick  Gebhard  wears  red  ties  with  his 
dark-blue  suits,  as  does  Hollis  Hunnewell, 
who  dresses  a  great  deal  in  brown.  The  Duke 
of  Roxburghe.  the  other  day,  was  seen  on  the 
street  wearing  a  red  tie  with  his  long  gray 
frock-coat.  Alfred  Vanderbilt  has  also  taken 
up  with  the  fashion. 


If  You  Are  Looking 

for  a  perfect  condensed  milk  preserved  without 
sugar,  buy  Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated 
Cream.  It  is  not  only  a  perfect  food  for  infants, 
but  its  delicious  flavor  and  richness  makes  it  su- 
perior to  raw  cream  for  cereals,  coffee,  tea,  choco- 
late, and  general  household  cooking.  Prepared 
by  Borden '5  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


Or.  Charles  W.  Decker,  JDentist, 

Phelan    Building,   806   Market    Street.     Specialty : 
"Colton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 


From    Official     Report     of    Alexander     G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  0/ 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

October       29th 70  52  .00  Clear 

"  30th 64  54  .00  Cloudy 

"  31SI  —  62  54  .00  Clear 

November  1st 60  52  .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

2d 62  54  .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

"  3d 62  54  .00  Cloudy 

"  4th.  ...  60  56  .49  Cloudy 


THE  FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  November  4,  1903, 
were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Cal.  Central  G.   E. 

5%  5iO°°    @  *°43£  104& 

Hawaiian  C.  S- 5%-    5,ooo    @    99  99%     100 

Los  An.  Ry  5%   25,000    ©113  "2j<     114 

Los  Angeles   Elec- 
tric Co.  5% 3,000    @  io2j£  101% 

Market  St.  Ry.  6%.    6,000    @  n8J£  118 

Market  St.   Ry.   1st 

Con.  5% 2,000    @  113^  114 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%  ..     1,000    @  114%  11414     116 

Pac.  Elect.  Rv.  5%.     2,000    @  108^  106^     109 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.5% 29,000    @ii6-    117        117        n75£ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909  t.ooo    @  io7J£  107K     108 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910 :,ooo    @  109  108^     109^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905,  S.  A I.OOO      @  I02}£  I02#      102& 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1912 3,000  @  114^  114        115 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal,   5% 

Stpd 22,000  @  106^-108^     106        io6lA 

S-  P.  Branch,  6%..  10,000  @  131^  131        132 

S-  V.  Water  6% 5,000  @  106  105%     io6# 

S.  V.  Water  4%....     4,000  @    98^-  9954      oSJ£      98^ 
Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa    65  @    42  41^      45 

Spring  Valley   443  @    3&A-  &H       39  39& 

Banks. 

American  Ntl 10  @  122%  125 

Sugars. 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...         35  @    43-  44}^      44 

Honokaa  S.  Co....        215  @    13-  13^      13  1354 

Hutchinson 390  @      9^-  ioJ4      to  io# 

Makaweli  S.  Co. . . .         90  @    22  22^      23 

OnomeaS.  CO 65  @    32  32  33 

Gas  and  Electric. 

S.F.Gas&Electric       250  @    68-  69^      67 

Trustees  Certificates. 

S.  F.Gas&El'ctric       210  @    68-  69         67J6      68 

Miscellaneous. 

Alaska  Packers  ...        305  @  149-  151^     149^     151 

Cat.  Fruit  Canners.         10  @    94 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 30  @    94-  94^      93         94 

Pacific  Coast  Borax         31  @  167  167 

The  sugar  stocks  have  been  quiet,  and  less  than 
720  shares  of  all  kinds  changed  hands  with  frac- 
tional declines. 

Alaska  Packers  sold  off  four  points  to  149  on  sales 
of  305  shares,  closing  at  149^  bid,  151  asked. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  weak,  selling  off  to  38!-; 
on  sales  of  440  shares,  closing  at  39  bid,  39^  asked. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  was  in  fairly  good 
demand.  250  shares  changing  hands  at  68  to  69!^. 


INVESTTIENTS. 

Local  Stocks  and  Securities.     Refer  by  permission 
to  Wells  Fargo  &  Co.  and  Anglo- Californian  Banks. 


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STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


A  Highland  waiter  once  refused  to  serve 
the  late  Max  O'Rell  at  table.  "  It's  no'  to  be 
expected,"  said  he,  "  that  a  self-respecting 
Scotsman  could  serve  him  with  ceeveelity. 
Did  he  no'  say  we  took  to  the  kilt  because 
our  feet  were  too  large  to  get  through  trous- 
ers? " 


Colonel  C.  G.  Halpine  sometimes  made  his 
stammer  tributary  to  his  wit,  as  when,  upon 
Mrs.  Stowe's  going  abroad  in  1853.  on  a  sup- 
posed mission  to  collect  funds  for  the  anti- 
slavery  cause,  he  nicknamed  her,  first  among 
his  friends,  and  afterward  in  print :  "  Harriet 
Beseecher  Be- Stow  e." 


It  once  happened  when  "  Faust  '*  was  being 
acted,  that  the  corpulent  person  who  was 
playing  the  title-role  stuck  fast  in  the  trap- 
door, being  therefore  unable  to  comply  with 
Mephistopheles's  final  injunction  to  descend 
to  the  fiery  regions.  Mephistopheles  tried  to 
fill  in  the  pause  with  interpolated  stage  busi- 
ness, but  still  Faust  stuck  where  he  was.  A 
dead  pause  followed,  broken  by  the  kindly  en- 
couragement of  one  gallery-god  to  a  friend : 
'*  Larry,  my  boy,  there's  luck  for  us  all.  Sure 
the  place  is  full !  " 

It  is  related  that,  on  one  occasion.  Boss 
Tweed,  of  New  York,  was  standing  with  a 
group  in  the  mayor's  office,  when  a  large  dia- 
mond, as  big  as  a  strawberry,  rolled  upon 
the  floor.  Some  one  of  the  group  picked  it 
up  and  passed  it  around  to  find  its  owner. 
"  Not  mine,"  said  one  after  another.  Tweed 
fumbled  with  his  garments  for  a  minute,  then 
reached  for  the  stone.  "  It  must  be  mine,"  he 
said ;  "  I  see  I  have  lost  one  of  my  suspender 
buttons." 


I  The  following  story  of  Pope  Pius  is  told 
in  the  Italian  papers :  A  deputation  of  the 
monks  of  some  order  recently  obtained 
an  interview  with  him.  According  to  the 
etiquette  of  the  Vatican  only  cardinals  are 
allowed  to  sit  in  the  Pope's  presence,  and  an 

'>  invitation  from  him  to  do  so  is  deemed  equiv- 
alent to  the  promise  of  a  cardinalate.  Pope 
Pius  the  Tenth  is  a  plain  man,  utterly  indif- 
ferent to  the  etiquette  of  the  Papal  court. 
He,  therefore,  begged  the  monks  to  take  seats. 
They  hardly  knew  whether  they  could  venture 

;  :o  do  so,  and  while  they  stood  hesitating,  he 
said  to  them :  "  You  do  not,  I  suppose,  expect 
ne  to  draw  your  chairs  forward  for  you?  " 

[r    Bishop  Potter  was  stopped  by  a  street  beg- 
gar  one   evening   as   he    was    hurrying   home. 
*  What's    the    trouble  ?  "    he    asked    the    man. 
w  Can  you  help  a  poor  blind  man  to  a  night's 
|,odgin'r"  began  the  usual  whine;  "I  haven't 
k  penny  in  my  pocket,  sir."     The  man  was  a 
earty  fellow,  with  a  patch  over  one  eye,  the 
■ther  one  being  closed.  The  bishop  turned  his 
'  iead  for  an  instant,  and  when  he  looked  back 
ie    saw,    in    one    quick    glance,    the    hitherto 
I  losed  eye  of  the  beggar  giving  a  wise   wink 
I  o    a    friend    who    stood     beside     him.      The 
Kshop    dived    into    his    pocket    and    brought 
fc*)rth  a  bogus  coin  that   had  been  passed  off 
I   n    him    a    little    while    before.      "  Don't    you 
I  hink    if    I    give    you    this    my    alms    will    suit 
lour  affliction?"  he  said. 


Mark  Twain's  story  of  the  million-pound 
ote  which  nobody-  would  cash  found  a  par- 
llel  on  an  almost  infinitesimal  scale  in 
Kentucky,  the  other  day.  A  Union  veteran 
amed  Gibson,  who  had  for  years  drawn  a 
nail  pension,  concluded  some  ten  years  ago 
tat  he  was  not  getting  his  full  deserts,  and 
Dplied  for  an  increase.  In  course  of  time 
rjrs  the  New  York  Evening  Post)  this  was 
canted,  and  the  first  payment  of  $2.07  fell 
ne.  Of  this,  as  might  be  expected,  an 
*en  $2  went  to  the  pension  attorney,  and 
ie  government's  check  which  Gibson  re- 
idved  was  for  a  paltry  seven  cents.  The 
nount  was  so  absurd  that  he  declared  he 
ould  never  cash  it,  and  the  slip  of  paper 
Irmained  in  his  hands  for  eight  years  as  a 
'Uvenir.  At  length,  between  pension  days, 
ibson  found  himself  "  broke,"  with  a  sick  1 
ife  on  his  hands  who  demanded  apples. 
id  would  be  satisfied  with  nothing  else.  ! 
rchards  from  which  he  could  purloin  some  j 
ere  too  far  away,  and  with  inward  mis- 
vings  the  veteran  hunted  up  his  pension  ' 
eck  from  its  hiding  place,  and  went  forth  | 
to  the  marts  of  trade.  The  first  grocer  to 
(torn  he  went  was  apprehensive  lest  the 
.eck  should  be  outlawed,  and  declined  to 
ke  it,  while  the  second,  a  better-mrormed 
an,  laughed  aloud  at  the  idea  of  giving 
»en  cents'  worth  of  apples  on  a  check  on 
e   United    States    Treasury"    which    it   would 


cost  fifteen  cents  merely  to  collect  through 
a  bank.  Gibson  went  empty  handed  from 
store  to  store  until  he  found  a  grocer  who  was 
a  bit  of  an  antiquarian  and  was  willing  to 
take  the  check  as  a  curiosity.  So  Mrs.  Gib- 
son had  her  apples. 

In  his  new  volume  of  racy  reminiscences, 
"  Odds  and  Ends."  Dr.  Francis  Pijou.  dean 
of  Bristol,  says  that  he  has  on  many  occa- 
sions been  pestered  by  cranks  who  even 
thrust  themselves  on  him  in  church  at  the 
solemn  hour  of  service.  For  example,  a  man 
cnce  bothered  him  by  urging,  in  season  and 
out  of  season,  the  merits  of  a  new  sauce 
which  he  had  invented.  But  the  dean  proved 
an  unwilling  hearer,  and  at  last  one  Sunday 
evening,  as  the  congregation  was  singing  the 
hymn  immediately  before  the  sermon  and  the 
dean  had  reached  the  pulpit  steps  and  had  be- 
gun to  mount  them,  this  unabashed  parish- 
ioner suddenly  appeared  at  the  steps  and. 
thrusting  forward  a  bottle  of  his  "  inimitable 
sauce."  exclaimed:  "Take  it:  you  will  find  it 
excellent  for  the  voice." 

The  dramatist,  R.  C.  Carton,  once  asked 
Bret  Harte  whether  his  Californian  types 
were  in  any  way  exaggerated.  "  No."  replied 
the  novelist,  with  his  deliberative  drawl.  "  I 
can't  say  they  are.  In  fact,  I  had  to  tone 
'em  down.  For  instance,  here  is  a  true  story 
which  if  I  had  put  it  into  any  of  my  books 
no  one  would  have  believed:  An  English 
tenderfoot  was  having  a  drink  in  a  bar 
out  West,  when  a  noted  desperado  happened 
along.  The  other  men  in  the  bar  mostly 
found  they  had  pressing  business  elsewhere, 
but  the  tenderfoot  stayed  on.  '  Say,*  said 
the  desperado  to  him,  'you'll  take  a  drink!' 
I  dare  say,  Mr.  Carton,  you  know  that  in 
California  to  refuse  to  drink  with  a  man  is 
much  worse  than  running  off  with  his  wife, 
so  when  the  tenderfoot  said  he  didn't  want 
anything  to  drink,  there  was  a  kind  of  awful 
silence.  And  then  the  desperado  wearily 
reached  for  his  gun.  and  said  in  a  tired 
sort  of  way :  '  Can't  I  even  hev'  a  drink 
without  killing  a  man!'*' 

While  in  Venice,  the  late  James  McNeil 
Whistler  was  entertained  at  dinner  one  even- 
ing by  an  American  friend,  who  invited  sev- 
eral of  his  friends  to  meet  the  distinguished 
artist.  During  the  meal,  there  arose  a  dis- 
cussion which  left  an  opening  for  Mr.  Whistler 
to  use  upon  his  host  one  of  those  keen,  in- 
cisive verbal  thrusts  peculiar  to  him,  which 
left  wounds  extremely  difficult  to  heal.  The 
whole  company  was  startled,  but  the  host 
merely  smiled,  seeming  to  notice  only  the 
brilliancy  of  the  attack.  Presently,  however, 
the  dinner  came  to  an  end,  and  the  foreign 
guests  took  their  leave.  Then  the  host 
turned  upon  Mr.  Whistler,  and.  in  a  voice 
trembling  with  suppressed  anger,  said: 
"  Jimmie,  do  you  know  that  you  brutally 
insulted  me  to-night?"  "Yes,"  replied  the 
artist,  thoughtfully.  "  Well,"  continued  the 
host,  "  I  held  my  temper  while  there  were 
others  than  our  own  countrymen  present,  but 
do  you  know  what  I  shall  do  if  ever  you 
speak  to  me  like  that  again  r  "  What  ?" 
"  I'll  grab  the  nearest  water  bottle  and  smash 
it  over  your  head."  The  rest  of  the  company 
sat  quite  still,  horror  and  dismay  in  their 
hearts,  while  their  angry  host  glared  across 
the  table  at  his  antagonist.  After  a  few  sec- 
onds Mr.  Whistler  said,  in  a  tone  of  childlike 
innocence :  "  Then  I  know  what  I'll  do. 
I'll  never  say  anything  like  that  to  you  again." 


After  Reading  a  Popular  Novel. 

Why  did  the  town  nestle  among  the  hills? 

Why  did  she  feel  a  mantling  blush  steal  over 
her  cheeks  ? 

How  did  it  happen  that  a  strange  sense  of 
unrest  swept  over  him? 

What  was  it  that  she  swept  out  of  the  room  ? 

Why  did  she  never  look  more  strangely 
beautiful  than  upon  that  evening? 

What  made  him  fleck  the  ashes  from  his 
cigarette  ? 

How  long  did  her  heart  stand  still? 

Who  deserted  the  ballroom,  and  why  ? 

Why  did  the  cold  wind  that  fanned  their 
cheeks  feel  so  good  ? 

Why  did  it  seem  to  her  as  if  all  the  joy  had 
gone  out  of  her  young  life? 

What  made  the  house  stiller  than  death  that 
night? 

When  confronted  by  the  lawyers,  why  was 
he  visibly  affected  ? 

What  choked  his  utterance? 

Why  was  she  the  life  of  the  whole  gather- 
ing when  her  heart  told  her  that  all  was  lost? 

Why  did  the  dog  look  up  at  that  moment  and 
wag  his  tail,"  as  if  he.  too,  understood  her? 

What  made  her  look  back  on  that  day  all  the 
rest  of  her  life? 

Why  was  there  a  long  pause? 


Why  were  her  hands  so  nerveless  when  she 
let  the  telegram  drop  ? 

What  made  her  suspect  that  he  had  been 
drinking? 

Why  did  he  clutch  the  photograph  so  wildly  : 

What  made  her  feel  intuitively  ? 

Why  did  his  voice  have  a  ring  of  triumph  as 
he  spoke? 

Whose  arm  was  she  on  when  she  went  up 
the  aisle? 

And  why  was  her  face,  though  pale,  so  radi- 
antly beautiful  ? 

And  why  did  the  organ  peal?  — Life. 

PRAYING    FOR    RAIN. 


San  Francisco,  October  27,  1903. 

Editors  Argonaut  :  I  read  with  interest  the 
letter  of  your  Pekin  correspondent,  giving  an 
account  of  the  bad  luck  of  the  Chinese  in 
getting  a  drought  broken,  because  the  mes- 
senger bringing  the  rain  charm  rode  on  a  rail- 
way while  in  charge  of  the  precious  fetich. 
Our  Chinese  friends  should  not  be  discouraged, 
and  would  not  be  if  they  knew  how  frequently 
our  own  prayers  for  rain  go  unanswered,  and 
how  often  the  barometer  has  resisted  the  most 
fervid  Christian  effort  to  change  its  evil  ways. 

All  intelligent  men  know  that  the  fertility 
of  Egypt  depends  upon  the  overflow  of  the 
Nile.  The  Egyptians  knew  that  the  annual 
inundation  was  regulated  by  the  god  berapis, 
and  at  Alexandria  the  column,  on  which  the 
daily  rise  was  marked,  was  consecrated  to 
him.  The  good  and  pious  Rollin  tells  us  that 
Constantine  ordered  this  column  taken  into 
the  Christian  church  at  Alexandria,  where  it 
was  reconsecrated  to  Jehovah,  who  was  thereby 
put  in  charge  of  the  overflow.  Then  the 
Egyptian  followers  of  Serapis  mourned  as 
those  without  hope,  because  the  column  was 
desecrated,  Serapis  was  angry  and  the  Nile 
would  overflow  no  more.  But  the  Christian 
ranchers  were  jubilant,  for  the  overflow  came 
in  its  season. 

When  Julian,  the  Apostate,  grandson  of  Con- 
stantine, became  emperor  he  ordered  the  col- 
umn taken  out  of  the  church  and  reconsecrated 
to  Serapis.  Then  awe  fell  upon  the  Christians 
of  Egypt,  and  they  mourned  the  commg  famine 
because  the  Nile  would  overflow  no  more. 
But  the  pagan  ranchers  had  their  innings  when 
the  inundations  reported  on  time  during  all  the 
years  that  Serapis  superintended  the  water- 
works, and  until  Julian  ceased  to  rule  the  em- 
pire. When  Theodosius  succeeded  Julian,  he 
ordered  the  much-traveled  column  back  into 
church,  but  by  that  time  the  people  did  not 
rely  so  much  on  supernatural  influence  over 
the  waters  of  the  Nile.  Still  we,  who  despise 
the  heathen  in  his  blindness,  continue  to  sup- 
plicate the  supernatural,  and  the  peasants  on 
the  slopes  of  Mt.  Vesuvius  put  many  scudi 
in  the  slot  machine  to  pay  the  special  saint, 
who  runs  the  brimstone  works  of  that  volcano, 
for  keeping  the  lava  off  their  vines,  and  quite 
recently  we  had  solemn  and  scented  ceremonies 
in  San  Francisco  to  propitiate  the  supernat- 
ural personage  who  restrains  earthquakes ;  and 
I  notice  that  the  Baptist  ministers  of  Texas 
have  undertaken  to  pray  the  cotton  worm  out 
of  that  State. 

Until  we  take  counsel  of  science,  and  learn 
that  in  the  physical  universe  all  is  natural  and 
nothing  is  supernatural,  and  that  prayer  is  as 
impotent  as  a  bread-and-milk  poultice  to  re- 
strain a  volcano,  or  curb  any  other  operation 
of  natural  law,  we  should  not  exalt  us  above 
our  Chinese  fellow  human  being,  who  is  like 
unto  us  in  believing  that  the  Creator  plays 
favorites  and  bestows  immunity  upon  those 
who  tip  Him.  The  Chinese  system  has  one 
distinct  advantage.  It  puts  the  devil  in  charge 
of  the  fortunes  of  men,  having  the  power  to 
harm,  but  willing  to  let  them  alone  for  a  con- 
sideration. The  devil  willfully  holds  back  the 
rain  from  their  rice  fields,  but  will  quit  if  they 
"  see "  him.  It  is  a  more  consistent  theory 
than  that  of  an  all-wise  and  loving  Creator, 
who  smites  the  innocent  with  pestilence  and 
the  poor  with  famine,  and  condemns,  before 
their  birth,  a  fixed  number  of  His  children  to 
everlasting  torture  in  immortal  fire,  but  who 
will  commute  the  sentence  if  properly  ap- 
proached. John  P.  Irish. 


Great  scheme : ."  Have  you  decided  yet  upon 
a  name  for  that  new  suburb  of  yours?  "  "  Yes. 
I  am  going  to  call  it  Lookout."  "  I  can't  see 
anything  striking  or  original  about  that." 
"You  can't?  Think  how  everybody  in  the 
train  will  run  to  the  windows  when  the  brake- 
man  calls  out  the  name  of  the  station." — Chi- 
cago Tribune. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW    YORK-SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 
St.  Louis.. Nov.  14,9.30am  I  St.  Paul  ... Nov. 2S, 9.30am 
New Yort.Nov.21, 9.30am  j  Phl'd'lphia  Dec. 5, 9.30am 

Philadelphia—  Que«nstown  —  Liverpool. 
Friesland  .  ..Nov.  7.  10  am  I  Marion. .  ..Nov.  2S,  3.30pm 
West'rnland..Nov.i4,9am  |  Haven  rd Dec. 5.9am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LoNIioN    DIRECT. 
Menominee  ...  Nov.  7, 9  am  I  Min'apolis  . .  Nov.  21,7am 
Min'et'nlca.  Nov  14, 1.30pm  |  Min'ehaha. .  Nov.  28, noon 

Onlv  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

BOSTON— WUEENSToWN— LIVERPOOL 

Columbus Nov.  12     Commonwealth....  Nov.  19 

Portland  — Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Nov.  2S  |  Cambroman Dec.  5 

Bostoa    Mediterranean    D1"** 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Vancouver Saturday.  Nov.  21 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 

Finland       ..Nov.  7  I  Kroo  aland ..Nov.  21 

Vaderland Nov.  14  |  Zeeland Nov.  28 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Majestic   Nov.  11.  noon  J  Oceanic Nov.  iS.  5  am 

Celtic   Nov.  13,  noon     Cymric Nov.  20.6am 

Armenian. .  ..Nov.  17,  5pm  |  Teutonic Nov.  25,  noon 

Boston— (Jueens  town— Liverpool. 

Cretic Dec.  10.  Feb.  n 

Cymric Dec.  24.  Jan.  28.  Feb.  25 

805100    Mediterranean    Direct 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Romanic Dec.  5,  Jan.  16,  Feb.  27 

Republic  (new)    Jan.  2.  Feb.  13.  Mar.  26 

Canopic Jan.  30,  Mar.  12 

C.  U.  TAVLOK,    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  AI.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 

and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Gaelic  i^ Calling  at  Manila;   Wednesday,  Nov.  25 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  32 

Coptic Friday,  January   15,    1904 

Gaelic   "Wednesday.   Feb.  1U,  1904 

No  cargo  received  on  board  00  day  of  sailing. 

Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 
P.  D.  STL'BBS.  General  Manager. 

TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

OMENTAL  S.  S,  CO,) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Whari,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  tor  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogoj,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  ot  sailing.       1903 

America  Maru Tuesday,  November  IO 

Hongkong  Mam Thursday,  December  3 

Nippon   Slaru     . .    .  Wednesday.  December  30 
1  Calling  at  Manila,  t 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   31arket  Street,  corner  First. 
W.   H.  AVEKY.  General  Agent. 


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OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  \  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,    Nov.   7,    1903, 

at  it  a.  m. 
S.  S.  Sonoma,  for  Honolulu.  Pago  Pago,   Auckland 

and  Sydney,  Thursday.  Nov.  19,  1903,  at  2  p.  u. 

S.  S.   Mariposa,  ior  Tahiti,  Dec.  1.  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

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The  man  who  is  always 

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THE        ARGONAUT. 


November  9,  1903. 


The  Downey-Cluff  Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Maud  Elizabeth  Cluft", 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Cluff,  and 
Mr.  George  Wright  Downey,  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Andrew  Downey,  of  Berkeley,  took  place 
in  the  Marble  Room  of  the  Palace  Hotel  on 
Wednesday  evening.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  nine  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  William 
Kirk  Guthrie,  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church.  Miss  Mabel  Cluff  was  her  sister's 
maid  of  honor,  and  Miss  California  Cluff, 
Miss  Mary  Downey,  Miss  Lillian  Downey, 
and  Miss  Jean  Downey  acted  as  bridesmaids. 
Mr.  William  Humphreys  was  the  best  man, 
and  Judge  F.  H.  Kerrigan.  Mr.  Roger  Lennon, 
Mr.  Frank  G.  Farron.  and  Mr.  James  Sweeney 
served  as  ushers.  The  ceremony  was  followed 
by  a  reception,  and  later  a  wedding  supper 
was  served  in  the  Maple  Room.  Upon  their 
return  from  their  wedding  journey  in  a  fort- 
night. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Downey  will  occupy  their 
new  residence  on  Van  Ness  Avenue  near 
■  Union  Street.  

The  Greenway  Birthday  Dinner. 

Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway  gave  a  birthday 
dinner  in  the  conservatory  of  the  Palace  Ho- 
tel on  Wednesday  evening,  at  which  he  enter- 
tained nearly  eighty  friends.  An  orchestra 
discoursed  music  during  the  repast,  and  later 
there  was  informal  dancing  in  the  ball-room. 
Among  Mr.  Greenway's  guests,  who  were 
seated   at    six    tables,    were : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  N.  Drown,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W  E  Dean,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Knight, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  H.  Lent.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frederick  W.  McNear.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Latham 
McMullin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  F.  Dutton, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  Murphy.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Robert  Oxnard,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rudolph 
Spreckels.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mountford  S.  Wil- 
son, Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  Taylor,  Mrs. 
William  G.  Irwin,  Mrs.  Edward  Martin.  Mrs. 
Russell  J.  Wilson,  Mrs.  Chauncey  Winslow, 
Miss  Lucy  Gwin  Coleman.  Miss  Berme 
Drown,  Miss  Helen  Dean,  Miss  Katherine 
Dillon,  Miss  Alice  Hager.  Miss  Ethyl  Hager. 
Miss  Mamie  Josselyn,  Miss  Virginia  Joliffe. 
Miss  Lucy  King,  Miss  Pearl  Landers,  Miss 
Stella  McCalla,  Miss  Christine  Pomeroy,  Miss 
Marie  Louise  Parrott,  Miss  Gertrude  Smith, 
Miss  Emily  Wilson.  Mr.  S.  H.  Boardman, 
Mr.  Frank  B.  King,  Mr.  Fred  Greenwood, 
Mr  James  W.  Byrne,  Mr.  Thomas  Barbour, 
Mr.  J.  R.  Howell.  Mr.  Charles  Earl.  Mr.  Percy 
King.  Mr.  Frank  Goad,  Mr.  James  D.  Phelan, 
Mr  Prescott  Scott,  Mr.  H.  N.  Stetson,  Dr. 
W.  J.  Lyster-,  Mr.  R.  P.  Schwerin,  Mr.  J.  L. 
Rathbone.  Mr.  Athole  McBean.  Mr.  H.  M. 
Holbrook,  Mr.  B.  G.  Somers.  Mr.  W.  B.  San- 
born, Mr.  Allan  St.  J.  Bowie,  Mr.  Enrique 
Grau,  Mr.  H.  M.  A.  Miller.  Mr.  R.  M.  Duperu, 
Mr.  R.  M.  Eyre,  Mr.  W.  Mayo  Newhall,  Mr. 
Edgar  Piexotto,  Mr.  Christian  Froelich,  Mr. 
W.  Stewart  Burnette,  Mr.  M.  S.  Latham,  Mr. 
Clarence  Follis,  Mr.  J.  C.  Wilson,  and  Captain 
E.  Johnson. 

Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Daisy 
Hartson,  daughter  of  Judge  Hartson,  of  Napa, 
to  Judge  Walter  B.  Cope,  son  of  the  late  Judge 
and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Cope. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Martha  E.  France,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr. 
John  France,  of  Oakland,  and  Mr.  Owen 
Unger,  of  Indiana. 

Mrs.  Abby  Parrott  has  issued  invitations 
for  an  informal  dance  on  Wednesday  evening 
at  her  residence  on  Sutter  Street  in  honor  of 
her  four  grandchildren,  the  Misses  de  Guigne, 
Miss  Parrott,  and  Miss  Abby  Parrott. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin  will  give  a  luncheon 
on  Monday  in  honor  of  Miss  Gertrude  Hyde- 
Smith    at    her   residence   on    Broadway. 

Mrs.  William  Dutton  gave  a  luncheon  at 
the  University  Club  on  Monday  afternoon  in 
honor  of  her  debutante  daughter,  Miss  Ger- 
trude Dutton.  Those  at  table  were  Mrs. 
Eugene  Lent.  Mrs.  Samuel  Buckbee.  Mrs. 
Wakefield  Baker,  Mrs.  Harry  Mendell,  Mrs, 
Earle  E.  Brownell,  Mrs.  Henry  Claussen, 
Mrs.  T.  Danforth  Boardman,  Mrs.  Harry 
Bates.  Mrs.  Albert  Baker  Spalding,  Mrs.  Hilda 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absolutely  Pure 
THERE  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


Baxter,  Mrs.  George  Beardsley.  Mrs.  Arthur 
V.  Callaghan,  Mrs.  George  Slocum,  Mrs. 
Samuel  Pond,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Welsh.  Mrs.  Eugene 
Breese.  Mrs.  Charles  Kindelberger,  Mrs. 
John  Rogers  Clark,  Mrs.  Thomas  Benton 
Darraugh.  Mrs.  Henry  J.  Dutton.  Mrs.  Grayson 
Dutton,  Miss  Emily  Wilson,  Miss  Kathe- 
rine Dillon.  Miss  Marion  Huntington,  Miss 
Pearl  Landers.  Miss  Leontine  Blakeman,  Miss 
Maylita  Pease  Miss  Patricia  Cosgrave,  Miss 
Belle  Harmes,  Miss  Edna  Middleton,  Miss 
Elsie  Tallant,  Miss  Eleanor  Warner,  Miss 
Katherine  Herrin,  Miss  Anna  Foster.  Miss 
Mary  Foster,  Miss  Ethel  Dean,  Miss  Alice 
Schussler.  Miss  Marjorie  Gibbons.  Miss  Guin- 
nette  Henley,  Miss  Susie  le  Count.  Miss  Helen 
Davis.  Miss  Paula  Wolff.  Miss  Laura  Fams- 
worth,  Miss  Florence  Callaghan,  and  Miss 
Maye  Colburn. 

Miss  Christine  Morris  Pomeroy  and  Miss 
Lucy  Gwin  Coleman  made  their  formal  debut 
at  a  tea  given  by  their  aunt.  Mrs.  William 
Gilman  Thompson,  at  the  Pomeroy  residence, 
corner  of  Hyde  and  Clay  Streets,  last  Satur- 
day afternoon.  The  hours  were  from  four 
to  seven,  and  those  who  assisted  in  receiving 
were  Miss  Newell  Drown,  Miss  Helen  Chese- 
brough.  Miss  Anna  Sperry,  Miss  Emily 
Wilson,  Miss  Frances  Allen,  Miss  Gertrude 
Eells.   and  Miss  Natalie   Coffin. 

Miss  King  and  Miss  Hazel  King  entertained 
a  few  friends  at  dinner  last  Friday  at  their 
residence  on  Broadway. 

Mrs.  Edward  J.  McCutchen  has  sent  out 
invitations  for  a  card-party,  which  will  be 
given  at  her  residence,  2016  Pacific  Avenue, 
on  November  20th. 

Mrs.  Andrew  Welch  will  give  a  luncheon 
at  the   University   Club   to-day    (Saturday). 

Mrs.  William  Spencer  gave  a  reception  at 
her  Vallejo  Street  residence  on  Sunday  last 
in  honor  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  Masten.  who 
are  in  San  Francisco  on  their  wedding 
journey.  Those  who  assisted  in  receiving  were 
Mrs.  Alexander  Keyes,  Mrs.  Thomas  Benton 
Darraugh,  Mrs.  Edward  Houghton,  Mrs.  Henry 
Dutton,  Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Miss  Elizabeth 
Cole,  Miss  Mabel  Kendall,  Mrs.  Edwin  Chapin 
Ewell,  and  Mrs.  William  E.  Perkins. 

Miss  Mary  Harrington  and  Miss  Louise 
Harrington  were  the  guests  of  honor  at  a 
luncheon  given  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Monday 
by  Mrs  T.  Cary  Freidlander.  Others  at  table 
were  Mrs.  Charles  Page,  Mrs.  Willis  Polk. 
Mrs.  George  Pinckard,  Mrs.  John  Johns,  Mrs. 
Hyde-Smith.  Miss  Eugenie  Peyton,  Miss  Daisy 
Casserly,  Miss  Gertrude  Hyde-Smith,  and  Miss 
Susie  Blanding.  n 

Mrs.    Eugene    Murphy    will    be    "  at    home 
at    her    residence,    1620    Jackson    Street,    on 
Wednesday  afternoon. 

Mrs.  Bowie-Dietrick  has  sent  out  invitations 
for  a  tea,  at  which  her  daughter.  Miss  Helen 
Bowie,  will  make  her  formal  debut. 

Mrs.  Fred  Tallant  has  sent  cards  for  a 
tea  at  her  residence  on  Buchanan  and  Wash- 
ington Streets,  on  November  21st,  in  honor 
of  her  niece,  Miss  Elsie  Tallant,  one  of  the 
season's  debutantes. 

Mrs.  Henry  Payson  Gregory  and  Miss  Elise 
Gregory  have  sent  out  invitations  for  a  tea  for 
Thursday  from   four  to   six  o'clock. 

Mrs.  I.  Lowenberg  gave  a  breakfast  last 
week  at  the  Palace  Hotel,  complimentary  to 
the  Philomath  Club,  to  which  the  members 
of  the  Laurel  Hall  Club  and  the  presidents 
of  other  clubs  were  invited.  Mrs.  Benjamin 
Ide  Wheeler  was  the  guest  of  honor. 

Consul  and  Mrs.  Lund  recently  gave  a  din- 
ner at  which  they  entertained  Mrs.  Moody, 
Mrs.  Sherman,  Count  Giamani,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Henry    Lund,   Jr.,    and   Consul    Kosakivitch. 

A  meeting  and  tea  of  the  Ladies'  Aux- 
iliary Board  of  the  San  Francisco  Lying-in 
Hospital,  Foundling  Asylum,  and  Training 
School  for  Nursery  Maids  will  be  held  at  the 
Marble  Room  of  the  Palace  Hotel,  Saturday, 
November  7th,  at  4  p.  m. 


MUSICAL     NOTES. 


On  Friday  and  Saturday  evenings  and  Sat- 
urday afternoon,  November  13th  and  14th. 
an  entertainment  will  be  held  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Episcopal  Old  Ladies'  Home.  Friday 
evening  r-nd  Saturday  matinee  will  be  devoted 
to  "  A  Night  and  a  Day  in  a  Toy- Shop,"  a 
cantata,  in  which  seventy-five  children  will 
appear.  On  Saturday  evening,  "  Moving 
Pictures,"  played  by  society  amateurs.,  will 
follow   a   series   of  living  pictures. 


The  King's  Daughters'  Home  for  Juveniles 
will  be  given  a  benefit  concert  on  Thursday 
evening  at  Steinway  Hall.  Those  who  will 
contribute  to  the  programme  are  Miss  Ger- 
trude Wheeler,  Miss  M  illie  Flynn.  Mr. 
Onslow,  Mr.  Homer  Henly.  Miss  Sharp, 
reader,  and  Miss  Julia  Hart,  accompanist. 
The  price  of  admission  will  be  50  cents;  re- 
served seats,  75  cents. 

The  painting,  "  The  Widow."  by  Arcan- 
giolo  Birelli,  of  Rome,  which  was  offered  as  a 
loan  gift  to  the  Park  Museum  and  refused  by 
Commissioner  Altman,  who  said  it  was  a 
"  European  pot-boiler,"  is  now  offered  for 
sale  by  Mr.  Kahn  at  one  thousand  dollars. 
The  picture  can  be  seen  daily  at  the  art  rooms 
of   Schussler   Bros.,   117   Geary  Street. 


The  second  and  last  programme  of  automo- 
bile and  motor  cycle  races  will  be  held  at 
Inglcside  Track- to-day  (Saturday.)  The  pro- 
ceeds arising  from  the  meet  will  be  devoted 
to  the  cause  of  good  roads,  and  particularly 
to  the  widening  of  the  Bay  Road  from  here 
to  San  Mateo. 

A.    Hirschinan, 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


—  Wanted —Active,-  up-to-date  business 
man  with  some  capital  to  promote  good  patent. 
Quick  seller,  large  profits,  no  competition.  Address 
box  H,  Argonaut  ofnet--. 


Patti's  Farewell  Tour. 

Adelina  Patti's  first  New  York  concert,  in 
Carnegie  Hall  on  Monday  night,  was  a  huge 
success,  and,  according  to  the  dispatches,  her 
voice  is  still  wonderfully  preserved.  Her  first 
number  was  the  aria,  "  O  uce  di  Guesti  An- 
ima,"  from  "  Linda  di  Chamounix,"  by  Doni- 
zetti, and  for  an  encore  she  sang  "The  Last 
Rose  of  Summer."  In  the  second  part  of  the 
concert  she  sang  Arditi's  valse,  "  II  Bacio," 
following  this  with  "  Home,  Sweet  Home." 
The  crowded  house  was  very  enthusiastic. 

When  she  arrived  in  New  York,  Mme.  Patti, 
in  order  to  escape  heavy  customs  duties,  had 
to  make  a  formal  affidavit  that  the  thirty  Pa- 
risian dresses  which  she  brought  with  her 
will  all  go  back  to  Europe  within  six  months. 
She  will  wear  a  different  gown  every  evening 
during  her  tour.  The  cost  of  these,  however, 
which^is  estimated  at  between  $12,000  and  $14.- 
000,  will  be  covered  by  the  receipts  of  two  or 
three  concerts.  They. will  be  stored  in  New 
York  for  a  while,  and  then  sent  from  there  in 
small  batches  to  meet  the  singer  wherever 
she  may  happen  to  be  at  the  time.  They 
have  been  graded  in  weight  according  to  cli- 
mate, heavy  dresses  being  made  for  her  Cana- 
dian cities,  and  light  and  feathery  ones  for 
her  concerts  in  New  Orleans  and  other  South- 
ern and  Western  cities. 


The  Royal  Italian  Band  Concerts. 
The  Ellery  Royal  Italian  Band  has  been 
attracting  appreciative  crowds  of  music-lovers 
to  the  Alhambra  Theatre  this  week,  and 
Manager  Greenbaum  has  arranged  to  have  the 
organization  return  for  another  week,  be- 
ginning December  6th.  Five  new  soloists  are 
en  route  from  Italy  -to  join  the  organization, 
and  an  entirely  new  repertoire  will  be  rendered. 
The  programmes  for  the  final  concerts  to-day 
(Saturday)  and  to-morrow  are  particularly 
good.  The  "  Suite  Arlesienne,"  by  Bizet,  and 
"Scenes  Pittoresques,"  by  Massenet,  are  on  for 
Sunday  night,  and  Ferullo,  the  fine  oboe  solo- 
ist, will  play  several  excellent  numbers. 
Chiaffarelli,  the  new  conductor,  has  made  a 
great  success,  both  as  a  leader  and  composer, 
many  of  his  compositions  having  been  given 
during  the  week. 

Pietro  Mascagni  is  about  to  visit  Sweden 
and  Norway,  to  conduct  forty  concerts  and  to 
assist  at  the  opening  of  the  new  Theatre  Royal 
in  Stockholm.  When  this  engagement  is  fin- 
ished, the  composer  of  "  Cavalleria  Rusticana  " 
will  go  to  Germany  for  a  tour  lasting  two 
months.  To  an  interviewer,  Mascagni  re- 
marked, the  other  day  :  "  1  am  an  orchestral 
conductor,-  and  shall  continue  to  give  concerts, 
because  I  and  my  family  must  live.  With 
publishers  who  ought  to  be  giving  me  commis- 
sions to  write,  I  can  come  to  no  understand- 
ing."       _     

E.  C.  McCormick,  passenger  traffic  manager 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company,  contributes 
an  interesting  article  to  the  current  number 
of  Sunset  Magazine.  It  is  entitled  "  The 
Search  for  Nature's  Best,"  and  is  the  reprint 
of  a  paper  read  by  the  author  at  the  Trans- 
mississippi  Commercial  Congress  at  Seattle 
on  August  18th.  It  shows,  in  an  interesting 
way,  what  the  Pacific  Coast  in  general,  and 
California  in  especial,  have  to  offer  tourists 
and  visitors. 

Of  Interest  to  Every  Hostess. 

Ladies  who  entertain,  even  in  a  small  way, 
will  appreciate  the  display  of  table  appoint- 
ments that  Nathan-Dohrmann  Co.  will  open 
for  inspection  on  November  9th  in  their  sales- 
rooms on  Sutter  Street.  Tables  will  be  com- 
pletely set  for  dinner,  luncheon,  and  midnight 
suppers.  The  dinner  tables  will  show  course 
sets  for  soup,  dessert,  fish,  game,  and  roast. 
The  finest  and  latest  ideas  in  French  and  En- 
glish China,  Rock  Crystal,  Silverware,  Light- 
ing features  and  Flower  decorations  will  re- 
ceive their  share  of  attention.  ine  display 
is  exceedingly  attractive,  and  well  worth  see- 
ing. Every  hostess  in  San  Francisco  should 
take  the  time  to  inspect  it.  All  due  courtesy 
will  be  accorded  visitors,  and  all  are  welcome. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved   in  coh- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746   Market   Street. 


Genuine  Works  of  Art. 
One  of  the  principal  attractions  of  the  city,  is  the 
Gump  collection  of  fine  oil  paintings,  embracing  a 
number  of  canvases  from  this  year's  Paris  Salon,  and 
from  all  the  different  art  centres  of  Europe,  also  a 
very  choice  selection  of  beautiful  water  colors.  S.  & 
G.  Gump  Co  ,  113  Geary  Street. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated  hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,    Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


y— 


Cbe  favorite  Champagne 


J  WILLIAM  WOLff^  CO. 

1  Pacific  Coast  agents 


Pears' 

Which  would  )  ou  rath- 
er have,  if  you  could  have 
your  choice,  transparent 
skin  or  perfect  features  ? 

All  the  world  would 
choose  one  way;  and  you 
can  have  it  measurably. 

If  you  use  Pears'  Soap 
and  live  wholesomely 
otherwise,  }  ou  will  have 
the  best  complexion  Na- 
ture has  for  you. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


tj0  A     good 
1    glove    for  a 


;  ^  dollar  and  a   half 

Centemeri 


ROBERT  TITTLE  McKEE 

Consulting  Decorator  and  Designer 

Formerly  with  flcCann,  Belcher,  and  Allen, 
San  Francisco, 

CAN     BE    SEEN     BV     APPOINTMENT 
AT    HIS    STUDIO 

307  Fifth  Avenue 

One  block  south  of  Waldorf-Astoria. 
Telephone  967  R  Madison  Square. 

Clients  wishing  to  select  directly  from  the  tradf 
Imported  Fabrics,  Paper  Hangings  (English 
French,  and  German).  Upholstery.  Objects  of  Art 
Furniture,  Prints  or  Pictures  will  find  Mr.  McKe< 
acquainted  with  the  best  art  dealers  and  wholesah 
shops. 

Mr.  McKee  can  sl«ow  the  most  a  tislic  colo 
combinations  and  give  ideas  for  the  newest  design1 
in  making  and  arranging. 

CORRESPONDENCE    SOLICITED. 


The  CLUB 

are  the  original  bottled  Cocktails. 
Years  of  experience  have  made 
them  THE  PERFECT  COCKTAILS 
that  they  are.  Do  not  be  lured 
into  buying  some  imitation.  The 
ORIGINAL  of  anything  is  good 
enough.  When  others  are  offered 
it  is  for  the  purpose  of  larger  prof- 
its. Insist  upon  having  the  CLUB 
COCKTAILS,  and    take  no   other. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEJN  &  BRO.,  Sole  Proprietors 

29  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Hartford,  Conn.  London 


1-AC1FIC  COAST   AGENTS 

THE  SPOHN-PATRICK  CO. 
400-404  Battery  St.,  Sail  FranciBco,  Cal, 


Coachman  Wants 

a  place.  Not  used  to  tlie  city 
country  preferred.  Good  driver 
used  to  handling  horses  and  cows 
Does  not  drink  ;  highest  refer 
ences  given.  Address  Box  173 
Argonaut,  office. 


November  9,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


The  Innovations  al  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  tbe  famous  COL'RT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  ot  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  nigs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

.THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  tor  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modem  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


THE    COLONIAL 

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SAN    FRANCISCO 

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HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
ran  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU   CO. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


Open  all  the  year.     Unexcelled  summerandspring 

climate.     Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 

most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 

sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 

■  malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.     Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-hall 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8.30  A.  M-.  10  A.  M.,  and  3.30  P.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Rm  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  -  four  trains   daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

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Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Martin  returned 
from  the  East  last  Tuesday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Claus  Spreckels  arrived  in 
Xew  York  from  Europe  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Knight  are  occupying 
one  of  the  new  apartment- houses  on  Pacific 
Avenue. 

Mrs.  Nellie  Hyde-Smith  and  her  daughter. 
Miss  Gertrude  Hyde-Smith,  have  returned 
after  their  long  absence  in  the  East  and  Eu- 
rope, and  will  spend  the  winter  in  San  Fran- 
cisco as  the  guests  of  Mrs.  Hyde,  at  her 
residence  on  Geary  Street. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Blair  and  Miss  Jennie  Blair, 
who  have  just  returned  from  an  extended 
stay  in  Europe,  are  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 
Mr.  Richard  Sprague,  accompanied  by  his 
little  son,  has  departed  for  his  sugar  planta- 
tion at  St.  Mary's  Parish.  Louisiana.  He  will 
be  joined  in  a  few  weeks  by  Mrs.  Sprague 
and  the  other  children,  who  are  the  guests  of 
Mrs.   William    Wallace. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Newhall  will  arrive 
in  Xew  York  this  week  from  Liverpool. 

Mrs.  James  Otis  has  returned  from  the 
East,  and  is  occupying  her  residence  on 
Pacific  Avenue. 

Mrs.  Timlow  has  arrived  here  from  the 
East,  and  will  spend  the  month  of  November 
with  her  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Carolan, 
at  their  residence  on  California  Street. 

General  Foote  and  family  have  taken  apart- 
ments at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Josselyn,  Miss  Ger- 
trude Josselyn,  and  Miss  Marjory  Josselyn 
departed  last  Saturday  for  Europe. 

Mr.  Charles  Holbrook  and  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Silas  Palmer  have  returned  to  town  for  the 
winter. 

Mr.  Willard  T.  Barton,  who  has  been  on 
the  Coast  for  some  months,  is  about  to  return 
to  the  East. 

Mrs.  John  A.  Darling  and  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  Louise  la  Montagne,  have  been  at  the 
Occidental  Hotel   during  the  past  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Burton  Harrison 
have  taken  the  Morgan  residence  in  Dupont 
Circle,  Washington,  D.  C,  for  the  congres- 
sional session.  Mrs.  Harrison  will  entertain 
on  a  large  scale  during  the.  winter,  introducing 
her  sister,  Miss  Jennie  Crocker,  to  the  society 
of  the  capital. 

Mrs.  John  W.  Mackay  will  sail  from  Europe 
for  Xew   York  this  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Crocker  have  closed 
their  country  place  at  Ramsay,  N.  J.,  and  are 
occupying  their  Fifth  Avenue  residence  in 
Xew   York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  G.  Buckbee  expect 
to  leave  in  about  ten  days  for  a  trip  East. 
They  will  return  in  time  for  the  Christmas 
holidays. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Greyson  Dutton  have  returned 
from  their  Eastern  trip. 

Mrs.  James  D.  Bailey  and  Miss  Florence 
Bailey,  who  have  been  spending  most  of  the 
summer  in  the  East,  expect  to  return  to  San 
Francisco  before  the  end  of  this  month. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Bissell  has  returned  from  the 
East. 

Sir  Ryan  Leighton  and  Lady  Leighton,  Lady 
Rodney,  and  Captain  H.  Guest,  of  England, 
are  guests  at  the  Hotel   Richelieu. 

Mrs.  John  Boggs  and  Miss  Alice  Boggs  will 
be  "  at  home "  on  Thursdays  in  November, 
at  1613  Van  Ness  Avenue,  the  residence  which 
they   have   taken   for   the   winter  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Shreve  will  occupy 
their  new  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue  this 
winter.  They  came  up  from  San  Mateo  a  few 
days  ago. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  F.  Boyd  will  spend  the 
winter  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tirey  L.  Ford,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ben  Mulford,  Jr.,  of  Cincinnati,  and  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Abbott  were  visitors  at  the  Tav- 
ern of  Tamalpais  last  week. 

Mr.  Henry  T.  Scott  has  returned  from  the 
East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  A.  Pope  were  in  New 
York  during  the  week. 

Mr.  Welton  Stanford,  of  Schenectady.  X". 
Y..  a  nephew  of  the  late  Leland  Stanford,  and 
his  wife  are  registered  at  the  Palace  Hotel, 
having  arrived  here  from  the  North- 
West.  where  they  have  been  visiting  relatives 
of  Mrs.   Stanford. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  DufEcy  (nee  Ward) 
have  returned  from  their  wedding  journey  to 
Japan. 

Mrs.  S.  B.  Dinkelspiel,  after  spending  the 
summer  in  the  country",  has  taken  apartments 
at  the  corner  of  Sutter  and  Leavenworth 
Streets. 

Mr.  E.  Black  Ryan  and  family  have  closed 
their  country  place  at  Fair  Oaks,  and  are  at 
the  Occidental  Hotel. 

Dr.  Manson  and  family,  Captain  and  Mrs. 
Mooney,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ehrman  are  guests 
at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  E.  Reed,  of 
Xew  York,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Marshall,  Jr., 
Mr.  J.  A.  Davidson,  and  Mr.  W.  H.  McCul- 
lough,  of  Chicago,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  B.  Cook 
and  Miss  Alice  Cunningham,  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Lowry.  of  Atlanta,  Ga., 
Mr.  O.  D.  Monport,  of  St.  PauL  Mr.  J.  D. 
Leonard,  of  Portland,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Van  Ness, 
Mrs.  Mary  Smyth,  Mrs.  I.  R.  Grubb,  Miss 
Marie  Wilson,  Mr.  E.  H.  Hanson,  Mr.  James 
K.  Wilson,  and  Mr.  William  McMurray. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Colonel  Robert  L.  Meade,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
family  have  been  at  the  Occidental  Hotel 
this  week,  en  route  from  the  Mare  Island 
Navy    Yard    to    Xew    York. 

Major  George  O.  Squier.  U.  S.  A.,  chief 
signal  officer  of  the  Department  of  California, 
reported  at  headquarters  this  week  after  a 
two  months'   leave   of  absence,   during   which 


he  visited  thirty-two  different  States,  and 
consulted  with  authorities  at  Washington  re- 
garding the  enlargement  and  improvement  of 
the  signal  service  in  this  department. 

Mrs.  Uriel  Sebree,  wife  of  Captain  Sebree, 
U.  S.  N.f  who  is  in  command  of  the  United 
States  battle-ship  Wisconsin,  sailed  for  China 
on  the  Coptic  last  week. 

Captain  George  Reed,  Ninth  Cavalry,  L". 
S.  A.,  has  gone  to  Honolulu  on  duty  with 
the  board  of  officers  detailed  to  select  a  site 
for  the  fortifications  there. 

Dr.  Henry  S.  Greenleaf,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
has  been  on  duty  at  the  Presidio  for  the  past 
few  months,  has  been  ordered  to  Fort  Moul- 
trie. S.  C. 

Colonel  James  O'Hara,  U.  S.  A.,  who  ex- 
pects soon  to  be  retired  after  forty  years  of  ser- 
vice, arrived  from  Georgia  last  week,  and  is 
with  his  family  at  their  residence  on  Laguna 
Street. 

Mrs.  William  H.  Smith  has  returned  from 
a  visit  to  her  son.  Lieutenant  Emery  Smith, 
Xinth  Infantry*.  U.  S.  A.,  at  his  post.  Madison 
Barracks,    N.    Y. 

Captain  Charles  E.  Stanton.  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  ordered  to  Manila.  He  will  leave  for 
the  Philippines  on  the  transport  sailing  from 
San  Francisco  about  December   1st. 

Lieutenant  Fielding  Lewis  Poindexter.  U. 
S.  A„  and  Mrs.  Poindexter  have  departed 
for  Wichita.  Kas.,  where  Lieutenant  Poin- 
dexter is  to  be  on  recruiting  duty  for  the  next 
two  years. 

The  Golf  Season. 
The  regular  winter  season  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Golf  Club  was  opened  on  Tuesday,  with 
an  eighteen-hole  handicap  tournament  at 
medal  play.  B.  D.  Adamson  won  the  first 
prize  for  making  eighty-four,  the  best  handi- 
cap, and  J.  S.  Severance  and  R.  J.  Wood  tied 
for  the  handicap  prizes,  with  a  net  score  of 
eighty-two.  The  following  schedule  of  events 
has  been  drawn  up  to  serve  for  the  rest  of  the 
year: 

On  Saturday,  November  14th,  an  eighteen- 
hole  bogey  handicap  tournament  will  be  played 
for  first  and  second  prizes,  play  to  begin  at  z 
p.  M.  Thursday,  November  26th.  Thanks- 
giving Day,  an  eighteen-hole  handicap  at 
medal  play  for  first  and  second  prizes.  "  tee 
off "  at  9 130  or  10 130  a.  m.  Drawing  for 
partners,  qualifying  round  for  Council's  Cup, 
best  eight  scores  to  qualify  for  match  play 
which  follows.  One  week  will  be  allowed 
for  each  round  of  the  match  play.  Friday, 
December  25th,  Christmas  Day,  eighteen-hole 
handicap  at  match  play  for  first  and  second 
prizes,  qualifying  round,  best  eight  scores 
to  qualify.  Regular  match  play  thereafter. 
The  handicaps  given  at  the  outset  will  apply 
throughout  the  competition.  Four  days  will 
be  allowed  for  each  round  of  the  match  play. 


The  Hotel  Mateo  property,  comprising  a 
little  over  four  acres,  at  San  Mateo,  has  been 
sold  by  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Lee  to  a  syndicate  of 
local  capitalists,  who  propose  improving  it 
with  a  modern  resort  hotel  at  a  cost  of  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars. 


The  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  is  an  excellent 
destination  point  for  those  wishing  to  escape 
the  hustle  and  bustle  of  the  city.  The  trip 
on  the  Scenic  Railway  is  especially  beautiful 
now  that  Mill  Valley  has  put  on  its  autumn 
garb. 


Recent    Boohs. 

"The  Little  bhepherd  of  Kingdom  Come,"  by 
John  Fox,  Jr. 

"The  Mettle  of  the  Pas  ure,"  by  James  Lane 
Allen. 

"  The  Call  of  the  Wild."  by  Jack  London. 

"The  Adventures  of  Gerard,"  by  Stanley  Wey- 
man. 

"  Gordon  Keith."  by  Thomas  Nelson  Page. 

"  The  One  Woman."  by  Thomas  Dixon,  Jr. 

"The  Maids  of  Paradise."  by  Robert  W.  Cham 
bers. 

"The  Fortunes  of  Fifi."  by  Molly  Elliott  Sewell. 

"The  Filigree  Ball."  by  Anna  Kathenne  Green. 

For  sale  at  usual  discounts  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  776 
Market  Street. 


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SOUTHERN   PACIFIC. 

Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
SAN   FKANC1SCO. 

(Main  Line,  Foot  of  Market  Street.) 
lhave    I      From    October  21,  19Q3.        |    AKKivfc 

7  oo  a  Benicia,  Suisun,  Elmini,  and  Sacra- 
mento          7  25  P 

7.00  a     Vacaville,  Winters,  Kuinsey . 7.55  p 

7.30  a     Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa, 

Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa 6.25  p 

7.30  a     Niles,    Liver  more,    Tracy,    Lathrop, 

Stockton 7-  25  P 

8.00  a     Davis,  Woodland,   Knight's  Landing, 

Marysville,  Oroville 7-55  P 

8.00  a    Atlantic  Express — Ogden  and  East. , .       tu.25  a 

8.30  a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antioch,  Byi  on, 
Tracy,  Stockton,  Sacramento, 
Newman,  Los  Banos,  Mendoia, 
Armona,  Lemoore,  Hanfoid,  Vi- 
salia,  Forterville 4.25  P 

8.30  a  Port  Costa,  Maninez.  Tracy,  Laih- 
rop,  Modesto,  Merged,  tresno,  Cc- 
shen  Junction,  Lemoore,  Hanford, 
Visalia,  Bakersfield 4-55  P 

8.30  a  Shasta  Express  —  L>  avis.  Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Springs),  Willows, 
fFruto,  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7-S5P 

8.30  a  NiLs.  San  Jose\  Livermort,  Stockton, 
lone.  Sacramento,  Placerville,  M  ar>s- 
ville,  Chico.  Red  Bluff 4=5  P 

8.30  a     Oakdale,    Chinese,    Jamestown,     So- 

nora,  Tuolumne,  ai.d  Angels 4-25  P 

9.00  a     Martinez  and  Way  Stations 6.55  p 

10.00  a     Vallejo 12.25  P 

too  a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Lathrop,  Stockton,  Merced,  Ray- 
mond, Fresno,  Hanforu.  Visalia, 
Bakersfield,  Los  Angeles  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line) e i.3     p 

10.00  a  The  Overland  Limited— Ogden,  Den- 
ver, Omaha,  Chicago   6  25  p 

12.00  in     Hayward,  Niles,  and  Way  Stations...         3  25  p 
ti.oop     Sacramento  River  Steamers tn.oop 

3.30  p  Benicia,  Winters,  Sacramento.  Wood- 
land, Knights  Landing.  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and  Way  Siations 10.55  a 

3.30  p     Hayward,  Niles,  and  Way  Stations. . .         7  55  P 

3.30  p  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  B^run,  Tracy, 
Lathrop,  Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno, 
and  Way  Stations  beyond  Port  Costa       12.25  P 

3.30  p     Martinez,  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodi...-       10.25  a 

4.00  p     Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa, 

Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa    9.25  a 

4.00  p     Niles,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodi 4.25  p 

4.30  p     Hayward,     Niles,     lrvington,   San  \        ttJ.55  a 
Jose\   Livermore.. J       Jn.55  a 

5.00  p  The  Owl  Limited — Newman,  Los 
Banos,  Mendota,  Fresno.  Tulare. 
Bakersfield,    Los  Angeles 8.55a 

5.00  p     Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton 12.25  p 

{5.30  p     Hayward,  Niles,  and  San  Jose 7.25  a 

6.00  p     Hayward,  Niles,  and  San  Jose 10.25  a 

6.00  p  Oriental  Mail  —  Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis, Chicagoand  East. 
Port  Costa, Benicia,  bui.sun.  Elmira, 
Davis  Sacramento,  Rocklin,  Au- 
burn, Colfax,  Truckee,  Boca,  Re  o, 
Wad^worth,  Winnemucca  Battle 
Mountain,  Elko 4.25  p 

fioo  p     Vallejo,  daily,  except  Sunuay L 

7. co  p     Vallejo.  Sunday  only I  7-55  P 

7  00  p     San  Pablo,  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  and 

Way  Stations 11.25  a 

8  05  p     Oregon  and  California  Express,  Sacra- 

mento, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound,  and  East 8.55  a 

9  10  p  Hayward,  Niles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) ri.55  a 

COAST  LINE  (Narrow  Gauge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Str    : 

8 .  15  a     Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jos* 

Boulder    Creek,    Santa    Cry  ,    . 

Way  Stations 

t2.i5p     Newark,  Centerville,   San  Jose,   1 

Almaden,  Los  Gatos,  Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and 
Principal  Way  Stations 

4.15  p     Newark,    San   Jose\    Los    Gatos   and 

Way  Stations. 18.55  a 

09.30  p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose*  and  Way  Stations.  Sunday 
onlyreturns  from  Los  Gatos 17-25  P 

OAKLAND  HARBOR  FERRY. 

From  SAN  FRANCISCO— Foot  of  Market  St.  (Slip  8>— 
17.15         9.00        11.00  a  m,        1. 00        3.00        5.15  pm 

FromOAKLAND— Foot  of  Broadway —  t6.oo  JS.oo 
rS.os     10.  ooam     12.00     2.00    4.00  pm 

COAST  LINE  (Broad   Gauge). 

Jjzf*  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets.) 

6.10a  San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations     6 .  30  p 

7  00  a  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations     5  36  p 

8  00  a  New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Fiid.,  onlj)..  4.  ,op 
8  00  a  Coast  Line  Limited — Mops  only  San 

Jose\  Gilroy  (connecm  n  for  Hoi- 
lister),  Pajaro,  Laslroville,  Salinas. 
San  Ardo,  Paso  Robles,  Santa 
Margarita,  San  Luis  (Jb  spo,  Prin- 
cipal stations  thence  burl  (connec- 
tion for  Lompoc)  principal  siatiors 
thence  Santa  Barbara  and  Lo.-* 
Angelas.  Co  inection  at  Ca*,tro- 
ville  to  and  from  Monterey  and 
Pacific  Grove 10.45  P 

9.00  a  San  Jose\  Tres  Pinos,  Capitola,  Santa 
Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Salinas,  San 
Luis   Obispo,   and    Principal   Way 

Stations 4  - 10  p 

10.30  a     San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations -  -,.  - 

11.30  a     Santa  Clara,  San  Jose.  Lu,-,  t.ij.Js.aL.n 

Way  Stations 7  -  30  p 

1  30  p     San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations... , 8.36  a 

3. cop  Pacific  Grove  Express— Sania  Clara, 
San  Jose",  Del  Monte.  Monierty, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Sania 
Clara  for  Sania  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek,  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gil.oy  for  Hollister,  Tres  Pinos, 
at  Castroville  for  Salinns ...    12150 

3.30  p     Gilroy  Way  Passenger §to  4S  a 

+4  45  P  San  Jose  (via  Sant;i  Clara,  Los  Gatos, 
and  Principal  Way  Stations  (ex- 
cept Sunday).. tg  16  a 

§5  .30  p     San  Jose1  and  Principal  Way  Stations         t8  co  a 

fioop  Sunset  Limited,  Eastbound  —  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Santa  liarbara,  Los 
Angeles,  periling,  El  Paso.  New 
Orleans,  New  York.  (Westbound 
arrives  via  San  Joaquin  Valley)...  ^9.25  a 
T6.T5  p  San  Mateo.  Bercsford,  Be' mom,  San 
Carlos,  Redwood,  Fair  Oals, 
Menlo  Park.  Palo  Alto 16  46  a 

6  30  p     San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations  6.36a 

it  30  p  South  San  Krjm  i-co,  M  illbrae,  Bur 
lingame.  San  Mateo,  Relmont.  San 
Carlos,  Redwood,  Fair  O.  ks,  Menlo 

Park,  and  Palo  Alto  9  45  p 

a  1 1. 30  p  May  field.  Mountain  View.  Sunny- 
vale, i-awrence,  Santa  Clara,  and 
San  Jose"   I9  45  p 

a  for  Morning.        p  for  Afternoon. 
J  Sunday  only.        §  Stops  ,.l  all  stations  on  Sunday, 
-j  Sunday  excepted.         a  SPturt'ay  only. 
e  Via  Coast  Lino. 
w""v\  San  Joaquin  Valley. 
jt5TGnly  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  Si.  «outhbr>und  are 
6.10  am,  T7.00  am.,  11.30  am  ,  3,30  pm.  and  6,30  pm, 

Th*  UNION  TRANSFKR  COMPANY  will 
cali  T  and  check  baggage  froiB  hotels  and  residences. 
Tele ,flone.  Exchange  8j.  tn  (_ire  of  Ticket  Agents  for 
Tun     T'ards  and  other  in  for  mail  on. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Mike — "  They  say  Tim  Cassidy  died  without 
th'  aid  av  a  docthor."  Pat—"  Well,  Tim 
was  always  a  handy  lad  at  anything.  ' — 
Judge. 

Not  her  weapon :  "  Is  your  wife  a  club 
woman,  Mike?"  "  Narry  the  likes  0'  that, 
sor;  she  uses  a  flatiron,  sor." — Detroit  Free 
Press. 

Just  as  good :  Sporting  editor — "  Our  best 
football  reporter  is  sick  and  can't  go  to  the 
game."  Managing  editor —  "  Never  mind  ; 
we'll    send   the   war-correspondent." — Judge. 

"  But,"  protested  the  man,  "  I  have  admitted 
that  I  was  wrong.  Isn't  that  enough?"  "  No," 
replied  the  woman ;  *'  you  must  also  admit 
that  I   was  right." — Chicago  Daily  News. 

A  slight  difference:  Nora — "  Oi  towld  thot 
instalment  mon  thot  he  naden't  call  so  often." 
Mistress — "Did  he  take  the  hint?"  Nora — i 
"  No,  mum  ;  he  took  th'  pionny." — Philadel- 
phia Record. 

Dr.  Jinks — "  I  suppose  you  must  have  lost 
some  of  your  patients  by  being  in  Europe  for 
so  many  months."  Dr.  Kent — "  Yes,  con- 
found it!  Ten  or  a  dozen  of  them  got  well." 
— Boston  Transcript. 

"  They  tell  me  Si  Medder's  son  Bill  hez  bin 
sent  ter  th*  legislature."  "  Nope ;  Bill's  in 
the  penitentiary  for  hoss-stealin'."  "  Great 
snakes  !  Why  is  it  folks  allers  want  ter  make 
things  out  wuss  than  they  really  is?" — Judge. 

In  society:     "They  say   Miss   R is   a 

brilliant  conversationalist."  "  Indeed  she  is. 
She  told  me  the  whole  story  of  her  life  in 
five  seconds."  "Talk  in  shorthand?"  "No. 
Showed  me  her  bank  book."  — Baltimore 
World. 

Mrs.  Newliwed — "  Bridget,  we'll  have  fried 

eggs    for    breakfast,    and "  Bridget — "  We 

can't,  mum,  there's  not  an  egg  in  the  house." 
Mrs.  Newliwed — "  Well,  then,  just  make  an 
omelet.  I  like  that  better  anyway." — Phila- 
delphia Press. 

Mamma — "  Oh,  see,  Willie,  your  little 
brother  can  stand  all  alone.  Aren't  you  glad?" 
Willie  (aged  six) — "  Sure  !  Now  I  can  get  him 
to  hold  an  apple  on  his  head  while  I  shoot  it 
off  with  my  bow  and  arrow,  can't  I  ?" — 
Philadelphia  Ledger. 

Tickled  the  kids :  Lady  (to  applicant  for 
position  of  nursemaid) — "  Why  were  you  dis- 
charged from  your  last  place?"  Applicant — 
"  Because  I  sometimes  forgot  to  wash  the 
children,  mum."  Chorus  of  children — "  Oh, 
mamma,  please  engage  her  !  '  — Tit-Bits. 

Her  monologue  way  :  Mrs.  Hunter — "  Mrs. 
Spokane  was  here  this  afternoon.  When  she 
went  away  she  said  she  had  enjoyed  every  mo- 
ment of  the  time.  Wasn't  that  good  of  her?  " 
Mr.  Hunter — "  Every  moment,  eh  ?  Gave  you 
one  of  her  regular  monologues,  I  suppose?  " — 
Boston  Transcript. 

"  Telegraphing  without  wires  is  no  new 
thing,"  remarked  the  gray-haired  passenger. 
"Isn't,  eh?"  queried  the  drummer.  "Not  by 
i  jugful,"  continued  the  old  man  ;  "  why,  sir, 
when  I  published  a  country  newspaper  forty 
ago,  I  got  nearly  all  my  telegraph  news 
hi  ■  '." — Chicago  Daily  News. 

'    d  :      Irate    pan  nt — "  I    want    you 
1    here  and  never  darken  my  door 
agai  .ad   a   sick  cat,  I   wouldn't  send 

for  -'u  I'1  Imperturbable  physician  — "  Of 
course  pot.  You'd  send  for  my  brother,  the 
veterinary,  who  lives  over  on  the  street  next 
to  the  one  I  live  on.  Here's  one  of  his  cards." 
—Baltimore   American. 

A  careless  gossip  :  Miss  Kidder — "  They've 
only  been  married  six  months,  but  whenever 
her  husband  goes  away  on  a  business  trip 
she's  delighted,  and  prepares  to  have  a  good 
time."  Miss  Meanley — "  Ah  !  Do  you  know 
I    suspected    something    like    that.      I    always 

said "     Miss  Kidder — "  Yes.     You  see,  he 

takes  her  with  him." — Philadelphia  Ledger. 

Miss  Askew — "  So  your  marriage  is  put 
off?"  Miss  Crummy — "Yes,  papa  is  not  at 
all  satisfied  with  his  position;  mamma  doesn't 
like  his  family  connections ;  auntie  thinks 
he    is    too    careless      in     his     dress,     and     I 

think "     Miss  Askew — "  Yes,  what  do  you 

think?"  Miss  Crummy — "I  think  I  ought  to 
wait   till    he    asks    me." — Town    and    Country. 

"  Mv  brother  bought  an  automobile  here  last 
-,..  an  angry  man  to  the  salesman  who 
stepped  forward  to  greet  him,  "  and  he  says 
you  told  him  if  anything  broke  you  would  sup- 
ply a  new  part."  "  Certainly,"  said  the  clerk  ; 
"  what  does  he  want?  "  "  He  wants  two  del- 
toid muscles,  a  couple  of  kneepans,  one  elbow, 
and  about  a  half  a  yard  of  cuticle,"  said  the 
man,  "  and  he  wants  'em  right  away." — 
Youth's  Companion. 

Expectant :  The  country  clergyman  was 
nailing  a  refractory  creeper  to  a  piece  of  trel- 
lis work  near  his  front  gate  when  he  noticed 
that  a  small  boy  had  stopped,  and  was  watch- 
ing him  with  great  attention.  "  Well,  my 
young  friend,"  he  said,  pleased  to  see  the 
interest  he  excited,  "  are  you  looking  for  a 
hint  or  two  on  gardening?"  "No."  said  the 
youth  ;  "I  be  waiting  to  hear  what  a  parson 
says  when  he  hammers  his  thumb." — T id- 
Bits. 

—  Star  Jinan's  Soothing  Powders  relieve  feverish- 
ness  and  prevent  fits  and  convulsions  during  the, 
leething  period. 


"  What  possessed  her  to  marry  him  I 
wonder?"  "Well,  you  know  how  hard  it  is 
to  get  good*  caddies  nowadays."  —  Brooklyn 
Life. 


—  Dr  K  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street.  Spring  Valley  Building 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs,  WinsloWs 
Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


OUR  STAN DARDCS 


Sperrys  Beat  Family. 

Drifted.  Snow. 
Golden  Gate  Extra.. 


vSperry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAII/WAV  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Kafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  3-3<>i 

6,30  p  in.     Thursdays  -Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 

Saturdays  -Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  am;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00, 

11.30  p  m. 

San  Kafael  to  San  FrancUco. 
WEEK    DAYS  — 6.05,    7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m;    1 

3.40,  5.00,  5.20  p  m.     Saturdays — Extra    trip   at 

and  6.35  p  in. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.40,   11.15am;   1.40,  3.40,  4.55, 

6.25  p  m. 


5-'0, 
6.20, 

2.50; 

2.05 

5-05, 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 

9.30  a  m 

3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

5. 10  p  m    5  00  pm 


7.30  a  m 

j  8.00  a  m 

3.30  p  m  9-30  a  m 

5.10  p  m,  3.30  p  m 

j  5.00  p  m 


7-3°  a  ' 

8  00 
3.30pm    3-3°  P  "' 


7.30  a  m 
3.30  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
3.30  P 


7.30  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
3.30  a  m,  3-3Q  P 


7.30  a  m    S.oo  a  m 


7.30  a  mi  S.oo  a  m 
3.30  p  m  j  3.30  P 


7.30  a  m|  S.00  a  m 
5.10  pm    5.00  p  m 


In  Effect 
Jept.  27,  1903. 

Destination. 


Ignacio. 


Novate 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Ctoverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


7  3oam    S.oo  a  m        sebastopol.        ro-4°  a  ™  I0-2° 
3.30  p  m    3-3Q  p  m 7-35  P  ™    6.20  p  m 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 
days. 


10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 


9.10  a  m 
10,40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 

7-35  P  m 


10.40  a  m 
7-35  pm 


10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
7-35  P_rri 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
9.10  am 
6.05  p  m 


Week 
Days. 


S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


6.20  p  m 


10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  for  San  Quentin ;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
lor  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs; 
at  Clo'verdale  for  the  Geysers,  Eooneville,  and 
Greenwood ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs. 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyviile;  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  tor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno.  Potter  Vallev,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierlev's, 
Bucknell's.  Sanhed'rin  Heights,  Hullville.  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins.  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willi ts  for  Fori  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Cahto.  Covelo,  Laylonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris,  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
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On  Sundav  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

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Stockton    10.40  a  m,   Fresno    2.40    p    m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.     Stops  at  all  points 
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ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11.10  p  m. 
Jt  fbfk  P  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
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p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       |  Monday  and  Thursday. 
I  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 

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TO    SAN    RAFAEL.    ROSS  VALLEY, 
MILL  VALLEY,  CAZADERO.  ETC. 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
Suburban     Service,     Standard     Gauge 
Fleet  ri     -    Depart  from     San    Francisco 
Lfciil\     7.00,  S.oo,  q  00,    10.00,    11.00  A.  M., 
12.20,    1.45,    3-15,    415.    5-15.     6-15.     7-00,     8.45,     10.20, 1 
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FROM    SAN    RAFAEL    TO    SAN     FRANCISCO 

—  Daily— 5.25,  6.35,  7.40,  S.35,  9-35,    ii-°5.   A.  M-.    12.20, 
1  45.    2-55.   3-45.   4-4S,   5.45.   6-45,   S.45,    10.20   p.    m. 

FROM    MILL    VALLEY    TO  SAN   FRANCISCO 

—  Daily— 5.45.   6.55,   7.52,   S.55.  9-55.    I'.**  A.  M.,    12.35,  1 
2.00,   3.15,   4.05,   5.05,    6.05,    7.05,   9.00,    10.35   P-  M. 

THROUGH    TRAINS. 

8.00  A.  m.  week  days  — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 

5.15  p.  m.  week  days  (Saturdays  excepted)— To- 
males  and  way  stations. 

3.15  p.  ft,  Saturdays — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 

Sundays  only— 10.00  a.  m..  Point  Reyes  and  way 
stations. 

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Ferry— Union  Depot,  fool  of  Market  Street. 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


JERUSALEM    THE    GOLDEN. 


By  Jerome  Hart. 


Jerusalem  the  Golden:  How  to  Style  Jerusalem  —  Blood- 
Drenched  Yet  Sterile  Soil — My  Many  Friends  in  Fezzes — 
The    Harbor    of    Jaffa — Deadly    Seasickness    of    Departing 

Tourists.     By  Jerome  Hart 305-307 

French  Authors  and  Their  Work:    New  Books  that  Interest 

the  Gallic  Capital.     By  "  St.  Martin  " 308 

London  Literary  Gossip:       Notable     Spring    Offerings    of    the 

English  Publishers.     By  "  Piccadilly." 309 

Publishers'  Fall  Announcements:  Some  Notable  New 
Books — The  Macmillan  Company — A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. — 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons — D.  Appleton  &  Co. — Little,  Brown 
&  Co. — John  Lane — Houghton.  Mifflin  &  Co. — Henry  Holt 
&  Co.— Thomas  Y.  Crowell  S:  Co.— L.  C.  Page  &  Co.— 
Paul  Elder  &  Co. — Dodge  Publishing  Company — The  Cen- 
tury Company 310 

Classified  Fall  Publications:  Books  Ready  and  in  Press.  .311-315 
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John  Fox,  Jr.  (Charles  Scribner's  Sons) — "  The  Pine 
Grove,"  by  Ruth  Hall  (Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.) — "  The 
Silver  Poppy,"  by  Arthur  Stringer  (D.  Appleton  &  Co.) 
— "  The  Literary  Sense,"  by  E.  Nesbit  (The  Macmillan 
Company) — "  The    House    on    the    Sands,"    by    Charles 

Marriott  (John  Lane) 316 

"  The  Vagabond,"  by  Frederick  Palmer  (Charles 
Scribner's  Sons) — "  Falk,"  by  Joseph  Conrad  (McClure, 
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Co.) — "  The  Life  and  Art  of  Gainsborough,"  by  Arthur 
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and  "  Through  Three  Campaigns,"  by  George  Henty 
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Story  Allen  (Henry  Holt  &  Co.)    32= 

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Fortunes  of  Fifi,"  by  Mollie  Elliott  Sewell  (Bobbs-Mer- 

rill  Company)    323 

"  Schumann,"  by  Annie  W.  Patterson  (E.  P.  Dutton  & 
Co.)  — "  Place  and  Power,"  by  Ellen  Thomeycroft 
Fowler  (D.  Appleton  &  Co.) — "The  Red-Keggers,"   by 

Eugene  Thwing  (Book  Lover  Press) 324 

"Laura  Bridgman:  Dr.  Howe's  Famous  Pupil  and 
What  He  Taught  Her,"  by  Maud  Howe  and  Florence 
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Norris  (Doubleday,  Page  &  Co.) — "  Change  of  Heart," 

by  Margaret  Sutton  Briscoe  (Harper  &  Brothers) 325 

"  The  Manuscript  in  a  Red  Box  "  (John  Lane) 326 

"  His  Daughter  First,"  by  Arthur  Sherboume  Hardy 
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&  Brothers) — "  The  Young  Ice  Whalers,"  by  Winthrop 
Packard  (Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.) — "  Thistledown." 
by  Mrs.  C.  V.  Jamison  (The  Century  Company) — 
"  The  Book  of  Children's  Parties,"  by  Mary  and  Sarah 

White  (The  Century  Company) 32? 

The  Tuneful  Liar:      "The    Critic,"    by    William    J.    Lampton; 

I"  The  Author's  Dilemma,"  by  S.  E.  Kiser 321 
A  Spanisi  Poet:       Extracts     from     the     Poems     of     Gustavo 
Becqu:r 328 


Jerusalem  is  not  the  largest  city  in  the  world,  but  it  is 
one  of  the  longest.    Its  area  is  not  great, 

HOW  TO  £»  O 

style  but  it  sticks  back  into  the  night  of  time 

Jerusalem.  like  the  tail  of  a  comet.     Therefore,  to 

attempt  to  write,  even  superficially,  about  this  long  but 
little  city,  within  the  limits  of  a  newspaper  article, 
would  be  difficult.  However,  I  shall  give  here  some  of 
the  fragmentary  and  detached  impressions  jotted  down 
in  my  note-book. 

At  first  I  intended  calling  this  sketch  "The  New 
Jerusalem,"  for  there  is  a  new  and  very  modern  Jeru- 
salem growing  out  of  the  ruins  of  the  old.  But  such  a 
title  would  smack  of  irreverence  to  many,  so  I  laid  it 


Street  Scene  at  the  Jaffa  Gate,  /ervtalem 

aside.  "The  Holy  City"  was  my  next  choice;  but  as 
what  I  saw  was  wholly  unholy,  I  abandoned  that  also. 
As  a  hymn-tune  title  appealed  to  me,  I  at  last  chose 
"  Jerusalem  the  Golden  " — not  as  an  irreverent  sneer  at 
the  celestial  city,  but  as  suggested  by  the  golden  stream 
which  pours  into  Jerusalem  from  all  over  the  world — a 
stream  of  gold  which  is  erecting  churches,  synagogues, 
mosques,  monasteries,  and  hospices,  and  which  main- 
tains in  comfort,  and  often  in  luxury,  many  thousands 
of  idle  human  beings. 

It  is  not  always  easy  to  reach  Jerusalem  on  schedule 
time.    The  traveler  in  the  Levant  must 
*"*  often  resign  himself  to  threats  of  quar- 

jerusalem.  antine,  possible  quarantine,   and   actual 

quarantine.  It  is  not  feasible  to  make  any  hard  and  fast 
itinerary.  All  itineraries  must  yield  to  quarantine.  No 
steamship  company  will  agree  to  land  its  passengers 


at  any  port  at  any  set  time.  All  tickets  read  "  subject 
to  quarantine."  Jaffa,  the  seaport  of  Jerusalem,  is  con- 
tinually quarantining  against  Alexandria  for  plague  or 
cholera.  Alexandria  is  continually  quarantining  against 
Jaffa  for  cholera  or  plague.  Then,  when  Jaffa  is  not 
quarantining,  the  seas  on  the  Jaffa  reef  are  frequently 
so  rough  as  to  render  landing  impossible  for  days  or 
even  weeks.  Thus  it  is  not  infrequent  for  a  traveler 
bound  for  Jerusalem  to  spend  his  time  steaming  between 
Constantinople  and  Alexandria,  hoping  that  the  yellow 
Hag  may  be  hauled  down  or  the  sea  grow  smooth 
long  enough  for  him  to  disembark.  But  there  have 
even  been  cases  of  officials,  like  consuls,  finding  it  diffi- 
cult to  make  their  way  to  their  posts  at  Jerusalem.  As 
some  recompense,  however,  they  have  the  charm  of  sail- 
ing back  and  forth  along  the  Syrian  coast.  The  atmos- 
phere there  is  usually  very  clear,  and  the  panorama  of 
towns  and  villages  along  the  sandy  shore,  with  the 
sharply  outlined  mountains  rising  behind  them,  is  very 
picturesque.  The  steamships — at  least  in  daylight — 
keep  very  close  in  shore. 

When  we  landed  at  Jaffa,  the  sea  was  smooth,  and 
the  disembarking  uneventful.  The  town  is  commercially 
important,  but  not  particularly  interesting  to  tourists. 
Furthermore,  the  accommodations  for  travelers  are  not 
good.  The  "  hotels  "  are  few  and  small,  and  are  in  the 
habit  of  sending  their  overflow  guests  to  a  hospice  kept 
by  the  German  colony,  or  to  the  Franciscan  monastery ; 
their  quarters  are  limited,  and  often  the  tourist  will  find 
not  where  to  lay  his  head.  Even  in  Jerusalem  there  is 
but  one  "  hotel,"  properly  speaking,  and  when  that  is 
filled,  travelers  must  seek  second-rate  inns,  or  the  hos- 
pitality of  the  hospices. 

One  of  the  things  most  remarked  when  landing  in 
Palestine,  is  the  railway  running  from  Jaffa  to  Jeru- 
salem. It  is  not  much  of  a  road — running  one  train 
daily  each  way,  and  having  inferior  cars ;  but  any 
railway  at  all  in  that  country  seems  an  anomaly.  The 
Jaffa  station  is  quite  a  distance  from  the  seaport.  The 
Jerusalem  station  also  is  without  the  city  walls,  near  the 
Jaffa  Gate.  The  Turkish  Government  refused  to  permit 
the  railway  company  to  come  within  the  walls.  The 
distance  from  Jaffa  to  Jerusalem  is  fifty-three  miles, 
and  the  trains  make  it  in  three  and  a  half  hours,  climb- 
ing from  sea  level  to  over  2,500  feet.  Return  tickets. 
$4.00. 

On  the  road  from  Jaffa  to  Jerusalem,  the  amazing 
amount  of  work  which  has  been  done  in  this  ancient 
land  is  apparent  in  the  terraces.  For  mile  after  mile, 
on  right  and  left  of  the  railway,  you  see  the  mountains 
terraced  from  the  level  of  the  rails  clear  up  to  the  top. 
I  counted  the  rows  of  terraces,  and  there  was  an  aver- 
age of  seventy,  from  the  bottom  of  the  ravines  to  the 
tops  of  the  mountains,  for  twenty-five  miles  on  both 
sides  of  the  tracks.  The  labor  which  this  represents 
is  enormous — no  one  generation  could  have  accom- 
plished it;  this  task  was  the  work  of  many  centuries. 
Merely  to  amuse  myself,  I  made  a  slight  calculation. 
The  labor  of  constructing  these  terraces  is  about 
equivalent  to  that  of  making  a  rough  roadway.  There- 
fore, taking  the  twenty-five  miles  and  doubling  it  for 
the  two  sides  of  the  railway,  we  have  fifty  miles  of 
mountain  terraced  seventy  times,  which  gives  3,500 
miles  of  road  constructed  in  this  narrow  strip.  Yet  this 
represents  only  one  ravine  or  pass  in  the  mountains; 
every  slope  of  this  mountain  range  is  terrace1 
same  way;  as  this  chain  of  mountains  average?  : 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


in  width  about  ten  miles,  this  would  give  a  total  of  35,000 
miles  of  roadway  !  Think  of  this  colossal  labor  accomplished 
by  human1  hands.  The  mere  idea  of  it  is  almost  impossible 
to  conceive. 

These  terraces  are  not  only  planted  with  trees,  like 
the  olive,  but  many  of  them  are  also  sown  with  grain. 
Fancy  planting  grain  in  so  stony  and  sterile  a  country  that  it 
was  necessary  to   make  stone   terraces,   and  then  put  soil    on 


Tower  of  Antonia,  Jerusalem. 

them  in  which  to  sow  the  grain.     Yet  that  is  how  thousands 
of  miles  of  terraces  are  utilized  in  the  Holy  Land. 


It  is  remarkable  that  the  soil  of  Palestine  should  be  so  sterile. 
For  forty  centuries — who  knows  how  many 
Bwod-Drknched  more?— men  have  killed  each  other  there  in 
Sterile  Soil  tke   name   °*   all   tne   gods.      There,   war  has 

been  waged  in  the  name  of  Assyrian,  Philis- 
tine, and  Egyptian  deities.  There,  foul  crimes  have  been  done 
in  the  name  of  the  great  Jehovah,  the  pitiless  god  of  the 
ancient  Jews.  There,  in  the  name  of  the  gentle  Nazarene,  the 
Crusaders  did  dark  deeds.  There,  in  the  Middle  Ages,  cruel 
Christians  "  converted "  Jews  by  the  rack,  the  stake,  the  tor- 
lure  by  water,  the  torture  by  fire,  in  the  name  of  God  the 
Father,  God  the  Son,  and  God  the  Holy  Ghost.  And  now  for 
a  thousand  years,  in  the  name  of  the  triune  God,  in  the  name 
of  the  monotheistic  Allah,  men  have  been  waging  war.- 

Palestine's  soil  is  drenched  with  blood.  Her  rock-tombs  are 
filled  with  the  bodies  of  the  rich  and  great,  her  soil  is  fer- 
tilized with  the  bodies  of  the  poor  and  lowly.  This  holy  land 
has  been  saturated  with  the  blood  of  millions  of  men  and 
women  killed  in  religion's  name.  Their  bodies  have  gone  to 
enrich  the  granitic  debris  from  its  rock-ribbed  hills.  Yet  it  is 
still  a  sterile  soil. 

Up  to  the  terraces  of  stone,  along  the  sterile  hills  of  Pales- 
tine, the  soil  has  been  carried  from  the  valley  lands  below. 
Rocky  as  are  the  mountain  sides,  the  passage  of  countless  ages 
has  washed  away  enough  debris  to  form  a  deep  soil  in  the 
valleys  and  ravines.  Slowly,  slowly,  this  soil  has  been  dug 
out,  and  painfully  carried  up  by  hand — sometimes  almost  to 
the  mountain-tops,  for  the  villages  are  usually  situated  on  the 
tops  of  the  mountains.  Many  of  these  terraces  are  neglected 
now,  and  the  soil  is  slowly  washing  out  of  the  stones  back  into 
the  valleys  from  which  it  was  dug.  The  men  who  dug  it,  who 
carried  it  up  the  mountain,  are  now  themselves  a  part  of  the 
soil  which  they  once  carried.  It  may  be  that,  in  another  four 
thousand  years,  yet  other  men,  whose  bodies  are  builded  out  of 
the  same  soil,  will  again  be  carrying  the  decayed  bodies  of 
their  remote  ancestors,  mixed  with  crumbled  granite,  up  the 
mountain  sides  of  Palestine. 


My  Mam- 
Friends  in 
Jerusalem. 


One's  first  impressions  on  entering  any  ancient  and  historic 
spot  are  worth  remembering — perhaps  worth 
recording.  Therefore,  it  may  be  well  to  set 
down  what  first  struck  me  on  entering 
Jerusalem.  It  was  evening  as  we  drove  from 
the  station,  and  entered  the  Jaffa  Gate.  Almost  immediately 
we  left  our  carriage,  for  there  are  few  streets  in  Jerusalem 
where  wheeled  vehicles  may  pass.  We  descended  from  the 
carriage  at  the  entrance  of  a  long,  vaulted  passage  leading  to 
the  hotel.  This  ran  under  the  building  for  some  200  feet,  and 
was  ps  :ked  with  a  motley  gathering.  As  we  made  our  way 
throw  this  mass  of  humanity,  our  dragoman  turned  to  us 
and  s,'sd,  warningly:  "Look  out  for  your  pockets."  Then  I 
i  at  we  were  fairly  in  the  Holy  City. 
It  has  been  my  fortune  to  enter  many  cities  where  I  knew 


nobody.  In  fact,  I  always  expect  to  know  nobody  in  strange 
cities,  although  (so  small  is  the  world)  I  often  meet  ac- 
quaintances in  out-of-the-way  places.  But  I  was  quite  certain 
I  had  no  circle  in  Jerusalem.  I  never  had  been  there  before, 
I  knew  few  people  who  had  been  there,  and  I  never  knew 
any  one  who  had  gone  there  to  stay.  Fancy,  therefore,  my  sur- 
prise the  morning  after  our  arrival,  as  I  emerged  from  the 
hotel  door,  sniffing  the  rich  and  juicy  Jerusalem  air,  to  find 
myself  accosted  by  a  young  man  with  a  fez  and  a  hooked  nose. 
'*  Good-morning,"  said  he,  cordially.  I  was  acknowledging  his 
salutation,  when  I  was  suddenly  greeted  on  the  right :  "  How 
do  you  do,  sir?"  I  looked  around,  and  there  was  another 
young  man  with  a  fez  and  a  hooked  nose.  "  It  is  a  fine  morn- 
ing," came  another  voice;  I  looked  behind  me,  and  there  was 
a  new  friend  hurrying  up.  "I  hope  you  are  well,  sir?"  cried 
a  fourth,  who  arrived  on  a  run.  Bewildered,  I  turned  around, 
when  I  was  accosted  by  at  least  a  dozen  young  men,  all  bow- 
ing, and  asking  about  my  health,  and  all  with  fezzes  and 
hooked  noses. 

I  was  a  little  surprised  at  first  at  the  extent  of  my  circle  of 
acquaintances  in  Jerusalem,  but  after  they  had  broken  the  ice 
with  remarks  about  my  health  and  the  weather,  they  came 
down  to  business.  They  turned  out  to  be  drivers,  dragomans, 
peddlers,  touts,  and  shopkeepers.  I  do  not  include  among 
my  acquaintances  the  shoe-cleaning  boys  of  Jerusalem;  they 
are  as  thick  as  mosquitoes. 

It  must  not  be  inferred  from  the  foregoing  that  all  these 
hooked-nosed  gentry  were  Jews.  Not  so.  In  the  Orient  the 
hooked  nose  is  by  no  means  confined  to  the  Jewish  race.  The 
Turks  are,  many  of  them,  singularly  Semitic  in  appearance ;  in 
Constantinople,  many  of  the  officers  of  the  Sultan's  guard  look 
like  handsome  young  Jews,  while  Sultan  Abdul  Hamid  himself 
has  a  strikingly  Hebraic  face.  In  Jerusalem,  the  predominant 
type  of  nose,  among  Oriental  Jews,  Occidental  Jews,  Turks, 
and  Armenians,  is  what  we  call  the  Jewish  nose.  Only  the 
Russians — of  whom  there  are  many  in  Jerusalem — depart 
widely  from  this  type;  they  have  the  flat,  Calmuck,  or  Tartar 
nose. 

While  I  am  on  the  subject  of  nations  and  noses,  here  is  a 
curious  fact  about  Palestine — apparently  no  man  declares  his 
nationality.  Ask  a  dragoman  of  what  country  he  is,  and  he 
will  reply:  "I  am  a  Moslem."  Another  will  say,  "I  am  a 
Latin  "  ;  another,  "  I  am  a  Jew."  In  every  case  I  found  that 
the  man  interrogated  replied  with  his  religion,  rather  than 
with  his  race.  There  was  one  dragoman  wrho  hesitated  several 
seconds  before  replying  to  me  when  asked  his  nationality, 
finally  saying,  "  I  am  a  Christian."  He  was  a  lame  dragoman 
and  easy  to  identify,  so  I  determined  to  ascertain  his  pedigree. 
I  was  curious  to  see  what  manner  of  man  was  this  who,  in 
this  religious  land,  was  uncertain  about  his  religion.  I  found 
that  the  lame  dragoman  was  the  son  of  a  German  father  and 
an  Arab  mother.  The  father  wanted  to  make  him  a  Jew,  the 
mother  wanted  to  make  him  a  Moslem,  but  as  he  grew  up  he 
became  a  dragoman,  and  made  himself  a  Christian  for  business 
reasons. 


Christians 
Fighting  in 
the  Church. 


One  day  we  learned  that  certain  Lenten  festivities  were  to  take 
place  in  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre. 
According  to  our  Gregorian  calendar,  Lent 
does  not  accord  with  the  dates  of  the  Julian 
calendar,  which  is  followed  by  the  Greek, 
Armenian,  Coptic,  Syrian,  and  other  Oriental  churches.  The 
enormous  edifice  was  crowded.  Every  nationality  under  the 
sun  seemed  represented  in  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre. 
There  were  almost  as  many  Moslems  as  Christians,  as  could 
readily  be  seen  by  looking  down  from  the  lofty  balcony  where 
we  were  perched ;  in  the  crowd  below  the  black,  gray,  and  bald 
heads  of  the  Christians  were  thickly  interspersed  with  the 
varicolored  turbans  and  fezzes  of  the  unbelievers. 


at  all,  as  we  learned  one  day  when  conversing  with  a  sweet- 
faced  old  nun,  who  presided  over  the  French  convent  and 
school  of  St.  Anne  in  Jerusalem.  I  asked  her  if  the  school  was 
entirely  for  Roman  Catholics,  or  "  Latin  Christians,"  as  they 
call  themselves  there.  ".Oh,  no,  monsieur,"  she  replied;  "we 
admit  not  only  Christians,  but  others  as  well,  including 
Mohammedans,  Jews,  and  Protestants."  The  italics  are  mine. 
The  most  bitter  feeling  prevails  between  the  Greek  Catholics, 
the  Armenian  Catholics,  and  the  Latins.  Only  last  year  there 
was  a  bloody  fight  in  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre 
between  the  various  Christian  congregations,  which  the  Turkish 
troops  were  obliged  to  suppress  with  force  of  arms.  But  this 
was  not  a  novelty — there  have  been  many  such  battles.  The 
disputed  questions  are  those  of  priority  as  "  the  primitive 
church,"  of  precedence  in  festivals,  of  the  right  to  claim  the 
Holy  Sepulchre,  and  of  the  right  to  occupy  certain  chapels  and 
Spots  Where. 


Shortly  after  we  were  installed  in  our  lofty  perch,  the  various 

Catholic  denominations  marched  in,  one  after 

another,    visiting    the    various    points    in    the 

church.      The    Sepulchre,    itself,    Mt.    Calvary 
Pageants.  \  ~ 

(which  is  in  the  church),  the  "  Center  of  the 

World,"  the  Chapel  of  the  Finding  of  the  Cross,  the  Chapel 
of  the  Crowning  with  Thorns,  the  Cleft  in  the  Rock,  the  Place 
of  the  Scourging — these  are  some  of  the  places  they  visited. 
They  traveled  on  a  set  schedule,  which  had  been  arranged  by 
the  Turkish  military  commander  in  order  to  avoid  collision.  The 
sight  was  a  remarkable  one,  as  the  patriarchs,  the  bishops,  and 
the  priests  swept  by,  swinging  censors  and  clad  in  gorgeous 
vestments,  through  long  lines  of  sneering  Turks  and  weeping 
believers.  The  most  handsome  vestments  were  those  worn  by 
the  Greek  priests;  never  have  I  seen  anything  to  equal  them, 
even  in  the  most  gorgeous  sacristies,  the  richest  treasure- 
chambers  of  the  great  cathedrals  of  the  Western  world.  The 
handsomest  men  were  those  of  the  Armenian  faith ;  both  they 
and  the  priests  of  the  Greek  Church  wear  beards,  and  are  tall 
and  stately  men.  The  beard  lends  dignity  to  the  priesthood, 
and  both  Greeks  and  Armenians  look  better  than  the  smooth- 
shaven  Latin  priests. 

As  the  gorgeously  attired  priests  filed  by  chanting  their 
ritual,  sometimes  in  Greek,  sometimes  in  Syriac,  sometimes  in 
Latin,  it  was  curious  to  watch  the  faces  of  the  onlookers. 
There  was  every  type  among  them.  The  sneering  Moslems, 
of  whom  I  have  spoken,  were  principally  of  the  better  class, 
wearing  frock-coats  and  fezzes.  But  there  were  other  Moham- 
medans as  well ;  coal-black  negroes  from  Nubia ;  Abys- 
sinians  from  the  Soudan ;  Mohammedan  mollahs  with  the 
green  caftan ;  Arabs  from  Aleppo,  bearing  the  brown 
scars  of  the  Aleppine  boil ;  Bedouins  from  the  desert ; 
Turkish  women  in  their  yashmaks  and  feredjees,  peering 
curiously  through  their  thin  veils  at  the  dogs  of  unbelievers; 
nondescript  Syrian  peasants,  bare-footed,  bare-legged,  and  clad 
in  sheep-skins.  One  was  clad  in  a  sheep-skin  that  had  belonged 
to  several  generations — an  hereditary  sheep-skin,  an  heirloom 
in  his  family,  as  it  were.  He  was  my  neighbor  for  a  time,  and 
was  too  close  to  me  to  be  agreeable.  Whenever  I  think  of  that 
hereditary  sheep-skin,  I  shudder. 

He  was  my  neighbor,  and  being  in  Palestine  I  should  have 
loved  him.  But  if  you  think  it  is  hard  to  love  your  neighbor  in 
California,  you  ought  to  try  it  in  Jerusalem. 


One  incident  at  this  Lenten  function  in  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Sepulchre  surprised  us.  When  the  Latin  pro- 
cession— that  is,  the  Roman  Catholic — en- 
tered, the  French  consul  and  his  suite  were 
following  them  ;  the  consul  and  the  vice-con- 
sul were  in  full  uniform,  the  secretary  and  two  or  three  clerks 


French  Consul 

at  A 

Latin  Function 


Mosque  of  Omar  and  Mount  Aforiah,  Jerusalem. 


"When  I  mention  the  fezzes  I  do  not  include  those  of  the 
Turkish  troops,  of  which  there  was  a  large  force  drawn  up  in 
various  parts  of  the  church.  These  Turkish  troops  are  nomi- 
nally there  to  "  preserve  order " ;  they  are  really  there  to 
prevent  the  Christians  from  cutting  each  other's  throats.  The 
bitterness  existing  between  the  various  Christian  denominations 
in  the  Holy  Land  is  almost  beyond  belief.  This  hatred  is  not 
between  Catholics  and  Protestants,  for  the  Protestants  are 
small  in  numbers,  and  the  Catholics  of  all  sects  pay  no  atten- 
tion to  them.     In   fact,  they  do  not  consider  them  Christians 


were  in  swallow-tail  coats  and  white  ties,  and  all  were  carrying 
large,  fat  candles,  about  four  feet  high.  Why  was  the  French 
consul  attending  this  Roman  Catholic  function  at  Jerusalem  ? 
France  is  now  engaged  in  driving  out  the  religious  from  nun- 
neries and  monasteries  in  France.  Even  here  in  Jerusalem, 
some  of  the  expatriated  religious  were  to  be  found  in  the 
institution  of  the  Sceurs  Reparatrices.  on  the  hill  ;  vc  our 
hotel.      WThy   does   France   with    one   hand   whip   the  gious 

from  her  frontiers,  while  with  the  other  she  pioi  •  holds 
candles  at  Roman  Catholic  functions  in  Jerusalem? 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


This  was  a  little  too  much  for  me,  so  I  put  the  poser  to  one 
of  the  consular  corps  in  Jerusalem.  With  a  chuckle,  the  con- 
sul replied,  but  requested  me  not  to  quote  him,  so  he  shall  be 
anonymous.  The  gist  of  his  reply  was  as  follows :  France  has 
for  years  striven  to  hold  the  post  of  protector  of  Latin  Chris- 
tianity in  the  Orient.  Since  1S60,  when  French  troops  saved 
Christians  from  the  massacre  of  the  Druses,  she  has  enjoyed 
that  prestige  in  Europe.     That  prestige  was  added  to  by  Na- 


Enlrance  lc  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  Jerusalem. 

poleon    the    Third,    when    he    protected    the    Maronites    from 
Moslem  aggression. 

But  of  recent  years  French  prestige  has  been  suffering.  Ger- 
many and  Russia  have  been  striving  in  every  possible  way  to 
leave  her  in  the  rear.  It  is  difficult  for  one  who  has  not  been 
in  Jerusalem  to  understand  how  the  great  powers  of  Europe 
strive  for  prestige  in  that  ancient  city.  It  is  the  belief  among 
many  men  there  that  Russia,  for  religious  reasons,  intends 
ultimately  to  make  Jerusalem  Russian  territory.  Since  Em- 
peror William's  visit  there,  a  few  years  ago,  Germany  also  has 
taken  many  steps  for  occupying  Jerusalem  herself.  A  mag- 
nificent church  has  been  erected  there  in  honor  of  the  Kaiser's 
visit.  Formerly,  Germans  were  buried  in  the  graveyard  of  the 
French  monastery,  regardless  of  their  creed,  but  since  the 
Kaiser's  visit  the  Germans  have  a  graveyard  of  their  own. 
Germany  has  pushed  herself  forward  in  many  other  ways. 
Hence  France  is  straining  every  nerve  to  impress  the  Chris- 
tians, and  particularly  the  Latin  Christians,  with  her  import- 
ance. Relying  on  their  ignorance,  she  chastises  them  in  the 
West,  and  then  sends  consuls  to  honor  their  functions  in  the 
East. 


The  Consul 

and  His 
Candle. 


And  the  French  consular  corps — how  did  they  look?  Well,  it 
was  rather  funny.  The  consul  was  a  good- 
looking  man  of  about  thirty,  in  a  handsome 
uniform,  and  carried  a  gold-laced  cocked  hat 
under  his  arm.  He  was  holding  his  candle 
listlessly,  but  still  tilted  forward  so  that  the  grease  should  not 
fall  on  his  gold-laced  trousers  or  patent-leather  boots.  The 
vice-consul  had  also  fallen  into  a  weak-kneed  condition  of 
boredom,  and  with  his  head  sunk  upon  his  chest,  was  appar- 
ently thinking  of  his  early  loves.  The  secretaries  and  clerks 
of  the  consulate  were  yawning,  and  the  general  air  of  the  party 
was  one  of  extreme  ennui.  In  front  of  them  were  the  rows  of 
prostrate  priests  rapidly  mumbling  their  ritual,  while  around 
them  was  the  human  mass  of  filth,  squalor,  and  ignorance. 
Christian  and  Mohammedan,  which  I  have  already  described. 
A  Russian  moujik  had  forced  his  way  through  the  crowd, 
and  seeing  the  altar,  flung  himself  on  the  dirty  pavement,  and 
began  kissing  the  stones  with  loud  smacks,  having  first  wiped 
his  lips  with  his  sleeve.  I  should  think  he  would  first  have  wiped 
the  pavement  and  next  his  sleeve,  but  there  is  no  accounting 
for  tastes.  As  he  was  rising  from  one  of  his  genuflections  he 
took  his  eyes  from  the  altar,  looked  at  the  priests,  then  at  the 
consuls  :  with  a  scowl,  he  withdrew — he  was  in  the  wrong  shop 
— he  belonged  to  the  Greek  Catholic  outfit,  and  he  made  haste 
to  shake  from  his  shoes  the  very  dust  of  the  Latin  Catholic 
procession. 

It  was  in  the  midst  of  this  mass  that  the  French  consular 
suite  were  standing  with  their  candles,  when  a  group  of  six  or 
eight  American  ladies  appeared,  their  dragoman  having  made 
a  way  for  them  in  the  front  rank  of  the  crowd.  The  moment 
the  young  consul  saw  them,  he  straightened  up  and  threw  out 
his  chest ;  the  vice-consul  noted  his  superior,  followed  the 
direction  of  his  eyes,  and  seeing  the  American  ladies  began  to 
twirl  his  mustache.  The  clerks  and  secretaries  obediently 
followed   suite,   and   in   about   thirty   seconds   the   entire   staff 


were  neglecting  the   Holy   Sepulchre  and  the  whole  business, 
and  trying  to  mash  the  American  girls.     It  was  very  human. 

** 
I    have   already   spoken   of   the   harbor   of   Jaffa,   the   port   of 
Jerusalem.       The    scenes    there,    when    pas- 
sengers are  embarking  and  disembarking,  are 
Harbor  .,  .  ,  b' 

of  Jaffa  striking  ones.     The   day  we   disembarked   at 

Jaffa,  the  sea  was  as  smooth  as  a  mill-pond, 
and  the  disembarkation  was  effected  without  any  accident 
or  discomfort.  But  the  day  we  embarked,  conditions  were 
very  different.  A  gale  had  been  howling  for  days  along  the 
Syrian  coast.  Off  the  harbor  there  is  a  barrier  reef,  very 
similar  to  those  which  girt  the  South  Sea  Islands — like  that, 
for  example,  which  so  many  Californians  have  seen  at 
Honolulu.  A  narrow,  slit-like  entrance  permits  the  passage 
of  small  boats.  Outside  of  this  the  larger  vessels  anchor  when 
it  is  safe  to  do  so,  and  lie  to  when  it  is  not.  On  this  par- 
ticular day  there  were  a  number  of  ships  in  the  offing,  but  they 
all  had  steam  up,  and  were  ready  to  put  to  sea  at  a  minute's 
notice.  Such  was  the  force  of  the  sea  and  wind  that  the 
waves  were  breaking  over  the  reef  twenty  feet  high.  The 
placid  Mediterranean,  that  "  summer  sea,"  as  many  people 
like  to  call  it,  can  at  times  be  as  rude  as  the  Atlantic.  Even 
inside  the  reef  the  water  was  by  no  means  smooth. 

Among  the  half  score  of  big  ships  tossing  and  tumbling 
about  on  the  rough  waves  without,  there  were  three  Russian 
ships  of  war,  and  one  Russian  passenger  vessel.  From  them 
all  there  streamed  stiffly  in  the  keen  wind  the  blue  and  white 
banner  of  Russia.  The  port  facilities  at  Jaffa  are  com- 
paratively limited.  There  is  a  space  of  some  fifty  or  sixty 
yards  of  stone  quay,  alongside  of  which  the  boats  come  to 
embark  and  disembark  passengers.  When  the  number  of 
passengers  arriving  and  sailing  is  large,  boats  wrait  for  places 
at  the  pier,  and  passengers  also  wait  for  the  boats.  When  we 
were  there  a  stream  of  boats  was  pouring  in  from  the  Russian 
passenger  vessel.  As  they  came  alongside,  there  crawled, 
leaped,  were  lifted,  or  slung,  according  to  age.  sex,  and  con- 
dition, hordes  of  filthy  Russian  peasants.  As  soon  as  they 
landed  they  fell  upon  their  faces,  and  with  their  blubbery 
lips  kissed  with  resounding  smacks  the  slabs  of  stone.  Evi- 
dently they  looked  upon  the  pier  as  being  the  sacred  soil  of  the 
Holy  Land.  I  could  not  but  smile  when  I  reflected  that  only 
a  few  moments  before  this  sacred  soil  had  been  occupied  by 
gangs  of  Mohammedan  porters,  passing  boxes,  bags,  and 
bundles  from  one  another  to  the  boats.  As  they  worked,  they 
indulged  in  a  droning  sing-song — what  sailors  call  a  "  shanty  " 
— to  help  them  in  their  work.  As  I  listened  to  their  rhythmical 
grunt  I  was  curious  to  know  what  they  were  saying,  and 
asked  a  dragoman.  It  sounded  to  me  like  "  la  Allah-il-Allah," 
etc. — the  well-known  saying  which  we  all  of  us  remember 
from  the  "  Arabian  Nights."  The  dragoman  corroborated 
my  belief,  and  added  that  the  other  words  meant  for  the 
next  man  to  hurry  the  baggage  along.  In  short,  from  his 
translation.  I  think  their  "  shanty  "  was  something  like  this  : 
"  Come,  get  a  move  on.  God  is  great.  Pass  it  along.  God  is 
great" 

One  hears  many  religious  ejaculations  in  the  Holy  Land. 
I  faintly  recalled  a  Russian  word  used  as  an  Easter  greeting 
in  Russia.  A  Russian  friend  once  told  me  that  it  is  the 
fashion  even  for  entire  strangers  to  cry  to  those  they  meet  on 
Easter  Day,  "  Christ  is  risen  I"  One  particularly  hairy  Rus- 
sian moujik  was  just  arising  from  his  osculations  of  the  stone 
pier  when  his  eye  caught  mine.  He  rushed  upon  me  with 
outstretched  arms,  shouting  the  greeting  of  which  I  speak, 
and  showing  so  friendly  a  disposition  that  I  fled  in  terror. 
My  Russian  friend  had  told  me  that  the  Russian  peasants 
not  only  greeted  strangers  with  the  words,  "  Christ  is  risen," 
but  frequently  embraced  them.  I  was  afraid  my  hairy  friend 
intended  to  embrace  me — perhaps  to  kiss  me  with  the  same 
pious  lips  which  he  had  just  imprinted  on  the  porter-defiled 
pier.      So   I    did   not   hesitate.      Discretion   is   the   better   part 


and  would  cut  your  throat  for  sixpence,  I  have  no  doubt  that 
they  are  very  worthy  men.  Still,  rarely  does  one  part  from  a 
set  of  shipmates  with  so  much  joy  as  from  these  Jaffa  boat- 
men. On  our  boat,  one.  who  lost  his  toe-grip  oa  the  gun- 
wale, fell  overboard.  His  comrades  paid  not  the  least 
attention  to  him  ;  he  swam  around,  trying  to  climb  into  various 
boats,  but  repulsed  by  all ;  the  occupants  feared  he  would 
shake  himself  like  a  wet  dog,  so  he  had  to  swim  ashore. 

Our  boatmen  had  made  not  more  than  three  strokes  with 
their  long  sweeps  when  our  whale-boat  began  to  poise  herself 
alternately  on  her  bow  and  her  stern.  Then  she  rolled,  she 
pitched,  she  tossed,  she  made  every  movement  possible  to  the 
laws  of  gravitation  and  flotation.  And  as  she  did  so.  the 
countenances  of  the  people  aboard  instantly  changed.  I  have  seen 
a  great  many  seasick  people  in  my  time,  and  I  may  have  seen 
more  seasick  people  than  there  were  in  our  boat,  but  I  never 
saw  people  more  seasick — that  is,  so  seasick — that  is,  sea- 
sicker.  There  are  stages  of  seasickness  where  ladies  attempt 
to  conceal  the  fact  that  they  are  under  the  weather.  There 
was  no  such  attempt  in  this  boat.  Anybody  who  was  sick 
was  frankly  seasick.  We  were  right  down  to  the  plain, 
primitive  man  and  woman,  and  no  nonsense  about  it. 

The  extreme  lack  of  formality  in  our  boat  reminded  me 
of  a  picture  I  saw  in  Punch  years  ago  of  a  seasick  woman 
aboard  a  Channel  steamer.  A  seasick  man  beside  her  has  his 
head  pillowed  in  her  lap.  A  passing  good  Samaritan  says  : 
"  Madam,  look  at  your  husband's  dreadful  pallor — you  had 
better  have  him  taken  below."  To  which  the  seasick  lady  re- 
plies with  a  dreadful  calmness:  "He's  not  my  husband.  I 
don't  know  who  he  is."  There  were  occurrences  in  our  boat 
which  strongly  reminded  me  of  this  picture. 

\\  hen  we  got  half  way  to  the  ship  and  passed  through  the 
barrier  reef,  we  got  into  the  open  sea.  Then  we  instinctively 
felt  that  it  had  been  comparatively  smooth.  Here  the  boat 
really  began  to  get  a  move  on  her.  and  at  this  spot  also  the 
boatmen  chose  to  stop  rowing.  Any  one  who  has  ever  sailed 
the  seas  knows  that  it  is  much  easier  to  preserve  one's  com- 
posure and  dinner  when  a  vessel  is  under  way  than  when 
she  has  stopped.  There  were  some  stern  spirits  in  our  boat 
who  had  maintained  comparative  calmness.  But  when  we 
passed  through  the  reef  and  the  rowing  stopped,  most  of  them 
gave  way.  It  was  indeed  a  lamentable  spectacle.  As  I  gazed 
over  this  mass  of  men,  women,  and  baggage  I  think  that  the 
percentage  of  seasickness  was  about  ninety-seven  out  of  a  pos- 
sible hundred.  In  fact,  everything  seemed  to  be  seasick,  ex- 
cept the  boatmen  and  the  boat.  Even  the  baggage  writhed 
uneasily — the  very  valises  oped  their  clammy  jaws. 

The  rowing  stopped  because  the  boatmen  had  chosen  this 
spot  for  backsheesh.  True,  they  had  agreed  to  take  us  from 
shore  to  ship  for  a  specified  sum.  True,  they  had  agreed  they 
would  demand  no  backsheesh.  But  all  the  same,  when  they 
got  us  past  the  reef  a  cry  of  "  backsheesh  "  arose.  One  was 
selected  as  collector.  He  went  around,  and  never  in  my  ex- 
perience in  the  Orient  did  I  see  a  crowd  of  people  yield  up 
backsheesh  with  so  much  alacrity.  I  will  do  the  collector  the 
justice  to  say  that  he  was  decent  enough  not  to  attempt  to  col- 
lect from  those  women  who  were  in  a  state  of  collapse,  but 
any  woman  who  could  hold  her  head  up  had  to  pay.  and  all  the 
men  had  to  pay,  seasick  or  not.  He  also  complied  with  the 
request  of  the  gathering  that  he  should  "  hurry  up."  for  he 
spoke  a  little  English,  and  he  informed  them  that  the  best  way 
to  accelerate  matters  was  to  have  their  money  ready  and  expect 
no  change,  and  everybody  followed  his  advice.  Nobody 
asked  for  change,  and  nobody  got  any. 

When  we  reached  the  ship's  side,  most  of  the  ladies  had  to 
be  lifted  up  out  of  the  bottom  of  the  boat,  where  they  were  in 
a  heap,  and  as  the  platform  of  the  gangway  was  sometimes 
fifteen  feet  in  the  air  above  our  heads,  and  as  we  were  some1 
times  fifteen  feet  above  it  and  looking  down,  they  had  to  be 
tossed  by  the  boatmen  into  the  arms  of  the  brawny  sailors 
on    the    gangway.      They   came   almost   any   end   up,    and   the 


feft£k-*«jK  ^)P4J^~  ■ 

Damascus  Gate,  Jerusalem. 


of   valor.      I    did   not   think   he    intended   to   kill   me,   only   to 
kiss  me,  but  I  ran. 

The  passage  from  the  pier  at  Jaffa  to  the  ship  was  not  a 
pleasant  one.  The  Jaffa  boats  are  not  unlike 
whale-boats.  They  are  high  in  bow  and 
stern,  rowed  with  long  sweeps,  and  steered 
with  a  sweep  astern  made  fast  to  a  thole- 
pin. The  boatmen  who  handle  them  are  skillful  with  their 
oars,   and  aside   from   the   fact   that  they   are  parasitic,   dirty. 


deadly  nature  of  their  malady  may  be  inferred  from  the 
fact  that  they  paid  not  the  slightest  attention  to  their  appear- 
ance, to  their  petticoats,  or  to  whether  their  hats  were  on 
straight. 


Deadlv 
Seasicknfss. 


When  Mr.  Lang's  forthcoming  volume,  "  The  Valet's  Trag- 
edy and  Other  Studies,"  was  first  announced,  it  was  under- 
stood that  it  would  be  a  work  of  fiction.  It  is  now  stated 
that  the  book  deals  with  various  historical  mysteries.  "  The 
Mystery  of  Sir  Edmund  Berry  Godfrey."  "  The  False  Pucelle," 
"  AmyRobsart."  and  "James  de  la  Cloche"  are  air 
chapter-headings. 


308 


THE        ARGONAUT 


FRENCH    AUTHORS    AND    THEIR    WORK. 


New  Books  that  Interest  the  Gallic  Capital. 


Most  people  believe  that  the  output  of  the  French 
publishing  press  is  confined  almost  entirely  to  nasty 
novels.  They  are  very  much  in  error.  To  convince 
them  of  this  fact,  I  shall  begin  in  this  letter  with  late 
French  books  in  other  lines.  So  far  as  possible,  I  shall 
give  the  titles  in  English,  although  they  are  none  of 
them  translated,  so  far  as  I  know. 

The  most  picturesque  figure  of  the  French  revolution 
is  that  of  Mirabeau.  A  book  just  out  is  entitled 
"  Sophie  de  Monnier  and  Mirabeau."  by  Paul  Cottin. 
Those  who  have  read  Carlyle's  brilliant  pages  will  re- 
member the  lurid  figure  of  Mirabeau.  This  book  con- 
tains the  love-letters  written  by  Sophie  de  Monnier  to 
Mirabeau.  She  previously  was  known  only  by  the  love- 
letters  written  to  her  by  Mirabeau,  and  published  in  a 
book,  with  the  title  "  Letters  Written  from  the 
Dungeon  of  Vincennes."  Mr.  Paul  Cottin  has  been 
lucky  enough  to  find  the  letters  that  Sophie  wrote  in 
reply  to  those  of  Mirabeau.  That  brilliant  statesman 
seduced  her  into  eloping  from  her  husband,  abandoning 
her  family,  and  taking  up  her  life  with  him;  he  returned 
her  devotion  with  such  base  ingratitude  that  he  drove 
her  to  a  suicide's  death.  Mr.  Cottin  has  succeeded  in 
deciphering  many  secret  characters  which  rendered  the 
letters  almost  unintelligible.  He  has  added  to  them 
copious  notes  and  an  introduction,  which  is  in  itself 
a  literary  work  of  merit.  A  handsome  portrait  adds 
to  the  attractiveness  of  the  volume.  The  letters  are 
infinitely  touching.  Sophie's  love  surmounted  every- 
thing— the  daily  treacheries,  the  countless  infidelities 
of  Mirabeau — and  when,  finally,  he  had  succeeded  in 
shutting  her  up  in  a  mad-house,  she  still  loved  him,  and 
took  refuge  from  her  misfortunes  in  death. 

Oddly  enough,  there  is  published  at  almost  the  same 
time  a  series  of  "  Letters  to  Julie,"  by  Dauphin  Meunier 
and  G.  Leloir.  These  epistles  are  love-letters  written 
to  "  Julie  "  by  Mirabeau  at  the  very  time  when  Sophie 
de  Monnier  was  eating  her  heart  out  and  about  to  take 
her  life  for  love  of  him.  Julie,  however,  was  a  very 
inferior  woman  to  Sophie.  She  had  already  been  passed 
from  hand  to  hand  as  the  mistress  of  one  adventurer 
after  another,  and  she  appealed  to  Mirabeau  only  on  his 
physical  side.  From  these  letters  it  is  evident  that 
Mirabeau  intended  to  make  a  tool  of  her  for  a  scandal- 
swindle,  not  unlike  that  of  the  diamond  necklace,  in 
which  he  hoped  to  compromise  both  Queen  Marie 
Antoinette  and  the  Duchess  of  Lamballe.  The  perusal 
of  these  letters  will  act  as  a  slight  corrective  to  those 
sturdy  republicans  who  still  adore  Mirabeau. 

"  Talleyrand,  Bishop  of  Autun,"  by  B.  de.  Lacombe, 


poleon,"  by  Paul  Gautier.  The  author  attempts  to 
make  out  a  favorable  case  for  the  lady,  and  to  show 
that  she  was  struggling  only  for  liberty  in  her  assaults 
upon  Napoleon.  But  he  scarcely  succeeds,  and  he  does 
not  attempt  to  suppress  the  facts — that  she  sought  to 
win  Napoleon,  and  when  scorned,  attacked  him.  There 
is  much  new  matter  from  documents  recently  dis- 
covered by  the  author,  and  for  students  of  Napoleon 
the  book  may  be  recommended. 

A  work  entitled  "  The  Indiscretions  of  History,"  by 
Dr.  Cabanes,  discusses  various  questions  of  more  or  less 
value,  among  others:  "Was  Tasso  Crazy?"  "Did 
Mme.  de  Sevigne  Die  of  Smallpox?"  "Whose  Skull 
in  the  Museum  of  Versailles  is  that  Which  is  Said  to 
Belong  to  Mme.  de  Brinvilliers?"  "Was  Du  Barry 
Blonde  or  Brunette?"  "Was  Marie  Leczinska  an 
Epileptic?"  These  questions  the  author  discusses,  and 
settles  to  his  own  satisfaction,  if  not  to  that  of  his 
readers. 

Among  works  of  travel  I  note  "  French  Coasts  and 
Ports   Along   the   Channel,"    by    Charles    Lentheric; 


David  Starr  Jordan,   author  of  The    Voice  of  the   Scholar." 
Published  by  Paul  Elder  if  Co. 

is  another  book  just  out.    Those  who  were  disappointed 
in  the  "  Memoirs  of  Talleyrand  "  will  find  material  here  i 
to  interest  them.    Much  of  that  portion  of  Talleyrand's  j 
life  which  remained  in  the  shadow  is  here  brought  to 
the  light. 

A  new  book  by  A.  Sorel,  "  Bonaparte  and  the 
Directory,  adds  another  to  the  many  volumes  appear- 
ing about  the  times  of  Bonaparte.  There  are  three  men  ' 
—Sorel,  /lasson,  and  Vandal— who  have  won  the  at- 
tention of  the  world  by  their  new  material  concerning 
Bonapar  e.  This  volume  relates  principally  to  the 
eightee:  h  Brumaire. 

Anotl  -  r  Napoleon  book  is  "  Mme.  de  Stael  and  Na- 


Elhel   Watts  Mumford,  author  of  "  Whitewash."     Published 
by  Dana  Esles  &  Co. 

"  Across  France,"  by  Andre  Hallays ;  "  From  the 
Bavarian  Alps  to  the  Balkans,"  by  J.  de  Witte;  "My 
Honeymoon  in  Italy,"  by  Mme.  Georges  Duhamel. 
The  latter  work  is  of  a  more  intimate  description  than 
brides  are  in  the  habit  of  writing.  Another  travel 
book  is  entitled  "  Seville,"  by  Mr.  Eugene  Schmidt.  It 
contains  numerous  photogravure  views  of  that  interest- 
ing city.  "  Southeastern  France,"  by  Charles  Brossard, 
is  devoted  largely  to  fine  illustrations  of  the  cathedrals 
and  other  monuments  found  in  that  interesting  part  of 
the  country;  "Whites  and  Yellows  in  China,"  by  J. 
Pene  Siefert,  is  the  latest  book  about  the  Dragon  Em- 
pire. Another  of  similar  nature  is  called  "  Japanese 
Society,"  by  Andre  Bellessort.  A  book  which  Russia's 
attitude  of  oppression  makes  timely  is  "  Finland,"  by 
Iann  Morvran.  Other  interesting  works  of  travel  are 
"The  Distant  Orient,"  by  J.  H.  Matginon,  with 
eighty-five  photogravures ;  "  Egypt  from  1798  to  1900," 
by  Louis  Brehier;  "In  the  Pyrenees  Country:  an 
Anecdotic  Narrative  of  a  Trip  to  Aries,  Nimes,  Cette, 
Narbonne,  Toulouse,  etc.,"  with  twenty-four  engrav- 
ings ;  "  In  Ireland,"  by  Charles  Schindler ;  "  The 
Magyar  Country,"  by  R.  Recouly;  and  "Savoy  and 
Aix-les-Bains,"  by  Joseph  Reville,  with  a  hundred  and 
seven  engravings. 

In  the  domain  of  belles-lettres,  the  "  Posthumous 
Works  of  Paul  Verlaine  "  is  attracting  attention.  Paul 
Verlaine  has  long  been  an  idol  of  young  France.  This 
posthumous  volume,  however,  as  is  so  often  the  case, 
contains  only  his  leavings.  The  gleanings  of  an 
author's  desk  rarely  amount  to  much.  A  curious  phase 
of  this  posthumous  volume  is  an  attack  on  a  posthumous 
volume  of  Victor  Hugo.  "  Did  Hugo's  executors," 
asks  Verlaine,  "  have  any  right  to  publish  a  posthumous 
work  of  Hugo  of  such  an  idiotic  nature  as  '  Amy 
Robsart '  or  '  The  Twins,'  a  fragment  which  he  had  laid 
aside  many  years  before?  For  my  part,  I  take  little 
interest  in  these  literary  waste-basket  leavings,  brought 
to  light  by  publishers  years  afterward."  Exactly  the 
same  thing  might  be  said  concerning  this  volume  of 
Verlaine.  He  goes  on  to  say  other  things  about  Victor 
Hugo  which  sound  like  heterodoxy.  His  admiration 
for  Hugo  is  much  more  circumscribed  than  that  of 
most  people.  He  does  not  seem  to  be  hypno- 
tized by  the  glory  of  Hugo.  He  dares  to  criti- 
cize him,  and  even  to  deflate  his  fame.  He  says  of 
Hugo :  "  I  was  scarcely  thirteen  years  old  when  '  The 
Contemplations  '  moved  my  childish  mind.  I  was  fif- 
teen when  '  The  Orientals  '  pleased  me.     They  please 


me  still,  but  merely  as  a  piece  of  artistic  gimcrackery, 
like  the  articles  of  Paris  that  are  sold  in  the  Rue  de 
Rivoli."  Evidently  Verlaine  had  too  delicate  a  poetic 
sense  to  allow  himself  to  be  seduced  by  the  sonorous- 
sounding  phrases,  musical  but  often  meaningless,  of 
Victor  Hugo. 

In  ancient  history,  "  Heliogabalus,"  by  George  Duvi- 
quet,  is  the  most  notable  recent  work.  The  author  has 
gone  over  all  the  sources  of  information,  and  has  even 
printed  textually  many  original  documents  by  Dion 
Cassius  and  others.  There  is  also  a  list  of  the  moneys 
and  medals  stamped  under  Heliogabalus,  a  list  of  his 
wives,  an  iconography  of  all  these  personages,  and  a 
number  of  reproductions  of  inscriptions.  There  are  a 
number  of  recondite  facts  touching  the  self-mutilation 
of  Heliogabalus;  also  many  curious  details  concerning 
his  hysteria.  The  characters  of  the  three  masterful 
women  who,  from  the  death  of  Caracalla  up  to  that  of 
Alexander  Severus,  governed  the  empire,  are  carefully 
depicted.  There  are  a  number  of  curious  details  con- 
cerning the  hideous  debauches  of  Heliogabalus,  and 
the  physical  condition  of  the  Roman  Caesar,  which  was 
not  unlike  that  depicted  by  Flaubert  in  "  Salammbo." 
In  short,  Heliogabalus  seems  to  have  been  a  sort  of 
crowned  eunuch.  The  book  is  admirably  done,  but 
scarcely  suited  for  boarding-school  reading. 

In  the  line  of  dramatic  literature,  I  note  "  Genius  is 
a  Crime,"  by  C.  Mauclair;  "  Catilina,"  by  Henrik  Ibsen; 
"  Punch  and  Judy :  Celebre  Drame  Guignolesque  Ang- 
lais," by  Emile  Strauss ;  "  Business  is  Business  " — the 
sensational  success  at  the  Comedie-Franqaise  of  which 
I  wrote  you  at  length  last  June — by  Octave  Mirbeau ; 
"  The  Other  Danger,"  by  Maurice  Donnay — I  pause 
here  to  note  that  "  the  other  danger  "  which  Mr.  Don- 
nay  means,  is  that  of  a  mother  intending  to  be  unfaith- 
ful to  her  husband,  but  who  is  disturbed  by  the  threat- 
ened rivalry  of  her  daughter;  "Practical  Code  of  the 
Theatre,"  by  Andre  Hesse;  "The  Art  of  Elocution," 
by  Jean  Blaize ;  and  "  The  Theatre  of  the  Future,"  by 
George  Vitoux. 

One  of  the  notable  books  of  memoirs  is  "  The  Journal 
of  the  Youth  of  Francisque  Sarcey,  1839-1857,"  col- 
lected and  annotated  by  Adolphe  Brisson,  the  son-in- 
law  of  Sarcey. 

A  study  in  royal  mentality  is  "  Mental  Pathology  of 
the  French  Kings :  Louis  XI  and  His  Predecessors — a 
Human  Life  Study  Through  Six  Centuries  of  Hered- 
ity," by  August  Brachet. 

A  notable  historical  work  is  "  The  Liberal  Empire," 
by  Emile  Ollivier.  who,  it  will  be  remembered,  was  one 
of  Napoleon  the  Third's  ministers,  and  who  endeavors 
now  to  defend  the  empire. 

Among  the  novels  of  the  day  there  are  even  fewer 
than  usual  worth  noticing.  "  Marie-Eve,"  by  P.  Guedy, 
is  a  licentious  novel  of  little  interest.  "  The  Carmel- 
ite," by  Ernest  Daudet,  is  the  old  story  of  the  confessor 
interposing  between  husband  and  wife.  "Well- 
Beloved,"  by  Aime  Giron,  is  an  historical  novel  con- 
cerning Louis  the  Fifteenth,  his  wife,  his  mistresses, 


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George  Frisbie  Hoar,  author  of  "  Autobiography  of  Seventy 
Years."     Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

and  his  minions.  "  A  Virgin's  Scruple,"  by  Henry 
Rabusson,  can  easily  be  fathomed  from  its  name. 
"  Gyp  "  has  brought  out  two  novels,  "  Les  Petits  Amis  " 
and  "  Le  Menage  Dernier  Cri."  A  translation  of  "  Cor- 
leone,"  by  Marion  Crawford,  is  on  sale  in  Paris. 

On  the  whole,  the  output  of  the  publishing  season  in 
Paris  seems  to  me  a  little  under  the  average.  There 
are  fewer  notable  books  in  the  line  of  history,  biography, 
and  memoirs,  although,  in  this  department  in  literature 
the  French  still  keep  the  lead.  As  for  the  romances, 
they  are,  as  usual,  very  numerous,  but,  of  the  total, 
the  greater  part  are  silly  and  some  obscene,  while  there 
are  few  notable  names  among  the  writers. 

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LONDON    LITERARY    GOSSIP. 


Notable  Spring  Offerings  of  the  English  Publishers. 


London  publishers  have  evidently  come  to  the  con- 
clusion that  English  readers  are  not  craving  for  Ameri- 
can literature,  for  the  fall  announcement  lists  show  a 
perceptible  falling  off  in  the  number  of  books  first  is- 
sued on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic.  Jack  London's 
splendid  achievement  is,  perhaps,  the  most  popular  of 
the  six-shilling  novels  by  American  authors.  Within 
a  fortnight  the  first  large  edition  has  been  exhausted, 
and  Mr.  Heinemann  announces  that  another  equally 
large  impression  will  soon  be  ready.  Rarely,  indeed, 
has  an  American  book  been  so  handsomely  handled  by 
English  critics.  In  fact,  in  the  reviews  which  I  have 
read,  there  is  not  a  dissenting  note  in  the  hearty  chorus 
of  praise  for  the  rising  young  California  writer.  One 
of  the  leading  dailies,  for  example,  remarks :  "  The 
writing  of  a  biography  of  a  four-footed  beast  has  often 
before  been  essayed,  but  we  do  not  remember  meeting 
with  so  successful  an  attempt  as  this.  We  have  in  mind 
Mr.  Seton  Thompson's  Coyote  and  Krag,  the  Mountain 
Ram,  as  well  as  Mr.  Rudyard  Kipling's  Grey  Brother, 
etc.,  and  we  make  the  comparison  without  abating  our 
admiration  for  those  creations." 

The  critics  have  not  taken  so  kindly  to  James  Lane 
Allen's  "  The  Mettle  of  the  Pasture."  They  admit  that 
the  beauty  of  its  diction,  the  warm  coloring  of  its 
descriptions,  its  unerring  appreciation  of  the  harmonies 
and  subtleties  of  Nature  are  worthy  of  the  author  of 
"  The  Increasing  Purpose,"  but  they  do  not  hesitate  to 
express  the  opinion  that  this  new  work  will  not  enhance 
Mr.  Allen's  reputation.  The  London  Times  remarks  of 
his  style: 

"  Perpetually  we  feel  we  are  close  upon  something  worth 
our  pondering ;  again  and  again  we  are  left  swimming  in  a 
flux  of  words.  And  the  pity  of  it  is  that  it  can  not  be  dis- 
missed as  highfalutin.  Our  author  is  forever  trying  to  say 
something  beautiful ;  only  he  has  not  thought  out  the  beautiful 
thing,  and  so  at  the  critical  point  his  writing  has  no  grip. 
Formerly  he  took  more  trouble ;  but  finding  that  his  public 
(and  he  is  vastly  popular)  will  accept  the  second-best  at  least 
as  greedily  as  the  best,  he  has  taken,  it  seems,  to  economizing 
trouble.  It  is  a  pity,  both  for  himself  and  for  the  great 
American  nation,  whose  destinies  are  less  likely  to  be  for- 
warded by  second-best  preaching  and  prophesying  than  by 
the  example  of  an  artist  who  studies  perfection." 

Among  the  other  volumes  by  American  authors  which 
I  note  in  the  announcements  of  the  leading  publishers 
are  "  A  Doctor  of  Philosophy,"  by  Cyrus  Townsend 
Brady,  and  "  The  Vagabonds,"  by  Frederick  Palmer 
(Harper  &  Brothers)  ;  "  The  Mississippi  Bubble,"  by 
Emerson  Hough,  "  Darrell  of  the  Blessed  Isles,"  by 
Irving  Bacheller,  and  "  Conqueror's  House,"  by  Stewart 
White  (Methuen  &  Co.) ;  "  Memories  of  Vailima,"  by 
Lloyd  Osbourne  and  Isabel  Strong  (A.  Constable  & 
Co.)  ;  "  Wolfville  Folk,"  by  A.  H.  Lewis  (Isbister  & 
Co.) ;  "  A  Daughter  of  the  Pit,"  by  Margaret  Doyle 
Jackson;  "  The  Captain's  Toll-Gate,"  by  the  late  Frank 
Stockton,  and  "  Aladdin  O'Brien,"  by  Gouverneur 
Morris;  "Love  Letters  of  Margaret  Fuller"  (Fisher 
Unwin) ;  "  The  Heart  of  the  Hearth,"  by  Charles 
Major,  "  The  Life  Treason  and  Death  of  James  Blount 
of  Breckenhow,"  by  Beulah  Marie  Dix  and  "  The  Heart 
of  Rome,"  by  F.  Marion  Crawford  (the  Macmillan 
Company) . 

Fiction  again  monopolizes  first  place  in  the  fall  offer- 
ings. Messrs.  Isbister  &  Co.'s  list  includes  a  number  of 
novels,  a  department  of  publishing  in  which  this  firm 
is  making  strides.  Among  those  announced  are  "  The 
Adventurer  in  Spain,"  by  Mr.  Crockett,  which  is  not 
quite  a  novel;  "Over  the  Border,"  by  Robert  Barr; 
"  The  Wisdom  of  Folly,"  being  a  tale  founded  on  Mr. 
Cosmo  Hamilton's  play  of  the  same  name;  an  anony- 
mous book,  entitled  "  The  Kempton-Wace  Letters," 
which  has  already  created  a  stir  in  America;  and  a  new 
volume  of  the  Wisdom  While  You  Wait  Series,  by  G. 
S.  Layard,  called  "  Dolly's  Governess." 

Mrs.  Elinor  Glyn,  who  wrote  "  The  Visits  of  Eliza- 
beth "  and  "  The  Reflections  of  Ambrosine,"  has  fin- 
ished a  new  book,  entitled  "  The  Damsel  and  the  Sage," 
which  will  be  published  by  Messrs.  Duckworth.  Ward, 
Lock  &  Co.'s  most  promising  novels  are  "  The  Yellow 
Crayon,"  by  Phillips  Oppenheim;  "  When  I  Was  Czar," 
by  Arthur  W.  Marchmont;  "  Rainbow  Island,"  by  Louis 
Tracy;  "A  Man's  Fear,"  by  Hamilton  Drummond;  "  A 
Veldt  Vendetta,"  by  Bertham  Mitford;  and  "A  Two- 
Fold  Inheritance,"  by  Guy  Boothby.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Robins,  whose  excellent  work  in  fiction  has  hardly  been 
sufficiently  recognized,  has  a  new  novel  in  the  press, 
which  will  be  entitled  "  The  Magnetic  North,"  and 
Violet  Jacob  has  followed  up  her  success  of  last  year 
with  a  novel,  "  The  Interloper."  The  title  of  Bram 
Stoker's  new  book  is  "  The  Jewel  of  Seven  Stars." 

Hutchison  is  bringing  out  a  fine  list  of  popular  six- 
shilling  novels,  among  others,  "  The  Jesters,"  by 
"Rita";  "Place  and  Power,"  by  Ellen  Thorneycroft 
Fowler;  "  On  the  Wings  of  the  Wind,"  by  Allen  Raine; 
"The  Pikemen,"  by  Dr.  Keightley;  "In  a  Little 
House,"  by  Tom  Gallon;  "Secrets  of  the  Foreign 
Office,"  by  William  Le  Queux ;  "  The  Yellow  Van,"  by 
Richard  Whiteing;  and  "Shipmates  in  Sunshine,"  by 
Frankfort  Moore.  A  Constable  &  Co.  are  the  pub- 
lishers of  Bernard  Shaw's  new  book,  "  Man  and 
Superman,"  R.  W.  Chambers's  "  The  Maids  of  Para- 
dise," and  Frankfort  Moore's  "  Castle  Omeragh." 

The  most  notable  book  of  verse  is  Rudyard  Kipling's 
"  The  Five  Nations,"  which,  broadly  speaking,  may  be 


divided  into  poems  of  the  sea,  imperial  poems,  poems 
of  the  war,  and  "  service  songs."  The  gem  of  the  col- 
lection unquestionably  is  the  closing  poem,  "  The  Re- 
cessional." More  striking  than  ever  is  the  stately 
language  of  that  superb  hymn  when  it  is  read  after  the 
"  service  songs  "  of  the  South  African  campaign,  with 
their  humiliating  commentaries  on  "  frantic  boast  and 
foolish  word." 

Another  striking  volume  of  verse  is  William  Wat- 


Joaquin  Miller,  author  of  "  As  It  Was  in  the  Beginning." 
Published  by  A.  M.  Robertson. 

son's  new  volume,  "  For  England :  Poems  Written 
During  Estrangement."  It  splendidly  maintains  the 
fame  of  one  of  the  stateliest  writers  in  the  language. 
The  book  is  made  up  of  poems  written  during  the  war, 
when  Mr.  Watson  was  not  among  the  optimists,  and  is 


Jaek  London,  author  of  ■    The  Call  of  the  Wild."     Published 
by  the  Macmillan  Company. 

in  reality  a  manifesto  of  the  poet's  imperial  faith.  "I  that 
shall  stand  for  England  till  I  die,"  he  cries,  in  passion- 
ate resentment  of  being  called  an  enemy  of  his  country, 
to  which  he  refers  in  such  lines  as 

"  This  many-victoried,  many-heroed  land," 
and  as  the  immortal  land 

"  all  living  lands  above, 

In  Justice,  and  in  Mercy,  and  in  Love." 


"  The  Caesars  and  the  Alexanders  pass,"  cries  the 
poet  in  another  stately  line,  and  it  is  his  belief  that 

"  We  too  shall  pass,  we  too  shall  disappear," 
though   he   looks   forward   with   pride   to   the   epitaph 
which  Time  may  write  upon  the  grave  of  England: 
"  Hers  was  the  purest  greatness  we  record." 

The  fall  announcements  are  especially  rich  in  me- 
moirs and  biographical  works.  Head  and  shoulders 
above  them  all  stands  John  Morley's  "  Life  of  William 
Ewart  Gladstone,"  which  has  just  been  published.  Mr. 
Morley's  fee  of  fifty  thousand  dollars  from  the  pub- 
lishers (the  Macmillan  Company)  is  said  to  be  the 
largest  ever  paid  for  a  copyright  biography  in  England. 
Morley  has  earned  it,  for  he  gave  three  years  to  the 
task.  It  was  the  stipulation  of  the  family  that  the 
biography  of  Gladstone  should  not  appear  until  five 
years  after  the  great  Liberal  leader's  death.  Since  that 
time  Morley  has  read  over  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
documents  for  the  purposes  of  his  work.  Most  of  it 
was  done  in  Gladstone's  private  library  at  Hawarden. 

By  a  happy  coincidence,  Messrs.  Hutchinson  have 
just  brought  out  a  life  of  Gladstone's  great  rival,  Lord 
Beaconsfield,  by  Mr.  Wilfrid  Meynell.  The  official  life 
of  Beaconsfield  is  hardly  to  be  expected  yet,  and,  in 
the  meantime,  Mr.  Meynell's  book  will,  no  doubt,  fill 
the  gap.  It  is  described  by  the  author  as  "  an  uncon- 
ventional biography,"  and  makes  a  record  of  Disraeli's 
moods,  motives,  and  aims  in  social  rather  man  in  public 
affairs.  The  book  is  made  up  of  the  great  statesman's 
talk  and  letters,  gathered  from  many  ana  original 
sources ;  and  round  these  sentences  and  sentiments  of 
his  own  is  written  the  romantic  story  of  his  life.  The 
book  is  published  in  two  volumes,  with  forty  full-page 
illustrations,  including  two  .photogravure  plates,  and 
facsimile  letters  as  well. 

The  life  of  the  amiable  Irish  poet,  Aubrey  de  Vere, 
by  the  way,  is  to  be  written  by  Mr.  Wilfrid  Ward. 
The  late  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan,  the  famous  English  com- 
poser, whose  name  for  so  many  years  was  linked  with 
that  of  W.  S.  Gilbert,  is  to  have  two  biographers.  One 
volume,  which  ought  to  be  interesting,  is  being  prepared 
under  the  direction  of  Sir  Arthur's  son  Bertie,  who  is 
supervising  the  selection  of  suitable  matter  from  his 
father's  private  letters  and  diaries,  which  are  full  of 
reference  to  both  the  British  and  German  royal  families. 
The  other  work,  which  will  be  published  in  few  weeks, 
comes  in  the  nature  of  a  surprise.  It  is  from  the  pen 
of  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan's  cousin,  Mr.  B.  W.  Findon, 
better  known  as  a  dramatic  critic  than  as  an  author. 
It  will  deal  with  Sullivan's  works,  as  well  as  his  event- 
ful life. 

The  recollections  of  Arthur  a  Beckett,  who  adorned 
the  staff  of  Punch  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
and  who,  by  his  own  confession,  practically  devoted  his 
whole  career  to  that  paper,  have  the  interest  that  be- 
longs to  almost  any  work  of  reminiscence  by  a  man 
who  has  moved  in  distinguished  company.  His  re- 
flections and  anecdotes  are  by  no  means  confined 
to  the  members  of  the  staff  of  Punch  as  he  knew  it, 
however,  for  in  a  long  and  busy  life  of  journalism  Mr. 
a  Beckett  has  rubbed  shoulders  with  celebrities  of  all 
nations,  and  he  has  something  interesting  to  say  of  all 
of  them.  W.  H.  Lucy,  the  well-known  Parliamentary 
journalist,  who  as  "  Toby,  M.  P."  enjoys  a  world-wide 
reputation,  throws  much  interesting  light  on  the  most 
noteworthy  figures  in  the  sphere  of  politics  in  his 
"Peeps  at  Parliament"  (George  Newnes).  Another 
!  interesting  book  is  the  first  Lord  Ellesmere's  reminis- 
cences of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  which  Mr.  Murray 
is  publishing. 

"  The  Correspondence  of  William  I  and  Bismarck, 
with  Other  Letters  from  and  to  Prince  Bismarck," 
translated  by  J.  A.  Ford,  is  published  by  Heinemann, 
while  Edward  Arnold  offers  "The  Memoirs  of  M.  de 
Blowitz,"  the  late  correspondent  of  the  Times,  who 
knew  every  one  of  his  day.  Other  biographies  and 
books  of  reminiscences  in  the  fall  lists  are  Henry 
James's  "  Life  of  William  Wetmore  Story  and  His 
Friends"  (William  Blackwood);  "Mr.  Chamberlain: 
His  Life  and  Public  Career,"  by  S.  H.  Jeyes  (Sands 
&  Co.)  ;  and  "  The  Story  of  a  Soldier's  Life,"  by  Field- 
Marshal  Viscount  Wolseley  (A.  Constable  &  Co.). 

One  of  the  most  important  books  of  travel  of  the 
season  is  promised  by  Messrs.  Hurst  &  Blackett.  It  is 
Dr.  Sven  Hedin's  "  Central  Asia  and  Tibet,"  and  will 
be  ready  next  month.  The  book  describes  the  succes- 
sion of  journeys  made  by  Dr.  Sven  Hedin  in  Central 
Asia  during  the  years  1899-1902,  and  the  illustrations, 
which  are  profuse,  include  several  pages  in  color.  The 
English  edition  will  be  simultaneous  with  editions  all 
over  Europe  and  in  America. 

In  conclusion,  1  want  to  make  special  mention  of  the 
two  handsome  volumes  which  the  Countess  of  Warwick 
as  prepared  on  "  Warwick  Castle  and  Its  Earls  "  (Hut- 
chinson &  Co.).  It  will  be  numbered  among  the  few 
books  recently  issued  that  help  to  sustain  the  reputation 
of  modern  English  publishing  against  the  prevailing 
fashion  of  cheap  and  third-rate  production.  In  paper, 
printing,  typography,  binding,  and  illustration,  the  two 
volumes  leave  nothing  to  be  desired.  It  is  a  pleasure 
to  handle  them,  and  a  privilege  to  possess  them.  The 
Countess  of  Warwick's  own  work  is  worthy  of  such  a 
\  setting.  Her  historical  account  of  the  famous  castle 
and  its  treasures  is  skillfully  and  vivaciously  written, 
with  no  touch  of  amateurishness.  The  story  is  full  of 
romance  and  those  entertaining  sidelights  of  history 
which  help  to  clothe  the  dead  bones  of  the  past  with 
living  flesh.  Pio  - 

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Phillips  &  Co.     Si.oo. 
Children   of  the  Tenements,  by  Jacob  A.   Riis;   the 

Macmillan   Company. 
Christian   Thai,    by    M.    E.    Francis    (Mrs.    Francis 

Blundell);  Longmans,  Green  &  Co.     Si-50. 
Close   of   the   Day,    The,    by   Frank    H.    Spearman: 

D.  Appleton  '&  Co.     $1.25. 

Colonel  Carter's  Christmas,  by  F.  Hopkinson 
Smith;  Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     $1.50. 

Comedies  in  Miniature,  by  Margaret  Cameron; 
McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.     $1.20  net. 

Count  Fancon  of  the  Eyrie,  by  Clinton  Scollard; 
James  Pott  &  Co.     Si. 50. 

Crossing,  The,  by  Winston  Churchill;  The  Mac- 
millan Company.     S1.50. 

Damsel  and  the  Sage,  The,  by  Elinor  Glyn;  Har- 
per &  Brothers.     $1.25. 

Daphne,  by  Margaret  Sherwood;  Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co;  $1.00. 

Daughter  of  the  Dawn,  The,  by  R.  Hodder;  L.  C. 
Page  &  Co.  $1.50. 

Daughter  of  the  Rich.  A,  by  M.  E.  Waller;  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.     Si-50. 

Deal  in  Wheat  and  Other  Stories,  A;  Doubledav, 
Page  &  Co.     Si-50. 

Deliverance.  The,  by  Ellen  Glasgow;  Doubleday, 
Page  &  Co.     $1.50. 

Dennis  Dent,  by  E.  W.  Hornung;  The  F.  A.  Stokes 
Company.     $1.50. 

Diary  of  a  Year,  The.     Edited  by  Mrs.  Charles  H. 

E.  Brookfield;  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.     $1.25. 
Doctor  of   Philosophy,     A,     by     Cyrus    T.    Brady; 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     Si-25- 

Dr.  Lavendar's  People,  by  Margaret  Deland;  Har- 
per &  Brothers.     $1.50. 

Dr.  Xavier,  by  Max  Pemberton;  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 
$1.50. 

Eleanor  Dayton,  by  Nathaniel  Stephenson;  John 
Lane.     $1.50. 

Eleanor  Lee,  by  Margaret  S.  Sangster;  The  F.  H. 
Revell  Company.     $1-50. 

Falk,  by  Joseph  Conrad;  McClure,  Phillips  &  Co. 
Si. 50. 

Forest,  The,  by  Stewart  E.  White;  The  Outlook 
Company. 

Forest  Hearth.  A,  by  Charles  Major;  The  Mac- 
millan Company.     $1.50. 

Fortunes  of  Fifi,  The,  by  Mollie  E.  Seawell;  The 
Bobbs-Merrill  Company.     Si. 50. 

Four-in-Hand,  bv  Geraldine  Anthony;  D.  Appleton 
&   Co.     Si- 50. 

Free  Xot  Bound,  by  Katrina  Trask;  G.  P.  Putnam's 
Sons. 


Gay,    by    Evelvn    Whitaker;    Little,    Brown    &    Co. 

S1.25. 
Gee-Boy,  by  Cyrus  L.  Hooper;  John  Lane.     $1.00 

net. 
Girl's    Life  in   a   Hunting  Country,    A,    by    Hand- 

asyde;  John  Lane.     Si-SO. 
Godfrey  Martin,  Schoolboy,  by  Charles  Turley;  G. 

P.  Putnam's  Sons.     Si-75- 
Golden    Chain,    The,    by   Gwendolen    Overton;    The 

Macmillan    Company.      50  cents. 
Golden  Dwarf,  The,  by   R.    Xorman  Silver;  L.  C. 

Page  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Gulden    Fetish.    The,    by    Eden    Phillpotts;    Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Golden    Windows,    The,    by    Laura    E.    Richards; 

Little,  Brown  &  Co.     §1.50. 
Good-Bye,  Proud  World,  by  Ellen  O.  Kirk;  Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  &  Co.     Si -50. 
Harvesters,    The,    by  Aubrey    Lanston;  Harper  & 

Brothers    (Russell   imprint).      $1.50. 
Heart  of  Hyacinth,  The,  by  Onoto  Watana;  Harper 

S:  Brothers.     $2.00  net. 
Heart  of  Rome,  The,  by  F.  Marion  Crawford;  The 

Macmillan   Company.     $1.50. 
He    and    Hecuba,    by    the    Baroness    von    Hutten; 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.     Si-50. 
Helen  Adair,  by  Louis  Becke;  The  J.  B.  Lippincott 

Company.     St-50. 
Helianthus,    by    Ouida;    The    Macmillan    Company. 

$1.50. 
Her    Infinite    Variety,    by    Brand    Whitlock;    The 

Bobbs-Merrill  Company.     $1.50. 


Judith   of   the    Plains,   by   Marie   Manning;    Harper 

&  Brothers.     Si-50- 
Katherine  Ernsham,  by  Beatrice  Harraden;   Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.     Si-5». 
Key  of  Paradise,  The,  by  Sidney   Pickering;   The 

Macmillan  Company.     Si-50. 
Kidnapped    Colony,   A,    by   Mary   R.    S.    Andrews; 

Harper  &  Brothers.     $1.25. 
Law   of   Life,    The,    by   Anna    McClure    Sholl;    D. 

Appleton  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Lesley  Chilton,   by    Eliza  Orne  White;    Houghton. 

Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Lessons  in  Physics,  by  Lothrop  D.   Higgins:   Ginn 

&  Co.     90  cents. 
Letters  Home,  by  William  D.  Howells;   Harper  & 

Brothers.      $1.50. 
Listener  in  Babel,  A,  by  Vida  D.  Scudder;  Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Literary  Sense,  The,  by  E.  Nesbit;  The  Macmillan 

Company.     S1-^0- 
Little  Chevalier,  The,  by  Mrs.    M.    E.    M.   Davis; 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Little  Joan,   by  John   Strange  Winter;    The  J.    B. 

Lippincott  Company.     Si. 25. 
Little  Shepherd  of  Kingdom  Come,  The,  by  John 

Fox,  Jr.;   Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     $i.5°- 
Little    Stories,    by    S.    W.    Mitchell;    The    Century 

Company.     Si.oo. 
Long  Night,  The,  by  Stanley  J.  Wevman;  McClure, 

Phillips  &  Co.     Si-50. 
Long  Will,  by  Florence  Converse;  Houghton.  Mif- 
flin &  Co.     $1.50. 


My  Friend  Prospero.  by  Henry  Harland;  HcClure, 

Phillips  &  Co.     $1.50. 
My  Mamie  Rose,  by  Owen  Kildare;  The  Baker  & 

Taylor  Company.      $1.50  net. 
Napoleon  of  Notting  HUI,  The,  by  G.  K.  Chester- 
ton; John  Lane.     $1,50. 
Nature's  Comedian,  by  W.  E.  Norris;  D.  Appleton 

&  Co.     Si-50. 
New  Volume  of  Stories,  A,  by  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch; 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons.     Si. 50. 
Nurse  Norah,  by  Elliott  Flower;  James  Pott  &  Co. 

Si.oo. 
Ocean    Mystery,    An.   by  Mrs.    Richard   P.    White; 

The  J.  B.  Lippinc  nt  Company. 
Odd  Craft,   by  W.    W.  Jacobs;   Charles   Scribner's 

Sons.     $1.50. 
Old-Fashioned  Sugar  Camp,  An,  by  Paul  G.  Hus- 
ton; The  F.  H.  Revell  Company.     $i-5o. 
On   the   Road  to  Arcady,  by  Mabel    N.  Thurston; 

The  F.  H.  Revell  Company.     Si. 50. 
On  the  We-A  Trail,  by  Caroline  Brown;  The  Mac- 

millan  Company.     Si-50. 
O'Ruddy,  The,  by  Stephen  Crane  and  Robert  Barr; 

The  F.  A.  Stokes  Company.     $1.50. 
Our  Lady  of  the  Waters,  by  George  F.  Duysters; 

New  Amsterdam  Book  Co.     Si-50. 
Our  Lady's  Inn,  by  J.   Storer  Ooustin;   Harper  & 

Brothers.     $1.50. 
Over  the  Border,  by  Robert  Barr;  The  F.  A.  Stokes 

Company.     Si.£0. 
Pa  Gladden,  by  Elizabeth  C.  Waltz;  The  Century 

Company.     $1.50. 
Palace   of   Spies,    by   Herbert   Compton;    New    Am- 
sterdam Book  Companv. 
Passage  Perilous,  A,  by  Rosa  X.  Carey;  The  J.  B. 

Lippincott  Company.     $1.50. 
Path  of  Stars,  The,  by"  Margaret  C.  Munn;  Dodd. 

Mead  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Pine  Grove  House,  The,  by  Ruth  Hall;  Houghton. 

Mifflin  &  Co.     Si-50. 
Place  and  Power,  bv  Ellen  T.  Fowler;  D.  Appleton 

&  Co.     $1.50. 
Pool   in   the  Desert,  The,  by   Mrs.    Everard  Cotes 

(Sara  J.  Duncan);  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 
Promotion     of     the     Admiral,     The,     by     Mnrlev 

Roberts;  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.     Si. 50. 
Proud  Prince,  The,  by  Justin   H.  McCarthy;  Har- 
per &  Brothers  (Russell  imprint).     Si. 50. 
Rebecca    of    Sunnybrook    Farm,    by   Kate    D.    Wig- 
gin;  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.25. 
Red    Poocher.    The,    by    Seamus    MacManus;    The 

Funk  &  Wagnalls  Company.     75  cents. 
Red    Triangle,    The,    by  Arthur    Morrison;    L.    C. 

Page  &  Co.     S1.50. 
Reign  of  Queen  Isyl,  The,  bv  Gelett  Burgess  and 

Will  Irwin;   McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.     Si. 50. 
Relentless  City,  The,  by  E.  F.   Benson;  Harper  & 

Brothers.     $1.50. 
Riverfall,  by  Linn  B.  Porter;  G.  W.  Dillingham  & 

Co. 
Rose   of   Joy,    The,    bv    Mary    Findlater;    McClure. 

Phillips  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Sally,  Mrs.  Tubbs,  by  Margaret  Sidney;  The  Loth- 

rop  Company.      Si-oo. 
Sally    of    Missouri,     bv    R.     E.    Young;     McClure. 

Phillips  &  Co.     Si'so. 
Sanctuary,  by  Edith  Wharton;   Charles  Scribner's 

Sons.     Si-50. 
Scarlet   Banner,   The,   by   Felix   Dahn.      Translated 

by   Mary  J.    Safford;    A,    C.    McClurg  &    Co. 

Si. 50. 
Sea    Scamps,    by    Henrv    C.    Rowland;    McClure. 

Phillips  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Sequence  of  Hearts,  A,  by  Mary  Moss;  The  J.  B. 

Lippincott  Companv.     Si. 50. 
Shadow  of  Victory,  The,  by  Myrtle   Reed;   G.   P. 

Putnam's  Sons.     ?:.; 
Sherrods,  The,  by  George  B.   McCutcheon;   Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.     S1-50- 
She  That  Hesitates,  by  Harris  Dickson;  The  Bobbs- 
Merrill  Company.     $1.50. 
Silver      Linings,     by     Nina      Rhoades ;      McClure. 

Phillips  &  Co.     S*-25- 
Sister  Joan  of  the  Cross,  by  Matilda  Serao;  Harper 

&  Brothers-     Si. 50. 
Sixty  Jane,  by  John   L.   Long;    The  Century   Com- 
pany.    $1.25. 
Sons  of  Vengeance,  by  Joseph  S.  Malone;  The  F. 

H.  Revell  Company.     $1.50. 
Souls,   by  "Rita";    Brentano's.     $1.50. 
Souter's  Lamp,  The,  by  Hector  MacGregor;  The  F. 

H.   Revell  Company.     $1-50. 
Spirit  of  the  Service,  The,  by  Edith  E.  Wood;  The 

Macmillan   Company.     $1.50. 
Stella  Fregelius,  by  H.  Rider  Haggard;  Longmans. 

Green  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Stonv  Lonesome,  bv  Arthur  I.  Russell;  Rand.  Mc- 

Nally  &  Co.     Si. 50. 
Story  of  the  Foss  River  Ranch,  The,  by  Ridgwell 

Cullom;  L.  C.  Page  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Strange    Adventures    of    Mr.    Middleton.    The,    by 

Wardon    A.    Curtis;    Herbert    S.    Stone   &    Co. 

Si-  50. 
Strenuous  Animals,  by  Edwin  J.  Webster:  The  F. 

A,   Stokes  Company.     $1.00. 
Strife  of  the  Sea,  The,  by  T.  Jenkins  Hains;  The 

Baker  Sc  Taylor  Company.     S1.50- 


A'ate  Douglas  IViggin,  author  of  "  Kebccca  of  Sunnybr 
by  Houghton.  Mifflin  fr=  Co. 


•  Farm. "     Published 


Hermit.  The,  by  Charles  C.  Munn;   Lee  S:  Shepard. 

Si- 50. 
Hesper,    by   Hamlin    Garland;    Harper  &   Brothers. 

Si. 50. 
Hetty  Wesley,  by  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch;  The  Mac- 
millan   Company.      Si-5°- 
Holladav    Case,    The.    by    Burton     E.     Stevenson; 

Henry  Holt  &  Co.     75  cents. 
Holt  of    Heathfield,    by    Caroline   A.    Mason;    The 

Macmillan  Company.     Si-50. 
Honor  d'Everel.  by  Barbara  Yechton;  Dodd,  Mead 

&  Co.     $1.50. 
House  of  the  White  Shadows.  The,  by  B.  L.   Far- 

jeon;   New  Amsterdam  Book  Company.    Si-5°- 
House   on    the    Sands,    The,    by   Charles    Marriott; 

John  Lane.     Si-50.  _ 

In  Babel,  by  George  Ade;  McClure.  Phillips  &  Co. 

Incomparable  Bellairs,  by  A.   and   E.   Castle;   The 

F.  A.  Stokes  Company.     $1.5°- 
In    Old    Alabama,    by    Anne    Hobson;    Doubleday. 

Page  &  Co.     $1.50. 
In  Old  Plantation  Days,  by  Paul  L,  Dunbar;  Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.     S1.50. 
In  Search  of  Home,  by  Phyllis  O.  Dent;  Longmans, 

Green  &  Co.      $1.50. 
Jewel:  A  Chapter  in  Her  Life,  by  Clara  L.  Bum- 
ham;  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Johanna,   by    B.    M.    Croker;    The   J.    B.    Lippincott 

Company.     Si.oo. 
John  Maxwell's  Marriage,  by  Stephen  Gwynn;  The 

Macmillan  Company.     $1-50. 
Judgment,   by  Alice   Brown.      Harper  &   Brothers. 

Si.  25. 


Lost  King,  The,  by  H.  Shackleford;  Brentano's. 
$1.25. 

Love  the  Fiddler,  by  Lloyd  Osbourne;  McClure. 
Phillips  St  Co.     Si-50. 

Maids  of  Paradise.  The,  by  Robert  W.  Chambers: 
Harper  &  Brothers.     $1.50. 

Mam'zelle  Fifine,  by  Eleanor  Atkinson;  D.  Apple- 
ton  &  Co.     Si. 50. 

Mark.  The.  bv  Aquila  Kemster;  Doubleday,  Page 
&  Co. 

Masterfolk.  The.  by  Haldane  McFall;  Harper  & 
Brothers.      $1.50. 

Master  Hand.  A.  by  Richard  Dallas;  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons.     Si-oo. 

Master  of  Gray.  The,  by  H.  C.  Bailey;  Longmans. 
Green  &  Co. 

Master  Rogue.  The,  bv  David  G.  Phillips;  McClure. 
Phillips  &  Co.     $1.50. 

McTodd,  by  Cutcliffe  Hyne;  The  Macmillan  Com- 
pany.    $1.50. 

Merivale  Banks,  The,  by  Mary  J.  Holmes;  G.  P. 
Putnam's  Sons.     Si.oo. 

Merry  Hearts,  by  Anne  S.  Allen;  Henry  Holt  & 
Co.     75  cents. 

Millionaire's  Son.  The,  by  Anna  R.  Brown;  Dana 
Estes  &  Co.     $i.so. 

Mills  of  Man.  The,  bv  Philip  Payne;  Rand,  Mc- 
Nally  &  Co.     $1.50. 

Monologues,  by  May  I.  Fisk;  Harper  &  Brothers. 

Mother  and  Father,  by  Roy  R.  Gilson;  Harper  & 
Brothers.     Si. 25. 

Mr.  Salt,  by  Will  Payne;  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
$1.50. 

MS.  in  a  Red  Box,  The,  by  An  Undiscovered 
Author;  John  Lane.     $1.50. 


S  nnn/isen,  authot  11  f  "  Deep  Sea  I'agabonds.* 
Published  by  .\fcC!ure.  Phillips  &  Co. 


Tea    Table    Talks,    by    Jerome    K.    Jerome ;    Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.     $1.00. 
That    Betty,    by    Harriet    P.    Spofford;    The    F.    EL 

Revell  Company.     $1.50. 
Their    Child,   by    Robert    Hcrrick;    The    Macmillan 

Company.     50  cents. 
Third  Degree.  The.  by  Charles  R.  Jackson;  G.  W. 

Dillingham  &  Co.     S1.50. 
To-Morrow's    Tangle,    by    Geraldine    Bonner;    The 

Bobbs-Merrill  Company.     Si-50. 
Torch.   The.   by   Robert    M.    Hopkins;   The   Bobbs- 
Merrill  Companv.     Si. 50. 
Touch  of  Sun,  A.  and  Other  Stories,  by  Mary  H. 

Foote;   Houghl-m.   Mifflin  S    ' 
Ultimate    Moment.    The.    by    William    R.    Li 

Harper  &  Brothers.     $1.5°- 
Under  the  JackstafT.  by  Chester    B. 

Century  Company.     Si. 23. 


12 


T  HE        ARGONAUT 


FICTION  (Continued). 

Uther  and  Igraine,  by  Warwick  Deeping;  The  Out- 
look Company.     $1.50. 

Vagabond,  The,  by  Frederick  Palmer;  Charles 
Scribner's  Sons.     $1.50. 

Vice-Admiral  of  the  Blue,  The,  by  Roland  B.  Moli- 
neux;  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.     $1.50. 

Vineyard,  The,  by  John  O.  Hobbes;  D.  Appleton 
&  Co.     $1.50. 

War  and  Peace,  by  Count  Leo  Tolstoy.  Translated 
by  Mr.  Garnett.  Three  volumes ;  McClure, 
Phillips  &  Co.     $6.00  net. 

Way  of  the  Sea,  The,  by  Norman  Duncan;  Mc- 
Clure, Phillips  &  Co.     $1.50. 


Cover  Design  from  Little,  Btown  &  Co. 


Webb,  The,  by  Frederick  T.  Hill;  Doubleday,  Page 

&  Co.     $1.50. 
West  Point   Colors,   by  Anna  B.   Warner;   The   F. 

H.  Revell  Company.     $1.50. 
Where  Love  Is,  by  W.  J.  Locke;  John  Lane.    $1.50. 
Whitewash,  by  Ethel  W.  Mumford;  Dana  Estes  & 

Co.     $1.50. 
Whip  Hand,  The,  by  Samuel  Merwin;  Doubleday, 

Page  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Widow   in  the    South,   The,   by   Teresa   Dent;    The 

Smart  Set  Publishing  Company.     75  cents. 
Winning   Him    Back,    by   Anita    V.    Chartres;    The 

Smart  Set  Publishing  Company. 
Yellow  Crayon,  The,   by  E.   P.   Oppenheim;   Dodd, 

Mead  &  Co.     $1.50. 
Yellow  Van,  The,  by  Richard  Whiteing;  The  Cen- 
tury Company.     $1.25. 
Y'esterday's  Madness,  by  Alfred  Hodder;  The  Mac- 

millan  Company.     $1.50. 
Zabadiah    Sartwell,    by    Dr.    S.    P.    Johnson;    The 

Broadway  Publishing  Company.     $1.50. 
Zut    and    Other    Parisians,    by    Guy    W.     Carryl ; 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     $1.50. 


HISTORY. 

After  Worcester  Fight,  by  Allen  Fea;  John  Lane. 
$6.00  net. 

American  Revolution,  The.  Part  II.  By  the  Right 
Hon.  Sir  George  Otto  Trevelyan.  Two  vol- 
umes. "The  American  Revolution."  Part  I; 
Longmans,  Green  &  Co.     $3.00. 

American  History  and  its  Geographic  Conditions, 
by  Ellen  C.  Semple;  Houghton,  MiiBin  &  Co. 
$3.00  net. 

American  Tariff  Controversies  in  the  Nineteentu 
Century,  by  Edward  Stanwood.  Two  volumes; 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     $5.00  net. 

Arnold's  March  from  Cambridge  to  Quebec,  by 
Justin  H.  Smith;  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  $2.00 
net 

Cambridge  Historical  Series.  Edited  by  G.  E. 
Prothero.  "  Germany  and  the  Empire,  1500- 
1792,"  by  A.  F.  Pollard.  "  Germany,  1815- 
1889,"  by  J.  W.  Headland.  "  Scandinavia,  ' 
by  R.  Nesbit  Bain.  "  The  Colonization  ot 
South  America,"  by  E.  J.  Paybe.  "The  Ex- 
pansion of  Russia,  1815-1900,"  by  F.  H.  Skrine. 
"  Italy,  1 492- 1 792,"  by  Mrs.  H.  M.  Vernon; 
The  Macmillan  Company. 

Cambridge  Modern  History,  The.  Planned  by  Lord 
Acton.  Edited  by  A.  W.  Ward,  G.  W.  Proth- 
ero, and  Stanley  Leathes.  Vol.  II;  The  Mac- 
millan Company. 

Contemporary  France,  by  Gabriel  Hanotaux.  Four 
volumes.  Vol.  I  already  published.  $3.75  net 
per  volume.  Vol.  II,  1874-1878;  Vol.  Ill,  1879- 
1889;  Vol.  IV,  1890-Dec.  31,  1900;  G.  P.  Put- 
nam's Sons. 

Contest  for  Sound  Money,  by  A.  B.  Hepburn;  The 
Macmillan  Company. 

Conquest  of  the  Southwest,  The,  by  Cyrus  Towns- 
end  Brady;  "The  History,  Purchase  and  De- 
velopment of  Alaska,"  by  O.  P.  Austin;  "  Steps 
in  the  Expansion  of  Our  Territory,"  by  Oscar 
P.  Austin;  "  Rocky  Mountain  Exploration,"  by 
Reuben  Gold  Thwaites.  Four  volumes;  D. 
Appleton  &  Co.     $1.25  net  per  volume. 

Dutch  Founding  of  New  York,  The,  by  Thomas  A. 
Janvier;  Harper  &  Brothers.     $2.50  net. 

Dutch  and  Quaker  Colonies  in  America,  The,  by 
John  Fiske.  Two  volumes;  Houghton,  Mifflin 
&  Co.     S8.00  net. 

Early  Age  of  Greece,  The.  Vol.  II,  by  William 
Ridgeway;  The  Macmillan  Company.  $5.00  net. 

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"  The  Vagabond." 

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dreams  as  an  urchin  in  pinafores,  and  keeps 
it  up  to  the  end  of  the  chapter. 

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overdose  of  preliminary  juvenile  reminiscen- 
ces before  the  youth  is  permitted  to  grow  to 
man's  estate,  and  during  this  time  the  halo 
that  encircles  his  head  is  rather  too  much 
emphasized.  He  is  quite  a  wonderful  small 
boy  in  his  capacity  for  making  the  grown  male 
kow-tow  before  him,  and  give  him  his  own 
way.  Indeed,  we  are  inclined  to  think  that 
the  events  in  the  earlier  chapters  of  the  book, 
although  written  for  adults,  would  appeal 
to  the  kindling  imagination  of  a  romantic 
boy. 

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nickname  of  the  hero,  finally  grows  up,  and 
after  carrying  out  one  of  his  boyish  dreams. 
and  becoming  the  owner  of  a  California  mine, 
hurries,  at  the  first  sound  of  civil  strife,  to 
the  East  to  organize  a  troop  of  Northern 
cavalry. 

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battle,  and  an  adept  at  snatching  life  and 
freedom  from  the  very  pistol's  point.  No.' 
does  he  fail  to  distinguish  himself  in  the  eyes 


"  Falk  "  is  a  story  of  the  silent,  spontaneous 
birth  of  love  in  the  hearts  of  a  simple, 
elemental  pair.  The  elemental  type,  indeed, 
appeals  particularly  to  Mr.  Conrad's  imagina- 
tion. He  seems  to  feel  its  restfulness  as  op- 
posed to  the  complex,  self-analyzing,  self-con- 
scious products  of  a  luxurious  civilization. 

"  Amj'  Foster  "  is  a  curiously  moving  story, 
which  tells  of  the  tragic  fate  of  a  Sclavonian 
mountaineer,  who,  a  castaway  from  a  wrecked 
emigrant  ship,  finds  himself  an  alien  upon 
the  coast  of  England,  feared  and  distrusted 
by  the  ignorant  peasantry,  and  stoned  by  the 
children. 

"  To-Morrow,"  while  slighter  in  motive  than 
the  other  two,  is  another  instance  of  the 
oddities  that  turn  up  in  human  destinies, 
and  is  written  with  a  similar  certainty  and  in- 
sight. 

To  all  three  of  the  stories,  the  sea  acts  as 
a  living  background,  a  sort  of  mighty  potential 
factor  of  fate.  For  to  Mr.  Conrad  "the  sea 
never  changes,  and  its  works  for  all  the  talk 
of  men  are  wrapped  in  mystery." 

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An  Unfaithful  Indiana  Spouse. 

One  of  the  most  oft-told  occurrences  in 
newspaper  accounts  of  strange  perversities  in 
human  destinies,  is  that  of  the  man  who  leads 
a  double  life. 

In  "  The  Sherrods,"  his  latest  novel,  George 
Barr  McCutcheon  has  taken  such  an  event 
for  his  theme,  and  has  pictured  the  grada- 
tions of  descent  into  weakness  and  self-in- 
dulgence which  wrought  the  moral  ruin  of  an 
honest  country  boy. 


Illustration  from  "  The  Vagabond"  by  Frederick  Palmer. 
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of  the  Southern  girl  he  loves;  a  fair  rebel, 
to  catch  fugitive  glimpses  of  whom,  and  to 
serve  as  well,  he  exposes  himself  to  chances 
of  peril  that  finally  land  him,  a  wounded  pris- 
oner of  war,  in  her  ancestral  home. 

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agination too  free  a  rein  in  elevating  his  hero 
to  extreme  heights  of  chivalry  and  romanti- 
cism. "  The  Vagabond,"  indeed,  belongs  to 
an  earlier  epoch  of  fiction  than  the  present, 
more  particularly  from  the  length  to  which 
the  writer  has  permitted  his  tale  to  run. 

The  story  has  spirit  and  humor  in  the  man- 
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curbed  his  propensity  for  redundancy  and  ex- 
travagance of  incident. 

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More  Stories  of  the  Sea. 

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trio  of  singular  tales  of  the  sea,  has,  to  an 
unusual  extent,  the  ability  to  brush  aside  the 
veil  nf  the  flesh  and  read  the  hearts  of  men. 
To  fins  power  he  unites  an  imaginative  fac- 
ulty above  the  common,  supplementing  these 
two  gifts  with  the  possession  of  a  lucid, 
graphic,  and  deeply  individualized  style.  None 
of  that  facile  imitativeness  so  frequently  per- 
ceptible even  in  the  best  work  of  many  of  the 
popular  novelists  of  the  day,  is  perceptible  in 
Mr.  Conrad's  admirably  written  narratives. 


The  author  begins  by  enlisting  the  sym- 
pathetic regard  of  the  reader  for  his  hapless 
hero,  who  offsets  his  intrinsic  weakness  and 
perfidy  by  a  fair  proportion  of  positive 
virtues. 

Although  the  action  of  the  story  revolves 
between  Chicago  and  an  obscure  country  vil- 
lage in  Indiana,  the  majority  of  the  scenes 
have  a  rustic  setting,  and  form  a  background 
to  the  sayings  and  doings  of  rural  folk. 
This  is  a  type  well  known  to  the  author, 
who  shows  himself  to  be  well  acquainted  with 
rural  standards  of  social  and  moral  worth, 
and  with  the  punishment  that  is  meted  out 
to  transgressors.  In  Justine,  the  country  wife, 
struggling  bravely  against  the  odds  of  loneli- 
ness and  poverty,  the  author  presents  the 
type  of  wifely  fidelity  and  affection  which 
is  incapable  of  imagining  evil  in  the  loved 
one.  Gene  Crowley,  the  hired  hand,  whose 
rough  and  willing  service  is  at  her  disposal, 
is  rude  primitive  manhood  softened  into  the 
protector  and  servitor  by  hopeless  love  for  a 
beautiful    and  virtuous   woman. 

The  faithless  yet  faithful  husband,  whose 
heart  is  torn  asunder  by  a  double  love,  is  the 
character  least  easily  comprehended.  Yet  no 
one  may  affirm  it  to  be  an  improbability; 
since  opportunity  has  lead  many  a  one  in  the 
past  to  commit  the  crime  of  bigamy  with  less 
incentive. 

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by  Charles  Josselyn.     Published  by 

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pear  Addison,  Bacon,  Chesterfield,  Leigh  Hunt. 
Lamb,  and  Ruskin.  Among  English  historians 
are  Froude,  Hume,  and  Macaulay.  Among 
English  novelists  we  have  Dickens,  Goldsmith. 
Lever,  Lytton,  Scott,  Thackeray,  and  Ouida — 
the  last  the  only  woman  represented.  The 
French  are  represented  by  Balzac,  Hugo,  Mon- 
taigne. Pascal,  and  Rousseau.  Among  scien- 
tists are  Huxley,  Tyndall,  and  Jordan. 
Germany  is  represented  only  by  Schopenhauer. 
There  are  copious  extracts  from  Boswell's 
"  Johnson "  and  other  Johnsonania,  while 
Franklin  is  represented  by  extracts  from 
Ford's  life  of  the  great  statesman.  Mr.  Jos- 
selyn has  had  the  courage  of  his  preferences 
with  regard  to  American  authors,  for  with 
the  exception  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  no 
others  who  could  be  called"  famous"  are  given 
place.      Emerson,   Hawthorne,   Whitman,    Poe, 


C.J.   Cutcliffe-Hyne,  author  of  "  MeTodd."     Pub- 
lished by  the  Macmillan  Company. 

and  Thoreau  are  names  that  do  not  appear. 
Two  newspaper  men,  W.  C.  Prime  and  Francis 
W.  Halsey,  are,  however,  honored,  as  well  as 
three  minor  writers,  Robert  Grant.  William 
Matthews,  and  A.  P.  Russell.  This  completes 
the  list  of  authors  quoted,  with  the  exception 
of  Captain  Gronow — whose  chief  distinction, 
we  believe,  lies  in  having  known  Shelley  at 
Eton — and  George  Dawson  and  Charles  W. 
Stearns,  writers  with  whose  literary  achieve- 
ments we  are  not  familiar. 

Mr.    Josselyn's    book    will,    without    doubt, 
accomplish     the     purpose     intended — that     of 


again  calling  readers'  attention,  in  the  words 
of  the  preface,  "  to  the  great  works  of  the 
illustrious  dead,  or  of  those  living  writers 
whose  fame  seems  sure." 

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All  About  MeTodd. 
"  I  take  it,"  says  MeTodd,  when  the  Stutt- 
gart is  shipping  it  green  over  her  decks,  "  that 
this  ship-load  of  people  is  off  to  hell  very 
quick."  And  the  fact  that  they  will  be  there 
in  time  to  stoke  up  fires  for  the  directors  of 
the  company  seems  at  the  moment  their  one 
comfort. 

The  Stuttgart  was  old  and  frail,  and  when 
she  started  a  plate  it  was  sea-floor  for  her. 
and  no  excuse.  The  chief  and  the  others 
climbed  out  at  this  juncture,  so  it  was  MeTodd 
who  stayed  with  the  engine  to  open  the 
throttle  at  the  first  signal,  and  MeTodd  who 
stayed  on,  knowing  the  alternative,  till  some 
one  shouted  down  the  hatchway :  "  Hey, 
Mac  1  You  down  below  there?"  And  to 
McTodd's  determined  "  Ay,  ay,  sir,"  com- 
manded:  "Then  quit  that  engine-room  you 
d — d  fool,  and  come  out  on  deck  and  get 
drowned  like  a  Christian."  And  not  until 
this  emphatic  command  did  old  MeTodd  think 
of  quitting  his  post. 

But  this  was  not  the  end  of  MeTodd.  The 
poor  old  ship  keeled  over  and  was  deserted, 
but  MeTodd  survived,  to  ship  again  with  the 
M'wara.  Then  a  greater  trouble  arises  in 
his  effort  to  steal  the  blessed  Ju-ju  image  for 
the  pretty  white-black  Laura.  The  price  on 
the  Ju-ju  is  fifty  pounds  for  MeTodd,  with 
the  hope  of  Laura's  favor  thrown  in  ;  so  not- 
withstanding the  natives  had  been  killing  the 
Kroobays  "  funny  ways,"  the  bold  MeTodd 
makes  for  the  spot,  and  the  Ju-ju  is  his.  And 
this  is  the  last  we  hear  of  the  "  War  of  the 
Luah  Ju-ju." ' 

But  thereafter  there  are  numerous  other 
adventures  to  the  credit  of  Neil  Angus  Me- 
Todd. "  The  Pole  Star's  new  owner  carried 
a  territorial  title  which  I  never  caught," 
Mr.  MeTodd  confides  to  a  rapt  listener,  after 
he  has  shipped  anew  with  the  marquis;  but 
he  is  now  rated  as  an  unlucky  man,  and  the 
Pole  Star  has  many  successors  before  he 
winds  up  his  career,  summing  up  the  success 
of  his  last  expedition  with :  "  I  got  seven- 
teen fine  mammoth's  teeth.  Paley  got  the 
photo  I  took  for  him.  Amatikita  got  billions 
on  the  margarine."  And  at  the  three  hundred 
and  fifty-fifth  page  we  are  sorry  to  bid  adieu 
to  good,  old  hard-shell  MeTodd,  with  his 
many  virtues  and  many  failings,  for  this  time 
C.  J.  Cutcliffe-Hyne  has  created  a  tough  old 
salt  we  will  not  soon  forget. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


FIRST-RATE    DETECTIVE  STORY. 


A  Hypnotizing  Burglar. 

Another  collection  of  detective  stories  has 
come  to  us  from  the  pen  of  Arthur  Morrison, 
who  has  again  taken  up  the  career  of  "  Martin 
Hewitt,  Investigator,"  and  related  as  in  a  pre- 
vious volume  the  methods  by" which  that  fine- 
art  detective  is  able  to  unwind  the  ingeniously 
woven  mazes  of  criminality,  a  la  Sherlock 
Holmes. 

Mr.  Morrison  is  very  adept  at  this  sort  of 
story-writing,  possessing  the  ability  to  build 
up  a  complicated  structure  of  criminal  mys- 
tery, getting  the  interest  of  the  reader  thor- 
oughly engaged  on  the  scent,  and  carrying  it 
on  to  the  denouement,  which  sometimes  cele- 
brates the  ability  of  Martin  Hewitt,  and  some- 
times the  workings  of  strange  chance. 

There   are   six   short   stories   in    "  The    Red 


&    AESM  HOTBHSOH 


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Triangle,"  each  of  which  is  almost  complete  in 
itself,  but  all  of  them  carry  a  connecting 
thread  of  mutual  relationship  to  the  others. 

A  secret  and  most  dangerous  miscreant, 
one  practiced  in  the  Voodooism  of  the  West 
Indies,  and  so  well  skilled  in  the  craft  of  the 
London  criminal  that  he  is  an  expert  in  con- 
cealing his  tracks,  is  the  hero  of  the  book  as 
opposed  to  Martin  Hewitt,  who  finds  in  him 
an  opponent  worthy  of  his  steel.  The  de- 
tective finally  hunts  the  scoundrel  down  to 
his  undoing,  discovering  in  the  process  that 
the  man's  most  powerful  weapon  for  evil  is 
the  hypnotic  influence  that  he  is  able  to  exert 
upon  his  dupes  and  tools. 

Mr.  Morrison  undoubtedly  drew  his  original 
inspiration  from  the  Sherlock  Holmes  stories, 
but  he  shows  no  trace  of  imitativeness  in  the 
plots  of  his  own  tales,  which  are  full  of 
ingenuity  and  inventiveness.  Martin  Hewitt 
is  not  made  so  much  of  a  hero  and  an  oddity 
as  Sherlock  Holmes,  but  is  rather  the  quiet, 
skillful  dissector  of  clews  and  motives,  whose 
character  is  subsidiary  in  interest  to  the  mys- 
teries he  unravels.  . 

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Exit,  One  Woman's  Suffrage  Club. 
She  was  a  believer  in  woman  spelled  with  a 
capital  W ,  this  Lesley  Chilton  of  Eliza  Orne 
White's  creation.  At  the  close  of  her  college 
career,  her  high-strung  spirit  struggled  for 
freedom,  and  for  the  want  of  broader  fields 
and  wiser  counsel  her  longing  for  inde- 
pendence expressed  itself  in  the  form  of  a 
Woman's  Suffrage  Club.  The  small  country 
town,  with  the  usual  material  for  suffrage 
work  ;  the  devoted  wife,  who  sees  the  world 
through  the  opinions  of  Caleb ;  the  contented 
woman,  who  sees  no  need  for  changing  the 
property  laws  of  Massachusetts,  because  she 
herself  is  well  provided  for ;  the  affectionate 
Amy,  who  tries  to  be  strong-minded  for  the 
adored  Lesley's  sake,  afford  an  effective  open- 
ing for  much  good-natured  satire. 

Upon  the  death  of  her  invalid  aunt,  the 
girl  finds  herself  suddenly  in  possession  of  her 
longed-for  freedom,  that  glorious  independence 
of  which  she  has  dreamed.  But  with  the 
freedom  comes  what  she  had  not  counted  upon 
— desolation.  So,  instead  of  spreading  her 
unfettered  pinions  for  a  wide,  free  flight,  this 
emancipated  young  woman  takes  her  faithful 
Martha,  and  settles  down  in  a  quiet  place  by 
the  sea  to  wear  off  her  depression.  In  this 
quiet  place  by  the  sea  lives  also  Henry  Bowen 
Northbrook,  anti-suffragist. 

The  girl  Lesley  is  a  well-drawn,  lovable, 
interesting  American  college  girl  of  the  best 
type,  but  the  author  has  departed  from  the 
reign  of  heroics  in  the  delineation  of  her 
leading  man  in  an  unexpected,  though  not 
unsuccessful,  way.  Instead  of  the  stereotyped 
young  and  handsome  fellow  usually  met  in 
novels  by  women,  Henry  Northbrook  is  a 
grave  widower  of  forty.  To  be  a  widower, 
almost  twice  the  agt  of  the  winsome  girl 
with  vhom  he  is  in  love,  and  poor  at  that, 
is  a  lifficult  role  to  sustain,  but  notwith- 
stanc, ng  this  lack  of  the  accepted  haze  of 
e.  this  serious-mimied  anti-suffragist 
carries  our  sympathies  with  him,  and  when  at 


last  his  suit  is  won  through  the  illness  of  his 
daughter,  a  half-grown  girl 'not  much. younger 
than  Lesley  Chilton  herself,  we  are  not  sorry 
for  the  out-distanced  younger  suitors,  for  we 
close  the  book  with  the  blessed  assurance 
there  is  one  less  Woman's  Suffrage  Club  in 
the  world. 

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late  to  making  different  collections  of  their 
scattered  tales  with  some  common  basic  idea 
to  bind  them  together.  In  "  The  Literary 
Sense,"  however,  E.  Nesbit,  the  author,  seems 
oddly  enough  to  have  kept  one  certain  idea 
in  mind  during  the  writing  of  each  individual 
tale.  It  was  to  point  out  how  a  novel-sated 
generation  is  liable,  during  the  fateful  crises 
of  life,  so  to  conduct  itself  as  to  look  out  for 
literary  effect  rather  than  to  sacrifice  the 
picturesque  pose  and  secure  its  own  happi- 
ness. 

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stincts of  nature  than  to  the  literary  sense, 
for,  on  second  thoughts,  her  puppets  are  prone 
to  throw  aside  the  thought  of  effect  and  reach 
straight  out  for  the  coveted  happiness.  These 
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all  of  young  people  who  are  very  much  in 
love,  and  without  possessing  particular  depth 
or  force,  each  has  its  neat  and  rounded  plot, 
while  the  whole  collection  is  written  with 
lightness  and  humor,  in  easy,  fluent,  and  well- 
considered  English. 

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critical  sketch  of  the  life  and  art  of  Thomas 
Gainsborough.  The  author  has  not  deemed 
it  necessary  to  give  a  minute  relation  of  the 
more  trivial  details  of  the  famous  portrait 
painter's  life,  but  has  furnished  sufficient 
information  as  to  his  origin,  his  early  ambi- 
tions, and  essays  in  drawing  and  painting 
and  his  friendships  and  social  pursuits,  to 
enable  the  reader  to  gain  a  fairly  accurate 
idea  what   manner  of  man   he  was. 

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perous career,  we  discover  that  Gainsborough 
had  few  struggles  or  calamities  to  embitter 
his  lot,  but  that  after  his  fortuitous  settle- 
ment in  Bath  during  its  heyday  as  the  popu- 
lar resort  of  London  fashionables,  his  career 
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reputation  increased,  his  art  developed  apace. 
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many  fine  illustrations  of  the  more  notable 
examples  of  Gainsborough's  work,  and  to 
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well  as  their  relative  value  in  the  scale 
of  the  artist's  achievements. 

A  resume  of  the  causes  of  Gainsborough's 
quarrel  with  the  Royal  Academy  is  given, 
together  with  some  information  as  to  the 
slight  differences  between  himself  and  Sir 
Joshua  Reynolds,  which,  as  is  made  obvious, 
principally  had  their  root  in  artistic  jealousy. 
"  Confound  the  fellow,  how  does  he  get  his 
effects,"  exclaims  the  latter,  on  viewing  one 
of  the  works  of  his  rival,  while  Gainsbor- 
ough, appreciating  in  Reynolds's  art  the  higher 
mental  capacity  to  which  he  could  not  attain, 
cries  in  reluctant  admiration,  "  Damn  him, 
how  various  he  is  !" 

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321 


A    RADICAL    NOVEL. 


Richard  Whiteing  on  Sordid  England. 
Richard  Whiteing  has  been  plying  that  tren- 
chant, radical  pen  of  his  upon  another  phase 
of  life  in  the  right  little,  tight  little  isle, 
where  he  finds  things  in  a  parlous  state.  In 
his  latest  book.  "  The  Yellow  Van,"  he  lays 
bare  to  the  public  gaze  all  the  sordid  founda- 
tions upon  which  rests  the  luxurious  super- 
structure of  English  landlordism.  He  shows 
that  the  English  peasant,  caught  in  the  coils 
of  a  deeply  rooted  system  organized  to  main- 
tain lives  of  wealth  and  pleasure  for  the  landed 
aristocracy,  is  little  better  than  a  dependent, 
submissive,  unresisting,  unthinking  slave.  Mr. 
Whiteing  has  made  his  indictment  terribly 
clear  by  following  out  the  calamitous  career  of 
an  English  lad  who,  unlike  his  meeker  fellows, 
tried  to  lift  the  yoke  from  his  shoulders  and 
follow  a  path  in  life  other  than  that  marked 


Cover  Design  from  the  Century  Company. 

out  by  the  will  of  the  system.  The  result  will 
prove  a  surprise  to  many  American  readers. 
The  youth,  by  incurring  the  ill-will  of  the 
landlord's  agent,  was  denied  lodgment  in  his 
native  village,  and  forced  to  join  the  vast  and 
dismal  army  of  failures  in  the  slums  of  Lon- 
don. His  life  and  fate  form  a  core  of  tragedy 
in  the  book  full  of  sad  significance,  around 
which  is  grouped  diverse  views  of  the  social 
and  feudal  relation  of  the  tenant  to  his  land- 
lord, and  of  country  society  toward  a  ducal 
house. 

Two  Americans  are  brought  into  this  life 
of  high-class  English  luxury,  and,  unmolded 
by  the  influence  of  caste  and  early  association, 
bend  their  discerning  judgment  upon  the  work- 
ings of  the  system.  One  is  a  duchess,  the 
other  her  brother.  The  duchess  is  charmed 
at  first  by  the  feudal  simplicity  of  attitude  of 
the  rustics  who  live  in  the  ducal  demesne,  but 
experience  brings  to  her  a  chastened  wisdom, 
under  whose  influence  she  seeks  to  better  the 
system.  In  vain.  It  is  too  firmly  welded ;  a 
national  institution  that  crushes  the  sturdy 
laborer,  and  even  at  times  holds  the  lord  of 
lands  and  souls  within  bonds  of  his  own 
making. 

The  duke  is  an  excellent  fellow — one  who 
has  fled  from  the  avid  matrimonial  pursuit  of 
women  of  his  own  class,  and  married  an 
obscure,  American  school-teacher  for  love. 
But  he,  too,  is  a  slave  in  his  way — the  slave 
of  his  own  rank :  "  The  region  in  which  his 
lot  was  cast  was  above  that  of  personal  taste." 


Jacob  A.  J?ii's,  author  of  "  The  Children  of  the 

Tenements."    Published  by  the  Mac- 

millan  Company. 

All  that  he  did,  save  in  choosing  his  wife,  was 
dictated  by  a  sense  of  duty  to  the  system — 
even  the  purchase  of  costly  pictures,  statuary, 
and  bibelots  was  inspired  by  the  necessity,  due 
to  his  wealth  and  station,  of  being  "  civil  to 
the  arts." 

Mr.  Whiteing,  who  seems  to  have  surveyed 
the  whole  field  of  the  big  question  opened  up 
in  his  book,  touches  upon  the  subject  of  the 
annual  hunting  season.  The  pheasants,  which 
he  calls  with   fine  satire   "  the  sacred  birds," 


he  affirms  "  govern  the  empire."  "  Parliament 
rises  for  them,  the  professions  make  holiday 
to  wait  their  good  pleasure."  Poaching  upon 
the  pleasure  parks  that  engirt  the  lordly  En- 
glish homes,  together  with  the  tacit  union  of 
the  poachers  to  resist  the  gamekeepers,  is 
grimly  justified  by  the  American  visitor  as 
"  trust  versus  trust." 

The  book  is  a  mine  of  concentrated  truth. 
and,  with  the  clear,  unbiassed  view  it  affords 
of  English  social,  civil,  and  religious  institu- 
tions, is  apt  to  cause  the  reader  to  join  in  the 
unspoken  arraignment  of  the  American  duch- 
ess, who  finds  herself  helpless,  caught  in  the 
implacable  system  that  she  has  hoped  to  re- 
form, condemned  by  its  inexorable  workings 
to  stifle  her  sense  of  justice,  and  settle  down 
forever  to  setting  an  example  in  trivial  things 
as  the  leader  of  fashion  and  the  ornament  of 
the  country  side. 

Published  by  the  Century  Company,  New- 
York;  $1.50. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


The  Critic. 
Behold 

The    Critic,    bold   and  cold. 
Who  sits  in  judgment  on 
The  twilight  and  the  dawn 
Of   literature, 
And,     eminently    sure, 
Informs    his    age 
What  printed  page 
Is  destined  to  be  great. 
His   word   is   Fate, 
And    what    he    writes 
Is    greater    far 
Than  all  the  books 
He    writes    of    are. 
His   pen 

Is  dipped  in  boom 
Or   doom; 
And  when 

He  says  one  book  is  rot, 
And  that  another's  not. 
That  ends  it.     He 
Is    pure    infallibility, 
And  any  book  he  judges  must 
Be  blessed  or  cussed 
By  all  mankind, 
Except  the  blind 
Who  will  not  see 
The   master's  modest  mastery. 
His  fiat  stands 
Against  the  uplifted  hands 
Of  thousands  who  protest 
And    buy    the    goods 
That   they   like  best; 
But  what  of  that? 
He  knows  where  he  is  at. 
And  they  don't.     And  why 
Shouldn't  he  be  high 
Above  them  as  the  clouds 
Are  high   above  the  brooks. 
For  God,  He  made  the  Critic, 
And  man.   he  makes  the  books. 
See? 

Gee  whiz. 

What  a  puissant  potentate  the  Critic  is. 
— William  J.  Lampton  in  the  Reader. 


The  Author's  Dilemma. 
Through  weary  years  and  dreary  years 

He  wrote  and  wrote  and  wrote; 
His  trousers  bagged  around  the  knees 

And  gloss  was  on  his  coat. 
They  sent  his  foolish  stories  back. 

He  filed  them  all  away. 
And  scribbled  on  and  worried  on. 

And  hit  it  right  one  day. 

He  wrote  a  tale,  a  thrilling  tale. 

That  had  a  wealth  of  wit, 
And  he  that  had  been  down  so  long 

Was  lifted  high  by  it. 
His  name  became  a  household  word. 

They  made  him  rich  and  glad; 
Renown  was  his,  success  was  his. 

He  had  become  a  fad. 

They  praised  his  work, they  craved  his  work; 

The  publishers  no  more 
Declined  with  thanks  the  stuff  he  wrote, 

As  they  had  done  before. 
They  hung  around  him  eagerly, 

And  forth  from  dusky  nooks 
He  brought  old  tales,  his  dull  old  tales. 

And  they  were  put  in  books. 

A  carping  few,  a  precious  few. 

In  sober  sadness  read: 
"  He  must  have  done  bis  one  good  thing 

By  accident,"  they  said. 
The  others,  eager  to  be  pleased. 

Cast  all  their  cares  aside. 
And  read  the  rot,  the  dreary  rot, 

And  laughed  until  they  cried. 

Now  who  shall  tell  and  wisely  tell 

The  author  what  to  do? 
Oh,  should  he  rob  the  multitude 

To  please  a  carping  few? 
Should  pleasure  be  withheld  that  dims 

The  glory  which  15  art's? 
Should  men  be  fooled  when  being  fooled 

Brings  gladness  to  their  hearts? 

— Chicago  Record-Herald. 


All  About  Ferns. 
As  Campbell  E.  Waters  points  out  in  his 
book  on  "  Ferns."  these  plants,  in  the  past, 
have  been  neglected  by  botanists  on  account 
of  the  difficulty-  of  identification.  The  keys  ex- 
tant are  all  based  on  fructification,  and  fernb 
could  only  be  identified  thereby  when  they 
were  in  fruit.  Mr.  Waters,  some  years  ago. 
worked  out  an  analytic  key,  based  on  con- 
stant characteristics,  and  he  has  now  published 
a  comprehensive  manual,  illustrated  with  the 
photographs   of  all   the  species    found   in   the 


Xorth-Eastern  States,  which  will  undoubtedly 
prove  the  standard  work  in  the  section  to  which 
it  applies.  It  is  not  a  compilation  from  other 
books,  but  the  result  of  actual  study  of  ferns 
in  the  field  during  some  fourteen  years.  The 
two  hundred  photographs  in  the  work  are  of 
exceptional  excellence.  The  series  showing 
the  typical  fruit-dots  of  the  genera  is  said  by 
the  author  to  be  unique.  The  work  is  printed 
on  heavy  glazed  paper. 

Published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co..  New  York; 
$3.00. 


MOSAIC  ESSAYS 

The  quotations  from  many  gentle  philosophers  are  se- 
lected and  so  arranged  as  to  present  the  subject  of  the 
booklet  in  its  highest  interpretation — a  message  of  good 
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format,  richly  printed,  in  an  original  scheme  of  typo- 
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closed in  box.     Price,  net,  51.25. 

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pletes a  most  charming  volume.     Price,  net,  $5  °°- 


HAPPINESS 

In  e\'ery  part  and  corner  of  your  life,  to  lose 
oneself  is  to  be  gainer :  to  forget  oneself  is  to 
be  happy.        —Robert  Louis  Stevensox. 


SUCCESS 

For  to  travel  hopefully  is  a  better  thing  than 
to  arrive,  and  the  true  success  is  to  labor. 

—  Robert  Louis  Stevenson. 


NATURE 

Climb  the  mountains  and  get  toeir  good  tid- 
ings. Nature 's  peace  will  flow  into  you  as  sun- 
shine flows  into  trees.  The  winds  will  blow 
their  own  freshness  into  you,  and  the  storms 
their  energy,  while  cares  will  drop  off  bke 
autumn  leaves.  — John  Ml'ik. 


FRIENDSHIP 

A  friend  may  well  be  reckoned  the  master- 
piece of  nature.  — Emerson. 


Paul  Elder  (3^  &  Company 

238  Post^Streef  ^^^^  San  Francisco 


The  Kentucky  form  of  feud  has  supplied 
the  material  for  a  novel  written  by  Joseph  S. 
Malone,  and  called  "  Sons  of  Vengeance." 


CM  ICAGO. 


The  following  table  shows  the  financial  historv  of  THE 
TRADERS  INSURANCE  COMPANY,  of  Chicago, 
111.,  during  the  past  thirty-one  years,  and  you  will  note  that 
its  growth  has  been  continuous  from  the  date  of  incorpora- 
tion till  the  present  time  : 

Gross  Assets. 

1872 $    586.03918 

1873 746.10925 

1874     729963  95 

1875 812.929.13 

1876 824.359.13 

1877 812321.43 

1878 822.736.20 

1879 851,183.11 

1880 942.01316 

i88t 1.031.S98.17 

1882           L057.2I733 

1883 1. 165.37810 

1884   1. 164. 818  02 

1885 ".228  345-42 

1886 ".368  27>-48 

1887 ■.3S<>334  58 

1888 i.345.S7*7S 

1889 1.334.267.64 

1890 1.406406.09 

1891 >.568  5'9  "3 

1892 1  608.651  64 

1893 1,705.007.46 

1894   1.635,629.01 

1895 i.73'.945-o3 

1896 t.747.702  45 

1897 1.684.258.57 

1898 1.894.05472 

1899 2.134.17637 

1900 2.285.84706 

1901 2.435.57>-28 

1902 2.535.670.58 

1903  (January  1st  Annual) 2.  671, 795-37 


LOSSES    PAID    DURING    THIS    TIME,  SI 0.303,849.30 


INSURE  IN  THE  TRADERS 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


A    POETICAL    ROMANCE. 


"The  Castle  of  Twilight  "—Made  in  Chicago. 

Against  an  opalescent  sky  stands  the  dark 
Castle  of  Twilight — on  the  cover  of  Mar- 
garet Horton  Potter's  book — in  illustration 
•of  the  title.  The  "  foreword  "  runs  :  "Wist- 
fully I  deliver  up  to  you  my  simple  story," 
with  a  promise  of  neither  carnage  nor  strange 
oaths  therein,  but  the  pictured  lives  of  those 
who  lived  with  "  gentle  pleasures  and  un- 
voiced sorrow,  somewhat  as  you  and  I"  ;  and 
before  we  reach  the  table  of  contents  we  meet 
a  few  plaintive  strains  from  a  dreamy  noc- 
turne by  Grieg.  And  now  the  careless  mind 
is  attuned  for  the  coming  glimpses  of  the 
proud  young  knight,  Gerault  le  Crepusaile,  at 
the  Court  of  Duke  Jean,  the  dreary  solitude 
of  Mme.  la  Chatelaine  in  the  moated  Cha- 
teau, of  Laure,  the  white-robed  novice  in  the 
priory  convent  of  Les  Vierges  de  la  Made- 
laine,  and  the  debonair  troubadour  Flam- 
raecceur. 

With  these  initial  glimpses,  the  scenes  ar- 
ray themselves  in  logical  order.  The  great 
black  castle  on  its  craggy  height,  its  high 
halls  filled  with  chattering  maids,  gay  squires, 
and  burly  men-at-arms,  is  the  home  of  Elea- 
nore,  the  widowed  Chatelaine,  the  haughty, 
brooding  Gerault,  her  son,  and  Laure,  her 
daughter,  who,  "  like  the  great  white  gulls 
that  veered  through  sunlight  and  storm  on 
their  straight-stretched  pinions,"  was  at  once 
the  pleasure  and  torment,  the  comfort  and 
anxiety,  of  all  within  the  castle.  In  the  open- 
ing chapter  this  untamed,  high-hearted  girl 
has  entered  the  convent  to  become  a  nun,  and 
the  chateau,  by  her  absence,  left  desolate. 
Upon  this  dreary  scene,  in  the  still  drearier 
Castle  of  Twilight,  enters  Flammecceur,  the 
troubadour  with  his  "  glowing  eyes  and  love- 
lorn manner." 

The  meeting  of  the  untried,  white-robed 
young  novice  and  Flammecceur — flaming 
heart — although  scarcely  plausible,  is  highly 
romantic,  and  the  ripening  acquaintance,  the 
awakening  of  new  emotions,  and  final  sur- 
render are  summed  up  in  the  author's  :  "  In 
the  radiant  golden  light  Laure's  heart  grew 
big  with  the  unshed  tears  of  life ;  and  before 
the  sobs  came  Flammecceur,  leaning  far  to- 
ward her,   whispered  thickly "      No    more 


Margaret   Horton   Potter,   author    of"  The   Castle  of 
Twilight."    Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co. 

of  the  text  is  needed,  however,  to  tell  the 
story  and  its  pitiful  ending. 

The  characters  of  Alixe,  the  foster-sister  of 
Laure ;  the  Bishop  of  St.  Nazaire ;  golden- 
haired  Lenore,  the  unloved  wife  of  Gerault ; 
Courtoise,  the  faithful  squire,  all  lend  them- 
selves to  the  graceful  whole,  but  everything 
and  every  person  in  the  book  is  subservient  to 
the  heavy  twilight  gloom  that  gathers  and  set- 
tles over  the  castle  like  the  relentless  hand 
of  fate. 

Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago ; 
$1.50. 


The  Last  of  the  Henty  Books. 
Every  librarian  of  the  juvenile  department 
knows  the  eager  query :  "  Say,  you  got  any 
more  Henty  books  r" — and  the  superior  swagger 
of  the  fortunate  boy  who  goes  out  ot  the  door 
with  his  treasure,  closely  followed  by  two  or 
three  envious  companions,  who  importune  him 
to  "  lemme  have  it  next,  Bill.  Aw,  come  on." 
Now  Henty  is  dead,  but  the  "  Henty  public  " 
will  rejoice  this  winter  over  two  new  stories 
finished  just  before  his  regretted  demise — 
"%'  th'  the  Allies  to  Pekin"  and  "Through 
Th  ;e  Campaigns."  In  the  first,  Henty  retells 
the  t'^ory  of  the  siege  of  Pekin,  and  the  second 
is  the  story  of  a  boy's  adventure  in  the   Brit- 


ish army.  No  doubt  there  is  many  a  youth 
who  will  consider  the  future  a  dreary  blank 
which  can  no  longer  produce  these  stirring 
tales  of  fights  by  land  and  fights  by  sea,  where 
the  young  hero  is  always  to  the  fore-front,  a 
glorious  victor  over  all  obstacles.  But 
Captain  Erereton  has  long  held  a  place 
only  second  to  Henty  among  English  boys. 
He  now  puts  out  two  books  of  adventure, 
bound  uniformly  with  those  by  Henty — "  In 
the  Grip  of  the  Mullah "  and  "  Foes  of  the 
Red  Cockade."  It  would  be  interesting  to  hear 
the  comments  of  the  boys  when  they  are  told 
that  here  is  something  just  as  good  as  Henty. 
Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York;   each,  $1.20  net. 


The  Adventures  of  Two  Bachelor  Maids. 
So  long  as  men  are  overworked  and  women 
driven  to  death,  little,  light,  amusing  books 
that  are  easy  to  read,  and  easier  to  forget, 
will  have  a  vogue.  A  good  example  of  this 
class  of  fiction  is  "  Merry  Hearts,"  a  first  book 


Anne  Story  Allen,  author  of  "  Merry  Hearts." 
Published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co. 

by  a  clever  young  woman.  Anne  Story  Allen 
has  a  gift  for  epigram — "  Rosamond's  father 
was  a  cheerful  skeptic ;  her  mother  a  worried 
Presbyterian  " — she  knows  things  about  char- 
acter, and  has  a  gift  of  writing  conversation. 
Rather  Anthonyhopey  conversation  it  is,  it  is 
true,  but,  on  the  whole,  amusing  enough.  The 
publishers  have  made  the  very  sad  mistake  of 
putting  one  of  the  thinnest  sketches  first,  but 
we  suppose  it  had  to  be  done  in  order  to 
properly  introduce  the  two  girls,  Gloria  and 
Rosamond,  who  appear  in  most  of  the  skits. 
We  predict  for  "  Merry  Hearts  "  a  deserved 
prosperity. 

Published  by  Henry  Holt  &  Co.,  New  York; 
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Mary  Johnston's  romance,  "  Sir  Mortimer," 
which,  after  a  long  postponement,  begins  in 
Harper's  Magazine  for  November,  has  been 
written  under  unusual  circumstances.  The 
serial  publication  of  the  story  was  to  have 
commenced  in  May,  1902,  and  the  first  install- 
ments had  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
artist,  F.  C.  Yohn,  for  illustration.  Just  at 
this  time,  Miss  Johnston  fell  ill,  and  was  un- 
able to  continue  the  work.  Messrs.  Harper 
&  Brothers  then  announced  the  necessary 
postponement  of  the  novel.  Meanwhile,  Miss 
Johnston  had  been  ordered  to  Bermuda  by 
her  physician,  and,  as  soon  as  she  was  per- 
mitted to  write  for  an  hour  each  day,  pluckily 
resumed  her  work.  The  heroine  of  this  new 
romance  is  a  lady-in-waiting  upon  Queen 
Elizabeth ;  the  hero,  Sir  Mortimer,  an  officer 
in  her  majesty's  fleet,  commanded  by  Sir  John 
Nevil. 


Clara    Morris   has    finished    her   new    novel, 

"  Hulda's    Brat." 


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tor has  done  her  part 
well."— The  Dial. 

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Napoleon  in  his  genu- 
ine greatness." 

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the  Japan  which  has 
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come a  world  power. 
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tion that  is  wanted  by 
travelers  or  students. 
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and  affairs,  andknows 
his  subject  from  every 
point  of  view. 


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Noll's  earlier  volume 
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in  Mexican  history. 
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important  effect  on  the  de- 
velopment of  the  country 
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tional Government. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


323 


"THE    USURPER." 


Worldliness  and  Ideality. 

Readers  of  "  The  Usurper  "  will  warmly  wel- 
come another  novel  by  W.  J.  Locke,  who 
writes  of  London  society  and  London  bo- 
hemianism  with  the  familiarity  born  of  inti- 
mate experience.  "'  'Where  Love  Is  "  records 
the  conflict  between  idealism  and  materialism 
in  the  struggling  soul  of  a  society  beauty. 

Mr.  Locke  has  chosen  for  his  heroine  a 
woman  of  complex  nature,  who  is  oddly  com- 
pounded of  cynical  worldliness  and  a  passion- 
ate responsiveness  to  the  ideals  of  the  spirit. 
Xorma  Hardacre  moves  as  a  beauty  and  belle 
in  the  most  exclusive  circles  of  London  so- 
ciety, and  in  pursuit  of  the  destiny  marked 
out  for  her  by  her  particularly  disagreeable 
parents,  engages  herself  to  Morland  King,  a 
wealthy  member  of  Parliament,  and  a  com- 
placent, self-indulgent  materialist. 


Chester  Bailey  Fernald,  author  of  "  Under  the  Jack-  j 
Staff."     Published  by  the  Century  Company. 

Unconsciously,    perhaps,    a    noticeable    sim-  ' 
ilarity  to  the  mysterious  attraction  exerted  upon 
Gwendolen     by      Daniel      Deronda,      speedily  , 
developes    itself    after    Nonna's    acquaintance  , 
begins  with  Jimmie  Padgate,  a  painter,  who  is 
poor,    obscure,    and    impractical.      Jimmie,    in 
spite  of  his  innate  chivalry  and  his  intellectual 
congeniality,   is  too  unconscious  of  the  value 
of  material  things,  too  poorly  equipped  as  re-  | 
gards    his    outer   man,    to   win    Nonna's    love. 
To  quote  from  the  book : 

"  His  dress-suit  was  old  and  of  lamentable 
cut ;  his  shirt-cuffs  were  frayed ;  a  little  bone-  . 
stud,    threatening    every    moment    to    slip    the 


Illustration  from    "Bachelor  Bigotries."      Published 
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button-hole,  precariously  secured  his  shirt- 
front.  His  thin,  iron-gray  hair  was  untidy," 
etc. 

The  poverty  of  Jimmie's  resources  is  light- 
ened by  his  radiant  optismism,  and  the  glow 
of  faith,  hope,  and  love  toward  humanity 
which  suffuses  his  soul.  He  is  a  most  lovable 
character,  the  kind  of  man  who  inspires  in 
brilliant    women    a    constant     but     harmless  > 


friendship ;  but  Mr.  Locke  fails  to  make  it 
quite  credible  that  he  could  win  the  heart  of 
an  exacting,  self-centred,  luxury-loving  aristo- 
crat like  Norma  Hardacre. 

Another  improbability  in  the  story  is  the 
Quixotic  motive  which  impels  Jimmie  to  bear 
the  burden  of  Morland  King's  misdoing.  The 
heroism  of  such  an  act,  so  contrary  to  normal 
human    instinct,   is   always    open   to   question. 

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ticularly good  English,  about  particularly  in- 
teresting people,  and  although  he  feels  a  glow 
of  enthusiastic  sympathy  with  the  cheerful 
bohemianism  and  endearing  optimism  which 
so  warmly  colors  Jimmie's  blameless  life,  there 
is  such  vigorous  common  sense  shown  in  the 
denouement  of  Nonna's  love  affair  that  it  is 
far  from  difficult  to  overlook  previous  im- 
probabilities. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


A    LIFE    OF    SCHUMANN. 


A  "Woman's  View  of  the  Noted  Composer. 

Included  in  the  series  of  biographies  of 
master  musicians,  published  by  Duttons,  is  a 
life  of  Schumann,  by  Annie  W.  Patterson, 
Mus.  Doc,  E.  A.,  of  the  Royal  University. 
Ireland. 

The  lady  of  the  titles  has  brought  to  her 
work  a  full  measure  of  the  warmth  and  en- 
thusiasm of  appreciation  which  is  in  a  degree 
necessary  to  inspire  the  biographer  to  his 
task.  It  can  not  be  said,  however,  in  spite 
of  the  conscientiousness  and  thoroughness 
with  which  the  author  has  set  about  her  work 
that  her  results  are  altogether  happy.  A 
biographer  needs  to  be  the  possessor  of  a 
literary  style  in  order  to  give  his  work  dis- 
tinction and  permanent  value,  and  in  that 
important  particular  Miss  Patterson's  book  is 
somewhat  lacking.  Her  language  shows  fre- 
quent tendencies  to  fall  into  the  common- 
placeness  of  journalese,  and — sin  of  sins  !— 
she  indulges  in  the  feminine  weakness  of  em- 
phasizing with  italics. 

As  to  the  particulars  and  details  that  are 
furnished  concerning  Schumann's  life,  char- 
acter, and  the  exercise  of  his  literary  talent 
and  musical  genius,  the  writer  has  evidently 
been  careful  and  is  reliable,  having  consulted 
many  eminent  authorities  among  Continental 
biographers.  From  these  sources,  also,  is 
furnished  critical  comment  from  fellow-mu- 
sicians on  the  quality,  inspiration,  and  musi- 
cianly  workmanship  of  Schumann's  more  fa- 
mous  compositions. 

The  volume  takes  up,  by  turns  in  its  three 


Illustration  from    " Little    Rivers'1    by  Henry     Van 
Dyke.    Published  by  Charles  Scribne^-'s  Sons. 

divisions,  Schumann's  biography,  his  private 
character,  and  his  literary  and  musical  work. 
It  should  be  added  that  it  is  apparent  that  the 
selection)  of  Miss  Patterson  as  biographer  has 
been  approved  by  the  surviving  members  of 
the  Schumann  family,  who  have  furnished  her 
ample  data  for  her  work. 

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Mrs.  Fowler's  Moral  Novel. 
In  her  new  book,  Ellen  Thorneycroft  Fowler 
has  set  herself  the  difficult  task  of  deciding 
the  proper  Rule  of  Right  for  the  pilgrim  in 
this  vale  of  tears.  In  the  opening  chapters, 
we  are  introduced  to  three  typical  house- 
holds, like  Portia's  three  chests,  and  the  right 
one  chosen  leads  to  happiness  here  and  here- 
after. 

The  first  type  is  represented  by  the  house  of 
Clayton,  the  hard-headed  materialist,  who  ad- 
vises his  son  :  "  Put  your  money  on  the  horse 
that  wins — that's  what  I  say,  and  I  never  yet 
have  met  the  religion  that  was  of  that  sort." 
And  the  son  says:  "I'd  like  to  see  the  God 
who  could  come  between  me  and  my  heart's 
desire."  And  from  the  author's  premise  the 
end  of  that  house  is  obvious. 

The  second  household  is  presided  over  by 
the  worthy  Gankrodger,  who  sizes  up  his 
clergyman  with:  "  I  am  afraid  Mr.  Oakenden 
is  becoming  carnally  minded,  and  addicted 
to  tieshly  pleasures.  I  noticed  he  partook  too 
?•  t\y  for  a  minister  of  religion  of  plum-pud- 
d  ">g  when  he  dined  here  last  Lord's  Day." 
1  '  inJ  which  remark  the  whole  army  of 
Roundheads    towers    to     a     vanishing     point. 


Ergo,  neither  does  thi6  casket  contain  the 
treasure. 

The  one  remaining  household,  conse- 
quently, must  be  the  author's  prescribed  Rule. 
Enter  Stephen  Ireby. 

The  Ireby  family  is  of  the  respectable,  Eng- 
lish middle  class,  comprising  Stephen,  his 
wife,  and  homely  daughter.  In  matters  re- 
ligious, the  Ireby  family  thinks  as  Ellen 
Thorneycroft  Fowler  thinks;  therefore,  to  it 
belongs  the  treasure. 

The  faith  of  old  Stephen,  we  are  not  deny- 
ing, is  broad  and  humane,  and  more  attrac- 
tive than  that  of  the  other  households,  but 
the  moral  of  the  book  is,  from  one  view- 
point, this  :  If  you  are  infidel  or  bigoted,  you 
may   be    clever,   beautiful,    and   rich,    while    if 


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you  shape  your  Rule  of  Right  according  to 
Miss  Fowler's  ideals,  you  are  liable  to  be 
poor  and  homely,  but  if  you  wait  long  and 
patiently  enough  you  may  turn  out  to  be  the 
parent  of  a  prime  minister. 

The  saving  grace  of  the  book  is  the  Irish 
eyes  and  wit  that  sparkle  through  the  pages 
in  the  persons  of  lovely  Kathleen,  and  later, 
her  daughter,  Eileen,  for  the  argument  goes 
down  through  four  generations  of  middle- 
class  English  life,  and  is,  no  doubt,  convincing 
to  the  author. 

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In  the  Northern  Woods. 

The  lumber  regions  are  being  pretty  thor- 
oughly gone  over  for  literary  material,  each 
new  aspirant  for  fame  in  that  quarter  having 
apparently  equipped  himself  for  his  task  by 
close  daily  intercourse  with  the  rough  loggers 
of  whom  he  writes. 

The  author  of  "  The  Red-Keggers,"  although 
lacking  in  literary  finish  or  originality  of 
style,  has  loaded  himself  down  with  a  wealth 
of  material  gathered  from  the  personal 
reminiscences  of  men  who  figured  actively 
in  the  life  described — the  life  of  a  lumberman 
and  farmer  of  the  Michigan  backwoods,  in  the 
late  'sixties. 

The  story,  which  has  a  length,  amplitude, 
an-d  circumstantiality  that  debars  it  from  be- 
ing synopsised,  is  quite  unremarkable,  but  has 
abundant  fidelity  to  truth.  There  is  an  un- 
desirable amount  of  old-fashioned  preaching 
in  it,  which  rather  places  it  in  the  class  of 
Sunday-school  literature,  the  reader  being 
disposed  to  an  irreverent  smile  when  the 
doughty  school-master,  after  successfully 
licking  all  the  rowdies  in  the  school,  delivers 


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a  brief  homily  on  the  power  of  love,  and 
assures  his  subdued  flock  of  his  sincere  af- 
fection for  the  licked.  "  The  Red-Keggers  " 
might  have  been  written  a  quarter  of  a  century 
ago,  from  its  earnestness  of  tone,  its  absence 
of  modern  flippancy,  and  the  old-fashioned 
warmth   of   its  heart-interest. 

Mr.  Eugene  Thwing,  the  author,  profiting 
by  the  recollections  of  those  who  have  lived 
the  life  described,  has  included  in  his  story 
descriptions  that  are  given  with  the  accuracy 
of  an  eye-witness  of  the  tasks  and  diversions 
incidental   to   the   time   and  the  place. 

Thus  we  read  of  a  shingle-sawing  contest, 
a  donation-party,  and  the  breaking  up  of  the 
great  roll-way,  an  annual  event  which  attracted 
all  the  country  side,  and  which  frequently 
gave  occasion  for  displays  of  a  rough,  un- 
calculated  heroism. 

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"TO  LOVE  WHAT  IS  TRUE;  TO  HATE  SHAMS; 

TO  FEAR   NOTHING   WITHOUT; 

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HELEN  KELLER'S  PREDECESSOR. 


"Laura  Bridgman." 

A  new  book  that  will  awaken  a  keen  inter- 
est in  the  hearts  and  minds  of  many  people 
is  the  story  of  "  Laura  Bridgman,  Dr.  Howe's 
Famous  Pupil,  and  What  He  Taught  Her." 
The  book  is  written  by  Dr.  Howe's  daughters 
and  is  the  fulfillment  of  a  long-cherished  plan 
of  his  own.  The  remarkable  case  of  Laura 
Bridgman,  the  child  bereft  of  every  sense 
save  that  of  touch,  who  was,  through  this 
one  faculty,  lead  into  the  light  of  under- 
standing, has  long  been  a  matter  of  public 
interest,  but  the  one  thing  even  more  re- 
markable in  connection  with  the  case,  is  the 
work  of  Dr.  Howe  in  reaching  this  shut-in 
mind.  Of  Laura's  condition  when  she  first 
came  under  the  doctor's  attention,  he  says: 
"  Her  mind  and  spirits  were  as  cruelly 
cramped  by  her  isolation  as  the  foot  of  a 
Chinese  girl  is  cramped  by  an  iron  shoe. 
Growth  would  go  on.  and  without  room  in 
which  to  grow,  naturally  deformity  must 
follow." 

It  was  on  this  barren  soil  the  doctor  be- 
gan his  pioneer  work  of  teaching  the  blind 
deaf-mute,  blazing  the  way  by  careful  experi- 
ment and  unwearying  effort,  until  by  his 
method  the  miracle  of  making  the  blind  to  see 
and  the  mute  to  speak  has  been  accomplished. 

In  Dickens's  "  American  Notes  "  he  refers 
to  this  famous  pupil  of  a  famous  teacher  as 
"built  up,  as  it  were,  in  a  marble  cell,  im- 
pervious to  any  ray  of  light  or  particle  of 
sound,  with  her  poor,  white  hand  peeping 
through  a  chink  in  the  wall,  beckoning  to 
some  good  man  for  help,  that  an  immortal 
soul   might   be   awakened." 

The  volume  is  composed  chiefly  of  Dr. 
Howe's  manuscript  records,  Laura's  own 
journal,  and  extracts  from  journals  of  dif- 
ferent teachers.  The  compiling  of  these 
records,  with  a  sketch  of  the  life  and  work 
of   Dr.    Howe,   has   been    a   labor   of   love   on 


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the  part  of  his  daughters — Maud  Howe  and 
Florence  Howe  Hall — and  they  give  for  the 
first  time  the  story  in  full. 

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Sea-Stories  "With  Swear-Words  in  Them. 
It  is  emphatically  for  the  male  reader  that 
Morley  Roberts  has  written  the  group  of  tales 
entitled  "  The  Promotion  of  the  Admiral, 
and  Other  Sea  Comedies,"  which  have  scarcely 
the  whisk  of  a  single  petticoat  through  their 
pages. 

Mr.  Roberts  is  evidently  an  Englishman, 
and  a  patriotic  one.  He  regards  the  methods 
of  American  shipmasters  and  the  keepers  of 
sailor  boarding-houses  with  apparent  well- 
justified  suspicion,  and  there  are  many  satirical 
references  to  a  "  large  and  generous  delay  of 
the  merciful  American  law  "  when  it  comes  to 
legal  punishment  of  transgressions  against  the 
rights  and  liberties  of  able  seamen.  The 
more  pointed  of  these  allusions  apply  partic- 
ularly to  the  Pacific  Coast,  which,  it  is  de- 
clared, stinks  in  the  nostrils  of  shipowners 
and  shipmasters  because  the  local  system  of 
politics  is  so  conducted  that  "  every  one  with 
any  business  on  the  borders  of  crime  insures 
against  the  results  of  accidents  by  being  in 
politics." 
'     Says  one  of  the  brutal  mates  of  an  Ameri- 

I  can  merchantman  to  the  shanghaied  admiral : 
"  When  the  owner's  scheme  is  to  have  one 
man  do  three  men's  work,  they  have  to  get 
men  who  will  make  'em  do  it." 

^1  Here  is  the  inaugural  address  of  the  Yankee 
.skipper  of  a  ship  to  his  new  crew:  "You're 
,dogs,  and  I'm  the  man  with  the  whip.  You'ie 
;  hogs,  and  I'm  your  driver.  I'm  boss,  and 
captain,  and  governor,  and  Congress,  and  the 
Senate,  and  the  President,  and  don't  any  of 
pou  forget  it !  .  .  .  Let  me  hear  a  growl  out 
>f  you  and  you'll  wish  you  were  in  hell.  .  .  . 
Now,  then,  Mr.  Bragg,  start  them  to.  D'ye 
see  that  damned  Dutchman?     He  looks  as  if 


he  didn't  understand  United  States.  Jolt  him 
on  the  jaw  for  me." 

If  the  reader's  civic  pride  is  proof  against 
such  intimations,  and  if  he  is  tolerably  well 
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picturesque,  brine-washed  profanity,  he  can 
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mingling  of  realism  and  humor.  The  writer 
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for  physical  powers,  and  he  has  indulged  it  by 
describing  numerous  fights  with  the  admir- 
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his  knowledge  is  fragmentary,  or  colored  with 
the  unreal   tinge  of  romance. 

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from  the  results  of  Mr.  Norris's  researches 
after  material  for  "  The  Pit." 

It  is  followed  by  fonr  characteristically 
Western  sketches,  in  which  the  characters 
converse  with  great  gusto  in  the  easy,  un- 
studied, and  roughly  graphic  vernacular  of 
the  cow-puncher. 

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This  story  recalls  in  diary  form  the  thoughts 
and  emotions  of  a  noted  writer,  one  of  a 
group  of  white  men  beset  on  the  desert  by 
a  superior  number  of  Indians,  and  doomed  to 
certain  and  cruel  death. 

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notably  good  descriptive  writing,  but  with  the 
lurking  and  ineradicable  skepticism  that  be- 
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"  The  Assistant  Bishop  "  relates  the  process 
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tween two  wooers,  agree,  in  recalling  their  mar- 
ried happiness,  to  leave  her  uninfluenced   to 


her  own  heart's  decision.  The  remaining  five 
stories  each  tell,  in  similar  vein,  of  some 
emotional  climax  brought  on  by  circumstances, 
which  has  induced  a  sudden  and  unforeseen 
"  Change  of  Heart,"  impelling  to  a  wiser  and 
worthier  course  of  action,  thus  making  the 
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AKUUiNAU    1 


A    SPANISH    POET. 


Extracts  from  the  Poems  of  Gustavo  Becqucr. 

Recently,  while  in  Jerome  Hart 

secured  a  portrait  of  Gustavo  Beoqucr.  the 
poet  of  whom  Seville  and  all  Spain  are  so 
proud.  The  reproduction,  in  etched 
line,  on  this  page  is  from  this  portrait.  To 
those  who  are  unfamiliar  with  Becqucr.  a  few 
lines  of  biography  may  be  interesting.  He 
was  born  in  Se\  ilte,  in  1836.  and  died  in 
Madrid  in  1870.  His  life  was  one  loni 
gle,  like  that  of  our  Edgar  Poe.  But  Becqucr, 
unlike  Poe,  was  not  dissipated.  He  was  de- 
voted to  his  art,  like  his  brother  Vateriano, 
who  was  a  painter.  Death  came  to  the  young 
poet  before  the  busy,  rushing  world  hearkened 
to  his  pipes  of  Pan.  He  died  in  1870.  yet  it 
was  years  after  his  death  before  Spain  knew 
that  she  had  lost  a  poet.  Now  she  knows  it, 
Becqucr.  the  son  of  Seville,  is 
Spain.  The  literary  bequest 
of  thi;>  youthful  bard  is  all  included  in  a  thin 
volume — scarcely  more  than  a  pamphlet.     But 


El   trcmulo   fulgor  de  la   manana 
Que  en  el  mar  se  reHeja. 

Tu  pupila  es  azul,  y  euando  lloras 
Las   trasparentes  lagrimas   en    tlla 

Se  me  figuran  gotas  de  rocio 
Sobre  una  lioleta. 

Tu  pupila   es  ami,  y  si  en  su  fondo, 

mo  un  punts  de  lus  radio  una  idea, 
Mr  parece  <->i    el  cielo   de  la  tardc 
Una  perdida  estrelta. 


Your  eye   is  blue;    when    you're   laughing, 

:  »w    light   brings  to  me 
The  tremulous  sheen  of  the  morning 
0  litters  upon  the  sea. 

Vour  eye  is  blue;   when   you're   weeping. 

The  mischievous  tears  I  espy 
Look  like  dew-drops  that  shimmer  and  sparkle 

1  >n   a   violet  modestly  shy. 

Vour  eye  is  blue;   and  when  from  it 

Darl    forth  in  their  mad  career 
Vour   thoughts,    in    the  sky  of  the   even 

Like  falling  stars  they  appear. 


— Yo  soy  ardicntc,  yo  soy  morena, 
y  el  simbolo  de  la  pasion  ; 
De  ansia  de  goces  mi  alma  estc  ttena. 
— .-I   ml  me  buscasf — No  es  a  ti;  no. 


AN    ANONYMOUS    ENGLISH    NOVEL. 


Portrait  of  Gustavo  Ben/ucr.     Illustration  from  "  Two  Argonauts 
in  Spain,"  by  Jerome  Hart. 


ihis  slender  pamphlet  has  already  been  trans- 
lated into  many  languages.  Many  a  more 
fecund  writer  will  leave  less  impress  on  his 
age  with  all  his  works  than  will  the  slender 
volume  of  Gustavo  Becquer. 

Annexed    will    be    found    some    selections 
from    Bccqucr's   poems,   with    English   transla- 
on  Carnes : 
Pot  una  mirada,  un  mundo; 
for  hi  cielo ; 

For  un  no  se 

ditto,  por  un  besot 


world  1  would  give, 
'■mile,  all  of  Heaven- 
ltia»-  ah  '    I   do  n<>i  know 
What  !'*'  P«  rou,  dear,  for  a  I 

■ 
hn    mi    fyfi/:i    fu    pupila    azul ; 

■u  me  to  preguntasT 


1   bask 

In  •■'■  ■ 

1  aik? 

in    ol    aire. 

■ 
■ 

the  *ea  flow*. 
Trll   1  ■:■ 

•:r    it   goes? 


Smeitra  panon   fu.-   un   trAgieo  soinete 

■  i'-ula 

y  6   mi  'imoj! 

■ 
In  whi 

Hill    ll.r 

That  *  ti  fell. 

U  well! 

11 

■  i       .1        :j   ...-■:.-■■■ 


Mi  frente  es  patida,  mis  trenzas  de  oro; 

Puedo  brindarte  diehas  sin   nn; 
Yo   de  ternura   guardo   un   tcsoro. 

— A  mi  me  Hamas' — N6j  no  es  a  ti. 

— Yo  soy   un   sueno,   un    imposible, 
Vano   fantasma   de   niebla   y   luz; 

Soy    incorporea,    soy   intangible, 

Xo  puedo  amarte, — Oh.  ven;  ven  tul 


"  I  am  the  symbol  of  passion. 
Ardent  and  dark,  with  a  soul 
That  is  full  of  desire  for  enjoyment. 
St    thou   me?" — "  Not   thee." 

'■  Pale,  golden-locked,  1  can  give  thee 
Exquisite  joy   without   end; 
There's  a  treasure  of  tenderness  in  mc — 
Callest  thou  me?" — "  Not  thee." 
"  1    an)  .1  dream,  an  impossible  something, 
A  phantom  of  mist  and  light; 
Intangible,    bodyless.    love    thee 

I  can  not"     *'  0  come  thou,  come!" 


I  lu    biography   of   Dean    Farrar,   written   by 

liis    eldest    son.    with    the    assistance    of   some 

of   the   friends   of   the  late  dean,   will   be  pub- 

omc  time  this  month.     It  will  contain 

elating  to   Farrar's  friendships 

literary   men   as    well    as   churchmen. 


A  Tale  "With  Many  Fiehts  in  It. 
"  The  Manuscript  in  a  Red  Box,"  a  literary- 
foundling  left  unclaimed  at  the  Bodley  Head, 
in  London,  and  advertised  to  that  effect  in 
the  London  press  for  the  ostensible  purpose 
of  finding  the  unknown  author,  is  a  waif  that 
carries  in  itself  evidence  of  a  fairly  worthy 
parentage.    Whether    or    not   the    story    of    its 


Covet  Design  from  Dodge  Publishing 
Com  pa  ny. 

origin  is  true,  or  merely*  a  new  device  for 
puffing  literary  wares,  the  unknown  author 
writes  as  one  who  has  oft  and  freely  plied 
the  pen. 

The  story,  which  is  located  in  England  early 
in  the  seventeenth  century,  is  something  in 
the  nature  of  Crockett's  Scotch  novels, wherein 
local  happenings  of  great  moment  cause  pri- 
vate enmities,  pugnacious  partisanships,  public 
disturbances,  uprisings,  brawls,  and  conflict^ 
to  the  death  through  a  wide  section  of  the 
country. 

The  unknown  author  has  used  as  a  pivot 
for  these  contentions  and  combats  the  pro- 
jected draining  and  reclaiming  of  marsh  lands 
in  the  Isle  of  Axholme  by  Dutch  enterprise. 
the  king  having  given  his  consent  in  hopes  of 
recouping  his  private  purse  by  ownership  in 
one-third  of  the  lands  reclaimed. 

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reed-cutting,  egg-gathering,  and  the  like. 
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young  squire,  who  has  innumerable  opportuni- 
ties to  save  her  from  the  fanatic  wrath  of 
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"HIS    DAUGHTER    FIRST." 

A  Novel  Worth  "While. 

It  is  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  since 
Arthur  Sherbourne  Hardy  wrote  "  The  Wind 
of  Destiny."  It  is  a  book  quite  out  of  the 
ordinary,  for  the  author  was  then  more  than 
the  mere  novelist,  heart  and  soul  being  fully 
instinct  with  the  strange,  searching,  subtle 
lore  of  the  poet.  One  can  re-read  the  book 
that  wove  its  spell  in  youth,  and  find  its  at- 
mosphere still  pervaded  with  a  melancholy, 
yet  penetrating,  charm ;  the  charm  of  haunting 
memories,  of  youthful  dreams,  and  all  the 
sweet,  unsatisfied,  intangible  aspirations  of  the 
heart. 

Now,  after  a  silence  of  many  years,  during 
the  greater  number  of  which  he  has  lived 
abroad  as  an  American  consul.  Mr.  Hardy  has 
taken  up  the  pen  he  had  cast  aside,  and  in  a 
novel  called  "  His  Daughter  First,"  intro- 
duces his  readers  to  the  generation  directly 
succeeding  those  who  figured  as  the  main 
characters  in  the  earlier  story. 

It  is  very  interesting  to  observe  in  this 
later  work  the  change  that  has  passed  over 
Mr.  Hardy's  style.  It  is  like  the  noon-day 
calm,  after  the  glory  of  a  summer  dawn — 
that  early  keenness  of  emotion  is  gone.  In  its 
place,  is  the  calm,  wise,  judicial  survey  of 
life  by  the  trained  observer,  keen  yet  kind. 
"  His  Daughter  First  "  is  a  story  of  the  sel- 
fishness of  a  daughter,  orphaned  on  the  moth- 
er's side,  who  has  quite  definitely  settled  it 
in  her  mind  that  her  father  shall  not  marry 
a  second  time.  She  is  a  brilliant  and  beautiful 
creature,  a  daughter  of  the  Gladys  of  "  The 
Wind  of  Destiny,"  and,  like  Gladys,  born 
sophisticated.  In  the  book  she  dazzles  and 
charms  all  who   come  under  her  influence   by 


John   Hay,  author  of  "  Castilian   Days."      Published 
by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

the  sovereignty  of  her  beauty  and  distinction. 
But  the  reader,  who  is  behind  the  arras,  al- 
though perceiving  and  admiring  her  charm, 
feels  repelled  by  the  unconscious  arrogance 
and  selfishness  of  this  young  scion  of  Ameri- 
can aristocracy.  There  is  a  contrasting  por- 
trait in  the  book — that  of  a  woman,  young  and 
lovely  also,  but  handicapped  by  nature  and 
circumstances.  She  is  a  governess  and  com- 
panion to  the  young  heiress,  and  Mr.  Hardy, 
!  in  projecting  his  thoughts  into  the  inner 
chambers  of  her  mind  and  heart,  has  shown 
a  wizard's  penetration  in  divining  the  doubts 
and  fears,  the  hopes  and  dreams,  and  the 
emotional  limitations  of  a  timid,  dependent, 
self-distrustful  woman. 

The  main  events  of  the  story  take  place 
during  a  house-party  gathering  at  a  country 
mansion,  at  which  a  number  of  characters  of 
more  or  less  importance  appear.  All,  however, 
whether  in  the  background  or  the  foreground, 
are  limned  with  the  hand  of  the  expert.  The 
picture  drawn  of  American  country  life  of 
elegant  leisure  is  most  interesting,  reflect- 
ing, we  imagine,  some  early  impressions  of  the 
author  on  his  first  return  to  America  from 
abroad.  Mr.  Hardy's  style  is  still  full  of  grace 
and  charm,  but  that  early  flowering  of  poetic 
feeling  and  expression  so  noticeable  in  "  The 
Wind  of  Destiny,"  which  was  strewn  with 
lovely  thoughts  set,  like  gems,  in  sentences  of 
chiseled  beauty,  is  no  longer  apparent  in  this 
his    latest    book. 

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but  Emily  Holt,  who  hails  from  Chicago, 
affirms  that  maids  of  all  work  and  milk-men 
are  there  commonly  in  a  conspiracy,  so  that 
the    former   rushes    out    to   the   latter    with    a 


pitcher  a  third  full  of  water.  This  interest- 
ing statement  we  find  in  chapter  eight  of  Miss 
Holt's  "  Encyclopaedia  of  Household  Econ- 
omy," which  seems  to  us  an  excellent  work. 
It  is  direct,  it  is  authoritative,  it  is  clear. 
There  is  no  nonsense  about  it.  The  author 
seems  equally  at  home  and  confident  when 
telling  her  readers  to  give  the  city  horse-barn 
roof  a  good  pitch,  since  it  affords  more  loft- 
space,  as  when  advising  that  finger-stalls  be 
kept  in  stock  where  there  are  many  boys  in  the 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  The  Great  God  Success — What  One  Newspaper 
Once  Said  About  Mr.  Schwab — Then  "  An  Example  for 
Young  Men  " — But  Not  Now — The  Craze  to  Get  Rich — 
Rockefeller's  University  on  the  Wane — The  Treasury  Report 
and  Other  Trade  Straws — Mr.  Gompers  Advices  Men  to 
Resist  Reduction  of  Wages — The  Panama  Revolution  and  the 
Canal — Did  the  United  States  Incite  the  Revolt? — His- 
torical Precedents — Boycotting  the  Boycott — Important  De- 
cision in  Indiana — Alabama's  New  Boycott  Law — The  Post- 
Office  as  a  Business  and  an  Interest — Why  It  Is  a  Retrograde 
Institution-^The  Post-Office  of  Other  Countries — Sending 
Meat  by  Mail — The  Passing  of  Sam  Parks — How  He  Gained 
His  Power — Suspicions  that  He  Was  in  Pay  of  Contractors — 
The  Transbay  Tunnel  and  the  Transbay  Cities 329-331 

The  Mascot  of  the  Ten  Strike:      How    Mrs.    Potter    Worked 

the  Bunco  Game.      By   Marguerite   Stabler 332 

"The  Proud  Prince":  Geraldine  Bonner  Writes  of  This 
Much-Discussed  Play  by  Justin  Huntly  McCarthy — Sothern 
in  the  Title-Role — Some  Rather  Coarse  Conversation.  By 
Geraldine  Bonner 333 

Individualities:     Notes  About   Prominent   People  All   Over   the 

World   333 

Patti  in  New  York:     The  Diva  at  Sixty 334 

Old  Favorites:      "La  Tricoteuse."      By   George   Walter  Thorn- 

bury   334 

Magazine  Verse:  "The  Rain."  by  Herbert  Mfiller  Hopkins: 
"Sweet  Cider,"  by  Frank  Roe  Bachelder;  "The  Hunter," 
by    Edmund    Vance    Cooke 33° 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications  3  34-337 

Drama:     "The  Storks"  at  the  Columbia  Theatre—"  Roses  and 

Rubes"  at  Fischer's.      By  Josephine  Hart  Phelps 338 

Stage  Gossip    339 

Vanity  Fair:     New  Y'ork  Women  Take  Up  Driving  Tandems — 

Alice    Roosevelt    an    Expert — Noted    Driving    Teacher    Tells 

.      of    the    Difficulties — The    Walking    Craze    in     France — The 

Commercial    Value   of   Kisses — Evening   Clothes   in    the    Far 

North 340 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise 
A  Contest  of  Brays — "  Tom  "  Reed  and  His  Picture — 
The  Astuteness  of  One  Maine  Farmer — A  Yorkshire  So- 
cialist and  the  Two  Pigs — "  A  Republican,  a  Democrat,  and 
a  Darned  Nuisance  " — General  Gordon's  Story  of  Wartime — 
Social    Arrangements    for    Ingalls    that   Went    Wrong 341 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "  A  New  Verse  Form  ":  "  The  Pith  of  the 
Programme,"  by  La  Touche  Hancock;  "  Flaxseed  and 
Mustard,"     by     Grif    Alexander 34" 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip  - 

Army  and  Navy  News 342-343 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal  Wits    of  the   Day 344 


We   are  richly   rewarded  for  a    dusty    hunt    through 

„  newspaper  files,  dating  from  the  period 

The  Great  ?   ^  &  r 

God  of   Schwab's    rise   to    the   head    of   the 

Success.  Steel    Trust,    by    the    discovery    of    this 

choice  editorial  morsel  in  a  journal  whose  familiar 
name  our  natural  kindness  of  heart  and  generous  dis- 
position forbid  us  to  mention  : 

In  every  great  business  centre  there  are  doubtless  thou- 
sands of  young  men  with  as  much  ability  as  Mr.  Schwab  had 
when  at  nineteen  he  entered  the  steel  mills.  But  these  young 
men — at  least  many  of  them — are  content  to  work  along  from 
day  to  day  at  their  respective  trades  and  occupations  without 
making  a  special  effort  to  attract  the  favorable  notice  of  their 
employers.  Possessing  ability  they  lack  ambition,  zeal, 
''  push,"  the  desire  to  get  ahead  rapidly,  to  fill  a  conspicuous 
place  in  the   industrial  world,  to   outstrip  their  fellows  in  the 


race.  These  qualities  Mr.  Schwab  has  in  a  high  degree.  He 
is  daring,  adventurous,  quick  to  take  advantage  of  oppor- 
tunity. .  .  .  How  inspiring  is  his  career  to  young  men.  Barely 
forty,  he  occupies  the  highest  office  in  the  gift  of  the  com- 
mercial world,  is  prominent  among  that  galaxy  of  financiers 
who  are  putting  the  industries  of  the  country  on  a  new  basis, 
and  receives  a  salary  rumored  to  be  princely.  "  Hitch  your 
wagon  to  a  star,"  said  Emerson.  American  youth  will  find 
much  in  the  story'  of  Mr.  Schwab's  career  that  is  worthy  of 
imitation. 

A  charming  paragraph,  well  worth  reading  twice, 
subtle,  full  of  meaning  as  an  egg  of  meat,  like  Shake- 
speare's poetry  giving  up  to  the  ardent  exegetist  occult 
implications  perhaps  undreamed  of  by  its  author.  Con- 
sider the  admirable  passage  in  which  Schwab's  "  zeal, 
'  push,'  the  desire  to  get  ahead  rapidly  "  are  alluded  to. 
How  exact  a  description  of  Mr.  Schwab.  And  what 
prescience  is  exhibited  by  the  writer  when  he  speaks 
of  Mr.  Schwab's  being  "  quick  to  take  advantage  of 
opportunities " — a  phase  of  Schwab's  character  so 
beautifully  exemplified  by  his  "  taking  advantage  "  of 
the  "  easy  marks  "  in  the  Shipbuilding  Trust  and  selling 
them  the  seven-million-dollar  Bethlehem  steel  plant  for 
thirty  millions  of  dollars  in  stocks.  Yes,  certainly, 
"  how  inspiring  to  young  men " — confidence  men. 
And  then,  too,  what  an  artistic  touch  is  the  suggestion 
that  Mr.  Schwab  would  from  that  time  on  be  admitted 
to  the  soul-refining  companionship  of  "  that  galaxy  of 
financiers."  The  bright-eyed,  young  reader  of  those 
lines  needed  only  the  suggestion  to  picture  in  his  mind's 
eye  Mr.  Morgan,  Mr.  Schwab,  and  Mr.  Carnegie,  the 
Three  Graces  of  the  Steel  Trust,  "  opening  "  wine  to- 
gether and  listening,  perhaps,  to  an  expression  of  Mr. 
Carnegie's  well-known  ideas  about  old  Homer.  After 
this  literary  triumph  of  the  unnamed  editor  it  was  a  sad 
anti-climax  to  quote  from  Emerson — an  old  fogy  of  a 
fellow  who  steadfastly  declined  to  increase  his  annual 
income  beyond  twelve  hundred  dollars  for  the  curious, 
unexplainable  reason  that  he  wanted  his  time  to  think ! 

Doubtless  there  are  many  counterparts  of  the 
paragraph  we  have  quoted  hid  away  in  the  newspapers 
and  journals  of  two  years  ago.  Schwab  was  then  the 
beloved  example  of  those  who  shrilled,  in  many  keys, 
the  advice  to  "  hurry  and  get  rich."  That  is  what 
makes  Schwab's  downfall  so  very  pathetic.  For  think 
of  all  the  ambitious  youths,  with  their  wagons  hitched 
to  the  Schwab  star,  that  have  been  jerked  endways  by 
his  sudden  jolt  from  the  "  galaxy."  Even  his  hardiest 
imitators  must  have  cut  the  traces  by  this  time.  No- 
body wants  to  follow  Schwab  to  the  place  where  he 
now  appears  to  be  headed.  Even  the  youths  who  have 
drunken  so  deeply  at  the  fount  of  modern  financial 
philosophy  that  moral  considerations  no  longer  trouble 
them,  must  see  that  Schwab  is  an  unworthy  ideal. 

He  got  caught  at  it. 

No  man  that  gets  caught  doing  his  neighbor  out  of  a 
few  millions  is  a  really  truly  financier.  Schwab  is  a 
bungler.  No  first-rate  highwayman  ever  has  nervous 
prostration,  and  when  Morgan  saw  that  Schwab,  though 
a  willing  young  man,  had  not  the  brains  nor  the  nerves 
for  "  high  "  finance,  he  deposed  him  from  the  kingship, 
and  stopped  his  "  princely "  pay.  Yes,  Schwab  is  a 
pretty  bad  failure  from  any  point  of  view.  He  has 
lost  the  confidence  of  his  fellow-swindlers,  the  respect 
of  everybody  else — his  position,  his  health,  his  honor. 

It  was  Taine,  we  believe,  who  said  that  a  Napoleon 
would  not  have  been  possible  in  France  had  not  France 
been  teeming  with  little  Napoleons.  So  likewise  this 
vulgar  schemer  Schwab  would  not  have  gained  his 
prominence  or  been  held  up  as  an  example  to  young 
men,  had  not  this  country  been  full  of  little  Schwabs — 
full  of  those  eager  to  get  rich  and  determined  that  it 
be  quick ;  full  of  those  who  preferred  the  methods  of 
the  gambler  to  those  of  the  merchant ;  full  of  those  will- 
ing and  ready  to  sacrifice  everything — even  honor — to 
attain  affluence.    The  mad  time  they  have  had  in  Wall 


Street  is  but  a  symptom  of  the  general  disease.  How 
difficult  is  it  "  to  be  honest,  to  be  kind,  to  earn  a  little, 
to  spend  a  little  less  "  when  the  talk  is  all  of  sudden 
wealth,  of  swelling  millions,  of  lavish  living.  N'o 
wonder  that  socialism — that  certain  evidence  of  dis- 
content— spreads  and  grows.  No  wonder  our  writers 
are  penning  "  calls  to  the  old  moralities  " — are  saying 
that  we  have  "  multiplied  dollars  but  have  not  increased 
happiness  ";  that  our  leisure  class  "  have  everything  to 
live  with,  but  nothing  to  live  for  " ;  and  that  the  "  inor- 
dinate extravagance  of  the  conspicuous  few  corrupts 
the  taste  of  the  vast  majority,  who  are  debarred  from 
it,  and  know  not  how  trivial  and  worthless  it  really  is." 
True,  with  the  partial  eclipse  of  Morgan,  and  the 
utter  downfall  of  Schwab,  there  are  some  grounds  for 
the  belief  that  people  have  grown  a  bit  ashamed 
of  their  frank  admiration  of  golden  millionaire  gods 
with  feet  of  clay.  Chicago  University,  with  all  its 
Rockefeller  endowments,  its  costly  equipment,  its  ex- 
tensive advertising,  reports  a  decrease  in  number  of 
students  amounting  to  twenty-five  per  cent.  Let  us 
hope  that  this  really  is,  as  it  seems  to  be,  a  rebuke  to 
commercial  ideals — a  recognition  that  men,  not  money 
or  machinery,  make  a  university — and  also  a  Republic. 


Some  light  is  thrown  on  the  condition  of  trade,  and 
_      ^  hence  on  the  industrial  tendencies  of  the 

The  Treasury 

Report  and  period,   by   the   Treasury   statement   for 

Other  straws.  October.  It  shows  a  decrease  of 
$4,500,000  in  receipts  and  an  increase  of  $5,000,000  in 
expenditures.  The  falling  oft  in  receipts  is  said  to  be 
the  result  of  decreased  imports  of  staple  products. 
Sugar  imports  have  fallen  off,  according  to  figures 
given,  nearly  thirty-two  per  cent,  and  iron  and  steel 
fifty  per  cent.  In  1901,  there  was  a  balance  at  the  end 
of  October  of  $33,000,000,  and  in  1902,  of  $13,557,000. 
This  has  been  diminished  the  present  year  to  $669,278. 
The  New  York  Evening  Post  declares  that  this  showing 
is  "  merely  corroborative  evidence  of  a  fact  that  can  no 
longer  be  ignored.  Its  meaning  is,"  continues  that 
journal,  "  that  the  financial  situation  has  begun  to  re- 
act on  the  industrial  condition  of  the  country,  and  some- 
what to  reduce  its  purchasing  power."  Labor  troubles, 
especially  in  the  building  trades,  are  credited  with  being 
the  cause  of  decreased  imports  in  some  lines.  The  im- 
ports of  Portland  cement,  for  example,  after  steadily 
increasing  up  to  September  1st,  suddenly  decreased  in 
volume  in  that  month,  amounting  only  to  45.362,103 
pounds  against  121,573,119  pounds  for  the  correr 
sponding  month  in  1902.  With  the  decrease  in  iron  and 
steel  imports,  the  manufactures  in  this  country  do  not 
show  improvement.  The  Iron  Age  for  October  22d  re- 
marks :  "  As  week  after  week  rolls  by,  old  orders  are  be- 
ing worked  off,  and  the  gap  is  only  partially  filled  by  in- 
coming new  work."  That  the  leaders  of  the  labor 
unions  anticipate,  at  least  so  far  as  the  East  is  con- 
cerned, a  period  of  industrial  depression,  is  shown  by 
President  Gompers's  address  before  the  twenty-third 
annual  convention  of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor 
at  Boston.  "There  are  indications,"  he  said,  "that  the 
era  of  industrial  activity,  which  we  have  enjoyed  during 
the  past  few  years,  has  reached  its  flood  tide  in  that 
there  is  now  somewhat  of  a  reaction."  Continuing, 
Mr.  Gompers  warned  workingmen  to  resist  any  at- 
tempt on  the  part  of  employers  to  reduce  wages  or  in- 
crease hours  in  order  to  tide  over  a  period  of  industrial 
distress.  He  advanced  the  singular  idea  that,  by  ac- 
cepting lower  wages,  the  consuming  power  of  working- 
men  was  lessened,  thus  throwing  other  men  out  of  em- 
ployment, rendering  the  situation  still  more  acute.  :  11 
still  further  prolonging  the  period  of  depression. 
the  only  weapon  of  the  unipnfst — the  strike — will 
effective  with  employers  who  find  they  are  losins 


330 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  16,  1903. 


and  must  either  close  down  or  reduce  wages,  and  don't-care 

much   which,    Mr.   Gompers   did   not   explain. 

If  the  Democratic  party  decides  to  denounce  with  as  much 
vigor  as  has  the  Democratic  press  the  action 
History  0f  the  administration  in  the  Panama  matter, 

in  the  an    issue   of   n0   smaii   siZe    will   be  provided 

Making.  ^   ^  ^^   campaign_      -  Guilty    of   an    act 

of  sordid  conquest"  says  one  Democratic  paper;  "dragging 
our  honor  in  the  mud  of  Panama "  says  another ;  "  a  nasty 
tangle  "  shrieks  a  third.  On  the  other  hand,  the  Republican 
press  shows  a  marked  tendency  to  support  President  Roosevelt 
and  Secretary  Hay  in  the  course  they  have  taken.  A  dispatch 
to  the  Call  on  Sunday  declared  that  "  practically  all  the  Re- 
publicans of  the  Senate  and  House  are  squarely  aligned  behind 
President  Roosevelt,"  while  Senator  Hanna  is  reported  to  be 
so  sanguine  as  to  say:  "  I  expect  to  see  the  Democrats  in  the 
Senate  stand  behind  the  President.  I  do  not  believe  the  story 
that  Democrats  are  considering  the  opposing  of  such  a  treaty 
and  such  a  bill  as  the  new  conditions  make  necessary."  Despite 
this,  there  is  good  reason  to  believe  the  Democratic  steering 
committee  has  come  to  such  a  decision. 

The  recognition  of  Panama  took  place  as  anticipated  on 
Friday  last,  the  entire  Isthmus  being  then  in  the  hands  of  the 
revolutionists.  The  State  Department  forwarded  to  Minister 
Beaupre  at  Bogota  and  to  United  States  Vice-Consul  Ehrman 
at  Panama,  notice  of  formal  recognition  of  the  Panama  Gov- 
ernment as  the  de  facto  government — not,  however,  recognition 
of  the  independence  of  the  Republic  of  Panama.  The  sig- 
nificant passage  in  these  communications  was  contained  in  the 
message  to  Minister  Beaupre.     It  read  : 

The  President  .  .  .  most  earnestly  commends  to  the  govern- 
ments of  Colombia  and  of  Panama  the  peaceful  and  equitable 
settlement  of  all  questions  at  issue  between  them.  He  holds 
that  he  is  bound,  not  merely  by  treaty  obligations,  but  by  the 
interests  of  civilization,  to  see  that  peaceful  traffic  of  the  world 
across  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  shall  not  longer  be  disturbed 
by  a  constant  succession  of  unnecessary  and  wasteful  civil 
wars. 

The  question  arises,  To  how  much  does  this  commit  us?  Is 
it  a  polite  hint  to  Colombia  that  she  must  send  no  troops  to 
the  Isthmus  to  win  back  the  seceding  state?  Have  we,  in 
short,  assumed  a  protectorate  over  Panama? 

On  all  these  questions  a  strong  white  light  is  thrown  by 
the  long,  detailed,  and  clear  statement  from  Secretary  Hay 
of  the  reasons  which  have  governed  the  United  States  in  the 
matter.  It  is  a  brief  for  the  plaintiff.  Upon  it  rests  the 
administration's  case.  Curiously  enough,  by  the  way,  the  Call 
was  the  only  newspaper  in  this  city  that  contained  the  article 
— perhaps  the  most  important  paper  given  out  by  an  American 
Secretary  of  State  in  recent  years. 

Mr.  Hay  declares  that  "  the  action  of  the  President  .  .  .  was 
the  only  course  he  could  have  taken  in  compliance  with  our 
treaty  rights  and  obligations."  Continuing,  he  quotes  the 
clause  in  the  treaty  of  1S46,  with  New  Granada,  which  is  the 
basis  of  the  government's  intervention,  and  the  exact  meaning 
of  which  is  the  vexed  question  of  the  hour.  No  clear  under- 
standing of  the  situation  can  be  gained  without  careful  con- 
sideration of  the  following  passage : 

The  government  of  New  Granada  guarantees  to  the 
government  of  the  United  States  that  the  right  of  way  of 
transit  across  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  upon  any  modes  of  com- 
munication that  now  exist,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  con- 
structed, shall  be  open  and  free  to  the  government  and  citi- 
zens of  the  United  States,  and  for  the  transportation  of  any 
articles  of  produce,  manufactures,  or  merchandise  of  lawful 
commerce,  belonging  to  the  citizens  "of  the  United 
States.  .  .  .  The  United  States  guarantees  positively  and 
efficaciously  to  New  Granada,  by  the  present  stipulation,  the 
perfect  neutrality  of  the  before-mentioned  Isthmus,  with  the 
view  that  the  free  transit  from  the  one  to  the  other  sea  may 
not  be  interrupted  or  embarrassed  in  any  future  time  while  this 
treaty  exists ;  and,  in  consequence,  the  United  States  also 
guarantees,  in  the  same  manner,  the  rights  of  sovereignty 
and  property  which  New  Granada  has  and  possesses  over  the 
said  territory. 

Secretary  Hay,  after  citing  instances  when,  in  the  past,  the 
United  States  has  intervened  to  preserve  the  uninterrupted 
right  of  way  across  the  Isthmus,  quotes  with  approval  the 
following  passage  from  an  utterance  by   Secretary  Seward : 

The  United  States  has  taken  and  will  take, no  interest  in 
any  question  of  internal  revolution  in  the  state  of  Panama 
or  any  state  of  the  United  States  of  Colombia,  but  will  main- 
tain a  perfect  neutrality  in  regard  to  such  domestic  contro- 
versies. The  United  States  will,  nevertheless,  hold  themselves 
ready  to  protect  the  transit  trade  across  the  Isthmus  against 
invasion  of  either  domestic  or  foreign  disturbers  of  the  peace 
of  the  state  of  Panama. 

Mr.  Hay  then  continues  with  perhaps  the  most  important 
statement  in  his  commentary,  and  the  one  to  which  exception 
has  been  taken  in  the  past,  and  is  likely  to  be  taken  in  the 
future.     He  says : 

It  must  not  be  lost  sight  of  that  this  treaty  is  not  dependent 
For  its  efficacy  on  the  personnel  of  the  signers  nor  the  name  of 
the  territory  it  affects.  //  is  a  covenant,  as  lawyers  say, 
that  runs  with  the  land.  The  name  of  New  Granada  has 
passed  away  ;  its  territory  has  been  divided.  But  as  long  as  the 
Isthmus  endures  the  great  geographical  fact  keeps  alive  the 
solemn  compact. 

In  other  words,  Secretary  Hay  calls  attention  to  the  alleged 
fact  that  the  treaty  applies  to  whoever  holds  the  Isthmus. 
When  the  new  Republic  of  Panama  gained  actual  control  of 
the  Panama  Railway  route,  the  mutual  obligations  between 
the  Bogota  government  and  the  government  of  the  United 
States  ceased,  and  were  tacitly  assumed  by  the  government 
of  the  new  republic.  Colombia  herself  is  only  a  fraction  of 
the  original  Republic  of  New  Granada,  and  is  Granada's  suc- 
cessor several  times  removed.  When  a  new  separation  takes 
pla^e,  that  part  of  the  original  Republic  of  New  Granada  which 
holds  the  Isthmus,  is  the  part  to  which  the  old  treaty  applies. 
-11  ire  than  once  since  1846.  Panama  has  maintained  herself 
■  i,  an  independent  SL^.ie  for  years  at  a  time.  With  these 
nges.  or  with  the  present  one,  the  United  States  has  noth- 
ing to  do,  so  long  as  the  changes  do  not  interfere  or  threaten 


to  interfere  with  free  transit  across,  the  Isthmus.  The 
guaranty'  of  New  Granada's  right  of  property  refers  only 
to  foreign  invasion  and  not  to  civil  changes.  We  are  neither 
on  the  side  of  the  revolutionists,  nor  on  the  side  of  the  loyal- 
ists, and  it  is  no  concern  of  ours  if,  in  pursuance  of  treaty 
obligations,  the  actual  effect  of  our  course  is  to  prevent  the 
Bogota  government  from  reconquering  her  lost  province.  In 
the  present  emergency,  "  no  plainer  duty  was  ever  imposed 
upon  a  chief  of  state  than  that  which  rested  upon  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,"  says  Secretary  Hay. 

The  Democratic  position  is  stated  by  Senator  Morgan.  He 
declares  that  "  the  attitude  of  this  country  is  not  justified  by 
a  careful  construction  of  the  provisions  of  the  treaty.  .  .  .  The 
government  will  find  that  it  will  have  a  series  of  complications 
on  its  hands.  ...  It  undoubtedly  will  provoke  a  just  protest 
from  Colombia."  This  is  far  from  being  an  adequate  reply  to 
Mr.  Hay's  lucid  exposition  of  rights  and  duties,  nor  do  Mr. 
Hearst's  papers,  though  they  rant  and  rave  about  the 
"  theft  "  of  Panama,  present  any  sort  of  a  refutation  of  the 
Secretary  of  State's  article,  here  outlined. 

Another  consideration:  The  state  of  Panama  contains 
31,500  square  miles,  and  it  would  seem  that  "battle  might 
be  joined "  between  Panama  and  Colombian  troops  away 
from  the  railway,  where  the  treaty  obligations  of  the  United 
States  could  not  by  any  stretch  of  diplomatic  imagination  be 
made  to  apply.  But  Panama  is  extremely  mountainous.  No 
highway  or  railway  leads  from  Panama  into  Colombia.  The 
southern  part  of  the  Isthmus  is  described  as  a  "  pathless 
wilderness  inhabited  by  unfriendly  Indians."  Practically  the 
only  way  Colombia  can  wage  effective  warfare  against 
Panama  is  by  transporting  troops  by  water  and  landing  them 
at  Colon,  or  Panama  City,  or  Bocas  del  Toro.  And  this  the 
United  States  has  already  notified  the  Bogota  Government 
will  not  be  permitted.  So  what  is  Colombia  to  do  ?  Be- 
sides, she  has  no  money,  no  credit,  no  standing  army  worth 
consideration.  She  is  exhausted  by  recent  civil  struggles  ;  she 
has  scanty  means  of  transportation — 350  miles  of  disjointed 
railway  in  a  territory  three  times  as  large  as  California;  her 
paper  money  is  almost  worthless — $10,000  of  it  exchanges  for 
$1  in  gold.  At  the  same  time,  it  should  not  be  forgotten  that 
Colombia  stands  to  lose  $10,000,000  at  the  least  if  she  lets 
affairs  take  their  course.  That  will  stir  her  to  fight  if  any- 
thing can.  She  has  ten  times  Panama's  population  ;  she  has 
quelled  numberless  revolutions  there  in  years  past.  Many 
hard  questions  would  have  to  be  solved  by  the  Washington 
government  should  Colombia  make  a  determined  effort  to- re- 
gain the  Isthmus.  As'to  what  the  state  of  feeling  in  Bogota 
actually  is,  little  is  known.  Even  the  Colombian  minister  at 
Washington  admits  that  he  has  heard  nothing  from  his  govern- 
ment since  November  2d,  and  that  his  protest  against  this 
country's  action  was  solely  on  his  own  responsibility.  Further- 
more, it  is  certain  that  Colombia  will  receive  no  aid  from  any 
other  country.  France  has  already  recognized  Panama,  and 
canal  securities  have  risen  in  value  in  anticipation  of  an  early 
payment  of  the  $40,000,000  due  the  French  company  when  the 
work  of  canal  construction  begins.  Germany  makes  formal 
denial  of  the  rumor  that  she  will  come  to  Colombia's  aid. 
Elsewhere  in  Europe,  our  government's  course  is  almost 
unanimously  pronounced  a  proper  one. 

Another  question  that  arises  relates  to  the  right  of  the 
President  to  negotiate  a  canal  treaty  with  the  Republic  of 
Panama,  since  the  Spooner  Act  directs  him  to  enter  into 
negotiations  with  Costa  Rica  and  Nicaragua  in  the  event 
that  no  satisfactory  arrangement  can  be  made  with  Colombia. 
It  seems,  however,  not  impossible  of  ready  solution.  It  is 
pointed  out  that  the  President  is  constitutionally  empowered 
to  negotiate  treaties  with  other  nations,  and  needs  no  authori- 
zation from  Congress  so  to  do.  True,  any  treaty  that  he 
makes  must  have  the  ratification  of  the  Senate,  and  it  is 
therefore  unlikely  that  any  will  be  negotiated  unless  the 
President  is  convinced  that  it  will  ultimately  receive  the 
Senate's  sanction. 

Two  questions  more  are  at  issue.  One  of  them  is,  Did  the 
United  States  have  a  "  guilty  knowledge  "  of  the  plans  of  the 
Panama  revolutionists?  The  other  is,  Did  Panama  have  a 
"  moral  right  "  to  secede? 

As  to  the  first  of  these,  there  is  much  surmise  and  little 
proof.  Mr.  Hitt  introduced  a  resolution  in  the  House  on  Sat- 
urday asking  for  the  secret  papers — if  any — in  the  case,  if  not 
inconsistent  with  state  policy  that  they  be  made  public.  The 
resolution  was  agreed  to.  That  they  will  show  anything 
startling  seems  improbable.  Secretary  Hay,  in  his  now  famous 
defense  of  the  administration's  course,  throughout  makes  it  as 
clear  as  may  be  without  explicit  statement,  that  the  revolu- 
tion was  independent  of  assistance  from  officers  of  any  branch 
of  the  United  States  Government.  While,  on  the  one  hand, 
the  Democratic  press  professes  to  see  in  the  extraordinary 
number  of  American  vessels  in  Central  American  waters,  and 
in  the  smooth  and  noiseless  manner  in  which  the  wheels  of  the 
revolution  moved,  a  deep-laid  conspiracy  to  aid  the  secession- 
ists, on  the  other  hand,  the  Republican  press  sees  only  "  in- 
telligent anticipation  "  of  trouble  which  notoriously  has  been 
brewing  for  months,  and  which,  as  in  many  previous  in- 
stances, would  require  the  intervention  of  the  United  States 
to  preserve  uninterrupted  transit  of  goods  and  passengers 
across  the  Isthmus  in  accordance  with  our  treaty  obligations. 
The  divergence  of  opinion  on  this  point  is  well  shown  by  the 
statements  of  even  date  appearing  respectively  in  the  New 
York  Times  and  Tribune.  The  former  says:  "The  revolt  of 
the  Isthmian  states  .  .  .  has  been  altogether  too  openly  en- 
couraged and  foreshadowed  to  permit  any- further  dalliance," 
etc.,  while  the  latter  confidently  remarks :  "  This  country's 
record  is,  we  believe,  entirely  clear.  It  has  not  incited,  encour- 
aged, or  assisted  the  secession  movement  at  Panama."  When 
reputable  journals,  each  with  trained  correspondents  at  Wash- 
ington, and  otherwise  in  position  to  know  the  inside  facts, 
differ  toto  ccelo,  it  is  perhaps  the  better  part  to  suspend  judg- 


ment and  refuse  to  believe  that  Secretary  Hay  and  President 
Roosevelt  have  actually  been  guilty  of  overt  acts  until  they 
are  proved  guilty.  Senator  Morgan,  especially,  can  not  con- 
sistently criticise  the  government's  course.  The  Call  puts  the 
case  aptly  when  it  says : : 

The  Republic  of  Hawaii  was  born  of  revolution,  in  which 
a  warship  of  the  United  States  took  the  principal  part,  without 
which  the  revolution  could  ha,ve  been  suppressed  by  a  dozen 
policemen.  Yet  Senator  Morgan  supported  immediate 
recognition  of  the  new  republic,  which  had  to  be  wet- 
nursed  by  American  bluejackets  and  suckled  by  Gatlings 
landed  by  an  American  man-of-war.  He  was  sent  as  a  com- 
missioner of  our  government  to  Hawaii,  and  told  the  natives 
to  be  reconciled,  because  they  would  be  accorded  the  same 
rights  as  the  negroes  in  this  country.  If  Hawaii,  revolution- 
ized by  our  direct  act,  became  immediately  qualified  to  do 
such  serious  business  as  annexation  was,  surely  Panama  is 
hard  baked  enough  to  make  a  canal  treaty.  If  Senator  Morgan 
finds  anything  rawer  about  "  the  manner  of  the  establishment 
of  this  so-called  government  "  of  Panama  than  existed  in  the 
case  of  Hawaii,  the  country  will  listen  to  his  discovery  with 
interest. 

Had  Panama  a  moral  right  to  secede?  "  Yes,  if  ever  a  state 
had  that  right,"  answer  the  great  majority  of  American  com- 
mentators, irrespective  of  whether  or  not  they  approve  this 
country's  speedy  recognition  of  the  de  facto  government. 
Geographically,  Panama  is  isolated;  only  a  frail  bond  has  held 
her  to  Colombia ;  she  has  been  taxed  without  benefits ;  she  is 
the  progressive  state  of  a  retrograde  nation,  and  the  ruin  of 
her  hopes  of  the  canal  by  the  gang  of  grafters,  the  "  cabal  of 
muleteers,  the  "  dogs  in  the  manger,"  at  Bogota,  was  the  last 
straw. 

Naturally,  Dr.  Herran,  the  Colombian  minister,  does  not 
share  this  opinion.  "  I  think  it  is  the  irony  of  fate,"  he  has 
observed,  "  that  Secretary  Hay,  who  was  the  private  secre- 
tary of  the  great  emancipator  Lincoln,  should  now  be  in  a  po- 
sition to  aid  in  the  fomenting  of  secession  on  the  part  of  a 
foreign  country."  It  is  indeed  curious.  The  Republican  party, 
the  party  that  waged  a  bloody  war  to  prevent  the  South's 
secession,  now  looks  on  Panama's  secession  with  auspicious 
eye,  conveniently  forgetting  all  that  happened  in  186 1,  re- 
membering and  pointing  with  pride  to  what  occurred  in  1776. 
The  Democratic  party,  the  party  of  secession,  now  shows  a 
tendency  to  be  horrified  at  the  very  word,  regards  Panama  with 
a  dropping  eye,  conveniently  forgetting  all  about  1776  and  re- 
membering all  about  1861.  Each  party  stands  square  on  the 
record — the  other  fellow's  record. 

Thus  doth  time  work  its  revenges. 


The  Passing 


Sam  Parks,  whose  performances  as  the  walking  delegate  of 
labor  unionism  have  made  a  good  part  of  the 
sensational  reading  in  the  news-  of  the  last 
_         "  three  months,  has  gone  back  to  Sing  Sing  on 

a  second  conviction.  His  sentence  of  two 
years  and  a  quarter  was  imposed  for  extorting  five  hundred 
dollars  from  the  Tiffany  company.  After  his  first  conviction, 
he  was  released  on  a  certificate  of  reasonable  doubt  about 
the  evidence  adduced  at  the  first  trial.  In  the  interim,  between 
incarcerations,  he  led  the  Labor  Day  parade  in  New  York,  and 
came  within  an  ace  of  dominating  the  national  convention  of 
structural  iron-workers.  He  is  now  back  in  Sing  Sing  with 
charges  enough  pending,  it  is  said,  to  keep  him  there  for  life. 
His  career  is  ended.  He  has  had  his  return  from  Elba,  his 
hundred  days  of  factitious  glory,  and  has  reached  his  St. 
Helena.     It  is  time  to  write  his  story. 

Sam  Parks  was  born  in  County  Down,  Ireland.  He  came 
to  Canada  as  a  boy,  and  thence  to  the  United  States.  He 
was  a  common,  uneducated  laborer,  except  that  he  had  by  na- 
ture the  elements  of  character  which  make  the  political  boss. 
When  structural  iron-working  became  prominent  as  a  trade, 
through  the  construction  of  great  steel-framed  buildings,  he 
turned  his  attention  to  that,  and  became  a  riveter  of  steel 
beams  on  high  buildings  in  Chicago.  He  was  then  a  non-union 
man,  and  in  continual  conflict  with  the  iron-workers'  unions. 
In  that  capacity,  he  was  useful  to  the  George  A.  Fuller  Con- 
struction Company,  by  whom  he  was  employed.  He  was  one 
of  their  bosses.  This  construction  company  extended  its  busi- 
ness to  New  York  and  other  large  cities  in  the  East,  and  Sam 
Parks  followed,  making  New  York  his  home.  There  he  joinet 
the  Housesmiths'  and  Bridgemen's  Union,  and  laid  tne  lound; 
tion  for  his  final  exploits  in  tyranny,  bribery,  and  extortion 
Here  is  where  his  ability  as  a  political  boss  began  to  show 
itself.  He  became  the  walking  delegate  of  his  union, 
and  the  body  of  the  membership  worked  without  ques- 
tion when  he  ordered  it,  and  struck  without  murmur  when 
he  held  up  his  finger.  With  such  a  body  of  unthink- 
ing tools  at  his  back,  the  building  trade  was  at  his  mercy. 
He  used  them  for  his  own  purposes,  and  spent  the  union's 
money  without  accounting,  although  the  sum  ran  from  fifty  to 
sixty  thousand  dollars  every  year.  If  a  member  made  trouble, 
he  was  waylaid  by  the  thugs  in  the  union,  who  were  in 
Parks's  pay,  and  was  beaten  into  a  condition  of  compliance. 
The  rise  in  wages  kept  most  of  the  members  quiet,  and  fear 
of  a  beating  took  care  of  the  remainder.  How  he  used  his 
power  to  extort  money  from  builders  came  out  in  the  Tiffany 
case.  When  he  first  noticed  th,eir  operations  he  was  taken 
by  surprise.  "  Aint  they  got  a  nerve!"  said  he;  "commenced 
this  building  and  never  said  a  word  to  me!"  He  went  into  the 
building,  called  out  all  the  workmen,  saying,  "  Now  let  the 
bosses  come  and  see  me."  They  did  come,  and  he  permitted 
them  to  resume  on  payment  to  him  of  five  hundred  dollars, 
and  even  permitted  them  to  use  non-union  men.  On  the  latter 
point,  some  one  questioned  whether  the  union  wouldn't  ob- 
ject.     "  Let  'em  kick,"  replied  Parks,   "  I've  got  them  

muzzled.     If  any  one  of  them  objects  we'll  fine  him  fifty  dol- 
lars, and  he  can't  get  another  job  in  New  York." 

It  soon  became  apparent  in  New  York  that  no  business  could 
be  done  in  the  building  trade  until  Parks  had  been  bought  up. 
"  See  Parks  first  "  was  the  watchword  with  every  contractor 
who  intended  to  make  a  bid  on  any  construction  of  importance. 
But  bad  as  Parks  was,  and  evil  as  was  his  influence,  another 


November  16,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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feature  in  his  career — if  the  story  credited  by  the  New  York 
Sun  is  true — remains  to  be  noticed.  When  Sam  Parks  came  to 
New  York  it  was  as  an  employee  of  the  George  A  Fuller  Con- 
struction Company.  It  has  been  observed  that  that  company 
has  built  up  a  business  in  steel  and  iron  construction  second 
to  none  in  the  world,  and  this  in  the  face  of  labor  troubles,  and 
in  a  city,  and  at  a  time,  when  such  work  has  been  seriously 
and  continually  disturbed  by  labor  demands  and  strikes.  It 
has  been  observed,  too,  that,  while  other  contractors  were 
hampered,  delayed,  pestered,  and  bullied  by  the  unions,  the 
contracts  of  the  Fuller  company  have  gone  merrily  on  with 
scarcely  an  interruption.  It  is  said  that  Parks  was  on  their 
pay-roll  for  a  long  time  after  he  became  the  walking  delegate 
of  his  union,  and  that  this  explains  the  mystery.  The  Fuller 
company  were  the  first  to  discover  how  the  head  of  the  union 
could  be  made  the  tool  of  the  capitalist.  They  stood  in  with 
Parks.  If  a  rival  contractor  got  in  their  way,  a  hint  from 
them  would  send  Parks  after  him,  and  he  would  be  involved 
in  blackmail,  strikes,  and  a  general  variety  of  labor  troubles, 
until  life  was  a  burden  and  profits  were  depleted.  There  has 
been  general  execration  of  Parks  and  his  doings.  It  has  been 
fully  vented  on  the  ignorant,  vicious,  and  brutal  "  representa- 
tive of  labor."  But  if  the  detailed  allegations  regarding  his 
connection  with  the  Fuller  company  are  true,  this  is  only  an- 
other case  where  workingmen  and  employers  alike  have  been 
the  victim  of  unscrupulous  sharpers — and  the  workingman  has 
suffered  as  much  as  anybody. 


The  more  closely  the  figures  in  the  recent  San  Francisco  elec- 
tion   are    scrutinized,    the    clearer    does    it   be- 
A  Word  to  come   that  the  reasons   for   Mr.   Crocker's  de- 

feat are  those  foreshadowed  by  us  long  be- 
Partv  Lfaders.  .  .  -       ,  , 

fore  the  election,  and  reiterated  in  these  col- 
umns last  week.  We  declared  after  the  primary  election  that 
it  would  be  an  unwise  course  for  the  party  managers  and 
the  two  newspaper  organs  to  emphasize  the  class  issue ;  we 
warned  the  party  leaders  that  it  was  a  bad  time  to  harp  on  the 
fact  that  Mr.  Crocker  is  a  business  man  and  a  candidate 
representing  business  men.  We  told  them  that  to  drive  Ruef 
out  of  the  party  meant  to  drive  out  hundreds  of  Republican 
workingmen  with  him.  But  above  all,  we  warned  them  not  to 
resurrect  the  spectre  of  the  teamsters'  strike.  They  did  all 
of  these  things;  they  failed  in  not  a  single  one;  they  lined  up 
labor  against  capital ;  they  drove  out  the  Republican  working- 
men  ;  they  split  the  Republican  party;  they  gave  new  strength 
to  the  moribund  Union  Labor  party  ;  and  they  accomplished 
the  defeat  of  Henry  Crocker  by  over  6,000  votes. 

All  these  things  the  figures  conclusively  show.  The  average 
vote  for  the  Union  Labor  candidates  for  supervisor  was 
15,200.  Schmitz  received  26,000  votes.  He  thus  received 
about  11,000  votes  more  than  his  party  strength.  Where 
did  they  come  from?  Evidently  some  of  them  came  from 
Lane,  for,  barring  one,  Lane  received  the  lowest  vote  on  the 
ticket  But  this  same  fact  proves  that  Lane  received  very 
few,  if  any,  Republican  votes.  His  was  the  bare  party 
strength.  The  normal  Republican  vote,  on  the  other  hand,  is 
certainly  close  to  the  average  between  Percy  V.  Long's  total  of 
22,505, Harry  Baehr's  total  of  26, 150. and  Tax-Collector  Smith's 
total  of  29,000 — say  26,000.  This  is  supported  by  the  fact  that 
the  Democratic  plus  the  Union  Labor  vote  (as  shown  in  the 
case  of  Sheriff  Curtis)  was  only  33-333,  while  the  Republican 
plus  the  Union  Labor  vote  (as  shown  in  the  case  of  Treas- 
urer McDougald)  was  41,625.  Substracting  from  each  of  these 
the  normal  Union  Labor  vote  we  have :  Normal  Democratic 
vote.  18.000;  normal  Republican  vote.  26,000 — the  exact  con- 
clusion reached  by  the  other  method.  Thus  it  is  clear  beyond 
question  that  Crocker  received  some  6,000  votes  less  than  his 
party  strength,  and  that  Schmitz  got  almost  every  one  of  them. 
The  Argonaut  foresaw,  early  in  the  campaign,  that  no  Re- 
publican candidate  having  only  Republican  votes  could  be 
elected.  We  advised  the  indorsement  of  Mr.  Schmitz.  The 
Republican  managers  acted  otherwise.  But  they  did  worse  than 
this.  By  stirring  up  the  class  issue  they  lost  irrevocably  the 
votes  of  at  least  4,000  or  5,000  Republican  workingmen 
and  their  sympathizers  that  still  remained  in  the  party.  We 
hear  everywhere  that  Mr.  Schmitz  is  likely  to  be  the  labor 
party's  candidate  for  governor  three  years  hence.  That  is  said 
to  be  his  ambition.  That  a  labor  ticket  will  be  a  factor  in 
State  politics  shortly  is  not  impossible.  If  such  a  ticket  is 
run,  it  is  certain  that  it  will  diminish  Republican  chances  of 
success.  This  might  have  been  avoided,  the  Union  Labor 
party  would  have  dwindled  away,  the  Republican  party  in 
San  Francisco  might  have  been  kept  intact,  and  success  might 
have  been  achieved,  had  not  Republican  party  interests  been 
sacrificed  by  its  leaders  to  faction  fights. 

Thirty-one  railroad  trains,  each  one  mile  in  length,  carrying 
745,000,000  pounds  of  correspondence  a  dis- 
The  Post-office  ^nce  eqUa]  to  203  times  the  circumference 
of  the  earth  at  the  equator — such  is  the 
graphic  manner  in  which  M.  G.  Cunniff  pic- 
tures the  magnitude  of  the  postal  service  in  this  country  in 
the  current  issue  of  World's  Work.  There  is  an  average  of 
sixty-one  letters,  thirty-one  newspapers  or  periodicals,  and 
fourteen  packages  carried  and  delivered  for  every  man,  woman, 
and  child.  Is  there  any  branch  of  the  national  government 
that  touches  the  people  more  closely  in  their  daily  lives?  Yet, 
as  Mr.  Cunniff  points  out,  there  is  no  Federal  department 
over  which  the  people  have  less  control,  none  in  the  manage- 
ment of  which  they  are  less  considered.  In  the  ultimate 
analysis,  the  control  of  the  Post-Office  Department  is  in  the 
hands  of  Interests.  Like  other  departments,  the  postal  has 
been  built  up  by  successive  additions  to  meet  increasing  de- 
mands. The  organization  is  based  upon  a  bulky  volume  of 
laws  that  has  grown  from  the  simple  enactment  of  1794  to  its 
resent  dimensions.  Changes  of  organization,  attempts  at 
systematization  must  be  by  law,  but  the  law  must  be  passed 
iy   Congress.      In    Congress,    the   authority   on   postal    matters 


as  a  Business 
and  an  Inter kst. 


is  the  House  Committee  on  Post  Offices  and  Post  Roads,  and 
in  that  committee  is  the  ultimate  official  authority  in  the  Post- 
Office  Department.  Heads  of  departments  may  suggest,  the 
Postmaster-General  may  recommend,  but  it  is  the  House  com- 
mittee that  must  act  before  anything  can  be  done.  The  House 
committee  is  the  ultimate  official  authority,  but  behind  this 
there  is  a  higher  power.  "  Every  plan  that  has  ever  been  pre- 
sented to  Congress  for  improving  the  postal  service,"  said  a 
high  post-office  official,  "  has  been  scrutinized  by  Interests. 
Do  you  suppose  we  can  have  a  revision  df  the  present  rates 
paid  railroads  as  long  as  some  of  the  most  prominent  senators 
and  congressmen  are  identified  with  transportation  interests, 
or  establish  a  parcels-post  as  long  as  T.  C.  Piatt,  president  of 
the  United  States  Express  Company,  is  United  States  sena- 
tor? " 

The  Post-Office  Department  conducts  an  immense  business. 
The  people  pay  nearly  $130,000,000  for  the  service  each  year 
in  the  form  of  postage.  The  money-order  department  handled 
more  than  $313,000,000  last  year.  Throughout  the  country 
are  75,924  branches  of  the  central  office.  At  all  hours  of  the 
day  and  night,  in  every  county  in  every  State,  mail  is  shoot- 
ing, dashing,  jogging,  crawling  along.  Yet  this  immense  busi- 
ness is  conducted  without  any  business  organization  to  handle 
it.  At  the  head  the  Spoils  System,  and  below  the  Merit  Sys- 
tem, both  serve  to  render  it  inefficient.  An  assistant  post- 
master stated  that  "  if  a  man  attends  closely  to  his  work  he 
can  learn  to  manage  one  of  these  departments  in  about  four 
years."  Yet  four  years  is  the  term  of  office  of  the  heads  of 
the  postal  department.  Their  duties  consist  almost  exclusively 
in  affixing  their  signatures  to  stacks  of  documents  attested 
only  by  the  initials  of  some  subordinate.  There  has  been  a 
little  more  care  in  this  direction  since  the  "  A.  W.  M."  of  Mr. 
Machen,  or  the  "  G.  W.  B."  of  Mr.  Beavers  was  all-powerful, 
but  the  supervision  is  still  defective.  Under  the  civil-service 
law  a  subordinate  is  removable  only  for  gross  inefficiency  or 
neglect.  So  long  as  he  does  not  antagonize  an  Interest  his 
berth  is  safe,  so  "  not  too  much  zeal  "  has  become  the  watch- 
word. A  further  source  of  weakness  is  the  illogical  division 
of  authority.  The  superintendence  of  the  enforcement  of  the 
postal  laws  is  in  the  department  of  the  Attorney-General  ;  the 
accounts  are  audited  in  the  Treasury  Department. 

The  countries  of  Europe  have  much  to  teach  us  in  the  postal 
business.  In  a  German  city  there  is  a  post-office  every  few 
hundred  yards.  A  network  of  underground  tubes  connects  all 
but  the  very  smallest.  Ordinary  mail  goes  from  station  to  sta- 
tion by  wagon,  but  a  special- deli  very  stamp,  costing  less  than 
eight  cents,  will  cause  the  message  to  be  shot  by  tube  any- 
where in  the  city.  A  carrier  delivers  it  immediately,  and  waits 
for  an  answer.  Message  and  answer  in  Berlin  take  about  two 
hours.  One  may  send  a  postal  money-order  with  a  message 
written  on  the  back,  and  a  messenger  will  deliver  it  and  pay 
the  money  on  the  spot.  Of  the  parcels-post,  Mr.  Cunniff 
says  :  "  I  know  a  resident  of  Berlin  who  has  a  package  of  meat 
mailed  to  him  every  Saturday  from  a  point  one  hundred  and 
fifty  miles  away  in  Silesia  for  a  little  more  than  twelve  cents — 
the  rate  for  a  twenty-pound  parcel."  The  English  post-office 
sends  twelve-word  telegraphic  messages  all  over  Great  Britain 
and  Ireland  for  twelve  cents,  conducts  a  parcels-post,  and  a 
savings  bank.  All  of  this  pays.  The  United  States  gives  no 
such  service,  and  the  deficit  in  the  postal  department  last 
year  was  four  millions  of  dollars.  It  would  be  impossible  in 
any  city  in  this  country  to  send  a  letter,  receive  an  answer, 
send  again  and  receive  a  second  answer,  as  can  be  done  in 
London,  in  a  day.  A  four-pound  package  mailed  from  San 
Francisco  to  New  York  costs  64  cents ;  a  ten-pound  package 
from  Germany  to  San  Francisco  costs  a  trifle  ;  in  the  reverse 
direction,  prohibitory  letter  postage  rates  would  be  charged. 
A  dress-suit  case  was  mailed  from  New  York  to  New  Haven 
at  a  cost  of  $3.68  ;  if  it  had  gone  by  way  of  Germany  it  would 
have  cost  $1.95  ! 


Bovcotting 
the 

BOYCOTT. 


It  looks  as  though  the  business  men  of  the  country  were  in  a 
fair  way  to  find  out  whether  their  enterprises 
can  be  lawfully  subjected  to  the  operation 
of  the  boycott  instituted  by  labor  organiza- 
tions. An  endeavor  is  being  made  to  fix  the 
pecuniary  responsibility  of  the  members  of  unincorporated 
unions  for  the  losses  sustained  through  boycotts  which  their 
organizations  proclaim.  As  we  have  heretofore  noted  a  firm 
of  hat  manufacturers  in  Danbury,  Conn.,  is  engaged  in  test- 
ing the  question  in  the  courts.  Likewise,  in  Indianapolis,  the 
members  of  a  local  union  of  the  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters 
and  Joiners  of  America  have  been  sued  for  damages  alleged  to 
have  been  inflicted  by  a  boycott.  A  boycott  had  been  estab- 
lished against  a  contractor.  He  had  been  an  employer  of  union 
labor,  had  resisted  some  of  their  demands,  and,  when  they 
struck,  had  hired  non-union  men.  He  was  boycotted  and 
placed  on  an  "  unfair  "  list.  Dealers  in  materials  were  threat- 
ened if  they  sold  him  their  wares.  Pickets  were  placed  about 
his  shop,  his  men  harassed,  and  his  patrons  subjected  to  an- 
noyance. The  result  of  the  suit  which  he  brought  for  damages 
can  best  be  stated  in  the  language  of  the  court,  as  follows; 

The  fact  that  a  labor  union  is  not  incorporated  docs  not 
necessarily  prevent  a  jury  from  holding  it  responsible  for  in- 
juries to  a  third  party  when  the  injuries  complained  of  are 
the  result  of  an  act  for  which  the  union  as  an  association  of 
individuals  is  responsible,  for  the  law  will  assume  that  an  in- 
jurious act,  coming  as  a  direct  result  of  a  resolution,  rule,  or 
settled  policy  of  an  organization,  must  be  compensated  for  by 
the  body  from  whose  resolution,  rule,  or  settled  policy  it  re- 
sults. 

The  case  will  doubtless  go  to  the  supreme  court  of  the  State 
and,  if  affirmed,  will  fix  the  principle  in  the  law  ot  Indiana  that 
the  members  of  a  union  can  not  escape  responsibility  in  dam- 
ages by  refusing  to  incorporate.  In  the  same  city,  another 
similar  action  has  begun  against  the  International  Plasterers' 
Association,  in  which  damages,  in  the  sum  of  twenty  thou- 
sand dollars,  are  asked.  The  boycott,  in  this  case,  followed  a 
refusal  to  submit  to  a  fine  of  six  hundred  dollars  levied  upon 
the  plaintiff  firm  by  the  union.     Suits  are  being  instituted  by 


other  firms  in  other  counties  of  the  State.  Wisconsin  has  an 
anti-boycott  law,  which  has  been  affirmed  by  the  supreme 
court  of  the  State,  and  a  case  has  been  brought  to  test  its 
constitutionality  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 
The  most  drastic  anti-boycott  law  yet  known  has  been  passed 
by  the  legislature  of  Alabama.  It  makes  it  unlawful  for  two 
or  more  persons  to  conspire  together  for  the  purpose  of"  pre- 
venting any  person,  firm,  or  corporation  from  carrying  on  any 
lawful  business  within  the  State.  It  prohibits  picketing  the 
place  of  business,  or  loitering  about  such  place,  to  interfere 
with  the  workmen,  or  induce  or  influence  persons  from 
trading  with  the  boycotted  person,  firm,  or  corporation.  It 
proscribes  the  publication  of  an  "unfair"  list,  or  blacklist, 
against  such  business,  and  makes  it  illegal  to  print  or  circulate 
boycott  notices,  cards,  stickers,  and  dodgers.  The  penalties 
provided  by  the  law  against  offenders  are  punishments  by  fines 
of  from  fifty  dollars  to  five  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprison- 
ment at  hard  labor  for  sixty  days.  The  avowed  purpose  of  the 
law,  in  the  words  of  its  authors,  is  "  to  promote  the  stability 
of  business  and  the  steady  employment  of  labor,  whether  or- 
ganized or  unorganized."  The  actions  and  laws  enumerated 
reveal  that  decisive  steps  are  being  taken  toward  the  extinction 
of  the  boycott  and  kindred  methods  of  intimidation  which 
labor  leaders  have  defended  as  legitimate  weapons  in  their 
warfare  against  capital.  While  Gompers  and  Mitchell  have 
been  trying  to  justify  the  boycott, in  the  conferenceof  the  Civic 
Federation  at  Chicago,  by  sophistical  reasoning,  the  law  ap- 
pears to  have  been  taking  a  very  different  view. 


Session 

of  Congress, 


Congress  met  in  extraordinary  session  on  November  gth, 
called  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the 
Cuban  reciprocity  treaty.  The  Hon.  Joseph 
Cannon,  of  Illinois,  was  elected  Speaker  of 
the  House,  as  anticipated,  the  Democrats 
voting  for  Williams,  of  Mississippi.  The  President's  message 
contained  a  plea  for  passage  of  the  treaty  along  the  same 
lines  as  hitherto,  and  doubtless  the  House  will  get  down  to 
work  upon  it  at  once.  At  present,  the  Panama  matter  over- 
shadows in  interest  everything  else,  though  this  has  not  pre- 
vented the  filing  of  a  large  number  of  bills.  One  in  the  Sen- 
ate is  designed  to  replace  the  present  timber-land  law.  another, 
from  Senator  Lodge,  proposes  to  put  hides  on  the  free  list. 
Several  hundred  petitions  protest  against  the  seating  of 
Senator  Smoot,  of  Utah.  What  will  be  the  outcome  of  the 
reciprocity  fight  remains  to  be  seen.  There  are  fifty  or  sixty 
new  members  in  the  House  whose  views  are  as  yet  unknown, 
and  there  are  signs  of  weakening  among  those  hitherto  "  stal- 
wart." Still,  Tawney  and  Littlefield  are  determined,  it  is 
said,  to  fight  the  Sugar  Trust  to  the  last  ditch,  taking  the 
ground  that  the  present  treaty  is  unconstitutional,  since, 
though  it  affects  the  revenue,  it  did  not  have  its  origin  in  the 
House,  as  the  Constitution  provides  all  revenue  measures 
shall. 


After  thirty  years  of  effort,  a  connecting  road  between  Ala- 
meda and  Contra  Costa  Counties,  with  an 
easy  grade,  has  been  completed.     The  project 


The  Transbav 
Tunnel  and  the 
Transbav  Cities 


which  was  recommended  by  every  business 
consideration,  was  not  carried  through  with- 
out overcoming  serious  obstacles.  Private  interests  intervened, 
there  were  legal  difficulties,  public  inertia  had  to  be  overcome. 
A  special  law  was  secured  permitting  counties  to  join  in  build- 
ing inter-county  roads.  Then  it  was  discovered  that  the 
greater  part  of  the  proposed  tunnel  through  the  separating 
range  of  hills  was  in  Contra  Costa  County,  so  the  greatest 
part  of  the  expense  would  fall  upon  the  less  wealthy  county. 
The  merchants  of  Oakland  raised  $12,000  by  private  subscrip- 
tion, $10,000  of  which  was  paid  to  the  supervisors  of  Contra 
Costa  County  to  equalize  the  expense,  and  the  remainder  was 
expended  on  the  Alameda  end  of  the  road.  The  road  has 
been  completed,  and  the  result  will  be  a  vast  increase  of  busi- 
ness for  both  counties.  The  merchants  of  Oakland  may  pos- 
sibly now  turn  their  attention  to  the  project  that  was  long 
agitated  in  connection  with  the  tunnel  road — a  scenic  drive- 
way along  the  crest  of  the  foothills,  which  would  add  materi- 
ally to  the  attractions  of  Alameda  County.  The  tunnel  road 
has  been  completed  through  the  energy  of  the  merchants  of 
Oakland,  but  the  advantage  is  not  wholly  to  the  city  of  Oak- 
land. It  will  benefit  all  of  the  cities  that  cluster  on  the  other 
side  of  the  bay. 


JVow  ready 


TWO 

ARGONAUTS 

IN 

SPAIN 

& 

BY 

JEROME 

HART 


For  sale  at  the  bookstores. 


The  Oregon  Journal,  an  evening  daily  published  in    Portland, 
writes  us  a  letter  to  say  that   it  exists— an  important   fact   we 
overlooked  in  a  recent  editorial   on   Hearst's  talked-of  invasion 
of  that  field.     Our  only  excuse  is  that  the  Journal  is  too  young 
to    have   penetrated    into    the    newspaper    directories,    ton    small 
to    have   otherwise    obtruded    itself   upon    our    attentioi 
apologies  are  due.     The  Journal's  editor  says  that  thi 
is   there   to   stay;    that    it    has   "money    and  gray    ma 
furthermore,  that  he  has  no  fears  of   Hearst. 


332 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  16,  1903. 


THE  MASCOT  OF  THE  TEN  STRIKE. 


How  Mrs.  Potter  Worked  the  Bunco  Game. 


When  Jim  Potter  wrote  to  the  other  owners  of  the 
claim:  "  l  came  out  here  to  see  this  thing  through,  and 
1  an  g  as  there  is  a  ghost  01 

a  hope,"  they,  in  disgust,  had  said:  "  Then  stick  and  be 
damned."    both  of  which  he  did. 

Potter  believed  in  the  "  Ten  Strike,"  because  he- 
knew  it  had  been  badly  managed  and  had  had  no 
chance  toshon  up  to  its  prospect.  Moreover,  every  cent 
he  had  been  able  to  raise  had  gone  into  it,  and  it  was 
a  des|  i     lie  with  him  between  beggary  and  opu- 

lence. To  .Mrs.  Jim,  however,  he  wrote  only  the  sunny 
side  of  ilie  story,  dwelling  upon  the  beauty  of  the  world 
about  bun,  their  golden  prospects,  and  bis  hope  of  re- 
turning to  her  m  the  spring.  So  11  was  only  natural 
that, when  Mrs.  Jmi  grew  tired  of  waning  for  his  home- 
coming, she  announced  that  she-  had  made  up  her  mind 
to  come  to  him. 

Suddenly  Jim  Potter's  point  of  view  veered  around 
to  this  Eastern-bred  woman's  probable  impression  of 
the  Ten  Strike  life,  and  straightway  the  situation  ap- 
peared impossible.  Bat,  on  the  oilier  band,  he  argued, 
if  he  wrote  to  her  that,  since  her  experience  ot  the 
country  had  been  only  grass]  slopes,  shady  lanes,  arti- 
ficial lake:.,  and  frequent  summer  showers,  a  Califor- 
nia mining-camp  was  too  rough  a  place  tor  her,  she 
might  think  be  did  not  want  her,  and  trouble  would 
ensue.  However,  the  thought  of  his  wife's  presence 
gradually  broke  down  his  weightier  objections  to  her 
coming,  and  after  counting  in  the  sacrifices  her  being 
here  might  entail — throwing  into  the  balance  her  loyalty 
and  good  sense — the  scales  still  hung  even;  but  adding 
his  own  longing  for  her  the  drawbacks  flew  up  as  light 
as  trifles;  so  it  was  with  an  almost  boyish  enthusiasm 
he  wrote   lor  her  to  come. 

The  day  of  Mrs.  Potter's  arrival  the  camp  put  on  a 
festive  mood,  the  "  boss  himself  being  the  only  one 
who  seemed  to  fear  the  result,  but  when,  after  alight- 
ing at  the  door  of  the  little  shack  that  was  to  be  her 
home,  he  saw  tins  girlish  little  woman  in  her  smart 
traveling-suit  shaking  hands  with  the  wife  of  O'Hallo- 
ran,  the  nightwateh,  Spegbetti,  the  sluice-tender,  and 
O'Rourke,  the  shift-boss,  he  drew  back  to  watch  them 
and  call  down  blessings  upon  their  homely  heads.  The 
three  big  trunks  the  little  woman  had  brought  were  put 
in  the  woodshed,  as  there  was  110  room  tor  them  in 
either  the  "parlor"  or  "kitchen,"  as  the  two  rooms 
were  designated,  and  when  at  last  the  reception  com- 
mittee had  withdrawn,  Jim,  sitting  on  a  soap-box,  be- 
cause his  wife  had  the  chair,  waited,  nervous  and 
wretched,  for  her  to  break  the  silence. 

Mrs.  Potter  .-.lowly  took  off  her  hat  and  veil,  and, 
after  looking  vainly  lor  a  place  to  put  them,  threw  them 
on  the  bunk.  Then,  with  a  clearer  vision,  her  swift 
glance  took  m  the  two  bare  rooms,  the  rough  walls, 
her  picture  pinned  against  a  board,  the  bunch  of  glow- 
ing Mariposa  lilies  in  a  broken  pitcher — took  in,  too, 
the  big,  half-penitent  figure  of  Jim  looking  ruddier  and 
handsomer  than  she  had  ever  seen  him.  Then  the  con- 
between  this  and  the  life  she  had  left  struck  her 
with  the  humorous  side  up,  their  eyes  met,  and  she 
laughed  a  bubbling,  reckless  laugh. 

"  It  will  all  come  out  right,"  Jim  added,  after  going 
the  situation  in  detail,  "  if  we  can  only  hold  on  a 
while  longer." 

"And  we  will  do  it."  little  Mrs.  Jim  answered,  with 
a  light  111  her  eye  that  made  Jim  feel  how  much  richer 
than  a  millionaire  he  was  already.  Thereafter,  the  life 
01   the  Potters  1  self  into  a  grim  struggle  to 

"  hold  on." 

I    they    held    on    merrily    and    cheerfully    several 

me  evening,  Jim  came  home  glum,  and 

used  himself  to  say  :     "  1  he  men  at  the 

getting    suspicious.      Being    paid    in    stock 

it  did,  ami  when  they    strike  me 

rs    I    cant    offer    them    hall    a    share!" 

Wh  r-.   Jim    looked    up   brightly,   and   said 

in  a  manner  tli.it  at  least  seemed  sane  :     "  \\  e  must  get 

that  0111  of  their  minds  at  once.     How    would  it  do  lor 

! In  111  a  party?" 

Pal  lood  foi  joking  did  not  take 

1   had   t.ik.n   linn 
nind,  ami  preparations  for  a  party 
,10111), tiy  begun. 
Shun  .1   gran'   affair,"   Mrs. 

hack  fence 
tlj   dropped 
under    ih<  1    was 

d   from     1.  gathering     force    and 

origin  .  nil  tlo   pi  part)  prom- 

Fourth  oi  Jul) 
on. 

iln    company    i>  gone 

"  .Shllle, 

thmi  I  1  like  wathci  on 

tin-  pa 

Wli-n    Po  tarlling    nil 

•  I  tin  in  up  1  gayly,  and 

il   tin-  nun.  rs'  confidence  in  the 
'tiger. 
■  as  with  Ihi  cntly,  when, 

11    down    ..nil 
all  due  !.■  her  ■•-  etting  things 

had    io    be    postponed    111 


"  That  party  scare  was  a  regular  bunco  game,"  Jim 
laughed  to  his  wife,  after  the  last  inquirer  after  the 
health  of  the  invalid  had  gone. 

"  Yes,"  Mrs.  Jim  agreed,  gleefully,  waltzing  across 
the  room  in  sheer  delight  at  the  success  of  her  ruse, 
"  but  it  didn't  hurt  any  one,  and  it  certainly  has  helped 
our  standing  for  a  time  at  least." 

And  for  a  time  it  did.  But  when,  one  unlucky  day, 
the  skip  broke  and  O'Rourke  was  badly  mangled, 
parties,  shares,  and  Battering  promises  were  of  no  avail 
10  cover  repairs. 

"  J  11  have  to  run  down  to  Sacramento  this  morning," 
I 'oiier  announced  suddenly  the  next  day  to  his  wife, 

I've  only  two  minutes  to  catch  the  train.  By-by." 

"What  time  is  it  now?"  Mrs.  Jim  asked  him,  not 
1 1 u i t c  knowing  what  to  make  of  his  manner. 

"  1 — 1  don't  know,"  he  answered,  avoiding  her 
lint  one  quick  glance  was  enough  for  her. 

"  Take  mine,  too,"  she  commanded,  handing  him  her 
watch  and  drawing  oft  her  rings — all  but  one. 
"  O'Rourke  has  got  to  be  paid  in  cash  this  time." 

She  meant  what  she  said,  the  need  was  imperative 
and  the  game  desperate,  and  when  the  train  pulled  out 
it  was  to  "  yueen  Isabella  of  the  Ten  Strike  "  Potter 
waved  his  adieu. 

It  was  August  now.  The  Mariposa  lilies  were  gone, 
the  hillsides  were  seared  by  the  burning  suns,  the  air 
heavy  with  the  red  dust  that  chokes  and  stifles,  but 
hopes  and  prospects  were  still  high,  although  the  real- 
ities had  reached  bedrock. 

"  Yes,  an'  its  bound  to  git  hotter  before  it  gits 
cooler,"  Mrs.  O'Halloran  assured  the  Potters,  con- 
solingly, as  she  put  down  her  washing,  "  an'  Til  be 
askin'  ye  fer  me  money  this  wake,  Mrs.  Potter,"  she 
went  on.  "  My  Kitty  is  cryin'  her  eyes  out  to  go  to 
the  dance  to  Pike's,  an'  her  paw  can't  raise  a  cint  to 
git  her  a  dud  to  wear.  An'  thim  dago  girls  stickin' 
up  their  noses  at  her  clo'es  all  the  time  anyways.  An' 
its  wake  in  an'  wake  out  I've  been  washin'  fer  yez 
widout  a  chit's  pay,  an'  I  was  hearin'  Mike " 

"  How  lovely !"  broke  in  Mrs.  Jim's  rippling  tones 
above  die  washerwoman's  insolence.  "  I'm  so  glad 
you  told  me  about  the  party.  You  must  let  me  make 
Kitty  a  little  gift."  Darting  into  the  house  she  re- 
appeared with  a  fluffy  heap  of  frills  and  ribbons  in  her 
arms.  "  Kittyr  will  look  so  pretty  in  this,"  she  ex- 
plained, while  Potter  turned  his  face  to  the  shadow. 
"  And  here  are  the  slippers  to  matdi.  I'm  sure  Kitty- 
can  wear  them,  but  the  Speghetti  girls  couldn't  begin 
to.  And  this  bow  is  for  her  hair,  it  will  be  so  sweet  in 
her  auburn  curls." 

It  was  too  dark  to  see  the  falling  temperature  in 
Mrs.  O'Halloran's  face,  but  Mrs.  Jim  had  not  mis- 
calculated the  effect.  "  And  tell  Kitty,"  she  added, 
"  that  when  she  is  dancing  in  that  gown  she  can  have 
the  satisfaction  of  knowing  she  is  wearing  a  hundred 
dollars'  worth  of  frills.  \\  hat  will  the  Speghetti  girls 
think  now?"  Then  with  a  bold  pass  at  her  flat  little 
pocket-book :     "  How  much  did  you  say  I  owe  yrou  ?" 

Poor  Mrs.  O'Halloran  !  Hugging  the  crumpled  finery 
in  her  arms,  she  opened  her  mouth  to  say  the  things 
she  and  Mike  had  resolved  should  be  said  that  night 
to  the  "  boss,"  but  what  she  heard  was ;  "  Oh,  Mrs. 
Potter,  it's  too  good  ye  are,  an'  too  kind,  an'  too  giner- 
ous,  an'  Kitty'll  be  that  tickled,  an'  that  proud,  an' " 

And  as  far  down  the  road  as  the  smiling  faces  in  the 
doorway  could  see  her,  the  poor  woman  was  running 
toward  home  with  her  precious  armful  of  fripperies. 

Jim  Potter  looked  at  his  wife  in  wonder.  "Oh, 
woman  in  our  hours  of  ease,"  he  began,  but  Mrs.  Jim, 
springing  up,  stopped  him:  "Don't!  don't  say  a 
word  !"  she  cried.  "  1  hate  myself  for  playing  these 
tricks  upon  these  poor  souls  who  need  their  money, 
but  it  is  only  in  order  to  hold  on  till  we  can  pay  them." 

"  We're  near  the  end  now!"  Potter  called  to  his  wife- 
one  morning,  dropping  in  with  the  mail  and  finding  his 
v.  1  fe  on  the  floor  surrounded  by  the  remaining  con- 
tents of  the  three  great  trunks. 

"If  we  can  keep  the  thing  going  till  Hopkins  gels 
here  and  then  open  his  eyes  to  the  prospective  value 
of  the  Ten  Strike,  who  knows  but  we'll  be  able  to  pull 
out  of  here  millionaires  by  winter?" 

I    don't   want   to  be   a   millionaire."   Mrs.   Jim  de- 

■  I.     "1  would  be  satisfied  if  I  could  get  a  pair  of 

and  a  good  beefsteak."     Potter  looked  at  her  in 

dismay.    "  I've  worn  out  every  possible  thing  I  brought, 

.old  now    I'm  down  to  this.     Look  at  these  slippers!" 

And  Potter  looked.  "  Well,  they're  beauties."  he  re- 
marked, admiringly. 

liul  don't  yon  see  I  can't  walk  over  these  rocks  ill 

h  heels  and  beaded  toes?"  she  almost  wept.    "  The 

1  I'Rourke  baby  is  ill.  hut    I   can't  get   over  to  see   it   in 

1  lungs,  and  you  know    we  owe  them  the  most  of 

all." 

"Then  listen  to  this  letter,"  Jim  shouted.  "'Hop 
kins,  our  representative,  will  go  up  to  see  the  mine 
Sunday.'  "  he  read.  "There  now,"  he  added,  "  Hopkins 
will  come  on  the  ten  o'clock  train.  After  dinner  we  will 
do  the  mine,  and  by  Monday  morning  you  may  he  that 
odious  nouveau  riche  Mi-.  Potter.  How's  that." 
Dinner  I"  Mrs.  Jim  gaspi  d. 
"Well,  lunch,  then,"  he  corrected  himself,  wonder- 
ing why  his  wife  should  cavil  at  terms  on  such  an  00 

"  Lunch  '  I  Hi.  Inn  !"  she  wailed.  "  there's  not  a  thing 
111  the  house  lo  otiei  company  to  eat.  and  I've  not  a 
tiling   lefl    to  pawn  or  sell." 


Whereupon  Potter  gave  such  a  whistle  the  whole 
pack  of  O'Halloran  dogs  descended  upon  them. 

"I'll  take  him  to  the  boarding-house,  then,"  Jim 
suggested. 

"  Yes,  and  he'll  hear  so  many  sidelights  on  the  Ten 
Strike  from  the  miners  he  will  never  want  to  see  it." 
Then  seeing  the  clouds  gathering  over  poor  Jim's 
hopes,  she  added,  quickly:  "  Never  mind,  Jimmy,  we've 
held  on  together  too  long  to  give  up  now.  Trust  me 
to  see  the  dinner  through."  And  as  Jim  strode  out 
of  the  cabin  he  carried  his  head  higher  than  it  had  been 
for  months,  while  Mrs.  Jim  flung  the  things  back  into 
the  trunks,  rolled  up  her  sleeves,  slipped  into  her  gayly 
bedizened  slippers,  and  set  to  work  to  transform  her 
"  parlor  "  into  a  "  banquet-hall." 

"If  Mr.  Hopkins  suspects  we  live  like  tramps  from 
necessity-,  the  Ten  Strike  will  lose  its  fascination  for 
him,"  she  remarked  to  her  battered  likeness  on  the 
wall. 

But  poor  Jim,  when  he  returned  that  evening,  tired 
and  worried,  did  not  catch  her  enthusiasm  nor  appre- 
ciate being  sent  off  to  the  hills  in  search  of  fir  houghs 
and  pine  cones.  "  Hopkins  doesn't  want  to  buy  the 
shack,"  he  objected,  "  if  he  offers  a  round  sum  for  the 
mine  we  will  throw  this  place  in."  But  Mrs.  Jim  was 
firm,  so  off  he  went.  Also  Mrs.  Jim  was  inventive,  and 
when  by  night  the  work  was  done  she  might,  as  judged 
by  appearances,  have  been  Poccahontas  in  her  own 
native  sylvan  bower. 

"  Oh,  yes,  it's  all  right  if  you  like  it,  I  suppose,"  Jim 
assented,  reluctantly,  "  but  there  are  too  many  bugs  and 
ants  on  all  this  toomfoolery  to  suit  me."  But  the  tom- 
foolery, translated  into  ferns  and  azalias,\vas  necessary 
to  disguise  the  flaws  in  the  table-cloth.  "  So  far,  so 
good,"  Mrs.  Jim  sighed  to  herself,  surveying  her  work, 
but  was  forced  to  admit  the  decorations  would  have  to 
be  garnished  with  eatables  before  it  could  be  called  a 
dinner.  But  again  her  woman's  wit  saved  the  situation. 

"  Many  an  adventuress  has  been  arrested  who  is  no 
worse  than  I  am,"  she  said  to  herself,  in  conscience- 
stricken  mood,  as  she  sat  and  smiled  with  her  neighbors 
in  her  round  of  calls  that  afternoon. 

When  Hopkins  entered  the  Potters'  home  he  was 
greeted  by  surprises  of  all  kinds,  but  the  greatest  of  all 
did  not  go  down  in  his  report.  But  Mrs.  Hopkins  was 
regaled  with  a  glowing  account  of  the  charming  people 
from  whom  the  corporation  had  bought  the  new  mine. 
"  They  had  come  out  here  for  their  health,  you  see," 
he  explained,  "  and  lived  in  the  pine  odors  in  a  most 
idyllic  way.  Everything  was  so  charmingly  original, 
beginning  with  the  beautiful  Mrs.  Potter  herself.  It 
seems  she  had  grown  so  fond  of  the  people  and  asso- 
ciation that  she  wanted  them  represented  in  this  last 
dinner  among  them,  so  each  course  was  a  representa- 
tive national  dish,  and  you  would  have  been  amazed 
at  the  sentiment  and  poetry  we  got  out  of  these  com- 
mon dago  and  Irish  and  Slav  miners." 

But  the  O'Rourkes,  and  O'Hallorans,  and  Speghettis, 
et  al.  never  suspected  the  part  they  played  in  this 
"  charmingly  original  "  dinner.  When  they  met  over 
their  back  fence  as  usual,  after  the  departure  of  the 
"  boss  "  and  his  wife,  it  was  Mrs.  O'Halloran  who  was 
loudest  in  her  bewailings. 

"  It  do  beat  all,"  that  worthy-  soul  began,  "  what 
swate  and  unpretindin'  ways  she  had.  She  come  to  my 
house  the  day  before  that  feller  come  up  from  the  city, 
an'  she  says  to  me  when  I  was  takin'  my  bakin'  out  of 
the  stove,  '  Ye  do  make  the  most  illegant  bread,  Mrs. 
O'Halloran.  I  would  give  anything  in  reason  if  I 
could  make  it  as  you  do,'  she  says,  an'  seein'  she  ad- 
mired it  so  much  I  just  made  her  take  a  nice  big  loaf 
right  along  wid  her,  bless  her!" 

"  Well,  she  was  a  long  time  learnin'  to  cook,"  put  in 
Mrs.  O'Rourke,  "  if  she  couldn't  make  bread,  but  I  sup- 
pose them  city  folks  don't  get  much  time  to  cook.  She 
stopped  into  myr  house  on  her  way  home,  and  she  says, 
'  Will  you  please  tell  me,  Mrs.  O'Rourke,  how  you  make 
that  lovely  "  mulligan  "?  I  am  going  to  have  some  for 
dinner  to-morrow  for  Mr.  Potter's  guest.'  '  You  won't 
if  you  have  your  dinner  before  ten  o'clock  at  night,'  I 
says;  '  it  takes  thim  mulligans  a  long  time  to  cook,  es- 
pecially if  ye  aint  got  spring  chickens  to  use.'  She  did 
look  so  disappointed,  and  she  said  I  made  them  better 
than  any  one  she  knew,  an'  she  had  set  her  heart  on 
havin'  it,  an'  all  that,  so  seein'  Pat  was  not  goin'  to  be 
home  for  his  Sunday  dinner  anyways, I  just  says, says  I, 
'  I'll  tell  ye  what  I'll  do,  Mrs.  Potter,  if  ye  won't  think 
I'm  presumin',  I'll  send  Mikie  over  with  the  best  mul- 
ligan you  iver  tasted  in  time  fer  yer  dinner  to-morrow.' 
And  would  ye  believe  it.  she  was  that  polite  and  ap- 
preciatin'  she  said  it  would  be  the  greatest  treat  she  an' 
thim  could  have,  and  accepted  it  on  the  spot.  I  tell  ye 
there  aint  a  stuck-up  bone  in  her  whole  body." 

Mrs.  Speghetti  did  not  happen  to  be  of  the  conclave 
that  morning,  but  over  her  fence  she  had  confided  to  the 
neighbors  about  the  chile  con  came  the  boss's  lady  had 
accepted  from  her  for  her  grand  dinner  because  she 
made  it  better  than  any  one  in  the  world,  and  so  the 
comparisons  ran  from  fence  to  fence  all  the  next  day. 

"  Do  you  still  feel  like  a  bunco-woman?"  Potter  asked 
his  wile  later,  as  they  lounged  comfortably  in  a  lux- 
urious Pullman  that  was  carrying  them  Eastward. 
But  Mrs.  Jim.  having  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that 
every  one  had  been  at  last  paid  up  in  full,  forbade  the 
mention  of  her  buncoing  career. 

Marguerite  Stabler. 

Sam   Francisco,  November,  1903. 


November  i6,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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"THE    PROUD    PRINCE." 

Geraldine   Bonner  Writes   of  This  Much-Discussed  Play  by  Justin 

Huntly  McCarthy  —  Sothern  in    the    Title  -  Role  — 

Some  Rather  Coarse  Conversation. 


It  is  now  the  beginning  of  November  and  the  theatres 
are  all  pretty  well  started.  The  domestic  stars  have 
gathered  and  the  foreign  stars  are  gathering.  There  is 
a  good  deal  of  musical  comedy  going,  but  the  literary 
drama,  which  showed  such  obstinate  vitality  last  winter, 
is  showing  even  more  this  year.  "  Ulysses  "  has  un- 
questionably been  the  dramatic  sensation  of  the  autumn. 
Next  to  it — as  far  as  sensation  goes — I  should  place 
"  The  Proud  Prince."  Sothern's  new  play. 

Sothern  is  an  interesting  personality,  an  arresting 
stage  figure.  I  do  not  know  anything  about  him  per- 
sonally, but  I  should  set  him  down  to  be  an  intellectual 
actor  with  aspirations.  He  does  not  strike  one  as 
mercenary,  as  so  many  of  his  craft  do.  I  should  fancy 
that  the  box-office  point  of  view  was  not  the  only  one 
he  had.  He  appears  to  regard  the  stage  as  a  place 
round  which  the  traditions  of  art  still  linger,  a  place 
where  the  beautiful  and  the  noble  still  should  be  found. 
All  this  is  very  original,  and  gives  to  his  individuality 
a  distinguishing  touch,  a  something  dignified  and  un- 
usual. His  appearance  carries  the  suggestion  out  still 
further.  He  has  a  fine  head,  a  clear-cut,  rather  im- 
mobile set  of  features,  and  a  cold,  debating  eve.  moving 
slowly  under  a  motionless  droop  of  lid.  The  playing  of 
poor  plays  to  dull  audiences  is  making  him  stagey.  He 
is  accumulating  a  collection  of  clap-trap  tricks,  but 
he  is  undoubtedly  a  man  of  high  intelligence,  attempting 
the  great  balancing  feat  of  trying  to  please  the  public 
and  trying  to  please  himself. 

He  probably  took  "  The  Proud  Prince  "  for  his  open- 
ing play  because,  in  the  first  place,  he  could  not  get 
anything  better;  because,  in  the  second  place,  it  had  a 
strongly  poetic  side  that  appealed  to  him :  because,  in 
the  third  place,  it  offered  him  a  part  which  ran  the 
gamut  of  a  variety  of  emotions.  That  it  was  crude, 
coarse,  and  written  by  a  person  whose  mental  attitude 
was  literary  rather  than  dramatic,  had  to  be  over- 
looked. Besides,  the  piece,  from  a  spectacular  point 
of  view,  was  very  effective,  and  modern  audiences 
have  been  so  fed  on  spectacles  that  they  feel  cheated 
without  them. 

The  play  began  its  career  under  the  most  favorable 
circumstances.  The  Far  West  has  probably  heard  of 
the  storm  of  virtuous  indignation  it  aroused  in  Detroit. 
A  person  high  in  office,  a  mayor  or  a  bishop,  or  some 
functionary  of  equally  valuable  standing  for  advertis- 
ing purposes,  so  stronglv  objected  to  it  on  moral 
grounds  that  his  objections  were  telegraphed  all  over 
the  country.  This  having  been  successfully  accom- 
plished, it  was  brought  in  triumph  to  New  York. 
Everybody  in  the  metropolis  had  been  reading  the 
objections  and  just  what  particular  situation  or  sentence 
created  them,  and  were  all  ready  to  crowd  into  the 
theatre  on  the  first  night. 

Unlike  many  dramas  that  the  public  frowns  upon 
as  improper,  "  The  Proud  Prince  "  is  exceedingly  im- 
proving in  its  teaching  and  unnecessarily  coarse  in  the 
way  it  teaches.  The  king,  who  is  bad  (thev  applv  that 
adjective  to  him  in  a  vague,  general  way),  having 
been  foiled  in  his  pursuit  of  Perpetua.  the  execution- 
er's daughter,  who  is  as  good  as  she  is  beautiful,  ha; 
her  kidnaped  and  handed  over  to  a  lady  of  easy  morals, 
called  Lycabetta,  for  the  purpose  of  being  trained 
for  what  Lycabetta  calls  "the  oldest  profession  in  the 
world."  There  is  a  scene  in  Lvcabetta's  house  which 
is  certainly  rather  startling  in  the  candor  of  its  situa- 
tions and  dialogue.  As  the  players  rattle  off  one 
emancipated  sentence  after  another,  one  sits  in  a  state 
of  solemn  surprise,  wondering  what  thev  are  going 
to  say  next.  I  have  rarelv  heard  a  scene  in  which  the 
conversation  was  so  completely  devoid  of  delicacy  and 
reticence.  Lycabetta  and  her  profession  are  talked 
over  with  the  most  flat-footed  frankness,  while  the 
executioner's  daughter  runs  about  the  stage  wringing 
her  hands  and  tryinsr  to  evade  the  attentions  of  the 
several  wooers  who  shortly  appear. 

That  poor  executioner's  daughter !  She  can  not  go 
anvwhere  without  some  desperate  man  springing  out 
from  behind  a  tree,  or  a  wall,  or  a  curtain  and  trying 
to  carrv  her  off  to  his  den.  Once  she  escapes  and  seeks 
sanctuary  in  a  church.  But  even  in  the  holy  edifice, 
upon  the  very  horns  of  the  altar,  a  lover  bursts  in, 
sees  her.  is  transfixed  by  her  beauty,  and  without 
wasting  any  needless  time  in  love-making,  snatches 
her  to  his  heart.  That  time  she  escapes  by  ringing  the 
church  bell,  the  rope  of  which  hangs  near  to  her  hand, 
and  all  the  population  of  Syracuse  come  rushing  in  to 
protect  her.  But  it  was  evidentlv  no  sinecure  to  live  in 
those  days  and  keep  respectable.  It  ought  to  have 
been  regarded  as  a  peculiar  distinction,  and  women 
who  succeeded  in  accomplishing  it  been  given  some 
kind  of  a  medal. 

Overlooking  minor  weak  points,  and  viewed  from  a 
distance  as  a  whole,  I  should  call  the  drama  tawdry  and 
unworthy  the  abilities  of  the  actors.  It  has  one  fine 
scene — of  which  anon — and  several  fairly  good  ones. 
But  its  general  style  is  that  of  an  old-fashioned,  ro- 
mantic melodrama,  in  the  onward  movement  of  which 
one  can  hear  the  creak  of  the  unoiled  machinery.  The 
spectacular  side  is  fine,  and  the  poetic  one  is  quite 
marked.     This  shows  itself  in  the  language  which  has 


evidently  been  the  subject  of  much  work  on  the  part 
of  the  author,  and  is  high-flown  and  bombastic.  The 
main  figures,  too,  have  a  sort  of  symbolic  simplicity — 
the  king  as  the  fallen  man  redeemed  by  love,  Perpetua 
as  virtues  and  self-sacrifice  in  woman,  Lycabetta  as 
pleasure  of  life,  never  satisfying,  cruel,  and  relentless. 
Finally,  at  the  end,  the  king  passes  through  the  ordeal 
by  fire,  and  rises  from  the  flames,  purified  and  born 
again.  The  story  is  allegorical,  and  author  and  actors 
have  tried  to  present  it  with  the  naivete  of  the  symbolic 
form. 

The  plot  is  taken  from  that  poem  of  Longfellow's 
which  school-boys  used  to  recite,  called  "  King  Robert 
of  Sicily."  In  this,  it  will  be  remembered,  King  Robert, 
eaten  up  by  vanity,  using  his  kingly  power  to  perpetrate 
all  forms  of  evil,  arouses  the  wrath  of  heaven.  In 
mid-course  he  is  stricken  with  a  curse  which  trans- 
forms him  into  the  likeness  of-  his  jester,  a  feeble- 
minded, misshapen  creature,  object  of  men's  ridicule 
and  women's  scorn.  The  king  is,  at  first,  unaware  of 
the  transformation,  and  attempts  to  assert  himself  as 
the  monarch  before  whom  all  Sicily  trembles.  Then, 
hustled,  jeered  at.  kicked,  and  beaten,  he  realizes  his 
metamorphosis,  and  from  his  lowly  position  begins 
to  see  men  and  life  as  they  really  are. 

The  dramatist  has  introduced  the  complication  of  the 
executioner's  daughter.  In  the  first  act,  the  king, 
finding  her  unwilling  to  respond  to  his  royal  addresses, 
summons  Lycabetta  from  her  lair,  and  together  they 
plan  the  carrying  off  and  subsequent  destruction  of 
Perpetua.  This  is  too  much  for  the  heavenly  powers 
as  represented  by  a  being  vaguely  called  "  The  Arch- 
angel." Robert  and  Lycabetta  do  their  plotting  out- 
side a  shrine,  to  which  the  late  king.  Robert's  father, 
used  piously  to  repair.  From  this  shrine,  the  arch- 
angel, clad  in  armor  and  with  visor  up.  issues  forth, 
and  in  the  midst  of  a  remarkably  realistic  storm  of 
rain  and  thunderbolts,  curses  Robert,  who  falls  grovel- 
ing in  terror,  and,  when  the  storm  has  cleared,  rises 
in  the  form  of  the  bowed  and  feeble-witted  jester. 

The  act  in  Lvcabetta's  house  is,  despite  its  unpleasant- 
ness, the  best  of  the  four,  and  ends  with  a  highly  dra- 
matic and  picturesque  finale.  The  plague  is  in  Sicily. 
and  all  the  butterflies  of  pleasure  that  throng  round 
the  king  live  in  dread  of  it,  fearing  to  pronounce  its 
name.  Lycabetta,  who  inhabits  a  wing  of  the  palace, 
is  surrounded  by  deep-leaved  gardens,  in  which  no 
strange  foot  is  allowed  to  trespass,  and  in  her  rooms 
all  day  aromatic  spices  are  burned  and  perfumed  foun- 
tains play.  The  plague  may  rage  outside,  but  it  can  find 
no  entry  into  this  guarded  sanctuary  of  love  and  jov. 

Into  this  place  Perpetua  is  brought  bv  two  negro 
slaves,  who  guard  the  entrance.  She  attempts  to  es- 
cape, but  whichever  way  she  goes,  the  negro  slaves 
or  the  minions  of  Lycabetta  bar  the  passages.  She  is 
in  despair  when  the  king,  in  the  guise  of  the  jester,  ap- 
pears, already  resolved  to  rescue  her  from  the  fate  he 
had  himself  prepared.  He  asserts  himself  as  king, 
and  is  greeted  by  the  jeering  laughter  of  Lycabetta 
and  her  women.  He  attempts  to  drag  Perpetua  awav. 
and  is  stopped  by  the  slaves.  The  horrors  of  the  situa- 
tion are  increased  by  the  entrance  of  one  of  his  own 
courtiers,  who  finds  Perpetua  verv  much  to  his  liking, 
and  orders  her  to  be  served  upon  toast  for  him.  Per- 
petua draws  the  trusty  steel  which  all  women  evidentlv 
had  to  carrv  in  the  Sicily  of  that  day.  and  the  situation 
is  of  a  lurid  hue  all  round.  At  this  instant  the  jester- 
kine  has  an  inspiration. 

He  has  come  in  from  the  woods  and  protected  him- 
self aeainst  the  cold  by  an  old  cloak.  He  draws  the 
attention  of  the  wild  crew  about  him  to  it.  It  is  faded, 
torn,  and  rusty.  He.  the  poor  jester,  had  found  it  on  a 
dead  man  that  lay  by  the  roadside.  Turning  over  the 
corpse  to  draw  the  cloak  from  about  it.  he  saw  its  face, 
blue,  swollen,  horrible,  and  recognized  the  plasrue  !  The 
women  recoil  from  him,  shrieking:  even  Hildebrans. 
the  enamored  courtier,  drops  the  hand  of  his  victim 
and  springs  awav.  Drawing  Perpetua  to  him,  the  jester 
throws  the  cloak  around  them  both,  and  in  its  folds 
they  stand  secure.  Then  turning  to  the  door  and  cry- 
ing. "  The  plague !  The  plague !"  he  drags  her  out. 
slaves,  soldiers,  courtiers  fleeing  before  them. 

This  is  the  one  fine  scene  in  the  piece,  and  it  is  un- 
questionably powerful  and  thrilling.  I  have  a  feeling 
of  having  seen  it  or  read  it  somewhere  before,  but  I 
can't  remember  where.  The  last  act.  where  Perpetua 
is  to  be  burned  as  a  sorceress  and  they  allow  her  to 
claim  the  trial  by  combat,  is  almost  exactly  similar 
to  a  scene  in  "  Ivanhoe."  where  Rebecca  is  to  be 
burned  and  Ivanhoe  appears  as  her  champion.  Then, 
for  some  reason  or  other — T  did  not  grasp  why — thev 
decide  to  burn  the  jester.  There  is  a  realistic  funeral 
pyre,  into  which  he  is  introduced,  and  fagots  are  piled 
around  him  and  ignited.  Just  as  we  bid  good-by  to  him. 
curls  of  smoke  hiding  him  from  the  audience,  the 
archangel,  who  has  been  masquerading  as  the  king, 
goes  down  through  a  trap-door,  a  flock  of  angels  bear- 
ing palm  branches  appear,  and  King  Robert  not  only 
restored  to  his  natural  shape,  but  converted  to  a  more 
worthy  frame  of  mind,  emerges  from  the  fire. 

Geraldine  Bonner. 

New  York,  November  4,   1903. 


Peter  Grogan.  who  claimed  to  have  originated  the  in- 
stallment system  of  purchase,  and  lived  to  see  it  adopted 
by  nearly  even-  civilized  nation,  recently  died  in  Balti- 
more from  heart  failure.  Grogan  instituted  the  system 
in  his  furniture  store  over  thirty  years  ago. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 

Embassador  Tower,  who  recently  returned  to  Berlin 
from  a  visit  to  the  United  States,  took  with  him  an 
autograph  photograph  of  Alice  Roosevelt,  presented  by 
Mrs.  Theodore  Roosevelt  to  the  officers  of  the  German 
dispatch  boat  Alice  Roosevelt,  in  consequence  of  the 
desire  expressed  by  them  to  have  a  portrait  of  the  young 
woman  after  whom  the  vessel  was  named. 

Prince  Nicholas  of  Montenegro,  the  comic-opera 
ruler  of  the  Black  Mountain  principality,  which  has  a 
population  less  than  that  of  Rhode  Island,  was  a  great 
athlete  in  his  younger  days,  and  is  still  a  good  horse- 
man, a  capital  shot,  and  a  splendid  swordsman.  To  his 
other  attainments  the  prince  adds  that  of  being  a  poet 
and  prose  writer  of  no  small  talent,  his  best-known 
work  being  a  tragedy,  "  The  Empress  of  the  Balkans." 
His  civil  list,  only  fourteen  thousand  dollars  a  year,  is 
ample  for  his  simple  tastes,  which  never  call  for  great 
expenditure. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Israel  Zangwill, 
the  author,  and  Miss  Edith  Ayrton,  who  has  also  won 
success  as  a  writer  of  short  stories.  Her  father,  Will- 
iam Edward  Ayrton,  is  one  of  the  best-known  electrical 
engineers  and  inventors  in  England.  His  "  Practical 
Electricity  "  is  now  in  its  eleventh  edition,  and  he  has 
written  many  papers  on  electrical  science.  His  wife, 
Mrs.  Hertha  Ayrton.  is  also  famous  as  a  scientist.  She 
is  the  only  woman  member  of  the  Institution  of  Elec- 
trical Engineers,  and  has  assisted  her  husband  in  manv 
experiments  and  extended  investigations.  She  is  said 
to  be  the  original  on  whom  George  Eliot  modeled  the 
character  of  Mira  in  "  Daniel  Deronda." 

Coquelin  cadet,  the  popular  French  actor,  has  recently 
been  doing  jury  duty  in  Paris.  He  was  on  the  list  of  the 
Seine  Assizes  for  several  days,  and  when  finally  called 
upon  to  serve  his  name  came  first  out  of  the  box, 
thereby  making  him  foreman.  The  case  before  the 
court  was  an  everv-day  burglar  affair,  that  of  two  men 
caught  leaving  the  house  with  the  stolen  property  upon 
them.  An  amusing  incident  occurred  toward  the  end 
of  the  hearing.  When,  as  foreman.  M.  Coquelin  read 
the  finding  of  the  jury,  he  forgot  to  place  his  hand  upon 
his  heart,  as  decreed  by  the  law.  Thereupon  one  of  the 
prisoners'  counsel  raised  an  objection  on  a  point  of  pro- 
cedure, which  was  allowed.  In  explanation.  M.  Coque- 
lin stated  that,  though  materially  his  hand  was  not  upon 
his  heart,  it  was  so  morally  !  A  new  trial,  however,  will 
be  necessitated  by  his  inadvertence. 

The  recent  marriage  of  Thomas  C.  Piatt,  senior 
United  States  senator  from  the  State  of  New  York, 
to  a  handsome  and  charming  Washington  ladv,  Mrs. 
Lillian  T.  Janeway,  has  attracted  much  attention,  owing 
to  the  age  of  the  groom.  In  a  letter  of  congratulation, 
Senator  Depew,  who  some  two  years  ago  set  his  col- 
league the  admirable  example  of  marrying  late  in  life, 
wrote  as  follows :  "  You  have  done  the  right  thing.  I 
speak  from  knowledge.  It  is  the  prevalent  idea  that 
in  the  evening  of  life,  when  friends  are  dropping  away 
and  interests  narrowing,  a  man  should  flock  by  himself. 
These  croakers  practically  preach  that  youth  is  the 
period  of  companionship,  and  age  for  solitude.  There 
is  no  period  when  home  and  domestic  bliss  are  so 
necessary  to  preserve  youth  and  its  realities  and  illu- 
sions as  when  one  has  passed  sixty." 

George  Brinton  McClellan,  who  has  just  been  elected 
mayor  of  Greater  New  York,  is  sixteen  years  the  junior 
of  Mayor  Low,  whom  he  defeated.  The  only  son  of 
"  Little  Mac,"  the  Union  general  of  the  Civil  War, 
he  was  born  in  Dresden.  Germany.  November  23.  1S65. 
and  is  therefore  nearly  thirty-eight  years  old.  His  pa- 
rents were  visiting  Germany  it  his  birth,  and  soon 
thereafter  returned  to  the  United  States,  where  the  son, 
an  only  child,  was  educated.  His  first  work  after 
graduating  from  Princeton,  in  1S86.  was  as  a  newspaper 
reporter  in  New  York.  For  three  years  he  pursued  this 
work,  and  in  it  formed  the  acquaintance  of  the  Tam- 
many leaders,  who  have  pushed  him  forward  ever 
since.  "  Boss  "  Croker  especially  took  a  liking  to  him, 
and  made  him  treasurer  of  the  Brooklyn  Bridge  in 
1889.  Then  for  two  years  Mr.  McClellan  was  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  aldermen.  He  studied  law  at  Co- 
lumbia University,  and  in  1891  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.     Since  1895  ne  has  been  in  Congress. 

William  Lukens  Elkins,  the  multi-millionaire  traction 
magnate  and  financier,  died  in  Philadelphia  last  Satur- 
day, at  the  age  of  seventy-one.  from  a  complication  of 
diseases.  In  the  early  'fifties,  he  laid  the  foundation  of 
his  great  fortune.  He  joined  partnership  with  Peter 
Sayboldt.  and  what  proved  in  its  time  to  be  the  largest 
produce  business  in  the  United  States  was  formed  in 
Philadelphia,  with  a  branch  in  New  York.  In  1S60.  Mr. 
Elkins  purchased  his  partners  interest.  A  few  years 
later,  he  gave  his  attention  to  the  development  of  the 
oil  fields  in  Pennsylvania,  gradually  purchasing  all  the 
refineries  in  and  about  Philadelphia.  In  1S65,  he  dis- 
posed of  half  his  interest  to  the  Standard  Oil  Company, 
and  five  years  later  of  the  remainder.  During  this  time 
he  was  making  a  study  of  the  city  railroad  passenger 
business,  and,  with  P.  A.  B.  Widener.  was  heavily  in- 
terested in  the  formation  of  the  Philadelphi; 
system,  the  Union  Traction  Company  Merger, 
the  organization  of  the  Philadelphia  R; 
Company.  His  interests  in  street  railroads  alon< 
mated  at  forty  millions  of  dollars. 


334 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


November  16,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


"The  Land  of  Little  Rain." 

We  of  California  were  rich  because  of  Bret 
Harte.  We  are  rich  because  of  our  Poet  of 
the  Sierras,  and  that  brown,  sinewy,  blue-eyed 
nature- worshipper  John  Muir.  And  we  are  rich 
because  of  not  a  few  other  men  and  women 
who  have  eyes  to  see.  ears  to  hear,  and  the 
power  to  portray  in  prose  or  rhyme  the  varied 
life  of  strangely  mingled  peoples  in  a  land 
of  many  marvels  and  wondrous  charm. 

What  a  privilege  it  is  now  to  say  (before 
it  is  said  by  the  many  who  will  yet  say  it) 
that  in  the  author  of  "  The  Land  of  Little 
Rain  "  California  has  one  who  is  the  peer  of 
John  Muir,  yes,  almost  of  Thorean,  render- 
ing to  "  the  Country  of  Lost  Borders,"  which 
lies  "  east  away  from  the  Sierras,  south  from 
Panamint  and  Amargosa  "  such  ;;  service  (in 
seme  sort)  as  White  to  Selborne,  as  Jefferies 
to  Wiltshire,  as  Burroughs  to  the  country 
of  the  Hudson,  as  Thoreau  to  the  woods  about 
Walden  Pond. 

Yet  this  work  of  Mary  Austin's  borrows 
nothing  from  any  book.  It  is  profoundly  in- 
dividual. Fourteen  years  she  has  lived  in  a 
"brown  house  under  the  willow-tree"  at  the 
edge  of  a  "  town  that  lies  in  a  dimple  at  the 
foot  of  Mt.  Kearsarge,"  not  far,  as  distances 
go  in  that  illimitable  country,  from  that  nar- 
row strip  of  burning  sand  called  Death  Valley. 
There, 
".  .  .  in  the  waves  and  troughs  of  the  plains, 
Where  the  healing  stillness  lies. 

And  the  vast,  benignant  sky  restrains 
And  the  long  days  make  wise," 

she  has  dwelt,  and  learned  to  love  her  land 
with  the  passionate  love  of  a  poet  and  a  seer. 
Her  book  (it  is  the  first)  is  marked  by  such 
sweetness  and  health  as  lie  in  mountain 
winds ;  her  philosophy  is  profoundly  opti- 
mistic ;  the  natural  world  for  her  holds 
mysteries  unnumbered  that  make  her  reverent: 
in  simple  people  and  common  things  she 
takes  a  pure  delight  that  can  only  be  com- 
pared to  Whitman's  in  like  things ;  though 
possessing  minute  technical  knowledge  of  the 
fauna  of  the  valleys  and  hills,  her  real  in- 
terest for  flowers  and  desert  growths  is  in 
their  poetic  aspects.  And  as  for  the  medium 
in  which  she  expresses  all  that  the  desert 
and  a  patient  people  have  taught  her.  it  is  al- 
most faultless.  There  is  scarcely  a  page, 
scarcely  a  paragraph,  -which  does  not  hold 
some  sentence  so  rythmical,  so  lovely,  so 
absolute,  as  to  possess  all  the  qualities  of 
poetry. 

"She  loves  not  Man  the  less,  but  Nature 
more  "  is  perhaps  a  not  unfair  generalization 
on  "The  Land  of  Little  Rain."  Yet  the  four 
of  the  fourteen  sketches  that  deal  with  human 
affairs  show  a  rare  and  delicate  insight,  and 
not  a  little  humor.  These  four  are:  "The 
Pocket  Hunter,"  a  portrayal  of  an  elemental 
character  over  whom  the  desert  had  cast  its 
mysterious  spell ;  "  Jimville — a  Bret  Harte 
Town."  a  place  which  "  you  could  not  think 
of  as  anything  more  than  a  survival,  like  the 
herb-eating,  bony-cased  old  tortoise  that 
pokes  cheerfully  about  those  borders  some 
thousands  of  years  beyond  the  proper  epoch  "  ; 
"  The  Basket  Maker,"  the  moving  story  of  a 
widowed  Indian  woman  who  had  won 
wisdom  :  and  "  The  Little  Town  of  the  Grape 
Vines."  "  where  the  quails  cry  '  cuidado,' 
where  all  the  speech  is  soft,  all  the  manners 
gentle ;  where  all  the  dishes  have  chile  in 
them,  and  they  make  more  of  the  sixteenth 
of  September  than  they  do  of  the  Fourth  of 
July." 

Even  those  who  "  do  not  read  poetry  "  and 
"  do  not  care  for  nature "  can  not  in  their 
dullness  be  insensible  to  the  charm  of  the 
four  chapters  whose  titles  we  have  given. 
But  the  book  does  not  need  their  attention 
or  their  praise.  No  very  great  amount  of 
critical  acumen  is  required  to  induce  the 
conviction  that  "  The  Land  of  Little  Rain  " 
does  now  and  will  henceforth  occupy  a  secure 
place  in  literature. 

\\  e  have  space  for  but  one  quotation,  the 
last  paragraph   in  the  first  essay : 

For  all  the  toll  the  desert  takes  of  a  man, 
it  gives  compensations,  deep  breaths,  deep 
sleep,  and  the  communion  of  the  stars.  It 
comes  upon  one  with  new  force  in  the  pauses 
of  the  night  that  the  Chaldeans  were  a  desert- 
bred  people.  It  is  hard  to  escape  the  sense 
of  mastery  as  the  stars  move  in  the  wide, 
clear  heavens  to  risings  and  settings  un- 
obscured.  They  look  large  and  near  and 
palpitant,  as  if  they  moved  on  some  stately 
service  not  needful  to  declare.  Wheeling  to 
their  stations  in  the  sky,  they  make  the  poor 
world  fret  of  no  account.  Of  no  account 
you  vrho  lie  out  there  watching,  nor  the  lean 
coyc':e  that  stands  off  in  the  scrub  from  you 
and  howls  and  howls. 

I ,  Boyd  Smith,  who  {3  familiar  with  the 
1  mi"  which  Mrs.  Austin  writes,  has  con- 
1  -d  to  the  volume  many  striking,  artistic, 


and  accurate  drawings.  The  publishers  have 
done  their  best  to  give  the  work  a  fitting 
binding  and  general  make-up,  and  in  this  they 
have  won  success. 

Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
tcn  :  $2.00. 


Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Miss  Helen  Keller's  "  first  essay  in  original 
and  independent  authorship,"  will  be  pub- 
lished shortly  under  the  title  "  Optimism." 
The  work  is  spoken  of  by  the  publishers 
as  "  an  expression  of  the  author's  op- 
timistic philosophy,  the  creed  of  life  which 
she  has  derived  from  her  wide  knowledge  of 
books  and  history."  The  subject  was  sug- 
gested to  her  by  her  feeling  of  protest  against 
the  pessimism  of  the  "  Rubaiyat  of  Omar 
Khayyam." 

Winston  Churchill's  new  novel,  the  Mac- 
millan  Company  announces,  will  not  be  ready 
this  fall  after  all.  And  its  title,  "The  Cross- 
ing," is  still  provisional. 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  announce  the 
early  publication  of  the  American  edition  of 
"  Benjamin  Disraeli :  An  Unconventional 
Biography,"  by  Wilfrid  Meynell.  The  book  is 
made  up  mainly  of  Disraeli's  talk  and  of 
Disraeli's  letters,  gathered  from  many  and 
often  original  sources.  T.  P.  O'Connor,  by 
the  way,  speaking  of  his  biography  of  Dis- 
raeli, written  many  years  ago,  regrets  the 
partisan  spirit  he  exhibited.  "  A  biography 
of  Disraeli  written  by  me  now  would,"  he 
says,  "  be  in  a  very  different  strain.  It  is  one 
of  my  many,  as  yet,  unfulfilled  projects  to 
write  another  edition  of  the  work  brought  up 
to  date,  and  with,  I  hope,  a  little  more  sweet- 
ness and  light." 

The  Macmillan  Company  will  bring  out 
another  new  book  by  Gwendolen  Overton,  en- 
titled "  The  Captain's  Daughter."  It  is  a 
story  for  young  people,  which  has  just  finished 
its  serial  run  in  one  of  the  large  juvenile 
magazines. 

Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor  has  pictured  the'  bril- 
liant social  life  of  early  Virginia  in  a  volume 
entitled  "  The  Mother  of  Washington  and  Her 
Times,"  which  the  Macmillan  Company  is  to 
publish  soon.  Many  of  the  illustrations 
are  reproduced  from  matter  loaned  from  the 
collection  of  Colonial  pictures  owned  by  Mrs. 
Alice  Morse  Earle. 

The  last  work  done  by  the  late  philosophical 
historian,  W.  E.  H.  Lecky,  was  to  revise  his 
undergraduate  work,  "  Leaders  of  Public 
Opinion  in  Ireland,"  and  to  write  a  new  intro- 
duction for  it. 

The  new  book  by  Mortimer  and  Dorothy 
Menpes  is  "The  Durbar."  Like  "  World's  Chil- 
dren "  and  the  other  books  by  this  talented 
family,  it  consists  of  a  hundred  reproductions 
in  color  of  paintings  by  Mr.  Menpes,  while 
his  daughter  has  written  the  text. 

The  J.  B.  Lippincott  Company  announce  "  A 
History  of  Theatrical  Art  in  Ancient  and 
Modern  Times,"  by  the  Danish  actor,  Karl 
Mantzius.  in  two  volumes,  with  an  introduc- 
tion by  William  Archer;  and  "Recollections 
and  Impressions  of  James  A.  McNeill 
Whistler,"  by  Arthur  Jerome  Eddy. 

The  American  rights  in  Field-Marshal  Vis- 
count Wolseley's  "  Story  of  a  Soldier's  Life  " 
have  been  secured  by  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons,  who  will  bring  the  work  out  shortly  in 
two  volumes,  with  many  photogravure  por- 
traits, maps,  and  plans. 

Messrs.  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  are  publishing 
uniform  editions  of  the  collected  works  of 
Conan  Doyle  and  Anthony  Hope,  the  first  to 
be  complete  in  thirteen  volumes,  the  second 
in  fifteen.  This  is  the  first  authorized  and 
complete  edition  of  these  popular  authors, 
the  books  included  being  their  own  personal 
choice  as  the  permanent  result  of  their  literary 
labor,  for  which  they  have  prepared  new  intro- 
ductions and  notes. 

The  Dodge  Publishing  Company  have 
brought  out  new  holiday  editions  of  "  The 
Book  of  Cheer,"  by  Robert  Louis  Stevenson 
and  others;  "The  Book  of  Joy,"  by  Henry 
Drummond  and  others ;  and  "  The  Book  of 
Friendship,"  a  series  of  quotations  on  friend- 
ship, with  hand-colored  initial  letters  and 
title-page. 

Following  the  publication  of  John  Townsend 
Trowbridge's  interesting  autobiographic  recol- 
lections, the  announcement  is  made  of  a  new 
edition  of  his  poems.  Mr.  Trowbridge's  work 
as  a  story-writer  has  overtopped  his  work  as 
a  poet,  but  he  has  written  in  verse  through- 
out his  life,  and  has  been  a  frequent  con- 
tributor   to    magazines.      Some    of    his    work, 


such  as  "  The  Vagabonds "  and  "  Darius 
Green  and  His  Flying  Machine,"  has  been 
widely  popular.  This  new  edition  presents 
for  the  first  time  a  definitive  collection.  Many 
of  the  earlier  pieces  have  been  revised,  and 
a  careful  selection  has  been  made  by  the 
author. 

"  Food  and  Cookery  for  the  Sick  and  Con- 
valescent," by  Miss  Fannie  Merritt  Palmer, 
is  in  the  press  of  Little,  Brown  &  Co. 

Leo  Deutch's  "  Sixteen  Years  in  Siberia: 
The  Experiences  of  a  Russian  Revolutionist," 
has  been  translated  and  edited  by  Helen  Cris- 
holm.  This  is  the  personal  narrative  of  a 
revolutionist  who,  in  1901,  escaped  from  Si- 
beria. The  author  relates  in  detail  the  doings 
of  Russian  revolutionists,  the  prison  life  both 
of  men  and  women,  and  the  methods  of  the 
Russian  Government  in  suppressing  freedom  of 
thought  and  speech.  The  volume  will  contain 
portraits  and  other  illustrations. 

OLD    FAVORITES. 

Salt  Lake  City,  October  25,  1903. 
Editors  Argonaut:  I  have  seen  a  very  thrill- 
ing and  fascinating  poem  in  your  columns  entitled 
"  A  Scene  of  the  Reign  of  Terror,"  or  some  such 
title.  I  drop  this  line  to  ask  you  if  some  time 
you  will  kindly  repeat  it,  as  I  am,  and  no  doubt 
others  are,  anxious  to  read  it  again.  I  have  never 
seen   it   elsewhere.     Yours  truly,  C.   R. 

La  Tricoteuse. 

The  fourteenth  of  July  had  come. 

And  round  the   guillotine 
The  thieves  and  beggars,  rank  by  rank, 

Moved  the  red  flags  between. 
A  crimson  heart,  upon  a  pole — 

The  long  march   had  begun; 
But  still  the  little  smiling  child 

Sat  knitting  in   the  sun. 

The  red  caps  of  those  men  of  France 

Shook  like  a  poppy-field; 
Three  women's  heads,  with  gory  hair. 

The  standard-bearers  wield. 
Cursing,  with  song  and  battle-hymn, 

Five  butchers  dragg'd  a  gun; 
Yet  still  the  little  maid  sat  there, 

A-knitting    in    the    sun. 

An  axe  was  painted  on  the  flags, 

A  broken  throne  and  crown, 
A  ragged  coat,  upon   a  lance. 

Hung  in  foul  black  shreds  down.  " 
"  More  heads!"  the  seething  rabble  cry, 

And  now  the  drums  begun; 
But  still  the  little  fair-hair'd  child 

Sat  knitting  in  the  sun. 

And  every  time  a  head  roll'd  off, 

They    roll    like    winter    seas, 
And,  with  a  tossing  up  of  caps, 

Shouts   shook   the   Tuileries. 
Whizz    went   the   heavy   chopper   down. 

And  then  the  drums  begun; 
But  still  the  little  smiling  child 

Sat  knitting  in   the  sun. 

The  Jacobins,   ten  thousand  strong, 

And   every  man   a  sword; 
The    red   caps   with    the   tricolors, 

Led   on    the  noisy   horde. 
"  The  Sans  Culottes  to-day  are  strong," 

The    gossips   say,    and    run ; 
But  still  the  little  maid  sits  there, 

A-knitting  in  the  sun. 

Then  the  slow  death-cart  moved  along; 

And,  singing  patriot  songs, 
A  pale,  doom'd  poet  bowing  comes 

And  cheers  the  swaying  throngs. 
Oh,  when  the  axe  swept  shining  down, 

The   mad    drums  all  begun; 
But  smiling  still,  the  little  child 

Sat  knitting  in  the  sun. 

"  Le  marquis,"  linen  snowy  white. 

The  powder  in  his  hair, 
Waving  his   scented   handkerchief, 

Looks  down  with  careless  stare. 
A  whirr,  a  chop — another  head — 

Hurrah!    the   work's   begun; 
But  still  the  little  child  sat  there, 

A-knitting  in  the  sun. 

A  stir,  and  through  the  parting  crowd 

The  people's  friends  are  come; 
Marat  and  Robespierre — "  Vivat! 

Roll  thunder  from  the  drum," 
The  one  a  wild  beast's  hungry  eye. 

Hair  tangled — hark!  a  gun! — - 
The  other  kindly  kiss'd  the  child 

A-knitting    in    the    sun. 

"And  why  not  work  all  night?"  the  child 
Said  to  the  knitters  there. 
Oh,  how  the  furies  shook  their  sides, 

And  toss'd  their  grizzled  hair ! 
Then  clapp'd  a  bonnet  rouge  on  her, 

And   cried,    "  'Tis  well    begun!". 
And  laugh'd  to  see  the  little  child 
Knit,  smiling  in  the  sun. 

— George   Walter   Thorttbury. 


"TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN.' 


Edmund  Clarence  Stedman  contributes  the 
leading  article  to  the  November  Century 
Magazine  under  the  title  "  Life  '  On  the 
Floor.' "  Mr.  Stedman's  membership  in  the 
New  York  Stock  Exchange  dated  from  1869 
to  1900.  The  article  is  vividly  illustrated 
by  Ernest  L.  Blumenschein  and  Otto  H. 
Bacher. 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 

George    Hamlin    Fitch    in    the    San    Francisco 
Chronicle  : 

An  entertaining  book  of  travel  is  "  Two 
Argonauts  in  Spain."  by  Jerome  Hart,  and 
like  its  predecessor,  it  is  largely  made  up  of 
letters  which  Mr.  Hart  wrote  from  Europe 
to  the  San  Francisco  Argonaut,  of  which  he 
is  the  editor.  The  volume  is  noteworthy  as  a 
specimen  of  local  book-making,  for  it  is 
printed  by  The  Argonaut  Press  from  new 
Caslon  type  on  heavy  linen  papci,  and  it  bears 
the  imprint  of  Payot,  Upham  &  Co.  With  its 
many  illustrations  from  photographs,  and  its 
artistic  binding,  it  is  a  very  handsome  book. 
This  record  of  travel  in  a  land  that  is  me- 
morable mainly  for  its  historic  interest,  is  full 
of  unconventional  things,  often  put  in  pithy 
phrase,  but  it  gives  the  reader  a  better  idea  of 
Spain  and  the  Spanish  people  than  many  more 
pretentious  books.  There  is  frequent  com- 
parison between  the  land  and  the  people,  and 
California  and  Californians,  which  serves  to 
make  clearer  some  of  the  author's  points.  The 
glamour  of  romance  that  hangs  about  so  many 
things  in  Spain  did  not  prevent  the  author 
from  seeing  life  as  it  is,  and  from  giving  a 
faithful  account  of  his  "disillusion  in  regard 
to  several  famous  historic  relics.  The  Alhambra 
he  found  disappointing  at  first,  because  of  the 
horde  of  greedy  guides  and  touts  and  the  mob 
of  globe-trotters  who  evidently  had  no  motive 
other  than  to  see  the  place  in  the  shortest 
time.  But  when  he  came  to  linger  over  his 
visit,  memory  called  up  many  or  the  beauties 
of  the  Moorish  palace:  still  he  thinks  that 
most  writers  exaggerate  their  emotions  when 
viewing  the  beauties  of  the  Alhambra,  and  he 
quotes  from  George  Ticknor  a  rather  florid 
passage  which  seems  to  bear  out  his  charge. 

One  of  the  striking  things  in  the  book  is 
Mr.  Hart's  theory  that  the  degeneration  of 
Spain  is  due  to  the  abuse  of  the  cigarette 
habit.  No  boy  or  man  in  Spain  is  found 
without  a  cigarette,  and  the  result  is  that 
coughing  is  universal  and  pneumonia  the  com- 
plaint which  carries  off  the  men.  Every  Span- 
iard appears  to  be  in  terror  of  changes  of  tem- 
perature, and  wraps  himself  in  a  heavy  cloak 
or  shawl  whenever  he  ventures  out  at  night. 
But  the  women,  who  do  not  smoke,  are  plump. 
They  show  no  fear  of  taking  cold,  and  the 
records  show  that  pneumonia  claims  only  a 
small  percentage.  Whatever  the  merits  of 
this  tobacco  theory  of  Spanish  degeneration, 
it  is  worth  some  thought,  and  it  is  very 
strongly  put.  Many  amusing  incidents  en- 
livened this  visit  to  Spain,  and  the  author 
tells  his  stories  well,  with  a  fine  appreciation 
of  the  humor  which  he  was  often  unable  to 
impart  to  the  Spaniards  that  he  met  because 
of  difficulties  with  the  language.  Mr.  Hart's 
book  may  be  warmly  commended  to  those 
who  must  travel  b}'  proxy,  as  there  isn't  a  dull 
page  in  it. 

How  "L'Abbe  Tigrane"  Was  Written. 
In  an  article  in  the  London  Publishers' 
Weekly,  Adolph  Brisson  tells  how  Ferdi- 
nand Fabre  came  to  write  "  L'Abbe  Tigrane." 
Fabre,  who  had  been  educated  in  a  seminary, 
had  twice  felt  called  to  enter  a  monastery,  and 
twice  given  up  the  idea.  But,  while  he  re- 
mained a  layman,  he  always  took  great  interest 
in  everything  appertaining  to  the  priesthood, 
and,  having  made  some  name  as  a  novelist,  he 
decided  to  write  a  story  of  clerical  life.  In 
1S71,  after  the  war  and  the  Commune  were 
over,  he  met  an  old  school  friend,  now  a  poor 
curate  in  the  Cevennes.  He  told  Fabre  many 
things,  among  others,  the  story  of  a  bishop 
whose  liberal  views  had  made  him  an  object  of 
suspicion  to  his  ultramontane  clergy: 

The  poor  curate  added  that  the  bishop's 
clergy  so  disliked  that  liberal-minded  man  that 
when  he  died  in  another  diocese,  and  his  body 
was  brought  back  for  interment,  arriving  late 
in  the  evening  at  the  episcopal  palace,  the 
coffin  was  pushed  by  the  cathedral  chapter  and 
some  of  the  city  clergy  into  the  stable,  and 
left  for  the  night  at  the  feet  of  the  bishop's 
horses  !  It  is  this  instance  of  clerical  intoler- 
ance which  contains  the  germ  of  the  "  Abbe 
Tigrane."  Fearing  he  might  be  accused  of 
telling  an  improbable  story,  Fabre  only  left  the 
body  in  the  cathedral  yard,  and  not  in  the 
episcopal  stable. 

Fabre  wrote  out  a  slight  sketch  and  sub- 
mitted it  to  Sarcey,  who  at  once  urged  him  to 
make  a  novel  of  it.  He  did  so.  It  ran  through 
the  Temps  as  a  feuilleton.  and  has  since  gone 
through  many  editions.  Also  it  resulted  in  the 
loss  to  the  author  of  legacies,  old  friends,  and 
of  a  chair  in  the  French  Academy. 


It  is  announced  in  the  English  press  that 
the  first  impression  of  twenty  thousand  copies 
of  John  Morley's  "  Life  of  Gladstone "  has. 
already  been  exhausted. 


November  16,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


335 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Marriage  in  Egypt,  B.  C.  92. 

The  sort  of  anger  that  makes  a  man  cuss 
the  stone  he  has  stubbed  his  toe  on  was  the 
means  whereby  Mrs.  Hearst's  Egyptian 
archaeological  expedition  achieved  its  greatest 
triumphs.  An  ordinary  workman,  mad  be- 
cause they  had  found  mummied  crocodiles 
where  they  expected  to  find  sarcophagi, 
impiously  broke  one  of  the  sacred  crocodiles 
in  half  with  his  shovel,  disclosing  the  sur- 
prising fact  that  the  carcass  was  wrapped  in 
sheets  of  papyrus,  covered  with  Greek  char- 
acters. It  is  the  text,  translations,  and  notes 
upon  these  crocodile  papyri  that  fill  a  large 
octavo  volume,  entitled  "  The  Tebtunis 
Papyri."  This  is  the  first  of  the  University 
of  California  Publications  in  Graeco-Roman 
Archaeology,  and  is  edited  by  Bernard  P.  Gren- 
fell,  D.  Litt.,  M.  A.,  of  Oxford;  and  J. 
Hunt,  D.  Litt.,  M.  A.,  also  of  Oxford;  and  J. 
Gilbert  Smyly,  M.  A.,  of  Trinity  College. 
Dublin. 

It  might  be  thought  that  this  volume  would 
have  little  interest  except  to  the  scholar,  but 
that  is  far  from  the  fact.  The  documents, 
which  are  of  the  most  miscellaneous  charac- 
ter— including  literary  fragments,  royal  ordi- 
nances, official  correspondence,  petitions  of 
outraged  citizens,  applications  for  a  job,  let- 
ters from  Egyptian  Joneses  to  Coptic  Browns 
anent  water-rights,  crop  reports,  records  of 
land  surveys,  tax  receipts,  leases,  a  marriage 
contract,  bills  of  sale — have  a  good  deal  of 
human  interest.  For  instance,  on  page  12S, 
there  is  printed  a  letter  from  Hermias  to 
Horus.  introducing  Lucius  Memmius,  a  Ro- 
man tourist.  "  Let  him  be  received  with 
special  magnificence,"  writes  Hermias,  "  and 
take  care  that  at  the  proper  spots  the  cham- 
bers be  prepared,  and  the  landing-places  to 
them  be  got  ready,  and  that  the  gifts  of  hospi- 
tality below  written  be  presented  to  him  at 
the  landing-place,  and  that  the  furniture  cf 
the  chamber,  the  customary  tit-bits  for  Pete- 
suches  and  the  crocodiles,  the  necessaries  for 
the  view  of  the  labyrinth."  etc.  Evidently 
Lucius  had  a  good  time  and  saw  the  elephant. 

Again,  among  the  complaints  to  the  authori- 
ties we  find  one  which  accuses  Pyrrhichus.  a 
cavalryman,  and  Heracleus,  a  civilian,  with 
having  "  invaded  our  house  with  many  other 
persons  armed  with  swords  and  incontinently 
knocked  down  the  street  door.  .  .  .  Having 
effected  an  entry,  .  .  .  they  carried  off  the 
articles  mentioned  below  [a  door  of  tamrisk- 
wood.  two  hoes,  and  two  hundred  drachmae 
of  copper]."  But  this  was  not  the  worst  of 
the  outrage-  The  petition  continues  :  "  We, 
therefore,  being  hindered  in  our  work,  and 
that,  too.  white  the  water  is  out,  present  to 
you  this  complaint."  etc.  We  trust  that  Cali- 
fornia irrigation  farmers  will  appreciate  the 
inconvenience  of  having  your  front  door 
knocked  down  while  "  the  water  is  out "  on 
the  land,  and  you  are  all-fired  busy. 

Of  the  purely  literary  fragments  there  are 
only  a  few.  Several  are  couplets  on  love. 
One  of  them  runs:  "  In  admonishing  a  lover 
you  are  ignorant  that  you  are  seeking  to 
quench  a  smoldering  fire  with  oil."  Another 
says  :  "  A  lover's  spirit,  as  a  torch  fanned  by 
the  wind,  is  ndw  ablaze,  and  now  again  dies 
away."  A  third  passage  which  the  editors 
venture  to  translate  only  into  Latin  represents 
a  debauchee  on  his  death-bed  giving  instruc- 
tions for  his  bones  to  be  burned  and  pounded, 
and  then  used  as  a  remedy  for  sufferers  from 
similar  excesses. 

Most  of  the  documents  here  printed  date 
from  about  100  B.  C,  and,  taken  as  a  whole, 
give  a  graphic  picture  of  rural  life  at  that 
time.  Much  light  is  thrown  on  the  laws  and 
customs  regarding  irrigation  works,  privately 
owned  and  crown  lands,  taxation,  public  mo- 
lopolies,  etc.  One  of  the  most  interesting 
japyri  is  a  complete  marriage  contract,  the 
snly  complete  one  of  the  Ptolemaic  period 
mown.     Here  is  the  gist  of  it : 

Philiscus,  son  of  Apollonius,  Persian,  of 
he  Epigone,  acknowledges  to  Apollonia  also 
<ellauthis,  daughter  of  Heraclides,  Persian, 
vith  her  guardian,  her  brother  Apollonius, 
hat  he  has  received  from  her  in  copper  money 
wo  talents,  four  thousand  drachmae, the  dowry 
or  Apollonia  agreed  upon  with  him.  Apol- 
onia  shall  remain  with  Philiscus,  obeying  him 
&  a  wife  should  her  husband,  owning  their 
•roperty  in  common  with  him.  Philiscus 
hall  supply  to  Apollonia  all  necessaries  and 
lothing.  and  whatever  is  proper  for  a  wedded 
fife,  whether  he  is  at  home  or  abroad,  so 
ar  as  their  property  shall  admit.  It  shall  not 
e  lawful  for  Philiscus  to  bring  in  any  other 
fife  but  Apollonia.  nor  to  keep  a  concubine, 
r  lover,  nor  to  beget  children  by  another 
roman  in  Apoilonia's  lifetime,  nor  to  live  in 
nother  house  over  which  Apollonia  is  not 
1  |  listress,  nor  to  eject,  or  insult,  or  ill-treat  her. 
or  to  alienate  any  of  their  property  to  Apol- 
j  Jnia's  disadvantage.  If  he  is  shown  to  be 
oing  any  of  these  things,  or  does  not  supply 
;  er  with  necessaries  and  clothing  and  the  rest 
,  s  has  been  said,  Philiscus  shall  forfeit  forth- 


with to  Apollonia  the  dowry  of  two  talents, 
four  thousand  drachmae  of  copper.  In  the 
same  way.  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  Apollonia 
to  spend  the  night  or  day  away  from  the  house 
of  Philiscus  without  Philiscus's  consent,  or 
to  have  intercourse  with  another  man,  or  to 
ruin  the  common  household,  or  to  bring  shame 
upon  Philiscus  in  anything  that  causes  a  hus- 
band shame.  If  Apollonia  wishes  of  her  own 
will  to  separate  from  Philiscus.  Philiscus 
shall  repay  her  the  bare  dowry  within  ten 
days  from  the  day  it  is  demanded  back.  If 
he  does  not  repay  it  as  has  been  stated,  he 
shall  forthwith  forfeit  the  dowry  he  has  re- 
ceived, increased  by  one  half. 

Published     by      Henry      Froude,      London ; 
£2  ss- 


PATTI    IN    NEW    YORK. 


The  Diva  at  Sixty. 


All  the  New  York  critics  are  agreed  that 
Adelina  Patti  at  sixty  is  a  wonderful  woman. 
But  they  are  forced  to  admit,  also,  that  with 
the  exception  of  her  upper  middle  register, 
the  voice  of  the  once  acknowledged  Queen 
of  Song  is  only  a  shadow  of  what  it  was.  Of 
her  personal  appearance  at  her  opening  con- 
cert at  Carnegie  Hall,  which  was  crowded  to 
the  doors,  the  New  York  Sun  says  : 

Patti  carries  her  sixty  years  lightly.  Her  face 
is  lined,  and  the  most  generous  make-up  will 
not  hide  the  ravages  of  time.  But  the  figure, 
that  exquisite  figure,  which  was  always  a 
wonder,  is  still  in  the  prime  of  life  and  bids 
fair  to  outlive  the  face.  The  gown  worn  by 
the  famous  singer  was  a  stunning  creation. 
The  diva's  voice  has  certainly  lost  the  fresh- 
ness of  youth,  and  has  taken  on  a  slight  acid- 
ity, but  at  the  same  time  it  is  far  and  away 
the  freshest  voice  that  has  been  heard  from  so 
old  a  throat  in  our  time.  Some  of  the  tones 
heard  were  those  of  a  woman  in  the  fullness 
of  her  powers.  But  some  others  showed  signs 
of  wear,  especially  after  the  singer  had  sung 
twice.  To  those  who  know  what  Patti  was 
twenty  years  ago  it  is  saddening  to  hear  her 
to-day.  To  those  who  never  heard  her  before, 
there  must  have  come  questionings  as  to  how 
she  ever  attained  her  celebrity.  The  younger 
generation  of  music-lovers  have  been  accus- 
tomed to  singers  who  had  ideals  of  intellec- 
tuals and  aesthetics  quite  unknown  to  the  di- 
vine Patti.  To  them  this  curious  old  lady 
with  an  octave  of  astonishing  tones  will  sug- 
gest little. 

The  New  York  Evening  Post,  after  com- 
menting on  the  inevitable  ravages  of  time, 
says : 

In  her  stage  demeanor  the  great  prima 
donna  has  not  changed.  She  is  apparently  as 
much  surprised  at  her  bouquets  and  her  ap- 
plause as  ever,  and  she  loves  to  play  her 
pranks  on  the  audience.  She.  whose  memory 
is  proverbial,  came  forward  with  a  sneet  of 
music  from  which  she  pretended  to  sing  "  The 
Last  Rose  of  Summer."  which  every  child 
knows  by  heart,  and  which  she  has  sung  in 
public  3,679  times.  She  also  cast  a  glance  at 
Signor  Sapio's  "Home  Sweet  Home"  sheet, 
to  make  quite  sure  of  her  part.  This  song 
she  has  sung  7,984  times :  and  when  she  sang 
it  for  the  7,985th  time  last  night  there  were 
some  in  the  audience  who  quite  agreed  with 
her  that  there  is  no  place  like  home,  and 
wished  they  had  remained  there. 

The  New  York  Tribune  looks  upon  Patti's 
farewell   tour  as   a  mockery,   and   declares : 

In  the  voice  of  the  singer  there  were  faint 
echoes  of  the  past:  in  her  art  not  a  single  re- 
minder. An  orchestra  sat  on  the  stage,  but  it 
was  not  permitted  to  play  in  either  the  oper- 
atic air  or  the  vocal  waltz,  which  Signor 
Sapio  accompanied  on  a  pianoforte  in  trans- 
posed keys.  Only  in  the  middle  register  of 
the  voice  were  there  suggestions  of  the  old 
lusciousness  of  tone  and  that  purity  of  in- 
tonation which,  at  a  banquet  given  in  1884: 
to  celebrate  Mme.  Patti's  twenty-fifth  operatic 
anniversary.  William  Steinway  lauded  as  "so 
dear  to  the  ear  of  an  old  piano  tuner."  Mme. 
Patti  singing  out  of  time.  Mme.  Patti  gasping 
for  breath,  Mme.  Patti  chopping  phrases  into 
quivering  bits  without  thought  or  compunc- 
tion, Mme.  Patti  producing  tones  in  a  manner 
that  ought  to  be  held  up  as  a  warning  example 
to  every  novice,  Mme.  Patti  devoid  of  all  but 
a  shadow  of  that  tone  of  opulent  beauty,  of 
that  incomparable  technical  skill  which  used 
to  make  dalliance  with  the  things  which  were 
insurmountable  difficulties  to  others,  of  that 
reposefulness  of  style  which  used  to  rest  on 
all  she  did  like  a  benediction — that  was  the 
singer  who  entertained  the  curious  and  grieved 
the  judicious  last  night. 

The  New  York  Times  remarks : 

Patti's  trills  were  short  in  duration  and  sub- 
dued in  tone,  the  runs,  delivered  with  caution 
rather  than  with  dash,  and  her  high  notes 
were  far  from  pure  in  their  quality.  .  .  .  Her 
warmest  admirers,  and  those  who  can  best  ap- 
preciate what  a  wonderful  thing  her  art  was 
in  the  long  years  of  its  prime,  are  the  very 
ones  who  must  most  deeply  lament  the  ex- 
hibition of  it.  and  of  her,  at  this  time. 

The  Commercial  Advertiser's  critic  says  : 

What  still  remains  of  Patti's  voice  is  sound, 
although,  naturally,  most  of  its  old  sweetness 
is  gone.  It  has  none  of  those  yawning  gaps 
which  usually  come  with  waning  powers.  It 
has  been  shortened  at  the  top  and  shortened 
at  the  bottom,  but  what  remains  between  still 
has  power,  and,  at  places,  beauty.  Now  she 
must  stop  at  A,  and  it  is  an  effort  for  her  to 
reach  it — she  will  even  sing  false  on  G — but 
it  is  infinitely  a  greater  tribute  to  the  skill 
with  which  she  has  nursed  her  powers  that 
the  top  of  her  voice  has  gone  instead  of  the 
middle.     The  quality  has  coarsened  with   the 


departure  of  the  mellowness,  yet  there  is  still 
much  power,  a  surprising  amount,  and  still  an 
almost  complete  command  of  it.  Now  and 
then  the  ear  was  shocked  by  false  intonation, 
but  it  did  not  happen  very  often  ;  in  fact,  it 
was  only  in  her  second  part  of  the  programme 
that  the  false  singing  became  very  apparent, 
and  then  one  could  easily  see  that  she  was 
tiring.  That  is  another  penalty  that  years 
bring. 

Patti  was  in  better  voice  at  her  second  con- 
cert— a  matinee — singing  with  more  spirit  and 
freedom.  At  the  close  of  the  performance 
hundreds  of  women  surged  down  the  aisles  to 
the  footlights  to  shake  her  hand. 


Automobile  Notes. 

Successful  beyond  doubt  was  the  automo- 
bile race  meet  of  the  California  Club,  and  the 
speeding  of  the  time-destroying  carriages  on 
the  three  days  last  week  pleased  every  one 
of  the  thousands  that  were  on  hand  at  In- 
gleside  to  see  the  devil-wagons  go  the  mile 
close  to  the  minute  mark.  Of  course,  the  ap- 
pearance of  Barney  Oldfield.  the  world's  cham- 
pion automobile  driver,  lent  color  to  the  meet, 
for  he  broke  many  Coast  records.  In  fact,  on 
Sunday  afternoon,  an  ideal  auto  day.  the 
American  champion  came  within  one-fifth 
of  a  second  of  lowering  the  mile  record  that 
has  made  him  famous.  Early  in  the  after- 
noon the  starters  for  the  ten-mile  race 
were  called.  Barney  Oldfield  came  out  seated 
in  his  one-hundred-and-twenty  horse-power 
horseless  carriage.  Bullet  No.  2.  The  only 
car  game  enough  to  enter  against  Old- 
field  in  this  ten-mile  free-for-all  was  the 
White  steamer,  driven  by  H.  D.  Ryus. 
Oldfield  sent  his  Bullet  around  the  first  four 
miles  in  4:03^,  and  it  was  on  the  fifth  lap 
that  he  made  the  glorious  ride  of  "  fifty-six  " 
for  the  mile.  "  It  was  the  best  ride  that  I 
ever  made,"  said  a  modest-looking"  young  man 
after  the  event.  The  speaker  was  Barney 
Oldfield.  the  most  daring  of  all  motor-vehicle 
drivers. 

Among  others  who  witnessed  the  races  from 
automobiles  on  Friday  and  Saturday  after- 
noons were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Buckbee. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gus  Costigan.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A. 
A.  Moore,  Jr..  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson  Shiels. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Knight.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Frederick  W.  McNear.  Mrs.  Augustus  Taylor. 
Mrs.  William  H.  Taylor.  Jr..  Mrs.  Eugene  B. 
Murphy,  Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels.  Jr..  Mrs. 
Rudolph  Spreckels.  Miss  McNear.  Miss  Bertha 
Dolbeer.  Miss  Warren.  Miss  Bolton,  Miss 
Gertrude  Dutton,  Miss  Pearl  Landers.  Miss 
Lucy  King,  Miss  Ethyl  Hager.  Mr.  R.  P. 
Schwerin.  Mr.  Harry  Holbrook.  and  Mr.  Orrin 
Peck. 

During  the  meet,  the  Toledo  touring  car. 
belonging  to  the  National  Automobile  Com- 
pany, attracted  much  attention.  This  twenty- 
four  horse-power  gasoline  stock  machine 
proved  itself  a  wonder  by  winning  seven 
different  prizes.  Twice  on  the  opening 
day.  twice  on  the  next,  and  once  on  the  third 
did  this  speedy  stock  car,  with  two  aboard— 
W.  E.  Saunders  driving  and  one  to  balance  it 
on  the  turns — come  over  the  tape  ahead  of 
its  competitors.  The  best  time  made  was 
6:25^  for  five  miles.  This  was  in  the  open 
event  on  the  first  day  for  cars  legitimately 
owned  in  California.  The  big  French  Mors, 
the  twelve-thousand-dollar  machine,  could 
not  even  press  the  Toledo.  The  latter  also 
won  the  five-mile  race  for  gasoline  cars  only, 
of  twenty-four  horse-power  and  under,  and  on 
Saturday  won  this  same  event  and  also  the  sev- 
enth. On  the  last  day  this  speedy  car  beat 
two  Franklins  in  a  five-mile  event. 

The  little  Franklin  racer  also  deserves  quite 
a  bit  of  credit  for  its  races.  It  holds  several 
world  records.  It  is  owned  by  Messrs.  F.  A. 
Jacobs  and  E.  Courtney  Ford,  and  was  driven 
to  victory  in  several  events  by  W.  F.  Winches- 
ter. 

The  Whites  also  did  remarkably  well.  H. 
D.  Ryus  and  Walter  Grothe  carrying  off 
twelve  prizes.  In  the  race  on  Friday  for  cars 
of  eighteen  hundred  pounds  and  under.  Walter 
Grothe.  in  a  ten-horse-power  White  touring  car 
actually  beat  Barney  Oldfield  and  his  Baby 
Bullet,  and  also  defeated  Whittel's  Mors 
in  the  fast  time  of  6  :o4%-  The  next 
day,  however,  Oldfield  beat  the  White. 
Nevertheless,  to  Grothe  belongs  the  honor  of 
being  one  of  the  very  few  who  ever  made  the 
champion  taste  defeat.  The  time  made  by 
Walter  Grothe  in  the  race  in  which  he  de- 
feated the  champion  is,  outside  of  the 
time  made  by  the  Bullets,  the  fastest  time 
for  five  miles  which  was  made  at  the  meet, 
and  the  phenomenal  time  of  1  :og4i  was  much 
faster  than  any  mile  run  by  any  other  ma- 
chine. Grothe  made  the  best  times  ever  made 
bv  a  White  stock  machine. 

The  little  Oldsmobile.  owned  by  the  Pioneer 
Automobile  Company,  also  covered  itself  with 
glory  on  the  first  day  of  the  meet,  by  annex- 
ing the  highest  honors  in  two  events. 

George  Fuller,  in  the  novelty  race  on  Sat- 
urday, in  a  Winton  touring  car.  made  ex- 
ceptionally fast  time,  carrying  four  people 
over  two  miles  in   3  :57      ■ 

The  two-mile  race  in  which  autocars  were 
entered  was  also  a  good  one.  Wallace  Ever- 
ett covered  the  distance  in  fast  time  with  his 
autocar.  The  new  autocai  agency,  by  the 
way,  has  located  at   123  City  Hal!  Avenue. 

Harold  B.  Larzalere.  of  the  Pacific  Motor 
Car  Company,  has  returned  from  the  East, 
and  says  that  his  company  is  to  have  as  an 
expert  to  take  charge  of  the  garage.  Mr. 
Dohrmann.  former  superintendent  of  the 
American  Garage  in  New  York  City.  The 
Packard  Company's  new  car.  the  new  machine 
that  the  St.  Louis  Car  Company  is  putting 
out.  and  also  samples  of  the  Jones-Cobin 
Company's  beautiful  machines,  will  all  be  here 
soon  at  the  garage  of  the  Pacific  Motor  Car 
Company. 


Maeterlinck's  New/  Play. 
According  to  the  correspondent  of  the  Lon- 
don Globe,  Brussels  playgoers  witnessed  a 
strange  scene  the  other  night.  M.  Maeter- 
linck's name  has  been  a  word  to  conjure  with 
in  Belgium,  and  the  whole  city  had  flocked  to 
see  his  new  play.  "  The  Miracle  of  St.  An- 
thony." in  the  full  anticipation  of  being 
treated  to  pretty-  philosophy  and  fine  language. 
The  contrast  was  simply  grotesque.  The 
"  miracle "  lies  in  the  saint  "appearing  "  at 
a  wealthy  house,  of  which  the  mistress  is 
lying  dead,  with  intent  to  restore  her  to  life. 
and.  despite  being  badgered  by  the  footman 
and  bullied  by  the  family,  he  docs  so  in  the 
second  act,  only  to  be  insulted  then  by  the 
revivified  woman  herself,  whose  tongue  he 
paralyzes,  "  to  prevent  her  revealing  the 
secrets  of  the  other  world."  this  drawing  upon 
him  further  persecution  by  the  family. 
Finally,  at  the  close  of  the  play,  the  saint 
is  seen  escaping  from  the  police,  who  have 
"  recognized  him  as  an  escaped  lunatic."  The 
audience  had  some  difficulty  in  making  up 
their  minds  how  to  receive  this  strance  pro- 
duction. As  the  finale  came  they  hissed  vig- 
orously. 

New  Yorkers  this  fall  are  enjoying  a  not- 
able dramatic  season.  Last  week  the  follow- 
ing well-known  actors  were  appearing  at  the 
various  theatres :  Henry  Irving,  Blanche 
Bates,  John  Drew.  Maxine  Elliott.  Tyrone 
Power.  Charlotte  Wiehe.  Edward  Harrican. 
Cecilia  Loftus.  Sidney  Herbert.  Mrs.  Yea- 
mans.  William  Collier.  Agnes  Booth.  Kyrle 
Bellew,  Jessie  Millward.  Charles  Hawtrey. 
Francis  Wilson.  Richard  Mansfield.  Rose 
Coghlan.  William  H.  Crane.  Fanny  Brough. 
E.  H.  Sothern,  Annie  Irish.  George  Arliss. 
Alison  Skipworth.  T.  E.  Dodson.  Margaret 
Dale.  Fuller  Mellish.  Grace  EDiston.  J.  K. 
Hackett.  Mabel  Hackney,  and  Frank   Daniels. 


A  strange  coincidence  is  related  in  con- 
nection with  Forbes  Robertson's  powerful 
impersonation  of  the  blind  artist  lover  in 
"  The  Light  that  Failed."  During  the  height 
of  the  London  success  of  this  dramatization 
of  Kipling's  novel,  Maxine.  the  two-year-old 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Forbes  Robertson. 
was  stricken  with  a  malady  that  necessitated 
the  removal  of  the  right  eye.  The  child,  dur- 
ing the  tour  of  her  parents,  is  staying  with 
her  aunt  and  godmother.  Mrs.  Maxine  Elliott- 
Goodwin,  and  retains  the  use  of  the  other 
eye ;  but  her  parents  are  said  to  be  in  hourly 
terror  that  the  disease  may  soon  doom  their 
little    one    to   perpetual    darkness. 


"  Way  Down  East."  the  most  successful 
rural  drama,  is  to  return  to  the  Columbia 
Theatre  soon  for  another  engagement.  This 
is  the  seventh  year  of  the  play,  and  its  popu- 
larity seems  to  be  almost  as  strong  as  when 
it  was  first  brought  out. 


Little  Lolita  Armour,  whom  Dr.  Lorenz.  of 
Vienna,  treated  for  a  dislocated  hip.  is  so  far 
recovered  that  she  is  able,  to  dance.  She  has 
entered  a  private  dancing  academy,  and  is  al- 
ready able  to  move  with  nearly  all  the  free- 
dom of  other  children. 


MB.  BARNEY  OLDFIELD  OFFERS 
TO  WAGER  $1,000  HE  WILL 
BREAK  HIS  RECORD  BEFORE 
LEAVING  THE  PACIFIC  COAST. 


Mr.  Oldfield  says  he  considers 
his  record  of  56  seconds  at  Ingleside 
on  Sunday.  Nov.  8th.  to  be  4  seconds 
faster  than  he  ever  rode  before. 

HE  RODE  A  WINTON. 


Pioneer  Automobile  Co. 

Sole  Pucillc  Agent- 

1622  HARKET  STREET. 
V. J 


TOLEDO  DAYS. 


Did  you  see  the  Toledo  speed  at 
Ingleside  race  ?  It  proved  itself  to 
be  the  speediest  stock  touring  car  in 
America,  regardless  of  cost. 

We  used  a  regular  stock  car.  4 
cylinder,  taken  from  our  salesroom, 
with  the  body  removed. 

We  carried  two  men.  used  no 
windshields,  yet  won  more  prizes 
than  any  other  two  machines. 

Orders  taken  for  IQ04  models. 


NATIONAL  AUTOMOBILE  AND= 
—MANUFACTURERS  CO. 


134-148  Golden  Gate  Ave. 


336 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  16,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Pseudo-Gospels. 
The    K<a     Junes    1 

■    .  ndarj    I-'*1'  oi  l  hi  '"'■" 
■ 
la    the    clergy.      In    '  '  *     ,,f    t,ir    mosl 

fav.-iii..-  ■  '•  ndency    thai 

mnn>   a  long  day.     What  the 
est  thi 
■  1    heretical    di  lating   to   Chi  is) 

. 

Of     ihr     * 

■ 

in   the  text.     Of  court*,   thi 

ibe   truth;   bul  wints  out, 

"  ■  monument  of  whal  many  men  of 

med,    and 

d    BDOUl    thai    life   ol  111.  1.  91 

and  unparalleled  influence."     Much  "f  the  matter, 

from    a   liter. if  >    poinl    >»f   view,    is   crude. 

common]  ■'  se.  Bui 

.    ■      onenta.  all  1 

i>    itrenglhen,    rather    than    weaken,    the 
argument  for  the  supernatural  origin 
point,  the  author  says; 

n,   ami   one   which   it   can    nol 

n     the    mosl    casual     reader, 

1  with  the  minimum  of  literary  and  critical 

thai    "f    the    utter    unlikeness    of    this 

literature   lo  thi  !    ihe    New   Tc-I.i 

1  superficial  likeness,   it   everywhere 

dctnonsti  md    shows 

that,    not    alone    <li<l    the    Four    Gospels    have    no 

in   the   early   church,   bul    that    the 

combined    heretie.il    effort    of    all    sui  1  •  1  ding    ages 

ipablc   "f    imitating    them    successfully.      I 

■1       ion   convincing  testimony  than 

this   to   the   entirely   exceptional,   and,   to   use   an 

llai     term.     supernatural     inspiration     of     the 

1     ipels." 
Published    by    the    Nfacmillan    Company.    New 

Y-'rk:    $.'..SO. 

True  Romance 

\Vh)  Is  of   the   daj  "   when   true  rn- 

'  Lovi      Vffairs   "f    Mary   Queen 

•hi    shelves.    holding  a   power 

t.i    thrill,     instruct,    and     interest     beyond     words 

1  it  is  nol  a  pretty  story,  that  of 

lusts    and    loves;    >i    is    Balxacian    rather 

than   like   the  pretty.    t>    "      Stories    written    hy   nice 

bul    still    it    is    true,    and    it    is    life. 

and    it    is    history.       The    author.    Nfartin    Hume,    is 

an     historical     Student     "f    note,     and     the    book     is 

lining   narrative,   hut    entirely 
authoritative;     We   may  quite  a   few  lines  on   the 
character  of  the  queen:     "There  must  have  been 
-      "  in    the    queen's    expression 
or    manner    thus    to    inspire    men    with    sexual    pas- 
ithcr    than    high-minded    devotion    nr    fear 
of    her  .  .  .  when    she    unhent    in    her    exuberant 
life    and    avidity    for    pleasure,    she    drew 
in -t   by  sweel   feminine   » iles,   and  the  un- 
m    of    an    ardent 
■  I         urn  'iindcn1   her  could 
deratand     how     a     woman     could     he    light- 
hearted  a    strumpet:    gaiety    and    vice 
were    in    then  try    concomitants;    the 
were   good,   especially 
icra.*' 
Published    by     McClure,     Phillips    ft    Co.,     New 
York. 

The  Reverend  Brady  Prunes  Warren. 

Townsend  Bi  idy  has  now  turned  his 
ministerial  hand  |o  what  he  himself  calls  "a  job 
of  literary  piracy."  He  has  taken  Samuel  War 
rrn**  three  volui  I  en   Thousand  a  Year  " 

— which  wu  *  bout  the   middle  -if   lasl 

:ed   'i   till   now  it   fills  onlv  a 

•ingle     thick     volume.        The     characters     of     Oily 

-1      T  ittlcbat      l  rcmouse,    Tag-rag,     Quirk, 

ip,   have  1>ern   made  more   prominent    by    the 

rt,   while   tlie   Aubreys    bavi    been    sacrificed 

Of   an    ocean   nf   tears," 

■■     Reverend     Brady,    "  lea  vine    only    a    few 

how   wmat  the  old  novel   was. 

and    1    h  Kate    Audrey    of 

tocl     1    Sunday* 

11     whether 

the  bool         ■   nami  d 
Mill    di  Thousand     1    Year "    in    the 

■ 
Ihr    pul  '  ■  e,    printinii    the 

The    illustrations,    by 
\\  .11    Crawford,    numbering    sixty    odd,    are    also 

II     < 

Crowell'i  Handy  Climate*. 

t   1 1  indj    \  olui 

■  idi 
bound    in    red 

■ 

thin,    and    lh<     '1  ontii  1 

c  books  art 

'■  1  ii/.i 

■  1 1. 

Humour," 
Phil     ler,"    with 

.     .    ! 
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terg";     "  Thi 

■  ■ 

Pa  1  and 

1         ■  ■  II     IM 

1 
\\    J  I     1  ■ 

I      Y-rl. 
"BtulUlicinn  nnd  Economist." 

Ot  i>I  ed  on  tin 

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01   worn, 

nol    only 

■ 
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!  i  San   Francisco;  $3.50. 


MAGAZINE    VERSE. 


The  Rain. 
In  the  night  so  dark  and  dreamli 
Dreamless  and  dark  and  still, 
There  comes  a  gracious  presence, 
•   bill. 

Stepping    scross   the   city, 

"  >vci    the   waiting   lawn, 
foul  in  )  ing    ■  ■"    nnd   onward, 

From  darkness  into  dawn. 

1  o,   ni   the  Autumn  morning, 
I  look  front  my  window's  height, 

her    fast    retreating, 
Lost    in    the    halls   of   light; 

.lust   a  ghost  on  the  hillside, 

I  li.     smoki     of    her    dusky    hair. 
The   wealth   of  a  million  jewels 
Shimmering  through   the  air. 

Hail    to  our  gracious   Lady! 

Her  kindly   work  is  done, 
And   the  whole  round   world   is  laughing 

Under   the    rising  sun! 

'    Mitfler  Hopkins   in    the  Bookman. 


Sweet  Cider. 
The    dapper    waiter    lingers — 

What    shall    I    drink    to-night? 
I     turn,     with    listless    fingers, 
The   wine  list   to   the   light; 
And  white  I  scan   it,  thinking; 

Thai    wine    has    lost    its    charm, 
I   dream   once  more  of  drinking 
Sweet  cider  at  the  farm. 

From    granddad's    ancient   settle, 

Before    the   crackling   blaze, 
I   watch   the  singing  kettle — 

A   merry   tune   it   plays. 
There,    when    the  corn    was    snapping, 

Ami    apples    sizzed    and    steamed, 
With   granddad  slyly  napping. 

My  sweetest  dreams  were  dreamed. 

The  winter  wind,  snow  laden. 

Coaxed  up  the  roaring  flames, 
And    there  a   rosy  maiden 

Sat  hy  and  played  me  games: 
There   Love,    who   heard   the  clinking 

O  f    glasses,    came    and    saw 
Two    happy    lovers    drinking 

Sweet  cider  through    a   straw. 

Snug  sheltered    from   the   weather, 

At    Boreas   we   laughed, 
And  quenched  our  thirst  together 

In    that    cool    amber    draught, 
Th.it    drink   of   granddad's   making. 

Pressed    in    the  mill    hard   by, 
Set    no   light    head    to   aching, 

Turned    no   bright   speech    awry. 

Stilled  are  the  clinking  glasses. 

Long  vanished   is   your  smile. 
Oh,   rosiest  of  lasses; 

But  still  T  dream,  and  while 
My  gray  mustache  I'm  dipping 

In    wine   without   a   flaw 
I  sec   your   red  lips  sipping 

Sweet  cider  through  a  straw. 

— Frank    Roc   Bachcldcr   in    Lippincot 


earth 


The  Hunter. 
The  dawn   peeps  out  of  the  dark.     Arise 
Shake  the  heaviness  off  the  eyes, 
Pul    ihr   reluctant   sloth  to  rout, 
Shoulder   the  hollow  steel  and  out 
Into    the    Fast,    whose    virgin    blush 
Sets     the    answering    check      of     the 

a- flush. 
I  hire  my  brow  to  the  morning.     Sec! 
The  mock-bird  rocks  in  the  topmost  tree. 
The    hreath    of   the    dew    darts    through    me. 

Hark! 
The  shortened  song  of  the  meadow-lark. 
A   (lash  of  color  salutes  my  sight 
As  the  swallow  swims  in   the  morning  light. 
The  robin   runs  and  the  bluebird  sings 
And     the     squirrel — T     can     almost     see     his 

wings! 
The  glory   is  on   inc.      The   very  snail 
1  a  rainbow  tint  in  his  slimy  trail. 

So    fresh!    so   SWCCtl    I    giiel    the   sun, 

\     il  the  world  had  bul   iusl  begun, 
As  if  the  Creator  toiled  last  night 
And  thi   word  wai  leaving  tin    Lips  for  light. 
1   bow  m>  bead  nnd   1   undi  1  itand 
Ri  ligion,  wot  ship  in  evi  1  j  land  . 
ii.     von  hip  "i  bird,  "i  1., .,  t    ,.t  sun, 
The  worship  "I   All,  the  worship  of  One 
And  tin    rondt  1   I    1i1.1t  wc  do  not  bow 
1  ■       .1  lup  the   N.ituu  Uothi  1   now. 
'■'  ■    ft  .mi  ii    dog   li  up     into  my   face. 
Drop    and  Freezes  into  bis  place. 
M>   blood  l<  ip  1  up,  ni1.   pulses  thrill, 
The  savage   within  me  clamors  "Kill J" 
■   Kill'"  .ind  1  bury  my  Canga  ol  death 
Where    glows    the    warmth    of    the    living 

breath. 
1    ill  1"   and    1    sear  the  sensitive  sight 

And  bla  1   ii   forci  ei   to  lift   and  light. 
Kill  I"  and  I  teai  the  quivering  note 

'    i-i  ai  1  ol  I01  •  'ii    tin    ■  •  ir-.u-    throat 
' '  and  1  liai  dl)   ti  od 
1   beld  thi    band  oi  God, 

1    held    the    hand,    and     I    clearly    heard 

1         ■■:■■!     ■  ,"    .  ai  thi    Fulli   1   word, 

■  m   tin    In  ing  heart  of   Him  I 

il    ni'      oul    il  dim, 

Blui  red  b     thi    blol   dI   i  i  lol  ted     tain 
i  waa  Adam;  now   I  am  Cain. 
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and  second  visits  of  the  novelist  to 
America,  and  recording  one  of  the 
most  interesting  friendships  of  his 
life.  The  letters  have  a  continuity 
which  gives  almost  the  interest  of 
a  new  story  by  Thackeray. 

A  number  of  unpublished  sketches 
accompany  the  letters,  including 
good-humored  caricatures  of  Ameri- 
can authors.  The  picture  shown 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 

The  Richest  Fifteen  Thousand. 

An  extremely  interesting  publication  is  "  The 
Financial  Red  Book  of  America,"  a  bulky,  hand- 
somely bound  volume  purporting  to  contain  the 
names  of  substantially  all  the  people  in  the  United 
States  who  are  worth  $300,000  or  more.  Accord- 
ing to  this  book,  15,000  people  only  fall  into  this 
class.  They  are  estimated  to  be  worth,  in  the 
aggregate,  $10,000,000,000.  The  names  are 
arranged  according  to  States  and  towns,  and  then 
alphabetically.  There  are  in  all  387  pages  of 
names,  of  which  California  occupies  13  pages,  and 
is  credited,  therefore,  with  having  about  three-one- 
hundredths  of  the  total.  According  to  this  book, 
Los  Angeles  has  only  29  persons  worth  over 
$300,000;  Oakland  has  11 ;  Sacramento,  15;  San 
Diego,  11;  San  Francisco,  382;  San  Jose,  28;  and 
other  towns  smaller  numbers.  No  attempt  is  made 
to  give  any  further  information  than  name,  ad- 
dress, and  occupation.  The  fact  that  Los  Angeles 
is  allowed  only  29  insertions  in  the  volume  while 
San  Francisco  has  about  thirteen  times  as  many, 
will  suggest  to  most  people  that  the  book  is  not 
a  model  of  completeness. 

Published  by  the  Financial  Directory  Associa- 
tion, New  York;  $10.00. 

Armigerous  Americans. 
"  The  most  favourable  interest  shewn  in  the 
First  Edition  "  is  the  adequate  reason  which  John 
Matthews  quaintly  adduces  for  the  publication  of 
a  second  edition  of  "  Matthews'  American 
Armoury  and  Blue  Book  " — a  work  which  proves 
again  what  a  hollow  sham  are  American  pro- 
fessions of  indifference  to  ranks  and  titles.  From 
the  preface,  we  infer  that  only  the  names  of 
persons  (1)  descended  from  armigerous  English 
families,  or  (2)  who  can  produce  documents  bear- 
ing seals  with  arms  used  in  the  family  in  Colonial 
times,  or  (3)  who  possess  any  painting  of  a 
coat  of  arms  that  has  been  in  the  family  more 
than  a  hundred  years,  have  place  in  this  volume. 
Of  such  there  are  about  a  thousand  names,  filling 
an  octavo  volume  of  six  hundred  pages.  In  each 
case,  brief  biographical  notes,  address,  clubs,  so- 
cieties, etc.,  are  given.  It  is  interesting  to  observe 
that  Theodore  Roosevelt's  arms  are:  "Argent,  on 
a  mount  vert,  a  rose-bush  with  three  roses  in  full 
bloom  proper."  The  crest  is:  "Three  ostrich 
feathers  per  pale  gules  and  argent."  The  motto 
is:    "Qui  plantavit  curabit." 

Published  by  the  Author,  93  and  94  Chancery 
Lane,    London,    England. 

Old  English  Humor. 
Appletons  are  still  publishing  new  editions  of 
works  popular  in  the  early  years  of  last  century, 
but  long  since  dead,  apparently  for  the  purpose 
of  showing  modern  readers  how  dull  these  ancient 
writers  really  were.  "  The  Dance  of  Life"  is 
another  and  still  less  known  work  than  "  Dr. 
Syntax,"  by  William  Combe,  a  literary  rake  only 
remembered  now  by  the  biographical  dictionaries, 
and  not  even  by  some  of  them.  The  work  was 
written  about  the  coarse  but  spirited  and  still  hu- 
morous drawings  of  Thomas  Rowlandson,  and  all 
(twenty-four)  of  these  appear  in  the  present 
edition.  Two  others  of  these  reprints  are  "  Handler 
Cross"  and  "  Jorrock's  Jaunts  and  Jollities,"  by 
R.  S.  Surtees.  This  worthy  was  a  sporting  writer 
and  editor  of  some  note  in  his  day.  He  was  for- 
tunate in  having  as  an  illustrator  John  Leech. 
The  "Jaunts  and  Jollities"  contain  fifteen  colored 
plates  by  this  artist,  and  "  Handley  Cross  "  seven- 
teen plates  and  one  hundred  wood-cuts  of  consider- 
able merit.  A  third  volume  in  this  series— all  the 
volumes  in  which  are  neatly  bound  in  red,  with 
gilt  tops  and  paper  labels — is  Goldsmith's  "  The 
Vicar  of  Wakefield,"  with  twenty- four  colored 
plates  by  Rowlandson.  The  first  sentence  of-  the 
paragraph  evidently  does  not  apply  to  this  hook. 
Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York. 

Browning  and  the  Bible. 
A  volume  that  lovers  of  Browning  will  find 
curious  and  interesting  is  Minnie  Gresham  Ma- 
chen's  "  The  Bible  in  Browning."  The  first  part 
is  a  general  discussion  of  the  way  the  poet  wove 
into  his  poems  phrases  from  and  allusions  to  the 
Book.  The  second  part  contains  all  the  Biblical 
passages  in  "  The  Ring  and  the  Book,"  follow- 
ing each  of  which  is  given  the  exact  corresponding 
quotation  from  the  Bible.  The  author  has  strained 
a  point  here  and  there,  seeing  in  some  lines  a 
Biblical  allusion,  when  it  is  clear  that  none  was 
intended.  It  is  indeed  a  striking  fact  that  the 
work  of  all  our  great  poets,  even  of  the  most 
modern,  draws  largely  from  the  exhaustless  treas- 
ury of  the  Book  of  Books.  This  is  quite  as  true 
of  Tennyson  and  Kipling  as  of  Browning.  In 
"  The  Ring  and  the  Book  "  there  are  32 
allusions  to  events  in  Genesis.  Other  books 
are  Psalms,  39  times;  Proverbs,  15;  Samuel,  8, 
Exodus,  9;  Numbers,  9;  Isaiah,  18;  Ecclesiastes, 
71 — in  all,  199  in  the  Old  Testament,  including  28 
of  the  39  books.  To  the  New  Testament  there 
are  369  allusions,  including  all  but  two.  "  My  mas- 
ters, there's  an  Old  Book  you  should  con!" 

Published     by     the     Macmillan     Company,     New 
York;  $1.50. 


Old  Poets  in  New  Dress. 
Personally,  we  prefer  to  read  the  poetry 


of  the 
masters  in  neat  little  duodecimos  that  the  hand 
will  almost  cover,  but  for  those  who  like  a  sizable 
volume,  a  moderate  man  could  imagine  nothing 
more  admirable  than  Crowell's  single-volume  edi- 
tion of  "  The  Complete  Works  of  Edmund 
Spenser,"  with  an  introduction  by  William  P. 
Trent,  of  Columbia  University.  "The  Faerie 
Queene  "  is  not  distinguished  for  its  brevity,  and 
even  using  thin  paper  and  not  over  large  type, 
the  book  is  a  good-sized  octavo  of  almost  nine 
hundred  pages.  Externally,  it  is  a  handsome  work, 
and  the  frontispiece  portrait  of  Spenser  from  a 
painting  is  exceptionally  well  reproduced.  Pub- 
lished by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New  York;  $2.00. 
The  volumes  belonging  to  the  Astor  Edition  of 
Poets,  unlike  most  very  cheap  books,  are  not 
gaudy.  Not  much  of  a  i2mo  book  can  be  ex- 
pected for  sixty  cents,  but  these  volumes  at  least 
have  dignity,  which  is  much  more  than  can  be  said 
of  hooks  that  vainly  try  to  hide  the  shoddy  under 
garish-colored  covers.  The  three  volumes  to  appear 
this  fall  are  "  The  Canterbury  Talcs,"  by  Geoffrey 
Chaucer,     with    an    introduction    by     Thomas      R. 


Lounsbury;  "The  Poems  of  Alice  and  Phcebe 
Cary,"  with  introduction  and  notes  by  Katherine 
Lee  Bates:  and  "  The  Faerie  Queene  "  by  Edmund 
Spenser,  with  an  introduction  by  Professor  Will- 
iam P.  Trent.  Each  volume  has  a  portrait,  and 
each  is  bound  neatly  in  red  cloth.  Published  by 
T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New  York;  each  60  cents. 

To  the — how  many? — "pretty  little"  editions 
of  "  The  Rubaiyat  of  Omar  Khayyam  "  may  be 
added  one  in  leather  stamped  with  a  unique  de- 
sign illustrating  several  verses.  It  belongs  to  the 
Thumb-Nail  Series,  and  contains  a  portrait  of 
1-itzGerald,  John  Hay's  fine  address  before  the 
London  Khayyam  Club,  and  the  usual  explanatory 
notes  and  variorum.  Published  by  the  Century 
Company,  New  York. 

Spenser's  "  Faerie  Queene,"  with  an  introduction 
and  notes  by  George  Armstrong  Wauchope,  M.  A., 
Ph.  D.,  is  published  in  the  Scries  of  Pocket 
American  and  English  Classics  by  the  Macmillan 
Company,  New  York;  25  cents. 

Somewhat  more  attractive  than  the  common  run 
of  school  Shakespeares  are  the  volumes  belong- 
ing to  the  Temple  Series.  "  The  Tempest "  is 
edited,  with  notes,  introduction,  and  glossary,  by 
Oliphant  Smeaton,  M.  A.,  and  contains  eight 
superior  illustrations  by  Walter  Crane.  "  Mac- 
beth "  is  edited  by  George  Smith,  M.  A.,  and 
contains  five  excellent  drawings  by  T.  H.  Robinson. 
Both  volumes  have  in  addition  a  number  of  illus- 
trations from  contemporary  prints,  which  are  very 
curious  and  interesting.  Published  by  Henry  Holt 
&    Co.,    New    York. 

"  Pippa  Passes,"  "  King  Victor  and  King 
Charles,"  and  "  Luria,"  form  the  contents  of 
"'  Pippa  Passes  and  Other  Dramatic  Poems,"  a 
volume  in  the  Series  of  Temple  Classics.  There 
is  very  acute  and  interesting  criticism  by  some 
unknown  writer  in  a  few  pages  of  notes  at  the 
back.  Imported  by  the  Macmillan  Company, 
New  York;    50  cents. 

Pretty  Books  for  Good  Children. 
The  publishers  say  that  "  Prince  Silverwings," 
the  successful  children's  book  written  last  year 
by  Edith  Ogden  Harrison,  wife  of  Chicago's  mayor, 
is  to  be  dramatized,  and  will  be  presented  next 
summer  on  a  Chicago  stage.  Mrs.  Harrison  has 
this  year  written  a  companion  volume  to  "  Prince 
Silverwings,"  called  "  The  Star  Fairies."  It  is 
printed  in  the  same  unexceptionable  style,  and  the 
drawings  in  color  by  Lucy  F.  Perkins  arc  among 
the  most  delicately  beautiful  that  we  have  seen 
in  any  children's  book.  We  should  think  that 
the  story  would  appeal  to  all  children  of  not  more 
than  ten  years.  Published  by  A.  C.  McClurg  & 
Co.,    Chicago. 

Curiously  enough,  the  small  Swedes  in  "  Our 
Little  Norwegian  Cousin,"  and  the  diminutive 
dagoes  in  "  Our  Little  Italian  Cousin  "  are  alike 
impossible  prigs.  We  suspect  it  is  all  the  fault 
of  the  author  of  those  books,  win  is  Mary  Hazel- 
ton  Wade.  Too  many  boys  and  girls  with  red 
blood  in  their  veins  figure  in  the  juveniles  of 
to-day  for  approval  to  be  given  to  such  wooden 
volumes  as  these.  Published  by  I..  C.  Page  & 
Co.,  Boston;  50  cents  net. 

"  Mr.  Sharptooth,"  by  Joe  Kerr,  is  a  variation 
of  the  Red  Riding-Hood  story.  Master  Georgie 
supersedes  the  maiden,  and  as  the  excellent  and 
spirited  drawings  in  colors  by  R.  H.  Porteous 
intimate,  he  finally  succeeds  in  extracting  Sharp- 
tooth's  teeth,  and  humbling  his  haughty  pride. 
We  think  it  a  good  book  for  the  small  people. 
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they  «'M  insisl  upon  a  n- 

nens  ot 

cntly    cheerful    stage 

.  which  "  The  Storks  "  I* 

That    expert    who    picked    oul    the    chonis- 

r    the    shon  e    for    beauty. 

TncJ  collection,  and 

the  >,irls  in  red,  are 

dazzler>.     I  am  not  rare  but  what  the  latter  are 

tnc  •   Flirty  I  But  what  does  it 

matter!      They    all    belong    to    ihe    genus    girl, 

«hen    pretty    and   charming,   is   always 

pUWe  on  the  stage  as  the  Bowers  that 

in  the  spring. 

The    overgrown    lypc    ot     beauty     is    con- 

ucv  :   the  owner  of  the  eye 
'  evidently  having  a  pref- 
erence for  slenderness.  Even  the  principals  are 
radiant'  itfa  one  minute  exception — 

and  delirious!)  pretty. 

The   exception    takes   the   part   of   a   child  of 

nine,  and  really,  if  you  avoid  the  opera-glass. 

Its    it.      She    i^    .1    clever    little    creature. 

ihiv   tiny    D.-r.-thy    Choate,    and    plays   the   part 

of    Peggy,    ill-,     irrepressible    enfant    terrible 

shrewdly,  and  with  a  very  complete  knowledge 

of    the    ways    and    movements    of    irresponsible 

childhood.      In    fact,    she    seems    a    child    all 

throuch.   especially   during   the   "  Son-    of   the 

Might."   when   she   looks    tearfully   around  her 

.in-:   cuddles   up   to   her   protector.   The   midget 

i*   particularly   childish    from    the   kiici  - 

her  brief  skirt-  disclosing   fetching  little  legs 

am]  f, .  nd  shoes  that 

belonged  tc  a  child. 

et,   the  poundmaster's  daughter,  played 

by    <>lga    von    Hatzfddt    is   another   witching 

y..unn    creature    who    looks    the    age    she    pur- 

which     i*-    sixteen.       Violet     is    a 

dainty  Iwinc  in   pink  and  hlue.   who  never  by 

osibilitj   indulges  in  a  plain  walk.     She 

15    as    pretty    as    a    sweet  pea    blossom    swaying 

gayly   on    it-   stem,   and   has   tlu-   Mpera-boufTe 

Step    t<>   perfection— that   coquettish,   mincing. 

tripping  tread   which   leaves  upon   the  retina  a 

8    imauc    of    satin    shoon.    trim    ankles. 

the    rIos-*    of    silken  and    the    airy 

foam-frinned    petticoats.      And    Violet. 

•tragi  -••nicthing  that,  in  spite  of 

her  youth,  re  B  a  bona-6d< 

Alma    Youlin.    however,    is     the     principal 

and   the  beauty   of  the   troupe.     She. 

delightfully  young,  charming  to  look  at. 

■  1  daintily  pro- 

■  d    that,    in    '.pit-    ..1"    her    sit  nd 

n  angle  visible,    Sin 
play,    hut     her 
1  IkhIv. 
The    1  th    amusing.    Gilbert 

particularly   1 

n  h   a  quantity 
»     Mich    a 
■ 
■  ft    at   a 

mc  h> ■;n\*-  the 
■ 

Bungloo    with 

■ 

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libit  1 

1    won- 

■  . 

Mire   the 

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ll  tun   in 

■ 
■hil 

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bccli   twinkling    LUu    thi 

mention,   b)    the   way.   that  there 


was  a  young  man  in  the  cast  also  something 
of  a  singer — also  good-looking.  Oddly  enough, 
young  men  in  these  fun-and-music  mixtures 
are  always  a  secondary  consideration  unless 
they  arc  heart-breakers.  liven  susceptible 
maidenhood  looks  fir-5t  at  the  petticoated  ones, 
and  if  a  couple  arc  dancinp  together,  the  man 
is  generally  overlooked,  and  what  George  Ade 
calls  "the  pulchritudinous  chorus-girls"  hold 
our  exclusive  attention.  Mr.  Lieb,  the  young 
man  in  question,  joined  with  Miss  1  oulin 
jjng  the  putty,  i!"  conventional.  Steely 
lyrics  in  a  curiously  chanting  hut  agreeable 
voice,  and  the   choruses   were   well    done. 

The  company  in  general  is  exceedingly  well- 
drilled,  and  the  play  is  put  on  with  an  eye 
to  spectacular  effect,  the  mysterious  forest 
glade,  with  its  electric  fireflies,  being  quite 
effective,  in  spite  of  the  redness  of  the  moon 
and  the  blueness  of  the  moonlight. 


It  may  be  my  jaded  fancy,  but  it  seems  to 
mc  that  "  Rubes  and  Roses  "  has  decreased  in- 
stead of  increasing  the  output  of  laughter 
from  the  Fischer  audiences.  Excuse  the  mer- 
cantile expression,  but  in  these  alert,  practical 
times,  laughter  grows  more  and  more  to  be  a 
purchasable  commodity.  He  who  wishes  to 
buy  immoderate  laughter  at  a  moderate  price 
has  brought  to  bear  upon  himself  the  specu- 
lative gaze  of  all  the  San  Francisco  theat- 
rical managements  at  various  times.  For  we 
have  no  one  theatre  devoted  permanently  to  the 
serious  drama.  At  odd  times  all  take  their  turns 
at  purveying  to  the  tastes  of  the  frivolous- 
minded  amusement  seekers.  What  makes  it 
easy  and  profitable  for  the  managers  is  the 
good-natured  way  in  which  people  will  laugh 
with  ever-renewed  pleasure  at  the  same  old 
joke.  When  I  see  the  Fischer  comedians  pull 
out  their  wads  of  bills  and  somebody  proceeds 
to  "  do "  somebody  else,  my  spirit  faints 
within,  me.  I  know  it  all  by  heart,  and  could 
almost  rehearse  the  scene,  leaving  out  the 
trifling  variations  that  accompany  each  new 
performance.  So.  too.  does  the  audience,  and 
yet  the  good-natured  contingent  continues  to 
laugh. 

It  really  seems  as  if  it  were  time  to  intro- 
duce a  variation  in  the  regular  comedy  busi- 
ness there.  With  the  girls,  changes  of  costumes 
and  dances  are  considered  sufficient.  They  are 
merely  put  there  to  please  the  eye.  I  do  not 
think  that  when  the  shrill-voiced  Dotties  and 
Dollies  fall  into  their  feeble,  futile  dialogue 
that  any  one  pays  particular  attention.  The 
eye  is  attracted  by  their  youth  and  gay-colored 
raiment,  and  that  is  considered  sufficient. 

There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  at  the 
comedy  end  of  the  performance  the  lively 
three  are  falling  into  a  rut — and  it  really  seems 
time  to  give  the  poor  fellows  something  new 
to  work  with. 

If  this  sort  of  monotonous  clowning  contin- 
ues, the  luckless  three  will  fall  victims  to  the 
same  melancholy  as  consumed  Grimaldi,  the 
famous  hypochondriac  clown  who  sent  all 
Paris  mad  with  laughter,  while  he  vainly 
sought  for  a  cure  for  his  low  spirits.  This  oft- 
quoted  story  would  be  too  old  to  retell  were  it 
not  for  the  satiric  meaning  that  lies  in  the 
physician's  recommendation  to  his  unknown 
patient  to  cure  his  melancholia  by  Kn'ng  to  see 
Grimaldi.  Alas,  was  the  reply,  that  has  be- 
come almost  historical :  "  I  am  Grimaldi." 

There  may  be  light  ahead,  however,  since  it 
seems  that  the  coming  new  piece  is  composed 
by  a  mysterious  attorney  of  local  fame.  Let 
US  pray  that  he  is  original,  and  has  not  felt  it 
incumbent  upon  him  to  adhere  slavishly  to 
the    models    that    have    become    too    lam i liar 

Maude  Amber  is  a  little  changed  since  I 
last  saw  her.  having  laid  on  an  extra  quantity 
of  dimpled  white  flesh.  Her  smile,  however. 
is  as  expansive  as  ever,  and  absolutely  un- 
iUd-COmpclling  diet.  In  all 
other  respects,  she  is  the  same  obi  Maud, 
except  for  a  note  of  novelty  in  her  dress, 
which   was  of  black   velvet,   its   pi  aim 

lar^e      tinsel       spider  webs 
which    were    presumedly    the    work    of    an    in- 


dustrious pink  velvet  spider  as  large  as  your 
fist,  which  was  roosting  cozily  on  the  edge 
of  her  corsage. 

Ben  Dillon,  another  comedian,  is  also  new. 
unremarkable,  but  quite  inoffensive.  Georgia 
O'Ramey.  the  girl  with  the  name,  is  the  newest 
of  all.  She  is  a  young  lady  with  a  vaudeville 
talent,  and  fills  in  her  little  burlesque  turns 
in  a  manner  to  relieve  the  sense  of  satiety 
induced  by  too  frequent  and  prolonged  hearing 
of  Hebraic  and  German  comedy.  Miss 
O'Ramey  has  no  voice  to  speaK  ot.  but  she 
has  the  good  sense  to  refrain  from  destroying 
by  student  squawks  the  apology  for  one  that 
she  possesses.  She  has  an  assortment  of  facial 
expressions  and  absurd  postures  that  succeed 
each  other  with  a  quickness  that  makes  the 
laughter  jump  out  of  the  audience  before  they 
are  aware.  Miss  O'Ramey  also  adds  good 
looks  to  her  equipment,  and  only  needs  a  few 
appropriate  skits  written  up  or  down  to  her 
special  characteristics  to  start  her.  I  should 
imagine,  on  a  successful  vaudeville  career. 

Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


M.  le  Bargy  has  once  more  tendered  his 
resignation  as  a  socictairc  of  the  Comedie- 
Francaise.  This  decision  is  the  outcome  of 
his  latest  dispute  with  M.  Jules  Claretie.  the 
manager,  who  had  decided  that,  as  a  punish- 
ment for  his  insubordination.  M.  le  Bargy 
should  be  excluded  for  the  time  being  from 
the  managing  committee  of  the  theatre,  and 
also  that  the  annual  "gratification"  of  two 
thousand  francs  usually  accorded  him  should 
be  discontinued.  The  incident,  however,  is 
not  likely  to  end  here.  Instead  of  allowing 
him  to  resign,  M.  Claretie  and  his  colleagues 
are  expected  to  refuse  to  accept  the  resigna- 
tion. M.  le  Bargy  must,  therefore,  accept  the 
penalty  or  follow  the  example  of  Sarah 
Bernhardt.  Constant.  Coquelin.  and  Mile. 
Brandes,  leave  the  Theatre  Fancaise,  and  put 
up  with  the  consequences  of  the  legal  pro- 
ceedings which  would   follow. 


A  number  of  wealthy  Spanish-spcakine  citi- 
zens of  San  Francisco  have  just  organized  a 
club  to  be  known  as  the  Casino-Latino-Ameri- 
cano. Its  temporary  officers  are :  President. 
Enrique  R.  de  Zayas  :  secretary,  C.  J.  Beteta. 
The  membership  roll  already  includes  the 
names  of  S.  Arrillaga,  C.  T.  Briceno,  Alberto 
Beteta.  Alfonso  Beteta.  Nathan  Bibo.  J.  L. 
Canalizo.  Senen  Camarena.  J.  Costa.  Es- 
cipion  Canal.  M.  E.  Diebold.  Jose  Ferrando. 
O.  M.  Goldarenca.  J.  B.  Hayes.  C.  T.  Jime- 
nez, W,  I.  Loaiza.  Gustavo  Levi.  Jose  Lom- 
bardero.  V.  D.  Medina,  E.  Mejia.  Alejandro 
Novoa.  E.  M.  Navarette.  Federico  R. 
Olmedo.  Quemper  Tuan  Prieto.  Epifanio  F. 
Robles.  Jose'  M.  de  Roco.  J.  M.  Robledo.  H. 
Eca  de  Silva.  J.  Tauzy.  George  de  LTrioste. 
Enriquez  R.  de  Zayas,  Rafael  de  Zayas,  and 
Marius  de  Zayas. 


Commenting  on  Henry  Irvine's  first  ap- 
pearance in  New  York  in  Sardou's  new  play. 
"Dante."  the  New  York  Sun  says:  "  Irving 
dominated  the  stage.  Ever  poetic,  with  a  de- 
cided ecclesiastic  base  to  his  character,  he 
looked  Dante,  acted  Dante,  seemed  Dante. 
Whatever  his  shortcomings,  they  were  be- 
cause of  the  amorphous  character  of  the  play 
— the  loosest  in  construction  ever  turned  out 
by  a  master  craftsman,  looser  and  more  feeble 
in  design  than  '  Robespierre.'  Both  works 
were  built  for  English  and  American  con- 
sumption, and  not  to  be  tolerated  in  Paris. 
As  Dante.  Irvine  recalled  Beckford  more 
than  any  of  his  old  roles.  He  acted  through- 
out with  imaginative  intensity  and  emotional 
versatility — in  a  word,  with  all  the  old 
virtuosity  of  an  accomplished  and  much-be- 
loved artist." 

German  theatre-goers  are  promised  a  fine 
production  of  Blumenthal  and  Kadelburg's 
comedy.  "  Im  Weissen  Rocssel  "  ( '"  The  White 
Horse  Tavern  '"1  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  on 
Sunday  night.  November  jpth.  The  produc- 
tion will  be  the  first  in  German,  given  at  any 
of  the  leading  theatres  in  this  city,  for  some 
time  past.  The  comedy  will  be  interpreted 
by  the  Alameda  Lustspiel  Ensemble,  an  or- 
ganization of  German  amateurs  who  have  met 
with  considerable  success  in  various  plays. 
The  sale  of  seats  will  be  opened  in  a  few 
days. 

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day night.  The  Steindorfl  Testimonial.  Tuesday, 
Thursday,  and  Sunday  evenings,  Saturday  mat- 
inee, ZAZA.  Wednesday,  Fridav,  and  Saturday 
evenings.    ITTKITANI. 

Prices  as  usual— 25c.  50c.  and  75c.    Telephone  Bush  9. 

QOLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

Two  weeks,  beginning  Monday,  November  i6th,  mat- 
inees Saturdays,  special  matinee  Thanksgiving 
Day.  Charles  Frohman  presents 
VIRGINIA      HARIVED 
in  A.  W.  Pinero's  masterpiece, 

-:=  IRIS  -:- 

The  most  talked-ol  play  of  the  past  decade. 

J^LGAZAR    THEATRE.     Phone"  Alcazar." 
Brl*sco&  Maver,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 
"  An  ideal  stock  company."-5»//r7m. 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.     Week  com- 
mencing Monday  evening  next,  November  16th, 
-:-    THE     CLUB'S     BABY    -:- 

Evenings.  25c  to  75c.    Saturday  and  Sunday  Mati- 
nees. 15c  to  50c. 


Monday,    November    23d — A      Poor     Relation. 
Extra  matinee  Thanksgiving. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Maver Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week    starting    Monday,    November    16th,    matinees 

Saturday  and  Sunday, 

UNDER    THE     POLAR    STAR 

Kollchoff's  Eskirrfos  and  Eskimo  Dogs. 

Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  Nov.  2.;d— Midniplit  in  Chinatown. 

QRANO   OPERA   HOUSE. 

Beginning  Monday.   November   16th.  third    and    last 

week,  but  one,  Klaw  &  Erlanger's  stupendous 

production  of  General  Wallace's 

-:-        BEIVJ      ^  XT  H.        -:- 

Matinees  Wednesday  and  Saturday. 


Monday.  November  23d — Last  week  of  "  Ben   Hur." 
Special  matinee  Thanksgiving  Day. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee.  November  15th. 
Epicurean  vaudeville !  Wright  Huntington  and  Com- 
pany; the  Three  Zolars;  Serra  and  Bella-Rosa;  the 
Brittons;  Warren  and  Blanchard;  lack  Theo  Trio; 
Phil  and  Nettie  Peters;  the  "  Village  Choir"  Quartet; 
and  last  ■week  of  Bellman  and  Moore. 

Reserved  seats,  25c:  balcony,  loc :  oper^a  chairs  and 
box  seats.  50c;  Matinees  Wednesday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday. 


Proved  a  complete  success. 
-:-       RUBES     AND     ROSES       -:- 

Only  two  weeks  longer.     Our  "  all  star"  cast. 

Reserved  seats— Nights.  25c,  50c.  and  75c.  Saturday 
and  Sunday  matinees,  25c  and  50c.  Children  at  mati- 
nees, ioc  and  25c. 

I  -  O  -  IT  is  the  next.    Matinee  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 


New  California  Jockey  Club 
OAKLAND  TRACK 

Racing  every  "Week  Day,  Rain  or  Shiue. 

6      SIX    OR    MORE  "RACKS    DAILY      f^ 
Races  start  at  2.15  v.  M.,  sharp.  *-* 


I- ■  t  Special  Trains  st.-pping  at  the  Track  take  S  P. 
Ferry,  foot  ..J  Market  Street,  at  12.00,  1250.  1.00,  1.30, 
or  2.00.  Last  two  cars  on  trains  reserved  for  ladies 
and  their  escorts  in  which  there  is  no  smoking.  First 
meeting  at  Oakland  Track  is  from  November  14th 
Im  Decembei  I2lh,     At  Ingleside  from  December  14th. 

Returning  Tr.tins  leave  the  track  at  4.15  and  4.45 
r_  _m.   and  immediately  after  the  last  race. 

THOMAS  H-  WILLIAMS.  President. 
PEKC\   W.  TREAT,  Secretary. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


339 


STAGE   GOSSIP. 


Pinero's  "iris." 

Virginia  Harned  will  make  her  stellar 
debut  in  San  Francisco  at  the  Columbia 
Theatre  on  Monday  night  in  Pinero's  five-act 
pray,  "  Iris,"  which  was  first  acted  at  the 
Garrick  Theatre,  London,  in  September.  190 1. 
Miss  Harned  has  had  a  varied  stage  career. 
For  some  years  she  acted  leading  roles  in 
Charles  and  Daniel  Frohman's  stock  com- 
panies ;  then  she  appeared  for  several  seasons 
with  her  husband.  E.  H.  Sothern ;  three  or 
four  years  ago,  she  branched  out  as  a  star. 
Among  her  mo'st  successful  creations  may  be 
mentioned  Drusilla  Ives  in  "  The  Dancing 
Girl,"  Lady  Windermere  in  "  Lady  Winder- 
mere's Fan,"  Lady  Ursula  in  "  The  Ad- 
ventures of  Lady  Ursula,"  Fanny  in  "  Captain 
Letterblair,  and  Trilby  in  Du  Maimer's  play. 

Miss  Harned's  latest  role.  Iris,  is  said  to 
be  one  of  Pinero's  most  finished  characteriza- 
tions. She  is  a  woman  who  has  lived  all  her 
life  in  luxury,  and  is  bequeathed  a  consider- 
able fortune  by  her  husband  on  condition  that 
she  does  not  marry  again.  She  has  no 
lack  of  suitors,  and  lives  her  life  in  a  charmed 
circle,  where  friends  are  many  and  every  hour 
holds  enjoyment.  Into  this  circle  comes  a 
young  man,  Lawrence  Trenwith,  impression- 
able and  penniless.  He  falls  in  love  with  the 
reigning  queen,  and  she  looks  very  kindly 
upon  him.  She  wants  his  love,  but  she  can 
not  allow  herself  the  luxury  of  love  without 
riches.  She  sends  him  from  her,  and  to 
silence  the  gossips  accepts  an  old  suitor, 
Maldonado,  a  millionaire  Portuguese  Jew. 
But  when  she  bids  a  final  adieu  to  her  youth- 
ful lover,  who  is  about  to  go  away  to  make 
a  bid  for  fortune.  Iris  finds  she  can  not  give 
him  up.  Instead,  the  millionaire  is  given  his 
conge.  . 

Then  Iris  and  her  boy-lover  go  to  Switzer- 
land. Soon,  while  they  are  living  in  their  fool's 
paradise,  she  finds  herself  with  an  income  of 
less  than  two  hundred  pounds  a  year.  Under 
these  altered  conditions,  she  promises  to  be- 
come the  wife  of  Trenwith.  who  forthwith 
leaves  Switzerland,  bent  on  making  enough 
money  to  provide  a  suitable  home  for  her. 
It  is  impossible,  however,  for  Iris  to 
live  modestly.  Maldonado  finds  _  her 
again,  and  places  a  sum  to  her  credit  at 
his  bank.  She  at  first  refuses  to  accept  the 
check-book:  but  the  old  habit  of  spending  can 
not  be  cured.  First  she  uses  a  check  to  help  a 
friend,  then  another,  and  another,  and  so 
she  overdraws  the  amount.  When  face  to 
face  with  this  fact,  she  takes  fright,  sells 
what  she  can,  and  flies  to  England.  Here 
she  struggles  on  for  a  time,  finding  a  life  of 
poverty  more  and  more  revolting.  In  an  evil 
hour  she  again  meets  Maldonado.  He  gives 
her  the  key  to  a  house  he  has  furnished  for 
her.  Weakly,  she  accepts  it.  and  her  peace 
of  mind  dies. 

Having  sufficiently  humbled  her  for  wound- 
ing his  pride  by  preferring  her  youthful 
lover.  Maldonado  offers  to  marry  Iris.  But, 
when  she  is  considering  the  Jew's  offer. 
Trenwith  unexpectedly  returns.  This  is 
what  she  has  dreaded,  but  she  meets  the 
situation  firmly,  and  tells  the  truth.  He 
listens  in  silence.  He  is  stunned,  and  can  only 
tell  her  he  is  sorry.  His  love,  however,  has 
died  while  she  made  her  confession.  And 
this  has  been  overheard  by  Maldonado.  His 
fury  is  terrible.  For  one  awful  moment 
murder  is  in  his  eyes  and  his  heart.  But  he 
is  a  millionaire;  men  like  him  can  not  afford 
the  luxury  of  such  folly:  he  must  close  this 
page  in  his  life.  With  coarse  laughter  and  bitter 
taunts,  he  bids  Iris  leave  his  house.  And  as 
the  curtain  falls,  this  pretty,  frail  creature 
goes  out  into  the  night,  a  figure  terribly  pitiful 
in   her  sorrow,   humiliation,   and   loneliness. 

Miss  Harned's  support  is  admirable.  Henry 
Jewett,  well  known  in  San  Francisco,  is  cast 
as  Maldonado  ;  William  Courtenay,  a  favorite 
with  the  Miller  company  last  year,  as 
Lawrence  Trenwith  :  and  J.  Hartley  Manners, 
who  was  Mrs.  Langtry's  leading  man  last 
season,  as  Croker  Harrington,  the  ever-faithful 
friend  of  Iris.  The  other  roles  are  entrusted 
to  Ethel  Winthrop.  Margaret  Gordon.  Stanley 
Dark,  Mabel  Snider.  Frederick  Burt.  Elizabeth 
Goodall,  Lawrence  Eddinger,  Eleanor  Sanford, 
Amy  Meere,  and  Harry  Lewis. 


Comedy  at  the  Alcazar. 
A  new  farce-comedy.  "  The  Club's  Baby," 
is  to  be  offered  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  next 
week.  The  plot  revolves  about  a  precocious 
infant,  abandoned  upon  the  door-step  of  a 
swell  club  in  London.  Instead  of  calling  a 
policeman  and  sending  the  baby  to  a  found- 
lings' home,  the  amiable  clubmen  take  him 
in  and  adopt  him.  When  the  novelty  wears 
off,  they  dispose  of  him  at  a  raffle.  Meantime, 
some  of  the  wives  and  sweethearts  of  the 
self-elected  foster  fathers  become  suspicious. 
One  jealous  young  wife  and  her  maiden 
confidante  disguise  themselves  in  masculine 
evening  attire  and,  with  bogus  visitors'  cards, 
gain  admission  to  the  club-house.  All  sorts 
of  complications  ensue,  until  finally  the  pa- 
ternity of  the  youngster  is  solved,  and  all  ends 
happily.  Adele  Block  and  Frances  Starr 
appear  as  the  suspicious  wife  and  her  com- 
panion, and  it  is  expected  that  they  will  make 
quite  a  hit  in  trousers  and  Tuxedos.  For 
Thanksgiving  week,  commencing  November 
23d,  Sol  Smith  Russell's  quaint  comedy,  "  A 
Poor  Relation,"  will  be  presented. 

At  Fischer's. 
"  Rubes  and  Roses  "  is  still  a  strong  magnet 
at  Fischer's  Theatre.  To-night  ( Saturday ) 
.  the  cozy  little  O'Farrell  Street  theatre  will 
present  a  gala  appearance  when  the  friends 
and  admirers  of  Stanford's  football  team  will 
fill  the  house  to  overflowing.  The  perform- 
ance will  be  sprinkled  with  a  wealth  of  Stan- 
ford jokes  and  personal  hits,  and  is  sure  to 
prove    a   pleasant    evening   for    all    concerned. 


whether  the  Stanford  football  heroes  win  or 
lose.  'T-O-U,"  the  next  Fischer  burlesque, 
was  written  by  a  prominent  local  attorney, 
and  is  said  to  be  a  clever  concoction.  Dr.  H. 
J.  Stewart  is  writing  the  music  for  it.  Gertie 
Emerson  and  Flossie  Hope  are  to  give  way  in 
the  new  production  to  the  Althea  Sisters,  who 
are  said  to  be  "  real  beauties,  sprightly 
dancers,  and  dainty  singers  " — a  rare  combi- 
nation, indeed. 

An  Arctic  Drama  at  the  Central. 
A  spectacular  Arctic  melodrama.  "  Under 
the  Polar  Star,"  will  be  presented  at  the 
Central  Theatre  next  week.  The  scenes  will 
be  made  most  realistic  by  the  introduction  of 
real  Eskimos  in  the  Arctic  scenes.  Frederick 
Koltchoff,  the  Alaskan  explorer,  is  in  San 
Francisco,  en  route  to  New  York,  where  he 
will  winter  his  Arctic  and  Alaskan  exhibit 
for  the  St.  Louis  World's  Fair.  Thus  the 
Central  Theatre  was  fortunate  in  securing  for 
their  production  of  "  Under  the  Polar  Star  " 
this  picturesque  band  of  befurred  Eskimos  and 
valuable  train  of  Eskimo  dogs,  with  Alaskan 
dog-sleds  and  all  the  accessories  used  in  travel 
over  the  waste  of  snow  and  ice.  One  of  the 
stirring  scenes  of  the  play  includes  the  burn- 
ing of  an  ice-imprisoned  ship. 

The  Orpheum's  Bill. 
Wright  Huntington,  the  popular  leading 
man,  will  reappear  at  the  Orpheum  next 
week  in  his  great  success,  "  A  Stand  Off." 
in  which  he  takes  the  part  of  a  man  who 
guards  his  friend's  sweetheart  while  the  friend 
goes  to  the  Klondike,  and  incidentally  marries 
another  woman,  returning  just  in  time  to  act 
as  witness  at  the  wedding  of  his  former 
fiancee  and  her  guardian.  Mr.  Huntington 
will  be  supported  by  Florida  Kingsley  and 
Alex.  Kearney,  both  capable  artists.  The 
other  new-comers  will  be  the  three  Zolars, 
in  a  comedy  acrobatic  act,  greatly  out  of  the 
ordinary;  Serra  and  Bella-Rosa,  who  perform 
Samson-like  feats  of  strength ;  and  Joe  and 
Sadie  Britton,  who  present  what  they  call 
"  the  epitome  of  all  colored  acts."  Those  re- 
tained from  this  week's  bill  are  Albert  Bell- 
man and  Lottie  Moore,  in  their  amusing 
sketch.  "  A  Gallery  Goddess  " ;  Warren  and 
Blanchard,  "  the  comedian  and  the  singer " ; 
Phil  and  Nettie  Peters ;  the  Jack  Then  Trio 
of  novelty  dancers  and  acrobats ;  and  the 
"  Village  Choir "  Quartet.  So  popular  have 
become  the  matinees  at  the  Orpheum  that, 
beginning  with  the  week  of  November  23d, 
an  additional  afternoon  performance  will  be 
given  every  Thursday,  making  four  regular 
matinees  each  week — Wednesday.  Thursday. 
Saturday,  and  Sunday. 

Third  'Week  of  "Ben  Hur." 
From  present  indications.  "  Ben  Hur  "  will 
have  one  of  the  most  successful  runs  of  any 
production  ever  brought  to  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Standing  room  only  has  been  the  week's  rec- 
ord, and  it  looks  as  if  this  will  be  maintained 
during  the  four  weeks  of  the  engagement. 
No  one  interested  in  the  drama  should  miss 
this  production,  for  it  is  well  acted  and  hand- 
somely staged,  and  contains  some  really  im- 
pressive music  contributed  by  Edgar  Stillman 
Kelley.  The  most  remarkable  stage  picture — 
but  not  the  most  beautiful — is  the  chariot  race 
which  is  given  with  most  artistic  effect  in  the 
fifth  act  of  the  play.  It  is  preceded  by  a 
scene  showing  the  exterior  of  the  circus  at 
Antioch.  Here  the  great  wager  is  laid  be- 
tween Sanballat,  the  secret  agent  ot  Simon- 
ides,  and  the  Roman  officer,  Messala.  The 
signal  for  the  race  is  sounded,  and  the  crowds 
rush  into  the  arena.  The  stage  is  darkened. 
A  fanfare  of  trumpets  is  heard,  and  the 
shouting  of  a  riotious  multitude.  The  lights 
are  turned  on.  Over  the  course,  through 
clouds  of  dust,  with  sounds  as  of  muffled 
thunder,  the  chariots  of  Ben  Hur,  Messala, 
and  the  Byzantines,  each  drawn  by  four 
horses,  exactly  fitting  the  description  in  the 
story,  speed  madly.  Suddenly  the  stage  is 
again  darkened,  and  presently  the  end  of 
the  race  is  shown,  with  Ben  Hur  still  in  his 
chariot,  surrounded  by  a  shouting  multitude, 
who  are  proclaiming  him  victor.  Each  even- 
ing this  scene  gets  a  half-dozen  curtain  calls. 

A  Worthy  Charity. 
The  fifth  annual  benefit  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Associated  Theatrical  Managers  of  San 
Francisco  in  aid  of  their  charity  fund  for  the 
sick  and  needy  in  the  profession,  10  take  place 
at   the    Columbia    Theatre    next    Friday    after- 


noon, will  be  a  gala  event.  The  leading  the- 
atres will  all  contribute,  and  the  performance 
will  be  continuous.  William  J.  Kelly,  who 
plays  Ben  Hur  in  the  magnificent  Grand  Opera 
House  production,  will  read  General  Lew  Wal- 
lace's thrilling  description  of  the  chariot  race 
from  his  famous  work,  and  Miss  Julia  A. 
Heme,  a  daughter  of  the  late  James  Heme. 
and  the  Esther  of  "  Ben  Hur  "  will  be  heard 
in  soprano  solos.  Virginia  Harned  and  her 
splendid  company  from  the  Columbia  Theatre 
will  present  an  act  of  "  Iris,"  while  the 
Alcazar's  contribution  will  be  the  third  act 
of  Pinero's  earlier  play.  "  Lady  Bountiful." 
Rose  Melville,  the  original  "  Sis  Hopkins," 
and  her  company,  will  present  an  act ;  the  best 
artists  from  the  Italian  grand  opera  company 
now  at  the  Tivoli  will  sing,  supported  by  the 
chorus  and  directed  by  Paul  Steindorff;  and 
the  beautiful  second  act  of  "  At  Valley  Forge," 
showing  Washington  crossing  the  Delaware, 
will  be  staged  by  the  Central  Theatre.  The 
Orpheum  and  Chutes  will  be  represented  by 
their  best  specialties.  On  account  of  the 
length  of  the  bill,  the  overture  will  be  played 
at  one  o'clock  sharp.  There  has  been  a  large 
sale  of  tickets,  and  the  reservation  of  seats 
will  begin  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  box-office 
Monday  morning  at  nine  o'clock. 

Close  of  the  Grand-Opera  Season. 
The  twelfth  and  last  week  of  the  grand- 
opera  season  at  the  Tivoli  Opera  House  will 
begin  on  Monday  evening,  with  a  grand  testi- 
monial for  Director  Paul  Steindorff.  On 
Tuesday  evening  the  first  performance  in 
America  of  Leoncavallo's  new  opera,  "  Zaza," 
will  be  given.  The  libretto  was  written  by 
Illica  and  closely  follows  the  story  of  the 
play.  Tina  de  Spada  will  sing  the  title-role. 
Cloe  Marchesini  is  cast  for  Anaide,  and  Miss 
Eugenie  Barker  for  Floriana.  Ischierdo  will 
appear  as  Milio  Dufresne,  and  Gregoretti  as 
Cascar.  Dado.  Cortesi.  Zani.  and  Napoleoni 
will  have  the  other  parts.  The  alternating 
opera,  on  Wednesday.  Friday,  and  Saturday 
evenings,  will  be  Bellini's  "  I'Puritani."  with 
Tedeschi,  Dado,  Zanini,  and  Adelina  Trom- 
ben  in  the  cast. 


It  is  announced  that  Homer  Davenport,  the 
cartoonist,  has  resigned  from  the  Journal  and 
American,  and  his  resignation  has  been  ac- 
cepted by  W.  R.  Hearst. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


November  i6,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


To  drive  tandem  is  one  of  the  latest  ambi- 
tions of  up-to-date  women,  and  many  fash- 
ionable New  Yorkers  are  now  putting  in  a 
good  deal  of  time  in  mastering  this  accom- 
plishment. An  expert  teacher  of  the  art  de- 
clares that  three  well-known  women  are 
largely  responsible  for  the  fashion.  They 
are  Mrs.  Burke-Roche,  Miss  Marion  Fish. 
and  Miss  Alice  Roosevelt,  who  devoted  long 
hours  at  Newport  last  summer  in  learning  the 
accomplishment.  The  teacher  quoted  above, 
according  to  the  New  York  Sun,  made 
arrangements  to  go  to  Newport  early  this 
summer  to  teach  for  three  or  four  weeks,  but 
he  stayed  there  instead  fourteen  weeks.  And 
during  that  time  he  spent  about  twelve  out  of 
every  twenty-four  hours  on  the  seat  of  a  coach. 
"  I  have  taught  many  women  of  other  coun- 
tries how  to  drive,"  he  is  reported  as  saying, 
"  but  nowhere,  save  in  America,  have  I  seen 
women  who  could  dance  till  one  or  two  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  and  then  be  ready  to  start 
out  at  seven,  looking  as  fresh  as  if  they  had 
had  ten  hours'  sleep,  and  what  is  more  sur- 
prising still,  able  to  go  through  a  lesson  with- 
out once  losing  their  nerve.  A  woman  ought 
to  be  at  her  best  before  starting  out  to  drive 
four  horses,  and  to  keep  this  up,  week  after 
week  !     It  is  a  marvel." 


It  was  formerly  the  aim  of  most  of  the 
fashionable  women  to  become  proficient  four- 
in-hand  drivers.  But  before  long,  it  seems, 
four-in-hand  honors  ceased  to  be  enough  for 
the  Newport  women.  As  one  and  another  be- 
came expert  enough  to  tool  a  coach  without 
having  a  teacher,  she  yearned  for  something 
else  to  conquer,  and  found  it  in  tandem  driv- 
ing. The  three  women  mentioned  were  the 
first  at  Newport  seriously  to  set  to  work  to 
master  the  difficulties  of  the  art.  and  each 
has  been  successful.  The  President's  daugh- 
ter, says  her  teacher,  exhibits  much  of  the 
grit,  determination,  and  power  of  endurance 
displayed  by  her  father,  and  she  is  singu- 
larly free  from  nervousness.  The  example 
set  by  Miss  Roosevelt  and  her  two  com- 
panions was  soon  followed,  and  as  a  result  the 
teacher  now  has  as  many  pupils  in  New  York 
for  tandem  as  for  four-in-hand  driving,  and 
the  drives  of  Central  Park  of  a  morning  show 
quite  a  sprinkling  of  tandems  driven  by 
women.  "  The  fact  that  women  are  taking 
to  the  tandem  has  already  popularized  this 
style  of  driving  in  all  quarters,"  adds  this 
teacher ;  "  I  hear  that  there  will  be  more 
tandem  entries  than  usual  at  this  year's  Horse 
Show.  No.  driving  tandem  is  not  so  easy 
as  might  be  imagined  by  one  who  has  never 
tried  it.  For  a  woman  at  least,  it  is  really 
more  difficult  and  dangerous  than  handling 
a  four-in-hand,  for  the  reason  that  there 
is  absolutely  no  way  to  manage  a  refractory 
leader  except  by  the  whip.  He  hasn't  the 
restraint  of  a  horse  beside  him  nor  of  a  pair 
behind.  Each  horse  of  a  tandem  is  entirely 
independent  of  the  other.  As  every  horseman 
knows,  to  use  a  whip  skillfully,  especially 
on  the  leader  or  leaders  of  a  tandem  or  four- 
in-hand,  is  perhaps  the  most  difficult  feature, 
and  certainly  the  hardest  of  all  to  teach  to  a 
woman.  I  have  pupils  who  had  to  take  dozens 
of  lessons  before  they  could  grasp  even  par- 
tially the  knack  of  it." 


The  walking  craze  in  Paris  still  continues. 
Says  one  Paris  correspondent :  "  We  have 
already  had  walks  for  all  sorts  and  condi- 
tions of  men,  and  now  women  are  to  be 
brought  into  the  lists,  and  the  dressmakers' 
employees  are  going  to  have  a  big  competi- 
tion of  their  own.  But  no  future  contest  is 
likely  to  equal  the  go-as-you-please  walk  which 
has  just  been  concluded  over  the  classic 
Bordeaux-Paris  course,  a  distance  of  six  hun- 
dred kilometres.  Ninety-two  competitors 
faced  the  starter.  The  contest  extended  over 
tiv.     -lays,   and    the    winner  proved   to   be   a   not 

unknown  walker  named  Peguet.  For  the  first 
five  hundred  kil.>nn  in  s  i In  Favorite  and 
well-kno\sn  athlete,  l.afitte.  led  in  the  race, 
and  looked  all  over  a  winner.  But  he  got  too 
cock-sure  of  his  victory,  waited  his  time,  and 
then    when     he    was    overtaken    by     I'eguet    he 

liccamc  dishearten!  d,  sat  down  '>>  the  road- 
side for  a  couple  of  hours,  and  eventually 
only  finished  fourth.  The  victor.  Peguet,  is 
a  coachman  by  trade,  and  is  forty-six  years 
of  ago.      He   lias    always    been    a    ^reat    walker. 

and  ..as  second,  some  \  <  ars  ago,  in  a  five- 
bunoied-kilometre  walk  from  Bel  for)  I 
ai.J  irst  in  a  walk  from  Paris  to  Havre  and 
had  ,  a  distance  of  foi:.  hundred  and  forty- 
fout  vilometres,  which  lu  covered  in  seventy 
hours,  having  had  only  three  hours' 
lie    tramps    aloiiK    with    a    stick,  and 


never  varies  his  pace.  Jn  the  walk  from 
Bordeaux  to  Paris  he  lost  twenty-two  pounds 
in  weight ;  the  last  two  hundred  and  ninety 
kilometres  he  covered  in  forty-eight  hours 
without  a  wink  of  sleep,  and  the  last  seventy 
kilometres  without  even  sitting  down  on  a 
chair.  Peguet  altogether  took  one  hundred 
and  fourteen  hours  to  cover  the  six  hundred 
kilometres,  so  that  his  average  for  the  whole 
journey  works  out  at  a  little  over  three  miles 
an  hour.  It  may  not  seem  much,  but  to  keep 
on  at  that  pace  for  the  greater  part  of  five 
days,  with  only  fifteen  hours'  sleep  alto- 
gether, wants  a  good  pair  of  legs,  and 
especially  a  stout  heart.  The  prize  won  by 
Peguet    amounts   to    six    hundred    dollars." 

Commenting  on  a  suit  recently  brought  by 
a  maiden  against  her  fiance  for  breach  of 
promise,  by  which  she  recovered  three  thou- 
sand dollars,  "  An  Old  Maid "  of  New  York 
says:  "At  the  trial  the  plaintiff's  diary  was 
produced,  which  showed  the  remarkable  entry 
of  1.J43  kisses  having  been  bestowed  during 
the  courtship.  How  was  such  a  record  kept? 
Was  the  diary  worn  as  a  chatelaine,  and  after 
each  osculation  did  the  blushing  damsel  toy 
carelessly  with  the  pendant  pencil  and  succeed 
in  making  some  sort  of  mark  which  was 
ultimately  to  confront  the  unsuspecting  fiance 
in  court?  Or  did  the  kissee  keep  tally  by  the 
dozen,  and  after  twelve  kisses  had  been  de- 
livered to  the  kissee  by  the  kisser,  did  she 
coyly  excuse  herself  on  the  plea  of  rearrang- 
ing her  hair,  and  seize  the  opportunity  to 
mark  "  1  doz."  in  her  diary  under  the  correct 
date  ?  Then  there  is  another  point  to  be 
considered.  By  a  little  division— -the  multipli- 
cation seems  to  have  been  previously  attended 
to — it  will  be  seen  that  if  1.243  kisses  are 
worth  $3,000,  one  kiss  would  be  worth  $2.41 
and  a  fraction.  Is  this  the  legal  value  of  a 
kiss  in  any  part  of  the  country,  or  simply 
in  the  Saratoga  jurisdiction  of  the  supreme 
court?  Upon  this  decision  a  new  field  of  in- 
dustry might  be  opened  up  for  the  '  new 
woman  ' ;  also  fresh  laurels  to  be  won  by  any 
one  inventing  an  unerring  comptometer  for 
unobserved  use  on  the  scene  of  operations." 


When  Colonel  George  Nox  McCain,  who 
until  recently  was  one  of  Philadelphia's  fore- 
most journalists,  decided  to  visit  the  Klon- 
dike gold  fields  with  his  wife,  he  provided 
himself  with  stout  suits  of  wool  and  skins 
with  everything  that  goes  with  them  to  pro- 
tect the  traveler  from  the  nipping  cold  of  the 
regions  in  the  Far  North.  Great  was  his  sur- 
prise when  he  reached  Dawson  to  find  instead 
of  a  motley  town  of  shacks  and  tents,  of 
which  he  had  heard  so  much,  a  new  city. 
with  a  splendid  hotel,  equipped  with  electric 
lights  and  all  modern  appliances  and  improve- 
ments. At  dinner  the  ladies  and  gentlemen 
appeared  in  evening-dress,  and  the  only  indi- 
cation that  he  was  not  at  home  was  the  prices 
scheduled  on  the  menu.  Of  course,  much  of 
the  food  was  of  the  canned  variety,  but  this 
fact  was  cleverly  disguised  by  the  able  chefs 
who  presided  over  the  kitchen.  "  I  never 
felt  so  cheap  in  all  my  life."  says  the  colonel. 
"  and  when  I  looked  at  our  bearskins  and 
other  Arctic  paraphernalia,  I  wanted  to  hide. 
The  next  time  I  visit  a  strange  land,  no  mat- 
ter if  it  is  Patagonia,  Central  Africa,  the 
North  Pole,  or  even  Chicago,  I'll  carry  along 
a  dress-suit  and  a  silk  hat,  no  matter  what 
the  climate  may  be.  or  what  the  books  tell 
me.  I'll  go  prepared  for  any  function,  from  a 
seal  or  elephant  hunt  to  a  fancy-dress  ball."  A 
dispatch  from  Dawson,  by  the  way,  says  that 
winter  is  closing  in  quickly,  and  several 
thousand  tons  of  freight  will  not  reach  Daw- 
son this  season.  Freight  charges  are  phe- 
nomenally high,  and  prices  of  certain  staples 
are  going  skyward.  Hay  in  Dawson  is  selling 
for  one  hundred  and  thirty  dollars  a  ton. 
Snow  is  several  inches  deep  in  the  Mayo  dis- 
trict, and  the  streams  are  freezing.  The  gold 
output  will  only  be  about  a  million  less  than 
last  year,  despite  the  extreme  drouth,  which 
cost  the  miners  six  weeks'  loss  of  time.  Many 
people  arc  leaving  for  the  outside,  fearing 
1  severe  winter.  The  number  of  those  going 
out  exceeds  that  of  last  autumn  by  several 
hundred. 

It  seems  that  the  picture  post-card  fad  has 
reached  such  a  point  that  a  newspaper  ex- 
clusively devoted  to  the  subject  is  published 
in  England.  Some  tremendous  collections  are 
.already  in  existence,  but  anything  like  com- 
pleteness is,  of  course,  out  of  the  question, 
so  large  is  the  number  of  views  which  a 
single  town  with  any  pretension  to  pictur- 
esqucness  will  send  out.  The  numher  printed 
in  the  United  States  is  as  yet  relatively  small 
(comments  the  Springfield  Republican),  but 
there  has  been   a  great   increase  in  the  past 


year  or  two.  The  picture  post-card  has  been 
much  reviled,  but  it  is  to  be  said  in  its  favor 
that  it  gives  travelers  a  pleasant  way  of  re- 
minding their  friends  at  home  of  their  ex- 
istence without  spending  the  time  needed  to 
write  a  letter. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER, 


ECONOMICAL 

HOUSEKEEPERS 


USE 


From    Official     Report     of    Alexander    G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Afax.  A/in.  Pain-  State  of 

Tent.  Tent.  fall.  Weather. 

November    5th 64  54  .00  Clear 

"  6th 66  54  .00  Clear 

7th 60  56  .06  Clear 

Sth 60  50  .00  Clear 

9th 5S  48  Tr.  Cloudy 

"  10th 60  50  .00  Pt.  Cloudy 

"  nth  ...  60  4S  .07  Rain 


THE  FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  November  11, 
1903,  were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Bay  Co.  Power  5%      5,000    @  103 J£  103^ 

Honolulu  R.  T.  L. 

Co,  6% 1,000    @  105  104J4 

Los  An.  Ry  5%  10,000    @  113  112^     114 

Market  St.  Ry.  6%.     1,000    <S>  11S  11S 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%---     5.000    @  114^  ii4#     115^ 

Sac.  Electric  Gas  & 

Ry.  5% 5,000    @  ioo}4  101 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.5% 12,000    @  11654-117        1161/     117 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909 14,000    @  100,  10S 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  5,000  @  109        109 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905.  S.  A 3.000    @  i02}£  102 %     103 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906,  S.  B 10,000    @  103 J£  i°3J£     103^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal,  $% 

Stpd 9,000    @  io6J£-io6^     106&     io6^b 

S.  P.  Branch,  6%..     1,000    @  132 

S.  V.  Water \%....     1,000    @    aS}£  gSJ£ 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa   ■       20    @    42  40 

Spring  Vall'yW.Co    1,000    @    36-      39J4       36 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 30    @    65  J*  65  67 

Stiff  a  rs. 

Hawaiian  C-  &  S...        120    @    45J3-  46        46 

Honokaa  S.  Co 115    @    13^  13  13% 

Hutchinson 2S5    @    10-      10^       1054      t.o}4 

Makaweli  S.  Co 105    @    22#-  23  23^ 

Paauhau  S.  Co 100    @    15^-  15%     16 

Ga  sand  Electric. 

Mutual  Electric...         90    @    10  io# 

S- F.  Gas  &  Electric       741    @    67^-69         6S%      69 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.Gas&El'ctric       250    @    6S-      69  6SJ4      69 

Miscella  n  eous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...         50    @  i49&-i49j'a     M9j£     150 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 35    @    93  90 

OceanicS-Co 60    @      6  6J4 

The  stock  of  the  Spring  Valley  Water  Company 
broke  3*4  points  to  36  on  sales  of  about  1.000 
shares,  the  rumored  cause  of  the  break  was  the  sell- 
ing of  stock  to  reduce  loans.  The  market  was  a 
little  better  at  the  close,  and  was  36^  bid  on  the 
street 

There  has  been  a  better  demand  for  the  sugars, 
and  on  sales  they  have  made  fractional  advances,  the 
market  closing  firm  with  small  offerings. 

Alaska  Packers  has  been  quiet,  but  closed  at  149% 
bid 

Gas  and  Electric  has  been  in  good  demand,  and  on 
sales  of  1 ,000  shares  gained  1  %  points,  selling  up  to 
90.  closing  at  68^  bid,  69  asked  for  small  lots. 
There  has  been  strong  buying  on  this  stock  for  sev 
eral  weeks  on  rumors  of  dividends  in  the  near 
future. 

The  powder  stocks  have  been  quiet  with  prices 
unchanged. 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


341 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


A  young  member  of  Parliament  was  once 
addressing  a  meeting  at  which  there  was  a 
considerable  rowdy  element  present.  Like  the 
other  speakers,  he  was  frequently  interrupted. 
until,  losing  patience,  he  called  for  silence, 
saying  :  "  Don't  let  every  ass  bray  at  once." 
"  You  go  on  alone  then,  sir."  said  the  ring- 
leader, and  the  honorable  member  was  left 
without  a  reply. 


A  Maine  farmer  who  had  gone  to  law  with 
a  neighbor,  suggested  to  his  lawyer  that  he 
send  the  magistrate  a  couple  of  fine  ducks. 
"  Not  on  your  life,"  said  the  attorney ;  "  if  you 
do  you'll  lose  the  case."  The  case  came  on 
and  was  tried,  and  judgment  was  given  in  his 
favor.  Then  he  turned  to  the  lawyer,  and 
gleefully  exclaimed:  "I  sent  the  ducks." 
Astonishment  on  the  lawyer's  part  changed 
to  admiration  when  his  client  continued,  "  But 
I  sent  them  in  my  opponent's  name." 

The  late  Thomas  B.  Reed's  portrait  was 
painted  by  Sargent  during  the  last  year  of  his 
services  in  Congress.  When  it  was  brought 
to  him  he  looked  at  it  critically.  He  noted  the 
protruding  lips,  the  faithful  reproduction  of 
his  florid  complexion,  of  his  flabby  cheeks,  of 
his  ponderous  neck.  His  eyes  narrowed  be- 
tween the  lids,  and  there  came  a  cold  glint 
in  them.  Then,  pursing  his  lips  as  was  his 
wont,  he  is  said  to  have  remarked :  "  I  hope 
that  my  dearest   enemy   is   satisfied  now." 

A  Yorkshire  socialist,  who  was  once  ex- 
plaining to  a  friend  the  principles  of  social- 
ism, remarked  that  all  possessions  should  be 
shared  equally.  "  If  you  had  two  horses," 
said  the  friend,  "would  you  give  me  one?" 
"Of  course,"  replied  the  socialist.  "And  if 
you  had  two  cows,  would  you  do  the  same?" 
"  Of  course  I  should."  "  Well,  supposing, 
now,"  said  the  friend,  slowly,  "  you  had  two 
pigs,  would  you  give  me  one  of  them?"  "  Eh  ! 
tha's  gettin'  ower  near  home,"  said  the  other 
shyly ;  "  tha  knows  I've  got  two  pigs." 


Congressman  Frank  C.  Wachter  says  that 
once,  when  a  party  of  candidates  were  touring 
the  State  of  Maryland,  they  stopped  at  the 
home  of  a  farmer  in  one  of  the  counties,  and 
found  him  not  at  home.  They,  however,  saw 
his  wife,  and  one  of  the  candidates  said  to  her: 
"  Madam,  is  your  husband  a  Democrat  or  a 
Republican?"  'Well,"  she  replied,  "I'll  tell 
you  about  him.  He  goes  about  a  good  deal, 
and  when  he  is  with  Democrats  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat ;  when  he  is  with  Republicans  he  is  a 
Republican ;  but  when  he  is  around  here  he  is 
a  darned  nuisance." 


In  his  "  Reminiscences  of  the  Civil  War," 
General  John  B.  Gordon  relates  this  anecdote: 
At  the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  an  old  farmer 
near  Appomattox  decided  to  give  employment 
to  any  of  Lee's  veterans  who  might  wish  to 
work  a  few  days  for  food  and  small  wages. 
He  divided  the  Confederate  employees  into 
squads  according  to  the  respective  ranks  held 
by  them  in  the  army.  He  was  uneducated,  but 
entirely  loyal  to  the  Southern  cause.  A 
neighbor  inquired  of  him  as  to  the  different 
squads:  "  Who  are  those  men  working  there?" 
"  Them  is  privates,  sir,  of  Lee's  army."  "  Well, 
how  do  they  work?"  "Very  fine,  sir;  first- 
rate  workers."  "  Who  are  those  in  the  second 
group?"  "Them  is  lieutenants  and  captains, 
and  they  work  fairly  well,  but  not  as  good 
workers  as  the  privates."  "  I  see  you  have  a 
third  squad ;  who  are  they?"  "  Them  is 
colonels."  "Well,  what  about  the  colonels? 
How  do  they  work?"  "  Now,  neighbor,  you'll 
never  hear  me  say  one  word  ag'in  any  man 
who  fit  in  the  Southern  army ;  but  I  aint 
a-gwine  to  hire  no  generals." 

It  is  related  that  when  Senator  Ingalls,  in 
1890,  announced  that  he  would  pay  Hays  City 
a  visit,  the  society  leaders  of  the  place  im- 
mediately began  to  make  preparations  for  his 
entertainment.  It  was  arranged  that  the 
leader  of  one  of  the  Republican  factions 
should  entertain  him  for  breakfast,  and  that 
the  leader  of  the  other  faction  should  enter- 
tain him  at  dinner.  The  idea  was  to  avoid 
the  appearance  of  giving  preeminence  to  either 
faction,  and  to  keep  local  divisions  from 
spoiling  the  senator's  day.  But  in  the  anxiety 
to  fix  up  a  compromise  everybody  forgot  to 
notify  the  senator  of  what  the  arrangements 
were.  Therefore,  when,  a  day  or  two  before 
the  date  of  his  visit,  the  senator  got  a  polite 
note  from  one  H.  C.  Freese,  inviting  him  to 
be  his  guest,  he  promptly  accepted  it.     He  did 


not  know  Freese,  and,  of  course,  did  not  know 
that  Freese  was  the  publisher  of  the  craziest 
Pop  paper  to  be  found  in  Western  Kansas. 
When  he  arrived  at  the  depot  in  Hays,  he 
found  the  hosts  of  politics  and  society  as- 
sembled. After  shaking  hands  with  those 
around  him,  he  asked:  "And  where  is  Mr. 
Freese?"  At  once,  Mr.  Freese  presented  him- 
self, and  thereupon  the  tall  senator  linked  his 
arm  with  that  of  the  diminutive  Pop  editor, 
and  the  pair  walked  off  to  a  buggy  which 
Freese  had  provided,  leaving  the  crowd  too 
amazed  and  astonished  to  utter  a  word. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


The  New  Verse  Form. 
The  bachelor  'e   fights    for   one, 

(Copyright,    1903,   by   Rudyard   Kipling.) 

As  joyful  as  can  be; 

(Copyright,    190s,    by   Rudyard   Kipling.) 
But  the  married  man  don't  call  it  fun, 

(Copyright,    1903,    by   Rudyard   Kipling.) 

Because  'e  fights  for  three — 

(Copyright,    1903,    by   Rudyard  Kipling.) 
For  *Im   and  'Er  and  It 

(Copyright,    1903,   by   Rudyard  Kipling.) 

(An'  Two  an'  One  makes  Three). 

(Copyright,    1903,   by   Rudyard  Kipling.) 
*E  wants  to  finish  'is  little  bit, 

(Copyright,    1903,   by   Rudyard  Kipling.) 

An'  'e  wants  to  go  'ome  to  'is  tea! 

(Copyright,    1903,  by  Rudyard  Kipling.) 
—Life. 

The  Pith  of  the  Programme. 
He    searched    the    programme    through    and 

through, 
And  came  across  a  joke  or  two, 
It  was  an  easy  task  to  find 
By  whom  the  costumes  were  designed, 
Who  made  the  wigs,  and  who  supplied 
The  drinking  water,  purified; 
From  whom  the  carpets  were  obtained. 
And  who  the  floor  so  nicely  stained; 
The  exclusive  piano  used — nay,  more, 
He  learned  the  name  of  every  store 
Which  he  had  never  known  before. 
"  Patrons,"  he  saw,  "  desired,"  "  invited," 
"  The  management  would  be   delighted." 
And  many  other  compliments, 
Worthy  anything  from  fifty  cents; 
And   then — he  came   across   at  last 
What  he  was  searching  for — the  Cast! 

— La   Touche  Hancock. 


Flaxseed  and  Mustard. 
What  a  jolly  thing  a  cold  is  when  you  get  it  good 

and  hardl 
How  it  cheers  the  drooping  spirits  of  the  energetic 
bard! 

Hear  the  cheerful  way  he  sneezes! 
How  he  pleases  with  his  wheezes  I 
And  his  treasured  nose  he  squeezes 

While   he   rubs   his   chest   with   lard. 
While  the  trustiest  of  nurses  by  his  verses 

never  flustered 
Makes   a   poultice,   like   a  custard, 
Of   the   flaxseed   and   the   mustard. 

What  a  jolly  thing  a  cold  is  with  the  poultice  in 

its  place! 
When    your  heart  is  filled  with   gladness   and   the 
sweat  runs  down   your  face! 

Does  the  patient  do  some  cussing 
At  the  fussing  and  the  mussing? 
Nay!  He's  learnedly  discussing 
The  improvement  of  the  race. 
Never  yelled  and  never  blustered 
When  he  felt  that  stinging  custard 
Made   of   flaxseed   and    of   mustard! 

What  a  jolly  thing  a  cold  is!     Oh,  the  liar  that  I 

am! 
Am   I  gently  philosophical   and  gentle  as  a  lamb? 

No,  I'm  not!     I'm  fiercely  cranky 

At    this    measly   hanky-panky. 

Will  I  take  that  stuff.     No,  thankee! 
'Tis  a  snare!  delusion!  sbaml 

Hang  the  doctors  and  the  nurses! 

Let  the   druggists  hear  my  curses! 

On   their  shelves  permit  to  spoil 

Senna,  salts,  and  castor  oil! 

Please  to  let  me,  carin'  noffin'. 

Go  a-coughin'  to  my  coffin! 

With  my  body  wrapped  in  worsted, 

And  a   poultice,   like  a  custard. 

Made  of  flaxseed  and  of  mustard! 

— Grif    Alexander    in    Pittsburg    Dispatch. 


His  get  down:  "Did  the  duke  get  down 
on  his  knees  when  he  asked  you  to,  marry 
him  ?"  "  Mercy,  no !  He  got  down  Brad- 
street's." — Ex. 


The  Infant 

takes  first  to  human  milk;  that  faiUng,  the  mother 
turns  at  once  to  cow's  milk  as  the  best  substitute.  Bor- 
den's Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  is  a  cow's  milk 
scientifically  adapted  to  the  human  infant.  Stood 
first  for  forty-five  years. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Building,    806    Market    Street.     Specialty : 
"  Col  ton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


Unnecessary  Solicitude. 

James  Huneker  tells  an  amusing  incident 
that  occurred  in  a  New  York  theatre,  the 
other  night,  when  a  man  down  in  one  of  the 
front  rows  spied  on  the  floor  a  large  hat-pin 
with  an  amber  top.  It  lay  and  glittered  in  the 
aisle,  and  he  at  once  seized  it  by  its  shiny 
bulb.  Looking  about  him,  he  saw  that  a  party 
of  two  women  and  their  escorts  had  just  sat 
down.  To  one  of  the  former  he  presented  the 
pin.  A  negative  shake  of  the  head  indicated 
that  he  had  made*  a  mistake.  Then  he  tried 
across  the  aisle.  The  women  seemed  to  be 
interested.  The  pin  was  a  curiosity,  and  its 
amber  of  a  unique  carving.  They  hesitated, 
and  the  man  felt  that  he  could  sit  down  in 
peace  to  enjoy  the  performance. 

Alas !  The  pin  was  handed  back.  Des- 
perately, he  began  the  search  anew.  Two 
ladies  unattended  seemed  likely  owners.  To 
them  he  showed  the  pin.  They  took  it  and 
enjoyed  its  pattern.  Just  then  the  man  felt 
a  tug  on  his  sleeve.  It  was  his  wife,  and  she 
remarked:  "Why  are  you  showing  my  hat- 
pin to  strangers?"  He,  blushing,  went  over 
to  the  feminine  pair,  and  explained.  "  It's 
my  wife's  hat-pin,"  he  said,  but  in  such  con- 
sciously guilty  accents  that  the  women  handed 
it  back  with  doubting  smiles.  Limply  he  re- 
turned the  jewel  to  his  wife — he  remembered 
now  that  he  had  been  present  when  she  pur- 
chased the  beastly  pin  in  Berlin.  But  what 
availed  that  knowledge  in  the  face  of  such 
suspicious  facts  1  He  was  sure  half  a  dozen 
women  believed  that  his  wife  had  claimed 
the  pin  without  being  its  legal  owner.  What 
his  wife  said  to  him  when  they  got  outside 
of  the  theatre  is  not  recorded. 


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MarQuetteWhiskey 


Marquette  Whiskey  is  named  after  the  famous  ex- 
plorer, James  Marquette,  who  in  1673  discovered  the 
Mississippi  River. 

In  1903  Marquette  Whiskey  enjoys  the  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  purest  and  most  costly  whiskey 
that  is  produced. 

It  costs  you  no  more,  however,  to  drink  Mar- 
quette, no  more  than  the  price  of  cheap  whiskey — 
and  cheap  whiskey  is  poison. 

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W.  J.  KEARNEY,  Representative, 
400  Battery  Street,  San  Franciscn.        Telephone  Main  536. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  16,   1903. 


The  Welch-De  Laveaga  Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Julia  de  Laveaga, 
daughter  of  Mr.  Miguel  A.  de  Laveaga.  and 
Mr.  Andrew  Welch,  son  of  Mrs.  Andrew 
Welch,  took  place  at  St.  Mary's  Cathedral  on 
Wednesday  morning.  The  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  half  after  ten  o'clock  by  Archbishop 
Riordan.  assisted  by  the  Rev.  Father  Lally. 
Mrs. Eugene  Lent  was  the  matron  ot  honor,  and 
Miss  Oiga  Atherton,  Miss  Agnes  Clinton,  and 
Miss  Alice  Butler  were  the  bridesmaids.  Mr. 
Eugene  Lent.  Mr.  J.  Vincent  de  Laveaga.  Mr. 
Thomas  Doyle,  and  Mr.  Louis  Welch  served 
as  ushers.  The  church  ceremony  was  followed 
by  a  reception  and  wedding  breakfast  at  the 
home  of  the  bride's  father.  122S  Geary  Street, 
at  which  over  a  hundred  guests  were  present. 
Upon  their  return  from  their  wedding  journey. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Welch  will  occupy  their  resi- 
dence at  San  Mateo. 

Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department  : 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Juliet  Wilbur  Tompkins,  the  short-story 
writer,  to  Mr.  Emery  Bemsley  Pattle.  editor 
of  the  Criterion  Magazine. 

The  wedding  -of  Miss  Mary  Harrington, 
daughter  of  Sir.  and  Mrs.  Harrington,  of 
Colusa,  and  Commander  Albert  P.  Nihlack. 
U.  S.  N.,  has  been  set  for  Tuesday.  November 
24th.  Commander  Niblack  is  expected  here 
from  Honolulu  this  week. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Grace  Garoutte.  daugh- 
ter of  ludge  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  Garoutte.  and 
Mr.  Richard  H.  Hovey.  son  of  Mr.  Chester  L. 
Hovey.  will  take  place  on  Saturday  afternoon. 
November  21st.  at  the  Unitarian  Church  in 
Berkeley. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Elsie  Beatrice  tSennet, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Bennet.  of  Oak- 
land, and  Mr.  William  Lynham  Shiels  will 
take  place  on  Monday,  November  23d.  The 
ceremony  will  be  performed  by  the  Rev.  Will- 
iam Carson  Shaw,  and  only  immediate  rela- 
tives will  be  present.  After  the  ceremony, 
Mr.  Shiels  and  his  bride  will  leave  for  "  Petit 
Trianon,"  the  country  place  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Franklin  Shiels  at  San  Mateo.  They 
will  later  reside  at  131S  Jackson  Street,  Oak- 
land, where  Mr.  Shiels  has  leased  a  house. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Helen  Davenport, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Davenport, 
and  Mr.  Ross  William  Smith  toon  place  on 
Wednesday  evening  at  St.  Stephen's  Church. 
The  ceremony  was  performed  at  half  after 
eight  o'clock  by  the  Rev.  Ernest  Bradley, 
rector  of  the  church.  Miss  Alice  Groff,  of 
Los  Angeles,  was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss 
Clara  Smith.  Miss  Claire  Converse,  and  Miss 
Gail  Converse  were  the  bridesmaids.  Mr. 
Russell  Taylor,  of  Los  Angeles,  acted  as  best 
man,  and  the  ushers  were  Mr.  Robert  Adams. 
Dr.  John  Murietta.  of  Los  Angeles,  and  Mr. 
Allan  Smith,  of  Omaha,  a  cousin  of  the  groom. 
The  church  ceremony  was  followed  by  a 
wedding  supper  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
parents..  2052  Fell  Street.  Upon  their  return 
in  January  from  their  wedding  journey  in  the 
East.  Mr.'  and  Mrs.  Smith  will  take  up  their 
residence  in  Los  Angeles. 

Miss  Helen  Chesebrough  will  mane  her  for- 
mal debut  at  a  tea  to  be  given  by  her  parents. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Chesebrough,  on  Sat- 
iir<i.iy.  November  21st,  at  their  home.  350S 
Street.  Miss  Virginia  Newell  Drown 
will  also  make  her  social  debut  at  the  same 
time.     The  hours  are  from  four  to  seven. 

Mr?.  John  Rodgers  Clark  will  give  a  lunch- 
eon on  Wednesday  in  honor  of  Miss  Gertrude 
Dutton  at  her  residence.  1809  Gough  Street. 

Mrs.  Mau.  Miss  Mau.  and  Miss  Bothin  have 
issued  cards  for  a  tea  to  be  given  at  their 
home  on  Broadway  on  Friday  afternoon,  \'o- 
tifcmber  20th.  They  will  be  "  at  home  "  during 
Fridays  in  January. 

Mr.  and  Mr?.  Henry  Dutton  gave  a  dinner 
in  the  Red  Room  of  the  Bohemian  Club  in 
honor  of  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton  on  Tuesday 
evening,  at  which  they  entertained  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ritchie  L.  Dunn.  Mr.  and  Mis.  1  nomas 
Bishop,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Bishop. 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Baker  Spalding.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  John   Rodgers  Clark.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


S.  Merrill,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Bates.  M.r. 
and  Mrs.  Louis  Masten.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Spencer.  Mrs.  Hilda  Baxter,  Miss  Katherine 
Dillon.  Miss  Patricia  Cosgrave,  Miss  Maylita 
Pease_.  Miss  Pearl  Landers.  Miss  Jennie  Blair, 
Miss  Leontine  Blakeman,  Miss  Bessie  Wilson, 
Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Miss  Elizabeth  Cole, 
Miss  Ardella  Mills,  Miss  Elizabeth  Mills. 
Miss  Katharine  Herrin.  Miss  Jessie  Fillmore. 
Miss  Harris.  Mr.  Edward  Greenwav,  Mr. 
Ralph  Hart.  Mr.  Carey  Van  Fleet,  Mr.  Bar- 
bour Lathrop.  Dr.  Arnold  Genthe.  Mr.  George 
Lewis.  Mr.  Harry  Dutton.  Major  Stephenson. 
Captain  Frederick  Johnson,  Dr.  Hewlett.  Mr. 
Philip   Paschal,  and  Mr.   Emerson  Warfield. 

Cards  have  been  issued  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F. 
J.  Sullivan  for  a  reception  at  their  residence 
on  Nan  Ness  Avenue  and  Washington  Streets 
on  Thursday,  November  19th,  in  honor  of  their 
daughter,  Miss  Alys  Sullivan,  who  will  make 
her  formal  debut.  The  hours  will  be  from 
four  to  seven.  Mrs.  Sullivan  and  her  daugh- 
ter will  receive  on  Fridays  in  January. 

Mrs.  Eugene  Murphy  gave  an  "at  home" 
on  Wednesday  afternoon  at  her  residence  on 
Jackson  Street.  Those  who  assisted  in  re- 
ceiving were  Mrs.  Augustus  Taylor.  Mrs.  \\  il- 
liam  H.  Taylor.  Jr.,  Mrs.  Walter  S.  Martin. 
Mrs.  Norris  Davis,  Mrs.  Willard  Drown,  and 
Miss  Emily  Wilson. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Casey  and  Miss  Dil- 
lon have  sent  out  invitations  for  a  reception 
to  be  given  Saturday,  November  2 1  st.  from 
four  until  seven  o'clock,  in  honor  of  Mrs. 
Malcolm  Henry,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  at  their 
new  residence  at  2906  Broadway. 

Miss  Ethel  Valentine  gave  a  tea  at  her 
Oakland  residence  on  Wednesday  afternoon 
in  honor  of  Miss  Jacqueline  Moore,  whose  en- 
gagement to  Mr.  Jack  Valentine  was  recently 
announced.  Those  who  assisted  in  receiving 
were  Miss  Edith  Selby,  Miss  Jane  Rawlins. 
Miss  Edna  Barry,  Miss  Pauline  Fore,  Miss 
Bessie  Palmer,  Miss  Gertrude  Allen.  Miss 
lone  Fore,  Miss  Elsie  Marwedel,  Miss  Chrissie 
Taft,  Mrs.  Daniel  Belden,  Miss  Ruth  Knowles, 
and  Miss  Alice  Knowles. 

Mrs.  John  Parrott  and  the  Misses  Parrott 
will  give  a  reception  on  Saturday  afternoon. 
November  21st.  at  their  residence,  1100  O'Far- 
rell  Street.  The  hours  will  be  from  four  to 
seven. 

Mrs.  Grayson  Dutton  will  give  a  luncheon 
at  the  Palace  Hotel  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Kindel- 
berger  and  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton  on  Monday. 
November  23d. 

Mrs.  John  I.  Sabin,  Mrs.  Redmond  Well- 
ington Payne,  and  Miss  Pearl  Sabin  will  give 
a  tea  next  Thursday  at  the  Sabin  home  on 
California  Street. 

Miss  Gertrude  Hyde-Smith  was  the  guest 
of  honor  at  a  luncheon  given  by  her  -aunt. 
Mrs.  Camillo  Martin,  on  Monday.  Others  at 
table  were  Miss  Grace  Martin.  Miss  Emily 
Wilson.  Miss  Frances  Allen,  Miss  Dorothy 
Gittings,  Miss  Lucy  Gwin  Coleman,  Miss 
Helen  Bowie,  Miss  Frances  McKinstry,  and 
Miss  Susie  Blanding. 

The  Misses  Morrison,  of  San  Jose,  recently 
entertained  the  judges  of  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  at  dinner.  Covers 
were  laid  for  fourteen. 

'  Mrs.  Henry  J.  Crocker  will  throw  open  her 
residence  on  Saturday,  November  28th,  for  an 
entertainment  and  sale  to  be  held  for  the 
benefit  of  St.  John's  Presbyterian  Church. 


Absolutely  Pure 
7  ERE  IS  NO  SU3STITUTE 


Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  sucessions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest : 

The  will  of  the  late  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Knox- 
Goodrich  has  been  filed  for  probate  in  San 
Jose.  The  deceased's  only  daughter,  Mrs.  Vir- 
ginia Knox  Maddox,  and  her  grandson.  Knox 
Maddox.  who  are  the  sole  heirs,  are  named 
as  executors,  with  full  power  .and  without 
bonds.  The  testatrix  directs  that  her  sister, 
Mrs.  Lucy  M.  James,  shall  be  permitted  to  oc- 
cupy the  dwelling  on  South  Third  Street,  San 
Jose,  during  her  natural  life,  or  as  long  as  she 
shall  desire  to  do  so,  and  that  her  daughter, 
Mrs.  Maddox,  shall  pay  the  taxes  and  insur- 
ance thereon.  Otherwise  the  bequests  are 
absolute  and  without  limitation.  The  estate 
is  valued  at  half  a  million  dollars,  and  con- 
sists of  real  estate  in  San  Jose  and  San  Fran- 
cisco, shares  in  the  Hotel  Vendome,  the  Bank 
of  San  Jose,  and  the  Commercial  Bank  of  San 
Jose,  and  a  half  interest  in  the  Greystone  or 
Goodrich    Stone   Quarries. 

Charles  E.  Paxton  has  filed  a  petition  ask- 
ing the  superior  court  to  revoke  the  appoint- 
ment of  his  brother.  Blitz  W.  Paxton,  as  one 
of  the  executors  of  the  estate  of  their  mother, 
the  late  Hannah  H.  Paxton.  The  grounds 
alleged  are  fraud,  mismanagement  of  the  es- 
tate, and  wasting  the  proceeds.  Blitz  Paxton, 
u  ho  is  president  of  the  Santa  Rosa  Bank, 
one  of  the  strongest  financial  institutions  in 
Sonoma  County,  declares  that  Charles  Paxton 
has  refused  to  satisfy  himself  of  the  correct- 
ness of  his  accounts  with  the  estate,  although 
repeatedly  urged  to  do  so. 


ART    NOTES. 


The  Races. 
The  fall  and  winter  meeting  of  the  New 
California  Jockey  Club  will  be  inaugurated  to- 
day at  the  Oakland  track,  and  as  an  excellent 
1  rogramme  ha?  been  arranged,  there  will 
doubtless  be  a  large  attendance.  The  big 
events  of  the  day  will  be  a  handicap  for  three- 
year-olds  and  upward,  for  a  purse  of  $2,oofl 
the    distance    being    one    mile:    and    a    selling 

purse  of  $400  for  three-year  olda  and  upward, 
over  a  mile  and  a  sixteenth  course. 


—  Tea  is  served  in  the  beautiful  CourJ 
Cfe  of  the  Palace  Hotel  from  4:00  to  6:00  eacfl 
afternoon,  and  the  orchestra  plnys  in  the  cotuf 
every  evening  from  11:00  to  12:30  for  after-theatre 
pai  ties', 

A.    lllrHi'limiin. 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Strois.  I<.i  line  jewelry. 


The  First  Annual  Painters*  Salon. 
To-night  (Saturday^  the  "  first  annual  sa- 
lon "  of  the  painters  and  sculptors  of  San 
Francisco  in  the  Maple  Room  of  the  Palace 
Hotel  will  come  to  a  close,  after  having  at- 
tracted many  spectators  during  the  four  days 
the  one  hundred  and  fifty  canvases  have  been 
on  view.  The  gems  of  the  collection  undoubt- 
edly are  Charles  Rollo  Peters's  three  moon- 
light pictures,  "  By  Monterey  Bay."  '*  Colton 
Hall."  and  "  Casa  Estrada  "  ;  Amadee  Joullin's 
two  Pueblo  Indian  studies — "  The  Death 
Watch  "  and  "  The  Medicine  Man  " — and  a 
field  of  golden  rod  in  New  Mexico  ;  and  C.  J. 
Dickman's  three  impressive  pictures.  "  Dawn," 
"  Twilight."  and  "  Moonrise."  G.  Cadenasso 
has  six  characteristic  canvases  on  exhibition, 
the  most  striking  being  the  one  entitled  "  Ber- 
keley." C.  Chapel  Judson's  "  Golden  Even- 
ing," John  M.  Gamble's  "  The  Golden  Poppy," 
Harry  Stewart  Fonda's  "  The  Nativity,"  and 
L.  Maynard  Dixon's  two  desert  scenes,  "  The 
Mojave  "  and  "  Without  Water,"  are  also 
deserving  of  especial  praise.  J.  W.  Clawson 
contributes  two  portraits,  one  of  Edward  H. 
Hamilton  and  the  other  of  little  Mildred  Bren- 
ner. The  other  artists  represented  in  the  ex- 
hibition are  H.  W.  Sewell,  Alice  B.  Chitten- 
den, Henry  Raschen,  Lucia  K.  Mathews,  C.  D. 
Robinson,  Fancher  Pettis,  Elmer  Watchel.  G. 
A.  P.  Plazzoni,  and  C.  P.  Neilsen.  Arthur 
Putnam,  the  sculptor,  has  six  notable  produc- 
tions, which  add  greatly  to  the  interest  of  the 
exhibition.  Five  are  in  plaster  and  one  in 
bronze.  They  are  entitled  "  Tiger,"  "Puma 
and  Deer,"  "  Bloodhound,"  "  Puma,"  "  Man 
and  Snake."  and  "  Puma  Reclining." 

Robert  I.  Aitken's  sketch  for  the  proposed 
monument  to  Bret  Harte  to  be  erected  by  the 
Bohemian  Club  and  placed  in  one  of  the  pub- 
lic parks  of  this  city,  has  recently  been  on  ex- 
hibition at  the  Bohemian  Club.  Some  weeks 
ago  the  movement  to  erect  the  monument  was 
started  among  the  club  members,  and  Charles 
Rollo  Peters,  the  painter,  headed  the  subscrip- 
tion list  with  an  offer  of  one  of  his  canvases. 
It  is  proposed  to  raise  a  fund  of  four  thousand 
dollars  for  the  monument,  and  members  of  the 
club  have  been  asked  to  subscribe  this  amount. 
The  monument  proposed  by  Sculptor  Aitken 
is  a  life-sized  figure  of  "  Tennessee's  Pard- 
ner."  an  old  miner,  his  shovel  between  his 
knees,  and  his  face  buried  in  one  hand.  The 
-figure  is  seated  upon  a  mound  of  loose  earth, 
and  a  pine  bough  trails  down  over  the  edge  of 
the  base. 

Robert  Louis  Stevenson's  birthday  was  cel- 
ebrated at  the  California  Hotel  on  Friday 
evening  at  a  dinner  given  by  the  newly  or- 
ganized Stevenson  Fellowship  Club.  Dr.  David 
Starr  Jordan  acted  as  toastmaster,  and  Profes- 
sor Rolfe,  of  Stanford,  Dr.  Guthrie,  of  Ala- 
meda. Jules  Sammaneau,  of  Monterey,  Mrs. 
Virgil  Williams,  and  A.  M.  Sutherland,  per- 
sonal friends  of  Stevenson,  gave  personal  re- 
collections, while  George  St.  John  Bremner 
sang  one  of  Stevenson's  songs. 


Charles  F.  Morel,  the  well-known  educator 
and  mining  man,  who  was  prominent  in  the 
earlier  days  of  San  Francisco,  died  in  Berkeley 
last  Saturday,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five,  Mr. 
Morel  is  survived  by  a  widow,  three  sons,  and 
two  daughters. 


Don't  fail  to  make  a  visit  to  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  before  the  winter  weather  sets 
in.  The  trip  on  the  Scenic  Railway  affords 
beautiful  views,  and  the  cuisine  of  the  Tavern 
more  than  satisfies  the  inner  man. 


At  the  Alhambra  Theatre  to-night  (Satur- 
day) the  students  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia will  present  a  farce  called  "  Under  Pro- 
test," by  A.  C.  Keane  and  Jo  Loeb. 


Scliussler  Bros. 

are  displaying  the  latest  novelties  in  place  and  score 
cards,  new  and  artistic  tints  in  society  note  papers. 
Engraving  of  wedding  invitations,  announcements, 
visiting  cards  in  latest  forms.  119-121  Geary 
Street.     Phone  Main  5562. 


—  Maid  Servant.— An  experienced  second 
girl  and  waitress  desires  a  situation.  The  best  of 
references  can  be  given.     Address  Argonaut,  Box  49. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated   hats;  fall  styles 
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November  16,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


343 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
wiih  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  ior  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  oi  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

.THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  tarnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine aud  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
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HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  A  VENUE 

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The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

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Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  neivous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  sen-ice.  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-halt 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8.30  a.  M-,  10  a.  M.,  and  3.30  P.  m. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Rm  WARNER,  Manager, 

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Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  =  four  trains   daily   each 

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500  G-oIconda " 

1,500  Rio  Tinto  Copper ' 

3,500  Gray  Eagle  Con $4 

(*  Excellent  dividend  pa  Sen  \ 
And  we  will  buy  all  Western  stocks. 


WATT  &  COWPERTHWAITE 

Bankers  and  Brokers.       Stockton,  Cal. 

V. / 


MOVEMENTS  AND  WHEREABOUTS. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  D.  Grant  stopped  at 
Hot  Springs,  Va.,  on  their  way  East.  They 
spent  a  few  days  in  Philadelphia,  and  are  now 
in  Xew  York.  They  were  in  a  minor  train 
wreck,  but   fortunately  sustained  no  injury. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Reginald  Knight  Smith  are 
occupying  their  own  residence  on  the  corner 
of  Pierce  and  Jackson  Streets.' 

Mrs.  Loughborough  and  her  daughter.  Miss 
Josephine  Loughborough,  who  have  been  visit- 
ing Mrs.  Allan  Wallace  in  Xew  York,  will  sail 
for  Europe  on  Tuesday.  They  intend  to  spend 
the  winter  in  Rome. 

Mrs.  Morton  Gibbons,  who  went  to  Chicago 
with  her  mother,  Mrs.  Stubbs,  several  weeks 
ago,  has  returned  to  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Harry  M.  Gillig  has  left  Paris  for  New 
York,  and  is  expected  in  San  Francisco  about 
the  first  of  December. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Hays  Hammond  have 
taken  a  cottage  at  Lakeport  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  F.  Jaynes  was  in  New  York  during  the 
week. 

Miss  Elena  Robinson,  who  is  at  present  in 
Xew  York,  expects  to  visit  Europe  before  re- 
turning. 

Mr.  Knox  Maddox  has  been  visiting  his 
mother  in  San  Jose. 

Mrs.  John  W.  Mackay  is  the  guest  of  Mrs. 
Clarence  Mackay  at  Harbor  View.  N.  Y.  Mrs. 
Mackay's  stay  in  this  country  will  be  very 
brief. 

Mrs.  Thurlow  McMullin  and  Mrs.  A.  C. 
McX'ulty  have  rented  their  residence  on  Cali- 
fornia Street  to  Mr.  William  B.  Tubbs  for  the 
winter,  and  have  taken  apartments  at  the 
Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Herman  Shainwald  left  last 
Saturday  for  an  extended  trip  to  the  East  and 
Europe.  They  will  probably  remain  in  New 
York  during  the  holidays,  after  which  time 
they  will  sail  for  the  Continent,  via  the 
Mediterranean.  They  expect  to  be  gone  about 
six  months. 

Mrs.     Edward     Barron     has     arrived     from 

Washington,  D.  C,  and  is  at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.    Mayo    Xewhall    and    Miss    Margaret 

Xewhall  left  Paris  last  week,  en  route  to  San 

Francisco. 

Mrs.  A.  A.  Watkins  and  Miss  Mabel  Wat- 
kins  have  closed  their  residence  in  Sausalito. 
and  have  taken  the  Kimble  house  on  Broadway 
for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  J.  Shotwell  expect  to  leave 
for  the  East  at  the  end  of  this  month,  and  will 
be  absent  several  weeks. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wallace  Everett  (nee  Davis) 
will  spend  the  winter  with  Mrs.  Everett's 
parents.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Davis,  who  reside  on 
Scott  and  Green  Streets. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Moore  Robinson  have 
closed  their  Philadelphia  residence,  and  will 
reside  during  the  winter  at  the  Craig  Biddle 
place,  Devon,  near  Philadelphia.  They  will 
visit  New  York  for  the  Horse  Show  as  the 
guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  Augustus  Spreckels. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  have  been  travel- 
ing in  Northern  California  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brewster  Valentine,  of  New 
\  ork,  will  pass  the  winter  in  San  Jose. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Archibald  Clavering  Gunter. 
who  spent  the  summer  at  their  Narragansett 
cottage,  have  taken  a  house  in  Xew  York  on 
West  Eighty-Fifth  Street,  near  Central  Park. 
Mrs.  L.  P.  Drexler  was  in  New  York  during 
the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Plotner  (nee  Hooper), 
who  were  recently  married  in  Philadelphia, 
arrived    from   the   East  last  week. 

Mr.  John  C.  Kirkpatrick  returned  from  New 
York  last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  T.  R.  Mullock,  of  New  York, 
and  family  are  passing  the  winter  at  the 
Hotel  Yendome. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  T.  Harmes  and  Miss 
Belle  Harmes  are  at  the  California  Hotel  for 
the  winter. 

Mr.  Frederick  Greenwood  has  returned 
from  his  visit  to  Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colin  M.  Boyd,  who  have  re- 
turned from  an  extended  Eastern  trip,  have 
taken  apartments  at  the  Occidental  Hotel  for 
the  winter. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pischel  will  leave  for  a  trip  to 
the   Hawaiian  Islands  on  Wednesday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Silvester  left  on 
Wednesday  for  New  York,  where  they  are  to 
make  their  future  home. 

Among  the  guests  at  Hotel  Rafael  during 
the  past  week  were  the  following :  Mrs. 
Florence  B.  Cramton  and  Mr.  George  H. 
Cults,  of  Rutland.  Vt..  Mrs.  V.  S.  McClutchy. 
of  Sacramento,  Mr.  A.  E.  Knights,  of 
Shanghai,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Waterman, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  D.  C.  Becker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P. 
Anspacher.  Mrs.  R.  Behlow,  Mrs.  Eda  Gold- 
stein. Mrs.  Sam  Weil,  Mrs.  Joe  Weisbaum, 
Mrs.  John  Schussler.  Mrs.  W.  Block,  Mrs.  A. 
S.  Frank.  Miss  E.  Behlow,  Miss  Cole  H. 
Becker,  Miss  Maud  Ackerman,  Miss  Florence 
J.  Kahn,  Mr.  Leland  S.  Ransdell.  Mr.  William 
P.  Lawlor,  and  Mr.  F.  S.  Baum. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 
The   latest  personal  notes  relative  to   army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

Rear-Admiral  McCalla.  U.  S.  N.,  Mrs.  Mc- 
Calla.  and  the  Misses  McCalla  were  at  the 
Palace  Hotel  during  the  week. 

Lieutenant  John  Burke  Murphy.  U.  S.  A., 
and  Mrs.  Murphy  (nee  Nokes)  have  departed 
for  Fort  Russell,  Cheyenne,  Wyo.,  where 
Lieutenant  Murphy  is  now  stationed. 

Colonel  Samuel  M.  Swigert,  U.  S.  A„  re- 
tired, and  the  Misses  Swigert  have  taken  a 
house  at  2205  Green  Street  for  the  winter. 

Dr.  Henry  S.  Greenleaf.  U.  S.  A.,  left  Mon- 
day evening  for  South  Carolina,  where  he  is 
to  be  stationed. 

Rear-Admira]  Lester  Anthony  Beardslee, 
U.   S*  A.,  retired,   who  died  in  Augusta,   Ga., 


on  Tuesday  from  apoplexy,  was  well  known 
on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  was  in  command 
of  the  Pacific  squadron  for  some  time,  his 
flagship  being  the  Philadelphia.  Admiral 
Beardslee  retired  in  February,  iScjS.  two 
months  before  the  war  was  declared  against 
Spain. 

Major  George  O.  Squier.  U.  S.  A.  signal 
officer  of  the  Department  of  California,  re- 
turned last  week  from  an  extended  leave  of 
absence  spent  in  the  Eastern  States. 

Captain  Oscar  J.  Charles.  Engineer  Corps. 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  ordered  from  Washington. 
D.  C,  where  he  has  been  on  duty  at  the  Engi- 
neer School  of  Application,  to  Los  Angeles, 
relieving  Major  Williams,  U.  S.  A. 

Paymaster  Arthur  Brown.  U.  S.  N.,  left  last 
week  for  Honolulu  to  take  charge  of  the  Naval 
Pay  Office,  succeeding  the  late  Paymaster 
Stewart  Rhodes.  U.  S.  N. 

General  Jacob  B.  Rawles.  U.  S.  A.,  retired, 
Mrs.  Rawles,  and  Miss  Rawles  have  returned 
from  the  country,  where  they  have  spent  the 
last  two  months,  and  are  in  town  for  the 
winter. 

General  George  B.  Rodney,  U.  S.  A.,  re- 
tired, and  Mrs.  Rodney  are  spending  some 
time  at  the  Hotel  Vendome,  San  Jose. 


Francis  J.  Carolan  has  begun  suit  against 
"  The  Occidental  Land  and  Improvement 
Company  "  of  Burlingame  to  prevent  any  in- 
terference with  the  laying  of  pipes  along  Oak 
Avenue,  near  Burlingame.  The  company  is 
composed  of  many  wealthy  people  of  that  sec- 
tion, and  supplies  the  water  used  there.  It 
seems  that  Mr.  Carolan  wants  to  engage  in  a 
similar  line  of  business,  and  fears  that  the 
company  will  begin  suit  to  restrain  him  from 
laying  his  pipes  along  the  avenue  to  Burlin- 
game, so  he  has  taken  extra  precaution  to 
avoid  any  interruption  in  the  work.  He  al- 
leges in  his  complaint  that  the  company  is 
unable  to  supply  an  adequate  amount  of  water, 
owing  to  its  defective  water  mains  and  pipes, 
and  that  at  times  the  water  is  shut  off  for  a 
period  of  twenty-four  hours,  and  that  great 
danger  is  imminent  by  reason  of  fire.  He  also 
alleges  that  the  beautiful  gardens  in  and 
about  Burlingame  are  losing  their  charm  and 
beauty  for  lack  of  water.  Carolan  proposes 
to  remedy  this  defect  by  giving  the  people  of 
Burlingame  a  greater  supply  of  water. 


At  the  close  of  the  college  year  at  Stanford, 
Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan  will  leave  for  St. 
Louis,  where  he  will  attend  the  annual  meet- 
ing of  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science,  which  will  convene  on 
December  27th.  He  will  then  proceed  to 
Washington,  D.  C,  to  meet  President  Roose- 
velt, to  report  the  results  of  the  investiga- 
tions made  by  the  Federal  commission  sent 
to  Alaska  last  summer  to  inquire  into  the  con- 
dition of  the  salmon  industry-  Dr.  Jordan  will 
also  make  a  number  of  addresses  in  different 
Eastern  cities.  Owing  to  the  fact  that  Vice- 
President  Branner  will  also  leave  for  the  East 
and  Europe  soon  after  college  closes,  the  act- 
ing presidency  will  probably  devolve  upon 
Professor  J.  M.  Sttllman,  head  of  the  de- 
partment of  chemistry. 


Champagne. 

As  usual,  Moet  &  Chandon  heads  the  list  of 
importations  to  the  United  States  up  to  No- 
vember 1  st,  according  to  the  recognized  and 
authentic  organ  of  the  importations  of  wines. 
Bonforl's  Wine  and  Spirit  Circular,  of  New 
York.  Moet  &  Chandon  White  Seal  and  Brut 
Imperial,  91.612  cases;  Mumm,  90,904  cases; 
Pommery,  24,240  cases;  Ruinart,  19,005  cases; 
Clicquot,  11.974  cases;  Roederer,  8,576  cases. 
Moet  &  Chandon  has  the  distinction  of  being 
the  only  wine  served  at  the  banquet  tendered 
by  the  Old  Guard  of  New  York  to  the  Ancient 
and  Honorable  Artillery  of  Boston  and  its 
guests,  the  Honorable  Artillery  Company  of 
London-  Moet  &  Chandon  White  Sea!  is  al- 
most exclusively  used  at  all  prominent  social 
gatherings. — Post. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


—  Coachman  wants  a  place.  Not  used  to 
the  city  ;  country  preferred  Good  driver  ;  used  to 
handling  horses  and  cows.  Does  not  drink;  highest 
references  given.     Address  Box  173  Argonaut  office. 


—  Swell  dressers  have  their  Shirt  Waists 
made  at  Kent's,  "  Shirt  Tailor."  121   Post  St..  S.  F. 


Tourist  Policies 


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and  Redington  &  Co..  San  Francisco:  Kirk, 
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Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax. 


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have  it.  Circular  mailed  free  by  Dodge  Publishing 
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308-312   Po«!  St. 


THE        ARGONAUT, 


November  16,  1903. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC. 

Trains  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 
SAN   FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Foot  of  Market  Slreet.) 


From    Octoberai,  1903. 


7.00  a 
7.30  a 


7.30  a 
8.00  a 


8.00  a 
8.30  a 


8.30  : 


8  30  a 

9.0..  a 
10.00  a 
ro  00  a 


1 2  .  00  111 

ti.oo  [> 

3-30  P 

3-30  P 

3.30  P 

3-3°  P 

4.00  p 

4. oop 

4.30  p 

5.00  p 

tS-3Q  P 
6.00  p 
6.00  p 


6.00  p 
7. cop 

7  oop 

8  05  p 


Benicia,  Suisun,  Elmira,  and  Sacra- 
mento   

Vacaville,  Winters.  Rumsey 

Martinez,  San  Ramon.  Vallejo,  Napa, 
Caltstoga,  Santa  Rosa 

Niles,  Liver  more,  Tracy,  Lathrop, 
Stockton - 

Davis,  Woodland,  Knight's  Landing, 
Marysville.  Oroville 

Atlantic  Express — Ogden  and  East. . . 

Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antioch,  Kjion, 
Tracy,  Stockton.  Sacramento, 
Newman,  Los  Banos,  Mendoi  a. 
Armona,  Lemoore,  hanfoid,  Vi- 
salia,  Porterville 

Tort  Costa,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Laih- 
rop,  Modesto.  Merged,  r  resno,  G>  - 
shell  Junction,  l.emoore,  Hanford, 
Visalia,  Bakersficld 

Shasta  Express  —  Davis,  Williams 
(for  Bartletl  Springs),  Willows, 
fKruto,  Red  Bluff.  Portland 

Nil  s.  San  Jose",  Livermore,  Stockton, 
lone.  Sacramento,  Plat  erville.Marjs- 
ville.  Chico.  Red  Bluff 

Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  So- 
nnra.  Tuolumne,  and  Angels 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 

VaJlejo 

Port  Costa,  Marline?,  Byron,  Tracy, 
Laihrop.  Stockton,  Merced.  Ray- 
mond, Fres  no,  H  anlord.  Vis;Jia. 
Bakersficld.  Los  Angeles  (West- 
bound arrives  viaCoasi  Line) 

The  Overland  Limited— Ogden,  Den- 
ver. Omaha,  Chicago 

Hayward,  Niles,  and  Way  Stations... 

Sacramento  River  Stenraers . . .  -■ 

Benicia,  Winters,  Sacramento.  Wood- 
land. Knights  landing.  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and   Way  Stations 

Hayward,  Niles.  and  Way  Stations.. 

Port  Costa.  Martinez,  B\ron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop,  Modc>to.  Mciced.  Fresno, 
and  Way  Stations  beyond  Port  Costa 

Martinez,  Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodi 

Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa. 
Calistoga.  Santa  Rosa 

Niles,  Trvicy,  Stockton,  Ixadi 

Hayward,  Niles,  Irvington,  San  | 
Jose.   Livermore ) 

The  Owl  Limited  —  Newman,  Los 
Banos,  Mendota,  Fresno.  Tulare. 
Bakersfield,    Los  Angeles 

Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton 

Hayward,  Niles,  and  San  Jose 

Hayward,  Niles,  and  San  Jose 

Oriental  Mail  —  Ogden,  Denver. 
Omaha,  St.  Louis,  Chicago  and  East. 
Port  Costa, Bt-nicia,  Stusun.  Elmira, 
Davis  Sacramentr,  Rocklin,  Au- 
burn, Colfax,  Truckte,  Boca,  Pe>  o, 
Wad->worth,  Winnemucca  Battle 
Mountain,  ElLo 

Vallejo,  daily,  except  Sunday ^ 

Vallejo.  Sunday  onl\ | 

San  Pablo,  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  and 
Way  Stations 

Oregon  and  California  Express,  Sacra- 
mento, Marysville,  Redding,  Port- 
land, Puget  Sound,  and  East 

Hayward,  Niles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day only) 


7-25  I' 
7-55  P 

6.25  p 

7-25P 

7-55  P 


4-25  P 
6  55P 

12  25  p 


e  .3'   p 

6  25  p 
3  25  P 

tn. 00  p 


10.55  a 
7  55  P 


9 

25 

a 

21 

P 

ts 

si 

11 

•55 

a 

8 

55 

a 

12 

25  P 

7 

2S 

a 

10 

25 

a 

-(•25  P 

7-55  P 


8.55  a 
"•55  a 


COAST  LINE  (Narrow  Gauge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

8.15a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose",  Felton. 
Boulder    Creek,    Sania    Cruz,    and 

Way  Stations .         5 .  55  p 

T2.I5P  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose,  New 
Almaden,  Los  Gatos,  Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and 
Principal  Way  Stations 10.55  ar 

4.15  p     Newark,    San   Jose",    Los    Gatos   and 

Way  Stations t8-55  a 

09.30  p  Hunter*  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose"  and  Way  Stations.  Sunday 
only  returns  Irom  Los  Gatos 17.25  p 

OAKLAND  HARBOR  FERRT. 

From  SAN  FRANCISCO— Foot  of  Market  St.  (Slip  8)— 
17.15        9.00        11.00  am,        1. 00       3.00       5.15pm 

FromOAKLAND— Foot  of  Broadway—  t6.oo  JS.oo 
18.05     10. ooam     12.00     2.00    4.00pm 


COAST  LINE  (Broad  Gauge). 

35T  (Third  and  Townsend  Streets.) 

6.10  a     San  Jose1  and  Way  Stations 6.30  p 

7.00  a     San  Jose"  and  Way  Starmns 5-36  p 

8.00  a     New  Almaden  (Tues.,  Frid.,  only)  . .  4,10  p 

8.00  a  Coast  Line  Limited— Mop-%  onlj  San 
Jose",  Gilroy  (connection  for  Hoi- 
lister),  Pajaro,  Castroville.  Salinas, 
San  Ardo,  Paso  l< ubles.  Sai  1 1  a 
Margarita,  San  Lui>  Ob  spo,  Prin- 
cipaI  stjtions  thence  >urt  (connec- 
tion for  Lompocl  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara  and  Lo* 
AngeUs.  Goineclion  at  Castro- 
ville  to  and    from    Monteny    and 

Pacific  Gro\e.. 10.45  P 

Q.00  a  San  Jose,  Tres  Pinos,  Capitola,  Santa 
Cm/.  Pacific  Grove,  Salinas,  San 
Luis    Obispo,    and    Principal    Way 

Stations 

10.30  a     San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations 

1130  a     Sat  it. 1  *  lira.  San  Jose,  Los  Gatos.  and 

Way  Statinns 

1   30  [j     San   lose1  and  Way  Stations 

3. cop  Pacific  Grove  Expresx— Sania  Clara, 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (conr<cis  at  Santa 
1  1  ira  foi  Santa  Cry,  RoulbVr 
Creek,  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  1  ;il  oy  for   MolliMer.  I  res  Pinos, 

at  Ca«troville  for  Salinas 

[i    t  :iir<t\  Waj  Passenifrr 

t4  45  p  San  |i  '  [via  Santa  Clara,  Los  Caios, 
and   Principal   Way   Stations   (rx- 

cept  Stiniia\  )  .    , ,,     

55.30  p  San  )aat  ind  Print  ipal  Way  Stations 
6  co  p  Sunset  Limited,  Easibound  —  Sap 
Luis  Obispo.  Santa  Barbara,  1ms 
AfiEeletj  I  'erniiif;.  El  Paso.  New 
Orleans,  Nrw  York.  (Westbound 
arrives  via  San  Joaquin  Valley).  .. . 

16  15  p  San  Mateo,  llcrtsford.  Be  inoni.  San 
1  R<  dwood,  Fair  Oaks, 
Mil'  Pari  .  1  alo  Alio 16  46  a 


4-iop 
1.20  p 


7.30  p 
t>.  36  a 


2  15P 
o  45  a 


+0  ;6  a 
»8  co  a 


r<v.?5  a 


6.36  a 


9  45  P 


6. 30  p    Sun  Jose'  and  Way  Station; 
it  30  p    South  San  Frwcisco,  Millbrae,  Dur 
lingame,  Snn  Matro,   Belmont,  San 
<  aria  ,  Redwood,  Fair  Qt  ks,  Mcnlo 

Part,  and  Palo  Alto  

iti  30  p    Ma\  field,   Mountain    \  iew     Sunny- 
vale. Lawrence,  Santa  Clara,  and 

■'■'    !■"■**      - tjMSP 

a  for  Morning.         p  for  Afternoon. 

I  Sunday  only.         i  Slops  nt  all  stations  on  Sunday. 

I  Sun  lay  excepted,         .1  Saturday  only. 

e  Vir  Coast  Line. 

I  San  Jon. pun  Valley. 
aarOr'v  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  southbound  are 
i.10  urn    T7.00  Am.,  1 1.30  a  111  ,  i  30  pin.  and  6.3O  pnv 

'  \u>\      1  1: ansi  0OMPAM1         ii 

1       nd   check    baggage   froui    hotels   and  residences. 

Exchange  Bjt.      Inquire  ot   Ticket  Agents  for 

I     .mi!  oilier  ihlnrmatinn 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Sportsman  (wishing  for  fresh  fields  to  con- 
quer)— "  I  should  like  to  try  my  hand  at  big 
game."  Fair  ignoramus — "  Yes,  I  suppose  you 
find  it  very  hard  to  hit  these  little  birds !" — 
Punch. 

Helping  his  wife :  Wife — "  I  have  been 
thinking  I  ought  to  give  you  a  birthday  pres- 
ent. Howard."  Husband — "  Oh,  very  well. 
Just  write  down  what'  it  shall  be.  and  I'll  buy 
it  on  my  way  uptown." — Town  Topics. 

Mrs.  A. — "  Your  husband  smoking  again  ! 
Why.  I  thought  you  insisted  that  he  should 
give  it  up."  Mrs.  Z. — "  I  did,  dear,  but  then 
I  found  such  a  pretty  smoking-jacket  at  a 
bargain  sale." — Chicago  Daily  Nezvs. 

After  the  wedding :  "  But  they  told  me 
you  had  money."  "  And  they  buncoed  me 
into  thinking  you  were  rich."  "  Well,  what's 
to  be  done  about  it?"  "Let's  fall  in  love 
just  for  spite." — Cincinnati  Commercial  Trib- 
une. 

Girl  in  the  grand-stand — "  Isn't  that  a  cruel 
game?  Do  you  think  it's  fair  for  a  dozen  men 
to  pile  themselves  on  top  of  the  poor  fellow 
that  has  the  ball?"  Her  escort — "No;  there 
oughtn't  to  be  more  than  eleven  of  them,  any- 
way."— Chicago  Tribune. 

Information  :  "  Hello."  said  the  neighborly 
bore.  "  what  are  you  building  the  new  chicken 
house  for?"  "Why,"  replied  Nettles,  "for  a 
flock  of  pink  carmels,  of  course.  You  didn't 
suppose  I'd  put  chickens  in  it,  did  you?" — 
Philadelphia  Public  Ledger. 

Beyond  expectation  :  Mr.  Jones — "  See 
here !  This  horse  you  sold  me  runs  up  on 
the  sidewalk  every  time  he  sees  an  auto." 
Horse-dealer — "Well,  you  don't  expect  a  fifty- 
dollar  horse  to  run  up  a  telegraph  pole  or 
climb  a  tree,  do  you?" — Judge. 

In  Kentucky :  Ascuni  —  "I  don't  know 
whether  your  head  over  the  article  about 
Colonel  Lushman's  death  was  printed  the  way 
you  intended,  but  it  was  a  good  one.  City 
editor — "  Let  me  see.  What  was  it?"  Ascuni 
— "  Has  fought  his  last  bottle." — Philadelphia 
Press. 

"  Weren't  you  nervous  at  the  wedding." 
asked  the  sympathetic  chap,  "  with  all  those 
people  looking  at  you?"  "I  nervous?"  re- 
peated the  recent  benedict.  "  why  should  I 
be  nervous  ?  Nobody  looked  at  me — I  was 
only  the  groom,  you  know." — Cincinnati 
Times-Star. 

"  How  did  you  like  Dr.  Fourthly  last  Sunday 
morning?"  asked  Mrs.  Oldcastle  ;  "don't  you 
think  he  indulged  rather  freely  in  mixed 
metaphor?"  "  Goodness !  I  didn't  notice. 
Did  he  have  it  right  there  in  the  pulpit  ? 
This  will  be  a  terrible  blow  to  Josiah.  He 
thinks  so  much  of  the  doctor." — Chicago 
Record-Herald. 

The  rule  of  three  :  "  One  week  from  to-day. 
Uncle  John,  I  will  be  a  married  man.  Yes,  in 
seven  short  days  I  will  be  initiated  into  the 
'  mysteries  of  matrimony."  "  No  mysteries 
about  it.  my  boy.  It  is  just  the  plain,  simple 
rule  of  three."  "Rule  of  three?  Eh — what 
three?"  "Wife,  mother-in-law,  and  hired 
girl." — Kansas  City  Journal. 

"  How's  your  mother?"  asked  the  neighbor. 
"  Worried  to  death,"  answered  the  boy,  who 
was  swinging  on  the  front  gate;  "father's 
hunting  in  the  Adirondacks,  brother  Bill's 
gone  to  a  political  convention,  brother  Jack's 
joined  a  football  team,  and  the  dressmaker 
has  just  told  mother  that  she'd  look  a  fright 
in   mourning." — Washington   Star. 

His  qualification:  Senator — "This  friend 
that  you  want  me  to  get  a  government  position 
for — you  can  recommend  him  as  a  man  of 
good  ability  and  capable  of  filling  the  place,  I 
suppose?"  Constituent — "  Why,  no.  senator, 
I  can't  do  that.  It's  because  he  can't  make  a 
living  at  anything  else  that  I  want  you  to  get 
a  government  job  for  him." — Chicago  Trib- 
une. 

The  new  woman's  quandary :  "  Yes,"  the 
new  woman  remarked,  "  I  am  greatly 
troubled."  "  By  what?"  "  Well,  I  want  to 
get  married  just  to  prove  that  I  can,  and  I 
don't  want  to  get  married  just  to  prove  that 
I. don't  have  to.  If  I  don't  they'll  say  I  can't; 
if  I  do,  they'll  say '  I  have  no  more  inde- 
pendence than  any  other  woman." — Chicago 
Post. 

He  told  her  at  last:  "There  is  something," 
he  said.   "  that   I   have  wanted  to   tell  you   for 

a  long  time,  but "     "  Oh,  Bertie,"  she  said, 

blushing  sweetly.  "  not  here  in  the  car  before 
all  these  people.  Wait.  Come  this  evening." 
"  It's  merely  that  you  have  a  streak  of  soot 
down  the  middle  of  your  nose,  but  I  couldn't 
for  the  life  of  me  get  a  word  in  till  just  now." 
—Chicago  Record-Herald. 

"  1  thought,  said  the  irate  strap-hanger, 
"  you  claimed  when  trying  to  get  the  franchise 
that  you  proposed  to  build  the  road  for  the 
benefit  of  the  public?"  "My  dear  sir."  re- 
plied the  director  of  the  soulless  corpora- 
tion, who  occasionally  condescended  to  pa- 
tronize his  own  cars,  "  the  road  was  built 
for  the  benefit  of  the  public,  but  it  is  run 
for  the  benefit  of  the  officials."  —  Chicago 
Daily  News. 

—  Sifv  Ini. in'-.  Soothing  Powders  relieve  feverislV- 
ness  and  prevent  Sis  and  convulsions  during  the 
leelhing  period. 


Fools  and  money  :  She — "  A  fool  and  his 
money  are  soon  parted."  He — "  True,  and  a 
fool     and     her     money     arc     soon     wedded." — 

I  otikei  s  Statesman. 


—  Dk   K  O  Cochrank,  Demist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Viiltey  Kiiihling. 

MOTHKRS  RE  SURE  AND  USE  "  MRS,   WlNM.OU'S 

Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Tiburon   Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael . 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m;  12.35,  3.30,  5.10, 

6.30  p  m.     Thursdays— Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 

Saturdays  — Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  am;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 

11.30  p  m. 

San  Kafael  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK   DAYS— 6.05,   7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m;   12.50; 

3.40.  5.00,  5.20  p  m.    Saturdays — Extra   trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00.  9.40,  11.15am;  1.40,  3.40.  4-55.  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 

9.30  a  m 

3.30  p  m    3-30  p  m 

5-i°  P  m    500pm 


7.30  a  m 

S.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m  9-3°  a  m 
5.10  pm    3.30  pm 

5.00  p  m 


7.3°  a  m 

j  Rooam 
3.30pm    3.30  p  m 


3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 


7.30  a  m|  S.oo  a  m 
3.30  a  m  I  3.30  p  m 


7.30  a  pi;  S.oo  % 


7,30  a  m  S.oo  a  m 

3.30  p  m  3.30  p  m 

7.30  a  mi  S.oo  a  m 

5.10pm  5.00pm 


7  30  a  111    S.oo  a  m 
3.30  p  m    3-3°  P  m 


In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petalunia 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytloii, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 


Sun- 
days. 


9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 


9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 


10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 


10.40  a  m 
7-35  Pm 
7-35  Pjn 
10.40  a  m 
_7j35  Pjn 
9.10  a  m 
6.05  p  m 


10.40  a  m 
7.35  pm 


Week 
Days. 


S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 

6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 

6.20  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 
6.20  p  m 


6.20  p  m 
S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  for  San  Quentin;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
for  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs; 
at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood  ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs. 
Highland  Springs,  Kelsevville,  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  lor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  VVitter  Springs.  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside.  Lierlev's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins.  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg.  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Cahto.  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris.  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  630  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

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Secretary. 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 
A  M— f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12  01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m.  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii-io  p  ra. 

SO/1  A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
*^*%M  ton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  tn.  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 
J§  /| /|  P  M-^STOCKTON  LOCAL:  DueStock- 
^rm%J%J  ton  7. 10  p  m.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
1 1. 10  a  m. 

«/)/)  P  M— *OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
fW  Stockton  11.15  P  ni,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
I  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco ;  and  11 12  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED" 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 


Through  sleepers  daily  San  Francisco  to  St. 
Louis,  via  Rio  Grande  Scenic  Route  and  Missouri 
Pacific  Railway.  The  best  dining-car  service,  new 
equipment 

For  sleeping  -  car  reservation  and  full  informa- 
tion apply  to 

GENERAL  TICKET  OFFICE 

625  Harket  Street,  S.  F. 

Under  Palace  Hotel. 


TO  SAN  RAFAEL.  ROSS  VALLEY, 
MILL  VALLEY,  CAZADERO,  ETC. 
Via  Sausalito  Fern-. 
Suburban  Service,  Standard  Gauge 
Electric  —  Depart  from  San  Francisco 
Daily- 7.00,  S.oo,  900,  10.00,  11.00  a.  m., 
12.20,  1.45.  3-J5.  4-15-  5'!5.  615.  7.00.  S.45.  10.20, 
11.45  P-  M. 

FROM  SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO 
—Daily— 5-25,  6-35.  7-40,  S.35.  9.35,  11.05,  a.  M.,  12.20, 
i-45.  2.55.  3-45.  4-4S.  5.45.  M5.  8-45-  '°-2°  *"■  m. 

FROM     MILL    VALLEY   TO  SAN    FRANCISCO 
—  Daily— 5-45,   6-55.   7-52.  s-55.  9-55.    "-20  A-  M-.   '2-35, 
2.00,   315.  4.05-  5-05.  6-°5.   705.  9oo,   10.35  p.  M. 
THROUGH    TRAINS. 
S.oo  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.   M.   week   days    (Saturdays    excepted)— To- 
males  and  way  stations. 
3.15  p.  m,  Saturdays — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays  only— 10.00  a.    m.,    Point    Reyes  and   way 
stations. 
Ticket  Offices— 626  Market  Street. 
Ferry— Union  Depot,  fool  of  Market  Street. 


MT.TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 

Via  Sausalito  Ferry,  foot  of  Market  Street. 

Leave  San  Francisco,  week  days,  *io.oo  a.  m.,*i.45 
p.  M.,  5.15  p.  m.  Sundays,  *S.oo  a.  m.,  9.00  a.  m  ,  10.00 
A.  M.,  11.00  A.  M.,  *i.45  p-  M.,  3.15  p.  m. 

Arrive  San  Francisco,  Sundays.  12.05  p-  M-,  1.25  p.  M., 
2.50  p.  m„  4.50  p.   m.,  550  p.  m.;  7.50  P.  m.     Week  days, 

IO.40  A.  M.,  2.50  P.  M-,  5.50  P.  M.,  9.50  P.  M. 

♦Connect  with  stage  for  Dipsea  and  Willow  Camp. 
Ticket  offices— 626  Market  Street  (North  Shore  Rail- 
road), and  Sausalito  Ferry,  foot  Market  Mreel. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Roosevelt,  and  Panama  as  an  Issue — Our  Presi- 
dent's Distinguishing  Characteristic — How  Will  the  Po- 
litical Parties  Line  Up  On  the  Panama  Issue? — Has  a  Game 
of  Grab  the  Approval  of  the  Nation? — Democratic  Presi- 
dential Possibilities — Cleveland  Has  the  Best  Chance — 
Federal  Control  of  Canals- — Municipal  Loaves  and  Fishes — 
Who  Will  Get  the  City  Offices?— Gossip  Regarding  State 
Politics — Wait  Till  You  Come  to  Thirty  Year — When  is  a 
Person  "Middle  Aged  "?— The  Beautiful  Philippines — High 
Freight  Rates  Bad  for  San  Francisco — Fireproof  Sleeping- 
Cars  Promised   345"347 

Piety,  Gentile,  Jewish,  Moslem.     By  Jerome  Hart 347-348 

Morley's  Life  of  Gladstone:  The  Great  Statesman's  Attitude 
Toward  the  North  During  the  Civil  War — The  Trent 
Affair — Sensational   Speech   at   Newcastle — Death  of  Gordon  348 

Elijah  the  Restorer:  Geraldine  Bonner's  View  of  Alexander  - 
Dowie — His  Fierce  Anger — His  Appearance— An  Analysis 
of   His   Violent   and    Unconventional    Character >...    349 

The  Expiation:  How  Jeanne's  Vanity  Proved  Her  Undping. 
Adapted  from  the  French  of  Robert  Scheffer  by  Herbert 
Peters     : 349"3S<> 

The  Pastoral  Thanksgiving:  From  the  Annals  of  Alta  Cali- 
fornia.      By    Katberine    Chandler 35° 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent   People  All   Over  the 

World   35i 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications      35!-353 

Thanksgiving  Day  Verse:  "  Thanks  for  All."  by  Edith 
Thomas:  "  Home  at  Thanksgiving."  by  Lewis  Worthington 
Smith;   "Grace  for  Thanksgiving,"  by   Edward  W.   Barnard  353 

Drama:      Virginia   Harned   in    Pinero's   "Iris"   at  the  Columbia. 

By    Josephine    Hart    Phelps 354 

Stage  Gossip    355 

Vanity  Fair:  The  Wedding  of  Miss  May  Goelet  and  the 
Eighth  Duke  of  Roxburghe — The  Mob  of  Women  at  the 
Church — Through  a  Coal-Hole  to  See  a  Bride — How  the 
Church  Was  Dismantled  of  Its  Decorations — Imagination 
Stirred  by  Yellow  Journals — Significance  of  the  Episode — 
Washington.  D.  C.  a  City  Beautiful — Painting  the  White 
House — Long    Hair    the    Fashion    Among    London     Men..   356 

Stokyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
A  Kansas  Girl  that  Wants  a  Husband — A  Rehearsed 
Suicide — Interviewing  the  Volcano  Etna — Carrie  Nation  as 
a  Strenuous  Actress — W.  S.  Gilbert's  Hard  Slap  at  Noble- 
men— How  Jefferson  Looked  Through  Song-and-Dance  Girls' 
Eyes — The  Chivalry  of  One  Negro — How  Abe  Ruef  Started 
in    Politics     357 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "The  Plaint  of  Turkey,"  by  William  J. 
Lampton;  "  Ma's  Physical  Culture  ";  "  The  Age  We  Live 
In,"  by  McLandhurgh  Wilson;  "The  Thankful  Freshman," 
by    Earle    Hooker    Eaton 357 

Society:      Movements    and     Whereabouts — Notes    and     Gossip — 

Army    and    Navy    News 358-359 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal  Wits  of  the  Day 360 


Roosevklt,  and 
Panama  as 

AN   ISSUE. 


The  distinguishing. characteristic  of  Theodore  Roose- 
velt is  that,  in  moments  of  national 
crisis,  he  is  always  Right  There.  For 
instance — 

The  question  of  trusts  was  uppermost  in  the  public 
mind;  people  were  alarmed  at  their  increasing  power; 
a  wave  of  apprehension  was  sweeping  the  country. 
From  out  of  its  neglected  pigeon-hole  the  President 
drew  the  dust-covered  Sherman  Act,  believed  to  be  a 
dead  letter,  and  said  to  Knox:  "  Enforce  it."  He  did, 
and  the  Northern  Securities  Company  magically  fell 
apart;  Wall  Street  growded;  the  people  applauded;  and 


from  that  moment — partly  through  a  conspiracy  of  cir- 
cumstances, it  is  true — the  trust  bogie  has  become  less 
and  less  formidable.  That  Roosevelt  thereby  gained 
immensely  in  the  esteem  of  the  people  as  a  whole  is 
indisputable.     He  came  out  on  top. 

The  events  of  the  great  Coal  Strike  are  still  fresh 
in  mind.  Winter  was  coming  on ;  the  supply  of  coal 
was  rapidly  decreasing;  the  price  was  soaring:  neither 
the  men  nor  the  miners  would  give  in ;  nor  could  they 
get  together.  It  was  a  national  emergency.  Roosevelt 
settled  the  strike — not,  it  is  true,  without  incurring 
criticism  from  many  sober  thinkers;  but  he  settled  it; 
and  again  there  is  not  the  faintest  doubt  but  that  he 
has  the  approval  of  the  nation.  Again  he  came 
out  on  top. 

So  also  in  the  Venezuela  imbroglio.  So  also  in  that 
trivial  matter  which  grew  into  an  important  one — the 
Miller  case.  Here  his  enemies  said  he  had  surely  met 
his  Waterloo.  He  would,  they  chortled,  incur  the 
enmity  of  organized  labor  by  his  forthright  letter  re- 
instating Miller,  and  labor  votes  would  defeat  him  at 
the  polls.  Yes,  this  time  he  was  done  for.  But  they 
were  disappointed.  The  country  at  large  applauded  his 
fearless  act.  The  labor  unions  themselves,  though  at 
first  hurt  and  angry,  have  largely  come  to  recognize 
the  justice  of  his  course.  A  few  low  mutterings  are 
still  to  be  heard,  but  at  the  late  convention  the  repre- 
sentatives of  labor  sidetracked  a  denunciatory  resolution 
by  a  good  round  majority.  Once  more  has  Theodore 
Roosevelt  come  out  on  top. 

"  The  very  stars  in  their  courses  fight  for  him  "  his 
dearest  enemies  may  well  despairingly  exclaim.  And 
never  more  so  than  at  the  present  moment.  For  but 
glance  at  the  events  of  the  past  two  weeks.  Congress 
was  about  to  meet.  It  was  to  be  an  issue-making  ses- 
sion for  the  Democrats.  They  intended  to  stir  up  the 
mess  in  the  Post-Office  Department  and  attach  its  odium 
to  Roosevelt.  They  proposed  to  draw  the  country's  at- 
tention to  the  question  of  tariff-revision,  thus  bringing 
it  to  the  front  for  campaign  use  next  year.  They  ex- 
pected to  make  out  a  strong  case  against  the  President 
for  his  failure  to  negotiate  a  canal  treaty  with  Costa 
Rica  and  Nicaragua  on  the  refusal  of  Colombia  to 
ratify  the  Hay-Herran  agreement.  All  this  they  were 
craftily  planning  when,  presto !  they  awoke  one 
morning  to  find  the  Republic  of  Panama  an  entity,  its 
existence  recognized,  its  stability  guaranteed,  the 
Panama  Canal  nearer  realization  than  ever  before,  and 
Roosevelt  bestriding  the  situation  like  a  colossus, 
dwarfing  all  other  issues,  all  other  personalities,  into 
comparative  insignificance.  And  what  is  more,  even 
the  dullest  of  the  Democrats  perceive  that,  however 
strenuous  Roosevelt's  action,  the  people  as  a  whole 
approve  it. 

The  germ  of  imperialism  is  in  our  blood  since 
the  Spanish  war;  we  are  ready  for  almost  any- 
thing; there  is  no  getting  around  that.  Certainly  the 
Republican  party  will  support  the  President — even  that 
renowned  anti-imperialist.  Senator  Hoar,  lectures  the 
Evening  Post,  the  anti-imperialist  organ,  for  "  going  off 
half  cock,"  and  charging  the  government  with  foul 
dealing  before  it  knows  the  facts — and  it  is  doubtful, 
at  the  present  time,  whether  the  Democrats,  as  a  party, 
will  take  up  the  issue  presented.  The  New  York  Even- 
ing Post,  bitter  as  it  is,  still  permits  its  Washington 
correspondent  to  report  that  "  Democratic  senators  are 
saying  under  their  breath  that  it  is  going  to  be  very 
unpopular  to  oppose  a  course  of  action  which  looks  to- 
ward the  eventual  consummation  of  the  long-cherished 
project."  The  South,  whether  through  a  tem- 
peramental admiration  of  the  quality  of  daring,  or 
through  recognition  that  the  Panama  Canal,  now  as- 
sured, will  immensely  help  that  section,  is  very  slow  to 


criticise  the  President's  course  in  recognizing  the 
Panama  government.  Its  strongest  papers — the  Atlanta 
Constitution,  the  New  Orleans  Times-Democrat  and 
Picayune  —  are  outspoken  in  commendation.  The 
Picayune  even  goes  so  far  as  to  say  that  President 
Roosevelt's  action  "  will  do  much  to  restore  to  him  the 
respect  and  esteem  which  he  has  so  largely  lost  in  the 
Southern  States  by  his  most  objectionable  negro 
policy  "  ! 

No  wonder  the  Democratic  senators  from  Louis- 
iana are  said  to  be  "  cautious "  about  denouncing 
Mr.  Roosevelt.  And  will  the  senators  from  Texas,  in 
view  of  history,  oppose  the  ratification  of  any  neces- 
sary treaty?  We  think  not.  And  therefore,  as  the 
Democrats  in  the  Senate  have  all  told  only  thirty-three 
out  of  ninety  votes,  and  as  a  number  of  these  are  cer- 
tain to  support  the  administration,  it  looks  as  though 
the  President  was  master  of  the  situation  in  Congress 
as  well  as  elsewhere.  "  Nothing  will  be  gained,"  says  the 
Democratic  Cleveland  Plain  Dealer,  "  by  petty  quibbling 
as  to  the  method  of  procedure  in  face  of  the  fact  that 
our  people  generally,  without  distinction  of  party,  are 
satisfied  with  the  results." 

"  Satisfied  with  results  " — "  Nothing  succeeds  like 
success  " — "  Manifest  destiny  " — "  Civilization's  right 
of  eminent  domain  " — "  Despoiling  the  Egyptians  " — 
"  The  will  of  the  strongest  " — "  Might  makes  right  " — 
"  The  good  old  rule,  the  simple  plan  " — these  are  the 
phrases  that,  in  last  analysis,  despite  Secretary  Hay's 
clever  reasoning,  express  the  administration's  position 
— a  position  apparently  approved  at  home,  surely  so 
abroad.  And  why  not?  Three  hundred  years  ago  our 
Puritan  ancestors  crowded  copper-colored  Americans 
back  from  Atlantic  shores  because  they  were  savages 
and  we  a  Superior  Race.  Fifty  years  ago  we  took  a 
slice  of  Mexico  by  what  historians — other  historians, 
foreign  historians — call  "  an  unjust  war."  We  in  Cali- 
fornia took  their  lands  from  the  native  Californians  by 
a  curious  judicial  procedure  that  to  this  day  they  have 
not  been  able  to  understand.  Now  we  want  to  build 
a  canal — a  great  highway  for  the  commerce  of  all  the 
world;  so  we  need  a  strip  of  land  on  the  Isthmus.  But  an 
ignorant,  greedy,  retrograde  gang  down  there  will  not  let 
us  have  it  for  love  or  money  they  say;  in  reality,  they 
are  merely  holding  us  up  to  get  more  money.  And  so 
we  construe  a  fortunate  treaty  in  a  peculiar  manner, 
and  the  result  is  achieved.  What  more  natural !  As 
President  Roosevelt  is  said  to  have  put  the  case  in  the 
draft  of  his  message  before  the  secession  of  Panama : 
"  We  can  no  longer  submit  to  trifling  or  insincere  deal- 
ings on  the  part  of  those  whom  the  accident  of  po- 
sition has  placed  in  temporary  control  of  the  ground 
through  which  the  route  must  pass.  ...  If  they  fail 
to  come  to  agreement  with  us  we  must  forthwith  take 
the  matter  into  our  own  hands."  There  is  no  mincing 
of  matters  about  that,  and  we  see  no  reason  why  there 
should  be  now.  Why  not  be  candid  and  say  right  out 
in  meetin': 

We  needed  Panama  in  our  business ;  we've  got  her, 
and  we're  going  to  keep  her ! 

Prithee,  when  does  middle  age  begin?    Is  it — as  thinks 

Wait  T.ll  you  the  Pretty  Page  with  th«  dimpled  chin— 
when  we  have  come  to  forty  year?  Or 
is  it — as  thinks  the  man  of  forty — 
somewhere  between  forty-five  and  fifty?  And  where 
does  lovely  woman  think  it  is?  Take  a  buxom,  hand- 
some, well-preserved,  well-groomed  widow  of  thirty- 
six  or  seven,  with  no  wrinkles,  sound  teeth,  a  satin 
skin,  and  a  thick  mane  of  un-gray  hair — does  she  think 
she  is  "  middle  aged  "?  Well,  not  on  your  life! — to  tell 
her  so  would  endanger  it. 

These  reflections  were  engendered  by  re 


COMK  TO 

Thirty  Ykar 


in  a  work  entitled  "  Dietetic  Therapeutics,"  a  series 
of  which  the  editor  is  Dr.  Solomon  Solis-Cohen,  an 
eminent  physician  of  Philadelphia.  We  were  examin- 
ing this  work  not  so  much  for  its  therapeutics  as  for  its 
typographies.  The  printed  page  was  very  fair  to  look 
upon — the  type  was  newly  cast,  clear,  and  handsome, 
and  the  margins  were  properly  proportioned  to  both 
type-page  and  paper-page.  As  we  examined  it,  we 
could  not  help  but  wonder  at  the  astounding  produc- 
tions of  some  of  our  local  typographers  when  they  have 
such  excellent  models  before  their  eyes. 

While  scrutinizing  the  type-face,  our  eyes  fell  on  this 
astounding  statement:  "Pronounced  changes  take 
place  in  the  human  organism  after  middle  age,  which 
may  be  fixed  at  thirty  years."  It  is  difficult  for  a 
youngster  to  appreciate  the  shock  which  such  a  state- 
ment gives  to  one  who  is  past  thirty — say  thirty-two. 
"  Thirty  years  middle  age  " — why,  it  is  appalling!  Yet 
the  author  remarks  with  much  apparent  truth  that 
thirty  is  long  past  the  half-mile  mark  in  the  average 
age,  and  is  practically  the  half-mile  mark  in  the  tradi- 
tional limit  of  three-score  and  ten.  Further,  he  says 
that  we  evolute  until  thirty,  then  involute;  that  we 
climb  the  hill  of  life  until  thirty,  pause  briefly  on  its 
crest,  and  then  go  down. 

All  this  may  be  true,  but  it  is  none  the  less  extremely 
disagreeable — for  those  past  thirty.  It  is  not  even  ex- 
hilarating reading  for  a  "  girl  "  of  twenty-nine — there 
are  many  such. 

Reader,  have  you  reached  thirty?  If  you  have,  do 
you  think  you  are  '*  middle  aged  "?  If  you  are  thirty- 
five,  do  you  think  you  were  "middle  aged"  five  years 
ago?  If  you  are  forty,  and  a  woman,  do  you  think  you 
have  been  "middle  aged"  for  ten  years?  And  what 
do  you  think  of  a  doctor  who  would  say  such  brutal 
things  in  print?  And  what  if  they  are  true — are  they 
any  the  less  brutal  ? 


Now  that  the  verdicts  in  the  fall  elections  have  been  recorded, 
the  Presidential  contest  of   1904  will  hence- 
forth occupy  the  centre  of  the  political  stage. 
Presidential  t  .  ,     .  _  .  , 

Possibilities  considering   the    Democratic    outlook    tor 

next  year,  it  is  easily  discoverable  that  the 
candidates  of  the  party  with  the  largest  chances  for  the  nomina- 
tion (at  present)  are  Cleveland  and  Gorman.  It  is  also  ap- 
parent that  none  of  the  late  elections  are  conceded  to  have 
had  a  serious  effect  upon  the  issues  of  next  year,  except 
those  of  New  York,  Ohio,  and  Nebraska.  The  two  last 
may  be  considered  together.  The  campaign  in  Ohio  was 
fought  out  on  the  Democratic  side  to  demonstrate  that  Bryan- 
ism  was  still  a  vital  political  force.  It  sustained  an  almost 
overwhelming  defeat — in  fact,  a  defeat  so  decisive  as  to  prove 
that  the  Republicans  were  aided  by  the  reorganization  Demo- 
crats of  the  State.  In  Nebraska,  Bryanism  and  Populism, 
united  on  a  single  ticket,  were  beaten  by  14,000  votes,  and 
Bryan's  home  county  elected  every  Republican  county  officer 
by  1,400  majority.  The  result  must  be  one  of  two  things. 
Either  Bryanism  is  out  of  the  field  for  good,  leaving  the  re- 
organization faction  in  charge  of  the  party  fortunes,  or  the 
knifing  of  the  Johnson  and  Bryan  tickets  in  the  two  States 
will  so  increase  the  bitterness  of  the  two  factions  as  to  prevent 
any  harmonious  action  next  year.  Prospects  of  the  latter  con- 
dition are  enhanced  by  the  confident  assumption  by  many 
Democratic  papers  that  the  late  elections  point  to  Grover 
Cleveland  as  the  only  Democratic  candidate  with  a  chance  to 
win,  and  their  jubilant  announcements  that  Bryanism  is  finally 
extinct. 

It  would  seem  at  first  glance  that  Senator  Gorman's  chances 
ui  receiving  the  Presidential  nomination  at  the  hands  of  the 
Democrats  next  year  had  been  increased  by  the  result  of  the 
election  in  his  own  State.  There  is,  however,  much  doubt 
expressed  on  the  subject  in  Democratic  circles.  Maryland  is 
naturally  Democratic.  It  gave  a  majority  for  McKinley  simply 
as  a  protest  against  the  radicalism  of  Bryan  and  his  free-silver 
craze.  That  danger  being  eliminated  it  returns  easily  to  its 
Democratic  allegiance.  It  may  have  done  so  without  occasion- 
ing surprise  even  if  Gorman  had  not  raised  the  race  question. 
Judging  solely  from  Democratic  sentiment,  it  may  prove  that 
Mr.  Gorman's  stroke  of  opportunism,  by  which  he  had  a  single 
eye  to  carrying  his  own  State,  may  prove  a  boomerang  to  de- 
itroy  his  chances  for  nomination  next  year  on  the  national  ticket. 
Democrats,  both  North  and  South,  are  pointing  out  that  the 
race  question,  cither  socially,  politically,  or  both,  is  an  im- 
possible  issue  in  a  national  election  ;  that,  socially,  no  one  in 
any  section  is  demanding  negro  equality  ;  and  that  to  charge 
the  President  with  any  such  deliberate  purpose  is  simply 
absurd;  that  negro  domination  politically  is  not  a  vital  issue 
in  Maryland,  where  the  negro  has  not  sufficient  numbers, 
and  could  only  bear  fruit  at  the  polls  in  some  States  like 
Mississippi,  where  the  result  is  a  foregone  conclusion  anyway; 
and  finally,  that  the  Northern  Democrats  can  not  follow  Mr. 
Gorman  on  his  new  tack.  The  situation  seems  to  be  that 
Grover  Cleveland  remains  the  single  strong  candidate  for 
nomination  by  the  Democrats.  The  severe  handicap  which 
lie  must  meet  in  the  desperate  antagonism  of  Bryanism  has 
already  been  mentioned,  but  the  effect  of  the  mayoralty 
election  ii.  New  York  remains  to  be  considered.  Democratic 
statesmen  are  to  be  found  who  declare  that  the  success  of 
Tammin*  in  New  York  has  already  carried  the  national 
ection  .or  the  Democrat-  >nd  that  in  the  hands  of  Mr. 
.  te  Tammany  leado  rests  the  power  of  naming  the 
iiti J  candidate  by  swinging  the  New   York  delegation 


THE        ARGONAUT. 

as  he  pleases.  The  friends  of  Cleveland  are  in  consequence 
confidently  asseverating  that  Murphy  is  a  Cleveland  man,  and 
the  friends  of  Gorman  are  as  warmly  declaring  that  he  favors 
their  candidate.  There  are  others  in  lesser  numbers  who  in- 
sist that  the  New  York  election  makes  McClellan  the  logical 
candidate  of  the  Democrats  for  President.  The  attitude  of 
New  York,  so  far  as  it  relates  to  the  personal  aspirations  of 
Democratic  candidates,  can  not  now  be  discerned.  The 
matter  is  subsidiary  in  public  interest  to  the  larger  question 
whether  the  electoral  vote  of  New  York  is  assured  for  any 
Democratic  candidate.  It  is  not  impossible  that  the  State  may 
become  debatable  ground  next  year.  It  is  not  impossible  that  :f 
New  York  goes  Democratic,  that  New  Jersey  or 
Connecticut,  or  both,  might  follow  suit.  On  the  other  hand, 
it  must  be  r-emembered  that  if  the  Democrats  are  successful 
in  all  three,  they  ace  not  sure  of  a  national  election  unless  those 
triumphs  in  the  East  are  accompanied  by  the  defection  of  some 
important  Western  States  now  counted  on  by  the  Repub- 
licans. If  there  has  been  any  apparent  shifting  of  the  political 
forces  west  of  the  Mississippi,  it  is  favorable  to  the  Repub- 
licans, as  indicated  by  the  results  in  Nebraska  and  Colorado. 
These  symptoms  are  liable  to  be  aggravated  if  Cleveland  is 
nominated.  He  can  hardly  be  regarded  as  a  favorite  in  the 
West.  It  must  also  be  recalled  that  New  York  City  is  not  the 
whole  of  the  State.  The  Republican  State  ticket  was  success- 
ful this  year.  McClellan,  indeed,  carried  the  city  by  60,000 
plurality,  but  a  year  ago  Coler,  for  governor,  carried  the  city 
by  120,000  plurality,  but  was  yet  defeated  in  the  State.  The 
results  seem  to  indicate  that  New  York  politically,  in  city  as 
well  as  in  the  State  at  large,  stands  about  where  it  did  a  year 
ago. 


November  23,  1903. 


The 
Beautiful 

Philippines. 


Recently,  in  an  editorial  on  the  Philippines,  the  Argonaut  re- 
marked that  the  little  attention  paid  to  them 
by  the  American  press  is  extremely  odd.  We 
also  remarked  that  some  of  the  journals  there 
are  brightly  written  and  well  edited,  yet  to 
see  an  extract  reprinted  from  one  of  them  in  an  American 
paper  is  extremely  rare.  Following  these  remarks,  we  reprinted 
a  column  of  clever  verse  from  Manila  journals,  duly  crediting 
the  various  pieces.  They  were  interesting  from  various 
points  of  view — to  us,  mainly  as  showing  the  feeling  existing 
between  the  Americans  (soldiers  and  civilians)  and  their 
"  little  brown  brothers."  That  feeling  seems  to  be  very  cor- 
dial— that  is,  of  very  cordial  hatred.  As  an  instance,  we 
printed  a  poem  from  the  Manila  Sun,  by  Robert  F.  Morrison, 
telling  the  tale  of  the  soldier  and  the  "  brother  brown  "  who 
cuts  him  in  the  back  with  a  bolo — each  stanza  ending  with  a 
refrain  such  as — 

"  These  restless,   bloody, 
Wet  and  muddy, 
Beautiful   Philippines." 
Or  else  this  : 

"  These     damned     unhealthy, 
Turbulent,  wealthy, 
Beautiful  Philippines." 

These  and  other  of  the  poems  have  been  very  widely  copied 
since  they  were  reproduced  in  the  Argonaut.  As  they  were  six 
months  old  when  we  reprinted  them,  it  was  evident  that  the 
exchange  editors  cut  them  from  these  columns.  Now  scarcely 
a  day  passes  that  some  paper  does  not  come  to  our  exchange 
desk  containing  one  of  these  Philippine  poems. 

The  foregoing  is  a  striking  commentary  on  the  interest — or 
lack  of  interest — shown  by  the  American  press  and  the  Ameri- 
can  people  in   the  people  and  the  press   of  the   Philippines. 

Elsewhere  we  have  discussed  the  Panama  matter  in  its  more 
general    aspects.      Here    are    the    significant 


Events  of  the 
Week  in 


Panama    Affair. 


developments  of  the  week : 

On  Friday,  the  president  of  Ecuador 
cabled  his  sympathy  to  the  president  of 
Colombia,  and  received  a  polite  and  appreciative  reply.  It 
was  reported  from  Bogota  (under  date  of  the  tenth)  that  the 
city  was  greatly  excited,  the  United  States  legation  besieged, 
and  that  all  South  America  sympathized  with  Colombia. 
At  Washington,  President  Roosevelt  formally  received 
Philippe  Bunau-Varilla  as  duly  accredited  envoy  extraordinary 
and  minister  plenipotentiary  of  Panama,  thus  recognizing 
the  republic's  independence  as  a  new  nation. 

On  Saturday,  it  was  unofficially  stated  at  Washington  that 
no  Colombian  troops  would  be  permitted  to  land  at  any  point 
whatsoever  on  the  Isthmus.  London  dispatches  said  that  con- 
siderable wonder  was  there  manifested  "  at  the  aspersions  on 
President  Roosevelt's  motives  that  are  quoted  from  the 
American  press." 

On  Sunday,  it  was  reported  from  Bogota  that  Generals 
Reyes,  Holquin,  and  Ospina  had  left  there  for  Panama,  with 
intent  to  woo  the  Isthmus  back  into  the  Colombian  bosom. 
On  the  same  day,  the  Mayftozoer  arrived  in  Colon  in  com- 
mand of  Rear- Admiral  Coghlan,  with  Admiral  Walker  on 
board,  making  eight  United  States  vessels  in  Isthmian 
waters. 

On  Monday,  the  Colombian  Government  protested  to 
England  againsf  our  action,  and  also  sent  a  protest  to  the 
United  States  Senate.  The  battle-ship  Maine  arrived  at 
Colon,  and  the  President  transmitted  to  the  House  corre- 
spondence and  other  documents  showing  that  vessels  were 
hurried  to  the  Isthmus  several  days  before  the  revolution 
took  place  with  orders  to  "  maintain  free  and  uninterrupted 
transit."      France  recognized   Panama's  independence. 

On  Tuesday,  Seiiors  Padron,  Pajara,  Insignares,  and 
Pavilla,  uncredentialed  but  prominent  Colombians,  had  a 
conference  with  Panama  officials  which,  so  far  as  impressing 
the  latter  was  concerned,  was  fruitless.  The  steamer  City  of 
Washington,  flying  the  new  Panama  flag,  arrived  in  New 
York  with  three  Panama  commissioners  on  board. 

On  Wednesday,  Secretary  Hay  presented  to  Philippe 
Bunau-Varilla  for  his  signature  the  complete  canal  treaty 
drawn  up  in  accordance  with  previous  arrangements.  Mr. 
Hay  and  Panama's  minister  attached  their  signature.  The 
treaty  is  unofficially  said  to  cede  to  the  United  States  what- 
ever land   or  lands  throughout  the  Republic  of  Panama  this 


government  shall  find  desirable  in  connection  with  the  canal ; 
in  addition  to  cede  absolutely  a  wide  canal  strip ;  to  permit 
this  government  to  fortify  the  canal;  and  to  permit  us  to 
enforce  sanitary  regulations  in  Colon  and  Panama.  In  return 
for  these  concessions,  Panama  receives  ten  millions  of  dol- 
lars. It  is  expected  that  the  treaty  will  be  ratified  before  De- 
cember 10th  by  Panama.  It  will  then  be  submitted  to  the 
United  States  Senate,  which  is  expected  promptly  to  ratify  it, 
when  the  work  of  construction  will  begin.  The  news  from 
Colombia  is  that  considerable  excitement  exists  there,  and 
threats  are  made  that  Colombia  will  fight  to  win  back  Panama. 
The  situation  is  said  to  be  acute.  It  is  also  reported  that  the 
two  states  of  Cauca  and  Antioquia  are  likely  to  join  Panama 
in   the   separatist   movement. 


We    have    met    the    enemy    and     we    are    his'n !      The     Cuban 
reciprocity    treaty,    so    long    opposed    by    the 
The  inglorious  g   and   ..  stalwart  »   Republicans  in   sugar- 

End  of  Recip-  .  .         -  6 

ROCiTY  Fight.  raising   States,   was   on    Thursday    ratified   by 

the  House  by  a  vote  of  335  to  21.  Four  of  the 
California  Republican  representatives  voted  against  it,  but  that 
deceives  nobody.  They  voted  for  the  rule  prohibiting  amend- 
ment, and  this  was  their  last  chance  to  strike  an  effective  blow 
at  the  treaty.  They  were  defiant  when  defiance  was  worth 
nothing,  acquiescent  when  defiance  would  have  been  priceless. 
The  Chronicle  calls  them  "  lame  ducks  "  and  "  broken  reeds  "  ; 
and  says  that  they  were  "weak-kneed"  and  "  ignominously 
turned  tail  and  ran."  Still,  theirs  was  a  hard  position.  They 
were  between  the  devil  and  the  deep  blue  sea — the  devil  of 
their  constituents'  interests,  the  deep  blue  sea  of  the  adminis- 
tration's displeasure,  and  being  called  "  traitors  to  their  party." 
There  is  little  doubt  but  that  the  Senate  will  now 
pass  the  bill  carrying  the  treaty  into  effect,  which  will  end  the 
matter,  unless,  indeed,  the  law  should  be  found  unconstitu- 
tional. It  is  a  most  peculiar  bill,  designed  merely  to  evade 
the  constitutional  provision  that  all  measures  affecting  revenue 
shall  originate  in  the  House.  This  failing,  beet-sugar  grow- 
ers, tobacco-raisers,  and  also,  in  a  measure,  the  citrus-fruit 
men,  will  be  "  up  against "  Cuban  competition.  There  is  no 
doubt  but  that  the  real  reason  for  the  weakening  01  Republican 
opposition  is  the  passing  of  the  beet-sugar  factories  under  the 
control  of  the  Sugar  Trust,  which  is  more  interested  in  getting 
Cuban  sugar  to  refine  than  in  building  up  the  beet-sugar  in- 
dustry in  the  United  States.  The  final  days  of  debate  were 
marked  by  a  last  despairing  attack  on  the  treaty  by  Fordney, 
of  Michigan,  one  of  the  few  Republican  stalwarts  who  hung 
on  to  the  last.  He  declared  that  passage  of  the  bill  "  would 
wipe  out  the  sugar  industry  of  Michigan."  He  applied  un- 
printable epithets  to  Thurber,  the  Sugar  Trust's  lobbyist,  who 
also  received  money  to  influence  public  opinion  in  the  United 
States  from  General  Wood,  then  military  governor  of  Cuba. 
"  Oh,  what  action  by  a  high  official !  "  cried  Mr.  Fordney. 
"  Wood  claimed  that  the  Cubans  were  starving,  and  then 
reached  his  long  fingers  into  the  Cuban  treasury  and  handed  out 
twenty  thousand  dollars  to  this  blank,  blank,  blank,  Thurber." 


The  smoke  of  the  city  election  having  cleared  away,  the  stu- 
dents   of   political    affairs    are    now    busy    re- 
What  is  Said  , .      .-  .     .  ...  ,  ,     . 

R    .  adjusting    their    calculations    and    speculating 

State  Politics.  as  t0  what  tlie  future  is  to  bring  forth.  The 
Lane  vote  is  instanced  to  show  the  uncer- 
tainty of  San  Francisco  in  matters  political.  Four  times  he 
appealed  to  the  voters  of  the  city,  and  each  time  he  received  a 
heavier  vote.  In  the  gubernatorial  election  he  received  a 
majority  of  ten  thousand  in  San  Francisco,  and  in  the  city 
election,  one  year  later,  his  total  vote  was  barely  as  large  as 
this  majority  had  been.  The  election  of  Schmitz,  on  the  other 
hand,  proves  that  the  labor  element  in  San  Francisco  is 
stronger  than  anybody  suspected,  and  that  for  a  time  at  least 
it  will  control  the  city.  On  the  same  day  that  Schmitz  was 
reelected,  the  labor  party  elected  Hassett  mayor  of  Sacramento. 
It  is  claimed  that  this  condition,  which  thus  appears  not  to 
be  local,  will  result  in  a  labor  ticket  being  placed  in  the  field 
at  the  next  State  election.  Southern  California  is  now  the 
stronghold  of  the  Republican  party;  it  was  the  vote  south  of 
Tehachapi  that  saved  Pardee's  election,  and  the  labor  party 
is  not  yet  strongly  organized  in  the  south.  But  the  Los  Angeles 
Examiner  is  to  make  its  appearance  early  next  month,  and  it 
will  be  a  labor  organ,  as  Hearst's  other  papers  are.  With  a 
strong  labor  organization  in  the  south,  it  is  pointed  out  that  a 
labor  governor  for  California  three  years  from  now  is  by  no 
means  an  impossibility.  Schmitz  is  undoubtedly  aiming  at 
the  governor's  chair,  and  will  not  be  satisfied  until  he  gets 
there.  The  Democrats  are  so  badly  discredited  that  they  will 
be  glad  to  get  a  few  of  the  offices  on  a  mixed  ticket  in  return 
for  supporting  him,  and  Hearst  will  continue  to  support  him  as 
he  has  done  heretofore.  Such,  at  least,  are  the  lessons  that 
some  of  the  politicians  read  from  the  recent  election. 

Now  that  the  election  is  over,  the  politicians  and  the  aspirants 
are  discussing  the  changes  that  will  take 
place  at  the  City  Hall.  In  a  number  of  the 
offices — as  assessor,  tax-collector,  etc. — there 
will  be  few  if  any  changes.  The  election  of 
Percy  V.  Long  as  city  attorney  creates  a  vacancy  in  the 
justices'  court,  as  well  as  several  positions  to  be  filled  in  the 
city  attorney's  office.  John  S.  Partridge,  who  presided  over 
the  recent  Republican  convention,  is  said  to  have  been  selected 
for  Long's  chief  deputy.  The  other  deputies  have  not  yet  been 
selected,  but  the  positions  are  anxiously  sought  for,  as  they  are 
considered  very  desirable  for  young  attorneys.  Ex-Judge 
Joachimson  and  ex-Judge  Low  are  anxious  to  fill  Long's  posi- 
tion on  the  justices'  bench.  There  will  be  two  vacancies  in 
the  election  commission,  as  the  terms  of  Jeremiah  Deasy, 
Democrat,  and  Oliver  Everett,  Socialist,  expire.  It  is  expected 
that  Manager  Wallenstein,  of  the  retail  clerks'  union,  and 
George  B.  Benham,  president  of  the  Labor  Council,  will  re- 
ceive the  appointments.  It  is  reported  that  Commissioner  of 
Education    Lawrence    F.     Walsh    and    Police    Commissioner 


Municipal 
Loaves 
and  Fishes 


November  23,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


Thomas  Reagan  will  be  appointed  to  succeed  themselves. 
William  J.  Dingee  is  said  to  be  selected  for  a  place  on  the 
park  commission.  Thomas  Boyle,  present  election  commis- 
sioner, is  said  to  be  slated  for  Marsden  Manson's  position  on 
the  board  of  public  works,  and  this  will  give  Schmitz  control 
of  that  body,  with  its  patronage.  The  position  of  registrar 
of  voters  will  also  be  vacant,  and  it  is  said  that  the  mayor's 
secretary,  George  B.  Keane,  may  have  it  if  he  wants  it,  though 
Schmitz  would  prefer  him  to  retain  his  present  position. 
Powel  Frederick  is  also  an  aspirant  for  the  position.  In  the 
civil  service  commission.  P.  H.  McCarthy  is  marked  for  sacri- 
fice. Henry  Meyer,  formerly  in  the  pawnbroking  business, 
is  spoken  of  as  his  successor.  The  changes  in  the  health  board 
are  likely  to  have  a  far-reaching  effect.  The  terms  of  Drs. 
Buckley  and  Baum  will  expire,  and  there  is  a  persistent  report 
that  Dr.  Lewitt  will  resign.  Even  without  the  resignation. 
Schmitz  will  gain  control  of  the  board,  and  thus  a  long- 
standing fight  will  come  to  an  end.  The  health  office  will 
probably  go  to  Dr.  John  F.  Dillon,  Dr.  Rottanzi  is  spoken  of 
for  superintendent  of  the  city*  and  county  hospital,  and 
Michael  Coffey,  who  ran  for  supervisor  on  the  Union  Labor 
ticket,  for  superintendent  of  the  almshouse. 


Bringing 
Settlers  to 
California. 


How  the  California  Promotion  Committee  "  gets  results "  is 
admirably  shown  by  an  interesting  series 
of  letters  the  secretary  forwards  us.  George 
M.  Deacon,  of  Lanpahoahoe,  Hawaii,  on 
July  10th  wrote  the  Argonaut,  saying  that 
he  had  seen  mention  made  in  our  columns  of  the  promotion 
committee,  and  asking  its  address.  We  mailed  his  letter  to 
the  secretary.  On  July  22d,  the  secretary  wrote  to  Mr. 
Deacon,  and  sent  him  a  quantity  of  printed  matter.  One 
month  from  that  date  he  was  again  addressed,  and  more 
circulars  were  sent.  Under  date  of  October  16th,  Mr.  Deacon 
writes  that,  from  the  books  and  circulars,  he  is  "  greatly 
impressed  with  the  possibilities  of  California."  and,  as  soon 
as  he  can  close  out  his  affairs  there,  "  intends  to  settle  in 
your  State." 


Leonard  Wood,  M.  D.,  will  not  be  permitted  to  prefix  "  major- 
general  "  to  his  name  if  Senator  Teller  can 


Confirmation 
to  be  Opposed. 


help   it.     The  senator  has  notified  the   Com- 
mittee on  Military  Affairs  that  Wood's  con- 


firmation will  be  opposed.  Hanna,  who  has 
never  forgiven  Wood  for  jailing  his  friend  Rathbone,  will 
support  Teller  in  his  campaign ;  so  will  all  other  senators 
who  think  that  a  man  who  has  never  commanded  an  army 
should  not  be  at  the  head  of  this  government's  entire  military 
force.  One  line  of  attack  was  indicated  by  the  valedictory 
speech  of  Mayor-Elect  McClellan,  of  New  York,  in  the  House 
on  Monday.  He  said:  "In  1902,  the  spectacular  and 
extravagant  rule  of  General  Wood,  having  saddled  upon 
Havana  for  ten  years  the  infamous  gambling  monopoly  of 
the  Sociedad  Anonima  jai  Alai,  gave  place  to  the  conservative, 
economical,  sensible,  and  business-like  administration  of  Presi- 
dent Palma,  who  has  proved  himself  an  executive  of  the  very 
highest  order."  After  quoting  figures,  McClellan  continued: 
"  In  other  words,  under  President  Palma  the  cost  of  govern- 
ment is  over  seven  millions  of  dollars  less  per  annum  than  it 
was  under  General   Wood." 


It  is 

More  Blessed 

to  Givf 


Thursday  is  Thanksgiving.  Some,  on  that  day,  will  have 
a  surfeit  of  good  things,  some  a  sufficiency, 
some — the  poor  and  sick  whom  ye  have 
always  with  you — will  lack,  even  in  the 
midst  of  plenty.  For  many  years  it  has  been 
the  Argonaut's  privilege  and  pleasure  to  bespeak  the  bounty 
of  our  readers  for  the  Mission  of  Fruit  and  Flowers.  Every* 
Thanksgiving  the  mission  gives  to  the  poor  and  needy  as  many 
Thanksgiving  dinners  as  its  friends,  in  their  generosity,  pro- 
vide. It  asks  of  them  all  sorts  of  meats,  turkeys  (of  course), 
chickens  (as  the  next  bestj,  vegetables,  wines  and  liquors 
(for  medicinal  purposes),  raisins,  figs,  jellies,  fruits,  cakes, 
pies  (mince  pies!),  bread,  flowers,  in  short,  anything  good  to 
eat.  And  since  money  will  buy  everything,  it  asks  (especially 
of  affluent  bachelors)  as  much  of  the  coin  of  the  realm  as 
they  can  well  spare.  Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Wednesday  are 
the  best  days  to  send  things.  Your  grocer  knows  the  address. 
and  so  do  the  butcher,  the  baker,  the  wine  dealer.  Two 
minutes  at  the  'phone  will  do  the  business.  If  you  live  in 
the  country,  Wells-Fargo  will  transport  anything  you  send 
free  of  charge.  Do  as  well  as  a  "  soulless  "  corporation  !  And 
"  remember  the  name  " — as  the  advertisements  say — The  San 
Francisco  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission,  631    Sutter  Street. 


Figures 
that  Went 
Wrong. 


It  seems  that  we  made  figures  prevaricate  in  a  recent  article 
on  the  local  election,  not,  it  is  true,  in  a 
way  to  vitiate  any  arguments  advanced,  but 
still  in  a  way  that  History  might  justly  con- 
sider an  indignity.  A  correct  statement  of 
the  periods  of  service  of  the  four  last  mayors,  according 
to  the  Star  (to  whom  we  are  indebted  in  this  instance)  is  as 
follows:  George  R.  Sanderson,  1891-2;  Levi  R.  Ellert,  1893-4: 
Adolph  Sutro,  1895-6;  James  D.  Phelan,  189-7-1901.  Part  of 
our  error  was  an  evident  misprint,  as  even  in  a  moment 
of  abstraction  we  could  hardly  be  suspected  of  believing 
that  San  Francisco  was  blessed  with  two  mayors  at  one  and  the 
same   time — as  the   figures  vainly  endeavored   to   demonstrate. 

From  New  York  to  Manila  by  way  of  Suez  is  just  about  as 
far  as  from  New  York  to  Manila  by  way  of 
High  Freight  gan    Franc;sco       It    would    seem    that    frejght 

Rates  Bad  for  ,  ,  ,  ,  , 

San  Fr\ncisco  rates  by  either  route  would  be  approximately 
the  same.  Figures  furnished  us  show,  how- 
ever, that  the  Suez  route  is  much  the  cheaper — a  fact  which 
tends  to  rob  San  Francisco  of  trade  that  would  naturally 
be  hers,  and  which  it  behooves  merchants  to  consider  and 
seek  a  remedy  for  if  one  is  to  be  found.  We  understand  that 
the  rate  on  cotton  piece  goods  (any  quantity)   from  New  York 


to  Manila  via  Suez  is  $7.50  per  ton.  The  rate  on  the  same 
goods  from  New  York  to  Manila  via  San  Francisco  is  $22 
per  ton  in  carload  lots,  and  $35  per  ton  in  less  than  carload 
lots.  Or  this,  the  railroads  get  the  larger  proportion.  The 
railroad  rate  on  these  goods  from  New  York  to  San  Fran- 
cisco is  $30  in  less  than  carload  lots,  and  $20  in  carload  lots. 
The  rate  from  San  Francisco  to  Manila  (.any  quantity)  is 
$8.00  per  ton. 


J  erusalem 
Disturbs 


Pious  People. 


PIETY,    GENTILE,    JEWISH,    MOSLEM. 

By  Jerome  Hart. 

The  quality  of  the  piety  found  in  the  Holy  Land  is  not  strained. 
But,  like  the  Jerusalem  water,  it  needs 
straining  badly.  And  the  most  pious  stranger 
has  his  own  piety  over-strained  when  con- 
templating the  curious  manifestations  of  the 
Palestine  kind  of  piety.  I  know  of  no  place  less  calculated  to 
inculcate  reverence  than  Jerusalem.  A  religious  man  is  to  be 
congratulated  if  he  can  visit  the  place  without  some  perturba- 
tion. I  hope  I  may  not  be  accused  of  irreverence  for  my  point 
of  view  in  these  letters.  If  there  is  any  irreverence,  it  is  not 
mine,  but  may  be  laid  at  the  doors  of  the  various  sects  who 
make  merchandise  of  what  they  claim  to  be  holy  places. 

The  abject  superstition,  the  race-hatred,  the  bloody  ferocity, 
the  childish  gullibility  of  the  Jerusalem  Gentiles,  Jews,  and 
Moslems  may  not  absolutely  shake  the  faith  of  a  visiting  be- 
liever, but  he  must  feel  very  uncomfortable  when  he  reflects 
that  he  belongs  to  the  same  sect.  No  self-respecting  Western 
Jew  can  gaze  upon  the  Jewish  offal  who  infect  Jerusalem  with- 
out a  sense  of  shame.  No  trim  Egyptian  soldier  can  meet 
the  frowsy,  lousy  loafers  who  make  up  Jerusalem's  Turkish 
garrison  without  a  twinge  when  he  thinks  that  their  common 
commander  is  the  Padishah  of  Stamboul.  And  it  takes  a 
Christianity  stout  and  stalwart  to  stomach  the  mobs  of  monks, 
or  Greek,  or  Latin,  or  Armenian,  bawling  and  bellowing  about 
the  streets  where  once  walked  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  King  of  the 
Jews. 

Not  the  least  remarkable  thing  about  this  ancient  city — 
where  people  have  been  quarreling  over  religion  for  four 
thousand  years — is  that  ardent  proselytizers  from  modern  cities 
are  continually  coming  hither  to  convert  the  believers  in  these 
ancient  faiths. 


English 
Gentleman 


On  our  first  day  in  Jerusalem  we  saw.  striding  along  the 
dusty  road  outside  the  David  Gate,  a  tall, 
slender,  handsome  man,  evidently  a  Eu- 
ropean, and  looking  "like  an  Anglo-Saxon- 
He  had  a  curling  brown  beard,  long  brown 
hair  falling  on  his  shoulders,  and  generally  rather  a  Naz- 
arene  head.  He  wore  a  brown  Norfolk  jacket,  a  slouch  hat, 
brown  knickerbockers,  and  carried  in  his  hand  a  staff.  Up  to 
this  point  his  attire  was  not  unlike  that  of  many  pedestrian 
tourists,  but  below  the  knees  his  make-up  was  unique,  for 
his  legs  and  feet  were  bare.  The  spectacle  of  this  European, 
with  his  knickerbockers  buttoned  around  his  knees,  below 
which  showed  his  bare  legs  and  feet,  was  certainly  remarkable. 
No  one  seemed  to  know  anything  about  him. 

But  a  day  or  two  afterward  I  had  my  curiosity  satisfied.  I 
met  a  pious  dragoman.  I  am  not  particularly  fond  of  con- 
verted Christians  in  the  Orient.  My  observation  is  that  of  a 
Turk,  a  -Greek,  an  Armenian,  or  a  Jew  dragoman,  the  con- 
verted Christian  dragoman  will  steal  more  from  you  than  all 
the  others  put  together.  This  particular  dragoman  evidently 
took  me  for  a  more  pious  person  than  I  am,  for  he  rolled  up 
his  eyes,  told  me  of  his  chronic  Christianity,  said  that  his  son 
had  just  been  converted  (evidently  therefore  in  the  acute 
stage),  and  generally  alarmed  me  so  much  that  I  instantly 
transferred  my  wallet  to  an  inside  pocket.  As  we  went  along 
we  passed  the  curious  person  in  knickerbockers,  and  I 
asked  the  dragoman  about  him.  He  replied  that  he  was  an 
Englishman  named  William  Gerrick,  and  that  he  was  "  a 
good  man  devoted  to  Christian  work." 

We  lost  our  pious  dragoman  at  the  Pools  of  Solomon.  I 
believe  I  lost  him  on  purpose,  but  do  not  now  remember.  I 
learned  afterward  from  another  source  that  he  was  right 
about  the  barefooted  person.  He  is  an  Englishman  of  some 
means,  and  spends  his  time  and  money  in  Jerusalem  attempting 
the  conversion  of  Mohammedans  to  Christianity.  I  wish  him 
joy  of  his  job. 


Praver 

AND 

Cavalrv  Boots. 


In  outward  manifestations  at  least,  there  is  a  marked  differ- 
ence between  the  piety  of  Christian  and 
Moslem  dragomans.  Like  drivers,  like  drago- 
mans. When  we  visited  the  Pools  of  Solomon 
a  number  of  carriages  had  reached  there  be- 
fore us,  and  all  the  tourists  were  inspecting  those  interesting 
cisterns.  As  the  drivers  and  dragomans  amused  me  more 
than  the  cisterns,  I  stayed  out  in  the  sunlight.  I  have  thus 
missed  a  number  of  vaults,  dungeons,  tanks,  and  holes  in  the 
ground.  Our  pious  dragoman  had  temporarily  left  us — he 
was  trying  to  work  some  soft-hearted  ladies  for  a  contribu- 
tion to  a  Christian  mission  school.  I  watched  the  movements 
of  a  pious  Moslem  near  at  hand,  the  driver  of  a  carriage 
whose  occupants  had  gone  to  inspect  the  pools.  He  took  off 
his  shoes — or  rather  boots,  for  he  wore  a  pair  of  high  military 
boots,  evidently  the  cast-off  foot-gear  of  some  cavalry  officer. 
I  mention  this,  as  it  is  easier  to  kick  off  the  ordinary  Oriental 
slippers  than  it  is  to  pull  off  a  pair  of  cavalry  boots. 
Then  he  took  a  horse-blanket,  spread  it  on  the  grass  for  a  pray- 
ing carpet,  and  went  through  his  devotions.  It  took  him  some 
time,  probably  fifteen  minutes.  He  pointed  his  head  toward 
Mecca,  and  went  through  the  most  elaborate  genuflections. 
When  he  had  finished  he  put  on  his  boots  again,  took  up  his 
horse-blanket,  and  returned  to  his  carriage.  This  pious 
Mohammedan,  I  noticed,  was  not  so  pious  as  to  forget  to  give 
his  horses  a  feed  while  he  was  praying. 

The    Moslems    seem    to    be    much    more    forthright    in    their 


devotions  than  are  the  Christians.  They  pray  everywhere  and 
openly,  wherever  they  may  happen  to  be.  It  is  not  at  all  un- 
common to  find  a  shop  shut  up  in  an  Oriental  city  because  the 
shop-keeper  has  "  gone  to  the  Mosque  to  pray." 


A  Race  on  the 

Bethlehem 

Turnpike. 


Our  driver,  who  was  a  Moslem,  did  not  like  our  pious  dragoman 
any  more  than  we  did.  It  was  he  who  sug- 
gested losing  him,  suggested  that  he  could 
fill  his  place  for  a  small  "  baksheesh."  It  is 
rather  unusual  in  Jerusalem  to  find  a  car- 
riage driver  who  speaks  any  European  language.  This  one, 
however,  accosted  us,  asking  if  we  spoke  French.  He  turned 
out  to  be  a  bright  fellow,  and  quite  amusing  at  times.  I 
asked  him  where  he  learned  to  speak  French  ;  he  replied  that 
he  was  educated  by  the  French  monks  at  the  Franciscan 
monastery.  He  spoke  no  English,  however,  saying  that  if  he 
did  he  would  be  a  dragoman  instead  of  a  coachman.  In  the 
midst  of  his  conversation  another  carriage  dashed  up  along- 
side, and  attempted  to  pass  him.  A  wild  race  ensued,  and 
our  Jehu  finally  left  the  other  far  behind,  after  nearly  causing 
a  spill  by  driving  into  his  horses.  The  occupant  of  the  other 
carriage  was  a  coal-black  negro,  wearing  a  large  turban.  He 
was  driven  by  a  white  man,  who  favored  our  coachman  with 
what  sounded  like  choice  abuse,  receiving  a  large  quantity  in 
return.  I  asked  our  cabby  if  he  could  tell  us  the  nationality 
of  the  other  driver ;  and,  further,  whether  a  white  man  in 
Palestine  felt  any  humiliation  at  driving  a  negro.  This 
he  did  not  understand,  but  to  the  question  concerning  the 
other  driver's  race,  he  replied:  "He  is  a  Jew."  He  grew 
too  familiar  after  having  been  indulged  for  an  afternoon,  so 
we  did  not  hire  him  again.  It  is  a  weakness  of  Oriental  ser- 
vants— if  you  permit  it,  they  grow  too   fresh   for  any   use. 

This  wild  race  between  a  Jew  and  a  Mohammedan,  hauling 
the  one  a  turbaned  negro,  the  other  two  California  tourists, 
took  place  on  the  rough  road  between  Jerusalem  and  Bethle- 
hem. That  afternoon  as  we  were  near  Bethlehem  we  saw  on 
the  hills,  leaping  up  and  down,  groups  of  little  black  kids. 
By  this  I  mean  kids — genuine  kids — the  young  of  the  goat — 
Capra  asiaticus.  This  profuse  explanation  is  rendered  neces- 
sary by  the  common  use  of  the  word  in  another  sense.  Does 
not  the  Bible  speak  about  kids  leaping  on  the  mountains?  Or 
is  it  the  mountains  skipping  like  kids?  Or  young  lambs?  Or 
rams?     Or  whatever? 


Bottling 

Jerusalem 

Air. 


There  is  quite  a  large  business  done  in  Jerusalem  in  the  bot- 
tling of  water  from  the  Jordan.  It  is  sold 
in  flasks  all  over  the  town,  and  pious  people 
take  it  home  to  Mizzouraw  and  Injyann  to 
baptize  their  babies  with.  I  have  no  doubt 
that  the  water  they  carry  with  them  sometimes  comes  from  the 
Jordan,  but  considering  the  character  for  veracity  of  the 
dragomans  and  other  Jerusalem  gentlemen,  I  doubt  it.  It 
is  easier  to  use  the  water  from  the  Jerusalem  tanks  instead 
of  the  Jordan,  and  as  the  old  song  says,  "  Jordan  is  a  hard 
road  to  travel."  If  it  be  profitable  to  bottle  Jordan  water  for 
export  to  distant  Christian  lands,  what  is  the  matter  with 
bottling  Jerusalem  air?  Nowadays  when  they  can  compress 
air  so  easily  and  use  it  for  commercial  purposes,  why  not  com- 
press the  holy  air  of  Jerusalem  and  send  it  to  the  faithful  at 
home  ?  This  idea  strikes  me  as  a  valuable  one,  but  I  publish 
it  to  the  world  without  price.  I  am  convinced  that  any  man 
taking  it  up  and  working  it  out  practically  could  make  a  pot  of 
money  with  it.  The  only  possible  objection  I  can  see  to  the 
scheme  is  the  hygienic  one.  If  Jerusalem  air,  when  com- 
pressed and  raised  to  the  ninth  power,  would  smell  nine  times 
as  bad  as  it  does  at  home  on  its  native  heath,  I  am  convinced 
that  uncorking  a  bottle  of  Jerusalem  air  in  an  American 
city  would  produce  a  pestilence. 

Jerusalem  is  the  filthiest  city-  ever  inhabited  by  white  men. 
Since  I  have  visited  it  I  am  not  surprised  that  the  Creator 
once  sent  a  deluge  upon  the  earth.  It  is  my  belief  that  it 
was  intended  to  wash  Jerusalem  and  make  it  clean.  But  it 
must  have  been  a  failure.  The  next  time  the  attempt  is  made 
on  Jerusalem  I  would  suggest  that  it  be  done  not  with  water, 
but  with  fire. 


As  France  claims  to  be  the  protector  of  Latin  Christians  in 
the  Orient,  so  Russia  claims  to  be  the  pro- 
How  these  tectQr  of  the  Greek  Christjans  The  ani_ 
Brethren  Love  ,  .  .  , 
On-e  Another  mosity  between  these  two  sects  is  lnnnitely 
more  bitter  than  that  existing  between 
Christians  and  Jews,  between  Jews  and  Moslems,  between 
Moslems  and  Christians.  The  Jews  are  disliked  by  the  Chris- 
tians, and  are  by  them  forbidden  to  enter  certain  holy  places; 
but  the  Moslems  are  on  very'  amicable  terms  with  the  Jews,  and 
naturally,  being  lords  of  the  soil,  enter  any  church,  synagogue,  or 
temple,  as  they  please.  While  a  Jew  in  a  Jerusalem  church 
would  be  looked  upon  with  aversion  merely,  a  Greek  priest  in 
a  Latin  church,  or  a  Latin  priest  in  a  Greek  church,  would 
often  be  in  danger  of  his  life.  Turkish  soldiers  are  found 
constantly  on  guard  at  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre  in 
Jerusalem  and  at  the  Grotto  of  the  Nativity  in  Bethlehem. 
I  have  already  spoken  of  them  at  the  great  Church  of  the 
Sepulchre.  I  do  not  think  I  shall  ever  forget  the  sight  of  a 
knot  of  Turkish  officers  indolently  lounging  on  a  divan  inside 
the  Church  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  talking,  laughing,  smok- 
ing; this  group  was  made  up  of  the  chief  officers  of  a  strong 
force  of  Turkish  troops  which,  under  the  charge  of  the 
subalterns,  was  posted  at  every  point  in  the  enormous  church 
where  outbreaks  might  occur  between  the  mobs  of  fanatic 
monks. 

Russia  and  France  were  led  into  the  Crimean  War  by  a 
quarrel  between  Greek  and  Latin  Christians,  each  claiming 
possession  of  the  Church  of  the  Nativity.  At  another  time  a 
battle  arose  between  Latin  and  Greek  Christians  over  the 
Virgin's  tomb  in  the  Valley  of  the  Khedron.  In  this  struggle 
the  Turkish  soldiers  sided  with  the  Greeks,  and  forcibly  re- 
moved the  Franciscans.  A  recent  outbreak,  not  many  months 
ago,  was  also  on  Greek  and  Latin  lines.     As  Russia   '■■■ 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  23,  1903. 


ing  her  way  in  the  Holy  Land,  the  Greek  Christians,  en- 
couraged by  her  attitude,  are  becoming  very  aggressive.  For 
many  centuries  the  Franciscan  monks  (of  the  Latin  Chris- 
tians) have  swept  the  outside  steps  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Sepulchre.  They  thus  symbolized  their  possession  of  the  build- 
ing. The  Greeks  determined  to  take  away  the  privilege  from 
the  Franciscans,  and  thus  destroy  all  their  vested  rights. 
They  attacked  the  Franciscan  monks  in  force,  with  stones 
and  clubs.  A  bloody  battle  took  place,  in  which  many  of  the 
Franciscan  monks  were  severely  injured,  and  in  some  cases 
their  lives  were  despaired  of.  The  Greeks  were  upheld  in  this 
high-handed  proceeding  by  the  Russian  Government. 


Gkkkk 
Versus 
Jew. 


I  can  chronicle  only  a  church  duel  instead  of  a  religious  war. 
One  day,  while  we  were  in  the  chief 
Armenian  church,  a  violent  row  broke  out 
between  two  men.  I  approached,  and  found 
that  the  combatants  were  a  Jewish 
dragoman  and  an  Armenian  priest.  They  did  not  exactly 
come  to  blows ;  true,  they  clutched  at  one  another's  cloth- 
ing, but  they  did  not  strike.  In  the  Orient  I  rarely  have 
seen  blows  exchanged.  I  have  often  seen  them  given  by 
superior  to  inferior,  and  then  generally  with  a  stick.  Many 
times  I  have  seen  Orientals  bitterly  wrangling,  even  going 
so  far  as  to  clinch,  but  they  usually  break  away  without 
exchanging  blows.  In  this  Armenian  church  row  I  ap- 
proached with  the  keenest  interest — I  thought  it  must  surely 
be  a  religious  rumpus,  the  cause  dating  back  something  like 
a  thousand  years.  Fancy  my  deep  disappointment  when  it 
turned  out  to  be  a  quarrel  over  one  piastre — about  five  cents. 
It  seems  that  the  priest  found  his  share  of  the  tourists' 
baksheesh  was  one  piastre  shy,  and  he  accused  the  dragoman 
of  holding  it  out  on  him.  This  the  dragoman  repudiated 
with  indignation ;  the  dispute  became  envenomed,  hence  the 
noisy  row.  The  Armenian  priest,  his  black  eyes  blazing, 
his  face  framed  in  coal-black  beard  and  hair,  was  pale  with 
anger;  the  Jewish  dragoman  was  red  with  rage.  Their  clamor 
rung  through  the  great  arches,  the  groined  roof  of  the  gloomy 
church. 

But  what  a  disappointment !  I  thought  it  was  at  least  a 
fight  over  sacred  places  and  sacrilege,  a  row  over  the  filioque, 
or  some  genuine  Spot  Where.  Alas  !  It  was  only  a  money 
fight — a  row  over  five  cents ! 

*  * 

* 

In  every  place  that  I  have  ever  been,  some  one  picture  has 
always  remained  imbedded  in  my  mind.  It 
may  have  been — frequently  has  been,  in  fact 
— incongruous,  sometimes  ludicrous,  some- 
times childish.  But  that  matters  not — the 
picture  always  remained.  Whenever  I  thought  of  that  par- 
ticular place,  there  rose  up  before  me  its  particular  picture. 
What  is  my  Jerusalem  picture?  You  could  not  guess  it  in 
a  thousand  years.  Is  it  of  the  ancient  Hebrews?  No.  Of  the 
Romans  besieging  Jerusalem?  No.  Of  the  crusaders,  of  Saint 
Louis,  of  Richard  of  the  Lion  Heart?  No.  Of  the  modern 
rabble  of  Christians,  Jews,  and  Turks  who  fill  the  filthy  streets 
of  the  ancient  town?     No. 

What  is  it  then?  you  ask.  It  is  this — here  is  the  picture 
which  rises  before  me  when  I  think  of  Jerusalem :  A  long  and 
lofty  salon  in  a  Levantine  hotel,  furnished  in  rococo  style, 
with  gilded  moldings,  with  many  mirrors,  with  many 
chandeliers  filled  with  oil  lamps ;  a  table  in  the  centre 
at  which  are  seated  three  people  playing  cards  —  two 
of  them,  rosy,  fresh-faced  English  girls,  in  low-cut  gowns; 
the  third,  a  young  man,  an  English  curate,  in  the  straight-cut 
coat  and  white  stock  affected  by  gentlemen  of  his  cloth;  the 
curate  is  smoking  a  short  black  briar  pipe.  Lying  on  a  horse- 
hair sofa  near  them  is  a  stout,  red-faced  gentleman,  wrapped 
in  sound  and  stertorous  slumber;  he  also  is  in  clerical  garb, 
with  the  addition  of  gaiters;  he  is  a  dean,  and  I  learn  later 
that  the  two  florid  girls  are  his  daughters.  At  the  other  end 
of  the  long  salon  is  a  group  of  Americans  gazing  on  this 
scene  with  horror. 

That  is  my  picture.  And  I  think  almost  any  one  will  admit 
that  a  curate  playing  cards  with  a  dean's  daughters  in  a 
Jerusalem  drawing-room,  and  smoking  a  briar  pipe  the  while, 
is  odd  enough  to  be  remembered. 


and  the  Dean's 
Daughters. 


"Uncle  Remus"  at  Home. 
"  Harrisville  "  is  the  name  the  residents  of  the  west  end  of 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  have  given  to  the  district  in  the  centre  of 
which  stands  the  picturesque  house  of  Joel  Chandler  Harris, 
who  has  endeared  himself  to  readers  the  world  over  with 
his  "  Uncle  Remus  "  tales.  Says  a  corespondent  of  the  New 
York    Tribune  : 

In  his  comparatively  young  days  Mr  Harris  bought  several 
acres  of  land  in  then  sparsely  settled  west  end,  and,  building 
a  quaint  little  house,  proceeded  with  the  rearing  of  his  thriv- 
ing family.  His  wife  (who  was  of  the  prominent  Canadian 
family  of  La  Rose),  whose  bright  eyes  and  elastic  spirits  re- 
flect the  happiness  and  good  cheer  of  the  entire  family,  took 
an  intense  interest  in  his  work  and  sympathized  with  his 
ambitions.  Hut  while  he  loved  his  work  and  dreams,  he  loved 
his  home  more,  and  one  may  see  in  the  successful,  contented 
family  around  him  to-day  the  results  of  his  cooperation  with 
the  wise  rule  of  Mrs.  Harris.  Three  of  his  sons,  grown  to 
manhood,  have  attained  recognized  success  in  life.  They  are 
Julian,  managing  editor  of  the  Constitution;  Evelyn,  city 
editor  of  the  same  paper  ;  and  Lucien,  occupying  a  prominent 
position  in  the  city  government.  The  first  and  last  of  these 
sons  have  married,  and,  erecting  handsome  houses  on  the  lots 
adjoining  his  own.  which  Mr.  Harris  gives  each  child  as  he 
or  she  reaches  majority,  are  themselves  the  fathers  of  families. 
Evelyn  is  also  soon  to  be  married,  nad  it  is  presumed  he  will 
occupy  the  mat  cottage  uhich  he  already  has  erected  within  a 
June's  throw  of  the  paternal  homestead.  Living  within  calling 
distance  of  each  other,  the  three  families  form  a  compact  com- 
munity to  themselves — a  community  which  admiring  neighbors 
have  cibbed  Harrisville.  Two  or  three  times  a  month  Mr. 
Harris  makes  a  round  of  the  homes,  sees  that  affairs  are  being 
properly  conducted,  chats  with  his  daughters-in-law,  and  romps 
with  Ms  grandchildren.  Oftener  they  congregate  at  the  old 
hotrf  and  one  who  is  ;  vileged  to  look  in  on  these  happy 
.  ions  sees  Mr.  Harris  at  his  best,  surrounded  by  sturdy 
..mil ing,    happy    daiiL  iters,    and    loving,    clamorous    little 


MORLEY'S    LIFE    OF    GLADSTONE. 


The  Great  Statesman's  Attitude  Toward  the  North  During  the  Civil 

■War  — The   Trent  Affair— Sensational  Speech  at 

Newcastle -Death  of  Gordon. 


By  far  the  most  important  contribution  to  biographical 
literature  in  recent  years  is  John  Morley's  long-awaited  "  Life 
of  William  Ewart  Gladstone."  In  England,  almost  the  entire 
first  edition  was  secured  by  the  London  Daily  News,  of  which 
Mr.  Cadbury,  the  manufacturer  of  cocoa,  is  principal  owner, 
for  circulation  among  its  readers  on  easy  terms.  This,  it  is 
expected,  will  largely  increase  the  circulation  of  the  Daily 
News,  which  used  to  rank  only  second  in  dignity  and  im- 
portance among  the  newspapers  of  the  United  Kingdom,  and 
was  the  chief  organ  of  the  Liberal  party,  but  lost  prestige 
by  its  pro-Boer  attitude  during  the  South  African  war. 

In  his  prefatory  note,  Mr.  Morley,  referring  to  his  direct 
sources  of  information  in  the  preparation  of  his  colossal  work, 
says  that  the  most  important  material  placed  at  his  disposal 
was  the  vast  accumulation  of  papers  and  documents  collected 
at  Hawarden.  In  addition,  he  was  supplied  with  several  thou- 
sand letters  from  the  legion  of  Gladstone's  correspondents. 
He  declares  that,  on  the  whole,  between  two  and  three  hundred 
thousand  written  papers  of  one  sort  or  another  have  passed 
under  his  eye.  The  diaries  of  Gladstone,  from  which  Mr. 
Morley  also  often  quotes,  consist  of  forty  little  books  in  double 
columns,  intended  to  do  little  more  than  give  the  barest  outline 
of  his  day's  work,  the  people  seen,  books  read,  or  letters  written. 
As  regards  the  spirit  in  which  the  work  has  been  composed, 
the  author  says  that  he  has  obeyed — because  it  agreed  with  his 
own  conception  of  his  duty — the  injunction  laid  upon  him  by 
Queen  Victoria,  that  the  narrative  be  not  handled  in  a  nar- 
row, partisan  way. 

Mr.  Morley  has  arranged  his  biography  in  three  volumes  of 
about  six  hundred  and  fifty  pages  each.  The  first,  divided  into 
four  books,  records  the  career  of  the  statesman  from  his  birth 
in  1809,  through  the  era  of  the  Crimean  War,  to  his  "junction 
with  the  Liberals "  in  the  Palmerston  government  of  1859. 
The  second  volume  comprehends  the  period  between  1S59  and 
1880,  including  the  era  of  the  American  Civil  War  and  Glad- 
stone's first  two  ministries ;  the  third  covers  the  period 
18S0-9S,  the  era  of  the  Soudan,  the  Home  Rule  fight,  and  Glad- 
stone's largest  triumphs  and  greatest  failures,  his  retirement, 
and  death. 

The  chapters  of  Mr.  Morley's  exhaustive  work,  which  will 
naturally  appeal  most  to  Americans,  are  those  which  relate 
to  affairs  in  this  country.  There  are,  for  example,  the  com- 
ments of  Gladstone  on  the  Trent  affair,  contained  in  some 
correspondence  with  the  Duke  of  Argyle.  He  describes  the 
Cabinet  meeting  held  after  the  receipt  of  the  news  that  the 
Confederate  commissioners  had  been  seized.  After  the  Cabinet 
meeting,  he  writes : 

I  returned  to  Windsor  for  dinner  and  reported  to  queen  and 
prince.  The  Cabinet  determined  on  Friday  to  ask  reparation, 
and  on  Saturday  they  agreed  to  two  dispatches  to  Lord  Lyons, 
of  which  the  one  recited  the  facts,  stated  we  could  not  but 
suppose  the  American  Government  would  of  itself  be  desirous 
to  afford  us  reparation,  and  said  that  in  any  case  we  must  have 
the  commissioners  returned  to  British  protection,  and  {2) 
an  apology  or  expression  of  regret.  The  second  of  these  dis- 
patches desired  Lyons  to  come  away  within  seven  days  if  the 
demands  are  not  complied  with.  I  thought  and  urged  that  we 
should  hear  what  the  Americans  had  to  say  before  withdrawing 
Lyons,  for  I  could  not  feel  sure  that  we  were  at  the  bottom 
of  the  law  of  the  case,  or  could  judge  here  and  now  what 
form  it  would  assume.     But  this  view  did  not  prevail. 

With  infinite  pains,  Mr.  Morley  shows  how  the  queen,  the 
prince  consort,  and  Gladstone  all  worked  together  to  soften, 
abridge,  and  generally  modify  Lord  Russell's  violent  dispatch 
to  Lord  Lyons,  the  British  minister  at  Washington,  and  to 
avert  anything  which  might  bring  on  a  collision,  and  this  de- 
spite the  fact  that  strong  and  active  interests  in  England 
favored  forcing  North  and  South  apart,  for  England's  profit. 

On  October  7,  1862,  at  a  banquet  in  the  town  hall  of  New- 
castle, Gladstone,  being  then  chancellor  of  the  exchequer 
in  the  Palmerston  government,  let  fall  a  sentence  about  the 
war  of  which  he  was  destined  never  to  hear  the  last.  He  said : 

We  know  quite  well  that  the  people  of  the  Northern  States 
have  not  yet  drunk  of  the  cup — they  are  still  trying  to  hold 
it  far  from  their  lips — which  all  the  rest  of  the  world  see  they 
nevertheless  must  drink  of.  We  may  have  our  own  opinions 
about  slavery  ;  we  may  be  for  or  against  the  South  ;  but  there 
is  no  doubt  that  Jefferson  Davis  and  other  leaders  of  the 
South  have  made  an  army ;  they  are  making,  it  appears,  a 
navy;  and  they  have  made,  what  is  more  than  either — they 
have  made  a  nation. 

The  sensation  which  these  words  produced  was,  naturally, 
immediate  and  profound.  All  the  world  took  so  pointed  an  ut- 
terance to  mean  that  the  British  Government  was  about  to 
recognize  the  independence  of  the  South.  Charles  Francis 
Adams,  then  our  minister  in  London,  wrote  on  the  following 
day  in  his  diary :  "  If  Gladstone  be  any  exponent  at  all  of 
the  views  of  the  Cabinet,  then  is  my  term  likely  to  be  very 
short.  The  animus,  as  it  respects  Mr.  Davis  and  the  recogni- 
tion of  the  rebel  cause,  is  very  apparent." 

It  is  evident  that  Gladstone  went  further  than  the  premier. 
Lord  Palmerston,  or  the  secretary  for  foreign  affairs,  Lord 
John  Russell,  had  authorized  him  to  go,  for  Lord  Russell 
wrote  :  "  You  must  allow  me  to  say  that  I  think  you  went 
beyond  the  latitude  which  all  speakers  must  be  allowed  when 
you  said  that  Jeff  Davis  had  made  a  nation.  Recognition 
would  seem  to  follow,  and  for  that  step  I  think  the  Cabinet 
is  not  prepared."  A  week  after  the  deliverance  at  Newcastle, 
Sir  G.  Cornewall  Lewis,  apparently  at  Lord  Palmerston's 
request,  put  things  right  in  a  speech  at  Hereford.  The 
Southern  States,  he  said,  bad  not  de  facto  established  their  in- 
dependence, and  were  not  entitled  to  recognition  on  any  ac- 
cepted principles  of  public  law.  From  other  data,  which  Mr. 
Morley  very  properly  considers  it  his  duty  to  set  forth,  it  is 
evident  that  as  late  as  November  of  the  year  just  named, 
Mr.  Gladstone  personally  desired  an  interposition  on  the  part 
of  England,  France,  and  Russia  between  the  South  and  the 
North. 


About  two  years  before  his  death,  however,  in  July,  1896, 
Gladstone  himself  put  on  record  in  a  fragmentary  note  his 
own   estimate  of  his  indiscreet  words : 

I  have  yet  to  record  an  undoubted  error,  the  most  singular 
and  palpable — I  may  add,  the  least  excusable  of  them  all, 
especially  since  it  was  committed  so  late  as  the  year  1862, 
when  I  had  outlived  half  a  century.  In  the  autumn  of  that 
year,  and  in  a  speech  delivered  after  a  public  dinner  at  New- 
castle-on-Tyne,  1  declared  in  the  heat  of  the  American  struggle 
that  Jefferson  Davis  had  made  a  nation;  that  is  to  say,  that 
the  division  of  the  American  republic  by  the  establishment 
of  a  Southern  or  secession  State  was  an  accomplished  fact. 

Gladstone  went  on  to  admit  that,  not  only  was  this  a  mis- 
judgment  of  the  case,  but,  even  if  it  had  been  otherwise,  he 
was  not  the  person  to  make  the  declaration  : 

That  my  opinion  was  founded  upon  a  false  estimate  of  the 
facts  was  the  very  least  part  of  my  fault.  I  did  not  perceive 
the  gross  impropriety  of  such  an  utterance  from  a  Cabinet 
minister  of  a  power  allied  in  blood  and  language,  and  bound 
to  loyal  neutrality  ;  the  case  being  further  exaggerated  by  the 
fact  that  we  were  already,  so  to  speak,  under  indictment  be- 
fore the  world  for  not  (,as  was  alleged)  having  strictly  en- 
forced the  laws  of  neutrality  in  the  matter  of  the  cruisers. 
My  offense  was,  indeed,  only  a  mistake,  but  one  of  incredible 
grossness,  and  with  such  consequences  of  offense  and  alarm 
attached  to  it  that  my  failing  to  perceive  them  justly  exposed 
me  to  very  severe  blame. 

In  view  of  recent  events  in  South  Africa,  Mr.  Morley's 
chapters,  which  deal  with  Majuba  Hill  and  Gladstone's  part 
in  that  deplorable  episode  of  1S81,  will  be  read  with  interest. 
Mr.  Morley  says : 

Some  have  argued  that  we  ought  to  have  brought  up  an 
overwhelming  force,  to  demonstrate  that  we  were  able  to  beat 
them,  before  we  made  peace.  Unfortunately,  demonstrations 
of  this  species  easily  turn  into  provocations,  and  talk  of  this 
kind  mostly  comes  from  those  who  believe,  not  that  peace  was 
made  in  the  wrong  way,  but  that  a  peace  giving  their  country 
back  to  the  Boers  ought  never  to  have  been  made  at  all,  on  any 
terms,  or  in  any  way.  This  was  not  the  point  from  which 
either  Cabinet  or  Parliament  started.  The  government  had 
decided  that  annexation  had  been  an  error.  The  Boers  had 
proposed  inquiry.  The  government  assented  on  condition  that 
the  Boers  dispersed.  Without  waiting  a  reasonable  time  for 
a  reply,  our  general  wras  worsted  in  a  rash  and  trivial  attack. 
Did  this  cancel  our  proffered  bargain?  The  point  was  simple 
and  unmistakable,  though  party  heat  at  home,  race  passion 
in  the  colony,  and  our  everlasting  human  proneness  to  mix 
up  different  questions,  and  to  answer  one  point  by  arguments 
that  belong  to  another,  all  combined  to  produce  a  confusion 
of  mind  that  a  certain  school  of  partisans  have  traded  upon 
ever  since.  Strange  in  mighty  nations  is  moral  cowardice, 
disguised  as  Roman  pride. 

Another  topic  which  Mr.  Morley  has  handled  with  tact,  is 
Gladstone's  Egyptian  policy.  To  this  day  there  are  thousands 
of  Englishmen  who  can  not  speak  of  the  stateman's  relation 
to  the  fall  of  Khartoum  and  the  death  of  Gordon  without  in- 
tense feeling.    Mr.  Morley  writes  as  follows : 

The  Cabinet  in  London,  fixed  in  their  resolve  not  to  accept 
responsibility  for  a  Soudan  war,  and  not  to  enter  upon  that 
responsibility  by  giving  advice  for  or  against  the  advance  of 
Hicks,  stood  aloof.  Here  was  their  first  frightful  blunder — 
indecision.  Unfortunately,  the  ready  clamor  of  headlong  phil- 
anthropists, political  party  men,  and  the  men  who  think  Eng- 
land humiliated  if  she  ever  lets  slip  an  excuse  for  drawing  her 
sword,  drove  the  Cabinet  on  to  the  rocks.  Gordon  seized  the 
imagination  of  England,  and  seized  it  on  its  higher  side.  His 
religion  was  eccentric,  but  it  was  religion ;  the  Bible  was  the 
rock  on  which  he  founded  himself,  both  old  dispensation  and 
new ;  he  was  known  to  hate  forms,  ceremonies,  and  all  the 
"  solemn  plausibilities  " ;  his  speech  was  sharp,  pithy,  rapid, 
and  ironic;  above  all,  he  knew  the  ways  of  war,  and  would 
not  bear  the  sword  for  naught.  All  this  was  material  enough 
to  make  a  popular  ideal,  and  this  is  what  Gordon  in  an  ever 
increasing  degree  became,  to  the  immense  inconvenience  of  the 
statesmen,  otherwise  so  sensible  on  war,  who  had  now  im- 
providently  let  the  genie  forth  from  the  jar.  Gor- 
don policies  were  many  and  very  mutable.  "  When  Gordon 
left  this  country,"  said  Mr.  Gladstone,  "  and  when  he  arrived 
in  Egypt,  he  declared  it  to  be  ...  a  fixed  portion  of  his 
policy  that  no  British  force  should  be  employed  in  aid  of 
his  mission."  When  March  came  he  flung  himself  with  ardor 
into  the  policy  of  "smashing  up"  the  Mahdi,  with  resort  to 
British  and  Indian  troops.  This  was  a  violent  reversal  of  all 
that  had  been  either  settled  or  dreamed  of,  whether  in  London 
or  at  Cairo.  To  send  Zobeir  would  have  been  a  gambler's 
throw.  But,  then,  what  was  it  but  a  gambler's  throw  to  send 
Gordon  himself?  To  run  all  the  risks  involved  in  the  dispatch 
of  Gordon,  and  then  immediately  to  refuse  the  request  that  he 
persistently  represented  as  furnishing  him  his  only  chance, 
was  an  incoherence  that  the  Parliament  and  people  of  England 
have  not  often  surpassed. 

On  January  30,  1890,  Gladstone  wrote  to  one  of  his  col- 
leagues : 

In  the  Gordon  case  we  all,  and  I  rather  prominently,  must 
continue  to  suffer  in  silence.  Gordon  was  a  hero,  and  a  hero 
of  heroes  ;  but  we  ought  to  have  known  that  a  hero  of  heroes 
is  not  the  proper  person  to  give  effect  at  a  distant  point,  and 
in  most  difficult  circumstances,  to  the  views  of  ordinary  men. 
It  was  unfortunate  that  he  should  claim  the  hero's  privilege 
by  turning  upside  down  and  inside  out  every  idea  and  intention 
with  which  he  left  England,  and  for  which  he  had  obtained 
our  approval.  Had  my  views  about  Zobeir  prevailed  it  would 
not  have  removed  our  difficulties,  as  Forster  would  certainly 
have  moved,  and  with  the  Tories  and  the  Irish  have  carried, 
a  condemnatory  address.  My  own  opinion  is  that  it  is  harder 
to  justify  our  doing  so  much  to  rescue  him  than  our  not  doing 
more.  Had  the  party  reached  Khartoum  in  time,  he  would 
not  have  come  away  (,as  I  suppose),  and  the  dilemma  would 
have  arisen  in  another  form. 

Gladstone  wished  to  recall  Gordon  as  soon  as  the  general 
changed  his  plans,  but  public  opinion  and  his  colleagues  over- 
bore his  judgment.  Zobeir  Pasha  was  the  man  to  whom 
Gordon  wished  to  relinquish  his  command  upon  his  withdrawal 
from  Khartoum.  Gladstone  favored  this  plan,  but  was 
again  overruled. 

Mr.  Morley  has  supplemented  his  volumes  with  an  appendix 
of  various  documents,  a  very  useful  chronological  table,  and  a 
voluminous  index.  The  nine  well-chosen  illustrations,  save 
for  a  view  of  Hawarden  Castle  and  one  of  "  The  Octagon," 
which  Gladstone  built  at  the  north-western  corner  of  the  castle 
as  a  fireproof  receptacle  for  his  letters  and  papers,  are  all  por- 
traits. Five  of  them  show  the  statesman  himself  at  various 
periods  of  his  career.  A  portrait  of  his  f;ither,  Sir  John  Glad- 
stone, is  prefixed  to  the  first  volume,  which  also  contains  a 
reproduction  of  a  charming  painting  of  Mrs.  Gladstone,  done 
many  years  ago. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company.  New  York;  three  vol- 
umes, $10.50. 


November  23,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


ELIJAH    THE    RESTORER. 

Geraldine    Bonner's    View    of   John    Alexander    Dowie  —  His    Fierce 

Anger  —  His   Appearance  —  An   Analysis   of  His   Violent 

and    Unconventional    Character. 


The  visitation  of  Elijah  the  Restorer  is  coming  to  an 
end.  One  or  two  more  talks  at  Carnegie  Hall  and  the 
Prophet  and  such  of  his  myrmidons  as  still  remain  will 
pack  their  grips  and  turn  their  faces  toward  Zion.  Mrs. 
Dowie  and  Gladstone  (the  good-looking  Gladstone 
over  whose  unkissed  state  New  York  has  made  so 
merry)  went  to  Europe  over  a  week  ago.  The  main 
body  of  the  choir — which  was  the  finest  part  of  the 
show — returned  to  Zion  about  the  same  time,  while 
Elijah  and  a  portion  of  the  host  remained  to  conduct  a 
few  last  services  in  Carnegie  Hall. 

Not  for  years  has  New  York  had  such  a  sensation  as 
the  coming  of  the  Prophet  and  his  disciples.  Other  re- 
vivalists and  religious  agitators,  who  have  from  time 
to  time  raised  their  voices  here,  have  been  of  a  milder 
brand,  with  less  money,  and  with  nothing  like  the  furi- 
ous, aggressive  force  of  John  Alexander  Dowie.  The 
Zionites  were  by  the  thousand.  Their  "  Head  Overseer  " 
was  known  to  be  a  man  of  immense  wealth,  honestly 
made,  and  in  an  astonishingly  short  time.  He  did  what 
he  said  he  would  do — that  is,  brought  his  host  on  with 
him,  took  the  largest  and  most  expensive  public  hall  in 
New  York,  and  there  conducted  services  of  the  most 
surprising  nature  to  audiences  of  enormous  dimen- 
sions. 

Personally,  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  Dowie  has  much 
to  complain  of  in  his  reception  and  treatment  in 
Gotham.  To  be  sure,  his  manner  of  attack  was  hardly 
ingratiating  or  tactful.  He  presupposed  a  condition  of 
such  formidable  degradation  here  that,  even  with  the 
papers  full  of  red-light  stories  and  Deveryism,  it  was 
hard  to  believe  that  the  city  could  be  so  black.  But 
the  worst  thing  he  did  was  calmly  to  assume  that  a 
Prophet  from  the  West  was  going  to  convert  the  me- 
tropolis of  the  East.  A  prophet  may  not  be  without 
honor  save  in  his  own  country,  but  a  prophet  who 
comes  from  Chicago  to  instil  virtue  into  New  York 
will  undoubtedly  find  himself  met  by  a  frost. 

Before  he  put  foot  in  the  city  it  was  bristling  with 
antagonism  against  him.  This  took  the  form  of  a 
mocking  attitude,  but  the  mockery  was  biting  with  a 
vitriolic  strain.  A  great  grievance  against  Dowie -is, 
that  while  the  watching  world  are  fond  of  calling  him 
a  fake  and  a  fraud,  it  is  impossible  to  state  any  partic- 
ular instance  in  which  he  was  obviously  and  openly 
either.  The  commercial  enterprises  of  Zion  are  con- 
ducted on  the  strictest  business  principles.  The  Proph- 
et's credit  is  as  good  as  any  merchant's  or  banker's 
in  Chicago.  When  the  fierce  white  light  of  notoriety 
began  to  beat  on  him,  his  private  life  was  subjected  to 
the  keenest  scrutiny.  But  his  detractors  found  nothing 
there  to  attack.  As  husband  and  father  he  is  said  to  be 
all  that  the  most  scrupulous  could  desire.  His  claim  to 
have  the  power  of  divine  healing  and  his  vituperative 
and  coarsely  jocular  manner  on  the  platform,  are  the 
points  upon  which  he  can  be  assailed,  and  the  city  he 
has  come  to  convert  was  not  slow  in  assailing. 

Where,  to  my  thinking,  the  New  Yorkers  behaved 
badly  was  in  their  conduct  at  his  meetings.  These 
meetings  were  religious  services;  they  were  free  to  all, 
only  a  collection  being  taken  up.  A  truly  magnificent 
choir  sang  hymns  at  intervals  during  the  sessions,  and 
Dr.  Dowie  gave  a  discourse  compounded  of  that  curious 
mixture  of  colloquial  anecdote  and  religious  transport 
which  seems  peculiar  to  all  revivalists  and  founders  of 
new  sects.  No  one  forced  the  New  York  public  to  go. 
but  it  went  by  the  thousand.  It  filled  the  great  hall  to 
the  doors,  and  when  the  preacher  said  things  it  disap- 
proved, and  sometimes  when,  because  of  the  size  of  the 
building,  it  did  not  hear  him,  it  rose  by  scores  and  left. 

It  was  this  disconcerting  desertion  that  caused  the 
Prophet's  ire  to  rise  (he  is  undoubtedly  a  man  of  a 
violent  and  badly  controlled  temper),  and  he  accosted 
the  deserters,  which  was  something  they  had  not 
reckoned  on.  The  New  Yorkers,  amazed  at  Elijah's 
daring,  deserted  derisively  in  even  larger  numbers, 
sometimes  throwing  flippant  sentences  at  the  Prophet 
as  they  went.  Elijah,  also  unaccustomed  to  having  his 
commands  overlooked,  lost  his  temper  completely,  and 
called  the  deserters  names  of  diverse  and  varying 
originality.  His  vituperative  vocabulary  is  said  to  be 
unmatchable  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  and  he  gave  New 
York  a  sample  of  it.  The  children  of  Gotham  heard 
themselves  for  the  first  time  publicly  addressed  as 
"  stink-pots,"  "  lice,"  "  mosquitoes,"  "  dirty  dogs,"  and 
other  choice  names  generally  drawn  from  the  animal 
kingdom.  They  were  amused,  amazed,  and  finally  de- 
cided to  be  insulted. 

That  demonstrations  of  a  warlike  description  were 
feared  at  the  Garden  there  is  no  doubt.  A  very  large 
police  force  patroled  it  within  and  without.  It  is  said 
that  Mrs.  Dowie,  who  seems  to  have  the  tact  and  self- 
restraint  her  husband  lacks,  controlled  his  fiery  spirit 
and  induced  him  to  moderate  his  rage  and  language. 
He  grew  milder  as  his  audiences  grew  more  derisive. 
Finally,  he  saw  them  leaving  in  flocks  with  an  ag- 
gressively loud  tramping  and  coughing,  and  said  not  a 
word.  A  friend  of  mine,  passing  there  during  a  morn- 
ing session,  saw  the  entrance  blocked  with  streams 
of  emerging  spectators.  Wondering  why  they  were 
coming  out  at  that  hour  he  said  to  a  policeman  who 
stood  near  by :  "  Isn't  this  the  way  in  to  the  morning 
service?" 


"  Well,  it  was,"  was  the  answer,  "  but  it  seems  to  be 
the  way  out  just  now !" 

My  first  glimpse  of  the  Restorer  was  in  a  carriage 
driving  up  Fifth  Avenue.  The  equipage,  which  was 
his  own,  specially  brought  on  from  Zion,  was  a  very 
smart  victoria,  drawn  by  a  pair  of  fine  sorrel  horses, 
and  with  two  men  in  livery  on  the  box.  Its  owner  had 
not,  however,  sacrificed  everything  for  style.  It  was 
noticeable  that  the  tails  of  his  horses  were  uncut,  and 
he  permitted  his  coachman  the  unusual  luxury  of  wear- 
ing a  beard.  The  Prophet  was  leaning  back  com- 
fortably, pointing  out  the  objects  of  local  interest  to  his 
wife.  Even  in  this  panoramic  passage  of  human  be- 
ings, where  separate  individualities  are  crushed  into 
insignificance,  Dowie's  was  a  marked  figure.  I  should 
say  his  individuality  was  uncrushable.  It  is  a  potent 
force,  crude  and  overpowering. 

He  looked  a  handsome,  long-haired  old  gentleman, 
with  a  curiously  pleasant  and  benevolent  eye,  a  type 
of  face  completely  devoid  of  any  suggestion  of  that 
ugly  temper  over  which  he  has  so  little  control.  He 
wore  a  silk  hat,  from  beneath  which  his  long  gray  hair 
streamed,  and  over  his  breast  a  patriarchal  white  beard 
spread  in  glossy  waves.  When  I  heard  him  speak  he 
said  he  was  fifty-six  years  old,  but  he  certainly  looks 
ten  or  fifteen  years  older.  His  wife  was  a  stout,  middle- 
aged  woman,  with  a  rather  heavy  pale  face,  and  very 
elegantly  dressed  in  light  tan  color. 

On  the  platform,  he  does  not  look  so  imposing  as 
when  seated.  He  is  of  middle  height,  and  very  stout, 
his  body  rotund,  and  his  arms  and  legs  short.  His  small, 
plump  hands  are  continually  used  in  gesticulation,  and 
as  he  speaks  he  walks  back  and  forth,  discoursing  with 
an  easy,  conversational  air.  Without  a  note,  he  never 
hesitates  for  a  word,  and  his  discourse  (it  was  not  a 
sermon)  had  a  detached,  impromptu  tone,  continually 
rambling  off  into  anecdote  and  humorous  comment.  He 
struck  me  as  being  full  of  humor  and  quite  witty, 
as  if  he  might  have  been  a  first-rate  after-dinner 
speaker.  Allusions  to  the  Trinity  were  mixed  up  with 
funny  stories  and  adventures  in  a  way  that  would  make 
the  reverentially  pious  break  out  into  a  cold  perspira- 
tion. His  tone  toward  his  Maker  was  that  of  a  sort  of 
easy-going  comradeship.  He  gave  us  a  sample  of  the 
way  he  prayed  every  night  anent  his  efforts  to  convert 
New  York,  the  phrase,  "  God,  I've  done  my  best,"  be- 
ing continually  repeated.  All  it  wanted  to  be  perfectly 
intimate  and  friendly  was  "  God,  old  man,  I've  done  my 
best." 

In  this  discourse,  he  alluded  to  the  death  of  his 
daughter,  which  is  considered  by  many  the  crucial  point 
of  his  career,  and  has  been  made  by  many  others  mat- 
ter of  jeering  attack.  That  Dowie  did  not  cure  his 
dying  child,  whom  he  deeply  loved,  unquestionably  lost 
him  many  thousand  new  followers.  His  cleverness  and 
courage  in  a  situation  which  wrung  his  heart  proves 
how  unshakable  is  his  belief  in  himself,  his  confidence 
in  the  faith  of  his  followers. 

He  described  with  what  looked  like  real  feeling,  the 
death  bed  of  his  daughter.'  He  again  repeated  his 
truly  horrible  remark  that  she  had  disobeyed  him  by 
using  alcohol,  and  "  God  had  punished  her  " — the  un- 
fortunate girl  had  lit  an  alcohol  lamp  to  heat  her  curl- 
ing-irons, and  it  exploded,  burning  her  to  death.  From 
this,  he  went  on  describing  her  splendid  health  and 
beauty,  and  how,  when  he  saw  her  lying  burned  and 
in  agony,  and  realized  if  she  lived  that  "her  beautiful 
body "  would  be  crippled,  decrepit,  and  hideous,  he 
could  not  ask  God  to  grant  him  the  miracle  of  her  cure, 
and  he  "  let  her  go."  And  suddenly  turning  on  his 
audience,  his  face  red  with  anger,  shaking  one  clenched 
fist  at  the  rows  of  listeners,  he  shouted :  "  And  you, 
you  dogs,  have  thrown  that  in  my  teeth  !" 

It  was  not  what  one  is  accustomed  to  from  the  lecture 
platform  or  the  pulpit,  but  it  had  a  sort  of  deadly  force. 
For  a  moment  the  bland  and  benign  Prophet  looked 
as  if  he  would  have  liked  to  have  trampled  his  accusers 
under  his  feet.  His  audience  almost  quailed  before  the 
upraised  fist.  With  the  story  that  preceded  it,  it  had 
the  striking  quality  of  the  unreservedly  personal.  The 
speaker  had  described  and  explained  his  actions  in  the 
most  tragic  moment  of  his  life.  Whether  all  he  said 
was  true,  or  the  emotion  which  shook  his  voice  was 
genuine,  his  auditors  could  not  tell.  But  the  raised  fist 
and  the  suddenly  reddened  face  had  an  air  of  convinc- 
ing reality.  The  man  was  violently  stirred,  and  he 
touched  depths  in  his  listeners  that  more  gifted  lectur- 
ers and  preachers  rarely  sound. 

This  placing  of  himself  on  terms  of  curious  intimacy 
with  his  audiences  I  should  set  down  as  one  of  the 
secrets  of  Dowie's  power.  The  man  is  absolutely  fear- 
less. The  timidity,  reticence,  and  false  pride  which 
hold  the  mass  of  mankind  in  a  sort  of  sensitive  re- 
serve are  unknown  to  him.  Vain  people — and  Dowie  is 
unquestionably  one  of  these — love  to  talk  of  them- 
selves, but  they  do  it  in  a  dreary  strain  of  self-praise 
which  becomes  very  boring.  Elijah  takes  you  into  his 
confidence  in  a  large,  genial  way  which  is  not  unimpres- 
sive and  sometimes  extremely  entertaining.  His  dis- 
courses in  their  unctuous,  almost  joyous,  self-revelation, 
are  as  different  from  the  average  preacher's  vague 
generalities  as  wine  is  to  water, 

The.good  taste  of  his  confidences  may  be  questioned, 
but,  after  all,  good  taste  is  a  useless,  kid-gloved  sort 
of  attribute  in  dealing  with  masses  of  ignorant  people 
in  a  large  way.  The  other  evening,  he  told  how  he 
was  not  the  son  of  his  reputed  father,  but  had  been 
born  three  months  after  that  gentleman's  marriage  to 
his  mother.  His  mother  had  been  "  unfortunate,"  and 
was  now  a  saint  in  heaven,  having  suffered  much.  Her 


lover  had  deserted  her,  and  Dowie's  supposed  father  had 
gallantly  come  to  her  aid  and  married  her.  The  person 
who  boldly,  indifferent  to  public  opinion,  press,  ridi- 
cule, and  censure,  can  rise  up  and  go  into  such  tragic 
family  details  is  certainly  not  very  well  bred,  and  shows 
but  scant  respect  for  his  mother's  memory  to  drag  up 
her  "  past,"  no  matter  how  sinless  she  may  have  been. 
But,  on  the  other  hand,  his  very  defiance  of  the  con- 
ventionalities, before  which  his  audience  cowers,  gives 
him  a  violent,  rude  power,  the  power  that  bold,  self- 
confident  souls  have  over  the  shrinking,  sheep-like  mass. 

Geraldine  Bonner. 
New  York,  November  6,  1903. 


THE    EXPIATION. 


How  Jeanne's  Vanity  Proved  Her  Undoing. 


"  You  say  there  is  no  such  thing  as  everlasting  justice, 
and  that  no  revenge  is  executed  more  terribly  upon 
those  who  have  wronged  us,  than  the  revenge  they 
carry  out  upon  themselves?  What  know  you  of  it? 
Let  me  assure  you  that  destiny  often  extends  her  hand 
against  the  guilty  one  and  inflicts  a  chastisement  which 
surpasses  our  most  ferocious  desires." 

So  spoke  Roger  Valtet,  who,  for  some  time,  had 
listened  silently  to  our  discussions  without  taking  any 
part  in  them  whatever,  and,  in  view  of  his  great  age, 
we  did  not  contradict  him. 

"You  are  incredulous?"  he  asked.  "Well,  let  me 
convince  you  by  relating  a  story  which  is  my  own,  and 
regarding  which  I  have  always  remained  silent.  Now 
that  years  have  rolled  by,  I  can  speak  of  it  without 
fear  of  opening  the  wound  of  a  deeply  lacerated  heart. 

"You  all  believe  me  an  impenitent  cclibant.  Never- 
theless, I  have  been  married.  I  was  no  longer  young 
when,  through  love,  I  took  in  marriage  a  stranger  who 
brought  me  only  her  marvelous  beauty  as  a  dowry.  I 
was  in  receipt  of  a  small  income,  my  station  in  life  was 
fair,  and  as  I  had  no  family  relations,  it  appeared  to 
me  that  a  legitimate  companion  would  ennoble  my  life. 
To  be  precise,  however,  I  made  this  reflection  only 
after  having  met  in  a  friendly  salon  a  charming  niece 
of  the  master  of  the  house,  recently  arrived  from  Rouen, 
who,  I  was  told,  was  an  orphan,  very  poor,  and  in 
search  of  remunerative  employment.  I  was  indignant 
at  the  thought  that  such  a  beautiful  girl  should  find 
it  necessary  to  work  in  order  to  live;  she  was  born  to 
receive  homage  and  dictate  her  caprices.  I  declared 
my  views  to  her.  Her  smile  was  deliciously  sad.  The 
charm  of  her  answer  was  enhanced  by  her  soft  accent. 
I  became  an  assiduous  caller  at  the  house  ot  my  friends. 
They  perceived  before  I  did  that  I  had  fallen  in  love 
with  Delle  Jeanne,  and  aided  my  cause  surreptitiously. 
Through  their  good  offices  we  became  shortly  affianced; 
and  when  we  were  married,  I  was  more  her  slave  than 
her  husband.     But  the  slavery  was  so  delightful ! 

"Jeanne  loved  luxury.  My  modest  revenue  was  in- 
sufficient to  meet  her  needs.  I  became  ingenious  in  my 
desire  to  satisfy  her,  and  racked  my  intelligence  for  new 
resources  to  make  money.  At  the  price  of  exhausting 
work,  I  realized  large  sums  of  money.  In  this  manner 
she  was  enabled  to  have  magnificent  dresses,  which 
rendered  her  more  beautiful  than  ever.  She  thanked 
me  for  my  labor  with  kisses  and  flattery.  I  was  using 
my  vigor  in  a  killing  labor.  The  reflection  in  the 
mirror  showed  me  a  tired  face  prematurely  worn  out. 
At  my  side  Jeanne  appeared  a  perfect  creature,  the 
young  sultana  of  my  adolescent  dreams.  I  told  her 
so,  and  also  that  I  was  old  and  ugly,  and  asked  her 
pardon  for  having  associated  her  juvenile  grace  with 
my  senility.  Speaking  thus  I  exaggerated,  but  she 
would  close  my  mouth  with  her  little  hand,  laughingly 
kiss  my  eyes,  and  answer:  'You  are  young  and  hand- 
some, since  you  are  so  intelligent,  and  I  love  you."  And 
I  believed  it.  My  confidence  in  her  was  absolute — her 
glance  was  so  clear  and  frank. 

"  I  felt  that  she  was  so  entirely  mine  that  the  idea  of 
suspecting  her  never  entered  my  head ;  T  did  not  even 
dream  of  being  jealous.  Still,  from  time  to  time,  her 
absence  was  strange.  If  I  questioned  her,  she  would 
excuse  herself  by  saying  that  she  had  been  wandering 
about  Paris  thinking  deeply  of  her  childhood  in  her 
country  home.    And  still  I  believed  her. 

"  For  distraction,  T  would  take  her  to  the  theatre.  I 
knew  not  which  pleased  her  more,  the  scene  on  the 
stage  before  her,  or  the  admiration  she  received  from 
the  spectators.  These  occasions  offered  her  an  oppor- 
tunity to  show  off  her  jewels,  of  which  she  was  pas- 
sionately fond.  Jewels!  I  had  bought  her  many,  and 
the  contents  of  her  casket  had  cost  me  a  small  fortune. 
But  she  always  craved  for  more  original  designs,  and 
she  would  coax  me  so  gently  that  I  would  manage 
somehow  to  secure  them  for  her. 

"  On  one  occasion,  however.  T  was  forced  to  refuse. 
In  the  window  of  a  jeweler,  a  chain,  made  of  gold  and 
ornamented  with  a  valuable  diamond  pendant,  had  at- 
tracted her.  With  the  end  of  her  finger  she  pointed  it 
out  to  me.  '  I  want  that  chain,'  said  she.  I  made  her 
listen  to  reason.  My  stock  of  ready  money  was  already 
seriously  encroached  upon,  as  I  had  payments  to  make; 
it  was  more  convenient  to  await  a  more  favorable  op- 
portunity. 

"'But  then,'  she  said,  'the  chain  will  be  sold.' 

"I  held  out  strongly.     She  looked  crossly  at  me. 

"That  evening,  she  whispered  in  my  ear:  'It  was 
only  a  craving;  the  desire  is  already  gone!'  She  inti- 
mated to  me  the  cause  of  her  erratic  impulse,  and  the 
thought  of  her  being  satisfied  without  it  filled 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


November  23,  1903. 


a  great  joy.  My  first  impulse  was  to  rush  to  the 
jeweler's  and  bring  her  the  coveted  chain.  Then  I 
reflected  that  the  money  would  be  needed  in  the  house; 
and,  moreover,  she  had  just  confessed  that  she  was  no 
longer  anxious  for  the  chain. 

"  The  same  night,  Jeanne  suddenly  became  very  ill. 
I  hastily  summoned  a  physician.  In  the  delirium  of 
her  agony,  Jeanne  often  repeated  these  words :  '  The 
chain,  the  chain  !' 

"  I  bitterly  reproached  myself  for  not  having  yielded 
to  her  last  desire. 

"  The  next  day,  I  placed  in  her  hands  the  gold  chain, 
and  then  passed  it  around  her  neck.  Her  fingers 
touched  it,  she  clasped  it  to  her,  it  seemed  to  me  she 
smiled. 

"  '  You  will  recover,'  I  murmured  to  her.  But  she 
could  no  longer  hear  me — she  had  just  expired,  the 
pendant  flashing  on  her  bosom. 

"  It  is  useless  for  me  to  tell  you  of  my  despair.  I 
wanted  Jeanne  interred  with  the  chain,  the  last  orna- 
ment I  was  able  to  give  her.  Her  body,  which  was 
placed  in  a  silk-lined  coffin,  was  deposited  provisionally 
in  a  local  cemetery  until  it  could  be  transported  to  its 
definite  resting  place  in  my  native  city  of  Bordeaux, 
where  I  had  purchased  a  vault  and  a  monument  to  per- 
petuate my  beloved  one's  memory. 

"  Months  passed  by.  I  spent  my  days  in  Jeanne's 
room,  surrounded  by  her  souvenirs,  conversing  with  her 
shadow.  Sometimes  I  would  open  the  jewel-casket. 
Like  so  many  loving  glances,  the  precious  stones 
seemed  to  regard  me  from  their  varying  angles.  One 
day.  it  happened  that  a  hidden  spring  gave  way  under 
the  involuntary  pressure  of  my  finger.  In  a  little  secret 
drawer  a  bundle  of  papers  was  hidden  away.  I  drew 
them  out  to  the  light  of  day — a  strange  collection  of 
letters  and  telegrams.  The  writing  was  in  many  dif- 
ferent hands ;  there  were  no  signatures,  not  even  an 
initial.  But  the  text  was  uniform.  There  were  dec- 
larations of  love,  notes  to  arrange  secret  meetings,  and 
offers  of  money  or  presents.  And  then  I  realized  that 
Jeanne,  the  candid,  the  innocent,  Jeanne,  had  betrayed 
me  odiously,  in  the  most  repugnant  fashion. 

"  I  remember  that  I  cried  all  night.  I  trembled  with 
fury  and  hate.  I  wanted  to  kill,  but  whom?  I  damned 
destiny  and  my  own  helplessness.  Then  I  burned  all 
those  anonymous  papers.  I  sold  the  jewels,  left  the 
apartment  where  I  had  lived  with  Jeanne,  and  allowed 
my  atrocious  grief  to  wear  off  in  blunt  silence,  in  for- 
getfulness.     Yes,  I  believed  I  could  forget. 

"  But.  some  months  later,  I  was  advised  by  the  au- 
thorities that  the  temporary  concession  permitting  my 
wife's  body  to  rest  in  the  local  cemetery  had  ceased. 
My  directions  for  the  transfer  of  the  body  of  Jeanne. 
I  was  told,  were  awaited.  I  was  to  be  present  at  the 
removal  of  the  body  so  that  I  might  identify  it. 

"  When  the  coffin  was  opened.  I  averted  my  eyes.. 
'  Lies  and  decay,'  I  said  to  myself.  '  Jeanne  was  but  a 
lie,  and  now  I  do  not  wish  to  see  what  has  become 
of  her  flesh.'  But  in  spite  of  me,  my  eyes  filled  with 
tears,  and  involuntarily  some  feeling  of  sweet  dizziness 
attracted  me  toward  the  open  grave. 

"  A  sudden  cry  frightened  me.  '  Horrible  !  Hor- 
rible !'  remarked  one  of  the  assistants. 

"  In  my  turn  I  leaned  over  the  coffin.  And  then  I 
saw.  .  .  .  Oh  !  the  abominable  vision.  ...  I  looked 
fixedly,  as  if  I  discerned  nothing.  An  instant  later  I 
fell  upon  my  knees,  sobbing:  '  The  strumpet,  she  meted 
nut  her  own  justice  !' 

"  Then  I  lost  consciousness.  When  I  awoke  I  found 
myself  in  a  hospital  ward. 

"  What  had  I  seen?  Why,  the  golden  chain  was  en- 
twined in  the  clenched  hands  of  Jeanne:  her  extended 
arms  had  tightened  with  all  their  force;  the  pendant 
was  incrusted  in  the  vertebra  of  the  neck.  Jeanne  had 
been  buried  alive.  She  had  strangled  herself  with  the 
coveted  chain,  my  supreme  gift.  .  .  . 

"  Are  you  convinced  now?"  asked  Roger  Valtet,  as 
he  noted  the  effect  of  his  story  on  his  various  listeners. 
"  Did  not  destiny  avenge  me  well?  Too  well,  I  some- 
times think.  T  would  have  been  less  cruel,  for  I  have 
long  since  pardoned  her.  And  if  I  have  harmed  any 
one,  T  pray  God  that  he  may  be  indulgent.  .  .  ." — 
Adapted  from  the  French  of  Robert  Schcffcr  bv 
Herbert  Peters. 

*  m  m 

The  largest  class  that  ever  entered  the  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis  is  just  beginning  its  first  vear's 
work.  There  are  three  hundred  and  twenty  "  middies." 
ranging  in  age  from  fifteen  to  twenty  years.  All  but 
"He  are  from  the  United  States,  as  bounded  by  its  his- 
toric  limits;  one  is  a  native  Hawaiian.  The  non- 
contiguous territories  of  Porto  Rico  and  the  Philip- 
pines have  no  representation.  There  are  no  negroes  in 
the  class.  Two  colored  applicants  attempted  the  ex- 
amination,  but  failed  to  attain  the  required  grade.  The 
last  negro  who  succeeded  in  passing  the  entrance  tests 
was  taken  from  bed  in  the  night  and  deposited  on  a  red 
iron  buoy  in  the  bay,  where  he  remained  until  morning. 
I'll.'  I'nll., wing  day  he  took  the  hint  and  resigned. 
^  ■  ^ 

A  justice  in  Tcrre  Haute.  Ind..  fined  a  farmer  re- 
cently for  gathering  corn  on  Sunday.  The  farmer 
pleaded  that  he  gathered  the  corn  to  prevent  his  horses 
from  going  hungry,  as  he  feared  prosecution  on  the 
charge  of  cruelty  ro  animals.  But  this  "necessity" 
plea  mailed  him  nothing. 

^  •  ♦- 

'IV    .isands    of   bicyc!   5    are    being   sold    this    season 
'h   tile  Southern   '!ates,  where  the  bicycle  craze 
ick  the  negroes. 


THE    PASTORAL    THANKSGIVING. 


From  the  Annals  of  Alta  California. 


With  the  rule  of  the  United  States,  the  American 
holidays  entered  California  and  immediately  banished 
the  old  Spanish  fiestas  from  the  calendar.  It  is  true 
that  the  date  of  the  Nativity  was  still  commemorated, 
proving  that  the  conquerors  were  not  infidels,  but  the 
new  celebration  was  a  colorless  substitute  for  the  old 
gala  season  of  pastorcs.  visits  from  the  Wise  Kings, and 
gatherings  of  kinsmen  from  far  and  wide.  The  Fourth 
of  July  insured  the  outburst  of  patriotism  that  used  to 
effervesce  in  the  Mexican  celebration  of  September. 
Washington's  Birthday  came  in  lieu  of  the  numerous 
saints'  fetes  strung  along  the  chaplet  of  the  year.  And 
Thanksgiving  corresponded  to  what  had  been  Saint 
Francis's  day  in  the  pastoral  California  almanac. 

The  other  introduced  holidays  fitted  better  into  the 
new  environment  than  did  Thanksgiving.  This  New 
England  importation  bore  all  the  signs  of  its  northern 
birth,  and  failed  to  harmonize  with  the  climatic  condi- 
tions of  the  new  acquisition.  The  Thanksgiving  of  our 
Puritan  forefathers,  in  real  life  as  well  as  in  story  and 
in  song,  followed  immediately  the  harvesting,  and 
heralded  the  advance  of  a  blasting  winter.  The  end  of 
November  in  California  usually  sees  the  hills  arousing 
from  the  brown  study  of  summer,  and  phrasing  their 
reveries  in  green  blades  and  early  blossoms.  Here,  the 
date  of  the  national  Thanksgiving  falls  Within  our 
period  of  fresh  germination,  when  agricultural  centres 
are  hoping  for  the  new  season  rather  than  offering 
gratitude  for  the  old. 

But  under  the  Spanish  California  regime,  it  was  dif- 
ferent. Having  three  hundred  and  sixty-five  saints'  days 
fromiwhich  tochoose  a  Thanksgiving  fete, they  settled  on 
an  appropriate  time,  a  season  when  Nature  had  yielded 
her  fruits  and  was  resting  until  the  seductive  rains 
should  stimulate  her  again.  That  the  seasonable  time 
fell  in  October  must  have  been  a  great  gratification  to 
the  Franciscans.  What  date  could  be  more  fitting  for  a 
Californian  Thanksgiving  than  October  4th.  the  feast 
day  of  the  founder  of  their  order,  the  great  Francis  of 
Assisi,  whose  instructions  had  guided  their  footsteps 
to  the  Western  native!  His  day  was  celebrated  at  the 
missions  with  more  joy  and  ceremony  than  was  any 
other  feast  between  the  Assumption  of  the  Virgin  on 
August  15th  and  Christmas  itself.  The  rancheros  came 
from  any  distance  to  participate  in  the  fete  at  the  near- 
est mission,  and  they  found  it  convenient  at  this  season 
of  the  year  to  bring  in  their  offerings  to  the  church  as 
a  tangible  evidence  of  their  thanksgiving  for  what  the 
good  God  had  sent  them. 

The  Californians  were  always  zealous  supporters  of 
the  Church,  if  allowed  to  give  in  their  own  way;  but 
they  always  rebelled  against  the  legal  imposition  of 
tithes,  which,  up.  to  1833,  were  demanded  of  every 
ranchero  who  had  been  in  the  country  five  years.  On 
October  27th  of  that  year,  the  Mexican  congress  de- 
creed that,  throughout  the  republic,  there  was  no  further 
civil  obligation  to  pay  ecclesiastical  tithes,  and  every 
citizen  was  at  full  liberty  to  do  what  his  conscience 
dictated  in  the  matter.  This  law  abolished  the  office 
of  civil  collector  of  tithes,  and  afterward  it  was  almost 
impossible  to  gather  any  in  California.  Some  parishes 
let  out  the  collection  to  the  lowest  bidder,  who  worked 
on  a  commission  varying  from  five  to  twenty  per  cent., 
according  to  the  season.  No  sciior  of  anv  dignity  would 
deign  to  bid  for  the  office,  as  few  Spanish  Californians 
could  bear  to  be  in  disfavor  with  their  neighbors,  and 
almost  every  one  disapproved  of  tithes. 

When  the  first  bishop  came  to  the  State,  he  found  it 
impossible  to  carry  out  his  plans  for  promoting  the 
religious  welfare  for  lack  of  funds.  His  promised 
salary  did  not  materialize  from  the  Mexican  congress, 
and  neither  could  he  obtain  California's  just  proportion 
of  the  Pius  Fund.  Finally,  he  wrote  to  Governor 
Micheltorena  to  learn  if  it  were  possible  to  collect 
tithes.  His  excellency  was  a  late  arrival  from  Mexico, 
and  his  answer,  dated  March  1,  1843,  revealed  his  igno- 
rance of  conditions  in  the  country.  "This  government, 
which  has  always  gloried  in  being  Catholic.  Apostolic, 
and  Roman,  and  which  takes  pride  in  protesting  in  the 
face  of  the  universe  that  it  will  remain  so,  has  learned 
with  the  greatest  displeasure  that  sordid  avarice  pre- 
tends to  cloak  its  ambitious  views  with  reference  to  the 
payment  of  tithes  under  the  pretext  of  being  liable  to 
pay  them  double — to  the  Holy  Mother  Church  and  to 
the  civil  authority.  It  is  a  sacred  duty  to  exercise  the 
first  obligation  of  the  departmental  executive  by  assur- 
ing all  citizens,  and  your  most  illustrious  lordship,  that 
this  government,  confiding  altogether  in  divine  Provi- 
dence, will  need  no  more  than  its  own  revenues  and 
resources  for  its  necessities;  and  that,  while  he  has 
no  right  to  lend  his  civil  authority,  and  will  in  no  way 
meddle  in  the  collection  or  payment  of  tithes,  a  matter 
left  entirely  to  religion  and  to  individual  conscience, 
yet  he  will  feel  the  most  grateful  satisfaction  if  citi- 
zens of  the  department  will  fulfill  in  this  respect  the 
first  of  their  duties  toward  divine  worship  and  its  min- 
isters." 

In  spite  of  this  suggestion,  the  citizens  declined  to 
pay  tithes.  But  while  thev  stood  firm  against  a  legal 
tax,  they  vied  with  each  other  in  their  generositv  to  the 
Church,  often  giving  five  times  as  much  as  the  diesmo 
would  have  amounted  to.  Their  harvest  gifts  gave  a  pic- 
turesque setting  to  the  feast  of  Saint  Francis  of  Assisi. 
It  was  probably  their  zeal  on  this  occasion  that  made 
good  old  Bishop  Diego  proclaim,  on  January  4,   1843. 


that,  while  Nucstra  Senora  la  Virgen  del  Refugio  was 
the  chief  patroness  of  the  diocese,  Saint  Francis  of  As- 
sisi and  Saint  Francis  de  Sales  were  co-patrons.  He  bade 
"all  the  inhabitants  rejoice,"  and  hold  a  great  feast 
on  the  first  Sunday  after  the  receipt  of  the  proclamation. 
Amid  salvos  of  cannons  and  chimes  of  bells,  the  solemn 
ceremony  of  swearing  allegiance  to  these  patrons  took 
place  in  every  church,  and  "  all  the  inhabitants  "  re- 
joiced that  one  of  their  patrons  was  he  whose  day  they 
had  celebrated  as  their  Thanksgiving  for  over  two 
generations. 

We  have  a  description  of  a  Saint  Francis  of  Assisi 
celebration  at  the  Mission  Santa  Clara  in  the  'forties, 
which  pictures  fairly  the  festival  throughout  the  State. 
Early  in  the  morning  a  procession  started  from  each 
rancho,  and  descended  the  hillsides  or  threaded  the  val- 
ley toward  the  mission.  A  picturesque  pageant  it  was ! 
First  pranced  the  gayly  caparisoned  horses,  restless  a.t 
being  held  down  to  the  pace  of  the  vehicles  that  fol- 
lowed. Most  frequently  the  riders  were  the  sciiors,  re- 
splendent in  silver-embroidered  jackets,  gay-hued 
sashes,  and  imported  sombreros;  but  occasionally  a 
sefwrita  rode,  either  guiding  her  own  steed  or  balancing 
herself  behind  her  father  or  lover.  Her  dress  was  most 
often  white,  with  a  black  lace  mantilla  draped  over  the 
dark  head,  just  disclosing  the  coquettish  eyes. 

The  carretas  followed,  enroofed  and  garlanded  with 
greens.  They  were  the  carriages  of  the  country,  huge, 
crude  affairs,  with  solid  slices  of  trees  for  wheels,  and 
wool-covered  sheepskins  for  seats.  They  were  drawn 
by  oxen  that  trudged  along  munching  the  wreaths  that 
encircled  their  necks,  and  utterly  disregarding  the 
Indian  boys  who  ran  at  their  sides  and  tried  with 
halloos  and  flourish  of  whips  to  quicken  their  gait.  In 
the  foremost  carretas  sat  the  older  women  and  the  chil- 
dren. In  the  last  ones  were  piled  high  corn,  melons, 
apples,  potatoes,  frijoles,  grapes,  and  whatever  else  the 
rancho  had  produced  in  the  year,  all  artistically  massed 
amid  branches  and  sprays  of  green.  The  prize  pro- 
ducts were  placed  in  prominent  view,  and  these  pro- 
cessions on  Saint  Francis's  morning  may  well  be  con- 
sidered the  precursors  of  the  agricultural  tairs  of  to- 
day. 

After  the  carretas,  plodded  along  the  mass  of  the  In- 
dian servants.  They  were  consciously  proud  of  the 
new  clothes  which  had  been  given  them  that  morning, 
and  which  must  last  them  until  Easter  dawn  brought  a 
fresh  supply. 

As  the  different  groups  met  on  the  Alameda,  a  merry 
fusillade  of  greetings  were  exchanged.  Here,  they  over- 
took the  citizens  of  the  Pueblo  de  San  Jose,  who  had  the 
latest  news  of  the  territory.  Then,  as  the  riders  broke 
from  their  own  group  and  rode  up  and  down  the  ad- 
vancing line,  gossip  tripped  from  tongue  to  tongue;  but 
above  all  hubbub  of  voices  pealed  the  bells  of  the 
church,   welcoming  its  children  to  its   threshold. 

Once  at  the  church,  and  the  animals  cared  for,  the 
whole  assemblage  entered  and  knelt  or  stood  during  the 
long  high  mass.  There  were  no  seats  in  the  churches 
of  California  at  that  date,  and  no  physical  ease  made 
the  worshiper  forgetful. 

After  mass,  a  procession  was  formed.  Two  acolytes 
led,  bearing  a  statue  of  Saint  Francis ;  then  came  the 
priests  and  the  Indian  attendants  carrying  holy  water; 
the  native  choir  followed,  singing  a  song  of  gratitude 
to  the  "  Seraphic  Father  " ;  and  last  the  congregation 
filed  two  by  two.  From  the  church  they  stepped,  and 
wound  in  and  out  among  the  laden  carretas,  the  priest 
blessing  each  they  passed.  When  the  benediction  of  the 
church  had  been  bestowed  on  every  load,  the  congrega- 
tion kneeled  on  the  ground,  while  the  priest  offered  to 
Saint  Francis  a  prayer  of  thanksgiving  for  his  watch 
over  the  past  harvest  and  a  petition  that  he  send  early 
and  abundant  rains  for  the  next  season.  None  present 
doubted  the  personal  interest  of  the  saint,  for  each  of 
them  knew  that  rain  always  fell  between  a  fortnight 
before  and  a  fortnight  after  Saint  Francis's  fete.  Some- 
times, it  is  true,  only  a  few  drops  reached  the  earth, 
but  this  was  sufficient  assurance  that  their  Father  would 
secure  abundance  in  his  own  time. 

After  the  statue  was  again  deposited  in  the  church, 
the  congregation  collected  in  groups  around  the  car- 
retas. As  the  Indians  unloaded  the  products  and  car- 
ried them  to  the  store-house  of  the  church,  livelv  com- 
ments were  made  upon  them.  "  Volga  mi  Dios!  What 
a  large  melon  !  Senor  Sufiol  must  use  a  bellows  to  blow 
it  up."  "  And  such  grapes  !  Those  of  Castile  were 
vinegar  by  them!"  Amid  the  vivacious  chaffing,  some 
lessons  in  agriculture  were  learned  bv  the  rancheros, 
and  new  produce  found  its  way  to  different  sections 
of  the  valley. 

When  the  last  load  was  deposited,  at  least  one  servant 
was  sent  home  to  each  rancho  to  begin  plowing  that  verv 
day.  Tt  was  necessary  to  turn  a  few  clods  of  dry  earth 
iust  to  assure  Saint  Francis  that  they  were  in  earnest 
in  their  petition  for  rain.  So  throughout  Alta  Cali- 
fornia some  ground  of  each  rancho  was  opened  to  the 
weather  on  October  4th. 

The  rest  of  the  assemblage  rode  over  to  San  Jose  for 
the  secular  portion  of  the  feast.  After  a  hearty  dinner. 
they  danced  in  the  afternoon.  Again  in  the  evening 
thev  danced;  and  some  vears  thev  still  danced  for  two 
or  three  davs  and  nights  after  the  fete  day.  Those  were 
the  childhood  davs  of  California,  when  no  question  was 
serious  enough  to  destroy  the  people's  aptitude  fo 
ure.     And  what  dav  should  thev  more  rejoice  1 

the  feast  of  Saint  Francis?    With  one  harves  ly 

garnered   and   another   bargained   for,   they  1  od 

excuse  to  be  merry  on  this,  their  chosen  Th-  ing 

Day.  Katherine  C  .  .R, 


November  23,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Dr.  Jordan  to  Young  Men. 
As   a   text   for  his   "  Call   of  the  Twentieth 
Century,"  Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan  might  fitly 
have  taken  the  words  of  Adam  to  Orlando — 

"  For  in  my  youth  I  never  did  apply 
Hot  and  rebellious  liquors  to  my  blood. 
Nor  did  not  with  unbashful   forehead  woo 
The  means  of  weakness  and  debility; 
Therefore   my   age   is   as   a   lusty   winter. 
Frosty,    but    kindly." 
But  "  The  Call  of  the  Twentieth  Century  " 
not  only  exhorts  the  youth  of  to-day  to  follow 
such    a   course    as    shall   lead   to    an    old    age, 
"  frosty,   but   kindly,"   but   such   also   as   shall 
enable  him  to  bequeath  to  the  next  generation 
a  clear  mind,  a  strong  body,   taintless  blood. 
It   is   an    appeal    for   purity    on    high    ground, 
Strenuous,     complex,      and      democratic,     Dr. 
Jordan  declares  the  Twentieth  Century  will  be 
above  all  others.     Such  times  demand  strong 
men.     "  If  it  were  ever  my  fortune,"  he  con- 
tinues, "  in  speaking  to  young  men  to  become 
eloquent,   with   the  only   real   eloquence   there 
is,  the  plain  speaking  of  a  living  truth,  this  I 
would    say : 

"Your  first  duty  in  life  is  towards  your  after- 
self.  So  live  that  your  afterself — the  man  you 
ought  to  be — may  in  his  time  be  possible  and 
actual.  Far  away  in  the  'twenties,  the 
'thirties,  of  the  Twentieth  Century,  he  is 
awaiting  his  turn.  His  body,  his  brain,  his 
soul,  are  in  your  boyish  hands.  He  can  not 
help  himself.  What  will  you  leave  for  him  ? 
Will  it  be  a  brain  unspoiled  by  lust  or  dissi- 
pation, a  mind  trained  to  think  and  act,  a 
nervous  system  true  as  a  dial  in  its  response 
to  the  truth  about  you?  Will  you.  boy  of  the 
Twentieth  Centuiv.  let  him  come  as  a  man 
among  men  in  his  time,  or  will  you  throw 
away  his  inheritance  before  he  has  had  the 
chance  to  touch  it?  Will  you  let  him  come, 
taking  your  olace.  gaining  through  your  ex- 
periences, hallowed  through  your  joys,  build- 
ing on  them  his  own.  or  will  vou  fling  his 
hope  away,  decreeing,  wantonlike,  that  the 
man  you  might  have  been  shall  never  be?" 

This  brief  but  powerful  essay  is  destined 
to  a  wide  circulation,  in  anticipation  of  which 
its  publishers  have  printed  it  with  especial 
care,  and  given  it  an  appropriate  binding. 

Published  by  the  American  Unitarian  Asso- 
ciation, Boston  ;  So  cents  net. 


Every-Day  Life  in  Chicago. 
In  these  days  of  multitudinous  books,  the 
reviewer  is  disposed  to  think  that  a  novel  has 
marked  merit  if  it  '  remain  vividly  in  his 
recollection  for  a  year.  In  other  words,  if. 
when  a  book  is  overlaid  by  about  forty-nine 
historical  novels,  thirty-seven  problem  stories, 
eighty-six  society  skits,  scores  of  works  on 
economics,  history,  religion,  philosophy, 
science,  criticism,  it  still  retain  its  individu- 
ality, and  is  not  merged  in  the  mass,  it  is, 
in  our  opinion,  irrefragable  evidence  that  it 
has  elements  of  strength. 

Accordingly,  when  we  take  up  George 
Ade's  book,  "  In  Babel,"  and  find  that  the 
therein  contained  short  stories  Cwhich  ap- 
peared originally  in  the  Chicago  Record ) , 
after  a  lapse  of  years  still  are  vividly  re- 
membered, we  are  prepared  dogmatically  to 
assert  that  the  stories  are  good.  True, 
they  exhibit  no  great  powers  of  imagination. 
The  human  passions  here  portrayed  are  not 
of  the  intense,  soul-stirring  kind.  Tragedy, 
with  her  solemn  mien,  here  seldom  stalks 
abroad.  Social  heights  are  seldom  scaled, 
and  those  sordid  depths  of  urban  life  which 
are  the  favorite  themes  of  many  young  writers 
are  dealt  with  not  at  all.  These  are  only 
uncommon  stories  of  common  people's  com- 
mon lives  in  commonplace  Chicago.  But  they 
are  drawn  to  the  life.  Nice  girls  who  make 
their  own  clothes,  their  nice  young  men  who 
get  seventy-five  dollars  a  month  and  try  to 
be  sporty,  your  left-hand  neighbor  Jones 
who  has  a  piano  and  a  daughter,  your  right- 
hand  neighbor  Smith  supposed  to  have  a 
pull  in  politics,  the  corner  grocer,  the  stern 
landlady,  and  the  jocular  boarder,  the  man 
with  a  slight  stoop  and  six  children,  families 
where  they  play  croquet,  the  book-agent,  and 
the  life-insurance  man — all  these  and  more 
are  present  in  the  flesh.  And  of  course  the 
stories,  since  they  are  by  George  Ade,  are 
humorous. 

Published  by  McClure,  Phillips  &  Co.,  New 
York:   $1.50. 

Sidelights  on  South  American  Revolutions. 

Two  longish  short,  or  shortish  long,  stories 
constitute  the  contents  of  a  book  by  Alice 
Duer  Miller,  entitled  "  Calderon's  Prisoner." 
In  both  of  them  the  writer  has  placed  the  pre- 
liminary action  in  the  United  States,  and 
shifted  the  later  scenes  to  Central  American 
soil,  showing  a  knowledge  of  social  and  po- 
litical conditions  in  this  southerly  tail  of  our 
continent  which  argues  a  period  of  previous 
residence  there. 

The  interest  of  the  stories,  which  are 
clever    in    themselves,    is    considerately    en- 


hanced by  the  evident  familiarity  of  the 
author  with  comparatively  unknown  ground, 
while  action,  plot,  and  dialogue  are  all 
lively,    original,    and    stimulating. 

"  Calderon's  Prisoner,"  the  story  of  a  young 
American  beauty  and  heiress  who  becomes, 
without  her  knowledge,  tangled  up  in  a  con- 
spiracy against  the  government,  and  who, 
imprisoned  for  unconsciously  bearing  infor- 
mation to  the  enemy,  vainly  pits  ner  wit  and 
resourcefulness  against  the  Europeanized 
commander-in-chief  of  the  little  army  of  the 
little  republic  in  which  she  is  staying. 

The  petted  beauty,  with  her  American 
audacity  and  independence,  is  scandalized  by 
discovering  that  beauty  and  fascination  are 
for  a  while  impotent  against  the  restraints 
imposed  by  statecraft  and  military  discipline. 
Romacne,  however,  finally  emerges  unharmed 
from  temporary  subjugation,  and  the  result 
is   an   international   marriage. 

"  Cyril  Vane's  Wife,"  which  treats  of  a 
passing  phase  of  marital  unhappiness,  is 
considerably  shorter  than  its  predecessor,  but 
it,  too.  is  a  capital  story,  and  told  so  well 
that  the  reader,  who  has  in  the  first  place 
foreseen  certain  desired  contingencies,  forgets 
them  in  the  interest  that  bears  him  along, 
finally  experiencing  the  pleasure  of  the  un- 
expected. 

The  writer  has  a  facile  pen,  and  a  pleasing 
ability  for  avoiding  the  stereotyped. 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York;  $1.50. 


MUSICAL     NOTES. 


Jean  de  Reszke's  Successor. 
Enrico  Caruso,  the  most  famous  Italian 
tenor  in  Europe — who  is  expected  to  be  one  of 
the  sensational  features  of  Heinrich  Conrad's 
first  season  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House 
— arrived  in  New  York  from  Italy  last  week. 
He  is  to  appear  in  the  opening  performance. 
"  Rigoletto."  singing  the  part  of  the  duke. 
Caruso  was  born  in  Naples  in  1873,  and  be- 
gan to  sing  early  in  life.  At  his  first  engage- 
ment he  sang  so  badly  that  his  manager  wanted 
to  whip  him.  and  the  town  folk  gathered  out- 
side the  little  theatre  to  hiss  him  out  of  town. 
But  after  he  had  gone  the  new  tenor  was  so 
much  worse  than  he  that  they  sent  for  him 
again.  In  1886,  in  Naples,  he  appeared  in 
"  Traviata  "  for  the  first  time  with  great  popu- 
lar success,  and  in  1898  he  won  a 
secure  place  at  the  Lyric,  in  Milan. 
Since  then  he  has  sung  in  St.  Peters- 
burg. Vienna.  Monte  Carlo.  South  America, 
and  last  season  at  Covent  Garden, 
where  he  made  a  tremendous  sensation.  He 
has  sung  "  Lohengrin  "  in  Italian,  but  this  is 
the  only  German  opera  on  his  list  of  forty. 
Caruso  has  been  decorated  by  the  Italian, 
Austrian,  and  Portugal  governments,  the  lat- 
ter a  distinction  held  only  by  two  others, 
Manchinelli  and  Sarah  Bernhardt.  His  rep- 
ertoire includes  "  Tosca,"  "  Faust,"  "  Fedora," 
"  Adriana."  "  Aida,"  "  Lucrezie  Borgia," 
"  Manon,"  "  Iris,"  "  Mefistofele,"  "  Boheme," 
*:  Elisir  d'Amore,"  and  many  others.  He  will 
in  1904  create  at  Monte  Carlo  the  tenor  part 
in  Puccini's  "  Madame  Butterfly." 

Return  of  Ellery's  Italian  Band. 
Five  new  soloists  have  arrived  to  join  the 
Ellery  Royal  Italian  Band,  which  will  play 
another  season  of  ten  concerts  at  the  AI- 
hambra  Theatre,  commencing  Sunday  night, 
December  6th.  Matinees  will  be  given  on 
Wednesday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday,  and  a 
special  professional  matinee  will  be  given  on 
Friday  afternoon,  when  the  members  of  all 
the  theatre  companies  in  town  at  that  time 
will  be  the  guests  of  Managers  Ellery  and  Will 
Greenbaum.  There  will  be  special  Wagner, 
French,  Italian,  and  American  nights,  and  Sat- 
urday night,  December  12th,  will  be  a  popular 
"  rag-time  "  smoker  on  the  style  of  the  London 
smoker  concerts. 

That  the  American  public  is  as  anxious  to 
hear  Adelina  Parti  to-day  at  sixty  as  it 
was  twenty  years  ago,  when  she  was  in  her 
prime,  is  evident  from  the  statement  of  her 
manager.  Robert  Grau,  who  claims  that  last 
week  at  her  opening  concert  in  Philadelphia, 
Patti  received  $367  more  than  she  had  ever 
received  for  any  appearance.  At  Buenos 
Ayres,  some  twelve  years  ago.  she  received 
$6,000,  the  highest  sum  up  to  that  time,  ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Grau;  but  in  Philadelphia  she 
received  $8,100  out  of  the  receipts.  Mr. 
Grau  declares  this  is  the  highest  sum  ever 
paid  to  one  artist  for  a  single  performance. 
Patti  is  to  appear  in  San  Francisco  in  Janu- 
ary. 

Clara  Bloodgood,  who  abandoned  New 
York  society  for  the  stage  about  four  years 
ago,  is  to  be  seen  here  next  month  in  another 
Clyde  Fitch  play,  "  The  Girl  With  the  Green 
Eyes." 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


Dr.  J.  W.  Swan,  the  inventor  of  the  incan- 
descent electric  light  a  generation  ago,  has  just 
passed  his  seventy-fifth  birthday. 

The  Rev.  David  Hogan,  of  Vernon  County. 
Mo.,  has  performed,  according  to  his  record, 
one  thousand  and  seven  marriage  ceremonies 
during  his  long  ministry  of  sixty-eight  years. 

The  selection  of  Senator  Gorman  to  ac- 
company Senator  Hoar  to  the  White  House 
and  inform  the  President  of  the  assembling 
of  the  Senate  raised  a  laugh,  because  of  the 
somewhat  drastic  criticisms  of  the  President 
in  which  the  Maryland  senator  indulged  in 
the  recent  campaign. 

The  Duchess  de  la  Rochefoucauld,  who  was 
Mattie  Mitchell,  daughter  of  United  States 
Senator  Mitchell,  of  Oregon,  is  reported  to  be 
seriously  ill  in  Paris.  The  duchess  has  no 
town  house,  but  spends  most  of  her  time  in  the 
Chateau  de  Monmirail,  near  Paris.  Her  illness 
is  said  to  be  the  result  of  complications  from 
an  operation  for  appendicitis  in  1902. 

A  gift  of  fifty  thousand  dollars  was  unani- 
mously voted  in  the  Cuban  senate  and  house 
of  representatives  recently  to  General  Maximo 
Gomez,  in  recognition  of  his  services  as  head 
of  the  revolutionary  army.  In  the  house  only 
one  representative  objected  to  the  grant,  but 
afterward  voted  in  the  affirmative.  Of  late 
General  Gomez  has  been  in  poor  health. 

Charles  H.  Taylor,  proprietor  of  the  Boston 
Globe,  has  been  celebrating  the  thirtieth  anni- 
versary of  his  control  by  printing  a  week  of 
"  jubilee  numbers  "  epitomizing  New  England 
history  for  the  last  quarter- century'-  The  daily 
circulation  of  the  Globe  during  the  past  thirty 
years  has  advanced  from  5,000  copies  to  195,- 
000,  while  the  Sunday  edition  is  credited  with 
an  issue  of  297,000  copies. 

Col  A.  K.  McClure,  who  won  fame  as  the 
editor  of  the  defunct  Philadelphia  Times,  has 
been  chosen  by  the  supreme  court  justices  of 
Pennsylvania  as  prothonotary  of  the  supreme 
court  for  the  eastern  district  of  that  State. 
His  fees,  it  is  said,  will  amount  to  between 
$12,000  and  $15,000  a  year.  Col  McClure. 
who  will  be  seventy-six  years  old  in 
January,  is  reported  to  have  lost  $120,000  on 
the  decline  of  Lake  Superior  stock  a  few 
months  ago. 

Edmond  Rostand  is  reported  to  be  at  work 
in  his  Pyrenean  country  place,  at  Combs,  on 
a  new  play  in  verse,  which  the  elder  Coquelin 
will  produce  in  February  next  at  the  Gaite 
Theatre,  in  Paris,  which  he  will  lease  for  the 
purpose.  The  actor  went  some  time  ago  to 
Combs  to  see  the  poet,  who  showed  him  five 
plots  of  dramas,  out  of  which  Coquelin  made 
his  choice.  Two  other  new  plays  by  M.  Ros- 
tand will  also  be  brought  out  before  long. 
"  La  Maison  des  Amants,"  at  the  Comedie 
Frangaise.  and  "Jeanne  d'Arc."  at  Mme.  Sa- 
rah Bernhardt's  theatre. 

News  comes  from  Norway  that  Fridtjof  Nan- 
sen's  days  of  Arctic  exploration  are  at  an  end ; 
that  he  has  no  intention  of  making  another  voy- 
age into  the  ice  regions.  He  is  among  the  few 
favored  ones  who  have  been  made  rich  by  the 
world's  interest  in  their  great  geographical 
achievements.  Nansen  can  live  very  hand- 
somely on  the  interest  of  the  money  he  accu- 
mulated within  four  years  after  he  returned 
home  from  his  wonderful  journey.  He  is  said 
to  have  made  almost  as  much  money  as  Stan- 
ley did  from  his  books  and  lectures.  Probably 
the  highest  price  ever  received  for  writing  a 
telegraphic  dispatch  was  that  paid  to  Nansen 
by  a  London  newspaper  for  sixteen  thousand 
words,  in  which  he  summarized,  after  landinc 
in  Norway,  the  wonderful  work  of  his  expedi- 
tion.    He  received  one  dollar  a  word. 

Some  months  ago  the  yellow  journals  pub- 
lished a  series  of  sensational  letters  from 
Spain,  which  were  widely  quoted  throughout 
the  United  States.  They  pretended  to  give  ac- 
counts of  the  habits  of  King  Alfonso,  and  went 
considerably  into  detail,  but  everybody  with 
whom  William  E.  Curtis,  who  is  now  visiting 
Spain,  has  spoken,  both  natives  and  for- 
eigners, declare  that  they  were  wicked  libels, 
particularly  in  representing  that  Alfonso  had 
already  plunged  into  a  career  of  dissipation, 
and  had  shown  shocking  irreverence  for  sacred 
things  and  disrespect  for  his  mother.  The 
young  king  is  said  to  have  inherited  from  her 
profound  religious  convictions.  At  the  age  of 
fourteen  he  was  confirmed  and  partook  of  his 
first  communion  at  the  shrine  of  the  Virgin  of 
Atocha,  which  he  believes  preserved  his  life 
when  he  had  been  given  up  by  the  doctors 
several  years  ago,  and  every  Saturday  he  goes 
to  that  church  to  offer  a  prayer  of  gratitude. 
Furthermore,  his  life  is  such  that  he  could 
not  possibly  indulge  in  dissipation,  even  if  he 
desired  to  do  so.     His  tutors  never  leave  him, 


and  his  affection  for  his  mother  has  never 
waned.  He  is  described  as  good  looking,  but 
very  slender  and  over-tall  for  his  age,  being 
nearly  six  feet  in  height.  The  resemblance 
to  his  mother  is  quite  marked,  particularly 
his  delicate  skin,  his  light  hair,  and  fair 
complexion. 

With  200,000  bushels  of  high-grade  wheat  in 
his  granaries,  A.  J.  Rice,  of  Atchison  County, 
Kan.,  may  be  called  the  wheat  king  of  the 
West.  He  is  the  owner  of  114  quarter  sections 
of  land,  scattered  over  three  counties  in  West- 
ern Kansas.  Rice  went  to  Kansas  thirty-five 
years  ago  with  a  bad  case  of  consumption  and 
a  little  money.  He  hailed  from  New  York, 
where  the  eight  other  members  of  his  family 
had  died  from  pulmonary  troubles.  He  started 
in  a  modest  way,  accumulated  some  money  and 
invested  it  in  land.  To-day  he  owns  20,000 
acres,  8,000  of  which  were  sown  to  wheat  last 
fall.  Rice's  hobby  is  the  planting  of  orchards. 
He  makes  it  a  rule  to  plant  fruit-trees  on  every 
farm  he  buys,  and  no  man  becomes  a  tenant 
of  his  unless  he  can  prove  his  ability  to  take 
care  of  the  orchard.  Another  of  his  hobbies 
is  the  rearing  of  turkeys.  He  has  a  theory  that 
they  clean  the  grasshoppers  off  tne  crops.  He 
keeps  great  droves  of  turkeys  on  his  farm, 
and  if  his  new  tenant  has  none  he  gives  him  a 
flock  to  raise  on  shares.  Rice  is  a  bachelor, 
and  is  estimated  to  be  worth  half  a  million. 
His  income  is  almost  a  fifth  of  the  valuation 
put  upon  his  total  wealth. 


'TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN." 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 

San   Francisco    Bulletin  : 

"  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain  " — a  charming 
book — is  of  especial  interest  locally.  It  is 
written  by  Jerome  Hart,  of  the  Argonaut,  and 
it  has  been  printed  and  bound  here  in  a  very 
handsome  and  distinctive  fashion.  .  .  .  Mr. 
Hart  saw  all  sorts  of  things  which  escape  the 
eyes  of  other  travelers,  and  wrote  about  hack- 
neyed subjects  in  unhackneyed  fashion.  Even 
in  touching  upon  the  national  institution  of 
bull-fighting  he  is  able  to  provoke  a  new  com- 
prehension of  the  Spanish  point  of  view — for 
he  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  an  advertise- 
ment of  a  bull-fight  to  be  given  for  the  benefit 
of  the  "  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty 
to  Animals  " ! 

It  is  only  claimed  for  the  sketches  which 
Mr.  Hart  has  made  during  his  travels  that 
they  have  some  of  the  qualities  of  the  snap- 
shot photographs  which  accompany  them. 
"  For  the  snap-shots,"  we  are  assured,  "  are 
not  art,  and  the  pen-sketches  are  not  litera- 
ture, but  both  may  interest." 

Both  are  sure  to  do  that  and  more.  They 
are  amusing,  enlightening ;  more  instructive, 
indeed,  than  a  vast  store  of  cold  statistics 
and  accurate  descriptions.  The  author  gives 
the  keynote  of  it  all  in  his  preface,  and  he 
never  sings  out  of  tune.  .  .  . 

In  the  frequent  allusions  to  California 
which  he  has  made,  the  author  finds  many 
points  of  resemblance  between  the  land  he 
calls  "  home  "  and  the  Spanish  peninsula. 

The  letters,  as  originally  published,  have 
been  carefully  treasured  by  their  readers  in 
the  files  of  the  Argonaut.  Their  advent  in 
more  convenient  form  will  be  widely  wel- 
comed, and  the  addition  of  many  illustrations 
and  a  good  map  will  be  appreciated.  Alto- 
gether, the  publication  of  "  Two  Argonauts  in 
Spain  "  is  an  occasion  in  which  many  Cali- 
fornians  will  take  a  proprietary  pride,  both 
because  of  the  excellence  of  the  text  and  on 
account  of  the  quality  and  style  of  the  print- 
ing, paper,  and  binding. 

Mary  Calkins  Brooke. 


Riverside  Enterprise: 
Jerome  Hart  publishes  the  sanest  and  brain- 
iest weekly  paper  in  the  West,  which  every- 
body knows;  and  he  writes  readable  books, 
which  is  not  so  well  known.  His  latest  publi- 
cation is  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain."  .  .  .  let- 
ters which  have  appeared  from  time  to  time  in 
the  Argonaut.  As  the  title  suggests,  the  book  is 
a  story  of  travels  in  Spain.  Mr.  Hart  is  not 
the  first  man  to  write  such  a  book,  but  he 
tells  the  story  differently,  and  his  writings 
are  worth  while.  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain  " 
is  the  unaffected  relation  of  experiences  in 
Spain  by  a  clever  Yankee  who  traveled 
through  the  country  with  his  eyes  open.  That 
ought  to  be  enough  to  say  of  the  book  for 
those  who  have  faith  in  the  wide-awake 
Yankee  who  is  clever. 


A  low-priced  dictionary,  based  on  the  orig- 
inal Webster's,  but  sprinkled  with  numerous 
effective  plates  and  other  extraneous  matter, 
is  published  under  the  title,  "  Webster's  New- 
Standard  Dictionary  of  the  English  Lan- 
guage," by  Laird  &  Lee,  Chicago. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Vivacious  Glimpse  of  Simla  Society. 

Another  book  on  Indian  society;  a  social 
field  that,  first  opened  out  by  Kipling,  no 
longer  has  its  more  distinctive  phases  ob- 
scured from  public  interest.  This  last,  "  The 
Pool  in  the  Desert,"  consists  of  four  distinct 
stories  by  Sara  Jeannette  Duncan,  or.  as  she 
always  announces  herself  in  parenthesis,  Mrs. 
Everard  Cotes. 

Mrs.  Cotes  is  an  exceedingly  keen  observer 
of  human  nature  off  guard,  and  her  stones. 
in  consequence,  have  much  greater  value  than 
the  regular  summer  novel  twaddle.  She  gets 
beneath  the  surface  of  things,  sometimes  a 
trifle  too  deep  for  the  lover  of  the  obvious, 
and  is  rarely  given  to  wasting  her  ammuni- 
tion on  stereotyped  situations. 

"  The  Pool  in  the  Desert  "  is  the  story  of  a 
state  of  things  much  commoner  in  life  than  in 
fiction  ;  that  of  the  mutual  love  of  a  young 
man  and  a  mature  woman,  whom  sardonic 
fate  has  seemed  to  have  made  for  each  other. 
""  A  Mother  in  India "  is  characterized  by 
an  incisive  satire  that  will  either  bewilder  or 
escape  the  sentimental  or  matter-of-fact 
reader  as  completely  as  the  English-bred 
daughter  of  the  mother  fails  to  penetrate  be- 
neath the  husk  of  decorous  affection  tendered 
her  by  her  incomprehensible  parent. 

In  "  An  Impossible  Ideal,"  an  American 
artist,  studying  with  single-minded  enthusi- 
asm the  wonderful  color-effects  of  India,  is 
taken  up  by  Indian  society.  Result :  genius 
and  intrinsic  charm  unequipped  with  social 
conventions  give  way  before  the  iron-bound 
restrictions  of  official  and  military  society, 
and  the  artist  flees  the  place,  hugging  his  free- 
dom. "  The  Hesitation  of  Miss  Andersen  "  is 
a  story  with  a  bigamous  character  ;  a  fascinat- 
ing English  adventuress  who  thinks  to  evade 
discovery  of  her  crime  through  the  lack  of 
social  communication  between  New  York  and 
India. 

In  all  of  these  stories  Mrs.  Cotes  affords 
us  vivid  glimpses  into  the  social  life  of 
British  India :  that  life,  the  superficial  friv- 
olity of  which  but  thinly  conceals  the  under- 
lying tragedy  of  separated  lives.  It  is  a  life 
of  curious  contrasts,  with  its  mingling  of  idle, 
irresponsible  pleasure-seeking  and  steady,  even 
heroic,  endurance ;  one  which  always  shows 
up  picturesquely  in  fiction,  and  Mrs.  Cotes 
seems  peculiarly  fitted,  both  by  experience  and 
temperament,  to  understand  and  translate 
its  subtle  meaning  to   Occidental   readers. 

Published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.,  New  York; 
$1.50. 


Thrums,  Drumtochty,  Etc. 

Another  one  of  the  series  of  books  of  travel 
by  Clifton  Johnson  has  been  published,  this 
last,  as  shown  by  its  title,  "  The  Land  of 
Heather,"  being  a  record  of  jaunts  through 
Scotland.  Mr.  Johnson's  books,  while  not 
of  marked  literary  quality,  have  the  advant- 
age of  containing  a  different  point  of  view 
from  that  usually  presented,  the  author  still 
adhering  to  his  plan  of  living  in  the  cottage 
of  the  humbler  folk  of  rural  villages,  thus 
availing  himself  of  improved  opportunities 
for  getting  well  acquainted  with  the  peasant 
character. 

During  the  trip  described,  Mr.  Johnson 
chose  the  village  of  Drumtochty  for  a 
prolonged  residence,  evidently  regarding  it  as 
a  typical  Scottish  village,  and  recognizing 
ii>  superior  claim  on  public  interest  from  its 
widespread  celebrity  gained  through  Barrie's 
books.  Thrums,  also,  under  its  actual  name 
of  Kirremuir,  receives  a  proportionately  large 
share  of  the  author's  attention. 

Mr.  Johnson  pronounces  the  Scottish  char- 
acter to  be  hardy,  thrifty,  brave,  and  warm- 
hearted, but  he  considers  drink  the  national 
curse.  He  gives  a  very  plain  idea  of  the 
appalling  accommodation  of  the  villages  re- 
sulting from  the  indifference  of  landlords, 
causing  the  reader  to  realize  fully  the  im- 
provements in  material  comforts  that  induce 
constant  emigration  from  the  Old  World. 
The  book  is  Copiously  illustrated  from  many 
■.■.ill   rli..  .  i!    |.|i-.i..!j.r;i|ili>    t."iken    by    the    author. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  $j.oo. 

Dr.  Mitchell's  "Little  Stories." 
The  Centurj  Company  has  gathered  to- 
■ili't.  in  a  small  but  choice  volume,  a  group 
of  thirteen  tales,  by  S.  Weir  Mitchell,  under 
the  appropriate  title  "Little  Stories,"  the 
shortest  being  under  two  hundred  words  in 
length. 

The  subj  cts  are  various,  but  characteristic 
of  the  interests  of  the  author,  whose  instinct 
1      always    thai    of    the    ideal    physician :    to 

•  hell's  profession   i^   'o  heal  bodies, 
is     the     force    of     natural     instinct 


that,  in  his  stories,  he  infallibly  aims  to  heal 
souls.  One  can  detect  under  the  flowers  of 
Eastern  fable  and  the  stereotyped  garb  of 
Occidental  fiction,  the  robe  of  the  philosopher 
who  is  calmly  making  his  point.  Each  story 
is  as  a  barbless  arrow  shot  in  air,  and  the 
reader,  whose  own  personal  experiences  have 
found  no  parallel  within  the  covers  of  the 
little  volume,  still  feels  that  somehow,  some- 
where, another's  feverish  pulse  shall  feel  the 
calm  and  healing  touch  of  the  wise  physician 
of  souls. 

Published  by  the  Century  Company,  New 
York;   $1.00. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Colonel  George  B.  McClellan,  the  newly 
elected  mayor  of  New  York  City,  has  written 
a  book  entitled  "  The  Oligarchy  of  Venice," 
which  is  to  be  published  next  spring  by 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

A  new  volume  of  reminiscences  of  Ruskin 
is  to  be  published  soon  by  Thomas  Y.  Crowell 
&  Co.  It  is  called  "  Ruskin  Relics,"  and  is 
written  by  W.  G.  Collingwood,  Ruskin's  bio- 
grapher and  friend.  Some  drawings  by  Rus- 
kin are  presented,  and  a  number  of  anecdotes. 

Thomas  Hardy  has  written  a  dramatic  poem 
in  six  acts.  It  will  be  published  by  the  Mac- 
millan  Company  in  London. 

F.  Marion  Crawford's  new  novel,  "  The 
Heart  of  Rome,"  Gilbert  Parker's  "  Old 
Quebec :  The  Fortress  of  New  France,"  and 
John  Morley's  "  Life  of  Gladstone  "  went  into 
their  second  editions  on  the  day  of  publication. 
So  also  did  three  other  books  published  by 
the  Macmillan  Company — "  The  Magic  For- 
est," by  Stewart  Edward  White;  "The  Golden 
Chain."  by  Gwendolen  Overton ;  and  "  Aunt 
Jimmy's  Will,"  the  new  story  for  girls  by 
Mrs.  Mabel  Osgood  Wright,  the  author  of 
"  Dogtown." 

Martinique  and  Venezuela  play  an  important 
part  in  F.  Frankfort  Moore's  new  novel, 
"  Shipmates  in  Sunshine,"  which  will  soon 
be  published  by  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  In  the 
course  of  his  story,  Mr.  Moore  embodies  his 
observations  on  a  recent  cruise  in  the  Carib- 
bean. The  author  visited  President  Castro 
at  Caracas. 

John  Lane,  the  publisher  of  Aubrey 
Beardsley's  work,  has  decided  to  collect  such 
remains,  literary  and  artistic,  as  have  not 
hitherto  appeared  among  the  artist's  published 
works,  and  will  bring  them  out  in  a  volume 
to  be  called  "  Under  the  Hill  and  Other 
Essays  in  Prose  and  Verse,  Including  His 
Table  Talk."  A  photogravure  portrait  is  in- 
cluded as  a  frontispiece,  and  drawings  by 
Beardsley  appear  in  illustration.  Mr.  Lane 
has  collected  a  few  personal  reminiscences 
of  the  author  in  the  form  of  a  publisher's 
note. 

In  addition  to  his  new  romance,  "  The 
Food  of  the  Gods,"  H.  G.  Wells  has  written 
a  volume  entitled  "  Twelve  Stories  and  a 
Dream,"  which  will  soon  be  published.  The 
volume  opens  with  a  tale  of  an  inventor  who 
commits  suicide  rather  than  risk  his  life  in  the 
flying  machine  he  has  invented,  so  leaving  the 
triumph  to  his  less  nervous  assistant. 

The  late  Julian  Ralph's  autobiography, 
"  The  Making  of  a  Journalist,"  has  just  been 
published.  In  this  book,  Mr.  Ralph  does  not 
attempt  to  teach  his  readers  how  to  become 
newspaper  men,  who  are  born  not  made,  but 
the  recital  of  his  own  remarkable  career  re- 
flects the  variety  of  experiences  which  goes 
to  the  making  of  one.  It  is  suggested  that 
this  book  is  unconsciously  an  argument 
against  the  possibility  of  training  journalists 
in  colleges. 

"  Personalia."  by  Sigma,  announced  for 
early  publication,  is  described  as  a  volume 
of  intimate  anecdotes  dealing  with  nearly  all 
the  famous  English  artists,  literary  men, 
lawyers,  church  dignitaries,  and  other  public 
figures  of  the  last  forty  years.  The  anony- 
mous author  is  said  to  be  "  too  well  known  for 
his  real  name  to  be  given." 

For  many  years  the  British  and  Foreign 
Bible  Society  has  offered  a  reward  of  a  guinea 
to  any  one  discovering  a  misprint  in  a  copy 
of  the  Bible  bearing  its  imprint.  The  other 
day.  the  guinea  was  claimed  and  received  by 
a  Mr.  Sherlock,  who  discovered  that  the 
passage  in  St.  Mnrk.  "  Mis  disciples  follow 
Him,"    was    misprinted    "followed     Him." 

Mis.  1 1  ugh  Eraser,  sister  of  F.  Marion 
Crawford,  and  widow  of  a  former  British 
minister  to  Japan,  has  just  published  a  novel 
which  promises  to  have  great  success.  It  is 
based  upon  one  of  the  most  interesting  inci- 
dents in  Japanese  history,  and  is  called  "  The 
Stolen  Emperor,"  Mrs.  Eraser  was  born  in 
New   York,  but  has  spent  most  of  her  life  in 


England  and  Japan,  where  her  husband  was 
connected  with  the  British  legation  for  twelve 
years. 


THANKSGIVING    DAY    VERSE. 


Thanks  for  All. 
One  shall  give  thanks  for  rain 

That  falls  upon   his  field; 
And  one,  for  cloudless  suns 

That  ripe  the  vineyard's  yield. 

One  shall  give  thanks  for  winds 
That  lift  the  drooping  sail; 

And  one,  for  windless  calm, 
Cot-sheltered  in  the  vale. 

One  shall  give  thanks  for  Life 
From  danger  plucked  afresh; 

And  one,  that  Death  draws  near. 
To  cut  Life's  tangled  mesh. 

But  who  gives  thanks  for  calm, 

If  sea-forth   he  is  bound? 
For    rain — on    harvest    sheaf  ? 

For  sun — on  parched  ground? 

But,  since  through  loss,  through  gain. 
There  holds  some  Purpose  vast, 

Let    me    give    thanks    for    all — 
For  Life — for  Death  at  last! 

— Edith   Thomas  in   the  Bazar. 


Home  at  Thanksgiving. 
Dreams  of  the  soldier,  statesman, 

Of  scholar,  and  lord  of  trade, 
Grew    in   the   quiet  shelter 

Of  that  fair  elm-tree  shade; 
And  while  our  thanks  may  gather, 

Joy-misted    in    our   eyes, 
For    this    returning    hand-clasp 

And  these  November  skies. 
Somehow  the  calm  abundance 

Of    our    ripe-fruited    days 
Calls  not  so  much  for  offering 

Of  song-voiced  prayer  and  praise 
As  those  far  hours  together 

When  raptly  you  and  I 
Saw,    through    our   young   ambitions, 

The  pride  of  earth  go  by. 
-Lewis  Worthington  Smith  in  Everybody's  Maga- 
zine. 


Grace  for  Thankseiving. 

For    all    Thy  care   and    loving  kindness.    Lord, 

Accept  our  thanks  who  gather  'round  this  board 

We  see  Thy  goodness  in  each  perfect  thing: 

The  sky,  the  sea,  the  bird  on  happy  wing, 

And  every  blade  that  makes  the  velvet  sward. 

With  hearts  and  lips  in  worshipful  accord 
Do  we  recount  the   blessings  on    us   poured, 
And  lift  our  voices  hymns  of  praise  to  sing, 
For  all  Thy  care. 

Help  us  to  help  the  needy  and  ignored; 
Teach   us  mere  riches  no  true  peace  afford, 
And  grant  to  each  that  he  may  often  bring 
Some  consciousness  to  Thee  of  laboring 
To  prove,  O  Guardian !   a  worthy  ward. 
For  all  Thy  care. 
— Edward   W.  Barnard  in  the  Criterion. 


The  Century  Magazine  for  1904. 
A  number  of  promising  contributions  are 
announced  for  the  Century  Magazine  of  1904. 
The  most  unique,  probably,  will  be  the  quasi- 
historical  essay  entitled  "  The  Youth  of 
Washington :  Told  in  the  Form  of  an  Auto- 
biography," by  S.  Weir  Mitchell.  Dr.  Mitchell 
imagines  Washington  sitting  down  at  Mount 
Vernon  in  his  old  age  and  recording,  solely 
for  his  own  eyes,  the  story  of  his  "  youthful 
life  and  the  influences  that  affected  it  for 
good  or  ill."  It  is  said  that  in  making  this 
whimsical  combination  of  fiction  and  fact  the 
author  has  so  fully  entered  into  Washington's 
habit  of  mind  "  that  it  will  be  impossible 
for  the  reader  to  separate  in  the  text  the 
passages  taken  out  of  his  actual  writings 
from  those  which  Dr.  Mitchell  imagines  him 
to  write."  The  January  Century  will  .contain 
the  first  chapter  of  Jack  London's  new  novel 
of  adventure,  "  The  Sea  Wolf."  Other  an- 
nouncements are  Mrs.  Maud  Wilder  Good- 
win's novel  entitled  "  The  Four  Roads  to 
Paradise,"  new  Thackeray  letters  to  the  Bax- 
ter family,  and  further  installments  of  Andrew 
D.  White's  reminiscences.  John  Burroughs 
is  preparing  to  annihilate  certain  contemporary 
nature  writers  with  "Current  Misconceptions 
of  Natural  History,"  while  Ernest  Thompson 
Seton  will  be  writing  blithely  in  the  same 
magazine  on  "  Fable  and  Woodmyth,"  and 
illustrating  his  own  articles. 

In  the  preface  to  his  new  comedy,  Bernard 
Shaw  says:  "I  assure  you  that  I  sometimes 
dislike  myself  so  much  that  when  some  irrit 
able  reviewer  chances  at  that  moment  to  pitch 
into  me  with  zest.  I  feel  unspeakably  relieved 
and  obliged.  But  1  never  dream  of  reforming, 
knowing  I  bat  1  must  take  myself  as  I  am. 
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munity of  material  between  us;  we  are  both 
critics  of  life  as  well  as  of  art;  and  you  have 
perhaps  said  to  yourself  when  I  have  passed 
your  windows,  '  There,  but  for  the  grace  of 
God,  go  I.'  An  awful  and  chastening  re- 
flection." 


November  23,  1903. 

If  youroculist  orders  glasses, 
bring  the  prescription  to  us. 
We'll    make    a    pair    that 
he'll  approve  of. 


Hirsch  &  Kaiser, 

7  Kearny  St.  Opticians. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Virg.inibus  Puerisque. 

Sixteen  juveniles !  For  boys  and  girls  of  all 
sizes  and  ages,  temperaments  and  tastes — 
rich  and  poor,  good  and  bad,  pretty  and 
contrariwise ! 

Let  us  begin,  as  is  proper,  with  those  for  the 
youngest.  Here  is  "Bilberry  Wood"  (Bren- 
tano's.  New  York),  a  regular,  old-fashioned 
picture-book,  telling  in  verse  and  by  pictures 
— colored  pictures — the  story  of  how  Jack, 
with  the  fairies'  help,  got  two  basketsful  of 
bilberries  for  his  mother's  birthday — a  very 
nice,  moral  story. 

Such,  also  (save  for  the  impertinent  pref- 
ace), is  "The  Child's  Arabian  Nights " 
tBrentano's,  New  York)  "written  down"  to 
the  littlest's  understanding  by  W.  H.  Robin- 
son, who  likewise  furnishes  the  pictures,  in 
fierce  primary  colors,  of  still  fiercer  sea  mon- 
sters and  hairy  genii. 

"The  Children's  Annual  for  1904"  (Mc- 
Clure,  Phillips  &  Co.,  New  York),  we  observe, 
is  edited  by  T.  W.  H.  Crosland,  the  be- 
whiskered,  excitable  author  of  "  The  Un- 
speakable Scot."  who  now  roars  as  gently  as 
any  sucking  dove  so  not  to  fright  the  children. 
The  "  Annual "  contains  a  hundred  or  so 
stories  and  verses  by  a  score  or  so  different 
writers,  and  a  quantity  of  pictures  (more 
vivid  yellows,  reds,  greens,  and  blues!)  that 
ought  to  please. 

"  More  Goops  and  How  Not  to  Be  Them  " 
(F.  A.  Stokes  Company,  New  York)  is  Gelett 
Burgess's  fall  contribution  to  children's — ah — 
literature.  It  is.  he  asserts,  "  a  manual  of 
manners  for  impolite  infants,  depicting  the 
characteristics  of  many  naughty  and  thought- 
less   children,    with    instructive    illustrations." 

This  is  a  fair  statement  of  the  case  and  like 
a  guide-book  "  we  pass  on  "  to  the  old,  fa- 
miliar "  Chatterbox,"  with  its  antediluvian 
wood-cuts  and  curious  stories  for  young  folks 
of  all  ages.  We  confess  it  seems  to  us  not 
quite  up  to  the  average  of  modern  juveniles. 

A  better  book  all  around  is  the  "  Outlook 
Fairy  Book"  (Outlook  Company,  New  York; 
$1.20),  containing  first-rate  translations  from 
the  German  of  Grimm,  Leander,  Grundtwig, 
Andersen,  etc.,  and  the  French  of  Mace  and 
Rosemont,  with  several  other  stories  from 
the  folklore  literature  of  various  peoples. 
There  are  artistic  drawings  in  black  and 
white  only  by  J.  Conacher,  and  the  book  is 
intended  for  older  children  than  those  books 
we  have  noticed  above — say  children  between 
eight  and  twelve. 

That  is  the  case,  also  with  Andrew  Lang's 
"The  Crimson  Fairy  Book"  (Longmans, 
Green  &  Co.,  New  York;  $1.60) — the  fifteenth 
in  an  admirable  annually  published  series,  the 
volumes  in  which  are  among  the  best  books 
of  folklore  stories  published.  No  man  knows 
the  world's  folklore  better  than  Lang,  and 
no  one  will  mistake  in  selecting  from  this 
series  for  a  .child's  delight.  In  the  preface 
of  this  volume  the  editor  says:  "Many  tales 
in  this  book  are  translated,  or  adapted,  from 
those  told  by  mothers  and  nurses  in  Hungary  ; 
others  are  familiar  to  Russian  nurseries ; 
the  Servians  are  responsible  for  some;  a 
rather  peculiarly  fanciful  set  of  stories  are 
adapted  from  the  Rumanians  ;  others  are  from 
Baltic  shores ;  others  from  sunny  Sicily ;  a 
few  from  Finland,  and  Iceland,  and  Japan, 
and  Tunis,  and  Portugal."  The  book  is  pro- 
fusely and  excellently  illustrated  by  H,  J. 
Ford  with  colored  plates  and  drawings. 

Another  selection  of  stories  all  about  deli- 
cate and  beautiful  fairies,  cruel  ogres,  horrid 
demons,  wicked  elves,  malicious  sorceresses, 
greedy  dwarfs,  ugly  gnomes,  and  malignant 
genii  has  been  prepared  by  Esther  Single- 
ton for  "The  Goldenrod  Fairy  Book"  (Dodd, 
Mead  &  Co.,  New  York;  $1.60).  It  is  a  book 
on  lines  very  similar  to  Lang's,  and  very  good. 
The  binding  is  handsome,  and  each  page  has 
a  marginal  design  in  colors. 

Still  another  volume  of  old  stories  told 
anew  is  Eva  March  Tappan's  "  Robin  Hood  : 
His  Book "  (Little,  Brown  &  Co.,  Boston ; 
$1.50).  She  has  simply  woven  together  all 
the  scattered  legends  about  the  famous  outlaw 
and  his  merry  men  of  Sherwood  forest,  mak- 
ing a  connected  narrative  in  lucid,  simple 
English,  touched  here  and  there  with  her  de- 
lightful humor.  Charlotte  Harding's  colored 
illustrations   are    delicately   pleasing. 

Five  modern  stories  for  boys  and  girls  in 
their  early  'teens  may  be  briefly  noticed. 
"  The  Adventures  of  Dorothy  "  (Outlook 
Company,  New  York ;  $1.00),  by  Jocelyn 
Lewis,  is  a  story  of  a  girl  who  has  a  good 
time  on  a  big  farm.  "  Raiding  With  Mor- 
gan "  ( A.  C.  McClurg  &  Co.,  Chicago ; 
$1.25)  is  a  stirring  story  of  wartime  for  boys. 
by  B.  A.  Dunn.  "  The  Green  Satin  Gown  " 
(Dana  Estes  &  Co.,  Boston;  75  cents),  by 
Laura  E.  Richards,  is  a  book  of  short  stories 


for  school-girls.  "  Five  Little  Peppers  at 
School  "  (Lothrop  Publishing  Company,  Bos- 
ton ;  $1.25)  is  the  eighth  volume  in  this  fa- 
mous series  of  "  Pepper  "  books  by  Margaret 
Sidney.  "  Circus  Day "  (Saalfield  Publishing 
Company,  New  York;  50  cents)  is  a  first-rate 
little  book  by  George  Ade.  Its  title  is  all- 
explanatory.      All    five    books    are    illustrated. 

"The  Magic  Forest"  (Macmillan  Company. 
New  York;  $1.50)  deserves  a  paragraph  all 
by  itself.  It  is  a  dry-land  "  Captains  Cour- 
ageous " — the  story  of  Jimmy,  nine  years  old. 
who  walks  off  a  Canadian  Pacific  car  in  his 
sleep,  in  the  dead  of  night,  while  the  train  is 
stopped  for  a  moment  on  a  slippery  grade. 
He  falls  in  with  Indian  hunters  bound  for  the 
Far  North.  They  take  him  along  in  their 
canoes.  For  five  months,  he  sees  no  white 
man.  He  lives  in  the  Magic  Forest  with  the 
dogs,  and  papooses,  and  squaws,  and  bucks. 
Then,  when  they  bring  the  pelts  down  again, 
they  also  bring  Jimmy  back  to  his  rejoicing 
parents.  The  book  is  the  story  of  what  Jimmy 
saw  and  did  in  his  five  months  in  fairy-land. 
It  is  a  charming  tale.  Stewart  Edward  White, 
whose  "  Blazed  Trail,"  "  Conjuror's  House," 
and  other  books  have  won  him  an  enviable 
reputation,  is  its  author.  There  are  many 
pictures. 

Last  of  the  sixteen  is  a  richly  bound,  hand- 
somely printed,  profusely  illustrated  work,  en- 
titled "  The  Hunting  of  the  Snark  and  Other 
Poems,"  by  Lewis  Carroll  (Harper  &  Broth- 
ers, New  Yurk ;  $3.00).  It  contains  all  Car- 
roll's verses  that  are  scattered  through  his 
prose  works.  The  pictures,  forty  in  number, 
are  by  Peter  Newell,  and  the  book  is  uniform 
with  "  Alice  In  Wonderland  "  and  "  Through 
the  Looking-Glass."  issued  by  the  same  firm 
last  year  and  year  before. 


AUTOMOBILE    NOTES    OF    INTEREST. 


A  Fashionable  Ladies'  Auto  Club. 
Inasmuch  as  they  are  barred  from  member- 
ship in  the  Automobile  Club  of  America,  a 
number  of  well-known  society  women  of  New 
York  are  organizing  an  auto  club  which  is  to 
be  to  this  country  what  the  Ladies'  Auto- 
mobile Club  of  London  is  to  the  great  me- 
tropolis of  the  British  Empire— a  club  that 
will  give  the  women  some  of  the  advantages 
their  husbands  enjoy,  and  at  least  bring  them 
together  in  a  social  way.  The  new  club  will 
in  nearly  every  way  be  very  similar  to  the 
London  organization,  which  is  now  at  the 
pinnacle  of  popularity  among  the  English- 
women. The  fact  is  that  among  the  leading 
spirits  in  the  Ladies'  Automobile  Club  of 
London  are  numbered  many  Americans,  and 
these  have  been  telling  their  American 
cousins  and  sisters  what  a  fine  thing  the  club 
was.  and  how  they  enjoyed  its  privileges 
while  they  were  abroad  this  last  season. 
Among  the  most  prominent  members  of  the 
foreign  organization  "  are  the  Duchess  of 
Marlborough,  Mrs.  Arthur  Paget.  L'ady  Scott- 
Montagu,  Lady  Jeune.  the  Countess  of  War- 
wick, the  Countess  of  Dudley,  Mrs.  Adair, 
Mrs.  S.  S.  Chauncey,  and  Lady  Algernon 
Gordon  Lennox.  The  American  women's  club 
will  be  principally  made  up  of  those  who  go 
back  and  forth  between  their  country  homes 
on  Long  Island,  at  Tuxedo,  and  in  West- 
chester County,  and  wish  to  have  a  place  to 
put  up  their  cars  and  have  a  bit  of  luncheon 
while  in  New  York.  Its  social  side  will  be 
the  most  prominent,  although  it  is  hoped 
that  it  will  be  possible  to  give  a  winter  series 
of  talks  on  automobile  topics  that  will  interest 
and  help  the  members. 

Barney  Oldfield  is  to-day  (Saturday)  racing 
in  Los  Angeles  in  the  two  famous  machines 
of  the  Winton  Motor  Carriage  Company 
which  he  exhibited  here.  Last  Sunday,  at  San 
Jose,  the  king  of  automobile  drivers,  with  his 
Bullet  No.  2,  made  a  mile  in  one  minute  and 
two-fifths  of  a  second  before  a  crowd  of  nearly 
two  thousand  people.  The  track  was  not  an 
Oldfield  track — wide  on  the  turns — and  this, 
with  the  poor  condition  of  the  track,  owing 
to  the  rains,  accounted  for  the  fact  that  the 
Winton  company's  great  racer  did  not  make 
better  time. 

One  enthusiastic  White  automobile  driver 
has  found  an  effective  way  of  evading  the 
park  ordinance  and  Presidio  regulations 
which  limit  the  speed  of  automobiles.  Instead 
of  racing  on  a  level  when  he  overtakes  a  rival 
car,  he  simply  saunters  along  at  a  respectful 
distance  until  a  favorable  hill  is  reached, 
when  he  opens  up  his  throttle  and  easily  dis- 
tances his  rival.  In  this  way  he  gets  just  as 
decisive  a  victory  as  if  he  had  passed  him  on 
the  level,  and  at  the  same  time  no  speed 
regulations  are  broken. 


Lord  Roberts,  the  British  commander-in- 
chief,  recently  inspected  the  British  Motor 
Volunteer  Corps  during ,  their  manoeuvres 
in  the  Western  part  of  England,  and 
was  greatly  impressed  with  the  practicability 
of  automohiles  as  auxiliaries  in  the  army. 
"  I  think  these  experiments  have  shown." 
he  said,  "  that  in  future  wars  motor-cars 
will  play  a  very  important  part.  We  could 
not  have  carried  out  the  manoeuvres  without 
their  help."  In  the  course  of  these  manoeuvres 
automobiles  were  employed  to  a  greater  ex- 
tent than  ever  before  in  the  English  army. 
Motor-cycles  also  figured  in  the  test,  and  gave 
an  excellent  account  of  themselves.  The  en- 
tire   division    of    power-driven    vehicles    was 


under  the  control  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Mark 
Mayhew,  one  of  the  most  ardent  advocates 
of  military  automobiling  in  all  Europe.  He 
declares  that  there  is  little  weight  to  the 
argument  against  the  military  automobile, 
which  is  based  on  the  fact  that  it  can  not  leap 
fences  and  make  short  cuts  across  fields, 
for  the  reason  that  its  superior  speed  enables 
it  to  go  around  a  rough  or  difficult  piece  of 
ground  almost,  if  not  quite,  as  quickly  as  a 
horse  can  travel  across  it.  In  the  recent 
manoeuvres  the  umpire  staff  covered  between 
sixty  and  one  hundred  and  twenty  miles  of 
country  daily,  with  only  slight  setbacks  and 
no  serious  accidents — something  which  would 
probably  have  been  impossible  had  the  staff 
been  mounted  on  horses. 


According  to  the  New  York  Times,  the  no- 
table success  which  has  been  achieved  by 
Great  Britain  in  her  experiments  with  self- 
propelled  vehicles  as  agents  in  war  has  been 
due  very  largely  to  that  country's  successive 
and  determined  efforts  to  secure  the  best 
product  of  this  sort  which  the  manufacturers 
were  able  to  turn  out.  The  war  office  from 
time  to  time  has  offered  substantial  induce- 
ments in  cash  prizes  for  automobiles  answer- 
ing certain  specific  requirements,  and  these 
o'ffers  have  elicited  a  generous  response  on 
the  part  of  the  manufacturers.  Great  Britain, 
however,  is  by  no  means  the  only  country 
wherein  activity  along  this  line  has  been  en- 
couraged. France  and  Germany  have  been 
conspicuous  for  their  success  in  procuring, 
by  methods  similar  to  those  of  Great  Britain, 
automobiles  for  use  as  couriers,  armed  scouts, 
purely  defensive  agencies,  and  also  for 
transporting  troops.  Moreover,  the  mili- 
tary chiefs  of  Russia  and  Austria  and  Italy 
have  been  thoroughly  awake  to  the  utilization 
of  these  modern  machines,  although  their 
experiments  have  been  less  extensive  than 
those  of  the  other  countries  named.  It  is 
regarded  as  significant  that  the  result  of 
nearly  all  of  the  experiments  in  question  has 
been  such  as  to  justify,  in  the  judgment  of 
those  conducting  them,  a  material  increase  in 
the  number  of  motor  vehicles  used  hereto- 
fore. The  German  army,  for  example,  has 
lately  added  twelve  automobiles  to  the  number 
previously  employed  by  it,  while  the  corre- 
sponding forces  of  France  and  Italy  are,  it  is 
said,  about  to  be  considerably  enlarged. 

The  National  Automobile  Company's  To- 
ledo Touring  Car — the  machine  that  made 
such  a  remarkable  showing  at  the  recent  meet 
at  Ingleside — left  for  the  south  last  Monday, 
and  will  not  again  return  to  San  Francisco,  as, 
after  the  Los  Angeles  race  meet  to-day  (Sat- 
urday), in  which  this  speedy  car  is  entered, 
the  motor  vehicle  passes  into  the  possession 
of  a  millionaire  in  the  southern  city.  Two 
particular  cars  are  being  watched  in  the  races 
— the  Toledo  and  Mercedes.  These  vehicles 
are  pitted  against  each  other  in  several  races, 
and  it  will  be  interesting  to  learn  what  kind 
of  a  showing  the  Toledo,  an  American  stock- 
made  touring  car.  which  sells  for  less  than 
$5,000.  can  make  when  competing  against 
the  Mercedes,  a  French  stock-made  touring 
car,  which  sells  for  $22,000. 

The  possibilities  of  the  automobile  are  re- 
markable, especially  if  the  machines  are  given 
the  proper  attention  and  driven  by  careful  per- 
sons. Dr.  E.  C.  Bangs,  of  San  Jose,  who  owns 
a  Stevens-Duryea,  informed  a  friend  last  Sun- 
day that  he  had  recently  made  a  very  success- 
ful trip  of  eighteen  hundred  miles  in  his  auto, 
adding:  "And  mind  you,  my  fare  bill  for  the 
entire  trip  was  only  ten  cents." 

The  National  Automobile  Company  will  re- 
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ing car,  which  will  be  delivered  to  P.  George 
Gow.  Judging  from  Eastern  reports,  the 
Knox  is  one  of  the  most  speedy  and  luxurious 
of  any  touring  car  produced  in  the  United 
States.  It  is  recognized  to  be  the  most 
powerful  car  made,  being  provided  with 
opposed  horizontal  engines.  It  goes  without 
saying  that  this  machine,  as  well  as  all  other 
Knoxes,  is  waterless. 


It  is  said  .  that  there  has  been  so  much 
argument  in  France,  especially  in  the  trade 
papers,  concerning  the  proper  distinction  of 
a  touring  car  as  differentiated  from  a  racine 
car,  that  there  is  a  strong  probability  that  the 
matter  will  be  taken  up  for  general  discussion 
by  the  Automobile  Club  of  France 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


November  23,  1903. 


There  never  yet  was  a  leader  in  any  special 
branch  of  art  that  failed  to  see  the  dust  of 
conflict  arise  from  the  crowds  that  surged  to 
gaze,  p.i=s  verdicts,  and  quarrel  over  his 
latest  achievement.  Arthur  Pinero's  worse 
enemy  can  not  call  him  a  weakling,  or  wave 
him  to  obscurity,  and  his  warmest  partisan 
can  not  aver  that  he  succeeds  in  touching 
the  springs  of  genuine  heart-wanning  emotion. 
He  is  too  provocative  of  thought,  too  uncon- 
ventional, and  too  unshrinking  in  his  view  of 
life  to  be  popular.  He  sees  the  tragedy  of 
things,  but  does  not  see  them  through  an 
idealizing  haze.  He  casts  no  concealing  veil 
over  certain  ugly  phases  of  human  nature  that 
people  resolutely  refuse  to  face. 

In  such  plays  as  "  The  Second  Mrs.  Tan- 
queray  "  and  "  Iris  "  the  spectator  is  apt  to 
resent  being  forced  to  the  edge  of  a  precipice 
and  compelled  to  gaze  upon  the  bones  of  hu- 
man derelicts  that  have  strayed  to  their  doom 
from  the  safe  paths  of  convention.  It  matters 
not  to  the  beholder  that  the  walls  of  the  abyss 
are  decked  with  the  finest  flowers  of  English 
rhetoric.  Mr.  Pinero's  plays  are  always  put 
together  with  the  craft  of  a  master.  But  there 
lies  the  terrible  revelation  below.  And  so  all 
the  Hue  fleur  of  English  aristocracy,  the  gar- 
niture of  wit.  and  the  upward  irresistible 
growth  of  sordid  truth  can  not  do  away  with 
the  shudder  of  repulsion  at  seeing  what  lies 
beneath  it  all. 

The  timid,  the  sentimental,  the  conventional. 
the  ease  loving,  the  romantic,  the  optimistic. 
and  the  poetic  turn  away  from  Pinero  at 
times  with  distaste.  He  offers  to  the  palate 
that  craves  refreshment  a  draught  so  pungently 
seasoned   as   to   reach   the  point   of  bitterness. 

It  is  only  in  his  lighter  moments  that  he 
has  pleased  the  many.  "  The  Amazons," 
"  Sweet  Lavender,"  "  The  Princess  and  the 
Butterfly"  offer  less  sombre  views  of  life  and 
human  destiny,  and  the  fine  qualities  which 
force  public  attention  to  his  more  powerful 
plays  in  these  win  spontaneous  pleasure  and 
approbation. 

The  truth  is  that  Pinero  has  commanding 
talent  without  genius.  There  is  no  grandeur 
in  his  view  of  life,  his  problem  plays  ap- 
proximating tragedy  stripped  bare  of  beauty. 
No  lovely  images  haunt  the  mind  after  see- 
ing Pinero  at  his  most  powerful,  but  the 
ugly  truth  of  what  he  tells  comes  to  the 
appalled  consciousness  like  the  taste  of  decay. 

It  can  not  be  consistently  said  that  he  is 
immoral,  for  the  figures  of  Paula  Tanqueray 
and  Iris  Bellamy  stands  forth  in  the  memory 
like  finger-posts  pointing  to  the  hideous  des- 
tiny that  awaits  the  woman  who  sins.  But  in 
"  Iris "  his  discourse  is  akin  to  that  of  the 
sensational  preacher,  who  first  allures  by  daz- 
zling images,  and  then  terrifies  and  repels 
by  the  sombre  and  startling  realism  with 
which    he    depicts   the   sinner's    Hades. 

Tn  writing  "  Iris."  however.  Mr.  Pinero  has 
not  set  out  tn  preach.  While  bis  conclusions 
or  morals  if  you  will,  are  nn  the  side  of  law 
and  order,  he  is  absorbed  mainly  in  portray- 
ing as  strikingly  as  possible  the  irresistible 
momentum  with  which,  given  certain  condi- 
tions, a  certain  type  of  human  character 
hastens  to  its  predestined  doom.  The  moral  is 
irreproachable,    but    the    atmosphere    through 

which  we  pass  to  grasp  it  is  noxious  and  sti- 
fling. "Iris"  adds  no  illumination  lo  the  torch 
Of  truth. 

The  play  docs  not  impress  one  as  the  spon- 
taneous output  of  a  genius  th.it  can  not  be 
denied  its  natural  expression ;  rather,  it  is 
.  i  deliberate  cultival  ion  of  a  noxious  plant . 
whose  Dazzling  bloom  and  rank  perfume  draw 
the  multitude  from  the  contemplation  of 
simpler    ami     healthier    growths.       Mr.     Pinero 

is  popularly  conceded  t"  be  the  leading 
English  dramatist.  His  plays  are  widely  read, 
witnessed,  and  dlSCUSSed.  He  is  no  producer 
of  mushroom  drama,  but  spends  a  year  or  more 
polishing  -''H'  1  perfecting  his  plays.  Tt  is 
patent,  therefore,  that  a  man  whose  work  is 
so  c  jfcrlj  Looked  for  is  desirous  that  the 
puM*     shall   find    in    his    plays   something   out 

e  ordinary.  To  itroducc  this  ex- 
nary  something  in  a  dramatic  literature 

\b  eagerly  brushing  the  down-  from  every 


situation  known  to  sentiment,  means  to  have 
recourse  to  the  ways  of  the  underworld.  For 
to  that  place  this  soft,  suave,  seductive  Iris 
belongs. 

Pinero's  latest  heroine  was  born  without 
principle.  Her  betrothal  of  herself  to  Mai- 
donado  made  that  clear  in  the  first  place.  Her 
prompt  rupture  of  her  troth  was  a  second 
proof,  and  her  surrender  of  herself  to  Laurence 
Trenwith  the  third.  Facilis  descensus  averno. 
especially  to  women  of  Iris  Bellamy's  type. 
Beginning  with  her  mechanical  use  of  Mal- 
donado's  check-book,  her  fall  was  sudden, 
swift,  and  terrible,  and  equally  inevitable. 
Thus  we  spend  an  evening  in  contemplating 
the  irresistibly  downward  trend  of  a  woman 
who  has  no  possibilities  of  redemption  within 
her,  save  such  as  may  be  afforded  by  good  luck 
and  a  destiny  devoid  of  hard  knocks. 

Mr.  Pinero's  characters,  as  usual,  figure 
in  the  upper  crust  of  English  society,  and  are 
lapped  in  luxury.  It  takes  players  of  refine- 
ment and  good  appearance  to  portray  such 
types,  and  the  "  Iris  "  troupe  is  well  selected. 

Virginia  Harned  we  have  seen  before.  She 
played  here  ten  or  twelve  years  ago  with  her 
husband,  Mr.  Sothern,  in  "  Captain  Letter- 
blair."  Upon  a  beauty  like  hers,  all  made 
up  of  soft,  seductive  curves,  and  delicate 
blonde  tints,  time  is  bound  to  leave  its  trace. 
and  her  facial  prettiness  is  somewhat  dimmed. 
But  her  figure  is  delicious,  her  blonde  hair 
abundant  and  beautiful,  and  except  in  the  first 
act.  during  which  her  manner  seemed  abrupt 
and  indifferent,  she  was  easily  the  woman  who 
charms — coaxing,  alluring,  and  bearing  about 
her  the  perfume   of  irresistible   fascination. 

In  the  first  act.  Iris  is  giving  a  dinner,  and 
is  in  full  dress,  with  a  tiara  and  dog  collar  of 
jewels,  and  a  gorgeouslv  appliqued  gown,  the 
skirt  of  which  is  drawn  back  in  such  a  way  as 
to  reveal  the  beautifully  modeled  proportions 
beneath.  Yet  the  effect  was  decidedly  unpleas- 
ing,  the  tightness  constraining  Miss  Harned 
to  a  gait  that  was  deprived  of  freedom  and 
grace. 

I  thought  the  actress  far  prettier  in  the  sec- 
ond act,  when  Iris  lies  like  a  kitten  on  her 
cushions,  basking  in  the  sunshine  that  shines 
on  her  fair  hair,  and  her  white  tapering  arms, 
and  kindles  sparkles  in  her  jeweled  rings 
and  the  necklace  that  glitters  against  the  lace 
of  her  dress.  This  was  the  sensuous  Iris  of 
which  Miss  Harned  gave  but  a  hint  in  the 
earlier  scenes.  As  the  play  goes  on  she  grows 
into  the  role,  becoming  more  and  more,  in 
the  spectator's  mind. the  Iris  that  Pinero  meant 
us  to  see — a  weak-fibred  woman,  lapped  in 
the  luxury  that  is  part  of  herself.  Pinero, 
with  his  customary  skill,  emphasizes  this  trait 
in  many  details,  which  show  her  wealth,  good 
taste,  elegant  hospitality,  bounteous  disposi- 
tion,  and   careless   prodigality   of  expenditure. 

The  character  of  Maldonado  is,  in  a  way, 
a  complement  to  that  of  Iris.  Such  men  and 
women  gravitate 'together  irresistibly.  Except 
for  a  superior  refinement  and  fastidiousness 
in  Iris,  which  made  her  cold  to  the  efflorescent 
Jew.  she  was  not  otherwise  above  him.  Such 
men  demand  such  women  to  satisfy  a  lust  for 
possession,  and  to  exhibit  their  superior 
beauties  in  a  setting  of  money.  Such  women 
accept  such  m  en  as  in  f atuated  purveyors  of 
the  luxury,  without  which  they  can  not 
exist. 

Mr.  Henry  Jewett  plays  the  part  of  Maldo- 
nado, especially  in  the  emotional  crisis  of  the 
last  two  acts,  with  a  complete  surrender  of 
himself  to  the  exigencies  of  the  role.  His 
ebullient  cordiality  toward  his  rival,  the  devil- 
may-care  demeanor  of  the  lover  in  secure  pos- 
session of  the  chattel  by  which  he  is  despised, 
the  craft  with  which  Maldonado  pierced  to- 
gether his  bits  of  evidence,  and  laid  his  plans 
to  spy,  and  finally  the  burst  of  ferocious  rage 
with  which  elemental  man  seizes  by  the  throat 
the  mistress  who  betrays — all  these  showed 
him  to  be  an  actor  of  parts.  As  for  the  final 
maniac  howl  with  which  Maldonado  sets 
about  "  breaking  up  housekeeping,"  as  the 
Londoners  put  it,  it  has  its  farcical  side.  It 
has    a    bacchanalian    sound,   and    is    almost   an 


anticlimax    after    the    terrible    stress    of    the 
scene  just  preceding  it. 

That,  indeed,  is  the  most  exciting  moment 
in  the  play,  and  looked  to  be  terribly  in 
earnest.  The  scene,  in  its  incipiency,  has  its 
parallel  in  "  Oliver  Twist,"  for  Bill  Sykes's 
brute  rage  and  lust  for  murder  is  precisely 
the  same  as  Maldonado's.  The  only  differ- 
ence is  in  the  station  of  the  people  concerned, 
and  in  the  real  superiority  of  Nancy  over  Iris, 
in  that  the  draggled  child  of  the  gutter  was 
capable  of  the  loyalty  to  love  that  was  be- 
yond Pinero's  heroine. 

Mr.  William  Courtenay,  who  plays  the  part 
of  Trenwith,  the  young  lover,  has  been  getting 
mixed  up  in  people's  minds  with  William 
Courtleigh,  an  actor  of  superior  ability,  who 
was  leading  man  on  the  last  trip  but  one  of 
the   Henry    Miller   company. 

Mr.  Courtenay  is  less  versatile,  but,  barring 
a  certain  immobility  of  feature,  he  makes  an 
excellent  Lawrence  Trenwith.  The  young 
man  has  a  good  manner,  a  satisfactory  draw- 
ing-room presence,  and  makes  love  as  if  he 
were  in  earnest ;  no  small  feat,  in  these  days 
of  repression   in  the   drama. 

Croker  Harrington  is  very  agreeably  played 
by  J.  Hartley  Manners,  and  Iris's  absconding 
lawyer  by  Stanley  Dark,  an  actor  whose  ease 
of  manner  and  delivery  fit  him  for  small 
society  roles.  He  will  be  remembered  by 
those  who  saw  "  Mrs.  Dane's  Defense "  as 
having  made  an  agreeable  impression  in  the 
part  of  the  young  attache  who  first  recognized 
Mrs.  Dane. 

All  these  actors,  with  the  exception  of 
Henry  Jewett.  have  fallen  into  Miss  Harned's 
way  of  speaking  with  extreme  rapidity.  It  is 
a  method  that  doubtless  commends  itself  to 
them  from  its  being  akin  to  nature,  but  the 
disadvantages  outweigh  the  advantages.  Miss 
Harned.  indeed,  articulates  with  such  speed 
that  many  of  Iris's  briefer  remarks  are  lost. 
There  is  no  carelessness  in  this  habit:  indeed, 
it  rather  suggests  frequent  practice  before 
the  mirror  a  la  Bernhardt.  But  it  is  one  that 
is  trying  to  all  auditors  save  those  in  the  ex- 
treme forward  rows.  Miss  Ethel  Winthrop. 
who  plays  the  part  of  Fanny  Sylvain,  the  de- 
voted friend,  has  swung  around  violently  to 
the  other  extreme,  and  is  so  extremely  delib- 
erate in  her  utterance  as  to  srive  an  effect  of 
nonderousness  to  a  character  that  is  meant 
to  be  very  snriErhtly.  Yet.  at  the  same  time. 
one  hails  with  relief  an  articulation  that  is. 
by  contrast  to  the  others,  reposefully  dis- 
tinct. 

There  is  quite  enough  talent  in  the  com- 
pany to  give  a  very  good  idea  of  the  kind  of 
people  that  revolved  around  Iris  ;  people  who. 
like  herself,  were  bred  to  luxury,  and  found 
the  zest  of  life  in  the  chatter  and  gossip  of 
their  world. 

They  are,  from  a  superficial  standpoint, 
entertaining  people,  saying  many  smart  things. 
but  failing  utterly  when  it  comes  to  facing 
the  serious  issues  of  life.  Iris,  in  the  midst 
of  shipwreck  and  tragedy,  is  a  bit  of  soft. 
sweet,  graceful  futility.  Aurea  gleefully  ac- 
cepts a  loan  from  an  impoverished  woman. 
Maldonado.  denied  of  his  heart's  desire,  just 
stops  short  of  murder.  Croker  Harrington's  fine 
loyalty  can  rise  to  no  greater  height  than  to 
suffer  him  to  be  used  as  go-between  for  a 
woman  who  is  true  to  no  one.  Laurence 
Trenwith  has  no  traits  beyond  the  conven- 
tional ones.  He  merely  stands  for  young  man- 
hood in  love.  Thus,  in  this  latest  play, 
Pinero,  the  master  craftsman  of  drama,  stops 
short  of  being  a  great  creator.  His  wizard's 
wand  has  still  failed  to  tap  the  living,  revivi- 
fying stream  of  ideal  emotion,  to  experience 
which  we  seek,  in  the  mimic  passions  of  the 
stage,  to  escape  from  the  trivialities  of  life. 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


Genuine   Works   of  Art. 

One  of  the  principal  attractions  of  the  city,  is  the 
Gump  collection  of  fine  oil  paintings,  embracing  a 
number  of  canvases  from  this  year's  Paris  Salon,  and 
from  all  the  different  art  centres  of  Europe,  also  a 
very  choice  selection  of  beautiful  water  colors.  S.  & 
G.  Gump  Co.,  113  Geary  Street. 


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Coast,  none  rank  higher  than  the 

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Monday,  November  23d,  second  and  last  week,   mat- 
inees Thanksgiving  Day  and  Saturday,  Charles 
Frohman  presents 
VIRGINIA      HARNED 
in  A.  W.  Pinero's  masterpiece. 

-:=  IRIS  -so 

The  most  talked-of  play  of  the  past  decade. 
November  30th— Way  Down  East. 

ALCAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone  «  Alcazar! 

Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr, 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.  Extra  mat- 
inee Thanksgiving  Dav.  Week  commencing;  Mon- 
day evening  next,  November  23d,  Sol  Smith  Russell's 
greatest  success. 

-A-   FOOXV.  REXjATION 

Evenings,  25c  to  75c.    Saturday  and  Sunday  Mati 
ne.es,  15c  to  50c. 


Monday,  November  30th— A  Royal  Prisoner. 


CENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week  starting  Monday  evening,  November  23d,  mat- 
inees Saturday  and  Sunday,  special  matinee  Thanks 
giving  Day,  the  melodramatic  comedy. 
MIDNIGHT    1IV    CHINATOWN 


Prices— Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  November  30th— The  Counterfeiters. 

QRAND   OPERA  HOUSE. 

Monday,    November  23d,   fourth  and  last  week,  mat- 
inees Wednesday  and  Saturday,  special  matinee 
Thanksgiving  Day,   Klaw   &  Erlanger's 
production  of  General  Wallace's 
-:-       33EKT     HTXH       -:- 
Dramatized  by  William   Young.     Music  bv  Edgar 
Stillman  Kellev.     Positively  last  performanceof  "Ben 
Hur"  Saturday  night,  November  28th. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee.  November  22d. 
Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Saturday,  and 
Sunday.  Annie  Abbott,  the  Litte  Georgia  Magnet; 
Armenis-Tito  Quartet;  Bryant  and  Saville;  Searle  and 
Violet  Allen  ;  the  Three  Zolars  ;  Serra  and  Bella-Rosa  . 
the  Brittons;  Orpheum  motion  pictures;  and  last  week 
of  Wright  Huntington  and  Company. 

Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  anc 
box  seats,  50c. 


A  conclusive  proof  is  tremendous  business.      That 
what  is  done  by 
-:-       RUBES     AND     ROSES       -:- 


Monday  night.  November  30th,  the  big  sensation, 
-:-  I-O-XJ  -=- 

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Popular  Sunday  Night  Psychological  Lectures.    SUN- 
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■'THOUGHT  TRANSFERENCE 
AND  TELEPATHY." 

ith  demonstrations  of  the 
power  of  the  Sub-conscious 
Mind. 

Tickets,  25c  and  50c.     Box- 
office  open  1  to  4,  Saturday. 

Sunday  eve,    November  2gth,    Dr.    Mclvor-Tyndall 
11  "The  Law  of  Harmony." 


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and  their  escorts  in  which  there  is  no  smoking.  First 
meeting  at  Oakland  Track  is  from  November  14th 
lo  December  12th.     At  Ingleside  from  December  14th. 

Returning— Trains  leave  the  track  at  4.15  and  4.45 
p.  M.,  and  immediately  after  the  last  race. 

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PERCY  W.  TREAT,  Secretary. 


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STAGE   GOSSIP. 


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Last  'Week  of  "Iris." 
Despite  the  fact  that  nearly  all  the 
critics  in  town  have  declared  Pinero's 
"'  Iris  "'  to  be  immoral,  shocking,  and  unfit  for 
decent  folks,  the  Columbia  has  had  good 
audiences  at  nearly  every  performance, 
and  the  demand  for  tickets  for  next 
week  promises  to  be  equally  as  large.  It  is  to 
be  regretted  that  Virginia  Harned's  two 
weeks  are  to  be  devoted  entirely  to  Pinero's 
play,  for  there  are  many  theatre-goers  who 
would  like  to  see  this  clever  actress  in  a  whole- 
some offering,  better  suited  to  her  personality. 
Had  her  husband's  comedy,  "  The  Light  that 
Lies  in  Women's  Eyes,"  proved  a  success  in 
Washington.  D.  C,  last  September,  it  would 
doubtless  have  been  given  here,  but,  accord- 
ing to  Acton  Davies.it  proved  a  most  extraord- 
inary concoction,  a  wildly  impossible  combina- 
tion of  Shakespeare  and  Laura  Jean  Libbey. 
with  the  scenes  laid  at  Stratford-on-Avon. 
Mr.  Davies  added:  "Little  Buttercup  herself 
could  not  ha\fe  mixed  things  up  more  effect- 
ually than  Mr.  Sothern  has  in  this  instance. 
The  only  wonder  is  how  any  sane  man  with 
the  acquaintance  of  life  and  the  knowledge  of 
the  stage  that  Mr.  Sothern  possesses  could 
ever  have  concocted  such  a  wildly  impossible 
piece  of  hodge-podge."  The  ever-popular 
pastoral  comedy.  "  Way  Down  East,"  will  fol- 
low "  Iris." 

The  Remarkable  Success  of  "Ben  Hur.'7 
"  Ben  Hur "  will  enter  on  its  fourth  and 
last  week  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Mon- 
day night,  and  if  the  present  rush  for  seats 
continues,  it  is  likely  that  the  engagement 
will  prove  a  greater  financial  success  than 
any  previous  production  in  San  Francisco.  At 
noon  on  Monday  and  about  four  o'clock  on 
Thursday  afternoon  the  writer  had  occasion  to 
visit  the  theatre,  and  on  each  occasion  the  line 
of  anxious  ticket  purchasers  extended  from 
the  box-office  nearly  to  Third  Street.  Ac- 
cording to  the  management-  there  has  been  a 
steady  stream  of  people  all  week  from  nine 
in  the  morning  until  nine  o'clock  in  the  even- 
ing, when  the  box-office  has  been  closed  in 
order  to  give  the  ticket-sellers  an  opportunity 
to  breathe  freely,  count  up  the  day's  sales, 
and  rest  their  shattered  nerves  before  the  next 
day's  rush.  It  is  estimated  that  the  four 
week's  receipts  will  nearly  reach  the  $100- 
000  mark.  Only  a  few  tickets  for  the  re- 
maining six  evening  performances  and  three 
matinees  are  to  be  had.  so  that  those  who 
have  not  yet  witnessed  this  spectacular  dram- 
atization of  General  Lew  Wallace's  famous 
story  had  better  bestir  themselves,  or  they  will 
meet  with  disappointment  when,  at  the  last 
moment,  they  apply  for  tickets. 

Musical  Burlesque  at  Fischer's. 
"  Rubes  and  Roses  "  is  in  its  last  week  at 
Fischer's  Theatre.  On  Monday  evening.  No- 
vember 30th.  Judson  Brusie's  burlesque,  "  I- 
0-LT."  is  to  be  given  a  lavish  production,  with 
all  the  favorites  in  the  cast.  Dr.  H.  L  Stew- 
art is  responsible  for  the  music,  and  it  is 
said  that  he  has  provided  some  charming  solos 
and  choruses,  which  are  bound  to  become  pop- 
ular. Charles  Tones,  the  stage  manager,  has 
been  lavishing  much  time  and  attention  on 
the  settings,  and  promises  some  very  effective 
marches,  groupings,  and  light  effects.  One  of 
the  special  features  of  the  production  will  be 
the  first  appearance  of  the  Althea  Twins,  who 
are  to  replace  Flossie  Hope  and  Gertie  Emer- 
son. 

Last  Performances  at  the  Tivoli. 
At  the  matinee  this  ("Saturday)  afternoon 
and  on  Sunday  evening,  the  last  performances 
of  Leoncavallo's  "  Zaza "  will  be  given. 
On  Saturday  evening  "  I'Puritani'"  will  be 
the  bill.  Monday  evening,  which  is  to  be  a 
Verdi  night,  ought  to  see  the  Tivoli  packed 
to  the  doors.  Acts  will  be  offered  from  various 
Verdi  operas,  in  which  all  the  favorites  of 
this  season  will  make  their  farewell  appear- 
ances. Then  the  curtain  will  ring  down,  and 
the  popular  Eddy  Street  theatre  will  cease  to 
be  the  home  of  comic  and  grand  opera.  After 
an  interim  of  three  weeks,  the  new  Tivoli 
Opera  House,  on  the  corner  of  Mason  and 
t-ddy   Streets,  will  be  opened. 

Comedy  at  the  Alcazar. 
Sol  Smith  Russell's  charming  comedy-suc- 
cess, "  A  Poor  Relation,"  is  to  be  presented  at 
the  Alcazar  Theatre  on  Monday  night,  with 
James  Durkin  in  the  leading .  role  of  Noah 
Vale,  the  starving  inventor.  Aclele  Block  will 
be  the  generous  society  belle :  Frances  Starr, 
the  hoydenish  Scallops,  terror  of  the  top 
floor;  John  B.  Maher.  the  Irish  janitor.  Mar- 
maduke  O'Haley;  and  George  Osbourne.  the 
millionaire.  Two  clever  little  tots  will  ap- 
pear as  Rip  and  Patch,  the  children  of  the 
tenements,  for  whom  the  poor  relation  under- 
goes additional  self-deprivation,  and  who  are 
so  scantily  equipped  that  he  has  to  put  them  in 
a  barrel  while  he  mends  their  ragged  clothing. 
A  picturesque  romantic  comedy.  "  A  Royal 
Prisoner."  will  be  given  its  first  presenta- 
tion in  San  Francisco  on  Monday  evening, 
November  30th. 


The  Orpheum's  Bill. 
Annie  Abbott,  known  in  many  countries  as 
the  "  Little  Georgia  Magnet,"  will  begin  a  lim- 
ited engagement  at  the  Orpheum  next  week. 
She  weighs  but  one  hundred  and  ten  pounds, 
and  is  possessed  of  some  remarkable  magnetic 
powers.  For  example,  she  does  not  assume 
to  exert  any  physical  force,  either  of  resist- 
ance or  pressure,  yet  ten  men  by  their  com- 
bined efforts  are  unable  to  lift  her  from  the 
floor  or  to  push  her  from  a  position  which 
she  assumes  on  the  stage  ;  she,  on  the  other 
hand,  is  able  to  lift  a  heavy  man  against  the 
resisting   force   of  ten   men   who    try   to   hold 


down  the  support  on  which  he  sits.  She  will 
undoubtedly  create  a  sensation  here.  The 
other  new-comers  are  the  Armonis-Tito  Quar- 
tet, in  a  series  of  novelty  dances;  Bryant  and 
Saville,  who  have  stopped  managing  a  min- 
strel company  long  enough  to  take  a  run  over 
the  Orpheum  circuit ;  Searl  and  Violet  Allen. 
who  will  present  their  laughable  absurdity, 
""  The  Sign  Painter."  Wright  Huntington,  sup- 
ported by  Florida  Kingsley  and  Alex  Kearney, 
will  present,  for  his  second  and  last  week,  his 
greatest  success,  "  A  Stolen  Kiss."  a  dainty 
sketch,  abounding  in  comedy  and  pathos.  Oth- 
ers retained  from  this  week's  bill  are  the 
three  Zolars,  grotesque  gymnasts ;  Joe  and 
Sadie  Britton,  a  clever  colored  troupe :  and 
Serra  and  Bella-Rosa,  the  cannon-ball  jug- 
glers. This  week  the  Thursday  matinees  be- 
gin, making  four  afternoon  performances  a 
week. 


"Midnight  in  Chinatown." 
The  Central  Theatre  next  week  will  offer  a 
thrilling  melodrama.  "  Midnight  in  China- 
town," which  will  abound  in  local  scenes  and 
color.  It  starts  off  with  a  mysterious  robbery 
and  murder  at  the  Bonanza  mine,  and  the  so- 
lution of  the  mystery  furnishes  the  chief  mo- 
tive of  the  play.  In  this  relation,  clever  de- 
tective work  is  done.  Circumstances  point  to 
an  engineer  as  the  guilty  man,  and  his  pros- 
pects are  very  gloomy  until  an  odd  clue  is  dis- 
covered on  one  of  the  wharves  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  clue  leads  finally  to  an  opium  den 
in  Chinatown,  where  the  real  villain  has  en- 
ticed the  daughter  of  the  murdered  man.  She 
is  completely  in  his  power,  and  overcome  by 
the  fumes  of  the  deadly  drug,  when  the  police, 
at  the  midnight  hour,  raid  the  opium  den. 
rescue  the  helpless  girl,  and  fix  the  murder  on 
the  right  man.  The  play  contains  some  excel- 
lent character  studies,  among  others  a  merry 
tramp,  a  tough  girl,  an  unsophisticated  Rube, 
and  a  Hebrew  Sherlock  Holmes. 


Dr.  Tyndall's  Sundny  Lecture. 
Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  will  go  into 
the  distinctions  and  difference  between 
thought-transference,  mind-reading,  and  tele- 
pathy Sunday  night  in  his  psychic  science 
lecture  at  Steinway  Hall.  The  subject  for 
discussion  will  be  "  Thought-Transference 
and  Telepathy,"  and  there  will  be  experi- 
ments in  the  various  phases  of  thought-force, 
and  psychic  manifestation,  following  the  lec- 
ture. Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  has  met  with  much 
success  in  his  teaching  here,  and  has  large 
classes  in  the  study  of  the  subjects  he  illus- 
trates so  entertainingly.  "  The  Law  of  Har- 
mony "  will  be  discussed  on  Sunday  even- 
ing, November  29th. 


The  Italian  composers  are  busy.  Mascagni. 
despite  his  visit  to  Sweden  and  Germany,  is 
working  on  his  new  opera.  "  Marie  Antoi- 
nette." the  libretto  of  which  has  been  written 
by  Josef  Schurmann  and  Luigi  IlHca.  Gior- 
dano has  nearly  completed  an  opera  on  the 
subject  of  a  romance  in  Siberia,  and  Leon- 
cavallo is  making  steady  progress  wilh  his 
"  Roland  of  Berlin."  which  he  started  at  the 
request  of  the  German  emperor.  All  admirers 
of  "La  Boheme "  and  "La  Tosca "  will  be 
pleased  to  learn  that  Puccini  has  nearly  re- 
covered from  his  motor-car  accident,  and  is 
putting  the  finishing  touches  to  his  new  opera. 
"  Madame    Butterfly." 

It  appears  after  all  that  Julia  Marlowe  is 
not  going  to  retire  from  the  stage  for  the  rest 
of  the  season.  Following  the  announcement 
that  she  had  so  determined,  her  audiences  at 
Powers's  Theatre,  in  Chicago,  grew  in  size, 
and  so  she  felt  better.  There  was  an  inter- 
esting competition  among  three  feminine 
stars  for  Chicago's  favor — Miss  Marlowe  in 
"  Fools  of  Nature."  Maude  Adams  in  "  The 
Pretty  Sister  of  Jose."  and  Eleanor  Robson  in 
"  Merely  Mary  Ann."     It  ended  in  a  draw. 


At  a  recent  copyright  performance  of  his 
comedy  called  "  Merely  Mary  Ann,"  Mr. 
Zangwill  played  the  part  of  Herr  Brahmson. 
a  German  music  publisher.  Jerome  K.  Jerome 
also  aided  in  the  performance,  and  is  said  to 
have  been  delightfully  funny.  Conan  Doyle 
had  been  cast  for  a  part,  but  was  unavoidably 
absent. 


Lulu  Glaser  will  be  seen  here  in  December 
in  the  successful  comic  opera,  "  Dolly  Var- 
den." 


At  the  Races. 
The  special  event  at  the  Oakland  track 
next  week  will  be  the  Thanksgiving  Handi- 
cap for  three-year-olds  and  upward.  The 
value  of  the  purse  is  two  thousand  dollars, 
and  the  distance  one  mile  and  a  furlong.  The 
entries  number  nearly  sixty. 


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Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus S   2,398.~5K.IO 

Capital  actually  paid  in  cash    1 ,000,000.00 

Deposits,  June  30,  1903 34, K 19, 893. 12 

OFFICERS  —  President,  John  Lloyd;  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H. 
Horstman;  Cashier,  A.  H.  R.  Schmidt;  Assistant- 
Cashier,  William  Herrmann;  Secretary,  George 
Tourny;  Assistant-Secretary,  A.  H.  Muller  ;  Gen- 
eral Attorney,  W.  S.  Goodkeli-Ow. 

Board  of  Directors— John  Lloyd;  Daniel  Meyer.  H. 
Horstman.  Ign.  Sleinhart,  Emil  Rohte,  H.  B.  Russ,  N. 
Ohlandt.  I.  N.  Walter,  and  J.  W.  Van  Bergen. 

SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  UNION 

532  California  Street. 

Deposits,  July  1 ,   1903 S33.041.2  90 

Paid-l'p  Capital 1,000,000 

Reserve    Fund 24  7,05"'' 

Contingent  Fund 625,150 

E.  B.  POND,  Pres.         W.  C.  B.  DE   FREMERY, 

ROBERT  WATT,  Vice-Presdts. 
LOVELL  WHITE,  R.  M.  WELCH, 

Cashier.  Asst.  Cashier, 

Directors—  Henry  F.  Allen,  Robert  Watt,  William  A. 
Magee,  George C.  Boardman,  W.  C.  B.  de  Fremery,  Fred 
H.  Beaver,  C.  O.  G.  Miller.  Jacob  Barth,  E.  B.  Pond. 

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Mills  Building,  222  Montgomery  St. 

Established  March.  1871. 

Paid-up    Capital,  Surplus,  and 

Undivided   Profits   $     500, 000. OO 

Deposits,  June  30,  1903 4,128.660. 1  1 

Interest  paid  on  deposits.     Loans  made. 

William  Babcock  • President 

S.  L.  Abbot,  Jr       Vice-President 

Fred  W.Ray Secretary 

Directors— William  Alvnrd.  William  Babcock.  Adam 
Grant,  R.  H.  Pease.  L.  F.  Monteagle,  S.  L.  Abbot,  Jr., 
Warren  D.  Clark,  E.  J.  McCutrhen.  O.  D.  Baldwin. 

FRENCH  SAVINGS  BANK 

315  MONTGOriERY   STREET 

SAfV     FRANCISCO. 


CAPITAL  PAID  UP $600,000 

Charles  Carpy President 

Arthur  JLegallet Vice-President 

Leon   Bocqueraz Secretary 

Directors— Sylvain  Weill,  J.  A.  Bergerot,  Leon  Kauff- 
man,  J.  S.  Godeau,  J.  E.  Artigues,  J.  Jullien,  J.  M. 
Dupas,  O.  Bozio,  J.  B.  Clot. 

the  BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA 

SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Capital   83,000,000.00 

Surplus  anil  Undivided  Profits 
at  the  close  of  business  Oc- 
tober 1,  1903 6,459,637.01 

William  Alvord President 

Charles  R.  Bishop  Vice-President 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

Irving  F.  Moulton  Cashier 

Sam  H.  Daniels Assistant-Cashier 

Wm.  R.  Pentz Assistant-Cashier 

Allen  M.  Clay Secretary 

DIRECTORS : 

William  Alvord President 

James  M.  Allen Attomev-at-Law 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

William  Babcock Parrott  &  Co. 

Charles  R.  Bishop Capitalist 

Antoine  Borel Ant.  Borel  &  Co.,  Bankers 

Warren  D.  Clark Willliams,  Dimond  &  Co. 

Geo.  E.  Goodman Banker 

Adam  Grant Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Edward  W.  Hopkins Capitalist 

John  F.  Merrill Holbrook,  Merrill  &  Stetson 

Jacob  Stern ..Levi  Strauss  &  Co 

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vided Profits   913,500,000.00 

Homer  S.  King,  President.  F.  L.  Lipman, 
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Miles,    Asst.   Cashier. 

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Surplus  to  Policy-Holders   2. ".102,635 

COLIN  M.  BOYD,  BENJAMIN  J.  SMITH, 

Agent  (or  San  Francisco,  Manager  Pacific 

411  California  Street.  Department. 

CONTINENTAL  BUILDING  AND 
LOAN  ASSOCIATION, 

Established  1889, 

301   CALIFORNIA  STREET. 


Subscribed   Capital SI 3,000.000.00 

Paid   In 2,350,000.00 

1   Profit  and  Reserve  Fnnd 300, 000. 00 

Monthly  Income  Over lOO.OOO.OO 

WIT.I.IAM   COKKIN 

Secretary  and  General  Manager 

THE    LATEST    STYLES    IN 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


November  23,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


The  church  wedding  of  Miss  May  Goelet  to 
Henry  John  Innes-Ker,  eighth  Duke  of  Rox- 
burgh^, in  New  York  last  week,  attracted  a 
crowd  of  ten  thousand  persons — for  the  most 
part  well-dressed  women — who  lined  the 
streets,  mobbed  the  carriages,  and  kept 
two  hundred  policemen  busy  protecting  the 
wedding  guests  from  molestation.  Never 
before  in  the  history  of  New  York's  interna- 
tional marriages  has  such  a  scene  of  wild 
disorder  been  witnessed.  A  crowd  of  women 
surrounded  the  bride's  carriage  as  she  and  her 
brother  neared  St.  Thomas's  Church.  They 
stopped  the  horses,  climbed  on  to  the  steps, 
and  thrust  their  heads  through  the  windows. 
Mr.  Goelet  called  loudly  for  the  police,  but  it 
was  several  minutes  before  the  curious  women 
were  finally  driven  back  and  the  carriage  was 
able  to  proceed.  At  the  entrance  to  the 
church  a  canvas  canopy  had  been  erected,  but 
it  was  insufficient  to  keep  back  the  crowd  of 
sightseers,  which,  banked  up  for  twenty-five 
feet  on  either  side,  rushed  the  police  line  and 
crawled  under  to  watch  the  bride.  Inspector 
McLaughlin  ordered  policemen  to  drag  them 
out.  He  took  a  hand  himself,  and  grabbed  the 
tail  of  a  woman's  skirt.  When  he  had  got  all 
of  her  outside,  she  was  found  to  be  some- 
where in  the  neighborhood  of  sixty.  Her 
clothes,  which  were  good,  were  covered  with 
dust.  "  All  I  wanted  was  just  a  peek,"  she 
said,  tearfully.  Several  women  got  under  the 
awning  and  up  to  the  church  door.  They 
had  to  be  carried  back  bodily.  Meanwhile,  an- 
other crowd  had  gathered  in  Fifty-Third 
Street,  where  there  is  a  coal-hole  leading  to 
a  passage  underneath  the  chancel.  Down  this 
grimy  aperture  fifteen  well-dressed  women 
crawled.  They  could  see  nothing,  but  they 
could  hear  the  low  voices  and  the  smothered 
steps  above  them,  and  were  happy  till  a  squad 
of  police  followed  and  ejected  them,  loudly 
protesting,  to  the  street.  Earlier  in  the  day 
about  two  hundred  uninvited  guests  prevailed 
on  the  sexton  to  admit  them  to  the  church  gal- 
lery, where  they  were  discovered  by  Mr.  Goe- 
let and  summarily  ejected  by  the  police.  After 
the  ceremony  the  same  scenes  of  disorder 
were  repeated,  only  this  time  the  reinforced 
bluecoats  were  able  to  preserve  a  clear  path 
for  the  carriages.  They  were  unable,  how- 
ever, to  prevent  a  rush  of  souvenir  hunters. 
who  carried  the  church  by  storm  and  de- 
spoiled it  of  its  flowers  and  other  decorations, 
which  were  carried  away  in  mutilated  frag- 
ments to  serve  as  mementoes  of  "  the  day  the 
richest  American  girl  became  an  English  duch- 
ess." 


These  scenes  of  wild  disorder  give  a  curious 
insight  into  the  mental  workings  of  the  class 
of  people  to  whom  the  yellow  journals  most 
directly  appeal.  These  papers  have  been 
printing  columns  of  matter  concerning  Miss 
Goelet's  espousals,  but  first,  last,  and  always, 
the  reportorial  pen  has  dwelt  upon  her  money. 
The  richest  woman  in  the  world!  The  title 
inflamed  the  imagination  of  the  multitude. 
More  money  is  the  universal  cry  of  mankind, 
and  here  is  one,  a  mere  girl,  who  is  at  the 
apex  of  the  gilded  pinnacle — on  fortune's  cap 
the  very  button.  She  has  molded  her  destiny 
at  will.  Princes  and  barons  and  earls,  titled 
aristocrats  of  all  natinns.  have  sought  alliance 
with  her  and  her  millions.  And,  uplifted  by 
the  magic  power  of  gold,  she  has,  with  calm 
vision,  surveyed  the  fold  from  horizon  to 
horizon,  and  has  elected  to  become  an  En- 
glish duchess.  The  choice  shows  an  astute- 
ness born  of  careful  meditation.  To  wear  a 
ducal  coronet  is  probably  the  most  desirable 
destiny,  from  a  worldy  point  of  view,  to 
which  an  American  or  English  heiress  may 
aspire.  Next  to  loyalty  itself,  it  is  the  loft- 
iest position  in  the  ranks  of  the  British  aristoc- 
racy ;  and  that  means  much  in  a  country 
where  the  lines  of  caste  arc  so  closely  drawn 
that  the  upper  classes  look  upon  themselves 
as  a  race  apart,  even  as  kinys  still  believe 
themselves  anointed  of  the  Lord.  Moreover, 
the  country  at  lartjc  acci-pls  the  valuation,  for 
tin-  radical  element  is  in  the  minority.  The 
habit  of  homage  Inward  rank  extends  through 
all  classes  of  society.  The  peasant  looks  up 
to  the  '"  quality, "  so  also  do  the  middle 
classes.  The  yeomanry  and  landed  gentry 
offer  up  incense  to  the  country  families,  and 
so  it  goes  in  an  ever- in  creasing  crescendo, 
until  the  ducal  houses  are  reached,  beyond 
which  lie  only  the  exalted  domains  <".f  royalty. 


It  is  interesting  tn  observe  the  attitude  of 
Mrs.  }  umphry  Ward  in  her  recent  novel, 
"  Lady  Rose's  Daughter."  Although  the  duke 
and  drchess  in  the  tale  are  mere  creatures  of 
'he  -  -thor's  fancy,  loftiness  ot  their  rank 
ivcrawes  her.  and  'vests  them  in  her 
ih   a   dazzling  halo.      It   is   the   homage 


to  exalted  rank,  offered  by  the  true,  British- 
born  subject,  and  is  a  feeding  altogether  dif- 
ferent in  character  from  that  which  agitated 
the  hysteric  women  who  plunged  themselves 
so  tumultously  into  Miss  Goelet's  weddingcere- 
monies.  That  emotion,  born  of  animal  excite- 
ment, was  as  contagious  at  the  moment  as  an 
epidemic  of  measles.  There  was  a  sort  of 
frenzy  in  it,  a  mania  of  desire  to  behold  with 
their  own  eyes,  to  touch  with  their  own  hands, 
the  fortunate  being  who  represents  the  super- 
lative expression  in  petticoats  of  accumulated 
wealth. 

The  episode  has  its  trivial  side,  yet  It  is  not 
without  significance.  Its  root  is  in  the  ever- 
growing craving  for  money,  coupled  with  the 
realization  of  the  power  it  brings.  It  is  allied 
to  the  seed  of  socialism,  embryonic  in  America 
as  yet,  but  capable  of  sudden  and  startling 
growth.  As  a  sign  of  the  times,  the  incident 
may  be  regarded  as  an  indication  that  the 
enormous  fortunes  of  our  day  are  a  detriment 
to  the  healthy  life  of  the  community.  Mean- 
while the  young  duke  has  apparently  found 
the  spectacular  character  of  his  nuptials  little 
to  his  taste.  In  spite  of  various  feats  of 
agility  on  his  part,  his  comings  and  goings 
have  been  attended  by  a  vigilant  throng,  and 
he  has  gotten  into  several  ducal  rages  in  con- 
sequence. There  are  compensations  in  his  lot, 
however,  and  when  he  reaches  England  he 
will  be  soothed  by  the  respectful  acclamations 
of  his  tenantry,  who  have  been  brought  up  on 
dukes,  and  know  how  they  should  be  handled. 


According  to  the  London  Daily  Mail,  one 
of  the  most  noticeable  changes  in  men's  fash- 
ions is  the  new  watch  chain  for  evening  wear, 
which  is  so  quaint  that  it  carries  those  who 
behold  it  back  in  imagination  to  the  early 
days  of  Count  d'Orsay  and  Lord  Disraeli. 
The  Daily  Mail  adds  :  "  It  is  a  narrow  band 
of  black  moire  silk  ornamented  at  the  ends 
with  delicately  fashioned  diamond  buckles. 
The  band  is  worn  quite  taut  across  the  waist- 
coat, and  is  about  the  length  of  the  leather 
watch  guard  now  popular  among  sportsmen — 
a  trifle  that  looks  inconspicuous,  that  is  per- 
fectly practical,  and  that  costs  about  half  a 
guinea.  The  price  of  the  black  moire  band 
with  its  diamond  fittings  depends  upon  the 
value  of  the  stones.  Another  reminiscence  of 
the  days  of  the  dandies  is  the  tendency  among 
men  at  this  present  time  to  permit  their  hair 
to  grow  a  shade  longer  than  has  been  fash- 
ionable for  some  years  past.  It  is  also  bur- 
nished to  such  splendid  brilliancy  that  the 
use  of  macassar  oil  might  be  suspected, 
though  the  effect  is  really  gained  by  a  strenu- 
ous wielding  of  the  brush,  completed  by  the 
passing  of  a  silk  handkerchief  over  the  am- 
brosial locks.  Women  who  observe  the  trend 
of  the  times  are  fully,  and  not  altogether  with- 
out delight,  expecting  to  see  their  men  folk 
shyly  cultivate  a  crop  of  curls  above  their 
marble  brows,  and  modest  clusters  of  them 
behind  their  ears,  after  the  Byronic  manner. 
They  note  also  with  satisfaction  the  assiduity 
with  which  the  tailors  are  cultivating  in  their 
clients  a  neat  and  lissom  waist,  following  the 
military  tendency,  accomplished  in  many 
cases  by  the  wearing  of  stays.  Stay-makers 
for  men  do  not  flaunt  their  wares  as  a  rule 
in  their  shop  windows,  but  all  the  same  a  de- 
mand for  corsets  for  men,  cleverly  boned 
and  made  of  the  most  delicate  pompadour 
brocade,  or  of  silk  to  match  the  underwear, 
are  in  huge  demand." 

Washington,  D.  C,  is  fast  becoming  "  the 
city  beautiful."  Although  not  a  business  or 
manufacturing  place,  it  is  just  now  growing 
as  fast  as  any  other  large  city  in  the  United 
States.  During  the  last  year  (says  Walter 
Wcllman)  a  great  number  of  new  apartment- 
houses  and  hotels,  and  fine  office  buildings 
have  been  erected,  and  a  vast  number  ot 
elegant  residences.  Secretary  Hay's  new  apart- 
ment-house, "  Stoneleigh  Court."  named  after 
Mrs.  Hay's  father,  the  late  Amasa  Stone,  of 
Cleveland,  O.,  is  a  sample  of  the  new  struc- 
tures. It  cost  seven  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars,  and  every  apartment  in  it  has  been 
rented.  Notwithstanding  the  activity  of  the 
builders,  the  supply  of  apartments  and  good 
houses  is  hardly  equal  to  the  demand.  The 
population  of  Washington  is  rapidly  increas- 
ing. It  continues  to  attract  from  all  parts  of 
the  country  the  well-to-do  and  leisurely  who 
want  a  delightful  place  to  live.  Constant  ad- 
ditions are  being  made  to  the  number  of  ele- 
gant and  costly  mansions  erected  by  rich 
people,  who  pass  their  winters  at  the  capital. 
The  flood  of  strangers  in  Washington  in- 
creases each  year,  and  the  hotel  accommoda- 
tions, once  a  reproach,  are  now  a  credit 
tn  the  capital.  They  are  crowded  all  the 
time.      Americans  appear  to  be  growing  more 


and  more  fond  of  visiting  the  capital  to  see 
the  sights.  The  United  States  Capitol  looks 
clean  and  bright.  During  the  summer  the  Sen- 
ate chamber  and  the  hall  of  the  House  have 
been  renovated  and  put  in  order.  Com- 
mittee-rooms and  corridors  have  been  over- 
hauled and  painted.  Twenty-one  tons  of 
paint,  most  of  it  of  a  light  yellow,  have  been 
applied  to  the  outside  and  inside  of  the  huge 
Capitol  since  Congress  adjourned  last  spring 
Not  only  has  the  inside  of  the  building  been 
benefited  by  the  work  of  the  brush-wielders, 
but  the  huge  dome  and  the  goddess  of  liberty 
have  also  received  a  new  dress.  The  goddess 
was  not  painted,  but  was  given  several  coats 
of  varnish  to  prevent  her  flowing  robes  from 
corroding  and  turning  green.  In  round  figures 
it  required  just  forty-two  thousand  pounds  of 
paint,  seventy  men,  and  two  hundred  and  fifty 
brushes  to  accomplish  the  task.  Fourteen 
hundred  gallons  of  paint  was  used  on  the  out- 
side of  the  dome,  and  it  now  looks  like  a 
structure  able  to  stand  all  kinds  of  weather. 


> ALWAYS* 

flNSIST  UPON  HAVING!1 

THE  GENUINE 

MURRAY& 
LANMAHS 

i  FLORIDA  WATER 


THE  MOST  REFRESHING    AND 
DELIGHTFUL  PERFUME  FOR  THE 

HANDKERCHIEF. TOILET  AND  BATH. 


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A  New  York  minister  wants  incurable  idiots 
killed.  We  do  not  like  to  do  anything  of  the 
kind,  but  if  he  will  come  over  we  will  see  that 
his  case  is  attended  to  all  right. — Washington 
Post. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    T 

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of    Al 

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Rain- 

Max. 

Min. 

State  of 

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Weather. 

November  12th 60 

56 

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56 

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58 

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Pt.  Cloudy 

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Tr. 

Clear 

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Clear 

17th 60 

46 

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iSth  ...  56 

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.04 

Cloudy 

THE  FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  November  18, 
1903.  were  as  follows: 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.  S.  Coup.  3%     . .        500    @  io8$£  iaiYA     108% 

Bay  Co.  Power  5%      3,000    @  103  102%     103J4 

Los  An.  Pac.  R.  R. 

Con,  5% 1,000    @  101  100 

Market  St.  Ry.  1st 

Con.  5% 2,000    @  113  114 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%.. .  12,000    @  H4J<  ii4#     116 

Oakland     Transit 

5% 1,000    @  109  io8J<     109^ 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5% .     2,000    @  107  io6J£ 

S-  P.  R-  of  Arizona 

6%  1909  9,000    @  107^-107^     io7J£     107% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  1,000    @  108^  109 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905.  S.  B 3,000    @  103^  103^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 2,000    @  104%  105 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal,   6% 

1912 11,000    @  114-    114^     114% 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd 4,000    @  106H  io6$< 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Vall'yW.Co       S90    @    37-      39^      3914 

Banks. 
Anglo-Cal 50    @    Si  So  S5 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 45    @    64-      65  65  66 

Snga  rs. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...  30    @    45  43  44^ 

Honokaa  S.  Co 75    @    13}^  13  1354 

Hutchinson 335    @    io>£-  io$£       10  10^ 

Paauhau  S.  Co 50    @    15^  15^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric     1,695    @    69-      69K      69         69^ 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.  F.Gas&  El'ctric        175    @    69  69  69H 

Miscella  neous. 
Alaska  Packers  . . .        170    @  147-    14S        146        150 
Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         60    @    92-      92^      92^      93 
Cal.  Wine  Assn....  85    @    S9K-  9<>&      90 

Pac.  Coast  Borax..  7    ©167  167 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  has  been  in  good 
demand,  and  on  sales  of  1,870  shares  gained  one- 
half  point,  selling  up  to  69;^.  closing  at  69  bid,  69^ 
asked. 

It  is  reported  on  the  street  that  the  San  Francisco 
Gas  and  Electric  Company  has  declared  a  special  divi 
dend  of  $2.50  per  share  payable  on  December  24th. 
also  a  regular  quarterly  dividend  of  $1  25,  payable 
March  15th,  1904.  On  this  class  of  security  it  should 
result  in  a  marked  advance  in  the  market  price  of 
this  stock. 

Spring  Valley  Water  Company  was  strong  and  ad- 
vanced three  and  one  quarter  points  to  39K.  closing 
at  39^8  bid,  with  no  stock  offered. 

The  sugars  have  been  quiet  and  have  held  their 
own  in  price,  with  the  exception  of  Hawaiian  Com- 
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The  powders  were  quiel  with  no  change  in  price. 
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and  three-quarters  points  to  146!^,  closing  at  146 
bid,  150  asked. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise, 


A  Kansas  editor  received  the  following  note, 
the  other  day,  which  explains  itself:  "  Dere 
professor  editor,  I  would  like  for  you  to  putt 
in  yo'h  paper  a  notice  fer  a  husband  fer  me. 
I  am  thirty-eight  years  old,  have  no  dentist 
bills  for  my  teeth  are  all  ok.  I  can  cook  a 
stake,  wash  deeshes,  and  grace  the  parlor 
fine.  Also  player  on  the  acordeen,  and  have 
had  two  husbands.  They  are  ded,  but  their 
graves  are  green  and  tended  to  all  on  account 
of  me.  Any  lovin  man  of  wait  over  one 
hundred  and  twenty  answer  please.  No 
doods." 


In  his  memoirs,  Adolf  Kussmaui  relates  a 
curious  story1'  of  a  Heidelberg  banker.  This 
banker  was  known  for  his  haughty,  forbidding 
manners ;  consequently,  Dr.  Nuhn.  the  pro- 
fessor of  anatomy,  was  much  surprised  one 
day  when  the  banker  came  and  sat  with  him 
in  a  railway  car,  and,  after  a  pleasant  chat, 
asked  him  all  sorts  of  questions,  especially 
about  the  anatomy  of  the  heart.  The  next 
day,  he  even  called,  by  permission,  in  the 
medical  department,  and  watched  the  professor 
dissecting  one  of  those  organs.  Then  he  drove 
home,  and  a  few  hours  later  it  became  known 
that  he  had  committed  suicide  by  skillfully 
plunging  a  dagger  into  his  heart. 

The  Journal  des  Debats  tells  a  story  of  the 
late  Professor  Rudolf  Falb.  In  1874,  he  pre- 
dicted an  eruption  of  Etna  on  August  27th. 
He  offered  to  a  Vienna  editor  to  write  an  ac- 
count of  it  if  the  editor  would  send  him  to 
Sicily.  Falb  was  commissioned.  When  he 
reached  Etna  there  was  not  the  slightest  sign 
of  disturbance.  As  the  twenty-seventh  ap- 
proached, Falb  was  tortured  by  anxiety,  and 
spent  sleepless  nights  watching  the  volcano. 
Nothing  happened  on  the  twenty-seventh  and 
twenty-eighth.  The  following  morning  his 
servant  rushed  into  the  professor's  room, 
shouting,  "An  eruption,  a  terrible  eruption!" 
Falb  saw  the  spectacle,  and  sent  oft  his  dis- 
patch. 

There  are  fewer  guards  to  be  seen  about  the 
Vatican  nowadays  than  when  Pope  Leo  was 
alive.  Nor  is  every  one  hustled  out  of  sight 
when  his  holiness  passes  through  the  corridors 
or  grounds.  The  other  day  Pius  the  Tenth  had 
occasion  to  go  through  the  Raphael  Rooms, 
when  they  were  open  free  to  the  public.  He 
was  accompanied  by  a  couple  of  guards,  and 
his  private  secretary',  the  former  making  the 
move  hurriedly  to  clear  the  rooms.  The  Pon- 
tiff is  said  to  have  touched  one  guard  on  the 
arm,  saying,  while  he  looked  about  him,  smil- 
ing: "Do  not  disturb  them.  If  they  have  the 
same  pleasure  in  looking  at  an  old  man  that  he 
has  in  seeing  them,  it  would  be  a  pity  to  curb 
their  satisfaction." 


In  Elizabeth,  N.  J.r  last  week,  Carrie  Nation 
scored  a  big  hit  in  her  new  version  of  "  Ten 
Nights  in  a  Barroom."  In  the  fourth  act  she 
demolished  a  barroom  with  her  famous 
hatchet,  and  the  audience  fairly  rose  to  her. 
But  as  soon  as  the  curtaia  went  down,  whisky 
ads.,  beer  ads.,  and  mineral-water  ads.  were 
thrown  on  a  screen.  When  she  learned  of  this 
after  the  performance,  Carrie  was  furious. 
"  The  idea  of  making  my  performance 
ridiculous  1"  she  cried;  "I  will  smash  it! 
I  will  smash  that  curtain  to-morrow  night 
just  as  sure  as  I'm  standing  here.  I'll  come 
out  at  the  side  and  throw  my  hatchet  through 
it,  and  I'll  smash  that  little  lantern  up  there, 
too.  It's  an  outrage  to  treat  me  and  my  per- 
formance this  way.  I  expected  it  would  teach 
such  a  lesson,  and  it  will  teach  it,  too,  or  my 
name  isn't  Carrie  Nation  !" 


Here  is  Abe  Ruef's  story  of  how  he  came 
to  enter  politics:  "One  day,  I  saw  a  notice 
in  the  paper  that  there  would  be  a  meeting 
that  night  to  organize  a  Republican  club  in 
my  district.  It  was  somewhere  down  on  San- 
some  Street,  and  I  went  there.  When  I  got 
there,  the  place  was  dark,  and,  in  fact,  the 
neighborhood  was  dark  and  dubious.  I  was 
pretty  well  frightened,  but  1  knocked  at  the 
door.  It  was  opened  by  one  of  the  most  for- 
bidding men  I  ever  saw.  He  had  a  red  scar 
across  his  face  as  if  he  had  been  cut  with  a 
sabre.  He  looked  like  a  pirate.  I  asked  if 
that  was  the  place  where  the  meeting  was  to  be 
held.  He  looked  me  over,  and  told  me  to  come 
in.  In  a  back  room  I  found  two  other  ruf- 
fians. That  was  the  whole  meeting.  They  told 
me  to  sit  down,  and  they  asked  who  I  was. 
I  told  them  I  was  studying  law.  '  Can  you 
write?"  said  one  of  them,  and  I  declared  I 
could  write  my  name.  They  waited  a  minute, 
and  one  suggested,   '  What's   the  matter  with 


making  this  young  man  secretary  of  the  club?' 
Then  they  got  me  to  sit  down  and  write  an 
account  of  the  meeting  from  what  they  told 
me  had  occurred.  I  wrote  a  separate  story 
for  each  of  the  papers,  and  they  were  all 
printed,  word  for  word.  According  to  the  re- 
ports, there  were  something  like  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five  people  at  the  meeting.  That 
was  the  way  things  were  done  nearly  twenty 
years  ago." 


Marie  Cahill,  the  clever  comedienne,  who 
has  naturally  slipped  into  the  theatrical  niche 
left  vacant  by  the  retirement  of  May  Irwin, 
once  gave  some  of  her  famous  songs  at  a 
benefit  in  New  York  for  a  worthy  hospital. 
While  awaiting  her  turn  to  go  on,  she  stood 
in  the  wings  and  listened  to  a  speech  on  dra- 
matic art  by  Joseph  Jefferson,  the  veteran 
actor.  Presently,  a  giddy  song-and-dance  girl 
came  down  from  her  dressing-room,  and 
leaned  over  Miss  Cahill's  shoulder  to  see  what 
was  going  on.  The  comedienne  gently  at- 
tempted to  shake  her  off,  but  such  a  hint  was 
unavailing  with  such  a  performer.  A  moment 
later  the  song-and-dance  girl's  partner  joined 
her,  and  asked:  "Say,  Mag,  who's  on?"  "I 
dunno,"  was  the  reply ;  "  some  old  guy  doing 
a  monologue."  "  How's  he  going?"  "  Rotten. 
He's  been  on  fifteen  minutes,  and  aint  got  a 
laugh  yet." 

"'  Years  ago,  when  I  was  living  in  Boston- 
Colonel  Higginson  was  running  for  Congress," 
said  Bishop  Potter,  in  a  lecture  in  New  York, 
the  other  day.  "  On  election  day  I  met  a  negro 
whom  I  knew  well,  and  I  said  to  him,  '  I 
suppose  you  are  on  your  way  to  vote  for 
Colonel  Higginson  ?'  To  my  surprise,  he  said 
he  was  going  to  vote  for  the  other  man.  Now, 
Colonel  Higginson  had  been  the  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  negro  regiment  of  which  Robert 
Shaw  was  colonel,  and  after  Shaw  was  killed 
in  the  charge  at  Fort  Wagner  he  led  the  regi- 
ment. So  I  said  to  Tom  that  I  thought  every 
consideration  of  chivalry  and  honor  should 
lead  him  to  support  the  man  who  had  given 
the  negro  race  its  greatest  opportunity  in^the 
Civil  War.  Tom  replied,  '  I  don't  see  it  that 
way,  sah.  I  think  chivalry  and  honor  con- 
strain me  to  vote  for  the  gentleman  what  gave 
me  five  dollars  this  morning.'  " 


Not  long  ago,  W.  S.  Gilbert,  the  English 
humorist,  was  so  unfortunate  as  to  lose  his 
umbrella  while  dining  at  the  well-known 
Carlton  Club  in  London,  of  which  he  has  long 
been  a  member.  In  a  rather  waggish  mood 
the  librettist  caused  the  following  notice  of 
his  loss  to  be  posted  in  the  cloak-room :  "  The 
nobleman  who  took  the  undersigned's  umbrella 
will  confer  a  great  favor  on  Mr.  Gilbert  by 
leaving  it  (the  umbrella)  with  the  clerk  of  this 
club."  When  a  friend  remonstrated  with  Mr. 
Gilbert,  saying  that  he  thought  it  was  a 
gratuitous  affront,  and  asked  why  Mr.  Gilbert 
should  assume  that  a  nobleman  had  taken  the 
umbrella,  the  witty  Gilbert  exclaimed  :  "  Oh  ! 
according  to  the  first  article  of  the  club's  rules, 
its  membership  *  is  composed  of  noblemen  and 
gentlemen."  And,  since  the  person  who  took 
my  umbrella  is  certainly  not  a  gentleman,  it 
follows  that  he  must  be  a  nobleman." 


It  is  related  that  a  very  brilliant  Irish  lady 
once  arranged  that  the  late  William  Lecky,  the 
famous  historian,  should  meet  an  eminent 
Irishman  of  very  advanced  opinions  in  poli- 
tics. It  was  intended  that  they  should  ex- 
change views,  and  the  Irishman  had  a  good 
deal  to  say  about  Mr.  Lecky's  later  work,  and 
was  well  able  to  put  what  he  had  to  say  in  the 
most  effective  language.  However,  as  soon  as 
Mr.  Lecky  was  introduced  to  the  Irishman, 
he  began  a  political  harangue  which  he  kept 
going  without  cessation  the  whole  time  he  was 
there.  The  Irishman  at  first  tried  to  break  in 
with  a  word,  but  he  was  swept  away,  as  it 
were,  in  the  unceasing  flow  of  Mr.  Lecky's 
language ;  so  after  a  time  he  sat  in  amused 
bewilderment,  waiting  until  nature  gave  out. 
But  when  Mr.  Lecky  felt  he  was  getting  ex- 
hausted, he  rose  from  his  chair,  shook  hands 
with  the  hostess  and  her  guest,  keeping  on 
talking  all  the  time.  They  came  out  with  him 
to  the  top  of  the  staircase,  but  could  not  get 
in  a  word  edgeways  even  then,  as  he  talked  all 
the  way  down  to  the  door,  and  was  even  in  an 
unfinished  sentence  when  the  door  was  shut 
behind  him.  Then  the  hostess  and  her  guest 
looked  at  each  other  and  roared  laughing,  for 
the  brilliant  Irishman's  intentions  to  impress 
Mr.  Lecky  had  cleverly  been  frustrated. 


No  Substitute 

not  even  the  best  raw  cream,  equals  Borden's 
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream  for  tea,  coffee, 
chocolate,  cereals  and  general  household  cooking. 
It  is  the  result  of  forty-five  years  experience  in 
the  growing,  buying,  handling  and  preserving  of 
milk  by  Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


The  Plaint  of  the  Turkey. 
I'm    an    unassuming    Turkey, 

And  I  am  not  to  blame 
If  by  a  primogenesis 

Upon  the  earth  I  came; 
They  never  said  a  word  to  me, 

And    if    I'd    had   my    way 
I  should  have  gone  some  otherwheres 

To  spend  Thanksgiving  Day. 

I'm   an   unpretentious   Turkey, 

And  do  not  seek  to  rise 
Above  my  station  to  a  place 

Among  the  great  and  wise. 
Rich  dressing  isn't  to  my  taste, 

I    hate  all   grand  display, 
And  I  don't  like  the  way  at  all 

I'm    served   Thanksgiving    Day. 

I'm    an    unoffending    Turkey, 

And   never  quite  could  see 
Just  why  a  horde  of  thanking  souls 

Should  chase  me  up  a  tree. 
If  I  were  full  of  thanks,  perhaps 

That  might  explain  their  way; 
But  I  am  not,  and  never  was — 

Goldarn  Thanksgiving  Day! 
—William  J.   Lampton   in   Kcj.'   York  Sun. 


Ma's  Physical  Culture. 
Sis  takes  calisthenics, 

Injun  clubs  an'  such. 
Reaches  f"r  her  toes  ten  times 

'N*  each  time  makes  'em  touch; 
Raises  up  her  arms  an' 

Sweeps  'em   all   around. 
Kicks  her  heels  three  times  'ithout 

Ever  touchin'  th'  ground. 

Ma  takes  phys'cal  culture 

In   th'    washin'    tut) — 
Gets  th*  clo'es  an'  soaks  'em  down 

'N'    'en    begins    to    rub; 
Makes    ten    thousand    motions 

Up  an'  down  'at  way — 
She  gets  lots  o'   exercise 

In   a   workin*   day! 

Sis  goes  t*  th'  gymn  an* 

Travels  on  the  rings, 
'N'  'en  she  takes  a  big.  deep  breath, 

'N'    'en    she    yells    an'    sings — 
Says  it's  good  Fr  weakness 

In    th'    lungs;    an'    say! 
Tennis  is  her  hardest  work — 

Ought   t'   see   her   play! 

Ma  she  washes  dishes 

'N'  'en  she  sweeps  the  floor, 
'N'  'en  she  scrubs  th'  marble  steps 

Clear  up  t'  th'  door; 
'X'  *en  she  chops  th'  kindlin' 

When  her  work  is  through— 
Has  t'  do  it,  'cause  pa,  he's 

Catisthentic,    too! 

Both  take  phys'cal  culture. 

But   I   tell   you   this: 
They's  lots  o'  difference  'tween  th*  kind. 

My  ma  takes,  an'  Sis! 

— Baltimore  News. 

The  Age  "We  Live  In. 
To   get- rich-quick,    with   reckless   haste. 

We   risk   our   little   store; 
To    get-wise-quick,    we    cram    the    young 

With    fifty   kinds   of   lore. 

To  get-strong-quick,   we  strain   and  pull. 

And  sawdust  food  we  pick. 
Until   it  seems  we  moderns  need 

A  scheme  to  get-slow-quick. 

— McLandburgh    Wilson    in    Life, 


The  Thankful  Freshman. 
Thanksgiving   Day   had   never   had 
For  me,   a  callow  college  lad, 

A  meaning  worth  a  moment's  thought. 
My  father  was  a  millionaire; 
I  never  knew  a  day  of  care; 
'Twas  hardly  strange   my  thanks   were  rare 

For  what  Fate,  ever  kind,  had  brought. 

My  golden  hair  (some  call  it  red) 
Was  hanging  down  my  back,  and  led 

Me  to   select  a  mission    high. 
I    yearned    to    win    undying    fame 
In   some    Thanksgiving    football    game. 
At  last  the  fateful  moment  came — 

My   hair   was   there,    and  so    was    I. 

Ey  bruisers  on  the  other  side 

My    form    was    very    promptly    "  pied "; 

They  walked  and  waltzed  upon  my  neck. 
They  lammed  me  till  they  shed  my  blood. 
They  slammed  me  down  with  sick'ning  thud. 
They  jammed  me  deep   in  seas  of  mud. 

Until  I  seemed  and  was  a  wreck! 

With    tireless    zeal    throughout   the   game 
They  jumped  and  bumped  upon  my  frame. 

They  sought  my  legs  and  arms  to  rive; 
And  when  the  doctors  set  me  free. 
Thanksgiving   Day  had  come  to  be 
A  day  of   fervent  thanks  to  me — 

I  thanked  my  stars  I  was  alive! 
—Earle   Hooker  Eaton    in   Harper's   Magazine. 


"  The  more  a  man  earns,"  says  the  Cynical 
Bachelor.  "  the  more  his  wife  yearns  for 
more." — Ex. 

Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton— and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co..  phone  South  95. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW  YORK-SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

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St.  Louis.. Dec.  12,  9.30  am  1  St.  Paul  ....Dec.  26,9.30am 

Philadelphia— Queenstown  —  Liverpool. 

Noordland..  ..Dec.5, garni  Marion Dec. 26. 2.30pm 

Friesland   .Dec.  12,3.30am  |  West'mland..  Jan. 2. 9am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Menominee  — Dec.  5, 9  am  I  Mesaba Dec.  19.9  am 

Min'et'nka....Dec.  12.  noon  [  Min'apolis  ..Dec. 26, 10  am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

Montreal— Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Nov.  2S  I  Dominion     Dec.  9 

Cambroman.     Dec. 5  1  Canada Jan.  2 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 

Finland Dec.5,  10.30am  I  Kronland  Dec.  19. 10.30am 

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WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW    YORK—  QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Cedric  Dec.  2,  2.30pm  |  Teutonic. Dec.  23,  noon 

Arabic Dec.  9, 9.30am     Cedric Dec.  30.  ipm 

Oceanic Dec.  16,4  pm  |  Majestic Jan.  6,  noon 

Boston— Queens  town —Liverpool. 

Cretic  Dec.  10.  Feb.  1 1 

Cymric Dec.  24,  Jan.  2S.  Feb.  25 

605100    Mediterranean    Dl"*t 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— UENOA. 

Romanic  - - Dec.  5.  Jan.  16,  Feb.  27 

Republic  (new) Jan.  2.  Feb.  13,  Mar.  26 

Canopic Jan.  30.  Mar    12 

C.  I>.  TAYLOR,   Passenger  Agent,  Pacific  Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wbari  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe.  Nagasati,  Shanghai, 

and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Gaelic  (Calling  at  Manila;   Wednesday,  Nov.  35 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  23 

Coptic Friday.  January   15,   1904 

Gaelic   Wednesday,  Feb.  IO,  1904 

No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS.  General  Manager. 


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TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

1  ORIENTAL  S.  S,  CO.) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogoj,  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Hongkong  alaru Thursday,  December  3 

Nippon  31aru Wednesday,  December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 

America   Yluru     ..Monday.  Jannary  35,  1904 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 

431  Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.   H.  AVEKT,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  .  Ventura,  620010ns 

S.    S.    Alameda,  tor  Honolulu  only,  Nov.  z8,  1903, 

at  11  a.  u. 
S.  S.  M.«riposa,  ior  Tahiti,  Dec.  1,  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 
S.  S.  Ventura,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney.  Thursday,  Dec.  10,  1903,  at  2  p.  h. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 

LA  ZACUALPA 

Rubber  Plantation 
Company 

■  713  Market  St.,  S.F. 
AN  INVESTMENT  WORTH  INVESTIGATING 

BONESTELL,  RICHARDSON  &  CO. 


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DEALERS 
IN 


PAPER 


OF  All 

KINDS. 


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PHOTOGRAPHY. 

DEVELOPING  PLATES  AND  FILMS.  WE  HAVE 
a  new  and  original  process  through  which  we 
are  enabled  to  save  over  50  per  cent,  of  the  pic- 
tures formerly  lost  by  under  exposure.  Each  Sim 
is  developed  separately,  thus  making  it  possible 
to  assure  the  correct  treatment  for  every  ex- 
posure. There  is  no  increase  in  cost ;  simply 
more  satisfaction  lo  our  patrons.  Let  us  de- 
velop your  next  roll.  Kirk,  Geary  &  Co.,  "  Every- 
thing in  Photography,"  112  Geary  Street,  San 
Francisco. 

LIBRARIES. 

FRENCH  LIBRARY,  135  GEARY  STREET,  ESTAB- 
lished    1S76— 18,000   volumes. 

LAW  LIBRARY,  CITY  HALL,  ESTABLISHED 
1865 — 38,000  volumes. 

MECHANICS'  INSTITUTE  LIBRARY,  ESTAB- 
lishcd    [S55,    re-incorporated    1869-108.000   volumes. 

MERCANTILE  LIBRARY  ASSOCIATION  223 
Sutter  Street,  established  1852—80,000  volumes. 

PUBLIC       LIBRARY.      CITY       HALL.      OPENED 

June  ~.  tS79— 146.297  volumes. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

POSTER  PICTURES. 
Most  striking  effects  are  produced  by  premium  pictures 
mounted  on  harmonious  tinted  raw  silk  mat  boards 
—greens,  gravs,  black,  and  red;  most  stunning  and 
artistic  for  a  very  moderate  outlay.  Sanborn.  Vail 
&  Co..  741  Market  Street. 


1  H.  £ 


A  K  (j  U  M  A  U  T  . 


November  23,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


The  Poett-Carolan  Wedding. 
The  wedding  of  Miss  Genevieve  Carolan, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Carolan. 
and  Mr.  Henry  William  Poett  took  place  at 
the  residence  of  the  bride's  parents.  1714  Cali- 
fornia Street,  on  Tuesday.  The  ceremony  was 
performed  at  high  noon  by  the  Rev.  Burr  M. 
Weeden.  Miss  Emily  Carolan  was  her  sister's 
maid  of  honor,  and  Mr.  William  D.  Page  acted 
as  best  man.  The  ribbon  bearers  were  the 
bride's  niece,  little  Miss  Emily  Timlow,  and 
Master  Toe  Howard,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Harry  Howard.  A  wedding  breakfast  followed 
the  ceremony,  those  seated  at  the  bride's  table 
being  Miss  Emily  Carolan,  Mrs.  Laurance 
Irving  Scott,  Miss  Poett.  Miss  Sara  Collier. 
Mi=s"Cora  Smedbcrg.  Miss  Schussler.  Miss 
Isabel  Kittle.  Mr.  William  D.  Page,  Mr.  Fred 
Poett  Mr.  Gerald  Rathbone,  Mr.  Harry  Stet- 
son. Mr.  Harry  Simpkins.  Mr.  Arthur  Reding- 
ton  and  Mr.  Edgar  Carolan.  On  Wednesday, 
Mr.'  and  Mrs.  Poett  sailed  for  Honolulu  on  the 
Oceanic  steamship  Korea  on  their  wedding 
journey. 

Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

Miss  Helen  Chesebrough  and  Miss  Virginia 
Newell  Drown  will  make  their  formal  debut 
at  a  tea  to  be  given  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur 
Chesebrough  this  (Saturday)  afternoon  at 
their  residence,  3508  Clay  Street.  The  hours 
are  from  four  to  seven. 

Mrs.  William  Irwin  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday,  at  which  she  entertained  Mrs. 
.  imothy  Hopkins,  Mrs.  Bowie-Dietrick,  Mrs. 
Harry  Mendell,  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Mrs. 
William  S.  Tevis.  Mrs.  R.  Schwerin.  Mrs. 
Russell  Wilson,  Mrs.  Mountford  S.  Wilson, 
Mrs.  Joseph  B.  Crockett.  Mrs.  Ansel  Easton. 
Mrs  'Howard  Coit.  Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding, 
Mrs.  Walter  Dean.  Mrs.  Louis  Parrott,  Mrs. 
Robert   Oxnard,   and   Mrs.   Fred   Zeile. 

Mrs.  John  Rodgers  Clark  gave  a  luncheon 
in  honor  of  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton  at  her  resi- 
dence, 1800  Gough  Street,  on  Wednesday. 
Others  at  table  were  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton, 
Mrs.  Henry  Foster  Dutton,  Miss  Maye  Col- 
burn  Mrs.  Ferdinand  Stephenson,  Mrs.  Henry 
Bates.  Mrs.  Arthur  Callaghan.  Miss  Ethyl 
Hagar.  Mrs.  Alfred  Baker  Spalding,  Miss 
Kafherine  Dillon,  Miss  Ethel  Dean,  and  Miss 
Gertrude  Van  Wyck. 

Mrs.  John  I.  Sabin,  Mrs.  Redmond  Well- 
ington Pavne,  and  Miss  Pearl  Sabin  gave  a 
tea  on  Thursday  afternoon  at  the  Sabin  home 
on  California  Street. 

Miss  Helen  Dean  gave  a  theatre-party  at 
the  California  Theatre  on  Monday  night.  Her 
guests  were  Miss  Hazel  King,  Miss -Genevieve 
King,  Mr.  Athole  McBean,  Mr.  Herbert  Baker, 
Mr.   Frank  King,  and  Mr.   Marks. 

Miss  Alys  Sullivan  made  her  formal  debut 
at  a  tea  given  by  her  mother,  Mrs.  Francis 
J.  Sullivan,  at  her  residence  on  Jackson  Street 
on  Thursday  afternoon,  the  hours  being  from 
four  to  seven.  Assisting  Mrs.  Sullivan  in 
receiving  were  Miss  Phelan,  Miss  Ada  Sul- 
livan, Miss  Florence  Mullen.  Miss  Margaret 
Mee,  Miss  Frances  McKinstry,  Miss  Eugenie 
Peyton,  Miss  Bri  Conroy,  Miss  Florence  Cal- 
laghan, and  Miss  Helen  Pettigrew. 

Mrs.  Louis  F.  Mead  will  give  a  luncheon 
in  the  Red  Room  of  the  Bohemian  Club  on 
Wednesday  afternoon,  December  2d,  compli- 
mentary to  Miss  Marion  Smith.  Those  in- 
vited to  meet  the  guest  of  honor  are  Mrs. 
Frank  M.  Smith,  Mrs.  Frank  Wilson.  Mrs. 
A.  L.  White,  Miss  Florence  White,  Mrs. 
George  Sperry,  Mrs.  Hermann  Smith,  Mrs. 
Edward  Selfridge.  Mrs.  James  Scott  Wilson, 
Mrs.  Samuel  Wilson,  Miss  Elsie  Sperry,  Mrs. 
Henry  Wetherbee,  Mrs.  Klein,  Mrs.  Froelich, 
and  Miss  Katherine  Selfridge. 

Mrs.  Bowie-Dietrick  formally  presented  her 
niece.  Miss  Helen  Bowie,  at  a  tea  at  her  resi- 
dence, 1901  Jackson  Street,  on  Wednesday 
afternoon,,  the  hours  being  from  four  to  six 
o'clock.  The  receiving  party  included  Mrs. 
Chauncey  Winslow.  Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard,  Mrs. 
Rudolph  Spreckels.  Mrs.  Hyde-Smith,  Mrs. 
Walter  L.  Dean.  Mrs.  W.  B.  Collier,  Mrs. 
Fred  Lake.  Mrs.  Barroilhet,  Mrs.  Henry 
Crocker.  Miss  Emily  Wilson.  Miss  Annie  Wor- 
cester. Miss  Lutie  Collier,  Miss  Frances  Har- 
ris, Miss  Gertrude  Hyde-Smith.  Miss  Gertrude 
Buckley.    Miss    Grace    Buckley,    Miss    Violet 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absolutely  Pure 
7E  IRE  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


Buckley,  Miss  Dorothy  Gittings,  and  Miss 
V  irginia  Joliffe. 

The  Baroness  von  Schroteder  gave  a  lunch- 
eon at  the  University  Club  on  Tuesday,  at 
which  covers  were  laid  for  nine,  Among  the 
guests  were  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin,  Mrs.  Ox- 
nard, Mrs.  Winslow,  and  Mrs.  Sprague,  with 
whom  the  baroness  will  shortlv  leave  for  the 
East. 

Mrs.  John  Parrott  and  the  Misses  Parrott 
will  give  a  reception  this  (Saturday)  after- 
noon at  their  residence,  noo  O'Farrell  Street. 
The  hours  will  be  from  four  to  seven. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Maurice  Casey  and  Miss  Dil- 
lon will  give  a  tea  this  (Saturday)  afternoon 
from  four  until  seven  o'clock,  in  honor  of 
Mrs.  Malcolm  Henry,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
at  their  new  residence,  2906  Broadway.  The 
tea  will  be  followed  by  a  dinner,  at  which 
forty  of  Miss  Dillon's  friends  will  be  enter- 
tained. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Spreckels,  Jr.,  gave  a 
theatre-party  on  Monday  night  in  honor  of 
Miss  Jennie  Blair,  Miss  Grace  Spreckels,  and 
Miss  Lillie  Spreckels,  who  returned  from  the 
East  last  Sunday. 

Mrs.  Wheeler,  Mrs.  W.  R.  Wheeler,  and 
Miss  Gertrude  Wheeler  gave  their  second  re- 
ception of  the  season  on  Monday  afternoon, 
when  they  were  assisted  in  receiving  by  Miss 
Ardella  Mills,  Miss  Georgine  Shepard,  Miss 
Rickoff,  of  Berkeley,  Mrs.  S.  Goar,  and  Mrs. 
G.  Childs-Macdonald. 

Mrs.  Paul  Bancroft  will  give  a  tea  at  the  St. 
Dunstan's  this  (Saturday)  afternoon.  Those 
who  will  assist  her  in  receiving  will  be  Mrs. 
H.  H.  Bancroft,  Miss  Lucy  Bancroft,  Miss 
Georgie  Smith,  Miss  Helen  Gibbs,  Miss  Vir- 
ginia Gibbs,  Miss  Kathleen  Kent,  and  Miss 
Ethel  Kent. 


Wills  and  Successions. 
The    following    notes    concerning    the    most 
important   wills   and   sucessions   coming  up   in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest : 

Suit  has  been  brought  by  Thomas  H. 
Rooney,  uncle  of  the  late  Charles  L.  Fair, 
against  his  nephew's  estate,  to  recover 
seventy-five  thousand  dollars  for  services  as 
mining  expert  and  superintendent  for  a  period 
of  six  years  prior  to  Fair's  death.  Hermann 
Oelrichs  formally  rejected  the  claim  on  Sep- 
tember 26,  1902.  A  number  of  other  claims, 
aggregating  some  two  or  three  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  have  been  paid  by  the  executors, 
including  one  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars 
to  Detective  John  Seymour.  Those  who 
know  the  value  of  the  services  of  Mr.  Rooney 
to  the  late  Mr.  Fair,  claim  that  his  charge  for 
expert  services  is  by  no  means  excessive  "com- 
pared with  the  sum  paid  to  Detective  Sey- 
mour. 

The  estate  of  Henry  G.  Newhall  has  ueen 
appraised  at  $360,858.23,  of  which  $24,418.23 
is  cash,  and  the  bulk  of  the  balance  real  es- 
tate in  this  city  and  Los  Angeles  County. 


The  Burbank  Building,  which  is  to  be  va- 
cated by  the  Pacific-Union  Club  next  Novem- 
ber, has  been  offered  by  its  owners  to  the 
Union  League  Club  on  a  ten-year  lease  at 
$1,500  a  month.  Some  of  the  Union  League 
members,  however,  think  this  heavy  rent  will 
be  too  great  a  burden,  and  accordingly  they 
are  anxious  to  have  the  Press  Club,  which 
has  also  decided  to  move  to  other  quarters, 
join  with  them  in  the  renting  of  the  Burbank 
Building,  keeping  the  two  organizations  dis- 
tinct. A  committee  from  the  two  clubs  has 
been  appointed  to  confer  on  the  matter.  The 
Burbank  Building  has  three  large  floors  for 
club  purposes,  and  it  is  proposed  to  divide 
these  and  have  separate  entrances.  If  the 
clubs  deciae  against  the  Burbank  Building, 
it  will  be  changed  into  a  modern  rooming- 
house. 


A  theatrical  event  of  more  than  passing 
interest  to  German  amusement  seekers,  is 
announced  for  the  night  of  Sunday,  Novem- 
ber 29th,  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  on  which 
occasion  a  production  of  Blumentnal  and  Ka- 
delburg's  comedy,  "  Im  Weissen  RoessI  " 
("The  White  Horse  Tavern")  will  be  in- 
terpreted by  high-class  players  in  the  amateur 
ranks,  who  are  well  known  on  both  sides  of 
the  bay.  They  appeared  in  the  piece  a  short 
time  since,  and  their  success  was  such  as  to 
warrant  the  arrangements  for  the  presentation 
of  the  play  at  the  Columbia  Theatre. 


The  first  event  this  season  of  the  Ladies' 
Annex  of  the  San  Francisco  Golf  Club  took 
place  at  the  Presidio  links  on  Tuesday  morn- 
ing. The  competition  was  a  handicap  over 
eighteen  holes,  medal  play,  and  was  won  by 
Mrs.  E.  S,  Miller,  with  a  net  score  of  103; 
Miss  Edith  Chesebrough  being  second,  with 
a  gross  and  net  score  of  105.  Miss  Hoffman, 
Mrs.  J.  R.  Clark,  and  Miss  Alice  Hager  were 
the  other  contestants. 


The  first  fall  showers  have  done  wonders 
to  beautify  Mill  Valley  and  the  Marin  County 
hills.  Already  they  are  beginning  to  be  clothed 
in  verdure.  A  trip  to  Mt.  Tamalpais  through 
this  pretty  little  valley  is  especially  enjoyable 
at  this  time  of  the  year. 


San  Francisco  Shopping. 

Prompt  personal  attention  given  to  mail  orders  of 
every  description.  Christmas  shopping  a  specialty. 
Send  for  circular  and  references.  Mrs.  L.  M.  Laws, 
n6  Stockton  Street,  S^n  Francisco,  Cal. 

—  Maid  Servant. —An  experienced  second- 

girl  and   waitress  desires  a  situation.     The  best  of 
references  can  be  given.     Address  Argonaut.  Box  49. 


—  "Knox"  celebrated   hats;  fall  styles 
now  open.     Eugene  Korn,  Hatter,  746  Market  St. 


Promenade  Concert  at  the  Art  Institute. 
The  annual  fall  exhibition  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Art  Association  was  opened  on  Thurs- 
day evening,  with  a  reception  and  promenade 
concert,  when  the  following  programme  was 
rendered  under  the  direction  of  Henry  Hey- 
man : 

March,  "  American  Citizen,"  E.  E.  Schmitz  ; 
overture,  "  Raymond,"  Thomas ;  serenade, 
"  The  Dawn  of  Love,"  Bendix  ;  waltz,  "  South- 
ern Roses,"  Strauss;  selections,  "La  Boheme," 
Puccini ;  intermezzo,  "  Moorish,"  Arnold ; 
song,  "  For  All  Eternity "  (cornet  solo), 
Mascheroni ;  caprice,  "  La  Carita,"  Osborne  ; 
selections,  "The  Strollers,"  Englander  ;  waltz, 
"  Tout  Paris,"  Waldteufel ;  idyll,  "  Cupid's 
Bower,"    Mills ;    march,   A.    F.   Johannsen. 

During  the  exhibition,  concerts  will  be 
given  on  Wednesday  evening,  November  25th, 
and   Thursday   evening,    December  2d. 

Among  the  artists  represented  in  the  ex- 
hibition are : 

L.  Maynard  Dixon,  Anna  Frances  Briggs, 
Eda  St.  John  Smitten,  C.  A.  Beck,  G. 
F.  P.  Piazzoni,  J.  M.  Griffin,  Mrs.  Charles 
W.  Farnan,  Edith  Whitefield,  C.  P.  Neilson, 
Elmer  Wachtel,  Willis  E.  Davis,  L.  P.  Lati- 
mer, Amanda  Austin,  Helen  Fonda  Walker, 
Amy  B.  Dewing,  Mrs.  Ross  Morgan,  Lydia 
F.  Gibbon,  Mary  Hodgkirison,  A.  V.  Meyers, 
E.  W.  Treadwell.  Margaret  M.  Buck,  Ruth 
L.  McCarthy,  S.  L.  Waite,  C.  A.  Fries.  Kate 
H.  Maher,  H.  Hammarstrom,  Bertha  Stringer 
Lee,  Alice  M.  Best,  A.  W.  Best,  Carlos  J. 
Hittell,  Mary  C.  Brady,  Anne  M.  Bremer, 
Alice  B.  Chittenden,  John  M.  Gamble,  Will 
Sparks.  C.  Chapel  Judson,  Harry  W.  Seawell, 
Mary  D.  Barber,  Maren  M.  Froelich.  Marga- 
ret Bradford,  De  Neale  Morgan,  and  H.  K. 
Bloomer. 


The  first  dividend  that  the  San  Francisco 
Gas  and  Electric  Company  has  paid  since 
Claus  Spreckels  opened  war  upon  it  was  de- 
clared this  week,  it  being  at  the  rate  of  $2.50 
per  share,  amounting  in  all  to  about  $350,000. 
The  transfer  of  the  properties  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Gas  and  Power  Company  and  the 
Independent  Electric  Light  and  Power  Com- 
pany to  the  San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric 
Company  has  been  completed,  under  the 
terms  of  the  agreement  entered  into  on  July 
2,  1903.  Cash  and  bonds  to  the  amount  of 
$6,210,000  were  paid  to  John  D.  Spreckels 
and  A.  B.  Spreckels,  who  represent  Claus 
-Spreckels.  The  San  Francisco  company  has 
given  the  Union  Trust  Company  a  mortgage 
on  all  its  properties  to  secure  an  issue  of 
bonds  amounting  to  $10,000,000,  payable  in 
1933,  with  interest  at  4^4  per  cent,  per  year, 
and  this  mortgage  was  recorded  Tuesday. 


The  death  of  the  late  William  L.  Elkins, 
the  multi-millionaire  of  Pennsylvania,  de- 
velops the  fact  that  he  has  completely  ignored 
in  his  will  his  daughter-in-law,  Mrs.  William 
L.  Elkir.s,  Jr.  Her  husband  died  not  many 
months  ago,  and  it  was  supposed  that  the 
senior  Elkins  would  handsomely  remember 
his  son's  young  widow.  She  is  now  lying 
critically  ill.  and  the  doctors  have  not  re- 
vealed to  her  the  fact  of  her  being  cut  off  in 
the  will.  Mrs.  Elkins  was  formerly  Miss 
Kate  Felton.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Senator 
Charles  N.  Felton,  and  a  sister  of  C.  N,  Fel- 
ton, Jr.  Mrs.  Elkins  is  by  no  means  left 
destitute  by  the  curious  will  of  the  senior 
Elkins,  as  her  father,  Senator  Felton.  is  a 
man  of  wealth,  and  has  one  of  the  finest 
country  places  at  Menlo   Park. 


The  statements  of  the  expenses  of  candi- 
dates in  the  recent  election,  which  have  just 
been  filed,  makes  interesting  reading.  City 
Attorney  Lane  says  he  expended  $391.45  in 
an  effort  to  become  mayor.  H.  J.  Crocker 
spent  $583,  H.  H.  Lynch  $793-50,  R.  J. 
Loughery  $1 16.50,  Edwin  M.  Sweeney  $150, 
E.  H.  Aigeltjnger  $104.80,  Thomas  C.  Duff 
$102,  Cary  Friedlander  $102,  G.  G.  Vickerson 
$118,  J.  F.  Jewell  $95-85.  J-  J-  Furey  $118,  E. 
W.  Kent  119.20,  William  E.  Lutz  $135-90, 
E.  S.  Salomon  $410,  Thomas  H.  Morris  $392. 


The  board  of  trustees  of  the  Mechanics' 
Library  have  decided  to  adorn  their  build- 
ing on  Post  Street  with  an  artistic  entrance. 
The  designs  for  the  hall  and  vestibule  were 
prepared  by  Arthur  Mathews,  the  dean  of  the 
Art  School,  who  will  superintend  their  execu- 
tion. The  present  staircase  will  be  turned 
into  the  main  library  room  on  the  first  floor, 
and  the  vestibule  decorated  in  quartered  oak, 
leaded  cathedral  glass,  panels,  and  a  beautiful 
mural  decoration  by  Mathews. 


A.    P.     HOTALING'S     OLD    KIRK. 


A  Whisky  Well  Matured  by  Modern  Scien- 
tific Methods. 
We  recommend  A.  P.  Hotaling's  Old  Kirk 
as  a  straight  blend  of  the  very  best  Kentucky 
whiskies,  unadulterated  and  guaranteed  to  be 
the  purest  whisky  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  It 
has  been  matured  in  heated  warehouses,  and 
is  now  ready  for  the  market.  Any  person 
who  buys  a  bottle  of  these  rare  old  goods  will 
not  be  paying  for  fence  ads.  or  dead  walls, 
and  he  will  secure  absolutely  the  finest  brand 
ever  introduced  in  California.  Now  election 
is  over  let's  all  take  a  drink  of  Old  Kirk. 


A  .    >\  i  rsc  li  man , 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Building,    806   Market    Street.     Specialty : 
"  Colton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 


Pears' 

What  is  wanted  of  soap 
for  the  skin  is  to  wash  it 
clean  and  not  hurt  it. 
Pure  soap  does  that.  This 
is  why  we  want  pure  soap; 
and  when  we  say  pure, 
we  mean  without  alkali. 

Pears'  is  pure  ;  no  free 
alkali.  You  can  trust  a 
soap  that  has  no  biting  in 
it,   that's   Pears'. 

Established  over  ton  years. 


/<j^0  A     g  00  d 
■?    glove    tor  a 
^'dollar  and  a   half 

Gen  tern  eri 


(^oCpdU^ 


The  art  of  cocktail  mixing  is  to  so  blend 
the  ingredients  that  no  one  is  evident,  but 
the  delicate  flavor  of  each  is  apparent. 
Is  this  the  sort  of  cocfctail  the  man  gives 
you  who  does  it  by  guesswork?  There's 
never  a  mistake  in  a  CLUB  COCKTAIL. 
It  smells  good,  tastes  good,  is  good — 
always.  Just  strain  through  cracked  ice. 
Seven  kinds — Manhattan,  Martini,  Ver- 
mouth, Whiskey,  Holland  Gin,  Tom  Gin 
and  York.. 

G.  F.  HEUBLEIN  &  BRO.,  Sole  Proprietors, 
Hartford  New  York  London 


PACIFIC    COAST    AGtNTs 

THE  SPOHN-PATRICK  CO. 

400-404  Battery  St.,  Sail  Francisco,  Cal. 


EMSNGTON 

Standard  Typewriter 

211  Montgomery  Street,  San  franclico 


HOT 

AND 

HANDY 

TESLA  BRIQUETTES 

Nov*  Greatly  Improved. 

TESLA   COAL   CO. 

Phone  South  95. 


Coachman  Wants 

a  place.  Not  used  to  the  city; 
country  preferred.  Good  driver; 
used  to  handling  horses  and  coirs. 
Does  not  drink  ;  highest  refer- 
ences given.  Address  Box  173, 
Argonaut  office. 


November  23,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


359 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

,THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  oi  this  most  famous  hotel. 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
innounce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
un  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
iichelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  HESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

WOO  SUTTER  STREET 


For  tliose  who  appreciate  comfort' 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  FLAN 
1  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEORGE  "WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 


BYRON  HOT  SPRINGS 


1    Open  all  the  year.     Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
I  liroate.     Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 

aost  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,   gout, 

ciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
t  laiaria. 
I    Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 

lates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by    Southern  Pacific,    two  and  one-halt 

i  ours   from  San  Francisco.     Three  trains  daily,  at 

.30  A.  M.,  10  A.  M.,  and  3.30  P.  M. 
For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's   Information    Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

Hm  R.  WARNER,  Manager, 

Byron  Hot  Springs  P.  O. 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty -four  trains   daily  each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

;UISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

K.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 


SOODYEAR'S 


»  GOLD  SEAL" 
RUBBER  GOODS 
THE  BEST  HADE 


Mackintoshes  and  Raincoats 

For  Men,  Women,  and  Chil- 
dren. Any  size,  any  quantity 

Rubber  Boots  and  Sboes 
Rubber  and  Oiled  Clothing 
Rubber  and  Oiled  Goods 

(for  sportsmen) 

Fishing   and   Wading    Boots, 
Hunting  Boots  and  Coats. 

Goodyear  Rubber  Co. 

R.  H.  Pease,  Pres. 

F.  M.  Shepard,  Jr.,  Tres. 
Ladies'  Rain  Coal.  c-  F-  R"ny°n.  Sec. 

573-575-577-579  Market  St. 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 


TYPEWRITERS. 


a  RE  AX 

BARGAINS 

We  sell  and  rent  better  machines  for  less  money  than 
ny  house  on  the  Pacific  Coast.    Send  for  Catalogue. 
Supplies  of  standard  quality  always  on  hand. 

THE  TYPEWRITER  EXCHANGE, 

36  California  Street--.     Telephone  Main  266. 


The  Minetti  Orchestra 

OF  100  AMATEURS 


Applicants  for  membership  or  jiifnrnuition 
ply  to  secretary  Minetti  Orchestra  of  San 
ancisco.    P.  O.  Box  3673,  City. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mrs.  Homer  King  has  been  for  the  past 
month  with  her  mother,  Mrs.  Smith  Brown, 
at  Napa,  where  they  have  been  breaking  up 
their  old  home,  "  Delia  Rancho." 

Mrs.  James  D.  Bailey  and  Miss  Florence 
Bailey  have  returned  from  their  Eastern  visit, 
and  are  at  their  residence,  19 15  Franklin 
Street,  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  Walter  S.  Martin  was  in  Los  Angeles 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Alfred  Voorhies  is  visiting  her  daugh- 
ter,  Mrs.  Scott,  in  Baltimore. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  Hemphill  have  returned 
from  their  ranch  in  the  south  after  a  brief 
vacation  for  rest  and  recuperation. 

Mrs.  Loughborough  and  Miss  Josephine 
Loughborough  sailed  from  New  York  for  Eu- 
rope on  Tuesday. 

Mrs.  Ives  and  Miss  Florence  Ives  are  at 
Santa  Barbara,  where  they  have  taken  a  cot- 
tage for  two  months. 

Mr.  Joseph  M.  Quay  has  returned  from  the 
East,  after  an  absence  of  a  couple  of  months. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  P.  Ayres  and  Miss  Caroline 
Ayres  came  up  from  Menlo  Park  on  Monday, 
and  will  reside  at  2127  California  Street  for 
the  remainder  of  the  season. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  C.  Breedon  have  returned 
from  the  East,  where  they  have  spent  the 
last  two  months. 

Mr.  John  Mailliard  and  Miss  Lulu  Mailliard 
are  in  town  for  the  winter,  residing  on  Baker 
Street. 

Mrs.  D.  D.  Colton,  who  now  resides  in 
Washington,  D.  C„,  expects  to  spend  the 
winter  in  California,  and  will  probably  arrive 
here  within  a  fortnight. 

Mrs.  Kauftman  and  Miss  Laura  Kauffman, 
who  have  been  spending  several  weeks  in 
New  York,  are  expected  home  about  December 
10th. 

Mrs. -William  I.  Kip  and  Miss  Mary  Kip 
expect  to  leave  about  the  middle  of  December 
for  the  East,  where  Miss  Kip's  marriage  to 
Dr.  Robinson  will  take  place. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  J.  Landers  are  spend- 
ing the  winter  at  the  St.  Dunstan's. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Buckbee,  accompanied  by  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Van  Fleet,  leaves  for  the  East 
to-day  (Saturday).  They  will  be  absent  sev- 
eral weeks. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Louis  C.  Masten  left  last 
Monday  for  their  home  in  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

Mr.  Clinton  E.  Worden  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Newhall  (nee  Taylor) 
have  arrived  in  New  York  from  Europe. 
Upon  their  arrival  here  soon,  they  will  occupy 
apartments  at  the  Palace  Hotel  until  their 
residence  on  Pacific  Avenue  is  completed. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sterling  Postley  are  the 
guests  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clarence  Postley  in 
New  York. 

Mr.  John  Hays  Hammond  arrived  from  the 
East  early  in  the  week,  en  route  to  Oroville. 
Miss  Bessie  Bowie,  who  has  been  visiting 
her  aunts,  the  Misses  Friedlander,  since  last 
July,  departed  early  in  the  week  for  Paris, 
where  she  will  resume  her  musical  studies. 

Mrs.  Emma  Shafter-Howard  and  her  son, 
Mr.  Karl  Howard,  have  taken  apartments  at 
St.    Dunstan's. 

Mrs.  Monroe  Salisbury  returned  a  few  days 
ago  from  her  trip  East. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  Hopkins  will  arrive 
in  New  York  within  a  fortnight,  and  are  ex- 
pected here  about  the  middle  of  December. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  L.  Requa  sailed  for 
Honolulu  on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Korea  on 
Wednesday.  They  expect  to  be  absent  several 
months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Bayard  Cutting,  Jr.,  of 
New  York,  were  at  the  Palace  Hotel  during 
the  week. 

A  party  including  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  G. 
Buckbee,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  B.  Cushing, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  J.  Woods,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  W.  Lent,  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Tubbs  re- 
cently visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais. 

Hon.  Dean  C.  Worcester,  a  member  of  the 
Philippine  Commission,  who  has  been  in  the 
United  States  for  several  months  on  a  leave 
of  absence,  arrived  from  the  East  early  in 
the  week,  and,  with  his  family,  sailed  for 
Manila  on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Korea  on 
Wednesday. 

Among  the  week's  visitors  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  M.  Pitts- 
burg, of  Racine,  Wis.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  S. 
Andrews,  of  Chicago,  Miss  Wilson,  of  Balti- 
more, Mr.  J.  S.  Laidlaw,  of  New  York,  Mrs. 
Edward  S.  Griffith,  Mr.  William  Griffith,  and 
Mr.  James  Jenkins,  of  Ross  Valley,  Mr.  Walter 
A.  Seimart,  of  Oakland,  Mr.  M.  E.  Pinckaid, 
of  San  Rafael,  Miss  Florence  Hayes,  Mr.  R. 
P.  Greer,  Mr.  N.  J.  Miller,  Mr.  Daniel  E. 
Hayes,  Mr.  F.  B.  Anderson,  and  Mr.  J.  S. 
Van  Ness. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Ra- 
fael were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Austin,  of  New 
York,  Mrs.  F.  B.  Cramton,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Gates, 
Mrs.  Lavouche  and  Mr.  George  H.  Cutts,  of 
Rutland,  Vt.,  Miss  Bontwell,  of  Boston,  Mrs. 
A.  Meyers,  of  Seattle,  Mr.  G.  R.  Jones,  Mr. 
R.  S.  Stubbs,  Mr.  H.  L.  Meek,  Mr.  A.  S. 
Moris,  and  Mr.  Charles  A.  Ramsay,  of  Chi- 
cago, Mr.  Stanley  W.  Forsman,  of  Williams- 
port,  Miss  Cook,  of  Santa  Barbara,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Armsby,  Miss  Florence  Hammond,  Miss 
Hammond,  Mr.  L.  C.  Hammond,  Mr.  R.  E. 
Hammond,  Mr.  Leland  S.  Ransdell,  and  Mr. 
W.  O.  B.  Macdonough. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended: 

Major-General  Arthur  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A., 
accompanied  by  Mrs  MacArthur  and  his  aid- 
de-camp.  Colonel  Parker  W.  West,  U.  S.  A., 
sailed  on  Wednesday  on  the  Oceanic  steam- 
ship Korea  for  Honolulu,  to  remain  about 
three  weeks  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  He  will 
make    the    annual    inspection    of    Camp    Mc- 


Kinley,  the  army  hospital,  and  the  garrison, 
and  will  also  visit  the  islands  in  the  Hawaiian 
group  to  find  the  most  suitable  location  for 
an  army  post. 

Mrs.  Guy  L.  Edie  and  her  two  young  daugh- 
ters arrived  from  Columbus  Barracks  last 
Sunday,  and  expects  to  remain  here  all  winter. 
Dr.  Edie,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was  unexpectedly 
called  to  Washington,  D.  C,  will  probably  join 
her  here  later. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Henry  S.  Kilbourne, 
chief  surgeon  of  the  Department  of  California, 
has  been  transferred  to  the  division  of  the 
Philippines.  He  will  sail  on  December  1st  for 
Manila. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Alexander  Rodgers.  Fif- 
teenth Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  was  among  the  pas- 
sengers from   Manila  on  the  transport  Logan. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Edwin  B.  Bolton,  Tenth 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  arrived  from  Fort  As- 
siniboine,  Mont., last  week,  and  is  now  with  his 
regiment  at  the  Presido. 

Colonel  William  M.  Wallace,  Fifteenth 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  returned  from  service  in  the 
Philippines  on  the  transport  Logan  last  Sun- 
day. 

Colonel  Percival  C.  Pope,  U.  S.  M.  C,  has 
assumed  command  of  the  marine  barracks  at 
the  Mare  Island  Navy  Yard,  succeeding 
General  Robert  L.  Meade.  U.  S.  M.  C. 

Colonel  H.  O.  S.  Heistand.  U.  S.  A.,  re- 
cently adjutant-general  in  the  Philippines,  ac- 
companied by  Mrs.  Heistand,  returned  from 
the  Orient  on  the  transport  Thomas  last 
week. 

The  total  receipts  from  the  sale  of  tickets 
at  the  Stanford-California  football  game 
amounted  to  $25,173.  The  expenses  of  the 
game  were  approximately  $7,200.  This  leaves 
a  balance  of  about  $18,000  to  be  divided 
equally  between  Stanford  and  California.  In 
addition  to  her  share  of  $9,000  from  the  sale 
of  football  tickets,  Stanford  also  receives 
$580  profit  from  managing  Fischer's  Theatre 
on  the  night  of  the  game,  and  $200  from  the 
sale  of  souvenir  programmes  at  the  game. 
Thus  the  total  financial  advantage  of  the 
game  to  Stanford  is  about  $9,780.  This 
money  is  used  in  paying  coaches,  trainers. 
and  other  football  expenses  of  the  season, 
and  the  balance  goes  into  the  student-bo  uy 
treasury.  The  total  receipts  from  this  year's 
game  were  the  largest  in  the  history  of  West- 
ern intercollegiate  football  games,  nearly 
14,000  people  being  present. 

Admiral  Dewey  has  sold  his  summer  home. 
'*  Beauvoir,"  in  the  suburbs  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  The  purchaser  is  Fred  Sharon,  a  son 
of  the  late  Senator  Sharon,  of  California, 
and  a  brother-in-law  of  Senator  Newlands,  of 
Nevada.  Near  the  Dewey  place  stands  the 
old  residence  occupied  by  President  Cleve- 
land during  the  heated  period,  when  Congress 
was  in  session. 


Spain  in  1903. 

Jerome  Hart's  new  book,  "  Two  Argonauts 
in  Spain,"  makes  nearly  three  hundred  pages, 
and  is  now  ready.  It  is  very  handsomely 
printed  on  costly  wove  paper  from  new  type. 

Over  a  score  of  illustrations  accompany  the 
text,  from  photographs  taken  by  the  Two 
Argonauts. 

The  book  has  a  rich  rubricated  title  in 
pseudo- Arabic,  framed  in  a  Moorish  arch- 
way copied  from  the  Alhambra,  and  a  colored 
map  of  Spain. 

It  is  bound  in  a  handsome  cover  emblazoned 
with  the  emblems  of  the  various  provinces  of 
Spain — castles  for  Castile,  lions  for  Leon, 
pomegranates  for  Granada,  chains  for 
Navarre,  etc. 

Price  to  Argonaut  subscribers,  $1.50;  by 
mail,  $1.68.  The  Argonaut  Company,  246 
Sutter  Street,  San  Francisco. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746   Market  Street. 


—  Coachman  wants  a  place.  Not  used  to 
the  city  ;  country  preferred.  Good  driver  ;  used  to 
handling  horses  and  cows.  Does  not  drink;  highest 
references  given.     Address  Box  173.  Argonaut  office. 


—  Correct,  nattv,  are  the  Ladies'  Shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  "Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco. 


the  Tawriu  Champagne 


WILLIAM  WOLFre.  CO. 

Pacific  Coast  Agents 


ROBERT  TITTLE  McKEE 

Consulting  Decorator  and  Designer 

Formerly  with  ricCann,  Belcher,  and  Allen, 
San  Francisco, 

CAN  BE  SEEN  BY  APPOINTMENT 
AT  BIS  STUDIO 

307  Fifth  Avenue 

One  block  sooth  of  Waldorf-Astoria. 
Telephone  967  R  Madison  Square. 


Clients  wishing  to  select  directly  from  the  trade 
Imported  Fabrics.  Paper  Hangings  (English, 
French,  and  German).  Upholstery.  Objects  of  Art, 
Furniture,  Prints  or  Pictures  will  find  Mr.  McK.ee 
acquainted  with  the  best  art  dealers  and  wholesale 
shops. 

Mr.  McKee  can  show  the  most  a  tistic  color 
combinations  and  give  ideas  for  the  newest  designs 
in  making  and  arranging. 

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loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN    FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


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Phelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  5387-  SAN  FRANCISCO. 

Educational. 


St.  Helen's  Hall 

Has  a  Normal  Kindergarten 
training  class  in  connection 
with  its  Academic  Depart- 
ment. Separate  residence. 
Two  -  year  course.  Model 
kindergarten.  Provides  prac- 
tice work.  For  details  ad- 
dress ELEANOR  TEBBETTS, 
Principal. 


Ogontz    School    for    Young    Ladles . 

Twentv  minutes  from  Philadelphia,  two  hours  from 
New  York.     Mr.  Jay  Cooke's  fine  property.     For  circu- 
lars address         Miss  Sylvia  J.  Eastman,  Principal. 
Ogontz  School  P.O.,  Pa. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


November  23,  1903. 


SOUTHERN    PACIFIC. 

Train*  leave  and  are  due  to  arrive  at 

SAN   FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

lkave    I     From  October  21,  1903.       |    arkivb 

7.00  a  Uenicia,  Suisira,  Elinira,  and  Sacra- 
mento           7 . 25  p 

7.00  a     Vacaville,  Winters.  Rumsey 7.55  p 

7.30  a     Martinez,  San  Ramon.  Vallejo,  Napa, 

Caltstoga,  Santa  Rosa 6.25  p 

7 .  30  a     Niles,    Livtrrmore,    Tracy,    Lathrop, 

Stockton 7.25  p 

8.00  a     Davis,  Woodland,   Knight's   Landing, 

Marysville,  Orovillc 7-55  P 

8.00  a     Atlantic  Express — Ogden  and  East. . .        10.25  a 

8.30  a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antioch,  li>ion, 
Tracy.  Stockton,  Sacramento, 
Newman,  Los  llanos,  Mendoia, 
Armona.  Lemoorc,  Hanfoid.  Vi- 
salia. Porterville 4.25  p 

8.30  a  Port  Costa.  Martinez,  Tracy.  Laih. 
ropi  Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno,  Gi - 
shen  Junction,  1  emoore,  Hanford, 
Visalia,  Bakersfield 4.5s  p 

8.30  a  Shasta  Express  —  Davis.  Williams 
(for  Bartlett  Springs),  Willows, 
jFruio.  Red  Bluff,  Portland 7-55  P 

8.30  a  NilcS,  Sanjosl,  Livennore,  Stockton, 
lone,  Sacramento,  Plat  en-ille,  Marys- 
ville. Chico.  Red  Bluff 4.25  p 

8.30  a     Oakctale,    Chinese,    Jamestown,     Sc- 

nora,  Tuolumne,  and  Angels 4.25  p 

9.00  3     Martinez  and  Way  Stations 6  55  p 

10.00  a     Vallejo 1225  p 

10  00  a  Port  Costa,  Martini;',  Byron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton,  Merced,  Ray- 
mond, Frei-no,  Hanford,  Visalia, 
Bakersfield,  Los  Angeles  (West- 
bound arrives  via  Coast  Line) fi.30  p 

10.00  a  The  Overland  Limited— Ogden,  Den- 
ver, Omaha,  Chicago 6.25  p 

12.00  m  Hay  ward,  Niles.  and  Way  Stations...  3  25  p 
Ti.oo  p     Sacramento  River  Steamers tn.oo  p 

3.30  p  Benicia,  Winters,  Sacramento.  Wood- 
land, Knights  Landing,  Marysville, 
Oroville,  and   Way  Stations 10.55  a 

3.30  p     Hayward,  Niles.  and  Way  Stations...         7  55  P 

3.30  p  Port  Costa.  Martinez,  B\ron,  Tracy, 
Lathrop,  Modesto,  Me  iced.  1-resno, 
and  Way  Stations  beyond  Fori  Costa       12.25  P 

3.30  p     Martinez,  1  racy,  Stockton.  Lodi....        10.25  a 

4.00  p     Martinez,  San  Ramon,  Vallejo,  Napa. 

Calistoga,  Santa  Rosa 9.25  a 

4.oop     Niles,  Tracy,  Stockton,  Lodi 4.25  p 

4.30  p     Hayward,     Niles,     Irvington,    San  \        t8-55  a 
Jose\   Livermore f       t"-55  a 

5.00  p  The  Owl  Limited —  Newman,  Los 
Banos,  Mendota,  Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakersfield,    Los  Angeles 8 .  55  a 

5.00  p     Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton 12.25  p 

15.30  p     Hayward,  Niles,  and  San  Jose" 7.25  a 

6.00  p     Hayward,  Niles,  and  San  Jose 10.25  a 

6.00  p  Oriental  Mail  —  Ogden,  Denver. 
Omaha,  St.  Louis, Chicagonnd  East. 
Port  Costa, Benicia,  Suisun,  Elmira, 
Davis  Sacramento,  Rocklin,  Au- 
burn, Colfax,  Truckee,  1'oca,  Rei  o, 
Wad-worth,  Winneinucca  Battle 
Mountain,  Elko 4-?5  P 

6.00  p     Vallejo,  daily,  except  Sunday ) 

7. cop     Vallejo.  Sunday  only I  ''"^ 

7  00  p     San  Pablo,  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  and 

Way  Stations 11.25  a 

8  05  p     Oregon  and  California  Express,  Sacra- 

mento,  Marysville,    Redding,   Port- 
land, Puget  Sound,  and  East....'. .  8.55  a 
9.10  p     Hayward,    Niles  and  San    Jose    (Sun- 
day only) 11.55  a 

COAST  LINE  (Narrow  Gauge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

8.15  a  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose",  Felton. 
Boulder    Creek,    Santa    Cruz,    and 

Way  Stations .         5 .  55  p 

t2.i5P  Newark,  Centerville,  San  Jose\  New 
Almaden,  Los  Gatos,  Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz,  and 
Principal  Way  Stations 10.55  a 

4.15  p     Newark,    San   Jose*,    Los    Gatos    and 

Way  Stations t8  55  a 

09.30  p  Hunter*  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose"  and  Way  Stations.  Sunday 
only  returns  jrom  Los  Gatos 17-25  P 

OAKLAND  HARBOR  FERRY. 

From  SAN  FRANCISCO— Foot  of  Market  St.  (Slip  8)— 
17.15         9.00         11.  ooam,        1. 00        3.00        5.15pm 

FromOAKLAND — Foot  of  Broadway—  to. 00  JS.oo 
18.05     10.00  a  m     12.00     2.00    4.00  pm 

COAST  LINE  (Broad  Gauge). 

SST  (Third  and  Townsend  Sheets.) 

San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations 6 .  30  p 

San  J  ose"  and  Way  Stations 5  ■  36  P 

New  Almaden  (Tuts.,  Frid.,  only)  . .  4. to  p 

Coast  Line  Limited—  Stop1-  onlj  San 
Jose\  Gilroy  (connecii<  n  for  Hol- 
lister),  Pajaro,  Castroville.  Salinas. 
San  Ardo,  Paso  Robles,  Santa 
Margarita,  San  Luis  Obispo.  Prin 
cipal  stations  thence  Surf  (connec- 
tion for  Loinpocl  principal  stations 
thence  Santa  Barbara  and  Los 
Angeles.  Connection  at  Castro- 
ville   to  and     from    Monterey    and 

Pacific  Grove i°-45  P 

0.00  a  San  Jose",  Tres  Pinos,  Capitola,  Santa 
Cruz,  Pacific  Grove,  Salinas,  San 
Luis   Obispo,  and    Principal    Way 

Stations 4-i°p 

10.30  a     San  Jose"  and  Way  Stations 1 .20  p 

11.30  a     Santa  Clara,  San  Jose",  Los  Gatos,  and 

Way  Stations 7  -  30  p 

1.311  p     San  Jose*  and  Way  Stations 8.36  a 

3.uop  Pacific  Grove  Express— Sania  Clara. 
San  Jose",  Del  Monte.  Monierey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek,  and  Narrow  Gauge  I'oints) 
ai  1  iilroy  for  Hollister,  Tres  Pinos, 

at  CaMroville  for  Salinas 12  15  p 

3.30P    GilroyWaj  Passenger Sio  45  a 

t4  4s  p  San  Jnse  (via  Santa  Clara,  LoftGatOS, 
and  Principal  Way  Stations  (ex- 
cept Sunday) '9  -.1.  a 

15.30  p    San  Jose1  and  Principal  Way  Stations        t8  00  a 
6  00  p     Sunset      Limited.     I'.astbotind  —  San 
Luis  Obispo,  Sam  a    Barbara,   \xa 

Angeles.  DemtDg,  El  Paso.  New 
Orleans,  N.w  York.  (Westbound 
arrives  via  San  Joaquin  Valley). .. .       ?'9.?5  a 

tfi  15  p  San  Mateo.  Beresford,  Bc'moni,  San 
1  arlos,       Redwood,      Fair       Oaks, 

Menlo  Pari  .  Palo  Alio 16  46  a 

1.    jn  |i     Sait    lose*  and  Wav  Stations    6.36a 

ii.gop  Smith  San  Fr  >n<  isco,  M  illume.  Bur 
lingame,  San  Mateo,  Belmont,  Son 
1  nrlos.  Redwood)  Fait  (i.iks,  Menlo 

Park,  and  Palo  Alio   9  45  P 

(It  1  30  p  M a \  field.  Mountain  \  i-  W,  Sunny- 
vale, I  nwrence,  Santa  Clara,  nnd 
San   lose"      t9  45  P 


6. 10  a 
7.00  a 
8.00a 
8.00  a 


a  for  Morning.         p  for  Afternoon, 
I  Sunday  only.         |J  Slip*.  ..t  all  illations  on  Sunday, 
t  Sunday  excelled.         a  Saturday  only. 
•  Via  <  oast  Line, 
a' Via  San  Joaquin  Valley. 
(f-jTOnly  trains  stopping  ai  Valeni  ia  St.  lOUthbound  are 
6.10  am,  T7>oo  am.,  n. m  .  <  |0  pm,  and  6.30  pm 

--    lie     UNION     TRANSFER     COMPANY     will 

•ill  for  and  check  baggage  from  hotels  and  residences. 
'1  '-phone,  i  ichangi  B3.  Inquire  ol  Ticket  Agents  for 
lie  Cards  and  other  tnfbrmtttino. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Her  first  proposal :  Madge — "  Was  she 
glad  when  he  told  her  the  old,  old  story?" 
Marjorie — "  You  bet  she  was.  Why.  that 
girl   never   heard    it   before." — Puck. 

Department-store  courtesies :  Floor-walker 
— "  Ah,  good-day,  madam.  Call  again."  Mrs. 
Outertown- — ■"  I  will,  thank  ye.  An'  you-uns 
must   come   ter  see   us  !" — Chicago   News. 

"Do  you  drink?"  inquired  the  young 
woman's  mother.  The  young  man  hesitated. 
"  Do  you  drink?"  the  lady  repeated.  "  If 
you  insist,"  replied  the  modest  young  man. — 
Cleveland  Plain  Dealer. 

Going  to  extremes  :  Suaso — "  Ihis  souvenir 
habit  is  getting  to  be  something  fierce." 
Rodd — "  I  should  say  so.  I  know  of  a  man 
who  visited  a  friend  and  took  his  friend's 
wife    as    a    souvenir." — Life. 

Patron — "  I  suppose  the  leading  lady  is  very 
happy  after  getting  all  those  bouquets." 
Usher — "  Oh,  no.  She  only  got  five."  Patron 
— "Gracious!  isn't  that  enough?"  Usher — 
"No:  she  paid  for  six,  I  believe." — Philadel- 
phia  Press. 

Diner — "  Waiter,  there  is  a  slight  mistake. 
I  ordered  a  spring  chicken  and  -a  bottle  of 
1SS4  Pommery."  Waiter — "  Yes,  sir."  Diner 
"  You  have  brought  me  some  Pommery  of 
last  spring  and  a  chicken  of  1884." — Chris- 
tian Register. 

"  Well,  Tommy,  how  are  you  getting  on  at 
school?"  "First  rate.  I  aint  doing  so  well 
as  some  of  the  other  boys,  though  I  can  stand 
on  my  head  ;  but  I  have  to  put  my  feet  against 
the  wall.  I  want  to  do  it  without  the  wall  at 
all!"— Punch. 

Mistook  the  symptoms  :  He — "  Look  at  that 
woman  on  the  other  side  of  the  street  waving 
her  hands  about  her  head.  Is  she  practicing 
physical  culture?"  She — "Mercy,  no!  She's 
describing  her  new  hat  to  another  woman." — 
Chicago  News, 

Within  the  limit:  Jones — "I  wish  you 
would  figure  on  a  new  house  for  me." 
Architect — "  Something  about  five  thousand 
dollars?"  Jones — "No;  something  about  five 
hundred.  I've  only  got  five  thousand  to  spend 
on  it." — Judge. 

Not  what  she  expected:  Lady  (of  un- 
certain age) — "  I  have  put  your  seat  next  to 
mine.  Mr.  Rawlinson ;  I  hope  you  do  not 
mind?"  Mr.  Rawlinson — "Mind,  my  dear 
lady;  you  know  how  little  it  takes  to  satisfy 
me." — Tit-Bits. 

His  Thanksgiving  dinner:  "  I.  am  very 
sorry,  Victor,  to  think  you  were  such  a  glut- 
ton. Are  you  not  sorry  yourself  that  you  ate 
so  much  turkey?"  "Yes,  mother,  'cause  I 
hadn't  any  other  room  left  for  the  mince  pie." 
— Harper's  Bazar. 

Definite:  Mr.  Newly-wed  (in  the  kitchen) 
— "What  are  you  cooking  there,  my  dear?" 
Mrs.  Newly-wed  (excitedly) — "  Don't  bother 
me  now.  There's  the.  cook-book.^  I'm  mak- 
ing receipe  No.  187  on  page  396." — Woman's 
Home  Companion. 

"  Although  I  have  granted  you  this  inter- 
view," said  the  pompous  new  office-holder. 
"  I  don't  want  people  to  think  I'm  in  the 
habit  of  talking  for  publication."  "  They 
won't,"  replied  the  reporter.  "  when  they  see 
these  remarks  in  print."  —  Philadelphia 
Ledger. 

"  I  seen  you  kissin'  Mame,"  said  her  little 
brother.  "  Well,  here,"  said  the  dear  girl's 
accepted  lover,  "  if  I  give  you  a  dime  can  I 
trust  you  to  say  nothing  about  it?"  "  Sure  ! 
I  never  peached  on  any  of  the  other  fellows 
when  they  gave  me  money."  —  Philadelphia 
I^edger. 

Quick  work  :  The  judge — "  Supposing  your 
automobile  was  running  at  the  rate  of  twelve 
miles  an  hour,  how  quickly  could  you  stop 
it?"  The  expert — "Why,  your  honor,  while 
running  at  that  rate.  I  have  stopped  it  time 
and  again  before  the  rear  wheels  touched  the 
victim  !" — Town  Top'ics. 

Did  she  know?  Fond  father  (showing  off 
his  offsprings'  intelligence) — "  Now,  Elsie, 
dear,  what  is  a  cat?"  Elsie  — "  Dunno." 
Fond  father — "  Well,  what's  that  funny  little 
animal  that  comes  creeping  up  the  stairs 
when  every  one's  in  bed?"  Elsie  (promptly) 
— "  Papa." — Nezv  York  Times. 

Unfinished :  When  the  new  puppies  were 
discovered  to  be  blind  Teddy  was  very  un- 
happy. His  auntie  assured  him  that  God 
would  open  their  eyes  in  due  time.  When 
bedtime  came  Teddy  was  heard  adding  a  pe- 
tition to  his  prayers:  "  Dear  God,  do  please 
hurry  up  and  finish  those  puppies!" — Lip- 
pincotfs  Magazine. 

Light  on  a  dark  subject :  "  I  see  by  the 
newspaper/'  says  Smith,  "  that  the  whale  that 
swallowed  Jonah  was  recently  killed  in  the 
Mediterranean,  and  in  its  stomach  they  found, 
written    on    parchment,    the    diary    that    Jonah 

kept  during  the  three  days "     "  You  can't 

make  me  believe  any  of  that  stuff,"  interrupts 
Brown  ;  "  in  the  first  place,  how  could  Jonah 
see  to  write  his  diary?"  "  Why,"  says  Smith. 
"  don't  you  suppose  the  whale  had  pains  in 
his    stomach  ?" — Lippincott's     Magazine. 


—  Sichuan's  Soothing  Powders  relieve  feverish, 
ness  and  prevent  fits  and  convulsions  during  the 
teething  period. 


Teacher  —  "  Describe     Canada."  Pupil  — 

"  Canada    is    that    portion    of    North  America 

which     the     United     States    doesn't  want."— 

Montreal   Heiitltl. 


—  Dr.  li  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  fJeary  Street.  Spring  Valley  Riiilding. 

Mothers  be  sukk  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething 


OUR  STANDARDS 


vSperry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 


LESSEE 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m ;  12.35,  3-30.  5-io, 
6.30  p  m.     Thursdays  — Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 
Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  am;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 
11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK   DAYS— 6.05,   7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m;    12.50; 

3.40.  5.00,  5.20  p  ni.    Saturdays — Extra   trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.40,  11.15am;  1.40,  3.40,  4.55,  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 
Week    I     Sun- 
Days,         days. 

In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 

Destination. 

Ar 
San  Fr 
Sun- 
days. 
9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

ive 

mcisco. 
Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 

,  9-3°  a  m 

3-3°  P  m    3.30  p  m 

5. 10  p  m  |  5  00  p  m 

Ignacio. 

S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7-3°  a  ni  j 

1  S.oo  a  m 
3.30  p  m    9.30  a  m 
5.10  p  m    3.30  pm 

1  5.00  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7.35  pm 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 

8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

Sooam 
3-3°  P  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3-3o  P  m 

8.00  a  m 

3.30  P  m 

S.oo  a  m 
3.30  P  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cioverdale. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  pm 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  ;i  m 
3.30  a  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
9.10  a  m 
6.05  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6. 20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

8.00  am)         Willits. 

6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3.3°  P  m 

8.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  ni 
5.10  Pm 

S.oo  a  m 
5.00  p  m 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7  30  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.40  a  ra 
7-35  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  lor  San  Quentin;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
lor  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs:  at  Geyserville  for  skaggs  Springs; 
at  Cioverdale  for  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs, 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  lor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes,  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Vallev,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's.  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins.  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal  ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Cahto,  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris.  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  630  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

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Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WA> 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


7.30 


3.30 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San    Frai 
Cisco,  as  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Di 
Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  1 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  poin 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Correspoudit 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 
A  M  — f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LI1 
ITED  "  :  Due  Stockton  12  01  p  m,  Fresi 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kans 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (thi 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  at 
dining-car  through  to  Chicago,  i 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  trai 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jn.iop  m. 
Q  O/l  A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stoc 
^9**9  %J  ton  12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakei 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  tl 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclinin 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  ho 
ored  on  this  train.  Corresponding  'ra 
arrives  at  11.10  p  m. 
JB  /)/)  P  M— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stoc 
^mm%0%0  ton  7.10pm.  Corresponding  train  arriv 
11. 10  a  m. 

9*7/7  P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  D 
*  W  Stockton  11.15  P  m.  Fresno  3.15  a  ] 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (lour 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8. 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  fr 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicag 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       |  Monday  and  Thursday. 

j  Tuesday  and  Friday. 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Gravy,  the  New  National  Peril — Senator  Pettus  Says 
It  Shortens  Life — Other  French  Abominations— Food  Adul- 
terations in  this  Country — Food  Legislation  at  the  Next  Con- 
gressional Session— New  Routes  for  Pacific  Steamships — 
Vessels  to  Follow  the  Cable  Line — The  Negro  Problem  in 
a  Football  Game — Princeton  "Puts  Out"  a  Dartmouth 
Negro  Player — Mr.  James  on  the  Case  of  Story — May  a 
Wife  Patch  Union  Trousers? — Is  Hanna  Roosevelt's 
Rival   361-363 

The  Skipper's  Honor:      How   the    Salt   Waves    Washed    Bright 

the  'Scutcheon   of  Cap'n    Flint.      By  John    Fleming  Wilson  364 

In    Memoriam:      "Richard   Henry   Stoddard,"   by   Lloyd   Mifflin; 

"  James     McNeill     Whistler."     by     Florence     Earle     Coates. .    364 

Balfour's  New  Cabinet:  The  Mix-Up  in  English  Politics 
Caused  by  Chamberlain's  Protective  Tariff  Scheme — Some 
of  His  Notable  Opponents — Weak  Spots  in  the  New  Ap- 
pointments.     By  "  Cockaigne  "    365 

Adelina  Patti:      The    Last   of   the    Great    Prima    Donnas.      By 

Geraldine   Bonner    365 

General  Gordon's  Reminiscences:  New  Anecdotes  of  Lee, 
Jackson,  and  Ewell — A  Father  Captured  by  His  Son  in  Bat- 
tle— Strange  Premonition  of  Death — Fierce  Fighting  at 
Antietam  and  Gettysburg 366 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent  People  All   Over  the 

World     367 

Intaglios:     "  The  Stolen  Hour,"  by  Will  M.  Clemens;   "  Inter 

Sodales,"    by   William    Ernest   Henley    368 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications     367-369 

Drama:       "  A     Poor     Relation  "     at     the     Alcazar — -Leoncavallo's 

•'  Zaza."     By  Josephine  Hart  Phelps 37° 

Stage  Gossip     : 371 

Vanity  Fair:  The  Auto  Not  Superseding  the  Horse— Great 
Interest  In  Blooded  Horses  All  Over  the  Country — In- 
cidents of  the  Horse  Show  at  Madison  Square  Garden,  New 
York — The  Position  of  Speaker  Cannon's  Daughter  in 
Washington  Societj — Fine  Questions  of  Precedence — Uncle 
"  Joe's  "  Youthful  Courtship  of  Mary  Reed— A  LTnique 
Philadelphia  Girls'  Club— Waldorf- Astoria's  Guest-Book 
Not  Accessible  to  Newspapers — Dangers  to  Solitary  Ameri- 
can Women  in  Paris 37- 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
A  Scorching  Description  by  Alfred  Henry  Lewis — The 
Vanity  of  Dumas  Pere — A  Breakfast  Food  that  Is  a  Good 
Face  Powder — When  Greek  Met  Greek:  Whistler  and  Mark 
Twain — Feminine  Perplexities  at  the  Polls — The  Debut  of 
Livernash — Where  Thackeray  Got  the  Plot  for  the  First 
Chapters    of    "  Pendennis  " 373 

'Tis  Folly   to  be  Wise.     By  Albert  J.  Klinck   373 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "Her  Annual  Fall  Cleaning";  "A 
Simple  Evolution  Theory,"  by  Anna  Temple  Whitney; 
"  Our    Panama  "     374 

Society:       Movements    aifa     Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy   News   374-375 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day   376 


Everybody  knows  that  Edmund  Winston  Pettus;  senior 
Gravv  senator      from      Alabama — eighty-three 

the  nhw  years  old  his  next  birthday,  begad,  sir! 

NaT.ONALPeR.L.       _;,.     R    ^^    fc^yg^     a     g00(\     fighter,     aild 

an  altogether  admirable  Southern  gentleman  of  the  old 
school,  with  a  war  record  as  long  as  your  arm.  Not 
so  many  people  know  that  in  '49  he  rode  all  the  way 
from  Alabama  to  California  on  horseback.  Ah,  they 
vere  husky  fellows  those  days !  But  what  nobody  at  all 
uspected   is  that  the  venerable  Alabamian   is  a  high 


authority  on  dietetics,  a  deep  student  in  the  philosophy 
of  foods.  Since  he  divulged  his  views  on  eatables  to 
a  New  York  reporter,  the  other  day,  we  know  just  what 
is  the  matter  with  us.  It's  not  "  race  suicide  "  that  ails 
Americans;  all  the  trouble  with  us  is — we  eat  too  much 
gravy  !  "  Gravy,"  solemnly  asseverates  Senator  Pet- 
tus, "  is  shortening  the  life  of  the  race  just  like  so  many 
other  French  abominations  are."  The  honorable  gentle- 
man is  more  than  four  score,  and  feels,  he  says,  like 
a  rollicking  young  blade  of  forty — and  why?  "  I  never 
ate  much  gravy  " — that  is  the  all-explaining,  all- 
sufficing  answer.  One  reason  the  rest  of  us  have  been 
led  unrighteously  to  put  gravy  into  our  mouths  to 
steal  away  our  good  health  is,  says  Senator  Pettus,  be- 
cause in  these  days  gravy  is  Gallicized  into  "  sauce." 
"  If  it  had  not  been  given  a  French  name,  I  dare  say 
not  so  much  of  it  would  be  eaten." 

It  were  indeed  a  graceless  thing  to  oppose  mere  un- 
supported opinion  to  Senator  Pettus's  gravy  dictum, 
of  whose  truth  his  hale  and  hearty  person  is  so  con- 
vincing a  demonstration.  Still,  why  does  the  member 
from  Alabama  pour  out  all  his  vials  of  wrath  on 
humble  gravy  and  shower  none  on  the  other  more 
aristocratic  "  French  abominations "  whose  existence 
he  admits?  A  foreign  wine  expert  lately  told  Dr. 
Wiley,  of  our  Agricultural  Department,  that  no  French 
chateau  wines  are  ever  shipped  from  Bordeaux  to 
America.  What  American  Luculluses  are  said  to  im- 
bibe from  bottles  bearing  famous  French  labels  is  a 
grocer's  mixture  of  the  sirupy  wine  of  Spain,  Cali- 
fornia claret,  and  a  dash  of  fragrant  chemical  ethers 
drawn  from  coal  tar.  Surely  few  of  the  French  sauces 
that  Senator  Pettus  abominates  are  more  curiously 
composed.  And  what  of  French  peas  colored  with 
copper,  French  sausage  preserved  with  borax,  French 
olive  oil  liberally  diluted  with  the  product  of  the  Ala- 
bama cottonseed?  Some  of  these  are  concoctions  cal- 
culated to  make  "gravy"  blush  with  shame  for  its 
very  innocence. 

And  there  are  others.  According  to  the  report  of 
one  of  our  veracious  consuls-general  abroad,  ordinary 
liver  patty  is  made  into  "  Strassburger  "  pate  de  foie 
gras  by  means  of  borax  and  finely  chopped  pieces  of 
black  silk  representing  truffles;  in  Paris,  he  says,  snails 
are  adulterated  with  the  lungs  of  cattle  and  horses ; 
even  entirely  artificial  snails  are  manufactured,  the 
shells  being  recoated  with  slime,,  and  filled  with  lung; 
"  chopped  truffles  "  are  made  out  of  black  rubber,  silk, 
or  softened  leather;  "whole  truffles"  are  made  from 
roasted  potatoes  flavored  with  ether ;  and  "  fresh 
rooster  combs  "  are  made  from  hog's  intestines. 

What  appetizing  dishes  these,  veritable  delicatessen 
— and  principally  for  export !  True,  thanks  to  the 
righteous  but  crafty  lobbying  of  the  Washington  pure- 
food  men  last  winter,  the  United  States  now  has  a  law 
that  is  tolerably  effective  in  excluding  would-be  im- 
ports of  adulterated  foodstuffs.  Within  a  month  or  so, 
Dr.  Wiley  has  reported  the  rejection  of  Rhine  wine 
containing  salicylic  acid,  Sauterne  containing  sulphur- 
ous acid,  misbranded  olive  oil,  doctored  sausage, 
vegetables  in  lead  cans,  and  vinegar  made  from  alcohol. 
That  the  law  is  not  entirely  effective  in  excluding  in- 
genious adulterations  is  due  to  lack  of  funds  to  pay  ex- 
pert chemists.  It  is  the  intention  of  Dr.  Wiley,  we 
believe,  to  ask  for  an  increased  appropriation  at  the 
present  session  of  Congress,  and  we  hope  he  gets  it. 
He  is  sure,  at  any  rate,  of  the  enthusiastic  vote  of  Pet- 
tus, of  Alabama. 

Apropos  of  this,  by  the  way,  another  attempt  will 
be  made,  at  the  next  congressional  session,  to  pass  the 
Hepburn  national  pure-food  bill,  which  squeezed 
through  the  House  last  year,  but  died  the  death  in  the 


Senate.  The  present  national  law  is  ineffective;  the 
State  laws  are  chaotic.  In  consequence,  the  domestic 
food  adulterator  still  blithely  goes  his  way  labeling 
stuff  that  never  saw  a  maple-tree  "  Pure  Maple 
Sugar,"  combinations  of  paraffin  and  glucose  "  Su- 
perior Comb  Honey,"  dilute  acetic  acid  "  Best  Cider 
Vinegar,"  and  choice  mixtures  of  glucose,  coal-tar 
colors,  gelatine,  and  timothy  seed  "  Finest  Strawberry 
Jam."  Besides  the  bill  above  mentioned,  it  was  at  last 
accounts  the  intention  of  Congressman  Bell,  of  this 
State,  to  introduce  a  measure  taxing  all  wines  produced 
in  this  country  something  like  half  a  cent  a  gallon,  but 
all  impure  wines  as  much  as  fifty  cents,  the  expected 
effect  being  greatly  to  check,  if  not  to  end,  wine  adul- 
teration. Congressman  Bell  is  a  very  young,  innocent, 
and  hopeful  person.  However,  we  wish  him  all  suc- 
cess. 

But  to  return  to  the  initial  theme,  vaulting  lightly 
from  wine  to  gravy — there  may  be  something  in  this 
dietetic  theory  that  emanates  from  Alabama.  Not,  in- 
deed, because  sauces  and  gravies  are  in  themselves 
necessarily  more  deleterious  to  health  than  many  an- 
other gastronomic  confection,  but  because  they  are  so 
often  used  to  hide  the  deficiencies  of  that  which  they 
cover.  Is  a  roast  a  trifle  high,  is  a  fish  tainted,  has  a 
fowl  been  thawed  and  frozen  a  few  times  too  often 
— the  careless  cook's  remedy  is  in  each  case  the  same. 
Soak  the  dubious  article  in  some  piquant  sauce,  and  the 
badness  of  it  may  escape  detection  by  the  taste  thus 
blunted.  As  "  a  good  wine  needs  no  bush  "  so  most 
good  meat  needs  no  sauce,  save  that  pleasant  juice 
which  appetizingly  exudes  in  the  process  of  cooking. 
Sauce  on  meat  like  rouge  on  a  lady's  cheek  is  apt  to 
mean  that  something  is  amiss — one  may  properly  be 
suspicious. 

Talleyrand  once  described  the  United  States  (some 
say  he  stole  a  similar  saying  of  Voltaire's)  as  a 
country  having  seventy-seven  religions  and  only  one 
sauce.  Many  will  mourn  with  the  senator  from  Ala- 
bama that  the  statement  has  no  longer  even  a  modicum 
of  truth. 

Many  a  battle  has  been  lost  through  over-confidence, 
and  Mr.  Roosevelt  is  being  admonished 
by  some  hostile  journals  not  to  be 
too  sure  that  he  has  the  Republican 
Presidential  nomination  safely  in  his  trousers  pocket. 
Hanna's  great  victory  in  Ohio,  the  enthusiasm  with 
which  it  was  received  by  Republicans  everywhere,  the 
difficulty  he  had  in  stopping  the  boom  started  by  his 
ardent  friends,  are  causing  politicians  to  modify  their 
conclusion  that  Roosevelt's  nomination  is  *'  absolutely 
certain."  Hanna  is  especially  strong  among  the  white 
Republicans  of  the  South.  The  South  has  more  prac- 
tical strength  in  convention  than  at  the  polls.  Unles? 
the  bold  course  of  the  President  in  the  Panama  matter 
has  greatly  strengthened  him  there,  Mr.  Hanna  can 
have  the  solid  Southern  delegation — if  he  wants  them. 
Besides  this,  the  striking  statement  has  several  times 
been  made  by  careful  observers,  and  is  reiterated  by 
Harper's  Weekly  in  its  last  issue,  that  "it  virtually 
lies  with  five  United  States  senators — Mr.  Piatt,  of 
New  York,  Mr.  Quay,  of  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Cullom, 
of  Illinois,  Mr.  Allison,  of  Iowa,  and  Mr.  Spooner,  of 
Wisconsin — to  say,  at  the  last  moment,  whether  Mr. 
Roosevelt  or  Mr.  Hanna  shall  be  put  forward  as  the 
standard-bearer  of  the  Republican  party."  In  other 
words,  these  senators  control  the  delegations  of  their 
respective  States.  If,  through  friendship  for  their 
senatorial  colleague,  through  belief  that  Mr.  Hanna 
would  be  the  strongest  man  in  doubtful  States  like 
New  York,  or  through  lack  of  confidence  in  Mr 
velt's  conservatism,  they  should  be  led  to  agree 


Is  Hanna 

Roosevelt's 

Rival? 


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coup,  it  might  be  successfully  carried  out.  This  is  not 
saying  that  they  will  do  so.  But  the  possibility  is  in- 
teresting to  contemplate.  Mr.  Hanna,  of  course,  says 
he  does  not  want  the  nomination ;  he  is  sixty-seven 
years  old,  and  his  health  is  not  good;  but  that  he 
would  refuse  it  if  offered  him  is  not  to  be  supposed. 
Moreover,  despite  all  the  seeming  friendliness  between 
the  Ohio  senator  and  the  President,  there  is  reason  to 
believe  that  the  two  men  are  mutually  antipathetic. 
Nobody  familiar  with  the  facts  supposes  for  a  mo- 
ment that  Mr.  Hanna  liked  having  to  knuckle  under 
and  permit  the  Ohio  convention  last  fall  to  indorse 
Mr.  Roosevelt's  candidacy.  This  indorsement,  by  the 
way,  is  not  binding  upon  any  State  convention,  and 
if  Mr.  Hanna  asked  for  it,  he  would  doubtless  have 
Ohio's  support. 

Those  who  scoff  even  at  the  bare  possibility  of 
Hanna's  becoming  a  candidate  think  it  was  Tom  John- 
son's weakness,  not  Hanna's  strength,  that  rolled  up 
the  big  Republican  majority  in  Ohio.  The  old  line 
Democrats,  they  say,  were  fiercely  determined  to  bury 
Tom  Johnson,  Populism,  Bryanism,  Single-Taxism, 
and  all  the  other  forces  of  discontent  beneath 
a  veritable  avalanche  of  popular  displeasure.  This, 
and  this  only,  is  held  to  account  for  the  striking  re- 
sult. Probably,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  truth  is  as 
usual  somewhere  between  these  two  extremes.  Mr. 
Roosevelt  may  be  unanimously  nominated,  but  until 
it  is  all  over,  the  country  will  keep  a  speculating  eye 
on  Mr.  Hanna.  Certain  it  is  that  he  is  the  only  man 
who  is  even  being  mentioned  as  a  possible  antagonist 
of  our  strenuous  President. 

But  Mr.  Hanna  says  he  is  not  a  candidate. 


We  are  all   fond  of  fighting.     That  is,  we  all  love  to 

look  at  a  fight,  and  some  of  us  like  to 
The  Love  ° 

of  a  be  in  a  fight.     But   we  all  love  to  see 

FlGHT-  one.      There     are     some     superjesthetic 

and  hyper-refined  humans  of  both  sexes  who  think 
they  do  not  like  to  see  a  fight;  some  of  them  actually 
believe  diey  are  sincere.  But  deep  down  in  the  average 
man  and  woman,  the  love  of  a  fight  exists.  It  is  in- 
grained. It  is  congenital.  It  is  in  the  human  baby. 
When  he  screams,  squalls,  and  kicks  if  his  will  is 
thwarted,  he  is  fighting.  So  with  the  same  baby  when, 
grown  up  into  a  boy,  he  pulls  his  little  sister's  hair. 
It  is  partly,  perhaps,  the  love  of  fighting,  and  partly, 
perhaps,  the  love  of  giving  pain,  for  cruelty  also  seems 
to  be  part  of  the  make-up  of  the  human  animal.  After 
little  brother  has  finished  pulling  little  sister's  hair  and 
she  has  dried  her  eyes,  she  soothes  her  wounded  feel- 
ings by  pulling  off  flies'  wings  and  legs,  or  pinching 
the  cat's  tail  under  a  rocking-chair.  Of  the  higher 
flights  of  juvenile  cruelty  to  which  her  brother  rises, 
when  he  ties  two  cats  together  by  their  tails  over  a 
clothes-line  where  they  fight  till  nothing  is  left  but 
their  tail-tips — of  these  familiar  facts  we  will  not 
speak. 

When  brother  goes  to  school  and  then  to  college — 
whether  it  be  to  the  English  "  public  "  school  or  to  the 
American  "  public  school  "  —  resembling  each  other 
only  in  name — to  the  academy,  to  the  preparatory 
school,  to  die  university,  he  speedily  becomes  past- 
master  in  cruelty.  In  most  of  these  institutions  he 
must  fight.  Hazing  exists  in  every  college  in  the  coun- 
try. Even  the  United  States  Government  can  not 
stamp  it  out  at  West  Point  and  Annapolis.  In  both 
these  institutions  fist-fights  under  prize-ring  rules  are  of 
almost  daily  occurrence;  they  are  masterful  battles,  and 
they  have  not  a  little  to  do  with  making  stout-hearted, 
stalwart  lighters  of  our  army  and  navy  officers.  To 
those  who  object  to  these  battles  the  unanswerable  reply 
is  that  the  boys  are  there  to  learn  to  fight,  and  that  the 
way  to  learn  to  fight  is  to  fight. 

All  of  this  is  preliminary  to  a  few  remarks  on  foot- 
ball. At  the  cheerful  Thanksgiving  time  the  news- 
papers are  full  of  accounts  of  football  games.  Some 
of  these  journals  make  heroes  of  the  football  men. 
Others  make  ruffians  of  them.  This  year  the  ruffian 
tinge  seems  to  prevail.  A  New  York  paper  has  been 
making  statistics  which  show  that  there  are  more 
fatalities  on  the  football  gridiron  than  in  the  prize- 
ring. 

What  of  it? 

/  certain  number  . .f  men  have  to  die  anyway.  What 

diligence   does   it   make   whether  they  die   of   typhoid 

beri-beri,  pugilistic  concussion  of  the  brain,  or 

■  thall   broken  neck?     The  man  who  dies  in  bed  of 


THE        ARGONAUT. 

typhoid  fever  affords  no  particular  amusement  by  the 
method  of  his  ending.  Drinking  other  people's  sewage 
is  a  most  unheroic  way  to  die.  On  the  other  hand, 
the  pugilist  who  is  carried  lifeless  from  the  ring,  or 
the  quarter-back  who  breaks  his  neck  on  the  gridiron, 
thereby  having  "  game  "  called,  makes  a  dramatic  end- 
ing, and  gives  a  distinct  thrill  to  many  thousands  of 
startled  spectators.  It  is,  however,  a  melancholy  fact 
that  athletic  aforetime  heroes,  living  or  dead,  are  not 
remembered  long.  Who  was  Stanford's  star  player  in 
'92?  Who  Berkeley's?  What  was  the  name  of  the 
Princeton  man  who  knee-tackled  Harvard's  full-back 
in  '94?  Alas  and  alack!  Where  are  the  snows  of 
yester-year  ? 


November  30,  1903. 


Tender  people  and  serious  football  enthusiasts  may  look 
upon    these    remarks    as     cold-blooded. 

ROUGH-AND-  r 

tumble  Not  so.    We  believe  in  football.    We  be- 

Fighting.  lieve  in  athletic  sports.     We  believe  in 

fighting — that  is,  other  people  fighting.  We  believe  in 
all  the  sturdy  and  primitive  virtues,  like  battle  and 
manslaughter,  which  make  for  strenuousness,  for  pure 
living,  for  a  nobler  and  a  higher  citizenship.  That  is 
why  we  believe  in  football;  that  is  why  we  believe  in 
fighting;  and  that  is  why  we  believe  nearly  every  man 
and  woman  likes  to  see  a  fight. 

It  is  very  difficult  to  refrain  from  going  to  a  con- 
venient fight.  American  tourists  in  Spain  shudder  at 
the  mere  thought  of  going  to  a  bull-fight,  but  they 
always  go.  When  a  street  fight  takes  place  between 
two  sturdy  teamsters,  delicate  women  shriek,  and 
shiver,  and  fly  around  like  headless  hens.  But  they  do 
not  leave  the  dreadful  spot;  they  stay,  and  watch  the 
scene  as  long  as  they  can  stand  it.  For  a  fight  between 
two  unscientific  and  determined  teamsters  speedily 
becomes  a  nasty  sight;  they  soon  become  as  muggy, 
muddy,  and  bloody  as — well,  as  the  star  players  in  a 
football  game. 

Yes,  everybody  loves  a  fight,  and  we  do  not  all  care 
very  much  whether  the  rules  are  strictly  followed. 
Spectators  at  a  football  game  where  there  is  "  off-side  " 
play  and  ugly  scrapping,  are  forced  to  admit,  if  they  are 
truthful,  that  they  like  to  see  it;  that  it  produces  a  dis- 
tinct physical  thrill — the  same  thrill  that  came  to  them 
in  the  old  childhood  days  when  they  saw  the  eviscerated 
cats  hanging  over  the  sanguinolent  clothes-line. 

The  most  intense  excitement  ever  known  in  San 
Francisco  was  created  when  Wrestler  Whistler,  the 
"  Kansas  Demon,"  challenged  John  L.  Sullivan  to  a 
"  rough-and-tumble  fight."  For  some  days  a  waiting- 
world  hung  on  John  L.'s  lips.  The  champion  paused, 
wavered,  and  declined.  Intense  disappointment  ensued. 
But  the  forthright  Sullivan  in  little  bar-room  conclaves 
gave  excellent  reasons  for  his  declination.  Asa  "rough- 
and-tumble  "  fight  is  fought  without  rules,  Sullivan, 
from  Whistler's  record,  feared  results  which,  while  not 
impugning  his  courage  as  a  man,  would  in  ancient 
Rome  have  deprived  him  of  the  right  to  wear  the  toga 
virilis. 


A  personal  experience  is  not  without  application  here. 

Once  in  Paris  the  present  writer  was  in- 
Elegant  r 

antiseptic  vited  by  a  polite  fencing  friend  to  wit- 

dueling.  ness  a  •«  serious  duei  " — which  meant  a 

duel  to  the  death.  It  was  not  the  usual  perfunctory 
French  fencing-bout  with  antiseptic  sword-points.  It 
grew  out  of  the  good,  old,  simple  story  of  three — the 
husband,  the  lady,  and  the  lover.  The  husband  had 
found  out  all  about  it — hence,  a  challenge.  A  rendezvous 
was  set  on  the  Belgian  frontier;  one  of  the  seconds  was 
the  polite  fencing  friend,  who  extended  a  polite  in- 
vitation to  the  present  writer  to  witness  the  encounter 
in  the  capacity  of  a  pseudo-surgeon.  It  was  with  a 
distinct  pang  that  the  writer  decided  not  to  accept  the 
polite  invitation.  He  had  witnessed  many  fights  of 
many  kinds,  but  never  a  "  serious  "  duel  in  the  Old 
World,  where  two  decorous  gentlemen  in  quiet  garb 
strive  to  take  each  other's  lives  on  the  field  of  honor. 
He  hesitated  long,  but  finally  concluded  not  to  go,  for 
several  reasons;  one  was  that  he  would  have  to  state 
that  he  was  a  surgeon  when  he  was  not,  and  it  is  dis- 
agreeable to  lie.  Then  again  he  was  unacquainted 
with  the  principals — he  knew  neither  lady,  lover,  nor 
husband,  and  in  the  event  of  a  fatal  result,  he  would 
be  totally  unacquainted  with  the  remains.  He  there- 
fore regretfully  stayed  away,  and  perused  the  papers 
the  next  few  days  with  feverish  interest.  At  last,  he 
learned  that  the  lover  had  fallen  before  the  avenging 
husband's    sword.      It    was    not,    as    in    novels,    thrust 


through  the  lover's  heart:  this  was  real  life,  and  it 
was  through  a  much  less  romantic  organ,  to  wit:  the 
liver.  Being  totally  unacquainted  with  the  deceased, 
the  writer  felt  no  sentiment  of  mourning,  but  rather  a 
distinct  twinge  of  disappointment  that  he  had  not  been 
present  when  the  husband's  sword  administered  this 
deadly  thrust,  and  when  the  lover  lay  by  the  stone 
monument  on  the  Franco-Belgian  frontier,  with  his 
glazing  eyes  staring  up  at  the  dull  sky  while  his  life- 
blood  ebbed  away — through  the  hepatic  artery  and  the 
portal  vein,  to  be  anatomically  accurate. 


These   are  more   frank   confessions   than  most  people 
are  willing  to  make,  but  they  are  truth- 
Fighting  ful.     We  all  love  a  fight.     Our  primeval 

of  to-day.  ancestors    loved    fighting.      They    cap- 

tured their  wives  by  fighting.  They  won  their 
wives  with  stone  axes,  wooed  them  with  clubs, 
and  managed  them  with  switches.  These  fight-won 
wives  gave  birth  to  fighting  sons.  In  later  ages  our 
less  remote  ancestors  hired  men  to  fight  animals,  or 
else  used  men  of  heterodox  religious  beliefs  to  feed 
to  orthodox  wild-beasts. 

In  more  refined  ages,  like  those  of  the  last  two  or 
three  centuries,  we  have  improved  on  that,  and  we  get 
men  to  fight  each  other.  It  was  a  distinct  advance 
in  England  when  bull  and  bear-baiting  went  out  of 
fashion  and  prize-fighting  came  in.  It  was  about  the 
time  of  the  Stuart,  restoration  that  the  Puritans  ob- 
jected to  the  baiting  of  animals.  Macaulay  suggests 
that  it  was  not  so  much  because  it  gave  pain  to  the 
animals  as  because  it  gave  pleasure  to  the  spectators. 
In  our  day  we  have  still  further  improved  in  these 
matters,  because  the  contestants  in  our  fighting 
spectacles  are  men  and  not  animals.  The  men  enter 
them  of  their  own  free  will;  the  animals  were  often 
prodded  there  with  red-hot  irons.  Thus  we  have  im- 
proved on  ancient  Rome  and  on  modern  Spain. 


The  hasty  reader  may  believe  from  the  foregoing  that 

this   is   an   attack  on   football.     Not  at 
Football  Rouses 

the  Primeval  all.  We  do  not  believe  it  possible  to 
Thrill.  eliminate  from  the  race  the  love  of  fight- 

ing even  if  it  were  desirable.  And  football  means 
fighting.  Talk  as  you  may  of  the  "  old  open  game," 
of  "  running  with  the  ball,"  of  the  "  excitement  over 
drop-kicks  and  punts."  None  of  them  compare  with 
the  dull,  hoarse  roar  that  runs  through  the  audience 
when  twenty-two  husky  youths  meet  with  a  thud  in  a 
compact  mass;  when  the  lighter  ones  bounce  up  in  the 
air  like  tennis  balls;  when  the  heavier  ones  grunt,  and 
grind,  and  knee,  and  punch,  and  slug;  when  curses  ring 
out  across  the  gridiron  even  over  the  yells  of  the  root- 
ers; when  one  six-footer  lays  out  another  with  a  stiff 
left-hander  under  the  jaw;  when  one  giant,  who  has 
tackled  his  man  in  the  middle,  throws  him  clear  over 
his  head  with  a  double  hammer-lock;  when  these  tower- 
ing gladiators,  their  locks  hanging  over  their  eyes  like 
shaggy  beasts,  glower  at  their  opponents  and  retire 
sullenly  and  slowly  at  the  command  of  the  referees — 
these,  oh,  these,  are  the  glorious  moments  of  the  football 
field.  They  are  the  moments  when  we  know  there  is  a 
light.  These  are  the  times  when  we  feel,  deep  down  in 
the  marrow  of  our  bones,  the  fighting  thrill  of  our 
primeval  ancestors. 

Own  up,   now — be  honest — talk  straight — don't  you 
like  the  fighting  part  of  football  ? 


Federal 
Control 
of  Canals. 


The  United  States  Supreme  Court  has  handed  down  a  decision 
that  has  startled  the  people  of  New  York. 
In  effect,  the  decision  holds  that  the  Erie 
Canal  is  a  navigable  highway  of  commerce, 
and  therefore  subject  to  Federal  control.  As 
is  not  infrequently  the  case  with  important  decisions,  the  ques- 
tion arose  over  a  very  minor  matter — a  dispute  over  the  repair 
of  a  canal  boat  that  plied  on  the  canal.  The  case  was  carried 
to  the  Federal  courts,  and  the  question  of  jurisdiction  was  at 
once  raised.  The  New  York  papers  declare  that  this  is  farther 
than  the  highest  court  of  the  country  has  ever  before  gone  in 
declaring  the  extent  of  the  admiralty  jurisdiction  which  be- 
longs to  the  courts  of  law,  organized  and  maintained  by  the 
national  government.  This  is  probably  true,  but  it  is  an  im- 
material point.  As  Justice  Brown  declared  in  the  majority 
opinion,  "  the  only  difference  between  canals  and  navigable 
waters  is  that  they  are  rendered  navigable  by  artificial  means, 
and  sometimes,  although  not  always,  are  wholly  within  the 
limits  of  a  particular  State."  The  Erie  Canal  is  a  highway  for 
commerce  originating  in  Minnesota,  Michigan,  Wisconsn, 
Illinois,  and  even  farther  West.  It  is  clearly  a  highway  for 
interstate  commerce,  and  control  over  interstate  commerce  is 
given  by  the  Constitution  to  the  Federal  government.  The 
question  really  strikes  deeper  than  this,  however.  It  is  dif- 
ficult for  the  people  of  to-day  to  realize  the  fear  with  which 
those  who  lived  in  revolutionary  leral 


November  30,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


363 


government.  At  that  time,  nothing  short  of  the  clumsy 
expedient  adopted  would  have  saved  the  life  of  the  nation, 
and,  for  the  first  time  in  history,  the  world  saw  two  govern- 
ments ruling  side  by  side  over  the  same  territory  and  over  the 
same  people.  Yet,  like  all  expedients,  it  could  in  the  nature 
of  things  be  temporary  only.  The  story  of  the  development 
of  the  United  States  is  a  story  of  the  centralization  of  power 
in  the  Federal  government.  With  regard  to  matters  connected 
with  the  framework  of  government,  we  Americans  are  the 
most  conservative  people  on  earth,  and  so  the  movement  has 
been  slow,  but  it  has  been  none  the  less  sure.  The  tendency 
is  a  natural,  an  inevitable,  one.  It  is  seen  in  every  phase  of 
human  activity.  The  time  is  coming  when  California  and 
New  York  will  be  geographical,  not  political,  names ;  when 
every  citizen  of  this  country-  will  realize  to  the  fullest  extent 
that  he  is  a  citizen  of  the  Whole  United  States.  The  canal 
decision  is  but  one  evidence  of  the  general  movement. 


May  a  Wife 

Patch 

Union  Trousers? 


for  Pacific 

Steamships. 


1 


The  central  labor  union  of  Philadelphia  has  taken  under  ad- 
visement a  question  of  prodigious  import  to 
men  who  insist  upon  time-honored,  if  unwrit- 
ten, corollaries  to  the  marriage  contract.  It 
is  brought  before  the  union  laborers  of  Phila- 
delphia that  a  great  infringement  on  the  license  of  the  label 
is  committed  by  wives  who  patch  the  marital  trouser.  It  is 
urged  that  the  domestic  thimble  deprives  the  union  tailor  of 
his  prerogative,  that  upon  the  seat  of  the  federated  trades 
pantaloon  it  is  unseemly  to  view  an  unauthorized  emendation. 
From  the  reports  of  the  debate  one  learns  that  certain  men 
defended  their  economical  wives,  contending  that  the  domestic 
patch  was  allowable  under  the  strictest  reading  of  the  law, 
hotly  averring  that  the  conjugal  rehabilitation  of  the  wage- 
earner's  inexpressibles  was  not  only  customary",  but  a  funda- 
mental office.  From  the  other  side  the  tailors  laid  charges  at 
the  housewife's  door  of  depriving  the  journeyman  of  his  com- 
pensation, and  of  annulling  before  the  hearthstone  the  solemn 
pledge  of  her  husband.  The  central  labor  union  seems  to  look 
upon  the  tailors'  protest  as  worthy  of  full  consideration. 
Possibly  this  may  mean  the  doom  of  the  voluminously  tailed 
coat  affected  by  the  Philadelphian  on  a  Sunday,  it  being 
enacted  that  its  graceful  folds  are  too  likely  to  conceal  an 
illegitimate  patch.  In  time,  let  hard-working  women  pray,  an 
embargo  will  be  fixed  on  non-union  darning  of  the  foraminous 
sock. 

The  ocean  lanes  of  the  Atlantic  have  been  known  ever  since 
a  growing  steam  traffic  rendered  well-de- 
fined courses  necessary  for  safety.  There 
is  now  no  line  out  of  New  York  that  does 
not  insist  upon  its  shipmasters  following  a 
route  so  narrow  in  its  limits  that  in  case  of  accident  or  delay 
another  ship  of  the  same  company  will  quite  inevitably  come 
up  with  it.  In  view  of  the  possibilities  of  collision  outward 
bound  vessels  take  a  track  some  miles  away  from  the  inbound, 
and  there  are,  besides.,  winter  and  summer  routes.  Since  the 
laying  of  the  Pacific  cable  the  quartermaster's  department  of 
the  government  has  undertaken  the  laying  out  of  similar  ocean 
lanes  from  San  Francisco  to  the  Orient.  At  present  there 
have  been,  roughly  speaking,  two  routes  from  this  Coast  to 
China,  Japan,  and  the  Philippines.  One  is  the  northern,  by 
way  of  the  Aleutian  Islands,  the  southern  by  way  of  Hawaii. 
Neither  of  these  is  defined  within  a  hundred  miles,  and  it  is 
almost  an  extraordinary  occurrence  for  a  ship  passing  over 
either  course  to  sight  another  in  mid-ocean,  so  widely  do  the 
lines  followed  by  shipmasters  differ.  A  few  years  ago,  when 
American  traffic  with  the  Orient  reached  its  present  great 
proportions,  Captain  McCalla,  of  the  navy,  projected  two 
direct  lines  out  of  San  Francisco  to  Asia  and  a  third  by  way 
of  Honolulu.  In  general,  these  "  lanes  "  were  those  used  by 
two  generations,  but  they  were  aimed  to  provide  economical, 
safe,  and  speedy  courses  within  twenty-mile  limits.  These 
routes  are  known  as  "  great  circle  lanes,"  and  follow  the 
geometrical  law  that  the  shortest  distance  between  two  points 
on  a  sphere  is  along  the  arc  of  a  circle  whose  diameter  is  that 
of  the  sphere.  But  the  cold,  foggy,  and  stormy  seas  of  the 
Aleutian  Islands  have  proved  a  drawback  to  the  northern 
route,  and  now  modifications  are  being  made  which  will  prac- 
tically form  the  great  Pacific  lane  along  the  line  of  the  new 
cable.  Oddly  enough,  to  go  to  Guam,  two  thousand  miles 
south  of  San  Francisco,  by  a  great  circle  route,  a  ship  goes 
north-west  from  the  Golden  Gate  and  makes  nearly  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  miles  northing  before  turning  southward.  This 
makes  the  direct  Guam  route  the  main  artery,  and  from  this 
branch  off  lines  to  Nagasaki  and  Manila.  Beside  this  main 
thoroughfare  is  the  Puget  Sound-Asiatic  route  and  the  much- 
used  "  great  circle "  route  from  San  Francisco  to  Honolulu. 
The  advantages  of  these  lanes  are  obvious.  The  disabled  ship 
will  quickly  be  found,  and  as  there  are  two  cable  stations  en 
route  ships  can  twice  report.  By  confining  all  regular  traffic 
to  a  few  carefully  projected  courses  the  scattered  merchant- 
men of  the  Pacific  will  come  to  travel  within  economical 
limits,  and  in  case  of  war  a  very  few  cruisers  can  patrol 
efficiently  these  main  thoroughfares  and  protect  the  commerce 
of  a  whole  ocean  faring  by  them. 

An  old.  ugly  phase  of  the  negro  question  has  again  appeared 
in   a  problem  set  the  athletic  committees  of 
The  Negro  Dartmouth  College  and  Princeton  University. 

These  two  bodies  have  been  asked  to  deter- 
mine officially  whether,  in  the  Princeton- 
Dartmouth  football  game  on  October  24th,  Matthew  Bullock, 
a  negro  player  on  the  latter  team,  was  intentionally  and  bru- 
tally "  put  out  of  the  game."  The  New  York  Evening  Post 
has  taken  the  matter  up,  and  presents  the  charges  of  Dart- 
mouth, and  the  rebuttal — amid  countercharges  and  admissions 
— of  Princeton.  Assistant  Professor  George  Ray  Wicker,  of 
Dartmouth,  stales  that  his  team  was  "  refused  accommodations 
at  Princeton  Inn " ;  that  "  Bullock  was  warned  repeatedly 
before  the  game  that  he  would  be  injured  ;  on  the  first  line-up 


Problem  in  a 
Football  Game 


the  centre  or  quarterback  of  the  Princeton  team  was  heard  to 
call  out  to  Henry,  Princeton's  end :  *  Remember  what  you  are 
to  do  with  the  nigger,'  "  and  that  on  "  the  third  regular  play  of 
the  game,  and  the  first  in  which  such  an  occurrence  was  pos- 
sible, Bullock  had  his  left  shoulder  thrown  out  by  a  downward 
dislocation.  He  was  at  the  time  several  feet  from  the  centre 
of  play.  He  was  tackled  by  one  player,  and  then,  while  still 
held  and  nearly  prostrate,  he  was  '  jumped  on '  by  another 
player,  Henry,  the  end.  Bullock  himself  will  not  say  that  the 
injury  was  intentionally  inflicted.'  " 

Mr.  Edwin  M.  Norris,  of  the  Princeton  Alumni  Weekly, 
admits  that  lodging  was  refused  the  Dartmouth  team  at  Prince- 
ton Inn,  and  regarding  Bullock's  injury  quotes  the  director  of 
athletics  in  Princeton  University,  Mr.  John  Burchard  Fine, 
who  says  :  "  On  a  punt  by  Darmouth,  Mr.  Bullock  was  run- 
ning down  the  field  to  tackle  the  catcher;  he  was  first  inter- 
fered with  by  Mr.  Kafer,  one  of  the  Princeton  backs,  and  then 
blocked  by  Mr.  Henry,  to  keep  him  from  tackling  the  runner. 
He  fell  over  Henry  and  to  the  ground,  dislocating  his  shoul- 
der. The  play  was  nothing  but  that  of  straight,  hard  football, 
as  any  well  trained  end  ought  to  have  made  it,  with  no  inten- 
tion of  injury-"  A  signed  statement  from  Henry,  the  accused 
Princeton  end,  disclaims  any  intent  to  injure,  and  adds 
vaguely  :  "  I  told  him  (the  Dartmouth  centre  rush)  I  was  sorry 
Bullock  had  been  hurt,  but  that  I  was  not  sorry  I  had  handled 
some  of  the  other  players  roughly  after  the  indecent  epithets 
they  had  applied  to  me  personally  during  the  game."  Mr. 
Norris  virtuously  exegetes  this  passage  by  asserting  that  "  the 
indecent  epithets  referred  to  by  Mr.  Henry  are  unprintable, 
and  such  as  no  self-respecting  gentleman  would  submit  to,  on 
or  off  the  football  field."  He  further  says  that  "  it  is  probably 
well  enough  known  that  neither  the  Nassau  Hotel  nor  the 
Princeton  Inn  has  any  connection  with  Princeton  University 
or  the  Princeton  Football  Association,"  a  slightly  disingenu- 
ous statement,  as  the  directors  of  Princeton  Inn  are  all  noted 
alumni,  including  Mr.  M.  Taylor  Pyne,  the  most  influential 
alumnus  living,  and  a  trustee  of  the  university. 

The  gist  of  the  matter  appears  to  be  that  Bullock,  an  ex- 
cellent fellow  and  of  great  honors,  scholastic  and  social,  in 
Dartmouth,  was  distasteful  to  the  Princetonians,  always  South- 
ern in  sympathy,  and  that  his  injury  was  due  wholly  to  the 
risks  of  a  gentleman's  game  intensified  by  unwise  vituperation 
on  somebody's  part,  and  everybody  is  very  sorry  it  occurred — 

including    Mr.   Bullock. 

— -•» 

In  his  biography  of  the  sculptor,  poet,  lawyer,  and  "  precursor," 
William  Wetmore  Story,  Mr.  Henry  James 
Mr.  James  has  qujte  visibly  interjected  his  own  apology. 

on  the  Case  The novelists's  delicately  inconsistent  stylesets 

forth  with  gravity  or  humor  the  life  of  his 
friend,  its  aspirations,  its  achievements,  its  happy  failures, 
yet  all  so  largely  alien  to  the  New  England  Mr.  Story  called 
"  home."  Biographically,  the  work  is  very  rich,  voluminous, 
illuminating,  but  one  can  hardly  escape  the  feeling  that  Mr. 
James's  sympathy  is  broadly  that  of  exile  with  exile.  And 
the  question  will  surely  arise:  Does  Mr.  James  think  it  fatal 
to  the  best  work  to  leave  one's  native  land?  Is  Mr.  James 
sorry  that  he  himself  has  sought  "  the  golden  air  "  ? 

Mr.  Story,  already  known  as  a  legal  writer,  left  America  for 
Italy  in  1846,  at  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  thereby  falling 
among  those  whom  Mr.  James  terms  the  eclaireurs,  skirmish- 
ers, precursors — seekers  of  artistic  inspiration  in  Europe. 
Remembering  that  Mr.  James  belongs  himself  among  these, 
is  it  not  very  personal  to  himself  when  he  says  of  Mr.  Story : 

It  becomes  interesting,  in  the  light  of  so  distinct  an  example, 
to  extract  from  the  case — the  case  of  the  permanent  absentee 
or  exiie — the  general  lesson  that  may  seem  to  us  latent  in  it. 
This  moral  lesson  seems  to  be  that  somehow,  in  the  long  run, 
Story  paid— paid  for  having  sought  his  development  even 
among  the  circumstances  that  at  the  time  of  his  choice  ap- 
peared not  alone  the  only  propitious,  but  the  only  possible 
It  was  as  if  the  circumstances  on  which,  to  do  this,  he  had 
turned  his  back,  had  found  an  indirect  way  to  be  avenged  for 
the  discrimination.  Inevitably,  indeed,  we  are  not  able  to  say 
what  a  lifetime  of  Boston  would  have  made  in  him  or  would 
have  marred.  We  can  only  be  sure  we  should  in  that  case 
have  had  to  deal  with  quite  a  different  group  of  results. 

In  this  passage,  Mr.  James  says  Story  expended  himself 
"  for  results  of  which,  when  time  had  sifted  them,  little  re- 
mains but  the  appearance  of  his  having  been  happy  —and  Mr. 
James  is  happy?  Possibly  he  realizes  a  loss  of  the  straight- 
forward, hard-dealing  New  England  directness  that  would 
make  one's  thoughts  bully  the  words  of  one's  speech  and  that 
declares  against  even  the  compromise  of  tortuous  diction.  It 
is  very  true  that  nearly  every  American  man  of  letters  has 
gained  power  and  sometimes  inspiration  from  a  sojourn  in 
Europe;  one  can  scarcely  name  a  poet  or  artist  or  novelist 
of  worth  unacquainted  intimately  with  what  we  still  call  the 
old  country,  but  here,  from  the  mouth  of  the  most  famous 
absentee  of  all,  comes  a  note  of  deep,  almost  querulous  regret 
that  he  has  preferred  "the  golden  air"  to  the  invigorating 
circumstances  of  home.  After  all,  men  are  born  citizens  of 
one  country.  And  from  Mr.  James's  use  of  the  phrase  *'  moral 
lesson,"  we  infer  that  in  some  fashion  he  fears  that  the  happi- 
ness gained  by  Mr.  Story  and  himself  is  scarcely  manful  and 
worthy. 

What  with  a  United  States  senator  under  indictment  for  selling 
a  post-office  appointment ;  a  fight  against  the 
Grf-at  confirmation  of  Brigadier-General  Wood's  ap- 

Doings  at  pointment  as  major-general ;  a  strong  move- 

Washington.  ment    tQ    uns£at    Senator    Smoot    because    of 

alleged  polygamy;  a  senatorial  scrap  over  a  resolution  looking 
toward  the  annexation  of  Cuba;  and  the  developments  in  the 
Panama  matter,  including  a  bit:er  arraignment  of  the  adminis- 
tration by  Senator  Morgan,  things  in  Washington  have  of  late 
been  rather  lively. 

Senator  Charles  H.  Dietrich,  of  Nebraska,  has  the  unique 
distinction  of  being  charged  with  trafficking  in  petty  post-offices 
at  so  much  per  pose-office.  0:her  senators  have,  heretofore, 
been  accused   of  corruption,  but   not  of  small   retail   business, 


like  this.  If  the  charges  are  true,  Mr.  Dietrich  will  enjoy  the 
reputation  of  being  the  "  cheapest  man "  that  ever  got  into 
the  Senate.  The  gentleman  has  issued  several  statements, 
which  tend  to  show  that  there  is  something  in  the  charges 
against  him. 

Sensational  testimony  regarding  General  Wood  has  been 
offered  during  the  week  before  the  Senate  Committee  on  Mili- 
tary Affairs.  Affidavits  were  introduced  showing  that,  while 
General  Wood  was  in  Cuba,  he  was  given  a  set  of  silverware, 
valued  at  $5,100,  by  the  Jai  Alai  Company — proprietors  of  a 
gambling  establishment — and  that  Mrs.  Wood  was  given  a 
pearl  earring  and  diamond  brooch,  valued  at  $2,500.  These 
facts  are  not  denied.  But  Wood's  friends  allege  the  gifts  were 
merely  part  of  the  general  expression  of  gratitude  of  Cubans 
to  Wood.  His  enemies  say  that  the  presents  were  for  granting 
the  company  a  monopolistic  concession,  and  they  offer  affi- 
davits showing  that  the  company's  shareholders  were  assessed 
$10.00  on  each  dividend  to  pay  for  them.  The  presentations 
were  made  to  General  and  Mrs.  Wood  on  May  18,  1902.  The 
concession  was  signed  May  9,  1902.  It  is  alleged  that  an 
agent  was  sent  to  New  York  by  the  Jai  Alai  early  in  May,  with 
instructions  to  "  look  around,"  but  not  to  buy  the  presents  till 
so  instructed,  and  that  when  the  concession  was  formally 
granted  he  was  sent  a  telegram  reading,  "Concession  signed; 
buy  the  silverware."     Thrift,  thrift,  Horatio  1 

Much  of  this  testimony  has  been  ruled  out  of  order  by  the 
committee  on  legal  grounds,  but  it  has  been  practically  decided 
that  a  sub-committee  will  be  appointed  to  go  to  Cuba  to 
investigate,  and  months  may,  therefore,  elapse  before  the  case 
is  settled.     It  promises  to  be  a  celebrated  one. 

In  the  case  of  Reed  Smoot,  Mormon  senator  from  Utah, 
great  pressure  is  being  brought  to  bear  on  senators  by  many 
organizations  of  women,  committees  from  which  have  opened 
headquarters  in  Washington,  and  are  prosecuting  a  vigorous 
campaign.  Some  of  the  affidavits  they  will  present  for  the 
consideration  of  the  Senate  have  been  published.  One  of  the 
more  striking,  from  an  ex-Mormon,  alleges  that  the  oath  of 
high  priesthood  requires  affirmation  of  the  following :  '*  Do 
you  swear,  in  the  name  of  God,  the  Son  and  Holy  Ghost,  that 
you  will  avenge  the  blood  of  the  prophets  Hyrum  and  Joseph 
Smith  upon  the  United  States  Government,  upon  all  Gentiles, 
upon  all  those  who  have  spilled  their  blood,  forever  and  for- 
ever, throughout  all  time."  The  penalty  for  violation  of  this 
startling  oath  was  to  have  the  throat  cut  from  ear  to  ear  and 
to  be  expeditiously  disemboweled — a  fate  the  affiant  appears  to 
have  escaped. 

In  the  Panama  matter,  the  significant  events  of  the  week 
may  be  briefly  summarized.  The  German  emperor  has 
directed  the  recognition  of  Panama.  In  the  French  Chamber 
of  Deputies,  the  statement  of  Foreign  Minister  Delcasse  that 
he  had  followed  the  course  of  the  United  States  in  the  matter, 
and  believed  French  interests  secure,  was  warmby  applauded. 
President  Marroquin  has  addressed  still  another  letter  to  the 
people  of  the  United  States,  asking  us  to  give  him  back 
Panama.  The  formula  of  all  his  letters  seems  to  be,  one  part 
flattery,  one  part  entreaty.  Our  minister  to  Chile  has  re- 
ported that  the  Chilean  Government  highly  approves  of  the 
action  of  the  United  States  in  recognizing  the  new  republic, 
and  sympathizes  not  at  all  with  Colombia.  Though  there  has 
as  yet  been  no  breach  of  relations  between  the  Washington 
and  Bogota  governments,  dispatches  from  the  little  capital  tell 
of  wars  and  rumors  of  wars.  Colombians  are  said  to  be 
showering  gold  and  jewels  into  the  treasury.  One  of  the 
"  courageous  generals  " — Salazar — sends  the  word  that  an 
army  of  one  hundred  thousand  men  can  be  raised.  But  it  is 
sagely  pointe'd  out  at  Panama  that,  even  if  such  an  army  were 
organized,  its  first  act  would  be  to  attempt  the  overthrow  o£ 
the  present  Colombian  Government.  Meanwhile,  General 
Reyes,  duly  accredited  from  Colombia,  is  en  route  to  Wash- 
ington, amicably  to  arrange  the  little  matters  at  issue.  What 
his  propositions  will  be  is  in  doubt.  The  Colombian  foreign 
minister,  M.  Rico,  has,  however,  expressed  a  willingness  to 
submit  all  questions  to  The  Hague  Court,  and  it  has  also  been 
suggested  that  the  court  might  be  invoked  to  decide  whether 
Panama  ought  to  assume  part  of  the  Colombian  national  debt. 
Panama  will  ratify  the  treaty  when  it  arrives — December  1st. 
As  we  pointed  out  last  week,  the  Democrats  in  the  Senate 
have  been  unable  to  agree  on  any  plan  of  action  in  the  Panama 
matter.  Senator  Morgan,  however,  makes  up  a  tolerably  for- 
midable opposition  party  all  by  himself,  and  this  week  talked 
till  he  could  stand  no  longer  and  then  continued,  sitting.  Here 
are  some  extracts  from  reports  of  this  caustic  address: 

He  accused  the  President  of  using  his  official  position  to 
advance  his  personal  views  in  the  matter  of  the  selection  of 
a  route  for  the  canal.  The  revolution  in  Panama,  he  said, 
was  a  Caesarian  operation  which  took  Panama  alive  from  the 
womb  of  Colombia.  The  senator  further  charged  that  the 
President  had  made  the  canal  question  a  party  question,  and 
added:  "  I  think  the  President's  appeal  to  party  discipline  to 
force  his  opinions  on  the  country'  and  his  measures  of  aggres- 
sion on  foreign  countries,  in  addition  to  his  power  as  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  army  and  navy,  which  he  uses  with 
a  dreadful  latitude  of  construction,  is  strong  proof  of  heart- 
failure  in  the  present  wild  moments.  The  pretense  in  Assistant 
Secretary  Loomis's  dispatch  that  it  was  our  desire  to  maintain 
peace  on  the  isthmus,  Morgan  declared,  was  the  grimmest  piece 
of  irony  that  ever  graced  diplomatic  annals.  "  As  for  the 
President,"  he  said,  "he  never  sleeps  on  his  post  of  duty  or 
desire,  although  he  sometimes  closes  his  eyes  to  what  is  going 
on  about  him."  Morgan  contended  that  Colombia  had  a 
perfect  right  to  suppress  an  uprising  on  the  isthmus,  and 
declared  that  the  United  States  had  failed  utterly  to  observe 
its  treaty  obligations  in  pursuing  the  course  it  had  taken.  He 
predicted  that  the  immediate  result  would  be  disastrous  and 
cause  the  loss  of  both  men  and  treasure.  Hay  had  not  been  in 
his  (.Morgan's;  opinion  a  free  agent  in  negotiating  either  of 
the  canal  treaties.  Following  his  statement  that  McKinley 
would  have  taken  no  such  course,  the  senator  said:  "But  he 
is  dead,  and  a  new  Richmond  comes  upon  the  field,  and  he 
seems  not  to  feel  the  obligations  of  good  faith  when  a  more 
enticing  feeling  for  a  unique  administration  breaks  on  the 
vision  of  this  ambitious  spirit."  He  declared  that  it  was 
President  Roosevelt's  ambition  to  have  all  the  glory  of  con- 
structing the  canal  for  his  own  administration,  but  predicted 
that  he  would  "  fail  to  carry  the  people  with  him  i 
and  inexcusable  raid." 


THE        ARGONAUT 


November  30,  1903. 


THE    SKIPPER'S    HONOR. 


How  the  Salt  Waves  Washed  Bright  the  "Scutcheon  of  Cap'n  Flint. 

The  steam  coaster  Grade  Jackson  was  lost.  She  had 
strayed  out  of  the  Columbia  River  on  a  thick  morning 
in  November,  bound  for  San  Francisco.  Three  days 
had  passed  since  then,  and  on  this  dull  forenoon  she 
tumbled  wildly  in  a  jobble  of  sea  somewhere  off  the 
Oregon  coast,  the  crew  knew  not  where.  In  her 
cramped  saloon  the  skipper  and  mate  were  asleep, 
asleep  beyond  the  power  of  the  frightened  sailors  to 
awake.  The  chief  engineer  had  come  up  from  below 
to  assist  in  the  process  of  rousing  them,  but  after  a 
half-hour's  vain  attempt  he  now  stood  back  against  the 
bulkhead  easing  his  mind.  "  They're  a  couple  of  sots," 
he  explained  to  the  drawn-faced  bos'n.  "  The  old 
man  started  lushing  before  we  were  across  the  bar,  and 
1  he  mate  aint  been  sober  for  a  week.  I  don't  believe 
those  two  seacooks  have  even  got  their  departure 
chalked  down.  I  know  they  aint  wrote  a  line  in  the  log 
since    we    passed    Tillamook    a-bellowing    in    the    fog. 

Drunk!  Drunk! "  and  the  engineer  and  the  bos'n 

lifted  up  their  voices  in  a  sea  blessing,  deep,  vociferous, 
and  mighty. 

"  1  reckon  we're  off  Cape  Blanco  somewhere,"  sug- 
gested a  sailor  who  had  stamped  in.  "  It's  running  an 
ugly  sea,  too.  Thicker'n  peasoup,  and  the  glass  way 
down.     What'll  we  do,  sir?" 

The  engineer  grunted  with  the  wrath  of  two  sleep- 
less days.  Then  he  stumbled  up  the  companionway 
to  the  deck,  and  the  bos'n  shuffled  after  him.  Forward 
in  the  wheelhouse  they  found  a  grim-visaged  seaman 
clinging  hungrily  to  the  jerking  wheel,  and  peering  out 
from  the  compass  to  the  gray,  frothing  ocean  that 
seemed  to  have  risen  like  a  cloud  of  hissing  steam  about 
the  Grade  Jackson.  There  was  no  twinkle  of  the  sun, 
and  the  howling  wind  drove  the  vapor  across  the  plung- 
ing decks  in  huge  billows.  A  boat,  crushed  and  broken, 
lay  wabbling  under  the  weather  rail.  Aft  the  humming 
funnel  spun  a  sooty  thread  against  the  low  cloud.  All 
this  the  engineer  took  in  with  a  sweeping  glance.  Then 
he  looked  back  on  the  chart  shelf  at  the  slate.  A 
clumsy  hand  had  chalked  tentative  reckonings  on  it 
and  the  barometer  and  log  readings.  There  was  no 
attempt,  however,  to  lix  the  position  of  the  steamer  on 
the  chart  pinned  beneath.  The  engineer  swore  gruffly, 
and  then  abruptly  departed  by  the  lee  door,  to  return 
holding  in  his  hand  a  copy  of  his  own  log.  The  bos'n 
joined  him,  and  they  puzzled,  and  figured,  and  cursed 
till  noon.  "  It's  no  use,"  said  the  engineer,  after  a  final 
wrestle.  "  We  can't  get  bottom  with  the  lead;  we  aint 
an  observation  of  any  sort  to  go  on;  we  aint  even  got 
an  approximate  distance  logged.  We  might  be  off  San 
Diego  or  the  Sahara  Desert  so  far's  we  know." 

"*  How  much  we  making  now  ?"  asked  the  sailor  at  the 
wheel. 

"  Seven  by  the  engines,"  was  the  reply.  "Five  by 
the  log.    May  be  going  astern  for  all  that." 

"  1  reckon,"  continued  the  helmsman,  slowly — "  I 
reckon  we're  about  off  Blanco.  How  much  coal  we 
got?" 

"  Sixteen  hours'  this  gait." 

There  was  a  long  pause,  filled  only  with  the  harsh 
noises  of  the  ocean  and  the  laboring  vessel.  Then 
the  man  at  the  wheel,  as  he  eased  the  Grade  over  a 
crested  surge,  muttered  an  oath  and  besought  his 
Creator  to  show  no  mercy  to  the  stupored  men  in  the 
saloon. 

"  We've  got  to  do  something,"  said  the  bos'n,  prac- 
tically. "  1  guess  Cap'n  Flint  aim  coming  to  to-day,  and 
the  mate's  worse  off  yet.  We  got  to  get  sail  on  her  to 
steady  her  and  fetch  somewhere  mighty  quick.  When 
we're  short  of  coal  the  foresail  and  staysail  ought  to 
take  us  along." 

The  engineer  thought  a  while,  and  then  turned 
brusquely  to  the  bos'n.  "  I'm  in  command  here,"  he  said. 
"  Put  some  sail  on  her  and  get  out  to  sea  somewhere. 
We  aim  going  to  risk  it  inshore  this  weather.  I'll  save 
my  coal  for  a  pinch.  You  take  command  on  deck,  and 
I'll  keep  watch  with  you  soon  as  I  shut  my  dampers 
and  get  all  snug  below." 

The  bos'n  nodded,  and  slipped  out  on  deck.  He  took 
his  chance  and  ran  forward,  and  disappeared.  When 
he  emerged  again  from  the  tiny  fo'c's'le  it  was  with 
three  men  at  his  heels.  They  regained  the  pilot-house 
and  received  their  orders.  "  We  got  to  fetch  in  some- 
where," finished  the  bos'n,  sourly.  "  It's  up  to  us  to  do 
it  by  dead  reckoning.  At  kast  we  can  keep  off  a  lee 
shore.  Maybe  by  to-morrow  they  [he  pointed  a  scorn- 
ful thumb  over  his  shoulder]  will  be  wise  enough  to 
a  sight  and  navigate  the  ship.  Keep  your  eyes 
open  and  don't  let  her  get  away  from  you." 

So  the  Grade  Jackson  came  into  the  hands  of  her 
untutored  crew,  and  while  the  skipper  and  his  mate 
slumbered  on  the  saloon  deck  the  thread  of  smoke 
ceased  to  blow  from  her  slender  funnel  and  two  sails 
were  set  to  give  her  steerage  way.  Thus  she  swung 
drunkenly  on  her  unknown  course,  staggering,  pitching, 
ruling  through  the  beaded  seas.  Afternoon  dimmed 
into  dusk;  swirling  fog  and  wind  wreathed  her  and 
smothered  her  till  the  men  at  the  wheel  craned  their 
necks   i  1   vain   to  catch   a   glimpse  of  the   waves   that 

roared  in  the  darkness,    anted  over  the  rail  and  beat 

hei    'b  nbly  down   till   the  crew  clung  dizzily  to  each 
ind   swore   bla  .  .. ■  imnisly   that   they  had  seen 
..  ,t  dawn. 

blanketed   the   ocean  and  mucked  the  scanty 


beams  of  the  lights.  The  watery  steam  poured  hoarsely 
through  tire  whistle  as  the  bos'n  pulled  the  cord  in 
dread  of  an  answer  from  the  invisible.  The  gale  rose 
and  thundered  in  the  sails  till  the  rigging  tautened 
to  the  breaking  point.  The  engineer  stood  by  the  helms- 
man and  prayed  that  he  might  be  spared  again  to  hear 
the  throb  of  his  engines  in  the  ship's  bowels.  Other 
times  he  exhorted  his  assistant  to  keep  up  steam 
enough  for  the  whistle  and  pumps.  Then  when  the 
strain  was  too  great  they  suddenly  fell  to  talking  shrilly. 
In  the  end  they  started  the  engines  again,  and  by  the  aid 
of  a  headsail  kept  the  almost  uncontrollable  steamer 
from  falling  into  the  trough  and  foundering.  "  It's  all 
off  'f  we  don't  make  s'me  port  t'night,"  said  the  en- 
gineer when  the  dawn  glimmered.  "  M'  coal's  a"most 
gone,  an'  m'  engines  'r  teetering  on  th'  plates,  'nd  th' 
drunks  're  drunkener  'n  ever." 

"  We  ought  'a'  throwed  the  liquor  over  the  side," 
mumbled  the  bos'n  through  lips  bleeding  from  the  sting- 
ing brine.  "  I  thought  they  were  too  full  to  lush  any 
more." 

"  Steward  'nd  me  just  tried  t'  wake  'em  up,"  the 
engineer  went  on.     "  'Nd  the  mate's  past  talking  still." 

"  I  reckon  it  'ud  do  us  a  heap  of  good  to  have  a  drink 
of  that  same,"  growled  a  sailor,  avidly. 

"  No  you  don't !"  yelled  the  bos'n,  distractedly.  "  No 
liquor  for  you.    My  God  !    Aint  we  'ad  enough  ?" 

"  Hell's  wide  open  for  them  guzzlers,"  said  the  en- 
gineer in  chilly  rage.  "  Th'  old  man  was  a  good  sort 
till  the  mate  got  a-hold  of  him.  The  mate  always  was  a 
bad  one,  anyhow." 

"  So  he  was,"  assented  the  bos'n.  "  The  old  man  al- 
ways stuck  right  by  him,  though.  Always  held  him  his 
job.  Always  stood  between  him  and  the  fellows  ashore 
that  wanted  to  fire  him.  Always  said  he  was  a  smart 
seaman,  and  never  let  on  to  the  owners  that  he  drank. 
Now  he's  got  his  pay,  and  we're  drawing  it  along  of  him. 
Look  at  that !" 

The  group  looked  as  the  bos'n  sprang  to  the  aid 
of  the  man  at  the  wheel.  A  huge  boiling  wave  rose 
straight  up  out  of  the  ocean,  and  soared  in  black  ma- 
jesty while  the  Grade  Jackson  wallowed  helplessly  and 
her  emptied  sail  slatted  uselessly.  Still  obedient  to 
her  helm  the  little  steamer  turned  sullenly  to  mount 
this  precipice  of  water.  She  thrust  her  nose  into  its 
huge  flank,  and  then,  as  the  weight  of  it  throttled  her, 
the  men  in  the  pilot-house  threw  themselves  together 
on  the  wheel  and  clung,  there. 

The  bos'n  was  the  first  to  get  back  his  power  of 
speech.    "  We're  going  ashore  !"  he  shouted. 

The  engineer  looked  a  question,  and  a  sailor  tossed 
him  an  explanation :  "  That  was  a  breaker  in  shallow 
water." 

As  they  waited  for  the  next,  while  the  engineer  yelled 
down  the  engine-room  speaking-tube,  the  door  leading 
from  the  cabin  opened.  It  showed  the  gray,  sodden  face 
of  the  mate.  They  did  not  greet  him.  He  stepped 
slowly  in,  and  they  saw  that  he  was  wringing  wet.  He 
slid  across  the  deck  to  the  plunge  of  the  ship,  and 
pushed  his  face  out  of  the  window.  The  day  had  come 
in  gloom,  and  the  gray  mist  and  driving  scud  shut  out 
all  view  a  few  yards  from  the  side.  From  the  welter 
to  windward  rose  another  wall  of  hissing  water  and 
fell  crashing  on  the  decks  of  the  Grade  Jackson.  The 
mate's  face  flushed,  and  he  dragged  the  men,  thrown 
down  by  the  impact,  to  their  feet.  Then  he  seized  the 
wheel  and  motioned  to  the  engineer  to  approach. 
"  Steam !"  he  ordered,  thickly.  "  We're  goin  'shore. 
Steam!" 

The  throb  of  the  engines  changed  to  a  steady  beat, 
and  the  steamer  found  herself  for  an  instant.  The  mate 
handed  the  wheel  over  to  the  bos'n  and  a  sailor,  and 
tore  off  his  jacket  and  shirt  till  he  stood  before  them 
naked  to  the  waist.  Then  jumping  between  them  with 
a  thundered  order  he  drove  the  spokes  around  and  the 
Grade  bucked  over  a  low,  scudding  wave  that  had 
sucked  her  down  till  the  brine  bubbled  in  over  the  sill 
of  the  pilot-house  doors. 

For  an  hour  the  steamer  held  her  own  under  the 
awakened  skill  and  strength  of  the  mate.  Then  some- 
thing in  the  engine-room  clattered  and  crashed;  a  cloud 
of  steam  whirled  up  from  the  after  skylight.  The 
coaster  rolled  helplessly  in  the  trough  of  the  sea.  Al- 
most immediately  the  engineer,  followed  by  his  as- 
sistant and  a  couple  of  firemen,  tumbled  on  deck  and 
scampered  for  shelter.  "  Wheel  gone  and  engine's  lifted 
cylinder  heads  off,"  explained  the  engineer,  wipil  ff  his 
eyes  with  a  piece  of  waste.    "  God  ha'  mercy  on 

I'        he  half-naked  mate  was  forward  witl 
gi  e  sail  set.     The  effort  was  vain 

.   heavy  sea  swept  her  fore  a 
let  her  fall  into  a  tur.!' 
-r  the  rail.    A  lo- 
bi  "a  and  hurri  r, 

ihrus.  'ble  shr 

She  si;  >d  to  lee- 

ward.    Unci'  ioi  set   to 

work  to  free  a  :ck.  With 

a  mighty  effort  t..  -d  it  to  the 

rail,  and  by  the  aid  o  launched  it, 

half  full  of  water.     The  instant 

by  the  blast  of  the  gale,  anu  ^g  from 

the  reef  on  which  the  Grade  .1.  .unding  a 

smooth  sheet  of  water  rolling  gei,  >vard   from 

the  caldron  of  the  breakers.  The  ma  pointed  to  it. 
They  understood.  As  the  coaster  settled  heavily  again 
on  the  bottom,  the  sailors,  led  by  the  engineer,  tumbled 
into  the  boat,  one  by  one.  The  male  yelled  to  them 
1.1  pull  away.      The  answer  was  a  cry,  "The  skipper!" 


He  caught  its  purport,  and  disappeared  in  the  saloon 
companionway. 

Squatting  on  the  rocking  deck  the  captain  idiotically 
watched  the  antics  of  a  big  saltcellar  rolling  about  be- 
fore him  as  the  steamer  wallowed.  When  the  mate 
entered  he  looked  up,  and  then  his  eyes  reverted  to  the 
frollicking  piece  of  ware  on  the  writhing  deck.  A  gap 
opened  in  the  planks  and  the  water  sucked  through, 
noisily.  Another  strain  of  the  wreck  and  the  gap 
yawned  wider  and  the  saltcellar  was  swallowed  up. 
The  old  man  watched  with  fascinated  eyes. 

The  ma'te  shook  him  roughly  by  the  shoulder.  An 
oath  answered  him.  He  dragged  the  drunkard  to  his 
feet  and  held  him  swaying  there  till  both  lurched  dizzily 
to  the  deck.  The  mate  got  up  again  and  strove  to  put 
life  into  his  superior.  Then  in  his  passion  he  shrieked 
in  the  dull  ears  the  truth  of  their  state. 

The  captain  mumbled  and  his  face  took  on  the  livid 
complexion  of  terror.  Then  reeling  to  the  steps  he 
scrambled  out  on  deck  with  the  mate  at  his  heels.  As 
they  dirust  their  heads  out  in  the  air  a  wave  washed 
them  back.  The  mate  shoved  on,  pushed  his  captain 
out  on  the  careening  deck,  and  then  swiftly  dragged  him 
to  the  pilot-house,  unroofed  by  the  last  breaker.  The 
men  in  the  boat,  now  almost  swamped,  shrieked  another 
call.  The  skipper  looked  down  at  them  as  the  Grade 
Jackson  rolled  over  on  the  reef,  and  clutched  at  some- 
thing to  hold  him  while  he  hastened  to  the  boat.  The 
mate  caught  him  back,  thrust  him  against  a  stanchion, 
and  waved  his  hand  to  the  upturned  faces  below.  "  Pull 
away !"  he  ordered. 

"  The  captain !"  bawled  the  engineer. 

"  Lemme  go!  Lemme  go!"  cried  the  captain. 
"Lemmego!     We're  wrecked!" 

The  mate  looked  seaward.  A  long,  sharply  crested 
comber  was  rising  out  a  little,  and  as  it  sped  in  toward 
the  reef,  he  knew  the  imminent  doom.  He  turned  to 
save  the  man  who  had  saved  him.  "  That  boat's  over- 
loaded," he  said,  tensely.    "  Tell  'em  to  pull  away!" 

A  flash  of  courage  lit  the  old  man's  degradation.  He 
threw  out  his  hand  and  gathered  his  voice  into  a  com- 
mand that  rose  above  the  tumult  of  the  sea.  In  re- 
sponse the  boat  swept  shoreward  from  under  the  crumb- 
ling steamer  and  into  the  smooth  waters  in  the  shelter 
of  the  reef.  The  mate  turned  to  his  superior.  It  was 
his  last  report.  "  Boat's  away,  sir.  Shall  we  give  'em 
a  cheer?" 

Captain  Flint  raised  his  hand,  and  the  half-naked 
man  beside  him  stepped  forward  a  little.  Above  the 
plunging  roar  of  the  breaker  that  ended  forever  the 
Grade  Jackson,  the  men  toiling  to  safety  in  the  over- 
loaded boat  heard  a  feeble  cheer. 

The  bos'n  held  up  his  arm  an  instant.  His  face  was 
reverent.  "  The  old  man  give  us  a  cheer,  mates,"  he 
said,  hoarsely.     "  Give  'im  one  for  goin'  like  a  man." 

And,  to  the  great  peril  of  their  frail  craft  riding  in 
unstill  waters,  the  crew  of  the  Grade  Jackson  rested  on 
their  oars  to  bellow  a  last  salute  to  the  captain  perishing 
on  the  reef. 

The  skipper's  honor  was  saved. 

John  Fleming  Wilson. 

San  Francisco,  November,  1903. 


IN    MEMORIAM. 


Richard  Henry  Stoddard. 
Farewell !     O  Poet  of  a  purer  time, 

Whose  lips  the  Muses  touched  with  sacred  fire ; 
Master  of  trenchant  prose,  and  tenderest  rhyme, 

Our  Nestor  of  the  lyre, 

A  long  farewell  1 — Now  age  hath  lost  its  dread ; 

Eyes  that  were  dimmed  with  honored  toil  of  years 
Shall  see  the  long  line  of  illustrious  dead — 

And  there  shall  be  no  tears. 

Perchance   in   radiant   worlds   athrill   with    Song 
Thou  hear'st  angelic  voices,  passing  sweet ; 

Or,  toward  thee  harping,  some  celestial  throng 
Wends  down  the  Golden  Street. 

Whatever  shores  ethereal  thou  dost  roam 

Rest  thou  hast  found,  and  peace,  and  labor  past : 

As  some  faint  carrier-dove,  storm-tossed  from  home. 
Reaches  her  home  at  last. 

O  lifeless  Presence!  mute,  unknowing  clay! 

Accept  from  us  our  sorrowing  hearts'  behest, 
As,  with  a  sigh,  we  reverently  lay 

The  laurel  on  thy  breast. 

— Lloyd  Mifilin   in   the  Critic. 


James  McNeill  Whistler. 
Greatest  of  modern  painters,  he  is  dead  1 — 

Whistler,  in  whom  death  seemed  to  have  no  part : 

He  of  the  nimble  wit  and  jocund  heart, 
Who  sipped  youth's  nectar  at  the  fountain-head. 
And  felt  its  wine  through  all  his  veins  run  red: 

Who  worshiped  the  ideal — not  the  mart, 

And  blessed  the  world  with  an  imperial  Art. 
Whereby  who  longs  for  beauty  may  be  fed  ! 

When  things  men  deem  momenttrus  are  forgot, 
Laurels  will  bloom  for  him  that  wither  not; 

And  Death's  inverted  torch  shall  fail  to  smother 
The  light  of  genius,  tender  and  sublime, 
Which  with  austere  restraint,  and  for  all  time. 

Painted  the  gentle  portrait  of  the  "  Mother  "  ! 
— Florence  Earle  Coatcs  in  Lippincott's  Magazine. 


Until  a  few  years  ago,  barely  half  a  dozen  important 
newspapers  were  issued  in  the  Chinese  language.  To- 
day every  large  city,  however  remote,  has  its  journals. 
These  usually  contain — besides  the  imperial  edicts — 
extracts  from  the  Pekin  periodicals,  editorial  articles, 
and  a  special  section  devoted  to  European  and  Ameri- 
can affairs,  and  affording  much  enlightenment  regard- 
ing foreigners  and  their  wavs. 


November  30,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


BALFOUR'S    NEW    CABINET. 

The  Mix-Up  in  English  Politics  Caused  by  Chamberlain's  Protective 

Tariff  Scheme  —  Some  of  His  Notable  Opponents  —  "Weak 

Spots  in  the  New  Appointments. 

The  air  is  so  full  of  politics  that  one  hears  of  hardly 
anything  else.  Surely,  not  since  Gladstone's  break-up  of 
the  Liberal  party  and  the  Home  Rule  bill  in  1885.  has 
there  been  such  a  political  commotion.  It  is  really,  in 
many  of  its  aspects,  very  similar  to  that  time,  and  the 
remnants  of  the  old  Liberal  party,  which  have  held  to- 
gether since  then  under  the  name  of  Gladstonians  and 
Radicals,  have  blossomed  forth  in  marvelous  spirits. 
Their  hopes  run  high  and  dependchiefly  on  the  disaffec- 
tion of  many  of  the  biggest  men  in  the  Unionist  ranks. 
Of  these,  the  most  important  is,  no  doubt,  the  Duke  of 
Devonshire.  He  is  a  tower  of  strength,  not  only  on  ac- 
count of  his  wealth,  rank,  intimacy  with  the  king,  but 
because  of  his  natural  abilities.  He  is  cautious,  of 
course — an  attribute  of  the  English  character,  more  or 
less — and  is  regarded  as  a  safe  man  to  follow,  his  utter- 
ances being  taken  as  gospel.  He  is  pronounced  in  his 
antagonism  to  Chamberlain's  fiscal  scheme  of  a  retalia- 
tory tariff,  especially  where  it  comes  to  putting  a  tax 
on  food.  Then  there  is  Mr.  Ritchie,  the  recently  re- 
signed chancellor  of  the  exchequer  in  Balfour's  cabinet. 
When  people  see  a  man  like  Ritchie  stand  out  against 
Chamberlain,  it  makes  the  stanchest  Conservative  hesi- 
tate. 

Winston  Churchill  is  another  disaffected  member  of 
the  Tory  party.  Even  though  people  may  liken  him  to 
his  erratic  father  in  the  early  days  of  his  career,  when 
he  and  Arthur  Balfour,  with  Gorst  and  another,  organ- 
ized their  famous  "  Fourth  party  "  of  free  lances  to  at- 
tack the  vulnerable  rifts  in  the  armor  of  both  friend  and 
foe.  the  fact  remains  that  he  is  a  young  man  of  great 
ability,  and  has  the  gift  of  speech  to  a  degree  that 
makes  his  utterances  noticed.  His  audacity  and  aggres- 
siveness are  simply  sublime.  He  hesitates  at  nothing: 
his  tongue  is  at  times  a  rapier  pointed  with  the  finest 
sarcasm :  at  others,  it  is  a  knotted  bludgeon.  But  this 
is  only  in  public.  In  private  life  he  is  quiet,  silent,  and 
retiring.  To  look  at  him  smiling  and  whispering  at 
some  society  function  in  high  life  (where  he  is  much  in 
demand  as  a  matrimonial  eligible),  you  would  never  be- 
lieve he  could  say  "  boo  "  to  a  goose. 

Lord  Goschen — the  great  Jewish  expert  on  finance — 
has  also  joined  the  opposition.  He  was  a  Liberal  until 
Gladstone  "  played  old  gosling "  with  the  party,  and 
was  really  never  comfortable  in  the  Tory  ranks,  al- 
though Lord  Salisbury  made  him  a  viscount  in  1900.  in 
payment  for  his  services. 

Balfour's  new  cabinet  is  full  of  weak  places.  Per- 
haps Austen  Chamberlain,  as  chancellor  of  the  ex- 
chequer, is  the  weakest  of  all.  Apart  from  his  inexpe- 
rience, and  consequent  inabilitv  to  take  charge  of  the 
nation's  money-bags,  as  Joe  Chamberlain's  son  he  at 
once  raises  suspicion  as  to  the  motives  which  controlled 
his  appointment.  Of  course  you  might  just  as  well 
have  old  Joe  himself  filling  the  office.  People  wouldn't 
object  to  that,  for  he  would  make  a  good  chancellor. 
But  it  is  the  trick,  the  artfulness  of  the  whole  business, 
that  is  not  liked. 

No  one  can  find  fault  with  Arnold-Forster  in  the  war 
office,  but  he  is  chiefly  welcome  because  he  ousts  Brod- 
erick.  The  most  mediocre  man  would  be  hailed  with 
delight  if  he  displaced  Broderick.  But.  unfortunately. 
Broderick  isn't  got  rid  of  as  people  hoped  he  would  be. 
He  is  simplv  transferred  to  the  India  office,  where,  as 
secretary  for  India,  he  is  to  manage  the  affairs  of  the 
Indian  Empire:  that  is.  if  the  next  general  election 
doesn't  turn  him  and  his  coterie  out. 

Then,  look  at  the  next  secretary  for  the  colonies — 
Lyttelton  !  He  is  an  honorable,  it  is  true,  and  a  king's 
consul,  a  brother  of  the  general  who  did  fairlv  well  in 
the  late  war.  as  well  as  of  the  head  master  of  Hailey- 
burg  College,  as  he  was  of  the  late  Bishop  of  South- 
ampton. He  is  also  known — and  better  known  than 
for  anything  else  he  has  ever  done — as  the  best  "  gentle- 
man "  wicket-keeper  the  game  of  cricket  has  ever 
known.  Nothing  can,  of  course,  be  said  against  him. 
But  he  is  hardly  the  sort  of  man  to  succeed  Chamber- 
lain in  a  post  that  required  the  exercise  of  all  of  Cham- 
berlain's unique  abilities  to  fill.  What  people  think,  and 
say.  is  that  he  will  be  another  dummy  in  the  hands 
of  Chamberlain,  who  will  virtually  run  the  office. 

All  this  sort  of  thing  is  going  to  tell  when  the  final 
appeal  is  made  to  the  people  by  a  general  election. 
When  that  is  to  be  depends  upon  Arthur  Balfour.  .He 
is  the  nominal  head  of  the  government.  But  it  will 
really  occur  when  Chamberlain  thinks  his  fiscal  reform 
speeches  have  convinced  the  voters  that  it  is  right  to 
have  their  food  taxed.  In  the  meantime,  the  Balfour 
government  will  stay  in  office  and  enjoy  the  loaves  and 
fishes.  There  is  one  great  harm  that  Chamberlain  is 
doing  to  his  cause.  Every  day  demonstrates  more  and 
more  how  completely  he  himself  is  the  Balfour  gov- 
ernment, and  the  nation  is  getting  a  bit  sick  of  one-man 
power. 

Another  big  mistake  the  government  has  made  is 
appointing  Captain  Lee  to  be  civil  lord  of  the  admiralty. 
Captain  Lee  was  for  some  time  military  attache  of  the 
British  embassy  at  Washington,  where  he  is  well  known, 
and  where  he  married  an  American  wife  —  a  Miss 
Moore.  I  believe,  who  brought  him  so  many  dollars 
that  he  at  once  purchased  a  landed  estate  in  Hamp- 
shire and  set  up  as  a  country  squire.    He  was  also  at- 


tached to  the  United  States  army  in  Cuba  during  the 
Spanish  war.  He  is  an  officer  of  the  Royal  Artillery. 
having  been  educated  at  Woolwich.  He  is  looked  upon 
as  an  expert  on  military  matters,  and  his  proper  place 
was  at  the  war  office,  not  the  admiralty. 
London,  November  2,1902.  Cockaigne. 


ADELINA    PATTI. 


The  Last  of  the  Great  Prima  Donnas. 


Between  forty  and  fifty  years  ago  a  noted  im- 
presario— I  think  it  was  Max  Moretsez — introduced  to 
the  Xew  York  public  a  young  prima  donna.  She  had 
come  of  a  family  of  singers  and  musicians,  and  as  a 
child  had  sung  over  that  part  of  the  country  which  at 
the  time  comprised  the  circuit  of  traveling  theatrical 
companies.  She  had  been  regarded  as  a  sort  of  infant 
prodigy,  but  this  New  York  appearance  was  her  intro- 
duction to  the  greatest  public  of  that  day  as  an  aspirant 
for  the  highest  operatic  honors.  She  was  seventeen 
years  of  age,  and  the  opera — if  I  am  not  mistaken — was 
"  Don  Pasquale." 

Among  the  audience  that  night  were  a  lady  and 
gentlemen — relatives  of  mine — who  have  often  de- 
scribed to  me  the  dark,  piquant  prettiness  of  the  young 
singer,  her  light,  fragile  figure,  and  the  crystalline 
purity  of  her  birdlike  voice.  Between  the  acts  they 
went  into  the  box  of  a  certain  lady  of  fashionable 
proclivities,  whose  husband  was  a  great  light  in  the 
newspaper  world.  Between  the  acts  the  impresario  en- 
tered the  box,  anxious  to  hear  their  opinions  of  his 
star. 

These  differed.  My  relative,  who  was  musical,  told 
him  she  thought  the  voice  was  of  remarkable  quality, 
and  that  the  singer  would  have  a  great  future,  pro- 
vided that  she  retained  her  physical  health.  She  had 
now  an  appearance  of  girlish  fragility  that  did  not  sug- 
gest the  powerful  constitution  necessary  to  the  prima 
donna.  The  other  lady  was  pessimistic,  and  told  him 
frankly  that  she  thought  the  voice  thin  and  poor,  and 
not  to  build  his  hopes  upon  one  who  would  never 
amount  to  anything.  But  the  impresario's  faith  was 
unshakable.  As  he  rose  to  leave  the  box  he  said: 
"This  girl  you  hear  singing  to-night  will  be  some  day 
not  only  the  greatest  prima  donna  in  this  country — 
she  will  be  the  greatest  in  the  world." 

And  he  was  right.  For  the  singer  was  Adelina 
Patti. 

Looking  at  Patti  to-day  and  glancing  backward  over 
the  forty-five  vears  which  divide  her  from  that  time, 
one  realizes  that  hers  has  been  one  of  the  great  careers 
of  the  nineteenth  century.  It  has  not  been  spectacular 
and  tragic  like  that  of  so  many  celebrated  singers.  Its 
unique  points  have  been  the  length  of  its  period  of  pub- 
lic performance,  its  unfaltering  success,  and  the  un- 
diminished power  of  the  singer  over  her  audiences. 
Has  any  other  operatic  star  in  the  history  of  the  stage 
held  such  a  position  for  nearly  half  a  century?  In  her 
sixty-second  year  Patti  can  drawr  a  full  house — in  sated, 
blase  New  York — at  seven  dollars  a  seat.  It  will  be  her 
last,  and,  in  its  way.  it  is  her  greatest  triumph. 

Du  Maurier  in  "  Trilby  "  called  her  "  the  last  of  the 
great  prima  donnas."  And  she  does  seem  to  be  the 
last  of  that  line  of  singers  who  were  truly  "  queens 
of  song,"  women  who  swayed  vast  masses  of  people 
not  only  by  the  perfection  of  their  vocal  gifts  but  by 
their  triumphant  charm.  We  have  great  voices  to-day. 
but  that  combination  of  peerless  singing,  with  physical 
beauty  and  personal  magnetism,  has  for  the  time  being 
passed.  Adelina  Patti  is  the  sole  survivor  of  that  com- 
pany of  incomparable  singers  and  beguiling  women, 
who  made  a  simultaneous  appeal  to  the  eye  and  the  ear. 
to  the  body,  the  mind,  and  the  soul. 

The  general  opinion  in  the  outside  world  is  regret 
for  this  tour.  There  was  no  necessity  for  it.  The  diva 
is  rich  enough  already  without  needing  the  three  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  which  it  is  said  she  is  to  be  paid 
for  the  winter's  work.  She  is  not  a  wrecked  Patti,  a 
feeble  echo  of  a  once  perfect  thing.  Neither  is  she  an 
old  Patti,  a  being  who  belongs  to  the  chimney  corner 
now  that  her  life's  work  is  over.  But  it  would  have 
been  better  to  have  left  a  lovely  illusion  in  the  memories 
of  men.  not  only  of  a  haunting  voice,  each  note  a  per- 
fect pearl,  but  of  a  bewitching  woman,  whose  beauty- 
was  mellowing  into  an  autumnal  ripeness  when  it  was 
withdrawn  into  the  peaceful  seclusion  of  Craig-y-Nos 
Castle. 

On  the  stage  she  still  preserves  a  wonderful  illusion 
of  vouth.  This  is  not  the  case  in  the  hard  light  of  day. 
It  is  nearly  three  years  ago  now  that  I  saw  Patti  and 
her  husband,  one  morning,  on  the  Rue  de  Rivoli  in 
Paris.  She  was  dressed  with  a  wonderful  elaboration 
and  brilliancy,  was  much  made  up.  and  had  red  gold 
hair  of  a  most  improbable  shade.  She  looked  as  old  as 
Mrs.  Skewton,  and  fully  as  artificial.  It  was  a  shock, 
especially  when  you  looked  at  her  husband,  who  was 
a  very  tall,  well-dressed,  and  handsome  young  man. 
who  had  the  air  of  being  say  (to  be  charitable)  thirty- 
five. 

Her  remarkable  appearance  on  the  stage  is.  I  think, 
a  matter  of  lights.  I  noticed  on  the  afternoon  I  heard 
her  that  the  illuminating  was  mostly  from  above  and 
was  behind  her.  throwing  her  figure  out  against  a  sort 
of  radiant  background.  She  was  dressed  with  all  Patti's 
famous  elegance,  wearing  no  hat.  and  a  low  neck, 
though  it  was  a  matinee  performance.  Her  dress,  a 
filmy  white  affair,  with  some  pale  pink  flowers  scattered 


over  it,  was  supplemented  by  a  dog-collar  of  pearls  so 
high  that  she  was  forced  to  hold  her  chin  up  at  rather 
an  awkward  angle.  She  has  changed  the  golden  red 
dye  she  used  for  her  hair  into  a  reddish  brown,  and  her 
coiffure  was  simple,  all  the  hair  drawn  up  to  the  top 
of  her  head  and  there  loosely  knotted,  and  framing  her 
face  in  a  dark  roll.  As  to  her  face  itself,  it  was  impos- 
sible to  say  whether  it  was  an  old  one  or  not,  because 
no  light  fell  directly  upon  it.  It  looked  a  little  fuller 
in  contour  than  of  old;  that  was  all  one  could  notice. 
It  was  in  her  figure,  and  only  there,  that  you  saw  the 
encroachments  of  age.  She  has  the  elderly  woman's 
back,  no  longer  flat  and  upright,  but  with  a  curious 
molded  stoutness  at  the  nape  of  the  neck,  and  an  un- 
graceful heaviness  over  the  hips. 

In  manner,  in  all  the  famous  tricks  that  have  held' 
her  audiences  spellbound  for  nearly  half  a  century,  she 
was  the  same  old  Patti.  There  was  the  little,  quick, 
confident  walk  out  from  the  wings  in  answer  to  the  roar 
of  the  encores.  The  same  expression  of  naive,  delighted 
surprise  as  she  bowed  right  and  left,  a  picture  of  as- 
tonished pleasure  at  such  unexpected  appreciation. 
When  the  flowers  were  handed  up,  she  ran  to  receive 
them  with  the  old  and  always  charming  gesture  of  en- 
raptured amazement,  clasped  them  in  her  arms,  and 
looked  over  them  at  the  audience  with  a  face  so 
wreathed  in  smiles  that  one  did  not  notice  it  was  no 
longer  fresh  and  young. 

It  was  the  same  old  Patti !  No  one  has  ever  under- 
stood so  perfectly  and  completely  the  way  to  manage 
an  audience — give  it  only  what  you  want  to  give  it. 
and  make  it  think  it  has  got  just  what  it  wanted  to  have 
given.  It  clamored  for  a  second  encore  to  the  first 
aria,  but  it  got  only  the  one.  The  diva  appeared  as 
often  as  it  called  her.  bowing,  smiling,  hand  on  heart, 
charmingly  pleased,  almost  humbly  gratified,  but  she 
would  not  sing  again.  x\fter  every  call  she  retired  to 
a  side  door,  whence,  from  where  I  sat.  I  could  see  a  lit- 
tle group  of  women  waiting  for  her.  As  she  came 
among  them  the  arms  of  one  were  held  out  toward  her. 
a  white  woolen  cape  depending  from  the  hands,  and 
almost  before  she  had  got  out  of  the  audience's  sight 
the  cape  was  thrown  on  her  shoulders  and  muffled 
tightly  round  what  is  still  the  most  valuable  throat  in 
the  world. 

She  was  only  down  twice  on  the  long  programme. 
She  gives  two  of  her  famous  Italian  arias  and  two  en- 
cores, with  generally  "  Home  Sweet  Home  "  or  "  The 
Last  Rose  of  Summer  "  as  a  supplemental  third.  Musi- 
cians say  that  her  voice  becomes  obviouslv  exhausted 
by  the  time  the  second  encore  is  over.  I  am  fain  to  con- 
fess that  I  did  not  notice  this.  What  one  did  notice 
was  her  determined  resolution  to  give  no  more  than 
"  what  was  nominated  in  the  bond."  It  is  said  that  she 
has  just  enough  voice  to  get  through  the  concert  pro- 
gramme with  honors,  and  she  is  too  clever  a  woman  to 
let  vanity  or  the  public's  demand  beguile  her  into  what 
might  be  a  disastrous  generosity. 

As  to  the  condition  of  her  voice  there  are  manv 
opinions.  I  have  heard  her  performances  called 
"  lamentable  "  and  "  as  fine  as  ever."  Tn  my  opinion, 
one  finds  the  truth  between  these  two  extremes.  I 
never  heard  Patti  till  she  was  old  for  a  prima  donna. 
That  was  about  twelve  years  ago.  when  she  must  have 
been  in  the  second  half  of  her  'forties.  Her  voice  was 
then  incomparably  finer  than  it  is  now.  Those  who  had 
heard  her  in  the  zenith  of  her  career,  when  as  the 
young  wife  of  the  Marquis  de  Caux  she  was  the 
operatic  star  of  Europe,  say  there  was  no  comparison 
betwen  the  voice  they  heard  and  the  voice  I  heard. 
This  I  could  now  repeat  to  the  lady  I  was  with,  who 
had  never  before  seen  the  great  singer. 

The  first  encore.  "  Angels  Ever  Bright  and  Fair." 
was  extraordinarilv  beautiful.  The  harshness  which 
has  crept  into  the  liquid  perfection  of  the  upper  notes 
was  less  noticeable,  and  in  parts  the  purity  of  tone 
seemed  unimpaired.  There  was  a  floating,  dreamy 
quality  about  the  mounting  sounds  that  was  strangely 
moving.  The  soul  of  the  dying  queen  seemed  already 
disattached  from  its  mortal  part  and  slowly  ascending 
to  sweet,  sad  harmonies.  The  diva  sang  with  un- 
wonted feeling,  and  the  audience  sat  breathless  and 
enchanted.  A  storm  of  applause  followed  the  fading 
away  of  the  last  exquisite  note.  The  singer  responded 
with  something  genuinelv  flushed  and  triumphant  in 
her  mien.     She  was  still  Adelina  Patti ! 

It  was  in  the  second  operatic  aria.  "  The  Jewel 
Song"  from  "Faust"  that  she  showed  "the  tooth  of 
time."  The  splendid  exuberance  and  joy  of  youth 
with  which  she  had  once  sung  this  rippling  burst  of 
song,  the  upbubbling  of  laughter  from  a  girl's  gav  heart, 
were  gone.  It  was  an  old  performance,  labored  and 
cautious.  The  spontaneous  gladness  of  the  high  notes 
was  absent.  Instead,  they  came  with  a  calculated  pre- 
cision :  sometimes  they  seemed  difficult  of  achievement. 
and  were  edged  with  harshness.  It  was  the  only  per- 
formance of  the  afternoon  which  showed  bevond  a 
doubt  that  the  singer  was  far  in  the  decline  of  her 
powers.  , 

I  think  myself  that  this  will  be  the  last  of  Patti's 
farewell  tours.  One  is  loath  to  think  it  and  write  it. 
Though  we  have  laughed  at  them  and  made  merry 
over  them,  they  have  been  part  of  our  lives,  and  such  a 
gracious  part !  When  they  are  over  and  Patti  becomes 
a  really  old  lady  at  Craig-y-Nos.  how  we  will  talk  of  the 
wonders  of  her  voice,  and  try  to  describe  it  to  thos.' 
who  never  heard  the  "  last  of  the  great  prima  donnas." 

Geraloine  Boni 

New  York,  November  16,  1903. 


i  na         AX\ouiNAUi 


NOVEMBER   30,    I903. 


GEN.    GORDON'S    REMINISCENCES. 


New  Anecdotes  of  Lee,  Jackson,  and  Ewell — A  Father  Captured  by 

His  Son  in  Battle-Stranee  Premonition  ol  Death — Fierce 

Fighting  at  Antietam  and  Gettysburg. 


Every  patriotic  American  citizen  should  read  General  John 
B.  Gordon's  "  Reminiscences  of  the  Civil  War,"  for  it  is  the 
brilliant  narrative  of  a  genial,  unaffected,  broad-minded,  elo- 
quent Confederate  officer,  who  writes  without  prejudice  or 
rancor  and  contributes  many  new  anecdotes  of  General  Lee, 
General  Jackson,  General  Ewell.  and  many  other  of  the  lead- 
ers whom  he  knew  intimately.  "  While  the  object  of  these 
papers."  he  says  in  his  introduction,  "  is  to  record  my  personal 
reminiscences,  and  to  perpetuate  incidents  illustrative  of  the 
character  of  the  American  soldier,  whether  he  fought  on  the 
one  side  or  the  other,  I  am  also  moved  to  write  by  what  I  con- 
ceive to  be  a  still  higher  aim;  and  that  is  to  point  out,  if  I 
can,  the  common  ground  on  which  all  may  stand;  where  jus- 
tification of  one  section  does  not  require  or  imply  condemna- 
tion of  the  other— the  broad,  high,  sunlit  middle  ground  where 
fact  meets  fact,  argument  confronts  argument,  and  truth  is 
balanced  against  truth." 

General  Gordon  says  that,  at  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  the 
rush  of  Confederate  volunteers  was  so  great  that  when  his 
company,  the  Raccoon  Roughs — a  company  formed  in  the 
mountainous  region  where  Alabama,  Georgia,  and  Tennessee 
meet — reached  Montgomery,  the  provisional  capital  of  the 
new  Confederacy,  they  felt  themselves  favorites  of  fortune 
when  they  found  themselves  enrolled  among  the  "  accepted." 
J.  P.  Walker,  of  Alabama,  the  first  secretary  of  war,  was 
overwhelmed  by  the  vast  numbers  wishing  to  enlist.  Before 
the  Confederate  Government  left  Montgomery  for  Richmond 
more  than  360.000  men  and  boys  had  offered  their  services. 
The  number  of  volunteers  far  transcended  the  power  of  the 
new  government  to  provide  arms  and  ammunition,  and  in 
many  cases,  even  notable  men  who  offered  their  services  were 
not  accepted.  For  example,  as  soon  as  the  Confederate  Gov- 
ernment was  organized.  W.  C.  Heyward,  of  South  Carolina,  a 
man  of  fortune,  who  had  graduated  at  West  Point  in  the  same 
class  with  President  Davis,  went  to  Montgomery  to  tender 
his  services,  with  those  of  an  entire  regiment.  For  some  time 
he  could  not  even  obtain  an  interview  on  the  subject,  and  he 
failed  to  get  himself  or  his  regiment  accepted.  Returning  to 
his  home  in  disappointment,  this  thoroughly  trained  military 
man  joined  the  Home  Guards,  and  died  a  private  in  the  ranks. 

General  Gordon  relates  this  rather  remarkable  story  of  how 
a  father  and  son  met  on  the  battle-field  : 

At  the  beginning  of  the  war,  Major  M.  H.  Clift,  of  Ten- 
nessee, was  a  mere  lad.  and  was  attending  school  in  another 
State.  His  father  was  an  East  Tennesseean.  and  was  devoted 
to  the  cause  of  the  Union.  Young  Clift,  however,  was  carried 
away  by  the  storm  of  Southern  enthusiasm,  and  joined  the 
Confederate  army.  The  father  soon  yielded  to  his  own  sense 
of  patriotic  duty,  and  enlisted  in  one  of  the  Union  regiments 
formed  in  the  neighborhood.  In  the  fortunes  of  war,  the  two — 
father  and  son — were  soon  called  to  confront  each  other  under 
hostile  banners  and  in  battle  array.  Neither  had  the  remotest 
thoueht  that  the  other  stood  in  his  front.  In  a  furious  charge 
by  the  Southern  lines  this  young  Confederate  forced  a  Union 
soldier  to  surrender  to  him.  Looking  into  the  captured  sol- 
dier's face,  the  young  man  recognized  his  own  father.  No 
pen  could  adequately  depict  his  consternation  when  he  realized 
that  he  had  been  on  the  point  of  killing  his  own  father,  nor  the 
joy  which  filled  his  heart  that  this  dire  calamity  had  been 
averted.  Steps  were  at  once  taken  to  render  it  certain  that  no 
such  contingency  should  again  occur. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  of  the  Southern  generals  with 
whom  General  Gordon  was  associated  during  the  war  was 
General  Ewell : 

He  was  a  compound  of  anomalies,  the  oddest,  most  eccen- 
tric genius  in  the  Confederate  army.  He  was  my  friend,  and 
T  was  sincerely  and  deeply  attached  to  him.  No  man  had  a 
better  heart  nor  a  worse  manner  of  showing  it.  He  was  in 
truth  as  tender  and  sympathetic  as  a  woman,  but.  even  under 
slight  provocation,  he  became  externally  as  rough  as  a  polar 
bear,  and  the  needles  with  which  he  pricked  sensibilities  were 
more  numerous  and  keener  than  porcupines'  quills.  His 
written  orders  were  full,  accurate,  and  lucid:  but  his  verbal 
orders  or  directions,  especially  when  under  intense  excitement 
no  man  could  comprehend.  At  such  times  his  eyes  would  flash 
with  a  peculiar  brilliancy,  and  his  brain  far  outran  his  tongue. 
His  thouehts  would  leap  across  great  gaps  which  his  words 
never  touched,  but  which  he  expected  his  listener  to  fill  up 
by  intuition,  and  woe  to  the  dull  subordinate  who  failed  to 
understand  him !  When  he  was  first  assigned  to  command 
at  the  beginning  of  the  war.  he  had  recently  returned  from 
fichting  Indians  on  the  Western  frontier.  He  had  been  deal- 
ing only  with  the  enlisted  men  of  the  standing  army.  His 
experience  in  that  wild  border  life,  away  from  churches, 
civilization,  and  the  refining  influences  of  woman's  society. 
were  not  particularly  conducive  to  the  development  of  the 
softer  and  better  side  of  his  nature.  He  became  a  very 
pious  man  in  his  later  years,  but  at  this  time  he  was  not  choice 
in  the  manner  of  expressing  himself.  He  asked  me  to  take 
a  hasty  breakfast  with  him  just  before  he  expected  the  order 
from  Beauregard  to  ford  Bull  Run  and  rush  upon  McDowell's 
left.  His  verbal  invitation  was  in  these  words  :  "  Come  and 
eat  a  cracker  with  me;  we  will  breakfast  tocether  here  and 
dine  together  in  hell."  To  a  young  officer  like  myself,  who 
had  never  been  under  fire  except  at  long  range,  on  scouting 
excursions,  or  on  the  skirmish-line,  such  an  invitation  was 
not  inspiring  or  appetizing;  but  Ewell's  spirits  seemed  to  be 
in  a  flutter  of  exultation. 

An  hour  later,  after  Gordon  had  been  recalled  from  his 
perilous  movement  to  "  feel  of  the  enemy,"  he  found  General 
Ewell,  almost  frenzied  with  anxiety  over  the  non-arrival  of 
the  anticipated  order  to  move  to  the  attack : 

He  directed  mc  to  send  to  him  at  once  a  mounted  man 
"  with  sense  enough  to  go  and  find  out  what  was  the  matter." 
I  ordered  a  member  of  the  governor's  Horse  Guard  to  report 
immediately  to  General  Ewell.  This  troop  represented  some 
of  the  best  blood  of  Virginia.  Its  privates  were  refined  and 
accomplished  gentlemen,  many  of  them  university  graduates, 
who.  at  the  first  tocsin  of  war,  had  sprung  into  their  saddles  as 
voluntcc  s.  The  intelligent  young  trooper  who  was  selected 
to  ride  upon  this  most  important  mission  under  the  verbal 
directions  of  General  Ewell  himself,  mounted  his  high-spiriterl 
horse,  ind,  with  high-top  boots,  polished  spurs,  and  clanking 
snbre*  /alloped  away  to  'iere  the  general  was  impatiently 
at  his  temporary  headquarters  on_  the  hill.  Before 
n^vperienced  but  promising  young  soldier  had  time  to  lift 


his  hat  in  respectful  salutation,  the  general  was  slashing 
away  with  tongue  and  finger,  delivering  his  directions  with 
such  rapidity  and  incompleteness  that  the  young  man's 
thoughts  were  dancing  through  his  brain  in  inextricable  con- 
fusion. The  general,  having  thus  delivered  himself,  quickly 
asked.  "Do  you  understand,  sir?"  Of  course,  the  young  man 
did  not  understand,  and  he  began  timidly  to  ask  for  a  little 
more  explicit  information.  The  fiery  old  soldier  cut  short 
the  interview  with,  "  Go  away  from  here  and  send  me  a  man 
who  has  some  sense  !" 

There  was  a  romance  in  Ewell's  life  which  ought  to  furnish 
some  writer  of  historical  novels  with  an  excellent  plot: 

In  his  early  manhood  he  had  been  disappointed  in  a  love- 
affair,  and  had  never  fully  recovered  from  its  effects.  The 
fair  young  woman  to  whom  he  had  given  his  affections  had 
married  another  man;  but  Ewell.  like  the  truest  of  knights, 
carried  her  image  in  his  heart  through  long  years.  When 
he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  brigadier  or  major-general, 
he  evidenced  the  constancy  of  his  affections  by  placing  upon 
his  staff  the  son  of  the  woman  whom  he  had  loved  in  his 
youth.  The  meddlesome  Fates,  who  seem  to  revel  in  the 
romances  of  lovers,  had  decreed  that  Ewell  should  be  shot  in 
battle  and  become  the  object  of  solicitude  and  tender  nursing 
by  this  lady,  who  had  been  for  many  years  a  widow — Mrs. 
Brown.  Her  gentle  ministrations  soothed  his  weary  weeks 
of  suffering,  a  marriage  ensued,  and  with  it  came  the  realiza- 
tion of  Ewell's  long-deferred  hope.  It  was  most  interesting 
to  note  the  change  that  came  over  the  spirit  of  this  formerly 
irascible  old  bachelor.  He  no  longer  sympathized  with 
General  Early,  who,  like  himself,  was  known  to  be  more 
intolerant  of  soldiers'  wives  than  the  crusty  French  marshal 
who  pronounced  them  the  most  inconvenient  sort  of  baggage 
for  a  soldier  to  own.  Ewell  had  become  a  husband,  and  was 
sincerely  devoted  to  Mrs.  Ewell.  He  never  seemed  to  realize, 
however,  that  her  marriage  to  him  had  changed  her  name, 
for  he  proudly  presented  her  to  his  friends  as  "  My  wife, 
Mrs.  Brown,  sir." 

General  Gordon  describes  a  striking  interview  which  oc- 
curred between  General  "Lee  and  General  Jackson  at  the  incep- 
tion of  the  Confederate  movement  against  General  Hooker's 
army  at  Chancellorsville.  As  the  fight  was  about  to  begin, 
Jackson  rode  up  to  the  Confederate  commander,  and  said  to 
him : 

"  General  Lee.  this  is  not  the  best  way  to  move  on  Hooker." 
"  Well,  General  Jackson."  was  the  reply.  "  you  must  remember 
that  I  am  compelled  to  depend  to  some  extent  upon  informa- 
tion furnished  me  by  others,  especially  by  the  engineers, 
as  to  the  topography,  the  obstructions,  etc..  and  these  engineers 
are  of  the  opinion  that  this  is  a  very  good  way  of  approach." 
"  Your  engineers  are  mistaken,  sir,"  said  Jackson.  "  What  do 
you  know  about  it.  General  Jackson?  You  have  not  had  time 
to  examine  the  situation."  "  But  I  have,  sir."  was  the  re- 
joinder; "I  have  ridden  over  the  w^hole  field."  it  seems  that 
he  had.  "  Then,  what  is  to  be  done.  General  Jackson  ?" 
"  Take  the  route  you  yourself  at  first  suggested;  move  on  the 
flank — move  on  the  flank."  "  Then  you  will  at  once  make 
the  movement,  sir!"  said  Lee. 

Jackson,  on  the  other  hand,  had  entire  faith  in  his  own  judg- 
ment when  once  made  up.  He  would  formulate  a  judgment, 
risk  his  last  man  on  its  correctness,  and  deliver  the  blow  while 
others  were  hesitating  and  debating  as  to  its  wisdom  and 
safety.  This  trait  was  strikingly  exhibited  at  Malvern  Hill, 
when  General  Gordon  was  sitting  on  his  horse  facing  General 
Jackson,  and  receiving  instructions  from  him  : 

Major-General  Whiting,  himself  an  officer  of  high  capacity, 
rode  up  in  great  haste  and  interrupted  Jackson  as  he  was  giv- 
ine  Gordon  a  message- to  General  Hill.  With  some  agitation 
Whitino  said  :  "  General  Jackson.  I  find.  sir.  that  I  can  not 
accomplish  what  you  have  directed  unless  you  send  me  some 
additional  infantry  and  another  battery " :  and  he  then  pro- 
ceeded to  give  the  reasons  why  the  order  could  not  be  exe- 
cuted with  the  forces  at  his  disposal.  All  this  time,  while 
Whiting  explained  and  argued.  Jackson  sat  on  his  horse  like 
a  stone  statue.  He  looked  neither  to  the  right  nor  to  the  left. 
He  made  no  comment  and  asked  no  questions ;  but  when 
Whiting  had  finished  Jackson  turned  his  flashing  eyes  upon 
him  and  used  these  words,  and  onlv  these:  "I  have  to'd  you 
what  I  wanted  done.  General  Whiting."  Thereupon,  planting 
his  spurs  in  his  horse's  sides,  he  dashed  away  at  a  furious 
sneed  to  another  part  of  the  field.  Whiting  gazed  at  Jackson's 
disappearing  figure  in  amazement,  if  not  in  anger,  and  then 
rode  back  to  his  command.  The  result  attested  the  accuracy 
of  Jackson's  judgment,  for  Whiting  did  accomplish  preciselv 
what  Jackson  intended,  and  he  did  it  with  the  force  which 
lackson  had  placed  in  his  hands. 

Every  fair-minded  citizen  and  soldier,  wharever  the  color 
of  his  uniform,  will  appreciate  the  beauty  of  the  tribute  paid 
by  General  Lee  to  General  Jackson,  when  he  received  the 
latter's  message  announcing  the  loss  of  his  left  arm.  "  Go 
tell  General  Jackson,"  said  Lee,  "  that  his  loss  is  small  com- 
pared to  mine;  for  while  he  loses  his  left  arm,  I  lose  the  right 
arm  of  my  army." 

Many  instances  are  related  by  General  Gordon  of  soldiers 
who  had  strange  premonitions  of  death.     For  instance: 

Colonel  Ebright  had  a  premonition  of  his  death.  A  few 
moments  before  12  m.  he  sought  me.  and  coollv  told  me  he 
would  be  killed  before  the  battle  ended.  He  insisted  upon 
telling  me  that  he  wanted  his  remains  and  effects  sent  to  his 
home  in  Lancaster,  O.,  and  I  was  asked  to  write  his  wife  as 
to  some  property  in  the  West  which  he  feared  she  did  not  know 
about.  He  was  impatient  when  I  tried  to  remove  the  thought 
of  imminent  death  from  his  mind.  A  few  moments  later  the 
time  for  another  advance  came,  and  the  interview  with  Colonel 
Ebright  closed.  In  less  than  ten  minutes,  while  he  was  riding 
near  me.  he  fell  dead  from  his  horse,  pierced  in  the  breast  by  a 
vifle-ball.  His  apprehension  of  death  was  not  prompted  by  fear. 
He  had  been  through  the  slaughters  of  the  Wilderness  and 
Cold  Harbor,  had  fought  his  regiment  in  the  dead-angle  of 
Spottsylvania.  and  led  it  at  Monocacy.  It  is  needless  to  say  I 
complied  with  his  request. 

At  Antietam,  General  Gordon  proved  what  manner  of  sol- 
dier he  was.  He  had  promised  General  Lee  that  his  brigade 
would  hold  its  ground  until  the  sun  went  down.  It  repulsed 
several  Federal  attacks  at  the  cost  of  serious  losses.  There 
were  no  breastworks,  and  the  firing  by  each  side  was  deadly. 
"  The  persistent  Federals,  who  had  lost  so  heavily  from  re- 
peated repulses,"  says  General  Gordon,  "  seemed  determined 
to  kill  enough  Confederates  to  make  the  debits  and  credits  of 
the  battle's  balance-sheet  more  nearly  even."  In  a  brief  space 
of  time  Gordon  received  four  wounds,  two  through  the  right 
leg,  one  in  the  left  arm,  and  one  through  the  shoulder,  but  al- 
though bleeding  profusely,  he  refused  to  go  to  the  rear.  "  I 
remembered  the  pledge  to  the  commander,"  he  says,  "  that  we 
would  stay  there  till  the  battle  ended  or  night  came.  I  looked 
at  the  sun.  It  moved  very  slowly ;  in  fact,  it  seemed  to  stand 
still.     I  thought  I  saw  some  wavering  in  my  line,  near  the  ex- 


treme right,  and  Private  Vickers,  of  Alabama,  volunteered  to 
carry  any  orders  I  might  wish  to  send."  Vickers  started  on  a 
run,  but  had  not  gone  fifty  yards  before  he  fell,  instantly 
killed  with  a  ball  through  the  head.  General  Gordon  con- 
tinues : 

I  then  attempted  to  go  myself,  although  I  was  bloody  and 
faint,  and  my  legs  did  not  bear  me  steadily.  I  had  gone  but 
a  short  distance  when  I  was  shot  down  by  a  fifth  ball,  which 
struck  me  squarely  in  the  face,  and  passed  out,  barely  missing 
the  jugular  vein.  I  fell  forward  and  lay  unconscious,  with 
my  face  in  my  cap  ;  and  it  would  seem  that  I  might  have  been 
smothered  by  the  blood  running  into  my  cap  from  this  last 
wound  but  for  the  act  of  some  Yankee,  who,  as  if  to  save  my 
life,  and  at  a  previous  hour  during  the  battle,  shot  a  hole 
through  the  cap,  which  let  the  blood  out.  I  was  borne  on  a 
litter  to  the  rear,  and  recall  nothing  more  till  revived  by 
stimulants  at  a  late  hour  of  the  night.  I  found  myself  lying 
on  a  pile  of  straw  at  an  old  barn,  where  our  badly  wounded 
were  gathered. 

Gordon's  noble  wife,  who  accompanied  him  on  all  his  cam- 
paigns, was  soon  at  his  side: 

When  it  was  known  that  the  battle  was  on.  she  at  once 
started  toward  the  front.  The  doctors  were  doubtful  about 
the  propriety  of  admitting  her  to  my  room  ;  but  I  told  them 
to  let  her  come.  I  was  more  apprehensive  of  the  effect  of  the 
meeting  upon  her  nerves  than  upon  mine.  My  face  was  black 
and  shapeless — so  swollen  that  one  eye  was  entirely  hidden 
and  the  other  nearly  so.  My  right  les  and  left  arm  and 
shoulder  were  bandaged  and  propped  with  pillows.  I  knew 
she  would  be  greatly  shocked.  As  she  reached  the  door  and 
looked,  I  saw  at  once  that  I  must  reassure  her.  Summoning 
all  my  strength,  I  said:  "Here's  your  handsome  (?)  husband: 
been  to  an  Irish  wedding."  Her  answer  was  a  suppressed 
scream,  whether  of  anguish  or  relief  at  finding  me  able  to 
speak,  I  do  not  know.  Thenceforward,  for  the  period  in 
which  my  life  hung  in  the  balance,  she  sat  at  my  bedside,  try- 
ing to  supply  concentrated  nourishment  to  sustain  me 
against  the  constant  drainage.  With  my  jaw  immovably 
set  this  was  exceedingly  difficult  and  discouraging. 
My  own  confidence  in  ultimate  recovery,  however,  was 
never  shaken  until  erysipelas,  that  deadly  foe  of  the 
wounded,  attacked  my  arm.  The  doctors  told  Mrs.  Gor- 
don to  paint  my  arm  above  the  wound  three  or  four  times 
a  day  with  iodine.  She  obeyed  the  doctors  bv  painting  it,  I 
think,  three  or  four  hundred  times  a  day.  Under  God's  provi- 
dence. I  owe  ray  life  to  her  incessant  watchfulness  night 
and  day.  and  to  her  tender  nursing  through  weary  weeks  and 
anxious  months. 

In  discussing  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  General  Gordon  ex- 
presses his  conviction,  which  he  declares  is  now  general,  that, 
"  had  Lee's  orders  been  promptly  and  cordially  executed, 
Meade's  centre  on  the  third  day  would  have  been  penetrated 
and  the  Union  army  overwhelmingly  defeated."  Here  is  a 
specimen  of  General  Gordon's  work  as  a  painter  of  battles, 
the  description  of  the  second  day  at  Gettysburg: 

As  I  write  of  it  now,  a  myriad  of  thrilling  incidents 
and  rapidly  changing  scenes,  now  appalling  and  now  inspir- 
ing, rush  over  my  memory.  I  hear  again  the  words  of  Bar- 
low :  ''  Tell  my  wife  that  I  freely  gave  my  life  for  my  coun- 
try." Yonder,  resting  on  his  elbow.  I  see  the  gallant  vounc 
Averv  m  his  bloody  gray  uniform  among  his  brave  North 
Carolinians,  writing  as  he  dies:  "Tell  father  that  I  fell  with 
my  face  to  the  foe."  On  the  opposite  hills,  Lee  and  Meade, 
surrounded  by  staff  and  couriers  and  with  glasses  in  hand 
are  surveying  the  intervening  space.  Over  it  the  flvins  shells 
are  plunging,  shrieking,  bursting.  The  battered  Confederate 
line  staggers,  reels,  and  is  bent  back  before  the  furious  blast. 
The  alert  Federals  leap  from  the  trenches  and  over  the  walls 
and  rush  throush  this  thin  and  wavering  line.  Instantlv.  from 
the  opposite  direction,  with  deafening  yells,  come  the  Confed- 
erates in  counter-charee.  and  the  brave  Federals  are  pressed 
back  to  the  walls.  The  Confederate  banners  sweep  through 
the  riddled  peach  orchard :  while  farther  to  the  Union  left 
on  the  gory  wheat  field  the  impacted  forces  are  locked  in 
deadly  embrace.  Across  this  field,  in  alternate  waves,  rolls 
the  battle's  tide,  now  from  the  one  side,  now  from  the  other, 
until  the  ruthless  Harvester  piles  his  heaps  of  slain  thicker 
than  the  grain  shocks  gathered  by  the  husbandman's  scythe. 
Hard  bv.  is  Devil's  Den.  Around  it  and  over  it  the  deadly 
din  of  battle  roars.  The  rattle  of  rifles,  the  crash  of  shells, 
the  shouts  of  the  living  and  groans  of  the  dying,  convert  that 
dark  woodland  into  a  harrowing  pandemonium.  .  .  .  The 
anex  of  Little  Round  Top  is  the  point  of  deadliest  struggle. 
The  day  ends,  and  thus  ends  the  battle.  As  the  last  rays  of 
the  setting  sun  fall  upon  the  summit,  they  are  reflected  from 
the  batteries  and  bayonets  of  the  Union  soldiers  still  upon 
it.  with  the  bleeding  Confederates  struggling  to  possess  it. 
The  embattled  hosts  sleep  upon  their  arms.  The  stars  look 
down  at  night  upon  a  harrowing  scene  of  pale_  faces  all  over 
the  field,  and  of  sufferers  in  the  hospitals  behind  the  lines — 
an  army  of  dead  and  wounded  numbering  twenty  thousand. 

As  early  as  March,  1865,  General  Lee  had  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  immediate  steps  should  be  taken  to  secure 
peace.  General  Gordon  suggested  that  he  should  go  to  Rich- 
mond and  discuss  the  subject  with  President  Davis  at  once. 
Lee.  however,  was  extremely  reluctant  to  take  any  step  not  in 
accord  with  the  strictest  military  ethics;  but.  ultimately,  he 
said :  "  I  will  go,  and  I  will  send  for  you  again  on  my  return 
from  Richmond."  He  spent  two  days  in  the  Confederate  cap- 
ital, and  on  his  return  summoned  General  Gordon.  Nothing, 
he  said,  could  be  done  at  Richmond : 

The  Confederate  Congress  did  not  seem  to  appreciate  the 
situation.  Of  President  Davis  he  spoke  in  terms  of  strong 
eulogy  :  of  the  strength  of  his  convictions,  of  his  devotedness. 
of  his  remarkable  faith  in  the  possibility  of  still  winning  our 
independence,  and  of  his  unconquerable  will  power.  The  near- 
est approach  to  complaint  or  criticism  were  the  words,  which 
I  can  never  forget :  "  You  know  that  the  President  is  very 
pertinacious  in  opinion  and  purpose."  President  Davis  did  not 
believe  we  could  secure  such  terms  as  we  could  afford  to  ac- 
cept, and  was  indisposed  to  make  further  efforts  after  the 
failure  of  the  Hampton  Roads  Conference.  Neither  were  the 
authorities  ready  to  evacuate  the  capital  and  abandon  our 
lines  of  defense,  although  every  Kiilroad  except  the  South 
Side    was    already   broken. 

Having  heard  the  commander's  report  of  his  interviews  in 
Richmond.  I  asked:     "What,  then,  is  to  be  done,  general?" 

He  replied  that  there  seemed  to  be  but  one  thing  that  we 
could  do — fight.  To  stand  still  was  death.  It  could  only  be 
death  if  we  fought  and  failed.  This  was  the  prelude  to  my 
assault  upon  Fort  Stedman  on  March  25,  1865 — the  last  Con- 
federate attack  on  Grant's  lines  at  Petersburg. 

The  volume  is  handsomely  bound,  and  contains  an  elaborate 
table  of  contents  and  index.  It  is  also  supplemented  with 
three  excellent  portraits  of  the  author — picturing  him  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two,  at  the  close  of  the  war  when  he  was  thirty- 
three  years  old,  and  in  1896,  when  he  represented  Georgia  in 
the  United  States  Senate. 

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J.   ti  E  AKLrUlNAU    1 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  New  Edition  of  the  "Standard  Dictionary." 

Our  editorial  copy  of  the  "  Standard  Dic- 
tionary "  bears  upon  its  title-page  the  date 
1893.  Accordingly,  the  new,  revised,  and 
enlarged  edition  just  issued  marks  the  decadal 
anniversary  of  the  appearance  of  this  great 
dictionary.  And  very  welcome  indeed  is  the 
method  of  celebration. 

The  great  feature  of  the  new  edition  is  the 
addition  of  seventeen  thousand  new  words 
to  the  two  hundred  thousand  already  given 
place.  The  editors  of  the  "  Standard  "■  were 
always  very  tolerant  toward  doubtful  words, 
and  this  spirit  has  apparently  been  strength- 
ened rather  than  weakened  with  time  and  by 
experience.  Thus,  the  "  Addenda  "  is  crowded 
with  curious  locutions,  many  of  which  are 
eyed  askance  by  careful  speakers.  But  this 
very  fact  gives  the  "  Standard "  its  con- 
spicuous utility.  It  is  not  the  classic  word, 
as  a  rule,  that  one  needs  to  "  look  up,"  but 
the  pushing  new  one,  the  provincialism,  or 
an  old  word  given  a  new  meaning.  Just  one 
example  of  the  policy  which  is  the  "  Stan- 
dard's "  distinguishing  characteristic :  The 
word  cadet  is  a  common  one,  and  for  ninety- 
nine  one-hundredths  of  the  English-speaking 
race  carries  no  unpleasant  significance.  Yet 
to  the  people  of  New  York  City,  and  to  all 
who  read  New  York  newspapers,  cadet  is  not 
a  nice  word.  In  the  last  New  York  election 
what  cadet  stands  for  was  an  issue.  The  word 
was  inscribed  on  political  banners.  What 
does  it  mean?  The  "Standard"  gives  as  one 
of  its  particular  meanings  "  a  person  who 
marries  a  woman  that  he  may  subsist  on  her 
earnings  as  a  prostitute."  Evidently,  if  a  dic- 
tionary is  held  to  be  a  book  in  which  shall  be 
enshrined  only  words  which  have  become 
a  permanent  part  of  the  English  language, 
then  the  "Standard"  was  wrong  in  giving 
this  meaning  of  cadet  place.  But  if,  on  trie 
other  hand,  a  dictionary's  aim  is  merely  to  be 
of  the  greatest  service  to  the  greatest  number 
of  people,  then  the  policy  of  the  "  Standard  " 
is  the  correct  one.  There  is  room  for  both 
views,  and  there  is  room  for  many  diction- 
aries. We  are  far  from  saying  that  the 
"  Standard  "  is  the  best  for  everybody.  Dif- 
ferent people  have  different  needs,  and  one 
dictionary,  no  matter  how  good,  can  supply 
them  all. 

Many  of  the  "  Standard's  "  seventeen  thou- 
sand new  words  have  entered  the  language 
through  inventions,  discoveries,  and  contact 
of  English-speaking  people  with  new  races 
through  trade  or  war.  The  conflict  in  South 
Africa  brought  many  new  words  into  com- 
mon use — kopje,  commando,  trek,  Uitlander. 
The  acquisition  by  the  United  States  of 
Hawaii  and  the  Philippines  brought  many 
more.  Carabao,  bolo,  presidente,  nipa,  mestizo 
are  examples.  A  host  of  terms  have  grown 
up  about  the  game  of  golf,  and  the  advances 
in  electricity  and  of  the  automobile  have 
brought  many  more.  It  is  somewhat  amusing 
to  note  that,  with  all  its  enterprise,  the 
"  Standard "  has  been  unable  to  keep  pace 
with  the  verbal  developments  in  the  auto 
industry.  The  word  garage,  meaning  a  re- 
pository for  autos,  is  now  in  common  use, 
yet  the  "  Standard  "  knows  it  not — so  swiftly 
do  such  verbal  innovations  come  about. 

The  other  new  features  of  this  excellent 
dictionary  may  be  briefly  noted.  We  do  not 
think  the  several  pages  devoted  to  pictures 
of  the  editors  are  an  improvement.  The  atlas 
added  to  volume  I  is  new,  and  will  prove  very 
useful.  New,  also,  is  the  geographical 
cyclopaedia,  and  a  distinct  addition — eveD 
though  the  article  on  Colombia  does  begin 
with  the  unmitigated  misstatement :  "  Situated 
in  the  North-West  corner  of  the  South 
American  continent,  and  including  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama!" 

In  the  second  volume,  proper  names  have 
been  thoroughly  revised,  and  the  results  of 
the  latest  census  incorporated.  Formations 
of  plurals  of  nouns  is  a  new  subject  treated 
at  length,  and  there  is  also  a  new  dictionary 
of  Bible  proper  names. 

"  In  appearance,  the  new  volumes  resemble 
the  old  ones,  the  bright  red  leather  covers 
rendering  the  books  exceedingly  substantial 
as  well  as  remarkably  handsome. 

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Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Charles  Scribner's  Sons  will  publish  this 
week  an  important  book  on  "  Central  Asia 
and  Tibet,"  by  Sven  Hedin,  in  which  the  au- 
thor describes  his  discoveries  and  extraordi- 
nary experiences  during  his  three  years'  stay 
Central  Asia.  The  work  contains  four 
hundred  illustrations  from  photographs,  eight 


illustrations    in    color,    sixteen-    drawings    by 
distinguished  artists,  and  four  maps. 

The  Macmillan  Company,  who  have  just 
published  Canon  Ainger's  life  of  Crabbe  in 
the  English  Men  of  Letters  Series,  promise 
for  publication  before  Christmas  Austin  Dob- 
son's  life  of  Fanny  Burney,  and  the  life  of 
Jeremy  Taylor,  by  Edmund  Gosse. 

"  The  Musical  Guide,"  by  Rupert  Hughes 
which  is  being  published  this  month,  is  in 
two  volumes,  at  a  popular  price.  It  is  a  dic- 
tionary of  biography  and  a  dictionary  of 
names,  contains  the  pronunciation  of  every 
musical  term,  and  a  chart  showing  the  prin- 
ciples of  pronunciation  in  sixteen  different 
languages.  It  tells  the  stories  of  all  the 
operas,  has  charts  of  great  value  to  students, 
and  is  prefaced  with  an  essay  explaining  in 
simple  terms  the  construction  of  music. 

Frank  T.  Bullen's  next  collection  of  short 
stories  about  the  adventures  of  sailors,  will 
be  called  "Sea  Wrack."  It  will  appear  within 
a  few  weeks. 

Quiller-Couch,  whose  long  novel,  "  Hetty 
Wesley."  has  just  been  published  by  the  Mac- 
millans,  will  also  bring  out  this  season  a  vol- 
ume of  short  pieces,  "  Two  Sides  of  the  Face: 
Mid-Winter  Tales." 

It  appears  that  Harry  Furniss's  love-story. 
shortly  to  be  published,  will  describe  "  the 
psychological  development  of  the  hero "  in 
"  some  of  the  most  curious  phases  of  the  con- 
ditions of  modern  life." 

William  Roscoe  Thayer,  of  8  Berkeley 
Street.  Cambridge,  Mass..  has  undertaken,  at 
the  request  of  Mr.  Fiske's  family,  to  edit 
the  letters,  journals,  and  memorials  of  the 
late  John   Fiske. 

The  Outlook  Company  announce  "  / 
Preacher's  Story  of  His  Work,"  by  Dr.  W.  S. 
Rainsford.  and  "  The  Story  of  a  Labor  Agi- 
tator," by  Joseph  R.  Buchanan. 

The  London  Athenaum,  in  its  issue  for 
October  31st,  says  "we  are  able  to  state  au- 
thoritatively that,  in  spite  of  rumors  to  the 
contrary,  no  biography  of  Whistler  has  at 
present  been  authorized  by  his  legal  repre- 
sentatives." 

D.  Appleton  &  Co.  have  just  published 
"  Spencer  Kellogg  Brown  :  His  Life  in  Kan- 
sas and  His  Death  as  a  Spy.  1842-1863,"  by 
George  Gardner  Smith.  The  book  tells  the 
story  of  the  short  life  of  Brown,  who,  though 
no  relative  of  John  Brown,  fought  under  him 
in  Kansas. 

The  family  of  the  late  Elizabeth  Cady  Stan- 
ton are  preparing  a  collection  of  her  letters 
for  the  press.  Persons  who  may  have  such  let- 
.ters  are  asked  to  send  them  to  Mrs.  Stanton- 
Blatch,  No.  612  East  Buffalo  Street,  Ithaca. 
N.  Y.,  or  to  Theodore  Stanton,  No.  9  Avenue 
du  Trocadero,  Paris.  Letters  will  be  copied 
and  carefully  returned. 

Mr.  Crosland,  the  author  of  "  The  Un- 
speakable Scot,"  has  a  book  in  press  entitled 
"  Five  Notions."  It  consists  of  a  series  of 
parodies  on  the  poems  in  Kipling's  "  Five 
Nations." 

Augustus  C.  Buell,  author  of  "  Sir  William 
Johnson "  and  "  Paul  Jones,  Founder  of  the 
American  Navy,"  is  writing  an  exhaustive 
biography  of  William  Penn  for  D.  Appleton 
&  Co.,  the  first  part  of  which  is  now  in  press 
It  will  be  published  in  a  large  octavo,  and 
will  be  based  principally  on  the  correspond- 
ence between  Penn  and  his  agent  in  America. 
James  Logan,  which  has  as  yet  been  sparingly 
drawn  upon,  if  at  all,  by  historians  and  biog- 
raphers. 


Shot  Defending  Mrs.  Coit. 
Major  J.  W.  McClung,  an  old  Confederate 
veteran,  and  one  whose  family  has  been 
prominent  socially  for  years  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, was  shot  by  Alexander  Garnett  on 
Wednesday,  and  died  at  the  Waldeck  San- 
itarium the  following  day.  The  shooting  took 
place  in  the  rooms  of  Mrs.  Lillie  Hitchcock 
Coit.  Garnett.  who  is  a  distant  relative,  had 
been  acting  as  her  business  agent.  He  entered 
the  hotel  apartments  flushed  with  liquor,  and 
attempted  to  shoot  the  lady,  who  was  defended 
by  Major  McClung.  This  unfortunate  gentle- 
man received  the  bullet  intended  for  Mrs. 
Coit.  _ 

Mrs.  E.  J.  de  Santa  Marina,  sister  of  Mrs. 
James  Freeborn,  Mrs.  Edward  W.  Hopkins, 
Mrs.  Frederick  W.  Zeile,  and  Harrison  A. 
Smith,  died  on  Thursday,  November  19th. 


The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  K.  Vander- 
bilt,  Jr.,  in  New  York,  has  been  brightened  by 
the  advent  of  another  daughter. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


James  P.  Clarke,  who  succeeds  James  K. 
Jones,  chairman  of  the  Democratic  National 
Committee,  as  senator  from  Arkansas,  is 
only  forty-nine,  but  he  is  nicknamed  "  Old 
Cotton-Top,"  because  of  his  snow-white  hair. 

Rev.  James  M.  Pullman,  D.  D.,  pastor  of 
the  First  Universalist  Church  of  Lynn,  Mass. 
died  on  Sunday  last  of  apoplexy,  after  preach- 
ing a  sermon  of  unusual  vigor.  Rev.  Mr 
Pullman  was  a  brother  of  the  late  George  M. 
Pullman,  the  parlor-car  builder.  He  was 
sixty-seven  years  of  age,  and  leaves  a  widow 
and  a  son. 

Pope  Leo's  new  secretary  of  state.  Cardinal 
Merry  del  Val,  has  not  only  an  Irish  grand- 
mother, but  is  likewise  of  Irish  origin,  the 
Merry  family,  like  that  of  O'Donnell,  Duki 
of  Tetuan,  and  of  scores  of  others  among  the 
Castilian  aristocracy,  having  emigrated  from 
the  Emerald  Isle  to  Spain  at  the  time  of  the 
overthrow  of  King  James  the  Second. 

President  Roosevelt  this  week  entertained 
at  luncheon  at  the  White  House  the  seven 
representatives  of  the  labor  unions  of  Butte, 
Mont.,  who  have  been  visiting  the  national 
capital.  They  were  the  leaders  of  an  enter- 
tainment committee  who  received  the  Presi- 
dent at  Butte  during  his  Western  trip,  and 
Mr.  Roosevelt  took  this  occasion  to  return 
the  courtesy. 

William  Butler  Yeats,  the  Irish  poet  and 
dramatist,  and  president  of  the  National  Irish 
Theatre  Society,  is  visiting  the  United  States. 
He  expects  to  remain  in  this  country  twc 
months,  during  which  time  he  will  delivei 
lectures  before  Yale.  Harvard,  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  the  College  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  and  other  educational  institu- 
tions.    He  is  also  to  visit  San  Francisco. 

Edwin  Lord  Weeks,  the  well-known  Ameri- 
can artist,  died  in  Paris  on  November  17th. 
Mr.  Weeks  showed  remarkable  taste  for  Ori 
ental  subjects,  his  best  work  dealing  with 
subjects  in  Egypt,  Syria,  and  India.  Among 
his  best-known  paintings  are  "  A  Cup  of 
Coffee  in  the  Desert,"  "  Pilgrimage  to  Jor- 
dan," "  Jerusalem  from  the  Bethany  Road," 
"  A  Moorish  Camel  Driver,"  "  An  Arab  Story 
Teller,"  and  "They  Toil  Not,  Neither  Do 
They  Spin."  He  was  also  well  known  as  an 
illustrator,  and  contributed  freely  to  the 
American  magazines. 

Lord  Kitchener,  commander-in-chief  of  the 
British  forces  in  India,  met  with  a  serious 
accident  while  riding  home  alone  from  a 
country  house  near  Simla  a  fortnight  ago 
As  he  was  passing  through  a  tunnel,  his  horse 
became  frightened  at  some  coolies,  swerved 
and  jammed  its  rider  against  a  beam  in  the 
side  wall.  His  leg  was  twisted  and  both 
bones  snapped  above  the  ankle.  Upon  discov- 
ering the  identity  of  the  injured  man,  tb< 
coolies  bolted  and  left  Kitchener  lying  on  the 
ground,  where  he  suffered  greatly  for  half  an 
hour  before  he  was  found  and  taken  to  his 
palace. 

Vice"-Admiral  Togo,  who  has  just  succeeded 
Admiral  Tsuboi  in  command  of  the  standinp 
Japanese  squadron,  the  force  which  wouh' 
probably  be  engaged  first  in  case  of  war,  i:. 
one  of  the  popular  heroes  of  Japan.  He  is  a 
young  officer,  as  flag  officers  go,  in  the  primt 
of  life,  and  has  had  a  taste  of  what  modern 
warfare  under  present  conditions  means.  In 
1894,  when  the  Japanese  "wiped  out"  the 
Chinese  fleet,  Admiral  Togo — he  was  only  a 
captain  then — struck  the  first  blow.  He  was 
in  command  of  the  second-class  cruiser  Nan- 
iwa,  a  good,  British-built  ship  of  3,650  tons, 
with  a  protective  deck  from  two  inches  to 
three  inches  thick,  and  armored  conning  tow- 
ers. For  her  size  she  was  very  heavily 
armed,  carrying  two  10.2-inch  guns,  six  5.9- 
inch,  and  a  couple  of  9-pounders,  and  ten 
Maxims  for  repelling  torpedo  craft.  This 
little  ship  saw  more  fighting  than  any  other 
vessel  in  the  Japanese  navy,  and  Captain 
Togo  won  for  himself  then  his  title,  "  Th« 
Fighting  Admiral." 

The  Princess  Eulalia,  who  visited  the 
United  States  at  the  time  of  the  World's  Fair 
at  Chicago,  is  described  by  William  E.  Cur- 
tis as  looking  scarcely  more  than  twenty-five 
years  old,  although  she  is  really  forty.  She 
has  all  the  vices  of  the  Spanish  people,  who 
adore  her,  and  such  a  contrast  as  is  offered 
between  her  sister-in-law,  the  queen,  and  her- 
self, he  says,  can  scarcely  be  found  in  any  other 
family.  She  has  a  handsome  palace  of  her 
own  in  the  older  part  of  the  city,  near  th< 
royal  palace,  almost  across  the  street  from 
that  of  her  sister,  Isabella,  who  is  also  a  great 
favorite.       Eulalia    has    separated    from    her 


husband,  their  property  is  divided,  and  they 
have  nothing  more  to  do  with  each  other. 
They  are  divorced  as  far  as  the  church  will 
permit.  Eulalia  tried  to  coax  Pope  Leo  to 
give  her  an  absolute  divorce,  but  an  old  bach- 
elor of  ninety  could  not  appreciate  her  situa 
tion,  and  she  got  a  lecture  instead.  She  has 
two  children,  Alphonso,  aged  seventeen,  and 
Louis  Fernando,  aged  fifteen,  who  are  at 
school  in  Paris.  Her  ex-husband  is  Anionic 
de  Bourbon,  son  of  the  late  Duke  of  Mont- 
pensier,  brother  of  Mercedes,  the  first  wife 
of  Alphonso  the  Twelfth,  and  her  own  cousin 


"TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN.1 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 

San    Francisco    Call : 

Jerome  Hart  has  given  us  a  very  readable 
book  of  travel  in  his  "  Two  Argonauts  in 
Spain."  With  his  letters  sent  from  abroad 
to  his  periodical  as  a  foundation,  Hart  has 
elaborated  upon  the  originals  and  written 
enough  new  material  to  make  a  good-sized 
volume,  which  is  printed  by  The  Argonaut 
Press,  and  which  is  brought  out  in  excellent 
dress.  .  .  . 

The  keynote  of  Mr.  Hart's  work  is  its 
engaging  sketchiness  and  breeziness  of  thought 
and  diction.  There  is  no  attempt  to  delve 
into  musty  figures  and  produce  government 
tables  of  the  number  of  Angora  goats  in 
Andalusia,  or  the  per  capita  tax  in  Saragossa 
for  the  last  fifty  years.  There  are  no 
rhapsodical  passages  upon  moonlight  at  the 
Alhambra.  None  of  the  earmarks  of  the 
time-honored  books  of  travels  are  apparent 
in    Hart's    collection    of    thumb-nail    sketches. 

The  book  is  the  fruit  of  a  flying  trip 
through  the  Land  of  To-Morrow.  .  .  .  But 
it  is  not  upon  the  typical  "  grand  tour "  that 
the  author-editor  leads  his  readers ;  the  hurry 
and  rush  of  the  ordinary  sightseeing  tourist. 
When  Hart  finds  something  which  strikes  his 
fancy — the  bell-ringers  of  Giralda,  the  make- 
up of  a  Spanish  newspaper — he  pauses  and 
gets  all  the  meat  out  of  the  subject  before 
he  leaves  it  to  go  on. 

A  whimsical  humor  characterizes  the  Cali- 
fornian  tourist's  work.  He  loves  to  catch  the 
odd  side  of  things  and  turn  it  into  a  smile. 
That  a  beggar  should  ride  a-horseback  and 
demand  a  largesse  from  the  humbler  wayfarer 
on  foot  tickles  Hart,  and  he  in  turn  passes 
the  laugh  on  to  his  reader,  reinforced  by  the 
dry  humor  of  the  telling.  One  gains  the  idea 
from  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain "  that  its 
genial  creator  was  drifting  easily  along 
through  Spain,  always  ready  to  see  some  new- 
thing  and  more  than  willing  to  see  some  funny 
thing. 

The  author  very  effectually  tears  the  veil 
from  "  sunny  Spain."  Those  of  us  who  have 
dreamt  of  Spain  as  a  place  where  people  lie 
under  palm-trees  in  hammocks  and  lazily 
chew  pomegranate  pips,  feel  almost  as  we  did 
when  we  discovered  who  Santa  Claus  was 
upon  reading  what  Hart  has  to  say  of  the 
weather. 

"  Never  in  my  life,"  says  he,  "  have  I  seen 
such  wrapping  and  muffling  as  I  saw  in  Spain. 
The  men  wear  heavy  cloaks — heavier 
than  any  outer  garment  we  have  in  America, 
except  fur-coats.  They  know  their  climate 
and  its  treacheries  better  than  strangers.  One 
of  the  reasons  for  such  careful  muffling  is  the 
Spanish  terror  of  pneumonia." 

The  book  is  a  very  creditable  exhibition 
of  the  book  publishing  craft.  It  is  printed  on 
a  high-grade,  thick  linen  paper,  and  is  typo- 
graphically artistic.  Many  illustrations,  the 
clear  reproductions  from  photographs  taken 
by  the  author,  add  to  the  appearance  of  the 
volume. 

Robert  W.  Ritchie. 

Payot,  Upham  &  Co..  publishers,  San  Fran- 
cisco ;   illustrated. 


Dr.  Tyndall  to  Tell  "  How  He  Does  It." 
Dr.  Alex.  Mclvor-Tyndall  offers  a  most  at- 
tractive subject  for  his  psychological  lecture 
at  Steinway  Hall  on  Sunday  night.  "  The  Se- 
cret of  Thought-Reading. "  Dr.  Tyndall  has 
the  charm  of  lucidity,  and  as  he  does  not  at- 
tempt to  surround  himself  with  mystery  of 
any  kind,  or  claim  supernatural  powers,  it  is 
to  be  expected  that  what  he  has  to  say  on 
this  alluring  subject  of  thought-transmission 
will  have  the  merit  of  being  explicit  and  prac- 
tical. Just  whether  the  average  person  will 
be  able  to  accomplish  the  same  wonderful 
feats  as  does  this  interesting  telepathist.  even 
though  the  secret  is  laid  bare,  is,  of  course, 
another  question.  At  all  events,  there  is  a 
very  large  number  who  would  like  to  hear 
"  how  he  does  it,"  and  Steinway  Hall  will  be 
filled  Sunday  night  without  doubt. 


r  t±  & 


AKUUJNAU    1 


November  30,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Beautiful  Edition  of  Turgenieff. 

Ernest  Renan  once  said  of  the  great  Russian 
novelist,  Ivan  Turgenieff:  "His  conscience  was 
not  that  of  an  individual  to  whom  nature  had  been 
more  or  less  generous;  it  was  in  some  sort  the 
conscience  of  a  people.  Before  he  was  born  he 
had  lived  for  thousands  of  years;  infinite  succes- 
sions of  reveries  had  amassed  themselves  in  the 
depths  of  his  heart.  No  man  has  been  as  much  as 
he  the  incarnation  of  a  whole  race;  generations 
of  ancestors,  lost  in  the  sleep  of  centuries,  speech- 
less,   came    through    him    to    life    and    utterance." 

This  noble  passage,  which  Henry  James  quotes 
in  his  introduction  to  an  English  edition  of 
Turgenieff's  works,  contains  the  germ  or  the  reason 
why  Turgenieff  appeals  so  strongly  to  non-Russians 
who  are  somewhat  curious  about  "  those  vaguely 
imagined  multitudes  ...  in  the  gray  expanses  of 
the  North."  Turgenieff's  voice  is  their  voice. 
Only  in  Turgenieff  shall  you  feel  the  heartbeat 
of  a  people  whom,  again  to  quote  Mr.  James,  "  we 
think  of  more  and  more  to-day  as  waiting  their 
turn  in  the  arena  of  civilization." 

The  appearance  of  an  excellent  complete  English 
edition  is  therefore  a  notable  literary  event.  The 
translations  are  newly  made  from  the  Russian  by 
Isabel  F.  Hapgood.  Each  volume  contains  either 
a  frontispiece  portrait  or  a  drawing,  by  some  capable 
artist,  printed  on  Japan  paper.  The  paper  is  light- 
weight, deckle-edged,  and  gilt-topped,  and  the 
binding  is  properly  described  as  a  "  seal -brown 
sateen."  The  format  of  this  set  of  fifteen  octavo 
volumes  is  similar  to  that  of  sets  of  Tolstoy,  Kip- 
ling, Stevenson,  etc.,  already  issued  by  the  same 
publishers.  The  printing  is  by  De  Vinne,  and, 
altogether,  the  edition  is  entirely  admirable.  The 
first  four  volumes,  which  are  all  we  have  yet  re- 
ceived, are  I  and  II,  "  Memoirs  of  a  Sports- 
man"; III,  "  Rudin:  A  Romance";  IV,  "A 
Nobleman's  Nest." 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New  York: 
fifteen  volumes,  $30.00;  sold  only  by  subscription, 
and  no  order  taken   except  for  the  entire  set. 

Love  and  Political  Intrigue. 

"  You  can  fool  some  of  the  people  all  of  the 
time,  all  of  the  people  some  of  the  time,  but  you 
can  not  fool  all  of  the  people  all  of  the  time." 
This  trite  proverb  might  well  have  been  the  theme 
of  Mary  Raymond  Shipman  Andrew's  new  book, 
"  A  Kidnapped  Colony,"  a  rather  improbable  but, 
nevertheless,  entertaining  narrative  of  how  one 
John  Lindsay,  being  mistaken  on  shipboard  for 
Cieneral  Lindsay,  the  newly  appointed  governor 
of  the  Bermudas,  conspires  with  several  friends 
to  play  a  practical  joke  on  the  whole  population 
of  Bermuda.  The  real  administrative  head  having 
been  delayed  beyond  the  time  set  for  his  coming, 
the  impositor  makes  the  Bermudans  believe  him 
governor,  and  proceeds  to  have  a  good  time  with 
the  house,  servants,  and  other  perquisites  of  the 
governmental  office.  The  complications  that  arise 
from  the  appearance  of  an  eccentric  and  con- 
scientious old  gentlemen  who  knows  the  real  gov- 
ernor, and  finally  the  coming  of  the  latter,  make 
inteiesting  and  amusing  reading.  The  last  chapter 
marks  the  climax  of  a  naive  little  love-story  that 
runs  lightly  through  the  account  of  political 
intrigue. 

Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New  York; 
$1.25.  _ 

How  Stevenson  Gave  Life  to  a  Moribund  Book. 
Edmund  Gosse's  introduction  to  a  new  printing 
of  William  Penn's  "  Some  Fruits  of  Solitude  " 
is  interesting.  The  book,  he  says,  was  once  ex- 
tremely popular.  Scores  of  editions  appeared  dur- 
ing the  eighteenth  century.  During  the  early  years 
of  the  last  century  there  were  a  few.  Then  it 
seems  to  have  been  forgotten  till  an  "  enchanter 
wakened  the  delicate  dead  thing  into  life." 
The  enchanter  was  Stevenson,  who,  "  in  December, 
1879,  while  he  was  wandering  disconsolately  in 
the  streets  of  San  Francisco,  convalescent  after  a 
very  dangerous  illness,"  ignorantly  picked  up  the 
book  in  the  stall  of  a  San  Francisco  book-seller. 
Years  after  he  wrote:  "  Even  the  copy  was  dear 
to  me,  printed  in  the  colony  that  Penn  established, 
and  carried  in  my  pocket  all  about  the  San  Fran- 
cisco streets,  read  in  street-cars  and  ferry-boats 
when  I  was  sick  unto  death,  and  found  in  all 
times  and  places  a  peaceful  and  sweet  companion." 
Tin's  exceeding  high  praise  of  Stevenson's  has 
awakened  such  an  interest  in  the  book  that  pub- 
lishers feel  justified  in  giving  it  to  the  world 
afresh.  The  present  pocket  edition  is  beautifully 
printed   and  bound  in  crimson   leather. 

Published  by  the  H.  M.  Caldwell  Company, 
Boston;    75   cents. 

Indispensable  to  Students  of  Art 
The  first  edition  of  "  Bryan's  Biographical  and 
Critical  Dictionary  of  Painters"  appeared  in  1816, 
and  won  immediate  favor.  In  1849,  it  was  revised 
by  J.  Stanley.  In  1876,  a  supplement  was  prepared 
by  H.  Ottlcy.  Again,  in  the  years  1884-9,  the 
dictionary  was  extensively  revised  and  many  ad- 
ditions made  by  various  writers,  so  that  the 
edition  of  1889,  issued  in  parts,  was  practically  a 
new  work.  Since  that  time  a  host  of  painters 
have  won  such  a  measure  of  fame  as  entitles 
ilium  to  a  place,  new  facts  have  been  discovered 
about  those  already  included,  and  many  errors 
have  been  pointed  out.  These  arc  the  considera- 
tions which  have  induced  the  publishers  to  issue 
still  another  edition  in  five  volumes,  the  first  two 
of  which  arc  before  us.  \\  e  have  not  the  space 
.it    our    disposal    to    mention    even     the    names    of 

■ihi  1  ,  mi  artistic  themes  who  contribute  to  this 
practically  new  work.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  there 
arc  among  them  some  of  the  most  notable  critics 
of  the  'lay.  furthermore,  the  entire  work  is 
under    the    supervision     of    George    C.     Williamson. 

Litt.    D..    wlmsf    name    will    !><■    familiar    to    most 

tudents.  Bach  volume  is  profusely  illustrated 
with  full-page  plates,  well  printed  in  double  col- 
umns,   and   scrviccably   bound. 

Published     by    the     Macmillan     Company,      New 

York;   per  volume,  $6.00. 


The  Works  of  Charles  Lamb. 
Of  quite  an  excellent  comeliness  arc  the  volumes 
in    jJ-      new    edition    of    "  The    Works    of    Charles 
1    i:       '    published   by   Dum     of   London,   the   fore- 
most '  "vink-makcr,    it    seems    to    us,    in    America    or 
i    it  the  present  time.     And  in  these  books 


he  has  quite  outdone  himself,  since  they  are  at 
once  low-priced  and  beautiful.  To  begin  with, 
the  edition  is  edited  by  William  MacDonald,  who 
is  certainly  clever  (see  his  preface)  and,  we  think, 
competent.  Through  his  alertness,  considerable 
matter,  both  in  prose  and  verse,  appears  here  for 
the  first  time  in  a  collected  edition.  The  new 
illustrations  (several  hundred)  are  by  C.  E.  Brock, 
Herbert  Railton,  and  Winifred  Green,  capable 
artists  all.  Also,  there  arc  reproductions  from  the 
engravings  in  the  original  edition,  together  with 
many  portraits.  As  for  the  format,  each  volume 
of  the  twelve  is  a  "  long  f*  cap  8vo,"  four  and  five- 
eighths  by  seven  and  three-quarter  inches.  The 
binding  is  of  blue  cloth  with  drab  sides,  the  back 
being  flat  and  embellished  with  a  delicate  design 
worked  in  gold.  The  two  volumes  of  the  set 
which  have  reached  us  are  "  Essays  of  Elia  "  and 
"  Last  Essays  of  Elia." 

Imported    by    E.    P.    Dutton    &    Co.,    New    York; 
each,  $1.50. 


More  Books  for  the  Children, 

"  Pleasant  Street,  Smiling  Valley "  is  the  title 
of  an  indeed  pleasant  and  smiling  little  book  of 
children's  stories  by  Sarah  E.  Lee.  Published  by 
the  H.  M.  Caldwell  Company,  Boston;   75  cents. 

L.  Frank  Baum  who,  for  some  fifteen  years,  has 
been  writing  children's  stories  for  the  Youth's 
Companion  and  kindred  publications,  is  the  author 
of  no  less  than  three  juvenile  books  appearing  this 
fall.  Two  of  them,  however—"  The  Magical  Mon- 
arch of  Moo"  and  "The  New  Wizard  of  Oz  " — 
are  new  editions  of  these  old  favorites,  embellished 
with  exceedingly  effective  illustrations  in  colors 
by  Frank  Verbeck  and  W.  W.  Denslow.  "  The  En- 
chanted Island  of  Yew,"  "  whereon  Prince  Marvel 
encountered  the  High  Ki  of  Twi  and  other  sur- 
prising people,"  is  new.  Like  others  of  Mr.  Baum's 
books,  it  is  a  wondrous  tale  of  adventure,  with 
"  all  the  terrible  left  out,"  and  is  much  to  be  com- 
mended. The  drawings  in  colors  by  Fanny  Y. 
Cory  are  in  her  usual  delicate  and  agreeable  man- 
ner. Published  by  the  Bobbs-MerriH  Company, 
Indianapolis. 

The  amazing  adventures  01  an  apple  pie  are 
pictured  in  colors  and  black  and  white  by  Bessie 
Hitch  for  "  Wee  Folks'  Alphabet,"  a  thin  book 
for  children  that  has  quite  a  little  merit.  Published 
by  E.   P.   Dutton  &   Co.,   New  York. 

"  Tom  Brown  at  Rugby  "  is  a  book  much  read 
in  America,  but  now  that  the  domestic  production 
of  juveniles  is  so  healthy,  not  to  say  huge,  one 
would  think  that  mediocre  English  school-boy 
stories,  such  as  "The  Little  People,"  by  L.  Allen 
Harker,  would  hardly  find  sale  enough  to  warrant 
importation.  Five  of  these  stories,  we  note,  have 
appeared  in  Longman's  Magazine,  ten  in  the 
English  Outlook,  and  one  in  the  Treasury.  Pub- 
lished by  John  Lane,  New  York. 

"  Troubadour  Tales " — the  very  words  are 
redolent  of  picturesque  medievalism.  And  when 
we  read  "  Pierrot!  Pierrot!  are  thy  saddle-bags 
well  fastened — and  how  fare  my  lutestrings?"  then 
we  are  sure  that  these  stories  of  golden  times  are 
of  a  sort  to  please  wide-eyed,  fanciful  childhood. 
Evaleen  Stein  is  their  author,  and  the  delicate 
pictures  in  colors  by  Maxfield  Parrish  and  others 
are  altogether  harmonious.  Published  by  the 
Bohbs-Merrill  Company,  Indianapolis. 

"  Angel's  Wickedness,"  a  short  Christmas  story 
by  Marie  CoreJli,  is  published  by  Walter  R.  Beers, 
New  York;  75  cents. 

Some  four  or  five  assorted  superlatives  will  be 
needed  by  all  reviewers  of  "  Li'l  Verses  for  Li'l 
Fellers,"  by  George  V.  Hobart.  We  place  it  un- 
hesitatingly in  the  front  rank  of  this  fall's  chil- 
dren's books.  It  resembles  most  nearly  the  type 
of  verse-book  for  children  that  James  Whitcomb 
Riley  wrote,  but  at  the  same  time  has  a  distinct 
freshness  and  charm  that  is  all  its  own.  Most 
of  the  verses  are  humorous,  but  some  are  as 
wistful  as  childhood  itself.  Two  sympathetic 
spirits,  E.  Mars  and  M.  H.  Squire,  have  made  a 
score  of  full-page  pictures  for  the  volume,  some 
of  which  are  in  colors.  There  is,  besides,  a 
portrait  of  Donald  Bayne  Hobart.  "  the  li'l  feller 
who  inspired  many  of  these  li'l  verses."  His 
amused  expression  strengthens  our  confidence  in 
the  book's  jolly  merit.  Published  by  Harper  & 
Brothers,   New   York;    $1.40. 


Miscellaneous  Publications. 

"Mother  and  Father"  is  not  a  very  big  book, 
but  few  or  none  among  the  hundreds  that  have 
passed  through  the  reviewer's  hands  since  the 
autumn  literary  flood  began,  have  been,  we  think, 
more  genuine  and  truly  fine.  It  is  a  book  whose 
character  is  difficult  to  define.  It  might  be  called 
"  Pictures  of  Childhood  for  Grown-Ups."  Certain 
it  is  that  it  arouses  recollections  keen  as  knives. 
It  breaths  the  very  spirit  of  childhood.  It  abounds 
in  wistful  humor.  The  stories  have  appeared  be- 
fore, both  in  the  magazines  and  in  the  book,  "  In 
the  Morning  Glow."  The  present  edition  finds  its 
excuse  in  the  exquisite  scries  of  illustrations  by 
Alice  Barber  Stevens,  with  which  the  volume,  in 
printing,  decorations,  and  binding,  accords.  Pub- 
lished  by   Harper   &   Brothers.    New   York;    $1.25. 

"  Rips  and  Raps,"  by  L.  de  V.  Matthewman, 
with  pictures  by  T.  Fleming,  is  a  little  book  of 
illustrated  witticisms.  Some  arc  really  clever. 
"  He  who  is  successful,"  we  read,  "  can  afford  to 
smile:  he  that  is  not  can  not  afford  to  do  other- 
wise." Another  page  presents  a  picture  of  a  sign- 
hoard  bearing  the  legend,  "  Honesty  is  the  Best 
Policy."  Below  is  written:  "An  assertion  which 
docs  not  admit  of  proof,  and  which  is  contradicted 
by  weight  of  evidence,  usually  passes  muster  when 
presented  as  a  proverb."  Elsewhere  we  learn  that 
"  extremists  are  those  whose  views  are 
diametrically  opposed  to  ours."  Published  by  the 
Frederick  A.    Stokes  Company,    New    York. 

How  many  householders  know  how  to  ascertain, 
by  means  of  the  "  peppermint  lest,"  whether  or 
not  sewer  gas  is  escaping  into  the  house?  That 
is  one  of  the  many  useful  bits  of  information  given 
by  T.  M.  Clark  in  his  book,  "  The  Care  of  the 
House,"  described  as  "  a  volume  of  suggestions 
to  householders,  housekeepers,  landlords,  tenants, 
trustees,  and  others,  for  the  economical  and 
efficient  care  of  dwelling-houses."  It  is  an  elemen- 
tary, thoroughly  practical,  and,  we  think,  a  useful, 
volume.  The  author  is  an  architect  of  note.  Pub- 
lished by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New  York; 
$1.50. 

One  of  the  great  literary  enterprises  of  the  time, 
the  "  Jewish  Encyclopedia,"  appears  to  be  pro- 
gressing prosperously.  The  fifth  volume,  covering 
subjects  from  Dreyfus-Brisac  to  Goat,  is  now  from 


the  press,  and  equals,  if  not  excels,  the  standards 
set  by  previous  volumes.  The  complete  work, 
according  to  the  publishers'  statements,  will  contain 
8,000  pages  and  2,000  illustrations,  while  the 
number  of  editors  and  contributors  will  number 
660.  The  total  cost  is  estimated  at  $600,000,  and 
the  date  of  issue  of  the  twelfth  and  last  volume  is 
fixed  at  January  1,  1906.  The  editor-in-chief  is 
Rabbi  Isidore  Singer,  Ph.  D.  Published  by  the 
Funk  &  Wagnalls  Company,  New  York;  price, 
per  volume,  $6.00. 

"  A  New  School  Management,"  by  Levi  Seeley, 
Ph.  D.,  professor  of  pedagogy  in  the  State  Normal 
School,  Trenton,  N.  J.,  is  a  work  that  should 
prove  useful  to  teachers  and  those  intending  to 
follow  that  profession.  Published  by  Hinds  & 
Noble,   New  York;   $1.25. 

The  American  Book  Company's  Text-Books. 

Among   recent   school-books   are   the    following: 

"  German  Composition,"  with  a  review  of  gram- 
mar and  syntax,  and  with  notes  and  vocabulary,  by 
B.  Mack  Dresden,  A.  M. 

"  The  Baldwin  Speller,"  by  S.  R.  Spear  and 
Margaret  T.    Lynch. 

"  Aus  dem  Deutschen  Dichterwald."  edited  with 
notes  and  vocabulary  by  J.  H.  Dillard,  professor 
in  Tulane  University.  Here  are  presented  eighty 
"  favorite  "  German  poems,  representing  twenty- 
three  authors — Goethe,  Heine,  Korner,  Ruckert, 
Schiller,  and  Uhland  having  the  largest  proportion. 

"  Money,  Banking,  and  Finance,"  by  Albert 
S.  Bolles.  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  lecturer  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania.  This  book  is  intended 
for  persons  who  are  engaged,  or  are  about  to  en- 
gage, in  the  business  of  banking,  and  for  those 
who  are  studying  the  history  and  theories  of  bank- 
ing.    It  is  elementary,  practical,  and  authoritative. 

"  Physical  Laboratory  Manual  "  for  secondary 
schools,  by  S.  E.  Coleman,  S.  B.,  A.M.,  head  of  the 
science  department  and  teacher  of  physics  in  the 
Oakland  High  School.  This  volume  is  written  with 
the  intention  that,  in  schools  where  it  is  used,  labo- 
ratory work  shall  stand  in  coordinate  relation  to 
class-room  study.  It  aims,  also,  to  present  ex- 
periments that  shall  show  forth  physical  facts 
and  principles  rather  than  those  which  shall  merely 
develop  manipulative  skill  in  the  school.  Both 
these  aims  seem  worthy,  and  the  book  a  valuable 
one. 

"  Elements  of  Plane  and  Solid  Geometry,"  by 
Alan  Sanders.  The  distinctive  features  of  this 
work,  as  set  forth  by  the  author,  are  the  omis- 
sions of  parts  of  demonstrations,  the  introduction 
of  exercises  after  each  proposition,  the  giving 
of  all  constructions  before  they  are  required  for 
use  in  demonstrations,  the  presentations  of  con- 
verses when  possible,  and  the  large  numher  of 
exercises  presented. 

"  Latin  Prose  Composition,"  by  Henry  Carr 
Pearson,  A.  B.  Tt  is  based  on  the  same  plan  as 
the  author's  popular  "  Greek  Prose  Composition," 
and  is  intended  for  use  by  students  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  second  year's  study  of  Latin. 

"  The  Philippines:  A  Geographical  Reader,"  by 
Samuel  MacCIintock,  Ph.  R.,  principal  -  of  the 
Cebu  Normal  School.  It  is  intended  for  young 
school-children,   and  contains  many   illustrations. 

"  The  Merchant  of  Venice,"  edited  by  W.  J. 
Rolfe.  The  appearance  of  this  small,  neatly  bound 
book  is,  it  should  be  needless  for  us  to  say,  quite 
a  little  event  for  teachers  of  literature.  Tt  is  a 
revision,  by  himself,  of  the  author's  admirable 
edition  of  "  The  Merchant  of  Venice."  which 
appeared  in  1883.  So  many  changes  have  been 
made  that,  he  says,  it  is  "substantially  a  new 
book."  The  alterations  are  so  numerous  and 
varied  that  we  can  not  list  them  here,  but  we 
think  teachers  will  agree  that  this  is  the  best 
school  edition  of  the  play  extant. 

Published  by  the  American  Book  Company,  New 
York. 


INTAGLIOS. 


The  Stolen  Hour. 

When    midnight    comes 
And   all    is  still;    when   the  work   is  o'er 
And   silent   is   the  city's    roar; 
I    lightly   step   across   the    floor 
And    softly    close    my    study    door, 

When    midnight  comes. 

When    m i dn i gh t    comes 
"lis   then    I    love   to   ponder   o'er 
The  ancient  tomes  of  mystic  lore. 
And  dream  away  an  hour  or  more 
With  wise  and  wicked  men  of  yore, 

When    midnight  comes. 

—  Will  M,   Clemens  in   the  Reader. 


Inter  Sodales. 
Over  a  pipe  the  Angel  of  Conversation 

Loosens   with   glee  the   tassels  of  his  purse 
And,    with    a    fine    spiritual    exaltation, 

Hastens,   a  very  spendthrift,    to   disburse 
The    coins    new    minted    of    imagination. 
An     amiable,     a     delicate    animation 

Informs  our  thought,  and  earnest  we  rehearse 
The  sweet  old   farce  of  mutual    admiration 
Over    a    pipe. 

Heard    in    this    hour's    delicious   divagation. 

How  soft  the  song!  the  epigram   how  terse! 
With    what    a    genius    for    administration 
We    rearrange    the    rambling    universe. 
And  map  the  course  of  man's  regeneration, 
Over    a    pipe! 

— William  Ernest   Henley. 


Hugh  Slowcll  Scott,  the  novelist,  who  wrote  over 
the  pen-name  of  Henry  Scion  Mcrriam,  died  in 
London  on  November  19th,  after  having  been  op- 
erated on  for  appendicitis.  Mr.  Scott  was  edu- 
cated for  the  bar,  but  had  a  preference  for  lit- 
erature, and  sonic  of  his  works  have  been  well 
received.  His  first  notable  novel,  "  The  Phantom 
Future,"  appeared  in  1889,  followed  by  "  From 
One  Generation  to  Another  "  in  189-:.  Others 
of  his  books'  were  "  With  Edged  Tools,"  "  The 
Sowers,"  "  In  Kedar's  Tents,"  and  "  Roden's 
Corner."  An  improvement  in  the  style  and  more 
complicated  plots  marked  his  last  works,  "  The 
Vultures  "  and  "  The  Slave  of  the  Lamp,"  but  in 
a  general  way  they  lacked  the  elements  that  make 
for  popularity. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


One  School  of  Art. 

The  Studio  is  undoubtedly  the  leading  art  maga- 
zine published  in  the  English  language.  Its 
editors  have  this  fall  selected  from  the  pictures 
that  have  appeared  in  it  during  the  past  seven 
years  one  hundred  colored  and  monochromatic 
plates,  which  they  think  are  "  representative " 
and  constitute  a  "survey  of  the  progress  of  the 
arts  "  during  that  time.  These  are  printed  hand- 
somely on  heavy  glazed  paper  in  an  attractively 
bound  volume.  The  book's  chief  lack  is  that 
there  is  no  list  of  artists  or  table  of  titles.  Most 
of  the  artists'  names  can  be  deciphered  from  the 
margins  of  the  pictures  themselves,  but,  save  in  a 
very  few  instances,  the  prints  are  untitled.  This 
omission  is  most  keenly  felt  in  the  case  of  archi- 
tectural drawings — bridges,  old  buildings,  corners 
of  towns  and  cities,  streets  by  night— at  whose 
identity  one  can  only  guess.  As  to  merit,  the  book 
contains  "  all  sorts."  Some  of  the  plates,  like  that 
of  the  pair  of  green-garbed,  petal-sprinkling 
maidens,  or  the  book  cover  that  follows  it,  or  the 
be-roped  lady  sitting  on  the  moon's  sharp  edge, 
surely  are  not  "  representative  "  of  art — only  of 
non-art  And  what  an  artistic  infinity  divides 
Maris's  excellent  representation  of  an  old  Dutch 
windmill  from  some  unknown's  vapid  treatment  of 
a  similar  theme  a  few  pages  farther  on.  Taken  all 
in  all,  however,  the  collection  is  a  highly  interest- 
ing one,  immensely  varied,  yet  having  an  essential 
unity. 

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The  Pensionnaires." 

The  skillful  weaving  of  a  love-story  into  a  re- 
cital of  the  chances  and'ehanges  of  tourist  life  is 
the  prevailing  characteristic  of  "  The  Pension- 
naires," a  readable  little  story  by  Albert  R. 
Carman,  who  has  evidently  turned  his  knowledge 
and  experience  of  life  in  pensions  to  literary  ac- 
count. 

There  is,  too,  a  musical  element  in  the  tale. 
Jessica  Murney,  the  American  heroine,  is  studying 
music  in  Dresden,  and  is  at  once  the  delight  and 
despair  of  Herr  Vogt,  her  German  teacher,  whe 
tells  her  that  she  sings  like  a  "  heafenly  phono- 
graph," but  that  she  has  no  "  soul  expression." 
The  writer  then  proceeds  to  work  out  a  fanciful 
little  theory  bearing  on  Jessica's  lack  of  soul;  a 
lack  which  disappears  under  certain  favoring  in- 
fluence. 

The  esoteric  reader  may  find  himself  a  little 
mixed  as  to  the  author's  meaning,  and  a  little  im- 
patient over  the  farcical  scheme  of  rescuing  Jessica 
from  her  harmless  Svengali.  But  the  writer  has 
a  pretty  gift  of  description,  and  has  at  least  suc- 
ceeded well  in  depicting  the  pleasant,  casual  life 
and  comradeship  of  the  pensions.  He  will  doubt- 
less find  quite  a  proportion  of  interested  readers 
among  returned  tourists,  who  may  review  past 
pleasures  and  form  projects  for  the  future,  which 
will  doubtless  include  pensions  in  their  itinerary. 

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A  New  Edition  of  Shakespeare. 

A  book  might  be  made  of  arguments  for  or 
against  the  various  editions  of  Shakespeare's 
works.  To  say  that  this  edition  or  that  edition 
is  the  best  for  everybody  is  like  saying  that  all 
the  masculine  world  should  wear  red  cravats. 
What  edition  shall  be  chosen  is  largely  a  matter 
of  taste  and  fancy.  Some  like  their  Shakespeare 
minus  his  naughtiness;  others  like  all  the  queer 
jokes  left  in;  some  like  profuse  notes  to  help 
over  difficulties:  others  think  notes  an  imper- 
tinence; some  like  the  ancient  spelling;  others 
will  have  none  of  it — and  so  it  goes.  aA.11  things 
considered,  however,  the  editors  (Charlotte  Porter 
and  Helen  A.  Clarke)  of  the  new  twelve-volume 
Pembroke  Edition  make  out  a  very  good  case  for 
that  work.  Its  distinguishing  feature  is  that  it 
follows  the  First  Folio  of  16.23  exactly — misspelling, 
mispunctuation,  and  all.  This  has  advantages 
without  doubt— it  gives  to  the  plays  a  flavor  of 
quaintness  and  an  acient  air  that  modernized  ver- 
sions do  not  possess.  There  are  few  notes,  only 
those  absolutely  necessary,  and  these  are  put,  not 
at  the  end  of  the  play,  but  at  the  bottom  of  each 
page. 

In  mechanical  make-up  the  set  is  thoroughly  in 
accord  with  the  best  modern  ideas  in  book-making. 
There  are  three  plays  in  each  volume.  They  are 
printed  from  large,  clear  type,  on  thin,  opaque 
paper  so  that  each  book,  though  containing  about 
two  hundred  and  fifty  pages,  is  less  than  an  inch 
in  thickness.  In  height,  the  books  measure  six 
inches,  in  breadth  four,  the  top  is  gilded,  and  the 
edges  trimmed.  The  binding  is  red  buckram,  with 
a  decorated  back. 

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Pay  for  What  You  Get. 

"  The  Unit  Books  "  are  a  new  scheme  in  pub- 
lishing. It  is  proposed  to  reprint  a  hundred  or 
more  classics  uniformly,  charging  not  a  set  price 
for  each  volume,  but  one  cent  for  each  twenty-five 
pages,  adding  a  paper  cover  free,  a  cloth  cover 
for  thirty  cents,  a  "  full  leather  "  cover  for  fifty 
cents.  Thus,  Hawthorne's  "  The  Marble  Faun," 
of  five  hundred  and  twenty-five  pages,  in 
cloth  cover,  costs  fifty-one  cents.  '*  Letters 
and  Addresses  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  four 
hundred  pages,  '*  leather  "  cover,  costs  sixty-six 
cents.  They  are  both  remarkably  good  value  for 
the  price.  As  to  format,  the  paper  and  print  are 
good.  The  size — seven  inches  high,  four  and 
three-quarters  broad,  and  not  more  than  one  inch 
thick — we  think  not  an  attractive  one.  The  ideal 
size  of  a  small  book  is  half  an  inch  narrower  and 
about  three-quarters  of  an  inch  shorter  than  this. 
A  "  library "  book  should  be  somewhat  larger. 
Thus  these  volumes  are  neither  one  nor  t'other, 
and  in  size  not  at  all  pleasing  to  the  eye.  The 
"  leather  "  covers  are  not  leather,  but  a  composi- 
tion. 

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New  Editions — Poetry. 
Elsewhere  in  this  issue  we  review  the  Pembroke 
Edition  of  Shakespeare.  "The  Comedie  of 
Errors "  in  the  First  Folio  edition  is  edited  by 
the  same  persons  (Charlotte  Porter  and  Helen  A. 
Clarke) ,  and  the  text  is  identical.  It  differs  in 
that    there    arc    profuse    notes ;    that    each    play    is 


printed  in  a  separate  volume;  that  each  may  be  pur- 
chased separately;  that  thick,  deckle-edge,  gilt- 
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buckram.  Published  by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New 
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What  we  think  must  be  the  nine  hundred  and 
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thick,  and  one  and  a  half  inches  wide.  The 
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is  a  vest-pocket  edition  with  a  vengeance.  Pub- 
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cents. 

Those  who  were  deeply  impressed  with  the 
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here,  will  be  interested  in  the  new  edition  of  the 
old  piece  just  published.  It  contains,  in  addition 
to  the  text  of  the  play,  numerous  illustrations  from 
scenes  and  an  exhaustive  historical  introduction 
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Those  who  bear  in  affectionate  remembrance 
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"  A  Lost  Chord,"  will  perhaps  welcome  the  ex- 
tremely handsome  new  library  edition  of  her  works. 
It  is  prefaced  by  the  introduction  of  Dickens — - 
who  was  her  warm  friend — and  contains  an  ad- 
mirable portrait  of  the  poet.  We  believe  that 
the  edition  published  shortly  after  Miss  Proctor's 
death  in  the  early  'sixties  is  the  last  complete 
one,  and  the  present  volume  is  therefore  needed. 
It  is  printed  on  high-grade  paper,  with  uncut  edges 
and  gilt  top,  and  bound  in  red  buckram.  Pub- 
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venerable  and  much-beloved  scientist— and  the 
fifth  edition  comes  from  the  press  with  two 
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eye  so  long  familiar.  Herman  L.  Fairchild  has, 
he  says,  found  it  necessary  "  to  largely  rewrite 
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has  done  his  work  well;  but  we  are  sorry  that  he 
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not  to  be  blamed  for  renaming  the  book  "  An 
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marks: "  Since  Gilbert  White  kept  the  record  of 
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and  described  nature  with  such  loving  care  for  de- 
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Selection  from  the  World's  Greatest  Short  Stories." 
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proved  popular.  Six  months  later  "  A  Selection 
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Cody's  deft  hand,  and  now  we  have  "  The  Best 
Poems  and  Essays  of  Edgar  Allan  Poe "  and 
"  The  Best  Tales  of  Edgar  Allan  Poq,"  and  we 
observe  that  another  book  is  in  preparation.  We 
certainly  have  no  fault  to  find  with  these,  the 
mechanical  make-up  (which  is  the  main  thing)  be- 
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printed  on  thin  deckle-edge,  gilt-top  paper,  and 
contains  nearly  five  hundred  pages,  though  even 
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Wiggs  "  and  "  Lovey  Mary  "  say  that  up  to  date 
a  round  half  million  copies  of  those  books  have 
been  sold.  But  evidently  the  publishers  think  tlic 
end  is  not  yet,  for  they  have  spared  no  pains  to 
make  the  new  edition  attractive.  It  is  printed  on 
Cheltenham  paper  in  black  and  brown,  with 
Renner  type.  There  are  twenty- four  drawings, 
by  Florence  Scovel  Shinn,  in  each  volume,  twelve 
being  in  black  and  white  and  twelve  in  three 
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Impressions  of  an  Eastern  Resident. 

San  Francisco,  November  20,  1903. 
When  my  wife  and  I  came  here  from  New  York, 
we  expected  to  settle,  if  not  permanently,  at  least 
for  a  long  time,  but  we  have  since  changed  our 
plans;  why,  the  public  might  be  interested  to 
know,  as  our  case  is  a  typical  one.  Before  we  left 
Gotham,  we  knew  of  a  particular  disease  called 
New  Yorkitis,  and  we  thought  that  the  rest  of  the 
Union,  free  from  such  local  complaints,  would  be 
in  a  normal  condition:  but  we  discovered  that 
this  part  of  the  country  is  infected  with  its  own 
peculiar  affliction,  which  is  of  an  entirely  different 
nature  and  of  endemic  form— a  "native-born  " 
product  of  the   State. 

Californianitis  is  principally  a  defective  sense  of 
proportion.  We  have  no  doubt  that  California 
is  a  big  State,  and  that  Californians  are  called 
to  big  things,  but  the  Native  Sons  of  the  Golden 
West  might  do  well  to  remember  that  there  is 
something  else  beside  their  State,  and  that  there 
are  some  other  people,  and  good  for  something 
beside  serving  as  trinkets  in  their  hands.  This 
megalomaniac  distortion  of  realities  is  sometimes 
offensive  to  other  Americans,  and  oftener  funny. 
It  had  never  occurred  to  us  that  we  were  "  East- 
erners "  until  we  found  ourselves  chained  to  the 
triumphal  car  of  some  native  daughter  of  Cali- 
fornia as  she  passed  to  her  drawing-rooms  showing 
us  as  the  victor's  spoils.  We  thought  we  were 
only  Americans,  coming  from  one  part  of  America 
to  another;  we  found  ourselves  declared  for- 
eigners, and  called  upon  for  daily  largesse  of  duti- 
ful homage.  We  have  even  begun  to  doubt  our 
right  to  eternal  life,  since  our  physical  being  was 
debarred  the  essential  lot  of  entering  this  world 
by  the  Golden  Gate. 

This  is  interesting,  because  tne  estrangement 
is  certainly  not  ours!  We  look  in  vain  for 
justifications  of  distinctively  American  pride,  or 
developed  Californian  originalities;  in  fact,  the 
chief  things  held  out  to  us  as  the  glories  of  Cali- 
fornia are  the  missions  (which  are  Spanish),  the 
Chinese  quarters  (which  are  Oriental),  the  Mexican 
restaurants  (which  are  half-breed),  and  the 
kaleidoscopic  scenery  (which  was  here  some  years 
before  Californians).  Given  these  conditions,  we 
are  still  in  a  quandry  as  to  why  the  Californian 
refuses  for  his  State  the  modest  place  claimed  for 
itself  by  every  other  in  the  Union,  abreast  of  its 
sister  States,  not  tandem ;  but,  on  the  contrary, 
insists  upon  for  it  an  isolation,  golden-haloed, 
though  at  times  he  himself  be  conscious  that  the 
golden   halo   is   only  plated   ware. 

Californianitis  is  not  peculiar  to  the  lady  in  the 
drawing-room,  but  extends  through  all  classes  and 
occupations  of  society — newspapermen,  tradesmen, 
day-laborers,  errand-boys,  and,  as  may  be  naturally 
expected,  is  fostered  by  the  conditions  of  a  re- 
gion where  the  bricklayer  on  a  college  building  is 
paid  as  much  as  the  professor  who  teaches  inside. 
In  a  recent  issue  of  a  San  Francisco  daily  paper 
we  read  an  editorial  on  the  August  yacht  races 
for  the  America  Cup,  in  which  the  editor  mildly 
suggested  that  San  Francisco  might  be  a  better 
place  for  the  races  than  New  York — there  is  cer- 
tainly wind  enough  to  swamp  the  yachts,  but  what 
about  the  fog?  This  is  funny  enough;  but.  irre- 
sistible is  the  idea  of  the  chief  objection  he.  foresaw 
New  Yorkers  would  make,  the  loss  of  trade  brought 
by  visiting  enthusiasts — which,  by  the  way,  might 
number  ten  thousand.  isV't  tkis  sizing  things  too 
much  by  local  units,  when  it  takes  a  Dewey  pa- 
rade with  three  million  visitors  actually  to  crowd 
New  York,  and  an  extra  hundred  thousand  is 
there  a  wonted  influx  of  ordinary  travelers? 

Other  instances  of  this  acute  form  of  disorder 
are  plentiful  and  not  hard  to  find.  We  remember 
seeing  an  illustrated  advertisement  of  one  of  the 
transpacific  steamship  companies,  a  big  picture 
of  one  of  their  latest  and  largest  steamers  (which 
local  papers  like  to  call  the  "  giant  steamers  of  the 
harbor"),  with  the  statement  that  its  tonnage  was 
eighteen  thousand:  while  the  Atlantic  trade  always 
gives  the  net  tonnage,  this  company  has  here 
given  the  gross  tonnage,  supposedly  to  make  an 
impression  on  the  public;  without  stating  that  this 
is  the  case,  one  is  led  to  imagine  that  the  steamers 
in  question  are  larger  than  the  fast  express  steam- 
ers of  the  North  German  Lloyd,  and  nearly  record 
size,  while  in   fact  they  are  not  half  so  large. 

Still  more  amusing  is  the  scigneurial  pride 
of  the  tradesman,  who  thanks  God  that  he  isn't 
as  Easterners  are,  and  "  aint  got  so  low  down 
as  pennies  yet!" — consequently,  refuses  to  give 
or  to  accept  that  legal  coin  of  our  Union ;  and 
while  he  also  refuses  to  handle  the  convenient 
greenback,  he  burdens  his  pockets  with  the  cart- 
wheel silver  dollar  and  cumbersome  gold.  The 
love  of  gold  might  indicate  that  he  is  after  the 
real  thing,  but  when  it  comes  to  silver  dollars, 
which  are  worth  thirty-two  cents  (more  or  less),  he 
has  to  trust  our  government  practically  as  much  as 
if  he  used  a  bill.  These  phenomena  are  only  ex- 
plicable as  the  bluff  of  a  mining  and  lumber  camp 
where  wealth  is  show  and  not  substance,  and  not 
the  habits  of  a  long-established  community,  where 
economic   thrift   is   the   rule. 

Some  time  ago,  a  Californian  writer,  describing 
the  mission  period  of  Californian  history,  declared 
that  the  Spanish  monks  had  given  to  the  world  a 
new  style  of  architecture  and  a  new  form  of  art, 
the  mission  furniture;  the  facts  are,  the  mission 
architecture  is  nothing  but  the  "  barocco  "  style  of 
ecclesiastical  constructions  used  widely  in  Spain 
and  Italy  in  the  seventeenth  century;  and  the 
mission  furniture  is  easily  to  be  found  in  all  the 
mediaeval  castles  of  Europe,  with  only  this  dif- 
ference, that  the  former  is  made  uglier  and  the 
latter  cruder  because  nf  the  want  of  suitable  ma- 
terials and  good  artisans.  The  monks  certainly 
did  the  best  they  could,  but  why  attempt  to  exploit 
their  modest  efforts  as  they  themselves  would  have 
scorned  to  do?  It  is  only  too  legitimate  to  suspect 
that  the  Calif ornian's  skillful  commercial  use  of 
ln=  missions  is  the  justification  of  his  mission 
boom! 

There  are  many  things  in  California  most  grati- 
fying to  us  as  home-keepers  coming  from  New 
York — low  rents,  cheap  cost  of  living,  roominess 
and  quiet,  everything  that  is  necessary  to  cure 
one  of  the  neurasthenia  of  New  Yorkitis,  and 
of  the  numerous  economic  evils  of  New  York 
life,  and  living  in  San  Francisco  would  be  par- 
ticularly pleasant  if  it  were  normal,  but  since 
there  is  a  bacillus  here,  too,  and  we  must  choose 
between  the  pains  of  Californianitis  and  the  pangs 
of  New  Yorkitis,  we  prefer  the  latter  every 
time.  Very    truly    yours.  Felix   Ferreko. 


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November  30,  1903. 


"  A  Poor  Relation  "  is  a  play  that,  one  would 
think,  had  reached  the  passcc  stage,  having 
originally  been  written  for  Sol  Smith  Russell 
whose  heyday  was  from  fifteen  to  twenty 
years  ago.  As  a  humorist,  this  once  popular 
comedian,  funny  as  he  was.  lacked  versatility. 
He  did  not  at  all  fit  into  comic-opera  roles, 
being  able  to  amuse  his  audience  only  at 
scattered  intervals,  when  some  bit  of  bur- 
lesque would  turn  up  that  gave  him  his 
chance.  Naturally,  an  actor  whose  comedy 
talents  were  of  so  circumscribed  a  nature 
would  need  to  have  a  character  written  all 
around  his  personality. 

In  "  A  Poor  Relation."  the  idea  of  keeping 
that  luckless  inventor,  Noah  Vale,  in  a 
chronically  starved  condition,  was  doubtless 
due  to  the  extreme  leanness  of  Sol  Smith 
Russell's  figure.  His  peculiar  mannerisms  told 
well  in  the  songs  and  stories  with  which 
Noah  Vale  regaled  the  children,  and  the  jokes 
with  which,  for  lack  of  more  substantial  fare, 
he  regaled  himself. 

Mr.  James  Durkin,  having  first  started  in 
as  the  leading  man  at  the  Alcazar,  is  now 
taking  a  turn  in  comedy,  with  Russell's  well- 
known  character  part  this  week,  and,  having 
manifestly  put  a  good  deal  of  careful  study 
and  preparation  into  the  role,  is  making  a 
success  of  it.  He  has  been  rather  put  to  to 
give  the  necessary  effect  of  lankness  to  his 
figure,  but  has  actually  succeeded,  resembling 
indeed,  a  benevolent  Uriah  Heep.  His  plump 
cheeks  are  hollowed  out  to  cadaverous 
shadows  with  skillful  applications  of  char- 
coal, his  voice  is  a  carefully  cultivated  nasal, 
and  the  twinkle  of  delight  with  which  the 
plucky  inventor  disarms  malignant  fortune 
with  a  jest  would  almost  win  an  indulgent 
smile  from  an  undertaker. 

The  play  is  as  naive  as  a  country  belle  in 
the  directness  of  its  appeal.  It  is  the  kind  in 
which  people  are  perpetually  entering  rooms 
and  displaying  such  remarkable  obtuseness  of 
hearing  and  vision  that  they  remain  oblivious 
of  the  fact  that  the  room  is  already  occu- 
pied until  they  collide  with  the  occupier,  or 
overhear  the  kind  of  important  secrets  upon 
which  plots  revolve. 

There  is  a  villain  who  is  so  direfully  base 
that  he  won  prolonged  hisses  of  disapproval ; 
a  tribute  which  Mr.  Luke  Conness  acknowl- 
edged with  a  bright  and  beaming  smile. 

There  is  a  lovely  and  compassionate  heroine 
who  considers  the  suggestion  of  quarters  less 
humble  than  the  drawing-room  for  the  fainting 
wayfarer  at  the  front  door  as  an  evidence  of 
unbelievable   cruelty. 

There  is  a  stepmother  whose  character  is 
builded  on  models  drawn  from  Grimm's  fairy 
tale.  There  are  two  rosy-cheeked  children, 
bright  little  things,  whose  solemn-eyed  en- 
joyment of  fairy  tales  and  "eating  stories" 
seemed  most  genuine. 

Like  the  "  eating  stories "  for  which  the 
children  clamor,  "  A  Poor  Relation "  is  an 
"  eating  play,"  the  starving  ones  being  obliged 
to  tuck  away,  even  in  the  sketchy  meals  of 
the  stage,  sufficient  provender  to  make  the 
compassionate  spectator  foresee  touches  of 
indigestion. 

The  play  is  so  full  of  Joe  Miller  skits,  senti- 
mental bits,  and  melodramatic  hits,  that  it 
thoroughly  pleased  the  audience,  who  rewarded 
Mr.  Durkin's  comedy  with  a  running  accom- 
paniment of  laughter.  The  rest  of  the  com- 
pany are  appropriately  disposed,  and  do  their 
share  in  winning  success  for  the  revival  of  the 
piece,  but  the  honors  easily  fall  to  Mr.  Durkin, 
whose  characterization,  although  a  little  lack- 
ing in  spontaneous  humor,  is  so  carefully 
studied  as  to  be  very  telling. 


The  elevation  of  Zaza  to  the  position  t,f 
grand  operatic  heroine  shows  what  a  hold  on 
stage  life  that  queen  of  gutter  morals  has. 
The  enormous  popularin  of  "  Zaza  "  as  a 
play  is  perhaps  due  to  the  sentimental  interest 
that  is  ften  felt  in  the  heart  sorrows  of 
ddclasstU.  women.  It  is  not  an  interest  that 
is  usually  placed  in  evidence,  most  people 
exprc/  ng  themselves  smu'  what  cynically  as 
the  capacity  for  tceling  of  those 
'    tu-rriies,  but  it  is  pretty  widespread 


Zaza's  strong  card  is  her  position  as  the 
under  dog.  It  would  have  mightily  injured 
her  prestige  with  the  usual  audience  to  have 
shown  the  supplanted  wife  weeping  sore  over 
the  defection  of  her  husband.  But  the 
spectacle  of  an  arrogant  woman,  safely  en- 
throned in  a  luxurious  home,  the  happy 
mother  of  a  charming  child,  and  quite  able 
to  scold  the  servants  with  considerable  nerve, 
gave  her  the  unsympathetic  position  of  the 
woman  on  top,  and  so  Zaza  was  safe  in  the 
hearts  of  the  public. 

There  is  a  curious  perversion  of  morajs  in 
thus  deliberately  exalting  the  courtesan  at  the 
expense  of  the  wife ;  so  much  so  that  one 
may  be  pardoned  for  feeling  a  little  cynical 
over  the  attitude  of  those  who  experience 
virtuous  shocks  at  "  The  Second  Mrs.  Tan- 
queray "  and  "  Iris,"  and  weep  over  Zaza's 
woes.  The  play  of  "  Zaza  "  virtually  lays  down 
this  dictum :  an  emotional  and  good-looking 
courtesan  is  worthy  of  all  sympathy,  and  if 
she  abjures  flash  and  tinsel,  changes  her  dress- 
maker and  talks  about  "  living  in  her  art," 
she  attains  to  the  aristocracy  of  the  stage 
heroine,  and  is  as  good  as  the  best. 

With  "  Iris "  it  is  different.  The  calm 
inexorable  logic  of  her  creator  has  its  effect. 
She  is  the  slave  of  her  own  temperament,  and 
we  accord  her  the  same  impersonal  pity  as 
that  bestowed  upon  a  flower  torn  from  its 
stem  and  trampled  in  the  mire  of  a  city  street. 
Or  akin  to  the  remote  compassion  with 
which  we  look  upon  Iris's  humbler  sisters 
in  sin. 

One  could  almost  read  it,  the  other  night. 
in  the  gaze  which  people  turned  upon  one 
such,  a  lovely  creature,  who  sat,  the  observed 
of  all  observers,  watching  with  interest  the 
unfolding  of  a  drama  which  must  of  neces- 
sity bear  features  akin  to  her  own.  As  she  sat 
there,  a  bit  of  bruised  fruit,  her  blooming 
youth  thrown  in  relief  against  the  stodgy 
outlines  of  her  sole  companion,  a  hard-faced 
beldame,  with  an  eye  of  flint  under  her  wig. 
there  were  doubtless  none  who  observed  her 
but  likened  the  sordid  destiny  awaiting  her 
to  that  which  was  confronting  Pinero's  lovely 
transgressor. 

And  therein  is  the  main  fault  in  the  play. 
It  turns  the  attention  too  much  to  the  under- 
ways  of  the  world.  The  strength  of  it  lies 
in  its  deadly  reality.  It  is  impossible  to  come 
away  and  lightly  dismiss  Iris  and  her  fate 
from  the  memory.  Pinero  has  planned  it  all  out 
far  too  skillfully  for  that.  He  has  not  left  a 
stone  unturned  in  the  remorselessness  with 
which  he  has  hedged  Iris  within  the  limita- 
tions imposed  by  her  own  folly. 

She  has  exhausted  all  resources  in  drain- 
ing dry  the  financial  compliance  of  her 
friends.  Her  tiny  income  is  pledged.  Tren- 
with  has  turned  away,  sick  at  heart,  and  for- 
ever disillusionized.  Maldonado,  with  the 
glare  of  hate  in  his  eyes,  has  turned  her  out. 
Where  shall  she  go?  The  universal  hypothe- 
sis is,  the  gutter.  But  the  mind  can  not  bring 
itself  to  accept  such  a  fate  for  a  creature  of 
such  grace  and  elegance  as  Iris,  and  falls  to 
outlining  a  hypothetical  course  of  conduct.  Her 
friend,  Fanny  Sylvain,  has  already  cut  her, 
and  besides  is  newly  married,  and  therefore 
accountable  to  another  for  her  friendships 
If  Iris  would  not  marry  Lawrence  Trenwith 
poor,  it  is  scarcely  conceivable  that  she 
would  throw  herself  in  the  arms  of  her  sole 
remaining   friend,    Croker   Harrington. 

But  she  is  destitute.  Croker  is  true  and 
tender.  She  goes  to  him  for  aid,  only  to 
find  that  Maldonado's  coarse  taunt  is  true. 
He  has  been  kicked  out  of  the  secretaryship 
of  the  club,  and  has  scarcely  the  wherewithal 
to  keep  body  and  soul  together. 
And  then — whither? 

Thus  one's  mind  will  revolve  about  the 
final  destiny  of  the  poor,  beautiful  bit  of 
frailty  that  goes  to  the  making  of  Iris. 

As  to  Zaza,  transplanted  to  opera,  we  take 
her  quite  calmly.  She  is  an  entirely  different 
person  when  singing  her  woes,  having  shed 
much   of   the   chippiness   that   gives   the   Zaza 


of  the  play,  both  in  joy  and  sorrow,  so  much 
coarse  vitality.  The  librettist  has  dispensed 
with  the  peculiarly  idiotic  final  act,  which,  I 
believe,  was  tacked  on  bodily  by  the  enter- 
prising American  adapter  as  a  concession  to 
the  Puritanism  of  one  element  and  the  flabby 
sentimentality  of  another  in  the  American 
theatre-going  public. 

Tina  de  Spada  gave  Zaza  a  sombre  mien: 
putting  into  the  scenes  of  the  first  act  noth- 
ing of  that  effervescent  joy  with  which  the 
music-hall  singer  sipped  the  foam  from  the 
champagne  of  a  volatile  existence. 

Her  vocalization  was  necessarily  subdued 
and  restrained,  as  the  singer  was  afflicted 
with  a  cold.  But  she  was  able  to  render 
Zaza's  softer  and  more  plaintive  numbers 
with  sweetness  and  tenderness. 

Ischierdo  was  dramatically  a  very  satis- 
factory Dufresne ;  vocally  he  was  too  loud 
and  strident,  his  tendency  to  shriek  having 
ruined  his  pianissimo  notes,  and  introduced  a 
grating  tone  into  his  voice  that  has  come  to 
stay.  Marchesini,  as  Zaza's  mother,  was  a  far- 
cical monstrosity.  The  character  is  one  of  the 
clever  points  in  the  play,  but  as  presented  by 
Marchesini  it  was  exaggerated  to  the  point 
of  buffoonery. 

Gregoretti,  minus  a  romantic  make-up,  was 
less  handsome.  He  has  some  very  effect- 
ive numbers,  however,  of  which  he  made 
the  most.  One  would  be  quite  safe.  I  think. 
in  prophesying  that  this  gifted  youth  will  not 
retain  his  voice  as  late  in  life  as  Salassa  did 
I  have  seen  the  face  of  the  latter  in  the  street, 
under  his  funny  little  cigarette  hat,  and  it 
was  that  of  a  man  in  the  forties. 

Dado  might  well  stand  for  an  example  to 
the  younger  singers  about  him.  A  bass,  to 
be  sure,  has  less  tendency  to  wear  threadbare 
than  the  lighter  voices,  but  while  Dado  is  a 
singer  of  much  experience,  his  artistic  re- 
straint and  admirable  method  have  prevented 
his  voice  from  showing  the  inevitable  wear 
and  tear,  many  of  his  notes  being  as  round 
smooth,  and  resonant  as  Gregoretti's  own. 

The  orchestration  is  thoroughly  modern  in 
its  richness,  variety,  and  abundance  of  illus- 
trative meanings.  It  was  not  particularly 
well  rendered,  however,  the  general  effect 
being  over-loud,  so  much  so,  in  fact,  as  seri- 
ously to  hamper  the  singers  a  number  of  times. 
Nevertheless,  the  modern  element  of  real- 
ism in  "  Zaza,"  a  certain  dramatic  verve 
about  the  story,  and  abundant  beauties  in 
both  the  vocal  and  the  orchestral  score,  made 
the  performance  one  that  afforded  universal 
interest  and  ample  enjoyment  to  the  specta- 
tors. Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 

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THE        ARGONAUT 


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STAGE    GOSSIP. 


"Way  Down  East." 
On  Monday  evening,  Lottie  Blair  Parker's 
successful  New  England  play.  "  Way  Down 
East,"  will  begin  a  two  weeks'  engagement  at 
the  Columbia  Theatre.  Those  who  have  al- 
ready witnessed  this  pretty  pastoral  play  dur- 
ing its  previous  visits  here,  will  want  to  en- 
joy its  wholesome  comedy  again,  while  those 
who  have  not  seen  it  have  a  treat  in  store  for 
them.  The  play  pictures  the  peace  and  plenty 
of  prosperous  farm  life,  and  its  leading 
characters  are  simple,  quaint.  "  Down  East  " 
types,  such  as  Martha  Perkins,  the  village  gos- 
sip, who  makes  all  the  trouble  for  the  hero- 
ine: faithful  Seth  Holcomb.  Martha's  devoted 
slave ;  the  constable,  Rube  Whipple,  who  al- 
ways has  his  eye  on  somebody ;  Hi  Holler, 
the  chore-boy  for  Squire  Bartlett :  the  doctor; 
and  the  dear  old  squire  himself,  who,  when 
not  in  a  tantrum,  is  full  of  fun  and  humor. 
These  and  many  other  strong  studies  of  New- 
England  folks  are  skillfully  handled  by  Lottie 
Blair  Parker,  who  wrote  the  play,  and  by 
Joseph  R.  Grismer.  who  elaborated  it.  The 
snow-storm  effect,  in  the  third  act.  is  one  of 
the  most  striking  things  of  its  kind  which  has 
been  attempted  on  the  stage.  The  company 
to  be  seen  here  will  include  Ruby  Bridges, 
Imogene  Hyams,  Madge  Douglas,  Charles  M. 
RIecel,  Edward  J.  Heron,  Charles  A.  Burke. 
Philip  Yale  Drew,  H.  M.  Eorsman.  and  Loyola 
O'Connor. 

At  the  Alcazar. 
So  great  has  been  the  success  of  Tames 
Durkin  in  Sol  Smith  Russell's  charming  play, 
"  A  Poor  Relation,"  that  the  management  of 
the  Alcazar  Theatre  has  decided  to  continue 
it  another  week.  On  December  7th.  a  pic- 
turesque romance  of  St.  Petersburg  in  the 
early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  entitled 
"  A  Royal  Prisoner,"  will  be  given,  and  an 
elaborate  production  of  "Blue  leans  "  is  prom- 
ised for  Christmas  week. 


Fischer's  New  Burlesque. 
The  management  of  Fischer's  Theatre  have 
such  great  faith  in  "  I-O-U."  the  new  bur- 
lesque which  is  to  be  given  its  first  presenta- 
tion on  any  stage  on  Monday  evening,  that 
they  have  given  it  a  splendid  setting,  and  the 
chorus  has  been  increased  to  over  fifty  peo- 
ple. The  music  is  by  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart,  and 
the  book  was  written  by  a  local  writer — Jud- 
son  Brusie.  it  is  said.  The  plot  is  based  upon 
the  trials  of  three  hotel  proprietors,  who  be- 
come financially  embarrassed  by  reason  of 
having  housed  and  fed  a  circus  outfit,  which 
also  becomes  bankrupt  and  therefore  is  unable 
to  pay  for  its  board  and  lodging.  As  a  com- 
promise, a  trade  is  made  whereby  the  circus 
manager  exchanges  his  circus  for  the  hotel 
property,  and  the  landlords  become  owners 
of  the  circus,  with  such  direful  consequences 
and  complications  as  to  bring  about  a  final 
re-transfer,  the  circus  man  going  back  to  the 
sawdust  ring,  and  the  landlords  returning  to 
their  hotels.  Among  the  special  features  will 
be  a  skit  in  which  Georgia  O'Ramey  will  im- 
personate six  or  more  well-known  characters, 
and  the  famous  Althea  twin  sisters,  singers 
and  dancers,  who  are  to  replace  Flossie  Hope 
and  Gertie  Emerson. 


The  Counterfeiters  "  at  the  Central. 
The  Central  Theatre's  offering  next  week 
will  be  a  sensational  melodrama,  "  The  Coun- 
terfeiters." which  is  said  to  contain  several 
thrilling  climaxes  and  a  wealth  of  wholesome 
comedy.  In  the  opening  act  there  is  a  mys- 
terious robbery  and  murder  in  Wall  Street, 
the  victim  being  falsely  accused  of  the  crime. 
The  second  act  contains  a  capital  picture  of 
New  York  tenement  life,  introducing  a  great 
variety  of  street  characters.  The  third  act  is 
laid  in  the  den  of  the  counterfeiters,  in  an 
abandoned  tunnel,  and  the  fourth  on  the  banks 
of  the  Hudson,  where  all  the  wrongs  are  duly 
righted.  All  the  favorites  will  be  in  the  cast 
and  some  really  striking  stage  pictures  are 
promised. 

The  Orpheum's  Bill. 
Hal  Godfrey,  known  as  the  "  Private  Secre- 
tary of  Vaudeville."  will  appear  with  his 
strong  supporting  company  at  the  Orpheum 
next  week  in  a  one-act  playlet  by  Arthur  J. 
Lamb,  entitled  "  A  Very  Bad  Boy."  The 
other  new-comers  are  Agnes  Mahr,  styled 
"  The  American  Tommy  Atkins."  who  will  be 
seen  in  several  new  artistic  and  graceful 
dances  :  Clarice  Vance,  who  sings  coon  songs 
with  an  irresistible  emphasis  and  side-play ; 
and  Joseph  Newman,  the  Denver  song  writer, 
who  appeared  here  three  seasons  ago,  and, 
with  his  quiet,  easy  manner,  won  hosts  of 
friends.  Those  retained  from  this  week's  bill 
are  the  Armenis-Tito  quartet  of  European 
dancers;  Searl  and  Violet  Allen,  "The  Rent 
Collectors  "  ;  Bryant  and  Saville,  the  musical 
minstrels;  and  Annie  Abbott,  "The  Little 
Georgia  Magnet,"  who  will  enter  on  her  last 
week  in   San  Francisco. 


Melodrama  at  the  Grand. 
The  last  performance  of  "  Ben  Hur  "  will 
be  given  at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Satur- 
day evening,  and  at  the  Sunday  matinee  the 
regular  combination  season  will  be  inaugu- 
rated with  "  Over  Niagara  Falls,"  a  spectac- 
ular melodrama,  containing  several  startling 
climaxes.  Among  the  characters  introduced  are 
Starlight,  an  old  Indian  chief;  Asa  Phillips,  a 
pillar  of  the  church,  who  uses  his  religion  as  a 
cloak  to  cover  his  many  villainous  deeds;  a 
circus  equestrienne  and  a  French  ring-master ; 
a  ubiquitous  newspaper  reporter;  a  mischiev- 
ous, fun-loving  darkey ;  and  an  old  Irish  guide, 
the  superintendent  of  Chautauqua  Park.  The 
scenic  and  electrical  effects  are  very  elaborate. 


and  include  a  view  of  beautiful  Lake  Chau- 
tauqua, Goat  Island  above  the  Falls,  and  the 
Whirlpool  Rapids  and  Suspension  Bridge  by 
moonlight. 

AUTOMOBILE    NOTES. 


Barney  Oldfield  at  Los  Angeles. 
The  interest  taken  in  automobiling  in  the 
southern  part  of  this  State  was  clearly  demon- 
strated at  the  race  meet  of  the  Automobile 
Club  of  Southern  California  in  Los  Angeles 
last  week,  when,  during  three  afternoons  of 
time-destroying  contests,  nearly  thirty  thou- 
sand people  witnessed  the  novel  races.  Bar- 
ney Oldfield,  of  course,  was  the  cause  of  the 
immense  attendance,  and  those  who  were 
spectators  on  last  Sunday  were  treated  to  the 
most  remarkable  performance  on  a  circular 
mile  track  that  Oldfield.  in  his  Bullet  No.  2, 
has  ever  accomplished,  namely,  54-1?  seconds 
for  one  mile,  and  4  minutes  and  40^  seconds 
for  five  miles. 

The  local  horseless  carriages  which  jour- 
neyed to  the  southern  city  did  well,  and  carried 
off  their  share  of  the  prizes.  Two  of  the 
most  beautiful  trophies  offered  in  the  meet 
were  won  by  local  autos.  The  Chanslor  Cup 
was  captured  by  the  Toledo,  and  the  Hunting- 
ton one-thousand-dollar  perpetual  challenge 
cup  took  its  first  trip  to  San  Francisco  in 
company  with  H.  D.  Ryus.  who  won  it  with  a 
White.  Financially  as  well  as  otherwise  the 
race  meeting  was  a  great  success,  and  no  doubt 
the  campaign  for  better  roads  will  be  a  strong 
one. 


Now  that  the  fall  racing  meets  are  over,  the 
motorist  will  turn  his  attention  again  to  tour- 
ing, one  of  the  greatest  pleasures  to  be  derived 
from  the  automobile.  Many  drivers  promi- 
nent in  society  are  already  planning  winter 
tours. 

As  is  the  case  all  over  the  country,  there  is 
an  increasing  popularity  of  the  automobile 
with  the  ladies  of  San  Francisco,  there  being 
several  expert  automobilists  among  them. 
Miss  Bertha  Dolbeer,  the  driver  of  a  Pack- 
ard, is  seen  quite  frequently  in  the  park  and 
on  the  country  roads,  and  Miss  Georgie  Strong, 
of  Oakland,  a  Stevens-Duryea  owner,  is  known 
for  her  extended  trips  in  her  horseless  car- 
riage. Miss  Katherine  Dillon,  who  purchased 
a  White  touring  car  only  two  weeks  ago.  is 
learning  to  handle  the  throttle  herself,  and 
gives  promise  of  becoming  quite  an  expert- 
Miss  Jennie  Champion  is  often  seen  in  her 
father's  Cadillac,  and  Miss  Drum,  since  her 
return  from  New  York,  is  again  frequently 
out  in  her  White  Stanhope. 


The  sterner  sex,  too,  take  a  great  delight  in 
touring  the  country-  W.  H.  Gorham,  A.  W. 
Wilson,  and  John  D.  Spreckels  are  three 
White  owners  who  have  taken  trips  recently. 
A.  E.  Joy,  of  Watsonville.  lately  made  a 
most  difficult  run  to  his  home  from  this  city 
in  a  Winton.  D.  L.  Westover  has  been  tour- 
ing in  the  vicinity  of  Monterey  lately  in  his 
new  Packard,  and  Douglas  Watson  reports 
having  had  a  most  pleasant  trip  up  to  Lake 
County  in  his  St.  Louis. 


Robert  Lincoln  Sherwood,  son  of  the  late 
Robert  and  Mrs.  Robert  Sherwood,  died  last 
Sunday,  after  an  illness  extending  over  many 
years. 

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whiskies,  unadulterated  and  guaranteed  to  be 
the  purest  whisky  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  It 
has  been  matured  in  heated  warehouses,  and 
is  now  ready  for  the  market.  Any  person 
who  buys  a  bottle  of  these  rare  old  goods  will 
not  be  paying  for  fence  ads.,  or  dead  walls, 
and  he  will  secure  absolutely  the  finest  brand 
ever  introduced  in  California.  Now  Christmas 
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At  the  Races. 
An  excellent  programme  of  six  races  has 
been  arranged  for  to-day  (Saturday)  at  the 
Oakland  Track.  When  the  racing  scene 
changes  to  Ingleside  there  promises  to  be  a 
lot  of  notable  entries.  The  stables  of  C.  A. 
Johnson,  R.  Bradley,  and  J.  F.  Winters  have 
just  arrived  from  Chicago.  Among  the  horses 
are  Whisky  King,  Bummer,  Suburban  Queen, 
Dandy  Belle,  Tom  Kingsley,  The  Stewardess, 
and  Virginia  Boy. 


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Deposits.  June  30,  1903 34,819,893.12 

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November  30,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Some  years  ago,  when  the  automobile  was 
coming  into  fashion  with  a  rush,  predictions 
were  made  to  the  effect  that  the  day  of  the 
horse  was  over;  that  the  devil  wagon  and  the 
puff  wagon  were  to  take  his  place  for  busi- 
ness as  well  as  for  pleasure.  This  prophecy 
was  based  in  the  main  on  the  theory  that 
Americans  could  not  be  interested  in  more 
than  one  thing  at  a  time.  But  instead  of  the 
noblest  friend  of  man  going  to  the  wall,  he 
has  more  than  held  his  own.  The  shows  at 
Madison  Square  Garden,  in  New  York,  and 
likewise  those  in  Chicago  and  many  of  the 
larger  Eastern  cities,  have  improved  steadily 
in  the  quality  of  the  exhibits.  The  competi- 
tion for  the  ribbons  is  keener  than  ever  before. 
Bad  weather,  however,  somewhat  marred  the 
attendance  during  the  first  few  days  of  the 
Horse  Show  in  New  York  last  week.  On  the 
opening  afternoon,  the  sporting  clothes  of  the 
horsemen,  the  gaudy  waistcoats,  lurid  scarfs, 
and  emphatic  checks  and  plaids  came  in  for 
the  most  attention,  although  Alice  Roosevelt 
and  Ethel  Barry  more  attracted  much  notice. 
In  the  evening,  however,  the  private  boxes, 
in  which  fair  women,  gorgeously  dressed, 
were  attended  by  well-groomed  escorts  in 
immaculate  evening-clothes,  were  the  objects 
of  curiosity  for  those  who  made  up  the  never 
ceasing  walk-around  on  the  floor  of  the  Gar- 
den. It  was  here  that  families  famous  for 
their  social  standing  and  great  riches  were 
grouped,  and  it  was  here,  too  (according  to 
the  New  York  Sun),  that  New  York's  most 
beautiful  debutantes  were  having  a  gay  time 
exchanging  greetings  with  their  men  friends. 
White  was  the  prevailing  color  everywhere, 
with  now  and  then  a  symphony  in  red  or  blue 
or  brown  or  pink,  which  brightened  the  pic- 
ture to  a  marked  degree.  Society  has  often 
been  accused  of  indifference  to  the  horse,  but 
it  appears  that  this  year  there  was  an  appar- 
ent enthusiasm  over  the  incidents  of  the  oval 
tanbark  ring  on  the  part  of  society  that  au- 
gurs well  for  reform  on  this  line.  This  un- 
usual state  of  affairs  may  be  attributed  to 
the  general  public  interest  in  the  thorough- 
bred of  to-day.  which  has  gradually  spread 
throughout  America  until  it  is  of  national 
flavor.  It  is  quite  the  thing  just  now  to  be 
"  horsey,"  to  be  able  to  discuss  racing,  and 
to  speak  without  error  upon  the  fine  points  of 
hunters,  four-in-hands,  tandems,  and  high- 
school  performers.  Behind  the  private  boxes 
of  the  Four  Hundred  there  was  noted  a  scat- 
tering of  those  who.  while  not  actually  in  the 
social  swim,  always  make  strenuous  efforts 
to  get  into  it.  Then,  as  an  outside  fringe  in 
the  rear  seats,  there  were  the  ordinary  per- 
sons who  take  in  all  sorts  of  public  functions, 
and  feel  fully  repaid  if  they  get  a  chance  to 
stare  at,  and  hub  shoulders  with,  the  exclu- 
sive Four  Hundred. 


Obnoxious  dressmakers,  haberdashers,  jewel- 
ers, and  tailors  were  on  hand  in  droves  taking 
notes.  But  the  police  did  not  fina  ft  necessary 
to  interfere.  Last  year  they  were  called  upon 
to  suppress  the  dressmakers,  who  lined  up  in 
serried  ranks  inside  the  main  entrance  and 
made  progress  for  the  rich  and  well-dressed 
a  hazardous  undertaking.  However  (says  the 
Sun),  it  was  nothing  uncommon  to  see  one  of 
these  persons  spot  a  well-known  society 
woman  at  the  Madison  Avenue  entrance,  get 
in  her  wake,  and  then  follow  her  the  length 
of  the  amphitheatre,  jottine;  down  valuable 
pointers  as  to  her  clothing.  "  These  dress- 
makers." explained  a  well-known  tailor,  "  are 
from  the  East  and  West  Sides,  and  from 
Harlem.  They  can  not  get  a  line  on  the 
styles  promoted  by  the  swell  Fifth  Avenue 
dressmakers  except  at  the  Horse  Show,  so 
they  come  here  looking  for  points.  It  is  safe 
to  say  that  they  will  reproduce  them  later 
for  the  benefit  of  their  patrons,  and  will  be 
well  paid  for  their  'rouble." 

"  Uncle  Joe "  Cannon,  the  new  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives,  has 
abandoned  his  hotel  quarters  in  Washington, 
D.  C.  and  taken  a  handsome  house  on  Ver- 
mont Avenue,  where  he  is  now  established  for 
the  season.  Miss  Helen  Cannon,  who  will  be 
the  head  of  her  father's  household,  is 
eminently  fitted  for  the  role  of  leading  lady 
in  congressional  circles,  a  place  that  will  be 
hers  by  right  and  precedent.  Miss  Cannon, 
although  unmarried,  will  have  the  same  rank 
enjoyed  in  past  years  by  Mrs.  Reed  and  Mrs. 
Henderson,  The  wife  of  the  Speaker  of  the 
Rous*  is  exempt  from  all  first  calls,  except 
upon  the  wife  of  the  President  and  the  wife 
of  ))*  :  Vice-President.  She  takes  precedence 
congressional  hostu^es,  and  may,  if  she 
decline  to  return  all  visits  except 
;  the  Supreme  Court,  Cabinet,  and  diplomatic 


circles.  Miss  Cannon  being  young,  healthy, 
amiable,  and  fond  of  society  in  its  best  sense, 
may  not  avail  herself  of  the  advantages  of  her 
new  position,  but  being  an  experienced  woman 
of  the  world  will  be  keenly  alive  to  the  same. 
It  will  be  the  duty  of  the  wives  or  daughters 
of  her  father's  associates  in  Congress  to  call 
on  her.  In  official  society  the  etiquette  of 
visiting  is  the  reverse  of  that  in  most  com- 
munities, the  new-comer  making  all  the  ad- 
vances and  the  junior  matron  or  maid  calling 
on  her  senior,  the  order  of  precedence  being 
established  by  seniority  in  office  of  the  hus- 
band or  father  of  the  visitor.  Therefore,  the 
wife  or  daughter  of  a  new  member  of  Con- 
gress arriving  in  Washington  must  call 
promptly  on  the  wife,  or,  in  the  present  case, 
the  daughter  of  the  Speaker  of  the  House, 
the  wives  of  the  senior  representatives  and 
senators  from  her  own  State,  and  also  the 
wives  of  the  Cabinet  officers.  After  that,  if 
she  is  socially  inclined  and  energetic,  she  may 
call  on  any  other  woman  of  the  congressional 
circle. 


Speaker  Cannon's  wife,  by  the  way,  died 
many  years  ago.  A.  Maurice  Low,  in  a  re- 
cent article  in  Harper's  Weekly,  gives  this  ver- 
sion of  how  Cannon  won  his  wife  and  his  first 
election,  for  State's  attorney,  by  the  same 
coup.  Cannon  comes  of  Quaker  parents,  to 
whom  dancing  and  other  innocent  amuse- 
ments were  anathema.  For  some  reason  that 
no  one  has  ever  yet  been  able  to  explain — - 
perhaps  it  was  in  the  blood  derived  from  a 
fang-forgotten  ancestor  and  had  to  come  out 
— young  Joe  was  passionately  fond  of  danc- 
ing, and  many  a  night  after  the  old  folks 
had  gone  to  bed  the  lad.  togged  out  in  his  best 
and  most  un-Quakerlike  garments,  stole  off 
to  village  dances,  where  he  always  had  the 
prettiest  girls  for  his  partners,  as  his 
terpsichorean  skill  was  acknowledged  even  by 
his  rivals.  And  then  the  young  fellow  fell 
in  love,  head  over  heels  in  love,  with  Mary 
Reed,  a  girl  of  unusual  beauty  and  still  more 
unusual  character  and  intellect.  But  al- 
though she  smiled  on  him.  she  wanted  some- 
thing more  for  a  husband  than  a  mere  dancer. 
When  Joe  discovered  the  state  of  affairs,  he 
did  some  serious  thinking.  Mary  Reed's 
brother  was  the  opposition  candidate  for 
State's  attorney,  and  the  problem  Joe  had  to 
face  was  this :  if  he  ran  and  was  beaten 
Mary  would  have  only  contempt  for  him,  for 
he  knew  enough  of  women  to  know  that  they, 
even  more  than  men,  worship  success;  and. 
on  the  other  hand,  if  he  won.  Mary  would 
be  bitter  against  him  for  having  defeated  her 
brother.  Cannon  wrestled  with  that  problem 
for  several  nights,  trying  to  find  a  way  out 
of  the  maze,  and  finally  came  to  the  con- 
clusion that  success  would  atone  for  every- 
thing. He  went  into  the  campaign  and  won. 
and  his  reward  was  the  hand  of  the  girl  he 
loved  and  the  friendship  of  the  man  he  de- 
feated. To  Mrs.  Cannon,  who  died  many 
years  ago.  Mr.  Cannon  owes  much.  For  years 
they  studied  together;  and  if  to-day  Mr.  Can- 
non knows  more  about  more  things  of  prac- 
tical value  than  any  other  man  in  Congress, 
it  is  because  of  those  early  years  of  his 
married  life  when  the  woman  of  his  heart  was 
his  teacher. 

The  Philadelphia  Record  declares  that  a 
young  society  matron  of  Philadelphia  has  in- 
stituted a  noved  sort  of  dinner.  Ten  young 
women  have  formed  themselves  into  a  sort  of 
club,  the  mission  of  which  is  to  give  a  very 
elaborate  dinner  once  a  month.  The  dinners 
are  held  at  the  different  members'  houses,  but 
the  hostess  provides  the  servants  and  the  flow- 
ers only.  Thle  novelty  of  the  club  is  in  the  way 
the  food  is  provided.  Each  girl  is  intrusted 
with  one  course  of  the  menu.  It  is  her  duty 
to  decide  what  it  shall  be,  and  arrange 
with  the  cook  as  to  how  she  wishes  it  to  be 
served.  When  all  the  guests  arc  seated  at  the 
lable,  the  butler  announces  every  course  by 
the  title  of  the  young  woman  who  ordered 
and  paid  for  it.  There  are  charming  little 
menus,  too.  on  which  are  written  "  Soup  a  la 
Marie  Wharton,"  "  Roti  a  la  Edith  Burden," 
etc.,  which  show  who  was  responsible  for 
every  course.  The  interest  that  is  shown  in 
the  preparation  and  eating  of  these  club 
dinners  is  very  striking.  Each  girl  tries  to 
make  her  course  the  best  and  most  popular, 
and  in  the  evening  votes  are  cast  as  to  which 
was  the  most  successful  course. 


The  New  York  Evening  Post  says  that 
only  two  hotels  in  New  York  refuse  to 
keep  their  register  of  guests  open  and  publicly 
accessible.  These  are  the  Fifth  Avenue  and 
the  Waldorf-Astoria.  The  Fifth  Avenue  is 
a  favorite  resort  of  politicians,  and  its  guests 
sometimes  prefer  not  to  have  it  known  that 


they  are  there.  The  Waldorf-Astoria  has 
made  its  way  with  social  leaders,  captains  of 
industry,  and  with  important  and  unimportant 
persons.  The  books  there  are  not  accessible 
to  the  public ;  lists  of  guests  can  not  be 
transcribed.  This  is  not  only  intended  as  a 
protection  to  the  guests,  but  as  a  protection 
to  the  office  staff.  Many  business  houses  send 
circulars  to  "  hotel  arrivals  "  when  they  can 
get  the  names,  and  at  the  Waldorf  this  would 
mean  each  morning  the  sorting  of  some  fifteen 
hundred  additional  pieces  of  mail.  The  law 
only  requires  that  a  register  be  accurately 
kept,  so  that  the  police  or  authorized  officers 
of  government  may  consult  it. 

The  New  York  Tribune's  Paris  corre- 
spondent points  out  a  case  now  before  the 
Seine  tribunal  showing  the  danger  not  infre- 
quently incurred  by  respectable  but  thought- 
less American  women  in  the  course  of  their 
visits  to  Paris.  The  facts  are  as  follows :  In 
the  summer  the  wife  of  a  rich  Paris  banker 
became  acquainted  at  a  watering-place  with 
a  young  man  named  Mayer,  with  whom  she 
made  a  sentimental  but  innocent  moonlight 
journey  through  a  local  park.  The  pair  were 
suddenly  approached  by  a  park-keeper,  who 
intimated  that  he  must  prosecute  them. 
Ultimately  he  agreed  to  accept  a  bribe  of 
150,000  francs.  In  the  moonliglit  the  bank- 
er's wife  thereupon  signed  a  bill  for  150,000 
francs,  and  also  handed  to  the  park-keeper  her 
jewels,  worth  40,000  francs.  The  next  day 
she  found  that  she  had  been  the  victim  of  a 
plot  laid  by  Mayer  and  the  pseudo-park- 
keeper,  who  was  merely  Mayer's  accomplice. 
Mayer  was  arrested  on  a  charge  of  blackmail- 
ing, and  will  be  tried  in  Paris.  His  accom- 
plice is  still  at  large. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER. 

From    Official    Report    of    Alexander  G.     McAdie 
District  Forecaster. 

Max.      Min.      Rain-  State  of 

Tern.      Tern.      fall.  Weather. 

November  19th 60           50            -^5  Cloudy 

20th 62           56          2.3S  Rain 

21st 64           5S            .15  Cloudy 

"            22d 60           58           .00  Cloudy 

"            23d 64           56           .02  Cloudy 

24th  ...  5S           54            .00  Clear 
25th.   ..-           - 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Tuesday,  November  25,  1903. 
were  as  follows  : 

Bonos.  Closed 

Shares,  Bid.  Asked 

Cal.  Central  G.    E. 

5%  3,000    @  106  io6J< 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%...   11,000    @  114^  "4% 

Oakland     Transit 

5% 3,000    (SI  108^  109 

S.  F.  &S.  I.  Valley 

Ry.5% 10,000    @  116%  117 

S.  P.  R.  oE  Arizona 

6%  1909  10,000    @  107^-107^1     io7->8     10S 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1906 4,000    @  104^  10414     105 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal,  6% 

1912 10,000    @  114%  n4%     115K 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd 3,000    @  106%-    107     107 

S.  V.  Water  6% . . .     10,000    @  io6#  107^ 

S.  V.  Water 4%-  ■••     S.000    @    99  9$% 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa    40    @    40  39%      42 

Spring  Vall'yW. Co       70S    @    39-      40  39  39^ 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 15    @    66  66         66J4 

Sugars. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...         60    @   44  43 

Honokaa  S.  Co 50    @    13  12  13 

Hutchinson 110    @    10-      10%      10  io# 

Makaweli  S.  Co 20    @    23^  22  24 

Paauhau  S.  Co 200    @    15  14H       *5fc: 

Ga  s  a  nd  Electric. 
S.F.  Gas  &  Electric       760    @    6S^- 69K      6SJ£      69 

Trustees  Certificates. 
S.F.Gas&El'ctnc        175    @    69-      69^      6S  68J4 

Afiscelta  n  eous . 
Alaska  Packers  ...        140    ©142^-147        143        145 
Cal.  Fruit  Camiers.         20    @    92  92  94 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 90    ©    91-      92^      91^      92J4 

The  water  stocks  have  been  in  good  demand  ; 
Spring  Valley  Water  selling  up  to  40,  Contra  Costa 
Water  to  40. 

Giant  Powder  sold  up  to  66,  a  gain  of  two  points. 

Alaska  Packers  on  sales  of  140  shares  sold  off  five 
and  one  half  points  to  i42,'i,  closing  at  143  bid,  145 
asked. 

The  sugars  were  weaker,  about  450  shares  chang- 
ing hands  at  fractional  declines. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  on  sales  of  760 
shares  lias  about  held  its  own  in  price,  closing  at 
68  %  bid,  69  asked. 


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THE        ARGONAUT. 


373 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise 


"That  fellow,"  said  Alfred  Henry  Lewis, 
the  other  day,  when  a  certain  well-known 
Tammany  man  was  mentioned,  "  puts  up  a 
good  bluff,  but  there  is  nothing  to  him.  Open 
the  front  door  and  you  are  in  his  back  yard." 


Alexandre  Dumas's  good-natured  vanity 
was  so  undistinguished  that  his  famous  son 
once  said  of  him  in  his  presence:  "My 
father  is  so  vain  that  he  is  capable  of  stand- 
ing in  livery  behind  his  own  carriage  to  make 
people  think  he  sports  a  negro  footman." 

Maclyn  Arbuckle,  once  a  great  favorite 
here  with  the  Frawley  company,  recently  re- 
ceived a  mysterious  package  at  his  hotel  in 
Chicago.  It  was  about  a  pint  of  yellowish, 
scented  dust — evidently  a  toilet  preparation, 
and  for  a  week  Mr.  Arbuckle  used  it  after 
shaving  with  a  great  sense  of  relief.  He  had 
about  exhausted  the  supply  when  he  received 
a  letter  from  the  proprietor  calling  attention 
to  the  box,  and  saying :  "  Now  that  you  have 
had  a  chance  to  try  it  thoroughly  will  you 
favor  us  with  a  testimonial  for  our  Great 
Imperial  Breakfast  Food — sample  box  sent 
you  a  week  ago  ?" 

Commenting  on  his  first  meeting  with  James 
McNeill  Whistler,  Mark  Twain  is  reported  as 
saying :  "  I  was  introduced  to  Mr.  Whistler 
in  his  studio  in  London.  I  had  heard  that  the 
painter  was  an  incorrigible  joker,  and  I  was 
determined  to  get  the  better  of  him,  if  possible. 
So  at  once  I  put  on  my  most  hopelessly  stupid 
air,  and  I  drew  near  the  canvas  that  Mr. 
Whistler  was  completing.  '  That  aint  bad,'  I 
said ;  '  it  aint  bad,  only  here  in  this  corner  ' 
— and  I  made  as  if  to  rub  out  a  cloud  effect 
with  my  finger.  '  I'd  do  away  with  that  cloud 
if  I  was  you.'  Whistler  cried,  nervously : 
'  Gad,  sir,  be  careful  there.  Don't  you  see 
the  paint  is  not  dry?'  'Oh,  that  don't  mat- 
ter,' said  I;  'I've  got  my  gloves  on.'  We 
got  on  well  together  after  that." 


The  veteran  actor,  Joseph  Jefferson,  is  fond 
of  relating  this  story  of  an  election  in  Col- 
orado, where  the  women  vote  on  the  school 
question :  A  lady  came  to  the  place  of  regis- 
tration, one  morning,  to  qualify  herself  lor 
suffrage  at  the  coming  election.  "  With  what 
political  party  do  you  affiliate?''  asked  the 
clerk,  sonorously.  The  lady  blushed,  started, 
and  was  evidently  much  embarrassed.  "  Must 
I  answer?"  she  asked.  "  Yes,  madam,"  said 
the  clerk;  "you  must  answer  if  you  would 
vote."  "Well,"  she  replied;  "I  don't  think 
I'll  vote  then,  for  it  is  nobody's  business  what 
the  party's  name  is,  but  I  don't  mind  telling 
you  that  he  is  a  candidate  for  school  trustee, 
and  he  is  one  of  the  nicest  men  I  ever  met." 


Representative  Livernash,  of  California, 
who  sits  near  the  rear  of  the  House,  walked 
down  the  centre  aisle,  the  other  day,  on  a 
question  of  personal  privilege.  He  said  Cali- 
fornia wanted  to  call  the  attention  of  the 
sisterhood  of  States  to  the  fact  that  the 
President  in  dealing  with  the  Panama  situa- 
tion was  infringing  on  the  rights  of  the  House. 
Republican  Leader  Payne  made  a  point  of 
order.  Speaker  Cannon  told  Representative 
Livernash  that  he  should  present  his  complaint 
in  the  form  of  a  resolution,  and  that  it  then 
would  come  within  the  rules.  "  I  can  not  do 
that  until  I  read  this  statement,"  said  Repre- 
sentative Livernash,  waving  a  few  sheets  of 
manuscript,  "  If  the  gentleman  is  so  unfor- 
tunate as  to  be  unable  to  express  his  question 
of  privilege  in  a  resolution,  then  he  can  not 
come  within  the  rules  of  the  House,"  ob- 
served Speaker  Cannon,  mildly.  And  that  set- 
tled it. 


In  a  recent  number  of  Comhill  Magazine, 
Mrs.  Richmond  Ritchie  says  that  Miss  Horace 
Smith  told  her  father  a  story  on  which  she 
declared  Thackeray  based  the  opening  chapters 
of  "  Pendennis."  It  concerned  a  family  liv- 
ing in  Brighton,  somewhere  near  Kemp 
Town.  There  was  a  somewhat  autocratic 
father  and  a  romantic  young  son  who  had 
lost  his  heart  to  the  housemaid,  and  de- 
termined to  marry  her.  The  father  made 
the  young  man  give  his  word  of  honor  that 
he  would  not  marry  clandestinely,  and  then, 
having  dismissed  him,  rang  the  bell  for  the 
butler.  To  the  butler  this  Major  Pendennis 
said :  "  Morgan "  (or  whatever  his  name 
was),  "  I  wish  you  to  retire  from  my  service, 
but  I  will  give  you  two  hundred  pounds  in 
bank-notes     if    you    will    marry    the     house- 


maid before  twelve  o'clock  to-morrow."  The 
butler  said,  "  Certainly,  sir,"  and  the  young 
man  next  morning  was  told  of  the  event 
which  had  occurred.  Miss  Smith  adds  that  a 
melancholy  and  sensational  event  immediately 
followed ;  for  the  poor  young  fellow  was  so 
overwhelmed  that  he  rushed  out  and  dis- 
tractedly blew  his  brains  out  on  the  downs 
behind  the  house,  and  the  butler  meanwhile, 
having  changed  his  two  hundred,  pounds,  sent 
a  message  to  say  that  he  had  omrtted  to  men- 
tion that  he  had  a  wife  already,  and  that  this 
would  doubtless  invalidate  the  ceremony  he 
had  just  gone  through  with  the  house- 
maid. 

THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


Her  Annual  Fall  Cleaning. 
Maud    Muller    on    an    autumn    day 
Rak'd   all    the   fallen  leaves   away, 
(I'd   hate   to   tell    what  Maudie  said 
Next   morn    when    rising    from    her   bed. 
And  looking  from  her  window  found 
Another   layer  on  the  ground). 

—Philadelphia  Press. 

A  Simple  Evolution  Theory. 
I   do  believe   with   all  my  heart 
That  dogs  as  little  puppies  start. 
That   tiny  kittens  cats   will  make 
If   they   the   proper    method   take. 

That  eggs  change  into  cock  or  hen, 
And   baby-boys   turn   into   men. 
And  apes  now  swinging  on  the  trees 
Had  parent  apes   for  centuries. 

But  oh,  confusion  worse  confounded! 
This  theory  wise  men  have  sounded: 
That  dog  and  cat  and  cock  and  hen, 
And   little  apes  and  great  big  men, 

Were  all  one  time  mixed  up  together, 

And  knew  not  which  was  which,  nor  whether 

The  dog  would  be  a  crowing  hen, 

Or   man   an   ape,   or   apes   be   men. 

— Anna    Temple   Whitney  in   Independent. 


Our  Panama. 
Our  men-of-war  patrol  your  shore,  Panama; 
You   needn't   worry    any   more,    Panama; 
Though   others   long   to  spill    your   gore, 
Make    faces    at    them — let    them    roar; 
But  don't  you  care,  your  trouble's  o'er, 
Panama,  our  Panama. 

Hark    to    Colombia's    angry   shriek,    Panama! 
It  echoes  forth  from  peak  to  peak,  Panama — 
Hut  there's  an   eagle   with  a  beak — 
He  once  was  rather  mild  and  meek. 
This  eagle  bird  of  which   we  speak, 
Panama,  our  Panama. 

He's  got  his  eye  on   you  to-day,    Panama — 
He  aint  a-shriekin',   but  he  may,    Panama — 
He's  given   up   the   modest   way, 
He's    soarin'    rather    proud    and    gay — 
Fling   out   your    flag — hip,    hip,    hooray! 
Panama,  our  Panama. 

We'll     dig    the     ditch     and    charge     the    toll, 

Panama; 
We'll  have  it  under  our  control,   Panama — 
You've  got   Colombia   in   a   hole — 
The  joke's   on    her — fill   up   the   bowl — 
Here's  to  you,  bless  your  little  soul! 
Panama,   our  Panama. 

So    don't    you    worry,    don't    your    care,    Pan- 
ama; 
Let  others  touch  you  if  they  dare,  Panama; 
For    you    the    future    stretches    fair — 
But  if  you  should  go  in   the  air — 
Well,   don't  you   worry,   we'll   be   there, 
Panama,   our   Panama. 

— Chicago     Record-Heraid. 


'Tis  Folly  to  Be  Wise. 
'"  Jevver    see    Max    Elliott    in    '  The    On'y 

Way '  ?" 

"No,  I  never  seen  him.     Did  you?" 

"  No.     I  wuz  goin'  to,  but  Jim  he  took  me 

to  a  dance  instead.     They  played  the  grandest 

two-step.       It    was      '  Annie      Ona.'       Jevver 

hear  it?" 

"  No,   but  I   heard   '  High   Water.'  " 

"  '  Annie  Ona's '  a  companion  to  that.    The 

same  man  wrote  'em  both." 

"  Atween    theatre   and    dancin'    I    could   jis' 

go  crazy." 

"  I    don'    know    why    they    ever    called    that 

play  'East  Linny  '  for,  d'you?" 

"Aint  that  jis'  a  gran'  play?  I  seen  it  three 

times,  an'  ev'ry  time  I  'most  bellered  my  eyes 

out." 

"  I   used  to   like   James   K.    Hatchet   till   he 

got  married  to  May  Manning." 

"  I     did,     too.       But     aint     his     inishinals 

J.  J-?" 

"  Oh,   you're  thinkin'   of   Corbin,   the  prize- 
fighter— James  J.  Corbin." 

"Oh,  yes.     Jevver  see  E.  H.  Northern?" 

"What  'd  he  play?     I   don't  remember." 

"  'In  the  King's  Palace,'  wasn't  it?" 

"  Oh,  no.     Violet  Allen  played  that." 

"  Oh,  yes,   of   course   she   did.      D'you   read 

much  ?" 


"  Oh,  quite  a  bit.  I  read  '  Mrs.  Wiggins 
in  Her  Cabbage  Patch.'  " 

"  Jevver  read  the  equal — '  Lovely  Mary  '  ?" 

"No.     Is  it  out?     I  mus'  git  it." 

"  I'm   readin'  Libby  Jean  Laury's  last." 

"Aint  she  jis'  gran'?" 

"  Yes,  indeed.  I  finished  Mary  J.  Clay's 
'  English  Orphants  '  the  other  day.  It  was 
awful  sad." 

"  Jevver    read    '  Richard    Carver '  ?" 

"  Let's  see — did  the  same  woman  write  that 
that  wrote  '  Dora  Haddon  from  Vernon 
Hall'?" 

"  I  don't  know.  But  I  think  so.  I  never 
bother  'bout  who  writes  the  books.  It's  so 
significant." 

"  It  is  so.  Jevver  see  Nat  Elliott  and 
Maxon  Goodwin  in  '  Our  Twenty-First  Birth- 
day '  ?" 

"  No,  but  I  seen  Annie  Hobbs  in  '  Mis: 
Russell.'  An'  when  it  comes  to  N'York  I'm 
goin"  to  see  '  The  Fading  Light.'  That's  from 
a  book  by  Barnard  Kipling.  Jevver  read  his 
pome,    'The    Hag'?" 

"Is   that   the   one   about   the — the   switch?" 

"The   what?" 

"  The  switch.  Don't  it  begin,  '  A  rag,  a 
bone,  an'  a  switch  '  ?" 

"  No,  not  a  switch.  '  It's  on'y  a  rag,  a  bone 
an'  a  bunch  o'  hair — don't  you  rimember  how 
it  goes?" 

"  I  thought  it  wuz  somethin'  like  that.  Oh, 
there  goes  Hortense.  I  want  to  see  her  about 
somethin'.     Goo'-by." 

"  Goo'-by." — Albert  J.  Klinck  in  Life. 


Infants  Thrive 

on  cow's  milk  that  is  not  subject  to  any  change  of 
composition.  Borden's  Eagle  Brand  Condensed 
Milk  is  always  the  same  in  all  climates  and  at  all 
seasons.  As  a  general  household  milk  it  is  superior 
and  is  always  available. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  GHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brazilian 
Streets,  at  1  F.  MC-,  for 
Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Tuesday.  Dec.  22 

Coptic Friday,  Jan.   15,    1904 

Gaelic Wednesday,  Feb.  10,  1904 

Doric  (Calling  at  Manila). Saturday,  31  ch  5,  1904 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS.  General  Manager. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 


NEW   YORK-SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

PhPd'lphia  Dec.  5,  9-3«am  I  New  York.. Dec.  19,9.30am 

St.  Louis . .  Dec.  1 2,  9.30  am  |  St.  Paul  .  ...Dec.  26. 9.30  am 

Philadelphia—  Oueenstown  —  Liverpool. 

Noordland..  ..Decs.gam  I  Marion Dec. 26, 2.30pm 

Friesland.  .Dec.  12,3.30pm  |  West 'niland.... Jan.  2,9am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Mesaba Dec.  5,9  am  I  Menominee  ..  Dec.  19,9  am 

Min'et'nka  .  .Dec.  12,  noon  |  Min'apolis  .  .Dec.  26,  10  am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

Montreal  -Liverpool  —  Short  sea  passage. 

Cambroman Dec.  5  I  Canada Jan.  2 

Cambroman Dec.  19  I  Dominion Jan.  23 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 

Finland Dec.  5  j  Kronland Dec.  19 

Vaderland Dec.  12  [  Zeeland Dec.  26 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORE— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Cedric Dec.  2,  2.30  pm  I  Teutonic Dec.  23,110011 

Arabic Dec.  9, 9.30  am  I  Cedric Dec.  30,  1  pm 

Oceanic Dec.  16,  4  pm  |  Majestic Jan.  6,  noon 

Boston— Queens  town  — Liverpool. 

Cretic  Dec.  10.  Jan.  14,  Feb.  n 

Cymric Dec.  24,  Jan.  28.  Feb.  25 

Boston    Mediterranean    Direct 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Romanic   Dec.  5,  Jan.  16,  Feb.  27 

Republic  (new)   Jan.  2,  Feb.  13.  Mar.  26 

Canopic Jan.  30,  Mar   12 

C.  D.  TAYLOlt.    passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 


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TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

{ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Hongkong  Maru Thursday,  December  3 

Nippon  Maru Wednesday,  December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 

America  Maru Monday,  January  25,  1004 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.   H.  AVERT,  General  Agent. 


OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,  Nov.  28,  1903, 

at  11  a.  m. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  Dec.  1,  1903,  at  11  a.  m. 

S.  S.  Ventura,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Dec.  10,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

J.  D.  Spreckela  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


MarQuette 
Whiskey 


Marquette    leads    in    quality   and    purity. 

There  is  no  other  whiskey  in  its  high  class. 

There  are  no  doubt  many  good  whiskies, 
but  their  goodness  is  not  sufficient  for  Marquette.  It 
is  absolutely  the  purest  of  whiskies. 

GROMMES  &  ULLRICH,  Distillers,  Chicago. 

W.  J.  KEARNEY,  Representative, 
400  Battery  Street,  San  Francisco.        Telephone  Main  536. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


November  30,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 
A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the    past    week,    concerning    San    Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department : 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of 
Miss  Lena  Hollida  Sefton,  daughter  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Sefton.  and  Mr.  Franklin  Web- 
ster Wakefield.  The  wedding  is  to  take  place 
on  December  29th  at  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  San  Diego. 

Cards  have  been  received  announcing  the 
marriage  of  Miss  Alice  Beach  McComas. 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Carroll  Mc- 
Comas, formerly  of  this  city,  to  Mr.  Charles 
P.  Gray,  which  took  place  Thursday,  Novem- 
ber 12th,  in  New  York.  After  December  1st 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gray  will  be  at  home  at  681 
Degraw  Street.  Brooklyn. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Caroline  Ayres,  daugh- 
ter of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grosvenor  P.  Ayres,  and 
Mr.  Dennis  Searles  will  take  place  at  the 
home  of  Miss  Ayres's  parents,  2127  California 
Street,  on  the  evening  of  January  6th  at  nine 
o'clock. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Juliet  Wilbur  Tomp- 
kins and  Mr.  Emery  Pottle  took  place  in  Grace 
Church.  New  York,  last  Saturday.  The  cere- 
mony was  performed  by  Rev.  Dr.  Huntington, 
only  a  few  intimate  friends  being  present. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pottle  will  go  to  Virginia  on 
their  wedding  journey,  and  upon  their  return 
to  New  York  will  reside  at  418  West  Twen- 
tieth Street. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Grace  Garoutte,  daugh- 
ter of  Judge  and  Mrs.  C.  H.  Garoutte,  and  Mr. 
Richard  H.  Hovey,  son  of  Mr.  Chester  L. 
Hovey.  took  place  last  Saturday  afternoon  at 
the  Unitarian  Church  in  Berkeley.  The  cere- 
mony was  performed  at  three  o'clock  by  Rev. 
Dr.  White.  Miss  Amy  Garoutte  was  her  sis- 
ter's maid  of  honor,  Miss  Paula  Wolff  and 
Miss  Rachel  Hovey  were  the  bridesmaids. 
Mr.  Charles  Suydam  was  the  best  man,  and 
Mr.  Rudolph  Bertheau  and  Mr.  Chester  Has- 
kell acted  as  ushers.  The  church  ceremony 
was  followed  by  a  reception  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  parents,  and,  later  in  the  day,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hovey  departed  on  their  wedding 
journey.  They  will  reside  in  San  Francisco 
on  their  return. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Elsie  Beatrice  Bennet, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Charles  A.  Bennet,  of  Oak- 
land, and  Mr.  William  Lynham  Shiels  took 
place  on  Monday  at  the  Church  of  the  Advent, 
East  Oakland.  The  ceremony  was  performed 
by  the  Rev.  William  Carson  Shaw,  and  only 
immediate  relatives  were  present.  After  the 
ceremony,  Mr.  Shiels  and  his  bride  departed  for 
"  Petit  Trianon,"  the  country  place  of  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  George  Franklin  Shiels  at  San  Mateo. 
Upon  their  return,  in  a  fortnight,  they  will  re- 
side at  1318  Jackson  Street,  Oakland,  where 
Mr.  Shiels  has  leased  a  house. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Mary  Harrington, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  P.  Harring- 
ton, and  Lieutenant-Commander  Albert  P. 
Niblack,  U.  S.  N.,  took  place  at  the  home  of 
the  bride's  parents  on  California  Street  on 
Tuesday  afternoon  at  three  o'clock.  Owing 
to  the  serious  illness  of  the  bride's  father,  the 
wedding  invitations  were  recalled,  and  only  a 
few  intimate  friends  and  relatives  attended 
the  wedding.  Commander  Niblack  returns  to 
Honolulu  to-day   (Saturday). 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Georgette  Champlain 
Smith,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiram 
Smith,  and  Mr.  Frederick  Palmer  took  place 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  on  Devisa- 
dero  Street  on  Wednesday.  The  ceremony 
was  performed  by  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson,  and  was 
witnessed  by  only  the  relatives  and  near 
friends  of  the  family.  Miss  Emily  Outhout, 
of  Fresno,  was  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Mr. 
Claude  Terry  Hamilton  acted  as  best  man. 
The  ceremony  was  followed  by  a  wedding 
breakfast.  Upon  their  return  from  their  wed- 
ding journey.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Palmer  will  re- 
side in  San  Francisco. 

The  first  dance  of  "  The  Assembly,"  form- 
erly known  as  La  Jeunesse,  took  place  in  the 
new  ball-room  of  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Wednes- 
day evening,  and  proved  a  brilliant  affair. 
The  guests  were  received  by  Mrs.  A.  H.  Voor- 
hies,  Mrs.  B.  H.  McCalla,  Mrs.  Eleanor  Mar- 
tin, and  Mrs.  W.  G.  Irwin.  Supper  was 
served  at  midnight  at  round  tables  in  the 
Maple  and  Marble  Halls,  and  later  dancing  was 
resumed  and  continued  till  a  late  hour.  Among 
the   debutantes    who    were   present    were    Miss 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absolutefv  Pure 
IE RE  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


Gertrude  Dutton,  Miss  Maylita  Pease,  Miss 
Ethel  Kent,  Miss  Elsie  Tallant,  Miss  Margaret 
Wilson,  Miss  Florence  Gibbons.  Miss  Newell 
Drown,  Miss  Christine  Pomeroy,  Miss  Lucy 
Coleman,  Miss  Alice  Sullivan.  Miss  Margaret 
Postlethwaite,  Miss  Livermore,  Miss  Dorothy 
Durstan,  Miss  Mattie  Milton,  Miss  Selfridge, 
and  Miss  Gertrude  Hyde-Smith.  The  assem- 
bly was  preceded  by  several  dinner-parties, 
notably  those  given  by  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin 
and  Mr.  and   Mrs.   George  D.  Toy. 

Mrs.  Grayson  Dutton  gave  a  luncheon  in 
honor  of  her  sister,  Mrs.  Charles  Kindleberger, 
and  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton  on  Monday.  Others 
at  table  were  Mrs.  Henry  Dutton,  Mrs.  Doug- 
las Watson,  Mrs.  John  Rodgers  Clark,  Mrs. 
George  Cameron,  Mrs.  Malcolm  Henry,  Mrs. 
Harry  Mendell,  Mrs.  Thomas  Benton  Dar- 
ragh,  Mrs.  Paul  Bancroft,  Mrs. George  Beards- 
ley.  Mrs.  Stafford  Parker,  Miss  Bernie  Drown, 
Miss  Leontine  Blakeman,  Miss  Katherine  Dil- 
lon, Miss  Patricia  Cosgrave,  Miss  Woods, 
Miss  Emily  Wilson,  Miss  Huntsman,  Miss 
Maye  Colburn,  Miss  Elizabeth  Cole,  Miss 
Charlotte  Ellinwood,  Miss  Gertrude  Van 
Wyck,  Miss  Ednah  Robinson,  and  Miss  Ar- 
della  Mills. 

Miss  Frances  McKinstry  gave  a  luncheon 
on  Wednesday  in  honor  of  Miss  Margaret 
Wilson  and  Miss  Gertrude  Hyde-Smith,  at 
which  she  entertained  Miss  Helen  Bowie,  the 
Misses  de  Guigne,  the  Misses  Parrott,  Miss 
Ada  Sullivan.  Miss  Alice  Sullivan,  Miss  Chris- 
tine Pomeroy,  Miss  Lucy  Gwin  Coleman,  Miss 
Margaret  Postlethwaite,  Miss  Helen  Chese- 
brough,  Miss  Elizabeth  Livermore,  and  Miss 
Elsie  Tallant. 

A  farewell  dinner  is  being  arranged  at  the 
Bohemian  Club  in  honor  of  Mr.  Orrin  Peck 
and  Mr.  Amadee  Joullin.  They  both  leave  San 
Francisco  soon.  Mr.  Joullin  goes  to  Paris, 
where  he  will  remain  for  quite  a  lengthy 
period.  Mr.  Peck  talks  of  revisiting  his  old 
haunts  at  Munich. 

Miss  Elsie  Tallant  made  her  debut  last 
Saturday  afternoon  at  a  tea  given  by  her 
mother,  Mrs.  John  Tallant,  and  her  aunt,  Mrs. 
F.  W.  Tallant,  the  hours  being  from  three 
until  seven  o'clock.  Those  who  assisted  in 
receiving  were  Mrs.  Chauncey  R.  Winslow, 
Mrs.  Austin  C.  Tubbs.  Mrs.  William  B.  Tubbs, 
Mrs.  H.  Alston  Williams,  Mrs.  George  Lent, 
Mrs.  RyJand  Wallace,  Mrs.  Frederick  Beaver, 
Mrs.  Wakefield  Baker.  Mrs.  Edward  Pond, 
Mrs.  T.  Danforth  Boardman.  Mrs.  George 
Hellman,  Mrs.  Silas  Palmer,  Miss  Ethel  Lin- 
coln, Miss  Suzanne  Blanding,  Miss  Gertrude 
Hyde-Smith,  Miss  Ruth  Allen,  Miss  Elizabeth 
Allen.  Miss  Margaret  Wilson,  and  Miss  Pearl 
Landers. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Stetson  have  sent  out 
cards  for  a  tea  to  be  given  at  their  residence 
on  Van   Ness  Avenue  on   Tuesday. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Cutler  Bigelow  will 
open  their  new  residence  on  Jackson  Street 
and  Central  Avenue  with  a  tea  on  Saturday 
afternoon. 

Mrs.  Charles  D.  Farquharson  gave  a  euchre- 
party  at  her  residence  on  Jackson  Street  on 
Monday,  when  she  entertained  Mrs.  Douglas 
W'atson,  Mrs.  Frederick  Beaver,  Mrs.  Henry 
Crocker,  Mrs.  William  Thomas,  Mrs.  Freder- 
ick Kimball,  Mrs.  George  Boardman.  Mrs. 
Hilda  Baxter,  Mrs.  George  Sperry,  Mrs.  H. 
Alston  Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  Welch,  Mrs. 
Middleton,  Mrs.  Willard  Wayman,  Mrs. 
Gerstle,  Mrs.  Adam  Grant,  Mrs.  Frederick 
Lake,  Mrs.  Daniel  Drysdale,  Mrs.  Cary  Fried- 
lander,  Mrs.  Eugene  Lent,  Mrs.  Frank  Bates. 
Mrs.  Henry  Clarence  Breeden,  Mrs.  Edward 
Pond,  and  Miss  Bolton. 

Mrs.  J.  Lowenberg  gave  an  entertainment 
last  Friday  afternoon  at  her  home,  1950  Cali- 
fornia Street.  The  programme  consisted  of 
a  talk  by  Mrs.  Lou  V.  Chapin  and  violin  selec- 
tions by   Mr.   Natorp   Blumenfeld. 

The  Pacific  Union  Club,  as  has  been  its 
custom  for  many  years,  entertained  its  mem- 
bers at  luncheon  on  Thanksgiving  Day. 


Death  of  Julian  Rix. 
Julian  Rix,  the  well-known  artist,  died  last 
week  in  New  York  City  as  the  result  of  an 
operation  for  kidney  trouble.  He  was  fifty- 
three  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
Julian  Rix  was  one  of  the  prominent  members 
of  the  Bohemian  Club,  and  an  associate  of  Joe 
Strong  and  Jules  Tavernier.  He  was  a  pupil 
of  the  latter.  Rix  showed  great  talent  as  a 
landscape  artist,  but.  as  is  often  the  case  in 
San  Francisco,  met  with  inadequate  recogni- 
tion here.  Therefore,  as  long  ago  as  1882,  he 
left  San  Francisco.  He  was  one  of  three 
guests  at  a  famous  dinner  still  remembered 
in  the  Bohemian  Club,  the  honored  Bohe- 
mians being  himself,  Mr.  Charles  Dungan, 
and  Mr.  Fred  Somers,  then  one  of  the  editors 
of  the  Argonaut,  and  now  dead  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  Rix  made  a  great  success  in 
New  York  City,  and  was  one  of  the  most 
prosperous  of  the  California  artists  there. 
He  never  married,  but  is  survived  by  three 
brothers,  all   living  in   this  city. 


In  a  trip  up  Mt.  Tamalnais  is  afforded  a 
pleasant  day's  outing,  full  of  enjoyment  and 
devoid  of  tedium,  for  there  is  an  ever-changing 
panorama  presented  as  you  make  the  ascent 
on  the  Scenic  Railway.  The  accommoda- 
tions at  the  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  for  remain- 
ing over  night  are  excellent. 

Applied   Art   Works. 

We  find  among  the  beautiful  Christmns  go-  d.s  at 
G'Har.i  \  I.ivermore's  a  decided  novelty  in  the  use 
ol  |mmi'"i  k  r\.-s,  inset  as  ;i  p.iri  uf  [lie  decoration  ol 
their  charming  desk  sets,  book  covers,  and  p«'it 
folios.  This  gives  an  unusu.d  .ind  sinking  effect 
that  in  the  greens  and  blues  is  very  pleasing  Ann_ng 
the  endl  ss  number  of  other  artistic  and  useful 
articles  this  firm  is  famous  for  making,  there  are 
some  most  el  ■  borate  and  beautiful  pieces  of  work 
in  leather  and  the  old  Chines-  embroideries  com- 
bined, in  bags,  boxes,  frames,  books,  and  photo- 
gr.iph  eases.  These,  and  a  1  <rge  variety  of  other 
articles  f.tr  ornament  and  use.  espe  ially  suitable  for 
holiday  gifts  for  bachelors,  may  he  found  at  O'Hara 
&  l.iveiuiore's.  354  Sutter  Street. 


The  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission. 
On  Tuesday,  the  Argonaut  received  through 
the  mail  a  fifty-dollar  note,  the  annual  Thanks- 
giving offering  of  M.  R.  and  M.  F.  to  the 
Fruit  and  Flower  Mission,  with  this  modest 
little  note : 

San  Francisco,  November  23,  1903. 
Editors  Argonaut  :  The  inclosed  fifty  dol- 
lars, together  with  best  wishes  for  a  bountiful 
Thanksgiving  Day,  the  undersigned  would 
thank  you  t6  receive  in  behalf  of  the  San 
Francisco  Fruit  and  Flower  Mission. 

Respectfully,  M.  R.-M.  F. 

The  money  was  at  once  forwarded  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  Mission,  who  in  acknowledg- 
ing its  receipt,  inclosed  a  note  of  thanks  to 
the  generous  donor.  Inasmuch  as  we  still 
have  no  idea  of  the  identity  or  address  of 
"  M.R.-M.F.,"  our  only  means  of  delivering 
the  message  is  by  printing  it,  which  we  do 
herewith  : 

San  Francisco,  November  25,  1903. 

To  Our  Friend  and  Benefactor,  M.  R.- 
M.  F. :  The  Thanksgiving  season  is  at  hand 
again,  and  it  is  with  feelings  of  deepest  grati- 
tude and  appreciation  that  we  have  to  ac- 
knowledge through  the  columns  of  the  Argo- 
naut, the  receipt  of  our  usual  donation  from 
M.  R.-M.  F. 

Our  anonymous  friend — or  friends — has 
certainly  given  us  repeated  assurance  of  the 
deep  interest  manifested  in  the  work  of  our 
association ;  and  the  generous  donation,  so 
modestly  sent,  enables  the  San  Francisco 
Fruit  and  Flower  Mission  to  make  many  of 
the  sick  poor  happy  and  comfortable  at  this 
Thanksgiving  time. 

On  behalf  of  the  association  it  is  my  privi- 
lege to  extend  to  our  friends  our  heartfelt 
thanks.  Very  sincerely  yours, 

Edna  R.   Bauer.  Treasurer. 


St.  Luke's  Twenty-Minute  Society. 

The  annual  reception  and  sale  of  St.  Luke's 
Twenty-Minute  Society  will  be  held  in  the 
parish  rooms  of  the  church  on  Wednesday 
afternoon  and  evening.  The  high  standard 
of  this  annual  bazaar  is  well  known,  and  it 
has  been  the  aim  and  desire  of  the  president, 
Mrs.  Philip  Caduc,  notwithstanding  almost 
overwhelming  odds,  to  make  it  even  more 
attractive  than  in-  past  years.  In  this  she  has 
been  aided  by  many  faithful  and  earnest 
workers.  Many  interesting  features  will  be 
added.  There  will  be  good  music  under  the 
direction  of  Mr.  Wallace  A.  Sabin,  choir- 
master of  St.  Luke's.  There  will  be  the  usual 
tables,  presided  over  by  Mrs.  Brownell,  Mrs. 
J.  D.  Ruggles,  Mrs.  J.  Goddard  Clark,  Mrs.  E. 
A.  Belcher,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Pell,  Miss  Sarah  D. 
Hamlin,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Gibbs,  Mrs.  John  Gray, 
and  Mrs.  Sidney  Worth. 

The  reception  committee  is  composed  of 
Mrs.  Henry  T.  Scott,  Mrs.  Sidney  M.  Smith, 
Mrs.  Sidney  Van  Wyck,  Mrs.  Marshall  Hale, 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Clifford,  Mrs.  James  Carolan,  Mrs. 
H.  C.  Davis,  Mrs.  Henry  L.  Davis,  Mrs.  A.  S. 
Rodgers,  Mrs.  R.  J.  Anderson,  Mrs.  Brownell, 
Mrs.  A.  Weihe,  Miss  Gibbs,  Miss  Morrison, 
Miss  Pease,  Miss  Middleton,  Miss  Carolan, 
Miss  .Gertrude  Dutton,  Miss  Sullivan,  Miss 
Davis,  Miss  Van  Sicklen,  Miss  Allen,  and  Miss 
Ruth  Anderson. 


E.  F.  Gerald,  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Pacific-Union  Club,  died  last  week  at  his 
home  in  Alameda,  after  a  brief  illness  of  four 
days  from  pneumonia.  Mr.  Gerald  was  for 
many  years  freight  auditor  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Company,  retiring  with  the  change 
in  ownership  not  long  ago.  He  was  a  man  of 
the  most  genial  and  kindly  disposition,  and  his 
loss  is  keenly  felt  by  his  friends. 


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the   most  select   trade.      Latest  society   note-paper  '■, 
and   holiday  papelries   now  on  display.      Schussler 
Bros.,  119  Geary  Street. 


—  Coachman  wants  a  pi  ace.  Not  used  to 
the  city  ;  country  preferred  Good  driver  ;  used  to 
handling  horses  and  cows.  Does  not  drink;  highest 
references  given.     Address  Fox  173  Argonaut  office. 


The  Ladies'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  of  the 
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The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  ior  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  oi  over  a  H 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the  H 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs,  I 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

.THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES"  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
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City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


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The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  wfll 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

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Open  all  the  year.  Unexcelled  summer  and  spring 
climate.  Luxurious  mineral  and  mud  baths,  and  the 
most  curative  waters  known  for  rheumatism,  gout, 
sciatica,  liver  and  kidney,  and  nervous  troubles,  also 
malaria. 

Hotel  unique  in  cuisine,  service,  and  appointments. 
Rates  reasonable.      Very  superior  accommodations. 

Reached  by  Southern  Pacific,  two  and  one-half 
hours  from  San  Francisco.  Three  trains  daily  at 
8.30  A.  M.,  10  a.  M.,  and  3.30  p.  M. 

For  particulars  apply  to  Peck's  Information  Bu- 
reau, 11  Montgomery  Street,  or 

H.  Rm  WARNER,  Manager, 

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Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  °  four  trains   daily  each 

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Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians : 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  D.  Grant  were  among 
the  guests  at  a  large  house-party  last  week  at 
"  Ophir  Farm,"  the  country  place  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Whitelaw  Reid,  on  the  Hudson,  near  New 
York  City. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  John  Hemphill,  who  expect  to 
leave  tor  Australia  early  in  the  year,  will  give 
up  their  handsome  house  on  Broadway  for 
four  months. 

Mrs.  Horace  B.  Chase  was  in  town  for  a 
few  days  during  the  week. 

Mr.  J.  Downey  Harvey  and  Mr.  Walter  S. 
Martin  have  returned  from  a  brief  trip  to  Los 
Angeles. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  Dean  and  Miss  Helen 
Dean  departed  on  Monday  for  New  York, 
where  they  expect  to  spend  the  winter  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Flood  have  returned 
from  their  extended  sojourn  in  Europe  and 
the  East. 

Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway  has  been  in 
Southern  California  during  the  week. 

Mr.  H.  M.  D.  Spencer  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  George  A.  Crux,  since  the  sudden 
death  of  her  mother,  has  been  residing  in 
San  Jose  with  her  father,  Dr.  P.  M.  Lusson, 
at  the  corner  of  Second  and  San  Fernando 
Streets. 

Mrs.  George  Howard,  of  San  Mateo,  has  re- 
turned from  abroad  and  taken  Mr.  Charles 
Bier's  house  at  1827  Clay  Street  for  the  win- 
ter months. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Grant  Selfridge,  who  have 
been  at  Santa  Barbara  the  past  few  weeks, 
will  spend  the  winter  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Newhall  have  returned 
from  their  European  trip,  and  are  at  the 
Palace  Hotel. 

Mrs.  Oscar  Long  arrived  from  Washington, 

D.  C,  last  week,  and  will  spend  the  winter 
at  Piedmont  during  the  absence  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Isaac  L.  Requa  in  the  Hawaiian  Islands. 

Mrs.  D.  D.  Colton  and  Mrs.  Martin  arrived 
last  week  from  Washington,  D.  C.  They  will 
spend  the  winter  here  and  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  State. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Howard,  who  have 
spent  the  greater  part  of  the  past  two  years 
in  Paris,  have  returned  to  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  J.  Shotwell  left  for 
the  East  and  New  Orleans  on  Wednesday. 
They  expect  to  return  about  January  10th. 

Mrs.  Horace  Hill  returned  last  week  from 
the  East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Hecht  were  in  New- 
York  during  the  week. 

Judge  W.  W.  Morrow  will  depart  for  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  on  December  1st  to  attend  a 
meeting  of  the  trustees  of  the  Carnegie  Insti- 
tute. 

Mrs.  Charles  Lyman  Bent  spent  several  days 
in  town  this  week. 

Mrs.  Alfred  Yoorhies  has  returned  from 
her  trip  to  Charleston  and  Baltimore,  where 
she  visited  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Guy  Scott. 

Mrs.  Hugh  Tevis  is  spending  the  winter  in 
New  York  at  the  Waldorf-Astoria. 

Among  the  arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Rafael 
during  the  past  week  were  the  folowing : 
Miss  Elma  Hinton,  of  Galveston,  Mr.  John 
U.  Hoboch,  of  Philadelphia,  Mr.  N.  H.  Win- 
chell,  of  Minneapolis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mendell 
Welcker,  of  Berkeley,  Mrs.  C.  O.  Swanberg. 
Mr.  James  A.  Snook,   Mr.  B.  G.  Mantel,   Mr. 

E.  J.  Benedict,  Mr.  Edward  C.  Landes,  Mr. 
Milton  R.  Hall,  Mr.  R.  H.  Wells,  Mr.  J.  M. 
Gleaves,  Mr.  W.  G.  Anderson,  Mr.  W.  V. 
Bryan,  Mr.  W.  K.  Fletcher,  Mr.  Joseph 
Thompson,  Mr.  Ray  White,  Mr.  R.  H.  Hunt, 
Mr.  Julian  Eisenbach,  and  Mr.  F.  G.  Olsen. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended : 

The  Senate  on  November  23d  confirmed  the 
following  nominations  as  brigadier-generals 
in  the  army:  Jared  A.  Smith,  Jacob  B.  Rawies, 
Stephen  W.  Groesbeck,  John  R.  Myrick,  Louis 
H.  Rucker,  Theodore  A.  Baldwin,  William 
P.  Rogers,  Peter  C.  Hains,  John  H.  Page, 
Charles  A.  Woodruff,  William  L.  Haskin, 
Charles  W.  Miner,  James  M.  J.  Sannow, 
Charles  W.  Robe,  James  W.  Reilly,  Edwin  B. 
Atwood,  Frank  G.  Smith,  George  B.  Rodney, 
Almond  B.  Wells,  Peter  J.  A.  Cleary,  and 
John  B.  Babcock. 

Colonel  Alfred  G.  Girard,  Medical  Depart- 
ment, U.  S.  A.,  will  return  early  in  the  new 
year  from  the  Philippines,  where  he  will  be 
succeeded  as  chief  surgeon  by  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Henry  S.  Kilburne,  U.  S.  A.,  who 
sails  for  his  new  station  on  December   1st. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  George  H.  Torney  is 
the  new  chief  surgeon  on  the  staff  of  General 
Arthur  MacArthur  at  army  headquarters. 

Major  George  \Y.  Ruthers,  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  detailed  as  chief  commissary  of  the 
Department  of  the  California,  relieving  Major 
Charles  R.  Krauthoff,  U.  S.  A.,  who  will  now 
be  able  to  devote  his  entire  attention  to  the 
duties  of  depot  commissary. 

Captain  Henry  A.  Webber,  assistant-sur- 
geon, U.  S.  A.,  has  been  relieved  from  fur- 
ther duty  in  the  Philippines  and  ordered  to 
Fort  Walla  Walla. 

Lieutenant  Herbert  G.  Shaw,  assistant-sur- 
geon, U.  S.  A.,  has  been  relieved  from  duty 
at  Fort  Miley,  and  ordered  to  the  Philippines. 
He  will  sail  for  Manila  about  January  1st. 


MUSICAL     NOTES. 


San  Francisco  Shopping. 

Prompt  personal  attention  given  to  mail  orders  of 
every  description.  Coristmas  shopping  a  specialty. 
Send  for  circular  and  references.  Mrs.  L.  M.  Laws, 
ri6  Stockton  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


A..    Hirschman, 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  iewelry. 


Concert  at  the  Art  Institute. 
At  the  promenade  concert  given  at  the  Hop- 
kins Institute  of  Art  on  Wednesday  evening 
under  the  direction  of  Henry  Heyman,  the 
soloists  were  Miss  Beulah  George,  soprano : 
Miss  Madeline  Todd,  violinist ;  F.  Dudley 
Moss,  baritone;  Miss  Elizabeth  Howard,  ac- 
companist for  Miss  Todd ;  Miss  Daisy  B. 
Jacobs,  accompanist  for  Mr.  Moss  :  and  Otto 
Fleissner,  organist.  Following  was  the  pro- 
gramme : 

Organ,  "  Allegro  Maestoso."  Mendelssohn. 
Otto  Fleissner ;  song,  "  A  Flower's  Sorrow." 
Coverly,  F.  Dudley  Moss ;  violin.  "  Andante 
Cantabile,"  Sgambati,  Miss  Madeline  Todd ; 
aria  from  "  Carmen."  "  Qui  Dei  Contra- 
bandier,"  Bizet,  Miss  Beulah  George;  organ, 
"  Invocation,"  Capocci,  Otto  Fleissner ;  song. 
"  Until  You  Came,"  John  W.  Me  teal  f,  F. 
Dudley  Moss;  violin.  "  Romanze."  Wilhelmj, 
Miss  Madeline  Todd;  song,  "  Summer," 
Chaminade,  Miss  Beulah  George;  organ, 
"  Marche    Militaire."    Barnes,    Otto    Fleissner. 

The  next  and  last  concert  of  this  series  will 
take  place  on  Thursday  evening,  when  the  fall 
art  exhibition  comes  to  a  close. 

Cecil  Cowles's  Concert. 

Cecil  Cowles,  a  precocious  pianist  of  nine 
years  of  age,  and  one  of  Hugo  Mansfeldt's 
most  brilliant  pupils,  will  give  a  recital  at 
Steinway  Hall  on  Thursday  evening,  when 
she  will  offer  the  following  programme,  which 
includes  two  of  her  own  compositions : 

Fantasie,  D-minor,  Mozart ;  fantasie,  E- 
minor,  Cecil  Cowles ;  impromptu,  Cecil 
Cowles ;  fuge,  op.  5,  No.  3,  Rheinberger ; 
Arabeske,  op.  iS,  Schumann ;  Vogel  als 
Prophet,  op.  S2,  No.  7,  Schumann ;  Papillons, 
op.  2,  Schumann;  Romance  pathetique,  No.  1, 
E-major,  Floersheim ;  "  Fruehlingsrauschen," 
op.  32,  No.  3,  Sinding;  Intermezzo,  op.  no, 
No.  1,  Brahms ;  waltz,  E-minor,  posthumous. 
Chopin ;  etude,  op.  25,  No.  2,  Chopin ; 
Humoreske,  op.  101,  No.  7,  Dvorak;  Humor- 
eske,  op.  101,  No.   1,  Dvorak. 


Miss  Ingeborg  Resch- Petersen,  a  Swedish 
singer,  who  has  appeared  with  such  famous 
artists  as  Gade,  Sinding,  and  Grieg,  is  visit- 
ing this  city,  and  has  issued  invitations  for  an 
afternoon  of  music  at  Lyric  Hall,  on  next  Sat- 
urday. Miss  Petersen's  programme  is  very 
interesting,  as  she  makes  a  specialty  of  the 
charming  folk-songs  of  Scandinavia.  Miss 
Ramus,  a  talented  violinist,  whose  brother,  Dr. 
Ramus,  is  at  the  United  States  Marine  Hos- 
pital here,  will  assist,  and  Fred  Mauer  will  be 
at  the  piano. 

With  eight  additional  musicians  just  ar- 
rived from  Europe,  Ellery's  Royal  Italian 
Band  will  begin  a  return  engagement  at  the 
Alhambra  Theatre  on  Sunday  night,  December 
6th.  The  repertoire  of  the  band  will  embrace 
a  great  variety  of  music,  and  some  fine  special 
nights  are  being  arranged.  The  opening  night 
will  be  devoted  mainly  to  compositions  of  the 
modern  Italian  composers,  a  magnificent  selec- 
tion from  Puccini's  "  La  Tosca  "  being  one  of 
the   features. 

Mrs.  Arristine  Schultz  will  give  a  song  re- 
cital on  Thursday  afternoon  at  Century  Hall, 
at  half  after  two  o'clock.  She  will  be  assisted 
by  Arthur  Weiss,  'cellist,  and  Gyula  Ormy, 
pianist.  A  very  interesting  programme  will 
be  given.  Among  other  numbers,  Mrs.  Schultz 
will  sing  two  new  songs  by   Shafter-Howard. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co..  746  Market  Street. 


Genuine  Works  of  Art. 
One  of  the  principal  attractions  of  the  cilv.  is  the 
Gump  collection  of  fine  oil  paintings,  embracing  a 
number  of  canvases  from  this  year's  Paris  Salon,  and 
from  all  the  different  art  centres  of  Europe,  also  a 
very  choice  selection  of  beautiful  water  colors.  S.  & 
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SOUTHERN   PACIFIC 

Trains  leave  and  ait*  <l  in-  lu  arrive  at 
>AN     1  KANC1SCO. 

(Main  Line.  Foot  ol   Mitrket   Street  ) 

Lbavk     ~    Fkmm  NOVJJM  11  k  1:  'Si,  IW3.     —      ARRIVE 

7.00a   VHcavllle.  Winters.  Tcutnsey 7.55P 

7.00*  Benlcla,  Sulsun.  Klnilrnand  Sacra- 
mento          7.25p 

7.30 a  Vallejo.    Napa.     Cnlistngu,    Santa 

Kosa.   Martinez,  Sun  Kmnun B25p 

7^0*  Nllea,  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Latbrop. 

Stock-on 725p 

8-OCm  Shasta  Express—  (Via  Davis). 
Williams  (for  Bartlett  Spring's), 
Willows  rFruto,  Red  Bluff, 
Portland,  Tacooia,  Seattle 7.65c 

B.OOa    Davis.  Woodland.  Knlsrhts  Landing, 

ilarysvlile,  Orovilie 7-55p 

8-30-  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Antloch, 
Byron,  Tracy.  Stockton.  New- 
man. Los  Banos.  Mendotn, 
Armona,  Hanfunl  V  I  sal  la, 
Portervllle 4.25p 

B-W*  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Tracy.  Latb- 
rop.  Hode&to,  Mi- reed,  Fresno. 
Goshen  Junction.  H  an  ford. 
Vl9alla..Bakersileld  4  S5p 

8.30*  Nlles,  San  .lur-e,  Llvermore.  Stock 
tbn, (tM lit' tn),  l.ui'\  Siicriimento, 
PlacerMlle  Murysville.  Cblco, 
Red  Bluff 425e 

8.30a  Oakdale.  Chinese,  Jamestown,  So- 

nor*.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4-25> 

900*   Atlantic  Express— Ogden and Baac.  11.25* 

9.30a  Blehinond,    Martinez     and     Way 

Stations 655p 

10.00<  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden, 

Denver.  Omalia.  Chicago 6.25p 

10.00a  Vallejo 12.25p 

10.00a  Los  Angeles  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa.  Martinez.  Byron.  Tracy, 
Latbrop.  Stockton,  Merced. 
Raymond,  Fresno.  Gosbcn  Junc- 
tion, llanford.  Lcmoore.  Vlsalia. 

Bakerefleld.  Los  Angeles 7-25p 

12-OOw  Hay  ward,  Nlleaand  Way  Stations       3.25p 
tl.OOr  Sacramenlo  River  Steamers U  1.00V 

3-30i*  Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento 
Woodland,  Knlgnts  Lauding, 
Marys  vllle.  Orovllle  and  way 
stations 10-55* 

3-30P  Hayward.NllesaDd  Way  Stations..      7-55p 

3.30 r  Fort  Costa,  Martinez.  Byron, 
Tracy,  Latbrop.  Modesto, 
Merced.  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 1225p 

3.30p  Martinez. Tracy,  Stockton.  Lodl...   10-25a 

4.00p   Martinez. Pun  lUmon.ValleJo.Napa. 

Callstogn.  Saiiui  Rosa 925* 

4.00p  Nlles.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl 4.25p 

4,30p  Hayward,   Nlles,   lrvlngton.  San  I     I8.55a 
J  use.  Llvermore 1  til, 55* 

5-OOp  The  Owl  Limited— Newm  >n.  Los 
Banos,  Mendota, Fresno.  Tulare. 
Bakerslield.  Los  Angeles 8-55* 

6-00i'  Port  Costa,  Tracy.  Stockton 12-25p 

t5-30r  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25a 

6-OOp   Hayward.  Nlles  and  Sau  Jose 9-55* 

6.00)'  Eastern  Express— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha.  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
Bast.  Port  Costa,  Beolcfa,  Sul- 
sun. Elmlra.  Davis,  Snerumcnto, 
Rocklln.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee.  Boca,  Keno,  Wads- 
worth.  Wlnncmucca 525f 

6.00r  Vallejo,  dally,  except  Sunday...    I      7  Ke„ 

7.00p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  °°y 

7.00i    Richmond,  ^an  Paolo.  Port  CoBta. 

Martinez  and  Way  StatlooB 11.25* 

P .05 1 ■  Oregos  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, MaryHVllle,  Redding. 
Portland,  Paget  Bound  and  East.     8-55* 

9.10p  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 

day  onlyi 11.55  * 

COAST    LINE    (Harrow  Uangp). 

(Foul  nf   Murker.  Street) 

B.16*  Newark,  Ceniervllle.  San  Jose. 
Felton.    Boulner     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Whj-  Stations S-55p 

t2>16v  Newark.  Centirrvllte.  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.  Los  Gatos.Felton. 
Boulder  Creek.  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    flO  55* 

4-16*  Newark.  San.JoBc.  LosGatos  and  I     "855* 

way  stiitlitus ]  HO  55  a 

o930p  Hunters  Train.  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  anrl  Way  Stations.  Return- 
ing from  Los  Gatos  Sunday  only.    17  25p 


4-00  1 
COAST     LINE     (Broad  (Jan, 

C3T  i Third  ami  T.HVim-ii.l  Streets.) 

6.10a    San.loMHli.1  Way  Stations 6-30P 

7  00a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6-36p 

8.00a   New  Ahnmlen  (Tues..  Frld.,  only),      4-10p 

8  00*  CoastLinc Limited— StopsonlySaa 

JOBe,  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llster).  Pajaro.  Castrovllle,  Sa- 
linas. San  Ardo,  Paso  Rohlcs, 
BantaMnrgarltn.San  Luis  Obispo, 
Prlnclfml  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Lompoc)  princi- 
pal stailr.ns  thence  Santa  Bar- 
bara and  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion  at  Castrovllle    t"  aDd  from 

Monterey  and  Pari  fie  Grove 1045? 

B.00*  San  Jose.  Tres  I'lnos,  Capltola, 
Santa  Cruz.PacI  He  Grove,  Salinas, 
San  Luis  Obispo  and    Principal 

Wuy  Stations 4-10p 

1030*   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1-20p 

1130a  Snnta   Clara,    Sao   Jose,  Los  Gatos 

and  Wiiv  BtAtlODG    7.30 

1-30F  Ban' Jose  and  Way  Stations 836* 

S.00P  PrcIIIc  Grove  Kxpress-SantaClara 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte.  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  nt  Santa 
Clara  lor  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
l  rrr-k  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  lloiilster,  Tres 
Plnos.  ut  Castrovllle  forSallnas.   12-15p 

3-30p  Tree  Plnoe  Way  Passenger ;10  45a 

14  4b»  Ban  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
GatOS,    and    Principal   Way    Sta- 

llon    ■     '■■■I':  Bund  ay) 19.12* 

lb30i   BanJoBeandPrinctpaJWayStatlone  t8  00* 
6. 00p  Bnnsel     Limited.— Rcdword,  Sun 
June.  Gliroy,SaIInas,PaBO  Koblea, 
san  1. ni-  Obispo,  Bants  Barbara, 

Lob  Angeles,  Hcinlng.  El  Paso, 
N'W  Orleans,  New  York.  Con- 
nects nt  Pajaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
and    at    Castrovllle    for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stall' dik 7  10* 

'6.161-  BanMateo.Beresford.Belmont.Ban 
Carlos.  Redwood,  I' air  Oak*. 
Men lo Park.  Palo  Alto !G-46a 

£  ,30l     Sin  1  JosC  anrl  Wjiv  Stations g  3$4 

11  ,3Qp  BouLb  San  Francisco,  MIHbrae.Bor- 
1  d  same,  Ban    Mateo,    Belmont, 

Ban  I  arlos,  Redw 1.  Fair  (Jake, 

Meolo  Parle,  and  Palo  Alto 9  45)- 

o11-30p  MayOeld,  Mountain  View.  Sunny- 
(rale,  Lawrence.  Santa  Clara  and 

Pan  Jubc 19.45P 

A  f"i   M  Pfor  Afternoon. 

.  Sunday  only 

Stops  m  all  stations  on  Bnnday, 
ISnodaj  excepted,  a  but urn ay  only. 

ty  Only  tralni  ".lopping  ill  \  tiieiula  St.  Boutbbound 
«rei.;l»A,M.,7:iMA.M.,  11  :■'!■!  a  ■>!.,  :i:::hi-.m.  nnd  C:3Q  p.m. 
The  11  N  I  *7n  THANK  I  KK  COM  HA  NT 
vill  call  lor  mil I  cheek  baggage  from  hotels  and  resi- 
dences.   Telephone,  Exchangees.    Inquire  of  Ticket 

Agtuu  'or    ll Caid«aiid  older   Information. 

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Stranger — "  Do  you  think  you  can  get  me 
on  the  pension  list?"  Lawyer  (cheerfully) 
— "  Oh,  I  guess  so.  But  we  may  have  to  get 
you  naturalized   first." — Bacar. 

Mrs.  Highmore  (at  the  opera) — "Isn't  she 
grand  ?  What  wonderful  technique !"  Mrs. 
Gaswell — "  Ye-es,  but  it  looks  as  if  it  pinched 
her  about  the  waist,  don't  you  think  ?" — 
Chicago  Tribune. 

The  schedule:  Newcastle — "Was  there  any 
romance  connected  with  your  engagement?  " 
IngerHeld — "Romance?  I  proposed  to  her  at 
8:45  and  she  accepted  me  precisely  at  9:15." 
— Detroit  Free  Press. 

Actor — "  Hurry,  or  we'll  miss  the  train." 
Actress — "  I  can't  find  my  diamonds  or  my 
purse."  Actor — "  Oh.  well,  never  mind." 
Actress—"  Yes.  but  the  purse  had  ten  dollars 
in  it." — New  York  Weekly. 

Its  distinction  :  City  man — "  How  shall  I 
know  which  house  it  is?"  Suburbanite — 
"  You'll  be  able  to  tell  easily  enough.  It's 
the  only  one  in  the  neighborhood  that  hasn't 
a  '  For  Sale  '  sign  on  it." — Puck. 

"  Say,  pa,"  queried  little  Billy  Bloobumper. 
"what's  an  echo?"  "An  echo,  my  son,"  re- 
plied the  old  man,  with  a  sigh  long  drawn  out. 
"  is  the  only  thing  that  can  flim-flam  a  woman 
out  of  the  last  word." — The  Lyre. 

"  Georgie,  did  you  know  that  I  was  going  to 
marry  your  sister?"  "  Well.  I  heard  her  say 
so.  but  she's  had  that  idea  about  so  many 
other  fellers  that  I  didn't  feel  sure  about  it 
till  you  told  me." — Brooklyn  Life. 

An  incidental  revenge :  "  Did  your  son 
really  elope?"  "Yes,  and  it's  such  a  blow. 
But  there's  one  thing  about  it  that  brings  me 
a  little  consolation."  "What's  that?"  "He 
eloped  with  that  odious  Mrs.  Slimmer's  hired 
girl." — Cleveland    Plain-Dealer. 

Courtroom  effects:  The  lawyer  —  "Of 
course,  my  dear  madam  !  The  great  thing  in 
a  case  of  this  sort  is  to  introduce  something 
into  the  evidence  that  will  appeal  to  the 
jury."  The  lady — "  Oh  !  I  shall  change  my 
costume  every  day." — Brooklyn  Life. 

"  That  woman's  boss  of  the  ward  all  right." 
said  the  first  repeater,  in  the  days  of  female 
suffrage,  "  and  she's  a  regular  terror,  aint 
she  ?"  "  That's  what !"  replied  the  other ; 
"  I  wanted  $2  for  my  vote,  and  she  wouldn't 
gimme   more'n    $i.qS." — Philadelphia   Press. 

Life  preserver:  Pat — "  Oi  say,  Moike,  phat 
do  yez  call  that  big  round  thing  on  ther  back 
of  that  auto  billy?  "  Mike — "  Shure,  an' 
that's  an  ixtry  toire,  if  wan  should  burst,  yez 
haythen."  Pat — "  Begorra,  an'  Oi  t'ought  it 
war  a  loife  preserver!" — Philadelphia  Tele- 
graph. 

"  Wait  a  second,"  she  said,  as  she  stepped 
into  the  store.  "  Certainly."  he  replied,  and 
when  he  had  been  uptown,  looked  through  his 
mail,  spent  two  hours  on  'Change,  and  taken 
luncheon  at  the  club,  he  returned  and  found 
her  just  emerging  from  the  door. — Cincinnati 
Commercial   Tribune. 

Time  up  to  date  :  "  I  have  been  thinking," 
said  Father  Time,  "  of  abandoning  the  scythe 
as  an  emblem."  "Abandoning  the  scythe?" 
said  the  goddess  Aurora,  who  is  always  on 
hand  early  to  greet  the  old  gentleman.  "  Yes. 
Don't  you  think  an  alarm  clock  would  be 
more    appropriate  ?  " — Judge. 

Byer — "  The  boys  of  Captain  Lushman's 
company  want  to  present  him  with  some  little 
testimonial."  Cutler — "  How  about  a  nice 
pocketknife?  Here's  a  beauty,  with  four 
blades  and  a  corkscrew."  Byer — "  Haven't 
you  got  any  with  one  blade  and  four  cork- 
screws? " — Philadelphia  Ledger. 

"  It  certainly  isn't,"  mused  the  man  who  oc- 
casionally lets  out  an  audible  thought.  "  What 
'tis  that  isn't?"  queried  the  chronic  butter- 
in.  "It  isn't  fair,"  explained  the  noisy 
thinker.  "  to  judge  the  character  of  a  new- 
born babe  by  the  quality  of  the  cigars  its 
proud  father  hands  out." — Chicago  Daily 
News. 

"  Did  you  hear  about  the  game  worked  on 
Harker  in  the  skyscraper  this  morning?  Some 
sleek  chap  walked  in  and  told  Harker  if  he'd 
give  him  an  umbrella  he'd  go  up  to  the  roof 
and  come  down  holding  on  to  the  handle." 
"  Did  he?  "  "  Yes  ;  he  came  down  in  the 
elevator,  and  I  guess  he's  holding  on  to  the 
handle  yet." — Philadelphia  Record. 

Uncle  Remus  was  driving  <i  white  mule 
hitched  to  an  ancient  gig.  "  That's  a  very  old 
affair  in  these  days  of  progress."  remarked 
the  stranger.  "  Doan'  matter  wid  me," 
drawled  the  old  man,  contentedly  puffing  his 
pipe:  "dis  lieah  gig  kin  jolt  es  much  as  de 
finest  automobile,  en  dat  der  mule  kin  bray 
loudah  den  de  biggest  holin." — Chicago  Daily 
Vews. 

Mrs.  Hayfork  (in  country  post-office) — 
"  Anything  for  me?  "  Postmaster — "  I  don't 
see  nothin'."  Mrs.  Hayfork — "  I  was  expect- 
in'  a  letter  or  post-card  from  Aunt  Spriggs. 
tellin'  what  day  she  was  comin'."  Rural  posl- 
master  (calling  to  his  wife) — "  Did  you  see  a 
post-card  from  Mrs.  Hayfork's  Aunt  Sally?" 
His  wife — "Yes;  she's  comin'  on  Thursday." 
— Peloskey  Lyre. 


—  Sl«  lm, in's  Soothing  Powders  relieve  feverish- 
ness  and  prevent  fits  and  convulsions  during  (he 
teething  period. 

Dumlcy — "  By  George !  I  believe  I'm  the 
greatest  fool  in  the  world."  Synnex — "  That 
makes    it    unanimous." — Boston    Transcript. 


—  Dk.  E,  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 

4UI=4(M  Sansome  St.    soothing syruP  for 


•  your  children  while  teething 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 


U  ESS  E  E 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Tibnron  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


Sau  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 
WEEK  DAYS — 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35.  3-30,  5.10. 

6.30  pm.     Thursdays  — Extra  trip  at  11.30  pm. 

Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  p  m. 
SUNDAY'S— S.oo,  9.30,  11.00  a  ni ;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 

11.30  pm. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK   DAVS— 6.05,   7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15a  m;    12.50; 

3.40.  5.00,  5.20  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra   trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.40,  11.15  am;  1.40,  3.40,  4.55,  5.05. 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 

Destination. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week-       Sun- 
Days,         days. 

Sun- 
days. 

Werk 
Days. 

7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 

9.30  a  m 

3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

5. 10  p  ni    5  00  p  m 

Ignacio. 

9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 

6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

1  S.oo  a  m 

3-3"  P  m    9.30  a  m 

5.10  pm    3.30  pm 

5.00  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  pm 

io.<o  a  m 
7-35  P  ni 

S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

S  ooa  m 
3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3.30  P  m 

S.oo  a  m 
3-3°  P  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.40  a  m 
735  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

73°  a  m 
3.30  a  m 

S.oo  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7.35  pm 
9-io  a  m 
6.05  p  m 

io.2o  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  ni 

S.oo  a  m 

Willits. 

6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3-3°  P  m 

S.oo  a  m 
3-3°  p  m 

Guernevilte. 

10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7-3°  a  m 
5.10  pm 

S.oo  a  m 
5.00  pm 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

S.40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

730  am 
3.30  i>  m 

S.oo  a  m 
3- 30  P  ni 

Sebastopol, 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  for  San  Quentin ;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
for  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs ;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs ; 
at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs. 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville.  Carlsbad  Springs. 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport.  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  lor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Wilier  Springs.  Upper  Lake, 
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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Municipal  Politics  as  a  Profession — An  Expert  On 
the  Subject — Keeping  Everlastingly  At  It — Why  Not  Take 
a  Leaf  from  Bosses'  Book — Professor  Ely  on  the  Busi- 
ness Man  in  Politics — Two  Important  Political  Develop- 
ments— Did  the  Senate  Slight  Roosevelt? — The  Hanna- 
Flatt  Agreement- — Pennies  in  San  Francisco — The  Press  on 
Presidential  Aspirants — Cleveland's  Letter — Some  Figures 
on  the  Situation — The  Philippines  and  the  Tariff — The 
Facts  in  the  Case  377*379 

The  Faith  of  Chon  Tai:       How    It    Was     Shattered    by    the 

Foreign  Devil- Doctors.     By  C.   E.  Lorrimer    3S0 

Indj\  [dualities:      Notes   About   Prominent    People   All   Over   the 

World    381 

At  the  Paris  Theatres:  Alfred  Capus's  Remarkable  Suc- 
cess, "  L'Adversaire " — Rejane's  New  Play  a  Disappoint- 
ment— Her  Marital  Troubles — Sarah  Bernhardt's  Debut  as 
an  Old  Woman.     By  "  St.  Martin  " 382 

Theodor  Mommsen  :      Reminiscences    of    the    Famous    German 

Historian     383 

Literary  Notes:    384 

Intaglios:       "  Aliens ";     "  Sorrow,     My     Sorrow,"    by    W.    D. 

Howells;    "The  Heavy  Mists,"    by  M.   J.    Savage 384 

Drama:      "  I-O-U "    at  Fischer's — The  Performance  at  the   Or- 

pht-um.      By  Josephine   Hart   Phelps    386 

Stage  Gossip    387 

Vanity  Fair:  Styles  for  Men — Faultless  Costumes  Seen  at  the 
New  York  Horse  Show — New  English  Fashions  in  Men's 
Jewelry — Severity  in  Such  Things  No  Longer  a  Require- 
ment— Dark  Hair  Now  in  Favor — No  More  Bleaching — 
How  a  Minister  Tackled  the  Servant-Girl  Problem  With  a 
Shot-Gun — Beauty  Show  in  New  York — The  Recent  Affair 
ot  the  Same  Kind  in  Vienna — The  Perils  Women  Encounter 
in   Carrying  Valuables  in   Their   Stockings    38S 

Stohyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
A  Coffin  Joke  That  George  Moore  Tells — When  Liszt  Re- 
buked the  Czar  of  All  the  Russias — Joe  Jefferson's  Fish — 
Why  the  New  York  Audience  Roared  With  Laughter  at 
Irving' s  Solemn  Lines — When  Rufus  Choate  Was  Non- 
plussed by  a  Sailor — An  Astonishing  Old  Lady  on  Ducal 
Family    Matters — A    Kentucky    Funeral    Oration    389 

The  Tuneful  Liar:      "A    Cold";    "Soliloquy,"    by    Ethel    M. 

Kelly:    "A    Steel-Oil  Lullaby,"  by  Wallace  Irwin    389 

Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 
Army  and  Navy  News  390-391 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 392 


A  Political 
Revolution 
in  New  York 


An  event  of  the  highest  political  importance  in  its 
bearing  upon  the  nomination  and  elec- 
tion of  Mr.  Roosevelt  to  the  Presidency 
is  the  conference  between  Senator  Piatt 
and  Governor  Odell  at  Washington  last  week. 

New  York,  politically,  is  the  most  important  State 
in  the  Union.  It  has  thirty-nine  electoral  votes,  almost 
one-twelfth  of  the  whole  number.  It  has  more  than 
California.  Oregon,  Washington,  Idaho,  Nevada,  Utah. 
\\'yr,ming,  and  Colorado  combined.  Generally  speak- 
ing, its  loss  by  a  Presidential  nominee  means  defeat. 
And  New  York  is  admittedly  a  doubtful  State  in  the 
next  contest.  Its  Republican  governor,  Odell,  is  re- 
ported to  have  said  some  weeks  ago:  "  The  outlook  for 
next  year  is  not  bright.  It  could  hardly  be  worse  for 
the  Republicans.  Unless  something  is  done  in  a  hurry  to 
tir  up  the  party,  especially  in  New  York  City,  we  are 


stii 


going  to  lose  the  State.  It  is  of  no  use  to  disguise  the 
situation,  and  talk  about  harmony.  There  is  too  much 
harmony."  Odell  himself  was  elected  last  year  by  only 
nine  thousand  votes.  McClellan's  great  victory  in  New 
York  and  Brooklyn  encourages  Democratic  leaders  to 
believe  that  they  can  wipe  out  this  small  majority. 
"  To  overcome  such  odds  [by  the  "  up-State  "  vote] 
the  Republican  leaders  will  have  the  struggle  of  their 
lives."  exclaims  the  independent  New  York  Evening 
Post. 

It  was  these  disturbing  conditions  that  gave  peculiar 
importance  to  the  rumors  of  still  more  strained  rela- 
tions between  Governor  Odell  and  Senator  Piatt.  If, 
under  the  best  of  circumstances,  New  York  was  doubt- 
ful, it  was  hopeless  with  a  faction  fight  on  between  these 
two  towers  of  political  strength.  The  conditions  have 
long  been  anomalous.  Senator  Piatt  is  the  nominal 
Republican  leader.  But  it  is  said  that  at  the  legislative 
session  last  year  he  tried  conclusions  with  Odell  and  it 
was  not  Odell  who  went  down  in  defeat.  Still,  Piatt 
has  much  strength.  The  President  has  treated  him,  in 
the  distribution  of  patronage,  as  the  real  power  in  the 
State.  It  is  said  that  the  President  has  not  had  implicit 
confidence  in  Odell.  His  preference  for  Piatt  has  been 
very  marked. 

Such  a  state  of  affairs,  with  a  Presidential  campaign 
approaching.  Governor  Odell  found  intolerable.  He 
announced  that  he  was  going  to  start  a  movement  for 
thorough  reorganization  of  the  Republican  party  in 
the  State  in  order  to  hold  New  York  in  the  Republican 
column.  This  alarmed  Piatt's  henchmen.  They  sent 
to  Washington  for  the  "  Easy  Boss."  He  came  to  New 
York,  had  a  conference  with  Odell.  found  that  they 
couldn't  agree,  and  Odell  is  said  to  have  left  the  meet- 
ing in  a  huff. 

Then  Mr.  Roosevelt  took  a  hand.  He  had  a  talk  with 
Piatt.  Also  with  State  Chairman  Dunn.  Then  he  tele- 
graphed Odell  to  come  to  Washington.  And  Odell 
came — with  his  fighting  clothes  on.  It  is  said  that  he 
presented  to  Senator  Piatt  in  a  two-hour  conference 
the  ultimatum — knuckle  under  or  fight.  And  Senator 
Piatt  knuckled  under.  "  A  lot  of  hot  bricks  were 
thrown  around "  is  the  way  one  of  Piatt's  men  ex- 
presses it.  More  elegantly,  the  New  York  Times  re- 
marks: "  He  [Odell]  appears  to  have  accomplished  his 
object  by  the  simple  exhibition  of  the  strength  of  his 
position."  Piatt  is  said  to  have  admitted  that  Odell's 
contentions  were  just,  to  have  agreed  to. turn  over  the 
management  of  the  party,  to  consult  him  on  all  ques- 
tions of  detail,  and  even  to  resign  the  title  of  leader. 
Governor  Odell  would  not,  however,  hear  of  that,  and  it 
was  agreed  that  though  robbed  of  power  Piatt  should 
still  be  leader  in  name.  He  is  leader  emeritus.  Then 
Odell  went  triumphant  to  the  President.  The  Evening 
Post  describes  the  then  situation  thus  graphically: 

The  question  which  President  Roosevelt  had  to  settle  after 
the  battle  was  whether  he  should  recognize  the  governor  as 
the  real  Republican  leader  in  New  York,  or  whether  he  should 
allow  Piatt  to  continue  his  policy  of  mischievous  meddling. 
When  the  President  saw  the  two  men  before  him  and  measured 
their  strength,  he  could  do  nothing  but  say  to  Odell — in  the 
hearty  dialect  of  his  Montana   friends — "  You're  It." 

So,  at  threescore  and  ten,  after  forty  years  in  politics, 
Thomas  Collier  Piatt  is  shorn  of  power.  Henceforth 
he  is  meekly  to  take  his  orders  from  Benjamin  B. 
Odell,  and  do  everything  possible  to  help  along  the  Re- 
publican party — that  is  the  rare  and  roseate  dream. 
And  it  is  really  too  bad  of  the  Democratic  press  to  dis- 
turb it  by  hinting  that,  "  though  advanced  in  years  and 
somewhat  discredited  as  a  leader,  Piatt  is  nevertheless 
not  a  man  to  bear  his  humiliation  with  meekness,"  and 
that  the  "  prospects  of  a  factional  fight  "  are  still  "  ex- 
cellent." "Is  the  old  boss  really  dead  after  all?"  in- 
quires the  New  York  World.  "Louis  the  Eleventh  rose 


from  his  death-bed  and  took  back  the  crown  from  his 
too-impatient  heir.  Fuzzy  Wuzzy  has  been  found  to  be 
'  generally  shammin'  when  he's  dead.'  And  Piatt  him- 
self has  been  laid  out  for  burial  on  several  previous 
occasions,  and  has  always  survived  to  attend  the  funer- 
als of  his  undertakers." 

Only  time  will  decide  beyond  peradventure  whether 
these  wicked  Democratic  suspicions  are  correct  or  no. 
It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  upon  their  being  proved 
baseless  depends  Theodore  Roosevelt's  chance  of  win- 
ning the  State  of  New  York's  thirty-nine  electoral 
votes  in  the  fateful  year  1904. 


Foes. 

Lights,  and 
Buovs. 


For  many  days  a  tule  fog  has  been  brooding  over 
California.  These  tule  fogs  are  not  like 
our  sea  fogs.  The  sea  fogs  come  from 
the  broad  bosom  of  the  vast  Pacific. 
They  are  salt  and  healthy  and  clean.  The  tule  fogs 
come  from  the  great  valley  of  interior  California.  They 
are  the  product  of  marsh  and  bog  and  fen.  We  have 
no  use  for  them,  we  dwellers  on  the  seashore.  We 
have  plenty  of  nice,  clean  fog  of  our  own,  and  the 
interior  can  keep  its  soiled  second-hand  fog.  But  every 
winter  the  grangers  send  down  this  foreign  fog,  and 
it  sticks  to  us  like  fly-paper.  The  sea  fog  blows  in 
and  out  of  the  Golden  Gate.  On  the  wings  of  the  wind 
it  comes  and  goes,  but  the  land  fog  sticks  and  stays. 

When  the  land  fog  descends  on  San  Francisco  Bay, 
our  ferry-boat  skippers  feel  their  way  through  it 
blindly — first,  because  there  are  few  lights  and  buoys 
in  San  Francisco  Bay,  and  second,  because  they  have 
to  dodge  the  moving  islands.  The  San  Francisco 
ferry-boats  travel  in  zones,  or  fairways,  and  any  de- 
cent and  self-respecting  island  should  keep  out  of  these 
channels.  But  every  now  and  again,  Alcatraz,  Angel, 
or  Goat  Island  floats  from  its  moorings,  and  tries  to 
run  down  some  well-meaning  skipper  in  a  double- 
ended  ferry-boat.  The  latest  instance  of  this  was  when 
a  North  Shore  boat  bound  for  Sausalito  was  proceeding 
peacefully  on  its  way  and  Angel  Island  ran  into  it. 
The  skipper  made  a  noble  effort  to  dodge  the  island, 
but  failed.  He  then  tried  to  climb  over  it,  but  as  he 
had  left  the  boat's  roller-skates  at  home,  he  failed  in 
this  also.  The  passengers  strenuously  objected  to  his 
taking  the  boat  further  ashore,  and  as  the  Federal 
shipping  laws  prevented  him  from  running  her  on  land 
as  an  automobile,  he  was  forced  to  stop. 

This  is  an  aggravated  instance,  but  Sausalito  luck  in 
ferry-boating  is  proverbial.  Still,  this  occurrence  serves 
to  point  again  the  crying  need  there  is  in  San  Fran- 
cisco Bay  for  more  lights,  beacons,  bells,  and  buoys. 
Any  man  who  has  ever  sailed  on  the  Atlantic  Coast 
must  have  been  struck  by  the  difference  betwen  that 
seaboard  and  our  own.  When  you  sail  along  Long 
Island  Sound  at  night,  you  see  so  many  lights  stretch- 
ing in  long  lines  for  miles  ahead  and  astern  of  you, 
that  it  looks  like  a  gigantic  torchlight  procession. 
When  you  sail  up  the  Sound  by  day,  the  spar-buoys, 
can-buoys,  whistling-buoys,  and  bell-buoys  are  equally 
as  numerous.  The  spar-buoys  make  the  Sound  look 
like  an  international  oyster-bed.  The  bell-buoys  make 
Long  Island  resound  with  sounds  like  the  sound  of 
many  church  bells.  The  mournful  melody  of  a  bell 
rung  by  the  irregular  action  of  the  waves  once  heard 
can  never  be  forgotten.  Some  prehistoric  wit  said  it 
reminded  him  of  the  lamentations  of  unhappily  mar- 
ried people  because  it  was  the  moaning  of  the  tied. 

Coming  from  Long  Island  Sound  through  Hellgate. 
through  the  East  River,  through  Buttermilk  Channel, 
through  the  Narrows,  and  out  into  the  open  ocean,  the 
sight  is  equally  peculiar.  Sailing  on  a  Saturday  when 
the  great  transatlantic  liners  set  forth  loaded  down 
with    youth,   beauty,   American    duchesses,    the     T 


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Hundred,  and  seasickness — when  scores  of  other 
steamers  bound  for  the  West  Indies,  Gulf  ports,  Cen- 
tral American,  and  Southern  points  generally — when 
such  a  fleet  streams  out  from  the  great  city,  the  sight 
is  most  peculiar.  The  ocean  is  charted  out  in  lanes  and 
alleys,  through  which  the  steamers  pick  their  way. 
As  you  go  along  you  see  a  gigantic  peg-top  iron  buoy 
painted  red  with  white  characters  on  it.  Here  the 
steamer  turns  sharply  to  the  right — it  is  the  corner  of 
Neptune  Street  and  One  Hundred  and  First  Avenue. 
Next  comes  a  black  buoy — a  black  and  red — a  black 
and  white — a  green  buoy ;  here  is  a  sunken  wreck. 
No  wonder  accidents  are  rare  coming  in  and  out  of 
New  York  harbor.  The  ships  travel  on  as  regular 
lines  as  we  do  in  turning  the  corner  of  Kearny  and 
Market  Streets. 

And  so  it  goes  from  Bar  Harbor  to  Fire  Island 
Light,  from  Sandy  Hook  to  Cape  May,  from  Hat- 
teras  to  Key  West.  Uncle  Sam  looks  out  carefully 
for  the  lives  of  those  who  go  down  to  the  sea  in  ships 
— that  is,  when  they  go  down  to  the  sea  on  the  Atlantic 
Coast;  but  when  they  go  down  to  the  sea  on  the  Pa- 
cific Coast,  they  may  go  down,  not  only  to  the  sea,  but 
to  the  bottom  of  it,  or  even  to  Davy  Jones's  locker,  for 
all  that  our  Uncle  Samuel  cares. 

California  pays  yearly  many  millions  into  the  Fed- 
eral treasury.  We  pay  enormous  sums  in  the  shape  of 
custom-house  duties,  internal-revenue  taxes,  and  post- 
office  receipts.  We  are  paying  all  the  time.  If  a  pov- 
erty-stricken grape-grower  in  the  Napa  Valley  squeezes 
some  of  his  grapes  into  a  barrel,  lets  them  sour,  and 
attempts  to  sell  the  juice  without  interviewing  his 
Uncle  Sam,  he  always  gets  into  trouble,  and  generally 
into  jail.  If  the  grape-juice  is  worth  seven  dollars  a 
barrel,  Uncle  Sam  collects  about  five  dollars  in  taxes, 
and  gives  the  grape-grower  the  other  two. 

Now  what  is  the  matter  with  Uncle  Sam's  spend- 
ing some  of  our  own  good  money  in  lighting  up  the 
California  coast?  It  is  the  foggiest  coast  in  the  world, 
likewise  the  least  lighted.  The  present  writer  has 
sailed  from  Vancouver  to  San  Diego,  and  seen  noth- 
ing but  a  fog-bank  all  the  way — saw  no  light,  observed 
no  buoy,  and  heard  no  bell.  The  average  coastwise 
skipper  along  the  California  coast  must  sail  entirely 
by  dead  reckoning  and  the  sense  of  smell.  Most  of  the 
skippers  know  San  Francisco  by  her  pungent  odors — 
Chinese,  Japanese,  sewer,  and  Dago.  As  soon  as  they 
strike  a  solid  bank  of  smell  sticking  out  into  the  Pa- 
cific they  put  the  helm  hard  a-starboard,  and  in  a  few 
moments  they  pierce  the  fog-bank  and  are  in  the  Golden 
Gate.  On  the  starboard  hand  the  passengers  gaze  with 
interest  and  curiosity  at  the  Point  Lobos  Lighthouse; 
on  the  port  hand,  they  gaze  with  curiosity  and  interest 
at  the  Point  Bonita  Lighthouse.  Thousands  of  chil- 
dren in  California,  reared  within  sight  and  sound  of  the 
sea,  never  saw  a  lighthouse.  If  Uncle  Sam  is  going 
to  be  so  stingy  with  his  lighthouses,  he  ought  to  put 
one  on  exhibition  in  San  Francisco,  in  order  that  naval 
apprentices  and  boys  intending  to  follow  the  sea  should 
get  to  know  a  lighthouse  by  sight,  so  they  will  not  run 
them  down. 

And  this  brings  us  back  to  where  we  started.  San 
Francisco  is  certainly  the  most  populous  place  on  the 
Coast,  and  probably  the  most  foggy.  For. these,  if  for 
no  other  reasons,  Uncle  Sam  should  properly  buoy  San 
Francisco  Bay.  But  a  further  point  is  that  the  islands 
in  the  harbor  are  under  the  control  of  the  War  De- 
partment. If  these  distressing  collisions  continue, 
great  injury  to  the  islands  will  be  caused,  and  the 
War  Department  may  even  find  itself,  as  the  result  of 
erosion,  collision,  and  explosion,  shy  an  island  or  two. 

"  Big  Tim  "  Sullivan,  the  new  Democratic  member  of 
municipal  Congress    from    the    densely    populated, 

Politics  as  a  polyglot  lower  East  Side  of  New  York 
Profession.  City,    recently    discussed    in    print    the 

burning  question,  "  How  to  Succeed  in  Municipal  Poli- 
tics." It  was  a  masterly  effort  by  an  expert — one  rich 
in  "  straight  tips  "  for  all  political  aspirants,  East  and 
West. 

"  Big  Tim,"  otherwise  the  Hon.  Timothy  D.  Sulli- 
van, began  as  a  newsboy,  at  nineteen  he  went  into 
politics,  at  twenty-four  he  was  elected  to  the  State 
assembly,  at  thirty-two  he  became  State  senator,  and 
at  /orty  he  went  to  Congress.  The  assembly,  he  says, 
was  his  grammar  school,  the  State  senate  his  high 
si  .bol,  Congress  h:>  ollege.  "  The  newspapers  are  my 
lil.ary.  I  read  the;  1  all."  He  wears  no  Bowery 
•  lothes,  but  a  regulation  frock  coat;  never  smokes  or 


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drinks;  talks  little,  and  is  a  model  husband.     And  the 

keynote  of  success,  he  says,  is  to  be  always  "  on  the 

level."     To  this  dictum  he  adds  these  pregnant  words : 

Real  practical  politics  doesn't  consist  of  getting  hot  around 
the  collar  early  every  autumn  and  calling  the  other  fellows 
crooks  and  grafters,  and  then  forgetting  to  register.  In  this  part 
of  the  town  the  man  in  politics  is  selected  by  the  people 
to  look  after  their  interests  every  month  in  the  year  and 
every  day  in  the  month.  It  annoys  them,  as  it  would  you,  to 
have  people  who  forget  they  are  alive  eleven  months  out 
of  the  year  come  around  the  twelfth  and  ask  about  their 
morals.  We  are  the  people,  and  we  look  after  one  another. 
If  a  boy  is  going  to  the  bad  we  give  him  good  counsel  to  do 
better.  If  a  man  is  out  of  work  we  bestir  ourselves  to  get 
him  a  job.  If  a  neighbor  is  in  hard  luck  we  help  him.  If  he 
is  in  good  luck  we  rejoice  with  him.  If  his  daughter  marries 
we  dance  at  the  wedding ;  if  one  of  his  family  dies  we  go 
to  the  funeral.  The  people  of  the  East  Side  do  not  say, 
"  Who  are  those  people  ?"  and  go  coldly  on  their  way  when  it 
is  a  time  to  mourn,  a  time  to  laugh,  or  a  time  to  be  up  and 
doing. 

In  other  words,  the  Hon.  Timothy  abhors  spasmodic 
politicians.  He  loathes  those  who  talk  loudly,  but  for- 
get to  subscribe  to  the  relief  fund  for  the  distressed 
widow  around  the  corner.  His  ideal  man  for  an  ad- 
ministrative office  is  evidently  one  who  makes  it  his 
business  to  exercise  a  benevolent  and  fatherly  super- 
vision over  everybody  in  his  district.  And  why  not? 
Is  it  not  curious  that  with  all  the  talk  of  "  reform," 
of  "  good .  government,"  of  "  municipal  purity,"  of 
"  civic  ideals,"  so  few  self-confessed  "  municipal  re- 
formers "  should  have  bethought  themselves  to  gain 
power  by  taking  a  genuine,  friendly,  human  interest 
in  the  people  of  their  political  divisions?  They  leave 
that  for  the  bosses. 

"  Down  with  the  bosses  "  is  an  old  cry.  Yet  noth- 
ing is  more  certain  than  that  a  great  part  of  the  bosses' 
power  is  legitimately  gained  by  looking  out  for  the 
interests  of  their  people  "  every  month  in  the  year, 
and  every  day  in  the  month,"  as  the  New  York  con- 
gressman puts  it.  But  why  can  not  citizens  of  character 
and  standing  do  this  public  service  as  well  as  persons  of 
indifferent  reputation,  "  out  -for  the  stuff  "  ?  Why  should 
not  politically  ambitious  and  well-intentioned  young 
men  "  down  the  bosses  "  by  taking  a  leaf  out  of  their 
book — by  giving  to  the  personal  side  of  city  politics 
more  intelligent  and  sympathetic  attention  than  do 
the  bosses  themselves  ?  Under  present  conditions,  "  the 
devil  (as  it  were)  has  all  the  good  tunes."  The 
Kellys,  Crimminses,  Lynches,  Buckleys,  and  Burkes, 
to  take  a  local  illustration,  keep  in  touch  with  the 
voters,  know  what  they  want,  and  help  them  to  get  it. 
When  they  talk  they  talk  concretely.  Is  not  the  "higher 
politician,"  on  the  other  hand,  too  prone  to  talk  glitter- 
ing abstractions  about  "  good  government,"  which  fail 
to  warm  the  cockles  of  the  voters'  heart,  or  win  his 
political  regard?  A  famous  preacher's  maxim,  "If 
you  would  save  men  you  must  come  near  them,"  with 
slight  alteration,  will  fit  city  politics  as  well  as  religion. 
It  was  only  because  New  York's  college-president 
mayor  was  a  person  of  such  peculiarly  chilly  virtue 
that  the  city  passed  this  fall  into  the  hands  of  men 
who  "  look  after  their  constituents." 

"  Politics  is  curious,"  and  scarcely  anything  is  more 
curious  than  that  for  a  man  to  be  a  dilettante  in  munic- 
ipal affairs  is  considered  commendable;  to  be  a  master 
— a  professional — puts  him  outside  the  pale. 

Doubtless  it  would  surprise  Mr.  Sullivan  to  learn 
that  some  of  his  views  on  practical  politics  are  in- 
dorsed by  one  of  the  foremost  economists  in  the  coun- 
try. Richard  T.  Ely,  of  Wisconsin  University,  firmly 
holds  to  the  belief  that  the  salvation  for  city  govern- 
ment lies  in  the  professional  politician.  We  must,  he 
says,  have  a  class  of  office-holders.  A  man  should 
devote  his  life  to  municipal  administration.  And  Pro- 
fessor Ely's  reasons  are  plausible.  Nowadays,  he 
argues,  a  man  gives  his  life  to  railroading,  or  lumber- 
ing, or  dry  goods,  or  some  other  trade  or  profession. 
But  it  is  absurd  to  suppose  that  because  one  is  a  good 
railroad  man  he  is  therefore  fitted  for  the  dry-goods 
business.  It  is  equally  absurd,  he  thinks,  to  contend 
that,  because  one  is  successful  in  some  line  of  business, 
he  is  therefore  fitted  for  a  public  office.  A  man  may  be 
a  very  good  farmer,  and  it  would  not  be  expected  that 
he  should  be  able  to  manage  a  great  railway  system. 
Yet  the  difference  between  these  two  is  not  greater 
than  that  between  the  management  of  a  railway  and 
the  management  of  a  city.  The  bi  'ess  man  in  poli- 
tics is,  he  holds,  usually  a  misfit.  I  ;  :omes  to  it  with 
shopkeeper's  ideas ;  he  fears  to  ofh  old  customers ; 
he  lacks  expert  knowledge.  And  if  h-  es  succeed  it  is 
apt  to  be  through  the  guidance  of  a  ].'       ical  politician. 

Then  why  not  elect  politicians — rr,    I   who  resemble 


December  7,  1903. 


"  Tim  "  Sullivan,  at  least  in  the  respect  that  they  are 
in  politics,  not  merely  the  two  weeks  before  election, 
but  day  in  and  day  out,  rain  or  shine,  and  yet  who 
possess  in  addition  to  his  invaluable  qualities  the  edu- 
cation, the  training,  and  the  ability  to  administer  high 
offices  wisely. 

The  political  leader  is  a  product  of  conditions.  Pro- 
fessor Ely  proposes,  not  to  destroy  him,  but  to  de- 
velop him.  His  ideal  office-holder  would  be  a  sort  of 
sublimated  boss.  This  is  an  age  of  specialization. 
Why  not  specialization  in  municipal  politics?  City 
engineers  are  now  largely  chosen  because  of  their 
training  and  ability,  and  it  may  not  be  too  much  to 
hope  that  the  future  will  see  it  accepted  as  a  settled 
fact  that  "  municipal  government  is  a  profession,  not 
a  business." 

"  Is  the  present  action  of  the  Senate  intended  as  a  re- 

_      „,  buke   to  the   President?"   is  a  question 

The  Week  ^ 

at  made  pertinent  by  the  Washington  sit- 

Washington.  uation.  Congress  was  called  to  ratify 
the  Cuban  reciprocity  treaty.  The  House  has  done  its 
share,  and  is  ready  to  adjourn.  The  Senate,  at  this 
writing,  not  only  has  not  passed  the  bill,  but  is  not  even 
discussing  it.  On  Tuesday  the  Senate  was  in  session 
thirty  minutes,  and  then  adjourned  till  Friday.  Such 
dilly-dallying  is  very  queer.  "  There  is  some  wise,  it 
may  be  inscrutable,  reason,"  was  the  sarcastic  remark 
of  Representative  Grosvenor  in  the  House  on  Tues- 
day. And  he  added :  "  But  the  reason  is  a  wise  one, 
for  it  comes  from  the  greatest  parliamentary  body  on 
earth,  and  greater  than  any  in  heaven."  But  what  is  the 
"  inscrutable  reason  "  ?  The  theory  advanced  is  in- 
teresting. It  is  that  many  senators  are  piqued  because 
the  President  went  ahead  and  called  the  extra  session 
without  consulting  them.  He  is,  they  think,  too  inde- 
pendent of  their  wishes.  They  are  the  People,  and  don't 
like  to  be  hustled.  They  will  show  the  country  that 
there  was  no  need  of  an  extra  session,  with  its  attendant 
expenses,  by  quietly  passing  the  bill  during  the  regular 
session.  This  is  the  only  explanation  offered,  and  it  is 
full  of  interest  as  indicating  that  the  relations  between 
the  Senate  and  the  White  House  are  not  of  the  best. 
Of  course,  the  Senate  may  yet  recede  from  its  appar- 
ently hostile  position. 

But  if  the  Senate  has  been  wantonly  idle,  the  Senate 
Committee  on  Military  Affairs  has  not.  The  investiga- 
tion into  the  record  of  Brigadier-General  Wood,  who 
would  a  major-general  be,  goes  merrily  on.  The  im- 
portant developments  this  week  may  be  summarized 
briefly : 

Major  lames  E.  Runcie,  Wood's  friend  in  Cuba,  and  prob- 
ably the  most  important  witness  in  the  whole  case,  testified 
that  he  was  present  at  a  dinner  with  Ray  Stannard  Baker,  the 
journalist,  and  General  Wood,  at  which  it  was  agreed  that  he 
(Runcie)  should  write  an  article  exploiting  the  success  of 
Wood  in  dealing  with  affairs  at  Santiago,  where  he  was  then 
in  charge,  and  comparing  his  administration  with  that  of 
General  Brooke's,  at  Havana,  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  latter, 
in  order  that  the  authorities  at  Washington  might  be  induced 
to  oust  Brooke  and  promote  Wood.  Major  Runcie  further 
testified  that  he  did  write  the  article  at  Wood's  request ;  that 
he  gave  it  to  Baker ;  that  he  did  not  expect  it  to  be  published 
over  his  own  name,  but  that  it  was  so  published  in  the  North 
American  Review  for  February,  1900.  That,  thereupon, 
General  Brooke  wrathfully  asked  that  he  (Runcie)  be  court- 
martialed  ;  that  Wood,  to  whom  the  case  was  referred,  en- 
deavored to  evade  any  responsibility ;  that  Runcie  was  much 
shocked  at  this  duplicity ;  that  relations  between  him  and 
Wood  were  then  severed,  and  that  he  invited  court-martial 
and  a  full  investigation,  whereupon  the  case  was  dropped. 

It  is  not  necessary  for  us  to  point  out  that  for  an  officer 
to  instigate  an  attack  on  a  superior  in  print  for  the  purpose 
of  discrediting  him  and  getting  his  place  is  a  heinous  of- 
fense, meriting  dismissal  from  the  army.  It  is  now  a  question 
of  veracity  and  evidence.  The  testimony  of  Ray  Stannard 
Baker  tended  to  discredit  Runcie's.  He  is  reported  to  have 
"  qualified  and  contradicted "  Runcie's  story  as  to  the  con- 
versation at  the  dinner  when  the  magazine  article  on  Cuba 
was  discussed,  denying  that  Wood  suggested  it. 

The  testimony  of  General  Brooke  was  also  important.  He 
alleged  many  and  flagrant  cases  of  insubordination.  The  tes- 
timony of  Horatio  S.  Rubens^  formerly  a  member  of  the 
Cuban  junta,  is  reported  to  have  "tended  to  corroborate  the 
statements  of  Major  Runcie."  When  asked  if  he  would  be 
willing  to  accept  the  word  of  Major  Wood  in  any  matter  in 
which  the  doctor  had  a  personal  interest,  Rubens  answered 
that  he  was  sorry  to  say  he  could  not. 

In  the  postal  matter,  some  members  of  the  Senate  appear 
not  to  be  satisfied  with  Bristow's  exhaustive  report,  and 
Senator  Penrose  has  introduced  a  resolution  in  the  Senate 
asking  for  all  the  papers  in  the  case,  with  view  to  further 
investigation.  The  resolution  has  been  referred  to  com- 
mittee. Should  it  be  agreed  upon,  the  postal  scandal  will  be 
subject  of  congressional  investigation. 

Mr.  Bristow's  report  fills  fifteen  closely  printed  columns 
in  the  Call,  which  was  the  only  local  paper  to  print  it  in  full. 


December  7,  1903. 


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It  was  evidently  sent  by  mail,  not  telegraph,  as  the  Presi- 
dent's comments  are  dated  November  24th,  while  they  were 
printed  here  on  Monday,  the  30th.  The  President,  in  his 
memorandum  on  the  report,  points  out  that  the  investigation 
was  really  decided  upon  by  Congressman  Loud  and  Post- 
master-General Payne  in  December,  1902;  that  subsequent 
charges  laid  against  Beavers,  Machen,  and  Tyner  led  him 
to  order  a  thorough  investigation  by  Bristow ;  that  he  then 
chose  the  Democrats,  Bonaparte  and  Conrad,  as  special  coun- 
sel, and  that  these  men  now  indorse  Bristow's  report  as  "  an 
able,  candid,  and  impartial  review,"  and  "  heartily  commend  " 
it.  The  President  further  calls  attention  to  the  fact — he  calls  it 
melancholy — that  all  the  offenders,  with  one  exception,  are 
appointees  of  previous  administrations,  some  of  them  of 
Cleveland's.  He  gives  a  list  of  the  fourteen  employees  '*  most 
seriously  implicated,"  including  ex-Assistant  Postmaster- 
General  Perry  S.  Heath,  who  appears  to  have  only  escaped 
indictment  by  the  skin  of  his  teeth.  Twenty  outsiders  indicted 
are  also  listed.  The  President  recommends  that  the  "  statute 
of  limitations  be  extended  in  the  case  of  government  servants 
to  a  period- of  at  least  five  years."  He  promises  that,  in  the 
present  investigation,  "  the  government  will  exhaust  every 
expedient  in  its  power  in  the  effort  to  see  that  justice  is 
meted  out  to  the  offenders." 

And  now  the  Great  Postal  Scandal  is  up  to  the  Demo- 
crats ! 

A  touch  of  grotesque  humor  was  given  the  Panama  affair 
this  week  by  the  solemn  assurance  of  General  Reyes,  Co- 
lombia's commissioner  to  this  country,  that  Colombia  is  now 
willing  to  give  us  permission  to  construct  a  canal  across  the 
Isthmus  free,  gratis,  for  nothing.  "  All  Colombia,"  he  said, 
"  is  afire  with  zeal  for  the  building  of  the  canal  by  the  United 
States !"  The  only  trouble  with  the  proposition  is  that  Co- 
lombians have  now  nothing  to  give !  It's  everlastingly  too 
late.  They  had  their  chance;  they  threw  it  away;  they  have 
only  themselves  to  blame.  As  Uncle  Sam  marches 
up  the  aisle  to  the  altar  with  Miss  Panama  on  his  arm, 
Colombia  can  only  lugubriously  murmur:  "It  might  have 
been  me."  Saddest  words  of  tongue  or  pen — it  might  have 
been  1 

The  signing  of  the  treaty — from  the  reports  evidently  an 
event  marked  by  truly  South  American  impressiveness — in 
Panama  on  Wednesday  by  the  officers  of  the  republic  brings 
the  canal  one  step  nearer  realization.  The  treaty  must  now  be 
ratified  by  the  United  States  Senate,  and  the  question  is, 
Will  the  Senate  agree?  The  Democrats,  if  they  were  united, 
have  just  enough  votes  to  defeat  the  treaty — thirty-three  out 
of  a  total  of  ninety.  But  they  are  known  to  be  undecided  on  a 
course  of  action.  Only  Senators  Morgan  and  Teller  have  an- 
nounced undying  hostility.  Several  Southern  Democratic 
senators  have  said  they  would  vote  for  it.  On  the  Republican 
side,  there  is  as  yet  no  reason  to  suppose  that  there  will  be 
any  party  bolters.  Whether,  in  view  of  the  revolution,  any 
further  legislation  will  be  required  from  Congress  as  a  whole 
to  enable  the  payments  to  the  French  company  and  Panama 
to  be  made,  is  a  question  upon  which  lawyers  disagree.  At  the 
rate  things  are  moving  in  this  Panama  matter — under  the 
Rooseveltian  spur — it  will  not  be  long  before  everybody  will 
know  all  about  it. 


The    Panama    dispatches    say    that    "  the    slight    oppo- 
sition   to    the    ratification    of    the    canal 

Opposition 

Disappearing  treaty  appears  to  have  been  overcome. 
in  Panama.  This    opposition    existed    among    a    few 

government  officials,  who  now  have  been  won  over 
and  thoroughly  convinced  by  the  reasonable  arguments 
of  the  revolutionists."  Although  the  dispatch  does 
not  say  so,  we  may  believe  that  the  gentlemen  who 
have  been  convinced  by  these  arguments  are  doing 
as  well  as  can  be  expected,  and  will  probably  be  out  in 
a  few  days. 


A  tide  of  common  sense  on  the  question  of  currency 
is    at   last    reaching    the    Pacific    Coast. 

Pennies  ° 

in        '  Some  two  months  ago,  an  unexpectedly 

san  Francisco.  large  or(ier  from  San  Francisco  for 
one-cent  pieces  astonished  the  Treasury  Department, 
and  already  a  second  call  is  made.  So  urgent  is  this 
new  demand  that,  after  sending  out  all  available  sup- 
plies from  Washington  and  Baltimore,  the  department 
has  issued  hurry-up  orders  to  the  Philadelphia  and 
New  Orleans  mints,  as  well  as  to  the  New  York  and 
Chicago  sub-treasuries.  In  addition,  arrangements 
will  at  once  be  made  to  have  placed  in  operation  at  the 
San  Francisco  Mint  machinery  for  making  pennies, 
an  equipment  heretofore  deemed  superfluous,  owing 
to  the  lack  of  demand  on  this  Coast  for  small  coppers. 

This  new  use  of  pennies  in  San  Francisco  has  been  brought 
about  in  a  large  measure  by  department-stores,  where  prices 
often  run  in  odd  figures  to  catch  the  eye  of  bargain-hunters. 
It  may  be  due,  also,  in  a  not  inconsiderable  degree,  to  the 
increasing  influx  of  a  new  population  who  are  accustomed 
to   the  use   of  the  penny   as   the   smallest   coin   in   circulation. 

The  communities  on  the  Pacific  Coast  have  been  wont  to 
take  a  misguided  pride  in  the  matter  of  the  coins  they  em- 
ploy. Their  attitude  is  a  heritage  from  the  old  pioneer  days 
when  even  the  "bit"  was  regarded  scornfully,  and' to  produce 
it  required  some  courage  on  the  part  of  thrifty  citizens.  In  time, 
however,  the  dime  came  into  general  use,  and  the  nickel 
followed  in  due  course.  Now  the  penny  has  come  into  favor 
as  the  smallest  coin,  and  an  apology  is  no  longer  in  order 
when  one  is  handed  across  the  counter. 

These  changes  are  an  indication  that  San  Francisco  is  get- 


The  Prkss  on 
Presidential 
Aspirants. 

auguries,    the 


ting  rid  of  her  provincial  airs,  and  may  soon  take  rank  among 
the  large  cities  of  the  nation. 

Using,  not  disrespectfully,  President  Roosevelt  as  a  divining- 
rod,  the  oracles  have  gone  forth  to  locate 
the  source  whence  is  to  gush  a  Democratic 
victory  in  1905.  These  rhabdomancers — 
political  water-witches — differ  in  their 
and  presumably  refusing  to  turn  down  de- 
cisively, leaving  the  wise-workers  to  conjectures  more  or  less 
supported  on  arguments  drawn,  not  from  the  future,  but  the 
past;  nay,  one  prophet  averreth  of  another  that  he  has  will- 
fully turned  the  rod  down,  not  awaiting  the  occult  working 
of  the  spell. 

Aside  from  certain  rustic,  cross-roads  nominations  made  in 
moments  of  editorial  enthusiasm  and  not  generally  recognized, 
there  are  at  present  six  leaders  presented  to  the  choice  of  the 
Democratic  rank  and  file,  each  warranted  a  good  opponent 
to  Mr.  Roosevelt,  this  being  a  desideratum  beyond  that  of 
Jeffersonian  simplicity.  These  six  are  ex-President  Cleve- 
land, Senator  Gorman,  of  Maryland,  Judge  George  Gray,  of 
Delaware,  Judge  Alton  B.  Parker,  of  the  New  York  appellate 
court,  Mayor-Elect  of  New  York  City  George  B.  McClellan, 
and  Congressman  W.  R.  Hearst.  Of  these,  Mr.  Cleveland  has 
declined  the  honor  which  he  intimates  has  been  thrust  upon 
him  by  the  Brooklyn  Eagle  and  the  New  York  World,  and  the 
mantle  of  Mr,  Cleveland  has  been  bestowed,  over  night,  by 
the  Eagle  upon  Judge  Parker,  "  a  model  judge,"  as  the  World 
had  remarked,  "  but  very  little  known  to  the  country  at 
large,"  adding:  "Would  it  not  be  better  to  oppose  the  very 
positive  Roosevelt  with  the  equally  positive,  but  radically 
different  Cleveland?"  And  while  the  abnegation  of  the 
Princeton  sage  is  hardly  accepted  as  final  by  many  Demo- 
cratic journals,  it  is  considered — especially  in  the  South, 
where  opposition  to  Mr.  Cleveland  as  a  "  bolter "  is  very 
strong — as  a  timely  solution  to  a  perplexing  problem. 

The  candidacy  of  Senator  Gorman  is  viewed  with  some 
dismay  by  those  who  fear  his  record  as  a  supporter  of  the 
Wilson  tariff  on  coal  and  sugar,  and  say,  openly,  that  he  will 
not  appeal  to  the  necessary  "  second  wing  " — in  short,  that  he 
will  not  unite  a  much-torn  party.  Mayor-Elect  McClellan, 
nominated  by  the  Republican  warhorse,  General  Grosvenor, 
in  his  "  prediction  of  victory  "  speech  as  a  man  "  without  a 
detrimental  record"  is  not  considered  a  "possibility"  by  the 
Atlanta  Journal,  which  remarks:  '"The  South  will,  as  usual, 
go  solidly  for  whatever  candidate  is  nominated,"  but  thinks 
Gorman  and  Cleveland  have  more  of  th*  popularity  which 
"  materializes  into  delegates  at  a  national  convention."  Apart 
from  his  own  three  papers  and  a  syndicate  press  appertinent 
thereto,  Congressman  Hearst  appears  to  receive  little  en- 
couragement. The  leading  Democratic  dailies — with  the  ex- 
ception of  his  own — say  doubtfully,  if  courteously,  that  Mr. 
Hearst  is  "  ambitious,"  a  fault  imputed  to  a  man  of  prior 
greatness. 

As  to  the  chances,  one  of  these  gentlemen — or  yet  another — 
will  have  in  next  year's  election,  General  Grosvenor,  the  Re- 
publican statistician,  predicts  that  two  hundred  and  sixty- 
three  votes  in  the  electoral  college  are  assured  to  Mr.  Roose- 
velt, two  hundred  and  thirty-nine  being  necessary  to  election. 
The  Chicago  Inter-Ocean,  with  a  warning  that  it  is  Republican, 
proves  a  very  Cassandra,  foresees  difficulties  in  the  path  of  the 
G.  O.  P.,  and  refers  darkly  to  "  business  interests."  The 
Atlanta  Constitution,  placing  twenty-one  States,  with  two 
hundred  and  seventeen  electoral  votes,  among  the  safely  Dem- 
ocratic, looks  westward  and  surmises  that  Oregon  and  Cali- 
fornia will  join  Connecticut  and  New  jersey  in  running  up  an 
additional  thirty-three  for  the  Democratic  candidate,  and  hints 
that  West  Virginia,  Indiana,  and  Illinois  are  debatable 
ground.  The  New  York  Tribune  and  the  St.  Paul  Pioneer- 
Press,  using  the  figures  of  the  last  general  elections,  in  which 
the  Republicans  carried  thirty  States,  with  three  hundred  and 
fourteen  electoral  votes,  argue  that  if  those  statistics  are 
reliable,  which  show  that  for  the  last  forty  years  the  party 
which  has  carried  those  States,  having  a  majority  of  electoral 
votes  at  the  election  preceding  a  Presidential  election,  has 
elected  its  candidate  for  President,  why,  "  to  run  a  Democratic 
candidate  will  be  a  worse  waste  of  time  than  usual."  But  the 
generality,  like  Mr.  Micawber,  simply  state  that  they  have 
the  firmest  grounds  for  believing  that  something  will  turn  up. 

Among  the  many  documents  relating  to  the  Philippine  tariff 
is  a  protest  of  a  body  of  business  men  in 
Manila  against  the  present  policy  of  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  islands.  This  protest, 
which  indulges  in  much  strong,  if  hardly  ele- 
gant, language,  is  largely  an  attack  on  former  Governor  Taft 
and  his  successor,  Governor  Wright.  ".We  do  not  believe," 
these  gentlemen  of  trade  say.  "  that  the  administration  here 
can  escape  responsibility  for  the  frightful  industrial  condi- 
tions of  the  present,  due  to  a  lack  of  proper  financial  and 
other  legislation  at  this  end  of  the  line,  by  charging  the 
Washington  administration  with  dictating  the  policy  which 
has  been  followed  here.  ...  In  fact,  they  believe  that  the 
administration  in  Washington  has  been  systematically  deceived 
as  to  the  true  state  of  affairs  in  Manila."  They  favor  "  a 
substantial  cut  in  exorbitant  salaries  of  officials  and  other 
sources  of  leakage  which  will  enable  the  government  to  bor- 
row at  least  one  hundred  millions  of  dollars  gold  with  which 
to  build  highways,  railways,  and  other  necessary  improve- 
ments." They  assert  that  they  "  are  tired  of  wearing  them- 
selves to  the  withers  paying  exorbitant  salaries  to  public  offi- 
cials, who  know  little  and  care  less  about  the  commercial  in- 
terests of  the  archipelago,"  and  protest  against  what  they  call 
"  the  folly  of  intrusting  the  lives  and  property  of  millions  of 
human  beings  to  the  keeping  of  one  man  who  is  without  inter- 
est or  stake  in  a  country  ten  thousand  miles  away  " — from  the 
Senate  lobby,  we  suppose. 

These  quite  acid  complaints  are  resolvable  into  the   follow- 


The  Philippines 

AND    THE 

Tariff. 


ing  three  statements,  given  in  the  Manila  Trade  Review  and 
Price  Current: 

First — A  tariff  is  levied  against  American  manufactures 
which  enables  the  cheaper  and  shoddier  manufactures  of  Eu- 
rope to  compete  on  an  equal  footing  with  American  goods  of 
superior  quality. 

Second— The  present  tariff,  instead  of  making  it  possible 
to  turn  Manila  into  a  vast  warehouse,  where  the  trade  of 
five  hundred  million  souls  might  be  made  to  centre,  im- 
poses restrictions  which  make  it  too  expensive  to  be  under- 
taken. 

Third — The  merchants  of  the  United  States  can  increase 
their  imports  to  these  islands  fully  twenty  times  in  less  than 
one  year  by  insisting  upon  Congress  putting  the  Philippines 
upon  the  same  plane  as  Porto  Rico. 

Amid  the  vagueness  of  the  main  part  of  the  memorial,  here 
is  solidity  and  meaning  in  the  last  phrase,  "  on  the  same 
footing  as  Porto  Rico." 

The  tariff  reform,  not  only  demanded  by  the  business  men 
quoted  above,  but  favored,  we  understand,  by  the  iniquitous 
Taft  and  the  deluded  Roosevelt,  is  also,  in  the  minds  of  many 
ardent  advocates,  connected  with  the  repeal  of  that  law,  to  be 
in  force  July  1,  1904,  making  all  interisland  commerce  subject 
to  the  United  States  coast-wise  shipping  act.  This  latter 
enactment,  which  makes  it  necessary  for  all  craft  to  be 
American  built  and  American  manned,  the  New  York  Sun 
terms  a  "  hold-up,"  and  asserts  that  it  will  mean  a  "  forced 
sale  "  of  native  shipping.  The  Sun,  of  course,  agrees  that  the 
present  situation  is  a  "  nightmare  and  a  scandal."  Tariff- 
reform  itself  is  called  by  the  San  Francisco  Chronicle  "  this 
measure  of  decency,"  and  the  New  York  Tribune  states  that 
"  there  is  no  violation  of  true  and  progressive  protection 
principles  in  a  large  reduction  or  even  complete  remission  of 
duties  on  Philippine  products,"  and  that  "  the  only  opposition 
is  found  in  a  mere  blind  adherence  to  a  formula  of  pro- 
tection on  the  part  of  a  few  persons  who  will  not  realize 
that  protection  is  made  for  man  and  not  man  for  protection." 
Other  papers  that  deprecate  the  position  of  the  protesting 
business  men,  say  emphatically  that  Governor  Taft  had 
gained  the  ill-will  of  these  gentlemen  by  governing  in  the 
interests  of  the  Filipino,  and  that  "  it  is  not  the  law  that  the 
trade  boarders  of  Manila  object  to,  but  the  manner  of  its  en- 
forcement." Thus  two  parties,  holding  precisely  opposite 
views  of  our  duty  to  the  Philippines,  place  their  hopes  of  vic- 
tory on  the  same  arguments,  and  both  lay  great  stress  on  three 
articles  that  are  held  to  exemplify  the  evil  workings  of  the 
present  tariff:  tobacco,  hemp,  and  sugar.  It  is  stated  in  figures 
that  the  insular  government  loses  something  like  $700,000  on 
a  year's  exports  of  hemp  through  the  abolition  of  the  export 
duty  of  $7.50  a  ton,  and  this  is  not  made  up  by  $400,000  by 
the  turning  into  the  treasury  of  the  seventy-five  per  cent. 
Dingley  rate  imposed  on  the  other  commodities.  In  the  mean- 
time the  foreign  trade  of  the  Philippines,  exclusive  of  United 
States  Government  importations,  has  risen  from  $58,i53-967 
in  1902  to  $67,062,994  in  1903;  a  gain  of  $8,909,027,  and 
nearly  all  this  in  exports,  leaving  a  trade  balance  in  favor 
of  the  islands  of  nearly  half  a  million. 

The  whole  question  of  Philippine  tariff-reform  resolves  itself 
into  a  single  proposition.  Are  the  people  of  the  United 
States  willing  to  take  the  chance  of  serious,  perhaps  ruin- 
ous, competition  in  our  own  sugar  and  tobacco  industries  in 
order  that  the   Philippines  may  prosper? 

A  certain  great  Roman  kept  a  slave  to  whisper  to  him,  in  too- 
triumphant  moments:  "Memento  mori."  The 
San  Francisco,  Portland  Oregon  ian  aspires  to  perform  a  some- 
the  Sharpkr's  what  similar  function  for  San  Francisco,  so 
that  we  San  Franciscans  shall  not  get  too 
much  puffed  up  in  our  prosperity.  Hearken  to  the  chastening 
vpice : 

With  the  possible  exception  of  the  New  Yorker,  no  other 
American  is  so  well  satisfied  with  his  own  smartness  and  his 
own  town  as  the  San  Franciscan.  Whether  he  be  a  ham  actor 
counting  the  ties  on  the  homeward  trip,  a  shoe-string  peddler 
going  in  on  a  brakebeam.  or  a  merchant  prince  in  a  private  car. 
there  is  the  same  fond  regard  for  dear,  old  'Frisco,  and  the 
same  haughty  contempt  for  the  rest  of  the  country.  Force  of 
circumstances,  principally  because  they  need  the  money,  com- 
pels many  of  the  residents  of  the  Bay  City  to  wander  out 
among  the  jays  of  the  neighboring  States,  and  on  these  trips 
they,  with  becoming  modesty,  regale  the  aforesaid  jays  with 
tales  calculated  to  give  out  the  impression  that  life  anywhere 
outside  of  the  Bay  City  can  never  be  anything  but  a  joyless 
existence.  But  with  all  of  this  superior  wisdom  there  are 
lapses,  during  which  it  is  made  plain  that  San  Franciscans 
are  not  only  "  jes'  common  folks,"  but  that  they  are  also  what 
the  outside  jays  would  term  "  easy  marks."  Corroborative 
evidence  to  this  effect  is  found  in  the  closing  developments 
regarding  the  Eppinger  failure.  The  total  losses,  which  will  be 
sustained  by  the  California  bankers,  brokers,  warehousemen, 
not  to  mention  the  butcher,  baker,  and  other  small  fry,  will 
aggregate  something  over  $1,600,000.  Now.  gold  bricks  have 
found  purchasers  in  Oregon.  In  some  of  the  Oregon  cities 
trusted  pillars  of  the  church  have  extracted  fairly  large  sums 
from  the  banks  by  the  unsecured  overdraft.  The  maximum 
figure  involved  in  these  financial  transactions,  however,  was  of 
no  great  consequence — a  mere  few  thousands.  But  here  we 
are  confronted  with  the  spectacle  of  the  "  wisest  people  on 
earth"  being  buncoed  out  of  $1,600,000!  What  a  field  for 
thimble-riggers,  shell-workers,  and  other  gentlemen  with 
get-rich-quick  schemes.  San  Francisco  has  always  held  the 
undisputed  prestige  of  having  the  most  changeable  climate  on 
earth,  the  dampest  fog,  and  the  most  sensational  crimes  and 
criminals.  To  this  category  can  now  be  added  the  easiest 
victims  for  a  financial  sharper. 

Now    will    we  be  good! 


At  Grant's  Pass.  Or.,  a  special  municipal  election  was 
held  the  other  day  (says  the  Sacramentu  Union)  for  tin-  pur- 
pose of  determining  whether  or  not  the  city  should  accept  the 
gift  of  a  ten-thousand-dollar  library  building  from  Andrew 
Carnegie,  and  by  a  close  but  emphatic  vote  the  gifl  was  de- 
clined. This  is  the  second  rebuff  of  the  kind  which  Mr.  Car- 
negie has  had  from  the  State  of  Oregon.  Some  two  or  three 
years  ago  the  offer  of  a  large  sum  was  made  to  Portland  for  a 
general  library,  but  it  was  declined  with  thanks,  on  the  ground 
that  Portland  had  already  a  fine  library,  and  that  it  preferred 
not  to  be  under  obligations  to  any  npn-resident  •■■  a  purely 
domestic   institution. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  7,  1903. 


THE    FAITH    OF    CHUN    TAI. 


How  It  "Was  Shattered  by  the  Foreign  Devil-Doctors. 

Chun  Tai  walked  slowly  up  and  down  before  the  door 
of  his  house — forgetting  in  the  cool  of  the  evening  the 
hot  sun  that  had  been  at  noon — with  the  little  one  in 
his  arms.  At  every  step,  it  gave  the  low  whimper, 
half  patient  and  half  petulant,  of  a  sick  child,  and  he 
soothed  it  by  gentle  pats  of  his  rough  hands,  whose 
finger  joints  stuck  out  in  great  knots  that  seemed  to 
have  been  tied  in  the  bone.  The  lines  were  drawn  deep 
in  heavy  corrugations  on  his  face  as  he  quieted  the 
little  sufferer,  and  his  heart  was  hard  and  bitter  within 
him.  He  could  not  let  his  first  born  die;  he  would 
draw  it  back  to  life  by  the  force  of  his  love. 

He  muttered  curses  on  the  village  doctor,  all  of 
whose  herbs  had  wrought  no  cure  for  his  motherless 
son.  In  spite  of  them,  the  disturbance  in  the  baby's 
throat  was  increasing,  the  fever  burned  its  small, 
crumpled,  yellow  body.  There  was  plainly  no  hope 
left.  It  might  be  to-day  or  it  might  be  to-morrow 
that  he  would  be  left  without  a  son  to  worship  at  his 
grave,  to  burn  joss-sticks  before  the  ancestral  tablets 
of  his  fathers.    It  was  a  calamity — immeasurable. 

In  his  trouble  a  sudden  need  for  sympathy  came  upon 
Chun  Tai,  and  he  walked  toward  the  village  threshing- 
floor  where,  at  this  hour,  the  neighbors  were  gathered. 
It  was  early  autumn,  the  gorgeous  season  in  North 
China  when  nature  is  as  lavish  of  blue  sky  as  if  there 
were  enough  for  every  day  in  the  year.  Gradually  the 
crops  were  being  gathered  in,  and,  on  all  sides,  from 
sunrise  to  sunset,  the  busy  sounds  of  harvest,  punctuated 
by  the  regular  heavy  thud  of  the  hand  flails,  sounded 
from  threshing-floors  innumerable  scattered  over  the 
great  plain.  At  evening,  the  people  of  each  village 
collected  on  their  own  mud  floors  to  gossip,  to  chatter, 
or  else  to  squat  stolidly  in  mysterious  circles,  ghostly 
and  indefinitely  outlined  by  the  gray  twilight,  smoking 
their  water-pipes  with  companionable  gurglings,  lost 
in  Oriental,  thoughtless  reverie.  Whatever  disputes  or 
quarrels  had  disturbed  the  even  tenor  of  the  working 
hours  were  settled  then  and  there,  the  neighbors  con- 
stituting an  impromptu  jury,  the  judgments  equitably 
pronounced  by  the  village  headman,  for  which  re- 
spected and  responsible  position  the  oldest  male  in- 
habitant was  always  chosen. 

As  Chun  Tai  approached,  the  graybeard  asked, 
kindly.     "  How  is  thy  son  ?" 

"  Worse,  always  worse,"  groaned  the  father.  "  Thy 
prayers  have  failed.  My  prayers  have  failed.  Now 
medicines  have  failed.     There  is  no  more  to  be  done." 

The  villagers  gathered  around  him  to  look  at  the 
child,  partly  from  sympathy,  but  more  from  the  in- 
satiable curiosity  which  is  the'  dominant  character 
note  of  the  Chinese  countryman.  A  woman  made  as  if 
to  take  the  boy  out  of  his  arms,  but  he  would  not  let 
him  go.  Very  tenderly  he  held  the  baby,  his  own  face 
reflecting  the  pain  on  the  flushed  little  one,  just  as  a 
mountain  lake  reflects  the  lights  and  shadows  that  fall 
on  the  hills  around  it. 

After  his  fashion  the  graybeard  tried  to  bring  com- 
fort. "  My  son,"  said  he,  "  have  you  not  lost  the  child's 
mother  and  recovered  from  your  grief?" 

Chun  Tai  answered,  bitterly :  "  What  man  will 
grieve  for  a  wife?  A  wife  is  like  a  table  that  in  time 
breaks  and  becomes  useless.  By  working  a  little  longer 
each  day  in  the  fields  one  may  soon  purchase  a  better. 
But  a  first-born  son  is  a  gift  from  heaven."  His  voice 
broke  in  a  sob.  "  The  water-carrier  who  has  a  son  is 
happier  than  the  great  man  who  has  none." 

On  the  outskirts  of  the  crowd  some  one  spoke  up. 
"  Take  the  child  to  the  foreign  devil-doctor  in  Tai 
Yuan." 

"  Ah,  Tai  Yuan  is  two  hundred  li"  put  in  the  cautious 
graybeard,  shaking  his  head  with  a  heavy  regularity. 

"  Yes,  yes,  Tai  Yuan  is  two  hundred  li,"  the  crowd 
murmured,   shaking  their   heads   in   unison   after   him. 

"  And  it  is  well  known  that  foreign  devil-doctors 
gouge  out  children's  eyes,"  continued  the  old  man. 

"  But  they  have  a  medicine  that  heals  all  sickness," 
resumed  the  first  speaker.  "  I  have  heard  it  myself 
from  Wun  Li.     He  was  healed  of  a  shaking  disease." 

"  No  good  conies  from  the  foreign  devils,"  retorted 
the  old  man,  with  a  contemptuous  sniff.  "  They  may 
cure  the  bodily  disease,  but  they  cast  the  evil  spell. 
They  kidnap  children  to  make  this  great  medicine  out 
of  their  eyeballs.  They  are  devils  and  the  sons  of 
devils." 

"  But  is  it  true  they  can  work  cures?"  asked  Chun 
Tai,  eagerly.    "  Tell  me,  is  it  true?" 

He  looked  over  the  group  of  stolid,  expressionless 
faces  for  an  answer.  The  friend-of  Wun  Li,  however, 
had  slunk  away,  since  custom  forbade  him  to  set  up 
his  opinion  in  contradiction  to  that  of  the  village 
patriarch,  and  Chun  Tai  was  met  by  an  uncompro- 
mising silence. 

"  Tell  me,"  lie  said  again,  more  insistently,  "  will  tile 
foreign  devil-doctor  cure  my  son?" 

A  murmur  of  doubtful  grunts  came  from  the  by- 
standers. Only  the  headman  replied,  half  under  his 
breath  :    ''  Tai  Yuan  is  two  hundred  li." 

This  made  Chun  Tai  wince.  Two  hundred  li — 
which  is  one  hundred  miles  as  we  count  distance — was 
further  nan  his  fathers  or  his  grandfathers  had  trav- 
el. .1  i>  himself  had  been  but  five  li  from  the  village 
tune  highway.     To  him  and  to  these  simple 


peasants,  a  journey  of  a  hundred  miles  was  a  sign  of 
light-mindedness.  If  he  embarked  upon  it,  he  could 
never  again  expect  to  occupy  the  solid,  respectable  po- 
sition in  the  village  which  was  now  his.  They  would 
always  point  to  him  with  the  finger  of  suspicion  as  the 
man  who  had  tried  strange  things  and  seen  strange 
sights.  Yet,  for  the  sake  of  the  child,  he  would  be 
willing  to  suffer  mistrust,  to  pay  any  price  for  the  cloak 
which  should  hide  his  boy  from  destiny.  The  villagers 
would  no  longer  allow  him  to  watch  the  growing  water- 
melons lest  he  cast  the  evil  eye  on  them ;  that  he  re- 
alized. He  could  neither  join  in  the  festivals  nor  wor- 
ship the  gods  with  the  rest.  In  all  ways  he  would 
be  as  one  polluted,  an  outcast. 

Slowly,  without  asking  more  information,  Chun  Tai 
walked  back  to  his  house,  leaving  a  silent  group  be- 
hind him.  All  night  long  he  watched  over  the  rest- 
less child.  Now  and  again,  with  mechanical  careful- 
ness, he  wetted  the  little  parched  lips  with  tea.  It 
seemed  years  to  him  before  at  last  the  first  beams 
of  the  sun  appeared.  Then,  as  he  stood  in  his  door- 
way and  looked  out,  the  trees,  which  stretched  away 
in-  a  long  avenue  marking  the  course  of  the  road — the 
road  to  Tai  Yuan — and  apparently  marching  along  with 
it,  gave  him  courage. 

He  went  to  the  little  wooden  cupboard  built  in  the 
wall  and  took  out  a  square  of  blue  cloth.  Next  he  col- 
lected his  few  poor  belongings,  the  two  china  teacups 
and  the  teapot,  a  wadded  coat  for  the  child,  his  rice 
bowl,  and  his  chopsticks.  Last  of  all,  he  tied  in  a 
cloth  bundle  the  small  store  of  uncooked  rice  that  re- 
mained, as  well  as  what  little  boiled  rice  was  left  over 
from  the  last  meal,  and  wrapped  them  all  in  the  bed- 
quilt.  Nothing  remained  in  the  squalid  room,  no  treas- 
ures to  conceal  nor  valuables  to  leave  behind,  since 
Chun  Tai  carried  in  his  little  blue  bundle  all  the  worldly 
goods  that  he  possessed. 

He  pressed  some  hot  tea  again  to  the  lips  of  the  boy, 
who  swallowed  with  compulsory  gulps.  Then  he 
picked  up  his  bundle,  grasped  the  baby  firmly  and 
tenderly  in  his  arms  and,  shutting  the  door  quietly 
behind  him,  walked  out  toward  the  stone  road. 

For  three  days  he  trudged  along  carrying  his  child, 
begging  a  little  food,  sleeping  at  night  under  the  kindly 
shelter  of  some  temple  roof,  and  passing  a  variety  of 
life  on  the  high  road  which  he  scarcely  noticed.  When 
the  boy  seemed  to  suffer  less  pain,  Chun  Tai  walked, 
in  spite  of  his  burden,  with  an  enthusiasm,  almost  an 
exaltation.  His  spirit  was  already  looking  down  from 
the  heights,  and  his  weary  feet  struggled  to  overtake 
it.  When  the  child  suffered  more,  he  walked  silently, 
with  a  dogged  stoop  of  his  shoulders  and  a  shambling 
hitch  of  his  hips,  his  eyes  fixed  on  the  ground. 

The  evening  of  the  third  day  Chun  Tai  reached  the 
gates  of  Tai  Yuan  before  sunset  and  wended  his  way 
through  the  streets,  now  and  again  asking  the  road 
to  the  principal  inn.  When  the  flaring  candles  of  mut- 
ton fat  were  commencing  to  flicker  in  the  tea-shops 
he  reached  the  inn  and  entered  the  courtyard.  In  Chun 
Tai's  heart  a  tense  struggle  was  going  on — shame 
at  his  untoward  adventure,  fear  lest  the  landlord  should 
turn   him  away. 

Hearing  the  child  crying  in  his  arms,  the  inn-keeper 
asked,  kindly :  "  Is  the  child  ill  1" 

"  Yes,"  Chun  Tai  answered.  "  I  wish  to  sleep  here 
to-night.  I  am  come  to  search,"  he  went  on,  tremu- 
lously, his  reserve  breaking  down,  "  for  the  medicine 
of  the  foreign  devils  which  heals  all  sickness.  They  tell 
me  there  are  devil-doctors  in  Tai  Yuan;  is  it  true?" 

The  landlord  laughed.  "  True  enough,"  he  said. 
"  Men  devil-doctors  and  women,  too.  And  the  people 
are  angry  at  them  all.  Placards  have  even  been  posted 
on  the  city  walls  warning  honest  men  of  them  because 
the  white  healers  gouge  out  children's  eyes  for 
medicine." 

He  walked  away  to  speak  with  a  man  entering  the 
courtyard,  evidently  a  person  of  importance,  since  he 
rode  a  sleek  mule,  and  Chun  Tai  settled  himself  in  a 
corner  of  the  courtyard  and  made  a  pillow  for  the 
child  with  a  little  straw  from  the  bed  being  spread  for 
the  rich  man's  mule. 

All  night  long  Chun  Tai  lay  in  an  agony.  The  boy 
was  burning  with  fever  and  breathing  hard.  Since 
sundown  there  had  been  a  sudden  drop  in  temperature 
of  twenty  degrees,  and  these  abrupt  changes  in  North 
China  mean  steps  to  the  tomb.  Oh,  the  agony  of  de- 
ciding if  he  should  risk  the  child's  life,  his  eyes,  by 
taking  him  to  the  mission  doctor.  The  great  omniscient 
healing  medicine  he  must  have.  But  how  was  he  to  get 
it?  The  devil-doctors  dispensed  it  only  with  their 
own  hands  at  the  doors  of  their  houses.  Turning, 
whirling,  shifting,  and  combining,  the  thoughts 
arranged  themselves  in  his  brain  like  the  patterns 
formed  by  a  kaleidoscope.  At  last  they  settled  into  the 
final  pattern,  and  his  mind  grasped  a  plan. 

When  the  light  came  he  searched  for  the  inn-keeper 
and  besought  his  permission  to  lay  the  child  upon  the 
k'ang.  Servants  were  preparing  food  over  a  charcoal 
stove  in  one  corner  of  the  room,  and  a  table  stood 
against  the  wall  covered  with  rude  cooking  utensils. 
Chun  Tai  sidled  toward  it,  and  picked  up  a  big,  blunt 
knife  used  for  peeling  vegetables.  Then  before  any 
one  had  noticed  him,  he  was  out  of  the  door  and  on 
his  way  down  the  street  toward  the  mission  compound. 

He  ran  breathlessly,  stumbling  up  the  little  blind 
alleys,  vaguely  picking  his  way  by  the  iron  cross  on  the 
top  of  the  chapel.  He  looked  into  the  eyes  of  every 
child  he  met  as  if  for  proof  of  the  rumors  which  were 


none  the  less  truth  to  him  because  he  found  no  con- 
firmation. On  and  on  he  ran  till  the  little  cross  was 
almost  above  him.  The  heavy,  troubled  breathing  of 
the  sick  boy  sounded  in  his  ears  and  urged  him  faster 
until  he  neared  the  gate. 

There  was  a  small  walled  street  on  one  side  almost 
destitute  of  houses  and  empty  as  the  streets  of  Pompeii. 
He  turned  into  it.  Slowly  he  disentangled  the  big  knife 
from  the  folds  of  his  coat.  He  bared  his  left  arm 
deliberately  and  cut  a  long  gash  above  the  elbow.  Then 
he  threw  the  knife  into  the  thick  grass  near  the  walls. 

Where  another  man  might  have  fainted  from  the 
pain,  Chun  Tai,  through  the  force  of  his  resolve,  re- 
mained conscious.  No  scream  escaped  his  lips,  and 
the  contortions  of  his  face  were  dominated  by  a  look 
of  supreme  love  and  sacrifice.  The  blood  flowed  freely 
from  the  wound,  and  he  stanched  it  with  the  little  blue 
wrapping-cloth  he  had  brought  from  home,  binding  his 
arm  up  roughly.  After  a  moment's  rest  he  continued 
his  way  slowly  and  entered  the  door  of  the  mission. 

Passing  through  the  gateway  he  was  directly  in  a 
room  furnished  only  by  benches  running  round  the 
sides  of  it,  and  a  large  brass-bound  chest  at  one  end. 
A  kindly  man  came  up  to  him,  an  elderly  man. 
Chun  Tai  pulled  up  his  sleeve,  showing  the  wound,  and 
the  doctor,  seeing  the  red  stream  of  blood  trickling 
down  from  it,  left  the  little  row  of  patients  sitting  on 
the  benches  near  the  door  and  attended  to  him  first. 
While  he  washed  and  dressed  the  wound,  the  devil- 
doctor  asked  him  many  simple  questions  in  the  ver- 
nacular— whence  he  came  and  how  he  had  been  hurt. 

As  he  answered,  Chun  Tai  wondered  that  such  a  kind 
old  man  should  gouge  out  children's  eyes;  yet  he  was 
glad  that,  instead  of  subjecting  his  first  born  to  such  a 
risk,  he  had  borne  the  pain  himself. 

The  old  knife  which  had  been  chosen  for  the  instru- 
ment of  sacrifice  was  rusted  on  the  edges,  and  the  lips 
of  the  gash  were  ragged.  The  dressing  of  it  was  slow, 
but  he  stood  the  pain  stolidly  and  unflinchingly,  im- 
patient at  the  washing  and  cleaning,  desirous  only  for 
the  great  medicine.  At  last  the  preliminaries  were  done. 
The  devil-doctor  walked  to  the  cupboard  and  brought 
out  a  small  box.  Chun  Tai's  heart  beat  fast,  and  the 
excitement  made  his  arm  tremble,  until  the  healer,  ac- 
customed to  the  phlegmatic  dispositions  of  his  regular 
patients,  wondered  and  was  unusually  kind.  Gently 
he  laid  the  curing  white  ointment  on  the  cut,  covering 
it  thickly  and  binding  it  up  with  clean  linen  bands. 
Chun  Tai  felt  a  moment  of  despair.  "  Will  you  give 
me  none  of  the  great  medicine  to  carry  away?"  he 
asked,  trembling. 

The  doctor  smiled  and,  knowing  that  the  cure  of  faith 
with  the  simple  Chinese  minds  is  half  the  cure,  he  gave 
Chun  Tai  a  tiny  box  of  the  precious  white  ointment 
with  careful  directions.  "  In  case  you  can  not  come 
again  to  the  mission,"  he  was  told,  "  lay  the  medicine 
on  the  wound  and  bind  it  up  again  just  as  you  have 
seen  me  do." 

Chun  Tai,  when  the  operation  was  done,  fumbled 
with  his  unhurt  hand  in  the  folds  of  his  gown.  Ex- 
citement unsteadied  his  fingers,  and  he  was  a  long 
time  finding  what  he  was  looking  for.  Presently,  how- 
ever, he  drew  forth  a  string  containing  eight  large 
cash — three  cents — the  remains  of  his  little  store,  and 
handed  them  to  the  doctor.  "  For  the  great  medicine," 
he  said,  simply. 

When  the  white  man  gave  them  quietly  back  to 
him,  Chun  Tai  was  astonished.  Had  he  seen  the  mist 
on  the  doctor's  eyes  he  would  have  been  even  more 
surprised.  As  it  was,  he  pondered  on  the  curious 
ways  of  the  children-stealers. 

Then  back  he  went  through  the  narrow  streets  to  his 
boy  in  the  inn.  The  child  was  lying  as  he  had  left 
him,  but  breathing  more  and  more  heavily.  However, 
the  halting  gasps  which  were  agony  to  him  before, 
caused  him  no  worry  now.  He  had  obtained  the  Elixir, 
the  great  cure,  and  there  was  no  more  doubt  in  his 
simple  mind  that  it  would  save  the  boy  than  that  the 
boats  which  sailed  on  the  canals  near  his  village  could 
see  their  way  with  their  painted  eyes.  The  room  was 
empty,  but  a  kettle  stood  as  usual  on  the  table  near  the 
charcoal  stove.  Some  tea  remained  from  the  men's 
breakfast.  It  was  a  moment's  work  to  pour  it  into  a 
bowl  and  to  mix  in  the  little  box  of  the  great  medicine. 
He  stirred  it  well  with  the  end  of  his  long  pipe,  nothing 
else  being  at  hand.  When  it  was  dissolved,  he  lifted 
the  boy's  head  and  poured  the  mixture  between  his  lips. 
Once,  twice,  and  a  third  time  the  child  gulped  it  down, 
till  nothing  remained. 

Then  he  lifted  up  the  baby  and  walked  slowly  to  and 
fro  with  him  to  wait  for  the  cure.  For  two  hours  he 
paced  back  and  forth,  waiting.  His  feet  were  on  the 
highest  point  of  the  heights  of  faith.  The  child  was 
slowly  growing  cooler;  he  felt  its.  hands.  They  had 
burned  before;  now  they  were  quite  cool.  The  breath- 
ing was  less  painful.  The  baby  seemed  to  be  dropping 
into  a  natural  sleep.  Meanwhile,  the  pain  in  his  own 
arm  increased,  but  Chun  Tai  hardly  thought  of  it. 
He  was  waiting  for  the  great  healing.  Only  when  the 
boy  fell  fast  asleep  did  he  lay  him  on  the  k'ang, 
wrapped  in  the  little  wadded  coat.  He  laid  himself 
down  beside  him  and,  worn  out  with  watching  and 
pain,  he,  too,  fell  asleep. 

The  return  of  the  inn-keeper  to  oversee  the  evening 
meal  awakened  him.  With  a  start  he  leaned  over  to 
the  child.  It  was  cool.  The  burning  fever  was  gone. 
Chun  Tai  touched  the  little  face.  A  shudder  went 
over  him.     He   felt   the   little   hands,   the   tiny  brown 


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feet.  He  listened  for  the  halting  breathing.  There 
were  no  labored  sobs.  The  great  medicine  had  cured 
the  burning  and  the  gasping — but  it  had  chilled  every 
bit  of  the  little  life  away. 

Chun  Tai  smoothed  the  baby  cheeks,  he  rubbed  the 
baby  hands — and  then  he  knew  that  his  faith  had  not 
availed.  He  was  not  a  man  to  burst  into  a  torrent  of 
emotion.  Stolidly  he  drew  the  string  of  cash  from 
the  bosom  of  his  gown.  One,  the  biggest,  he  pressed 
between  the  little  teeth.  It  was  the  toll  for  the  ferry- 
man who  was  even  then  ferrying  the  childish  spirit 
across  the  Buddhist  Styx.  The  rest  he  threw  on  the 
k'ang  for  the  inn-keeper,  and,  for  a  second  time,  he 
wrapped  the  child  in  the  wadded  coat  and,  with  set 
face  and  aching  arms,  stalked  away  with  his  burden 
toward  the  great  stone  road.  C.  E.  Lorrimer. 

San  Francisco,  December,  1903. 


AT    THE    PARIS    THEATRES. 

Alfred  Capus's  Remarkable  Success,  "  L'Adversaire  " — Rejane's  New 

Play   a   Disappointment  —  Her   Marital    Troubles —  Sarah 

Bernhardt's  Debut  as  an  Old  Woman. 

The  theatrical  event  of  the  season  in  Paris  is 
"  L'Adversaire,"  which  is  drawing  crowded  houses  at 
the  Renaissance,  and  has  received  more  enthusiastic 
criticism  than  any  other  production  since  Edmond 
Rostand's  "  Cyrano  de  Bergerac."  It  is  by  all  odds  the 
strongest  play  that  Alfred  Capus  has  ever  written,  and 
its  remarkable  success  is  regarded  as  opening  the  door 
of  the  French  Academy  to  the  brilliant  dramatist.  In 
order  to  give  strength  and  weight  to  the  political 
element  in  his  four-act  drama,  M.  Capus  has,  for  the 
first  time,  taken  as  his  collaborator,  Emmanuel  Arene, 
the  Corsican  deputy  and  intimate  friend  of  Waldeck- 
Rousseau. 

Besides  being  brimful  of  wit  and  sparkling  dialogue, 
"  L'Adversaire "  faithfully  reflects  the  foibles  and 
vanities  of  fashionable  French  life  in  the  twentieth 
century.  Of  course,  it  deals  with  the  everlasting 
menage  a  trois,  but  not  in  the  stereotyped  way.  Maurice 
Darly — superbly  acted  by  Lucien  Guitry,  most  ver- 
satile of  actors — is  an  accomplished  lawyer  of  wealth, 
who  shuns  society  for  the  quiet  of  his  home,  where  he 
spends  much  of  his  time  completing  a  literary  work 
that  he  has  undertaken.  His  wife,  Marianne,  is  imper- 
sonated by  Mile.  Martha  Breautin,  whose  rupture  with 
the  House  of  Moliere  provided  the  theatrical  sensation 
of  the  latter  end  of  last  season.  She  is  a  charming 
woman  who  loves  her  husband,  but  is  socially  ambitious 
and  anxious  to  see  him  plunge  into  the  political  arena 
and  become  a  Cabinet  minister.  When  a  cause  celebre 
comes  along — the  defense  of  a  rich  but  fraudulent 
financier — she  urges  Maurice  to  take  up  the  case,  but 
he  says  it  is  not  interesting,  and  lets  it  go  to  a  young 
and  ambitious  friend.  The  case  is  won;  the  young 
barrister  becomes  the  lion  of  Parisian  society,  and 
Marianne  has  her  head  turned  by  it  all.  The  barrister 
pays  court  to  her,  and  she  falls  an  easy  victim  to  his 
flattery. 

The  wronged  husband's  suspicions  are  soon  aroused, 
and  he  questions  her  closely.  His  cross-examination 
soon  involves  her  in  a  web  of  contradiction,  and  finally 
he  extorts  from  her  a  full  confession.  Then  he  indulges 
in  no  hysterics  or  heroics,  but,  while  admitting  that  he 
still  loves  her,  decrees  that  they  must  part.  However, 
he  does  not  wish  to  be  revengeful,  or  to  ruin  her,  and, 
therefore,  he  says,  he  will  take  the  blame  himself. 
Acting  upon  this  resolution,  he  summons  his  wife's 
mother,  Mme.  Grecourt,  and  informs  her  of  his  assumed 
offense.  Thereupon  the  older  woman  bitterly  re- 
proaches her  daughter  for  being  so  hard  and  merciless. 
She  points  out  that,  owing  to  education,  custom,  and 
sex,  husbands  are  less  rigidly  chained  than  wives.  For 
a  husband  to  err  is  not  nearly  so  bad  as  for  the  wife  to 
fall  from  grace.  "Nearly  all  of  us  poor  women  have  had 
these  sad,  bitter  experiences,"  she  says,  and  then  adds: 
"  Ah,  but  if  it  were  the  wife  that  is  guilty,  it  would  be 
very  different.  The  wife  is  the  guardian  of  the  house- 
hold honor.  She  ought  never  to  be  pardoned.  For  such 
a  woman  the  only  course  left  open  would  be  to  rejoin 
her  lover  and,  if  possible,  to  live  happily  with  him! 
She  is  forced  to  exile,  and  all  women  think  as  I  do; 
only  they  are  not  always  willing  to  say  so!"  Maurice, 
sadly  turning  to  Marianne  after  her  mother  has  left  the 
room,  says:  "You  see,  it  is  necessary  for  us  to  sep- 
arate"; and,  extending  his  hand  in  final  farewell,  ex- 
claims :  "  We  can  no  longer  live  face  to  face.  Adieu ! 
It  is  your  own  mother  who  has  pronounced  judgment !" 
With  one  last  look  at  his  unforgiven  wife,  Maurice 
crosses  the  room,  closes  the  door  behind  him,  and  the 
curtain  falls. 

Over  at  the  Vaudeville  Theatre,  Mme.  Rejane  is  ap- 
pearing in  "  Antoinette  Sabrier,"  a  play  in  three  acts, 
by  Romain  Coolus.  I  doubt  whether  it  will  have  much 
of  a  run,  for  it  is  a  clumsy,  sombre  tragedy,  and  Rejane 
is  always  at  her  best  in  light  comedy  rather  than  intense 
passion.  The  leading  character,  Antoinette,  is  the  wife 
of  a  man  she  respects,  but  does  not  love.  She  is  much 
courted,  but  is  cold  to  all  until  Rene  Dangenne  comes 
along.  Like  a  self-respecting  woman,  Antoinette  de- 
cides that  love  is  the  only  thing  worth  having  in  the 
world,  and  she  prepares  to  elope  with  Rene.  Just  as 
they  are  about  leaving,  M.  Sabrier  comes  home  and 
tells  her  that  he  is  a  ruined  man,  ruined  by  one  of  her 
rejected  lovers.  That  makes  a  difference  to  Antoinette. 
She  might  run  away  from  a  man  she  did  not  love,  all 


other  things  being  equal ;  but  she  can  not  run  away 
with  a  rich  lover  when  her  husband  is  ruined.  She 
returns  to  her  duties,  and  Rene,  in  order  to  hasten 
things  along,  gives  M.  Sabrier  enough  money  to  get  on 
his  feet  again.  Sabrier,  however,  suspects;  he  ques- 
tions Antoinette;  she  lies  like  a  lady,  and  he  believes. 
But  at  last  he  learns  the  truth,  drives  the  guilty  pair 
from  the  house,  and  then  puts  a  bullet  into  his  own 
brain. 

The  estrangement  of  Mme.  Rejane  with  her  husband 
and  manager,  M.  Porel,  by  the  way,  has  long  been  the 
talk  of  theatrical  circles.  A  year  ago  their  differences 
were  patched  up  before  they  reached  the  point  from 
which  there  is  no  retreat,  but  to-day  both  parties  are 
resolved  on  divorce,  despite  the  amiable  efforts  of 
friends  on  both  sides  to  bring  about  a  reconciliation. 
The  popular  comedienne,  therefore,  can  not  remain  at 
her  husband's  theatre,  which  has  known  some  of  her 
greatest  successes.  "  Germinie  Lacerteux,"  now  being 
rehearsed,  is  probably  the  last  play  in  which  she  will 
appear  at  the  Vaudeville.  Her  place  as  leading  actress 
there  will  be  taken  by  Mile.  Suzanne  Despres. 

Another  quarrel  which  is  talked  of  is  between  Vic- 
torian Sardou  and  Sarah  Bernhardt.  The  veteran 
dramatist  complains  that  his  new  piece,  "  La  Sorciere," 
which  he  read  before  the  actors  a  couple  of  days  ago, 
has  been  dropped  out  of  its  proper  turn  and  should 
have  taken  precedence  of  "Jeanne  Vedekind,"  in  which 
Sarah  has  just  appeared  at  her  own  theatre  after  a 
prolonged  absence. 

And  perhaps  it  might  have  been  better,  from  a  busi- 
ness standpoint,  had  the  tragedienne  produced  Sardou's 
play  instead  of  "Jeanne  Vedekind."  The  critics  object 
to  the  latter's  German  origin,  and  her  admirers,  al- 
though willing  to  humor  and  applaud  her  in  masculine 
roles,  such  as  L'Aiglon,  Hamlet,  and  Werther,  are  not 
yet  prepared  to  accept  the  divine  Sarah  as  a  venerable 
mother  with  white  locks  and  melodramatic  tendencies. 
The  play  has  plenty  of  emotion,  but  its  principal  fault 
is  that  the  audience  is  clearly  made  aware  at  too  early 
a  stage  of  what  the  denouement  must  be. 

"  Le  Dieu  Vert,"  the  curtain-raiser  which  precedes 
"  Jeanne  Vedekind,"  however,  has  caused  considerable 
discussion.  It  is  the  work  of  a  young  dramatist  named 
Keim,  and  is  in  reality  a  series  of  tableaux  set  to  verse, 
which  depict  the  death  dreams  of  Pierrot,  who  is  a 
victim  of  alcohol.  In  his  delirium  he  gets  first  a 
glimpse  of  dancing-girls,  then,  as  a  contrast,  an  ap- 
parition of  the  Reign  of  Terror;  finally  he  sees  the 
crucifixion  of  Christ,  wherein  the  Saviour  is  imper- 
sonated by  a  young  man  who.  save  for  a  white  cloth, 
is  actually  nude.  This  last  bit  of  realism  surpasses 
anything  yet  attempted  in  Paris,  and  was  introduced 
by  the  shrewd  Sarah  only  because  she  knew  it  would 
produce  a  sensation,  invite  discussion,  and  help  to 
bolster  up  the  run  of  "  Jeanne  Vedekind,"  which  other- 
wise would  have  lasted  only  a  few  weeks. 

Paris,  November  7,   1903.  St.  Martin. 

Gladstone  and  His  Queen. 

One  of  the  most  interesting  chapters  in  John  Morley's 
"  Life  of  William  Ewart  Gladstone,"  is  that  in  which 
he  shows  that,  while  Queen  Victoria  liked  the  famous 
premier  less  than  she  did  Lord  Beaconsfield,  she 
recognized  his  fine  qualities.  She  was  greatly  touched 
by  the  evidence  of  sympathy  he  gave  her  in  their  first 
interview  after  the  death  of  the  prince  consort.  "  She 
saw  how  much  you  felt  for  her,"  Dean  Wellesley 
wrote  to  him,  "  and  the  mind  of  a  person  in  such  deep 
affliction  is  keenly  sensitive  and  observant.  Of  all  her 
ministers,  she  seemed  to  me  to  think  that  you  have  most 
entered  into  her  sorrows,  and  she  dwelt  especially  upon 
the  manner  in  which  you  had  parted  from  her."  Glad- 
stone himself,  writing  of  his  interview  to  the  Duchess 
of  Sutherland,  said: 

I  was  really  bewildered,  but  that  all  vanished  when  the 
queen  came  in  and  kept  my  hand  a  moment.  All  was  beautiful, 
simple,  noble,  touching  to  the  very  last  degree.  It  was  a 
meeting,  for  me,  to  be  remembered.  I  need  only  report  the 
first  and  last  words  of  the  personal  part  of  the  conversation. 
The  first  (after  a  quarter  of  an  hour  upon  affairs)  was  (put- 
ting down  her  head  and  struggling)  :  "  The  nation  has  been 
very  good  to  me  in  my  time  of  sorrow  " ;  and  the  last,  "  I 
earnestly  pray  it  may  be  long  before  you  are  parted  from  one 
another." 

When,  in  the  following  spring,  Gladstone  took  occa- 
sion in  a  public  speech  to  pronounce  a  panegyric  on  the 
dead  prince,  the  queen  thanked  him  "  in  a  letter  of 
passionate  resignation,  too  sacred  in  the  anguish  of  its 
emotion  "  for  Mr.  Morley  to  print.  These  little  side- 
lights on  Gladstone's  devotion  to  his  queen  go  far  Lo 
counterbalance  the  familiar  story  of  Victoria's  having 
complained,  on  a  later  occasion,  that  he  always 
harangued  her  as  though  she  were  a  public  meeting. 

Analyzing  Gladstone's  oratory,  Mr..  Morley  says: 

Among  Mr.  Gladstone's  physical  advantages  for  bearing  the 
orator's  sceptre  were  a  voice  of  singular  fullness,  depth,  and 
variety  of  tone;  a  falcon's  eye  with  strange  imperious  flash; 
features  mobile,  expressive,  and  with  lively  play;  a  great  actor's 
command  of  gesture,  bold,  sweeping,  natural,  unforced,  without 
exaggeration  or  a  trace  of  melodrama.  His  pose  was  easy, 
alert,  erect.  To  these  endowments  of  external  mien  was  joined 
the  gift  and  the  glory  of  words.  They  were  not  sought,  they 
came.  Whether  the  task  were  reasoning,  or  expression,  or  ex- 
position, the  copious  springs  never  failed.  Nature  had  thus  done 
much  for  him.  but  he  superadded  ungrudging  labor.  Later  in 
life  he  proffered  to  a  correspondent  a  set  of  suggestions  on 
the  art  of  speaking:  .1.  Study  plainness  of  language,  always 
preferring  the  simpler  word.  2.  Shortness  of  sentence,  3. 
Distinctness  of  articulation.  4.  Test  and  question  your  own 
arguments  beforehand,  not  waiting  for  critic  or  opponent.  5. 
Seek  a  thorough  digestion  of,  and  familiarity  with,  your  sub- 
ject, and  rely  mainly  on  these  to  prompt  the  proper  words.  6. 
Remember  that  if  you  are  to  sway  an  audience  you  must, 
besides  thinking  out  your  m-xtter,  watch  them  all  along. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 

Algernon  Charles  Swinburne,  who,  since  the  death 
of  Lord  Tennyson,  has  stood  at  the  head  of  living 
English  poets,  is  seriously  ill  with  pneumonia. 

Senator  William  P.  Frye,  of  Maine,  has  a  new  dig- 
nity— that  of  great-grandfather,  an  honor  falling  to 
him  a  fortnight  ago,  when  a  daughter  was  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  William  Frye  White,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  Frye  claims  title  as  the  only  great-grandfather  in 
the  Senate. 

Signor  Marconi  has  begun  work  on  the  powerful 
wireless  station  at  Pisa,  through  which  it  is  intended 
to  establish  communication  with  the  Argentine  Re- 
public, and  later  with  the  United  States.  When  the 
station  is  finished  it  will  be  inaugurated  by  King  Victor 
Emmanuel,  who  will  send  the  first  message. 

Governor  Ferguson,  of  Oklahoma,  in  his  annual  re- 
port to  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  estimates  the  pres- 
ent population  of  the  Territory  at  650,000,  and  the 
actual  value  of  taxable  property  at  practically  $400,- 
000,000,  although  only  $84,134,472  is  returned  by  the 
assessors  for  1903.  The  Territorial  indebtedness  is 
$461,766. 

Dr.  Schweninger,  who  used  to  be  Bismarck's  physi- 
cian, relates  that  one  time,  when  there  was  an  epidemic 
of  cholera  in  Marseilles,  the  chancellor  received  from 
that  city  a  package  which,  on  being  opened,  was  found 
to  contain  a  rag  saturated  with  a  fluid  that  was  found 
to  contain  innumerable  cholera  germs.  The  matter  was 
kept  secret  at  the  time,  but  when  Bismarck  afterward 
heard  of  it  he  simply  laughed. 

Baron  Rowton,  who  died  recently  in  England,  be- 
came Lord  Beaconsfield's  private  secretary  in  1866, 
and  upon  the  death  of  the  English  premier  was  be- 
queathed all  of  Beaconsfield's  papers  and  letters,  with 
full  power  to  use  them  as  he  pleased.  It  was  expected 
that  Lord  Rowton  would  write  the  life  of  Beaconsfield. 
as  he  knew  Disraeli  better  than  any  one  else;  but  the 
story  goes  that  Queen  Victoria  requested  him  not  to 
write  this  life  until  some  years  had  passed,  when  age 
incapacitated  him  for  the  work. 

"  Big  Bill  "  Devery  is  not  nearly  as  much  in  evi- 
dence at  the  Pump  corner  in  New  York  since  the  recent 
election.  The  small  Devery  vote  was  a  great  shock  to 
him,  as  he  and  his  intimates  had  come  really  to  believe 
that  he  stood  a  good  chance  of  winning.  Devery  still 
maintains  his  headquarters  at  Eight  Avenue  and 
Twenty-Eighth  Street,  but  the  old  enthusiasm  among 
his  handful  of  followers  is  lacking.  He  says  he  is 
going  to  keep  his  headquarters  so  that  he  will  be  in 
good  shape  to  put  up  a  good  fight  at  the  primaries  next 
year. 

William  Jennings  Bryan  is  having  quite  a  good  time 
abroad.  The  other  day  he  was  invited  to  sit  on  the 
platform  during  Mr.  Chamberlain's  meeting  at  Cardiff, 
Wales,  and  on  November  25th,  Embassador  Choate 
gave  a  luncheon  in  London  in  his  honor.  Among  the 
distinguished  persons  invited  to  meet  the  ex-Presiden- 
tial aspirant  were  Premier  Balfour,  the  Earl  of  Ons- 
low, Charles  T.  Ritchie,  Sir  Robert  Giffen,  Sir  Gilbert 
Parker,  Morton  Frewen,  Lord  Denbigh,  Lord  Mount- 
Stephen,  and  W.  L.  Courtney.  The  luncheon  was  in- 
formal, and  no  speeches  were  made. 

James  Lane  Allen,  the  popular  novelist,  who  has 
iust  returned  from  Europe,  denies  the  report  that  he 
has  become  a  millionaire  by  a  chance  investment  of  a 
few  hundred  dollars  in  the  Texas  oil  fields.  It  is  his 
cousin,  James  Lane  Allen,  of  Chicago,  who  is  the  fortu- 
nate man.  Some  time  ago  he  acquired  a  tract  of  six  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  land  situated  in  South-East 
Texas.  The  land  was  worth  less  than  five  dollars  per 
acre,  and  was  practically  of  no  use  except  for  pastur- 
age. A  few  weeks  ago  a  gusher  oil  well  was  brought  in 
at  Batson  Prairie,  within  a  mile  of  Mr.  Allen's  land. 
The  new  oil  field  has  been  the  scene  of  the  wildest  ex- 
citement since  then,  and  a  town  of  one  thousand  people 
has  sprung  up  at  Batson  Prairie,  where  there  was  only 
one  store  building  prior  to  the  oil  discovery.  Land  val- 
ues are  increasing  daily.  It  is  said  that  Mr.  Allen  could 
sell  his  entire  tract  at  three  thousand  dollars  an  acre, 
but  he  is  holding  it  for  five  thousand  dollars  per  acre. 

The  youngest  man  in  Congress  is  Burton  Lee  French. 
Idaho's  one  member  of  the  House.  He  was  born  on 
August  1,  1875,  and,  therefore,  is  just  past  twenty-eight 
years  of  age.  Like  many  other  men  who  have  come  to 
Congress  across  the  prairie  from  the  Rockies  and  be- 
yond. Mr.  French  is  a  native  of  Indiana.  Delphi  being 
the  place  of  his  nativity.  His  father  was  one  of  the 
winners  of  the  West,  and  by  the  time  the  future  con- 
gressman was  old  enough  to  go  to  school  he  found  him- 
self in  Idaho,  where  schools  were  few  and  far  apart. 
In  1898,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  State  legislature.  Two  years  later  he 
was  the  nominee  of  the  Republican  minority  for 
Speaker  of  the  House,  thereby  becoming  his  partv's 
leader  on  the  floor.  There  was  a  great  redistricting 
fight  at  that  session  of  the  legislature,  and  so  skillfully 
did  young  French  lead  his  forces  that  he  became  a 
marked  man  in  Idaho.  His  reward  was  the  Republican 
nomination  for  Congress  last  year,  and  he  carried  the 
State  by  more  than  seven  thousand.  He  is  the  first 
Republican  that  Idaho  has  sent  to  the  House  in  a  de- 
cade. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  7.  1903. 


THEODOR    MOMMSEN. 


Reminiscences  of  the  Famous  German   Historian. 

Theodor  Mommsen,  the  famous  historian 
who  recently  died  in  Berlin,  was  an  ideal 
German  professor ;  a  fearless  German  patriot ; 
a  model  father  of  a  family  and  domestic 
man ;  a  true  and  loyal  friend.  There  was 
nothing  of  the  dusty  pedant  about  him.  He 
could  be  savagely  sarcastic  to  those  who 
were  strong  enough  to  bear  it.  but  in  society 
he  was  as  suave  and  pleasant  a  causcur  as 
could  be  selected  anywhere.  His  mind  was 
a  storehouse  of  information,  for  his  reading 
had  traveled  over  vast  fields,  and  he  had  a 
wondrous  memory- 
Kurt  Matull.  a  young  playwright,  who 
for  years  lived  only  a  few  doors  away  from 
him  in  Charlottenburg.  a  western  suburb 
of  Berlin,  relates  some  entertaining  anecdotes 
of    the    great    scholar.      He    writes : 

Professor  Mommsen's  most  strongly  marked 
characteristic  was  his  intense  absorption 
in  whatever  work  at  any  time  happened 
to  interest  him.  and  this  resulted  in  an  ab- 
sent-mindedness that  led  him  into  all  sorts 
of  difficulties.  Perhaps  the  most  noteworthy 
of  these  concerns  Mommsen's  first  and  only 
speech  in  the  Reichstag.  When  he  went 
to  take  his  seat  he  was  escorted  from  the 
University  of  Berlin,  in  which  he  then  held 
the  chair  of  history,  to  the  Parliament  build- 
ing by  a  great  assemblage  of  students.  The 
students  thronged  the  galleries,  prepared  to 
give  their  beloved  professor  a  great  demon- 
stration when  he  had  finished  his  maiden 
speech.  After  Mommsen  had  taken  his  seat 
he  was  observed  to  fumble  in  his  pocket?  and 
draw  out  a  paper  that  all  supposed  was  the 
speech  in  question.  Xo  sooner  had  he  done 
this  than  Bismarck,  the  Iron  Chancellor, 
amse  to  address  the  House.  Not  the  slight- 
est attention  did  Mommsen  pay  to  Bismarck. 
He  sat  absorbed  in  his  paper,  which  he  held 
close  up  to  his  nose,  for  he  was  unusually 
short-sighted.  All  of  a  sudden,  while  Bis- 
marck was  still  talking,  up  jumped  Mommsen. 
and.  to  the  amazement  of  all.  cried  in  a  loud 
voice  :  "  Stop  !  Stop  !  Stop  !  What  does 
that  student  mean  by  talking  all  this  time! 
He  must  stop  it.  I  say  !  If  he  doesn't  I  shall 
call  the  attendant !"  The  explanation  of  the 
grand  old  man's  outbreak  was  soon  apparent 
to  all.  The  paper  he  was  examining  was  one 
concerning  his  duties  as  a  professor,  and  he 
thought  he  was  still  at  the  university.  There 
was  a  great  outburst  of  laughter,  in  which 
Bismarck  joined  most  heartily.  But  Momm- 
sen could  never  be  induced  to  enter  the 
Parliament  building  again. 

In  1890.  Mommsen  was  arrested  and  locked 
up  for  hours  by  the  Berlin  police.  Mr.  Matull 
says  he  got  into  this  difficulty  through  an 
invitation  he  received  to  attend  a  reception 
given    by   the    present    Emperor   William : 

On  the  night  of  the  reception  the  street 
that  leads  to  the  castle  was  closed  to  all  save 
the  guests  of  the  emperor,  all  of  whom,  with 
the  exception  of  Mommsen,  arrived  in  car- 
riages. The  famous  historian,  whose  manner 
of  living  exemplified  his  democratic  prin- 
ciples, rode  into  Berlin  from  Charlottenburg 
on  a  car.  Upon  alighting  from  the  car. 
Mommsen  pressed  his  way  through  the 
throng.  In  a  few  minutes  be  came  to  the 
police  line,  and  without  hesitation  started  to 
pass  on.  He  was  promptly  seized  by  a  police- 
man and  pushed  back.  It  was  too  much  for 
the  old  man's  temper.  Taking  the  book  that 
he  carried,  he  beat  a  tattoo  with  it  on  the 
policeman's  head.  "You  ignorant  Russian!" 
exclaimed  the  historian,  using  the  term  of 
extreme  contempt  among  Prussians :  "  you 
ignorant  Russian,  what  do  you  mean  b> 
seizing  old  Mommsen.  I'm  old  Mommsen.  T 
tell  you — Mommsen,  Mommsen,  Mommsen!" 
The  policeman,  dodging  the  further  play 
of  the  book,  looked  at  the  old  man's  bat- 
tered soft  hat  and  seedy  overcoat,  and  de- 
cided that  he  was  a  crank.  Two  hours  later 
the  emperor  received  wnrd  that  his  missing 
guest   was  in   the  lockup. 

On  his  eightieth  birthday.  Mommsen  re- 
ceived a  visit  from  a  great  delegation  of  stu- 
dents, who  marched  out  to  his  home,  but  he 
could  not  be  induced  to  leave  his  work  to 
greet  them.  "  They  see  me  every  day  at  the 
university,"  he  said  ;  "  why  do  they  want  to 
disturb  me  now?" 

Of  his  daily  life,  J.  L.  Bashford  writes 
in   the  Pall  Mall  Gazette; 

Up  to  within  seven  or  eight  years  ago 
Mommsen  used  to  get  up  every  morning  at 
five  o'clock,  and  work  in  his  study  till  eight. 
Then  he  would  go  to  the  dining-room  and 
have  breakfast  with  his  family.  He  was  the 
father  of  sixteen  children  in  all.  of  whom 
twelve  are  now  living.  Some  of  them  are 
married,  one  daughter  to  Professor  von 
Wilamowitz-Mdllendorf.  This  diminutive  lit- 
tle man.  with  his  emaciated  frame  and  silver 
locks  reaching  to  his  shoulders,  was  the  last 
one  would  have  expected  to  be  a  friend  of 
children ;  and  yet  it  was  so.  They  revelled 
in  his  company,  and  sought  it.  Nevertheless, 
when  he  was  preoccupied,  he  could  not 
recognize  his  own  offspring.  One  day,  when 
sitting  in  the  tramcar  on  his  way  from 
Charlottenburg,  a  little  boy  near  him  dis- 
turbed him  by  chattering  loudly  as  he  was 
reading,  iccording  to  his  wont.  "  What  is 
your  nar.e,  youngster?"  he  said,  in  a  sharp 
tone,  intending  to  scold  him ;  and,  to  his  sur- 
prise, thrj  boy  pronounced  the  word  "  Momm- 
sen." .  '  was  not  till  then  that  the  professor 
becam  •  .iwnre  that  he  was  Iking  to  his  own 
rlier  in  life  he  1  >  l^hed  his  infant, 
been    confided    to    his    care    in    his 


study,   into   the   waste-paper   basket,    and    cov- 
ered him  up  with  papers  ! 

Commenting  on  his  relations  with  France 
and  the  French,  a  writer  in  the  New  York 
Evening  Times  says: 

Before  1870,  Theodor  Mommsen  was  a 
persona  gratissinta  with  the  French.  He  was 
received  at  the  imperial  court,  was  the  friend 
of  Ernest  Renan  and  all  the  leading  writers, 
and  it  was  even  rumored  that  he  had  an 
allowance  from  Napoleon  the  Third.  Like 
Richard  Wagner,  however.  Mommsen  turned 
on  the  French  when  the  war  of  1870  broke 
out,  and  he  was  naturally  execrated  there. 
In  an  address  to  King  William  of  Prussia. 
Mommsen  is  said  to  have  called  for  the 
bombardment  of  Paris.  After  the  pillage 
of  the  Tuileries.  Mommsen's  letters  to  Na- 
poleon the  Third  were  found,  and  the  cele- 
brated scholar  was  reproached  for  the  basest 
and  blackest  ingratitude.  Mommsen  de- 
clared that  he  never  had  an  allowance  from 
Napoleon  the  Third.  One  of  his  colleagues 
in  Germany  went  further,  and  asserted  in  a 
newspaper  that  Professor  Mommsen  had 
never  received  a  sou  from  the  French  em- 
peror. All  this  was  denied  by  the  celebrated 
archivist  and  historian.  Henri  Bordier,  who 
was  directed  to  collect  and  classify  all  the 
German  documents  found  at  the  Tuileries 
after  the  fall  of  the  Second  Empire.  M. 
Bordier  wrote  that  it  was  quite  true  that 
Herr  Mommsen  had  no  pension  or  regular 
allowance  from  Napoleon  the  Third,  but  at 
intervals  the  emperor's  steward  used  to  give 
him  an  occasional  bonus  of  three  or  four 
hundred  francs  to  help  him  on  in  his  work. 
He  also  once  received  money  from  the  Em- 
peror Napoleon  for  an  indigent  German 
scholar.  M.  Bordier,  having  established  these 
facts,  declared  that  Mommsen's  conduct  was 
shameful,  for.  after  having  been  received  at 
the  table  of  the  emperor  and  empress,  and 
accepted  the  imperial  bounty,  after  having 
foregathered  in  the  most  friendly  manner 
with  eminent  French  scholars,  he  said  that 
the  literature  of  Paris  was  as  filthy  as  the 
water  of  the  Seine,  and  that  the  salon  of  the 
Tuileries  was  a  mere  haunt  of  the  demi- 
monde. In  1872.  Mommsen  tried  to  renew 
friendship  with  the  French,  but  he  was  not 
very  successful. 

Mommsen  began  to  write  in  1843,  and  his 
last  book  appeared  in  1899.  His  output,  ac- 
cording to  a  writer  in  the  Athentrum,  was 
unparalleled  : 

Fifteen  years  ago  his  publications  had 
reached  one  thousand  in  number,  and  if  some 
of  these  were  little  things  others  were  folios 
that  take  serious  lifting.  He  worked  at  a 
pace  and  with  an  accuracy  which  leave  the 
ordinary  scholar  gasping;  he  bequeathes  an 
invaluable  tradition  of  devoted,  persistent 
energy.  But  more,  he  could  organize.  He 
could  conceive  a  great  cooperative  scheme 
combining  many  laborers  in  it.  could  aspire, 
drive,  or  coerce  them  to  fulfill  their  tasks, 
and  control  the  minutiae  of  the  undertaking 
to  a  safe  conclusion.  Few  scholars,  I 
imagine,  have  shown  such  practical  power 
and  imperative  force." 

His  greatest  achievement  was  his  "  History 
of  Rome."  in  which  he  sketched  the  history 
of  Rome  to  the  death  of  Julius  Csesar.  Says 
the   Boston   Transcript: 

In  this  he  spoke  directly  to  the  general 
reader,  and  with  extraordinary  brilliancy  and 
power.  The  attractiveness  of  this  book  is 
in  part  due  to  the  absence,  not  merely  of 
notes,  but  of  all  citation  of  authorities  and 
discussion  of  evidence.  All  the  scaffolding 
which  usually  remains  standing  about  learned 
works  and  obscures  their  architecture,  has 
been  cleared  away.  In  greater  measure,  the 
success  of  the  work  was  due  to  its  clear  and 
telling  style ;  but  most  of  all  to  the  feeling 
— it  is  hardly  saying  too  much  to  say  oassion 
— with  which  it  was  written.  The  Revolu- 
tion of  1848  had  drawn  Mommsen  out  of 
his  study  into  the  struggle  of  his  fellows  for 
political  liberty.  The  part  he  took  in  the 
revolutionary  movement  cost  him,  in  1850. 
the  chair  he  held  in  the  Leipzig  law  faculty, 
and  it  was  two  years  before  he  obtained 
another  academic  appointment.  In  1854  and 
1855.  he  published  his  "  Roman  History."  In 
a  period  of  political  reaction  he  showed  his 
discouraged  fellow-Liberals,  who  had  failed 
to  establish  either  popular  government  or 
German  unity,  how  the  Romans  had  won 
political  liberty,  and  how.  as  a  free  people, 
they  had  established  the  most  powerful  state 
in  the  ancient  world.  Without  underrating 
in  any  way  the  intrinsic  value  of  the  work, 
its  extraordinary  power  may  fairly  be  ascribed 
to  the  heat  in  which  it  was  written. 

One  of  the  greatest  joys  that  fell  to  the  lot 
of  Mommsen  was  the  award  to  him  last  year 
of  a  Nobel  prize  of  150,000  marks.  "  To  think 
that  I  should  become  a  rich  man  even  in  my 
old  days !  "  he  exclaimed.  He  promptly  do- 
nated 5,000  to  the  libraries  in  Charlottenburg 
and  1,000  to  the  University  of  Leipsic  for  its 
papyrus  collections. 


Mrs.  Harriet  Maxwell  Converse,  the  author, 
who  devoted  many  years  of  her  life  and 
nearly  all  of  her  fortune  to  the  study  and 
care  of  the  Indians  of  the  Six  Nations,  in 
New  York  State,  recently  died,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-eight  years.  She  wrote  several  books 
on  Indian  subjects,  one  of  her  works  being 
entitled  "  Myths  and  Legends  of  the  Iro- 
quois." She  also  won  success  as  a  poet,  and 
became  a  personal  friend  of  John  G.  Whittier, 
who  encouraged  her  in  her  work.  Many  of 
her  poems  were  written  under  the  pen-names 
of  "  Musidora  "  and  "Salome." 


Kipling's  Vermont  Residence  Sold. 
"  Naulahka,"  the  former  home  of  Rudyard 
Kipling,  at  Brattleboro,  Vt..  has  been  sold  to 
Miss  Mary  R.  Cabot,  of  that  place,  for  a  sum 
representing  a  heavy  shrinkage  from  its  cost 
to  the  famous  author.  The  residence,  named 
for  the  pretty  Indian  story  of  Kipling  and  the 
late  Wolcott  Balestier,  was  built,  some  ten 
years  ago,  at  considerable  expense.  Here 
Mr.  Kipling  wrote  "  Captains  Courageous," 
and  several  other  stories.  It  was  here  that  his 
children  were  born,  and  the  place  had  many 
strong  ties  to  him.  He  'decided  to  live  per- 
manently in  England  only  after  unpleasant 
disagreements  with  his  brother-in-law.  It  is 
understood  that  Miss  Cabot  buys  the  estate 
for  family  occupancy,  and  that  some  improve- 
ments will  be  made,  though  the  general 
features  of  the  house,  which  are  unique  in 
many    respects,    will    be    retained. 


"TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN." 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 

San  Jose  Mercury; 
A  book  which  will  be  read  with  interest 
and  which  will  afford  instruction  and  enter- 
tainment is  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain,"  by 
Jerome  Hart,  editor  of  the  Argonaut.  It  is 
written  in  the  entertaining  and  delightful 
style  which  has  maintained  the  reputation 
of  that  weekly  through  many  years,  and  made 
it  esteemed  by  all  lovers  of  good  literature, 
not  only  in  this  but  in  other  countries.  .  .  . 
It  will  have  more  than  a  double  interest  for 
readers  here.  .  .  .  Anything  appertaining  to 
Spain  should  be  of  interest  to  the  people  of 
this  valley  and  State.  Many  of  the  old  land- 
marks of  this  vicinity  are  of  a  peculiarly 
Spanish  character,  and  the  foundations  of 
many  of  our  greatest  institutions  were  laid  by 
Spanish  settlers.  .  .  . 

P.   H.   McEnery. 


great  points  of  interest  in  Spain.  Much  use- 
ful information  is  also  embodied  in  this  book. 
Granada  and  the  Alhambra  come  in  for  a 
goodly  share  of  the  author's  descriptions  and 
sentiments.  He  is  also  somewhat  partial  to 
Seville  and  the  habits  and  customs  of  the 
people  of  that  particular  locality.  The  reader 
will  find  the  book  very  entertaining,  as  well 
as  useful. 


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illustrations,  including  a  colored  map  of 
Spain.  It  is  made  up  of  letters  originally 
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most  interesting  nature.  The  author's  pen 
has    embellished   descriptions   of  many   of   the 


From  the  Santa  Clara  News: 

Jerome  Hart's  ramblings  from  the  Bay  of 
Biscay  to  the  Mediterranean,  recorded  by  him 
in  letters  to  the  Argonaut,  have  been  gathered 
between  covers,  and  the  volume  is  before  the 
public,  as  choice  a  piece  of  book-making  as 
California  has  yet  given  to  the  world. 

"  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain  "  has  been  so 
clothed  that  its  presence  on  the  library  table 
fills  one  with  a  desire  to  open  it.  Its  greatest 
attraction  lies  in  the  minute  portraiture  of 
the  Spain  of  to-day.  It  somehow  carries  you 
out  and  away  with  the  author  in  his  mountain 
climb,  or  his  duress  in  a  hostel  of  Old  Spain- 
Then  he  carries  one  into  the  palaces  of 
Granada,  where  old  armor  and  rusty  weapons 
of  the  days  of  chivalry  rattle  in  the  ears ; 
into  the  corridors  of  the  Alhambra  :  into  the 
cities,  among  the  nobles ;  into  the  provinces, 
among  the  peasants :  and  wherever  he  takes 
us  we  find  the  pleasure,  not  of  touring,  but 
of  rambling  with  a  pleasant  and  extremely 
observing  companion.  Throughout  the  work 
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The  book  is  bound  in  rich  brown  linen- 
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figuration of  the  arch  is  preserved  in  the 
words  of  the  title. 

The  illustrations  are  from  snap-shots  by 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Lance  Hurled  at  Snobbery. 

Ruth  Hall,  who  has  hitherto  been  identified 
with  historical  fiction  adapted  to  compara- 
tively juvenile  tastes,  has  finally  written  a 
novel  of  present-day  life,  entitled  "  The  Pine 
Grove  House."  Long  experience  in  wielding 
the  pen  enables  this  writer  to  feel  entirely 
at  home  in  the  new  field,  and  her  story  is 
very  readable  in  its  understanding  analysis  of 
the  heterogeneous  types  that  jostle  each  other 
in  the  democratic  precincts  of  a  second-class 
country  resort. 

Pine  Grove  House  is  situated  in  a  country 
village,  which  has  its  petty  aristocracy  of 
wealthy  in  strictly  exclusive  families  whose 
members  are  principally  composed  of  widows 
and  spinsters.  Miss  Hall  has  painted  with 
merciless  brush  the  shallow,  spiteful,  timid 
snobbery  of  these  better-class  villagers,  who 
have  found  it  obligatory,  through  social  pres- 
sure, to  extend  courtesies  to  a  group  of  the 
despised  dwellers  at  Pine  Grove  House. 

From  this  enforced  and  grudging  intercourse 
of  young  people,  in  which  the  female  members 
regard  each  other  with  mutual  distrust  and 
antagonism,  springs  up  the  inevitable  love- 
story.  Miss  Hall  has  apparently  had  in  view 
the  relating  of  a  plain  story  of  every-day  peo- 
ple, uncolored  by  romance,  and  in  the  telling 
of  it  she  has  desired  to  expose  the  pettiness 
and  ugliness  of  that  self-elected  aristocracy 
which,  in  denying  itself  free  intercourse  with 
those  outside  of  its  limits,  ends  by  suffering 
from  a  sort  of  social  dry  rot.  In  spite  of  this 
creditable  aim,  there  is  perceptible  a  com- 
parative triviality  of  motive  and  method  in  the 
story,  which  will  prevent  it  from  appealing  to 
a  much  wider  class  of  readers  than  Miss  Hall 
has  hitherto  reached.  But  plain  and  practical 
as  her  view  of  life  is,  it  is  sensible  and  sane. 
and  there  is  some  possibility  that  the  book 
may  pierce  a  dart  or  so  through  the  thick 
skin  of  the  socially  self-elect. 

Published  by  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  Bos- 
ton ;  $1.50. 


For  Children  and  Grown-Ups, 
Among  the  juvenile  books  of  the  season 
"  The  Children  Who  Ran  Away,"  an  English 
story,  by  Evelyn  Sharp,  is  one  of  a  class  that 
is  not  so  common  as  formerly:  one  that  relies 
partially  upon  adult  readers  for  an  audience. 


The  story,  as  told  by  the  title,  is  one  of  youth- 
ful runaways,  and  relates  their  adventures 
during  their  flight,  which,  of  course,  has  a 
happy  sequel.  The  author  permits  an  adult 
romance  to  hover  about  the  figures  of  an 
unknown  guardian  and  Miss  Cecelia  Moly- 
neux,  the  lady  who  was  so  "  fond  of  children 
that  she  had  them  to  live  with  her  without 
ever  waiting  till  they  were  left  to  her  in  a 
will,"  a  term  of  disposal  which  applies  to  the 
young  hero  and  heroine  of  the  story  in  ques- 
tion. 

The  author  of  the  book  understands  child 
nature,  and  has  a  sympathy  with  its  way- 
ward impulses,  its  happy  irresponsibilities, 
and  the  unconsciously  humorous  nature  of  its 
outlook  on  grown-ups,  and  puts  into  the  mouths 
of  her  youthful  characters  many  amusing 
sayings  that  will  transform  to  a  pleasure  the 
task  of  the  adult  who  reads  the  book  aloud 
to  juvenile  listeners. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York. 

"  A  Master  Hand  "  Not  Masterly. 

Why  Richard  Dallas  should  choose  for  the 
title  of  his  book  "  A  Master  Hand "  is  ex- 
plainable only  by  the  theory  of  contraries. 
It  is  a  detective  story  of  the  good,  old  "  out- 
and-outer  "  school,  but  deals  with  no  master 
hand,  is  written  by  no  master  pen.  and  con- 
ceived by  no  master  mind. 

The  theme  is  the  running  down  of  a  murder 
committed  by  a  "  fourth-rate  'prentice  hand," 
when  his  friend,  the  one  winning  figure  in  the 
story,  is  found  in  a  stupor  of  intoxication. 

Although  these  bare  facts  are  not  pleasant, 
they  are  handled  in  a  well-bred,  unoffending 
manner,  that  might  almost  merit  for  the  book 
a  place  in  a  Sunday-school  library.  The  prin- 
cipals of  the  story  are  up-town  New  York 
clubmen,  who,  we  are  assured  by  the  author, 
never  think  of  dining  or  playing  a  game 
of  four-handed  euchre  without  donning  their 
evening  clothes.  The  fact  that  each  fellow 
has  his  man  servant,  and  that  there  are  lackeys 
a-plenty  at  the  club,  is  as  important  in  the 
mind  of  the  author,  apparently,  as  the  chain 
of  circumstantial  evidence  that  leads  to  the 
capture  of  the  criminal.  And  when  it  trans- 
pires that  the  murderer  is  one  of  the  quartet 
of  close  friends  who,  after  having  spent  the 
evening  in  his  rooms,  drunk  his  wine,  and 
played   with    him,    goes    back    and    stabs    him 


to  death,  the  excellent  up-bringing  of  the 
author  is  still  to  the  fore  in  his  polite  hand- 
ling of  so  unpleasant  a  theme. 

Mr.  Dallas's  strong  situation  is,  however, 
in  the  fact  that  the  perpetrator  of  the  crime, 
Littell,  is  chosen  for  the  defending  attorney 
of  the  wrongly  accused  man.  The  consequent 
emotions  that  cross-fire  through  the  author  and 
reader  through  this,  redeem  the  book  from 
whatever  charge  of  limitation  may  be 
brought  against  it.  But  Mr.  Dallas  is  again 
up  to  his  high  standard  of  propriety  when, 
in  the  closing  chapters,  Littell.  upon  being 
charged  with  the  murder  of  his  friend,  con- 
fesses his  guilt,  orders  a  stiff  brandy  and  soda, 
and  shows  his  good  taste  by  cheating  the 
gallows  and  making  his  own  exit  from  this 
all-too-inquisitive  world. 

Published  by  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons,  New 
York;  $1.50. 

Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
Although  Winston  Churchill  has  been 
averse  to  the  serial  publication  of  his  books 
before  their  issue  in  book-form,  certain  his- 
torical portions  of  his  new  novel  will  ap- 
pear in  one  of  the  Eastern  weeklies.  They 
will  be  entitled  "  The  Borderland,"  and  will 
tell  the  story  of  the  famous  Indian  campaign 
under  George  Rogers  Clark.  The  complete 
novel  will  be  brought  out  early  in  January 
by  the  Macmillan  Company  under  the  title, 
"  The  Crossing." 

The  Princess  Radziwill's  memoirs  will  be 
published  as  soon  as  negotiations  for  the  si- 
multaneous publication  of  the  book  in  France, 
Germany,  and  the  United  States  are  com- 
pleted. The  Princess  Radziwill's  chapters 
dealing  with  her  relations  with  Cecil  Rhodes 
are  awaited  with  interest. 

From   Lecky's  "  England  in   the   Eighteenth 
Century."  "  The  History  of  the  French  Revo- 
1    lution "    is   to   be   extracted   and   made   into   a 
I    separate  volume. 

John   Morley  is  to   visit   the   United   States 
J    next   year,    coming   to    deliver   an    address    at 
the  opening  of  the  Technical  College  at  Pitts- 
burg in  October,  1904. 

Stewart    Edward    White    recently    wrote    to 
1    the    Bookman,    in    reply    to    an    inquiry    ad- 
dressed   to    several    American    authors.    "  Do 
reviewers  understand  the  underlying  meaning 


of  your  books?":  "Reviewers  are  the  only 
ones  who  understand  the  underlying  mean- 
ings of  my  books.  I  don't  understand  them 
myself  until  I  am  told  about  them  in  the 
public  prints." 

A  new  volume  by  the  author  of  "  The 
Martyrdom  of  an  Empress "  is  entitled  "  A 
Keystone  of  Empire."  It  tells  the  story  of 
the  life  of  Emperor  Francis  Joseph  of 
Austria,  whose  wife,  the  Empress  Elizabeth, 
was   assassinated   at  Geneva   some  years   ago. 

The  poems  which  Lord  Tennyson  con- 
sidered unworthy  of  his  complete  works  have 
been  gathered  from  sundry  sources  for  the 
first  time,  and  edited  and  annotated  by  J. 
C.  Thomson,  editor  of  "  The  Bibliography  of 
Charles  Dickens."  The  editor  says  :  "  I  be- 
lieve I  have  succeeded  in  tracing  every  pub- 
lished poem  of  Tennyson's  not  now  given  in 
the  Collected  Works." 

It  is  said  by  certain  reviewers  that  Roswell 
Field,  in  his  "  Bondage  of  Ballinger."  portrays 
the  book-loving  side  of  Eugene  Field.  Others 
assert  that  Mr.  Field  gives  a  picture  of  his 
brother  in  Ballinger,  and  that  Mrs.  Field 
is  the  original  of  Hannah. 

Ernest  Vizetelly  has  finished  his  biography 
of  Zola,  which  is  soon  to  be  published.  Mr. 
Vizetelly  was  intimate  with  the  French  novel- 
ist for  many  years,  and  in  this  book  he  deals 
with  the  latter's  home  life  as  well  as  with  his 
literary  career. 

Mary  Austin's  volume  of  sketches  of  the 
desert  country  of  Eastern  California,  "  The 
Land  of  Little  Rain."  has  been  added  by  the 
Bureau  of  Equipment  to  the  list  of  books  for 
ships'  libraries  in  the  United  States  navy, 
with  particular  reference  to  ships  serving  on 
the  Pacific  station. 

To  the  literature  of  the  late  lurid  crisis  in 
Servia,  a  biography  of  the  ill-fated  Queen 
Draga  is  to  be  added,  written  by  her  sister, 
Mme.  Lunevich.  A  book  written  in  order 
to  counteract  the  impression  it  may  make 
is  also  in  preparation.  Its  probable  tone  may 
be  surmised  from  the  title  that  is  announced. 
"  Memoirs  of  Queen  Draga,  Favorite  of  Milan 
and  Wife  of  Alexander  Obrenovich."  Large 
advance  subscriptions  have  been  received 
from  the  regicides  and  their  sympathizers; 
and.  it  is  said,  from  King  Peter  himself. 


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LITERARY    NOTES. 


"Parsifal"  in  English. 

As  "  Parsifal  "  will  this  winter  be  given  in 
America  for  the  first  time,  the  appearance  just 
now  of  an  excellent  metrical  translation  of  this 
music-drama  of  Wagner's  is  singularly  opportune. 
The  poet-author,  Oliver  Huckel.  has  not  only  for 
many  years  been  a  sympathetic  and  receptive  list- 
ener at  the  Beyreuth  productions  of  "  Parsifal," 
but  in  German  universities,  and  at  Oxford,  he  has 
made  scholarly  study  of  the  several  leg- 
ends of  the  Grail,  upon  one  of  which  the  drama 
is  based.  He  is  thus  especially  well  fitted  for  his 
task,  and  though  the  work — in  Tennysonian,  un- 
rhymed  pentameters — does  not,  perhaps,  quite 
reach  poetic  heights,  it  is  nevertheless  not  in  the 
least  inferior  to  many  an  English  translation  of 
such  classics  as  Homer,  Dante,  and  Goethe,  and 
immeasurably  superior  to  the  over-literal  English 
renderings  of  the  libretto  now  extant.  For  Mr. 
Huckel  has  endeavored,  not  merely  to  reproduce  the 
form  of  the  original,  but  the  spirit:  his  "  Parsifal  " 
bears  somewhat  the  relation  to  Wagner's  "  Parsi- 
fal "  that  Fitzgerald's  "  Rubaiyat "  does  to 
Omar's 

Mr,  Huckel's  remarks,  in  his  preface,  on  the 
history  of  the  Grail  legends,  are  interesting.  He 
shows  that  the  tradition  has  several  versions.  "  It 
was  told  in  slightly  varying  way  in  the  twelfth 
century  by  the  French  writers,  Robert  de  Borron 
and  Chrestien  de  Troves,  and  in  the  early  thir- 
teenth century  by  Wolfram  von  Eschenbach  in 
the  strong  German  speech  of  Thuringia.  The  sub- 
stance of  these  legends  was  that  the  precious  cup 
used  for  the  wine  at  the  Last  Supper  and  also 
used  to  receive  the  Saviour's  blood  at  the  Cross  was 
forever  after  cherished  as  the  Holy  Grail.  It  was 
carried  from  the  Holy  Land  by  Joseph  of  Arima- 
thea,  and  taken  first  to  Gaul  and  later  to  Spain  to 
a  special  sancutary  among  the  mountains,  which 
was  named  Monsalvat.  Here  it  was  to  be 
cherished  and  guarded  by  a  holy  band  of  Knights 
of  the  Grail.  The  same  legend  appears  in  the 
chronicles  of  Sir  Thomas  Malory,  but  instead  of 
Gaul,  early  Britain  is  the  place  to  which  the  Grail 
is  brought.  Tennyson's  '  The  Holy  Grail,*  in  his 
"  Idylls  of  the  King,'  largely  follows  Sir  Thomas 
Malory's  chronicles,  .  .  .  Wagner,  however,  uses 
the  version  of  Wolfram  von  Eschenbach.  modify- 
ing  it   and    spiritualizing   it   to   suit   his   purposes." 

This  interesting  volume  is  printed  in  red  and 
black,  from  special  type  designs  by  the  Merry- 
mount  Press,  and  contains  five  illustrations  by 
Franz  Stassen. 

Published  by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New  York; 
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A  Horsey  Story. 

More  of  David  Gray's  hunting-stories  have  come 
out;  seven  of  them  in  a  volume,  each  one 
crammed  with  horsey  lore  from  the  first  syllable 
to   the   terminating  dot. 

These  stories  are  in  a  way  unique  in  American 
fiction,  the  hunting  set  from  which  the  typical 
characters  in  "  Gallops "  is  drawn  being  com- 
paratively limited  in  number,  and  not  filling  up  a 
very  large  space  in  the  American  social  land- 
scape. 

The  author's  laconic  style  is  suited  to  this  kind 
of  stones,  which  his  enthusiastic  appreciation  of 
horseflesh  and  his  knowledge  of  the  ways  and 
horse  talk  of  refined  people  who  share  his  tastes, 
make  him  specially  well  fitted  to  tell.  The  story 
entitled  "  Her  First  Horse  Show  "  is  the  best, 
"  Isabella "  is  a  good  second,  and  the  remaining 
five,  including  "  Ting-a-Ling,"  with  its  naive 
estimate  of  the  comparative  unimportance  of  the 
baby's  sickness,  as  compared  to  the  family  mis- 
fortune in  losing  a  horse  race,  are  likely  to  appeal 
less  to  general  taste  and  more  particularly  to  that 
of  the  appreciator  of  horseflesh. 

Published  by  the  Century  Company,  New  York; 
$1.00. 

A  Mill-Town  Romance. 
■  "  The  Beaten  Path,"  by  Richard  L.  Makin, 
is  a  thick  volume  of  five  hundred  and  forty- 
four  pages,  fully  one-fourth  of  which  could 
easily  be  dispensed  with.  The  author  has  started 
in  with  an  over-weight  of  luggage  of  the 
lofty,  ethical  type;  added  to  that,  he  has  a  story 
of  a  business  deal,  a  seduction  by  a  mill-owner  of 
the  plebeian  beauty  of  a  mill-town,  the  discussion 
of  local  and  State  politics,  religious  differences, 
and  labor  problems,  the  recital  of  a  big  business 
deal,  mystery  that  includes  a  missing  heir,  and  a 
love-sory  that  covers  the  ethical  aspect  of  a  pure 
wife's  duty  toward  an  ignoble  husband.  Too 
many  big  subjects,  it  strikes  us,  for  one  story. 
The  author,  however,  does  not  fail  in  his  aspira- 
tions, having  written  a  purposeful  and  fairly  in- 
teresting novel  in  a  style  which,  while  showing 
haste  and  some  lack  of  polish,  is  ready  and  fluent. 
But  by  overloading  himself  with  material,  Mr. 
Makin  has  at  one  and  the  same  time  hastened 
situations  that  should  be  gradually  developed,  and 
unduly  prolonged  the  course  of  the  story. 

He  has,  however,  given  a  very  good  idea  of  a 
Pennsylvania  mill-town,  its  inhabitants,  and  its 
affairs,  painted  a  faithful  portrait  of  one  kind  of 
a  plausible  politician,  and  in  the  unworthy  mill- 
owner  has  shown  decided  ability  for  characteriza- 
tion. 

I  f  Mr.  Makin  could  curb  his  propensity  for 
leisurely  and  diffused  narrative,  and  put  a  little 
more  warmth  and  color  into  his  love-passages  and 
less  ingenuity  into  his  plot,  there  is  no  question  but 
that  his  unmistakable  ability  and  unusually  high 
aims  would  go  to  the  making  of  a  novel  of  supe- 
1  ioT  quality. 

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Limericks. 
As  a  lover  of  nonsense  in  general,  and  the 
limerick  in  especial,  and  having  in  mind  the  great 
nonsensicalists  from  Fdward  Lear  down  through 
Lewis  Carroll,  W.  S.  Gilhert.  and  Gelcit  Burgess. 
to  Oliver  Herford;  and,  furthermore,  being  a  deep 
student  of  the  limerick  adventures  of  N'nn,  of 
\  an  tucket,  we  believe  we  arc  fitted  both  by  na- 
ture and  education  to  pass  upon  the  "  Limerick 
I'll  !<•  Ua'c  Book  "  of  Ethel  Watts  Mumford.  And 
we   think    it   very   good.      The   only   thing   about   the 

fc 1     it      xcitc    doubtful    spun '-■tion    is   the    legend 

on     the     iit!e-page — "collected     3nd     composed     by 

>ts  Mumford."     Collec^-d?     From  whom? 

tier    hard    that   limerickcrs  should    be 


bound  up  between  boards  without  getting  credit 
for  their  wit.  One-third  of  the  book  is  "  col- 
lected," the  remainder  by  Miss  Mumford,  while 
Addison  Mizner,  whose  name  appears  as  co- 
author on  the  cover  of  the  book,  is,  singularly 
enough,  responsible  for  only  a  part— and  that  not 
the  best  part — of  the  pictures  and  decorations. 
Here  are  a  few  of  the  more  clever  limericks: 

APPEARANCES    ARE    DECEITFUL. 

There  was  a  young  lady  of  Skye, 
With  a  shape  like  a  capital  I; 

She  said,  "  It's  too  bad! 

But  then  I  can  pad," 
Which  shows  you  that  figures  can  lie. 

EXASPERATION. 

There  was  an  old  person  named   Sam 
Who  was  wearied  by  Omar  Khayyam. 

Fitzgerald,   you  know. 

Is  the  whole  of  the  show; 
But  this  cult  and  this  music,   "  Oh,  d — !" 

ALWAYS    SAVE    FOR    A    RAINY    DAY. 

There  was  a  young  lady  named  Jane, 
Who  went  out  for  a  walk  in  the  rain; 

Her  skirts  were  so  lacey 

It  really  was  racy 
And  drove  all  the  chappies  insane. 

SCULPTURE. 

There  was  an  old  sculptor  named  Phidias, 
Whose  knowledge  of  Art  was  invidious. 

He  carved  Aphrodite 

Without  any  nightie — 
Which    startled    the    purely    fastidious. 

The  "  Limerick  Up  to  Date  Book  "  is  hand- 
somely bound,  and  many  of  the  drawings  and 
decorative  borders  are  striking  and  attractive. 
There  is  a  limerick  for  every  week  in  the  year, 
and  the  month  names  in  the  calendar  are  uniquely 
printed  in  Chinese,  Greek,  Latin,  French,  Ger- 
man,   etc. 

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Perhaps  no  clergyman  in  this  country  is  more 
highly  regarded  and  deeply  respected  than  Dr. 
Henry  Van  Dyke.  His  essays  are  widely  read. 
His  stories  are  even  more  popular.  His  printed 
sermons  are  an  inspiration  to  a  vast  number. 
Three  of  them — pointing,  however,  in  the  same 
direction,  urging  the  same  course  of  action,  and 
appealing  to  the  same  motive — are  printed  this 
autumn  in  one  small  book,  entitled  "  Toy  and 
Power,"  whose  message,  says  Dr.  Van  Dyke, 
impressively.  "  is  the  best  that  I  have  learned  in 
life."  One  of  the  sermons  was  delivered  in  Los 
Angeles,  at  the  opening  of  the  Presbyterian  General 
Assembly,  another  at  Princeton  on  Baccalaureate 
Sunday,  and  the  third  at  Harvard  on  a  similar 
occasion.  The  book  in  which  they  are  contained 
is  bound  with  special  reference  to  its  being  used 
for  Christmas  giving.  It  is  printed  by  Mr.  Updike 
in  black  and  red,  with  ornamental  initials.  Pub- 
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cents  net. 

The  "  Familiar  Letters "  of  James  Howell- — 
which  Dent  reprints  in  three  of  those  admirable 
duodecimos  of  the  Temple  Classics—is  one  of 
the  many  famous  works  that  have  been  penned  in 
prison.  Howell,  when  he  wrote  it  ("1643-51),  was 
a  royalist  prisoner  in  the  Fleet,  and,  strangely 
enough,  of  all  his  books,  this  collection  of  letters 
to  imaginary  persons— the  solace  of  weary  days — 
alone  survives.  Each  of  the  little  volumes  con- 
tains a  frontispiece,  one  of  them  being  of  Ben 
Jonson,  whose  name  the  engraver  has  provided 
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cents. 

Charlotte  M.  Vaile  has  written  a  really  delicate 
and  beautiful  little  essay  in  "  The  Truth  About 
Santa  Claus."  We  can  imagine  no  better  way  of 
replacing  the  Santa  Claus  illusion  with  something 
finer  than  by  reading  to  children  this  small  book. 
Published  by  T.  Y.  Crowell  &  Co.,  New  York;  40 
cents. 

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has  apparently  guided  Harriet  Blackstone  in  com- 
piling "  The  Best  American  Orators  of  To-Day." 
Mr.  Bok,  of  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal,  rubs 
shoulders  with  Justice  Brewer,  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  while  Opie  Reed  on  "  Modern  Fiction  " 
— truly  a  masterly  effort! — comes  next,  in  the 
index,  to  another  Reed,  whose  prsnomen  was 
Thomas.  However,  in  our  opinion,  the  book  will 
serve  a  very  good  purpose  in  furnishing  fourteen- 
year-old  would-be  orators  with  unhackneyed  prose 
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INTAGLIOS. 


Aliens. 
Some  must  take  and  others  pay, 
Some  until   the  Judgment  Day 
Solitary,  waiting  stay — 
Thus  the  world's  unchanging  way 
Since  the  world  began. 

Men    there  are   who   never  sip 
Warm    red    wine    of   fellowship, 
Fearing   lest    the    cup    pass   by 
While    another    drains    it    dry, 
Gayly    uses,    gayly   breaks 
What  his  brother's  heart-blood  makes — 
Thus    the    world's    unchanging    way 
Since   the    world   began. 

Men  there  are  with  songs  unsung, 
Strains  that  ne'er  escape  the  tongue; 
Broken  aims  and  dreams  that  lie 
Hidden  from  the  careless  eye; 
Secret,  passionate,  deep  enshrined, 
Undeveloped,  thwarted,  blind — 
Thus  the  world's  unchanging  way 
Since  the  world  began. 

Shall  such  some  day  rise  and  take 
Meed  denied  by  Earth's  mistake? 
No  more  waiting,  spurned  of  Fate 
Shall  they  come,  though  it  be  late, 
And  by  strange  paths  to  their  own; 
No  more  despised  failures  known — 
On  some  other  kindlier  shore, 
Aliens    never    more?     — London    Outlook. 


Sorrow,  My  Sorrow. 
Sorrow,  my  sorrow,  I  thought  that  you  would  be 
My  faithful  mate,  and  bear  me  company 
While  I  should  live,  but  now  I  find  that  you, 
Like  joy,  and  hope,   and  love,  have  left  me  too. 

Sorrow,  my  sorrow,  you  have  left  me  more 
Forlorn  than  all  the  rest  that  went  before; 
For  you  were  last  to  come  and  longest  stay, 
And  you  were  dearest  when  you  went  away. 
Sorrow,  my  treasured  grief,  my  hoarded  pain. 
Where  shall   I  turn  to  have  you  mine  again? 

Wherever    there    are    other    breasts    that    ache, 
Wherever   there   are   hearts   are   like   to   break, 
Wherever  there  are  hurts  too  hard  to  bear, 
Turn  and  look  for  me,  you  shall  find  me  there, 
But  not    to    take   and   have   me    for  your   own, 
Or  keep  me,  as  you  thought  me,  yours  alone: 
If  you  would  have  me  as  I  used  to  be, 
Beyond    yourself    you    must    abide    with    me. 
— }]'.   D.   Howe! Is   in   Harper's   Magazine. 


The  Heavy  Mists. 

The  heavy  mists  trail  low  upon  the  sea, 
And  equally  the  sky  and  ocean  hide. 
As  two  world- wandering  ships  close  side  by  side 

A  moment  loom  and  part;   out  o'er  the  lee 

One  leans,  and  calls,  "What  ho!"  Then  fitfully 
A  gust  the  voice  confuses,  and  the  tone 
Dies   out  upon    the   waters   faint  and  lone, 

And  each  ship  all  the  wide  world  seems  to  be. 

So  meet  we  and   so  part  we   on   the   land: 
A  glimpse,   a  touch,    a  cry,    and   on   we  go 
As  lonely  as  one  single  star  in  space. 
Driven  by  a  destiny  none  understand, 

We  cross  the  track  of  one  't  were  life  to  know, 
Then  all  is  but  the  memory  of  a  face. 

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The  girls  and  the  scenery  at  Fischer's  have 
been  smartened  up  considerably  this  week, 
in  confident  preparation  to  catch  the  town 
with  "  I-O-U."  There  are  new  songs,  new 
costumes,  new  drops,  new  girls — even  new 
jokes ;  some  of  them  actually  scintillate.  Those 
that  are  particularly  poor  come  in  the  routine 
work  of  the  three  comedians  who,  it  is  said, 
generally  take  a  hand  in  unloading  upon  ah 
inoffensive  world  the  redundancy  of  German 
jestlets  which  give  the  sadly  resigned  reviewer 
a  pain. 

They  can  scarcely  be  blamed,  I  suppose,  for 
producing  wares  that  sell,  more  especially  as 
the  audience  has  a  pain,  too — the  right  kind  of 
pain — the  merry  pain  caused  by  laughter.  But 
even  the  audience  found  they  had  too  much  of 
a  good  thing  during  one  particularly  long 
scene,  in  the  third  act,  in  which  the  three 
comedians  twisted  colloquial  English,  pigeon 
Dutch,  and  the  dictionary  into  an  indistin- 
guishable snarl,  and  left  the  stage  without  a 
laugh  to  follow  them.  Such  a  happening, 
however,  is  unusual. 

I  noticed  a  big.  good-natured  spectator  near 
me  who  shook  all  the  space  within  a  radius 
of  six  feet  with  his  laughter  He  exploded 
into  a  roar  the  moment  the  comedians  opened 
their  mouths  and  spoke — sometimes  before. 
He  was  the  kind  of  auditor  that  a  newly 
fledged  author,  counting  each  burst  of  laugh- 
ter as  so  many  gold  pieces,  would  like  to  em- 
brace, and  present  with  a  stage  box.  But  even 
he  failed  to  send  the  usual  salvo  after  the  re- 
treating comedians  during  this  particular  scene 
that  needed  cutting.  And  cutting  it  will  have, 
without  any  doubt.  There  are  plenty  of  good 
jokes  in  "  I-O-U,"  entombed  in  a  mass  of 
Dutch-English  verbiage,  which  can  only  be  dug 
out  with  the  pruning  shears. 

Some  of  the  caricatured  legal  phraseology 
is  too  cumbersome  to  be  funny,  and  calls  for 
cutting,  too,  but  the  author  boldly  took  his 
stand  on  new  ground  and  scored  a  success, 
even  though  he  dared  to  make  a  travesty  of 
unions  and  the  walking  delegate.  The  withers 
of  the  audience,  however,  seemed  to  be  un- 
wrung.  The  union  men  there — and  there  were 
unquestionably  many  in  the  audience — rose 
to  the  joke  when  the  walking  delegate  casually 
dropped  the  information  that  he  should  call 
a  strike  among  the  watchmakers,  because  they 
were  working  overtime. 

Indeed,  nobody  seemed  to  find  cause  for  of- 
fense in  any  of  the  actions  of  the  walking 
delegate — a  gentleman  with  a  swaggering  gait, 
a  huge  cigar,  a  huger  mustache,  and  a  capacity 
for  breaking  up  the  peace  between  an  in- 
dulgent boss  and  his  satisfied  employees  that 
could  only  be  outshone  by  the  feats  of  his 
prototypes  in  the  industrial  world. 

Some  of  the  songs  in  "  I-O-U "  are  very 
lively,  and  go  with  quantities  of  zip  and 
rather  more  finish  than  usual — evidences  of 
extra  drill,  either  by,  or  in  honor  of,  the  local 
composer;  although  it  seems  that  Mr.  Stewart 
is  not  responsible  for  all  of  the  music. 

Miss  O'Ramey  seems  to  have  made  a  very 
decided  hit  with  her  spoken  songs  and  vocal- 
ized monologues ;  her  walking  dances,  and 
dancing  walks ;  an  indication  not  only  of  the 
attractiveness  of  the  lady  herself,  but  of  the 
need  for  an  occasional  infusion  of  new  blood 
among  the  performers. 

This  need  has  been  further  recognized  by 
the  engagement  of  the  Althea  twins,  a  pair 
of  Frenchwomen  who  have  had  very  thor- 
ough training  for  their  kind  of  acrobatic  danc- 
ing. They  turn  somersaults,  unite  themselves 
into  queer,  four-legged  monsters  that  revolve 
like  wheels,  climb  over  and  under  each  other, 
and  are  generally  in  an  upside-down  position 
when  they  are  not  shooting  out  their  agile 
black  limbs  in  the  mazes  of  unclassified  dances 
that   arc   freely  punctuated   with   clastic  kicks. 

The  management  spread  itself  particularly 

on  cos'.umes,  especially  in  the  last  act,  when 

groups  of  girls,   gorgeous  to  behold  in  long- 

traio*"   ,   low-necked   dresses   of   silk  brocade, 

and  I'ttee.  tissue-paper  picu  re-hats  of  pale  yel- 

.  inlet,  pink,  and  greei     formed  a  "  show- 

with  Maude  Amber  for  a  centre,  on 

ilcld  model,  and  sang  "  Delia"  into 


the  favor  of  the  house,  which  insisted  on  en- 
cores until  it  could  be  whistled  correctly. 

The  tiny  stage  was  taxed  to  its  fullest  ca- 
pacity during  the  mazy  figures  of  the  marches, 
which,  nevertheless,  went  off  with  the  ac- 
curacy inseparable  from  stage  work  drilled 
and  presided   over  by  the  valiant   Mr.  Jones. 


Annie  Abbott — or  "  the  Little  Georgia  Mag- 
net," as  she  is  more  familiarly  termed — has 
been  of  late  brightening  up  a  dull  bill  at  the 
Orpheum  by  her  incomprehensible  feats  of — 
really,  one  scarcely  knows  what  to  term  it. 
It  can  scarcely  be  called  strength,  since  the 
incalculable  force  that  resides  in  ner  slight 
frame  is  of  an  order  that  defies  analysis  or 
definition. 

It  certainly  partakes  not  at  all  of  muscle, 
for  there  is  no  evidence  of  muscular  strain 
perceptible  in  the  Magnet's  face  or  figure, 
when  ten  or  a  dozen  men  at  her  smiling  invi- 
tation are  vainly  putting  forth  brute  force  to 
dislodge  her  slight  body  or  pale  hands  from 
some  chosen  place. 

The  lady  conducts  her  act  without  assis- 
tance, making  her  preliminary  remarks  with 
the  fluency  of  long  practice,  and  arranging  the 
details  of  each  demonstration  in  a  quick, 
practical,  wide-awake  way  that  is  entirely 
unsuggestive  of  the  usual  vaudeville  manner. 

She  is  a  little  body,  young,  apparently,  of  a 
brunette  pallor,  her  black  hair  curled  and  ar- 
ranged d  I'ingSnue,  her  slight  figure  gowned 
in  brilliant  red,  ner  voice  and  manner  sug- 
gestive of  long  and  self-possessed  experience 
before  the  public. 

\fi=e;  (  nr  Mrs.)  Abbott  shows  considerable 
tact  in  gathering  her  committee,  who  are  coy 
at  first,  and  hang  back  in  the  throes  of  bash- 
fulness.  Once  they  have  rallied  around  her, 
they  speedily  discover  that  their  combined 
strength  is  zero  compared  to  hers.  Her  black 
rnrV  bob.  her  red-clad  figure  is  slightly  tossed 
by  the  muscular  efforts  of  the  men  surround- 
ing her,  but  after  she  has  rubbed  her  hands 
together,  with  an  appearance  of  summoning 
•■hit  •"'•et'-*-ious  m3«netic  nualitv  that  makes 
her  strength,  not  all  the  king's  horses,  nor 
all  the  king's  men  can  shift  the  object  she 
holds  until  she  has  willed  that  it  shall  be 
shifted. 

A  dozen  men,  with  united  strength,  tried 
vainly  to  lower  a  long  rod  that  rested  lightly 
against  the  outspread  fingers  of  one  hand,  and 
was  but  half  grasped  by  the  other.  One  of  the 
tugging  men,  in  the  enthusiasm  of  effort,  lifted 
his  feet  from  the  ground,  and  hung  bodily 
to  the  obdurate  pole,  which  still  rested  un- 
disturbed against  her  slight  fingers,  and  low- 
ered not  an  inch  in  response  to  this  objective 
illustration  of  the  inefficacy  of  weight  and 
mitFcte  asrain  the  Georgia  Magnet's  electric 
power. 

She  invited  the  men  singly  to  lift  her  up, 
an  act  accomplished  by  each  with  ease.  At 
the  second  trial,  however,  when  the  magnet 
had  willed  otherwise,  the  men  found  that  the 
little  figure  that  had  been  tossed  up  like  a  rub- 
ber ball  but  a  moment  before  was  absolutely 
immovable.  The  entire  display  forms  another 
curious  instance  of  the  number  of  things  in 
heaven  and  earth  which  our  philosophy  dreams 
not  of.  The  audience  therefore  soon  accepts 
that  fact,  and  after  relegating  the  Georgia 
Mqf",*>t  to  the  realm  of  unexplainable  thines. 
proceeds  to  enjoy  itself  by  witnessing  tie 
discomfiture  of  the  twelve  good  men  and  true 
who  struggle  to  their  own  undoing;  so  that 
the  Georgia  Magnet's  turn  is  a  very  merry 
one.  Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


Don't  fail  to  make  a  trip  to  the  Tavern  of 
Tamalpais  before  the  unpleasant  winter 
weather  sets  in.  Mill  Valley,  in  its  fall  garb. 
is  a  pleasant  sight  to  the  eye.  and  the  Tavern's 
excellent  cuisine  more  than  satisfies  the  inner 
man. 


Clara  Bloodgood  and  her  production  of 
Clyde  Fitch's  "  The  Girl  With  the  Green 
Eyes,"  will  be  an  early  Columbia  Theatre 
attraction. 


Fritzi  Scheff  in  Babette." 
That  charming  little  singer,  Fritzi  Scheff. 
who  has  abandoned  grand  opera  for  comic 
opera,  is  crowding  the  Broadway  Theatre  in 
New  York  with  Victor  Herbert  and  Harry  B. 
Smith's  new  opera,  "  Babette."  Says  the  New 
York  Evening  Post: 

Mr.  Herbert  is,  like  Tohann  Strauss,  a  high- 
class  musician,  who  can  adapt  his  style  to  pop- 
ular taste  without  ever  becoming  vulgar;  and 
underlying  his  pretty  tunes  there  are  orches- 
tral touches  which  rejoice  the  heart  of  lovers 
of  the  best  in  music.  Some  of  the  choruses, 
too,  are  excellent :  but  the  gem  of  the  whole 
score  is  a  quartet  in  the  last  act  which  got 
two  encores  and  deserved  a  hundred.  There 
is  nothing  more  admirable  in  the  whole  range 
of  operatic  concerted  music,  and  it  deserves 
to  become  as  famous  as  the  quartet  in  "  Rigo- 
letto,"  to  which,  in  fact,  it  is  far  superior.  It 
was  sung,  as  nothing  on  the  operetta  stage 
has  perhaps  ever  been  sung  here,  with  perfect 
intonation,  mellowness  of  tone,  and  refined 
shading.  But.  in  fact,  nearly  all  the  music 
was  well  sung,  from  the  solos  to  the  choruses  ; 
and  the  orchestra  also  was  unusually  good 
under  the  direction  of  Mr.  John  Lund.  Among 
the  singers,  Mr.  Eugene  Cowles,  with  his  deep, 
sonorous  bass,  is  a  tower  of  strength.  He  is 
the  Edouard  de  Reszke  of  the  operatic  stage. 
Among  the  others  who  deserve  praise  are 
Richie  Ling,  Edward  Connelly.  Ida  Hawley. 
Josephine  Bartlett,  and  Louis  Harrison,  the 
funny  man,  who  perpetrated  some  good  jokes. 
Brighter  than  all  these,  of  course,  shone  the 
star.  Fritzi  Scheff  was  lucky  to  secure  in 
Mr.  Herbert  a  composer  who  could  adapt  his 
music  to  her  special  style  and  requirements. 
In  spite  of  evident  nervousness,  she  sang  bet- 
ter even  than  in  grand  opera.  Her  voice  is 
still  growing,  and  occasionally  surprises  one 
by  new  feats,  including  even  quite  acceptable 
colorature.  She  looked  charming  in  her 
various  elegant  costumes,  and  as  an  actress 
was  as  pert  and  vivacious  as  usual,  and,  while 
always  piquant,  never  for  a  moment  vulgar. 
"  Babette  "  is  really,  for  New  York,  an  epoch- 
making  production,  not  only  because  it  is  so 
well  done,  but  because  it  is  practically  an 
opera  comique,  a  genre  that  has  long  been  a 
desideratum  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 


Charles  Richman's  stellar  debut  in  New 
York  has  proved  a  big  hit.  His  play,  by  Vic- 
tor Mapes.  is  entitled  "  Captain  Barrington." 
and  one  of  the  leading  characters  is  General 
George  Washington,  who  is  impersonated  by 
Joseph  Kilgour.  He  is  said  to  present  a 
striking  likeness  to  the  Stuart  painting  of 
Washington. 

A.    P.    HOTALING'S    OLD    KIRK. 


A  Whisky    Well  Matured    by    Modern  Scien- 
tific   Methods. 

We  recommend  A.  P.  Hotaling's  Old  Kirk 
as  a  straight  blend  of  the  very  best  Kentucky 
whiskies,  unadulterated  and  guaranteed  to  be 
the  purest  whisky  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  It 
has  been  matured  in  heated  warehouses,  and 
is  now  ready  for  the  market.  Any  person 
who  buys  a  bottle  of  these  rare  old  goods  will 
not  be  paying  for  fence  ads.,  or  dead  walls, 
and  he  will  secure  absolutely  the  finest  brand 
ever  introduced  in  California.  Now  Christmas 
is  coming,  let's  all  take  a  drink  of  Old  Kirk. 


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Popular  Sunday  Night  Psychological  Lectures.     SUN- 
DAY, December  6th,  at  8:15  p.  M., 

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—  On  — 
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ith     demonstrations    of    the 
power  of  the  Sub-conscious 
Mind. 

Tickets,  25c  and  50c.     Box- 
office  open  1  to  3.  Saturday. 
Sunday  eve,  December  13th,  Dr.  Mclvor-Tyndall  on 
'  Our  Common  Birthright." 


Y.  M.  G.  A.  AUDITORIUM. 

SONG    RECITAL 

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Tuesday,  December  8tli,  8:15  p.  111. 

Admission,  75c.    Reserved  seats,  $1.00.    On  sale  at 
Clark,  Wise  &  Co.'s,  :26  Geary  Street. 


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QOLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

To-night,  Sunday  night,  and  all  next  week,   matinee 

Saturday.  Wm.  A.  Brady's  special  production 

oi  the  popular  pastoral  drama, 

WAY      DOWIV     EAST 

By    Lottie    Blair    Parker.      Elaborated    by    Jos.  R 
Grismer. 


December  14th— Lulu  Glaser  in  I>olIy  Yarden. 

ALGAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone     Alcazar 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.     E.  D.  Price.  Gen.  Mgr. 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and  Sunday.    Week  com- 
mencing next  Monday  evening,  December 
~th.  the  Russian  romance, 
A.     ROYAL     PRISONER 

Evenings.  25c  to  75c.     Saturday  and  Sunday  Mati- 
nees, 15c  to  50c. 

Monday,  December  14th— The    Girl   T  Left  Be- 
hind Me.     Christmas  week— Blue  .leans. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533. 

Belasco  &  Maver Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week  starting  Monday,  December  7th,  matinees  Sat- 
urday and  Sunday,    the  famous  sensa- 
tional melodrama, 
NEW    YORK     DAY     BY     DAY 
Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees.  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  December  14th— The  Scout's  Revenge. 

GRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Matinees  Sunday,  Thursday,  and  Saturday.  Week  be- 
ginning to-morrow  matinee,  the  little  sunbeam, 
MARIE  HEATH,  in  FOB  MOTHER'S  SAKE. 


Beginning  Sundav  matinee.  December  nth,  J.  H. 
STODDART  and  REUBEN  FAX  in  THE  BON- 
NIE BRIER  BUSH. 


Prices— Evenings,  15c,  25c,  50c,  and  75c.     Matinees, 
15c,  25c,  and  50c. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee.  December  6th. 
Pauline  Hall ;  Francesca  Redding  and  Company ; 
Hines  and  Remington;  Bonner;  Agues  Mahr;  Clarice 
Vance;  Joseph  Newman;  the  Brittons ;  and  last  week 
oi  Hal  Godfrey  and  Company. 


Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c.  Matinees  every  Wednesday,  Thurs- 
day, Saturday,  and  Sunday. 


Instantaneous  and  unparalleled  success, 

-:-         I-O-TX  -:- 

New  songs,  dances,  and  fun  galore.  Our  "  all  star  " 
cast.  The  Althea  Twin  Sisters  Team  (their  first  ap- 
pearance here).     Beautiful  chorus  of  fifty  voices. 

Seats  on  sale  two  weeks  ahead.  Matinees  Saturday 
and  Sunday.  * 


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One  week,  including  Sunday,  Dec.  13th,  matinees  Sat- 
urday and  Sunday.     Commencing  to-morrow 
(Sundav)  night, 

ELLERY'S  ITALIAN  BAND 

With  eight  new  artists.  Magnificent  programmes 
changed  nightly.  Wednesday  night,  Wagner;  Satur- 
day night,  Popular  "  Rag-Time"  Smoker. 

Reserved  seats.  75c,  50c,  25c.  Box,  $1.00.  At  Sher- 
man, Clay  &  Co.'s.    Sundav  at  theatre. 

Wednesday  matinee  at  Greek  Theatre,  Berkeley. 


New  California  Jockey  Club 
OAKLAND  TRACK 

Racing  every  Week  Day,  Rain  or  Shine. 
fL       SIX    OR    MORE    RACES    DAILY      f^ 

^-*  Races  start  at  2.15  p.  m.,  sharp.  *-* 


For  Special  Trains  stopping  at  the  Track  take  S  P 
Ferry,  foot  of  Market  Street,  at  12.00,  12.30,  1.00,  1.30 
or  2.00.  Last  two  cars  on  trains  reserved  for  ladies 
and  their  escorts  in  which  there  is  no  smoking.  First 
meeting  at  Oakland  Track  is  from  November  14th 
to  December  i2lh.     At  Ingleside  from  December  14th. 

Returning— Trains  leave  the  track  at  4.15  and  4.45 
p.  m.,  and  immediately  after  the  last  race. 

THOMAS  H.  WILLIAMS,  President. 
PERCY  W.  TREAT.  Secretary. 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL! 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kinds  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


December 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


387 


STAGE   GOSSIP. 


A  Picturesque  Romantic  Comedy. 

"  A  Royal  Prisoner,"  a  comedy-drama  in 
four  acts,  new  to  San  Francisco,  is  to  be  pre- 
sented at  tile  Alcazar  Theatre  on  Monday 
night.  The  scenes  are  laid  in  and  around  St 
Petersburg,  early  in  the  eighteenth  century. 
The  hero  is  a  rollicking  young  lieutenant 
of  the  Imperial  Guard,  who  has  the  ardor  of  a 
Don  Juan  and  the  reckless  daring  of  a 
D'Artagnan.  He  is  saved  from  death  by 
Maurice  de  Saxe.  a  pretender  to  the  throne, 
and  repays  the  debt  by  subsequently  imperson- 
-lins  him  alter  ^idin^  his  escape  from  prison. 
His  audacity  and  gallantry  enable  him  to  ex- 
tricate himself  from  a  web  of  complications 
and  to  win  the  heart  and  hand  of  the  empress 
herself  a  daughter  of  Peter  the  Great.  Tames 
Durkin  will  be  the  dashing  Russian  swash- 
buckler, and  Adele  Block  will  find  an  excellent 
opportunity  as  the  imperious  daughter  of  the 
Czar  John  B.  Maher  will  be  the  fussy  old 
minister  of  police;  Luke  Conness,  the  pre- 
tender: Harry  S.  Hilliard.  a  young  officer: 
George  Osbourne,  the  choleric  major;  Frances 
Starr,  the  dainty  Theodora ;  and  Eleanor  Gor- 
don the  coquettish  countess.  "  The  Girl  I 
Left  Behind  Me."  by  David  Belasco  and 
Franklin  Fvles.  will  be  presented  on  Decem- 
ber 14th.  and  for  holiday  week.  Joseph  Ar- 
thur's "'  Blue  Jeans  "  will  be  the  bill. 

Second  Week  of  "  "Way  Down  East." 
That  Lottie  Blair  Parker's  pretty  pastoral 
play,  "Way  Down  East,"  despite  its  three 
visits,  has  by  no  means  exhausted  its  popu- 
larity here,  is  evident  from  the  large  audiences 
which  have  filled  the  Columbia  Theatre  dur- 
ing the  week.  The  present  company  is  a  very 
capable  one,  including  Ruby  Bridges  as  Anna 
Moore ;  Charles  H.  Riegel  as  the  hard-hearted 
Snuire  P-irt'ett  :  Imocene  Hvams  as  his  wife  : 
Edward  J.  Heron  as  Hi  Holler,  the  chore  boy ; 
William  Lamp — the  handsome  youth  who  be- 
came a  matinee  idol  at  the  Alcazar  last  winter 
—as  Lennox  Sanderson,  the  city  man ;  Madge 
Douglas  as  Kate  Brewster;  Loyola  O  Connor 
as  Martha  Perkins,  the  village  gossip ;  Charles 
H  Burke  as  the  town  constable;  Philip  Yale 
Drew  as  David  Bartlert ;  and  H.  H.  Foreman 
,=  the  ='immer  boarder.  On  December  iith 
"  Wav  Down  East  "  will  be  followed  by  Julian 
Edwards  and  Stanislaus  Stange's  comic-opera. 
"  Dolly  Varden,"  with  Lulu  Glaser  in  the  title- 
role. 

The  Central's  Stirring  Melodrama. 

Another  sensational  melodrama,  "  New 
York  Day  by  Day,"  will  be  produced  at  tie 
Central  Theatre  on  Monday  night.  It  gives  a 
kaleidoscopic  view  of  lowly  life  in  the  great 
metropolis,  and  introduces  a  number  of  typical 
local  characters,  such  as  a  Wall  Street  banker, 
„  ^;ct,jCNt^lp^raph  b"V  a  fonrnad  an  Ttalian 
padrone,  a  blind  flower-girl,  an  American 
sailor,  and  a  German  sausage-vender.  _  Some 
striking  settings  are  promised — a  view  of 
Pottery  Pari-  New  vork  Bav  atH  the  Statue 
of  Liberty.  Harlem  Bridge,  the  Rookeries  of 
Five  Points,  and  an  opium  den  in  the  slums. 
Among  the  impressive  electrical  effects  will 
-  be  sunset,  moonlight,  and  early  dawn,  de- 
picted in  a  maze  of  varied  hues.  A  snow- 
storm and  fog  on  the  bay  will  also  be  striking 
features  of  the  play. 


songs,  and  will  be  heard  in  his  best  ditties 
and  latest  stories ;  and  the  Brittons,  a  clever 
colored  couple,  who  will  reappear  for  one 
week. 

Dr.  Tyndall's  Hypnotic  Suggestion. 

The  subject  of  Dr.  Alex.  Mclvor-Tyndall's 
lecture  on  Sunday  evening  will  be  "  Proofs 
of  Immortality."  In  his  recent  lecture  on 
"  Hypnotism  and  Crime,"  Dr.  Tyndall  related 
the  following  incident,  apropos  of  the  possi- 
bility of  a  hypnotized  person  accepting  a  sug- 
gestion to  commit  crime.  It  seems  that  when 
the  doctor  was  in  Bakersfield.  some  eight  or 
more  years  ago.  he  was  discussing  with  some 
gentlemen  one  night  this  very  question  of  the 
commission  of  crime  through  hypnotic  sug- 
gestion. To  illustrate  his  point,  he  hypnotized 
a  citizen  of  the  place,  and  told  him  that  on  a 
certain  day.  a  week  or  so  hence,  he  would  be 
seized  with  a  desire  to  strangle  the  person 
who  was  then  talking  to  him  (Tyndall  him- 
self). On  being  aroused  the  mar.  knew  noth- 
ing of  what  had  transpired,  but  on  the  day 
designated  by  the  hypnotist,  as  Mclvor-Tyndall 
was  walking  down  the  street  in  company  with 
Dr.  Thomas  Taggert,  now  of  this  city,  he  was 
seized  from  behind  and  thrown  violently  to 
the  ground,  while  a  wild-eyed  man  was  en- 
deavoring to  strangle  him  to  death.  Had  it 
not  been  for  the  assistance  of  Dr.  Taggert  and 
the  kindly  offices  of  a  policeman.  Dr.  Tyndall 
asserts  that  the  man  would  undoubtedly  have 
killed  him  in  obedience  to  the  force  of  the 
posthypnotic   suggestion   given   him. 


"T  -  O  -  U  "  at  Fischer's. 
Tudson  C.  Brusie's  burlesque.  "  I-O-U."  will 

easily  fill  Fischer's  Theatre  during  the  month 
of  December,  for  it  is  an  original  conceit  and 
gives  all  the  principals  plenty  of  good  lines. 
Dr.  Stewart's  catchy  music  is  also  bound  to 
prove  noouW.  The  most  aoolauded  of  thp 
songs  are  Kolb.  Dill,  and  Bernard's  "HI 
Only  Could  Forget  It."  Maude  Ambers 
"  Hope  But  Hoping  in  Vain."  Winfield  Blake  s 
"  Here's  to  the  Little  Tin  Pail,"  and  Miss 
\~,frFr  p-,^  Mr.  Price's  "  ^m  T  Dreamin?? 
Georgia  O'Ramey's  interpolated  specialty,  "  A 
Chinese  Flirtation,"  is  also  a  big  hit. 


I 


An  amusing  story  is  told  of  Patti's  youthful 
spouse,  the  Baron  Cederstrom.  A  few  days 
after  his  arrival  in  New  York,  while  stand- 
ing on  a  corner  with  his  wife's  manager, 
there  was  an  alarm  of  fire,  and  presently 
several  smoking  engines  and  trucks  came 
galloping  along  in  splendid  array  The  baron 
gazed  on  the  parade  as  one  entranced.  He 
"articularly  admired  the  magnificent  horses. 
It  turned  out  to  be  a  false  alarm,  and  the 
whole  paraphernalia  turned  around  and  went 
slowlv  back.  "  What  do  vou  think  of  our  fire 
renartment  ?"  asked  Mr.  Francke.  The  baron 
looked  on  amused  and  perplexed.  "  It's 
splendid,  but  what  is  all  this  fuss  for?" 
"Why.  don't  you  know?"  replied  Mr. 
Francke  :  "  just  a  tribute  to  you.  I  arranged 
this  in  your  honor."  This  pleased  the  baron 
immensely.  He  was  more  than  flattered, 
and  showered  a  thousand  compliments  on  the 
courtesy  of  the  country  toward  him.  When 
he  went  back  to  his  apartments  at  the  S^roy. 
and  met  Mine.  Patti.  he  told  her  of  the 
honor  that  had  been  done  him.  Mme.  Patti. 
't  is  said,  just  looked  at  him  with  a  twinkle 
in  her  eye.  but  said  nothing.  She  enjoyed 
the  joke  as  much  as  her  manager^ 


The  hit  of  Ivan  Caryll's  comic  opera,  "  The 
Dutchess  of  Dantzic,"  founded  on  Sardou's 
"  Mme.  Sans-Gene."  has  been  scored  by  Hol- 
brook  Blinn.  the  well-known  California  actor, 
whose  clean-cut  piece  of  acting  as  Napoleon 
is  praised  by  all  the  London  critics.  The 
Daily  Telegraph,  commenting  on  his  clever 
impersonation,  declares  that  all  the  company 
— which  included  our  own  Denis  O'Sullivan 
and  a  number  of  notable  English  singers — 
were  "  outpaced  by  Mr.  Blinn.  who  did  not 
have  a  musical  note  to  utter.  The  actor's 
triumph  was  well  deserved,  for  his  delivery  of 
every  line  rang  true,  while  in  bearing  he 
realized  almost  to  the  life  the  Napoleon  of 
tradition." 


Grieg's  health,  according  to  a  writer  in  the 
Academy,  is  still  causing  his  friends  consid- 
erable anxiety,  despite  all  the  care  of  his  de- 
voted wife.  The  composer  has  left  his  sum- 
mer home,  near  Bergen,  for  Christiania,  where 
he  will  spend  the  winter,  but  for  some  months 
he  has  been  unable  to  do  any  serious  work. 
For  several  summers  he  has  hoped  to  go  to 
London  to  produce  the  pianoforte  concerto 
which  he  was  long  ago  commissioned  to  write 
for  the  Philharmonic  Society,  but  he  has  not 
been  able  to  accomplish  it. 


Rural  Drama  at  the  Grand. 
Marie  Heath,  a  clever  soubrette,  will  appear 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  next  week  in  a  new 
r^ral  d-">*"q  "  For  Mother's  Sake."  It  is  a 
story  of  New  England  life  in  four  acts,  by 
Carrie  Ashley-Clarke,  and  calls  for  a  cast  of 
twenty-five  speaking  parts.  Miss  Heath's  com- 
pany includes,  among  others.  Eunice  Goodrich. 
Adelaide  Plunkett.  Clara  Beyers.  Theodore 
Pottle  Dollv  Davenport.  Ella  Blake,  the  Mc- 
Kinlev  twins,  Charles  Plunkett.  J.  Edwin 
Brown,  Joseph  Schaefer,  Jr.,  Joseph  W. 
Walsh.  Pete  Raymond.  Edwin  Roy,  George 
W.  Lyons,  Alexander  Lawrence,  and  William 
Pottle.  Ir.  On  December  13th  Ian  Maclaren's 
Scottish  idyl.  "  The  Bonnie  Brier  Bush."  will 
be  presented. 

The  Orpheum's  New  Offerings. 
Pauline   Hall,    the   well-known    comic-opera 
favorite,  who  has  recently  been  appearing  at 

'  the  Casino,  in  New  York,  with  Francis  Wil- 
son, in  a  biq  revival  of  "  Erminie."  is  to  begin  | 
a   limited   engagement    at   the    Orpheum    next  : 
week.      She  will   wear  some   stunning  gowns,  ' 

c  and  sins  her  most  popular  ballads  and  interest-  I 
:  -elections.  The  other  new-comers 
include  Francesca  Redding  and  company  in 
Will  Cressy's  Western  skit,  "  The  Cattle 
Oueen " :  Hines  and  Remington  in  "  Miss 
Patter  of  Patterson " ;  and  E.  L.  Edwards, 
whose  trained  horse.  Bonner,  does  things 
which  have  heretofore  been  believed  beyond 
the  comprehension  of  a  horse.  The  hold-overs 
are  Agnes  Mahr.  the  "  American  Tommy  At- 
kins " ;  Clarice  Vance,  in  an  entire  change  of 
coon  songs ;  Hal  Godfrey  and  his  company  of 
comedians  in  their  amusing  skit,  "  A  Very  Bad 
Boy " ;    Joe    Newman,    who    writes    his    own 


Margaret  IlHngton.  who  appeared  here  re* 
cently  with  E.  H.  Sothern.  was  married  to 
Daniel  Frohman,  the  well-known  theatrical 
manager,  in  New  York  a  fortnight  ago.  She 
is  at  present  playing  in  "  A  Japanese  Night- 
ingale," at  Daly's  Theatre,  and  at  the  end  of 
this  season  will  retire  from  the  stage. 


At  the  Races. 
The  leading  event  at  the  Oakland  track  to- 
day 1  Saturday)  will  be  a  handicap  for  all 
ages,  for  a  purse  of  $600,  over  a  mile  and  a 
sixteenth  course.  The  other  races  are  a  sell- 
ing purse  of  $400,  for  three-year-olds  and  up- 
ward (six  furlongs)  ;  a  purse  of  $400,  for  all 
ages  (five  and  one-half  furlongs);  a  purse  of 
$400,  for  two-year-olds  that  have  not  won  a 
race  of  $500  or  three  races  of  any  value  (six 
furlongs)  ;  and  a  selling  purse  of  $400.  for 
three-year-olds  and  upward  Cone  mile  and 
fifty  yards). 

The  forced  sale  of  the  household  goods  of 
the  late  Sybil  Sanderson  Terry,  in  the  Hotel 
Drout  in  Paris  last  week,  reveals  the  fact  that 
the  singer  died  insolvent.  The  Terry'  millions 
scarcely  saved  her  from  want  during  the  latter 
days  of  her  life.  The  moment  the  body  was 
cremated,  it  is  said  the  creditors  seized  every- 
thing in  her  fiat.  The  ball  dresses,  theatrical 
costumes,  laces,  jewelry*,  and  furniture  did  not 
appeal  to  the  bidders,  and  the  creditors  real- 
ized little  from  the  sale.  Some  autographed 
music,    however,    fetched   high   prices. 


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December  7,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Commenting  on  the  tall  styles  in  men's 
clothes  displayed  at  the  Horse  Show,  a  well- 
informed  writer  in  the  New  York  Times 
says :  "  Never  have  so  many  colored  and 
fancy  waistcoats  heen  worn.  The  patterns, 
however,  even  for  a  Horse  Show,  were  not 
very  loud.  The  all-around  turndown  collar 
was  a  favorite  style  in  neckwear,  used  even 
with  frock  coat  and  afternoon  dress.  Reginald 
C.  Yanderbilt  wears  very  deep  collars  of  this 
kind,  and  full  scarfs  of  black  or  some  dark 
shade,  puffed  and  fastened  by  a  small  tie  pin 
set  with  pearls.  Alfred  Yanderbilt  appeared, 
immaculately  dressed,  every  afternoon,  with 
frock  coat,  slate-colored  trousers,  gray  or 
brown  figured  waistcoat,  top  hat,  and  dark 
four-in-hand  tie.  The  four-in-hands  are  much 
wider  than  in  previous  years.  Red  ties  were 
generally  worn.  Many  of  these  were  puffed 
Ascots  or  wide  four-in-hands.  That  shade 
of  red  known  as  cardinal  was  the  favorite. 
Ties  of  this  kind  were  worn  by  Robert  L. 
Gerry,  Frank  Otis,  Austin  Gray,  and  Arthur 
Burden.  James  Henry  Smith  has  brought 
some  rather  striking  clothes  from  England. 
He  has  a  tan  covert  coat  with  large  buttons 
which  is  decidedly  horsey.  He  affects  brown 
spats  in  the  afternoon  and  large-checked 
trousers.  He  also  wears  one  of  the  morning 
coats  which  are  becoming  very  popular.  They 
are  built  on  the  cutaway  pattern,  but  the 
skirts  are  long,  with  flap  pockets.  A  very 
exaggerated  style  of  this  same  garment  has 
been  worn  by  E.  Berry  Wall.  The  coat  be- 
longed to  a  suit  of  the  same  color  and  pat- 
tern. It  was  light  gray,  and  buttoned  quite 
high  in  the  neck.  Mr.  Wall  still  sticks  to 
the  poke  collar,  which  has  not  been  adopted 
in   Xew  York. 


"  For  the  afternoon  a  number  of  men  are 
wearing,  with  sack  or  lounge  tweed  or  home- 
spun suits,  brown  derby  hats.  These  are 
English  importations.  The  crown  is  very 
high  and  belled,  and  there  is  but  little  brim. 
Harry  Symes  Lehr  wore  one  of  these  hats 
with  a  grayish-brown  suit,  and  Elisha  Dyer, 
Jr.,  also  had  another  of  the  same  kind.  The 
top  hats  are  of  two  varieties.  Reginald  Yan- 
derbilt and  men  whose  faces  are  round  and 
rather  full  wear  the  hat  with  the  curling 
brim.  Alfred  Yanderbilt  sticks  to  the  straight 
up  and  down  hat  with  scarcely  any  brim 
whatever.  This  hat  has  been  popular  with  the 
King  of  England.  In  evening  clothes,  the 
coats  are  made  with  very  long  tails,  reaching 
below  the  bend  of  the  knee.  These  are  quite 
full  and  spread  out  a  bit  like  the  caudal 
appendage  of  a  raven.  Some  are  cut  square 
and  others  are  rounded.  White  waistcoats 
are  very  much  worn  with  evening  clothes. 
They  are  single-breasted,  cut  low,  in  modified 
U-shape.  A  number  of  men  wore  gold  but- 
tons on  their  white  waistcoats.  The  white 
square  tie  and  standing  collar  are  seen  with 
evening  clothes.  Very  few  winged  collars 
are  worn." 


In  England,  there  is  a  marked  development 
in  the  fashion  of  wearing  jewelry  with  even- 
ing dress.  The  New  York  Herald's  London 
correspondent  says:  "  It  is  no  longer  correct 
to  say  that  no  gentleman  would  ever  think 
of  wearing  anything  but  mother-of-pearl  or 
plain  gold  stud  links  in  an  evening  shirt." 
He  adds:  "Enamels  are  being  very  much 
used  for  these  adjuncts  of  evening  dress,  and 
when  lightly  treated  are  certainly  very 
beautiful.  For  waistcoat  buttons,  links  and 
studs  of  pale  rose  enamel  on  gold,  with  a 
raised  design  in  the  centre,  in  brilliants,  are 
now  made.  Another  design  is  a  set  of  studs 
made  by  white  enamel  in  sexagon  form,  out- 
lined with  diamonds,  and  the  effect  of  the 
shirt  front  is  extremely  good,  giving  the  ap- 
pearance of  diamonds  only  and  causing  peo- 
ple to  wonder  how  they  arc  fitted  to  the 
shirt.  Single  studs  are  not  nearly  so  much 
worn  as  formerly,  and  perhaps  two  studs  are 
more  fashionable  than  three,  though  it  is 
purely  a  matter  of  taste.  The  very  latest 
design  fur  studs  and  links  is  bright  crimson 
enamel,  with  Louis  the  Sixteenth  lattice  work 
of  diamonds  in  platinum  over  enamel.  White 
oal  buttons  are  nearly  always  fancied 
coWadays.  Though  some  men  still  prefer 
plain  mother-of-pearl,  lately  a  tendency  has 
come  in  to  have  these  pearl  buttons  outlined 
with  platinum  or  plain  gold,  and  studded  with 
either  a  diamond  or  a  colored  jewel.  They 
occasionally  are  made  of  onyx,  with  a  dia- 
mond in  the  centre,  and  these  look  well  even 
with  a  black  waistcoat.  But  the  smartest 
of  the  day  not  infrequently  are  seen 
list  coat  1  nit  t  nil:  .latching  their  studs 
inks.      In    the    matter    of    evening-dress 


ties  one  particular  pattern  is  all  the  rage 
just  now.  It  is  a  modification  of  the  old 
batswing  shape,  the  knot  'being  very  small, 
but  the  ends  not  so  broad  as  they  were  in  the 
batswing  variety." 

The  New  York  Sun  declares  that  dark  hair 
is  discounting  entirely  the  blond  in  fashion- 
able favor,  and  quotes  a  well-known  hair- 
dyer  as  saying:  "  The  woman  with  brown 
hair  is  making  it  darker,  almost  black,  and 
she  of  the  coppfvr-colored  and  auburn  locks 
is  dyeing  them  a  deep  mahogany  tint,  which, 
acording  to  a  high  authority,  will  be  the  most 
fashionable  tint  in  Paris  and  New  York  this 
winter.  If  cleverly  done  the  mahogany  shade 
is  very  effective,  and  the  secret  of  its  pro- 
duction is  not  given  away  by  the  hair  dealers. 
No  one  thinks  of  using  bleaches  and  yellow 
dyes  just  now.  For  the  present  that  fashion 
is  quite  dead.  Where  dye  is  used  at  all  it  is 
always  a  darker  rather  than  a  lighter  color 
that  is  chosen.  Black  hair  is  very  fashion- 
able." 

The  servant-girl  problem  is  one  that  usually 
baffles  solution,  but  here  and  there  rises  into 
public  view  a  man  of  heroic  size  who  meets 
it  and  survives,  triumphant.  Among  this 
select  few  belongs  the  Rev.  Francis  C.  Black- 
iston,  a  Methodist  minister  of  New  Jersey. 
Not  long  ago  the  eternal  question  arose.  The 
cook  became  noisy  and  abusive,  after  the 
manner  of  cooks,  and  there  seemed  to  be  a 
fair  prospect  of  a  domestic  upheaval  that 
promised  to  shatter  a  home.  Mr.  Blackiston. 
however,  was  the  man  for  the  emergency. 
According  to  the  New  York  Evening  Post. 
he  calmly  took  his  shotgun  and  went  into 
the  kitchen  to  argue  the  matter  at  issue.  When 
haled  to  court,  the  minister  testified  that 
he  had  never  intended  to  use  the  gun,  and 
only  took  it  to  the  kitchen  for  the  sake  of  its 
moral  effect.  Said  he  :  "I  had  to  make  my 
home  safe.  Let  each  of  you  "  (addressing  the 
jury)  "  imagine  himself  forced  to  contend 
with  a  bad,  threatening,  and  abusive  woman. 
Knowing  that  my  gun  would  serve  to  ',bluff  ' 
her,  I  took  it  with  me.  Wouldn't  you,  every 
one  of  you,  have  done  the  same  thing?"  The 
jurors  were  sympathetic,  memories  of  domestic 
disturbances  crowded  round  them,  and  the 
minister  was  promptly  acquitted  of  the  charge 
of  assault. 

Because  he  broke  the  vows  of  his  bachelor 
club  and  deserted  it  to  be  married,  members 
of  the  organization  in  Williamsport,  Pa.,  the 
other  night,  tried  to  kidnap  Glenn  R.  Fisher 
and  prevent  the  ceremony.  Failing  in  the  at- 
tempt they  enticed  him  from  the  house  to 
sign  for  a  telegram  while  the  wedding  supper 
was  being  eaten,  and  attempted  to  carry  him 
off  in  a  closed  carriage.  His  father,  who  is 
a  blacksmith,  ran  to  his  assistance  and  routed 
the  kidnapers,  some  of  whom  were  recog- 
nized. Young  Fisher's  wedding  clothes  were 
torn,  and  he  was  badly  bruised  and  beaten 
before  he  was  rescued.  During  the  excite- 
ment the  bride  fainted,  and  the  mother  of 
the  young  man  was  attacked  with  heart  fail- 
ure, from  which  she  was  resuscitated  with  dif- 
ficulty. 

Mrs.  Frances  Sterling,  a  wealthy  English- 
woman, who  is  in  the  habit  of  carrying  her 
valuables  in  her  right  stocking,  lost  $35,700 
worth  of  diamonds  and  $300  in  cash  in  New 
York,  recently,  and  now  she  is  anxiously 
awaiting  the  arrival  of  some  honest  person  who 
is  willing  to  return  her  jewels  to  her  in  ex- 
change for  a  thousand-dollar  reward.  Mrs. 
Sterling,  it  seems,  wears  thin  silk  stockings, 
and  explains  her  loss  by  declaring  that  the 
jewel-box  in  which  she  kept  her  treasures 
worked  a  hole  in  the  stocking  and  dropped 
out.  This  experience  ought  to  serve  as  a 
warning  to  other  women  who  believe  that 
their  stockings  are  superior  to  banking  in- 
stitutions for  the  deposit  and  safety  of  their 
valuables. 

New  York  is  to  have  an  international 
physical  culture  exhibition  during  December 
that  will  embrace  many  unique  features.  On 
the  final  night  a  prize  of  one  thousand  dol- 
lars will  be  given  to  the  man  and  woman 
whose  physical  development  most  nearly  ap- 
proaches perfection.  They  are  to  pose  and 
the  spectators  will  act  as  judges  and  cast 
votes.  Vienna  recently  held  a  masculine 
beauty  show.  Seventy-three  competitors 
were  entered,  of  whom  twenty-nine  were 
weeded  out  to  go  before  the  jury,  upon  which 
sat  a  number  of  the  most  prominent  sculptors, 
painters,  archaeologists,  and  other  leading  men 
of  Vienna.  Among  the  candidates  were  the 
sons    of    some    wealthy    Austrian    families,    a 


model  celebrated  in  the  studios  of  Vienna, 
a  drillmaster  in  the  Vienna  fire  department, 
a  professional  wrestler,  and  a  cab  driver. 
None  of  the  candidates  possessed  perfect 
harmony  of  head,  body,  and  limbs,  which  fact 
showed  that  the  exercises  of  the  modern 
gymnasium  and  modern  sports  are  not  cal- 
culated to  develop  symmetry.  Twenty  prizes 
were  awarded.  Raimond  Walter,  who  won 
the  first  prize,  has  already  learned  that  beauty 
has  its  drawbacks.  He  has  been  sought  in 
marriage  and  sought  for  exhibition.  An 
American  manager  has  offered  him  one  hun- 
dred dollars  a  day  to  exhibit  himself  in  this 
country  as  the  "  handsomest  man  in  the 
world."  This  offer,  like  those  of  the 
matrimonial  agencies,  Mr.  Walter  has  been 
obliged  to  decline,  as  his  term  of  military 
service  is  about  to  begin. 


Irresistible  :  "  Yes.  his  painting  attracts  a 
great  many  people."  "Great  artist,  eh?" 
"  No,  just  a  house  painter.  He  puts  out  a 
sign,  '  Fresh  Paint,'  and  every  one  touches  it 
to  see  if  it's  dry." — Chicago  Nezcs. 


Cereal    Foods 

without  cream  are  not  appetizing,  but  good,  raw 
cream  is  not  always  easy  to  get.  Borden's  Peer- 
less Brand  Evaporated  Cream  is  superior  to  raw 
cream,  with  a  delicious  flavor  and  richness.  Use 
it  for  general  cooking  purposes.  Borden's  Con- 
densed Milk  Co.,  proprietors. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    'WEATHER 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander    G.     McAdie 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-         State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

November  25th  ....  64  52  .00  Clear 

26th  ...  60  52  .00  Clear 

"  27th 62  52  .00  Cloudy 

2Sth  ....  56  52  Tr.  Cloudy 

"  29th 64  54  .00  Clear 

"  30th....  62  50  00  Clear 

December    1st 56  50  .00  Clear 

"  2d 64  4S  .00  Clear 


THE   FINANCIAL    -WEEK. 


Closed 
Bid.  Asked 
oS&     100 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  December  2,  1903, 
were  as  follows  : 

Bonds. 
Sha  res. 
HawaiianC.  S-5%.    5,000    @    99 
Market  St.   Ry.   1st 

Con.  5% 2,000    @  114  112 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%  ..  28,000    (3  114  54  

Pac.  Elect.  Rv.  5%    16.000    @  106^-106^     106K 
S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry-5% 12,000    @  116K-116K     116 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1009  1 ,000    @  107^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1912 2.000     @  114J4 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd 5,000    (3  106% 

S-  P.  Branch.  6%..     i.ooo    (3)  130 
S.V.  Water6%...       1,000    @  105H 
Stocks. 

JVater.  Shares. 

Spring  Vall'yW.Co        no    @    39H- 39^8 


106 14 
116M 

"4^     "55* 

io6£4     107 

131 

105K     105% 

Closed 
Fid.  Asked 
39K      39K 


Banks. 
Bank  of  California 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 

Vigorit 

Suga  rs. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S... 
Honokaa  S-  Co. . . . 

Hutchinson 

Makaweli  S.Co  — 
Onomea  S.  Co 

Gas  a  nd  Electric. 
Mutual  Electric. . 
S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric     1,252    @    65- 

Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...  60    @  142 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 175    @    92 

Oceanic  S.  Co 10    @     5^ 


25    @  447-    44S        446        455 


50  @  66^ 

100  @      4# 

5  @  44 

100  @  I2*£ 

205  @  cjyA-  10 

115  @  22$£ 

50  ®  32 

500  @  9%-  10 

6S# 


4K 
4354 

954 

V% 

954 
65K 

i4i*i 
91^ 


65*4 

4". 


45 


22M 
32M 


65J< 


91  # 
6 


The  sugars  have  been  very  quiet,  with  narrow 
fluctuations,  and  have  about  held  their  own  in  price. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  steady,  no  shares 
changing  hands  at  39/6  to  39:-. 

Alaska  Packers  sold  off  one  point  to  142  on  sales 
of  60  shares,  closing  at  141^  bid. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  has  been  active, 
and  on  sales  of  1,250  shares  sold  off  four  points  to 
65,  but  at  the  close  reacted  to  65^.  closing  at  65^ 
bid,  6554  asked. 

Mutual  Electric  was  in  better  demand,  500  shares 
changed  hands  at  97s  and  10. 


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December 


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THE        ARGONAUT 


389 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


George  Moore,  the  Irish  novelist,  says  that 
he  was  walking  one  day  in  a  Dublin  street 
when  an  undertaker's  assistant  passed  him, 
carrying  on  his  shoulder  a  coffin  unusually 
tiny.  A  young  man  stopped  the  assistant 
near  Mr.  Moore.  "  Is  it  possible,"  exclaimed 
the  youth.  "  that  this  coffin  is  intended  for 
any  living  creature?" 

Once,  so  the  story  goes.  Emperor  Nicholas 
of  Russia  asked  Liszt  to  play  in  his  presence. 
The  musician  complied,  but  during  the  per- 
formance the  Czar  started  a  conversation  with 
an  aid-de-camp.  Liszt  stopped  playing  at 
once.  The  Czar  asked  what  was  the  matter. 
"  When  the  emperor  speaks."  said  Liszt, 
"  every  one  must  be  silent."  The  Czar  smil- 
ingly took  the  hint,  and  the  playing  pro- 
ceeded. 

Joseph  Jefferson  caught  a  trespasser  fish- 
ing in  his  well-stocked  lake  on  his  Louisiana 
farm,  the  other  day.  The  venerable  actor 
went  up  to  him  and  called  his  attention  to 
the  tact  that  he  was  fishing  in  a  private  pre- 
serve, in  violation  of  the  law.  The  stranger 
smiled,  sadly.  "  You  are  mistaken,  sir,"  he 
replied ;  "  I'm  not  catching  your  fish ;  I'm 
feeding  them.  I  haven't  landed  one,  and 
my  bait's  nearly  all  gone." 

When  he  recently  revived  "'The  Bells"  in 
New  York,  Sir  Henry  Irving's  first  words. 
"  Peace  be  unto  you,"  were  the  cause  of 
hearty  laughter  throughout  the  house.  The 
English  actor  is  said  to  have  paused  in 
amazement.  Then  he  looked  at  his  auditors 
with  something  very  much  akin  to  scorn, 
and  went  on  with  the  play.  It  was  some 
minutes,  however,  before  he  was  able  to  grip 
the  attention  of  the  audience.  When  it  was 
later  explained  to  him  that  the  greeting  of 
the  Dowieites  was  "  Peace  be  unto  you,"  his 
anger  was  appeased,  for  no  one  enjoys  a 
joke  better  than  Sir  Henry  himself. 


]  tell  you  that  I  had  forgiven  all  my  enemies  ?" 
"  But,  Brother  Breckinridge,  when  you  meet 
Brother  Stuart  Robinson  in  heaven,  do  you 
feel  that  you  can  greet  him  as  all  the  re- 
deemed ought  to  greet  one  another?"     "  Don't 

i    bother  me  with  such  questions.     Stuart  Rob- 

I    inson  will  never  get  there  •" 

Sir  Francis  Burnand,  in  his  history  of 
Punch,  tells  a  good  story  of  Sir  Arthur  Sul- 
livan's mother.  She  was  dining  with  the 
Duke  of  Edinburgh,  when  she  startled  him 
by  saying :  "  Sir,  your  family  name  is 
Guelph?"  "My  dear  mother!"  began 
Arthur,  remonstrating.  "But  it  is,  isn't  it?" 
she  persisted.  "  Certainly,"  replied  the  duke, 
much  amused ;  "  what's  the  matter  with  it, 
Mrs.  Sullivan  ?"  "  Oh,  nothing,"  returned 
the  excellent  old  lady,  musingly,  "  only  I 
don't  understand  why  you  don't  call  your- 
self by  your  proper  name."  "  There's  noth- 
ing to  be  ashamed  of  in  the  name  of  Guelph," 
the  duke  said,  gravely,  and  the  old  lady  as- 
sured him  that  there  was  "  nothing  whatever 
as   far  as  she  knew." 


Rufus  Choate,  on  one  occasion,  was  exam- 
ining one  Dick  Barton,  chief  mate  of  the 
ship  Challenge.  After  hurling  questions  with 
the  speed  of  a  rapid-fire  gun  for  over  an  hour, 
the  brilliant  lawyer  asked:  "Now  tell  me: 
*  In  what  latitude  and  longitude  did  you 
cross  the  equator?'"  "Ah,  you  are  joking." 
said  the  sailor.  "  No,  sir ;  I  am  in  earnest, 
and  I  desire  an  answer."  "  That's  more  than 
I  can  give."  "  Indeed.  You  a  chief  mate 
and  unable  to  answer  so  simple  a  question  !" 
"  Yes,  the  simplest  question  I  ever  was  asked. 
I  thought  even  a  fool  of  a  lawyer  knew  there's 
no  latitude  at  the  equator."  For  once,  Choate 
had  found  a  man  who  could  squelch  him. 

In  the  absence  of  a  minister.  Judge  James 
F.  Read,  who  was  born  and  lived  in  Ken- 
tucky before  moving  to  Western  Kansas,  was 
once  unexpectedly  called  upon  to  say  a  few 
words  at  the  burial,  near  Fort  Smith,  of  a 
man  who  was  comfortably  well  oft  in  worldly 
possessions,  but  neglectful  of  his  spiritual 
welfare.  "  My  friends,"  the  judge  said, 
solemnly,  "  we  are  gathered  here  to-day  to 
pay  a  final  tribute  to  our  friend  who  has 
already  solved  the  mysteries  of  the  great  here- 
after. He  did  not  have  the  reputation  of  a 
religious  man,  and  yet  he  lived  the  life  of  a 
noble  Kentucky  gentleman.  He  had  good 
bosses,  and  he  ran  'em.  He  had  good  seegars, 
and  he  smoked  'em.  He  had  good  whisky. 
and  he  drank  it.  He  had  good  game-cocks, 
and  he  fit  "em,  for  such  is  the  kingdom  of 
heaven." 


In  his  reminiscences.  General  Gordon  tells 
a  characteristic  anecdote  of  an  eccentric 
Southern  divine,  the  Rev.  Robert  J.  Breckin- 
ridge, who  was  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and 
fervid — not  to  say  bitter — advocates  of  the 
Union  cause.  His  trenchant  pen  and  lashing 
tongue  spared  neither  blood  relatives,  nor 
ministers,  nor  members  of  the  church,  not 
even  those  of  the  same  faith  with  himself, 
provided  he  regarded  them  as  untrue  to  the 
Union.  On  his  death-bed,  his  family  and 
some  of  his  church  members  were  gathered 
around  him.  They  were  most  anxious  that 
he  should  be  reconciled  to  all  men,  and  es- 
ially  to  a  Southern  sympathizer  of  his 
church — Dr.  Stuart  Robinson,  of  Ken- 
— before  he  died,  and  they  asked  him  : 
rother  Breckinridge,  have  you  forgiven 
your  enemies  ?"  "Oh,  yes ;  certainly  I 
;."  "  Well,  Brother  Breckinridge,  have 
forgiven  our  brother,  Dr.  Stuart  Robin- 
ton?"      "  Certainly    I    have.      Didn*t    I    just 


It  is  related  that  during  one  of  his  busy 
reception  hours,  when  President  Lincoln  was 
talking  first  to  one,  then  to  another  of  the 
many  who  filled  the  room  in  the  White  House, 
a  gentleman  asked  if  any  news  had  been 
received  from  John  Morgan,  whose  Confed- 
erate cavalry  were  raiding  Kentucky  and 
Ohio.  "  We'll  catch  John  some  of  these 
days,"  replied  Lincoln ;  "  I  admire  him,  for 
he  is  a  bold  operator.  He  always  goes  after 
the  mail  trains,  in  order  to  get  information 
from  Washington.  On  his  last  raid  he  opened 
some  mail-bags  and  took  possession  of  the 
official  correspondence.  One  letter  was  from 
the  War  Department  to  a  lieutenant  in  Grant's 
army ;  it  contained  a  captain's  commission  for 
him.  Right  under  the  signature  of  A.  Lincoln 
the  audacious  Morgan  wrote,  '  Approved,  John 
Morgan,"  and  sent  the  commission  on  its  way. 
So  there  is  one  officer  in  our  army  whose 
commission  bears  my  signature,  with  the  ap- 
proval of  that  dare-devil  rebel  raider." 


Opening  of  New  York's  Grand-Opera  Season. 

After  scanning  the  San  Francisco  Chron- 
icle's New  York  dispatch,  under  date  of  No- 
vember 23d,  describing  the  glittering  horse- 
shoe at  the  opening  performance  of  the  Metro- 
politan Opera  House,  a  bewildered  Argonaut 
reader  wrote :  "  Will  you  kindly  inform  an 
old  subscriber  what  color  of  hose  the  ushers 
did  wear,  and,  incidentally,  what  the  name  of 
of  the  opera  was?" 

We  regret  that  we  are  unable  to  answer 
the  first  important  query ;  the  opera,  however, 
was  Verdi's  '*  Rigoletto."  The  new  Italian 
tenor,  Enrico  Caruso,  was  the  duke ;  Sembrich, 
the  Gitda ;  Scotti,  the  Rigoletto ;  Mme.  Homer, 
the  Maddalenna ;  Miss  Bauermeister,  the 
Giovanna ;  Mme.  Mapleson,  the  countess ; 
Journet,  the  Sparafucile ;  and  Dufriche, 
the  Monterone.  The  main  interest  of  the 
evening  centred  in  Caruso  as  the  duke.  He  is 
described  by  the  Commercial  Advertiser's 
critic  as  the  best  Italian  tenor  since  Campa- 
nini.     The  writer  adds: 

He  is  not  much  to  look  at,  being  short  and 
squatty,  with  little  or  no  neck,  but  his  voice 
is  a  pure  tenor — mellow,  rich,  and  thrilling, 
produced  without  any  apparent  effort,  and 
utterly  and  gratefully  devoid  of  the  white 
quality  which  seems  to  be  the  chief  character- 
istic of  most  of  his  brothers  in  art.  Its  beauty 
is  sensuous,  the  kind  which  makes  thrills  chase 
up  and  down  the  spinal  cord,  especially  wnen 
he  is  singing  mezza  voice.  It  is  also  a  voice 
of  very  considerable  power.  He  is  a  true 
Italian  in  that — at  least  in  operas  of  the 
"  Rigoletto  "  class — he  saves  himself  through 
all  the  recitative  and  less  important  tunes. 
Uut  he  is  not  typically  Italian  in  that  he  does 
not  rush  to  the  footlights  for  every  B-flat 
or  C.  In  truth,  his  singing  was  unexpectedly 
artistic.  Of  course,  the  tune  of  tunes  in 
"  Rigoletto "  for  the  tenor  is  "  La  donna  e 
mobile,"  and  it  is  long  since  it  has  been  sung 
so  exquisitely.  His  full  voice  was  ingratiating 
in  quality  and  his  mezza  voice  delightful. 
He  phrases  well  and  intelligently,  and  indulges 
in  no  extravagances  or  mannerisms.  More- 
over— and  most  grateful  of  all — he  is  rarely 
off  pitch,  and  then  only  for  a  second  or  so,  and 
just  by  a  shade.  We  shall  be  very  much  mis- 
taken if  Caruso  does  not  come  close  to  being 
the  chief  feature  of  the  season,  so  far  as  the 
singers  are  concerned. 


Husband — "  I've  got  a  dandy  cook  coming 
to-morrow.  She  says  she  will  stay  with  us 
for  six  months."  Wife — "  John,  I  won't  have 
her  in  the  house  a  minute.  A  woman  who 
will  lie  like  that  will  certainly  steal." — Ex. 


A  man  may  be  won  by  flattery ;  he  can  be 
retained  only  by  cookery. — Life. 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker.  Dentist, 

Phelan    Building.   806   Market    Street.    Specially : 
"  Col  ton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


A  Cold. 
He  has  a  cold,  and  life  no  more 
Is  fair  and  radiant  as  of  yore. 
He  sees  no  sunsets  gild  the  sky. 
No  autumn  colors  greet   the  eye; 
For  him  the  earth  is   full  of  chills 
And  potions,  capsules,  salves,  and  pills, 
Hot  baths  and  blankets,  coughs  and  tears, 
Advice    and    sympathy   and   sneers; 
Red  eyes  that  mark  a  present  plight 
Without  the  glee  of  yesternight. 
And  friends  declare:     "'Twill  soon  be  well 
Or  else  'twill  kill  you;   who  can  tell?" 
Of  all   the  ills  life  can   unfold, 
His  is  the  worst  who  has  a  cold! 


Soliloquy. 

Now   I   lay   me   down   to   sleep — 
Don't   want  to  sleep;    I   want  to  think. 
I    didn't    mean    to   spill    that   ink: 

I  only   meant  to  softly  creep 
Under   the  desk  an'   be  a  bear — 
"Taint   'bout   the   spanking  that   I   care. 

'F  she'd  only  let  me  'splain  an'  tell 
Just   how   it  was  an   accident, 
An'    that    I    never    truly   meant, 

An'    never   saw   it   till    it    fell. 
I    feel    a    whole   lot    worse'n    her; 
I'm  sorry,  an'  I  said  I  were. 

I  s'pose  if  I'd  just  cried  a  lot 
An'    choked    all    up    like   sister   does, 
An'    acted  sadder   than   I    wuz, 

An*  sobbed  about  the  "  naughty  spot," 
She'd  said,  "He  sha'n't  be  whipped,  he  sha'n't," 
An'  kissed  me — but,  somehow,   I  can't- 

But   I    don't   think   it's   fair  a  bit 
That    when    she   talks   an'    talks   at   you, 
An'    you    wait   patient   till   she's   through, 

An'  start  to  tell  your  side  of  it, 
She  says,  "Now  that'll  do,  my  son; 
I've  heard  enough,"  'fore  you've  begun. 

'F   I   should   die   before   I    wake — 
Maybe  I  aim  got  any  soul; 
Maybe  there's   only  just  a  hole 

Where  "t  ought  to  be — there's  such  an  ache 
Down  there  somewhere!  She  seemed  to  think 
That  1  just  loved  to  spill  that  ink! 

— Ethel  SI.  Kelley  in   Century  Magazine. 


A  Steel-Oil  Lullaby. 
Rocky   is   sleeping  so  cozy   and    fair 
While  sunset  glows  red  on  his  absence  of  hair, 
And    Morgan    the  cradle   full   busily    swings, 
And    further    to   soothe   him   just    hear    what   he 
sings: 

"  Rock-a-by  Rock-feller,  now  you're  on  top. 
When    you  say  so   the   market   will   rock, 
When    you   say  so   the    Steel    Trust    will    fall, 
And  down  will  go  market,   Morgan,  and  alL" 

Morgan    is   somewhat   unused   to   such   toil, 
And  the  steel  of  his  armor  is  dripping  with  oil. 
And  he  sings  out  of  key,  for  it  has  not  been  long 
That  he's  had   to   rock   Rocky   to  sleep   with   this 
song: 

"  Rock-a-by,  Rocky,  now  you're  on  top — 
Twelve  million  plunks  isn't  easy  to  drop, 
But  when  the  string  breaks  then  some  one  must 

fall. 
So  down  tumbled  Morgan,  Steel  Trust,  and  all." 

Sweet   visions   of  childhood!      What  comfort  to 

feel 
As  smooth  as  your  oil  and  as  hard  as  your  steel. 
And  who   would  not  smile  in  the  consciousness 

dim 
That  J.   Pierpont  Morgan   was   working   for  him? 

"  Rock-a-by,    Rocky,    rock-a-by  rocks. 
Cradled   in   steel-oil,   pillowed   in   stocks; 
When   the   stocks  break   the   market   must  fall, 
And    down    will    come    Rockefeller,    market,    and 

all." 
— Wallace    Irwin    in    Commercial    Advertiser. 


Wife — "  Before  marriage  a  man  is  known 
by  the  company  be  keeps."  Husband — "  And 
after  ?"  Wife — "  By  the  clothes  his  wife 
wears." — Town  Topics. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 


NEW    YORK-SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON". 
St.  Louis.. Dec.  12,9.30am  I  St.  Paul  ....Dec.  26,9.30am 
New  York.. Dec.  19,9.30am  |  Phil'd'lphia  Jan.  2, 9.30am 

Philadelphia — Queenstown— Liverpool. 
Friesland.  .Dec.  12,  3.30am  I  West'mland... .Jan.  2,9am 
Merion. . .  .Dec.  26.  2.30pm  [  Haveriord Jan. 9, 3pm 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORE— LONDON    DIRECT. 
Min'et'nka  .  .Dec.  12,  noon  I  Minnapolis    Dec.  26,  10  am 
Menominee  ..  Dec.  19,9am  |  Minnehaha .Jan.  2,5  am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

Montreal —Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada .Jan.  2  1  Canada Feb.  6 

Dominion Jan.  2;,  |  Dominion Feb.  27 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 

Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 

Vaderrd..Dec.  12,  10.30  am  I  Zeeland.  .  Dec.  26. 10.30  am 

Kronlnd   Dec.  19,  10.30  am  I  Finland. .  ..Jan.  2,  10.30  am 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Arabic Dec.  9,9  am  |  Cedric Dec.  30,  1  pm 

Oceanic Dec.  16,  4  pm     Majestic Jan.  6.  10 am 

Teutonic Dec.  23,  noon  |  Celtic Jan.  13,  2  pm 

Boston— Queenstown-  Liverpool. 

Cretic Dec.  10.  Feb.  1 1 ,  March  10 

Cymric Dec.  24,  Jan.  2S.  Feb.  25 

Boston    Mediterranean    Direct 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES—  GENOA. 

Romanic Dec.  5,  Jan.  16,  Feb.  27 

Republic  (new)    Jan.  2.  Feb.  13,  Mar.  26 

Canopic Jan.  30,  Mar   12 

C.  1*.  TAYLOR,    passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  OH1NA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  comer  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  F.  51.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  23 

Coptic Friday,  Jan.    15,    1904 

Gaelic   Wednesday.   Feb.  10,1904 

Doric  (Calling  at  ManiIa_>.Saturday,  Mch  5,  1904 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUEBS.  General  Manager. 

TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 

U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  ior  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon   Mara Wednesday,  December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 

America  3Iaro._.  ..Monday,  January  25,  1904 

Hongkong  Maru  .  ..Wednesday.  February  17 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 

431  Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.  H.  AYF.KY,  General  Agent. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  ]  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.  S.  Ventura,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland 
and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Dec.  10,  1903.  at  2  p.  m. 

S.  S.  Alameda,  ior  Honolulu  only,  Dec.  19,  1903, 
at  11  a.  m. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  ior  Tahiti,  Jan.  6,  1904,  at  ri  a.  m. 
J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts..  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St..  San  Francisco. 

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December  7,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

A  chronicle  of  the  social  happenings  during 
the  past  week,  concerning  San  Franciscans 
here  and  elsewhere,  will  be  found  in  the  fol- 
lowing department: 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Laura  Blackwood,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
A.  Blackwood,  and  Mr.  Alfred  Crowell  Martel. 
son  of  Mrs.  J.  L.  Martel. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Bertha  Gardner,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  F.  Gardner,  to  Dr.  Donald  H.  Ross, 
of  Reno.  Nev. 

Mrs.  Mary  A.  Kruger.  of  Alameda,  an- 
nounces the  engagement  of  her  daughter.  Miss 
Anna  WHhelmina  Kruger.  to  Mr.  Leigh  Sav- 
age Jones. 

Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  will  be  "at  home"  next 
Friday  and  the  first  Friday  in  January,  at  her 
residence  on  Van  Xtss  Avenue.  On  her  first 
reception  day  she  will  lie  assisted  in  entertain- 
ing by  Mrs.  T.  Danforth  Boardman,  Mrs. 
Earle  '  Brownell,  Mrs.  A.  D.  Keyes.  Miss 
Leon  tine  Blakeman,  Miss  Lucy  King,  and 
Miss  Suzanne  Blanding. 

Mrs.  Homer  King.  Miss  Genevieve  King. 
and  Miss  Hazel  King  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday  in  honor  of  Miss  Caroline  Ayers. 
Covers  wtre  laid  for  twelve. 

Mrs.  William  Button  and  Miss  Gertrude 
Dutton  have  sent  out  invitations  for  a 
luncheon  to  he  given  at  their  lesidence  on 
Pacific   Avenue  on  Thursdav.  December   17th. 

Mrs.  John  F.  Swift  and  'Mrs.  E.  B.  NTorris 
will  give  a  tea  next  Saturday  at  Mrs.  Swift's 
residence  to  introduce  Miss  Helen  Bailey. 
Mr-.  Norris's  daughter.  Miss  Bailey  will 
also  be  the  guest  of  honor  at  a  luncheon 
which  Mrs.  Homer  King  will  give  on  Wednes- 
day. 

Mrs.  Hyde-Smith  gave  a  luncheon  on  Mon- 
dav  in  honor  of  Miss  Dorothy  Gittings,  of 
Baltimore.  Others  at  table  were  Miss  Marie 
Louise  Parrott.  Miss  Lucie  King.  Miss  Helen 
Chesebrough.  Miss  Margaret  Wilson.  Miss 
Frances  McKinstry.  Miss  Emily  Wilson.  Miss 
Anna  Foster.  Miss  Helen  Bowie.  Miss  Elsie 
Tallant.  Miss  Olga  Atherton,  and  Miss  Ger- 
trude  Hyde-Smith. 

Airs.  Joseph  King  and  Miss  Lucie  King 
will  jive  a  tea  on  Thursday  in  honor  of  Miss 
Caroline  Ayers. 

Mrs.  Hyde-Smith  has  sent  out  invitations 
for  a  cotillion  to  be  given  in  the  Maple 
Room  of  the  Palace  Hotel,  Tuesday  even- 
ing. December  226,  at  half  after  nine  o'clock. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  B.  Stetson  gave  a  tea  on 
Tuesday  afternoon  at  their  residence  on  Van 
Ness  Avenue.  Those  who  assisted  in  receiv- 
ing were  Mrs.  John  F.  Merrill.  Mrs.  Robert 
Oxnard.  Mrs.  Chauncey  R.  Winslow.  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Martin,  and  Mrs.Bowie-Dietrick.  The 
tea  was  followed  by  a  dinner,  at  which  the 
receiving  partv  and  General  William  R. 
Shafter~  Mr.  Harrv  N.  Stetson.  Mr.  Robert 
Oxnard.  Mr.  John  F.  Merrill,  and  Mr.  Hol- 
hrook  were  present. 

Mrs.  Lewis  Risdon  Mead  gave  a  luncheon 
in  the  Red  Room  of  the  Bohemian  Club 
Wednesday.  December  2d.  complimentary  to 
Mrs.  F.  M.  Smith  and  Miss  Marion  Smith 
of  Oakland.  Those  invited  to  meet  the  guests 
of  honor  were  Mrs.  A.  L.  White.  Miss  Florence 
White,  Mrs.  Frank  C.  Havens.  Mrs.  John 
Scr.tt  Wilson,  Mrs.  Samuel  Mountford  Wil- 
son, Mrs.  Frank  M.  Wilson.  Mrs.  Henry 
Wetherbee.  Mrs.  Edward  A.  Selfridge,  Mrs. 
Edward  A.  Selfridge,  Jr.  Miss  Katherine 
Selfridge.  Mrs.  George  B.  Sperry,  Miss  Elsie 
Sperry.  Mrs.  Hiram  C.  Smith.  Mrs.  John 
Coxon    Klein,    and    Miss    Maren    Froelich. 

Mr=.  A.  M.  Parrott  gave  a  tea  on  Wednes- 
dav  afternoon.  Those  who  assisted  in  re- 
ceiving  were  Mrs.  John  Parrott,  Mrs.  Joseph 
Donohue.  the  Misses  Parrott.  and  the  Misses 
de  Guigne. 

Mrs.  Asa  R.  Wells  will  be  "at  home"  on 
the  first  and  second  Tuesdays  during  the 
winter   at   her   residence.    1406  Jackson    Street. 

The  Friday  Fortnightly  Club  save  its  first 
assembly  of  the  season  last  Friday  night  in 
the  new  ball-room  of  the  Palace  Hotel.  Mrs. 
Monroe  Salisbury  received,  assisted  by  Mrs. 
Norman  McLaren.  Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding. 
Mrs.  Hyde- Smith,  Mrs.  Bowie- Dietrick,  and 
Mrs.  Henry  Glass.  Dancing  began  at  nine 
o'clock  and  was  continued  until  mid- 
night.  when  supper  was  served.  The  dance 
was  preceded  by  several  dinner-parties,  no- 
tably those  of  Mr.  and   Mrs.  Gordon  Blanding 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absoluti      Pure 
THERE  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


and  Miss  Susie  Blanding.  and  that  of  Miss 
Bessie  Wilson.  The  latter's  guests  were  Miss 
Mabel  Watkins.  Miss  Katherine  Herrin.  Miss 
Gertrude  Dutton.  Miss  Ardella  Mills,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Mills,  Miss  Bernice  Wilson.  Mr. 
Percy  King,  Mr.  Joseph  King,  Mr.  Max  Rob- 
bins.  Mr.  Reddick  Duperu,  Mr.  Ralph  Mc- 
Cormick,  and  Mr.  Robert  Greer. 

Mrs.  John  Francis  Merrill.  Mrs.  John 
Sroufe  Merrill,  and  Mrs.  Henry  Sears  Bates 
held  the  first  of  their  "  at  homes  "  on  Friday, 
at  the  Merrill  residence,  1782  Washington 
Street.  They  will  receive  again  on  next 
Friday. 

Mrs.  J.  Joseph  Spieker  and  Miss  Spieker 
will  give  a  tea  on  Tuesday.  December  8th, 
at  their  residence.  2100  Devisadero  Street. 

Mrs.  Wheeler,  Mrs.  W.  R.  Wheeler,  and 
Miss  Gertrude  Wheeler  gave  the  last  of 
their  "  at  homes "  on  Monday,  when  they 
were  assisted  in  receiving  by  Mrs.  John  F. 
Merrill,  Mrs.  F.  G.  Sanborn.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Mills, 
Miss  Frances  Jollift'e,  Mrs.  Henry  B.  Mon- 
tague. Mrs.  James  A.  Cooper,  Miss  Ardella 
Mills,  Miss  Ednah  Robinson,  Miss  Georgie 
Shepard,  and  Miss  Bertha  Monroe  RickofY, 
of    Berkeley. 

Mrs.  Charles  D.  Stone  and  Miss  Emily 
Stone,  of  2061  Green  Street,  have  sent  out 
cards  for  the  first  and  second  Wednesdays  in 
December,  from   four  to  six. 

Miss  Elsie  Dorr  made  her  formal  debut  at 
a  tea  given  by  her  mother.  Mrs.  L.  L.  Dorr, 
Saturday  afternoon.  Those  who  assisted  in 
receiving  were  Mrs.  Morton  Gibbons,  Miss 
Blanche  Cole,  Miss  Maye  Colburn,  Miss 
Helen  Baily,  Miss  Evelyn  Hussey.  Miss 
Newell  Drown,  Miss  Marjorie  Gibbons,  Miss 
Florence  Gibbons.  Miss  Mattie  Milton.  Miss 
Jane  Wilshire,  Miss  Ida  Gibbons,  and  Mrs. 
Katherine  Selfridge.  The  hours  were  from 
four  to  seven. 


"Wills  and  Successions. 

The  following  notes  concerning  the  most 
important  wills  and  successions  coming  up  in 
the  local  courts  during  the  week  will  be  found 
of  interest : 

The  appraisement  of  the  estate  of  the  late 
Collis  P.  Huntington,  who  died  on  August  13. 
1900,  shows  a  gross  personal  estate  of  $35,- 
594,586  in  New  York  State,  and  gross  real 
estate  of  $1,796,225.  The  personal  estate  is 
reduced  by  debts,  claims,  expenses,  and  other 
expenses  to  $26,505,540.  The  executors  ap 
pointed  by  Mr.  Huntington's  will  are  his 
widow,  Mrs.  Arabella  D.  Huntington.  Isaac 
E.  Gates,  and  Charles  H.  Tweed.  The  chief 
beneficiaries  under  the  will  are  Mrs.  Hunt- 
ington, whose  share  amounts  to  $15,025,000; 
Henry  E.  Huntington,  a  nephew,  who  receives 
$9.239,734 ;  the  Princess  Clara  E.  Hatzfeldt. 
his  adopted  daughter,  for  whom  $1,000,000 
was  left  in  trust;  and  Archer  M.  Huntington. 
an  adopted  son,  who  receives  a  bequest  of 
$250,000,  besides  a  contingent  interest  in  a 
portion  of  the  estate. 

The  will  .  of  the  late  Carolina  Smith  de 
Santa  Marina,  dated  May  11,  1900,  has  been 
filed  for  probate.  To  the  Hospital  for  Chil- 
dren and  Training  School  for  Nurses  she 
gives  $5,000  for  the  endowment  of  a  free  bed, 
to  be  known  as  the  E.  J.  de  Santa  Marina  bed. 
in  memory  of  her  deceased  husband,  and  to 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Old  Ladies'  Home 
she  gives  $5,000  outright.  To  the  Armitage 
Orphanage  of  San  Mateo,  the  Maria  Kip 
Orphanage  of  San  Francisco,  and  the  King's 
Daughters'  Home  for  Incurables  she  leaves 
$1,000  each,  and  $2,000  to  St.  Luke's  Church. 
The  family  bequests  include  $25,000  to  a 
cousin.  Mary  Eliza  Blacker,  increased  to 
$50,000  by  a  codicil  dated  December  1,  1900; 
$2,500  each  to  two  cousins,  Anita  Polhemus 
and  Margaret  Polhemus,  of  San  Jose ;  $500 
each  to  a  nephew.  Bode  Keefer  Smith,  of  San 
Francisco,  and  Rosa  Mercedes  Ames,  of  San 
Jose;  the  furniture,  jewelry,  ornaments,  etc.. 
to  Eugenie  Emanuel ita  de  Santa  Marina,  of 
Ross  Valley,  a  niece  of  her  deceased  hus- 
band ;  and  the  residue  in  equal  parts  to  her 
sisters,  Eleanor  Freeborn,  of  Paris,  Georgi- 
ana  Carolina  Hopkins,  and  Sophia  Zeile,  and 
her  brother,  Henry  Alexander  Smith.  Mr. 
Smith  and  Andrew  T.  Corbus  are  named  as 
executors   without  bonds. 

The  will  of  Robert  L.  Sherwood  has  been 
filed  for  probate.  The  testator  bequeaths  his 
entire  estate,  valued  at  $30,000,  to  his  young 
daughter,  Nadine,  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Dora 
Sherwood  Chapman.  The  will  was  made 
November  3d.  It  names  as  executors  the  tes- 
tator's brother,  William  R.  Sherwood,  and  his 
sister,  Mrs.  Chapman.  To  the  latter  is  given 
a  specific  bequest  of  one-half  the  estate.  The 
residue  goes  to  the  daughter,  described  as  the 
child  of  the  testator  and  Mrs.  Hope  Ellis 
Sherwood,  and  said  to  be  living  with  the 
latter's  stepmother  at  Marysville,  in  the  form 
of  a  trust  held  by  the  executors.  When  Miss 
Sherwood  reaches  her  majority  she  is  to  come 
into   full  possession  of  her  inheritance. 


In  Behalf  of  the  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital. 

The  Heartease  Auxiliary  to  the  California 
Eye  and  Ear  Hospital  will  give  an  entertain- 
ment this  (Saturday)  afternoon  and  evening 
in  the  Marble  and  Maple  Rooms  of  the  Palace 
Hotel,  the  proceeds  beiny  used  to  emdow  a 
charity  bed  in  the  new  hospital  which  is  to 
be  erected.  All  sorts  of  pretty  Christmas 
trifles  will  be  Oti  sale  in  the  afternoon,  and  in 
the  evening  an  interesting  programme  will  be 
given,  the  principal  feature  being  the  pre- 
sentation of  Jerome  K.  Jerome's  one-act  play. 
"  Sunset."  The  cast  of  characters  will  be  as 
follows  :  Lois.  Miss  Florence  Cooke ;  Joan. 
Miss  Mabel  Coxe  ;  Aunt  Drusilla.  Miss  Flor 
ence  Schroth  ;  Azanah  Stodd,  George  Thomp- 
son ;  Mr.  Rivers  (  Lois' s  father).  Harry  Hop 
per  ;  and  Lawrence,  Charles  McKinnie. 

The  officers  of  the  auxiliary  are  Miss  Irene 
Sabin,  president  ;  Miss  Emily  Plageman.  his- 
torian ;  Miss  Maude  Easton,  recording  secre- 
tarj  :  Miss  Aimee  Van  Winkle,  first  vice- 
president;  and  Miss  Genevieve  Kavanaugh, 
corresponding   secretary. 


MUSICAL     NOTE& 


Ellery's  Italian  Band. 
To-morrow  (Sunday)  night  Ellery's  Italian 
Band  will  begin  a  series  of  .concerts  at  the 
Alhambra  Theatre  which  will  run  through 
the  week,  ending  Sunday  night,  December 
13th.  The  organization  has  been  increased 
by  eight  new  soloists,  and  the  programme 
will  be  particularly  interesting.  At  the  open- 
ing concert  the  selections  will  include  "  March 
of  the  Drums,"  by  Chiaffarelli.  the  capable 
conductor  of  the  band ;  the  Italian  overture, 
'"  The  Girl  of  Asturia."  by  Secchi ;  "  Siberian 
Scenes,"  by  Marengo ;  selections  from  Puc- 
cini's "  La  Tosca  "  and  "  La  Gioconda  "  ;  and 
some  lighter  numbers.  The  soloist  will  be 
Antonio  Decimo,  a  talented  clarinetist.  Mon- 
day night's  programme  will  be  made  up  of 
numbers  by  Verdi  and  Bizet,  while  on 
Wednesday  Wagner  and  Gounod  will  be  chiefly 
represented.  Every  night  during  the  week 
varied  programmes  will  be  given,  with  solo- 
ists at  each  concert.  Saturday  night  will  be 
a  smoking  concert,  after  the  manner  of  the 
London  "  smoker  pops."  The  prices  for  this 
engagement  are  very  moderate,  reserved  seats 
being  75,  50,  and  25  cents,  while  at  the 
matinees,  Saturday  and  Sunday,  children  will 
be  admitted  to  all  parts  of  the  house  at  25 
cents. 

Parsifal  "  in  New  York. 
Last  week.  Judge  Lacombe,  in  the  United 
States  Circuit  Court,  in  New  York,  declined 
to  grant  the  injunction  asked  for  by  Cosima 
Wagner  and  Siegfried  Wagner,  heirs  of  the 
late  Richard  Wagner,  restraining  Manager 
Heinrich  Conried  from  producing  the  dramatic 
festival  play,  "  Parsifal,"  at  the  Metropolitan 
Opera  House  on  the  evening  of  December 
24th.  Beyreuth,  therefore,  will  no  longer  be 
able  to  monopolize  "  Parsifal,"  for  impresa- 
rios in  other  countries  will  doubtless  follow 
Conried's  lead  and  produce  Wagner's  master- 
piece. "  Parsifal,"  by  the  way,  has  been  given 
eight  times  outside  of  Beyreuth,  namely,  in 
Munich,  for  the  delectation  of  King  Ludwig 
the  Second,  its  sole  spectator.  The  dates  of 
these  private  performances  were  May  3d,  5th, 
7th,  and  November  5th,  7th,  1884,  April  20th, 
27th,  29th,  1885.  The  list  of  artists  who  took 
part  included  MM.  Reichmann,  Gura,  Kinder- 
mann,  Siehr,  Gudehus,  Vogl,  Fuchs,  Mmes. 
Malten,  and  Vogel.  Imendent  Possart  claims 
that  Munich  has  a  legal  right  to  give  public 
-performances  of  this  opera  now. 


Mrs.  Snider-Johnson's  Song  Recital. 

At  her  song  recital  at  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Auditorium,  on  Tuesday  evening,  Mrs.  L. 
Snider-Johnson  will  be  assisted  by  Dr.  H.  J. 
Stewart  and  Miss  Kathleen  Parlow,  violinist. 
Her  programme  is  as  follows : 

Song  cycle,  Schon  Gretlein  C"  Fair  Jessie  "), 
Alex,  von  Fielitz;  violin  solo,  Schwedische 
Tanze,  op.  63,  Max  Bruch ;  recitative  and 
aria  from  "  Jeanne  d'Arc,"  Tschaikowsky ; 
old  English  songs:  "Where  the  Bee  Sucks" 
(Ariel  s  song  trom  '"  The  Tempest "),  Dr. 
Arne,  "  The  Banks  of  Allan  Water,"  Anon., 
"  Bid  Me  Discourse,"  Sir  H.  R.  Bishop ;  mod- 
ern songs :  "  O I  Swallow,  Swallow  Flying 
South,"  Arthur  Foote,  "  Contrasts,"  H.  J. 
Stewart,  "  April  Rain,"  Oley  Speaks ;  violin 
solo,  "  Souvenir  de  Moscow,"  op.  6, 
Wieniawski ;  recitative  and  aria  from  "  Der 
Freischutz,"  C.  M.  von  Weber. 


W.  P.  Harrington,  president  of  the  Bank 
of  Colusa  and  of  the  Bank  of  Willows,  and 
well  known  in  this  city,  died  at  his  residence, 
at  California  and  Laguna  Streets,  on  Monday, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-seven.  He  is  survived 
by  a  widow  and  four  children — Tennent  Har- 
rington, W.  M.  Harrington,  Mrs.  Niblack, 
and   Miss   Louise  Harrington. 


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TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  ior  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  oi  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
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ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
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provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
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popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


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chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
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MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


Annexed  will  be  found  a  resume  of  move- 
ments to  and  from  this  city  and  Coast,  and  of 
the  whereabouts  of  absent  Californians  : 

Mrs.  C.  B.  Brigham,  Miss  Alice  Brigham, 
and  Miss  Kate  Brigham  left  the  city  early 
in  the  week  for  an  absence  of  some  duration. 

Mrs.  Edward  Barrow,  who  has  been  spend- 
ing a  few  weeks  at  the  Palace  Hotel  in  this 
city,  has  returned  to  Washington,  D.  C. 

Mr.  John  Tarn  McGrew,  who  is  a  student 
in  the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts,  Paris,  is  spend- 
ing the  month  of  December  in  Spain. 

Mrs.  Antoine  Borel  and  the  Misses  Borel. 
who  have  remained  at  their  country  place  at 
San  Mateo  during  the  absence  of  Mr.  Borel 
in  Europe,  have  returned  to  town,  and  will 
spend  the  rest  of  the  season  at  their  residence 
on  Jackson  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grayson  Dutton  will  spend 
the  next  few  weeks  at  the  St.  Dunstan. 

Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington,  who  has  been  visit- 
ing her  daughter,  Mrs.  Gilbert  Perkins,  in 
New  York,  is  expected  home  before  the  holi- 
days. 

Mr.  Tom  C.  Grant  and  Miss  Mary  Grant 
have  returned  from  a  two  months'  pleasure 
trip   to    various    Eastern   cities. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jules  Brett,  who  are  now  on 
their  way  home  from  Japan,  are  expected  to 
arrive  here  before  the  end  of  the  month. 

Mrs.  Leland  Stanford,  when  last  heard 
from,  was  in  India. 

Mr.  Edward  M.  Greenway  returned  from 
Santa  Barbara  early  in  the  week. 

Mrs.  John  H.  Boalt  is  at  present  in  Berlin 
with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edgar  Stillman  Kelley. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Oulton  are  guests  at 
the  Hotel  Richelieu. 

Judge  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Morrow  left  for 
Washington,  D.  C.,  on  Tuesday. 

Mrs.  Chauncey  R.  Winslow  has  returned 
from  her  trip  to  Oregon. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Garceau  are  guests  at  the  Ho- 
tel   Richelieu. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  W.  Newhall  have  taken 
the  Dore  house  on  Pacific  Avenue  for  a  term 
of  years. 

Sirs.  D.  D.  Colton  expects  to  leave  about 
the  first  of  the  year  for  Southern  California, 
where  she  will  spend  the  remainder  of  the 
winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Josselyn,  Miss 
Marjorie  Josselyn,  Miss  Gertrude  Josselyn, 
and  Miss  Myra  Josselyn  sailed  from  New 
York  last  week  for  Antwerp. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  William  Hopkins,  who  have 
spent  the  past  year  in  Europe,  are  now  en 
route  home.  They  are  looked  for  in  San 
Francisco  before  the  holidays. 

Mrs.  John  W.  Mackay  was  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  during  the  week. 

Mr.  E.  H.  Harriman  arrived  from  the  South 
in  his  private  car,  the  Arden,  on  Wednesday. 
His  stay   here  will  be  very  brief. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ferdinand  Stephenson  are 
occupying  their  residence  on  Steiner  Street. 

Mrs.  William  Giselman  has  returned  from 
Europe.  Her  son,  who  accompanied  her 
abroad,  is  in  London. 

Countess  de  Rougemont,  of  France,  who 
has  been  making  a  tour  of  the  Australian 
colonies,  arrived  on  Tuesday  on  the  steamship 
i 'cut ura.  She  was  a  guest  at  the  Occidental 
Hotel  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Cluff  are  sojourning 
at  Santa  Barbara. 

Mr.  Harry  Oelrichs,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  M.  Oelrichs,  has  come  to  San  Fran- 
cisco for  the  purpose,  it  is  said,  of  entering 
business  here. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas  Watson  expect  to 
leave  soon  for  a  trip  to  Portland,  Or. 

Hon.  Spencer  Lyttelton,  nephew  of  the 
late  William  E.  Gladstone,  and  the  latter's 
secretary  for  many  years,  returned  from  Aus- 
tralia on  the  steamship  p'entura.  after  an  ab- 
sence of  several  months,  and  is  registered  at 
the  Palace  Hotel. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  the  Hotel 
Rafael  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  Forcheimer,  of 
Mobile,  Ala.,  Mrs.  Grace  Clarke  and  Mr.  W. 
H.  Budinger,  of  Los  Angeles,  Miss  Clara 
Nicolson.  -of  New  York,  Miss  A.  Patton  and 
Miss  Kittie  Clarke,  of  Oroville,  Mr.  N.  H. 
Nelson,  of  Chicago,  Miss  Elizabeth  E.  Tait, 
of  Cleveland,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  L.  Dohrmann. 
Mrs.  C.  O.  Swanberg,  Mrs.  R.  E.  White,  Miss 
Willis,  and  Mr.  H.  P.  Nye. 


The  Bohemian  Club's  Art  Exhibit. 

The  seventh  annual  exhibition  of  paintings 
by  the  artist  members  of  the  club  will  be  held 
in  the  Jinks  Room,  from  Monday,  December 
7th,  until  Wednesday,  December  23d,  in- 
clusive. On  the  opening  day,  members  only 
will  be  privileged  to  view  the  pictures. 

The  ladies  will  be  tendered  a  reception  on 
Tuesday  evening,  December  8th.  from  eight 
to  eleven,  admitting  them  not  only  to  the 
Jinks  Room,  but  also  giving  them  the  freedom 
of  the  second  floor. 

The  public  (including  ladies)  will  be  ad- 
mitted to  the  Jinks  Room  (only),  where  the 
exhibition  of  pictures  will  be  held — upon  pre- 
sentation of  cards  issued  by  members — on 
Saturday.  December  12th,  from  2  until  5  p.  m.  ; 
on  Tuesday,  December  15th.  from  2  until  5 
r.  m.  ;  on  Friday,  December  18th,  from  2  until 
5  p.  M. ;  and  on  Wednesday,  December  23d, 
from  2  until  5  P.  M.,  and  8  p.  m.  until  11  p.  m. 


"  Knowledge    is   Power." 

No  education  is  now  complete  without  a 
knowledge  of  typewriting  and  stenography. 
Your  children  should  be  taught  to  use  a  type- 
writer. It  increases  their  interest  in  their 
studies;  develops  their  minds;  broadens  their 
sphere  of  usefulness,  as  well  as  being  intensely 
interesting  and  useful  to  you  to  have  at  home 
in  your  "  den."  A  "  Lambert "  Typewriter 
would  be  a  sensible  Christmas  gift.  Price. 
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Army  and  Navy  News. 

The  latest  personal  notes  relative  to  army 
and  navy  people  who  are  known  in  San  Fran- 
cisco are  appended: 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Frank  U.  Robinson, 
Thirteenth  Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  accompanied  by 
Mrs.  Robinson,  was  among  the  passengers  who 
sailed  for  the  Philippines  on  the  transport 
Logan  last  Tuesday. 

Colonel  William  M.  Wallace,  Fifteenth 
Cavalry,  U.  S.  A.,  left  for  Washington.  D.  C.. 
last  week. 

Major  William  E.  Birkhimer,  U.  S.  A.. 
and  Mrs.  Birkhimer  have  returned  from  their 
Hip  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands. 

Major  William  A.  Glassford,  Signal  Corps. 
U.  S.  A.,  has  been  ordered  to  Denver,  Colo., 
for  duty. 

Major  Alfred  M.  Palmer,  quartermaster's 
department,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Palmer  sailed 
on  the  transport  Logan  for  the  Philippines 
last  Tuesday. 

Captain  Charles  R.  Howland,  Twenty-First 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  who  has  been  on  the  staff 
of  General  MacArthur  since  he  has  been  in 
command  of  this  department,  has  been  relieved 
from  duty  here,  and  will  join  his  regiment  at 
Fort  Snelling,  Minn. 

Captain  Carl  F.  Hartmann,  U.  S.  A.,  will 
soon  take  command  of  the  Signal  Corps  at 
Fort  McDowell. 

Lieutenant  Harry  George,  U.  S.  N.,  is  at 
present  on  duty  at  the  Union  Iron  Works 
until  the  Tacoma  goes  into  commission,  when 
he  will  act  as  executive  officer. 

Major  William  T.  Wood,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been 
appointed  inspector-general  of  the  Department 
of  California.  Major  Wood  was  scheduled 
to  accompany  the  Twentieth  Infantry  to  the 
Philippines,  but  he  has  now  been  detached 
from  his  regiment. 

Lieutenant  A.  P.  Niblack,  U.  S.  N.,  sailed 
for  Honolulu  on  the  Oceanic  steamship  Ala- 
meda last  Saturday. 

Paymaster  W.  H.  Doherty,  U.  S.  N.,  who 
has  been  detached  from  the  Chicago,  has  not 
yet  been  assigned  to  a  new  ship. 


Close  of  the  Fall  Art  Exhibit. 

The  water  color  and  sketch  exhibition  at 
the  Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art  closed  on 
Thursday  evening  with  a  well-attended  prom- 
enade concert,  under  the  direction  of  Henry 
Heyman.  The  soloists  were  Mrs.  Greenleaf- 
Kruger,  soprano;  Miss  Virginia  Pierce,  so- 
prano ;  Miss  Helen  Crane,  mezzo  soprano ; 
Miss  Julia  Rapier  Tharp,  vocal  accompanist; 
Master  James  Hamilton  Todd,  violinist;  Miss 
Elizabeth  Howard,  accompanist  for  Master 
Todd  ;  and  Mr.  Otto  Fleissner,  organist.  The 
programme  was  as  follows : 

Organ,  "  Marche  Solennelle,"  Gounod,  Otto 
Fleissner ;  song,  "  Listen  Here  Cavaliere," 
Von  Stutzman,  Mrs.  Greenleaf-Kruger  ;  Sonata 
No.  4,  for  violin  and  piano,  Mozart,  Master 
James  Hamilton  Todd  and  Miss  Elizabeth 
Howard ;  songs  (a)  "  Mignon's  Song," 
Thomas,  (b)  "  Sunrise,"  Wekerlin,  Miss  Vir- 
ginia Pierce;  organ  "Barcarole,"  Josef  Hof- 
mann,  Otto  Fleissner ;  songs  (a.)  "  Who  is 
Sylvia,"  Schubert,  (b)  "When  Mabel  Sings," 
Speaks,  Miss  Helen  Crane;  violin  (a)  "Bo- 
lero," (b)  "  Sarabande,"  Bohm,  Master  James 
Hamilton  Todd;  songs  (a)  "Ecstasy,"  Mrs.  H. 
H.  A.  Beach;  (b)  "  Bendemeers  Streams,' 
Old  Irish,  Mrs.  Greenleaf-Kruger;  organ, 
Postlude  in   B-flat,   West,   Otto   Fleissner. 


Charles  Patterson,  who  had  been  connected 
with  the  Palace  Hotel  as  pastry  cook  ever 
since  the  opening  of  the  hotel  in  1875,  died 
last  week,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years.  War- 
ren Leland  brought  him  here  from  the  East 
when  he  came  to  take  charge  of  the  Palace. 
Patterson  always  worked  for  the  same  pay, 
forty  dollars  a  month. 


Great  preparations  are  being  made  for  the 
annual  benefit  and  entertainment  of  the  Press 
Club  on  the  afternoon  of  December  15th  at 
Fischer's  Theatre.  Besides  the  regular  pro- 
duction of  the  house,  there  will  be  presented 
a  number  of  clever  specialties  and  features 
expressly  gotten  up  by  some  of  the  club  mem- 
bers. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
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Two  Argonauts  in  Spain 

By  JEROME  HART 


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THE        ARGONAUT, 


December  7,  1903. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC 

1  rains  leave  nml  are  due  to  arrive  at 
5  AN    FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Foot  of   Market  Street  ) 

LKAfg     —     Fit'.'M   SOTBMBKB  13.  1903.      —      ABB1TE 

7.00a   Vacavllle.  Winters,  Kunicey 7.65P 

7.00  *  Benlcla,  Suiann.  Elmlra  and  Sacra- 
mento   7-25p 

7-30*   Vallejo.    Napa.     Culls  to^ii.    Santa 

Kosa,   Martinez.  San  It  union 6-25p 

7-30*  Nlles,  Ltverinorc.  Tracy.  Latbrop. 

Stockton 7.2Bp 

8.00*  Shasta  Express—  (Via  Davis). 
Williams  (lor  Bartlett  Springs), 
Willows  tFruto.  Ked  Bluff, 
Portland,  Tacoina,  Seattle 7.55p 

8.00a   Davis.  Wood  land.  Knights  Lauding. 

Warysville.  Orovllie 7-55p 

8-£0a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antloch, 
Byron,  Tracy.  Stockton,  New- 
man. Los  Bkoos,  M  e  n  d  o  t  a, 
Armona,  HaDfnnl  V  I  sal  la. 
Portervllle ...     4,25p 

8-J0*  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Tracy.  Lain 
rop,  Modesto.  Merced.  Fresno. 
Goshen  Junction.  Hanford. 
Vlealla.  Bakersfleld  4.5Sp 

8-30*  Nlles.  San  Jose,  LIvermore,  Stock- 
ton, (tMIlton),  lone.  Sacramento. 
Placcrvllle  Marysvllle.  Cufco, 
Red  Bluff 425p 

8.30*  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Augcis    —      425p 

900*    Atlantic  Express— Ogden  and  F.aat.    11.25* 

9.30a   Richmond.     Martinez      and      Way 

Stations* B.55P 

10  00*   The    Overland    Limited  —  Ogden 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6.25p 

1000a  Vallejo 12.25p 

10- 00a  Los  Ang'-les  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy. 
Lathrop.  Stockton,  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno.  Goshen  Junc- 
tion. Hanford.  Lemoore,  Vlsalla. 

Bakersfleld.  Los  Angeles 7.25e 

12.00h  Haywanl.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3.25p 
H.OOp   Sacramento  River  Steamers tll.OQp 

3.30p  Benlcla,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
stations 10-55* 

3  30p  Bayward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations..     7  65p 
3.30 p  Port      CoBta,     Martinez,      Byron. 

Tracy,  Lathrop.  Modesto. 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 12  25p 

3.30p  Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl...   10-25* 

4  00p  MarUoez.SauItiimon.ValleJo.K'apa. 

Callstoga,  Snntn  Rosa 9-25* 

4  00p  Nlles.  Tracv,  Stockton.  Lodl 4.25p 

4.30p  Haywanl.  Nlles,  Irvlngton.  San)    (8.55* 

Joae,  LIvermore I  $11.55* 

B.OOp  The  Owl  LlmlLed— Xewm  m.  Los 
Banos,  Mendota.  Fresno.  Tulare. 

Bakersfleld.  Lob  Angeles 8-55* 

B.OOp  Port  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 12-25p 

t5  30p  Havward,  NHee  and  San  Jose 7-25* 

6.00p   Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 9-55* 

6-OOp  Eastern  Express— Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha.  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul- 
sun,  Elmlra,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Rockl  In,  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnnemucca 5.25" 

6.00p  Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday...    (      7  Rcp 

7 .00p  Vallejo.  Sunday  only i      '  OOK 

7  00p   Richmond.  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11-25* 

E-OBp  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento.    Marysvllle,     Redding. 
Portland.  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8-55* 
9.10P  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day  onlyi 11-55  * 

COAST    LINE     (>arrow  Uaoge). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

8.16*  Newark,  Centervllle,  6an  Jose. 
Felton,    Bouloer     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Wny  Stations 5-55^ 

t2-!Bp  Newark,  Centervllle.  San  JoBe, 
New  Almaden.Los  Gatos.FeIton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    1 1 0-55* 

4-1Sp  Newark,  San  Jose,  LosGatos  and  J       Q.  $  5  * 

way  Btatluns 1110  55* 

O930p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
lng  from  Los  Gains  Sunday  only.    :7  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

l-roin  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  uf  Market  St.  (Slip -i, 

-t7:15    &:OU     11:00  a.m.      1 .00    3-00     6-15  P.M. 

Mom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  tG:tw    tS:(n 

16:05     1u:o\»a.h.       12  00     2.00     4-00  p.m. 

COAST     LINE     (Brnail  Uaiigel. 

Z3T  (Third  and  Tmvn.-euil  Streets.) 

6-10a    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations. 6-30P 

7  00*   San  Jot-e  and  Way  Stations B36p 

8.00a  New  Almnden  (Tues..  Frld.,  only),     4.1Qp 

8  00a   Coast  Line  Limited — StopBonly  San 

Jose,  Gtlroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
lister).  Pajaro.  Castrovllle.  Sa- 
linas. San  Ardo,  Paso  Rubles, 
BantaMargarlta.San  Luis  ObiBpo, 
Principal  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Lompoc)  prlncl- 

£fil  ftations  thence  Santa  Bar- 
ara  and  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion at  Castrovllle    to  and  from 

Muntcreyand  Pacific  Grove 10-45p 

8.00*  San  Jose.  Trea  Plnos,  Oapltola. 
San  ta Cruz, Pacific  Grove, Salinas, 
Ban  Luis  Obispo  and    Principal 

Wi.v  Stations 4-10h 

1030a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1.2QP 

11-30*  Santa  Clara,    San   Joee.  Lob  Gatoe 

and  Way  Stations  7.30 

130i    San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8  36'- 

34J0P  Paclflt-Grove  Express— SantaCIara 
San  Joee,  Del  Monte.  Monterey. 
Pad  tie  Gruve  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz.  Boulder 
Crefk  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  GMroy  for  H.iJ  lister.  Trea 
PIdob.  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.  12-15p 

3-30p  Tree  Plnos  Way  Passenger 510  45* 

'4  4ti  bnn  Joae,  <vU  Santa  Clara)  Loa 
Gatoa,    and    Principal   Way   Sta- 

iluii-  (except  Sunday) tfl,12* 

t  -30 j  ban  J  nee  tin d  I' rlnci pal  Way  Stations  \q  QO* 
6X0*  SuiiMt  Limited.— Redwo'd,  San 
J'i*e.  Gltroy,  Satin  as.  Pnso  Roblea. 
San  I. hi-  Olilipo,  Snntn  B^iri-ara, 
Lot  Angeles,  Demlng.  EI  Paso, 
N«jw  Orleana,  N«-w  Fork.  Con- 
nect- at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crnx 
and    at    Ca»trovlilc    for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7.10* 

'€-16i  I>«l  Mateo, Bcresford.iielmom, San 
Carina,     lied  wood.     Fair     Oaks. 

Hen lo Park.  Palo  Alto 16-4Ba 

l -?0i    6nn  .low  and  Way  Stations G  36* 

11.301-  Bdbtb  Su  Francisco,  Muil.rae.  Bnr- 
lingnine.  San  Mateo.  Helmont, 
Sim  Curium,  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Hen  lo  Park  and  r.iiu  Alio 9-45e 

o1130p  Bayfield,  Mountain   View.  Sunny- 
Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

S»"  Joae 19-4Sp 

A  fOl  MornlDg,  p  fur  Afternoon. 

- -UIHl     ■ 

Stops  nt  alt  Kiatlona  on  Sunday. 

Band aj  excepted.  u  Saturday  only. 

%V Only  train--  -topping  nt  Valencia  St.  Boathbound 
an- t,;io  a,m..Vooa.ii..  11:3u*.n.,3:,-ttJp.M.and  6:80  P.M. 

The  tl.MON  TKANSIEK  CJOMI'ANV 
*  ill  call  lor  mid  ch 04  k  blRgajIc  fruui  hotels  aud  resi- 
dence*. Telepbune,  tixchaiiitc  83.  Inqulreof  Ticket 
AyebU   lor    'I  lint-  Cards  aud  otDer  Inforuiatloa 

BONESTELL,  RICHARDSON  &  CO. 

DEALERS   D  A  DCD    0F   ALL 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Upstairs:  "'Fifteen  two  and  a  pair  makes 
four,"  said  Subbubs,  who  was  playing  crib- 
bage  with  Popley ;  "  what  have  you  in  your 
crib?"  "Ah,"  replied  Popley.  absent-mindedly, 
"just  the  sweetest  'ittle  ootsums  toot  sums 
girl  in  the  world." — Philadelphia  Press. 

"  The  only  trouble  with  your  magazine/' 
remarked  the  purchaser.  "  is  that  you  don't 
publish  enough  fiction."  "  Great  Scott,  man  !" 
replied  the  overworked  editor.  "  you  evidently 
don't  read  our  advertising  pa — er,  yes.  I've 
thought  so,  too,  at  times!" — Cincinnati  Times- 
Star. 

Faithful  to  the  law  :  "  Why  did  you  let  him 
get  away  from  you?"  thundered  the  chief. 
"  He — er — took  a  mean  advantage  of  me," 
replied    the    green    detective;    "he    ran    across 

the    grass    in    the    park,    and "      "  Well  ?" 

"  Well,  there  was  a  sign  there.  '  Keep  off  the 
grass.'  " — Philadelphia  Press. 

A  honeymoon  experience :  The  groom — 
"  Would  you  mind  if  I  went  into  the  smoking- 
car,  dear?"  The  bride — "What!  to  smoke?" 
The  groom — "  Oh,  dear,  no.  I  want  to  ex- 
perience the  agony  of  being  away  from  you. 
so  that  the  joy  of  my  return  will  be  all  the 
more  intensified." — Brooklyn  Life. 

"  Of  course,  there  is  considerable  difference 
between  the  hotels  conducted  on  the  European 
plan  and  those  on  the  American  plan."  "  Oh. 
yes !      On  the   European  plan   you  merely  pay 

for  what  you  want,  and "     "  And  on  the 

American  plan  you  pay  for  what  you  don't 
get." — Philadelphia  Ledger. 

Deeds,  not  words:  Father  (sternly) — 
"  Didn't  I  tell  you  if  any  of  the  other  boys 
said  anything  to  make  you  angry  you  should 
count  twenty  before  you  said  anything?" 
Tommy — "Yes.  sir;  but  I  didn't  need  to  say 
anything.  Before  I'd  counted  twelve  the  other 
boy  yelled  '  Enough!'  " — Philadelphia  Press. 

Why  he  came  back:  Van  Quiz — "I  heard 
you  had  concluded  to  live  in  England  alto- 
gether, Mr.  Chumppe?"  Chumpson  Chumppe 
— "  Aw,  that  was — aw — me  intention,  don't- 
ye-know?  But  awftah  me  visit  in  Lonnon,  I 
find  that  we're  evah  so  much  maw  English  in 
Amewica?  " — New    Orleans    Times-Democrat. 

A  case  of  freezing :  Levy's  brother  died 
in  Chicago,  the  other  day.  The  undertaker 
telegraphed  to  Levy :  "  What  shall  I  do 
with  the  body?  I  can  embalm  it  for  $50  or 
freeze  it  for  $30."  And  Levy  telegraphed 
back :  "  Freeze  it  from  the  knees  up  for 
$20;  he  had  his  feet  frozen  last  winter." — 
Lyre. 

Boston  hospitality:  Johnny — "Pa,  what  is 
tact?"  Wise  pa — "Tact,  Johnny,  is  knowing 
how  to  do  things  without  appearing  to  be  do- 
ing them.  For  instance,  1  asked  Mr.  Arid- 
man  to  dinner  this  evening,  and  incidentally 
I  remarked  that  your  mother  would  entertain 
us  on  the  piano.  Mr.  Aridman  said  he  was  so 
sorry  he  couldn't  come." — Boston    Transcript. 

"That  boy  of  yours  has  disgraced  his  self 
in  school,"  remarked  Farmer  Thorpington,  as 
he  tossed  the  latest  letter  aside.  "  Laws 
sakes !  What's  he  done  now?"  inqired  his 
better  half.  "  It  aint  what  he's  done ;  it's 
what  he  aint  done.  This  here  letter  says  he's 
been  in  five  football  games  an*  come  out  with- 
out a  scratch  !  " — Baltimore  News. 

Satisfactory  division :  The  old  farmer  and 
his  wife  had  agreed  to  separate.  They  had 
only  one  child.  "Everything  friendly?"  in- 
quired a  neighbor.  "  Oh,  yes."  replied  the  old 
man,  carelessly.  "  No  trouble  about  making 
a  fair  division  of  the  property?"  "Oh,  no. 
She  gits  the  kid  an'  the  canned  fruit,  an'  I 
git  the  pig  an'  the  apples.  That's  even  enough, 
aint  it?" — Town  and  Country. 

Ancestral  right :  "  It  all  seems  so  strange." 
said  Miss  Roxie  MacKinnes,  the  heiress,  who 
was  engaged  to  the  foreign  count,  "  that  1 
am  to  have  a  coronet."  "  Faith,  not  at  all." 
replied  the  old  servant  of  the  family,  "  fur 
thot's  what  yer  gran'father  had  before  ye,  an' 
'twas  all  he  had."  "What  do  you  mean?" 
"'  A  car  an'  net.  "Twas  whin  he  caught  fish 
an"  peddled  'em  out  o*  Gahvay  Bay." — Phila- 
delphia Press. 

War  history :  "  There."  remarked  the 
colonel,  as  a  distinguished  individual,  wearing 
good  clothes,  passed  by,  "  there  is  a  man  who 
made  the  nerviest  charge  in  the  Civil  \\  ar 
that  I  ever  saw."  "Is  that  so?"  asked  the 
major;  "I  don't  seem  to  recognize  him  as  a 
military  hero."  "  No."  replied  the  colonel. 
"  I  didn't  suppose  you  would.  He  was  the 
sutler  for  our  regiment,  and  he  made  us  pay 
ninety  cents  a  slice  for  pumpkin  pie !" — 
Cincinnati  Times-Star. 

After  the  Roxburghe-Goelet  wedding:  A 
titled  foreigner  was  discussing  with  his  future 
father-in-law,  the  wealthy  American,  the 
question  of  settlements.  "Pardon  my  igno- 
rance." lie  said,  "  in  inquiring  about  another 
matter.  Is  it  customary  in  this  country  for 
the  bridegroom  to  fee  the  police  who  suppress 
the  riots  when  the  ceremony  takes  place,  or 
does  the  bride's  father  consider  that  one  of 
the  ordinary  expenses  of  the  wedding,  and 
paj    it    himself?" — Chicago    Tribune. 


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OVR  STANDARDS 


vSperry  Flour  Company 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 
Tiburon    Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  lo  San  Kafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30.  9-Oo,  ".00  a  m;  12.35,  3-5°.  5.10, 

6.30  p  m.    Thursdays  —Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 

Saturdays —Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  pm. 
SUNDAYS— S.00,  9.30,  11.00  a  m.;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 

11.30  p  m. 

San  Kafael  to  San  Francisco. 
WEEK   DAYS— 6.05,   7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m ;   12.50; 

3.40.  5.00.  5.20  p  ro.    Saturdays — Extra   trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00.  9.40,  11.15  a  m;  1.40,  3.40,  4.55,  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


3.30  P  m 
5.10  pm 


Sun- 
days. 
8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
3.30  P  m 
5  00  pm 


330  P  m 
5.10  p  m 


S.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
3.30  p  m 
5-QQp  m 


7.30  a  ni 
3-3Q  P  ni 


S  00  a  m 
S-30P  '» 


7.30  a  m    S.00  a  m 
3.30  pm    3.30  pm 


7.30  a  ml  8.00  a  m 
3.30  a  m    3.30  P  m 


7.30  a  m     S.00  a  m 


7.30  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
3.30  p  m    3-3Q  P  ni 

7.30  a  m 
5.10pm 


7  3oam 
3.30  pm 


S.oo  a  m 
5.00  p  m 


S.oo  a  m 
3-3°  P  m 


In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petal  uma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytlon, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 
Sun  Week 

days. 


9. 10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 


9-io  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  pm 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  ni 


3.40  a  m 
?-35Pm 


35pm 

35  P  m 
40  am 
35Pm 
10  a  m 

05  [  ■  ni 


i.40  a  m 
7.35  pm 


S.40  a  m 
io.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  ni 
6.20  p  m 


to.  20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


[O.20  a 
6.20  r 


to.  20 
6.20 
6.20 


[0,20 

6.20 
S.40 
6.20 


Stages    connect  at  Green  Erae  ior  San  Quentiii;  at 

Santa   Rosa   for  While  Sulphur  Springs;     at    Fulion 

ior    Aliruria   and  .Mark  West  Springs;    at  Lylton  tor 

Lytton    Springs;   ai  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs; 

at     Cloverdale      lor     the     Geysers,     Booneville,    and 

!  Greenwood ;     at      Hopland       for     Duncan      Springs, 

I  Highland     Springs,     Kelseyville.     Carlsbad    Springs, 

Soda      Bay,     Lakeport,     and      Bartlett    Springs;     at 

Ukiah   ior    Vichy    Springs,     Saratoga    Springs.     Blue 

Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 

j  Porno.  Potter  Vallev,  John  Dav's,  Riverside.  Lierlev's. 

,   Bucknell's.  Sanhed'rin   Heights,    Hullville.  Orr's  Hoi 

I  Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens. 

Hopkins.    Mendocino    City,    Fort    Bragg.    Westport, 

Usal;  at  Willits  tor  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 

Cahlo.  Covelo,  Laytonville,  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 

Harris.  Olsen's,  Dyer,  GarberviHe,  Peppervvood,  Scotia, 

1  and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rales. 

O11  Sunday  round-trip  tickets    lo   all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  halt"  rates. 
Ticket  office.  6^0  Market  Street.  Chronicle  Building. 
H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN'. 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


Free  Trial 


eat  I 

One  > 

fialr  > 

or  > 


— Su'dliiKin's  Soothing  Powders  preserves  healthy 
state  of  the  constitution  during  ilie  period  ol    IGi  ll  - 

ing. 

• — <*- — *         — 

"  Have  you  heard  the  latest?     Brown's  wife 
has     run     off     With     his     chauffeur."        "  Mercy. 

whal  a  pity  !     IK-  was  such  a  good  chauffeur! 
Brown   will  never  be  able  to  replace  him." 
Smart  Set. 

—  Dr  K  O  OdCHRANS,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


Mothers  he  sure  and  use  *'  Mrs.  Winslow's 

Soothing  Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething 


DEATH  TO  HAIR-ROOT  AND  BRANC 

Mew 
Discovery 
by  the 
MISSES  BELL, 
A  Trial  Treatt 
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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 


Editorial:  Let  Us  Annex  Panama! — The  Present  Anomalous 
Situation — "  Independence  "  of  Panama  a  Farce — Absurdity 
of  Guarding  Foreign  Shores  With  Our  Warships — Can  the 
Junta  Justly  Govern  the  Isthmus? — The  Anglo-Saxon  Ad- 
vance— Our  "  Plain  Duty  " — A  Picturesque  Personality — 
John  Sharp  Williams.  New  Minority  Leader  of  the  House 
— Mr.  Bryan  Abroad — The  Commoner  of  Lincoln  Engulfed 
by  the  Voracious  Maw  of  Empire — The  Passionate  Sus- 
pender— Hobnobbing  With  Dukes  and  Duchesses — The 
Gist  of  the  President's  Message    393-394 

On  Buying  Things  Abroad:  Liqueurs,  Coffee,  Tobacco,  and 
Soap — On  the  Buying  of  Books — Raiment  for  Man  and 
Woman — Laces,  Jewels,  and  Rugs.     By  Jerome  Hart 395 

An  Adept  Smuggler:     From     the    Annals    of    Alta    California. 

By   (Catherine    Chandler    396 

Poems  by  Swinburne:      "  Rondel."     "  A     Ballad    of    Burdens," 

"At     Parting" 396 

Tyrone  Power  in  "  Ulysses  ":  Stephen  Phillips's  Notable 
Poetic  Dr2ma  Meets  a  Cool  Reception  in  New  York — 
Diverse  Opinions  of  Its  Merit — Olive  Oliver  as  Calypso — 
A  Dramatic  Moment-     By  Geraldine  Bonner 397 

Individualities:     Notes  About  Prominent  People  All  Over  the 

World    - 397 

Senator  Hoar's  Autobiography:  His  Youth  at  Concord — 
Anecdotes  of  Edward  Everett  Hale,  Daniel  Webster, 
James  G.  Blaine,  and  General  Grant — Benjamin  Butler's 
Career    Criticised 398 

Magazine  Verse:     "The  Wanderlust,"  by  Theodosia  Garrison; 

"The   Northern  Trail,"   by   Frank  Lillie  Pollock 398 

Britain,  Not  England:  A  Scottish  Patriot's  Appeal  to  Ameri- 
cans for  Fair  Play.     By  John  Wilson 399 

Literary  Notes:  Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub- 
lications— Books     Received 400-401 

The  Theatrical  Slump  in  the  East.       By      Josephine      Hart 

Phelps    402 

Stage  Gossip 403 

Vamty  Fair:  Orators  Corked  Tight  at  Atlanta — Spellbinders 
Nearly  Choked  to  Death  by  Not  Being  Allowed  to  Speak — 
The  Vanderbilts  Economizing — The  Notable  Dinner  of  the 
Gridiron  Club — Some  of  the  Jokes — A  Scandal  at  Ann 
Arbor — A  Man  in  the  Dressing-Room — Shall  Women  Ride 
Astride? — Cost  of  a  Commission  in  the  British  Army 404 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Two  Professional  Funny  Men  in  a  Contest  of  Wits — 
When  Silence  Was  Indeed  Golden — How  "  Uncle  Joe " 
Cannon  Once  Apologized — A  Ghastly  Witticism  -  of  a 
Famous  Dramatist — Couldn't  Escape  the  Profanity — A  True 
Ghost    Story     405 

The  Tuneful  Liar:     "The    Links    in    Winter,"    by    Margaret 

Johnson;    "The   City    Sportsman,"   by  Jack  Appleton 405 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 406-407 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 408 


Politically  considered,  a  strange,  anomalous,  and  alto- 
gether  unsatisfactory   condition   of   af- 
annex  the  fairs  exists  in  the  new,  so-styled  "  Re- 

Isthmus!  public    of    Panama."      Nominally,    there 

is  there  a  duly  established  government  having  author- 
ity. Actually,  the  United  States  is  master  of  the 
Isthmus.  Nominally,  the  Republic  of  Panama  is  a 
state  risen  of  its  own  strength.  Actually,  it  could  not 
exist  a  single  day  were  the  strong,  supporting  arm  of 


the  United  States  withdrawn.  As  a  matter  of  cold 
fact,  the  members  of  the  Panama  junta  are  but  marion- 
ettes manoeuvred  by  a  string  which  ends  in  the  back 
room  of  the  State  Department,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Such  a  condition  of  affairs  is,  we  say,  unsatisfactory ; 
in  time  it  will  become  intolerable.  "  Nine  poor  men 
will  sleep  on  a  pile  of  straw,  but  no  country  is  large 
enough  for  two  kings,"  says  an  ancient  proverb.  And 
Panama  is  far  too  narrow  to  support  two  governments 
in  harmony.  Between  the  fiery  little  Spanish  officials 
and  the  American  engineers  and  officers  who  will  be 
constructing  the  canal  there  are  bound  to  come  conflicts 
of  authority  and  wretched  squabbles,  if  not  worse.  In 
a  country  where,  as  Mr.  Roosevelt  points  out,  there 
have  been  fifty-three  revolutions  in  half  a  century, 
worse  may  reasonably  be  expected. 

In  the  treaty  just  ratified  with  Panama  we  guaran- 
tee its  independence;  promise  to  defend  it  against  all 
comers;  agree  to  clean  the  streets,  alleys,  and  back 
yards  of  its  cities ;  to  make  health  resorts  out  of  pest- 
holes; to  furnish  Colon  and  Panama  a  pure  water  sup- 
ply ;  to  give  the  government  special  telegraph  and  tele- 
phone rates  within  the  canal  strip;  to  allow  free  pas- 
sage through  the  canal  of  Isthmian  vessels ;  and  fur- 
thermore to  hand  over  to  Panama  ten  millions  of  dollars 
in  cold  cash,  and  to  pay  a  rental  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars  a  year  for  ever  and  ever,  Amen. 

And  why?  Why  should  we  do  all  this  for  a  foreign 
nation,  an  alien  people,  in  addition  to  conveying  upon 
it  the  inestimable  blessing  of  there  building  a  two- 
hundred-million-dollar  canal?  Why  should  we  guard 
foreign  shores  and  clean  foreign  cities?  If  we  are  go- 
ing to  perform  these  elementary  governmental  func- 
tions for  Panama,  why  should  we  not  do  all  the  govern- 
ing? Why  let  these  Latin  upstarts  strut  around  in  gold 
braid  with  tin  swords  while  we  do  all  the  hard  work? 
In  short,  what  is  the  use  of  nursing  and  perpetuating 
so  puerile  and  palpable  an  absurdity  as  the  "Republic 
of  Panama."  If,  as  Senator  Morgan  avers,  we  have 
by  a  Caesarian  operation  taken  Panama  alive  from  the 
womb  of  Colombia,  hadn't  we  better  now  adopt  the 
orphan  child?  Panama  is  not  now  and  can  not  be 
in  fact  "  independent."  She  is  absolutely  "  dependent." 
To  speak  of  Panama's  "  independence  "  is  mere  jug- 
glery with  words.  Why,  then,  should  we  play  the  child- 
ish play  of  "  make  believe  "  ?  Why  not  just  annex  the 
Isthmus?  Why  not  make  those  31,571  square  miles  an 
integral  part  of  the  territory  of  these  United  States  of 
North  and  Central  America?  Then  we  would  have 
to  pay  over  no  ten  millions  in  gold.  Then  we  would 
have  to  dig  up  no  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars annually.  Then  there  would  be  no  squabbles  over 
jurisdiction.  It  would  be  a  clean-cut,  straightforward, 
forthright,  practical  solution  of  an  evasive  and  hypo- 
critical situation. 

And  nobody  would  object.  The  nations  of  Europe 
would  view  ouraction  calmly — benignly,  in  fact.  It  would 
make  no  difference  to  Colombia;  she  has  irrevocably 
lost  Panama  anyway.  And  in  this  country  only  the 
soured  anti-imperialists  would  squirm  and  howl.  Yet 
even  they  could  not  allege  injustice  in  the  act.  No  sane 
person  will  contend  that  the  "  junta  "  can  better  gov- 
ern Panama  than  can  the  United  States.  Already  there 
is  incipient  revolt  against  the  junta.  What  assurance 
have  we  that  it  can  properly  perform  even  the  few 
governmental  functions  left  to  it?  We  have  been 
freely  calling  the  Colombian  officials  thieves,  robbers, 
highwaymen,  what  not.  Are  Panama  officials,  who 
were  late  Colombian  citizens,  likely  to  be  any  better? 
Ought  we,  in  justice  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  Isthmus, 


to  let  the  Isthmus  be  governed  by  this  mushroom  gov- 
ernment? Is  it  good,  sound  sense  to  pay  over  to  the 
revolutionists  ten  millions  of  dollars,  when  it  is  more 
than  likely  to  be  stolen  or  squandered?  To  what  citi- 
zen of  any  country  should  we  do  a  positive  injustice 
were  we  to  assume  complete  control  of  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama?    That  is  a  question  worth  an  answer. 

But  beyond  all  this,  it  is  Manifest  Destiny !  Is  not  the 
Anglo-Saxon  race  the  predestined  master  of  the  world? 
Since,  in  the  dark  backward  and  abysm  of  time,  the 
reluctant  Romans  sailed  away  from  British  shores, 
has  there  been  a  pause  in  the  world-battle  which  shall 
surely  end  in  the  triumph  of  the  Northman,  the  defeat 
of  the  Latin?  Is  not  Spain,  ancient  and  decrepit,  los- 
ing her  dominions?  Is  France  a  good  colonist? 
What  are  the  possessions  of  Italy  beyond  the  Mediter- 
ranean ?  Contrariwise,  are  not  the  English  dominant 
in  Southern  Asia  and  Africa?  Do  they  not  hold 
Egypt,  where  Napoleon  once  trod  conquero.r?  What 
of  Canada?  Australia?  Has  the  United  States  not 
successively  wrested  from  Latin  races,  Louisiana. 
Florida,  Texas,  California,  Porto  Rico,  Cuba.the  Philip- 
pines? And  shall  this  world-advance  pause  at  little 
Panama?  When  we  have  swallowed  the  camel  of 
suzerainty,  shall  we  strain  at  the  further  gnat  of  abso- 
lute possession? 

By  Thor  and  Odin,  no !  Let  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
wave  over  Panama.  It  is  our  manifest  destiny;  it  is 
our  "  plain  duty  "  ! 


Bryan 
Abroad. 


The  small  boy  who  inquired  timidly  whether  kings  wore 
MR  suspenders  has   reached   his   apotheosis 

in  Mr.  William  Jennings  Bryan,  form- 
erly alluded  to  in  Democratic  prints  as  a 
candidate  a  third  time  for  the  Presidency  of  the  United 
States,  and  now  enjoying  a  blessed  resurrection  as  a 
political  tourist.  Mr.  Bryan,  a  notable  from  Nebraska. 
U.  S.  A.,  as  certain  British  periodicals  state,  has  not 
only  gone  abroad,  but  has  adopted  in  Rome  all  the  cus- 
toms that  appeal  to  him  as  being,  in  essence,  Roman. 
The  change  worked  in  the  well-known  figure  of  the 
Apostle  of  Silver  by  these  assumed  trappings  is  calcu- 
lated, as  his  fellow-citizens  would  say.  to  strike  dismay 
into  the  heart  of  every  true  disciple.  One  can  almost 
analyze  the  development  of  the  chrysalis  of  democracy 
into  the  butterfly  of  aristocracy  by  giving  a  few  dates. 

It  was  on  November  19th  that  the  boy  orator,  clad 
in  the  vibrant-brimmed  sombrero  and  cutaway  of  his 
native  plains,  left  the  portal  of  his  country's  representa- 
tive at  the  Court  of  St.  James  and  departed  breezily, 
bold-faced,  and  anti-imperialistically  through  the  London 
crowd.  One  would  have  liked  to  see  him.  sturdily 
democratic,  frankly  scornful  of  obsolescent  tradition 
among  the  hordes  of  golden-slaved  Britons.  For  this  was 
the  last  appearance  of  Bryan,  the  Nebraskan.  In  his 
stead  there  reappeared  in  Victoria  Street,  some  hours 
later,  a  sombre  gentleman,  glossy-hatted,  frock-coated, 
immaculate,  genteel — conservative.  The  Commoner  of 
Lincoln  had  been  engulfed  by  the  voracious  maw  of  an 
aggressive  empire;  the  Platte,  winding  among  its 
prairies,  would  anticipate  in  vain  the  return  of  the 
siren  of  Ogallala  and  the  spellbinder  of  Central  City. 
William  Jennings  Bryan  had  learned  that  king- 
suspenders,  and  with  the  unerring  logic  for  which  he 
is  so  justly  famous,  he  had  turned  the  syllogism  ami 
assumed  the  dignity  due  those  who  sport  the  double- 
galluses  supplied  by  the  army  and  navy  stores. 

On   November  26th    (Thanksgiving  night  I.  and  the 
dominical   anniversary  of  the  new   raiment,  the  Hon. 
W.   Jennings    Bryan   delivered    an   address    bef 
American  Society  in  London,  in  defiance  of  th 


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THE       ARGONi  UT 


December  14,   1903. 


tion  of  Nebraskan  democracy  that  dictates  that  speak- 
ing comes  before  eating.  Replete  with  British  cheer, 
the  Hon.  Gent.,  pointing  the  decorous  finger  of  pride 
at  his  own  political  position,  asserted  that  he  knew  of  no 
greater  service  that  his  country  could  give  the  world 
than  to  furnish  an  ideal  "  so  far  above  us  that  it  will 
keep  us  looking  up  all  our  lives,  and  so  far  in  advance  of 
us  that  we  shall  never  overtake  it,  even  to  our  own 
death."  The  minutes  of  this  happy  occasion,  festively 
incomplete,  do  not  inform  us  authentically  as  to 
whether  this  was  or  was  not  in  response  to  a  toast, 
"  The  Presidency." 

On  November  29th,  Jennings  Bryan  was  tendered  a 
luncheon  by  the  mayor  of  Dublin.  It  must  have  been 
a  sad  blow  to  Nebraska  to  learn  that  the  midday  meal 
was  not  still  dinner  to  Bill.  His  supper  with  Embassa- 
dor Choate,  his  hobnobbing  with  dukes,  duchesses,  and 
other  nobility  might  be  excused.  This  was  breaking  the 
last  tie.  Even  Mr.  Bryan's  warm  allusion  to  the  Irish 
and  their  large  share  in  the  greatness  of  the  United 
States  and  the  Democratic  party  could  not  atone,  except 
to  a  small  part  of  the  Nebraska  constituency.  One 
can  hear  the  cry  of  the  mother  State,  plangent,  sadly 
amazed,  "Look  at  Bill!" 

Yet  in  this  record  of  the  progress  and  decline  of  the 
Xebraskan  there  is  a  solace  latent.  Some  features  of  it 
lead  us  to  cherish  the  belief  that  the  facile  pencils  of 
exuberant  historians  have  alleged  supernatural  phe- 
nomena. We  read  that  Mr.  Bryan  had  a  friendly  chat 
with  Richard  Croker,  who  came  purposely  to  London 
to  see  him.  We  understand  that  W.  J.  Bryan  cheerfully 
crossed  the  horny  palm  of  the  Dublin  porter — not  to 
be  confounded  with  the  stimulating  elixir  of  that  name 
— with  gold.  We  are  even  told  that  Mr.  Bryan  has 
elicited  information  from  London  cabbies.  These  be 
prodigious  portents.  Possibly  it  may  comfort  Weeping 
Water,  Oconee,  Verdigris,  and  Radish  Fork,  cities  of 
Nebraska,  U.  S.  A.,  to  think  that  their  sage  has  been 
not  conformed  to  the  British  world,  but  transformed  a 
glorious  recrudescence,  putting  aside  sombrero  and 
vociferous  simplicity  for  the  regal  habiliments  and  lofty 
orphicness  to  which  all  Americans  would  attain  were 
their  birthright  acknowledged.  And  Lincoln  may  yet 
have  the  fond  felicity  of  viewing  her  Bill,  shirt- 
sleeved,  felt-hatted,  only  the  passionate  suspenders  pur- 
chased in  the  marts  of  imperialism  to  disclose  to  his 
townsfolk  the  renounced  and  forgiven  glory  of  a  pro- 
gress of  surrender  through  the  British  Isles. 

The  President  begins  by  reviewing  the  history  and  pre- 
The  Gist  of  liminary    work    of    the    Department    of 

the  Presidents  Commerce  and  Labor.  .  He  declares 
that  the  purpose  of  the  bureau  is  "  not 
to  embarrass  or  assail  legitimate  business,"  but  to  cast 
the  searching  ray  of  publicity  upon  such  corporations 
as  have  "  cause  to  dread  it."  About  those  he  thinks  we 
need  not  be  "  over-sensitive." 

He  speaks  briefly  of  capital  and  labor,  exhorting  both 
to  obey  the  laws,  to  avoid  "  arbitrary  and  tyrannous 
interference  with  the  rights  of  others." 

On  the  subject  of  the  tariff  the  message  is  silent. 
The  receipts  of  the  government  for  the  last  fiscal 
year  were  $560,396,674,  the  expenditures,  $506,099,007. 
The  President  points  out  that  for  the  present  fiscal  year 
the  surplus  "  will  be  very  small,  if,  indeed,  there  be 
any."     Therefore,  he  commends  economy. 

No  specific  currency  legislation  is  asked  for.  The 
President  recommends  that  a  commission  be  appointed 
by  Congress  to  investigate  and  report  what  legislation 
is  necessary  for  the  development  of  the  American  mer- 
chant marine. 

A  brief  reference  is  made  to  the  need  for  excluding 
"  undesirable  "  immigrants,  and  the  attention  of  Con- 
gress thus  called  to  the  question.  The  President  de- 
clares that  in  the  process  of  naturalization  "  forgeries 
and  perjuries  of  shameless  and  flagrant  character  have 
been  perpetrated."  and  asks  the  immediate  attention  of 
Congress  thereto. 

He  asks  for  further  appropriations  for  enforcement 
of  trust  laws  and  prosecution  of  those  guilty  of  gross 
frauds  in  sale  of  public  lands  and  in  Post-Office  Depart- 
ment. 

He  states  that  the  Stale  Department  is  negotiating 
with  foreign  powers  tu  make  bribery  extraditable — at 
tlic  urgent  request  of  Folk,  of  St.  Louis. 

The  proceedings  in  the  Alaska  boundary  case  are 
briefly  reviewed,  as  also  tin-  familiar  facts  connected 
with  the  Venezuela  trouble,  ami  the  occasion  is  seized 
byth'  President  tospeak  in  highest  terms  of  The  Hague 
court  and  the  principle  of  arbitration  of  international 
d'Si  ites.  and  to  recommend  to  the  nations  that  private 
pr.  jertv  be  respccle.i  ..t  sea  in  times  of  war.  as  it  i^  on 

Philippines,"   says   the   President,  "should  be 


knit  closer  to  us  by  tariff  arrangements."  Further- 
more, he'  declares,  that  "  no  one  people  ever  benefited 
another  people  more  than  we  have  benefited  the  Fili- 
pinos by  taking  possession  of  the  islands." 

The  land  laws,  the  President  thinks,  should  be  re- 
vised. Government  irrigation  work  is  progressing  sat- 
isfactorily. The  forests  should  be  preserved.  Civil  Service 
should  be  extended.  In  the  army,  such  changes  are 
recommended  as  shall  permit  readier  promotion  for 
merit  in  the  lower  grades.  Steady  progress  in  building 
up  the  navy  is  also  a  desideratum,  and  a  naval  base  in 
the  Philippines  a  necessity. 

Nearly  three  newspaper  columns  of  the  President's 
message  are  devoted  to  an  historical  review  of  the 
Panama  canal  matter.  It,  however,  contains  no  points 
(except  by  way  of  illustration)  not  contained  in  Secre- 
tary Hay's  statement  discussed  at  length  in  these  col- 
umns. The  President  is  of  the  opinion  that  nothing 
is  necessary  but  the  treaty's  ratification  by  the  Senate, 
when  the  money  appropriated  by  the  Spooner  act  will 
become  available.  The  treaty  accompanied  the  mes- 
sage, and  is  now  before  the  Senate. 


AS   A 

Blessing. 


In  Los  Angeles,  to  be  boycotted  by  the  labor  unions  is 
the  boycott  money  in  your  pocket,  according  to  a 
most  extraordinary  story  printed  in  the 
Los  Angeles  Times.  Here  are  the  al- 
leged facts:  The  L.  Sentous  Slaughtering  Company, 
having  somehow  gained  the  favor  of  the  unions,  was 
placed  by  the  labor  council  on  its  "  fair  list."  Mr. 
Sentous,  however,  was  not  pleased.  He  protested 
against  being  declared  "  fair  "  by  the  unions.  He  as- 
serted that  it  hurt  his  business.  He  published  state- 
ments in  the  newspapers.  He  demanded  that  his  name 
be  stricken  from  the  "  fair  list."  He  wanted  to  be  boy- 
cotted !  He  wanted  to  be  boycotted  so  badly  that,  when 
the  labor  council  refused  to  strike  his  name  from  its 
list,  he  brought  an  injunction  suit  against  it.  The  court 
granted  the  injunction.  A  writ  was  issued,  but  at  last 
accounts  the  officers  of  the  council  had  not  been  found 
by  the  sheriff.  But  what  an  extraordinary  case !  We 
are  aware,  of  course,  that  the  Times  is  a  bitter  enemy 
of  unions,  but  we  have  no  reason  to  believe  that  it  will- 
fully misstates  facts.  If  this  is  the  way  they  feel  about 
it  down  in  the  southern  city,  Mr.  Hearst's  Los  Angeles 
Examiner  may  have  hard  sledding.  That  journal,  by 
the  way,  is  programmed  to  make  its  bow  Sunday  morn- 
ing, December  12th.  It  is  on  the  cards  that  "  all  the 
workingmen  between  Tehachapi  and  the  Mexican  boun- 
dary "  are  to  parade  Los  Angeles  streets  the  night  be- 
fore in  honor  of  the  event.  "  The  city  will  be  ablaze 
with  red  fire,"  we  hear,  "  and  Harrison  Gray  Otis  will 
see  the  handwriting  on  the  wall."  Well,  we  shall  see 
what  we  shall  see. 

The  new  Democratic  leader  in  the  House — John  Sharp 
k  Williams,    of   Mississippi — is    not,     and 

picturesque  does   not  pretend   to   be,   an   adept  par- 

Personalitv.  Hamentarian.  His  great  strength,  it  is 
said,  lies  in  constructive,  not  obstructive,  statesmen- 
ship,  and  he  has  publicly  asserted  that,  under  his  di- 
rection, there  will  be  no  filibustering  and  no  tactics  un- 
worthy a  united  party  with  well-defined  issues  to  sup- 
port. The  war  cry  of  the  Democrats,  as  lined  out  by 
Mr.  Williams,  is  tariff-reform  and  Cuban  reciprocity — 
the  latter  thought  to  be  an  exceedingly  shrewd  bait  for 
the  administration.  The  congressman  from  Mississippi 
is  not  yet  fifty  years  old,  and  in  most  ways  a  typical 
Southerner.  He  was  born  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  the  son 
of  a  gentleman  afterward  killed  at  Shiloh  while  fight- 
ing in  a  Confederate  regiment.  His  mother  died  while 
he  was  yet  a  boy.  Mr.  Williams  went  to  the  Kentucky 
Military  Institute,  and  then  to  the  University  of  the 
South  at  Sewanee  and  the  University  of  Virginia. 
After  finishing  the  courses  at  these  colleges,  the  young 
man  traveled  in  Europe  and  studied  at  Heidelberg, 
where  he  gained  a  knowledge  of  Continental  politics 
and  history  that  he  has  kept  fresh  by  voluminous  read- 
ing. His  first  public  office  was  that  of  congressman,  to 
which  he  was  elected  in  1892.  while  living  in  Yazoo, 
and  his  debut  before  the  House  was  when  he  called  to 
order  Isadore  Rayner,  of  Baltimore,  who  characterized 
in  a  bitter  speech  the  Senate  as  a  body  in  a  state  of  an- 
archy. Mr.  Williams  served  several  sessions  on  the 
Committees  of  Agriculture  and  Education,  being  asso- 
ciated with  Farmer  Joe  Sibley  of  Pennsylvania,  Cy- 
clone Jim  Marshall,  of  Virginia,  Jerry  Simpson,  and 
Farmer  Funston,  father  of  the  captor  of  Aguinaldo. 
In  the  Fifty-Fifth  Congress,  Mr.  Williams  was  assigned 
to  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Affairs,  and  in  the  Fifty- 
Seventh  was,  at  his  own  request,  dropped  from  this 
and  added  to  the  Committee  on  Insular  Affairs.  As  a 
member  of  the  last-named  he  made  a  brilliant  speech. 


it  is  considered  his  best,  on  the  Philippines.  Congress- 
man Williams  is  somewhat  careless  in  his  dress,  brushes 
his  hair  virtuoso-wise,  boasts  little  flesh  and  a  drooping 
mustache. 


The 

Calaveras 
Big  Trees. 


Last  summer  one  of  the  Argonaut's  staff  of  contributors 

visited  the   Calaveras   Big  Tree   Grove. 

From  an  article  printed  in  these  columns 

at  that  time  we  extract  one  paragraph : 

"  There  were  giants  in  those  days."  Genesis  says.  There 
must  have  been  giants  to  match  such  growths  as  these.  Did 
the  mammoth  and  mastodon  range  under  the  enormous  boughs, 
rubbing  their  sides  against  the  rough  bark?  Looking  down 
the  forest  aisles,  where  here  and  there  a  towering  red  shaft 
rises,  one  can  almost  see  the  huge  form  of  some  shaggy,  pre- 
historic brute,  nosing  about  among  the  underbrush,  throwing 
a  tusked  mouth  aloft,  pausing  in  its  slow  stroll  to  lift  a 
listening  head,  and  then  send  forth  a  tremendous  bellow  for 
its  mate.  One  of  the  most  curious  things  about  the  trees  is 
their  suggestion  of  youth  and  vitality.  They  were  standing 
thus  when  Moses  led  the  Israelites  out  of  Egypt;  when  the 
Roman  legionaries  were  invading  the  matted  forests  and 
pestilent  fens  of  Britain  sons  had  passed  over  them ;  when 
Christ  was  crucified  they  were  old.  Yet  their  foliage  is 
thick  and  green,  clear  and  vivid  against  their  bark.  They  do 
not  suggest  a  gTeen  old  age,  but  a  perennial  youth,  as  though 
the  sap  rose  strong  and  juicy  in  them,  and  their  roots  sucked 
a  vivifying  nutriment  from  the  earth's  bosom. 

These  trees,  the  greatest  on  earth,  are  owned  by 
private  individuals.  They  are  in  peril  of  being  cut 
down — sawn  into  planks  and  shingles  and  fence  stakes. 
Such  an  event  would  be  a  public  calamity.  To  prevent 
it,  a  bill  has  been  introduced  into  the  lower  House  of 
Congress  by  Representative  Bell,  of  this  State,  provid- 
ing for  the  purchase  of  the  grove  by  the  Federal  gov- 
ernment. A  similar  bill  passed  the  Senate  at  its  last 
session,  but  was  side-tracked  in  the  House.  That  such 
shall  not  be  the  fate  of  the  present  bill  the  California 
Outdoor  League  is  determined.  It  is  writing  letters, 
sending  petitions,  and  making  personal  appeals.  It 
asks  that  every  man  who  would  see  these  venerable 
trees  preserved  for  the  enjoyment  of  his  children's 
children  lend  a  hand.  To  this  request  the  Argonaut 
gives  its  hearty  and  unqualified  indorsement.  To  per- 
mit to  be  cut  down  these  trees,  that  have  been  standing 
for  five  thousand  years,  would  be  a  crime.  If  in  their 
hale  old  age  they  need  a  protector,  the  Federal  govern- 
ment, not  the  State,  should  undertake  the  task. 


The  striking  feature  of  the  restaurant  lockout  is  that 

Employers'  t,le  proprietors,  not  the  unions,  took  the 

Unions  offensive.    They  are  carrying  the  war  into 

Mean  Business.       ,,  ,  T,    ^  ,      , 

the  enemy  s  country.     It  begins  to  look 

as  if  the  long-rumored  determination  of  the  employers 
in  this  city  to  resist  stoutly  all  union  demands  might 
bear  fruit.  Further  evidence  of  such  determination 
was  given  by  the  cloak  manufacturers'  course  in  their 
recent  difficulties  with  their  employees.  As  soon  as  the 
trouble  began,  nearly  all  the  factories  in  the  city  shut 
down,  and  non-union  hands  were  imported  from  the 
East.  Such  a  course  spells  fight.  The  Property  Own- 
ers' Defense  Association  is  another  local  organization 
said  to  have  been  formed  to  resist  the  demands  of  the 
painters"  union.  All  these  bodies  appear  to  be  more  or 
less  closely  connected  with  the  National  Manufactur- 
ers' Association,  headed  by  D.  M.  Parry,  of  Indianap- 
olis; the  Citizens'  Alliance,  in  which  the  moving  spirit 
is  H.  J.  G.  Craig,  of  Denver;  and  the  Citizens'  Indus- 
trial Association,  whose  executive  committee  at  a  re- 
cent meeting  at  Dayton,  O.,  passed  resolutions  declar- 
ing that,  "  in  its  demand  for  the  closing  of  shop  organi- 
zation, labor  is  seeking  to  overthrow  individual  liberty 
and  property  rights,"  and  that  "  its  methods  for  secur- 
ing this  revolutionary  and  socialistic  change  in  our  in- 
stitutions are  those  of  warfare."  That  a  branch  of 
these  organizations  exists  in  this  city  does  not  admit 
of  doubt.  Charles  Kahlo  came  to  San  Francisco  and 
engaged  in  the  work  of  organization  some  months  ago. 
The  membership  is  now  said  to  number  several  hun- 
dred. Some  of  San  Francisco's  leading  merchants 
are  supposed  to  be  at  the  head  of  the  alliance.  In  fact, 
Herbert  George,  the  editor  of  a  Denver  anti-union 
paper,  who  has  recently  been  personally  investigating 
San  Francisco  labor  conditions,  "  mentions  names." 
He  says : 

It  has  been  about  decided  upon  to  make  Claus  Spreckels 
president.  Hon.  John  P.  Irish,  the  famous  Pacific  Coast 
lawyer  and  orator,  was  given  the  chairmanship  of  the 
executive  committee  on  a  salary  of  ten  thousand  dollars  per 
year,  and  the  following  big  business  men  were  selected  for  the 
executive  committee :  R.  P.  Schwerin.  Leon  Sloss,  Andrew 
Carrigan,  Percy  T.  Morgan,  H.  T.  Scott.  James  McNab,  John 
D.  McGilvery,  A.  A.  Watson,  and  Vanderlynn  Stow.  A 
finance  committee  has  been  named,  and  half  a  million  is  to  be 
raised  at  once  to  put  in  the  "  war  chest." 

The  labor  unions  can  not  logically  deny  to  employers 
the  right  they  themselves  exercise — that  of  organiza- 
tion. , 


December  14,  1903. 


TftE        ARGONAUT 


395 


ON    BUYING    THINGS    ABROAD. 


By  Jerome  Hart. 

What  traveler  has  not  dreamed  of  drinking  genuine 
liqueurs  curacoa  in  the  little  island  where  grow 

Coffee,  tobacco,  the  orange  groves  of  Curacoa  ?  Of 
and  soap.  sipping     the     real     Turkish     coffee     in 

Turkey?  Of  smoking  the  authentic  Egyptian  cigarettes 
in  Egypt?  Of  eating  rich,  melting,  luscious  Smyrna  figs 
in  Smyrna?  Of  washing  one's  hands  with  the  only  orig- 
inal Castile  soap  castiled  in  fair  Castile  ? 

How  do  these  travelers'  dreams  materialize?  Alas 
and  alack  !  They  are  but  clouds  and  shadows.  They 
don't  come  true. 

For  on  the  beautiful  islet  in  the  Leeward  Island 
group  where  grew  the  groves  of  Curacoa  orange-trees 
in  the  aforetime,  there  are  now  none.  But  the  world, 
being  used  to  the  flavor  of  the  Curacoa  oranges  in  its 
curac,oa,  will  tolerate  no  other.  So  the  world  has  its 
way.  The  liqueur  curacoa  is  still  made  in  large  quan- 
tities, but  it  is  not  a  Curacoa  liqueur.  It  is  made  out 
of  everything — as  it  is  an  orange  liqueur,  even  of 
oranges  sometimes;  but  the  Amsterdam  house  that 
handles  it  largely  is  said  to  make  it  mostly  out  of  po- 
tato alcohol  and  prune  juice. 

How  about  the  delicious  Egyptian  cigarettes  ?  The 
delicate  Egyptian  tobacco?  Alas  again!  The  native 
Egyptian  tobacco  is  so  bad  that  nobody  smokes  it  but 
the  natives,  and  not  even  they  when  they  can  get  any- 
thing else.  In  Egypt,  as  in  so  many  places,  the  tobacco 
comes  from  Somewhere  Else.  The  highest  grade  to- 
bacco there  apparently  is  imported  from  Europe — from 
Roumelia.  The  next  best  comes  from  Northern  Syria 
— the  best-known  grade  of  this  tobacco  being  known  to 
Europeans  as  "  Latakia,"  although  not  so  called  in 
Egypt.  Persian  tobacco  is  also  imported.  In  short. 
Egypt  imports  the  tobacco,  the  wrappers,  the  boxes, 
and  the  smokers,  and  then  you  have  the  Egyptian 
cigarette. 

"  But  still,"  contends  the  enthusiast,  "  there  can  be 
no  coffee  like  the  genuine  Turkish  coffee.  Ah,  think 
of  the  Arabian  Nights !  And  Scheherezade !  And 
Lady  What's-Her-Name,  the  English  peeress  who  wore 
Turkish  trousers,  lived  in  Turkey  for  years,  and  sipped 
Turkish  coffee  with  Turkish  pashas.  And  of  the 
bearded  Sheiks  in  the  desert — with  hubble-bubble  pipes 
— and  harems  of  beautiful  black-eyed  houris — all  sit- 
ting on  divans — and  all  sipping  coffee — with  all  the 
comforts  of  a  home — out  in  the  desert !  Come,  now  ! 
You  must  give  in  on  the  Turkish  coffee." 

To  this  I  can  only  reply  that  they  may  have  had  good 
coffee  in  Turkey  in  the  time  when  Sultan  Haroun-al- 
Raschid  walked  his  city's  streets  incognito,  but  they 
have  not  now.  You  can  get  better  Turkish  coffee  (so 
called)  in  New  York  than  in  Turkey;  you  can  get  much 
better  Turkish  coffee  in  the  Hoffman  House  than  you 
can  in  Stamboul,  Pera,  Scutari,  Smyrna,  Beyroot, 
Jerusalem,  or  Cairo. 

How  about  the  luscious  figs  of  Smyrna  ?  Well,  my 
experience  w:as  that  the  nearer  we  got  to  Smyrna  the 
poorer  grew  the  figs.  When  we  reached  Beyroot  they 
were  pretty  bad;  when  we  were  off  Smyrna,  the  ped- 
dlers brought  some  aboard  that  were  very  bad ;  when 
•  we  got  ashore  at  Smyrna,  we  were  offered  some  on  the 
quay  that  were  worse;  in  the  hotel  they  were  wormy, 
and  when  we  got  into  the  heart  of  Smyrna  the  figs  were 
able  to  wralk  around  the  dealer's  counter.  It  is  a  cold 
fact  that  we  have  purchased  in  the  leading  groceries 
of  San  Francisco  very  much  finer  Smyrna  figs  than  we 
have  seen  in  Smyrna. 

If  it  be  asked  how  can  Smyrna  figs  be  purchased  in 
San  Francisco  which  are  superior  to  the  Smyrna  figs 
on  sale  in  Smyrna,  the  answer  is  that  they  are  specially 
selected  and  specially  packed.  They  are  stamped  in 
English  on  the  boxes  "  Packed  by  Turkish  labor." 
Some  of  them  are  stamped  "  Washed  Figs."  From  the 
fig-dealers  and  handlers  I  saw  in  Smyrna,  I  think  it 
much  more  essential  that  the  fig-handlers  should  be 
washed. 

I  used  to  be  very  fond  of  Smyrna  figs  before  I  went 
to  Smyrna. 

I  have  not  eaten  any  since. 

I  shall  never  eat  any  again. 

Never  mind  why. 

The  subject  of  washing  naturally  brings  me  back  to 
soap.  In  Castile  I  found  no  Castile  soap.  They  did 
not  know  what  I  meant;  they  had  never  heard  of 
Castile  soap.  This  irritated  me,  so  I  began  investi- 
gating the  Castile-soap  problem.  I  learned — or  was 
told — that  Castile  soap  is  not  made  in  Castile;  is  not 
sold  in  Castile;  is  not  used  in  Castile;  that  it  is  made 
Marseilles  out  of  olive  oil  imported  from  Palestine. 


Thus  we  note  this  strange  anomaly — the  name  given 
to  a  soap  comes  from  a  country  which  knows  naught 
of  this  particular  soap,  it  is  manufactured  in  a  city 
using  little  or  no  soap,  out  of  materials  coming  from  a 
country  which  uses  no  soap  at  all. 

*  * 

As  for  buying  books,  once  while  in  Paris  I  discovered 
On  the  Ln's    curious    condition    of    things :    you 

buying  of  want    a    newly     published     fifteen-franc 

books.  book;   you   go  to   the   publisher's    retail 

establishment,  just  off  the  grand  boulevard;  price,  fif- 
teen francs.  Next  day  you  see  it  in  the  windows  of 
a  shop  on  the  boulevard  marked  "  fourteen  francs." 
Next  week  the  book-dealers  on  the  Rue  Richelieu  near 
the  great  National  Library  have  it  marked  "  thirteen 
francs."  Thinking  there  was  no  bottom  to  the  book 
business  in  Paris,  I  ordered  such  a  volume  through  a 
New  York  dealer  who  for  years  has  bought  books 
abroad  for  me  and  allows  me  what  discount  he  can 
procure.  When  the  bill  came  it  was  marked  "  fifteen 
francs,  30  p.  c.  dis.  off."  Thus  the  book,  when  bought 
through  a  New  York  dealer,  cost  me  10  frcs.  50c,  or 
4  frcs.  50c.  less  than  the  publisher's  price  in  Paris. 
Of  course,  such  a  discount  can  not  be  secured  on  all 
books ;  the  largest  is,  naturally,  on  new  books  and 
novels.  But  even  on  rare,  curious,  and  second-hand 
books,  American  dealers  can  get  discounts  from  for- 
eign dealers  which  you  could  not  obtain. 

But  even  if  you  could  obtain  the  discount,  think  of 
the  time  it  would  consume.  Even  if  the  foreign  dealer 
granted  it  to  you,  he  would  make  you  spend  a  long  time 
getting  it,  merely  as  a  matter  of  professional  pride. 
And  time  to  an  American  in  Europe  is  a  costly  item — 
most  people  spend  several  thousand  dollars  for  not 
very  many  weeks  abroad.  Why,  then,  they  should 
spend  so  much  of  their  valuable  time  in  haggling  with 
dealers  over  things  that  they  could  buy  as  cheap  or 
cheaper,  at  home,  has  always  been  a  mystery  to  me. 
Similarly,  I  have  never  been  able  to  understand  why 
Americans  abroad  should  spend  so  many  hours  at 
hotel  desks  writing  letters  home  to  Cousin  Susan  and 
Aunt  Jane. 

When  I  bought  this  fifteen-franc  book  for  ten  francs 
and  a  half,  it  cost  me  only  the  price  of  a  postal-card 
from  Paris  to  New  York.  Had  I  tried  to  buy  it  in 
Paris,  it  would  have  cost  me  cab  fare  to  the  Rue 
Richelieu  and  back — about  three  francs — which,  added 
to  the  dealer's  thirteen  francs,  would  have  made  six- 
teen francs. 

*  * 

The  things  that  women  wear  can  doubtless  be  procured 
Raiment  'n  tne'r  perfection  at  Paris.     That  city 

for.  Man  has  been  dubbed  "the  paradise  of  women. 

and  woman.  tne    hen    0f   horses."      I    know    nothing 

of  the  attire  of  lovely  woman ;  but  it  is  quite  apparent, 
even  to  the  eye  of  a  mere  man,  that  Paris  gowns,  hats, 
wraps,  coats,  and  feminine  fripperies  generally,  have 
an  elegance  all  their  own.  In  no  other  European  city 
does  one  see  such  handsome  and  artistic  costumes. 
But  American  women  should  be  warned  that  it  is  al- 
ways well  to  have  a  distinct  understanding  with  the 
Parisian  modiste  or  couturiere.  The  agreed  price,  the 
date  of  completion,  the  charges,  if  any,  for  changes — 
all  these  things  should  be  settled  and  written  down. 
Otherwise  there  will  be  trouble.  The  bland  and  smiling 
siren  of  yesterweek  becomes  a  beldame — a  fish-fag  of 
the  market-place — a  very  Mme.  Angot — "  fort  en 
gueule,  elle  se  disputait,  les  deux  poings  sur  les 
hanch.es."  Like  Clairette's  putative  mother,  the  angered 
milliner,  arms  a-kimbo,  will  pour  forth  a  flood  of  bill- 
ingsgate into  the  startled  ears  of  her  terrified  customer. 
If  the  American  woman  should  prove  to  be  of  sterner 
stuff  than  most,  and  defy  the  irritated  modiste,  the 
Frenchwoman  may  have  her  arrested.  French  mer- 
cantile law  is  very  strict.  More  than  once  an  American 
woman  in  Paris  has  been  imprisoned  on  the  plaint  of  a 
dressmaker  over  a  disputed  bill — the  disputes  generally 
being  about  misfits  and  extortionate  charges  for 
changes. 

Many  Americans  seem  to  believe  that  London  occu- 
pies the  same  position  concerning  men's  togs  that 
Paris  does  for  women's  clothes.  I  am  a  little  skeptical 
about  this.  There  are  well-dressed  men  in  London — 
but  so  are  there  in  Paris,  in  Vienna,  in  New  York,  in 
Madrid,  in  Rome.  The  men  who  live  in  London,  or 
who,  living  out  of  London,  regularly  patronize  certain 
London  tailors,  get  their  best  work.  The  tourist  or  the 
transient  sojourner  is  fobbed  off  with  scant  attention 
and  careless  work.  The  tailor  never  expects  to  see 
the  transient  again — so  why  should  he  bother  about 
him  ?    And  he  doesn't. 

Much  of  the  work  done  by  the  London  tailors  is  in- 
ferior to  that  of  the  first-class  tailors  of  New  York. 


In  such  matters  as  linings  and  bindings  they  scamp  their 
work.  And  I  never  saw  the  under-side  of  a  buttonhole 
finished  by  an  English  tailor;  for  the  same  reason,  I 
suppose,  that  a  slovenly  housemaid  does  not  sweep 
under  the  bed — because  it  will  not  be  seen.  Good 
American  tailors  finish  the  back  of  a  buttonhole  as 
carefully  as  they  do  the  front. 

I  think  the  well-dressed  men  of  New  York  dress  just 
as  well  as  those  of  London.  True,  one  sees  more  such 
men  in  the  English  metropolis.  But  then  London  is 
four  times  as  populous  as  Manhattan. 

London  men  are  rather  too  prone  to  sneer  at  the 
tailoring  of  all  the  Continental  cities.  Some  of  it  is 
rather  weird,  it  is  true,  particularly  in  Germany.  But 
the  Roman  dandies  dress  very  well — whether  for  the 
street,  the  salon,  or  the  saddle.  (There  is  much  riding 
around  Rome,  and  not  a  little  hunting  to  hounds.)  And 
in  Rome,  on  the  Piazza  di  Spagna,  there  is  one  of  the 
best  tailor-shops  in  Europe — that  of  the  Schraider 
Fratelli.  They  make  "  pantaloons  "  for  the  Pantaleoni, 
breeches  for  the  Borghese,  "  Prince  Alberts "  for 
princes  of  the  Roman  nobility  generally — which  gar- 
ments those  persons  call  fracs,  patterning  after  the 
English  "  frock-coats,"  instead  of  our  Western  term. 

Yes,  the  Schraider  Brothers  are  not  English  tailors, 
but  they  are  very  good  tailors  all  the  same. 

These  things  may  all  seem  to  be  trifles,  but  they  are 
LACES  significant  trifles.     Books,  of  course,  are 

jewels,  staples.      There   are   many   other  things 

and  Rugs.  which  tourists  seem  to  believe  they  can 

buy  better  in  foreign  places  than  at  home.  I  am  in- 
clined to  doubt  this  about  some  things,  and  I  entirely 
disbelieve  it  about  others.  When  it  comes  to  laces, 
jewels,  rugs,  and  carpets,  the  judgment  of  an  expert 
is  indispensable.  Yet  what  American  woman  will  hesi- 
tate to  measure  wits  with  an  Oriental  in  a  Turkish 
bazaar  ?  And  what  chance  has  she  got  for  coming  out 
ahead?  Very  little,  in  my  opinion.  In  purchasing 
goods  like  Daghestan  or  Bokhara  rugs,  about  the  only 
guarantee  is  the  dealer's  honesty.  People  who  buy  from 
peddlers  or  shop-keepers  in  Oriental  bazaars  are  liable 
to  get  fleeced,  and  they  generally  are. 

I  believe  that  the  man  or  woman  who  buys  at  home 
in  the  United  States  generally  fares  as  well  as — often 
better  than — he  or  she  who  buys  abroad.  The  time 
consumed  in  haggling  in  the  Orient  is  something  awful. 
It  might  much  better  be  spent  in  sight-seeing,  for  ex- 
ample. Time  is  the  most  precious  thing  we  have.  It 
is  the  stuff  of  which  life  is  made,  said  old  Ben 
Franklin.  Lost  money  you  may  recover,  lost  health 
regain,  but  lost  time  is  gone  forever. 

I  have  often  looked  with  pity  on  an  American  woman, 
exhausted  by  hours  of  haggling  in  a  punk-scented  and 
foul-smelling  Oriental  bazaar,  and  neglecting  hundreds 
of  beautiful  outdoor  sights  that  she  might  never  again 
have  the  opportunity  to  see. 

Think  of  the  time  consumed;  the  money  spent;  the 
nerve-waste;  think  of  the  transportation,  which  is 
justly  chargeable  against  your  purchases,  for  you  pay 
for  transporting  your  baggage  when  you  buy  your 
ticket  by  steamer  or  rail,  even  when  you  do  not  pay 
excess  luggage,  which  you  generally  do ;  think  of  the 
risk  by  loss  or  damage  in  transit — a  complete  loss  if 
not  insured,  which  baggage  rarely  or  never  is ;  think  of 
the  mental  worry  over  the  United  States  customs  in- 
spection, which  is  a  terror;  think  of  the  United  States 
duty,  which  must  almost  unquestionably  be  paid.  If 
you  look  into  the  matter  you  will  often  find  it  would 
have  been  cheaper  to  buy  the  things  from  a  reputable 
dealer  in  your  own  town.  He  or  his  agents  can  select 
better  than  you  can ;  they  have  more  time  and  a  larger 
variety.  He  will  probably  pay  less  than  you  for  duties, 
knowing  the  classification  of  goods  better  than  you. 
His  profit  will  come  to  little,  if  any,  more  than  you 
would  pay  with  these  extras  added.  Last,  but  by  no 
means  least,  you  will  have  the  assurance  that  you  have 
bought  what  you  paid  for.  Not  so  when  you  deal  with 
the  Oriental  peddler  or  with  the  shop-keeper  in  a 
bazaar.  You  can  not  even  buy  a  dollar  sponge  in  the 
Orient  with  the  certainty  that  it  is  an  honest  sponge 
and  worth  a  dollar. 

But  waiving  all  these  questions  of  price,  of  time,  of 
trouble,  there  is  another  one.  It  is  the  question  of 
what  is  fitting,  of  what  is  congruous,  of  what  is 
apropos.  The  seeker  after  the  congruous,  the  adorer 
of  the  apropos,  is,  when  buying  abroad,  ever  doomed  to 
disappointment.  It  is  indeed  a  disillusion  to  learn  that 
there  is  no  Castile  soap  in  Castile,  no  Turkish  coffee  in 
Turkey,  no  curacoa  in  Curacoa.  no  wormless  Smyrna 
figs  in  Smyrna.  And  it  came  upon  me  with  a  distinct 
shock  when  I  also  learned  that  there  were  no  Jeru- 
salem artichokes  in  Jerusalem. 


THE       ARGONA  U/T 


December  14,  1903. 


AN    ADEPT    SMUGGLER. 

From  the  Annals  of  Alta  California. 

Smuggling  has  never  been  confined  to  any  one 
nation  nor  to  any  one  era,  but  probably  the  most 
persistent  smuggler  in  the  world's  history  was  the 
Anglo-Saxon  of  the  late  eighteenth  and  the  early 
nineteenth  centuries.  In  Old  England,  he  burdened 
the  government  with  a  very  expensive  Coast  Guard, 
which  he  either  skillfully  eluded  or  complacently 
bribed.  In  New  England,  he  just  as  daringly  evaded 
the  laws  which  his  own  representatives  had  imposed 
upon  him.  With  such  experiences  in  his  own  lands, 
he  entered  Pacific  waters  with  a  conscience  quite 
oblivious  of  the  Spanish  commercial  regulations.  So 
it  was  that  in  pastoral  California  the  most  respected 
foreigners — the  Americans — led  in  the  traffic  of  con- 
traband wares. 

The  laws  of  the  country  required  that  each  vessel 
from  a  foreign  port  should  go  directly  to  Monterey 
and  land  all  its  goods  at  the  custom-house.  After  they 
were  invoiced  and  the  duty  estimated,  they  were  re- 
loaded, and  the  captain  received  a  passport  from  the 
governor  entitling  him  to  trade  along  the  Coast.  This 
paper  he  had  to  present  to  the  local  authority  at  each 
place  he  anchored.  The  local  power  signed  the  pass- 
port, and  then  the  captain  was  permitted  to 'barter  in 
that  vicinity. 

The  citizens  for  miles  around  hastened  down  to  the 
vessel  to  secure  imported  goods  in  exchange  for  their 
hides  and  tallow,  which  virtually  formed  the  currency 
of  the  country.  If  the  captain  could  allow  certain 
articles  to  go  at  a  ridiculously  low  figure,  "  their's  not 
to  question  why."  Indeed,  there  was  no  opprobrium 
cast  on  one  who  outwitted  die  government,  unless  he 
happened  to  be  an  official.  Then  he  was  bound  by  his 
oaths  to  execute  the  laws,  and  as  a  rule  the  Spanish- 
Californian  considered  his  honor  sacred. 

Aside  from  allegiance  to  the  government,  the  officials 
had  a  selfish  reason  for  enforcing  the  tariff  regula- 
tions. From  the  duties  was  paid,  first,  the  salaries  of  the 
custom-house  employees;  and  then  one-third  of  the  re- 
mainder was  handed  to  the  civil  authorities,  and  the 
residue  to  the  military.  The  custom-house  required 
that  duties  be  paid  in  eighty,  one  hundred  thirty,  or  one 
hundred  sixty  days,  in  either  cash  or  hides,  a  bullock's 
skin  being  valued  at  two  dollars.  The  principal  vessels 
expended  from  five  thousand  to  twenty-five  thousand 
dollars  in  import  duties,  and  the  first  payment  was  de- 
voted to  the  custom-house  salaries.  The  civil  and  mili- 
tary departments  generally  received  an  average  rate 
from  each  cargo,  and  as  the  officers  could  not  wait 
indefinitely  for  their  salaries,  they  took  orders  from 
the  treasury  on  the  supercargoes  of  the  vessels,  and 
drew  out  goods  either  on  sight  or  at  the  expiration 
of  the  stipulated  time.  So  there  was  good  reason  why 
all  classes  of  officials  should  unite  in  enforcing  the 
payment  of  duties. 

There  were  two  common  ways  of  evading  the  custom- 
house. Sometimes  a  second  vessel  would  hove  out  at 
sea  while  the  first  was  entering.  When  the  enrolled  one 
reappeared,  the  cargo  of  the  second  was  soon  trans- 
ferred to  her  hold.  That  the  invoices  were  arranged 
for  changing  circumstances  is  shown  in  a  letter  from 
Captain  Hinckley  to  Nathan  Spear,  dated  February  13, 
1836:  "  I  have  made  out  the  invoice  with  all  the  marks 
so  that  you  will  be  able  to  smuggle  considerable."  An- 
other way  in  which  the  custom-house  was  defrauded 
was  by  the  unregistered  ship  landing  at  some  unin- 
habited cove,  and  there  hiding  the  extra  supply  for  the 
.  licensed  vessel.  Many  a  natural  cave  was  stocked  with 
1  Iriental  silks  and  New  England  cottons,  with  French 
liquors  and  Spanish  bullion ;  and  with  the  uncertain 
system  of  communication,  who  can  swear  that  each 
store  was  recovered  by  its  intended  owners.  Perhaps 
even  to-day,  some  treasure  remains  locked  in  the  coast 
rock,  and  guarded  only  by  the  invincible  waves. 

Scarcely  an  American  in  the  country  but  had  some 
connection  with  contraband  goods.  Even  Larkin's 
name  is  not  clear  of  reproach.  But  for  real  skill  in 
evading  the  laws  and  for  wily  excuses  for  his  conduct, 
the  star  smuggler  of  California  was  Abel  Stearns. 

Stearns  was  a  native  of  Massachusetts.  After  liv- 
ing three  years  in  Mexico,  he  came  to  California  in 
1829  to  settle  on  a  land  grant  given  him  by  the  Mexican 
Government  in  partial  payment  for  some  claim.  He 
considered  certain  tracts  in  both  the  Sacramento  and 
San  Joaquin  Valleys,  but  finally,  in  1833,  settled  in  Los 
Angeles  as  a  trader.  Here,  in  the  following  year,  the 
aymilamiaifo  granted  him  a  town  lot  and  also  a  lot  on 
the  coast  at  San  Pedro.  On  the  latter,  he  built  a  store- 
house  for  goods  landed  from  vessels,  and  for  the  hides 
and  tallow  to  be  shipped. 

The  house  at  once  aroused  the  suspicion  of  the  of- 
ficials. In  1835,  an  investigation  was  made,  but  the  re- 
port adv  sed  appointing  a  guard  to  watch  Stearns  in 
preference  to  removing  this  building,  the  only  one  at 
San  Pei'iro,  as  it  might  prove  the  nucleus  of  a  future 
city. 

xuard    were   app  inted,    it    evidently    was    nut 
alous.     The  law   of  the   country   required   that 


each  hide  should  bear  its  owner's  stamp,  and  a  small 
tax  was  collected  from  every  hide  exported.  Stearns 
conspired  with  certain  rancheros,  and  evaded  the  ex- 
port tax  as  well  as  the  import  duties.  This  double 
smuggling  was  too  much  of  a  hardship  for  a  country 
so  poor  in  government  funds  as  was  California,  and  the 
exasperated  officials  grew  eager  to  make  Stearns  a 
fearful  example. 

In  October,  1840,  came  their  opportunity,  and  for  five 
months  the  principal  topic  of  conversation  in  the  Ter- 
ritory was  the  prosecution  of  "  the  case  of  Abel 
Stearns."  Not  depending  on  the  regular  mail,  which 
was  as  irregular  as  rains  and  wayside  gossip  might 
make  it,  the  Los  Angeles  officials  pressed  special  mes- 
senger after  special  messenger  to  the  executive  govern- 
ment at  Monterey  to  keep  it  aware  of  every  develop- 
ment, and  these  papers  give  us  to-day  the  history  of 
the  greatest  smuggling  case  of  pastoral  California. 

First,  the  prefect  of  the  district  wrote  to  the  judge 
of  the  first  instance  of  Los  Angeles  of  rumors  that, 
on  the  night  of  October  nth,  a  vessel  had  landed  at 
San  Pedro ;  on  the  next  night  she  had  slipped  away ; 
that  several  citizens  had  observed  the  difference  in  her 
depth  in  the  water  on  her  coming  and  going;  that  fol- 
lowing her  departure  there  had  been  "  introduced 
clandestinely  at  unreasonable  hours  "  into  the  house  of 
Abel  Stearns  at  Los  Angeles  four  cases  and  a  large  bar- 
rel ;  that  these  had  been  hauled  from  San  Pedro  in  a 
carreta  "  covered  with  ox-hides  "  and  "  driven  by  two 
Indians." 

The  judge,  accompanied  by  four  citizens,  went  im- 
mediately to  the  house  of  Stearns,  and  demanded  to  see 
every  room.  Stearns  objected  seriously,  and  tried  to 
persuade  them  to  return  in  the  morning.  Finally  he  led 
them  through  all  the  rooms  but  one.  Of  this,  he  re- 
fused to  give  up  the  key,  until  the  judge  sent  for  the 
blacksmith.  In  this  room  were  found  the  four  cases 
filled  with  silk  and  cotton  goods  to  the  value  of 
$2,725.50.  The  search  was  continued  until  in  the  corner 
of  the  corral  was  discovered  a  large  barrel  of  fine 
brandy  "  well  covered  over  with  empty  barrels."  The 
goods  were  confiscated  and  taken  to  the  court-house, 
where  an  inventory  and  appraisement  were  made. 

Upon  receiving  the  judge's  report,  the  prefect  or- 
dered him  to  have  the  hills  and  the  island  at  San 
Pedro  searched  for  "  the  rest  of  the  goods,"  as  he  had 
been  informed  that  between  $10,000  and  $15,000  had 
been  smuggled  in.  The  judge's  account  of  this  second 
search  has  a  note  of  personal  indignation.  He  sent 
four  citizens  to  San  Pedro,  ordering  them  to  get  a  boat 
from  Don  John  Foster,  who  was  care-keeper  of  the 
Stearns's  warehouse.  If  Foster  refused,  the  citizens 
were  to  take  the  boat  "  in  the  name  of  the  nation." 
Don  Foster  did  refuse  the  boat.  When  the  citizens 
seized  it  in  the  name  of  the  nation,  he  declared  he  "  did 
not  respect  the  name  of  the  nation  as  it  had  nothing 
to  do  with  him,"  and  he  would  not  let  them  have  the 
oars,  which  were  locked  up.  They  took  poles  and  pro- 
pelled the  boat  to  the  island;  but  as  darkness  was  fall- 
ing, they  returned  without  searching. 

A  daylight  search  of  the  island  and  the  coast  hills 
revealed  no  more  of  the  smuggled  goods,  but  in  the 
storehouse  were  found  "  sixteen  hides  of  different  own- 
ers without  the  legal  stamp."  The  prefect  speeded  this 
report  to  the  governor,  with  the  advice  that  they 
"  should  take  measures  to  impede  this  harmful  traffic," 
and  the  assurance  that  he  would  "  keep  awake  at 
nights  "  to  investigate  and  would  "  not  lose  a  moment 
to  inquire  into  it." 

A  little  later,  another  courier  was  dispatched  to 
Monterey  "  so  that  the  superior  government  may  re- 
ceive full  details  and  not  be  surprised  at  any  develop- 
ments." The  prefect  had  just  learned  that  Stearns  had 
made  a  "  set  of  false  invoices  "  by  "  writing  between 
the  lines,"  and  "  a  new  book  of  invoices  to  present  to 
the  judge,"  so  as  to  claim  that  the  goods  seized  had 
entered  the  country  legally.  Then  the  prefect  added: 
"  Any  proofs  of  this  nature  are  extemporaneous  and  null 
and  void,"  because  they  were  "  not  made  within  the 
term  marked  by  law  for  these  affairs."  He  enclosed 
certificated  copies  of  the  list  of  goods  seized.  He  con- 
cluded with  a  recital  of  Stearns's  "  shamelessness  even 
against  the  government  and  others  referred  to,"  stating 
that  Stearns  had  tried  every  measure  to  have  him  re- 
moved from  office. 

Stearns  forwarded  his  side  of  the  story  to  Mon- 
terey. He  claimed  that  all  his  goods  were  legally  en- 
tered; professed  an  ignorance  of  the  unstamped  hides 
in  his  storehouse,  and  accused  the  judge  of  prevarica- 
tion. Upon  receiving  Stearns's  statement,  the  governor 
ordered  an  investigation,  but  the  judge  was  completely 
exonerated,  and  was  praised  for  enforcing  the  laws. 

Then  came  new  excitement.  The  Indian,  Basilio,  pre- 
sented himself  before  the  prefect  all  cut  and  gory.  He 
stated  that  Stearns  had  whipped  him  with  a  sword  for 
answering  the  judge's  questions  about  the  smuggled 
goods,  and  he  prayed  the  court's  protection  from  the 
vengeance  of  Stearns.  The  prefect  wrote  the  judge : 
"It  becomes  necessary  for  you  to  investigate  in  judicial 
form,  and  if  you  find  Abel  Stearns  criminal,  proceed 
against  him  according  to  your  powers,  giving  me  notice 
of  what  was  done." 

When  the  superior  government  reviewed  all  the  evi- 


dence, it  confirmed  the  seizure  of  the  lower  court.  Then 
goods  to  the  amount  of  $708,065  were  set  aside  as 
duties  for  the  State,  and  the  rest  was  divided  between 
the  informers  and  the  public  treasury.  Idle  rumor 
has  it  that  Stearns  afterward  secured  many  of  these 
goods  at  less  than  the  duties  would  have  cost  him,  but 
of  that  the  official  documents  have  no  hint.  The  ac- 
count of  Stearns's  evil  deeds  was  "  posted  for  nine  con- 
secutive days  in  a  public  place  because  there  is  no  of- 
ficial newspaper  in  the  city."  (As  a  matter  of  fact, 
there  was  no  newspaper,  either  official  or  unofficial,  in 
the  whole  Territory.) 

Stearns's*  reputation  does  not  seem  to  have  suffered 
from  this  public  scandal.  He  was  evidently  a  generous- 
hearted  man,  devotedly  attached  to  California  and  the 
Californians.  His  adopted  fellow-citizens  regarded 
highly  his  personal  kindliness,  and  any  elusiveness  in 
business  methods  they  charged  to  the  misfortune  of  his 
Yankee  birth.  And  as  for  his  smuggling  proclivities 
— well,  after  all,  evading  the  government  was  but  a 
venial  sin  in  pastoral  California. 

Katherine  Chandler. 


POEMS    BY    SWINBURNE. 


Rondel. 
These  many  years  since  we  began  to  be, 
What  have  the  gods  done  with  us  ?     What  with  me, 
What  with  my  love  ?     They  have  shown  me  fates  and 
fears, 
Harsh  springs,  and  fountains  bitterer  than  the  sea, 
Grief  a  fixed  star,  and  joy  a  vane  that  veers, 
These   many   years. 

With  her,  my  love,  with  her  have  they  done  well? 
But  who  shall  answer  for  her?  who  shall  tell 

Sweet  things  or  sad,  such  things  as  no  man  hears? 
May  no  tears  fall,  if  no  tears  ever  fell, 

From  eyes  more  dear  to  me  than  starriest  spheres 
These  many  years. 

But  if  tears  ever  touched,  for  any  grief, 
Those  eyelids  folded  like  a  white-rose  leaf, 

Deep    double    shells    wherethrough    the    eye-flower 
peers, 
Let  them  weep  once  more  only,  sweet  and  brief, 
Brief  tears  and  bright,  for  one  who  gave  her  tears 
These   many  years. 


A  Ballad  of  Burdens. 
The   burden    of    fair   women.      Vain    delight, 

And  love  self-slain  in  some  sweet  shameful  way, 
And  sorrowful  old  age  that  comes  by  night 

As  a  thief  comes  that  has  no  heart  by  day, 

And  change  that  finds  fair  cheeks  and  leaves  them 
.     gray, 
And  weariness  that  keeps  awake  for  hire, 

And  grief  that  says  what  pleasure  used  to  say : 
This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire. 

The  burden  of  bought  kisses.     This  is  sore, 

A  burden  without  fruit  in  child-bearing; 
Between  the  nightfall  and  the  dawn  threescore, 

Threescore  between  the  dawn  and  evening. 

The  shuddering  in  thy  lips,  the  shuddering 
In  thy  sad  eyelids  tremulous  like  fire, 

Makes  love  seem  shameful  and  a  wretched  thing : 
This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire. 

The  burden  of  sweet  speeches.     Nay,  kneel  down, 

Cover  thy  head,  and  weep ;  for  verily 
These  market-men  that  buy  thy  white  and  brown 

In  the  last  days  shall  take  no  thought  for  thee ; 

In  the  last  days  like  earth  thy  face  shall  be, 
Yea,  like  sea-marsh  made  thick  with  brine  and  mire, 

Sad  with  sick  leavings  of  the  sterile  sea : 
This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire. 

The  burden  of  long  living.     Thou  shalt  fear 
Waking,  and  sleeping  mourn  upon  thy  bed; 

And  say  at  night,  "  Would  God  the  day  were  here !" 
And  say  at  dawn,  "  Would  God  the  day  were  dead!" 
With  weary  days  thou  shalt  be  clothed  and  fed, 

And  wear  remorse  of  heart  for  thine  attire, 

Pain  for  thy  girdle,  and  sorrow  upon  thine  head : 

This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire.  .  .  . 

The  burden  of  bright  colors.     Thou  shalt  see 

Gold  tarnished,  and  the  gray  above  the  green ; 
And  as  the  thing  thou  seest  thy  face  shall  be, 

And  no  more  as  the  thing  beforetime  seen. 

And  thou  shalt  say  of  mercy,  "  It  hath  been  "  ; 
And  living,  watch  the  old  lips  and  loves  expire, 

And  talking,  tears  shall  take  thy  breath  between : 
This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire.  .  .  . 

The  burden  of  much  gladness.     Life  and  lust 

Forsake  thee,  and  the  face  of  thy  delight; 
And  underfoot  the  heavy  hour  strews  dust, 

And  overhead  strange  weathers  burn  and  bite ; 

And  where  the  red  was,  lo  the  bloodless  white, 
And  where  truth  was,  the  likeness  of  a  liar; 

And  where  day  was,  the  likeness  of  the  night: 
This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire. 

l'envov. 
Princes,  and  ye  whom  pleasure  quickeneth, 

Heed  well  this  rhyme  before  your  pleasure  tire ; 
For  life  is  sweet,  but  after  life  is  death  : 

This  is  the  end  of  every  man's  desire. 


At  Parting. 
For  a  day  and  night  Love  sang  to  us,  played  with  us, 

Folded   us   round   from   the  dark  and  the   light; 
And  our  hearts  were  fulfilled  of  the  music  he  made  with  us, 
Made  with  our  hearts  and  our  lips  while  he  stayed  with  us. 
Stayed  in  mid  passage  his  pinions  from  flight 
For  a  day  and  a  night. 

From   his   foes  that  kept  watch   with  his  wings  had  he  hid- 
den us, 
Covered  us  close  from  the  eyes  that  would  smite. 
From    the    feet   that    had    tracked   and   the   tongues   that   had 

chidden  us 
Sheltering  in  shade  of  the  myrtles  forbidden  us 
Spirit  and  flesh  growing  one  with  delight 
For  a  day  and  a  night. 

But  his  wings  will  not  rest,  and  his  feet  will  not  stay  for  us  : 

Morning  is  here  in   the  joy   of  its  might; 
With  his  breath  has  he  sweetened  a  night  and  day  for  us; 
Now  let  him  pass,  and  the  myrtles  make  way  for  us; 

Love  can  but  last  in  us  here  at  his  height 
For  a  day  and  a  night. 


December  14,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


397 


TYRONE    POWER    IN    "ULYSSES." 


Stephen  Phillips's  Notable  Poetic  Drama  Meets  a  Cool  Reception  in 

New  York— Diverse  Opinions  of  Its  Merit — Olive  Oliver 

as  Calypso — A  Dramatic  Moment. 

New  York  is  a  singular  city.  Last  year  the  "  literary 
drama  "  had  quite  a  vogue  here.  The  whole  town  went 
to  see  "  Ghosts,"  which  is  certainly  the  most  grewsome 
play  that  ever  was  put  on  the  stage.  It  was  averred 
then  that  "  the  literary  drama "  was  coming  to  the 
front,  that  people  were  being  educated  up  to  it,  and  that 
the  day  was  not  far  distant  when  New  York  would  be 
its  centre,  the  focus  whence  it  radiated  over  the  rest  of 
the  country. 

It  may  have  been  with  this  bright  hope  that  the 
Frohmans  brought  over  Stephen  Phillips's  "  Ulysses," 
gave  it  a  local  habitation  in  the  Garden  Theatre,  a  good 
cast,  and  ,a  sumptuous  setting.  Then  they  sat  back 
waiting  to  see  New  York  flock  to  the  last  and  by  far 
the  most  beautiful  example  of  the  "  literary  drama  " 
it  had  yet  had  a  chance  to  see.  But  nobody  flocked. 
People  talked  a  great  deal  about  "  Ulysses,"  but  no- 
body seemed  to  go  to  it.  It  passed  through  its  season 
playing  to  such  scandalously  empty  houses  as  have  sel- 
dom been  seen  in  this  city  of  vast  audiences. 

It  appears  to  have  been  completely  outside  the  in- 
terest of  the  Average  Playgoer.  This  person  never 
went  to  it,  possibly  hardly  heard  of  it.  But  it  was  not 
directed  toward  the  Average  Playgoer.  It  was  for  the 
cultured  minority,  of  whom,  it  was  fondly  hoped.  New 
York  would  have  a  large  enough  number  to  fill  the 
theatre  for  a  few  weeks.  To  this  class  its  appeal  was 
made,  and  one-half  this  class  received  it  with  delight, 
while  the  other  thought  it  unplayable,  uninteresting 
and  poorly  done.  It  was  a  curious  division  of  opinior 
among  a  set  of  people  who  generally  march  in  the  samt 
direction. 

I  heard  the  views  of  three  different  professionals — 
an  artist,  a  writer,  and  a  musician — upon  it,  and  was 
somewhat  confused.  The  artist  pronounced  it 
stagey,  badly  acted,  and  in  places  absurd.  She  said 
there  were  times  when  she  had  difficulty  in  restraining 
her  laughter.  The  writer  said  he  was  bored,  and  that 
after  the  scene  in  Hades  he  got  up  and  went  out. 
The  musician  said  he  was  thrilled  to  the  core.  It  wa: 
by  far  the  most  poetic  performance  he  had  seen  in  New 
York.  It  was  noble,  uplifting,  inspiring !  He  must 
see  it  again,  and  wanted  me  to  go  with  him  as  a  prop- 
erly appreciative  person,  who  could  be  depended  upon 
not  to  iaugh  in  solemn  moments. 

We  went,  and  found  a  house  so  empty  that  one  stared 
appalled.  I  never  saw  anything  like  it.  It  was  like 
being  at  a  rehearsal.  After  the  first  shock  everybody 
did  the  same  thing — counted  the  audience.  There  were 
thirty-six  people  on  the  main  floor.  As  they  were  all 
down  in  the  front  rows,  the  back  was  just  unbroken 
tiers  of  red  velvet  seats.  .  It  reminded  me  of  theatres 
I  had  seen  in  the  West  in  my  childhood,  where,  when 
three  people  came  into  the  gallery,  it  was  regarded  as 
quite  nicely  filled,  and  six  made  rather  a  crowd.  But 
in  New  York  I  had  never  before  been  in  as  poor  a 
house. 

Who  shall  say  what  caused  this  lack  of  spectators  ? 
Regarded  purely  as  a  play — a  stage  performance  which 
holds  the  attention  of  a  comparatively  unintelligent 
person — it  had  certain  marked  defects.  There  was 
not  enough  story  to  sustain  its  length.  And  what  story 
there  was  did  not  go  straight  on  from  its  inception 
to  its  climax.  The  scene  in  Hades,  which  to  read  is  a 
fine  piece  of  imaginative  poetry,  is  not  playable.  It  is 
an  interruption  in  the  story — a  sort  of  hole  in  the  mid- 
dle— it  is  too  long,  it  is  too  much  on  the  same  key,  and 
nothing  of  dramatic  interest  happens  in  it.  It  had  a 
detached  air,  like  an  interpolation.  If  we  could  have 
viewed  all  the  wanderings  of  Ulysses  from  the  downfall 
of  Troy  to  the  day  of  his  return,  it  would  have  fitted 
in  among  the  rest.  But  Stephen  Phillips's  poem  onh 
concerns  itself  with  that  portion  of  the  great  mariner's 
career  in  which  he  broke  from  the  enchantments  of 
Calypso  to  return  a  haggard  wanderer  to  "  gaunt 
Ithaca  "  and  his  faithful  wife.     . 

This  criticism  applies  to  the  piece  when  one  regard? 
it  simply  as  an  acting  play.  And  even  this  is  not  so 
serious  a  defect  that  it  takes  off  greatly  from  the  whole 
Much  more  vital  weaknesses  could  have  been  carried 
off  by  the  splendid  force  of  the  rest  of  the  drama.  The 
human  interest  of  the  story,  the  simple  beauty  of  th 
language,  the  superb  stage  settings — why  did  they  fail 
to  please?  They  were  undoubtedly  too  fine  for  the 
mass  of  the  people,  but  New  York  is  an  enormous  city. 
in  which  the  cultured  class  must  be  large.  Why  did 
not  they  respond  to  the  appeal  of  this  noble  and  ideal 
work? 

The  scene  in  Calypso's  island  was  picturesquely  and 
poetically  speaking  the  most  perfect.  The  rhythmica' 
lines,  so  straightforward  and  unsubtle,  so  full  of  a 
large,  reposeful  beauty,  seemed  here  to  reach  their  high- 
est form.  The  situation — a  great  man  bound  in  the 
fetters  of  the  flesh  suddenly  waking  to  the  call  of 
home,  child,  and  wife — was  handled  with  an  emotional 
grasp   that   seized  upon   the   spectator   and   held   him 


enthralled.      And   the   background   against   which    this 

all  took  place,  the 

"  odorous,  amorous  isle  of  violets, 
That  leans  all  leaves  into  the  glassy  deep, 
With  brooding  music  over  noontide  moss, 
And  low  dirge  of  the  lily-swinging  bee," 

is  produced  with  such  a  realization  of  a  deep-tinted, 
magical  loveliness,  that  one  seemed  to  look  upon  some 
lost  nook  of  the  forgotten  gods. 

A  shore  of  white  sand  edges  a  sea,  still  and  deep 
blue,  so  deep  at  the  horizon  that  it  lies  in  a  violet  line 
against  the  pale  sky.  The  rocky  entrance  to  Calypso's 
cave  is  hung  with  ivy.  The  cave  stretches  back  to 
where  steps  ascend  to  other  and  deeper  caves.  By  this 
entrance  stands  a  rough,  archaic-looking  loom,  on 
which  is  stretched  the  web  of  bright  purple  that 
Calypso  weaves,  back  and  forth,  with  a  white  shuttle. 
As  Ulysses  sleeps  she  sits  thrusting  her  shuttle  in  and 
out  through  the  purple  mesh.  Her  long  red  hair  falls 
to  the  ground  around  her,  and  her  long  white  arms 
seem  to  weave  magic  spells  as  she  draws  the  purple 
skein  through  the  fabric. 

Both  in  this  country  and  in  England  the  Calypso  was 
a  tall,  long-limbed  woman,  of  a  sort  of  feline  little- 
ness. The  Junoesque  enchantress  is  a  person  of  a 
secondary  order,  a  gross  and  vulgar  charmer.  When 
Burne-Jones  drew  Circe  preparing  the  fatal  brew  that 
was  to  rob  Ulysses  and  his  comrades  of  reason  and 
lay  them  at  her  feet  in  willing  slavery,  he,  too,  pictured 
a  long,  lithe  woman,  supple  as  the  leopards  that 
crouched  at  her  feet.  The  Calypso  of  Olive  Oliver  had 
these  requirements,  if  it  had  not  positive  beauty.  In 
thin,  drooping  draperies  of  yellow  that  clung  to  her  like 
the  wet  clothes  on  a  clay  model,  with  a  mane  of  red 
hair  falling  to  her  knees,  and  arms  of  extraordinary 
length  and  whiteness  winding  round  her  lover  in  im- 
passioned embracings,  she  was  a  sorceress  whose  spells 
might  well  have  held  that  wise  and  cunning  mariner 
who  had  eluded  the  sirens. 

One  of  the  most  skillful  points  that  Phillips  makes  in 
this  scene,  is  that  Ulysses  is  not  struck  by  sudden  love 
and  longing  for  his  wife  alone.  The  inferior  poet  and 
dramatist  would  have  made  Penelope  the  sole  object  of 
his  desire  for  freedom.  Calypso  thinks  this,  and  harps 
to  him  on  Penelope's  age,  her  ignorance  of  "  amorous 
craft,  tricks  of  delay,  tears  that  can  fire  men's  blood." 
She  asks  him  what  is  the  color  of  his  wife's  eyes,  and 
absently  he  says  he  has  forgotten.  "  Doth  she  sing 
sweet?"  and  still  absently,  he  replies,  "  The  songs  of  my 
own  land."  Finally,  goaded  by  her  questionings,  her 
evident  wonder  that  this  middle-aged  wife  should  be 
her  rival,  he  cries : 

"  You  being  woman  too  much  exalt  the  woman  ; 
A  thousand  calls  are  ringing  in  my  ears." 

It  is  not  the  wife  alone  that  makes  him  suddenly 
wild  to  go.  The  man's  life  calls  him.  His  home,  his 
work  amid  his  kind,  his  duties,  the  gray  heads  of  his 
parents,  the  fires  of  his  hearth,  his  son,  his  wife — all 
that  go  to  the  making  of  the  life  of  mortals.  Desperate 
at  her  importunities,  he  tears  himself  away  from  her 
and  cries  in  his  sudden  longing: 

"  Ah  God,  that  I  might  see 
Gaunt  Ithaca  stand  up  out  of  the  surge. 
******** 
To  see  far  off  the  smoke  of  my  own  hearth, 
To  smell  far  out  the  glebe  of  my  own  farms, 
To  spring  alive  upon  her  precipices. 
And  hurl  the  singing  spear  into  the  air ; 
To  scoop  the  mountain  torrent  in  my  hand, 
And  plunge  into  the  midnight  of  her  pines 
To  look  into  the  eyes  of  her  who  bore  me, 
And  clasp  his  knees  who  'gat  me  in  his  joy !" 

Calypso  knows  herself  deserted,  and  weeps  as  he  con- 
tinues in  the  strength  of  his  love  for  the  old,  familiar 
things: 

"  Goddess  and  mortal,  we  have  met  and  kissed. 
Now   I   am  mad  for  silence   and  for  tears, 
********* 
I  am  an  hungered  for  that  human  breast, 
That  bosom,  a  sweet  hive  of  memories — 
There,   there  to  lay  my  head  before  I   die, 
There,  there  to  be,  there  only,  there  at  last !" 
Whatever  other  faults  may  be   found  in   him,   Mr. 
Tyrone  Power  delivers  these  lines  magnificently.     He 
has  a  superb  voice,  deep  as  an  organ,  full  of  color,  and 
vibrant  depths.  There  is  a  diversity  of  opinion  about  his 
Ulysses,   some  thinking  it  an  exceptionally  fine  piece 
of  work,  others  far  inferior  to  his  Judas  Iscariot  of  last 
year.     It  is  certainly  not  the  Ulysses  of  our  dreams. 
There  is  nothing  suggestive  of  the  subtlety  or  craft  of 
the  King  of  Ithaca  in  it.    It  is  large,  simple,  and  primi- 
tive, recalling  rather  one  of  those  big.  heroic,  mytho- 
logical heroes  who  killed  monsters  and  rescued  damsels 
than  the  wiliest  if  not  the  wisest  of  the  chiefs  that 
conquered  Troy. 

The  secret  of  Mr.  Power's  skill  as  an  actor  baffles 
me.  I  am  one  of  his  greatest  admirers,  and  I  can  not 
analyze  what  it  is  that  renders  him  so  remarkable  in  ro- 
mantic characters.  He  has  a  magnificent  presence  and 
voice,  but  there  are  many  actors  on  the  stage  as  well 
dowered  this  way  who  have  nothing  like  his  power  of 
filling  out  a  picturesque  role.  One  of  his  strong  points 
is,  I  think,  an  absolute  repose  in  a  day  full  of  a  sort 
of  fretted  feverishness  of  movement  and  expression. 
There  is,  too,  a  rugged  virility  about  him,  an  absence  of 
small  intellectual  complexities,  of  fine  little  finishing 
touches  that  gives  him  an  austere,  stern  face,  most  un- 
usual on  the  stage  in  this  country. 


His  acting  in  the  scene  where  he  reveals  himself  to 
Telemachus  shows  this.  It  is  a  situation  full  of  what 
actors  would  call  "fine  opportunities."  The  father,  un- 
known to  his  son,  trembling  in  bis  anguish  of  love  and 
yearning  over  him,  finally  points  to  the  palace  below, 
and  says, 

"  Seest  thou  that  upper  chamber  looking  south? 
There  wast  thou  born  upon  a  summer  night." 

The  boy,  arrested,  puzzled,  half-grasping  the  truth, 
stammers  a  word  or  two  of  inquiry.  With  a  broken 
voice  Ulysses  answers : 

"  I  stood  by  the  door  in  fear." 

Here  was  the  "fine  opportunity  "  that  most  players 
would  have  ruined.  Power,  motionless  and  pallid, 
threw  back  his  cloak.  He  made  but  a  single  gesture — 
that  of  opening  his  arms  wide — and  said,  in  a  husky 
voice  the  sacred  words: 

"  Child,  I  hegot  thee  !" 

It  was  one  of  the  greatest  moments  I  can  remember 
in  any  modern  play,  and  it  is  to  Tyrone  Power's  eternal 
credit  that  he  rose  to  it.  Geraldine  Bonner. 

New  York,  November  26,  1903. 


INDIVIDUALITIES. 


It  is  said  that  ever  since  his  famous  speech  at  his  re- 
ception at  the  Academy.  Edniond  Rostand  has  been  living 
a  quiet,  secluded  life.  His  health  has  been  far  from 
satisfactory,  and  as  a  result  he  will  not  be  able  to  com- 
plete his  new  play,  "  Le  Theatre,"  for  Coquelin  by  the 
first  of  the  year. 

Henry  Labouchere  can  not  understand  why  the 
American  press  should  describe  the  Duke  of  Rox- 
burghe  as  "  a  fortune  hunter,"  inasmuch  as  his  estates 
bring  in  upward  of  $150,000  a  year,  and  the  personal 
property  left  by  his  father  (besides  funds  in  settle- 
ment) was  upward  of  $600,000. 

Since  his  throat  trouble.  Emperor  William  has 
changed  his  voice,  modulating  it  so  as  to  reduce  the 
pressure  on  the  vocal  chords.  He  now  speaks  in  a 
somewhat  lower  pitch,  his  throat  specialists  having 
explained  to  him  the  theory  of  voice  production, 
which  he  has  practiced  with  considerable  success. 

Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  has  taken  up  politics  in 
connection  with  her  work  on  the  stage.  She  is  ap- 
pearing in  the  provincial  music-halls  reciting  to  musical 
acompaniment  the  Britisher's  pledge  for  imperial  pro- 
tection and  tributes  in  verse  to  Mr.  Chamberlain,  and 
receiving  support  from  a  chorus  of  a  hundred  workmen 
in  shirtsleeves.  Music-hall  songs  have  already  been 
attuned  to  Mr.  Chamberlain's  cause,  but  this  special 
singing  campaign  is  an  innovation. 

Oberlin  M.  Carter,  once  captain  of  engineers  in  the 
United  States  army,  military  attache  to  the  American 
embassy  at  London,  and  prominent  in  Savannah  so- 
ciety, was  released  from  the  military  prison  of  Fort 
Leavenworth  on  November  28th.  He  was  convicted  of 
conspiracy  to  defraud  and  of  the  embezzlement  of  over 
$2,000,000  of  government  money,  and  was  sentenced 
on  September  29,  1899,  to  dismissal  from  the  army,  to 
a  fine  of  $5,000,  and  to  five  years'  imprisonment  in  the 
Fort  Leavenworth  penitentiary.  Owing  to  his  good 
conduct  while  in  prison.  Carter  was  released  after  serv- 
ing but  four  years  and  two  months.  He  is  now  forty- 
seven  years  old. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Hubbard  Aver,  who  recently  died  of 
pneumonia  in  New  York,  had  a  strange  career.  When 
her  husband's  immense  fortune  was  swept  away,  in  the 
early  'eighties,  she  was  left  practically  penniless.  She 
took  a  small  apartment  in  New  York  with  her  mother 
and  two  little  children,  and  secured  employment  as  a 
saleswoman.  She  was  soon  earning  a  large  income 
from  her  sales  and  by  writing.  Finally  she  was  forced 
to  go  abroad  for  her  health,  and  it  was  while  in  Europe 
that  she  purchased  the  formula  for  a  cosmetic,  from 
the  preparation  and  sale  of  which  she  soon  derived  a 
large  income.  Much  of  her  second  fortune  was  lost 
in  litigation.  She  became  an  authority  on  matters  re- 
lating to  feminine  beauty  and  health,  and  wrote  more 
than  one  book  on  the  subject.  She  joined  the  editorial 
staff  of  the  World  seven  years  ago. 

Peter  Maher,  the  Irish  pugilist,  received  a  knock- 
out blow  on  Monday  in  Philadelphia  when  he  tried  to 
become  an  American  citizen.  The  naturalization  questions 
proved  too  much  for  him.  According  to  the  dispatches, 
Maher  knew  who  the  President  of  the  United  States 
was.  When  he  was  asked,  "How  is  the  President 
elected?"  he  replied,  confidently:  "By  a  large  ma- 
jority." "  And  the  governor?"  "  The  same  way,"  said 
Peter.  "  What  was  the  Declaration  of  Independence?" 
"  It  had  something  to  do  with  the  British."  said  Peter: 
"  it  was  a  kind  of  international  challenge."  By  this 
time  Peter  was  slightly  groggy,  but  the  commissioner 
was  fresh.  "What's  the  Constitution?"  was  asked. 
"It's  all  to  the  good,"  Peter  declared,  enthusiastically: 
"  I  am  trained  up  to  the  minute."  "  How  many  States 
in  the  United  States?"  was  another  question.  "  There's 
Pennsylvania  and  New  York  and  Chicago,  and,  oh,  a 
bunch  more."    Then  Peter  went  down  and  out. 


THE       ARGONAUT. 


December  14,   1903. 


SENATOR    HOAR'S    AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 


His  Youth  at  Concord— Anecdotes  of  Edward  Everett   Hale,   Daniel 
■Webster,  James  G.  Blaine,  and  General  Grant— Ben- 
jamin Butler's  Career  Criticised. 

A  valuable  and  interesting  contribution  to  the  polit- 
ical history  of  the  United  States  is  Senator  George  F. 
Hoar's  "  Autobiography  of  Seventy  Years."  The  ven- 
erable Massachusetts  senator  has  been  in  Congress 
longer  than  any  other  man  at  Washington,  and  his 
two  bulky  volumes  of  nearly  a  thousand  pages  are 
liberally  sprinkled  with  anecdotes  of  the  many  leading 
figures  of  the  country  with  whom  he  has  been  inti- 
mately associated.  In  undertaking  the  recital  of  his 
own  story,  he  says,  he  feared  he  might  fall  into  the 
way  of  claiming  too  much  or  of  being  charged  with 
boasting,  like  the  Civil  War  veteran  who,  after  relat- 
ing some  of  his  experiences,  was  asked  by  his  little 
son :  "  Papa,  did  anybody  help  you  to  put  down  the 
rebellion?"  Senator  Hoar's  fears  are  unfounded, 
however,  for  no  one,  after  browsing  through  his  read- 
able reminiscences  can  accuse  him  of  being  boastful; 
on  the  contrary,  his  narrative  is  modest,  delightfully 
frank,  always  dignified,  and  at  times  eloquent  and 
scholarly. 

Discussing  the  charge  that  he  has  evinced  a  blind 
and  zealous  attachment  to  the  Republican  party,  he 
declares  categorically  what  have  been  his  reasons  for 
persisting  in  being  a  party  man: 

1.  I  have  never  in  my  life  cast  a  vote  or  done  an  act  in 
legislation  that  I  did  not  at  the  time  believe  to  be  right,  and 
that  I  am  not  now  willing  to  avow  and  to  defend  and  debate 
with  any  champion  of  sufficient  importance  who  desires  to 
attack  it  at  any  time  and  in  any  presence. 

2..  Whether  I  am  right  or  wrong  in  my  opinion  as  to  the 
duty  of  acting  with  and  adherence  to  party,  it  is  the  result  not 
of  emotion  or  attachment  or  excitement,  but  of  as  cool,  cal- 
culating, sober,  and  deliberate  reflection  as  I  am  able  to  give 
to  any  question  of  conduct  or  duty.  Many  of  the  things  I 
have  done  in  this  world  which  have  been  approved  by  other 
men,  or  have  tended  to  give  me  any  place  in  the  respect  of 
my  countrymen,  have  been  done  in  opposition,  at  the  time, 
to  the  party  to  which  I  belonged.  But  I  have  made  that  opposi- 
tion without  leaving  the  party.  In  every  single  instance,  un- 
less the  question  of  the  Philippine  Islands  shall  prove  an  ex- 
ception, and  that  is  not  a  settled  question  yet,  the  party  has 
come  round  in  the  end  to  my  way  of  thinking.  I  have  been 
able,  by  adhering  to  the  Republican  party,  to  accomplish,  in 
my  humble  judgment,  tenfold  the  good  that  has  been  accom- 
plished by  men  who  have  ten  times  more  ability  and  capacity 
for  such  service,  who  have  left  the  party. 

Senator  Hoar  quotes  a  brusque  old  Concord  neigh- 
bor as  saying  that  "  Samuel  Hoar's  boys  used  to  be  the 
three  biggest  rascals  in  Concord,  but  they  seem  to  have 
turned  out  pretty  well."  The  senator  adds  that  he  has 
thus  far  kept  this  statement  strictly  from  all  knowl- 
edge of  the  Democratic  papers,  but  the  truth  is  mighty 
and  will  leak  out.    In  a  more  serious  vein  he  says : 

I  have  probably  put  as  much  hard  work  into  life  as  most 
men  on  this  continent.  Certainly  I  have  put  into  it  all  the 
work  that  my  physical  powers,  especially  my  eyes,  would 
permit.  I  studied  law-  in  Concord  the  first  year  after  gradua- 
tion. I  used  to  get  up  at  six  o'clock  in  the  morning,  go  to 
the  office,  make  a  fire,  and  read  law  until  breakfast  time, 
which  was  at  seven  in  the  summer  and  half-past  in  the  win- 
ter. Then  I  went  home  to  breakfast,  and  got  back  in  about 
three-quarters  of  an  hour,  and  spent  the  forenoon  until  one 
diligently  reading  law.  After  dinner,  at  two  o'clock,  I  read 
history  until  four.  I  spent  the  next  two  hours  in  walking 
alone  in  the  woods  and  roads  of  Concord  and  the  neighboring 
towns,  went  back  to  the  office  at  seven,  read  a  little  geometry 
and  algebra,  reviewing  the  slender  mathematics  which  I  had 
studied  in  college,  and  then  spent  two  hours  in  reading  Greek. 

To  attempt  to  follow  Senator  Hoar's  distinguished 
career  in  our  limited  space  would  be  folly,  so  we  shall 
confine  our  extracts  to  choice  bits,  selected  at  random. 
Here  is  an  anecdote  of  Edward  Everett  Hale  which 
we  have  not  seen  before : 

At  the  Concord  celebration  in  1850  the  great  orator  turned 
in  the  midst  of  his  speech  and  addressed  Amos  Baker  and 
Jonathan  Harrington,  two  veterans  of  the  Revolution.  At 
once  they  both  stood  up,  and  Mr.  Everett  said,  with  fine 
dramatic  effect,  "  Sit,  venerable  friends.  It  is  for  us  to  stand 
in  your  presence."  After  the  proceedings  were  over,  old 
"Amos  Baker  was  heard  to  say  to  somebody,  "  What  do  you 
suppose  Squire  Everett  meant  ?  He  came  to  us  before  his 
speech,  and  told  us  to  stand  up  when  he  spoke  to  us,  and 
when  we  stood  up,  he  told  us  to  sit  down?  " 

Senator  Hoar  gave  this  description  of  Daniel  Web- 
ster as  he  saw  him  at  his  father's  house,  in  Concord, 
July  4,  1844: 

He  was  physically  the  most  splendid  specimen  of  noble  man- 
hood my  eyes  ever  beheld.  It  is  said.  I  suppose  truly,  that  he 
was  but  a  trifle  over  five  feet  nine  inches  high,  and  weighed 
one  hundred  and  fifty-four  pounds.  But  then,  as  on  all  other 
occasions  that  I  saw  him.  I  should  have  been  prepared  to 
affirm  that  he  was  over  six  feet  high  and  weighed  at  least 
two  hundred.  The  same  glamour  is  said  to  have  attended 
Louis  the  Fourteenth,  whose  majesty  of  bearing  was  such 
that  it  never  was  discovered  that  he  was  a  man  of  short  stat- 
ure until  he  was  measured  for  his  coffin.  Mr.  Webster  was 
then  in  the  very  vigor  of  his  magnificent  manhood.  He  stood 
perfectly  erect.  His  head  was  finely  poised  upon  his  shoul- 
ders. His  beautiful  black  eyes  shone  out  through  the  caverns 
n(  his  deep  brows,  like  lustrous  jewels.  His  teeth  were  white 
and  regular,  and  his  smile  when  he  was  in  gracious  mood,  espe- 
cially when  talking  to  women,  had  an  irresistible  charm. 

However.  Senator  Hoar  was  not  a  very  ardent  ad- 
mirer of  Webster  as  a  speaker.  He  says  the  statesman 
had  a  tiresome  habit,  in  his  ordinary  speech,  of  groping 
after  the  most  suitable  word,  after  this  fashion:  "Why 
is  it.  Mr.  Chairman,  that  there  has  gathered,  congre- 
gated, this  great  number  of  inhabitants,  dwellers,  here; 
that  these  roads,  avenues,  routes  of  travel,  highways, 
converge,  meet,  come  together  here?"  When  the  speech 
was  printed  all  the  synonyms  but  the  best  one  would  be 
left  out 

Of  J:i  ,ies  G.  Blaine,  Senator  Hoar  thus  speaks: 

-    Blaine  was  a  man  or  many  faults  and  many  infirm- 


ities. But  his  life  is  a  part  of  the  history  of  his  country.  It 
will  be  better  for  his  reputation  that  the  chapter  of  that  his- 
ory  which  relates  to  him  shall  be  written  by  a  historian  with 
a  full  and  clear  sense  of  those  faults  and  infirmities,  conceal- 
ing nothing,  and  extenuating  nothing.  But  also  let  him  set 
naught  down  in  malice.  Mr.  Blaine  was  a  brilliant  and  able 
man,  lovable,  patriotic,  far-seeing.  He  acted  in  a  great  way 
under  great  responsibilities.  He  was  wise  and  prudent  when 
wisdom  and  prudence  were  demanded.  If  he  had  attained  to 
the  supreme  object  of  his  ambition  and  reached  the  goal  of 
the  Presidency,  if  his  life  had  been  spared  to  complete  his 
term,  it  would  have  been  a  most  honorable  period,  in  my 
opinion,  in  the  history  of  the  country.  No  man  has  lived  in 
this  country  since  Daniel  Webster  died,  save  McKinley  alone. 
who  had  50  large  a  number  of  devoted  friends  and  admirers 
in   all  parts  of  the  country. 

Senator  Hoar  contributes  this  story  of  General 
Grant,  the  occasion  being  a  brilliant  dinner,  at  which 
were  present  many  distinguished  men.  Commodore 
Alden  had  remarked  there  was  nothing  he  disliked 
more  than  a  subordinate  who  always  obeyed  orders : 

"What  is  that  you  are  saying,  commodore?  "  said  President 
Grant  across  the  table.  The  commodore  repeated  what  he  had 
said.  "  There  is  a  good  deal  of  truth  in  what  you  say."  said 
General  Grant.  "  One  of  the  virtues  of  General  Sheridan  was 
that  he  knew  when  to  act  without  orders.  Just  before  the  sur- 
render of  Lee,  General  Sheridan  captured  some  dispatches, 
from  which  he  learned  that  Lee  had  ordered  his  supplies  to  a 
certain  place.  I  was  on  the  other  side  of  the  river,  where 
he  could  get  no  communication  from  me  until  the  next  morn- 
ing. General  Sheridan  pushed  on  at  once  without  orders,  got 
to  the  place  fifteen  minutes  before  the  rebels,  and  captured  the 
supplies.  After  the  surrender  was  concluded,  the  first  thing 
General  Lee  asked  me  for  was  rations  for  his  men.  I  issued 
to  them  the  same  provisions  which  Sheridan  had  captured. 
Now,  if  Sheridan,  as  most  men  would  have  done,  had  waited 
for  orders  from  me,  Lee  would  have  got  off."  I  listened  with 
wonder  at  the  generous  modesty  which,  before  that  brilliant 
company,  could  remove  one  of  the  brightest  laurels  from  his 
brow  and  place  it  on  the  brow  of  Sheridan. 

There  is  a  similar  anecdote  in  which  General  John 
A.  Logan  figures  as  the  hero.  When  General  Thomas 
was  playing  his  Fabian  game  leading  up  to  the  Battle 
of  Nashville,  in  which  Hood's  army  was  annihilated, 
the  Washington  authorities  grew  impatient  of  the  de- 
lay and  sent  Logan  to  supersede  him.  Logan  could 
have  stepped  in  and  taken  the  victory  and  the  glory, 
but  he  disdained  to  profit  by  the  mistake  at  headquart- 
ers and  rob  a  brave  man  of  the  fruits  of  his  labor  and 
skill.  He  left  Thomas  in  his  command.  "  Where  in 
military  story  can  there  be  found  a  brighter  page  than 
that?"  asks  Senator  Hoar. 

It  was  to  fight  Benjamin  F.  Butler's  schemes  that 
Senator  Hoar  went  into  the  Senate,  and  he  has  never 
ceased  to  regard  him  as,  one  of  the  basest  characters 
that  ever  got  into  American  public  life.  Of  his  war 
career.  Senator  Hoar  says : 

His  military  career  was,  with  the  exception  I  have  stated 
( the  war  administration  of  New  Orleans) ,  disgraceful  to 
himself,  and  unfortunate  to  the  country.  From  the  beginning 
of  Butler's  recruiting  for  the  war,  wherever  he  was  in  com- 
mand came  rumors  of  jobs,  frauds,  trading  with  rebels  through 
the  lines,  and  the  putting  of  unfit  persons  in  responsible 
positions. 

Butler's  career  after  the  war  is  likewise  subjected  to 
a  searching  analysis,  including  the  mysterious  influence 
that  he  seemed  to  have  over  President  Grant: 

I  do  not  suppose  that  the  secret  of  the  hold  which  General 
Butler  had  upon  General  Grant  will  ever  be  disclosed.  Butler 
boasted  in  the  lobby  of  the  House  of  Representatives  that 
Grant  would  not  dare  to  refuse  any  request  of  his,  because  he 
had  in  his  possession  affidavits  by  which  he  could  prove  that 
Grant  had  been  drunk  on  seven  different  occasions.  This 
statement  was  repeated  to  Grant  by  a  member  of  the  House. 
who  told  me  of  the  conversation.  Grant  replied,  without 
manifesting  any  indignation  or  belief  or  disbelief  in  the 
story:  "I  have  refused  his  requests  several  times."  In  the 
case  of  almost  any  other  person  than  President  Grant  such  an 
answer  would  have  been  a  confession  of  the  charge.  But  it 
ought  not  to  be  so  taken  in  this  case.  Unless  he  desired  to 
take  into  his  full  confidence  the  person  who  was  speaking  to 
him,  he  was  in  the  habit  of  receiving  most  important  communi- 
cations with  entire  silence  or  with  some  simple  sentence  which 
indicated  his  purpose  to  drop  the  subject.  My  own  belief  is 
that  at  some  time  during  the  war,  or  before  the  war  in  times 
of  discouragement.  Grant  may  have  been  in  the  habit  of 
drinking  freely,  and  may  at  some  time  have  done  so  to  excess. 
During  the  whole  time  of  his  Presidency  I  had  a  good  oppor- 
tunity to  observe  him  in  personal  intercourse.  I  was  familiar 
with  many  men  who  were  constantly  in  his  company  at  all 
hours  of  the  day,  and  often  far  into  the  night.  They  assured 
me  that  there  was  no  foundation  for  any  imputation  that  he 
was  in  the  habit  of  drinking  to  excess  then.  If  at  any  time  he 
had  formed  such  a  habit  he  had  put  it  under  his  feet.  For 
that  I  think  he  is  entitled  to  greater  honor  than  if  he  had 
never  yielded   to   temptation. 

There  are  many  interesting  glimpses  of  famous  liter- 
ary men,  especially  those  of  Concord.  Thoreau  was  a 
personal  friend  of  Mr.  Hoar  as  long  as  he  lived. 
Charles  Emerson,  the  brilliant  brother  of  Ralph  Waldo, 
was  engaged  to  Mr.  Hoar's  sister  when  he  died,  and  the 
author  has  paid  a  warm  tribute  to  his  character  and 
powers.  "  I  am  ashamed  to  say  that  we  thought  Mr. 
Alcott  rather  stupid,"  he  remarks.  Emerson  once  told 
him  :  "  I  got  together  some  people  a  little  while  ago  to 
meet  Alcott  and  to  hear  him  converse.  I  wanted  them 
to  know  what  a  rare  fellow  he  was.  But  we  did  not 
get  along  very  well.  Poor  Alcott  had  a  hard  time. 
Theodore  Parker  came  all  stuck  full  of  knives.  He 
wound  himself  round  Alcott  like  an  anaconda;  you 
could  hear  poor  Alcott's  bones  crunch." 

Here  is  an  anecdote  of  Margaret  Fuller: 

Old  Dr.  Bartlett,  a  very  excellent  and  kind  old  doctor, 
though  rather  gruff  in  manner,  could  not  abide  her.  About 
midnight  one  very  dark,  stormy  night,  the  doctor  was  called 
out  of  bed  by  a  sharp  knocking  at  the  door.  He  got  up  and 
put  his  head  out  of  the  window  and  said,  "  Who's  there  ? 
What  do  you  want?"  He  was  answered  by  a -voice  in  the 
darkness  below:  "  Doctor,  how  much  camphire  can  anybody 
take  by  mistake  without  its  killing  them?"  To  which  the 
reply  was,  "Who's  taken  it?"  And  the  answer  was,  "Mar- 
garet Fuller."  The  doctor  answered  in  great  wrath,  as  he 
slammed  down   the  window   and  returned  to  bed:      "A   peck." 

Senator   Hoar   discloses   the    fact   that   to   him   was 


twice  offered  the  English  mission,  once  by  Secretary 
Evarts,  and  again  by  Mr.  McKinley.  Declining  the 
latter's  offer,  he  replied: 

I  am  highly  honored  by  your  confidence,  for  which  I  am 
grateful.  But  I  believe  I  can  better  serve  my  country  and 
better  support  your  administration  by  continuing  to  discharge 
the  legislative  duties  to  which  I  have  been  accustomed  for 
thirty  years,  than  by  undertaking  new  responsibilities  at  my 
age,  now  past  seventy-two.  If  it  were  otherwise,  I  can  not 
afford  to  maintain  the  scale  of  living  which  the  social  customs 
of  London  make  almost  indispensable  to  an  embassador,  and 
and  I  have  no  right  to  impose  upon  my  wife  in  her  present 
state  of  health,  the  burden  which  would  fall  upon  her.  Be 
assured  of  my  warm  personal  regard  and  of  my  desire  to 
stand  by  you  in  the  difficult  and  trying  period  which  is  be- 
fore you. 

The  work  is  supplemented  with  two  excellent  por- 
traits of  Senator  Hoar,  several  appendices,  and  an  in- 
dex. 

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MAGAZINE    VERSE. 

The  Wanderlust. 
Oh,    the    voice    came    again    when    the    fields    were    bare    for 
sowing — 
A-whispering,  a-whispering,  it  never  gave  me  rest, 
"  Oh,  lad,  the  world  is  white  with  Spring.  Oh,  lad,  be  up  and 
going — 
Down  the  wide  road,   the   free  road   that  stretches   to  the 
West." 

I  looked  adown  the  wide  road  and  I  was  fain  to  go  ; 

I  looked  into  a  stranger's  eyes  and  I  was  fain  to  stay  : 
But  still   the  whisper  burned  like  flame  that  flickers  to  and 

fro, 
"  There's    much    to    see   and    much    to    find,    away,    my    lad, 

away !  " 

Oh,  the  voice  came  again  when  the  grain  was  in  the  grow- 
ing— 
A-crying  and  a-crying,  it  followed  where  I  went. 
"Oh,   lad,   the    Summer   trails   are   clear.   Oh,   lad,   be   up   and 
going — 
Through  the  far  way,  the  green  way.  the  way  of  all   con- 
tent." 

I  looked  upon  the  far  trail  and  I  was  fain  to  go  ; 

I    looked    within    my    sweetheart's    eyes    and    fain    to    stay 
was  I : 
But  still  the  voice  kept  pace  with  me  adown  the  blossomed 
row, 
'  There's  much  to  see  and  much  to  find,  oh,  lad,  befeVe  you 
die." 

Oh,    the    voice    comes    again    when    the    fields    are    ripe    for 
mowing — 
A-clamoring,  a-clamoring,  I  may  not  choose  but  heed 
"  Oh,   lad,   the   keen   wind   fills   the   sails,    Oh,   lad,   be   un   and 
going — 
The   unplumbed    seas,    the   unfound    lands   are   waiting  on 
your  speed  !" 

I  look  across  the  wondrous  world — I  may  not  choose  but  go  ; 
I    kiss    my    wife    upon    her    mouth    nor    make    her   prayers 
reply  ; 
Oh,  voice  that  is  the  soul  of  me,  I  follow  high  or  low — 
There's  much  to  see  and  much  to  find — good-by,  my  sweet, 
good-by. 

— Thcodosia   Garrison    in   Harper's   Magazine. 

The  Northern  Trail. 
Now  I  know  how  the  woods  on  the  hill  are  standing. 

Bare  and  black  on  the  deep  and  drifted  snow, 
With  the  waves  of  wind  in  their  sounding  branches  strand- 
ing, 
While  the  ice-edged  rapids  fret  on  the  rocky  landing, 
And  the  wind  may  cry  and  the  stream  flow  on  forever 
Where  I  no  more  shall  go. 

Out   from  the   city's   reek   and  fume  and   thunder 

My  heart  goes  back,  O  woods  of  the  North,  to  you  : 
To    the    chill    gray    days    with    the    gun,    and    the    woodland 

plunder, 
The  voice  of  the  hounds  afar  that  the  shot  breaks  sharp  in 
sunder — 
Now  the  trail  leads  long,  but  for  me  no  more  forever 
Through  the  Northland  that  I  knew. 

Not  as  I  knew  you  in  June  with  shade  and  singing. 

Not  thus  on  your  ways  the  desire  of  my  heart  is  set. 
But  bleak  and  silent  save  for  the  bare  boughs  swinging. 
And  bound  in  dreams  that  the  low  sky  hangs  enringing. 
That    the   wind   runs   through    and    the    gray   sun    watches 

ever, 
And  snow-whirls  stir  and  fret. 

The  wild  ducks  splash  and  whirr  from  the  marshy  cover; 

Through  the  frozen  thicket  the  grouse's  pinions  roar; 
The  buck  slips  past,  and  the  hawk  swings  circling  over, 
And  high  in  the  clouds  the  great  gray  eagles  hover. 

And  these  my  brothers  may  hunt  and  roam  forever, 

But  I  hunt  there  no  more! 

— Frank  Lillie  Pollock  in  Everybody's  Magazine. 

The  New  British  Embassador. 

The  Right  Hon.  Sir  Henry  Mortimer  Durand,  the 
new  British  embassador  to  the  United  States,  is  over 
six  feet  tall,  with  a  fine  physique,  ruddy  complexion, 
and  gray  hair  and  mustache.  One  of  the  reporters 
who  greeted  him  on  his  arrival  in  -New  York  last  week, 
says:  "He  needs  to  wear  no  signs  to  tell  that  he  is  a 
trained  diplomat.  He  knows  exactly  what  he  wants  to 
say,  and  no  amount  of  questioning  will  induce  him  to 
discuss  matters  that  he  doesn't  care  to  talk  about.  But 
his  refusals  to  talk  are  so  expressed  that  one  goes 
away  from  an  interview  with  him  almost  ready  to  de- 
clare that  he  hasn't  refused  to  talk  about  anything." 
Lady  Durand  and  her  daughter  will  come  to  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.j  next  month.  It  is  understood  that  Lady 
Durand  will  not  be  active  in  society.  At  Madrid  she 
appeared  at  court  only  when  her  presence  there  was 
demanded  by  etiquette,  and  lived  for  the  most  part  in 
retirement.     Her  health  is  delicate, 


December  14,   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


ART    NOTES. 


The  Bohemian  Club's  Art  Exhibit. 
The  public  will  be  admitted  to  the  art  ex- 
hibition in  the  jinks-room  of  the  Bohemian 
Club  this  (Saturday)  afternoon  from  two  to 
five,  upon  presentation  of  invitations  by  mem- 
bers. The  painters  who  contribute  canvases 
this  year  are  H.  J.  Bruer,  H.  R.  Bloomer.  G. 
Cadenasso.  J.  W.  Clawson,  C.  J.  Carlson,  Wil- 
lis E.  Davis,  Charles  J.  Dickman,  John  R. 
Dickinson,  L.  Maynard  Dixon,  Harry  Stuart 
Fonda,  John  M.  Gamble,  Chris  Jorgensen,  C. 
Chapel  Judson.  L.  P.  Latimer.  J.  T.  Martinez, 
Arthur  F.  Mathews,  Francis  McComas,  Orrin 
Peck,  Charles  Rollo  Peters.  C.  D.  Robinson. 
H.  W.  Seawell.  J.  A.  Stanton,  M.  Strauss,  and 
Thad  Welch.  Robert  I.  Aiken,  Earl  Cum- 
mings.  and  A.  Putnam  are  the  sculptors  repre- 
sented in  the  exhibition.  The  other  visitors' 
days  will  be  Tuesday,  December  15th,  from 
two  until  five  o'clock  p.  m.  :  Friday.  December 
18th,  from  two  until  five  o'clock  p.  m.  ;  and 
Wednesday.  December  23d.  from  two  until 
five  o'clock  p.  m.,  and  eight  until  eleven 
o'clock  p.  M. 


Grace  Hudson's  Indian  Paintings. 
An  unusually  interesting  collection  of  new 
Indian  paintings,  by  Mrs.  Grace  Hudson,  will 
be  on  exhibition  at  the  art  rooms  of  Schussler 
Brothers,  119  Geary  Street,  for  a  week,  begin- 
ning to-day  (Saturday').  The  canvases  are 
twenty  in  number,  and  vividly  picture  the 
personal  characteristics  of  the  Poma  Indians, 
their  occupations,  customs,  and  dress.  The 
three  things  most  highly  prized  by  the  Cali- 
fornia aborigine  are  his  child,  his  basket,  and 
his  dog.  Mrs.  Hudson  has  artistically  intro- 
duced these  in  several  of  her  pictures ;  in 
fact,  her  pudgy  little  basket  babies  are  her 
happiest  inspiration.  Mrs.  Hudson's  studio, 
by  the  way,  is  at  her  home  in  Ukiah,  where, 
with  a  whole  rancheria  of  Poma  Indians  at 
hand,  she  has  admirable  opportunities  for 
studying  them  in  their  native  haunts.  The 
Poma  branch  is  estimated  to  have  numbered 
about  fifty  thousand  when  the  Spanish  settled 
this  Coast ;  now  they  number  only  a  few  hun- 
dred, and  are  slowly  decreasing. 

The  first  exhibition  of  the  Guild  of  Arts 
and  Crafts,  in  the  Maple  Room  of  the  Palace 
Hotel,  will  close  this  (Saturday)  evening,  after 
attracting  considerable  attention  during  the 
week.  The  guild  includes  members  who  excel 
in  book-binding,  etching,  lace-mafc"ing,  china- 
painting,  wood-carving,  and  leather  work. 
Among  the  exhibitors  are  Marian  Holden 
Pope.  Helen  Hyde,  John  Chard.  Miss  Crane, 
W.  B.  Collier,  Jr..  L.  S.  Adams.  Mr.  Muller, 
Mr.  Dassonville,  Miss  Clara  Rice,  Miss  L. 
Butler,  and  Mrs.  M.  M.  S.  Bird. 


Comic  Opera  at  the  New  Tivoli. 
The  new  Tivoli  Opera  House,  at  the  corner  of 
Eddy  and  Taylor  Streets,  is  to  be  opened  dur- 
ing the  week  of  December  21st,  with  an  elabo- 
rate revival  of  "  Xion,"  the  popular  mytho- 
logical spectacle  which  has  been  brought  up 
to  date  by  Ferris  Hartman.  There  are  to  be 
one  hundred  and  fifty  people  in  the  production, 
several  beautiful  stage  settings,  and  five  big 
ballets.  A  number  of  notable  new-comers  will 
be  in  the  cast,  among  others,  Bessie  Tannehill, 
the  comedienne,  who  was  last  seen  here  with 
Matthews  and  Bulger  during  their  series  of 
Hoyt  revivals  at  the  California  Theatre  two 
years  ago;  and  Wallace  Brownlow,  the  English 
baritone,  who  created  several  of  the  leading 
roles  in  the  original  London  productions  of 
the  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  operas.  It  is  prom- 
ised that  the  new  opera-house  will  prove  a 
veritable  revelation  in  artistic  decoration, 
stage  conveniences,  and  general  arrangement. 
On  the  lower  floor — the  orchestra — and  the 
second  floor — the  dress  circle — no  smoking  or 
drinking  will  be  permitted  ;  on  the  top  floor — 
which  will  be  known  as  the  promenade  circle, 
and  reached  by  an  elevator — liquors  and  cigars 
will  be  sold. 


Ellery's  Band  Concerts. 
The  final  concerts  of  the  Ellery  Italian 
Band  will  be  given  to-day  (Saturday)  and  on 
Sunday  afternoon  and  night  at  the  Alhambra. 
The  popular  "  rag-time  "  smoker  scheduled 
for  to-night  promises  to  crowd  the  theatre. 
The  additional  attraction  is  a  troop  of  Dal- 
matian swordsmen,  en  route  to  the  St.  Louis 
Exposition.  They  give  a  sensational  drill 
and  sham  battle,  using  two  swords,  as  in  the 
olden  times.  The  performance  represents  a 
combat  between  Moors  and  Turks,  and  the 
entire  drill  and  contest  is  with  musical  ac- 
companiment. This  is  the  first  appearance  of 
the  organization  in  this  country. 


"TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN." 


The  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  is  an  excellent 
destination  point  for  those  wishing  to  enjoy 
a  pleasant  day's  outing.  The  panoramic  view 
of  the  bay,  ocean,  and  surrounding  country  is 
a  sight  which  beggars  description,  and  can 
never  be  forgotten. 


At  the  Grand  Opera  House,  the  week  be- 
ginning Sunday  matinee,  December  20th,  will 
be  devoted  to  benefits  for  the  widows'  and 
orphans'  fund  of  the  fire  department.  The 
attraction  will  be  May  Stockton  in  "  A  Little 
Outcast." 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 


Neiv   York   Times : 

"  Knowest  thou  the  land  where  blows  the 
garlic  bloom?"  Mr.  Jerome  Hart  was  in 
France,  and  many  were  the  warnings  he  re- 
ceived from  his  friends  there  when  they 
learned  that  he  was  bent  on  a  trip  to  Spain. 
The  book  is  light  because  the  graver  and 
heavier  shadows  were  not  sought  for.  There 
is  nothing  about  religion,  politics,  or  revolu- 
tions, and  brigandage  is  entirely  left  out. 
As  to  politics,  Mr.  Hart  writes,  "  even  Span- 
iards do  not  understand  them,  and  I  doubt 
whether  strangers  ever  can."  Mr.  Hart 
possesses  a  fine  knowledge  of  what  is  good 
to  eat.  He  is  in  Marseilles,  where  one  of 
its  glories  is  the  bouillabaisse,  a  soup  so  fine 
that  Thackeray  wrote  a  ballad  about  it.  It 
really  is  nothing  but  a  chowder.  "  I  ate  some 
of  it  once  down  at  Manhanset,  on  the  east 
end  of  Long  Island,"  says  Mr.  Hart.  "  It 
was  practically  the  same  thing  as  bouil- 
labaisse, only  it  contained  no  garlic." 

Barcelona  was  a  surprise.  Standing  on  the 
heights  of  Montjuich,  Mr.  Hart  sees  the 
many  tall  chimneys,  rising  everywhere,  for 
Barcelona  is  a  manufacturing  city.  Just 
change    your    mind    when    you    use    too    fre- 


quently the  expression,  "  slow,  old  Spain." 
Barcelona  is  the  port  of  entry  for  many  lines 
of  steamers,  for  she  does  business  with  all 
parts  of  the  world.  One  thing  which  struck 
our  Argonaut  was  that  the  natives  did  not 
speak  Spanish:  Catalan  is  the  language.  The 
author  is  amusing  when  he  tells  of  the  dif- 
ficulties met  in  acquiring  Spanish.  There 
is  that  intricate  subjunctive  mood  which  is 
sure  to  stump  you.  Once  on  the  train  our 
American  met  with  an  intelligent  priest,  and 
the  troubles  about  that  subjunctive  were  sub- 
mitted to  the  worthy  father.  He  became  in- 
terested and  promised  to  explain  matters 
He  wrote  a  letter  of  sixteen  pages  to  the 
Californian  with  a  linguistic  grievance.  Mr. 
Hart  says :  "  When  I  finished  reading  it  I 
understood  the  Spanish  subjunctive  mood  less 
than  before." 

We  have  become  so  absorbed  with  the 
Alhambra  that  it  is  not  known  that  the  city 
of  Granada  is  a  place  containing  some  sev- 
enty-five thousand  inhabitants.  Once  on  a 
time,  Granada  was  the  greatest  of  hat  manu- 
facturing centres.  From  there  only  came  the 
grand  sombrero.  Continual  strikes  have 
ruined  the  hat  business.  Mr.  Hart  takes 
notice  of  the  numerous  labor  troubles  in 
Spain,  which  are  on  a  par  with  those  in  the 
United  States.  The  Alhambra  would  have 
pleased  Mr.  Hart  better  had  there  been  fewer 


beggars  there.  The  beggars  in  Spain  form, 
apparently,  a  large  part  of  its  population.  It 
is  a  profession  which  descends  from  father 
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LETTERS   OF  A    DIPLOMAT'S    WIFE 

By  MARY  KING  WADDINGTON.     Illustrated,  S2.00  net.     (Postage  20  cents.)  Sixth  Edition. 

"The  clever  letters  of  a  clever,  unaffected  woman."— London  Daily  Telegraph. 


CHARLES  SCRIBNER'S  SONS    -    -    New  York 


T  iriif, 


AKUUNA'UT. 


December  14,  1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


A  Novel  of  Power. 

The  story  of  a  moral  struggle — severe, 
simple,  and  chaste  as  a  classic  marble — could 
only  have  been  made  interesting  by  a  literary 
artist  of  consummate  skill.  That  Edith  Whar- 
ton's "  Sanctuary,"  with  all  its  rarefied  at- 
mosphere and  elevation  of  thought,  proves 
absorbing  to  those  of  us  who  pretend  to  no 
great  or  peculiar  virtue,  is  a  striking  tribute 
to  her  indubitable  power.  In  analysis  of 
character,  in  serene,  unerring  cumulative  de- 
velopment of  the  theme  without  pause  from 
the  first  page  to  the  last,  we  think  "  Sanc- 
tuary "  equals,  if  indeed  it  does  not  excel, 
anything  that  she  has  heretofore  written.  Mrs. 
Wharton  need  only  continue  doing  such  work 
as  this  to  take  rank  as  the  foremost  American 
woman  novelist  of  the  time.  It  is  our  hope 
that  she  will  more  and  more  choose  her  char- 
acters and  themes  from  American  life.  Her 
excursions  into  Italian  fields  are  much  to  be 
regretted.  "  Sanctuary,"  we  may  briefly  re- 
mark, is  the  story  of  how  a  pure,  noble  girl 
comes  to  perceive  "  that  the  fair  surface  of 
life  is  honeycombed  by  a  vast  system  of 
moral  sewage  "  ;  of  how  she  meets  the,  for  her, 
vital  problem,  and  of  the  final  justification 
of  her  whole  life  through  her  son's  victory. 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York;  $1.50. 


The  Poet  Laureate's  Plaintive  Pipings. 

England's  productive  poet  laureate  is  in  the 
field  again,  but  with  an  acting  tragedy  this 
time,  "  Flodden  Field,"  by  name.  London 
has  already  had  a  chance  to  test  the  dramatic 
quality  of  this  historical-poetical  play,  Beer- 
bohm  Tree  having  put  it  on  during  the  present 
season.  So  far .  as  its  merit  can  be  judged 
by  mere  perusal,  "  Flodden  Field "  is  but 
sounding  mediocrity.  The  poet  laureate  has 
by  this  time  well  established  his  ability  to 
turn  out  a  vast  quantity  of  poetry  and  prose 
of  only  tolerable  literary  merit,  and  "  Flodden 
Field."  like  all  the  Austin  verse,  has  never  a 
note  to  thrill  the  senses  or  play  on  the  heart- 
strings. 

As  for  the  mechanics  of  his  craft,  the  poet 
laureate,  although  he  is  occasionally  guilty  of 
a  false  quantity,  has  looked  pretty  carefully 
after  his  metre,  and  generally  maintains  a 
mathematical    correctness    of    rhythm. 

The  tragedy,  which  is  blank  verse  in 
iambic  pentameters,  tells  in  three  acts  of  the 
perfidy  practiced  toward  the  James  the  Fourth, 
the  Scottish  king,  by  the  fair  Lady  Heron, 
who,  in  order  to  bring  victory  to  the  Earl  of" 
Surrey's  arms,  befools  the  dallying  king,  and 
plays  him  into  the  death-dealing  hands  of  the 
English  earl  on  Flodden  Field. 

Lady  Heron,  who  is  an  imaginary  character, 
in  speaking  of  her  English  lover  indulges  in 
a  quantity  of  voluptuous  imagery.  It  is  quite 
apparent,  however,  that  the  good  Alfred  is 
on  unfamiliar  ground  in  his  attempts  to  paint 
a  telling  portrait  of  this  amorous  dame,  his 
efforts  reminding  one  of  a  massive,  respectable 
British  matron  clumsily  seeking  to  emulate 
the  torrid  fascinations  of  her  more  giddy 
sister  charmers. 

In  the  denouement,  when  Sidney  turns  with 
horror  and  execrates  the  fair  betrayer,  the  poet 
twangs  his  lyre  vigorously,  but  still  the  note 
of  notes  remains  unsounded,  and  the  imagina- 
tion, unkindled.  is  calmly  aware  of  vain  at- 
tempts  to   reach    unattainable   heights. 

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A  Quasi-Abduction  in  San  Jose. 

Gelett  Burgess  has  collaborated  with  Will 
Irwin  in  the  production  of  a  yellow-covered 
novel  called  "  The  Reign  of  Queen  Isyl," 
but  the  result  is  not  exactly  the  same  as  when 
Pclion  is  piled  on  Ossa.  In  fact,  the  tone  of 
this  idyl  of  San  Jose  is  decidedly  collegiate. 
It  has  a  caramcl-and-cream  atmosphere,  and 
its  view  of  the  world  in  general  is  that  it 
exists  solely  as  a  background  against  which 
college  hemes  may  display  their  superior  wit 
and    rambunctious   bravery. 

Doubtless  the  blue-eyed,  pink-cheeked  Stan- 
ford freshmen  will  clasp  it  to  their  hearts, 
and  the  "  co-eds  "  will  think  it  "  just  lovely." 
But  other  and  older  folks  will  experience,  we 
fear,  a  sincere,  if  reprehensible,  desire  to 
hox  the  cars  of  the  "hero"  and  put  him  at 
some  good,  hard,  honest  work. 

The  nlot  of  the  novel  revolves  about  the 
supposed  abduction  of  the  Queen  of  Beauty 
at  a  San  Jose  fiesta.  The  progress  of  the 
story  s  interrupted  at  intervals  by  storyettes, 
told  oy  the  principal  characters,  somewhat 
'i<:    fashion    of   the     'Arabian   Nights." 


Some  of  these  storyettes  are  rather  amusing. 
One  episode  told  by  Norine,  the  deposed  queen, 
is,  we  think,  unique  in  literature.  She  was 
out  riding  with  her  lover — or,  under  the  cir- 
cumstances, should  we  say  "fellow"? — when 
they  espied  "  papa "  in  the  distance,  where- 
upon the  maiden  fair  got  down  on  the  buggy* 
floor  under  the  lap-robe.  Not  liking  what  the 
fellow  told  the  father  when  they  met,  "  I," 
she  says,  "  pounded  his  leg,  and  then  stuck 
a  pin  into  it."  Later :  "  I  stuck  the  hat-pin 
into  him  again,  and  he  drove  off  in  a  hurry. 
Oh,  I  was  mad.  He  had  to  kiss  every  one 
of  my  freckles  before  I'd  forgive  him  that 
horrid  remark." 

"  Now  you'd  think  that  was  pretty  crude 
work,  wouldn't  you,"  inquires  the  maiden, 
parenthetically,  a  little  further  on,  but  on 
this  point  we,  for  our  part,  kindly  but  firmly 
decline  to  express  any  opinion. 

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"  The  Master  of  Gray,"  by  H.  C.  Bailey. 
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"  Silver  Linings,"  by  Nina  Rhoades.  Il- 
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"  The  Warriors,"  by  Anna  R.  Brown 
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"  The  Millionaire's  Son,"  by  Anna  Robeson 
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"  Dorothy  South,"  by  George  Cary  Eggles- 
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"  The  British  Nation :  A  History,"  by 
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"  Modern    Practical    Theology,"    by    Ferdi- 


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"  Bethsaida."  by  Malcolm  Dearborn.  Pub- 
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"  A  Sequence  of  Hearts,"  by  Mary  Moss. 
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"  A  Passage  Perilous,"  by  Rosa  Nouchette 
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"  Riverfall,"  by  Linn  Boyd  Porter.  Illus- 
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"  Marjie,"  by  Frances  Parker.  Illustrated 
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Publishing  Company,  Boston. 

"  Christmas  Songs  and  Easter  Carols,"  by 
Phillips  Brooks.  Published  by  E.  P.  Dutton 
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"  The  Way  to  the  West,"  by  Emerson 
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"  A  Primer  of  Hebrew,"  by  Charles  Pros- 
pero  Fagnani.  Published  by  Charles  Scrib- 
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"With  the  Treasure-Hunters,"  by  James 
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"  Champlain :  Founder  of  New  France," 
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Barbour.  Frontispiece  in  colors.  Published 
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LADY  ROSE'S  DAUGHTER 

Unquestionably  "  the  leading  novel 
of  the  year." 

DR.  LAVENDAR'S  PEOPLE 

By  Margaret  Deland,  author  of 
"  Old  Chester  Tales."  "  A  pure  de- 
light." 

CHERRY 

Booth  Tarkington's  latest  book  is 
a  side-splitting"  comedy,  new  and  origi- 
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colors. 

THE  MAIDS  OF  PARADISE 

Robert  W.  Chambers's  latest  novel 
— a  romance  of  the  Franco-Prussian 
War. 

HESPER 

Hamlin  Garland's  new  love-story  of 
the  West,  its  heroine  a  New  York 
society  girl. 

A  KEYSTONE  OF  EMPIRE 

The  lives  of  the  Emperor  of  Austria 
and  the  ill-fated  Empress  Elizabeth 
are  further  chronicled  in  this  book  by 
the  author  of  "  The  Martyrdom  of  an 
Empress." 

HAWTHORNE  AND  HIS  CIRCLE 

"  One  of  the  most  delightful  surveys 
of  the  literary  men  of  Hawthorne's 
period." 

PORTRAITS  OF  THE  SIXTIES 

Tennyson,  Carlyle,  and  many  others 
are  pictured  as  they  were  known  to 
the  author,  Justin  McCarthy. 

THE  HEART  OF  HYACINTH 

A  Japanese  love-story  by  Onoto 
Watanna,  author  of  "  A  Japanese 
Nightingale." 

MOTHER  AND  FATHER 

By  Roy  Rolfe  Gilson.  An  artistic 
book,  exquisitely  illustrated  by  Alice 
Barber  Stephens. 

THE  HUNTING  OF  THE  SNARK 

And  Other  Poems 

The  Peter  Newell  edition  of  Lewis 
Carroll's  poems.  It  contains  forty  full- 
page  drawings  by  the  famous  artist. 

TWO  PRISONERS 

This  is  a  dainty  story  by  Thomas 
Nelson  Page,  exquisitely  bound  and 
illustrated. 

ORCHARD=LAND 

A  new  nature  book  by  Robert  W. 
Chambers,  author  of  "  Outdoorland." 

THE  STORIES  OF  PETER  AND 
ELLEN 

It  is  sufficient  to  say  that  this  book 
is  by  the  author  of  the  well-known 
"  Roggie  and  -Reggie  "  stories  and 
"  The  Lovable  Tales  of  Janey  and 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 

A  Youne  Cleric  and  His  Adorers. 

"Holt  of  Heathfield"  will  interest  those 
readers  of  "  Ronald  Carnaquay  "  who  may  de- 
sire to  survey  a  clerical  portrait  done  by 
another  hand.  Murray  Holt  is,  in  his  sin- 
cerity, independence,  and  desire  to  help  the 
spiritually  needy,  something  of  the  same 
type  of  man.  The  author,  Caroline  Atwater 
Mason,  has  not,  however,  delved  so  deeply 
into  her  subject,  having  it  more  particularly 
in  mind  to  show  a  young,  unwed  clergyman 
stifled  by  the  incense  of  his  adorers,  and  the 
shamed  recipient  of  flowers,  notes,  and  other 
pressing  attentions  from  his  pretty  parish- 
ioners. 

There  is,  to  be  sure,  a  recalcitrant  in  the 
parish,  one  of  its  prettiest  and  most  popular 
girls,  who  withholds  her  homage,  disdainful 
alike  of  the  general  chorus  of  adulation, 
and  of  these  :'  petted  and  pious  athletes  with 
expressive  eyes  and  aesthetic  tastes  who  talk 
of  sacrifice  and  devotion  and  yet  grasp  every 
luxury  that  comes  their  way." 

This  young  rebel,  as  it  turns  out,  is  doing 
an  injustice  to  the  Rev.  Murray  Holt, 
whose  home,  with  its  aesthetic  appointments, 
provided  for  him  by  his  wealthy  parish- 
ioners, reproaches  him  with  its  luxury,  after 
his  first  experiences  with  the  hard  realities 
of  toil  and  poverty  in  the  homes  of  the  poor. 

The  story,  although  related  in  a  light  and 
breezy  style,  contains  enough  truth  to  gain 
its  effect.  The  book  is  a  lightly  sketched  but 
truthful  delineation  of  the  attitude  of  a  pros- 
perous parish  toward  its  popular  and  petted 
pastor,  presenting  in  Compton.  the  rich  mill- 
owner,  that  type  of  parishioner  who  regards 
his  pastor  as  a  community  property;  a  sort 
of  slavish  automaton  that  must  think,  act, 
and  speak  on  lines  laid  down  by  the  leading 
men  of  the  parish.  All  clergymen  will  recog- 
nize the  type. 

The  book  has  a  pleasant  ending,  the  pastor 
receiving  timely  aid  in  his  efforts  to  include 
rich  and  poor  in  his  parish,  and  eventually 
conquering  the  prejudices  of  the  pretty  rebel. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York;  $1.50. 

Mr.  Howells's  Fine  Epistolary  Novel. 

Those — and  they  are  many — who  think  that 
Mr.  Howells  has  shown  of  Jate  a  falling  off 
in  literary  power,  had  better  buy  "  Letters 
Home  "  and  revise  their  verdict.  We  do  not 
say  but  that  "  The  Kentons  "  may  have  lacked 
a  bit  in  life  and  spontaneity,  but  this  new 
book — perhaps  owing  to  the  rather  unusual 
form  in  which  it  is  cast — has  sparkle  and 
zest  that  is  really  surprising  in  one  who  lacks 
only  a  few  years  of  threescore  and  ten.  It  is 
no  easy  task  so  to  enter  into  a  character  that 
a  brief  letter  shall,  without  caricature,  per- 
fectly reveal  it.  Yet  Abner  Baysley's  la- 
borious, hope-you-are-all-well-and-we-are-the 
same  letter  by  the  hand  of  Howells  to  his 
brother  at  Timber  Creek,  la.,  makes  one  feel 
as  if  Abner  were  a  friend  of  many  years' 
standing.  So  with  young,  poetic  Ardith's 
epistle  to  his  chum,  full  of  rapturous  appre- 
ciation of  the  difference  between  the  me- 
tropolis and  Wottoma.  So  with  the  lady's  com- 
panion's to  her  mother  and  "  Lizzie  "  on  the 
exciting  love-affair  between  the  poetic  youth 
and  the  buxom  millionairess,  which  so  troubles 
her  New  England  conscience.  In  brief,  all 
the  letters  are  characteristic,  and  the  story 
full  of  rich,  genuine  humor,  dashed  with 
pathos,    and   overflowing  with   human   nature. 

Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers, New  York; 
$1.50. 

A  Book  of  Wit. 
"TheCynic's  Calendarof  Revised  Wisdom," 
which  proved  so  popular  as  a  gift-book  last 
year,  has  this  season  been  enlarged  and  im- 
proved, and  is  doubtless  destined  to  a  still 
greater  popularity.  The  calendar  contains 
drawings  and  decorations  in  red  and  black, 
and  is  bound  uniquely  in  plaid  "  shirtings." 
The  authors  are  Oliver  Herford,  Ethel  Watts 
Mumford,  and  Addison  Mizner.  Here  are  a 
few   of  the   "  revised   proverbs  "  : 

Absinthe  makes  the  heart  grow  fonder. 

Many  hands  want  light  work. 

A  little  widow  is  a  dangerous  thing. 

"  Mercy  and  truth  are  met  together,  right- 
eousness and  peace  have  kissed  each  other." 
Look  out ! ! ! ! 

A  word  to  the  wise  is  resented. 

One  touch  of  nature  makes  the  whole  world 
squirm. 

A  lie  in  time  saves  nine. 

A  fool  and  his  honey  are  soon  mated. 

A  bird  on  a  bonnet  is  worth  ten  on  a  plate. 

It's  a  strong  stomach  that  has  no  turning. 

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Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 
"  The  Undercurrent,"  the  longest  story 
which  has  come  from  the  pen  of  Robert 
Grant  since  he  finished  "  Unleavened  Bread," 
is  not  a  "  problem  "  novel,  as  the  readers  of 
the  January  Scribner  will  learn  from  the  very 
first.  According  to  the  publishers,  "  it  is  a 
study  of  social  conditions  in  the  same  envi- 
ronment which  surrounded  the  dramatis  per- 
sons of  his  former  work — a  small  American 
town  just  old  enough  to  have  traditions  and 
castes  and  social  demarcations.  The  subject 
is  divorce,  and  the  conflicts  that  are  aroused 
take  three  distinct  channels — Puritan,  indivi- 
ual,  and  legislative.  The  battle  is,  however, 
chiefly  fought  out  between  the  individual  and 
the   State." 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  the  late  Sir  Walter 
Besant  was  engaged  on  what  he  called  his 
magnum  opus,  the  survey  of  London.  The 
first  installment,  "  London  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century,"  appeared  last  year.  The  second 
part,  "  London  in  the  Time  of  the  Stuarts," 
is  announced  by  the  Macmillan  Company  to 
be  almost  ready  for  publication. 

Mortimer  Menpes  is  writing  a  book  on 
"  Whistler  as  I  Knew  Him."  It  will  appear 
in  this  country  next  March. 

Andy  Adams,  author  of  that  virile  work 
"  The  Log  of  a  Cowboy  "  (which  is  now  in  its 
seventh  edition),  is  completing  a  romance  of 
old  Texas  to  be  called  "  A  Texas  Match- 
maker." 

James  Whitcomb  Riley's  new  book  of  poems 
is  to  be  called  "  His  Pa's  Romance,"  after 
the  first  in  the  collection,  an  account  by  a 
small  urchin  of  the  courtship  of  his  father 
and  mother. 

A  work  by  Professor  Harry  Thurston  Peck 
entitled  "  The  Story  of  the  Last  Twenty 
Years,"  will  appear  serially  during  1904  and 
1905. 

"  The  Son  of  Royal  Langbrith."  by  William 
Dean  Howells,  is  to  begin  as  a  serial  in  the 
January  issue  of  one  of  the  Eastern  maga- 
zines. 

Mrs.  Alice  Morse  Earle's  new  book,  "  Two 
Centuries  of  Costume  in  America,"  is  out 
this  week.  The  two  volumes  are  very  fully 
and  richly  illustrated.  The  subject  of  Ameri- 
can costume,  which  has  been  singularly  neg- 
lected, is  now  presented  for  the  first  time  in 
an   adequate  manner. 

Miss  Helen  Keller  has  written  a  small 
book  entitled  "Optimism."  which  is  now  in 
process  of  publication  by  Messrs.  T.  Y.  Crow- 
ell  &  Co.  The  work  is  an  expression  of  Miss 
Keller's  optimistic  philosophy,  the  creed  of 
life  which  she  has  derived  from  her  own  ex- 
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and  history. 

Charles  Scribner's  Sons  have  brought  out 
the  fourth  edition  of  Frederick  Palmer's 
"  The  Vagabond."  This  makes  the  thirteenth 
thousand. 

The  Macmillan  Company  is  shortly  to  issue 
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"  Friendship's  Garland,"  "  Last  Essays,"  and 
"  Mixed  Essays  " — in  attractive  new  editions. 
The  same  house  is  publishing  an  edition  de 
luxe  of  Arnold  in  fifteen  volumes. 

William  Butler  Yeats,  the  well-known  Irish 
poet  and  dramatist,  has  prepared  the  follow- 
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THE        ARGONAUT 


December  14,   1903. 


The  public  is  a  factor  that  can  never  be 
entirely  calculated  upon.  Theatrical  man- 
agers have  discovered  this  to  their  cost.  They 
have,  however,  learned  to  their  ultimate 
profit  that  the  American  audience  in  the  main 
has  childish  tastes,  loving  light,  glitter,  color, 
noise,  and  show. 

As  a  consequence,  during  the  last  decade, 
there  has  been  a  perfect  whirlwind  of  comic 
opera  sweeping  the  boards.  Comic  opera,  to 
be  sure,  under  a  varied  nomenclature,  but  in- 
trinsically the  same  gay,  glittering,  beauty- 
spangled,  joke-enlivened  musical  travesty  of 
serious  or  prosaic  things  that  formerly 
flourished  under  the  name  of  opera  bouffe. 
And  the  taste  for  gay  superficiality — for  the 
laugh  first,  and  emotion  as  a  secondary  con- 
sideration— has  extended  to  the  drama  proper. 
The  managers  at  first  met  it  more  than 
half  way  by  forcing  French  farce  down  the 
throats  of  the  public,  who  swallowed  the  mess 
because,  to  their  innocent  American  palates, 
its  highly  seasoned  Gallic  lubricity  passed  for 
"  French  wit."  But  the  unsavory  compound 
was  really  mixed  to  the  Latin  taste,  and,  after 
a  season  of  popularity,  was  rejected. 

Then  the  native  dramatist,  who  had  been 
languishing  in  obscurity,  began  to  take  a 
hand  in  the  game.  He  mixed  his  dishes 
quickly  to  appease  the  popular  demand. 
James  Heme's  early  rural  dramas  had  many 
imitators,  and  Yankee  spinsters,  coy  country 
rosebuds,  and  hired  farm  hands  of  unexcep- 
tionable respectability  trod  the  stage  in  the 
wake  of  the  frisky  bourgeoisie,  who  had  but 
a  few  short  months  before  gayly  intrigued 
against  that  ennui-producing  condition — 
matrimonial  peace. 

Clyde  Fitch's  rise,  already  begun,  now 
reached  its  height,  builded  on  the  ruins 
of  transplanted  French  dramas.  His  Ameri- 
canism, the  cheerful  reflection  in  his  plays 
of  the  trivialities  of  contemporary  life,  and  his 
perfectly  respectable  sentimentality  were  wel- 
come to  the  people,  satiated  with  the  over- 
spiced  drolleries  of  French  farce.  His  hu- 
mor, containing  no  uneasy  suggestion  of  the 
double  entendre,  met  a  quick  response.  The 
thinness  of  his  character  structure,  and  fac- 
titious lightness  of  motive  were  not  obvious 
to  those  who  were  delighted  at  the  bustle 
and  motion  which  this  dramatist  habitually 
substitutes  for  dramatic  action,  and  Mr.  Fitch 
began  to  grow   rich  on  public  favor. 

In  the  meantime,  the  Eastern  theatre- 
goers, and,  occasionally,  after  one-or-two-year 
delays,  those  on  this  Coast  were  afforded 
opportunities  to  witness  up-to-date  British 
drama.  The  works  of  Carton.  Grundy.  Es- 
mond, Marshall.  Jones,  and  Pinero  were  sent 
out,  and  the  American  public  were  regaled 
with  the  spectacle  of  the  British  aristocracy 
in  miniature  treading  the  primrose  path  of 
dalliance  heretofore  monopolized  by  the  pup- 
pets of  the  Continental  dramatists. 

Esmond  and  Marshall,  it  is  true,  deviated 
from  this  path.  They  were  for  sweetness 
and  light,  and  won  a  much  more  cordial  hear- 
ing. But  the  trail  of  frivolity  and  flippancy 
thus  widely  inaugurated  was  over  all  things. 
The  era  of  the  "  book  play  "  began,  and  book- 
dramatizations  were  turned  out  almost  while 
you  waited  on  the  playwright's  front  door- 
step. Truly,  the  fatness  of  public  favor  was 
founded  on  a  diet  of  husks. 

And  now  comes,  with  a  shock  of  surprise 
and  dismay  to  those  who  have  been  prosper- 
ing on  "  giving  the  people  what  they  want," 
a  tremendous  slump  in  theatricals.  At  pres- 
ent, it  is  confined  to  the  East,  and  the  dis- 
tracted managers,  with  dead  plays  falling 
around  them  thick  as  leaves  in  Vallambrosa, 
and  with  some  of  the  best-known  players  in 
the  East  shutting  up  shop,  are  trying  to  ac- 
count for  the  unanticipated  depression. 

They  have  mentioned  the  Wall  Street  crisis, 
the  election,  hard  times,  the  unaccountable 
caprices  of  the  theatre-going  public,  and,  in 
New  York,  the  unnecessary  addition  of  five 
new  theatres  to  the  regular  number. 

The  seriousness  of  the  situation  is  em- 
phasized by  the  fact  that  ten  first-class  dra- 
matic companies  have  closed  their  seasons 
prematurely  since  the  regular  winter  season 
began.  Among  others.  Julia  Marlowe,  playing 
in  Esmond's  "  Fools  of  Nature " ;  Arthur 
Byron,  with  Clyde  Fitch's  new-old  play. 
"  Major  Andre  "  ;  Nat  Goodwin,  in  an  elab- 
orate prodi  ction  of  "  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream  "  ;*  Tcnry  Dixey ;  Robert  Edeson  ; 
Edward  f  'irrigan  ;  Jessie  Mi  M ward ;  and 
i  'i    I'.nney  arc  some  of  the  well-known 


players  who  have  either  temporarily  retired 
from  acting  in  plays  that  fail  to  draw,  or  have 
been  forced  to  substitute  othe'rs  that  are 
passe,  but  are  more  certain  financial  factors. 
Arthur  Byron  has  given  up  starring,  and 
has  become  May  Mannering's  leading  man. 
Although  thousands  of  dollars  were  spent  in 
the  production  of  "  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream,"  the  play  will  be  withdrawn,  and  Nat 
Goodwin  will  be  sent  out  in  a  trifling  farce, 
called  "  My  Wife's  Husbands."  When  Irving 
left  New  York  to  go  on  the  road,  alarmed 
at  the  ominous  outlook,  he  prudently  cut 
prices — the  first  time  during  any  of  his  visits 
to  America  that  he  has  ever  charged  less  than 
three  dollars  a  seat. 

In  the  meantime,  other  plays  which  started 
with  considerable  prestige,  and  whose  backers 
had  every  hope  of  success,  have  fallen  flat. 
William  Crane's  new  play,  "  The  Spenders," 
dramatized  by  E.  E.  Rose,  from  Wilson's 
popular  novel  of  the  same  name,  has  turned 
out  to  be  a  poor  piece  of  mechanical  stage- 
craft, with  the  characteristic  American  vi- 
tality, which  gave  the  book  its  vogue,  in  great 
part  evaporated.  The  acting  of  Crane  is  the 
main  attraction,  the  play  figuring  merely  as  a 
rattling  vehicle  for  carrying  off  his  broad 
humor    and    hearty    pathos. 

The  dramatization  of  Onoto  Watanna's 
"  A  Japanese  Nightingale,"  which,  tt  was 
hoped,  would  repeat  the  success  of  "A  Dar- 
ling of  the  Gods,"  is  suffering  from  imperfect 
circulation  of  the  pedal  extremities. 

Mrs.  Humphry  Ward's  novel,  "  Lady, 
Rose's  Daughter,"  which  was  so  widely  read 
and  discussed  as  to  make  its  popularity  in 
dramatic  form  almost  a  certainty,  if  there 
is  such  a  thing  as  certainty  in  the  theatrical 
business,  has  excited  only  a  languid  interest. 
The  play,  although  performed  by  a  first-class 
company,  is  pronounced  by  the  critics  to  be 
dull  and  platitudinous. 

Whether  this  alarming  aggregation  of  fail- 
ures has  been  caused  only  by  the  intrinsic 
weakness  of  the  plays,  or  has  its  root  in  other 
conditions,  it  is  impossible  to  say. 

One  of  the  New  York  managers  thinks  the 
mediocre  quality  of  the  attractions,  and  a 
passing  reluctance  of  the  public  to  spend 
money  on  amusements,  is  the  cause.  He  ad- 
vocates meeting  present  conditions  by  a  tem- 
porary reduction  of  prices,  which  can  be  re- 
stored to  their  former  basis  when  the  present 
depression  has  passed.  This  gentleman  un- 
.  warily  makes  the  admission  that  managers 
will  still  be  enabled  to  make  a  sufficient 
margin  of  profit  after  reducing  from  two 
dollars  to  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  a  seat. 
The  query  suggests  itself:  If  prices  are  once 
lowered,  will  it  be  an  equally  simple  matter 
to  raise  them  again  ?  We  hope  not.  No  one 
grudges  the  theatrical  manager  his  profits, 
provided  they  are  gained  in  the  pursuit  of  art. 
But  so  long  as  high  prices  prevail,  it  is  always 
possible  to  substitute  first-class  spectacle  for 
first-class  art. 

W.  B.  Yeats,  the  Irish  poet,  who,  during  a 
recent  interview  in  New  York,  advanced  some 
very  true  and  trenchant  and  some  rather  im- 
practicable ideas  on  the  subject  of  modern 
drama,  declares  acting  to  be  impossible  in 
theatres  of  the  present  day.  "  There  is,"  he 
says,  "  an  enormous  stage  and  enormous  set- 
ting, reducing  the  actors  to  a  picturesque 
group  in  the  foreground  of  a  landscape  paint- 
ing, and  a  very  poor  painting  it  is." 

Mr.  Yeats,  who  is  president  of  the  society 
of  the  Irish  National  Theatre,  declares  the 
English  theatre  demoralizing  "  because  the 
illogical  thinking  and  insincere  feeling  we  call 
bad  writing  makes  the  mind  timid  and  the 
heart  effeminate." 

In  other  words,  the  day  of  dramatic  master- 
pieces, for  a  time  at  least,  is  over.  It  seems 
to  us,  out  here,  contemplating  the  situation 
from  a  distance,  that  there  is  nothing  at 
present  to  bind  the  people  closely  to  the  the- 
atre ;  nothing  strong,  vital,  or  commanding 
in  the  drama  of  to-day,  around  which  their 
enthusiasms  may  cling,  or  from  which  their 
ideals  may  draw  strength  and  beauty.  Nearly 
everybody  is  capable  of  ideals  and  generous 
emotions.  Do  you  remember,  in  "  Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin,"  how  the  brute  overseer,  Le- 
gree,  fumed  and  protested  when  he  read  of 
the  cruelty  of  the  warden  of  an  English 
prison?  Reasoning  from  the  same  premises, 
there  is  hope  even  for  the  man  whose  present 
idea  of  dramatic  enjoyment  is  to  listen  to  the 


stage  Irishman,  l!  .aging  "coon,"  or  the 
Dutch    comediar  ve    him    something    that 

ceases    merely     1  '    e    his    risibles,    some- 

thing that  finds  uie  way  to  his  heart,  and 
thrills  the  immortal  soul  of  him,  and  he  will 
thirst  for  a  second  taste  of  the  inspiring 
draught. 

Easier  said  than  done,  however.  It  is  one 
thing  to  want  and  another  to  have. 

Yet,  to  the  dispassionate  observer,  who  is 
not  running  a  theatre  or  hunting  for  a  the- 
atrical engagement,  there  is  something  dis- 
tinctly encouraging  in  the  present  situation. 
The  whole  industrial  world  seems  to  be  go- 
ing "  on  strike."  Who  knows  but  what  the 
striking  microbe  has  infected  theatrical  au- 
diences ?  Perhaps  they,  too,  are  subcon- 
sciously going  "  on  strike  "  against  the  poor, 
pitiful,  pernicious,  deceitful,  shallow,  me- 
chanical stuff  which  to-day  passes  for  drama, 
and  pretends  to  represent  life. 

Involuntary,  unpremeditated,  and  widely 
extended  movements  of  this  kind  generally 
mean  something.  It  is  not  merely  chance  that 
popular  players,  and  pieces  by  popular  dra- 
matists, fail  to  draw.  It  is  apparent  that 
the  managers,  by  instituting  and  adhering  to 
low  standards  of  art,  have  failed  to  make  the 
theatres  necessary  to  the  people. 

As  a  contrast  to  the  general  reluctance  in 
New  York  to  buy  theatre  tickets,  note  the 
disposition  of  this  same  New  York  public  to 
spend  liberally  where  they  are  promised  mas- 
terpieces. So  far,  the  receipts  for  the  "  Parsi- 
fal "  performances  average  twelve  thousand 
dollars  for  each  one,  a  sum  which  assures 
Heinrich  Conreid  of  financial  success  in  his 
tremendous   undertaking. 

The  discouraging  feature  of  present  condi- 
tions is  the  absence  of  dramatic  masterpieces ; 
the  encouraging  aspect  is  the  need  of  them. 
This  is  an  epoch  of  literary  fecundity,  of  fa- 
cile cleverness  without  depth  or  solidity. 
What  is  not  in  writers  can  not  come  out. 
But  let  us  hope  that  the  need  for  truth  and 
sincerity,  for  stimulating  thought,  for  power- 
ful expression,  will  bring  these  qualities  to 
light. 

To  quote  from  one  of  Frank  Norris's  essays 
on  novel-writing  some  thoughts  which  will 
apply  equally  well  to  play-writing :  "  The 
difficult  thing  is  to  get  at  the  life  immediately 
around  you — the  very  life  in  which  you  move. 
No  romance  in  it?  No  romance  in  you,  poor 
fool.  As  much  romance  on  Michigan  Avenue 
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Two  weeks.  Beginning  next  Monday,  December  14th, 
matinge  Saturday,  special  matinee  Christmas  Day, 
F.  C.  Whitney  presents 

UULU      GL.ASER 

in  Stange  and  Edwards's  dainty  comic  opera, 

DOLL.Y     VARDEN 

Beautiful   costumes.     Magnificent  scenery.     A  per- 
fect production. 

ALCAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone  "Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

Regular  matinees  Saturday  and   Sunday.     One  week, 
commencing  next  Monday,  December   14th, 
the   famous  American  military- 
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Monday,  December  21st — Blue  Jeans. 


QENTRAL  THEATRE,    phone  South  533 

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Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Week    starting     Monday,    December    14th,    matinees 

Saturday  and  Sunday,    the   masterly 

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Prices — Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
Week  of  December  21st— Alphonse  and  Gaston. 


QRAND  OPERA  HOUSE. 

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ginning to-morrow  night,  J.  H.  STODDARDT 
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THE     BONNIB     BRIER     BUSH 

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Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee,  December  13th. 
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Joan  Haden's  "  Cvcle  of  Love";  Franceses  Redding 
and  Company;  Hines  and  Remington;  Bonner;  the 
Brittons;  Orpheum  motion  pictures;  and  tremendous 
success  of  Pauline  Hall.  Next — The  great  Orpheum 
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box  seats,  50c.  Matinees  Wednesday,  Thursday,  Sat- 
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STAGE   GOSSIP. 


Lulu  Glaser  in  "Dolly  Varden." 
The  dainty  singing  comedienne,  Lulu 
Glaser,  who  has  not  been  here  since  she 
visited  us  ten  years  ago  with  Francis 
Wilson,  will  make  her  stellar  debut  in  San 
Francisco  at  the  Columbia  Theatre  on  Monday 
night  in  "  Dolly  Varden,"  the  successful  new 
comic  opera  by  Stanislaus  Stange  and  Julian 
Edwards.  The  period  of  the  opera  is  about 
J  730,  when  George  the  First  was  on  the 
throne.  The  plot — for  it  is  claimed  that  this 
comic  opera  actually  has  a  plot — revolves  about 
a  young  country  girl  left  to  the  care  of 
a  crusty  old  bachelor,  who  covets  her  fortune 
and  hopes  to  win  her  for  his  wife.  At  the 
beginning  of  the  play,  Dolly  is  brought  to 
London  to  be  present  at  the  wedding  of  her 
guardian's  sister.  Fairfax,  fearful  that  she 
might  fall  in  love  with  some  young  man, 
keeps  her  practically  a  prisoner,  and  decrees 
that,  when  she  goes  out  for  the  air,  she  must 
do  so  in  a  sedan-chair.  Dolly,  in  a  petulant 
mood,  kicks  the  bottom  out  of  her  conveyance, 
so  that  all  that  is  visible  of  her  is  her  dainty 
feet  and  ankles.  Captain  Belleville,  of  the 
army,  who  sees  this  strange  spectacle,  falls  in 
love  with  the  feet  and  ankles,  and  follows  her 
to  the  garden  of  Beauchamp  Towers.  There 
he  succeeds  in  meeting  Dolly,  and,  of  course, 
an  attachment  springs  up  between  the  two. 
The  rest  of  the  story  hinges  on  the  en- 
deavors of  the  crusty  old  bachelor  to  keep  the 
lovers  apart.  Needless  to  say,  he  fails,  and 
all  ends  happily.  In  Miss  Glaser's  company 
are  Harry  Girard,  Harold  Blake.  W.  H.  Fitz- 
Gerald.  John  Dunsmure,  Bergh  Morrison, 
George  Head.  Lillian  Walbridge,  Emmalyn 
Lackey,  Lotta  Gale,  and  a  large  and  effective 
chorus.  During  Miss  Glaser's  two  weeks'  en- 
gagement the  Columbia  Theatre  orchestra  will 
be  increased  to  double  its  present  size.  There 
will   be  no   Sunday  performances. 


J.  H.  Stoddart  at  the  Grand. 
The  patrons  of  the  Grand  Opera  House  are 
to  be  given  a  treat  next  week,  when  James 
H.  Stoddart,  the  veteran  actor,  will  appear 
in  Tames  Mac  Arthur's  dramatization  of  Ian 
Maclaren's  "  Beside  the  Bonnie  Brier  Bush." 
Popular  prices  will  prevail,  although  the  cast 
and  scenery  will  be  practically  the  same  as  at 
the  Columbia  Theatre  last  September.  Mr. 
Stoddart's  Lachlan  Campbell  is  a  masterly 
characterization,  and  the  antics  of  Posty — 
again  impersonated  by  Reuben  Fax — make  an 
admirable  foil  to  the  pathetic  sufferings  of 
the  hard-hearted  Scot,  which  dominate  the 
play.  In  each  of  the  three  scenes — the  ex- 
terior of  Lachlan  Campbell's  cottage,  the  liv- 
ing-room, and  the  beeches  at  Drumtochty — 
the  scenic  artist  has  admirably  caught  the 
Scottish  atmosphere,  and  this,  in  conjunction 
with  the  always  intelligible  dialect,  the 
pretty  costumes,  the  introduction  of  the  old 
Scotch  ballads,  and  suggestive  light  effects, 
heightens  the  illusion,  so  that  the  spectator 
does  not  have  to  stretch  his  imagination  far 
to  feel  that  he  is  really  in  the  midst  of  the 
Highland  people,  pictured  so  charmingly  by 
Maclaren,  Crockett,  Barrie,  and  other  writers. 

The  Orpheum's  New  Bill. 
Joan  Hadenfeldt — a  statuesque  San  Fran- 
cisco beauty — will  make  her  vaudeville  debut 
at  the  Orpheum  next  week  in  "  A  Cycle  of 
Love,"  described  as  "  a  little  chapter  of  pic- 
torial surprises  based  on  the  masterpieces  of 
world-famous  painters  and  illustrating  every 
phase  of  the  tender  passion."  It  begins  with 
"  The  Birth  of  Love,"  by  Vautier ;  and  is  fol- 
lowed by  the  four  seasons  of  love.  "  Cupid's 
Conquest,"  by  Lefler ;  "Temptation,"  by 
Bougereau ;  "  Love's  Chastisement,"  by  Hy- 
nais ;  and  "  Chilly  Cupid,"  by  Aubert.  The 
first  tempest  of  the  heart  is  shown  in  love's 
interlude,  "  Cupid,  the  Pilot,"  by  Knaus,  and 
the  cycle  closes  with  the  triumphal  finale, 
"  Why  Love  Is  King."  Each  song  will  be 
illustrated    with    a    sort    of    living   picture     in 


which  a  handsome  young  woman  and  a  pretty 
child  will  pose.  During  the  progress  of  the 
cycle  Miss  Hadenfeldt  will  wear  five  different 
gowns,  each  of  them  symbolic  of  the  great 
love  theme.  The  other  new-comers  are  Henri 
Humberti,  a  comedy  juggler,  and  Lotta  and 
Belle  Tobin,  who  perform  on  a  variety  of  in- 
struments, their  selections  ranging  from  popu- 
lar to  classical  music.  Those  retained  from 
this  week's  bill  are  Pauline  Hall,  in  new  vocal 
selections  ;  Francesca  Redding,  in  "  The  Cattle 
Queen  "  ;  Hines  and  Remington  ;  Joe  and  Sadie 
Britton,  an  entertaining  colored  couple;  and 
Bonner,    "  the   horse   with   the   human   brain." 

"The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me." 
David  Belasco  and  Franklyn  Fyles's 
frontier  play,  "  The  Girl  I  Left  Behind  Me," 
is  to  be  revived  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre  next 
week.  It  is  a  welcome  variation  from  the 
comedies  which  have  recently  been  offered, 
and  provides  enough  thrills  to  satisfy  the  most 
ardent  lover  of  melodrama.  In  fact,  the 
episode  of  the  little  garrison  in  the  stockade, 
standing  off  the  Blackfoot  hostiles,  and  the 
rescue  at  the  crucial  moment  by  a  resistless 
dash  of  cavalry,  is  as  graphic  and  stirring  as 
any  similar  scene  introduced  into  Augustus 
Thomas's  more  modern  Western  dramas.  The 
cast  will  include  Juliet  Crosby  as  Lucy, 
James  Durkin  as  Lieutenant  Hawks  worth, 
and  Adele  Block  as  Kate  Kennion.  George 
Osbourne,  George  Webster,  Luke  Conness, 
and  Harry  Hilliard  fill  the  military  roles, 
with  Fred  Butler  as  the  renegade  Scar  Brow, 
Frances  Starr  as  Wilbur's  Ann,  John  B. 
Maher  as  Dr.  Penwick,  and  Anita  Allen  as 
Fawn  Afraid.  On  December  21st  an  elaborate 
and  realistic  production  of  Joseph  Arthur's 
sensational  comedy  of  Indiana  life,  "  Blue 
Jeans,"  will  be  offered. 

"i-O-U"  at  Fischer's. 
Judson  Brusie's  clever  travesty  on  the  un- 
ions and  their  methods,  "  I-O-U."  has  settled 
down  to  a  prosperous  run  at  Fischer's  The- 
atre. Next  week,  Barney  Bernard,  so  long 
a  favorite  at  the  cozy  little  O'Farrell  Street 
theatre,  is  to  be  succeeded  by  Allen  Curtis, 
a  Hebrew  impersonator  of  note,  who  has 
played  in  many  of  the  original  Weber  and 
Fields  burlesques  in  New  York.  On  Tuesday 
afternoon,  the  benefit  for  the  Press  Club  will 
take  place.  Besides  the  regular  bill,  the  pro- 
gramme will  include  a  number  of  specialties 
and  features  expressly  gotten  up  by  some 
of  the  club  members. 

At  the  Central. 
John  Arthur  Fraser's  tale  of  border  out- 
laws, "  The  Scout's  Revenge,"  is  to  be  given 
at  the  Central  Theatre  on  Monday  night.  The 
scenes  are  laid  in  Indian  Territory  and  North- 
ern Texas,  and  the  plot  revolves  about  a 
brave-hearted  scout,  who  loves  a  wealthy 
heiress,  and.  after  a  succession  of  thrilling 
adventures,  succeeds  in  winning  her  heart  and 
hand.  A  minor  love-story  runs  through  the 
play,  of  which  the  Central's  trustworthy  press- 
agent  says:  "If  you  enjoy  the  'calf  love' 
of  comedy  lovers,  and  want  a  hearty  laugh, 
you  should  observe  the  antics  of  Betty  and  her 
Benjamin  in  '  The  Scout's  Revenge,'  for  no 
funnier  couple  ever  happened  in  a  play  than 
these." 


Dr.  Charles  W.  Decker,  Dentist, 

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Authorized  Capital 93,000,000 

Paid-up  Capital  and  Reserve 1,725,000 

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Check  accounts  solicited.  Legal  depository  for  monev 
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Guarantee  Capital  and  Surplus 
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Deposits,  June  30,  1003 


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dent, Daniel  Meyer;  Second  Vice-President,  H. 
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eral Attorney,  VV.  S.  Goodfellow. 

Board  of  Directors— .John  Lloyd,  Daniel  Mever,  H. 
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Deposits.  July  l,  1903 

Paid-  Up  Capital 

Reserve   Fund 

Contingent  Fund 


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1,000,000 

247,65*' 

625,150 


W.  C.  B.  DE   FREMERY, 
ROBERT  WATT,  Vice-Presdts. 
LOVELL  WHITE,  R.  M.  WELCH. 

Cashier.  Asst.  Cashiet. 

Directors—  Henry  F.  Allen,  Robert  Watt,  William  A. 
Magee.  George  C.  Bnardmau,  W.C.  B.  de  Fremery  Fred 
H.  Beaver,  C.  O.  G.  Miller,  Jacob  Barth,  E.  B.  Pond. 

SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK 

Mills  Building,  222  Montgomery  St. 
Established  March,  1S71. 

Authorized   Capital   $1,000,000.00 

Paid-up  Capital 300-000.00 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits         200,000.00 

Deposits,  June  :I0,  1903 4.128.6G0.11 

Interest  paid  on  deposits.     Loans  made. 

William  Babcock     President 

S.  L.  Abbot.  Jr       Vice-President 

FredW.  Rav   Secretary 

Directors— William  Alvord,  William  Babcock.  Adam 
Grant,  R.  H.  Pease.  L.  F.  Monteagle.  S.  L.  Abbot.  Jr. 
Warren  D.  Clark.  E.  J.  McCutrhen,  O.  D.  Baldwin. 

FRENCH  SAVINGS  BANK 

315   MONTGOriERY   STREET 

SAIN     FRANCISCO. 


CAPITAL  PAID  CP 8600,000 


Charles  Carpy President 

Arthur  Legallet Vice-President 

Leon  Rncqueraz , Secretary 

Directors— Sylvain  Weill,  J.  A.  Bergerot,  Leon  KaiirT- 
man,  J.  S.  Godeau,  J.  E.  Artigues,  J  Jullien.  J.  M 
Dupas.  O.  Bozio,  J.  B.  Clot. 

the  BANK  OF  CALIFORNIA 


SAN  FRANCISCO. 


S3, 000, 000. 00 


Capital     

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits 
at  the  close  of  business  Oc- 
tober 1,  1903 6,459,637.01 

William  Alvord President 

Charles  R.  Bishop    Vice-President 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

Irving  F.  Moulton  Cashier 

Sam  H.  Daniels ..   Assistant-Cashier 

W"M.  R.  Pentz Assistant-Cashier 

Allen  M.  Clav Secretary 

DIRECTORS: 

William  Alvord President 

James  M.  Allen Attomev-at-Law 

Frank  B.  Anderson Vice-President 

William  Babcock Parrotl  &  Co. 

Charles  R.  Bishop Capitalist 

Antoine  Borkl Ant.  Borel  St  Co.,  Bankers 

Warren  D.  Clark Willliams,  Dimond  &  Co. 

Geo.  E.  Goodman Banker 

Aoam  Grant Murphy,  Grant  &  Co. 

Edward  W.  Hopkins Capitalist 

John  F.  Merrill Holbrook,  Merrill  &  Stetson 

Jacob  Stern Levi  Strauss  &  Co 

Foreign  and  Domestic  Exchange  Bought  and  Sold. 

Commercial  and  Travelers'  Letters  of  Credit  issued, 
available  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 
Correspondence  solicited.    Accounts  invited. 

WELLS  FARQO  &  COMPANY  BANK 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 


Capital,  Surplus,  and   Undi- 
vided Profits   813,500,000.00 

Homer  S.  King,  President.  F.  L.  Lipman. 
Cashier.  Frank  B.  King,  Asst.  Cashier.  Jno.  E. 
Miles,   Asst.  Cashier. 

Branches  -New  York ;  Salt  Lake,  Utah ;  Portland. 
Or. 

Correspondents  throughout  the  world.  General  bank- 
ing business  transacted. 

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ESTABLISHED     1850. 

Cash  Capital 81,000.000 

Cash  Assets   4,734,791 

Surplus  to  Policy-Holders   2,202.635 

COLIN  M.  BOYD,  BENJAMIN  J.  SMITH, 

Agent  for  San  Francisco,  Manager  Pacific 

411  California  Street.  Department. 

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December  14,  1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Atlanta's  Chamber  of  Commerce  is  not  a 
worm,  but  it  has  at  least  one  of  the  character- 
istics of  that  wriggling  thing.  It  has  turned. 
At  a  dinner  given  by  it  on  Thanksgiving  eve, 
Governor  Terrell,  Mayor  Evan  P.  Howell. 
Clark  Howell,  and  John  Temple  Graves  were 
suffered  to  be  present  only  on  condition  that 
they  were  not  to  speak.  These  gentlemen 
constitute  Atlanta's  regular  corps  of  after- 
dinner  orators.  There  has  been  no  dinner  in 
Atlanta  within  the  memory  of  the  present 
generation  without  a  speech  from  one  or  more 
of  the  gentlemen  whose  names  have  been 
mentioned.  Evan  P.  Howell  and  Clark 
Howell  are  two  of  the  wittiest  men  in  the 
United  States,  and  Mr.  Graves  has  a  reputa- 
tion as  an  orator  that  is  national.  But  the 
business  men  of  Atlanta  considered  it  no 
more  than  fair  that  somebody  else  should 
have  a  chance  for  once,  and  that  the  four 
men  who  have  been  accustomed  to  do  all  the 
talking  at  public  functions  should  have  an 
opportunity  to  find  out  what  it  is  to  be  mere 
listeners.  According  to  the  Chicago  Record- 
Herald,  direct  reports  from  the  scene  of 
trouble  indicate  that  the  four  great  talkers 
were  visibly  affected.  Governor  Terrell  being 
so  distressed  that  dignity  alone  kept  him 
from  calling  upon  his  large  staff  of  colonels 
to  rescue  him.  Clark  Howell  is  alleged  to 
have  been  thrice  interrupted  on  his  way  to 
the  fire-escape,  while  Mr.  Graves  is  accused 
of  having  tried  to  insert  plugs  in  his  ears 
while  the  second  speaker  of  the  evening  was 
gradually  working  up  to  a  Lincoln  story.  "  It 
is  agreeable  to  be  able  to  say."  adds  the  Rec- 
ord-Herald, "  that  general  good  feeling  was 
restored  after  the  speechmaking,  and  there 
is  no  reason  to  believe  that  any  permanent 
injury  was  done." 


Because  they  do  not  care  to  be  bothered  with 
the  cares  and  worries  of  a  large  establishment 
for  just  a  few  weeks  during  the  social  season, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Gwynn  Vanderbilt 
have  decided  to  keep  their  New  York  town 
residence  closed,  and  will  occupy  a  modest 
four-thousand-dollar  flat  in  "  The  Warring- 
ton." an  apartment-house  on  Madison  Avenue, 
midway  between  Thirty-Second  and  Thirty- 
Third  Streets.  As  Mr.  Vandervilt  is  worth 
in  the  neighborhood  of  fifty  million  dollars, 
it  may  seem  a  bit  "  skimpy  "  for  him  to  live 
in  so  simple  a  manner.  But  the  truth  of  the 
matter  is  that  he  and  his  wife  intend  really  to 
live  at  Newport  and  only  run  up  to  town 
for  a  week  or  two  at  a  time.  They  have  a 
beautiful  place  at  Newport.  Mr.  Vander- 
bilt's  prize  horses  are  there,  and  both  prefer 
a  life  in  the  country.  Their  little  son  is  be- 
ing brought  up  in  the  most  democratic  way. 
When  in  town,  he  is  taken  for  a  walk  each  day 
in  Madison  Square,  which  is  only  a  few  blocks 
away.  He  is  wheeled  there  in  a  common 
English  perambulator  by  his  nurse,  and  is 
permitted  to  run  about  with  his  dog  and  to  play 
with  the  other  little  children  there.  Mrs. 
Vanderbilt  is  not  at  all  afraid  of  kidnapers, 
and  trusts  entirely  to  the  middle-aged  Ger- 
man-American who  watches  over  the  heir  to 
the   immense   Vanderbilt   fortune. 


The  famous  Gridiron  Club  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  entertained  more  than  one  hundred 
and  sixty  guests  at  its  December  dinner  at 
the  Arlington  Hotel  on  Saturday  last.  The 
evening  was  replete  with  unique  features,  in 
which  public  events  and  the  alleged  ambitions 
and  aspirations  of  statesmen  were  made  sub- 
jects of  burlesque  and  good-natured  ridicule. 
The  initiation  of  three  new  members  afforded 
an  opportunity  to  picture  the  inside  of  a  news- 
paper office,  in  which  the  staff  discussed  meth- 
ods of  interviewing  many  of  the  guests  pres- 
ent. The  Republic  of  Panama  suddenly  ap- 
peared at  the  dinner,  and  was  recognized  by 
the  Republican  elephant  amid  brays  of  the 
Democratic  donkey.  The  Gridiron  Club  flying 
machine  was  brought  in,  and  a  number  of 
prominent  guests  were  given  an  opportunity 
to  test  it,  the  course  being  to  the  White  House, 
but  all  met  with  a  mishap  before  reaching  the 
goal.  Moving  pictures  illustrated  some  recent 
events,  political  and  social.  A  New  York 
policeman  appeared  and  hung  a  red  light  di- 
rectly over  the  place  where  Leader  Murphy, 
of  Tammany,  and  Mayor-Elect  McClellan 
were  sitting.  There  were  a  number  of  bril- 
liant and  witty  speeches,  and  the  evening  was 
interspersed  with  topical  songs. 


A  well-known  amateur  rider  who  knows 
the  feminine  pulse  pretty  well,  says  that  after 
vfeighing  the  matter  for  a  good  while  New 
York  women  are  cominp  out  strongly  in  favor 
of  riding  astride.  She  admits,  however,  that 
this  is  partly  due  to  a  craving  for  novelty. 
"  Since  babyhood,"  she  said  to  a  Sun  reporter, 
"  and  f  )T  many  generations,  every  well  brought 
up  little  girl  has  been  strictly  debarred  from 
the  d'lights  of  shinning  up  a  pole,  climbing 
tre^s  and  straddling  the  banisters.  From  in- 
fanc,  -t  in  polite  circle-  vomen  have  ever- 
1  ly  been  expected  to  sit  sideways.     Can 

■11. ]t-,-  that  given  a  chance  we  are  glad 


to  have  a  try  at  the  other  thing.  Personally 
I  don't  find  a  man's  saddle>  so  comfortable  as 
a  side  saddle,  but  then  I  have  been  riding  one 
of  the  latter  kind  for  years.  I  am  pretty  sure, 
however,  that  a  beginner  would  give  her  pref- 
erence to  the  other.  But  that  is  not  the  point. 
I  think  the  chance  to  enjoy  a  novelty  is  the 
secret  of  many  a  woman's  determination  to 
ride  astride ;  and  even  were  a  man's  saddle 
thoroughly  uncomfortable — which  it  is  not — 
the  result  would  be  exactly  the  same.  I  doubt 
very  much,  though,  whether  the  custom  will 
be  very  long  lived  among  women  here.  In 
the  Far  West  and  in  other  parts  of  the  coun- 
try, where  a  horse  is  about  the  only  means 
of  getting  over  the  ground,  there  are  other 
reasons  to  be  considered,  one  of  which  is  that 
of  the  two  a  man's  saddle  is  far  easier  for  a 
horse,  especially  when  his  route  is  moun- 
tainous or  rough.  Here  women  only  play  at 
riding.  Out  West  they  ride  of  necessity.  Some 
of  us  just  now  are  playing  at  riding  astride, 
a  lot  more  mean  to  have  a  try  at  it,  but  prob- 
ably in  the  end  we  shall  all  go  back  to  first 
principles  and  ride  in  the  old  fashion.  As 
to  riding  astride  being  unhealthful  for  women 
and  unsafe,  I  think  that  is  a  fairy-story  started 
by  the  cranks." 

Ann  Arbor  University  circles  are  scandalized 
over  the  peremptory  dismissal  of  an  upper 
classman  and  a  "  co-ed,"  whose  names  will  not 
be  revealed  by  President  Angell  or  Dean 
Jordan.  The  offense  was  the  admission  of 
the  man  to  the  dressing-room  where  three 
hundred  girls  were  arranging  their  costumes 
for  a  fancy-dress  party  given  by  the 
Woman's  League  of  the  university.  Many  of 
the  girls  at  this  party,  which  was  supposed 
to  be  strictly  private  and  for  women  only, 
were  dressed  as  boys,  and  they  and  their 
friends  are  horrified  by  the  knowledge  that  a 
male  spectator  was  admitted  to  the  dressing- 
room  and  witnessed  all  their  antics.  Much 
latitude  is  granted  at  these  parties,  and  men 
are  strictly  prohibited.  Just  before  the  Thanks- 
giving recess  the  league  gave  a  party,  and 
an  upper  classman,  disguised  as  a  negress, 
gained  admission,  accompanied  by  one  of  the 
"  co-eds."  In  the  course  of  an  hour  or  so  sus- 
picion rested  on  the  "  colored  woman,"  who 
spent  entirely  too  much  time  in  the  dressing- 
room,  and  "she"  was  summoned  into  'Dean 
Jordan's  office.  Mrs.  Jordan  demanded  the 
removal  of  the  headgear  worn  by  the  negress, 
and  discovered  the  impersonation.  She  then 
took  the  man's  name,  and  ordered  him  from 
the  building.  The  "  co-ed  "  who  brought  him  to 
the  hall  was  called  in  and  closely  quizzed, 
with  the  result  that  the  entire  matter  was 
reported  to  President  Angell,  and  the  dismis- 
sals ensued. 

Two  ladies  and  a  baby  furnished  any 
amount  of  fun  for  the  clerks  in  one  of  the  big 
dry-goods  stores  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  the  other 
day.  The  mother  of  the  baby  left  it  in  charge 
of  her  friend,  who  guarded  the  carriage  while 
the  mother  went  to  one  of  the  departments 
to  make  a  purchase.  The  infant  awakened, 
and  not  seeing  its  fond  parent  at  once  began 
a  system  of  rooting  that  would  have  made  a 
football  bunch  dizzy.  The  young  woman, 
knowing  that  the  child  would  never  cease  its 
howling  until  the  mother  was  found,  started 
in  search  of  her.  With  the  screaming  child 
in  her  arms  she  went  down  one  side  of  the 
store  while  the  mother  was  coming  up  the 
other  side.  When  the  mother  found  the 
empty  carriage,  she  at  once  doubled  back 
into  the  store  and  followed  her  friend  around. 
Both  made  the  circuit  of  the  store  twice  before 
a  floor-walker  flagged  them,  and  ended  what 
looked  like  a  six-day-cry-as-you-please. 


The  cost  of  a  commission  in  the  British 
army  is  well  illustrated  in  the  case  of  Lieu- 
tenant and  Riding  Master  Emery,  of  the  Royal 
Irish  Lancers,  who  has  just  gone  into  bank- 
ruptcy, with  liabilities  amounting  to  $3,670. 
Twenty-five  years  ago  he  enlisted  in  the  regi- 
ment as  a  private.  He  gained  an  honorary 
commission  in  1894,  with  an  allowance  of 
$750  to  cover  his  expenses.  He  was  called 
on  to  spend  for  new  clothes  $470,  for  two 
horses  $250,  for  transit  of  family  to  India 
$75,  for  furnishing  quarters  $600,  and  for 
saddlery  $100.  a  total  of  $1,495,  or  $745  more 
than  the  government  allowed  him.  To  help 
out  he  had  to  go  to  a  money-lender  for  a 
considerable  part  of  the  balance,  so  that  he 
was  really  insolvent  from  the  day  he  got  his 
commission. 


George  Alexander's  dual  plea  for  permitting 
people  to  enter  the  best  seats  of  the  London 
theatres  without  wearing  evening  dress  and 
for  removing  hats  has  caused  the  liveliest  of 
discussions.  For  the  first  time,  apparently. 
Londoners  have  learned  that,  aside  from  the 
question  of  requiring  full  evening  dress,  Eng- 
land is  the  only  country  in  which  women  are 
ever  seen  decollete  in  the  theatre.  Mrs. 
Craigie  pleads  for  the  theatre  gown  as  it  is 
known  in  Paris,  New  York,  Berlin,  Bayreuth, 
and  Vienna.  For  ten  months  in  the  year,  she 
urges,  the  theatres  are  so  bleak  that  heavy 
cloaks  have  to  be  incongruously  worn  over  the 
bare  necks. 


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THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 


The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  December  9.  1903. 
were  as  follows  : 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares,  Bid.  Asked 

LosAn.Ry5% 2.°°°    ©  ll2H  i"         "3 

N.  R-  of  Cal.  6%   ..     3.000    ©107^  107        10S 

N.  R.  of  Cal.  5%---  i'.<k>°    ®  ii4M-"5        "4 
Oakl'nd  Transit  6%     1,000    @  117%  117^ 

Pac.  Elect.  Rv.  5%-  12,000    @  106^  106^     106% 

S.  F.  &  S.  J.  Valley 

Ry.  5% I.OOO     @  Il6^  Il6Ji      117 

S.  P.  R.  ol  Arizona 

6%  1909 25,000    @  jo7J4-io7^     107^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  10,000    @  ioSJ£  ioS5£     109 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1912 3.000    @  "5  "4& 

S.  P.  R.  of  Ca!.  5% 

Stpd 29,000    @  io6J£-io6^     106^ 

S.V.  Water6% 17,000    @  106  105^     106% 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Vall'yW.Co       410    @    38^- 39}$      38K      39 

Banks. 
Bank  of  California  10    @  44S  447^ 

Mutual  Savings 5    @  100  100        105 

Powders. 

Giant  Con 10    @    65-      65^      67 

Vigorit 100    @      4#  4  4^ 

Sugars. 
Hawaiian  C.  &S...  25    @    45  44^      45 

HonokaaS.  Co 270    @    13-      13^      1354      13& 

Hutchinson 100    @    10-      ioj^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 

Central  L.  &  P 50    @      4  3%    4% 

Pacific  Gas 44    @    54  5*      54H 

S.  F.  Gas  &  Electric     1,035    @    65^-68^      67^      6S 

Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...  20    @  143  143^     145 

Cal.  Wine  Assn ros    @   91-      92         92         92 

Pac.  Coast  Borax..  12    ©167  167        16S 

The  business  for  the  week  was  small,  with  the  ex 
ception  of  San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric,  about 
1,035  shares  changing  hands.  On  buy  ng  ordeis 
the  stock  sold  up  10  68&,  a  gain  of  three  and  one- 
half  points,  Ihemaiket  closing  weaker  at  67^  bid. 
68  asked. 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  in  better  demand  410 
shares  being  traded  in  at  38  J4  10,39}^. 

The  sugars  have  been  quiet,  and  have  held  their 
own  in  price. 


INVESTT1ENTS. 

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A.  W.  BLOW, 

Member  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange. 

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Christmas  Day  dispense  cheer, 
comfort,  and  hospitality 


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December  14,  1903. 


THE       ARGONAUT 


405 


STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


There  has  always  been  a  little  friendly 
enmity  between  W.  S.  Gilbert  and  a  rival 
humorist,  Sir  Francis  Burnand,  the  present 
editor  of  Punch.  Once  at  a  dinner  table 
some  one  said:  "I  suppose  you  often  get 
good  things  sent  in  by  outsiders."  "  Occa- 
sionally," answered  Burnand.  "  Then  why 
don't   you   print   them?"    said   Gilbert. 


One  of  the  most  striking  anecdotes  told  in 
Hermann  Klein's  "  Thirty  Years  of  Musical 
Life  in  London,"  relates  to  Anton  Seidl's 
first  interview  with  Wagner,  in  the  library  at 
Wahnfried.  Seidl  found  the  room  dark ; 
and,  imagining  nobody  was  there,  he  pulled 
out  his  letter  of  introduction,  and  began 
silently  rehearsing  the  speech  he  had  pre- 
pared. Suddenly,  from  out  of  a  gloomy 
corner,  Wagner  appeared,  and  Seidl  was  so 
nervous  that  he  could  not  bring  out  a  sen- 
tence of  his  speech.  This  proved  to  be  his 
salvation,  for  Wagner,  declaring,  "  If  you  can 
work  as  well  as  you  can  hold  your  tongue, 
you  will  do,"  engaged  him  on  the  spot. 


The  late  Gustav  von  Moser,  the  successful 
German  author  of  comedies,  whose  name  is 
best  remembered  in  this  country  in  connection 
with  "  The  Private  Secretary,"  used  to  show 
his  friends,  a  little  crystal  urn  in  which  he 
ordained  that  his  ashes  were  to  rest  after  his 
cremation.  "  From  every  one  of  the  many 
laurel  wreaths  showered  on  him  after  the 
premiere  of  a  new  success,"  so  the  story 
goes,  "  he  used  to  pluck  a  single  leaf,  burn  it, 
arid  lay  its  ashes  in  the  urn.  '  And  so,  you 
see,'  he  was  wont  to  say  with  his  sunny  smile, 
'  one  of  these  days  I  shall  really  be  resting 
on  my  laurels.'  And  so  it  came  about,  for 
his  whimsical  request  was  scrupulously  ob- 
served." 

It  is  related  that  a  Democratic  member 
once  ventured  to  challenge  one  of  "  Uncle 
Joe"  Cannon's  statements.  "Mr.  Blank  is 
mistaken,"  sharply  replied  Mr.  Cannon.  This 
form  of  denial  was  contrary  to  the  rules  be- 
cause it  mentioned  a  member  by  name  in- 
stead of  as  "  the  gentleman  from  Indiana." 
The  offended  Democrat  called  the  Speaker's 
attention  to  the  breach  of  rules.  The  Speaker 
explained,  and  instructed  the  new  member  to 
proceed  in  order.  With  a  sweeping  and 
courteous  bow,  which  has  since  become  fa- 
mous, Mr.  Cannon  said :  "  If  the  venerable 
and  august  gentleman  who  is  such  a  stickler 
for  the  rules  will  bear  with  me,  I  beg  to  in- 
form him  that  he  lies  under  a  mistake." 


Professor  T.  N.  Carver  tells  an  amusing 
story  of  a  clergyman  friend,  who,  upon  one 
of  his  trips  through  the  West,  observed  that 
almost  every  man  he  met  and  spoke  with  used 
profanity.  Finally  he  found  one  man  who 
talked  to  him  for  twenty  minutes  without 
using  an  oath.  As  they  were  about  to  sep- 
arate the  clergyman  shook  hands  with  the 
stranger,  and  said:  "You  don't  know  how 
glad  I  am  to  have  a  chance  to  have  a  talk 
with  a  man  like  you.  You  are  the  first  man 
I  have  met  for  three  days  who  could  talk  for 
five  minutes  without  swearing."  The  stranger 
was  so  surprised  and  shocked  at  this  de- 
plorable state  of  affairs  that  he  instantly  and 
innocently  ejaculated:  "Well,  I'll  be 
damned  I" 

General  Gordon  says  that,  on  one  occasion 
during  the  Civil  War,  a  threatened  attack  of 
Federal  troops  brought  together  a  number  of 
Confederate  officers  from  several  commands. 
After  a  conference  as  to  the  proper  disposition 
of  troops  for  resisting  the  expected  assault,  the 
Southern  officers  withdrew  into  a  small  log 
hut  standing  near,  and  united  in  prayer  to 
Almighty  God  for  His  guidance.  As  they 
assembled,  one  of  the  generals  was  riding 
within  hailing  distance,  and  General  Harry 
Heth  of  Hill's  corps  stepped  to  the  door  of 
the  log  cabin  and  called  to  him  to  come  and 
unite  with  his  fellow- officers  in  prayer.  The 
mounted  general  did  not  understand  the  na- 
ture of  General  Heth's  invitation,  and  re- 
plied:  "No,  thank  you,  general;  no  more  at 
present;  I've  just  had  some." 


A  writer  in  Country  Life  in  America  relates 
the  following  ghost  story,  which,  he  declares, 
is  founded  on  fact :  A  young  woman, 
at  a  country  house-party  one  Christmas, 
had  been  thrilled  with  delicious  hor- 
rors by  tales  of  ghosts  and  hobgoblins 
told  by  certain  of  her  fellow-guests 
about  a  generous  fire  just  before  they  sep- 
arated for  the  night.  The  next  morning  she 
appeared  at  the  breakfast  table  ready  for  de- 
parture, and,  when  pressed  to  explain  her 
reason  for  going,  finally  confessed  that  she 
was  afraid  to  sleep  under  that  roof  another 
night.  She  said  that  about  midnight  she  was 
awakened  by  a  stealthy  step,  and  to  her 
horror  saw  a  spectre,  all  in  white,  at  the  foot 


of  her  bed,  and  it  raised  its  claw-like  hands 
and  actually  drew  the  coverlet  off  the  bed. 
There  was  no  hallucination  about  it,  for  the 
coverlet  was  gone !  While  the  interest  was 
at  its  height,  a  belated  breakfaster  appeared, 
and  remarked,  genially :  "  How  cold  it  was 
last  night.  Knowing  that  the  room  next  to 
mine  was  unoccupied,  I  took  the  liberty  of 
helping  myself  to  an  extra  covering  from 
there  !" 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 


The  Links  in  Winter. 
From  tee  to  tee,  across  the  sweet. 
Warm  grass  that  yielded  to  my  feet. 
With  breeze  and  sunshine  all  aglow, 
Short  skirt,  head  bare — I  like  it  so — 
I  drove,  when  summer  days  were  fleet. 

Alas!  those  days  again  to  gTeet 
Where   Sport   and   Pleasure,   laughing,   meet! 
Blithe  as  the  birds,  no  more  I  go 
From   tee  to  tee! 

Now,  gloved  and  bonneted  complete, 
With  swaying  crowds,  in  hum  and  heat, 
Where  tea  and  gossip  mingled  flow. 
Joyless,   but   smiling,   comme   il    faut, 
I  drive — along  the  rattling  street — 
From  tea  to  tea! 
— Margaret  Johnson   in    the  Smart  Set. 

The  City  Sportsman. 
He  purchased  a  dog  and  a  hunting  suit,   a  brand 
new  gun  and  a  lot  of  shells; 
He    wrote    for   terms   to   a    farmer    friend,    enlist- 
ing  a    trusty   guide. 
And  the  day  the  hunting  season  began  he  hustled 
away,  a  happy  man, 
Loaded    down,   with    sportsman    things,    none    of 
which   he  had  tried — 

And  there  he  found. 
Upon  the  ground 
Others,  like  him,  full  of  hope  and  pride. 

They   took   the   field   like   an    army   corps,   marching 
through  stubble  and  brush. 
The  guide  was  brave,  though  he  faced  their  guns, 
and  promised  that  he  would  stay; 
-But  each   man  knew  the  danger  that  lies   in   wait 
for  a  man  who  closes  his  eyes 
When   he  shoots,  so  they  kept  theirs  open  wide 
and  marched  with  joy  to  the  fray; 
And  then  at  last, 
As  the  morning  passed, 
A  quail  rose  up  and  whirred  away. 

Each   gun   went  up  and  the  guide  dropped  down; 
the  dogs  stood  still  in  their  tracks; 
The  triggers   were  pulled  and  the   guns'   reports 
resembled  a  cannon's  roar. 
The    poor    little    quail    turned    a   somersault — 'twas 
shot  clear  through  to  heaven's  blue  vault — 
And    they    gathered    around    to    jollify    at    their 
glorious  gunshot  score. 

(Though  none  could  tell 
Whose  shotted  shell 
Had  spilled  the  little  fowl's  gore!) 

And  that  was  the  only  bird  they  saw;   but,  never- 
theless, to-day 

They  have  him  stuffed  and  placed  in  a  case  in   a 
club  not  far  away. 

And  they  point  with  pride  to  this  patent  fact — they 
hunted  with  so  much  care 

They  shot  neither  guide  nor   friend  nor  dog — and 
that  is  a  record  rare! 
— Jack  Appleton  in   Cincinnati  Times-Star. 


Funston— Little,  but  Oh  My  ! 

General  Frederick  Funston  has  figured  in  a 
good  many  stories,  true  and  untrue,  but  there 
is  one  that  Governor  Taft  tells  on  him  which 
has  never  yet  found  its  way  into  type. 

Late  in  1901,  both  Governor  Taft  and 
General  Funston  were  patients  at  the  same 
time  in  the  First  Reserve  Military  Hospital 
at  Manila.  The  latter  was  in  a  very  fair 
state  of  convalescence  from  an  operation  for 
appendicitis, when  Governor  Taft  was  brought 
into  the  surgical  ward  for  an  intestinal  op- 
eration. A  few  days  after  the  operation, 
there  came  suddenly,  one  morning  before  seven 
o'clock,  the  sharpest  earthquake  shock  that 
Manila  has  suffered  under  American  occupa- 
tion. It  lasted  unusually  long,  too — over  forty 
seconds,  in  fact.  The  old  First  Reserve  Hos- 
pital is  not  the  finest  of  the  rather  poor  public 
buildings  Spain  left  in  Manila,  and,  consider- 
ing its  crumbling  condition,  the  best  thing 
that  can  be  said  for  it  is  that  it  is  only  a 
one-story  affair.  At  the  first  tremors  of  the 
shock,  everybody  involuntary  rushed,  more  or 
less  clothed,  from  the  little  rooms  of  the  nar- 
row officers'  ward  into  the  area.  General 
Funston  emerged  from  his  room  to  find  that 
the  hospital  stewards,  like  all  the  rest,  had 
taken  refuge  in  the  free  air.  One  glance 
showed  him  that  Governor  Taft's  room,  next 
his,  had  thus  hastily  been  abandoned.  Throw- 
ing up  his  arms  in  signal,  he  called  back  the 
hospital  attendants  to  the  tune  of  a  very  em- 
phatic kind  of  English,  the  sort  most  readily 
understood  in  such  emergencies.  Before  yet 
the  last  quake  had  come,  he  was  rushing  into 
Governor  Taft's  room,  saying:  "  I  guess  we'll 
have    to    carry    you    out   of    here,     governor." 


All  that  the  six-footer  governor,  who  even 
then  carried  on  his  massive  frame  over  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  of  flesh,  saw  to  back 
up  this  statement  was  the  diminutive  Funs- 
ton, who  could  just  look  over  the  foot  of  his 
bed.  Serious  as  the  occasion  was,  and  earn- 
est as  the  general  was,  the  governor  could  not 
resist  a  laugh  as  he  pointed  out  to  his  rescuer 
that  the  task  was  no  light  one.  But  he  after- 
ward said:  "Do  you  know,  I  believe  Funs- 
ton would  have  lugged  me  out  somehow,  if 
the  earthquake  hadn't  stopped  as  it  did,  even 
though  the  stewards  hadn't  followed  him  in. 
He  looked  mightily  as  if  he  meant  it." 

James  A.   Le  Roy. 


The  Mother's  Friend 

when  natures  supply  fails  is  Borden's  Eagle  Brand 
Condensed  Milk.  It  is  a  cow's  milk  adapted  to  in 
fants.  according  to  the  highest  scientific  methods. 
An  infant  fed  on  Eagle  Brand  will  show  a  steady 
gain  in  weight. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER 


From    Official     Report     of    Alexander     G.     McAdie 
District   Forecaster. 


Max.  Mitt.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

December  3d 64  48  .00  Clear 

4th 62  52  .00  Clear 

5th 58  44  .00  Clear 

6th 58  46  .00  Clear 

"  7th 56  48  .00  Clear 

8th 60  44  .00  Clear 

9th 58  46  .00  Clear 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  F.  M.,  (or 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  22 

Coptic Friday,  Jan.    15,    1904 

Gaelic Wednesday,  Feb.  10,  1904 

Doric  (Calling  at  Manila). Saturday,  Mch  5,  1904 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 

OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  |  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.    Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,  Dec.  19,   1903, 

at  11  a.  u. 
S.   S.  Sierra,  for  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland 

and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Dec.  31,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti.  Jan.  6,  1904,  at  n  a.  m. 

J.  D.  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 

NEW   YORK-SOUTHAMPTON— LONDON. 

St.  Paul  ....Dec.  26, 9.30am  I  St.  Louis Jan. 9, 9.30am 

Phil'd'lphia  Jan.  2,  9.30am  |  New  York.  Jan.  16,9.30am 
Philadelphia—Queeiistown— Liverpool. 

Merion Dec.  26,  2.30  pm  I  Haverford...   .Jan.  9,3  pm 

West'rnland..  .Jan.  2,9am  |  Noordland...  .Jan.  16,  9  am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Minnapolis    Dec.  26,  10am  I  Mesaba Jan. 9,9am 

Minnehaha Jan.  2, 5 am  |  Minnetoiika...Jan.  16,5am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 

DOMINION  LINE. 

Montreal -Liverpool- Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Jan.  2  I  Canada Feb.  6 

Dominion.  Jan.  23  |  Dominion Feb.  27 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 


Zeeland Dec.  26  IVaderland.. 

Finland Jan.  2  1  Kronland  . 


.Jan. 9 
..Jan.  16 


WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YOKK-QUEENSTOWN-LIVERPOOL. 

Teutonic Dec.  23,  noon  I  Celtic Jan.  13,2pm 

Cedric Dec.  30,  1  pm  I  Teutonic. ..  ..Jan.  20,  joam 

Majestic Jan.  6,  10am  |  Cedric Jan  27,  noon 

Boston— Queenstown  —  Li  verpool. 

Cymric Dec.  24,  Jan.  28.  Feb.  25 

Cretic.  Feb.  11,  March  10,  April  7 

Boston    Mediterranean    Di«** 

A20RES-GIERALTAR-NAPLES-GENOA. 

Republic  (new)   Jan.  2,  Feb.  13,  Mar.  26 

Romanic Jan.  16,  Feb.  27,  April  9 

Canopic Jan.  30,  Mar.  12 

C.   D.  TAYLOR,    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 


TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

ORIENTAL  S.  S.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL   JAPANESE    AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 


Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannau 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon  Maru Wednesday,  December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 

America  Maru   .  ..Monday,  .January  25,  1904 

Hongkong  Maru  .  ..Wednesday,  February  17 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates. 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 

421   Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.  H.  AVEKY,  General  Agent. 


IN  NEWSPAPERS! 
ANYWHERB  AT  ANYTIME 
Call   on  or  Write 

|  E.C.  DIKE'S  ADVERTISING  AGEBCil 

124  Sansome  Street 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIF. 


MarpiietteWhiskey 


Marquette  Whiskey  is  named  after  the  famous  ex- 
plorer, James  Marquette,  who  in  1673  discovered  the 
Mississippi  River. 

In  1903  Marquette  Whiskey  enjoys  the  distinc- 
tion of  being  the  purest  and  most  costly  whiskey 
that  is  produced. 

It  costs  you  no  more,  however,  to  drink  Mar- 
quette, no  more  than  the  price  of  cheap  whiskey — 
and  cheap  whiskey  is  poison. 

GROMMES  &  ULLRICH,  Distillers,  Chicago. 

W.  J.  KEARNEY,  Representative, 
400  Battery  Street,  San  Francisco.        Telephone  Main  536. 


THE        A  R  G 


December  14,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Grace 
Martin,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Camilo  Martin,  and 
Mr.  William  Horn. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Viola 
Winter,  daughter  of  Mr.  William  Winter,  of 
New  York,  dean  of  American  dramatic  critics. 
and  Mr.  Fielding  T.  Stilson,  of  Los  Angeles,  a 
member  of  the  Phi  Delta  Theta  Fraternity  of 
the  University  of  California. 

The  engagement  has  been  announced  of 
Miss  Zelda  Tiffany,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  Z.  Tiffany,  of  Sausalito.  and  Mr. 
William  R.  Harrison,  son  of  Mr.  J.  W.  Har- 
rison, and  a  grandson  of  the  late  General  H. 
A.  Cobb. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss 
Eleanor  Graham  Holden,  daughter  of  Mrs. 
S.  P.  Holden.  and  Mr.  Stewart  Fitz-Allyne 
Sworn,  of  Enniscorthy.  County  Hoboken,  Ire- 
land. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Jacqueline  Moore, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  A.  Moore,  of 
Oakland,  and  Mr.  John  J.  Valentine  will  take 
place  at  the  Church  of  the  Advent.  East 
Oakland,  some  time  in  January.  Miss  Ethel 
Moore  will  be  the  maid  of  honor,  and  Miss 
Ethel  Valentine,  Miss  Isabelle  Hooper,  of 
Alameda.  Miss  Edna  Barry,  Miss  Carolyn 
Oliver.  Miss  Florence  White,  and  Miss  Marion 
Smith  are  to  act  as  bridesmaids. 

The  marriage  of  Miss  Emma  Rutherford, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  George  Crocker,  and  Mr. 
Philip  Kearny  will  take  place  at  St.  Thomas' 
Episcopal  Church,  in  New  York,  the  latter 
part  of  January.  Mr.  Phil  Kearny  is  a  grand- 
son of  General  Phil  Kearny,  and  a  cousin  of 
Mrs.  Foute,  widow  of  the  late  Rev.  Robert 
C.  Foute. 

The  wedding  of  Mrs.  Louise  la  Montagne, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  John  A.  Darling,  and  Mr. 
Charles  E.  Maud,  of  Riverside,  was  quietly 
celebrated  at  Reno  on  Tuesday.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Maud  will  reside  in  California,  and  spend 
much  of  their  time  at  "  Edgemere."  Mrs, 
Maud's  country  place  near   Rutherford. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Laura  Blackwood, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Blackwood,  and  Mr. 
Alfred  C.  Martel  took  place  at  the  home  of  the 
bride's  mother,  2002  Pacific  Avenue,  on  Tues- 
day. The  ceremony  was  performed  at  high 
noon  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hemphill.  There  were 
no  attendants,  and  only  the  members  of  the 
families  and  a  few  of  their  most  intimate 
friends  were  present.  Upon  their  return  from 
their  wedding  journey  in  a  fortnight,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Martel  will  occupy  their  residence  at 
Mountain  View. 

Mrs.  Homer  S.  King,  Miss  Genevieve  King, 
and  Miss  Hazel  King  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday  in  honor  of  Miss  Helen  Bailey. 
who  will  make  her  debut  to-day  (Saturday! 
at  a  reception  given  by  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Xorris,  and  her  aunt.  Mrs.  John  F.  Swift, 
at  the  residence  of  the  latter  on  Valencia 
Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Knight  gave  a  dinner 
at  their  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue  on 
Wednesday,  at  which  they  entertained  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  AVilliam  Irwin.  Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Crocker,  Mr.  James  D. 
Phelan.  and  Mr.  Harry  Holbrook. 

The  first  cotillion  of  the  Gayety  Club  was 
given  at  the  Chesebrough  residence  on  Clay 
Street  on  Wednesday  evening.  The  members 
of  the  club  are  Miss  Helen  Chesebrough,  Miss 
Newell  Drown.  Miss  Christine  Pomeroy.  Miss 
Lucy  Coleman,  Miss  Elizabeth  Allen.  Miss 
Frances  Allen.  Miss  Olga  Atherton.  Miss 
Gertrude  Eells.  Miss  Frances  Howard,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Livermorc,  Miss  Stella  McCalla. 
Miss  Margaret  Newhall.  Miss  Elsie  Tallant. 
Miss  Emily  Wilson.  Miss  Cora  Smedberg. 
Miss  Anna  Sperry.  Miss  Genevieve  King,  Miss 
Maud  Bowne,  Miss  Gertrude  Josselyn,  Miss 
Isabel  Kittle.  Miss  Linda  Cadwalader.  Miss 
Lutie  Collier.  Miss  Emily  Carolan.  and  Miss 
Elizabeth  Huntington.  Miss  Lucie  King.  Miss 
Gertrude      Hyde-Smith,      and      Miss      Mamie 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Josselyn  were  special  guests.  Informal  danc- 
ing followed  the  cotillion, ,  which  began  at 
nine.     Supper  was  served  at  midnight. 

Miss  Katherine  Dillon  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Wednesday  in  honor  of  Miss  Bernie  Drown. 
Others  at  table  were  Mrs.  John  Rogers  Clark. 
Mrs.  Morton  Gibbons.  Mrs.  T.  Danforth 
Boardman.  Mrs.  A.  B.  Spalding,  Miss  Ethel 
Cooper,  Miss  Florence  Boyd,  Miss  Charlotte 
Ellinwood,  Mrs.  H.  C.  Breeden,  Miss  Lillie 
Spreckels,  Miss  Newell  Drown,  and  Miss 
Emily  Wilson. 

About  two  hundred  guests  were  present  last 
Friday  evening  at  the  first  dance  of  the  Friday 
Night  Club,  given  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Edward  M.  Greenway.  There  was  no  cotillion, 
as  Mr.  Greenway  preferred  a  simple  pro- 
gramme of  informal  dances,  the  cotillion  be- 
ing arranged  for  the  Christmas  ball,  which 
will  take  place  next  Friday.  Mrs.  Henrietta 
Zeile,  Mrs.  E.  F.  Preston,  and  Miss  Katherine 
Dillon  are  to  give  dinners  on  Friday  evening 
preceding  the  cotillion. 

Mrs.  Andrew  Welch  gave  a  luncheon  at  her 
residence  on  Eddy  Street  on  Monday  after- 
noon in  honor  of  her  daughter-in-law,  Mrs. 
Charles  Welch,  of  New  York  City,  who  is 
visiting  in  California.  Others  at  table  were 
Mrs.  Andrew  Welch,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Eugene  Lent, 
Mrs.  Homer  S.  King,  Mrs.  Russell  J.  Wilson, 
and  Mrs.  Mountford  S.  Wilson. 

Miss  Florence  Hush  will  give  a  luncheon 
in  honor  of  Miss  Jacqueline  Moore  on  Fri- 
day. 

Mrs.  Edgar  F.  Preston  held  an  informal 
"  at  home  "  at  2336  Broadway  on  Friday. 

Miss  Maye  Colburn  gave  an  informal  tea 
last  Sunday  afternoon  complimentary  to  Miss 
Maylita  Pease  and  Miss  Elsie  Tallant.  Those 
who  assisted  in  receiving  were  Mrs.  Henry 
Foster  Dutton,  Mrs.  John  Rogers  Clark,  Mrs. 
George  Beardsley,  Miss  Pearl  Sabin,  Miss 
Margaret  Mee,  Miss  Elizabeth  Cole,  Miss 
Elsie  Sperry,  Miss  Frances  Harris,  Miss  Alice 
Phelan   Sullivan,  and  Miss  Florence  Bailey. 

Mrs.  Chauncey  R.  Winslow  gave  a  card- 
party  on  Tuesday  afternoon  at  her  residence. 
1945  Pacific  Avenue,  at  which  she  entertained 
Mrs.  Walter  S.  Martin,  Mrs.  Samuel  Knight, 
Miss  Alice  Hagar,  Mrs.  J.  Athearn  Folger, 
Mrs.  William  Tevis,  Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard, 
Miss  Lily  O'Connor,  Mrs.  Horace  Davis,  Mrs. 
McLaren,  Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels,  Mrs. 
Bowie-Dietrick,  Mrs.  Carter  Pomeroy,  Mrs. 
Horace  Blanchard  Chase,  Mrs.  William  G. 
Irwin,    and    Miss    Sprague. 

Mrs.  Burns  Macdonald  and  Mrs.  Hilda  Mac- 
donald  Baxter  have  given  a  series  of  six 
luncheons  at  the  University  Club  compli- 
mentary to  Mrs.  Victor  Clement,  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  who  has  come  to  California  to  make  San 
Francisco  her  home. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Mayo  Newhall  and 
Miss  Newhall  will  hold  a  reception  this  (Sat- 
urday) afternoon  from  four  until  seven 
o'clock    at    their   residence.    1206    Post    Street. 

Mrs.  J.  J.  Spieker  and  Miss  Georgie  Spieker 
gave  a  tea  at  their  residence,  on  the  corner 
of  Devisadero  and  Sacramento  Streets,  on 
Tuesday.  Those  who  assisted  in  receiving 
were  Miss  Eleanor  Eckart,  Miss  Mabel  Cluff, 
Mrs.  Garret  McEnerney,  Mrs.  Walter  Scott, 
Miss  Lalla  Wenzelburger,  Miss  Blanche 
Dwinell,  Mrs.  W.  S.  Leake,  Miss  Mabel  Toy, 
Miss  Paula  Wolff,  Miss  Bessie  Gowan,  Miss 
Mabel  Donaldson,  Miss  Rachael  Hovey,  and 
Miss  Meta  Breckenfeld,  of  Sacramento. 


Absolutely  Pure 
Th  ?RE  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


Wills  and  Successions. 
The  will  of  Julian  Rix,  who  died  on  No- 
vember 14th,  was  filed  in  New  York  on  Tues- 
day. It  was  drawn  in  1894,  but  there  is  a 
codicil  which  was  added  in  1901,  and  which 
contains,  among  other  provisions,  the  notable 
one  that  all  of  Mr.  Rix's  paintings  which 
Thomas  B.  Clark,  the  art  collector  of  .New 
York,  does  not  consider  worthy  of  his  name 
shall  be  burned  by  Clark.  In  the  codicil,  Mr. 
Rix  also  speaks  of  his  near  relatives  and  his 
family  having  failed  to  help  him  when  he  was 
in  need  of  help.  He  says :  "  I  desire  that  all 
provisions  of  my  will  in  favor  of  my  dear 
friends  therein  mentioned  stand  as  a  token 
of  my  love  and  esteem  for  them,  and  in 
recognition  of  the  many  acts  of  kindness  ex- 
tended to  me  throughout  my  life  when  I  had 
no  other  friends,  and  when  my  near  relations 
and  family  did  not  put  forth  a  helping  hand 
to  me."  The  testator's  brother.  Edward  Rix, 
is  the  only  one  of  the  family  mentioned  in  the 
will.  To  him,  Mr.  Rix  gives  one  of  his  best 
pictures. 

Eliza  N.  Sherwood  has  filed  a  supplemental 
report  of  the  estate  of  her  husband.  Robert 
Sherwood,  of  the  firm  of  Sherwood  &  Sher- 
wood. The  original  value  of  the  estate  was 
$1,362,286.75.  Out  of  the  amount,  debts 
aggregating  $552,000,  had  been  '  paid.  Other 
large  sums  had  been  expended  for  taxes  and 
improvements,  leaving  a  balance  of  $500,000. 
The  appraisers  of  the  estate  o(  the  late 
Thomas  J.  Clunie — William  Broderick,  Samuel 
Newman,  and  O.  F.  von  Rhein — have  filed 
their  inventory  and  appraisement,  giving  the 
total  value  of  the  estate  as  $1,017,009.17,  the 

j  greater  part  of  whictr  is  left  in  trust  to  the 
adopted  son,  Jack  Clunie.  Of  the  property 
of  the  estate  scheduled  in  the  appraisement, 
$635,000  is  in  the  real-estate  account  and 
/$382,oog.i7  in  the  personal-property  account. 
*Thc    most    valuable    piece    of    real    estate    inj 

i    ventoried  is  the  Clunie  Building,  at  California 


and  Montgomery  Streets,  appraised  at 
$400,000.  This  is  specifically  left  in  trust  to 
Jack  Clunie.  There  is  in  addition  $85,000 
in  other  San  Francisco  real  estate,  $137,500 
in  real  estate  in  Sacramento,  $6,500  in  Napa 
County,  and  $6,000  in  Contra  Costa  County. 
The  two  last-mentioned  items  consist  of  ranch 
property,  and  the  Sacramento  property  in- 
cludes the  Clunie  Opera  House  and  adjoining 
property,  and  the  Clunie  warehouse  property. 
The  Clunie  Opera  House  property  is  specifi- 
cally left  to  the  widow,  and  the  warehouse 
property,  valued  at  $20,000,  to  Andrew  J. 
Clunie,  brother  of  the  deceased. 

At  the  Races. 
The  big  event  at  the  Oakland  Track  to-day 
(Saturday)  will  be  the  Crocker  Selling  Stakes 
for  three-year-olds  and  upward  over  a  seven- 
furlongs  course.  The  value  of  the  purse  is 
two  thousand  dollars,  and  the  entries  number 
over  a  hundred.  On  Monday  afternoon,  the 
racing  scene  changes  to  Ingleside  Track,  and 
if  the  weather  continues  favorable  there  ought 
to  be  a  large  attendance  and  some  interesting 
races,  for  an  excellent  programme  of  six 
races  has  been  arranged  by  the  California 
Jockey  Club. 

Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  expects  to 
terminate  his  lecture  series  -here  on  Sunday 
evening.  Large  audiences  have  attended  his 
lectures  at  Steinway  Hall  each  Sunday  evening 
during  the  past  six  months,  and  there  seems 
to  be  no  abatement  in  the  interest  felt  in  the 
principles  laid  down  by  the  famous  exponent 
of  metaphysics.  Last  Sunday  evening,  there 
was  one  of  the  largest  gatherings  of  the  sea- 
son, the  subject  being  "  Proofs  of  Im- 
mortality." The  lecture  was  followed  by  some 
remarkable  demonstrations  of  psychic  powers. 
Sunday  night,  Dr.  Tyndall  will  talk  on  "  Our 
Common  Birthright,"  and  there  will  be  further 
experiments  in  the  wonders  of  psychometric 
reading. 

The  friends   of  Mrs.  Arthur  V.  Callaghan 

will    learn    with    regret   that    she   is  ill    at   the 

Woman's  Hospital.  Her  speedy  recovery, 
however,  is  expected. 

—  A  POOR    SPELLER    IS   HANDICAPPED   THROUGH 

ILe.  Correct  spelling  is  unconsciously  learned  by  a 
student  of  typewriting.  The  errors  show  so  plainly 
that  they  are  quickly  corrected.  Every  boy  and 
girl  should  learn  typewriting  for  this  and  many  other 
reasons.  A  $25  "Lambert"  Typewriter  is  a  good 
spelling  teacher  as  well  as  a  sensible  Christmas 
present.  Guaranteed  to  do  the  work  of  any  $100 
typewriter,  as  well  and  as  rapidly.  Baker  &  Hamil- 
ton, sales  agents. 


Pears' 

"  Beauty  is  but  skin- 
deep  "  was  probably  meant 
to  disparage  beauty.  In- 
stead it  tells  how  easy 
that  beauty  is  to  attain. 

"There  is  no  beauty 
like  the  beauty  of  health" 
was  also  meant  to  dis- 
parage. Instead  it  encour- 
ages beauty. 

Pears'  Soap  is  the  means 
of  health  to  the  skin,  and 
so  to  both  these  sorts  of 
beauty. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 

EAGLESON  &  CO.'S 

LARGE  STOCK 


Rich  Holiday  Goods 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you, 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95, 


A.    Hirschman, 
712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  iewelry. 


NECK  DRESS 
SHIRTS 
SUSPENDERS 
NIGHT  ROBES 


UNDERWEAR 
CLOVES 
MUFFLERS 
UMBRELLAS 


SUIT  CASES,  Etc. 


780=786  Market  St., 

242  flontgomery  St. 


Shreve  &  Co. 

Gem  Merchants. 

Gold  and  Silversmiths. 

Manufacturers. 

POST  AND  MARKET  STS. 

OPEN  EVENINGS  UNTIL 
CHRISTMAS 


Potatoes,  Apples,  Oranges. 


All  Other  Fruits 
in  Season 


GUARANTEED  STRICTLY  FIRST  CLASS.     FREE  DELIVERY  TO 
ANY  PART  OF  THE  CITY. 


CONSUMERS     GAIN     BUY     AT 

WHOLESALE  PRICES 

IN  ORIGINAL  PACKAGES  FROfl 

Jonas    Erlang;er=Davis    Co. 

WHOLESALE    PRODUCE    MERCHANTS 

wR'te     224  DAVI5  STREET     5**± 
Or  Telephone  Main   1737 


December  14,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


407 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  oi  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted intoa  loungingroom,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

iTHE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City— all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

lOOO  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEORGE  WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 

HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty  -  four  trains   daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

K.  V.  HALTON,  Proprietor. 


rttt— an  tttmtn  t  iilift 

BEAUTIFUL 

HOLIDAY 
GOODS 

...AT... 

S.  &  fi.  GUMP  CO.  I 

•         The  latest  European  Importations  lo 

Paintings,  Pictures, 

Bronze  and  Marble  Statuary, 

Fine  China  and  Glassware. 

Objets  d'Art 
-  113  GEARY  STREET  f 

Our  Holiday  Suggestion 

is  that  you  present  yourself,  as  well  as  your 
friends,  with  a  case,  containing  twelve  quart  bot- 
tles oi  aur  pure,  rich,  ten-year-old  California 
Wines,  all  of  one  kind,  or  a  selection  of  Port, 
Sherry,  Angelica,  Muscat,  Tokay,  Zinfandel, 
Burgundy,  Reisling,  and  Sauterne. 


Price  $5  00.     Shipped  free  within  100  miles. 


RATBJEN  WINE  COMPANY 

Telephone  Main  5171.    46  Ellis  Street,  S.  F. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    'WHEREABOUTS. 


Mrs.  Francis  Carolan,  who  returned  from 
Europe  with  Mr.  Carolan  some  weeks  ago, 
remained  in  the  East,  where  she  is  visiting  her 
mother,  Mrs.  George  M.  Pullman.  She  ex- 
pects to  return  to  the  Coast  in  a  couple  of 
weeks. 

Mr.  Thomas  McCaleb  has  returned  to  San 
Francisco  after  a  long  stay  in  the  East. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  I.  Kip  and  Miss 
Mary  Kip  have  postponed  their  ^intended  de- 
parture for  the  East,  where  Miss  Kip's  wed- 
ding will  take  place,  until  the  latter  part  of 
January. 

Mrs.  R.  P.  Schwerin,  who  has  gone  to 
Coronado.  intends  to  spend  the  rest  of  the 
winter  in  Southern  California. 

Miss  Leontine  Blakeman  has  departed  for 
New  York,  where  she  will  spend  the  winter 
with  Mrs.  Theodore  Tomlinson  (nee  Keeney). 

Judge  and  Mrs..  VV.  W.  Morrow  were  in 
Washington,  D.  C,  during  the  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  E.  Dean  and  Miss 
Helen  Dean  have  arrived  in  New  York,  where 
they  will  spend  the  winter  months. 

Major  and  Mrs.  John  A.  Darling  are  in  town 
for  a  stay  of  several  weeks. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  Costigan  will  come  over 
from  Sausalito  this  week,  and  take  up  their 
residence  at  the  St.  Dunstan  for  the  winter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mansfield  Lovell  have  re- 
turned to  town  for  the  winter  from  "  Syca- 
more Park,"  San  Lorenzo.  They  have  taken 
a  House  at  2920  Washington  Street,  where 
Mrs.  Lovell  will  be  "at  home"  on  Fridays. 

A  party  including  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Dut- 
ton,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  B.  Sperry,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
E.  W.  Runyon,  Mrs.  H.  S.  Smith,  Mrs.  K. 
Henry,  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton,  Miss  Maylita 
Pease,  Captain  Frederick  Johnston,  and 
Lieutenant  Fuchs  visited  the  Tavern  of  Tamal- 
pais  last  week. 

Mrs.  John  Deane  and  Miss  Marie  Deane 
have  taken  apartments  for  the  winter  at  1601 
Van  Ness  Avenue. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  D.  Martin  have 
definitely  decided  to  visit  the  Pacific  Coast 
early  in  January. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J.  McCutcheon  have  de- 
parted for  Europe.  They  were  accompanied 
by  Miss  Sara  Collier,  and  expect  to  be  absent 
about  four  months. 

Mrs.  Gerrit  Livingston  Lansing  will  be  at 
the  St.  Dunstan  until  Lent. 

Mr.  Henry  E.  Huntington  came  up  from 
Los  Angeles  during  the  week  on  a  brief  busi- 
ness visit. 

Mrs.  Arthur  W.  Moore  has  returned  to  her 
residence,  2520  Pacific  Avenue,  after  a  visit  to 
relatives  in  Boston  and  New  York. 

Mrs.  Isaac  Hecht  and  Mrs.  Helen  Hecht 
are  in  New  York. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  the  Tavern 
of  Tamalpais  were  Mr.  A.  Harold  Ayers 
and  Mr.  A.  J.  Sage,  of  Melbourne,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Stanford,  Mrs.  Josiah  Stanford 
and  Miss  Stanford,  of  Warm  Springs,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Tirey  L.  Ford,  Miss  Webb,  Miss 
Ethel  Green,  Mr.  Carlton  Green,  and  Mr. 
John  A.  Sanborn,  of  San  Francisco. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  Bampton,  Jr.,  of  Bos- 
ton, Mr.  G.  F.  Simonds,  of  South  Acton, 
Mass.,  Mrs.  John  Gilerest,  of  Oakland,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Lorenzo  Sosso,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  H. 
Dohrmann,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sweasey  Powers, 
Baroness  von  Meyerinch,  Mrs.  R.  E.  White, 
Mrs.  G.  F.  Morehouse,  Miss  Katharyn  Brown, 
Mr.   G.   Meredith,   and   Mr.   H.   F.   Crabtree. 


The  San  Francisco  Mercantile  Library  has 
recently  contributed  more  than  a  thousand 
volumes  to  the  library  at  Manila,  where  read- 
ing matter  is  a  great  desideratum.  The  books 
were  surplus  copies  of  novels  and  other  works 
whose  popularity  had  waned,  and  of  which, 
therefore,  the  library  now  needs  only  a  copy 
or  two. 


Raoul  L.  F.  Martinez,  formerly  of  San 
Francisco,  and  for  a  number  of  years  one  of 
the  musical  critics  of  New  York,  was  stricken 
with  paralysis,  a  fortnight  ago,  and  is  now  at 
St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  New  York,  in  a  very 
critical  condition. 


The  Christinas  Sunset. 

If  you  wish  to  send  a  California  Christma? 
greeting  to  your  Eastern  friends,  send  a 
Christmas  Sunset  Magazine.  Here  are  208 
pages  of  color  and  artistic  half-tone  engrav- 
ings ;  three  thrilling  Christmas  stories ;  six- 
teen pages  telling  all  about  California  auto- 
mobiles ;  a  line-drawing  by  Gertrude  Parting- 
ton, picturing  a  California  girl  beneath  the 
mistletoe ;  four  stunning  page  pictures  in 
color  by  Maynard  Dixon,  telling  of  Christ- 
mas on  the  range ;  Professor  William  D. 
Armes  tells  all  about  the  new  Greek  theatre  at 
Berkeley  ;  Tulare's  bond  burning  is  described 
by  Mary  E.  Griswold ;  the  attractions  of  Los 
Gatos  are  told  by  W.  R.  L.  Jenks.  Other 
contributors  include  Wallace  Irwin,  Alberta 
Bancroft,  Arthur  Inkersley,  Ednah  Robinson. 
Charles  K.  Field,  A.  J.  Waterhouse,  E.  D. 
Peixotto,  Francis  McComas,  Ray  Farrell 
Greene.  This  is  the  best  number  yet  issued 
of  this  progressive  Western  magazine. 


—Suitable  Christmas  gifts  at  our  station- 
ery  section.  Fountain  pens,  diaries,  address  books, 
theatre  records,  fancy  papetrie<;,  bronzes,  and  Cali- 
fornia calendars.     Schussler  Bros.,  119  Geary  St. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

Major-General  Arthur  MacArthur,  U.  S.  A,, 
Mrs.  MacArthur,  and  Colonel  Parker  West, 
U.  S.  A.,  are  expected  to  arrive  to-day  (Satur- 
day) from  Honolulu. 

Dr.  Guy  L.  Edie,  medical  department,  U.  S. 
A.,  expects  to  join  Mrs.  Edie  in  San  Francisco 
early  in  January,  en  route  to  the  Philippines. 

Captain  Charles  R.  Howland,  Twenty-First 
Infantry,  U.  S.  A.,  left  last  Tuesday  to  join 
his  regiment  at  Fort  Snelling,  Minn. 

Captain  Richardson  Clover,  U.  S.  N.,  was 
at  the  Palace  Hotel  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Percy  Kessler  left  on  Tuesday  to  join 
Captain  Kessler,  U.  S.  A.,  at  Fort  Totten, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  is  at  present  stationed. 

Major  John  H.  Bigelow,  Ninth  Cavalry,  U. 
S.  A.,  and  Mrs.  Bigelow  have  come  up  from 
Monterey,  and  will  make  their  home  at  the 
Presidio,  where  Major  Bigelow  has  been  as- 
signed to  the  command  of  the  Third  Squadron 
of  the  Ninth  Cavalry. 

Rear-Admiral  Louis  Kempff,  U.  S.  N.,  and 
Miss  Cornelia  Kempff  will  spend  the  winter 
at  the  Palace  Hotel. 

Captain  Henry  W.  Stamford,  Signal  Corps, 
U.  S.  A.,  will  arrive  from  Fort  Myer,  Va., 
about  the  first  of  the  year,  en  route  to  the 
Philippine  Islands. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


A.    P.    HOTALING'S    OLD    KIRK. 


A  Pure  Straight  Brand. 

A.  P.  Hotaling's  Old  Kirk  Whisky  has  made 
friends  with  all  who  have  tried  it,  which  goes  to 
show  that  there  is  room  for  a  pure  straight  blend  in 
the  market.  We  say  it  is  the  best.  You  try  it  and 
you  will  say  the  same. 


Holiday  Suggestions. 

Hat  orders.     Eugene    Korn,    Knox  agency,    746 
Market  Street. 


—Swell  dressers  have  their  Shirtwaists 
made  at  Kent's,  "Shirt  Tailor,  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation  Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAIN    FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


FIRST  REGULAR  EXHIBITION 

-OF- 

Paintings  of  Indians  and  Indian  Life 
By  GRACE  HUDSON 

At  Schussler  Bros.  Art  Gallery,  119 
Geary  Street 

From  December  12th  to   I'Jili. 


'  y^W  A    good 
9    glove  .top  a 
*  \>.,  dollar  and  a   half 

Gent  erne  pi 


Wedding 
Gifts 

The  best  one  is  Albertine  Randall  Wheelan's  CL'PIDS 
PROVERBS,  a  wedding  book.  A  large  handsome 
present.  Every  first-class  bookseller  or  stationer  hae 
it.  S3  oo  to  $20  00.  Circulars  mailed  ireeby  the  Dodgs 
Publishing  Company,  New  York. 


Holiday  Gifts 

For  Men  and  Boys 

DRESS  SUITS  AND  TUXEDOS 

OVERCOATS  and  CRAVENETTES 

UMBRELLAS  AND  CANES 

SMOKING  JACKETS  and  MORNING  GOWNS 

BATH  ROBES 

DRESS-SUIT  CASES  AND  VALISES,  ETC. 


For  Men  and  Women 

INNOVATION   \  $70.00 
WARDROBE     \  and 

THINKS  J       80.00 

GLOVE  ORDERS 
HAT  ORDERS 

R005  BROS. 

25=37  KEARNY  ST. 


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i  aQ  ahlictiofis  of  the  skin-  "j4  Ltilc 
'  higher  in  prke,  per/ups,  Ifufu^uorttJcu 
zibstihites,  bat  »  reucn  ;'.:-  :.'."  De- 
J  after  shaving.  Sold  everywhere,  or 
muled  00  receipt  of  25c 
GERHARD  MENNEN  CO.,   Newark.  N.  A 


A  NEW  BOOK  ON  SPAIN 

Two  Argonauts  in  Spain 

By  JEROME   HART 

Payot,  Uphaiu  &  Co.,  Publishers.  Two 
hundred  and  seventy  page*  and  Index.  Six- 
teen full-page  half-tone  plates  ;  illustration* 
and  facsimiles  in  the  text;  colored  map  of 
Spain.  Cloth  binding,  with  stamp  on  side 
in  two  colors  and  gold.  Bound  in  boards 
with  full  gold  stamp  on  side.     Gilt  top. 

Price  to  Argonaut  subscribers,  SI. 50;  by 
mail,  $1.68.     Address 

THE  ARGONAUT, 

246  Sutter  St..  S.  F. 


income  $1,000  a  Month  clear 

Gilt-edged,  city  property  investment  of  $32,000.     Closest 
scrutiny  invited  ;   will  deal  with  principals  only.     Address 

Success,  Box  35,  this  office. 


WARRANTED     IO    YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

CW  The  CKCItlAN— The  Perfect  Piano  Player. 


SOHMER 

PIANO 

AGENCY. 


PIANOS 
308-KIS   Pout   SI. 

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THE        ARGON, 


December  14,  1903. 


SOUTHERN  PACIFIC 

Trains  leave  ami  are  due  to  arrive  at 

SAN     FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Fool  of   Market  Street  ) 

lbavh    —    From  Novbmdkr  2-2.  1903.     —     arrivs 

7.00*   VHcavllle.  Winters.  Kunisey 7.65*" 

7.0J*    Benlcla',  SuIbuti.  Klutlra  and  Sacra- 

meDto    .       7.25p 

7.30a  Vallejo.    Napa,     Calistoe"-    Santa 

Koea,  Martinez,  Sun  Ramon 6.25p 

7-30a  Nllee,  Llveruiore,  Tracy,  Lathrop. 

Stock:on  ... 7-25p 

8.00'  Shasta  Express—  (Via  Davis), 
Williams  (for  Bartlett  Springs), 
"Willows  tFruio,  Ked  Bluff, 
Portland,  Tacoina,   Seattle 7-55p 

8.00a  Davis. Woodland,  Knights  Landing. 

Marysvllle,  Orovlllc 7.55p 

6-S.Da  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antlocb, 
Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man, Los  Bnnoa,  Mcndota, 
Armonfi,  Han  ford  VI  sal  la, 
Portervllle 4.25p 

8.30a  Port  CoBta,  Martinez,  Tracy,  Lath 
rop,  Modesto,  Merced,  Fresno. 
Goshen  Junction,  Hanford 
Vlsalia.  DakersQeld  4.55p 

8.30a  Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Stock 
ton,  (tMUtou),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervlllii  Marysvllle,  Chlco, 
Red  Bluff 4.25p 

8- 30a  Oakdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So- 

nora.  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4.25p 

9  00a    Atlantic  Express— Qgden and  East.    11.25a 

9.30a   Richmond.     Martinez      and      Way 

Stations 6-65P 

1000a   The     Overland     Limited  —  Ogden 

Denver,  Omnha,  Chicago 6.25p 

1000a  Vallejo 12.25p 

10.00a  Los  Angeles  Passenger  —  Port- 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton,  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  Goshen  Junc- 
tion. Hanford.  Lemoore,  Vlsalia. 

Bakersfleld.  Los  Angeles 7-26e 

12.00U  Haywanl.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3.25p 
tl.OOP   Sacramento  River  Steamers Hl.OOe 

3.30>  Benlcla,  Winters,  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Lauding, 
Marysvllle.  Orovllle  and  way 
Btations ...    10.55a 

3.30p  Hay  ward,  Nllee  and  Way  Stations..     765p 

3  30r  Port      Costa,     Martinez.     Byron, 

Tracy,  Lathrop.  Modesto. 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 12-25p 

330p  Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl...    10-26a 

4  00p  Martinez. Sun  Uamon.Vallejo.Napa. 

Calls  toga,  Santa  Kusa 9-25  a 

4  00p  Nlles.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl 4.25P 

4.30p  Hayward.   Nlles,  Irvlngton,  San)    I8.55a 

Jose,  Llvermore |  111.55a 

6.00p  The  Owl  Limited— Newm  >n.  Loa 
Bunos.  Mendoia,  Fresno,  Tulare, 

Bakersfleld.  Los  Angeles 8.55a 

5.00i-  Fort  Costa.  Tracy.  Stockton 12-25P 

t530p  Hayward.  NUes  and  San  Jose 7.25a 

6.00p   Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 9.55a 

6.00p  Eastern  ExprefiH—  Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benlcla,  Sul- 
sun,  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee.  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  WInncinuccn 5.26  f 

G.OOr   Vallejo,  daily,  except  Sunday...    I      7  rRp 

7 .00p  Vallejo,  Sunday  only (      'oor 

7.00p  Richmond,  sail  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11.25a 

8-06r  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,    Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8  55* 
9.1  Of  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
day  only ) 1 1  -55  a 

COAST     LINE     (Narrow  (iauiTft). 

(Foot  of  Market  Street.) 

8-16a  Newark,  Oentervllle,  San  JoBe, 
Feltoo,    Boulner     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-55p 

t2.16>  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almafi'.n.Los  Gatos.Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    tlO  *i5» 

A  IBp  Newark,  San  Jose,  LosGatOB  and  J     '8-55* 

way  station* I  J10  55  a 

fl9  30p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
lng  from  Lns  Gatos  Sunday  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

from  SAN  FRANCISCO,  Foot  ol  Market  St.  (Slip*. 

-t3:15    9:00    11:1)0  a.m.     TOO    3  00    5-15  p.m. 

i-iodi  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Bnmdway  —  1  H:Ch>    t8:fti 

18:03    10:0u  a.m.       1200    2-00    4-00  p.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Kroml  UaiiBfl). 

gg- (Third  ami  Towimeml  Streets.) 

G  10a    Ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations G.30p 

7  00a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6.36p 

8.00a  New  Almailen  (Tues.,  Frld.,  only),     4.10p 

8  00a  CoaetLlneLlmlted— StopsonlySan 

Jose,  Gilroy  (connection  for  Hoi- 
lister),  Pajaro.  Castrovilie.  Sa- 
llnaB,  San  Ardo,  Paso  Roblea, 
Banta  Margarita,  San  Luis  Oblapo, 
Principal  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Lompoc)  princi- 
pal stations  thence  Santa  Bar- 
bara and  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion al  Castrovilie  to  and  from 
Monterey  and  Pacific  Grove 10-45** 

6,C0a  Ban  JoBe.  Tres  PlnoB,  Capltola. 
6autaCruz,PaciflcGrove,Sa)lnaB, 
Sun  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 
Way  Stations 4-10* 

10.30a  San  Jose  and  Way  StatlooB 1-20p 

11  30a  Banta  Clara,   San  Jose,  Los  Gatos 

and  Wav  Stations 7.30 

1-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8.36a 

3.00p  Pacific  Grove  Express— SantaClara 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  GaugePolntB) 
at  Gtlroy  for  Holllster,  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrovilie  for  Salinas.  12.15p 
3-30p  Tres  Finos  Way  Passenger {1045a 

'4  4  s'  ban  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatos,  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) t9.12a 

ib- 30  J  ban  Jose  and  Principal  Way  Stations  fQ.QOA 
6. CO)  Sunset  Limited.— Redwood,  San 
JoBe,  Gilroy, Salinas, Paso  Roblea, 
San  Lulu  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Lob  Angeles,  Demlng.  1CI  Paao, 
New  Orleans,  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crui 
and  at  Castrovilie.  for  Pacific 
Grove  and  Way  Stations 7-1  0a 

'£-1Ei  Snh  Mateo,  Be  res  ford,  Belmont,  San 
Curios,     Redwood,     Fair     Oaka, 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto t6.46A 

t.20  Sbh  Jose  and  Way  Stations 6  3Ga 

11  ,30p South SflnPrancIaco,  m i librae, Bur- 

llngame,  San  Mateo,  Belmont, 
San  Carlos,  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Mcnio  Park   and   Palo  Alto 8.46e 

oil  30p  May  field,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
vale. Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

s"n  -IuH" *9-45p 

A  ror  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon, 

■  Sunday  only 

Stops  at  nil  stations  on  Sunday. 
I  Sunday  excepted.  a  Saturday  only. 

P^~Only  train*  slopping  at  Valencia  St.  sonthboond 
are b: lo  a.m..? :00a.m.,  11:80 a.m.,  3:Wi*.M.and  6:30 p.m. 
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"  Has  Mrs.  Dash  decided  not  to  continue 
her  suit  for  divorce?"  "Yes.  Her  engage- 
ment to  Percy  Specie  is  off." — Brooklyn  Life. 

Dusty  Dennis — "  Say,  pard,  what  does  the 
paper  mean  by  'unspeakable  Turk'?"  Gritty 
George — "  Why,  dat's  de  guy  dat  invented  de 
Turkish    bath." — Chicago    Daily    News. 

A  tearful  occasion :  "  I  wonder  if  there's 
been  a  funeral  in  that  house?"  "Why?" 
"  Two  women  just  came  out  crying."  "  Oh, 
it  must  be  a  wedding." — Philadelphia  Public 
Ledger. 

"  Don't  you  think,"  asked  Mrs.  Oldcastle, 
"  that  the  new  minister  is  inclined  to  be 
pedantic?"  "  Oh,  I  don't  know.  Josiah 
thinks  so,  but  it  mightn't  be  anything  but  the 
prickly    heat." — Chicago    Record-Herald. 

Easy  error :  La  Montt — "  Made  a  terrible 
blunder  to-day.  Saw  a  man  in  a  rubber  suit 
and  cap.  and  asked  him  if  he  was  a  sewer- 
cleaner."  La  Moyne — "  Who  was  he?  "  La 
Montt  —  "  Millionaire  chauffeur."  —  Chicago 
News, 

Softening  effect  of  wealth  :  "  We  used  to 
think  she  was  a  lazy  girl."  "Yes;  that  was 
when  she  was  poor."  "How  about  it  now?" 
"  Why,  now  that  she  is  rich,  we  merely  note 
the  evidence  of  lassitude  and  ennui." — Chi- 
cago Post. 

A  way  she  has :  Morton — "  Is  Mrs.  Styles 
much  of  a  talker?"  Norton — "  Much  of  a 
talker?  I  should  say  so !  It  is  impossible 
for  her  to  play  solitaire  intelligently — she 
has  so  much  to  say  to  herself,  you  know." — 
Boston    Transcript. 

An  advertisement :  (Time  1922.)  Special 
train  for  the  lynching,  with  parlor-cars  for 
lady  members  of  the  mob.  The  sheriff  has 
kindly  consented  to  be  overpowered,  and 
everything  is  sure  to  pass  off  smoothly.— 
Baltimore  American. 

Superiority  recognized :  "  The  ostrich  is  a 
very  stupid  bird,"  said  the  naturalist.  "  He 
may  be  stupid,"  said  the  man  who  is  always 
complaining,  "  but  he  has  a  stomach  that  any 
man  with  a  Christmas  dinner  ahead  of  him 
might  envy." — Washington  Star. 

Thoughtful :  Two  men  had  fallen  out  of 
the  sixty-fifth  story.  As  they  proceeded 
downward  one  of  them  yelled.  "  Why  do  you 
yell?"  asked  his  companion.  "In  order  that 
people  may  catch  us  with  their  cameras,"  re- 
plied the  other. — Detroit  Free  Press. 

A  question :  She — "  Charles,  dear,  how 
many  teeth  does  a  baby  have?"  He — "I 
don't  know.  But  I  think  that,  after  the  way 
I've  walked  the  floor  for  the  last  six  months, 
ours  ought  to  have  at  least  a  hundred  and 
fifty   by   this    time." — Detroit    Free   Press. 

Mr.  Trucker — "  I  think  I  shall  give  up  my 
business,  my  dear.  I  might  as  well  have 
some  good  out  of  my  money."  Mrs.  Trucker 
— "  Oh,  not  yet,  Samuel.  But  when  one  of 
us  dies,  I  shall  give  up  housekeeping  and  see 
a  little  of  the  world." — Town  and  Country. 

Not  a  lender :  "  Do  you  think  your  friend 
would  lend  himself  to  a  shady  political  trans- 
action?" "No,"  answered  Senator  Sorghum; 
"  he  might  lease  himself,  or  rent  himself,  or 
sell  himself  outright,  but  he  wouldn't  stand 
any    friendly    borrowing." — Washington    Star. 

The  secret  of  failure:  Lawyer — "  What 
was  the  thing  that  led  to  your  financial  down- 
fall ?  You  seemed  to  be  doing  a  good  busi- 
ness." Bankrupt — "  I  was ;  but  one  day  I 
started  out  to  see  if  I  could  borrow  some 
money.  I  found  it  so  easy  that  I  kept  on 
borrowing." — Somerville   Journal. 

Literary  reputation  :  "  Lizette,"  said  Mrs. 
Goldrich  to  her  maid,  "  I  wish  you  would  run 
up  to  my  room,  get  the  novel  on  my  writing- 
desk,  cut  the  pages,  take  it  back  to  Miss 
Bookhides,  present  my  compliments  and 
thanks,  and  tell  her  the  story  aroused  my 
most  profound   interest." — Tit-Bits. 

The  horrible  example :  "  How  is  it 
business  has  so  much  improved  in  the  side 
show?"  asked  the  man  from  the  main  tent. 
"  I  started  the  '  living  skeleton  '  to  smoking 
cigarettes."  replied  the  hustling  manager.  "  I 
don't  see  why  that  should  draw  people." 
"  Yes ;  every  mother  takes  her  boy  in  and 
points  out  the  horrible  example." — Philadel- 
phia  Record. 

— St^dman's  Soothing  Powders  preserve  a  healthy 
state  of  the  constitution  during  ihe  period  of  teeth- 


First  workman — "  Do  you  belong  to  the 
union  ?"  Second  workman — "  Sure  I  Aint 
I  out  of  work?" — Life. 


—  Dr.  K  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Building. 


MOTIIKKS  Hfc.  SUKK  AND  USE  "  MRS.  WlNSLOW'S 

Soothing  Syrup  "  for  your  children  while  teething 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 

LESSEE 

SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tlburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m;  12.35,  3-30,  5.10, 
6.30  p  m.     Thursdays— Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 
Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.30,  11.00  a  m;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 
11.30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK   DAYS— 6.05,    7.35,7-50,9-20,  11.15am;    12.50; 

3.40.  5.00.  5.20  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.40,  11.15am;  1.40,  3.40,  4.55,  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 

In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week    j     Sun- 
Days,         days. 

Destination. 

Sun- 
days. 

Week 
Days. 

7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 

9.30  a  m 

3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

5.iop  mi  5  oopm 

Ignacio. 

9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.3°  a  m 

330  p  m 
5.10  p  m 

8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
3-30  p  in 
5.00  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

9.10  a  m 

10.40  a  111 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 

8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3-30  p  m 

8  00  a  m 
3.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7-3°  a  m 
3.30  pm 

8.00  a  m 
3.30  P  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 

10.40  a  m 
7.35  pm 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

3-3°  a  m 

8 
3 

00  a  m 
30  pm 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  Pjn 
9.10  a  m 
6.05  p  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

8 

00  a  m 

Willits. 

6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
3.30  P  m 

8 
3 

00  a  m 
30  p  m 

Guerneville. 

10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 
5.10  Pm 

8 

5 

00  a  m 

oopm 

Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 

8.40  a  m 
6,20  p  m 

7  30  am 
3.30  p  m 

8 
3 

00  a  m 
30  P  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  for  San  Quentin;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
for  AltTuria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs; 
at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs. 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  lor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs.  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's.  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Cahto.  Covelo,  Laytonville.  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris.  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  630  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


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CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot.  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7  9/)  A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
■»* "  Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfleld  7.15  pm.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 
A  M  — f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12  01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfleld  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m.  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 

A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  n.iop  m. 

PM— *STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
ton 7.10  pm.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11.10  am. 

P  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11. 15  p  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfleld  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  8.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reel ining-c hair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
X  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas   City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express   Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 


9.30 

9.30 

4.00 
8.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot,  San  Francisco;  and  1112  Broadway, 
Oakland. 

"MISSOURI  PACIFIC  LIMITED" 

AN  IDEAL  TRAIN  FOR  SCENERY 
AND  SERVICE. 


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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  The  Philosopher  versus  the  People— Strange  Drift 
Away  from  the  Political  Principles  Laid  Down  by  Herbert 
Spencer — Individualism  Against  Socialism — Some  of  Spen- 
cer's Dicta — Who  Is  Right  on  this  Vast  Question? — 
Houses,  Flats,  Dukes,  and  Vanderbilts — Flats  at  Home  and 
Abroad— The  Curse  Being  Removed  from  Apartment- 
Houses — What  If  the  Kaiser  Should  Die? — Speculations  on 
an  Interesting  Possibility  —  Conditions  in  the  German 
Empire — Senator  Hanna  and  President  Roosevelt — A  Situa- 
tion of  Strain — Are  the  Heath,  Wood,  and  Rathhone  Mat- 
ters Fraying  the  Ties  of  Friendship  ? — Hoboes  for  Home, 
Sweet  Home — Taxpayers  and  Football  Suits — Dramatic 
Death    of    Gee    Ah    Gong 409-411 

A  Woman  of  the  Curb:      The    Story    of    Boom    Days    in    Los 

Angeles.      By   Charles   Fleming    Embree 412 

On  the  New  York  Street-Cars:  Geraldine  Bonner  on  Fem- 
inine Types  in  New  York  Electric  Trams — Chronic  Over- 
crowding— Women  Who  Refuse  to  "Move  Up" — The 
Manners    of    the    Rich 4l3 

Britain,  Not  England:  A  Scottish  Patriot's  Appeal  to  Ameri- 
cans for  Fair  Play.      By  John   Wilson 414 

Individualities:      Notes  About  Prominent   People  All   Over  the 

World     414 

"  Letty,"  Pinero's  New  Play     415 

Literary  Notes:    Personal  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip — New  Pub-' 

lications      4*5-417 

Intaglios:       "Love's    Worship";     "Separation,"    by     Ethelwyn 

Wetherald     417 

Drama:     J.   H.    Stoddart   in    "  Beside   the    Bonnie    Brier   Bush  " 

at  the  Grand  Opera  House.     By  Josephine  Hart  Phelps 418 

Stage  Gossip      4' 9 

Vanity  Fair:  "Rita,"  the  Noted  Novelist,  Fiercely  Arraigns 
the  London  Smart  Set — A  Society  Where  Doing  the 
"  Split  "  is  Popular — Young  Men  Who  Wear  Satin  Corsets 
and  Lace-Frilled  Tea-Coats — Cake-Walk  Antics— English 
Women  Criticise  American  Men—"  Woolly  West "  Criti- 
cises Them  in  Turn— A  Wealthy  London  Out) — Rontgen 
Rays  and  a  Damage  Suit — The  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Rox- 
burghe   in    a    Dining-Car 420 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
Daniel  Webster  and  His  Marketman — The  Golden  Silence 
of  Carlyle — A  Composer  Who  Never  Gave  Something  for 
Nothing— Great  Actors'  Mutual  Amenities — Whistler  on 
Henry  James — How  Disraeli  Won  a  Legacy — When  Gor- 
man Was  a  Page  in  the  Senate — A  Strange  Duel 421 

Society:      Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and    Gossip — 

Army  and  Navy  News 422-423 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal   Wits    of    the    Day 424 


It  is  one  of  the  profound  ironies  of  fate  that  Herbert 
Spencer  —  whom    the    English-speaking 

The  Philosopher      r    .  ' 

Versus  world,      through      its      mouthpiece,      the 

the  people.  press,  is  to-day  mourning  as  "  a  man  of 

transcendent  greatness,"  '*  a  master  mind,"  "  a  man  of 
overpowering  intellectuality,"  "  the  profoundest  logic- 
ian that  has  lived,"  "  the  greatest  of  modern  think- 
ers," "  the  deepest  philosopher  of  any  age," — should 
have  lived  to  see  the  whole  drift  and  current  of  civiliza- 
tion setting  mightily  away  from  political  principles 
he  held  to  be  essential  to  the  health  and  stability  and 
welfare  of  society  toward  beliefs  he  held  to  be  re- 
actionary and  evil  and  disastrous. 

Herbert    Spencer    was    the    most    inveterate    of    in- 
ividualists.     He  believed,  with  Thomas  Jefferson,  that 


r 


"  that  is  the  best  government  which  governs  the  least." 
He  held  that  it  is  the  business  of  the  state  to  provide 
for  "  national  defense,"  to  defend  its  citizens  "  from 
crimes  of  violence  and  agression  against  one  another," 
and  from  all  civic  injuries — but  there  the  state's  func- 
tion, he  held,  absolutely  should  cease.  All  laws  for 
any  other  purpose  he  would  sweep  from  the  statute- 
book.  He  believed  in  giving  the  greatest  liberty  and 
freedom  to  the  individual,  in  the  efficiency  of  private 
enterprise  over  public,  in  non-interference  by  govern- 
ment in  any  department  of  human  activity.  "  Of- 
ficialism," he  declared,  "  is  habitually  slow."  "  Of- 
ficialism is  stupid,  corrupt,  extravagant,  unadaptive, 
and  obstructive."  These  ideas  he  expressed,  with  the 
greatest  force  and  cogency  of  which  he  was  capable, 
in  many  essays,  at  many  different  times,  during  a  long 
life.  And  yet,  though  Englishmen  now  mourn  Herbert 
Spencer  as  "  their  greatest  thinker,"  the  tendency  has 
all  been  away  from  these  political  principles  he  so 
earnestly  championed  toward  multiplication  of  laws 
and  greater  and  greater  interference  by  city  and  na- 
tional government  in  civil  affairs.  English  munic- 
ipalities now  not  only  operate  street  railways  and 
telephone  systems,  but  build  tenements,  sell  food,  and 
undertake  the  management  of  hotels  and  lodging- 
houses.  In  his  last  book,  Mr.  Spencer  himself,  speak- 
ing of  municipal  trading,  admits  that  "  the  public  are 
now  set  upon  it,  and  can  no  more  be  stopped  by  argu- 
ments and  facts  than  a  runaway  horse  can  be  stopped 
by  pulling  the  reins." 

As  in  municipal,  so  in  other  affairs.  Spencer  was, 
during  his  lifetime,  the  implacable  opponent  of  state 
education.  He  contested  the  state's  right  "  to  impose 
its  system  of  culture  upon  the  citizen."  He  called  the 
English  public-school  laws  a  "  tyrannical  system."  He 
denied  "  the  equity  of  taking,  through  taxes,  the 
earnings  of  A  to  pay  for  teaching  the  children  of  B." 
He  declared  the  masses  to  be  overeducated.  He  was 
convinced  that  "  immense  evils  may  result  if  intellec- 
tualization  is  pushed  in  advance  of  moralization." 
Here,  again,  England's  "  greatest  thinker  "  was  at  the 
time  of  his  death  almost  alone  in  holding  these  views, 
both  in  England  and  in  the  rest  of  the  civilized  world. 

Moreover,  as  in  education,  so  in  such  matters  as 
trade  and  commerce.  Mr.  Spencer  consistently  be- 
lieved that  every  individual  should  have  a  perfect  right 
to  buy  or  sell  without  let  or  hindrance  from  the  state. 
Shortly  before  his  death  he  said :  "  What  is  the  moral 
basis  which  justifies  any  interference  with  my  freedom 
in  buying  as  I  like  in  an  honest  market?"  Yet  Eng- 
land, so  long  a  free-trade  country,  seems  on  the  point 
of  abandoning  the  Spencerian  theory  of  free  trade  and 
substituting  government  regulation  through  a  pro- 
tective tariff. 

In  short,  as  we  said  at  the  beginning,  the  whole 
tendency  of  civilization  is  away  from  the  individualism 
of  Spencer  toward  socialism.  Socialism  grows  apace 
in  Germany.  It  is  growing  in  France.  Extension  of 
municipal  ownership  shows  the  power  of  the  sentiment 
in  England.  Socialism  is  growing,  though  slowly,  in 
the  United  States.  Who  is  right  on  this  vast  question 
of  individualism  or  socialism — the  people  or  the 
philosopher?  Does  the  world,  in  the  latter  days,  show 
"  a  general  retrogression,"  as  Spencer  contends  ?  Is 
there  to  be  a  "  new  slavery  "  ?  Is  the  tendency,  as  he 
declares,  "  from  freedom  to  bondage  "  ? 

lohn  Fiske,  whom  Americans  have  been  wont  to 
hold  in  honor,  once  said  of  Spencer's  work  that  it  sur- 
passed that  of  Aristotle  and  Newton  "  as  the  railway 
surpasses  the  sedan-chair  or  as  the  telegraph  surpasses 
the  carrier  pigeon."  This  may  be  true  or  may  not.  But 
certain  it  is  that  no  stronger  argument  against  social- 
ism has  ever  been  penned  than  that  Herbert  Spencer 


makes  in  a  short  essay  published  ten  years  ago.  Com- 
pressed into  a  paragraph,  his  argument  is  this :  Man 
must  have  a  master.  That  master  may  be  nature.  Or 
it  may  be  a  fellow-man.  In  a  democracy  man  is  com- 
pelled to  work  by  his  physical  necessities.  He  is  under 
natural  law.  Under  socialism,  man  would  be  com- 
pelled to  work  by  the  personal  coercion  of  some  one 
above  him.  He  would  be  under  artificial  regulation. 
Society  must  chose  between  these  alternatives.  Social 
life  can  only  be  carried  on  by  voluntary  cooperation 
(as  now)  or  compulsory  cooperation  (under  social- 
ism). The  first  is  represented  by  a  laborer  on  a  farm, 
free  to  go  or  stay.  The  second,  by  a  soldier  in  an 
army  who  must  obey  or  suffer  punishment.  Under  so- 
cialism, society  would  consist  of  two  classes,  those  who 
regulate  and  those  who  are  regulated.  And  it  is  laid 
down  as  a  profound  truth  that  "  the  regulative  struc- 
ture always  tends  to  increase  in  power."  In  way  of 
illustration,  Spencer  points  out  that  a  few  Christian 
missionaries,  spread  over  pagan  Europe,  preaching  the 
returning  of  good  for  evil,  were  the  beginning  of  a  re- 
ligious hierarchy  of  vast  power,  ruled  by  military 
bishops,  headed  by  popes  who  coerced  kings;  that  the 
history  of  the  United  States  shows  constant  increase 
and  centralization  of  governmental  power ;  that  so- 
cieties of  every  kind — labor  unions,  stock  companies, 
political  parties — soon  cease  to  be  governed  by  the 
members  as  a  whole,  invariably  falling  into  the  hands 
of  cliques  whose  power  grows  and  grows,  till  sup- 
planted by  a  stronger  clique.  Arguing  from  these 
analogies,  therefore,  Mr.  Spencer  states  his  conviction 
that  "  when  a  general  socialistic  organization  has  been 
established,  the  vast,  ramified,  and  consolidated  body  of 
those  who  direct  its  activities,  using  without  check 
whatever  coercion  seems  to  them  needful  in  the  in- 
terests of  the  system  (which  will  practically  become 
their  own  interests),  will  have  no  hesitation  in  impos- 
ing their  rigorous  rule  over  the  entire  lives  of  the 
actual  workers;  until,  eventually,  there  is  developed  an 
official  oligarchy,  with  its  various  grades,  exercising 
a  tyranny  more  gigantic  and  more  terrible  than  any 
which   the   world  has   seen." 

Again  we  ask,  Who  is  right,  the  philosopher,  our 
"greatest  thinker,"  or  the  people,  the  whole  Occi- 
dental world  ?  Spencer  is  at  least  consistent.  His  ideal 
state  is  one  where  "  each  shall  have  as  much  liberty  to 
pursue  his  ends  as  consists  with  maintaining  like 
liberties  to  pursue  their  ends  by  others."  So  believing, 
his  attitude  on  all  political  subjects  inevitably  followed. 
The  people  are  inconsistent.  For  a  while,  they  are 
not  ready  to  accept  socialism,  they  agree  to  policies 
that  are  socialistic  in  tendency. 

Who  is  right?    The  ages  only  can  give  the  answer. 


All  the  way  from  the  East  the  singing  wires  tingle  as 

houses,  flats,  they  tdl  us  that  "  Mr-  Alfred  G.  Van- 
Dukes.  and  derbilt  and  his  wife  are  about  to  take 

VANDEKBILTS.  up    ^^    resi<Jence    ;„    ^    Ne„.     ^  OXV     flat." 

At  first  the  news  comes  upon  us  with  something  of  a 
shock.  A  Vanderbilt  in  a  flat !  But,  on  reflection,  why 
not?  The  first  of  the  Vanderbilts — Cornelius,  of  that 
ilk — lived  in  an  abode  far  inferior  to  a  flat;  that  Cor- 
nelius who  for  a  modest  fee  used  to  carry  passengers 
from  New  York  to  Staten  Island  in  a  skiff  sculled  by 
his  good  right  arm.  But  times  have  changed  since 
then.  Like  the  haughty  prince  of  the  elder  times  in 
France  who  said,  "  Roy  ne  puis,  prince  je  daigne, 
Rohan  suis."  so  Cornelius's  scion  may  say,  "  Xoble. 
nit;  Astor,  not;  Vanderbilt  I  am."  From  the  Vander- 
bilt skiff  to  the  Vanderbilt  flat  is  the  measure  of  three 
New  York  generations.  Two  decades  ago,  in  New 
York,  the  term  "  flat  "  was  so  unusual  that  the  play, 
"  French    Flats,"    excited    much    curiosity    then 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  21,  1903. 


what  the  term  might  mean :  hence  for  a  long-  time 
that  phrase,  "  French  Flats,"  was  applied  to  what  are 
now  denominated  by  the  shorter  term. 

Yet  "  apartments,"  or  "  flats,"  are  not  distinctly 
French;  they  are  European.  You  find  them  all  over 
the  Continent.  In  Vienna,  for  example,  you  see  the 
Reichshaus,  a  magnificent  facade  with  a  vista  extend- 
ing for  some  hundreds  of  yards  along  a  beautiful 
square.  You  say  to  yourself:  "What  a  magnificent 
public  building — what  an  imposing  architectural  en- 
semble!" Yet  you  speedily  find  that  only  the  centre 
of  this  massive  pile  is  the  City  Hall;  the  rest  is  made 
up  of  flats  belonging  to  private  owners ;  the  com- 
monwealth decreed  that  for  the  common  weal  they 
should  construct  their  buildings  in  architectural 
harmony.  Even  conservative  London  has  felt  the 
pressure  of  modern  life:  all  over  the  great  city  to-day 
you  may  find  what  there  are  called  "  Residential  Flats." 
If  you  are  domiciled  at  one  of  the  big  hotels  on  the 
Strand,  such  as  the  Cecil  or  the  Savoy,  from  your 
windows  you  may  see  a  stately  pile  of  buildings,  known 
as  "  Whitehall  Court."  You  wonder  vaguely  what 
they  are;  are  they  side-shows  to  St.  James's  Palace 
ur  Marlborough  House?  Or  did  King  Edward  in  his 
Poins  and  Bardolph  days  utilize  them  for  his  bachelor 
larks?    Not  at  all — they  are  merely  grandiose  flats. 

Your  Briton,  by  the  way,  is  not  utterly  unused  to  the 
idea  of  living  in  flats  or  apartments.  In  his  youth  the 
average  bencher  has  dwelt  in  chambers,  as  did  Penden- 
nis  when  he  flirted  with  Fanny  and  generally  played 
the  platonic  part  of  a  mild  Don  Juan.  Furthermore, 
without  intending  to  wound  the  British  aristocracy, 
we  may  say  that  a  good  many  of  them  hark  back  for 
their  money  to  the  counter  and  the  till.  It  came  to  them 
by  the  distaff  side — in  short,  they  married  it.  Some- 
times the  bride  was  the  daughter  of  a  wealthy  brewer, 
sometimes  of  a  Manchester  cotton-spinner,  sometimes 
a  rich  shop-keeper.  In  Britain,  there  are  cotton,  malt, 
and  liquor  lords:  the  Lords  Ardilaun  base  their  title 
on  Dublin  porter  and  stout.  England's  peers  even 
have  come  to  America  to  get  money,  and  have  not 
hesitated  to  wed  the  daughters  of  common  petroleum 
magnates,  of  base-born  slaughter-house  millionaires. 
Therefore,  the  British  subject  of  to-day,  whether  noble 
or  commoner,  should  not  be  startled  at  the  idea  of 
living  over  a  shop;  more  than  one  may  reflect  that 
his  great  great-grandfather  so  lived  when  he  used  to 
stand  at  the  shop  door  in  his  'prentice's  apron  shout- 
ing "  What  d'ye  lack." 

In  London  as  in  New  York,  so  has  it  been  in  San 
Francisco.  Once  there  was  a  time  when  a  flat  was  the 
badge  of  the  shabby  genteel.  Once  there  was  a  time 
when  a  bride-to-be  would  say  to  her  future  lord: 
"  Edwin,  when  we  are  married  you  will  not  make  me 
live  in  Oakland,  will  you,  dearest?"  "No,  my  sweet 
Angelina !"  "  And  you  will  never  make  me  live  in  a 
flat,  precious  ?"  "  Never,  my  ownest  own  !"  "  Then, 
Edwin,  darling,  take  me — I  am  yours." 

Now,  all  this  is  changed.  Now,  people  whom  one 
knows  live  in  flats.  True,  they  call  them  "  apart- 
ments," but  still  they  are  flats.  Flats  are  found  even 
in  the  sacred  precincts  of  Pacific  Avenue.  Flats  are 
also  found  on  the  sacrosanct  altitudes  of  Nob  Hill. 
Time  was  when  only  impossible  persons  lived  in  flats  in 
San  Francisco.  Now,  even  leaders  in  the  Four  Hun- 
dred live  in  apartments. 

The  world  moves.  Even  San  Francisco  moves  with 
it — sometimes.  In  New  York  for  nearly  twenty  years 
[here  have  been  big  blocks  of  flats  or  "  apartment- 
houses."  Some  were  built  as  speculations,  some  as  in- 
vestments, some  as  homes.  There  are  several  such 
buildings  in  New  York  which  are  run  as  stock  com- 
panies, the  stockholders  owning  the  buildings  and  occu- 
pying them  as  their  own  tenants.  A  comparatively 
small  one  is  the  Belgravia,  on  the  corner  of  Forty- 
Eighth  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue.  This  was  built  by 
half  a  dozen  millionaires,  among  them  George  M. 
Pullman,  John  YV.  Mackay,  and  others.  Each  million- 
aire owns  a  floor  of  the  building,  and  each  floor  is 
thoroughly  fitted  up  as  a  handsome  apartment.  While 
each  apartment  has  a  kitchen,  an  electric  lighted  tun- 
nel runs  from  the  basement  to  the  Hotel  Buckingham, 
not  far  away,  so  that  the  occupants  can  have  the  ad- 
vantage of  that  restaurant  service  if  desired. 

Most  of  us  know  that  the  country  is  better  to  live 
in  than  the  town,  at  least  in  summer.  Those  American 
pioneers  who  found  that  their  neighbors  were  "crowd- 
ing them  "  on  the  prairie  when  they  got  within  five 
miles,  could  never  live  in  cities.  Something  of  this 
same  feeling  survives  in  the  town-dwellers  who  stick 
to  detached  houses.  This  feeling  exists  atavistically 
even  in  London,  where  hundreds  of  miles  of  dingy 
brier;  houses  may  be  ...n,  each  with  its  dingy  doorway, 
ugy  area-way,  a, id  its  dingy  back-yard.  The 
Englishman  clings  toUis  detached  house,  if  or 


because  it  possesses  all  the  discomforts  of  a  home.  But 
even  in  little  Albion  those  who  can  afford  to  do  so  al- 
ways live  in  the  country,  and  merely  "come  up  to  town." 
Living  in  the  country  is  expensive,  under  any  condi- 
tions, particularly  in  England.  The  English  nobility 
have  many  hereditary  obligations,  among  them 
hereditary  tenants.  The  Duke  of  Roxburghe,  who  re- 
cently married  Miss  Goelet,  had  only  two  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  a  year;  he  is  a  ducal  pauper,  and  will 
need  all  her  millions  to  keep  his  country  place  going. 
But  all  of  us  can  not  live  in  the  country ;  all  of  us  are 
not  dukes;  and  we  must  live  the  best  we  can — even  in 
cities,  perhaps  in  city  flats.  Englishmen  have  a  strong 
love  for  the  separate  and  detached  house,  but  it  often 
amounts  to  running  a  boarding-house  for  servants,  as 
the  duke  runs  his  country  place  for  his  tenants.  Still 
the  Englishman  loves  his  own  dwelling — 
"  An  Englishman's  house  is  his  castle. 
An  Englishman's  hat  is  his  crown." 

This  brings  us  back  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  G.  Van- 
derbilt,  who  are  about  to  live  in  a  flat.  True,  it  is  "  a 
four-thousand-dollar  flat,"  but  can  the  jingling  of  the 
dollar  heal  the  hurt  that  honor  feels?  The  principal 
excuse  of  the  Vanderbilts  for  their  action  is  that  they 
"  live  most  of  the  year  in  the  country  and  only  run  up 
to  town."  This  should  certainly  mollify  Mrs.  Grundy ; 
she  surely  should  not  expect  them  to  keep  a  houseful  of 
lazy  servants  eating  their  heads  off  in  town. 

But  the  main  point  of  the  matter  lies  here — if  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Alfred  Gwynne  Vanderbilt  may  live  in  a  flat, 
why  not  we  lesser  mortals?  Be  comforted,  ye  fiat- 
dwelling  San  Franciscans.  Sursum  corda!  Lift  up 
your  hearts  ! 

Are  the  President  and  the  chairman  of  the  Republican 
Senator  hanna  National  Committee  at  outs?  is  a  very 
and  president  present  question.  Mr.  Hanna  protests 
Roosevelt.  friendship     undying,     but     the     senator 

from  Ohio  is  backing  a  bitter  fight  on  Major-General 
Wood,  Mr.  Roosevelt's  familiar  friend  and  chosen 
recipient  of  honors.  The  President  speaks  of  Mr. 
Hanna  as  of  one  whom  he  delighteth  to  honor,  yet  he 
has  steadily  refused  to  accede  to  the  senator's  insistent 
demands  for  a  retrial  of  Estes  G.  Rathbone,  convicted, 
— falsely  convicted,  Mr.  Hanna  thinks — of  fraud  in 
Cuba. 

The  situation  is  one  of  strain.  There  are  but  two 
Republicans  in  line  of  succession  to  the  Presidential 
nomination.  These  two  men  are  seemingly  indis- 
pensable to  each  other.  The  astute  senator,  long  ex- 
perienced in  the  deeper  mysteries  of  national  politics, 
twice  a  manager  of  victorious  campaigns,  the  right- 
hand  man  of  Mr.  McKinley,  holds  a  power  which  the 
brave,  upright,  and  popular  President  by  McKinley's 
death  must  reckon  with.  And  it  may  be  taken  as 
certain  that  Mr.  Hanna,  if  he  wants  the  nomination 
for  himself,  has  but  one  man  to  push  aside.  For  the 
first  time  Mr.  Roosevelt  has  been  put  on  the  defensive. 

The  open  difference  between  these  two  men  lies  in 
the  Wood  case.  It  is  thought,  in  many  soundly  Re- 
publican quarters,  that  in  this  Mr.  Hanna  has  all  the 
best  of  it.  Back  of  the  Wood  case  and  closely,  too 
closely,  connected  with  it,  is  the  Brooke-Wood  contro- 
versy and  the  Rathbone  scandal.  In  all  of  these  cases, 
Senator  Hanna  has  played  the  importunate  inquirer. 
He  has  wanted  to  know.  He  has  wondered.  He  has 
doubted.  Naturally — we  have  his  own  assurance  for 
it — his  inquiries  were  made  with  the  most  favorable 
intentions  toward  the  administration.  His  deep  yearn- 
ing for  knowledge  has  been  in  order  more  capably  to 
praise  what  has  been  done.  His  wonder  is  that  of  the 
tourist  under  the  pyramids,  his  doubts  the  blessed  hesi- 
tation of  those  who  have  fearfully  taken  hold  on 
salvation. 

Unfortunately,  Senator  Hanna's  motives  have  met 
misconstruction.  There  seem  to  have  been  seasons 
when  even  Mr.  Roosevelt  has  been  annoyed  by  the 
solicitude  of  the  great  Republican.  To  ask  politely 
for  the  records  in  the  case  of  Major  Estes  G.  Rathbone 
after  it  had  been  closed  was  going  the  distance  al- 
lowed friendly  senators  with  clients.  To  ask  if  these 
records  were — well,  complete — savored  of  indifference 
to  a  nice  sense  of  propriety.  But  never  to  turn  a 
corner  without  a  placid  question  as  to  whether  Rath- 
bone really  was  guilty  or  not — wouldn't  it  fray  the 
bonds  of  friendship?  And  then  when  General  Wood 
is  about  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  the  administration's 
favor,  the  senator  from  Ohio  comes  around  the  corner 
again  with  outstretched  hand  and  beaming  eye.  "  I 
am  your  sincerest  well-wisher,  Mr.  ■  President,  but 
you're  sure  Wood  isn't  a  liar?"  he  genially  asks; 
"  you're  quite  sure  that  Major  Runcie  didn't  tell  the 
truth,  and  General  Wood — how  I  admire  your  policy  ! 
— isn't  a  d d  rascal?" 

Friendship  has  sturdily  thriven  on  this  hearty  inter- 


change, and  the  public  is  informed  each  morning  that 
Senator  Hanna  and  President  Roosevelt  are  close 
allies,  that  they  "have  agreed  to  disagree."  But  it 
seems  thoughtless,  to  say  the  least,  after  Mr.  Roosevelt 
has  announced  his  unwillingness  to  exculpate  Perry  S. 
Heath  from  complicity  in  the  postal  scandals,  that  this 
gentleman  should  not  only  remain  as  secretary  of  the 
National  Republican  Committee  but  that,  on  Mr. 
Roosevelt's  protest,  Senator  Hanna  should  again  ap- 
pear genially  around  the  corner  with,  "  Are  you  sure 
Heath  isn't  all  right?  Don't  you  think,  speaking 
candidly,  that  you  better  shut  up,  young  feller?" 

All  this,  we  say,  makes  the  enduring  friendship  be- 
tween Mr.  Roosevelt  and  Mr.  Hanna  the  more  charm- 
ing. When  the  Republican  National  Committee  visits 
the  White  House,  the  chairman  remarks,  cordially: 
"  Mr.  President,  I  have  the  honor  to  present  en  masse 
the  members  of  the  National  Republican  Committee. 
In  my  experience  with  this  body  of  men  I  have  found 
them  all  true,  loyal  Republicans,  ready  to  support 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  at  all  times." 
Mr.  Roosevelt  bows,  smilingly,  when  the  senator  tells 
him  to  shake  hands  with  the  gentlemen,  and  responds, 
pleasantly,  "  I  have  sat  at  the  feet  of  Gamaliel."  Not 
a  word  about  Secretary  Heath,  who  is  absent.  But 
after  some  informal  courtesies  the  committee  trudges 
back  to  the  Arlington  Hotel,  where  Mr.  Heath  is  wait- 
ing for  them  "  to  transact  business."  All  is  beaming 
and  hearty.  Mr.  Roosevelt  is  still  pondering  the  warm 
handclasps,  the  manly  tones  of  the  chairman,  when 
Senator  Hanna,  struck  by  a  thought,  comes  back 
around  the  corner,  and  says :  "  Don't  you  think  you 
better  bring  Wood  back  from  the  Philippines?  Don't 
you  think  he'd  better  testify  in  this  investigation?" 
And  the  President  has  just  sent  in  General  Wood's 
name  again  for  promotion. 

Just  how  this  friendly  persiflage,  as  we  are  com- 
pelled to  suppose  it  to  be,  will  end  can  not  be  told.  It 
seems  probable  that  the  Senate  will  confirm  Wood, 
and  it  seems  likely  also  that  Rathbone  will  get  his 
new  trial.  In  one  instance,  a  great  number  of  army 
officers  of  high  rank  will  be  aggrieved,  and,  in  the  sec- 
ond, General  Wood  will  receive  a  black  eye,  as  Rath- 
bone bases  his  demand  for  a  retrial  on  charges  that 
Wood,  as  governor  of  Havana,  intimidated  the  courts 
to  his  prejudice.  Meanwhile,  it  may  be  remembered 
that  Mr.  Roosevelt  holds  the  reins,  and  that  he  who 
boasted  some  time  ago  of  having  sat  at  Gamaliel's 
feet  afterward  found  a  new  light,  and  followed  that. 
But  Perry  Heath  says  that  he  won't  resign  from  the 
secretaryship  of  the  national  committee,  and  Mr. 
Hanna  is  just  around  the  corner. 

What  if  the  Kaiser  should  die?    If  the  hand  that  now 
holds  to  common  effort  German  soldier 

What  if  the 

kaiser  and   merchant    and    manufacturer     and 

Should  die?  workman  and  agrarian  should  drop  the 
reins?  Who  could  snatch  them  up?  Who  would?  The 
question  is  vital  in  the  Fatherland,  in  Europe,  in  China,  in 
India,  in  South  America,  and  in  Africa.  Now  it  is 
"  the  Kaiser  says,"  and  a  debate  in  the  Reichstag 
comes  to  nothing,  Paris  gazes  wildly  to  the  dreaded 
frontier,  the  Czar's  ministers  clutch  their  portfolios, 
a  German  gunboat  shells  a  Chinese  town,  the  rate 
of  exchange  rises  in  Bombay,  a  bank  opens  in  Argen- 
tine, the  British  Secretary  for  the  Colonies  reassures 
an  honorable  member  as  to  Germany's  intentions  in 
the  Transvaal.  More  profoundly  true  than  the  grand 
monarch's  boast  might  William's  dictum  be,  "  The 
Empire,  'tis  I." 

If  Bismarck  was  the  father  of  United  Germany,  the 
present  Kaiser  has  brought  the  child  up  and  educated 
it,  and  given  it  something  to  do.  The  scene  enacted 
when  the  Iron  Chancellor  took  his  dismissal  at  the 
hands  of  the  young  emperor  was  the  claiming  of  an 
inheritance  of  power,  not  of  blood.  Neither  grand- 
father nor  father  had  really  taken  over  the  empire,  but 
this  Kaiser  not  only  did  so,  but  developed  it,  drew  it 
together;  where  it  was  weak,  he  strengthened  it; 
where  it  was  unwieldly,  he  refashioned  it;  and  for  ten 
years  he  has  forced  it  into  channels  of  international 
importance  of  his  own  making,  believing  that  growth 
under  pressure  and  constraint  means  strong,  well-knit 
fibre.  It  has  succeeded,  so  far,  this  plan.  But  what  if 
the  Kaiser  should  die? 

The  imminence  of  the  catastrophe  is  in  doubt.  The 
doctors  of  medicine  agree,  officially.  The  affection  of 
the  imperial  throat  is  "  singer's  polypus,"  a  "  non- 
malignant  growth,"  "  myxomatous  in  character,"  "  a 
benign  laryngeal  tumor."  So  much  for  sesquipedalian 
definition.  In  unofficial  expansiveness,  the  authorities 
shake  their  heads.  Their  dubiety  is  profound.  They 
point  to  the  fact  that  the  august  patient's  father  and 
mother   and   uncle   died   of   cancer,    and    "  in    nearly 


December  21,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


twenty-five  per  cent,  of  the  reported  cases  of  laryngeal 
cancer,  one  or  other  of  the  parents  of  the  victims 
died  of  the  disease,"  says  the  Medical  Record.  All 
accept  formally  the  bulletins  of  the  surgeons,  yet  all 
agree  that  several  months  must  elapse,  under  the  most 
favorable  conditions,  before  public  anxiety  can  be 
allayed.     For  what  if  the  Kaiser  should  die? 

In  the  meantime,  the  German  political  cliques  are 
playing  the  game  with  an  eye  on  the  throne.  The  so- 
cialists seem  to  have  taken  fresh  heart,  in  spite  of 
drastic  measures  employed  to  stop  their  attacks 
cacophonous  to  the  Hohenzollern  ear.  Two  journalists 
have  been  sent  to  prison  with  loss  of  civil  rights  for 
saying  that  the  Kaiser  is  afraid.  The  insinuation  was 
dramatically  made.  The  offending  paper,  the  Berlin 
Vorw'drts,  not  only  stated  that  the  emperor  had  chosen 
a  site  for  a  secret  fortified  refuge,  but  had  had  plans 
drawn,  one  of  which  (supposedly)  was  printed  with 
the  editorial  remark  that  it  was  to  be  a  storm  cellar 
in  case  of  a  socialist  cyclone.  Other  journals  have 
taken  up  the  fight  with  what  appears  to  be  reliance 
on  a  new  regime  shortly  to  come.  Herr  Bebel, 
significant  of  name,  has  thundered  fresh  denunciation 
against  the  war  lord,  has  inquired  pathetically  if  the 
new  navy  is  to  be  as  great  a  hotbed  of  brutality  as 
the  army  has  been,  has  uttered  the  execrations  of  an 
impoverished  farmerfolk  against  the  iniquity  of  the 
grasping  tradefolk  in  whose  interest  army  and  navy 
seek  new  possessions.  Others,  less  able  but  as  vin- 
dictive, cry  aloud  that  infamy  and  insolence  reign. 
The  country  listens  dully,  hearkening  for  the  word 
from  the  Kaiser.     For  if  the  Kaiser  should  die? 

The  ministers,  in  advocating  the  schemes  of  their 
master,  speak  more  temperately  than  of  old.  Possibly 
they  are  thinking  of  the  tremendous  increase  of  so- 
cialistic strength.  Von  Einom  admits  gently  that  the 
army  is  not  what  it  should  be.  He  pleads  for  time. 
The  members  of  the  Reichstag  still  debate  tariff-re- 
form, but  no  longer  do  the  merchants  look  on  indif- 
ferently. If  the  emperor  lives,  he  will  protect  their 
interests.  For  the  first  time  in  years  the  traders  seek 
greater  representation  in  parliament.  A  doubt  assails 
them. 

The  crown  prince,  Frederick  William,  is  unknown 
by  any  originality  or  strength.  He  will,  think  the 
Germans,  be  only  a  mild  figure  in  politics.  This  will 
mean  that  Germany,  now  burdened  with  a  verbose  and 
ineffectual  parliamentary  body,  simply  a  floor  of  acrid 
debate,  may  become  in  very  fact  a  parliamentary  gov- 
ernment. At  present,  by  the  wisdom  of  Bismarck  and 
the  Kaiser  who  followed  in  his  footsteps,  playing  one 
off  against  another,  there  are  no  genuine  national 
parties  in  the  Fatherland.  Socialists,  Unionists,  Re- 
publicans, or  whatever  they  are  called,  do  but  fight 
among  themselves  with  an  occasional  snap  at  the 
emperor.  But  what  redistribution  of  parties  may  be 
achieved?  Where  will  the  army  be?  How  will  the 
emperor's  colonizing  schemes  fare?  What  of  it  all? 
What  if  the  Kaiser  dies? 


News   comes  from   Manila   that    Governor   Taft  has 

hoboes  ordered    all     the    idle     islanders    to    be 

for  home.  shipped  back  to  the  United  States.     It 

Sweet  Home.  seems  that  there  ;s  ]ittle  WQrk  ther(,  fof 

white  men,  except  government  work,  and  as  Uncle 
Sam's  work  there  principally  consisted  in  killing 
Filipinos,  and  as  there  has  been  a  temporary  let-up  in 
that  industry,  a  number  of  deserving  persons  are  out 
of  a  job.  There  being  no  other  way  of  maintaining 
them,  Uncle  Sam  is  feeding  them  to  keep  them  from 
opening  that  oyster,  the  world,  with  their  swords. 
It  has  been  considered  by  Governor  Taft  cheaper  to 
deport  them,  so  they  are  being  given  a  free  passage 
home  on  the  transports. 

The  Pacific  Coast  has  already  received  some  ex- 
tremely undesirable  immigrants  from  the  Philippines. 
A  select  knot  of  discharged  soldiers  were  condemned 
by  courts-martial  to  imprisonment  at  Alcatraz  for  va- 
rious heinous  crimes,  such  as  robbery,  rape,  or  murder. 
A  number  of  these  precious  rascals  were  found  to  be 
illegally  tried,  because  the  courts  which  condemned 
them  were  "  mixed  courts  " — made  up  partly  of  vol- 
unteer officers  and  partly  of  regulars.  Therefore,  they 
were  allowed  to  go'  scot  free.  Not  many  days  elapsed 
before  some  of  these  heroes  were  heard  from.  If 
Uncle  Sam's  courts  were  shaky,  not  so  the  local 
courts;  several  of  these  jail-birds  are  now  caged  by 
the  commonwealth  of  California. 

Not  long  ago,  the  Federal  government  ordered 
troops,  supplies,  and  munitions  of  war  to  be  shipped 
from  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  via  the  Mediterranean,  the 
Suez  Canal,  and  the  Red  Sea,  to  Manila.  We  are  eight 
thousand  miles  from  Manila;  New  York  is  about 
eighteen  thousand ;  but  it  was  necessary  to  keep  the 
traders  of  the  East  in  a  good  humor,  hence  this  pe- 


culiar proceeding.  It  was  with  much  ado  that  the  Pacific 
Coast  succeeded  in  keeping  a  certain  amount  of  the 
Philippine  trade  here. 

Turn  about  is  fair  play.  If  it  was  right  to  ship 
goods  eighteen  thousand  miles  in  order  to  make  trade 
for  the  Atlantic  seaboard,  what  is  the  matter  with 
shipping  vags,  tramps,  and  hoboes  eighteen  thousand 
miles  back  to  the  same  favored  section?  We  re- 
spectfully urge  on  the  War  Department  and  the  In- 
sular Government  that  they  indulge  in  no  favoritism. 
When  it  comes  to  tramps,  we  are  not  shy.  Give  the 
Atlantic  cities  a  chance.  What  is  the  matter  with 
shipping  a  few  of  these  hoboes  to  New  York? 

In  San  Francisco's  Chinese  theatre,  last  week,  there  was 
Dramatic  a  '3't  °^  genuine  drama.     Be  it  known  to 

Death  of  non-dwellers  in  San  Francisco  that  the 

Gee  ah  Gong.  same  customs  prevail  on  the  Chinese 
stage  as  in  the  days  of  the  Merry  Monarch.  When 
Charles  the  Second  was  king,  the  beaux,  the  wits,  the 
gallants,  and  the  courtiers  had  seats  upon  the  stage. 
At  times  it  was  difficult  for  the  players  to  make  their 
way  through  the  spectators.  So  is  it  now,  in  San 
Francisco's  Chinese  theatre ;  therefore,  when  a 
spectator  stepped  toward  the  centre  of  the  stage,  and 
fired  four  revolver  shots  into  the  body  of  Gee  Ah 
Gong,  his  appearance  at  first  excited  no  wonder; 
neither  did  the  shooting;  for  there  are  many  gun- 
powder plots  in  Chinese  plays.  But  when  the  Mon- 
golian mummer  fell  to  the  floor,  the  blood  gushing  from 
his  four  wrounds,  even  the  stolid  Asiatic  audience  grew 
excited.  Many  of  us  have  seen  Mascagni's  "  Cavalleria 
Rusticana,"  in  which  the  mimic  play  changes  into  real 
tragedy  when  Alfio  and  Turridu  let  loose  their  pas- 
sions, and  the  husband  stabs.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
dramatic  scenes  in  the  modern  school.  Yet  even  in 
the  sordid  precincts  of  Chinatown  in  San  Francisco 
this  dramatic  death  of  Gee  Ah  Gong  is  not  with- 
out its  stage  value.  Once  before  the  Chinese  life  was 
placed  effectively  on  the  stage  here  in  the  play  "  The 
First  Born."  This  incident  would  lend  itself  even  more 
effectively  to  dramatic  treatment. 

Some  years  ago  we  commented  somewhat  acidly  on 
Taxpayers  tne    *act    t^lat     tne    taxpayers     of    San 

and  football  Francisco  were  providing  for  the  teach- 
ing not  only  of  reading,  writing,  and 
arithmetic  in  the  public  schools,  but  also  foreign 
languages,  music,  calisthenics,  the  Delsarte  system,  the 
use  of  the  globes,  and  cookery.  Cookery  !  Shades  of 
Alexis  Soyer !  Cookery  in  the  public  schools  !  Why, 
the  average  mother  of  the  average  pupil  can  not  cook 
water  without  burning  it.  As  for  the  average  pupil, 
if,  when  she  grew  up  and  got  married,  she  tried  to  feed 
her  husband  on  anything  but  a  fried  steak,  he  would 
wear  it  out  on  her.  However,  considering  the  trend 
of  public  sentiment,  we  remarked  that  we  saw  no 
reason  for  drawing  the  line  at  calisthenics,  cookery, 
and  the  piano.  We  saw  no  reason  why  the  fiddle  and 
ball-room  dancing  should  be  debarred.  What  is  the 
matter  with  teaching  the  two-step?  These  remarks 
may  have  seemed  absurd  at  the  time,  but  they  were 
in  fact  prophetic,  for  now  we  learn  that  Auditor  Baehr 
has  refused  to  approve  of  "  a  bill  of  seventy-seven  dol- 
lars for  football  suits  for  the  Lowell  High  School 
Football  Team."  What  is  the  matter  with  this  man 
Baehr?  Does  he  understand  his  business?  If  he  pays 
the  bills  for  calisthenics,  music,  and  the  cookery  outfit, 
why  draw  the  line  at  football  ?  This  is  only  another 
instance  of  the  petty  prejudice  against  athletic  sports. 

By  the  will  of  James  King  Gracie,  President  Roosevelt 

received  $10,000,  while  two  of  his  chil- 
See  how  the  ^°  '       * 

Fates  Their  dren  received  $5,000  apiece.  Truly  it 
Gifts  Allot.  nas  been  said  that  kissing  goes  by  favor. 
Here  is  Mr.  Roosevelt,  with  the  highest  place  in  the 
gift  of  the  American  nation,  youth,  health,  strength,  a 
fond  wife,  a  quiver  full  of  olive  branches,  a  ductile 
Congress,  the  solid  vote  of  New  York  State,  a  ma- 
jority of  the  Republican  delegates,  and  the  devoted 
friendship  of  Senator  Hanna,  not  to  mention  a  modest 
fortune  inherited  from  his  father.  To  him  comes  this 
bequest  of  $30,000,  while  to  his  daughter  Alice  there 
came  over  $100,000  about  a  year  ago.  Note  the  dif- 
ference between  him  and  Mr.  Bryan.  Twice  has  Mr. 
Bryan  sought  to  be  President,  and  twice  has  he 
violently  fallen  on  the  back  of  his  neck.  He  has  not 
got  the  solid  vote,  even  of  Nebraska,  his  father  left 
him  nothing,  his  daughter  has  just  married  an  artist, 
and  Senator  Hanna  does  not  like  Mr.  Bryan.  Re- 
cently, Mr.  Philo  K.  Bennett,  before  dying,  asked  the 
advice  of  Mr.  Bryan  as  to  how  he  should  leave  his 
money.  Mr.  W.  J.  Bryan,  after  grave  reflection, 
counseled  him  to  leave  $50,000  to  Mrs.  W.  J.  Bryan. 
This  the  late  Mr.  Bennett  did,  and  died.  Will  it  be 
believed   that   a   cold-blooded   court   in   Massachusetts 


is  trying  to  do  the  Bryans  out  of  their  $50,000?  Yet 
nobody  tries  to  hold  up  Mr.  Roosevelt.  To  him  who 
hath  shall  be  given,  and  from  him  who  hath  not  shall  be 
taken  away  even  that  which  he  hath. 

The  music  of  bands,  the  roar  and  glitter  of  fireworks. 
Hearst  the  snollting  antl  tramp  of  thousands  of 

in  workingmen  were  the  noisy  accompani- 

es Angeles.  ments  o{  the  partur;tion  of  Hearst's 
Los  Angeles  Examiner  last  Saturday.  Fifty-seven 
thousand  copies  of  the  Sunday  edition  are  said  to  have 
been  required — the  largest  first  Sunday  edition  ever 
printed.  Transparencies  bearing  the  legend  "  Hearst 
for  the  White  House "  are  said  to  have  been  nu- 
merous in  the  streets,  and  nobody  can  doubt  but  that 
the  marching  thousands  had  "  Hearst  "  graven  on  their 
hearts.  The  battle  is  now  on.  The  editors  of  the 
Express  and  Herald  are  a-shaking  in  their  shoes,  and 
the  white  mustache  of  General  Otis  looks  fiercer  than 
ever.  Thanks  to  Otis,  the  unions  are  weakest  in  Los 
Angeles  of  any  city  in  the  land.  If  the  Examiner 
can  make  them  strong,  Hearst  will  be  hailed  as  the 
champion  of  the  unions  throughout  the  entire  coun- 
try.    It  will  be  a  strenuous  fight. 

In  a  speech  on  Tuesday,  Francis  B.  Loomis,  assistant 
Events  in  the  secretar>'  of  state,  unequivocally  de- 
Panama  clared  that  if  the  United  States  had  hot 

Affa,r-  pursued  the  course  it  did  in  the  Panama 

matter,  France  would  have  landed  troops  on  the 
Isthmus  and  preserved  order.  His  speech  was  the  sub- 
ject of  warm  censure  by  Gorman  and  Hoar  in  the  Sen- 
ate on  Thursday.  It  is  announced,  however,  that  the 
Panama  treaty  will  probably  be  ratified  by  the  Senate, 
many  Democrats  voting  for  it,  which  will  largely  re- 
move the  affair  from  the  realm  of  party  politics. 
Rumors  that  Colombian  troops  will  try  to  win  back  the 
Isthmus  have  been  current  during  the  week,  and  five 
hundred  troops  were  discovered  December  15th  by  the 
United  States  cruiser  Atlanta  in  Colombia,  near  the 
Panama  border. 


New 
Power 


The  decision  of  the  supreme  court  of  this  State  in  a 
The  Mayor  s  case  brought  bv  citizens  of  San  Diego 
practically  gives  to  the  mayor  of  this 
city  unlimited  powers  to  remove  his  ap- 
pointees without  having  to  state  his  reasons  to  anybody. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  the  mayor  tried  to  remove 
members  of  the  board  of  health,  when  they  sued  out  in- 
junctions, and  held  their  jobs.  The  decision  effects  a 
real  revolution  in  the  municipal  affairs  of  this  city. 
What  the  mayor  will  do  is  as  yet  unknown,  but  it  is 
rumored  that  he  and  Casey  have  "  made  up,"  and  that 
the  ancient  enemy  has  become  a  loyal  friend,  and  will 
keep  his  place.  This  seems  strange.  Has  the  mayor 
never  read  the  saying  of  old  Ben  Franklin :  "  Beware 
of  meat  twice  boiled,  and  an  old  foe  reconciled." 


The  Cuban  reciprocity  measure  passed  the  Senate  on 
Cuban  reci-  Wednesday,  by  a  vote  of  57  to  18,  Bard. 

procity  Measure  of  California,  voting  no,  and  Perkins. 
Passed.  yes        -pne       jong      fignt       agajnst       tn;s 

measure  believed  to  be  injurious  to  the  beet-sugar 
raising  industry  has  thus  ended  in  defeat,  unless,  in- 
deed, the  law  is  declared  unconstitutional,  as  many 
believe  it  to  be.  and  as  was  argued  by  Bailey,  of  Texas, 
on  the  floor  of  the  Senate  on  Monday.  Not  only  is  the 
beet-sugar  industry  of  this  and  other  States  sacrificed 
by  this  measure  to  the  interests  of  the  Sugar  Trust 
and  Eastern  manufacturers,  but  a  "joker"  in  the 
treaty  robs  California  of  the  possibility  of  selling  her 
wines  in  Cuban  markets.  The  treaty  reads  that  "  all 
wines,  except  those  classified  under  paragraph  270 
(a),"  are  to  be  admitted  into  Cuba  at  thirty  per  cent, 
reduction.  And  under  the  unbenefitted  exception — 
279  (a) — are  placed  ninety-five  per  cent,  of  California's 
wines!  Yes,  California  is  neatly  done  up  all  around. 
Lame  ducks  at  Washington,  stolid  inertia  at  home — 
those  are  the  all-sufficing  reasons.  But  Senator  Bard 
deserves  all  praise  for  his  courageous  and  uncompro- 
mising stand.     He  was  faithful  to  the  end. 


In  discussing  the  important  question,  to  bathe  or  not 

to  bathe,  the  Chronicle  adverted   to  the 
Chronicle 

Amends  "Scriptural    aphorism    that    'cleanliness 

the  Bible.  js  next  tQ  godliness.'  "   Well.  well,  this  is 

news.  Was  the  religious  editor  away  on  a  holiday  when 
that  got  into  type?  Hadn't  the  Chronicle  better  look  it 
up?  Give  us  Biblical  book,  chapter,  ami  verse  for 
"  Cleanliness  is  next  to  godliness."  And  it's  a  serious 
matter  for  the  Chronicle.  For  doth  not  the  Good  Book 
say:  "  If  any  man  shall  add  unto  these  things.  ( !od  -hall 
add  unto  him  the  plagues  that  are  written  in  thi< 
Look  out  for  plagues,  ye  Chroniclers!     Bi 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  21,  1903. 


A    WOMAN    OF    THE    CURB. 


A  Story  of  Los  Angeles  Boom  Days. 


In  a  new,  outlying  ward  of  Los  Angeles  settled  a 
wall-like  religion,  represented  by  the  Rev.  Paul  Hig- 
gins.  The  pastor's  little  house  was  yellow,  his  lawn  was 
seering,  and  the  hose  thereon  lay  idle,  when  over  his 
cement  walk,  and  into  his  sitting-room,  came  an  old 
woman,  eager,  feeble,  and  frail. 

"  I  own,"  she  said,  sitting  on  the  edge  of  a  chair, 
while  the  pastor's  cold,  crude  face  was  bent  upon  her, 
"  the  ranch  just  beyond  the  city  in  this  direction.  I  got 
it  from  my  father  years  ago;  I  wanted  to  let  it  go  for 
taxes,  but  some  said  to  me,  '  Martha,  it'll  pay  some 
day.'  I  lived  in  Iowa,  where  they  have  attached  my 
son.  And  there  it  was  I  got  this  letter.  Oh,  Harry 
was  always  good  to  me,  Mr.  Higgins;  it's  natural,  aint 
it,  Mr.  Higgins,  that  I  should  want  to  use  the  money 
to — how  would  you  say  it?"  She  dreamed.  "You'd 
say  detach,  I  guess — detach  my  son." 

She  turned  her  sunken  eyes  up  to  him,  then  took  from 
a  worn  hand-bag  an  epistle,  which  she  read.  A  well- 
known  real-estate  firm  was  offering  her  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  for  her  farm,  to  cut  it  up  into  city 
lots.  As  he  read,  the  pastor's  face  grew  stern.  The 
pastor's  hair  was  crudely  cut.  Within  the  wall  of  his 
religion,  brought  over  the  mountains,  set  round  about 
him  shutting  away  the  brightness  of  the  world,  the 
pastor  sat,  and  knew. 

"  You  want  advice,"  he  said,  at  length,  and  frowned. 
Never  yet  had  the  Reverend  Higgins  encouraged  that 
of  which  he  himself  partook  not. 

Her  face  was  full  of  quick  and  sensitive  appeal. 
"  I  hurried  to  California  at  once,"  she  said,  "  and  moved 
into  the  little  cottage  on  the  ranch.  It  was  a  homesick 
thing  to  do.  And  then  I  went  to  see  the  agent.  But, 
Mr.  Higgins,  cities  are  new  to  me.  How  do  I  know 
enough  to  keep  them  from  cheating  me?  I  have  al- 
ways gone  to  the  preacher  in  Iowa.  Won't  you  go  with 
me  to  the  agent?  My  heart  is  heavy  to  detach  my  son." 

The  Reverend  Higgins  solemnly  arose.  "  We'll  go," 
he  said. 

At  the  crowded  corner  of  Spring  and  Second  Streets 
they  emerged  from  a  car,  Mrs.  Martha  Hinsdale  cling- 
ing to  the  arm  of  the  man  of  God.  Here  is  the  centre 
of  the  town;  here  the  Stimson  Block  raises  its  bold 
facade.  They  entered  the  elevator,  and  came  to  a 
suite  of  new  offices. 

"  This  way,  Mrs.  Hinsdale,"  said  a  pretty  stenog- 
rapher, with  a  red  ribbon  at  her  throat;  "Mr.  Stark  is 
ready  for  you." 

To  the  stern  pride  of  Higgins  he  and  his  trembling 
charge  were  given  preference  over  many  others,  and  led 
straight  into  an  inner  room. 

"  I  am  here,"  said  Higgins,  standing  like  a  tall  monu- 
ment in  a  graveyard,  "  to  see  that  this  new  member  of 
my  flock  is  not  led  into  aught  that  would  be  displeasing 
to  the  Lord,  Mr.  Stark,"  and  he  fastened  a  piercing 
eye  on  the  real-estate  man ;  "  is  there,  or  is  there  not, 
intention  to  speculate?" 

Martha's  face  became  distressed  and  inquiring. 
Would  God  knock  the  bottom  out  of  everything? 

Mr.  Stark  was  quick,  keen,  and  quite  honest  enough 
to  suit  anybody  but  Higgins.  He  said:  "We  are 
offering  Mrs.  Hinsdale  a  fortune  for  her  place.  Alone, 
she  could  do  nothing  with  it.  We  shall  spend  thou- 
sands upon  it  which  she  could  not  spend;  we  shall  in- 
vest in  advertisements;  we  are  able  to  wait  months  for 
a  return.  And  we  sell  at  a  profit.  Frankly,  Mr.  Hig- 
gins, we  hope  the  profit  will  be  handsome.  But  I  call 
your  attention  to  the  fact  that,  as  for  speculation,  there 
is  a  legitimate  sort." 

"  Stop !"  cried  Higgins,  and  raised  his  iron  hand. 
"Speculation  is  gambling!" 

The  word  had  a  dread  ring;  it  fell  on  Martha's  ears 
and  half  stunned  her.  She  stood  bent  in  the  middle 
of  the  room,  her  hands  folded,  her  eyes  bedimmed. 

"  You  labor  under  a  sad  delusion,  Mr.  Higgins," 
said  Stark,  impatiently.  "  This  is  no  curbstone  firm. 
Among  the  many  who  come  here  trying  to  pry  into  our 
purposes,  there  are,  of  course,  gamblers.  You  see  them 
sitting  yonder,  men  and  women  of  the  curb.  But  not 
all  of  such,  much  less  substantial  firms  like  this,  are  so. 
Surely,  Mr.  Higgins,  you  will  not  stand  between  this 
lady  and  fortune?" 

iggins  again,   and  turned   slowly  to 
We    will    consider    this    matter    in 
fortune    is    a    glittering    word.      I    am    now 
ready  to  go." 

She  was  bewildered;  she  groped  with  her  hand;  she 
took  the  pastor's  arm.  The  return  journey  on  the  car 
was  a  silent  one;  and  once  she  sighed,  long  and  heavily. 
The  pastor  pondered.  One  hundred  thousand.  This 
poor,  old  woman  on  the  verge  of  that,  and  he  who  had 
never  received  more  than  nine  hundred  a  year,  her 
arbiter.  It  is  no  strange  thing  if  the  Rev.  Paul  Hig- 
gins knew  not  where  religion  ended  and  pride  and 
jealous    began. 

At  length  in  his  unhome-like  parlor  she  sat  as  one 

judged.      "Mrs.    Hinsdale,"   he   said,    "I   am    sent   by 

God-    )  save  you   from   a  sin.     The  gilded  temptation 

de:ei   -d  you.     You   w    re   about    to    minister    to    the 

I     g  passion   of  hundreds..    Sell   not!     Go  home, 

ray  for  forgiveness !" 


She  shut  her  eyes;  she  got  up  presently,  crushed; 
she  moved  unsteadily  to  the  door.  "  My  son,"  she 
murmured,  "  they've  attached  my  Harry  in  Iowa." 

"  Abraham  sacrificed  his  son,"  intoned  Higgins, 
sententiously.  "  And  Mrs.  Hinsdale,"  there  was  the 
low  insinuation  of  the  religiously  prurient  in  his  words, 
"did  you  hear  what  he  called  his  companions? 
'  Women  of  the  curb  !'     Beware  of  your  associates  !" 

She  turned,  lifting  her  old  face  to  him.  A  new,  pro- 
found horror  was  upon  it.  Not  till  that  moment  had 
she  realized  the  depths  of  iniquity  into  which  he  meant 
that  she  had  almost  sunk.  Women  of  the  curb  !  Ter- 
rible— terrible.  What  did  her  poor  old  brain  believe 
them  to  be? 

It  was  lonesome  in  her  little  cottage  out  beyond  the 
last  street.  To  peel  the  potatoes;  to  make  the  fire;  to 
weep;  to  stagger  in  these  hours  of  bewilderment,  think- 
ing of  Harry,  beloved  and  attached  in  Iowa;  ah,  these 
were  homesick  things  to  do ! 

The  week  that  followed  was  one  of  struggle  between 
the  real-estate  man  and  the  preacher.  Almost  every  day 
Mr.  Stark  came  to  urge  her,  till  she  was  nigh  crazed 
with  her  soul's  problem.  And  every  evening  the  pastor 
strode   in   to   buttress   her   in   standing   for   the   Lord. 

At  length  she  received  the  weekly  letter  from  her 
Harry.  Harry  was  all  gone  to  pieces  in  Iowa.  Harry 
had  run  after  false  elocutionary  gods ;  lovable  and  im- 
practical. Harry  had  learned  to  recite  tragedies  and 
to  teach  small-town  high-school  girls  to  recite  trag- 
edies, too.  Harry  had  even  worn  long  hair.  But  who 
could  help  loving  him?  He  was  always  good  to  his 
mother,  was  Harry.  And  now  when  they  had  attached 
everything  that  he  owned,  even  his  trunk  and  clothes, 
what  was  the  poor  fellow  to  do?  "  When  you  get  me 
out  of  this,"  he  wrote,  ingenuously,  "  I'll  come  to  Cali- 
fornia and  make  our  fortune  in  oranges  !"  Familiar 
ring  it  has.  Oh,  golden  globes,  what  film  of  magic  cast 
ye  over  the  imaginative  East? 

Her  heart  was  torn  throughout  a  sleepless  night. 
Was  there  no  compromise? — no  midway  course  that 
she  might  follow?  Why  not  sell  a  little  piece  to  the 
agent — just  a  little  piece — just  enough  to  get  Harry 
to  California;  so  that  she  might  have  him  at  least  to 
lean  upon  and  help  her  with  the  problem  ?  This  new 
thought  was  so  agitating  that  she  could  not  even  lie 
down  till  daylight.  She  arose  and  lit  a  lamp.  Then 
she  looked  at  the  stars,  and  the  distant  glow  of  Los 
Angeles.  Should  she  go  to  her  pastor  and  tell  him 
of  her  purpose  ?  No !  The  maternal  instinct  to  hide 
her  young,  even  from  the  man  of  God,  obtained  the 
mastery. 

Into  Mr.  Stark's  private  office  the  bright-eyed  stenog- 
rapher admitted  her  early  next  morning;  and  Mr.  Stark 
grasped  her  hand  and  solicitously  showed  her  to  a  seat. 
At  least  she  had  come  without  her  shepherd !  Mrs. 
Hinsdale  seemed  afraid,  and  whispered.  One  thing  in 
the  room  had  almost  blinded  her — a  beautiful  lady  sit- 
ting by  a  window  reading  a  book.  God  help  her — could 
it  be  a  woman  of  the  curb  ? 

"I  want  to  sell  just  a  little  piece,"  she  said,  "just 
enough  to  detach  my  son." 

The  agent,  despairing  of  other  success,  suddenly 
came  out  with  a  new  proposition  which  he  and  his 
partners  had  lately  considered.  The  lady  by  the  window 
turned  over  a  leaf,  and  read  on.  "  Mrs.  Hinsdale," 
said  Stark,  "  let  your  son  come  into  this  deal  as  a 
temporary  silent  partner  to  the  firm.  Thus  through 
him  you  retain  an  interest  in  the  land.  Through  him 
you  have  an  oversight  .of  all  that  is  done.  Thus  you 
may  see  for  yourself,  day  by  day,  step  by.  step,  whether 
or  not  there  is  any  sinful  speculation,  and  may  prevent 
it.  If  you  agree  to  this,  I  shall  at  once  make  you  a 
check  that  will  not  only  detach  your  son,  but  will  bring 
him  to  Los  Angeles.  By  the  time  he  arrives  the  papers 
will  be  ready  to  sign." 

It  made  her  dizzy.  It  was  so  vast,  so  unintelligible. 
She  and  Harry  to  be  partners  in  so  glittering  a  thing ! 
Could  it  be  right?  Sweet  draft,  incredible  relief.  'She 
would  see,  she  would,  with  Harry,  that  there  was  no 
gambling  in  it,  and  her  son  should  be  detached  at  last ! 
She  clasped  his  hand  in  both  of  hers.  "  Oh,  thanks  ! 
Oh,  thanks  !"  she  whispered.  "  I'll  do  it,  and  God  bless 
you." 

He  wrote  the  check  at  once.  The  risk  was  worth 
while,  so  splendid  must  the  profits  of  the  subdivision  be. 

She  arose.  The  lady  by  the  window  turned  over  a 
leaf,  and  read  on;  and  strong  in  Mrs.  Hinsdale  was 
some  sickening  sense  of  guilt.  She  turned  to  Stark. 
"  You'd  better — you'd  better  not,"  she  said,  hoarsely, 
"  tell  Mr.  Higgins.  He's  an  innocent  man.  He's — he's 
innocent  of  the  world  1" 

The  terrible  load  would  have  been  lifted  from  her 
— the  sky  would  have  been  bright,  had  it  not  been  for 
her  shepherd — and  for  that  lady  with  the  book.  Who 
was  that  lady?  (In  truth  she  was  only  Stark's  wife.) 
In  the  outer  office  ignorance  was  more  than  she  could 
bear.  God  knows  what  abyss  of  sin  she  might  have 
already  launched  herself  into.  The  pretty  stenog- 
rapher there,  smiling  at  her,  was  surely  an  honest  girl; 
she  loved  that  stenographer;  she  suddenly  came  to  her 
and  put  her  hands  on  the  girl's  arm,  and  whispered 
in  anguish  and  in  awe:  "You'll  tell  me  the  truth — 
was  that  a  woman  of  the  curb?" 

The  stenographer  knew  not  the  sad  interpretation 
which   Mrs.   Hinsdale  put  upon   that  phrase.     At  that 


moment  she  had  seen  depart  another  woman,  one  of 
those  female  speculators  whom  the  rapid  rise  of  prop- 
erty in  Los  Angeles  has  attracted,  and  who  form  a 
somewhat  striking  minority  in  the  army  of  those  who 
hastily  buy,  and  sell  as  hastily.  She  thought  this  woman 
the  one  whom  Mrs.  Hinsdale  meant.  "  Yes,"  she  said, 
"  that  was  one  of  them." 

Stunned,  Mrs.  Hinsdale  went  to  the  door.  Into  what 
hell  had  she  sold  her  soul  ?  The  stenographer  was  smil- 
ing at  a  reporter  of  the  Los  Angeles  World,  who  had 
just  snapped  his  camera  at  Mrs.  Hinsdale.  Mrs.  Hins- 
dale did  not  hear  the  click,  or  know  the  horrid  thing 
that  must  issue  from  his  camera.  The  reporter,  a 
somewhat  blase  fellow,  was  getting  material  for  a  Sun- 
day story  about  women  in  the  local  real-estate  field. 

Mrs.  Hinsdale  went  away.  The  thing  was  done. 
The  struggling  conscience  was  chained  up ;  even  as  she 
walked  by  that  beauteous  woman  of  the  curb  had  she 
chained  it  up.  She  sent  the  money  to  her  son,  and 
passed  a  week  of  silent  wretchedness,  during  which  her 
vague  and  plaintive  answers  to  the  Rev.  Paul  Higgins, 
her  pitiful  struggles  not  to  tell  a  lie  and  yet  to  deceive 
him,  very  clearly  told  to  the  pastor  that  some  deal  was 
consummated.  At  last  he  charged  her  with  it,  and 
she  broke  down  in  confession.  "I  did  it  only  to  detach 
my  son,"  she  wept,  "  and  God  will  forgive  me." 

The  pride  and  jealousy,  which  the  preacher  thought 
were  religion  and  the  love  of  God,  waxed  mighty  in 
him.  He  went  out  of  her  house  in  manner  of  one  de- 
nouncing it  forever. 

Harry  telegraphed  that  he  would  arrive  Monday 
evening.  On  Sunday  she  went  into  Higgins's  little 
new  church,  and  sat  down  in  a  corner  of  the  pew.  He 
preached.  Strange  how  his  eye  burned  into  her; 
strange  how  his  terrible  sermon  seemed  hurled  at  her 
head  to  crush  her.  It  was  a  sermon  of  excited  triumph; 
the  triumph  of  the  cruel  who  preach.  She  knew  not 
why,  but  she  felt  the  premonition  of  some  awful  dis- 
aster ;  and  when  the  service  was  over,  the  congregation 
gone,  she  sat  huddled  up  in  a  little  black  bundle.  The 
Reverend  Higgins  came  and  touched  her  on  the 
shoulder.  "  Come  into  the  parsonage.  I  have  some- 
thing to  show  you,"  he  said. 

She  followed  him  dumbly.  The  pastor's  little  lawn 
was  seering  brown;  the  pastor's  hose  lay  idle.  In  the 
unlovely  parlor  she  stood  with  her  hands  folded,  meek. 
With  iron  tread  Paul  Higgins  went  to  fetch  the  Sunday 
issue  of  the  Los  Angeles  World.  It  was  big  with  sup- 
plements, news,  and  advertisements,  the  whole  of  the 
glittering  world  rolled  together  in  its  bewildering  pages. 
"See!"  said  her  shepherd,  sternly,  and  held  it  before 
her  eyes.  The  reporter  had  not  been  over  discrim- 
inating. His  article  was  headed  "  Women  of  the  Curb." 
It  told  about  some  picturesque  features  of  the  present 
remarkable  activity  in  real  estate.  And  there  was  Mrs. 
Hinsdale's  picture,  large  and  plain.  She  stared;  her 
old  eyes  groped  about  the  page;  her  old  heart  was 
frozen;  she  could  just  see  the  words  under  her  photo- 
graph :  "  An  Unexpected  Type :  A  Woman  of  the 
Curb." 

Slowly  she  looked  up  and  saw  his  iron  eye.  The 
crash  of  her  life  had  come.  She  knew  not  how  she 
went  her  way,  nor  when  she  arrived  at  her  little  home. 
Ruin  and  misery;  misery  and  ruin.  Mrs.  Hinsdale 
struck  down,  struck  down — and  Harry,  who  had  al- 
ways been  good  to  her,  Harry  coming  to  this  shame 
to-morrow  1 

Another  Monday  morning;  and  the  business  centre 
warm,  semi-tropic — ventricle  of  the  heart  of  the  great 
South-West.  The  stenographer's  ribbon  was  blue  to- 
day. In  at  the  door  came  Mrs.  Hinsdale,  changed,  a 
creature  so  bowed  with  shame  and  grief  that  she  could 
scarcely  look  at  the  stenographer.  "  I  want  to  see  Mr. 
Stark,"  she  said. 

"  He's  not  in,"  the  girl  replied,  startled.  Then  in- 
stinctively she  asked,  not  without  tenderness,  "  Can't 
I  do  something  for  you?" 

It  was  early,  and  the  stenographer  had  been  alone. 
Mrs.  Hinsdale's  glazed  eyes  looked  round.  Mrs.  Hins- 
dale broke  down  and  sank  to  her  knees,  and  put  her 
head  in  the  stenographer's  lap.  "  I  want  him  to  deny 
it.  I  want  him  to  tell  them  that  I'm  not,  I'm  not  a 
woman  of  the  curb.  Oh,  miss,  if  Harry  hears  it  it'll 
kill  him  !" 

The  stenographer  was  stupefied.  "  You  misunder- 
stand !  Oh,  Mrs.  Hinsdale,  Mrs.  Hinsdale — what  did 
you  think  it  meant  ?" 

Mrs.  Hinsdale  didn't  hear.  "  Where  is  the  office 
of  the  newspaper  ?"  she  asked,  slowly  struggling  up,  and 
trying  to  wipe  her  eyes. 

"  Just  three  blocks  away.  Oh,  I  wish  I  could  go 
with  you  !  Oh,  they  didn't  mean — Oh,  Mrs.  Hinsdale, 
please  wait  till  he  comes  !" 

But  Mrs.  Hinsdale  was  gone. 

Down  on  Spring  Street  the  morning  crowd  was  grow- 
ing thicker.  She  went  stumbling  on;  she  turned  her 
gaunt  old  face  up  to  many  people,  and  asked :  "  Where 
is  the  office  of  the  World?" 

She  found  it  at  length,  and  they  let  her  in  to  see  the 
editor — a  big  man,  with  a  great,  white  mustache. 
What  could  so  crushed  a  soul  want  with  him?  Her 
countenance  was  imploring. 

"  Oh,  sir,"  she  cried,  "  your  paper  has  done  me 
wrong  by  calling  me  a  woman  of  the  curb.  Sir, 
I'm  not  a  woman  of  the  curb.     Oh,  sir,  I  want  you  to 


December  21,  1903. 


THE 


HGONAUT 


say  it  over  again  in  your  paper  that  I'm  not  a  woman  of 
the  curb.  I've  done  wrong',  I  know.  But  I'm'  not  a 
woman  of  the  curb."  Her  voice  became  more  broken, 
more  plaintive;  the  tears  ran  streaming  down  her 
cheeks.  She  clasped  her  hands  before  the  editor,  and 
cried :  "  I've  lived  as  pure  a  life  for  fifty-nine  years 
as  your  own  mother.  If  you  loved  your  mother,  sir,  oh, 
please  say  it  over  in  your  paper  that  I'm  not  a  woman 
of  the  curb !" 

Stark  came  in.  The  news  from  the  stenographer 
had  peculiarly  moved  him.  There  sat  the  editor,  staring 
with  moist  eye  and  strained  countenance  at  the  woman, 
and  the  woman  sobbing  with  her  head  down  on  the 
editor's  desk. 

The  men  whispered  together.    They  understood. 

"The  church  condemned  her;  the  church  alone  can 
make  her  whole,"  the  editor  said.  "  I  know  one  pastor, 
at  least,  who  is  a  pastor." 

They  knew  no  other  way  to  solve  this  thing;  they  took 
Mrs.  Hinsdale  to  him. 

The   rest   is   bright — bright    with    reparation;    and 

Harry  come;  and  the  cottage  transformed;  the  money, 

the  land,  divided;  little  homes  for  a  thousand  of  the 

unamalgamated  springing  up  around  her  peaceful  age. 

Charles  Fleming  Embree. 

San  Francisco,  December,  1903. 


ON  THE  NEW  YORK  STREET- CARS. 

Geraldine  Bonner  on  Feminine  Types  in  New  York  Electric  Cars — 

Chronic  Overcrowding — "Women  Who  Refuse  to  "  Move 

Up  "—The  Manners  of  the  Rich. 

The  talk  about  overcrowded  cars,  and  the  handling 
of  masses  of  passengers  during  the  rush  hours,  is  even 
more  vociferous  this  year  than  it  was  last.  The  long- 
suffering  New  Yorker,  who  is  certainly  the  most  pa- 
tient creature  on  the  globe,  is  beginning  to  feel  he  has 
grounds  of  complaint.  For  years  he  has  gone  down 
to  business  clinging  to  a  strap  with  one  hand,  while  with 
the  other  he  has  held  the  morning  paper  on  a  level  with 
his  eyes.  For  years  he  has  come  up  from  business 
clinging  to  a  strap,  but  not  reading  the  evening  paper 
because  the  light  was  too  bad.  He  has  endured  all  this 
silently  and  cheerfully,  the  wonder  of  every  European 
who  has  ever  seen  him  in  his  hour  of  martyrdom. 

This  winter  he  has  begun  to  kick  strenuously,  and 
with  meaning.  I  think  myself  he  was  broken  to  his 
strap — even  liked  it  as  a  part  of  metropolitan  life — 
and  that  it  is  the  fact  that  the  females  of  his  family 
are  beginning  to  suffer  that  is  rousing  him.  The  good, 
unselfish  soul  would  dangle  from  the  strap  for  the  rest 
of  his  days  without  a  murmur,  but  he  does  not  want  his 
aged  mother,  or  the  wife  of  his  bosom,  or  his  half- 
grown  daughter  to  dangle.  They,  moreover,  are  not 
used  to  dangling,  and  do  it  awkwardly.  They  get  in 
people's  way,  and  they  get  in  the  conductor's  way.  The 
people  tread  on  them  and  elbow  them,  the  conductor 
writhes  his  way  between  them,  squirms  round  them,  is 
seen  to  disappear  in  a  solid  block  of  them,  and  emerge 
on  the  other  side,  red  and  disheveled. 

What  were  once  thepeaceful.uncrowdedmidday  hours 
are  now  (on  certain  lines  that  lead  from  the  shopping 
districts)  tumultuous  with  struggling  masses  of  women. 
The  surface  cars  on  Sixth  Avenue  are  about  the  worst. 
They  carry  thousands  of  women  home  to  lunch  after 
a  morning  shopping.  The  vanguard  begins  to  go  up 
about  half-past  eleven,  decorously  and  without  scramb- 
ling. But  by  twelve,  enraged  and  hungry  throngs 
squeeze  into  the  cars,  and,  jammed  as  tight  as  herrings 
in  a  box,  each  hanging  to  a  strap,  or  in  many  cases 
hanging  to  her  nearest  neighbor,  they  go  home  to 
lunch. 

I  once  heard  a  man  say  that  a  woman  looked  her  best 
on  horseback  and  her  worst  eating  at  a  lunch-counter. 
Having  traveled  much  of  late  on  the  north-bound  cars 
of  the  Sixth  Avenue  lines  between  the  hours  of  twelve 
and  one,  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  women  not  only 
look  their  worst  while  struggling  to  get  on  cars,  but 
behave  their  worst.  There  is  much  to  be  said  on  their 
side — they  have  been  shopping  fiercely  for  from  one 
to  three  hours,  and  are  tired;  if  they  do  not  get  a  place 
on  a  car,  they  will  have  to  walk — which  may  be  a 
question  of  miles — or  they  will  have  to  take  a  cab, 
which  will  be  a  question  of  dollars;  they  are  hungry, 
for  shopping  is  one  of  the  most  exhausting  of  occupa- 
tions ;  they  are  all  thinking  with  alarm  of  the  cold  rage 
of  their  servants  if  they  keep  lunch  waiting.  This 
variety  of  exciting  causes  creates  an  effect  which  would 
appeal  to  the  god  of  battles. 

One  of  the  great  difficulties  with  crowds  of  women 
is  that  they  will  not  follow  the  voice  of  authority, 
neither  will  they  regard  the  situation  from  a  large,  im- 
personal standpoint.  Their  point  of  view  is  purely  self- 
ish and  individual.  A  woman  wants  to  get  out  at  a 
certain  street  and  stands  in  the  door  so  as  to  be  able  to 
get  out  with  as  little  inconvenience  to  herself  as  pos- 
sible. The  crowd  surges  over  her ;  the  conductor  shouts 
at  her  to  move  farther  up  and  not  block  the  passage; 
but  she  refuses  to  budge.  Pertinaciously,  she  clings  to 
that  small,  personal  idea  of  hers  that  she  wants  to  get 
out  easily  if  the  whole  car  is  put  to  confusion  by  it. 
I  have  watched  conductors  struggling  with  this  form 
of  woman,  and  passengers  sneering  at  her,  and  have 
seen   her   stand,   flushed,   angry,   determined,   and   not 


yielding  an  inch.  When  she  goes  home  she  probably 
tells  her  husband  how  she  was  insulted  on  the  car,  and 
he  listens  politely,  and  doesn't  believe  a  word. 

There  is  a  type  of  well-dressed  woman  who  has  this 
trick  of  blocking  the  passage  that  one  sees  constantly 
on  the  Sixth  Avenue  lines.  She  is  generally  young, 
good  looking,  and  well  dressed — not  quite  a  lady,  though 
it  is  difficult  to  tell  just  why  one  comes  to  that  con- 
clusion. Perhaps  her  hat  is  a  trifle  too  big,  the  heels 
of  her  shoes,  which  her  carefully  lifted  dress  reveals, 
a  fraction  too  high.  She  sometimes  wears  a  bow  of 
tulle  under  her  chin  of  a  remarkable  circumference, 
or  carries  a  gold-link  purse  with  a  sprawling  monogram 
in  diamonds. 

She  comes  rustling  in,  spreading  a  faint  whiff  of 
some  very  choice  French  perfume,  takes  a  strap  by 
the  door,  and  stands  gracefully  suspended.  The  car  is 
taking  on  homeward-bound  women  at  every  corner. 
They  enter,  find  it  difficult  to  pass  her,  and  begin  to 
congest  in  a  mass  in  the  door,  so  that  the  passengers 
inside  can  not  get  out.  Then  the  conductor  begins 
yelling  at  them  to  go  farther  up.  Sometimes  he  is 
pleading,  sometimes  authoritative — "  Ladies,  will  you 
p lease  move  f  onvard  ?"  or  "  Get  up  front,  get  up  front, 
there !" 

Instantly  the  reasonable  ones  detach  themselves  from 
the  mass  and  move  up.  Some  more  shouting  on  his 
part  drives  the  rest  reluctantly  forward  toward  the 
empty  end  of  the  car.  But  the  lady  with  the  high  heels 
will  not  stir,  and  every  entering  passenger  jams 
against  her  as  a  stick  does  against  a  rock  in  a  running 
current. 

Another  type  of  .woman  who  creates  havoc  in  a 
crowded  car  is  the  helpless  one,  who  is  aggrieved  and 
exasperated,  and  won't  take  hold  of  the  strap.  She 
comes  stumbling  in,  covered  with  overwhelming  furs, 
her  long  dress  held  half  up,  a  jeweled  purse  de- 
pending from  her  wrist.  There  is  no  seat  for  her,  and 
she  stands  looking  round  in  hurt  surprise.  Then  the 
car  starts,  and  the  scene  of  carnage  begins. 

There  are  no  cars  anywhere  that  jerk  as  some  of  the 
New  York  electric  lines  do.  The  first  jump  sends  the 
new-comer  violently  forward.  She  caroms  against 
the  woman  who  has  a  nickel  in  her  mouth,  and  the 
woman  gives  a  cry  of  anguish,  and  the  nickel  falls  on 
the  floor  under  a  dozen  skirts,  where  no  one  can  ever 
find  it.  The  car  gives  a  second  jerk,  and  she  is  hurled 
backward  against  the  thin,  ill-tempered  woman,  who's 
hands  are  full  of  parcels.  The  impact  of  her  rebound- 
ing body  would  send  them  all  flat  on  their  backs,  but 
they  are  squeezed  so  close  they  can  only  sway  this  way 
and  that. 

With  a  red  and  enraged  face,  she  stands  up  haughtily 
and  begins  to  fumble  at  her  purse.  The  car  stops  to 
take  on  another  passenger,  and  in  this  moment  of 
tranquillity  she  successfully  finds  the  clasp,  and  opens  it. 
She  is  hunting  for  a  nickel  when  the  car  starts  again. 
This  time  she  is  hurled  like  a  catapult  against  the  fat 
negress  who  is  carrying  home  the  wash  in  a  newspaper 
parcel.  From  the  negress  she  glances  off  on  to  the 
two  girls  with  amazing  pompadours,  on  which  are  set 
enormous  flat  hats,  wrho,  hanging  comfortably  from 
straps,  are  discussing  the  methods  of  the  new  floor- 
walker in  their  department.  The  girls  recover  from 
the  blow,  and  serenely  resume  their  conversation,  while 
the  victim  rebounds  against  a  young  Jew,  who,  with 
collar  up  and  reddened  nose,  looks  as  chill  and  raw  as  a 
frozen  turnip.  To  him  she  attaches  herself,  grasps  him 
close  and  tight,  stumbling  over  her  train,  dropping 
her  muff,  and  with  her  opened  purse  swinging  from  her 
wrist.  The  people  in  her  vicinity  who  are  not  laugh- 
ing are  infuriated,  and  their  grievance  goes  up  in  angry 
chorus :    "  Why  don't  you  take  hold  of  the  strap  ?" 

The  lady  looks  at  them  with  cold  scorn,  releases  the 
Jew,  and,  moving  to  the  doorway,  plants  herself  therein, 
holding  firmly  to  one  of  the  handles. 

There  is  something  peculiarly  irritating  about  the 
good-natured  woman  who  carries  parcels.  She  is  not 
a  gorgeous,  befurred  person,  but  generally  wears  an 
old  cloth  jacket,  a  dirty  black  velvet  hat  on  one  side 
of  her  head,  and  has  only  one  glove  on.  Her  ungloved 
hand  is  red  and  chapped,  with  stubby  nails,  not  always 
clean,  and  a  worn  wedding  ring  on  her  third  finger. 
She  carries  a  great  many  small  parcels,  some  of  wrhich 
are  coming  out  of  their  wrappings,  has  a  little  purse 
gripped  in  one  palm,  the  unworn  glove  held  between 
two  fingers,  a  very  dirty  handkerchief  stuffed  in  be- 
tween the  parcels,  and  a  muff  held  against  her  side  up 
under  one  arm. 

She  comes  in  with  a  violent  rush,  grinning  from  ear 
to  ear.  She  is  precipitated  into  a  mass  of  passengers, 
grabs  the  nearest  woman,  holds  her  tight,  laughing, 
stridently.  "  Rough,  aint  it  ?"  she  remarks  in  a  sociable 
way,  then  tries  to  open  her  purse,  and  things  begin  to 
fall — the  handkerchief  on  the  lap  of  the  woman  near 
her;  two  apples  burst  from  a  bag  she  is  holding  under 
her  elbow,  and  roll  away;  the  muff  disappears  under  a 
man's  feet  who  has  to  dive  into  darkness  for  it.  Some 
one  near  her  remarks :  "  You're  losing  your  comb," 
to  which  she  answers,  "  I  always  am." 

Then  she  puts  up  a  searching  hand,  and  at  that  minute 
the  car  gives  a  terrific  jerk,  and  sends  her,  helplessly 
laughing,  on  to  the  lap  of  a  man  who  is  sedately  read- 
ing the  morning  paper.  The  paper  is  torn  away  by  her 
sudden  introduction  into  his  arms,  and  the  rest  of  the 


parcels  are  scattered  over  him.  She  gets  up  fairly 
sputtering  with  laughter,  her  hat  on  one  ear,  her  comb 
dropping  out.  The  man,  scarlet  and  embarrassed,  tries 
to  take  up  the  paper  again.  The  passengers  roar,  even 
the  conductor  gives  a  sour  smile,  and  the  woman,  joy- 
ously grinning,  says :  "  It  aint  no  picnic  goin'  up  town 
at  this  time." 

One  of  the  most  curious  features  of  the  up-town 
midday  traffic  is  the  different  class  and  behavior  of  the 
people  in  different  localities.  It  would  convert  a  person 
to  the  theory  that  education  and  money  give  gentle- 
ness of  manners.  For  instance,  the  women  that  go  up 
in  the  Fifth  Avenue  stage  are  much  more  courteous, 
polite,  and  considerate  of  one  another  than  the  women 
that  go  up  on  the  Sixth  Avenue  cars.  The  difference 
is  quite  remarkable.  One  constantly  on  the  cars  sees 
instances  of  extraordinary  ill-humor,  of  surprisingly 
bad  manners,  of  a  complete  and  complacent  indif- 
ference to  the  comfort  of  others  that  must  be  seen  to 
be  believed. 

In  these  stages — old-fashioned,  lumbering,  slow — one 
rarely,  if  ever,  sees  anvthing  of  this  sort.  On  the  con- 
trary, the  amiability  of  the  passengers  crowded  into  a 
tiny  space,  finding  it  nearly  impossible  to  pass  one 
another  in  egress,  is  almost  invariable.  It  is  a  very 
curious  comment  on  the  superior  breeding  of  a  class 
that  we  are  inclined  to  consider  self-centred  and 
money-proud.  The  woman  who  stands  nearest  the 
upper  end  has  not  only  to  drop  all  the  fares  in  the  box, 
but  when  change  has  to  be  made,  it  is  supposed  to  be 
her  duty  to  ring  the  bell  and  get  the  envelope  from  the 
driver.  Any  one  who  has  kept  on  jerking  at  the  little 
strap  that  rings  this  bell  will  remember  the  exasperating 
slowness  of  the  response.  Yet  I  have  seen  woman  after 
woman,  young,  handsome,  beautifully  dressed,  standing 
and  doing  this  for  a  stage  load  of  her  sex,  whose  sole 
remark  as  they  hand  her  the  money  will  be  a  polite. 
"  May  I  trouble  you  ?"  Geraldine  Bonner. 

New  York,  December  3.  1903. 


SHERWOOD. 

Sherwood  in  the  twilight,  is  Robin  Hood  awake? 
Gray  and  ghostly  shadows  are  gliding  through  the  brake ; 
Shadows  of  the  dappled  deer,  dreaming  of  the  morn. 
Dreaming  of  a  shadowy  man  that  winds  a  shadowy  horn. 

Robin  Hood  is  here  again  :  all  his  merry  thieves 
Hear  a  ghostly  bugle-note  shivering  through  the  leaves. 
Calling  as  he  used  to  call,  faint  and  far  away, 
In  Sherwood,  in  Sherwood,  about  the  break  of  day. 

Merry,  merry  England  has  kissed  the  lips  of  lune : 
All  the  wings  of  fairyland  were  here  beneath  the  moon ; 
Like  a  flight  of  rose  leaves  fluttering  in  a  mist 
Of  opal  and  ruby  and  pearl  and  amethyst. 

Merry,  merry  England  is  waking  as  of  old, 

With  eyes  of  blither  hazel  and  hair  of  brighter  gold  : 

For  Robin  Hood  is  here  again  beneath  the  bursting  spray 

In  Sherwood,  in  Sherwood,  about  the  break  of  day. 

Love  is  in  the  greenwood  building  him  a  house 
Of  wild  rose  and  hawthorn  and  honeysuckle  boughs; 
Love  is  in  the  greenwood ;  dawn  is  in  the  skies ; 
And  Marian  is  waiting  with  a  glory  in  her  eyes. 

Hark  1      The   dazzled  laverock   climbs  the  golden  steep  : 

Marian  is  waiting ;   is  Robin  Hood  asleep  ? 

Round  the  fairy  grass-wings  frolic  elf  and  fay. 

In  Sherwood,  in  Sherwood,  about  the  break  of  day. 

Oberon,  Oberon,  rake  away  the  gold. 
Rake  away  the  red  leaves,  roll  away  the  mold. 
Rake  away  the  gold  leaves,  roll  away  the  red. 
And  wake  Will  Scarlett  from  his  leafy  forest  bed. 

Friar  Tuck  and  Little  John  are  riding  down   together 
With  quarter-staff  and  drinking-can  and  gray  goose  feather : 
The  dead  are  coming  back  again :  the  years  are  rolled  away 
In  Sherwood,  in  Sherwood,  about  the  break  of  day. 

Softly  over  Sherwood  the  south  wind  blows ; 

All  the  heart  of  England  hidden  in  a  rose 

Hears   across  the  greenwood  the  sunny  whisper  leap, 

Sherwood  in  the  red  dawn,  is  Robin  Hood  asleep  ? 

Hark,  the  voice  of  England  wakes  him  as  of  old 
And,  shattering  the  silence  with  a  cry  of  brighter  gold, 
A  bugle  in  the  greenwood  echoes  from  the  steep, 
Sherwood  in  the  red  down,  is  Robin  Hood  asleep? 

Where  the  deer  are  gliding  down  the  shadowy  glen 
All  across  the  glades  of  fern  he  calls  his  merry  men  ; 
Doublets  of  the  Lincoln  green  glancing  through  the  May 
In  Sherwood,  in  Sherwood,  about  the  break  of  day; 

Calls  them  and  they  answer :  from  aisles  of  oak  and  ash 
Rings  the  Follow!  Follow!  and  the  boughs  begin  to  crash; 
The  ferns  begin  to  waver  and  the  flowers  begin  to  fly ; 
And  through  the  crimson  dawning  the  robber  band  goes  by. 

Robin!  Robin!  Robin!     All  his  merry  thieves 
Answer  as  the  bugle-note  shivers  through  the  leaves  : 
Calling  as  he  used  to  call,  faint  and  far  away, 
In  Sherwood,  in  Sherwood,  about  the  break  of  day. 

— Alfred  Noyes  in  tlte  London  Spectator. 


The  Hon.  Mrs.  Alfred  Lyttelton  has  also  re- 
cently covered  herself  with  glory  in  English  political 
circles  by  filling  her  husband's  engagements  when  he 
was  ill  a  few  weeks  ago.  She  addressed  meetings, 
canvassed  in  remote  parts  of  her  husband's  constituency, 
helped  him  with  his  papers,  and  won  from  the  press 
the  title  of  the  "  Lady  Fiscal  Orator." 


The  man  who  sold  his  ear  to  a  Western  millionaire 
recently  for  $5,000  is  now  trying  to  get  a  substitute  for 
the  lost  member  for  $1,000. 


BRITAIN    NOT    ENGLAND. 


A  Scottish  Patriot's  Appeal  to  Americans  for   Fair 
Play. 


Editors  Argonaut  :  I  beg  respectfully  to 
address  you  on  an  injustice  which  is  perpe- 
trated against  my  country — Scotland — by 
American  editors,  probably  unwittingly,  but 
none  the  less  injurious  and  very  annoying  to 
us.  I  refer  to  the  way  in  which  you  con- 
stantly speak  of  the  empire  or  Island  of 
Great  Britain  as  England.  There  are  some 
things  which  we  expect  every  educated  man 
to  know,  and  one  of  these  is  that  in  1707  a 
treaty  of  union  was  contracted  between  Eng- 
land and  Scotland  whereby,  according  to  its 
first  article,  England  and  Scotland  ceased  to 
exist  as  separate  nations,  and  were  to  be 
known  for  all  time  coming  unitedly  as  Great 
Britain,  This,  when  you  think  of  it.  was  only 
fair,  as  they  were  united  on  equal  terms.  In 
a  leading  article  in  your  issue  of  October 
1  ath — "  Stirring  Times  in  Old  England  " — 
we  have  the  word  "  Englishmen,"  "  England's 
Industrial  Interests,"  "  England's  Free-Trade 
Policy,"  "  English  Public,"  and  so  on,  repeated 
a  dozen  times,  and  only  once  do  you  mention 
the  word  Britain.  I  need  scarcely  say  that  if 
in  that  article  you  substitute  the  word  Scot- 
land for  England,  you  would  be  just  as  cor- 
rect, and  yet  people  would  read  it  very  dif- 
ferently. Still,  it  would  be  just  as  correct  to 
call  Great  Britain  Scotland  as  to  call  it  Eng- 
land. Indeed,  I  go  the  length  of  saying  that 
it  would  be  more  correct,  for  we  believe  we 
have  done  more  to  build  up  the  empire  than 
our  southern  neighbors.  Kindly  look  at  the 
following  list  of  names  produced  by  our  small 
country,  and  try  if  you  could  produce  a 
similar  list  of  purely  English  names: 

James  Watt,  inventor ;  David  Livingstone, 
explorer;  Thomas  Carlyle.  philosopher  ;  Robert 
Burns,  poet  of  humanity;  Walter  Scott,  novel- 
ist :  Lord  Kelvin,  scientist :  W.  E.  Gladstone, 
statesman  :  Adam  Smith,  political  economist ; 
Robert  Napier,  shipbuilder;  Murdoch,  inventor 
of  gas;  William  Paterson.  financier  ("founder 
of  the  Bank  of  England)  ;  Professor  Simpson, 
medicine  (inventor  of  chloroform)  ;  W.  and 
R.  Chambers,  pioneiers  of  cheap,  "healthy 
literature  :  Lord  Strathcona.  empire  builder. 

You  have  also  to  recollect,  sirs,  that,  al- 
though we  are  partners  with  England,  we  have 
our  own  laws,  the  best  in  the  world,  our  own 
national  church — Presbyterian — our  own  na- 
tional music  and  a  national  literature.  We 
are  an  absolutely  unconquered  people,  while 
England  has  been  conquered  and  over- 
run by  Romans,  Saxons,  Danes,  and  Normans. 
We  annexed  England  in  1603,  and  our  King- 
James  the  Sixth  of  Scotland  became  First  of 
England.  Our  national  religion,  already  referred 
to.  was  for  a  time  the  established  religion 
of  the  entire  kingdom.  William  Paterson  es- 
tablished the  Bank  of  England  and  taught  the 
English  their  system  of  finance.  James  Watt 
invented  the  steam  engine,  which  enabled 
Britain  to  manufacture  for  the  world.  Adam 
Smith  taught  Britain  the  great  principle  of 
free  trade,  which  expanded  her  commerce 
and  increased  her  wealth.  Mungo  Park, 
Grant.  Bruce,  Livingstone,  and  others  opened 
up  the  great  continent  of  Africa.  These  are 
only  a  few  of  the  eminent  Scotsmen  who  have 
built  the  empire,  and  there  are  no  English- 
men whose  names  can   be   put  before  them. 

At  the  present  time  our  influence  in  the 
empire  is  second  to  none.  A  Scotsman  is  at 
the  head  of  the  Church  of  England.  A  Scots- 
man is  prime  minister.  The  lord  mayor  of 
London  is  a  Scotsman,  and  so  is  the  chairman 
of  the  London  county  council.  The  com- 
merce of  Liverpool  was  created,  on  the  one 
hand,  by  the  family  of  Burns,  of  the  Cunard 
Line,  and  her  shipbuilding  by  the  Mclvers 
of  Birkenhead,  both  Scottish  families.  The 
Bute  family  have  made  and  own  the  entire 
port  of  Cardiff.  I  might  go  round  the 
empire  in  this  way,  but  I  refrain  with  some 
respect  for  your  space.  Among  the  sportsmen 
of  the  world  we  easily  take  first  place.  At 
Bisley,  the  great  national  shooting  Valhalla, 
Englishmen  outnumber  Scots  by  seven  to  one, 
yet  the  Scots  take  one-third  the  prizes,  and 
among  these  the  best.  Scotland  has  given 
golf  tn  the  world.  Curling,  the  finest  winter 
game  at  home  or  abroad,  and  others  too  nu- 
merous to  mention,  demonstrate  what  the 
world  owes  to  Scotland,  while  in  football  a 
collection  of  Scottish  workmen  in  England— 
the  Sunderland  team — for  several  years  were 
at  the  top  of  every  club  in  the  empire.  But 
I  am  encroaching  on  your  space.  Enough  to 
say  CI,  de  steamers  are  famous  all  over  the 
wirld  oatmeal,  the  national  diet,  is  the  food 
of  the  world  ;  our  music,  the  sweetest  and  most 
'  patrh  .ic.  "  Auld  Lang  ■fyne"  is  the  world's 
1  anthem.  "  Rule  !  ritannia."  the  an- 
01   the  empire,  was  written  by  a  Scots- 


man. "'  The  Exile  of  Erin."  the  Irish  anthem, 
was  written  by  Tom  Campbell,  the  Scottish 
poet,  as  was  also  "  The  Mariners  of  Eng- 
land," the  finest  English  sea  song  ever  written 
or  sung,  although  it  should  be  called  "  The 
Mariners  of  Britain."  Statistics  say  our  men 
are  the  tallest  and  most  brainy.  Our  en- 
gineers sail  on  every  steamship,  and  our  doc- 
tors practice  in  every  hospital.  Surely,  after 
all  that  record,  you  would  not  have  us  sub- 
merged in  the  name  of  England.  English 
publications  have  the  audacity  to  claim  our 
great  men  as  Englishmen.  They  do  this 
knowingly  ;  it  is  no  accident.  They  want  to 
claim  the  earth,  and  they  make  a  fair  be- 
ginning at  home.  They  could  not  win  us  by 
force ;  now  they  are  resorting  to  common 
theft.  We  hope  you  have  a  better  sense  of 
fair  play  when  you  once  grasp  the  facts.  How 
would  you  like,  should  you  annex  Canada, 
which  is  a  very  probable  thing,  that  the 
world  should  call  you  Canadians?  That  would 
just  be  the  position  exactly,  and  as  reasonable 
in  every  respect  as  it  is  to  call  Great  Britain 
England,  or   Scotsmen   Englishmen. 

Yours  truly,  John  Wilson. 

83  Jamaica  Street.  Glasgow,    October   27, 
1903. 

INDIVIDUALITIES. 


President  and  Mrs.  Roosevelt  celebrated 
their  wedding  anniversary  December  2d.  They 
were  married  in  1886  at  St.  George's  Church. 
Hanover  Square,  London. 

The  Republican  senators,  in  caucus  on  Mon- 
day, decided  upon  Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale, 
of  Boston,  for  chaplain  of  the  session  of  the 
Senate,  beginning  January  1st.  He  is  a  noted 
Unitarian,   and  is  now  eighty-three  years  old. 

An  Alabama  jury  and  the  Alabama  supreme 
court  have  decided  that  Peter  Crenchsaw,  a 
negro,  is  entitled  to  vote  in  elections. 
Crenchshaw  had  been  a  Federal  soldier  in  the 
Civil  War,  and,  under  the  new  State  consti- 
tution, the  surviving  soldiers  of  both  North 
and  South  can  vote.  The  registrars  of  Lime- 
stone County  tried  to  shut  out  the  negro  even 
after  seeing  his  army  record,  but  the  Alabama 
courts    have    repudiated    their    action. 

William  E.  Curtis,  who  is  traveling  in 
Spain,  has  been  told,  on  what  he  considers 
good  authority,  that  Princess  Louise,  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Count  of  Paris,  who  served  as 
an  aid-de-camp  to  General  McClellan  dur- 
ing our  Civil  War  and  was  a  claimant  for 
the  throne  of  France,  has  been  selected  by 
Queen  Christina  as  the  wife  for  her  son.  She 
is  three  years  older  than  King  Alfonso, 
having  celebrated  her  twentieth  birthday 
shortly  after  the  king  was  seventeen. 

Through  the  blind  obedience  to  the  dictates 
of  the  walking  delegate,  Samuel  J.  Parks, 
and  his  colleagues  at  least  two  thousand  iron- 
workers will  be  idle  all  winter,  and  lose  some- 
thing like  $3,500,000  in  wages.  Parks  is 
now  in  Sing  Sing,  and  his  colleague,  Mc- 
Carthy, is  on  Blackwell's  Island,  but  the 
effects  of  their  influence  on  the  unions  still 
remain.  The  loss  to  the  other  trades  through 
the  shut  down,  which  was  lengthened  out 
mainly  owing  to  the  obstinacy  of  Parks's 
union,  is  estimated  at  from  $30,000,000  to 
$40,000,000  in  wages. 

M.  Mounet-Sully,  the  famous  tragedian 
of  the  Comedie-Francaise,  is  applying  for 
admission  to  the  French  Academy  of  Arts. 
He  says  that  he  is  starting  his  candidature 
by  way  of  test.  He  points  out  that  in  old 
times  some  actors  were  members  of  that 
body,  but  after  Grandmesnil's  death,  in  1816, 
no  more  players  were  admitted.  He  now 
wants  to  see  if  an  actor  like  himself,  honor- 
ably known,  an  officer  of  the  Legion  of 
Honor,  and  senior  member  of  the  Comedie- 
Francaise,  can  not  assert  his  claim  to  enter 
the  Academy,  as  well  as  painters  and  com- 
posers. 

William  Astor  Chanler,  ex-congressman, 
African  explorer,  author,  and  New  York  club- 
man, was  recently  married  to  Minnie  Ashley, 
the  comic-opera  soubrette,  formerly  the  wife  of 
William  Sheldon,  an  actor.  Chanler  was  born 
in  Newport,  R.  I.,  in  1867,  and  was  graduated 
from  Harvard  twenty  years  later.  He  spent 
the  first  seven  or  eight  years  after  getting  out 
of  college  in  travel,  mostly  in  Africa,  where 
he  did  enough  good  work  as  an  amateur 
explorer  and  geographer  to  win  the  com- 
mendation of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society 
of  London.  In  1897,  he  settled  down  in  New 
York  as  a  member  of  Tammany  Hall,  and 
was  sent  to  Albany  as  the  Democratic  as- 
semblyman from  the  fifth  assembly  district. 
In   1898,  he  went  to  Cuba  to  fight  Spaniards. 


He  received  special  commendation  from 
General  Shafter  for  gallant  conduct  in  the 
battle  of  Santiago,  and  was  promoted  to  a 
captaincy.  He  has  written  "  Travels  in  East 
Africa "   and   "  Through  Jungle  and   Desert." 


"TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN.' 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 


New  York  Evening  Sun  : 
Mr.  Jerome  Hart  in  "  Two  Argonauts  in 
Spain  "  ( Payot,  Upham  &  Co.)  gives  a  very 
breezy  and  characteristically  Western  account 
of  a  visit  to  that  land  of  romance  by  a  couple 
of  "  birds  of  passage."  The  letters  were 
written  for  a  California  newspaper — hence  a 
distinctly  Californian  point  of  view.  But 
as  professing  to  convey  only  impressions  they 
must  not  be  judged  by  wrong  standards.  As 
far  as  we  can  see,  the  only  immoral  act  of 
the  writer  in  the  Peninsula  was  his  forging 
the  signature  of  the  name  of  Washington 
Irving  on  the  wall  of  the  Alhambra  to  gratify 
a   lady   tourist   who   was    looking   for   it. 


San  Diego  Tribune  : 
One  of  the  most  attractive  books  published 
on  the  Pacific  Coast  is  "  Two  Argonauts  in 
Spain,"  by  Jerome  Hart.  It  is  handsomely 
gotten  up,  with  type,  paper,  illustrations,  and 
binding  in  keeping  with  the  entertaining  con- 
tents. The  book  is  the  fruit  of  a  flying  trip 
through  Spain.  It  discusses  Spanish  rail- 
ways, hotels,  theatres,  operas,  circuses,  bull- 
fights,    and     Spanish     amusements     generally. 

Out  West: 
The  letters  written  from  Spain,  by  Jerome 
Hart,  for  publication  in  the  Argonaut,  now  ap- 
pear very  richly  garbed,  under  the  title  of 
"  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain."  There  is  little 
effort  at  "  style "  in  this  easy-going  talk  of 
the  experienced  traveler,  and  no  trace  at  all 
of  "gush."  Mr.  Hart  himself  describes 
them  as  "pen  sketches  taken  on  the  wing," 
vivid  if  not  profound,  interesting  if  not  "  lit- 
erature." I  can  not  better  this  frank  estimate 
by  a  penetrating  critic  of  his  own  work  :  hut 
can  heartily  underscore  the  vivid  and  inter- 
esting. Mr.  Hart' does  not  trouble  himself  to 
be  thorough  or  conventional ;  he  merely  tells, 
always  with  a  dash  of  satirical  humor,  about  the 
things  which  interested  him,  not  hesitating 
to  follow  any  line  of  thought  right  back  to 
California,  or  wherever  else  it  may  carry 
him.  The  result  is  an  intimately  personal 
flavor  which  is  unusual  and  agreeable.  The 
illustrations,   from  photographs  taken  by  "  the 


Argonauts,"  are  not  in  this  case  misnamed ; 
they  really  illustrate.  In  every  mechanical  de- 
tail the  book  approaches  perfection. 

Payot,  Upham  &  Co.,  publishers,  San  Fran- 
cisco ;  illustrated. 


FIRST  REGULAR  EXHIBITION 

-OF  — 

Paintings  of  Indians  and  Indian  Life 
By  GRACE  HUDSON 

At  Schussler  Bros.  Art  Gallery,   119 
Geary  Street 

From  December  12th  to  19th. 


HOLIDAY 
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THE        ARGONAUT. 


415 


"LETTY,"    PINERO'S    LATEST    PLAY. 


What  the  London  Critics  Say. 


A  play  with  but  one  virtuous  character,  and 
that  a  subordinate  one.  is  stirring  the  London 
critics  to  a  renewed  discussion  of  Arthur  W. 
Pinero's  art.  Like  "  Iris,"  this  new  drama, 
with  the  simple  title  "  Letty."  hinges  on  the 
choice  of  ways  of  getting  forward  open  to  a 
poverty-stricken  young  woman.  Its  conclu- 
sion, however,  is  very  different.  The  girl,  in- 
stead of  being  turned  into  the  street  in  dis- 
grace, while  her  resentful  lover  smashes  the 
furniture  in  a  whirlwind  of  passion,  escapes 
through  a  sudden  appeal  to  his  magnanimity. 
and  finally  marries  an  old  acquaintance  of 
humble  birth,  who  had  lent  money  to  her  when 
she  sorely  needed  it. 

Pinero's  latest  heroine.  Letty  Shell,  is,  of 
course,  handsome,  otherwise  the  dramatist 
would  hardly  admit  that  she  had  any  choice. 
She  is  the  daughter  of  a  defaulting 
solicitor  (bad  blood),  and  is  in  the 
employ  of  Bernard  Mandeville.  a  bucket- 
shop  broker  (bad  manners) ,  and  she 
has  attracted  the  attentions  of  Nevill 
Letchmere,  a  well-born  debauchee  (bad  blood), 
who  can't  marry  her  because  of  a  prior  matri- 
monial engagement.  Mandeville  can  marry 
her,  and  so  has.  according  to  the  playwright, 
a  small  advantage  over  his  rival.  In  the  first 
act  Letchmere  is  waiting  at  his  rooms  for 
Letty  and  two  of  her  friends,  when  his  married 
sister,  Mrs.  Ivor  Crosbie.  comes  and  tells  him 
that  she  is  going  to  give  up  her  lover.  Cop- 
pinger  Drake,  on  account  of  her  husband's 
objections.  She  seems  to  feel  that  Letchmere 
should  protect  her  against  a  possible  failure 
to  do  her  duty  by  accompanying  her  home. 
Letchmere  does  not  do  this,  but  hovers  about 
Letty,  who  is  ill.  When  she  is  recovering 
from  a  fainting  attack,  he  receives  a  call  from 
Mandeville  who  warns  him.  coarsely,  "to  keep 
off  the  grass  "  on  pain  of  having  the  truth 
about  his  marriage  exposed.  Letty  leaves 
firmly  convinced  that  Letchmere  will  marry 
her — she  has  dressed  beyond  her  means  for 
some  time  on  her  "  prospects  " — but  there  is 
a  scene  of  humiliation  in  store  for  her  when 
Letchmere  tells  her,  in  the  second  act,  after 
she  has  already  received  the  congratulations 
of  her  fellow-lodgers — a  commercial  traveler, 
an  insurance  agent,  and  a  photographer — that 
after  all  she  had  better  make  a  match  of  it 
with  Mandeville.  She  agrees  to  listen  to  the 
bucketshop   broker's   proposals. 

Then,  in  the  now  famous  fourth  act.  she 
goes  to  Letchmere's  room  at  midnight  and 
consents  to  become  his  mistress  rather  than 
marry  so  repulsive  a  cad  as  Mandeville.  A 
messenger  comes  with  a  note  saying  that 
Letchmere's  sister,  Mrs.  Crosbie,  has  eloped 
with  Drake.  This  revelation  of  the  "  rotten- 
ness "  of  the  family  does  not  seem  to  Letty 
to  promise  well  for  her  happiness,  and  she 
begs  Letchmere  to  let  her  go.  He  refuses. 
She  appeals  to  him  to  "  save  a  woman  once." 
This  touches  him  nearly,  is  almost  a  fashion 
of  redeeming  in  some  degree  his  stained  family 
honor,  and  he  allows  Letty  to  depart.  It  is 
supposed  that  this  "  going  out  into  the  dark  " 
is  an  heroic  act — at  least  Mr.  Pinero  makes 
it  the  crowning  point  in  his  heroine's  life,  for 
within  the  next  two  years  and  a  half,  as  the 
epilogue  discloses,  she  marries  Perry,  the 
photographer,  and  is  happy,  of  course,  in  a 
perfectly  commonplace  way.  As  the  photo- 
grapher has  never  manifested  the  smallest 
interest  in  Letty  during  the  entire  previous 
acts,  and  everybody  else  had.  this  marriage 
is  naturally  the  only  properly  virtuous  one 
possible.  In  this  epilogue  Letchmere  is  broken 
down,  dying  of  consumption,  and  his  sister, 
now  unhappily  married  to  Drake,  is  not  pretty 
to  consider. 

The  play  is  capitally  acted,  Irene  Vanbrugh 
and  H.  B.  Irving  having  scored  pronounced 
hits  in  the  principal  roles  of  Letty  and  Letch- 
mere, respectively.  It  has  been  rather  amus- 
ing to  see  the  way  in  which  the  critics  dis- 
cuss the  work  of  Beatrice  Forbes-Robertson 
as  Marion  Allardyce,  the  one  virtuous  woman 
and  good  character  in  the  play.  Everybody 
has  had  something  to  say  about  her  acting, 
and  verdicts  vary  from  "  sympathetic  and 
charming "  to  "  coldly  virtuous,"  which  illus- 
trates again,  of  course,  the  point  of  view. 
There  are  several  delicate  (or  indelicate  ?) 
scenes  in  "  Letty,"  in  which  Marion  Allardyce 
is  a  foil  to  the  others,  a  pretty  heavy  task 
against  such  a  preponderance  of  bad  blood 
and  bad   manners. 

William  Archer  is  confident  that  "  Letty  " 
will  take  its  place  in  the  very  first  line  of  Mr. 
Pinero's  works.  He  writes  :  "  The  four  acts 
that  depict  Letty's  struggle  and  victory  are 
among  the  most  admirable,  in  point  of  struc- 
ture, that  he  has  ever  written.  They  are  al- 
most too  concentrated,  too  tense  with  emotion, 
too  crowded  with  vicissitudes.  It  is  positively 
exhausting  to  follow  poor  Letty  through  all 
the  tangled  experiences  of  this  one  afternoon 
and  evening — tremulous  hope,  exultant  cer- 
tainty,  crushing  disappointment   and  humilia- 


tion, disgust,  and  a  feverish  struggle  to  over- 
come it.  the  failure  of  that  struggle,  despera- 
tion, fascination,  a  hectic  rapture  of  self- 
abandonment,  then  a  final  revulsion  of  feeling 
and  a  panic-stricken  shrinking  from  the  un- 
tasted  cup  of  temptation.  To  carry  your 
heroine  in  the  course  of  a  few  hours,  and 
without  any  overstrain  of  probability,  through 
such  a  breathless  series  of  emotional  crises  is 
indeed  a  technical  triumph.  Mr.  Pinero  has 
done  nothing — not  even  in  '  Iris  ' — more  ab- 
sorbingly interesting  than  these  four  acts." 

Truth  considers  Pinero's  play  clever, 
thoughtful,  and  interesting,  but  "  not  so  human 
or  dramatic  as  '  Mrs.  Ebbsmith,'  '  Mrs.  Tan- 
queray,'  or  *  The  Benefit  of  a  Doubt.'  "  The 
Pall  Mall  Gazette  calls  it  "  an  ingenious,  at 
times  a  very  ingenious,  play,  with  a  few  big 
passages  and  many  stretches  of  comparatively 
little  interest." 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


The  Hearts  of  Children. 
Something  in  the  manner  of  Stevenson's 
"  Child's  Garden  of  Verses  "  is  Florence  Wil- 
kinson's "  Kings  and  Queens."  It  is  a  deli- 
cately sympathetic,  wistful-humorous  little 
book  which  some  children,  and  all  who  love 
them  understandingly,  will  appreciate.  Here 
are   two   of  the  verses : 

A    CROSS    LADY. 

Mi^s  Deidamia   Mizpah  Town 

Is  a  cross  lady. 
She  has  her  parlor  shades  drawn  tight 

And  keeps  her  kitchen  shady. 
\n  streaks  of  sun,  no  pots  of  flowers, 

No  cat  or  kittens  tiny. 
But  such  a  brushed-up.  empty  look. 

All   black  and  cold  and  shiny. 

I   ivent  to  buy  some  eggs  of  her 

For    David's   birthday-party. 
I  said,  politely  as  I  could, 
"  Your  roosters  keep  a-laying  good." 
She  said:     "  Is  that  so,  smarty?" 

MEMORY. 
There  are  just  two  kinds  of  remember: 
You  either  remember  clear  as  glass. 
The  way  John  does  in  arithmetic  class, 

Or  else  you  sort-of-remember, 
The  way  I  do  from  my  history  book, 
The  way  that  dim  reflections  look 
In   the  shiny  black  piano  legs, 
Or  the  shaky  water  of  the  brook; 

That's  how  I  sort-of-remember. 

Now  mother  says  T  can't  remember 
The  time  before  T  did  get  born. 
Seven  years  ago  on   Sunday  morn; 

And   yet  I  sort-of-remember 
My  little  body  riding  far 
From  the  place  where  wings  and  circles  are 
With    voices    flying   up   as    dust — 
Till  mother  twinkled  like  a  star; 

That's  how  I  sort-of-remember. 

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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Civilization's  Garbage  Heap. 

No  one  can  read  Jack  London's  book. 
"The  People  of  the  Abyss."  without  being 
profoundly  impressed  thereby.  It  is  one  thing 
to  know  in  a  general  way  that  distress  and 
destitution  exist  on  a  great  scale  in  London, 
and  another  to  have  brought  home  the  hideous 
fact  that  one  million  two  hundred  thousand 
people,  whose  total  income  is  five  dollars 
and  eleven  cents  per  week,  per  family,  "drag 
out  a  subter-bestial  existence "  in  the  East 
End.  and  to  have  described  by  a  vivid,  yet 
truthful,  pen  their  damp,  verminous  kennels 
of  dwellings,  their  narrow,  malodorous 
streets. 

Mr.  London  spent  the  summer  of  1902  in 
the  great  city's  East  End.  wearing  rough 
clothing,  consorting  with  the  poorest,  learn- 
ing their  point  of  view.  "  putting  himself  in 
their  place,"  in  an  endeavor  to  present  to  the 
world  fairly  the  piteous  case  of  nearly  two 
million  people.  True,  the  story  is  an  old  one  : 
you  can  find  it  all  in  books  by  Londoners ; 
but  to  eyes  accustomed  to  the  "  wide  spaces  " 
of  the  West,  it  seemed  more  terrible  and  has 
been  more  graphically  told. 

In  conclusion,  Mr.  London  compares  the 
average  Englishmen  with  the  average  Innuit 
Indian,  and  contends  that,  so  far  as  food, 
clothing,  and  shelter  are  concerned,  the 
Innuit  Indian  is  better  off  than  the  average 
Briton.  Mr.  London  quotes  Huxley's  saying: 
V  Were  the  alternative  presented  to  me.  I 
would  deliberately  prefer  the  life  of  the  savage 
to  that  of  those  people  of  Christian  Lon- 
don." 

Mr.  London  is  a  socialist,  and  he  sees  no 
remedy  for  the  present  situation  except  to 
set  the  four  hundred  thousand  English  gentle- 
men "  of  no  occupation "  "  plowing  game 
preserves  and  planting  potatoes."  "  In  short," 
he  says,  "  society  must  be  reorganized,  and 
a  capable  management  put  at  the  head.  ...  A 
vast  empire  is  foundering  on  the  hands  of 
this  incapable  management.  The  political  ma- 
chine known  as  the  British  Empire  is  running 
down." 

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Fine,  Humorous  Short  Stories. 

One  thing  about  the  stories  of  W.  W. 
Jacobs — you  are  quite  apt  to  get  away  from 
the  Eternal  Feminine.  Like  Kipling's,  most 
of  his  stories  are  of  men  and  of  men's  do- 
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of  seaport  towns. 

Jacobs  has  often — in  fact,  perhaps  too 
often — been  compared  to  Dickens,  and  indeed 
his  treatment  and  choice  of  subjects  all  tend 
Dickensward.  His  humor  is  of  a  singularly 
fresh  and  unaffected  sort,  intrinsic  in  the 
theme,  and  his  characters  are  always  re- 
freshing in  their  naturalness. 

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in  all  forms  of  life  and  growth  "  the  whole 
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A  Poor  Story  by  a  Good  Writer. 
A.  T.  Quiller-Couch  is  an  able  writer, 
but  we  can  only  view  with  deep  disgust  and 
mild  alarm  the  sterile  hybrid  whose  sire 
was  History  and  whose  dam  was  Fiction, 
over  the  genesis  of  which  Mr.  Quiller-Couch 
presided,  and  which  he  hr.s  named  "  Hetty 
Wesley."  The  history  spoils  the  story,  the 
story  spnls  the  history,  and  all  "  Q's  "  literary 
skill  car  not  make  the  book  thoroughly  in- 
terestini . 

The    /olume   is   supposed    to    deal    with    the 

*!•->     family.      An    interesting    picture    is 

1     the  home  of  Samuel  Wesley,  father 

famous  John.     Samuel  had  six  daugh- 


ters, three  sons ;  ruled  the  daughters  with  a 
rod  of  iron,  and  the  sons  with  fond  severity. 
Hetty,  who  is  the  theme  of  the  story,  was  a 
beautiful  rebel  against  harsh  paternal  govern- 
ment. And  her  fate  was  not  a  pleasant  one. 
Many  letters  from  various  members  of  the 
Wesley  family  are  introduced,  and  quite  an 
air  of  historical  verity  preserved.  But  that's 
the  trouble.  Truth  and  interest  are  at  cross- 
purposes,  and  nothing  could  be  more  vapid 
and  contemptible  than  the  device  by  which 
a  semblance  of  a  plot  is  maintained.  In  the 
first  chapter,  a  wealthy  East  India  merchant 
disappears  from  a  cabin  of  a  ship,  and  in  the 
epilogue  his  skeleton  is  found  in  a  cavern  by 
Lord  Wellington,  then  in  India ;  but  the 
affair  has  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  the 
story  proper.  It  is  lugged  in  by  the  heels. 
The  reader  feels,  as  he  turns  the  last  leaf, 
as  if  he  had  been  cheated,  and  is  in  a  mood 
to  demand  his  money  back. 

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"  The  Sea  Wolf,"  Jack  London's  new  novel, 
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Century,  is  the  story  of  a  young  man  who 
is  picked  up  after  the  wreck  of  a  ferry-boat 
in  San  Francisco  Bay,  and  is  taken  forcibly 
on  a  sailing  voyage  under  a  captain  who 
is  a  strange  mixture  of  brutality  and  self- 
culture.  The  dominant  note  in  the  first  half 
of  the  story  is  the  triumph  of  materialism  ; 
while  that  of  the  second  half  is  love  and 
the   triumph   of   idealism. 

Joseph  Pennell  is  writing  "  The  History  of 
American  Etching,  Engraving,  and  Illustra- 
tion," which  will  follow  Samuel  Isham's  vol- 
ume, "  The  History  of  American  Painting," 
in  the  Macmillan  Company's  series  of  books 
on  the  History  of  American  Art,  edited 
by   Professor  Van  Dyke. 

Senator  Beveridge's  book  on  "  The  Russian 
Advance  "  is  to  be  published  this  week. 

Sidney  Lee  is  revising  and  expanding  his 
Lowell  lectures  on  "  Great  Englishmen  of 
the  Sixteenth  Century,"  that  attracted  so 
much  attention  when  they  were  delivered  in 
Boston  a  few  months  ago.  They  will  be  pub- 
lished in  book- form  by  Charles  Scribner's 
Sons.  The  "  Englishmen  "  referred  to  are 
Sir  Thomas  More,  Sir  Philip  Sidney.  Shake- 
speare.   Bacon,    Spenser,    and    Raleigh.  ■ 

After  having  published  one  book  after  an- 
other concerning  his  more  distinguished 
brother  and  the  pre- Raphaelite  circle  generally. 
William  Michael  Rossetti  is  writing  his  own 
"  Reminiscences,"  which  ought  to  prove  inter- 
esting, for  he  has  been  in  this  world  for 
seventy-five  years,  and  has  known  any  num- 
ber of  celebrities.  In  his  book  he  will  speak 
of  Millais,  Tennyson,  Landor.  Trelawny. 
George  Eliot.  Thackeray.  Ruskin,  Whistler, 
and   many  others  of  note. 

"  Stepping  Stones  to  Manhood,"  by  William 
P.  Pearce,  with  contributions  by  General  O. 
O.  Howard,  Robert  J.  Burdette.  Hon.  Lyman 
J.  Gage,  and  others  has  just  been  brought 
out  by  Harper  &  Brothers. 

In  "  Dollars  and  Democracy,"  Sir  Philip 
Burne-Jones  has  written  out  his  impressions 
of  American  social  and  public  life  obtained 
in  his  recent  sojourn  of  a  year  in  the  United 
States. 

"  The  City  of  the  King,"  by  Mrs.  Lew 
Wallace,  has  just  been  published.  It  is  di- 
vided into  two  parts.  The  first  describes  the 
childhood  of  Jesus,  what  he  saw,  how  he 
lived,  and  what  manner  of  outward  life 
greeted  his  eyes  as  he  journeyed  from  Galilee 
to  Jerusalem.  The  second  describes  the 
Jerusalem  of  to-day,  its  hills  and  gardens 
sanctified  by  the  life  history  of  Jesus. 

Rider  Haggard  has  written  a  story   of  the  j 

Crusades,    entitled    "  The    Brethren."      It   will  I 

be  published  serially  during  the   coming  year,  I 
before  it  appears  in  book-form. 

Seuinas  MacManus  is  visiting  this  country 
to  arrange  for  American  publication  of  two 
books  by  his  late  wife,  who  wrote  under  the 
name  of  Ethna  Carbery.  One  is  a  book  of 
poems,  "  The  Four  Winds  of  Eirinn,"  now  in 
its  eleventh  edition  in  Ireland,  and  the  other 
is  a  work  of  fiction  called  "  The  Passionate 
Hearts." 

Gaillard  Hunt  is  at  work  on  a  biography  of 
John  C.  Calhoun  from  the  "inside"  South 
Carolina  point  of  view.  The  author  is  of 
South  Carolina  ancestry,  and  many  of  his 
family  left  the  State  in  1862  because  they 
were  Unionists.  Mr.  Hunt's  purpose  in  writ- 
ing, and  drawing  upon  a  great  deal  of 
hitherto  undigested  material,  is  to  show  that 
Calhoun  was  actually  a  Unionist,  and  that 
his  nullification  doctrine  was  itself  a  Union- 
ist measure. 

One  who  signs  herself  Ursula,  Countess 
von  Eppinghoven.  furnished  the  voluminous 
papers  and  diaries  from  which  Henry  W. 
Fischer  has  made  two  volumes  entitled 
"  Private  Lives  of  William  II  and  His  Con- 
sort and  Secret  History  of  the  Court  of  Ber- 
lin." The  lady  who  conceals  her  identity 
under    the    fictitious    name    is    understood    to 


have  been  for  some  years  "  hofdame  "  to  the 
present  German  empress.  She  has  intrusted 
to  Mr.  Fischer  "  only  such  incidents  of  the 
lives  of  William  the  Second  and  his  consort 
as  have  come  under  my  personal  observa- 
tion, or  that  I  know  of  by  reliable  witnesses." 


INTAGLIOS. 

Love's  Worship. 
Give  me  but  leave  to  worship  at  thy  feet, 
And    I  will  lay 
The  homage  of  this  day 
Before  thee,  sweet. 

Give  me  but  leave  to  kneel  before  thy  face, 
And   I   will   see 
No  other  thing  but  thee. 
No  other  grace. 

Give  me  but  leave  to  love  in  holy  guise, 
And  I  will  be 
Content  to  worship  thee 
Till  daylight  dies. 

Give  me  but  leave  to  make  thee  some   fair  shrine. 
And  I  will  pray 
The  glory  of  the  day 
Be  ever  thine. 

Let  me  but  worship  till  the  night  time   fall, 
Then  thankfully 
To  pass  with  thought  of  thee 
When  Death  shall  call. 

— Pall  Malt  Gazette. 


Separation. 
He  went  upon  a  journey, 

And  she  was  left  at  home; 
And  yet  'twas  lie  who  stayed  behind, 

And  she  that  far  did  roam. 

For  though  he  went  by  mountain 
And  wood  and  stream  and  sea, 

A   little  cot  enwrapt   in    green 
He  saw  perpetually. 

And  she  within  the  green  leaves, 

Not  knowing  that  he  stood 
Forever  by  her,  dreamed  her  way 

With  him  by  mount  and  wood. 

Now  heaven  help  these  lovers, 
And  bring  her  safely  home. 
Or  lead  him  back  along  the  track 
Where  she,    e'en   now,    doth    roam. 
— Ethchvyn   Wethcrald  in  "  Tangled  in  Stars." 

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latter  fact,  and  to  the  exceeding  thinness  of 
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LITERARY    NOTES. 


Mr.  Gibson  and  His  Girls. 

You  may  rant,  you  may  rave,  at  the  Gib- 
.on  Girl's  exceeding  slenderness.  at  her  over- 
towering  tallness.  at  Mr.  Gibson's  hardness 
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that  characterizes  all  his  "  humorous  "  draw- 
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served in  any  collection  of  his  work,  but 
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draftsmanship,  such  perfectly  expressed  emo- 
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Odd  Craft.  "  There  is  something  laughable  on 
every  page  of  this  book.  Mr.  Jacobs's  humor  is  irresistible." 
— N.  Y.  Tribune.  Humorously  illustrated,  Si-5° 

The  House  on  the  Hudson,   "ifyoa 

want  to  recommend  a  book  to  your  friends  that  makes  them 
sit  up  nights  or  miss  their  station,  tell  them  to  get  this."— 
Harper's  Weekly.  $1-5° 


FRANK  H. 
SPEARMAN 


FREDERICK 
PALMER 


W.  A. 
FRASER 


The    Daughter   of  a    Magnate. 

"  It  has  the  American  atmosphere,  the  American  vitality,  the 
American  push."— Rochester  Democrat.  Illustrated,  $1.50 

The  Vagabond.    13th  Thousand. 

"With  this  novel  (his  first!  Mr.  Palmer  has  taken  rank 
among  the  American  writers  worthy  of  serious  considera- 
tion."— Denver  Republican.  Illustrated,  $1.50 

The  BlOOd  Lilies*  "The  quality  of  this 
story  is  strong  and  seamed  with  the  invigorating  life  of  na- 
ture, and  at  times  reads  like  a  Longfellow  prose  poem."— 
Boston  Herald.  Illustrated,  S1.50 


c'ouch"ller~  Two  Sides  of  the  Face. 


'Of  all  the 


CYRUS 

TOWNSEND 

BRADY 


short-story  writers  we  are  inclined  in  many  respects  to  give 
Mr.  A.  T.  Quiller-Couch  first  position."—^.  Y.  Times.     S150 

A  Doctor  of  Philosophy.    ••  The  whole 

story  is  thoroughly  absorbing."— Boston  Transcript.  S1.25 


HARLES    SCRIBNER'S    SONS      -      -      New   York 


418 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  21,  1903. 


People  who  pay  $1.50  and  $2.00  a  seat  are 
apt  to  grumble  if  the  attractions  they  pa- 
tronize are  not  of  proportionate  merit.  "  The 
Bonnie  Brier  Bush."  for  instance,  which  was 
presented  at  the  Columbia  within  the  year, 
made  no  special  success.  Reason :  The 
management  relied  upon  the  popularity  of  a 
venerable  actor  in  his  'seventies  as  the  main 
drawing  attraction.  J.  H.  Stoddart  has  al- 
ways been  a  most  valuable  stock  actor.  Reuben 
Fax,  who  plays  the  popular  role  of  the  genial 
Posty.  is  a  player  of  sound  ability.  But  two 
good  stock  actors  are  not  enough  to  satisfy 
people    who    are    paying    first-class    prices. 

This  week,  the  play  is  put  on  at  the  Grand 
(Jpers  House  at  popular  prices.  As  an  im- 
mediate result,  it  is  drawing  full  houses, 
many  justly  considering  it  a  great  chance 
to  see  an  actor  of  Stoddart's  reputation  and 
experience  in  a  role  which  exhibits  him  in  his 
famous  specialty — that  of  an  outraged  father 
casting  out  an  erring  daughter. 

Maclaren's  book,  in  dramatized  form,  is 
something  of  a  magnet.  The  play,  however, 
is  nothing  much,  its  sentiment  being  far  from 
sound,  but  it  is,  on  the  whole,  rather  exciting 
to  see  a  family  upheaval  conducted  in  the 
style  of  tragedy.  And  these  stern,  old  rock- 
bound  fathers,  who,  since  the  first  betrayal, 
have  seized  every  opportunity  to  cast  out 
female  sinners  with  the  malevolent  joy  of  the 
Pharisee,   are   founded   upon   nature. 

With  them,  ill-temper,  suspicion,  and  re- 
ligion are  all  one:  and  their  reputed  sanctity 
is  more  often  than  not  a  thirst  for  domination 
over  the  consciences  and  actions  of  their 
luckless  women  kind.  Fathers  of  this  type 
experience  a  fierce,  tyrannical  joy  in  such  an 
act  of  punishment.  It  is  the  sudden  outlet 
of  a  morosely  violent  nature  after  years  of 
repression  imposed  by  the  custom  of  religion. 
This  is  the  side  that  Stoddart  brings  out  so 
truthfully. 

What  is  not  true  is  laid  down  in  subsequent 
acts  in  the  play,  and  must  be  given.  But 
no  father,  even  though  he  believed  her  im- 
pure, who  ruthlessly  thrust  forth  into  the 
night  a  gentle,  dutiful,  submissive  daughter, 
would  be  capable  of  the  tenderness  and  long- 
ing that  is  aroused  in  Lachlan  Campbell's 
touch   old  heart  in  later  acts. 

There  is  an  incongruity  in  thus  uniting  two 
distinct  characters  into  one,  and  it  is  in- 
sincere and  theatric,  in  hook  or  play,  to  make 
an  appeal  to  the  sympathies  under  such  irre- 
concilable   conditions. 

Discouragingly  as  the  winter  season  has  be- 
gun in  the  East,  it  is  still  possible  to  chronicle 
a  fair  measure  nf  successes.  Maude  Adams, 
reappearing  after  a  prolonged  vacation  of 
two  years,  finds  that  she  is  not  forgotten. 
Her  audiences  have  been  welcoming  her 
rapturously,  bringing  grateful  tears  to  the 
eyes  of  this  meagre  little  favorite  that  Charles 
Frohman  considers  his  greatest  drawing  card. 
Her  popularity  puzzles  the  critics,  who  pro- 
nounce her  maidenly,  charming,  sweet,  but 
lacking  in  emotional  depth.  To  many  out 
here,  who  have  seen  her  and  have  perceived 
the  limitations  of  her  temperament,  it  is 
unexplainable.  Upon  it.  however,  she  has  up- 
reared  a  solid  fortune;  because  of  it  she  has 
narrowly  escaped  ruining  her  health,  for  the 
public  must  not  be  denied  a  frequent  sight 
of  its  favorites.  She  is  at  present  appearing 
in  a  shallow,  perfervid  play  by  Mrs.  Frances 
Hodgson  Burnett,  entitled  "  The  Pretty  Sister 
of  Jose,"  and  the  hysterically  enthusiastic 
W(  [come  tendered  her  by  the  public  shows 
thai  her  solid  basis  as  a  "money  winner" 
is  once  more  assured. 

A  former  twin  star,  now  shining  brightly 
in  his  solitary  orbit,'  is  Kyrlc  Belle  w. 
Having  already  adder!  to  his  reputation  by  his 
work  in  the  romantic  drama,  he  is  now  dis- 
tinguishing himself  in  "  Raffles, "  a  successful, 
although  it  appears  not  particularly  artistic, 
revision  of  Hornung's  stories  of  the  amateur 
cracksman  of  that  name.  The  play  is  pro- 
nounced to  be  theatric,  the  dialogue  inept,  but 
Raffles,  as  presented  by  Kyrlc  Bellew,  has 
caught  the  fancy  r,i  the  public,  and  the  play 
promises  a   successful    run. 

The  dramatization  of  Kipling's  "  The  Light 
that  Failed,"  has  also  made  a  hit.  Forbes 
Robertson,  whom  San  Franciscans  can  not 
tail  to  have  admired  and  remembered  for  the 
superio  quality  <>f  his  art,  ;is  evidenced  dur- 
ing his  upport  of  Mary  Anderson,  some  years 
back,*;  gether  with  his  wifj  Gertrude  Elliott, 
profound  imprcssij  last  season  upon 
1  on  public  with  Kipling's  "The  Light 
The  New  York  engagement 
rusult,  and  Mr.  Robertson's  dis- 


tinguished personality  and  uncommon  his- 
trionic intelligence,  have  won  a  repetition  of 
the  favor  accorded  to  him  by  his  London 
audiences. 

New  York  took  plucky  Henrietta  Cros- 
man  to  its  heart  of  hearts  four  years  ago, 
when  she  defied  the  syndicate,  and  charmed 
the  town  as  Nell  Gwynne.  Recently,  she  tried 
her  new  play,  "  Sweet  Kitty  Bellairs,"  a 
Georgian  comedy  by  Belasco,  modeled  upon 
the  Castles'  novel,  *'  The  Bath  Comedy," 
upon  a  Washington  audience,  and  held  them 
entranced,  so  we  are  informed  by  a  rapturous 
reviewer,   until   one-thirty   in   the   morning. 

Miss  Crosman  has  since  produced  this  piece 
in  New  York,  and,  if  we  may  judge  of  the 
press  reports,  bids  fair  to  mount  the  pinnacle 
upon  which  are  grouped  the  few  fortunate 
ones  whose  popularity  is  proof  against  the 
"  theatrical  slump." 

Out  here,  it  has  not  affected  us,  for  our 
managers  politely  but  firmly  refuse  to  take 
risks.  San  Francisco,  in  the  matter  of  the- 
atrical business,  is  the  city  of  cautious  enter- 
prise. Once  in  a  while,  we  so  conduct  our- 
selves as  to  attract  the  fixed  and  speculative 
gaze  of  the  Eastern  managerial  orb.  The  suc- 
cess of  "  Ben  Hur  "  has  done  it  this  time ;  a 
success  that  is  plainly  due  as  much  to  the  re- 
ligious, as  well  as  to  the  spectacular,  elements 
in   this   Biblical   melodrama. 

On  the  other  hand,  "  Iris,"  which  came 
out  with  a  reputation  for  wickedness  that  a 
far-seeing  press-agent  might  calculate  would 
draw  crowds,  failed  to  make  a  financial  suc- 
cess even  in  this  city  of  ungodliness.  The 
erotic  reputation  of  "  Iris "  has  been  so 
widely  spread  through  public  and  private  dis- 
cussion of  the  motives  of  the  play,  that  many 
women  felt  that  there  would  be  actual  im- 
propriety in  witnessing  the  descent  of  Pinero's 
heroine   into   a   fashionable   woman's   hell. 

Yet  our  wicked,  demoralized,  racing,  shoot- 
ing, dare-devil  population — to  give  it  the 
benefit  of  its  Eastern  reputation — frowned 
austerely  upon  "  Iris,"  and  stayed  away. 
"  Iris  "  is  not  the  only  high-priced  attraction 
which  has  recently  failed  to  make  a  pecuniary 
success  in  this  remote  and  uncertain-minded 
city. 

Amelia  Bingham,  during  her  recent  summer 
tour  to  the  Pacific  Coast,  surrounded  herself 
with  a  first-class  company,  engaging  as  lead- 
ing man  Wilton  Lackaye,  an  actor  whose  ser- 
vices can  only  be  secured  at  an  exceptionally 
high  salary.  The  actress-manager  had,  as 
additional  attractions,  two  of  Clyde  Fitch's 
best  plays,  a  gorgeous  wardrobe,  and  some 
pretty  women  in  the  company,  but  she  failed 
to  draw  good  paying  audiences. 

The  Miller  company,  on  the  contrary,  rather 
more  poorly  equipped  than  usual  with  plays 
and  players,  did  a  good  business. 

The  reason  in  both  cases  is  not  far  to  seek. 
The  success  of  the  Henry  Miller  company 
was  a  continuance  of  the  momentum  left  from 
previous  seasons.  The  comparative  failure  of 
the  Bingham  company  may  be  set  down  to  the 
fact  that  Miss  Bingham's  histrionic  reputation, 
although  well  established  in  the  East,  was 
not  as  yet  sufficiently  widespread  to  have 
reached  the  mass  of  theatre-goers  in  this 
city. 

From  all  accounts,  the  annual  Henry  Miller 
season   will  recur  no  more.     As  a  result,  there 


is  a  chance  awaiting  some  shrewd  Eastern 
manager  to  send  out  a  genuinely  first-class 
company  for  a  San  Francisco  summer  season, 
and  secure  the  ample  patronage  which,  lacking 
such  opportunity,  will  be  diverted  to  inferior 
attractions,  or  be  left  unbestowed. 

The  mistake  would  be  to  send  inferior 
players  and  stale  plays.  We  have  them  in 
plenty  through  the  year,  often  at  the  Co- 
lumbia, as  well  as  at  the  lower-priced  the- 
atres. The  steady  patrons  of  one  theatre  fall 
into  the  habit  of  going,  and  resign  themselves 
to  anything  and  everything,  but  the  outsiders, 
who  constitute  the  rush,  require  a  glittering 
bait  to  allure  them.  Give  them  a  good  com- 
pany, with  at  least  one  player  of  established 
reputation,  and  they  are  apt  to  come  in  suffi- 
cient numbers  to  give  assurance  of  success. 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


Specializing  in  Trade. 

It  appears  to  be  just  as  necessary  to  special- 
ize in  trade  as  in  the  professions.  This  is 
evidently  recognized  by  the  Nathan-Dohrmann 
Co..  for  in  remodeling  their  immense  estab- 
lishment, their  goods  were  grouped  in  sep- 
arate show  rooms,  each  one  devoted  to  only 
one  class  of  goods.  Thus  they  have  a  House- 
hold, Art.  Silverware,  Lamp,  Stein,  and  China 
Room,  to  which  they  have  just  added  a  plate 
and  cup  and  saucer  room.  In  this  room  these 
articles,  so  much  in  demand,  for  holiday  pres- 
ents, are  all  displayed  according  to  price.  It 
therefore  needs  but  a  moment's  time  of  the 
customer  to  inspect  what  is  offered  within 
the  figure  which  he  intends  to  spend.  Thus 
is  reached  an  arrangement  much  appreciated 
by  purchasers  who  wish  to  save  time  and 
trouble. 


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TIVOLI  OPERA  HOUSE 

Corner  Eddy  and  Mason  Streets. 

Grand  opening,    Wednesday  evening,    December  23d 
special   matinge  Christmas,  magnificent       ' 
production  of 
IXIOrV    or    THE     WHEELMAN 

The  mythological  musical  extravaganza.     One  hun- 
dred and  fifty  people  on  the  stage. 

Usual  popular  prices.  25c.  50c,  and  75c    Proscenium 
and  mezzanine  box  seats,  Si. 00. 


COLUMBIA    THEATRE. 

Beginning  next  Monday,  second  and  last  week  mat- 
inee Saturday,  special  matinee  Christmas.  F  C 
)Y,TltTT^?rfseJts  lhe  queen  of  sintrine  comediennes. 
LULU  GLASER.  in  StanEe  &  Edwards's  dainty 
comic  opera, 

DOLLY     VARDEN 


December    iSth—  Clara    Bloodgood    in    The    Girl 
with  the  Green  Eyes. 


ALGAZAR    THEATRE.     Phone  "  Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.     E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

Regular  matinees  Saturdav  and   Sunday,  extra   mat- 
inees Christmas  and  New  Year.     Week  commenc- 
ing Monday,  December  21st,  the  real- 
istic comedy  drama, 
BLUE      3"  IE  -A_  UNT  S 

Evenings    2_sc  to  75c.     Saturdav  and   Sunday  mat- 
inees, 15c  to.soc. 
January  4th— A  Lady  of  Quality. 

QENTRAL  THEATRE.    Phone  south  533 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

Christmas   week,  starting    December    21st.    matinees 

Christmas  Dav  fFriday).  Saturday,  and  Sunday, 

the  magnificent  musical  extravaganza, 

ALPHONSE    AND    GASTON 

The  greatest  attraction  of  the  week. 


Prices— Evenings,  10c  to  50c.     Matinees,  10c.  15c,  25c. 
New  Year's  week.  Dec.  2Sth— The  Dairy  Farm . 

QRAND  OPERA   HOUSE. 

Week  beginnine;  to-morrow  (Sunday)  matinee,  Decem- 
ber 20th.  extra  matinee  Christmas  Dav.  regular  mat- 
inee Saturday.     Benefits  in  aid  of  the  San  Francisco 
Fire   Department's    Widows'    and   Orphans'    Fund 
MAY  STOCKTON  in 
A      UITTUE      OUTCAST 
And  realistic  Fire  Drama  in  three  scenes,  illustrating 
the  workings  of  the  fire  department  and  their  rescue 
of  the  inmates  of  a  burning  building.    Characters  by 
members  of  the  uniform  force  of  the  fire  department 
and  the  police  force. 


Week  commencing  Sunday  matinee.  December  20th 
Special  matinee  Christmas.  The  Orpheum  Road 
Show— Merian's  Dog  Pantomime  and  "Ca?sar,"  the 
mind-reading  poodle;  Elizabeth  Murray  the  Four 
Nighlons;  Ed.  F.  Reynard;  Eckhoff  and  Gordon;  the 
Melani  Trio:  Albertus  and  Millar;  Henri  Humberti- 
and  Ernest  Hogan,  Mattie  Wilkes  and  Company. 

Reserved  seats,  25c;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c.  Regular  matinees  Wednesday,  Thurs- 
day, Saturdav,  and  Sundav. 


A  great  musical  comedy, 
-=-  I-O-TJ  _-■ 

A  splendid  production.  Our"  all  star  "  cast.  Grand 
chorus  of  fifty  beautiful  voices.  Magnificent  costumes 
and  novel  stage  effects. 

Reserved  seats,  75c,  50c.  and  25c.  Matinees  Satur- 
day and  Sunday,  25c  and  50c.  Special  matinee  Christ- 
mas Day. 

PACINft    EVERY   WEEK  DAY 

'\flVli  '  ^  RAIN  OR  SHINE. 

New  California  Jockey  Club 
INGLESIDE   TRACK 

Commencing  Monday,  December  14th. 

SIX  OR  MORE  RACES  DAILY 


RACES  START  AT  2  p.  m.  SHARP 


Reached  by  street  cars  from  any  part  of 
the  city. 

Train  leayes  Third  and  Townsend  Streets  at  1. 15 
p.  M.,  and  leaves  the  track  immediately  after  the  last 
race.  THOMAS  H.  WILLIAMS,  President. 

PERCY  W.  TREAT,  Secretary. 


SQUARE  CAKE! 


YELLOW  LABEL ! 


Golden  Gate  Compressed  Yeast 

The  best  for  all  kin'js  of  baking 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


.BER   21,    I903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


419 


STAGE    GOSSIP. 


Lulu  Glaser  in  "  Dolly  Varden." 
ter  seeing  Lulu  Glaser  in  "  Dolly  Var- 
"  at  the  Columbia  Theatre,  it  is  rather 
ricult  to  understand  just  why  this  charming 
peratic  version  of  William  Wycherley's 
comedy,  "  The  Country  Girl,"  failed  to  im- 
press London  theatre-goers.  The  libretto  is 
far  above  the  average,  the  music  is  tuneful 
and  agreeable,  and  the  two  elaborate  stage 
settings,  picturing  the  garden  of  Beauchamp 
Towers  and  the  reception  hall,  are  effective 
backgrounds  for  a  wealth  of  gorgeous  cos- 
tumes, set  off  by  pretty  faces  and  comely 
figures.  In  short,  Mr.  Stange  and  Mr.  Ed- 
wards have  provided  a  graceful  and  refined 
entertainment,  pleasantly  free  from  all  taint 
of  vulgarity.  In  London.  Mabelle  Gilman — a 
California  singer  who  has  not  visited  San 
Francisco  since  her  rise  to  stellar  honors  in 
the  East  and  in  England — had  the  title-role, 
and,  despite  the  fact  that  her  impersonation 
was  considered  "  vivacious,  dainty,  and  de- 
lightfully arch  "  by  the  critics  of  the 
British  metropolis,  the  management  of 
the  Avenue  Theatre  have  decided  to 
withdraw  it.  and  present  instead  "  The 
Mocking  Bird,"  the  comic  opera  in  which 
she  starred  successfully  in  this  country 
last  season.  The  part  of  the  rollicking  Dolly 
fits  Lulu  Glaser's  breezy  personality  like  a 
glove.  She  is  a  rare  comedienne,  with  an 
engaging  smile,  who  talks  her  songs  instead 
of  trying  to  sing  them,  and  from  the  moment 
she  trips  on  tie  stage,  encased  in  a  sedan- 
chair,  until  the  final  curtain  falls  after  the 
pretty  "  Brides  and  Grooms "  octette,  she 
has  the  audience  at  her  feet.  Her  lead- 
ing support,  however,  is  not  particularly  bril- 
liant. Lillian  Walbridge  has  an  excellent  stage 
presence,  but  is  afflicted  with  a  disagreeable 
tremolo,  and  her  gestures,  especially  in  the 
ballad,  "  The  Navy."  are  automatic  and  mean- 
ingless. Harry  Girard.  the  Captain  Richard 
Belleville,  has  a  tiny  baritone  voice,  which 
does  not  half  do  justice  to  such  gems  as 
"  Dolly  Varden "  and  "  To  be  With  Thee." 
The  best  male  singers  are  John  Dunsmuir, 
basso,  and  Harold  Blake,  tenor,  both  former 
members  of  the  Bostonians.  "  Dolly  Varden  " 
will  be  presented  for  another  week,  and  then 
comes  Clara  Bloodgood  in  another  Clyde  Fitch 
play,  "  The  Girl  With  the  Green  Eyes." 


The  New  Tivoli. 
On  Wednesday  evening,  the  new  Tivoli 
Opera  House  will  be  opened  with  a  spectacular 
production  of  "  Ixion."  which  has  been  brought 
up  to  date  by  Ferris  Hartman.  and  sprinkled 
with  many  of  the  latest  Eastern  ballads  and 
topical  songs.  The  cast  will  include  Bessie 
Tannehill,  Wallace  Brownlow,  Annie  Meyers, 
Anna  Lichter,  Aimee  Leicester,  Mamie  Davies. 
Nettie  Deglow,  Ferris  Hartman,  Arthur  Cun- 
ningham, Edward  Webb.  William  Schuster, 
and  many  others.  There  will  be  scores  of 
pretty  girls  in  the  production,  and  the  costumes 
will  be  artistic  revelations.  Among  the  bal- 
lets, directed  by  Bothwell  Browne,  will  be  the 
"  Greek  Picture."  ''  Ballet  of  Love,"  "  Wines 
of  California,"  "  Snow  Ballet."  and  "  Early 
Days  of  California."  The  delightful  ballet 
movement  from  Tschaikowsky's  "  Nutcracker 
Suite  "  will  be  one  of  the  incidental  numbers 
played  by  Director  Steindorff  and  his  splendid 
orchestra.  The  three  acts  will  close  with  a 
gorgeous  transformation,  "  Excelsior,  the  Tri- 
umph of  Light." 

"Blue  Jeans"  at  the  Alcazar. 
Joseph  Arthur's  melodramatic  comedy, 
"  Blue  Jeans."  is  to  be  presented  at  the  Alcazar 
Theatre  next  week,  with  James  Durkin  as 
the  hero,  Adele  Block  as  the  gypsy-like  Sue 
Eudaly,  Frances  Starr  as  dainty  little  June, 
John  B.  Maher  as  the  old  shoemaker,  Fred  J. 
Butler  as  the  country  politician,  Luke  Con- 
ness  as  the  villain,  Harry  Hilliard  as  the 
loutish  Ike.  Edwin  Emery  as  the  minstrel, 
and  Anita  Allen  as  the  song-and-dance  girl. 
The  play  contains  several  striking  climaxes, 
the  most  thrilling  being  the  rescue  of  the  un- 
conscious hero  just  as  he  is  about  to  be  cut 
in  two  by  a  whirring  buzz-saw  that  has  just 
eaten  its  way  through  a  huge  plank  as  if  it 
were  a  bit  of  pasteboard. 

In  Aid  of  the  Firemen's  Widows  and  Orphans. 
Those   who   go   to   the   Grand   Opera   House 
next   week   will   have   the   satisfaction   of   not 
only  seeing  an  interesting  performance,  but  of 
aiding    a    worthy    charity — the    Widows*    and 
Orphans'  Aid  Association  of  the   San  Fran- 
cisco   Fire    Department.      The    firemen    have 
"  bought  out "  the  theatre  for  the  entire  week, 
and  in  addition  to  the  regular  attraction,  May 
Stockton  in  "The  Little  Outcast,"  the  firemen 
ill  give  the  public  an  idea  of  the  working  of 
e    fire    department.      There    will    be    scenes 
showing  the  interior  of  an  engine-house,  with 
apparatus,  horses,  telegraphic  instruments, 
darm  bells,  sliding  poles,  swinging  doors,  and 
,'eeping  quarters  of  the  men.    Alarms  will 
-   it    in    over   the    wires,    the    firemen    will 
turn  out,"  hitching  harness  and  sliding  down 
es.    just   as    they    do    when    answering 
■•     fire     alarms.       The     apparatus    and 
will  dash  out  from  the  house  and  make 
on  to  Jessie  street,  and  then  turn  and 
the  stage  at  full  go.  The  scene  will 


show  the  arrival  of  the  firemen  and  the  appar- 
atus at  the  burning  three-story  building.  En- 
gines will  work,  water  will  be  pumped,  and 
ladders  and  trucks  run  up  in  front  of  the 
building.  A  squad  of  policemen  will  be  de- 
tailed by  Chief  Wittman  to  appear  in  the  scene 
and  keep  the  crowd  in  order,  just  as  they  do 
at  real  fires.  Scaling  ladders  will  be  used  by 
the  firemen,  and  men  and  women  will  be 
carried  down  in  safety  from  the  burning  build- 
ing. To  cap  the  climax,  a  number  of  women 
will  jump  from  the  top  of  the  building  into 
the  life-saving  nets  held  by  the  firemen. 


Fischer's  Big  Hit. 
It  looks  as  if  it  would  be  many  weeks  before 
it  will  be  necessary  to  take  off  "  I-O-U  "  at 
Fischer's  Theatre,  for  although  the  amusing 
travesty  on  the  labor  unions  enters  on  its 
fourth  week  on  Monday  night,  the  demand 
for  tickets  is  as  brisk  as  ever,  and  the  prospect 
is  that  Christmas  week  will  see  the  theatre 
crowded  to  the  doors  nightly.  Allen  Curtis, 
who  has  taken  Barney  Bernard's  Hebrew 
role,  has  already  established  himself  in  the 
good  graces  of  the  patrons  of  Fischer's  The- 
atre. Another  new-comer  next  week  will  be 
Charles  Candie.  a  new  orchestra  leader,  who 
has  been  associated  for  several  years  with 
Klaw  &  Erlanger's  New  York  musical  pro- 
ductions. 


"  Alphonse  and  Gaston"  at  the  Central. 
George  T.  Smith  and  Emil  Bierman's  musi- 
cal extravaganza.,  based  on  the  trials  and 
tribulations  of  Alphonse  and  Gaston,  the  two 
polite  Frenchmen  originated  by  Opper,  the 
clever  cartoonist,  will  be  given  at  the  Central 
Theatre  next  week.  In  addition  to  the  regular 
stock  company  favorites,  the  cast  will  include 
Virginia  Ainsworth.  who  will  sing  a  number 
of  popular  new  songs;  Tony  West,  the  com- 
edian ;  and  Elsie  G.  Rafael,  a  well-known 
"  rag-time  pianist." 


The  Orpheum's  Christmas  Week  Bill, 
The  Orpheum  Road  Show  will  begin  a 
limited  engagement  at  the  Orpheum  next  week, 
after  an  especially  successful  season  on  tour. 
The  organization  this  year  includes  Elizabeth 
Murray,  the  popular  coon  and  Irish  song 
singer;  Ernest  Hogan.  the  "unbleached  Amer- 
ican," and  Mattie  Wilkes  ;  the  Melani  trio  of 
Italian  singers:  Fred  Eckhoff  and  Anna  Gor- 
don, the  musical  laughmakers ;  Albertus  and 
Millar,  comedy  club  swingers  and  cornet 
soloists ;  the  Nightons,  in  a  startling  acrobatic 
act ;  Henri  Humberti,  the  European  comedy 
juggler ;  and  Merian's  pantomime  dogs.  The 
latter  will  offer  one  of  the  greatest  novelties 
in  the  animal  line  ever  seen  here,  "  Caesar." 
the  mind-reading  poodle,  is  the  star  of  the 
aggregation,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  his  act. 
the  pantomime,  "  A  Faithless  Woman."  is 
presented  by  nine  canine  actors. 


Although  Dr.  Alex.  J.  Mclvor-Tyndall  closed 
his  series  of  psychic  science  lectures  last  week 
with  an  interestins  discourse  on  "  Our 
Common  Birthright,"  he  is  to  give  a  novel 
entertainment  on  Sunday  evening  at  Steinway 
Hall,  when  he  will  explain  and  demonstrate 
the  principles  by  which  Annie  Abbot,  the 
"  Little  Georgia  Magnet."  performs  the  won- 
derful feats  of  strength  and  magnetism,  which 
puzzled  the  public  recently  at  the  Orpheum. 

The  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  continues  to  at- 
tract visitors,  despite  the  unsettled  condition 
of  the  weather.  The  scenery  is  especially 
beautiful,  the  hills  being  covered  with  verdure, 
and  the  panoramic  view  from  the  veranda  of 
the  tavern,  just  below  the  summit,  is  excellent. 


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sphere  of  usefulness,  as  well  as  being  intensely 
interesting  and  useful  to  you  to  have  at  home 
in  your  "  den."  A  "  Lambert "  Typewriter 
would  be  a  sensible  Christmas  present.  Price, 
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December  21. 


1903. 


VANITY    FAIR. 


Mrs.  Desmond  Humphreys,  the  novelist, 
who  writes  under  the  name  of  "  Rita,"  scores 
London's  Smart  Set.  whose  amusements,  she 
says,  "  might  make  the  angels  weep."  She 
adds  :  "  In  turn,  we  have  had  skirt  dancing, 
banjo-parties,  high  kicking,  cycling,  ping- 
pong,  gambling  at  bridge,  and  the  motor 
craze.  We  have  dethroned  the  two  last, 
but  there  are  other  records  as  harmful,  if 
less  exciting.  What  of  the  titled  youth  who 
turns  his  castle  into  an  imitation  Drury  Lane 
on  boxing  night,  whose  highest  ambition  is 
to  display  the  family  jewels  on  his  own  per- 
son as  a  prince  of  pantomime?  What  of  the 
illustrious  earl  who  roams  from  the  Old 
World  to  the  new  with  no  higher  ambition 
than  to  wear  the  skirts  of  a  ballet  girl,  and 
pass  for  one?  What  of  the  effete  boudoir 
boys,  who  give  smoking-parties  to  each  other 
in  order  to  display  the  latest  thing  in  satin 
corsets  and  lace-frilled  tea-coats?  The  amuse- 
ments of  the  smart  world  are  on  a  par  with 
its  other  eccentricities,  and  for  providing 
many  of  these  we  have  to  thank  our  smart 
American  sister.  She  it  is  who  introduced 
notions  which  are  too  idiotic  for  the  nursery. 
but  are  eagerly  welcomed  by  the  drawing- 
room.  To  the  American  smart  women  so- 
ciety owes  her  '  henlunc]i£Ojis.'  surprise-par- 
ties, bathing-dress — picnics,  floral^t'eadjind 
color  suppers.  She  has  an  inventive  brain 
and  a  mania  for  organization.  "She  has  shown 
us  ho\\r^nanJy^an_Jie  made^the  playground 
for"  riotous  display,  how  social  functions  can 
be  turned  into  wild  orgies  or  undignified 
romps.  To  fancy  dress  a  charity,  to  flaunt 
a  bazaar,  to  self-advertise  a  hospital — these 
are  the  things  we  have  learned  from  our 
Atlantic  smart  neighbors.  With  them  adver- 
tisement is  an  ahsolute  grace,  the  first  law 
of  their  nature.  Straightway  to .._ cake- walk 
went  the  smart  leaders  of  the  Smart  Set. 
Straightway  after  them  went  their  brainless 
troop  of  male  followers.  A  moving  panorama 
of  uhhi  ■'■'.o.;  levity  and  unlicensed  vulgarity 
was  the  .result.  The  cafee-wafb^ftgoTe"s.  the 
possibilities  of  indecencies,  became  the  one 
absorbing  topic  of  the  hour.  Even  skirt 
!2Z?inTi  *•*"*  '  fp1^.'  •J"f*  the  leap-frog  co- 
tillion figures,  tableaux  01  charity  functions 
and  acting  French  plays  all  paled  and  grew 
insignificant  before  the  last  new  sensation. 
Its  promises  seemed  endless,  its  varieties  of 
asinine    humiliation    absolutely   unbounded." 


But  it  is  not  alone  the  American  woman 
who  comes  in  for  vicious  criticism  in  the 
British  press.  Listen  to  these  disparaging 
remarks  about  the  American  man,  made  by 
prominent  London  society  favorites  who 
were  over  here  recently  for  the  Roxburghe- 
Goelet  wedding  and  the  international  yacht- 
races.  Says  one  of  them :  "  The  men  of 
America — bah  !  Tt  makes  me  ill  to  think  I 
associated"*\vlth  them  as  long  as  I  did.  Q 
would  meet  in  a  whole  day  and  night 
one  or  two  who  would  be^  called  gentlemen, 
in  the  English  sense.  Most  of  them  have 
some  traaer  or  other  which  they  acted 
ridiculously  snobbish  about  and  tried  to  con- 
ceal from  us.  Their  manners  were  com- 
pletely middle  class."  Another  English- 
woman said  of  the  American  men :  "  I  found 
them  very  insignificant,  very  bourgeois.  We 
attended  the  New  York  Horse  Show.  In 
the  promenade  you  could  not  pick  out  a  man 
of  the  Four  Hundred.  Some  of  the  gentle- 
men rode  or  drove  their  own  horses  in  the 
-ring,  but  for  the  life  of  me  I  could  not  tell 
the  difference  between  2jYTT>re-  ano^  tjjfiit 
jockeys."  Here  is  still  an  01  her  woman's 
opinion:  "What  do  I  think  of  the  American 
.  nicp^we  met?  Well,  I  think  they  are  vulgar, 
yrjgducajed  in  the  things  of  society,  stoop- 
shouldered,  under-sized.  They  think  if  they 
have  a  million  or  two  they  are  as  good  as 
any  one,  and  society  seems  to  think  so,  too. 


Commenting  on  the  opinions  of  these  three 
Englishwomen,  an  Argonaut  reader,  who 
signs  himself  "Woolly  West,"  writes:  "Num- 
ber one  remarks  that  she  was  made  'ill* 
(sick?)  by  associating  with  them.  This  makes 
one  somewhat  anxious  to  know  how  the  men 
themselves  stood  it.  Perhaps  they,  too,  were 
made  ill.  She  further  says :  '  Most  of  them 
have  some  trade  or  other  which  they  acted 
ridiculously  snobbish  about  and  tried  to  con- 
ceal from  us.'  She  must  have  met  a  bunch 
of  walking  delegates  of  labor  unions.  She 
adds  that  the  manners  of  our  men  are  '  com- 
pletely middle-class.'  Docs  not  this  betray 
a  suspicious  familiarity  with  middle-class 
manners?  Number  two  says  she  found  our 
men  '  very  insignificant,'  and  at  the  New  York 
Horse  Show  could  not  distinguish  them  from 
their  jockeys.  Why,  you  sweet,  innocent 
thing  you!  Don't  you  know  you  never  can? 
You  wouM  better  look  up  the  statistics  show- 
ing the  r.  .nber  of  coachmen  0  have  married 
But  why  blaiiK    the  owners  of 

Why    not    reform    the    grooms  ? 

■  r  of  the  latter.     Number  three 


says  we  are  '  vulgar,  uneducated  in  the  things 
of  society,  stoop-shouldered,  '  under-sized.' 
There  now,  my  brothers,  put  that  in  your 
organs  and  grind  it.  In  conclusion,  she  says  : 
'  They  think  if  they  have  a  million  or  two  they 
are  as  good  as  any  one,  and  society  seems  to 
think  so,  too.'  Well.  I  just  guess !  Does  this 
good  lady  know  anything  else  so  potent 
as  money  to  make  people  eligible  to  position 
in  society?  Perhaps,  however,  this  dispatch 
was  merely  a  bait,  snapped  up  by  the  dailies 
to  pad  out  the  columns  of  those  overgrown 
sheets,  and  sent  to  relieve  the  tedium  of  a  dull 
Saturday  night  in  the  cable  office." 


Although  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Rox- 
burgh^ managed  to  secure  absolute  privacy 
during  their  five  days'  wedding  journey 
across  the  Atlantic,  they  were  greatly  an- 
noyed by  curious  fellow-passengers,  mostly 
women,  when  they  boarded  the  train  at  Cher- 
bourg for  Paris.  According  to  the  Paris  cor- 
respondent of  the  London  Express,  there 
was  a  wild  scramble  for  seats  when 
it  became  known  that  the  duke  and  his 
bride  would  eat  their  dinner  in  the  ordinary 
dining  saloon  instead  of  having  it  privately 
served.  "  One  German-American  lady,"  says 
the  writer,  "  who  was  booked  for  the  second 
dinner  series,  offered  to  buy  the  seat  of  a 
fellow-countrywoman  who  was  fortunate 
enough  to  be  placed  near  the  duke  and 
duchess,  but  the  latter  declined  to  part  with 
the  privilege.  The  place  of  vantage,  a  corner 
seat  at  the  table  directly  opposite  the  bridal 
couple,  was  secured  by  a  ^Philadelphia  poli- 
tician. Throughout  the  meal  he  watched  them 
't*a*-~TJyirh  sympathetic  interest.  The  apart- 
ments held  t\venty-twopassengers  besides  the 
duke  and  duchess,  and  fully  one-half  of  them 
paid  more  attention  to  the  pair  than  -to  their 
own  appetites.  Several  Americans^  sitting 
with  their  backs  to  the  duke  an bT  duchess,  did 
not  hesitate  to  turn  around  every  other  jnin- 
ute,  and  as  the  train  unexpectedly  slowed  up 
on  one  occasion,  a  woman's  voice, -asked, 
shrilly  :  "  What  is  she  eating  now  ?  "  The 
duchess  went  through  the  ordeal  with,  good 
humor  and  unconcern^  but  the  duke  did  not 
apparently  share  hex  feelings.  When  they 
left  the  table,"  souvenirs  were  in  great  de- 
mand. One  diner  secured  the  duchess'  menu 
card,  and  an  American  woman  ^v7ag^|gtfe 
aggrieved  because  she  could  not  purchase 
from  the  dining-room  attendant  a  silver^fisfe 
knife  used  by  the  duchess.  When  the  train 
reached  the  Gare  St.  Lazare,  in  Paris,  some 
passengers  lingered  on  the  platform,  despite 
the  lateness  of  the  hour,  to  get  a  farewell 
glimpse  of  the  coupled. 

Hearing  of  the  efficacy  of  the  Rontgen 
rays  for  the  removal  of  hairs  from  the  upper 
lip,  a  lady  in  Hanover,  aged  thirty-five,  ap- 
plied to  Dr.  Karl  Bruno  Schurmayer,  a 
proper  qualified  doctor  and  Rontgen-ray 
specialist,  for  treatment.  He  operated  twice, 
)ut  instead  of  removing  the  superfluous  hairs 
the  operation  resulted  in  the  skin  of  the  face 
becoming  red  and  the  lips  swollen.  The  lady 
thereupon  brought  an  action  against  the 
doctor,  and  was  awarded  sixty  dollars  dam- 
ages, against  which  he  appealed,  but  the 
decision  has  just  been  upheld. 


The  Garrick  Club  of  London  is  famous 
among  other  things  for  its  remarkable  wines. 
All  of  these  were  purchased  in  the  cask  forty 
years  ago  (says  the  New  York  Times),  and 
they  are  sold  to-day  in  the  club  at  the  same 
tariff  as  if  they  were  of  this  year's  vintage, 
instead  of  some  of  them — such  as  the  clarets, 
sherries,  madeiras,  and  ports — being  almost 
priceless.  The  club  has  been  the  home  for 
many  years  of  a  set  of  old  London  bachelors 
and  widowers  without  collateral  relatives, 
who  enjoy  its  cuisine  and  its  wines.  They 
are  very  much  on  the  pattern  of  Major  Pen- 
dennis.    and   are   well    known    in    London   so- 


ciety. Several  of  these,  dying,  have  left  their 
fortunes  to  the  club.  The  result  is  that  the 
organization  is  very  wealthy,  and  if  to-mor- 
row it  should  be  dissolved,  each  member 
would  receive  quite  a  handsome  legacy  as 
his  share  of  the  club  assets.  Nearly  all  the 
London  clubs  are  organized  on  this  plan,  and 
there  are  in  the  older  and  more  celebrated 
ones  few  instances  of  extra  assessments. 


A.    P.     HOTALING'S    OLD    KIRK. 


A  Pure  Straight  Brand. 

A.  P.  Hotaling's  Old  Kirk  Whisky  has  made 
friends  with  all  who  have  tried  it,  which  goes  to 
show  that  there  is  room  for  a  pure  straight  blend  in 
the  market  We  say  it  is  the  best.  You  try  it  and 
you  will  say  the  same. 


SAN    FRANCISCO    WEATHER 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander    G.     McAdie 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Mitt.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern.  Tern.  fall.  Weather. 

December    ioth 52  46  .00  Cloudy 

"  nth    ...  58  42  .00  Cloudy 

12th  —  52  48  .07  Rain 

"  13th 54  48  .04  Cloudy 

"  14th 54  50  .00  Cloudy 

15th  ....  52  48  Tr.  Rain 

16th 56  50  1  14  Cloudy 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Wednesday,  December  16,  1903, 
were  as  follows  : 

Bonds.  Closed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U- S.  Coup.  4% 1,000    @  109%  109        no 

U.  S.  Coup.  3% 2,500    @  108  10S 

LosAn.Rys% J.000    @  II25£  i"K 

Los  An.    Pac.    Ry. 

Con.  5% 7,000    @  101  ioo$£     102 

Market  St.  Ry.  5%.     1,000    @  113  112^ 

Oakl'nd  Transit  5%     1,000    @  109  108% 

Omnibus  C-  Ry.  6%    2,000    @  121  120 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%.  24,000    @  106^-107  106^     107 
Sac.  Electric  Gas  & 

Ry.  5% 14,000    ©98-100  99        101 

S.  F.  &  S.J.Valley 

Ry.  5% 4.000    @  117  ii7j£ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1909  6,000    @  107%  107^     10S 

S.  P.  R.  of  Arizona 

6%  1910  1,000    @  109  108^ 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd 57,ooo    @  106%  107% 

S.V.  Water  6% —  54.000    @  106  106 

S.  V.  Water  4%.  . ..     2,000    @    99  99        101 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.                   Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Contra  Costa    20    @    39-      40  39%      42 

Spring  Vall'yW.Co       320    ®    38-      38^  38J4      39 

Banks. 

Mercantile  T.  Co..        100    ©230  230 

German  S.  L 1     @  2,245  2.235 

Sugars. 

Hawaiian  C.  &  S...          50    @    45  44^      45 

Hutchinson 5    @    g#  9%      10 

Makaweli  S.  Co  —       100    ©    rz%  iz% 

OnomeaS.Co 75    @    3°  31 

Gas  a  nd  Electric. 

Central  Lighting..        125    @    55-    55^  55^ 

S-  F.Gas&El-ctric       545    @    66^- 68#  66^      67 

Afiscella  neons. 

Alaska  Packers  ...          So    ©140-     144  139        141 

Cal.  Fruit  Canners.         20    @    92  92 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 60    @    go$£  90$^ 

Oceanic  S.  Co 20    @      5-        5^  5            6 

Spring  Valley  Water  was  traded  in  to  the  extent  of 
320  shares,  selling  off  three-quarters  of  a  point  to  38, 

closing  in  better  demand  at  38^  bid,  39  asked. 

The  sugars  were  in  small  demand  at  a  decline  of 
from  one-half  to  one  point. 

Alaska  Packers  sold  off  three  points  to  140,  clos- 
ing at  139  bid,  141  asked. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric,  on  sales  of  545 

shares  sold  down  one  point  to  66J2.  but  at  the  close 
was  in  better  demand,  at  66 fa  bid,  67  asked. 


INVESTTiENTS. 

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SOUTHERN  PACIFIC 

Trains  leave  »ud  art)  due  to  arrive  at 
SAN    FRANCISCO. 

(Main  Line,  Foot  of  Market  Street  ) 
lbatb    —    From  SoT^MBgE  22.  1903.    —     abbivj 

7.00a   Vscavllle,  Winters,  Rumsey 7.55p 

7.00*  Benlcla,  SulBun.  Elmlra  and  Sacra- 
mento         7.25p 

7.30a  Yallejo.    Napa,     Callstoga,    Santa 

Robs,  Martinez,  Sao  Ramon G-25p 

7 -30a  Nlles,  Llvermore,  Tracy.  Latbrop. 

Stockion  ... 725p 

8.00a  Shasta  Express  —  (Via  Davia). 
Williams  (for  Bartlett  Springs), 
Willows  tFruto.  Red  Bluff, 
Portland,  Taconia,   Seattle 7.55p 

8. 00a   Davis. Woodland.  Knights  Landing. 

Marysvllle.  Oro^llle 7-55p 

830a  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Antlocb, 
Byron,  Tracy,  Stockton,  New- 
man, Los  Banos,  Mendots, 
Armona,  Han  ford.  V 1  a  a  1 1  a, 
Portervllle 4.25p 

840a  Port  Costa,  Martinez.  Tracy,  Latb- 
rop. Modesto.  Merced,  Fresno, 
Goshen  Jnnctlon.  H  an  f  o  rd. 
Vlsalla.  Bakersneld  4.55p 

8-30>  Nlles,  San  Jose,  Llvermore.  Stock- 
ton. (tMHton).  lone,  Sacramento. 
Placervllle.  Marysvllle,  Cblco, 
Red  Blnff 4-25p 

8-30a  Oakdale,  Chinese.  Jamestown,  So- 

nora,  Tuolumne  and  Angels 4-25p 

9  00a    Atlantic  Express— Ogdonand  East.    11.25* 

9.30a  Richmond,     Martinez     and     Way 

Stations 6.55p 

10  00a  The    Overland    Limited  —  Ugdeo, 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6-25p 

10-00*  Vallejo 12.26p 

10.00*  Los  ADgeles  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton.  Merced, 
Raymond.  Fresno,  Goahen  Junc- 
tion, Hanford.  Lemoore,  Vlsalla, 

Bakersfleld.  Los  Angeles 7-25p 

12-OOm  Hay  ward.  Niles  and  Way  Stations.      3-25P 

tl.ODP   Sacramento  River  Steamera tll.OOP 

3.30p  Benicla,  Winters.  Sacramento. 
Woodland,  Knights  Landing, 
Maryavllle,     Orovllle    and    way 

stations 10-55a 

3J0f  Hayward.NIlea  andWay  Stations..     755p 
3.30p  Port      CobU,     Martinez.     Byron, 
Tracy,      Latbrop,      Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno   and    Way    Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Coata 12-26p 

3-30p  Martinez.  Tracy.  Stockton.  Lodl...   10-26* 
4.00p  Martinez, Sun  l{:imon.VnlleJo.Napa, 

Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa 9-25* 

4  00p   Nlles.  Tracv.  Stockton.  Lodl 4.25P 

4.30P   Hayward,   Nlles,   Irvlngton,  San)    18-55* 

Jose,  Llvermore |  til .55* 

5  "0>  The  Owl   Limited— Newm«n.  Los 

Banos,  Mendoia.  Fresno,  Tulare, 

Bakersneld.  Loa  Angeles 8-55* 

64)0p   Port  Costa,  Tracy.  Stockton 12-25P 

t6  30F  Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25* 

S.OOp   Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose 9-55* 

6-00f  Eastern  Express—  Ogden,  Denver, 
Omaha.  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  Benicla,  Sol- 
BOn,  Elmlra,  Davis.  Sacramento, 
Rock  1  in.  Auburn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth.  Wlnnemucca 5-26  p 

$,00p  Vallejo.  dally,  except  Sunday...    I      7  KK 

7.00P  Vallejo,  Sunday  only (      foa* 

7  00p  Richmond,  San  Pablo.  Port  Coata, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations 11-25* 

8-06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento,    Marysvllle,    Redding. 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8-55* 
9.1  Op  Hayward,  Niles  and  San  Jose  (Sun- 
dayonly) 11-55* 

COAST    LINE     (Narrow  Wange). 

(Foot  of  Marfeet  Street-) 

8-16*  Newark,  Centervtlle.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Bouloer     Creek,    Santa 

Cruz  and  Way  Stations 5-55p 

t2-1Bp  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden.Los  G a tos, Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Crux  and 

Principal  Way  Stations    1 10-55* 

4-IBp  Newark,  SanJoae,  LosGatoa  and  J     ^8.55  * 

way  stations I  £10  55* 

«9-30p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Joee  and  Way  Stations.    Return- 
lug  from  Los  Gatos  Sunday  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND    HARBOR    FERRY. 

r  rum  SAN  KRAN CISCO,  Foot  of  Market  St.  {Slip  u 

— f7:15    9:00    11:00a.m.     100    3-00    5.16P.M. 

rrom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway  —  t6:U)    t8:0U 

18:05    10:00  a.m.       12-00    2-00    4.00  p.m. 

COAST     LINE     (Broad  Uauge). 

t3T"  (Third  and  Towiisepd  Street-.) 

G.10*   San  J oee  el d  Way  Stations 6-30p 

7  00a   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations .         6.36p 

8.00a  New  Almnden  (Tnes..  Frld.,  only).     4.10p 

8  00*  Coast  Line  Limited — Stops  only  San 

Jose,  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llBter),  Pajaro.  Castrovllle,  Sa- 
linas, San  Aruo,  Paso  Boblea, 
Banta Margarita, San  Luis  Oblepo, 
Principal  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Lompoc)  princi- 
pal stations  thence  Santa  Bar- 
bara and  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion at  Castrovllle    to  and  from 

Monterey  and  Pacific  Grove 10  45p 

8. CO*  San  Jose.  Trea  Plnos,  Cap! tola. 
Sac ta Cruz. Pacific  Grove, Sail d as, 
San  Luis  Obispo  and  Principal 

Way  Stations 4.10p 

10.30*  San  Joee  and  Way  Stations 1.20f 

11-30*  Santa  Clara,   San  Jose.  Los  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations 7.30 

1-30p  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 8-36* 

3-OOp  Pacific  Grove  Express— Santa  Clara 
San  Jose,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  Holllster.  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.  12-15p 

3-30p  Trea  Plnos  Way  Passenger 510-45* 

14  4&P  San  Jose,  (via  Santa  Clara)  Los 
Gatos.  and  Principal  Way  Sta- 
tions (except  Sunday) t9.12* 

.b-ZQt  San  JoseandPrlnclpalWayStatlons  t8  00* 
6.00P  Sunset  Limited.— Redwood,  San 
Jose,  Gllroy,  Salinas.  Paso  Koblea, 
San  Luis  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Los  Angeles.  Demlng.  El  Paso, 
New  Orleans.  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Cruz 
and   at    Castrovllle.  for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7-10* 

i£.16p  San  Mateo. Bereaford. Belmont. San 
Carloe,     Redwood,     Fair     Oak*. 

MenloPark.  Palo  Alto t6-46* 

fc.30P  San  Joae  and  Way  StatlonB S.3S* 

11  .30p  South  San  Francisco.  Mlllbrae,  Bur- 

llngame,  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
San  Carlos,  Redwood,  Fair  Oaks, 

Menio  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 9.45p 

o11-30p  Mayfleld,  Mountain  View,  Sunny- 
vale, Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 

SanJoae 19.45p 

Afor  Morning.  P  f or  Afternoon. 

; Sunday  only 

Stops  at  all  stations  on  Sunday. 
*  Snnday  excepted.  a  Saturday  only. 

v^~Only  trains  stopping  at  Valencia  St.  southbound 
-*ye6:10  a.m.,  7:00a.m.,  U:S0A.M..3:aQp.M.and  6:30p.m. 
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Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 

It  is  related  that  when  Daniel  Webster's 
market  man  had  sued  him  for  a  long  unpaid 
bill  and  got  his  money,  he  was  so  scared  at 
his  temerity  that  he  stopped  calling  at  the 
door  for  orders.  The  godlike  Daniel  asked 
him  why  one  day,  and  the  man  confessed 
that  he  supposed  Mr.  Webster  would  never 
trade  with  him  again.  "  Oh,"  said  Webster, 
"  sue  me  as  often  as  you  like.  but.  for 
heaven's   sake,    don't   starve   me." 


Thomas  Carlyle  was  a  "  hoarder  of  the  gold 
of  silence,"  and  would  sit  for  hours,  puffing 
away  at  his  pipe,  without  uttering  more  than 
a  grunt  or  a  gruff  monosyllable.  Leigh  Hunt, 
his  neighbor  and  intimate,  once  wrote  to  a 
friend :  "  Have  just  spent  a  pleasant  hour 
with  Carlyle.  When  I  went  in  he  growled, 
■  Helloa !  here  again!'  and  at  parting  he 
snapped  out,  *  Good-day  1 '  and  that  is  the 
sum  of  the  conversation  he  honored  me  with. 
But  how  eloquent  his  silence  is!  I  just  sat 
and  looked  at  him,  and  came  away  strength- 
ened for  a  fresh  struggle." 

A  Russian  lady,  admirer  of  Rossini,  having 
watched  the  composer  on  his  daily  prom- 
enade during  several  days,  sent  a  message 
to  his  house  expressive  of  her  desire  to  be 
received  by  him.  The  reply  to  this  strange 
communication  was :  "I  do  nothing  for 
nothing.  If  the  lady  brings  me  a  very  fine 
bunch  of  asparagus,  she  will  be  welcome, 
and  she  can  take  a  view  of  me  at  her  leisure." 
Then,  pointing  to  his  waist,  which  had  at- 
tained a  somewhat  aldermanic  rotundity,  he 
is  said  to  have  added:  "  The  lady  may  even 
walk  around  me  if  she  pleases,  but  I  must 
have   my  asparagus." 


When  Edmund  Kean  and  Macready,  in- 
tense rivals,  played  in  the  same  pieces  at 
Drury  Lane,  it  was  usual  to  consult  them 
in  the  course  of  the  evening  as  to  what  they 
would  appear  in  next.  One  night,  when  the 
prompter  was  sent  to  ask  Mr.  Macready  what 
he  would  play  with  Mr.  Kean,  the  great  trage- 
dian frowned  upon  him  till  he  blushed. 
"'Fore  gad,  sir,"  he  roared,  "how  should  I 
know  what  the  man  would  like  to  play  ?" 
The  prompter  retired  to  seek  the  desired  in- 
formation from  Mr.  Kean.  "  Damn  it,  sir," 
said  Mr.  Kean,  sharply,  "  how  the  hell  should 
I   know   what  the   fellow   can  play?" 

Once  while  lunching  with  a  friend  who 
knew  something  about  the  habits  and  eccen- 
tricities of  good  wine,  James  McNeill  Whist- 
ler was  telling  about  the  peculiarities  of 
Henry  James,  how  James  would  drag  a 
slender  incident  through  several  pages  until 
it  was  exhausted.  Whereupon  his  friend 
casually  remarked:  "The  best  of  wine  is 
spoiled  by  too  small  a  spigot,"  "  What's 
that?  What's  that  you  said?  Did  you  get 
that  out  of  Shakespeare?"  ""Not  at  all;  it 
is  simply  a  physical  fact  that  if  you  let  good 
wine  dribble  through  a  small  spigot  you 
lose  its  fragrance  and  character."  "  God 
bless  me,  but  I  believe  you  are  right,"  cried 
Whistler,  in  delight ;  "  and  it's  a  good  saying 
— it's    James    to    a — drop." 


One  day  laSf  March,  when  Senator  Nelson 
W.  Aldrich,  of  Rhode  Island,  threatened  to 
have  a  page  dismissed  because  of  carelessness 
in  delivering  cards,  Senator  Arthur  Pue  Gor- 
man laid  his  hand  on  the  angry  Rhode 
Islander's  shoulder,  and  remarked  :  "  Gently, 
gently,  Aldrich.  Give  the  boy  a  show.  I 
often  made  the  same  mistake  myself.  Let  it 
pass  this  time."  "  You  often  made  the  same 
mistake!"  echoed  Senator  Aldrich.  "Often," 
Senator  Gorman  replied ;  "  don't  you  know 
that  I  first  entered  the  Senate  as  a  page 
nearly  fifty  years  ago  ?  I  have  never  for- 
gotten those  days.  You  have  no  idea  what 
a  hard  time  a  page  has,  with  a  half-dozen 
senators  calling  him  at  the  same  time,  and 
all  of  them  in  a  hurry.  He  is  bound  to  make 
mistakes.  If  I  had  been  dismissed  for  a  little 
delay  in  delivering  a  card,  I  should  not  prob- 
ably be   in   the   Senate  to-day." 

The  Paris  papers  discuss  at  length  the  fatal 
ending  of  the  duel  which  recently  took  place 
at  the  He  de  la  Grande  Gatte  between  M. 
Ebelot,  a  novice  in  the  use  of  foils,  and  M. 
Lautier,  who  had  quite  a  reputation  as  a 
fencer.  The  duel  began  with  the  usual  cross- 
ing of  swords  and  an  attempt  on  the  part 
of  the  experienced  fencer  merely  to  keep 
his  adversary  at  a  distance.  The  foils  crossed 
each  other  for  only  about  half  a  minute,  when 
M.  Ebelot,  the  inexperienced  fencer,  suddenly 
gave  a  lunge  forward  and  plunged  his  sword 
into  the  side  of  his  adversary,  just  under  the 
armpit.  The  unfortunate  man  at  once  fell, 
with  his  shirt  soaked  in  blood,  and  blood 
pouring  from  his  mouth  and  nose,  and  in  a 
quarter  of  an  hour  he  was  dead.  The  stroke 
which  the  novice  used  is  called  the  "  Coup 
de  Monserrat,"  and  has  ,  quite  a  romantic 
history.  The  hero  of  the  story  was  a  young 
Parisian   musician,    engaged  to   be  married   to 


a  young  lady  of  Bordeaux.  Quarreling  with 
a  cousin  of  his  fiancee,  he  got  his  ears  boxed 
at  the  Bordeaux  Club.  Ignorant  of  fencing, 
he  dared  not  resent  the  insult,  and  renounced 
his  engagement.  But  he  also  took  fencing 
lessons  from  one  Monserrat,  a  malt  re  d'armes 
of  Toulouse.  Monserrat  taught  him  one  trick 
only,  and  he  practiced  it  for  a  year.  At  the 
end  of  that  time,  he  returned  to  the  Bordeaux 
Club,  slapped  his  man's  face,  and,  being 
called  out,  instantly  ran  his  opponent  through 
the  body  with  his  cunning  lunge. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 


NEW    YORK-SOUTHAMPTON 
St.  Paul  ....Dec.  26,9.30am  |  St.  Loui: 


If  You  Want 
a  perfect  cream,  preserved  without  sugar,  order 
Borden's  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream.  It 
has  a  delightful,  natural  flavor  and  is  superior  to 
the  richest  raw  cream  you  can  buy,  with  the 
added  assurance  of  being  sterilized  Prepared  by 
Borden's  Condensed  Milk  Co. 


Tesla  Briquettes  are 
Excellent  domestic  fuel 
Since  recently  improved. 
Let  us  send  you 
A  ton — and  please  you. 

Tesla  Coal  Co.,  phone  South  95. 


Dr.  Charles   vv  .   Decker,  Dentist, 

Phelan     Building,    806    Market    Street.     Specialty  : 
"  Col  ton  Gas"  for  the  painless  extracting  of  teeth. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 


LESSEE 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS — 7.30.  9.00.  11.00  a  m  ;  12.35,  3-3<>,  5.10, 
6.30  p  m.    Thursdays— Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 
Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  p  m. 

SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.30,  11.00  am;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 
11.30  pm. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK   DAYS— 6.05,  7.35,  7.50,  9.20.  11.15  a  m;   12.50; 

3.4a,  5.00.  5.20  p  m.     Saturdays — Extra   trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.40,  11.15a  m;  1.40,  3^0,  4.55,  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave                      In  Effect 
San  Francisco.    1    Sept.  27,  1903. 

Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week    .     Sun- 
Days,        days. 

Destination. 

Sun-     1    Week 
days.        Days. 

7.30  a  m    8.00  a  m 

9.30  a  m 

3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

5. 10  p  m    5  00  p  m 

Ignacio. 

9.10  a  m    S.40  a  m 
10.40  a  m  10.20  a  m 
6.05  p  m'  6.20  p  m 
7-33  P  ni| 

7.30  a  m 

S.oo  a  m 
3.30  P  m    9.30  a  m 
5.10  p  m    3.30  p  m 

5.00  p  m 

Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 

9.10  a  m 

10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  Pm 

S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m 

S  00  a  m 
3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

Fulton. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  Pm 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m    S.oo  a  m 
3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdate. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  Pm 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m,  S.oo  a  m 
3.30  a  tn    3.30  p  m 

Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m    S.oo  a  m 

Willi  ts. 

6.20  p  m 

7.30  am    S.ooamj     Guerneville. 
3.30  pm    3.30  pm,     ** 

10,20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7.30  a  m    S.oo  a  m,     Sonoma  and 
5.10  p  m    5.00  p  mi      Glen  Ellen. 

9.10  a  m 
6.05  p  m 

EL40  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

7  30  a  m    S.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m    3.30  p  m 

Sebastopol. 

10.40  a  m 
7.35  pm 

10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  (or  San  Quentin;  at 
Santa  Rosa  ior  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
ior  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  tor 
Lytton  Springs:  at  Geyserville  ior  Skaggs  Springs; 
at  Cloverdale  ior  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood ;  at  Hopland  ior  Duncan  Springs, 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs ;  at 
Ukiah  tor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs.  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake.  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Pomo.  Potter  Valley.  John  Day's,  Riverside.  Lierley's, 
Bucknetl's.  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville.  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptcbe,  Camp  Stevens. 
Hopkins,  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg.  Westport, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  ior  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Canto.  Covelo,  Laytonville.  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris.  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood, Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  630  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING.  R.  X.  RYAN. 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


TO  SAN  RAFAEL.  ROSS  VALLEY, 
MILL  VALLEY,  CAZADERO.  ETC. 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
Suburban  Service.  Standard  Gauge 
Electric  —  Depart  from  San  Francisco 
Daily— 7.00,  S.oo.  9.00,  10.00,  11.00  a.  m.. 
12.20.  145,  3-15.  4.15.  5-15.  6-15,  7-Oo,  8.45,  10.20, 
11.45  P-  M- 

FROM  SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO 
—Daily— 5.25,  6.35.  7-40,  S.35,  9-35,  <i-°5,  A.  M..  12.20, 
1.45,   2.55,   3.45.   4-45.   5*45.   6-45.   8.45.    10.20   p.   m. 

FROM     MILL    VALLEY   TO  SAN   FRANCISCO 
—Daily— 545.  6.55.  7-52.  8.55,  9-55.    ".*>  a.  m..   12.35, 
2.00,   3.15,  405.   5-°5.   6.05,   7-05,   9.00,   10-35   P-  M- 
TH ROUGH    TRAINS. 
8.00  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  nay  stations. 
5.15  p.   m.  week  days    (Saturdays    excepted) — To 
males  and  way  stations. 
3.15  p.  M.  Saturdays — Cazadero  and  way  stations- 
Sundays  only— 10.00  a.  M„   Point   Reyes  and  way 
stations. 
Ticket  Offices— 626  Market  Street 
Ferry — Union  Depot,  foot  oi  Market  Street. 

MT.TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 

Via  Sausalito  Ferry,  ioot  of  Market  Street. 

Leave  San  Francisco,  week  days,  *io.oo  a.  m.,  *i.45 
p.  M.,  5.15  P.  M.  Sundays,  *8.oo  a.  m.,  9.00  a.  m.,  10.00 
A.  M.,  11.00  a.  H-,  *i-45  P-  M.,  3.15  P.  M. 

Arrive  San  Francisco,  Sundays.  12.05  P.  W-,  I.ag  p.  m., 
2.50  p.  M.,  4-50  p.  m..  5.50  p.  m.;  7.50  p.  M.  Week  days, 
1040  a.  m.,  2.50  p.  m.,  5.50  p.  M..  9.50  P.  M. 

•Connect  with  stage  for  Dipsea  and  Willow  Camp. 

Ticket  offices— 626  Market  Street  (North  Shore  Rail- 
I  road),  and  Sausalito  Ferry,  fool  Market  Street. 


LONDON. 
.Jan.  9. 9-30  am 
Phil'd'lphia  Jan.  2, 9.30am  |  New  York. .Jan.  16,9.30am 
Philadelphia— Queenstown— Liverpool. 

Merion Dec.  26,  2.30  pm  I  Haveriord Jan.  9.3  pm 

West'rnland..  Jan.  2,9am  |  Noordland Jan.  16,9am 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Minnapolis    Dec.  26.  10  am  I  Mesaba   Jan.  9,  9  am 

Minnehaha Jan. 2,5am  [  Minnetonka... Jan.  16,5am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 


DOMINION  LINE. 


Montreal— Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Jan.  2  j  Canada Feb.  6 

Dominion.  .Jan.  23  |  Dominion Feb.  27 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW  YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 

Zeeland .Dec.  26  j  Vaderland ..Jan.  9 

Finland Jan.  2  |  Kronland. Jan.  16 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— QUEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Teutonic Dec.  23,  noon  I  Celtic Jan.  13,2  pm 

Cedric Dec.  30. 1  pm     Teutonic Jan.  20, 10  am 

Majestic Jan.  6,  10  am  |  Cedric Jan  27,  noon 

Boston—  Queenstown  -Liverpool. 

Cymric ....    Dec.  24,  Jan.  28.  Feb.  25 

Cretic Feb.  11,  March  10,  April  7 

605100    Mediterranean    Di«ct 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— GENOA. 

Republic  (new)    Jan.  2.  Feb.  13,  Mar.  26 

Romanic Jan.  16,  Feb.  27,  April  9 

Canopic Jan.  30,  Mar.  12 

C.   D.  TAYLOR,    Passenger  Agent,   Pacific   Coast, 
21  Post  Street.  San  Francisco. 


Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Whan"  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  ior 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Tuesday,  Dec.  22 

Coptic Friday,  Jan.    15,    1904 

Gaelic   Wednesday,  Feb.  10,  1904 

Doric  (Calling  at  Manila) .Saturday,  Slch  5,  1904 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office. 
No.  421  Market  Street,  corner  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS.  General  Manager. 


I^i 


TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

{ORIENTAL  S.  S,  CO.) 

IMPERIAL   JAPANESE    AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  M.  ior  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
calling  at  Kobe  (Hiogo) .  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon  Maru Wednesday,  December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 

A iu erica  Maru. .  ..Monday,  January  25,  1904 

Hongkong  Maru  ...  Wednesday.  February  17 

Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates 

For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 

421  3Iarket  Street,  corner  First. 

W.  H.  AVERT,  General  Agent. 


OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  ,  Sonoma.  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.   Alameda,  for  Honolulu  only,  Dec.  19,   1903, 

at  11  a.  M. 
S.  S.  Sierra,  tor  Honolulu,  Pago  Pago,  Auckland. 

and  Sydney,  Thursday.  Dec.  31.  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  ior  Tahiti,  Jan.  6,  1904,  at  11  a.  m. 

J.  D.  Spreekels  &  Eros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office.  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO   IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

A  M  — *BAKERSFIELD  LOCAL:  Due 
Stockton  1040  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersneld  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
in  San  Joaquin  Valley,  Corresponding 
train  arrives  S.55  a  m. 

A  M  -  t"  THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12  01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m.  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m,  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 
\  M— 'VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m.  Bakers- 
field  6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 

PM- 'STOCKTON  LOCAL:  DueStock- 
lon  7.10  p  m.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11. 10  a  m. 

EXPRESS:  Due 
Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  \ fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m.  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       t  Monday  and  Thursday. 
X  Tuesday  and  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  on  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  S  p  m. 

TICKET  OFFICES  at  641    Marl 
Ferry    Depot.    San    Francisco ;    and    1 1 
Oakland. 


7.30 


9.30 


9.30 


4.00 


0/1/1  P    M— 'OVERLAND 
■  W     Stockton    11. 15 


THE        ARGON A  UT 


December  21,  1903. 


SOCIETY. 

Notes  and  Gossip. 
The     engagement     is    announced    of    Miss 
Catherine   Du   Val,  daughter  of   Mr.   and   Mrs. 
William   Du  Val,  and   Mr.   Oliver  Dibble,  son 
of  Mr.  and   Mrs.    Henry  C.   Dibble. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Caroline  Stetson 
Ayres.  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grosvenor 
Parrish  Ayres.  and  Mr.  Dennis  Searles  will 
t.ikc  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents 
on  Wednesday  evening.  January  6th.  at  nine 
o'clock. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  [sabelle  McKcnna. 
eldest  daughter  of  Justice  and  Mrs.  McKenna, 
to  Mr.  Pitts  Dufneld,  of  New  York,  will  take 
place  at  noon  on  Wednesday  January  6th. 
at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Gertrude  Livingston 
and  Captain  Holland  X.  Stevenson,  U.  S.  N., 
took  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  sister, 
Miss  Alice  Livingston,  13^/  Leavenworth 
Street,  last  Saturday.  Rev.  Dr.  Mills,  of 
Sacramento,  performed  the  ceremony.  There 
were  no  attendants.  Captain  and  Mrs.  Stev- 
enson, after  a  fortnight's  wedding  journey  in 
Southern  California,  will  reside  in  this  city. 
as  the  groom  is  at  present  assigned  to  duties 
at  the  Union    Iron   Works. 

Miss  Bernie  Drown  gave  a  dinner  at  the 
University  Club  on  Wednesday  in  honor  of 
her  sister.  Miss  Newell  Drown.  Those  at 
table  were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willard  N.  Drown. 
Miss  Suzanne  Blanding,  Miss  Christine 
Pomeroy.  Miss  Gertrude  Eells.  Miss  Helen 
Chesebrough.  Miss  Lucy  Coleman.  Mr.  A. 
X.  Drown.  Mr.  Samuel  Boardman.  Mr. 
Robert   Eyre,  and  Mr.   Tobin. 

Mr.  Henry  T.  Scott  gave  a  dinner-dance 
on  Tuesday  evening  at  his  residence  at  the 
corner  of  Clay  and  Laguna  Streets  in  honor 
of  Miss  Margaret  Newhall.  Covers  were  laid 
for  sixteen  at  dinner,  and  more  guests  were 
invited  for  the  informal  dancing,  which  fol- 
lowed.     At    midnight    supper   was    served. 

Miss  Jennie  Blair  gave  a  dinner  last  Sun- 
day evening,  at  which  she  entertained  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  D.  Spreckels,  Jr..  Miss  Spreckels, 
Miss  Lillie  Spreckels.  Miss  Gertrude  Hyde- 
Smith.  Miss  Parrott.  Mr.  Henry  Oelrichs.  Mr. 
John  Zeile.  Mr.  Clarence  Follis.  Mr.  J.  Wilson, 
and  Mr.  Joseph  Tobin. 

Miss  Florence  Gibbons  will  make  her  for- 
mal debut  at  a  ball  to  be  given  by  her  father. 
Dr.  Henry  Gibbons,  at  Cotillion  Hall  on 
January  7th. 

Mrs.  Eugene  Freeman  gave  a  luncheon  at 
the  Knickerbocker  Hotel  on  Tuesday.  Those 
at  table  were  Mrs.  James  Irvine.  Mrs.  Win- 
field  Scott  Davis.  Mrs.  George  Moore.  Mrs. 
William  Thomas.  Mrs.  Frank  Bates,  Mrs.  E. 
A.  Belcher.  Mrs.  Eugene  Bresse,  Miss  Mc- 
Bride.  Mrs.  George  Cameron,  Mrs.  Howard 
Holmes,  and  Mrs.  Willis  E.   Davis. 

Miss  Edna  Middleton  gave  a  tea  at  her 
residence  on  Green  Street  on  Tuesday  after- 
noon. Those  who  assisted  in  receiving  were 
Mrs.  Harry  Bates.  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton, 
Miss  Belle  Harmes.  Miss  Jane  Sweigart.  Miss 
Jane  Wilshire,  Miss  Paula  Wolff,  and  Miss 
Maylita  Pease. 

Mrs.  Rudolph  Spreckels  gave  a  dinner  on 
Wednesday  in  honor  of  Mrs.  George  Howard, 
who  has  just  returned  from  abroad.  Others 
at  table  were  Mrs.  Hermann  Oelrichs.  Mrs. 
Edward  Schmeidell,  Mrs,  Henry  J.  Crocker, 
Mt,.  Chauncey  R.  Wins'.ow,  Mrs.  Horace 
Blanchard  Chase.  Mrs.  William  Tevis.  Mrs. 
Willi:.). 1  G.  Irwin.  Mrs.  J.  Alhtarn  Folger, 
Mrs.  Walter  Martin.  Miss  Sallie  M.ivnard. 
Miss  Joliffe,  and  Miss  Findley. 

Miss  Huntington  and  Miss  Marion  Hunt- 
ington gave  an  informal  dance  at  the  Hunt- 
ington residence  on  Jackson  Street  on  Mon- 
day evening.  Their  guests  numbered  about 
forty. 

Mrs.  Silas  Palmer  will  hold  her  next  formal 

.1  ion    "ii    Hi.     it  cond     Friday    in    January. 

who    assisted    her    in    receiving    at    her 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


first  "  at  home  "  last  week  were  Mrs.  George 
Wheaton,  Miss  Bessie  Palmer,  of  Oakland. 
Mrs.  Samuel  Knight,  Mrs.  George  Martin, 
Miss  Lillie  Spreckels,  Miss  Lucie  King,  and 
Miss  Genevieve  King. 

Mrs.  John  A.  Darling  gave  a  dinner  last 
Sunday  evening  at  the  Occidental  Hotel,  at 
which  she  entertained  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin, 
Judge  and  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Slack,  Judge  and 
Mrs.  J.  F.  Coffey.  Miss  McFarland.  and  Mr. 
Jeremiah   Y.   Coffey. 

Mi*s  Margaret  Newhall  made  her  formal 
debut  at  a  tea  given  by  her  parents,  Mr. 
ami  Mrs.  William  Mayo  Newhall.  last  Satur- 
day. Those  who  assisted  in  receiving  were 
Miss  Newell  Drown,  Miss  Emily  Wilson,  Miss 
Gertrude  Eells,  Miss  Lucy  Gwin  Coleman, 
Miss  Hazel  King.  Miss  Dorothy  Gittings,  of 
Baltimore,  Miss  Linda  Cadwalader,  Miss 
Gertrude  Hyde-Smith,  Miss  Helen  Chese- 
brough. Miss  Margaret  Mee,  Miss  Christine 
Pomeroy,  Miss  Isabel  Kittle,  and  Miss  Ger- 
trude Joliffe. 

Miss  Alice  Sprague  gave  a  luncheon  at  her 
residence  on  Broadway  on  Wednesday,  at 
which  she  entertained  Miss  Grace  Buckley, 
Mrs.  Frank  Griffin.  Miss  Margaret  Wilson, 
Miss  McCalla,  Mrs.  Thomas  Benton  Darragh, 
Mrs.  James  Bishop,  Miss  Suzanne  Blanding, 
Miss  Charlotte  Ellin  wood,  Mrs.  T.  Danforth 
Boardman,  Miss  Louise  Sprague,  and  Miss 
Frances  Sprague. 

Mrs.  Henry  Lund  has  issued  invitations 
for  a  tea  on  Sunday  in  honor  of  Captain  and 
Mrs.  Charles  Lyman  Bent. 

Mrs.  Josephine  de  Greayer  gave  a  luncheon 
at  the  University  Club  last  Saturday  in  honor 
of  Mrs.  Peck,  who  leaves  shortly  for  London. 
Others  at  table  were  Mrs.  G.  J.  Bucknall,  Mrs. 
Llewellyn,  Mrs.  L.  L.  Dunbar,  Mrs.  John  F. 
Merrill.  Mrs.  Loosley,  Mrs.  F.  G.  Sanborn, 
Mrs.  Harry  P.  McLennan,  Mrs.  Harry 
Nathaniel  Gray,  Miss  Charlotte  Hughes. 
Mrs.  Jasper  McDonald,  Mrs.  A.  H.  VaiL 
Mrs.  M.  R.  Higgins,  Mrs.  Joseph  Marks,  and 
Mrs.  Adele  Brooks. 

.  Mr.  Harry  Stetson  gave  a  dinner  on 
Wednesday  evening  at  the  home  of  his  sister, 
Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard,  on  Broadway.  Covers 
were  laid  for  forty. 

Mrs.  Henry  S.  Dodge  has  sent  out  invita- 
tions for  a  luncheon  to  be  given  at  her  resi- 
dence, 3015  Franklin  Street,  in  honor  of  her, 
niece,  Miss  Mabel  Dodge,  of  San  Rafael,  this 
1  Saturday)  afternoon  at  half  after  one 
o'clock. 

Miss  Margaret  Mee  gave  a  tea  at  her  resi- 
dence, 1 894  Broadway,  on  Thursday  after- 
noon in  honor  of  Miss  Margaret  Newhall. 
Those  who  assisted  in  receiving  were  Miss 
Gertrude  Eells,  Miss  Gertrude  Joliffe,  Miss 
Florence  Gibbons,  Miss  Helen  Bailey,  and 
Miss*  Marion  Hall. 


Polo  at  Burlingame. 
The  Burlingame  Club  is  arranging  for  a 
polo  carnival  during  Christmas  week,  with 
games  almost  daily  during  the  holidays,  the 
most  important  of  which  will  be  on  New 
Year's  Day,  the  series  to  culminate  with  a 
grand  ball  at  the  club-house.  The  carnival 
will  be  attended  by  many  well-known  polo 
players,  and  some  exciting  contests  are  in 
prospect.  The  present  plans  of  the  country 
club  contemplate  a  regular  polo  association 
to  be  organized  early  in  the  coming  year, 
and  another  tournament  to  be  held  in  March, 
in  which  no  less  than  six  teams  will  partici- 
pate. Two  of  these  will  be  from  England, 
two  from  the  South,  and  two  from  this  sec- 
tion, and  possibly  Honolulu  with  one  or  two. 
The  object  of  the  association  will  be  to  pro- 
mote liberal  sports  of  all  kinds,  especially 
polo. 

In  the  final  match  of  the  tournament  for 
the  Council's  Cup  at  the  Presidio  links  re- 
cently, J.  W,  Byrne  won  the  trophy  by 
defeating  Lieutenant  J.  L.  Oyster  by  a  score 
of  7  up  and  6  to  play.  He  also  established  a 
remarkable  record,  completing  the  first  nine 
holes  in  thirty-five  strokes,  which  is  four 
strokes  below  the  bogey  score  for  the  links.  The 
Council's  Cup  came  into  existence  in  iqoo,  and 
has  been  competed  for  nine  times.  It  must  be 
won  three  times  before  becoming  the  per- 
manent property  of  any  player.  It  has  been  won 
twice  by  S.  L.  Abbott,  Jr.,  and  twice  by  H. 
C.  Golcher.  The  one-time  winners  are  R.  H. 
Gaylord.  H.  B,  Goodwin,  John  Lawson,  Lieu- 
tenant  Oyster,  and  now.  J.  W.  Byrne. 

Mrs.  Harriet  Crocker  Alexander,  of  New 
York,  tJiic  of  the  Crocker  heirs,  says  that  she 
did  not  object  to  throwing  open  the  doors 
of  the  Crocker  mansion  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Children's  Hospital.  In  a  letter  to  the  Ex- 
aminer, correcting  the  statement  of  that  paper 
that  certain  of  the  heirs  objected,  she  writes: 
"I  did  hot  refuse  to  open  the  California 
Street  residence  for  charity.  My  consent  was 
never  asked,  nor  did  I  ever  hear  that  an  en- 
tertain men  t    was  proposed." 


Worthy  Charity  Donation  Days. 

The  managers  of  the  California  Woman's 
Hospital  announce  that  their  annual  donation 
days  will  be  on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  De- 
cember 21st  and  22d.  Donations  of  money, 
groceries,  linen,  or  anything  for  the  sufferers 
in  the  free  ward  will  be  gratefully  received 
at  Goldberg,  Bowen  &  Co.'s  store,  232  Sutter 
Street,  or  at  the  hospital,  31 18  Sacramento 
Street.  The  following  women  constitute  the 
board  of  managers :  Mrs.  D.  H.  Whitte- 
more,  president ;  Miss  F.  A.  Sprague,  treas- 
urer ;  Mrs.  F.  A.  Robbin,  secretary :  Mrs. 
A.  N.  Towne,  Mrs.  Charles  Alexander,  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Hatch,  vice-presidents ;  Mrs.  Francis 
Carolan,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Brooke  Ridley,  Mrs. 
Morris  Meyerfield,  Jr.,  Mrs.  I.  Hecht,  Mrs. 
I.  W.  Hellman,  Mrs.  J.  Hoyt,  Mrs.  E.  E. 
Park,  Mrs.  Archibald  Kains,  and  Mrs.  A. 
Chesebrough,  directors. 

Tuesday,  Wednesday,  and  Thursday  will 
also  be  the  annual  donation  days  of  the 
Children's  Hospital.  Donations  of  money, 
clothing,  groceries,  fuel,  and  supplies  of  all 
kinds  that  will  brighten  the  Christmas  season 
of  the  sick  and  destitute  children  at  the 
hospital  will  be  received  at  227  Sutter  Street 
by  the  committee,  which  includes  Mrs.  N. 
D.  Rideout,  chairman ;  Mrs.  L.  L.  Dunbar. 
Mrs.  J.  F.  Merrill.  Mrs.  I.  N.  Walter,  Mrs. 
M.  F.  McGurn,  Mrs  Bertha  Lilienthal,  and 
Mrs.  H.  E.  Bothin. 


Musical  Service  at  St.  Dominic's. 
A  special  musical  service  will  be  held  at 
St.  Dominic's  Church  on  Sunday  evening, 
when  Saint-Saens's  Christmas  oratorio, 
"  Noel,"  will  be  rendered  by  the  choir.  This 
work  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  composi- 
tions by  the  great  French  musician,  and 
represents  the  highest  type  of  modern  church 
music.  The  numbers  are  as  follows  :  Prelude, 
allegretto  pastorale ;  solos  with  chorus,  "  Et 
pastores  erant."  "  Gloria  in  altissimis  Deo  "  ; 
solo.  "  Expectavans  expectavi  Dominum  "  ; 
solo  and  chorus.  "  Domine,  ego  credidi " : 
duet,  "  Benedictus  qui  venit  " :  chorus, 
"  Quare  fremuerunt  gentes  " ;  trio,  "  Tecum 
principum  "  :  quartet,  "  Laudate  coeli  "  ; 
quintet  and  chorus,  "  Consurge,  filia  Sion  "  ; 
final_  chorus.  "  Tollite  hostias."  The  soloists 
are  Miss  Camille  Frank,  soprano;  Mrs.  Jen- 
kins, soprano  ;  Miss  Ella  V.  McCloskey,  con- 
tralto;  Mr.  T.  G.  Elliott,  tenor;  Mr.  Charles 
B.  Stone,  bass.  The  oratorio  will  be  given 
under  the  direction  of  Dr.  H.  J.  Stewart. 


The  estate  of  the  late  Charlemagne  Tower, 
of  Philadelphia,  has  received  half  a  million 
dollars  in  cash  through  a  sale  just  completed 
of  forty  thousand  acres  of  fir  and  cedar 
timber  lands  lying  along  the  Northern  Pacific 
main  line  between  Tacoma  and  Portland. 
Mr.  Tower,  father  of  the  present  minister  to 
Russia,  traded  Northern  Pacific  stock  for 
these  timber  lands  at  the  time  of  the  Jay 
Cooke  failure.  After  Tower's  death,  the 
entire  holdings  were  offered  at  $6  per  acre. 
Lately,  however,  the  price  was  advanced  to 
$10,  and  the  property  was  cut  up  in  tracts  to 
suit  the  purchasers. 


Pietro  Mascagni,  in  a  speech  recently  de- 
livered at  a  dinner  given  him  in  Turin,  said 
that  his  new  opera,  "  Vestila."  was  finished. 


When  Art  Stores    Fail 

I  will  mount  embroidery  photos,  etc,  quickly.  Let- 
tering, or  any  other  art  work  done.  Robt.  R.  Hill. 
744  Market  Street,  opposite  '  Call." 


—  Schussler  Bros,  are  showing  the  very 
latest  appropriate  Christmas  gifts.  High-grade  paper, 
bronzes  seals,  and  ink  stands,  fountain-pens,  dup- 
plicue  whist  sets,  card-cases,  etc.     119  Geary  Street- 


—  Correct,  natty,  are  the  Ladies'  Shirt 
Waists  designed  by  Kent,  "Shirt  Tai'or,"  121  Post 
Street,  San  Francisco. 


A.    Hirschinan, 

712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry. 


Pears' 

Pretty  boxes  and  odors 
are  u  ed  to  sell  such 
soaps,  as  no  one  would 
touch  if  he  saw  them  un- 
disguised. Beware  of  a 
soap  that  depends  on 
something   outside   of  it. 

Pears',  the  finest  soap 
in  the  world  is  scented  or 
not.  as  you  wish ;  and  the 
money  is  in  the  merchan- 
dise, not  in  the  box. 

Established  over  too  years. 


MASKEY'S 

IS  THE  PLACE  FOR 

Holiday  Candies 

32  KEARNY  STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO 


WILSON  &  CO. 

man    GRADE 

Furnishings  for  Men 
HOLIDAY  NOVELTIES 

NECK  DRESS 
PAJAHA  SUITS 
FANCY  SHIRTS 
SUIT  CASES 
NIGHT  ROBES 
UNDERWEAR 
HOSIERY 
UMBRELLAS,  Etc. 


910  Market  Street 

NEAR  STOCKTON 


5HREVE  &  CO. 


Absolutely  Pi? re 
THERc  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
recl  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


Holiday  Suggestions. 

11. u   orders.     Eugene    Korn,   Knox   agency,   746 
Market  Street. 


MANUFACTURERS 


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IMPORTERS  OF  PRECIOUS  STONES 
GOLD    AND    SILVER    SHITHS 


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Post  and  Harket  Sts. 


OPEN  EVENINGS  UNTIL  CHRISTMAS 


December  21,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


42E 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  iamous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

iTHE  EMPIRE  PARLOR  — the  PALM 
ROOM,  furnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies— the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City — all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  MESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL   RICHELIEU   CO. 


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For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAIN    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN  PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEOKGE  WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 

HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty    minutes  from   San  Francisco. 

Twenty -four  trains   daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

K.  V.  HALTOS,  Proprietor. 


Holiday  Gifts 

For  Men  and  Boys 

DRESS  SUITS  AND  TUXEDOS 

OVERCOATS  and  CRAVENETTES 

1>-  IBRELLAS  AND  CANES 

SMOKING  JACKETS  AND  MORNING  GOWNS 

BATH  ROBES 

DRESS-SUIT  CASES  AND  VALISES.  Etc. 


For  Men  and  Women 

INNOVATION    I  $70.00 
WARDROBE  and 

TRUNKS  J       80.00 

GLOVE  ORDERS 
HAT  ORDERS 

ROOS  BROS. 

25=37  KEARNY  ST. 


C.  H.  REHNSTROM 

FORMERLY   SANDERS   &  JOHNSON 

TAILOR     AND     IMPORTER 

Pbelan  Building,  Rooms  1,  2,  3 

TELEPHONE  MAIN  5387.  SAN  FRANCISCO. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins  left  for 
New  York  on  Wednesday,  and  expect  to  be 
away  until  after  the  holidays. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  D.  Grant  have  re- 
turned from  New  York  after  a  two  months' 
absence. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Blanchard  Chase  and 
family  will  occupy  the  residence  of  Rev.  John 
Hemphill  on  Broadway,  which  they  have 
taken  for  the  season. 

Mr.  Harry  M.  Gillig  arrived  in  the  city 
during  the  week.  He  expects  to  remain  on 
this  Coast  the  greater  part  of  the  winter. 

Mrs.  Alexander  Center  and  her  daughter, 
Miss  Bessie  Center,  were  in  Dresden  when 
last  heard  from. 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  John  Hemphill  will  leave 
after  the  first  of  the  year  for  a  trip  to  Aus- 
tralia. 

Mrs.  John  B.  Schroder  and  Miss  Eugenie 
Hawes  are  spending  the  winter  in  Italy. 

Mrs.  McClung  and  her  daughters,  Mrs. 
Frederick  Home  and  Miss  Gladys  McClung, 
have  gone  to  San  Diego,  where  they  will  re- 
main for  several  weeks. 

Major  and  Mrs.  John  A.  Darling  expect 
to  leave  soon  for  the  East,  en  route  to  Eu- 
rope, where  they  will  remain  indefinitely. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  J.  Crocker  and  their 
family  will  leave  this  week  for  Santa 
Barbara,  where  they  will  spend  the  holiday 
season. 

Mrs.  Hermann  Oelrichs,  who  arrived  from 
the  East  last  week,  will  reside  at  the  Palace 
Hotel  with  Mr.  Oelrichs,  during  her  stay 
here, 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  W.  Newhall,  who  are  in 
Southern  California,  will  return  for  the  holi- 
days. 

Mr.  H.  McD.  Spencer  was  in  New  York 
during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Romualdo  Pacheco  is  expected  from 
the  East  this  week,  on  a  visit  to  her  daugh- 
ter,   Mrs.    William   Tevis. 

Mrs.  Loughborough  and  Miss  Josephine 
Loughborough  were  in  Naples  when  last 
heard    from. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  D.  Martin,  who  are 
expected  here  early  next  month,  will  remain 
in  California  the  rest  of  the  winter. 

Mr.  Julius  Kruttschnitt  returned  from  the 
East  on  Wednesday. 

Mrs.  Jennie  Tay  Danforth  has  left  Paris, 
and  is  now  in  Italy. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  H.  Sprague,  Miss 
Sprague,  Miss  Younger,  and  Mr.  W.  W. 
Sprague  were  in  New  York  during  the  week. 
The    Spragues    have   since   sailed    for    Europe. 

Senator  and  Mrs.  John  P.  Jones  will  return 
to  California  next  month  and  occupy  their 
residence,  "  Miramar,"  at  Santa  Monica. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Douglas  Sloane  Watson  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Sutton  have  departed 
for  Portland,  Tacoma,  and  Spokane.  They 
will  return  here  for  Christmas. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  B.  Stetson  will  leave 
for   Mexico   after   the   holidays. 

Mrs.  George  M.  Pullman  has  taken  a  house 
in   Pasadena   for  four  months. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grant  G.  Fraser  will  spend 
the  holidays  with  Mrs.  Fraser's  parents,  Mr. 
and   Mrs.  J.  Parker  Currier. 

Mrs.  McNulty  and  Mrs.  Thurlow  McMullin. 
who  are  at  the  Hotel  Richelieu,  will  leave 
for  Santa  Barbara  about  the  first  of  the 
year. 

Mrs.  F.  L.  Whitney,  Miss  Grace  Whitney, 
and  Mr.  George  F.  Whitney  are  at  present 
in    Italy. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  Sharon,  who  re- 
cently arrived  in  New  York  from  Paris,  are 
in   Washington,  D.  C. 

Mrs.  George  Fritch  has  returned  to  the 
Hotel   Rafael    for  the   winter. 

Miss  Eleanor  Warner  will  leave  next  week 
for  San  Diego,  where  she  will  act  as  brides- 
maid at  the  Wakefield-Sefton  wedding,  which 
will  take  place  on  December  28th. 

Mrs.  T.  T.  Williams  and  Miss  Williams 
were  in  New  York  during  the  week. 

Among  the  week's  arrivals  at  Hotel  Rafael 
were  Baron  and  Baroness  von  Reitzenstein, 
of  Berlin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Crandell,  of 
Alameda,  Mrs.  Louis  H.  Jones,  of  Oakland. 
Mrs.  F.  Wallace,  Mrs.  F.  Starke,  Miss  Starke, 
and  Miss  J.  Tobin. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

Commander  Richardson  Clover.  U.  S.  N., 
is  making  a  short  stay  here,  en  route  to 
Honolulu,  where  he  will  join  the  Wisconsin , 
of  which  he  has  been  given  command.  Mrs. 
Clover  will  remain  in  Washington  during  the 
winter. 

Brigadier-General  James  M.  Sanno,  U.  S. 
A.,  retired,  arrived  from  the  Philippines  dur- 
ing the  week,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and 
daughter.  They  are  registered  at  the  Occi- 
dental  Hotel. 

Colonel  Edward  Hunter,  U.  S.  A.,  who  was 
judge-advocate  on  the  staff  of  General  Thomas 
H.  Ruger.  at  department  headquarters,  for 
several  years,  has  just  been  placed  upon  the 
retired  list  for  age. 

Captain  Charles  Lyman  Bent,  U.  S.  A., 
arrived  on  the  transport  Sherman  early  in  the 
week  from  Manila,  and  with  Mrs.  Bent  will 
shortly  go   East. 

General    Coolidge,    U.    S.    A.,    retired,    and 


who  has  been  spending  the  past  few  weeks 
in  the  East,  returned  to  his  residence  in  San 
Francisco  on  Monday. 

Mrs.  Albert  Parker  Niblack,  wife  of  Lieu- 
tenant Niblack,  U.  S.  N.,  sailed  for  Honolulu 
last   week. 

Colonel  John  J.  O'Connell,  Thirtieth  In- 
fantry. U.  S.  A.,  who  arrived  with  his  regi- 
ment from  the  Philippines  last  Monday  on 
the  transport  Sherman,  will  be  stationed  at 
Fort  Crook,   Neb. 

Miss  Davis,  daughter  of  General  Davis, 
U.  S.  A.,  who  for  a  year  and  a  half  has  been 
in  command  of  the  forces  at  Honolulu,  left 
for  the  Hawaiian  Islands  last  week  on  the 
Oceanic  steamship  Ventura,  accompanied  by 
her  mother. 

Mrs.  Terry,  wife  of  Rear-Admiral  Terry. 
U.  S.  N.,  Miss  Terry,  and  Mr.  Terry  have 
reached  Honolulu,  where  they  are  occupying 
the  Macfarlane  residence  on   Punahou   Street. 

The  three  squadrons  of  the  Fifteenth  Cav- 
alry, which  have  been  at  the  Presidio  since 
their  return  from  the  Philippines,  under  the 
command  of  Colonel  Alexander  Rodgers,  U. 
S.  A.,  have  departed  for  their  new  station. 
Fort    Ethan    Allen.    Vt. 


The  big  event  at  Ingleside  Track  next 
week  will  be  the  Christmas  Handicap,  for 
three-year-olds  and  upwards,  over  a  mile  and 
a  quarter  course.  The  value  of  the  purse  will 
be  $3,000.  The  entries  number  seventy-six,  so 
there  is  certain  to  be  a  large  field. 


Informal  Hop  at   Del  Monte. 

One  of  the  first  of  a  series  of  informal  hops 
was  given  at  Hotel  Del  Monte  last  Friday 
evening.  The  ball-room  of  this  popular  resort 
was  comfortably  filled,  many  of  San  Fran- 
cisco's best  families,  as  well  as  a  large  number 
of  army  officers  from  the  new  encampment 
at  Monterey,  being  in  attendance.  The  army- 
men  present  included  the  following:  Captain 
Brooks,  Captain  Uline,  Captain  Bridges,  Cap- 
tain Conrad,  Lieutenant  Awl,  Lieutenant  Pot- 
ter, Lieutenant  Knabenshue,  Lieutenant  Boyce, 
Lieutenant  Upham,  Lieutenant  Burr,  Lieu- 
tenant Gilmore,  Captain  Fowler,  Major  Bige- 
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ranged for  the  present  season,  the  buds  and 
belles  have  every  assurance  of  army  men  for 
dancing  partners.  Special  rates  between  San 
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and  New  Year  holidays  are  being  arranged. 


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THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


The  club  is  a  refuge  for  homeless  married 
men. — Life. 

'Has    the    doctor    given     up     all     hope?" 
I  th    no:   he  thinks   the  estate   will   settle   the 
bill    if    his    patient    dies." — Cincinnati    Times- 
Si,:,-. 

Imagination:  Lis — "Say.  Mag!  I'm  dat 
hungrj  dat  when  I  looks  at  de  kid  turnin' 
de  handle  of  de  chestnut  roaster  I  fancy  I 
kin    hear    music." — Life. 

Kept  in  the  dark:  "What  are  you  going 
to  give  your  wife  for  Christmas  this  year?" 
"  I  dunno.  She  locked  it  away  in  a  closet 
before  I  had  a  chance  to  see  it." — Chicago 
Record-Herald. 

Humanity :  Sergeant—"  What  did  you 
arrest  this  man  for?"  Officer  Keegan — "For 
his  own  safety,  sergeant!  He  was  too  drunk 
to  protect  himself,  and  insisted  on  going 
home !" — Puck. 

Post-nuptial:  He  (whose  wife  has  been 
reading  some  of  his  old  love-letters  to  her) 
— "  What  is  the  use  of  keeping  all  those  old 
things?"  She — "Lest  we  forget — lest  we  for- 
get."— Brooklyn    Life, 

"{  nine  in."  said  St.  Peter.  "Wait."  said 
the  walking  delegate,  pausing  to  listen  to  the 
music  of  the  golden  harps.  "  First,  T  want 
to  know  if  those  musicians  have  union  cards." 
—Chicago    Evening   Post. 

An  alternative:  MaJwole — "  Nixt  toime 
Oi  pass  wid  a  loidy.  Mulligan,  y"e've  got  to 
remove  yer  hat !"  Mulligan — "  And  suppose 
Oi  refuse?"  Mahoole — "  Then,  bedad,  ye've 
got    to    remove    yer    coat." — Chicago    News. 

Juvenile  reasoning  :  Sammy — "  Going  to 
move  soon.  Tommy?"  Tommy — "  Ytes." 
Sammy — "  How  do  you  know?"  Tommy — 
'■  Ah  !  How  do  I  know?  Didn't  me  mother 
lemme  break  a  winder  t'other  day  and  didn't 
say  nothin'?" — Til-Bits. 

The  doctor's  orders :  Dedelia — "  Phat  are 
yez  doin'  takin'  the  lock  off  the  cupboard 
dure.  Pat?  'Are  yez  chrazy?"  Pat — "No, 
darlint ;  th'  dochtor  tould  me  to-day  that  I 
must  quit  boltin'  *n^  -fr^oH — and  I'm  goin' 
to  obey  insthrusti'ons  1" — Cincinnati  Times- 
Mother — "  Why  don't  you  behave  better 
to  your  teacher  ?"  Tommy — "  Why,  I'm  as 
kind  to  her  as  I  kin  be."  Mother — "  You 
are?"  Tommy  —  "  Yes'm.  Every  time  she 
licks  me  I  cry  as  loud  as  I  kin  so's  to  make 
her  believe  she'shurtinL*mei" — Philadelphia 
Ledger. 

"  You  should  strive  to  appeal  to  the  imag- 
ination and  the  human  interest  of  j'our  pu- 
pils." said  the  principal.  "  I  do,"  answered 
the  teacher.  "  but  it  is  very  hard  to  convince 
the  boys  that  Hector  and  Achilles  were  as 
great  men  as  Corbett  and  Jeffries," — Wash- 
ington Star. 

Precautionary  abstinence  :  Host — "  Have 
'nother   drink    'fore    you    go,    ole    f'ler.      Guest 

— "  Like    to.    but    dashn't "      Host — "  You' 

lasht  man  I'd  'xpfceted  to  be  'fraid  o'  goo' 
whisky."  Guest — "  'Taint  whisky — 'ts  shtairs 
'my  new  boardin'  house.  Moved  in  'tis 
moruin'.    an'    don't    know    "m    yet." — Judge. 

Her  conclusion :  "  Do  you  think  your 
father  has  any  idea  that  I  have  serious  in- 
tention^ concerning  you?"  "I  heard  him  tell- 
ing   mother,    the    other    day.    that    he    didn't 


think  it  would  cost  any  more  to  have  you  at 
the  table  regularly  than  it  does  for  me  to  feed 
you  from  the  pantry  shelves  every  night." — 
Chicago  Record-Herald. 

Coming  around  :  Mrs.  Caffrey — "  And  how 
is  that  pretty  young  widow  ?  Is  she  recon- 
ciled to  her  loss  yet?"  Mrs.  aftaiaprTtp — 
''  Xo.  she  ain't  exactly  reconciled  yet,  but 
they  do  say  she's  got  the  man  picked  out." 
— Tit-Bits. 

A  compliment  that  failed  to  please  :  Johnny 
fresh —  "  Miss  Doolittle.  it  seems  to  me  you 
dance  very  much  better  since  you  had  your 
appendix  cut  out."  Miss  Doolittle — "  Do  tell. 
Well,  why  don't  you  have  yours  cut  at  once." 
Kansas  City  Star. 

He — "'How  did  you  enjoy  the  opera?"  She 
— "  Oh,  it  was  just  splendid."  He — 
"  Really?  But  it  was  all  French,  wasn't  it?" 
She — "  Oh,  no  !  Of  course,  some  of  the  hand- 
somest ones  were  unmistakably  Parisian,  but 
there  were  many  pretty  gowns  that  were 
evidently    made    here." — Philadelphia    Press. 

OVER    THE    TELEPHONE- 
The  Feminine  Vernacular  in  Chicago. 


"H'lo!" 

"H'lo  I" 

"  Thatchoo,  Pirn?  " 

"  Yeh.     Hoozat?" 

"  Smee—  Nell." 

"H'lo,  Nell!     Smarter?  " 

"  Nothin'.  Thought  'd  call  yup.  Say,  Pirn, 
Juno  Tom  Dixon?" 

"  No.     Oozee?  " 

"  Letcha  know  some  time.  Say,  jeerabout 
Kitten  Jim?  " 

"No.     Whajjaknow  'bout  'em?" 

"  Don't  speak  teach  other." 

"  Wot  strubble?  " 

"Ida  know.      Cumminover   soon?" 

"  Yeh.  Guesso.  B'  choor  cumminover 
tower  house  first." 

"  Wilfican.      Gotteny   fudges?" 

"  Lot   zuvvem." 

"Well,  I'll  come.     G'by  !  " 

"G'by!     Say!" 

"Well?"  k    . 

"  Don't    tell    wattitoldjuhbout    Kitten    Jim." 

"  I  won't.     G'by  !" 

"  G'by  !  " — Chicago  Tribune. 


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Visitor — "  My  man,  what  brought  you 
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beat"!" — Puck. 

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TABLE    OF    CONTENTS. 

Editorial:  Tlie  Anti-Roosevelt  Movement — What  Is  Its  Origin 
—The  Story  That  Roosevelt  Affronted  Wall  Street — Now 
They're  Alter  Him- — Other  Factors  in  the  Movement — Pros- 
pects of  His  Nomination— The  Black  Outlook  in  New  York — 
An  Old  Men's  Quarrel — Senator  Hoar  and  Editor  Scott 
Pass  Hot  Words — The  True  Story  of  the  Panama  Revolu- 
tion— Boston    Shocked   by  Ancient    Books 425-^26 

The  Citv  of  the  Violet  Crown:  Sobriquets  of  Cities — Ascent 
of  the  Acropolis — Freaks  of  Matutinal  Intoxication — Streets, 
Squares,  Palaces,  Royalty- — -Ruins  Around  Athens — Areo- 
pagus and  Acropolis — Ruin's  of  the  Parthenon— How  the 
Acropolis  Used  to  Look — Color  in  Ancient  Marbles — Some 
Acropolis  Curiosities — Lord  Elgin's  Marbles — Mountebanks 
and  Mummers — Making  Change  in  Drachmas.  By  Jerome 
Hart    - 427-428 

Radium  and  Radioman ia:  The  Real  Bearing  of  Sir  William 
Ramsay's  Statements — Radium  Growing  Cheaper — Is  the 
Atomic    Theory    Doomed  ? 4^9 

Christmas  in  Alta  California:     How  the  Spaniards  Celebrated 

Holiday  Time.      By   Katherine  Chandler 425 

Christmas  Shopping  in  Gotham:  Hard  Times  Among  the  Rich 
Poor  Do  Not  Feel  the  Pinch — Ultra-Fashionable  Dress- 
makers Hard  Hit — The  Sights  of  Fourteenth  Street  and  the 
Avenue.      By    Geraldine    Bonner 43° 

Californtans  in  New  York:  Success  of  a  California  Musician 
— Illness  of  F.  N.  A.  Martinez — Distributing  Bread  to  the 
Poor.      By   H.    M.    Eosworth 43* 

The  Tuneful  Liar:  "Furor  Scribendi";  "A  Bookworm's 
Ballade  to  His  Friends."  by  Edward  W.  Barnard;  "The 
Quest  of  the  Local  Color."  by  Wallace  Irwin 431 

Individualities:      Notes  About  Prominent   People  All   Over  the 

World    43i 

Literary     Notes:        Personal     and     Miscellaneous     Gossip — New 

Publications 432-433' 

The    Holiday    Book    Mart:      The    Frivolity    of    the    Fashionable 

Bindings  of   Books.      By   Marguerite   Stabler 433 

Christmas  Verse:  "  A  Ballad  of  the  Nativity,"  by  Charles 
Hanson  Towne;  "  When  Mary  Woke."  by  Theodosia  Gar- 
rison; "  There  Was  a  Baby  Born  in  Bethlehem." 433 

Drama:      Lulu    Glaser    in    "Dolly    Varden  "    at    the    Columbia— 

"  Blue  Jeans"  at  the  Alcazar.      By  Josephine  Hart  Phelps..    434 

Stage  Gossip 435 

Vanity  Fair:  A  Society  for  the  Suppression  of  Christmas 
Presents — Seasonable  Suggestions  of  an  Eastern  Journal — 
The  Tyrannical  Giveand-Take  System — A  German  Court 
Decides  That  a  Noblewoman  Is  Really  Mother  of  Her 
Reputed  Son — Strange  and  Interesting  Case — Testimony  of 
Midwife  in  Contradiction — Says  She  Sold  Her  Son  to  the 
Countess— The  Ugliness  of  Present  Feminine  Styles— White 
Porters  on  Pullman  Trains— Kubelik  on  American  Women..   436 

Storyettes:  Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise — 
The  Three  Stages  of  a  Lawyer's  Career— Secretary  Hay's 
Early  Views  on  Diplomats — Treading  on  the  Corns  of 
Bismarck — Eugene  Field's  Breakfast  Eggs — Nat  Goodwin's 
Joke— Whistler  on  His  Pictures — Huwells's  First  Stories — 
Mechanical  Telegraph  Operating— Sarah  Bernhardt  as  an 
Author 437 

Society:       Movements    and    Whereabouts — Notes    and     Gossip — 

Army   and    Navy    News 438-439 

The  Alleged  Humorists:  Paragraphs  Ground  Out  by  the  Dis- 
mal Wits  of  the  Day 44" 

A  year  ago — yes,  six  months  ago — scarcely  a  word  in 
opposition    to    the    nomination     to     the 

The   \nti- 

roo.evelt  Presidency  of  Mr.  Roosevelt  was  to  be 

Movement,  found  in  any  newspaper  of  repute  except 

the  Xew  York  Sun.  To-day,  opposition  to  Roosevelt 
is  to  be  seen  on  every  band:  it  is  in  the  air;  the  news, 
if  not  the  editorial,  columns  of  Eastern  papers  are  full 


of  hints  and  doubts  and  mysterious  whispers.  The 
Xew  York  Sun,  after  months  of  comparative  inaction, 
so  far  as  Roosevelt  is  concerned,  returns  to  the  attack 
with  fresh  ardor.  The  Washington  correspondents  all 
seem  to  have  a  grudge  against  the  President.  They 
betray  their  dislike  in  many  ways.  And  the  Hanna 
boom,  though  it  has  supposedly  been  killed  off  a  dozen 
times,  still  keeps  rearing  its  horrid  head.  The  sud- 
denness of  the  anti-Roosevelt  activity  makes  it  seem  the 
more  odd,  and  the  question  presses,  Whence  comes  it? 
Is  it  manufactured  or  spontaneous?  Is  Mr.  Roosevelt 
losing  ground? 

If  credence  be  given  to  the  strange  story  that  comes 
from  Washington,  the  press-bureau  of  Wall  Street  is 
the  "  responsible  pa-a-rty."  It  is  circumstantially  stated 
on  usually  reliable  authority  that  about  a  month  ago 
President  Roosevelt  was  "  approached  by  a  representa^ 
tive  of  the  great  interests,  such  as  the  Rockefeller- 
Gould  combination,  J.  Pierpont  Morgan,  E.  H.  Harri- 
man,  and  James  J.  Hill."  This  agent  wanted  the  Presi- 
dent to  pledge  himself  not  to  do  anything  to  destroy 
business  confidence  if  reelected.  The  President  refused 
to  give  any  such  pledge.  He  declared  he  would  con- 
tinue doing  his  duty  as  he  saw  it  without  fear  or  favor. 
Moreover — Walter  Wellman  quotes  the  President's 
exact  words — "  if  any  such  pledges  are  necessary  as  a 
condition  to  my  election,  I  am  not  fit  to  be  elected  at 
all."  And  the  agent  went  away  sorrowful.  And  Wall 
Street  rose  in  wrath.  And  all  its  organs  grew  shrill- 
voiced  and  denunciatory.  The  great  banks  in  New 
York  are  said  to  have  stated  to  their  country  corre- 
spondents that  no  large  loans  might  be  looked  for  dur- 
ing the  next  five  years  if  Roosevelt  were  elected.  Let- 
ters were  sent  broadcast  into  the  Middle  States  inquir- 
ing for  anti-Roosevelt  sentiment.  The  South  was 
sounded  on  the  same  question.  And  Senator  Hanna 
was  taken  up  into  a  high  mountain  and  shown  all  the 
kingdoms  of  the  earth.  But  he  was  wiser  than  his 
tempters,  and  refused  to  announce  himself  as  a  candi- 
date or  permit  his  name  to  be  used. 

Such,  at  least,  is  the  story.  But  it  is  manifest  that, 
even  if  strictly  true,  and  even  if  Wall  Street's  press- 
agent  is  a  marvel  of  industry,  so  noticeable  an  anti- 
Roosevelt  movement  could  not  have  been  brought  about 
had  not  the  moment  been  opportune  and  a  part  of  the 
public  in  a  receptive  mind.  In  fact,  it  is  beyond  doubt 
that  a  more  or  less  formidable  undercurrent  of  dis- 
satisfaction does  exist,  and  incontestable  that  Mr. 
Roosevelt  is  personally  disliked  by  the  more  influential 
Republicans  in  Washington.  His  boisterous,  touch- 
and-go.  off-hand,  rough-and-ready  style  of  doing  things 
has  got  on  the  nerves  of  many  a  statesman.  Con- 
servatives fear  him  as  "  unsafe."  With  many,  it  is 
thought  incompatible  with  the  dignity  of  the  President 
of  the  United  States  to  call  his  casual  friends  "  Dick  " 
and  "  Ben  "  and  "  Bill."  Some  see  in  the  Panama  affair 
a  headstrong  disposition.  They  fear  he  might  lead  the 
country  into  war.  Others  dislike  his  irrepressible 
volubility,  his'  fondness  for  sermonizing,  his  jocular 
fashion  of  treating  serious  subjects.  And  his  anxious 
eagerness  over  his  nomination  has  not  raised  him  in 
popular  estimation.  With  all  such,  these  things  out- 
weigh Mr.  Roosevelt's  manliness,  his  independence,  his 
courage,  his  absolute  honesty  and  frankness.  We  are 
therefore  led  to  believe  that  the  present  anti-Roose- 
velt movement  rests  not  only  on  Wall  Street's  activity, 
hut  on  dislike  and  distrust  of  the  President  which,  be- 
ginning at  the  top,  seem  to  be  extending  downward 
into  the  party  rank  and  file. 

Nevertheless,  it  is  a  striking  and  significant  fact 
that,  whatever  the  opinions  of  the  President  ex- 
pressed in  private,  no  Republican  of  national  prom- 
inence has  had  the  hardihood  to  predict  that  Mr.  Roose- 
velt  will    fail  of  nomination.     Most  eminent   Republi- 


cans, on  the  contrary,  declare  that  his  nomination  will 
be  unanimous.  They  seem  convinced  of  the  uselessness 
of  kicking  against  the  pricks.  They  are  ready  to  sub- 
mit to  the  inevitable.  John  Sharp  Williams  says: 
"  They  are  chained  to  Roosevelt  and  can  not  get  away." 
It  is  plain,  even  to  the  most  casual  observer,  that  Hanna, 
with  Wall  Street's  favor,  would  be  simply  overwhelmed 
at  the  polls.  Hanna — as  exhibited  by  his  course  in  the 
Heath  case — is  certainly  not  the  man  to  run  on  an  anti- 
graft  programme.  He  is  surely  not  stronger  than 
Roosevelt  with  labor.  And  as  the  Xew  York  Evening 
Post  remarks,  "  to  indorse  Roosevelt,  as  the  party 
must,  yet  refuse  to  renominate  him,  would  be  almost 
suicidal."  In  a  Republican  convention,  there  are  nine 
hundred  and  sixty-eight  delegates.  States  having  four 
hundred  and  niney-four  votes  have  already  indorsed  the 
President,  and  though  that  indorsement  has  only  a 
moral  force,  such  precedents  are  not  easily  reversed. 
Even  Xew  York,  where  the  Republican  outlook  is  de- 
clared to  be  black,  will,  according  to  both  Odell  and 
Piatt,  send  a  delegation  instructed  for  Roosevelt. 
Whether  Xew  York  will  have  a  Roosevelt  delegation 
in  the  electoral  college  is  another  story  altogether. 
Xew  York,  indeed,  promises  to  be  the  centre  of  a  most 
spectacular  political  combat  during  1904.  It  has  al- 
ready begun.  No  sooner  had  the  President  recognized 
Governor  Odell  as  the  real  Republican  leader  in  that 
State,  than  the  New  York  Sun  began  a  fierce  cam- 
paign against  him.  The  Sun  by  innuendo  charges  the 
governor  with  corruption,  graft,  treachery.  It  speaks 
of  the  "  loathsome  disease  which  began  to  permeate  the 
arteries  of  the  Republican  party  from  the  hour  Gov- 
ernor Odell  and  his  coterie  began,"  etc.  Plainly  re- 
ferring to  Odell,  it  adverts  to  those  who  go  to  the  Presi- 
dent with  fair  words,  but  have  only  "  treachery  and 
vileness  in  their  hearts."  It  declares  that  the  policy 
and  conduct  of  Governor  Odell  have  produced  "  the 
blackest  outlook  that  the  Republican  party  has  ever 
had  to  face  in  the  State,"  and  that  "  Mr.  Roosevelt's 
most  implacable  enemies  could  never  have  conceived 
for  him  the  disaster  which  is  already  and  irrevocably 
his."  It  calls  Odell  "  the  Great  Gasteropod  of  Graft." 
It  says  that  the  "  genius  of  boodle  and  graft  is  more 
triumphant  than  was  Croker  ever  at  his  apogee."  Such 
abuse  directed  toward  the  governor  of  the  most  popu- 
lous State  of  the  United  States  by  one  of  the  country's 
greatest  journals  is  a  matter  of  no  small  importance. 
What  part,  if  any,  Senator  Piatt  is  playing  in  the  affair 
is  as  yet  obscure,  nor  is  it  yet  plain  whether  the  gov- 
ernor can  clear  himself  of  the  charges  made.  He  has 
published  a  statement  in  denial,  and  the  Sun,  after  its 
usual  fashion,  is  taking  the  statement  up  piecemeal  and 
offering  evidence  in  rebuttal — evidence  usually  hinging 
on  a  question  of  veracity,  and  therefore  still  leaving 
matters  in  doubt. 

But  the  very  fact  that  New  York's  foremost  Re- 
publican journal  is  assailing  the  State's  chief  executive, 
in  whom  Roosevelt  has  just  put  his  trust,  makes  Re- 
publican success  in  that  quarter  seem  dubious  indeed. 


According  to  the  special  correspondent  of  the  Xew 
The  True  Storv  York  Evening  Post  the  creation  of  the 
of  the  Panama  world,  Biblicallv  in  seven  days,  is 
Revolution.  matchea  by  the  genesis  0f  panama,  the 

United  States  playing  the  double  role  of  Lux  Benigna 
and  the  Serpent.  The  drama  being  laid  in  these  me 
chanical  times,  has  the  non-Scriptural  advantages  of 
telephone,  telegraph,  and  sewing  machine.  A  brief 
resume  of  the  story,  vouched  for  by  the  Post,  shows  that 
in  the  beginning  Dr.  Amador;  Jose  Augustin  Arango, 
lobbyist  of  the  Panama  Railroad;  Tomas  Arias,  head 
of  the  electric-light  concern;  Federico  Boyd,  half  Brit- 
ish and  dissatisfied;  Constantino  Arosemana,  a  revo- 
lutionary bankrupt;   Ricardo  Arias;   and   De  Obarrio. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  28,  1903. 


gathered  last  March  in  the  electric-light  office,  on  the 
shore  of  Panama  Bay,  over  a  large  bottle.  "  There's 
nothing  much  doing,"  said  Amador.  "Those  Bogota 
fellows  are  drawing  the  pay."  Arias,  assenting  that  his 
electric-light  business  was  not  the  most  profitable  tiling 
in  the  world,  joined  with  Boyd  in  saying,  "  Let  there 
he  revolution."  So  they  informed  General  Herbert  O. 
Jeffries.  Colonel  Black,  U.  S.  A.,  engineer  supervising 
the  work  in  Culebra  Cut,  and  the  leading  officers  of  the 
railroad  that  a  revolution  was  planned.  In  the  sum- 
mer, Dr.  Amador  sails  for  New  York,  and  goes 
on  to  Washington.  Secretary  Hay  is  off  on  his  vaca- 
tion, but  somebody  says  something.  The  doctor  re- 
turns to  New  York  and  foregathers  with  Bunau- 
Varilla,  agent  of  the  Panama  Canal  Company.  The 
agent,  over  a  little  dinner  at  the  Waldorf-Astoria,  as- 
sures his  guest  that  the  American  Government  will 
support  a  secession  movement.  "  But  General  Jeff- 
ries has  a  letter  in  which  President  Roosevelt,  his  old 
friend,  says :  '  I'll  be  damned  if  I  will  aid  in  any 
revolution.'  "  Amador  objects.  Just  the  same,  Amador 
returns  to  the  Isthmus,  with  some  invaluable  papers 
in  the  purser's  safe,  on  the  Yucatan. 

Again  the  electric-light  office  becomes  a  resort  for 
swarthy  statesmen.  A  Declaration  of  Independence  is 
drawn  up.  Mrs.  Amador  is  interested.  She  speaks 
to  the  only  Duque  (originally  Duke,  they  whisper) — 
Jose  Gabriel  Duque,  editor  of  the  tri-lingual  journal 
Star  and  Herald.  Duque  hastens  to  New  York  "  on 
his  own  hook."  On  September  3d  he  talks  to  Secretary 
Hay,  who  has  conferred  with  the  President.  "  We 
shall  revolute  September  23d,"  announces  Duque. 

"  The  United  States  can  not  lend  aid  to  revolution- 
ists in  carrying  out  a  secession  from  the  nation  to 
which  they  belong,"  warns  the  Secretary,  so  the  report 
runs  in  the  Star  and  Herald;  "  besides,  September  23d 
is  much  too  early." 

"  How  will  November  4th  do?" 

"  Admiral  Glass  will  receive  orders  to  go  to  the 
Isthmus  November  2d,"  remarks  the  Secretary;  "dear, 
dear,  what  a  coincidence!" 

Away  travels  Duque  across  the  Caribbean,  taking 
a  passing  glance  at  Cat  Island  on  the  way.  "  1903-1492 
equals  4-1 1,"  he  murmured,  prophetically.  "  Forty- four, 
mas  fuerle,  vive  la  republique !"  And  he  enthu- 
siastically designs  a  flag  of  many  colors.  With  this 
design,  once  home,  he  goes  to  his  niece,  Sefiorita  Maria 
Emelia  Ossa,  betrothed  of  R.  D.  Prescott,  agent  of  the 
railroad  in  Panama.  The  sewing  machine  hums  and 
fair  fingers  move  swiftly.  October  31st  the  flag  is 
finished.  Senora  Amador  has  a  little  party  that  night. 
The  patriots  are  there.  A  telegram  is  sent  to  Bunau- 
Yarilla:  "  Flag  is  ready.  Revolute  us."  Next  morning, 
before  early  mass  is  over,  the  message  comes  that 
American  men-of-war  will  be  at  the  Isthmus  imme- 
diately to  keep  transit  open.  Arias,  mindful  of  his 
electric-light  concession,  whispers:  "What  if  Co- 
lumbia changes  her  position  and  grants  the  treaty?" 
The  grim  answer  comes :  "  We  are  betrayed.  You  will 
have  to  go  into  the  gas  trade." 

At  noon,  November  2d,  the  Nashville  arrives  at 
Colon.  This  is  reassuring.  But  that  same  evening 
arrives  also  the  Colombian  warship  Cartagena,  with 
live  hundred  soldiers,  fifty  clerks,  and — a  new  governor. 
Bogota  is  "  wise."  Governor  Obaldia  and  Dr.  Amador 
are  disturbed  at  their  poker  club.  Obaldia  knows  noth- 
ing officially.  But  he  objects  to  being  transferred  to 
Barranquilla.  He  looks  at  Amador.  The  doctor  drops 
his  cards  and  hurries  to  the  telephone.  He  calls  up 
Prescott,  the  agent  of  the  railroad.  A  moment  later 
he  comes  back  serene.  "  Superintendent  of  the  rail- 
road says  there  won't  be  any  trains  running  to-night," 
lie  explains.  But  it  is  up  to  the  plotters  to  make  good  in 
twelve  hours.  General  Hueritas  of  the  army,  one- 
armed,  valiant,  goes  to  General  Jeffries,  former  political 
helper  of  one  Roosevelt  running  for  assemblyman  in 
the  twenty-second  district  of  Manhattan.  "  Will  you 
stand  by  me  if  I  deliver  the  garrison  to  the  revolution- 
ists-" "Sure,"  answers  Jeffries.  On  the  other  side 
of  the  Isthmus  a  message  comes  to  the  commander  of 
the  Nashville  that  General  Torres  has  thumped  a  table 
with  marlial  fist  and  sworn  death  to  Americans.  Ma- 
rines  hurry  ashore  to  protect  American  interests;  arms 
are  given  out  to  Americans.  An  hour  passes.  Co- 
lombian  General  Torres  takes  $8,000  "back  pay,"  and 
haves  with  all  his  troops  for  Cartagena.  From  the  rest 
"t  the  $140,000  in  the  treasury  vaults  there  is  counted 
nut  to  General  lluertas,  the  one-armed  invincible, 
$25,000,  and  as  much  to  gallant  Admiral  Varron.  Others 
gel  their  handsful  as  desired.  With  these  majestic 
rites  the  republic  is  completely  inaugurated. 


I  .hint'  llarvey  Scott,  of  the  Portland  Oregonian,  com- 
As  monly  thought  to  be  unwilling  to  turn 


(H.u  Men's 


his   back   upon   a   senatorship,   dramati- 
cally turned  his  back  upon  a  senator,  the 
The  senator,   i".:vored  with   a  view  of  the 
obverse   of   six-foot    Mr.    Scott,    was    Mr. 


Hoar,  of  Massachusetts.  Within  the  sacred  precincts 
of  the  Senate  elevator  did  these  two  giants  of  opposite 
coasts  and  opinions  hurl  defiance  at  each  other.  Here 
Senator  Mitchell,  escorting  the  editor,  made  a  pleasant, 
friendly  speech,  intimating  his  desire  to  see  two  vet- 
erans shake  hands.  "  But  I  refuse  to  shake  hands  with 
Mr.  Scott,"  the  senator  burst  out;  "he  insulted  my 
dear  friend,  Senator  Morril,  some  years  ago,  by  saying 
that  he  remained  in  the  Senate  long  after  he  was  dead, 
and  refused  to  be  buried  to  save  funeral  expenses." 
Then  speaks  out  Editor  Scott,  shaking  his  ambrosial 
locks,  pacifically,  denying  knowledge  of  insult,  but 
assuming  responsibility  for  the  utterances  of  the 
Oregonian.  "  I  refuse  to  shake  hands  with  you !" 
thunders  the  Puritian  sage.  "  In  that  case  I  turn  my 
back  upon  you,  sir!"  retorts  the  bulky  Webfoot,  and 
straightway  presents  to  Senator  Hoar  that  part  of 
his  anatomy  known  in  song  as  that  which  an  enemy 
never  sees  of  a  brave  man. 

Now  no  more  than  three  days  before,  and  therefore 
not  seen  by  Senator  Hoar,  the  Oregonian,  in  a  leading 
editorial  on  "  Great  Men  Duped  by  their  Friends," 
referred  to  Mr.  Hoar  as  "  dull "  and  honest.  The 
Massachusetts  statesman,  possibly  acknowledging  that 
Mr.  Scott  is  not  dull,  must  grow  even  angrier  to  read 
in  this  that  "  among  other  old  friends  of  ill-repute, 
Senator  Hoar  still  cherishes  fondly  bimetallism,  for  he 
still  avows  his  sympathy  with  the  views  of  the  late 
General  Francis  A.  Walker." 

Whatever  may  have  been  the  delay  in  the  political 
obsequies  of  Senator  Morril,  or  the  frugal  reasons 
therefor,  one  can  understand  Senator  Hoar's  rage 
at  the  effrontery  of  a  Westerner  daring  to  condemn 
coarsely  a  New  Englander.  That  this  rage  should  dis- 
play itself  so  flagrantly  in  the  sacrosanct  elevator 
at  the  Senate  end  argues  terrific  stimulation  of  a 
tender  nerve.  Possibly  Senator  Hoar,  looking  upon  the 
keen,  imperative,  unaged  majesty  of  the  Oregon  editor 
of  fifty  years'  hard  service,  remembering  the  sprightly 
power  of  wit  that  still  aims  shafts  at  the  dull,  if  honest, 
felt  within  his  aged  breast  a  sudden  pain,  a  pang  pre- 
monitory of  that  inevitable  dissolution  which  will  before 
long  deprive  the  Senate  chamber  of  its  most  striking 
figure — a  figure  too  often  the  butt  of  ridicule,  helpless 
to  return  the  shafts,  honest,  but  "  dull."  Senator  Hoar, 
however,  has  one  satisfaction  to  comfort  him  for  the 
indignity  offered  him  by  an  irate  editor.  While  Mr. 
Scott  has,  report  runs,  turned  away  at  times  from 
friends  too  obtuse  to  escry  the  pot  of  profit  at  the  foot 
of  the  political  rainbow,  this  is  the  first  occasion  on 
which  he  has  given  his  back  to  an  enemy. 

If  we  may  believe  the  Washington  dispatches,  the  Sen- 
Wood's  ate  Committee  on  Military  Affairs  will 

recommend,  by  a  vote  of  eight  to  two, 
the  confirmation  of  Dr.  Wood  as  major- 
general.  Secretary  Root  was  Wood's  star  witness. 
Root,  it  is  reported,  declared  his  willingness  to  assume 
the  whole  responsibility  for  the  orders  issued  by 
General  Wood  affecting  the  judicial  system  in  Cuba 
and  concernim*  the  concession  granted  to  the  Jai  Alai 
Company  at  Havana.  He  warmly  defended  Wood's 
course  in  every  instance,  and  was  on  the  stand  nearly 
a  whole  day.  That  the  Senate  will  override  the  com- 
mittee's findings  seems  rather  doubtful.  One  Wash- 
ington correspondent,  known  to  be  hostile  to  Wood, 
remarks :  "  Everybody  talks  about  the  opposition, 
but  when  it  comes  to  naming  individual  Republican 
senators  who  will  vote  against  Wood,  the  list  comes 
to  a  rather  sudden  stop  after  the  names  of  M.  A. 
Hanna  and  N.  B.  Scott  have  been  given.  With  a 
Republican  majority  of  twenty-two,  and  the  certainty 
that  some  Democrats  will  vote  for  Wood,  his  con- 
firmation is  not  much  in  doubt."  Meanwhile  the  Presi- 
dent has  been  assuring  senators  that,  under  no  circum- 
stances, will  he  appoint  Wood  lieutenant-general  on 
Chaffee's   retirement. 

During  the  four  or  five  days  preceding  the  adjournment 
Democratic  ot    tne    Senate    to    January    4th,    Demo- 

cratic senators  took  occasion  to  do  a  deal 
of  talking  about  the  President's  action 
in  the  Panama  matter.  Talk  is  cheap.  It  is  infinitely 
more  important  how  the  Democrats  vote  on  the  treaty 
than  what  they  say  about  it.  So  far,  they  seem  dis- 
posed to  denounce  the  method  but  rejoice  at  the  results. 
They  are  glad  the  canal  is  within  grasp,  but  sorry  that 
the  President  was  so  bewilderingly  quick  about  it.  The 
Democrats  can  defeat  the  treaty  if  they  will  only  hang 
together.  The  Senate  has  ninety  members,  of 
which  fifty-seven  are  Republicans,  thirty-three 
Democrats.  As  a  treaty  requires  a  two-thirds  vote,  the 
Republicans  are  three  short  of  the  required  number. 
If  Senator  Hoar  balks  at  voting  with  his  party,  as  seems 
probable,  then  they  will  be  four  short.  But  will  the 
Democrats  get  together  ?  Judging  by  recent  events,  no. 
They  have  agreed  in  caucus  that,  in  future,  the  action 


Chance  for 
Confirmation 


Senators 
and  Panama 


of  the  caucus  shall  be  binding  upon  all  the  members 
thereof.  But  the  agreement  is  rendered  worthless  in 
emergency  by  the  clause  providing  that,  if  a  senator  has 
"  conscientious  scruples "  he  shall  be  free  to  follow 
them.  It  is  said  that  altogether  thirteen  or  fourteen 
Democratic  senators  will  not  be  permitted  by  their  con- 
sciences to  vote  against  the  Panama  treaty.  So  there 
you  are — the  Senate  Democrats,  as  usual,  are  without 
a  policy,  blown  about  by  every  breeze,  and  of  as  many 
minds  as  men. 


So  much  has  been  written  about  the  "plagiarism"  in 
"Plagiarism"       tne  President's  message  to  Congress  that 
in  President's    we  reproduce  below  in  parallel  columns 
Message.  a   paragrapn    from   the   message   and   a 

paragraph  from  a  newspaper  interview  with  District- 
Attorney  Folk,  of  St.  Louis,  published  some  time  pre- 
viously : 


PRESIDENT  S    MESSAGE. 

Bribery    has     not    been 


FOLK    INTERVIEW. 

Bribery  has  not  been 
included  in  extradition  included  in  treaties  here- 
treaties  heretofore,  as  tofore,  because  there  has 
the  necessity  for  it  has  been  no  necessity  for  it. 
not  arisen.  While  there  There  have  been  more 
may  have  been  as  much  cases  of  bribery  in  the 
official  corruption  in  for-  United  States  in  the  past 
iner  years,  there  has  been  two  years  than  in  the 
more  developed  and  hundred  years  preceding, 
brought  to  light  in  the  It  may  have  been  just  as 
immediate  past  than  in  common  heretofore,  but 
the  preceding  century  of  the  evidence  of  it  was  not 
our  country's  history.  It  brought  to  light.  If  the 
should  be  the  policy  of  present  programme  is 
the  United  States  to  leave  carried  out,  and  there 
no  place  on  earth  where  seems  to  be  no  reason 
a  corrupt  man  fleeing  from  why  it  should  not  be, 
this  country  can  rest  in  there  will  not  be  a  civil- 
peace.  The  exposure  and  ized  country  on  earth 
punishment  of  the  public  where  boodlers  fleeing 
corruption  is  an  honor  to  from  the  United  States 
a  nation,  not  a  disgrace.  can  rest  in  peace.  Sure 
The  shame  lies  in  tolera-  and  swift  punishment  of 
tion,    not   in    correction.  public     plunderers      is     a 

State's  honor,  not  its 
shame.  The  disgrace  is 
in  tolerance,  not  in  cor- 
rection. 

The  parallel  is  certainly  "  deadly."  But  as  it  is  well 
known  that  this  particular  recommendation  in  the  mes- 
sage was  made  at  the  direct  request  of  Folk,  who  went 
to  Washington  and  labored  with  the  President  on  the 
subject,  there  are  probably  few  who  would  cavil  at  the 
President  taking  Folk's  language  to  present  Folk's  ideas 
and  desires,  if  it  were  not  that  the  most  startling  state- 
ment in  the  entire  message  is  contained  in  the  "  lifted  " 
passage.  We  refer  to  that  which  declares  that  there 
has  been  more  corruption  brought  to  light  in  the  imme- 
diate past  than  in  the  last  century.  This  passage  was 
universally  construed  to  refer  to  postal  frauds — to 
represent  the  President's  convictions.  But  if  it  is 
merely  Folk's  idea  about  the  St.  Louis  boodling,  then 
the  matter  assumes  a  vastly  different  aspect.  And  such, 
indeed,  appears  to  be  the  case.  For  when  Gorman,  the 
other  day,  characterized  the  statement  as  "  sweeping 
and  horrible,"  and  called  for  more  investigation  of  the 
post-office  department,  Senator  Lodge,  the  President's 
spokesman  in  the  Senate,  rose  and  blandly  explained 
that  the  passage  did  not  refer  to  frauds  in  Washington, 
but  to  frauds  away  off  in  Missouri,  out  of  reach  of 
Congress.  Senator  Lodge  put  the  case  cleverly.  Still, 
it  may  be  that  the  President  feels  somewhat  chagrined 
at  having  senators  explain  that  he  does  not  mean  some 
of  the  things  he  says  in  his  annual  message. 

I  he  course  of  a  Boston  society  for  the  suppression 
of  vice  in  procuring  the  arrest  of  four 
booksellers  for  having  in  their  posses- 
Anciknt  Books.  sjon  COpjes  0f  Boccaccio's  "  Decameron," 
the  "  Heptameron  "  of  Margaret  of  Navarre,  and  the 
works  of  Rabelais,  reminds  us  that  the  poet  Swinburne, 
in  an  exactly  similar  English  case,  some  two  years 
ago,  mildly  suggested  that  the  title  of  the  prosecuting 
body  be  changed  from  "  The  Society  for  the  Sup- 
pression of  Vice  "  to  "  The  Society  for  the  Suppression 
of  the  Classics."  For,  the  poet  argued,  exactly  the 
same  objections  that  apply  to  the  "  Decameron  "  apply 
also  to  the  works  of  Chaucer,  the  poems  of  Spenser, 
the  essays  of  Montaigne,  the  great  novel  of  Cervantes. 
There  are  few  coarser  passages  anywhere  in  literature 
than  occur  here  and  there  in  Shakespeare.  If  you  be- 
gin with  Rabelais's  "  Gargantua "  you  ought  not  to 
stop  at  Fielding's  "  Tom  Jones,"  or  Balzac's  "  Droll 
Stories,"  or  Ovid's  "  Art  of  Love,"  or  the  "  Confes- 
sions "  of  Rousseau?  What  of  Homer,  or  Juvenal, 
or  Martial?  In  short,  how  many  are  the  writers  whom 
the  world  calls  great  that  were  not  sometimes  coarse? 
But  Swinburne  did  not  strenuously  insist  upon  the 
appellation  "  The  Society  for  the  Suppression  of  the 
Classics."  He  was  generous.  He  presented  an  allur- 
ing alternative — "  The  Society  for  the  Suppression  of, 
the  Bible."  We  respectfully  submit  his  suggestion  to 
the  shocked   folks  of  Boston. 


Boston  Shocked 


December  28,  1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT 


THE   CITY   OF   THE   VIOLET   CROWN. 

By  Jerome  Hart. 

When  I  was  a  boy  I  used  to  tantalize  myself  with  the 
sobriquets  poetic  names  of  the  foreign  cities  that 

of  some  day  I   hoped  to  see.     There  was 

Cities.  «  The  Ci,y  by  the  Golden  Horn,"  Stam- 

boul ;  "The  Eternal  City,"  Rome;  "The  City  of 
Palms,"  Jericho;  "The  City  of  the  Sun,"  Baalbec ; 
and  "  The  City  of  the  Violet  Crown,"  Athens.  This 
last  always  appealed  most  vividly  to  my  imagination. 
It  had  color,  melody,  and  rhythm;  and  while  the  city 
of  Athens,  qua  Athens,  did  not  appeal  to  me  perhaps 
so  strongly  as  did  Rome,  its  sobriquet  was  even  more 
fascinating.  For  there  is  an  intrinsic  magic  in  the 
sound  of  words.  There  is  a  sound-meaning  as  well  as 
a  verbal  meaning.  "  Onomatopoeia  "  rhetoricians  call 
it.  There  is  much  of  this  sound-meaning  in  our  Saxon 
speech — the  "  buzzing  "  of  bees,  the  "  hissing  "  of 
serpents,  the  "booming"  of  cannon — do  not  these 
words  express  their  meanings  by  their  sounds?  So 
with  names;  so  with  sobriquets;  so  with  epithets. 

So  whenever  I  thought  of  Athens  I  did  not  think 
of  Phidias,  of  Lykurgus,  of  Perikles,  of  Aspasia — I 
used  to  think  of  the  sobriquet  "  The  City  of  the  Violet 
Crown."  Naturally,  the  meaning  of  this  poetic 
sobriquet  will  readily  occur  to  the  reader — it  comes 
from  the  purple  and  amethystine  haze  with  which 
sunrise  and  sunset  crown  the  Acropolis. 

Did  we  see  the  violet  crown  around  the  heaven- 
kissing  hill?  Well,  no.  It  was  morning  when  we 
ascended  the  Acropolis — a  cold  gray  morn — for  it  is 
the  fashion  in  Europe  to  ascend  many  high  places  to 
see  the  sun  rise.  Thousands  every  year  go  up  the 
Swiss  peaks  to  see  the  sun  rise;  it  is  nearly  alwavs 
foggy  or  cloudy  on  Pilatus  and  the  Rigi ;  when  it  is 
not  foggy  it  is  raining;  so  the  thousands  of  Swiss 
tourists  rarely  see  the  sun  rise,  but  when  they  come 
down,  they  always  lie  about  it,  and  say  they  did. 

So  on  the  Acropolis.  We  saw  no  sunrise;  we  saw 
a  fog,  but  it  was  not  violet ;  it  was  a  dingy  gray,  and 
it  was  not  shaped  like  a  crown,  but  in  large,  shape- 
less gobs.  To  an  unpoetic  person  it  looked  much  like 
San  Francisco  fog. 

* 
There  were  other  disillusions  about  our  ascent  to  the 
ascent  Parthenon.     As   we   drove  up   the   road 

of  the  that  winds  around  the  Acropolis,  we  en- 

acropolis.  countered  a  large  drum-corps  practicing 

in 'one  place  and  a  bugle-corps  executing  fantasias  in 
another.  These  signs  of  modern  militarism  were  our 
first  impressions  in  approaching  the  Acropolis.  The 
next  most  notable  sight  was  the  number  of  goats 
browsing  at  the  base  of  the  famous  hill.  Scattered 
among  the  goats  were  shabby  gentlemen  of  leisure, 
some  in  petticoats,  some  in  trousers ;  they  were  seated 
at  scattered  tables  on  the  hillside.  Not  a  few  were  bent 
forward  with  their  heads  pillowed  in  their  arms  re- 
posing on  the  little  tables — asleep,  although  it  was  yet 
early  in  the  forenoon.  The  sight  of  a  number  of 
gentlemen,  slightly  intoxicated,  and  asleep  in  the  morn- 
ing hours,  seated,  with  table  and  chair,  far  from  any 
visible  house,  and  surrounded  by  nothing  more  com- 
panionable than  goats — such  a  sight  was  certainly  pe- 
culiar, even  in  Greece.  As  we  wound  up  the  road, 
however,  a  turn  over  one  of  the  flanks  of  the  hill  re- 
vealed a  little  roadside  grog-shop.  This  was  a  "cafe," 
and  scattered  in  various  directions  for  two  or  three 
hundred  yards  were  other  cafe-tables  with  solitary 
drinkers.  This  fashion  of  scattering  cafe  tipplers 
over  an  acre  or  two  of  ground  seems  peculiar  to  Greece. 
We  even  saw  one  man  seated  at  such  a  cafe-table  in 
the  middle  of  the  dusty  road.  What  a  remarkable 
place,  time,  and  manner  in  which  to  be  convivial. 
*  * 

These  remarks  must  not  be  construed  as  limiting  in- 
Freaks  of  toxication  to  set  hours.     In  a  free  coun- 

Matutinal  try   every   free   man  has   an   inalienable 

Intoxication.  right  to  get  drunk  at  the  hour  and  in 
the  way  which  best  pleases  him.  Still,  even  in  con- 
vivial countries,  there  has  always  existed  a  slight 
prejudice  against  a  gentleman  showing  up  early  in  the 
morning  with  a  jag.  If  it  lasts  over  from  the  night 
before,  it  is  not  considered  so  bad.  If,  however,  the 
joyous  gentleman  gathered  it  in  the  morning  hours, 
it  is  frowned  upon.  If  I  am  not  mistaken,  the  fixing 
of  the  legal  marriage-hours  in  England  after  twelve 
noon  was  because  so  many  young  gentlemen  of  good 
family  were  apt  to  be  intoxicated  early  in  the  morning. 
While  in  this  condition  they  were  apt  to  marry  bona 
robas,  bar-maids,  beggar-maids,  and  thieves.  This  gave 
pain  to  Benedict's  lady-mamma,  and  eke  to  pa.  As 
the  most  convivial  of  young  Britons  would  generally 
have  sobered  up  from  last  night  by  noon  of  the  next 
day,  it  was  deemed  safe  to  fix  the  hour  of  tying  the 
knot  at  and  after  noon.     But  even  with  this  paternal 


law,  careful  drunkards  in  Britain  have  often  succeeded 
in  evading  the  statute,  and  in  enriching  the  thin  blue 
blood  of  a  hundred  earls  with  a  blend  of  the  choicest 
gutter-blood  from  White  Chapel  or  Seven  Dials. 

It  is  for  a  similar  reason  that  the  hour  for  courts- 
martial  in  Great  Britain  was  fixed.  In  the  good  old 
days  officers  and  gentlemen  were  usually  drunk  after 
dinner,  which  was  the  mid-day  meal.  But  it  was  con- 
sidered inadvisable  for  a  board  of  drunken  officers  to 
judge  and  condemn  a  sober  private. 

I  remember  once  in  Honolulu  being  present  when  a 
court  was  adjourned  to  view  the  premises  in  a  case  on 
trial.  They  were  received  in  the  hospitable  island  fash- 
ion— at  eleven  o'clock  in  the  morning  they  were  given 
large  "  high  balls  "  of  Scotch  and  soda.  All  but  the 
jury.  The  judge  apologized  to  them,  and  told  them  he 
was  sorry,  but  that  indulgence  might  vitiate  their  ver- 
dict. This  alcoholic  juridical  procedure  shocked  us 
colder-blooded  northerners ;  we  never  before  saw  a 
court  judicially  taking  a  drink  so  early  in  the  morn- 
ing. 

*  * 

Athens  has  grown  from  a  medieval  hamlet  to  a  mod- 
Streets,  ern  c.ity  °f  over  one  hundred  thousand. 

Squares,  Pal-  It  was  laid  out  by  a  German  engineer, 
aces,  royalty.  an(j  js  proud  0f  its  straight  streets  and 
its  Occidental  aspect.  The  main  thoroughfares  are 
Hermes  Street  and  vrlolus  Street,  both  of  which  start 
from  Constitution  Square.  This  is  the  centre  of  the 
city,  and  on  one  of  its  sides  is  the  royal  palace. 

Athens  itself,  as  a  city,  is  insufferable.  It  is  raw, 
garish,  new,  staring,  crude.  It  smells  of  paint.  It 
reeks  of  varnish.  It  is  redolent  of  last  week.  It  is  the 
newest  city  one  sees  in  Southern  Europe.  It  is  dusty, 
it  is  noisy,  it  is  vulgar.  Everything  in  it  is  imitation. 
The  palaces  are  imitation.  The  hotels  are  imitation. 
The  army  is  imitation.  The  city  is  a  sham.  It  is  a  joy 
to  leave  the  commonplace  streets,  to  quit  the  insuffer- 
able city,  and  to  climb  the  Acropolis.  There,  every- 
thing is  calm  and  peaceful,  and  the  magnificent  ruins 
are  restful.  There  only  in  Athens  do  you  find  a  spot 
which  is  not  oppressively  new  and  raw. 

The  royal  palace  is  one  of  the  newest  and  the  rawest 
of  all  the  raw,  new  buildings.  It  is  a  plain  structure 
on  the  packing-case  order  of  architecture.  It  looks 
very  much  as  if  the  upper  three  stories  of  one  of  Chi- 
cago's plain  sky-scrapers  had  been  sawed  off  by  some 
Enceladus  and  set  down  in  Athens.  This  royal  palace 
has  in  front  of  it  two  acres  of  dusty  gravel,  with  not  a 
blade  of  grass  or  a  solitary  tree.  Diagonally  across  this 
gravel  patch  there  run  two  intersecting  X-like  paths, 
where  the  natives  "  cross  lots  "  to  save  time  in  going 
home.  In  front  of  this  royal  park  runs  the  roadway. 
On  the  other  side  of  it  is  a  scanty  line  of  forlorn  and 
dust-covered  pepper-trees.  These  form  the  boundary 
of  Constitution  Square,  the  main  plaza  of  Athens. 
This  square  is  also  mainly  made  up  of  gravel.  There 
are  no  grass  lawns  and  only  a  few  trees.  It  is  beautified 
by  iron  cafe-chairs  and  iron  gas-pipe  arches,  which 
doubtless  burst  forth  into  loyal  flame  on  King  George's 
birthday. 

When  King  George  drove  through  the  streets  of  his 
loyal  city  of  Athens  little  excitement  was  to  be  dis- 
cerned; the  lounging  officers  saluted,  and  an  occa- 
sional civilian  took  off  his  hat.  But  most  of  the  throng 
remained  indifferent.  I  could  not  but  be  struck  by  the 
difference  between  republican  France  and  monarchical 
Greece.  In  monarchical  Greece  the  king  of  the  Hel- 
lenes moved  to  and  fro  almost  unnoticed,  like  any  other 
gentleman.  Yet  in  Aix  les  Bains — the  famous  watering- 
place  in  France,  whither  he  goes  annually  to  take  the 
waters — King  George  is  received  with  regal  splendor. 
At  the  Casino  a  part  of  the  terrace  is  railed  off  for  him 
and  his  suite.  So  on  the  terrace  of  the  Hotel  Splendide, 
the  royal  apartments  open  through  the  low  French 
windows  on  the  terrace,  and  within  a  railed  space 
the  king  and  his  courtiers  sit,  smoke  cigarettes,  lounge, 
and  chat;  on  the  non-royal  parts  of  the  veranda  Pier- 
pont  Morgan  and  other  American  millionaires  gaze 
enviously  at  Grecian  royalty.  Probably  Pierpont  Mor- 
gan could  buy  up  Athens  and  not  feel  at  all  pocket- 
pinched.  But  at  Aix  les  Bains  he  must  keep  off  the 
Grecian  grass. 

What  is  that  proverb  about  the  profit  not  being 
without  dishonor  save  in  its  own  country?  I  am  not 
talking  about  American  millionairedom.  Anyway  the 
proverb  is  something  like  that.  Well,  King  George, 
king  of  the  Hellenes,  struck  me  while  in  Greece  as  be- 
ing only  a  bob-tail,  while  in  the  French  republic  he  is 
certainly  a  royal  flush. 


The  antiquities,  the  historic  spots,  the  venerable  ruins, 
in  and  around  Athens  are  countless. 
Even  a  list  of  them  in  this  place  would 
be  impossible.  Briefly,  however,  one 
may  mention  a  few  of  them.  Starting  from  the  centre 
of  the  city,  one  of  the  first  you  see  is  the  Arch  of 
Hadrian,  near  the  royal  palace.     It  formerly  cut  off  the 


Ruins 

Around 

Athens. 


old  Greek  city  from  the  Roman  town  of  Hadrian. 
Not  far  away  rise  some  sixteen  gigantic  Corinthian 
columns,  all  that  remains  of  the  Olympieion,  also  com- 
pleted under  Hadrian.  Within  its  precincts,  there 
once  stood  one  hundred  Corinthian  columns;  even  the 
few  that  remain  are  imposing  in  their  lofty  grandeur. 
A  short  distance  from  the  Olympieion  is  the  Stadion, 
scene  of  centuries  of  athletic  games.  The  Stadion  was 
laid  out  by  Lykurgus  in  a  natural  hollow,  which  was 
enlarged  and  made  symmetrical  by  the  hand  of  man. 
Part  of  the  ancient  walls  remain,  but  the  entire  Stadion 
is  now  practically  reconstructed  in  white  marble.  The 
work  was  still  going  on  while  we  were  there.  In  fact, 
it  is  already  in  use,  and  served  in  the  recent  great  re- 
vival of  the  Olympian  games,  at  which  were  athletes 
from  all  over  the  world.  The  reconstruction  is  not 
the  work  of  the  state,  but  of  a  private  individual.  Mr. 
Averof,  of  Alexandria,  who  has  already  expended  on 
the  work  over  two  millions  of  francs.  Not  far  from 
the  Arch  of  Hadrian  there  is  a  small  circular  temple- 
like building  called  the  Monument  of  Lysikrates;  the 
victors  in  the  great  games  of  ancient  Greece  were  in 
the  habit  of  exhibiting  on  these  monuments  the  prizes 
won  by  them  at  the  Stadion. 

Leaving  the  lower  ground  of  the  city  proper,  one 
takes  the  winding  roadway  which  climbs  the  Acropolis 
hill.  First  is  encountered  the  Theatre  of  Dyonysos, 
which  was  brought  to  light  from  under  heaps  of  rub- 
bish some  two  score  years  ago.  It  is  the  typical  ancient 
Greek  theatre,  consisting  of  stage,  orchestra,  audi- 
torium, and  proscenium.  The  marble  seats  rise  up  in 
rows  and  tiers  like  those  of  the  Stadion,  or  the  Roman 
amphitheatres — or  a  modern  tent-circus  to  be  under- 
standed  of  the  small  boy.  The  seats  are  in  the  form  of 
a  semicircle,  facing  the  stage.  This  Theatre  of 
Dyonysos — sometimes  called  the  Theatre  of  Bacchus 
— seated  thirty  thousand  spectators.  On  sitting  down 
one  sees  that  the  theatrical  syndicates  of  ancient 
Greece  provided  plenty  of  room  for  the  spectators' 
legs  and  feet.  Would  that  the  modern  managers  would 
be  as  generous. 

The  next  most  conspicuous  sight  at  the  base  of  the 
Acropolis  is  the  Odeion  of  Herod  Atticus.  It  seems 
once  to  have  been  a  roofed  theatre,  and  bears  every 
indication  of  having  been  partially  destroyed  by  fire. 
Going  up  the  winding  road,  it  branches  off  here  to  the 
Theseion.  This  is  supposed  to  be  a  temple  to  Theseus, 
although  some  ascribe  it  to  Hercules.  It  is  a  very 
beautiful  building,  and  so  well  preserved  that  one  finds 
it  difficult  to  believe  that  it  is  two  thousand  years  old. 
In  this  regard  it  is  the  finest  ruin  of  ancient  Greece. 
Looking  down  upon  it  from  the  Acropolis  heights  it 
looks  like  a  modern  imitation  of  an  ancient  building. 

*.* 
Continuing  our  climb,  we  soon   reach   the   Areopagus, 
Areopagus  or   Hill   of   Mars.      It   is   here    that   the 

and  ancient  court  held  its  sittings.  Up  we  go. 

Acropolis.  aI](j    s00n     we     are     at     the     top.      The 

Acropolis  is  a  rocky  plateau  about  five  hundred  feet 
high.  Peisistratos  built  here  a  temple  to  Athena,  but 
it  was  under  Perikles  that  the  splendor  of  the  Acro- 
polis began.  The  temple  of  Athena  Nike  is  a  beautiful 
little  ruin  constructed  entirely  of  Pentelic  marble.  The 
name  comes  from  the  famous  Nike  fastening  her 
sandal,  which  belonged  to  the  frieze  of  which  Lord 
Elgin  "  conveyed  "  four  panels  to  Great  Britain  with 
the  other  Elgin  marbles.  Few  of  the  originals  re- 
main. They  have  been  replaced  by  terra  cotta  repro- 
ductions. The  Nike  tying  her  sandal  is  in  the  Acropolis 
museum. 

From  the  temple  of  Nike  the  view  is  magnificent 
— one  sees  the  Bay  of  Phaleron,  the  peninsula,  the 
harbor  and  town  of  Piranis  with  Salamis  and  other 
islands  lying  off  the  harbor,  while  around  are  seen 
many  pinnacle-like  hills,  and  further  away  the  moun- 
tains of  Argolis. 

A  magnificent  ruin  is  the  Propylsa.  It  occupies  the 
west  side  of  the  plateau.  From  here  a  footway  climbs 
to  the  inner  precincts  of  the  Acropolis.  At  the  right 
rise  the  ruins  of  the  Parthenon ;  to  the  left  the 
Erecbtheion.  Not  far  from  here  we  see  a  large  plat- 
form cut  out  of  the  rock,  on  which  once  stood  a  colossal 
statue  of  Athena,  the  work  of  Phidias.  The  statue 
was  in  bronze,  sixty-six  feet  high,  in  full  armor,  and 
leaning  on  a  lance.  The  gilded  lance-point  formed  a 
landmark  to  mariners. 

Nobody  ever  saw  this  statue,  as  it  was  melted  down 
about  two  thousand  years  ago.  But  the  exact  height 
is  accurately  known — or  imagined. 

*  * 
* 

The    Parthenon   stands   on    the    highest    point   of   the 

RuINS  Acropolis  hill.     Iktinos  and   Kallikrates 

of  the  were    the    architects,    Phidias    was    the 

Parthenon.  sculptor,  and  the  promoter  was  Perikles. 

for  he   was  the  man  who   raised   the   money.      It   was 

open     for     business     about     438     B.     C,     when     the 

chryselephantine   statue  of  Athena   was  erected.     The 

gigantic  columns  of  the  Parthenon  are  even  more  im- 


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posing  as  they  lie  in  segments  on  the  ground  than  as  they 
stand.  If  you  walk  up  to  one  of  these  broken  pillars 
and  measure  your  height  against  it  you  will  find  that 
its  diameter  will  be  several  inches  greater  than  your 
height,  even  if  you  are  a  tall  man.  The  drums  of  these 
columns  were  so  perfectly  finished  that  they  were  fitted 
together  without  cement. 

Once,  while  attending  a  class  where  we  listened  to 
lectures  on  architecture,  I  remember  my  surprise  on 
learning  of  the  necessity  for  convex  columns,  for  swol- 
len rectangles,  for  diverging  parallels,  and  for  dis 
torted  right  lines  generally  in  classic  architecture,  and 
of  course  in  modern  as  well.  These  eye-puzzlers  are 
plainly  apparent  in  these  gigantic  Greek  ruins.  If  you 
sight  along  the  stylobate,  or  platform  on  which  the  col- 
umns stand,  you  can  see  how  markedly  it  diverges 
from  the  horizontal.  So  with  the  steps — they  are  not 
exactly  horizontal.  So  with  the  columns — they  swell 
in  the  middle.  All  the  pillars  lean  a  little  toward  the 
centre  of  the  building.  These  apparent  errors — except 
the  last — are  made  to  correct  the  inaccuracy  of  the 
human  eye.  *» 

In  the  ruins  of  the  Parthenon  keen-eyed  enthusiasts 
say  they  see  color.  The  triglyphs  are  said  to  have 
been  blue  and  the  metopes  red,  while  the  drops  below 
the  triglyphs  were  probably  gilded.  It  may  be  interest- 
ing to  note  that  the  Parthenon  has  Doric,  the  Erech- 
tbeion  Ionic,  and  the  Olympieion  Corinthian  columns. 

In  the  central  aisle  of  the  Parthenon  is  a  dark  quad- 
rangle of  pavement,  on  which  stood  the.  statue  of 
Athena  Parthenos,  also  the  work  of  Phidias.  It  was 
thirty-nine  feet  high,  and  is  said  to  have  been  made  of 
gold  and  ivory,  and  to  have  cost  forty-four  talents  of 
gold,  or  about  three-quarters  of  a  million  dollars. 

Near  the  north  margin  of  the  Acropolis  lies  the 
Erechtheion,  which  contains  the  shrines  of  Athena  and 
other  deities.  The  portico  of  the  Caryatides  is  famous 
— six  figures  of  maidens  larger  than  life  support  the 
roof  on  their  heads — one  of  these  is  in  terra  cotta — 
the  original  was  removed  to  London  by  Lord  Elgin. 
*  * 

After  a  visit  to  these  magnificent  ruins  one  can  have 
How  the  some    idea   of   what    the   Acropolis   hill 

acropolis  must   have   looked   like   in   the   days   of 

Used  to  Look.  "  ine  grandeur  that  was  Greece  and  the 
glory  that  was  Rome." 

Many  have  seen  the  beautiful  colored  model  of  the 
Parthenon  in  the  Metropolitan  Museum,  New  York. 
There  are  several  such  models  to  be  found  in  the, 
museums  of  European  cities.  I  do  not  know  whether 
any  model  exists  in  colors  of  all  the  Acropolis  ruins, 
but  after  seeing  the  colored  Parthenon  model  one  can 
readily  imagine  what  must  have  been  the  sight  of  the 
Acropolis  hill.  Imagine  passing  through  the 
Propylaea,  seeing  the  Erechtheion  on  the  left,  the 
Parthenon  on  the  right,  and  the  colossal  statue  of 
Athena  in  gold  and  ivory.  Think  of  gazing  upon  these 
magnificent  buildings  in  white  and  black  and  colored 
marbles,  bearing  the  masterpieces  of  such  sculptors  as 
Phidias,  and  all  ablaze  with  colors  and  with  gold.  It 
must  have  been  a  very  different  sight  from  our  modern 
ideas  of  cold  marble  buildings  and  statuary. 

» 
There   was   a    time   when    I    believed   that   all   ancient 
Color  in  statuary   was   without   color.      True,    at 

Ancient  times    I    read  or  heard   that  there  were 

Marbles.  fanatics   who   believed   that   the   ancient 

Greeks  used  color  on  their  marbles.  But  I  looked  upon 
these  as  heterodox  persons  like  the  believers  in  the 
Bacon-Shakespeare  theory.  I  had  so  often  heard  the 
words  "  cold,  calm,  colorless  marble  "  that  I  had  come 
to  believe  the  idea  of  colored  statues  to  be  barbaric. 
But  on  visiting  Athens  and  viewing  the  many  marbles 
in  the  Acropolis  Museum,  the  Theseion,  and  the 
Erechtheion,  no  one  can  doubt  that  the  old  Greek 
sculptors  rioted  in  color. 

I  have  since  looked  the  matter  up,  and  I  find  that  I 
have  lagged  far  behind  the  times.  The  art  critics  in 
but  a  few  years  have  had  a  change  of  heart.  Their 
fluctuating  opinion  might  thus  be  summed  up: 

Thesis — The  Ancients  did  not  use  Color  in 

Marble  Statuary. 

first  axiom. 

Cerca  1883 — "  It  is  preposterous  to  suppose 

that  the  great  plastic  works  of  antiquity  were 

other  than  pure  white  marble." 

SECOND    AXIOM. 

Cerca  1884 — "  If  the  works  of  the  ancient 
sculptors  had  any  color,  it  was  nothing  more 
than  creamy  or  ivory  tints." 

THIRD    AXIOM. 

Cerca  1885 — "If  it  be  admitted  that  the 
ancien's  used  color  in  statuary,  they  must  have 
confined  themselves  to  flesh  tints." 

FOURTH    AXIOM. 

C\  ca  1886 — "  If,  a'    is  probable,  flesh  tints 
used  by   the   and  nls   in   their  statuary, 


no  other  color  than  metal  was  permitted, 
which  would  be  needed  for  armor  and 
weapons4— probably  gold  and  bronze." 

FIFTH    AXIOM. 

Cerca  1887 — "  If  colors  other  than  flesh 
tints  and  metallic  hues  were  used  by  the 
ancient  sculptors,  they  must  have  been  neutral 
tints,  such  as  dull  reds,  buffs,  and  browns." 

SIXTH    AXIOM. 

Cerca  1888 — "  No  one  to-day  can  refuse  to 
admit  that  the  colors  used  by  the  ancient 
sculptors  were  vivid  ones." 

SEVENTH    AXIOM. 

Cerca  1890 — "  It  is  preposterous  to  deny 
that  the  ancient  sculptors  colored  their  statues. 
To  state  that  they  confined  themselves  to  neu- 
tral tints  is  equally  preposterous.  Vivid  color 
would  have  been  needed  fitly  to  complement 
the  great  works  of  Phidias  and  to  enable 
them  to  harmonize  with  the  azure  skies,  the 
sapphire  seas,  the  intense  reds,  the  cobalt 
blues,  the  emerald  greens  of  Greece." 
Ergo  —  To  the  Ancients,  Marble  Stat- 
uary  Without   Color   was   Unknown. 

This  seems  to  me  a  condensed  table  of  the  change 
in  critical  opinion  on  this  color  question.  I  frankly 
admit  that  I  was  behind  the  times.  Now  I  am  up  to 
date.  Now  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  when  the 
Acropolis  was  in  all  its  glory,  and  when  the  great 
statue  of  Pallas  Athena  stood  upon  that  famous  hill, 
there  must  have  been  fully  as  much  color  on  these 
magnificent  marbles  as  one  now  sees  at  the  Eden 
Musee  or  at  Mme.  Tussaud's  Wax  Works. 


Not  the  least  remarkable  thing  about  the  Acropolis  is 
SOMK  the  vast  amount  of  rubbish  to  be  found 

acropolis  there.     Where  did  it  come  from  ?     The 

Curiosities.  propensity   of   the   race   to   "  dump    rub- 

bish "  in  all  sorts  of  odd  places  is  well  known.  This 
propensity  has  brought  about  the  great  disparity  be- 
tween ancient  and  modern  city  levels.  The  Forum,  for 
example,  is  far  below  the  level  of  the  modern  Roman 
street.  Ancient  Jerusalem  is  over  one  hundred  feet 
below  the  modern  level.  But  whence  came  the  rub- 
bish in  the  Acropolis?  The  hill  is  a  high  one;  the 
climb  fatiguing.  Why  lug  rubbish  to  its  top?  If  the 
race  is  prone  to  indiscriminate  dumping  of  rubbish,  it 
is  more  prone  to  laziness.  How  then  account  for  the 
Acropolis  rubbish  ? 

The  Acropolis  is  almost  a  solid  mass  of  rock.  There 
is  a  sparse  covering  of  soil,  out  of  which  the  rock  crops 
at  every  turn.  Remembering  Bret  Harte's  happy  title 
for  the  select  verses  of  California's  poets  in  the  early 
quartz-mining  days,  I  thought  that  the  phrase  "  Acro- 
polis Outcroppings  "  would  make  an  excellent  title  for 
the  sentimental  musings  of  the  many  tourists  who 
climb  that  famous  hill.  In  listening  to  them  as  they 
rave  over  the  surroundings,  it  is  easily  to  be  seen  that 
they  rave  to  order.  They  are  ready  to  admire  every- 
thing, whatever  it  may  be.  One  day  I  noted  a  par- 
ticularly sentimental  lady  who  was  gushing  over  every 
object  visible  in  the  landscape.  When  she  was  pointed 
out  the  hideous  modern  building  called  the  "  royal 
palace,"  she  gushed  over  that.  When  she  was  shown 
the  other  hideous  building  inhabited  by  the  prince 
royal,  she  gushed  over  that,  too. 

"  And  what  is  that  other  large  building — that  one 
there  on  the  hill?    Is  that  another  palace?" 

"Dat?  No — dat  no  palace — dat  de  lunatic  asylum," 
replied  the  guide. 

But  the  sentimental  lady  was  not  to  be  squelched. 
"  Just  look  at  that  lovely  circular  building  in  the  plain," 
she  said  to  her  companion ;  "  it  reminds  me  of  the 
tomb  of  Cecilia  Metella  on  the  Roman  Campagna. 
What  is  that  round  structure,  guide — is  that  a  tomb  ?" 

"Dat  round  ting?"  replied  the  guide,  following  her 
finger.     "  Dat  not  a  tomb — dat  de  gas-works." 

But  the  view  from  the  Acropolis  is  magnificent  enough 
to  inspire  even  the  most  stolid,  not  to  speak,  of  senti- 
mental female  tourists.  So  beautiful  is  the  view  that 
you  always  see  loungers  on  the  crest  of  the  hill.  It  is 
a  high,  stiff  climb,  and  it  is  surprising  to  find  that 
these  loungers  are  neither  guides  nor  peddlers,  but 
simply  idlers,  such  as  soldiers  and  other  thinking  men. 
It  must  be  the  beautiful  view  which  takes  them  there, 
for  the  drinking-shops  are  all  around  the  base  of  the 
hill. 


Above  I  have  spoken  of  the  absent  panels  in  some  of 
Lorp  the    Acropolis    friezes.      There    has    al- 

ways been  much  difference  of  opinion 
as  to  Lord  Elgin's  rape  of  the  famous 
marbles  now  in  the  British  Museum.  For 'a  genera- 
tion Gracophiles  have  roared  over  his  "  vandalism." 
But  in  London  the  marbles  may  be  seen  by  hundreds 
of  thousands,  while  in  Greece  they  would  be  seen  only 
by  scores.    Then,  too,  had  he  left  them  in  Greece,  they 


Elgin's 
Marbles, 


and 
Mummers. 


would  probably  all  have  been  stolen  by  private  thieves. 
There  is  much  to  be  said  for  Elgin.  His  chief  crime 
would  seem  to  be  that  he  left  any  marbles  at  all.  It 
was  very  careless  of  him — he  neglected  to  take  much 
which  he  might  easily  have  secured.  Just  think  of  that 
beautiful  figure  of  Nike  adjusting  her  sandal — he  left 
that  behind.  For  that  neglect  his  memory  should  be 
covered  with  ignominy  by  a  discriminating  British 
populace. 

* 

What  was  the  most  striking  scene  I  witnessed  in 
mountebanks  Athens — the  city  of  Perikles,  of 
Phidias,  of  Aspasia,  the  City  of  the 
Violet  Crown  ?  It  was  this.  A  gang 
of  mountebanks  drove  their  wagon  into  the  main 
square  in  front  of  the  royal  palace.  Two  of  them  in 
grotesque  garb,  with  red  noses,  painted  faces,  and 
wigs,  mounted  a  wagon  and  began  their  horse-play; 
other  mountebanks  beat  the  brass  drum  and  rattled  the 
tambourine.  The  two  mountebanks  in  the  wagon  went 
through  all  manner  of  clownish  tricks,  one  feigning  to 
pull  the  other's  teeth,  to  vaccinate  him,  and  to  set  a 
broken  shoulder,  which  he  did  by  putting  his  foot  in 
the  other's  arm-pit  and  pulling  strenuously  on  the  in- 
jured arm.  This  was  interspersed  by  violent  quarrels 
between  doctor  and  patient,  and  belaborings  with 
stuffed  clubs,  to  the  great  delight  of  the  assembled 
crowd,  who  were  probably  descendants  of  the  men  of 
Thermopylae  It  is  only  fair  to  say  that  the  crowd 
was  made  up  of  the  lower  orders,  although  more  than 
once  I  noticed  dapper  officers  approaching  the  outskirts 
of  the  crowd  and  listening  for  a  few  moments  under 
the  pretense  of  doubting  in  which  direction  to  go. 

By  the  way,  you  will  have  noticed  that  in  our  busy 
American  cities  there  is  no  hesitation  in  the  hurrying 
pedestrians  as  to  where  they  intend  to  turn.  When 
they  reach  a  corner,  they  turn  sharply  to  the  right 
or  to  the  left.  When  you  see  a  man  reach  a  corner  and 
stop — looking  up  and  down  doubtfully,  as  who  should 
say  "  which  way  shall  I  wander?" — he  is  usually  a 
tramp.  All  corners  are  alike  to  him.  In  Greece  the 
army  officers  remind  me  irresistibly  of  our  tramps. 
They  seem  to  have  nothing  to  do.  They  spend  their 
time  sitting  in  front  of  cafes,  or  aimlessly  wandering 
about  the  streets,  and  when  they  reach  a  corner  they 
pause,  hesitate,  scan  both  directions  and  finally  drift 
doubtfully  in  one,  exactly  like  our  American   tramps. 

Another  scene  I  saw  under  the  windows  of  the  royal 
palace.  Into  Constitution  Square,  one  day,  there 
flounced  and  flaunted  a  gang  of  merry-maskers.  It 
was,  I  believe  carnival  day  according  to  the  Greek 
calendar.  These  mummers  wore  shabby,  well-worn 
costumes,  that  had  evidently  done  duty  many  times. 
They  carried  with  them  a  pole  mounted  on  an  iron 
base;  from  the  top  of  the  pole  depended  multi-colored 
ribbons.  Soon  they  were  whirling  through  the  mazes 
of  the  merry  May-pole  dance,  to  the  music  of  a  barrel- 
organ,  its  crank  turned  by  a  masker.  This  was  all  done 
so  quickly  that  for  a  moment  it  seemed  spontaneous — 
if  masks  and  maskers  ever  are — even  the  May-pole 
with  its  practicable  iron  feet  might  have  been  forgotten. 
But  when  a  masker,  made  up  as  a  white-faced  clown, 
suddenly  attacked  the  crowd  with  a  rattling  money- 
box, the  crowd  melted  away,  and  the  merry  mas- 
querade became  mechanical,  perfunctory,  and  faked. 
Well,  masquerades  sometimes  are  in  other  places  than 
Athens. 

* 
The  money  of  Athens  is  a  little  difficult  for  strangers 
Making  to  understand.     The  country  is  not  yet 

on  a  coin  basis,  and  most  of  the  money 
is  paper.  The  principal  denominations 
are  "  drachmas "  and  "  leptas."  All  kinds  of  Eu- 
ropean money  are  apparently  current,  but  the  natives 
do  not  seem  to  be  quite  certain  what  they  are  worth. 
At  a  cafe  one  day  three  Americans  were  seated  next 
to  us.  They  ordered  two  chocolates  and  one  ice.  After 
an  animated  pantomime  they  decided  that  the  bill  was 
sixty  cents,  which  they  translated  into  three  francs. 
They  gave  the  waiter  an  English  half-crown,  and  he 
brought  them  back  three  Greek  sixpences  in  change. 
The  trio  then  discussed  whether  they  would  give  him 
a  whole  sixpence  for  his  tip.  As  they  did  not  know 
how  to  change  it,  they  concluded  to  give  him  six- 
pence. But  presently  the  waiter  returned  in  much  ex- 
citement. He  gathered  up  the  three  sixpences  which, 
still  remained  on  the  tray,  and  informed  them  that 
this  made  up  the  exact  amount.  The  entire  cafe  then 
gathered  and  debated  the  question  in  seventeen  or 
eighteen  languages.  The  waiter  turned  out  to  be  right 
— the  half-crown  was  apparently  about  three  Greek 
drachma;.  But  both  parties  to  the  transaction  with- 
drew with  injured  feelings — the  waiter  because  he  got 
no  tip.  and  the  Americans  because  they  got  no  change. 


Change  in 
Drachmas. 


The  n  Times  notes  that,  in  1901,  3,651  persons 

were     i  led  by  wild  animals   in  different  parts  of  the 
wo  Jeaths  from  snakebite  numbered  23,166. 


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RADIUM    AND    RADIOMANIA 

Science  and  the  Yellow  Journals— The   Real  Bearine  of  Sir  "William 

Ramsay's  Statements— Radium  Growing  Cheaper — Is 

the  Atomic  Theory  Doomed  ? 

The  physical  activity  of  the  new  substance  radium 
resembles  in  many  respects  the  psychological  activities 
connected  with  every  new  fact  learned  about  it.  A 
minute  particle  of  radium  emits,  with  inconceivable 
velocity,  rays  diverse  and  powerful.  A  minor  hypothesis 
about  radium,  timidly  advanced  by  a  learned  English 
physicist,  is  speedily  transmuted  into  a  full-fledged 
theory  by  the  reporter  to  whom  he  communicates  it, 
into  a  fact  by  the  editorial  commentators,  enormously 
magnified  by  the  journalist  who  cables  it  to  America, 
used  as  a  basis  for  a  thousand  speculations  by  the 
merely  mildly  wise  American  daily  press,  and,  finally, 
exploited  in  a  wild,  extravagant,  chaotic  debauch  of 
words  and  pictures  by  the  Sunday  "  Magazine  Supple- 
ments "  of  the  yellow  journals. 

No  wonder  hazy-mazy  ideas  about  radium  exist 
among  the  laity.  Radiomania  is  the  disease  of  the  hour. 
But  the  real  facts  about  the  new  metal  are  wonderful 
enough  without  exaggerating  them.  And  one  interpre- 
tation placed  upon  the  statement  recently  made  in 
London  by  Sir  William  Ramsey,  would  make  it  appear 
the  most  wonderful  of  all.  He  stated  that  he  had 
isolated  the  emanations  of  radium,  and,  upon  examin- 
ing them  with  the  spectroscope,  had  discovered  that 
they  displayed  the  typical  yellow  line  of  an  entirely 
different  element,  helium.  In  other  words,  it  might  be 
supposed  that  Sir  William's  observations  tended  to 
prove  that  one  chemical  element  may  "  turn  into " 
another  chemical  element.  Immediately  the  loose-think- 
ing laity  bethought  themselves  of  the  ancient,  much- 
scorned  alchemist  who.  through  patient  years,  sought  to 
transmute  base  metals  into  gold,  and  the  natural  com- 
ment was.  Well,  those  old  fellows  knew  what  they  were 
doing  after  all. 

But  a  sober  second  thought  robs  Sir  William  Ram- 
sey's discovery  of  some  of  its  interest  for  the  man  who 
is  looking  for  miracles.  Long  before  Sir  William's 
experiments,  chemists  and  physicists  had  come  strongly 
to  suspect  that  uranium,  thorium,  polonium,  and  radium, 
so-called  elements  having  great  atomic  weight,  were 
really  not  elements,  but  compounds.  This  theory  is 
strengthened  by  these  discoveries.  They  seem  to  indi- 
cate merely  that  helium  is  one  of  the  elements  into 
which  the  substance  radium  breaks  up.  In  no  sense 
is  the  discovery  indicative  that  iron  or  other  base  metal 
ever  has  been,  could,  can,  or  will  be  transmuted  into 
yellow  gold. 

Another  interesting  matter  in  connection  with  radium 
is  its  extraction  from  carnolite.  an  ore  latelv  discovered 
in  LTtah.  Hitherto,  radium  has  been  obtained  only  from 
pitchblende  bv  an  enormouslv  difficult  process — in  fact, 
to  this  difficultv  of  extraction  was  lareelv  due  the  high 
price  of  the  substance — something  like  two  million 
dollars  a  oound — which  has  so  caught  the  public  imagi- 
nation. The  London  Lancet  recentlv  described  the  pro- 
cess in  a  paragraph,  which  we  quote: 

Operations  for  the  extraction  are  commenced  by  crushing 
the  pitchblende,  and  then  roasting  the  powder  with  carbonate 
of  soda.  After  washing,  the  residue  is  treated  with  dilute 
sulphuric  acid:  then  the  sulphates  are  converted  into  car- 
bonates by  boiling  with  strong  carbonate  of  soda.  The  residue 
contains  radium  sulphate,  which  is  an  exceedingly  insoluble 
salt.  The  soluble  sulphates  are  washed  out.  and  the  residue 
or  insoluble  portion  is  easily  acted  upon  by  hydrochloric  acid, 
which  takes  out.  among  other  things,  polonium  and  actinium. 
Radium  sulphate  remains  unattacked,  associated  with  some 
barium  sulphate.  The  sulphates  are  then  converted  into 
carbonates  by  treatment  with  a  boiling  strong  solution  of 
carbonate  of  soda.  The  carbonates  of  barium  and  radium  are 
next  dissolved  in  hydrochloric  acid  and  precipitated  again  as 
sulphates  by  means  of  sulphuric  acid.  The  sulphates  are  fur- 
ther purified  and  ultimately  converted  into  chlorids,  until 
about  fifteen  pounds  of  barium  and  radium  chlorid  are  ob- 
tained by  acting  upon  one  ton  of  crushed  pitchblende.  Only 
a  small  fraction  of  this  mixed  chlorid  is  pure  radium  chlorid, 
which  is  finally  separated  from  barium  chlorid  by  crystalliza- 
tion, the  crystals  from  the  most  radioactive  of  the  solutions 
being  selected.  In  this  way  the  crystals  ultimately  obtained 
are  relatively  pure  radium  chlorid  of  a  very  high  degree  of 
radioactivity. 

No  wonder  it  is  high-priced  !  However,  its  discovery 
in  carnolite,  whence  it  may  be  extracted  more  readily, 
reduces  the  price  to  about  four  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars a  pound.  There  is,  however,  no  substantial  pros- 
pect that  radium  will  be  of  any  commercial  utility  for 
a  long  time  to  come.  Its  present  value  is  due  simply  to 
its  remarkable  properties,  which  lead  scientists  to  sus- 
pect that  the  long-held  ideas  regarding  the  nature  of 
matter  and  of  force  will  have  to  be  revised.  Chemistry 
and  physics  are,  indeed,  in  a  condition  of  transition 
and  adjustment.  Nobody  dogmatizes.  But  the  "  new 
school  "  of  scientific  students  incline  to  the  belief  that 
the  venerable  atomic  theory  is  doomed ;  that  the 
astounding  emanations  by  radium  of  actual  particles 
can  not  otherwise  be  explained,  for  if  these  particles 


were  atoms  the  substance  would  rapidly  lose  in  weight, 
which  it  does  not  do.  These  thinkers  would  resolve 
the  atom  into  a  minute  astronomical  system  of  whirling 
units.  These  units  are  variously  called  "ions "  and 
"  electrons,"  and  are  neither  matter  nor  force,  or  rather 
both.  For  it  is  held  that  matter  and  force  are  different 
manifestations  of  the  same  thing.  More  popularly,  and 
less  exactly,  matter  is  electricity.  These  be  strange 
things,  but  such  men  as  Lodge,  Crookes,  and  Kelvin 
seem  inclined  to  give  them  credence.  Crookes  has  even 
calculated  the  relative  size  of  the  electron.  The  sun's 
diameter  is  one  million  five  hundred  thousand  kilo- 
metres. That  of  the  smallest  planetoid  is  twenty-four 
kilometres.  Let  the  sun  represent  a  hydrogen  atom, 
then  an  electron  would  be  two-thirds  of  the  diameter  of 
the  planetoid.  If  all  electrons  are  identical,  it  is  evident 
that  all  forms  of  matter  and  force  depend  merely  upon 
their  different  arrangement. 

It  is  interesting  to  consider  that,  although  (unlike  the 
epochal  evolutionary  hypothesis  of  Darwin),  these 
speculations  have  no  bearing  upon  Occidental  the- 
ology as  such,  yet  they  have  a  singular  relevance  to 
what  may  be  called  esoteric  Buddhism — such,  for  ex- 
ample, as  that  elaborated  by  Mr.  Lafcadio  Hearn  in 
some  of  his  books. 


CHRISTMAS    IN    ALTA    CALIFORNIA. 


How  the  Spaniards  Celebrated  Holiday  Time. 

While  from  pastoral  California  we  have  the  heritage 
of  open-hearted  hospitality  and  a  capacity  for  com- 
munity enjoyment,  we  have  not  perpetuated  the  customs 
of  her  festivals.  Our  Christmas  celebration  to-day  is  a 
combination  of  the  customs  of  the  different  countries 
of  Northern  Europe,  modified  somewhat  by  the  Ameri- 
can environment,  and  is  exactly  the  same  as  that  of  the 
Atlantic  seaboard :  while  the  Christmas-tide  of  our 
Spanish  predecessors  was  founded  on  the  traditions 
of  the  Romance  lands,  and  was  foreign  to  our  country. 
From  the  day  before  Christmas  through  Epiphany, 
the  sixth  of  January,  the  whole  population  of  California 
devoted  itself  to  pleasure.  The  rancheros.  their  families 
and  servants,  rode  into  the  nearest  town,  and  as  there 
was  no  hotel  in  the  entire  length  and  breadth  of  the 
territory,  each  town  house  was  crowded  to  its  utmost 
limit.  But  such  aggregation  brought  no  discomfort. 
The  visiting  seiioras  and  their  servants  helped  with  the 
household  tasks  as  unobstrusively  as  if  they  were  at 
home:  the  seiiors  advised  on  the  slaughter  of  the  beef; 
and  the  children  never  murmured  at  being  packed  seven 
thick  in  the  great  wide  mahogany  beds. 

For  days  before  the  visitors  arrived,  the  townsfolk 
were  busy  in  preparation.  Not  only  had  panocke  and 
panecitas  to  be  concocted,  but  every  room  had  to  be 
polished  up  and  treasures  that  were  usually  hidden  in 
camphor  chests  had  to  be  displayed  in  full  glory  on  the 
mahogany  dressers.  Then  there  were  the  wTeaths  and 
garlands  to  make,  giving  occasion  for  merry-making 
excursions  to  the  woods  or  brush.  It  was  not  sufficient 
that  the  interior  of  a  house  be  embellished  with  the 
symbols  of  Christmas,  but  the  exterior  must  be  fes- 
tooned, and  the  street  leading  to  the  church  had  to  be 
arched  in  greens  and  gay  banners.  And.  most  im- 
portant of  all.  there  were  the  daily  rehearsals  of  "La 
Pastorela,"  upon  which  all  minds  were  focused. 

At  sundown  on  the  twenty-fourth  of  December  the 
celebration  began.  As  if  by  magic,  bonfires  blazed  up 
on  every  prominence  in  the  vicinity,  and  from  ever}' 
window  in  town  streamed  beckoning  lights.  Rockets 
scintillated  in  the  darkening  sky  to  the  wonder  and  de- 
light of  the  admiring  children.  Resonant  bells  and 
vociferous  cannon  vied  with  each  other  in  announcing 
the  glorious  tidings  of  La  Noche  Buena.  Seiiors  and 
scnoras,  mnchachos  and  mnchachos,  exchanged  greet- 
ings of  joy  that  the  good  Lord  had  condescended  to  be 
earth-born  for  their  sakes.  In  memory  of  the  night  in 
Bethlehem  each  human  being  seemed  to  gain  new  dig- 
nity and  worth. 

When  night  was  fully  installed,  the  population  surged 
to  the  church.  There,  in  front  of  the  high  altar,  was 
placed  a  statue  of  the  Virgin,  bending  over  a  manger 
in  which  lay  a  representation  of  the  Holy  Infant.  The 
sacrament  was  removed  for  the  time  being,  and  the  con- 
gregation whispered  and  bubbled  as  it  awaited  "  La 
Pastorela."  Suddenly,  strains  of  sweet  music  hushed 
all  voices,  and  necks  were  craned  to  view  the  entering 
procession. 

First  appeared  the  Angel  Gabriel,  clad  in  garments 
of  light,  with  great  purple  wings  rising  above  his  head 
and  bestowing  a  strange  dignity.  Then  came  a  com- 
pany of  shepherds  dressed  in  "flowing  robes,  with  high 
wands  garnished  with  silken  streamers,  in  which  floated 
all  the  colors  of  the  rainbow,  and  surmounted  with 
coronals  of  flowers."  In  their  wake  followed  a  hermit, 
his  long  white  beard  and  feeble  step  indicating  his  age. 
In  one  hand  he  carried  a  missal  tattered  from  much 
use,  and  in  the  other  a  lash  with  which  he  constantly 
beat  himself  as  a  chastisement  for  his  sins.  On  his 
heels  trod  a  wild  hunter  covered  with  "  skins  of  the 
forest,  bearing  a  huge  truncheon  surmounted  by  an 
iron  rim,  from  which  hung  in  jingling  chime  fragments 
of  all  sonorous  metals."  Last  of  all  came  Lucifer, 
"  with  horned  frontlet,  disguised  hoof,  and  robe  of 
crimson  flame." 


The  drama  that  ensued  was  founded  on  the  Biblical 
account  of  the  Nativity.  It  had  been  written  by  Padre 
Florencio,  of  the  Soledad  Mission,  for  the  edification 
of  the  Indians;  but  it  so  caught  the  fancy  of  the  white 
citizens  that  as  years  passed  it  was  presented  simul- 
taneously at  each  California  settlement  on  Christmas 
Eve.  All  the  leading  personages  felt  honored  at  being 
in  the  cast.  Pio  Pico  was  the  chief  shepherd ;  Bato,  for 
several  years  at  Los  Angeles,  and  the  Vallejos,  repre- 
sented different  characters  in  the  Sonoma  presentation. 

The  play  opens  with  the  angel's  announcement  to  the 
shepherds.  At  his  bidding,  they  seek  the  manger  and 
kneel  in  worship  while  they  sing  "  A  hymn  of  wonder 
and  delight."  The  hermit  and  the  hunter  start  to  follow 
them,  but  on  the  way  they  are  beguiled  by  Lucifer  into 
playing  a  game  of  dice.  The  hermit  can  not  enjoy  the 
game  conscience-free,  and  in  the  intervals  when  he  is 
not  throwing,  he  reads  vehemently  from  his  missal. 
The  hunter  has  no  such  qualms.  He  stakes  one  pos- 
session after  another  against  Lucifer.  Finally,  when 
all  else  is  gone,  he  stakes  his  soul,  and  loses  that,  too. 
Lucifer  promises  to  claim  it  in  due  time,  and  pushes 
forward  to  tempt  the  shepherds.  He  is  confronted  by 
Gabriel's  unquailing  eye.  and  loses  some  of  his  confi- 
dence. A  dialogue  between  Gabriel  and  Lucifer  fol- 
lows. It  brings  out  all  the  arguments  for  the  faith, 
and  in  the  end  the  Evil  One  slinks  away,  with  hideous 
moan  and  groan.  The  hermit  and  the  hunter,  released 
from  his  presence,  become  repentant,  and  join  the 
shepherds  at  the  manger.  Then  the  whole  cast  bursts 
into  the  old  "  Venite  Adoremus." 

As  the  beautiful  strain  commenced,  the  California 
audience  rose  to  its  feet,  and  with  heart  and  voice  sang 
through  the  grand  old  hymn.  When  its  echoes  died 
away,  the  priest  entered  with  the  sacrament,  and  mid- 
night mass  was  celebrated.  At  its  close,  the  padre 
congratulated  his  children  on  the  arrival  of  a  new 
Fiesta  del  Senor;  and  they  passed  the  manger  in  pro- 
cessional order,  bowing  the  knee  as  the  heart  prayed 
to  be  made  like  unto  the  Holy  Jesus.  Then  every  one 
went  home  to  catch  a  few  hours'  sleep  before  the  dawn. 

On  Fiesta  del  Senor  (Christmas  Day)  there  was 
high  mass  at  ten,  a  big  dinner  at  midday,  a  bull-fight 
in  the  afternoon,  and  "  La  Pastorela  "  at  some  private 
house  in  the  evening:  but  there  were  no  stockings,  or 
trees,  or  exchange  of  gifts  such  as  we  make.  The  great 
Gift  to  the  World  was  considered  enough  to  be  thank- 
ful for.  and  more  emphasis  was  laid  on  the  religious 
side  of  the  holiday. 

In  the  week  that  followed.  "  La  Pastorela  "  was  re- 
peated each  evening  at  some  different  home.  Relieved 
from  the  sanctity  of  the  church,  the  play  took  on  more 
humorous  aspects.  The  hermit  did  not  confine  his 
lashing  to  his  own  body,  but  distributed  it  among  the 
audience.  The  hunter,  who  was  the  clown,  instead  of 
snaring  birds,  set  a  trap  for  Satan,  into  which  he  was 
himself  pushed  by  the  wily  Evil  One.  The  hermit 
tried  in  vain  to  disentagle  him  bv  reading  from  his 
missal,  and  then  he  begged  the  audience  to  hold  Satan 
while  he  belabored  him  with  the  lash.  At  the  same 
time  that  this  buffoonery  was  goinj  on  at  the  side,  the 
chant  of  the  shepherds  rose  beautiful  and  reverent  to 
accompaniment  of  harp,  violin,  and  guitar.  In  the 
homes,  the  play  closed  with  a  "  riata  dance  by  the 
shepherds,  which  was  very  graceful,  full  of  airy  move- 
ments, lightness,  and  precision  of  steps."  Then  the 
ball,  so  loved  bv  the  Californians.  finished  the  evening. 

On  the  twenty-eighth  of  December  fell  a  holiday  that 
was  similar  to  our  April  Fool's  Day.  This  day  was  set 
aside  by  the  church  in  commemoration  of  the  infants 
that  were  slaughtered  by  Herod,  but  through  centuries 
the  custom  of  reverence  had  been  modified  until  the 
day  came  to  be  devoted  to  those  innocents  who  are  not 
able  to  withstand  the  blandishments  of  their  fellow- 
creatures.  In  pastoral  California,  the  twenty-eighth  of 
December  was  the  day  of  cotton-stuffed  paneeitas,  of 
salted  coffee,  of  sweetened  salad.  Great  ingenuity  was 
exercised  in  borrowing  on  that  day.  for  every  article 
had  to  be  redeemed  at  a  goodly  price.  To  every  one 
hoaxed  was  exclaimed,  "  O,  innocente !"  which  is 
somewhat  less  galling  than  our  "  April  Fool !"  On 
that  day,  too.  it  was  the  custom  to  greet  each  other 
with  incredible  ( ?1  statements.  Colton  has  left  us  a 
lengthy  list  of  those  which  he  heard  the  first  Holy 
Innocents'  Day  he  spent  in  California.  Some  are 
witty,  some  are  wise,  and  three  reflect  the  impressions 
certain  foreigners  had  made  upon  the  Californians. 
"  It  is  rumored."  so  said  the  Californian,  "  that  an 
Englishman  has  been  seen  with  a  smile  on  his  coun- 
tenance without  a  plum-pudding  in  his  stomach": 
"  that  an  American  has  said  grace  at  his  table  without 
stopping  to  expectorate":  "that  a  Frenchman  has 
stopped  his  prattle  before  death  had  stopped  his 
breath."  Any  one  that  would  believe  such  statements 
was  branded  as  the  most  innocent  of  innocentes. 

The  New  Year  was  watched  for  and  greeted  in  a 
way  similar  to  ours  to-day.  On  that  day.  the  dinner 
was  more  pretentious  than  on  Christmas :  and  then,  too, 
friends  and  relatives  exchanged  presents. 

With  "  La  Pastorela  "  and  ball  at  night,  and  with 
picnic,  ride,  or  dance  in  the  daytime,  the  hours  sped 
until  the  fifth  of  January  dawned.  Then  there  was 
intense  excitement  for  the  children  and  a  sudden  dis- 
play of  great  courtesy  and  helpfulness.  And  very  good 
reason  there  was  for  such  behavior.  Did  not  the 
Gospel  tell  that  on  this  very  night  centuries  ago  the 
Three  Wise  Men  had  followed  the  Wonderful  Star  to 
offer  their  gifts  to  a  Little  Babe  in  the  stable  at  Beth- 


THE        ARGONAUT 


December  28.   1903. 


1  And  had  not  their  mother  and  their  father 
and  their  grandmothers  atid  grandfathers  away  back 
to  the  farthest  ancestors  in  Old  Spain  put  out  their 
shoes  on  the  fifth  of  January  for  the  Wise  Men  to  fill 
as  they  passed  in  the  darkness  ?  And  there  was  not  in 
the  whole  long  record  any  evidence  that  a  child  had 
ever  been  disappointed,  unless  he  had  had  some  griev- 
ous sin  on  his  conscience.  Xo  wonder  then  that  each 
boy  and  girl  who  had  no  new  shoes  saw  to  it  that  the 
old  ones  were  polished  up  to  a  high  degree  and  placed 
in  neat  rows  outside  the  dour  or  window.  No  wonder 
that  they  tried  to  keep  awake  that  night  long  after  their 
mothers  had  tucked  them  in.  But  listen  as  they  might 
they  never  heard  the  Wise  Men  slop  or  caught  one 
glimpse  of  the  marvelous  camels  that  carried  them. 
However,  when  they  awakened  in  the  dawning,  the 
shoes  were  always  full.  The  presents  were  simple — 
perhaps  but  a  wooden  toy  and  some  funny  little 
caraway-seeded  candies,  but  they  were  a  tangible  proof 
to  the  recipient  that  the  Wise  Men  still  guarded  over 
the  children  who  tried  to  follow  the  Blessed  Child. 

It  was  well  that  the  Magi's  gifts  came  so  late,  for  on 
that  day  the  visitors  bade  farewell  to  their  hosts. 
Whatever  sorrow  the  children  felt  at  parting  with  their 
little    friends   was  consoled  by   the  assurance   from   the 

1    kine,-.      And   the   children's    faith   and  contented 

heart-  reflected  the  condition  of  all  California  as  it 
settled  down  once  more  into  the  monotony  of  its  un- 
eventful life.  Katherine  Chandler. 


CHRISTMAS    SHOPPING    IN    GOTHAM. 

Hard  Times  Among  the  Rich— Poor   Do   Not  Feel   the  Pinch— Ultra- 
Fashionable  Dressmakers  Hard  Hit— The  Sights  on  Four- 
teenth Street  and  the  Avenue. 

As  the  time  draws  near  Christmas,  one  hears  a  good 
deal  of  talk  about  "hard  times."  This,  in  New  York, 
that  for  the  last  seven  or  eight  years  has  been  simply 
boiling  over  with  money,  has  a  queer,  unnatural  sound. 
One  has  heard  so  little  for  so  long  a  time  of  economies, 
of  saving  instead  of  spending,  that  the  words  now  come 
with  a  shock  of  astonishment. 

There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that  rich  Mew  York  has 
had  a  bad  shaking  up.  The  poor  and  middle  classes 
have  not  suffered.  It  is  the  people  who  have  country 
houses,  steam  yachts,  and  automobiles  who  feel  that 
"  money  is  tight  "  this  Christmas.  And  the  great  army 
of  providers  who  cater  to  them  are  suffering  accord- 
ingly. The  finest  shops  in  the  city  are  not  very  full 
just  now.  and  last  year  at  this  season  one  could  hardly 
force  one's  way  to  the  counters.  I  was  speaking  to 
a  dressmaker,  the  other  day.  about  her  business,  which 
she  said  had  fallen  off  in  a  lamentable  way.  As  she 
had  iust  been  expatiating  to  me  on  the  quantities  of 
work  she  had  to  do.  I  asked  her  where  the  falling  off 
came  in.  Her  answer  was:  "In  the  quality  of  work." 
Last  year,  she  made  new  dresses:  this  year,  she  was 
making  over  old  ones. 

"  But  it's  not  very  bad  for  me."  she  said :  "  anyway, 
I've  got  work  to  do.  It's  the  big  dressmakers  on  Fifth 
Avenue  who  are  hard  hit.  Their  patrons  are  coming 
to  us.  getting  dresses  for  one  hundred  dollars,  where 
last  winter  they  paid  twice  and  three  times  that  much." 

The  great  middle  class  seems  to  be  keeping  the  even 
tenor  of  its  way  without  disturbing  deviations.  The  big 
department-stores  are  as  full  as  ever,  and  already  one 
docs  one's  shopping  in  the  morning  to  avoid  the  after- 
noon crush  Among  these  people,  the  cry  of  "  hard 
times  "  is  not  half  so  loud  and  universal.  Their  Christ- 
mas offerings  may  not  be  as  handsome  as  usual,  but 
they  are  buying  as  strenuously  as  they  ever  did.  They 
look  as  well  dressed,  their  furs  are  as  new  and  glossy. 

An  interesting  pastime  for  the  darkening  end  of  the 
afternoon,  on  these  clear,  frosty  days,  is  to  walk  along 
the  shopping  streets  of  different  localities  and  watch 
the  crowds.  The  character  of  Fourteenth  Street  has 
remained  the  same  for  years.  T  remember  it.  when  I 
was  a  child,  exactly  as  it  is  to-day.  People  then  came 
home  from  an  afternoon's  struggle  at  its  counters  carry- 
ing parcels  on  which  Macy's  red  star  blazed,  and  if  you 
were  elegant  and  particular,  you  carried  the  parcel  with 
the  red  star  turned  in.  The  servants  on  their  "after- 
noons out  "  always  came  home  with  red-starred  parcels. 

M.iev  has  moved,  and  is  trying  to  be  choice  and  ex- 
elusive,  but  Fourteenth  Street  is  unchanged.  Walking 
up  it  toward  Union  Square  in  the  dusk  of  the  after- 
noon, one  sees  it  filled  with  dark,  hurrying  forms,  over 
which  fall  brilliant  gushes  of  light  from  the  illuminated 
windows.  Windows  on  Fourteenth  Street  are  a  vital 
pari  of  the  -how.  They  are  of  vasl  expanse,  lit  with 
every  variety  of  electric  bulb  and  globe,  and  full  of 
articles  of  divers  son.  all.  at  this  season,  bearing 
I-   of  reduced  prices. 

Here  they  go  in  for  lay  Figures  upon  which  to  show 
off  clothes.      In   one   window    there   will   be  a  group  of 
waxen   ladies'  heads,   the  hair  beautifully   dressed,   the 
shoulders    rising    plump    .and    polished    from    fold-    of 
tulle,    each    head    solemnly    revolving    against    a    back- 
ground  of  mirrors.      In   the   next    window    a   bride  will 
!«    shown  in  full  length.  She  i-  a  blonde,  with  a  golden 
pompadour  and   ruby  lip-.      \   white  satin  dress  falls 
i   her  in  the  latest  heavily  pleated  style:  she  wears 
a  little  circular  wreath  of  orange  blossoms,  and  a  veil 
Icy  mds  in  a  cascade   of  tulle  on  either  side  of  her 
is  blaze  of  light  in  which  she  stands  falls  out- 
a  wall  of  immovably  staring  women,  darkly 


clad,    intensely   observant   of   every   detail,   their   faces 
pale  and  sharp  against  the  night. 

The  shoppers  on  Fourteenth  Street  are  always  hurry- 
ing, but  they  become  attacked  by  a  frenzy  of  haste  as 
night  falls.  They  seem  to  sweep  toward  you  in  a  dense, 
black  wave,  which,  as  you  meet  it,  divides  into  integral 
parts,  each  part  a  woman,  each  woman  darkly  robed 
and  hurrying. 

In  the  light  of  the  windows,  one  sees  all  variety  of 
faces:  the  stout,  comfortable  matron,  red  and  hearty, 
with  her  cloth  jacket  straining  at  the  buttons,  the 
cheap  collar  of  fox  fur  round  her  neck  unhooked  be- 
cause she  is  too  fat  and  in  too  much  of  a  hurry  to  be 
cold.  Behind  her  comes  a  thin-faced  woman  in  decent 
black,  her  chin  huddled  into  her  turned-up  collar,  her 
nose  and  eyelids  red,  a  film  of  smoky  breath  rising  from 
her  pale  lips.  Two  shop-girls  follow  her,  still  young 
and  fresh,  their  hair  in  loops  on  their  forehead,  large, 
flat,  black  hats  on  their  heads,  spotted  veils  tied  over 
the  tips  of  their  noses.  The  warm  fur  tippets  they  wear 
are  open ;  so  are  their  jackets.  The  icy  air  of  December 
must  filter  into  their  very  skins,  but  they  forge  by. 
light-footed  and  light-hearted,  too  charged  with  youth 
and  high  spirits  to  mind  the  cold. 

There  are  young,  rosy,  good-looking  women  with 
babies,  and  haggard,  worn,  dragged-out  women  with 
babies.  There  are  distracted  mothers  who  have  brought 
a  family  to  see  the  shop  windows. and  are  now  in  a  state 
of  nervous  bad  temper,  while  the  children  are  whining 
and  yapping  with  fatigue.  There  are  old,  dissipated- 
looking,  red  and  blowsy  women,  who  roll  quietly  by 
with  a  glassy  eye  fixed  as  in  dreams,  and  there  are 
young,  bleached-and-dyed  women,  with  very  neat,  high- 
heeled  shoes,  improbably  red  lips,  and  golden  waves  of 
hair,  pressed  down  on  their  foreheads  by  tulle  veils. 
There  are  families  who  stand  in  the  middle  of  the  pave- 
ment in  groups,  squabbling  and  dropping  their  parcels, 
and  there  are  lone  men  who  roam  by  with  indifferent 
eyes,  a  film  of  cigarette  smoke  drifting  out  from  the 
edge  of  their  up-turned  collars. 

In  color,  the  crowd  is  dark.  '  One  sees  little  gay 
raiment.  But  nearly  every  woman  wears  some  sort 
of  furs,  a  neck  piece  and  a  muff.  They  are  generally 
of  the  cheapest  kinds,  the  inferior  varieties  of  fox. 
squirrel,  and  mink.  Some  are  evidently  old  treasured 
relics,  long  since  passed  out  of  the  realm  of  fashion. 
Here  and  there  a  fur  coat,  originally  handsome,  now 
worn  and  no  longer  in  the  mode,  passes  by.  One  can 
imagine  its  descent  from  a  Fifth  Avenue  mansion, 
where  it  was  once  a  costly  possession.  Did  it  fall 
through  the  medium  of  the  second-hand  dealer,  or  was 
it  passed  on  through  descending  grades  of  poor  rela- 
tives ? 

Turning  into  Union  Square  and  walking  northward, 
one  almost  immediately  passes  out  of  the  Poor  Belt 
of  Fourteenth  Street  into  the  prosperous  one  of  Broad- 
way. The  great  square  is  a  clear,  deep  blue  in  the 
frosty  dusk,  lights,  like  clusters  of  glow  worms,  wink 
along  the  facades  of  the  buildings  that  front  upon  it. 
In  the  middle,  the  skeleton  trees  of  the  park  show  their 
delicate  tracery  against  the  glare  of  the  big  electric 
globes.  It  is  full  of  the  stir  and  flurry,  of  life,  the  half- 
heard  tread  of  thousands  of  passing  feet,  the  mys- 
terious vibrations  of  shifting  crowds.  It  is  an  eddying 
place  for  the  currents  of  humanity  that  sweep  up  and 
down  Broadway,  pour  in  from  Fourteenth  Street, 
circle  across  from  Madison.  Over  all,  cold  and  pale 
on  these  nipping  December  nights,  the  small  stars  look 
down,  incurious,  unwinking,  and  strangely  remote. 

The  Broadway  crowd  is  not  so  hurried  as  its  neighbor 
on  Fourteenth  Street.  Along  the  curb  where  it  files  by 
are  a  line  of  coupes,  hansoms,  and  automobiles.  •  the 
occupants  passing  like  shuttles  from  the  shops  to  the 
carriages.  The  women  who  compose  it  are  not  so 
invariably  clothed  in  black.  The  street  is  fully  as 
bright,  though  there  are  no  windows  with  lay  figures. 
The  light  falls  outward  on  a  throng  whose  faces  are 
less  anxious,  more  serenely  cheerful.  Buying  Christ- 
mas gifts  is  a  desperately  strenuous  occupation  when 
one  is  trying  to  make  ten  dollars  do  the  work  of  fifty. 
On  Broadway,  they  do  not  have  to  perform  this  miracle. 
They  have  the  fifty. 

(  hie  of  the  main  differences  one  notices  is  that  there 
are  fewer  children  here,  and  the  women  are  more  be- 
furred.  The  little  tippets  and  collars  of  Fourteenth 
Street  are  replaced  by  long,  flat  stoles,  by  short  jackets 
of  baby  lamb,  by  rich,  loose  coats  of  squirrel-skin,  and 
ermine.  Here  and  there  a  woman,  pausing  before  an 
illuminated  window,  lets  you  see  that  she  is  wearing  a 
fortune  in  furs.  Her  rosy  face  is  evidence  of  the  fact 
that  she  is  healthily  warm,  and  she  should  be.  with  the 
silkv  sofine.-s  of  baby  lamb  and  chinchilla  enwrapping 
her  body,  her  hands  deep  in  a  huge  chinchilla  mult, 
and  a  hat  of  the  same,  with  a  sweeping  feather,  set 
close  on  her  hair. 

Continuing  your  walk  northward,  you  come  to  where 
(he  Flat-iron  Building  cuts  the  traffic  of  Broadway 
and  Fifth  Avenue.  It  is  like  the  prow  of  a  great  ship 
that  has  come  sweeping  up  through  the  city.  Against 
il  the  crowds  break  like  parting  seas — a  black  froth  of 
human  life,  streaming  away  to  the  right  ami  to  the  left. 
The  huge  prow  looms  up  into  the  dusk,  punctured  with 
the  golden  square's  congeries  of  lit  windows.  Coming 
down  Fifth  Avenue  toward  it  at  this  hour,  it  has  an 
air  of  floating,  unsubstantial  beauty,  like  "  the  fabric 
of  a  vision."  Through  the  crystalline,  deep-blue  night, 
it  shows  like  spectral  shapes,  breasting  the  city's 
waves,  magically  lit.  as  it  forges  on  to  some  enchanted 
haven. 


Passing  it  on  the  way  up,  one  sees  nothing  but  a  wall 
of  gray  stone,  like  the  side  of  a  canon.  And  no  matter 
what  aerial  vision  it  presented,  one's  entire  force  is  ex- 
pended on  keeping  one's  feet  in  the  gales  that  sweep 
around  it.  There  is  no  joke  about  the  winds  that  circle 
round  the  Fiat-Iron  corner.  The  only  thing  to  do  is  to 
get  out  of  them.  and.  in  this  time  of  Christmas  crowds, 
one  sees  lines  of  women,  buffeted  and  breathless,  skurry- 
ing  forward  in  a  balloon  of  rebellious  skirt,  as  they 
make  for  the  peaceful  reaches  of  Fifth  Avenue.  When 
the  wind  has  an  edge  of  ice  to  it,  and  when  one's 
hands  are  thrust  deep  into  one's  muff,  rounding  the  Flat- 
iron  is  really  quite  an  exciting  experience. 

In  Fifth  Avenue,  one  finds  the  most  dignified  de- 
velopment of  the  Christmas  shopper.  There  is  no 
haste  and  no  flurry.  Many  people  are  walking  north- 
ward, and  though  it  is  quite  dark  by  this  time,  there 
are  quantities  of  women  out,  swinging  vigorously  home 
in  the  crisp,  cold  air.  The  Fourteenth  Streeters  all 
carried  parcels.  Here  one  sees  never  a  one.  The 
ascending  length  of  the  great  thoroughfare,  with  lamps 
strung  along  its  sides,  is  flanked  by  the  huge  forms 
of  hotels  and  clubs  rising  into  the  night.  Here  and 
there  the  yellow  squares  of  windows  are  so  high  up  in 
the  sky  that  one  can  hardly  realize  they  are  the  top 
floors  of  apartment-houses.  In  the  middle,  between 
these  lines  of  illuminated  house-fronts,  moves  a  stolid 
double  line  of  vehicles,  close-packed,  occasionally  halt- 
ing in  a  block,  apparently  inextricably  tangled,  and 
with  the  rays  of  carriage  lamps  shooting  gleams  into 
a  mix-up  of  wheels,  harness,  and  glossy  flanks. 

The  majority  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  shoppers  are  in 
the  carriages.  Fur  has  reached  its  apotheosis  here. 
Women  swathed  in  Russian  sables  lean  back  on  the 
cushions  of  victorias.  Others,  in  long,  luxurious  wraps 
lined  with  chinchilla,  trail  from  the  automobile  to  the 
jeweler's  door.  Black  velvet  and  ermine  catches  your 
eye.  Loose  driving  coats  of  squirrel,  with  hats  to 
match,  clothe  beautiful  ladies  who  are  doing  their 
Christmas  shopping  in  open  automobiles.  The  little 
fur  tippets  and  muffs  of  Fourteenth  Street  seem  to 
have  no  more  relation  to  these  splendors  than  the  do- 
mestic cat  has  to  the  Royal  Bengal  tiger. 

Geraldine  Bonner. 

New   York,  December  16.  1903. 


Freak  Stamps  of  Many  Colors. 

According  to  a  Washington  dispatch,  Panama  is  on 
"  Easy  Street "  financially,  for  the  postal  affairs  of 
the  new  republic  are  in  the  hands  of  an  official  who  is 
at  the  same  time  a  patriot  and  a  Napoleon  of  finance. 
The  postmaster-general  of  Panama,  realizing  the  in- 
satiable desire  of  philatelists,  or  stamp  collectors,  for 
new  specimens,  or  even  for  "  freaks  "  and  "  errors." 
leased  the  printing  office  for  a  month.  The  foreman 
of  the  printing  office  was  instructed  to  set  the  words 
"  Republic  of  Panama  "  in  four  different  styles  of  type. 
All  of  the  Colombian  stamps  on  hand  were  then  over- 
printed with  these  words.  The  sheets  of  stamps  were 
put  through  the  presses  sideways,  horizontally,  ver- 
tically, inverted,  and  straight — printed  in  black  ink, 
red  ink.  and  blue  ink.  Then  the  postmaster-general 
dispatched  letters  addressed  to  Washington.  Their 
arrival  was  duly  heralded  in  the  philatelic  press.  Forth- 
with scores  of  stamp  dealers  sent  orders,  varying  in 
size  from  a  few  dollars  to  thousands  of  dollars,  for 
large  quantities  and  denominations  and  varieties  of 
stamps  issued  or  overprinted.  The  entire  stock  was 
cleaned  out. 


In  the  newly  published  "  Climatology  of  California  " 
occurs  this  paragraph :  "  When  a  native  of  San  Fran- 
cisco is  asked  which  is  the  coldest  month  of  the  year, 
he  is  generally  at  a  loss  for  an  answer;  and  if  asked 
which  is  the  warmest  he  may  say  November.  This 
confusion  arises  from  the  comparatively  small  range 
of  temperature.  The  mean  annual  temperature,  as  de- 
termined from  the  records  of  the  Weather  Bureau  for 
thirty-one  years  is  56.1  °  F.  May  and  November  have 
practically  the  same  temperature.  The  warmest  month 
is  September,  60.80 ;  the  coldest  January.  50.2°.  The 
other  months  have  mean  temperatures  as  follows: 
February.  520 ;  March,  54° ;  April.  55° :  May,  570 ; 
June.  July,  and  August,  S9° ;  October.  6o° ;  November, 
560  ;  December,  520." 


Geronimo.  the  aged  Apache  chief,  whose  name 
twenty-five  years  ago  sent  a  chill  through  the  veins 
of  almost  every  white  person  inhabiting  the  south- 
western part  of  the  United  States,  is  now  an  ardent 
Christian,  having  recently  acknowledged  publicly  his 
faith  in  Jesus  Christ.  Geronimo  lives  on  the  govern- 
ment reservation  at  Fort  Sill,  spending  most  of  his 
time  loafing  about,  reporting  to  the  officers  at  the  fort 
once  every  day.  He  shows  no  disposition  to  return 
to  his  past  wild  and  free  existence,  but  is  satisfied  to 
live  as  a  prisoner  of  war.  His  wants  are  few,  and  for 
those,  aside  from  what  provision  is  made  for  him  and 
the  other  Apache  prisoners  of  war  by  the  government, 
he  secures  in  his  own  way  small  sums  of  money. 


It  is  said  of  Captain  Meiklejohn,  who  lost  his  right 
arm.  and  gained  the  Victoria  Cross,  when  leading  "  the 
gay  Gordons  "  at  Elandslaagte,  South  Africa,  that,  be- 
ing a  left-handed  man,  he  did  not  much  lament  the  loss 
of  his  right  arm,  and  now  plays  a  very  respectable 
round  of  golf  with  his  left  hand. 


December  28,  1903. 


THE ARGONAUT 


CALIFORNIANS    IN    NEW    YORK. 


Success  of  a  San  Francisco  Musician— Illness  of  F. 

N.  R.  Martinez— Distributing  Bread 

to  the  Poor. 


Captain  Alfred  J.  Kelleher,  who,  after 
many  years  of  musical  identification  with 
Mills  Seminary,  sailed  away  to  the  Philippines 
with  the  California  Volunteers,  lias  at  length 
resumed  his  former  peaceful  role  of  vocal 
teacher,  but  in  the  larger  sphere  of  New 
York.  He  is  now  connected  with  the  New 
York  College  of  Music,  at  1 30  East  Fifty- 
Eighth  Street,  a  thriving  institution  which 
seems  to  teem  with  artistic  activity. 

The  Kelleher  residence  on  One  Hundred 
and  Sixth  Street,  near  Riverside  Drive,  is 
delightfully  attractive  to  a  San  Franciscan 
who  remembers  Mrs.  Kelleher  as  Susan  Galton, 
during  our  early  days  of  comic  opera,  in  the 
roles  of  "  Grand  Duchess,"  "  Perichole,"  and 
others  of  the  good  old  sort,  ere  musical  comedy 
had  degenerated  into  comparative  rubbish. 
Though  the  little  lady's  health  is  not  perfect, 
and  has  to  be  carefully  guarded,  there  is  no 
diminution  in  the  sweetness  of  her  smile 
nor  the  warmth  of  her  cordiality  to  old 
friends.  I  had  the  pleasure,  at  Mrs.  Kelleher's, 
on  a  recent  Sunday,  of  meeting  her  sister 
Blanche,  who.  as  Mrs.  Thomas  Whiff  en,  is 
one  of  the  greatest  stage  favorites  in  the 
country.  She  had  just  returned  from  a 
Western  tour,  as  had  also  Miss  Susie  Kel- 
leher, who,  liberally  endowed  with  good  looks 
and  talent,  is  beginning  a  career  that,  accord- 
ing to  heredity,  should  be  brilliant  as  those 
of  her  ancestors  for  several  generations.  The 
family  reunion  was  augmented  by  the  arrival 
of  the  youngest  boy,  Joe.  from  his  duties 
as  solo  soprano  in  the  noted  choir  of  Trinity 
Chapel,  which  he  joined  immediately  after 
coming  to  New  York.  Miss  Blanche  Kelleher 
is  married,  and  resides  in  Chicago.  A 
younger  daughter,  Agnes,  is  here  with  her 
parents.  The  many  friends  of  the  Kellehers 
will  be  pleased  to  hear  that  they  prosper. 

Among  the  artistic  products  of  "  the  glor- 
ious climate "  none  that  I  recall  presents  a 
more  pleasing  exhibit  than  does  an  Oakland 
boy  named  N.  Clifford  Page.  His  modesty 
seems  co-extensive  with  his  conspicuous  tal- 
ent, and  therefore  you  fail  to  hear  as  much 
about  him  as  we  do  about  some  men  who 
make  more  noise  (than  music)  in  the  world. 
Just  now  Page  excites  my  admiration  by  his 
musical  adornment  of  "  The  Japanese  Night- 
ingale," a  play,  from  a  novel,  now  running  at 
Daly's  Theatre.  One  whose  rendition  can  de- 
tect the  rare  beauty  and  scholarship  of  Page's 
work,  will  regret  that  it  holds  in  the  estima- 
tion of  the  ordinary  dramatic  audience 
scarcely  more  importance  than  the  usual  or- 
chestral incentive  to  conversation,  or  between- 
act  libation. 

A  star  performer  at  Carnegie  Hall,  the 
other  night,  was  Michel  Banner,  whose  play- 
ing of  Mendelssohn's  violin  concerto  was 
masterly.  Carnegie  Hall,  by  the  way,  is  the 
special  nucleus  of  concerts  and  musicians. 
Its  manager  recently  told  me  that  for  the 
first  time  in  its  career  the  property  had 
earned  its  monthly  cost,  and  this  was  due 
to  the  addition  of  studios  that  go  on  bring- 
ing in  rent  while  the  big  auditorium  is  idle. 
*' Now,"  said  he.  "every  new  room  built  on  will 
earn  an  income  and  be  clear  again  !"  The  big 
plant  fairly  throbs  with  artistic  endeavor. 
In  it  I  found  Ernest  Peixotto's  picture  studio, 
and  Winkowski's  vocal  college  among  the  mul- 
titude. Doubtless  further  exploration  might 
discover  more  Californians. 

Hearing  that  F.  N.  R.  Martinez,  the  musical 
editor  of  the  World,  was  ill,  and  having  long 
known  him  as  a  member  of  the  Bohemian 
Club,  and  one-time  dramatic  critic  of  the 
News  Letter,  I  called  to  inquire  at  his  house, 
whence  I  was  directed  to  St.  Vincent's  Hos- 
pital, where  I  found  he  had  been  installed  over 
a  week,  closely  attended  by  his  devoted  wife. 
The  lady  told  me  her  husband— too  ill  to  be 
seen — had  suffered  an  apoplectic  stroke  on 
Thanksgiving  Day,  superinduced  by  Bright's 
disease,  and  that  his  condition  is  hopeless. 
His  left  side  is  paralyzed,  and  his  speech 
nearly  unintelligible.  Martinez  for  a  dozen 
years  has  been  a  conspicuous  figure  in  musical 
criticism  here.  During  the  opera  season  he 
told  me  he  "  almost  lived  "  in  the  Metropol- 
itan. Few  concerts  occurred  in  Carnegie  Hall 
unattended  by  him.  A  lady  enthusiast  re- 
cently pointed  him  out  to  me  there  as  among 
the  notables.  He  was  conversing  in  the 
aisle  with  the  other  leading  critics,  but  I  fear 
he  will  never  report  another  concert.  Mrs. 
Martinez  will  be  remembered  in  San  Fran- 
cisco as  Miss  Hochkofler,  daughter  of  Mr. 
Hochkofler,  who  died  at  the  Bohemian  Club 
in  1891.     Mr.  Martinez  has  no  children. 

The  will  of  another  San  Franciscan,  Julian 
Rix,  directs  that  Mr.  Tom  Clark,  the  ex- 
"  shepherd  "  of  the  Lambs'  Club,  and  promi- 
nent authority  upon  art,  shall  carefully  select 
from  the  Rix  canvases  those  only  that  are 
worthy  to  survive,  and  destroy  the  remainder ! 
Many  of  us  would  like  to  fall  heir  to  any- 
thing that  Julian  Rix  painted. 

Miss  Gertrude  Elliott,  a  former  member 
of  the  Frawley  company,  may  be  more  gen- 
erally remembered  as  the  younger  sister  of 
the  handsome  Maxine.  She  is  now,  however, 
returned    from    England    as    the    wife    of    one 


of  London's  foremost  actors,  Mr.  Forbes 
Robertson,  and  is  a  very  accomplished  actress, 
as  well  as  beautiful  woman  herself.  During 
their  New  York  production  of  "The  Light 
that  Failed  "  she  and  her  husband  were  ten- 
dered a  reception  by  the  wife  of  a  prominent 
physician,  at  her  Park  Avenue  residence.  Per- 
sonally. I  found  Mrs.  Forbes  Robertson  more 
beautiful  than  when  I  subsequently  met  her, 
just  after  a  performance,  in  her  dressing- 
room  at  the  theatre.  She  told  me  with  regret 
that  the  present  tour  would  not  extend  to  the 
Pacific  Coast,  though  she  and  her  husband 
recalled  with  delight  their  former  experiences 
in  San  Francisco.  In  the  audience  that  even- 
ing I  met  Mr.  Hall  McAllister,  himself  now 
a  Thespian,  but  who,  ere  becoming  one,  had 
entertained  Mr.  Robertson  at  the  McAllister 
place  in  Ross  Valley,  an  incident  which  Mr. 
Robertson  had  mentioned  to  me  among  his 
Pacific  memories.  Mr.  McAllister  is  at  the 
Lambs'  Club  while  rehearsing  for  his  next 
engagement. 

An  amusing  spectacle  attracted  strollers 
on  Broadway  last  night  into  quite  an  admiring 
audience  at  the  southern  apex  of  Herald 
Square.  A  huge  furniture  van,  its  rear  end 
yawning  irreverently  toward  the  Herald 
Building,  bore  in  livid  letters  the  le- 
gend "  New  York  American  and  Journal. 
Coffee  and  Sandwich  Distribution."  Ranged 
along  the  Sixth  Avenue  curbs,  and  bending 
across  the  Thirty-Fifth  Street  front  of  the 
Herald,  was  a  line  of  American  voters,  num- 
bering several  hundred,  patiently  awaiting 
the  Hearst  hospitalities  at  the  wagon  tail. 

H.  M.  Bosworth. 

New  York,  December  9,   1903. 


INDI VIDU  ALITIES. 


Here  are  a  few  choice  epithets  which  the 
Radical  newspapers  of  Great  Britain  have 
conferred  upon  Joseph  Chamberlain :  The 
Artful  Dodger,  Imperialistic  Knave.  Political 
Hamstringer.  Vulgar  Ranter,  and  Colossal 
Humbug. 

During  a  recent  visit  to  Yale,  W.  B.  Yeats, 
the  Irish  poet,  was  asked  by  one  of  the  in- 
structors if  he  knew  the  age  of  a  certain 
venerable  professor  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin. 
"  No,"  responded  the  poet ;  "  I  don't  know 
precisely  that,  but  I  have  heard  that  the  com- 
bined age  of  all  the  professors  at  the  Dublin 
University  is  one  million  five  hundred  thou- 
sand years." 

In  Birmingham,  last  week,  Marie  Corelli 
was  awarded  half  a  cent  damages,  each  side 
to  pay  its  own  costs,  in  a  libel  suit  brought 
by  her  against  the  proprietor  of  the  Stratford- 
on-Avon  Herald,  in  connection  with  the  recent 
controversy  in  which  Miss  Corelli  opposed 
the  erection  of  a  Carnegie  library,  on  the 
ground  that  it  involved  a  desecration  of 
Shakespeare's  birthplace.  The  alleged  libel 
consisted  in  a  statement  that  Miss  Corelli 
desired  to   erect  a  library   at  the  same  place. 

The  Norwegian  parliament  has  awarded  the 
annual  Nobel  Peace  Prize  of  $39. 150  to  Wil- 
liam R.  Cremer.  M.  P.,  publisher  of  the  Ar- 
bitrator, of  London,  for  his  work  on  behalf 
of  international  arbitration.  The  prize  for 
physics  is  divided  between  Henri  Becquerel, 
of  Norway,  and  M.  and  Mme.  Curie,  of  Paris. 
The  chemical  prize  goes  to  the  Swedish  Pro- 
fessor Arrhenius ;  the  medical  prize  to  Dr. 
Finsen,  of  Denmark;  and  the  prize  for  litera- 
ture to  Bjornstjerne  Bjornson,  the  Norwegian 
poet  and  dramatist.  These  prizes  amount  to 
about  $40,000  each. 

Andrew  Carnegie  has  helped  found  760 
libraries,  and  has  800  more  under  advisement. 
During  last  year  he  gave  158  library  buildings, 
at  a  cost  to  him  of  $6,679,000,  so  the  average 
cost  of  the  buildings  is  $42,270,  and  1,500  of 
them  will  aggregate  $63,405,000.  Now,  under 
the  contract  with  Mr.  Carnegie,  the  cities 
blessed  must  tax  themselves  annually  10  per 
cent,  of  the  cost  of  the  buildings  to  provide 
funds  for  their  maintenance.  This  would  be 
$6,340,500  every  year,  in  addition  to  the  in- 
terest on  more  than  $30,000,000  paid  by  the 
cities  for  library  sites.  By  these  transactions, 
points  out  the  Springfield  Republican,  the  li- 
braries will  cost  Mr.  Carnegie  each  year,  at 
five  per  cent,  interest  on  his  investment, 
$3,170,250,  while  the  cost  to  the  cities  at  the 
same  rate  will  be  $7,840,500,  or  two  and  one 
half  times  as  much. 

George  R.  Carter,  the  new  governor  of 
Hawaii,  is  said  to  be  a  man  after  President 
Roosevelt's  own  heart.  He  is  young,  strenu- 
ous, athletic,  and  wealthy,  and  has  many 
other  qualities  which  fit  him  to  take  up  the 
reins  where  Governor  Sanford  B.  Dole  has 
laid  them  aside,  after  having  been  at  the 
head  of  Hawaii  as  an  independent  republic, 
as  a  provisional  government  waiting  for  an- 
nexation, and  also  as  the  first  governor  of 
the  islands  after  they  had  become  a  part  of 
the  United  States.  Mr.  Carter  is  the  son  of 
the  late  Henry  A.  P.  Carter,  once  Hawaiian 
minister  at  Washington,  who  was  a  success- 
ful business  man  and  left  a  large  estate  when 
he  died  a  few  years  ago.  Young  Carter  was 
born  in  1866.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Honolulu,  later  graduating 
from  Oahu  College,  and  then  preparing 
for  Yale  at  the  Philipps  Andover  College,  in 
Massachusetts.      He    graduated    from    Yale    in 


1888.  Carter  was  an  athlete  at  college,  play- 
ing in  the  football  teams  of  1886,  1887,  and 
1888,  and  making  a  splendid  record.  He  also 
made  the  Yale  'varsity  crew,  rowing  in  the 
races  of  1887  and  1888.  Two  years  after  his 
graduation  from  Yale  young  Carter  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Helen  Strong,  a  daughter  of  H. 
E.  Strong,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.  Instead  of 
returning  to  the  islands"  after  his  graduation, 
Carter  first  located  in  Seattle,  where  he  re- 
mained for  several  years. 

King  Edward's  excellent  health  at  the  pres- 
ent time  is  attributed  to  the  electric  baths 
which  he  has  been  taking  for  a  month  past. 
The  scientific  rejuvenators  are  installed  in 
Windsor  Castle  and  in  Buckingham  Palace. 
They  are  both  of  the  double  light  variety, 
with  a  projector  of  2,500  candle-power  for 
use  upon  lacal  affections  of  the  body.  Inside 
the  bath,  in  which  a  sitting  posture  is  adopted, 
there  are  fifty-two  electric  lamps,  which  radi- 
ate any  colored  light  desired.  The  light  not 
only  permeates  every  part  of  the  body,  but  has 
a  sort  of  Turkish-bath  effect.  The  lights  are 
of  colors  which,  scientists  say,  have  curative 
effects  on  certain  ailments. 

There  is  no  truth  in  the  statement  that 
Adelina  Patti  is  half  Italian  and  half  Spanish, 
despite  the  fact  that  she  was  born  in  Madrid. 
Her  father,  Salvatore  Patti.  was  a  well-known 
Italian  singer,  and  her  mother  was  a  Sicilian, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Chiesa.  She  first 
married  a  singer  named  Barilli,  and  with  him 
lived  much  in  Spain,  from  which  fact,  no 
doubt,  has  arisen  the  misunderstanding  that 
Patti  is  partly  Spanish.  The  diva's  older 
sister,  Carlotta,  was  born  in  Florence.  Mme. 
Patti,  birth  aside,  is  really  more  American 
than  anything  else,  as  she  came  to  the 
United  States  at  a  very  early  age,  re- 
ceived her  musical  education  here  at  the  hands 
of  her  brother-in-law,  Maurice  Strakosch, 
made  her  debut  at  the  old  Academy  of  Music 
in  New  York,  November  24,  1859,  in  "  Lucia," 
and  in  this  country  earned  most  of  the  money 
which  paid  for  her  famous  Welch  castle. 


THE    TUNEFUL    LIAR. 

A  Bookworm's  Ballade  to  His  Friends. 
To  those  dear  ones  who  love  me  well 

And  now  with   gifts  would  bless, 
I'd  say,  since  naught  will  curb  nor  quell 

Your   giving's  great   excess, 

Send  me  for  Christmas — Yes! 
And  spare  me  injured  looks! — 

Some  sign   of  friendliness, 
But  let  me  choose  my  books! 

Your  tastes  no  other  tastes  excel 

In  some  things   I  confess; 
My    admiration    you    compel 

In    all    affairs   of  dress. 

Send    me    that    sorceress — 
A  pipe!     Rod,  line,  and  hooks, 

A  collie  to  caress. 
But  let  me  choose  my  books! 

I  badly  need  a  new  umbrel — 

(This  form  is  O-b-s, 
But   as   my   old   one's   that — to    tell 

The  truth — 'twill  do,  I  guess). 

And  oh !   a  game  of  chess. 
With   carven    pawns   and    rooks, 

I've   long  wished   to    possess. 
But  let  me  choose  my  books! 

Friends,  your  good  will  express 

E'en    in    cigars,    gadzooks ! 
Give  me   or   more  or  less, 

But  let  rae  choose  my  books! 

— Edward   W.  Barnard  in  Life. 

The  Quest  of  the  Local  Color. 

0  bear  me  away  on  the  wings  of  the  night 
And  put  me  in  touch  with  the  stars; 

For  it's  new  local  color  of  which  I  would  write 
And  I  think  that  I'll  seek  it  in  Mars. 

I've  scoured  all  the  earth  to  its  farthest  demesne 

For  some   as-yet-undescribed   spot, 
And  long  have  I  fared,  but  yet  none  have  I  seen 

Not  used  long  ago  in  a  plot. 

Did  I  try  South  America?     Davis  has  that. 

The  Isthmus?     Oh,  Henry's  been  there. 
The  Klondyke?     Jack  London,  a  fierce  autocrat. 

Has  gobbled  the  North  as  bis  share. 

Kentucky  belongs  to  the  mountaineer.   Fox, 

Wyoming    was   Wister's    on    sight, 
And  Parker  has  Canada's  rivers  and  rocks 

Fenced    in    by   his    own    copyright. 

1  ride  through  the  mesas  and  ranges  in  vain 
In  search  of  some  spot  in  the  West 

Which    might    have    escaped    "  The    Virginian's  " 

train — 
"  Red  Saunders  "  has  gobbled  the  rest. 

Lo,  Duncan  has  left  not  a  comma  to  write 
On   the  sad  little   Newfoundland   isle. 

And  how  can  I  dream  of  New  England  in  sight 
Of  Mary  E.  Wilkins's  style? 

1  fly  to  the  East,  and  'midst  races  of  men, 
With   names   unpronounceable,   probe 

Till  bang  against  Kipling  I  come  with  my  pen; 
For  he  claims  the  rest  of  the  globe. 

Then  bear  mc  away  on  ethereal  swells 

And  put  me  in  touch  with  the  stars — 
But    hold    up    a    minute!      There's    Herbert    G. 
Wells 
Already    located    in    Mars. 

— Wallace  Irwin   in   the  Bookman. 


TWO    ARGONAUTS    IN    SPAIN.' 


Opinions  of  the  Press. 


Town  Talk,  San  Francisco: 
"  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain  "  is  the  title  of 
Jerome  Hart's  new  book  of  travels.  Mr.  Hart 
is  a  good  traveler,  inasmuch  as  he  knows 
what  to  see  and  what  to  shut  his  eyes  to,  and 
the  result  of  his  Spanish  pilgrimage  is  a 
book  full  of  new,  crisp  impressions  recorded 
in  a  singularly  interesting  manner.  Books 
about  Spain  are  numerous  enough,  and  are 
generally  filled  to  repletion  with  detailed  de- 
scriptions of  palaces  and  Alcazars,  churches 
and  picture  galleries.  They  abound  with  dis- 
sertations on  gypsies  and  beggars,  religion 
and  bull-fights.  Mr.  Hart  avoids  these  done- 
to-death  topics,  and  finds  much  instead  that  is 
new  and  untouched.  We  realize  from  his 
book  that  Spain  is  not  a  country  wholly  given 
over  to  the  traditions  of  the  past ;  she  has  her 
modern  side  like  any  other.  Moreover.  Mr. 
Hart  writes  without  prejudice.  His  con- 
clusions on  nearly  all  subjects  seem  to  be  fair 
and  uncolored,  and  he  even  finds  much  to  ad- 
mire in  that  country  of  contradictions.  For 
example,  the  French  Government  had  offered 
a  reward  of  twenty-five  thousand  francs  for 
the  arrest  of  the  Humberts.  This  sum  the 
Madrid  police  department  refused  to  accept, 
and  the  money  was  finally  turned  over  to  the 
Society  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  to  be  expended 
in  charity.  Fancy  the  San  Francisco  Police 
Department  refusing  five  thousand  dollars  in 
a  similar  case.  And  yet  Spain  has  a  reputa- 
tion for  official  bribery  and  greed. 
"  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain  "  is  beautifully 
gotten  up  by  Payot.  Upham  &  Co..  on  thick 
linen  paper,  with  extra  wide  margins.  The 
half-tones  are  beautifully  executed,  and  the 
binding  is  heavy  boards  stamped  in  gold.  A 
fine  map  accompanies  the  volume.  The  cover 
design  is  composed  of  the  emblems  of  Span- 
ish cities.  It  would  be  an  admirable  holiday 
gift,  particularly  as  San  Francisco  can  claim 
credit    for    both    authorship    and    publication. 


Los    Angeles    Herald  : 

In  "  Two  Argonauts  in  Spain "  we  have 
a  worthy  companion  volume  to  "  Argonaut 
Letters."  The  author,  Jerome  Hart,  is  the 
editor  of  the  San  Francisco  Argonaut,  and 
his  letters,  printed  in  that  model  weekly, 
have  been  enjoyed  by  many  readers.  One  must 
not  admit  absolute  perfection  in  any  human 
creation,  and  if  a  flaw  were  to  be  picked 
in  Mr.  Hart's  work,  it  would  be  the  obtrusive- 
ness  of  the  ego,  the  marked  tendency  to  use 
the  first  personal  pronoun.  But  Mr.  Hart 
has  traveled,  he  knows  how  to  express  him- 
self in  good,  clean-cut  English,  and  he  has 
had  the  foresight  to  avoid  the  beaten  paths 
of  travel  in  describing  what  he  has  seen. 

There  are  nearly  a  score  of  half-tone  pic- 
tures, which  are  in  harmony  with  the  text 
and  which  add  to  the  interest  of  the  book. 
A  word  should  be  said  regarding  the  me- 
chanical excellence  of  the  volume ;  and  it  is 
peculiarly  gratifying  to  be  able  to  say  that 
it  is  entirely  a  Pacific  Coast  product.  Every 
care  has  been  taken  in   the  production. 

Payot,  Upham  &  Co..  publishers.  San  Fran- 
cisco ;   illustrated. 


Wills  and  Successions. 

The  will  of  the  late  Jesse  D.  Carr,  of 
Salinas,  was  filed  for  probate  on  December 
1 9th.  The  instrument  was  drawn  about  a 
week  before  Mr.  Carr's  death,  and  disposes 
of  real  estate,  money,  and  personal  property, 
to  the  value  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars.  To  his  five  grandchitdren  he 
leaves  two  hundred  shares  each  of  the  capital 
stock  of  the  J.  D.  Carr  Land  and  Live  Stock 
Company,  which  consists  of  the  Modoc  County 
ranch  and  the  stock  thereon.  To  a  number 
of  his  old  friends  and  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  South,  of  Salinas,  sums 
aggregating  six  thousand  four  hundred  dollars 
have  been  left.  One  thousand  dollars  was  be- 
queathed to  the  widows'  and  orphans'  fund  of 
Alisal  Lodge,  No.  165.  I.  O.  O.  F.  The  resi- 
due of  his  estate  is  to  be  shared  equally  by 
his  three  children — Mrs.  Jessie  D.  Sealc. 
Larkin  \Y.  Carr.  and  John  Carr.  In  his  will. 
Mr  Can  appointed  as  executors,  without 
bonds,  Mrs.  Jessie  D.  Seale.  Larkin  W.  i.nrr, 
of  Salinas,  J.  C.  Franks,  and  Harry  Winhain, 
nf  Salinas. 

It  has  been  held  by  the  supreme  courl  ttlat 
the  decision  of  Judge  Coffey  about  adver- 
tising the  will  of  the  late  Drury  Mclone  is 
correct.  It  is  required  by  section  4459  of  the 
Political  Code  that  notice  of  time  and  place 
appointed  for  probating  the  will  must  be  pub- 
lished in  a  paper  of  "  general  circulation." 
The  notice  was  published  in  the  Recorder,  and 
the  objection  was  made  that  it  is  not  a  paper 
of  general  circulation.  The  court  decided 
otherwise. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


December  28,   1903. 


LITERARY    NOTES. 


Lengthy,  but  Interesting. 

Hamlin  Garland's  latest  story.  "  Hesper," 
is  again  of  the  West,  the  author  having 
climbed  the  loftiest  peaks  of  the  Rockies  in 
order  to  secure  an  effective  theatre  for  the 
events  that  he  describes.  The  story  relates 
the  pilgrimage  to  the  West  of  a  luxuriously 
reared  heiress  from  New  York,  who  brings 
her  young  brother  out  with  her  in  quest  of 
health. 

The  girl  is  a  characteristic  product  of  the 
effete  East  —  elegant,  fastidious,  intolerant, 
cold.  She  seems  inaccessible  to  love  and 
lovers,  and  is,  indeed,  scarcely  a  sufficiently 
attractive  companion  for  the  reader  during 
so  many  pages  of  intimacy. 

Mr.  Garland,  however,  has  a  purpose  in 
view.  He  wishes  to  point  out  that  her 
confirmed  indifferent  ism  is  the  artificial  pro- 
duct of  idleness  and  over-indulgence  in  pleas- 
ure, and  depicts  the  process  by  which  Ann's 
normal  womanliness  comes  into  play.  This 
process  the  author  secures  by  evolving  a  fierce 
and  protracted  strike  in  a  mining  town  full 
of  desperadoes,  in  which,  despite  the  actual 
perils  that  surround  her,  Ann  is  practically 
held  prisoner  by  the  serious  illness  of  her 
brother. 

In  working  out  his  story,  Mr.  Garland  has 
introduced  a  number  of  characters  of  the 
frontier  type — miners,  ranchers,  cowboys,  faro- 
dealers,  and  the  like;  throwing  in  relief 
against  these  hardy  figures  the  frosty  con- 
ventionality of  the  Eastern  girl. 

Needless  to  say,  with  such  an  unconven- 
tional setting,  the  story,  although  its  inci- 
dents and  action  are  protracted  to  an  unde- 
sirable length,  gains  in  freshness  and  freedom 
of  atmosphere.  Mr.  Garland  is  familiar  with 
the  picturesque  Western  dialect,  and  freely  in- 
troduces it  in  the  discourse  of  his  Western 
characters. 

Published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  New 
York;  $1.50. 


A  Story  of  Our  Navy. 

A  bright,  breezy,  intelligently  written  story 
by  Edith  Elmer  Wood,  entitled  "  The  Spirit 
of  the  Service."  will  please  the  navy  people, 
and  interest  and  entertain  many  outsiders. 
The  writer  has  had  in  mind  the  delineation 
of  the  kind  of  soldier  that  is  molded  into 
shape  by  the  high  ideals  of  "the  service." 
This  is  Captain  Cartwright,  who,  although 
happily  married  and  a  grandfather,  is  the 
real  hero  of  the  book.  This  officer  stands  for 
fearless  integrity,  inaccessibility  to  motives 
of  self-interest,  disdain  of  popular  hero-wor- 
ship, and  absolute  and  rigid  adherence  to 
duty.  The  captain  is  a  fine  fellow,  and  al- 
though the  admirers  of  yellow  journalism  will 
consider  him  too  stiff-backed  for  their  tastes. 
one  feels  that  it  is  the  standard  of  such  men 
that  helps  to  keep  Uncle  Sam's  coat-tails  out 
of  the  mud.  The  presence  and  the  affairs 
of  a  couple  of  charming  girls  bring  just 
enough  love-making  into  the  story  to  serve 
as  the  pivot  for  a  plot,  but  the  writer,  by 
introducing  the  sinking  of  the  Maine,  the 
Spanish  war.  Dewey's  victory,  and  the  con- 
sequent newspaper  puffery  of  heroes,  has  af- 
forded insight  into  "  The  Spirit  of  the  Ser- 
vice " — the  service  whose  efficiency  of  '98 
was  so  instrumental  in  lifting  the  United 
States  to  its  present  prestige  with  European 
powers. 

Published  by  the  Macmillan  Company,  New 
York ;  $1.50. 

Mrs.  Stevenson's  Letters  Home. 
There  are  many  amusing  passages  in  the 
letters  that  Mrs.  M.  I.  Stevenson  wrote  dur- 
ing her  stay  at  Saranac,  her  voyage  thence 
to  the  South  Seas,  and  her  sojourn  in  Samoa 
with  her  gifted  son,  and  it  is  therefore  pleas- 
ant to  find  them  now  published  in  a  volume 
entitled  "  From  Saranac  to  Marquesas."  At 
Samoa,  the  gentle  old  lady  was  a  little  shocked 
at  the  native  dances,  and  writes: 

Many  of  the  steps  reminded  me  of  a  High- 
land reel,  but  were  curiously  mixed  up  with 
calisthenic.  and  even  gymnastic  exercises.  .  .  . 
they  climbed  on  each  other's  shoulders,  and 
-lid  nther  strange  things.  After  dancing  for 
some  time,  they  sang  songs  to  us  in  a  curious, 
low.  weird  kind  of  crooning.  Altogether,  it 
-trange  sort  of  afternoon  party.  .  .  . 
I  in,  of  the  ladies  ["  ladies."  God  save  the 
mark!]  had  her  feet  and  legs  tattooed  in 
really  the  raOBf  wonderful  patterns;  she  was 
quite  pleased  when  we  admired  thein  and  gave 
us  a  most  liberal  view  of  them  ! 

Mrs.  Stcvcnsnn  evidently  did  not  quite 
approve  of  the  loose  feminine  wear  of  the 
tropics.  "  Fanny  and  Valentine,"  she  writes. 
"have  taken  to  inumtts  and  holakus  [Anglice, 
Mother  Hubbards]  but  1  am  putting  off  as 
long  as  I  can.  Louis  goes  about  in  shirt 
and  trousers,  and  with  bare  feet.  What  do 
you    think    nf   that?" 

Altogether  tin-  book  is  quite  unaffected  and 
entertaining.     There  arc  a   few   illustrations. 

Published  by  Charles  Scribner's  Sons,  New 
York ;  $1.50. 

Person?!  and  Miscellaneous  Gossip. 

Although  he  was  told  by  his  publishers  that 

it   would   no*     jubt  be  more  proiimhle   for  him 

a    -oyalty,   Senator    U'<ar   sold   his 

!  1  1  u'scences  for  a  lump  sum.     It  is 


said  that  his  reason  for  selling  the  book  out- 
right was  because  he  preferred  to  make  use  of 
the  money  now,  and  did  not  cane  to  have  it 
come  to  him  in  small  amounts,  and  for  a  long 
period,  as  it  would  under  the  royalty  system. 
The  general  impression  among  senators  and 
representatives  (says  the  Washington  Post) 
is  that  the  book  will  have  a  large  sale,  as  there 
are  many  persons  who  know  the  Massachusetts 
senator  well,  and  his  reputation  extends  to 
every  part  of  the  world  where  the  history  of 
the  United  States  is  read  or  known. 

Agnes  and  Egerton  Castle  have  two  new 
romances  under  way,  and  will  publish  them 
both — first  in  serial  form — next  year.  One  is 
entitled  "Rose  of  the  World,"  the  other  "If 
Youth    But   Knew." 

Henry  D.  Sedgwick,  Jr.,  is  at  work  upon  a 
"Life  of  Francis  Parkman,"  which  will  be 
included  in  the  American  Men  of  Letters 
Series. 

Mark  Twain's  most  amusing  books  have 
been  gathered  into  a  separate  edition  at  a 
popular  price.  There  are  six  volumes  in  the 
set,  as  follows :  "  The  Adventures  of  Tom 
Sawyer,"  "  The  Innocents  Abroad  "  (two  vol- 
umes), "  Pudd'nhead  Wilson,"  and  "  Roughing 
It"  (two  volumes).  The  books  are  printed 
on  paper  especially  made  for  this  edition,  and 
are  bound  in  a  wine-colored,  silk-finished 
cloth,  with  gold  decoration.  The  illustrations 
in  the  set  are  by  E.  W.  Kemble,  Peter  Newell, 
B.  West   Clinedinst,  and  J.   G.  Brown. 

J.  J.  Bell,  of  "  Wee  Macgregor  "  fame,  has 
ready  for  publication  another  book  of  the 
Scotch  genre  type.  It  is  to  be  called  "  Mrs. 
McLerie."  and  is  a  collection  of  comic  epi- 
sodes, grouped  around  a  central  personality 
quite  amusing  enough  to  hold  the  sketches 
together. 

Andy  Adams,  author  of  "  The  Log  of  a 
Cowboy,"  has  completed  a  romance  of  old 
Texas,  to  be  called,  "  A  Texas  Matchmaker." 

The  Macmillan  Company  will  publish  at 
once  what  is  said  to  be  a  remarkable  series 
of  "  Illustrations  to  Rudyard  Kipling's  Jungle 
Book,"  by  two  well-known  English  artists, 
Mr.  Maurice  and  Edward  Detmold.  The  six- 
teen pictures  are  reproduced  in  color.  The 
edition  is  limited  to  five  hundred  copies. 

M.  Paoli,  the  celebrated  French  special 
commissary  of  police,  who  for  many  years 
had  accompanied  kings,  queens,  princes,  and 
other  great  personages  during  their  tours 
through  France,  is  about  to  publish  in  Paris 
the  first  volume  of  his  memoirs.  In  this  vol- 
ume he  confines  himself  to  narrating  every- 
thing interesting  relative  to  the  visits  of  the 
late  Queen  Victoria  to  the  South  of  France. 
The  volume,  it  is  said,  will  be  first  submitted 
to  King  Edward  the  Seventh  before  its  ap- 
pearance in  public. 

Gouverneur  Morris,  who  visited  California 
a  few  months  ago,  shares  the  migratory  ten- 
dency of  the  average  modern  novelist.  He  is 
now  sojourning  in  India,  where  he  is  living 
among  the  natives,  hobnobbing  with  rajahs, 
and  making  a  close  study  of  Indian  conditions, 
with  a  view  to  a  future  novel. 

John  La  Farge's  book,  "  Great  Masters."  is 
announced  for  early  publication.  It  contains 
biographical  and  critical  essays  on  Michael 
Angelo.  Raphael.  Rembrandt.  Rubens.  Velas- 
quez, Durer.  and  Hokusai.  and  is  illustrated 
with  sixty-seven  full-page  engravings,  entirely 
covering  the  field  of  classic  art. 

The  Revell  Company  says  that  the  four 
books  of  Ralph  Connor,  published  during  the 
last  four  years,  have  aggregated  a  sale  of  more 
than  a  million  copies.     Who  is  Ralph  Connor? 

Paris  is  in  a  fine  frenzy  over  the  De  Blowitz 
memoirs,  presumably  because  the  reminis- 
censes  are  so  appallincly  frank  concerning 
thincs  French  ;  and  the  Parisian  reviewers  are 
hurling  insults  at  M.  de  Blowitz  as  only  Paris- 
ian journalists  can. 

Alfred  Henry  Lewis  has  swung  from  "The 
Boss"  and  New  York  politics  back  to  the 
scenes  of  his  early  Wolfville  success,  and  is 
hard  at  work  on  a  novel  of  the  plains. 

Herbert  Spencer's  publishers  announce  that 
his  autobiography  is  already  in  print. 

Henry  W.  Boynton's  "  Bret  Harte."  in  the 
Contemporary  Men  of  Letters  Series,  is  a  brief, 
clear,  and  readable  sketch.  The  author's  feel- 
ings about  Harte's  whole  contribution  to  let- 
ters is  indicated  on  his  first  page  thus  epi- 
grammatically  :  "  He  had  one  brilliant  vision, 
and  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  reminding  him- 
self of  it." 

Mr.  Zangwill  is  writing  a  book  on  Zionism, 
in  which  he  deals  minutely  and  at  some  length 
with  the  problem  of  the  return  of  the  Jews  to 
Palestine.  It  is  expected  to  appear  some  time 
next  spring. 

The  name  "  Aquila  Kempster,"  which  ap- 
pears on  the  title-page  nf  "  The  Mark,"  is  not 
a  pseudonym.  The  author  is  a  newspaper  man 
of  New  York. 

Herbert  Spencer  was  the  originator  of  that 
severely  overworked  phrase.  "  the  survival  of 
the  fittest."  But  he  never  approved  the  use 
to  which  it  has  often  been  put  in  the  defense 
of  all  kinds  of  spoliation  of  the  weak  by  the 


strong.  Huxley  once  wrote  that  the  substitu- 
tion of  the  "  survival  of  the  fittest  "  for  "  nat- 
ural selection  "  was  "unlucky."  and  had  "done 
much  harm,"  because  the  fittest  under  some 
conditions  may  be  ethically  the  worst,  and 
their  survival  work  toward  degradation. 


CHRISTMAS    VERSE. 

A  Ballad  of  the  Nativity. 
Now   it  was   Mary  dreamed   this  dream. 
Ere    yet    her    Child    was   born 
■   In   that  poor  place  in    Bethlehem, 
In    that    p^or    stall    forlorn, 
Before  the  dark  of  night  had   fled 
And   given    place   to   morn. 

She    fell   asleep  and    dreamed    this  dream 
That    filled    her    heart    with    fear — 

That   she  had  died  that   One  might  live 
Whose  life  was  very  dear. 

And  that  she  never  saw   His  face 
Or  dried  His  earliest  tear. 

She  dreamed  that  her  own  life  went  out — 

Her  life  divinely  sweet — 
Ere  she  could   press   His    little    hands 

Or   kiss  His   little   feet, 
Or  know  the   bliss   that  was  to  make 

Her    woman h nod   complete. 

She  dreamed  she   died  before  she  knew 

The  trembling  joy  to  say, 
"  I   am   a   mother,    I    whose  life 

So    bleak    was    yesterday ; 
I   know  at  last  that  perfect  hour 

For  which   all   women  pray." 

Oh,  strangely  came  this  dream  to  her. 

This  dream  of  utter  woe. 
While  through   the  dark  Judean   night, 

Above  the  wastes  of  snow, 
A   star  flamed   in    the  midnight  heaven 

And  set   the    East   aglow. 

And  ere  the  pallid  dawn  had  come 

To  break  her  sacred  rest. 
She  wakened   with   a  startled   moan 

And   tears  the   bitterest, 
And  lo!     she   felt   two  little  hands 

Clasped    close    upon    her    breast ! 
— Charles  Hanson  Tozvnc  in  Lippincott's  Magazine. 

When  Mary  Woke. 
It  was  Mary  slept  on    the   fragrant  hay — 

As    a    folded    lily   sleeps — 
With   the  Christ-Child  close  in   her  circling  arms 

As   leaf  to   the    blossom    keeps. 
And  the  moonlight  stole  through  the  stable  door 

As  a   careful   watcher  creeps. 

It   was   Mary    woke   in   the  quiet   morn — 
Most  good  was  her  smile  to  see — 
"  Oh,    fair  little    Son,    T   have   dreamed   a    dream 
As  sweet  as  a   dream    may  be." 

And    the    heart    of    the    Christ- Child    answered, 
Though  never  a  word  spake   He. 

"  For   I  saw  Thee  stand   in   a  lofty  place," 
She    said,    "  amid    honors   meet; 
There   were   roses   red    in    Thy   open    hands 

And  roses  red  at  Thy  feet." 
Oh,    Mother,,  my   Mother,   yea.    roses    red 
As    blood    in    my    ?-eins    may    beat." 

"And  I  heard  the  sound  of  the  joy  of  men. 
And  Thine   were   their  cries,"   she  said, 

"  And  they  gave  Thee  drink  in   a  carven  cup 
One  raised  to  Thy  lordly  head." 

"  Oh,   Mother,  the  drink  that   I   drink   that  day 
Is  as  tears  Thy  eyes  must  shed." 

"And  a  ring  of  the  beaten   gold,"  she  said, 

"  The  circlet  above  Thy  hair, 
Oh,   I   dreamed   I  saw  Thee  a  crowned  king 

In    a   wondrous   crown   and    rare." 
"  Oh,  my  Mother,  the  crown  men  keep  for  vie 

The  flesh  of  my   brow  must   tear." 

"  And  behold,  on  my  own  glad  breast,"  she  said, 

"  Oh,   methought,    right    royally, 
Were  seven  great  jewels  that  flashed  and  shone. 

Fair  gifts  that  I  had  from  Thee." 
"  Oh,   Mother,   the  seven  wounds  in   Thy  heart 

Thou   shall   bear   for  love  of   Me!  " 

//  was  Mary  who  soothed  the  Christ-Child's  tears, 
Nor   deemed   that   lie  wept    Her   Coin 

What    time   on    the    hill    of   Calvary, 
In    the    driven    mist    and    rain. 

On  the  blown,   bleak  hill  of  Calvary, 
Her  dream  should  he  dreamed  again, 

— Theodosia   Garrison    in    Bazar, 

There  was  a  Baby  Born  in  Bethlehem. 
There    was   a    baby   born    in    Bethlehem. 

I    know    they  say 
Thai    this  and  that's  in   doubt:  and,   for  the  rest, 
That    learned   men    who  surely   should   know  best 
Explain    how    myths  crept    in,    and    followers'    talcs 
confused  the   truth, 

1    know :     hut   any   way 
There  was  a  baby  horn   in    Bethlehem 
Who    lived    and    grew    and    loved    and    healed    and 
tauclH 

Ami  died:    but   not   t>>  me. 
When    Christmas  conies    1    see    I  Inn    slill    arise, 
The    gentle,    the    enmpassi  male,    the    w  ise, 
Wiping    Earth's    tears   away,    stilling    her    Strife; 
Calling,  "My  path   is  peace:     my   way  is  life!" 
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"In    Dollars    and    Democracy."    Sir    Philip 
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of  American  social  and  public  life  obtained  in 
his   recent   sojourn    of   a   year   in   the   United 
States. 


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December  2&.   1903. 


THE        ARGONAUT. 


THE    HOLIDAY    BOOK    MART. 


The  Frivolity  of  the  Fashionable  Bindings  of  Books. 


To-day  is  the  bookbinder's  day.  Never 
since  the  gold-wrought  papyri  of  the  Egyp- 
tians has  the  outward  and  visible  sign  of  the 
book  held  such  high  carnival  as  it  does  to- 
day. 

The  bookshelf  of  our  forefathers  held  a  sober 
array  of  heavy,   calf-bound   volumes,   secured, 
perhaps,  by  a  leathern  thong.     And  by  reason 
of    its    durability    that    good   old    calf    is    ours 
to-day — a  ponderous   Bible,   perchance,  or   Sir  ; 
Izaak  Walton's  "Compleate  Angler."  published 
three    centuries    ago.    and    so    on    to    the    end. 
A    man's   library   was   then    a   serious    matter,  ; 
and  his  books,  like  his  conscience,  hide-bound  i 
and  eternal. 

But  in  these  latter  days,  book-binding,  with 
many  other  abuses,  has  run  riot  until  we  find 
in    the    modern    book-shop     every     form     of  | 
frivolity    from    vellum   to    oil-cloth    regardless 
of  the  subject-matter  within. 

Enter  any  book-shop,  behold  we  are  imme- 
diately in  the  presence  of  the  wise  and  great. 
But  how  have  the  mighty  fallen !  We  are 
looking  for  something  by  Carlyle.  We  find 
the  right  volume;  it  is  of  convenient  size,  but 
when  we  look  beneath  its  wrapper  we  find  a 
festive  white  and  gold  cover.  A  white  and 
gold  binding  for  the  man  who  scon's  at  what 
he  himself  terms  "  superfluous  show-cloaks  " 
and  "  deceptive  bedizening  "  !  Can  your  fancy 
picture  rugged,  grumpy  old  Carlyle  in  a  white 
suit  with  gilt  trimmings?  We  object  to  the 
binding  as  something  to  make  the  creator  of 
Teufelsdrockh  turn  in  his  grave.  "  Oh.  we 
have  others,"  the  good-natured  salesman  as- 
sures us,  and  hands  down  a  volume  of 
"  Heroes  and  Hero- Worship,"  done  in  scarlet 
moire  silk.  Shades  of  the  soul  who  battled 
for  "  stripped  honesty  "  ! 

We  agree  with  the  salesman  that  the  binding 
is  unique,  but  we  prefer  to  look  further.  The 
proud  proprietor  sees  no  satire  in  these  set- 
tings, and  calls  our  attention  to  a  handsome 
set  of  handy-volume  books  that  occupies  a 
whole  shelf.  We  take  one  down  at  random 
and  find  it  is  a  flexible-back,  gilt-and-green 
"  Temple  "  edition  of  the  Bible.  Our  random 
selection  was  the  book  of  Job,  that  classic 
of  Hebrew  literature.  Steadfast  Job,  who. 
from  the  depths  of  his  tribulations,  cried, 
"  Though  He  slay  me.  yet  will  I  trust  Him  !" 
bound  after  all  these  years  in  "extra- 
flexible  "  back !  Ye  Gods  !  We  do  not  wish 
to  trifle  with  the  patriarchs  and  prophets,  so 
we  turn  away.  We  turn  to  a  pile  of  delicates- 
sen in  Mosher's  "  Brocade  Edition."  On 
the  top  lies  Robert  Louis  Stevenson's  defense 
of  Father  Damien.  a  manly  plea  in  a  godly 
cause  ;  but  "  dirty  Damien."  as  even  his  lovers 
called  him,  in  Pompadour  brocade,  is  a 
travesty  on  truth. 

"Have  you  nothing  simpler?"  we  hear  a 
pained  voice  asking,  which  we  scarcely  recog- 
nize as  our  own. 

To  be  sure !  Our  eyes  are  unexpectedly 
gladdened  by  a  wholesome,  old-fashioned, 
blue-and-whitc  check.  Here  for  once  is  the 
appropriate !  And  turning  the  pages  to  find 
the  dear  "  Dotty  Dimple  "  or  its  kind,  our 
eye  catches  something  like:  "Absinthe  makes 
the  heart  grow  fonder,"  which  gives  us  pause. 
This  simple,  child-like  little  gingham  frock  is 
worn  by  the  "  Cynic's  Calendar."  Did  you 
ever  hear  an  infant  quote  Diogones? 

"  Perhaps  something  lighter  would  suit  you 
better?"  the  indefatigable  voice  at  our  elbow 
suggests.  "  Our  two  best  sellers  are  still 
'  Lady  Rose's  Daughter '  and  '  The  Vir- 
ginian.' "  We  take  up  the  book  with  a  sigh 
of  satisfaction  at  noticing  the  lariat  inter- 
woven with  the  name-plate,  and  read  the 
press  notice  that  this  is  the  long-looked-for 
typical  American  character.  We  forget  for 
the  moment  that  we  are  at  a  Masquerade  of 
the  Immortals.  "  Is  he?"  we  ask,  wonderingly. 
fingering  the  pages  at  the  cottonwood  episode. 
"  I  have  never  killed  for  pleasure  or  profit." 
is  a  proud  boast  to  be  sure,  but  does  it  not 
savor  too  strongly  of  "  The  Law  of  the 
Jungle"?  and  is  it  not  more  creditable  to  the 
mental  attitude  of  a  wolf  than  a  man?  We 
can  imagine  certain  white  settlements  where 
non-killing  is  not  counted  as  a  shining  virtue. 
But.  "  we  have  doubled  our  order  for  these 
two,"  the  salesman  confides  to  us  as  a  blue- 
eyed  young  girl  takes  up  the  other  "best 
seller"  attracted,  no  doubt,  by  the  title.  "  Lady 
Rose's  Daughter  " — such  a  pretty  title,  and  so 
suggestive  of  innocence  and  sweetness! 

We  are  lost  a  moment  in  trying  to  fathom 
the  devious  ways  of  the  popular  mind,  when 
the  salesman  in  triumph  produces  a  new  vol- 
ume. A  slim  little  book,  limp  of  back, 
floppy  of  edge,  shaggy  of  paper.  "  Sonnets 
from  the  Portuguese"  we  decipher  among 
much  filigree-work,  somewhat  awed  by  the 
presence  of  so  much  splendor.  It  is  such  a 
very  modish  edition,  so  flauntingly  "  one  of 
the  latest  models  from  Carslake,"  with  its 
geranium  suede  and  Nile-green  facings,  that 
we  wonder  if  the  tender,  vital  text  of  the  son- 
nets feels  quite  at  home  in  its  "  dress-up " 
clothes,  and  if.  perhaps,  all  this  exterior  gor- 
geousness  is  not  a  bit  ashamed  of  the  humble  : 
"  For  frequent  tears  have  run 
The  colors  fiora  my  life  and  left  so  dead 
And  pale  a  stuff."  .  .  . 

But  they  are  pretty,  amazingly  pretty,  some 


of  these  holiday  editions.  The  present  fancy 
is  certainly  satisfied  with  the  dainty  kid  and 
vellum  with  their  exquisite  tooling.  It  is 
really  a  most  charming  fad.  this  book-binding, 
but  what  of  the  books?  When  the  day  of 
limp  backs  and  white  vellum  is  done,  what 
of  the  books?  Because  your  library  furnish- 
ing is  strictly  up  to  date,  will  you  buy  a  new 
set  of  English  classics  when  their  present 
binding  is  passe?  Would  Shakespeare  be  ban- 
ished from  your  modern  presence  because  his 
doublet  and  hose  are  out  of  style  ?  When 
green-and-gilt  is  superseded  by  another  com- 
bination, will  your  family  Bible  be  relegated 
to  the  garret?  Because  Job's  limp  back  is 
supplanted  by  a  stiff  one,  will  your  family 
record,  that  bears  the  date  of  your  marriage, 
the  death  of  your  first-born,  the  birth  of  your 
heir,  be  sold  at  second  hand? 

Is  nothing  in  this  great  wide  world  proof 
against  the  invasion  of  the  restless  fad?  Is 
your  library  a  storehouse  for  the  world's  wis- 
dom, or  something  akin  to  a  millinery  open- 
ing? Marguerite  Stabler. 


California's  Preponderance  of  Brains. 
Most  extraordinary  and  remarkable  testi- 
mony to  the  eminence  in  national  life  of  men 
and  women  resident  in  California  is  contained 
in  the  last  "  Who's  Who  in  America,"  a  book 
which  aims  to  include  the  names  of  all  living 
persons  of  note  in  the  country.  An  analysis 
of  the  names  by  States  not  only  shows  that 
California,  in  proportion  to  her  population, 
has  more  persons  of  national  distinction  than 
any  other  State  whatsoever  in  the  United 
States,  but  that  the  entire  West  has  propor- 
tionally more  eminent  men  than  the  East, 
excepting  only  New  York.  For  example, 
Michigan  has  almost  exactly  a  million  more 
people  than  California,  yet  the  Wolverine 
State  has  only  240  names  in  "  Who's  Who." 
while  California  has  424.  Put  in  another 
way.  California  has  more  names  in  "  Who's 
Who  "  than  Washington.  Oregon.  Nevada. 
Arizona,  Utah.  Idaho.  New  Mexico.  Wyoming. 
Montana.  North  Dakota.  South  Dakota,  and 
Oklahoma  combined,  with  a  population  of 
three  or  four  millions.  It  has  more  than 
three  times  as  many  as  Texas  with  twice  our 
population.  In  other  words,  for  each  *'  emi- 
nent"  man  in  Texas,  there  are  six  in  Califor- 
nia. And  comparison  with  Eastern  States  (ex- 
cepting New  York,  the  Mecca  of  brains^  gives 
quite  as  striking  results.  Thus,  though  In- 
diana (home  of  authors  though  it  be!)  and 
Minnesota  have  together  four  million  people, 
the  list  of  "  eminents  "  combined  only  equals 
this  State's.  Mississippi,  whose  population  ex- 
ceeds California's  a  few  thousand,  has  one- 
eichth  our  number  of  names  in  "  Who's  Who." 
In  fact,  only  four  States  in  all  have  more 
of  the  "  truly  great  "  than  California.  These 
are  Illinois  with  951.  Ohio  with  535.  Pennsyl- 
vania with  1. too.  New  York  with  3.675.  and 
Massachusetts  with  1,297.  and  only  two  of 
them — Massachusetts  and  New  York — have 
relatively  a  better  showing.  The  diagram  (in 
the  World)  from  which  these  facts  are  taken 
also  reveals  that  New  York  is  the  only  Eastern 
State  to  which  brains  are  migrating.  She  has 
3.675  "  eminents "  now,  but  only  2.640  were 
born  there.  All  the  other  Eastern  States  have 
given  birth  to  greatness,  but  have  lost  their 
gifted  sons  to  New  York  and  "  the  great 
West."  For  example,  419  of  those  given  place 
in  "  Who's  Who "  were  born  in  Maine,  but 
only  118  of  those  in  "Who's  Who"  live  in 
Maine.  California  shows  an  exactly  opposite 
state  of  affairs.  Only  93  persons  given  place 
in  "  Who's  Who "  were  born  here,  but,  as 
stated.  474  are  now  permanently  resident 
within  our  borders.  It  is  indeed  a  striking 
fact  that  the  most  marked  intellectual  ac- 
tivity in  all  departments  of  thought  and 
achievement  in  the  United  States  to-day 
centres  in  the  city  of  New  York  and  in  the 
State  of  California. 


New  York  Evening  Post  in  behalf  of  a  poet 
whose  work  "  received  the  personal  indorse- 
ment of  such  men  as  Professor  Charles  Eliot 
Norton  and  Professor  James."  but  who  "  is 
keeping  the  wolf  from  the  door  by  acting 
as  superintendent  of  a  gang  of  Italian  laborers 
in  the  New  York  subway."  Mr.  Caffin  con- 
tinues : 

He  is  a  man  of  frail  physique,  which  is 
likely  to  be  further  impaired  by  the  damp  cold 
of  the  tunnel.  His  friends  regard  him  as  a 
man  of  genius,  and  Professor  James,  in  a 
personal  letter,  spoke  of  his  recent  book  of 
verse  as  the  most  important  published  since 
the  best  of  Browning  and  of  Wordsworth  : 
yet,  for  the  present  at  least,  all  chance  of  fu- 
ture production  is  stopped  through  the  neces- 
sity of  keeping  body  and  soul  together.  So 
simple  are  his  tastes  that  six  hundred  dollars 
a  year  would  be  sufficient  for  his  needs.  If 
there  is  any  one  who,  pitying  this  waste  of 
genius,  can  do  something  to  alleviate  it.  I 
shall  be  happy  to  put  him  or  her  in  touch  with 
the  individual. 

In  the  interests  of  romance  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  a  "  her "  rather  than  a  "  him  " 
will  respond. 

Spurious  Memoirs  of  the  Austrian  Court. 
There  was  recently  published  in  an  Eastern 
weekly  a  full-page  portrait  of  the  "  anony- 
mous "  author  of  the  intimate  memoirs  en- 
titled "  The  Martyrdom  of  an  Empress  "  and 
"  A  Keystone  of  Empire."  It  showed  her 
decked  in  furs,  loaded  with  jewels — necklace, 
tiara,  collar  of  pearls,  bracelets,  earrings, 
rings  galore — and  presenting  withal  a  regal 
appearance.  Despite  this  and  the  protests 
of  the  publishers,  the  memoirs  are  believed 
to  be  spurious.  "  The  Martydrom  of  an 
Empress  "  purported  to  have  been  written  by 
a  woman  to  whom  the  unhappy  Elizabeth 
disclosed  her  inmost  secrets ;  in  the  "  Key- 
stone "  the  impression  conveyed  is  said  to  be 
that  of  an  ubiquitous  aid-de-camp  who  is 
within  earshot  during  a  seventeen-page 
"  heart-to-heart  talk "  between  the  Emperor 
Ferdinand  and  the  Archduchess  Sophia,  when 
the  emperor  "  would  have  sincerely  preferred 
an  encounter  with  a  virago  from  the  slums, 
flying  at  him  with  oaths  and  curses,  or  tear- 
ing him  tjodily  like  a  wildcat."  The  "  Mar- 
tyrdom "  (says  the  New  York  Evening  Post) 
reads  like  a  caricature  of  Luise  Muhlbach  ; 
the  "Keystone"  is  a  travesty  of  the  Bowery 
melodrama.  Only  one  thing  remains  un- 
changed: the  ignorance  of  the  author,  in  spite 
of  her  surface  acquaintance  with  Vienna 
newspaper  gossip  and  the  reported  tittle- 
tattle  of  Austrian  court  life.  She  who  pro- 
fesses to  know  every  thought  and  action  of 
Francis  Joseph  and  Elizabeth,  misquotes  the 
first  line  of  the  present  Austrian  national 
hymn,  which  every  child  of  eisht  in  -Vustria 
knows  by  heart,  does  not  know  the  rank  of 
the  present  Austrian  chief-of-staff.  and  speaks 
of  Taaffe  (whose  name  she  misspells,  as  she 
does  dozens  of  German  words)  as  "  one  of 
Austria's  greatest  prime  ministers."  She 
boldly  dedicates  this  patchwork  "  to  his 
Majesty  Francis  Joseph.  Emperor-King  of 
Austro-Hungary  [sic],  in  memory  of  former 
days  "  !     What  next  ? 


The  Pitiable  Poeticule. 
It  is  said  that  nine-tenths  of  the  volumes 
of  verse  printed  in  this  country  are  published 
at  the  expense  of  their  authors,  an  expense 
amounting  in  each  case  to  several  hundred 
dollars — so  strong  is  the  "  itch  of  writing,"  so 
intense  the  desire  to  see  one's  poems  in 
print.  And  still  they  come — scores  of  "  thin 
flat  books  of  thin  flat  verse  "  during  the  past 
few  weeks.  Many  of  the  less  wise  poetasters 
argue  with  the  reader  or  critic  in  a  preface, 
some  wittily,  some  gravely.  But  for  heart- 
breaking pathos,  the  foreword  of  one  of  the 
newest   "thin   flat  books"  excels.     It  runs: 

Six  times  have  I  printed  small  verse-col- 
lections privately.  All  these  earlier  ventures 
have  long  since  passed  into  the  dusk.  A  pub- 
lisher brought  out  a  collection  in  a  book  of 
standard  size — an  edition  of  a  thousand  copies. 
I  believe  he  sold  eighty,  and  turned  the  rest 
into  pulp.  These  later  pieces  .  .  .  may  or 
may  not  be  worth  saving.  In  order  to  deter- 
mine the  point — here  they  are.  I  have  printed 
an  edition  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  copies — 
fifty  for  the  press,  one  hundred  for  sale, 
should  any  one  be  inclined  to  buy. 

"  Should  any  one  be  inclined  to  buy  I" — 
still  he  hopes  a  little,  though  dark  doubt  is 
heavy  upon  him  ! 

Even  writers  of  verse  whose  work  is  highly 
praised  by  men  of  discrimination  had  better 
not  try  to  live  by  the  rhythmic  pen.  Charles 
H.   Caffin,   the   noted   art   critic,   writes   to   the 


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"  Dolly  Yarden  "  is  one  prolonged  rustle 
and  glow  of  costly  fabrics  and  gay  colors, 
moving  in  the  stately  measures  of  court 
dances.  It  is  really  a  marked  variation 
on  the  ordinary  light-musical  piece,  be- 
ing a  powder-and-patch  comedy  set  to 
music  —  the  comedy  of  "  The  Country 
Girl."  made  familiar  to  many  theatre- 
goers of  past  decades  by  Ada  Rehan.  Kathryn 
Kidder  revived  the  piece  during  her  last  visit 
to  San  Francisco,  and  was  a  very  natural 
hoyden,  making  liberal  displays  of  the  shape- 
liest of  limbs,  but  being  scarcely  suited  to 
the  part,  in  physiognomy  at  least.  Lulu 
Glaser  is  better  fitted  to  it  in  a  way — partly 
through  her  personal  type,  partly  from  the 
broadly  comic  method  that  she  employs  in 
the  musical  version  of  the  piece,  partly  from 
the  appearance  she  has  of  rejoicing  in  a  steady 
flow  of  unquenchable  animal  spirits.  She  is 
the  proper  height  for  a  comic-opera  heroine, 
who  should  always  be  little.  Indeed.  Miss 
Glaser.  who  is  nothing  if  not  gayly  self-con- 
fident, in  a  self-possessed  little  speech,  made 
in  answer  to  a  recall  at  last  Saturday's 
matinee,  thanked  the  audience  for  its  cordi- 
ality on  behalf  of  the  company  and.  to  quote 
her  own  words,  "  for  my  little  self." 

It  takes  considerable  aplomb  and  self- 
assurance  for  an  actress  to  apply  this  caress- 
ing diminutive  to  herself  in  public,  but  Miss 
Glaser  partly  atones  for  the  too  marked 
obviousness  of  these  qualities  by  the  sponta- 
neous flow  of  her  rollicking  gayety,  and  by  the 
delighted  response  that  she  wins  from  her 
audiences.  Everything  she  does  is  open  and 
hearty.  She  rains  unfeigned  jollity  about  her, 
the  actors  sometimes  finding  it  difficult  to 
maintain  their  gravity  under  a  sudden  sotto- 
voce  jest  flung  casually  upon  the  air  by  this 
Hvliest  of  singing  soubrettes.  The  matinee 
girls  bent  in  ecstatic  laughter,  ejaculating 
between  gasps.  "  Isn't  she  cute  ?  What  a 
darling !  "  In  fact,  it  was  in  every  way  evident 
that  Miss  Glaser's  confidence  in  her  charm, 
though  too  patent,  is  not  overweening. 

She  is  still  young,  tolerably  pretty — in  pro- 
file— and  is  just  about  the  right  girth  ;  plump, 
with  not  a  bone  showing,  but  not  at  all  thick 
in  figure.  She  makes  a  most  engaging  boy, 
looking  as  trim  as  a  toy  soldier  in  her  natty 
blue  and  white  uniform.  As  the  country 
hoyden  in  petticoats,  she  maintains  an  air 
of  gawkiness  to  the  last.  She  clumps  her 
feet,  sniffs,  speaks  in  a  loud,  unmodulated 
voice,  breaks  suddenly  into  foolish  laughter, 
jumps  over  her  train,  and  does  a  great  many 
things  that  are  old  tricks  of  the  trade;  but 
she  does  them  with  such  an  air  of  robust 
enjoyment  that  the  audience  falls  into  mood, 
and  laughs  unrestrainedly. 

So  well  does  she  carry  the  situation — in  the 
matter  of  mood,  at  least — that  it  does  not 
really  occur  to  one  until  the  first  act  is  over 
that  there  is  no  male  comedian  in  the  cast, 
and  that  Miss  Glaser  is  practically  carrying 
all  the  comedy  of  the  thing  on  her  own 
shoulders. 

The  piece,  it  seems,  has  not  been  particularly 
successful  in  the  East.  Auditors,  perhaps, 
have  missed  that  tried  and  trusted  institution. 
the  comic-opera  comedian.  Yet.  as  presented 
at  the  Cdlumbia.  "Dolly  Varden "  seems  to 
have  every  other  requisite  for  success. 

The  costumes  arc  stiff  with  newness  and 
richness,  the  stage  settings  arc  of  the  most 
tasteful  description,  the  coloring  of  back- 
grounds and  costumes  particularly  pleasing. 
Thus  the  eye.  that  most  exigeanl  of  organs  in 
this  sort  of  entertainment,  is  well  considered, 
and  amply  placated.  The  chorus-girls,  it  is 
true,  arc  not  show-girls,  having  been  selected 
more  for  vocal  ability  than  for  beauty,  but 
with  a  stage  turned  into  a  perfect  garden  of 
Dolly  Yardens  bending  and  curtsying  m 
the  graceful  evolutions  of  the  minuet,  the 
sense   nf  beauty  is  well  satisfied. 

In  the  matter  of  voice,  the  female  chorus 
shines  particularly,  possessing  an  ample  vol- 
ume of  fresh,  sweet  tone,  and  showing  more 
than  usual  evidences  of  the  careful  drill  which 
is  almost  invariably  a  big  factor  in  the  success 
of   these   enmic-opera   productions. 

The  score,  which  is  Julian  Edward's  work, 
abounds  in  pretty  numbers,  full  of  that  facile 
sweetness  which  lingers  in  the  car.  and  starts 
an  audience  on  its  homeward  way  humming 
the  most  tuneful  airs.  Indeed,  the  entire 
matinee  aud'ence — principally  women — joined 
sotta-voce  til  the  soft  final  measures  which 
celebrated   the  union   of  an   octet   of  lovers. 

The  com  ioscr  seems  to  have  spread  himself 

particular       on    numbers     Eoi      male     voices, 

VVe  Met  in  Lover'-    Lane,"  a  song 

■  ith    choral   accompaniment,   sung 


by  John  Dunsmure,  whose  voice  is  deep  and 
resonant,  but  whose  delivery  is  close-mouthed 
and  impassive.  This  song,  with'  its  crescendo 
of  striking  chords,  bears  some  resemblance 
to    "  The    Lost   Chord." 

"  He  Must  Be  Punished "  is  a  noticeably 
fine  finale  for  the  first  act.  and  "  The  Song 
of  the  Swords,"  which  is  both  pictorially  and 
musically  effective,  calls  upon  male  voices 
exclusively  for  its  rendering. 

If  one  scans  over  the  list  of  songs,  one  finds 
Dolly's  name  down  but  three  times,  the  burden 
of  the  soprano  music  falling  to  Lillian  Wall- 
bridge,  a  young  lady  with  a  somewhat  color- 
less stage  presence,  but  a  light,  sweet,  agree- 
able voice.  Messrs.  Fitzgerald.  Blake,  and 
Girard.  a  daintily  costumed  trio  of  sparks, 
were  adapted  to  their  characters  in  dandy 
airs  and  graces,  the  latter  being  a  most  grace- 
ful dancer  for  a  man  of  his  height,  and  pos- 
sessing   a   good,    competent    baritone. 

Lulu  Glaser  sings  comparatively  little,  and. 
when  she  does,  shows  at  once  that  she  cus- 
tomarily sacrifices  sweetness  of  tone  to  exag- 
gerations of  comic  effect.  She  is  a  comedian 
first ;  the  singing  is  of  secondary  importance. 
Talking  is  more  in  her  line,  and  she  joys  in 
it  to  such  an  extent  that  the  listener  at  times 
suspects  her  of  improvising,  because  her  lines 
are  so  much  in  character.  There  was  surely 
a  good  deal  more  of  Lulu  Glaser  than  of 
Stanislaus  Stange  in  that  fluent  fanfarronade 
of  fibs  concerning  Letitia's  elopement ;  which 
Dolly  turns  out  impromptu  to  allay  the  sus- 
picions   of   her   guardian. 

In  court  dress,  with  towering  white  wig  and 
diamonds.  Miss  Glaser  loses  in  character  for 
the  part,  looking  older  and  worldly  wise,  with 
her  emphasized  black  brows  and  her  patches  ; 
but  in  the  little  Dolly  Varden  suit  of  white 
and  coral,  and  with  a  snood  of  pink  over  her 
tumbling  curls,  she  is  so  witching  a  figure 
that  she  quite  cuts  herself  out  as  a  bedia- 
monded  court  beauty. 

The  production,  in  every  respect  except  the 
beauty  of  the  women,  reaches  the  standard 
outlined  by  George  Edwardes  in  a  recent 
London  interview,  in  which  he  says  that  his 
aim  is  "  pretty  music,  pretty  women,  pretty 
dresses,   and  lots  of  fun." 

That  trait  in  the  English,  which  makes  them 
so  loyal  to  tradition,  has  maintained,  in  Lon- 
don, the  annual  revival  of  the  Christmas  panto- 
mime, a  species  of  entertainment  which  British 
grandads  insist  is  capable  of  inspiring  in  a 
sexagenarian  the  ecstasies  of  juvenility.  Their 
protests,  no  doubt,  have  their  root  in  this 
same  reverence  for  tradition  which  decrees 
that  the  Christmas  season  should  be  the  silly 
season  in  dramatics,  no  doubt  because  it  is, 
or  should  be.  the  children's  holiday  time. 

Wise  saws  and  modern  instances  have  no 
place  in  the  Christmas  play,  which  should 
inspire  laughter  and  good  cheer — for  a  time  ; 
until  the  bills  come  in,  at  least,  pessimism  is 
downed.  Theoretically,  everybody  is  in  jovial 
mood.  What  matter  that  your  Christmas  list 
and  turkey  rates  are  equally  inflated,  that  the 
cook  is  both  frail  in  health  and  temper,  and 
that  vou  have  invited  half  a  dozen  guests  to 
dinner?  On  with  the  dance,  let  joy  be  uncon- 
fined.  till  that  day  of  fate  when  the  bills  come 
in! 

And  so.  everything  is  merry  at  the  theatres, 
with  jokes  popping  like  corks,  and  audiences 
in  indulgent  holiday  mood.  I  had  never 
known  before  that  "  Blue  Jeans  "  was  a  mirth- 
ful melodrama,  having  seen  on  the  billboards 
thrilling  lithographs  of  a  staring-eyed  figure 
lying  in  the  track  of  a  devastating  buzz-saw, 
awaiting    the    dreadful    doom    of   bisection. 

The  man  who  wrote  "  Blue  Jeans,"  one 
Joseph  Arthur,  is  a  money-winner  from  the 
million — one  who  can  mix  mirth  and  melo- 
drama to  taste,  with  just  a  few  spoonfuls  of 
conventional  sentiment.  There  is  a  plentiful 
quantity  of  humor  in  "  Blue  Jeans."  of  a 
vigorous  sort  that  inspires  laughter  in  divers 
types.  "  There  is  constant  bustle  and  movement 
of  things  relevant  or  irrelevant;  there  are  a 
couple  of  political  gatherings,  two  or  three 
love-affairs,  the  old  folks  at  home,  a  family 
reunion,  a  village  dance,  a  barbecue,  a  Christ- 
mas tree,  an  adventuress  (who  is  a  sort  of 
human  Chili-pepper,  with  a  dash  of  cat,  and 
who  wears  the  scarlet  livery  of  her  tribe)  ; 
there  is  a  three-quarters  villain,  a  spread-eagle 
politician,  a  golden-haired  child,  and  what  not? 

All  these  elements  are  flung  together  in 
some  kind  of  shape,  and  the  members  of  the 
Alcazar  Company  have  applied  themselves 
with  immense  enjoyment  to  acting  the  piece 
in   traditional   style. 

Adele  Block  is  the  country  Circe,  and  plays 
the  part  appropriately,  in  Carmenesque  spirit. 
Frances  Starr  has  a  role  bearing  some  simi- 
larity to  that  which  she  filled  in  "  A  Poor  Re- 
lation." She  is  a  taking  little  actress,  clever 
and  adaptable.  Like  Rebecca  of  Sunnybrooke 
Farm — Kate  Douglas  Wiggin's  newest  heroine 
— and  who,  I  suspect  from  various  family 
resemblances,  has  partial  root  in  Mrs.  Wig- 
gin's  own  nature — Miss  Starr  "  couldn't  be 
kept  in  the  background ;  it  positively  refused 
to  hold  her." 

Harry  Hilliard  came  out  as  a  long-legged, 
gawky,  carroty-headed  rustic,  and  in  a  scene 
in  which,  for  lack  of  knowledge  of  table 
manners,  he  plays  the  sedulous  ape  to  his 
host,  he  was — and  James  Durkin,  as  well — 
enormously  funny. 

Toward   the  latter  part,  the  play  is  unduly 


extended,  and  the  humor  lacks  body.  But 
there  is  plenty  of  excitement  in  the  buzz-saw 
scene,  which  contains  a  very  realistic  contest 
in   fisticuffs,   and   is  an   all-round   thriller. 

Santa  Claus,  in  later  acts,  may  have  been 
interpolated  for  the  season — or,  perhaps,  is 
the  author's  happy  inspiration.  At  all 
events,  there  was  a  Christmas  tree,  and  the 
golden-haired  child  was  stripped  to  her  red 
flannel  pajamas,  endued  in  her  nightie,  and 
after  hanging  up  her  stocking  was  put  to  sleep 
in  a  very  chilly  looking  chair — to  the  delight 
of  an  attentive  and  ravished  audience.  In- 
fallible is  thy  instinct,  O  Joseph  Arthur! 
Would  that  I  could  write  a  pot-boiler  like 
"  Blue  Jeans  "  !  It  is  disjointed,  inconsequent, 
illogical,  prolix,  but  it  is  successful,  for  it 
reaches  the  Great  Heart  of  the  great  old  public. 
Josephine  Hart  Phelps. 


"The  Pit"  Scored  in  Chicago. 

The  dramatization  of  Frank  Xorris's  novel, 
"  The  Pit,"  has  not  met  with  much  success  in 
Chicago.  James  O'Donnell  Bennett  scores  the 
Brady  production  as  follows;  "Mr.  Pollock 
has  set  forth  only  the  bare  skeleton  of  Mr. 
Norris's  novel.  He  has  preserved  none  of  its 
charm  of  characterization,  and  has  .lost  all  its 
atmosphere  of  sincerity.  There  are  wastes  of 
dialogue  that  lead  to  no  important  develop- 
ments, and  there  are  many  incidents  which 
serve  only  to  retard  the  action.  The  tale  as 
told  in  the  play  is  merely  a  melodramatic  re- 
hash of  a  theme  which  has  been  wrought  out 
with  skill  and  delicacy  from  a  very  early 
period  of  French  and  English  drama — the 
theme  of  the  young  wife  tempted  to  a  great 
mistake  through  her  husband's  devotion  to 
business  and  consequent  neglect  of  her." 

With  the  exception  of  Wilton  Lackaye,  Mr. 
Bennett  considers  the  acting  as  "  loud "  and 
commonplace.  He  adds ;  "  The  stage  manage- 
ment was  as  bad  as  it  possibly  could  be.  the 
costumes  of  the  women  inharmonious,  and  the 
scenery  utterly  inadequate.  Nothing  about  this 
whole  play — from  either  the  point  of  view  of 
literature  or  of  stagecraft — rings  true.  It  is 
a  sordid  keel-hauling  of  a  dead  man's  honest 
work.  It  trades  upon  an  honored  name.  If 
it  did  not  pretend  to  be  something  it  is  not.  it 
could  be  passed  by  with  that  tolerance  any 
harmless  piece  of  clap-trap  would  receive. 
Being,  as  it  is,  a  presumptuous  and  impudent 
sham,  it  deserves  outspoken  contempt." 


The  New  York  Times  will  soon  occupy  its 
new  up-town  offices.  Its  old  home,  the  Park 
Building,  on  Broadway,  will  be  improved 
by  the  addition  of  two  and  a  half  stories. 


Dividend  Notices. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  SAVINGS  CNION,  532 
California  Street,  Corner  Webb. — For  thehalf  year 
ending  with  the  31st  of  December,  1903,  a  dividend  has 
been  declared  at  the  rate  per  annum  of  three  and  one- 
half  (3^)  per  cent,  on  term  deposits,  and  three  (.,1 
per  cent,  on  ordinary  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable 
on  and  after  Saturdav,  Januarv  2,  1904. 

LOVELL    WHITE,  Cashier. 


THE  GERMAN  SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  So- 
ciety, 526  California  Street.— For  the  half  year 
ending  with  December  31.  T903,  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
clared at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3^)  per 
cent,  per  annum,  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  payable 
on  and  after  Saturdav.  Januarv  2,  1904. 

GEORGE    TOURNY,  Secretary, 


CALIFORNIA  SAFE  DEPOSIT  AND 
Trust  Company,  corner"  California  and  Mont- 
gomery Streets. — For  the  six  months  ending  Decem- 
ber 31,  1003,  dividends  have  been  declared  on  deposits 
in  the  savings  department  of  this  company,  as  fol- 
lows: On  term  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3  6-10  per  cent, 
per  annum,  and  on  ordinary  deposits  at  the  rate  of  3 
per  cent,  per  annum,  free  of  taxes,  and  payable  on 
and  after  Saturday.  January  2,  1904.  Dividends  un- 
called for  are  added  to  the  principal  after  Januarv  1, 
1904-  J.    DALZELL    BROWN.  Manager. 


MrTUAL  SAVINGS  BANK  OF  SAN 
Francisco,  710  Market  Street. — For  the  half  year 
ending  December  31,  1903,  a  dividend  has  been  de- 
clared at  the  rate  of  three  and  twenty  one-hundredths 
(3.20)  per  cent,  per  annum  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes, 
payable  on  and  after  Saturdav,  January  2,  1904. 

GEORGE"    A.    STORY,  Cashier. 


SAVINGS  AND  LOAN  SOCIETY.  101 
Montgomery  Street.— The  Board  of  Directors  de- 
clared a  dividend  for  the  term  ending  December  31,  1903, 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (zH)  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  all  deposits,  free  of  taxes,  and  payable  on 
and  after  January  2, 1904.  Dividends  not  called  for  are 
added  to  and  bear  the  same  rate  of  dividend  as  the 
principal  from  and  after  Januarv  1,  1904. 

CYRUS  YV.  CARMANY,  Cashier. 


SECURITY  SAVINGS  BANK,  232  MONT- 
gomery  Street,  Mills  Building. — For  the  half  year 
ending  December  31,  1903,  dividends  upon  all  deposits 
at  the  rate  of  three  and  one-quarter  (3#)  per  cent,  per 
annum,  free  of  taxes,  wfll  be  payable  on  and  after  Tan- 
uary  2.  1904.  FRED  W.  RAY,  Secretary. 


THE  CONTINENTAL  BUILDING  AND  LOAN 
ASSOCIATION, 

301  California  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal., 


Has  declared  a  dividend  for  the  year  ending  December 
3',  1903,  of  5  per  cent,  on  ordinary'  deposits.  6  per  cent, 
on  term  deposits,  and  S  per  cent,  to  stockholders,  free 
of  taxes. 
DR.  WASHINGTON  DODGE.  President. 

WM.  CORBIN,  Sec.  and  Gen'l  Mgr. 


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Y'VOLI  OPERA  HOUSE 

Corner  Eddy  and  Mason  Streets. 

Special   matinee  New  Year's  Day.     Tremendous  suc- 
cess oi  the  holiday  spectacle, 
IXION    or    THE    WHEELMAN 

A  mythological  musical  extravapranza  in  three  acts. 
One  hundred  and  fifty  people  on  the  stage.  Beautiful 
ballets,  gorgeous  transformation,  "  Excelsior." 

Usual  popular  prices,  25c,  50c.  and  75c.  Proscenium 
and  mezzanine  box  seats,  Sr.oo.  Seats  on  sale  two 
weeks  in  advance. 

COLUMBIA    THEATRE^ 

Two  weeks,  beginning  next  Mondav.  December  28th 

matinees  New   Year's  Dav  arid  Saturday, 

Charles  Frohman  presents  Clyde 

Fitch's  best  play, 

THE  GIRL  WITH  THE  GREEN  EYES 

A  strong  cast  of  San  Francisco  favorites,  including 
Ida  Conquest,  Robert  Drout,  Mrs.  Thomas  Whiffon 
Grace  Henderson,  and  others. 


Soon  to  appear— Ibsen's  Ghosts. 


^LGAZAR    THEATRE.    Phone  "  Alcazar." 
Belasco  &  Mayer,  Props.    E.  D.  Price,  Gen.  Mgr. 

Extra  matinee  New  Year's  Dav..  the  enormously  suc- 
cessful realistic  production, 
BLUE      J  IE  .A.  »r  S 

The  apple  orchard,  the  brass  band,  the  pet  bull  calf 
the  Santa  Claus  scene,  the  great  buzz-saw  sensation.    ' 

Evenings.   25c  to  75c.     Saturdav  and   Sundav  mat- 
inees. 15c  to  50c. 

Monday,  January  4th— A    I.ady  of  Quality. 

CENTRAL    THEATRE.     Phone  South  533. 

Belasco  &  Mayer Proprietors 

Market  Street,  near  Eighth,  opposite  City  Hall. 

New  Year's  week,  starting  December  28th,  matinees 
New  Year's,  Saturday  and  Sundav,  the  suc- 
cessful rural  drama, 
-:-     THE     D  A  IRV     FARM     -:- 
Prices— Evenings,  10c  to  50c.    Matinees,  10c,  15c,  25c. 
New  Year's  week,  January  4th— Monte  Cristo. 

QRANO  OPERA  HOUSE. 

Matinee    Friday    (New  Year's    Dav)    and    Saturday. 

Beginning  to-morrow  matinee,    December  27th,  the 

peculiar  comedian,    Mr.   W.   B.    PATTON,    in    the 

beautiful  pastoral  play, 

THE    IV1  I IV  I  STB  R  '  S     SON 

Beginning  Sunday  matinee,  January  3d,  JO  KELLY, 

in  the  musical  cut-up.' 

THE     HEAD     WAITERS 

Prices— Evenings.  15c.  25c,  50c,  and  75c.     Matinees, 
15c.  25c.  and  50c. 


Week   commencing  Sunday  matinee.    December  27th. 

Special  matinee  New  Year's,  second  and 

last  week  of  the 

GREAT  ORPHEUM  ROAD  SHOW 

Change  of  programme,  and  augmented  bv  VICTOR 
MOORE  and  EMMA  LITTLEFIELD. 

Reserved  seats,  25c ;  balcony,  10c ;  opera  chairs  and 
box  seats,  50c.  Regular  matinees  Wednesday,  Thurs- 
day, Saturday,  and  Sundav. 


The  uproariously  funny  musical  comedy, 

-=-  I-O-TJ  -:- 

Still  delighting  thousands.  Our  "  all-star  "  cast,  in- 
cluding Kolb  and  Dill.  Allen  Curtis,  Winfield  Blake 
Maude  Amber,  Georgia  O'Ramev,  the  Althea  Twins, 
and  Ben  T.  Dillon. 


Matinee  Saturday  and    Sundav 
Christmas  and  New  Year's. 


Special    matinee 


PACINfi    EVERY   WEEK   DAY 

lVr»»»,l  '  VI  RAIN  OR  SHINE. 

New  California  Jockey  Club 
INGLESIDE   TRACK 

Commencing  Monday,  December  14th. 

SIX  OR  MORE  RACES  DAILY 


RACES  START  AT  2  p.  m.  SHARP 


Reached  by  street  cars  from  any  part,  of 
the  city. 

Train  leaves  Third  and  Townsend  Streets  at  1.15 
p.  m..  and  leaves  the  track  immediately  after  the  last 
race.  THOMAS  H.  WILLIAMS,  President. 

PERCY  W.  TREAT,  Secretary- 

THE   LATEST   STYLES   IN 

CHOICE    WOOLENS 
H.   S.  BRIDGE    &    CO. 

Merchant  Tailors, 

622  Market  Street  (Upstairs), 

Bicycle  and  Golf  Suits.  Opposite  the  Palace  Hotel. 


December  28,   1903. 


T  ti  iL, 


AKUUJNAU    1 


STAGE   GOSSIP. 


A  New  Fitch  Play. 
"  The  Girl  With  the  Green  Eyes,"  a  new 
Clyde  Fitch  play,  will  be  presented  at  the 
Columbia  Theatre  for  two  weeks,  beginning 
Monday  evening.  The  theme  of  the  play  is 
jealousy,  which  has  its  birth  even  at  the 
wedding,  the  playful  kissing  of  the  bridesmaids 
by  the  groom  being  distasteful  to  the  bride. 
Her  jealousy,  nursed  by  suspicion,  grows  into 
such  a  passion  that  her  husband  leaves  her. 
Mr.  Fitch  brings  about  a  happy  ending, 
though,  without  counteracting  the  lesson  con- 
veyed. There  are  some  unusual  scenes  in  the 
play,  in  which  comedy  and  tragedy  hobnob. 
There  is  a  smart  wedding  in  the  first  act,  and 
in  the  second  is  a  "  personally  conducted  " 
party  going  through  the  art  galleries  of  the 
Vatican.  The  people  selected  for  this  pro- 
duction are  not  strangers  to  San  Francisco. 
Ida  Conquest,  who  supplanted  Clara  Blood- 
good  in  the  leading  role,  is  a  great  favorite 
here  She  last  appeared  at  the  Columbia 
Theatre  with  William  Gillette  in  "  Sherlock 
Holmes."  Robert  Drouet,  who  played  such 
an  admirable  Armand  to  Mary  Mannering's 
matinee  performance  of  "  Camille,"  a  year 
ago  will  be  the  husband.  Mrs.  Whiffen  is 
in  the  cast,  as  also  is  Grace  Henderson. 
Among  the  others  are  Rose  Flynn.  Edith 
Shayne.  Frank  Dekum.  William  H.  Tooker. 
H.  E.  Asmus,  and  little  Edith  Talliafero. 

A  New  Play  in  a  New  House. 
The  new  Tivoli  Theatre  was  dedicated 
Wednesday  night  by  the  production  of 
"Ixion:  or.  the  Wheelman."  a  Christmas 
show,  by  Ferris  Hartman.  Several  new  peo- 
ple were  introduced,  among  them  Bessie  Tan- 
nehill.  singing  character  comedienne,  and 
Wallace  Brownlow.  the  Australian  baritone. 
Old  favorites— among  them  Ferris  Hartman. 
Arthur  Cunningham.  Edward  Webb,  Anna 
Lichter.  and  Annie  Myers— also  appeared.  The 
piece  is  a  jumble  of  fun  and  frolic,  with  one 
hundred  and  fifty  people  in  the  cast,  and  with 
five  ballets  and  a  transformation  scene.  The 
new  theatre  has  a  stage  one  hundred  and 
twenty  feet  in  width,  sixty-eight  feet  in  depth, 
and  sixty  feet  in  height,  giving  ample  room 
for  large  productions.  The  arrangement  of 
the  seats  is  such  that  the  stage  can  be  plainly 
seen  from  any  part  of  the  house.  The  chairs 
are  large  and  roomy,  and  are  placed  at  a 
sufficient  distance  apart  to  avoid  any  crowd- 
ing The  theatre  is  beautifully  decorated  in 
cream,  green,  and  gold,  with  an  artistic  dis- 
position of  lights.  It  is  perfectly  ventilated 
and  heated,  and  has  numerous  exits  to  Eddy 
and  Mason  Streets.  The  capacity  of  the  house 
will  be  twenty-two  hundred.  No  smoking  will 
be  permitted  on  the  lower  floor  or  ;n  the 
first  balcony,  but  it  will  be  allowed  in  the 
upper  gallery  or  promenade  circle,  where  re- 
freshments will  be  served.  This  part  of  the 
house  will  be  reached  by  elevator. 

Realism  at  the  Alcazar. 
-  Blue  Jeans."  the  realistic  combination  of 
melodrama  and  comedy,  will  continue  another 
week  at  the  Alcazar  Theatre.  The  village 
brass  band,  the  barbecue,  the  singing  mill- 
hands,  the  Christmas  Eve  celebration,  and 
other  homely  sights  and  sounds  appeal  to  the 
holiday  audiences.  The  stirring  feature  of 
the  play,  and  the  one  that  arouses  suspense 
and  enthusiasm,  is  the  sawmill  .  scene  in 
which  the  hero  is  saved  from  the  teeth  of  the 
deadly  buzz-saw.  The  acting,  for  the  most 
part  good,  is  supplemented  by  excellent  stag- 
ing, and  by  the  introduction  of  pigeons,  a 
calf  and  other  barn-yard  adjuncts.  On  Jan- 
uary 4th.  the  Alcazar  will  present  "A  Lady 
of  Quality."  bv  Frances  Hodgson  Burnett 
and  Stephen  Townsend.  Julia  Arthur's  role 
of  Clorinda  Wildairs  will  be  played  by  Adele 
Block. 

New  People  at  the  Grand. 
W.  B.  Patton.  the  "  peculiar  comedian," 
and  company  will  begin  a  week's  engagement 
at  the  Grand  Opera  House  on  Sunday.  The 
play  presented  will  be  "  The  Minister's  Son." 
embodying  a  story  of  life  in  a  down  East  vil- 
lage. The  principal  character  is  Simon  Ray, 
the  minister's  son.  He  believes  he  has  per- 
fected a  wonderful  invention,  and  at  last  suc- 
ceeds in  interesting  a  capitalist  in  his  work. 
Meantime,  his  sister  is  lured  away  from  home 
by  a  scoundrel,  whom  Simon,  having  become 
rich,  forces  to  marry  her.  He  returns  home 
just  in  time  to  save  his  parents  from  being 
turned  out  of  their  home.  There  will  be  an 
extra  matinee  on  New  Year's  Day.  Jo  Kelly 
and  company  will  follow  on  January  3d  in  a 
musical  farce,  "  The  Head  Waiters." 

Rural  Drama  at  the  Central. 
On  Monday,  the  Central  Theatre  manage- 
ment will  begin  a  special  week's  engagement 
of  "  The  Dairy  Farm,"  a  rural  comedy,  new 
to  San  Francisco  audiences,  although  it  is 
well  known  in  the  Eastern  cities.  The  scenes 
of  the  play  are  laid  in  upper  New  York  State 
in  the  early  'fifties.  A  factor  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  story  is  the  slavery  question, 
and  the  campaign  which  ended  in  the  defeat 
of  Fremont  enters  largely  into  the  play.  There 
is    an     old-fashioned     rally,     in     which     the 


abolitionists  and  pro-slavery  advocates  are 
in  opposing  array.  Love,  humor,  and  thrilling 
situations  are  introduced.  Several  of  the 
players  who  appeared  in  the  play  in  the  East 
will  be  seen  at  the  Central.  Theodore  T.  Rook 
will  appear  as  Simon  Krum.  the  miser  and 
slave  trader;  Tony  West  will  be  Joel  Whit- 
beck,  the  quaint  country  peddler ;  Helen 
Hartley  will  appear  as  Eunice  Perkins,  the 
rich  village  girl ;  and  Sarah  Ward  will  have 
the  role  of  Miss  Newkirk.  the  housekeeper. 
Members  of  the  Central's  regular  stock  com- 
pany will  also  appear.  Herschel  Mayall  and 
Miss  Eugenie  Thais  Lawson  being  the  young 
lovers,  while  Miss  Myrtle  Vane  will  be  Minty, 
the  village  tomboy.  The  play  will  be  real- 
istically staged,  showing  the  farm,  the  village 
street,  the  country  store,  and  other  rural 
scenes. 


"I-O-U"  Still  on  at  Fischer's. 
The  successful  run  of  "  I-O-U."  the  popular 
burlesque  at  Fischer's  Theatre,  will  give  the 
company  an  excellent  opportunity  to  rehearse 
the  next  offering,  a  travesty  written  by  a 
local  newspaper  man.  In  the  new  piece 
Maud  Amber  will  be  replaced  by  Helen  Rus- 
sell, said  to  be  a  statuesque  beauty,  and  John 
Peachey.  an  Eastern  baritone,  will  succeed 
Winfield  Blake.  Charles  Candie.  the  new 
musical  director  who  comes  to  Fischer's 
Theatre  next  week,  was  with  Klaw  & 
Erlanger  for  years. 

The  Last  of  the  Road  Show. 
During  its  second  and  last  week's  engage- 
ment, the  Orpheum  Road  Show  will  be 
augmented  by  Victor  Moore  and  Emma  Little- 
field,  who  present  a  skit  entitled  "  Change 
Your  Act."  In  a  manner  both  amusing  and 
pathetic,  they  portray  a  wandering  vaudeville 
couple  who  have  "  made  good "  in  the  West 
and  are  trying  to  impress  a  New  York  man- 
ager. They  are  shown  in  a  morning  re- 
hearsal, interrupted  by  the  work  of  the  stage 
hands.  Mr.  Moore  and  Miss  Littlefield  are 
extremely  clever,  and  introduce  many  special- 
ties. Elizabeth  Murray  has  new  songs  and 
stories,  and  Ernest  Hogan  and  Mattie  Wilkes 
will  change  their  specialties,  and  the  Melani 
trio  and  Beckhoff  and  Gordon  have  new 
numbers.  The  trained  dogs.  Reynard,  the 
ventriloquist,  Albertus  and  Millar,  and  the 
Nightons  complete  the  bill.  In  addition  to 
the  four  regular  matinees,  a  performance  will 
be  given  on   Friday  afternoon,  January   1st. 


At  this  time  of  the  year,  the  London  variety 
houses  are  denuded  of  all  their  best  drawing 
names  for  ten  weeks  or  more,  to  lead  holiday 
pantomime  productions  all  over  the  country. 
In  London  there  will  be  over  twenty,  and 
scarcely  a  theatre  in  the  rest  of  England  but 
what  will  mount  one.  "  Dick  Whittington  and 
His  Cat."  "Aladdin  and  His  Wonderful  Lamp." 
"  Robinson  Crusoe."  "  Sinbad  the  Sailor." 
"  Blue  Beard."  will  again  be  the  most  popular 
themes. 


Th 


le  leading  feature  of  the  racing  at  Ingle 


side    next    Friday.    January    1st 


be    the 


New  Year  Handicap,  one  mile  and  a  furlong, 
for  two-year-olds  and  upwards.  The  entry 
will  be  sixty  dollars,  ten  dollars  forfeit,  with 
a  two-thousand-dollar  purse  added.  There 
are  many  entries,  and  it  promises  to  be  a  close 
and   exciting   event. 


The  Tavern  of  Tamalpais  greets  the  traveler 
after  a  unique  journey  up  the  side  of  the 
mountain.  It  can  not  be  excelled  for  a  day's 
outing-place.  The  view,  both  along  the  road 
and  after  reaching  the  end  of  the  ride,  em- 
braces bay  and  ocean,  cities  and  towns,  and 
can  never  be  forgotten. 


A  twenty-five  story  business  building,  to 
cost  $1,500,000.  is  to  be  erected  on  the  old 
Trinity  building  site,  on  Broadway,  New  York. 
The  lot.  which  is  only  forty-five  feet  wide, 
but  is  worth  $2,500,000.  is  said  to  be  the  most 
valuable  in  the  world  in  proportion  to  its 
size. 


A  New  Comedian  in  Pagliacci." 
Fun  was  lent  to  a  recent  performance  of 
"  Pagliacci  "  at  the  Metropolitan  Opera  House 
in  New  York,  by  the  donkey  that  drew  the 
cart  in  which  rode  Sembrich  as  Nedda  and 
Caruso  as  Canio.  Before  they  had  an  oppor- 
tunity to  alight,  the  donkey  sat  down,  nearly 
upsetting  the  singers,  then  cocked  his  ears  for- 
ward and.  wagging  his  head,  refused  to  budge. 
The  audience  howled  with  delight,  and  de- 
manded the  return  of  the  new  comedian  after 
the  combined  efforts  of  the  singers,  chorus,  and 
stage-hands  had  removed  him  from  the  glare 
of  the  calcium.  It  was  some  time  before  the 
singers  could  get  the  audience  to  look  upon 
the  opera  in  a  serious  light. 


Lillian  Russell's  daughter  is  to  follow  her 
mother  upon  the  stage.  She  is  eighteen  years 
old,  and  last  summer  surprised  her  friends  by 
quietly  marrying  Abbott  Louis  Einstein,  a 
young  lawyer,  and  then  telephoning  the  news 
to  her  home.  Miss  Russell  promptly  forgave 
her  daughter,  and  is  said  to  fully  approve  of 
her  decision  to  begin  a  stage  career.  For  her 
stage  name  Mrs.  Einstein  has  combined  her 
own  and  her  mother's  names,  and  she  will  be 
known  professionally  as  Dorothy  Russell.  She 
is  to  play  the  part  of  one  of  the  Kay  girls, 
in  the  English  musical  comedy,  "  The  Girl 
From  Kay's." 

The  Paris  correspondent  of  the  London 
Telegraph  says  that  Camille  Saint-Saens  has 
just  finished  his  new  opera,  which  will  be 
entitled  "  Helen  and  Paris."  The  work  is  in 
one  act.  and  has  three  scenes,  each  of  con- 
siderable length.  It  will  be  brought  out  at 
Monte  Carlo  next  February.  The  character 
of  Helen  has  been  intrusted  to  Mme.  Melba. 
M.  Alvarez,  of  the  Grand  Opera,  will  be 
Paris,  and  it  is  possible  that  Mme.  Heglon. 
also  of  the  Academie  Nationale  de  Musique, 
will  sing  the  part  of  Venus. 


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VANITY    FAIR. 


"  Start  a  society  for  the  suppression  of 
Christmas  presents "  is  a  jocular  suggestion 
made  in  a  story  in  one  of  the  current  maga- 
zines. It  sounds  the  note  of  a  needed  reform, 
and  is  a  hint  of  rebellion  against  the  exag- 
gerated proportions  to  which  the  custom  of 
exchanging  Christmas  presents  is  carried  now- 
adays. The  old  Christmas,  a  season  of  good 
cheer  and  pleasant  hospitalities,  but  most 
of  all  the  festival  time  of  the  year  to  children, 
has  been  elbowed  out  of  place  by  the  Christ- 
mas of  to-day.  To  most  people  the  holiday 
season  now  means  a  prolonged  series  of  shop- 
ping tours,  of  hurrying  from  shop  to  shop  dur- 
ing the  last  weeks  of  the  year,  when  the  days 
are  shortest  and  the  weather  wears  its  most 
unfavorable  aspect  ;  when  counters  are 
crowded,  and  the  whole  community  is  absorbed 
in  a  like  pursuit.  Each  individual  has  before 
him  a  weighty  task.  He.  or  rather  she — for 
women  are  greatly  in  the  majority  among  the 
shoppers — must  select  a  suitable  holiday  gift 
for  each  member  of  her  household,  for  her 
relatives,  near  and  remote,  for  her  friends, 
sometimes  for  mere  acquaintances.  When  the 
presents  to  be  chosen  range  in  number  from 
half  a  dozen  to  six  or  seven  times  as  many, 
and  must  be  purchased  with  due  regard  to 
economy,  it  may  be  granted  that  the  task  of 
suiting  everybody  is  an  impossible  one,  and, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  after  Christmas  has  come 
and  gone,  people  generally  find  that  they  have 
acquired  a  number  of  new  possessions  which 
they  do  not  want,  and  have  parted  with  a 
considerable  sum  of  money  in  equipping  their 
friends  with  offerings  equally  misplaced. 

All  this  is  a  deterioration  from  the  pretty 
old  German  custom  of  an  exchange  of  Christ- 
mas greetings.  We  are  falling  into  a  yearly 
give-and-take  system,  where  petty  emotions 
hold  sway  and  the  element  of  spontaneous 
giving  is  altogether  lacking.  Christmas  be- 
longs first  of  all  to  the  children,  and  the  greed 
of  the  elders  is  rohbing  them  of  its  best 
privileges.  Even  the  little  ones  now  are  trained 
to  con  over  their  "  lists,"  and.  all  too  early, 
they  join  the  ranks  of  the  distraught  Christ- 
mas shoppers.  To  children  the  real  joy  of 
Christmas  is  a  bounty  from  the  unknown,  from 
the  invisible  Santa  Claus.  who  belongs  to  the 
old-time  Christmas :  to-day,  the  new  genera- 
tion is  accustomed  to  the  blatant  Santa  Claus 
of  Commerce,  the  walking  advertisement  of 
the  toy  stores.  In  his  loud-mouthed  presence 
imagination  is  shattered,  and  the  charming 
old  myth  is  crushed  into  lifelessness.  Truly. 
there  is  need  among  us  for  a  "  Society  for  the 
Suppression  of  Christmas  Presents."  The 
children  would  come  into  their  own  again, 
the  elders  might  enjoy  immunity  from  an  an- 
nual bondage,  and  the  overworked  employees 
in  every  department  of  trade,  no  longer  dread- 
ing the  approach  of  the  holiday  season,  would 
rise  up  and  call  its  founder  blessed. 


A  disgusted  lady,  who  thinks  that  the 
present  styles  in  women's  dress  have  never 
been  surpassed  for  ugliness,  discomfort,  and 
even  impropriety,  says  in  the  New  York  Sit  11  : 
The  head  of  the  woman  is  '  pompadoured,' 
yet  Mme.  de  Pompadour,  though  she  raised 
her  hair  to  a  foot  above  her  head,  permitted 
herself  to  show  a  forehead — while  the  1903 
fashionable  not  only  raises  the  hair  from  three 
to  six  inches  above  her  scalp,  but  puts  a  heavy 
wad  of  it  down  to  the  eyebrows,  bunches  it 
out  at  the  back  and  sides,  and  tousles  it  up 
until  she  looks  as  much  like  a  maniac  as  any- 
thing else.  Next,  she  puts  on  an  enormous 
hat.  which  may  stand  up  a  foot  from  her  fore- 
head, or  project  as  far  in  front  of  it,  trimmed 
with  immense  flowers,  branching  feathers,  or 
even  stiff  quills  stuck  across  the  brim.  About 
her  neck  floats  a  long  boa  of  chiffon  or 
ostrich  plumes,  which  affords  warmth  to  the 
back  of  her  neck  only,  but  gives  ample  occu- 
pation in  the  effort  to  keep  it  on.  The  waist 
of  her  dress  is  drawn  down  to  a  peak  in  front, 
the  said  peak  frequently  being  stuffed  out 
with  horsehair,  or  something  which  makes 
the  woman  look  as  if  she  had  a  tumor  on  her 
stomach.  The  curves  of  the  natural  figure 
are  so  completely  obscured  by  this  means  that 
now  a  good  figure  can  not  be  distinguished 
from  a  bad  one.  The  skirts  are  made  so  tight 
from  the  hips  to  the  knees  that  they  are 
difficult  lo  sit  down  or  walk  in,  white  they 
accentuate  most  painfully  those  hips  which 
nature  has  made  excessively  large  or  un- 
pleasantly flat  The  bother  and  unclcanli- 
ness  of  the  trains  need  not  be  commented  on. 
I  should  think  artists  and  sculptors  would 
want  to  flee  the  country!" 


The  Countess  Vesierski  Kwilecky,  known 
throughout  Europe  as  one  of  the  most  beautiful 
and  talented  noblewoman  on  the  Continent, 
has     been     declare.!     by     the     highest     courl     in 

Germany   to   be  the   mother   of   her  own   son. 

as  the  conclusion  Of  a  lout;  ;md  sensational 
trial.  The  case  in  number  of  dramatic  details 
rivals  any  that  has  appeared  in  European 
CpurtS  of  justice  for  half  a  century.  For 
nearly  a  month  it  furnished  the  chief  topic 
of  conversation  among  fashionable  and  court 
circles  of  Berlin,  and  throughout  the  trial  the 
hall  of  the  Moabit  court-house,  which  was 
the  scene  of  ^  investigation,  was  acked  with 
a    curiou;    tl  ,  nig,    in    which    could    he    found 


nearly  every  great  lady  of  Berlin  and  every 
man  of  leisure  who  could  force  his  way  in. 
The  countess  was  charged  by  a  rival  branch 
of  the  family,  headed  by  Count  Hector 
Kwilecky.  with  having  falsely  represented 
that  she  had  given  birth  to  a  male  child  in 
Berlin  on  January  27.  1S97.  Her  husband. 
Count  Kwilecky,  was  accused  of  having  con- 
spired with  her  to  represent  a  supposititious 
child  purchased  from  a  poor  woman  in  Cracow 
as  their  son  and  heir,  with  a  view  to  prevent- 
ing their  entailed  estate  of  Vroblevo  from 
passing  out  of  their  branch  of  the  family  to 
another  line  of  Kwilecky.  Tn  the  dock  with  the 
count  and  countess  were  the  midwife, 
Katharina  Ososka  :  Josepha  Knoska.  an  aged 
female  servant ;  and  her  daughter,  also  a  ser- 
vant of  the  countess.  These  three  women 
were  charged  with  being  accessories  to  the 
crime.  The  star  witness  for  the  branch  of 
the  family  headed  by  Count  Hector  was 
Ososka,  the  midwife,  who  testified  that  the  boy 
was  her  son.  and  that  the  father  was  an 
Austrian  lieutenant.  She  had  sold  the  boy 
when  he  was  only  five  weeks  old.  she  testified, 
to  the  Countess  Kwilecky  for  forty  dollars. 
Experts  were  called  in  to  prove  her  state- 
ments impossible.  The  court  painters  decided 
the  case  by  comparing  facial  characteristics, 
point  by  point.  They  declared  that  the  boy 
was  the  image  of  the  countess.  Particularly 
the  ear  stood  the  test  completely.  A  prelate 
testified  to  the  excellence  of  the  countess's 
character.  The  parish  priest,  the  housekeeper, 
the  forester,  ladies  in  waiting,  and  nobles 
testified  to  the  rank  falsehood  of  Count  Hec- 
tor's charges. 

"Every  afternoon  when  the  court  rose," 
says  one  Berlin  correspondent,  "  Count 
Zbigniew-Wesierski.  an  admirable  figure  of  the 
ancien  regime,  stretched  his  hand  across  the 
bar  to  his  countess,  and  kissed  her  fingers. 
Gradually  Count  Hector  and  his  followers, 
who  pushed  their  accusations  with  all  the 
bitterness  of  a  deathless  hatred,  became  aware 
that  the  woman  who  sat  in  the  dock  could  not 
be  ruined.  The  court  and  spectators  were 
enthusiastic,  and  even  tearful,  in  their  pro- 
testations of  her  innocence,  and  of  the  genuine- 
ness of  the  well-bred,  smiling  little  chap  in 
the  court  usher's  chair.  Just  before  the  jury 
rendered  its  verdict,  Count  Hector,  a  grim 
old  figure,  arose  and  solemnly  declared  that 
if  the  court  would  oust  the  little  boy  from  his 
title  and  possessions,  he,  the  next  heir-at- 
law,  would  waive  all  rights  thus  conferred  on 
him  by  the  courts,  just  to  show  that  he  was 
disinterested.  But  the  court  refused  to  con- 
template his  offer,  and  refused  to  condemn 
the  little  count  with  the  blond  curls  and 
courtly  mien  to  a  life  in  a  midwife's  cabin. 
The  jury  found  the  count  and  countess  guilt- 
less of  any  crime,  and  the  three,  the  gray- 
haired  count,  the  slender,  haughty  countess, 
and  their  silk-stockinged  little  heir,  left  the 
court  together  to  hold  the  most  enthusiastic 
reception  that  the  German  capital  has  given 
any  one,  even  Emperor  William,  for  years." 


A  London  newspaper  man  recently  secured 
from  Herr  Kubelik.  the  famous  young  violin- 
ist, an  expression  of  his  opinion  regarding  the 
tender  persecution  which  he  suffers  at  the 
hands  of  women.  "  The  ladies,  ah  !  the 
ladies!"  said  the  violinist;  "yes.  thev  have 
been  always  very  kind  to  me.  All  that  the 
newspapers  have  told,  however,  has  not  been 
quite  true :  but  many  things  have  happened 
which  have  not  been  told  in  the  newspapers. 
They  send  flowers — flowers  always — and  rings. 
and  pins,  diamonds,  and  many  presents.  And 
you  must  play  again  and  again  and  again  for 
the  ladies.  At  first,  when  I  appeared  in  public, 
it  was  very  embarrasing.  But  afterward — well, 
you  get  accustomed  to  everything  with  time. 
And  it  is  always  the  same.  Tn  all  countries 
they  are  alike.  I  think  that,  perhaps,  the 
American  ladies  are  most  courageous.  Yes,  in 
Brooklyn.  I  was  most  embarrassed  one  after- 
noon. I  had  played  many  times,  but  the  ladies 
would  not  let  me  get  away — they  crowded 
round  and  held  me  fast,  and  when  at  last  I 
got  free  my  coat  was  in  parts — yes,  in  holes." 
When  asked  if  these  demonstrations  had 
ceased  since  his  marriage,  Kubelik  seemed 
more  amused  than  ever.  "  Oh,  no.  not  at  all," 
he  laughed  ;  "  since  then  they  have  been  more 
courageous  than  ever  before." 

Commenting  on  the  horrors  of  the  modem 
Pullman  car.  Edward  W.  Townsend  says : 
"  The  modern  sleeping-car  is  without  fault, 
flaw,  or  blemish  as  an  example  of  a  means 
for  man's  discomfort.  In  any  first-class  ho- 
tel a  room  with  bath  may  be  had  for  five 
dollars  a  day,  and  a  comfortable  bedroom, 
with  a  bath  near  by,  may  be  had  in  a  score 
of  New  York  hotels  for  one  dollar  or  one 
dollar  and  a  half  a  day.  Those  hotels  cost 
millions  of  dollars,  some  of  them,  their  suites 
as  much  more,  and  the  servants  are  nearly 
as  numerous  as  the  guests.  On  a  sleeper, 
after  paying  your  fare,  you  pay  five  dollars 
a  day  for  a  bunk  less  roomy  than  Jack's 
shelf  in  the  forecastle,  and  divide  with  thirty 
or  forty  other  passengers  the  services  of  one 
servant — whose  wages  you  pay.  Once  these 
cars  had  '  wash-rooms.'  now  they  have  none : 
though  you  may.  with  infinite  trouble,  draw  a 
pan  of  water  in  a  den  used  by  smokers  by 
day    and    as    the    Dorter's    bedroom    by    night. 


After  one  trip  a  sleeping-car  can  not  be  made 
decently  clean.  Its  deep,  hot  plush  upholstery, 
model  germ  traps,  can  be  purified  only  by 
fire ;  and  the  carpets  of  this  hideous  combi- 
nation bedroom,  dining-room,  living-room, 
and  toilet-room  in  one.  appall  the  imagina- 
tion and  prosper  the  grave-digger.  That  only 
a  contortionist  can  undress  and  dress  within 
the  space  given  to  that  purpose  on  a  sleeper 
is  not  to  be  complained  of.  If  you  are  not  a 
contortionist,    don't    travel ;    telephone." 

E.  H.  Harriman  intends  to  substitute  white 
porters  for  negroes  on  sleeping  and  parlor- 
cars  on  the  Union  Pacific  road.  This  change 
is  to  be  made  gradually,  and  is  of  an  experi- 
mental character.  The  Union  Pacific  pas- 
senger department  has  received  complaints  for 
nearly  a  year  that  negro  porters  were  impu- 
dent and  inattentive  to  their  duties,  except 
when  in  receipt  of  liberal  "  tips."  In  fact, 
in  some  instances  aggressive  insistence  upon 
"  tips  "  has  become  a  crying  nuisance.  Orders 
have  gone  out  on  some  divisions  of  the  Union 
Pacific  system  to  dispense  with  negro  porters 
and  employ  in  their  stead  white  men  at  an 
advance  of  twelve  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per 
month  in  wages.  The  reason  assigned  is 
"  for  the  good  of  the  service."  If  white  porters 
prove  effective  and  acceptable,  the  change  will 
probably  be  made  general  on  all  Harriman 
transcontinental  lines. 


Why  Modify  Milk 

for  infant  feeding  in  the  uncertain  ways  of  the  novice 
when  you  can  have  always  with  you  a  supply  of 
Borden's  E^gle  Brand  Condensed  Milk  a  perfect 
cow's  milk  from  herds  of  native  breeds,  the  perfec- 
tion of  infant  food  ?     Use  it  for  tea  and  coffee. 


P.    HOTALING'S    OLD    KIKK. 


A  Pure  Straight  Brand. 

A.  P.  Hotaling's  Old  Kirk  Whisky  has  made 
friends  with  all  who  have  tried  it,  which  goes  to 
show  that  there  is  room  for  a  pure  straight  blend  in 
the  market.  We  say  it  is  the  best.  You  try  it  and 
you  will  say  the  same. 

SAN    FRANCISCO    "WEATHER 


From    Official    Report    of    Alexander     G.    McAdie, 
District  Forecaster. 


Max.  Min.  Rain-  State  of 

Tern .  Tern .  fa  II,  Wea  ther. 

December    17th 54  50  Tr.  Pt.  Cloudy 

18th  ....  52  48  .36  Rain 

19th  ....  54  50  .06  Pt.  Cloudy 

20th 52  47  .00  Clear 

"  21st.  ...  56  46  .00  Clear 

22d 58  46  .00  Clear 


THE   FINANCIAL    WEEK. 

The  transactions  on  the  Stock  and  Bond  Exchange 
for  the  week  ending  Tuesday,  December  22,  1903, 
were  as  follows  : 

Bonds.  Hosed 

Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

U.  S.  Coup-  z%. ...        100    @  10S  107%     ioSJ£ 

Hawaiian  C.  S.  5%.     1,000    @    99  102^ 

Los  Angeles  Light- 
ing 5% 1,000    @  103  104J4 

Market  St.  Ry.   1st 

Con.  5% 2,000    @  113  II2i£ 

Oakl'nd  Transit  5%     2,000    @  no  109%     110W 

Pac.  Elect.  Ry.  5%    12,000    @  106^-107        107 
Sac.  Electric  Gas  & 

Ry.  5% 1,000    tot  100  99 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905,  S.  A 2,000    @  1031^  103        103 y. 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  6% 

1905,  S.  B 1,000    @  i04#  I04w 

S.  P.  R.  of  Cal.  5% 

Stpd    26,000    @  106^-107^     107        107^6 

S.  V.  Water  5%,  3d     2,000    @    oS$£  99^ 

Stocks.  Closed 

Water.  Shares.  Bid.  Asked 

Spring  Vall'yW-Co        376    @    38^-39  38^       39}^ 

Banks. 
Bank  of  California             5    @  446^               444        447 
Cal.  S.  D.  T 10    @  150  15254 

Powders. 
Giant  Con 10    @    63  62%      64 

Sugars. 
Hawaiian  C.  &  S...  10    @    44J4  44^      45 

Hutchinson 90     @      9^  gj£         gj^ 

Gas  and  Electric. 
S.  F.Gas&El'ctric        195    @    66^-67  66^      66J4 

Miscellaneous. 
Alaska  Packers  ...        255    @  140-    141         139$^ 

Cal.  Wine  Assn 75    @    90-      90^      90  91^ 

Oceanic  S.  Co 50    @      5#  5  5j4 

The  market  has  the  usual  holiday  lack  of  business, 
and  on  very  small  sales,  about  held  their  own  in 
price. 

Spring  Valley  Water  selling  at  38^-39 

Alaska  Packers  selling  at  14C-141. 

California  Wine  Association  selling  at  90-90K. 

San  Francisco  Gas  and  Electric  selling  at  Co^-67. 

The  Stock  and  Hond  Exchange  adjourns  from 
Thursday,  December  24th.  until  Monday,  December 
28th  at  10.30  A.  M. 


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STORYETTES. 


Grave  and  Gay,  Epigrammatic  and  Otherwise. 


Here  is  Secretary  Hay's  apothegm,  written 
when  he  was  still  able  to  see  the  comic  aspect 
of   diplomacy : 

"  There     are     three     species     of     creatures     who, 
when   they  seem  coming  are  going, 
When    they   seem    going    they    come:    Diplomats, 
women,   and   crabs." 


It  is  related  that  Pinnow,  the  faithful  ser- 
vant and  personal  valet  of  the  late  Prince 
Bismarck,  who  recently  died,  once  trod  on  his 
master's  gouty  foot.  Instead  of  swearing  at 
him  or  even  declaring  he  was  a  clumsy  fool, 
Bismarck,  noticing  that  Pinnow  himself  was 
frightened,  said  :  "  Consider  yourself  honored. 
Xo  other  person,  my  dear  Pinnow.  not  even 
the  Kaiser  himself,  would  have  been  suffered 
to  tread  on  my  corns!" 

The  other  evening,  the  "  snuggery  "  in  the 
Lambs'  Club  in  New  York  was  crowded  with 
actors.  Whenever  a  member  came  in  he  was 
given  a  cheer  and  a  round  of  applause.  Nat 
Goodwin,  who  had  just  closed  his  tour  in  "  A 
Midsummer  Night's  Dream,"  which  proved 
a  losing  venture  on  the  road,  arrived.  He 
was  given  a  particularly  enthusiastic  wel- 
come. "  Thank  you,  gentlemen."  said  Mr. 
Goodwin ;  "  that's  more  noise  than  I  have 
heard   since    I    have   played    Shakespeare." 

Eugene  Field  was  once  visiting  the  house 
of  Richard  Henry'  Stoddard  in  New  York. 
During  the  evening  a  certain  well-known 
physician  dropped  in.  He  is  a  serious  man, 
and  a  bit  pompous.  The  talk  turned  on 
diet.  "  Doctor,"  said  Stoddard,  "  I've 
heard  that  you  eat  two  eggs  at  break- 
fast every  morning  the  year  round."  "  No," 
said  the  doctor,  emphatically;  "no;  on  the 
contrary."  "  On  the  contrary !"  cried  Stod- 
dard ;  "what's  the  contrary  of  eating  two 
eggs?"  "'  Laying  two  eggs,  '  came  in  deep, 
solemn  tones  from  Field. 


Whistler's  amusing  personal  conceit  was 
charmingly  displayed  on  one,  occasion  when 
A.  G.  Plowden,  a  London  police  magistrate, 
attended  a  private  view  at  the  Grosvenor 
Gallery.  "  Almost  the  first  friend  I  met,"  he 
says,  "  was  Whistler,  and  he  very  good- 
naturedly  took  me  up  to  a  full-length  portrait 
which  he  was  exhibiting  of  Lady  Archibald 
Campbell.  After  1  had  done  my  best  to  ex- 
press my  humble  appreciation  of  a  beautiful 
picture,  1  asked  him  if  there  were  any  other 
pictures  which  he  would  advise  me  to  look  at. 
'  Other  pictures,'  said  Whistler,  in  a  tone  of 
horror;  'other  pictures!  There  are  no  other 
pictures!     You  are  through!'" 

Here  is  an  anecdote  which  William  Dean 
Howells  tells  of  his  first  personal  recognition 
as  a  writer:  "Years  ago,  one  evening  after 
a  day  of  lonely  sightseeing  in  Montreal,  I 
returned  to  the  hotel  where  I  was  stopping, 
and  consulted  the  register  in  the  hope  of 
finding  the  name  of  some  acquaintance.  I 
was  disappointed,  and,  turning  away,  I  met 
two  well-dressed  young  men,  who  embraced 
the  register  eagerly,  and,  presently,  one  of 
them  said,  to  my  great  surprise  and  joy: 
'  Hello,  Tom !  Here's  Howells.'  '  Oh  !'  I 
exclaimed,  turning  toward  them,  '  I  was  just 
looking  for  some  one  I  knew.  I'm  glad  to 
see  you.  I  hope  you're  some  fellows  who 
know  me?"  'Only  through  your  contributions 
to  the  Saturday  Press/  they  replied.  It  was 
the  first  personal  recognition  of  my  work  as  an 
author  that  I  had  ever  received  from  a 
stranger,  and  the  words   were   golden." 

Thomas  A.  Edison  believes  there  is  no  work 
so  mechanical  as  the  telegraph  operator's. 
To  prove  his  deductions,  he  relates  this  in- 
cident: "One  night  when  I  was  a  'cub' 
operator  in  Cincinnati,  I  noticed  an  immense 
crowd  gathering  in  the  street  outside  a  news- 
paper office.  I  called  the  attention  of  the 
other  operators  to  the  crowd,  and  we  sent 
a  messenger-boy  out  to  find  the  cause  of  the 
excitement.  He  returned  in  a  few  minutes 
and  shouted  out:  "Lincoln's  shot  I'  In- 
stinctively the  operators  looked  from  one  face 
to  the  other  to  see  which  man  had  received 
the  news.  All  the  faces  were  blank,  and 
every  man  said  he  had  not  taken  a  word  about 
the  shooting.  '  Look  over  your  file,'  said  the 
boss  to  the  man  handling  press  stuff.  For 
a  few  moments  we  waited  in  suspense,  and 
then  the  man  held  up  a  sheet  of  paper  con- 
taining a  short  account  of  the  attack  on  the 
President.  The  operator  had  worked  so  me- 
chanically that  he  had  handled  the  news 
without  the  slightest  knowledge  of  its  sig- 
nificance." 


Mr.  Williams,  the  minority  leader  in  the 
House  of  Representatives,  is  fond  of  relating 
the  following  story  of  some  English  noble- 
men who  were  traveling  through  the  State  of 
Texas  in  the  early  days  :  They  were  entertained 
by  one  of  the  local  magnates  who 
had  settled  there,  and  he  took  the 
English  noblemen  down  to  the  only 
gentlemen's  club  existing  at  that  time  within 


the  confines  of  the  republic,  the  public  bar- 
room, and  while  there  he  concluded  he  would 
impress  the  barkeeper  with  the  magnitude 
of  his  social  standing.  So  he  turned  to  one 
of  the  visitors,  and  said:  "My  lord,  I  be- 
lieve you  are  a  marquis  in  your  own  coun- 
try?" "Yes."  "And,  my  lord,  I  believe  you 
are  an  earl  at  home?"  "  Yes."  Then  he  said, 
"Jim,  these  are  marquises  and  earls.  What 
do  you  think  of  them?"  Jim  said:  "Oh, 
well,  I  don't  care  much  about  that.  There 
aint  but  two  classes  of  men  in  this  place. 
One  is  them  that  takes  sugar  in  theirn,  and 
the  other  is  them  as  don't." 

The  recent  death  of  Lord  Rowton.  Dis- 
raeli's trusted  secretary  and  the  executor  of  his 
estate,  was  responsible  for  the  following  ex- 
planation of  how  Mrs.  Brydges  Willyams 
came  to  leave  her  fortune  to  Lord  Beacons- 
field  :  "  Dizzy  received  one  morning  a  letter 
from  Mrs.  Willyams — whom  he  did  not  know 
— in  which  she  said  that  she  had  read  his 
novels  with  much  interest,  and  would  like 
to  make  his  acquaintance.  She  also  asked  a 
question  which  rendered  it  necessary  for  him 
to  answer  the  letter.  Unfortunately,  the  letter 
was  left  in  his  greatcoat  pocket,  and  Dizzy 
did  not  wear  the  coat  until  several  months 
after,  when  he  happened  to  be  in  the  south 
of  England,  and  in  the  very  town  in  which 
Mrs.  Willyams  fived.  Coming  across  the  let- 
ter in  such  circumstances,  it  occurred  to  him 
to  call  upon  her,  and  Mrs.  Willyams  was  so 
flattered  at,  as  she  thought,  his  carrying  the 
letter  so  long  about  him,  and  then  calling, 
that  she  decided  on  leaving  him  her  fortune  ! 
That  shows  how  wise  it  is  not  to  answer 
letters,"  added  Lord  Rowton. 


A  Western  editor,  who  is  the  proud  father 
of  a  bouncing  baby  boy,  thus  airs  his  views 
on  babies :  "  A  baby  serves  a  manifold  pur- 
pose in  the  world.  He  makes  men  and  women 
more  unselfish,  and  furnishes  the  amount  of 
trouble  necessary  to  keep  them  comfortably 
busy.  He  sanctifies  home,  and  gives  the  doc- 
tor an  excuse  to  look  wise.  A  well-ordered, 
well-born  baby,  with  a  red  face  and  a  bald 
head,  is  a  delight,  particularly  when  he  be- 
longs to  a  friend,  and  doesn't  spend  nights 
in  your  neighborhood.  Every  baby  is  the 
prettiest  baby  in  the  world,  and  it  can  be 
proved  by  his  mother.  A  baby  that  won't 
eat  carpet  tacks,  brass-headed  nails,  and  young 
kittens  is  a  mistake.  Babies  are  bosses  and 
boodlers.  They  control  the  first  ward,  along 
with  the  twelfth,  rule  outrageously  over  the 
counties,  and  take  everything  that  comes 
their  way  without  asking  any  questions.  All 
babies  are  supposed,  quite  properly,  to  come 
from  heaven,  but  what  the  angels,  cherubim, 
seraphim,  and  the  rest  of  the  celestial  popula- 
tion do  for  sleep  has  never  been  inquired 
into." 


Some  years  ago,  Vance  Thompson  was 
asked  by  his  editor  to  secure  a  Christmas 
story  if  he  could  from  Sarah  Bernhardt,  who 
was  playing  in  New  York  at  the  time.  Her 
secretary  suggested  that  Thompson  write  a 
story  and  let  her  sign  it  as  if  it  were  her  own. 
Accordingly,  he  turned  out  a  pretty  little  story 
called  "  Noel."  The  next  day,  Sarah  read, 
approved,  and  dashed  her  stunning  signature 
on  both  manuscripts,  and  the  French  version 
and  the  English  were  printed  side  by  side. 
The  other  day,  when  he  visited  Sarah  in  Paris 
at  her  big  house  in  the  Boulevard  Pereire, 
Thompson  found  that  she  had  forgotten  him. 
He  discovered  this  fact  when  he  picked  up  a 
beautifully  illustrated  book  by  the  tragedienne. 
which,  to  his  surprise,  was  "  Noel."  Mr. 
Thompson  was  staring  at  it,  as  one  stares  at 
the  ghost  of  an  old  sweetheart,  when  Mme. 
Sarah  came,  swift- footed,  rustling  in  an 
orange-tawny  morning-gown.  "  Oh,"  she  ex- 
claimed, noticing  the  book  in  his  hand,  "  have 
you  read  it  ?  A  little  thing,  but  real — une 
tranche  de  la  vie.  It  was  an  event  in  my  own 
life  that  haunted  me  and  haunted  me  until  I 
simply  had  to  write  it — a  fragment  of  my 
childhood — ah,  those  days,  those  days  !" 


— Judge  Colt,  of  the  Circuit  Court  of 
the  United  States  District  of  Massachusetts, 
deserves  the  congratulations  and  thanks  of  the 
American  people  for  the  broad  and  sweeping 
decision  rendered  November  9,  1903,  restrain- 
ing Adams,  Taylor  Co.,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  from 
using  the  word  "  Club "  in  connection  with 
bottled  cocktails.  The  complainants,  G.  F. 
Heublein  &  Brother,  have  spent  much  time 
and  money  in  introducing  the  celebrated  Club 
Cocktails,  which,  like  all  well-known  and 
staple  articles,  have  more  or  less  been  imi- 
tated. This  decision  means  not  only  protec- 
tion to  the  maker  of  the  goods,  but  affords 
equal  protection  to  the  purchaser,  and  sim- 
plifies the  matter  of  getting  what  you  want 
and  pay  for. 


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Since  recently  improved. 
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December  28,   1903. 


SOCIETY. 

Christmas  Jinks  at  the  Bohemian  Club. 
The  annual  Christmas  high  jinks  and  low 
jinks  were  held  at  the  Bohemian  Club  on  Sat- 
urday evening.  December  19th.  Mr.  James 
D.  Phclan  was  sire  of  the  former,  and  Mr. 
Will  Irwin,  oi  the  latter.  The  low  jinks  came 
after  the  Christmas  tree  and  supper,  and  was 
the  occasion  of  the  presentation  of  "  Abe 
Hur."  Mr.  Irwin's  clever  travesty  on  "  Ben 
Hur."  Preceding  the  jinks.  Mr.  J.  C.  Wilson 
gave  a  dinner  at  the  club,  at  which  the  guests 
of  honor  were  Mr.  James  D.  Phelan  and 
Mr.  Will  Irwin.  Others  at  table  were  Mr. 
Fremont  Older,  Mr.  J.  D.  Spreckels.  Jr., 
Captain  Faison.  U.  S.  A..  Mr.  E.  F.  Preston, 
Judge  F.  W.  Henshaw.  Dr.  J.  Wilson  Shiels, 
Mr.  R.  M.  Hotaling.  Mr.  Enrique  Grau.  Mr.  Fred 
Greenwood.  Mr.  Willis  Davis.  Mr.  Joseph 
Howell.  Dr.  Ainsworth.  Mr.  Thomas  Wilson. 
Mr.  Samuel  Shortridge.  Mr.  Louis  Sloss.  Mr. 
Frank  Deering.  Mr.  Yanderlynn  Stow.  Mr. 
William  Greer  Harrison.  Dr.  Benjamin  Ide 
Wheeler.  Mr.  Charles  Wheeler.  Mr.  Fred  San- 
born. Mr.  Edgar  Mizner.  Mr.  W.  D.  K. 
Gibson.  Mr.  George  Field.  Mr.  W.  R.  Fletcher. 
Mr.  Fred  Hall.  Mr.  John  Landers.  Mr.  R.  S. 
Moore.  Mr.  J.  B.  Smith.  Mr.  Penniman.  Mr. 
Rudolph   Herold.  and  Mr.  Charles  Gibbons. 


Notes  and  Gossip. 

The  engagement  of  Miss  Katherine  Self- 
ridge,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  A.  Self- 
ridge,  and  Lieutenant  Frederick  G.  Kellond. 
Nineteenth  Infantry.  U.  S.  A.,  was  announced 
on  Monday,  at  a  tea  given  by  Miss  Mattie 
Milton    at    her    residence,    2001    Lyon    Street. 

The  engagement  is  announced  of  Miss  Ethel 
Kent,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel  Martin 
Kent,  and  Lieutenant  Gilbert  N.  Allen,  Nine- 
teenth Infantry,  U.  S.  A. 

The  wedding  of  Miss  Sarah  Center  Whitney, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  James  O.  Whitney,  of  Ber- 
keley, and  Mr.  Boardman  Michael  Robinson 
took  place  in  Paris  on  November  29th  at  the 
apartments  of  Mrs.  Webb,  in  the  Hotel  d'Jena. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  went  to  Barbizon  on 
their  wedding  journey.  They  are  both  artists. 
Mrs.  Robinson's  chosen  line  being  sculpture. 
while  Mr.  Robinson  is  a  painter.  They  will 
establish  a  studio  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  George  C.  Boardman  has  issued  invi- 
tations for  a  tea  on  Wednesday.  December 
30th,  in  honor  of  Miss  Bernie  Drown. 

Mrs.  Will  Tevis  recently  gave  a  luncheon 
in  honor  of  Mrs.  Hermann  Oelrichs.  Others 
at  table  were  Mrs.  Robert  Oxnard.  Mrs. 
Rudolph  Spreckels,  Miss  O'Connor.  Mrs. 
Chauncey  R.  Winslow,  Mrs.  Mountford  S. 
Wilson,  and  Mrs.  Horace  Blanchard  Chase. 

Mrs.  William  G.  Irwin  gave  a  dinner  at  her 
Broadway  residence  on  Thursday  evening  in 
honor  of  Miss  Marguerite  Newhall  and  Miss 
Gertrude  Hyde-Smith. 

Mr;.  Samuel  Knight  has  sent  out  cards 
for  the  second  and  fourth  Fridays  in  January 
at  her  residence.  2621   Pacific  Avenue. 

Mrs.  George  W.  Gibbs  will  give  a  reception 
at  her  residence  on  Jackson  Street  on  Satur- 
day, January  2d.  from  four  until  seven  o'clock. 

A  theatre-party  of  sixty  people  will  attend 
the  performance  of  "  Ixion  "  at  the  new 
Tivoli  Theatre  on  Monday  night.  Later  they 
will  enjoy  a  supper  and  dance  at  the  Palace 
Hotel.  Those  in  the  party  will  be  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Martin.  Mrs.  H.  E.  Huntington,  Mrs. 
Voorhies.  Mrs.  Bowie-Deitrick,  Mrs.  Malcolm 
Henry.  Baron  and  Baroness  von  Horst.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  G.  B.  Sperry.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry 
Dutton.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Runyon,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Sherwood,  Major  and  Mrs.  KrauthotT.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Adams,  Major  and  Mrs.  Payson. 
Miss  Maye  Colburn.  Miss  Grace  Buckley.  Miss 
Elizabeth  Huntington.  Miss  Marion  Hunting- 
ton. Miss  Elsie  Tallant.  Miss  Edna  Middle- 
ton,  Miss  Gertrude  Dutton.  Miss  Etelka  Wil- 
lar.  Miss  Maylita  Pease.  Miss  Jennie  Blair. 
Miss  Frances  Harris.  Miss  Helen  Bowie,  Miss 
Bessie   Cole.    Miss    Elsie    Sperry.    Miss    Steele. 


THE  OLD  RELIABLE 


Absolutely  Pure 
THE*  IS  NO  SUBSTITUTE 


Miss  Katherine  Herrin,  Miss  Bessie  Wilson, 
Miss  Towsie,  Major  Rochester.  Mr.  Will 
Humphreys.  Mr.  Metcalf,  Mr.  Gilmour,  Mr. 
Hewlett,  Mr.  Bonnefield.  Mr.  Ross,  Mr.  War- 
field,  Mr.  Williar,  Mr.  Roundtree,  Captain 
Frederick  Johnson,  Major  Stephenson,  Dr. 
Dunbar.  U.  S.  N.,  Lieutenant  Fuchs,  Mr. 
Philip  Paschal,  Major  Ruthers.  Mr.  Prescott 
Scott,  Dr.  Arnold  Genthe,  Dr.  Edward  K. 
Hopkins,  Mr.  Schumacher,  Mr.  Russell,  Dr. 
Pressley,  Mr.  Reis,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Stent. 

The  annual  Christmas  dinner  of  the  Cosmos 
Club  took  place  Saturday  evening  in  the  new- 
dining-room  of  the  club.  Covers  were  laid 
for  nearly  one  hundred.  A  jinks  was  after- 
ward  held   in   the  billiard-room. 

Mrs.  Joseph  D.  Grant  recently  gave  a 
luncheon  at  her  home  on  Broadway,  at  which 
Mrs.  Hermann  Oelrichs  was  the  guest  of 
honor. 

Mrs.  Henry  Lund.  Jr.,  gave  a  tea  at  her 
residence  on  Clay  Street  last  Sunday  after- 
noon in  honor  of  Captain  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Lyman  Bent.  Those  who  assisted  in  receiving 
were  Miss  Muriel  Russell,  Miss  Ruby  John- 
son, Miss  Gertrude  Van  Wyck,  Miss  Marian 
Hall,  Miss  Charlotte  Lally.  and  Miss  Jessie 
Fillmore. 

Miss  Elsie  Sperry  gave  a  tea  at  her  apart- 
ments on  Devisadero  Street  last  Sunday  after- 
noon in  honor  of  Mrs.  Frederick  Palmer. 
Those  who  assisted  in  receiving  were  Miss 
Linda  Cadwalader,  Miss  Agnes  Buchanan,  and 
Miss  Steele. 

Mrs.  Henry  L.  Dodge  gave  a  luncheon  on 
Saturday  at  her  residence  on  Franklin  Street 
in  honor  of  her  niece,  Miss  Mabel  Dodge,  of 
San  Rafael.  Others  at  table  were  Mrs.  Gale, 
Miss  Marion  Huntington,  Miss  Georgia 
Wintringham,  Miss  Mary  Foster,  Miss  Anna 
Foster,  Miss  Christine  Pomeroy.  Miss  Elsie 
Tallant.  Miss  Florence  Boyd,  Miss  Helen 
Murison.  Miss  Sophie  Borel,  Miss  Alice 
Borel,  Miss  Margaret  Newhall.  Miss  Josephine 
de  Guigne,  Miss  Marie  C.  de  Guigne.  Miss 
Hilda  Van  Sicklen,  Miss  Katherine  Dillon, 
Miss  Pearl  Landers,  Miss  Margaret  Postle- 
thwaite.  Miss  Maylita  Pease.  Miss  Edna 
Middleton,  Miss  Alice  Wilkins,  Miss  Gertrude 
Dutton,  Miss  Mabel  Toy,  Miss  Emily  Wilson, 
Miss  Lucy  Gwin  Coleman,  Miss  Helen  Chese- 
brough.  Miss  Persis  Coleman,  Miss  Hazel 
King,  Miss  Genevieve  King.  Miss  Jennie 
Blair,  Miss  Alice  Sullivan.  Miss  Gertrude 
Hyde-Smith,  and  Miss  Helen  Bowie. 

Miss  Florence  Bailey  gave  a  tea  Monday 
at  her  residence  on  Franklin  Street  in  honor 
of  Miss  Bessie  Wilson.  Those  who  assisted 
in  receiving  were  Mrs.  Henry  F.  Dutton,  Miss 
Helen  de  Young,  and  Mrs.  John  R.  Clark. 

Mrs.  Gerret  Livingston  Lansing  has  sent 
out  invitations  for  a  luncheon  at  the  Univer- 
sity Club  on  Tuesday. 

Rear-Admiral  Bowman  McCalla,  U.  S.  N., 
Mrs.  McCalla.  and  the  Misses  McCalla  enter- 
tained a  number  of  friends  on  Christmas  Eve 
at  their  quarters  at  the  Mare  Island  Navy 
Yard. 

Mrs.  Cesar  Bertheau  and  Miss  Anita  Ber- 
theau  received  two  hundred  guests  at  their 
residence  on  Vallejo  Street  Saturday  after- 
noon. December  19th.  Those  who  assisted  in 
receiving  were  Mrs.  G.  F.  Volkmann,  Mrs. 
A.  A.  Hanks,  Mrs.  M.  A.  Bertheau.  Miss 
Janette  L.  Deal,  Miss  Alice  Klein.  Miss 
Plagemann,  Miss  Claudine  Cotton.  Miss  Paula 
Wolff,  Miss  Louise  Howland,  Miss  Lichten- 
berg.   Miss   Volkmann,   and    Miss   Pettigrew. 

Mrs.  Hyde-Smith  gave  a  cotillion  in 
honor  of  her  daughter.  Miss  Gertrude  Hyde- 
Smith,  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Tuesday  even- 
ing. The  affair  was  conducted  by  Mr.  E.  M. 
Greenway.  who,  with  Miss  Hyde-Smith,  led 
the  cotillion.  Supper  was  served  at  mid- 
night, covers  being  laid  for  one  hundred  and 
forty  people.  Among  those  who  assisted  in 
receiving  were  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Garceau,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mountford  Wilson,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  G.  Irwin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Babcock. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  McLaren,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  W.  Mayo  Newhall.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Parrott,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Eugene  Lent,  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Martin,  Mrs.  Russell  Wilson.  Mrs. 
Bowie-Deitrick.  Miss  Sophie  Coleman.  Miss 
Grace  Martin.  Miss  Jennie  Blair,  and  Mr. 
de  Guigne. 

Miss  Amy  Gunn  will  give  a  tea  at  her  resi- 
dence on  Green  Street  on  Friday,  January 
1st,  in  honor  of  Miss  Elsie  Dow. 

Mrs.  Henry  Foster  Dutton  will  give  a  re- 
ception on  Saturday  evening  in  honor  of  her 
sister.  Mrs.  Harry  Macfarlane,  of  Honolulu. 

The  next  Friday  Fortnightly  dance  will 
take  place  at  the  Palace  Hotel  on  Wednesday 
evening.  The  next  Assembly  dance  will  be 
held   at  the    Palace   Hotel   on    Friday   evening. 


Army  and  Navy  News. 

Major-General  Arthur  MacArthur.  U.  S.  A., 
is  expected  to  arrive  on  December  28th  from 
Honolulu,  where  he  has  been  studying  the  de- 
fenses of  the  Hawaiian   Islands. 

General  Walter  F.  Clark,  U.  S.  A„  retired, 
is   among  the  guests   at  the  Occidental    Hotel. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  John  McClellan.  Artil- 
lery Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  left  on  the  Oceanic 
steamship  Alameda  last  Saturday  for  his  new 
station  at  Honolulu,  where  he  is  to  be  com- 
ii'i  nding  officer. 

Major  Henry  M.  Morrow,  U.  S.  A.,  judge- 
advocate  on  the  staff  of  General  Arthur 
MacArthur.     is    expecting     a     visit     from    his 


mother,  who  will  spend  the  rest  of  the  winter 
in  San  Francisco. 

Captain  R.  M.  Dutton,  U.  S.  M.  C,  arrived 
from  Japan  on  the  Japanese  steamship  Nippon 
Maru  last  Sunday. 

Colonel  Charles  A.  Woodruff,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
Mrs.  Woodruff  will  spend  the  winter  months 
at  960  Bush  Street. 

Dr.  Raymond  Spear,  U.  S.  N.,  arrived  from 
Pago  Pago  Monday  on  the  Oceanic  steamship 
Sierra. 

Captain  Theodore  B.  Taylor,  U.  S.  A.,  and 
the  Misses  Taylor  arrived  from  Honolulu 
Monday    on    the    Oceanic    steamship    Sierra. 

Rear-Admiral  KempfF,  U.  S.  N.,  retired,  and 
Miss  Cornelia  KempfF  are  in  Northern  Texas. 

Captain  Guy  H.  B.  Smith.  U.  S.  A.,  has 
been  retired  from  duty  at  Fort  Russell,  and 
will  sail  for  the   Philippines  on   February    1st. 

Lieutenant  John  H.  Allen,  assistant  surgeon, 
U.  S.  A.,  upon  his  arrival  here,  will  be  as- 
signed for  duty  at  the  General  Hospital  at 
the  Presidio.  He  will  relieve  Lieutenant 
Walter  C.  Chidester,  who  will  report  for  hos- 
pital duty  at  Fort  Lawton. 


For  Lovers  of  Pictorial  Art. 

Strolling  into  the  art  gallery  of  the  Messrs. 
Gump,  the  eye  is  at  first  dazzled  and  bewil- 
dered by  the  remarkable  array  of  pictures  of 
every  size  and  theme,  covering  the  long  walls, 
and  arranged  about  the  centre  of  the  large 
rooms. 

It  is  only  when  the  visitor  recovers 
from  his  first  surprise  at  seeing  these  well- 
known  galleries,  made  still  more  attractive  this 
year  with  gleanings  from  the  galleries  of 
Europe,  that  he  is  able  to  give  his  undivided 
attention  to  the  notable  and  new  paintings  of 
this  great  collection. 

Here,  on  one  side,  for  example,  he 
sees  Francois  Maury's  picture.  "  The  Heart  of 
the  Forest  of  Fontainbleau,"  whose  depth, 
richness,  and  light  effects  are  unsurpassable. 
There,  on  the  farther  wall,  is  Robert  Pector's 
Salon  painting — a  flock  of  sheep  passing 
through  a  village  street  under  the  dim  light 
of  the  moon.  Paintings  by  A.  Jacomin,  called 
in  France  "  the  painter  of  spring  "  ;  a  head — 
that  of  a  brunette — painted  by  Frederique 
Vallet-Bisson  from  the  same  model  as  her 
picture  in  this  year's  Salon ;  a  Titian-haired 
girl  with  imperious  eyes,  by  H.  Rondel,  Cheva- 
lier Knight  of  the  Legion  of  Honor;  Pablo 
Salinas's  spirited  picture  of  Arabs  on  the 
way  to  war — these  are  only  a  few  of  the 
more- striking  pieces   in   the   Gump   collection. 

Without  doubt,  though,  one  of  the  gems 
of  the  entire  exhibit — a  Louis  Fourteenth 
parlor  scene,  by  V.  Reggianini,  entitled  "  Out 
of  Tune,"  depicting  a  gentleman  seated  at  a 
piano  with  four  laughing  ladies,  evidently 
making  fun  of  his  playing — would  alone  war- 
rant a  visit  to  these  beautiful  galleries.  This 
artist  is  famous  for  his  lovely  rendering  of 
tints  of  silk  and  satin  robes,  and  for  his 
artistic  handling  of  interiors,  draperies,  and 
furniture.  It  is  exceedingly  instructive  and 
interesting  to  any  one  to  visit  this  gallery  of 
European  masters,  unquestionably  the  finest 
exhibition  of  art  paintings  imported  to  this 
city. 

After  next  season,  the  American  stage  is  to 
lose  one  of  its  best-known  actresses.  Mrs.  G. 
H.  Gilbert,  who  has  spent  almost  all  of  the 
eighty-three  years  of  her  life  before  the  thea- 
tre-going public,  will  retire.  In  order  that  her 
admirers  may  have  an  opportunity  to  see  her 
as  a  star  in  her  last  engagement,  Charles 
Frohman.,  her  manager,  has  planned  to  place 
her  at  the  head  of  a  company  next  season,  and 
send  her  on  a  tour  in  a  new  play  by  Clyde 
Fitch.  It  is  understood  that  the  title  of  the 
play   will    be    "  Grandma." 


James  B.  Randol,  a  well-known  member 
of  the  Pacific-Union  Club,  died  in  New  York 
on  December  23d,  of  heart  disease.  Mr. 
Randol  was  an  extensive  owner  of  California 
mines  and  orchards.  He  was  a  native  of 
New  York,  sixty-eight  years  of  age.  and  came 
to  California  in  the  early  'sixties. 


—  The  Ladies'  Shirt  Waist  Cutter  of  the 
coast  is  Kent,  "  Shirt  Tailor,"  121  Post  St.,  S.  F. 


A.    Hii> chimin, 
712  Market  and  25  Geary  Streets,  for  fine  jewelry". 


Pears' 

Why  is  Pears'  Soap — the 
best  in  the  world,  the  soap 
with  no  free  alkali  in  it — 
sold  for   15  cents    a  cake? 

It  was  made  for  a  hos- 
pital soap  in  the  first 
place,  made  by  request, 
the  doctors  wanted  a  soap 
that  would  wash  as  sharp 
as  any  and  do  no  harm 
to  the  skin.  That  means 
a  soap  all  soap,  with  no 
free  al  ali  in  it,  nothing 
bu:  soap;  there  is  nothing 
my-terious  i  i  it.  Cost  de- 
pends on  quantity;  quan- 
tity comes  of   quality. 

Sold  all  over  the  world. 


Cupid's 
Proverbs 

A  Wedding  Book,  is  the  favorite  gift  at  all  the 
prominent  New  York  weddings.  Prices  $3.00  to  $20.00. 
Ask  any  first-class  booksellers.  Circulars  mailed  by 
Dodge  Publishing  Company,  New  York. 


1  CHAPPED  HANDS.  CHAFING, 

/mi  iB  afflictions  of  the  «^*"  "A.  Htt!t 
higher  in  price,  perhtps,  thtn  worth/as 
Vies,  bat  1  reason  far  it"  De- 
lightful ifttr  shaving.  Sold  cverywhoc,  or 
mails]  00  receipt  of  25c 
GERHARD  MENNEN  CO.,  Newartc  N.  J. 


5HREVE  &  CO. 


MANUFACTURERS 

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IMPORTERS  OF  PRECIOUS  STONES 
GOLD    AND    SILVER    SHITHS 


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Post  and  Harket  Sts. 


December  2S,   1903. 


1'  FL  H, 


A  A  U  U   IN    .M    LJ 


The  Innovations  at  the 
Palace  Hotel,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

TOURISTS  and  TRAVELERS  will  now 
with  difficulty  recognize  the  famous  COURT 
into  which  for  twenty-five  years  carriages 
have  been  driven.  This  space  of  over  a 
quarter  of  an  acre  has  recently,  by  the 
addition  of  very  handsome  furniture,  rugs, 
chandeliers,  and  tropical  plants,  been  con- 
verted into  a  lounging  room,  THE  FINEST 
IN  THE  WORLD. 

THE  EMPIRE  PARLOR— the  PALM 
ROOM,  iurnished  in  Cerise,  with  Billiard 
and  Pool  tables  for  the  ladies — the  LOUIS 
XV  PARLOR— the  LADIES'  WRITING 
ROOM,  and  numerous  other  modern  im- 
provements, together  with  unexcelled  Cui- 
sine and  the  most  convenient  location  in  the 
City— all  add  much  to  the  ever  increasing 
popularity  of  this  most  famous  hotel. 


HOTEL  RICHELIEU 

IOI2  VAN  NESS  AVENUE 

HOTEL  GRANADA 

1000  SUTTER  STREET 


The  management  of  the  Hotel  Richelieu  wishes  to 
announce  to  its  friends  and  patrons  that  it  has  pur- 
chased the  property  of  the  Hotel  Granada,  and  will 
run  the  latter  on  the  same  plan  that  has  made  the 
Richelieu  the  finest  family  hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

HOTEL    RICHELIEU   CO. 


For  those  who  appreciate  comfort 
and  attention 

OCCIDENTAL  HOTEL 

SAIS    FRANCISCO 

AMERICAN  AND  EUROPEAN   PLAN 
A  QUIET  HOME  CENTRALLY  LOCATED 

GEORGE  "WARREN  HOOPER,  Lessee. 


Ness/V'e. 
<3bn Francisco 


HOTEL  RAFAEL 

Fifty   minutes  from  San  Francisco. 

Twenty -four  trains    daily   each 

way.    Open  all  the  year. 

CUISINE  AND  SERVICE  THE  BEST 

B.  V.  HAlTQy,  Proprietor. 


How  To  Do  It 


1st 

If  you  have  a  thing,  make  sure  by 
every  reliable  test  that  it  is  the  best. 

2d 

Make  sure  it  gratifies  and  satisfies, 
for  then  it  can  not  disappoint. 

3d 

Let  all   the   world  know  what  you 
have.     For  example, 


Hunter 
Baltimore  Rye 

is    the  perfect  whiskey  and  all   the 
World  knows  it. 


HILBERT  MERCANTILE  CO. 

213-215  Market  Street,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Telephone  Exchange  313. 


MOVEMENTS    AND    WHEREABOUTS. 

Prince  Poniatowski  sailed  from  New  York 
last  week  for  Paris,  where  he  will  remain  all 
winter  with  his  family. 

Mrs.  Louis  F.  Monteagle  is  a  guest  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Charles  Ellicott  at  their  West  Ninety- 
Eighth    Street    residence   in    New    York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Winthrop  E.  Lester,  Miss 
Caroline  Lester,  and  Miss  Beatrice  Lester 
sailed   from  New   York  last  week  for  Europe. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Parker  Whitney  have  re- 
turned from  New  York,  and  are  at  the  St. 
Dunstan. 

Mrs.  Alfred  H.  Yoorhies  has  returned  from 
Los  Angeles,  where  she  was  the  guest  of 
Mrs.  O.  W.  Childs  and  Mrs.  Albert  Stephens. 

Mr.  Southard  Hoffman,  who  has  been  en- 
gaged in  business  in  Honolulu  for  the  past 
few  years,  is  visiting  his  parents  at  their 
home  in  San  Rafael. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Boyd  and  family  will 
be  the  guests  for  three  weeks  of  Mrs.  Kittle 
at  her  residence  on  Pacific  Avenue  and 
Steiner  Street. 

Mrs.  Romualdo  Pacheco,  who  arrived  from 
the  East  last  week,  is  visiting  her  daughter. 
Mrs.  William  Tevis. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Mills  were  at  the 
Hotel  Rafael  during  the  past  week. 

Mrs.  Samuel  Buckbee  and  Mrs.  Van  Fleet 
have  returned  from    New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  J.  McCutcheon  and  Miss 
Sara  Collier  sailed  from  New  York  for  Eu- 
rope last  week. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  J.  Crocker  aud  family 
are  at  Santa  Barbara  for  the  holidays. 

Mrs.  Henry  E.  Huntington  returned  on 
Monday  from  a  visit  to  New  York. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  W.  Poett  arrived  on 
the  Oceanic  steamship  Sierra  on  Monday 
from  Honolulu,  whither  they  went  on  their 
wedding  journey. 

Dr.  William  Hopkins  and  Mrs.  Hopkins  ar- 
rived on  Friday  from  Vienna. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Colin  M.  Boyd  and  family 
are  spending  the  holidays  at  "  Casa  Boyd." 
their  country'  place  in  Alameda  County. 

Mr.  William  A.  Bissell  and  family  are 
spending  the  holidays  in  Southern  Califor- 
nia. 

Mr.  Athole  McBean  was  among  the  guests 
at  the  Hotel  Rafael  during  the  past  week. 

Miss  Jennie  Crocker,  who  has  been  the 
guest  of  her  sister,  Mrs.  Francis  Burton  Har- 
rison, in  Washington,  D.  C,  is  now  visiting 
Mrs.  Charles  B.  Alexander  in  New  York. 

Dr.  and  Mrs.  Pischel  have  returned  from  a 
visit  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands. 

Miss  Gertrude  Eells  was  a  guest  of  Rear- 
Admiral  Bowman  McCalla  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Calla  at  Mare  Island  during  the  week. 

Mrs.  Ruth  Homan,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir 
Sydney  Waterlow,  is  visiting  her  sister,  Mrs. 
A.  B.  Ford,  at  San  Mateo.  Mrs.  Homan  is 
interested  in  educational  work,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  board  of  London. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Pinckard,  who  left 
for  a  trip  East  last  Saturday,  expect  to  be 
away  some  time. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sterling  Postley  arrived 
from  the  East  last  week,  and  will  pass  the 
winter  in  San  Francisco. 

Mrs.  Henry  Macfarlane  arrived  from  Hono- 
lulu last  week  on  a  visit  to  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Henry  Dutton.  She  will  remain  here  several 
weeks. 

Mrs.  David  Minor,  of  Areata,  who  is  spend- 
ing the  holidays  with  her  parents,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  D.  B.  Wilson,  will  remain  here  until 
the  end  of  January. 

Mrs.  George  Fife  and  her  daughter,  Miss 
Beatrice  Fife,  have  returned  from  the  East, 
after  an  absence  of  several  weeks. 

Mrs.  H.  A.  Morrow,  mother  of  Mr.  H.  M. 
Morrow,  judge-advocate  of  the  Department 
of  California,  has  arrived  from  the  East, 
and  is  residing  at  1076  Bush  Street. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Timothy  Hopkins  were  in 
New  York  last  week. 

Governor  W.  H.  Taft  sailed  from  Manila 
on  Wednesday,  December  23d,  for  the  United 
States.  He  calls  at  Tokio,  en  route,  to  visit 
the  Mikado,  at  the  latter's  invitation.  A  re- 
ception in  the  general's  honor  has  been  ar- 
ranged at  Honolulu. 

Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan  left  last  Sunday 
for  a  month's  visit  in  the  East.  During  his 
absence  he  will  call  upon  President  Roosevelt, 
with  whom  he  will  discuss  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  commissioners  who  went  to 
Alaska  last  summer  to  investigate  the  condi- 
tion of  the  fisheries. 

Miss  Jean  McKenzie,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Robert  D.  McKenzie,  formerly  pastor  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  will  go  to  West 
Africa  as  a  missionary,  under  direction  of  the 
Woman's  Occidental  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions, of  this  city. 

Mr.  Andrew  W.  Rose  will  live  in  New  York 
hereafter,  having  bought  a  handsome  resi- 
dence on  East  Fifty-Seventh  Street. 

Mrs.  Hugh  Morrison,  of  Honolulu,  after 
traveling  extensively  in  the  United  States  and 
Europe,  has  settled  in  Dresden  for  the  winter. 

Mrs.  Grace  Morei  Dickman.  formerly  of 
this  city,  is  now  a  member  of  the  Musical  Art 
Society  of  New  York,  having  joined  it  at  the 
invitation  of  Mr.  Frank  Damrosch. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrew  Carnegie  gave  a  din- 
ner at  the  New  Willard.  Washington,  D.  C, 
recently,   to   the   trustees  of  the   Carnegie  In- 


stitution. Judge  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Morrow- 
were  among  the  guests. 

Miss  Kane,  of  Brooklyn.  X.  Y..  is  visiting 
her  aunt,  Mrs.  George  W.  Gibbs.  at  her  resi- 
dence on  Jackson  Street. 

Miss  Mary*  Genevieve  Moroney  will  leave 
in  a  few  days  for  New  York,  where  she  will 
make  her  future  home. 

The  week's  arrivals  at  the  Hotel  Rafael  were 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bergevin.  of  Chicago.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Noble  Todd  and  Mrs.  Barker,  of  Los 
Angeles,  Mr.  G.  R.  Tompkins,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  Mrs.  Low.  Miss  Edith  B.  Low. 
Miss  Frances  R.  Reed  and  Miss  Constance  M. 
Dixon,  of  Sausalito.  Mr.  Frank  H.  Johnson 
and  Mr.  Maurice  Dore.  of  Belmont.  Miss  Sadie 
Fritch,  Miss  Emelie  Geraldine  Reed,  Miss 
Frances  Chase.  Miss  Marguerite  Tuckey.  and 
Miss  Mabel  Bass. 

A  former  well-known  San  Franciscan,  Mr. 
Alexander  Del  Mar.  is  now  living  at  the 
Bronx,  New  York,  with  his  family.  Mr.  Del 
Mar  is  publishing  a  book  on  "  The  Coinage 
of  the  World."  His  two  daughters.  Miss 
Maud  Del  Mar  and  Miss  Fannie  Del  Mar, 
were  educated  in  France.  The  former  is  an 
accomplished  pianist,  while  the  latter  is  an 
artist,  having  a  studio  in  New  York. 


Dancing  Masters 
Recommend  It 


Dancing  Masters  all  over  the  United  States 
recommend  Bowdlear's  Pulverized  Floor  Wax. 
It  makes  neither  dust  nor  dirt,  does  not  stick  to 
the  shoes  or  rub  into  lumps  on  the  floor. 
Sprinkle  on  and  the  dancers  will  do  the  rest. 
Does  not  soil  dresses  or  clothes  or  the  finest 
fabric. 

For  sale  by  Mack  m  Co..  Langleyi  Michaels, 
and  Redington  &  Co.,  San  Francisco;  Kirk, 
Geary  &  Co.,  Sacramento;  and  F.  W-  Braun  & 
Co..  Los  Angeles. 

Bowdlear's  Floor  Wax. 


—  Wedding  invitations  engraved  in  cor- 
rect  form  by  Cooper  &  Co.,  746  Market  Street. 


Holiday  Suggestions. 

Hat  orders.     Eugene    Kom.    Knox  agency.    746 
Market  Street. 


Tourist  Policies 


Baggage  and  Personal  Property  insured  against 
loss  by  Fire,  Collision,  Shipwreck,  and  other  causes 
wherever  it  may  be  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Applications  can  be  obtained  at  the  office,  or 
through  any  Insurance  Agent,  Broker,  or  Trans- 
portation Agent. 

Commercial  Union  Assurance  Co.  Ltd 

C.  F.  MULLINS,  Manager, 
416-418  CALIFORNIA  STREET 

SAN    FRANCISCO. 

All  classes  of  Fire  and  Marine  Insurance  business 
transacted. 


fj0  A     good 
/    p    glove    fop   a 
;  p*  dollar  and  a  half 

Centemeri 


DEERFIELD  WATER 

A  natural  mineral  wa- 
ter. Pure,  sparkling, 
and  refreshing.  Makes 
a  more  delightful 
"  High  Ball  "  than  can 
be  produced  by  the  use 
of  any  other  waters, 
and  at  the  same  time 
robbing  the  liquor  of 
its  harmful  effects. 

A   Smooth,  Bracing,  Morn- 
ing Drink. 

The  Deerf  ield  Water  Co. 

DEERFIELD,  OHIO. 

San  Francisco  Distributors 
519  MISSION  ST. 


HOLIDAY 
PRESENTS 

A  Few  Suggestions 


Furniture  Department 

Writing  Desks 
Dressing  Tables 
Secretary  Bookcases 
Easy  Chairs 
Rockers 
norris  Chairs 


Tabourettes 
flusic  Cabinets 
Parlor  Cabinets 
Bookcases 
China  Closets 
Parlor  Tables 


Oriental  and  Domestic  Rugs 

Choice  Assortment.     Great  Variety.     Reasonable  Prices. 

Drapery  Department 

Sofa  Pillows,  Tapestry  and  Velour  Table  Covers,  Silk  and 
Lace  Curtains,  Kis-kilems,  Comforters. 

Many  Novel  and  Exclusive  Designs  in  Every 
Department 


W.  &  J.  SLOANE  &  CO. 

,114=116=118=120  =  122    POST    STREET. 


SOHMER 
PI  A  HO 

AGENCY, 


WARRANTED     IO    YEARS. 

BYRON   MAUZY 

£^~  The  CECILIAN-The  Perfect   Piano  Flayer. 


308-313   Poit  St. 

Sao    Francisco 


.fY    JTV   \_J  W    IN     .tt.    l_l      i 


1JECEMBER    2B,    I9O3. 


SOUTHERN   PACIFIC 

Trains  leave  mni  are  due  In  arri  ve  at 
SAN     Fit  AN  CISCO. 

(Main  Line,   Foot  of   -Market  Street  ) 

mvg      —     FBuM    NOYBMBEK  •&,    1H03.      —       ARBITM 

7.00a  ViicaTllle.  Winters,  Ruiueey 7-55p 

7.00  *    Benlcla,  Sulsan.  Elinlra  ami  Sacra- 

meoto    .       7.25p 

7-30a  Vallejo.    Napa,     ChIIbiobii.    Santa 

Koaa,   Martinez,  Sun  Ramon 6-26P 

7.30a   Nllea.  Llvermore,  Tracy,  Latlirop. 

Stockton 7.26p 

8.00a  Shaeta  Express  —  (Via  Davis), 
Williams  (lor  Bartlett  Springs), 
Willows  tPruto.  Red  mutt, 
Portland,  Tacoma,  Seattle 7-55p 

8.00a    Davis, Woodland,  Knlehts  Landing. 

Marysvllle.  Orovllle 7.65p 

B-50a  Port  Costa,  Mariiucz,  Auttoch, 
Byron,  Tracy.  Stockton,  New- 
man. Los  Kmi  ■.-,  M  e  n d  o  t  a, 
Armona,  Haorord  Vlaalla, 
Portervllle 4.26p 

8-30*  Port  Costa,  Martloez,  Tracy.  Lath 
rop.  Modesto,  Mi-rced,  Fresno. 
Gosben  Junction.  Ha  n  f  o  rd 
Vlaalla.  Bakersileld  4.55p 

8-30*  Nlles,  Ban  Jose.  Llvermore.  Stock 
ton,  (tMllton),  lone,  Sacramento, 
Placervllle  Marysvllle.  Chlco, 
Red  Bluff 4-25e 

8.30*  Oafcdale.  Chinese.  Jamestown.  So 

nora,  Tuolumit*'  and  Angela    ...       4-26p 

9  00a    Atlantic  Express— OgtU-n  and  Rast.    11.25* 

9.30a   Richmond.     Martinez      and      Way 

Stations 6S5p 

10  00a   The     Overland     Limited  —  Ogden 

Denver.  Omaha,  Chicago 6.25p 

10.00a  ValleJ.. 12.25p 

10.00a  Los  Antilles  Passenger  —  Port 
Costa,  Martinez,  Byron.  Tracy, 
Lathrop.  Stockton,  Merced, 
Raymond,  Fresno,  GoBhen  Junc- 
tion, Hanford,  Lemoore.  Vlsalia. 

Bakcrflflcld.  Los  Angeles 7-2511 

12.00m  Hay  ward.  Nlles  and  Way  Stations.     3.25p 
tl-00P   Sacramento  River  Steamers Hl.OOr 

330p  Benlcla,  Winters.  Sacramento 
Woodland.  Knights  Landing, 
Marysvllle,  Orovllle  and  way 
BWtlODfl 10-55* 

3.30p  Hayward. Nlles  and  Way  Stations..     755p 

3.30''  Port  Costa,  Martinez,  Byron, 
Tracy,  Lathrop.  Modesto, 
Merced,  Fresno  and  Way  Sta- 
tions beyond  Port  Costa 1225p 

3-30p   Martinez.  Tracy,  StucktOD.  Lodl...    1025a 

A  C0p   Martlnez.San  Ramon.  ValleJo.Napa. 

Callstoga,  Santa  Rosa 9-25* 

4  00p  Nlles.  Tracv.  Stockton,  Lodl 4-25p 

4-30p   Hayward,  Nlles,  Irvlngton.  SaD  I     18.55* 
Jose,  Llvermore |  $11.55* 

6-OOp  The  Owl  Limited— Newm  n.  Lus 
Banos.  Mcuduta.  Fresno.  Tulare, 
Bakerefleld.  Los  Angeles 8-55* 

E-.OOi'   Port  Costa,  Tracy,  Stockton 1225p 

t6  30p  Hayward.  Nlles  and  San  Jose 7.25* 

6.00r   Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  JoBe 9.56* 

6-OQp  Eastern  Express — Ogden.  Denver, 
Omaha,  St.  Louis.  Chicago  and 
East.  Port  Costa,  lientcla,  Sui- 
Bun,  Elmlra,  Davis,  Sacramento, 
Rocklln,  Auhurn,  Colfax, 
Truckee,  Boca,  Reno,  Wads- 
worth,  Wlnuemucca 5.26  p 

6.00p  Vallejo,  dnlly.  except  Sunday...    (      ,  BCl> 

7  OOP  Vallejo,  Sunday  only f      '  at,p 

7  00'    Ulchmond,  San  Pablo,  Port  Costa, 

Martinez  and  Way  Stations  11-25* 

t  06p  Oregon  &  California  Express— Sac- 
ramento, Marysvllle,  Redding, 
Portland,  Puget  Sound  and  East.     8-55* 

F.I  0'    Hayward,  Nlles  and  San  Jose  (Snn- 
day  only  i 11-56  * 

COAST    LINE    Ciarrnw  (.aiht*>. 

(Foul  of  Market  Street  > 

8-16*  Newark,  Oentervllle.  San  Jose, 
Felton,    Boulaer     Creek,    Santa 

Crnz  and  Way  Stallone 5  551' 

t2.1b>  Newark,  Centervllle,  San  Jose, 
New  Almaden,  Los  Gatos,Felton, 
Boulder  Creek,  Santa  Cruz  and 
Principal  Way  Stations    t!0  55* 

6  16p   Newark.  Sao  Jose,  LosGatos  and  J     '8.55  i 

way  stmlons "I  tlO  55  a 

fl9  30p  Hunters  Train,  Saturday  only,  San 
Jose  and  Way  Stations,    Return- 
Ing  from  Los  Gatos  Sunday  only.    17  25p 

OAKLAND     HARBOR     FERRY. 

t  luDi  SAN  r  KAN  CI  SCO,  Foot  ut'  Market  St.  (Slip'. 

-fi:15     y:UU     11:00  a.m.      1,00     3.00     5.15p.m. 

i-rom  OAKLAND.  Foot  of  Broadway—  |fi:oii     p3:l>i 

16:05    10:00  a.m.       12-00     2-00     4-00  i'.m. 

COAST    LINE    (Krond  Hmise). 

fcg~  (Third  iiml  Tmrnxuml  Streets.) 

610*    Sau  Jose  and  Way  Stations 630p 

7  00*   San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 5.36 p 

8.00a  New  Almnden  (Tues.,  Frld.,  only),  4.10p 

8  00a   CoaatLlne  Limited— Stops  only  San 

JoBe,  Gllroy  (connection  for  Hol- 
llster),  Pajaro,  Caslrovllle,  Sa- 
linas. San  Ardo,  Paso  Robles, 
Banta Margarita,  San  Luis  Obispo, 
Principal  stations  thence  Surf 
(connection  for  Lompoc)  princi- 
pal stations  thence  Santa  Bar- 
bara and  Los  Angeles.  Connec- 
tion  at  Caslrovllle    to  and  from 

Monterey  and  Pacific  Grove 10.45" 

8.00*  San  Jobc.  Tres  Plnos,  Capltola, 
Santa  Cruz, Pacific  Grove, Salinas, 
San  Luis  Obispo  and    Principal 

Way  Stations 4'.10p 

IC30a  San  Jose  and  Way  Stations 1.20p 

1130a  Santa  Clara,    San  Jose,  Lob  Gatos 

and  Way  Stations 7.30 

1.30P  San  Joeeand  Way  StatlonB 8-36* 

3-OOp  Pacific  Grove  Kxprees— SantaClara 
SaD  Joee,  Del  Monte,  Monterey, 
Pacific  Grove  (connects  at  Santa 
Clara  for  Santa  Cruz,  Boulder 
Creek  and  Narrow  Gauge  Points) 
at  Gllroy  for  Holllster,  Tres 
Plnos.  at  Castrovllle  for  Salinas.  12-16p 

3-30p  Tres  Plnos  Way  Passenger 1 10-45  a 

4  4b  1  ban  Jose,  (via  SantaClara)  Los 
Gatos,    and   Principal  Way   Sta- 

tlODs  (except  Sunday) t9-12* 

I  30j  ban  Joscand  IJrlnclpiilWayStatlonB  tn  00* 
6.00^  Sunset  Limited.—  Redwood,  San 
Jose,  Gllroy, Salinas, Paso  Robles, 
San  Lots  Obispo,  Santa  Barbara, 
Lob  Angeles,  Demlng.  EI  Paso, 
New  OrlennB,  New  York.  Con- 
nects at  Pajaro  for  Santa  Crux 
and    at    CaBtrovllln    for    Pacific 

Grove  and  Way  Stations 7.10a 

'I  16)  ban  Mateo.BcrcBford, Belmont. Sao 
Carlos,     Redwood,     Fair     Oak», 

M'-nlo  park.  Palo  Alto (fi  46a 

t  -S0i    ban  Jose  and  Way  Stations..  ft  3(U 

11-30p  Booth  8an  Francisco,  MlllLrae.  Bur- 
llngame,  San  Mateo.  Belmont, 
Sun  Carlos,  ScdWOOd,  Fair  Oafca, 

M.nlo  Park,  and  Palo  Alto 9  45p 

o1V30p  MayflOld,   Mountain    View,  Suuny- 
vnle,  Lawrence,  Santa  Clara  and 
San  Jose tfl.45p 

A  for  Morning.  P  for  Afternoon. 

.   umln  1    Duly 

Stop*  ai  all  Htatlona  on  Sunday, 

Sunday  excepted.  a  Saturday  only. 

BTQnty  tralni  htojiping  at  Valencia  St.  Houthbonnd 
anr .. 10a.m., 7:011a.m.,  11:30a.m., 3::tQi-.M. and  G:  80  p.m. 

The  UNION  TKANSKEi:  COMPANY 
*  HI  call  lor  and  chetk  baggage  from  hotels  and  resl- 
Uenceii.  Tcli -phone,  (Exchange  83.  Inqulreof  Tlckat 
auesU  'or  '1  inn-  Carda  and  otner  Information. 


BONESTELL,  RICHARDSON  &  CO. 


DEALERS 
IN 


PAPER 


OF  ALL 
KINDS. 


Fur  Pri  ,tlng 
ami    Wrn  -  >lng( 


401=403  r^nsome  St. 


THE    ALLEGED    HUMORISTS. 


Goodman — "  Do  you  ever  fhink  of  the  gootT 
old  saying  that  it's  more  blessed  to  give  than 
to  receive?"  Pugsley — "Yes,  when  I've  got 
the  boxing-gloves  on  I  do." — Vogue. 

How  he  is  known  :  Wife — "  Before  mar- 
riage a  man  is  known  by  the  company  he 
keeps."  Husband — "  And  after?"  Wife — 
"  By    the    clothes     his     wife     wears." — Town 

Topics. 

His  line :  Master  of  house  (to  applying 
butler) — "  Can  you  open  a  beer  bottle  neatly?" 
Applicant — "  Urn,  not  so  very,  sir.  You  see, 
I've  lived  mostly  in  champagne  families." — 
Chicago  News. 

A  Barbary  Coast  restaurant :  Rev.  Jabez 
Haytown — "  Some  sausages — rather  rare — and 
a  cup  of  black  coffee — very  strong."  Forty 
Ward  (bellowing) — "  Raw  puppy  and  an 
Oolong  for  snakes." — Ex. 

In  passing :  First  Scot — "  What  sort  o' 
meenister  hae  you  gotten,  Geordie?"  Second 
Scot — "  We  seldom  get  a  glint  o'  him ;  six 
days  o'  the  week  he's  envees'ble,  and  on  the 
seventh    he's    incomprehens'ble." — Tit-Bits. 

Hardupp — "  I  tried  to  sell  those  diamonds  I 
bought  of  you,  and  was  told  they  were  not 
genuine."  Jeweler — "  Did  you  sell  them  ?" 
Hardupp — "  Yes,  for  almost  nothing."  Jeweler 
— "  Well,  you  go  back  and  try  to  buy  them,  and 
you  will  find  out  that  they  are  genuine." — 
£.r. 

Rosalie — "  Have  you  chosen  any  of  your 
bridesmaids  yet?"  May  —  "  Yes  —  Fanny 
Lyon."  Rosalie — "Why.  I  thought  you  hated 
her?"  May — "  No,  not  exactly  ;  but  the  brides- 
maids are  to  wear  yellow,  and  you  can  imagine 
how  that  will  go  with  Fanny's  complexion!" — 
Bazar. 

First  impressions :  "  The  first  time  I  saw 
you  I  thought  '  how  lucky  1  should  be  if  I 
could  induce  that  delicious  little  angel  to  be 
my  wife.'  And  what  did  you  think?"  "  I 
thought,  '  Oh  !  dear  me  !  I  wonder  if  I  shall 
ever  have  to  marry  such  a  homely  looking  man 
as  that!'  " — Puck. 

He  had  promised :  The  fair  bride  wept 
copiously.  "Boo-hoo!"  she  screamed;  "you 
are  a  mean  old  thing;  so  there!  You  didn't 
eat  one  of  my  biscuits!"  "  But,  darling — — " 
"  There  is  no  excuse,  sir!  Didn't  you  tell  me 
when  you  married  me — boo-hoo  ! — that  you 
would  die  for  me?" — Baltimore  News. 

Obviously:  Benevolent  old  gentleman — 
"Don't  you  think  fishing  a  cruel  sport?" 
Fisherman — "  I  should  just  think  it  was.  I've 
been  sitting  here  five  hours  and  never  had  a 
single  bite,  and  I've  got  three  wasp  stings, 
and  been  eaten  up  with  flies,  and  the  sun's 
taken  all  the  skin  off  the  back  of  my  neck !  " 
— Pick-Me-Up. 

Walter  Scott  liked  to  tell  the  story  of  his 
meeting  an  Irish  beggar  in  the  street  who 
importuned  him  for  a  sixpence.  Not  having 
one,  Scott  gave  him  a  shilling,  adding  with  a 
laugh,  "  Now  remember,  you  owe  me  six- 
pence." "  Och,  sure  enough,"  said  the  beg- 
gar, "  and  God  grant  you  may  live  till  I  pay 
you  !" — Youth's  Companion. 

I'un  Antler  (entertaining  Witherby  at  his 
country  home) — "  Now,  old  man,  if  you  should 
happen  to  want  anything  in  the  night,  just 
touch  this  bell."  Witherby — "Never!  I 
know  how  hard  it  is  to  keep  servants  in  the 
country.  Catch  me  touching  that  bell."  Van 
Antler—"  But  I  assure  you,  you  are  perfectly 
safe.      The   bell    doesn't    work." — Life. 

Customer — "Waiter,  a  beefsteak!  Quick! 
I'm  in  a  hurry!"  Waiter  —  "We  haven't 
any  beefsteak,  sir !"  Customer — "  A  chop, 
then."  Waiter — "Chops  is  off!"  Customer — 
"  Well,  then,  an  omelet."  Waiter — "  Impos- 
sible, sir  ;  we "     Customer — "    What !  Why, 

have  you  nothing  at  all   in   your  restaurant?" 

Waiter — "Yes.    sir;    we've   got   a   bailiff " 

Customer  (sharpening  his  knife  on  the  edge 
of  the  plate) — "  Then  let's  have  one." — Lon- 
don Tit-Bits. 


— Stwdmari's  Soothing  Powders  preserve  a  healthy 
state  of  the  constitution  during  the  period  of  leelh- 


I'hysician — "  Your  ailment  lies  in  the  larynx, 
thorax,  and  epiglottis."-  Hooligan — "Indafle? 
An'  me  aft  her  thinkin'  th'  trouble  was  in  me 
throat." — Judge. 


For  the  Holidays. 

On  December  24th,  25th,  26th,  31st,  January  1st 
und  2d,  the  following  rates  in  effect  via  North  Shorr 
Kailroiid,  good  for  return  until  January  4th  :  Camp 
Taylor,  Point  keyes,  etc.,  $1.00;  Marshalls,  To- 
inales,  etc.,  $1  50 ;  Occidental,  Camp  Meeker, 
Monte  Rio,  Mesa  Grande,  $2.00;  Duncans  Mills, 
Watson's,  Cazadero,  $2.50.  Through  trains  daily 
at  8.00  A.  M.,  also  special  through  trains  at  3.15 
P.  M.  Saturdays,  and  at  5.15  h.  m.  December  24th 
and  31st.  For  complete  holiday  time  table  inquire 
at  ticket  office,  626  Market  Street. 


-  Dk  K  O  Cochrane,  Dentist,  removed  to 
No.  135  Geary  Street,  Spring  Valley  Ruilding. 


Mothers  be  sure  and  use  "  Mrs.  Winslow's 
Soothing  Syrup"  for  your  children  while  teething. 


AMERICAN  LINE. 


PLYMOUTH-CHERBOURG— SOUTHAMPTON. 
From  New  York  Saturdays  at  9.30  a.  m. 

Philadelphia Jan.  2  I  New  York -  Jan.  16 

St.  Louis Jan  9  I  St.  Paul Jan.  23 

Philadelphia—  Queenstown— Liverpool. 

West'mland..  Jan.  2,9am  I  Noordland Jan.  16,  9  am 

Haveriord. ..    .Jan.  9,  3  pm  |  Friesland.  Jan.  23,  1.30  pm 

ATLANTIC  TRANSPORT  LINE. 

NEW    YORK— LONDON    DIRECT. 

Minnehaha Jan.  2,  5  am 

Mesaba .  .Jan.  9,  9  am 

Minnetonka Jan.  16,  5  am 

Only  first-class  passengers  carried. 


DOMINION  LINE. 


Montreal  — Liverpool  — Short  sea  passage. 

Canada Jan.  2  I  Canada Feb.  6 

Dominion Jan.  23  |  Dominion Feb.  27 

RED  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— ANTWERP— PARIS. 
Sailing  Saturdays  at  10.30  a  m. 

Finland Jan.  2  I  Kronland Jan.  16 

Vaderland Jan.  9  |  Zeeland Jan.  23 

WHITE  STAR  LINE. 

NEW   YORK— QDEENSTOWN— LIVERPOOL. 

Cedric Dec.  30.  1  pm  I  Teutonic Jan.  20,  10 am 

Majestic Jan.  6,  10 am     Cedric Jan  27,  noon 

Celtic  Jan.  13,  2  pm  |  Majestic Feb.  3,  10  am 

Boston— Queetigtown  —Liverpool. 

Cymric Jan.  21.  Feb.  18,  March  17 

Cretic Feb.  4,  March  3,  March  31 

Boston    Mediterranean    w«ct 

AZORES— GIBRALTAR— NAPLES— UENOA. 

Republic  (new)    Jan,  2,  Feb.  13,  Mar.  26 

Romanic Jan.  16,  Feb.  27,  April  9 

Canopic  Jan.  30,  Mar.  12 

C.  1>.  TAYLOK,    Passenger  Agent,  Pacific  Coast, 
21  Post  Street,  San  Francisco. 

Occidental  and  Oriental 

STEAMSHIP  COMPANY. 
FOR  JAPAN  AND  CHINA. 

Steamers  leave  Wharf  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  at  1  P.  M.,  for 

Honolulu,  YOKOHAMA,  Kobe,  Nagasaki,  Shanghai, 
and  HONG  KONG,  as  follows:  1903 

Doric Tuesday*  Dec.  22 

Coptic Friday,  Jan.   15,   1904 

Gaelic  Wednesday,  Feb.  10,  1904 

Doric  (Callingat  Manila). Saturday,  Mch  B,  1904 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing. 
Round-Trip  Tickets  at  reduced  rates. 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
No.  421  Market  Street,  comer  First  Street. 

D.  D.  STUBBS,  General  Manager. 


fe 


TOYO 

KISEN 

KAISHA 

(ORIENTAL  S.  8.  CO.) 

IMPERIAL  JAPANESE   AND 
U.  S.  MAIL  LINE. 

Steamers  will  leave  Wharf,  corner  First  and  Brannan 
Streets,  1  p.  m.  for  YOKOHAMA  and  HONG  KONG 
callingat  Kobe  (Hiogo),  Nagasaki,  and  Shanghai,  and 
connecting  at  Hong  Kong  with  steamers  for  India,  etc. 
No  cargo  received  on  board  on  day  of  sailing.       1903 

Nippon  Maru Wednesday,  December  30 

(Calling  at  Manila.) 

America  Maru Monday,  January  25,  1904 

Hongkong  Maru  ...Wednesday,  February  17 
Via  Honolulu.     Round-trip  tickets  at  reduced  rates 
For  freight  and  passage  apply  at  company's  office, 
421  Market  Street,  corner  First. 

W.  H.  AVEKT,  General  Agent. 


OCEANIC  S.  S.  CO. 

Sierra,  6200  tons  [  Sonoma,  6200  tons  |  Ventura,  6200  tons 

S.    S.  Sierra,  for   Honolulu,  Pago   Pago,  Auckland 
and  Sydney,  Thursday,  Dec.  31,  1903,  at  2  p.  m. 

S.  S.  Mariposa,  for  Tahiti,  Jan.  6,  1904,  at  11  A.  M. 

S.    S.    Alameda,  for    Honolulu   only,   Jan.  9,    1904, 
at  ir  a.  m. 
J.  D,  Spreckels  &  Bros.  Co.,  Agts.,  643  Market 

Street.     Freight  Office,  329  Market  St.,  San  Francisco. 


Santa  Fe 

ALL  THE  WAY 

CHICAGO  IN  3  DAYS 


Trains  leave  Union  Ferry  Depot,  San   Fran- 
cisco, as  follows  : 

7  91%  A  M  — *BAKERSF1ELD  LOCAL:  Due 
■^ "  Stockton  10.40  a  m,  Fresno  2.40  p  m, 
Bakersfield  7.15  p  m.  Stops  at  all  points 
iu  San  Joaquin  Valley.  Corresponding 
train  arrives  8.55  a  m. 

A  M— f'THE  CALIFORNIA  LIM- 
ITED "  :  Due  Stockton  12  01  p  m,  Fresno 
3.20  p  m,  Bakersfield  6.00  p  m,  Kansas 
City  (third  day)  2.35  a  m.  Chicago  (third 
day)  2.15  p  m.  Palace  sleepers  and 
dining  -  car  through  to  Chicago.  No 
second-class  tickets  honored  on  this  train. 
Corresponding  train  arrives  Jii.io  p  m. 
A  M— *VALLEY  LIMITED:  Due  Stock- 
ton 12.01  p  m,  Fresno  3.20  p  m,  Bakers- 
field 6.00  p  m.  The  fastest  train  in  the 
Valley.  Carries  composite  and  reclining- 
chair  car.  No  second-class  tickets  hon- 
ored on  this  train.  Corresponding  train 
arrives  at  11. 10  p  m. 

P  M— +STOCKTON  LOCAL:  Due  Stock- 
Ion  7. lop  m.  Corresponding  train  arrives 
11.10  a  m. 

?  M-*OVERLAND  EXPRESS:  Due 
Stockton  11.15  P  m,  Fresno  3.15  a  m, 
Bakersfield  7.35  a  m,  Kansas  City  (fourth 
day)  7.00  a  m,  Chicago  (fourth  day)  S.47 
p  m.  Palace  and  Tourist  sleepers  and  free 
reclining-chair  cars  through  to  Chicago, 
also  Palace  sleeper  which  cuts  out  at 
Fresno.  Corresponding  train  arrives  at 
6.25  p  m. 

*  Daily.       f  Monday  and  Thursday. 
,  \  Tuesday  ana  Friday. 
Personally  conducted  parties  for  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, and  East  leave  011  Overland  Express  Monday, 
Thursday,  and  Saturday  at  8  p  m. 


9.30 


9.30 


4.00 
8.00 


TICKET  OFFICES  at  641  Market  Street  and  in 
Ferry  Depot.  San  Francisco ;  and  u  12  Broadway, 
Oakland. 


California  Northwestern  Railway  Co. 


LESS EB 


SAN  FRANCISCO  AND  NORTH  PACIFIC 

RAILWAY  COMPANY. 

Tiburon  Ferry,  Foot  of  Market  St. 


San  Francisco  to  San  Rafael. 

WEEK  DAYS— 7.30,  9.00,  11.00  a  m;  12.35,  3-30,  5.10, 
6.30  p  m.     Thursdays— Extra  trip  at  11.30  p  m. 
Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  1.50  and  11.30  pm 

SUNDAYS— 8.00,  9.30,  11.00  am;  1.30,  3.30,  5.00,  6.20, 
'1. 30  p  m. 

San  Rafael  to  San  Francisco. 

WEEK    DAYS— 6.05,   7.35,  7.50,  9.20,  11.15  a  m;    12.50; 

3.40.  5.00.  5.20  p  m.    Saturdays— Extra  trip  at  2.05 

and  6.35  p  m. 
SUNDAYS — 8.00,  9.40,  11.15am;  1.40,  3.40,  4.55,  5.05, 

6.25  p  m. 


Leave 
San  Francisco. 


Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


3.30  P  m 
5-iQ  p  m 


3-30  p  m 
5.10  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
3.30  P  m 
5  00  pm 


7.30  a  m 
3-3°  P  ■" 


7.30  a  m 
3.30  pm 


7.30  a  m 
3.30  pm 
7.3°  a  m 


7  30  am 

3-3°  P  m 


8.00  a  m 
9.30  a  m 
330  P  m 
5-oop  m 


800am 
3-3Q  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
3.30  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
3-3Q  P  m 


8.00  a  m 
3-30  P  m 


8.00  a  m 
5.00  p  m 


8.00  a  m 
330  P  m 


In  Effect 
Sept.  27,  1903. 


Ignacio. 


Novato 

Petaluma 

and 

Santa  Rosa. 


Fulton. 


Windsor, 
Healdsburg, 

Lytton, 
Geyserville, 
Cloverdale. 


Hopland 
and  Ukiah. 


Sonoma  and 
Glen  Ellen. 


Sebastopol. 


Arrive 
San  Francisco. 

Week 
Days. 


Sun- 
days. 


9.10  a  ni 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 


9.10  a  m 
10.40  a  m 
6.05  p  m 
7-35  P  m 

10.40  a  m 
7-35  P  m 


10.40 
7-35 


10.40 
7-35 
7^35 

10.40 
7-35 
9.10 
6.05 


10.40 

7-35 


8.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 

S.40  a  m 
10.20  a  m 
6.20  p  m 


10.20  a  ni 
6.20  p  m 


10,20 
6.20 


a  m 
p  m 

a  m 
p  m 
p  m 
a  m 
p  m 
a  m 
p  m 
a  in 
p  m 


Stages  connect  at  Green  Brae  for  San  Quentin ;  at 
Santa  Rosa  for  White  Sulphur  Springs;  at  Fulton 
for  Altruria  and  Mark  West  Springs;  at  Lytton  for 
Lytton  Springs;  at  Geyserville  for  Skaggs  Springs; 
at  Cloverdale  for  the  Geysers,  Booneville,  and 
Greenwood ;  at  Hopland  for  Duncan  Springs, 
Highland  Springs,  Kelseyville,  Carlsbad  Springs, 
Soda  Bay,  Lakeport,  and  Bartlett  Springs;  at 
Ukiah  lor  Vichy  Springs,  Saratoga  Springs,  Blue 
Lakes.  Laurel  Dell  Lake,  Witter  Springs,  Upper  Lake, 
Porno,  Potter  Valley,  John  Day's,  Riverside,  Lierley's, 
Bucknell's,  Sanhedrin  Heights,  Hullville,  Orr's  Hot 
Springs,  Half-Way  House,  Comptche,  Camp  Stevens, 
Hopkins.  Mendocino  City,  Fort  Bragg,  West  port, 
Usal ;  at  Willits  for  Fort  Bragg,  Westport.  Sherwood, 
Canto,  Covelo,  Laytonville.  Cummings,  Bell's  Springs, 
Harris.  Olsen's,  Dyer,  Garberville,  Pepperwood,  Scotia, 
and  Eureka. 

Saturday  to  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  at  reduced 
rates. 

On  Sunday  round-trip  tickets  to  all  points  beyond 
San  Rafael  at  half  rates. 

Ticket  office,  630  Market  Street,  Chronicle  Building. 

H.  C.  WHITING,  R.  X.  RYAN, 

Gen.  Manager.  Gen.  Pass.  Agt. 


TO  SAN  RAFAEL,  ROSS  VALLEY, 
MILL  VALLEY,  CAZADERO,  ETC. 
Via  Sausalito  Ferry. 
Suburban  Service,  Standard  Gauge 
Electric  —  Depart  from  San  Francisco 
Daily  — 7. 00,  S.oo,  9.00,  io.oo,  11.00  a.  m., 
12.20,  1.45,  3.15,  4-15.  5-15.  6-15.  7-oo,  8.45,  10.20, 
11.45  P-  M. 

FROM  SAN  RAFAEL  TO  SAN  FRANCISCO 
—Daily— 5,25,  6.35,  7.40,  8.35,  9.35,  11.05,  a.  m.,  12.20, 
i-45.    2-55.    3-45.   4-45.    5-45.    6.45.    8.45,    10.20   P.    m. 

FROM     MILL    VALLEY    TO  SAN    FRANCISCO 
—  Daily— 5.45,  6.55,   7.52,  8.55,  9-55,    ".20  a.  m.,    12.35, 
2.00,   3.15,  4.05,   5.05,   6.05,   7.05,   9.00,    10.35  P-  m. 
THROUGH    TRAINS. 
8.00  a.  m.  week  days— Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
5.15  p.    m.   week  days    (Saturdays    excepted)— To 
males  and  way  stations. 
3.15  p.  m.  Saturdays — Cazadero  and  way  stations. 
Sundays  only—  10.00  a.   m.,    Point    Reyes   and    way 
stations. 
Ticket  Offices— 626  Market  Street 
Ferry — Union  Depot,  foot  of  Market  Street. 


MT.TAMALPAIS  RAILWAY 

Via  Sausalito  Ferry,  foot  of  Market  Street. 

Leave  San  Francisco,  week  days,  *io.oo  a.  m.,*i-45 

p.  M.,  5.15  p.  M.     Sundays,  *S.oo  a.  m.,  9.00  A.  M.,  10.00 

A.  M.,   II.OO  A.  M.,  *M5  P.  M.,  3.15  P.  M. 

Arrive  San  Francisco,  Sundays,  12.05  p-  M-.  t-25  p-  **-■ 
2.50  p.  M.,  4.50  p.  m.,  5.50  p.  m.;  7.50  P.  m.    Week  days, 

IO.40  A.  M.,  2.50  P.  M.,  5.50  P.  M.,  9.50  P.  M. 

♦Connect  with  stage  for  Dipsea  and  Willow  Camp. 
Ticket  offices— 626  Market  Street  (North  Shore  Rail- 
road), and  Sausalito  Ferrv,  foot  Market  Mreet. 


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LIBRARIES. 


FRENCH  LIBRARY,  135  GEARY  STREET.  ESTAB- 
lished    1876—18,000  volumes. 


LAW     LIBRARY,     CITY     HALL 
1865 — 38,000  volumes. 

MECHANICS' 


ESTABLISHED 


INSTITUTE      LIBRARY, 
lished    1855,    re-incorporated    1869—108.000 


ESTAB- 
volumes. 


MERCANTILE       LIBRARY      ASSOCIATION,      223 
Sutter  Street,  established  1852—80,000  volumes. 


PUBLIC       LIBRARY,      CITY 
June  7,  1879 — 146,297  volumes. 


HALL,      OPENED 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


POSTER  PICTURES. 
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mounted  on  harmonious  tinted  raw  silk  mat  boards 
— greens,  grays,  black,  and  red  ;  most  stunning  and 
artistic  for  a  very  moderate  outla\.  Sanborn,  Vail 
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